You arrive
In the rising sun
The hidden passenger
That I've been taking
Close your eyes
Let's forget again
As you drag me down
I will take you in

What are you waiting for?
Just surrender here tonight
What are you waiting for?
As we go towards the light

When everything is said and done
To looking for answers if only one
Turn my back the urge has gone
Left with no reason we come undone

I am caught
In your slow release
Seems like your traveler's 
Eager to move me
My reflection
Will slowly fade 
To another time
Until my head escapes

What are you waiting for?
Just surrender here tonight
What are you waiting for?
As we go towards the light

When everything is said and done
To looking for answers if only one
Turn my back the urge has gone
Left with no reason we come undone

State your original plan as well, 
Being replaced by anything, 
Century houston for that, 
Was that, was that it? 
(do) not let anyone surround you soak through and through, 
What you were originally about in the first place,

Inside, think about it was it you or not, come in here,
Inside, think about it was it you or not, come and hide,
Inside, think about it was it you or not, come in here,
Inside, think about it was it you or not, come and hide,

(let it go) let it go streamline,
(let it go) let it come inside,
(let it go) let it go streamline,

Ready or not, ready or not, ready or not,

Inside, think about it was it you or not, come in here,
Inside, think about it was it you or not, come and hide,
Inside, think about it was it you or not, come in here,
Inside, think about it was it you or not, come and hide,

(let it come) let it go streamline,
(let it come) let it come inside,
(let it come) let it go streamline,

Let it come streamline,
Let it come inside,
Let it come streamline,
Let it come inside,

Let it come streamline,
Let it come inside,
Let it come streamline,

(let it come) let it come streamline,
(let it come) let it come inside,
(let it come) let it come streamline,

(let it come, let it go streamline),
(let it come, let it come inside),
(let it come, let it come streamline),

(let it come, let it go streamline),
(let it come, let it come inside),
(let it come, let it come streamline).

Black tarantula, time for the massive come sing ya
Black tarantula, don't play with my style I might sting ya
Black tarantula, you want me inject me bacteria
And if ya body goin' stiff and your spine goin' numb
Now come fi get some...

Massive! Time to fix you up something here right now!

Shotta, hitter, serial killer
Go-a your funeral and all drink out your liquor
When you are bury we a-stand next to vicar
Fling on some dirt and make your bury a little quicker
Shouldn't test the youth them in the Tommy Hilfiger
Hug up ya mama, say sorry to ya poppa
All-a get number for ya little sister 
I true be cold like Alaska freezer

Black tarantula, time for the massive come sing ya
Black tarantula, don't play with my style I might sting ya
Black tarantula, you want me inject me bacteria
And if ya body goin' stiff and your spine goin' numb
Now come fi get some...

Shotta, hitter, serial killer
Go-a your funeral and all drink out your liquor
When you are bury we a-stand next to the vicar
Fling on some dirt and make your bury a little quicker
Shouldn't test the youth them in the Tommy Hilfiger
Hug up ya mama, say sorry to ya poppa
All-a get number for ya little sister 
I true be cold like Alaska freezer

Black tarantula, time for the massive come sing ya
Black tarantula, don't play with my style I might sting ya
Black tarantula, you want me inject me bacteria
And if ya body goin' stiff and your spine goin' numb
Now come fi get some...

Black tarantula, time for the massive come sing ya
Black tarantula, don't play with my style I might sting ya
Black tarantula, you want me inject me bacteria
And if ya body goin' stiff and your spine goin' numb
Now come fi get some...

We spiral down
No one can save you now
We slide away
No one can bring you around

We spiral down
No one can save you now
We slide away
No one can bring you around

We spiral down
No one can save you now
We slide away
No one can bring you around

It seems like you're waiting for nothing
Looks like time had diluted it all
Maybe everything that could have been was thrown away
So just take what is left, and somehow fill the space

When I can see through it all
I feel safe again
I feel warmer

Sounds of life outside
Why do I die?
Sounds of life outside
One by one
Got nothing to hide
One by one

Couldn't have seen it come from an inch away
But it's here, right on time
Wait for the flash of grey
And we will feel the same
If we can just drift for a while

When I'm back on the ground
I feel safe again
I feel warmer

Sounds of life outside
Why do I die?
Sounds of life outside
One by one
Got nothing to hide

Sounds of life outside
Why do I die?
Sounds of life outside
One by one
Got nothing to hide

One by one

Somewhere out there in the vast nothingness of space...
Somewhere far away in space and time..
Staring upwards at the gleaming stars in the obsidian sky

We're marooned on a small island,
In an endless sea,
Confined to a tiny spit of sand,
Unable to escape

But tonight, on this small planet
On earth, we're going to rock civilization [repeat]

Is this bass really strong enough ?

We're marooned on a small island,
In an endless sea,
Confined to a tiny spit of sand,
Unable to escape

But tonight.... its heavy stuff!

Well it's been such a long time coming
I thought you'd understand
That I'm so far ahead of the lines
You've be drawing in the sand

'Cause it's simple
You were wrong
You must have known that we end up alone

I know you thought I'd sold my soul
But you never told me to my face
I just had to leave you cold
And blow this shit away!

So take me up
We're going on, going on

So take me up
We're going on, going on

So take me up
We're going on, going on

So take me up
We're going on, going on

(Yayayaya)
(Yayayaya)

We're going on without you

Well I met some boy while crossing the border, 'cross the border,
Rank and thirsty and blind, you must be out of order, out of order 'cos

Well I met some boy while crossing the border, 'cross the border,
Rank and thirsty and blind, you must be out of order, tell 'im again 'gain 'gain 'gain...

(Yayayaya)
(Yayayaya)

We're going on without you

Rank and thirsty and blind, you must be out of order, tell 'im again 'gain 'gain 'gain...

(Yayayaya)
(Yayayaya)

We're going on without you

Well I met some boy while crossing the border, 'cross the border,
Rank and thirsty and blind, you must be out of order, out of order 'cos

Well I met some boy while crossing the border, 'cross the border,
Rank and thirsty and blind, you must be out of order, tell 'im again 'gain 'gain 'gain...

If I struggle a lifetime
What would my body be?
An empty shell
On what a demon fed!

Could be a heavy burden
To stay true to your words!
Speak up!
I wanna silence everything!

If I got no plan
Doesn't mean that I get what I want for free.
If I got no meaning,
Would you force me to a place where I make sense,
'Cause nothing lasts forever...

How do I get home?
Everything revolves around me!
If I can't find myself?
It's so completely fake!

How do I get home?
Everything revolves around me!
If even you can't help?
Dark nights on my soul!

I deny failure!
I ignite!
Woe is on my misery,
She wins all their eyes!

Realize what defies our fate!
This is not me, this is me!
So if I struggle a lifetime
What good would that do?

If I got a plan
Doesn't have to stop the feeling inside.
If I do make sense,
Would you drag me down,
'Cause nothing lasts forever...

How do I get home?
Everything revolves around me!
If I can't find myself?
It's so completely fake!

How do I get home?
Everything revolves around me!
If even you can't help?
Dark nights on my soul!

In a trail of fire I know we will be free again
In the end we will be one
In a trail of fire I'll burn before you bury me
Set your sights for the sun

Mind is willing
Soul remains
This woman cannot be saved
From the drawn into the fire
Mind is willing
Soul remains
This woman cannot be saved
From the drawn into the fire
Anything to
Bring it on home

Much too weak to jump yourself
Heal the wounds or crack the shell
Lift yourself from once below
Much too weak to jump yourself
Heal the wounds or crack the shell
Lift yourself from once below
Praise the anger
Bring it on home

In a trail of fire I know we will be free again
In the end we will be one
In a trail of fire I'll burn before you bury me
Set your sights for the sun
Bring it on home

Somewhere out there in the vast nothingness of space,
Somewhere far away in space and time.
Staring upward at the gleaming stars in the obsidian sky
We're marooned on a small island, in an endless sea.
Confined to a tiny spit of sand, unable to escape
But tonight, on this small planet, on Earth
We're going to rock civilization.

I can't get used to you,
I can't get used to you,
I'm gonna take yourself away (ohh, yeah, come on, get it [x4]),
Like the way you move, like the way you groove (ohh, yeah, come on, get it [x4])

You got structure,
You betta believe ya (yeah),
Who's comin at ya,
The way you look when ma music flowin,

You got structure,
You betta believe ya (yeah),
Who's comin at ya,
The way ya look when the music's rollin

I can't get used to you
I can't get used to you
ohh, yeah, come on, get it [x8]

You got structure,
You betta believe ya (yeah),
Who's comin at ya,
The way you look when ma music flowin,

You got structure,
You betta believe ya (yeah),
Who's comin at ya,
The way ya look when the music's rollin

I can't get used to you,
I can't get used to you

ohh, yeah, come on, get it [x8]

You got structure,
You betta believe ya (yeah),
Who's comin at ya,
The way you look when ma music flowin,

You got structure,
You betta believe ya (yeah),
Who's comin at ya,
The way ya look when the music's rollin

Oh, I can make ya feel so good,
And yeah, turn ya world upside down,
Oh, I can look into your thoughts,
And yeah, I can look forever if I so desire,
I don't really wanna show you all that,
If its ok that we can call that,
I don't really know where I stand now,
I can do anything ya want but

I can't get used to you,
I can't get used to you

You got structure,
You betta believe ya (yeah),
Who's comin at ya,
The way you look when ma music flowin,

You got structure,
You betta believe ya (yeah),
Who's comin at ya,
The way ya look when the music's rollin

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Why are you using a broken mic?
Into the maze through your reflection,
We enter from a terminal connection.

Into the maze through your reflection,
We enter from a terminal connection.

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Why are you using a broken mic?
Into the maze through your reflection,
We enter from a terminal connection.

Into the maze through your reflection,
We enter from a terminal connection.

Soaking through
Colours that held us up against the wall
Soaking through
Colours that held us up against the wall

Hold your colours against the wall,
When they take everything away,
Hold your colours against the wall,
With me

Twisted the knife, and opened your eyes
Twisted the knife, and opened your eyes
Twisted the knife, and opened your eyes
Twisted the knife, and opened your eyes
Twisted the knife, and opened your eyes (Twisted the knife, til you were in the right place)
Twisted the knife, and opened your eyes (Twisted the knife, til you were in the right place)
Twisted the knife, and opened your eyes (Twisted the knife, til you were in the right place)
Twisted the knife, and opened your eyes (Twisted the knife, til you were in the right place)

Soaking through

Hold your colours against the wall,
When they take everything away,
Hold your colours against the wall,
With me (Soaking through)

Twisted the knife, and opened your eyes (Twisted the knife, til you were in the right place)
Twisted the knife, and opened your eyes (Twisted the knife, til you were in the right place)
Twisted the knife, and opened your eyes (Twisted the knife, til you were in the right place)
Twisted the knife, and opened your eyes (Twisted the knife, til you were in the right place)
Twisted the knife, and opened your eyes (Twisted the knife, til you were in the right place)
Twisted the knife, and opened your eyes (Twisted the knife, til you were in the right place)
Twisted the knife, and opened your eyes (Twisted the knife, til you were in the right place)
Twisted the knife, and opened your eyes (Twisted the knife, til you were in the right place)

But, she looked into your eyes,
And saw what lay beneath,
Don't try to save yourself,
The circle is complete,
In reaching out and into ... Read more »

We go forth and multiply!
Nerves are shaking from the decadent light!

We go forth and multiply!
Nerves are shaking from the decadent light!

We'll be a little slow
When you're going to die!
And when you're getting low
We'll raise the tide!
We'll be a little slow
When you're going to die!

We go forth and multiply!
Nerves are shaking from the decadent light!

We'll be a little slow
When you're going to die!
And when you're getting low
We'll raise the tide!
We'll be a little slow
When you're going to die!

We go forth and multiply!
Nerves are shaking from the decadent light!

