Rachael Yamagata 2집 - Elephants…Teeth Sinking Into Heart (2008) by Rachael Yamagata (보컬) on maniadb.com

If the elephants have past lives, yet are destined to always remember,
it’s no wonder how they scream,
like you and I, they must have some temper.
And I am dreaming of them on the plains, dirtying up their beds,
watching for some kind of rain to cool their hot heads.
And how dare that you send me that card when I’m doing all that I can do.
You are forcing me to remember when all I want is to just forget you.
If the tiger shall protect her young, then tell me how did you slip by.
All my instincts have failed me for once —I must have somehow slept the whole night.

And I am dreaming of them with their kill, tearing it all apart,
blood dripping from their lips, and teeth sinking into heart.
And how dare that you say you will call, when you know I need some peace of mind..
If you had to take sides with the animals, won’t you do it with one who is kind?

If the hawks in the trees need the dead, if you’re living you don’t stand a chance.
For a time though you share the same bed, but there are only two ends to this dance.
You can flee with your wounds just in time, or lie there as he feeds,
watching yourself ripped to shreds and laughing as you bleed.

So for those of you falling in love, keep it kind, keep it good, keep it right.
Throw yourself in the midst of danger, but keep one eye open at night

Why don’t you call
When you say you will my dear
Is it because I don’t belong to you
Why don’t you call
When you say you will my dear
Do you really think it would work out wrong

What if I leave
What if I leave
What if I leave
What if I leave

Why don’t you call
Don’t you miss me at all
Left a long long time ago to where the weather was better for his kind
And why won’t you place
The girl who loves your face
I may be a fool oh no
But I never understood these rules

What if I leave
What if I leave
What if I leave
What if I leave

So I grow up lonely for another
With the windy city left behind to my lover
Will you ever know the way I cried
You were gone that day so you may have missed my goodbye
Sometimes in my dreams I hear you say
If you really cared you won’t go away
But what if I leave
What if I leave
What if I leave
What if I leave
What if I leave
What if I leave
What if I leave
What if I leave

When all of this makes the news
Will they remember to tell it right
Or will devils make off in the night
Can you tell me why a god so high has us fight

As she lays in bed in her piece of ground
Will they remember her blessed soul
Or just that she lost all control
Can you tell me why she had to die alone

People wake up
People get moving
There’s a life waiting here
Wake up
People get doing
There’s a life waiting here

When all our time is spent away
Will we remember the loves of our past
Or just that love never lasts
Can you tell me why
This little life
Goes so fast…

It's a choice
to stay
It's a dream
& I wanna wake

You have blood on your hands
and I'm feeling faint
And honey
You can't decide

I'm a drug
Ya don't wanna give up
Smoke your cigarettes
Make your love

You poured blood in my heart
and I can't get enough
I'm drowning, drowning
and you can't decide

It's not about geography, or happenstance
you need to fly, & take a chance
You don't need to soar to emptiness
Float on high, & forever dance alone

Your scared, scared, scared
cuz I feel like home

Hear your voice
Knew right away
If you were here
your eyes would say

There is blood on my feet
as I'm walking away
Rivers are red
Its starting to rain

I'm not gonna live for you
or die for you
Won't do anything anymore for you
Cuz you leave me here on the other side
You leave me here on the other side

(repeat 3 more times)

Not gonna shed one more tear for you
shed one more tear for you
I'm not gonna shed one more tear for you

At least not til Sunday Afternoon
Sunday Afternoon

Leave or Stay
Leave or Stay

Oh, lover, hold on
'Till I come
Back again
For these arms
Are growing tired
And my tales
Are wearing thin

If you're patient
I will surprise
When you wake up
I'll have come
All the ache will
Settle down
And we'll go do
All the things we should have done

'Cause I remember what we said
As we lay down to bed
"I'll be here, if you would only come back home"

Oh, lover, I'm lost
Because the road I've chosen
Beckons me away
Oh, lover, don't you go
Now I'm fighting words
I never thought I'd say

But I remember what we said
As we lay down to bed
"I'll forgive you all, if you'll just come back home"

Oh, lover, I know
You'll be out there
And be thinking just of me
And I will find you
Down the road
We'll return back home
To where we're meant to be

'Cause I remember what we said
As we lay down to bed
"We'll be back as soon as we make history"

