ballads laugh at everyone
worse than silence is their song
and you are too far away to love
shortened by the blasphemy
when the sun would warm the sea.
the canary islands are chasing me
we are powerful despite our injuries
we've got to swim out away from the sinking
it's pulling everybody down and everybody
and it's a sin to know
that we are powerful
blessings always beg for calm
in spite of their silvery arms
we aren't sure but we always want
You are going to have to lie to me.
I’ve been breathing in since I don’t when, I didn’t know
anything.
I didn’t know anything, didn’t know what to say.
If I stayed out of sight, and the lion slept all night.
Just terrified.
The guns of navarone, sticks and stones could break my
skin
And bones.
You are going to have to lie to me.
When you have to have, even your bones go bad, and you
don’t look back.
CHORUS
You can win instantly, all that time on your hands so
We are lost in the folds of one another’s topcoats
And medicine makes us move inside a little slower
And in those hours nobody knows our ends or beginnings
The way I’ve come to ignore we keep colliding faces
Until we’re strangers again
Are we strangers again
Of our German engineering
I confess I’ve overdressed the mess I’ve made of my life
But isn’t is so unlike us, come now
Frankly, Jeremy
Until we’re strangers again
Are we strangers again
Of our German engineering
Hell bent stomachs planning greater insurrection
Strange speech dirty human elements to question
The broken car parts in enemy desires
Until we’re strangers again
Are we strangers again
Of our German engineering
Are we strangers again
Are we strangers again
All children get scarred, turn in guilty faces and
tattoos on their arms.
We are always changing into naked clothes and times
We all fear a different devil.
Freaks come out at night, freaks come on forever in the
black and white
I want to thank god for the science fiction
For the benediction, and the contradiction that all our
souls are saved
Lords and ladies run, underneath the bunker
Prediction fell on the gun. We are full of anger
But ghosts have our steady lives. Cannot get enough
Of our choking, hypnotized.
Now were all on TV in the black and white
CHORUS
Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t
Don’t say you don’t love me
My beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beating heart could
stop
This hemisphere in your company for forever
Or for now
And don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t
Don’t say you don’t need me
My limbs are hinged on that responsibility
And I know, I, I know I need to be lucky
Because the day is too short to become any good
There’s no night to fall in
Where the sirens calling
We are up all hours
Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t
Don’t say you don’t love me
My beating heart would stop
This hemisphere in your company for forever
Because the day is too short to become any good
There’s no night to fall in
Where the sirens calling
We are up all hours
Here caught in our jackets
Our primitive clothing
There are burdens extending around us now
But I would ride my bicycle
Into a silver stone wall
There are bodies extending around us all
There’s no night to fall in
Where the sirens calling
We are up all hours
And there’s no night to fall in
Where the sirens calling
We are up all hours
Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t
Every time I get on an airplane, I think my life can
change
And sometimes I think it does.
But under a dirty light in a borrowed house there is
rain every night
In some other language.
Every time I get on a plane. We weigh in in small ways,
Down repeating hallways.
Even if you find the love of your life, you can be
unhappy
For weeks at a time.
If you want to find out,
If you want to find them they're hiding.
Get back, get out on the wire.
They're leaving us behind.
Sometimes I don't think I get seen enough,
Get winter colds from summer love.
Dust to dust we stay home.
Some of what you'll say to me I'll forget
In the blue-black ocean, I've got carsick emotion.
Even if you find the love of your life, you can be
unhappy
For weeks at a time.
If you want to find out,
If you want to find them they're hiding.
Get back, get out on the wire.
They're leaving us behind.
Even if you find the love of your life,
In the wave of car alarms, windows, doors and broken
arms.
We don't need any food it harms us, everything we do.
Yea my hands are sensitive, if I move my legs will surely
give.
I can't get away from how you touch me.
In the bath or the kitchen, aren't we all found out in
the places that were ugly.
We are all figured out.
When the movie stops were listening, we'd miss it if we
jog our memory.
We keep looking because we need to let down, we are
presently.
Go to war for medicine, piano bruise forget again.
The unbelievers humble us. Everybody.
In the bath or the kitchen, aren't we all found out in
the places were ugly.
Were all figure out.
