Will you shut the door
I'm aching from the noise
All my insides
are mechanical toys

They show me visions
make me blind
make my decisions
Please be kind

Turn me on
I'm still gone

It takes all my brain
to feel this confused
I smile like an idiot
And just look amused

Turn me on
I'm still gone

Please relieve the hypertension
Please relieve, so reassuring
Please receive some close attention
Please receive my insecuring

You can keep searching but all you will find is me
Keep searching but all you will find…

When they bury me alive
Will they bury my thoughts there with me?
Will the memory survive
For a while?

I think I’m coming around
           Coming around
                           Coming around

Let yourself surrender
To the humming neon angels
Be your own transcender
To the true, see and tell

From the high coming low I am counting you
Counting down to zero

When they bury me alive
Will they bury my thoughts there with me?
Will the memory survive
For a while?

I think I’m coming around
           Coming around
                           Coming around

Effervesce
In cold caress
More is Less
Just say “Yes”

Need a fix for my fixation
Hit me smack between the eyes
Please receive my invitation
Please receive and paralyse

Am I escaping when all I can see is you?
Try escaping, but all I can see…

I think I’m coming around
           Coming around
                           Coming around

You’re the one, you’re the one
You’re the one, you’re the one
You’re the one, you’re the one
You’re the one, you’re the one

I hear you at the speed of light, I see you at the speed of sound
The silences don't move so fast, they ain't so graceful pound for pound
I'm turning myself inside out, I want to show you where I hide
Your eyes start burning into me, please look away before it's too late

Our fire burns in fits and flashes
Smoke and ashes irritating my eyes

Graffiti on your bedroom walls, I read it as I suffocate
I'm terrified my heart has stopped, I need you to resuscitate
My body and my memories show the impressions of your touch
Like battlescars I wear them proudly til it all becomes too much

Our fire burns in fits and flashes
Smoke and ashes irritating my eyes

Anticipation separates my sense of now
And my elation means less to you

I hear you at the speed of light, I see you at the speed of sound
I'm falling to reality, I'm running as I hit the ground

I see you at the speed of light, I hear you at the speed of sound
I see you at the speed of light, I hear you at the speed of sound

Our fire burns in fits and flashes
Smoke and ashes bringing tears to my eyes

Hey child wearing somebody else's shoes
What's the matter, got your feet dirty on the ground?
You look funny, wearing your mother's heels
Working nights, and then later you're taking to ground

Buy you dinner just to put something on your bones
Give you money, expect nothing in return
I don't love you, but somebody surely should

Will you be long

Complete me fill me up I'm hollow
I meet myself and we follow
our feet to where we can swallow
you whole

Will you be long
to me

Butterfly
amplified
into a
hurricane
And again it lifts me off my feet and blows my mind

Follow the
human herd
against a
spinning world
Until it turns so fast they're walking past themselves

Don't beat your wings in my direction
A victim of unnatural selection
That could be me
Floating down

Stand atop
mountain high
shouting out
"Why do I
Have nothing at all to say, I crawl from day to day"

Sticks and stones may bust up my bones
But silence never leaves you alone
And when I jump I'll be
Floating down

Kisses blown
overflow
into a
hurricane
And again it lifts me off my feet and blows my mind

Don't beat your wings in my direction
A victim of unnatural selection
That could be me
Floating down

TV shines from distant lands
Faces seen then disappear
Come out from behind your hands
Say welcome to the post-war years

And those of you whom god has blessed
Look down in their shining eyes
Say  "you who bring us all our hope
Welcome to your post-war lives"

Say you want me to be happy too
You can find me in my happy room
You got to meet this friend of mine
He's always laughing all the time
You'd never know he's laughing at you
Please don't leave me, I'll be happy soon

I met a nice Sri Lankan man
He smiled as he spoke to me
I smiled back, though I didn't understand
But he spoke with such sincerity

He said
"Five aeroplanes went bang! explode
The airport in my country
Don't get me wrong I love all life
Cos that is my philosophy"

Say you want me to be happy too
You can find me in my happy room
You got to meet this friend of mine
He's always laughing all the time
You'd never know it's gasoline fumes
Please don't leave me, I'll be happy soon

