The Pastels

Everyone should have a friend
To share your life and your heart
It's not all you need
But you would bleed for them
Everyone gets hurt, everyone gets stuck

Everyone should have a friend
To lead and to follow
To open up to and to lose control
Someone to explore

The north pole, south pole
Exploration team
Soft core hard core
Polar extreme

And we'll be lost
And we'll be found
And we'll be bound
To the friendship that we found

My happiest memories are Mexico
When you didn't have to go
Why are you so far away?
Sleep down, sleep down, sleep and stay

How much gold is in a ton of dirt?
One whole dollar worth
And if we meet just one time in the year
Does that make me more or less dear?

I don't want you always just my guest
Wrap in my Mexican blanket and rest
You are so sweet to love
But we're never never really together

You're my one the only dear to me
A thousand miles across the sea
You're not here, I'm not there
We're apart and I'm lonely

Let's do some truthful talking
Cause I'm getting tired of walking nowhere;
This framework doesn't work
Kick the dragon, nothing else I'm fired up truck
You're not here, I'm not there
We're apart

It might not last
So we're gonna record everything

Trip the power on
And we'll set up our equipment
And we'll be there for that moment
When our world is transformed from night to dawn

It's an outside chance
That the light will be reflected
And our lives will be connected
In the same sphere, as we glance each other's eyes

Open up the mic
'Cos we're gonna record everything

This is a moving part
This is a big idea, just waiting to spark

Clank out those random parts
A kinetic freedom's reaching
Between the earth and the stars
There'll be magic errors meeting

Penny parade, exotic Arcade
Swimming pool mansion
A family disgrace

Jack pot queen, slot machine
I don't want on
But I do want on

What have you got?
Tell me you're feeling so hot
'Cause I bet you anything you've got
That you will lose it
And I will lose it

Swimstar queen,
I am outside your scene
And I don't want in
But I do want in

What can I win?
Show me how to swim for the prize
When the prize is in your eyes

Everything I am is covered in you
You're my eyes for seeing through
Every mirror reverses through
Everything I see is you

I'm fake king, I'm faking
I am king to the queen of the pool
There's no rules, king of the fools
King of the worst, king of the cursed
King of the frown, upside down crown
King until sundown

Scratch out the negative
'Till I don't know what it is I'm seeing
And when history starts disappearing
Then it's time for some forgetting

And I'm good at forgetting you know
And we should have said goodbye
A long time ago

There was no crime committed
There was a band that split
And they were so remote
That no-one even noticed

And they were good at forgetting you know
And they should have said goodbye
A long time ago
Is there always a ghost I should remember?
Is there always a heart I can't unsever?
Are there no new songs to be learnt?
Cause if there's not,
I'd say the idea's been spent

Rug is keen and seaweed queen
My eyes are green my mind's serene
Recommend it hurry and send it
This is day twenty-eight

Now I've started token collecting
Firth descending hearts for mending
Shell hoards and gold loads

Downward looking flower
Every hour there's a sky

Unearth the sea discover me
Your mind is clear your life is real
Serpentine shaped shallow mine
A liquid pool a secret sign

Now I've started token collecting
Firth descending hearts for mending
Shell hoards and gold loads

Thanking without asking
Hopes are banking on your climb

3 boat rendezvous
Sub-moonlight serenade
Respect is due to you
For coming all this way
When the consensus was to wait and see
There's so much music that isn't free
And I wish that we could make it disappear

Shut some record companies down
Run some bands out of town
Shed light on a corporate situation
Consensus rock on the air
Using up all the electricity
And leaving us feeling empty

Float down boats of wood and metal
In the same direction on the same river
Sooner or later they'll arrive together
I know it won't let us down
But sometimes we've had to take a long way round

To a coolport, coolport
Sooner or later we'll arrive together
Coolport, coolport
Sooner or later we'll arrive together
Coolport

Truth shimmers like palaces in the sun
And your inventions will never be too far flung
Imagination's worthwhile taking
And gravitation, cause I don't want you to fall

