B i o g r a p h y (by Johnny Loftus)
We live in the age of the short attention span- where vacuousness is a virtue, where time to stop and think is really found and where everything goes in one ear and out the other. But if you are still reading this, it suggests you may still be looking for someone or something more substantial and rewarding than the hoards of tight-troused retro- rockers or gay-for- pay gimmick peddlers of present day pop. Carina Round may not have the kind of slacks that court infertility and she probably won't share a snog with another girl if it gets her video played on MTV (although we can hope) but when regarding the essence of her music, there are few more arresting and striking sounds available to the human ear. I wanna make people feel something, explains Carina on her personal motivation. The music that I listen to most is the kind that reflects something that I feel. After all, isn't that why we all listen to music? To be excited and to be thrown into upheavel? Growing up in the deprived Low Hill area of Wolverhampton, external recreation was a limited for a young Carina. It's not the sort of place my mother was willing to let me run around so all i had was what was in the house - mainly books and records. My most prized possession as a kid was a turntable I was given for my fifth birthday. Revelling in the delights of Dylan and Simone, an infant Carina found the kind of artistic vocabulary that most people don't gain until their late teens and with that head-start, it's hardly surprising that her first album, The First Blood Mystery emerged in 2001 when she was just 22.
Dealing with subject of her fathers continuing absence, the display of naked emotion through a rough and raw sound drew rave reviews from the more clued-up areas of the music press who saw shades of P J Harvey, Kristin Hersh and Patti Smith in the albums autobiographical energy. I've always been influenced by sentiment rather than style, continues Carina. So I think I have taken more from Charles Bukowski, Dorothy Parker, Tom Waits and Bjork. The way they articulate ideas and emotions is more important then their respective styles. Gigs with the likes of Coldplay, Elbow, Ryan Adams, Turin Brakes, Ben & Jason, David Gray, Ed Harcourt, and some old geezer called James Brown (he's the Godfather of soul apparently) also helped raise her profile and now, the long overdue follow-up, The Disconnection looks set to continue that ascension and with it,the woefully inaccurate idea of Carina as tortured-soul type will finally be laid to rest even for those who continually equate singer-songwriters with being wilfully complex. It's still a personal record but this time, it's a celebration of the things I've discovered about myself as opposed to ranting about the things that bother me. Even the title is upbeat - Disconnection is about confronting things like joy, anger, pain and confusion and letting them go. In every aspeact, the only direction for Carina Round is forwards. See if you can keep up with her. Interscope's US version of The Disconnection finds Carina Round staring out at us from the cover, a plain-faced beauty with a gentle gleam in her eye It's not cheesecake by any means, but it certainly means to catch the shallow eye But hey, what's that on the back cover? It's Carina tortured and smeared, a Videodrome diva with black holes for features She still stares at us, but it's with a detached dullness 'I did this to me,' it says 'If you want me, you get both sides' Most places in the world get the back cover as their front, but the duality of the domestic helps illustrate similar qualities in Round's music There's beauty here, but it's qualified by gloom and suggestions of fetish Equipped with pipes that wind from the sultriest depths to keening, aching highs, Round's vocals are a come-on and a put-down, a cry for help that chokes into anger or cynicism She's indebted to PJ Harvey (Dry, especially) in the way her willowy words orient the raw, wailing guitar and primitive percussion of 'Shoot' and 'Into My Blood' However, it's the enticing darkness of the cabaret, not wiry punk or the blues, that seems to be The Disconnection's real muse Bursts of horns join the catty flirt of 'Lacuna''s chorus, before its verses break into plunks of off-kilter piano behind Round's captivating intonation 'You're just looking for an excuse/To call yourself a f*ck up,' she dismisses, and the song ends with an intake of breath, as if she has a few more things to say about your no-account ass 'Paris' and 'Monument' link New York and The City of Light in the shadows, incorporating swishes of rangy acoustic guitar, subtle jazz rhythms, and overtures that devastate like that back-cover photo While electronic programming and samples of Carina herself do tick around in The Disconnection's backgrounds, the album keeps its 21st century cabaret vibe alive by supporting Round's vocals with organics — rich bass, spare percussion, aforementioned snatches of acoustic, the occasional horn part, and washes of Rhodes and harmonium At the same time, it's easy to imagine The Disconnection as trip-hop, if it had been issued in the processed mid-'90s haze of Portishead and Morcheeba's Big Calm It revels in the laconic dourness that made those albums great it can be pretty and lazy But when Round starts singing about black wings spreading overhead, or when the late-album standout 'Sit Tight' starts drifting between dusky, throaty R&B and a groove more irresistibly lurid, you begin to wonder whether you'll need more quarters to keep this peep show going.
