- A Thousand Matches
Lying on the mattress ‘cause my friend’s crazy sister took my bed away,
Sleeping, she looked like an actress, a theory I didn’t practice, I said “There’s gotta be a better way”.
She said: “You light a thousand matches when you finally set fire when you run away,
So why’d you go and do it when you knew that you would go and I would stay.
I hit the wall in frustration the conversation had been circling for days,
She said: “Don’t take it out on him, for the wall has always been supportive in the best of ways.
We’re laughing and crying like mad men dying in the snow,
For just one second it was funny that she would have to stay and I would go.
- All The Little Lights
One went out at a bus stop in Edinburgh
One went out in an english park
One went out in a nightclub when I was fifteen
Little lights in my heart
One went out when I lied to my mother
Said the cigarettes she found were not mine
One went out within me now I smoke like a chimney
- And I Love Her
She's a whistle on the wind
A feather on the breeze
A ripple on the stream
She is sunlight on the sea
She's a soft summer rain
Falling gently through the trees
And I love her
- Beautiful Birds
Do you remember when we were two beautiful birds?
We would light up the sky when we'd fly,
You were orange and red like the sun when it sets,
I was green as an apple's eye.
You said you loved all the songs that I'd sing,
Like nothing that you'd ever heard,
And I said I loved you with all of my heart when
- Blind Love
Trying to hold a love that wants to go
Is like trying to catch a falling flake of snow
It glimmers while it can but it will melt between your hands, you know
To keep alive a love that wants to die
You teach the birds to swim, implore the fish to fly
But gills are made for water, and feathers for the sky, y'know
OH OH OH OH OH OH (x2)
- Boy Who Cried Wolf
Well I'm the boy who cried wolf
And I know I've lied in the past
Last night I saw his yellow eyes shining in the dark
Yeah I know I spawn tales with his voice
And I open my mouth too fast
Last night I saw his footprints in the path
- Caravan
Pour the petrol can, around this caravan,
and watch the flames take all you own.
There’s a girl that understands
like the back of her two hands,
she’s all you need to know.
Cause you search for years but you lose everything you find.
- Catch In The Dark
Well she calls me when she is broken
Says to leave the front door open
I come home to find her smoking
With her eyes all fragile and thin
See she has always been hopeless at hoping
Always coped badly with coping
And I never know when she is joking
- Circles
Sick of begging
Sick of trying to please
Sick of the struggle
Sick of your fake id
If I ever feel your scent again
Youre one fist to close
- Crows In Snow
Wind-screen wiper’s never gonna stop,
Never stop wiping all the snow from the top of our car,
A car that has travelled so far from our homes,
It’s never good to feel alone
But we’ve got what we’ve got
It’s friends that we’ve got in a car,
- Do What You Like
It never felt, like it felt when I felt it
for the first time with you
and you know I wouldn't lie
Now I'm standing by the fountain
and I'm counting
all the sunken coins
maybe they know what it's like
- Everything
When you got nothing
Freewheeling and free falling you go
When you got nothing you've got something to prove
Then you get something
Something that you've always dreamed about
When you got something you've got something to lose
[Chorus 1]
- Eyes of My Mind
Cut through the silence
I'm shaking
I'm ready but I'm still waiting
Everything is coming back around
I'm praying
I'm lying
Like I've never done anything else
- Facebook
Looking at pictures on Facebook,
Of your ex-girlfriend
At three in the morning
Never helped anyone,
Never helped anyone,
Never helped
Getting so drunk you fall over
- Fear Of Fear
Fill my lungs full of smoke
Fill my belly full of beer
Fill my nights with bad jokes
told by folks full of fear
Fill my eyes with a stinging
Fill my time with wishing she was here
Fill my wide with the narrow
- Feather On the Clyde
There is a river that runs through Glasgow,
And he makes her and he breaks her and he takes her into parts.
And a current just like my blood flows,
Down from the hills, round aching bones to my restless heart.
Well I would swim but the river is so wide and i’m,
Scared I won’t make it to the other side and well,
God knows I’ve failed but he knows that I’ve tried.
