B i o g r a p h y (by Paul Moody)
"I’ve got something to say” whispers Martina, barely ten minutes into The Blue God, her first album for five years. “Have you?” It’s a neat touch -a reminder that for MTB, music is as much about challenging the audience as tapping into the creative flow. “For me, music is about accessing thoughts and emotions that lie below the surface” she explains. “I’m interested in using music as a way of exploring the emotional layers in life.” Martina Topley Bird is one of British pop’s great mavericks. When she first cast strange and exhilarating shadows over contemporary music on Tricky’s ‘Maxinquaye’ in 1995 no one was expecting the arrival of such a precocious young talent. The times were demanding conservative, retro-minded Britpop. Instead, the pair conjured up an intimate yet other-worldly form of down tempo, with Martina’s vocals acting as celestial foil to the blunted genius of the music, causing critics to fall over themselves and cash-till’s to work overtime. Further collaborations on ‘Pre-Millennium Tension’, ‘Angels With Dirty Faces’ and ‘Nearly God’ saw Martina acting as both musical and visual foil to her (then) ex-boyfriend. Dazzling stars in a dull universe, they subverted gender politics and mainstream pop, their chalk’n’cheese synergy chalking up platinum sales en route. “Those records still sound good today, and that’s all you can hope to achieve.” Martina has guested on a who’s who of contemporary music, including David Holmes, Gorillaz, DIPLO, Primus and The John Spencer Blues Explosion, developing her craft as both a singer and songwriter along the way. For her solo debut,’ Quixotic’ (2003) Martina called on heavy friends ranging from David Arnold to Josh Homme to Mark Lanegan to help fulfil her sepiated vision. The result - an exotic fusion of vintage soul, rock and nocturnal blues - duly received a Mercury Prize nomination and prompted Mojo to declare it “a sensual and endlessly inventive record.” “If you look at my career on paper it looks a little bit like a hobby” she says “But it’s always been a matter of waiting for the right people to work with. This is the happiest I’ve been, working in this particular constellation.’’ Such eagerness to see music as a vast melting pot can be traced to her childhood. ‘’I saw The Sugarcubes when I was twelve and after that I really got into alternative music- Faith No More, Jane’s Addiction. I’ve known Josh Homme since he was in Kyuss.” ‘’My Parents played R’n’B and soul in the house (opera and jazz on Sundays). My mum would play one song incessantly in the car to torture us! Barry White was my parents’ smooching music – I guess that’s why it had the opposite effect on me, eugh!’’ Whilst much modern chart music has given up on breaking new ground, Martina’s career has been about deconstructing the past and building something more fantastical in its place. Who better to embark on her latest voyage with, then, than Brian ‘Danger Mouse’ Burton, mastermind of pop situationists Gnarls Barkley, and widely regarded as modern pop’s most visionary thinker. “Brian has been a friend for a long time, and we first worked on a track in May 2005. We were both so excited by the results; we agreed to do the whole record together. I had loads of songs before we started, but in the end I only kept one (‘Poison’). Instead, we created something new between us. Brian is a huge anglophile, and the album is very visual sounding. I wanted there to be a sonic manifesto as well as a lyrical one, and I think that’s been achieved.” The result, The Blue God -recorded in LA over a three month period last year- is where Martina takes the fabulous contradictions of her past and wraps them in live instruments and luxurious production. A unique musical environment which fuses Hollywood glitz, psychedelic-pop riffs, ambient interludes, light and shade and her trademark futuristic pop noir. At the same time it’s a banner under which Martina can deliver ruminations on the human condition. “A lot of the album is about the notion of physical proximity relative to emotional connections between people. My dad, Martin Topley, died when he was twenty-nine. Between the release of ‘Quixotic’ and now I turnedtwenty nine, and I started thinking and what I’d achieved in my life as a human being. Also I wanted to focus on the nature of my relationship with him and with my step father because of the way I felt those relationships were affecting my other relationships.” If sure-fire hit “Poison”, Wurlitzer waltz “Snowman” and Arthur Lee inspired psychedelic-pop gem “April Grove” don’t get your feet moving and your spirits soaring then bad luck, you’re dead already. Elsewhere, “Phoenix”, “Razor Tongue” (featuring bass by Money Mark) and instant classic “Baby Blue” are further reminders Martina has lost none of her freewheeling vocal dexterity. Perhaps best of all, as first single ‘Carnies’ proves, The Blue God is as British as fish’n’chips. “Carnies’ is about how intoxicating it is as a kid to go the fair and go on the rides. You get the horrors and feel out of control, and there’s a real sense of danger. At the same time, the central lyric is “Say what you want/ Life’s too good to be true’’. It’s bittersweet. The song is saying either you’ll come home or you won’t. I’ll always come home, I hope.’’ Intelligent, life-affirming, futuristic, pop noir to make the head spin and the heart soar, then. In a world that has come to welcome self made artists, Martina Topley Bird’s return couldn’t be better timed. She’s got something to say. Have you?
