Leila Complete Lyrics Archive

B i o g r a p h y
(by John Bush)

Moving from a supporting keyboard role with Björk and Galliano to put out her own album on Aphex Twin's Rephlex Records, Leila is the rare female electronica songwriter who doesn't sing, choosing instead to use vocals from friends -- and even her own sister -- for her Like Weather long-player. Born in Iran, she spent part of her childhood there but was forced to flee to London with her family. She became interested in DJing as well as keyboards, and left college to play with Björk on her first album, 1994's Debut. Leila graduated to sound engineer for the second Björk LP, and began setting up her own home studio. Signed to Rephlex Records for a solo album, she released the single Don't Fall Asleep in 1997 and the Like Weather album the following year. Love Story and the Sodastream single appeared in 1999. The following year, Leila released her moodier second album, Courtesy of Choice, on XL. Shortly after that album's release, Leila's mother died, and she coped with her grief by touring and doing mixing work for Björk. She didn't return to music until her father also passed away, and enlisted her friends and family to help with her third album. In spring 2008, it was announced that she'd signed to Warp Records; a pair of singles, Mettle and Deflect, heralded the arrival of Blood, Looms and Blooms, which was released that summer. For 2012's U&I, Leila collaborated with Mt. Sims, who helped her take her music in a darker direction influenced by punk and hard-edged techno.

Something

Break me off a little piece of something
I want to lose my mind
But won't you please be careful
There's things I don't wanna find

Let me dwell
In my darkest place
With your help
There's things i might erase

Break me off a little piece of something
There's things i wanna find
With some help
I won't get left behind

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

Don't fall asleep

Yeah
Said i'm feeling it
Don't know where i'm feeling
But i'm feeling it

Said i'm moving
Slip and slide
Move a little
Move a little to the side

Take me for a
Take me for a ride
Don't let me
Fly

Feeling what i'm feeling
When i'm headed to the other side in time
Where my feet can touch the ground
Don't know what i've got
Tell me don't you know what i've got

Ooh ooh
How do you want me
How do you want me child
How do you want me

Tell me now
Do you know where we go
Where we go when the doors close
And everybody got to be
Headed to another time
Slip and slide
Losing
How do you want me
How do you want me child
How do you want me

Take me to another place on the other side of town
Don't let my feel touch the ground
I got a feeling inside and out
Tell me what it's all about

How do you want me
How do you want me child

Oh i don't know what i'm gonna be
In the morning
After i wake up and see the new day
I hope you feel the same way

Oh no no
Don't you wanna be going wild
Take you to another side

How do you want me

Tell me are you gonna ride
On the other side of town
Everybody wanna see
Where we wanna be

You got to do something special
I know i got more than enough control
Though you might not think so
I don't think so
Tell me you want me
I don't think so
I think it's a little bit wild
Tell me do you see what the other people see
When you close your eyes

Feeling

I'm gonna

I wanna let you know how i'm feeling
Yeah i'll tell you
I'm gonna tell you with my strength and deep reasoning
Yeah i'll tell you

I know you really want me
I really want to be with y ou
Just because you think you've had enough
You don't want to see us through

But baby, oh baby
My feelings for you baby
My king and my knight let's reach for the light
I love you

All the good times and the tingling
Yeah i'll tell you
Remember cbq that meaning
Yeah i'll tell you

Here comes that rumble of thunder
Those dark clouds bringing the storms
Giving out the sweet spot
And tearing each other to the bone

But baby, oh baby
My feelings for you baby
My king and my knight let's reach for the light
I love you

I'll tell you what is over
Baby get it on
I'll tell you what is over
Baby get it on

I wanna let you know how
How i'm feeling
I wanna let you know how
How i'm feeling

But baby, oh baby
My feelings for you baby
My king and my knight let's reach for the light
I love you

I'll tell you what is over
Baby get it on
I'll tell you what is over
Baby get it on

Why don’t you explain
What is going through your head
From afar am I to hear your words unsaid
From afar do you fear some truth to bear

Run away, run away
Clear a space and there you’ll stay
Run away, run away
Clear a space and there you’ll stay

Where’s your spine
Where’s your charm
Where’s your grace
From what do you escape
Do you escape

Run away, run away
Clear a space and there you’ll stay

Where's your spine
Where's your charm
Where's your grace

Where's your spine
Where's your charm
Where's your grace

Misunderstood

My oh my, you have misunderstood
The game is done and really should
Today is the day that
I'm gonna give it all up to you

Sadly, softly, it's time for the truth
No steppin' softly, i put on my boots
Today is the day that
I'm gonna give it all up to you

Not wanting to upset you
Staring at the pain in my eyes
Acting a blank you don't have a clue
Feeding me with all those lies
It's my turn

