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from Porcupine Tree 7집 - In Absentia (2002)
Black the sky, weapons fly
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
Stranded here on planet earth It's not much but it could be worse Everything's free here, there's no crowds Winter lasted five long years No sun will come again I fear Chemical harvest was sown And I will wait for you Until the sky is blue And I will wait for you What else can I do? A spaceship from another star They ask me where all the people are What can I tell them? I tell them I'm the only one There was a war but I must have won Please take me with you. |
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from Porcupine Tree 1집 - On the Sunday of Life... (1991)
I'm sitting in the concrete
I'm listening for a heartbeat I'm sitting in the painting I promised I'd be waiting I'm sitting in the window I'm listening to the wind blow I'm sitting in an hour glass I'm waiting for the march past I'm sitting in the doorway I'm wishing for a new day I'm choking in the landscape I'm cutting through the red tape I'm sitting in the concrete I'm listening for a heartbeat And the joke has crossed the line And the final word is mine And the mist has touched the wood And the words are understood And the sand has drifted high And the blind man gave a cry And the swallows dance above the sun And the swallows dance above the sun Yeah I'm sitting on the ceiling I had to know the feeling I'm sitting in the shelter I'm going down helter skelter I'm sitting in the concrete I'm listening for a heartbeat Every time I turn around There's another face watching me Every time I turn around There's another voice calling me Every time I turn around There's another fool reading me Every time I turn around There's another silence drowning me |
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from Porcupine Tree 9집 - Fear Of A Blank Planet (2007)
A good impression
Of myself Not much to conceal I'm saying nothing But I'm saying Nothing with feel I simply am not here No way I... Shut up, be happy Stop whining, please And because of who we are We react in mock surprise The curse of "There must be more" So don't breathe here Don't leave your bags I simply am not here No way I... Shut up, be happy Stop whining, please The dust in my soul makes me feel the weight in my legs My head in the clouds, and I'm zoning out I'm watching TV, but I find it hard to stay conscious I'm totally bored, but I can't switch off Only apathy from the pills in me It's all in me, all in you Electricity from the pills in me It's all in me, all in you Only MTV and cod philosophy We're lost in the mall, shuffling through the stores like zombies Well, what is the point? What can money buy? My hands on a gun, and I find the range, God, tempt me Well, what did you say? Think I'm passing out Only apathy from the pills in me It's all in me, all in you Electricity from the pills in me It's all in me, all in you Only MTV and cod philosophy Water so warm that day I counted out the waves As they broke into shore I smiled into the Sun The water so warm that day I was counting out the waves And I followed their short life As they broke on the shoreline I could see you But I couldn't hear you You were holding your hat in the breeze Turning away from me In this moment, you were stolen There's black across the Sun Water so warm that day I counted out the waves As they broke into shore I smiled into the Sun |
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from Porcupine Tree 8집 - Deadwing (2005)
Never stop the car on a drive in the dark
Never look for the truth in your mother's eyes Never trust the sound of rain upon a river rushing Through your ears Arriving somewhere but not here Could you imagine the final sound as a gun Or the smashing windscreen of a car? Did you ever imagine the last thing you'd hear as you're fading out Was a song? Arriving somewhere but not here [Chorus:] All my designs, simplified And all of my plans, compromised And all of my dreams, sacrificed Ever had the feeling you've been here before? Drinking down the poison the way you were taught Ever thought from here on in your life begins And all you knew was wrong? Arriving somewhere but not here All my designs, simplified And all of my plans, compromised And all of my dreams... Did you see the redness block your part? Did the scissors cut a way to your heart? Did you feel the end before the suns of mothers Tearing you apart? Arriving somewhere but not here |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
I am - in my pram Look you - I'm so new I am - sleeping there Underneath the stairs If you - wanted to You'd find - inside my mind Things so surreal My lips are sealed In the rain in cellphane Pale dogs and demigods They won't bring me down The clocks go round, they never stop I've been - in limousines I've nseen - inside your dreams It's raining there Try not to stare |
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from Porcupine Tree 10집 - The Incident (2009)
You have no interest in the past
Where you came from Where you're going to There's a cliche in your eye File the edges down Soon be underground There's nothing here for you under the sun There's nothing new to do, it's all been done So put your faith in another place Never seem to get away from this It's all fallen into an abyss So put your foot on the pedal boy All you know is secondhand Will it pass through The cage inside you? You stole the only thing you love So unfaithful |
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from Porcupine Tree 7집 - In Absentia (2002)
A mother sings a lullaby to a child
Sometime in the future the boy goes wild And all his nerves are feeling some kind of energy A walk in the woods and I will try Something under the trees that made you cry It's so erotic when your make-up runs I got wiring loose inside my head I got books that I never ever read I got secrets in my garden shed I got a scar where all my urges bled I got people underneath my bed I got a place where all my dreams are dead Swim with me into your blackest eyes A few minutes with me inside my van Should be so beautiful if we can I'm feeling something taking over me |
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from Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes (2003)
A mother sings a lullaby to a child
Sometime in the future the boy goes wild And all his nerves are feeling some kind of energy A walk in the woods and I will try Something under the trees that made you cry It's so erotic when your make-up runs I got wiring loose inside my head I got books that I never ever read I got secrets in my garden shed I got a scar where all my urges bled I got people underneath my bed I got a place where all my dreams are dead Swim with me into your blackest eyes A few minutes with me inside my van Should be so beautiful if we can I'm feeling something taking over me |
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from Porcupine Tree 10집 - The Incident (2009)
Can't feel the pain that I expected
I still place keys in the ignition I know what will be One thought is stopping me from sleeping I saw the future and it's breeding I know what will be Could be your last resort Like gold against your soul There are three things that I would die for But I am sure you're not one of them I know what will be Could be your last resort Like gold against your soul (whispered: You think you've got it all wrapped up now You stumble on so unsuspecting I know what will be) I hold your birth control to ransom The cells divide and grow inside you I know what will be I know what will be I know what will be |
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from Porcupine Tree 4집 - Signify (1996)
We invite you, wherever you are ? whether you are at home or whatever ? to kick your shoes off and put your feet up and lean back and get yourself a cup of coffee or something, and just relax and join us in enjoying some very quietened, romantic and relaxed music for a couple of hours.
