TV on the Radio Filmography

• Glastonbury 2011 (2011)
• Soundtrack for a Revolution (2009)
• Fuse: Live from Voodoo Experience (2008)
• MTVU Woodie Awards 2006 (2006)
• Buddyhead Presents: Punk Is Dead (2005)

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Tv On The Radio - Allstar Weekend
• Wash The Day - TV On The Radio
• Repetition - TV On The Radio
• King Eternal - TV On The Radio
• Keep Your Heat - TV On The Radio
• Hours - TV On The Radio
• Dirtywhirl - TV On The Radio
• Crying - TV On The Radio
• Bomb Yourself - TV On The Radio
• Let The Devil In - TV On The Radio
• Wolf Like Me - TV On The Radio
• Will Do - TV On The Radio
• Tonight - TV On The Radio
• A Method - TV On The Radio
• The Wrong Way - TV On The Radio
• I Was A Lover - TV On The Radio
• Red Dress - TV On The Radio
• Province - TV On The Radio
• Playhouses - TV On The Radio
• Killer Crane - TV On The Radio
• Halfway Home - TV On The Radio
• Golden Age - TV On The Radio
• Family Tree - TV On The Radio
• Dreams - TV On The Radio
• Dlz - TV On The Radio
• Dancing Choose - TV On The Radio
• Caffeinated Consciousness - TV On The Radio
• Blues From Down Here - TV On The Radio
• Ambulance - TV On The Radio
• Stork And Owl - TV On The Radio

Have you seen it yet
The headline of this issue
It's as clean as clean can get
now i'm scared to get my feet wet
And this time
We're all left out
So we take it to the floor
With the numbers on the board
We're scared to get our feet wet
This competition
is getting us nowhere
In this audition
I'll play the role
In these ambitions
I couldn't let
My mind take over
So if I meet my match, I guess
I'll just end up like the rest
We've all been told
How to break the mould
But when it's time
For the spotlight to shine
It's easier to choke
This competition
is getting us nowhere
In this audition
I'll play the role

Little flightless metal birds
High above in limbless tree
Echoes from their tiny box
Ring out into the atmosphere
Creating beauty inadvertently
It was a technological feat
This little bird
Wading through the market's waste
We locked eyes felt our loneliness abate
True desire showed its face, but only momentarily
Grey cascades in foreign waves
Wash the day away
I bought you flowers from the dying woods of Brazil
This little bird
While the kids burned down the greenhouse pushed the charred frame into the landfill
Put his beak to the word
We bought new bodies we bought diamond encrusted guns
So who the hell are you?
Making out so high in the backseat of a car-bomb under carcinogenic sun
Grey cascades in foreign waves
Wash the day away
Grey cascades in foreign waves
We did believe in magic we did believe
We let our souls act as canaries
Our hearts gilded cages be
Watched a million dimming lanterns float out to sea
Lay your malady at the mouth of the death machine
Aeroplane odabo,
Ba mi ki won lo odabo.
Eko meji, o yo mi
O yo mi
O yo mi
Grey cascades in foreign waves
Wash the day away

Trouble ahead of its time
Is the fate of the fish washed up on shore
Do you know that he just won't feel right
Till he's swallowed up by the tide
Thought it might know better
Born into capital lifestyle heights
Got a head full of fever and it feels all right
Cause I shake my bottle and I suck my swill
And I love how I'm living cause I've got my fill
But I can't stop thinking how it's all gone wrong
And the cracks will be obvious before too long
I've abused my position and it cost my friends
And if the world keeps turning I could do it again
What's the matter with your next-door neighbour
I heard he had sex, drugs and danger
You can kick it with a complete stranger
I think I hear him calling
What's the matter with your next-door neighbour
An act of man, a freak of nature
You've been kicking with a complete stranger
I think I hear him calling
And the time on your hands is a walk in the park
If it don't then I hope you can see in the dark (real hard)
Hail Mary, watch your life unfold
I'm a man on a mission or so I've been told
I can choose my victims, I could shed my skin
And if the world keeps turning I could do it again
But I can't stop thinking that it's all gone wrong
And the truth will be obvious before too long
I've abused my position and it cost my friends
If the world keeps turning I'mma do it again
What's the matter with your next-door neighbour
I heard he had sex, drugs and danger
But you can kick it with a complete stranger
I think I hear him calling
What's the matter with your next-door neighbour
An act of god, a freak of nature
You've been kicking with a complete stranger
I think the curtain's falling down
We lock eyes and walk away unrecognised
We lock arms and spin
Commence our repetition
My repetition, my repetition is this
My repetition, my repetition is this

