Check out the skylark
Riding and singing alongside
Salt cool breeze coming from the West
Ships and their lawlessness
Running wild and the waves
Wearing their bright blue summer best
Here come the sailors
Marching two by two by two
They pressed their pants
And shined their shoes
Aren't they strapping and deranged?
Too long at sea makes your eyes strange
Makes â'em strain
For the vision of your youth
Dripping castles in the sand
I could still go there
But my mind would be too loud
Sun on water
Bright colors drowning me out...
Now they're standing on the beach
In a wild colored wind
Sunrays stream
Ah the pretty boys gleam
Watching distant buoys toss
Water rolling on the rocks
Smoothing down the broken things
I could still go there
But my mind would be too loud
Sun on water
Bright colors drowning me out...
Voices in my head
Say it's getting light
It's hard to go to bed
When you've been up all night
So as the day slips through the blinds
Don't let us break down
We should be racing from this murder scene
Like jets that cross the sky
Leaving our trails to fade and die
I know we're confused, we've nothing to lose
Let's get in the car and drive, get in the car and drive
Through the twisted streets
With neon in our veins
And in our hearts there beats
The sound of subway trains
I know tomorrow's nearly here
Don't let it stop now
We should be rushing from the burning crash
Like jets that cross the sky
Leaving our trails to fade and die
The dawn's gonna break, we're both still awake
Let's get in the car and drive, get in the car and drive
So grab the keys, forget the trash
We'll take the car, we'll take the cash
And somewhere down the motorway
We'll find a place where we can stay forever
Get in the car and drive
Get in the car and drive
The lights come on, I track her moves: locking the door, crossing the room. She's on the phone again, and when she laughs I feel my blood rushing - I feel my blood rush to my heart...
I call her up and disconnect, wait by her house once more to check, stare through the window of her kitchenette, and then I follow her down underground escalators, hiding behind my newspaper until the time when we're together.
So here we are, alone again; I'm in the dark, she's in her frame, her window bay.
I play the film back through my mind with a few new scenes I've designed; maybe I'll write her one or two more lines, and then I'll follow her down underground escalators, hiding behind my newspaper until the time when we're together.
Together, together, together, together...
[CHORUS]
Together, when we're together,
Together, when we're together,
Together...
Kamikaze seagull planes fighting over chip shop take-away remains; when you're walking on the cliffs, you can't help thinking of how far down the sea is, and what if it should give...
I didn't mean to bring you down, summer's over, seaside town; she says we shouldn't have come so far - this seaside town, summer's over.
Empty pubs echo with sounds - jukebox selections that keep going round and round. And maybe rain is all we need to come and wash the summer rubbish off the beach... oh, let's just go to sleep!
I didn't mean to bring you down, summer's over, seaside town, she says we shouldn't have come so far, this seaside town...
[CHORUS]
In the back of the arcades, kids borrow money to play one more final game while mothers wait in family cars. I wonder why we ever chose to come so far, but I wish you wouldn't ask...
I didn't mean to bring you down, summer's over seaside town, she says we shouldn't have come so far, this seaside town...
[CHORUS]
This summer's over, seaside town,
This seaside town, summer's over,
Summer's over...
[repeat to fade]
In the evening rush she takes her seat by the window, and when she lights up nobody speaks - they adjust their clothes. She sits on the train from 5.15 to 5.50; It's always the same: ";The way,"; she says, ";they look at me,"; from Saturday to Saturday.
Contact unclean, lock me up in quarantine.
Bathed in the blue wash of a TV screen, surfing served-up dreams, to the happy glow of the burger bar, watching the passing cars, from Saturday to Saturday.
[CHORUS]
Contact unclean, lock me up in quarantine. Contact, I'm unclean, lock me up in quarantine.
Quarantine, quarantine, all our lives we've been in quarantine.
Quarantine, quarantine, all our lives we've been in quarantine.
Quarantine, quarantine, all our lives we've been in quarantine.
Quarantine, quarantine, all our lives we've been in quarantine.
Milk of amnesia, you make it easier, so raise a glass in the air and drown out all your cares. Lips round the bottleneck, soon you're gonna forget each and every regret and let your dreams set sail. Inside we're feeling warm, ready for any storm, we ain't got our weatherproofs on but we're feeling strong.
A belly full of hope, lie back and you will float, drifting on your dreamboat to a distant land. And if we can't make it home, we'll sleep on the paving stones, happy just to be there beneath the starlit dome.
