Tanya Donelly

Poor thing, poor thing
Do you have a sister?
Would you lay your body
Down on the tracks for her?

Step one, tiptoe in hell
For her?

Don't you have someone you'd die for? (5x

Give it to me please
I said to God
It's only fair
Instead, he sent three Angels
To move the river
So now it flows by my house
So now it goes by my house

Angel. Angel.
I'd still rather have the moon

I've had bad dreams
So bad I threw my pillow away
Move the river
So now it flows by my house
So now it goes by my house

Angel. Angel.
I'd still rather have the moon

Baby's playing dead in cellar.
Gave her water just got paler.
Grass stains, backburns, she's a screamer.
She's just dusted, leave her.
If you see her, don't upset her.
Never seems to get much better.
Grass stains, backburns, she's a screamer.
She's just dusted leave her.
Mmm mmm, goes to your heart.
Mmm mmm, sticks in your head.
Mmm mmm mmm mmm, yeah.
Baby's playing dead in cellar.
Gave her water, she got paler.
Grass stains, backburns, she's a screamer.
She's just dusted, leave her.

So you go to leave
More room for me.
Oooo... you gave me too much room,
So I filled it up with chairs,
You can't sit on,
But if you want to stand there,
Stand there.
Oooo... you told me too much.
You thought I would leave you.
I heard every word X3
So you go, and it all grows darker
Like these chairs,
These eyes,
This room
Closes it's windows.
These chairs,
These eyes,
This room,
This heart.
I heard every word X3

So he's lying on top again
Just like Gepetto and his doll.
And he's running around again,
And I can't get him out of this house.
And if you bore him,
You lose your soul to me.
So that kid from the bad home
Came over to my house again,
Decapitated all my dolls.
And if you bore me,
You lose your soul to me.
Hey Gepetto,
Where'd you put it?
Oh Gepetto, poor boy.
Hey Gepetto, where'd you put it?
Oh Gepetto, poor boy.
And if you bore him,
You're gonna lose your soul.
Hey Gepetto, where'd you get to?
Oh Gepetto, poor boy.
Hey Gepetto, where'd you get to?
Oh Gepetto, poor boy.
Hey Gepetto, what'd you get me?
Oh Gepetto, poor boy.
So he's lying on top again,
Just like Gepetto.

You're not safe
In this house.
You're not safe.
Here, here,
In some witch's bed,
In some witch's bed.
You know the one.
She lies all lit up.
She lies all lit up.
She lies all lit up.
You're not safe
In this house.

Meet him by the road.
There's a dog went running,
Picking through spit out leaves
A dog won't even touch.
Meant to shoot that dog long ago,
Just can't leave that dog alone.
Maria carry a rifle.
Maria carry a dog on her back.
That dog is hit again.
That slow dog is hit again,
With his see-thru skin,
The kind of skin you can see through.
He's shot again.
He's shot again.
He's shot a-a-a-a-a-a.
He's shot again.
He's shot again.
He's shot a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a.
Heal me by a river.
Man retires his wife says,
But she was so sad and sick.
His heart breaks in the mud.
Thought I'd leave this world by twenty-one.
Couldn't leave that dog alone.
Maria carry a rifle.
Maria carry a dog on her back.
That dog is hit again.
That slow dog is hit again,
With his see-thru skin,
The kind of skin you can see through.
He's shot again.
He's shot again.
He's shot a-a-a-a-a-a.
He's shot again.
He's shot again.
He's shot a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a.
Maria carry a rifle.
Maria carry a dog on her back.
Maria carry you on her back.

So what, you think this is usual?
Strange moon, strange land, strange man.
Hold the hands of tiny horses,
Hold them, hold them kindly, man.
Low Red Moon,
How can you sleep like a baby,
Sleep like baby?
But you shine so different on another.
You shine different on another.
I look up, and I see
The raising of an old hope,
Brave and tattered.
A shining knight with shining eyes,
He shines around me brightly.
So now, I say this is beautiful.
I think you are strange.
Low red moon, how can you sleep like a baby,
Sleep like a baby?
But you shine so different on another.
You shine different on another.
Strange moon, strange land, strange...
You made me cry when I was young,
And I was young.
Now I got strong arms,
Strong arms for a girl,
And I say,
"He belongs to me.
He belongs to me.
He's a human bed of roses."

This old man I've talked about
Broke his own heart,
Poured it in the ground.
Big red tree grew up and out,
Throw up its leaves,
Spins round and round.
I know all this and more.
So take your hat off
When you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree.
This little squirrel I used to be
Slammed her bike down the stairs.
They put silver where her teeth had been.
Baby silvertooth,she grins and grins.
I know all this and more.
So take your hat off boy
When you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree.
Take your hat off boy
When you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree.
This old man I used to be
Spins around, around, around the tree.
Silver baby come to me.
I'll only hurt you in my dreams.
I know all this and...
I know all this and...
I know all this and more.
So take your hat off boy
When you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree.
Take your hat off
When you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree.