We go forth and multiply...
We go forth and multiply...
We go forth and multiply...

We'll be a little slow
When you're going to die!
And when you're getting low
We'll raise the tide!
We'll be a little slow
When you're going to die!

We go forth and multiply!
Nerves are shaking from the decadent light!

You can hide your eyes, you can dim the lights, but they are watching.
This is a new time, with a different kind, they are the future.
The only one!

This is the final call for the setting sun when they get closer.
Now with a fall from grace, thy will be done, the show is over.
It's a new dawn!

Just leave this place behind,
I'll clear your bloodshot mind.
They only wanted your life on demand.
This is a better way! 

They are standing by, no time to hide, no meeting half way.
You were sucking life through the needles eye, this is a new day.
And they have won...

We will surrender now, or be outdone, left in the open.
It's the cooling of the risen, they are the future.
The future...

When all your fears combined, the manifest was refined.
I know you really tried to understand.
This is a new way!

Sound boy
Sound boy
You're too young to play that song yeah
Combination style

Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seat belts
Combination style
Sound boy
Sound boy
Combination style

Oh!
Fasten your seat belts
Oh!
Sound boy, you're too young to play that song yeah
Oh!
Sound boy
Combination style

Sound boy
You're too young too play that song yeah
Oh!
Sound boy
Combination style

Sound boy
Sound boy
You're to young to play that song yeah
You're too young to play that song yeah
Combination style

Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seat belts
Combination style
Sound boy
Oh!
Sound boy
Combination style
Oh!
Combination style
Sound boy
You're too young too play that song yeah
Combination style

You couldn't even show yourself out
You were so held up by your thoughts
Along the way we got divided
And I'm left showing you the door

You couldn't look me in the eyes
So I'll dim the lights
When you take me, out on your side
We're spinning, out of sight
Believe me, I'm on your side

It took so long for me to speak up
It was the hardest thing to say
Taken right up to the entrance
At the last minute turned away
Just can't look you in the eyes

So let's dim the lights
Get a case out, pack up your pride
It's over; We're out of time
Delete me, I'm on your side

For everything that could have been
Well at least we took the ride
There's no relief in bitterness
May as well let it die

We see the shadows that are falling from your eyes,
Draining your face of everything but the disguise,
Don't hide baby, let them see your true colours,
Don't mind the camera, let them see your back out tonight.
Don't hide baby, show them just how deep it goes,
Don't mind the cameras, let them see your black heart baby!

You've been perfect from the start,
They told me that time has only done you wrong.

[Chorus]
We are going to a different place,
We're taking everything we can,
There's no expression left upon our face,
'Cause time is running out so fast,
We're sinking in the sand.

You've been talking from the heart,
Saying that I can't be away from life.

[Chorus]

We're sinking in the sand.
We're sinking in the sand.

I was running out in the cold light
Wondering where to go
To run away
Without you
All my fear is coming home
And it's ripped out from the soul
You can't be me
I will become you (tonight)

I was wandering under black skies
Clutching at what is mine
No control
Left to lose
Well, I thought that it wouldn't faze me
But I'm hiding like a child
I feel so guilty
I'll make it up to you (tonight)

Visions I've been dreaming are coming down
They're changing my future
Visions I had buried underground
Returning to abuse us

I was breaking out of my own skin
Choking up on release
I'm in no state
To judge you
Scratching itches best left alone
Chasing memories I used to own
I can't wait until this is over (tonight)

Visions I've been dreaming are coming down
They're changing my future
Visions I had buried underground
Returning to abuse us

Well, the nightmares I've been having have arrived
They're changing my future
The signs of my creation at my door
How could you do this to her?

Manipulation doesn't shape me,
And I am just feeling the part took out.
And even though this curse restrains me,
I got so many things to yell about.

Well I could fight this,
But I may die.
And all I want is be the apple in your eye.
Well I could stay here,
Strap on my face.
Listen to the words that put me in my place.

[Instrumental]

I have seen a transition
And you wondered what I'm gonna do about it.
You thought that my eyes were behind my back
Though that I didn't want to but as you see,

Throw it away!
'Cos I got the patience,
To see that you drown.
To watch you go down.

Throw it away!
'Cos I got the patience,
To see that you drown.
To watch you go down.

[Instrumental]

I am the reality you wish you had
I war against your constant re-emulation
All that I strive for is to believe in you
Words that hold I true

Throw it away!
'Cos I got the patience,
To see that you drown.
To watch you go down.

Throw it away!
'Cos I got the patience,
To see that you drown.
To watch you go down.

Ladies and gentlemen,
We understand that you
Have come tonight
To bear witness to the sound
Of drum
And
Bass

We regret to announce
That this is not the case,
As instead
We come tonight to bring you
The sonic recreation of the end of the world.

Ladies and gentlemen,
Prepare
To hold
Your
Colour

OK.
Fuck it,
I lied.
It's drum and bass.
What you gonna do?

There were hard times ahead for the people of planet Ventura,
Staring into the networks of space and time,
Their eyes were open,
But still, they were blind,

I wandered through the weird and lurid landscape of another planet

Suddenly there was a change

Their eyes were open,
But still, they were blind...

Can I have this dance my you're looking pretty
Is there something wrong did he leave you hurting
I don't mean to pry but that tear in your eye gave you away
If you don't want to talk we'll keep it quiet
But sometimes a heartache hurts worse if you hide it
I think there's a chance one slow dance might ease the pain

You have the right to remain silent
Anything that you say as I hold you against me
Will forever be a secret between us two
I've been wanting you but you didn't know it
And now that he's gone at last I can show it
If your heart is tired for the rest of your life
Lay your love on me

So many times my eyes have held you
Tonight please give my arms that chance
If you don't feel the need for conversation
We'll just let our hearts talk while we dance

You have the right to remain silent
Anything that you say as I hold you against me
Will forever be a secret between us two
I've been wanting you but you didn't know it

You look just like her
But you don't fool me
'Cause I know her sweet love
Was more than a dream
How did I miss it when you took her place
There's not a trace of her love on your face

So please tell me who are you
And where is the girl I knew
She said her love was true
You're breaking my heart
Something she'd never do
Who are you

Go back where you came from
And send her back here
Use the same magic 
That made her disappear
I want the girl who thought I hung the moon
The last thing I want is some stranger saying we're through

So please tell me who are you
And where is the girl I knew
She said her love was true
You're saying goodbye
Something she'd never do
Who are you

He spent his days with horses
And his nights with Rosalee
He spent his pay on whiskey
That was made in Tennessee
As I was growing up
He spent a lot of time with me
When I'd ask him about women
He'd just grin
He said son I know horses
Like the back of my hand

He said some were born to run
Some will stomp you just for fun
And some have got the devil in their eyes
There's some that you can trust
Some will leave you in the dust
And the wild ones will shake you up inside
But you'll always remember the ride

Like him I rode some horses
Some were fast and some were slow
I've known my share of women
I've seen 'em come
I've seen 'em go
The horses I could handle
But the women got me thrown
Now I smile when I remember that old man
Because he knew more than horses
Like the back of his hand 

He said some were born to run
Some will stomp you just for fun
And some have got the devil in their eyes
There's some that you can trust
Some will leave you in the dust
And the wild ones will shake you up inside

I told my boss where to get off two months ago today
Now the bills are pilling high and they're hauling things away
They took the living room sofa the kool-aid stains and all
Now my butts down on a hardwood floor and my back's against the wall

One more repossession and I'll be out of debt
But what good is a VCR without a TV set
It's less and less depressing before they come again
One more repossession and I'll be out of debt

Last night I turned in early 'cause they turned off lights
The repo man took my truck in the middle of the night
Things are gone to pieces you know the times are hard
When you have to use your Visa just to pay your Mastercard

One more repossession and I'll be out of debt
But what good is a VCR without a TV set
It's less and less depressing before they come again
One more repossession and I'll be out of debt
It's getting less and less depressing before they come again

Can I come to your party
I won't get in your way
I'll stand there in the corner
With not too much to say
Except what you have heard by now
At least a million times

It's up to you
It's up to you
I've done all I can do
It's up to you

I've been your ivory tower
It's hard to read your mind
The letters and the flowers
They're just my way to try
They can't express how much I miss
And wait for your reply

It's up to you
It's up to you
I've done all I can do
It's up to you

Go search forever if you need the time
I know someday you're gonna see the light
I know it's right

Someday you'll know your only love
Has been here all the time

It's up to you
It's up to you

Tonight we crossed the borderline into a world that’s new
And we don’t know what we might find waiting for me and you
Your wanting me to lead the way as you hold on to my hand
Well this is all so new to me but I’ll do the best I can

I’m a stranger here myself and I don’t know my way around
As far as I’m concerned this is all uncharted ground
I’m feeling something new that I’ve never felt
I’ve never been in love I’m a stranger here myself

I’m glad it’s you that’s here with me in this strange new place
And you feel the same way too I see it all in your face
It’s hard for us to catch our breath as wonder fills our eyes
The longer that we’re here the more this feels like paradise

I’m a stranger here myself and I don’t know my way around

Y' avait tant d'étoiles
Comme si, la nuit
Avait des milliers
De taches de rousseur
Ces p'tits grains de beauté, charmeurs
Attirés quelques heures
Vers l'au-delà
La mélancolie
De ces autres nuits
À dormir sans toi
À rêver parfois...

Fallait pas faire la belle
En cuir et dentelle
Fallait pas faire rouge baiser
Pour les attirer
Oui mais les filles
Elles n'voulaient pas rester
Là sur les canapés
A les regarder passer
Elles voulaient y aller
Et moi je suis comme elles
Comme elles, comme elles

Il y a des vénus sous les abribus
Qui pleurent des amours terminus
Il y a des vénus sous les abribus
Qui pleurent des amours terminus

Fallait pas rendez-vous
Quand ils sont pas fous
Il fallait pas se retourner
Les voir s'en aller
Oui mais les filles
Elles voulaient s'embarquer
Là sur les grands cargos
Et voir la vie d'en haut
Et croire à leur ciné
Et moi je suis comme elles
Comme elles, comme elles

Fallait pas dire je t'aime
Au p'tit matin blême
Fallait pas trop
Pas trop les croire
Sur les quais de gare
Oui mais les filles
Elles voulaient pas entendre
La p'tite chanson troublante
Elles voulaient vite et fort
Et elles avaient pas tort
Et moi je suis comme elles
Comme elles, comme elles.

Et s'il ne nous restait plus qu'une semaine à vivre
Serais-tu prêt à me suivre
Pour s'endormir ensemble à New York
Et s'il ne nous restait plus qu'une semaine à vivre
Serais-tu prêt à me suivre
La bas, le long des docks
Oh oh il n'y aurait plus que la ville et nous
Oh oh et dans la brume de Chinatown je saurais
Te dire les mots doux
Et s'il ne nous restait plus qu'un avion à prendre
Saurais tu me comprendre
Pour cette dernière semaine à New York
Et s'il ne nous restait plus qu'un avion à prendre
Saurais tu me défendre
La bas, le long des docks
Oh oh il n'y aurait plus que des hôtels et nous
Oh oh et dormir dans tes bras serait pour moi
Le désir le plus fou
Et s'il ne nous restait plus qu'une semaine à vivre
Serais-tu prêt à me suivre
Pour s'endormir ensemble à New York
Et s'il ne nous restait plus qu'une semaine à vivre
Serais-tu prêt à me suivre
La bas, le long des docks
Le long des docks
Le long des docks

Un dernier blues avant demain
Avant que la mort me donne la main
Avant que l'automne ait mis aux arbres
Des cheveux roux.
Un dernier blues avant minuit
Avant que l'amour m'ait travesti
Avant que les hommes ait pris mon coeur
Pour un igloo.
Un dernier blues en catastrophe
Avant qu'une étoile m'apostrophe
Avant d'avoir écrit mon nom
Sur les néons de l'infini.
Un dernier blues en majuscule
Point de suspension et virgule
Un dernier blues un jour de pluie
En mi mineur pour un ami.