All men condemned by men to die.
Damned by blind bitch in hallowed halls.
Hear it, head this call.
Oh fucking eternal.
Infinity's hourglass will measure all measure all.
So, power.
Cover your balls,
'Cause we swing Kung Fu
Oh Fucking eternal.
Oh Fucking eternal.
Afraid of thunder children, so hide your ears.
Hope your fortress holds up for many many many years.
Shudder, it's a shame.
Lightning, call the game,
Send us up a baby boy
Let the smoke carry his name.
If it's a girl let her shine.
We will be
Oh Fucking eternal.
The hour of man nigh
So gather up all supplies.
And stack 'em up high
Stack 'em up high.
Faith, Nathan I could see it in your eyes.
Warmth, Nathan I can see it in your eyes.
Golden houses, silver brides.
Immortal erection, tongue's untied.
Oh Fucking eternal.

In the dark of the night I found
Without my love, my love,
these words are not a bit profound,
if it's just another cheap line flung.
Outside ecstatic love,
what did we think we'd find?
Over that broken road,
out past the land mines.
I'm gonna keep your heart
I'm gonna keep your heart.
With the world all falling apart,
I'm gonna keep your heart.

You walked around, thought yourself beautiful
Just too bad they stared, Just too bad they stared
Broke up your crown, called you unusuable
See how well you fared
Stole underground, To kick your heart around
Banished from above, banished from above
Forgot yourself, Your home and shot your health
Left it all for love
And on their lips
Delirious quips
Last seen with friends wishing them well
Delayed, seduced you listened for the truth
Just too bad they lied, just too bad they lied
O come around in form of future youth
Summoned from the sky
Ooo....
Ono Omode..
Refuse these cruel
Unusual fools
Leave them to rule
In hallowpoint Hell
You've much to do
Now listen to the truth
Cradled in a cry, cradled in a cry
Your light'll shine
Fire undisputable
Keep your head on high
Keep your head on high
Oh walk around,
Know your beautiful, aimless and alive
Broken and divine
O walk around know you are
Future youth

Oh there is a murderess amongst us
Her love is a violent spiral
Hurling in upon us, conjured up
At the birth of the world
Durga is a dancer
Mindless questions find no answers
Slicing through the ether
Yeah she's gleaming like mother of pearl
Dirty little whirlwind
Commander, controller
I found you
Dirty little whirlwind
I am pinned by the heat of your swirl
Dirty little whirlwind
Defender, destroyer
I found you
Dirty little whirlwind
Tangled up in the flesh of a girl
Oh you could curl me beside you
The spark in your eyes belies the Apocalypse inside you
Twisting the pits from the particle
Skull can't save face
So shake the shame from it
Burn me up inside you
Let me churn in your furnace of whirl
Dirty little whirlwind
Commander, controller
I found you
Dirty little whirlwind
I am pinned by the heat of your swirl
Dirty little whirlwind
Defender, destroyer
I found you
Dirty little whirlwind
All caught up in the flesh of a girl
All that I ever wanted to be was destroyed at sea
Hurricane rescued me salvaged calamity
Do not delay we stood in place for it
Turn me up inside you

Laugh in the face of death under masthead
Hold your breath through late breaking disasters
Next to news of the trite
Codes, feelings meant global
Like coke in the nose of the nobles keeps it alight
Wrath, riots and the race is on fire
And the music for tanks with no red lights in sight
Got you cryin', cryin'
Oh whyin'
Oh my, my, my
Gold is another word for culture
Leads to fattening of the vultures
Till this bird can barely fly
And Mary and David smoke dung in the trenches
While Zion's behavior never gets mentioned
The writings on your wall
Blood on the cradle and the ashes you wade through
Got you callin' God's name in vain
Leaved the damned to damn it all
Got you cryin', cryin'
Oh whyin'
Oh my, my, my
Broken nose, colored glasses can't see for the thorns
And you just can't stand no more
What a clumsy kind of low
Time to take the wheel and the road from the masters
Take this car, drive it straight into the wall
Build it back up from the floor
And stop our cryin', oh cryin'
Oh cryin'
Oh my, my, my
Our cryin', our cryin'
Our cryin'