Sleep in now, now.
Sleep in now, now, now.
It's still night out.
Sleep in.
Don't look at me
Looking back at you,
Out the window backwards,
Out the window backwards.
Sleep.
See this child twice stolen from me,
Out the window backwards,
Out the window backwards.
Sleep in now, now.
Sleep in now, now, now.
Sleep now.
Now fall to the bed,
Put your hand in your hair.
Now fall to the tile,
Stick your finger in your eye.
That's the only way you cry.
Hey now.
Hey now.
Full moon pass the window sideways.
Hey now.
Hey now.
Sleep in now, now.
Sleep in now, now.
Sleep in now, now.
Sleep. Sleep. Sleep.

That was some hurricane,
Rode in on the back of a heart attack.
Made a mistake on the fire escape in San Francisco.
Made my way back in a hallway in L.A.
Put on your black dress.
Float on your back.
Too long, too lame,
Now I'm gone.
Somewhere to sleep,
Somewhere to sleep,
Somewhere to scrape your body off my feet.
Put on your black dress.
Float on your back.
Too long ,too lame,
Now I'm gone
White belly up in the sun,
White belly up in the sun.
Still diving for the big one.
Put on your black dress.
Float on your back.
Put on your black dress.
Foat on your back.
Too long, too lame,
Now i'm gone
White belly up in the sun,
White belly up in the sun.

Sour Me. Ouch!
I was friendly with this girl,
Who insisted on touching my face.
She told outrageous stories.
I believed them 'til the endings
Were changing from endings before.
She's not touching me anymore.
Untogether, I couldn't help her I got hard.
You can try your life.
You can't save the unsavably untogether.
I was shipwrecked with this frog,
Who was endlessly on testing my faith.
He made outrageous demands.
I ignored him
'Til I strapped on my boat feet
And surfed into shore.
He's not touching me anymore.
Untogether, I couldn't help him I got hard.
You can try your life.
You can't change the unchangably untogether.
Now the bird nest on my back
Keeps me turning and straining to see.
We threw outrageous parites.
We were golden.
Now the bird keeps it's distance,
And I keep my speech.
Sometimes there's no poison like a dream.
Untogether, I couldn't help it it got hard.
You can dry your eyes.
You can't hold the impossibly untogether.

It's hard for a star.
Sweet sweet sweet wind
Burn off this skin.
Get it to reach sachuest beach.
I can never win
With this body I live in.
It's all right.
It's all right.
It's all right.
I'll just stand up pick up my stuff and...
Sweet sweet sweet wind
Burn off this skin.
Get it to reach sachuest beach.
I can never win
With this body I live in.
Sweet sweet sweet wind
Burn off this skin.
Sweet sweet sweet wind
Burn off this skin.
I can never win
With this body I live in.

Think about dixie
She ducked when she ran
Made up these bad reasons to stand by her man (he goes)
Miss the vein once
Try try again I swear
(I just went) my my your dress says so sad

Stay, oh oh oh stay (x2)

Salmon dives for that big dusky pearl
Salmon sighs, he knows he's older than me

Sleeps with the fishes soon

Stay (stay), oh oh oh stay (x2)

Salmon crawls on the belly of God
Salmon falls on his face in love with me.
He grows as old as the sea
Deep where the fishes are.

Stay, oh oh oh stay (x4)

He lives in the yard, he keeps himself hard
He keeps himself homeless and heartless and hard
He sleeps under stairs along with the heirs
Of nothing and nothing means no one who cares
But I love him dear and I love him dear
And I've loved him hundreads of thousands of years.

Stay. Stay (stay with me) oh oh oh stay.
Stay. Stay (stay with me) oh oh oh stay.

It's not time for me to go. (x3)

Stay.

She wears her dress high
As high as she pulls her hat down low
She's seeking out the places
those other people can't go and hold her
Untouched by the sea
(Untouched by the sea)
She's walking on water when she walks in her sleep
She's dragging me through places
I didn't want to be seen


She's a liar
As I am a thief
Because of you I came,
because of you I leave

I wanna know
(I wanna know)
Why the monsters that hurt you so
don't look like those things that
we battled so long ago

And I thought I did my part
when I pulled you out of there
that night you left boot marks on my wall

You are my liar
So I will be your thief
Because of you I came,

Because of you I leave
Because of you I leave
Because of you I leave - yeah

Wake up baby,
We are home now
Wake up baby,
We are home now
Wake up baby,

We are home now
We are home now
We are home now

We are home now

If you can just get your mind together,
And come on across to me.
We'll hold hands
And then we'll watch the sunrise from the bottom of the sea.
But first, are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
I have (I have). I've.
I know you probably scream and cry,
But your little world won't let you go.
But who in your mealsy little world are you trying to prove
To you that you're made of gold.
So, are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
I have (I have). I have been.
Trumpets and violins I hear in the distance.
I think they're calling our names.
Maybe now you can live and that you would.
If you're lonely,
Hold my hand.
But first, are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
Are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
I have.

