karaoke
Walking in the countryside
It seems that the winds have stopped
I took down the posters from my wall
Left letters for you all
I remember moments of happiness
Endless summer, acoustic guitars
Being a man made me coarse
When I wanted to be delicate
I called up Eugene
Told him I was drowning
Like a castaway on a warm ocean
Waiting for a purpose to rise
They say it's not becoming
For a boy my age
If you want to know what makes me sad
Well it's hope, the endurance of faith
A battle that lasts a lifetime
A fight that never ends
Walking in the countryside
It seems that the winds have stopped
Tell my mother I am sorry
You'll find it hiding in shadows
You'll find it hiding in cupboards
It will walk you home safe every night
It will help you remember
If that's way it is then that's the way it is
If that's way it is then that's the way it is
If that's way it is then that's the way it is
If that's way it is then that's the way it is
I still feel you and the taste of cigarettes
What could I ever run to
Just tell me it's tearing you apart
Just tell me you cannot sleep
If that's way it is then that's the way it is
If that's way it is then that's the way it is
And you didn't even notice when the sky turned blue
And you couldn't tell the difference between me and you
And I nearly didn't notice, the gentlest feeling
The gentlest feeling, the gentlest feeling
The gentlest feeling, the gentlest feeling
You are the bluest light
You are the bluest light
You are the bluest light
She's hearing voices call her
She's hearing voices warn her
She just can't sleep in her bed
She just can't sleep
She's falling down the stairs
She's tearing out her hair
She's screaming my name, in the night
To keep her warm
She got a red pill blue pill
Red pill blue pill
Red pill blue pill
Red pill blue pill
Milk of amnesia
She's scared of the blacks
And she's scared of the Jews
She is walking around
She is yesterday's news
And she screams out my name
In the dead of the night
She is leaving my room
She is crying on her side
Walking on eggshells
Walking on glass
Burnt by the mirror
Burnt by the light
Feeling rejection I'll burn down your house
Tearing down posters
Backwards, forwards but making no ground at all
Standing in the city with the clocks counting one
And your face is still wet from the night before
As your tears hit the ground blue flowers spring from them
Baby, I?m ashamed of the things I put you through
Baby, I?m ashamed of the man I was for you
And all you said in your quietest voice was
I needed you as much as they do
And all you said in your quietest voice was
I needed you as much as they do
How fast must we run
Before we can just take off in flight?
How far must we run
Before they do not recognize us?
So let?s take this from the start
You?ll be me and I?ll be you
And let?s try not to complain about your smoking
And my distant heart, and my distant heart, and my distant heart
And all you said in your quietest voice was
I needed you as much as they do
And all you said in your quietest voice was
I needed you as much as they do
Too many mirrors in this house
And I don't like to see myself like this
I'm becoming the man I used to be
I guess these walls could tell you a thing or two
Things that you really don't want to know
Lend me your eyes for your point of view
Lend me your feet and I'll stand by you
And all you said in your quietest voice was
I needed you as much as they do
And all you said in your quietest voice was
In two more years, my sweetheart, we will see another view
Such longing for the past for such completion
What was once golden has now turned a shade of grey
I've become crueler in your presence
They say: "be brave, there's a right way in a wrong way"
This pain won't last for ever, this pain won't last for ever
Two more years, there's only two more years
Two more years, there's only two more years
Two more years so hold on
You've cried enough this lifetime, my beloved polar bear
Tears to fill a sea to drown a beacon
To start anew all over, remove those scars from your arms
To start anew all over more enlightened
I know, my love, this is not the only story you can tell
This pain won't last for ever, this pain won't last for ever
Two more years...
You don't need to find answers for questions never asked of you
You don't need to find answers
Dead weights, balloons
Drag me to you
Dead weights, balloons
To sleep in your arms
I've become crueler since I met you
I've become rougher, this world is killing me
And we cover our lies with handshakes and smiles
And we try to remember our alibis
We tell lies to our parents, we hide in their rooms
We bury our secrets in the garden
Of course we could never make this love last
I said of course we could never make this love last
The only love we know is love for ourselves
When you said tulips
I knew that you're mine
When I caught you there
Crying in the night
Wearing my jacket
Wearing that smile
I knew that I'd found you
This could be an opportunity
Were you unawares?
Did it catch you out?
Or did it break you in
Right from the start?
It's as pure as fire
It's as pure as snow
I knew that I'd found you
This could be an opportunity
If you promise to let it
If you promise to let it grow
You used to take your watch off before we made love
You didn't want to share our time with anyone
You used to close your eyes when we kissed goodbye
You didn't want to see me draped in sadness
And now there's nothing here, now there's nothing here at all
In the loft conversion off New North Road
And now there's nothing here, now there's nothing here at all
You were here, I was here, there was something real here
I know there was
You know I still adore you
But in a different kind of way
You know I still adore you
But things have gotten vain
Baby, I don't ask for much
But things have gone [Incomprehensible], oh
You know I still adore you
But things have kinda changed
To think I laughed at you for how you saw the world
For all that empty space inside your heart
I have to cling to things now, the boys and cigarettes
Forever trying to find you on the lips of someone else
You know I still adore you
But in a different kind of way
You know I still adore you
But things have gotten vain
Baby, I don't ask for much
But things have gone [Incomprehensible], oh
You know I still adore you
But things have kinda changed
Just take me back to the start
When our earthquake
It was just cracks
You must ask yourself every day
All my thoughts are of ice
All my thoughts are of ice
All my bones are so tired
All my bones are so tired
So young and so handsome
So easily led
They told me to wait
I said
It makes a man out of me
You take the fun out of me
And I've been consistent to the fucking dream
And I've paid my dues
Just to get them all back
A simple man with simple desire
What should i have said?
What should i have done?
The horses are here
The damage is done
So just take off your shirt
And just take off your dress
We can go dancing
On a Saturday
It makes a man out of me
You take the fun out of me
And I've been consistent to the fucking dream
And I've paid my dues
Just to get them all back
A simple man with simple desire
I'm just a skeleton
And I've been consistent to the fucking dream
And I've paid my dues
Just to get them all back
A simple man with simple desire
I've been driving, a mid sized car,
I never hurt anyone
Is that a fact?
