Chromatography - 2004 - Too Cold To Snow Demons In The Scenery No Window I Spy Wreckage Demons Die Word For Word Nerve My Baby Only Cares For Me Senseless Sentences Divine Lucky Breaks Grace (End Son) Harry: Walkies ( Instrumental )

The Elements - 2007-08-09 - Wood Fire Earth Metal Water

Come To Dust - 2011 - Gone Fishing The Alphabet Song Another Girlfriend Paper Umbrella Unretractable Facts Play Fair The Wishbone Story With Only Two Characters Spilt Milk Moth To A Candle Flame Four Leaf Clover Shadow Of A Doubt Giant Steps

Chromatography

Too Cold To Snow

Your line was so dead
Every time that I called it was a kick in the head
But I tried to be calm
I swear to you baby you didn't know what you'd done
And then the moon shed its shell
Some crescent effervescent light shivered and fell
To my feet, from the sky
I ask too many questions that get no, get no reply

And it's too cold to snow, I don't feel my hands
And my blood is so slow in my veins
Oh... and I'm too tired to cry
And the earth is so still
It's too cold to snow but I hope it will

Prone on the floor
Couldn't think any less, couldn't drink any more
Sleep was a prize
And I died a small death when I opened my eyes
Did I cease to exist
From the moment we met or the moment we kissed
And I dare you to agree
That if you treat me this way then you cannot, you cannot love me

And it's too cold to snow, I don't feel my hands
And my blood is so slow in my veins
Oh... and I'm too tired to cry
And the earth is so still
It's too cold to snow but I hope it will
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
And now you're here in your shame
You're sorry and so on I'm glad that you came
I know just like you
That I will forgive you whatever you do
And I know just as well
That you've caused me less pain than I've caused to myself
With my glass to my lips
I'm thinking maybe, maybe it doesn't get better than this

'Cause it's too cold to snow, I don't feel my hands
And my blood is so slow in my veins
Oh... and I'm too tired to cry
And the earth is so still
And it's too cold to snow but I hope it will

It's too cold to snow, I don't feel my hands
And my blood is so slow in my veins
Oh... and I'm too tired to cry
And the earth is so still
And it's too cold to snow but I hope it will

Demons In The Scenery

A dissipation of pain is more important than
When it begins
It's above any love I have
To see these bruises for my sins
And it's not about what we are today
It's an unspecific stage
It's the rate of desiccation
That I anticipate

But when the systems start
And the lights go down
Demons in the scenery turn my world around
And I get myself lost
I won't be found

Is there a difference in meaning
Between a brief vacation and a brush with death
And which one do I need
I'm sick to speak
I'm too weak to catch my breath
Well, I'm caught in these thoughts and awkward words
I'm making clinical, chemical, friends
Above my head discrete circled birds of sleep
Preparing to descend
(Preparing to descend)

It's a constriction of chest
At best, at worst, it's burst by a heavy stone
I can do things that you know I've done before
When I've been with myself alone
(When I've been with myself alone)

I know it's destructive
Is there anymore I can
Be surprised by joy
Nevertheless in my stress and anxiety suggest
There’s nothing left to destroy

But when the lights go up
And the curtain falls
Demons in the scenery scream like animals
And I get myself lost
Inside that voice
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Some things will fracture slowly
Some things have sudden breaks
I wish someone had told me
Not to repeat mistakes
I step inside my story
And see it's told in blood
If you were better for me
You wouldn't be so good

But be the clever hands
The people take their bows
The demons in the scenery scream, "it's over now"
And I get myself lost

Sometimes the lights go down
(Some things will fracture slowly)
Sometimes the lights go down
The demons in the scenery turn my world around
(I wish someone had told me)
(Demons)
Did I get myself lost
(How do I turn my dreams down)
I won't be found
Won't be found
Won't be found

No Window

I don't complain, I only wish I could
But I was never very good at standing up to you

Is another room within led into
Another room without a window
Where the view is just a view and the view is you, yeah yeah
Views that I don't share
I've never been so scared to do more than sit in this room with you
And know you like I can't handle it
And you say it's not about winning on the one occasion that I fight back
If that's so then why would you attack
'Cause I don't care for war in any sense
I have no talent for self-defense