Click HERE For Martina songs Lyrics with Tricky
Intro Need one Anything Soulfood Lullaby Too tough to die Sandpaper kisses Ragga Lying I wanna be there I still feel Ilya Stevie's (days of a gun)
Phoenix Carnies April Grove Something to Say Baby Blue Shangri La Snowman Da Da Da Da (Instrumental) Valentine Poison Razor Tongue Yesterday
Quixotic
*** Thanx a lot to Lana & Kitty from Moon Palace ***
Intro
I'm gonna make the whole world do it I'm hustlin' and take 'em by the heart Won't suffer Not even for one night You know there's no reason for alarm Never to late, the sun don't love the day And I'm not here just to play No, no, no You try to make the whole world do it You hustlin' and take 'em by the arm Don't suffer for the light You know there's no reason for alarm Never too late I'm not here for to play No, no, no Need One
Tell it face to face You got you a race Ain't got no time to taste Low stars in fight If I went away You could walk today Time walks a world away Screw me, you try You're gonna kill some You're gonna free some You're gonna lose someone You're gonna fake some You're gonna want some You're gonna be someone What you're feedin' me Don't make a mark of me I don't bruise so easily No scars inside I tell it face to face I got no time to taste My memory's your fate No scars inside You're gonna kill some You're gonna free some You're gonna lose someone You're gonna taste some You're gonna want some You're gonna believe someone Send me alone I'm solemn and sorry I'm gonna need some I'm gonna need some I'm gonna need someone I think you need some You're gonna need some You're gonna free someone Send me alone Tell it face to face You got you a race Face to face You got you a race Tell it face to face Anything
No doubt You're gonna be thinkin' I'll run out That's where you're so mistaken You take me to a high Of just no other kind I don't want anything (but you) I don't need anything (but you) I don't want anything (but you) I don't need anything (but you) The size Just seems to get bigger The prize is, well, just go figure When I think way back when I can't go back again I don't want anything (but you) I don't need anything (but you) I don't want anything (but you) I don't need anything (but you) My half I thought I'd be stronger But my path T you just seems longer You fake me to a high Of just no other kind I don't want anything (but you) I don't need anything (but you) I don't want anything (but you) I don't need anything (but you) Don't want anything (but you) I don't need anything (but you) I don't want anything (but you) I don't need anything
Soulfood
I wanna tell you I've come to feel I wanna show you How our love is real Leave your jacket on the floor I'm coming around for more Leave your heat in the bed I wanna be there by your head As long as you wanna stay, baby, baby, All you got to say Nobody's coming around today I'm gonna show you Show you where the good times start, baby I wanna show you I wanna show you where the feeling sparks And I'm gonna let you Take all the time you need 'Cause when the soul starts fallin', baby We got time to leave We get trigger happy Got the feeling all day and night We get everybody To sing along in summer night, baby You get everything I got And I know you're feeling fine The sweet sweet feeling you give to me baby I wanna have a good time In the morning We're all singing We're all free, yeah I'm gonna show you Show you where the good times start, baby I wanna show you I wanna show you where the feeling sparks And I'm gonna let you Take all the time you need 'Cause when the soul starts fallin', baby We got time to leave Ever since I was young I wanted, I wanted to love Ever since you came along I'm feeling so much stronger Every way that you show This feelings open to love I'm gonna show you Show you where the good times start, baby I wanna show you I wanna show you where the feeling sparks And I'm gonna let you Take all the time you need Take all the time you need Take all the time you need Take all the time you need Take all the time you need Take all the time you need Take all the time you need Every way, every day I want you near I need you here To be my sea of love (Take all the time you need) Lullaby Let's take our wine closer to the fireside No apologies, so much to say And there is no time There's a fairytale You never learned to read or write Oyster shell You never learned to look inside Take it from me He and I were winter bees I fell easily For visions I'd never see Stardust falling from my halo See there's this fairytale You never learned to read or write Oyster Pearl You never cared to look inside I keep it clean Your fingers press my cheek You're not like me My duty speaks and it moves my feet You don't understand Just like the rock in my hand You don't understand Just like the rock in my hand There's a fairytale You never learned to read or write Oyster shell You never cared to look inside There's a fairytale You never learned to read or write Oyster shell You never learned to look inside Never cared to look inside Never cared, you never cared Never cared to look inside Never cared, you never cared Never cared to look inside Never cared, you never cared
Too Tough To Die Sampled: ... Too tough to die Martina: I always wonder why My mama left town New Haven ain't a bag of salt When nobody knows your name You look so different over the phone Seven states away they're doin' Doin' the strange fruit swing When they come down You have to leave town I am Too tough to die I am Too tough to die Blessed are those who believe Who believe and have not seen I wasn't there And it's got me wondering And the man you make then and now He's burning School's are learning you can't unlearn No room to turn Let alone run And I am Too tough to die I am Too tough to die It's in their eyes It's unspoken Don't even know they're out to do you harm Can't even see the pulse beating In the axle of your arm Outlaw wearin' diamond patches of sunlight on his coat Livin in a cage make a 7 time daddy lose his mind to roam Derision's a cold wind against my skin You keep a-flayin til there's no skin at all What's to hold it together when you stumble And you fall I am Too tough to die I am Too tough to die Sandpaper Kisses
