Columbo Album Lyrics by Bruno Major

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The Show Must Go On

The credits roll, you got the girl
The bad guy was defeated
As Pet Sounds plays
You drive into the sunset
The crowd applauds, you take a bow
It happened like you dreamed it
You got everything you have ever wanted

Cut the scene, it's 4:15
You're staring at the ceiling
It all feels out of your control
You push it down so no one knows

If you're always putting on a show
You'll lose yourself before you know
As easy lovers come and easy go
So you wear the mask, go dry your eyes
You keep it all locked up inside
Pawn your broken heart and sell your soul
And you'll tell yourself you must be strong
'Cause the show must go on

The endless race to validation
Tell yourself you need it
The ego's always hungry, so you feed it
Keep alive the child's mind
You nurture and believe him
Your heart will tell the truth if you receive it

It recently occurred to me
That time on earth is fleeting
Since none of us are in control
We oughta learn to let it go

If you're always putting on a show
You'll lose yourself before you know
As easy lovers come and easy go
So you wear the mask, go dry your eyes
You keep it all locked up inside
Pawn your broken heart and sell your soul
And you'll tell yourself you must be strong
'Cause the show must go on

If you're always putting on a show
You'll lose yourself before you know
As easy lovers come and easy go
So you wear the mask, go dry your eyes
You keep it all locked up inside
Pawn your broken heart and sell your soul
And you'll tell yourself you must be strong
'Cause the show must go on

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Tell Her

Tell her I'm sorry I missed her tonight
Tell her I asked if she's doing alright
We haven't spoken
But I cant stop saying her name
Tell her she brings out the best I can be
Tell her she floods every corner of me
Will she forgive me?
'Cause I'll never hold her to blame

Morning can break her
Evening can take her
Still she will come back around
Nothing can shake her
Repeat or replace her
I've finally figured that out now

So tell her I know now what I should have said
But I took the words and wrote sad songs instead
I play them to strangers
But I'm always singing to her

Morning can break her
Evening can take her
Still she will come back around
Nothing can shake her
Repeat or replace her
I've finally figured that out now

So tell her she's more than I dreamed I would find
She's always there in the back of my mind
If you should see her
Ask her if we'll work it out
Ask her if we'll work it out
Tell me that we'll work it out

Tell her I'm trying my best to move on
Tell her I realize that she's really gone

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Columbo

Oh, Columbo, Columbo
It's time for us to say goodbye
Hold your tears and don't you cry
Columbo, Columbo
I'll see you on the other side
We'll go for a sunset ride, you wait
Someday we'll drive the world away
On the Pacific Coast Highway

You pretty thing
All chemicals and nuts and bolts
Yet I'd brave the cold just to hear you sing
We had a plan
To get away from Silver Lake
And try not to brake all the way to San Fran

We'll take it slow
'Cause you are as old as the songs on the stereo

Oh, Columbo, Columbo
It's time for us to say goodbye
Hold your tears and don't you cry
Columbo, Columbo
I'll see you on the other side
We'll go for a sunset ride, you wait
Someday we'll drive the world away
On the Pacific Coast Highway

Things come and go
So easily, like liberty
You meant more to me than something bought or sold
You were born in '81
Forty years and I'm the one
Who crashed you, under the setting sun

But there you go
You will live on as a song on the stereo

Oh, Columbo, Columbo
It's time for us to say goodbye
Hold your tears and don't you cry
Columbo, Columbo
I'll see you on the other side
We'll go for a sunset ride, you wait
Someday we'll drive the world away
On the Pacific Coast Highway

On the Pacific Coast Highway
On the Pacific Coast Highway

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We Were Never Really Friends

Through thick and thin
Good times and bad
To stop you drinking the Kool-Aid
And hold you when you're sad
A shoulder to cry on
A hoodie to wear
Somebody that calls up
Just to let you know they care

We let the lines get blurry
Now both of us are hurting

You knew I wasn't ready
I'm too unsteady
Don't make me make the call
This doesn't have to be the end
You gave me an ultimatum
You said verbatim
If you want me, take it all
Or you'll never see my face again
Guess I'll never see your face again
'Cause we were never really friends

I crashed my Mercedes
Somewhere near the coast
I couldn't reach you
When I needed you the most

And that night I got roofied
And passed out on the floor
When I asked you to come home
You said you'd rather dance some more

We let the lines get blurry
Now both of us are hurting

You knew I wasn't ready
I'm too unsteady
Don't make me make the call
This doesn't have to be the end
You gave me an ultimatum
You said verbatim
If you want me, take it all
Or you'll never see my face again
Guess I'll never see your face again
Baby, we finally reached the end
'Cause we were never really friends

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When Can We Be

When the sun freezes over
And the pigs start to fly
When the show's finally over
And there's a tear in my eye
When our faces are all wrinkled
And we've lost all our teeth
If not now, when can we be?