I have lost something
On the way
And i can't explain
What you wouldn't
Want to hear then anyway
Our divine
Sweet divide

So let's just gaze
In the space
Between your face and mine
Our divine
Sweet divide

Divine sweet divide
Fingers touching toes tipped on the wire
Across our great divide
Are we shadows on the wall
And that's all

And should we be as one
I'm sorry
I'm sorry baby
That's not how it works
But don't worry
You worry too much

I love
I love you

Divine sweet divide
Fingers touching toes tipped on the wire
Across our great divide
Divine sweet divide
Divine sweet divide
Divine sweet divide

Only dreams do us part
Only dreams

Only dreams do us part
Only dreams

What it comes down to
What could ever take your place
What it comes down to
Honey what could take your place

Not a song
Not a thousand strong
You will not be turned away
Will it come soon
The voice in the corner of the room
The hissing head by the bed
I spit back but it just laughs
And then attacks
And I reach for you

Every devil in this house
Wants to have it out
But i can reach for you
Not in song but with real arms warm
And not be turned away

I can turn and turn i can turn
And still be facing the wrong way
And you grab me by the belt
And spin me you spin me
And we're dancing again
Dancing again

Every devil in this house
Wants to have it out
But i can reach for you
Every devil in this house
Tries to call me out
But i can reach for you

I can reach for you
I can reach for you
I can reach for you

I can reach for you
I can reach for you
I can reach for you
And not be turned away

You accuse me of fancy talk
When i'm just trying to find my words
You've got a funny way of saying my name
Like i just ripped it off

These whiskey tango ghosts
Won't leave us alone
But you are too polite to complain
Of the art of speaking plain
I haven't gathered a thing

While I know we're dug in deep here
Why can't we live high with the wind
You're just a freckle away from changing everything
I'll make this easy
By calling on my gypsy pedigree

These whiskey tango ghosts
Won't leave us alone
Of the art of speaking plain
I haven't gathered a thing

While i know we're dug in deep here
Why can't we live high with the wind
Can't we live

Of the art of making waves
I had my lesson in spades
And these ghosts they make it plain
They're never going away

And my ghost she makes it plain
I haven't gathered a thing
Though I know we're dug in deep here
Why can't we live high with the wind
Can't we live

There i said it i've done you wrong
The miles i ran away to call you on the phone
And whisper uglinesses sweetly down the line
I believed your heart was mine

I'm unspeakably full of it
I keep my heart on hinges just in case you quit me
When we were diving gold and pearling in the waves
I pretended I was brave

But weren't we were we magic and dizzy
And weren't we were we deadly and blue
And weren't we riding high crossing a thousand fine lines
When I was young and ballsy and true, to you

Is it hot out there
Is it hard to breathe
And do you need me
I can do this thing
I can make it rain
I will make sure it finds you

There I said it I've done you wrong
You say i'm here and i say what took you so long
When we were finally free I stumbled in your room
Telling stories telling stories

But weren't we were magic and dizzy
And weren't we were we blinding and blue
And weren't we riding high spinning a thousand fine lies
When I was young and ballsy and true to you
When i was young and ballsy and true to you

What's that thing
About a butterfly wing causing a typhoon
If it's true a wire runs through each thing we do
Then I better stay in my room
Better stay in my room
Better stay in my room

A dressing man will choose the white
By this he saves a life
I don't see her there 'till he comes up behind the sun shines on white
I see the light i hit the brakes the dead girl walks away
And I better stay in my room
Better stay in my room
Better stay in my room
Better stay in my room

Better stay in my room
Better stay in my
Better stay in my room

You go for a ride a girl won't come home
Or maybe that's not the way it goes
Maybe she's fine
Maybe you see a light in time
People are born blaze and collide
We go outside
My hand pushes air
I don't care
I don't think
About the butterfly thing

Honey come outside
And don't think about
The butterfly thing

This perfect day
We make our way to the end of it
With perfect grace
I lay my head in your lap and walk away
These days are sweet and strange
We're happy in our star-scattered way
Always

In this my life
In this my life as a ghost
In this my life
My happy life as a ghost

I've been lifting out the stains from the stones
Planting flowers where you'll never find my bones
Seven sisters seven stars shooting home
Shouts and whispers of a better fight in better times
A day for the sweet and strange
Or happy in some star-shattered way
Our way

In this my life
In this my life as a ghost
In this my life
My happy life as a ghost

This perfect day
I lay my shield at your feet and beg to stay

You're in the room I can feel you
I don't want to then I do
I hear the voices of the graces in here
Swimming around
Up in the corners of our room

You hold the center and I sing forever
And you won't hear the same song twice
We're shorter of breath maybe longer in tooth lately
You are the love of my life

I'm on your side
Believe it or not
Just don't sneak up on me
And we'll do just fine hold out your arm
And i will fly you
To bring your leather
And i will sink my pins in

You hold the center and i sing forever
And you won't hear the same song twice
We're shorter of breath maybe longer in tooth lately
You are the love of my life

You are the mountain i'm the low-flying bi-plane
We come together in the most calamitous ways
You're the tsunami i am the fisher in the bay
We come together
In the most glamorous ways
You hold the center
I ride the satellite
We come together
You are the love of my life

I'm not afraid
Of a voice I hear
Calling me strong
Calling me on

I hold these pretty dreams of mine
Struggling between my teeth
Like a cat I let you go free
Only to drag you back home with me
I know
I might go crazy from love
And probably I won't snap out of it
But for now I hold myself back
Just out of reach like a cat

