The lyrics here are sorted by album on which they appeared, with the lyrics to some unreleased tracks that may rear their head at some point.
Artificial Light (2007)
Good For You
This
Low
Surrounded
Ocean Floor
Love Span A Web
Don't Be A Stranger
Microscope
Are You Still Awake?
A Long List Of Excuses (2005)
There Must Have Been A Reason You can listen to this song in the Media Player above.
Little Red
Something Beautiful
Everybody Changes (So Will I) You can listen to this song in the Media Player above.
Revelations
Rain Song You can listen to this song in the Media Player above.
The Raven King You can listen to this song in the Media Player above.
Shimmer (2004)
To Make Yourself Forget
If It's Not Okay, It's Not The End
Shimmer
Let Them Sleep A Little Longer
Never Seen The Stars
Make The Bruises Bleed You can listen to this song in the Media Player above.
Lover's Dust
From Grace You can listen to this song in the Media Player above.
Holly, I Don't Expect A Thing You can listen to this song in the Media Player above.
Tell All Your Friends You can listen to this song in the Media Player above.
Soundtrack To A Perfect Year (2003) You can download this EP for free in the Free Stuff section.
What You Missed
Concealer
Drifted
Firelight
Last Year Lost
Unreleased Songs (2005)
A Hunger Satisfied
All Grown Up
Better Than I Know Myself
Cave
Don't Be A Stranger
Good For You
Hemingway
Melody
Nathalie
Promise Not To Lie
Sepia
Shiver
Show You The World
Take Me Down You can listen to this song in the Media Player above.
The Game You can listen to this song in the Media Player above.
The Poets Will Save Us All
The Quiet Life
Those Eyes Won't Work On Me
This
Together, I Think
Whatever
Selected Unreleased Songs (pre 2005)
Alive Under Artificial Light
Crashland
Fall On Deaf Ears You can listen to this song in the Media Player above.
Follow Me Home
It Will Only Get Worse
Lie To Me
Microscope
Saving Face
Start Again
What Doesn't Kill Me
Where Sound Never Goes
A Hunger Satisfied (back to lyrics)
The wolf is right outside.
I know, I know, I know,
He got to you last night.
I know, I know, I know...
... so why'd you have to lie?
There are teeth marks in your side.
A hunger satisfied,
But yours or his or mine?
The wolf has got your scent,
I know, I know, I know,
The distance you have kept.
I know, I know, I know.
I know everything.
Why your skin still trickles red
From the roses in the bed.
I'm not the one who left them there.
So why'd you have to lie?
There are teeth marks in your thighs.
A hunger satisfied,
But yours or his or mine?
The wolf is in the trees.
I know, I know, I know.
He's had a taste, now he won't leave
Until he's had it all.
All Grown Up (back to lyrics)
I will walk the beaches with you,
Just promise me a memory or two.
When the morning comes for me,
I'll prove that we are not worth anything.
You've been keeping secrets from yourself:
You were always happier on your own.
A cold bed made to keep you up.
A show to shake the sorrow from your bones.
You hurt yourself just to stay in control.
This bed is too comfortable.
Something has to give.
"The kids have all grown up.
I just don't know what to do."
We could have made something of our lives,
But all we got is wasted time.
Better Than I Know Myself (back to lyrics)
The last time I thought about you,
I was waiting for a train.
Surrounded by bodies,
Tired faces,
Tired eyes,
Just trying to get home.
I was travelling to see this friend of mine.
We hardly talk now, but we have to try.
We go to bars,
He drinks,
And talks until he cries.
I listen.
That makes me a good friend.
And the anarchists attempt to take the streets
Like their fathers did.
They taught them how to speak.
(Wait) Something was said,
But I'm not sure what it meant.
Everyone was screaming.
I didn't quite catch it.
Everyone shut up for a minute.
I wish you would all just pay attention.
Can't you tell, I've got important things to say?
I could change the world with these feelings.
But the world is slowly changing me.
My value shift from love to money,
My childish fits become more common,
Much less funny,
I lose my social skills,
That friend stops calling me.
He's got nothing more to say.
While the anarchists attempt to take the streets
Like their fathers did.
They taught them how to speak.
(Wait) Something was said,
But I'm not sure what it meant.
Everyone's stopped breathing.
I didn't understand.
Everyone shut up for a minute.
Everyone shut up and let me sing.
Cave (back to lyrics)
A little silence in the cave.
Watch the shadows dancing on the walls.
Is this the time, is this the place?
Waste it all.
A little sacrafice to make.
A consequence you'll try to understand.
A little give, a little take.
Ways to fall.
Whatever you do, don't leave me.
I've got so little time to spare.
Whatever you do, don't wake me up.
I've got so little time.
A little accident, that's all.
You got to learn to trust yourself, my son.
A little storm, a little sun.
Sail away.
A little close around the edge.
Quiet but the breaking of the waves.
Stop to listen for a bit.
Que sera.
Don't Be A Stranger (back to lyrics)
If I am here to make old lovers care,
Then count me out. Count me out.
If I am here to make you feel better about yourself,
Count me out.
If I was wrong about you,
Then I was wrong about you all along.
If I am here to save you from surprise,
Then count me out. Count me out.
If I am here to wash away all the little errors you have made,
Count me out.
But if I am here because I make you laugh,
Then I will stay. I will stay.
I am here because I find it difficult to sleep when you're away.
I will stay.
"Don't be a stranger," you said.
"Don't be a stranger anymore."
Good For You (back to lyrics)
This place is full of tired, drunken whores,
They stumble through the doors into the room
To black out to the music.
You stand watch them with me for a while
Before you turn and smile, as if to say
"I'm not one of them".
I know, little lamb, I know,
But you can't kid everyone.
You move against the rhythm in the walls
And I am talking small
Trying to lie,
But all I really want to do
Is breathe you deep into my lungs
And hold it,
For a second,
To know your taste,
To know you're real behind the pretty face.
And then I'd let it go.
I'm not good for you.
Well, good for you,
You're such an easy fool.
Lean closer and touch my lips with yours.
And I wonder,
How long can I pretend to know your name?
And I'm restless.
How long will the walk to the slaughterhouse take?
I don't know who you are,
But you are the reason I came to this place
On my own.
I'm not good for you.
Well good for you.
You are an easy fool.
Lean closer and touch my lips with yours.
Hemingway (back to lyrics)
O, my words have gone the way of Hemingway,
Around the world, then lost in crowded spaces.
I have seen the past in too many faces.
I have nothing new to say.
Jesus, I can't hear you anymore.
I strain to feel
What once was there, and now is gone .
I should have known
You'd leave before I got the chance to prove myself.
(singing!:)
"Look at me,
Look at me,
Dancing pretty.
My friends all say I'm changing."
Her eyes were cold, but they still kept me warm.
Words I've heard so many times before
Are all she needs to bring me to my knees.
Lips, and light, and kissing to the beat...
... and skin, soft and thin.
I can't do this again.
*improvise*
Melody (back to lyrics)
Piano keys,
Flow through the wall.
Soft and faint.
I pick up a melody,
Hardly there at all.
Every single one of us
Starts to sing along.
You did it again.
What were you thinking this time?
A head full of pills.
So much more than a cry for help.
Nathalie (back to lyrics)
You fell into her love,
Your puppet strings were cut,
And now you've got to find your own way out.
You tried to leave a trail,
And it seemed so clear,
But now the light has failed.
And the trail leads nowhere.
She held you in her hands,
You brushed against her skin,
And she threw you like a ragdoll in the air.
You float over our heads
Like music on the wind,
And for the first time in your life you understand
Why you still look for her after so long.
You'll be waiting here for years to come.
Singing:
"Hey Nathalie, where've you been?
Hey Nathalie, don't pretend.
Oh, you sing so sweet,
But times are changing, dear, and that don't mean a thing.
Nathalie, where've you been?"
Quiet and unsure,
On snow-white tile floor,
You slept until the sunlight woke you up.
Safer than your bed.
Like being home again.
But cold enough to put your thoughts to rest.
Businessmen are crying in their cars, singing...
She likes to cut your hair,
She hears voices that aren't there,
When she stares into the mirror.
Singing...
Promise Not To Lie (back to lyrics)
I keep you close
For fear of losing you.
But when you go,
There's nothing I can do.
Day after day, I tell you everything.
I'd like to say I know what you're thinking,
But I haven't got a clue.
Do you believe everything you've read?
All these stories
Spinning in my head.
I will never read your letters
If you promise not to lie.
Nobody else was ever so talented at denial
As we are.
I talk to God because you believe in Him.
What I would give to know what he's thinking,
But I haven't got a clue.
I will never read your letters
If you promise not to lie.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Sepia (back to lyrics)
The leaves are falling faster now,
Painting the soil,
Yellows and browns.
The spinning world is slowing down.
I watch you from the ground,
Floating on the waves on sound.
Soon the dawn will break and bow.
(And what will we do then?)
Age claims another life.
A dying husband, a lonely wife,
A troubled daughter with a knife.
The metal bends and shatters light,
And as her fingertips turn white
She feels the weight melt like ice.
And on a good day
You can see for miles and miles.
Autumn came and summer died,
Without a struggle, without a fight.
That's just the way it is sometimes.
Seasons change and stars collide
Above our heads almost every night.
All we do is shield our eyes.
You can see for miles and miles.
I can see God in your smile,
Closer than I've been in a long while.
Shiver (back to lyrics)
Oh, don't look at me like that.
I might get ideas,
And what would you do then?
Oh, don't even pretend.
I was never good at staying in control.
You're moving through the air
Like you're not even there.
Dancing from the hips.
Cut the light the strips.
You always bite your lip when you lose your breath.
Cold as it is,
You're breathing on my neck.
What the hell am I supposed to think?
You make me shiver.
Standing at this height,
The only way is down.
But we won't be around to see the other side.
Oh, but honey, I'll still taste you
Long after tonight.
Cold as we are,
Your fingernails intent on leaving scars.
What the hell am I supposed to do?
You make me shiver.
Low (back to lyrics)
Jesus was a choirboy.
What a lovely voice he had.
I stood outside his empty church
just to hear those words again.
Once, I would have gone out of my way
just to be a little like him.
But not today.
Oh, to be floating through the emptiness with you.
I would have loved you as much as I could.
Jesus was a quiet man,
what a lonely life he led.
He spoke to each of us in turn
but none of us called back.
Should I feel sorry for the things I have done?
Oh, to be floating through the emptiness with you.
I would have loved you as much as I could.
Surrounded (back to lyrics)
A mouth full of sugar
helps the candle go out,
leaves the room all dark and safe and warm.
Surrounded.
Your soul, your soul
leaves the room all dark and safe and warm,
and I will leave nothing unturned.
Surrounded.
So shape me with your fingers,
and turn me in between
your strangest dreams, always about me.
My strangest dreams, always without you.
Surrounded.
I want to touch your soul from the inside out.
I want to touch your soul from the inside.
Ocean Floor (back to lyrics)
Down along the ocean floor
no one makes a sound,
no one sleeps a wink.
Nothing moves at all.
Nothing to distract us.
Down along the ocean floor,
where my heart beats fast,.
out of time with yours.
I kinda want to blow it all.
I want to tear it down.
Time to bring yourself back around.
Down along the ocean floor,
where my heart beats fast.
'cause I miss you more.
I've got time to face my fears,
and time to write them down.
Time to bring yourself back around.
Down along the ocean floor,
no one makes a sound
no one sleeps a wink.
Do you hear me when I say
'nothing comes to mind'?
Time to bring yourself back around.
'Cause you waste it all,
you waste it all,
you waste it, waste it, waste it.
Time to bring yourself back around.
Love Span A Web (back to lyrics)
Come inside,
it's warmer in here
now I keep the fire burning.
This could be your home.
Stay as long as you want,
not just for the season.
'Cause I've been away for a while
in the mountains above this town.
I trusted my shadow
and got lost in the shallows and smoke.
Oh, God.
Stay for Christmas and I'll make it up to you.
No excuses, I'll sit here and talk to you
for as long as your want me to.
'Cause I miss how easily love span a web around
everything I thought I knew about
and everyone I thought I cared about.
Come inside,
it's warmer in here
now I keep the fire burning.
Are You Still Awake? (back to lyrics)
Lights out, my girl.
We need some time apart,
and neither of us should even be here.
You can rely on me
to say such awful things,
and say them innocently.
You can rely on me.
Lights out, my girl.
Broken promises made right again.
Just wait your turn,
we're going to make it out of here just fine.
You could have been anyone,
but I would have done anything you asked.
I would have done anything at all,
but you didn't ask.
Lights out, my girl.
Make way for the bride to be.
(There are things that matter beyond love.
Life is much more than just happiness.)
You could have been anyone,
but I would have done anything you asked.
I would have done anything at all,
but you didn't ask.
You didn't ask.
We're gonna make it out of here,
We're gonna make it out of here just fine.
We're gonna make it out of here alright,
Just fine.
But you didn't ask.
Show You The World (back to lyrics)
I heard you were thin like paper
And that you tear just as easily.
They called you their canvas
And they painted you up
As something you should never have been.
You wore their garish colours
With a pride quite unlike your own.
But those aren't tattoos,
They're just a small mark of youth,
And the ink will run dry before long.
Any proof that you strayed will be gone.
Well I heard you were going nowhere,
Just a pin sticking into the globe.
You spin on your axis
A little off-center,
Just enough to make me feel loved.
What can I do for you, girl?
I wish I could show you the world.
Just because your enemies own that little town
Doesn't mean they can follow you around.
No, chances are they'll never get out.
I heard you singing to yourself,
Some song you could hear in your head.
You didn't know the melody, the words or the structure,
But you danced like a marionette.
And what could I say to you, girl?
I wish I could show you the world.
I would carry you up and down these steps all night
If I thought it would help.
Take Me Down (back to lyrics)
You took me down and showed me the river.
You've never seen me like this, but I have.
You wrapped me in essence of silver,
You laced my shoes with gold,
And you threw me in.
I was blind before,
And now I see you for what you are.
So close your eyes and blind me again.
Again, again, again,
And take me down.
I swam out til I reached the ocean.
You've never seen it before until now.
You told me that this is how it always goes,
It always goes wrong.
I was blind before,
And now I see you for what you are.
So close your eyes and blind me again.
Again, again, again, again.
You take me down.
Breathing in again.
You're breathing in again.
The Game (back to lyrics)
Oh god, just look at you.
It's been so long,
And you haven't changed at all.
You're still flashing that smile.
The one I fell in love with years ago.
It's safe to say you never should have gone away.
I was only going to think about you more when you were not around.
It makes perfect sense to me.
We're so good at this game.
I said "Oh god, just look at you."
Hey, didn't you wear that dress
The last time we...
Well, you know.
You have beautiful way of making me smile
Even when I really don't want to.
And then you went and brought me down to earth again.
The Poets Will Save Us All (back to lyrics)
Oh sweet God damn, I've done it again...
So I'll run into the house and lock all the doors,
Board all the windows,
Hide under the floor.
It won't be so bad,
I've got a guitar and a tapedeck.
I'll send you everything I write and record,
Push it through the letterbox in my front door.
See, I've got problems no one's heard of before.
So everyone should listen to me,
Girl, you've got a real important job.
I expect, in twenty years, when I finally leave
I'll be showered with fan mail and royalties
And fathers offering their daughters.
Oh, what will I do?
They'll recieve me as their God,
Sent from the sky
To rock out and solve the dilemmas in their lives,
With my heavenly voice and poetic tongue,
I'm positively reeking of divinity,
So how can you blame them?
I'll be invited to all the best parties,
And nobody there will want to leave without me,
What do you mean they just want me for the money?
Don't you believe in true love?
Between the wars in the east
And the assholes in the west,
The world is falling apart.
Can't we all just be friends?
Knock at the door...
Hey, kids, it's the President!
"You've shown me the error of my ways."
And now the secretary's telling me all about equality
And global warming,
I hear it's such a tragedy.
How about we compromise,
And the raise the heat slightly.
Oh god, I'm good at this job.
Now the whole world is hotter than hell,
The ice caps are gone,
And the waters will swell.
But we can sunbathe all year long.
Isn't that what you wanted?
Oh sweet God damn, I've done it again.
Those Eyes Won't Work On Me (back to lyrics)
You've got an accusing stare, but so do I.
You look sick, but you usually do, so I don't mind.
But I've been watching you, my boy.
I see you slip through the window almost every night,
And those eyes won't work on me.
No, those eyes won't work on me.
You've got such a way with words to help you out,
You've got such a charming voice and a sharp tongue in your mouth.
But I've been watching you, my boy.
I see you slip through the window almost every night,
And that act won't work on me,
No, those eyes won't work on me.
And I'm so sorry if I make you nervous when I talk,
If my stories are too dark,
My characters too on the mark.
And I'm so sorry if I'm to blame for your bad dreams,
If I'm the reason you can't sleep without the lights on.
The Quiet Life (back to lyrics)
I have a voice, so I will sing to you.
And I've got a page of quotes that I wrote out for you.
All of the things I would tell you if I could.
So many places I'd rather be with you.
I have a voice, and so I speak to you.
And when I say the wrong thing
You don't hate me like you should.
When I've got people to see, you know I'll wait for you.
Is this love?
Well who really cares when it feels this beautiful.
So lets disappear tonight.
Leave this town for good.
I'm tired of the quiet life.
If you'd only ask, you know I would.
You talk in the night,
You tell me what you see.
God, you're so pretty when you're sleeping,
And that's how you got to me.
They don't miss us at all.
They don't know us at all.
This (back to lyrics)
Lying next to you.
I wouldn't lie to you.
Not now. Not now.
The music strips us bare.
Moving overhead.
Not now.
I am not the first.
Maybe not the last.
But I'm getting scared.
All roads lead back to you.
I guess it's not a choice I'm going to have to make.
Not now. Not now.
How many men have been here?
Answered to my name?
Not now. Calm down.
This is getting out of hand.
Together, I Think (back to lyrics)
You kept me up all night.
I should have known.
You kept me up all night, waiting here.
You didn't even call me back.
You just run.
Is there really nowhere we can go?
We did this together, I think.
Whatever *A Formal Apology and a Fuck You* (back to lyrics)
And so you've heard it all before.
I stole all the best ideas,
Rewrote all the classic lines.
Oh, please, give me one more try!
Give me something new to sing about,
Something you can't do without.
I swear,
I promise you,
I'll do it, I'll do it, I'll do...
Whatever you want.
Whatever you say.
What do these people want to hear?
They're not even listening to me!
Whatever I do,
Whatever I sing,
They're all just staring at the floor.
Well, I'm getting sick of this,
Of everything.
I hate this scene and all who live for it.
Sorry for everything.
Alive Under Artificial Light (back to lyrics)
I'll be gone before morning has come for us.
My eyes shine brightest under artificial light.
I won't keep you up
Any later than I must.
You look so tired in the pale moonlight.
And if I leave a note for you, don't read it.
It won't make any sense at all.
I know I talk a lot,
But I never expected anyone to be listening.
(To listen in.)
I'll be gone long before the sun has risen us.
Such a beautiful thing, what have I done?
We've both been alive in our skin too long.
Our innocence fled a long time ago.
If I left a note for you, I'm sorry.
I promise, I have nothing to say to you.
I talk too much.
I can only hope no one is listening.
Concealer (back to lyrics)
You've got bars outside your windows
To keep away the cold
And to hide your pretty face behind
When people get too close.
There's nothing in your pockets
And nothing on your mind.
What's the point in thinking
When a million others have tried?
What you wear ain't who you are.
Displaying accessories and fashionable scars.
When you call me up on the phone tonight
I'll say "Nothing's changed since last time.
I'm still the same old boy you hate."
You're putting on your make up
And you're saving face again
Nothing is more transparent
Than you and all your friends.
You're putting on your blusher
And you're driving Daddy's car.
You've used all your concealer
To cover up your scars.
You could be better than this.
But you don't care.
You could be bigger than this.
But no one cares at all.
I'm still the same old boy you hate.
Crashland (back to lyrics)
Here we are again in this old town.
Years have passed us,
And despite your promises you're still around.
You told me you'd get out.
Well, darling, how've you been?
I'm still the same boy that you knew.
Still don't drink or smoke at all (*call me straight edge I'll kick yo' ass*)
And I don't need to get high when I'm with you.
I know that you do,
But I think that's just you.
And I just wish you would take me seriously sometimes.
So tonight I will crashland at your house
Like the thousand times before,
And I'll fall into your bed and forget all about this war.
Not again.
I have started something that will never end.
I don't have the best memory,
And I'm having trouble remembering what went wrong with us
And why we just gave up
Without a second thought.
You and only you will ever know
How god damn stupid I get
And the lengths to which I'll go to sabotage myself.
I'd gladly burn this all down.
Sometimes we wait around too long,
And nothing much happens at all.
Sometimes all we get is a 'welcome home'.
Drifted (back to lyrics)
You said that this would be the last time.
But it is never the last time.
And you know that you'll come back.
You said that this would last forever.
But this is hardly forever.
And we're on the right track this time.
I don't understand any of this at all.
Underneath the stars in July
I think I saw a tear leave your eye
And drift away.
So drift away from me again.
And do it all in time with the music.
That fits the scene so perfectly.
This is the best for you and me.
This is the best time.
This is the worst time to tell you everything I should have said.
So open your eyes.
Can you see the stars in the sky?
They're already there.
Open my eyes.
I can see the stars in your eyes.
They've always been there to me.
Fall On Deaf Ears (back to lyrics)
I will be gone
In the time it takes to whisper my name.
These thoughts are coming out wrong.
Mouthing the words to your face,
But you don’t need to listen I guess.
You say we’re close,
Closer than ever before.
Closer than you’ve ever known,
While you’re in the next room.
I will be gone
In the time it takes to rush apologies.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear.
I thought explanations
Would fall on deaf ears.
Do you even realise
All you’ve done is prove me right?
Don’t lie to me
When all I really need is an honest word
Please give me that at least.
Don’t reach for the words
When there’s nothing to be heard.
Learn from my mistakes:
Just because you hear me,
Doesn’t mean I’m really there at all.
I'm not there at all.
You say we’re close,
Closer than ever before.
But are we really as close as you thought after all?
Firelight (back to lyrics)
Totally afflicted with nothing in particular.
Maybe you'll fall.
It's not your fault at all.
Secretly following lights going deeper and down.
Away from your enemies.
Further from everyone and me.
So look into the light,
Hold on to the sides,
Just work your way down.
Ignoring the screaming,
It's wearing you out.
Bright lights are gleaming in firelight.
Why is this not a surprise?
Drink all the water you left for yourself in a tin.
Laced with these poisons.
Letting the sleep set in.
Having these nightmares of fire flowing in from the sea.
Raging in torrents.
Washing right over me.
Hold the water.
Down it goes.
The acid is seeping through,
Pain should be telling you stop.
Hold the water.
Don't let go.
The pleasure is pulling you down
And it's tearing us apart.
Follow Me Home (back to lyrics)
Follow me home tonight
And I'll tell you everything you've been missing in your life
And do you realise that there's so much more to me
Than a shoulder to cry on?
I can see it in your eyes,
You don't believe my lies.
That's no surprise.
Follow me home tonight
And I'll show you there's much more to me
Than sympathetic eyes
And comfort in the night.
I believe light only shines on what has been there all along.
That's no surprise at all,
Because behind this charming smile is an ordinary boy
Who lies through his teeth
And doesn't mean a single thing he says.
So follow me home tonight
And I'll tell you all the lies
You're just dying to believe.
I guess it's not so bad if you look at it like that.
I'm just rekindling your faith.
And I can see it in your eyes,
You're swallowing my lies.
That's no surpise.
It Will Only Get Worse (back to lyrics)
I dreamt of you last night,
As I was waiting for the sun.
I dreamt you were at my side
Like you have always been.
(I'm sorry for the times I wasn't there,
It dosn't take much to get me scared.
And it will only get worse
When the light is in my eyes,
And when I'm staring at ocean
I'll be too afraid to cry.)
Your hand was on my shoulder
And your voice was in the air,
And when I breathed I couldn't help but
Take in every word you said.
(And I will only get worse
When the tide reaches it's peak,
And when my feet are getting wet.
I'll be the last into the sea.)
Yours is the last face I see.
Last Year Lost (back to lyrics)
She said that it's over.
She said that there's nothing left to prove.
She said that she's given up on us.
She said that she'll miss me.
But that she'll miss the old me more.
She said that she's given up on things.
Because it's not easy to fall in love again.
So let go of my hand.
Just walk away.
And it's not easy to let you go again.
So let go of my hand.
Just walk away.
She said that she'd waited.