- For You
For you, dear
I'd lose my tongue to talk, dear
No whispers in the dark, dear
For you I would
And if you, dear
Found my words were unclear
And my voice you can't hear
- Heart to Love
I've been hopelessly clutching up for something I can hold
I've been lying in the dark with no light in my soul
I've been rummaging around in the rain and the cold
I've been searching for diamonds in a pile of coal
I've been searching for diamonds in a pile of coal
I've been reckless and ragged, I've been running to the ground
I've been lost for so long I forgot I could be found
- Hearts on Fire
C G Am F
I don't know how and I don't know why
C G Am F
When something's livin' and you can't say die
Am G Am F
You feel like lovin' you just start to cry
C G Am F
I don't know how and I don't know why
- Holes
Capo 9
Emsus D/F# G C D Em Am
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B|---3----3---3---1---3---0---1---|
G|---0----2---0---0---2---0---2---|
D|---2----0---0---2---0---2---2---|
A|---2----0---2---3---x---2---0---|
- House On The Hill
In an old house on a hillside
Next to the sea
Far from the madness, that folds around me
Peaceful and gentle, like sails on the breeze
In an old house on a hillside
Next to the sea
There's a warm light on a cold night
- I Die Slowly
The tower Ive been
A brick I am
A statue so grand
I feed your sun
But I never thought
That I would be burned like this
Your rays of evil licking my skin
- In My Head
I'm so brilliant
I'm a joke
My tongue is golden
I'm about to choke
And I'm holy
I'm a wreck
My voice is velvet
I have a rope around my neck
- In Reverse
This is the life i got to live
This is the time that I can give
The efforts that I make
Are just so that you won't escape
Feels like I'm falling
Like this would never ever change
I just keep stumbling
- Just the Same
Break
I'm lost and confused
I'm stuck in your favourite parade
I'm choking, I feel strangled
I cant get a feeling
Is this a game?
I'm begging
- Keep On Walking
Well last night I couldn't sleep
I got up and started walking
Down to the end of my street
And on into town
Well I had no one to meet
And I had no taste for talking
Seems I'm talking my whole life
It's time I listen now
- Let Her Go
Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know your lover when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know your lover when you've let her go
And you let her go
- Let her go - Отпускаешь её
Отпускаешь её
Что ж, тебе нужен свет только
когда он угасает,
Ты скучаешь по солнцу лишь,
когда начинает валит снег,
Ты понимаешь, что любишь её,
лишь тогда, когда отпускаешь её,
Ты понимаешь то, что был высоко,
- Let Me Dream A While
Well, when the lights are low
And I lay down and close my eyes
I see colors and spinning wheels
I hear a language I don't understand
I see people I've not seen for years
I hold a magic in my hands
I sing songs that I never write
'Cause their gone by the morning light
- Life's For the Living
Well grey clouds wrapped round the town like elastic
Cars stood like toys made of Taiwanese plastic
The boy laughed at the spastic dancing round in the rain
While laundrettes cleaned clothes, high heals rubbed toes
Puddles splashed huddles of bus stop crows
Dressed in their suits and their boots well they all look the same
I took myself down to the cafe to find all the boys lost in books
- Needle In The Dark
With progress comes problems
With wisdom comes age
With lessons come learning
And pleasure comes with pain
You can only have the sunshine after the rain
I took a walk
- Patient Love
Got a pinch of tobacco in my pocket
I’m not gonna roll it no I’m not gonna smoke it
Til we’re staring at the stars and the rockets
Twinkling in the silvery night
Two sips of whiskey in the flask but I’m not gonna drink them
I swear I’ll make it last
Til we’re drinking out of the same glass again
- Rain
We got to give them someting
It is time to crawl
You go to lend us the moment
And you'll have a rewind for life
Who do we blame?
For this rain
Is this just another breakdown?
- Rainbows
Glass was shattered here
Midst the burning smell of fear
Dressed in plainclothes
Blood stain on the snow
Looks like red wine on the clothes
Of a sailor
- Riding To New York
Well, I met him in Minnesota
He was dark and overcast
With long, grey hair and eyes that stared
Through me like I was glass
I asked "Where are you going to?"
He said, "I'm the wind I'm just blowing through."
He lit up a cigarette and began to talk
- SCARE AWAY THE DARK
Sing, sing at the top at your voice,
Love without fear in your heart.
Yeah and feel, feel like you still have a choice
When we all light up we can scare away the dark
We wish our weekdays away
Spend our weekends in bed
Drink ourselves stupid
- Setting Suns
Well, I walked out this evening
Stood out in front of my house
To see the daylight leaving
My eyes pointed south.
I felt like I was dreaming,
I'd never seen the sky so red
Gave me the strangest feeling
- Shape Of Love
[Mike]
I only came inside to get out of the rain,
And by the looks of things
She may well have done the same
Well I swear I know that face
But I don't know her name
She's the shape of love
Oh,
- Simple Song
Here's a simple song
Won't stop the rain from coming down
Or your heart from breaking.
Here's a simple song
It's never gonna turn this day around
Stood the earth from shaking
It's just a simple song
Nothing right or wrong.
