Carina Round Lyrics, Photos, Pictures, Paroles, Letras, Text for every songs

B i o g r a p h y
(by Johnny Loftus)

We live in the age of the short attention span- where vacuousness is a virtue, where time to stop and think is really found and where everything goes in one ear and out the other. But if you are still reading this, it suggests you may still be looking for someone or something more substantial and rewarding than the hoards of tight-troused retro- rockers or gay-for- pay gimmick peddlers of present day pop. Carina Round may not have the kind of slacks that court infertility and she probably won't share a snog with another girl if it gets her video played on MTV (although we can hope) but when regarding the essence of her music, there are few more arresting and striking sounds available to the human ear. I wanna make people feel something, explains Carina on her personal motivation. The music that I listen to most is the kind that reflects something that I feel. After all, isn't that why we all listen to music? To be excited and to be thrown into upheavel? Growing up in the deprived Low Hill area of Wolverhampton, external recreation was a limited for a young Carina. It's not the sort of place my mother was willing to let me run around so all i had was what was in the house - mainly books and records. My most prized possession as a kid was a turntable I was given for my fifth birthday. Revelling in the delights of Dylan and Simone, an infant Carina found the kind of artistic vocabulary that most people don't gain until their late teens and with that head-start, it's hardly surprising that her first album, The First Blood Mystery emerged in 2001 when she was just 22.

Dealing with subject of her fathers continuing absence, the display of naked emotion through a rough and raw sound drew rave reviews from the more clued-up areas of the music press who saw shades of P J Harvey, Kristin Hersh and Patti Smith in the albums autobiographical energy. I've always been influenced by sentiment rather than style, continues Carina. So I think I have taken more from Charles Bukowski, Dorothy Parker, Tom Waits and Bjork. The way they articulate ideas and emotions is more important then their respective styles. Gigs with the likes of Coldplay, Elbow, Ryan Adams, Turin Brakes, Ben & Jason, David Gray, Ed Harcourt, and some old geezer called James Brown (he's the Godfather of soul apparently) also helped raise her profile and now, the long overdue follow-up, The Disconnection looks set to continue that ascension and with it,the woefully inaccurate idea of Carina as tortured-soul type will finally be laid to rest even for those who continually equate singer-songwriters with being wilfully complex. It's still a personal record but this time, it's a celebration of the things I've discovered about myself as opposed to ranting about the things that bother me. Even the title is upbeat - Disconnection is about confronting things like joy, anger, pain and confusion and letting them go. In every aspeact, the only direction for Carina Round is forwards. See if you can keep up with her.

Interscope's US version of The Disconnection finds Carina Round staring out at us from the cover, a plain-faced beauty with a gentle gleam in her eye It's not cheesecake by any means, but it certainly means to catch the shallow eye But hey, what's that on the back cover? It's Carina tortured and smeared, a Videodrome diva with black holes for features She still stares at us, but it's with a detached dullness 'I did this to me,' it says 'If you want me, you get both sides' Most places in the world get the back cover as their front, but the duality of the domestic helps illustrate similar qualities in Round's music There's beauty here, but it's qualified by gloom and suggestions of fetish Equipped with pipes that wind from the sultriest depths to keening, aching highs, Round's vocals are a come-on and a put-down, a cry for help that chokes into anger or cynicism She's indebted to PJ Harvey (Dry, especially) in the way her willowy words orient the raw, wailing guitar and primitive percussion of 'Shoot' and 'Into My Blood' However, it's the enticing darkness of the cabaret, not wiry punk or the blues, that seems to be The Disconnection's real muse Bursts of horns join the catty flirt of 'Lacuna''s chorus, before its verses break into plunks of off-kilter piano behind Round's captivating intonation 'You're just looking for an excuse/To call yourself a f*ck up,' she dismisses, and the song ends with an intake of breath, as if she has a few more things to say about your no-account ass 'Paris' and 'Monument' link New York and The City of Light in the shadows, incorporating swishes of rangy acoustic guitar, subtle jazz rhythms, and overtures that devastate like that back-cover photo While electronic programming and samples of Carina herself do tick around in The Disconnection's backgrounds, the album keeps its 21st century cabaret vibe alive by supporting Round's vocals with organics — rich bass, spare percussion, aforementioned snatches of acoustic, the occasional horn part, and washes of Rhodes and harmonium At the same time, it's easy to imagine The Disconnection as trip-hop, if it had been issued in the processed mid-'90s haze of Portishead and Morcheeba's Big Calm It revels in the laconic dourness that made those albums great it can be pretty and lazy But when Round starts singing about black wings spreading overhead, or when the late-album standout 'Sit Tight' starts drifting between dusky, throaty R&B and a groove more irresistibly lurid, you begin to wonder whether you'll need more quarters to keep this peep show going.