When the trains are on time (cho-cho)
We stop missing our flights
You'll learn to save up
I'll admit I'm not right
When you stop drinking too much
And I stop losing my keys
Oh, if not now, when can we

Dance upon the rooftops?
Get drunk and laugh until we fall off
And fight until we call it off, like we do
If only we knew that the moon won't turn blue (won't turn blue)
That I won't last forever
And neither will you (and neither will you)
'Cause when I close both my eyes
It's your face that I see
So, if not now, when can we be?

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A Strange Kind Of Beautiful

The paintings Turner threw away
The greatest one he never made
A Chopin impromptu that nobody heard but him

A sunken ship
That won't be found
A falling tree that makes no sound
The way that you are with no one around but me

To touch a frozen waterfall
A flower at a funeral
A strange kind of beautiful
Singing to an empty hall
Silence at the curtain call
You are unusual to me

The information in a kiss
Tells of things the words have missed
A moment of you, the last on my lips each night

To see a star with naked eyes
And know it has already died
Or a comet fly only once in a lifetime
To know just enough
To know we know nothing at all

To touch a frozen waterfall
A flower at a funeral
A strange kind of beautiful
Singing to an empty hall
Silence at the curtain call
You are unusual to me

Tears of emperors as they fall
The sound of soldiers at the door
A strange kind of beautiful

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You Take The High Road

(I love these sounds)

I'll waste time on others
Who know where they come from
I'll paint by numbers
Let you go where you belong

The world is a more complicated place
Than just me and you
And while my dreams light up my face
I'd rather see yours through

You take the high road
And I'll stay here below
So long as you can see so clear
That I'll see clearly too

The world is a more complicated place (place, place)
Than just me and you
While my dreams light up my face (face, face)
I'd rather see yours through

You take the high road
And I'll stay here below
So long as you can see so clear
That I'll see clearly too

I'll see clearly too
I'll see clearly too

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18

I fall in love about once a season
I follow my heart, which I wear on my sleeve and
I drive too fast 'til the sirens come screaming
Don't take it for granted
'Cause you taught me life goes away

So get busy living or get busy dying
I'd say I forgive you but then I would be lying
It's been sixteen years and your mother's still crying
Don't you feel guilty? I'm just saying it how it is

God only knows what we lost that day in the snow
Martyrs before you got started, you missed the whole show
But you were only eighteen
Just a couple of kids, it's only now I see
'Cause I'm twice the age you'll ever be

And your poor little brother, you put him through it
Only thirteen when he watched you do it
And it makes me so mad to think, you probably knew it
I hope you both know that little boy still found his way

God only knows what we lost that day in the snow
Martyrs before you got started, you missed the whole show
But you were only eighteen
Just a couple of kids, it's only now I see
'Cause I'm twice the age you'll ever be

You were only eighteen
But it's hard to let go of ancient history
Now I'm twice the age you'll ever be

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Tears In Rain (for Granny)

We'll remember your smile
From all the family photographs
But after a while
We'll lose the timbre of your laugh
Sitting down in your chair
Smells like your perfume but you're not there
So much I don't know but it's gonna

Be a little while
Before I hear your voice again
'Til I can ask you all of the questions
That I should have asked you then
Like, how'd you take your coffee?
What's your favorite author's name?
'Cause it's all the little things that will be lost
Like tears in rain

How's it feel to die?
Does it hurt and are you all alone?
Or did the great gig in the sky
Make it feel like coming home?
And what's your biggest regret?
Is there something you wish you had said?
So much I don't know but it's gonna

Be a little while
Before I hear your voice again
'Til I can ask you all of the questions
That I should have asked you then
When did you learn to tie your shoes up
Or first sing a sweet refrain?
'Cause it's all the little things that will be lost
Like tears in rain

I know it's gonna be a little while
Before I hear your voice again
'Til I can ask you all of the questions
That I should have asked you then

Is it all a simulation?
Can you win the human race?
Do you even hear me?
Are you stardust lost in space?
And if I see you on the other side
Will you look the same?
'Cause it's all the little things that will be lost
It's all the little things that will be lost
Like tears in rain

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St Mary's Terrace

[Instrumental]

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Trajectories

We both see the moonlight, the same shade of blue
We both like to start things and not see them through
Two hopeless romantics from a bygone era
I've come to realize, you're bygone too

There are places to go, wonders to see
I had hope in my bones you would see them with me
I thought you were my person, the one I would keep
'Cause the love I have for you it runs through me deep

Though it could still work out differently
For now, this is the way that it has to be
Though we're the same person, unfortunately
We're on our own trajectories

We both like old movies in black and white
How I long for the times we would watch them at night
In those little moments, I knew you were mine
You needn't tell me, I know it crossed your mind

And I learned my lesson, I learned the hard way
That real love is selfless, sounds like something you'd say
But as long as you're happy then I'm happy too
And the hurt that I feel will remind me of you

Though it could still work out differently
For now, this is the way that it has to be
Though we're the same person, unfortunately
We're on our own trajectories

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The End

[Instrumental]