And suddenly
I feel the sun on me
Born to strange sight
Still i make it through the night
And suddenly
I'm in a sea of honey pouring down on me
And I won't be the freak
When I come clean

In the golden mean
In the golden mean
Deep from my heart I know it I feel it i'm about
To finally to start moving clearing cleaning the bad luck out
But for now i hold myself back

And suddenly I feel the sun on me
Born to strange sight
Still I make it through the night
And suddenly I'm in a sea of honey pouring down on me
Won't it be a scream
When I come clean

In the golden mean
It starts here
I hear the voice calling strong and clear
Calling me forward and it starts here
And i'm not afraid

Hey, what i meant to say
Let's get lost and find our way
And chance might shine on us, today

We fight we win we fight we lose we fight
We get lost and call it a night
Our mouths will tire before our devils do
There's a promise hidden in my blood
In the name of everything I love

I will draw the crescent down
And set it in your crown

Remember what you said
Better to run than play dead
Here's our chance to prove it
Let's just do it
I have a dream and we are looking back and laughing
And there's a promise hidden in my blood
In the name of everything I love
I will draw the crescent down
And set it in your crown

Wait
Wait I'm on the edge of my chair
And it's you who put me there
You keep me there

Wait, wait, wait
I'm not complaining
I haven't lost anything
I can't recover

I want to throw our story high
But too many words to sky-write
Of acrobats and liars
Paper moons in mackerel skies

Ten years fly stand at your window tonight
I'm coming by
I'm coming back for you

And tonight
Honey we ride
Hey who let the psycho in
He's messing up everything
Doesn't anyone see him

Wait wait wait
I'm not complaining
He can't take anything
I can't recover

I want to throw our story high
But too many words to sky-write
Of acrobats and liars paper moons in mackerel skies

Ten years fly
Stand at your window tonight
I'm coming by
I'm coming back for you

And tonight
It's alright when we ride
When we ride
When we ride
It's alright when we ride
When we ride
It's alright
I'm coming back for you
And tonight
Honey we ride
Tonight
Honey we ride

Honey won't you let yourself speak free
Honey won't you let yourself speak freely
'Cause you're scaring me now
You're scaring me

Everything is pouring out of me now
I spread my hands to catch it but there's too much and there it goes
And we thought we'd fool them all
We thought we'd fool them all
And ha ha ha
But there's too much and there it goes

And I can't stop the fallout
After all

Honey
I want you
I still want you
I always do
I always will
Is that enough
'Cause here we go

And I can't stop the fallout
And I can't stop the fallout
After all

Covered in honey
Showered in beer
Now when you spin on your head like a monkey
I won't see you
Sing a bad love song loud in my ear
So when you spin on your head like a monkey
I won't hear you
I tame a bird to light where you live
Light on your arm and bring a wild gift
...

I am my mother's child
I let my fears run wild
Showered in honey
Showered in beer
Now when you spin on your head like a monkey
I won't see you

I tame a bird to light where you live
Light on your arm and bring a wild gift
...

I send a light to shine on you
I send a light to shine around you
I send a light to blind you
I am the light that shines on your eyes
I am the light that blinds

I tame a bird to light where you live
Light on your arm and bring a wild gift

I tame a bird to light where you live
Light on your arm and bring a wild gift

Untame my brain
Give me a name
Hear my faith
Seal my fate
Unholy and dirty words I gathered to me
Thinking the point was keep what's mine for me
While he's laughing


Hear my faith
Seal my fate

And when you breathe, you breathe for two
And if you think you've finally found the perfect light
I hope it's true

Unholy and dirty words I gathered to me
Thinking the point was keep what's mine for me
(and he's laughing)

On every track I fractured every back
Thinking the point was step on every crack
(and he's laughing)

Hear my faith
Seal my fate

Hear my faith
Seal my fate

And when you breathe, you breathe for two
And if you think you've finally found the perfect light
I hope it's true

You say you saw him laughing
I hope it's true
I'd like to see it happen
I hope it's true

'Cause I can feel it
I hope it's true

Red, you look tired
You look older than your mother
Where should I not touch?
What should I not kiss?
Where does it hurt?
Red, in you slumber
You look younger, so much stronger
Honey on your breath
Heaven in your head
Where does it hurt?

redredred oh

So long in this house
It's a big one full of scarecrows, even now
So you look ahead to the edge of a
Big metal sun over sunset
Overheated (over)
Welcome home, our only son

redredred oh
redredred oh
redredred oh

Mm mm c-come open
Mouth like Venus
Mm mm c-come over (the)
Mountain like Vesuvius

Send a rocket for Red, and he goes coo-coo
Mm mm c-come open
Mouth like Venus
Mm mm c-come over (the)
Mountain like Vesuvius

Send a rocket for Red, and he goes coo-coo
Send a rocket for Red, and he goes coo-coo
(Send a rocket to Red)
(Send a rocket to Red)

redredred oh

Will I be the stranger in your movie
Is there a place for me
in the patterns that glow on your skin
and your clothes

Hold him
Hold his thin frame in your arms
When everything flows from his skin and his clothes

I'm flying so over it
Silverfish line his pocket
Silver quick he leaves
(I don't want to know about your ill-fated love affair)

Flying so over it
Flying so over your head


Hold him in your arms
when everything glows on his skin
I've been much stranger
I've watched you from afar
Now everything shows on my skin and my clothes

I'm flying so over it
Silverfish line his pocket
Silver quick he leaves
(I don't want to hear about your poorly-timed
rock career)

Flying so over it
Flying so over your head
...