A l'heure où déambulent
Les derniers noctambules
Quand les filles en panthère
Disent oui sans préambule
Moi je suis là, planté au
Fond du Tropic Bar
A le chercher des yeux, dans
Le jeu des miroirs
J'y vois des filles trop belles qui
Sourient pour un rien
Un peu comme les gazelles quand les
Lions n'ont plus faim.
Tropic Blues Bar
Musique d'un soir
On s'aime tout bas
Et puis on s'en va
Tropic Blues Bar
Musique d'un soir
On s'aime tout bas
Et on s'en va
Garçon, un Blue Lagoon, j'ai besoin
D'évasion
Assez de tous ces clowns en mal
De sensation
Moi je viens pour le voir s'installer
Au piano
Jouer pour moi toute seule cet
air
Un peu mélo
Tropic Blues Bar
Musique d'un soir
On s'aime tout bas
Et puis on s'en va
Tropic Blues Bar
Musique d'un soir
On s'aime tout bas
Et on s'en va
Lui et moi, histoire sans parole
Juste le reflet de ses doigts sur la laque
Du Steinway
Il joue, j'écoute les yeux fermés
Quand je les ouvre, il a disparu
Plus rien à faire ici, l'addition s'il
Vous plait
Le pianiste est parti mais moi
Je reviendrai
Voir s'envoler ses mains sur les touches
Noires et blanches
Et rêver qu'un matin elles se posent sur
Mes hanches
Tropic Blues Bar
Musique d'un soir
On s'aime tout bas
Et puis on s'en va
Tropic Blues Bar
Tropic Blues Bar
Tropic Blues Bar
Musique d'un soir
On s'aime tout bas
Et on s'en va
On s'aime tout bas
Et puis on s'en va

All I really want to do is get you babe and hold you tight
Never let you go
I promise you
To close my eyes and wait a while
And still find you there
Caring about me instead of just wasting my time
I gave you my heary, ooh baby
Was that not enough?
Chorus:
There's a space in my heart
Waiting for you, yes there is
When you've found where you're going
I'll be there too, yes I will
I guess I never told you that I love you
But each moment was wrong
And I would die
If I never get the chance to show you how strong
I gave you my heart, yes I did babe
Was that not enough for you baby?
Chorus
Going to find a way
Find a way to make you mine

Souvenirs de l'est
Souvenirs qui me restent
Que me reste-t-il de mes souvenirs de l'est
Un sourire, un gest
Un accroc à ma veste
Que me reste-t-il de mes souvenirs de l'est
Un parfum d'enfance
Un chagrin qui danse
Une photo de ma mère
Et des kermesses populaires
Un soldat qui passe
Sur la ribenstrasse
Et cette façon d'être insoumise et fière.
Le tramway du soir
Les dimanches brouillard
Et quelque part dans ma tête
La musique des majorettes
Un hiver de glace
Sur la ribenstrasse
Cette façon de vous chanter
Peut-être.
Un sourire, un geste
Une chanson qui proteste
Que me reste-t-il de mes souvenirs de l'est

Relax tellement relax
Etendu détendu
Pas de téléphone ou fax
Pas de malentendu
Sur le dessus du lit
Je suis à ta merci
Et s'il est trop petit
Glissons sur le tapis

Pépère tellement pépère 
Pas pressé d'arriver
Se laisser la rivière
Gentiment déborder
Nager c'est magnifique
Même s'il y a qu' l'océan
Qui reste pacifique
Et pas pour très longtemps

Reste sur moi
Que je respire avec toi
Reste sur moi
Que je respire avec joie

Tranquille tellement tranquille
Enchainé dechainé
Fondu au noir des villes
Ou au blanc des années
Le souvenirs-parfums
Jamais ne s'évaporent
Nos transports en commun
Sont de plus en plus forts

Peinard tellement peinard
Que c'est facile à dire
Que c'est joli à voir
Parler et puis pâlir
On aimerait que ça dure
Ce petit val qui mousse
Comme un coin de verdure
Comme une chanson douce

Couché tellement couché
Si l'on prenait la pose
Pour la postérité
Viens qu'on se superpose
Rester très loin du reste
N'avoir aucune idée
Ce qui compte, c'est le geste
Auguste de s'aimer

Bateau tellement bateau
Mais tellement cool
Nos draps sont nos drapeaux
On est bien dans notre peau
J'ai pas de parapluie
Pour le temps qui s'écoule
Enfants du paradis
Emportés par la houle

Arrête de pleurer Babelou
Sur I'argent qui vant plus un clou
Arrête de dire que t'es toute seule
Ici c'est chacun pour sa gueule
Arrête de rêver qu'tu déprimes
C'est vrai qu'tu débordes de ton jean
Autour de toi tout I'monde s'en fout
Arrête de pleurer Babelou.
Regarde les riches
Lls sont coiffés comme leur caniche
Regarde les riches
Lls roulent en Rolls sur la comiche
Regarde les riches
Lls parlent pas l'anglais mais l'english
Regarde les riches
L'important c'est tout c'qu'ils affichent
Les riches.
Arrête de chanter Babelou
Ce blues les banlieues qui rend fou
Arrête de ramer pour personne
Tu vois pas qu'on t'prend pour une conne
Arrête le lire Ici-Paris
Faudra r'tourner bosser lundi
Ton blues à toi tout l'monde s'en fout
Arrête de chanter Babelou
Regarde les riches
Regarde les riches
Lls boivent leur café en irish
Regarde les riches
Lls ont l'argent mais pas d'artiche
Regarde les riches
L'important c'est tout c'qu'ils affichent
Les riches.
Regarde les riches
Lls sont coiffés comme leur caniche
Regarde les riches
Lls roulent en Rolls sur la comiche
Regarde les riches
Lls mordent jamais dans leur sandwich
Regarde les riches
L'important c'est tout c'qu'ils afficheent.

Il a monté son groupe
Il y a deux ans à peine
Un chômeur en déroute
Le fils de la pharmacienne
Un bassiste de Toulouse
Un batteur looké Harlem
Un mélange de jazz and blues
Version new-wave africaine
Il a vendu sa mob
Et le cuir de son blouson
Sacrifié à la mode
Une musique sans concession
Depuis le temps qu'il rame
Sur le sable au fond d'une cave
Je peux vous dire messieurs-dames
Qu'un de ces jours
Ça va faire grave
Quand Jimmy dit what'd I say
I love you baby
C'est comme qui dirait
Toute la province qui chante en anglais
Quand Jimmy dit what'd I say
Oh baby come home
C'est comme qui dirait
Toute la province qui marche en Weston
Il chante des les campagnes
Dans les bals du samedi
Des rock'n roll banane
Des reggaes jalousie
Voyage en minibus
Hôtel de troisième zone
Il a tout et même plus
Pour finir Rolling Stone
J'aime sa petite gueule d'amour
Je le suis dans sa galère
Et je le suivrai toujours
Lui je ne peux pas m'en défaire
J'ai caressé son jean
J'ai dormi sur sa guitare
Chaque fois que je l'imagine
Ça me fait bizarre bizarre
Il a vendu sa mob
Et le cuir de son blouson
Sacrifié à la mode
Une musique sans concession
Je savais depuis longtemps
Qu'il quitterait Montbéliard
Et si Paris me le prend
C'est que c'est vraiment une star

J'étais toute seule sur l'autoroute
J'en étais à deux heures de pluie
Et je m'disais y'a aucun doute
Me petite Patou t'es mal partie
Pas le moindre camion citerne
Pas le lumière d'un restaurant
Et je m'suis dit c'est bien ta veine
Dire que t'as même pas cinquan
Te francs sur toi.
Qu'est c't as dans la tête
Qu'est c't as dans la tête
Pour t'trouver toujours dis
Sur une autre planète
Sans boîte d'allumettes
A la tombée du jour.
J'étais plantée d'vant le studio
En attendant
mes musiciens
J'avais envie d'un café chaud
J'regardais l'heure, j'rongeais mon frein
J'avais l'idée mais pas les mots
J'avais le couplet mais pas I'refraire
Quelqu'un m'a dit t'en fais pas trop
On enregistre que demain ça va.
Qu'est c't'as dans la tête
T'es tellement distraite
Tu t'retrouv'ras toujours dis
Sur une vieille banquette
Effacée discrète
En attendant ton tour
En attendant ton tour.
J'étais assise dans la cuisine
J'regardais les actualités
Après comme a dit la speakrine
Y' a un film qu'il faut pas rater
Alors je me suis mise au lit
J'ai débranché mon téléphone
Et puis le film m'a endormie
Et toi ça fait deux heures qu'tu
Sonnes chez moi.
Qu'est c't'as dans la tête
Qu'est c't'as dans la tête
T'oublieras toujours dis
D'être à l'heure et prête
Pour un dîner d'fête
Pour un histoire d'amour
Qu'est c't'as dans la tête
Qu'est c't'as dans la tête
T'oublieras toujours dis
Sur une autre planète
Sans boîte d'allumettes
A la tombée du jour.
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J'ai mis mon coeur
Dans une éccharpe de laine
Jeté les fleurs
Des vases de porcelaine
Il va couler bien des jours
Sous le pont de notre amour
Sans que je puisse t'oubier.
J'ai accroché
Des rideaux gris aux fenêtres
Et j'ai brûlé
Nos photos et tes lettres
L'amour est-il si pressé
De toujours vouloir s'en aller
Dites-moi si vous savez
Où s'en vont les coeurs brisés
Quand ils ont fini d aimer.
Même si le temps passe
Rien ne te remplace
Mais saurons-nous un jour
Où donc la vie les emporte
Toutes ces amours mortes.
Mais certains soirs
Malgré tout je te regrette
Et je me dis
Qu'il reste une chance, peut-être
Il a coulé bien des jours
Sous le pont de notre amour
Sans que je puisse t'oublier
Puisqu'au fond les coeurs brisés
N'ont jamais fini d aimer.
Même si le temps passe
Rien ne te remplace
Mais saurons-nous un jour
Où donc la vie les emporte
Toutes ces amours mortes.