Is that why you love me? In all these places we're ugly
and found out.
We're all found out. We're all figured out.
Perfectly compressed wider holes between your shoulders.
Are we renegade or have we orders, is this a passing
phase.
All that want can make a fool of you until you're out of
breath
You can catch your death if there's comfort here.
Here, we turn the lights down low.
It's a full time job trying not to work at all.
Crack a smile until we look drunk or awful in our best
suit.
Here, we turn the lights down low.
all the cars go where the sun was
stations of transparent lives
infinity in old blue jeans i'd live a lie if it agreed
so in the morning, i am not alone
the balledeers all hit their last note
the crowd is headed to the door
adios, that's how it goes a hotel guest a part time ghost
this morning i was not alone
it's not too late for another song
when the drinks are deep and the winters long
but the company still keeps
lets hit the road and leave our names at home
you know that i lose everything i own
we're always coming into something new
you know i lose everything i do
My life is a marathon our milk and honey days are gone
the shortwaves have taken the long way home
the four corners are neatly folded sound the bell
the war is ver
walls are just sand and paper and sin
when the earth's moving we're all travelling
no one ever keeps all their belongings
they have taken all precaution and with it all the safety
lost
in translation of protecting the family
we are hiding underneath the bed
we fear we'll catch our death
if our neighbours have some secrets from us
when the earth's moving we're all travelling
no one ever keeps all their belongings
the rising tide of traffic on the east side of town
is routine or frustrating or you're walking
they all smoke inside their sweaters, drinking their
mouths shut money
is a disaster if this is what you buy with it
i take a deep breath i let freedom ring
everyone can keep all their belongings
the evening so long
i think i might go out
We are through with talk and touching
We're feeling nothing, nothing
You can circle all around us
The wall, the wall is where you found us
Shame does not come right right off me
I'm too much of yesterday's coffee
But something warm is something better
When you're breaking hearts
Love has given up on us
Times and troubles they just wash right over us
Love has given up on us
On a clear day you say
You can see Michigan from Jones Island
Save the romance for emotions
That you saw on TV once
It just broke your heart
Love has given up on us
Times and troubles they just wash right over us
Love has given up on us
Knotted up in T-shirts
Black and blue jeans we'll remember this
This was easy to forget
Love has given up on us
Times and troubles they just wash right over us
Love has given up
Smart boys go out
Rebel waltzing, sitting still is still insulting
We just circle all around ourselves
And break our breaking hearts
Love has given up on us
Times and troubles they just wash right over us
Love has given up on us
Times and troubles they just wash right over us
Love has given up, given up on
First the streetlight says you should eat something soon,
We always flood the hallways with our arbitrary news.
I know that you're defenseless, the phone just rings with bad news now and then.
Until the train leaves, the door is open against the fence.
It's a rainy night in Memphis, if you're safe you're fast asleep,
Those are the hours that you keep.
Hips together, we'll move our feet like don't care.
Paper blown together for a second, the length of lover affairs.
I know that we're defenseless, the phone just rings with bad news now and then.
Until the train leaves, the door is open. Were on the fence.
It's a rainy night in Memphis, if you're safe you're fast asleep,
Young alumni
Dance the night to pieces
Wearing all your panic inside out
And then to have someone like you
Like you
Made of broken glass and famous haircuts
We see your heartbeat in a cup of tea
The morning scratched with static loud
We’ve worn our hesitations out
We’re made of destinations now
But love is no big deal
It’s falling you feel
Young alumni
Modern cocktail drinkers
Strappy shoes don’t match the Thursday drunks
Phones will come alive
Cause they are tired of being tied inside the night
And now the futures wired
But love is no big deal
The falling you feel
Love is no big deal
if you drink enough water will i fade
when i'm out of your system forget things that i said.
then the scenery changes.
cars have no remorse they take the world by force
we wish we could travel so relentlessly
even in our sleep we surrender
you can do anything
i should be so lucky.
so now i chase my bags someday they'll take me home
my clothes are worn so thin they accent my bones
the sleep i've lost could rest me.
but clocks keep slippery time
they paint the salt stained lines
of the best and the worst and the maritimes
when your eyes are off me, i'm alone.