Message to apollo

Snipping threads
Images fall clear
Elevation would you find me down here
I will be waiting for you
Outside of my skin
Falling with the dust of a butterfly's wings
Would you send me a song from the cloud you’re on

Dip into my heart of a vacant season
I would leak my soul to film your ears
Emotion won't you come alive
I would drag the stars from my own eyes
If you’d send me a song from the cloud you’re on

Always lost in the same sound
Everything comes on the way down
Come around
I’m still waiting for something to take me over

Oh measure
Measure the weight of your perception
By your words and their effect on the resurrection of love and pain
And devotion, the child like vision of a lost world in motion
I see through, see through to your star strung gut
Reveal the hidden universe no longer deep 'neath the silk chic
Of your desert milk skin, now a brilliant libertine
You drift on a carousel of emerald green sheen
I await, I await the forbidden dream
Reborn on the weaving words that rise in my throat
They say i am just the blood that would drag from the black cunt of venus
Be spit from a split lip or slip from the slit body of a madman
For the thirst for the thrust for the victory for the thrust
For the suck of the breath of a stranger
To with pressed finger map the endless waves of imperial spirit
Influx of sonic impulse
Divine rhythm impulse
Divine

Find your divine
Find your divine
Find, find your divine
Define your divine
Find, find your divine
Define your divine
Find, find your divine
Define your divine
Find, find your divine
Define your divine
Find, find your divine
Define your divine
Find, find your divine
Define your divine
Find, find your divine
Define your divine

Oh sometimes i'm so sure i can reach beyond this sky
Why do you have to build these buildings so high

Always lost in the same sound
Everything comes on the way down
Oh come around
I'm still waiting for something to take me over

Always lost in the same sound
Everything comes on the way down
Oh come around
I'm still waiting for something to take me over

Oh give me fire
Fuel my belief
Release these dreams
Stuck between my teeth
Possibilities
Possibilities
Come to light
Come to light
I've been searching for something
I'm not sure what it is
I'm not sure what it is
Not sure what it is
Not sure

Lightbulb song

Fade into blue
Every time I take myself
Where can I take you
Where you won't be there

Out of my reach
The past hangs bright like
1800 watt lightbulb
Illuminating my mind

I just don't know anymore
What you're thinking or when you're thinking about it
Would you touch me or would you rather do without it

All your life, well do you crave for something more
It's high time you opened your eyes, open your eyes
All your life, do you crave for something more
These dreams, my fears, they disappear, I'm falling free, falling free

Passion and desire
My heat is rising
There's a hungry dog howling
In the throes of my mind

All that's left, anymore
A heartbeat through our young skin
Nothing comes out
And nothing goes in

All your life do you crave for something more
It's high time you opened your eyes, open your eyes
All your life do you crave for something more?
In dreams my fears, they disappear, failing, falling

All your life do you pray for something more
Your dreams, my fears they disappear, they disappear, they disappear
All your life do you crave something more
The dreams, my fears they disappear, words just trip, words just trip
From your fingertips

All that's left, anymore,
A heartbeat through iron skin
Nothing comes out and nothing goes in

How i see it

You know it seems to me
You fail to see beauty through invisible tears
I know what you mean but
Its not what I’m getting at when
I say
'The bits of broken glass
In the evening sun reflection
Look like stars in the night sky
Of the central reservation'

You just say
'That’s not how I see it'

Moving through the rain
I hear you here
Say life is a valley of tears
And your heart is a drain
But how can that be the truth when
The storm that came was invited by you

I say

'The rain is just the moon
She's sending soul in your direction
I hope she softens you soon
With her subliminal affection'

You just say
'That’s not how I see it'

There's something missing when you look at me
If all you see is what your eyes see
Hold on I’m coming in

The waves

And I know everything about you
All there is to know
I’m lit up and

Haunt me
The only one I wish to see behind my eyelids
You stay here like a poison in my blood stream
Your bloodhounds they come around
At the foot of my bed
Why don’t you do something

I’m waiting

He came here naked as the starlight
Dancing on moon beams
His body was shed
And then he said

'You know where you can find me
Always around
I’m lit up and I’m up there
You know where you can find me
Rising your road
I’m lit up and I’m up there'

He said
'Your demons are gradually dissolving
And your virgin is wilder than the waves inside your heart
Stop reaching for what wisdom has no time for
Find your wings girl
Search your spirit'

'You know where you can find me
Always around
I’m lit up and I’m up there
You know where you can find me
Rising your road
I’m lit up and I’m up there'

Dorothy says
'Love is like quicksilver in the hands
Leave the fingers open and it stays
Clutch it and it darts away'

So goodbye then
So long friend
My fear is gone

Would you visit
Should you feel for it
It’s been so long
I think I can deal with it

Let it fall

So you say we have no future
As father and daughter
I wish you could see me in your skin
And the hole you left within

But you never stop to see what you begun
Oh lord, look what you've done
The consequences of your slick Italian style
Rumbling beneath the humdrum

And all the seas here will carry a breeze of
A scent I do not know
The breath of my father
My sister of another
Bathing the wounds

So you say we have no future?
What with no past either?
But you were never stuck for your excuses
Just say you remember
Don't let it slip from your mind
The girl is on her own

Would you say my name the way it's meant to be said?
Let it fall from your mouth?
To see a flicker in my father's eyes
To feel his breath upon my brow

And all the seas here will carry a breeze of
A scent I do not know
The breath of my father
My sister of another
Bathing the wounds

Julia, you're here in my fingers
You seem to flip between my skies
Sharing the dream of, of a life I will never know
I will never know

And all the seas here will carry a breeze of
A scent I do not know
The breath of my father
My sister of another
Bathing the wounds

Would you say my name the way it's meant to be said?
Let it fall from your mouth
Let it fall from your hands
Let it slip from your hips
Let it slip from your skin
Let it slip from your mind
I am knee deep in your blood and you are knee deep in mine
Say my name the way it's meant to be said
Let it fall from your mouth
I am knee deep in your blood and you are knee deep in mine

Ribbons

A devilish light traps, defines my shape
Oh, you are easier than me
Oh me envious, naked and strong
Envious, and different in time
What brings you back to me again?
Again, oh
You touched my life this way
I don't know you

You said I was
You said I was beautiful
And then you let everyone touch you
I don't know who

You say

'Don't you know, I'm happy for your sake
Can't you see - it's easier for me?'

