Rialto

Rialto Rialto Lyrics
1.Broken Barbie Doll

Back when she was a girl there was a plan to see her through her
life:get married, settled down, and have some kids and be a good
housewife; but she would go to bed at night with day-glo stars
Airy lights stuck on the ceiling of her room as she dreamt of
another life.

Now it's too late to go back home, it's saccharine and silicone,
for a broken barbie doll. sleeping pills and alcohol, and nights
she'd rather not recall, for a broken barbie doll.

And though the hands that played with her were cold she let them
drag her down, and as her cardboard world begins to fall, she's
lying on the ground.


Her mother writes her every week, she says she's worried for
health. her dad says she's finding her feet, but now she's lying
on the shelf. like faulty goods that are returned, her pretty
finger
All burnt.


Broken barbie doll, for a broken barbie doll.
Broken barbie doll, for a broken barbie doll.
Broken barbie doll...


2.Dream Another Dream

I had a dream but i just can't remember it - what could it mean?
how did i ever let it slip? i'm a modern guy - i can't help but
be sarcastic:it's a brand new day... well isn't that fantastic?

Hey, it's alright, at the end of the day there's gonna be more
nights. everything's okay, no need to get uptight - we can dream
another dream tonight.

Game show afternoons - is that all i was born for - sitting in
my room, just waiting to be called for?


Another dream tonight, another dream tonight...


Dream another dream tonight, we can dream another dream tonight,
Dream another dream tonight, dream another dream tonight...


3.Hard Candy

Sugar high, then she drops me from the sky, but it never stops
me.

From the very first taste it began:i only wanna make her
understand, hold her as she melts into my hands, even if she
acts like she can't stand me - that's just my hard candy, that's
just my ha
Ndy.

Glycerine is in my veins, it's serene until she runs out
again...

Ever since the first taste it began: i only wanna make her
understand, hold her as she melts into my hands, even if she
acts like she can't stand me - that's just my hard candy, that's
just my h
Andy.

Candy...

Such a waste when she leaves me - a bitter taste when i want her
to feed me.

All the shiny paper's just a sham - i only wanna make her
understand, hold her as she melts into my hands, even if she
acts like she can't stand me - that's just my hard candy, that's
just my ha
Ndy.

That's just my hard candy, that's just my hard candy.
That's just my hard candy, that's just my hard candy.


4.Love Like Semtex

It's only friction that causes all the sparks - they come
between us and blow the world apart. it's only tension that i
can't diffuse; you really made your mark, i've still got the
bruise.

And now there's nothing left, just another twisted wreck, with
love like semtex.

Like a dud firework that goes off in your face, we should have
lit the sky but we burned down the whole place.

And now there's nothing left, just another twisted wreck with
love like semtex. more like a letter bomb blast than a valentine
card, with love like semtex.

Now there's nothing left, just another twisted wreck with love
like semtex. more like a letter bomb blast than a valentine
card, with love like semtex.

Goodbye and all the best, with love like semtex,

With love like semtex, with love like semtex...


5.Lucky Number

You dial the lucky number when you're feeling uptight, when
you're bored on a sunday, and every friday night. you dial the
lucky number 'cos life is such a fight - they're gonna bring it
over an
E it all seem alright.

You've got a lucky number, for every time you need something to
numb ya:you get that nagging hunger, that's when you dial your
lucky number.


You dial the lucky number, you want that basement kiss; when you
were two years younger, you wouldn't have dreamt of this. you're
getting pins and needles, they've got you on the boil - all wrap
P in the glamour of aluminium foil.


Go to sleep, all your dreams are sweet, keep the world at bay
'til you wake up in the morning...


6.Milk Of Amnesia

Milk of amnesia, you make it easier, so raise a glass in the air
and drown out all your cares. lips round the bottleneck, soon
you're gonna forget each and every regret and let your dreams
set s
Inside we're feeling warm, ready for any storm, we ain't got our
weatherproofs on but we're feeling strong.

A belly full of hope, lie back and you will float, drifting on
your dreamboat to a distant land. and if we can't make it home,
we'll sleep on the paving stones, happy just to be there beneath
th
Rlit dome.

Milk of amnesia, you make it easier, milk of amnesia.

Everything's fading fast, forget about the past, through the
bottom of the glass the world looks far away...


7.Monday Morning 5.19

At eight o'clock we said goodbye, that's when i left her house
for mine. she said that she'd be staying in - well she had to be
at work by nine. so i get home and have a bath, and let an hour
or
Pass; drifting in front of my tv, when a film comes on that she
wants to see.

It's monday morning 5:19, and i'm still wondering where she's
been, 'cos every time i try to call i just get her machine. and
now it's almost six am, and i don't want to try again, 'cos if
she's
L not back then this must be the end.

