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Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans Way back up in the woods among the evergreens... There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood Where lived a country boy name of Johnny B. Goode... Who never ever learned to read or write so well But he could play a guitar just like ringin a bell Go Go Go Johnny Go Go Go Johnny Go Go Go Johnny Go Go Go Johnny Go Go Johnny B. Goode He use to carry his guitar in a gunny sack Go sit beneath the tree by the railroad track Oh, the engineer would see him sitting in the shade Strummin with the rhythm that the drivers made People passing by, they would stop and say Oh my but that little country boy could play Go Go Go Johnny Go Go Go Johnny Go Go Go Johnny Go Go Go Johnny Go Go Johnny B. Goode His mother told him, Someday you will be a man And you will be the leader of a big old band Many people comin from miles around To hear you play your music when the sun go down Maybe someday your name will be in lights Sayin Johnny B. Goode tonight. Go Go Go Johnny Go Go Go Go Johnny Go Oh Go go Johnny Go Oh Go Go Johnny Go Go Johnny B. Goode

I got my head checked By a jumbo jet It wasnt easy But nothing is No I got my head checked By a jumbo jet It wasnt easy But nothing is I see a distant light But girl this cant be right I see a distant light But girl this cant be right I see a distant light But girl this cant be right I see a distant light But girl this cant be right I got my head checked By a jumbo jet It wasnt easy But nothing is No I got my head checked By a jumbo jet It wasnt easy But nothing is No I got my head checked By a jumbo jet It wasnt easy But nothing is No I got my head checked By a jumbo jet It wasnt easy But nothing is No Na na na na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na na na na BASS How low can you go? Death row. What a brother knows Once again, back is the incredible The rhyme animal The incredible D, Public Enemy Number One Five-O said Freeze! and I got numb Can I tell em that I never really had a gun? But its the wax that the Terminator X spun Now they got me in a cell cause my records, they sell Cause a brother like me said, Well... ...Frarrakhans a prophet and I think you ought to listen to What he can say to you, what you ought to do. Follow for now, power of the people, say Make a miracle, D, pump the lyrical Black is back, all in, were gonna win Check it out, yeah yall cmon, here we go again Turn it up Turn it up Bring the noise Turn it up Turn it up Bring the noise Turn it up Turn it up Bring the noise Turn it up Turn it up Bring the noise Turn it up Turn it up Bring the noise Turn it up Turn it up Bring the noise I see a distant light But girl this cant be right I see a distant light But girl this cant be right I see a distant light But girl this cant be right I see a distant light But girl this cant be right All the small things True care, truth brings Ill take, one lift Your ride, best trip Always I know youll be at my show Watching, waiting, commiserating ___________________________

Theres a man who swears hes God But Im pretty sure hes not Theres a man who walks around Like he owns the fucking lot Theres a man who takes his time From the hands of a cuckoo clock You can hear him walk around Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock At first, it was easy But now whys it have to be so hard? Heaven is a fire escape You try to cling to in the dark At first it was simple But now it got too complicated But the world just got a lovely time Or blame it all on my mistake Maybe Ill find heaven One day, after dark Maybe youll find heaven is a place to part? Control the way we turn We are doing everything we can We still cant seem to switch it on And oh, my time ran out I am floating up beneath the clouds Trying to turn it on, it on And oh Its you and me, baby Im so sorry Baby, Ive done it, turning me on

I used to rule the world Seas would rise when I gave the word Now in the morning I sleep alone Sweep the streets I used to own I used to roll the dice Feel the fear in my enemys eyes Listen as the crowd would sing Now the old king is dead! Long live the king! One minute I held the key Next the walls were closed on me And I discovered that my castles stand Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing Roman Cavalry choirs are singing Be my mirror, my sword and shield My missionaries in a foreign field For some reason I cant explain Once you go there was never Never an honest word And that was when I ruled the world It was the wicked and wild wind Blew down the doors to let me in Shattered windows and the sound of drums People couldnt believe what Id become Revolutionaries wait For my head on a silver plate Just a puppet on a lonely string Oh who would ever want to be king? I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing Roman cavalry choirs are singing Be my mirror, my sword and shield My missionaries in a foreign field For some reason I cant explain I know Saint Peter wont call my name Never an honest word But that was when I ruled the world I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing Roman cavalry choirs are singing Be my mirror, my sword and shield My missionaries in a foreign field For some reason I cant explain I know Saint Peter wont call my name Never an honest word But that was when I ruled the world

And the hardest part Was letting go, not taking part Was the hardest part And the strangest thing Was waiting for that bell to ring It was the strangest start I could feel it go down Bittersweet, I could taste in my mouth Silver lining the cloud Oh, and I I wish that I could work it out And the hardest part Was letting go, not taking part You really broke my heart, oh And I tried to sing But I couldnt think of anything And that was the hardest part, oh, oh I could feel it go down You left the sweetest taste in my mouth Youre silver lining the cloud Oh, and I Oh, and I I wonder what its all about I wonder what its all about Everything I know is wrong Everything I do, it just comes undone And everything is torn apart Oh, and thats the hardest part Thats the hardest part Yeah, thats the hardest part Thats the hardest part

I tried my best to be just like The other boys in school I tried my best to get it right And died in every duel This mountainside is suicide This dream will never work Still the sign upon my headstone, write A champion of the world Yeah I tried my best to stay alight Fly like a firework I tried my best to stay in fight But my rocket ship wont work No, referee, dont stop the fight Everyone can see Im hurt Still Ill stand before conquistadors Till Im champion of the world And when I sail, Im sailing west Knowing I might fail, but still Im hoping for the best In in my dreams, onto my chest Shell pin the colours and say: I wandered the whole wide world but Baby, youre the best Lo lo-lo-lo lo oh Ee-yo-ee-yo-ee-yo-ee-yeah Lo lo-lo-lo lo So Im flying on my bicycle Heading upwards from the Earth Im jumping with no parachute Out into the universe I have E.T. on my bicycle Because giving up wont work Now Im riding on my rocketship And Im champion of the world Doo-doo-roo, doo-doo-doo-roo Doo-roo, doo-roo, doo-roo

Those wedding bells are ringing up upon that hill And I dont wanna swallow such a bitter pill You keep on moving but I stay still But I always loved you and I always will Days of no sleeping Caked in mud All kinds of poison in my blood I lost the only thing I ever loved Ooh I heard them ringing and processioning by Umbrellas in the clear blue sky I saw you swimming in that sea of white Ooh And wedding bells ringing up upon that hill And I dont wanna swallow such a bitter pill You keep on moving, baby, I stay still I always loved you and I always will Ooh I loved you and I say it still I always loved you and I always will Singing, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la If everything that went before didnt matter So la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la I always loved you and I always will

Brothers and sisters unite Its the time of your lives Its the time of your lives Breakdown, breakdown Gotta spread love around Gotta spread it around Brothers and sisters feel fine Its the time of your lives Its the time of your lives Theres no sound, no sound Like this feeling you found Like this feeling you found But just stay down Cause sometimes youll feel And stay round Sometimes youll feel And its me theyre looking for And its me, I will never survive But well be around so long Brothers and sisters unite Its the time of your lives Its the time of your lives Breakdown, breakdown Gotta spread love around, gotta spread it all round But just stay down And sometimes youll feel So stay round And sometimes youll feel And its me theyre looking for And its me, I will never survive But well be around so long Brothers and sisters unite Its the time of your lives Its the time of your lives

Sometimes I just cant take it Sometimes I just cant take it and it isnt alright Im not gonna make it And I think my shoes untied Im like a broken record Im like a broken record and Im not playin right Drocer nekorb a ekil mI Til you tell me on your heavenly phone To hold tight Come on , come on Oh-oh-oh, oh, oh, oh-oh Come on , come on Yeah, dont let go oh, oh, oh-oh Hold tight , hold tight Oh-oh-oh, oh, oh, oh-oh Its alright, its alright you said Ive got my hands up shakin just to let you know That youve got a higher power Got me singin every second, dancin every hour Oh yeah, youve got a higher power And youre really someone I wanna know, ooh Oh yeah, youve got a higher power This boy is electric This boy is electric and youre sparklin like the universe connected And Im buzzin night after night after night This joy is electric This joy is electric and youre circuiting through Im so happy that Im alive Happy Im alive at the same time as you Cause youve got a higher power Got me singin every second, dancin every hour Oh yeah, youve got a higher power And youre really someone I wanna know When for so long Id been down on my knees Then your love song saved me over and over For so long Oh now youve got a higher power Got me singin every second, dancin any hour Youve got

Oh, brother I cant, I cant get through I’ve been trying hard to reach you cause I don’t know what to do Oh, brother, I cant believe its true I’m so scared about the future and I wanna talk to you Oh, I wanna talk to you You can take a picture of something you see Or swim a river out to the sea You can climb a ladder up to the Sun Or write a song nobody has sung Or do something thats never been done Are you lost or incomplete? Do you feel like a puzzle, you cant find your missing piece? Tell me how do you feel Well, I feel like theyre talking in a language I dont speak And theyre talking it to me So you take a picture of something you see Or swim a river out to the sea You can climb a ladder up to the Sun Or write a song nobody has sung Or do something thats never been done Or do something thats never been done So you dont know where youre going and you wanna talk? You tell anyone wholl listen, but you feel ignored? When you worry about the future and the third world war Nothings really making any sense at all, lets talk Lets talk, lets talk, lets talk

Talking to the songbird yesterday Flew me to a place not far away Shes a little pilot in my mind Singing songs of love to pass the time Gonna write a song so she can see Give her all the love she gives to me Talk of better days that have yet to come I never felt this love from anyone Shes not anyone Shes not anyone Shes not anyone A man can never dream these kind of things Especially when she came and spread her wings Whispered in my ear the things Id like Then she flew away into the night Gonna write a song so she can see Give her all the love she gives to me Talk of better days that have yet to come Never felt this love from anyone Shes not anyone Shes not anyone Shes not anyone

Boom boom ka, buba de ka Boom boom ka, buba de ka Boom boom ka, buba de ka I want to know when I can go Back and get drunk with my friends Boom boom ka, buba de ka Boom boom ka, buba de ka Boom boom ka, buba de ka Rosaleem of the Damascene Yes, she had eyes like the moon Would have been on the silver screen But for the missile monsoon She went, woo woo, woo woo oo-oo-oo Indigo up in heaven today Woo woo, woo woo oo-oo-oo With bombs going boom ba-boom-boom Boom boom ka, buba de ka Boom boom ka, buba de ka Boom boom ka, buba de ka Baba would go where the flowers grow Almond and peach trees in bloom And he would know just when and what to sow So golden and opportune He went, woo woo, woo woo oo-oo-oo Tulips the colour of honey today Its true true, woo woo oo-oo-oo With bombs going boom ba-boom-boom He say Boom boom ka, buba de ka Boom boom ka, buba de ka Boom boom ka, buba de ka Oh, I want to know when I can go Back and get drunk with my friends I want to know when I can go Back and feel home again Oh, I want to know when I can go Back and get drunk with my friends I want to know when I can go Back and feel home again Boom boom ka, buba de ka Boom boom ka, buba de ka Boom boom ka, buba de ka Woo woo, woo woo oo-oo-oo Woo woo, woo woo oo-oo-oo Woo woo, woo woo oo-oo-oo Woo woo, woo woo oo-oo-oo Boom boom ka, buba de ka Boom boom ka, buba de ka Boom boom ka, buba de ka

