Brett Lewis Anderson (born 29 September 1967) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Suede. After Suede disbanded in 2003, he briefly fronted The Tears, and has released four solo albums. Suede reformed in 2010. In Suede's early days, Anderson's androgynous style and unique, wide ranging vocals were an instant phenomenon in the UK.
Born in Haywards Heath, West Sussex into a working class family, Anderson's mother was an artist and his father was a classical music fan. He was brought up in a small council estate in Lindfield, a village adjoining Haywards Heath, attending Lindfield Junior School then Oathall Comprehensive School.
In his teens, Anderson played guitar for garage bands such as The Pigs and Geoff, the latter featuring future Suede bassist Mat Osman. In the late-1980s, Anderson and Osman formed Suede with Anderson's girlfriend, Justine Frischmann, soon recruiting guitarist Bernard Butler through an advertisement in the NME. After receiving percussional help from former Smiths drummer Mike Joyce, in 1991, Simon Gilbert joined Suede as their official drummer. It was around this time that Frischmann left Anderson for Blur frontman Damon Albarn, which created an early rift in the burgeoning Britpop scene of the early 1990s. After missing too many rehearsals and flaunting her relationship with Albarn while still living with Anderson, Frischmann was fired from the group, going on to front Elastica.
Because we're young, because we're gone
we'll take the tide's electric mind, oh yeah? oh yeah
we're so young and so gone, let's chase the dragon, oh
Because we're youn, because we're gone
We'll scare the skies with tiger's eyes, oh yeah? oh yeah
we're so young and so gone, let's chase the dragon, oh
let's chase the dragon...
...from our home high in the city where the skyline
stained the snow, I fell for a servant who kept me on the
boil
We're so young and so gone, let's chase the dragon from
Wipe the winter from your pillow
Take the cups from the machine
Vapor trails in the clear blue sky
Spell your name in Japanese
One lazy morning when life is a breeze
One lazy morning am I gonna find Jesus in me?
Does he watch me when I'm sleeping
Like a psycho on the leads?
Does he hear what I am thinking?
Does he care what I believe?
One lazy morning when life is a breeze
I know a girl she walks the asphalt world
She comes to me and I supply her with Ecstasy
Sometimes we ride in a taxi to the ends of the city
Like big stars in the back seat like skeletons ever so
pretty
I know a girl she walks the asphalt world
But where does she go?
And what does she do?
And how does she feel when she's next to you?
And who does she love in time-honoured fur?
Is it me or her?
I know a girl she walks the asphalt world
She's got a friend, they share mascara I pretend
Sometimes they fly from the covers to the winter of the
river
For these silent stars of the cinema
It's in the blood stream, it's in the liver
I know a girl, she walks the arse felt world
But where does she go?
And what does she do?
And how does she feel when she's next to you?
And who does she love in time-honoured fur?
Is it me or is it her?
With ice in her blood
And a Dove in her head
Well how does she feel when she's in your bed?
When you're there in her arms
And there in her legs
Well I'll be in her head
Cos that's where I go
And that's what I do
And that's how it feels when the sex turns cruel
Lying in my bed, I think of you
That song goes through my head, the one we both knew
In each line lies another line full of sacred sound
But you're outside where the companies dream and the
money goes round
Lying in my bed.
Watching my mistakes,
I listen to the band they said that it could be the 2
of us
The snow might fall and write the lines on the silent
page
But you're outside making permanent love to the nuclear
Two silhouettes by the cash machine make a lovers dance
It's a tango for the lonely wives of the business class
Lying in my bed
Watching my mistakes
I listen to the band
Lying in my bed
With nothing much to say so I listen to the man
He said that it could be the 2 of us
I heard you call from across the city through the
stereo sound
And so I crawled there sickeningly pretty as the money
went round
Lying in my head watching my mistakes
I listen to the band
And the drums beat in my head
Pianos chime the sound in this prison of the house
And as the illness comes again can you hear me through
the rain
As I listen to the band?