And I don't complain, I only wish I could
But I was never very good at standing up to you
I don't complain, I only wish I could
But I was never very good at standing up to you

Oh... I don't tell much
I just anticipate and hate your touch
You accuse me of this broken heart that I coped with my pride
On side I tried to stay on your eyesight
Every bus, every tree, every hotel room is the same
It's just me trying to do more of the things you used to love before
I'm happy to agree with what you say
That you think of me, what you think of me
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
But I don't complain, oh, and I only wish I could
But I was never very good at standing up to you
I don't complain and I only wish I could
But I was never very good at standing up to you

Oh... I don't complain and I only wish I could
But I was never very good at standing up to you
I don't complain and I just as you miss true
But now we both knew I was never good enough for you

I don't complain and sometimes I think I will
Oh to make myself believe that I'm still in love with you
I don't complain at all, every time I try
'Cause I, there's no long before I want to make love with you

I don't complain and I only wish I could
But I was never very good at standing up to you

Wreckage

This close I can almost breathe it
If I ever meet up cross section my soul
If I let you in under the skin
You'd have to believe it

Gonna wait for you to go, go, go
'Cause I would hate for you to know

Let me take stock of my senses
Relentless and slow
Reluctant to change, stranger
And I think I'd like to let go
Up against myself
I'm up against the clock

Oh now I think about letting you down
And it's almost enough to hold onto
When I want to be 'round to be drowned
There's something that's taking me in
And I know when I see you again
I will know, if I know, how to swim
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
I could wait for you, to go, go, go
'Cause I would hate for you to know

This close I could almost breathe it
This close I could almost see it
I could almost say it
This close

I have glanced from reaching up over my hands
To the newest available land
I'm gonna salvage the wreckage
There will not be a whole lot of wreckage
The way that things stand

You better leave me now
And start at your cause
'Cause if you see me now
You'll break my heart

I'm gonna wait for you and go, go, go
'Cause I would hate for you to know
This close

Demons Die

Demons die and new ones grow
Elastic shadows that statues throw
Behind the back of a dying sun
New demons come

Demons die, demons fade
And from the dregs of the just decayed
Spitting rivulets of fire and fear
New demons appear

Demons die and new ones come to feed
And then every time you bleed
You just give them what they need
Yeah yeah

Demons die and new ones join the fray
And they never go away
No, they never go away

Through arid oceans of frozen sand
Across the avenues in no man's land
Down the channels of your agile hedge
New demons tread

You thought you took 'em out long ago
Goes to show you how you never know
‘Cause they may die, but it's not for long
Well, a demon's never truly gone

Demons die and new ones come to feed
And then every time you bleed
You just give them what they need
Yeah yeah

Demons die and new ones join the fray
And they never go away
No, they never go away

You’re harder and sharper and faster and older
But still you are looking back over your shoulder
The image is slander, the shadows do gather
Like clouds
Coming together
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Moving in unison
Speaking in tongues
Billow smoke from the back of their lungs
Slow as a type, but you cannot outrun them
They'll chase 'em
They'll face 'em
They'll never outrun them, no
Demons, demons
Demons, demons

Demons die and new ones come to feed
And then every time you bleed
You just give them what they need
Yeah yeah

Demons die and new ones join the fray
And they never go away
No, they never go away

Demons die and new ones come to feed
And then every time you bleed
You just give them what they need
Yeah yeah

Demons die and new ones join the fray
And they never go away
No, they never, never, never, never, never, never go

Word For Word

I love you, but I don't believe you
I don't know why, I just don't leave you
`Cause if you treat me like you hate me
Then you don't need me do you baby

I love you, I believe you love me
I'm so happy we worked it out
But sometimes you treat me just like you hate me
I know you don't really, I'm just too proud

Oh I love you, I think you love me
If I happen to get hurt
You can be certain, you can be sure
But I will recall it word for word

Don't know what you're talking about
Don't know what you're talking about
Don't know what you're talking about
Don't know what you're talking about
Still don't know what you're trying to say
Still don't know what you're saying to me
No, no

I may be inclined to immortalize you
That's a right I exercise
And you can sue me so you never knew me
But never for the big surprise

This is my business, it's my profession
You should've questioned what I do
And if you mind me and treat my kindly
Then I will do the same for you

