B i o g r a p h y (by Margaret Reges)
Singer/songwriter Laura Marling was only 16 years old when she emerged on the British indie scene in 2007 thanks to a handful of infectious singles made available on her MySpace profile. Endowed with a husky voice, an acoustic guitar, and a gift for building quirky, hooky folk songs (characteristics that find her compared favorably to artists like Lily Allen, Regina Spektor, and Martha Wainwright), Marling quickly made a name for herself throughout England thanks to a heavy touring schedule and a few high-profile gigs, not the least of which included an appearance at the 2006 City Showcase: Spotlight London and as the opening act for Jamie T. Although she was still without a label one year later, her debut EP, My Manic and I, was slated for independent release in the late fall of 2007. This status didn't last for long, however, because in early 2008, signed to Virgin, Marling issued Alas I Cannot Swim, which also came as part of a multimedia Songbox package. In 2010, Marling released her sophomore album, I Speak Because I Can, which debuted at number three on the U.K. albums chart and was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. Marling completed a working holiday tour of the U.S. in 2012, where she played a host of solo shows as she traveled through the States, and announced her fourth album, Once I Was an Eagle, while in California. The record appeared a year later and was her third to be nominated for the coveted Mercury Prize. Following the album's release, Marling relocated to L.A. in a bid to settle in one place after moving multiple times while releasing four albums in five years, each with accompanying tours. Plans for a fifth release were initially shelved in early 2013, but by 2014 Marling had completed new material and returned to London to record the album. The resulting Short Movie arrived in spring 2015. Just as Short Movie introduced a heavier sound via the addition of electric guitar, Marling further distanced herself from her folk beginnings on her sixth studio album. Semper Femina, her sixth LP, was co-produced by Blake Mills and released in early 2017 on Marling's own More Alarming label. The album featured a darker, smokier vibe than her previous efforts.
Non Albums Tracks - Misc - Narrow Road Needle And The Damaged Done New Romantic Not Done Travelling One Day Soon Paws Clean Rebecca Red Right Hand Rest My Troubles Away She's Changed Sorry Soulless Child Such A Shame The Man Sings About Romance The Water The Wrote And The Writ Those Were The Days To Be A Woman Tough Love Typical What Have You done Who Am I Young Love
Alas I Cannot Swim
Ghosts He walked down a busy street Staring solely at his feet Clutching pictures of past lovers at his side. Stood at the table where she sat And removed his hat in respect of her presence Presents her with the pictures and says ‘These are just ghosts that broke my heart before I met you These are just ghosts that broke my heart before I met you.' Opened up his little heart, unlocked the lock that kept it dark And read a written warning saying, ‘I'm still mourning Over ghosts over ghosts over ghosts Over ghosts that broke my heart before I met you' Lover please, do not fall to your knees It's not like I believe in ever-lasting love He went crazy at nineteen, said he'd lost all his self-esteem And couldn't understand why he was cry, cry, crying, crying He would stare at empty chairs think of the ghosts that once sat there The ghosts that broke his heart Oh the ghosts that broke my heart The ghosts that broke his heart Oh the ghosts that broke my heart The ghosts, the ghosts, the ghosts, the ghosts The ghosts that broke my heart before I met you Lover please, do not fall to you knees It's not like I believe in ever-lasting love He says I'm so lost, not at all well After it was done, when there was nothing left to be Turned out I'd been following him And he'd been following me After it was done, after it was over We were just two lovers crying on each other's shoulder Lover please, do not fall to you knees It's not like I believe in ever-lasting love Lover please, do not fall to you knees It's not like I believe in ever-lasting love Old Stone He chased me through the rain ‘Honey, I'm going your way.' I don't think so You can chase me through the rain Scream my name, a childish game But I love to be young And honey I was never gonna change And honey you are never gonna change But you love, don't you love it that way Old stone Ten thousand years and you're still on your own Don't you love But you love it that way And if you swear that your alright I'm not gonna try and change your mind And oh honey don't let me walk away from this If I'm trying to fuck up my own life Then until I figure out why I think it's best you keep your distance Lest I fall in love Old stone Ten thousand years and you're still on your own But you love Don't you love it that way He chased me through the rain ‘Honey I'm going your way.' You can chase me through the rain Scream my name, a childish game But I love to be young Tap At My Window He taps at my window Willing that I'll let him in I don't think I will though My heart's taken I won't tell him again Maybe I'll write him a story and Maybe I'll fall asleep in his arms Maybe I'll wake up lonely and fallen away again Until you calm me down I'll race around this town Trying to find Oh an emotion that you cannot deny I will not have him treat me this way And Mother I blame you with every inch of the being you gave For I have become you and I know every part of your game And Father I love you, but how can you watch as I push her away I cannot forgive you for bringing me up this way Maybe I'll write them a story and maybe I'll fall asleep in his arms Maybe I'll wake up lonely and fallen away again until you calm me down I'll race around this town Til you calm me down, I'll race around this town Trying to find Oh an emotion that you cannot deny I will not have them treat me this way So tap at my window Maybe I might let you in I don't think I will though My heart's taken I won't tell you again Failure He used be a singer in a rock and roll band He would write the songs and I'd tremble at his hand But oh, la la He lost poetic ethic and his songs they were pathetic And he's a failure now And he used to be the life and soul of everyone around You'd never catch him looking up and never see him down But oh, la la He couldn't raise a smile, not for a while And he's a failure now Don't cry child You've got so much more to live for Don't cry child You've got something I would die for And if it comes to the rain just be glad you'll smile again Because so many don't and so many go un-named And people walk right past me shouting their exclaims A preacher pushes me aside and asks to wash my sins I said no, la la If he made me in his image Then he's a failure too And I used to need a couple people keep my head down Now I need a whole lot more to keep me on the ground But oh, la la I gave up something and I gave it up for nothing And I'm a failure now Don't cry child You've got so much more to live for Don't cry child You've got something I would die for And if it comes to the rain just be glad you'll smile again Because so many don't and so many go un-named You're No God Your mum thinks that you're sad And that you're living alone And your friends think if you're sad You should call them more But the truth is That you never need someone to comfort you Oh you never need someone to comfort you But you're no god, you're no god And you will never leave this place And you will always feel alone And you will never feel quite clean In this new skin that you have grown Until your old and broken bones Are laid into their resting place Just like the rest of human race Til I fall into my place Just like the rest of human race Til I'm laid into my final resting place Just like the rest of human race who've done it Without complaining all the way But you're no god, you're no god As long as you promise That you will never leave I need only worry about You and me And we will never leave this place And we need never feel alone And we will learn to feel quite clean In this new skin that we have grown Because our young and healthy bones Would never lead us astray We will learn to feel quite clean, in this new skin that we have We will learn to feel quite clean, in this new skin that we have Will learn to feel quite clean, in this new skin that we have grown Because our young and healthy bones Would never lead us astray Cross Your Fingers Look down on the body that you have grown Four mountains stand around you they're not your own And light squares and bodies are all you see Since you broke down Since I broke down Since we broke down So I jumped into my grave and died And on your word I gave up my whole life for you And I was reborn bigger and stronger And less alive I... I... Cross your fingers hold your toes, we're all gonna die when the building blows Cross your fingers hold your toes, we're all gonna die when the building blows And the house that you were born in is crumbling at the corner Sagging skin and feet of crows, feet of crows Oh you'll jump into your grave and die And on my words you'll give up your whole life for me And you'll be reborn big and stronger And less alive I... I... Crawled Out Of The Sea (Interlude) Oh, you crawled out of the sea Straight into my arms Straight into my arms Oh, you crawled out of the sea Straight into my arms Straight into my arms Oh, you crawled out of the sea Straight into my arms Straight into my arms Oh, you crawled out of the sea Straight into my arms Straight into my arms My Manic And I If he wants to die in a lake in Geneva The mountains can cover the shape of his nose If he wants to die where nobody can see him The beauty of his death will carry on so So I don't believe him He greets me with kisses When good days deceive him And sometimes with scorn And sometimes I believe him And sometimes I'm convinced that my friends think I'm crazy I get scared and call him but he's usually hazy By one in the morning the day has not ended By two he is scared that sleep is no friend And by four he will drink but he cannot feel it Sleep will not come because sleep does not will it And I don't believe him Morning is mocking me I'll wander the streets avoiding them eats Til the ring on my finger slips to the ground A gift to the gutter A gift to the city The veins of which have broken me down And I don't believe him Morning is mocking me And the gods that he believes Never fail to amaze me He believes in the love of his god of all things But I find him wrapped up in all manner of sins The drugs that deceive you and the girls that believe you I can't control you, I don't know you well These are the reasons I think that you're ill I can't control you, I don't know you well These are the reasons I think that you're ill And last that I saw him, last time we parted Down by a river, silent and hardened Morning was mocking us Blood hit the sky I was just happy my manic and I He couldn't see me the sun was in his eyes And birds were singing to calm us down And birds were singing to calm us down I'm sorry young man I cannot be your friend I don't believe in a fairytale end I don't keep my head up all of the time I find it dull when my heart meets my mind I hardly know you I think I can tell These are the reasons I think that I'm ill I hardly know you I think I can tell These are the reasons I think that we're ill And the gods that he believes never fail to disappoint me My nihilist, my happy man, my manic and I Have no plans to move on And birds are singing to calm us down And birds are singing to calm us down Night Terror I woke up and he was screaming I left him dreaming I'll roll over and hold on tightly And whisper, ‘If they want you, they're gonna have to fight me Oh fight me.' I woke up on a bench on Shepherd's Bush Green A candle at my chest, and a head on his knee I got up it was dark there is no one in the park at this hour How do I keep finding myself here ‘Oh fight me.' I looked back and he was screaming I left him dreaming A dangerous feat And I'll run back and shake him tightly And whisper, ‘If they want you they're gonna have to fight me Oh fight me.' But if I wake up on a bench on Shepherd's Bush Green* A candle at my chest, and a head on his knee I'll roll over and hold on tightly And scream, ‘If they want you, they're gonna have to fight me Oh fight me Oh fight me.' * Shepherd's Bush Green: district of west London The Captain And The Hourglass You kicked the blow, now you've got to kick the guy You sat alone, under bellowing sky If I feel God judging me, I fell into the water And now I'm free My friends they don't really get me, think I'm the only one Well I sold my soul to Jesus and since then I've had no fun Behind every tree is a cutting machine and a kite fallen from grace Inside every man is a heart of sand, you can see it in his face And he'll tick tick tick tick away Another second lost with every fallen grain And he'll tick, tick tick tick away Another second lost with every fallen grain The smoke is filling up the room, creeping up the walls But it's my only pleasure as I don't drink no more And I told him he could stray but he was not to fall in love So I could be the snake and still look like a dove Cause I am one for straying and not one for forgiving And if he thinks we're all right then I can go on living You kicked the blow, now you've got to kick the guy You sat alone, under bellowing sky If I feel God judging me, I fell into the water And now I'm free The wind and I we speak the same but he don't hear so well If you gonna have to curse him well you're gonna have to yell And the sky and I we've had our fights but I'm coming round to rain If the rain come out and I don't go out I don't ever have to speak again I can tick tick tick tick away Another second lost with every fallen grain I can tick tick tick tick away Another second lost with every fallen grain The captain's got his boots on and he's heading out the door Leaving his lady alone thinking, ‘He don't love me no more.' He's done with all his bullshit, he's going back to war If heaven is as heaven does then this is hell for sure And he'll tick tick tick tick away Another second lost with every fallen grain And he'll tick, tick tick tick away Another second lost with every fallen grain You kicked the blow, now you've got to kick the guy You sat alone, under bellowing sky If I feel God judging me, I fell into the water And now I'm free Shine I have travelled past your window many times I find your face too hard to define I can't touch you hollow thing You plagued my mind I can never go outside I will never go back to being blind I have wondered what you're doing every day since last I asked Your cheeks hollow I don't like your eyes dark The guilt got me, so it scraped at my bones My god left me, I am finally alone I need shine, I need shine, I need shine Step away from my light I need shine I am honest now, not a shouter I am reformed, forgiven and reborn And you've been busy but you've missed me And I plagued your mind You will never go outside You will never go back to being blind I need shine, I need shine, I need shine Step away from my light I need shine I need shine, I need shine, I need shine Step away from my light I need shine I need shine, I need shine, I need shine Step away from my light I need shine I need shine I need shine, I need shine Step away from my light I need shine Your Only Doll (Dora) I fell into the street Poison in my veins, Clambered to my feet And into the night again Back to my home Back to my owner Who screams at my tardiness Puts his hands to the sky And says, ‘What can I do With a girl if she refuses to be mine?' In his bed I am queen Unobtainable me Sexual being human with feelings The two are not me The two will not be mine ‘And what can you do with a girl If she's refusing to be mine?' Put his hand on my shirt, hand on my face My head to the wall and you've broken your only doll And what will you do with a girl If she's refusing to be alive And you've broken your only doll ‘And what will you do with a girl If she's refusing to be mine' Alas I Cannot Swim
( Hidden Track ) There's a house across the river, but alas I cannot swim And a garden of such beauty that the flowers seem to grin There's a house across the river, but alas I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in There's a boy across the river with short black curly hair He wants to be my lover and I want to be his peer There's a boy across the river but alas I cannot swim And I never will get to put my arms around him There's a life across the river that was meant for me Instead I live my life in constant misery There's a life across the river but I do not see Why I should please those that will never be pleased There is gold across the river but I don't want none There is gold across the river but I don't want none Gold is fleeting, gold is fickle, gold is fun Gold is fleeting, gold is fickle, gold is fun There is gold across the river but I don't want none I would rather be dry than held up by a golden gun Saying "work more and more, live more, have more fun" Saying "work more and more, live more, have more fun" Saying "work more and more, live more, have more fun"
I Speak Because I Can
Devil's Spoke
That I might be a part of this Ripple on water from a lonesome dri A fallen tree that witnessed me Him alone, him and me And that life itself could not aspire To have someone be so admired I threw creation to my kin With a silence broken by a whispered wind All of this can be broken All of this can be broken Hold your devil by his spoke And spin him to the ground And root to root and tip to tip I look at him my country drip Leathered up by all his fears But someone brought you close to tears Many trains and many miles Brought you to me on this sunny isle And what of which you wish to speak Have you come here to rescue me All of this can be broken All of this can be broken Hold your devil by his spoke And spin him to the ground But the love of your life lives but lies no more And where she lay a flower grows The arms that fed, the babes that wed The backs that bled keeping her in tow But I am your keeper And I hold your face away from light I am yours, till they come I am yours, till they come Eye to eye, nose to nose Ripping off each others clothes in a most peculiar way Eye to eye, nose to nose Ripping off each others clothes in a most peculiar way Made By Maid They danced like sirens Hoping the sun would come out again And I was born in the fog of that day Could they hear a babe, under all that faith Or have they forgot what it was that they made Crawled out of the fog, found a river Found a log and floated away Didn't think I'd be coming back this way But my feet are resolute Found their root and brought me back to its place And on the hill where I was born There is a rose without a thorn They cut it off each year and give it away But can they hear a babe, after all these days Or have they forgot what it was that they made So left to wander blind I find myself in cautious times And they say "Love's labours is never lost But labour on to this very day" So I walk into the fog Found a babe atop a log and all alone Took him under, took him on Taught him everything about the world I've come to know He blames me for every wrong ever he made I'm blamed for every wrong ever he made Forgive me I am only a maid Forgive me I am only a maid But I can still see a babe under all that blame But I am forgot from the day I am laid Rambling man Oh naive little me Asking what things you have seen And you're vulnerable in your head You'll scream and you'll wail till you're dead Creatures veiled by night Following things that aren't right And they're tired and they need to be led But you'll scream and you'll wail till you're dead But give me to a rambling man Let it always be known that I was who I am Well beaten battered cold My children will live just to grow old But if I sit here and weep I'll be blown over by the slightest of breeze And the weak need to be led And the tender are carried to their bed And it's a pale and cold affair And I'll be damned if I'll be found there But give me to a rambling man Let it always be known that I was who I am It's funny how the first chords that you come to Are the minor notes that come to serenade you And it's hard to accept yourself as someone You don't desire As someone you don't want to be Oh give me to a rambling man Let it always be known that I was who I am Oh give me to a rambling man Let it always be known that I was who I am Blackberry Stone Well I own this field And I wrote this sky And I have no reason, to reason with you I'd be sad that I never held your hand as you were lowered But I'd understand that I'd never let it go I'd be sad that I never held your hand as you were lowered But I'd understand the world does what it does And you never did learn to let the little things go And you never did learn to let me be And you never did learn to let little people grow And you never did learn how to see But I'll whisper that I love this man, now and for forever To your soul as it floats out of the window To the world that you turned your back on To the world that never really let you be And I am Lower now, and lower still And you did always say that one day I would suffer You did always say that people get their pay You did always say that I was going places And that you wouldn't have it any other way But I couldn't turn my back on a world For what I lack wouldn't let me But I couldn't turn my back on a world For what I like I need it But I couldn't turn my back on a world For what I lack wouldn't let me But I couldn't turn my back on a world For what I like I need it And I shouldn't turn my back On a sweet smelling blackberry stone Alpha Shallows