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from Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring [ep] (2007)
> Lying through my teeth again
I've been bad again, black lies Skirting round the truth again To escape the look in your eyes Cover up the facts again With the money men, disguise Losing my integrity Well it's lost to me, I don't mind Feel my soul going Feel my soul colder Blackening my soul again With another lie, it's my style Burying my face again God I'm so ashamed, this time Feel my soul going Feel my soul colder. |
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from Porcupine Tree 7집 - In Absentia (2002)
I won't shiver in the cold
I won't let the shadows take their toll I won't cover my head in the dark And I won't forget you when we part Collapse the Light Into Earth I won't heal given time I won't try to change your mind I won't feel better in the cold light of day But I wouldn't stop you if you wanted to stay Collapse the Light Into Earth |
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from Porcupine Tree 8집 - Deadwing (2005)
And something warm and soft just passed through here
It took the precious things that I hold dearer It rifled through the grey and disappeared The creeping darkness makes the small hours clearer Like a cancer scare In the dentist's chair Sucking in the air Wire across the stair Kicking down the door At your local store With the world at war Voices through the floor Unexpected news Wearing high heeled shoes Blowing out the fuse Paying all your dues Deadwing lullaby Like a fracture tied It's a worthless lie To the public eye I don't take waifs and strays back home with me My bleeding heart does not extend to charity Yes I'd have to say I like my privacy And did you know you're on closed circuit TV? So smile at me And a dream you had Of your mum and dad On a beach somewhere And the poison air With the cancer threat In a cigarette Deadwing lullaby Find a place to hide And from the yellow windows of the last train A spectre from the next life breathes his fog on the pane I look with you into the speeding black rain Afraid to touch someone, afraid to ask her for her name And in the morning when I find I have lost you I throw a window open wide and step through |
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from Porcupine Tree 3집 - The Sky Moves Sideways (1995)
A dislocated day
Peers in to the ether Counts the stars inside the sky And flies in to the never Looped around my eyelids A thousand shining flecks Pale against the canvas Which hangs around my neck Dislocated day I will find a way To make you say The name of your forgiver Stood beside an inlet A starfish leads a dance It dreams it is a human And falls into a trance A hole inside my body Is wired up to a charge Chemical imbalance Tells me who you are Insects hide the silence November brings deep rain Between the flow to freezing And yesterday's sustain |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
A light snow is falling on London All sign of the living has gone The train pulls into the stations And no-one gets off and no-one gets on Don't hate me I'm not special like you I'm tired and I'm so alone Don't fight me I know you'll never care Can I call you on the telephone, now and then? One light burns in a window It guides all the shadows below Inside the ghost of a parting And no-one is left, just the cigarette smoke |
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from Porcupine Tree 10집 - The Incident (2009)
Drawing the Line - Porcupine Tree Camphor crossed with lace, it is the witching hour Cinematic but crude Teasing all my feelings out, you move away It seems so natural to you Still siren, climbing up the victory tower Like there's something left to prove I trap the beads of sweat that run between my eyes And free the fever to move I'm drawing the line, I'm drawing the line I'm drawing the line, I draw the line And I have my pride I'm taking control, I'm taking control I'm taking control, I'm taking control And I save my soul I'm shutting you out, I'm shutting you out I'm shutting you out, I'm shutting you out And I have no doubt Dreamt the sound of scissors, cutting stitches out Then discarding the used Recording all my problems onto memory cards Your compassion unmoved Onto others what they always do to you The most twisted of your rules Distill malaise and photograph the hole it leaves Running out a copy for you I'm drawing the line, I'm drawing the line I'm drawing the line, I draw the line And I have my pride I'm taking control, I'm taking control I'm taking control, I'm taking control And I save my soul I'm shutting you out, I'm shutting you out I'm shutting you out, I'm shutting you out And I have no doubt |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