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Message to apollo Lightbulb song How I see it The waves Let It fall Ribbons On leaving
Shoot Into My Blood Lacuna Paris Monument Motel 74 Overcome Sit Tight Elegy
Stolen Car How many times Gravity lies Ready to confess Want more Take the money Downslow Come to you Slow motion addict January heart The disconnection The city Same girlfriend
Backseat Body shaped bruise Come Pick Me Up Damn tour eyes Do You For everything a reason Four To The Floor Hookah Idiot dance Please don't stop Simplicity Hurts Thief In The Sky
The first blood mystery EP
Message to apollo Snipping threads Images fall clear Elevation would you find me down here Yeah I will be Waiting for you Outside of my skin Falling with the dust of a butterfly's wings Would you send me a song From the cloud you're on Dip into my heart of a vacant season I would leak my soul to film your ears Emotion won't you come alive I would drag the stars from my own eyes If you'd send me a song From the cloud you're on Always lost in the same sound Everything comes on the way down Oh come around I'm still waiting for something To take me over Oh measure Measure the weight of your perception By your words and their effect on the resurrection of love and pain And devotion, the child like vision of a lost world in motion I see through, see through to your star strung gut Reveal the hidden universe no longer deep 'neath the silk chic of your Desert milk skin, now a brilliant libertine You drift on a carousel of emerald green sheen I await, I await the forbidden dream Reborn on the weaving words that rise in my throat They say I am just the blood that would drag from the black cunt of Venus Be spit from a split lip or slip from the slit body of a madman For the thirst, for the thrust, for the victory, for the thrust For the suck of the breath of a stranger To with pressed finger map the endless waves of imperial spirit Influx of sonic impulse Divine rhythm impulse Divine rhythm impulse Divine Find your divine Find your divine Find, find your divine Define your divine Find, find your divine Define your divine Find, find your divine Define your divine Find, find your divine Define your divine Find, find your divine Define your divine Find, find your divine Define your divine Find, find your divine Define your divine Oh sometimes I'm so sure i can reach beyond this sky Why do you have to build these buildings so high Always lost in the same sound Everything comes on the way down Oh come around I'm still waiting for something to take me over Always lost in the same sound Everything comes on the way down Oh come around I'm still waiting for something to take me over Oh give me fire Fuel my belief Release these dreams Stuck between my teeth Possibilities Possibilities Come to light Come to light I've been searching for something I'm not sure what it is I'm not sure what it is Not sure Lightbulb song Fade into blue Every time I take myself Where can I take you Where you won't be there Out of my reach The past hangs bright like 1800 watt lightbulb Illuminating my mind I just don't know anymore What you're thinking or when you're thinking about it Would you touch me or would you rather do without it All your life, well do you crave for something more It's high time you opened your eyes, open your eyes All your life, do you crave for something more These dreams, my fears, they disappear, I'm falling free, falling free Passion and desire My heat is rising There's a hungry dog howling In the throes of my mind All that's left, anymore A heartbeat through our young skin Nothing comes out And nothing goes in All your life do you crave for something more It's high time you opened your eyes, open your eyes All your life do you crave for something more? In dreams my fears, they disappear, failing, falling All your life do you pray for something more Your dreams, my fears they disappear, they disappear, they disappear All your life do you crave something more The dreams, my fears they disappear, words just trip, words just trip From your fingertips All that's left, anymore, A heartbeat through iron skin Nothing comes out and nothing goes in How i see it You know it seems to me You fail to see beauty through invisible tears I know what you mean but Its not what I'm getting at when I say 'The bits of broken glass In the evening sun reflection Look like stars in the night sky Of the central reservation' You just say 'That's not how I see it' Moving through the rain I hear you here Say life is a valley of tears And your heart is a drain But how can that be the truth when The storm that came was invited by you I say 'The rain is just the moon She's sending soul in your direction I hope she softens you soon With her subliminal affection' You just say 'That's not how I see it' There's something missing when you look at me If all you see is what your eyes see Hold on I'm coming in The waves And I know everything about you All there is to know I'm lit up and And I know everything about you All there is to know I'm lit up and Haunt me The only one I wish to see behind my eyelids You stay here like a poison in my blood stream Your bloodhounds they come around At the foot of my bed Why don't you do something I'm waiting He came here naked as the starlight Dancing on moon beams His body was shed And then he said 'You know where you can find me Always around I'm lit up and I'm up there You know where you can find me Rising your road I'm lit up and I'm up there' He said 'Your demons are gradually dissolving And your virgin is wilder than the waves inside your heart Stop reaching for what wisdom has no time for Find your wings girl Search your spirit' 'You know where you can find me Always around I'm lit up and I'm up there You know where you can find me Rising your road I'm lit up and I'm up there' Dorothy says 'Love is like quicksilver in the hands Leave the fingers open and it stays Clutch it and it darts away' So goodbye then So long friend My fear is gone Would you visit Should you feel for it It's been so long I think I can deal with it
Let it fall So you say we have no future As father and daughter I wish you could see me in your skin And the hole you left within But you never stop to see what you begun Oh lord, look what you've done The consequences of your slick Italian style Rumbling beneath the humdrum And all the seas here will carry a breeze of A scent I do not know The breath of my father My sister of another Bathing the wounds So you say we have no future? What with no past either? But you were never stuck for your excuses Just say you remember Don't let it slip from your mind The girl is on her own Would you say my name the way it's meant to be said? Let it fall from your mouth? To see a flicker in my father's eyes To feel his breath upon my brow And all the seas here will carry a breeze of A scent I do not know The breath of my father My sister of another Bathing the wounds Julia, you're here in my fingers You seem to flip between my skies Sharing the dream of, of a life I will never know I will never know And all the seas here will carry a breeze of A scent I do not know The breath of my father My sister of another Bathing the wounds Would you say my name the way it's meant to be said? Let it fall from your mouth Let it fall from your hands Let it slip from your hips Let it slip from your skin Let it slip from your mind I am knee deep in your blood and you are knee deep in mine Say my name the way it's meant to be said Let it fall from your mouth I am knee deep in your blood and you are knee deep in mine Ribbons A devilish light traps, defines my shape Oh, you are easier than me Oh me envious, naked and strong Envious, and different in time What brings you back to me again? Again, oh You touched my life this way I don't know you You said I was You said I was beautiful And then you let everyone touch you I don't know who You say 'Don't you know, I'm happy for your sake Can't you see - it's easier for me?' Everyone, everyone could tell me it's true Everyone, everyone but me What takes you away from me so soon? So soon, so You're taking it all away I don't know you But you said I was You said I was beautiful And then you let everyone touch you I don't know who Come down Down down ribbons They're falling down And they're loosening around my neck And inside bloated seeds silence is you The sound of beauty's song A heart broken on jagged edge A heart broken on your unkempt melody and face My love, disentangle me I don't know you If you see me, unable to see from miles away The beauty of me I feel like I could be hanging on your door I know I'll never have your soul But say we'll always be good friends Say that you'll always be I feel like I could be hanging on your door I know I'll never have your soul But say we'll always be good friends Say that you'll always be I feel like I could be hanging on your door I know I'll never have your soul But say we'll always be good friends Say that you'll always be here