As I sing the silent song
Mime each lonely word
Please listen to the man he said that it could be the 2
of us
Alone but not lonely, you and me
Open up your eyes; see the northern lights, blinking like
a jewel, glittering and cruel
Summer, calls us to feel love, ah ha ha, ah ha ha
Feel love, feel love,
Widows like their wine, coded lines are fine; we are like
two jewels, glittering and cruel
Summer, calls us to feel love, ah ha ha, ah ha ha
In sorrow, songs grow, like rainbows
Now my body is sand
And the wind blows through me
Like the soil on your hand
I am compost and leaves
And my life has gone, darling
And now I am free
And my life has gone, darling
Like words made of sand
Like the shivering trees
And my life was a flower
And love was the leaves
But nobody saw
Any beauty in me
And my life has gone, darling
And now I am free
And my life has gone, darling
Like words made of sand
Like the shivering trees
When your life was gone, darling
And when you were free
When your life was gone, darling
Your words made of sand
So be nothing with me
Words made of sand
There's anger in their skin
It's just a style for them
They move with murder in their vein
A cardboard filled indoors
They pass the daylight off
And kiss their innocence away
Scorpio rising
Scorpio rising
Scorpio rising
It's on the wind
Their lies are analysed
By intellectual types
Who know the depth of their disease
And love is just a game
To pass the hours away
To spend endeavours on your knees
Scorpio rising
Scorpio rising
Scorpio rising
It's on the wind
Scorpio rising
Scorpio rising
Scorpio rising
It's on the wind
It's on the wind
It's on the wind
Today she's been working, she's been talking, she's been
smoking,
but it'll be alright,
Cos tonight we'll go dancing, we'll go laughing, we'll
get car sick,
and it'll be okay like everyone says, it'll be alright
and ever so nice,
We're going out tonight, out and about tonight.
Oh, whatever makes her happy on a Saturday night,
Oh whatever makes her happy, whatever makes it alright.
Today she's been sat there, sat there in a black chair,
office furniture,
but it'll be alright,
Cos tonight we'll go drinking we'll do silly things,
and never let the winter in,
And it'll be okay like everyone says, it'll be alright
and ever so nice,
We're going out tonight, out and about tonight.
Oh, whatever makes her happy on a Saturday night,
Oh, whatever makes her happy, whatever makes it alright.
we'll go to peepshows and freak shows,
we'll go to discos, casinos,
we'll go where people go and let go
See the pretty widows, cold as April skies; hold their
winter roses, clothed in nursery rhymes,
And love is where you find it and love is where you reach
and love is in the patterns at her feet
So play her game of tarot, hold her hennaed hand, fold
her dress like petals, turn the hanging man
And love is where you find it and love is where you reach
and love is in the patterns at her feet
So call the pretty widows, clear as April skies, steal
her winter roses, sing her nursery rhymes
Na na na na na na na na na
As I sit and watch The summertime,
And the shadow of The cranes.
By the branches of The cedar tree
And the beating of The day.
You are the rose Within my soul.
You are the reason Why the wind blows.
By the meeting of The roads
I will hold you In my arms again.
And we’ll sit under The cedar tree
As the city Fades away.
By the places Where the blossom falls
And the shadow of The cranes.
You are the rose Within my soul,
You are the reason Why the rain flows.
By the meeting of The roads
I will hold you In my arms again.
By the branches of The cedar tree,
There’s a bench Beside the lake.