Little eyes reflecting back
Pictures of a rising cloud
Bigger eyes connecting back
To things I'd never say out loud

Show you he cares
He'll touch you where nobody else can
And nobody else can
See him up close
Get another dose let him medicate you
He'll uncomplicate you

Give him some
He'll take you for another ride
Give him some
and he'll think it's funny
Give him some
          then write a song where I confide in you

Gotta give in
to Crazy Johnny

A love that's gone
He fears no-one and he cares no more
but behind closed doors (and he keeps 'em closed)
Those cold-light-early-morning eyes
In a face that hides that hides the radiation
Of a contamination

Take him home
          I tell his mum I tell his dad
Take him home
          And I tell the news
Take him home
          Then write a song to say he's mad with you

Gotta give in
to Crazy Johnny

Take him to his favourite place
the end of the pier
Leave him talking softly to the seagulls
Riding on the ferris wheel
we can see the world from here
But nothing gets through anymore

Show you I care
I'll touch you where nobody else can
And nobody else can
A love that's gone
I fear no-one and I care no more
but behind closed doors

When faces surround you and seem to see through you
Show everything, show everything
Just try to forget them they’ll go if you let them
Don’t know anything, don’t know anything

Just blow through the static it’s all automatic
You’re thinking too much, you’re thinking too much
And don’t concentrate let the force of it claim you
Are you feeling enough, are you feeling enough?

As Sarasvati plays, the smoke lifts from the haze
I listen for her call from down the waterfall
Her silver melodies are rising on the steam
I listen to her call from down the waterfall

Jab lowg tumhare pas ho nazarshanass
Dekane do unhey, dekane do unhey
Bus bhool jao ke koi dekhta hai
Jesay tumhaien kuch yad nahinhai

Bus sab phook do har ek ruut key silsiley ko
Aur ziada mat socho, aur ziada mat socho
Ab ghor mat khar must ho iis jharney ki dhara mein bekhar
Aur mat soch ehsaas kar, aur mat soch ehsaas kar

As Sarasvati plays, the smoke lifts from the haze
I listen for her call from down the waterfall
Her silver melodies are rising on the steam
I listen to her call from down the waterfall

In the morning the unforgiving sunlight tears the night apart
Then in the evening, a day of living later, you’re bruised and battlescarred

When the truth hits you, she softens the blow
And you still fall down like you always did, but she never lets you hit the floor...

The world melts down into my pillow
I’m wading into the Afterglow

The seed that I’ve sown, now it has grown and it curls its vines around me
The flowers bloom, their thick perfume intoxifies me

But she breathes new oxygen
And the mouth to mouth sends us flying south to where the weather’s warm for sure

The world melts down into my pillow
I’m wading into the Afterglow

She’s panic buying,
walking down the aisle that she feels identified in
It’s number seven,
where the colour smears into photographs of heaven

Don’t raise your voice if you’re talking to me
We’re only Temporary

She plays the numbers,
seconds hiss away until a day is just a flicker
Her goddess slumbers,
waiting in her dream until the memory is quicker

Don’t raise your hands it’s easy can’t you see
We’re only temporary

I remember that kiss, It was a moment of pure bliss
My stomach went tight, My head set alight, And I thought “hey what’s this?”
I remember your arms, And a few other bodyparts,
And I knew I’d make sure, That nothing of yours, Would go unexplored

And I sang...
“I don’t need no food, Just give me Gloria
And I don’t need no music, When I’m with her”

I remember your dad, Cos he had a skinhead
And he had a tattoo, That the years had turned blue, It said “don’t fuck with me”

I remember your house, In the yard was a kitchen sink
And your mum would make tea, And Benson’s for three, And tip me the wink

And I sang...
“I don’t need no food, Just give me Gloria
And I don’t need no music, When I’m with her”

I remember your kiss punch, Cos you nearly brought back my lunch
But the most painful part, Was I knew that you’d hate me for evermore

But I think of you still, In fact you’re actually in my will
I leave you my car, It’s been pretty far, And it doesn’t like hills

And I sing...
“I don’t need no food, Just give me Gloria
And I don’t need no music, When I’m with her”