On leaving Once again, here we are Sailing around with no ethereal bounds And on your moment of leaving It's so serene Your beauty remains here Once again your beauty remains here So serene How blind the ocean heart Too open for tonight Only But you will fly with this enchanting rhythm Running through me Away from here Once again your moving away from here Oh, you really know what's going on Oh, you really know what's going on What you do it for is escaping me When I look at you I feel you, you slip through me You wanna slip slow between my voices I'll suck you in When you leave you leave with the grace of a bird in flight Death can't step between us, it's between our minds, yeah We feel unbound by ourselves, trust in anything We feel unbound by our sense, escaping me We feel unbound by our sense So what about create your own universe, the satisfaction, your life-force? I'm not afraid of another expression, so what about and on and on and on Eyes open Spell is broken Thick with emotion Eyes open who are you? ruined my memory, memory Too open I'm nothing the expression weakens Come on, come on, oh come on I'm nothing, nothing no no no Eyes open Spell is broken Eyes open Eyes open Eyes open Thick with emotion So what about it? Eyes open You don't know what you're doing it, doing it for You don't know what you're doing it, doing it for You don't know what you're doing it, doing it for You don't know what you're really doing it for
The Disconnection
Shoot Alone On the edge of something new Surround me a simple shell, you In a forest of frozen people Dumbfound you found me I feel a shoot I feel a thunderbolt Undo my body I feel shoot I feel a thunderbolt The entrance of your soul Come with me falling through the red clouds helplessly Come kiss me so that I can read your lips I feel a shoot I feel a thunderbolt Undo my body I feel a shoot I feel a thunderbolt The entrance of your soul Telling stories, all to hide the stories you cannot tell Broken hearts and razorblades, the wreck of the tortured combination Telling stories, all to hide the stories you cannot tell Let me reach the stars so I might slip into answers beyond this constellation Shoot your striptease heart In sight, a nightlight Shoot you striptease heart In sight, a nightlight Shoot you striptease heart In sight, a nightlight Shoot you striptease heart In sight, a nightlight Into my blood Weave between smoke and silhouettes Did the night catch sight of you yet Oh why Is it so unkind So the morning brings something to fight Into the frame of its idiot light It keeps me inside I wait all my life Just for the rush The passing of fire Into my blood All the reasons that raced through my mind Just to keep me twisted and dry I leave them behind Watch the people get tricked out of time Every dream they had passing them by I know there's freedom to find I wait all my life Just for the rush The passing of fire Into my blood Wait all my life Just for the rush The passing of fire into my blood Into my blood Burn the secrets I know a landslide well Always fall on the eclipse side Tell me I've got gold on the way home The way I wait all my life Just for the rush The fear and the fight towards the inside Into the light, ready to burn I wait no more or hang on my turn You move too slow, it's like waiting to die To diffuse my mind A dreamless divide Hands to the floor This feeling is pure The shooting of love Into my blood Into my blood Lacuna Sun said it's gonna shine on, down into my window It's gonna light my room just right Gonna shine and make the pain go There you go running from the rain In case it turned to thunder I ripped out the reason, the truth that dragged you under Speaking in disguises your words are ornamental A vapour trail and then you are gone I got lesson to learn There's a lot to be Said for this morbid self-attention The problem lies in my external obsession Animal is hungry been sleeping for too long I'm gonna fill this lacuna somehow I'm thinking of a man I once knew I thought I had the hang of He never learnt that the heart is perishable without love But keep your heart out of it now concentrate your vision I'm lying here like a forfeit awaiting your incision I don't wanna hear about it Your new infatuation I just wanna leave here wearing a smile And I got lesson to learn There's a lot to be Said for this morbid self-attention The problem lies in my external obsession Oh baby it don't make no difference, your preference Come fill this lacuna at least for now I can think of a good few reasons to get fucked up but You're just looking for an excuse to call yourself a fuck up Look at her without the burden of what it is that you live for She'll still be here when your carnival is over She'll still be here when you are gone Paris Paris is beautiful during the summertime, I hear Here is so dull and grey after the April snow has cleared I keep New York in mind, rain on the streets this time of year I saw you in my mind, I conquer your forbidden land See your treasure's inside the sea Don't waste your time walking the sand Your answer is under water You won't miss the sun you got the light you give Oh you give Though the moon lights the surface It's a shadow land that serves the purpose for how you live, how you live Send out your thought beams Something to lead me on my way I used to float in your eye stream to weigh up my beauty day by day I know broken bones don't come close to the pain of hidden truth I caught your dream in mine, I saw us walking hand in hand See your treasure's inside the sea Don't waste your time walking the sand Your answer is under water You won't miss the sun you got the light you give Oh you give Oh the moon lights the surface It's a shadow land that serves a purpose For you live, how you live Oh your answer is underwater You won't miss the sun you got the light you give Oh you give, you give, you give And though your moon lights my surface It's a shadow land that serves the purpose For how you live, how you live, how you live How you live Monument Windowsill, Paris, France Cast a shadow of this chance Hanging over Gare du Nord like I never asked for more Statues on a building top Stooping for the fire we got Heart's new incantation Your face bared to the sheer moonlight Time flies and I'm hitching a ride. Red lights, cars zoom past, New York had a heart attack Screaming into a new world Sunrise at Sacré Coeur, I turn to move into the church Silence wraps around my head like everything I've never said My heart is reeling, opening to let me in New day's illumination Will it rain then and drown this out I could die here and never be found out Sweat freezes on my face Moving forward from this place Screaming into a new world I'm not looking for answers at a time like this I can feel this moment For once let it come Let it, oh God, let it come Well, it's protect or sacrifice Waste my time thinking twice Redirect back to earth I never knew less than a heartbreaker Tore down monument Never be the same again My new destination Drop down silhouette Conscience fade to black Burn out your blood so blessed in your military dress Heaven's incandescent glow, honourable way to go Screaming Oh, I go screaming into a new world Motel 74 I stole into the eyes of a boy singing the blues Hair jet black kicked