Everyone, everyone could tell me it's true
Everyone, everyone but me
What takes you away from me so soon?
So soon, so
You're taking it all away
I don't know you

But you said I was
You said I was beautiful
And then you let everyone touch you
I don't know who

Come down
Down down ribbons
They're falling down
And they're loosening around my neck
And inside bloated seeds silence is you
The sound of beauty's song
A heart broken on jagged edge
A heart broken on your unkempt melody and face
My love, disentangle me
I don't know you
If you see me, unable to see from miles away
The beauty of me

I feel like I could be hanging on your door
I know I'll never have your soul
But say we'll always be good friends
Say that you'll always be
I feel like I could be hanging on your door
I know I'll never have your soul
But say we'll always be good friends
Say that you'll always be
I feel like I could be hanging on your door
I know I'll never have your soul
But say we'll always be good friends
Say that you'll always be here

On leaving

Once again, here we are
Sailing around with no ethereal bounds
And on your moment of leaving
It's so serene
Your beauty remains here
Once again your beauty remains here

So serene

How blind the ocean heart
Too open for tonight
Only

But you will fly with this enchanting rhythm
Running through me
Away from here
Once again your moving away from here

Oh, you really know what's going on
Oh, you really know what's going on
What you do it for is escaping me
When I look at you I feel you, you slip through me
You wanna slip slow between my voices
I'll suck you in
When you leave you leave with the grace of a bird in flight
Death can't step between us, it's between our minds, yeah
We feel unbound by ourselves, trust in anything
We feel unbound by our sense, escaping me
We feel unbound by our sense

So what about create your own universe, the satisfaction, your life-force?
I'm not afraid of another expression, so what about and on and on and on

Eyes open
Spell is broken
Thick with emotion

Eyes open who are you? ruined my memory, memory
Too open I'm nothing the expression weakens
Come on, come on, oh come on
I'm nothing, nothing no no no

Eyes open
Spell is broken
Eyes open

Eyes open
Eyes open
Thick with emotion

So what about it?

Eyes open

You don't know what you're doing it, doing it for
You don't know what you're doing it, doing it for
You don't know what you're doing it, doing it for
You don't know what you're really doing it for

Shoot

Alone
On the edge of something new
Surround me a simple shell, you
In a forest of frozen people
Dumbfound you found me

I feel a shoot
I feel a thunderbolt
Undo my body
I feel shoot
I feel a thunderbolt
The entrance of your soul

Come with me falling through the red clouds helplessly
Come kiss me so that I can read your lips

I feel a shoot
I feel a thunderbolt
Undo my body
I feel a shoot
I feel a thunderbolt
The entrance of your soul

Telling stories, all to hide the stories you cannot tell
Broken hearts and razorblades, the wreck of the tortured combination
Telling stories, all to hide the stories you cannot tell
Let me reach the stars so I might slip into answers beyond this constellation

Shoot your striptease heart
In sight, a nightlight
Shoot you striptease heart
In sight, a nightlight
Shoot you striptease heart
In sight, a nightlight
Shoot you striptease heart
In sight, a nightlight

Into my blood

Weave between smoke and silhouettes
Did the night catch sight of you yet
Oh why
Is it so unkind

So the morning brings something to fight
Into the frame of its idiot light
It keeps me inside

I wait all my life
Just for the rush
The passing of fire
Into my blood

All the reasons that raced through my mind
Just to keep me twisted and dry
I leave them behind

Watch the people get tricked out of time
Every dream they had passing them by
I know there's freedom to find

I wait all my life
Just for the rush
The passing of fire
Into my blood

Wait all my life
Just for the rush
The passing of fire into my blood
Into my blood

Burn the secrets I know a landslide well
Always fall on the eclipse side
Tell me I've got gold on the way home
The way
I wait all my life
Just for the rush
The fear and the fight
towards the inside
Into the light, ready to burn
I wait no more or hang on my turn
You move too slow, it's like waiting to die
To diffuse my mind
A dreamless divide
Hands to the floor
This feeling is pure
The shooting of love
Into my blood
Into my blood

Lacuna

Sun said it's gonna shine on, down into my window
It's gonna light my room just right
Gonna shine and make the pain go

There you go running from the rain
In case it turned to thunder
I ripped out the reason, the truth that dragged you under
Speaking in disguises your words are ornamental
A vapour trail and then you are gone

I got lesson to learn

There's a lot to be
Said for this morbid self-attention
The problem lies in my external obsession
Animal is hungry been sleeping for too long
I’m gonna fill this lacuna somehow

