• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• All My Stars Aligned - St. Vincent
• Year Of The Tiger - St. Vincent
• What Me Worry - St. Vincent
• Voiceless - St. Vincent
• These Days - St. Vincent
• The Apocalypse Song - St. Vincent
• Surgeon - St. Vincent
• Strange Mercy - St. Vincent
• Cheerleader - St. Vincent
• Champagne Year - St. Vincent
• Your Lips Are Red - St. Vincent
• Dilettante - St. Vincent
• Cruel - St. Vincent
• Chloe In The Afternoon - St. Vincent
• Jesus Saves I Spend - St. Vincent
• Human Racing - St. Vincent
• Paris is Burning - St. Vincent
• Oh My God - St. Vincent
• Now Now - St. Vincent
• Northern Lights - St. Vincent
• Neutered Fruit - St. Vincent
• Marry Me - St. Vincent
• Landmines - St. Vincent

I read the signs
I got all my stars aligned
My amulets, my charms
I set all my false alarms
So I'll be someone
Who won't be forgotten
I've got a question
And you've got the answer
I do a dance to make the rain come
Smile to keep the sky from falling down, down, down, down
Collect the love that I've been given
Build a nest for us to sleep in here
You know it's real
I check my palms
The cracks in teh sidewalk
My visions and my dreams
I cross all my fingers
That you'll be someone
Who won't be forgotten
What was your question
I've got the answer
I do a dance to make the rain come
Smile to keep the sky from falling down, down, down, down
Collect the love that I've been given
Build a nest for us to sleep in here
You know it's real
There are no signs
There are no stars aligned
No amulets no charms
To bring you back to my arms
There's just this human heart
That's built with this human flaw
What was your question
Love is the answer
I do a dance to make the rain come
Smile to keep the sky from falling down, down, down, down
Collect the love that I've been given
Build a nest for us to sleep in here

When I was young
Coach called me the tiger
I always had
A knack with the danger
Living in fear in the year of the tiger (X2)
Italian shoes
Like these rubes know the difference
Suitcase of cash
In the back of my stick shift
I had to be the best of the bourgeoisie
And my kingdom for a cup of coffee
Living in fear in the year of the tiger (X4)
Oh America,
Can I owe you one
Oh America,
Can I owe you one
Oh America
Can I owe you one
Oh America

What me worry
I never do
I'm always amused and amusing you
Sans le fear of impending doom
Life is like banquet food
Pleasure to peruse
Do I amuse you, dear
Would you think me queer
If while standing beside you
I opted instead to
Disappear, disappear
In no hurry I'll sing my tune
All my skies the hue of a ruddy bruise
In my finest threads couture
I'll call up my favorite muse
For a drink - half full - or two
Have I abused you, dear
You have had it to here
You say, "Love is just a bloodmatch
To see who endures lash after last with panache"
In the spring I'll dust off my lute
Stuff my suitcase full of blues
And I stir the dust underneath the thrust
Of my clicking heels
C'est la vie
What me worry
I never do
Life is one charming ruse
For us lucky few
Have I fooled you, dear
The time is coming near
When I'll give you my hand and I'll say
"It's been grand, but I'm out of here

Head in mercy the strange
The skin the mercy
Add the duality and pictured match
Blood the drop the matched and life
Disgust the drop and blood with a smiles
The fall one the drop trying
Voices the emotions the arms
The disgust with a header
With listens the phone
Second the light on the call the emotionless
That the falling one dreams the deliver us
Through the revelation surgery glass
Hushing trashed the your let the your skin
My fallen dreams the betrayer an disgust of misery signs
Through in arms delusion the voiceless and trying died

I've been out walking
I don't do too much talking these days
These days...
These days I simply think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do
And all the times I had the chance to
I've stopped my rambling
I won't do too much gambling these days
These days...
These days I simply think about
How all the changes came about my way
And I wonder if I'll see another highway
I had a lover
I don't think I'll risk another these days
These days...
These days I seem to be afraid
To live the life that I have made in song
It's just that I've been losing so long
I've stopped my dreaming
I won't do too much scheming these days
These days...
These days I sit on cornerstones
And count the time in quartertones to ten
Please don't confront me with my failures