Milk of amnesia, you make it easier, milk of amnesia.
Everything's fading fast, forget about the past, through the bottom of the glass the world looks far away...
It's only friction that causes all the sparks - they come between us and blow the world apart. It's only tension that I can't diffuse; you really made your mark, I've still got the bruise.
And now there's nothing left, just another twisted wreck, with love like Semtex.
Like a dud firework that goes off in your face, we should have lit the sky but we burned down the whole place.
And now there's nothing left, just another twisted wreck with love like Semtex. More like a letter bomb blast than a Valentine card, with love like Semtex.
Now there's nothing left, just another twisted wreck with love like Semtex. More like a letter bomb blast than a Valentine card, with love like Semtex.
Goodbye and all the best, with love like Semtex,
With love like Semtex, with love like Semtex...
If you were an angel, I would cut off your wings - to keep you with me, I would do anything. Like broken bottles that slip from drunken hands, I've watched my star falling and shatter on the ground.
First you wash your hair, then you wash your hands; oh yeah, I think I understand...
Untouchable, if I'm not fit to even crawl if I'm too sick, I'll soak my skin in alcohol until I feel untouchable.
[CHORUS]
I blew my chances as you blow-dried your hair; I thought of my answers as you walked down the stairs. D'you think I'd defile you if you were to get too close? D'you think I'd infect you? D'you think I'd give you a dose?
First you wash your hair, then you wash your hands; oh yeah, I think I understand...
[CHORUS]
I'll drink until my skin is full, and I will be untouchable...
[CHORUS]
Untouchable, if I'm not fit to even crawl if I'm too sick, I'll soak my skin in alcohol, and I will feel untouchable.
Untouchable,
Untouchable,
Untouchable,
Untouchable...
The underdogs keep running after shining motorbikes - trying to keep up while they look back and laugh; we're so tired of dragging our hearts. It's the chrome and the steel, and all the power that we wanna feel; so when we catch them we will rip them apart 'cos it's no more than they did to us.
We've been waiting so long, we know just what we want: we will cheat and we'll rob, 'cos we are the underdogs. We are the underdogs.
The underdogs, we've had too much shit kicked in our lives to stop us howling at the moon through the night - if it keeps them up then that's alright. To be bitter and alone is such a dirty little job, we're jaded to our brittle bones. 'Cos we are the underdogs, yes we are the underdogs.
[CHORUS]
The underdogs, we are the underdogs,
The underdogs, we are the underdogs...
I drove the car
She'd made it plain
That I'd run out of ways
To win her back again
Her seat was back
No seat belt on
And on the radio
Some too familiar song
I thought if I could hurt her
Then she couldn't leave
She'd need someone to nurse her
Someone could be me
Together hell for leather shooting up the midnight motorway
I drove the car that took my love away
I glimpsed her hair
Blown by the wind
And passing headlights
Dance across her perfect skin
I saw the road
Its curves ahead
Then I saw me with flowers
At her hospital bed
I saw the corner nearing
And looked to the sky
I let go of the steering wheel
And closed my eyes
And though it never crossed my mind she might not live to see the day
I drove the car that took my love away
Together hell for leather shooting up the midnight motorway
I drove the car that took my love away
Like a russian doll
It's so hard to tell
What goes on inside
Behind your painted shells
Underneath a sky of prussian blue
Just call me
I will rush to you
When the midnight bells begin to toll
I just want to be with my russian doll
Oh my russian doll
Skin like moonlit snow
Hold me in the dark
Never let me go
Underneath a sky of prussian blue
Just call me
I will rush to you
When the midnight bells begin to toll
That's when I long to see my russian dollBloody sunday red
The colour of your lips
Just when I get close
From my arms you slip
Underneath a sky of prussian blue
With stars that shine for me and you
When the midnight bells begin to toll
I long to be with you my russian doll
Underneath a sky of prussian blue
Just call me
I will rush to you
When the midnight bells begin to toll
That's when I long to see my russian doll
You dial the lucky number when you're feeling uptight, when you're bored on a Sunday, and every Friday night. You dial the lucky number 'cos life is such a fight - they're gonna bring it over and make it all seem alright.
You've got a lucky number, for every time you need something to numb ya: you get that nagging hunger, that's when you dial your lucky number.