starts from his shoes I smoked his cigarette cause his lips had touched it And I found out soon he sure know how to use a hotel room I could open my hands and let the rain come down But you're just to close to dream I had And I'm scared and I don't know why I do But I miss you He stood there restless, waiting for me Body hummed with colours I have never seen He said 'we keep on burning, honey, like two stars in the same constellation Screaming through the air' Then with a look like the light leaving He said 'I've known you for a thousand years' I could open my hands and let the rain come down But you're just to close to dream I have I'm scared and I don't know why I can't watch you go I can't watch you go I know it sounds strange and untrue But I miss you Girls on the streets, shine ruby lips Black straight hair from tip to hip Brown eyes blaze under blue eyelashes for you honey for you. Little girl watch out (as you pretty so be wise) Little girl be proud (never steal into the eyes) Little girl get out (of the kind that hypnotize) Little get watch out Little girl be proud Little girl get out Little girl watch out Little girl be proud Little girl get out Overcome Too many ghosts reside behind this window I could dig it out but I don't Hear the beginning of morning song Tripping lightly from night's tongue City lights fade below me Black wings spread overhead Lover, didn't you know me I will overcome I will over I will overcome I will over Slow my body moves into the future forever Waiting for the moment of give Temper the balance of life and love Fall and the tightrope chokes You will over land and sea To find the girl to shoot the pearl for one man only I will overcome I will over I will overcome I will over I will overcome I will over I will overcome I will over Black wings spread overhead Lover, didn't you know me Sit tight Sit tight, it's your version of alive You keep your molecules inside I know you know desire is not so polite Take a quick breath, do you fear what's inside Restraint is the frame that you have found But I see your soul as Juan Miro Or maybe a Chagall Escaping through your eyes like a liquid time Take a quick breath do you fear what's inside Take a quick breath, do you still feel Your tongue is twisted silk like Into ragged reason, untie your disguise Come into the sunlight There you are in sight The reason is, the reason is The reasons are there for you to ignore You drift into the wind of love And all you desired and dreamed of Is found under your feet It was there all the time I know you feel alone, Those pictures are never gonna leave my head Your tears so heavy, they're breaking down doors inside your head Someday you're gonna find her she will be almost blinded By the light so bright you keep inside your heart, heavy as lead I know you feel alone, those pictures are never gonna leave my head Your tears so heavy, they're breaking down doors in your head, in your head Someday you're gonna find her She will be almost blinded By the light so bright you keep inside your heart Elegy Something ripped me open From my little death awoken The fading rhythm of lifeline Is music for a dead child I'm skirting the rim, skirting the rim of reality Skirting the rim Lord don't pull me in Somehow everything is broken Hours past and never replayed I see the sickness of a love that Though it breathes, can never be made There are cracks where the white light burns through Seems I see everything but the truth Once more to that sacred place The dream that sucks me under I'm skirting the rim, skirting the rim of reality Skirting the rim Lord don't pull me in Somehow everything is broken Hours past and never replayed I see the sickness of love that Though it breathes, can never be made Somehow everything is clearer now Hours pass with never a release I see the sadness of a moment Though it lived was never seen
Credit : Kristin Burns
Slow motion addict
*** Thanx a lot to Ashley for this one ***
Stolen Car
Treated my body like a stolen car Wait Twelve story building drop Wait Well I didn't mean to be looking for you But it's cold in the alley and my life's a mess There's a room on fire in the back of my brain I've been searching through faces but they're all the same Temptation I give up the fight Tonight my body is an open mouth Temptation I just have to know right now 'Cause I don't wanna be the one Who let you go, you go My mouth burns up when I try to speak There's something about you, makes me feel so weak I can't seem to find what I came here for You know we could be lovers but I just want more My arms are open but you play with me A sweet strip-tease Temptation I give up the fight Tonight my body is an open mouth Temptation I just have to know right now 'Cause I don't wanna be the one Who let you go But you're stand there waiting for the blood to drain Too long, waiting for a day that never breaks Watching it pass like a speeding train Hold me now or run, run, run Temptation I give up the fight Tonight my body is an open mouth Temptation I just have to know right now 'Cause I don't wanna be the one Who let you go, you go I don't wanna be the one Who let you go, you go How many times I want to get away I just can't help myself Seems everything that I've got Has been had by somebody else You know I've been so lost I've been locked in a poison space I don't think that I can stand Another minute in this place How many times, uh How many times, uh Morning enters my brain like a razor Wake up with a face like a snapshot of a New York day I sit pretty with a fist for a drink Well how long now until you turn up Shooting lines of advise like a heart attack I never heard anything quite as, as exciting as that I can't stand these people, I keep paying for help Help How many times, uh How many times, uh I can't stand these questions I keep asking myself I need a way home I, I, I need help How many times How, how, how many How many times, uh How many times Gravity lies
It's how you know you're alive Earths gravity lies Up in that head of fire And some madness Will it drive you along Your collision track 'Til the skin pulled across your bone Come crawling back Follow, follow where you're headed A world with only you in it Collide, collide bruised and expired Follow what you've found All the way down Until it blows your mind Thrusts you open wide One greedy body to body Won't fasten A heart cold and still Still waiting Held open 'til 'Til morning And it rips through every cell The burned and the burning The burned and the burning Follow, follow where you're headed A world with only you in it Collide, collide bruised and expired Follow what you've found All the way down Earths gravity lies Earths gravity lies Ready to confess From the glittering tail To the constant moan It hooked me in put a magnet in my bones Here I come again City lights Looking for something big on the inside I'm ready to confess I'm ready to say yes I'm ready to confess, ah! There's a hunger that's sweet Not satisfied When I swore that I don't know I lied, I lied And the blood flows electricity Becoming a part of the disease I'm ready to confess I'm ready to say yes I'm ready to confess Here I come again City lights Looking for something big on the inside I'm ready to confess I'm ready to say yes I'm ready to confess, ah! I'm ready to confess, ah! I'm ready to say yes, ah! I'm ready to confess
Want More It's not me I'm representing someone who died during the conversation Sharp tongue You just had to let it loose Start the incision There's nothing you do That's worth the price I pay And my heart moves south every time You open your mouth I've got everything that I need Right here I've got everything right here But I want more I want more Get up Tell me what you want to do Make a decision Stand still Caught up in the middle Of your panic revolution What was it that you said That changed the world You were so far behind That nobody heard I've got everything that I need Right here I've got everything right here But I want more I've got everything that I need Right here I've got everything right here But I want more I want more It's you, it's you, it's you...