Don't know what you're talking about
Don't know what you're talking about
Don't know what you're talking about
Don't know what you're talking about
Still don't know what you're trying to say
I still don't know what you're saying to me
No, no

What never displeased you for no reason
I would never have the nerve
But in every basic situation
You have to get what you deserve

And if you ever fuck me over
Well, don't expect any guarantee
`Cause I have my music and I can use it
To say anything I please

I love you, but I don't believe you
I don't know why I just don't leave you
'Cause if you treat me like you hate me
Then you don't need me, do you baby
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Don't know what you're talking about
Don't know what you're talking about
Don't know what you're talking about
Don't know what you're talking about
Still don't know what you're trying to say
Don't know what you're saying to me
No, no

Don't know what you're talking about
Don't know what you're talking about
Don't know what you're talking about
Don't know what you're talking about
Don't know what you're trying to say
Don't know what you're saying to me
No, no

Nerve

You’re quick to learn, you’re quick to move
Quick to turn and disapprove
Put up my need, 'cause you’re my, I need you mine
And let me find you a punishment to fit the crime

'Cause you like to play with fire
And you like to play with stones
But you will have to try much harder to break my bones

You can’t play for money, you don’t play for love
But at least you do repeat yourself "enough"
Quick to condemn, quick to condone
Simple as that to check and take them home
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
You’re not convinced, is that so
Well you want fingerprints before you know
You’ve changed your mind, you’re not sure
Although you are showing that you were before

But you like to play forever
And you say you play with words
But it will take much more than you to break my nerves

You like to play with fire
And you like to play with stones
But you will have to try much harder to break my bones

And you say you’d play forever
And you say you play with words
But it will take much more than you
It will take much more than you
It will take much more than you to break my nerves

Senseless Sentences

To see how our scars
Are falling in love
On your floor
With two shoes and a glove oh
What will we do today
Maybe invent some senseless sentences to say

I am here and you can smoke, yeah yeah
oh if you must, it's just a private joke
On our own TV show, yeah yeah
And there's nothing I can tell you
That you don't already know oh

Who says it isn't easy, yeah yeah
Who says it isn't easily done
Who says it isn't easy
No one, no one

But sometimes you kill me
And then you render me stunned, yeah
And then I'm done for
And then I'm gone

And I can feel my head caving in now and oh
There's only you who can put me back together again
But for now I'm so awake, yeah yeah
And I seem surprised when I realize
How much we have put at stake

Since June
I have come to love you so much
I will love you so much more this afternoon

Who says it isn't easy, yeah yeah
Who says it isn't easily done
Who says it isn't easy
Oh no one, no one

Our scars
Are falling in love
On your floor
With two shoes and a glove oh
I said that I saw very entwined, yeah yeah
Then what about that a meeting of the mind
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Or am I so, am I so deranged, yeah yeah
Well, if that's true then so are you
But I, I will never have you changed
Never changed, so there, yeah yeah
Or am I, do I care

Who says that we are crazy, yeah yeah
Who says this isn't easily done
Who says that we are crazy
Oh no one, no one

But our scars are falling in love
On your floor
With two shoes and a gun
I said what will we do today
You said invent some senseless sentences to say oh

Who says it isn't easy, yeah yeah
Who says this isn't easily done
Who says this isn't easy
Oh no one, no one

Divine

What makes you so divine
Is it your ruthless ambition
Is it your insane desire
Or your singular vision
If you can symbolise the stars
In sixteen bars, with two guitars
You must think you are a magician

What makes you so divine
Is it the way you aim so high
You have one eye on the part of the sky that you plan to occupy
And the other on the state of the art that you create
You speak of fame, you speak of fate and you just wait

What makes you so divine
How would you define your worth
Where will you find the time
To inherit all the earth
Who will you have to love
If you leave my love behind

What makes you so divine
Is it all the time you kill
You say one day you'll be adored
And rewarded and maybe you will
I wouldn't be surprised, you're idle
But you're idolised
But there is no prize for standing so still
Oh no, darling, there is no prize for standing so still
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
What makes you so divine
What should you be famous for
Should I run and join the line of fans
The stands at your front door
Am I the only woman here
Who hasn't lost her mind

What makes you so divine
Is there something that you do
Can you maintain your hearty
Till the world can come to you
How day you be so sure
You're some god of mine