[CHORUS]
You dial the lucky number, you want that basement kiss; when you were two years younger, you wouldn't have dreamt of this. You're getting pins and needles, they've got you on the boil - all wrapped up in the glamour of aluminium foil.
[CHORUS 2]
Go to sleep, all your dreams are sweet, keep the world at bay 'til you wake up in the morning...
[CHORUS 2]
Sugar high, then she drops me from the sky, but it never stops me.
From the very first taste it began: I only wanna make her understand, hold her as she melts into my hands, even if she acts like she can't stand me - that's just my hard candy, that's just my hard candy.
Glycerine is in my veins, it's serene until she runs out again...
Ever since the first taste it began: I only wanna make her understand, hold her as she melts into my hands, even if she acts like she can't stand me - that's just my hard candy, that's just my hard candy.
Candy...
Such a waste when she leaves me - a bitter taste when I want her to feed me.
All the shiny paper's just a sham - I only wanna make her understand, hold her as she melts into my hands, even if she acts like she can't stand me - that's just my hard candy, that's just my hard candy.
That's just my hard candy, that's just my hard candy.
That's just my hard candy, that's just my hard candy.
It was late when she got on the train
Found a space between the coffee stains
Struggling to lift her suitcase
Pushing back the hair from her face
Here in my seat
I feel a rush beneath my feet
She's just a girl on a train
I'll probably never see her again
The girl on the train
Never even asked her her name
The girl on the train
Wonder if she's feeling the same
She looks listlessly at magazines
Past the horoscopes and beauty creams
Through the suburbs and the scrubland
I wonder whether she understands
This world is drab
You've got to take what you can grab
She's just a girl on a train
I'll probably never see her again
The girl on the train
Never even asked her her name
The girl on the train
Wonder if she's feeling the sameThrough the suburbs and the scrubland
I wonder whether she understands
This world is drab
You've got to take what you can grab
She's just a girl on a train
I'll probably never see her again
The girl on the train
Never even asked her her name
The girl on the train
Wonder if she's feeling the same
I had a dream but I just can't remember it - what could it mean? How did I ever let it slip? I'm a modern guy - I can't help but be sarcastic: it's a brand new day... well isn't that fantastic?
Hey, it's alright, at the end of the day there's gonna be more nights. Everything's okay, no need to get uptight - we can dream another dream tonight.
Game show afternoons - is that all I was born for - sitting in my room, just waiting to be called for?
[CHORUS]
Another dream tonight, another dream tonight...
[CHORUS]
Dream another dream tonight, we can dream another dream tonight,
Dream another dream tonight, dream another dream tonight...
Back when she was a girl there was a plan to see her through her life: get married, settled down, and have some kids and be a good housewife; but she would go to bed at night with day-glo stars and fairy lights stuck on the ceiling of her room as she dreamt of another life.
Now it's too late to go back home, it's saccharine and silicone, for a broken Barbie doll. Sleeping pills and alcohol, and nights she'd rather not recall, for a broken Barbie doll.
And though the hands that played with her were cold she let them drag her down, and as her cardboard world begins to fall, she's lying on the ground.
[CHORUS]
Her mother writes her every week, she says she's worried for health. Her dad says she's finding her feet, but now she's lying on the shelf. Like faulty goods that are returned, her pretty fingers are all burnt.
[CHORUS]
Broken Barbie doll, for a broken Barbie doll.
Broken Barbie doll, for a broken Barbie doll.
Broken Barbie doll...
Na na na na
Na na na na na na
Na na na na
Na na na na na na
I like the taste
That's why I swallow the lies
'Cos everybody needs faith
If they want to, to survive
Give me your hand
Ohh I will fall to my knees
In such a pitiful sham
I was born to believe
Ohh I don't care whatever
Just kill the pain and stop the ache
Whatever it takes
Lie to me, I'm happy
And in your arms I will escape
You're my brilliant fake
Na na na na
Na na na na na na
Na na na na
Na na na na na na
All of my life
I've never known what was real
But does it matter what's right
If you like what you feel?