The price of gas keeps on rising
Nothing comes for free
Make like a stone, make like a plant
I can tell you, how this ends
We're going to win this
With spades and truncheons, guns and trowels
That is how the war will be won
Just swat the fly
Taking care of cars and bodies
Nothing ever comes for me
The ghosts are here, red white and blue
I can tell you how this ends
He said you're just as boring as everyone else
When you tut and you moan
And you squeal and you squelch
He said that you're just as boring as everyone else
Nothing ever happens
Things replace things
Days replace days
Things replace things
She said I'm going use my teeth and my claws
She said I'm going use my teeth and my claws
She said I'm going use my teeth and my breasts
I'm gonna make it happen
She said
Run run run run run run
And you cannot run or ever, ever escape
You cannot run or ever hide it away
Something glorious is about to happen
The reckoning
They go you're just as boring as everyone else
When you tut and you moan
And you squeal and you squelch
They go you're just as boring as everyone else
Stuck past timing
The fear and the yearning
The fear and the consumption
The fear and the yearning
It's gonna eat you alive
They go...
And you cannot hide or ever, ever escape
And you cannot hide or ever put it away
Something glorious is about to happen
The reckoning
They go...
They say...
They go...
They say...
They go...
Why'd you have to get so hysterical?
Success, success, success is over
Why'd you have to get
So fucking useless
Play it cool boy
If it can be broke then it can be fixed, if it can be fused then it can be split
It's all under control
If it can be lost then it can be won, if it can be touched then it can be turned
All you need is time
We promised the world we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?
A sense of purpose and a sense of skill, a sense of function but a disregard
We will not be the first, we won't
You said you were going to conquer new frontiers,
Go stick your bloody head in the jaws of the beast
We promised the world, we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?
Breath in, breath out
So here we are reinventing the wheel
I'm shaking hands with a hurricane
It's a colour that I can't describe,
It's a language I can't understand
Ambition, tearing out the heart of you
Carving lines into you
Dripping down the sides of you
I am trying to be heroic,
In an age of modernity.
I am trying to be heroic,
because all around me history sings.
So I enjoyed and I devoured
flesh and wine and luxury.
But in my heart,
I am lukewarm;
nothing ever really touches me.
At Les Trois Garcons
we meet at precisely 9 o'clock.
I order the foie gras
and I eat it with complete disdain.
Bubbles rise in champagne flutes,
but when we kiss, I feel nothing.
Feasting on sleeping pills
and Marlboro Reds.
(so busy won't save you)
Oh how our parents
they suffered for nothing
Live the dream, live the dream, live the dream
Like the 80s never happened.
People are afraid, are afraid
To merge on the freeway.
Disappear here
Stroll the pier
into the magazine launch party.
I am handed a pill,
and I swallow with complete disdain.
Kick-drum bangs off the high-hat;
Remember to look bored.
We suck each others' faces,
and make sure we are noticed.
(Cocaine won't save you)
Because East London is a vampire,
it sucks the joy right out of me
How we long for corruption in these golden years.
Oh how our parents
they suffered for nothing
Live the dream, live the dream, live the dream
Like the 80s never happened.
People are afraid, are afraid
To merge on the freeway.
Ion square, [Incomprehensible]
I breathe out, you breathe in
Permanent midnight
Hour alone, an hour alone
How we've come to depend
On each other to the end
The space between us has disappeared
You finish my, you finish my words for me
I remember how it began
So many great days in a row
Barefoot on Bishop's gate
Trying to find Blake's grave
If it could stay like this in a silver foil
Trapped in amber for a [Incomprehensible]
Permanent midnight
Hour alone, hour alone
I carry your heart here with me
I carry it in my heart
I carry your heart with me
I carry it in my heart
Who said unbroken happiness
Is a bore, is a bore?
Who said it, my love? I don't mind it
Anymore, anymore
And I reach out a hand over your side of the bed
Pull that blanket over your shoulders exposed to the night
And the hunger of those early years will never return
But I don't mind, I don't mind
'Cause I love my mind when I'm f**king you
Slowed down to a crawl
Years of crying and the bread line
Not at all did you shine
So let's stay in, let the sofa be our car
Let's stay in, let the TV be our stars
I found my dancing shoes but they don't fit
All the bright lights do is bore me
Yes, they bore me, yes, they bore me
I carry your heart here with me
I carry it in my heart
I carry your heart with me
I carry it in my heart
I carry your heart here with me
I carry it in my heart
I carry your heart with me
I carry it in my heart
I'm sitting, on the roof of my house
With a shotgun
And a six pack of beers,six pack of beers,six pack of beers.
The newscaster says the enemies among us,
As bombs explode on the 30 bus,
Kill your middle class indecision,
Now is not the time for liberal thought,
So I go hunting for witches
I go hunting for witches
I'm going to Roam
I go hunting for..
1990's,Optimistic as a teen.
Now its terror
air planes crash into towers,into towers,into towers.
The Daily Mail says the enemies among us,
Taking our women and taking our jobs,
All reasonable thought is being drowned out by the non-stop baying,
baying, baying for blood.
So I go hunting for witches
I go hunting for witches
I'm going to Roam..
I was an ordinary man with ordinary desires
I watched TV it informed me
I was an ordinary man with ordinary desires
There must be accountability
Disparate and mis-informed
Fear will keep us all in place
So I go hunting for witches
I go hunting for witches
I'm going to Roam
I was an ordinary man with ordinary desires
I watched TV it informed me.