He could fall and shake and weep But his holy are my feet And heart with mention The dear they may not speak We fell tight when there is tension And our eyes can make us weep And his heart was full of fire at the man he had become And his soul was seldom higher with the falsities of fun Could embrace sweet desires in moments as they pass But he feared ever more, he saw it didn't last We walk up Holland Avenue And watch the rich as they consume That product made our hearts exude An emptiness unrivalled by The hunger that I could control He'd pray up to his God That he might save their soul The grey in this city is too much to bear The grey in this city is too much to bear And I believe we are meant to be seen And not to be understood And I want to be held by those arms I want to be held by those arms You'll work your thumbs till they're sore And you'll work my heart till it's raw And you'll call and you'll call but you'll never be told And I'll fall and I'll fall and I'll fall And I'll fall and I'll fall and I'll fall We are basic light We are basic light Goodbye England (Covered In Snow)
You were so smart then in your jacket and coat My softest red scarf was warming your throat Winter was on us at the end of my nose But I never love England More than when covered in snow But a friend of mine says it's good to hear That you believe in love even if said in fear Well I'll hold you there brother and set you straight I only believe true love is frail and willing to break I will come back here, bring me back when I'm old I want to lay here forever in the cold I might be cold but I'm just skin and bones And I never love England More than when covered in snow I wrote my name in your book Only God knows why And I bet you that he cracked a smile And I'm clearing all the crap out of my room Trying desperately to figure out What it is that makes me blue And I wrote an epic letter to you And it's twenty two pages front and back But it's too good to be used And I tried to be a girl who likes to be used I'm too good for that There's a mind under this hat And I called them all and told them I've got to move I'm on my own, it's too hard I'm on my own, it's too hard Feel like running, feel like running, run it off And we will keep you, we will keep you little one Safe from harm, like an extra arm You are part of us And you were so smart then in your jacket and coat My softest red scarf was warming your throat Winter will leave us, left the end of my nose But goodbye old England 'till next year snow Hope In The Air There is a man that I know For seventeen years he never spoke Guessed he had nothing to say He opened his mouth on judgement day I listened with all of my might But was scared by the look in his eyes Like he'd already lost the fight And there was no hope ever in sight No hope in the air No hope in the water Not even for me, your last serving daughter Why fear death, be scared of living Oh hearts are small and ever thinning There is no hope of ever of winning Oh why fear death, be scared of living I have seen men provoked And I have seen lives revoked And I looked at my life and I choked From there no more ever I spoke I can't give up that quick My life is a candle and a wick You can put it out but you can't break it down In the end we are waiting to be lit There's hope in the air There's hope in the water But sadly not me, your last serving daughter A friend is a friend forever And a good one will never leave, never But you've never been south And what rolls off your mouth You will never understand, ever You speak minds handed down to you By the lies handed down by your truth And your angels that dance at your wail Will mask your scrambling youth I forgave you your short comings And ignored your childish behaviour Laid a kiss on your head And before I left, said "Stay away from fleeting favour" There's hope in the air There's hope in the water But sadly not me, your last serving daughter Pick up your rope, Lord Sling it to me If we are to battle I must not be weak And give us your strength, world And your food and your water Oh I am your Saviour Your last serving daughter There's hope in the air There's hope in the water But sadly not me, you last serving daughter There's hope in the air There's hope in the water But no hope for me, you last serving daughter
What He Wrote Forgive me Hera, I cannot stay He cut out my tongue, there is nothing to save Love me oh Lord, he threw me away He laughed at my sins, in his arms I must stay He wrote, I'm broke, please send for me But I am broken too and spoken for, do not tempt me Her skin is white and I'm light as the sun So holy light shines on the things you have done So I asked him how he became this man How did he learn to hold fruit in his hands And where is the lamb that gave you your name He had to leave though I begged him to stay Left me alone when I needed the light Fell to my knees I wept for my life If he had of stayed you might understand If he had of stayed you never would have never taken my hand He wrote I am low please send for me But I am broken too and spoken for, do not tempt me And where is the lamb that gave you your name He had to leave though I begged him to stay Begged him to stay in my cold wooden grip Begged him to stay by the light of this ship Me fighting him fighting light fighting dawn The waves came and stole him and took him to war He wrote I'm broke, please send for me But I am broken too, and spoken for, do not tempt me Forgive me Hera, I cannot stay He cut out my tongue, there is nothing to save Love me oh lord, he threw me away He laughed at my sins, in his arms I must stay He wrote, I'm broke, please send for me But I am broken too and spoken for, do not tempt me We write, that's all right, I miss his smell We speak when spoken to, that suits us well That suits us well, that suits me well
Darkness Descends You're holding bits of Styrofoam With your face painted on to your friends You listen to them whine and moan About everything you can't understand Can I just say I don't fear the light But darkness descends once more into my life And suddenly we're all alone in silence So I take a step away I look up to the falling snow As it makes its home upon my face Well I wouldn't want to ruin something I couldn't save The gap will keep us safe The gap will keep us safe Step away Get me when I'm down And suddenly I'm five years old And I'm just so cold I want to cry I haul up on my gentlemen Who have always been there in hard times They're just not like that man of mine Who visit me from time to time My love I treasure you I hear that summer's coming back So I stretch out my back and travel a long The winter though it darkens me It is pure and clean and all I want I'll apologise to the ones I love For leaving them when the sun comes up Too bright for me Darkness descends Oh well I'm not well again And once more darkness it descends The ground is falling under me And I can't find the means to leave Convinced that I am going mad Oh I bury my head into his hands So sure that I'm loosing faith Oh I clear a space in his fathers land You deal with God far too young Before you know it your life has run away I Speak Because I Can My husband left me last night Left me a poor and lonely wife I cook the meals and he got the life And now I'm just old for the rest of my time For he, oh he, oh my I speak because I can To anyone I trust enough to listen And you speak because you can To anyone who'll hear what you say I swear it was not my choice I used to be so kind Never rode my bike down to the sea Never finished that letter I was writing Never got up and said anything Worthy, for he, for my Graceful sleeper You midnight dreamer I'm floored by your sound I'm floored by your sound I swear it was not my choice To reach out to someone wise I used to be so kind I used to be so kind In the breaking of the morning We'll be dancing on my soft lawn When you're shaking out the anger That stops you from taking my call When you'll be running up the highway Singing "I'm the king the king of you all" When you look back to where it started I'll be there waving you on Never rode my bike down to the sea Never quite figured out what I believe Never got up and said anything Worthy, for he, for my
A Creature I Don't Know
The Muse If God's work is planned I stand here with the man That talks to me so candidly More than I'd choose My lips at once are rouged I feel again the blues Of longing, ever longing, to be confused He wrote me a letter Saying he would love me better Than my poor son's begetter the rules Spoke of love like hunger He at once was younger Younger ever younger, in my hunger for a muse Finest man that I've seen Ever since my eyes have been But his honesty did gleam me blind Keep those thoughts from sight Follow me into the night And you can call on me when you need The light You know what I need Why won't you give it me Must I fall down at your feet And plead Don't you be scared of me I'm nothing but the beast And I call on you when I need To feast
I Was Just A Card I was just a card Caught up in the stars Looking down to Mars You know, you know I know, I know something About you That you don't want me to know Never found a solid hand 'till I found that man Till I found that man of mine You were looking at me Thinking "Who am I" Never knew the sky was white Till I took that flight Till I took that flight to him Tonight I was just a card Caught up in the stars Looking down to Mars You know, you know He knows, he knows something About me That I don't want him to know Could've sworn I had that man When he took my hand When he took my hand down in AU You were looking at me Thinking "Who is she" I didn't even see the night 'Till I said goodbye 'Till I said goodbye to him Tonight
Don't Ask Me Why I choose to stay far away from the ones That think money is money to share Don't ask me why I'll tell you no lies Sonny don't come here no more He don't drink from this well Oh he's done with the world And done with the girl I don't ask him why He tells me no lies Those of us who are lost and low I know how you feel I know it's not right but it's real I don't ask for love And I don't beg for money I'm just asking for grace and forgiveness Now honey don't ask me why I'll tell you no lies Looking for answers in unsavoury places On the highest of mountains and the lowest of bases And I still don't know why I still don't know why Those of us who are lost and low We know how you feel We know it's not right but it's real But it's real I took the wind from the sea I took the blood from an arrow I took the wisdom of spring And I was thrown and blown and tossed and turned until Time found its hand and called it an end Me and time we go way back when I was a child And I always knew why And I knew my name Oh I knew my road And I stayed away from heavy loads And I'm still, I'm low O Lord am I low Those of us who are lost and low I know how you feel I know it's not right but it's real But it's real
Salinas I am from Salinas Where the women go forever And they never ever stop to ask why My mother was a saviour Of six foot of bad behaviour With long blond curly hair down to her thigh Oh my mother Oh my friends Ask the angels Will I ever see heaven again Late into the evening They would take each other screaming Looking darkly to the back of her eye A careless beast was bleating That the air behind was breathing That they mustn't ever look up to the sky There are no answers There are found Ask the angels Am I heaven bound Hmm put it down to me I, who speak awkwardly Any word if it is heard is not intended to be Not for him, not for her And not for them and not for me Oh and that gun will turn before the sun starts to burn Understand Hmm when the clouds roll in We start playing for our sins With a gun in my hand And my son at my shoulder Believe I will run before that boy gets older Oh and that gun will turn before the sun starts to burn Understand Oh and that gun will turn before the sun starts to burn Understand I am from Salinas Where the women go forever And they never ever stop to ask why My mother she's a saviour Of six foot of bad behaviour With long blond curly hair down to her thigh Oh my mother, oh my friends Ask the angels, will I ever see heaven again Will I ever see heaven again Will I ever see heaven again Punish them all for they speak too much Hate the world what it did to us Will I ever see heaven again Will I ever see heaven again
The Beast Where did our love go You will never know How did you get home You will never know Did you catch yourself in the mirror It's a sight I understand You considered it all for a second And put it down to slight of hand You know I've been running 'round for hours Calling my 'gyptian blood To bear me flowers Calling Sophia, Goddess of power Instead I got the beast And tonight he lies with me Tonight he lies with me Tonight he lies with me And here comes the beast You're ok now, I suppose You're not pulled by the rope I'm pulled by the pull of my throat I'm pulled by the rope I swing from the trees into the slope Hold my head high Just by the tip of my toes He lies, he lies so sweet that I choke Tonight I choose the beast Tonight he lies with me Tonight he lies with me Tonight he lies with me And here comes the beast Put your eyes away If you can't bear to see Your old lady Lay down next to the beast Tonight he lies with me Tonight he lies with me And here comes the beast If you catch yourself in the mirror It's a sight I understand You consider it all for a second And put it down to slight of hand I give you the best advice that I can I suggest that you be grateful There's no blood on my hands And assume yourself weaker to the fall of man And look out for the beast Tonight he lies with me Tonight he lies with me And here comes the beast Put your eyes away If you can't bear to see Your old lady lay down next to the beast Tonight he lies with me Tonight he lies with me And here comes the beast
Night After Night Darling I loved you I longed to become you I know what it is that you gave We dance the sorrow Forgive me tomorrow I pray Night after night Day after day Would you watch my body weaken My mind drift away Dear lover forsaken Our love is taken away You were my speaker My innocence keeper I don't Night after night Day after day Would you watch my body weaken My mind drift away Dear lover forgiven My love is driven by rage Oh I should just leave you Instead of deceive you But I don't Night after night Day after day Would you watch my body weaken And my mind drift away I account to no one Hold nobody's ear I showed you my hand once And you hit me in fear I don't stand for the devil I don't whisper in ears I stand on the mountains And call people to hear It's a sudden bursts of light It's a fate foretold It is knowing It is knowing He longs for the answers As all of us must He longs for the woman Who'll conquer his lust He screams in the night I scream in the day We weep in the evening And lie naked and pray Night after night Day after day Night after night Day after day Would you watch my body weaken My mind drift away It's a tempting communion It's a fate foretold It is knowing It is knowing What it is that you're told
My Friends My friends, my dear friends And lovers, oh my lovers I'd leave you for them They've got a hand on my back Mama has money now and Mama has friends She's making rags for some uptown hags With their money in bags And why are you so sad Why are you always so sad Why do I not understand Why don't I see what it is you see Why can't I live and just be I'm full of guilt I am full of guilt You're very tall, you're very handsome You have it all, your skin smells like man And I, never know how I ached You will never know how I ached Ever considered the sea I heard you had to be strong Why not float around with me It won't take you so long You can go where I'm at You can hang around with me A few good men will go where they ought Where they ought not be And a few good mothers go for what they What they ought not teach And I long for a touch a reminder of us but But it must not be And a few strong branches over water reach for What they ought not reach I hope your mother knows Where it is you have been I hope your mother knows What it is you have seen She'd be so proud
Rest In the Bed There lies a man of my heart A fine and complete work of art Here I his woman His home and his heart And proud to be playing that part And proud to be playing that part Rest in the bed of my bones All that I want is a home And all you can do Is promise me bold That you won't let me grow dark Or cold As long as we both shall live The bite will come But you'll feel your call as a son As I believe in you The first hill is the hardest I'm sure Where all shadows come to the shore Know that it's you and I to the end And all I want from life is to hold your hand All that I have are these bones And all that I want is a home And all you can do Is promise me bold That you won't let me grow dark Or cold As long as we both shall live The siren's come They always will But the dart between my heart and his Is as good as a diamond chain Rest in the bed of my bones And all that I want is a home And all you can do Is promise me bold That you won't let me grow dark Or cold As long as we both shall live
Sophia Oh I have been wandering Where I have been pondering Where I've been lately is no concern of yours Who's been touching my skin Who have I been letting Shy and tired eyed am I today I'm wounded by dust Oh, I have been wandering Where I have been pondering Where I've been lately is no concern of yours Who's been touching my skin Who have I been letting Shy and tired eyed am I today Sometimes I sit, sometimes I stare Sometimes they look and sometimes I don't care Rarely I weep, some times I must I'm wounded by dust When the bell tolls, when the bell gonna chime You'd better call for your woman up high When the bell tolls for your last day You'll be getting down on your knees to pray I'm a good woman and I never did say What ever it was that you did that day Now I'm not a woman to go and place blame But you said that it was coming on judgement day Now Sophia I'm wounded by dust Now when the bell tolls, when bell gonna chime You'd better call for you woman up high When the bell tolls for you last day You'll be getting down on your knees to pray I'm a good woman and I never did say What ever it was that you did that day Now I'm not a woman to go and place blame But you said that it was coming on judgement day Oh Sophia I'm wounded by dust Now Sophia
All My Rage Stole my children, left my son Of all of them, he's the only one Who did not mean that much to me I tip my cap to the raging sea Cover me up, I'm pale as night With a mind so dark and skin so white Is this the devil having fun I tip my cap to the raging sun Now all my rage been gone All my rage been gone I leave my rage to the sea and the sun I leave my rage to the sea and the sun Stole my children, left my son Of all of them, he's the only one Who did not mean that much to me I tip my cap to the raging sea My daughter, she's the pretty one I married her off to the reverend's son Now she lives in a sin-free world So tip your cap to the brave old girl Now all my rage been gone Now all my rage been gone I leave my rage to the sea and the sun I leave my rage to the sea and the sun Now all my rage been gone Now all my rage been gone I leave my rage to the sea and the sun I leave my rage to the sea and the sun Flicker and Fail Took a bus to meet me in a bar in a Tuscan hill Oh a sight I'd never seen, I believe in God still But you wouldn't be able to stop me if I feel like running away Wouldn't be able to stop me if I didn't want to stay And the rain fell on the houses And the rain fell on the trees It fell its fiercest on the skulls of the willingly deceived They put money in their hearts and God where their mouth is ? They put money in their hearts and God Said he'd been sleeping lonely, spending nights under the stars Little darling, we're all lonely, we don't all show our scars It's my heart, and my burden, and I would never bring you down like that My heart, my burden, I would never bring you down with me And the rain fell on the towers and on the late swaying trees And it hammered and it raged on us unwillingly And the believers were forewarned, and they ran into the storm And watched the earth's light flicker and fail They watched the earth's light flicker and fail Flicker and flicker and fail They put money in their hearts and God where their mouth is ?They put money in their hearts and God where their mouth is They put money in their hearts and God where their mouth is They put money in their hearts and God
Once I Was An Eagle
Take The Night Off You should be gone beast Be gone from me Be gone from my mind at least Let a little lady be I don't want you to want me Wouldn't want you to know I don't care where you gone beast I care where you go I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Take the night off And be bad for me Take it right off And be bad for me You're a night bird Early riser You have the kind of wing To take her and surprise her I didn't understand where you had gone Didn't know you'd be right back I didn't hear the night song Calling for you into the black Take the night off And be bad for me Didn't ask you to save me Not when you knew me well Wouldn't ask you even to behave for me I know there's no help in hell Take the night off And be bad for me Take it right off And be bad for me
I Was An Eagle So your grandmother sounds to me A woman I would be proud to be And you say she reminds you of me Every little boy is so naive, oh I will not be a victim of romance I will not be a victim of circumstance Chance or circumstance or romance, or any man Who could get his dirty little hands on me So your grandfather sounds like me Head up, shoulders back and proud to be Every little girl is so naive Falling in love with the first man that she sees I will not be a victim of romance I will not be a victim of circumstance Chance or circumstance or romance, or any man Who could get his dirty little hands on me I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake When we were in love, if we were When we were in love I was an eagle And you were a dove Today I will feel something other than regret Pass me a glass and a half-smoked cigarette I've damn near got no dignity left I've damn near got no dignity left, oh I will not be a victim of romance I will not be a victim of circumstance Chance or circumstance or romance, or any man Who could get his dirty little hands on me When we were in love, if we were When we were in love I was an eagle And you were a dove When we were in love, if we were When we were in love You were a dove And I rose above you and preyed