Take the bridge Over the Serpentine,
Disco bunny where do you go
When you close your eyes
Disenchanted with the future
And what that implies
Nothing in the zoo is real but feeding time
Disco bunny where do you go
When the feeling dies
And she says
Mother night
Take me mother night
With your sleepy lies
And your big brown eyes
Mother Night
Take me mother night
Mother night take me
Take me mother night
Disco bunny where do you go
When you take off your heels
Brain-dead people in the bedroom
Try to catch a feel
Nothing in their world is real but fantasy
Disco bunny where do you go
When you're feeling real
Mother night
Take me mother night
With your sleepy lies
And your big brown eyes
Mother Night
Take me mother night
Mother night take me
Take me mother night
Mother night (Wohoo)
Nothing ever goes right
Nothing really flows in my life
No one really cares if no one ever shares my care
People push by with fear in their eyes in my life
Love is dead, love is dead
The telephone rings, but no one ever thinks to speak to me
The traffic speeds by, but no one's ever stopped too late
Intelligent friends don't care in the end, believe me
Love is dead, love is dead
And plastic people with imaginary smiles
Exchanging secrets at the back of their minds
Plastic people
Plastic people
Nothing ever goes right
Nothing really flows in my life
No one really cares if this horror's inside my head
People push by with fear in their eyes in my life
Love is dead, love is dead
Love is dead, love is dead
Love is dead, love is dead
And all the lies that you've given us
And all the things things that you said
And all the lies that you've given us...
Leave me sleeping, softly breathing, summer in my head,
it's summer in my head
Leave me clutching lilac cushions, in playground colours
with my mother
It's summer in my head, its summer in my head
So leave me dreaming, softly breathing, slowly falling,
falling, falling
It's summer in my head, its summer in my head
Think I’ll call her number
Just one time.
And if she calls back, I don’t care.
She won’t mind.
I think I kept her details
In my phone.
And if I’ve lost them I don’t mind.
She won’t know.
I think I’ll call her
And make amends.
Perfect strangers
On a knife edge.
All it takes is one excuse
To end the date.
Once the teams were introduced,
Slipped away.
I think I’ll call her.
And make amends.
Perfect strangers
On a knife edge.
I think I miss her
And her pets.
Perfect strangers
Softening the winter with his eyes
Sitting in the meadow in disguise
Feeling his way, touching the stone
Watching the day through a telephone
Colours in the carnage of his hair
Lose it in the debris on the stairs
Feeling his way, touching her hand
Making his way, to the bandstand
He's in the sky, he's in the tide, he's in the trees
and the buzz of the night
Feet in the sand, watching life through Julian's eye's
Softening the winter with his smile
Sitting in the doorway counting tiles
Feeling his way, touching life, watching the day
through quiet eye's
Elephants and spiders in his head
Capital letters, green and red
Feeling his way, making a start
Watching the day, through cut glass
He's in the sky, he's in the grass, he's in the wind
and the curve of the stars
The killer inside stares back from the mirror
Lust in his eyes, waiting for exchange
Intimacy, I want you to be part of me
Intimacy, I want you to be part of me
Sex is the card the animals are playing
Let's take it too far and eat the pain away
Intimacy, I want you to be part of me
And when your clothes are on the ground
and your hair is falling down
Will you surrender to it now?
Because yes only we exist in our symphony
of flesh in our universe of bliss
In the infinite kiss, the infinite kiss
As it subjugates you now, as it pins you
to the ground like a tethered animal
As it drags you by the hips and it forces
you to this, it is hell but in is bliss
It's the infinite kiss, the infinite kiss
As you move like a machine and the child within
you screams 'when was heaven so obscene?'
It's our playground of exess, it is poetry made
flesh, it's our sumphony of bliss
Open up my heart and see whats inside,
Take a look inside me, inside my mind
And youll see my heart is broken in two
cos Ive seen the real you
Images of violence fill up my mind,
And you see the silence feel it inside
And youll see my heart is broken in two
Cos Ive seen the real you
So sad we seem, so far weve been
She knows the scene
And I see your heart is broken too,
Hymn
Shining through the plate glass, hyacinths and Spanish
stars
All day caught on camera
The climbing sun, the fading dawn, like a hymn to our
love
Somewhere there's a starling, gliding through the morning
Moving so slowly
The climbing sun, the fading dawn, like a hymn to London
Commencing, commencing, commencing with the day
Commencing with the day, commencing with the day
We light the oil
And touch the beads.
