B i o g r a p h y (by Andy Kellman)
Cardiff, Wales native Cate Le Bon matched her slightly spooky, fragile voice with dark lyrics -- she confessed to being death-fixated -- and a sparse, spindly guitar sound. In 2007, she opened for Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys, with whom she occasionally collaborated, during a tour of the U.K. That same year, she self-released her first single, "No One Can Drag Me Down"/"Disappear," and recorded an album, Pet Deaths, which was shelved. Edrych yn Llygaid Ceffyl Benthyg, a Welsh-language EP, was issued on Peski in 2008, the same year she contributed vocals to "I Lust U," a song from Rhys and Bryan Hollon's Neon Neon album Stainless Style. Me Oh My, Le Bon's first album to actually be released, came out on Rhys' Irony Bored label in 2009 and was hotly tipped by Uncut magazine. Her sophomore release, Cyrk, which paired the spooky, folk-tinged timbre of Nico with the experimental, Nuggets-meets-Krautrock attack of Os Mutantes and Faust, arrived in early 2012. Arriving in 2013, the well-received Mug Museum saw Le Bon relocating to Los Angeles, and featured a guest appearance from Perfume Genius on the track "I Think I Knew." Hermits on Holiday, a collaboration with American singer/songwriter Tim Presley under the moniker DRINKS, arrived in 2015, followed by an all-new studio album, Crab Day, in early 2016.
Me Oh My Me Oh My Me oh my My oh me I fought the night and the night fought me Knocked on the door Used its key He and I I and he Locked in one piece but he slept and I screamed Put on his shirt Pretend he's me I saw a light and I carried my head Put out the dawn when she crept in my bed Broke my heart Stopped me dead Why oh why does the dark knock on me I fought the night and the night broke me Sad Sad Feet Did you wake in the morning with the sun in your eyes But you don't have a song to sing for your love I rock the beat, but I don't have time And I don't have a song to sing for my love Sad sad feet and sad sad eyes I'll go blind to save you Not gone looking to take it back It's just, baby, I'm headed for the black Well I like what I like and I like what I know Even when the day starts humming I like the fields but I just can't go 'Cause there's a dark cloud coming Sad sad feet and sad sad eyes I'll go blind to save you Not gone looking to take it back It's just, baby, I'm headed for the black Sad sad feet and sad sad eyes I'll go blind to save you Not gone looking to take it back It's just, baby, I'm headed for the black
Shoeing The Bones I've got a love, I've got a love Open my hand and make a jump I'm on a train, it's overrun I fought like it's not the only one Where could you go, where could you stay I'll die on my feet, not pass away Gripping the rope in days just gone And shoeing the bones for everyone And these are hard times to fall in love These are hard times to fall in love These are hard times to fall in love These are hard times to fall in love Oh, I fell upon a hard hard mine Shoed me some bones to stake my time Then I gunned for your love right through the sun Shoeing the bones for everyone And these are hard times to fall in love These are hard times to fall in love These are hard times to fall in love These are hard times to fall in love And these are hard hard times These are hard hard times These are hard hard times These are hard hard times It's Not The End Get out and run like a street fight is on And I'm willing to see what you have It's not the last time I've looked at him And it's not the end Kid on the run, sounding off, letting on Gonna wait for a hell of a beating Swallow the town like a vitamin And it's not the end Kids on the run and the kids on the run Gonna wait for a hell of a beating I'm not around with it anymore But it's not the end Terror of the Man Make frightening plans And see them with your hands It's the measure of the man The weight of these words Falls like feathers in the sand And so till me from the land Till me from the land Till me from the land Spread fire through the grounds Obliterate the towns But spare us from the sounds Snows of the summer Fall like ashes in the hand It's the terror of the man Terror of the man Terror of the man Terror of the man Terror of the man Terror of the man Terror of the man Make frightening plans And tear me into strands And then wake me like a man Weigh me in the wind Cocoon me in the sand It's the terror of the man Terror of the man Terror of the man Terror of the man Terror of the man Eyes So Bright Beauty rare I don't want to share She says that hands fill holes Eyes so bright, they just steal the night And she rows where she rows My sister young, my sister strong She sparks in ebbs and flows I ride behind, keeping hounds in line But I cast my shadows low For all the time it takes to learn No further can I ride Eyes so bright, they just steal the night And I'll come for him Mark its time, it's a terrible time My ??? I'll see you write in your branches high And I'll come for you each time When the day arrives to loan Must every ??? Eyes so bright, they just took my life And I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you Digging Song I don't ever wanna dig your hideaway I don't ever wanna find them in the ground If I could die, we could get so far away I loved the sun and we loved to sun And oh, I dig all night With tired eyes The dogs are dead and I'm getting older I don't ever wanna put them in the ground I get to thinking that I live too far away I loved the sun, yeah we loved to sun And oh, I dig all night With tired eyes Oh, I dig all night Oh, I dig all night Oh, I dig all night Oh, I dig all night Burn Until the End I wanna burn until the end See all my friends tie up loose ends I'll find asylum in the sun Feel the light when she comes Find another ghost Go settle down but love me most Split the time in two Half for me and half for you And when it's gone and lights come on Is there nothing more that I could do for you I wanna burn until the end I wanna burn until the end Make yourself a home Go settle down and let me go Stream your sorrow through Cry for me and cry for you And when it's gone and lights come on There's nothing more that I could do I wanna burn until the end I want to burn until the end I want to burn until the end Out to Sea When the tide comes in And splits the land between My love counts on me But skip the land and row Where it's bound to blow Colder winds I know Out to sea, out to sea Skip off forevermore Always pining for My love left on the shores And if I head for ground Fearing I may drown Will I let my love down Out to sea, out to sea