She said that she missed how it used to be.
She said I'm a different boy from then.
She said she still loves me,
But that love alone just isn't enough.
She said that we're only young once.
So I'll say I'm sorry.
I'm sorry for everything I said
And I'd take it back now if I could.
And if you need to find me
Then you know where I'll be.
I will be waiting.
I will be waiting there.
Lie To Me (back to lyrics)
I read your letter again.
I wish I could have held that pen,
If only because the shaking of your hand
Made the writing hard to understand.
Something about 'anger' and 'grief',
And 'forcing smiles' whatever that means.
But it's not up to me
To tell you when you're happy and when you're not.
And in this one moment it all becomes clear.
You were always around but never here.
So go.
Lie to me.
After all, I'm not even here.
So it came to be
You're not responsible for me
Or anything I say,
So don't you go worrying your pretty brain.
I guess I made the mistake
In trusting you with my heartache.
But at least I realised
With time enough to spare to take it back.
Don't even bother telling me the truth.
I only wish I'd left you.
Well, I'm sorry I made you feel that way.
But I won't take back all the words I meant to say.
It was all you.
It wasn't me.
Microscope (back to lyrics)
The city's at it's brightest
When the sun has left it's throne,
And the streetlights form a landing strip
For our returning souls.
We feed them on our mindless lust
And we drown them in our love.
Those feelings are hard to seperate
Despite what we've been taught.
There's a theory among the scholars
That emotion is a lie,
Peddled by the bible and engineered by Christ.
Some God-awful conspiracy to make us think we have a soul.
To make us certain that we're different.
That's quite a trick he's pulled.
It's like looking at the universe through a microscope,
Watching people on distant stars trying hard to cope
With the overwhelming feeling that they're not alone.
I spend my life terrified
That I'll find a reason to be scared.
Right now all I have to go on
Is a book of fairytales,
That says I'm being chased by dragons
Set on burning me alive,
And if I keep trying to save myself
I will surely die.
I thought I heard God calling me,
But now I'm not so sure.
It could have been some synapse failing me.
I hear they're not reliable.
I've got faith,
Yeah, I've got tonnes of it,
But I need something clear.
Sometimes I think my pride is all that's keeping me here.
And some say that the horizon
Was put there to stop us having a sense of proportion,
Because that would destroy us.
If we could see infinity we would just give up.
Saving Face (back to lyrics)
You break me.
A crack along my side.
Breaking hearts and changing lives.
The sun bleeds across these mountain ranges
A deeper shade of yellow than you know.
Bolder now you know.
It creeps along the waterfront.
With nothing on it's mind.
Asking nothing of you this time:
Savour your youth.
You will be lost by the morning.
Savour your youth.
You'll miss it tonight.
You break me.
A gash along the hillside.
Breaking close and breaking clean.
Start Again (back to lyrics)
Hallelujah,
The snow is here at last,
And it will cover all in white.
Erasing everything.
All our hopes and fears and dreams,
So we can start afresh.
Start again.
I wish I could tell you how sorry I am
For everything I have done,
But words are so meaningless these days
(especially coming from me).
So let these words hang in the air
Between your lips and mine,
And let them twist and turn and rise,
Bringing our gaze up to the sky.
I wish I could tell you how thankful I am,
And I would give my life to see you again,
And how much these moments really mean in the end,
When it's just you and me and nobody else.
Forgive me,
I know not where I am.
I know not where I stand.
I know not what I do.
Forgive me,
And let me start again.
What You Missed (back to lyrics)
Stand on top of the storm,
Flap your wings
To the butterfly nets over me.
Stand alone in the warmth,
By the edge of your bed.
Looking at photographs of me.
And on the way back home
You'll laugh about the past
And you'll wonder where it's gone
And what you've missed.
Drink the warm summer days
As the minutes pass by.
Watching the line between past and present fade.
Sitting out on the beach.
Where the sea hits the sand.
Drawing the circle from beginning to end.
I've found your photograph.
Pressed between two halfs.
Fading by the day
But I still see you.
What Doesn't Kill Me (back to lyrics)
Where did you go?
Crazy young fool,
Who'd wear his heart on his sleeve.
Still beating.
Still breathing.
Where did you go?
Silly young fool,
Who'd spill his guts for the world to see,
Knowing judgement is all but fleeting.
And it stings,
But it's worth every bit.
It stings,
And it's worth every minute of it.
It stings,
But that's part of the hit.
What doesn't kill me only makes me sick.
Where did you go?
Stupid young fool,
I never thought I'd miss you at all.
But these days I'm always looking for you.
Where did you do?
Brave young fool.
The words now forming in the back of mind
Will stick there until the end of time.
What doesn't kill me only makes me sick.
What doesn't kill me only makes me.
Where Sound Never Goes (back to lyrics)
Throw me into the lake face down,
Where I'll never be found.
You've shown me,
Like every good teacher should,
How to behave,
Where to stand,
And what to say.
Can you hear me where you are?
Are you really that close?
I'm sinking to a depth with sound never goes,
And where the only shade is the silver light of ghosts.