The naked feel of rosary.
The fall of morning on the lands.
The smell of incense on our hands.
We kneel before the open grave.
And light the candles with our pain.
Because all things will change.
Because they stay the same
We live again
We learn the consequence of sin.
We roll our eyes and touch our skin.
We feel eternity expressed
With every word, with every breath.
We kneel before the open grave.
And light the candles with our pain.
Because the seasons change.
Because they stay the same
We live again.
We kneel before the open grave.
And light the candles with our pain.
Because all things will change.
And as your god explains,
We live again.
We live again.
We live again.
And the snow in February falls, painting winter hollow
And the fields they are an empty sigh, and the hills are
like sorrow
And the hills are like sorrow
And your sun will rise again, and your moon will fall
And your sun will rise again, and your moon will fall
And your moon will fall
And I found the answer sitting there, worth more than
money
In the tangle of your angel hair, in your lips like honey
And we were born muddled, but it was meant to be
And we were born muddled, but it was meant to be
It was meant to be
And your sun will rise again, and your moon will fall
And our sun will rise again, and our moon will fall
And our moon will fall
And the snow in February falls, painting winter colours
And the landscape is an empty sigh, and the hills are
like sorrow
Through the endless rage, on the frozen roads
VERSE1:
Watch the early morning sun
Drip like blood from the day
See the crazy people run
So many games to play
See the blue suburban dream
Under the jet plane sky
Sleep away and dream a dream
Life is just a lullaby
CHORUS:
Ah Ah Ah
And everything will flow
VERSE2:
Watch the day begin again
Whispering into the night
See the crazy people play
Hurrying under the light
A million cars, a million trains
Under the jet plane sky
Nothing lost and nothing gained
Life is just a lullaby
CHORUS
VERSE CHORDS
CHORUS
ENDING: (same chords as a chorus)
The neon lights in the night tonight will say
Everything will flow
The stars that shine in the open sky will say
Everything will flow
The lovers kissed with an openness will say
Everything will flow
The cars parked in the hypermarket know
Run with me baby, let your hair down
through every station, through every town
run with me baby, let's take a chance
from Heathrow to Hounslow, from the Eastern Block to
France
Europe is our playground, London is our town
so run with me baby now
Run with me baby, let your hair down
through every station, through every town
run with me baby, let's make a stand
from peepshow to disco, from Spain to Camber Sands
Europe is our playground, London is our town
so run with me baby now...
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I watch the slow hand
Kill the day,I see my starring mode
take away,
I watch the skyline,for him to come
And when he comes alone,we'll be gone.
And we'll go into the city,into the light
We'll be there in the headlines,
in care of the night
Cause this is the big time
this is the way
Now he's in the big time
he'll show you the way
This is the big time
This is the way
Now he's in the big time
My elegant girl slept on designer sheets
Her sugar free words swayed to a hightech beat
With crazy stories of hatred and hurt
People's feelings were crushed in the dirt
My elegant girl she drips out with the leaves
Gave no interviews in her tennis shoes
Well there's no excuse for infamy
From their college towns
To the overground
People hung on every word she breathed
My elegant girl moved with the hippest crowds
Whose colorful words were bright but never loud
Gave no interviews, in her mohair suits
Well there's no excuse for infamy
From their college towns
To their roundabouts
People hung on every word they breathed
When they're money's gone
What's gonna keep you warm
Can't find anyone to take its place
When you ain't got anything
Except your aspirin
Just remember who you stepped on when