Hmm-hmm, hmm-hmm Hmm-hmm, hmm-oh Hmm-hmm, hmm-hmm Hmm-hmm Lord, when Im broken Im in need Feel that ocean Swallowing me My head is hanging So sorrowfully Oh Lord Come shine your light on me On that morning When Im cared and blue When Im hungry And thirsty too Send this raindrop Down to the sea Oh Lord Come shine your light on me Oh, shine your light Oh, shine a light And I know That in the darkness Im alright See theres no sun rising But inside Im free Cause the Lord will shine a light for me Oh, the Lord will shine a light on me Sing it now Hmm-hmm, hmm-hmm Hmm-hmm, hmm-oh Hmm-hmm, hmm-hmm Hmm-hmm, hmm-oh Hmm-hmm, hmm-hmm Hmm-hmm, hmm-oh Hmm-hmm, hmm-hmm Hmm-hmm Hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm

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When I get back on solid ground Heres what Im gonna do Oh, all Ive ever lost and found Im gonna crawl my way to you When I get back on my feet again Im gonna take you to the moon But youre leaving my hands again I can wait up there until Oh, the water The water flows over Oh, the water The water flows over

Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Once upon a time, somebody ran Somebody ran away saying fast as I can Ive got to go, Ive got to go Once upon a time, we fell apart Youre holding in your hands the two halves of my heart Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Once upon a time, we burned bright Now all we ever seem to do is fight On and on And on and on and on Once upon a time on the same side Once upon a time on the same side In the same game And whyd you have to go? Have to go and throw water on my flame I couldve been a princess, youd be a king Couldve had a castle, and worn a ring But no, you let me go I couldve been a princess, youd be a king Couldve had a castle, and worn a ring But no, you let me go You stole my star La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la You stole my star La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Cause you really hurt me No, you really hurt me Cause you really hurt me No, you really hurt me Cause you really hurt me Oh, you really hurt me, oh Cause you really hurt me Oh, you really hurt me

What you wanna do, act loco? Hit em with the old to the flow that I grew up on Then I grew up on em And funny now how I flow for Hova Words twisted, but yo, Im sober Never really been the type to pour up When I get this thing goin I dont like to slow up Mouth movin like a motor when I bite the flow up But I bet they wont stop, let me go, let me go Imma show off every ability Gods given me to go off in Nobody mad about the beauty of the Vatican and the tabernacle So when Im rappin you can add it in Breakin em with the shatter Theyre gonna wanna put me in a place with paddin And Ima damage em every time like a player thats on the cover of Madden God, the original We bright, look out! I feel like Im Paganini {God with me} I feel like Im Paganini {God with me} I feel like Im Paganini {God with me} {God with me} I feel like Im Paganini Let me do it K to the second letter, finna get it Poppin, comin out the pocket like ooh Everybody get to rockin doin the Paganini Killin the beat, my tongue is like a violin Give it to em like Im not a human When Im doing what Im doing Keepin it comin like an automatic shooter When we get to rippin it ridiculous And everybody gets to speakin about these driven brothers thats goin in again But they dont know even when they got that flow I dont know why they boast, everybodys gifts borrowed Producers, directors, skilled architectures Do what they do to whom theyre connected True was the God that chooses to bless them Who is the one you think they reflectin? {God with me, God with me} {God with me, God with me} I feel like Im Paganini {God with me, God with me} {God with me, God with me} I feel like Im Paganini {God with me, God with me} {God with me, God with me} I feel like Im Paganini {God with me, God with me} {God with me, God with me} I feel like Im Paganini Canon Yo Hey Andy Okay Okay so down for my clique, shut up Oh shoot, shut up Ive been itchin to stick em up with this killer Canon Comin to cut em and hit em harder, ooh, kill em! Hold up, Ive been hittin everything up in me like Im Paganini Hittin every rhythm like a milli chopped ya I know you heard Twista, and Tech-a-Nina hittin ya But Canons original, Im a Midwest monster, kill em! Blat! Blat! Mineo and Kevin got adrenaline Comin to drill em with the real gospel Comin up to the game Still the same, bigger the name, bigger the fame To the glory they follow Him and the Father While Im comin and killin the game Im breakin em off and we know They steady tryna imitate the steelo Im hittin with the fire, spittin super wild Runnin with the young and unashamed Im Paganini on a kilo, amigo {God with me} I feel like Im Paganini {God with me} I feel like Im Paganini {God with me} I feel like Im Paganini {God with me} {God with me} I feel like Im Paganini Aha, aye, aye, aye Yeah punk I feel like Im Paganini Huh, who Paganini

When you try your best but you dont succeed When you get what you want but not what you need When you feel so tired but you cant sleep Stuck in reverse When the tears come streaming down your face When you lose something you cant replace When you love someone but it goes to waste Could it be worse? Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you And high up above or down below When youre too in love to let it go But if you never try youll never know Just what youre worth Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you Tears stream down your face When you lose something you cannot replace Tears stream down your face And I... Tears stream down your face I promise you I will learn from my mistakes Tears stream down your face And I... Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you

Computer voice: R-E-M-I-X Oh, brother I cant, I cant get through Ive been trying hard to reach you Cause I dont know what to do Oh, brother I cant believe its true Im so scared about the future And I wanna talk to you Computer voice: Now talk baby! Computer chant: Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... You could take a picture of something you see In the future where will I be? You can climb a ladder up to the sun Or write a song nobody had sung Or do something thats never been done Computer voice: Now talk baby! Computer chant: Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Are you lost or incomplete Do you feel like a puzzle You cant find your missing piece Tell me how you feel How you feel How you feel How you feel So you take a picture of something you see In the future where will I be You could climb a ladder up to the sun Or write a song nobody had sung, or do Something thats never been done Computer chant: Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Computer voice: Now talk baby! How you feel How you feel How you feel... Lets talk, lets talk Lets talk, lets talk Lets talk, lets talk... So you dont know where youre going but you wanna talk Youll tell anyone wholl listen but you feel ignored When you worry about the future or the third world war And you feel like youre going where youve been before Lets talk, lets talk Lets talk, lets talk Lets talk, lets talk... Computer chant: Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me...

In the darkness before the dawn In the darkness before the dawn Leave a light, a light on Leave a light, a light on

When she was just a girl She expected the world But it flew away from her reach so She ran away in her sleep And dreamed of Para-para-paradise, Para-para-paradise, Para-para-paradise Every time she closed her eyes When she was just a girl She expected the world But it flew away from her reach And the bullets catch in her teeth Life goes on, it gets so heavy The wheel breaks the butterfly Every tear a waterfall In the night the stormy night shell close her eyes In the night the stormy night away shed fly And dreams of Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh Shed dream of Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh La-la-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la And so lying underneath those stormy skies Shed say, oh, ohohohoh I know the sun must set to rise This could be Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise This could be Para-para-paradise Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh This could be Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise This could be Para-para-paradise Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh

Look at the stars Look how they shine for you And everything you do Yeah, they were all yellow I came along I wrote a song for you And all the things you do And it was called Yellow So then I took my turn Oh, what a thing to have done And it was all yellow Your skin, oh yeah, your skin and bones Turn into something beautiful You know, you know I love you so You know I love you so I swam across I jumped across for you Oh, what a thing to do Cause you were all yellow I drew a line I drew a line for you Oh, what a thing to do And it was all yellow Your skin, oh yeah, your skin and bones Turn into something beautiful And you know For you, Id bleed myself dry For you, Id bleed myself dry Its true, look how they shine for you Look how they shine for you Look how they shine for Look how they shine for you Look how they shine for you Look how they shine Look at the stars Look how they shine for you And all the things that you do

The lights go out and I cant be saved Tides that I tried to swim against Have brought me down upon my knees Oh, I beg, I beg and plead, singing Come out of things unsaid Shoot an apple off my head, and a Trouble that cant be named A tigers waiting to be tamed, singing You are You are Confusion never stops Closing walls and ticking clocks, gonna Come back and take you home I could not stop that you now know, singing Come out upon my seas Curse missed opportunities, am I A part of the cure Or am I part of the disease? Singing You are You are You are You are You are You are And nothing else compares Oh, nothing else compares And nothing else compares You are You are Home, home, where I wanted to go Home, home, where I wanted to go Home, home, where I wanted to go Home, home, where I wanted to go

I used to rule the world Seas would rise when I gave the word Now in the morning I sweep alone Sweep the streets I used to own I used to roll the dice Feel the fear in my enemys eyes Listen as the crowd would sing: Now the old king is dead! Long live the king! One minute I held the key Next the walls were closed on me And I discovered that my castles stand Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing Roman Cavalry choirs are singing Be my mirror my sword and shield My missionaries in a foreign field For some reason I cant explain Once you go there was never, never an honest word That was when I ruled the world It was the wicked and wild wind Blew down the doors to let me in Shattered windows and the sound of drums People couldnt believe what Id become Revolutionaries wait For my head on a silver plate Just a puppet on a lonely string Oh who would ever want to be king? I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing Roman Cavalry choirs are singing Be my mirror my sword and shield My missionaries in a foreign field For some reason I cant explain I know Saint Peter will call my name Never an honest word But that was when I ruled the world I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing Roman Cavalry choirs are singing Be my mirror my sword and shield My missionaries in a foreign field For some reason I cant explain I know Saint Peter will call my name Never an honest word But that was when I ruled the world Oooooh Oooooh Oooooh

Loveless Just those three tiny words I’m falling, falling, falling Falling, falling ‘till I’m in Until I started tearing in I’m all alone, how long will it take? Da da da da da da da

Three, two, one Sometimes I just cant take it Sometimes I just cant take it and it isnt alright Im not gonna make it And I think my shoes untied Im like a broken record Im like a broken record and Im not playin right Drocer nekorb a ekil mi Til you tell me on your heavenly phone To hold tight Come on , come on Oh-oh-oh, oh, oh, oh-oh Come on , come on Yeah, dont let go oh, oh, oh-oh Hold tight , hold tight Oh-oh-oh, oh, oh, oh-oh Its alright, its alright you said Ive got my hands up shakin just to let you know That youve got a higher power Got me singin every sеcond, dancin every hour Oh yeah, youvе got a higher power And youre really someone I wanna know, ooh This boy is electric This boy is electric and youre sparklin like the universe connected And Im buzzin night after night after night This joy is electric This joy is electric and youre circuiting through Im so happy that Im alive Happy Im alive at the same time as you Cause youve got a higher power Got me singin every second, dancin every hour Oh yeah, youve got a higher power And youre really someone I wanna know Youve got, yeah, youve got a higher Youve got, yeah, youve got a higher Youve got, yeah, youve got a higher Youve got, oh-oh-oh, oh, oh, oh-oh Youve got, yeah, youve got a high Youve got, oh, youve got a higher Youve got, oh, youve got a high My hands up shaking just to let you know now Youve got a higher power Youve got me singin every second, dancin any hour Oh yeah, youve got a higher power Youre once in any lifetime Im going a million miles an hour When for so long Id been down on my knees Then your love song saved me over and over For so long Id been down on my knees Til your love song floats me on Ee-oh, oh-oh

