- Alas I Cannot Swim
There's a house across the river, but alas. I cannot swim
And a garden of such beauty that the flowers seem to grin
There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim
I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in.
There's a boy across the river with short black curly hair,
He wants to be my lover and I want to be his peer,
There's a boy across the river but alas, I cannot swim,
- Alpha Shallows
He could fall and she could weep
But as holy are her feet and hard with mention
But dear they may not speak
We fell tight when there is tension and their eyes could make us weak
And his heart was full of fire at the man he had become
And his soul was seldom higher with the falsities of fun
He could embrace sweet desire as in moments as they pass
- And I looked at my life and I choked
There is a man that I know,
For seventeen years he never spoke,
Guessed he had nothing to say,
He opened his mouth on judgement day.
I listened with all of my might,
I was scared by the look in his eyes,
Like he'd already lost the f ight,
And there was no hope ever in sight.
- Blackberry Stone
Well I, own this field
And I wrote this sky
And I have no reason, to reason with you
I'd be sad that I never held your hand as you were lowered, but I'd understand that I'd never let it go
I'd be sad that I never held your hand as you were lowered, but I'd understand that the world does what it does
And you never did learn to let the little things go
- Cross Your Fingers
Look down on the body that you have grown
Four mountains stand around you, they're not your own
And light squares and bodies are all you see
Since you broke down, since I broke down
Since we broke down
Oh, I jumped into your grave and died
And on my word you'll give up your whole life for me
- Daisy
Daisy lives by the docks
Down at the white rock
Running an open home
Daisy lives by the sea
I only see Daisy
When she wants to see me
Daisy's alright
- Darkness Descends
You're holding bits of Styrofoam
With your face painted on to your friends
You listen to them whine and moan
About everything you can't understand
Can I just say I don't fear the light?
But darkness descends once more into my life And suddenly we're all alone in silence
So I take a step away I look up to the falling snow As it makes its home upon my face Well, I wouldn't want to ruin Something I couldn't save The gap will keep us safe, the gap will keep us safe Step away, get me when I'm down And suddenly I'm five I've years old And I'm just so cold I want to cry I haul up on my gentlemen Who have always been there in hard times They're just not like that man of mine Who visit me from time to time My love, I treasure you I hear that summer's coming back So I stretch out my back and travel a long The winter though it darkens me It is pure and clean and all I want I'll apologize to the ones I love For leaving them when the sun comes up Too bright for me, darkness descends Oh well, I'm not well again And once more darkness it descends The ground is falling under me And I can't find the means to leave Convinced that I am going mad Oh, I bury my head into his hands So sure that I'm losing faith Oh, I clear a space in his father's land You deal with God far too young Before you know it your life has run away
- Devil's Resting Place
I woke up one morning to know that I had gone
Finally taken the step and jumped right off the wall
When you come to call on me that's why my eyes are glazed
I've been with the devil in the devil's resting place
I am loathed to say that I have been to stay
I've been with the devil in the devil's resting place
When you ask to drink of me I think out on the case
- Devil's Spoke
I might be apart of this
ripple on water from a lonesome drip
A fallen tree that witness me
I'm alone,
Him and me.
And then life itself can not aspire
to have someone be so admired
- Divine
Break the water
Make a ripple once in a while
Wake, it's morning we've been sleeping for a while
Now forget what you're owed
That you're tired, time's getting on.
So lay down your load
You're fine
I'm yours and you're mine
- Don't ask me why
I choose to stay far away
From the ones that think
Money is money to share
Don't ask me why
And I'll tell you no lies
Sonny don't come here no more
He don't drink from this well
- Failure
He used be a singer in a rock and roll band.
He would write the songs and I'd tremble at his hand.
But oh, la la
He lost poetic ethic and his songs they were pathetic
And he’s a failure now.
And he used to be the life and soul of everyone around,
You’d never catch him looking up and never see him down
- Ghosts
He walked down a busy street
Staring solely at his feet
Clutching pictures of past lovers at his side
Stood at the table where she sat
And removed his hat
In respect of her presence
Presents her with the pictures and says
These are just ghosts that broke my heart before I met you.