You were an elegant girl
Who cried expensive tears
But now your sugar free words
Strangers just the other day
Walked right up and asked your name
Vodka in the afternoon
Drunk so much we left our food
Ebony now here we go, moving fast and moving slow
And my liver is in your hands, make me a bad man
Wandered down to Lisson Grove
It was somewhere I used to go
We saw faces in the trees
The traffic whispered 'Ebony'
Ebony now here we go, moving fast and moving slow
And my liver is in your hands, make me a bad man
I'll take you where the pigeons fly
And I'll tell you pretty lies
When nothing really makes much sense all you need
Is confidence
Ebony now here we go, moving fast and moving slow
I tidy your wayward hair
I buy clothes you never wear
I try to kiss all your tears away
I freeze you in polaroids
And capture your dark brown voice
I'm with you cause cause there's no choice in the end
I am the dust
You are the rain
I am the needle
And you are the vein
And this is a moment that words can't explain
I am the dust
And your love's like a overdose
With your hands wrapped around my throat
Using sex like an antidote to the pain
I am the dust
You are the rain
I am the needle
And you are the vein
And this is a moment that words can't explain
I am the dust
I am the dust
And you are the rain
And I am the needle
And you are the vein
And this is a moment that words can't explain
I am the dust
All the people in your life say you're down
And the strangers in the night say you're down
And the loonies on the right say you're down and you're
down
And the ambulances sigh that you're down
And the traffic speeding by says you're down
And the people in your life say you're down and you're
down
Hey you chase the day away
Hey you draw the blinds and blow your mind away
And there's a sadness in your style
And there's a blankness in your smile
And the people in the park say you're down
And the strangers in the dark say you're down
And the pissheads in the bars say you're down
And the audiences cry that you're down
And the ambulances sigh that you're down
And the boyfriends in your life say
you're down and you're down
Hey you chase the day away
Hey you draw the blinds and blow your mind away
And there's a sadness in your style
And there's a blankness in your smile
Hey you chase the day away
Hey you draw the blinds and blow your mind away
And there's a sadness in your style
My love she hides a cruel disease
It's the bullet in her mind, it's the plan
between her knees
It's the colour of the night, it's the
number of the beast
My love she dreams of Tel Aviv
She's got nails in her hands and nails
in her feet
She's not from the Holy Land but she
think she used to be
Tell me when was hell so beautiful?
Tell me with your words that disagree
Tell me with your reason carved like granite
Tell me so that I can be free
My love she's like a cruel disease
She's the bullet in my mind
She's got a plan between her knees
She's the colour of the night
Take a look at us
Hate where there was lust
The trip like honey
Lust don't mean a thing
When all we do is shout and scream
It's almost funny
We're like clowns
Tumbling into town now
Love is on its way down now
It's such a lonely sound
Mouths that once exchanged
Kisses in the rain
Are full of hate now
It all seems so absurd
When every sentence and every word
Is so painful
Clowns
Tumbling into town now
Love is on its way down now
It's such a lonely sound
We're just clowns
Faces with painted frowns now
Love is on it's way down now
We are only, we are only clowns
We're just clowns
Tumbling into town now
Sat on a merry-go-round now
Such a lonely sound
Clowns
Faces with painted frowns now
Love is on it's way down now
Such a lonely sound
Such a lonely sound
Such a lonely sound
Such a lonely sound
Don’t tap against my window
Don’t listen at my wall
Don’t ask for information
'Cause the answer's always no
Collect me from the station
The blank departure board
We'll talk in chinese whispers
While the snow begins to fall
Painting Easter(?) With the cold(?)