I'll surprise you
Gliding through
I'll surprise you

Unbounded by languor or longitude
Everywhere is the centre of someone's world
Panorama getting calmer
Senses warmer
I don't want us to fall

We'll be true
Never blue
We'll be true

Sticky melons juices flow
Cycle paths broken glass
Where did all our summers go?
Boarded-up bars
Dull neon stars
A logging lorry lost its way
Guided by your sweet allure
Tender tasting wanting more
Only me that knows your there
Don't sit in that empty chair
Where do melted icebergs go?
Barbon-dating beating time
Electric cars
Clashes on Mars
Charm me with your hostess calm
Lonely ripples wash the shore
Lazy on the beat and sigh
Promises on tips of tongues
Make a place that no one knows
Trickle sands between our toe
Unlearn what we think we know
Shield your eyes
Wishful sighs
The yellow sign says follow me

We could drive there
Arrive there
Be alive there
But your truck's broke down
You're nowhere bound
Will never leave this town
But if it won't be you
It probably won't be me
We capered, burnt a
Candle to the taper
Tonight we'll swim
In the river
Kiss and shiver
Were we ever inspired
Just for a moment
Or is this our life?
Slackness in
The blackness
If that's the way we are
No tricks, no coins
No stars
We need to stray
And find a gateway
Lifelong
Feeling we're wrong
To still be
Hanging around
Our old hunting ground
We could go far
Thanking our stars
That the viaduct
Broke
Or we'd never have spoken
By now
Can't you see i'm
Trying to tell you
We've paid our dues

Remote star climbs
Upward arc
Part, apart
California 1964
So far

Rough riders in button downs
When they smiled it was sincere
And they frowned
Outsider european school
To me that's cool and absolute
Were they closer to the truth?
The concept is so loose
But when I think of them
I think of you
I'm always in the world with you

From a friend to a friend
Look into my camera lens
See how the picture bends

If every moment
That defined our lives
Was signaled with a single harbour light
The colour flurry
Could not hurry
The timelessness I feel
When we're together
No blind to these
Shoddy shoddy times
I just want to linger
In those lights
Cause when I see them
I think of think of you
I'm always in the world with you

From a friend to a friend
Look into my camera lens
See how the picture bends

From a friend to a friend
Does a journey ever end?
And what did we intend?
Are we leaving
Or arriving?

Take your shoes off
Step this way
To the waterfall and back

Catch your breath
Along the way
Watching insects
Inch their way

And when the day
Is done
We'll ride in to
The milky sun

Both of us here
A whim the air is all
Drawing circles
Venture softly
We're there
In a moment
There'll be moments
To share

Looking from your
Dark window
Do you miss the city flow?
Sometimes at night
A swim a whim cath fire
Press your face
Against the glass
Soon a hundred years
Will pass
Open the door
Make up for times missing
Found a need
I never knew
I can't imagine
Passing through

Both of us here
And your unknowing smile
Unrolling unknowning
We're there
In a moment
There'll be moments
To share

Mechanised
No-one's inside
There's no keeper
So your paint in stripes
Flakes softly
To the ground

Send your beam
To float the sea
With your comrades
In the night you're not
So lonesome as the day

We could drive there
Arrive there
Be alive there
But your truck's broke down
You're nowhere bound
Will never leave this town
But if it won't be you
It probably won't be me
We capered, burnt a
Candle to the taper
Tonight we'll swim
In the river
Kiss and shiver
Were we ever inspired
Just for a moment
Or is this our life?
Slackness in
The blackness
If that's the way we are
No tricks, no coins
No stars
We need to stray
And find a gateway
Lifelong
Feeling we're wrong
To still be
Hanging around
Our old hunting ground
We could go far
Thanking our stars
That the viaduct
Broke
Or we'd never have spoken
By now
Can't you see i'm
Trying to tell you
We've paid our dues