They live in a lighthouse
Where they keep each other safe and warm
And wait the night out
Til the morning crashes on the shore

She finds the deepest grooves
that cannot be resisted
But you can’t force a man to listen

Loveproof

He says he loves her
And he knows he’ll mean it some day soon
The stars above her
couldn’t make her feel any smaller

So she will write a song where
they can live together
She’ll weave a tangled tune
to bind forever

Loveproof

You can’t lead him

Blind, blind, I’m throwing punches in the dark
Blind, blind, I’m throwing punches in the dark
You launch a heart attack, And my defense is blown apart

You found the secret I can’t keep
You found my weakness underneath
I surrender

Run, run, a river's running out your mouth,
Run, run, a river runs right out your mouth,
You love to push me in, Just so that you can fish me out

You found the secret I can’t keep
You found my weakness underneath
I surrender

Please, please, there must be something I can say
Please, please, there must be something I can say
You sting me tenderly, Then take the antidote away

From a sinking ship
From an evil scientist
From a shaking lip
I will save you

From a burning car
From a dream that haunts you
From another’s charm
I will save you

From a love grown cold
From the endless road you’re on
From ever growing old
I will save you

I will rescue you
Or I’ll do my best to

It’s high noon at the Last Chance Saloon
Second home to racketeers
Where magic man sells his masterplan
He’s a global pioneer

He says “Villains roam towards our homes
And they’ll burn away the clouds,
But my new invention, my weather engine
Is already eastward bound”

Terraform the desert into paradise
With our weather machine
We’ll perform the necessary sacrifice
With our weather machine

So the giant device spewing liquid ice
Is flown to foreign lands
Where the locals curse their forever thirst
And the neverending sands

But the rain falls hot with a kilowatt
Of the magic man’s bloodlust
And funny little rivers form
Black ribbons in the dust

Terraform the desert into paradise
With our weather machine
We’ll perform the necessary sacrifice
With our weather machine

Spinning words at the hungry herds
He’s twisting a new truth
It’s the magic man and his faithful gang
Dreaming of eternal youth

He says “Villains roam towards our homes
And they’ll burn away the clouds
But worry not cos I wrote the plot
And I know how it turns out”

On a train, the landscape is a rush-a grey,
And tears are streaming down the window pain,
I contemplate nothing

Old man sits down and faces me,
He’s got a smile, I think it’s aimed at me,
He says “I know your problem,”

“If music’s for dancing,
And magic’s for the spellbound,
And love is for lovers,
What’s left for you?”

I ask “What the hell’s that supposed to mean?”
He says “Listen man, you’re the door now here’s the key,
Just open up and you’re free,”

“You wonder why you never understand,
And everybody seems to have their masterplans,
But you don’t know nothing”

“If music’s for dancing,
And magic’s for the spellbound,
And love is for lovers,
What’s left for you?”

But his words they seemed like mockery,
And nobody’s allowed to teach me,
nobody can teach me nothing.

Say, say what you want,
Cos I, I can't read your mind,
Please, please teach me Telepathy.

I can't get to sleep,
My thoughts are my enemies,
They sing to me
A carousel song
Revolving around my head,
With what you said...

I'm so tired but so awake,
Solutions come but much too late.

Say, say what you want,
Cos I, I can't read your mind,
Please, please teach me Telepathy.

I'd die for your sins,
We both cry in sympathy
With our cruelty,
And nobody wins,
But I lose more expertly,
So you turn and flee...

The saints come marching in,
I sing myself to sleep again.

Say, say what you want,
Cos I, I can't read your mind,
Please, please teach me Telepathy.

I can't get to sleep, my songbird captivity,
Oh sing to me!

Everything you've lost
it's a hole that's getting deeper.
You've dug yourself a well

so fill it up now,
Fill it up with water.

There's no need to be afraid

So hold your chin up high,
an army stands before you.
Just look into their eyes,
you're reflected back now.
There's ten thousand of you...

There's no need to be afraid

Look how far you've come!
A forest closes 'round you.
So climb the tallest tree
Can you see your home now?
You've built your home inside you.

There's no need to be afraid

When the night draws in I thank it.
Wrap it around me like my momma's blanket.
Behind the city night's boarded-up silence
there hides a million kinds of violence.