If you see me sliding Say were gonna slide together If you see me hiding Tell me I can hide forever Come With me now As now I run Show me how to be someone Let me fly into your sun When my clouds are crying Say youre gonna change my weather If you hear me lying Its never when we lie together Come With me now As now I run Show me how to be someone Let me fly into your sun If you see me sliding Pray that I wont slide forever If you see me hiding Say that we can hide together Come With me now Cos now I run Show me how to be someone Let me fly into your sun Come With me now Cos now I run Show me how to be someone Let me fly into your sun Your sun

Just because Im losing Doesnt mean Im lost Doesnt mean Ill stop Doesnt mean Im across Just because Im hurting Doesnt mean Im hurt Doesnt mean I didnt get what I deserve No better or no worse I just got lost Every river that Ive tried to cross Every door I ever tried was locked Oh, and Im just waiting til the shine wears off You might be a big fish In a little pond Doesnt mean youve won, cause along may come A bigger one And youll be lost Every river that you try to cross Every gun you ever held went off Oh, and Im just waiting til the firing stopped Oh, and Im just waiting til the shine wears off Oh, and Im just waiting til the shine wears off Oh, and Im just waiting til the shine wears off

When she was just a girl She expected the world But it flew away from her reach So she ran away in her sleep And dreamed of para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Every time she closed her eyes Ooooh... When she was just a girl She expected the world But it flew away from her reach And bullets catch in her teeth Life goes on It gets so heavy The wheel breaks the butterfly Every tear, a waterfall In the night, the stormy night She closed her eyes In the night, the stormy night Away she flied And dreamed of para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh She dreamed of para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh. La, la, la... And so lying underneath those stormy skies Shed say, oh, ohohohoh I know the sun must set to rise This could be Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh This could be Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise This could be Para-para-paradise Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh This could be Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise This could be Para-para-paradise Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh Ooooh...

Ah, ah, oh Oh, oh, oh Could you, could you come on? Could you come on together Put your knees on the back To my love in the weather And the sugar teeth that I crawl in the surface, oh I was underneath and Im caught in the middle of Gonna crawl my way and I climb home because Im gonna crawl my way home because Youre the one I love Youre the one I love Youre the one I love Ah, ah, ah I slide on a climb on a crest, on a crush class Gonna step my way, gonna find out a way because I was underneath, I was caught in the middle of Gonna crawl my way and I crawl in a way because Youre the one I love Yes, youre the one I love Youre the one I love Ah, ah, ah

Under the great lone star Try to work out where you are In the silence of the sea I dont know where Ive been In the future, in the past Going nowhere much too fast When I go there follow me When I go there follow me Cause i dont know where Im going but I wanna talk I feel like Im going where Ive been before And I wanna talk Take a picture of Something that youre not sure of Bring it back to show me But I dont know what I see In the future, find a home Getting nowhere on your own Got to find your missing piece Cause you dont know where youre going but you wanna talk You feel like youre going where youve been before And nothings really making any sense at all You tell any one wholl listen that you feel ignored Lets talk Lets talk Do you wanna talk? Im looking upon the floor Im trying to sing a song In a language I dont speak I try but I cant get through Im trying to get to you But youre difficult to reach Wont you talk... to....me.... Oooo... So you dont know where youre going but you wanna talk You feel like youre going where youve been before Lets talk, lets talk ... Lets talk, lets talk ...

Cry, cry, cry, baby Cry, cry, cry In a book about the world Called The Luminous Things There are trees and flowers glowing While Jizo Bodhisattva sings When you cry, cry, cry, baby When you cry, cry, cry When you cry, cry, cry, baby Ill be by your side Dont want us to hurt each other Or cause each other pain Dont want to fear what we dont know Were in this together, baby Were as singing is to rain So Ill never, ever, ever let you go When you cry, cry, cry, baby When you cry, cry, cry When you cry, cry, cry, baby Ill be by your side Ooh, yeah Ooh, yeah For your miracles outnumber All the stars out in the sky Doo-doo, doo-doo-roo-roo-roo Alright, ooh

For a second, I was in control I had it once, I lost it though And all along the fire below Would rise And I wish you could have let me know Whats really going on below Ive lost you now, you let me go But one last time Tell me you love me If you dont, then lie Lie to me Remember once upon a time When I was yours and you were blind The fire would sparkle in your eyes And mine So tell me you love me If you dont then lie Lie to me Just tell me you love me If you dont then lie Lie to me If you dont then lie Lie to me And call it true Call it true love Call it true Call it true love

Death of me, death of me, death of me Death of me, death of me, death of me This could be the death of me Death of me, death of me Me, me, me, me Yeah, pocket full of boarding passes I dont know what city I was in last But Im out here tryna make a impact Same time keep myself intact They say, Take it, take it easy A like its gym class Tell me how I could? Theres slaves in the world, before I die, tryna see us end that So I move fast, Ramadan Move fast, Autobahn Who cares if I ever get a Grammy nom If my soul take Ls, phenomenon Still cant believe I get paid for this As a kid, all I did was pray for this Now Im livin out my dream, craziest Got me really feelin like I was made for this At the same time never knew how dangerous It could be when lives start getting changed to this When somebody say you they favourite Guess it carry some weight to it You know, cause uh Thats power and thats influence The temptation is to use it for myself and serve somebody else Im sittin here buggin just rememberin what them rappers showed me How to bag a honey, stack the money They said I was a mac by the number of shorties that I could smash Now Im waitin on that matrimony Cause Ive been changed up Lil homie came up Its depressin, kickin it with dudes I used to look up to They still on that same stuff, what!? I aint have no role models, now I gotta be one I bought the lie hip-hop sold me, man I want a refund I feel like its the real me, feel me? Yeah, I been changed, but Im still me What I am now, not what I will be Im tryna give life But this could be the death of me The death of me This could be the death of me Just trying to give life, what I do for a living could kill me Yeah, yeah, yeah The death of me This could be the death of me Just trying to give life, what I do for a living could kill me Yeah, yeah, yeah Look, death of me This could be the death of me Just trying to give life, what I do for a living could kill me Yeah, yeah, yeah Death of me This could be the death of me Just trying to give life, what I do for a living could kill me Yeah, yeah, yeah Look, mama feel like she losin me To this lifestyle thats consumin me I travel every weekend even when Im weak man You know what that to do to me? Back pain, back pain Sleepin on planes, Im feelin like Bruce Wayne Blackout at night on that stage Man I need a batcave just to get away Jesus retreated, woo! To speak with his Father, I know that I need it My career been growin But tell me where Im goin if my time with God is depleted God Im sorry, I mean it All I want to do is walk with you, but My priorities wrong, I talk about you more than I talk with you One of my mentors taught me whenever things get foggy If you wanna grow in God its not complicated its just costly Gotta spend that time, currency Overtime guess I learned to be Strong enough to admit Im weak To meet with God all I need is me 2014 bout to be different I think my favorite wordll be no Opportunities come and they go But none of them is worth my soul Thats somethin that you cant afford And got me thinkin whats most important I get kicks, watchin grown men in line for some Jordans Nowadays time is fortune But chasin fortune is all consumin I feel like Gods callin dudes They just wanna play Call of Duty gun shots This that Peter Pan, at the dinner table out in Never Land Eatin, cant nobody see it but me and my boys Thats the way I wanna keep it I lost a couple friends to this new season Jealousy and hate for a few reasons Used to be down, now whats up? Guess everybody around when the funs up, yup Got me feelin isolated Women wanna holla, I just tell em that Im taken Even if I wasnt Id be slow for the taking Ill know if they love me or the money Im making Aint no way to really tell Where somebody heart truly at Bad girls comin at me looking good Showin off they body thats a booby trap Beard low, but I never let my guard down Buddy, I aint crazy You aint bout to catch me slippin Pull a Million Dollar Baby! Me and Dre trying to eat good Cuttin out the nonsense On the road trying to give life But I might lose mine in the process I aint have no role models, now I gotta be one I bought the lie hip-hop sold me, man I want a refund I feel like Fund, I feel like Fund, I feel like Fund, I feel like Fund, I feel like Fund, I feel like Fund, I feel like The death of me This could be the death of me, uh Just trying to give life, what I do for a living could kill me Yeah, yeah, yeah The death of me This could be the death of me Just trying to give life, what I do for a living could kill me Yeah, yeah, yeah Look, death of me This could be the death of me Just trying to give life, what I do for a living could kill me Yeah, yeah, yeah Death of me This could be the death of me Just trying to give life, what I do for a living could kill me Yeah, yeah, yeah Look

Brothers and sisters unite Its the time of your lives Its the time of your lives Breakdown, breakdown Gotta keep em all down Gotta spread it around Brothers and sisters unite Its the time of your lives Its the time of your lives Breakdown, breakdown Gotta keep moving around Gotta keep em all down And stay down Sometimes I feel Stay round And sometimes I feel And its me theyre looking for And its me, I will never survive But well be around so long Brothers and sisters unite For the time of your lives For the time of your lives Breakdown, breakdown Theyll say move it around Got to spread it around And stay down Cause sometimes I feel Stay round And sometimes I feel And its me theyre looking for And its me, I will never survive And Ill be around some long And its gonna be alright And its gonna be alright And its gonna be alright

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night beside her And you know that shes half crazy But thats why you want to be there And she feeds you tea and oranges That come all the way from China And just when you mean to tell her That you have no love to give her Then she gets you on her wavelength And she lets the river answer That youve always been her lover And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you know that she will trust you For youve touched her perfect body with your mind And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone And you want to travel with him And you want to travel blind And you think maybe youll trust him For hes touched your perfect body with his mind Now Suzanne takes your hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From Salvation Army counters And the sun pours down like honey On our lady of the harbour And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers There are heroes in the seaweed There are children in the morning They are leaning out for love And they will lean that way forever While Suzanne holds the mirror And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you know that you can trust her For shes touched your perfect body with her mind

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2001 Yellow 2003 Clocks 2005 Speed Of Sound Fix You 2006 Talk 2008 Violet Hill Viva la Vida Lost! 2010 Christmas Lights 2011 Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall Major Minus Moving To Minus Paradise Princess Of China 2013 Atlas 2014 Midnight Magic A Sky Full Of Stars 2015 Adventure Of A Lifetime

Oh, I think I landed In a world I hadnt seen When Im feeling ordinary When I dont know what I mean Oh, I think I landed Where there are miracles at work For the thirst and for the hunger Come the conference of birds Saying its true, its not what it seems Leave your broken windows open And in the light just streams And you get a head, a head full of dreams You can see the change you wanted Be what you want to be And you get a head, a head full of dreams Into life, I’ve just been spoken With a head full, a head full of dreams Oh, I think I landed Where there are miracles at work When you got me open-handed When you got me lost for words I sing oh-oh-oh A head full of dreams A head full of dreams Into life I’ve just been woken With a head full, a head full of dreams

Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Once upon a time, somebody ran Somebody ran away saying fast as I can Ive got to go, Ive got to go Once upon a time, we fell apart Youre holding in your hands the two halves of my heart Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh I couldve been a princess, youd be a king Couldve had a castle, and worn a ring But no, you let me go I couldve been a princess, youd be a king Couldve had a castle, and worn a ring But no, you let me go You stole my star La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la You stole my star La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Once upon a time, we burned bright Now all we ever seem to do is fight On and on And on and on and on Once upon a time on the same side Once upon a time on the same side In the same game And whyd you have to go? Have to go and throw water on my flame Flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame Flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame, flame I couldve been a princess, youd be a king Couldve had a castle, and worn a ring But no, you let me go I couldve been a princess, youd be a king Couldve had a castle, and worn a ring But no, you let me go You stole my star La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la You stole my star La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Cause you really hurt me No, you really hurt me Cause you really hurt me No, you really hurt me Cause you really hurt me Oh, you really hurt me, oh Cause you really hurt me Oh, you really hurt me

What the world needs now Is love, sweet love No, not just for some But for everyone Yeah the world needs now Some love, sweet love Thats the only thing That theres just too little .. of!