I was an ordinary man with ordinary desires
There must be accountability
Disparate and mis-informed
If your right hand is causing you pain
Cut it off cut it off
If your colours have started to run
Let them all run, run away from you
There is lightning in this room
Above our heads waiting to strike
Im a thinker not a talker
Put your faith, your faith in God
We were hoping for some romance
All we found was more dispair
We must talk about our problems
We are in a state of Flux
Id kill for an adventure
Just you and I in the Curzon Bar
Dancing till we knew
So all that we've learnt disappeared
When you shouted at me
I saw my father in the second grade
Concerned and kind
But yet unable to reach me
We were hoping for some romance
All we found was more dispair
We must talk about our problems
We are in a State of Flux
State of Flux
We need to talk
We were hoping for some romance
All we found was more dispair
We must talk about our problems
We sit and we sigh
And nothing gets done
So right, so clued-up
We just get old
And all the while
Been torn asunder
Nicotine
And bacteria
What are we coming to
What's with all this doom and gloom?
You used to be such, such a laugh
It's only sin, original sin
Corinthians 15:22
Never been a big fan of fits
But I'm growing so fond of you, you
You get sadder, the smarter you get
And it's a bore
You get sadder, the smarter you get
And it's a bore
Truth is truth
I ain't no bohemian
Much too, much too safe
Much too, much too typical
Much too, much too typical
Much too, much too
You can use your hands for something else
I'll take you further than the scholars had
Put down your books and [Incomprehensible]
Heaven is here where it needs to be
You get sadder, the smarter you get
And it's a bore
You get sadder, the smarter you get
And it's a bore
And there was a time before we were born
When we stood in the garden
If this won't last I'll turn you on
Well, I've got enough for the both of us
The both of us, the both of us, the both of us
And there was a time before we were born
When we stood in the garden
If this won't last I'll turn you on
Well, I've got enough for the both of us
The both of us
It's in the trees
It's in the leaves
This time i know what
That I'll stay clear
Anything it gives
Anything it gives it will take back
This city is here for you
My life, much long
What i know who owns..
it's running out
Raise it, stay brave
But i know who owns, it will return
I found there
Rising from me
From my fingers
And all my mouth
If you're ever lonely
If you are alone and stay that way
The Sisi? is here for you
My life, much long
What i know
it's running out
Raise it, stay brave
But i know, it will return
On the fourth day
On the fourth day
On the fourth day
It's in the trees
It's in the leaves
This time I know what
That I'll stay clear
Anything it gives
Anything it gives it will take back
This city is here for you
My life, much long
What I know who owns...
It's running out
Raise it, stay brave
But I know who owns, it will return
I found there
Rising from me
From my fingers
And all my mouth
If you're ever lonely
If you are alone and stay that way
The Sisi? is here for you
My life, much long
What I know
It's running out
Raise it, stay brave
But I know, it will return
On the fourth day
On the fourth day
On the fourth day
There is a wall that runs right through me
Just like the city, I will never be joined
What is this love? Why can I never hold it?
Did it really run out in the strangers' bedrooms?
I have decided
At twenty-five
Something must change
Saturday night in East Berlin
We took the U-Bahn to the East Side Gallery
I was sure I'd found love with this one lying with me
Crying again in the old bahnhof
I have decided
At twenty-five
That something must change
After sex
The bitter taste
Been fooled again
My mercury's in retrograde
My mercury's in retrograde
Merc-merc-mercury's in retrograde
My mercury's in retrograde
Mercury, mercu-mercury's in
Mercury, merc-merc-mercury's in
Mercury, mercu-mercury's in
Mercury's in retrograde
This is not the time, the time to start a new love
This is not the time, the time to sign a lease
Try not to worry about what's forgotten
Try not to worry about what's been missed
Scars on my shins and scars on my knuckles
Today I woke up in a basketball court
John Joe's in Sydney and he ain't returning
I'm sitting in Soho trying to stay drunk
In any bar in the world
From Silver lake to Williamsburg
You could pick another stranger
And fall in love
Mercury, mercu-mercury's in
Mercury's in retrograde
Mercury, mercu-mercury's in
Mercury's in retrograde
This is not the time, the tie to start a new love
This is not the time, the time to sign a lease
Try not to worry about what's forgotten
Try not to worry about what's been missed
Bleeding gums and veins protruding
You're starting to hate all of your clothes
The Mayor's in LA and she ain't returning
I'm sleeping with people I don't even like
In any part of the world
From Silver Lake to Williamsburg
You can pick another stranger
And fall in love
Mercury, mercu-mercury's in
Mercury's in retrograde
Mercury, mercu-mercury's in
Mercury's in retrograde
Mercury, mercu-mercury's in
Mercury's in retrograde
Mercury, mercu-mercury's in
Mercury's in retrograde
When I saw you last night I wanted to say
Run away with me, away from the cynics
That this could be the start of something truly real
But all that I could say was 'Hey'
Was 'Hey', was 'Hey', was 'Hey'
Mercury, mercu-mercury's in
Mercury's in retrograde
Mercury, mercu-mercury's in
Mercury's in retrograde
Mercury, mercu-mercury's in
Mercury's in retrograde
Mercury, mercu-mercury's in
Mercury's in retrograde
Mercury's in retrograde
My mercury's in retrograde
My mercury's in retrograde
Merc-merc-mercury's in retrograde
My mercury's in retrograde
And you're tired of your Mum
And you're tired of your Dad
Got you jumping through hoops
Got you shaving your legs
Let it pass, let it pass, let it pass over you
And you're tired of your face
And you're tired of your nose
Got you jumping through hoops
Got you shaving your legs
Let it pass, let it pass, let it pass over you
And your nose is bleeding
You've been lying to me
There will be no hesitation
There will be no confrontation
There will be no indication
There will be no cause
There will be no exultation
There will be no justification
There will be no way at all
And your nose is bleeding
You've been lying to me
Luno
Come back to me the the way you were
The way you were when we were young
I'm trying to tell you everything
I'm trying to tell you everything
I can heal the blind
I can cure the sick
I can say the right things
I can say the right things
Where d'you get so cruel
Where do you go
Cos you're never here
And your nose is bleeding
You deserve it
I can see it in your eyes now,
you have come to resent me
Condescension in the silence
Your fingers are tired girl,
how they falter against my thigh
Your kisses are pining for the lips of someone else
Your visits getting shorter
Your heart is getting further from me
Your touch is getting colder
Always somewhere you need to be
Boys in blue blazers, boys on motorbikes
Boys in your maths class who'll do anything you ask
You're pulling the trigger and the gun is in my mouth
A subtle annoyance laced with disgust
When you get older and those boys grow tired of you
You can come find me, I can never hate you
Boys on your left side, boys on your right
Boys by your locker who'll do anything you ask
Lets spend the whole day in bed then
Cause if we don't you'll want to, want to leave
I try to hold something I can
Waiting for the seven eighteen
January is endless
Weary-eyed and forlorn
The Northern Line is the loudest
Sitting in silence in bars after work
I've got nothing to add or contest
Can still kick a ball a hundred yards
We cling to bottles and memories of the past
(Give me moments)
Just give me moments (give me moments)
Not hours or days (give me moments)
Just give me moments (give me moments)
Grinding your teeth in the middle of the night
With the sadness of those molars
Spend all your spare time trying to escape
With crosswords and sudoku
If I could do it again
I'd make more mistakes
I'd not be so scared of falling
If I could do it again,
I'd climb more trees
I'd pick and I'd more wild
blackberries
(Give me moments)
Just give me moments (give me moments)
Not hours or days (give me moments)
Just give me moments (give me moments)
Let's drive to Brighton on the weekend
When in motion
While it's frozen
Talks in circles
And greek
He's into epiphany
He's into philosophy
He's into methyl amphetamines
He's into science
But he's lost his way
Oh oh
He is not the real me
But I can hear I can hear I can hear I can hear him
From my future
Show show show show me
Show show show show me
You got to show me the way
You got to show me the way
Oh the present
A super impulse
He has seen this
Before
He's into conspiracy
He's into the?