they could be anywhere
i should be so lucky
we are all souveneirs
people passing through here we're all forgotten ones
as the morning calls a steady drum
we are all silhouettes of everyone
we haven't met we'll be the kings and queens
forget the sun in golden dreams
we are all happy here we don't change
as the heavens near i could be the perfect son
Before the sun and after there’s limestone
There’s so little time in this place that I get sick with
motion
Before the wind throws us back in the ocean,
We’ll be goat horned with sin
In Dead Sea skin
half of everything we own stands up and walks away
the ancients leak, cats play in the garden
my calcium hands and roman commands all harden
because the moon is ours
and star eyes are older
with holes for thumb sized birds.
In Dead Sea skin
There is ice inside the hourglass
Frozen, we are statues in our own secret pose
Between you and me, there are scratches in the quiet
If we turned out the lights then we’d really know
There’s a record playing somewhere down the hall
We are caught inside it, bouncing off the walls
We don’t think we need it, we know
All the days are just packed
And we’re asleep in the trees
We could be blowing in the wind
That’s why we come from all over
To find the crowd and share a common heart beat
Beat aloud
There’s a record playing somewhere down the hall
We are caught inside it, bouncing off the walls
We don’t think we own it, we know
But chances are the day will come
When you are caught alone
You were warned
I find I’m humming the songs of Paul Simon
In my cap and raincoat
Are we just a pile of hearts
With the staggered starts and bones that wander
Over roads have been used
Now the highways are bruised and cars get tired
So I could be jobless and nameless
Well thank goodness for singing in the city
We could be twins
Everybody looks like my friends
I find I’m naming the trees as we’re passing
Like Richard, king of captains
All the things that we make
With the functions that fake us out with fiction
Until we are twins
And everyone looks like my friends
We could be twins
Everyone looks all pretend
We could be twins
Everyone looks like my friends
Yeah we could be twins
Everyone looks so pretend
Yeah we could be twins
Everyone looks like my friends
And we could be twins
You just want the phone to ring
The dogs to bark and the wind to sing
Your name here in the car
We're all staring at the flies
They're all dying to get inside
It's so strange how hard luck keeps
It gets so easy to leave that works
And airplanes we see as just exits from now
Worlds collide and we depart all my clothes get strewn
about
Well who really owns the floor
I'm not your way out
I'm not your way out
I'm not your way out
All the cities left undone and bricks in time turn back
to mud
The weekend plans are gone
There's no one coming down the hall
The Kingdoms to come will surely fall
We curtain call and tie one on
I'm not your way out
I'm not your way out
I'm not your way out
I'm not your way out
I'm not your way out
The leaves came down
And you walked by them
All year around the trees fall at your feet
Southbound birds and the winter bees
Are soldiers in the army
All good souls they do surround me
And our lives
Mountains come
Under attack when the trade winds blow
Rivers dry
Change direction that is all they know
It's predetermined
A life span shrinks the hand of skeletons
And newborns
All I know is someone has to
Someone has to die
To make room for you and I
Our love goes
I don't care
If it happens in Argentina yeah
Or way out north
Of the coast in Norway on an island
With no name
There's no survivors all the same
No telephone
All I know is someone has to
Someone has to die
To make room for you and I
Our love goes crazy all the time
All I know is someone has to
Someone has to die
To make room for you and I
Our love goes
We're all in line
Your blood will tell you when it's time to turn
Down your sword
This is not a warrior's war
But the news just gets distracting
And our new love keeps on reacting
All the time
All I know is someone has to
Someone has to die
To make room for you and I
Our love goes crazy all the time
You and I
Our love goes crazy all the time
You and I
Someone has to has to die
You and I
Someone has to has to die
Well, we're kicking everybody out
Cause the party's getting way too loud
And the kid in the back is tearing all of my posters
down
And now the cars are saying: 'Shake it up'
But I've been shaken up enough
And I can't live my life like pop song anymore
I want to get lost in my life and letters
Sleep around the clock until we all feel better
Get lost in my life and letters
Sleep around the clock, aha
Sleep around the clock, aha
We all need a second chance
On a first and last romance
Cause the bigger the heart