Lord, I dont know which way I am going Which way the river going to flow It just seems that upstream, I keep rowing Still got such a long way to go Still got such a long way to go Then that light hits your eye I know, I swear Well find somewhere The streets are paved with gold Bullets fly, split the sky But thats alright, sometimes Sunlight comes streaming through the holes Ooh, ooh

Oh Brother I Cant, I Cant Get Through Ive Been Trying Hard To Reach You Cause I Dont Know What To Do Oh Brother I Cant Believe Its True Im So Scared About The Future And I Wanna Talk To You ….. So You Take A Picture Of Something You See Or Swim A River After The Sea You Can Climb A Ladder Up To The Sun Or Write A Song Nobody Has Sung Or Do Something Thats Never Been Done, Do So You Dont Know Where Youre Going But You Want To Talk Youll Tell Anyone Wholl Listen But You Feel Ignored When You Worry About The Future Or The Third World War And You Feel Like Youre Going Where Youve Been Before Lets Talk, Lets Talk So You Take A Picture Of Something You See Or Swim A River After The Sea You Can Climb A Ladder Up To The Sun Or Write A Song Nobody Has Sung Or Do Something Thats Never Been Done, Do Lets Talk Lets Talk Lets Talk Lets Talk

So I look in your direction But you pay me no attention, do you? I know you dont listen to me Cause you say you see straight through me, dont you? But on and on From the moment I wake, til the moment I sleep Ill be there by your side, just you try and stop me Ill be waiting in line, just to see if you care Oh, did you want me to change? Well, Ill change for good And I want you to know That youll always get your way I wanted to say— Dont you shiver Shiver Sing it loud and clear Ill always be waiting for you So you know how much I need you But you never even see me, do you? And is this my final chance of getting you? But on and on From the moment I wake, til the moment I sleep Ill be there by your side, just you try and stop me Ill be waiting in line Just to see if you care, if you care Oh, did you want me to change? Well, Ill change for good And I want you to know That youll always get your way I wanted to say— Dont you shiver Dont you shiver Sing it loud and clear Ill always be waiting for you Yeah, Ill always be waiting for you Yeah, Ill always be waiting for you Yeah, Ill always be waiting for you For you I will always be waiting And its you I see, but you dont see me And its you I hear so loud and so clear I sing it loud and clear And Ill always be waiting for you So I look in your direction But you pay me no attention And you know how much I need you But you never even see me

Track 3 from the 2017 album THETA by thesourwarhead

Look at the stars Look how they shine for you And everything you do Yeah, they were all yellow I came along I wrote a song for you And all the things you do And it was called Yellow So then I took my turn Oh, what a thing to have done And it was all yellow Your skin, oh yeah, your skin and bones Turn into something beautiful You know, you know I love you so You know I love you so I swam across I jumped across for you Oh, what a thing to do Cause you were all yellow I drew a line I drew a line for you Oh, what a thing to do And it was all yellow Your skin, oh yeah, your skin and bones Turn into something beautiful And you know For you, I’d bleed myself dry For you, Id bleed myself dry Its true, look how they shine for you Look how they shine for you Look how they shine for Look how they shine for you Look how they shine for you Look how they shine Look at the stars Look how they shine for you And all the things that you do

In the darkness before the dawn In the swirling of the storm When Im rolling with the punches and hope is gone Leave a light, a light on Millions of miles from home In the swirling swimming on When Im rolling with the thunder But bleed from thorns Leave a light, a light on Leave a light, a light on Leave a light, a light on Leave a light, a light on In the darkness before the dawn In the darkness before the dawn Leave a light, a light on Leave a light, a light on

Computer voice: R-E-M-I-X Oh, brother I cant, I cant get through Ive been trying hard to reach you Cause I dont know what to do Oh, brother I cant believe its true Im so scared about the future And I wanna talk to you Computer voice: Now talk baby! Computer chant: Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... You could take a picture of something you see In the future where will I be? You can climb a ladder up to the sun Or write a song nobody had sung Or do something thats never been done Computer voice: Now talk baby! Computer chant: Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Are you lost or incomplete Do you feel like a puzzle You cant find your missing piece Tell me how you feel How you feel How you feel How you feel So you take a picture of something you see In the future where will I be You could climb a ladder up to the sun Or write a song nobody had sung, or do Something thats never been done Computer chant: Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Computer voice: Now talk baby! How you feel How you feel How you feel... Lets talk, lets talk Lets talk, lets talk Lets talk, lets talk... So you dont know where youre going but you wanna talk Youll tell anyone wholl listen but you feel ignored When you worry about the future or the third world war And you feel like youre going where youve been before Lets talk, lets talk Lets talk, lets talk Lets talk, lets talk... Computer chant: Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me... Talk to me...

Hotad med kniv inne på Rio Rio Ett ansikte i ansiktet som wagwan Nere på salsaklubben Dios mio Som Badman är du Di Leva eller Bhagwan? Lysrörsljus och elefantöron mot vita väggar 10-tal som digital exhibitionism Hon separera med sitt ex till sist Hyrde både flytt, städ och exorcist Incest eller nepotism? Är du incel eller sexsolist Bezzerwizzer eller Messerschmitt? Är det xanor eller ecstasy? Rosenkrans som jag blivit korsfäst 2019 hade crush på Ottessa Moshfegh Lyssna på repeat på Petters låt om Koster Jag låg och sov på Joels soffa som det var ett hostel Göteborgskalaset var som Mardi Gras Hon och jag hals över huvud som ett snabel@ Michael Jordan, inne på Starsn Bars är det bara jag Kan aldrig bara låta saker va Aldrig låter nånting ta slut Komplexa algoritmer för en simpel tjuv Låt det gå långsamt när det rinner ut Tills det bara är känslan av det som man minns till slut Och jag minns inte du Du, och du Du med För gammal för att gå i polemik Tänker mer att det som händer händer det blir som det blir En film med snabbare vändningar än din tonårstid Där hjärtat trummar hårdare än Tommy Lee Exakt hur länge är ett ton av tid? En droppe midnatt, nej en droppe blod i din morgonfil Hur han hittade louro fågeln blev en kolibri Sagan om jag föll för frestelsen som Boromir Visst måste vi va menade för mer Du läste min uppriktighet som att jag spelade ett spel Så dålig självkänsla är redan ett problem Finns en risk att det blir skit vad är förnedrande med det Att ändå ta risken måste ju va meningen helt Att vara trygg men inte kär finns väl ingen mening med det En upplevelse rikare, såna saker som formar en Jag kommer träffa nån annan, du kommer ångra dig Inte där än men möt mig vid Bullen & Brödet Minns mig som han som nita livet och knullade döden Ursäkta språket, mer Cold Vein än Cold Play Hip-hop gjorde så Beethoven rullade över Och vi låg till Friday Night Lights baby jag skaffa wi-fi I slutet av dan är vi bara barn av vår zeitgeist Hav av olja och blod som pumpas ur pipelines

Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be so hard. I’m going back to the start. -Coldplay, The Scientist. I have been blogging about my experiences in startups since 2004. Along the way I’ve had all sorts of ups and downs, successes and mistakes. I’ve learned a ton. I’ve tried to use this betashop blog as an outlet to provide budding entrepreneurs with transparent insights into lessons of a startup life. The post I’m most proud of, 90 Things I’ve Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies, has been translated into several languages and read by many people. It was also turned into a video interview with Kevin Rose. That post was preceded by 57 things learned from starting 3 companies, which was preceded by a shorter piece on the socialmedian blog shortly after I left Jobster in 2008. . I love hearing other entrepreneurs tell me that a part of one of those posts influenced their own startup journey. In 2012 and 2013 I took the betashop blog in a direction that I’m not proud of. I allowed it to veer from its original mandate around startup transparency and lessons learned to more of a promotion tool for Fab. Sure, I shared more company data and info on betashop than most startup CEOs would imagine sharing, and I know that a lot of people appreciated the transparency. But to be perfectly honest the sharing was sometimes slanted; more and more betashop was used as a vehicle for pushing out positive data about Fab. That’s not full transparency. Someone once asked me, “will you still share so much data when things aren’t going so well?” At the time I said “Yes.” In reality, I did not. It’s really hard to proactively publish negative data about your company I don’t know many good examples of companies who do that well, except for the occasional “why we failed” post from early stage startups. Company transparency can only go so far. 2013 was a pivotal year in my professional career and for Fab. In July 2013 Fab raised more than $150M at a $1B valuation. Just a couple of weeks after closing that financing I decided that the best path forward for Fab was to slow down and significantly cut the burn-rate while we strengthened the foundation vs. pursuing rapid growth. From August to November we cut our workforce by more than half, from 700 to around 300 today. I said farewell to one of my cofounders and to numerous other highly capable and extremely talented executives, managers, and doers. It was painful. But, it was necessary. My job as CEO is to make the decisions that will provide the greatest likelihood of future success for the company. The decisions I made in the back-half of 2013 and the changes that resulted from them will enable Fab to be more customer focused, more resource efficient, and more long-term successful as we execute on our 2014-2017 plan. On a personal level I took some justifiable hits in 2013. That goes with the territory when you raise money at $1B and then cut headcount and operating expenses as dramatically and swiftly as I did. I freely admit, when you grow revenue 500% year over year and become a media darling overnight, it’s hard to keep perspective. No doubt, we had lost perspective at Fab. We had started to dream in billions when we should have been focused on making one day simply better than the one before it. My focus now is squarely on making Fab realize its full potential over time. I know that my near term decisions might not always make sense externally. I believe that over time we will prove it with real results. “Over time” is the key part of that last statement. One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned the past year is that time is an entrepreneur’s most precious asset. With time you can learn, adjust, and figure things out. The cost-cutting measures we enacted at Fab in 2013 bought us a lot of time. Now we’ve got to figure it out. Want to know how Fab is doing? Ask me again in 2017 ;-) Regarding blogging. From now on betashop will only feature a once-per-quarter long form blog post by me on recent lessons I’ve learned as an entrepreneur. It will be authentic. Four times per year I’ll try to come up with something of value to other entrepreneurs based on my own recent experiences. I will also publish occasional posts on the Fab Blog. We’ll be evolving that blog as the proper place for disseminating information about Fab. So, here goes 16 Lessons I Learned in 2013 1. Startups are hard. There’s no way around it, startups are hard. And it’s supposed to be that way. You are trying to do things that no one has ever done before. You are trying to disrupt markets and incumbents. You are trying to change consumer behavior. You are trying to move your employees out of their comfort zone. You are going to make mistakes. You are going to fail. That’s all part of the startup life. The critical bit is to make sure that your entire team knows and internalizes that startups are supposed to be hard. This is especially difficult when your company is flush with cash and in growth mode. How do you explain to your team that you’ve got $xx millions in the bank but their job is supposed to be hard every day? How do you get your team to spend every dollar like it’s their last and to be obsessively paranoid of complacency? By no means have I fully figured this one out yet. The natural default for me and for many CEOs is to try to inspire the team each day and focus on the wins, not the losses. Here are some ways I’ve been trying to keep our team at Fab focused on the “it’s supposed to be hard” bit: 1. Say it. Say it again. And again and again. In talk after talk I keep reiterating the phrase, “Startups are hard; they are supposed to be hard.” The point is to acknowledge and keep hammering home this thought as a tone-setter. 2. Celebrate challenges as much as successes. In 2014 I’m instituting a monthly “what sucked this month” review. The point is not to get people down on the business but rather to make sure we stop regularly and really talk through the weaknesses in the business and then make sure we have proper resources focused on improvement. 3 Make uncomfortable the new comfortable. Push people out of their comfort zone. Don’t allow group think to get in the way of pushing forward. Inertia is a company’s biggest enemy. 4. Measure vs. plan — using the right metrics. It’s too easy when you are growing to just ignore the plan in the name of growth or to focus on the top line instead of the bottom line. It is critical to measure regularly vs. plan and to make sure you are keeping score on the metrics most critical to long-term viability and value creation. 2. Control Your Own Destiny — Cash Is King. I noted above that the entrepreneur’s most valuable asset is time. With time you can figure all sorts of things out. But, in order to have time, you need to have money to pay for salaries, rent, and operations. Never ever let yourself get into a position where you are desperate for cash. When I made the difficult decision to cut expenses at Fab in mid-2013 I had essentially two options in front of me: keep growing at the pace we were growing and hope I could raise even more money down the road, or scale back and control our own destiny. I chose the latter. Yes, it is my fault for getting us in such a position in the first place, but the go forward decision was rather simple. I didn’t want to ever get in a position where we were desperate for cash. With a $1B valuation we have a lot to prove. We now have the money and ample time to prove it. 3. Don’t Abdicate, Challenge & Delegate. You know that saying, “Hire people who are better than you at what they do and then step back, get out of their way, and let them to do their jobs?” — it’s wrong. The more correct way is: Hire people who are better than you at what they do and then roll up your sleeves and work with them and challenge them everyday. The point is that the CEO can’t abdicate responsibility for any facet of the business. Only the CEO is uniquely positioned to ensure that there is cohesion across the business. Only the CEO is uniquely positioned to ensure that everyone is marching towards the same vision. Only the CEO is uniquely positioned to challenge even the smartest execs to reach out of their comfort zone and think differently. Only the CEO is uniquely positioned to make every facet of the business important. This last point is especially salient. In the past, at times when I spent less time asking about and talking about certain departments at Fab, those functions perceived it as a lack of interest and understanding on my part as to the importance of those facets of the business. “Jason doesn’t care about ops.” “Jason doesn’t care what we sell as long as we sell it.” As CEO, you can’t let that happen. You have to take an equal and keen interest in all facets of the company. 4. As the CEO, it’s all your fault because you set the tone for the entire business. You know that Harry Truman saying, “The buck stops here?” Own it. If you ever, ever find yourself in the position where you are pointing at one of your executives and managers and saying to yourself, “If only they made better decisions we wouldn’t be in this situation,” STOP. Point that finger right back at yourself. Likewise, when you reflect on decisions and say to yourself, “If only I had insisted that they do it my way,” STOP. Point that finger right back at yourself. The reason it’s all your fault is because you set the tone for the business. At Fab in 2012 and into the first half of 2013, for instance, the tone I set was to grow grow grow and create a billion dollar company. All decisions flowed from that. So when I looked back in the second half of 2013 and asked why did we do x, y, z, the easy thing to do would be to blame managers for making poor decisions. But that would be wrong. The absolute truth is that the CEO — me — set the tone and all decisions flowed from that. This is a tough lesson for any leader to internalize, but it’s so important. It’s also easy to fall into the trap of believing that things would have been better if you had just insisted on it being done your way vs. listening to someone else. I can think of countless times over the past couple of years when I knew the right answer but allowed the team to pursue a different direction. For instance, I recall vividly meeting after meeting when we were planning Fab’s European operations and while everyone was calculating the headcount ratios we had in the U.S. and extrapolating the same ratios for Europe, I was the guy in the room saying, “Hang on, if this thing is going to scale we can’t just hire the same size army everywhere.” But, to fault us for doing it anyway is not because I didn’t put my foot down and insist the team do it my way, rather it’s because I had already set the tone that growth mattered more than efficiency in the near term. By championing growth on the one hand while questioning efficiency on the other, all I was doing was confusing the team, not leading them. And, everyone — including myself — was too busy focusing on growth to even take the proper time to figure out the tough problems in front of us. Leadership is all about setting the right tone. 5. Never lose sight of your core mission. And, if you do, acknowledge it and fix it fast. The Fab mission is to brighten people’s lives with design. In our pursuit of growth we lost sight of that mission and the Fab mission became just selling a lot of stuff. It reminds me of the bit in Howard Schultz’ autobiography when he walked into a Starbucks one day and said to himself: “This doesn’t smell like a Starbucks, it smells like food. A Starbucks is supposed to smell like coffee.” He vowed to return Starbucks to its core mission and smell the coffee again. “We need to smell the design coffee again.” That’s kinda how I felt in October 2013. I had already decided that we needed to make drastic cuts to our expense base but when I looked around and talked to our team, I realized that we were no longer smelling the design coffee at Fab. I asked our team to take a count of all of the products we were selling on Fab that they were not proud of. The count came to more than $1M in inventory value. Imagine that — we had allowed ourselves to take on more than $1M of inventory that we were not proud of. From then on we have established some basic principles: - We are a startup. Fueled with the lessons of our first 2.5 years. Smarter for it. - We are obsessed with building Fab up one great design product at a time and one smiling customer at a time. - We would rather take it slower and get it right than go too fast. We want to be the best, not necessarily the biggest. - We only sell designs we are proud of. If we don’t love it, we don’t sell it. - We only do things as a company that we are proud of. 6. Be Present. One of the biggest changes I made to the way I work over the past six months has been to stop traveling so much. I went from spending two weeks per month on the road in the first half of 2013 to actually fully grounding myself from August through November. It makes a huge difference. You might think that having the CEO around every day fosters more micromanagement. I have found it’s actually the opposite. When the CEO is around every day it fosters collaboration. When you’re flying in and out, conversations and debates are shorter. Emails become missives. Fewer people are involved in decision making and they wonder how decisions are made. That causes dissonance and leads to frustration. When you’re present, you talk. You’re more thoughtful. You don’t make decisions in minutes, but over days. You go deeper. Your team also gets to see you in action. They work with you vs. being told what to do by you. The process and the journey of getting to a decision is as important as the decision itself. It’s amazing how much this matters. As I’ve started to travel a bit again , a related lesson I’m learning is how to continue being the CEO even when you travel. Being out of the office is no excuse for not doing your full job every day, including just taking time to listen to people. And if that means I have to work 18 hour days to do video calls with the folks in different time zones, that’s on me. It’s my job to be there for them. 7. Being a private company has lots of advantages. Don’t blow them. The biggest advantage of being a private company is that you are allowed to be private. You don’t have to share information externally. Your competitors don’t need to know what you’re up to. The business press doesn’t need to know what you’re up to. You don’t need to share anything. So, don’t. Unless you are certain that your company is going to grow up and to the right forever and ever without ever hitting a stumble or roadblock, don’t ever put forth or even allude to a revenue projection or a profitability projection or a traffic projection or anything. This, from the guy who managed to turn year/year growth from $18M to $115M into a failure because I had publicly forecasted $140M. If I had just kept my mouth shut and talked about our customers instead of the business, that $115M from $18M year would have been viewed as a great outcome. Shhhh. 8. Get advice. Over the last few months I’ve been fortunate to have regular chats with 3 mentors and twice monthly sessions with a CEO coach. One of my mentors has known me and been involved with my companies for nearly 10 years now. He’s seen all facets of the evolution of Jason Goldberg. He’s fantastic at helping me navigate the toughest of situations. One of my mentors is an investor who has bet a large part of his firm’s current fund on Fab. He’s an entrepreneur himself at heart, not an investor. Having been through his own ups and downs as a startup founder, he’s the best at helping me focus on the long term and not get dejected by the near term challenges. One of my mentors is an investor whose last name is one of two on one of the most prestigious tech-savvy VC firms in the world. He’s also uniquely been at the helm of a startup that was once valued at $1B then suffered through a series of layoffs and rebuilding years, and then rebounded to eventually be sold for more than $1.5B. His advice to me : Cash is king. Preserve cash. Get cash flow positive. Control your own destiny. My fourth and most recent mentor is my CEO Coach. A couple of colleagues suggested that I see a CEO coach during Fab’s recent changes. A couple of months later, I could not advocate more for the importance of having one. The CEO Coach is sort of like a special psychologist cum advisor for CEO’s. My coach is awesome at calling bullshit on me, getting me to own my challenges, and helping me focus on doing the right work. It’s true what they say: The CEO’s job can be the loneliest in the world. . Get a coach. If they’re good at what they do, they’ll always get you. And they’ll help you work through it. 9. Stay in shape. No matter how stressed. 10. Eat healthy. No matter how stressed. 11. Take vacations. Decompress. Spend time with your partner without distractions. My husband is my rock and my recharge. And, if you don’t take vacations your team won’t either. There’s no glory in tired overworked grumpy colleagues. Take vacation! I recommend my team to take one full week per quarter. It’s also a great forcing function for training people to have backup plans for while they are away. 12. Don’t toot your own horn. Super hard especially when your achievements are shared with others and you so want to shout the success from the rooftops. Stop. Think. Be thoughtful. That success will still be there, and in context, three to six to 12 months from now. Wait. Let others discover your success in a time-appropriate manner. There’s no rush. Oh, and btw, today’s hero is tomorrow’s goat. Build success over time and let others recognize it for you. 13. Shut up. Despite what you may tell yourself, not many consumers actually want to get to know the CEO of the companies they interact with. It’s not about you. It’s all about the product. 14. Coach. One of my biggest goals for 2014 is to coach more. I’m lucky to have people who give me great feedback and returning the favor and watching them grow and succeed is one of the best feelings in the world as a CEO. Coaching is not just supporting though; a critical part of coaching as CEO is pushing your people out of their comfort zone and making them own up to measurable accountable goals and objectives. 15. Stop doing the stuff you do instead of doing the work. We all have things we do when we’re avoiding doing the work we should be doing. For me it’s reading HackerNews, planning travel, and writing blog posts. The latter is the worst. Writing a blog post touting some new development at your company is not the CEOs job, and it’s not doing the real work it takes to make the company successful. When you find yourself doing the stuff that you do instead of doing the work, stop. 16. Don’t ever, ever give up. Ignore the naysayers. Focus. Lead. With resources, time, and smart motivated people you can do amazing things. Time is the entrepreneur most precious asset. With time you can learn, adjust, and figure things out — if you have the courage to do so. In a word: Resilience. This post is long enough. Stop. - I’ll write something again next quarter. -Jason