Il joue avec mon coeur,
Il triche avec ma vie
Il dit des mots menteurs,
Et moi je crois tout c'qu'il dit
Les chansons qu'il me chante,
Les rêves qu'il fait pour deux
C'est comme les bonbons menthe,
Ca fait du bien quand il pleut
Je m'raconte des histoires,
En écoutant sa voix
C'est pas vrai ces histoires,
Mais moi j'y crois.
Mon mec à moi,
Il me parle d'aventures
Et quand elles brillent dans ses yeux
J'pourrais y passer la nuit
Il parle d'amour,
Comme il parle des voitures
Et moi j'l'suis où il veut
Tellement je crois tout c'qu'il m'dit
Tellement je crois tout c'qu'il m'dit,
Oh oui, Mon mec à moi...
Sa façon d'être à moi,
Sans jamais dire je t'aime
C'est rien qu'du cinéma,
Mais c'est du pareil au même
Ce film en noir et blanc,
Qu'il m'a joué deux cents fois
C'est Gabin et Morgan,
Enfin ça ressemble à tout ça
J'm'raconte des histoires,
Des scénarios chinois
C'est pas vrai ces histoires,
Mais moi j'y crois
Mon mec à moi,
Il me parle d'aventures
Et quand elles brillent dans ses yeux
J'pourrais y passer la nuit
Il parle d'amour,
Comme il parle des voitures
Et moi j'l'suis où il veut
Tellement je crois tout c'qu'il m'dit
Tellement je crois tout c'qu'il m'dit,
Oh oui, Mon mec à moi...
(Chorus Harmonica)
Mon mec à moi,
Il me parle d'aventures
Et quand elles brillent dans ses yeux
J'pourrais y passer la nuit
Il parle d'amour,
Comme il parle des voitures
Et moi j'l'suis où il veut
Tellement je crois tout c'qu'il m'dit
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Y'en a qui élèvent des gosses au fond des hlm
Y'en a qui roulent leurs bosses du Brésil en Ukraine
Y'en a qui font la noce du côté d'Angoulême
Et y'en a qui en peuvent plus de jouer les sex symbols
Y'en a qui vendent l'amour au fond de leur bagnole
Mademoiselle chante le blues
Soyez pas trop jalouses
Mademoiselle boit du rouge
Mademoiselle chante le blues
Y'en a huit heures par jour qui tapent sur des machines
Y'en a qui font la cour masculine féminine
Y'en a qui lèchent les bottes comme on lèche des vitrines
Et y'en a même qui font du cinéma, qu'on appellent Marilyn
Mais Marilyn Dubois s'ra jamais Norma Jean
Faut pas croire que l'talent c'est tout c'qu'on s'imagine
Elle a du gospel dans la voix et elle y croit
Y'en a qui s'font bonne soeur, avocat, pharmacienne
Y'en a qui ont tout dit quand elles ont dit je t'aime
Y'en a qui sont vieilles filles du côté d'Angoulême
Y'en a même qui jouent femmes libérées
Petit joint et gardénal qui mélangent vie en rose et image d'Epinal
Qui veulent se faire du bien sans jamais s'faire du mal

Faudrait pouvoir jeter
Tous les mannequins d'osier
Du haut d'un grand pont
Ces fantômes oubliéa
Ces ombres du passé
Qui nous espionnent.
Faudrait pouvoir brûler
Les visages adorés
De notre enfance
Marcher d'un pas léger
Vers le soleil qui vient
Un insouciance
Et les regarder passer
Sur la rivière gelée
Faudrait pouvoir jeter
Tous les mannequins d'osier
Du haut d'un grand pont
Comme les poupées cassées
Les pierrots abîmés
De la mémoire.
Faudrait pouvoir rayer
Les prénoms murmurés
Dans sa jeunesse
Et savoir oublier
Les yeux et les baisers de la tendresse
Et les regarder passer
Sur la rivière gelée
Et les regarder passer
Sur la rivière gelée.
Et les regarder passer.
Et les regarder passer
Sur la rivière gelée.

Les hommes qui passent, Maman
M'envoient toujours des cartes postales
Des Bahamas, Maman
Les hommes qui passent tout l'temps
Sont musiciens artistes peintres
ou comédiens Souvent.

Les hommes qui passent, Maman
M'offrent toujours une jolie chambre
Avec terrasse, Maman
Les hommes qui passent je sens
Qu'ils ont le coeur à marée basse des
envies d'océan.

Les hommes qui passent, pourtant
Qu'est-ce que j'aimerai en voler un
Pour un mois pour un an
Les hommes qui passent, Maman
Ne m'donnent jamais rien que d'l'argent.

Les hommes qui passent, Maman
Leurs nuits d'amour sont des étoiles
Qui laissent des traces, Maman
Les hommes qui passent, violents
Sont toujours ceux qui ont gardé
Un coeur d'enfant, perdant.

Les hommes qui passent, pourtant
Qu'est-ce que j'aimerai en voler un
Pour un mois pour un an
Les hommes qui passent, Maman
Ne m'donnent jamais rien que d'l'argent.

Les hommes qui passent, Maman
Ont des sourires qui sont un peu
Comme des grimaces, Maman
Les hommes qui passent troublants
Me laissent toujours avec mes rêves
Et mes angoisses d'avant.

Les hommes qui passent, pourtant
Qu'est-ce que j'aimerai en voler un
Pour un mois pour un an
Les hommes qui passent Maman
Ne m'donnent jamais rien que d'l'argent.

Les hommes qui passent Maman
Les hommes qui passent Maman
Les hommes qui passent pourtant
Les hommes qui passent Maman.

Des yeux qui font baiser les miens
Un rire qui se perd sur sa bouche
Voila le portrait sans retouche
De l'homme auquel j'appartiens

Quand il me prend dans ses bras
Il me parle tout bas je vois la vie en rose
Il me dit des mots d'amour
Des mots de tous les jours et ca me fait quelque chose

Il est entre dans mon coeur
Une part de bonheur dont je connais la cause
C'est lui pour moi, moi pour lui dans la vie
Il me l'a dit, l'a jure pour la vie

Et des que je l'apercois
Alors je sens en moi mon coeur qui bat

Des nuits d'amour a ne plus en finir
Un grand bonheur qui prend sa place
Des enuis des chagrins, des phases
Heureux, heureux a en mourir

Repeat Chorus

Sur une guitare, sur une violon
Qu'il soit trop tard, qu'il soit trop long
Sur un boulevard ou sous un pont
Le sans-logis fait sa chanson

Sur une guitare sur un violin
Sur un tam-tam du Gabon
Sur une batterie à l'occasion
Le sans-patrie fait sa chanson

Si la vérité sort de la bouche du métro
Si le monde entier dit qu'on a tort d'aimer trop
Quand l'hiver est rude et qu'on cri "chaud les marrons"
Le sans-abri fait sa chanson

La liberté
C'est pas la porte à côté
La liberté
C'est le bout du monde

Sur une guitare, sur un violin
Sur des gamelles et des bidons
A tout hasard sous les balcons
Le sans-papiers fait sa chanson

Sur une guitare, sur un violin
Sur un air de Duke Ellington
A bout de souffle, à bout de son
Le sans-le-sou fait sa chanson

Si la vérité sort de la bouche du métro
Si le monde entier dit qu'on a tort d'aimer trop
Quand l'hiver est rude et qu'on crie "chaud les marrons"
Le sans-culotte fait sa chanson

L'heure du jazz.
Une plombe, l'heure du jazz
Les sasos pavoisent
T'as joué la bonne cave
Charlie Parker bave
Ton âme dans l'extase
Une plombe, l'heure du jazz
O.K. man ça gaze
La nuit, heure du jazz
Rex Stewart et l'reste
Ont dans la trompette
Le bonheur du jour
Le disc jockey fou
Repasse "Kind Of Blue"
Bill Evans et tout
La nuit, heure du jazz.
Deux plombes, heure du jazz
Les gigolos toisent
Les vioques un peu nazes
Aux diams, aux topazes
Sapées en bourgeoises
Deux plombes, heure du jazz
Faut saisir l'occase.
Trois plombes, heure du jazz
Un peu vides les phrases
Les mégots s'écrasent
Dernier champ 'framboise
On oublie son blaze
Trois plombes heure du jazz
Attention l'ardoise
La nuit, heure du jazz
Les saxos pavoisent
T'as joué la bonne cave
Charlie Parker bave
Ton ami dans I'extase
Une plombe, l'heure du jazz
O.K. man, ça gaze.
Heure du jazz

Je suis pas comme Rose Kennedy
J'voudrais pas que mes fils chéris
Deviennent plus tard quelle folie
Président des Etats-Unis.
Elle s'appelait Kennedy Rose
Mais dites-moi quelle métamorphose
A fait d'une si jolie rose
Une dame pour qui ses fils osent
De toute leur vie faire un défi
De toute leur vie faire un défi.
Je suis pas comme Rose Kennedy
J'voudrais pas que mes fils chéris
Deviennent plus tard quelle folie
Président des Etats-Unis.
Rose Rose
Mais quelle est la cause
Il a dû se passer quelque chose
Elle s'appelait Kennedy Rose
C était une jolie p'tite ville rose
Ses fils chéris de l'Amérique
Auraient pu faire de la musique
Des sciences ou des mathématiques
Au iieu de n'être que défi.
Je suis pas comme Rose Kennedy
J'voudrais pas que mes fils chéris
Deviennent plus tard quelle folie
Président des Etats-Unis.

On a tous des mots d'amour
Cachés au fond de soi
Un quai de gare à Cherbourg
Où l'autre ne viendra pas
On a tous laissé des larmes
Dans un hôtel du Nord
Pour un homme ou une femme
Qui s'appelait encore
Si tu savais comme je sais qu'tu l'oublieras jamais
Tu t'en fous de c'que j'te dis, je sais, je sais
Arrête de boire Jojo
Tu vas finir barjo
Pour trois fois moins que rien
On est toutes des putains
Arrête de boire ivrogne
L'Alsace et la Bourgogne
J'vais t'dire c'que t'es ce soir
T'es le roi des comptoirs
Y'a des moments tu m'fais honte
À t'regarder souffrir
Allez demande leur ton compte
Maintenant il faut partir
Tu vois pas qu'ils s'foutent de toi tous ces p'tits mecs au bar
Me dis pas qu't'es devenu ça, j'pourrais pas le croire
---------------- Refrain
Si tu savais comme je sais qu'tu l'oublieras jamais
Tu t'en fous de c'que j'te dis, je sais, je sais
------------------- Refrain

Vous viviez comme un prince, je chantais pour trois sous
Dan un bal de province et je rêvais de vous
À la fin du polar, quand vous ne mouriez pas
Comme je l'enviais la dame qui souriait dans vos bras
Je vous aurais aimé avant de vous connaître
Mais vous aurais connu avant de disparaître
Je ne suis pas peu fière, mais je tiens à en rire
Entre toi et le poster, j'ai du mal à choisir
Et je te dis Vous
M'avez éblouie
Moi qui n'étais rien
Vous qui aviez tout
Vous m'avez dit Tu
Es belle, toute en noir
Quand vous êtes venu
M'écouter un soir
C'était au mois de mai, j'm'en souviendrai toujours
J'étais morte d'angoisse, vous sachant là dans l'ombre
Puis sont venus vos fleurs et l'espoir d'un amour
Vous le grand, moi la p'tite, soyez là si je tombe
La gloire est si fragile mais bien moins que mon coeur
On dit qu'elle est le deuil éclatant du bonheur
À la fin du polar, si vous deviez mourir
J'essaierais c'est promis de garder le sourire
Et je te dis Vous
M'avez éblouie
Moi qui n'étais rien
Vous qui saviez tout
Vous m'avez dit Tu
Es belle, toute en noir
Quand vous êtes venu
M'écouter un soir
Et je te dis Vous
M'avez éblouie
Moi qui n'étais rien
Vous qui saviez tout
Vous m'avez dit tu
Es belle, toute en noir
J'etais si émue
Sous votre regard
Quand vous êtes venu
M'écouter un soir...

Je n'suis qu'une demoiselle sans balançoire
Les yeux au ciel, j'regarde filer les stars
Depuis nous deux je n'écoute plus Mozart
C'est pas mon seul regret tu peux me croire
L'amour, l'amitié, ça n'a rien à voir
Faudra un jour rattraper ce retard
Ce soir j'aimerais bien la refaire, l'histoire
J'ai une envie claire de te revoir
J'ai couru pour venir me jeter contre toi
Je retiens mon souffle, Ah...Ah...
J'ai couru pour venir, j'ai couru, me voilà,
Je reprends mon souffle, Ah...Ah...
Le temps qui passe a des reflets bizarres
Comme un glaçon dans la Marie Brizard
J'ai l'impression qu'on m'a volé ma part
J'ai une envie folle de te revoir
Il doit bien exister ce monde à part
Pour les comme nous, les amis qui s'égarent
J'étais ton p'tit diamant, ta perle rare
Dis si je brille encore dans ta mémoire

Chorus:
This is a man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing
Without a woman or a girl
Man made the cars
To take us over the road
Man made the trains
To carry the heavy load
Man made the electric light
To take us out of the dark
Man made the boat for the water
Like Noah made the ark
Chorus
Man thinks about the baby girls
And the baby boys
Man makes them happy
'Cause man made the toys
After man made everything
Everything he can
You know that man makes money
To buy from other men
Chorus
He's lost in the wilderness
He's lost in bitteness
Chorus
Without a woman or a girl, no...no, no, no
Without a woman or a girl
This is a man's world, this is a man's world
This is a man's world, no....