What makes you so divine
You think you could hurt me twice
I really hope the soul you sold
Reached a reasonable price
Do you consider this to be
And insult or a sign

What makes you so divine
Is there something the eye can see
'Cause I would die to be like you
I don't wanna be someone like me
I can only stare at the receding form
Of your ascending star
But this star is born (?)
But I am torn by my jealousy

Grace (End Son)

Grace may not mean being wise
Grace may not mean making sense
Grace leaves us with no real cover
Grace came as a surprise
Grace made the difference
Just grace before this game was over

Before we both hang up the phone
Grow dependent on our friends
Before we separate to sort our stories
We go back to being alone
It's only out of good intents
There is a period of grace before that
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Grace
Is if I die before tomorrow
I die happy in the knowledge that I
Didn't cause you pain
When I had the choice
I made it in your favor
And we never said forever
But for now now and forever are the same

I think of you at night
At a quarter after twelve
It's as if I could reach out to touch you
When there is so little light
That you can only see yourself
And you worry that the world will watch you

I have learnt a lot from you
I've been wearing all your clothes
I take everything that you have to give me
Grace came so overdue
To a door so nearly closed
Grace came before you had to leave me

Grace
Is if you die before tomorrow
You can die happy in the knowledge that you
Didn't cause me pain
When you had the choice
You made it in my favor
And we never said forever
But for now now and forever are the same

You think the candles all have eyes
And your nerves have turned to wise
And the weeks are flickering and smoking
You can feel your long kept sighs
Beneath the weight of these attacks
Your heart is swallowed whole and now you're choking

Outside the city screams
And the windows are so thin
That everything you fear can see inside you
You've been dreaming other people's dreams
Dreams of people you have never been
But I know who you are and I can find you

Oh if I die before tomorrow
I die happy in the knowledge that I
Didn't cause you pain
When I had the choice
I made it in your favor
And we never said forever
But for now now and forever are the same

And if you die before tomorrow
You can die happy in the knowledge that you
Didn't cause me pain
When you had the choice
You made it in my favor
And we never said forever
But for now now and forever are the same
For now now and forever are the same

*** Thanx a lot to Cello for this one ***

The Elements

Wood

You try to multiply your speed by time to get your distance
But you don’t see the wood for the trees
An experiment with existence
Is showing up anomalies
You see the day dissolve into the morrow
And the slow growing of your second skin
Adrenaline begins in the marrow
And then intoxicates your oxygen

Count one to a hundred and then you are ready to go

What do you know
What do you say
We have an acid chemistry today
What do you get
What do you like
We have a savage energy tonight
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
I’m not the light outside of the window
I’m not a damsel in distress
I’m not the gold at the end of the rainbow
And I am not a lost princess
Are you my love, my landlord, my lawyer
Are you the one I build my world around
Or are we wrapped in black paranoia
Ready to attack and take each other down

Exactly like Alice in Wonderland now when we grow

What do you know
What do you say
We have an acid chemistry today
What do you get
What do you like
We have a savage energy tonight
What do you say
We have an acid chemistry today

Oh my dear, it's dark in the dungeon
This is where the demons dwell
A sign says beware of the dragon
But you don’t attend it very well

Who was it who said that it's better the devil you know

Ain’t it so
What do you say
We have an acid chemistry today
What do you get
What do you like
We have a savage energy tonight
What do you say
We have a savage energy today

Fire

I used to play with matches
When I was very small
Legends of wolves and witches
I memorised them all
So many nasty stitches
So many jagged blades
I tidied up the pieces
I tried to mend my ways
But he came right out of nowhere
Like an unfamiliar tune
Sat down upon my armchair
And opened up my wounds
I put up no resistance
So insistent was desire
But one of my addictions
I used to play with fire

Do you
Do you have a light
Do you have the time of day
Would you
Would you save a life
If you had a life to save

How sweetly we collided
Just like two meteors
For days he did as I did
Mixed drinks and metaphors
Oh so much phosphorescence
We added spark to spark
I should have learnt my lesson
Already broke my heart
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
And I said
Do you
Do you have a light
Do you have the time of day
Would you
Lend your light to mine
Do you want to come and play

I engineered the chaos
I burned the fortress down
Who knew about the lives lost
Who took a body count
In my act of supplication
I asked him for his help
But I was an imposition
I had to ask myself
I had to ask myself