I don’t need you
But I want you
I don’t want you
But I need you
There's blossom in the garden
On the magnolia tree
The ivies taking over
Where you planted Rosemary
Where you planted Rosemary
I don’t need you
But I want you
I don’t want you
I feel real now walking like a woman and talking like a
stone age man
I feel real now talking like buddha and doing it again
I get kick I rip it up kick it up take it like a
teenage tough
I feel real now talking like sugar and shaking that
stuff
Singing I can`t get enough
Singing I can`t get enough
I feel schizo every so psycho kicking at an old tin can
I feel real like a man like a woman like a woman like a
I make dead space feel like a headcase take it like a
teenage tough
And feel real now watching those wheels and shaking
that stuff
Singing I can`t get enough
Singing I can`t get enough
Singing I can`t get enough
Singing I can`t get enough
I feel real now walking like a woman and talking like a
stone age man
I feel real now talking like buddha and doing it again
So give me this and give me that smother me and give me
some of that bad stuff
I feel real now talking like sugar and shaking that
stuff
Singing I can`t get enough
Singing I can`t get enough
Singing I can`t get enough
Well I'm going out west where I belong
Where the days are short and the nights are long
Where I'll walk
And they walk
I'll twist
And they twist
And I'll shimmy
And they shimmy
And I'll fly
And they fly
Where they're out there having fun
In the warm California sun
Well, I'm going out west
Out on the coast
Where the California girls
Are really the most
And I'll walk
And they walk
I'll twist
And they twist
And I'll shimmy
And they shimmy
And I'll fly
And they fly
Where they're out there having fun
In the warm California sun
Well, the girls are frisky
In old 'Frisco
A pretty little chick
Wherever you go
And I'll walk
And they walk
I'll twist
And they twist
And I'll shimmy
And they shimmy
And I'll fly
And they fly
Where they're out there having fun
In the warm California sun
Where they're out there having fun
She can walk out anytime anytime she wants to walk out
that's fine
She can walk out anytime anytime she feels that life has
passed her
And when I start my new life I won't touch the ground
I'm gonna try hard this time not to touch the ground.
He can walk out anytime anytime he wants to walk out
that's fine
He can walk out anytime across the sand into the sea into
brine
And when I start my new life I won't touch the ground,
I'm gonna try hard this time not to touch the ground.
So we sold the car and quit the job
and shook some hands and wiped the make-up right off,
And we said our good-byes to the bank
left Seven Sisters for a room in a seaside shack,
And when I start my new life I won't touch the ground,
I'm gonna try hard this time not to touch the grounds
...it's by the sea we'll breed
With your mauve Pillow.
And your laddered tights
With your neat Covers.
And your midnight Eyes.
With your sisters in The suburbs.
With your ballerina’s Grace.
You smile and I am blessed.
You laugh and I am possessed.
You climb
The clouds caress.
Yes, I am blessed.
Yes, I am blessed.
With your grey Denim.
And your hostile life.
With your teeth Missing.
And your mystic eyes.
With your tenderness And trouble.
With your son Against your breast.
You smile and I am blessed.
You laugh and I am possessed.
You climb
The clouds caress.
Yes, I am blessed.
Yes, I am blessed.
You smile and I am blessed.
You lie and I am dust.
And you ride
London’s wilderness.
Yes, I am blessed.
High on diesel and gasoline, psycho for drum machine
shaking their bits to the hits,
Drag acts, drug acts, suicides, in your dad's suite you
hide
staining his name again,
Cracked up, stacked up, 22, psycho for sex and glue
lost it to Bostik, yeah.
Shaved heads, rave heads, on the pill, got too much time
tookill
get into bands and gangs.
Oh, here they come, the beautiful ones, the
beautiful ones
loved up, Doved up, hung around, stoned in a lonely town
shaking their meat to the beat,
High on diesel and gasoline, psycho for drum machine
shaking their bits to the hits,
Oh, here they come, the beautiful ones, the
beautiful ones.