Et quand le temps se lasse
De n'être que tué
Plus une seconde passe
Dans les vies d'uniformité
Quand de peine en méfiance,
De larmes en plus jamais
Puis de dépit en défiance
On apprend à se résigner
Viennent les heures sombres
Où tout peut enfin s'allumer
Ou quand les vies ne sont plus qu'ombres
Restent nos rêves à inventer
Il me dit que je suis belle
Et qu'il n'attendait que moi
Il me dit que je suis belle
Juste faite pour ses bras
Il parle comme on caresse
De mots qui n'existent pas
De toujours et de tendresse
Et je n'entends que sa voix
Éviter les regards, prendre cet air absent
Celui qu'ont les gens sur les boulevards
Cet air qui les rend transparents
Apprendre à tourner les yeux
Devant les gens qui s'aiment
Éviter tous ceux qui marchent à deux
Ceux qui s'embrassent à perdre haleine
Y a-t-il un soir, un moment
Où l'on se dit c'est plus pour moi
Tous les mots doux, les coups de sang,
Mais dans mes rêves, j'y ai droit
Il me dit que je suis belle
Et qu'il n'attendait que moi
Il me dit que je suis belle
Juste faite pour ses bras
Des mensonges et des bêtises
Qu'un enfant ne croirait pas
Mais les nuits sont mes églises
Et dans mes rêves j'y crois
Il me dit que je suis belle...
Je le vois courir vers moi
Ses mains me frôlent et m'entraînent
C'est beau comme au cinéma
Plus de trahison, de peines
Mon scénario n'en veut pas
Il me dit que je suis reine
Et pauvre de moi, j'y crois
Hmm, pauvre de moi, j'y crois

Oh, oh...
Fatiguée d'attendre
De toi des mots tendres
Que tu ne diras pas
Toi qui ne penses qu'à toi

Amour impossible
Quoi de plus terrible
De perdre ou te suivre
Te rêver, ou vivre

J'ai tout essayé pourtant
Toutes les armes des femmes
J'ai même versé une larme, seulement
Ai-je aimé nos silences
Ou ta belle indifférence, finalement
Je ne sais plus quoi faire
Moi qui d'ordinaire
Mesurais mon courage
Aux violences des orages
Il me faut faire le deuil
De toi de mon orgueil
Moi j'étais prête à tout
Sauf me pendre à ton cou
J'aurais été avec toi
Jusqu'en Alaska
Qu'importe si je ne supporte pas le froid
J'ai trouvé la chaleur
Près du feu des projecteurs
Loin de toi

Amour impossible
Quoi de plus terrible
De perdre ou te suivre
Te rêver, ou vivre
Je ne veux plus attendre
Je ne veux plus apprendre
Comment briser la glace
Quand ton reflet s'efface
Je ne vais pas t'aimer sans mot dire
J'vais pas te maudire
Oublier ton visage et ta voix
Tu sais pour être femme
On peut bien briser son âme
Plusieurs fois

Refrain

S’il fallait le faire, j’arrêterais la terre
J’éteindrais la lumière, que tu restes endormi
S’il fallait pour te plaire lever des vents contraires
Dans un désert sans vie, je trouverais la mer

Et s’il fallait le faire, j’arrêterais la pluie
Elle fera demi-tour le reste de nos vies
S’il fallait pour te plaire t’écouter chaque nuit
Quand tu parles d’amour, j’en parlerais aussi

Que tu regardes encore dans le fond de mes yeux
Que tu y vois encore le plus grand des grands feux
Et que ta main se colle sur ma peau, où elle veut
Un jour si tu t’envoles, je suivrais, si je peux

Et s’il fallait le faire, je repousserais l’hiver
A grands coups de printemps et de longs matins clairs
S’il fallait pour te plaire, j’arrêterais le temps
Que tous tes mots d’hier restent à moi maintenant

Que je regarde encore dans le bleu de tes yeux
Que tes deux mains encore se perdent dans mes cheveux
Je ferai tout plus grand et si c’est trop ou peu
J’aurais tort tout le temps, si c’est ça que tu veux

Je veux bien tout donner, si seul’ment tu y crois
Mon cœur veut bien saigner, si seul’ment tu le vois
Jusqu’à n’être plus rien que l’ombre de tes nuits
Jusqu’à n’être plus rien qu’une ombre qui te suit

Entrer dans la lumière
Comme un insecte fou
Respirer la poussière
Vous venir à genoux
Redécouvrir ma voix
En être encore capable
Devenir quelquefois
Un rêve insaisissable
Toucher des musiciens
Sourire à des visages
À quatre heures du matin
N'être plus qu'une image
Être là de passage
Sans avoir rendez-vous
Avoir tous les courages
De me donner à vous
Et vous laisser venir
Comme un amant magique
Et vous ensevelir
Sous mon cri de musique
Entrer dans la lumière
Comme un insecte fou
Respirer la poussière
Vous venir à genoux

Elle voulait jouer cabaret
Sur un paque bot de contrebande
Pas dans un bastringue marseillais
Avec des marins qui lui demandent
Une chambre d'hôtel sur la mer
Histoire de faire le tour du monde
D'être la fiancée du corsaire
Tout en restant une putain de blonde
Qui chanterait blue bayou
En dansant sur les tables
Tout en étant capable
De faire peur aux voyous
Et chanter only you
En buvant dans les verres
Un fond de picon bière
Qui rend à moitié fou.
Elle voulait jouer cabaret
Pas les serveuses les filles de salle
Pourtant Dieu sait qu'elle s'en foutait
D'avoir le coeur et les mains sales
Elle venait d'une grande ville du nord
Où on a fermé les usines
Là où le soleil vaut de l'or
Elle savait depuis toute gamine
Elle voulait jouer cabaret
Pas les madelons d'infortune
Je peux vous dire qu'elle en rêvait
D'un jazz band sous un clair de lune
D'un chapeau claque avec des strass
Comme les vedettes américaines
Pas d'un néon sur la terrasse
Et l'accordéon qui se traîne

Vous qui vendez des mots
Des mensonges en musique
Montrez-moi la photo
D'un amour héroique 
Montrez-moi comme vous dites
Romantiques et bluesy
Vos chansons mal écrites
Mal chantées mal aimées mal jouées
Moi c'est ma vie

Rien que ce piano là
Des fois ça me suffit
Rien que vous dire
Comme ça
Je vous aime pour la vie
Toujours chanter l'amour
Emouvante plaidoirie
De choisir sans détour
Passion mystère jalousie

Vous qui vendez des mots
Des mensonges en musique
Emmenez-moi en bateau
Ver toutes les Amériques
Prenez-moi dans vos bras
Je vous connais gatsby
Soyez ma tequila
Mon gin-fizz, ma vodka
Mon drambuie
So long baby.

Tiens vous ne m'embrassez pas
Qu'est-ceq ui vous prend chéri
Ce soir je ne vous plais pas
Ah vous aussi
Toujours chanter l'amour
Quelle fatigante comédie
Etre veuve ou velours
Faire la guerre ou la vie

D'Allemagne où j'écoute la pluie en vacancesD'Allemagne où j'entends le rock en silenceD'Allemagne où j'ai des souvenirs d'en faceOù j'ai des souvenirs d'enfanceLéninplatz et Anatole FranceD'Allemagne l'histoire passée est une injureD'Allemagne l'avenir est une aventureD'Allemagne je connais les sens interditsJe sais où dorment les fusilsJe sais où s'arrête l'indulgenceAuf wiedersehn Lili MarlèneReparlez-moi des roses de GottingenQui m'accompagnent dans l'autre AllemagneA l'heure où colombes et vautours s'élignentDe quel côté du mur, la frontière vous rassureD'Allemagne j'ai des histoires d'amour sincèreJe plane sur des musiques-d'appolinaireD'Allemagne le romantisme est plus violentLes violons jouent toujours plus lentsDes valses viennoises ordinairesIch habe eine kleine WildblumeEine Flamme die zwischen den Wolken blühtD'Allemagne j'ai une petite fleur dans le coeurQui est comme l'idée du bonheurQui va grandir comme un arbre

Avec le coeur à marée basse
Avec un talon qui se casse
Avec des gestes maladroits
Et des sentiments bien à moi
Avec des plages en promenade
Et des nuages de limonade
Sous les tilleuls comme il disait
Arthur Rimbaud, poète français.
Avec la passion sur la bouche
Avec nos sexes qui se touchent
Avec des frissons de mystère
Des retrouvailles à la frontière
Avec des wagons d'inquiétude
Au fond d'une gare de solitude
J'te demande pardon d'avoir écrit
Une chanson d'amour pas finie
Pas finie.

Quand t'as laissé de ta jeunesse
Derrière les barreaux d'une prison
Parce que t'avais eu d'la tendresse
Pour une bagnole ou un blouson
Quand t'as laissé passer ta chance
Ou qu'elle ne t'a pas reconnue
Tu te retrouves en état d'urgence
Au bureau des objets perdus
Moi qui connais le gris
Des couleurs de la nuit...
Laissez-moi chanter
Pour ceux qui n'ont rien
Laissez-moi penser
Qu'y a toujours quelqu'un
Qui cherche à donner
Quelque chose de bien
Qui cherche à couper
Les cartes du destin
Quand t'as r'gardé passer ta vie
Avec l'impression d'être en faute
Tu t'demandes pas si t'as envie
De vouloir être quelqu'un d'autre
Quand t'as r'gardé toutes ces vitrines
Avec tes mains derrière ton dos
Même si demain t'es James Dean
T'auras l'impression d'être zéro
Moi qui connais le bleu
Des matins malheureux...
Laissez-moi chanter
Pour ceux qui n'ont rien
Laissez-moi penser
Qu'y a toujours quelqu'un
Qui cherche à donner
Quelque chose de bien
Qui cherche à couper
Les cartes du destin
Laissez-moi chanter

Et si...et si...Bessie
Elle avait pas eu la peau noire
Comme les étangs, comme les mares
Où les lions là-bas vont boire.
Et si...et si...Bessie
Elle avait vécu maintenant
Avec sa belle voix du Soudan
Et son feeling renversant
Mais si...mais si...Bessie
Elle avait pas eu la peau noire
Bessie blessée par un chauffard
Elle s'rait pas morte sur un trottoir
En perdant doucement tout son sang
Devant un hôpital de blancs.
Et si...et si...Bessie
Avait vécu parmi des gens
Qui savent qu'on est tout differents
Peut-êtr' qu'un soir, incidemment
Toutes les deux on aurait pu faire
Quelqu' chose comme un duo d'enfer.
Là-bas ou ici
Mais pas Madison.
Un club dans la nuit
Un piano qui sonne.
Et si..et si..Bessie
Elle avait pas eu la peau noire
Comme l'ébène à côté d'l'ivoire
Ou comme les belles robes de moire
Elle s'rait pas que dans nos mémoires
Mais avec nous ce soir

Là-bas ou ici
Paris...Madison
Un club dans la nuit
Un piano qui sonne
Et si...et si...Bessie
Elle avait pas eu la peau noire
Et si.