I'm thinking of a man I once knew
I thought I had the hang of
He never learnt that the heart is perishable without love
But keep your heart out of it now concentrate your vision
I'm lying here like a forfeit awaiting your incision
I don't wanna hear about it
Your new infatuation
I just wanna leave here wearing a smile

And I got lesson to learn

There's a lot to be
Said for this morbid self-attention
The problem lies in my external obsession
Oh baby it don't make no difference, your preference
Come fill this lacuna at least for now

I can think of a good few reasons to get fucked up but
You're just looking for an excuse to call yourself a fuck up
Look at her without the burden of what it is that you live for
She'll still be here when your carnival is over
She'll still be here when you are gone

Paris

Paris is beautiful during the summertime, I hear
Here is so dull and grey after the April snow has cleared
I keep New York in mind, rain on the streets this time of year
I saw you in my mind, I conquer your forbidden land
See your treasure's inside the sea
Don't waste your time walking the sand

Your answer is under water
You won't miss the sun you got the light you give
Oh you give
Though the moon lights the surface
It's a shadow land that serves the purpose
for how you live, how you live

Send out your thought beams
Something to lead me on my way
I used to float in your eye stream to weigh up my beauty day by day
I know broken bones don't come close to the pain of hidden truth
I caught your dream in mine, I saw us walking hand in hand
See your treasure's inside the sea
Don't waste your time walking the sand

Your answer is under water
You won't miss the sun you got the light you give
Oh you give
Oh the moon lights the surface
It's a shadow land that serves a purpose
For you live, how you live

Oh your answer is underwater
You won't miss the sun you got the light you give
Oh you give, you give, you give
And though your moon lights my surface
It's a shadow land that serves the purpose
For how you live, how you live, how you live
How you live

Monument

Windowsill, Paris, France
Cast a shadow of this chance
Hanging over Gare du Nord like I never asked for more
Statues on a building top
Stooping for the fire we got
Heart's new incantation

Your face bared to the sheer moonlight
Time flies and I'm hitching a ride.

Red lights, cars zoom past, New York had a heart attack
Screaming into a new world

Sunrise at Sacré Coeur, I turn to move into the church
Silence wraps around my head like everything I've never said
My heart is reeling, opening to let me in
New day's illumination

Will it rain then and drown this out
I could die here and never be found out

Sweat freezes on my face
Moving forward from this place
Screaming into a new world

I'm not looking for answers at a time like this
I can feel this moment
For once let it come
Let it, oh God, let it come

Well, it's protect or sacrifice
Waste my time thinking twice
Redirect back to earth
I never knew less than a heartbreaker
Tore down monument
Never be the same again
My new destination

Drop down silhouette
Conscience fade to black
Burn out your blood so blessed in your military dress
Heaven's incandescent glow, honourable way to go
Screaming
Oh, I go screaming into a new world

Motel 74

I stole into the eyes of a boy singing the blues
Hair jet black kicked starts from his shoes
I smoked his cigarette cause his lips had touched it
And I found out soon he sure know how to use a hotel room

I could open my hands and let the rain come down
But you're just to close to dream I had
And I'm scared and I don't know why I do
But I miss you

He stood there restless, waiting for me
Body hummed with colours I have never seen
He said 'we keep on burning, honey, like two stars in the same constellation
Screaming through the air'
Then with a look like the light leaving
He said 'I've known you for a thousand years'

I could open my hands and let the rain come down
But you're just to close to dream I have
I'm scared and I don't know why
I can't watch you go
I can't watch you go
I know it sounds strange and untrue
But I miss you

Girls on the streets, shine ruby lips
Black straight hair from tip to hip
Brown eyes blaze under blue eyelashes
for you
honey for you.

Little girl watch out
(as you pretty so be wise)
Little girl be proud
(never steal into the eyes)
Little girl get out
(of the kind that hypnotize)
Little get watch out
Little girl be proud
Little girl get out
Little girl watch out
Little girl be proud
Little girl get out

Overcome

Too many ghosts reside behind this window
I could dig it out but I don't
Hear the beginning of morning song
Tripping lightly from night's tongue
City lights fade below me
Black wings spread overhead
Lover, didn't you know me

I will overcome
I will over
I will overcome
I will over

Slow my body moves into the future forever
Waiting for the moment of give
Temper the balance of life and love
Fall and the tightrope chokes
You will over land and sea
To find the girl to shoot the pearl for one man only

I will overcome
I will over
I will overcome
I will over

I will overcome
I will over
I will overcome
I will over

Black wings spread overhead
Lover, didn't you know me

Sit tight

Sit tight, it's your version of alive
You keep your molecules inside
I know you know desire is not so polite

Take a quick breath, do you fear what's inside
Restraint is the frame that you have found
But I see your soul as Juan Miro
Or maybe a Chagall
Escaping through your eyes like a liquid time

Take a quick breath do you fear what's inside
Take a quick breath, do you still feel

Your tongue is twisted silk like
Into ragged reason, untie your disguise
Come into the sunlight
There you are in sight

The reason is, the reason is
The reasons are there for you to ignore

You drift into the wind of love
And all you desired and dreamed of
Is found under your feet
It was there all the time

I know you feel alone,
Those pictures are never gonna leave my head
Your tears so heavy, they're breaking down doors inside your head
Someday you're gonna find her
she will be almost blinded
By the light so bright you keep inside your heart, heavy as lead