The harder that it falls in love
And I've been reading the daily news
It's just something for my mind to do
When I'm stuck away from you
I spent the day on ice to push me through
I want to get lost in my life and letters
Sleep around the clock until we all feel better
Get lost in my life and letters
Sleep around the clock, aha
Sleep around the clock, aha
Sleep around the clock in my life, yeah
Well, I wanna
Sleep around the clock
And get lost, yeah
Well, I wanna
Sleep around the clock in my life, yeah
Well, I wanna
Sleep around the clock
I am you in me
Our panoramic eyes
They don’t focus
So they become homeless
No, my clothes don’t change
My blood’s the same
I’d chase you straight through heaven
To keep your name
Food and water dissolve
Into energy and light revolves
Sure the room is alive for an evening
With wine and hurricanes
The country’s quiet, though bombs remain
It’s scary
Your body it dares me
Protein and poison we won’t be again
I am you in me
Our panoramic eyes
They don’t focus
So they become homeless
Now my clothes don’t change
My blood’s the same
I’d chase you straight through heaven
To keep your name
Protein and poison we won’t be again
Protein and poison we won’t be again
Protein and poison we won’t be again
We begin with sages and the onion skin
Heart beats back the first bite and the original sin
That's how it ends
Surivival the fittest till we're all outdone
When there is no counting who is number one
Who can feel the sun
All our lives in peril
All our lies in stone
You and me and everyone
And everyone that you know knows it
We begin with sages and the onion skin
When there is no counting who is remembering
Who can feel it end
All our lives in peril
With all our lies in stone
You and me, everyone
We were speaking softly behaving badly
our painted bodies in the secret morning
you are not quiet across the wooden floor
and the kitchen is flood by the bathroom lights
and I can’t hear a thing underneath the door
all the boys with directionless hair are rough
languorous girls in undertaker make up
we the vehicles on our collision course
screaming like we’ve been blessed by a higher force
and I can’t hear a thing underneath the door
no I can’t hear anything
because everybody hear will always disappear
and we are helpless on our hands and buckled knees
we the vehicles please
and I can’t hear a thing
because everybody here will always disappear
this is no escape art
yeah everybody here will always disappear
and we are helpless on our hands and buckled knees
we the vehicles please
We begin with singletons, sages, and the onionskin on
Those of heart beat back the buried sunshine
Yeah, That's how it is.
Aggressive summers
Broken windows, silence
Breaks the coming thunder.
Aren't we silly filled with hope and bandages?
Oh oh (oh oh)
All our lives in pearls
Oh oh (oh oh)
All our afternoons sitting on setting suns
If there's really nothing going wrong
Then there's really nothing going on.
We have eyes of stealing will, we are born
To kill and we will.
All our muscles, ruffled feathers are fear
Here completely. It beats me, keeps me and
Leaves me like a love.
Aren't we silly filled with hope and bandages?
Oh oh (oh oh)
All our lives in pearls
Oh oh (oh oh)
All our afternoons setting on setting suns
If there's really nothing going wrong
Then there's really nothing going on
Oh oh oh
You and me
And everyone
Everyone that we know knows it's done
Aren't we silly filled with hope and bandages?
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Cant's are filled with walls
i think we can fly and swallow fire
blow smoke and hold our breath for as long as it takes
every hello is goodbye
as we exchange strangers and lies
for estranged lovers and time all love ones get held up
so i can stop running and the air can hum
the busy sister's stunning, won't she be stunned
by the infinite parade of punk rock t-shirts on
when you can't break through
with the one that you want
if we survive, are we free of the dumb luck
that surrounds us and we get stuck between the places i
messed up
so i can stop running and the air can hum
the busy sister's stunning, won't she be stunned
by the infinite parade of punk rock t-shirts on
when you can't break through
with the one that you want
no you can't you can not know you can't
you can not
should i feel flattered that you hate everything but me.
when you can't break through
with the one that you want
Men in white undershirts tend to their endings
Get as tired as the suburbs that they’re defending
We were dying to get out
God knows our neighbors, walks under the floorboards
Heckles with suggestion that we’re all souls
But he’s sold out
No one will remember you tonight or ever
In the maze of barns we search the silos
Is it so strange that we find no islands?