Take the money I took a plane to the west coast To learn how to be someone else Ended up in the desert Sending postcards to myself So many bodies on a washing line All trying to taste success I lost my soul in the rush, rush I took the money and I left the rest How long can I be Hungry How long can I be Hungry (Got love) Got love and I've got soul I'll take the money I'll take the money (Got friends) Got friends wherever I go I'll take the money I'll take the money (Got needs) Got everything I need I'll take the money I'll take the money Out of the crowd Into the zoo Ah, ah T-take the money! You know you've got me In the elevator You know you've got me On the radio You know you've got me In the supermarket I'm all yours at the disco I'm gonna give it to you 'til you choke This bogus poetry I know the devil has won, won I'm tangled up in the machinery How long can I be Hungry How long can I be Hungry (Got love) Got love and I've got soul I'll take the money I'll take the money (Got friends) Got friends wherever I go Oh I'll take the money I'll take the money (Got needs) Got everything I need I'll take the money I'll take the money Out of the crowd Into the zoo, zoo, zoo The money The money The money Take the money T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-take the money! T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-take the money! Suck -a- cock- a -cess ! T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-take the money! T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-take the money!
Downslow I found him Long distance His hands burned Moved back words How can I leave you here Wrapped in your bouquet of fears Ok, I'll wait I said come on pussy cat Not much can better that Ok, I'll wait Slow down Slow down Slow down Stop Du-du-du-du-du I feel him A low burn You soon learn Space travelling It's bound to come undone But your body is so much fun Ok, I'll wait This love is sticks and stones I just don't want to be left alone Ok, I'll wait Slow down Slow down Slow down Stop Du-du-du-du-du Slow down Slow down Slow down Stop Du-du-du-du-du Slow down Slow down Slow down Stop Du-du-du-du-du Slow down Slow down Slow down Stop Come to you Can you honestly expect me To take you seriously When you've put nothing on the line at all When you say you can't believe in Believing Are you setting yourself up to fall And I will not wait For someone to save me Watching it come Then pass you by Something inside Is keeping the fear alive I will not come to you I will not come to you I will not come to you, I I won't give nothing For such empty reflections Such high expectation Will burn in your hands Do you recognize When people break you down And there is no time to build Another wall Well you walk fast and you talk fast but But you don't move at all I will not come to you I will not come to you I will not come to you, I I won't give nothing For such empty reflections Such high expectation Will burn in your hands You tell yourself "It's the wrong time, it's the wrong time" And things go by In the meantime, in the meantime And I will not come to you I will not come to you I will not come to you, I I will not come to you I will not fall with you I will not carry you Nothing is wrong with you You can't deliver Wrapped up in the future And nothing will come to you Nothing will come to you Nothing will come to you Nothing will come to you Such high expectation will burn in you hands Slow motion addict Today I'm not present Footsteps disguised as wings Neither poison my brain With memories that tease and sting Step out into the sun Let light into my eyes My feet don't touch the ground My head fills up the sky Try to hold on Makes no difference There's no choice if you never had it Try to move on Makes no difference To a slow motion addict I float through dreams like a helium balloon One trip and the morning comes too soon Try to hold it, try to hold it My blood Carries the ghosts Like bulls filling the streets Like everything in this universe Is on it's way to me Try to hold on Makes no difference There's no point if you never had it Try to move on Makes no difference To a slow motion addict I float through dreams like a helium balloon One trip and the morning comes too soon Try to hold it, try to hold it January heart You've got me with a heavy heart I love your January heart You've got me with a heavy heart The sky is falling in my head Count your stars Wish me dead You fell like a child into my arms I did not mean to bring you harm When the day comes to an end So ugly and so fierce With the darkness moving in The shadows disappear You've got me with a heavy heart I love your January heart You've got me with a heavy heart You kept my secret, still intact I kept your heart But you stole it back It's much to early but it's time to go I love you more Than you'll ever know Than you'll ever know When the day comes to an end So hopeful and so real With the darkness moving in The shadows disappear You've got me with a heavy heart I love your January heart You've got me with a heavy heart . You've got me with a heavy heart I love your January heart You've got me with a heavy heart It's much too early but it's time to go I love you more than you'll ever know Than you'll ever know The disconnection I bet you a mile Of my favourite thought train That the chance don't skin skim This close, this way again Would I watch you disappear Through a traffic of people All washed up in their indelible secrets Hold on Don't be scared of the disconnection And disillusion you're feeling inside Sometime in time, when you're lost on the way You'll see its necessary For freedom of mind Hold on All inclined to the hand that cools me I wade through the fire Still the cold consumes me Waiting for daylight Through the shattering of the glass I hear the murmuring as you pass Like the train that I meant to catch Hold on Don't be scared of the disconnection And disillusion you're feeling inside Sometime in time, when you're lost on the way You see it's necessary for freedom of mind Hold on Hold on The city Staring too long at the lights Seems no reason to feel alright just yet Take my trouble to the street I can't fall asleep Fall asleep Fall asleep Fall.. listening to it The city A heartbeat It moves on Despite me Just a glimpse of what could be home Two thousand miles, I'd go Just a sniff of what could be home And I can't fall asleep Seems no reason for the rush Moving slowly is still moving As such All these people are just dust Evil puppeteers Evil tears Evil tears Evil The city A heartbeat It moves on Despite me The city A heartbeat It moves on Despite me Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Same girlfriend I'm not the same girlfriend Who loves your broken mouth I'll follow you upstairs It's so, so, so, it's so, so It's so what you want It's so what you are Is that what you want Is that what you are I'm not the same girlfriend To fit perfectly in I'll show you something to remember, remember You'll never seem so so again It's so what you want It's so what you are Is that what you want Is that what you are I'm not the same girlfriend Who wants to free your soul Oh, I'll write you a letter A letter, a letter, letter It's so what you want It's so what you are Is that what you want Is that what you are It's so what you want It's so what you are Is that what you want Is that what you are Will I see you again Will I see you again
Tigermending
Pick Up the Phone Pick up the phone I'm pregnant with your baby I wanted you to know The dreams I've been having lately I woke up, I woke up from an explosion And the city speaks in sirens And the wreckage is my angel of devotion A dying light inside him And I try to tell you something But my mouth fills up with water You say finally you found me And suddenly I'm drowning Pick up the phone I'm trying to say sorry The things that you should know Are weighing heavy on me Well it's nothing can't be fixed with a hot bath and A fifth of mother's ruin All forgone for the duration with deranged and maybe eaten Drunken sex with strangers Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin And his wife didn't stop crying For at least a week he told me But at least she got the kids and half a million I just assumed that she was sleeping And I fall in love in the only way I know As I'm diving into the mouth of a hungry volcano I walk not recognizing sight reflections As I lay next to the next one with you on my mind Pick up the phone Pick up the phone Pick up the phone ??? The Last Time It came on a Thursday Everything seemed to be holding its breath It was the first real snow for years It made everything look beautiful And I wanted it to stay like this So bad I hung like a tongue from my open-mouth window Thinking I should make the most