Do you
Do you have a light
Do you have the time of day
Would you
Would you save a life
If you had a life to save
To save

Earth

And so the clock strikes twelve as we find ourselves
In a sphere of a clearing in a navy light
There are no stars, just the bars of a car's headlights
On the leaves in the dead of the night
Silhouette suits step out of the shadows
Into the arena where the cameras roll
See their shoulders strain below the weight of the spades
Stereo plays for a funeral

They say the moon is nearly full
They see their eyes are nearly dry
They know how wonderful, how wonderful it is
To be alive tonight
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
I leave myself to the earth
To the air
To the ashes
It's my time
It's my design
It's my turn
And I know I won't be loved
I won't be saved
I won't be noticed
Until I learn to love
That I hate to learn

To my best beloved I do bequeath
All the anguish and the irony
And all the things we never meant
And those we set out to prevent

I leave the twisted bittersands
Send solemn grace of consequence
The hand he lent ungratefully
I don't intend to take away with me
He had a solid alibi
You know I never saw him cry

I leave myself to the earth
To the air
And to the ashes
It's my time
It's my design
It's my turn
(Oh it's my turn and I know I)
And I know I won’t be loved
I won't be saved
I won't be noticed
Until I learn to love
I hate to learn
I hate to learn

And the clock strikes one and my time is done
And I know he won't miss me when I'm gone
I just raise a toast to my sweet trevouse’ (?)
And feel glad that the chapter's closed

When I'm gone
I just raise a toast to my sweet trevouse’ (?)
And feel glad that the chapter's closed

It's my early grave
Where I wait for the light to let me in
Here it comes around again
(Here it comes around again)
And I say
Let the light shows and the sounds
Of the orchestra begin
My eternal requiem

This is my early grave

Metal

I see myself from many angles
This room has got so many mirrors
I am among an alphabet of angels
But nothing is at it appears

(Come too)
Alchemy
Take away the agony
(Before I disappear)
Alchemy
Take away the misery
I made for me

I am possessed of twin opinions
Each one lies heavy on my chest
I peel away at them like onion skins
But they continue to coexist
When I am sensible and settled
I’d like to try and wish him well
But when I’m full of heavy metal once again
All the pride inside me would give him hell
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
(Come too)
Alchemy
Take away the agony
(Before I disappear)
Alchemy
Take away the misery
I made for me

Heavy metal well it gets inside
No matter how decisively or nice you slice it
It insinuates until the driest ice
Has taken every synapse for its own devices
Throat is coated with these frozen crystals
Notes you hold are only broken whistles
Slick as sequins are the icicles glistening
I think his kisses were sick as strychnine

(Come too)
Alchemy
Take away the agony
(Before I disappear)
Alchemy
Take away the misery
I made for me

One by one the stars are going out
And the sun has no one to laugh about
Less light in the candle chandelier
How low will I go before I disappear
How low will I go
Before I disappear

Water

I stand on the stones and I stare at the waves
And all of my anger runs red in the sea
I have let go of all of my rage
It's sailing, it's sailing away from me
I will placidly go amid the noise and the haste
And the voices and days all subside into peace
I have let go of all of my rage
It's sailing, it's sailing away from me
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
And you come around to restore my soul
For you make me down to lie
And I'll carry you
If you carry me, too
All my life

I am acceptance and I am forgiveness
I will believe this was nobody's fault
Spiders and shadows as long as I live
But I have nothing to fear, I have nowhere to fall
I have no one to hate, I have no one to blame
And I have no more shame or deceit or dismay
And I have let go of all of my pain
It's sailing, it's sailing, it's sailing away

And you come around to restore my soul
'Cause you make me down to lie
And I’ll carry you
If you carry me, too
All my life

Through
I stand on the stones and I stare at the waves
And all of my anger runs red in the sea
I have let go of all of my rage
It's sailing, it's sailing away from me
It's sailing, it's sailing away from me
It's sailing, it's sailing, it's sailing away from me
It's sailing, it's sailing, it's sailing
Away from me

Come To Dust

Gone Fishing

Meditation on the new
Another version of an I Love You
It’s a variation on a theme
It’s attraction speaking a different name
A different name

Oh you can’t imagine how
Nice it is to write it down
Or say it aloud
I mean it means a lot to me
To have proof of the existence of other fish in the sea