So you lost your trust And you never should have But you never should have But dont break your back If you ever see this But dont answer life In a bullet proof vest With the windows all closed Ill be doing my best Ill see you soon In a telescope lens And when all you want is friends I see you soon So they came for you They came snapping at your heels They come snapping at your heels But dont break your back If you ever say this But dont answer life In a bullet proof vest With the windows all closed Ill be doing my best Ill see you soon In a telescope lens And when all you want is friends I see you soon I see you soon And oh, you lost your trust And oh, you lost your trust No, dont lose your trust And oh, you lost your trust

Bones, sinking like stones All that we fought for Homes, places we’ve grown All of us are done for We live in a beautiful world Yeah, we do, yeah, we do We live in a beautiful world Bones, sinking like stones All that we fought for Homes, places we’ve grown All of us are done for We live in a beautiful world Yeah, we do, yeah, we do We live in a beautiful world And we live in a beautiful world Yeah, we do, yeah, we do We live in a beautiful world Oh, all that I know Theres nothing here to run from Cause yeah, everybody heres got somebody to lean on

So I look in your direction But you pay me no attention, do you? I know you dont listen to me Cause you say you see straight through me, dont you? But on and on From the moment I wake, to the moment I sleep Ill be there by your side, just you try and stop me Ill be waiting in line, just to see if you care Oh, she want me to change? Well I changed for good I want you to know That youll always get your way I wanted to say Dont you shiver Shiver Sing it loud and clear Ill always be waiting for you So you know how much I need ya But you never even see me, do you? And is this my final chance of getting you Sining on and on From the moment I wake, to the moment I sleep Ill be there by your side, just you try and stop me Ill be waiting in line, just to see if you care, if you care Oh, she want me to change? Well, I changed for good I want you to know That youll always get your way I wanted to say, to say, to say Dont you shiver Dont you shiver Sing it loud and clear Ill always be waiting for you Ill always be waiting for you Yeah, Ill always be waiting for you, for you I will always be waiting And its you I see but you dont see me And its you I hear so loud and so clear Sing it loud and clear And Ill always be waiting for you So I look in your direction But you pay me no attention And you know how much I need you But you never even see me

Could you, could you come back? Come back together Put yourself on my back And say its forever Could you, could you come home? Come home forever Your shoulders knees and your back Will keep us together Cause youre the one I love Youre the one I love Youre the one I love Ahhhh, ahhhh Could you, could you come on? Could you tell me whatever? Tie yourself to a mast? Its now or its never Gonna tear us apart Tell me forever Its gonna tear us apart Keep us together Youre the one I love Youre the one I love Ahhh, ahhh Youre the one I love Youre the one I love Youre the one I love Youre the one I love

Where do we go nobody knows Ive gotta say Im on my way, down God give me style and give me grace God put a smile upon my face Where do we go to draw the line Ive gotta say I wasted all your time, honey, honey Where do I go to fall from grace God put a smile upon your face Yeah Now when you work it out Im worse than you Yeah when you work it out I want it to Now when you work out where to draw the line Your guess is as good as mine Where do we go nobody knows Dont ever say youre on your way, down When God gave you style and gave you grace And put a smile upon your face Oh yeah Now when you work it out Im worse than you Yeah when you work it out I want it to Now when you work out where to draw the line Your guess is as good as mine Its as good as mine Its as good as mine Its as good as mine As good as mine As good as mine As good as mine As good as mine Where do we go nobody knows Dont ever say youre on your way, down When God gave you style and gave you grace And put a smile upon your face

I awake to find no peace of mind I said, How do you live as a fugitive Down here, where I cannot see so clear? I said, What do I know? Show me the right way to go And the spies came out of the water And youre feeling so good cause you know That those spies hide out in every corner Well they cant touch you, no Causes theyre just spies Theyre all spies I awake to see no one is free Well were all fugitives - look at the way we live Down here, where we cannot sleep from fear I said, Which way to turn? Oh, I forget everything I learn And the spies came out of the water And youre feeling so good cause you know With those spies hide out in every corner Well they cant touch you, no Cause theyre all spies And if we dont hide here Theyre gonna find us And if we dont hide now Theyre gonna catch us where we sleep And if we dont hide here Theyre gonna find us Theyre just spies Theyre just spies Theyre just spies Theyre just spies

Lemme be real for a minute Im finally ready to admit it You was my heart but I jetted out Lemme take a breath so I can spit it out I miss you, though Ive been frontin like it aint the truth It was my way of dealing with it when I skated through It made it look like I was bitter and I hated you When really I was tryina save the pain from abandoning roots, It aint an easy decision to leave your home But I was searching for a bigger opportunity to grow Coz I found where I wanna be, now I just gotta be Real enough to allow myself to feel some honesty, it was a A warning sign I missed the good part, then I realised I started looking and the bubble burst I started looking for excuses Come on in Ive gotta tell you what a state Im in Ive gotta tell you in my loudest tones That I started looking for a warning sign When the truth is Lemme be real for a minute, Im finally ready to admit it I miss you You was my heart but I jetted out, lemme take a breath so I can spit it out Yeah the truth is Lemme be real for a minute here, Im finally ready to admit it yeah That I miss you so You was my heart but I jetted out, lemme take a breath so I can spit it out It aint an easy decision to leave your home But I was searching for a bigger opportunity to grow Coz I found where I wanna be, now I just gotta be Real enough to allow myself to feel some honesty, it was a A warning sign It came back to haunt me, and I realised That you were an island and I passed you by And you were an island to discover Come on in Ive gotta tell you what a state Im in Ive gotta tell you in my loudest tones That I started looking for a warning sign When the truth is Lemme be real for a minute uh, Im finally ready to admit it yeah I miss you You was my heart but I jetted out, lemme take a breath so I can spit it out Yeah the truth is Lemme be real for a minute here, Im finally ready to admit it gyeah That I miss you so You was my heart but I jetted out, lemme take a breath so I can spit it out And Im tired Yeah Im tired of denying it Im trying hard but it aint easy kid I should not have let you go Nah its cool coz Ill be back again Home is always that, and though Im traveling Nah its cool coz Ill be back again Home is always that, and though Im traveling Nah its cool coz Ill be back again Home is always that, and though Im traveling Nah its cool coz Ill be back again Ill be back again yeah Oooooooo So I crawl back into your open arms Yes I crawl back into your open arms And I crawl back into your open arms Yes I crawl back into your open arms

Lyrics from Snippet We had a kind of love, I thought that it would never end Oh my lover, oh my other, oh my friend We talked around in circles and we talked around again I loved you to the moon and back again

Im up in the part of the throne Im trying to sing a song In a language I dont speak I try but I cant get through Im trying to get to you But youre difficult to reach You can take a picture of something you see In the future where will I be? You can climb a ladder up to the Sun Or write a song nobody has sung Under the great North star Try to work out where you are In the silence of the sea I dont know where Ill be In the future, in the past Going nowhere much too fast When I go there, go with me Ah, got to find your missing piece When I go there When I go there When I go there So you dont know where youre going and you wanna talk? And you feel like youre going where youve been before? You tell anyone wholl listen, but you feel ignored? Nothings really making any sense at all, lets talk Lets talk

See you lost your trust and you never should have, you never should have Dont break your back if you ever say this Dont answer that In a bullet proof vest with the windows all closed Ill be doing my best Ill see you soon In a telescope lens when all you want is friends Ill see you soon See, they came for you they came snapping at your heels, they came snapping at your heels Dont break your back if you ever say this But dont answer that In a bullet proof vest with the windows all closed Ill be doing my best Ill see you soon In a telescope lens when all you want is friends Ill see you soon You lost your trust You lost your trust No dont lose your trust No dont lose your trust

Look at earth from outer space Everyone must find a place Give me time and give me space Give me real dont give me fake Give me strength, reserve control Give me heart and give me soul Give me time, give us a kiss Tell me your own politik And open up your eyes Open up your eyes Open up your eyes Open up your eyes Give me one cause one is best In confusion confidence Give me peace of mind and trust Dont forget the rest of us Give me strength, reserve control Give me heart and give me soul Wounds that heal and cracks that fix Tell me your own politik And open up your eyes Open up your eyes Open up your eyes Open up your eyes Just open up your eyes But give me love over, love over, love over this And give me love over, love over, love over this

Did I drive you away? I know what youll say You say, Oh, sing one you know But I promise you this Ill always look out for you Yeah, thats what Ill do I say, oh I say, oh My heart is yours Its you that I hold on to Yeah, thats what I do And I know I was wrong But I wont let you down Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, I will, yes I will I said, oh I cry, oh Yeah, I saw sparks Yeah, I saw sparks And I saw sparks Yeah, I saw sparks Sing it out La, la, la, la, oh… La, la, la, la, oh… La, la, la, la, oh… La, la, la, la, oh…

One... two... Steal my heart... and hold my tongue I feel my time... my time has come Let me in... unlock the door I never felt this way before And the wheels just keep on turning The drummer begins to drum I dont know which way Im going I dont know which way Ive come Hold my head... inside your hands I need someone... who understands I need someone... someone who hears For you Ive waited all these years For you Id wait... til Kingdom Come Until my day... my day is done And say youll come... and set me free Just say youll wait... youll wait for me In your tears... and in your blood In your fire... and in your flood I hear you laugh... I heard you sing I wouldnt change a single thing And the wheels just keep on turning The drummers begin to drum I dont know which way Im going I dont know what Ive become For you Id wait... til kingdom come Until my days... my days are done Say youll come... and set me free Just say youll wait... youll wait for me Just say youll wait... youll wait for me Just say youll wait... youll wait for me

We had a kind of love I thought that it would never end Oh my lover Oh my other Oh my friend We talked around in circles We talked around again I love you to the moon and back again

What if there was no light? Nothing wrong, nothing right? What if there was no time? And no reason or rhyme? What if you should decide That you dont want me there by your side? That you dont want me there in your life? What if I got it wrong? And no poem or song Could put right what I got wrong Or make you feel I belong What if you should decide That you dont want me there by your side? That you dont want me there in your life? Oooooh, thats right Lets take a breath, jump over the side Oooooh, thats right How can you know it if you dont even try? Oooooh, thats right Every step that you take Could be your biggest mistake It could bend or it could break But thats the risk that you take What if you should decide That you dont want me there in your life? That you dont want me there by your side? Oooooh, thats right Lets take a breath, jump over the side Oooooh, thats right How can you know it when you dont even try? Oooooh, thats right Oh, Oooooh, thats right Lets take a breath, jump over the side Oooooh, thats right You know that darkness always turns into light Oooooh, thats right

For a second, I was in control I had it once, I lost it though And all along the fire below would rise And I wish you could have let me know Whats really going on below Ive lost you now, you let met go but one last time Tell me you love me, if you dont then lie, oh lie to me Remember once upon a time, when I was yours and you were blind The fire would sparkle in your eyes and mine So tell me you love me, if you dont then lie, oh lie to me Just tell me you love, if you dont then lie, oh lie to me If you dont then lie, oh lie to me And call it true, call it true love Call it true, call it true love