Un soir d’été près de St Lunaire 
Un soir où l’amour est dans l’air 
Des milliers de présences vivantes 
Quelque chose comme la vie qui chante 
Et on est bien comme le sont tous les gens qui s’aiment 
N’importe où comme à St Lunaire 

Un soir d’été près de St Lunaire 
Parce que le bonheur est fragil 
Et qu’il se découpe par un fil 
Je veux que tu me gardes tienne... 
Longtemps quand même comme se disent tous les gens qui s’aiment 
Longtemps quand même comme se disent tous les gens qui s’aiment 

Seule, de ma faute, je me fous d’hier 
Regarde bourger toues ces lumières 
Une fontaine pour laver nos peines 
Un océan pour nos sentiments 
On est bien comme le sont tous les gens qui s’aiment 
N’importe où comme à St Lunaire 

Un soir d’été près de St Lunaire 
Parce que le bonheur est fragil 
Et qu’il se découpe par un fil 
Je veux que tu me gardes tienne... 
Longtemps quand même comme se disent tous les gens qui s’aiment 
Longtemps quand même comme se disent tous les gens qui s’aiment 

A l'enterrement d'Sidney Bechet
Y'avait des flûtes des clarinettes
So long Big Man
A l'enterrement d'Sidney Bechet
Y'avait des putes et des poètes
Et des barmans.
A l'enterrement d'Sidney Bechet
Y'avait Boris et sa trompette.
A l'enterrement d'Sidney Bechet
On jouait de jazz rue de la Huchette.
A l'enterrement d'Sidney Bechet
Y'avait des petites fleurs des pâquerettes
So long Big Man
A l'enterrement d'Sidney Bechet
Personne n'est venu faire la quête
Pas vous m'ssieurs dames.
A l'enterrement d'Sidney Bechet
Y'avait Boris et sa trompette.
A l'enterrement d'Sidney Bechet
On jouait de jazz rue de la Huchette.
Dans un club de la New Orléans
Au paradis des musiciens
Il a sûrement une place assise
Dans un orchestre qui se souvient.
A l'enterrement d'Sidney Bechet
Y'avait des putes et des poètes
Et des barmans.
A l'enterrement d'Sidney Bechet
Y'avait des flûtes des clarinettes

Pointless sighs
And lonely nights
Bottomless loves
And phony heights

There's a hole in my story
There's a hole in my heart
And this storyteller is falling apart

Feeling neglected
I let go of myself
It's unexpected
But I'm going home by myself
Tears are welling in the pits of my eyes
You're on my mind

Pointless sighs
And lonely nights
Hope inside us taking flight

There's a hole in my story
There's a hole in my shoe
And this storyteller is coming unglued

Feeling neglected
I let go of myself
It's unexpected
But I'm going home by myself
Tears are welling in the pits of my eyes
You're on my mind

Well I’ve not seen Alaskan white
and I’ve not seen Tokyo by night
and I’ve not seen the northern lights
But I have seen your wide eyes tonight

And I’ve not done all I could have done
And I have walked when I could have run
And I have lost all I could have won
But your wide eyes reflect and move on

I have found a hole in my coat
I have found a lump in my throat
I have laughed at all my own jokes
But your wide eyes are like water to a boat

I have never packed my case
Gone underground or out into space
When my gaze rests heavy on your face
Well, your wide eyes are my favourite place
Yeah, your wide eyes are my favourite place

You can say I'm mad
You can say I'm crazy
But I'm only as bad
As the maker who made me

Sinner in the darkness
Liar in the church
Deaf man's silence
The blind man's search

Teardrop falling
Memory recalling
Ghost in your dreams
And your secret recordings

Mad man's matches
Lump in your throat
The pea under your mattress
The hole in your coat

Singer with the sound down
Winner on the come down
Poet in the overcoat
Looking for a suntan

On his birthday
Prisoner on his first day
Tired of the new wave

I rise to meet you
As your trust dissolves to shame
Oh, this innocence has turned and lost its way
Retrace the footprints
Off the path from which I came
I'm the beast in you, the beast in me

(Which way are we going?
The doors close in an hour)

You can say I'm mad
You can say I'm crazy
But I'm only as bad
As the maker who made me

Needle for the user
The pain in your chest
Beggar and the chooser
The wicked man's rest

Fear in the stuntman
Sneer in the playground
Bottle in the hand
Of a dirty old drunk man

Leaf falling
Autumn calling
Dark clouds forming

I rise to meet you
As your trust dissolves to shame
Oh, this innocence has turned and lost its way
Retrace the footprints
Off the path from which I came
I'm the beast in you, the beast in me

Bite my nails
Right down to the skin
Where one trust ends
And another lie begins

Patch over holes
In my weakened heart
Which angels hold
And devils pull apart

I'm the beast in you
The beast in me
The bitterness, the jealousy
The part of you that never sleeps

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Well I've got open eyes,
And an open door,
But I don't know what I'm searching for.
I should know by now.

Well I've a big old heart,
This I know for sure,
But I don't know what my love is for.
I should know by now.

Well I wait in line,
So I can wait some more,
'Til I can't remember what I came here for,
But I can't leave now,
Cause I've a light that shines,
And a love so pure,
But I don't know what to use them for.
I should know by now.

Well I spent my money, I lost my friends, I broke my mobile phone,
3 a.m. and I'm drunk as hell, and I'm dancing on my own,
Taxi-cabs ain't stopping, and I don't know my way home,
Well it's hard to find a reason, when all you have is doubts,
Hard to see inside yourself when can't see your way out,
Hard to find an answer when the question won't come out,

Everyone's filling me up with noise, I don't know what they're talking about
Everyone's filling me up with noise, I don't know what they're talking about
Everyone's filling me up with noise, I don't know what they're talking about
You see all I need's a whisper in a world that only shouts.

You’re just a stones throw from me,
But throwing stones could never be,
The perfect way to start.

Cos sticks and stones make broken bones,
And empty words make broken homes,
But it’s love that broke our hearts.

If I knew what you were thinking,
I would stop this boat from sinking,
But darling you are like the sand,
And you’re slipping through my hands,
I just don’t know what you’re thinking.

You’re just a photo in a draw,
But photographs are not much more,
Than ghosts we can’t forget.

You’re just a red rag to a bull,
You’re just a false hope for a fool,
But its as close as I can get.

If I knew what you were thinking,
I would stop this boat from sinking,
But darling you are like the sun,
Setting when my evening comes,
I just don’t know what you’re thinking.

And I would stop the sky from falling,
If I knew, if I knew,
And I would love you every morning,
If I knew, if I knew.

If I knew what you were thinking,
I would stop this boat from sinking,
But darling you are like the stars,
I know I can’t reach that far,
I just don’t know what you’re thinking.

Well, wood burns, and metal rusts,
So, darling, what’s to become of us,
When the weather turns, and they say it must,
Well, we’ll need coats for the both of us,
But the wool is thin and it’s full of holes,
And there’s no heat in this abandoned bus,
So will we go alone, out on our own,
Oh, darling, what’s to become of us

Well, boats sink into the sea,
And airplanes that crash like computer screens,
And signals fail, trains derail,
And car bonnets crumple like magazines,
‘Til they’re put in piles like stacks of tiles,
In a yard full of fridges and broken stuff,
Will we go alone out on our own,
Oh, darling, what’s to become of us

We will bite our noses off to spite our faces,
Both of us will rust like metal fences in the rain,
You will pour the gasoline and I will spark the matches,
We will burn within our fire, we will burn within our flames

Well, yeast ferments and milk sours,
When it’s out of the fridge for too many hours,
Well, we lament in separate towers,
Never knowing if we’re brave or if we’re cowards,
For they pour cement down this hole of ours,
And we’ll be stuck under stones and flowers,
Will we go alone out on our own,
Oh, darling, that’s what will become of us

I walked the steps of my father today
Worked till I froze and my face turned grey
And all of my fingers calloused and worn to the bone
And I felt like a child in a world full of men
Trying to capture that something again
Strong as an ox but slowly turning to stone

Walking away from this room dark and grey
Smoke hangs in clouds and the old echo plays

And the music is soft
And the voice it is hushed
And the boy he has loved
And the man he has lost

And I walk out in the rain
All over again

I felt the touch of my mother today
Gently pushing me forward again
Closing my eyes but still feeling the way
And I'm clutching at fingers through crumples & creases
I came to my senses it cut me to pieces
'Cause I needed more but I was pulling away

Walking alone with these legs made of stone
I'm almost dry and I'm almost home

Where the photographs smile
And I'm still someone's child
And my place it is set
So I'll stay for a while

Till I walk out in the rain
Like water would stain
And I'm born all over again

I see you nearly every day,
I see you but you don't see me.
Wish I had something clever to say and,
Wish I had something better I could be.

We touched hands by the coffee machine the other day,
I know you've forgotten already, but I'm going to take that moment to the grave.

'coz I just want to walk you home,
I just want to walk you home.

Oh Yeh.

I see you nearly every night,
I see you when you're down in your house.
In my night vision binoculars and,
I creep quiet as a mouse.

Well I get jeleous when I see you stroking his hair,
but it's ok I tell myself 'coz I know it's only an affair.
I know.

'coz I just want to walk you home,
I just want to walk you home.
Well I just need some time alone,
I just need some time alone.

I'm the boy who watches the phone,
I'm the boy who eats lunch on his own,
I'm the boy with the monotone,
I'm the boy, still lives at home.
I'm the boy with the ironed shirt,
I'm the boy who watches you work,
I know where you keep your skirts,
I know where your secrets hurt.
I'm the boy thats calling your house,
I'm the boy thats freaking you out,
With my thermos flask of tea,
Up there in your neighbours tree.
I'm the boy that's crossing borders,
I'm the boy with social disorders,
I'm the boy with restraining orders,
I'm the boy yeah.

'coz I just want to walk you home,
I just want to walk you home.
Well I know that it's no right decree,
But I just want to watch you sleep alone.
I say I just want to walk you home,
I just want to walk you home.

Help me stay awake I’m falling asleep
And I don’t want to fall asleep
While you’re here
You’re gunna leave when the alarm clock beeps
And it will beep any moment
My dear

And all that we have will be locked into memory
Like everything that we’ve had before
So I will stay awake
And I will watch the fire burning
And keep the hungry wolves from the door

Help me find my way back to the bread crumbs
I’ve wandered alone through the trees
The lights are dimming in the windows of the houses
And my heart is starting to freeze

See we have light but we won’t use it
We’re scared we’ll lose it if we don’t use it
Then we’ll die here in the dark
They will find us hopeless and helpless
And clutching our frozen hearts

But you and I well we’ll be buried side by side
And time it won’t mean a thing
I’ll be your underground groom
You’ll be my underground bride

Please can you help me keep my head above the water
I have cramp in both of my calves
Yeah my lungs are filling up with cold dirty water
But I’ve a sickness that is making me laugh
See we have boat but we don't think it
We’re scared we’ll sink but we’ll drink it
If we never find that raft
We will sink down to the bottom of the ocean
With the fishes that glow in the dark

But you and I well we’ll sink down side by side
And time it won’t mean a thing
I’ll be your underwater groom
You’ll be my underwater bride
And oh the lights are fading my love
And oh the water’s filling me up
And oh the lights are fading my love

Your world always seemed so far away
My words are bouncing against your shield
They say time will heal all wounds
But I can't bleed forever

I want to live
I want to breathe
I want to live forever

Please spare us your self-pity
It's tedious enough
The stack of empathy
Has long ago run out

I hold no regrets of what has been done
I don't need the memories of a haunted man
It sickens me to feel this way
But I can't bleed forever
I want to live
I want to breathe
I want to live forever

Light up my lantern, I’ll cut you a path,
We’ve walked for hours and it’s getting dark
We left the roadside in search of aid,
Wind-screen shattered and tire marks made
I’ve never seen someone bleeding like this,
Rip off your sleeve and clench your wrist

I’ll light the stove and sit by the hearth,
Orangey glow light the wintry dark
We kept her bedroom exactly the same,
Winters they followed and Summers they came
He’d bash around, banging down on the floor
I sit alone with an eye on the door

Stop in this clearing, we’ll stay here tonight
Press up against me, I’ll hold you so tight
I got these matches, we’ll let off some smoke
And maybe they’ll see up and maybe they won’t
Blanket of leaves hide the light from the stars,
I’ll lie awake listening out for cars

He stares through curtains when he talks to the night,
I sit and listen for tires on the drive
I keep on waiting and he keep on talking
Just stop him talking, please stop him talking

No, give me silence
Give me silence,
Give me silence
Oh, no…

This is your travelling song,
And I hope it sees you well,
Through train rides and hotels.