- Somebody's Love
Oh when the winds they blow
You're gonna need somebody to know you
You're gonna need somebody's love to fall into
Oh when the leaves they fall
You're gonna need somebody to call you
You're gonna need somebody's arms to crawl into
To crawl into
- Staring At The Sky
Tobacco stains our yellow teeth
And all our fingers and underneath
Our fingernails, that clasp on sheets
As we try desperately to sleep
Hearts are sad and eyes are tired
And all this Red Bull keeps us wired
Gives us wings
- Staring At the Stars
Tobacco stains our yellow teeth
and all our finger and underneath
our finger nails are glass bone sheets
as we try desperately to sleep
Hearts are saddened eyes are tired
and all this Red Bull keeps us wide
it gives us wings it gives us rings
- Stolen Toys
Well there's so much turning still
Watching the fireflies drown
Set fire to the sails
Laughing as the boat goes down
Well eyes tell a thousand tales
Chasing my own one around
Coffin with a thousand nails
- Swimming Upstream
Well I've been living in a dream that I can't wake up from
Swimming up stream I can't get to the sea
Where the fish swim free
And staring at a screen that I don't get much from
Staring so long, can't see wood from the trees
Or the birds from the bees
- Table For One
So I sit on this table for one
And pour me a drink that'll last
I'm not drunk I just miss being young
And I grew old too fast
My wife she breaks and she bends
My children they don't understand
I came here tonight in search of a friend
- The last unicorn
You're just a stones throw from me,
But throwing stones could never be,
The perfect way to start.
Cos sticks and stones make broken bones,
And empty words make broken homes,
But it's love that broke our hearts.
- The Long Road
We've walked the long road and you've worn it well
You stitched yourself up when you fell
Keep your memories in jars,
Carry secrets in scars
Beneath your shell.
You've seen some good days, and some bad ones too
You weave through fashion and trend
- The One You Love
Мы все ищем –
That's what she said,
Так она сказала –
For someone to share our thoughts,
Кого-то, чтобы делиться мыслями,
For someone to share our beds.
Кого-то, чтобы делить постель.
- The Way That I Need You
About one year later your daddy was born and your grandma held my hand so tight
Oh I can’t tell the joy as she brought forth new life, by the glow of the kerosene light, by the glow of the kerosene light.
He’s the deflated balloon wrapped around your gait
Cut priced to clear a past to “sell by date”
He’ll be fool running through the church screaming out “it’s not too late”
When he does, I know that you’ll wait
- The Wrong Direction
When I was a kid the things I did were hidden under the grid
Young and naive I never believed that love could be so well hid
With regret I'm willing to bet and say the older you get
It gets harder to forgive and harder to forget
It gets under your shirt like a dagger at work
The first cut is the deepest but the rest still flipping hurt
You build your heart of plastic
Get cynical and sarcastic
- Thunder and Lightning
Claps of thunder and bolts of lightning
Wind comes howling through
Sometimes love is just a kite string
And a heart shaped tattoo
And holding on can be so frightening
I know she's frightened too
But I'll go dancing out in the thunder and lightning
If she will too
- Walk in the Rain
"Walk In The Rain"
I walked the steps of my father today
Worked till I froze and my face turned grey
And all of my fingers calloused and worn to the bone
And I felt like a child in a world full of men
Trying to capture that something again
Strong as an ox but slowly turning to stone
- Walk You Home
I see you nearly every day
I see you but you don’t see me
I wish I had something better to say
& I wish I had something better I could be
we touched hands by the coffee machine the other day
well I know you’ve forgotten already
But I’m gonna take that moment to the grave
to the grave
- When We Were Young
We used to never say never
Мы никогда не говорили "никогда",
Used to think we live for ever
Думали, что живём вечно,
Flying free beneath the sun
Свободно парили под солнцем.
Days go running and hiding
Дни убегают и скрываются,
- Whispers
I've got open eyes,
And an open door,
But i don't know what i'm searching for.
I should know by now.
See i've a big old heart,
This i know for sure,
But i don't know what my love is for.
- You're On My Mind
Pointless sighs
And lonely nights
Bottomless loves
And phony heights
There's a hole in my story
There's a hole in my heart
And this storyteller is falling apart
- Young As The Morning Old As The Sea
I wanna lay by a lake in Norway, I
I wanna walk through Swedish fields of green
I wanna see the forests of Finland, I
I wanna sail on a boat on the Baltic sea
I wanna feel the Russian winter, I
I wanna go to my Polish grandmother's home
I wanna see Hungarian lanterns, I
- Young As The Morning, Old As The Sea
I wanna lay by a lake in Norway
I, I wanna walk through Swedish fields of green
I want to see the forests of Finland
I, I want to sail on a boat on the Baltic sea
I wanna feel a Russian winter
I, I want to go to my Polish grandmother's home
I wanna see Hungarian lanterns