I know you feel alone,
those pictures are never gonna leave my head
Your tears so heavy, they're breaking down doors in your head, in your head
Someday you're gonna find her
She will be almost blinded
By the light so bright you keep inside your heart

Elegy

Something ripped me open
From my little death awoken
The fading rhythm of lifeline
Is music for a dead child
I'm skirting the rim, skirting the rim of reality
Skirting the rim
Lord don't pull me in

Somehow everything is broken
Hours past and never replayed
I see the sickness of a love that
Though it breathes, can never be made

There are cracks where the white light burns through
Seems I see everything but the truth
Once more to that sacred place
The dream that sucks me under
I'm skirting the rim, skirting the rim of reality
Skirting the rim
Lord don't pull me in

Somehow everything is broken
Hours past and never replayed
I see the sickness of love that
Though it breathes, can never be made

Somehow everything is clearer now
Hours pass with never a release
I see the sadness of a moment
Though it lived was never seen

Treated my body like a stolen car
Wait
Twelve story building drop
Wait

Well I didn't mean to be looking for you
But it's cold in the alley and my life's a mess
There's a room on fire in the back of my brain
I've been searching through faces but they're all the same

Temptation
I give up the fight
Tonight my body is an open mouth
Temptation
I just have to know right now
'Cause I don't wanna be the one
Who let you go, you go

My mouth burns up when I try to speak
There's something about you, makes me feel so weak
I can't seem to find what I came here for
You know we could be lovers but I just want more
My arms are open but you play with me
A sweet strip-tease

Temptation
I give up the fight
Tonight my body is an open mouth
Temptation
I just have to know right now
'Cause I don't wanna be the one
Who let you go

But you're stand there waiting for the blood to drain
Too long, waiting for a day that never breaks
Watching it pass like a speeding train
Hold me now or run, run, run

Temptation
I give up the fight
Tonight my body is an open mouth
Temptation
I just have to know right now
'Cause I don't wanna be the one
Who let you go, you go

I don't wanna be the one
Who let you go, you go

How many times

I want to get away
I just can't help myself
Seems everything that I've got
Has been had by somebody else

You know I've been so lost
I've been locked in a poison space
I don't think that I can stand
Another minute in this place

How many times, uh
How many times, uh

Morning enters my brain like a razor
Wake up with a face like a snapshot of a New York day
I sit pretty with a fist for a drink
Well how long now until you turn up
Shooting lines of advise like a heart attack
I never heard anything quite as, as exciting as that
I can't stand these people, I keep paying for help
Help

How many times, uh
How many times, uh

I can't stand these questions
I keep asking myself
I need a way home
I, I, I need help

How many times
How, how, how many
How many times, uh
How many times

Gravity lies

It's how you know you're alive
Earths gravity lies
Up in that head of fire
And some madness

Will it drive you along
Your collision track
'Til the skin pulled across your bone
Come crawling back

Follow, follow where you're headed
A world with only you in it
Collide, collide bruised and expired
Follow what you've found
All the way down

Until it blows your mind
Thrusts you open wide
One greedy body to body
Won't fasten

A heart cold and still
Still waiting
Held open 'til
'Til morning
And it rips through every cell
The burned and the burning
The burned and the burning

Follow, follow where you're headed
A world with only you in it
Collide, collide bruised and expired
Follow what you've found
All the way down

Earths gravity lies
Earths gravity lies

Ready to confess

From the glittering tail
To the constant moan
It hooked me in put a magnet in my bones

Here I come again
City lights
Looking for something big on the inside

I'm ready to confess
I'm ready to say yes
I'm ready to confess, ah!

There's a hunger that's sweet
Not satisfied
When I swore that I don't know
I lied, I lied

And the blood flows electricity
Becoming a part of the disease

I'm ready to confess
I'm ready to say yes
I'm ready to confess

Here I come again
City lights
Looking for something big on the inside

I'm ready to confess
I'm ready to say yes
I'm ready to confess, ah!

I'm ready to confess, ah!
I'm ready to say yes, ah!
I'm ready to confess

Want More

It's not me
I'm representing someone who died during the conversation
Sharp tongue
You just had to let it loose
Start the incision

There's nothing you do
That's worth the price I pay
And my heart moves south every time
You open your mouth

I've got everything that I need
Right here
I've got everything right here
But I want more
I want more

Get up
Tell me what you want to do
Make a decision
Stand still
Caught up in the middle
Of your panic revolution

What was it that you said
That changed the world
You were so far behind
That nobody heard

I've got everything that I need
Right here
I've got everything right here
But I want more

I've got everything that I need
Right here
I've got everything right here
But I want more
I want more

It's you, it's you, it's you...

Take the money

I took a plane to the west coast
To learn how to be someone else
Ended up in the desert
Sending postcards to myself
So many bodies on a washing line
All trying to taste success
I lost my soul in the rush, rush
I took the money and I left the rest

How long can I be
Hungry
How long can I be
Hungry

(Got love)
Got love and I've got soul
I'll take the money
I'll take the money
(Got friends)
Got friends wherever I go
I'll take the money
I'll take the money
(Got needs)
Got everything I need
I'll take the money
I'll take the money
Out of the crowd
Into the zoo
Ah, ah
T-take the money!