Wait
I'll be swifter
Than the speed of light
Carbon all my body
A billion years of time
You wake
With the stitches
Over both your eyes
And deny me, my body
And all earthly delights
It's time
You are light
I guess you are afraid of
What everyone is made of
Time and light
I guess you are afraid of
What everyone is made of
All of your praying
Amount to just one breath
Please keep your victory
But give me little death
It's time
You are light
I guess you are afraid of
What everyone is made of
Time and light
I guess you are afraid of
What everyone is made of
It's time
You are light
I guess you are afraid of
What everyone is made of
Time and light
I guess you are afraid of
What everyone is made of
What everyone is made of
So take to the streets
With apocalypse refrain
Your devotion has the look of

I spent the Summer on my back
Another attack
Steal you just to get along
Turn off the TV, wait in bed
Blue and red,
Somethin' to get along.
Best, finest surgeon
Come cut me open
Dress the undressing for a wall
If mother calls,
She knows well we don't get along
I tell the mailman, "Never you mind
I'll sift through the piles"
For him to just get along
Best, finest surgeon

Oh little one I know you've been tired for a long, long time
And oh little one I ain't been around a little while
But when you see me, wait
Oh little one your Hemingway jawline looks just like his
Our father in exile
For God only knows how many years
But when you see him, wait
Through double pain
I'll be with you lost boys
Sneaking out where the shivers won't find you
Oh little one I'd tell you good news that I don't believe
If it would help you sleep
Strange mercy
If I ever meet that dirty policeman who roughed you up
No I don't know what
If I ever meet that dirty policeman who roughed you up
I'll be with you lost boys

I've had good times
With some bad guys
I've told whole lies
With a half smile
Held your bare bones
With my clothes on
I've thrown rocks
That hit both my arms
I don't know what good it serves
Pouring my purse in the dirt
But I-I-I-I-I don't wanna be your cheerleader no more
But I-I-I-I-I don't wanna be your cheerleader no more
I've played dumb
When I knew better
Tried so hard
Just to be clever
I know honest thieves
I call family
I've seen America
With no clothes on
But I-I-I-I-I don't wanna be a cheerleader no more
But I-I-I-I-I don't wanna be a cheerleader no more
I don't know what I deserve
But for you I could work
Cause I don't wanna be a cheerleader no more
I don't wanna be a cheerleader no more
I don't wanna be a cheerleader no more
I don't wanna be a dirt eater no more
I don't wanna be a dirt eater no more

So I thought I'd learned my lesson
But I secretly expected
A choir at the shore
And confetti through the fall night air
I'll make a living telling people what they want to hear
It's not a killing, but it's enough to keep the cobwebs clear
Cause it's not a perfect plan
It's not a perfect plan
But it's the one we've got
It's not a perfect plan
But it's the one we've got
Cause I make a living telling people what they want to hear

Your lips are red
My face is red from reading your red lips
My hands are black
My hands are black inside this downtown taxi cab
This city's red
This city's red from riding us into the ground
This city's black
This city's black from all the ashes in downtown
Ashes in downtown, ashes in downtown
My face is drawn
My face is drawn on with this number two pencil
Your face is drawn
Your face is drawn from drawing words right from my lips
Words right from my lips, words right from my lips
Your lips are red
My face is red from reading your red lips
My hands are red
My hands are red from sealing your red lips
Sealing your red lips, sealing your red lips
Your skin's so fair
Your skin's so fair it's not fair
Your skin's so fair
Your skin's so fair it's not fair
Your skin's so fair
You remind me
Your skin's so fair it's not fair
Your skin's so fair
You remind me
Your skin's so fair it's not fair

Oh Elijah, don't make me wait
Nobody's winning
The sharks are swimming in the red
Oh Elijah, don't make me wait
While you are sleeping
My mind goes creaking down the hall
Slow down, dilettante
So I can limp beside you
And follow in your house too
Hang on, street savant
My bank in my back pocket
How far you think it'll take us?
You're like a party I heard through a wall
I'm always watching you through a keyhole
Let's not forget, let's not forget
Let's not forget, why we crawled here
Oh Elijah, don't make me wait
I got no patience for an estrangement, anyway
Wake up, avenue C
Your hometown is still sleeping
You're like a party I heard through a wall
Invite me
But I'm always watching you through a keyhole
Let's not forget, let's not forget
Let's not forget, where we crawled from
Oh Elijah, don't make me wait
What is so pressing

