Violet Indiana Complete Lyrics Archive

B i o g r a p h y
(by Andy Kellman)

Sonic wizard Robin Guthrie (ex-Cocteau Twins) and vocalist Siobhan de Mare (ex-Mono) made up the hazy dream pop of Violet Indiana. Shortly after de Mare was relieved of her Mono duties, she received a phone call from Guthrie, asking her if she'd like to work with him. Unfamiliar with Guthrie's cult status, she asked her sister about him and decided to take him up on the offer. In late 2000, the duo released the Choke EP on Bella Union, the label run by Guthrie and former Cocteau mate Simon Raymonde. Retaining some of Guthrie's trademark characteristics and combining them with de Mare's lazy, confident delivery, the Choke EP established them convincingly enough as something removed from Guthrie's prior band — a tricky thing indeed. 2001's full-length Roulette improved on the promising debut. A singles collection, Casino, followed in early 2002. Russian Doll was the proper follow-up to Roulette, released in June of 2004.

Air Kissing

A million miles of crooked smiles
Tainted dreams, with ill lit walls
The life you dreamt, but didn't mean
They sung your praise, while they took it all
They watched you rise, and helped you to fall
They left you for dead with no breathe at all
And still keep believing that no one's deceiving
And that they care about you

There's got to be more to you
I can see you being see through
But please tell me there's more to you
Surely there's more to you

Fake the scene you hang around
They don't care if your there
Or what's inside you
Air kissing your cheeks, while staring behind you
How can they use, and keep on using you
Pretending to care, but really despise you
A life you'll regret
Trapped in a world your blasé and blind to
And they don't care about you

There's got to be more to you
I can see you being see through
But please tell me there's more to you
Surely there's more to you

Feline or Famine

If the promise I gave to you wasn't good enough
Say goodbye to me (goodbye)
If the time I gave to you wasn't long enough
Don't cry to me, or let me see
If you don't trust me then you don't know me
How much I'm here for you

I am here for you
Oh I am here
Oh I am here for you
That's where I'll be

If you take yourself away you might as well take me too
I'm no good without you
If your day seems too dark, alone and too stark
Turn your light to me
I'll shine bright, if you let me

I am here for you
Oh I am here
Oh I am here for you
That's where I'll be

I am here for you
Oh I am here
That's right where I'll be
Why don't you just believe in me
Oh I am here for you
waiting to see
if you will ever believe in me
Here for you

Sundance

What's the story?
Where do I go, I gave my life to you
Precious reasons, expressions in your face
It's written all over you
Everything you say and do

What was I supposed to do?
What was I supposed to say?
Where was I supposed to go?
What am I supposed to know?
What was I supposed to do?
What was I supposed to say?
Where am I supposed to go?
Where was I supposed to know?

What's the meaning?
The dreaded feeling
The reason's you don't want me
Oh, do you remember me
Do you remember?
How you used to feel for me
Where do I go from here?

What was I supposed to do?
What was I supposed to say?
Where was I supposed to go?
What am I supposed to know?
What the hell was I supposed to do?

Here I am, alone again, the dreaded day
To end you, I'll find a way, A place you can stay
The distance was killing me.

Here I am, the feel again, a beautiful day, to end you
I'll find a way, all mine today, was there a way to love me?

Here I am, alone again, the dreaded day to end you
I'll find a way, a place you can stay,
Oh your distance was kiling me.
Your distance was killing me.
Aah aah oh, killing me.

Little Echo

Looking back safe in the future,
I can see the love that I was to call my sanity
Is just slipping away.
Lonely life that offers empty self destruction and seduction tenderness.
Overcame my way
Those days, have fallen behind me.
Those days, start calling behind me.

Everyday a desert would be the world I see caving in on me
Looking in to me
Disguising and guiding through blindness and my own insecurity
Those days, have fallen behind me.
Those days, start calling behind me.

