Zitate und Songtexte von Duncan Laurence

I've spent all of the love I saved
We were always a losing game
Small-town boy in a big arcade
I got addicted to a losing game
All I know, all I know
Loving you is a losing game

Most hearts never stay
But your love keeps me safe
People come and people go
But you and I, we're beautiful
So let the whole world change
We'll stay the same

Heartbeat's fast, I know there's no way back
We talk until we're speechless
'Cause we're left without a reason to stay
And keep hurting each other this way

All of our memories ahead
So many good times left
But what can I hold on to
If I haven't met you yet?

Out of sticks and stones we made a bed
And filled it up with broken hopes and words unsaid
Feels like we're stuck somewhere in between
While we say what we mean

Now tell her what's changed between good and goodbye
Why you tryin' everything to walk out of her life?
If you leave now, don't leave her with the blame
You know she's gonna take it anyway
Tell her what's changed

I hope that we can look back someday
And talk about all the things we couldn't say

When my world’s on fire
You kill the flames
I love how you're always
The beauty in my pain

A hundred shots, but wе kept on missing
There's no regrets, 'cause we tried, my love
I hope you find that someone who
Loves you like I couldn't do

Hush, my darling, don't you cry no more
We have made it through these nights before
Feels like we're stuck inside a dream
We're slipping away from what is real

Feels like we're on the edge right now
I wish that I could say I'm proud
I'm sorry that I let you down
Let you down
All these voices in my head get loud
I wish that I could shut them out
I'm sorry that I let you down
Le-le-let you down

I'll dance, dance, dance
With my hands, hands, hands
Above my head, head, head
Like Jesus said
I'm gonna dance, dance, dance
With my hands, hands, hands
Above my head, hands together
Forgive him before he's dead because

And if somebody hurts you, I wanna fight
But my hands been broken one too many times
So I'll use my voice, I'll be so f*cking rude
Words, they always win, but I know I'll lose

I don't need no sleep
'Cause I'm already dreaming, already dreaming
Say you'll never leave
Because I love the feeling, I love the feeling

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear

My mother told me
Someday I would buy
A galley with good oars
Sail to distant shores

I wanna be your slave
I wanna be your master
I wanna make your heart beat
Run like rollercoasters
I wanna be a good boy
I wanna be a gangster
'Cause you could be the beauty
And I could be the monster

Cover me in sunshine
Shower me with good times
Tell me that the world's been spinning since the beginning
And everything'll be alright

Well, good for you
You look happy and healthy, not me
If you ever cared to ask
Good for you
You're doin' great out there without me, baby
Like a damn sociopath

My bestie and your bestie
Sit down by the fire
Your bestie say she wan' party
So can we make these flames go higher?

Talkin' 'bout hey now, hey now, hey now
Iko, iko a nae
Jock-a-mo fee-no ai na-ney
Jock-a-mo fee na-ey

There once was a ship that put to sea
And the name of that ship was the Billy o' Tea
The winds blew hard, her bow dipped down
Blow, me bully boys, blow

Soon may the Wellerman come
To bring us sugar and tea and rum
One day, when the tonguing' is done
We'll take our leave and go

You look so perfect standing there
In my American Apparel underwear
And I know now that I’m so down
Your lipstick stain is a work of art
I got your name tattooed in an arrow heart

Now suddenly you're asking for it back
Could you tell me, where'd you get the nerve?
Yeah, you could say you miss all that we had
But I don't really care how bad it hurts
When you broke me first

I can swear, I can joke
I say what's on my mind
If I drink, if I smoke
I keep up with the guys
And you see me holding up my middle finger to the world
F*ck your ribbons and your pearls
'Cause I'm not just a pretty girl

Aye, I'm on vacation
Every single day cause I love my occupation
Aye, I'm on vacation
If you don't like your life, then you should go and change it

Cigarettes and tiny liquor bottles
Just what you’d expect inside her new Balenciaga
Viral mess, turned dreams into an empire
Self-made success, now she rolls with Rockefellers

Don't stay awake for too long
Don't go to bed
I'll make a cup of coffee for your head
I'll get you up and going out of bed

Yeah, I don't wanna fall asleep, I don't wanna pass away
I been thinking of our future 'cause I'll never see those days
I don't know why this has happened, but I probably deserve it
I tried to do my best, but you know that I'm not perfect

Look me in my eyes
Tell me everything's not fine
Oh, the people ain't happy
And the river has run dry
You thought you could go free
But the system is done for
If you listen real closely
There's a knock at your front door

We'll never get free, lamb to the slaughter
What you gon' do when there's blood in the water?
The price of your greed is your son and your daughter
What you gon' do when there's blood in the water?

I get overwhelmed so easily
My anxiety creeps inside of me
Makes it hard to breathe
What's come over me
Feels like I'm somebody else

Why you always in a mood? F*ckin 'round, actin' brand new
I ain't tryna tell you what to do, but try to play it cool
Baby, I ain't playing by your rules
Everything look better with a view

She told me put my heart in the bag
And nobody gets hurt
Now I'm running from her love, I'm not fast
So I'm making it worse
Now I'm digging up a grave, from my past
I'm a whole different person
It's a gift and a curse
But I cannot reverse it

Is this in my head? I don't know what to think
He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring
And said, "Marry me, Juliet
You'll never have to be alone
I love you and that's all I really know"

What the hell are beds for, man?
They go waiting for you
Waste away, don't find the time
It's all by your side

Hey, you got it
Took too long to get it
Hey, you got it

We don't need to worry
'Cause when we fall, we know how to land
Don't need to talk the talk, just walk the walk tonight
'Cause we don't need permission to dance

Don't you think we got another season
That come after spring?
I wanna be your summer
I wanna be your wave
Treat me like a comma
I'll take you to a new phrase

And I know there's no makin' this right, this right
And I know there's no changing your mind, your mind
But we both found each other tonight, tonight
So if love is nothing more than just a waste of your time

Waste it on me, waste it on me

She was sayin', "Come get me"
So I got up and followed her to the floor
She said, "Baby, let's go"
When I told her, I said
Yeah, yeah

'Cause I, I, I'm in the stars tonight
So watch me bring the fire and set the night alight
Shinin' through the city with a little funk and soul
So I'ma light it up like dynamite

This is gettin' heavy, can you hear the bass boom? I'm ready
Life is sweet as honey, yeah, this beat cha-ching like money

Deep down, you know it's best for yourself, but you
Hate the thought of her bein' with someone else
But you know that it's over, we knew it was through
Let it burn, let it burn, gotta let it burn

It's the thought of being young
When your heart's just like a drum
Beating louder with no way to guard it
When it all seems like it's wrong
Just sing along to Elton John
And to that feeling, we're just getting started

Side step, right, left to my beat
High like the moon, rock with me, baby
Know that I got that heat
Let me show you 'cause talk is cheap

Smooth like butter
Like a criminal undercover
Gon' pop like trouble
Breakin' into your heart like that

You got a fast car
Is it fast enough so we can fly away?
We gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way

But you can say baby
Baby can I hold you tonight
Maybe if I told you the right words
At the right time
You'd be mine

Sorry
Is all that you can't say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily