People Are Expensive

Echobelly People Are Expensive Lyrics
1.Fear of flying

Anyhow, anyway
Break the round that brings you down
Death behind the wheel
That ground you down to how you feel
The time that flew away
The time that flew away

You know what you are doing now
Can you take this out of here?
You and I can build it up
You alone can make it real
Oh don't you slow down
No don't you slow down

Is there a price to pay?
Overload or out of bounds
Death behind the wheel
Or pawn it all for something real
The one that flew away

You know what you are doing now
Can you take this out of here?
You and I can build it up
You alone can make it real
Oh don't you slow down
Hell don't you slow down
No don't you slow down


2.Tell me why

Do you ask yourself why
You run scared, with nowhere to go
Your heart full of sundays
The surface of saturday nights
You stare at the floor
The fistful of dreams that you crave
Got burned out on nicotine stains
When nobody called

Tell me why, you're alone my friend
Tell me why, do you fill yourself on empty
Tell me why, you're alone again

Do you ask yourself why
You don't care for no-one at all
You trip on the mainline
You're bound to the static that's there
All you've ever known

Tell me why, you're alone my friend
Tell me why, do you fill yourself on empty
Tell me why, you're alone again

Nowhere to go, nowhere to go
Nobody knows you're all alone
Nowhere to go, nowhere to go
Nobody knows the way to go


3.Down to earth

Turn the light out
Another day's ending
Put a load away
Stars are still shining high
All the uninvited, cold hearted, stay foreign
In the beginning
Wore the stars in your stripes
Queen of the home parade
Centre stage passed you by
Fettered gains soak the blood stains
You choke for it

Fell back down to earth and took the first plane
Heading for the fast lane
Fell back down to earth and took the first ride
Heading for the overdrive
Heading for the fire

In the fall out
Found a cold ending
Sooner or later
You've gonna know why
You burn a light for your past like a lone comet

Fell back down to earth and took the first plane
Heading for the fast lane
Fell back down to earth and took the first ride
Heading for the overdrive
Heading for the fire


4.People are expensive

(Instrumental)


5.Digit

Spread the seed and multiply
There's no disease, the human race is digital
Pacified by fluoride, genetically modified
Is it genocide?
Burger bar where slaughter chars
They pay the rent, they pay the rent
So it's alright?

Do you know why?
Do you know why?
They claim it all
They claim it all
They claim it all
And they claim you

Now we're coming round to the sucker
Picking pockets in the rat race
Spitting at the wrong face
Any dream they can buy again,
Make them come again
So they can turn it all into a sale again

And here am I
Snorting incense in a backroom
Sitting in a vacuum
Falling apart at the seam again
Till I'm numb again
Close the door onto a silent end

There must be something more than this
There must be something more than this

Are we coming down to the sound
Of 8 billion on a bad day?
Maybe later on we're
Gonna find out the hard way
Someday
Is it too late? Too late?

There must be something more than this
There must be something more than this


6.Dying

Give me starlight
I'm dying
Give me appetite
I'm dying
Give me everything
No higher than the waist
Give me reason
I'm dying
To know your warm side
All you radiate
To see the sunrise
Out on the way beyond
The space between the lines
Where it's only natural

Give me sunflowers
I'm dying
Give me opium
I'm dying
Give me symphonies
A choir for the wake
Give me fever
I'm dying
To know your warm side
All you radiate
To see the sunrise
On the way beyond
The space between the lines
Where it's only natural

You will never know what you've done
You will never know what you've done
You will never know what you've done


7.Kali yuga

Gonna do what we do together
We're gonna find out
What we do to ourselves
How we want it to be
And we shoot to the centre
Of our own shores
For a motionless core
On the western front

I look round at what I see
This ain't where I want to be
Looking for some kind of plan
Oh yes I am

I'm not going down

Easing through this phase together
We're gonna do all
To return to the flow
And the rest will fall
And the rest will fall

I look round at what I see
This ain't where I want to be
Looking for the word in hand
Oh yes I am

I'm not going down

Say yes

Look back at old ways
Gonna give it all away
Look back at old ways
Gonna give it all away

I'm not going down

It is the western way
It is the western way


8.Everything is all

You and I are here alone
I can see you in my shadow
We both tolerate the good times
For everybody else
I don't want to wait another round
I don't want to wait another round
Show me what it is

Can you see it?
When you're on the outside
With your eye on the keyhole
Everything is all
You know, you know,
Is there room at the innside?
When you're going nowhere
Everything is all

I don't want to wait another round
I don't want to wait another round
I don't want to wait another round
But I know I'm like to see it like you do
Show me what it is

Can you see it?
When you're on the outside
With your eye on the keyhole
Everything is all
You know, you know
When there's room at the innside
But you're going nowhere
Everything is all

You're a face I might have known
Had I seen you in myself
And I sure would like to see it like you do
Show me what it is

Can you see it?
When you're on the outside
With your eye on the keyhole
Everything is all
Hello, hello
Any room at the innside?
When you're going nowhere
Everything is all


9.A map is not the territory

I don't wanna save your world
I don't want anyone knowing
I don't wanna stake what shines
I don't want anyone knowing
I don't wanna lead your riot
Anyone can lead a riot

I wear my cover well
I'm gonna find out who you are
Now I know what you've done to me
You paid for the enemy
The cold slide you hide
You horde about you
I don't doubt your downfall

You showed me how to word it out
Told me it was meant to be
Winner gets to carve it up
Loser is history

But I knew all along

I'm gonna find out who you are
Now I know what you've done to me
You paid for the enemy
The cold slide you hide
You horde about you
I don't doubt your downfall
I'll bring you down

Hide awhile
Here among the wasted high and outs
Moving in closer
You go to sleep and I'll be right behind you
Always
You showed me how it's done
You fired the guiding gun
It's how the east is run
And how the west was won
Amen

Hide me now
Among the dead and wasted
Hide me now


10.Ondine

You say you can walk away
Any time at all
You say you're not afraid to die
But you're not sleeping

You are bringing me down so slow
Bringing me down so slow
Bringing me down

You burn so cold
Lost your voice when it needed you
Black veins tied you prisoner
To coax your severed highs
But this is the plastic age
The quiet rage is damned and civilised

You are bringing me down so slow
(give a little out and you e bound to take a fall)
Bringing me down so slow
(give a little out and you e bound to take a fall)
Bringing me down so

Tell who made it hurt
Won't you say who made it hurt
Won't you tell me now who made it hurt again

You ache for something
You ache for something


11.Point dume

Drove yourself to the end
To the point of dume
Caught the summer breeze
Broken sails on the shore
Like the wayward bones
Of the way you were
Out of time, out of choice
Like the lines from the songs
You used to know

Where are the wilson brothers?
Endless summers
Midnight drifters
All gone too deep

Drove yourself to the edge
To the point of dume
No-one to hold you here
Sold your highs for the lows
From the valley to the coast
You used to know

Where are the wilson brothers?
Endless summers
Midnight drifters
All gone too deep

Where do they go?
Where do they go from here?