of this While it lasts I climbed to the once familiar hill Where the rambling roses were sleeping and stared Down towards the park where you once said Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin This is the last time This is the last time This is the last time I break your heart It was full of giant snow balls five feet high The people had made families played in the snow It made me feel calm so I stood for awhile And I listened wishing I could burst into flames Or disappear or something somehow the sky deepened And I was soaking wet it had become a blizzard And through the storm I saw On the old wall of the old bridge The New Urban Prophet inscribed in white Talking to me through the howling winds Writers that don't write End up talking to themselves And I wanted it to stay like this so bad This is the last time This is the last time This is the last time I break your heart This is the last time This is the last time This is the last time I break your heart The sky, it opened up into a dream Talking to me through the howling winds The sky, it opened up into a dream Talking to me through the howling winds Talking to me through the howling winds This is the last time This is the last time This is the last time This is the last time I break your heart This is the last time This is the last time I break your heart This is the last time This is the last time I break your heart This is the la Girl And The Ghost What's that coming down Shattering skies Your whole world exploding In flashes of fire Shards of broken dreams Stuck in your hands Pick the pieces out put them back Together as best you can Through the imperfections Through the imperfections And the cracks You will see the difference between What you think you know What you know What you think you know What you know What you think you know What you know What you think you know What's that in your mirror The girl or the ghost You tried so hard You tried so hard To let it all go What's that in your mouth The curse or the key You keep waving your tongue around And you'll get heard eventually Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin What you think you've given Is not what the world has received Can you feel the distance between What you think you know What you know What you think you know What you know What you think you know What you know What you think you know What's that in your heart The chorus of dust afraid to sing What's that in your way The mountain of dust in the wind What's in your way What's in your way Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey You've been gone for so long What have you been wanting for Can you even remember So far out there Waving your hands and screaming For somebody to remember You And Me You and me The things we've seen The things we know The things we dream In telepathic beams Don't go around Don't go Cocooned in my heart there is you Glowing like the moon I miss you, I miss you I do, do, do Do, do, do, do, do, do Do, do, do I miss you, I miss you I do, do, do Do, do, do, do, do, do Do, do, do I miss you, I miss you I do You and me A park in Kings Heath The rain on our tongues And on the ground Ecstatic feelings Naked cartwheeling Doing nothing wrong Oh wrong A memory captive in time An innocent crime I miss you, I miss you I do, do, do Do, do, do, do, do, do Do, do, do I miss you, I miss you I do, do, do Do, do, do, do, do, do Do, do, do I miss you, I miss you I do, do, do Do, do, do, do, do, do Do, do, do I miss you, I miss you I do Your voice in my winter a light in me A fire in the mountains Black finger trees waving madly Causing explosions Bringing the skies to smithereens For you and me Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin I miss you, I miss you I do, do, do I wish you a love that's pure And a happiness that's true All that you've wanted and more Devine abandonment But my beautiful friend most of all I wish I could see you again I miss you, I miss you I do, do, do Do, do, do, do I do do do I miss you, I love you I do do do Oh but I do, do Do, do, do I miss you, I miss you I do do do Do, do, do, do, do, do Do, do, do I miss you, I miss you I do Set Fire Sensitive one Are you cool or are you just abused I have seen the ways that you keep yourself amused I have seen the life of the one that's left behind Heard the soft tears of a hack snake on the rise And the words came down In tatters and flames Yeah the words came down In tatters and flames And it's the closest I've felt To a song destroying me I cant see a single face or a word they sell Everybody here is too far up everyone else When you find the truth cut it out with a razor blade When you distribute choose your voice like a hand grenade Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin And the words came down In daggers and flames Yeah your words came down In daggers and flames And it's the closest I've felt To a song destroying me It's the closest I've felt What they say when What they say when There is nothing left to burn Yeah there's no one else Oh set fire, oh set fire Oh set fire, set fire to yourself Oh what they say when Oh what they say when There is nothing left to burn Yeah there's no one else Oh set fire, oh set fire Oh set fire to yourself ??? You will be loved Love come to your house Ask to be let in Feel it as before Sweeter ??? Has your world been shattered Confounded by fear Let the pieces scatter Everything becomes clear Have faith my friend You will be loved again I am bent all the way broken I am uncomfortably open I am turned into an angel I am no longer available one things for sure one things for sure one thing I know for certain I am really gone I am gone for good I am really gone I am really gone I am really gone I am really gone I am Has your world been shattered Confounded by fear Let the pieces scatter Everything becomes clear Have faith my friend With nothing but a feeling With little more than hope I pray that you'll be lifted soon from hell And we spin a shallow line For your memory in mind And I pray that you'll be lifted soon from hell And the truth it is no secret But you see exactly between it Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin And I pray that you'll be lifted soon from hell And time holds the answers But it doesn't wanna talk And I pray That you'll Be lifted soon I am really gone I am really gone I am really gone I am really gone I am Has your world been shattered And we spin a shallow line For your memory in time Disappeared, have faith
*** Thanx a lot to Pete for this one ***
Marcel Marcel Call it an arrangement We've been working on the ways to break it up All the ways that I lose Call it entertainment love Words that cascade and fall Linger oddly on the rim of your glass Rogue and unprotected love Rogue and unprotected Make a pact and we'll wreck it as we go Making everything we've bound unbind Carry all the weight, take all I can take with me Honey, just as long as I Well, I've got a reason to wait Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin You can show me, slowly Not jetfoot away, not jetfoot away, not jetfoot away Oh can you tell me How could we know it all When the sun is beating like a hammer Make a pact and we'll wreck it as we go Making everything we've bound unbind Carry all the weight, take all I can take with me Honey, just as long as I Make a pact and we'll wreck it as we go Making everything we've bound unbind Carry all the weight, take all I can take with me Honey, just as long as I Honey, just as long as I Well I, well I Well, I've got a reason to wait Well, I've got a reason to wait
Weird Dream Are you still sitting still In a place I left you Teasing from your eyes The tears that you could not let through No I didn't cry, no I didn't cry When I woke up without you Tearing from my mind Tearing from my mind Splinters of what's left of the truth I didn't want to have Just didn't want to have to Have to ask I didn't want to have Just didn't want to have to Have to ask I have longed to be the one Try to push it up through But my lock won't come undone Makes me just a statue Breaking down the door Breaking down the door Rip up every floorboard Sweep into the cracks Flight into the blackness It's all I've been dying for Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin I didn't want to have Just didn't want to have to Have to ask I didn't want to have Just didn't want to have to ??? Oh I didn't want to have Just didn't want to have to Have to ask I didn't want to have Just didn't want to have to Have to ask (No one will love you the way I do No one will look at you They way I do no one will look at you They way I do no one will look at you...) I can't even see you from here I can't even see you from here I can't even see you from here I can't even see you from here...