He's into phenomenology
He's into deeds
He don't mix his words
Oh oh
He is not the real me
But I can hear I can hear I can hear I can hear him
From my future
Show show show show me
Show show show show me
To be lost in the forest
To be cut adrift
You've been trying to reach me
You bought me a book
To be lost in the forest
To be cut adrift
I've been paid
I've been paid
Don't get offended
If I seem absent minded
Just keep telling me facts
And keep making me smile
Don't get offended
If I seem absent minded
I get tongue-tied
Baby, you've got to be more discerning
I've never known what's good for me
Baby, you've got to be more demanding
I will be yours
I'll pay for you anytime
You told me you wanted to eat up my sadness
Well jump on, enjoy, you can gorge away
You told me you wanted to eat up my sadness
Jump right
Baby, you've got to be more discerning
I've never known what's good for me
Baby, you've got to be more demanding
Jump left
What are you holding out for?
What's always in the way?
Why so damn absent-minded?
Why so scared of romance?
This modern love breaks me
This modern love wastes me
Do you wanna come over and kill some time?
Tell me facts, tell me facts, tell me facts
Tell me facts
Lord give me grace and dancing feet
And the power to impress
Lord give me grace and dancing feet
Let me outshine the moon
Is it so wrong to crave recognition?
Second best, runner-up
Is it so wrong to want rewarding?
To want more than is given to you?
Than is given to you
Tonight make me unstoppable
And I will charm, I will slice
I will dazzle them with my wit
Tonight make me unstoppable
And I will charm, I will slice
I will dazzle, I will outshine them all
Standing on the packed dance floor
Our bodies thrown in time
Silent on the weekdays
Tonight I claim what's mine
Is it so wrong to crave recognition?
Second best, runner-up
Is it so wrong to want rewarding?
To want more than is given to you?
Than is given to you
Tonight make me unstoppable
And I will charm, I will slice
I will dazzle them with my wit
Tonight make me unstoppable
And I will charm, I will slice
I will dazzle, I will outshine them all
Tonight make me unstoppable
And I will charm, I will slice
I will dazzle them with my wit
Tonight make me unstoppable
And I will charm, I will slice
Attention!
Unbelievers
Fashion victims
Opportunists
Blood sport
Cop killer
Don't trust art
Don't trust culture
Cancel your thoughts out forever
Milk it and strain it to residue
An insult that dilates forever
Passing from history that's made from arrangements
Of cordons and tannoys in symmetry
That cancel forever
Forever
Spring breaks in ranks and in boulevards
A country that grows us
But cannot contain us
A curse on your houses
Rivers run with your sons' blood
No case for extenuation
Been thinking little thoughts
Keep on walking try to stay up
Pay Attention to the details
We go slowly, slowly down
Been thinking little thoughts
Keep on walking try to stay up
Pay Attention to the details
We go slowly, down
I'll go back if you ask
I'll go back if you ask me
I'll go back if you ask
I'll go back if you ask me
I'll go back if you ask
I'll go back if you ask me
I'll go back if you ask me
I'll Go back, b, b, b, Backwards
This world ain't just m, m, m, made of facts
Every half hour is a countdown
If it's 'cause of my age then you're a coward
If it's 'cause of my age then you're a coward
If it's 'cause of my age then you're a coward
I haven't got the guts to stand alone
I'll go back if you ask
I'll go back if you ask me
I'll go back if you ask
I'll go back if you ask me
I'll go back if you ask
I'll go back if you ask me
I'll go back if you ask me
I'll Go back, b, b, b, Backwards
I'll go back if you ask
I'll go back if you ask me
I'll go back if you ask
I'll go back if you ask me
I'll go back if you ask
I'll go back if you ask me
I'll go back if you ask me
Heavy night it was a heavy night
Feels like we come back from the dead
Heavy night it was a heavy night
I cannot remember what I said to anyone
If we get up now we can catch the afternoon
Watch the under 15s playing football in the park
Let's sit in St. Leonards in this alcoholic day we're doing the best with what we've got
I love you in the morning ,
When you're still hung-over
I love you in the morning,
When you're still strung out,
I love you in the morning,
I would cry all week and so do you
We discern to let us sleep
Let all the draughts creep in to reach for this life
There might be white to smatter you in
That have the right answers
That we British forget
About those north eastern gaps
I love you in the morning ,
When you're still hung-over
I love you in the morning,
When you're still strung out,
I love you in the morning,
With you I am cut from a pearl in your oyster
Head on my chest a silent smile, a private kind of happiness
You see giant proclamations are all very well
I caught a glimpse, but its been forgotten
So here we are again
I made a vow, to carry you home... home
I really tried to do what you wanted
It all went wrong again
I made a vow, to carry you home
If you fall sick, if you pass out
Two ravens in the old oak tree
And one for you and one for me
And bluebells in the late December
I see signs now all the time
The last time we slept together
There was something that was not there
You never wanted to alarm me
But I?m the one that?s drowning now
I can sleep forever these days
'Cause in my dreams I see you again
But this time fleshed out fuller faced
In your confirmation dress
It was so like you to visit me
To let me know you were okay
It was so like you to visit me
You always worried about someone else
At your funeral I was so upset
So, so upset
In your life you were larger than this
Statue statuesque
I see signs now all the time
That you?re not dead, you're sleeping
I believe in anything
That brings you back home to me
I see signs now all the time
That you?re not dead, you're sleeping
I believe in anything
Real Talk
Can we get real
For a moment
You're my one and only friend
Watch the sun set
From your sedan
Let your hand
Rest on mine
I've lived in every town,
But here is where I find home
My mind is open
And my body is yours
Show me the sign
I was so sure
I was fourteen
And not able to lie
But then you,
Crept up on me
While I was dreaming
Whispered love into my ears
I've lived in every town
But here is where I find home
My mind is open
And my body is yours
Show me the sign
[If you're tired,
I can drive us.