So my head begins to echo
with a deep cut from long ago.
I am dancing to the rhythm
of a dis-United Kingdom.

It's a deep, deep, deep
Deep cut, yeah...

Let the rhythm guide you!
Let the rhythm guide you!
Let the rhythm guide you!
Let the rhythm guide you!

Everybody looks the same at sunset,
or by the glowing of another funny cigarette.
You might look down upon a poor man thief, yeah,
But I'm lookin' down upon the rich men stealing.
We’re all in it together!

I would teach them all my moves,
hear the shuffling of hooves.
We'd be dancing to the rhythm
of the dis-United Kingdom.

It's a deep, deep, deep
Deep cut, yeah...

Let the rhythm guide you!

Born in your tiny prison cell
A million times smaller than you are
One single drop, and you're risen up
Afraid of the dark

Bloom
Bloom

You crack up through the pavement
In super, super slow motion
Though your back is gently breaking
You reach for the light

Bloom
Bloom

We can see everything
We can hear everything
We can see everything
We can hear everything

Weakness is not your weakness
You are what you grow into
You're not what you were

Bloom
Bloom

I'll tell you all of my fears
I'll tell you all of my shame
If you'll just lend me an ear
That's all I want

There is no word I can say
There is no chord I can play
To make me more of a man
And that's all I want

That's Everything...

Take my hand I'll lead you and we'll never be alone
Take my hand I'll lead you and we'll never be alone

The city's making you ill
It's like you're running uphill
Let's jump off the treadmill
Just close your eyes

I'm gonna build you a house
I'm gonna build you a wall
To keep you safe from it all
Just close your eyes

That's Everything...

Take my hand I'll lead you and we'll never be alone
Take my hand I'll lead you and we'll never be alone

Back at the dawning of time
When god made Everything
He had but one thing in mind
To make you mine

You're everything to me....

Loneliness is living
When you're swimming in the gloom,
Everywhere is silent,
Nothing is ever new.
An underwater comet,
I fly so gracelessly,
Open my eyes for a moment,
Just to check I still can't see

We are deep sea fishes
Beautiful to nobody,
We are navigating nowhere
Blindly through infinity

A single point of glowing,
A beacon in the dark,
The signal of the hunter,
I carry the same mark.
The distant shape is growing,
A ghostly yellow light,
O, water slowly flowing,
Take me to my love tonight

We are deep sea fishes
Beautiful to nobody,
We are navigating nowhere
Blindly through infinity

I hide myself from vision,
My strange and twisted form,
You see your own reflection,
I see myself in yours.
A fluttering of thermals
Holds us warm and close,
The things that seem eternal
are the things that change the most.

We are deep sea fishes
Beautiful only to we,
We are navigating nowhere
Together through infinity

Wrap up her limbs so she can lie
Spinning silk around her
Watch her inhaling fireflies
Illuminate her from inside

Got to
Cocoon her
Construct
A new womb for her
But will I
Teach her my fears
If I try
To protect her

Unfurl her wings so they can dry
Open to the sun
I cannot bear to watch her fly
Reduce my singing to a sigh

Got to
Cocoon her
Construct
A new womb for her
But will I
Teach her my fears
If I try
To protect her
 

Don't wanna be nobody's idol,
Don't got no X-factor inside me,
Don't wanna be another wannabe,
Or a production line facsimile,
I see a single feather floating on a river, floating out to the sea

They make our dreams in factories,
So we don't aspire to what we can't achieve,
So take your fire and take your belief,
And burn, burn, burn, burn,
Burn the factories down

I live in a house built for a seamstress,
I house with half a million Siamese twins,
But now the seamstress lives in India,
She makes us Che Guevara shirts to wear,
She is a single feather floating on a river, floating out to the sea

They make our dreams in factories,
So we don't aspire to what we can't achieve,
So take your fire and take your belief,
And burn, burn, burn, burn,
Burn the factories down
 

Bruised but forgiven,
You talk like the world is against you,
You're pulling yourself to pieces,
But I'm never getting over you

Oh, give it some thought before you fall 
Oh, think of yourself before you fall

I was fading out, like a whisper in the wind,
Wishing I was someone else, somewhere new, 
Sailing away with you

I won't turn away 
As you sail away from the shore 
I'm a castaway 
I was dead and buried long before

Oh, give it some thought before you fall 
Oh, think of yourself before you fall

I won't turn away 
As you sail away from the shore 
I'm a castaway 
I was dead and buried long before

(lyrics by Dan Tompkins. Reproduced with permission)

I am a forest of buildings,
I am a river of glass,
I'm the impossible future
In a dream from the past,

You are a dancing tornado
Taking back what I stole,
You are a migrating species
Rushing into my soul.