Angel

Come home to me
So i can bathe
You and me
Home to me

I'm watching down
Through cloudy eyes
Up above
The misty sky
Looking through
The sadness
(?a?) left in your eyes

Come home to me
So i can bathe
You and me
Home to me

Breathing love
Down into you
I see your lie
Everything too
Drown in the clouds
Reaching all to you
Oh i know i watch
He miss me too

Come home to me
So i can bathe
You and me
Home
Come home to me
So i can bathe
You and me
Home
Oh

I think your addicted
Addicted love you
A lonely existence
So down on yourself
And i'll be there to watch you
Lift your hand while you drown
And no self worth
Is bringing me down

He's walking all over you
And there is nothing you can do
She's walking all over you
And there is nothing i can do
She's talking

You need me to rescue
As death is on the ground
And though i can still kill
Kill you from yourself
'Cause you can keep birds alive
So cool to break you
It's starting to search you

She's breaking you down

She's walking all over you
And there is nothing you can do
She's walking all over you
And there is nothing i can do

She's talking

If you need a sensual space
Inside your world
That you feel safe
I'll meet you there
Uh...i'm hiding
It's safe in here
Uh...i'm hiding
Uh...i'm hiding
I feel safe in here
Why i'm here?
It's dark it's cold
I miss your life
In my silent world
Uh...i'm hiding (why am i hiding?)
It's safe in here (i feel so scared of you)
Uh...i'm hiding (why am i running?)
Uh...i'm hiding (you scare me)
Show me a place
To be in me
Close inside
I'm breathing new
Uh...i'm hiding
I feel safe in here
Uh...i'm hiding (why am i hiding?)
I feel safe in here (why do i run from you?)
Uh...i'm hiding (why do you scare me?)
Uh...i'm hiding (you know i care for you)
Uh...i'm hiding (oh i keep hiding)
Uh...i'm hiding (i keep on running away)
Uh...i'm hiding (i keep on running)
Uh...i'm hiding
It feels warm
It feels strong
Safe from here
I belong
Deep inside
Where i can't hide
Oh you feel....
Uh la la la.....

Here I sit
I'm strong 'cause I belong
In the flames
Where I'm safe
From your words as you degrade me
But I'm safe
From this maze
Of your doubt
You were cruel to me
I was a fool
And your rage
Is the end
Take your pain from me

What's it go to do
With any part of you
What I'm gonna do
To get over you
What's it go to do
With any part of you
I let myself
Get too close to you
What's it go to do
With any part of you
What I'm gonna do
To get over you
What's it go to do
With any part of you
I let myself
Go too close to you

Your shame
And your blame
Your failure and your fame
Impressed
You're depressed
Emotionaly undressed
You were a reck
I was your fool
Now I see through you
I'm not the same
Take your pain
And this balme
Away from me

What's it go to do
With any part of you
What I'm gonna do
To get over you
What's it go to do
With any part of you
I let myself
Go too close to you

Just(??) shame
And pain
It's always the same
Shame and pain
Just(??) shame
And pain
It's always the same
Shame and pain
No baby(??)
Just(??) shame
And pain
It's always the same
Shame and pain
(???) Stop blaming me
Just(??) shame
And pain
It's always the same
Shame and pain
(????????)
Just(??) shame
And pain
It's always the same
Shame and pain

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

Liar

Don't touch me
I see through you
Don't speak to me
I believed in you
I see the truth
Don't speak to me
I trusted you
Don't speak to me

La la la la la la la la liar liar
La la la la la la la la liar liar

Liar
Don't speak to me
Liar
Don't speak to me
I trusted you
I believed in you
Don't speak to me
Don't speak to me

La la la la la la la la liar liar
La la la la la la la la liar liar

Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Liar
Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Liar
Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Liar
Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Liar

Don't look to me for sympathy
Don't look to me for sympathy
Cause I can see you're a liar, and you're lying to me
Cause I can see you're a liar, and you're lying to me

Cold and bare with your naked stare
Oh but no one knows, why you take them there,
Cause you're full of charm, and so full of harm
As you carry me, to where you'll bury me

In your killer eyes chilling through me
Your killer eyes keep staring through me

Tangled in, this unhealthy feeling,
As i magnitize I feel hypnotized.
Got to get away, but you know i'll stay
As you hold me close, till I almost choke.

In your killer eyes chilling through me
And those killer eyes staring through me
Those killer eyes are tearing through me
The love deep inside me i know it can hide me
Those killer eyes are staring through me
Those killer eyes

I don't know (I don't know) what they do to me
(Those killer eyes) you don't know, what they do to me

In your killer eyes, chilling through me
Those killer eyes, staring through me
Those killer eyes are tearing through me
The love deep inside me, i know it can hide me
Those killer eyes, keep staring through me
Those killer eyes...

You don't know, in your killer eyes staring through me
Those killer eyes keep tearing through me
The love deep inside me, I know it can hide me
Those killer eyes keep staring through me.

Here I am, waiting for you
To feel what you say you feel, can I believe in you?
There's no reason for me to stay inside
Waiting for my release when I don't have to hide
Tuesday morning a letter came from you
A picture of yourself telling me, what you want to do
You're fifty eight, and I'm nineteen again
You promised me a life outside
You say you just want to be my friend

Having the best day of my life
Until the day I met you
Having the best day of my life
Until I found out you were you

Where does it lead me, right back inside?
Walking down for trial not the aisle as your bride
Six feet under, a duvet under your head
I'm lying in your flowery sheets in your four poster bed

Having the best day of my life
Until the day I met you
Having the best day of my life
Until I found out you were you

I hope you'll understand this
This wasn't planned you know
It's hard for me to say this
But you know you let me down
I don't do well with pain Mr. Davies
So I had to take you down
To comfort me and help me
I 'm safer inside
So I can't harm anyone else again
Sleep well Mr. Davies
I'm back inside again
Writing you another letter
I hope you still want to be my friend
I'll love you until the end

I crept into our room
She came along too soon
I saw things, they're not your taste
Misunderstood, it's such a waste
Your stranger sleep in our bed
I stared at the back of her head
Her hair layed on my pillow
She looks so comfortable

Bang bang you're dead
Bang bang bang bang bang bang you're dead
I shot at the back of her head

Bang bang you're dead
Bang bang bang bang bang bang you're dead
I shot at the back of her head

I want to wait in chain
Downstairs, as I heard a ??
Her voice screamed out your name
I said, come on down and i'll do it bang

Bang bang you're dead
Bang bang you're dead
Bang bang you're dead
Bang bang bang bang bang bang you're dead
Bang bang you're dead
I shot at the back of her head

Bang bang you're dead
Bang bang bang bang bang bang you're dead
I shot at the back of her head

Bang bang you're dead
She's smile while she was dead
Bang bang you're dead
And I'm gonna got back into my bed
Bang bang you're dead
She's smile while she was dead
Bang bang you're dead
And I'm gonna got back into my bed
Bang bang you're dead
Bang bang bang bang bang bang you're dead

Purr La Perla

What a life we are living
No one says a word
What a life we are playing at
With our feeling's never heard
Oh you never want to hear
I 'm silent while I cry

I wish I could love you
If only I knew
I wish I could love you
Instead of saying I do

I live a world apart from you
Oh your living so deep in you
I'm wondering about the distance
I'm questioning you
I'll never be your picture
I can see the rage in you

I wish I could love you
If only I knew
I wish I could love you
Instead of saying I do

Silent

Tired of the emptiness
Fakeness trying to justify
Reasons they repulse you now
Casualties stamped on their knees
Dismiss them now
'Cause you miss me now
Should've thought about me
When you were feeling free

So over you
Whatever you do
Don't think I need any part of you
So over you
Whatever you do
Don't think I need any part of you

Need all the best of you
The falseness I despise in you
I cried in you while you slept in me
You crept in me, decieving me,
Dispense the truth
While you walk away
What you done won't just walk away
It's coming to haunt you

So over you
Whatever you do
Don't think I need any part of you
So over you
Whatever you do
Don't think I need any part of you

Storm

I just couldn't say
What i meant that day
Nothing's changed
And taste is strange
Can you see me
In another way
I have to say

I'm another way
In your darkest day
Can you feel me
Can you ??? me

I just couldn't say
What i meant that day
Nothing's changed
And taste is strange

I'm another way
In your darkest day
Can you feel me
Can you ??? me

I reveal the distance
I conceal your existance
I reveal the distance
While you conceal your insistence

I'm another way
In your darkest day
I'm another way
In your darkest day

You help me to ???
It's been hell on me (?)
You help me to ??? me
It's been hell on me (?)
You help me to ???
It's been hell on me (?)
Your darkest day
Can you feel me
Can you feel me

Sky

I can't describe why i go there
I don't even know myself
I know when i get there
It feels like home

But it feels so right
I know i could be gone away

In my mind, i'm broken
As i wander through this world
And i keep on thinking
I'll be held by golden sun

And your arms keep on holding me
No regrets, just desire for you
Can't describe why i go there
What it is that you do to me

But it feels so right
I know i should be gone
But it feels so right
? .... ?
But it feels so right
Even though they say it's gone
How can it be wrong

I need to find
A place in me
An empty space that'd be
So lonely avoiding me
Don't try to see in me

There's nothing left in me
The way for you to be
There's nothing left to see
Don't try envying me

I only was holding you
I gave my faith to you
Emptiness inside of you
Nothing left but ????

There's nothing left in me
(There's nothing left ...)
The way for you to be
(The way for you ...)
There's nothing left to see
(There's nothing left ...)
Don't try envying me

I gave it all to you
(I gave it all)
Ohh, ooh
Ahhhhhh
(Give myself to you)

There's nothing left to see
(Avoiding me)
The way for you
(... a fantasy)
There's nothing left to see
(Avoiding me)
Don't try envying me
(Avoiding me)

Ahhh-Ahhh

There's nothing left in me
The way for you to be
(Gave myself ...)
There's nothing left to see
(Everything I do)
Don't try envying me
(I gave it all to you)

If you go away
On this summer day
Then you might as well
Take the sun away
All the birds that flew
In the summer sky
When our love was new
And our hearts were high
When the day was young
And the night was long
And the moon stood still
For the night-bird's song

If you go away
If you go away
If you go away

But if you stay
I'll make you a day
Like no day has been
Or will be again
We will sail the sun
We will ride on the rain
We will talk to the trees
And worship the wind
Then if you go
I'll understand
Leave me just enough love
To hold in my hand

If you go away
If you go away
If you go away

Il faut oublier
Tout peut s'oublier
Qui s'enfuit déjà
Oublier le temps
Des malentendus
Et le temps perdu
A savoir comment
Oublier ces heures
Qui tuaient parfois
A coups de pourquoi
Le coeur du bonheur
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

But if you stay
I'll make you a night
Like no night has been
Or will be again
I'll sail on your smile
I'll ride on your touch
I'll talk to your eyes
That I love so much
Then if you go
I'll understand
Leave me just enough love
To hold in my hand

If you go away
If you go away
Oh if you go away

If you go away
As I know you must
There'll be nothing left
In this world to trust
Just an emtpy room
Full of emtpy space
Like the empty look
I'll see on your face
Oh i'd live in the shadow
Of your shadow
If it might keep me by your side

If you go away
If you go away
If you go away

Please don't go away

Poppy

Wake up dreamer,
Sunshine forever,
Closeness... openness
Safe here for both of us

You're the purest feeling so gentle and fine,
Sweet and gorgeous, and I know you're mine,

Shelter you, protect you, enjoy you, explore you,
My love, is for you,
you know how much I adore you,

You're the purest feeling, so gentle and fine,
Sweet and gorgeous, oh and I know you're mine,

You're the purest feeling,
Oh I want you to be mine,
Sweet and gorgeous, oh I adore you,
Would you really be mine?

Your tears can dry now,
My eyes won't cry now,
Those years behind us,
Another love has found us,

Sweetheart

Torn Up

Lately I've been thinking, maybe I'm okay,
If I was to go outside, would I find a way,
Would it show on my face you wrecked me inside,
My confidence is sinking but I know I can survive,

I miss you, yes I miss you, tore me up inside
I miss you, yes I miss you, tore me up inside,

Maybe you can help me, loose and on my own (?)
Emptiness, restlessness always on my own,
Wondering about you, where you found to me
If you're somewhere lonely do you think about me.