Bomb your country
Shed no tear
TV dinner
Overfed your fears
So make your money
And spread your seed
Better lap of luxuries
But acknowledge need
You've made a family
Now kill 'em dead
Oh it's not me, ma
It's what the TV said
Your final fantasy
For your final days
Oh baby it's the infancy
Oh in so many ways (bomb your country)
Then sit and smile
Why don't you lay back easy
Just wait a while
Just wait a while
So baby, bomb your country
Sit and smile
Why don't you lay back easy
Just wait a while
Just wait a while
Final fantasy
Final fantasy

Beg the bee's forgiveness as it's falling from your sleeve
Watch its guts pump poison into sting
Watch it reach completeness, see it fall asleep
Legs above fold in eternal dream
Oh that calls to mind a joke, an off coloring
About these fools blindfolded, drugged, and raped and left laughing
They let the devil in, he brought his pirate friends
They brought a hunger for blood, and flesh and bone and skin
So teeth left chattering, and tongues flexed to sing
Got dressed up in so many fancy things
Is it a waste of time, please tell me if you mind
Me dipping into useless sentimentality
A rant on how things used to be when this shit was free
I answered my own question, I can hear the crickets yawning
But in the back pocket of a discarded pair of jeans
Is still a priceless ticket to the grandest opening
So when the chariot arrives, you'd best enjoy the ride
Cause when we get to heaven's gate, we're not getting inside
Better beg forgiveness
Better drop to knees
Better find your ticket

Say say my playmate
wont you lay hands on me
mirror my malady
transfer my tragedy
Got a curse i cannot lift
shines when the sunset shifts
when the moon is round and full
gotta bust that box gotta gut that fish
My mind's aflame
We could jet in a stolen car
but i bet we wouldnt get too far
before the transformation takes
and bloodlust tanks and
crave gets slaked
My mind has changed
my bodys frame but god i like it
my hearts aflame
my bodys strained but god i like it
My mind has changed
my bodys frame but god i like it
my hearts aflame
my bodys strained but god i like it
Charge me your day rate
ill turn you out in kind
when the moon is round and full
gonna teach you tricks that'll blow your
mongrel mind
baby doll i recognize
you're a hideous thing inside
if ever there were a lucky kind it's
you you you you
I know its strange another way to get to know you
you'll never know unless we go so let me show you
i know its strange another way to get to know you
we've got till noon here comes the moon
so let it show you
show you now
Dream me oh dreamer
down to the floor
open my hands and let them
weave onto yours
Feel me, completer
down to my core
open my heart and let it
bleed onto yours
Feeding on fever
down all fours
show you what all that
howl is for
Hey hey my playmate
let me lay waste to thee
burned down their hanging trees
it's hot here hot here hot here hot here
Got a curse we cannot lift
shines when the sunshine shifts
there's a cure comes with a kiss
the bite that binds the gift that gives
now that we got gone for good
writhing under your riding hood
tell your gra'ma and your mama too
it's true

It might be impractical to seek out a new romance
we won't know the actual if we never take the chance
I'd like to collapse with you and ease you against this song
I think we're compatible, I see that you think I'm wrong
any time will do, my love
any time will do, no choice of words will break me from this groove
any time will do, my love
any time will do, what choice of words will take me back to you?
your love makes a fool of you, you can't seem to understand
a heart doesn't play by rules and love has it's own demands
but I'll be there to take care of you if ever you should decide
that you don't want to waste your life in the middle of a lovesick lullaby
any time will do, my love
any time will do, no choice of words will break me from this groove
any time will do, my love
any time will do, the choicest words will take me back to you
oh my reddest rose, caldera, set it off
how your fire grows hermosa caldera
glistening through your fussed blows careen your caldera
set it off, as your body flows the second hand flashes
passes over your skin like time