Cyrk Puts Me To Work
Washed up on the low side The crock locker drained my eyes You're so fine but you didn't know how You play like you've seen too much Smoke like you'd fight enough Callouses show we're both feeling it now Baby, I said myself There's nothing the dark would shelve That's okay 'til the money runs out You kill me with empathy Crave solidarity And that's fine but you don't sing out ?? don't remember The time we took on your broken face I'll get so, so little effort But I know that you're there 'Cause you're making it hurt Baby, I said before It's all that I'm searching for Now we're together, we need never grow old And one day the seem will change And we'll slip beyond the range It's our day, tomorrow is already sold ?? don't remember The time we took on your broken face I'll get so, so little effort But I know that you're there 'Cause you're making it hurt It puts me to work You put me to work It puts me to work You put me to work Cyrk Now is not a good time to leave me on my own And neither will then be a good time I've always loved the movement of the trees Find me a place where I can watch the breeze I'm counting the minutes, one, two, three, and four Keeping good company so what are you crying for I've always loved the turning of the screw Find me a place that I can mold into People, they change and often come and go But I'm waving flags for the long haul I'll always love the summer 'til I die Find me a place where little birds fly by Julia I was foreseen Think of means to pass the light I can't get to her Can you teach me how to come Can you teach me how Hold this ?? Till new year comes another stunt I can't think along And Julia looks round and round Julia looks round And he moves along I could see this channel grow Now I count the times (?) And Julia looks round and round Julia looks round Greta A playground, a courtyard are out of this world You can realign light but you can't tame the girl When her eyes are the size of lagoons, all dreamy and white The universe shines from under her skin The delicate pattern of places she's been A baby daze coiled up inside her like ribbons of time Greta, be good to yourself For goodness sake You existed in moonlight before you were born On the turn of each calendar, inside and outside Observatories clocked you and stars, they were holding so dear Greta be good to yourself You've always been here Fold the Cloth (I'm in the scenes) (No clouds of greeks) (The mouldings on) (Our floor) I know these walls I've loved them all We can't forget the house When you hear the sound of all the people on the ground It's too late to come around, tuck your belly in your chest And see how close we are Seven shades of brown drip from the bannisters And now you know you need to come around Put your belly to the crest and see how close we are Your face, so sweet Not bones, not meat (Just gradings of) The Shore (Oh priestly pray) The ash has died We can't forget the house When you hear the sound of all the people on the ground It's too late to come around, tuck your belly in your chest And see how close we are Seven shades of brown drip from the bannisters And now you know you need to come around Put your belly to the crest and see how close we are Fold the cloth Oh cut the cloth Fold the cloth Oh cut the cloth Fold the cloth Oh cut the cloth Fold the cloth Oh cut the cloth The Man I Wanted Grow your hair longer It's easy to in summer When the days fold under If it pours in the daytime We'll have to stay indoors I'll milk the time you sat with me What I hoped for most Was to be his greatest host He'd make my hands his home The man I wanted Where is the payout How does the opposite feel Well, you'll never show me Autumn was so nice We're rolling in to enter The pleasure is all mine Still it is more than twice The man I wanted The man I wanted The man I wanted The man I wanted The man I wanted Through The Mill When I saw you died a death Whilst mating on the moor I ran to approach the poacher's nest To strip them of their epaulet You really are the maddest beast I've ever seen before Three hundred pounds wrapped in my cave We're going to an island I propped you up with trophy bones And perched you on the peak We stayed to watch the ships come in And drank to when the chase felt good I really could not leave him there They put him through the mill I wrote back home to tell my friends The moon it makes the wine taste sweet Ploughing Out, Pt. 1 Once I had a reason To fall outside off season A gentle, gentle coast Towards the look-out post On the last day of the year I'm just happy to be here Looking at the leaves of time In my mind, in my mind Plans are real Ploughing out across the fields Holding court for miles around Finding out it's only sound Once I heard the handle But sparks shot out in tangles The gentle, gentle shift Sent all intent adrift And on the worst day of his life He'd still love more things than I like Taping melodies of times In his mind, in his mind Plans are real Ploughing out across the fields Holding court for miles around Finding out it's only sound Ploughing Out, Pt. 2 When it goes off We'll be the last boat out of here When love is wrong You'll be the ringing in my ear Steering me why When it goes off We'll be the last boat out of here When love is wrong You'll be the ringing in my ear Still we never say die When it goes off We'll be the last boat out of here When love is wrong You'll be the ringing in my ear Steering me why When it goes off We'll be the last boat out of here When love is wrong You'll be the ringing in my ear Still we never say die