You know you've got me
In the elevator
You know you've got me
On the radio
You know you've got me
In the supermarket
I'm all yours at the disco
I'm gonna give it to you 'til you choke
This bogus poetry
I know the devil has won, won
I'm tangled up in the machinery

How long can I be
Hungry
How long can I be
Hungry

(Got love)
Got love and I've got soul
I'll take the money
I'll take the money
(Got friends)
Got friends wherever I go
Oh I'll take the money
I'll take the money
(Got needs)
Got everything I need
I'll take the money
I'll take the money
Out of the crowd
Into the zoo, zoo, zoo

The money
The money
The money
Take the money

T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-take the money!
T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-take the money!
Suck -a- cock- a -cess !
T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-take the money!
T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-take the money!

Downslow

I found him
Long distance
His hands burned
Moved back words

How can I leave you here
Wrapped in your bouquet of fears
Ok, I'll wait
I said come on pussy cat
Not much can better that
Ok, I'll wait

Slow down
Slow down
Slow down
Stop
Du-du-du-du-du

I feel him
A low burn
You soon learn
Space travelling

It's bound to come undone
But your body is so much fun
Ok, I'll wait
This love is sticks and stones
I just don't want to be left alone
Ok, I'll wait

Slow down
Slow down
Slow down
Stop
Du-du-du-du-du

Slow down
Slow down
Slow down
Stop
Du-du-du-du-du

Slow down
Slow down
Slow down
Stop
Du-du-du-du-du

Slow down
Slow down
Slow down
Stop

Come to you

Can you honestly expect me
To take you seriously
When you've put nothing on the line at all
When you say you can’t believe in
Believing
Are you setting yourself up to fall

And I will not wait
For someone to save me

Watching it come
Then pass you by
Something inside
Is keeping the fear alive

I will not come to you
I will not come to you
I will not come to you, I

I won't give nothing
For such empty reflections
Such high expectation
Will burn in your hands

Do you recognize
When people break you down
And there is no time to build
Another wall
Well you walk fast and you talk fast but
But you don't move at all

I will not come to you
I will not come to you
I will not come to you, I

I won't give nothing
For such empty reflections
Such high expectation
Will burn in your hands

You tell yourself
"It's the wrong time, it's the wrong time"
And things go by
In the meantime, in the meantime

And I will not come to you
I will not come to you
I will not come to you, I

I will not come to you
I will not fall with you
I will not carry you
Nothing is wrong with you
You can't deliver
Wrapped up in the future
And nothing will come to you
Nothing will come to you
Nothing will come to you
Nothing will come to you
Such high expectation will burn in you hands

Slow motion addict

Today I'm not present
Footsteps disguised as wings
Neither poison my brain
With memories that tease and sting

Step out into the sun
Let light into my eyes
My feet don't touch the ground
My head fills up the sky

Try to hold on
Makes no difference
There's no choice if you never had it
Try to move on
Makes no difference
To a slow motion addict

I float through dreams like a helium balloon
One trip and the morning comes too soon
Try to hold it, try to hold it

My blood
Carries the ghosts
Like bulls filling the streets
Like everything in this universe
Is on it's way to me

Try to hold on
Makes no difference
There's no point if you never had it
Try to move on
Makes no difference
To a slow motion addict

I float through dreams like a helium balloon
One trip and the morning comes too soon
Try to hold it, try to hold it

January heart

You've got me with a heavy heart
I love your January heart
You've got me with a heavy heart

The sky is falling in my head
Count your stars
Wish me dead

You fell like a child into my arms
I did not mean to bring you harm

When the day comes to an end
So ugly and so fierce
With the darkness moving in
The shadows disappear

You've got me with a heavy heart
I love your January heart
You've got me with a heavy heart

You kept my secret, still intact
I kept your heart
But you stole it back

It's much to early but it's time to go
I love you more
Than you'll ever know
Than you'll ever know

When the day comes to an end
So hopeful and so real
With the darkness moving in
The shadows disappear

You've got me with a heavy heart
I love your January heart
You've got me with a heavy heart
.
You've got me with a heavy heart
I love your January heart
You've got me with a heavy heart

It's much too early but it's time to go
I love you more than you'll ever know
Than you'll ever know

The disconnection

I bet you a mile
Of my favourite thought train
That the chance don't skin skim
This close, this way again

Would I watch you disappear
Through a traffic of people
All washed up in their indelible secrets

Hold on

Don't be scared of the disconnection
And disillusion you're feeling inside
Sometime in time, when you're lost on the way
You'll see its necessary
For freedom of mind

Hold on

All inclined to the hand that cools me
I wade through the fire
Still the cold consumes me
Waiting for daylight
Through the shattering of the glass
I hear the murmuring as you pass
Like the train that I meant to catch

Hold on

Don't be scared of the disconnection
And disillusion you're feeling inside
Sometime in time, when you're lost on the way
You see it's necessary for freedom of mind
Hold on
Hold on

The city

Staring too long at the lights
Seems no reason to feel alright just yet
Take my trouble to the street
I can't fall asleep
Fall asleep
Fall asleep
Fall.. listening to it

The city
A heartbeat
It moves on
Despite me

Just a glimpse of what could be home
Two thousand miles, I'd go
Just a sniff of what could be home
And I can't fall asleep