Hide behind the alcohol.
It's not your fault that it's taken it's hold.
You're breathing way too deep
And far too fast
To be getting anything out of it.
Our lives are meaningful, but shapeless.
I'm done, I'm done,
But I'm not sure how to take this.
It's strange...
Watching the world collapse,
I realised my thoughts were elsewhere.
There Must Have Been A Reason (back to lyrics)
The clouds came out of nowhere,
And they cluttered up the sky
As if God himself had had enough of the blinding yellow light.
Now the air is heavier,
I've got a reason to lie down.
I've got an excuse to be sleeping in
The soil underground,
Where the world will never find me.
They'll remember my name
Because it's carved into the headstone
You placed above my grave.
Surrounded by flowers
Left by faces I barely recognise,
And a long long list of excuses
I used and used until the day I died.
I hear that being fucked up
Is a desirable quality people look for in their lovers.
(To make themselves feel less crazy?)
I wish I wish I wish I was messed up in the head.
I wish I couldn't get to sleep at night
Without pills or medicine.
You've got to drown out all the nightmares
With somebody or something,
And all you left me were the scribbled words
To the song you used to sing
Whenever you were feeling lonely.
(Whenever I was at your side).
I caught your expression when the phone rang.
You were hoping it was him on the line.
You're the only one to see me cry.
I finally have proof that I'm alive.
Something you can see with your own eyes,
Something you can touch and feel
And eventually deny.
Do you still sing yourself to sleep at night?
Or do you just hum the tune?
I keep the lyrics by my beside
To stop me thinking about you.
There must have been a reason
Why I kissed you years ago.
And why I very nearly drowned myself
Dancing in the falling snow.
Spinning through the static
Between your channel and mine,
With white noise on the radio
Keeping us in time.
It doesn't make much sense now,
But we were 17 back then.
And if our mistakes have taught us anything
It's to just keep making them.
Go on.
Little Red (back to lyrics)
Little Red, I'm just having fun.
Don't think that I led you on.
So I tried to be someone I'm not,
And you saw right through my disguise.
You know me better than the rest.
You were always so hard to impress,
And I got a little carried away I guess.
Don't worry about a thing.
I'm never scared when I with you.
Don't say that.
Everything's okay.
They don't need to know about us.
Don't think I'll be led astray.
They don't need to know about us.
Cinderella, what are you doing out this late?
You should be in bed.
You should be safe.
Pretty soon all of this will change,
But I'll take good care of you.
You said "Happy-ever-after
Is a myth you're still chasing after,
But I guess that's why I still love you,
Even after all of this."
Don't you worry about a thing.
I'm not afraid when I'm with you.
Don't say that,
Everything's okay.
They don't need to know about us.
Don't think I'll be led astray,
They don't need to know about us.
We don't need to go our seperate ways.
No one needs to know about us.
Don't say that,
Everything's okay.
They don't need to know.
They don't need to know about us.
Something Beautiful (back to lyrics)
These words don't hold me like they did.
When you held my hands on the way back to your house
And I tried to tell you
How the air around us made me feel alive.
(And I thought you understood...)
You made sure to breathe in time with me.
Your skin wasn't cold like hers.
Distance, distance, distant.
You held me in your arms like a child.
So turn this into something beautiful,
Like you used to.
Like you always do.
Turn me into someone beautiful.
I can't keep fainting around you
Just to make you notice me.
Distance, distance, distant.
You held me in your arms.
You kept me at arm's length
Like a child.
Everybody Changes (So Will I) (back to lyrics)
I took the last train out of town,
Passed through the city
As she slept at my feet.
I'm not really sure what I'm doing this for,
All I know is that there's a target I must meet.
So I took the words
Directly from your lips,
I stretched them and reshaped them
Exactly how I wanted.
And now all you ever speak
Are the words I made you eat.
I poured them down your throat in your sleep.
That's what you get for breathing through your teeth.
So Jesus, if you're listening,
Let me on your back again.
My legs are getting weak
From this relentless travelling.
At the very least show me where the hell I'm going,
Or tell me who I'll be when I arrive.
If everybody's changing,
So will I.
We store our lives in boxes
Labelled "BEST BEFORE THE END"
Or "OPEN ONLY ON YOUR DEATH BED - NO, IN FACT JUST DON'T OPEN"
And each box contains a storybook
With a tragic crippled spine.
The summaries bare no relation
To the tales retold inside.
It's hard to distinguish
Between apocrypha and lies
And there's a subtle difference
That few will realise.
You see, none of what I tell you
Is reality at all
But it's close enough to be considered gospel.
They say I'm trustworty to a fault.
I've got songs inside my head
That could resurrect the dead
And have them dancing through the headstones
With the lovers they have left.
That is, if they forgive them
For leaving them behind
To face the hell of solitude
Without a tongue to pass the time.
With the mindless conversations
We grow used to over years
Discussing lonliness and coffee prices
And all those other fears
That will drive us on forever
Until we finally give in
And realise the beauty of just living.
There's so much beauty in just living.
Revelations (back to lyrics)
You'd better watch yourself, kid,
Or at least watch your feet.