Mother's Pride Mother, mother You are a disgusting liar I have had the heart torn from My pure white flower It was not beautiful It was not how you said it would be Did I call your name When they made a woman of me Mother, mother Seems the truth does not become me Life has put these Wretched lines of age upon me It is not beautiful It is not how you said it would be As the days go by Oh they make a cynic of me It is not beautiful it is not how you said it would be Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Mary mother of God Well I never never, never, never If the truth be told I could have been better, better, better, better Well I know these things now Well I know these things now Well I know these things now Well I know these things now Well I know these things now Well I know these things now Well I know these things now Well I know these things now Well I know these things now Well I know these things now Mother's pride is So misguided and misleading
*** Thanx a lot to Pete for this one *** The Secret of Drowning I know the secret of drowning Is to stay calm and not panic I know the secret of losing Is to let go before you get lost You get lost, you get lost You get lost, you get lost Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin I know the secret of drowning Is to stay calm and not panic I know the secret of losing Is to let go before you get lost I know the freedom of falling When you ask me to come Without the parachute of "if" I can't come quickly enough I know to suck the air in When you hold out your hand And dive off the edge of the cliff I want to One, two, kiss you, three four, I Lost my heart in the black light of a bar Five, six, seven, it burns inside Close my eyes and I'm right there where you are Eight, nine, ten, I lose you again Memories made in a heartbeat like Cigarette burns in a carpet I know the secret of drowning Is to stay calm and not panic I know the secret of losing Is to let go before you get lost You get lost, you get lost One, two, love, one, two...
Simplicity Hurts Drop me off in the desert For a while Such hard working minds Make love easy to deny Simplicity hurts Take love for what it's worth Simplicity hurts Take love, take love It's not complicated Just hard sometimes How long have you waited For the one who can truly recognize Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Simplicity hurts Take love for what it's worth Simplicity hurts When devices of protection Take me further from my love When everything I had Or thought I knew is burned I learn to take love, take love Take love in return
Non Albums Tracks
Backseat ( Things You Should Know EP ) We were sleeping in for years Letting go of our friends Scaring our friends We were seeing clearer closing our eyes And our lashes intertwined The things you find In the backseat of your mind What you find And we filled each others footprints in the snow Full of warm red alcohol We were learning to make the world stand still And it will But until Do I lie In the backseat of your mind Do I lie Just a second And were gone Just an imprint when were done Just a second a And we're gone Just an imprint When we're done It should be forever God told me We're born into the wrong time Whatever I'm doing you're here with me God bless you Whatever you're doing I'm there with you God bless you... We're born into the wrong time The singalong bit is It should be forever God told me We're born into the wrong time...
*** Thanx a lot to Naylor for this one ***
Body Shaped Bruise Honey what will it take, this time To start a fight In your sad, swooping mind It sends sparks on the inside Flying out of sight Just lean, just lean Into the fall How long, how long Have you been sleepwalking Sleepwalking This body shaped bruise So Long was walking blind It's too hard, there's too much to learn It's too high and the rope burns Dress smooth, dress smooth (?) Into the mall (?) It's too soon, it's too soon To be sleepwalking Just lean, just lean Into the fall How, how long Have you been sleepwalking
Come Pick Me Up ( Ryan Adams Cover ) When they call your name Will you walk right up With a smile on your face Or will you cower in fear In your favourite sweater With an old love letter I wish you would I wish you would Come pick me up Take me out Fuck me up Steal my records Screw all my friends They're all full of shit With a smile on your face And then do it again I wish you would When you're walking downtown Do you wish I was there Do you wish it was me With the windows clear and the mannequins eyes Do they all look like mine? You know you could I wish you would Come pick me up Take me out Fuck me up Steal my records Screw all my friends behind my back With a smile on your face And then do it again I wish you would I wish you'd make up my bed So I could make up my mind Try it for sleeping instead Maybe you'll rest sometime I wish I could
Damn Your Eyes
( Live / Etta James cover ) I can do what I want I'm in complete control That's what I tell myself I got a mind of my own I'll be alright alone Don't need anybody else I gave myself a good talkin' to No more bein' a fool for you And when I see you all I remember Is how you make me wanna surrender Damn your eyes For takin' my breath away Makin' me wanna stay Damn your eyes For getting my hopes up high Makin' me fall in love again Damn your eyes It's always the same You say that you'll change Some how you never do I believe all your lies Look in your eyes You make it all seem true I guess I see what I wanna see Or is my heart just deceiving me And with that look I know so well I fall completely under your spell Damn your eyes For takin' my breath away Makin' me wanna stay Damn your eyes For getting my hopes up high Makin' me fall in love again Damn your eyes You came deliberately deceiving me Makin' me see what I wanna see Damn your eyes For takin' my breath away Makin' me wanna stay Damn your eyes For getting my hopes up high Makin' me fall in love again Damn your eyes
Do You