Seems no reason for the rush
Moving slowly is still moving
As such
All these people are just dust
Evil puppeteers
Evil tears
Evil tears
Evil

The city
A heartbeat
It moves on
Despite me

The city
A heartbeat
It moves on
Despite me

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Same girlfriend

I'm not the same girlfriend
Who loves your broken mouth
I'll follow you upstairs
It's so, so, so, it's so, so

It's so what you want
It's so what you are
Is that what you want
Is that what you are

I'm not the same girlfriend
To fit perfectly in
I'll show you something to remember, remember
You'll never seem so so again

It's so what you want
It's so what you are
Is that what you want
Is that what you are

I'm not the same girlfriend
Who wants to free your soul
Oh, I'll write you a letter
A letter, a letter, letter

It's so what you want
It's so what you are
Is that what you want
Is that what you are

It's so what you want
It's so what you are
Is that what you want
Is that what you are

Will I see you again
Will I see you again

Backseat

( Things You Should Know EP )

We were sleeping in for years
Letting go of our friends
Scaring our friends
We were seeing clearer closing our eyes
And our lashes intertwined

The things you find
In the backseat of your mind
What you find

And we filled each others footprints in the snow
Full of warm red alcohol
We were learning to make the world stand still
And it will
But until

Do I lie
In the backseat of your mind
Do I lie

Just a second
And were gone
Just an imprint when were done
Just a second a
And we're gone
Just an imprint
When we're done

It should be forever
God told me
We're born into the wrong time

Whatever I’m doing you’re here with me
God bless you
Whatever you’re doing I’m there with you
God bless you...

We’re born into the wrong time

The singalong bit is

It should be forever
God told me
We’re born into the wrong time...

Body Shaped Bruise

Honey what will it take, this time
To start a fight
In your sad, swooping mind
It sends sparks on the inside
Flying out of sight

Just lean, just lean
Into the fall

How long, how long
Have you been sleepwalking
Sleepwalking

This body shaped bruise
So Long was walking blind
It's too hard, there's too much to learn
It's too high and the rope burns

Dress smooth, dress smooth (?)
Into the mall (?)
It's too soon, it's too soon
To be sleepwalking

Just lean, just lean
Into the fall
How, how long
Have you been sleepwalking

Come Pick Me Up

( Ryan Adams Cover )

When they call your name
Will you walk right up
With a smile on your face
Or will you cower in fear
In your favourite sweater

With an old love letter
I wish you would

I wish you would
Come pick me up
Take me out
Fuck me up
Steal my records
Screw all my friends
They're all full of shit
With a smile on your face
And then do it again

I wish you would
When you're walking downtown
Do you wish I was there
Do you wish it was me
With the windows clear and the mannequins eyes

Do they all look like mine?
You know you could

I wish you would
Come pick me up
Take me out
Fuck me up
Steal my records
Screw all my friends behind my back
With a smile on your face
And then do it again

I wish you would
I wish you'd make up my bed
So I could make up my mind
Try it for sleeping instead
Maybe you'll rest sometime
I wish I could

( Live / Etta James cover )

I can do what I want
I'm in complete control
That's what I tell myself
I got a mind of my own
I'll be alright alone

Don't need anybody else

I gave myself a good talkin' to
No more bein' a fool for you
And when I see you all I remember
Is how you make me wanna surrender

Damn your eyes
For takin' my breath away
Makin' me wanna stay
Damn your eyes
For getting my hopes up high
Makin' me fall in love again
Damn your eyes

It's always the same
You say that you'll change
Some how you never do
I believe all your lies
Look in your eyes

You make it all seem true

I guess I see what I wanna see
Or is my heart just deceiving me
And with that look I know so well
I fall completely under your spell

Damn your eyes
For takin' my breath away
Makin' me wanna stay
Damn your eyes
For getting my hopes up high
Makin' me fall in love again
Damn your eyes

You came deliberately deceiving me
Makin' me see what I wanna see

Damn your eyes
For takin' my breath away
Makin' me wanna stay
Damn your eyes
For getting my hopes up high
Makin' me fall in love again
Damn your eyes

( Things You Should Know EP )

See me down see me out
See those wings you gave me
Watch me fly across the sea
Count the ways you made me
Walked in circles walked the line
Tripped through tangled heart strings
Made an enemy of time
Made a mess of all things
All things

I have thought and think about
What and how to tell you
I have lived it seems without
Learning how to be true
But I meant every word I said
From deranged to divine
And I would do it all again
As if for the first time
The first time

The hurt that the head forgets
The heart will always remember
The hold that the hand regrets
The heart remembers forever

I am sorry I am so
For the things you don't know
And as for the things you do
I am sorry for those too

Out of every broken heart
Broken rule and promise
I have made a rescue raft
And sail towards you on it
On it

The hurt that the head forgets
The heart will always remember
The hold that the hand regrets
The heart remembers forever

Well, do you do you want me
Do you know how to show
How to show these things
I just didn't want to have to ask
Just didn't want to have to
Least of all people
You

Should you find someone with whom
There’s no shiver or shout
With whom never to assume
To much rain or a drought
Scratch your name into her heart
Scratch away all the doubt
Scratch my memory from your brain
I'll scratch her fucking eyes out
Eyes out