A body is washed up on a Norfolk beach He was a friend that I could not reach He thought I was cold but I understand But for the grace of god goes another man And I may just waste away from doing nothing But I'm a martyr to even less A choirboy is buried on the moors Where we used to go dreaming when we were bored So some kids are best left to fend for themselves And others were born to stack shelves And I may just waste away from doing nothing But I'm a martyr to even less |
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from Porcupine Tree 4집 - Signify (1996)
Modem load and failsafe
Electric teenage dust Hit the solvent keypad Start the neural rust Power on the highway Data in my head Surfing on the network Part of me is dead Every Home is Wired Swimming in the circuit Somebody has expired This world will be the future Every home is wired |
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from Porcupine Tree 9집 - Fear Of A Blank Planet (2007)
Sunlight coming through the haze No gaps in the blind To let it inside The bed is unmade Some music still plays TV, yeah it's always on The flicker of the screen A movie actress screams I'm basking in the shit flowing out of it I'm stoned in the mall again Terminally bored Shuffling round the stores And shoplifting is getting so last year's thing X-box is a god to me A finger on the switch My mother is a bitch My father gave up ever trying to talk to me Don't try engaging me The vaguest of shrugs The prescription drugs You'll never find A person inside My face is mogadon Curiosity Has given up on me I'm tuning out desires The pills are on the rise How can I be sure I'm here? The pills that I've been taking confuse me I need to know that someone sees that There's nothing left I simply am not here I'm through with pornography The acting is lame The action is tame Explicitly dull arousal annulled Your mouth should be boarded up Talking all day With nothing to say Your shallow proclamations All misinformation My friend says he wants to die He's in a band They sound like Pearl Jam The clothes are all black The music is crap In school I don't concentrate And sex is kinda fun But just another one Of all the empty ways Of using up a day How can I be sure I'm here? The pills that I've been taking confuse me I need to know that someone sees that There's nothing left I simply am not here Bipolar disorder Can't deal with the boredom You don't try to be liked You don't mind You feel no sun You steal a gun To kill time You're somewhere, you're nowhere You don't care You catch the breeze You still the leaves So now where? |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
So see how long I can last You can pretend that I don't exist for you And I can laugh about it now But I hated every minute I was waiting for your email And each day that you forgot to call Just made me feel so low So low Christmas 1998 I tried to call I just couldn't wait And your message was out of date So I left my voice on your machine But you did not respond OK OK OK you've won You make me feel so low So low |
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from Porcupine Tree 10집 - The Incident (2009)
Nothing is new here underneath the sun
All of the big new charlatans will sneer at us Barely a flicker of the light to come Only the people who always think they know best Nothing is new here underneath the sun All of the big new charlatans will sneer at us Barely a flicker of the light to come Only the people who always think they know best |
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from Porcupine Tree 1집 - On the Sunday of Life... (1991)
I saw her footprints on the sea
I knew her eyes were watching me So I ventured further in my mind In the hope that I would find: "Tangerine Trees and Marmalade Skies and Plasticine Porters with Looking Glass Ties" My mind had formed a mental prison I cried aloud no-one would listen Then floating through the heavy mist My vision took a sudden twist Empty people stood in grey Children laughing far away An empty courtyard wept alone Rain lashed down on darkened stone A crystal glove points to the door A threshold I had crossed before On turning back all I could see Were her footprints on the sea. |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
Six of one a half a dozen Black guitars and plastic blues Hide behind a wall of nothing Nothing said and nothing new 4 Chords that made a million You belong there on the cover You are the emperor in new clothes A man who thinks he owns the future Will sell your vacuum with his prose 4 Chords that made a million And then a moron with a cheque book Will take you out to lunch who knows ? He will tell you you're a saviour And then he'll drop you like a stone 4 Chords that made a million And I have tried and I have died Trying to get through But in the end I can't defend you. 4 Chords that made a million |
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from Porcupine Tree 8집 - Deadwing (2005)
Feeling are you touching?