- Goodbye England
You were so smart then in your jacket and coat
My softest red scarf was warming your throat
Winter was on us at the end of my nose
But I never love England
More than when covered in snow
But a friend of mine says it's good to hear
That you believe in love even if set in fear
- Hope In The Air
Я знаю одного человека –
За семнадцать лет он не проронил ни слова.
Думаю, ему было нечего сказать –
Он заговорил в день суда.
Я вслушивалась, как могла,
Но была напугана его взглядом –
Будто он уже проиграл –
- How Can I
We've been riding up mountains
Turning corners in our lives
We would have taken any buses
Headed for Telluride
We stopped in the desert
In the middle of the night
And looked to the stars on the old roadside
You look at me and said
- I Feel Your Love
Keep your love around me
Keep your love around me so I can never know what's going on
What's going on
Keep your love around me
Keep your love around me so I can't be alone
An electric fence, a silent defense to you all
You let me in, I loved you then
The first taste is free, then you had me
- I Speak Because I Can
My husband left me last night
Left me a poor and lonely wife
I cooked the meals and he got the life
And now I'm just out for the rest of my time
For me
For he
For my
- I Was Just A Card
I was just a card, caught up in the stars,
Looking down to Mars.
You know, you know
I know, I know something
About you that you don't want me to know.
Never found a solid hand till I found that man,
Till I found that man of mine.
- I'm A Fly
I'm a fly, I'll die tomorrow
So give me all you've got
I so believe, I so believe
I'm a fly, I'll die tomorrow
So give me all you've got
And out here in this foreign place
I have let you down
- is a hope
I've been thinking on my wandering,
on the way home from your house,
that I love you, and why i do,
and if there'll ever be someone else,
Your young and your stable,
stand up to your labour,
Your young and your able,
- Karma
Been a miner for a heart of gold
I haven't found it yet
Someone said it got sold in a back street killing
Now I've been searching for a heart apiece
But no one seems to think of me
And its just not willing
- little love caster
yes i am, yes i am a master
i had you bad, man
little love, little love caster
palm of my hand
i wish that i had, i wish that i had have told you then
where my kindness ends
i will take you home, i will take you home and then
- Lolita
Seeing you there with your arms entwined
A fool once said that love is blind
But no-one can blind me from this evil I see
No-one can blind me from this hell I’m in
Come to know that she’s your new Lolita
I could wait till you no longer need her
But I realise I’m just gonna lose ya
- London Town
I know, I know she came to save you,
but she knocked my drink over too,
i know, i know that she wants you,
she looks at you the way that i do.
well if you think that im lying why would i give up trying so soon.
where'd you go, where'd you go, where'd you leave me off my soul where'd you go.
and how's it now, how's it now, how's it back in london town where you let me down.
- Mary
Oh the cold wet wind blew over the heather
you wrote \"charlie and mary for forever\"
on the back of a rock
that you picked up on your way
and in that perfect moment i nearly ruined it
by saying i love you and nearly meaning it
but you know i
would never waist those words
- My Friends
My friends, my dear friends,
And lovers, oh my lovers,
I leave you for them.
Got a hand on my back.
Mama has money now,
And mama has friends
She's making rice
- My Manic And I
If he wants to die in a lake in Geneva
The mountains can cover the shape of his nose
If he wants to die where nobody can see him
The beauty of his death will carry on
So I don’t believe him
He greets me with kisses when good days deceive him
And sometimes it’s gone and sometimes I believe him
- New Romantic
I know I said I loved you but I'm thinking I was wrong,
I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young,
and I never meant to hurt you when I wrote you ten love songs.
but a guy that I could never get 'cause his girlfriend was pretty fit
and everyone who knew her loved her so.
and I made you leave her for me and now I'm feeling pretty mean,
but my mind has fucked me over more times than any man could ever know.
- Night After Night
Darling I loved you
I long to become you
And know what it is that you feel
We dance the sorrow
Forgive me tomorrow
I pray
Night after night
Day after day
- Night Terror
I woke up and he was screaming.
I'd left him dreaming.
I roll over and shake him tightly, and whisper "If they want you, then they're gonna have to fight me,"
(Oh, fight me)
- No Hope In The Air
There is a man that I know,
For seventeen years he never spoke,
Guessed he had nothing to say,
He opened his mouth on judgement day.
