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Chad Hoffman - Over You

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Chad Hoffman - Pure (View Lyrics While Listening)

Chad Hoffman - Stand To Be Alone (View Lyrics While Listening)

Chad Hoffman - Fall Shy (View Lyrics While Listening)

Chad Hoffman - No Complaints (View Lyrics While Listening)

Chad Hoffman - Looking For The Outside (View Lyrics While Listening)

Chad Hoffman - Unfolding (View Lyrics While Listening)

Chad Hoffman - I Don't Need Your Love (View Lyrics While Listening)

Chad Hoffman - Sun In Your Eyes - 2006

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Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire

The Beatles - Come Together

Jack Johnson - Flake

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No.1 Chad Hoffman - Pure: Blowing smoke rings; captivating, but not enough
When you find out all this time you’ve been smoking the wrong stuff
In a haze now. It’s what you fear, but you want some more
Because it’s better than knowing the truth when that ain’t what you’re looking for

When you’re looking for piece of mind
Down a road that you can’t endure
Tell me one more time
“What do you know for sure?”
‘Cause maybe it aint that pure

You walk the line now, that separates the genius from the insane
And you’re bound to fall off with time the balance you can’t sustain
No one will know you. once you’ve fallen down to the ground
Because they won’t know how to read your mind if you can’t make a sound

[Chorus]

They’ve got your mind now distilled and bottled in Mexico
And they control everything you see and everything you know
What does it matter? The sensation has turned to haze
And you’re damned to fade out with time with what you thought were your glory days
No.2 Chad Hoffman - Stand To Be Alone: Girl sitting, beautiful, alone
Beauty and love could not keep her love at home
Hard to believe it, I can’t believe it myself

So tell me how it all went wrong
You gave him everything, now everything is gone
What can you give once you’ve already given yourself
Now for the first time you’re alone
And you spend your time crying over love you’ve never known
And you cannot leave cause you just don’t believe in yourself

You can leave your heart broken
And you can leave it alone
But I can tell you someday you’ve got to stand to be alone

Don’t shed a tear for what went wrong, ‘till you sing all the verses of the song
You’ve got to help yourself by being strong, don’t just expect all the answers… to simply come along
Don’t see the cup for its emptiness, Don’t live your life as you second guess
All the goodness, that’s been there all along

Girl standing, beautiful, alone
No longer empty, she will make it on her own
Hard to believe it, I can’t believe it myself

You can leave your heart broken
And you can leave it alone
But I can tell you that someday you’ve got to stand to be alone
No.3 Chad Hoffman - Fall Shy: With all this static ringing in my head, I can’t get away
I can’t tune out what all that the voices say
All the T.V., news and things I’ve read are getting in me way
Of realizing the things that I need to say

Running, running as fast as I can, only to keep up with where I began
And I can’t keep this world from revolution
I forsake the world today, let it spin, I can only pray
I will not succumb to this dilution

I cannot slow down
Enough to question why
I can’t walk away
So don’t let me fall shy

My mind will bend time and time again, please defend me my almighty friend
Open me up and intervene
I don’t know all that I should know, but I will never let it go
The search for knowing the truth from what does not mean

Well I have got to ease my soul, and love is all that can make me whole
Deliver me, oh where I belong
Time will keep on moving on, I may feel like I can’t hold on
And all I can give you is a song
No.4 Chad Hoffman - No Complaints: She’s got the moonlight in her eyes

And it’s such a good night to open up and fantasize

The hot and humid summer air

Only adds to the intoxication of despair

But desperation drips away

Like perspiration with every single word you say

Send my love to the girl in the song

‘Cause she’s been with me all along

As I run for my refrain

And from you I hear no complaints

    Yeah hear no complaints from you

Now the sky looks so surreal

And these colors that I see are what I feel

I’ve got your mood ring on my hand

And when you see my color glow you’ll understand

    Who I am

I’ve got a good friend in my heart

Too good of a friend to tear her world all apart

Is she the real thing? I don’t know

If she’s the real thing I just let the real thing go

    Oh no
No.5 Chad Hoffman - Looking For the Outside: In the beginning we were not alone
We took advantage of what was not our own
But we are not responsible, it was so long ago
The thing was so unthinkable, and we say that we don’t know
And now we have to carry the weight of the world on our shoulders

Oh we got carried away we went looking for the outside
Oh we got carried away we went looking for the outside

Now we all go blind trying to see
And now we all believe what we want to believe
But we are so original, individual
So how are we to let it go, if we don’t know
And why are we to carry the weight of the world on our shoulders

Oh we got carried away we went looking for the outside
Oh we got carried away we went looking for the outside
We thought we had something so profound to say
we went looking for the outside
Oh we got carried away we went looking for the outside

Oh we got carried away we went looking for the outside
Oh we got carried away we went looking for the outside
We thought we had something so profound to say
we went looking for the outside
Oh we got carried away we went looking for the outside
No.6 Chad Hoffman - Unfolding: I want to get down to the middle of something
I’ve seen elusive for too long
If I’m to give you only one thing
I’ll make damn sure there’s nothing wrong

If I’m fading out of season
Forgive me if I don’t wait around
To listen to another reason
You don’t believe the things I’ve found

I want to be there for the first time
And I could never do you wrong
Imagine this is our last time
The memory will carry on

Too many doors breed indecision
And you don’t know which way to go
So just relax your inhibitions
And I’ll take you places you don’t know

I want to be there for the first time
And I could never do you wrong
Imagine this is our last time
The memory will carry on

When all the secrets, locked away, are thrown into the public eye you pray
No one unfolds that one today to put all your demons on display

Forget your apprehensions now I’m holding you
No more uncertainty
I’ll give you my love no matter what you do
I give all possibility
Tell me all your secrets as I’m unfolding you
And we will see all that there is to see

I want to be there for the first time
And I could never do you wrong
Imagine this is our last time
The memory will carry on

Going down to get you something
Your tolerating waiting for
You patiently have waited for
If I can only give you everything
I’d want to give you so much more

Relax, subside your inhibitions
Release the guards to go on home

I’d want to be there for the first time
But even after you’re gone
If this is only our last time
The memory goes on and on
No.7 Chad Hoffman - I Don't Need Your Love: I don’t need your love, no I don’t need your love

I don’t need your love, no I don’t need your love

I need someone to give me all the answers, but I don’t need your love

I don’t need any money, but I work for it anyway

And I can’t buy you honey, maybe another day

Penniless and poor, I would not mind, if I only knew what to say

It would ease my mind just knowing where to go, but I can’t find the way

I don’t need any water, but I could sure use another drink

And I really don’t need another, but it seems to help me think

Emptiness, you pushed me to the edge, you pushed me to the brink

And if I can’t get to the bottom of it all, I don’t mind if I sink

I don’t need your love, no I don’t need your love

I don’t need your love, no I don’t need your love

I don’t need your love, no I don’t need your love

I don’t need your love, no I don’t need your love

I need someone to give me all the answers, but I don’t need your love

Maybe someday you’ll change my mind…

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