Letting you go, there ain’t no time to waste
Letting you know that I’ll be gone all day
I’ve gone fishing
Letting you know I take it in my stride
Letting you go, I won’t be back tonight
I’ve gone fishing

Love was a revolving door
It was a neon sign that couldn’t light the street anymore
I used to think about him all the time
Like going round and round on the circle line
On the circle line
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Oh, the thing about a broken heart
Is it’s like a mechanical toy without its moving parts
Oh but I feel like I’m on the mend
Because I’m getting up and I’m getting dressed
And I’m getting out again

Letting you go, there ain’t no time to waste
Letting you know that I’ll be gone all day
I’ve gone fishing
And I say so long
Letting you go, I take it in my stride
Letting you know I won’t be back tonight
I’ve gone fishing

I kit myself out with rods and reels
For to play sardines with the electric eels
Chase little angel fish with graceful tails
Play hide and seek with the killer whales
Maybe a game of catch me if you can
With a submarine upon a bed of sand
You see, I am a deep sea diver now
And I have never been afraid to drown

Letting you go, there ain’t no time to waste
Letting you know that I’ll be gone all day
I’ve gone fishing
And I say so long
Letting you go, I take it in my stride
Letting you know I won’t be back tonight
I’ve gone fishing

Letting you go, there ain’t no time to waste
Letting you know that I’ll be gone all day
I’ve gone fishing
So I say so long
Letting you go, I take it in my stride
Letting you know I won’t be back tonight
I’ve gone fishing

The Alphabet Song

I love my love with every letter of the alphabet
I love my love in every language I know
I love my love in ways I haven’t counted yet, oh oh
My love my love my love I love you so

I love my love with an A for his amazing grace
I love my love with a B when he is blue
I love my love with a C if he’s capable of loving me
I love my love with a D because I do

I love my love with an E for the earth I’d give him
I love my love with an F for the faith I keep
I love my love with a G for his gentleness and empathy
And I love my love with an H when he’s asleep
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
I love my love with every letter of the alphabet
I love my love in every language I know
I love my love in ways I haven’t counted yet, oh oh
My love my love my love I love you so

I love my love with an I though his ignorance can make me cry
I love my love with a J when my jealousy strikes
I love my love with a K for the kamikaze way I have to play
I love my love with an L if it’s me that he likes

I love my love with an M for the masochist I am
I love my love with an N for the never it seems
I love my love with an O for the only way that this can go
And I love my love with a P for the perfection of dreams

I love my love with every letter of the alphabet
I love my love in every language I know
I love my love in ways I haven’t counted yet, oh oh
My love my love my love I love you so

I love my love with a Q for his qualities
I love my love with an R for his respect for my rhymes
I love my love with an S for our strength when under such duress
I love my love with a T in these turbulent times

I love my love with a U cause he’s undecided as to what to do
I love my love with a V cause his vows are unsaid
I love my love with a W, does it trouble you he has no point of view
I just love my love because of X, and Y, and Z

I love my love with every letter of the alphabet
I love my love in every language I know
I love my love in ways I haven’t counted yet, oh oh oh
My love my love my love I love you so

I love my love with every letter of the alphabet
I love my love in every language I know
I love my love in ways I haven’t counted yet, oh oh oh
My love my love my love I love you so
My love my love my love I love you so
Oh, oh, my love my love my love I love you so

Paper Umbrella

You’re alone
You’re afloat in an angry tide
Does it feel like home
Or does it feel like suicide
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
You're so sharp
That you cut yourself sometimes
And your devices go to waste
‘Cause they're running around with your design

You feel as useless as a paper umbrella in a storm
It's funny how the weather can go wrong
And you're without your outer shell
I just want to know if I can help
Or can anything be done

Your head's so heavy
Let's get the weight from off of your chest
Come on baby
Don't fear the people you know best
You're a soldier now
You're a soldier now
And you're going off to war
What are you crying for

You feel as useless as a paper umbrella in a storm
It's funny how the weather can go wrong
And you're without your outer shell
And I just want to know if I can help
Baby, I just want to know if I can help
I would do for you, whatever could
Whatever could be done

Oh, all I can do
Is look at you retreating to the skies
Oh, nothing grounds you now
You haven't got the anchor off your alibi