You Know Damn all those people who don't lose control Who will never take a foot out of life You might not think that I care But you don't know what I know And damn all those hippies Who stomp empty footed Upon all what's good All what's pure of the World You might not think that I care But you don't know what I know And bless all those Mothers Who do all they can Just to take their faults out of the line I might not know what it's like But I'm glad that you know I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Give me a minute there Just a minute now It'll come back to me I was so sure but you Free wheeling troubadour You took my mind off the scene And you know, I know and I know I know that you know You asked me blind once If I was a child once And I said I'm really not sure How can you know, how can you know What it is, you don't know We were a pair once Of oh such despair oh We were a child then I'm sure If we were a child then We are children no more Give me a minute there Just a minute now It'll come back to me I was so sure but you Free wheeling troubadour You took my mind off the scene And you know, I know and I know I know that you know You know, you know, you know, when I know I know that you know
Breathe You came here to tell me something I already know The dark before the dawn is the darkest I can go The calm before the storm is what leaves me here to breathe So breathe Us of constant banging throwing fists against the wall Screaming at the Earth for what it's done to one and all I came here to tell you something you already know Just breathe Breathe How cruel I am to you Cruel things I do How cruel you were to me How cruel time can be I wrote you a book but I left it out in the rain Left it there to dry but it got rained on once again Us of constant banging throwing fists against the wall Breathe Breathe How cruel you are to me How cruel time can be How cruel I was to you How cruel things I do I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake When you wake you'll know I'm gone And where I'm going there's no one So don't follow me Whatever you may hear or see Don't follow me Whatever you may hear or see When you wake you'll know I'm gone And where I'm going there's no one So don't follow me Whatever you may hear or see Don't follow me Whatever you may hear or see
Master Hunter I am a master hunter I cured my skin Now nothing gets in Nothing not as hard as it tries You want a woman 'cause you want to be saved Well I tell you that I've got a little lot on my plate You want a woman who will call your name, it ain't me babe No, no, no, it ain't me babe I don't stare at water any more Water doesn't do what it did before Took me in unto the edge of insane when I only meant to swim I nearly put a bullet in my brain when the rhythm took me in I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake I am a master hunter You let men into your bed Do they don't know you well They can't get into my head They don't have a hope in Hell You see the thing is we are so alone There's nothing we can share You can get me on the telephone but you won't keep me there No, no, no, you won't keep me there Take me somewhere I can grow Give me something let me go Tell me something I don't know I, I have some news I have some news Is this what you think I do In life when I'm not being used You're not sad, you live for the blues You're not sad, you live for the blues I have some news Wrestling the rope from darkness is no fucking life that I would choose I am a master hunter I cured my skin, nothing gets in Nothing not as hard as it tries I am a master I am a master I am a master hunter
Little Love Caster Yes I am Yes I am a master I have you, bad man Little love Little love caster Palm of my hand I wish that I had I wish that I had have told you then Where my kindness ends I would take you home I would take you home and then Our love spell would end You are new to me You are new to me I can't seem to say "I'd like you to stay" Yes I am Yes I am a master I have you, bad man Little love Little love caster They might know you best They might know you best And love you most I would take you home I would take you home and then I would be your ghost I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake I saw a lady dance yesterday She was easily swayed I cannot be tossed And turned in this way I'm not your tiny dancer I can't seem to say "I'd like you to stay" I see a lady dance yesterday She is easily swayed I cannot be tossed And turned in this way I'm not a tiny dancer I can't seem to say "I'd like you to stay" I can't seem to say "I'd like you to stay"
Devil's Resting Place I woke up one morning to know that I had gone Finally taken a step and jumped right off the wall When you come to call on me that's why my eyes are glazed I've been with the devil in the devil's resting place I am loathed to say that I've been to stay I go with the devil in the devil's resting place When you ask to drink of me I think out on the case Look down to my hallowed cup and take myself a taste Bitterness is thick like blood and cold as a wind sea breeze If you must drink of me, take of me what you please I am loathed to say it's the devil's taste I go with the devil in the devil's resting place Water won't clean you, water won't clean you You only hold yourself to the things you do I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Come up here to speak to me and hold your face to mine Any man who can hold my gaze has done his job just fine You just sold your life away to be with me tonight Hold your head against my chest, I think you'll be just fine I am loathed to say it's the devil's place I go with the devil where the devil rests his face I've been with the devil where the devil rests his face Water won't clean you, water won't clean you You only hold yourself to the things you do You only hold yourself to the things you do Water won't clean you, water won't clean you You only hold yourself to the things you do You only hold yourself to the things you do
Undine My steps towards the water Where Undine last was seen I was told that if you saw her She should make you more naive Made my steps towards the shore Where she sang her love at me Oh Undine so sweet and pure Make me more naive Oh Undine, sing your love to me Oh Undine, I know not love as love as seen I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake There were ropes around my wrist And the tide pulled at her hair Pulling her away from me And me away from there Yes the water tried to take her Tried to make poor Undine hide But she fought herself against it Love in her had not yet died Oh Undine, sing your love to me Oh Undine, fight your way, fight your way You live for the sea Undine, you live for the sea You cannot, you cannot What's going on in there What's going on in there Let me in It was cold there in December So I took my coat and left Left Undine by the embers That's all our fire had left Left Undine by the shore Where she sang her love at me Oh Undine so sweet and pure I know not love as love as seen You live for the sea Undine, you live for the sea You cannot, you cannot What's going on in there What's going on in there Let me in You live for the sea Undine, you live for the sea You cannot, you cannot You cannot love me
Where Can I Go I was daddy's girl sometime But I loved my mama till the end of the line I am cold and I am bright It's a curse of mine to be sad at night It's a curse of mine to be sad at night Late at night he'll come to me And he'll tell me I'm alone Don't you think I don't already know All I see is road No one takes me home Where, where can I go The truth about desire they say Is a need to breath for another day Truth I heard about regret It's the hardest truth I've come to yet It's the hardest truth I've come to yet I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Late at night he'll come to me And he'll tell me I'm alone Don't you think I don't already know All I hear are woes There's something I don't know Where, where can I go All I see is road No one takes me home Where, where can I go If I feel like I want to be alone If I feel like I'm better fought than won Pick up your rope and jump for Rosie She's just a sweet thing with a curl Just about a woman with her clothes on You take them off and she's a girl All I hear are woes There's something I don't know Where, where can I go
Once In the land I now know to be mine With a heart so dark it's near blind When I think about the life I left behind I still raise no praise to the sky With my eyes on the prize of your bed When all that's needed saying has been said When I think about the life that I have led I lay down to the sound of the why Once, once is enough to break you Once, once is enough to make you think twice About laying your love out on the line I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake With all I now know to be true And all I've figured out about you All the crazy things a mind can do I lay down to the sound of the truth Once, once is enough to break you Once, once is enough to make you think twice About laying your little love out on the line Oh, I was a child once Oh, I was happy young When all I didn't know needed doing Had been done
Pray For Me Where does my lover lie I don't love, I just lie So pray, pray for me And where you run I run in tow And where you're from I long to know How does a child know Where mother's weakness goes And where, and where the trouble goes I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Well you will speak And it shall be so And what you say Will be all I know There was a time of weeks I thought dogs barked at me And I, and I had lost my mind And the devil had put His mark on me And called his branches "Shake your trees" That's not me for my trying That's the devil and his lying Trying to make me lose my mind So pray, oh pray for me So you got my letter late From when I permanently etched my name Right, right into your soul I cannot love I want to be alone I will not love I want to be alone That's not me for my trying That's the devil and his lying Trying to make me when I'm trying to be good So pray, pray for me But where he runs I run in tow And where you're from I long to know And you will speak And it shall be so I cannot love I want to be alone Pray, pray for me
When Were You Happy (And How Long Has That Been) Hey there, new friend across the sea If you figure things out, would you figure in me Wouldn't it be a thing To live somewhere quietly where there's a breeze And there's a reason for us to be I look at people here in this city and wonder Whether they're lonely or like me they're not content To live as things are meant to be When were you happy And how long has that been I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Who speaks for them and then again Who speaks for me My vote was never counted So who upon this Earth knows what it is that I believe We are all looking for answers where no answers can be found Or is that a concern of mine Because I have the time To question my ground Hey there, new friend across the sea If you figure things out, would you figure in me Hey there, new friend across the sea If you figure things out, would you figure in me I find the more I think the harder it is for me to breathe When were we happy And how long has that been
Love Be Brave In a world you can't get lost in I find my way to him I am purpose and regret You're a feeling I'll forget What will I do then How did I sleep at night With you far from my side Hold me down, make no sound Silence speaks for me Love be brave No-one will say it but you And that has not yet been The easy thing for you to do How does he make love seem sweet Isn't that some heavy feat Do the birds suffer so Do they sing because they know This life don't go slow I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Love be brave No-one will save you but me And that has not yet been The safest place for you to be What will I do then Here comes a change over me Something strange takes over me I am brave and love is sweet And silence speaks for him and me
Little Bird Oh Rosie Where have you been I couldn't save you But I tried, Rosie I tried Why did you run From everyone Who only tried to Love you, Rosie Only tried Little bird, if I only knew Maybe I'd be more like you With a feather in my wing Is it spring Do I sing Maybe I like pleasure pain Of going and coming back again What I leave behind I come back to find It's no longer mine So why not run From every one Who only tries to love you, Rosie Only tries Little bird, if I only knew Maybe I'd be more like you With a feather in my wing Is it spring Do I sing I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Maybe I like pleasure pain Of going and coming back again What I leave behind I come back to find It's no longer mine Little bird, if I only knew Maybe I'd be more like you With a feather in my wing Is it spring Do I sing
Saved These Words When your work is over Your day is done Put down your hammer Into my world come Life is heavy And you're no master's son When you're ready Into my arms come Into my arms come Love's not easy Not always fun And words are sleazy My love is better dumb My love is better dumb Should you choose Should you choose To love anyone Anytime soon Then I save these words for you I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake You weren't my curse You weren't my curse But thank you naivety for failing me again He was my next verse Should you choose Should I choose To love anyone Anytime soon Then I save these words for you You weren't my curse You weren't my curse Thank you naivety for failing me again He was my next verse I saved these words for you
Warrior He means to ride me on He sees a battle he don't want to face alone I bolt upwards and shake him off my back He falls to his knees, on to a bloody track Well I can't be your horse any more You're not the warrior I've been looking for I see what you mean to do with me I cannot protect you from who you want to be Go face the Lord on your own You have my love but it will not make you grow I can't be your horse anymore You're not the warrior I would die for He fearing solitude, began to beg When he saw I was sure, stuck a knife into my leg Good luck walking on in your own bloody trail This noble path you're on will send us both to hell I'm just a horse on the moor Where is my warrior I've been looking for Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better I stumble some way on, licking my sores, Tasting the memory of pain I have endured Wondering where am I to go Well looking back on a bloody trail You think that I should know But I'm just a horse with no name Somewhere there's other beasts who think the same I'm just a horse with no name Some place there's some other beasts who think the same One morning I awoke to someone calling me A priestess I'd seen once in some arcana dream And she pulled an orange from the ground Is this my warrior, I am, I am, I'm found I'm just a horse with no name Where are my other beasts who think the same I'm just a horse on the moor Where is the warrior I've been looking for
False Hope Is it still okay that I don't know how to be alone Would it be okay if I just came home tonight We share an apartment on the Upper West Side And my worst problem is I don't sleep at night Woman downstairs she's lost her mind And I don't care how sure I don't care why Why no, false hope Why no, false hope A storm hits the city and the lights go out before I can prepare The whole of downtown looks dark like no one lives there Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better We share an apartment on the Upper West Side And my worst problem is I don't sleep at night Woman downstairs she's lost her mind And I don't care how sure I don't care why Why no, false hope Why no, false hope She'll be alright tomorrow Neither of us are gonna sleep tonight so it'll come slow I hear you banging through the wall A dying animal's last call Is it still okay that I don't know how to be at all There's a party up town but I just don't feel like I belong at all Do I We share an apartment on the Upper West Side And my worst problem is I don't sleep at night Woman downstairs she's lost her mind And I don't care how sure I don't care why Why no, false hope Why no, false hope
I Feel Your Love Keep your love around me Keep your love around me So I can never know what's going on What's going on Keep your love around me Keep your love around me so I can't be alone An electric fence, a silent defense to you all You let me in, I loved you then The first taste is free, then you had me I feel your love I feel your love Keep your love around me Keep your love around me so I can get along An electric fence, a silent defense to you all Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better Let the river answer Let the river answer so I can get along What's going on What's going on You must let me go before I get old I need to find someone who really wants to be mine I feel your love I feel your love Keep your love around me Keep your love around me So I can never know what's going on What's going on Let the river answer Let the river answer so I can be alone An electric fence, a silent defense to you all You must let me go before I get old I need to find someone who really wants to be mine I feel your love I feel your love Please let me go Please let me go
Walk Alone I think you were wrong You said I can't love I was put upon this earth not by any God or master To know you somehow Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better In some bar someday I would see your face I don't believe this shit I was doing fine without it Now I can't walk alone I can't walk alone I just need a little more time I just need a little more highs I just need a little something from you Baby, I was born to love I was born to love I was put upon this earth I was doing fine without it Now I can't walk alone I can't walk alone
Strange I know you love your children I know you love your wife I know you set yourself up to live the simple life You get it all and you realize You haven't opened up your eyes Since you were young and it's so bright When you try to take it all in And realize you can't begin again You wonder how you keep moving Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better I can offer you so little help But just accept the hands that you've been dealt Do your best to be a good man Do you know how hard that is Do you know how strange life can be Well you love me and I know that We can't let a precious thing go I don't love you like you love me I'm pretty sure that you know Just try and bring meaning to all things And when you try to take it in No one wants to be alone But should you fall in love with me Your love becomes my responsibility And I can never do you wrong Do you know how hard that is Do you know how strange I love you No, I do not believe we were born equally Wanna know what I see Those who do good will be treated accordingly I know you love your children I know you love your wife I know you set yourself up to live the simple life You've got it all and you realize You haven't opened up those eyes Since you were young and it's so bright When if you try to take it all in And realize you can't begin again You must keep moving I can offer you so little help But just accept the hands that you've been dealt And your best to be a good man Do you know how hard that is Yes, I know how strange life can be
Don't Let Me Bring You Down Living here is a game I don't know how to play Are you really not anybody until somebody knows your name I'm not sure where that's going Somebody used to show me, they don't feel like showing Please don't let me bring you down Do I look like I'm fucking around Love seems to be some kind of trickery Some great thing to which I am a mystery I'm not sure I can do it You had it on me once before I only just got through it Please don't let me bring you down Did you think I was fucking around Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better I'm a woman now, can you believe Only one thing I'm sure of and that's that you deceive What have you got hidden up your sleeve Some kind of release without relief I'm not sure I can do it You had it on me once before I only just got through it Why did you let me bring you down Did you think I was fucking around
Easy You fell asleep listening to me linger on About how it used to be In the backseat When we were young When we were young When we were young My oldest friend You know me then You know me now How did I get lost Looking for God in Santa Cruz Where you go to lose your mind Well I went too far this time Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better When we were young When we were young We belonged to someone and that was easy I've got us lost so I've turned us off in Joshua Tree You're my oldest friend so I know you then and you know me It was a bit too high for me I spent a month thinking I was a high desert tree When we were young When we were young We belonged to someone and that was easy Well, you can't be lost if you're not on your own You can't be found if you're not all alone You cant be lost if you're not on your own You can't be found if you're not all alone When we were young When we were young We belonged to someone and that was easy