I really thought I was okay I really thought I was just fine But when I woke this time There was nothing to take me back to sleep To take you off my mind this time And I keep saying over and over and over and over again Let it rain, let it rain Over and over and over and over again Let it rain, let it rain I need to hide within a storm So have the lightening come Bring the winds that scream Spill the fog all over town Hold me in your standstill ground And I will sink down And you’ll be washed away You’ll be washed away Over and over and over and over again Let it rain, let it rain Over and over and over and over again Let it rain, let it rain I really thought I was okay I really thought I was just fine But when I woke up this time There was nothing to take you off my mind Over and over and over and over again Let it rain, let it rain Over and over and over and over again Let it rain, let it rain I need to hide within a storm So have the lightening come Bring the winds that scream Spill the fog all over town Break through every door Strip away the trees Raise the rivers high Just help me drown Hold me in your standstill ground And I will sink down And you’ll be washed away You’ll be washed away

Brown eyes
Will you wait for me to follow
I’m used to letting everybody down
I’ve seen your face in every shadow
Does it look as pretty in the light
Oh, will you save me from myself
Will I save you from the rest
Oh brown eyes, save a little something for me too

Full moon
Is there wisdom in your tide play
The cold is coming now
Like love, you’re throwing everybody off
Sleep just doesn’t taste the same
I’ll be waiting
Till we’re side by side once again

Old love
How I wish we were an old love
Have survived all this and more
Oh, you’re turning everything to dust
And the wind is picking up
Oh brown eyes
Save a little something for me too

The last time I lay my eyes upon you
You were blowing kisses and I was waiting in a car
Something had died, yet everything around kept turning
Don’t even know now where you are

Somewhere along the line we lost our horizon
I’ve been looking round, up and down to no avail
Someday i hope to find the horizon
I’ve been all around the world yet nothing is clear

The last time I held you it was head to heart
The curtain was drawn, I left you sleeping so sound
If I had known forever after we would stay apart
I would have whispered all the things I can’t tell you now

Somewhere along the line we lost our horizon
I’ve been looking round, up and down to no avail no avail
Someday I hope I can find the horizon
I’ve been all around the world

I don’t believe in you
Like I so wanted to
I hope you’re asking heavens above
To forgive all the damage you’ve done
And if I did teach you anything at all
I hope that you learned how to love
But I doubt if I’ll ever talk to you after now

Somewhere along the line we lost our horizon
I’ve been looking round, up and down to no avail, no avail
Someday I hope we can find the horizon
I’ve been all around the world, nothing is clear
No no no
Nothing is clear to me now at all
Nothing is clear
Nothing is clear
Nothing is clear to me now at all
Nothing is clear
Nothing is clear to me
Nothing is clear
Nothing is clear
Nothing is clear
Nothing is clear…

If I could have one wish
If I could have somd say
I'd keep you far from home
I'd roll back my sleeves
I'd dig under your skin
I'd fix your shattered bones

Hold on
This may hurt you when I tell you of the truth
we don't get two lives to live
It's true
The only fault I've found in you is not being
free to take what I would give

If I could bend your pain into something good
Make you a prouder man
If I could rough you up then save you woth good luck
And show you hope again

Hold on
You weren't meant to suffer so very long
leaving love that's gone has never been al sin
hang tight
The only fault you have tonight is shutting down
so cold 'till I break in

Oh sad young man
I think I need you for reasons I don't know
I pledge myself to winter season
so It's perfectly in course but in the end it has to snow

If I can make you stay
Convince you'd be lost if we were torn apart
If it remained unclear between the two of us
Which one would be the one to break the other's heart

Hold on
This will floor me differently than any drug
that's washed me into sleep
It's true
The only fault I'll take frome you is how to run
frome what you wish to keep

Do you want to be my sidedish friend
Cause I'll miss you if you go for good
Yeah
We can stay together 'til the very end of time

[Chorus]
If it's understood that I don't want you hanging out with me
But I want you when I call
And we can stay together separately and we won't be lonely at all

Oh boy
Oh boy
I got to think about that
Oh boy

And do you want to be the one on hold
Cause you know I'll always come right back
Yeah
We can find a quiet place for both of us to go

[Chorus]

Oh boy
Oh boy
I got to think about that 'cause every time
(Every time)
I think I'm all right I think I'll win you over I hear you say
(Hear you say)

That I don't want you hanging out with me but I want you when I call
And we can stay together separately and we won't be lonely at all
I don't want to get too close to you
And I don't want you close to me

There's a back door waiting just for you if this isn't what you need
There's a back door waiting just for you if this isn't what you need

I think he’s in a jealous rage
She’s probably not the easiest one to live with either
There’s nothing worse than bitterness just splashed across a page
I don’t think that either one of them are fit to be a writer
Oh if she’d just shut up and do what she does best
Show a little bit of skin, but keep it all when she’s undressed
Doesn’t she know that she is doing it all wrong
You can’t tell a joke, yeah if I’m listening to your song