Im dreaming of a white Christmas Just like the ones I used to know Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow Im dreaming of a white christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may all your Christmases be white Im dreaming of a white christmas Just like the ones I used to know Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow Im dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may all your Christmases be white

So you lost your trust And you never should have And you never should have But dont break your back If you ever hear this But dont answer that Cause in a bullet proof vest With the windows all closed Ill be doing my best And Ill see you soon In a telescope lens And when all you want is friends Ill see you soon So they came for you They came snapping at your heels They come snapping at your heels But dont break your back If you ever hear this But dont answer that Cause in a bullet proof vest With the windows all closed Ill be doing my best And Ill see you soon And in a telescope lens And when all you want is friends Ill see you soon You lost your trust And oh, you lost your trust No, dont lose your trust And oh, you lost your trust

If you were God Tomorrow Stand up At the sunrise / All Night Stand by / So close Round and Round Tomorrow lies Come on, love Do you know how it ends? Do you know when to stop? Come out, civilized A view from the top The world spinning round That / The clouds cant allow Come out, see the end And a view from the top So close / Stand by Tomorrows now Oh, here I am Oh, here I am! Do you know where it ends? Or know when it stops? The world celebrates / Then you celebrate A view from the top Then you celеbrate Oh love, sing it loud Oh, la-la-la-la A view from thе top From the top A view from the top A view from the top So, love Tomorrow Answer Now

Wait for your call, love The call never came Ready to fall, love Ready to claim Im ready for it all, love Im ready for a pain Meet under sun Meet me again In the rain In the rain In the rain The rain Behind the walls, love Im trying to change And Im ready for it all, love Im ready for a change Meet under blue sky Meet me again In the rain The rain, the rain In the rain The rain Got to find yourself alone in this world Youve got to find yourself alone

Oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo Oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo When she was just a girl She expected the world But it flew away from her reach So she ran away in her sleep And dreamed of para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Every time she closed her eyes Oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo Oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo When she was just a girl She expected the world But it flew away from her reach And the bullets catch in her teeth Life goes on, it gets so heavy The wheel breaks the butterfly Every tear, a waterfall In the night, the stormy night, shell close her eyes In the night, the stormy night, away shed fly And dream of para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Shed dream of para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh La-la La-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la So lying underneath those stormy skies Shed say, Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh I know the sun must set to rise This could be para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise This could be para-para-paradise Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh This could be para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise This could be para-para-paradise Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh This could be para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise This could be para-para-paradise Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh Oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo Oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo Oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo Oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo

So you dont know where youre going Oh, I wanna talk to you Oh, I wanna talk to you Oh, I wanna talk to you Oh, I wanna talk to you You can take a picture of something you see Or swim a river out to the sea You can climb a ladder up to the Sun Or write a song nobody has sung Or do something thats never been done And theyre talking it to me And theyre talking it to me And theyre talking it to me And theyre talking it to me You can take a picture of something you see Or swim a river out to the sea You can climb a ladder up to the Sun Or write a song nobody has sung Or do something thats never been done So you dont know where youre going and you wanna talk? You tell anyone wholl listen, but you feel ignored? When you worry about the future and the 3rd world war When you worry about the future and the 3rd world war

Well run wild Well run wild Well run wild Well run wild Well run wild Well run wild Well be glowing in the dark Stole a key Took a car downtown where the lost boys meet Took a car downtown and took what they offered me To set me free I saw the lights go down at the end of the scene Saw the lights go down and standing in front of me In my scarecrow dreams When they smash my heart into smithereens Be a bright red rose come bursting through concrete Be a cartoon heart Light a fire a fire a spark Light a fire a flame in my heart We’ll run wild We’ll be glowing in the dark We’ll be glowing in the dark All the boys, all the girls, all that matters in the world All the boys, all the girls, all the madness that occurs All the highs all the lows, as the room a-spinning goes We’ll run wild, we’ll be glowing in the dark We’ll be glowing in the dark We’ll be glowing in the dark In the dark

Stole a key And took a car downtown where the lost boys meet Took a car downtown and took what they offered me To set me free I saw the lights go down at the end of the scene I saw the lights go down and standing in front of me In my scarecrow dreams When they smashed my heart into smithereens Be a bright red rose, come burst in the concrete Be a cartoon heart Light a fire, fire the spark Light a fire, a flame in my heart, well run wild Well be glowing in the dark Well be glowing in the dark All the boys, all the girls, all that matters in the world All the boys, all the girls, all the madness that occurs All the highs, all the lows as the room is spinning Well run riot, well be glowing in the dark So, so, reminiscing wild Well be glowing in the dark

When you try your best but you dont succeed When you get what you want but not what you need When you feel so tired but you cant sleep Stuck in reverse And the tears come streaming down your face When you lose something you cant replace When you love someone but it goes to waste Could it be worse? Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones I will try to fix you High up above or down below When youre too in love to let it go But if you never try youll never know Just what youre worth Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you Tears stream down your face When you lose something you cannot replace Tears stream down your face and I Tears stream down your face I promise you I will learn from my mistakes Tears stream down your face and I Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you

Bono: Mother, mother Theres too many of you crying Chris: Brother, brother, brother Theres too many of you dying You know youve got to find a way To bring some lovin here to stay Bono: Father, father We dont need to escalate And war is not the answer For only love can conquer hate Chris: You know weve got to find a way To bring some lovin here to stay Picket lines wont block our way Bono: Dont punish me with brutality Talk to me, and you can see Whats going on Whats going on Whats going on Whats going on Father, father, everybody thinks were wrong But who are they to judge us Together we can be strong Chris: You know weve got to find a way To bring some lovin here to stay Picket lines wont block our way Dont punish me with brutality Talk to me, so you can see Whats going on, Whats going on Whats going on, Whats going on Whats going on, Whats going on Whats going on, Whats going on

So I look in your direction But you pay me no attention, do you I know you dont listen to me Cause you say you see straight through me, dont you But on and on from the moment I wake To the moment I sleep Ill be there by your side Just you try and stop me Ill be waiting in a line Just to see if you care Do you want me to change Well I change for good And I want you to know That you always get your way I wanted to say Dont you shiver, shiver, sing it loud and clear Ill always be waiting for you So you know how much I need you But you never even see me, do you And is this is my final chance of getting you And on and on from the moment I wake To the moment I sleep Ill be there by your side Just you try and stop me Ill be waiting in line Just to see if you care If you care Oh, oh, oh, oh Did she want me to change Well I change for good And I want you to know That youll always get your way I wanted to say Dont you shiver Dont you shiver Sing it loud and clear Ill always be waiting for you Yeah Ill always be waiting for you Yeah Ill always be waiting for you Yeah Ill always be waiting for you For you I will always be waiting And its you I see, but you dont see me And its you I hear, so loud and so clear I sing it loud and clear And Ill always be waiting for you So I look in your direction But you pay me no attention And you know how much I need you But you never even see me

In the darkness before the dawn In the swirling of the storm When Im rolling with the punches and hope is gone Leave a light, a light on Leave a light, a light on Leave a light, a light on

Come up to meet you, tell you Im sorry You dont know how lovely you are I had to find you, tell you I need you Tell you I set you apart Tell me your secrets, and ask me your questions Oh, lets go back to the start Running in circles, coming up tails Heads on a science apart Nobody said it was easy Its such a shame for us to part Nobody said it was easy No one ever said it would be this hard Oh, take me back to the start I was just guessing at numbers and figures Pulling the puzzles apart Questions of science, science and progress Do not speak as loud as my heart Tell me you love me, come back and haunt me Oh, and I rush to the start Running in circles, chasing our tails Coming back as we are Nobody said it was easy Its such a shame for us to part Nobody said it was easy No one ever said it would be this hard Im going back to the start Oh-ooh ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ooh ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Oh-ooh ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Oh-ooh ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Then I Take A Picture Of Something You See You See… You See… You See… You See… In The Future… In The Future… In The Future… In The Future… In The Future Where Will I Be? Oh, Please Talk To Me Can You Fill The Colors Missing You Need? Will I Ever Get The Answer I Need? Oh, Please Talk To Me Please Talk To Me

Look at the stars Look how they shine for you And everything you do And, they were all yellow I came along I wrote a song for you And all the things you do And it was called Yellow Your skin, oh yeah, your skin and bones Turn into something beautiful You know, you know I love you so You know I love you so I swam across I jumped across for you Oh, what a thing to do Cause you were all yellow I drew a line I drew a line for you Oh, what a thing to do And it was all yellow Your skin, oh yeah, your skin and bones Turn into something beautiful You know, For you, Id bleed myself dry For you, Id bleed myself dry Its true, look how they shine for you Look how they shine for you Look how they shinе for Its true, look how they shine for you Look how thеy shine for you Look how they shine for Look how they shine

Come up to meet you, tell you Im sorry You dont know how lovely you are I had to find you, tell you I need you Tell you I set you apart Tell me your secrets, and ask me your questions Oh, lets go back to the start Running in circles, coming up tails Heads on a science apart Nobody said it was easy Its such a shame for us to part Nobody said it was easy No one ever said it would be this hard Oh, take me back to the start I was just guessing at numbers and figures Pulling the puzzles apart Questions of science, science and progress Do not speak as loud as my heart Tell me you love me, come back and haunt me Oh, and I rush to the start Running in circles, chasing our tails Coming back as we are Nobody said it was easy Oh, its such a shame for us to part Nobody said it was easy No one ever said it would be so hard Im going back to the start Oh-ooh ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Aah-ooh ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Oh-ooh ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Oh-ooh ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Scared of losing all the time You wrote it in a letter He was a friend of mine He heard you could see your future Inside a glass of water The ripples and the lines And he asked, would I see heaven in mine? That is just the way it was Nothing could be better And nothing ever was Oh and they say you can see your future Inside a glass of water The riddles and the rhymes Will I see heaven in mine? Oh Oh Oh Oh I Son, dont ask Neither how full nor empty is your glass Cling to the mast Spend your whole life living in the past Going nowhere fast So he wrote it on a wall The hollowest of halos Is no halo at all Televisions selling plastic figurines of leaders Saying nothing at all And you chime Stars in heaven align Oh Oh Oh Oh I Son, dont ask Neither how full nor empty is your glass Cling to the mast Spend your whole life living in the past Going nowhere fast Oh what are we drinking when were done? Glasses of water

When you try your best, but you dont succeed When you get what you want, but not what you need When you feel so tired, but you cant sleep Stuck in reverse When the tears come streaming down your face Cause you lose something you cant replace When you love someone, but it goes to waste Could it be worse? Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you High up above or down below When youre too in love to let it go But if you never try, youll never know Just what yourе worth Lights will guide you home And ignite your bonеs And I will try to fix you Mm, to fix you Tears stream down your face When you lose something you cannot replace Tears stream down your face, and I Tears stream down your face I promise you I will learn from my mistakes Tears stream down your face, and I Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you