Bodies, can't you see what everybody wants from you?
[Verse 1]
Forgive the kids, for they don't know how to live
Run the alleys casually cruel
Cruel, cruel
[Verse 2]
Bodies, can't you see what everybody wants from you?
For you could want that, too
They could take or leave you
So they took you, and they left you
How could they be casually cruel?
Cruel, cruel, oh
Cruel, cruel, oh
[Bridge]
Bodies, can't you see what everybody wants from you?
If you could want that, too, then you'll be happy
[Verse 3]
You were the one waving flares in the air so they could see you
And they were as laughter, blowing past ya, blowing fastly so they can see
Cruel, cruel, oh
Cruel, cruel, oh

Your legs
I'm all nerves
Black like her
My own heels
Heal my hurt
Feel your floor
Chloe in the Afternoon (X5)
No kisses, no real needs
No kisses, no real needs
Who here
Hear your word
Ring, ring phone
Send you home
Find my heels
Heal my hurt
Grab my shoal

While Jesus is saving
I'm spending all my days
In backgrounds and landscapes
With the languages of saints
While people are spinning
Like toys on Christmas day
I'm inside a still life
With the other absentee
While Jesus is saving
I'm spending all my days
In the garden-grey pallor
Of lines across your face
While people will cheer on
The spectacle we've made
I'm sitting and sculpting
Menageries of saints
Oh, my man my absentee
I'd do anything to please you
Come my love the stage is waiting
Be the one to save my saving grace
While Jesus is saving
I'm spending all my grace
On rosy-red pallor
Of lights on center stage
While people have cheered on
The awful mess we've made
Through storms of red roses

Romeo
Where'd you go
It's been years and still no sign
But I'm keeping hope alive
Juliet
How you've been
You look like death
Like you sure could use some rest
From this place
Human racing
And the faces of people who pound at your door
They always want more, they want more
Hummingbird
What's the word
Are you still your mothers child
Or have you found yourself a flower
Flowerchild
You're still wild
Under a harvest moon
Can we eat of all the fruits of our youth
Tell the truth now
Your heart is a strange little orange to peel
What's the deal
What's the deal
Mary, dear
How you feel
Are you lost without your lamb
You know I think I understand
Little lamb
What's your plan
Greener pastures in the sky?
It's a shame you want to die know why
Just to find
You've been blinded
To the greenest of pastures they're right here on Earth
For what it's worth
You're not the first to break my heart

I write to give word the war is over
Send my cinders home to mother
They gave me a medal for my valor
Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say
"I'm on your side when nobody is
'Cause nobody is
Come sit right here and sleep while I slip
Poison in your ear"
We are waiting on a telegram to give us news of the fall
I am sorry to report dear Paris is burning after all
We have taken to the streets in open rejoice revolting
We are dancing a black waltz fair Paris is burning after all
Oh no
Enclosed in this letter there's a picture
Black and white for your refrigerator
Sticks and stones have made me smarter
It's words that cut me under my armor they say
"I'm on your side when nobody is
'Cause nobody is
Come sit right here and sleep while I slip
Poison in your ear"
We are waiting on a telegram to give us news of the fall
I am sorry to report dear Paris is burning after all
We have taken to the streets in open rejoice revolting
We are dancing a black waltz fair Paris is burning after all
Oh no
Dance poor people dance and drown
Dance fair Paris to the ground
Dance poor people dance and drown
Dance fair Paris ashes now
Dance poor people dance and drown
Dance fair Paris to the ground
Dance poor people dance and drown

The dishes in the sink don't care if I wake late
Or soak till the bath goes cold, leave the bed unmade
Cause when the drink goes in the devil comes out
Days go by still the past don't seem so far
But when the drink goes in the devil comes out
Days go by still the past don't seem so far
Oh my god
Oh my god
The plants in both the windows aren't listening for the door
Or counting all the footsteps, keeping the bath warm
But when the drink goes in the devil comes out
Days go by still the past don't seem so far
But when the drink goes in the devil comes out
Days go by still the past don't seem so far
Oh my god
Oh my god
Oh my god
Oh my god
Oh my god