Feeling are you blind? Feeling are you touching? Feeling all your love Seen it though a windscreen Seen it through the clouds Seen it in a pantry Seen it in your heart Feeling are you touching? Feeling all your love Feeling are you touching? Feeling all your love |
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from Porcupine Tree 7집 - In Absentia (2002)
Open your eyes now
Hear me out before I lose my mind I've been waiting for hours Let the salt flow, feel my coil unwind Give me a smile please Count the calm and watch my breathing slow Winding me up tease Get inside my head and make it show Gravity eyelids come down Touching your oil skin Slipping hands down past your waist to find I've been waiting for hours Let the salt flow, feel my coil unwind Go to the edge swim Brown the eyes that sleep has rendered blind 1. Gravity eyelids come down 2. Come love so young with your gold arms so I wake her 3. Here's a will that will glow in the dark - |
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from Porcupine Tree 10집 - The Incident (2009)
A summer day
In garlands I feel secure A useless faith That I will get you, somehow Reach out, I wonder where you are now Hey, there's you With placid eyes Oblivious to what's to come They locked you up So I forgot you Forgot your name, so strange I wonder if you got out |
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from Porcupine Tree 8집 - Deadwing (2005)
God is in my fingers
God is in my head God is in the trigger God is in the lead God is freedom, God is truth God is power and God is proof God is fashion, God is fame God gives meaning, God gives pain You can be right like me With God in the hole you're a righteous soul I got a halo 'round me, I got a halo 'round me I'm not the same as you 'Cause I've seen the light and I'm gaining in height now I got a halo 'round me, I got a halo 'round me I got a halo 'round my head God is on the cellphone God is on the net God is in the warning God is in the threat God is freedom, God is truth For God is power, God is proof God is fashion, God is fame God gives meaning, God gives pain You can be right like me With God in the hole you're a righteous soul I got a halo 'round me, I got a halo 'round me I'm not the same as you 'Cause I've seen the light and I'm gaining in height now I got a halo 'round me, I got a halo 'round me ('Cause I've got a halo 'round my head) I got a halo 'round my head You can be like me With God in the hole you're a righteous soul I got a halo 'round me, I got a halo 'round me I'm not the same as you 'Cause I've seen the light and I'm gaining in height now I got a halo 'round me, I got a halo 'round me I got a halo 'round my head 'Cause I've got a halo 'round my head |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
This is a hate song just meant for you I thought that I'd write it down while I still could I hope when you hear this you'll want to sue Oh it's a lonely life in my empty bed And it's a quiet life that leaks from my head These are the last rites The line is dead Yes, I'm hearing voices too And I'm more cut up than you |
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from Porcupine Tree 7집 - In Absentia (2002)
I pull off the road
East of Baldock and Ashford Feeling for my cell In the light from the dashboard Hissing from the road The smell of rain in the air con Maybe check the news Or just put a tape on Lighting up a smoke I've got this feeling inside me Don't feel too good If I close my eyes And fell asleep in this layby Would it all subside The fever pushing the day by Motor window wind I could do with some fresh air Can't breathe too well (She waits for me. Home waits for me.) I guess I should go now She's waiting to make up To tell me she's sorry And how much she missed me I guess I'm just burnt out I really should slow down I'm perfectly fine but I just need to lie down We'll grow old together We'll grow old together We'll grow old together.... |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
The letters pile up in the hallway
Junk mail and bills from the catalogues And the neighbours have guessed 'Cos I've cancelled the milk And they don't hear your voice Through the walls anymore How is your life today? How is your life today? I was kissed on the cheek by a cold mouth While the taxi was waiting like a getaway car Each second seems like a lifetime And the cat it's been staring at me all this time La la la la la la, la la la la la la... How is your life today? How is your life today? |
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from Porcupine Tree 10집 - The Incident (2009)
When this freedom stains my coat
With the winter in my throat When I'm lost I dig the dirt When I fall I drive the hearse And silence is another way Of saying what I wanna say And lying is another way Of hoping it will go away And you were always my mistake... Given time I fix the roof Given cash I speak the truth And silence is another way Of saying what I wanna say And lying is another way Of hoping it will go away And you were always my mistake... When I'm down I drive the hearse When this boredom wears me out Then the sky begins to cloud Sleeping with my ball and chain When she cries I take the blame And pride is just another way Of trying to live with my mistakes Denial is a better way Of getting through another day And silence is another way Of saying what I wanna say And lying is another way Of hoping it will go away And you we're always my mistake... When I'm down I drive the hearse |
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(Written by Wilson, Barbieri, Edwin and Maitland)
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from Porcupine Tree 1집 - On the Sunday of Life... (1991)
I locked myself inside the capsule
And watched the planet slowly turning blue The lights before me flashed and sparkled Holding keys to lives I've wandered through Circuits buzzing, visions passing Mysterious and cold upon the screen Glowing, flowing with the currents Yet never knowing where I've really been The floating seeds of timeless travel Come to rest in planes that don't exist Worlds of crystal beauty Dreams so very hard to resist I've seen the past, I've seen the future Beyond dimension, into empty space Finding questions, never answers Living time behind another face |
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from Porcupine Tree 1집 - On the Sunday of Life... (1991)
Jupiter Island is full of pleasures