You don't think about it,
You don't do without it,
because you're beautiful,
And if your baby's going crazy
that's how you made me,
You flick your mane and click your fingers again
And draw me back, you call my name
And like a fool, I run right back to you
And dance along to your latest tune
And when the lands slides
And when the planets die
That's when I come back, when I come back to you
And when the sun cools
And when the stars fall
That's when I come back, when I come back to you
You roll those eyes and trap my hand in your thighs
It's slavery but in disguise
'Cos like a fool, I come right back to you
There's nothing else that I can do
And when the pigs fly
And when the planets die
That's when I come back, when I come back to you
And when the sun cools
And when the stars fall
That's when I come back, when I come back to you
And when the lands slides
And when the planets die
That's when I come back, when I come back to you
And when the sun cools
And when the stars fall
That's when I come back, when I come back to you
And when the war machines
Rust eternally
That's when I come back, when I come back to you
And when your heart bleeds
For a love that's dead like me
Ashes of Us
When the sky is clay, and the clouds are torn
And the strange ones play, and the insects swarm
Falling like feathers, drifting like petals, like
pieces of paper
The ashes of us
Break like bone china, faces in mirrors, piece us
together
The ashes of us
And the orchid grows, in a sunny place
Where I sip my tea, with a scarecrows grace
Falling like feathers, drifting like petals, pieces of
paper
The ashes of us
Break like bone china, faces in mirrors, piece us
together
The ashes of us
We sat under London skies on
A perfect June day
I touched her hand
And whispered her name
And all of the birds flew by and
The clouds blow away
The rose oil in her hair
And her infinite craze
These are the thoughts that take me
To a different place
These are the words that take me
To a different place
And I gave her a rose from my garden
And the petals blow away
They look like confetti on her
Beautiful face
These are the thoughts that take me
To a different place
These are the words that take me
To a different place
These are the thoughts that take me
To a different place
These are the words that take me
Outside the wind is raging, blowing the Wheatfield's
away
And now the game is changing, and now the rules are
thrown away
And the cards are turning, and my mouth is dry
As her dress is falling before my eyes, my eyes
My eyes
And now the hands are turning, and now the clocks are
changing
Beauty is on the mattress, lifting the patterns from
her skin
And the clothes are falling, and her breast is mine
And her skin is holy, like the sky, like the sky
The sky
And the clothes are falling, and our mouths are dry
And our skin is holy, like the sky, like the sky
The sky
Outside the wind is raging, blowing the Wheatfield's
away
And now the game is changing, and now the rules are
thrown away
And now the rules are thrown away
Away, away, away (repeat to fade)
Evening arrives
We're the scandals and lies
And its breeding grounds
And the lights on your face
Show up all the mistakes
So I dim them down
You are electric tonight
You are connected tonight
You can be anyone
You feel the tension inside
As I turn out the light
You can be anyone
Evening is here
We're the scandals and fears
And its shadow plane
And the lights on your arms
Show the scratches and scars
So I turn away
You are electric tonight
You are connected tonight
You can be anyone
Cause if I turn out the light
If I screw up my eyes
You could be anyone
And as this tension ignites
And with this feeling inside
We can be anyone
Cause if I turn out the lights
If I screw up my eyes
We could be anyone
Evening arrives
We're the scandals and lies
And its shadow plane
And the lights on your face
Show up all the mistakes
Called you on your private number
Left a message on your mobile phone
Even tried the operator
When I call, no one's home
Trying just so hard to reach you
Try to keep this thing alive
You are the woman I need to speak to
Didn't you know there's a monster inside
If you're gonna carry on then deep inside
I'll give my heart to the winter
If you leave I'll take this blade to carve your name into my ugliness
So I went and sat in the Crystal Palace
By the plastic dinosaurs
In my pocket was a piece of paper
And the writing look like yours
Starting picking thru' our conversations
Kicking thru' the rotten leaves
Never realize the implication
Didn't you know there's a monster in me
If you're gonna carry on then deep inside
I'll give my heart to the winter
If you leave I'll take this blade to carve your name into my ugliness
Summer's gone and there's no sun what have I done
I lost my love to the winter
There's a song playing on the radio
Sky high in the airwaves on the morning show
And there's a lifeline slipping as the record plays
And as I open the blinds in my mind I'm believing that
you could stay
And oh if you stay I'll chase the rainblown fields away
We'll shine like the morning and sin in the sun
Oh if you stay
We'll be the wild ones, running with the dogs today
There's a song playing through another wall
All we see and believe is the D.J. and debts dissolve
And it's a shame the plane is leaving on this sunny day
Cos on you my tattoo will be bleeding and the name will
stain
But oh if you stay we'll ride from disguised suburban
graves
We'll go from the bungalows where the debts still grow
every day
And oh if you stay I'll chase the rainblown fears away
We'll shine like the morning and sin in the sun oh if you
stay
We'll be the wild ones running with the dogs today
Huddled like rabbits by the hole by the fence, frozen
like statues to the chair on the lake
Clouds of birds, make shadows on the moss, fields of
kale, all patterned with ice
Woah outside, woah the swans rise, woah, woah
Curve of the river like the neck of a swan, and the veil
of the sky all peppered with rain
Fields of crows picked clean to the bone, and a love
unchained by the chatter of time
Woah outside, woah swans rise
Didn’t I try To love her?