Mug Museum I Can't Help You I wanted to pave you an endless summer To cut into the fabric of your fallacies Good faith is on the turn What good could ever come from being cruel I haven't seen you in the longest while Our hands locked in the bag We own a broken hat I can't help you, I can't help you I can't help you, can't help you I took a backseat in my heart and laid low I watched the duel unfold through blown-out windows The night was on its knees And everyone agrees I can't help you, can't help you I can't help you, can't help you And after the fact We were out of steam Time to cut my time And split me like timber Spilled me like water Bend me like elbows Beat me like egg yolks Beat me like egg yolks I can't help you, can't help you I can't help you, can't help you I can't help you, can't help you I can't help you, can't help you I can't help you, can't help you I can't help you, can't help you Are You With Me Now Oh, the sinking spell Caught at tiny heels Pinned a notice to posts Then crawled in my mouth There is a feeling I love Buried in my brow I have no reason to run I see no reason Are you with me now Are you with me now It's not impossible It's not unfathomable It's not unusual, baby To feel a shadow in kind There is a feeling I love Buried in my brow I have no reason to run I see no reason Are you with me now Are you with me now As she knows me now As she knows me now As she knows me now As she knows me... Are you with me now Are you with me now Are you with me now Are you with me now Duke On Market Square We were carried away We studied entire empires When you were Duke We landscaped our legacies And thought about wars I don't know how we have come to function so far away Drifting in directness with the compass we've made, you know It's our best work, I'll see you here, here, here Where the weather licked your face, dry The weather licked your face, dry I am half-bitten You are half-hidden Until the arms close Scheduling tides Pitching up in our paths Will never grow old to me I don't know how we have come to function so far away Drifting in directness with the compass we've made, you know It's our best work, I'll see you here, here, here Where the weather licked your face, dry The weather licked your face, dry The weather licked your face, dry Where the weather licked your face, dry I don't know how we have come to function so far away Drifting in directness with the compass we've made, you know You know it's our best work, I'll see you here Here, here, here, here, here
No God There's an old light on Pulling at the wheels Hammering the bell He'll fold the metal folds I'll wear it well Wear it well for you Rule it out for me And lose your selfless doubt Hands throw me out I, I saw a face again I pulled it from my head No looking, I know it well No God When the lead is good How'd you make a deal How'd you break thirst He'll fold the metal folds I called it first Call it out in twos Crying out in threes When leading lambs lose track Hands pull me back I, I saw a face again I pulled it from my head No looking, I know it well No God No God No God No God No God No God No God I Think I Knew (Feat. Perfume Genius) There's no talking to him His eyes are upon dust, steam, and tepid water I am home just to sit with him Aging at the notion of a life time on earth whim There's no working it out My wanting is beyond all fears of formula There's no boundary to devotion No territory to handle and cut neatly into three I wish I knew, I wish I knew, I wish I knew I wish I knew, I wish I knew, I wish I knew No sign on the door No title to the deeds I'm digging for A pun you wade into that ocean Blot out all uncertainty And call it as I be The air is all ribbons of ice Softening the corners of my eyes I was bold, I was the author Doubt crept in like sickly dogs And dragged me through the freeze I wish I knew, I wish I knew, I wish I knew I wish I knew, I wish I knew, I wish I knew I think I knew, I think I knew, I think I knew I think I knew, I think I knew, I think I knew What did you want Everything How would you have him On my knees There is no one that can't be opened This one to cut the heart in two The other one to choose I wish I knew, I wish I knew, I wish I knew I wish I knew, I wish I knew, I wish I knew I think I knew, I think I knew, I think I knew I think I knew, I think I knew, I think I knew I think I knew, I think I knew, I think I knew I think I knew, I think I knew, I think I knew Wild Yesterday I saw you Drinking from my bowl On an island of hypocrisy It's light was not that kind to me Now I dream of horses Grazing on box wood Like bastions of self-sabotage Like bastions of self-sabotage Wild, wild Oh you've seen much better days Drop them through the hoops Knitted scarves for Christmas Signed up again through January Now the days are falling Through absent episodes We leapfrog at life's strangers But we are not inseparable Wild, wild Sisters Aunty Rita in my life Making tracks for me to find Wheel a running's never done With Aunty Rita in my eyes She will find a buried song She will set my hands on fire Hands on fire, over again Her to me, and me to them And the feeling stops short I won't die I'm a sister I won't die When we were driving in her car Fence between found furniture And clean clothes Singing "I've Just Seen A Face" to her I know well this space I fill I've seen both sides I know the drill I hold the button And it plays on I won't die I'm a sister I won't die Mirror Me Clocking on this endless work I ought to put a ladder down Honestly I pan the kindest lines And then some If I come to teach you every night Then love gets lost in loops Harnesses my air beneath my hold Is not so Mirror me Like you want me to be Like I want you to see me Like I want you to see me again Now kisses for sisters down avenues No loose lips and no good nights Be forever in the bed but not in my bones If I have to trace for you every line Then angles lose their urgency Trickle down my skeleton like hunks of honeycomb Mirror me Like you want me to be Like I want you to see me Cuckoo Through the Walls I will not sing your name And tie my heart to Jupiter And watermelon dreams I felt the fear of change I washed the metal down I toiled for hours Never leave the house Cuckoo through the walls Lay still on the ground Exhale the sound of symphonies She did not use the door She did not leave the table She spread out like a fan And then burst into tears And I watched the dinner drown I drank for hours Never leave the house Cuckoo through the walls Lay still on the ground Exhale the sound of symphonies At the drop of a hat I am scaling a hill Stealing dots in a world (?) Where your heart can stand still Mug Museum In my mug museum, I grow Company from echoes, in my walls I forget the detail, but know the ones Tailored to the letter, till it becomes In my mug museum In my mug museum I forget the detail, but know the ones Tailored to the letter, till it becomes In my mug museum In my mug museum In my mug museum In my mug museum In my mug museum In my mug museum