We can go back
To my place]
My mind is open
And my body is yours
Show me the sign
My mind is open
My mind is open
Show me the sign
It's so cold in this house
Open mouth swallowing us
The children staying home from school
Will not stop crying
And I know that you're busy too
I know that you care
You got your finger on the pulse
You got your eyes everywhere
And it hurts all the time when you don't return my calls
And you haven't got the time to remember how it was
It's so cold in this house
It's so cold in this house
I can't eat, I can't sleep
I can't sleep, I can't dream
An aversion to light
Got a fear of the ocean
Like drinking poison, like eating glass
It's so cold in this house
Come and show me how it was
We've got crosses on our eyes
Been walking into the walls again
We've got crosses on our eyes
Been walking into the furniture
We've got crosses on our eyes
For richer, for poorer, for better, for worse
We've got crosses on our eyes
Wake up dreamer
It's happening without you
Cut your hair and shave your beard
You squandered your chances
I'll give you a thousand pounds
To show me how you do it
Stop being so laissez-faire
We're all scared of the future
Been training vipers to come for you
In your dreams to release you
Been training vipers to come for you
In your sleep
And the ravens are leaving the tower
And the ravens are leaving the tower
Make your peace
I've got a taste for blood
Leave the weak, leave the young
I've got a taste for blood
I'm walking out without you
You will kill or be killed
It's about progress
I've got a taste for blood
Wake up sleepyhead
It's happening without you
Such a nice guy
You tell me everything twice
Whipcrack speed jump
We will run backwards
Stop being so laissez-faire
We're all scared of the future
We make plans for big times
Get bogged down, distracted
We make plans for good times
All neon, all surface
So kiss me before it all gets complicated
Well, there was seven years between us
Seems that all my friends were right
That we can't survive on your bedroom eyes
And a Spanish guitar
When we started this it was paradise
Not just Bethnal Green
And it's just not right this waiting game
Making a cuckold of me
I can be as cruel as you
Fighting fire with firewood
I can be as cruel as you
Fighting lies with lies
(If you need time)
And it's just not like me to lash out
But enough is enough
Tell me what the others can do
That I can't
Translucent and sun-bleached skin, yeah
When did you get so L.A.?
How can you desert me after
What we've been through?
Stuck on a dreamland
Somewhere is better
You'll be the one missing out
I can be as cruel as you
Fighting fire with firewood
I can be as cruel as you
Fighting lies with lies
(If you need time)
I can be as cruel as you
Fighting fire with firewood
(If you need time)
I can be as cruel as you
Fighting lies with lies
If you need time, time, time
Time, time, time
I can be as cruel as you
Fighting fire with firewood
I can be as cruel as you
Fighting lies with lies
(If you need time)
I can be as cruel as you
Fighting fire with firewood
(If you need time)
I can be as cruel as you
Fighting lies with lies
I can be as cruel as you
Fighting fire with firewood
I can be as cruel as you
Fighting lies with lies
Fighting lies with lies, with lies, with lies
Fire with, fire, fire with, firewood, wood
I am on
Switched on
A sudden clearness, a clarity
Hidden away, in every locked toilet
I've been waiting for you in the Joiners Arms
I know your name
I know your name
I've danced with you
We're all friends here
Silver slugs lined up like bullets
Rolled up twenties, they disappear
You make my tongue loose
You make my tongue loose
I am hopeful and stutter-free
You make my tongue loose
You make my tongue loose
I am hopeful
Friday night I do all the talking
A pint and a fight, the dance floor is mine
Truth serum and limbs that won't listen
Drunken "I love yous", on top of the world
And when it runs out
We're chasing something we'll never catch
And when it runs out
We buy more
A flatness so bleak, I've been bitten by a vampire
A flatness bleaker than the one it replaced
You make my tongue loose
You make my tongue loose
I am hopeful and stutter-free
You make my tongue loose
You make my tongue loose
I am hopeful
I can charm
It hid and it hid in his bedroom
Psycho killer teen dream action film
Gonna show you how we get down
in my hood
Bubbling bubbling cheap champagne
Leyendecker hole wrecker feel no pain
Lying face down when I swing your way
And what?
What's my name what's my name?