Glowing gardens holding hidden treasures Luminous flowers of yellows and greens Glittering petals that have to be seen Here's your chance don't let it pass you by Take my hand and we'll fly Jupiter Island is surrounded by oceans Majestic ballerinas with graceful motions Magenta forests on a crimson sea The electric clouds ar as vivid as can be Scarlet moons in a domino sky Take my hand and we'll fly Come on let's fly to Jupiter Island Just take my hand and we'll fly Jupiter Island is full of mountains Ruby rivers and sapphire fountains Chessboard lawns bible black and white The pink and blue trees are incredibly bright An orange sunset painted on the sky Take my hand and we'll fly Jupiter Island is full of people But you can't see them unless you want to Lying in the hay on a hot sunny day Everyone's happy so no-one's gay Laughter from the children dances way on high Take my hand and we'll fly Jupiter Island is full of meadows Fertile pastures for growing rainbows Illuminated portraits from strange orchestrations Lost in a collage of its own creations Never a chance to wave goodbye Take my hand and we'll fly |
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from Porcupine Tree 10집 - The Incident (2009)
Kneel and disconnect
And waste another year Fill the application Start a new career Kneel and disconnect And waste another year Fill the application Start a new career |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
If you fall asleep with me
You can dream and drowse The miuntes turn to hours We could climb a tree or two And watch the sun go down Upon our sleepy town After all the time I spent with you Summer went away And we just weren't the same It's just you and me alone Not grown ups but not kids You kissed me on the lips [instrumental] |
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from Porcupine Tree 8집 - Deadwing (2005)
As the cheerless towns pass my window
I can see a washed out moon through the fog And then a voice inside my head breaks the analogue And says "Follow me down to the valley below You know Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul" I survived against the will of my twisted folk But in the deafness of my world the silence broke And said "Follow me down to the valley below You know Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul" "My David don't you worry This cold world is not for you So rest your head upon me I have strength to carry you" (Ghosts of the twenties rising Golden summers just holding you) "Follow me down to the valley below You know Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul Come to us Lazarus It's time for you to go" |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
The quickest album we ever made (in 3 months flat and within only a few months of the release of the previous one) and we all feel our best work to date. Although superficially it seems to be a continuation of "Stupid Dream" it is a much more intense work - possibly less immediate, but ultimately more rewarding. Lyrically I arrived at a point where I was no longer interested in writing about abstract concepts like war, religion, space...etc... These are very personal and emotionally raw songs. It took me a long time to have the confidence and experience to be able to write them and some of them are dripping with negative emotions (Hatesong and Feel So Low particularly). Feel So Low pleased me a lot as I resisted the temptation to refine the original stream of consciousness words and left the nerve ends dangling. Musically we wanted to bring back some of the experimental aspects that had been to some degree lost on "Stupid Dream". Richard and I worked on creating some unique keyboard sounds for the album - e.g. the "fairground" on "How is Your Life Today ?" and the "insects" at the end of "Russia On Ice". There was also an influence from industrial and metal music coming through (we'd all been listening to Nine Inch Nails "The Fragile") - for example part of the beauty of the guitar solo on Where We Would Be (my favourite solo of mine to date) comes from the fact that it was played relatively straight but then fed through so many distortion and lo-fi processes that it began to fizz and disintegrate. The riffing guitars on Russia On Ice are pure metal and one of the solos of Hatesong I call my "Korn solo" on account of the fact that the bottom strings on the guitar are tuned down so low that the notes can be bent several tones. On the other hand there is a whole set of songs where the pastoral sound of long-gone English summers exerts it's influence on me (not for the first time). In a song like "Winding Shot" there are shades of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Nick Drake, although the end result is hopefully pure Porcupine Tree. This effect is accentuated by the fact that many of the instruments and vocals on the album are much more up front and given less of a sheen than on "Stupid Dream" (where the "stadium" production is I think the weakest aspect). Organic is the word I like to use. As we had on "Stupid Dream" we expanded our musical colours to include things like banjo, hammered dulcimer, the string arrangements of Dave Gregory and several African and Morrocan instruments that Colin brought back from his travels. To date it's the only album we've made that I still rated highly by the time we'd finished it - even the B-sides and leftovers seemed too good not to be on an album, but we were determined to keep the album below the one hour mark. The only point of contention was the inclusion of the song "The Rest Will Flow". Some of the band didn't really want it on the record, but it sounded so much like possible single that it seemed perverse not to include it. Favourite tracks - "How is Your Life Today ?", "Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth..." and "Feel So Low" (plus most of the others to be honest). Steven Wilson Although it appears to be a continuation of sorts from "Stupid Dream" there are quite obvious differences as well. Certainly on the production side there is a more intense and upfront sound apparent. Also parts of the arrangements are stripped down to the bare essentials. Steven's lyrics became more personal and less ambiguous and so the arrangements by definition became more stripped down and more direct. Much of my keyboard experimenting took place on tracks like "Russia On Ice", "Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth...", "Feel so Low" and "4 Chords That Made a Million"", while other tracks didn't seem to need a great deal of keyboards. I'm not one for playing all over a track if I can't see a genuine need for it. For me this album has an honesty and emotion that places it above all the other Porcupine Tree albums, although I would also say that not every track is as strong as some individual tracks on past albums. My favourites are "Russia On Ice" and "Feel So Low". Richard Barbieri |