Look at the stars Look how they shine for you And everything you do Yeah they were all yellow I came along I wrote a song for you And all the things you do And it was called yellow So then I took my turn Oh what a thing to have done And it was all yellow Your skin Oh yeah your skin and bones Turn into something beautiful You know you know I love you so You know I love you so I swam across I jumped across for you Oh what a thing to do Cause you were all yellow I drew a line I drew a line for you Oh what a thing to do And it was all yellow Your skin Oh yeah your skin and bones Turn into something beautiful And you know For you Id bleed myself dry For you Id bleed myself dry Its true Look how they shine for you Look how they shine for you Look how they shine for Look how they shine for you Look how they shine for you Look how they shine Look at the stars Look how they shine for you And all the things that you do

Trying hard to speak and Fighting with my weak hand Driven to distraction Its all part of the plan When something is broken And you try to fix it Trying to repair it Anyway you can I grew aware of my motivation I found my own destination I was growing up, losing family too This happens to everyone, nothing new But when I get a Grammy, no recognition But when Im gone, my keys in the ignition I wont look back on fonder days Those people hope I ponder my ways God tells me to forgive, but I cant My pride tells me to forget, Im the man In charge of my glory, dont need approval Pay homage to a young blood, tribunal And by God, a man scorned by time Only does great or leads a life of crime Keep your eyes on your bread, dont mind The howls of the beasts who trail behind Cant follow orders, I remain leading Sacrifice myself to a greatness that Im bleeding Haven’t seen you since I was a kid Growing up, I loved you and I thought you did But now, years passed, and you ain’t ish I tried to refrain from using language But my mind is saying eff you, go to Hell If you come back when I’m famous, hope all is well Tell me that you loved me, but I could never tell With the way that you and all the others fell And the only one I ever see is my uncle and my granny Believe that I won’t ever mention you when I get a Grammy And that man I barely know better recognize that I’m Death I’m deadlier than deadly, he won’t ever fathom the depth I’ve been writing in darkness, spitting rhymes in the darkness Watching pain form in the heart and over coming the hardest But know, that a child won’t ever understand a family torn This was the bull that happened long before I was even born You should have known that I would snap You should have known that I would rage You tell me that you love me and leave one day? You tell me that I could do great things, you say? Im damn great and I hope you realize That losing you is my greatest pain Im just saying, this what happens when you have a conflicted mind When you fall into this pit of darkness you dont even understand Where you have to see counselors and shrinks I dont think you can comprehend You never had to fight a day in your life with that, now did you? No...

TRACK 1: A Head Full of Dreams Coldplay, headed by lead singer Chris Martin, released the album A Head Full of Dreams on December 4th, 2015. I, Riley Lazare, was in an undisclosed location in Oklahoma when it was released. I was born and raised in this undisclosed location. The album sold 1.9 million copies worldwide to be the 8th best selling album of 2015, it is therefore the 8th best album of 2015. The album features Beyonce Knowles who is best known for losing as a contestant on Star Search and for her feature role on the album A Head Full of Dreams by Coldplay headed by lead singer Chris Martin. Beyonce Knowles is one of the best parts of the 8th best album of 2015 and we thank her. To promote A Head Full of Dreams , Chris Martin and the rest of the boys climbed into a big hot air balloon and rode it over the fields of Glastonbury and took pictures for Facebook so it’s pretty clear that A Head Full of Dreams is all about being full of life. I watched Chris Martin and the boys climb into that hot air balloon from my undisclosed location in Oklahoma. I learned the virtues of being full. I booked a Greyhound bus ticket up to Canada to begin my world journey. I bought an Insignia Portable CD Player and only one CD: A Head Full of Dreams by Coldplay headed by lead-man Chris Martin published by Atlantic and Parlophone Records. In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, oh I think I landed where there are miracles at work. TRACK 5: Adventure of a Lifetime I witness the music video “Adventure of a Lifetime” from Oklahoma. I let the monkeys howl from an undisclosed location in Africa from the public computer in John Root Library. I know the monkeys are monkeys, I watch them hoot and swing from the branches of Undisclosed Africa. I know they were listening to Coldplay’s “Adventure of a Lifetime” on Beats Pill+ Speakers in the music video because the sun hit the silver “B” in the middle of the speaker perfect every time in that part of Africa. I sang Coldplay’s “Adventure of a Lifetime”, I hollered with the monkeys in the only library in town, John Root’s home, where he housed twenty westerns and three Playboys. John Root hollered with me, John Root is restless because he only owns three Playboys he knows he is doing a disservice to the community. We take my Insignia Portable CD player with the album A Head Full of Dreams down to the tavern of Undisclosed Oklahoma, let the Indians pass it around, they yank the earbuds from each other. The earbuds will never recover from this. Chris, I promise I will visit the unheard of places where the light always shines the right way on my Insignia Portable CD player, I will bring back exotic strains of the Playboy for John Root and the public good, I will holler with the people of the world, I will holler where there once was silence, I will be filled until I can’t help but share. TRACK 6: Fun featuring Tove Lo I am walking through Toronto and finally the damage the Indians did to my headphones has finished the job. They were Skullcandy headphones. I can only hear Chris out of one ear and only sporadically. They are the third best-selling pair of headphones on Bestbuy.com. They are the third best pair of headphones in the world. I’ve heard this song enough to begin singing it aloud: “Fun” track 6 on A Head Full of Dreams. I croon like you, Chris. Tove Lo is also on this song, it is a duet, so I sing as her too. Tove Lo is best known for her collaboration with current wonderchild Hilary Duff and for her collaboration with Coldplay for the song “Fun”, track 6 of A Head Full of Dreams. I try to get the people of Toronto to sing Tove Lo’s part in “Fun” but they will not sing for Tove although they are strongly aware of the song. I sing as Tove Lo and stop to let them sing for Chris but they will not sing for Chris, although they are strongly aware of the song. I am downtown in Kensington Market. I am filled with you, Chris, in a way I never was before. Why have I never crooned like you before? What could stop the people of Toronto from crooning? I throw the third best pair of headphones in the world in the trash in Chinatown. I hold onto the Insignia CD Player because it has become your body, Chris. I take the cable cars to the alleyways of Chinatown, I find the Toronto that howls. Track 4: Everglow This is my copy of A Head Full of Dreams by Coldplay with lead singer Chris Martin published by Atlantic and Parlophone Records. I will write my name and the date on the first page of the CD booklet, my children will write their names and the date on the first page of the CD booklet, my grandchildren will write their names and the date on the first page of the CD booklet. My grandchildren will write my name and the date of my death for the first time in this CD booklet. When the CD scratches past repair we will sing the lyrics from the CD booklet. I will know the age of my children by which song from A Head Full of Dreams they relate to the most.

Look at earth from outer space Everyone must find the place Give me time and give me space Give me real, dont give me fake Give me strength, reserve control Give me heart and give me soul Give me love, give us a kiss Tell me your own politik Open up your eyes Open up your eyes Open up your eyes Open up your eyes Give me one cause one is best And in confusion, confidence Give me peace of mind and trust And dont forget the rest of us Give me strength, reserve control Give me heart and give me soul Wounds that heal and cracks that fix My love, tell me your own politik Open up your eyes Open up your eyes Open up your eyes Open up your eyes And give me love over, love over, love over this Ahh, give me love over, love over, love over this Ahh

When she was just a girl She expected the world But it flew away from her reach So she ran away in her sleep And dreams of Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Every time she closed her eyes When she was just a girl She expected the world But it flew away from her reach And the bullets catch in her teeth Life goes on, it gets so heavy The wheel breaks the butterfly Every tear a waterfall In the night the stormy night shell close her eyes In the night the stormy night away shed fly And dreams of Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh Shed dream of Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Para-para-paradise Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh La-la-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la And so lying underneath those stormy skies Shed say, oh, ohohohoh I know the sun must set to rise This could be Oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh Paradise Oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh Paradise Oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh Paradise Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh This could be Oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh Paradise Oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh Paradise Oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh Paradise Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh This could be Oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh Paradise Oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh Paradise Oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh Paradise Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh Oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh Oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh Oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh...

Sometimes I just cant take it Sometimes I just cant take it and it isnt alright Im not gonna make it And I think my shoes untied Im like a broken record Im like a broken record and Im not playin right Drocer nekorb a ekil mi Til you tell me on your heavenly phone Youve got a higher power Got me singin every second, dancin every hour Oh yeah, youve got a higher power And youre really someone I wanna know, ooh This boy is electric This boy is electric and youre sparklin like the universe connected And Im buzzin night after night after night This joy is electric This joy is electric and youre circuiting through Im so happy that Im alive Happy Im alive at the same time as you Cause youve got a higher power Got me singin every second, dancin every hour Oh yeah, youve got a higher power And youre really someone I wanna know When for so long Id been down on my knees Then your love song saved me over and over For so long Id been down on my knees Til your love song floats me on Ee-oh, oh-oh

Oh no, I see A spider web is tangled up with me And I lost my head And thought of all the stupid things Id said Oh no, whats this? A spider web, and Im caught in the middle So I turned to run And thought of all the stupid things Id done And I, I never meant to cause you trouble And I, I never meant to do you wrong And I, well, if I ever caused you trouble And oh no, I never meant to do you harm Oh no, I see A spider web, and its me in the middle So I twist and turn But here am I in my little bubble Singing out, I never meant to cause you trouble I never meant to do you wrong And I, well, if I ever caused you trouble Oh no, I never meant to do you harm They spun a web for me They spun a web for me They spun a web for me

I wanna be bigger, stronger, drive a faster car To take me anywhere in seconds To take me anywhere I wanna go And drive around a faster car I will settle for nothing less I will settle for nothing less I wanna be bigger, stronger, drive a faster car At the touch of a button I can go anywhere I wanna go And drive around a faster car I will settle for nothing less I will settle for nothing less I think I want to change my altitude I think I want to change my oxygen I think I want to change my air My atmosphere I wanna recharge I wanna be bigger, stronger, drive a faster car To take me anywhere in seconds To take me anywhere I wanna go And drive around my faster car I will settle for nothing less I will settle for nothing less I think I need to change my attitude I think I want to change my oxygen I think I want to change my air My atmosphere I wanna recharge Bigger and better Bigger and better Bigger and better Bigger and better Bigger, stronger, drive a faster car At the touch of a button I can go anywhere I wanna go

Okay! Just because Im losing Doesnt mean Im lost Doesnt mean Ill stop Doesnt mean Im across Just because Im hurting Doesnt mean Im hurt Doesnt mean I didnt get what I deserve No better or no worse I just got lost Every river that I tried to cross Every door I ever tried was locked Oh, and Im just waiting til the shine wears off You might be a big fish In a little pond Doesnt mean youve won, cause along may come A bigger one Youll be lost Every river that you try to cross Every gun you ever held went off Oh, and Im just waiting til the firing stops Oh, and Im, oh, just waiting til the shine wears off Oh, and Im just waiting til the shine wears off Oh, and Im just waiting til the shine wears off Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Just because Im losing doesnt mean Im lost

I awake to find no peace of mind I said, How do you live as a fugitive Down here where I cannot see so clear? I said, What do I know Show me the right way to go And the spies came out of the water But youre feeling so bad cause you know That the spies hide out in every corner But you cant touch them no Cause theyre all spies Theyre all spies I awake to see that no one is free Were all fugitives Look at the way we live Down here I cannot sleep from fear no I said, Which way do I turn? Oh I forget everything I learn And the spies came out of the water And youre feeling so bad cause you know That the spies hide out in every corner But you cant touch them no Cause theyre all spies Theyre all spies