Sandpaper kisses, papercut bliss Don't know what this is, but it all leads to this: You're gonna leave Her You have deceived Her Just a girl Ooh just a girl with featherweight curls To expose all she knows you play like tease Just a girl with featherweight curls To expose all she knows you play like tease You're gonna leave Her You have deceived Her Just a girl I want the soul of something simple to take home with me The world as someplace simple it's my home you see You're gonna leave Her You have deceived Her Just a girl, a blood red pearl Ragga Tricky : Someone wanna come around Dumpin' fun around I bring my pan around And pop one in your shoulder And pop one in your shoulder Martina : Won't no be the same Won't no be the same A stumble pacifist Christian on my list Cause I'm fingers and Noah's You need to hold on A stumbled a pacifist Christian's on my list Cause I'm feeling the fluid They need to hold it I come on fast as this Like a Viper Kiss Tricky make a vapour Make you get your cold on I wrap my tongue around You get to be the clown I come like underground And make you feel older Oh, I love it so much I'm doing things I wouldn't normally do And, when it comes to your touch I'm doing things I wouldn't normally do I wrap my tongue around You get to be the clown I come like underground I make you feel older I wrap my tongue around You get to be the clown Oh I like it so much I'm doing things I wouldn't normally do And when it comes to your touch I'm doing things I wouldn't normally do (x2) Tricky: Someone wanna come around Dumpin fun around I bring my pan around And pop one in your shoulder And pop one in your shoulder And pop one in your shoulder Martina: Oh I love it so much I'm doing things I wouldn't normally do And when it comes to your touch I'm doing things I wouldn't normally do (3x) Lying I walked out of the house in your girlfriend's clothes They fit me better than I would have supposed My mind close the curtain on a lonely repose And when I walk around town everybody knows I'm lying with you Backsliding with you Not trying with you I'm lying with you Out of the house with hangover shame Don't punish me for not calling you Come by the house, I'll be there at eight, Waiting on the stoop for you I'm lying with you Backsliding with you I'm not trying with you I'm lying with you Where are you Ilya? Where are you Ilya? Telephone's ringing and I'm at work Look around to see if anybody heard When I'm undercover I know it's absurd But I want it and I can't say no But I want it and I can't say no I'm lying with you Backsliding with you Not trying with you I'm lying with you Where are you? Where are you? Dadada
I Wanna Be There I wanna be there when you arrive I wanna see her I'll shred her eyes I wanna be here when you defy I wanna see it with my own eyes You know you can't leave me fraying I don't know what I'd do with myself On the day I see you coming I don't know what I'll do with myself I don't like your sense of fun I'll be laughing, watch you run I don't like your sense of fun I'll be laughing, watch you run, run, run I wanna be there I wanna be there (repeated)
I Still Feel Wish that I could close my eyes And stop this room from moving Any sound could cause surprise Except my blue phone ringing Won't someone come see me They could change my weather We could talk together now Because I still feel high And so low (low low low) Oh I still feel high And so low (low low low) Is my reflection telling lies Or is my mind just blinking Self esteem and bottle mark Compete for last position Why don't you come home and be me You could read my letter We could talk forever ( and ever ) Because I still feel high And so low (low low low) Oh I still feel high And so low (low low low) And when the dark Separates the earth You wanna come down slow You wanna come down nice Wanna come down slow Wanna come down nice Because I still feel high And so low (low low low) Oh I still feel high And so low (low low low) Oh I feel so high And so low (low low low) Oh I feel so high And so low (low low low) And when the love Is falling down You wanna know Who's stumbling up Oh when we do My lover says You wanna go You don't wanna stay You don't wanna stay Don't wanna stay (Feel so high And so low) Feel so high Feel so high So high Ilya
Tell you baby I've been waiting For so long I want it over It's pleasant waiting It's pleasant hating Placenta fed Get out of my head Life's a laugh When you complain about The way that I give All I have to give You say you want more: You can't sustain without You wanna live But you don't know how Overthinking, Smoking and drinking You're in my head It's time for bed One word my lover I can be hollow When you say Goin' away Cut you in half See how you feel without I want you to live But you don't know how Am I gone? I want to be reborn Thought I was in love Tell me was I wrong You know we were wrong together Ain't it funny, they say it's sunny And come the cloud: My inside out Water bed In my head It's pleasant waiting It's pleasant hating They say it's fine And then come the storm No memory of ever feeling warm I don't mind The rain and such But I miss the warm The warm of your .... You know we were wrong together You know we were wrong together You know we were wrong together You know we were wrong together You know we were wrong together Together Together Together Together Together Stevie's (Days Of A Gun)
Somebody saw you on fire These are the days of a gun Nobody'd say you won't try it You are the sword I'm falling on ... Your not solid for no reason What say you see them falling down dead How do you stay a lover inside? How do you stay a lover inside? Somebody saw you on fire These are the days of a gun Nobody'd say you won't try it You are the sword I'm falling on Don't say there's no challenge What sort of thing are we starting? Who are you when you're not what you fear What say you see them falling down dead How do you stay a lover inside? How do you stay a lover inside? Learning blood Long as your heart don't have to share All turned on To reach the wounded sounded fair Handcuff a tongue I can't believe it's so unfair Some day Some day
The Blue God
Phoenix All move so fast here No one can last here Lucky for us, dear Round and round we go Darling, the turn is resistant to you, I do Forgetting to follow your instict, do you, I do I will stay for this last transformation From where we start it soon gets precarious I will stay for this last transformation Beauty and tragedy released in the end Here now we’re kneeling Now we’re revealing Purge every feeling As we turn to dust Don’t get yourself in mischief Do you, you don’t, do you? Together whatever the distance to you I'll come to you I will stay for this last transformation Flares and arcs will lead us out to sea Far above you the stars light the heavens Beauty and tragedy released in the end Out in the distance Blue god encrypted Phoenix persistent Round and round we go
*** Thanx a lot to garconfou for this one ***
Carnies Ferris Wheels and Cotton Candy Folks try to stall as the kids get antsy They sit there complaining there’s nothing else to do So we pick up our coats and go down to the fair Who knows what we’ll find when we get there Eyes will be streaming, faces split in two Carnies have come to town If they stay will you hang around Lately where have you gone I’ve been waiting for so long When will you come back Say what you want life’s too good to be true Jump-start me after I’m through the sun-roof Soon I’ll be home but I don’t know if you will too