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from Porcupine Tree 1집 - On the Sunday of Life... (1991)
Linton Samuel Dawson
Lives in inner space He hangs around with a circus troupe Outside the human race Linton Samuel Dawson Has just reached 25 Artists travel from outside time Just to see his rainbow jive He's bored, He's bored. Linton Samuel Dawson Yields his knowledge in a phial A vivid play on an emerald day I s experienced in his smile Linton Samuel Dawson Visits many open minds He aids escape to tranquility From the boredom of mankind Boredom. From the boredom. From the boredom of mankind. |
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from Porcupine Tree 7집 - In Absentia (2002)
Paralysed
Lips of ashes Synchronised Blue vein crashes Touching you inside Idolised Black eyes fading You and I Connection failing I drill down inside |
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from Porcupine Tree 8집 - Deadwing (2005)
A tiny flame inside my head
A compromise I never planned Unravel out the finest trends And I'm looking at a blank page now Should have filled it up with words somehow I whispered something in her ear I'd bear my soul but she don't hear The scratching of a mellotron It always seemed to make her cry Well maybe she remembers us collecting space up in the sky The scratching of a mellotron It always seemed to make her cry (Nothing rises from ? fingertips, heart it slips) I lay her gently on my clove She will leave me, yes I know And I'm looking at a blank page now Should have filled it up with words somehow The scratching of a mellotron It always seemed to make her cry Well maybe she remembers us collecting space up in the sky The scratching of a mellotron It always seemed to make her cry (Nothing rises from ? fingertips, heart it slips) Well maybe she remembers us collecting space up in the sky (Nothing rises from ? fingertips, heart it slips) Don't look back into Don't let the memory or the sound drag you down Don't look back into Don't let the memory or the sound drag you down Don't look back into Don't let the memory or the sound drag you down Don't look back into Don't let the memory or the sound drag you down Don't look back into Don't let the memory or the sound drag you down Don't look back into Don't let the memory or the sound drag you down Don't look back into Don't let the memory or the sound drag you down |
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from Porcupine Tree 1집 - On the Sunday of Life... (1991)
"This announcement will self-destruct in five seconds
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from Porcupine Tree 9집 - Fear Of A Blank Planet (2007)
All the things that I needed
I wasted my chances I have found myself wanting When a mother and father Gave me their problems I accepted them all Nothing ever expected I was rejected But I came back for more And my ashes drift beneath the silver sky Where a boy rides on a bike and never smiles And my ashes fall over all the things we've said On a box of photographs under the bed I will stay in my own world Under the covers I will feel safe inside The kiss that will burn me Cure me of dreaming I was always returning And my ashes find a way beyond the fog And return to save the child that I forgot And my ashes fade among the things unseen And a dream plays in reverse on piano keys And my ashes drop upon a park in Wales Never-ending clouds of rain, and distant sails... distant sails |
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from Porcupine Tree 1집 - On the Sunday of Life... (1991)
The butterfly sailed on the breeze
Past a field of barbed wire trees Where golden dragons chased around Pampered poppies on the ground Two silver trout sat way on high And watched a royal samurai Plant two black orchids in a box And strap it to a laughing fox A minstrel bought a crooked spoon He gave it to a blue baboon Who filled it full of virgin snow And watched it in the afterglow Fat toad stood in his ballet shoes Teaching sixteen kangaroos How to skip across a lake They found it hard to stay awake A pharaoh played a merry tune And watched nine cats dance on the moon I didn't know what all this meant I didn't know why I'd been sent. The Insignificance version of Nine Cats has the following additional verse at the end: I threw 5 clocks down on my bed The chimes danced out on golden threads And turned to footprints on my wall Sequined tears began to fall |
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from Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring [ep] (2007)
Here is my car, my phone and my TV
I've got it all but you can see through me But am I here? It's kind of hard to tell I do a good impression of myself But what's normal now anyhow? Sullen and bored the kids stay And in this way they wish away each day Stoned in the mall the kids play And in this way they wish away each day Prescription drugs they help me through the day And that restraining order keeps me well at bay But what's normal now anyway? Sullen and bored the kids stay And in this way they wish away each day Stoned in the mall the kids play And in this way they wish away each day Wish I was old and a little sentimental You gotta see the waves, not the wine bottle. |
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from Porcupine Tree 10집 - The Incident (2009)
We go following sorrow to feel your
Blood spilling out of the reeds there Give me a sign I can breathe air Blood flowing out of the stream there (give me something new please, something I can love) |
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from Porcupine Tree 8집 - Deadwing (2005)
Nothing like this