Ohh I don't care whatever
Just kill the pain and stop the ache
Whatever it takes
Lie to me, I'm happy
And in your arms I will escape
Oh my brilliant fake
Na na na na
Na na na na na na
Na na na na
Na na na na na na
Na na na na
Na na na na na na
Na na na na
They tried to kill us off
But this show's not over
'Cause we were born to shine
And thrill like Supernova
So dry your tears, don't cry now
It's nowhere near the final curtain
Anything could happen
This world's uncertain
Anything could happen
Down every darkened street
We'll search until we find them
With knives between our teeth
We'll creep up behind them
Oh, 'cause creatures of our kind
Will not give in until the final curtain
Anything could happen
This world's uncertain
Anything could happen
I know you're hurting
Anything could happen
Anything could happen, oh
I know you're hurting
But anything could happen
This world's uncertain
Anything could happen
La la la la, la la, la la la la, la la
On a mission through the night
Sounds and actions, flashing lights
Don't care what time's on the clock
Hear the discotheque tick tock
Before they play the final tune
And I'm standing alone in a crowded room
Is there anyone out there?
Is there anyone out there?
There must be somebody somewhere
Is there anyone out there?
What's the point in going home?
To a silent answer phone
Smoking cigarettes in bed
Noises ringing in your head
Before they play the final tune
And I'm standing alone in a crowded room
Is there anyone out there?
Is there anyone out there?
There must be somebody somewhere
Is there anyone out there?
Is there anyone out there?
There must be somebody somewhere
Goodbye world, adios
This is where I'm getting off
They say I'm lost
But I'm happy here
All you boys and you girls
Who were not made for this world
I know a way to where you'll feel immune
Underneath a distant moon
Memories mingle with dreams
Like old newspapers in the wind
Sometimes they drift along for miles
Or cling to something for a while
Before they're gone
Over the roof tops and beyond
Let this night take me and you
And wrap us in its velvet blue
And from this world we'll be delivered soon
The lights go out without a sound
You can feel the mounting tension
On the bed of nails where we've laid down
Far too many times to mention
I was on the high wire looking down
For my safety net
When I swear I saw you with that clown
How can I forget?
You can learn to swallow swords
But it hurts so much more
Swallowing my pride
On a three-ring circus ride
They watch us from the ringside seats
As the knife throwing commences
And though it all looks very cheap
I still can't bring you to your senses
I was on the high wire looking down
For my safety net
When I swear I saw you with that clown
How can I forget?
You can learn to swallow swords
But it hurts so much more
Swallowing your pride
On a three-ring circus ride
Some people ride the wall of death
And it's so dangerously thrilling
Some people fall and break their necks
With just the sky above still spinning
Juggling a precious thing
Pretty soon it will be broken
If you think I'll jump through hoops with him
I think you must be joking
I was on the high wire looking down
For my safety net
When I swear I saw you with that clown
How can I forget?
You know that trick they do with swords
Well it hurts so much more
Swallowing my pride
She's got a telephone voice
That I haven't heard in quite a while
But I've seen her with boys
That I didn't think would be her style
Always around out on the town
She can barely say hello
Waving at her watching me drown
Just someone that she used to know
The screeching of brakes
Of a taxi in the midnight rain
Is all that it takes
To bring it back to her again
See her around out on the town
She can barely say hello
Waving at her watching me drown
Just someone that she used to know
Someone that she used to know
See her around out on the town
She can barely say hello
Waving at her watching me drown
Like someone that she used to know
Always around out on the town
She can barely say hello
Waving at her watching me drown
Just someone that she used to know
Someone that she used to know
They may throw stones against the glass
But there's no need to worry
One day they'll want our help and ask
We'll turn and say we're sorry
If all the stars fall from the sky
And we have nothing to cling to
There'll always be a you and I
And this is the song I'll sing you
You and me should stick together
We were built to last forever
Shatterproof
Don't let go of your youth
If we don't run the race
Then we can never lose
Shatterproof
Because we know the truth
If we don't run the race
Then we can never lose
It doesn't matter what they say
Because the night is calling
I know a place where we can play
And watch the statues falling
'Cause with this feeling in our blood
We'll be forever young
And our two hearts will always thud
Just like the rhythm of drums
You and me should stick together
We were built to last forever
Shatterproof
Don't let go of your youth
If we don't run the race
Then we can never lose
With just our hearts to guide us
We'll leave them all behind us
Oh no, they'll never find us now
Oh no
Shatterproof
Don't let go of your youth
If we don't run the race
Then we can never lose
Shatterproof
Because we know the truth
If we don't run the race
Then we don't ever have to lose
And we'll always be shatterproof
Shatterproof
Shatterproof
I'll call you up from a phone box
Your light is on it's 3 o' clock
We'll go for a drive with the radio on
And you'll come alive to a forgotten song
London crawling
Through the sodium glow
Just like lovers again
Slipping between the sheets of dirty rain
London crawling
Through the sodium glow
Just like lovers again
Slipping between the sheets of dirty rain
Under the cover of the narcotic night
The streaming colors of the traffic lights
The two of us dreading the end
Burning our money in a basement
London crawling
Through the sodium glow
Just like lovers again
Slipping between the sheets of dirty rain
Sunday morning
And I don't want to go
Back to my single bed
To be lying alone out of my head
Don't stop at the lights
There's no one else coming
London crawling
Through the sodium glow
Just like lovers again
Slipping between the sheets of dirty rain
Sunday morning
And I don't want to go
Back to my single bed
My idiot twin
Like a second skin
I just can't shake him
He's my stupid Siamese
A terminal disease
Forgive me please
My idiot twin
He's part of me
But one day I'll kill him
He is my idiot twin
When he dies
I'm gonna be king
My idiot twin
My unwanted Gemini
The things I'd like to hide
Eat me inside
Times I wish I could forget
Crippled by regret
Dogging my steps
My idiot twin
He's part of me
But one day I'll kill him
He is my idiot twin
When he dies
I'm gonna be king
My idiot twin
All of the things I shouldn't have said
He put those ideas in my head
What if there's another world
Circling a distant star
And on this planet lives a girl
Won't you tell me where you are?