Crab Day Crab Day It doesn't pay to sing your songs It doesn't pay to sing your songs It doesn't pay to sing your songs It doesn't pay to sing your songs I saw you see me on Crab Day Speak your eyes to me on Crab Day The bottom line is in the how The bottom line is in the how Words like glassy beading Will decorate for now Swim across to greet me on Crab Day Spend a lovely dream on Crab Day Lend your voice to me on Crab Day Who am I to judge you on Crab Day Sing your heart to me on Crab Day Put your love in me on Crab Day I'm a coronation on Crab Day Who am I to love you on Crab Day Love Is Not Love Ah, whistle me a windmill And talk me to the sea Can't be forever in your summerland Feeling like geometry Takes me over, takes me underground Leaves me writhing in the reeds Hiding somewhere in the chorus I won't let you, I won't let you Sing my name again, love Sing my name again, love Sing my name again Love is not love When it's a coat hanger A borrowed line or passenger Ah, fix a lid on sodden dreams Throw disintegrating melodies Into the silence between Keep me dancing in your wet yard Where no eye could ever reach Call me over for the chorus I won't let you, I won't let you Sing my name again, love Sing my name again, love Sing my name again Love is not love When it's a coat hanger A borrowed line or passenger And the bar is go And it keeps me high But I don't know how to love you And I part your head Like the coat is mine But I don't know how to love you And I made the air move in arrows But I don't know how to love you And your bread is warm And it fills my nights But I don't know how to love you right Wonderful Met on a meter Leant over to seat you Stopped by a red box To write you a letter, a letter I'll write you a letter Call for a picnic A merciful salt lick Bad television will keep us together Together, together My heart's in my liver Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Of all of the weather I like you much better Snow made me sad But your face on rotation Rotation, rotation My heart's in the station copy paste robots kill the internet Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful I wanna be your motion picture film I want to be your ten pin bowl Sport is the colour my nebulous lover Circle the gutter My heart's in my supper My heart's in my supper Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
*** Thanx a lot to Pull_to_bits for this one *** Find Me Mindful of the host Colouring the cookbooks in with love Shimmying your tree Looking for my morning breakfast cup Emptying the lock Piling all the debris on your lip Mining in your shoes Waiting for the morning cowlick Well I might be somewhere in the house Somewhere in the house I might be, might be Sighing in your tomb Sighing in your tomb Find me Mithering the ghost Fearful of the handprints on the glass Sticking like a bolt Swollen in the sand dunes of my mouth Fixing up a suit Glossing all your dirty furniture Dining on a lamp In the corner of your council building Well I might be somewhere in the house Somewhere in the house I might be, might be Sighing in your tomb Sighing in your tomb Find me Find me Find me
I'm a Dirty Attic What's so good about hungry hearts Beating on the table when your plate is full I'm a body of dreams for you I'm a dirty attic Milk warn monuments fill me up If you don't paint the ruin in the background I was thinking about truth Oh it's not automatic This night drive me wild, ah row away It's like I'm untied, ah row you say Well I want to make sense with you And I want to make sense with you You say something like "stop the bus And I'll see you in the morning when the light's up" I was drinking the dew It's just automatic Take care golden hair, draw me a sky Paint me in a picture with a new face I'm a body of dreams for you I'm a body of dreams for you I'm a body of dreams for you I'm a dirty attic This night drives me wild, ah row away It's like I'm untied, ah roll you say Well I want to make sense with you And I want to make sense with you And I want to make sense with you With you With you
I Was Born on the Wrong Day Nice seams, no doubt Please fifteen for your money Dream of copper calendars And laughter in the drive I was born on the wrong day I met my mother and I dressed her windows Oh teach me words like faith Put all your details in the ground As if you don't believe in stones I'm gonna cry in your mouth I was born on the wrong day I met my mother and I dressed her windows Revisit passages From foreign papers in the class Oh take it back to milk And the fluttering of hands I was born on the wrong day I met my mother and I dressed her windows We Might Revolve I wasn't even in my room without reason I wasn't even in my room without reason If I wasn't even in my room I wasn't even in my room All the towns are miniature All the girls are beautiful girls All the towns are miniature We might Revolve We might Revolve Mither me I'm in your road We might revolve I was a humid satellite with open arms I was a humid satellite I wasn't even in the room I wasn't even in the room All the towns are miniature All the girls are beautiful girls All the towns are miniature We might Revolve We might Revolve Mither me I'm in your road We might revolve Yellow Blinds, Cream Shadows I'm alive in your window Yellow blinds, cream shadows I'm a dog, I'm a big dog Pulling string from your wheel I will evaporate the count I will not tell you that The clocks have all gone back Escape the cold cement of time And be so hard to find Impossibly behind Night spots Light filler Call it lunch, call it dinner Play paper piano Your string, my wheel I will evaporate the count I will not tell you that The clocks have all gone back Escape the cold cement of time And be so hard to find Impossibly behind How Do You Know How do you know Light gets through How would I know You really swim in me How would I know to stay How would I know To stay How would I know To stay Your keen eyes look back through mine But anyway Book me a suite With a view de la mer When you put your necklace on me I would not know to pay I would not know To pay I would not know To pay I would not know To stay I would not know To stay Your keen eyes look back through mine But anyway What's Not Mine Dirty water in my beard In my salt marsh tears I'm not crying for myself But I'm riding close I was hiding in your disguise I was looking through your dead eyes I don't even know what's not mine What's not mine [x8] Climbing, climbing Tip the boat Put the dish on water I was opening your door To my nightly sauna I was lounging in your disguise I was reading through your dead eyes Now I don't even know what's not mine What's not mine [x16]
Reward Miami Decorate your own discord, Miami Never be the same again, no way Falling skies that people uphold, move with me Love neglected by reward, okay Miami Miami Miami I take some time I have some thoughts Miami Miami Miami Daylight Matters Wide of the line in occasional bloom Still ahead of the night Still never not there And I'm never gonna be there again Promises speak in Confusion and dice A day in the life Arranging the chairs And I'm never gonna live it again Love you, I love you, I love you, I love you But you're not here Love you, I love you, I love you, I love you But you've gone Why do they stick when your lips read like stone Mouthing the lines, returning the air And I'm never gonna feel them again Love you, I love you, I love you, I love you But you're not here Love you, I love you, I love you, I love you But you've gone If I'm never gonna see it again It's too late now Your money's lent Dreams I've had and never shared Sacrificed the daylight matters Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on Love you, I love you, I love you, I love you But you're not here Love you, I love you, I love you, I love you But you've gone Home to You Home to you Is a neighborhood in the night kitchen Home to you Is atrocity in the town Home to you Is an impasse under hallway ceilings Home to you I'm a cross hair, stubborn, dream loving And it's home, to you, oh Home to you, oh If we meet And we drink from borrowed cups You read the room to me All the changing of the light is torture Memories, ah Outdoing Memories, ah Home to you, oh Home to you, oh Home to you, oh Home to you, oh Home to you Home to you Last time for all time Last time for all time gone Last time Last time for all time Last time for all time gone Last time Last time for all time Last time for all time gone Last time Last time for all time Last time for all time gone Last time for all time Last time for all time gone Last time Last time for all time Last time for all time gone Last time Last time for all time Last time for all time gone Last time Last time for all time Last time for all time gone Mother's Mother's Magazines Take it out, take it outside Equal coin, not equivocal dime Leaflet drop in the courtyard Call and divide Mother's, mother's magazines Dry on the bedside Never before dreamed (Dreamed) Did not see the comedy Of decline Before Arrest this house (Form a) Form a decoy Endless sport and riveted wives (You may) You may aim high but lay low, low low Call and reply Mother's, mother's magazines Dry on the bedside Oh, show me Never before dreamed (Dreamed) Assembly lines they Took her name Here It Comes Again Modern debt Essential luck The dog hair in the gloss Fortunate or not enough Set in a frame Here it comes again Man alive This solitude Is wrinkles in the dirt I borrowed love from carnivals Set it in a frame Here it comes again Set it in a frame (Set it in a frame) Here it comes again Half-draped eyes in a liquid night I fall apart when you do Set it in a frame (Set it in a frame) Set it in a frame (Set it in a frame) Here it comes again Sad Nudes Sad nudes in my room Sad nudes in my room Sad nudes Sad promises from all the clowns you used to soothe Like fools we moved Pick up the phone Take the call from your mother She really wants you to answer Fear is the pivot and shame is on its knees And the more you feel the more you have to lose Sad nudes Sad nudes in my room Sad nudes in my room Sad nudes The settlement is rolling down that mountain soon It moves through you This is your gold and you are the woman Bias beats hard and I don't sleep Factories cold under owner-spectator And the cross you never used becomes the news Sad nudes in my room The Light Where would he go for fun in this town How would he sit and bookend days No, I don't need the poetry More than a moment could upset the need Console for the love, but the love belongs to me The light, the light, the light, the light The light, the light, the light, the light that finds me The light, the light, the light, the light The light, the light, the light, the light that finds me Mother, I feel the crowds on the turn Took out the windows Moved the stairs And I don't need the comedy Holding the door to my own tragedy Take blame for the hurt, but the hurt belongs to me The light, the light, the light, the light The light, the light, the light, the light that finds me The light, the light, the light, the light The light, the light, the light, the light that finds me You must die a little You must exercise You must die a little Bury the keys and get to work You must die a little You must exercise You must die a little You must hate yourself You must die a little You must die a little You must die a little Bury the keys and get to work Magnificent Gestures Truly I like to dream Romance is company Permeates the concrete graft Puts my head in a car park Hold a hand, talk to me Assume the weight of family Sell the billboard gallery She was born with no lips, drip, drip, drips Hey now Magnificent gestures Could hold my love Could open windows But the room escapes me The teachers let go It's such a shame And I'm writing it down We will have to talk But I'm writing it down The room escapes me And I'm writing it down Forever be on guard Forever be on guard Forever be on guard Forever be on guard Forever be on guard Truly I'm at your feet Turning cards from memory Pinball for the royal lip Her heart is a skip, drip, drip, drip Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip Time will repeat it Time will defile I can't repeat it I was born with no lips, drip, drip, drips Hey now Magnificent gestures Could hold my love Could open windows But the room escapes me The teachers let go It's such a shame And I'm writing it down We will have to talk Magnificent gestures And I just feel low I don't know why The mood escapes me And I'm writing it down The room escapes me And I'm writing it down She has her teacher's laugh She has her brother's eyes Her eyes You Don't Love Me You don't love me You don't love me Concaved empathy But you don't love me I dream about dead hours And think about remaining within view My devotion is new Never be, never be, never be still Whilst Carys's neighbours are thriving And in the