( Things You Should Know EP ) See me down see me out See those wings you gave me Watch me fly across the sea Count the ways you made me Walked in circles walked the line Tripped through tangled heart strings Made an enemy of time Made a mess of all things All things I have thought and think about What and how to tell you I have lived it seems without Learning how to be true But I meant every word I said From deranged to divine And I would do it all again As if for the first time The first time The hurt that the head forgets The heart will always remember The hold that the hand regrets The heart remembers forever I am sorry I am so For the things you don't know And as for the things you do I am sorry for those too Out of every broken heart Broken rule and promise I have made a rescue raft And sail towards you on it On it The hurt that the head forgets The heart will always remember The hold that the hand regrets The heart remembers forever Well, do you do you want me Do you know how to show How to show these things I just didn't want to have to ask Just didn't want to have to Least of all people You Should you find someone with whom There's no shiver or shout With whom never to assume To much rain or a drought Scratch your name into her heart Scratch away all the doubt Scratch my memory from your brain I'll scratch her fucking eyes out Eyes out I was put together wrong Still I was made for you When our stitches come undone We come together like glue Like glue
*** Thanx a lot to Corrick for this one ***
For everything a reason
( Things You Should Know EP ) So they say lord for everything a reason For every ending a new beginning And so they say baby for everything a reason And so they say baby for everything a reason And those who loved before will be bought back together Those who loved before will be bought back together And so they say baby for everything a reason And so they say baby you will be bought Back to me I saw you leaving I saw the light go out And so they say lord for everything a reason My house is haunted by rotten desire And on my skin left the scent of indignation And so they say baby for everything a reason Don't call me that I had everything i needed For every lie honey the truth lies underneath it And so they say baby for everything a reason And so they say baby you will be born Back to me I saw you leaving I saw the light go out Come back to me
Four To The Floor
( Miles Hunt ) It was warm when we met She said 'boy you'd regret it Should you ever leave my side' It was cold when I split My heart had turned to shit And I was having 'that' trouble with my mind I said 'girl I'll call you tomorrow' She said 'yeah, you & Benecio del Toro' But you're such a lucky girl To have been a part of my sick world And I leave with no sickness or sorrow But ooohhh if I ever missed a beat it was yours Oh if I ever missed a beat it was yours You're four to the floor Well I thought if I stayed then We'd both get waylaid And our hearts & hopes would swallow us whole Yeah they may mock & joke But they could never call us nervous folk Not for the way we chose go on Cos girl we could beg, steal & borrow And drink like our legs have gone hollow And I'm such a lucky man To've been the one to understand I leave with no sickness or sorrow
Hookah I am a hookah The water through which you pass Angel smoke, angel smoke I am a hookah The water through which you pass Danger smoke Danger I ride by flying horses Nothing to declare But cold knees, cold knees I ride by flying horses Nothing to declare But cold knees Cold Delicate men, delicate men You can be such fools (?) in my heart He whispered to me 'I am the digger of eyes Let me in, let me in' Whispered to me 'I am the digger of eyes Let me in, let me in' Delicate men, delicate men You can be such fools(?) Delicate men, delicate men You can be such fools (?) in my heart
Idiot dance ( Ryan Adams )
It's time It's time Time to give up Time to go home No one is noticing you No one is noticing you No one is noticing you At the idiot dance, oh At the idiot dance, oh You Yeah, you You sat on the bench And watched 'em all dance There was no one for you There was no one for you There was no one for you At the idiot dance, oh At the idiot dance, oh Come here I'm watching you sing Invisible, oh but you know how it goes Invisible boys in old ragged clothes Invisible girls who nobody knows I can't watch you go Some of them kiss Some of them stare Some of them go Dancing on air There was no one for you There was no one for you There was no one for you At the idiot dance, oh At the idiot dance, oh Come here I'm watching you sink Invisible, oh but you know how it goes Invisible boys in old tattered clothes Invisible girls who nobody knows I can't watch you go
Please don't stop
( Things You Should Know EP ) It's not safe to talk here The walls are listening The line is so clear Almost feel your skin touching my skin So push push the light switch Spark up another cigarette Breathe in slow slow slow Explode explode explode So push your fingers in Come on touch my frightened heart Bring your quiet mouth closer Come apart I want to smash through Smash through this moment 'til it's gone Just want to have you That's all that's all that's all Please don't stop Be mine in a carpet made of stars I close my eyes and dive in Please don't stop because I'm scared too Please don't stop because I'm scared too
Simplicity Hurts
( Live ) Drop me off in the desert For a while Such hard working minds Make love easy to deny Simplicity hurts Take love for what its worth Simplicity hurts Take love, take love It's not complicated Just hard sometimes How long have you waited For the one who can truly recognize Simplicity hurts Take love for what its worth Simplicity hurts When devices of protection Take me further from my love When everything I had Or thought I knew is burned I learn to take love, take love Take love in return
Thief In The Sky ( Things You Should Know EP ) Spanish bar on american street You're the one I like the mostest Holding hands by the sea Like holding on to a ghost Eyes like headlights Headed straight into me Eyes like headlights Softest kiss in summer hear You put the storm The storm inside Of a heart of concrete Morning comes around like a thief in disguise Time like tail lights Always moving away from me Time like tail lights I stay up I stay up Every Every night Thinking of Thinking of you Disappear into the sun Tie up my tongue with sad goodbyes Far away love down telephone line Aeroplane is a thief in the sky Eyes like headlights Over the cliff into the sea Eyes like headlights You're the one I want For me I stay up I stay up Every Every night Thinking of Thinking of you Thief in the, thief in the Thief in the, thief in the sky Thief in the, thief in the Thief in the, thief in the Telephone wire tie me up Tear me up with sad goodbyes Disappear into the sun Aeroplane is a thief in the sky Telephone wire cut me up Tie me up with up with sad goodbyes I disappear into the thunder A thief in the A thief in the sky Aeroplane is a thief in the sky