.at first i guess she's gone to get herself a pack of
cigarettes, a pint of milk, food for the cat, but it's midnight
now and she's still not back.

It's monday morning 5:19, and i'm still wondering where she's
been, 'cos every time i try to call i just get her machine. and
now it's almost six am, and i don't want to try again, 'cos if
she's
L not back then heaven knows, what then, is this the end?

At half past two i picture her in the back of someone else's car
- he runs his fingers through her hair... oh you shouldn't let
him touch you there!


8.Quarantine

In the evening rush she takes her seat by the window, and when
she lights up nobody speaks - they adjust their clothes. she
sits on the train from 5.15 to 5.50; it's always the same:'the w
Uot; she says, 'they look at me,' from saturday to saturday.

Contact unclean, lock me up in quarantine.

Bathed in the blue wash of a tv screen, surfing served-up
dreams, to the happy glow of the burger bar, watching the
passing cars, from saturday to saturday.


Contact unclean, lock me up in quarantine. contact, i'm unclean,
lock me up in quarantine.

Quarantine, quarantine, all our lives we've been in quarantine.
Quarantine, quarantine, all our lives we've been in quarantine.
Quarantine, quarantine, all our lives we've been in quarantine.
Quarantine, quarantine, all our lives we've been in quarantine.


9.Summer's Over(Album Version)

Kamikaze seagull planes fighting over chip shop take-away
remains; when you're walking on the cliffs, you can't help
thinking of how far down the sea is, and what if it should
give...

I didn't mean to bring you down, summer's over, seaside town;
she says we shouldn't have come so far - this seaside town,
summer's over.

Empty pubs echo with sounds - jukebox selections that keep going
round and round. and maybe rain is all we need to come and wash
the summer rubbish off the beach... oh, let's just go to sleep!

I didn't mean to bring you down, summer's over, seaside town,
she says we shouldn't have come so far, this seaside town...


In the back of the arcades, kids borrow money to play one more
final game while mothers wait in family cars. i wonder why we
ever chose to come so far, but i wish you wouldn't ask...

I didn't mean to bring you down, summer's over seaside town, she
says we shouldn't have come so far, this seaside town...


This summer's over, seaside town,
This seaside town, summer's over,
Summer's over...


10.The Underdogs

The underdogs keep running after shining motorbikes - trying to
keep up while they look back and laugh; we're so tired of
dragging our hearts. it's the chrome and the steel, and all the
power th
Wanna feel; so when we catch them we will rip them apart 'cos
it's no more than they did to us.

We've been waiting so long, we know just what we want:we will
cheat and we'll rob, 'cos we are the underdogs. we are the
underdogs.

The underdogs, we've had too much shit kicked in our lives to
stop us howling at the moon through the night - if it keeps them
up then that's alright. to be bitter and alone is such a dirty
litt
B, we're jaded to our brittle bones. 'cos we are the underdogs,
yes we are the underdogs.


The underdogs, we are the underdogs,
The underdogs, we are the underdogs...


11.Untouchable

If you were an angel, i would cut off your wings - to keep you
with me, i would do anything. like broken bottles that slip from
drunken hands, i've watched my star falling and shatter on the
gro

First you wash your hair, then you wash your hands; oh yeah, i
think i understand...

Untouchable, if i'm not fit to even crawl if i'm too sick, i'll
soak my skin in alcohol until i feel untouchable.


I blew my chances as you blow-dried your hair; i thought of my
answers as you walked down the stairs. d'you think i'd defile
you if you were to get too close? d'you think i'd infect you?
d'you t
I'd give you a dose?

First you wash your hair, then you wash your hands; oh yeah, i
think i understand...


I'll drink until my skin is full, and i will be untouchable...


Untouchable, if i'm not fit to even crawl if i'm too sick, i'll
soak my skin in alcohol, and i will feel untouchable.

Untouchable,
Untouchable,
Untouchable,
Untouchable...


12.When We're Together

The lights come on, i track her moves:locking the door, crossing
the room. she's on the phone again, and when she laughs i feel
my blood rushing - i feel my blood rush to my heart...

I call her up and disconnect, wait by her house once more to
check, stare through the window of her kitchenette, and then i
follow her down underground escalators, hiding behind my
newspaper unt
E time when we're together.

So here we are, alone again; i'm in the dark, she's in her
frame, her window bay.

I play the film back through my mind with a few new scenes i've
designed; maybe i'll write her one or two more lines, and then
i'll follow her down underground escalators, hiding behind my
newsp
Until the time when we're together.

Together, together, together, together...


Together, when we're together,
Together, when we're together,
Together...