We are exposed
We see some company holding their horses
Continents are everywhere of course and
Nobody one can be alone
No one will remember you tonight or ever here
No one will remember you tonight or ever
Goodbye means nothing
Words that we are after often
And it just blows the dust around until we settle down
Nature is bitter, wants us to be together
Kicks up the wind until I see you better
It feathers your hair
Bones get broken, our skin turns into leather
Naturally it is a disaster
But is it unfair?
No one will remember you tonight or ever here
No, no one will remember you tonight or ever
No one will remember, no one will remember
Angel and Ida asleep by the pool again
trying to chase the day away
She always wore red shoes so i wore a matching tie
and everyone thought that we were a pair
our teeth are wood
in the rusty air our blood is wine
the year's been good we stopped time the votes are in
it's always july i'm the king of doves with perfect skin
we're dressing up and dining in it's who i am
all of your arms all over my problems
property jut fades away
we'll always have canada no one will bother
us the horses and the company play
our teeth are wood
in the dusty air our blood is wine
the year's been good we stopped time the votes are in
it's always july i'm the king of doves with perfect skin
we're dressing up and dining in it's who i am
dining in dressing up in perfect skin of doves
it's always july the votes are in
the lights have a heartbeat not unlike that
which starts me and the whole house
starts moving and i've been wearing your clothes i can't
fit inside
your shoes there is no mystery to anything i do
have you gone to pasture james?
you go to greater lengths to feel the same
any length to feel like you felt yesterday
like hospital corners you construct your life
in quarters and the whole house feels holy
when we stretch out on the floor we have no way of
knowing
how long we've been sleeping for
have you gone to pasture james?
you go to greater lengths to feel the same
any length to feel like you felt yesterday
and you want to go to heaven but you're not
sure where it is there are no miracles when you're always
giving in
you feel so unaffected you don't show up anymore
and you feel numb, honey it's been done
have you gone to pasture james?
you go to any length to feel like you felt yesterday
am walking again, counting my steps so i don't lose my
way back home again
my car's collecting leaves
i love all of my things, they've been patient with me.
i thought that i might start to smoke just so i'd have
somewhere to put my hands when time just stands and
stares. we're souvenirs
we buried the bars they bend in
the wind, we laugh and return we patron the saint i go
on and go off in english enough, no more we cry under
our breath. i though that i might start to smoke just
so i have somewhere to put my hands when time unplans.
affairs i couldn't care. i'n not afraid to love someone
for all my life 'till it comes undone, when we catch
our deaths and the continets come, we keep speaking of
course it's so good to know that i'm not afraid i'm not
Wholesome strum of colonies
Public holidays, take the world to bed
You can rent your life to death,
Window-shopping high
Across the borrowed sky
Honestly, we lie through our teeth
But our bodies just survive the weeks
We all want a space to build a fence
Around, wooden grin of the thin crowd
Feel it beat beat beating
But it was not a heart.
Bite out the bone faced bark
Honestly, we lie through our teeth
But our bodies just survive the weeks
If were rolling over, we'll meet when we sink.
As we're like two lovers all death
we reached the promised land,
and in darkness we join
Our progeny, spawned by the night,
with us with fight in the war against the light
My black soul cries, then it slowly dies
All the visions in my eyes, suddenly flies away
As dawn appears we have to hide
or get burned like in the most sung fires
A mortal's blood we rewuire to survive,
to carry on without the pain of the hunger
I love it when you please me,
when your blood drains free,
Mother of fear - whispers in my ear:
Now the time has come, the last ring of the bell has rung
the final minute of your life, destiny doesn't want your soul...