This sound is a wave of particles vibrating,
Universal biology,
In unison we breathe it in,
Universal biology,
This idea was the rhythm of a string resonating,
Universal biology,
In unison we breathe it in,
Universal biology

You are the the unchanging season
Captured frozen in clay,
I am a fossil of reason
Rising cloudy and grey,

You are gravity reeling
All my books off the shelf,
I am the universe feeling,
Experiencing itself.

This sound is a wave of particles vibrating,
Universal biology,
In unison we breathe it in,
Universal biology,
This idea was the rhythm of a string resonating,
Universal biology,
In unison we breathe it in,
Universal biology

I am the fleeting expression
Of the faintest idea,
I am a flickering shadow,
I am only just here,

You are time everlasting,
You are physical law,
We are deities clashing
In a frivolous war.
 

The rain falls harder than before you came,
The rain falls harder now you’ve gone away

I never knew you well, but I knew you more than most,
You’re haunting my dreams like a lingering ghost,
I wait to see you still walking down dark corridors

The rain falls harder than before you came,
The rain falls harder now you’ve gone away

We had it in our hands, but we couldn’t hold on,
For I had seen you there, but when I turned you had gone,
And all of everything was not enough for you

The rain falls harder than before you came,
The rain falls harder now you’ve gone away

I bent my ears to hear all the stories that you told,
You promised me beneath your sheets we’d never grow old,
But like all empty words, you simply slipped away

The rain falls harder than before you came,
The rain falls harder now you’ve gone away

All the things that you said were just lies in your bed,
There are no monsters underneath cos they were all in your head,
And the more that you take the less you get to keep.

(lyrics by Jonathan Walker. Reproduced with permission)
 

Butterfly amplified
into a hurricane
And again it lifts me off my feet and blows my mind

Follow the human herd
against a spinning world
Until it turns so fast they're walking past themselves

Don't beat your wings in my direction
A victim of unnatural selection
That could be me
Floating down

Stand atop mountain high
Shouting out "Why do I
Have nothing at all to say, I crawl from day to day"

Sticks and stones may bust up your bones
But silence never leaves you alone
And when I jump I'll be
Floating down

Kisses blown overflow
into a hurricane
And again it lifts me off my feet and blows my mind

Don't beat your wings in my direction
A victim of unnatural selection
That could be me
Floating down
 

Will you be long

Complete me fill me up I'm hollow,
I meet myself and we follow
our feet to where we can swallow
you whole.

Will you be long

to me
 

Oh woman, hush hush hush,
Let this moment stabilise,
Oh woman, hush hush hush

No need to rush rush rush,
Feel our orbits synchronise,
Oh woman, hush hush hush

You’re reaching into me,
A direct link to my insides,
You’re reaching in to me

Don’t mean a thing to me,
I keep telling myself lies,
Don’t mean a thing to me

And I will stretch this second
Until the sun destroys the earth,
I will extend expectance
Until expansion is reversed,
I’ll take our dust and ashes
Until a cloud of us is formed,
And I will zoom into it
Until a galaxy is born.

I see you blush blush blush,
As the blood moon starts to rise,
I see you blush blush blush

I feel the crush crush crush,
You drag me down towards the sky,
I feel the crush crush crush

And you are all I hear,
The air is rushing as I burn
up in your atmosphere,

I plunge into the sea,
My life is flashing past my eyes
And you are all I see

And I will stretch this second
Until the sun destroys the earth,
I will extend expectance
Until expansion is reversed,
I’ll take our dust and ashes
Until a cloud of us is formed,
And I will zoom into it
Until a galaxy is born.