Gurdjieff's Daughter If they adorn themselves with crystals To make them look sharp Sleep with their hand on a pistol And they're afraid of the dark Well if it wakes you Which it has to be known to Don't be alarmed Darkness can't do you harm Fear will hurt you Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better And outside if wind is beating A tree to a bed Don't fear that it might be meeting Some untimely end They do what they're supposed to But they have been known To stand strong and tall Weather it all Take what you can Never give orders Just to be obeyed Never consider yourself or others Without knowing that you'll change It may not surprise you But pride has been known to Rise up a storm Countless lives lost At the hands of pride and I'll fall Who'll weep for thems sometimes I do I do sometimes Who weeps for them, sometimes I do I do sometimes You can't see it, it might be behind you Keep those eyes wide You can't see it, it might be behind you Keep those eyes wide Don't be impressed By strong personalities Sincere words Are rarely sickly sweet But if they fool you Which they have been known to Don't lose your sight Know something's not right And look at the stars Be weary of being Given a name If for some reason You're not considered the same Once they name you They have been known to Lock you in Statistical sin They'd rather ignore Who'll weep for them, sometimes I do I do sometimes Who weeps for them, sometimes I do I do sometimes You can't see it, it might be behind you Keep your eyes wide You can't see it, it might be behind you Keep those eyes wide Keep your eyes on the back of your Keep your eyes on the back of your Keep your eyes on the back of your mind
Divine Break the water Make a ripple once in a while Wake, it's morning We've been sleeping for a while Now forget what you're owed That you're tired, time's getting on So lay down your load You're fine I'm yours and you're mine You're fine I'm yours and you're mine Hold tight stranger I sense danger that won't show Who holds the hand that holds the gun You might never know But when the note lingers Sending shivers down my spine I feel in my fingers That I'm one with something divine It's divine, it's divine, it's divine I didn't drink a drop in weeks All the waiting's only made it sweet I tried not to freeze you before you thaw Tried not to burn you and wait some more Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better When you ask what's coming you've already chosen When you know you're winning you're already losing It's divine, it's divine, it's divine Now forget what you're owed That you're tired, time's getting on So lay down your load You're fine I'm yours and you're mine It's divine, it's divine, it's divine
How Can I We've been riding up mountains Turning corners in our lives We would have taken any buses Headed for Telluride But we stopped in the desert in the middle of the night And looked to the stars from the old roadsides You look at me and said "look at the moon, take it in it will be gone soon" I'm taking more risks now I'm stepping out of line I put up my fists now until I get what's mine It should have been you but it was anyone you see I never miss my chance to run I will go anywhere with you I will go when you ask me to How will I live without you How will I live I wrote you a letter Posted out of central L.A. Now if you ever come through here Won't you come take me away It could have been you but it was anyone you see I never miss my chance to run And I would go anywhere with you I will go when you ask me to Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better How can I live without you How can I live How can I live without you How can I live I'm going back East where I belong Where I belong I'm going back East where I belong Where I belong But how will I live without you How can I live How can I live without you How can I live
Howl We expect dawn around morning I trust the rise of the sun I've been up late with the night birds Begging the dawn not to come Begging the dawn not to come Oh, how I don't want to leave you So much I can't hardly bare I have things I must tend to Will you stay as you are, lying there Would you stay as you are, lying there Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better Kissing the rain off my shoulders Answering questions with stares Holding my chest like I'm a wild horse About to run away scared About to run away scared Sun kicks the moon off the mountain That is my cue to leave The long tears of women are silent So they won't wake those who sleep So they don't wake those who sleep Howl at the moon Howl at the moon, I'll come find you Howl at the moon Howl at the moon, I'll come find you I'll come get you Hope that you haven't changed your mind I'll come get you Hope that you haven't changed your mind Be mine, be mine, be mine, be mine, be mine
Short Movie I am paying for my mistake That's okay I know when I will pull in It's a short fucking movie, man, I know I will try and take it slow Bought a lot of color drugs Come on, what's it about Gave me sick to make me well Come on, rock the hell I got up in the world today Wondered who it was I could save Who do you think you are Just a girl that can play guitar I think I could get away with Saying only half what I say No, I can't give you up Oh no, I'm not gonna stop Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better They know But they'll never know why They know But they'll never know why I don't know what we're afraid of But I know, I don't mind Oh no, I don't mind If I fall in love to the sound of birds On the wind And kiss, I'm loving They know But they'll never know why They know But they'll never know why They know that I loved you But they don't know why They know that I loved you But they never know why It's kicking off, it's kicking of Now it's a short fucking movie, man It's a short fucking movie, man It's a short fucking movie, man It's a short fucking movie, man I know I won't try and take your soul I know I won't try and take your soul
Worship Me Little boy I know you want something from me Yes I might be blind but I am free Don't you try and take that away from me Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better Little girl I know you think that I'm a mystery Yes you might be blind but you are free Don't you cry and wish that away from me It's God you need It's God you need We're young We're young and lost And need something to put our hopes up Need something to protect us It's God you need It's God you need Sit down and worship me Sit down and worship me Sit down and worship me, me Forgive me Forgive me Forgive me Forgive me Sit down and worship me Devote your life to peace Sit down and worship me Devote your life to peace And breathe, and breathe
Semper Femina
Soothing Oh my hopeless wanderer You can't come in You don't live here anymore Oh some creepy conjurer Who touched the rim Whose hands are in the door I need soothing My lips aren't moving My God is brooding Drawn in chalk across the floor You made it yours Your private door to my room Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better May those who find you find remorse A change of course A strange discord resolved I need soothing My lips aren't moving My God is brooding I banish you with love I banish you with love You can't come in You don't live here anymore
The Valley I know she stayed in town last night Didn't get in touch I know she has my number right She can't face seeing us She sings in the valley in the morning Many a morning I have woke Longing to ask her what she's mourning Course I know it can't be spoke Perhaps she's had too much of love Can be a sickly thing That's why she mourns the morning dew And the newness that it brings Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better She sings in the valley in the morning Many a morning I have woke Longing to ask her what she's mourning Of course I know it can't be spoke I love you in the morning I love you in the day I'd love you in the evening If only she would stay We love beauty 'cause it needs us to It needs our brittle glaze And innocence reminds us to Cover our drooling gaze She's down there in the valley I know she wanders there She's down there in the valley I can see her golden hair I love you in the morning My angel of the west I love you in the evening And I will do my very best I'll do my very best Wild Fire Chasing down a wild fire Are you trying to make a cold liar out of me You want to get high You overcome those desires Before you come to me I think your mama's kinda sad And your papa's kinda mean I can take that all away You can stop playing it out on me Me, me Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better She keeps a pen behind her ear In case she's got something she really, really needs to say She puts it in a notepad She's gonna write a book someday Of course the only part that I want to read Is about her time spent with me Wouldn't you die to know how you're seen Are you getting away with who you're trying to be Trying, trying to be Of course there's things upon the Earth That we must really try to defend A lonely beast, a kind heart Something weak and on trend I'd do it all for her for free I need nothing back for me There no sweeter deed may be Than to love something enough to want to help it get free Free, free Is there something on her mind Something she needs to get by Do you cry sometimes Do you cry sometimes You always say you love me most When I don't know I'm being seen Well, maybe someday when God takes me away I'll understand what the fuck that means I just know your mama's kinda sad And your papa's kinda mean I can take it all away You can stop playing that shit out on me Me, me Is there something on your mind Something you need to get by Do you cry sometimes Do you cry sometimes I know your mama's kinda sad I know your papa's kinda mean I would take it all away You can stop playing that shit out on me Me, me
Don't pass me by You see my oldest friend Tell her that I'm gone again You take my old guitar One that I once said was ours Don't be blue You hum that old tune The one I used to sing for you When we were alone You ask her if she knew Was this something I would do From the start Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better Please don't pass me by If I'm walking but I don't know why It's something that I have to try Can you love me if I put up a fight Take my old guitar And sell it off for parts As you should Take my old tune Turn it into something new Something good Please don't pass me by If I'm walking but I don't know why I can't get you off of my mind Can you love me if I put up a fight Is it something you make a habit of That's not what I need from love, right now Right now, right now, right now
Always This Way I'd like to say that I could've stayed But she didn't want me to I'd like to know if she had to go Or if she made a point to It's so hard to say Is it always this way Must every heart break Like a wave on the bay Like to think that we're all a link In what makes the world go round Lately I wonder if all my pondering's Taken up too much ground Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better I make my own way So at the end of the day At least I can say That my debts have been paid 25 years, nothing to show for it Nothing of any weight 25 more, will I never learn from it Never learn from my mistakes It's too soon to say Was I always this way Well at the end of the day My debts have been paid Now she's gone and I'm all alone And she will not be replaced Stare at the phone, try to carry on But I have made my mistake At the end of the day At least I can say I made my own way And my debts have been paid
Wild Once They put my hands in water Told me I'm a god I might be someone's daughter Might be somewhat odd But I was wild once And I can't forget it I was wild, chasing stones The martyr who feels the fire And the child who knows his name They remember that there's something wild And it's something you can't explain Oh it's something you can't explain They are wild And they can't forget it They are wild, chasing stones It's hard if you can't change it It's worse if you don't try You will sit down to explain it And you're constantly asking why You are constantly asking why Well, you are wild And you must remember You are wild, chasing stones Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better Does no one understand you Is that tired and familial long You must change what hands you Give me something to go on Give me something to go on You are wild And I won't forget it You are wild, chasing stones Well there is something just beneath There is something just beneath Something shy and hard to see It's a ring that is clean It's a ring
Next Time It feels like a long time since I was free It feels like the right time to take that seriously It feels like the trees are a peculiar green It feels like the air is hung heavily I don't want to be the kind Struck by fear to run and hide I'll do better next time It feels like warning signs were there for us to see It feels like they taught us ignore diligently I feel her, I hear her weakly scream Am I really so unkind To turn around and close my eyes I'll do better next time I'll do better next time Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better It feels like the last breath we will ever share It feels like the last time I'll run my fingers through your hair I can no longer close my eyes While the world around me dies At the hands of folks like me It seems they fail to see There may never Next time be
Nouel She sings along to sailor's song In a dress that she made When she's gone I sing along But it doesn't sound the same Oh Nouel, you sing so well Sing only for me Fickle and changeable Though I may always be I pulled a thorn from her tiny paw Her feet were unclean Fetch water, blessed twice And hand a sponge to me I do well to serve Nouel Whatever service I may be Fickle and changeable Weighing down on me Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better She speaks a word and it gently turns To perfect metaphor She likes to say I only play When I know what I'm playing for Oh Nouel, you know me well And I didn't even show you the scar Fickle and changeable Semper femina She'd like to be the kind of free Women still can't be alone How I wish I could hit the switch That keeps you from getting gone Oh Nouel, it hurts like hell When you're so afraid to die Semper femina So am I She lays herself across the bed The origine du monde Slight of shoulder, long and legged Her hair a faded blonde Oh Nouel, you sit so well A thousand artists' muse But you'll be anything you choose Fickle and changeable are you And long may that continue I do well to serve Nouel My only guiding star Fickle and changeable Semper femina Nothing, Not Nearly I won't forget the late September Where we danced among the midnight embers But it's going like a half-remembered dream Left and north of where we met Thinking better of going west Yeah we lost each other in a river stream I thought I'd come and find you there Wait until you lost your hair And got your place out in the woods You're not afraid of trees or bears Or anything with tendencies To wanna hurt you good Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better The only thing I learnt in a year Where I didn't smile once, not really Nothing matters more than love, no Nothing, no, not nothing no, not nearly We've not got long, you know To bask in the afterglow Once it's gone it's gone I won't forget the late September Where we danced among the midnight embers But it's going like a half-remembered dream Left and north of where we met Thinking better of going west Yeah we lost each other in a river stream The only thing I learnt in a year Where I didn't smile once, not really Nothing matters more than love, no Nothing, no, not, nothing no, not nearly We've not got long, you know To bask in the afterglow Once it's gone it's gone Love waits for no one We've not got long, you know To bask in the afterglow Once it's gone it's gone Love waits for no one
LUMP
Late to the Flight If you keep rolling with dices Keep that stake in your heart You look like a crooner in crisis Shaking your hips like a tart Dice fall from the table Agitating the room Take your arms if you're able I won't do it for you Anytime, anytime, anytime... Late to the flight Take your seat next to the woman and wife By candlelight Don't wear your smiley face t-shirt tonight Just like a car You'll take off running with all of your might Sleep like a teen Paint dots on your wrist to see me in your dream Paint dots on your wrist Paint dots on your wrist You look like a crooner in crisis Shaking your hips like a tart Your must keep rolling the dices Keep that stake in your heart Late to the flight Take your seat next to the woman and wife By candlelight Don't wear your smiley face t-shirt tonight Just like a car You'll take off running with all of your might Sleep like a teen Paint dots on your wrist to see me in your dream May I Be The Light Please don't leave your bed in a mess Just in case you get some new guest And should be in need of rest Even beds deserve the very best May I be the light May I be the light If you find the note I wrote unread Please return to the enclosed address It contains the roots we know and led To some new libidinal concepts May I be the light May I be the light May I be the light Would you try May I be the light It's a sign of the times You know It's a sign of the times You know Please don't leave your bed in a mess Just in case you get some new guest And should be in need of rest Even beds deserve the very best May I be the light May I be the light Would you try May I be the light Would you try May I be the light It's a sign of the times You know May I be the light It's a sign of the times You know May I be the light It's a sign of the times You know May I be the light It's a sign of the times You know May I be the light It's a sign of the times You know May I be the light It's a sign Rolling Thunder I'm - I'm a piece of light stuck in your spine And I'm the noble thing you had to write Oooo - I'm the piece of time that won't be moved Oooo - I'm the piece of pain stuck in your tooth I'm a man, of a certain kind I'm a woman, of a certain space and time I'm your mother, I'm your father We would dream in a rolling thunder You, you were kind of an epistolary blue You write your letters in a certain hue I am a rage of colours across the sky I am a blaze of colours formed of light We are men of a certain kind We are women of a certain place and time We are children, milk of our mother We were born under a rolling thunder I'm your mother I'm your father We are men We are gold We're Atlantis We're Medusa We're the world I'm the chain Curse of the Contemporary If you should be bored in California I'm sure I'm not the first to warn ya Don't read in too much to all the signs and turns Keep your wits about you with your mind freedom If you should be bored in California I'm sure I'm not the last to warn ya The natives scaled the mountains for the promise of the sea But deem the land unworthy of this evidently We salute the sun because When the day is done We can't believe what we've become Something else to prey upon And evidently It is just another vanity Another something to believe The curse of the contemporary We salute the sun because When the day is done We can't believe what we've become Something else to prey upon And evidently It is just another vanity Another something to believe The curse of the contemporary If you should be bored in California I'm sure I'm not the first to warn ya Don't read in too much to all the signs and turns Keep your wits about you with your mind freedom If you should be bored in California I'm sure I'm not the last to warn ya The natives scaled the mountains for the promise of the sea But deem the land unworthy of that evidently We salute the sun because When the day is done We can't believe what we've become Something else to prey upon And evidently It is just another vanity Another something to believe The curse of the contemporary We salute the sun because When the day is done We can't believe what we've become Something else to prey upon And evidently It is just another vanity Another something to believe The curse of the contemporary Hand Hold Hero Hand hold hero Hand hold hero Oh my back to the wall Better that than trip and fall Money didn't buy you nothing at all 'Cept a ball for your chain Oh my, save your soul Cut your hair by the rim of a bowl Don't buy nothing you're being sold I told you once and again Hey there, sister Lou How you doing, what you do? Your father was a gambler, too Well, the boards are good for playing Frightful suburban sport But there we are, takes all sorts You can't complain, once you been bored And it taught you some restraint Hand hold hero I choose to always be there for you Hand hold hero I choose to always be there for you Hand hold hero Hand hold hero Hand hold hero Quick to church, quick to play Choose that beat before it stains It tastes so sweet by another name And your lover will quell the pain Hey man, I know you How's your brother, how's your blue How's your shallow walking shoes Do they hurt you just the same Hey there, sister Lou How you doing, what you do Your father was a gambler, too Well, the boards are good for playing Frightful suburban sport But there we are, takes all sorts You can't complain, once you been bored And it taught you some restraint Hand hold hero I choose to - I choose to always be there for you Hand hold hero I choose to - I choose to always be there for you Hand hold hero I choose - I choose to always be there for you Hand hold hero Shake Your Shelter To be born a crab Naked and sad And you can't go back Shaking a shell Feels like a cell And you can't have that I know the feeling Of losing the ceiling On beach full of empty cells Shelter is healing Nakedness revealing They go so well To be born a crab Naked and mad When you can't go back You shake on a shell And it feels like a cell But you can't have that You can't have that You can't have that You won't shake your shelter And your shelter won't shake you You won't shake your shelter And your shelter won't shake you To be born a crab Naked and sad And you can't go back Shaking a shell Feels like a cell And you can't have that I know the feeling Of losing the ceiling On beach full of empty cells Shelter is healing Nakedness revealing They go so well To be born a crab Naked and mad When you can't go back You shake on a shell And it feels like a cell But you can't have that LUMP is a product Lump is a product of Mike Lindy & Laura Marling Guitar, Bass, Rhythms, Juno, Pocket Piano, Lambda, Drone and Textures played by Mike Lindsay All vocals by Laura Marling Words by Laiura Marling All Flutes played by Laura J. Martin Trombone played by Hannah Peel Moogs recorded at Meme Studios with Ben edwards, also known as Benge Produced by Mike Lindsay at Coronet Studios Mixed by Chris Hamilton Mastered by Matt Colton Lump is a product Lump is a product Lump is a product...