My mind is like an orchard
Clustered in frozen portraits
Of blossoms that bloomed so fine
Just to drop from the vine
I've seen 'em all tonight
Could keep it silent and tortured,
Or shove it unto the floorboards
A rusty heart starts to whine
In its tell tale time
So free it up tonight
Life deals a measly portion
Light on good friends and fortune
It's chipped you away inside
And drawn all your blinds
Concealed it all from sight
Could cut that final corner
Charge the void no quarter
Or skip to the final line of some
Suicide note well publicized
Or give it up tonight
Kindly reverse the order
Of the options you've laid before you
The needle, the dirty spoon
The flames and the fumes
Just throw them out
To Night
The time that you've been afforded
May go unsung unrewarded
Some nameless you cannot know
May be coming to show you
Unbridled love and light
Should you grow in an orchard
Covered in dusty portraits
Of blossoms that bloomed so fine
Just to drop from the vine
Oh, listen up tonight
Don't keep it silent and tortured
Or shove it unto the floorboards
Your busted heart will be fine
In its tell tale time

Eyes wide mine, suddenly everything
Flies by fine, mind goes on holiday
In its stead, clicking along the curb
Clucking tongues how could they have the nerve
There is hardly a method you know
It's a broken poem, started up yesterday
And it came true now, mind was on holiday
It's an open road will we soon see the end
It's an open book, a story to tell the band
There is hardly a method you know
I'm a storm faced cloud, hanging in dystrophy
I'm a cold, base clown laughing at enemies
It's a rough wild world could you please chaperone
It's a mind field trip, oh leave it the fuck alone
This is hardly a method you know
There's a purple pain strangling yesterday
There's a purple stain spattered on interstates
It's an awkward stage grasping at anything
Cause it's lost the page
Can't find a word to say
But they want you to
Oh they want you to
Yes they want you too
Oh they want you, too
Broken plates on dirty highways
Pave the way for alien grace

Wake up in a magic nigger movie
With the bright lights pointed at me as a metaphor
Teachin' folks the score
About patience, understanding, agape babe
And sweet, sweet amour
When I realized where I was
Did I stand up and testify, oh, fist up signify
Or did I show off my soft shoe
Maybe teach 'em a boogaloo
Busy playing the whore
Oh, loiterers united, indivisible by shame
Hungry for those diamonds
Served on little severed bloody brown hands
Oh, the bling drips, oh, the bling drips down
Fallin' down just like rain
I don't wanna cast pearls to swine, I don't wanna march peacefully
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, new Negro politician
Is stirring, is stirring, is stirring inside me
No there's nothing inside me, but an angry heart beat
Can you feel this heart beat?
Oh, fear we're fallin' off, oh, terror we're pained
Oh, hunger we're starvin' off roasted vermin sustain
This shit will have to sustain
Shootin' doves from off balconies, they wanna shackle the lame
By now you know their game
Little Nina arose
Went to stand by her pay phone
Waited for her caller to ring, said
Ask me anything
I just asked for her
I just asked for her say so
And with permission
I'm gonna take liberty
And I'm tellin' you to take it too
'Cause it's right there in front of you
Hey, desperate youth
Oh, blood thirsty babes
Oh, your guns are pointed
Your guns are pointed the wrong way

I was a lover, before this war
held up in a luxury suite, behind a barricaded door
now that I've cleaned up, gone legit
I can see clearly: round hole
round whole, square peg don't fit
I'm locked in my bedroom, so send back the clowns
my clone wears a brown shirt, and I seduce him when there's no one around
mano y mano, on a bed of nails
bring it on like a storm, till I knock the wind out of his sails
And we don't make eye contact, when we have run-in's in town
just a barely polite nod, and nervous stares towards the ground
I once joined a priest class, plastic, inert
in a slowdance with commerce
like a lens up a skirt
And we liked to party
and we kept it live
and we had a three volume tome of contemporary slang
to keep a handle on all this jive
Ennui unbridled, let's talk to kill the time
how many styles did you cycle through before you were mine?
and it's been a while since we went wild and that's all fine
but we're sleepwalking through this trial
and it's really a crime it's really a crime it's really a crime
it's really criminal
We're just busy tempting, like fate's on the nod
running on empty, bourbon and god
it's been a while since we knew the way
and it's been even longer since our plastic priest class
had a goddamned thing to say