Silverfish line his pocket
Silver quick he leaves
Silverfish line his pocket
Silver quick he leaves
(I don't want to hear about your poorly-timed
rock career)

Flying so over it
Flying so over your head

On your third broken window,
Your hair full of glass,
Throw your clothes in the hallway,
Just a sheet on your back.
So you're super-connected now?
All the freaks gather around,
And the crowd in your bedroom waits
For a piece of your personal stash.
Are there heart strings connected
To the wings you've got slapped on your back?
Better climb in the window cause I'm closing the door.
On your third broken window,
With your hair full of glass,
Saw your clothes in the hallway,
Just a curtain on your back.
I laugh.
Are there heart strings connected
To the wings you've got slapped on your back?
Better climb in the window cause I'm closing the door.
Now I'm spinning on a dime.
Now I'm spinning on a dime.
Now I'm spinning on a dime.
Like you claim to do,
Like now, like now.
Are there heart strings connected
To the poison coming out of your mouth?
Are you super-connected?
Are you super-connected now?
I'm spinning on a dime.
Throw your clothes in the hallway,
And I'm closing the door.

My blessed son, you...
You've got a lot to learn.
So I'm your best friend,
You love me, and
Well I'll tell you something:
"we're on the road to messy."
Now the bees behind my eyes sing "beware,"
But my bee-stung tongue wants in there.
Beware, beware, beware of me.
If your heart is not on my side,
If your heart is not on my side,
If your heart is not on my side,
You're not on my side anymore.


I steal a piece of your diary.
I don't think that looks like me.
Am I so cold, now that I'm older?
I tell you stories,
That doesn't mean you know me.
Now the bees behind my eyes sing, "beware,"
But my bee-stung tongue wants in there.
So come at me with mouth open wide,
And i, like a jerk, I crawl inside.
Beware, beware, beware of me.
If your heart is not on my side,
If your heart is not on my side,
If your heart is not on my side, you're not on my side anymore.

Little bird
I won't prey on you
I won't prey on you this time
I'm your faith
I'm your faithhealer
I'm your faithless companion

I'm the seed that made your perfect body
When you sleep, I am awake
...

There is a light under the ocean
Under the ocean, there's things shining everywhere
There is a lightkeeper under the blanket here
Under the blanket, there's things shining down here
Now I see you lay your perfect body down for me
Now we're down
...

Little bird, I won't prey on you
I won't prey on you this time

I'm your faith
I'm your faithhealer
I'm your faithless companion
I'm the seed that made your body perfect
When you sleep, I am awake

There is a light under the ocean
Under the ocean, there's things shining everywhere
There is a lightkeeper under the blanket here
Under the blanket, there's things shining everywhere

You light the ocean from behind
I'll show you mine
(I'll show you)

Baby, I can't fake it
I'd like to see you naked
I'd like to see you take it
I'd like to see you naked

Naked
Naked
Naked
Naked

I want you soft in the middle
I see a strange and furious face
I know your heart
I want your pearly hand in my hair
We make a strange and furious pair
I want you locked in the middle
I know your heart
I know your heart

It's just like mine was

So you wanna know why I can't sleep
You wanna know why I can't sleep
You wanna know why I can't sleep


Unless I've got a belly full of wine
You show up in time for a bad time

Mmm 'less I've got a belly full of wine
You show up and the world is wild
...

I want your pearly little hand in my hair
We make a strange and furious pair
I want you pearly on the inside
I know your heart
I know your heart

It's just like mine was

So you wanna know why I can't sleep at night
You wanna know why I can't sleep at night
You wanna know why I can't sleep


Unless I've got a belly full of wine
You show up in time for a bad time

Mmm, 'less I've got a belly full of wine
You show up in tails for a bad time

Mmm, 'less I've got my belly full of wine
I'm drunk and the world is wild

(You got it)
(Heaven in your hand)

You got it
You got it
Heaven in your hand

I wasn't there
But I heard there were flowers in his hair
Though not yet born to her,
I hear there was something magic about the way she held her own
I know it's hard for the young ones
I know it
Acutely, I heard it

Race me through this heart-broken town
Bang your boots and keep your head down
Race me through the heart of this broken town

I use the voices of sandmen
To bring you home
I know it's wrong, you're a young one
I know it
Acutely, I hear it

Race me through this heart-broken town
Bang your boots and keep your head down
Race me through the heart of this broken town

Now I make you pray
Now I make you pray like there's a God
Till you see it my way
See it my way

Where I live,
there's a blanket of gauze and it covers the scars
Of the drunks who are hungry as ever
Where I live,
There's a blanket of sighs and it covers the stars
In my heart, I'm as hungry as ever
This is the room where we met