This is your travelling song,
And on the window of the train,
With your finger write my name.

But I could sell my watch and buy a ticket,
But my dear I fear I would impede,
So this is your travelling song my love,
I hope you find everything you need.

This is your travelling song,
And here’s one for the road,
The highway and the code.

This is your travelling song,
And I wont ask you to stay,
Cos life don’t work that way.

But I could try and fit inside your suitcase,
But my feet would stick out of the end,
So this is your travelling song my love,
Come find me when your travelling ends,
This is your travelling song my love,
Come find me when your travelling ends.

Hey I’m a fish out of water
A lamb to the slaughter
A moth to the flame
Hey I’m just a bird on a wire
Just a coal in the fire
Just a face and a name

Hey I go chasing thunder
Go dancing under
Go falling free
Hey I go running in circles
Like baby turtles
Down to the sea
Down to the sea

Hey I’m just rust to a handle
I’m breeze to a candle
I’m a choice you can’t choose
Hey I’m just a little bit later
I’m yesterdays paper
I’m yesterdays news

Hey I go chasing thunder
Go dancing under
Go falling free
Hey I go running in circles
Like baby turtles
Down to the sea
Down to the sea

Morning sun keep on shining
Trees they’re climbing
Tall and free
Searching but never finding
Rivers winding to the sea

When you were younger
Blue eyed boy wonder
Never used to ponder
On what life may hide

Now that you're older
The nights are so much colder
Never even told her
How you feel inside

You were so proud
With your head up in the white clouds
She'd call you so loud
But you'd never know

Now that you're wiser
You'd never compromise her
Ever day you'd realise her
But this bird has flown

And you've blown out all your candles one by one
And you curse yourself for things you've never done

She would wait for you
Idolise, adore you
Love and reassure you
You couldn't let it be

You let it linger
Slip on through your fingers
So that September
She moved across the sea

How your face dropped
And how your heart stopped
Sitting at the bus stop
When they told you that she’d gone

So you run to the harbour
Need to tell her that you love her
As the boat disappears
You never felt so alone

'Cause you’ve blown out all your candles one by one
And you curse yourself for things you never done
Where were you when her hour of need had come?
Now you curse yourself for things you never done

Now your grandson blonde haired blue eyed handsome
Calls you up from London and sits and asks you why
So your answer don’t be scared of failure
For the only failure is never to try

I’ve got no money in my hands or my coat or my pocket
Wont get to space cos I haven’t got a rocket
But I’ve air in my lungs
Eyes in my sockets
And a heart that beats
Like a tap that leaks
In the night when you haven’t got a plumber who can stop it
Jack in a box without a key to lock it
Well this boat may sink but I’m not gonna rock it
Cos the sea doesn’t know my name
Yeah the boat may sink but I’m not gonna rock it
Cos the sea doesn’t know my name

Well if you can’t get what you love
You learn to love the things you’ve got
If you can’t be what you want
You learn to be the things you’re not
If you can’t get what you need
You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming
All the things that stop you dreaming

Well I’ve got no ones word and no bodies promise
Not a lot to show but this book full of sonnets
And my liver may be fucked but my heart is honest
And my word is true
Like the sky is blue
In the summer time when everybody gets on it
Warm our skins and get sunburnt from it
And our eyes shine bright like a sky full of comets that shoot like silver trains
Yeah our eyes shine bright like a sky full of comets that shoot like silver trains

Well if you can’t get what you love
You learn to love the things you’ve got
If you can’t be what you want
You learn to be the things you’re not
If you can’t get what you need
You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming
All the things that stop you dreaming

Well if you can’t get what you love
You learn to love the things you’ve got
If you can’t be what you want
You learn to be the things you’re not
If you can’t get what you need
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When I was a kid the things I did were hidden under the grid
Young and naive I never believed that love could be so well hid
With regret I'm willing to bet and say the older you get
It gets harder to forgive and harder to forget
It gets under your shirt like a dagger at work
The first cut is the deepest but the rest still flipping hurt
You build your heart of plastic
Get cynical and sarcastic
And end up in the corner on your own

Cause I'd love to feel love but I can't stand the rejection
I hide behind my jokes as a form of protection
I thought I was close but under further inspection
It seems I've been running in the wrong direction oh no

So what's the point in getting your hopes up
When all you're ever getting is choked up
When you're coked up
And can't remember the reason why you broke up
You call her in the morning
When you're coming down and falling like an old man on the side of the road
Cause when you're apart you don't want to mingle
When you're together you want to be single
Ever the chase to taste the kiss of bliss
That made your heart tingle
How much greener the grass is
With those rose tinted glasses
But the butterflies they flutter by and leave us on our arses

Cause I'd love to feel love but I can't stand the rejection
I hide behind my jokes as a form of protection
I thought I was close but under further inspection
It seems I've been running in the wrong direction
There's fish in the sea for me to make a selection
I'd jump in if it wasn't for my ear infection
Cause all I want to do is try to make a connection
It seems I've been running in the wrong direction oh

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About one year later your daddy was born and your grandma held my hand so tight
Oh I can’t tell the joy as she brought forth new life, by the glow of the kerosene light, by the glow of the kerosene light.

He’s the deflated balloon wrapped around your gait
Cut priced to clear a past to “sell by date”
He’ll be fool running through the church screaming out “it’s not too late”
When he does, I know that you’ll wait

He’s the drunk man with bad breath coming on too strong
He’s the beauty queen that strings your heart along
And he’ll answer every question in your new-age magazine wrong
But I know you’ll love him strong

So I’m leaving before there’s nothing to believe in
I’m just craving for a love I never knew
Please don’t go mistreating me
I’m not saying you’ve been misleading me
Just not needing me the way that I need you

He’s the elephant in the room that never speaks
But you dream about him every two weeks
I wouldn’t know his name, but you call it in your sleep
Oh I know you love him deep
So run back to him like you should
I guess I always knew that you would
For he’s captured your heart in a way I never could
So go on and love him good

So I’m leaving before there’s nothing to believe in
I’m just craving for a love I’ve never knew
I’m the stray cat you keep feeding
You’re the book I can’t stop reading
But the tides are receding that it’s true

So please don’t go mistreating me
I’m not saying you’ve been misleading me,
Just not needing me the way that I need you
Just not needing me the way that I need you

We’re all looking,
That’s what she said,
For someone to share our thoughts,
For someone to share our beds.

But if you find someone that doesn’t try to change you,
If you find someone that doesn’t have to blame you,
If you find someone you don’t need to explain to,
You’ve found the one you love.

We’re all searching,
Thats all I know,
For someone to keep us warm,
When the rain soaks through our clothes.

But if you find a hand to hold when the night comes,
To be there when you’re old and your frightened,
If you find some one who loves you with the lights on,
You’ve found the one you love.

So hold it near,
Cos love it comes so quickly and then it goes,
And be careful my dear,
Cos the very thing that makes you,
Could be the thing that breaks you,
You know.

If you find someone who doesn’t undermine you,
If you find someone who doesn’t drag behind you,
If you find someone that loves you just like I do,
You’ve found the one you love.

Well we’ll kiss for that’s how it begins,
We’ll embrace just to warm our skins.
I’ll think of her and you’ll think of him.

And we’ll talk to keep the silence from our ears,
And we’ll laugh because we’re so close to tears,
We’re just lonely, you know, that’s why we’re here.

Cos you don’t taste like you should,
And you don’t fit in my arms like she would.
Lying in the dark, it’s understood:
We are both lost.
And we won’t be found.

We will wake up with each other in our paws,
You cover over white bits like I’ve not seen them before.
We’ll say goodbye and then we’ll say no more.

Cause hearts won’t buy love and nor will they sell,
And there is no love in this hotel.
Though we’re walking home we know too well
We are both lost
We are both lost
And we won’t be found.

She was my compass,
He was your map,
We’ve come too far to be turning back.

And we’ll sit on our single beds,
Nothing on our hearts and tears on our threads,
For we know the last unicorn is dead.

So I sit on this table for one
And pour me a drink that'll last
I'm not drunk I just miss being young
And I grew old too fast

My wife she breaks and she bends
My children they don't understand
I came here tonight in search of a friend
But I'm the invisible man

'Cause I've swallowed my tongue
And I've polished my gun
And I've sat on my secrets for years
With my stiff upper lip
My composure won't slip
And I've hidden each silent salty tear

I sit on this table for one
And I have been here before
It's a little less than I'd had in mind
But I wouldn't ask for more

And my mother she taught me to write
And my father he taught me his trade
And I wish that they could both be here tonight
To see what a mess I've made

'Cause I've swallowed my tongue
And I've polished my gun
And I've sat on my secrets for years
With my stiff upper lip
My composure won't slip
And I've hidden each silent salty tear

My sons and my daughters don't know me at all
I've dug in trenches and put up walls
I whisper I love you each night as they sleep
But no one hears me when I speak
On this table for one

So I sit on this table for one
I won't go till they tell me to leave
Why'd they teach me to follow my dreams
When dreams are all they can be?

I see the girl running,
With no shoes on her feet,
Jumping shade to shadow,
In this deafening heat.

And I hear the trains coming,
And the drunk man singing on the street,
And the fan on the ceiling,
Reeling,
Me in to sleep.

And I dream silent movies,
Black and white memories I suppose,
They’re the same old stories,
But wearing in different clothes.

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So where’s the girl running,
With no shoes on her feet,
Cos there’s no shade nor shadow,
In this deafening heat.

I was born a baby boy a long time ago
Back when the hillsides were green and the water would flow
But nights they fall and settle like snow
I watched as the hillsides turned white with nowhere to go

Oh think I’m gonna start a fire
Oh think I’m gonna start a fire

Now my heart’s a frozen lake where streams used to flow
Down to the forest of my mind where memory would grow
Now I walk amongst the trees where the last sun glows
The leaves are all golden and brown with nowhere to go

Oh think I’m gonna start a fire
Oh think I’m gonna start a fire

My skin like these boulders
Is cracking and older
With each passing year that goes
My cliff face is crumbling
Silently tumbling
Down to the water below
And if I light a match I’ll be able to catch
The last sun before it goes

And oh well I think I’m gonna start a fire
Oh think I’m gonna start a fire
And oh think I’m gonna start a fire now

I had fallen down again, I had nowhere to go
You had bolted your doors and closed your windows
Still a crack in your wall that I could see through
Saw your house was empty and rode out to meet you

But the city was cold confusing and vast
And the light in my soul was fading fast
Slung towards the back streets
And the alleys where the drunks fight

Walked on past the factories in ever dying sunlight

I needed you
I needed you
I needed you
But you never came for me

Many years now have passed
She's not left my mind
And memories like photographs have faded in time
I walked past the cafes and the nightclubs
Walked past the beggars
And the ladies with their white gloves

I know it won't be long now
It's getting near the end
My ribs are poking through and my coat is getting thin

I needed you
I needed you
I needed you
But you never came for me

So I walked back to where I'd once called home
But the rooms were dark and bare and the garden overgrown
And the door was still locked and the windows still shut
And the wall was still cracked
Why did I come back?
And the answer so thin left me hollow within
'cause nothing had changed except the date and my age
And I still have this pain bloating my veins
Thumping in my aching brain

I needed you
I needed you
I needed you
But you never came for me

So I turned away from my madness
Thought I saw a light flicker by the door
I closed down both my eyelids and thought no more

Tobacco stains our yellow teeth
And all our fingers and underneath
Our fingernails that clasp on sheets
And we try desperately to sleep
Hearts are sad and eyes are tired
And all this red bull keeps us wired
It gives us wings
It gives us rings around our eyes

We put three sugars in our tea
Sit to watch day time t.v
And laugh at mums who don’t know who the father is
And all our girlfriends are long gone
We watch too much internet porn
Who needs love when you’ve got silicone and strap ons

And beer bloats our spoilt guts
And shit jobs keep us in ruts
And keep us eyeing up the what’s and if’s and buts and maybe’s and
Falling over in the street
Is just a part of every week
And we lie drunkenly just staring at the stars

Remember when they were in reach
And all the teachers used to teach
You can do anything if you put your mind to it
We put our minds to it all
But disappointment crashed the ball
We could’ve done anything
We just never quite knew it

So tie your scarf on tight
Its to be a cold night
Tie your scarf on tight
Its to be a cold night
Tie your scarf on tight
Its to be a cold night
Tie your scarf on tight
Its to be a cold night

Oh oh so tie your scarf on tight
Its to be a cold night
Tie your scarf on tight
Its to be a cold night
Tie your scarf on tight
Its to be a cold night
Tie your scarf on tight
Its to be a cold night

Well, we watched the starlings fly,
Around the burnt-down pier, and I
Spilled my coffee on my sleeve,
She wiped it with a smile,
And told me I was juvenile,
And kissed me softly on my cheek

And her hair danced in the breeze,
Like a thousand swinging trees,
In a forest lying next to stormy seas

Well, we watched the wintry sky,
Turn a shade of turquoise, I,
Whispered softly, "I feel lost, "
She turned with laughing eyes,
And curled her lips towards the sky,
And said, "get your map out, then, you knob!"