April Grove ( Chrysalis Cover ) Watching the silent wings of Robber Fly I contemplate his victims As they die No one sheds a tear No one interferes Life will come and go this year In April Grove Under the moldy leaves some Springtails stay They hardly ever see the Light of day Till you scratch away At their roof of clay Then they always jump away In April Grove April Grove I'm an alien In clothing in your realm I’m alone I’m invading But you're holding me here And I’m overwhelmed getting stoned Watching meanderings of Swallowtails Following thistle blossom Pollen trails Sipping flower juice In the sun profuse Between shadows seeping through To April Grove April Grove I'm an alien In clothing in your realm I’m alone I’m invading But you're holding me here And I’m overwhelmed getting stoned Watching meanderings of Swallowtails Following thistle blossom Pollen trails No one interferes No one ever hears Life will come and go this year In April Grove
Something to Say Tell me something can I tell you Or tell me can I get it to you This fan don't give us something to do I hold a second and I refill you I got something to say So don’t believe you are me Help me I call my hand (?!) I saw so much to choose How unsettled are you I want a boy I can use Out of solitude I got something to say I got something to say I got something to say You got something to say You got something to say Tell me something to chase him away All of falling is use and not need It’s so taken and taken over me It’s so obtuse and it proves you’re on a leash And all hallucinations When there's already someone else Not if I caught for living (?) Or did you rinse your hands Tell me where she lives Come on and listen sit down now child I got something to say But don’t believe you are me I got something to say I got something to say You got something to say You got something to say I got something to say I got something to say You got something to say You got something to say
*** Thanx a lot to Adam for this one ***
Baby Blue
I don't think you should wait nor a minute more 'Cause she's a girl that you've been waiting for It's funny how the noises that I'm making Can't drown the sound of my heart breaking Baby Blue I don't know what to do when you call to me Baby Blue I never really knew I belonged to you Just one brief glance was all that I needed to Believe that you might feel what I feel for you In the night I wake up hard breathing No peace, you're calling to me in my dreaming Baby Blue I don't know what to do when you call to me Baby Blue I never really knew I belonged to you No each last chance will rush up to meet me and feign The love will remain Baby Blue I don't know what to do when you call to me Baby Blue I never really knew I belonged to you Oh desert rose if only I find a blue In the night, into his room Brush his lips, wait 'till the morning In his eyes a new love dawning Baby Blue I don't know what to do when you call to me Baby Blue I never really knew I belonged to you
Shangri La See me, I see you too There’s no strings to what we do It’s a wireless phase and the camera stays I bend into place, a Maria full of Grace And I wonder if you could do All I do for you And it’s so original and it’s so beautiful I can see me in the way you are Knowing everywhere I go you’re my picture on the wall I see me in the way I am When I reach town, baby I’m a touchdown I see us in the way we are And I’m running for a train and I’m coming home again And then maybe I can slowdown Walk in a circle Trying to find our way home It’s cruel to detain me Unbuckle and deplane me A wireless phase and the camera says I bend into place a Maria full of Grace Do you know what I do for you Know what I do, do you And it’s so beautiful and it’s so original I can see me in the way you are Knowing everywhere I go you’re my picture on the wall I see me in the way I am When I reach town, baby I’m a touchdown I see us in the way we are And I’m running for a train and I’m coming home again And then maybe I can slow down Walk in a circle Finding our way home Run in a circle Finding our way home…
Snowman Wasn't gonna miss him I miss him now Built a fire Like I was gone And now I know A lonely longing heart Wait for love For I feel lifted up On the tip of your tongue Even now I listen I listen hard The suppliers of higher love They say "no, no" Once we wrote it all And sent it home For I feel, written off How we're wasting our time Wasting time Valentine It's oh so late to start wishing This heart of mine, you're gonna own They fade away and now you're here I didn't know It's only you Valentine Go out in the light Why suffer back in the game All living, all our sin the same All the faithful heal, they're all praying They refer to Valentine Oh, return They release you then you turn to see Make it feel alright The only thing is that I didn't I tried to climb but fell on home I feel around and still your here Your coming home But before you do Valentine Go out in the light Out in the moonlit sky I saw you Poison Just the memory of you It feels like poison Still the memory of you It feels like poison It kills like poison Why you do the things you do It feels like poison I can only love you It feels like poison If not for you No love in front of me Nobody told you It's not how it's supposed to be Make a wish and blow it out Love will begin again I don't want to be a clown The whole town is laughing Behind my back, you're supposed to be a friend If not for you No love in front of me Nobody told you It's not how it's supposed to be It’s not how it’s supposed to be It’s not how it’s supposed to be It’s not how it’s supposed to be It’s not how it’s supposed to be It feels like poison Why you do the things you do It feels like poison Why you do the things you do It feels like poison Why you do the things you do It feels like poison
Razor Tongue Hello, come in Surprise you win After hanging your town It's all that I've gone You're living in a dream Too late when you say I've changed, you've changed It's too late when we lay I've changed, oh no Where were you baby Where were you baby Let's hear what you do, you Late news for you, you All I can say Is all that shit fades You should leave me Feel so razor tongued You raise the gun Take a seat Slowly grinned "How are you?" Too late when you say We've changed, I've changed If only you listened I've changed, oh no Where were you baby Where were you baby Let's hear what you do, you Late news for you, you All I can say Is all the shit fades You should leave me
Yesterday Could you imagine Lying with me Etched in skin I won't let you go Could you sit up there Hiding with me Yesterday I won’t let you go Yesterday I don't have to know Save yourself I am safe again When will end Yesterday I won’t let you go Not used to nothing My soul’s end Yesterday I won’t let you go Yesterday I won’t let you go Yesterday I won’t let you go
Forever I wait
