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Subject: Lyrics to Stopwatch Hearts
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Music
Asked by: gagagagaga-ga
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Posted: 13 Aug 2003 10:34 PDT
Expires: 12 Sep 2003 10:34 PDT
Question ID: 244282
What are the lyrics to "Stopwatch Hearts," the first track on the
bonus disc that's in the US release of Delerium's new 2-CD album,
"Chimera", sung by Emily Haines?
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Subject: Re: Lyrics to Stopwatch Hearts
From: venson-ga on 09 Sep 2003 08:43 PDT
 
I'm looking for the same!!! I hope someone can provide this soon. :)
--Venson
Subject: Re: Lyrics to Stopwatch Hearts
From: skeen-ga on 02 Oct 2003 21:43 PDT
 
This is what I have always thought the lyrics are, but upon further
"research", I think I may be totally wrong in places.  Hope this is a
start though!

Not that I'm that hard to please 
stately(?) when I hit the street
it's hum-de-dum
(hum-de-dum-de dum)
When the hard times hit
Hit the Ritz
The hardest hit make the best of it
(The hardest hit make the best of it,
the hardest hit make the best of it)

Strong talent stockbroker right to the bottle
Sink down with your books and  (my friend insists that this says
"boomtown")
High water realtors arrive
With numbers over their eyes
Stopwatch hearts

Good God I love the party-starved
businessmen with stopwatch hearts
They don't beat
(They tick)
They don't beat

Good God I love the party-starved
businessmen with stopwatch hearts
They don't beat
They don't beat

'Round that corner
Down the street
There's a dive where working girls retreat 
from their hum-de-dum
(hum-de-dum-de-dum)
So tilt that felt hat to the side
Thrift store 3 for .99
Gonna get me one
Gonna get me one
(Get it every day)

Good God I love the party-starved
businessmen with stopwatch hearts
They don't beat
(They tick)
They don't beat

Good God I love the party-starved
businessmen with stopwatch hearts
They don't beat
They don't beat

Gonna get me one
(Get it every day)
Subject: Re: Lyrics to Stopwatch Hearts
From: fortinbras47-ga on 24 Nov 2003 23:17 PST
 
I hear much the same as the previous post, but with a few changes
(1) I think "stately" is just "lately"
(2) I vote for "boomtown" not "book and"
(3) I hear "high water realtors of wrath" not "realtors arrived"
(4) I thought "Good God I love the party-starved" was "get <x> and let
the party <y>".
I initially thought <x> was "down"  a friend claims that its "high"  I
think "high" might be it.
I can't tell if <y> is "starved" or "start"  It almost sounds like
starved, but start makes it a complete sentence while starved would
have the whole stanza be a fragment.

(5) I'm extremely unsure what the line before "sink down with your boomtown" says
Something like,  Strong tile of stark, broke her right to the bottom 
??? I don't know!

And just to make my post longer, below is what I written down on my
computer before I ever read the previous post by skeen-ga:
not that I'm that hard to please
lately when I hit the street
it's hum de dum
when the hard times hit
hit the (bit?)
the hardest hit, make the best of it
[the hardest hit, make the best of it]
[the hardest hit, make the best of it]
strong, tile of star??
look around to the bottom, sink down with your boomtown
high water realtors of wrath with numbers above their eyes
stopwatch hearts...
get high and let the party start
businessmen with stopwatch hearts
they don't beat
(they tick)
they don't beat
(they tick)
they don't beat

get down and let the party start
businessmen with stopwatch hearts
they don't beat
they don't beat

grab that corner down the street
there's a dive where working girls retreat
from the hum de dum
(hum de dum de dum)

so tilt that felt hat to the side
thrift store 3 for .99 gonna get me one

strong child of stark?
look alright? to the bottle
sink down with your boomtown
high water realtors of wrath
with numbers above their eyes
stopwatch hearts

get high and let the party start
businessmen with stopwatch hearts
they don't beat
(they tick)
they don't beat
(they tick)
Subject: Re: Lyrics to Stopwatch Hearts
From: wilek-ga on 20 Sep 2004 12:03 PDT
 
Well, here's what I get:

Not that I'm that hard to please; lately when I hit the street
it's hum-de-dum (hum-de-dum-de dum)
When the hard times hit, hit the bricks
The hardest hit make the best of it

Stroll down a [?], book a ride to the bottom
Sink down with your boom town
High-roller realtors of wrath with numbers over their eyes
Stopwatch hearts

Get gone and let the party start
Businessmen with stopwatch hearts
They don't beat (They tick)
They don't beat (they tick)

Get gone and let the party start
businessmen with stopwatch hearts
They don't beat
They don't beat

Round the corner, down the street, there's a dive where working girls retreat
from the hum-de-dum (hum-de-dum-de-dum)
So tilt that felt hat to the side
Thrift store 3 for .99
Gonna get me one
Gonna get me one
(and Get done[?] every night)

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