I'm in deep space
I think I'm fallin'
And I feel like, I'm a million miles from home
I'm in deep space
Can you hear me callin'?
'Cos I'm searchin' for the light to save my soul
Is there anybody there that can pull me out of this black hole?
(Is there anybody there that can pull me out of this black hole?)
From the past right to the present
I've been waiting for a sign
For an angel sent from heaven
A rocket in this starless sky
I'm in deep space
I think I'm fallin'
And I feel like, I'm a million miles from home
I'm in deep space
Can you hear me callin'?
'Cos I'm searchin' for the light to save my soul
Is there anybody there that can pull me out of this black hole?
Well, I built myself a capsule
And I've drifted days and nights
When I look into the darkness
There's a vacuum in my life
I'm in deep space,
I think I'm fallin'
And I feel like I'm a million miles from home
I'm in deep space
Can you hear me callin'?
'Cos I'm searchin' for the light to save my soul
Is there anybody there that can pull me out of this deep space?
I'm in deep space, I'm in deep space
Is there anybody there that can pull me out of this deep space?
I'm in deep space, I'm in deep space
At eight o'clock we said goodbye
That's when I left her house for mine
She said that she'd be staying in
Well, she had to be at work by nine
So I get home and have a bath
And let an hour or two pass
Drifting in front of my TV
When a film comes on that she wants to see
*It's Monday morning 5.19
And I'm still wondering where she's been
Cause every time I try to call
I just get her machine
And now it's almost 6 a.m.
And I don't want to try again
Cause if she's still not back*
And then this must be the end
At first I guess she's gone to get
Herself a pack of cigarettes
A pint of milk, food for the cat
But it's midnight now and she's still not back
Repeat*
Cause if she's still not back that heaven knows, what then, is this the end?
At half past two I picture her
In the back of someone else's car
He runs his fingers through her hair
Oh, you shouldn't let him touch you there
Repeat*
Like a shot from the dark
In the silence of night
Down the black boulevard
Come the blindin' headlights
If it isn't the hit
It's the thrill of the chase
You?ve got to admit
It?s a hell of a place
But when she turns
How she sparkles and burns
And I am bound by her spell
I'm tied to her carousel
Like shooting stars
That scratch away at the dark
I know that my fate is sealed
On Catherine's wheel
So look down the tracks
See how far you?ve come
There's no turnin' back
The deal is done
Take hold of the rail
It?s a heart stoppin' ride
The sparks fall like hail
As she draws me inside
And when she turns
How she sparkles and burns
And I am bound by her spell
I'm tied to her carousel
Like shooting stars
That scratch away at the dark
I know that my fate is sealed
On Catherine's wheel
Oh, the record goes round
The needle goes down
On a forgotten sound
But when she turns
How she sparkles and burns
And I am bound by her spell
I'm tied to her carousel
Like shooting stars
That scratch away at the dark
I know that my fate is sealed
On Catherine's wheel
And when she turns
Oh, how she sparkles and burns
And I am bound by her spell
I'm tied to her carousel
Like shooting stars
That scratch away at the dark
I know that my fate is sealed