Pure Heart How can I know for sure Where you will take me Your heart is very pure, secure I'm just so unsure Do I need you I don't know for sure I don't trust myself My heart is not pure Forever I'll wait And I'll die if I must To be reborn again With the wings that don't rust The day has now come (The day has now come) For love to escape me (For love to escape me) I just have to count to three (I just have to count to three) And I'll see where it will take me A place I've never been To rest my tired heart And wait for it to heal So I can have a fresh start We learn and rely on We learn and rely on The ones we can trust But my path's been mistaken I'm a lost artist On the ones we can trust My path's been mistaken I'm a lost artist Forever I'll wait And I'll die if I must To be reborn again With the wings that don't rust Forever I'll wait And I'll die if I must To be reborn again With the wings that don't rust And remain opened up For my flight to begin My heart is up for grabs And it is for trade in Where have you been You're my violin A string of hard nerves Waiting to be played I'm not afraid We rely on the ones we can trust 'Cause my path's been mistaken I'm a lost artist On the ones we can trust But my path's been mistaken I'm a lost artist (I'm a lost artist) Forever I'll wait And I'll die if I must To be reborn again With then wings that don't rust I'm not afraid
Wanted No answer to know Mystery found me And when I turned to gold Then you suddenly shine They wanted to be us It's a fairytale until you know They wanted to be us Come from where you are Then mystery will find you And when I turn to gold Then you suddenly shine The wanted to be us It's a fairytale until you know They wanted to be us (Let me channel through you) They wanted to be us Feel love but is it turning cold They wanted to be us
Hunt Use me slowly Old until it's worn Soul's what makes you whole Role is your only game Hunting for a slice of fame Crime's in all the traps you fall into The reason for this glitch is only you Dissolutely falling to seduce Paranoid are your thoughts Do you feel betrayed Gunman's messing up Does it mean he'll return When winter dooms You won't betray me You turned your broad flat back It's your own way of showing your façade Get me all my body parts Dear lover (Come down with the full size, come down where the truth lies) Cast in this caprice (Come down where the pig flies, come down with the pink blues) It's late, now hide (Come down with the red sun, come down with the black star) (Sense of mass discontent, gonna peel the skin off you) You're late this time (Come down with the re-run, come down, we've come so far) (Sense of mass discontent, sense of mass discontent) Throne, but you sit alone Home, but the room is cold Prize, but it's not for sale Mainly need to shut Lying mouth is sore Crying tears of blood Flying a kite that's stained Robbing skies of joy Blinding you with blames Then asking you for more Then asking you for more Wait here for me We both can see Old until it's worn Soul's what makes you whole Role is your only game Crime's in all the traps You fall into Reason only is you Paranoid are your thoughts Do you feel betrayed Gunman's messing up Does it mean he'll return
Weasel Kneel now, lights on low Cats are screeching, I'm going blind Going blind, out of my mind I want you And I want you too I need you to know There's nothing left in you It's two dimensional And I want you to know Rushing light in you Disappeared through Letting me diffuse As I make a fist, a blur in my chest And I take a pause just to catch my breath And I go for more, I can't stop myself Like a catchy thriller and I'm a killer And I want you too Oh I need you to know There's nothing left in you You're two dimensional And I want you to know Rushing light in you Disappeared through Letting me diffuse Come up and out my way Watch my breath My body's oozing Now can you resist 'Cause you're here at last You're swimming fast Come up for air When I call your name I already came I want you And I want you too Oh I need you to know There's nothing left in you It's two dimensional And I need you to know There's rushing light in you Disappeared through Letting me diffuse Come up and out my way... Wyman When my pain is lost And the dream is gone I am looking for A light to fall back on The voice that's within me Is calling me in Come closer to me now Take my mic and sing I want to I want to stare within You know that it's making me spin I'm driving to meet you And I lose control The road is icy But I'm giving it my all Tomorrow will come And the bell will ring Will it be your turn or my turn to sing I am here to win You know that it's making me spin I drop the keys and I press on the pedal With me in front and you in the middle Run through the bag and I reach for the needle It's all over now and I know I don't need you Don't steal my wheel Making me ill Do what I wil Don't steal my wheel tonight I steer the wheel Making me ill Do what I will Don't steal my wheel tonight Found my way in the dark To Wyman Park Where the trees are tall And the meadows call For me to come and lose control I gave it my all My final call Love The hell I put you through Is the paradise you asked for Spit what you can't chew You never gave those twisted fucks before I can see your spirit bloom No need to be somebody else Life's meant to resume Among all the ugly welts You pay a high price for love You should learn how to choose To have is not to trap So hold on to the real you No prize if it's super easy No gain if it's only you, see Running high in shallow rivers Never make it out to deep sea Been so long since you asked yourself Let's start over, not resume The plank is hard but worth the core Sometimes dark shades of doom Is the light we are looking for Ask me once, but give no more Since I took all the worth of gold Hold me tight as you pull up the shore Let me be part of this trying fight You pay a high price for love And you should learn how to choose To have is not to trap So hold on to the real you No prize if it's super easy No gain if it's only you, see Running high in shallow rivers Never make it out to deep sea I hear you asking yourself here I hear you asking yourself here Who are you Been so long since you asked yourself Who are you It's like being taken off the shelf It's been so long Since you chose to tag along Game Follow the pain Follow the cash I'm loving the way you show that You follow the game Follow the stash Sex on tap, you come right back If unaware It's not on the cards Loving the way you go far Hop on the pain Hop on the cash Sex on tap, you come right back Sex on tap, you come right back Sex on tap, you come right back You know, you know, you know You know, you know, you know You know, you know, you know You know, you know, you know Follow the pain Follow the cash Loving the way you show that Follow the game Follow the stash Sex on tap, you come right back If unaware It's not on the cards Loving the way you go far Hop on the pain Hop on the cash Sex on tap, you come right back Sex on tap, you come right back Sex on tap, you come right back You know they're gonna know You better let it go You know they're gonna know You better let it go You know they're gonna know You better