Alexandra What became of Alexandra Did she make through What kind of woman gets to love you Wrote us all a little note Nothing left to lose What kind of woman gets to love you I need to know Where did Alexandra go Alexandra had no fear She lived out in the woods She'd tell you what you're doing wrong If she thinks she'll be understood Pulls her socks up to her knees Finds diamonds in the drain One more diamond to add to her chain I need to know Where does Alexandra go Where did Alexandra go It won't change how I'm feeling You can try to help me understand If she left you like a woman Did you feel like a man I need to know Where did Alexandra go Where did Alexandra go You had to say, your shit to bed You could not bear the unsaid I had to try, a fuck to give Why should I die so you can live What did Alexandra know What did Alexandra know What did Alexandra know
Held Down I woke up, it was four in the morning Clear as all hell that you'd already gone (gone, gone, gone) You know I said, "Dear, you know I hate to disappear But the days are short and the nights are getting long" (long, long, long) And I just meant to tell you that I don't want to let you down (down, down, down) And I just meant to tell you that I don't want to get you wrong (wrong, wrong, wrong) Think about now with my legs wrapped around you How many times before have you seen me run (run, run, run) It's a cruel kinda twist that you'd leave like this Just drop my wrist and say, "But that's us done" (done, done, done) I was just gonna tell you that I don't want to let you down Get lost in the crowd Seen or unseen Say what you mean Simply a book, but you gave up a look But I just don't care for it and I cannot get through (through, through, through) It's your writing again and I'm glad old friend I'll make sure you write me out of where you get to (to, to, to) I was just gonna tell you that I don't want to let you down Get lost in the crowd Seen or unseen Say what you mean 'Cause we all want to be here now And we all want to be held down And we all want to be here now And we all want to be held down I woke up, it was four in the morning Clear as all hell that you'd already gone You know I said, "Dear, you know I hate to disappear But the days are short and the nights are getting long" And I just mean to tell you that I don't want to be let down Get lost in the crowd Seen or unseen Say what you mean
Strange Girl Get all your records out and throw them all away No one left to listen to, much left, less to say Working hard and getting on, still not getting paid Stay low, keep brave Woke up in a country who refused to hold your hand Kept falling for narcissists who insist you call them 'man' You work late for a job you hate that's never fit the plan Stay low, keep brave I love you, my strange girl My lonely girl My angry girl My brave I love you, my strange girl My lonely girl My angry girl My brave Build yourself a garden and have something to attend Cut off all relations 'cause you could not stand your friends Announced yourself a socialist to have something to defend Oh, young girl, please, don't bullshit me I love you, my strange girl My lonely girl My angry girl My brave I love you, my strange girl My lonely girl My angry girl My brave Changed how you feel, it's good to break the seal And blow us both away It's changing all the time and it starts to blur the line It's supposed to keep you safe And you row like a tidal wave And you row like a tidal wave I love you, my strange girl My lonely girl My angry girl My brave I love you, my strange girl My lonely girl My angry girl My brave
Only The Strong Only the strong survive Only the strong survive Only the wrong relive their lives We've been here a thousand times Wish I could go back and find Letters I wrote you in my mind Perhaps I could unknot us from this awful bind Most I have forgot are all very fine Love is a sickness cured by time Love is a sickness cured by time Bruises all end up benign Love is a sickness cured by time I hope that you can change my mind Had to leave this crying all behind I hope that you don't think that I'm unkind So somebody told me, only and only Only the strong will survive Only the strong survive And I won't write a woman with a man on my mind Hope that didn't sound too unkind Just struggling to figure out how only, only Only, only Only the strong can survive Hope that you can change my mind I had to leave this crying all behind I hope that you don't think that I'm unkind It's just somebody told me only and only Only the strong can survive Blow By Blow I don't know what else to say I think I did my best Momma's on the phone already talking to the press Tell them that I'm doing fine Underplay distress I'm working out a story and there's so much to address Note by note Blow by blow Seeing it all laid out I should have known I don't know what else to say I think I'm doing fine Tryna figure out what I will do with all my time Tell them anything you like I'll own up to what's mine Knowing thunder gives away what lightening tries to hide No one was prepared But we all performed Like we'd done it all before Note by note Bruise by bruise Sometimes the hardest thing to learn Is what you get from what you lose I feel a fool, so do you For believing it could work out Like some things do Song For Our Daughter Though they may want you to tread in their trail Only to see if the path they set fails Though they may want you to take off your clothes Whatever they think that the accent exposed With your clothes on the floor Taking advice for some old balding bore You'll ask yourself, "Did I want this at all?" Do you remember what I said? The book I left by your bed The words that some survivor read Lately I've been thinking about our daughter growing old All of the bullshit that she might be told There's blood on the floor Maybe now you'll believe her for sure She remembers what I said The book I left by your bed The words that some survivor read Thought they may take you for all you had left You won't be forgotten for what you had not done yet So you wished for a kiss from God And you mourned in your childishness Innocence gone but it's not forgot You'll get your way through it somehow You remember what I said The book you left by your bed The words that we have lived again Fortune You took out that money that your momma had saved She told me she kept it for running away Oh my, fortunes can change You've picked up some tricks that you learnt on your way For fear you'd be lonely if you never change Oh my, you lost your faith We landed on rocks and that's partly to blame We wandered the landscape in this unbearable pain Oh my, your fortune can change At least we agree that we've wasted our time We'll give up the hope that we'll meet down the line Better off measured in coffee than wine I think on it fondly now the truth can be told Some love is ancient and it lives on in your soul A fortune that never grows old You spent all that money that your momma had saved Told me she kept it for running away Never quite found the right way to say I'm sorry, my darling, my mind it has been changed Release me from this unbearable pain And so ends a story I had hoped to change I had to release us from this unbearable pain And promise we won't come here again The End Of The Affair Max came around one day Very much nothing to say And so we sat in silence by the road It took awhile to land He threw his head into his hands And said, "This is too much for man to hope" If you were mine If you were mine I'd let you live Your life Threw my head into his chest I think we did our best But now we must make good on words to God And sit with a weary breath No ned to say the rest I fear that we've been lost here for to long If you were mine If you were mine I'd let you live Your life The end of the affair I try to keep us there Shake hands and say goodnight I love you, goodbye Now let me live My life Hope We Meet Again I've lived my life in fits and spurts Maybe I've had more than I deserve I'm sure I cannot feel much worse I kept your letter, I read your words I tried to give you love and truth But you're acid tongued, serpent-toothed I tried to share the map with you But you knew your way, you had your route I will find God in the hands of truth Left my heart with a man in those eastern woods He is people-shy but his words are good And I hope that he won't fade away I should write to him tomorrow, I wrote that yesterday Home, this is not a home anymore You just threw your pieces, they washed up on my shore I have not lived any other way It is my right to wander, I might choose to stay I will find God in the strangest place I saw the sign for the old highway You did cross my mind but it didn't change I do hope that we meet again someday Hope we meet again, I hope you never change I hope that we meet again, hope you never change For You I took pictures of you Long before I met you Just a fragment of my mind I hit cold air for you Almost every night Precious things are hard to find It was just an evening Much like any else When you came into my life It takes one to know one And I saw you there As I had seen you all my life I thank a God I've never met Never loved, never wanted (For you) I write it so I don't forget Never let it get away I wear a picture of you Just to keep you safe Now that I have you I will not forget What a miracle you are No childish expectation Love is not the answer But the line that marks the start I thank a God I've never met Never loved, never wanted (For you) I write it so I don't forget Never let it get away I keep a picture of you Just to keep you safe I thank a God I've never met Never loved, never wanted I write it so I won't forget Never let it get away I keep a picture of you Just to keep you safe I thank a God I've never met Never loved, never wanted I sing it so I won't forget Never let it get away I keep a picture of you Just to keep you safe
Animal
Bloom at Night I heard a word that they paint mirrors on their face And soon forget that they reflect but don't create I heard that birds were drawn to peck at such charades And I'd put money on your struggles to relate Those who find themselves acclaimed Go to God to get renamed It took one god seven days to go insane You never know, you could surprise us all in time Who'll ever know if it was you that caused the crime? I know a rose that only cares to bloom at night It's that morе lovely than the ones who seek thе light You crawled across a crowded room To get your picture with the bloom Something rare but it's not theirs to entertain I predict that this affliction lasts for life I suspect that you'll regret your lust for light I suggest that you address your appetite For to be seen to cast your beam across the night You crawled across a crowded room To get your picture with the bloom You plucked and called it by your name I've seen good men go insane before they'd call a rose By any other name Gamma Ray Ridiculous hair, that lengthy stare that wears you thin Licked with fire, those old desires that live within What you seek will only speak the words of doubt Write your wants in gilded fonts, the truth will out A sense of what you cannot name Offence, it pulled you in again The agony, the fantasy A twist on every page Something easy to repress You tucked it in under your dress The agony, the fantasy Something to be caged To be caged Men of might were read their rights, and so to dust They tolled the bell and ladies fell in fits of lust So long they'd been so much unseen, their grief was warped They danced and sung as bells were rung and watchers gawped Ridiculous hair, that lengthy stare that wears you thin Licked with fire, those old desires that live within A sense of what you cannot name (What you seek will only speak the words of doubt) Offence, it pulled you in again The agony, the fantasy (Write your wants in gilded fonts, the truth will out) A twist on every page Something easy to repress (Men of might were read their rights, and so to dust) You tucked it in under your dress The agony, the fantasy Something to be caged (So long they'd been, so much unseen, their grief was warped) To be caged (They danced and sung as bells were rung and watchers gawped) What you seek will only speak the words of doubt Write your wants in gilded fonts, the truth will out Excuse me I don't think we've been introduced
Climb Every Wall Finding it hard to believe in Finding something hard to believe Lately, you've been thinking about leaving Trying to wipe the heart from your sleeve I can understand that you're grieving I can even understand how Write yourself a map to your healing Linger over why to leave now Climb every wall Climb every wall Climb every wall Climb every wall Pulling very hard to be locked out The handle came away from the door Freedom, at last, had been knocked out But you fell on your arse on the floor Thumbing through a box of convention You pulled on what you ought to expect Deliberate acts of pretension Have shackled your arms to the deck Climb every wall Climb every wall Climb every wall Climb every wall I can understand that you're drowning I can even understand why Lost in the art of devouring Will kill as much as keep you alive Lately, you've been thinking about leaving And thinking up the reasons to leave Finding it hard to believe in Or finding something hard to believe Climb every wall Climb every wall Climb every wall Climb every wall
Animal Hair on the pillow Blood on the shirt Pieces of love Traces of dirt Turning the page Quick as a blink Forbidden to love Forbidden to think Hair on the pillow Blood on the shirt Pieces of love Traces of dirt Cry at the window Using your words All that you want Is to be heard Dance, dance This is your last chance To break a glass heart Just like you wanted Animal Animal Dance, dance This is your last chance To break a glass heart Just like you wanted Animal Animal Animal Animal (animal) Animal (animal) Big plants Just like a slow trance Looked like a strange dance Do you remember Animal Animal Red bricks Covering cheap tricks Came here to swing dicks Get what you wanted Animal Animal Push, shove This is the new love Killing a white dove Just for the story Animal Animal Dance, dance This is your last chance To break a glass heart Just like you wanted Animal Animal Animal Animal
Red Snakes Grew enemies to avoid pain Sold them in pills for your own gain You'll never get back to the old ways... So despise what you've lost, for your own sake Stood in a pool full of red snakes Up to your knees in a night lake Unsure if you knew what was at stake Fully prepared for a tough break At the mount of ancient song Where you grieve for what is gone: A thousand hands, countless plans And youth As sure as you were of the earth's place At the terrible center of black space Now that you'vе come to renounce faith In еmerging from bodies with no name Wandered in search of a new age Slipped on the rivers of old rage Parted, at last, from an old weight Sprang from the water with no shame At the mount of ancient song Where you grieve for what is gone: A thousand hands, countless plans And youth Paradise We go to sleep at night Into a bed of light Free from unrest You held your shoulders high Let out an ancient cry Free from your chest I remember paradise Up where the angels fly Life at the crest And we will be there again Somewhere towards the end No regrets The curtains, covers, sheets, and veils Do their best to hide the trail But when you turn to find the road You can't go home, you can't go home Remеmber, it was paradise You took your own advice That was it You livеd inside in your telephone A place you could be alone And champ at the bit Now you are fully grown You make your feelings known Boy, do they stick And now you're just some device People will look at twice And soon forget You clocked a master on the bus The object of some ancient lust He showed you many ancient texts And ancient ways to catch your breath You long for a stronger life Something that's more precise Something ideal You mourn for a world that was A child in you lives because It's something you feel Unbearable though it seems This is the shape of dreams Bent to a wheel And now they are mobilized Cut down and fantasize Something real Paradise That was it Telephone Champ at the bit Fully grown Boy, do they stick And now you're just some device People will look at twice And soon forget Curtains, covers, sheets, and veils Do their best to cloak the trail But when you turn to find the road You can't go home, you can't go home
We Cannot Resist We cannot resist We cannot resist We cannot resist We cannot resist Kids on the run Falling for each other Down to have fun and out to burn rubber Kids on the run Smiling at each other Show's begun and they're down to play lovers Kids on the run Only just discovered That now they found one they will never love another Kids in love Smiling at each other That's the first taste from which no one will recover Among the world of things untamed Are the objects as yet unexplained My object of choice is the oil that forms On a well strung voice We cannot resist We cannot resist Kids on the run Living for each other Catching out stars and sitting in gutters Kids on the run No one will recover That is the fate of these first-time lovers Kids on the run Spectacles of colour Sparks will fly out from the skin of love's drummer Kids in love Living for each other That's the first taste and no one will recover Speak to me sacredly On the subject of profanity Thick blooded hedonists Seduced by what we cannot resist We cannot resist We cannot resist Kids on the run Falling for each other Down to have fun and out to burn rubber Kids on the run Smiling at each other Show's begun and they're down to play lovers Kids on the run Only just discovered That now they found one they will never love another Kids in love Smiling at each other That's the first taste from which no one will recover Among the world of things untamed Are the objects as yet unexplained My object of choice is the oil that forms On a well strung voice Speak to me sacredly On the subject of profanity Thick blooded hedonist Seduced by what we cannot resist We cannot resist (we cannot resist)...