Mary Anna said it's a no-go
She don't feel like, she don't think so
I don't know why I feel like crying
Well come on, come on
Say come on, come on
They ran and they ran from his classroom
Roll another 40, make them scream
Gonna show you how we do things
in my hood
Tripping and a-tripping, erase all tapes
John Wayne, Rob Roy feel no pain
This is the point where you look the other way
You done
Lost your mind
Mary Anna said it's a no-go
She don't feel like, she don't think so
I don't know why I feel like crying
Well come on, come on
Say come on, come on
Mary Anna said it's a no-go
She don't feel like, she don't think so
I don't know why I feel like crying
Well come on, come on
I, I still remember
how you looked that afternoon.
There was only you.
You said "it's just like a full moon".
Blood beats faster in our veins
We left our trousers by the canal
And our fingers, they almost touched
You should have asked me for it
I would have been brave
You should have asked me for it
How could I say no?
And our love could have soared
Over playgrounds and rooftops
Every park bench screams your name
I kept your tie
I've gone wherever you wanted
(I still remember)
And on that teachers' training day
We wrote our names on every train
Laughed at the people off to work
So monochrome and so lukewarm
And I can see our days are becoming nights.
I could feel your heartbeat across the grass.
We should have run.
I would go with you anywhere.
I should have kissed you by the water
You should have asked me for it
I would have been brave
You should have asked me for it
How could I say no?
And our love could have soared
Over playgrounds and rooftops
Every park bench screams your name
I kept your tie
I would let you if you asked me
Another bad day, waste of promise
Are we really getting near?
Kick off your work shoes, rest a little
There's nothing for you to prove
Is it funny or is it sad
We leave and enter on our own?
Is it funny or is it sad
We never really know anyone?
I'm telling you my only secret, I'm so lonely she said
I'm waiting for a hero to save the day
A heaviness so relentless, an emptiness so monumental
I'm waiting for a hero to save the day
Across the sea I can hear you're tired
What is there left to see?
A smash of keyboard into their faces
A silence so satisfying
I can understand why you left your home
I can understand
I'm telling you my only secret, I'm so lonely she said
I'm waiting for a hero to save the day
A heaviness so relentless, an emptiness so monumental
I'm waiting for a hero to save the day
'Cause, we're twenty, twenty, twenty-two
Bleeding stars, stars and happy thoughts
'Cause, we're twenty, twenty, twenty-two
Waiting for the rain, the rain to stop
I'm a boy and you're a girl
What else is there in this world?
I can make you smile, I can make you laugh
What else is there in this world?
So take my hand and marry me
I'll make your branches sprout a green
I can make you smile, I can make you laugh
What else is there in this world?
And if you take my hand, I'll lead you to the promised land
Just call in sick, our time is now
I've got so much love to give, a vessel to receive it
Take the day off work
North to south
Empty
Running on
Bravado
North to south
Empty
Running on
Bravado
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
Empty
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
Empty
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
Are you hoping for a miracle?
It's not enough
Are you hoping for a miracle?
It's not enough
Are you hoping for a miracle?
It's not enough
Are you hoping for a miracle?
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
Empty
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
Empty
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
It was your hair that did it
It was your hair that lit the fuse
A golden-brown halo
Like sunlight peeling through trees
I ask you for the time
But I am asking for so much more
A moth to your light bulb
You made my heart beat faster
Paralyze me with your kiss
Wipe those dirty hands on me
And maybe we're looking for the same thing
Maybe you're the one who'll complete me
Oh, how beauteous
Your lips and eyes and your fingertips
The spark of desire
On every point our bodies meet
Behind your eyes were stars
Infinite and serene
How I could suffer for you
You fascinate and magnetize me
Paralyze me with your kiss
Wipe those dirty hands on me
And maybe we're looking for the same thing
Maybe you're the one who'll complete me
Sometimes I think
I was thrown away
In this sadness
To weigh me down
Paralyze me with your kiss
Wipe those dirty hands on me
And maybe we're looking for the same thing
Maybe you're the one who'll complete me
Cain said to Abel
"Brother I've been bad
Killed a fleet of Angels
With my bare hands"
Cain said to Abel
"Brother I've been bad
And I can't find my glasses"
This self-obsessed sinner
I hear he loves to drink
This self-obsessed sinner
I hear he loves a fight
Success has been cruel
This year has been hard
Falling out of love
With the one thing I had loathed
This self-obsessed sinner
Discipline, discipline, disappearing
Echoing, echoing, exiting
Disappearing, discipline, disappearing
Nothing there, nothing works, nothing matters
Every time, every time, I look over
Everything, everyone, every time
Family, family, shredded by
Liberty, liberty, literally
You can be, you can be, you can see
Eventually, literally, instantly
History, history, disappearing
Echoing, echoing, exiting
You look up, you look over, you can see it
Disappearing, disappearing, instantly
Literally, literally, telling them
They'll be different, they'll be special, they'll be better
You're not doing this alone
You're not doing, you're not doing this alone
For my sweetheart the melancholic
You have crossed the River Styx
And the waves have taken you away
As I lay my head on your chest
I can hear it in your veins
Wake me up when you come to bed
So toughen up
Biko, toughen up
Biko, toughen up
This world isn't kind to little things
You're not doing this alone
Was my love not strong enough to
Bring you back from the dead?
If I could eat your cancer I would but I can't
You're not doing this alone
So I've been writing these songs for you
To steal you from your grave
We can dance in a front row again
So toughen up
Biko, toughen up
Biko, toughen up
I need you to be strong for us
So toughen up
Biko, toughen up
Biko, toughen up
This world isn't kind to little things
You're not doing this alone
Don't you know that when you stand
You stand up for the both of us?
Remember that when the darkness looms
You're not doing this alone
Every tear you shed is cleansing
Taking the pain away from you
I left you blueberries in the fridge
The little things that I can do
So toughen up
Biko, toughen up
(That I can do)
Biko, toughen up
(That I can do)
I need you to be strong for us
So toughen up
Biko, toughen up
Biko, toughen up
This world isn't kind to little things
You're not doing this alone, you're not doing this alone
You're not, you're not doing this alone
You're not doing this alone, you're not doing this alone
You're not doing this alone, you're not doing
You're not doing this alone
Resist, resist
Resist, resist
So toughen up
(Resist)
Biko, toughen up
(Resist)
Biko, toughen up
(Resist)
I need you to be strong for us
(Resist)
So toughen up
(Resist)
Biko, toughen up
(Resist)
Biko, toughen up
(Resist)
This world isn't kind to little things
(Resist)
You're not doing this alone
You're not doing, not doing this alone
A heart of stone, a smoking gun
I can give you life, I can take it away
A heart of stone, a smoking gun
I'm working it out
Why'd you feel so underrated?