(I'm not) your mother's favorite dog
(I'm not) the carpet you walk on
(I'm not) one small atomic bomb
(I'm not) any, any, any, any, any, any, anything at all
(I'm not) the feather at your feet
(I'm not) your yellow brick street
(I'm not) anyone you'll see
(I'm not) any, any, any, any, any, any, anything
Now, now
Now, now
Now, now
You don't mean that, say you're sorry
You don't mean that, say you're sorry
You don't mean that, say you're sorry
You don't mean that, I'll make you sorry
(I'm not) the pawn to your king
(I'm not) your world on a string
(I'm not) anyone you'll beat
(I'm not) any, any, any, any, any, any, any, anything
Any, any, any, any, any, any, any, anything
Now, now
Now, now
Now, now
You don't mean that, say you're sorry
You don't mean that, say you're sorry
You don't mean that, say you're sorry
You don't mean that, I'll make you sorry
You don't mean that, say you're sorry
You don't mean that, say you're sorry
You don't mean that, say you're sorry
You don't mean that, say you're sorry

If you say it is, then I guess it is
What you say it is, but I don't feel anything
'Cause your pendulum doesn't swing again
Yeah, your pendulum hasn't swung back in
It's a champagne year full of sober months
Through my mulling days, through my dry moments
I saw the morning Northern Lights
Convinced it was the end of times
I saw the morning Northern Lights
Gotta get young fast
Gotta get young quick
Gotta make this last
If it makes me sick
I saw the morning Northern Lights
Convinced it was the end of times
I saw the morning Northern Lights
Convinces it was the end of times
I saw the morning Northern Lights

Did you ever really stare at me? x2
Like I stared at you
I ate flowers in the backyard
Bought finely neutered fruit
Shot a hundred arrows at a knoll
A hundred sparrows blue
Did you ever really stare at me?
DId you ever really stare?
Did you ever really stare at me?
Like I stared at you
Did you ever really stare at me?
Did you ever really stare?
Like I stared at you
DId you ever really care for me?
Did you ever really care?
DId you ever really care for me?
The way I cared for you

Marry me, John
Marry me, John I'll be so good to you
You won't realize I'm gone
Marry me, John
Marry me, John I'll be so sweet to you
You won't realize I'm gone
You won't realize I'm gone
Many people wanna make money make love
Make friends make peace with death
But most mainly want to win the game they came to win
They want to come out ahead
But you, you're a rock
With a heart like a socket
I can plug into at will
And will you guess when I come around next
I hope your open sign is blinking still
So marry me, John
Marry me, John I'll be so good to you
You won't realize I'm gone
You won't realize I'm gone
As for me I would have to agree
I'm as fickle as a paper doll
Been kicked by the wind
When I touch down again
I'll be in someone else's arms
Oh, John, come on
We'll do what married people do
Oh, John
I don't care
Come on
What you want
We'll do what Mary and Joseph did
I want to marry you
Without the kid
I want to marry you
So Marry me, John
Marry me, John I'll be so good to you
You won't realize I'm gone
You won't realize I'm gone...
Many people wanna make money make love
Make friends make peace with death
Many people wanna make money make love
Make friends make peace with death
Many people wanna make money make love

I'm crawling through landmines
Just to know where you are
There's smoke in my eyes
'Cause you're burning the ground
I'm crawling through landmines
Just to feel where you are
Under cover of night
I put a pearl in the ground
Where'd you go
Not so far
Please don't go
Not too far
Where'd you go
Not so far
Please don't go
Not too far
I found your ring with the feather on
One arm in and one arm gone
Save this ring let's bring Paris right here
Oh, my dear
My love
Do you know, my love
Do you know
I'm crawling through landmines
Just to feel where you've been
There's gauze over my eyes
But you're leaving this trail
I'm crawling through landmines
I know cause I planted them
Under cover of night
I put my heart in the ground
Oh where'd you go
Not so far
Please don't go
Not too far
Where'd you go
Not so far
Please don't go
Not too far
I found your glove with the leather torn
Five fingers that I'm counting on
Smoke signals to call you right here
Oh, my love
My dear
My love