Where I live,
There's a lady who walks everywhere on her hands
Doesn't trust where her feet want to take her

Where I live,
There's this lady
who walks everywhere on her hands
She don't trust where her feet want to take her

(not in here)
This is the room where we met
(not in here)
This is the dress I had on
This is not the moment you fear
When you wake up and no one is there

Low hangs the moon
(oh oh)
Inside this room
Low hangs the moon
(oh oh)
Inside this room

So that I'm a witness when you Judas my heart
Judas my heart

Where I live,
There's a blanket of sighs and it covers the stars
In my heart, I'm as hungry as ever

Where I live,
I'm afraid that I walk everywhere on my hands
I don't trust where my feet want to take me

(not in here)
This is the room where we met
(not in here)
This is the dress I had on
This is not the moment I fear
I say "I" instead of "she" now you're here


Low hangs the moon
(oh oh)
Inside this room
Low hangs the moon
(oh oh)
Inside this room

So that I'm a witness when you Judas my heart
Judas my heart
Judas my heart
Judas my heart

Can I get a witness when you Judas my heart again?
Can I get a witness when you do this to my heart again?
Can I get a witness when you Judas my heart again?

Where I live there's a lady who walks everywhere
on her hands Just like me doesn't trust
where her feet want to take her again
and her feet want to take her again
and her feet want to take her... again

And a shadow fell
Bringing sleep to all
Life is but a dream
Ours

When you disappear
You are everywhere
Life is but a dream
Ours

In our beauty sleep
In big sleep together
Nothing ever ends
Nothing lasts forever

You'll come back again
I am waiting then
Life is but a dream
It's ours

Life is but a dream

(T. Donelly)

Look I can't watch you
Sleep-walking through this
Should we find another party
I'm not shining tonight just radioactive
You have carbonated my bloodstream

When I stumble
It will be under your spell, at your command
And when I stumble
It will be into your hand

Too much passion we waste
In just trying to get it right one time
With our clothes on we're brave
And mummified and out of sight

When I stumble...

Can it be
Can it be the storm has passed

I'm not finished yet, I'm under construction
You can peek behind the curtain if you want
You watch, don't stop
My reputation's shot
I just wanted to get it right

Can it be
Can it be the storm has passed

(T. Donelly / D. Fisher)

In the beginning my love was fierce
One heart stopped and another started
I flashed my eyes, cracked wise and left them dry
Now I sit with my babe at my breast
I was never this good at my best
Never higher

The moon was paper white the night you saved my life
When my spirit guide left me behind
The wood was closing in, foggy was the night
The night you saved my life
When my spirit guide left me behind

I spy with my third eye
Something volatile and vital
So say goodnight, sleep tight, don't let them bite
Now I stand with the wind at my back
Every day brings a new breed of jackass
I was never good at monkey-in-the-middle
Never a fighter

The moon was paper white the night you saved my life
When my spirit guide left me behind
The wood was closing in, foggy was the night
The night you saved my life
When my spirit guide left me behind
The moon was paper white the night you saved my life
When my spirit guide left me behind

(T. Donelly)

I'm keeping you I'm keeping you
I'm keeping you so realize your fate
I'm keeping you I'm keeping you
I'm keeping you so settle down now

You landed here from inner space
You landed with that screwed-up look on your face
I wanted you from way back when
I wanted you for years, then years again

I'm keeping you I'm keeping you
I'm keeping you so settle in now

My return to wildlife by satellite
By beautiful moon-shining girl
Whether by hard ground or splashdown
We're safely back in the world

My heart's not new
I'm not like you
I've loved and been loved well and badly too
My body's been through everything
I've used and been used
I got over it
There's something that you learn on a tightrope
Just outside the spotlight there's a big net waiting for...

My return to wildlife by satellite
By beautiful moon-shining girl
Whether by hard ground or splashdown
We're safely back in the world

I'm keeping you

I'm an angel dark, darker than loam
Come to steer your runaway home
I'm a moonbeam monkey on spec
Come to bring your strange kid back

No one saw him gimpy going round the bend
And no one but me knows the stuff it takes to mend him
I will get him back on the right track
I will bring your strange kid back

He saw something there, something in the ice
Sees it still when he closes his eyes
He's not talking, just taking it alone
I will bring his story home

He's not talking, just taking it alone
He's a good boy, your good son
I'm an angel dark, darker than loam
I will bring your strange kid home

This world is a wrap-around skirt
This world is a wrap-around skirt
And i'm gonna throw it off
I'm gonna throw it off
I'm rising up rising up
Maybe i worry cause i know how things work
I know how things can work out
Maybe they don't
Maybe that's how

This world is a fickle young girl
This world is a fickle young girl
It's high time we married her off
How about to gassy old jupiter
Maybe i worry cause i know how things work
I know how things can work out
Maybe they don't
Maybe that's how

Someone draw me a map so i can get back
To the edge of the world
And make my place in negative space
Among my kin
That's the only way to begin

(T. Donelly / D. Fisher)

All your friends have changed
Another moment too soon for you
The angle shifts again
Another moment too soon
Now it's time to take a walk
Now it's time to take the walk you've been side-slipping

Time to move your sorry bones up off the floor
Time to rise above your situation
Time to make sure the current pauses at your door
Time to seek your own level baby

Amazing things have strayed within your reach
Are you unfazed and unimpressed by all you could have had with ease
Amazing things have strayed within your reach
Another moment too soon for you
Now it's time to take the walk you've been side-slipping

Time to move your sorry bones...