Hey jackboot, fuck your war 'cause I'm fat and in love
And no bombs are fallin? on me for sure
But I'm scared to death that I?m livin' a life not worth dying for
And your plowshare, it's a sword
And it's wide arcing swing chops the heads off of many things
Mono crops, laughter roars, oh high hilarity, oh muck bury me
Oh standard bearer carry me burnin? home from another tour
Go ahead put your red dress on
Days of white robes have come and gone, come and gone
Oh you rivers, oh you waters run
Come bear witness to 'Whore of Babylon'
Hey slave they called and we caved, we answered
To a new name, shout it loud, shout it lame, but blackface it
You?re such a good dancer, oh you?re a star, you?re carnival
Jacaranda petals fall, mixed with the blood of the saints
Shot down in the square, don't track it in on the soles of your shoes
When you?re dragged into the back of this car
Go ahead put your red dress on
Days of white robes have come and gone, come and gone
Oh you rivers, oh you waters run
Come bear witness to 'Whore of Babylon'
It's a trap that much is plain
Still maybe send snapshots of all your sweet pain
Playin? tortuous games it goes lens, light, fame
Read my names on your lips when the man cracks the whip
And you'll all shake your hips
And you'll all dance to this without making a fist
And I know that it sounds mundane but it's a stone cold shame
How they got you tame and they got me tame
Go ahead put your red dress on
Days of white robes have come and gone, come and gone
Oh you rivers, oh you waters run

Suddenly, all your history's ablaze
Try to breathe, as the world disintegrates
Just like autumn leaves, we're in for change
Holding tenderly to what remains
And all your memories, are as precious as gold
And all the honey, and the fire which you've stole
Have you running through all your red-cheeked days
Shaking loose these souls, from their sacred hiding space
Hold your heart courageously
As we walk into this dark place
Stand steadfast erect and see
That love is the province of the brave
Pushed under this expanse of bursting stars
Let this burning brightly illuminate the where we are
In this hollow that lovers' voices occupy
Let it follow that we let it free, let it fly
Breaking open the walls of this cage
Intoxicated, Oh so amazed
Much like falcons tumbling from the heights at play
Conjoined, talons engaged
Hold these hearts courageously
As we walk into this dark place
Stand steadfast beside me and see

Playhouses
Swept away by the river now
Confounded
Sound it out now
Vodka cran in your hand and whose litte girl are you now?
Oh I'd ask for this dance but I know you'd play like you don't know how
What your coy smile exposes
A recent memory of when we shit our bed of roses
And I know the moon above is shining down
But not for our love
So for who?
So for who?
Beneath the cigarettes and sugar shit of alcohol breath
I can taste the ocean of your tongue
Remember when we sat on the sidewalk of your old block
Against the wall under the stars
Talking about love's meaning
Well, I wasn't dreaming
I meant every word
Just didn't know your demons
Do you know mine, babe?
Are we wasting time, babe?
Playhouses
Haunted by
Broken spirits
Just trying to get high
Well we chose this course but
The weather changed
And the river froze
And when it thawed it was running
Backwards and dry now
I suppose it's appropriate to cry now
Over wasted time
And naked lies

After the rain
A killer crane
After the rainbow
Across the sky
Her grace is glide
Across the sea
Across creation
And over time
Her grace she slides
Escapes station
A cold wind blows
The day this stows
Glown heart glownation
Leave it behind
Your restless mind
Your jelousies
But isolation
Demands your patience
To be found together in time just to say
Sunshine I saw you through the hanging vine
A memory of what is mine fading away
But this night heals the ?
And the moonlight steals the sound
I could leave suddenly unafraid
And after all
We're free to fall
Once all the pain goes
And how we stood
And what was good
Could lie us all long
In isolation
A transformation
Blue laughter leaves me
Leaves me blue
And all the ? to see it through
This laugh of love and lie tingle
A killer crane
After the rainbow
May they found together in time to say
Sunshine I saw you through the hanging vine
A memory of what was mine fading away
But this night heals the
And the moonlight steals the sound
I could leave suddenly unafraid
Sunshine come crawling through the hanging vines
A memory of what is mine fading away
In this night heals the
And the moonlight steals the sound
I could leave suddenly unafraid
Sunshine I saw you through the hanging vine
A memory of what is mine fading away
And this night heals the
And the moonlight steals the sound

The lazy way they turned your head
Into a rest stop for the dead
And did it all in gold and blue and gray
The efforts to allay your dread
In spite of all you knew and said
Were hard to see and harder still to say
A comfort plush all laced in lead
Was sent to quell your sentiment
And keep your trembling sentinel hand at bay
And when a sudden silhouette
Escaped the top side of your bed
I knew you'd never ever be the same
Is it not me, am I not folded by your touch?
The words you spoke I know too much
It's over now and not enough
Is it not me, the damage you hold inside your blush?
The load you towed, you showed it up
It's over now and I'm insane
Wild spirits winds from out your chest
Collides with world and wilderness
It needs a gentle hand to call it home
Now surfs the sun and scales the moon
And winds the waistband of her womb
All eyes ablaze the day you break your mold
s it not me, am I not culled into your clutch?
The words you spoke I know too much
We're closer now and said enough
Is it not me, am I not rolled into your crush?
The road you chose unloads control

Heart beat sounding, ricocheting in their cage
Thought I'd lose my balance with the grounds bounce and sway
And all this violence and all this goes away
And the vibes that rise like fireflies illuminate our play
Some light being pulled you up from night?s party
Said, clap your hands if you think your soul is free
And the silence was astounding
Except some, oh Lord mercy me's
And oh, you can't stop what's comin' up
You?re never gonna stop, gonna live it up
And oh, it's gonna drop, gonna fill your cup
And oh, it's gonna drop, gonna fill your cup
The age of miracles, the age of sound
Well, there's a golden age
Comin' round, comin' round, comin' round
Give it up instead of grabbin? for decay
What we viewed as gold I believe pollutes this space
And its grace ascending like a snake up your tree
Up your happy ending understanding all you're supposed to be
Let it move right in, let it kiss your face
Let it sow your skin in perpetual embrace
Like I said love's light is laughter
Like the sun spittin' happiness into the hereafter
Oh, here it comes like a natural disaster
Oh, blowin? up like a ghetto blaster
Oh, here it comes, bring it faster
Oh, here it comes, bring it faster
The age of miracles, the age of sound
Well, there's a golden age
Comin' round, comin' round, comin' round
Love, don't you falter, burnin? hearts dragged behind
The horses dancing on the altar, hooves breakin' Gods
To diamond dust and stars and there you are
Now we're all allowed to breathe
Walls dissolve with the hunger and the greed
Move your body, you've got all you need
And your arms in the air stir a sea of stars
And oh, here it comes and it's not so far
All light beings, come on now make haste
Clap your hands if you think you're in the right place
Thunder all surroundin'
Oh, feel it quake with the joy resounding
Palm to the palm you can feel it poundin'
Never give it up you can feel it mountin'
Oh, its gonna drop, gonna fill your cup and
Oh, its gonna drop, gonna fill your cup
The age of miracles, the age of sound
Well, there's a golden age
Comin' round, comin' round, comin' round
The age of miracles, the age of sound
Well, there's a golden age

Anda my love, wake up to your window, the day calls in billows
It?s echoing moonlight onto the blue nightmare of your heart
In cozy red rainbow, it?s shaking off halos
And the memory of our sacred so and so
Oh, take my hand sweet, complete your release
Unbury your feet and married we'll be
Alone in receiving, ours is a feeling not that they would see
They don?t know that we could be down where your cradle escaped the sea
And your raven haired mama caught told you so
We're hanging on the shadow of your family tree
Your haunted heart and me
Brought down by an old idea whose time has come
And in the shadow of the gallows of your family tree
There's a hundred hearts soar free
Pumping blood to the roots of evil to keep young
Only your mind, is it safe to say that we?ve waited patiently
Call me on time and recall the tune
That has placed us gracefully all into line
There's a garden grave and a place they've saved for you
I'll fall by your side though your silver haired mama throes told you so
We're hanging on the shadow of your family tree
Your haunted heart and me
Brought down by an old idea whose time has come
And in the shadow of the gallows of your family tree
There's a hundred hearts soar free
Pumping blood to the roots of evil to keep it young
And now we?ll gather in the shadow of your family tree
In haunted harmony
Brought down by an old idea whose time has come
And in the shadow of the valley of your family tree
There's a hundred hearts soar free