midnight pity bath I found no towels But you won't see scenes I think about dead flowers Stinking up the corridors and wounds My intentions half-used Never be, never be, never be still Whilst Carys's neighbours are thriving Thriving Take Your cake Out of my face On point Divine Die hard I think about dead hours Never be, never be, never be still Never be, never be, never be still Never be, never be, never be still Whilst Carys's neighbours are thriving Thriving Take Your cake Out of my face On point Divine Die hard Meet the Man Back to life, we have no means When he died, religion spoke Did you ever look beyond belief? Oh, to love him is bigger than dreams Canonised, he walked around Did you ever see him on his knees? I wanted to meet the man I wanted to meet the man Innocence sent out on a wing We'll decide by monuments Did you ever wonder where he hymned And I love him in ribbon and steel In disguise love occupied Did you ever look beyond belief I wanted to meet the man I wanted to meet the man Hard lines He slips outside His hand on his heart His heart on my mind Invented time He dances through dust Conscience of light And broken hearts put out of my mind And the sweets of their lies They're out of sight They're out of sight And he sings to me Sings his heart to me Brings the seal to me And the good song goes Heroes, heroes Tell me, baby Tell me, please Love is good Love is ancient to me Love is you Love is beautiful to me (Love is) Love is you
Canto! I landed at an angle through thickets of mint Disused old station Wrong side of the fence And I've roamed so ugly I've worn out my tread My leathers don't fit me The dampness and dread Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes, your eyes Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes, your eyes Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes, your eyes Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes, your eyes Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes I drove desert roads and optical courts The mini is stable and ? The photos have faded the lid has come loose Come ride with me baby I'm long in the tooth Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes, your eyes Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes, your eyes Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes, your eyes Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes, your eyes Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes... Secretary I can answer your telephone Face family friend My voice, you can believe in me I can put you through To everyone, or anyone Can I take some time Can you stay on hold Take a holiday Make amendments Can I take some time Can you stay on hold Take a holiday Make amendments Same two piece for seven years Same cold plastic lunch Please return my papers I am not afraid Of finding you a failure Can I take some time Can you stay on hold Take a holiday Make amendments Can I take some time Can you stay on hold Take a holiday Make amendments Mascara brushed across the planes All of the phone calls you made disconnected And without the search there would be no I There is no I in the search, and why Why are my eyes so bare to the light To the light Fireman I am a fireman Putting out fires, man I am a fireman Putting out fires, man Fire in the city Fire in the house Fire in the furniture Fire in the atmosphere Fire on the pavement Fire in the hole Fire in the kitchen Fire in the candleshop I am a fireman Putting out fires, man I am a fireman Putting out fires, man Fire in the window Fire in the mouth Fire on the patio Fire in the house Fire in the country Fire on the road Fire in the hospital Fire in my mind I am a fireman Putting out fire, man I am a fireman Putting out fire, man What Is She Wearing Okay Sometimes, people do not open doors for me And I think to myself‚ this is not so nice Sometimes‚ I'm walking down the road And people open their car doors And I think‚ that's not so nice Sometimes, I step in chewing gum And I think to myself, that's not so nice Sometimes I have to take the bins out And live alone and that is not nice That's not that nice Sometimes I go to fancy restaurants And there's dirt on the fork That is not nice Sometimes I like to go shopping for food But there's no bags in my pockets So I have to pay five pence For a plastic bag I don't want And that is not nice Sometimes I put on a jumper to go outside And I think to myself The t-shirt I'm wearing is not so nice And then the sun comes out And I have to take off my jumper And it makes me feel sad because as I previously stated My t-shirt's not nice So I'm walking through the village with a terrible t-shirt on And I can hear all my neighbours telling eachother That's not that nice Well‚ it's not my fault, the weather played a cruel trick on me And now I'm here Oh no, what is she wearing She's coming out dressed like a stupid girl Oh no‚ why is she wearing A t-shirt that looks like she's stupid Oh no, what is she wearing She's come out the house without any shoes Oh no, what is she doing She's walking around with a Why doesn't she ever brush her hair Why doesn't she ever wear any shoes Why does her hair look like a nest Why does she never wear any shoes Well I don't know why and I could never ask her Sometimes I think I could go up to her and ask her And I'm walking, I could get myself a croissant from the bakery And everybody is looking at me as if I have committed a crime As if I have committed a crime It says just do it But I don't wanna just do it But I don't wanna just do it I wanna just do it I don't wanna just do it I do not wanna just do it Oh, what do you know Well, what do you know Oh, what do you know
Pompeii