I could not take it
Go two for two
I'm standing back now watching you
Creating a new me that no longer circulates around you

I take the reins of my life, i do
Shake out the old and bring in the new
I found a love so embracing
No need to do any chasing

I found the strength within me
Enough to say goodbye
Healing myself with the energy
Filled with self-love i could fly

You found and lost
The perfect mate
Don't cry my mate
For it's too late

You misunderstood
I don't want you around
You misunderstood
Time to stop playing around

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

Won't you be my baby,baby

Got no time to be sad and lonely
I thought i was the one and only
Man who can come and steal your heart away

I got mine there's no need to fake it
You got yours watch me come and take it
But you won't even let me steal a kiss away, yeah

Want you to be my baby, baby
Want you to be my baby, baby
Want you to be my baby, baby
Oh won't you be my baby

Had you in my eyes for quiet some time, now
I'm gonna get you, but i haven't worked out how
'Cause you won't join in the little games i play, yeah

Ain't no girl who can escape me
You're trying ways you know they just don't phase me
But soon you'll be begging, ooh won't you let me play, yeah

Let me tell you that i
I don't mind
Having to wait
For a length of time
But before, before too long
I will stand girl
'Cause you'll be mine

Want you to be my baby, baby
Want you to be my baby, baby
Want you to be my baby, baby
Oh won't you be my baby

Oh be my

Oh I wish that I was brave
Could just turn and walk away
But this modern life is so easy and so safe
The days seem very long
Don't know how I keep it going on
Oh I wish I had the strenght to be strong
My girlfriend says I'm a waste
Says I don't know what to say
When I'm faced to solve the problems that are fate
You don't know what it is like
All the voices they don't write
They'll be gone before you see the morning light
Oh it feels so very long
And the voices they go on
And you don't know what to think that is you're wrong
You're wrong

Somehow I've been wanting more and more
Oh I wish that I was brave
Could just turn and walk away
But this modern life is so easy and so safe
Though I always wanted to travel
There's so many scenes to unravel
But I haven't got the will to walk away
I tried to expand my mind
The same boring things that I find
Are there when I try to open up my eyes
Oh I
I wish that I was brave
Oooh...

Getting tired of this way
Got plenty work to do
Release this ball and chain
Got a picture in my mind
Of how I want to be
With the passing of time

For five days it's a strain
Monday to friday even in the rain
Robotic is how I feel
I long to break away long to be free

If I could do it my way
No more would I be blue
I'd do what I choose
If I could live my reality
No typing of letters making cups of tea
I'll leave it all behind

Getting tired of this way
Got plenty work to do
Release this ball and chain
Got a picture in my mind
Of how I want to be
With the passing of time

My ideal would be creative as can be
To sing yeah that is me
Just as I dreamed as a little girl
In my own big world

Where do I start, listen to my heart

Holy moly reeling
Gently through the fields
Got my shopping list
My mummy knows the deal
Here I go ducking diving
heading in to town
No sign of Dobie Gray
I got my own in-crowd

Don't know think so can't go
But I don't mean to be bad
Wasn't what I had seen
Can't think need drink won't sink
Ribena's on my mind
But it wasn't to be

Hey ho got no goal didn't wanna sell my soul
Didn't mean to go for green just sodastream
Oh no where my Lord don't wanna sell my soul
I didn't mean to go for green just sodastream

Something's taking over
Fed up with groceries
I got my water pistol
I'm gonna make me some g's

Time's up hands up I hold the bank up
i want all some money
It's the way it should be
Nobody wanna movie don't dare
i'm coming
Oh it's too good to see

Hey ho got no goal didn't wanna sell my soul
Didn't mean to go for green just sodastream
Oh no where my Lord don't wanna sell my soul
I didn't mean to go for green just sodastream

Oh no my water pistol's leaking all over the floor
i thought I heard a gunshot I can't feel my left arm anymore
Somebody's waving it at me from across the hall
I think I want my mummy I can't feel nothing anymore
I want my mummy

She said that she loved me
But did she really love me
Said that she only
Would be the one to hold me
I've waited so long
For that love hard to find
And now that she's gone
I'm going out of my mind

Have you seen my baby
Oh won't you please tell me where
If you see her
Would you let her know
That I love her
And I miss her so
To win back her love

Most anything I would do
I will bang my head against a brick wall
Take a boat ride over Niagara falls
Share my bath with a crocodile
Swim with his friends up the River Nile
Most anything I would do to win her love
To win her love

She said that she loved me
But now she is gone
I thought it was always
Oh how I was wrong
If words aren't enough
To re-open her heart
then action I'll bring
Tell me where to start
Tell me where to start
Tell me where to start