So what if you come undone on your way to the sun
Your home-made kite melts down and out of sight
You'll find that your arms are fine and strong and move you along
And not a moment too soon

Time to move your sorry bones...

(T. Donelly / D. Fisher)

From the dark side of the sun
My supernatural one
You fell into grace
Move slowly if not carefully
Then in silence sometimes

Blighted and solo
This is where I come in reeling
Our future waits on the field of fair play
I will meet you there someday

You come on like a sunburn baby
My runaway old flame
I know you come in peace
But I'm still afraid

From the dark side of the sun
My supernatural one
You fell into my grace
Suffer me if not gladly
Then in silence sometimes
Our future waits on the field of fair play
I will meet you there someday

You come on like a sunburn baby
My runaway old flame
I know you come in peace
But I'm still afraid

Blighted and solo
This is where I come in

(T. Donelly)

So much to lose
Anyway so much to prove
Step away from the wreck
But leave a match for my last cigarette

Someone's got to pay
Someone's got to pay for this

I know my name has not been easy on your lips
And I know that smile is evidence of this
And I know my picture will not be carried with you
Now someone's got to stay and clean up this mess

So much to leave
Anyway so much for me
Have you held your breath
Through this tragic display of my last laugh

Someone's got to pay for this

I know my name...

So much to do
Anyway, I'm done with you

(T. Donelly / D. Fisher)

My face has never been one to betray me
It shines when I need it to
It sends out a white blinding light in your eyes
'Till I figure out what I'm gonna do

We meet in the kitchen and roll on the floor
And I look in your face for something restoring
And take from you barely enough for a lifetime of
Holding out on you
Holding out on you

I see my storyline within you
And I see the river rise to meet you
'Cause you started you started
Harnessing the wave
And you started you started
Harnessing the wave

My face has never been one to betray me
It lies when I need it to
But lately it seems you been laughing at me
So I guess you're the one I can't fool

I see my storyline within you
And I see the river rise to meet you
And I see my angel kneel to kiss you
Cause you started you started
Harnessing the wave
And you started you started
Harnessing the wave

You started
You started honey

(T. Donelly / D. Fisher)

Walk with me awhile
I've got something to say to you or ask you
I don't know
It's been a long day

If the dove falls in the sea
Never bringing us a leaf
Will you come into the shadow with me
Will you follow me under

If I wash up on the beach
And I've lost all memory
Will you come into the shadow with me
Will you follow me under

If I decide to bring it all down
Will you stay and help me figure it out
Will you come into the shadow with me
Will you follow me under

Walk awhile with me
I've got something to say to you or ask you
Will you come into the shadow with me
Will you follow me under

I know it stinks
Spinning on my fingertips

Do i look like a liar
Do i look like a liar to you
Fighting crime in this time brings a girl down
Makes a body sink so low
And i sink pretty deep, pretty deep, pretty deep
I sink pretty deep, pretty deep, pretty deep
I wish i carried a camera
I'd have proof that you're never where you say
I wish i could fly up in a helicopter
I'd shine a blinding light on your escape
Better to show you
That i'll sink pretty deep, pretty deep, pretty deep
I'll sink pretty deep, pretty deep, pretty deep
Do i look like a crier
Do i look like a cry baby to you
Fighting fire in this town wears a man out
Makes a body break so slow
Remember when we all went out to fire island
You thought you saw a body on the beach
When we got closer it was just a tire
And you were disappointed i could see
So i pretended
And now i'm in pretty deep, pretty deep, pretty deep
I'm in pretty deep, pretty deep, pretty deep
Everything i ever learned is wrong so long so what
Pretty deep, pretty deep, pretty deep

Stone cold in this warm bed again
Wide awake and waiting for them
I send my shadow running on ahead again
I wait and wait and.......
I'm waving in my beautiful friends over there on the end of the
The bright light the bright light begins it
The grass is high and the sky is low tonight
I wanna be here i wanna be gone
And this time i won't cry i won't
I'm waving in my beautiful friends over there on the end of the
The bright light the bright light begins it and i get sucked into it again
Wild and high on the summer wind
I'm in for a love so tough i could break my teeth if i bit down hard upon it
And a voice so rich just the sound of it is forever nauseating
And i get sucked into it again
Wild and high on the summer wind

I've sunk a lot into this venture
I expect returns
I've suffered all the slings and arrows
I know where it hurts
I'm unstable you seem able
Organize me start with anything you want

Wide awake and sleepwalking in
Don't you want me, don't you?
We could break the landspeed record
Don't you want to, don't you?

I've planted all these firecrackers
Around me like a shield
You penetrate, you immolate
Do you understand the deal?
I'm a living doll disaster
Renovate me; start with anything you want

Wide awake and sleepwalking in
Don't you want me, don't you?
We could break the landspeed record
Don't you want to, don't you?