Oberon Don't call me by my old name Cruel as you are to bring up old pain I tried to play the boys' game Yes, I'm all for change till it takes my name Oberon, Oberon, you let me down Nothing you can do or say to change that now I never stood up to the fakes Perhaps I'll get it back someday Fragments that were lost among the reframe But Oberon, you let me down Phantom Limb Phantom limb there for grim evaluation Shocked pause for self-immolation Harsh light for your elucidation? Evidence for your annihilation? We have some work to do We have some work to do Ticket out in prepared emancipation Head-strong to protect from penetration A happy king in a funky situation Legs crossed to prevent emasculation We have some work to do We have some work to do Tote bag saying “Viva Prostitution” Described once as “barely Lilliputian” Make gods to suit your constitution Ask them about moral destitution Wе have some work to do We havе some work to do We have some work to do We have some work to do I'll do my best with you I'll do my best with you Lump is the product of Mike Lindsay and Laura Marling Octatrack, Mellotron, Juno-60, modular Moogs, OP-1, Eventide H949, vocoder OTO Biscuit, electric guitars, bass guitar, and piano played by Mike Lindsay All lyrics and vocals written and performed by Laura Marling Bass clarinet by Laura Marling Flutes played by Laura J. Martin, recorded at IRM Studios Drums played by Matt Ingram, engineered by Simon Ribchester at Stop + Fix Studios All tracks written by Mike Lindsay and Laura Marling All tracks recorded and produced by Mike Lindsay at High Studio Margate Mixed by Andrew Scheps at Punkerpad UK Mastered by Matt Colton Lump is the product Lump is the product Lump is the product Lump is the product Lump is the product Lump is the product Lump is the product Lump is the product Lump is the product
PATTERNS IN REPEAT Child Of Mine You and your dad are dancing in the kitchen Life is slowing down, but it's still bitching I got myself a rod, but I could break it My back is still as strong as I can make it Plus you're mine So who would rush right through it, child of mine Child of mine Child of mine Everything you want is in your reach right now And anything that's not I have to teach somehow Everything about you is intuitive So those who miss the point might rush right through it 'Cause it's fine But I don't want to miss it, child of mine Child of mine Child of mine Last night, in your sleep, you started crying I can't protect you there though I keep trying Sometimes you'll go places I can't get to But I've spoken to the angels who'll protect you Because you're mine They cast this golden light across this child Child of mine Child of mine Child of mine Child of mine Child of mine Long nights, fast years, so they say Time won't ever feel the same And I don't want to miss it No, I don't want to miss it And I'm not gonna miss it, child of mine Child of mine Child of mine Child of mine Child of mine Child of mine
Patterns Zena, you've squared your toes But your family nose hangs around You're still a ballerina, everybody knows But your feet are on the ground But as the years go by and points comply With ever more relief Then patterns in repeat can begin To have your children, your flock of birds Your branch among the wood You'll try to tell them, but you're lost for words 'Cause it's so absurd, how good And as those years go by they'll look upon you Kindly like a friend A pattern in repeat and never ends Pulled for meaning, I arched my back And then from the black you were born Forward leaning at first, abstract You soon contract into form And now the time leaps by and starts to fly And only then can I see That we're patterns in repeat And we'll always be
Your Girl And so you turned your life around It's funny how those things all work out somehow for the clown You know sometimes you let me down Well, you or me, I guess that doesn't matter now You're over there So no one cares If off I will walk alone into this world Where I'll always be your girl I'll always be your girl I'm trying to play a boy's game Feeling like a pawn inside a pornscape If you could call me by my old name Just one more time remind me from where it was I came 'Cause over here it's lost in fear That off I walk alone into this world Where no one knows that I'm your girl And I'll always be your girl I rushed around to ask my friends Is this what it feels like when it ends? Then I heard it on your last breath So this is what it feels like to be left alone You're over there So no one cares And here I walk alone into the world But I'll always be your girl I'll always be your girl No One's Gonna Love You Like I Can You were taking off your clothes in a bar by the road When I thought no one's going to know you like I know No one's gonna know you like I know You were saying something strange just to make me misbehave I thought no one's gonna say it like you say No one's ever put it quite that way No one's ever put it quite that way We grew tired of making plans That kept slipping through our hands And if life is just a dream I'm gonna make it mean something worth a damn So no one's gonna love you like I can No one's gonna love you like I can No one's gonna love you like I can
The Shadows So, someone was sleeping while she did her leaving Cowards go in the night She did her leaving, and how could I blame her Who has the nerve to fight She knows, of course, she knows now Nothing could tear me apart She lives in the shadows of my heart I tried to persuade her In vain, of course, later That's something that I deny I knew it was better To say in my letter That I never even tried She knows, of course, she knows That one day she'll tear me apart The shadows that she live on my heart She's leaving, she's leaving My altar, she's leaving Where will I go to pray I want her, I need her I long to believe her Words that she will not say And I knew Of course, I knew That one day she'd tear me apart The shadow that she left on my heart She's leaving, she's leaving My altar, she's leaving Where will I go to hide She lives on the shadows of my mind
Caroline What a way to change an evening Was my number hard to find You know I'd given up believing But the song had somewhat lingered on my mind It went la la la la la la la la la la la Something, something, Caroline Caroline, you're like an ember A rock that burst back into life A song I only just remember That goes oh something, something, Caroline La la la la la la la la la la la Something, something, Caroline Caroline, we are old now I got married and I loved my wife I have kids. They're good and grown now All in all, I've been happy with my life Oh, I was never really far from you, was I Something, something, Caroline I'd like you not to call again I'd like to keep you off my mind You're the one who went away, Caroline So the song was forgotten over time It went la la la la la la la la la la la Something, something, Caroline La la la la la la la la la la la la Something, something, Caroline Looking Back Today with age my body is bent And against my will I must relent But in my heart, where love still beats I'm always thinking of you Now I'm a prisoner in this chair Confined to younger faces My memories are not with them But off in distant places Looking back, that's all I do Looking back, that's all I do Looking back, that's all I'll ever do The things we had The love we shared Perhaps like any other But even now How sweet it is To think of things recovered I wonder if you think of me Watching evening summers Perhaps somewhere beyond the dark Love can be recovered Looking back, that's all I do Looking back, that's all I do Looking back, that's all I ever do Lullaby Safe in my arms Safe in my arms Sleep, my angel You're safe with me Now's the evening Time for sleeping Till the dawn You're safe with me Safe in my arms Safe in my arms Sleep, my angel You're safe with me Patterns In Repeat That you'd walk into a room Tell me for the millionth time The many fine points to tell your story Like "Calabasas was in bloom..." You know I'm frankly unaware of all the ways in which that is supposed to move me You could skip the end The photograph, the friend The long-returning trim that you'd foreseen Just patterns in repeat Like they've always been You had your children on the fly Another child, another guy Another chance to fall in love again I fear they may have paid the price For the freedom of your life Though you would say that was a chance to show them An open door A broken bone, a marble floor... And patterns in repeat Forevermore Forevermore If only I had known you then A hanger-on, perhaps a friend An ear to bend around which way you saw it playing I tell it well, I try to sell them on the fact you were a match Ever a scratch away from bursting into flames, and A light perfume that lingered in the room That everlasting tune you had to sing A smile or two, a gap between your tooth Your dirty underwear, your diamond ring Just patterns in repeat Like everything Like everything Like everything I want you to know that I gave it up willingly Nothing real was lost in the bringing of you to me I want you to have a piece of my maternal flame Part of me, eternity, tolerance for pain
Non Albums Tracks
5 Years
( Kimya Dawson Cover / Live Amsterdam 2008 ) I imagined Nick Valensi wrapped his long, long arms around me And they went around my body almost seven times And he said "baby I've been thinking and I think I will quit drinking And I think on my next birthday I'll turn thirty five And he said "baby I've been thinking and I think I will quit drinking And I think on my next birthday I'll turn thirty five And I said "Nick although you're handsome I'll hold out for Isaac Hanson, Me and Hanson will go dancing Me and Hanson true romance What would I do when you've had a few Oh would I stay or go away Would you grieve if I chose to leave What would you say if I was in pain Five years in the saddle Five years in the saddle Five years in the saddle Five years in the saddle Five years in the saddle Five years in the saddle I imagined Nick Valensi wrapped his long, long arms around me And they went around my body almost seven times And he said "baby I've been thinking and I think I will quit drinking And I think on my next birthday I'll turn thirty five And I said "Nick although you're handsome I'll hold out for Isaac Hanson, Me and Hanson will go dancing Me and Hanson true romance What would I do when you've had a few Oh would I stay or go away Would you grieve if I chose to leave What would you say if I was in pain Five years in the saddle Five years in the saddle Five years in the saddle Five years in the saddle Five years in the saddle Five years in the saddle and I've got to take the reins
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan) Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? And where have you been, my darling young one? I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-going to fall Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son? And what did you see, my darling young one? I saw a newborn baby with wolves all around it I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-going to fall And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son? And what did you hear, my darling young one? I heard the sound of thunder that roared out a warning I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazing And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-going to fall And what will you do now, my blue-eyed son? And what will you do now, my darling young one? I'll walk to the depths of the deepest dark forest Where the people are many and their hands are all empty Where hunger is ugly, where the souls are forgotten Where black is the colour and none is the number Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking But I'll know my song well before I start singing And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-going to fall
Anywhere With Meaning (Demo song) And how do you sleep at night With guilt 'bout a bad ??? A bad when you go running high Do you think no one can hide your pride But it's hard when you know You're never going to go Anywhere with meaning Isn't the human so appealing It's hard enough to make a fire Without you pissing on the flames It's hard enough to be a loser With you saying no one to blame It's hard enough to be a dancer Without someone to point out my shame It's hard enough to just get by When every day I'm losing faith And why let such a person pass you by When you could just go run and cry I wonder who, the hows and whys And why you can't get hold of life But it's hard when you know You're never going to go Anywhere with meaning Isn't the human so appealing It's hard enough to make a fire Without you pissing on the flames It's hard enough to be a loser With you saying no one to blame It's hard enough to be a dancer Without someone to point out my shame It's hard enough to just get by When every day I'm losing faith You will learn some day, I know You will see it's just the way that these things go And it's not so sex, drugs, rock'n'roll It's hard enough to make a fire Without you pissing on the flames It's hard enough to be a loser With you saying no one to blame It's hard enough to be a dancer Without someone to point out my shame It's hard enough to just get by When every day I'm losing faith
Be Mine So a tree falls on my track And instead of looking back Or looking in Well you sure have a knack Of cutting down my slack Just when I'm trying to get travelling I try and navigate All the things that make me hate What I have or haven't been I'm trying to avoid All the things that fill the void But haven't ever filled a thing I don't need them anymore and that's the truth Yes I loved them once before and now I want you I've been wandering again Thought I was looking for a friend I was looking for a home I'm done with all the games I'm ready to make my change I need someone to take me on It's harder to find The same peace of mind When you've been so sure of your own It's hard to relent And know it's your own judgment That's taken you so very wrong I don't want this anymore I want you Yes I loved it once before Now that's the truth I'm coming to get you Hoping that you haven't Changed your mind Baby be mine Be mine, be mine Be mine, be mine I don't want this anymore I want you Yes I loved it once before But not as much as you I'm coming to get you Hoping that you haven't changed your mind Baby be mine Be mine, be my man Be mine, be mine
Blackberry Stone
(Cross Your Fingers EP) Well, I own this field And I wrote this sky And I have no reason to reason with you I'd be sad that I never held your hand as you were lowered But I'd understand that I'd never let it go I'd be sad that I never held your hand as you were lowered But I'd understand that the world does what it does And you never did learn to let the little things go And you never did learn to let me be And you never did learn to let little people grow And you never did learn how to see But I whisper that I love this man now and for forever To your soul as it floats out off the window To the world that you turned your back on To the world that never really let you be And I am Laura now and Laura still And you did always say that one day I would suffer You did always say that people get their pay You did always say that I was going places And that you wouldn't have it any other way But I couldn't turn my back on a world For what I like wouldn't let me But I couldn't turn my back on a world For what I like wouldn't let me And I couldn't turn my back on Sweet smelling Blackberry stone
Bleed Me Dry I have left so many men asking why Why I go and change my mind overnight They can't figure me out They'll end themselves with doubt Well it's love that they sought And I was taught Not to give it away Unless you're sure What am I to do if I don't want to be alone How can I be sure what it is I don't yet know I can't figure it out I'll end myself with doubt Well it's love that I need And to love you have to bleed I'm not sure I've got a drop to spare Can you help me Can you help me Anything you've got is gonna help this penny drop I'd near done believing when I found you Given up the ghost of anything that love can do I couldn't get out of bed I was all up in my head Well it's love that I need And to love you have to bleed And I'm not sure I've got a drop to spare Can you help me Can you help me Anything you've got is gonna help this penny drop I won't leave you in the night I won't leave you asking why If it's love that you need Your love is safe with me Just don't go bleeding me dry Well it's love that you need Your love is safe with me Just don't go bleeding me dry
Blues Run The Game ( Jackson C. Frank Cover / Live ) Catch a boat to england, baby, maybe to Spain Wherever I have gone the blues are all the same Send out for whiskey, baby, send out for gin, Me and room service, honey Me and room service, babe Me and room service, we are living life of sin Try another city, baby, another town Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone Wherever I have gone the blues come following round Living is a gamble, baby Loving's much the same Wherever I have gone Wherever I have been and gone Wherever I have gone the blues run the game When I'm not sleeping, baby, you are on my mind When I'm not drinking honey, I ain't sleeping mama When I'm not sleeping, well you know you'll find me crying So catch a boat to england, baby, maybe to Spain Wherever I have gone, Wherever I've been and gone, Wherever I have gone the blues run the game
Bonny Portmore (feat. Jonathan Wilson - "Turn: Washington's Spies" OST) O bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand And the more I think on you the more I think long If I had you now as I had once before All the boys in Old England could not purchase Portmore O bonny Portmore, I am sorry to see The woeful destruction of your ornament tree It sat on your shore for many's a long day Till the long boats of Antrim came to float it away O bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand And the more I think on you the more I think long If I had you now as I had once before All the boys in Old England could not purchase Portmore
Candlelight I have a fear of rejection But you won't see it in my be-judgment Arrogance is my biggest fault But it's the thing I hate most of all But maybe I'm just crazy and grew up too fast This is heaven and hell all at once This is all I got and all I want But like a lost soul I will wander the globe till this feeling's gone Sitting in his bedroom scared as hell Listening to The Libertines on the vinyl player on his shelf Getting nervous as I leave his door Drinking quite a lot and then drinking quite a lot more But maybe I'm just crazy and grew up too fast This is heaven and hell all at once This is all I got and all I want But like a lost soul I will wander the globe till this feeling's gone Cigarette by candlelight This became my view of the night Summertime was my biggest squeeze So much to do and so many to please But maybe I'm just crazy and grew up too fast This is heaven and hell all at once This is all I got and all I want But like a lost soul I will wander the globe till this feeling's gone