I will fly to the sun on Icarus' wings
Walk barefoot over nettles that sting
Stone by stone rebuild the Berlin wall
Climb a skyscraper then watch myself fall

Most anything I would do
Most anything I would do
Most anything I would do
To win her love
To win her love

So if you see her then tell her
All the things I have said
Don't let her beauty go to your head
She'll hypnotise you and then you will understand
Why I want so much to be her man
Yeah if you see her tell her
Won't you tell her
I want her love
I love her

Will she be the same
If I come around again
Maybe things will change
i'll never see this face again

Oh I didn't mean to tell the wicked lie
Oh I didn't mean to say goodbye
I ... I should turn and go back
Explain to her what she means to me and try to face the facts
We had made a pact
We'd talk through any problems and that would just be that
Oh I didn't mean to tell the wicked lie
Oh I should never have said goodbye
Well we met a long time ago
When she was young and I felt old
I will never forget
How we made love on the first night
because it felt right
Oh it felt right
We spent years in each other's arms
Safe from any harm
Thinking this would never end
And we shared all the secrets
We had ever kept
She was my lover and my friend

A sweet kiss is what he gave to me
Tasted good to me, sweet like honey
Left me longing for something else to be
I made no secret of my feelings

At times he made me feel so shy
Piercing looks deep into my eyes
His slightest touch made me quake
The bass in his voice rattled my cage

I waited a long time to touch his skin
Soft to the bone as I imagined
I visioned him so in my mind
So when reality striked it took me to my highest high

Oh we just vibed off each other
Just like we knew we belonged together
Wanting to go all the way
More haste I said we got all day

You see the memory will always be with me
I won't forget

Had we met at a different time
We'd be perfect for each other
Now we're wasting all our time
In the world apart together

Tick tock heart's clock
Measuring emotions
Tick tock heart's clock
Mesure emotion
Each journey of love

Long enough for me to caress
Your head and make you feel alright
Time to heal / teach
Bond unforged
By the charm of the new

I'm not perfect but i'm perfect for you
I'm not perfect but i'm perfect for you

You never needed to try
I knew all about you been told
So I kept some secret place to myself
To come and to be as a part of a thing
Da di ra da di ra
In a box unrapped in a purple ribbon
On a sea so wide and gleaning
Set sail secret sense
Waves carry away, safe place to rest
Why do I feel, maybe you were my dear
Some place else, some time, time.

Terry Hall :

It's happening slowly, the people below me
Are pulling me under, they don't even know me
Time to blow, Time to blow
Time to blow, Time to blow
They haunt me to slay me
They plan to derail me
They scroll on my poster
Like I'd even notice
Time to blow, Time to blow
Time to blow, Time to blow
Dry it I'll wet it
Throw it I'll fetch it
Tell me your secret
I'll never forget it
Time to blow, time to blow
Time to blow, time to blow
Each time I open my mouth I regret it
Each time I open my mouth I regret it

Roya Arab :

Hard rock of old,
Speedy people, tall cities
The ones with the powers
Live in old bits, green bits
Bits by the river, ones highest up
Far from fumes, thousands of cars
Rhythmic motion of light
Methodically in streets of simple lines
One eye behind
Consuming readily, their malady
Lashes on the floor
Daisies, cats, and spacemen on the wall
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Treading engrossed paving stones below
Filthy footmarks reflecting tear filled skies

But, in a world frozen still, my love
To find you’re with me still this night

Perfect plentiful pastures
Metal monsters’ industries
Cities on stilts, mined hollow underground
Silver pay for healing tide
Tracks carry ashes
Carefully placed water-burial site nearby
Tales of all kind
Solitary confusion as blood runs its course to purify

In a world frozen still my love
To find you’re with me still this night
Treading engrossed paving stones below
Filthy footmarks reflecting tear filled skies

Teases me

Luca Santucci :

What I don't have, I won't need
Enough is enough
Hard to feel that conditions of speed
Modern disease
Even though my head knows this
I'm fighting demons in my sleep
Even though I know I know the time
It teases me to tow the line
Always come back to square one
How much is too much
Lessons over graded and done
Should I stay or run
Look around you are bound
To think it through not much ado
What to do
Even though my head knows this
I'm fighting demons in my sleep
Even though I know the time
It teases me to tow the line
Teases me tow the line
Teases me tow the line
How much is too much
Stay put or run
How much is too much
Stay put or run

Martina Topley-Bird :