let it go You know they're gonna know You better let it go Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go Follow the pain Follow the cash Loving the way you show that Follow the game Follow the stash Sex on tap, you come right back If unaware It's not on the cards Loving the way you go far Hop on the pain Hop on the cash Sex on tap, you come right back Sex on tap, you come right back Sex on tap, you come right back You know, you know, you know You know, you know, you know You know, you know, you know You know, you know, you know You know, you know, you know... Free Hey, why don't you take your time And tell me all about you I'll breathe on glass to Show you I'm alive too Sing to me You make me feel free When the night turns dawn And it's me alone It's the light within That I count on When it's you and I Time to say goodbye And think they're curing nice Things I won't notice Stay right here Only takes one of us You could save future us Play your card, dangerous But you got that something That secret you never let All your fears over us You can dare, sucker-punch Never could choose And I never belong here Better me than both of us ??? to find through me That you are melting now Counting discounting amounting Oh, that is in me But to compose It's time to rip what you sew now Well, well, I guess I'm out here alone It's a bull ring, well I guess I should always have known The right thing abandoned (Look at your hands) (Stick at your tongue) My hand on the cold stone (Close your eyes) (Whisper I am the one) Give me your hand Hand me your voice Saying this could only be mine When you blow the gun Nowhere left to run It's the rule of thumb That holds us right here When life loses you And you refuse to go And it's too late to choose So the end is near But you got that something That secret you never let All your fears over us Now I crave future trust Strike up a match As you turn it in, just say Better you than both of us Oh baby, you're a wind up Speed up, pick up Break up some lie with me You're making me free You say there's no limit But you know It's right here
Blood If you could read my mind Fantasize your demise So I can get my prize You none the wise And no clenched insides No burn, just gone And me free to long For what could have been So much sweeter than the real thing I'm so hungry for your soul You're all I want to know Time takes our regrets And sews cloaks of sorrows I want to die naked in your arms My last sigh of life spent Loving your scent Rising from my skin I must know The end of this road Curious, it leads us Away from home Into the unknown We'll see how we've changed Like water, like air I need to feel your love on me I need you to need me Like the sun To keep us warm I'm so hungry for your soul So much sweeter I won't let you disappoint me on yourself And I won't let you be free to beyond for yourself You need me But I do love to see Your bite, your rip (I do love to feel you bite me The heat oh I am complete) I'm so hungry for your soul You're all I want to know Time takes our regrets And sews cloaks of sorrows I want to die naked in your arms My last sigh of life spent Loving your scent Rising from my skin I must know The end of this road Curious, it leads us Away from home Into the unknown
Sand There's a drawing Painted on the sand It's the way your mind imagined us It's the way you had it planned Finally all in one place very near Only the tests of time will interfere You brought me here In a small canoe And told me things That only we knew Only we knew I'm feeling blue I wish you knew Our very own story Painted on white sand It's moments like this That may never become It's making me numb I replay it again and again To the point of pain But I never complain It's a tiny split moment That we have here right now Looking at what it never became Again and again and again And again and again and again And again and again It's praying me again But I won't complain Painted on white sand My feet are sinking deep Into warm golden sand And we both know This is the end There's a drawing painted on white sand It's moments like this That may never become It's making me numb I replay it again and again To the point of pain But I never complain It's a tiny split moment That we have here right now Looking at what it never became Again and again and again And again and again and again And again and again Oh as we stare At the crashing waves Reaching the shore It may just take one more Just one more To erase every trace And to mend all the pain In my brain For now together we stand In our very own memory land And pretend that it will never end Our very own story painted on white sand
Rain One day while walking in the rain I found my path along the way I caught myself alone again Forever young This heart of mine forever lives All parts of me I want to keep To find a home and get some sleep And feel my strength Forever I'll stay in the how This was then and this is now And only you will know Which way My windy path has taught me how Let go of things and live in now And find the light that shines within To see the path and lift my chin Forever young my heart remains And I am thankful for the rain That cleansed my soul and gave the name To the beginning of what came Forever I'll stay in the how This was then and this is now And only you will know Which way to go Today is one of those days The sun is shining with its rays And all are giving it the praise But I miss the rain As I am looking up ahead At what is now and what was then And how life is like the rain That finds the wound Since then I've found peace within And let my heart throughout my skin It somehow always flies away And finds its way back home again Forever I'll stay in the how This was then and this is now And only you will know Which way
Non Albums Tracks
All Alone (Gorillaz feat. Roots Manuva and Martina Topley-Bird) All alone... The beat's got soul Deuteronomy Snatch a piece of my wondering This did fall like under in Skid em with two lights Skid em with boot light Flamers too light Where's the waitress Can't take this really can't finish this These airs and all these graces It's my mistake I'll make it J'd up to the boom now make it Bounce wiggle bounce wiggle shaking all them things out Chemical cutthroats 'bout to blow the brain out Cut to the brain This ain't no game I'll show no shame I'll birth this bane I'll twist the game I'll twist the game I'll push this plane It's plain as day Known to what these sayers say Known to what these doers do It's you and who and you know where We's about to take it there We's about to make it clear We're happy on we lonesome The lone drum the beat hot from start to finish Ten spoons of spinach The soul and the spillage The cup that runneth over We turn up the 'oh God' All alone... Close your eyes and see When there ain't no light All you'll ever be Come on save the night Cause I don't beleive When the morning comes It doesn't seem to say An awful lot to me All alone...