Remote star climbs
Upward arc
Part, apart
California 1964
So far

Remote star climbs
Upward arc
Part, apart
California 1964
So far

We could drive there
Arrive there
Be alive there
But your truck's broke down
You're nowhere bound
Will never leave this town
But if it won't be you
It probably won't be me
We capered, burnt a
Candle to the taper
Tonight we'll swim
In the river
Kiss and shiver
Were we ever inspired
Just for a moment
Or is this our life?
Slackness in
The blackness
If that's the way we are
No tricks, no coins
No stars
We need to stray
And find a gateway
Lifelong
Feeling we're wrong
To still be
Hanging around
Our old hunting ground
We could go far
Thanking our stars
That the viaduct
Broke
Or we'd never have spoken
By now
Can't you see i'm
Trying to tell you
We've paid our dues

Sticky melons juices flow
Cycle paths broken glass
Where did all our summers go?
Boarded-up bars
Dull neon stars
A logging lorry lost its way
Guided by your sweet allure
Tender tasting wanting more
Only me that knows your there
Don't sit in that empty chair
Where do melted icebergs go?
Barbon-dating beating time
Electric cars
Clashes on Mars
Charm me with your hostess calm
Lonely ripples wash the shore
Lazy on the beat and sigh
Promises on tips of tongues
Make a place that no one knows
Trickle sands between our toe
Unlearn what we think we know
Shield your eyes
Wishful sighs
The yellow sign says follow me

Take your shoes off
Step this way
To the waterfall and back

Catch your breath
Along the way
Watching insects
Inch their way

And when the day
Is done
We'll ride in to
The milky sun

Both of us here
A whim the air is all
Drawing circles
Venture softly
We're there
In a moment
There'll be moments
To share

Looking from your
Dark window
Do you miss the city flow?
Sometimes at night
A swim a whim cath fire
Press your face
Against the glass
Soon a hundred years
Will pass
Open the door
Make up for times missing
Found a need
I never knew
I can't imagine
Passing through

Both of us here
And your unknowing smile
Unrolling unknowning
We're there
In a moment
There'll be moments
To share

Rough riders in button downs
When they smiled it was sincere
And they frowned
Outsider european school
To me that's cool and absolute
Were they closer to the truth?
The concept is so loose
But when I think of them
I think of you
I'm always in the world with you

From a friend to a friend
Look into my camera lens
See how the picture bends

If every moment
That defined our lives
Was signaled with a single harbour light
The colour flurry
Could not hurry
The timelessness I feel
When we're together
No blind to these
Shoddy shoddy times
I just want to linger
In those lights
Cause when I see them
I think of think of you
I'm always in the world with you

From a friend to a friend
Look into my camera lens
See how the picture bends

From a friend to a friend
Does a journey ever end?
And what did we intend?
Are we leaving
Or arriving?

Rough riders in button downs
When they smiled it was sincere
And they frowned
Outsider european school
To me that's cool and absolute
Were they closer to the truth?
The concept is so loose
But when I think of them
I think of you
I'm always in the world with you

From a friend to a friend
Look into my camera lens
See how the picture bends

If every moment
That defined our lives
Was signaled with a single harbour light
The colour flurry
Could not hurry
The timelessness I feel
When we're together
No blind to these
Shoddy shoddy times
I just want to linger
In those lights
Cause when I see them
I think of think of you
I'm always in the world with you

From a friend to a friend
Look into my camera lens
See how the picture bends

From a friend to a friend
Does a journey ever end?
And what did we intend?
Are we leaving
Or arriving?

We could drive there
Arrive there
Be alive there
But your truck's broke down
You're nowhere bound
Will never leave this town
But if it won't be you
It probably won't be me
We capered, burnt a
Candle to the taper
Tonight we'll swim
In the river
Kiss and shiver
Were we ever inspired
Just for a moment
Or is this our life?
Slackness in
The blackness
If that's the way we are
No tricks, no coins
No stars
We need to stray
And find a gateway
Lifelong
Feeling we're wrong
To still be
Hanging around
Our old hunting ground
We could go far
Thanking our stars
That the viaduct
Broke
Or we'd never have spoken
By now
Can't you see i'm
Trying to tell you
We've paid our dues