Daisy Daisy lives by the docks Down at the white rock Running an open home Daisy lives by the sea I only see Daisy When she wants to see me Daisy's alright She's up all night Down at the docks Running an open home I think that you look at her wrong I think that you look at us all wrong A woman alone is not a woman undone Daisy met a man from Sicily Sailed in one day and told her Who she was going to be O did he look at her strange For no one and nobody Is Daisy going to change Daisy's alright She's up all night Down at the docks Running an open home I think that you look at her wrong I think that you look at us all wrong Woman alone is not a woman undone Daisy's got a baby now She called her Angelina So she'd stand out of the crowd Daisy doesn't care from where she seeds As far as she's concerned She is immaculately conceived Daisy's alright She's up all night Down at the docks Running an open home I think that you look at her wrong I think that you look at us all wrong Woman alone is not a woman undone
David I look west and I believe There's the sky that David breathes I look west and I believe He looks east and he thinks of me David won't see me anymore I open gates that close his doors Just to know he lives and breathes will have to be enough for me Sat down one day and I swallowed my pride Begged him not to leave my life There's an angel walking Earth Once you've been touched everything else is dirt With a tear in my eye and a lump in my throat I read David's final note Goodbye, be well, I'll think of you 'Til the Sun turns black or the stars go blue
Dreaming Dreaming Dreaming of you, my love Dreaming my darling dove you're crying for me And your eyes staring up into space Building up every place yet still staring at me And I, I don't know why You make me smile And I, don't much care If they ever knew you at all Then why are you still crying My love, I'm slowly dying If we really knew each other Then how are still together We stick forever Hoping Hoping that you my love Hoping my darling dove will come crying to me But your lies following me around Oh, how I hate the sound of you lying to me But you know what you do 'cause you do it to everyone And you don't much care. If they ever knew you at all Then why are you still crying My love, I'm slowly dying If I really knew you at all Then why do I keep lying My love I'm slowly dying And it's dark days bringing me down Messing me around And it's you, dear, bringing me down Messing me around Knowing Knowing that you, my love Knowing my darling dove is cheating on me And your eyes staring up into space Looking at any place except for me And I I don't know why you make me cry And I don't much care
Drinking Alone (Is A Hope) I've been thinking On my wandering On the way home From your house That I love you And why I do, And if there'll ever Be someone else You're young and you're stable Stand up to your labour You're young and you're able But you need you a saviour O you need you a saviour Young believers Come and see her She has pushed him To the ground Though with one hand He could break her With one hand Split her in two But the reason that we love him Is a hope he don't want to Is a hope he don't want to And can you find for me A higher thing So I can love he Who will not fight for me 'Cause I do not believe Believe that I love he So fight for me, Think and feel for me No I do not love thee, But believe that I love you But believe that I love you And when you're drinking alone No it's bad for my soul Took him back to a year ago Throwing stones at my window Ask me demon To hear you moaning on Yes I heard the songs Like bullets to me Put a calm in me Knowing it was he Who was fucking crazy You're young and you're stable Stand up to your labour
Good Man, Bad Habit I'm not gonna lie if you look in my eyes Whipping beer for your cheek and a tear from your eye You take too many drugs And you make too much love but I know You're sweet on the inside Sweet, on the inside I suffer you see, from low self-esteem And sometimes I break down and cry You do too conversation point for two but do we get along Or are we song wrong we're right Sweet on the inside Come on sweet make a man out of me Not today, can't you see I'm weak But if you hang around I will find some steady ground On which I can't stand And no-one can fuck me around Sweet stand by my side Sweet on the inside Good man, bad habit One I do not need around… Sweet on the inside
I Know You I'm still young I'm still naive And I know that you know I don't know much about the industry And I don't trust you, yeah So don't expect me to eat 'Cause I'm so tired never being taken seriously I can't be doing with wasting time What am I doing with my life You need to find your own piece of mind Everybody knows that you're a posh girl 'Cause when it comes to cockneys you're down on your knees And everybody knows you're fucking intelligent So, why do you feel the need to plea Oh, pretentious, you don't know the meaning of the word I can't really talk, I'm just another of those girls But I know something no-one else knows You're just a follower A go-er with the go's I can't be doing with wasting time What am I doing with my life You need to find your own piece of mind Everybody knows that you're a posh girl When it comes to cockneys you're down on your knees And everybody knows you're fucking intelligent So, why do you feel the need to please And where did the indie individual go I've been looking back and I simply don't know And I think he left us with the corporate decision To make Topshop a logo And put Doherty in prison I can't be doing with wasting time What am I doing with my life You need to find your own piece of mind Everybody knows that you're a man, now, boy So make me proud and push the crowds away And everybody knows that you're my man So please stop asking me
I'm A Fly (Cross Your Fingers EP) I'm a fly, I'll die tomorrow So give me all you've got I so believe, I so believe I'm a fly, I'll die tomorrow So give me all you've got And now here in this foreign place I have let you down I've fallen for a foreign place Not fallen to the ground I've gone in blinding, scorching sun And fallen to my knees And I've forgotten what I believed And I so believe, I so believe, I so believe ???
It's Only My Opinion Where is all the cash you saved Where is all the cash you saved It went up your nose What did your family say What did your family say Said they didn't know. Said they'll buy you a car and a flat and a key And said they'll come around Poor little rich girl doesn't get her way Unless she stomps her foot on the ground Maybe it's just another matter of opinion Maybe she got into bad things when she was too young God we're so controlling What am I to do I'm not going to sit here And just wait for truth So who's the girl you were with last night Who's the girl you were with last night You don't know her name Well what was she like? What was she like? I don't know, we're all the same So you've got enough cash to buy your lass But you don't know what she cares for So you better watch out my son I've heard your story lots before Maybe it's just another matter of opinion Maybe he got into bad things when he was too young God we're so controlling What am I to do I'm not going to sit here And just wait for truth God we're so controlling What am I to do I'm not going to sit here And just wait for truth Where is all the cash you saved Where is all the cash you saved It went up your nose What did your family say What did your family say Said they didn't know So they buy you a flat and a car and a key And said they'll come around When they don't come round you think they don't care So you'll get into the bad crowd. Maybe it's just another matter of opinion Maybe she got into bad things when she was too young God we're so controlling What am I to do I'm not going to sit here And just wait for truth
Kathy's Song ( Simon and Garfunkel - Live ) I hear the drizzle of the rain Like a memory it falls Soft and warm continuing Tapping on my roof and walls And from the shelter of my mind Through the window of my eyes I gaze beyond the rain-drenched streets To England where my heart lies My mind's distracted and diffused My thoughts are many miles away They lie with you when you're asleep And kiss you when you start your day And a song I was writing is left undone I don't know why I spend my time Writing songs I can't believe With words that tear and strain to rhyme And so you see I have come to doubt All that I once held as true I stand alone without beliefs The only truth I know is you And as I watch the drops of rain Weave their weary paths and die I know that I am like the rain There but for the grace of you go I
Lolita Seeing you there with your arms entwined A fool once said that love is blind But no-one can blind me from this evil I see No-one can blind me from this hell I'm in Come to know that she's your new Lolita I could wait till you no longer need her But I realise I'm just gonna lose you So alone I've reached my sad conclusion Oh I was good then, but it's over now It was good then, but it's over now All your friends think we're worth it to break the heart of another Stop staring out at the rain, did you love her, did you love her Seeing you there with your hand on her waist A place that once was mine Do you remember in lost and lonely times I'd reach up for your back and you would reach for mine And I bet when she does it, it's not half as good as me And when she does, it reminds you how we used to be You realize that she's your new Lolita And you know that you will always need her Oh it was good then, but it's over now It was good then, but it's over now All your friends think we're worth it to break the heart of another Stop staring out at the rain, did you love her, did you love her
London Town I know, I know she came to save you But she knocked my drink over too And I know, I know that she wants you She looks at you the way that I do Well if you think that I'm lying Why would I give up trying so soon Where'd you go, where'd you go Where'd you leave me of my soul Where'd you go And how's it now, how's it now How's it back in London Town Where you let me down And I know, I know what you've been through You think I don't care but I really do And I know, I know that it hurts you But you'd be pleased that she is Now what would you do Well if you think that I'm lying Why would I give up trying so soon Where'd you go, where'd you go Where'd you leave me of my soul Where'd you go How's it now, how's it now How's it back in London Town Where you let me down And it's all of bad things I wish I hadn't done I know your rule about the dancing But I, I just don't find it fun Would you care if I cared to Would you run from you Where'd you go, where'd you go Where'd you leave me of my soul Where'd you go And how's it now, how's it now How's it back in London Town Where you let me down
Love Me Then Leave Me Love me then leave me Don't leave me in love And I really need you to stay For a while Just for a while Brown eyed baby I'm half crazy, over you And I don't know what it that I should do Tell you heart then someone else And maybe please tell me And if you got it let me know And then maybe you and I could be Oh Love me then leave me Don't leave me in love And I really need you to stay I see the future It could be you And if you love me then Please stay true We're walking in the sand And you are holding my hand Your eyes are sparkling like the sea And I just see you and me Love me then leave me Don't leave me in love And I really need you to stay For a while
Loving Face It's simple I know It's plain I know But it hurts to be alone When your friends have up and grown Found themselves a home somehow It's easy to see That you don't love me But you won't let me be 'Cause you don't want to be alone When you find a loving face Never let it go to waste When you find a loving face Never let it go to waste Well I'm on a march I'm on a march Where I don't know I don't know much Don't follow me Don't want to know Who's path I follow When I am alone Is your Ma alright Is your Ma alright That was brave of you right To come and get me in the night Take me to your island somehow If I find a loving face Never let it go to waste If I find a loving face Never let it go to waste
Mexico Well come on let's go And head off to Mexico And build our dreams on siestas of the day I'll take my guitar Who knows, it might get us far And we'll call each other by our fake names We'll restart our lives Cut the others off with lies You don't know how lucky we are But it's you, me and Mexico You, me and Mexico You, me and Mexico And my guitar We'll open that tequila bar And spend nights under the stars And we'll sing songs of salvation And when our tricks grow old We might be so bold as to think of things And broaden our reputation We'll restart our lives Cut the others off with lies You don't know how lucky we are But it's you, me and Mexico You, me and Mexico You, me and Mexico And my guitar I'll sing the melody line Watch you drinking wine And we'll say how life is pretty funny We'll busk our way there 'Cause we're the perfect pair And we'll find there's more life to money We'll restart our lives Cut the others off with lies You don't know how lucky we are We'll restart our lives Cut the others off with lies You don't know how lucky we are But it's you, me and Mexico You, me and Mexico You, me and Mexico And my guitar
Narrow Road That's enough now, leave a girl alone Don't you know when it's time to be gone I don't understand you like I understood before Love you're a temptress, you're a whore You push me into danger when I never walk alone Told me I would feel things that I had not yet known You took me from logic and it's my safest domain Love you are hell by Love you are hell by Love you are hell by another name My road is narrow and I always walk alone Comfortably parallel to those that I have known And grown to bear, as they've grown to bear me My road is narrow and that is how it was supposed to be Come walk my narrow, come walk my narrow Come walk my narrow road with me That's enough now, don't come here anymore Don't come knocking or asking at my door I don't understand you like I understood before Love you are hell by, love you are hell by Love you are hell by another name
Needle And The Damaged Done (Neil Young cover / Ghosts EP) I caught you knocking at my cellar door I love you, baby, can I have some more The damage done I hit the city and I lost my band I watched the needle take another man Gone, gone, the damage done I sing the song because I love the man I know that some of you don't understand Milk-blood to keep from running out I've seen the needle and the damage done A little part of it in everyone Every junkie's like a setting sun I've seen the needle and the damage done A little part of it in everyone Every junkie's like a setting sun
New Romantic ( My manic & I EP ) I know I said I loved you But I'm thinking I was wrong I'm the first to admit That I'm still pretty young And I never meant to hurt you When I wrote you ten love songs That guy that I could never get 'Cause his girlfriend was pretty fit And everyone who knew her loved her so And I made you leave her for me And now I'm feeling pretty mean But my mind has fucked me over More times than any man could ever know Maybe I should give up, give in Give up trying to be thin Give up and turn into my mother God knows I love her And I'm sorry to whichever man Should meet my sorry state Watch my steady lonesome gait And be aware I will never love a man 'Cause love and pain go hand in hand And I can't do it Again So we stayed up that one night To try and get our problems right But I couldn't get into his head Just what was going through my mind I think he knew where I was going He put Ryan Adams on And I think he thinks it makes me weak It only ever makes me strong I've got this friend and he sounds just like him And he's the man I'd leave you for The man that I just adore like you The same man, he turns to me He said "I've got to tell you how I feel If God could make the perfect girl For me it would be you And my God told me not to tell About how much do you love your fella" I don't know more everyday Not in this new romantic way I'll always be your first love You'll always be my first love But I'm sorry to whichever man Should meet my sorry state Watch my steady lonesome gait And be aware I will never love a man 'Cause love and pain go hand in hand And I can't do it Again I will never love a man 'Cause I could never hurt a man Not in this new romantic way
Not Done Travelling I took the winter to travel Headed for the road Couldn't bear no sunshine I took off on my own You won't see me till springtime Never see me again I'm headed for the east coast To find my wayward friend He likes the mountains in the daytime He's fond of the desert at night I think he likes to be alone So I curl up at his side You won't hear a peep from me boy Never see me again If I choose to run some I'd run till the mountains end I think he likes my silence I think he likes my smell I like the way you hit your teeth When you talk about what you know well You won't hear a peep from me boy I may never say a word again Oh before I take my silence I'd like to get to know you friend I like it here on the east coast I like the state I'm in I like the way you live here But I'm not done travelling I should stay a while though I cannot just run again But I'm in love with you boy Come with me travelling It may not last forever Nothing ever does And there's nothing quite so fickle As a travelling lover's love I'll be come back for you boy I'll be back again Oh when the road doesn't call me My travels they will end
One Day Soon Ma, I'm gonna buy you A new pair of shoes I make my own money now And I owe a great debt to you One day soon I'm gonna be A movie star Then I'm gonna buy you Some big old car I'm gonna buy you peace somehow Pa, I'm gonna buy you A shirt for your back I know it's not much And it don't make up for what I lack One day soon I'm gonna be A movie star Then I'm gonna buy you Some big old car I'm gonna buy you peace somehow Might be the last thing that I do I'm gonna buy me A place to lay down I'm gonna buy me Peace somehow One day soon I'm gonna be A movie star Then I'm gonna buy me Some big old car I'm gonna buy me peace somehow Might be the last thing that I do What if peace won't come What if peace won't come Oh Ma I'm gonna run Oh Ma I'm gonna run What if peace won't come What if peace won't come Oh Ma I'm gonna run Oh Ma I'm gonna run
Paws Clean Where is the life that I was sold? Where is a hand that I can keep a hold on? A hold on I am a life without a cause I am a girl who cannot keep her paws clean Her paws clean I have been wandering aimlessly There is no one to blame there's only me Oh only me I would like you to take your chance I would just like oh just one more dance with you One more dance with you I don't need you and that's no bad thing Just one dance with me can't be a bad thing Give me something I can serve Show me something that deserves my time My time 'cause I am a life without a cause I am a girl who cannot keep her paws clean Her paws clean I don't need you and it's never gonna change Just one dance with me can't be so strange I would like you to take your chance I would just like oh just one more dance with you One more dance with you 'cause I am a life without a cause I am a girl who cannot keep her paws clean Her paws clean
Rebecca
( Live ) Rebecca, Rebecca Release that sweet rose That poses no threat to your eyes Rebecca, Rebecca You've let yourself go Rebecca, forgiven by I Snake eyes will dawn Like a miss unadorned Doomed to haunt And again we are born Rebecca, forgiven by me Striking the earth, for I gave her no spurn And there and she is feared By the lovers of our Lord Forgive her Rebecca, born sweetly into sin Bleached her ??? forever more Rebecca, Rebecca Crawled into her skin And there she will stay forever more Forever more Rebecca, Rebecca, Pulled out of a needle tide Pulled up from death back into life A shameful way for a soul to die Rebecca, I'm right by your side
