A Weekend In The City

Bloc Party A Weekend In The City Lyrics
1.Song For Clay (Disappear Here)

I am trying to be heroic in an age of eternity
I am trying to be heroic it's all around me, history Sings
So I enjoy and I devour flesh and wine and luxury
But in my heart I am luke warm nothing ever really touches me
And at the other sights
We need to precisely
Night of crime
I will look forward and eat it with complete disdain
All those rising champagne flutes
But when we kiss I feel nothing
Feasting arms, sleeping pills and Mum I'll berate
(So busy, won't save you)
Oho, How are, how are, melons they sound fit for nothing
Live the dream, live the dream, live the dream
Like the 80's never happened
Be cool. I'm afraid, I'm afraid
To merge on the freeway
Disappear here
Strongs the key
Into the magazine launch party
I'm hunting a deer and a swallow with complete disdain
Keep your hands off me I had remembered to live born
We suck each others face and make sure we are noticed
(The game won't see you)
Because Eastland Inn is a vampire
It sucks the joy right out of me
How we look for corruption in these golden years
Oho, How are, how are, melons they sound fit for nothing
Live the dream, live the dream, live the dream
Like the 80's never happened
Be cool. I'm afraid, I'm afraid
To merge on the freeway
Disappear here.
Disappear here.
Disappear here.
Disappear here.
Disappear here.


2.Hunting For Witches

I'm sitting, on the roof of my house
With a shotgun
And a six pack of beers,six pack of beers,six pack of beers.
The news copter says the enemies among us,
As bombs explode on the 30 bus,
Kill your middle class indecision,
Now is not the time for a liberal thought,
So I go hunting for witches
I go hunting for witches
I'm going to Roam
I go hunting for..
90's,Optimistic as a teen.
Now its terror
all things crash into town,into town,into town.
The Daily Mail says the enemies among us,
Taking our women and taking our jobs,
Reasonable thought is being drained by the non-stop fame
Fame to go
So I'll go hunting for witches
I go hunting for witches
I'm going to Roam..
I want an ordinary man with ordinary desires
Watch TV with a formed meal
I want an ordinary man with ordinary desires
This power has me still fooled
Fear will keep us safe in place
So I go hunting for witches
I go hunting for witches
I'm going to Roam
I want an ordinary man with ordinary desires
Watches TV with a formed meal
I want an ordinary man with ordinary desires
This powered man had me still fooled
Fear will keep us all in place


3.Waiting For the 7.18

Waiting for the seven eighteen
January is endless
Weary-eyed and forlorn
The Northern Line is the loudest
Sitting in silence in bars after work
I've got nothing to add or contest
Can still kick a ball a hundred yards
We cling to bottles and memories of the past
(Give me moments)
Just give me moments (give me moments)
Not hours or days (give me moments)
Just give me moments (give me moments)
Grinding your teeth in the middle of the night
With the sadness of those molars
Spend all your spare time trying to escape
With crosswords and sudoku
If I could do it again
I'd make more mistakes
I'd not be so scared of falling
If I could do it again,
I'd climb more trees
I'd pick and I'd more wild
blackberries
(Give me moments)
Just give me moments (give me moments)
Not hours or days (give me moments)
Just give me moments (give me moments)
Let's drive to Brighton on the weekend
Let's drive to Brighton on the weekend


4.The Prayer

Lord give me grace and dancing feet
And the power to impress
Lord give me grace and dancing feet
Let me outshine the moon
Is it so wrong to crave recognition?
Second best, runner-up
Is it so wrong to want rewarding?
To want more than is given to you?
Than is given to you
Tonight make me unstoppable
And I will charm, I will slice
I will dazzle them with my wit
Tonight make me unstoppable
And I will charm, I will slice
I will dazzle, I will outshine them all
Standing on the packed dance floor
Our bodies thrown in time
Silent on the weekdays
Tonight I claim what's mine
Is it so wrong to crave recognition?
Second best, runner-up
Is it so wrong to want rewarding?
To want more than is given to you?
Than is given to you
Tonight make me unstoppable
And I will charm, I will slice
I will dazzle them with my wit
Tonight make me unstoppable
And I will charm, I will slice
I will dazzle, I will outshine them all
Tonight make me unstoppable
And I will charm, I will slice
I will dazzle them with my wit
Tonight make me unstoppable
And I will charm, I will slice
I will dazzle, I will outshine them all


5.Uniform

There was a sense of disappointment as we sped away
Every town now just felt the same
The tear on my cheek just dried up; it wasn't there
All the young people looked the same
'Cause we're so handsome and we're so bored
So entertain us, tell me a joke
Make it long, make it last
Make it cruel, just make me laugh
We can't be hurt, we can't be hurt
Did you forget your blues on the weekend?
The internet will keep us together
MTV taught me how to sulk and love nothing
And how to grow my hair long
we can't be hurt
Why do you go picking fights that you'll lose?
So why do you go thinking thoughts that are above you?
'Cause I was brave, intelligent; I could have been a hero
No-one can be trusted under the age of fourteen
...my joy and pain is relative
I've gotten so good at lying to myself
Well my pain and honour is used up
Oh! Oh! Oh!
My guns are rusted
So when're you gonna realise
Those are not your wrongs to right?
Have another life, have another...
I am a martyr, I just need a motive
I am a martyr, I just need a cause
I'm a believer, I just need a motive
I'm a believer, I just need a cause
We're finding it hard to be alone
We're finding it hard to break the mould
We're finding it hard to excite myself
We have nothing at all to say
Uniform
There was a sense of disappointment as we sped away
All the young people looked the same