Felt in her kiss Cannot resist her Fell for her charm ? her arms I keep a photograph Give me a glimpse Let me come in Be there inside her Here it begins Here is the sin Something to lie about You think you're smart I think you art We agree on this It doesn't work Feeling like dirt Feeling like you don't care We get a room And in her gloom She lights a cigarette Clothes on the bed "Love me," she said I loose myself to her I'm getting feelings I'm hiding too well Bury the heart-shaped shell Something broke inside my stomach I let the pieces lie just where they fell Being with you is hell Hair blown in an open car Summer dress slips down her arm Hair blown in an open car Okay what's next? After the sex What do we do now? Finding the time Drawing the line And never crossing it Gave her the hours Gave her the power Cannont erase her Gave her the truth Gave her the proof I gave her everything I'm getting feelings I'm hiding too well Bury the heart-shaped shell (I had the feelings [inaudible]) Something broke inside my stomach I let the pieces lie just where they fell (I left the pieces where they fell) Being with you is hell Hair blown in an open car Summer dress slips down her arm Hair blown in an open car On a drive out to the mall Hair blown in an open car Hair blown in an open car Summer dress slips down your arm Hair blown in an open car |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
I remember piano lessons
The hours in freezing rooms Cruel ears and tiny hands Destroying timeless tunes She said there's too much out there Too much already said You'd better give up hoping You're better off in bed You don't need much to speak of No class, no wit, no soul Forget you own agenda Get ready to be sold I feel now like Christine Keeler Sleepwaking in the rain I didn't mean to lose direction I didn't want that kind of fame (Take your hands off my land) Credit me with some intelligence (if not just credit me) I come in value packs of ten (in five varieties) And even though I got it all now My only stupid dream I see you and me together And how it should have been I remember piano lessons Now everything seems clear You waiting under streetlights For dreams to disappear |
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from Porcupine Tree 7집 - In Absentia (2002)
I don't know whose side I'm on
I don't think that I belong 'round here If I left the stage would that be wrong? I tried to find myself a better way I got religion but I went astray They took my money and I lost my faith Rain keeps crawling down the glass The good times never seem to last Close your eyes and let the thought pass I tried the capsule and I tried the smoke I tried to aid escape like normal folk But I never seemed to get the joke These are my old clothes This is a new low This is my blood flow This is my headstone I spend my days with all my friends They're the ones on whom my life depends I'm gonna miss them when the series ends Rain keeps crawling down the glass (Pull yourself together) The good times never seem to last (You know it's not so bad) Close your eyes and let the thought pass (Close your eyes and let it pass) |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
You keep me waiting You keep me alone in a room full of friends You keep me hating You keep me listening to the Bends No amount of pointless days Can make this go away You have me on my knees You have me listless and deranged You have me in your pocket You have me distant and estranged No narcotics in my brain Can make this go away I'm sorry that, I'm sorry that I'm not like you I worry that I don't act the way you'd like me to You find me wanting You find me bloodless but inspired You find me out You find me hallucinating fire No narcotics in my brain Can make this go away Have we ever been here before? Running headlong at the floor Leave me dreaming on a railway track Wrap me up and send me back |
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from Porcupine Tree 1집 - On the Sunday of Life... (1991)
Run through forests on a hot Summer day
Trying to break down walls of numbing pain Give me the freedom to destroy Give me radioactive toy Taste the water from a stream of running death Eat the apple and cough a dying breath Feel the sun burning through your black skin Pour me into a hole, inform my next of kin Run through graveyards on a dusty Winter day Spit the dirt out and try to say... |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
You think I deserve this You said I was stupid All my thoughts are like coal But Russia on ice is burning a hole Can't stop myself drinking Can't stop being me If I call will you come and will you save me ? I see the whole thing come down I blow it to the ground Well what the hell did you say ? You said you hate me this way It's just a matter of time A drop in the ocean A significant motion Nothing melts in this cold But Russia on ice is burning a hole |
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from Porcupine Tree 9집 - Fear Of A Blank Planet (2007)
Never want to be old
And I don't want dependence It's no fun to be told That you can't blame your parents anymore I'm finding it hard To hang from a star Don't want to be Never want to be old Sullen and bored the kids stay And in this way they wish away each day… Stoned in the mall the kids play And in this way wish away each day… I don't really know If I care what is normal And I' m not really sure If the pills I've been taking are helping I'm wasting my life Hurting inside I don't really know And I'm not really sure Sullen and bored the kids stay And in this way they wish away each day… Stoned in the mall the kids play And in this way wish away each day… Sullen and bored the kids stay And in this way they wish away each day… Stoned in the mall the kids play And in this way wish away each day… |
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from Porcupine Tree 4집 - Signify (1996)
Telepath Carbon trapped under stone
Brother mother pale body is thrown Only way I know to have fun Fill up my blood, my veins, my lungs ESP city - rainy and blue Burn down this town, I give it to you Aero shallow, photograph blind Stage fright, black light, coma divine No sense of time Sever tomorrow Exitless mind - ESP Sever tomorrow School out invective, losing my voice Film shredding on in multiple choice America calls, I must go Oprah saviour, I feel that low |
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from Porcupine Tree 8집 - Deadwing (2005)
I don't remember
Did something in my past, create a hole. Don't use your gender. To drive a stake right through my soul. I live to function, On my own is all I know. No friends to mention, No destruction, nowhere to go Shallow, shallow, Give it to me, give into me Scissors cutting out your anger Shallow, shallow, No good to me, not if you bleed Bite your tongue ignore the splinter This city drains me, Maybe it's the smell of gasoline. The millions pain me, It's easier to talk to my PC. I live to function, On my own is all I know. No friends to mention, No destruction, nowhere to go Shallow, shallow, Give into me, give into me Seasons caught in a triangle, Shallow, shallow, No good to me, not if you bleed, Bite your tongue end on a splinter Shallow, shallow, Give into me, give into me Seasons caught in a triangle Shallow, shallow, No good to me, not if you bleed Bite your tongue end on a splinter |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