Crystalised (The XX cover / Robert "3D" Del Naja, Mark Lanegan, Martina Topley-Bird, Warpaint) Mark Lanegan: You've applied the pressure To have me crystalised And you've got the faith That I could bring paradise Martina Topley-Bird: I'll forgive and forget Before I'm paralyzed Do I have to keep up the pace To keep you satisfied Mark Lanegan: Things have gotten closer to the sun And I've done things in small doses So don't think that I'm pushing you away When you're the one that I've kept closest Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Martina Topley-Bird: You don't move slow And taking steps in my directions The sounds echo Does it lessen your affection No Mark Lanegan: You say I'm foolish For pushing this aside But burn down our home I won't leave alive Martina Topley-Bird: Glaciers have melted to the sea I wish the tide would take me over I've been down on my knees Mark Lanegan & Martina Topley-Bird: And you just keep on getting closer Placid as I melt into the sea (Things have gotten closer to the sun) I wish the tide would take me over (And I've done things in small doses) I've been down onto my knees (So don't think that I'm pushing you away) And you just keep on getting closer (When you're the one that I've kept closest) Go slow Go slow Go slow Go slow Go slow
Deflect
( Leila with Martina Topley-Bird & Terry Hall vocals )
Come to me saying you've been lonely Yeah you're listening for the telephone but it ain't ringing, no Your love is so mature I won't take it no since you been Into something you will not turn leader you tell me nothing You won't lecture me That's enough reasoning, I can with you so raunchy I'm for real memories are not burning in Running into me and saying something You can't believe they want to take my wings All of the colours out the corner of my eye it was singing, oh Breathe on this city machine, they want a rare too blue That's enough reasoning, I know you May you be all you can be And may the child in you want to believe I want you here I want you in my world Hey muse I used to be your candy store Candy store Empty time they came and cheerlead feel like I'm the only only song and Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Lay it all on me I been so wrong I can't reach you to begin again I love the way you go to words The sun that you are I tried to be here I understand you like a baby I'll understand you like a baby I won't listen like a baby Don't understand you like a baby I understand you like a baby I'll understand you like a baby I won't listen like a baby Don't understand And the rain is coming
Everywhere (Common feat. Martina Topley-Bird / Universal Mind Control LP) How did you know I've been waiting for this time to come And though it tastes like forever, it may not stay long Everywhere is summer Everywhere is summer Everywhere is summer Everywhere is summer A shaman since before my birth And I came down to rock the Earth My mission condition I give you, you listen I'm syncing in time in parallel In binary, no third return I'm planning intention With all the redemption How did you know I've been waiting for this time to come And though it tastes like forever, it may not stay long Everywhere is summer Everywhere is summer Everywhere is summer Everywhere is summer No pop, no pop, no pop, no pop We gon'do this thang till the sky just drop Lock into ya mind away we rock In a rocket is the eighty-seven astronaut Top of the soul, dove and I got in a hole At the moment they were saying, "It was outta control" Strap in to your mind, why eyes see some recline You'll see in time your season to shine When the stadium is dark, emcees are defined Get ready on your mark, put your feet on the line The race is on to space beyond You gon' get there by doing what you want Sometimes the most famous feel all alone So we drift to a place that we call our home I was known as being spaced and outta my dome Now I know, it's all I've known How did you know I've been waiting for this time to come And though it tastes like forever, it may not stay long Everywhere is summer Everywhere is summer Everywhere is summer Everywhere is summer
I Only Have Eyes for You
( The Flamingos / Sweetheart Compilation 2005 ) My love must be a kind of blind love I can't see anyone but you Are the stars out tonight I don't know if it's cloudy or bright I Only Have Eyes For You, dear The moon maybe high But I can't see a thing in the sky I Only Have Eyes For You I don't know if we're in a garden Or on a crowded avenue You are here (You are here) So am I (So am I) Maybe millions of people go by But they all disappear from view And I Only Have Eyes For You
Into The Sun (Diplo feat. Martina Topley-Bird / F10rida LP) They don't pay to see There are eyes on me I'll be riding high with the sound and style That's all my own believing Better the two of us to give it up Their reasoning is colored in by a dream they had in yearning And if they want you they can raise their eyes up into the sun Then you can give them what they want, you don't need a reason Forget the story 'bout the one who said to give up the sun They don't pay to see There are eyes on me I'll be riding high with the sound and style That's all my own believing Better the two of us to give it up This life of ours, harder than they say Their reasoning is colored in by a dream they had in yearning They say you're going to try Say you're going to fly Then the lights go down It's a drowning crowd You're super close to heaven And if they want you they can raise their eyes up into the sun But you can't give what you don't have, if for no other reason You heard the story on the one who nearly gave up the sun I'll be riding high with the sound and style That's all my own believing Their reasoning is colored in by a dream they had in yearning Say you're going to try Say you'll do it fine Then the lights go down It's a drowning cry Super close to heaven And if they want you they can raise their eyes up into the sun But you can't give what you don't have, if for no other reason Don't give the story on the one who gave up the sun
Millennial Heart (Hyper-Romantic feat. Martina Topley-Bird) And it comes to you so easy, you don't have to work for it I find myself in you, don't need anything We lose our self in fog and beats, try to forget Something to remind me you aren't mine just yet And we're calm now, so why must you tourette You were wonderful until you met me Open your millennial heart to me tonight Open your millennial heart to me And seduce me with your hurricane And you walk for weeks and weeks You do everything in large amounts If we get there sooner, it's alright I'll be here and I won't mind Don't be normal, we don't want to regret You were wonderful until you met me Open your millennial heart to me tonight Open your millennial heart to me And seduce me with your hurricane Open your millennial heart to me tonight Open your millennial heart to me And seduce me with your hurricane It comes to you so easy, take the guesswork out of it I see myself in you, don't tell me anything Don't lose yourself, don't let this game make you forget Something must remind us we're not there just yet Open your millennial heart to me tonight Open your millennial heart to me And seduce me with your hurricane Open your millennial heart to me tonight Open your millennial heart to me And seduce me with your hurricane Open your millennial heart Open your millennial heart