All your dreams are over now
And all your wings have fallen down
Oh, all your dreams are over now
And all your wings have fallen down
She's just like you
So why keep doing what you do?
Why cut a friend?
Why cruise that mean lean to an end?
You could have heel toed
To another place
You could have peeled slow
To a better face
But your heart can't grieve
For your little dreams
Oh no, your heart can't grieve
Not for your little dreams
All your dreams are over now
And all your wings have fallen down
All your dreams are over now
And all your wings have fallen down
Broke trust in two
Now no one's looking out for you
Why keep it cruel?
Why waste so much to play the fool?
And maybe I'm the fool but I think we'd find
That we could all be so so kind
If you'd just leave your treadmill power trip behind
Oh, leave your treadmill power trip behind
And maybe it's best that you're so so blind
It's best that your so, so blind
Because your heart can't grieve
I know your heart can't grieve
I know your heart can't grieve
What your eyes won't see
But you were my favorite moment
Of our dead century
I know your heart can't grieve
What your eyes won't see
But you were my favorite moment
Of our dead century
But all your dreams are over now
And all your wings have fallen down
Oh, all your dreams are over now
And all your wings have fallen down
Oh, warfarin' terrapin
Unconfined, undesigned
Undersigned, bantering
Bartering, bellowing
Barracking, blundering
Pillaging, plundering
Living and lavishing
Hammerings, harrowing
Flourishing, flattening
Leveling, reveling
Wrecking and ravaging
Savoring, savaging
Oh, warfarrin' terrapin
Unconfined, undesigned
You've got me
Worried and wondering
All your dreams are over now
And all your wings have fallen down

Congratulations on the mess you made of things;
on trying to reconstruct the air and all that brings.
And oxidation is the compromise you own
but this is beginning to feel like the dog wants her
bones saved.
You force your fire then you falsify your deeds
your methods dot the disconnect from all your creeds
and fortune strives to fill the vacuum that it feeds
but this is beginning to feel like the dog's lost her
lead
This is beginning to feel like the long winded blues of
the never.
This is beginning to feel like it's curling up slowly
and finding a throat to choke.
This is beginning to feel like the long winded blues of
the never
barely controlled locomotive consuming the picture and
blowing the crows, the smoke
This is beginning to feel like the long winded blues of
the never
Static explosion devoted to crushing the broken and
shoving their souls to ghost.
Eternalised. Objectified. You set your sights so high.
But this is beginning to feel like the bolt busted
loose from the lever.
Never you mind. Death professor.
Your structures fine. My dust is better.
Your victim flies so high. All to catch a bird's eye
view of who's next.
Never you mind. Death professor.
Love is life. My love is better.
Eyes could be the diamonds confused with who's next.
Never you mind. Death professor.
Your shocks are fine. My struts are better.
Your fiction flies so high. Y'all could use a doctor,
who's sick? who's next?
Never you mind. Death professor.
Electrified, my love is better.
It's crystallized. So am I.
All could be the diamond fused with who's next.
This is beginning to feel like the dawn of a loser
forever.
This is beginning to feel like the dawn of a loser
forever.
This is beginning to feel like the dawn of a loser
forever.
This is beginning to feel like the dawn of a loser

He's a what? He's a what? He's a newspaper man
And he gets his best ideas from a newspaper stand
From his boots to his pants to his comments and his rants
He knows that any little article will do
Though he expresses some confusion 'bout his part in the plan
And he can't understand that he's not in command
The decisions underwritten by the cash in his hand
Bought a sweater for his weimaraners too
Now I'm no mad man but that's insanity
Feast before famine and more before family
Goes and shows up with more bowls and more
Cups and the riot for the last hot meal erupts
Corrupts his hard drive through the leanest months
Shells out the hard cash for the sickest stunts
On aftershave, on gasoline
He flips the page and turns the scene
In my mind I'm drowning butterflies
Broken dreams and alibis, that's fine
I've seen my palette blown to monochrome
Hollow heart clicks hollow tone it's time
Eye on authority, thumb prints a forgery
Boy ain't it crazy what the lights can do
For counterfeit community every opportunity
Wasted as the space between the flash tattoo
And the half-hearted hologram posed for the party
Now he gloss full bleed on a deaf dumb tree
Cod liver dollar signs, credit card autograph
Down for the record but not for freedom
Angry young mannequin, American apparently
Still to the rhythm better get to the back of me
Can't stand the vision, better tongue the anatomy
Gold plated overhead blank transparency
In the days of old you were a nut
Now you need three bumps before you cut
Not that I should care about, nothing I ain't scared of
But I guess, you had to be there
In my mind I'm breeding butterflies
Broken dreams and alibis, that's fine
I've seen my palette blown to monochrome
Hollow heart clicks hollow tone in time
I see you figured in your action pose
Foam injected Axl Rose life size
Should something shake you and you drop the news