I was put together wrong
Still I was made for you
When our stitches come undone
We come together like glue
Like glue

( Things You Should Know EP )

So they say lord for everything a reason
For every ending a new beginning
And so they say baby for everything a reason
And so they say baby for everything a reason

And those who loved before will be bought back together
Those who loved before will be bought back together
And so they say baby for everything a reason
And so they say baby you will be bought
Back to me

I saw you leaving
I saw the light go out

And so they say lord for everything a reason
My house is haunted by rotten desire
And on my skin left the scent of indignation
And so they say baby for everything a reason

Don't call me that I had everything i needed
For every lie honey the truth lies underneath it
And so they say baby for everything a reason
And so they say baby you will be born
Back to me

I saw you leaving
I saw the light go out

Come back to me

( Miles Hunt )

It was warm when we met
She said 'boy you'd regret it
Should you ever leave my side'

It was cold when I split
My heart had turned to shit
And I was having 'that' trouble with my mind

I said 'girl I'll call you tomorrow'
She said 'yeah, you & Benecio del Toro'

But you're such a lucky girl
To have been a part of my sick world
And I leave with no sickness or sorrow

But ooohhh if I ever missed a beat it was yours
ooohhh if I ever missed a beat it was yours
You're four to the floor

Well I thought if I stayed then
We'd both get waylaid
And our hearts & hopes would swallow us whole

Yeah they may mock & joke
But they could never call us nervous folk
Not for the way we chose go on

Cos girl we could beg, steal & borrow
And drink like our legs have gone hollow

And I'm such a lucky man
To've been the one to understand
I leave with no sickness or sorrow

Hookah

I am a hookah
The water through which you pass
Angel smoke, angel smoke

I am a hookah
The water through which you pass
Danger smoke
Danger

I ride by flying horses
Nothing to declare
But cold knees, cold knees

I ride by flying horses
Nothing to declare
But cold knees
Cold

Delicate men, delicate men
You can be such fools (?) in my heart

He whispered to me
'I am the digger of eyes
Let me in, let me in'

Whispered to me
'I am the digger of eyes
Let me in, let me in'

Delicate men, delicate men
You can be such fools(?)

Delicate men, delicate men
You can be such fools (?) in my heart

It's time
It's time
Time to give up
Time to go home
No one is noticing you
No one is noticing you
No one is noticing you
At the idiot dance, oh
At the idiot dance, oh

You
Yeah, you
You sat on the bench
And watched 'em all dance
There was no one for you
There was no one for you
There was no one for you
At the idiot dance, oh
At the idiot dance, oh

Come here
I'm watching you sing
Invisible, oh but you know how it goes
Invisible boys in old ragged clothes
Invisible girls who nobody knows
I can't watch you go

Some of them kiss
Some of them stare
Some of them go
Dancing on air
There was no one for you
There was no one for you
There was no one for you
At the idiot dance, oh
At the idiot dance, oh

Come here
I'm watching you sink
Invisible, oh but you know how it goes
Invisible boys in old tattered clothes
Invisible girls who nobody knows
I can't watch you go

( Things You Should Know EP )

It’s not safe to talk here
The walls are listening
The line is so clear
Almost feel your skin touching my skin
So push push the light switch
Spark up another cigarette
Breathe in slow slow slow
Explode explode explode

So push your fingers in
Come on touch my frightened heart
Bring your quiet mouth closer
Come apart
I want to smash through
Smash through this moment 'til it's gone
Just want to have you
That's all that's all that's all

Please don't stop
Be mine in a carpet made of stars
I close my eyes and dive in
Please don't stop because I’m scared too
Please don't stop because I’m scared too

( Live )

Drop me off in the desert
For a while
Such hard working minds
Make love easy to deny
Simplicity hurts
Take love for what its worth
Simplicity hurts
Take love, take love

It’s not complicated
Just hard sometimes
How long have you waited
For the one who can truly recognize
Simplicity hurts
Take love for what its worth
Simplicity hurts
When devices of protection
Take me further from my love
When everything I had
Or thought I knew is burned
I learn to take love, take love
Take love in return

Thief In The Sky

( Things You Should Know EP )

Spanish bar on american street
You’re the one I like the mostest
Holding hands by the sea
Like holding on to a ghost

Eyes like headlights
Headed straight into me
Eyes like headlights

Softest kiss in summer hear
You put the storm
The storm inside
Of a heart of concrete
Morning comes around like a thief in disguise

Time like tail lights
Always moving away from me
Time like tail lights

I stay up
I stay up
Every
Every night
Thinking of
Thinking of you

Disappear into the sun
Tie up my tongue with sad goodbyes
Far away love down telephone line
Aeroplane is a thief in the sky

Eyes like headlights
Over the cliff into the sea
Eyes like headlights
You’re the one I want
For me

I stay up
I stay up
Every
Every night
Thinking of
Thinking of you

Thief in the, thief in the
Thief in the, thief in the sky
Thief in the, thief in the
Thief in the, thief in the

Telephone wire tie me up
Tear me up with sad goodbyes
Disappear into the sun
Aeroplane is a thief in the sky
Telephone wire cut me up
Tie me up with up with sad goodbyes
I disappear into the thunder
A thief in the
A thief in the sky
Aeroplane is a thief in the sky