I miss you yes I miss you, tore me up inside,
I miss you yes I miss you, tore me up inside,

I miss you, yes I miss you,
Ooh I miss you, want to kiss you hold me in your arms again.

I miss you yes I miss you, tore me up inside,
I miss you yes I miss you, tore me up inside,
I miss you yes I miss you.

Air Kissing (chorus)
There's got to be, more to you,
Don't let it be, don't let me see there's no more to you
There's got to be, more to you,
Don't let it be, don't let me see there's no more to you

Heaven

I watch her sleeping
And she's so beautiful
I hear her breathing
Her hands keep squeezing mine
Her tears like diamonds as
They fall from her eyes

Heaven
Give me heaven
So this little star to shine
Heaven
Heaven

Her wings were broken
Her fears were spoken
As she stares above
I hear her screaming
All that she's feeling
Does she feel my love

Heaven
Give me heaven
So this little star to shine
Heaven
Heaven
Give me heaven
Give me heaven
So this little star to shine
Heaven
Heaven

Chapter three

I have made it clear
That I don't want you here
Leave me why can't you see
The past now was destroying me
I am moving on
This story has all gone wrong

Leave now
Just say goodbye
Turn away
Don't watch me cry!
Leave now
Too much to say
Don't speak
Just walk away!
'Cause i'm in the arms of someone special

Over so close the door
I won't love you anymore
My life is someone new
And nothing now involves you
You can't help me now
'Cause i'm in the arms of someone special

Leave now
Just say goodbye
Turn away
Don't watch me cry!
Leave now
Too much to say
Don't speak
Just walk away!
'Cause i'm in the arms of someone special

Never enough

Never enough, enough of your stuff
I'm sick of being of being done
I'm not good enough
Telling me what i should say or do
I'm never enough
Not good enough
Not good enough
Not good enough
Not good enough for you

'Cos you and me
Should never be
There is nothing left inside of me
'Cos you and me
Should never be
I'm over you
You sigh about me

It's always the same
Kept playing games
I'm sick of you
Everything you do
Have you ever thought
That maybe i don't care?
Enough of you
I'm sick of you
Everything you say
Everything you do
I wish that you just weren't there

'Cos you and me
Should never be
There is nothing left inside of me
'Cos you and me
Should never be
I'm over you
You sigh about me

Not good enough, not good enough
Good enough, good enough, i'm not good enough
I'm not good enough for you
There is nothing left for us to say or do
It's all and done now
Just walk away
Just nothing left for me to do
And there is nothing left to say
I'm over you
Never enough
I'm never enough for you
There is nothing left to say
And there is nothing left to do

Quelque jour

He crept into the room
Didn't say a word
She laid beside him
The screaming was all i heard
He kissed her feet
His hands were tied
He left the room
And i watched her cried

She picked her dress up
And made a call
I felt so strange as i watched it all
Her name was velvet
Her lips were so red
Her hair was black as she laid on the bed

Do-do-do-do quelque jour
Do-do-do quelque jour
Do-do-do-do quelque jour
Do-do-do quelque jour

She made her face up
And tightened her belt
There was no feelings
The ones that she felt
She left the room and she got in a car
She stopped off at a strange bar

Do-do-do-do quelque jour
Do-do-do quelque jour
Do-do-do-do quelque jour
Do-do-do quelque jour

He kissed her hands
Her hands were so hot
He looked and smiled at the sky
He said her name and remembered when
She smacked his face and she did it again
He said her name and remembered when
She smacked his face and she did it again

(My Baby Was A) Cheat

What did you do when i wasn't with you?
I heard something that they said
It cuts like a knife to hear the words
And it hurts to know that you're somewhere else

My baby was a cheat
My baby was a cheat
My heart is on the floor
No one to love anymore

It's all the same, i am back here again
I thought you would be the one
Something inside
You sheltered my pride
I'll pick myself up again

My baby was a cheat
My baby was a cheat
My heart is on the floor
No one to love anymore

I'll sit here alone
Won't answer my phone
'Cos words will only hurt
Just something you said
Goes around in my head
The words that you loved me
My baby was a cheat
My baby was a cheat

New girl

He tries to feed me whispers
Sweetly in my ear
He says the words, the ones i need to hear

I'm his blue bell
I'm his new girl
I'm his blue bell

His heart is smiling and it's right next to mine
I drift into his world and i lose my mind

I'm his blue bell
I'm his new girl
I'm his blue bell
I'm his blue bell
I'm his blue bell
I'm his new girl
I'm his blue bell
I'm his blue bell

We walk together into fields coloured blue
Kissed by the sun i want to lie beside you

New girl (blue bell...)