You're to be judged, to fear in the last dimension
Mother of fear
Destruction my save my tears, just can't cry my tears no more
I was left alone at the path, then I didn't see that the last show was ment for me
Mother of fear, now the time has come, mother of fear
Mother of fear - have mercy onmy soul,
don't bend my faith into disappearence
Then I'll damn you, damn to fear in fear,
A razor so sharp leads her the way
to her long awaited final resting place
Lifeless and cold
The body is pale
Her eyes so empty of everything
Living in joy, she ain't anyway
Life tears on her lonely soul
Living in shame, no longer the way
As life is slipping so much farther away
Soon to be entombed in the soil so moist
When the moon is full and the stars shine bright,
one might see them fly through the night sky
Long ago before the birth of humanity,
they were free, free to rule the earth
The ancient dragons, of a realm forgotten,
breathing their fire towards the heavens
Milleniums my pass but the mighty dragons
still manage to live on, fighting for their lifes
The curse mankind is growing stronger
and destroying all that once was
Struggling against the wind,, walking through deep snow
Fighting against the time that soon has run out
As days become years, I am still searching for you
si that I can get a clue to where I can find you
Nor thunder, lightning or rain can stop me from finding you
Not even the hardest ways can stop me from finding you
Eternity has passed but I haven't forgotten
what happened between us, between you and me
When I finally find you I will tear your soul apart
For I have pledged my life to revenge myself on you
Therefor you must die
I sold my soul
to be near you
I'm torn apart inside
When will you see
that you are the one for me?
Don't you see that I care?
I will go through heaven and hell
just so I can feel your
skin next to mine
Is my love for you eternal?
Or can it only die with you?
In the silence of the endless night,
never again feel the quest of the light
I won't let you
turn your back on me
Don't want to be ignored
by you at all
I can't take it any longer
you must be punished
for these games you play
I am the one, the one and only
I am your punisher
Time marches on
why have you left me to die
when my soul will stay?
If this is the end, how come
my soul meets you once again...
my love will remain
We shall meet again on the other side
take my hand and we will fly away
In the ancient times of the spiritual
visions, forbidden thoughts awaits
the sign, the sign of freedom, the sign
of wisdom, the power to leave this world
I saw a man guard his land with a
spear of thousand tears, the messanger
of love, the gatekeeper of lust
Time marches on
why have you left me to die
when my soul will stay?
If this is the end, how come
my soul meets you once again...
Alone in the forest of shadows, without a single path to follow
Surrounded by a sudden darkness, absorbed by the dark mist
A silent voice in your head, the fairies sing their songs for you to follow
Come to me... I dwell in your mind
Come to me... I bread on your fear
Come to me... I want you so
Come to me... come to me
And into the far you will walk, enticed by nocturnal children
Your soul is gone, but not alone, every soul once lost in the dark,
Hear the whispers in the mind
see the leaves falling from the trees
winter's not far away now
nature dies of massing cries
The druids of death is chanting
Their charms of ancient magic
To summon the past
As lightning strikes from the cloudless sky
A ring of fire has been drawn
The circle of protection's complete
This ritual has begun
Invocation of the elements is made
As the rain starts falling to the ground
and both fire and wind appear all around
Now the real task is to be performed
To summon the serpent... of the infernal sea
From where the dwells in the deepest abyss
Leviathan come to me
Under the moon the ritual ends
As the sun is rising, about to hit this glade
The silence is everywhere around
The birds don't sing their songs of joy
Not even the wind whispers here anymore
Trace of emptiness is left behind
The druids have all disappeared
Hear the whispers in the mind
see the leaves falling from the trees
winter's not far away now
nature dies of massing cries
The druids of death is chanting
Their charms of ancient magic
To summon the past
As lightning strikes from the cloudless sky
A ring of fire has been drawn
The circle of protection's complete
This ritual has begun
Invocation of the elements is made
As the rain starts falling to the ground
and both fire and wind appear all around
Now the real task is to be performed
To summon the serpent... of the infernal sea
From where the dwells in the deepest abyss
Leviathan come to me
Under the moon the ritual ends
As the sun is rising, about to hit this glade
The silence is everywhere around
The birds don't sing their songs of joy
Not even the wind whispers here anymore
Trace of emptiness is left behind
The druids have all disappeared
Thou art the fire within
Thou art the source of all dreams
Thou art our moral and sin, cursed within
Thou art the pain infernal and the fall eternal
Thou art the fire within
Thou art the source of all dreams
Thou art our moral and sin, cursed within
Thou art the pain infernal and the fall eternal
Thou art the fire within
Thou art the source of all dreams
Thou art our moral and sin, cursed within
Thou art the pain infernal and the fall eternal
Thou art the fire within
Thou art the source of all dreams
Thou art our moral and sin, cursed within