And we laughed like a pair of fools,
Like kids, they laugh at school,
And we wandered home before the day brought dusk

I only came inside to get out of the rain,
And by the looks of things she may well have done the same,
But I swear I know that face but I don’t know her name,
She’s the shape of love.

I stir my tea and throw away wet cigarettes,
I watch her shivering through her rain sodden dress,
I know her make up runs and her hair may be a mess,
But she’s the shape of love.

I don’t ever want the rain to stop,
I don’t ever want to leave this coffee shop,
I don’t ever want the clouds to part,
Cos the shape of loves the only shape that fits my heart.

I only came inside to get out of the wind,
But now I’m here let it blow yeah let it sing,
Cos I don’t know how this ones gonna end or how it may begin,
But she’s the shape of love.

I don’t ever want the sun to shine,
I don’t ever want to leave this one behind,
I don’t ever want the summer time to start,
Cos the shape of loves the only shape that fits my heart.

I don’t ever want the rain to stop,
I don’t ever want to leave this coffee shop,
I don’t ever want the clouds to part,
cos the shape of loves the only shape that fits my heart,
I don’t ever want the sun to shine,
I don’t ever want to leave this one behind,
And I don’t ever want the summer time to start,
Cos the shape of loves the only shape that fits my heart.

Every light will fade into the dark,
But every night will die just like the last,
Snowflakes on the water,
Snowflakes on the frozen sea,
Snowflakes in the playground,
Snowflakes clothing naked trees

No stars in sight lying on the lawn,
But every night is darkest before dawn
Snowflakes on the water,
Snowflakes on the frozen sea,
Snowflakes in the playground,
Snowflakes clothing naked trees

Well, sing, sing at the top of your voice,
Love without fear in your heart.
Feel, feel like you still have a choice
If we all light up we can scare away the dark

We wish our weekdays away
Spend our weekends in bed
Drink ourselves stupid
And work ourselves dead
And all just because that's what mom and dad said we should do

We should run through the forest
We should swim in the streams
We should laugh, we should cry,
We should love, we should dream
We should stare at the stars and not just the screens
You should hear what I'm saying and know what it means

To sing, sing at the top of your voice,
Love without fear in your heart.
Feel, feel like you still have a choice
If we all light up we can scare away the dark

Well, we wish we were happier, thinner and fitter,
We wish we weren't losers and liars and quitters
We want something more not just nasty and bitter
We want something real not just hash tags and Twitter

It's the meaning of life and it's streamed live on YouTube
But I bet Gangnam Style will still get more views
We're scared of drowning, flying and shooters
But we're all slowly dying in front of computers

So sing, sing at the top of your voice,
Oh, love without fear in your heart.
Can you feel, feel like you still have a choice
If we all light up we can scare away the dark

Well it's funny with age
you get to the stage
your head and your heart 
Aren't on the same page
Your heart will wait forever but your skin says you're getting old

Good things come to those who wait 
well the lights were up and it was getting late
She wore my coat because she said that she was cold
Funny how quick a coat turns into a ring
Looking back now I don't remember a thing
We don't talk about the writing on the wall
Somedays we don't talk at all
But when the lights are dim
And my time is free

I sometimes think about the good times that I missed
Sometimes think about the girls I could have kissed
But I settled for her
And she settled for me

Well it's funny how time just seems to fly
You blink your eyes And it'll pass you by
Before too long you're getting on the bus for free

Same old routine
Same old blue jeans
Same old nightmares different dreams

Funny how quick the days turn into years
Funny some people stay some disappear
We don't talk about the writing on the wall
Somedays we don't talk at all
But when the lights are dim
And my time is free

I sometimes think about the good times that I missed
Sometimes think about the girls I could have kissed
But I settled for her
And she settled for me

Ain't it funny how you miss someone
When you're sat there next to them at home
Ain't it funny how hard we are to change
Like we're made out of stone
We don't talk about the writing on the wall
Hell somedays we don't talk at all
When the lights are dim and my time is free

I sometimes think about the good times that I missed
Sometimes think about the girls I could have kissed
But I settled for her
And she settled for me

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There’s wood chip on the walls,
There’s wood on the stove,
You would if you could but you cannot I know,
But I’m still yours alone.

We’d lie on our backs,
We’d lie on your floor,
But we lied so much we don’t talk any more,
But I’m still yours alone,
You said you were tired I said I feel the same,
I put on my shoes and I got on the train.

To see sunlight fade and the shadows grow long,
To see rivers go winding blindly back to the storm,
And the rickety tracks they’re taking me back to where I used to belong.

There’s a weight on our shoulders,
A weight to your tone,
You wait on tables I wait by the phone,
And I’m still yours alone.

You blew out the candles when we fell apart,
I’m not childish just scared of the dark.

I see sunlight fade and the shadows grow long,
To see rivers go winding blindly back to the storm,
And the rickety tracks they are taking me back to where i used to belong.

oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh

I feel sunlight fade and the shadows grow long,
I see rivers go winding blindly back to the storm,
And the rickety tracks taking me back to where I used to belong.

Sometimes I feel I’m going nowhere
Sometimes I’m sure I never will
She said it’s ‘cos I’m always moving
I never notice ‘cos I never stand still

Sometimes I feel like I’m falling
Falling fast and falling free
She said my darling you’re not falling
Always looked like you were flying to me

But I fear I’ve grown a rolling stone inside of me
She said oh don’t you know
The rolling stones stop at the sea
And that’s where I’ll be

Sometimes I’m sure I know no one
A thousand faces but no names
She said my love you do know someone
Oh and i know you back just the same

But I’m scared I said, what if this stone don’t slow down
Oh just be aware she said
What goes up will come down
And when you do I’ll be around

Oh when I’ve dragged this rolling stone across this land
I’ll make sure I leave this stone in her hand
For we both know too well the rolling stones turn in to sand
If they don’t find a place to stand

Glass was shattered here
Midst the burning smell of fear
Dressed in plainclothes

Bloodstain on the snow
Looks like red wine on the clothes
Of a sailor

She lives in a photograph
Waits for you to make her laugh

Life was shattered here
Midst a thousand mothers’ tears
We’ll need rainclothes

And teardrops melt the snow
Reveal the oil spill in the road
Looks like rainbows

Drunk upon the scaffolding
Swinging around

Drunk upon the scaffolding
Laughing at the ground as he falls

Well, I met him in Minnesota,
He was dark and overcast.
With long, grey hair and eyes that stared
Through me like I was glass.
I asked "Where are you going to?"
He said, "I'm the wind I'm just blowing through."
He lit up a cigarette and began to talk.

Said:
"The doctors told me that my body won't hold me,
My lungs are turning black.
Been a lucky strike's fool since I was at school and there ain't no turning back.
They can't tell me how long I've got,
Maybe months but maybe not,
So I'm taking this bike and riding to New York.

'Cause I wanna see my grand-daughter one last time,
Wanna hold her close and feel her tiny heartbeat next to mine.
Wanna see my son and the man he's become,
Tell him I'm sorry for the things I've done,
And I'd do it if I had to walk.
Oh, I'm taking this bike and riding to New York

Through the forests of Wisconsin that I knew as a boy,
Past the sky line of Chicago,
Round the lakes of Illinois.
I lay my head in a motel bed where my back is sore and my eyes turn red,
Listen to the trucks roll past my door.
Through the fields of Ohio as the sunshine paints them gold.
I run just like a river runs, rapid, quick and cold.
And fly through Pennsylvania and the Jersey turnpike tolls.
And I won't stop 'till I get to New York.

'Cause I wanna see my grand-son one last time.
Wanna see his eyes sparkling and stare back into mine.
Now my time is shorter,
I wanna see my daughter,
Tell her all the things that I should have taught her
And I'd do it if I had to walk.
Oh, I'm taking this bike and riding to New York.

And I'd go up to the churchyard one last time,
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I see you nearly everyday.
I see you, but you don’t see me.
I wish I had something clever to say.
And I wish I had something better I could be.

We touched hands by the coffee machine the other day.
I know you’ve forgotten already,
But I’m gonna take that moment to the grave.
To the grave.

Cos I just wanna walk you home.
I just wanna walk you home.
Oh, yea.

I see you nearly every night.
I see you when you’re down in your house.
With my night vision binoculars
I creep quiet as a mouse.

And I get jealous when I see you stroking his hair.
But it’s okay, I tell myself ’cause I know
It’s only I’m not there.
I’m not there.
Cos I just wanna walk you home.
I just wanna walk you home.
Well I just need some time alone.
I just need some time alone.

I’m the boy who watches the phone.
I’m the boy who eats lunch on his own.
I’m the boy with the monotone.
I’m the boy who still lives at home.

I’m the boy with the ironed shirt.
I’m the boy who watches you work.
I know where you keep your skirts.
I know where your secrets lurk.

I’m the boy that’s calling your house.
I’m the boy that’s freaking you out.
With my thermal flask of tea.
Up there in your neighbour’s tree.

I’m the boy that’s crossing borders.
I’m the boy with social disorders.
I’m the boy with restraining orders.
I’m the boy, yeah.

Cos I just wanna walk you home.
I just wanna walk you home.
And I know that’s it not right to creep.
But I just wanna watch you sleep alone.

Cos I just wanna walk you home.
I just wanna walk you home.

Got a pinch of tobacco in my pocket
I'm not gonna roll it no I'm not gonna smoke it
Til we're staring at the stars and the rockets
Twinkling in the silvery night

Two sips of whiskey in the flask but I'm not gonna drink 'em
I swear I'll make it last
Til we're drinking out of the same glass again

And though the sand may be washed by the sea
And the old will be lost in the new
Well four will not wait for three
For three never waited for two
And though you will not wait for me
I'll wait for you

Got a polaroid picture in my wallet
I'm not going to tear it no I'm not gonna spoil it
It's an unspoken heartbreak
A heartbroken handshake I'll take with me where I go

And three words on the tip of my tongue
Not to be spoken nor sung
Or whispered to anyone
Til I scream them at the top of my lungs again

And though the sand may be washed by the sea
And the old will be lost in the new
Well four will not wait for three
For three never waited for two
And though you will not wait for me
I'll wait for you
I'll wait for you
And I'll wait for you

Got a pinch of tobacco in my pocket
I'm not gonna roll it no I'm not gonna smoke it
Til we're staring at the stars and the rockets
Twinkling in the silvery night