Why'd you feel so negated?
Turning away from the light
Becoming adult
Turning into myself
I wanted to bite not destroy
To feel her underneath
Turning into the light
She don't think straight
She's got such a dirty mind and it never ever stops
And you don't taste like her and you never ever will
And we don't read the papers, we don't read the news
Heaven's never enough, we will never be fooled
Turning away from the light
Becoming adult
Turning into myself
I wanted to bite not destroy
To feel her underneath
Turning into the light
And if you feel a little left behind
We will wait for you on the other side
Cos I'm on fire
Cos you know I'm on fire when you come
Cos you know I'm on fire
Cos you know I'm on fire so stomp me out
War war war war
I want to declare a war
My fist breaks your porcelain nose
There are other things that hands can do
To create or to destroy, mini gods and goddesses
First person singular
Set it set it set it off
War war war war
Keep the past the future is ours
Man made natural disaster
Blocking out all of the sun
Supermen and mitsi turbo
Speed agility super strength
Wipe the blood of those knuckles
Spark it give me two’s on that
War war war war
I want to declare a war
True say blud that when we ride
We don’t stop for nobody
The Africans and the Bengalis
He knows all the rude boys
Reebok Nike Adidas Puma
“Rer rer rer, this shit is long”
It’s all getting, quite highly charged
Get out the way, or get f**ked up
We dance to the sound of sirens
We dance to the sound
And to think, that these hands
Could work wonders, with their touch
Listening, to dead singers, in your room
In 98
We dance to the sound of sirens
After the funeral, breaking kola nuts
We sit and reminisce about the past
And in her voice, only sadness
Her only son taken from her
In every headline we are reminded that this is not home for us
The second generation blues
Our points of view not listened to
Different worlds and different rules
A question of allegiance
Clinging to her bible and her scapula
And the memory of the way things were
I don't see hope, I cannot smile
I burn with anger all the time
We all read what they did to the black boy
In every headline we are reminded that this is not home for us
Where is it?
Where is home?
I'll walk this modern tightrope
Of humility and belligerence
Is getting me down
I want to stamp on the face of every young policeman
To break the fingers of every old judge
To cut off the feet of every ballerina
But I can't
So I just sigh and I just sigh
And I pretend that there's nothing wrong
The teeth of this world tear me in half
And everyday I must ask myself
Where, where, where:
Where is it?
Where is home?
Think fast boy, think on your feet
If you dont know it now you never will
Youre so young to be so heavy
Rip off the seal and let me school you
You see angels melt when they touch the ground
You see youre not dumb, youre just not aligned
Because you could be the one percent
If you wanna
Were not good people
This is a warning
If God is God then why is he secret?
Todays the day youve been set free
They might claim the best things are hidden
But I was here, you came to me
With these five lines you will be reborn
A superman or maybe a jock
You can crush the whole world in your hand
If you wanna
Weve got the doorway
Weve got the hallway
You cant restore yourself
Were not good people
There was a sense of disappointment as we sped away
Every town now just felt the same
The tear on my cheek just dried up; it wasn't there
All the young people looked the same
'Cause we're so handsome and we're so bored
So entertain us, tell me a joke
Make it long, make it last
Make it cruel, just make me laugh
We can't be hurt, we can't be hurt
Did you forget your blues on the weekend?
The internet will keep us together
MTV taught me how to sulk and love nothing
And how to grow my hair long
'Cause we're so handsome...
Why do you go picking fights that you'll lose?
So why do you go thinking thoughts that are above you?
'Cause I was brave, intelligent; I could have been a hero
No-one can be trusted under the age of fourteen
...my joy and pain is relative
I've gotten so good at lying to myself
Well my pain and honour is used up
Oh! Oh! Oh!
My guns are rusted
So when're you gonna realise
Those are not your wrongs to right?
Have another life, have another...
I am a martyr, I just need a motive
I am a martyr, I just need a cause
I'm a believer, I just need a motive
I'm a believer, I just need a cause
We're finding it hard to be alone
We're finding it hard to break the mould
We're finding it hard to excite myself
We have nothing at all to say
Uniform
There was a sense of disappointment as we sped away
If you're cold and you're alone
And you don't know where to go
You can call me anytime
Nothing's changed, I am still here
If you're running out of breath
And your building's burning down
You can jump, I will catch you
Nothing's changed, I am still here
With heavy hands and an absent mind
Did I blow your candle out?
With shortened words and a lack of time
Am I ever on your mind?
Was I cruel and never there?
Nothing to rely on
Was our romance a black hole?
You kept the better half than me
Well if you really wanted to know
Well no the earth's not moved for me since
I wish I could've given you lightness
The lightness that you deserve
And they say time is a healer
And time will look after you
I can't wait, I can't wait
I can't wait, I can't wait, come over
Come over, come over, come over
Why don't you come over?
Why don't you come over?
Why don't you come over?
Why don't you come over?