You move in waves You never retrace Your newest craze Straight out of the Face by the bed unread I'm left behind Like all the others Some fall for you It doesn't make much difference if they do She changes every time you look By summer it was all gone - now she's moved on She called you every other day So savour it it's all gone - now she's moved on So for a while Everything seemed new Did we connect ? Or was it all just biding time for you ? |
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from Porcupine Tree 8집 - Deadwing (2005)
You move in waves You never retrace Your newest craze Straight out of the Face by the bed unread I'm left behind Like all the others Some fall for you It doesn't make much difference if they do She changes every time you look By summer it was all gone - now she's moved on She called you every other day So savour it it's all gone - now she's moved on So for a while Everything seemed new Did we connect ? Or was it all just biding time for you ? |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
I need you more than you can know And if I hurt myself it's just for show I found a better way to curb the pain You put a trigger here inside my brain Mother I need her I'm falling apart Mother I need her And it's only the start I may be nothing now but I will rise I'll have more followers than jesus christ Through all the smashing and crashing cars I love the ground you walk with all my heart |
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from Porcupine Tree 4집 - Signify (1996)
At the age of sixteen
I grew out of hope I regarded the cosmos Through a circle of rope So I threw out my plans Ran on to the wheel And emptied my head Of all childish ideals The sleep of no feeling The sleep of no being The sleep of no dreaming I married the first girl Who wasn't a man And smiled as the spiders Ran all over my hands Made a good living By dying it's true As the world in my TV Leaked on to my shoes |
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from Porcupine Tree 9집 - Fear Of A Blank Planet (2007)
This means out
This is your way out Do or drown Do or drown in torpor Leave no trace All my files erased Burn my clothes Burn my Prada trainers Let's sleep together right now Relieve the pressure somehow Switch off the future right now Let's leave forever This is fate This is your escape Leave here now Leave here now it's over Let's sleep together right now Relieve the pressure somehow Switch off the future right now Let's leave forever |
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from Porcupine Tree 1집 - On the Sunday of Life... (1991)
You must listen very carefully to what I have to say
There isn't much time, because You Know Who has consumed all the instruments For many eons now I have been trapped on this planet He is keeping me here against my will And sometimes when I press my ear up very close to the concrete I can hear his daughters sobbing with laughter Either I am blind, or I have been in darkness ever since the sun exploded four centuries ago A few hours ago, He Who Keeps Me Here visited me saying, "God, why do the millions worship you instead of I? Am I not more powerful, more forgiving and truly compassionate?" A black liquid was seeping uncontrollably from my mouth And all I could do was babble incomprehensibly About a dream I had many moons ago In it, a clock ticked constantly, maddening my senses That was all, but it lasted for many days Until each tick seemed like fragments of glass piercing my scales He Who Keeps Me Here tells me that one day I will return to earth And then I will seek my revenge |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
This song leaks out onto the pavement It could be a joke, it could be a statement The more that I fake it and pretend I don't care The more you can read in to what isn't there Maybe it's time to stop swimming Maybe it's time to find out where I'm at What I should do and where I should be But no-one will give me a map I'll leave now this can't continue But I forget which door I came through And I know what the lift can be painfully slow So I'm happy to leave by the window |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
Ghosts in the park Appear just after dark Killers, children ... But no-one has a harp They look like tourists It makes me want to laugh Under floorboards It's hard to fly a kite Underwater My cigarette won't light Standing in the shade I'm getting frostbite Strange as I seem I'm getting stranger by the minute Look in my dreams They're getting stranger by the minute When I'm drowning You drag me up to you Rings in the water My only residue But you're just fiction And I'm a twisted boy |
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from Porcupine Tree 7집 - In Absentia (2002)
This is my home, this is my own, we don't like no strangers
Raise the kids good, beat the kids good and tie them up Spread it wide, my wife, my life, push the camera deeper I can use, I abuse, my muse, I made them all This machine Is there to please Strip the soul Fill the hole A fire to feed A belt to bleed Strip the soul Kill them all They are not gone, they are not gone, they are only sleeping In graves, in ways, in clay, underneath the floor Building walls, overalls, getting bored, I got faulty wiring Brick it up now, brick it up now, but keep the bones (Do you want a western home in the rubble?) |
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from Porcupine Tree 10집 - The Incident (2009)
> If you wanna stay
Always here All these years The last frontier It's no concern of theirs The world outside Corrupts my child So trust these eyes Faith is in your soul But in these walls Hormones stall Dogs will crawl The vices and the doubt We resist All this shit So kneel submit Free love Free love Feel love in all my sisters Breathe out Blind house You don't need to know their secrets Believe me Pray and violate Abuse your trust False gods must Purge their lust A family that lies To seal your fate To take the weight Of their self-hate Free love Free love Bring love to all my sisters Breathe out Blind house You don't need to know their secrets Believe me Breathe out Blind house Free love Feel loved |
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