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HER - Wake Me Up
03:04
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V1: Everything is cracking me out tonight
When I'm feeling so lost in this world alright
I can feel you tossing and turning tonight
It keeps my dreams from coming yeah
V2: Now I've started to toss and turn myself
It's stranger now in this here foreign house
I feel awake, but I can't control my mind
Nightmares fill my thoughts baby
Chorus: Wake me up
Wake me up from this dream
V3: Screaming out in the middle of the night
I'm begging please rise up the morning light
Shadows are here creeping in my life
Wake me up from this nightmare
V4: Sleepwalking outside of my head
My mind is floating, but my body lies dead
Held tight by the covers of this dream
I can feel it coming over me
Lyrics Written By: R.Perry
Copyrighted By SOCAN & HER Records 2003
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HER - American Perfekt
02:50
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V1: Bleached blonde, blue eyed tramp
Tall and skinny with that orange tan
Dresses like a slut, everything’s exposed
Why does she even bother to wear clothes?
She’s your American Perfekt
So little is never enough
She’s sweet and she is innocent
Yeah she’s a real drama queen
Chorus: She’s a ditz, a bitch
no more than a label
She’s your dream, your American Perfekt
V2: Pretends she’s sweeter than she really is
Acts stupid just like a little kid
Flips her hair and shakes her ass when she walks
How can you not see that this is false?
No, I’ll never be like her
I’d rather be insecure
I’m not your pleasure, but I’m your pain
You can’t have me, and it makes you insane
V3: Black haired, green eyed girl
Short and thin, paler than the whitest snow
Dresses like a freak in leather and in lace
You could never have a piece of my face
I’m better than your American Perfekt
I’m not sweet nor innocent
I’m a smart sexy chick, nothing that you’ll ever get
I’m not your dream, and I’ll never be your pet
Lyrics Written By: R.Perry
Copyrighted By SOCAN & HER Records 2003
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HER - Departed
03:24
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V1: Take me away, I need a rest
From all this stuff that I can’t deal with
Too many broken hearted, long lost memories gone
Departed
V2: I can’t live on like this
When every hit becomes a miss
I need a new state of mind
Help me heal this bruise
Chorus: Too many shattered dreams
Have come crashing over me
Too many losing streaks
Have gone, too far
V3: Help me when I fall, I need to get my feet above the ground
Escape this strange confusion, such delusion curses me
Bridge: Help me when I fall
Help me when I fall to the ground
Lyrics Written By: R.Perry
Copyrighted By SOCAN & HER Records 2003
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HER - Teenaged Superstar
02:35
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V1: I don’t wanna be like you
I don’t wanna be misused
Only liked for sex appeal
Not respected for what is real
I don’t wanna shine than fade
I don’t wanna be custom made
Pretend I’m something that I’m not
Just an object that you want
Chorus: You’re just a teenaged superstar
Yeah that’s all that you are
You’re just a teenaged superstar
V2: And people yeah they’ll give you gold
But too soon, you’ll be too old
Cause you’re just one of them
who comes and goes with all the trends
I could never follow through
Posing like you, without a clue
Ignorant to what it takes
To have real talent and not be fake
Bridge: Well I don’t care if they like my looks
And I don’t care if they wear my clothes
I don’t wanna be anything made
I’m real, I’m me, not some conformist wannabe
V3: So your song’s at number one
Yeah you’re having a lot of fun
But don’t think ahead too fast
There’s already a better catch
Yeah you think it won’t happen to you
This time, it’ll follow through
But I’m sorry you sold your soul
and now your looks are your only hold
Lyrics Written By: R.Perry
Copyrighted By SOCAN & HER Records 2003
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HER - The First
02:39
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V1: Rain falls, thunder strikes
I wish I was with you tonight
I wanna be by your side
You’re my best friend, from now until the end
But it hurts cause I love you more than
Prechorus: Words can’t say their meaning
Actions can’t show how I feel
You’re my everything
(My first)
V2: Snow falls, wind blows
Cause you’re with her tonight
I wish you’d see me for anything
We are still friends, but used to be better than
And it hurts cause I love you so much more than
V3: Sun shines, day breaks
You looked deep into my eyes
You saw me for the very first time
We are more than just friends
From now until the end
And you love me more than
Lyrics Written By: R.Perry
Copyrighted By SOCAN & HER Records 2003
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V1: Funny how those things change inside your head
(Only seeing what you want)
You’re an abuser of the worst things you think of
(You could’ve saved your life and your mind)
Get up and take a look around
(Others are starting to trample you)
This is it, this one last time for me
To try and speak my mind to you
Chorus: Mixed up, confused, abused, wasting
Grow up, respect, wasting your life away
V2: You screwed yourself over once again
(How many times do I have to tell you?)
You’re lying around and lounging all day long
(When others work, you just play)
Come on, you think it’s all a joke
(I’m really starting to worry for you)
Alright I’ll say it one more time
What the hell is wrong with this picture?
Lyrics Written By: R.Perry
Copyrighted By SOCAN & HER Records 2003
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V1: Why do we pretend to understand, even when we can’t hear the words?
Why do we try to heal wounds through revenge, instead of crying out our tears?
Why do we fear the unknown and persecute the misunderstood?
Why do our words fail to come, when we try to speak our minds?
Prechorus: I try, but I’m afraid
So many questions without answers
I try to run away
And I climb, up to the sky, and search deep within my heart
Yet the answer I know, is right before my eyes
Chorus: Why? Just because Why?
V2: Why are we so afraid to die, but never even try to live?
And why does it always seem that the bad wins over the good?
Why can’t we get satisfaction? We always focus on the negative.
Why can’t we solve things through peace? Cause we’re scared of silence.
Bridge: Why are the rich and beautiful in power?
Why do we raise ourselves by lowering others?
Why do we never find value in the simple things?
And why is 16 so sweet?
V3: Why when we look into one’s eyes we want to kiss them?
Why do we say maybe every time we really mean yes?
Lyrics Written By: R.Perry
Copyrighted By SOCAN & HER Records 2003
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HER - I.R.U.M.
02:47
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V1: Misappropriated
Uncontortionated
Emasculated
Jaded to the core
Chorus: You try to understand, but you can’t comprehend
And you cannot see, what it is that I mean
V2: Terminated
Dilapidated
Overcompensated
Trained in my heart
V3: Conceptualated
Misrelated
Annihilated
Insane through my skin
Lyrics Written By: R.Perry
Copyrighted By SOCAN & HER Records 2003
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Rose Cora Perry London, Ontario
A "one-of-a-kind talent", Perry's vocals have been said to be the "perfect blend of Alanis and Norah Jones" (Kaotic Notes), while her songwriting is full of "raw viseral power, killer hooks and punch-in-the-gut riffs" (Spill Magazine)
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