I listened with all of my might,
I was scared by the look in his eyes,
Like he'd already lost the f ight,
And there was no hope ever in sight.
- Rambling Man
oh naïve little me
asking what things you have seen
you're vulnerable in your head
you'll scream and you'll wail till you're dead
creatures fade by night
following things that aren't right
and they're tired and they need to be lead
- Red Right Hand
Take a walk to the edge of town
And go across the tracks
Where the viaduct looms
Like a bird of doom
As it shifts and cracks
Where secrets lie in the border fires, in the humming wires
Hey man, you're never coming back
- Rest in bed
There lies a man of my heart
A fine and complete work of art
Here I his woman
His home and his heart
And proud to be playing that part
And proud to be playing that part
Rest in the bed of my bones
- ROMX RNRX Rambling Man
Oh, naive little me
Asking what things you have seen
You're vulnerable in your head
You'll scream and you'll wail till you're dead
Creatures veiled by night
Following things that aren't right
And they're tired and they need to be led
- Shine
I have travelled past your window many times,
I find your face too hard to define,
I can't touch you hollow thing,
You plagued my mind,
I can never go outside,
I will never go back to being blind.
I have wondered what you're doing ever day since last I asked.
- Sophia
Oh I have been wondering where I have been pondering
Where I've been lately is no concern of yours
Who's been touching my skin
Who have I been letting
Shy and tired eyed am I now today
I'm wounded by dust
- Soulless Child
You won’t even look at yourself in the mirror anymore.
Can't tell dream from reality.
I couldn't take it so i opened your door,
I saw things i should never see.
Someone you look up to crying in their bed, someone you want to be losing their head.
Soulless Child once so wild
Now a shadow of what they used to be, they used to be so close to me.
- Take The Night Off
You should be gone beast
Be gone from me
Be gone from my mind at least
Let a little lady be
I don't want you to want me
Wouldn't want you to know
I don't care where you've gone beast
I care where you go
- Tap At My Window
He taps at my window
Willing that I let him in
I don't think I will though
My heart's taken, I won't tell him again.
Maybe I'll write him a story
And maybe I'll fall asleep in his arms.
Maybe I'll wake up lonely and fall unawake again.
- The captain and hourglass
You kick the blow, now you gotta kick the guy
You sat alone under billowing sky
If I feel God judging me,
Well I fell into the water, now I’m free.
My friends they don’t really get me, think I’m the only one
Well i sold my soul to jesus and since then ive had no fun
Behind every tree is a cutting machine and a kite fallen from grace
- The Captain And The Hourglass
You kick the blow, now you gotta kick the guy
You sat alone under billowing sky
If I feel god judging me,
Well I fell into the water, now I'm free.
My friends don't really get me, think I'm the only one
Well I sold my soul to Jesus and since then I've had no fun
Behind every tree is a cutting machine and a kite fallen from grace
Inside every man is a heart of sand you can see it in his face.
- The Muse
God's work is plans
I stand here with a man that talked to me so candidly
More than you need to.
My lips once roosed
I feel again the blues of longing, ever longing, to be confused
He wrote me a letter
- The Wrote and the Writ
They're taking pictures of the man from God
I hope his cassock's clean
The burden of being our holy fellas
Your halo'd better gleam, better gleam
What of all those wayward priests?
The ones who like to drink
Do you suppose they'd swap their blood for wine
- What he
Forgive me, Hera, I cannot stay
He cut out my tongue
There is nothing to say
Love me, oh Lord
He threw me away
He laughed at my sins
In his arms I must stay
- What He Wrote
Forgive me,
I cannot stay.
He cut out my tongue,
there is nothing to save.
Love me, oh Lord, he threw me away,
he laughed at my sense, in his arms i must
stay.
- You're No God
Your mum thinks that you're sad
And that your living alone,
and your friends think if you're sad
You should call them more.
But the truth is
That you never need someone to comfort you
Oh you never need someone to comfort you.
But you're not god.
- Your Only Doll
I fell into the street
Poison in my veins
Clamber to my feet
And into the night again
Back to my home
Back to my owner
Who screams at my tardiness,
Put his hands to the sky