All I can say is
Suns will set (?) and rise again

But I will do for you
Whatever can be done

Your head's so heavy
Let's get the weight from off of your chest
Come on, baby
Don't fear the people you love best

Unretractable Facts

The sad and unretractable fact of my devotion to you
Causes you to pause in awe of my emotion
And you tell me you're overwhelmed and all your senses are kinda shaken
And I'm sitting here wishing I could have been mistaken

At one point or another I arrived at the truth
And at a quarter to three, it might have been two thirds vermouth
But oh I know me so well, I know the thing about me
Is even when wasted I don't waste my honesty

And now I'm stuck in the centre of unthinkable thoughts
I'd better show some remorse, I'd better head for the door
‘Cause all it takes to make a statement is to say that it's true
So the fact is unretractable and there is nothing I can do about it

Damn, whatever happened to acceptable lies
I have a self to despise
I have a head and a heart so horribly open wide
You had to be scared, you couldn't be dared to decide
To do anything other than running for cover to hide
I said, Oh, I'm so sorry you know I get so verbose
Sometimes I feel like I'm just sitting removing my clothes
Like every layer of whatever I'm wearing is lifted away
With every article I have to say
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
All because I'm stuck in the centre of unthinkable thoughts
I'd better show some remorse, I'd better head for the door
All it takes to make a statement is to say that it's true
But now the fact is unretractable and there is nothing I can do about it
And nothing I can do about it

Well it's a tragic and impractical fate that I am forced to contemplate
Another girl would never get in this state
I ingested the best part of seven bottles of wine
And like I'd learnt them by heart I started reciting my lines
And now I'm frightened and fraught, I'm distract and distressed
I'm too depressed, this is what I get for getting it off my chest
So you will have to forgive me for failing to make more sense
Just so you know, I hope we can be friends

Oh because I'm stuck in the centre of unthinkable thoughts
I'd better show some remorse, I'd better head for the door
All it takes to make a statement is to say that it's true
And the fact is unretractable and there is nothing I can do about it

And there is nothing I can do about it
Nothing I can do about it

Play Fair

There's a quick quick quickening of my pulse and my pace
And I think it's sickening how I have to save my face
And a drip drip trickling of a lethargy inside
Keeps me comatose when I'm on my toes so I'm half alive

If I can't play fair
With you I cannot play at all
What do I do
I wish I knew
But it's too close to call

My eyes are wide
The breadth of my deception has me petrified
What can I say
It was at my invitation that you played tonight
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
There's a quick quick quickening of my pulse and my pace
And I think it's sickening how I have to save my face
And a drip drip trickling of a lethargy inside
Keeps me comatose when I'm on my toes so I'm half alive

If I can't play fair
With you I cannot play at all
What do I do
I wish I knew
But it's too close to call

My knees are weak
As I try and find a reason why I can't speak
So I look around
For something to pin my gaze on like the ground at my feet

There's a quick quick quickening of my pulse and my pace
And I think it's sickening how I have to save my face
And a drip drip trickling of an energy inside
Keeps me on my toes when I'm comatose so I'm half alive

If I can't play fair
With you I cannot play at all
What do I do
I wish I knew
But it's too close to call

If I can't play fair
With you I cannot play at all
What do I do
I wish I knew
But it's too close to call
Oh it's too close to call

The Wishbone

Face to face, in a crowded basement
You were all amazement
That I should hate the way that I am just a replacement
I said, don't rebound on me, I am not a tennis court
This is not Monopoly or a spectator sport
Maybe it used to be but I've been through too much
Talk, but don't touch, just
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Give me the wishbone
Give me the wishbone and I'll make a wish
I'll wish for mutual love and happiness
I'll wish for friendship free from artifice
Just give me the wishbone
Give me the wishbone

Side my side in virtual contentment
My resentment self-evident when I pleaded the 5th amendment
‘Cause I can't talk about things I can't abide
Specially when we're mix and matching wrong and right
Let's quit the physical while we're still ahead
No damage done, no blood shed and I said

Give me the wishbone
Give me the wishbone and I'll make a wish
I'll wish for mutual love and happiness
I'll wish for friendship free from artifice
Just give me the wishbone
Give me the wishbone
Give me the wishbone
Give me the wishbone