Red Right Hand (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds cover / Laura Marling, Antony Genn & Martin Slattery / Peaky Blinders OST) Take a walk to the edge of town and go across the tracks Where the viaduct looms like a bird of doom as it shifts and cracks Where secrets lie in the border fires, in the humming wires Hey man, you're never coming back Past the square, past the bridge, past the mills, past the stacks On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man In a dusty black coat with a red right hand Red right hand The red right hand
Rest My Troubles Away I've been out walking as I often do Humming a tune and thinking of you I saw a man asleep by the road Hanging on tightly to his little load He's got nothing but the road under his head I'm so fucking glad that I sleep in a bed I'm so ashamed that I get up every day and think of all the reasons I can piss it away If I don't think about it, it's okay If I don't think about it, it don't go away I was gonna keep walking but I went back to his place Looked down to see signs of life on his face He looks alright in the land of the nod Has anyone ever said: "Sleep brings you closer to God"? That's the kind of stupid shit people say When they can't justify what they do with their day That's the kind of stupid shit people say When they can't justify what they do with their day I'm tired I guess Been overthinking my day I'll creep into my bed Rest my troubles away
She's Changed (Live Acoustic) The future looks dark But we're on the way up Oh I hear that tomorrow's bright Can you believe That when we were fifteen We got drinking And would stay out all night The gift and a curse So she grew a thirst To know what a waste of her life Dropped out of school 'Cause she's too cool Now sleeps with men of the night Word of warning goes to you my man I hope you understand That when she grabs you by the hand She needs security It's hard to comprehend When she isn't your friend It's not nice to see Maybe you won't get your heartbroken too 'Cause she's changed, yeah she's changed No I'm just joking, she's still the same So why do you bother, I ask myself She was so young And so far gone And he was your average man She never liked to stay With one person for too long And she never liked to keep a plan She couldn't keep her concentration She'll never have much to say She found a perfect occupation If you want her You're gonna have to pay Word of warning goes to you my man I hope you understand That when she grabs you by the hand She needs security It's hard to comprehend When she isn't your friend It's not nice to see Maybe you won't get your heartbroken too 'Cause she's changed, yeah she's changed No I'm just joking, she's still the same Why do you get bothered, I ask myself Wear your short skirt out tonight And ??? You laugh so much, it makes you different inside Your heels are different from any size Make eyes at the fit one looking at you Don't let on, you've got a boyfriend or two Then chat such rubbish about new old bands There the new libertines slightly, such as A word of warning goes to you my man I hope you understand That when she grabs you by the hand She needs security It's hard to comprehend When she isn't your friend She's not nice to see Maybe you won't get your heartbroken too 'Cause she's changed, yeah she's changed No I'm just joking, she's still the same So why do you bother, I ask myself
Sorry (Written by Beck / Song Reader LP) I've been hanging around again Hang my head to the ground again Turn my face to the wall Turn my head to the wall Nobody needs you when you're feeling sorry Nobody knows you when you're feeling sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I used to be happy Used to be laughing I used to be happy I've been walking around again Tongued tied over the town again Stranded out in the hall Thrown right over the wall Nobody knows you when you're feeling sorry Nobody needs you when you're feeling sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I used to be happy I used to be laughing I used to be happy
Soulless Child You won't even look at yourself in the mirror anymore Can't tell dream from reality I couldn't take it so I opened your door I saw things I should never see Someone you look up to crying in their bed Someone you want to be losing their head Soulless Child once so wild Now a shadow of what they used to be They used to be so close to me Soulless Child once so wild Now a ghost roaming endless halls thinking that she gets no calls You won't even look at me in the eye anymore You can't be seriously losing You keep on telling me that I'm losing anymore (Oh you tease and you let it be?) Someone you look up to crying in their bed Someone you want to be losing their head Soulless Child once so wild Now a shadow of what they used to be They used to be so close to me Soulless Child once so wild Now a ghost roaming endless halls thinking that you get no calls You won't even look at yourself in the mirror anymore Can't tell dream from reality I couldn't take it so I opened your door I saw things I should never see Someone you look up to crying in their bed Someone you aspire to be losing their head Soulless Child once so wild Now a shadow of what they used to be They used to be so close to me. Soulless Child once so wild Now a shadow of what they used to be They used to be so close to me Soulless Child once so wild
Such A Shame When he was down he came to me When he was lost I didn't see That he was making his move on me When he was low what did you see I'm so sorry You know 'Cause it's such a shame That you're losing the game When you got so far You're at a loss 'Cause you're down on the goss And its all about joy And its so bad when your friends are glad That you got hurt again You don't have it all But you've got all of me And what you just heard And boy I say oh Don't lose yourself It's just rude to be all on yourself It's the truth and if you make your move I'll be going, you'll be sorry And it's such a shame That you're losing the game when you got so far You're at a loss 'Cause you down on the goss And it's all about joy And boy I say, ooh Don't lose yourself It's just rude to be all about yourself And if it's the truth then you speak nothing less to me When he was down he came to me Little did I see When he was low, well did you know He was coming to me It started wit a smile and moved on a mile Now it's got to be what I say Oh don't lose yourself its just rude To be all on yourself It's the truth
The Man Sings About Romance Gets up and plays the fool The audience don't bring him down, down, down That's right, you do what you do While no one else is around These people, are my people, watch how we roll Don't mess ‘em up, they're young, life's only just begun And for the record we were messed up, on our own He takes the fakes and puts them in their place And he swiftly moves along And he's known around He's passed his break of social season hearts Yeah I've spoke and yeah we get along Man I could fall for a man, who can sing about Love and depression among other things A man who sings about romance Woman he hardly knows What good does it bring, this is the woman he chose I don't get happy people, why do they care They can't be happy all the time, they're really just not there And they're all loved up on some drug and I Hope that it's not love because I like 'em messed up and not really there And I like 'em roughed up, a little fucked up, if it can be arranged As high as a kite and is willing to fight as a man of his age God I could fall for a man Who can sing about love and depression among other things A man who sings about romance Woman he hardly knows, What good does it bring, this is the life that he chose A man who sings about romance Woman he hardly knows knows What good does it bring, this is the life that he chose… These people, are my people, watch how we roll Don't mess ‘em up, they're young, life's only just begun And for the record we were messed up, on our own He takes the fakes and puts them in their place And he swiftly moves along And he's known around He's passed his break of social season hearts Yeah I've spoke and yeah we get along Man I could fall for a man Who sings about, love and depression among other things And a man who sings about romance Woman he hardly knows, What good does it bring, this is the woman he chose
The Water (Johnny Flynn and Laura Marling) All that I have is a river The river is always my home Lord, take me away For I just cannot stay Or I'll sink in my skin and my bones The water sustains me without even trying The water can't drown me, I'm done With my dying Please help me build a small boat One that'll ride on the flow Where the river runs deep And the larger fish creep I'm glad of what keeps me afloat Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin The water sustains me without even trying The water can't drown me, I'm done With my dying Now deeper the water I sail And faster the current I'm in But each night brings the stars And the song in my heart Is a tune for the journeyman's tale The water sustains me without even trying The water can't drown me, I'm done With my dying Now the land that I knew is a dream And the line on the distance grows faint So wide is my river The horizon a sliver The artist has run out of paint Where the blue of the sea meets the sky And the big yellow sun leads me home I'm everywhere now The way is a vow To the wind of each breath by and by The water sustains me without even trying The water can't drown me, I'm done With my dying
*** Thanx a lot to Jose for this one ***
The Wrote And The Writ (Johnny Flynn cover / Live at Triple J radion station) They're taking pictures of the man from God I hope his cassock's clean Though you are a holy fellow Your halo'd better gleam, better gleam What of all those wayward priests The ones who like to drink Do you suppose they'd swap their blood for wine Like you swapped yours for ink, for ink You wrote me oh so many letters And all of them seemed true Promises look good on paper Especially from you, from you The weight of all those willing words I carried all alone You wouldn't put your pen to bed When we hadn't found our own, our own Your sentences rose high at night And all around my head The sin's since been broken Like the priest before me is breaking bread I'm being asked to drink the blood of Christ Soon I'll eat his flesh I'm alone again before the altar Shedding all my old regrets The last of which I'll tell you now As it flies down the sink I never knew a part of you You didn't set in ink, in ink But the letters that you left behind No longer shall I read Your blood's between the pages And I can't stand to see you bleed And I'll soon forget what was never there Your words are ash and dust All that's left is the song I've sung The breath I've taken and the one I must And if you're born with a love for the wrote and the writ People of letters you're warning stands clear Pay heed to your heart and not to your wit Don't say in a letter what you can't in my ear
Those Were The Days (Mary Hopkin cover / Music Inspired By The Film "Roma" LP) Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used to raise a glass or two Remember how we laughed away the hours Thinking of all the great things we would do Then the busy years went rushing by us We lost our starry notions on the way If by chance I'd see you in the tavern We'd smile at one another and we'd say Those were the days, my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young, born to have our way Born to have our way Just tonight I stood before the tavern Nothing seemed the way it used to be In the glass, I saw a strange reflection Is that lonely woman really me Those were the days, my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young, born to have our way Born to have our way Those were the days Through the door there came familiar laughter I saw your face and heard you call my name Oh my friend, we're older but no wiser For in our hearts, the dreams are still the same Those were the days, my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young, born to have our way Born to have our way Those were the days, my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young, born to have our way Born to have our way Those were the days
To Be A Woman (Flicker And Fail EP) I feel a bond between us I have felt like you do I know better than to take it away from you I have right, the only one in my life A right to what is rightfully mine Untainted, untempting, and sober Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin I will never touch that skin again I will never feel that way again I will never look into the face of my father or my friends And be able to say I'm okay, I'm okay I don't feel pain anyway Not anymore, anyway And I'm not dead yet I could be soon And all I want to do Is put my arms around you Little girl, it's all so new Girl, little girl, you need to learn, little girl Not to take what is mine And I'm not dead yet I could be soon And all I want to do Is put my arms around you Little girl, it's all so new Girl, little girl, you need to learn, little girl What it is to be a woman
*** Thanx a lot to Jose for this one *** Tough Love (Flyte feat. Laura Marling / Flyte LP) I've been trying to hurt you I've been holding you tight I've been learning to love you Am I doing it right How are you still breathing With my hands all over your heart How do we start healing If we can't keep out the dark Are you for real, tough love Do you want to feel tough love This could be real tough, love I've been feeding you fear You've been keeping me thin I've been trying my best to feel you near Without me disappearing How do you still see me With my hands all over your eyes When your friends come calling Do they ask you with a sigh Are you for real, tough love Do you want to feel tough love This could be real tough, love Are you for real, tough love Do you want to feel tough love This could be real tough, love Are you for real, tough love Do you want to feel tough love This could be real tough, love
Typical
( My Manic & I EP ) Again I let jealousy blind me today My oldest friend and I blew her away Just a few kind words and all I could say Was "I've known you, what, ten years It feels like a day” And I watched her cry Torn apart at the hands of a child And again I used arrogance as something to depend And condemned all religion to a pitiless end And a politician's resonance ran through my mind Patriotic in one sense, the other just blind And oh so many die Torn apart at the hands of a child And I keep on going, I've got nothing to lose I gave up morals when I took up you And it's boring to hear of another young truth What a typically shit thing to do And I was so shallow to the one man that stuck around Sunk so low that I nearly drowned And I screamed of his heart when he wasn't around Consoled him recklessly, I knew you were down And I watched him cry A broken heart at the hands of a child And I'll keep on going, I've got nothing to lose And I gave up morals when I took up you And it's boring to hear of another young truth What a typically shit thing to do Now I have felt heartbreak too and I know what it feels like Now I have felt heartbreak now you can leave me alone, right And I have felt loneliness and I know what it feels like But I kept on going, I had nothing to lose And I gave up morals when I took up booze And it's boring to hear of another young truth What a typically shit thing to do
What Have You Done We expect dawn around morning I trust the rise of the sun But I've been out late with the night birds Begging the dawn not to come Although I don't want to leave you So much I can hardly bear I have some things I must tend to Would you stay as you are lying there Kissing the rain off your shoulders Answering questions with stares Holding my chest like I'm a wild horse Running my hands through your hair The sun kept the moon off the mountain And there goes my cue to leave The long tears of women are silent So they don't wake those who sleep I know that you don't know how to say goodbye It keeps you on my mind I try with all I can try to keep you off my mind There's nowhere to hide There's nowhere I can hide I'll die it's been said with a kiss from God What a way to go What a way to go Do you see what I see? I know you do You look at me each time We're the ones who know We're the only ones who know What can be done What can be done You don't know what you're doing little one I'm in love with your son and there's nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing to be done What can I do with some absolute truth And it makes me want to run Makes me want to run What have you done What have you done I don't know what I'm doing I'm still young What have you done What have you done I don't know what I'm doing I'm still young I don't know what I'm doing I'm still young
Who Am I
( Live )
Never felt a solid hand 'Till I found a man 'Till I found a man Of mine, doubting you I was looking at you Thinking, who am I Never knew the sky was white 'Till I took that flight 'Till I took that flight Doubting you You were looking at me Thinking, who is she I was just a card Looking at the stars Looking them from Mars And you know - you know I know - I know Something about you That you don't want me to know Could've sworn I had that man When he took my hand When he took my hand Doubting you You were looking at me Thinking, who is she Didn't even see the night 'till I said goodbye 'till I said goodbye to him tonight I was just a card Caught up in the stars Looking them from Mars And he knows - he knows We know - we know Something about me That I don't want you to know Thought I felt a solid hand When I found a man When I found a man Of mine, doubting you I was looking at you, Thinking, who am I
Young Love
( With Mystery Jets ) If I only knew your name I'd go from door to door Searching all the crowded streets For the place that I once saw If I only knew your name I'd go from door to door Tell me have you seen the girl I've met just once before One night of Love Nothing more nothing less One night of Love To put my head in a mess Is that you on the bus Is that you on the train You wrote your number on my hand And it came off in the rain One night of Love Nothing more nothing less One night of Love Has put my bed in a mess Is that you on the bus Is that you on the train You wrote your number on my hand And it came off in the rain If I only knew your name I'd go from door to door Searching all the crowded streets For the place that I once saw If I only knew your name I'd go from door to door Tell me have you seen the girl I've met just once before Young Love Never seems to last Far too young Until they have a past Playing games People move so fast You don't need eyes to see If someones got a heart of glass Young Love Never seems to last Far too young Until they have a past One night of love Nothing more nothing less One night of love Has left my heart in a mess If I only knew your name I'd go from door to door Searching all the crowded streets For the place that I once saw If I only knew your name I'd go from door to door Tell me have you seen the boy I've met just once before