Dirt On The Bed Trust in love Just as you are Reaching without watching The switches on the wall Sound doesn't go away In habitual silence It reinvents the surface Of everything you touch As you mouth my name I'm older than glass I'm kicking at the corner Recycling air Dirt on the bed (here) Dirt on the bed (here, here) For all I know I might not suffer A resurrection That's always been true On repeat Without a function And no confession Recycling air Dirt on the bed (here) Dirt on thе bed (here, hеre) Dirt on the bed (here) Dirt on the bed (here, here) Moderation I get by one eye on the sky But I can't put my finger on it I want to cry, I'm out of my mind Trying to figure it out Moderation I can't have it I don't want it I want to touch it Picture the party where you're standing on a modern age I was in trouble with a habit of years And I try to relate I get by pushing poets aside 'Cause they can't beat the Mother of Pearl I quit the earth, I'm out of my mind And the fruit of it all Moderation I can't have it I don't want it I want to touch it Picture the party where you're standing on a modern age I was in trouble with a habit of yеars And I try to relate To the mеss I made Tethered to a mess Tethered to a mess Tethered to a mess Tethered to a mess Picture the party where you're standing on a modern age I was in trouble with the habit of years And I try to relate French Boys French boys Take time away So cold Faces like lakes Collaged against rocky terrain So quiet But I sense what they're saying And I'm in my way But I'm never gonna understand it I caught A plastic bouquet Down the aisle With a sad sashay Some noise About some noise And I'm in my way And I'm never gonna understand it But I never want to punish the part French boys Are making me wait French boys In invisible towns And I'm in my way French boys Are making me wait French boys In invisible towns And I'm in my way And I'm never gonna understand it Pompeii All my life in sentiment All my language is vulgar and true I've pushed love through the hourglass Did you see me putting pain in a stone Get dressed You're a mess, you're a sight Did you dream about Pompeii Your eyes always give it away Cities built on monumental rage Getting lost in the seminar All my life in sentiment All my language is vulgar and true I've pushed love through the hourglass Did you see me putting pain in a stone Every fear Every fear that I have I send it to Pompeii Now I'm running just to give it away Got an ugly wait for morning papers Sipping wine through a telescope All in sentiment All my language is vulgar and true I've pushed love through the hourglass Did you see me putting pain in a stone It's my heart, it's thе beating of my heart It's the beating of my heart All my life in sentiment (It's my heart, it's thе beating of my heart) All my language is vulgar and true (It's my heart, it's thе beating of my heart) I've pushed love through the hourglass (It's my heart, it's thе beating of my heart) Did you see me putting pain in a stone (It's my heart, it's thе beating of my heart) It's my heart, it's thе beating of my heart It's my heart, it's thе beating of my heart Harbour Call it a war, you can do what you like Heavens above don't care how you're living Carry across your devotional ties Where do you run when you're like a child What you said was nice When you said, my face turned a memory What you said was nice When you said, my heart broke a century Harbour Harbour, harbour Harbour, harbour Harbour, harbour Harbour Call it a life, you can call it a night Days linger on quicker than a minute Bravery's just an emotional bribe Into your arms and I'm like a child What you said was nice When you said, my face turned a memory What you said was nice When you said, my heart broke a century Harbour Harbour, harbour Harbour, harbour Harbour, harbour Harbour, harbour Harbour, harbour Harbour, harbour Harbour, harbour Harbour You're so similar You'rе so similar You're so similar What you said was nice When you said, my facе turned a memory What you said was nice When you said, my heart broke a century Running Away Take your gloves off I'm not scared anymore It's my pillow and plate To not care anymore You know I'm not cold by nature This could bring me to my knees The fountain that empties the world Too beautiful to hold Multidirectional love With nowhere left to go You're just running away I'm sick of soft hearts And soft hair in the sun You can get lost around it You can get hurt around it You know I'm not cold by nature This could bring me to my knees The fountain that empties the world Too beautiful to hold Multidirectional love With nowhere left to go There's nowhere left to go It's the sweetest thing That you never had It's the sweetest thing That you never had You can't put your arms around it It's not there anymore You're just running away Cry Me Old Trouble I was born guilty as sin To a mother guilty as hell That'll teach us for sniffing the dirt New hats for the old hurt It started in a garden It started in a bright lit hall It started in a garden And why would you wet the ground Cry me old trouble I like the weight Cry me old trouble I like the weight Me old trouble I like the weight Cry me old trouble I like the weight I'm tied to something you read Through the din of a photograph Tapped down in a second-hand quilt Worn thin and passed around It started in a garden It started in a bright lit hall It started in a garden And why would you wet the ground Cry me old trouble I like the weight Cry me old trouble I like the weight Me old trouble I like the weight Cry me old trouble I like the weight Outside the air is cool Enough to make me sweat Under a peacock moon The spoon gets passed around It started in a garden It started in a bright lit hall It started in a garden And why would you wet the ground Remembering Me In the remake of my life I moved in straight lines My hair was beautiful My eyes were slow I had the heart of a thunderclap How about that My blood on the letter That flipped the moment Upset and out of touch Good grief, you miss so much Remember me Louder than empty rooms Face down in heirlooms Remembering me In the classical rewrite I wore the heat like A hundred birthday cakes Under one sun I didn't need anyone On my own luck I arrived just to seat the choir And bowled them over Upset and out of touch Good grief, you miss so much Remember me Louder than empty rooms Face down in heirlooms Remembering me Upset and out of touch Good grief, you miss so much Remember me Louder than empty rooms Face down in heirlooms Remember me I must leave the house I don't wanna be on my own Remember me I'm not so good Put down, I never could Remembering me Wheel It's been a mild winter here And I've buckled like a wheel Sucked the life from god's routine Broke the royal we Over me ??? I could resign to the opulence Of abstract optimistic love Raise a glass in a season of ash And pour it over me Over me Over me Do I miss your loving Do I need it Double down on swallowed dreams No prisoner, no peace I do not think that you love yourself I'd take you back to school And teach you right how to want a life But it takes more time than you'd tendеr over me Over me Over me Over me Do I miss your loving When I need it Double down on swallowed dreams No prisoner, no peace Wait No prisoners, no peace No prisoners, no peace No prisoners, no peace No prisoners, no peace No prisoners, no peace
