War Stories

U.N.K.L.E. War Stories Lyrics
1.Morning Rage

Lyricist:Lou Reed

Something burns inside me, man
Can't explain or understand
Anger, rage and war cry
Fear, fate and lullaby

I wake up, I wake up
I wake up, I wake up

Something burns inside me, man
Won't explain or understand
Seeking truth for someone's eyes
Crowed lows and lonely highs

I wake up, I wake up
I wake up, I wake up

What was it all about?
Something's turning me inside out
So I put myself around
You should pull me in and turn me out

What was it all about?
Something's turning me inside out
So I put myself around
You should pull me in and turn me out

Something burns inside me, man
Don't explain or understand
Come in peace or walk away
Frozen hearts don't like to say

I wake up, I wake up
I wake up, I wake up
I wake up, I wake up
I wake up, I wake up

What was it all about?
Something's turning me inside out
So I put myself around
You should pull me in and turn me out

What was it all about?
Something's turning me inside out
So I put myself around
You should pull me in and turn me out

Nothing lasts forever, man
Nothing lasts forever, man
Nothing lasts forever, man
Nothing lasts forever, man

I wake up, I wake up
I wake up, I wake up
I wake up, I wake up
I wake up, I wake up


2.Mistress

Alice Temple:

My footsteps echo in early night
I see my shadows secret
It won't belong

My heart beats to a rhythm
I'm come closing in on a designation
I walk through the elevator door
As I'm risen I begin to hear
Feel you a lot alone

A cold wind bites all around me
But I'm warm on the inside
I don't need no drug tonight
This nights gonna change me forever
This room says anything goes
All I need is to be alive tonight

I breathe the smells around me
I'm choking but I want more
You're closing in

Oh mistress come to me
Come to me, come, come to me

A cold wind bites all around me
But I'm warm on the inside
I don't need no drug tonight
This nights gonna change me forever
This room says anything goes
Oh what a pity his alive tonight...


3.Lawless

In the dead of night
I become someone else
Cut all my ties
Blow my mind of the shelf

We're a lawless brigade
Up all night, up all night
We're a lawless brigade
Up all night, no restraint

Let it rise
Way out of control
You can't disguise
What's inevitable

We're a lawless brigade
Up all night, up all night
We're a lawless brigade
Up all night, no restraint

In the dead of night
I become someone else
Cut all my ties
Blow my mind of the shelf

We're a lawless brigade
Up all night, up all night
We're a lawless brigade
Up all night, no restraint

We're a lawless brigade
Up all night, up all night
We're a lawless brigade
Up all night, no restraint


4.Invasion

Lyricist:N Davidge, R Del Naja, Richard File, Antony Genn, J Lavelle

Show them only
Flesh you needed
You want it for you too

Stares, stares that follow
Stares, stares that follow
They want it for you


Are you all that
You're cracked up to be
We all want it for you

Sacrificial, made for TV
Laughter's comin'
And goodbye kisses

Gave him family
Pray your dream
Pray you're dreaming


Are you all that
You're cracked up to be
We all want it for you

Are you all that
You're cracked up to be
We all want it for you

Stares that follow
Friends to call on
Don't be desperate
Show them once

Sacrificial, made for TV
Laughter's comin'
Goodbye kisses

Pray you stutter
Pray it's not old
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye


5.Buying A Lie

Lee Gorton:

I didn't know what I never like
His looking at me like you have something to hide
If I would have said I would have known
You're trying to run while I'm trying to grow

How does it feel are you dying inside
Trying to cover up, these's no reply

I don't know what you know
I don't know what you know
I wanna say what every knows
You're buying the lie but you're selling your soul
Why would you say you want us to lose

You're looking at me but you see what you choose
'Cause I don't agree with everyone else
You're changing the rules
But you're cheating yourself

I don't know what you know
Though I know why the wind blows cold on you

Sloping away and I'm sure you're inside
I have nothing to lose and nothing to hide
Too many people living alone
Take a look at yourself
And then check what you know

How does it feel are you dying inside
Trying to cover up, these's no reply
I don't know what you know
I don't know what you know

I gotta feeling that you're looking to find
May be some kind of meaning
But I have nothing in mind
Why would you side with anyone else
When you're figuring out
What you're thinking yourself

How will you learn when
You don't want to know
How does it feel to
Believing in everything you're told

I don't know what you know
Though I know why the wind blows cold on you


6.Burn My Shadow

Lyricist:Ian Astbury, Richard File, Christopher Goss, James Lavelle

I have burned my tomorrow
And I stand inside today
At the edge of the future
And my dreams all fade away

I have burned my tomorrow
And I stand inside today
At the edge of the future
And my dreams all fade away

And burn my shadow away
And burn my shadow away

Fate's my destroyer
I was ambushed by a light
You judged me once for falling
This wounded heart arrives

And burn my shadow away
And burn my shadow away

Fate's my destroyer, don't try to mug her
Take out my lover but holy water
Fate's my destroyer, don't try to mug her
Take out my lover but holy water

But holy water, but holy water
But holy water, but holy water
But holy water, but holy water

Burn my shadow, burn my shadow away
And burn my shadow away


7.Broken

Gavin Clark:

Dead state I can feel the weight
Light streaming in through an open grate
Two thread score tearing up the floor
Out in the alley with the trigger draw

Numb hands I can see the strand
Hold it together with a severed ban

Three lost years I've been crying here
I'm over, I'm over, I'm over, I'm broken

Strung out with wings of the dawn
Hole in the black soul in the storm
Torn down through the cracks in the dark
We're miles adrift we're inches apart

I'm hit I can feel the grit
Sat in the asher on the beaten brick
Two thread main running through the vein

Out in the centre with a mirrored cane
Numb feet I can hear you speak
Hold it together with a severed streak

Three lost years I've been crying here
I'm over, I'm over, I'm over, I'm broken

Strung out with wings of the dawn
Hole in the black soul in the storm
Torn down through the cracks in the dark
We're miles adrift we're inches apart

Stood up on the side og the earth
Thrown back to the track to the dirt
Two thread lose an hour a day
We're miles adrift, we're inches away...

Hold it together with a severed bank
Can't feel the blood