Didn’t I paint Pictures of her?
Didn’t I try To change?
I shouldn’t have bothered.
Didn’t I buy The ocean for her?
Didn’t I wear The colour
Didn’t I feel The wind?
Didn’t I bleed?
She is strange
And sorrow.
She is Like cherry blossom.
She is The Empress.
Didn’t I kneel Before her?
Didn’t I follow Her orders?
Didn’t I clean Her shit?
Didn’t I fall?
Didn’t I climb The ladder?
Didn’t I smile For the cameras?
Didn’t I feel The wind?
Didn’t I bleed
She is strange And sorrow.
She is Like cherry blossom.
She is The Empress.
She is strange And sorrow.
With lips Like cherry blossom.
Baby thought she really needed that sofa
Baby thought she really wanted that dress
Baby thought she really had to have two cars
Baby thought she really had to say yes
But the more she possessed,
The more she'd slide into debt
And the more she possessed
The less she owned of herself
Baby thought she really needed that hairstyle
Baby thought she really had to say yes
Baby really needed acres of carpets
Thought she'd be happy if she had larger breasts
Everybody said you can't live without them
Everybody said you have to say yes
So Baby spent her everything on this lifestyle
But it's a lifestyle that doesn't exist
And the more she possessed
The more she'd slide into debt
And the more she possessed
The less she owned of herself
Yes, the more we possess
The more we are in debt
And the more we possess
Where's all the money gone? - I'm talking to you,
All up the whole in your arm,
is the needle a much better screw?
But oh, what will you do alone? Cos I have to go.
Where is this life of fun that you promised me?
Nothing here works but your works and I mean it
I have to leave
But oh, what will you do alone? Cos I have to go.
If I was the wife of an acrobat would I look like the
living dead, boy?
You're on the wire and can't get back,Let's talk about
the living dead
Could have had a car, could have had it all,
Could have walked in the sky but we stare at the wall.
I know where the money's gone - I know what you do
Cos I've seen the hole in your arm and the needle's a
much better screw
Dig if u will the picture
Of u and I engaged in a kiss
The sweat of your body covers me
Can u my darling
Can u picture this?
Dream if u can a courtyard
An ocean of violets in bloom
Animals strike curious poses
They feel the heat
The heat between me and u
How can u just leave me standing?
Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold)
Maybe I'm just 2 demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father 2 bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry
Touch if u will my stomach
Feel how it trembles inside
You've got the butterflies all tied up
Don't make me chase u
Even doves have pride
How can u just leave me standing?
Alone in a world so cold? (World so cold)
Maybe I'm just 2 demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father 2 bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry
How can u just leave me standing?
Alone in a world that's so cold? (A world that's so
cold)
Maybe I'm just 2 demanding (Maybe, maybe I'm like my
father)
Maybe I'm just like my father 2 bold (Ya know he's 2
bold)
Maybe you're just like my mother (Maybe you're just
like my mother)
She's never satisfied (She's never, never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other (Why do we scream, why)
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry
When doves cry (Doves cry, doves cry)
When doves cry (Doves cry, doves cry)
Don't Cry (Don't Cry)
When doves cry
When doves cry
When doves cry
When Doves cry (Doves cry, doves cry, doves cry
Don't cry
Darling don't cry
Don't cry
Don't cry