Outrun
( With David Holmes )
Martina : In you and I A crackled glace forever My father's eye He was up in the dark Your clever tongue Covers me in whispers I struggle now With a dawn, with a light The glace of your eye In the room is a shiver You put your winter inside It's home, no place to deliver A part in ... becomes a part in time And I can say, yeah I'd like to go Don't take it back So I can tell you so (?) And I can say I'd like to go Don't hold along (?) In a strong home (?) I alone .. my head like a fly (?) I think there's a guilty Reborn in this world Its smiling ear ties me by noon ... soon And I can say, yeah I'd like to go Don't take it back So I can tell you so (?) And I can say I'd like to go Don't hold along (?) In a strong home (?) (whispered lines) You can take me to let you know You can see now beyond what is on shore You can take me to let you got to know You can now see me and what is on my shore And I can say, yeah I'd like to go Don't take it back So I can tell you so (?) And I can say I'd like to go Don't hold along (?) In a strong home (?) And I can say, yeah I'd like to go To show you what you wanna see .... on shore (repeated with other lines) Hmmmm.... You should take me to let you know You can see now what is on shore Propriety will keep you below You can see now... Propriety
Secret (Clark feat. Martina Topley-Bird / Iradelphic LP) Hey boy, look at you and your folly The way you see yourself seems so peculiar to me It's as if you have half eyes of hidden lives And you leave the truth to feed you I wish I could whisper Swallow the place that slaves the thirst to give I wish I could whisper Swallow the place that starves the thirst to give I wish I could whisper Swallow the place that starves the thirst to give I wish I could whisper Swallow the place that starves the thirst to give
Slip Your Skin
( With David Holmes ) _ Bobby Gillespie: You are like the sun, you're burning blind I can see the magic in your eyes I'm blown away ... wind No sense of gravity I spin Bobby Gillespie & Martina: Slip, slip, slip your skin Feed, feed, feed your sin Give it, give it, give it ... penetrate Bobby Gillespie: I'm a fiend for fire, you can't stop me Blind your eyes, ... to make a body ... hand... Skinny cat, copy funk (?) Bobby Gillespie & Martina: Slip, slip, slip your skin Feed, feed, feed your sin Give it, give it, give it ... penetrate Voice: He was a ... clean, this motherswingin (?) ... Bobby Gillespie: You are like the sun, you're burning blind I can see the magic in your eyes I'm blown away ... wind No sense of gravity I spin Bobby Gillespie & Martina: Slip, slip, slip your skin Feed, feed, feed your sin Give it, give it, give it ... penetrate Voice: He was a ... clean, this motherswingin (?) ... Bobby Gillespie: Give it, give it, give it (repeated) No one, you and me We see colours they can't see There's no one here, just you and me We see colours they can't see There's no one here, just you and me We see colours they can't see Bobby Gillespie & Martina: Slip, slip, slip your skin Feed, feed, feed your sin Slip, slip, slip your skin Feed, feed, feed your sin Give it, give it give it Slip, slip, slip your skin Feed, feed, feed your sin Give it, give it, give it... Martina: Slip, slip, slip your skin (repeat)
Solitude You said you needed me You said I promised You being honest depended on your mood You took solitude for food Unless turning Which way into me Feed me starvation What grave will set me free One day you'll see We survive You say you want to live But it's a lie Untie me from all that is you Absentee from the life that is mine Spines aligned Magnetically, ecstatically Our souls alive Innocent me (?) Persuade me Invade me on your holster key We survive You say you want to live But it's a lie Untie me from all that is you I pulled the part without saying another word from you I hid my tears for years, if only you knew You took more than you could do We survive You say you want to live But it's a lie Untie me from all that is you
The Day Is My Enemy (The Prodigy feat. Martina Topley-Bird / The Day Is My Enemy LP) The day is my enemy The night my fave The day is my enemy The night my fave Down Down Get down, get down, get down, get get down Down The day is my enemy The night my fave The day is my enemy The night my fave Down The day is my enemy The night my fave The day is my enemy The night my fave Down Down Get d-d-down The day is my enemy The night my fave The day is my enemy The night my fave Get down The day is my enemy The night my fave The day is my enemy The night my fave Down Get, get down Down
Warzone ( Puracane featuring Martina Topley-Bird ) I was singing On the inside Even now And you still don't get it I could see you on the inside Even now Would you like to forget it I was screaming underwater "All our live should end" All played a part Closed the door And my silence All that traitors are I'm a slut, you're a kid I was biting at my fingers 'Til they bled But I'm still not ready Could you help me take the skin off With your teeth and nails All played a part Closed the doors And my silence All traitors are I'm a slut, you're a kid You can’t watch again Cause you broke your camera Thrown into the sea You can't watch again Cause you broke your camera Thrown into the sea
Why Should I ( Leila with Martina Topley-Bird & Terry Hall vocals ) The stars are crashing down The moon is turning blue I'm on the edge of town And I am stuck with you Why should I worry Lately I lose and find Memories still remind Closer I get to peace Stronger demons won't release Why should I worry The seas a tidal wave Take me to the scream I have no soul to save I have no dream to dream Why should I worry Smile by, talk through Often no reply belief Smile at passers by Talk through gritted teeth Often no reply Bored beyond belief The well is almost dry The clouds have disappeared No tears are left to dry No fear is left to fear Why should I worry
Zero Tolerance
( With David Holmes ) Hmmm... I saw you Across the ice We skate together Across the water Daddy, daddy Won't you try I'm so alone This obsession cannot be mine I don't wanna be A rock star I don't wanna be Your singing song (?) (I can't believe) I can't believe (You can't feel) You can't feel (What I feel) What I feel (Or what I ... you) Or what I ... you (x2) I saw you and (?) all your faces You took me to so many different places It was enough To be decided Where's the fun When you're gonna hide it I never struggle in my arms I never love in the dark I don't wanna be A rock star I don't wanna be Your singing song (I can't believe) I can't believe (You can't feel) You can't feel (What I feel) What I feel (Or what I ... you) Or what I ... you (x3) I saw you (I saw you) Across the ice (across the ice) We skate together (we skate together) Across the water (across the water) Daddy, daddy (Daddy, daddy) Won't you try (won't you try) I'm so alone (I'm so alone) This obsession cannot be mine (can't be mine) I don't wanna be A rock star I don't wanna be Your singing song (I can't believe) I can't believe (You can't feel) You can't feel (What I feel) What I feel (Or what I ... you) Or what I ... you (repeated)