6.On

I am on, Switched On
A sudden clearness, a clarity
Hidden away in every locked toilet
I've been waiting for you in the Joiners Arms
I know your name, I know your name,
I danced with you we're all friends on
So this largs we're rhyming like bullets,
rolled up twenties
They disappear
You make my tongue loose
You make my tongue loose
I am hopeful and set to free
You make my tongue loose
You make my tongue loose
I am hopeful On Friday night
I do the talking I pay the fine,
the dumpster's mine Trips to the roof,
see what we're missing,
Drunken I love you's on top of the world
And when it runs out we're chasing something
we'll never catch
And when it runs out we'll find me
A flat so bleak I've been bitten by a vampire
I find this bleaker than the one it replaces
You make my tongue loose
You make my tongue loose
I am hopeful and set to free
You make my tongue loose
You make my tongue loose
I am hopeful
I can charm I can charm the room
I can charm them all
I can charm I can charm the room
I can charm them all
You make my tongue loose
You make my tongue loose
I am hopeful and set to free
You make my tongue loose
You make my tongue loose
I am hopeful
I can charm I can charm the room
I can charm them all
I can charm I can charm the room
I can charm them all


7.Where Is Home

Off to the funeral
making cola knots
We sit and reminisce
about the past and in her voice
only sadness her only son taken from her
In every headline we are reminded
that this is not home for us
In every headline we are reminded
that this is not home for us
Second generation blues or
points of view not listened to
Different worlds and different rules of allegiance
Claiming to the bible and a spatula
the memory of the way things were
I do not see how I cannot smile
I deal with anger all the time
You'll win, what they did to the black men
In every headline we are reminded
that this is not home for us
Where is it?
Where is home?
Where is it?
Where is home?
I walk this mountain tired of lunity and belligerence
this told me what a flat wave is getting me down
I want to stamp on the face of
every young policeman today
And break the fingers of every old judge to cut off
the feet of every ballerina I can
So I decide I decide I pretend
that there's nothing wrong
The teeth of this world take me home and every day
I must ask myself, where, where, where
Where is it?
Where is home?
Where is it?
Where is home?
In every headline we are reminded
that this is not home for us
In every headline we are reminded
that this is not home for us


8.Kreuzberg

There is a wall that runs right through me
Just like the city, I will never be joined
What is this love? Why can I never hold it?
Did it really run out in the strangers' bedrooms?
I
I have decided
At twenty-five
Something must change
Saturday night in East Berlin
We took the U-Bahn to the East Side Gallery
I was sure I'd found love with this one lying with me
Crying again in the old bahnhof
I
I have decided
At twenty-five
That something must change
After sex
The bitter taste
Been fooled again
The search continues


9.I Still Remember

I still remember
How you looked that afternoon
There was only you
You said 'it's just like a full moon'
Blood beats faster in our veins
We left our trousers by the canal
And our fingers, they almost touched
You should have asked me for it
I would have been brave
You should have asked me for it
How could I say no?
And our love could have soared
Over playgrounds and rooftops
Every park bench screams your name
I kept your tie
I've gone wherever you wanted
(I still remember)
And on that teachers' training day
We wrote our names on every train
Laughed at the people off to work
So monochrome and so lukewarm
And I can see our days are becoming nights
I could feel your heartbeat across the grass
We should have run
I would go with you anywhere
I should have kissed you by the water
You should have asked me for it
I would let you if you asked me
I still remember


10.Sunday

Heavy night it was a heavy night
Feels like we come back from the dead
Heavy night it was a heavy night
I cannot remember what I said to anyone
If we get up now we can catch the afternoon
Watch the under 15s playing football in the park
we've got
I love you in the morning ,
When you're still hung-over
I love you in the morning,
When you're still strung out,
I love you in the morning,
I would cry all week and so do you
We discern to let us sleep
Let all the draughts creep in to reach for this life
There might be white to smatter you in
That have the right answers
That we British forget
About those north eastern gaps
I love you in the morning ,
When you're still hung-over
I love you in the morning,
When you're still strung out,
I love you in the morning,
With you I am cut from a pearl in your oyster
Head on my chest a silent smile,
a private kind of happiness
You see giant proclamations are all very well
But our love is louder than words


11.SRXT

Walking in the countryside
It seems that the winds have stopped
I took down the posters from my wall
Left letters for you all
I remember moments of happiness
Endless summer, acoustic guitars
Being a man made me coarse
When I wanted to be delicate
I called up Eugene
Told him I was drowning
Like a castaway on a warm ocean
Waiting for a purpose to rise
They say it's not becoming
For a boy my age
If you want to know what makes me sad
Well it's hope, the endurance of faith
A battle that lasts a lifetime
A fight that never ends
Walking in the countryside
It seems that the winds have stopped
Tell my mother I am sorry
And I loved her