I sashayed away in my elegant stilettos
Like a hundred different women who had walked that way before me
I inflected my invective will all these self-reflexive echoes
And I said I just didn't want somebody who could not adore me
Oh and you stood and you stared and you were rooted to the spot
Was it the brutal truth or the rudeness you saw in my parting shot
Ah and your eyes kind of liquidised and you were like, but I do
Honey, science dictates I do nothing without proof

So why don't you
Give me the wishbone
Give me the wishbone and I'll make a wish
I'll wish for mutual love and happiness
I'll wish for friendship free from artifice

Just give me the wishbone
Give me the wishbone
Give me the wishbone
Give me the wishbone

Give me the wishbone

Story with Only Two Characters

My story has only two characters
A woman, and also a man
Now she had some bad things happen to her
And he just would not understand
He figured she'd deal with her troubles
No bigger than bricks in a wall
And maybe they'd make a great couple
One day when she's dealt with them all
But she said you have to be here for this really
You have to come and see for yourself
You have to know how I'm feeling
You cannot ask nobody else
But you do, ‘cause you don't want to worry your head
But I won't love you when I am dead
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Spilt Milk

Darling it's deplorable
I'm still acting this adorable
With all this ugliness inside
It's just untenable
That I'm always so available
And I'm always so amenable
To your blending black and white

I tell you truthfully
This ambiguity
It's just no use to me
’Cause it makes me want to curl up in a foetal ball
Like an unprotected animal
With an ineffective outer wall
In an unsympathetic world

I know you'd never be unkind
With all your thoughts for me
But while you're making up your mind
It tortures me

But there's no use crying
There's no use crying
There's no use crying
There's no use crying
Oh

Well it's practically an actual catastrophe
And I reckon it just has to be
’Cause of its fundamental flaws
I know you'd happily
Gather me up and carry me
But you don't have the capacity
And I'm not a charitable cause

I feel like I lost it all
I feel like I'm in hospital
And you know it's just impossible
For you to see me now
Because togetherness
Is so akin to hopelessness
And we are standing on a precipice
And it is such a long way down

Oh and you know we have to walk away
While we're still making sense
This is just the price we pay for accidents
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
And there's no use crying
There's no use crying
There's no use crying
There's no use crying
Oh there's no use crying

Fall on your knees
Hear the angel voices
Fall on your knees
Hear the angel voices

But there's no use crying
There's no use crying
And there's no use dying
'Cause there's still more living to be done

Moth to a Candle Flame

Oh my days are dark again
And they’re drawing to a certain close
I am a moth to a candle flame
And my Icarus Wings are working loose
There are no angels to watch and pray
And there are no stars to wish upon
Who is gonna carry my soul away
Who is gonna miss me when I’m gone
Who is gonna miss me when I’m gone

Oh it’s easy to try
It’s easy to say
Nobody loves me anyway
So where’s my joy now
Where’s my instinct to survive
I don’t know how I am ever getting out of this alive
I am never getting out of this alive
I am never getting out of this alive
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Well I looked death in the eye
And I don’t remember what I said
Asked, was I going along for the ride
I think I replied I am already dead
Well I, took a look at it nice and slow
And I wondered what I made of it
Was it really my time to go
Was I really afraid of it
Was I really afraid of it

And yes it’s easy to try
It’s easy to say
Nobody loves me anyway
So where’s my joy now
Where’s my instinct to survive
I don’t know how I am ever getting out of this alive
I am never getting out of this alive
I am never getting out of this alive

Four Leaf Clover

Life forms, taking their shape
Diamonds, figures of eight
Carbon, crystal one day
Come on, do what you can
Make figures out of clay

I’m gonna go into the garden for a four leaf clover
And we can make a thing of beauty and a joy forever

Atoms move through a void
Compounds are made and destroyed
Cycles of death and rebirth
Mindful, stay mindful
Of making your name
And proving what you’re worth
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
I’m gonna go into the garden for a four leaf clover
And we can make a thing of beauty and a joy forever

Colours are pieces of light
Red, green and blue, together make white
You’ve got what I’ll never have
You are everything else, you are my other half

I’m gonna go into the garden for a four leaf clover
And we can make a thing of beauty and a joy forever

I’m gonna go into the garden for a four leaf clover
And we can make a thing of beauty and a joy forever