Don't know why he won't come home (x4)

Don't you want to live forever
I could hook you up
We could break the landspeed record
Don't you want to, don't you?
Don't you baby, don't you baby
Want to shine and burn?
Don't you want to be remembered
I do, I do, I do

I heard a song
I heard the saddest song on WSUK
They play it every other hour of every other day
'Cause the greaser sent them t's and toys for regular airplay
All your heroes are whores
all your heroes
'Cause it's a tinkertoy world
Wouldn't buy a chance to leave it
'Cause sometimes
It rains fish from the sky and the statues all start to cry
And someone writes another beautiful song
And anyway i predict the next meteor to hit will be a monster
And I for one am looking forward to it
I saw a movie
I saw the saddest film
Where everyone got killed
And the crowd went wild
I didn't understand the end i couldn't spot the good guy
All your heroes are whores
All your heroes
I had a dream a shining bright city perfect and clean
I made a wish for a sky full of fish

Come on what's-your-name
I've got a good game
I've got a story
Hope you like 'em gory
And it's much too late for bed
Come on tiger why so tired
I've got good game plus i'll let you win again
And it's much too late for bed
So shi-shine on me
Shi-shine on me
I crave your company
And fall in the dark so be my lantern
Never have i seen that face on one so young
So shi-shine on me
Shi-shine on me
I crave your company
And fall in the dark so by my lantern
Be my lantern

You'd have to be an acrobat to touch her
Where she can feel a thing
You'd have to be a racecar diver
To catch up with him
You'd have to be an astronaut you'd have to be a shrink
You'd have to be an acrobat
'cause where they go
Nobody knows


She throws out her feet he holds them
He stands on her hands she trips him
You'd have to be an acrobat
You'd have to a saint
You'd have to be racecar diver
'cause where they go where they go
Nobody knows

I live underwater and you live on the moon
You can't breathe around me and i can't breathe around you
We start and my heart's in traction
I'm living i'm living i'm dying for you
4-3-2-1 breathe
Your love is dark inside of me
Everything in here is all wrong
I don't know some unidentifiable stink
And everything you say is satin-lined
I don't know is that the way you animals think
I am underwater howling at the moon
You can't breathe around me and i can't breathe around you
Your love is dark inside of me
4-3-2-1 breathe
So get back in your ride and drive drive drive

Some lucky bum
Took away my right to some
Sweet honey love
Look what's been done to me look what i've become
In for the fight fo your life today
I'm giving you a head start
You better run bum
Look what you've done what you've become
One unlucky bum
Coo coo coo coo quitter
Coo coo coo coo quitter
Run for cover or run to win
What will end your suffering

Winter is on us
Winter is watching us
Cutting and quiet
Winter is all over me
I got caught on the wing
Now I spin
I look down for my feet and i see
I'm much higher than i thought i'd be
Don't look down don't look down
Words about winter
Pull you inside the cold
But the sun's never brighter than when it's shining off snow
I got caught on the wing now i spin
I look down for my feet and i see
I'm much higher than i thought i'd be
Don't look down don't look down
I've believed in one magic word
For so long now it must be true
But the soldier's god isn't what i wanted
And i think i could drown i this drink
And i think you don't know what i think

See my child my past
Hoping yours is a blast
I park my heart in your driveway now i'm healing hell
I wanted a lion but i ended up with a man who wanted a gazelle
But i am a goat girl i am a goat girl i am a goat girl i am a goat girl
And i do my brutish best
See my child my past
Hoping yours will last
I park my heart in your driveway now i'm healing hell
I wanted a liom but i ended up with a man who wanted a gazelle
But I am a goat girl i am a goat girl i am goat girl i am a goat girl
Thinking goatish thoughts
Dreaming goatish dreams
Digging up tin cans
Chewing on your sleeve
And i do my brutish best

Look inside this milky whiteness
No power of the hand to dry
I'm swimming in it i'm swimming out to you
For reasons, my reasons
So photograph it the milky way
It spills into the hand and dries
I am here now and i'm staying put
For reasons, my reasons
And so to bed to bed
My soul to share
An island of the brave my soul to save
In hopes that god's awake my soul to take
I'm swimming in it i'm swimming out to you
For reasons to be home
So photograph me in milky white dreams
Spill into my head
And when i hold you like to tomorrow you might die
Well that's because you might
But i am here now
And i am staying put for reasons my heart knows

Look at him looking
Everybody see how he looks at me
Like to set me on fire like to burn
Like to set me on fire like to burn
But i'll always get out i'm not afraid
With these hips these lips these getaway sticks
I've got it made
There's always a greenn door and green gets you out
Green is sliding and diving and proteins colliding
It's your hipness your fitness your undying witness
Leave the locks on the door
I can find my own way home
For tomorrow i'm sure tomorrow i'll find the green door
Everyone out now it's just you and me
And i warned you i warned you i warned you i warned you i warned you
You look at me like to set me on fire like to burn
But i'll always get out i'm not afraid
I'll always get out i've got it made