Come to me saying you've been lonely
Yeah you're listening for the telephone but it ain't ringing, no
Your love is so mature
I won't take it no since you been
Into something you will not turn leader you tell me nothing
You won't lecture me
That's enough reasoning, I can with you so raunchy
I'm for real memories are not burning in
Running into me and saying something
You can't believe they want to take my wings
All of the colours out the corner of my eye it was singing, oh
Breathe on this city machine, they want a rare too blue
That's enough reasoning, I know you
May you be all you can be
And may the child in you want to believe I want you here
I want you in my world
Hey muse I used to be your candy store
Candy store
Empty time they came and cheerlead feel like I'm the only only song and
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Lay it all on me
I been so wrong
I can't reach you to begin again
I love the way you go to words
The sun that you are
I tried to be here
I understand you like a baby
I'll understand you like a baby
I won't listen like a baby
Don't understand you like a baby
I understand you like a baby
I'll understand you like a baby
I won't listen like a baby
Don't understand
And the rain is coming

Norwegian Wood

( The Beatles cover feat. Luca Santucci )

I once had a girl
Or should I say
She once had me

She showed me her room
Isn't it good
Norwegian wood

She asked me to stay
And she told me to sit anywhere
So I looked around
And I noticed there wasn't a chair
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
I sat on a rug
Biding my time
Drinking her wine

We talked until two
And then she said
"It's time for bed"

She told me she worked in the morning
And started to laugh
I told her I didn't
And crawled off to sleep in the bath

And when I awoke
I was alone
This bird had flown

So I lit a fire
Isn't it good
Norwegian wood

Norwegian wood
Isn't it good
Norwegian wood
Isn't it good

Luca Santucci :

Just the other day I thought of you
Thanks a bunch for the fun
Now we're done
Never see a lot just a few
That's your style little wild
Never mind
I'll take my chance
Lets so again
Worth the grief
Don't mind the rain
U may be strange
There's no platform for your train
Having had the time to think it through
Made me smile been a while
You beguile
We may need some stitching or some glue
Heaven knows how it goes
Stuck to you
Heaven knows how it goes
Heaven knows, knows I am yours

Why Should I

Martina Topley-Bird & Terry Hall :

The stars are crashing down
The moon is turning blue
I'm on the edge of town
And I am stuck with you
Why should I worry
Lately I lose and find
Memories still remind
Closer I get to peace
Stronger demons won't release
Why should I worry
The seas a tidal wave
Take me to the scream
I have no soul to save
I have no dream to dream
Why should I worry
Smile by, talk through
Often no reply belief
Smile at passers by
Talk through gritted teeth
Often no reply
Bored beyond belief
The well is almost dry
The clouds have disappeared
No tears are left to dry
No fear is left to fear
Why should I worry

All of this

It's all leading to this moment
It's all there is
Where all the roads are
Where all the roads are feeding here
And the day we see we see it for the first time
Opening for us we are standing on
We are standing on
All of this we are all of it
All of this

Welcome To Ur Life

In the time that it's taken for a marble
Time it's taken for a marble
To hit the ground from your open hand
Hit the ground from your open hand
One thousand thoughts have crossed your mind
A thousand thoughts have crossed, have crossed your mind your mind
The sound of a marble, hitting the ground
Your course of action
Is only yours
Welcome to your life again
Welcome to your life
Welcome to your life again
" Pour moi le dadaïsme était une étape extrêmement nécessaire "
Seeing without your eyes for the first time
Seeing without your eyes
The sound of a marble, hitting the ground
Ur course of action
Is only yours
Welcome to your life again
Welcome to your life
Seeing without your eyes for the first time
Seeing without your eyes
Welcome to your life
Again
In consideration
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Toiling you
I take into consideration
All that we are
In consideration of
All that we are
All that we are
Not

(disappointed cloud) Anyway

All I tried, all my efforts they were in vain
With all my might, wouldn't let me love love you anyway
Anyway
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
All that I could give, would never be enough for you
With all my crying, wouldn't let me love you anyway
Love you anyway
Love you anyway
Anyway

Colony collapse disorder

Panic only lasted a moment
The panic only lasted but a moment
Panic only lasted for a moment
Then they went about their business
Pardon clarity
Never lasts
My dear please
Pass me my blinds
Panic only lasted a moment
The panic only lasted but a moment
Panic only lasted for a moment
Then they went about their business
And they went on and they went on
And they went on and they went on
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
U & I

I try not to disturb you while you’re sleeping
But there's something that s washed up on the shore
I heard there's a city underneath the sea
And its residents are twice as big as
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
U & I
We are not
We are not
We are not
We are not

The countries that we've been
Investing in
U & I
U & I

We are not
We are not
We are not

The pictures that we've been painting
We are not
The songs that we've been singing

We are not
We are not
We are not

The numbers that we've resigned
To ourselves to ourselves
To ourselves
We are not who we think we are
We are not
Who we think we are
We are not
U & I