Now drop yourself with no concern
On how to breathe
When your mind is burned
On optimistic, on overload
Can we shift the heat back
To when your heart's grown cold
In severed light
Our souls are damaged
And with that caged
To the cause of light
Now I can see
Another language
Gone optimistic
We're gonna survive
We're the tail-end of the sun
To a greener hideaway
Where in peace I found my fun
Till I heard the future say
I'm in an army, a megaquake
A force of nature
All hell ashake
Improve our days now, cause we might not sleep tonight
Suffused are we to the cause of light!
On optimistic
On overload
Can we shift the heat back
To when your heart's grown cold
And now we know why
And know what we must do
Aware of the cracks
The heart shines through
We're the tail-end of the sun
To a greener hideaway
Where in peace I found my fun
Till I heard the future say
We're the tail-end of the sun
To a greener hideaway
Where in peace I found my fun
Till I heard the future...
(Would you believe my life was all right)
A bed of roses
And rollercoasters
(Would you believe my life was so fine)
A bed of roses
And rollercoasters
A bed of roses

From the depths I called you, Ma
For your breath and breast so warm and fabled
Your hands reached inside
Grabbed my heart, enlarged, disabled
Hailed for your mercy
An ear that cares
How the blues sound from up there?
With my wet hair, I wipe the blood off your feet
Carry me through these shark infested waters
Well you spared me from slaughter for sure,
But these sharks are equally in need of a martyr
Oh kindness shared
Undeserved purest gift, this life you've spared
How the blues sound from up there?
Teeth gnashing, masticating this dumb tongue
Quiet now, quiet now, hear that supplication
Echo into the void
Been received by no one
Oh my sweet dear
Cold alone poisoning ourselves
Engulfed in our own tears
Signed, blues from down here.
Pull the pin, drop it in, let it wash away our
Time for your favorite story
Of how to achieve golden glory
Wash yourself all squeaky clean
All in white, all hallow's eve
Lessen your desire,
Hold your breath so patiently
Never inquire how to be free
Just stay on your knees
You might doubt it
Think there's nothing left for
To do but stomp my feet
And shout about it
From the depths I called you
Now I'm waiting for an answer patiently
Stuck here at the bottom of this well

Your slim frame, your eager eyes and your wild mane
Oh, they keep me where I belong, all wrapped up in wrong
You?re to blame for wasted words of sad refrain
Oh, let them take me where they may, believe me when I say
I will be your accident if you will be my ambulance
And I will be your screech and crash if you will be my crutch and cast
And I will be your one more time if you will be my one last chance
Oh, fall for me
Your slim frame, your simple stare and your wrong, wrong name
Oh they keep me where I belong, all strung out in song
Why so tame, we could shoot wilder vines through younger veins
Sip slow from night?s deep wells and watch our gardens swell
Once the seeds are sown, wild and overgrown
You?ll see heart's colors changed like leaves
Oh sweet, sweet tree, fall for me, fall fast, fall free, fall for me
Because I will be your ambulance if you will be my accident
And I will be your screech and crash if you will be my crutch and cast
And I will be your one more time if you will be my one last chance

Faceless fall from this life and oh
If you can't see the stars you've probably gone too far
Like the voice that cried on the lonesome tide
Like the wave was the only love it ever saw
What's this dying for? The asks the stork that soars
With the owl high above canyons mighty walls
Owl said death's a door that love walks through
In and out, in and out, back and forth, back and forth
Turn from the fear of the storms that might be
Oh, let it free that caged on fire thing
Oh, hold its hands it'll feel like lightening
Oh, in your arms safe from the storms
Sky bends the moon's dress slung low, slung low
Dog star taught a dance
It goes, goes, goes, goes, goes, goes, goes
Arms out, knees bent, the motion flows
Like the soft open petals of a Jessica Rose
So Sirius, so it falls apart?
It just reveals the perfect nothing of everything you are
Of everything we are
Candle of life lights the blights and bruises
Oh, lay it down in the night, let it soothe this
Oh, hold its hands and we'll know what truth is