Non Albums Tracks All Born Screaming (St. Vincent feat. Cate Le Bon) I have climbed power lines and mountains just to feel above the ground I have crawled out your hallowed houses just to feel my headache pound I feel like graffiti on a urinal in the abattoir, well it goes and it goes I can't stop my legs, I can't feel my feet, I own nothing, and nothing owns me We're all born screaming We're all born screaming, yeah I have climbed into open arms, they turned into a straight jacket Stolen hearts I didn't need, but man, I always paid for them I was a pantomime of a modern girl Those were the days, and I was miserable A karaoke version of Leonard's "Hallelujah," My whole damn life, I had never exhaled Oh well We're all born screaming We're all born screaming We're all (All) born (Born) screaming We're all (All) born (Born) screaming, yeah Well, yeah Well, well, well All born screaming All born screaming All born screaming All born screaming
January (Cyrk II EP) And moving kills me And it sets me on fire And I cannot imagine How to qualify too When the seas are calm We come out like eagles But carry the weight for too long We fall from skies like seagulls Although I say don't be great You'll fall apart from the view And most of the time gliding's fine But flagging posts is fine, too Fly, fly When seasons change me But they don't show me flowers It's more than I can handle Heckler (?) storms came from showers When the seas are calm We go out like eagles But carry the weight for too long We'll fall from skies like seagulls Although I say don't be great You'll fall apart from the view And most of the time gliding's fine But flagging posts is fine, too Fly, fly And now you know you've got it made When the days are yours alone Go out, employ the country January's coming back I don't know if I'll be here for that, but I'll still love something I still love something When the seas are calm We go out like eagles But carry the weight for too long We'll fall from skies like seagulls Although I say don't be great You'll fall apart from the view And most of the time gliding's fine But flagging posts is fine, too Fly, fly Seaside, Low Tide (Cyrk II EP) Good night, goodbye When he goes, I always cry Trickling from the corners of my eyes It breaks in heatwaves We holiday but never stay Rainy seasons far too long to write Seaside, low tide Oceans rolling, lands subside They're secretly important all the while It makes me nervous The wind alone is not enough I'm watching for a change now in the ??? It tastes just like sunshine Sweeter than the day is fine You patiently correct my oxford (?) line The seaside, no why We haven't ??? side by side I'm watching for a change now in his eyes Good night, goodbye When he goes, I'll surely die I'm watching for a change now in his eyes In his eyes In his eyes
That Moon (Cyrk II EP) Will we ever see that moon again? That moon again? You say you want to And still we fall far It clouds over All of the field far from my lunar life When tripping for a while I lost the light And for his eyes I scan the skies Now there's no reason why Pulling fences is a sound I know The sound I love I fill up my boots And still I stay out To climb over All of the field far from my lunar life When tripping for a while I lost the light And for his eyes I scan the skies Now there's no reason why I fill up my boots And still I stay out To climb over All of the field far from my lunar life When tripping for a while I lost the light And for his eyes I scan the skies But now there's no reason why So far away (x4) The Eiggy Sea (Cyrk II EP) In the morning I am gone In the morning I am gone In the morning I am gone Locking it's to linger on I might drift in mind as one In the morning gone On singing sand she waits for me Drinking from the eiggy sea In dissolving sun Milky valleys coming, too Our journey ends well overdue And in the morning gone Oh when I see her Wolfing around I fall over myself Just to bask in the wealth Oh sail me over The eiggy sea There's nothing you can bring We'll gather ants we're gathering To attract us home There is little you can say To make the yearning fall away Now the seeds have grown The rocket curves so beautifully Making a berth for you and me To rest our laurels on With milky belly, arm-in-arm We are feasting on the calm And in the morning gone Oh when I see her Wolfing around I fall over myself Just to bask in the wealth Oh sail me over The eiggy sea Milky, it makes me so sad It makes me so sad It makes me ah ah ah ah Milky, it makes me so sad It makes me so sad It makes me ah ah ah ah Milky, it makes me so sad It makes me so sad Ah ah
Todos Nacen Gritando (Feat. Cate Le Bon) He escalado nubes y montañas para no sentir el suelo Me he arrastrado fuera de casas santas y me duele la cabeza Y me siento como basura en el matadero pues así, así va Estoy corriendo, no siento mis pies, no tengo nada, nada me pertenece Todos nacemos gritando Todos nacemos gritando Me he metido a brazos abiertos que me atraparon Corazones robados no eran mios, pero yo pago por ellos Yo era pantomima de mujer moderna e se fue antes y me sentía muy mal Un version fea de hallelujah en toda mi vida jamas exhalado Todos nacemos gritando Todos nacemos gritando Todos (todos) nacemos (nacemos) gritando Todos (todos) nacemos (nacemos) gritando Todos nacen gritando...
What Is Worse (Cyrk II EP) How can you love it But not yourself You are far lovelier Than twelve of this together And what is worse What is worse I'm a terrible mirror I'll model all the colour in you And now I am brimful And living back home You always tell me Not to stop in the day But how could they know Day sleeping is good for me And what is worse What is worse I have no money But I live like royalty And that was September Now I'm feeling the cold And that was the end of A familiar phone call You come to my room To tell me I'm so cruel 'Cause I have no plans To settle down, down What is worse What is worse When the face is all we see It's the sounds that unease me And that was September Now I'm feeling the cold And that was the end of A familiar phone call You come to my room To tell me I'm so cruel 'Cause I have no plans To settle down, down Down (x6)