Well if you really wanted to know
Well no the earth's not moved for me since
I wish I could've given you lightness
The lightness that you deserve
And they say time is a healer
And time will look after you
Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go
Come over
And I stole you that ring 'cause I wanted you to have it
And it wasn't about me, I just wanted you to have it
Your smile, baby your smile, baby I come alive
And I stole you that ring 'cause I wanted you to have it
And it wasn't about me, I just wanted you to have it
Your smile, baby your smile, baby I come alive
I feel so naked like before we met
Last night I was so close to just calling you up
They say it takes time to heal the wounds
Feeding the five thousand was not done with prayers alone
It takes blood and guts and it takes devotion
So tired of standing up and so tired of drawing breath
It's your turn to take the map and it's your turn to drop the soap
Pretty pretty boys sucking on a cola
Money to burn, money to burn, money to burn
We got rules to protect us
Isaac and Ishmael
The magazine says it's okay
Life as a billboard
If you are the answer
We are going straight to hell
Grown in a parental fugue
Weight loss in self respect
Bomb, bomb, bomb us back together
And in the dark, it comes for me
Malevolent and without thought
Uprooting trees, destroying cars
Cold and relentless with arms outstretched
No boat nor brick
nor crucifix can hold it back
I have been wicked
I have been arrogant
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
Silent about it
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
And I cannot say that I was not warned or was misled
When it comes it will feel like a kiss
Awaken from dreams of drunken car crashes
You saddened my friends and claimed all my lovers
I try to stay still so it will not see me
Its talons rake the side of my face
I want you to be calm
You're such a slut
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
Silent about it
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
And I cannot say that I was not warned or was misled
When it comes it will feel like a kiss
And I didn't think I'd catch fire when I held my hand to the flame
And I didn't think it would catch up as fast as I could have run
Fate came a-knocking when I was looking the other way
A new disease came in the post for me today
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
And when it comes
(And when it comes)
And when it comes
(And when it comes)
And when it comes
(and when it comes)
And when it comes
Promise you'll say if it gets
Promise you'll say if it gets too much
Don't be so scared of corners
Don't be so tired of this life
You drink to laugh
You drink to cry
You wear me in
You wear me
You really suffer for it
You really suffer for your art
Don't be a martyr for it
Don't be a martyr for the cause
Your eyes tell it
Your eyes tell the truth
You drink to laugh
You drink to cry
You wear me in
You wear me
You're not always
You're not always right
A new fight for a last rite
A new fight for a last rite
You can fight a new fight
You can fight it's alright
You're the life of the party
You make my world spin around
The first time is the next time
This time is the last time
And this time is the last time
Cos this time I will fight
I rely on (bitter cold)
I depend on (arctic snow)
A pair of trainers (I've got mine)
Could make a God of the two of us (I want yours)
I exist on (apropos)
I insist on (arctic snow)
A change of clothing (will fill the void)
Could lift us into fidelity (will suck you in)
The sound keeps you hemmed to the past
The walls are coming in again
The streets grid alone from the door
You gotta spin the fucking dread or...
I rely on (bitter cold)
I depend on (arctic snow)
The manmade fibres (I've got mine)
That are the stuff of my birthright (I want yours)
I decide on (apropos)
I retreat from (arctic snow)
The dregs of discourse (will fill the void)
For a new world order (will suck you in)
The sound keeps you hemmed to the past
The walls are coming in again
The streets grid alone from the door
You gotta spin the fucking dread or...
In a pile of days between no oceans
All the kids are rioting
There's no art in a broken head
All the kids are staying fat
And I'm air-kissing, back-slapping
Check the body for valuables
It's called progress
Come on pilgrim sing to the pyres
It's called progress
If they want to kill themselves
Then buy them the gowns
It's called progress
[Green Lantern:]
...vasion!
[Mike:]
Hey Ap, why don?t you do the uh?the intro on this shit?
Apathy:
Yo Apathy, Fort Minor, Styles Of Beyond, Demigodz
[Mike:]
Here we go
[Apathy:]
Rappers like heavy metal and ghettos
Guns, metals and ammo
I pistol whip two of ya and fuck Meadows Soprano
A cat who sells them bugs but tell them thugs that
Rappers like, Rappers like
a'ight
Rappers like heavy metal and ghettos
Guns, metals and ammo
I pistol whip two of ya and fuck Meadows Soprano
A cat who sells them bugs but tell them thugs that
They don?t know how to carry more heat than welding gloves
I walk amongst the gods, keep my head in the clouds
Always show groupies love, getting head in the crowds
Put it in your girls mouth blast off like NASA
The master of nastiness
Transform a classy bitch into
A little cheap freak sadomasochist
Dastardly bastard who raps so disastorous
Spit and heal the cripple like Christ the miraculous
Who fights my savageness, turns punks pacifists
The police clock Ap like there he go
Always on the watch because I use to carry blow
Always lock her down but I never marry ho's
Burry foes when the flows comes through your stereo
[Mike:]
There we go flipping unpredictable verses
Cursing the first words like torrets on purpose
Flip the bird like a back-heavy jet
Perverse as it is
I can't stop and its making me nervous, ok?
Get me on a track and I'm cracking
Packing a backpack full of tracks on some CDs
Be me, fuck that and not likely
To bite me you need to be you times ninety
I got schemes and a team so hype we
Get on a scene make a scene on the nightly
Say what I mean, whether mean or politely
Living the dream in some clean white Nike's
Or DC's, I'm not giving a shit
Fuck the words that you heard and the lips that they hang from
I stay banging the bang bang drums and hanging you lames
in the same no name gangs you came from
I don?t got an excuse, just talking the truth
I'm fucking awesome when I'm rocking the booth
And I stay ready with hot bloc rocking abuse
Y'all are really not stopping us dude
Yeah Tak, get 'em
[Tak:]
It started off lookin' over and hit the galaxy
Now we are moving them over they are crowing me the Cali king
Anything tossed on my fuse getting chewed up
With a crew that sips a little brew way too much
Hooligans, smacked in the face with aluminum bats
Your fucking rap show's good as me, boo-booin
I said I was rude, step in the shoes, you don't believe me
You can ask Devin the dude how I strip down you bitch clown stand in my socks
Rip the mother fuckers ass like I'm Cannibal, watch
You want to be stoned? Beat 'em with a basket of rocks
Get your shit flowing feeling for the casket to drop
You know them S.O.B.'s never get the record to stop
Breaking the habit is impossible what happened to Tak?
He's unleashed, he's a beast so Sledge hand me a Bloc
Party, whats your corpses posing for? , the camera was shot, huh
Styles and Machine Shop, necklace fly
No wonder everyone is so petrified
I said, Styles and Machine Shop, necklace fly
No wonder everyone is so petrified
[Mike:]
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