I'm his blue bell
I'm his new girl
I'm his blue bell
I'm his new girl
I'm his blue bell

The visit

This is the beginning
You're on the road
Your secret journey
That no one will know
No need for words
Oh, just let yourself go
Enjoy what i'm doing
'Cos no one will know

This is the visit
Just lie yourself down
The curtains are closed now
And there in no one around

I'm here for pleasure
Oh, i'll be who you need
Call me whoever
'Cos i'm here to please

This is the visit
Just lie yourself down
The curtains are closed now
And there in no one around

This is the visit
Just lie yourself back down
This is the visit
Lie yourself down
The curtains are closed now
Don't you look down

This is the visit
Where you can be with me
Be who you need to be
You're safe here with me

This is the visit
No one will know
Let me listen
Before you go
Remember at least i'll be your secret girl
Come back and see me

You

You came to save me
I feel so in love with you
'Cos you came to be with me

The sunshine is in you
You take away my pain
The sunshine it fills you
I loved you

Blue boy it's all for you
Tell me and i'll tell you too
Trusting me like i put my trust in you
The secret inside: me loving you

The sunshine is in you
You take away my pain
The sunshine it fills you
I loved you

You came to change me
I feel free

You came to change me
I feel free

When i'm down i lose myself
Lie inside this safe soul
When you're around
I lose myself
I lose control
When you're around
I feel i found a place that i have completed me
What i found is when you're around, i feel...
What i found i feel around used to be me and you...

Touch me

What's the matter with your expression?
You say you are just thinking
Nothing that you want to share with me?
Do you still care?

Where is your heart?
Just tell me
Is there someone else?
Is there someone you're loving?
Don't you want me?

What's the meaning of your silence?
Could this be the end?
There is no time for conversation
You don't even touch me

Where is your heart?
Just tell me
Is there someone else?
Is there someone you're loving?
Don't you want me?

Do-dooo-doo-doo-a-do-dooo-do-do

What's the matter with your expression?
You say you're just thinking
Nothing that you want to share with me?
Do you still care?

What's the meaning of your silence?
Could this be the end?
There is no time for conversation
You don't even touch me

Innocent

I found your picture hidden in your drawer
You looked so innocent... And beautiful
Were you just curious?
Were you just young and insecure?
Did it make you happy?
Did he make you feel secure?
Was a life that you don't remember anymore?
Did he kiss you gently?
And did he lead you wanting more?

Before you ignore me
I'll show you who you are
Before you ignore me
I'll show you who you are

I saw your faces
I know what you did before
You went to places you don't go anymore
You try to hide it
But there are no secrets anymore
Did he kiss you sweetly?
Did he kiss away your fear?

Before you ignore me
I'll show you who you are
Before you ignore me
I'll show you who you are

Before you ignore me
I'll show you who you are
Before you ignore me
I'll show you who you are

Before you ignore me
I'll show you who you are
Before you ignore me
I'll show you who you are

Beyond the furr

It's time to sink or swim
Don't let the poison in
They try to wreck me
It won't affect me, no no
I've had my wall torn down
Been hurt enough, fooled around

It's time to see
That you and me
It's the end of us
How we used to be
We had the time
It opened on (?)
The time is here
And our time has come
Finally
Don't look at me
Close the world
You made for me
(Ohh, Ahhh)

Don't look at me
Like you used to look at me
You never gave me a chance
You never gave me a chance
(Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa)
Finally
Finally
Close the world
Don't ever look at me

Finally
Finally
You never gave me a chance
You never gave me a chance