There's cracks in the pavement you can't even see.
Folks are breaking their backs all over this town.
The police have their best
But they can't figure it out.
What they don't understand
Is that it's all down to luck
Or destiny
Or divine will
Or whatever you want.
The point I'm trying to make is,
Try hard as you might,
If the fates are against you
You're going to break your spine.
Listen closely, son,
I'm going to let you in on a little secret
That everyone is perfectly aware of
(in their own way),
Just no one ever mentions it
For fear of what the neighbours would say
If they got a hold of it.
You'll find as you get older,
Things will start to make more sense
As you see your flaws in others
So efficiently you scare yourself.
And you'll find that everyone you meet,
Despite how nice they seem to be
Is just another aspect of your personality
You particularly despise.
I used to know a girl,
I heard she won the lottery.
That's 100 million to spend as she pleases.
She had six long years of high school,
Of people calling her a whore.
They spat on her clothes
And left her bleeding on the floor.
I wish I could have saved her,
But I never had the chance...
Face it, Matt,
You're talking shit.
Why have you always got to go and bring heroics/emotions into everything?
You're always saving somebody,
But you're never really helping anyone
But yourself.
Oh God...
I'm sorry, kid, for what I've said.
I'm not quite sure what just happened.
I must have gone and lost myself,
It happens now and then.
Life is slowly killing you,
Get out while you still can.
While you still have your faith,
While you still have your friends.
But while summer still holds meaning,
I doubt you'll understand.
And when you're old enough
You'll figure it all out for yourself.
So go out into the streets.
Go out and make the world your own.
Just don't say I didn't warn you
When the cracks start to show.
Rain Song (back to lyrics)
This is the end of the good weather.
Rain from now on.
We watched it falling,
We watched it gather in the cracks.
Washing over everything.
Oh, how we loved the rain.
We went dancing beneath the stormclouds
While everyone else was inside.
Between the lightning they heard us laughing
And singing only for the sky.
Oh, how we loved the rain.
It's been so long since we danced
To the rhythm of the rain.
So many storms have passed,
But every one in vain.
Oh, how we loved the rain.
The Raven King (back to lyrics)
I know just where you are, my love.
I watch you everywhere you go.
Soon you'll see ravens in the sky.
Soon you'll hear footsteps in your mind.
I have secrets I could sell to you.
Many men have fought and died for you.
A long long time ago...
Every beast will know my name,
Every star will light my way,
And every stone you piled upon my grave
Will roll away.
I know just where you are, my love.
I've been centuries away, but never far.
Soon you'll see ravens in the sky.
Soon you'll hear whispers in your mind.
Inspired by Susanna Clarke's novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel.
To Make Yourself Forget (back to lyrics)
I wish there was a pill that I could take
Or choke on
To let me breathe again.
And I wish there was a way to anaesthetize regret,
Forget the words I should have said.
Now you're taking all your charms
And you're taking pride of place
In these affections I've misplaced
That I'll learn to disregard in time.
But nothing seems to work
And this placebo that I took is drying up my throat.
I wish you'd say my name
But your tongue is twisting distant words now,
In someone else's mouth.
And I wish I'd held my breath:
These songs are boring me to death
But I can't stop playing them.
If It's Not Okay, It's Not The End (back to lyrics)
How do you do it?
Making out like you've never been hurt before.
I'm a believer in the theory
That if you've never been hurt
You're lucky or alone.
Well I don't think you're either of those.
How do you figure?
Treating friends like your lovers
Like you've never been told there's a difference at all.
As if your kisses mean nothing
But "stay with me always".
Like there's really a chance I'll leave you all alone.
I'll leave you on your own.
There's a time to be patient,
And there's to be gracious,
And there's a time to pretend it doesn't hurt anymore.
There's a time to be angry,
And there's a time to lonely,
And there's a time to pretend it doesn't hurt anymore.
But it always hurts.
How do you do it, honey?
Try to explain it.
Maybe the words will mean something from you.
You know I trust you with my heart.
I trust you way too much,
But that look in your eyes is deserving of faith.
If you leave me here, I'll stand
On my own two feet at last,
But is there really something wrong
With holding on to what you love?
And to the girl who told me when
"Everything was perfect then",
As if that kiss was all we had.
"Whatever comes will come to pass."
There's a time to hold my heart,
And there's a time to hold my head,
And there's time to pretend you didn't hurt either one.
There's a time to tell you straight,
And there's a time to be too late,
And there's a time to remember how all this begun.
Do you remember at all?
Shimmer (back to lyrics)
What should I do, darling?
Tell me the truth - what should I do?
And what if this time we're wrong?
What should I do?
It seems like hearts only break in my hands these days.
Always an innocent face,
But never my own.
I won't let you become one of them.
My arms round your waist.
My hands through you hair.
These words in my ear
They may not be real.
Because it's so late at night,
I can't tell what's real and what's not.
I can't say what's taking so long.
I can't speak for anyone but myself.
Let Them Sleep A Little Longer
Never Seen The Stars
Nope, never seen them. Ever ever.
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