Oh and all of this talking and all of this chatter
Is making me sick even though they say it doesn’t matter
Let’s put em in a room, or maybe they should stay apart
Or maybe words in their mouth
Yeah, let’s fuck with their hearts
Cuz nobody’s ordering change
So let’s watch everybody bleed
Cuz everybody loves an accident
And everybody loves what they read

I think he’s gonna be a big star
A voice of social change to rearrange the world’s perspective
But there’s nothing better than watching him go down
He could pick up a habit, or get in trouble that might be effective
Oh if he’d just shut off his conscience for one day
Take a cue from all of us and give us a song we could really play
Doesn’t he know he’s going down and going down fast
If he keeps on being difficult he’ll always come in last

Oh and all of this talking and all of this chatter
Is making me sick even though they say it doesn’t matter
Let’s take away his toys, forget why we loved him at all
He is calling for backup, but we’re not strong enough to take that fall
And nobody needs to change
So let’s all go have a beer
Cuz everybody loves an accident
And everybody loves what they hear

Two sides working together then working against one another, oh brother
Two bad souls are destroyed, it’s the nature of business and all of its partners

Oh look they’re losing all of their trust
Oh look they’re trying to bite the helping hand that feeds em
We put clothes on their back and they took the money up front
Now they don’t like what we’re saying so let’s up and leave em
We could’ve done what they are doing anyway
Some shit about digging into souls and life’s lasting misery
We’re gonna take em down and do it on the front page
Oh and watch those hypocrites come crawling back on bended knee

Oh and all of this talking and all of this chatter
Is making me sick even though they say it doesn’t matter
I’m becoming a bore now
I am wasting ashore now
We’re all busted and broken, but the subject’s unspoken
Cuz nobody really wants change
But it’s sure fun to advertise the fight
We’re feeding off each other once again
But neither one of us is getting any sleep tonight
I hope
I hope
I really hope hope I hope I hope I hope I hope I…..

I can't talk to you
You think I'm lost inside my mind
You're like an old tattoo
And I know you'll fade in time

I'm not the girl you think you know
I'm not the girl you waited for
I'm not the one for you
It's just one thing left to do

Why don't you let me be
Cause I'm a million miles away
Why don't you set me free
Cause you don't treat me like you said

I won't tuck you in one last time
I'm taking back what is mine
For me
I belong to me, yeah

[Chorus]
I'm going faster
You're going backwards
You're going to miss me when I'm gone
I hang from the ceiling
I feel what I'm feeling
Should've been feeling it all along

I'm going faster
I'm going faster

That's the last black eye
I hope I ever give to you
Yeah, I had a good time
But what's a girl supposed to do

Take the pictures off the wall
They don't look like us at all
They don't look like friends
I've got new things to begin

Why don't you let me be
Cause I'm a million miles away
Why don't you set me free
I belong to me

[Chorus]

I'm going faster
I'm going faster

[Chorus]

I'm going faster
I'm going faster

Draw me under
Cut me open
Take my heart
I give it to you
Hear the thunder
Hold me close
I beg of you

And pause the tragic ending
For just a moment more
Draw the dresser out
And slide it to the door

Take the air out of the room
Close the curtain
And kill the lights

Only seconds
Left to tell you
How I need you
Every night

Pause the tragic ending
For I'm almost out of breath
Whisper in my ear
Take a bite out of my neck

I'd give you blood if that's what you need
To stay with me
You'll be free
And I will die

Sing a song
For they all want to see
How it ends
Bring her along
She can stitch you as you mend
Bury me deep
Lest I travel you again

The tragic ending
Never ends

Do you love me?
You love me
I can feel it in my bones

In dreams you are swimming
Swimming naked out

Take the bottle
Out to sea
Back for good
You hurt her dear
Get a,
It chases me
I don't know that I am here

In this tragic ending
Where we've all those things to say
Wash the sheets
And clear your head
You'll be OK

Bury me deep down
In every song you play

The tragic ending
The tragic ending
The tragic ending
Saves the day

I can understand all that you are
I can even take all that you are not
I can simpathize with all you want to be
But don't fuck me in front of me

I can even scores with the best of them
I can leave my innocence at bay
You can turn your back on my sincerety
But don't fuck me in front of me

How could they, they wait
I saw the look you gave her
Beathe in again
May god the world do say you hurt

I could say I blame you for everything
Instead I think I'll recognize my part
Needing doesn't hide who I want to be
But don't fuck me in front of me

Yeah
Don't fuck me in front of me