Songs To Learn&Sing

Echo&The Bunnymen Songs To Learn&Sing Lyrics
1.A Promise

You said something will change
We were all dressed up
Somewhere to go
No sign of rain
But something will change
You promised

You said nothing will change
We were almost near
Almost far
Down came the rain
But nothing will change
You promised

A promise
A promise
A promise

It's exactly the same
You said
It's always the same
But i'll make it change
Into something the same
I promise

A promise
A promise
A promise

Light on the waves
Light on the waves
Light on the waves
Light on the waves
A promise
A promise
A promise
A promise
(light on the water)
(we could sail on forever) a promise
A promise
(there's light on the water)
(we could sail on forever) a promise
(there's light on the water) a promise
(there's light on the water) a promise
(we could sail on forever) a promise
(there's light on the water) a promise
(there's light on the water) a promise
(we could sail on forever)


2.Back Of Love

I'm on the chopping block
Chopping off my stopping thought
Self doubt and selfism
Were the cheapest things i ever bought
When you say it's love
D'you mean the back of love
When you say it's love
D'you mean the back of love?

We're taking advantage of
Breaking the back of love
We're taking advantage of
Breaking the back of love

Easier said than done you said
But it's more difficult to say
With eyes bigger than our bellies
We want to but we can't look away
What were you thinking of
When you dreamt that up?
What were you thinking of
When you dreamt that up?

Taking advantage of
Breaking the back of love

When you're surrounded by a simple chain of events
(behind my eyes, behind my eyes)
(your eyes don't lie)
Eventually you'll shack those shackles off
(dreams above those eyes)
(those eyes)

We can't tell our left from right
But we know we love extremes
Getting to grips with the ups and downs
Because there's nothing in between
When you say that's love
D'you mean the back of love
When you say that's love
D'you mean the back of love?

Taking advantage of
Breaking the back of love

What were you thinking of
When you dreamt that up?

We're taking advantage of
We're breaking the back of love
Breaking the back of love


3.Bring On The Dancing Horses

Jimmy brown
Made of stone
Charlie clown
No way home
Bring on the dancing horses
Headless and all alone

Shiver and say the words
Of every lie you've heard

First i'm gonna make it
Then i'm gonna break it
Till it falls apart
Hating all the faking
And shaking while i'm breaking
Your brittle heart

Billy stands
All alone
Sinking sand
Skin and bone
Bring on the dancing horses
Wherever they may roam

Shiver and say the words
Of every lie you've heard

First i'm gonna make it
Then i'm gonna break it
Till it falls apart
Hating all the faking
And shaking while i'm breaking
Your brittle heart

Brittle heart
Brittle heart
Brittle heart
And my little heart
Goes

Jimmy brown
Made of stone
Charlie clown
No way home

Bring on the headless horses
Wherever they may roam
Shiver and say the words
Of every lie you've heard

First i'm gonna make it
Then i'm gonna break it
Till it falls apart
Hating all the faking
And shaking while you're breaking
My brittle heart
Brittle heart
Brittle heart
And our little heart
Goes

Bring on the new messiah
Wherever he may roam
Bring on the new messiah
Wherever he may roam
Bring on the new messiah
Wherever he may roam
Bring on the new messiah
Wherever he may roam


4.Do It Clean

I've got a handful of this
What do i do with it?
I've got a barrel of this
What do i do with it?
I do it clean, i do it clean

Do it clean, do it clean
Know what i mean
Do it clean, do it clean
I know what i mean, i mean

Where am i going
Where have i been
Where are you going
Where have you been
I've been here, i've been there

I've been here, there, everywhere
Here there nowhere
Iszy bitzy witzy itzy everywhere
I've been here and i've been there
I'm clean

I had a handful of this
What did i do with it?
I had a barrel of this
What did i do with it?
I did it clean, i did it clean

Do it clean, do it clean
Know what i mean?
Do it clean, do it clean
I know what i mean


5.Never Stop

Good god, you said
Is that the only thing you care about
Splitting up the money
And share it out
The cake's being eaten
Straight through the mouth
Poison
Poised to come back in
Season
For all the ones who lack
Reason

Measure by measure, drop by drop
And pound for pound, we're taking stock
Of all the treasure still unlocked
The love you found must never stop

The king is dead
And long live the people who aim above
All the simple stuff never understood
Like right from bad and wrong from good
Deny
That you were ever tempted by the
Lie
That there's an answer in the
Sky

Measure by measure, drop by drop
And pound for pound, we're taking stock
Of all the treasure still unlocked
The love you found must never stop

Oh, oh
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
Oh, oh

Never stop
Never stop
Never stop
Never stop
Never stop
Never stop
Never stop
Never stop
Never stop

Measure by measure, drop by drop
And pound for pound, we're taking stock
Of all the treasure still unlocked
The love you found must never

Measure by measure, drop by drop
And pound for pound, we're taking stock
Of all the treasure still unlocked
The love you found must never stop

(stop) never stop
(stop stop)
never stop (stop)
Never stop (stop stop)
Never stop (stop stop stop)
Never stop (stop stop stop)
Never stop


6.Rescue

If i said i'd lost my way
Would you sympathise
Could you sympathise?
I'm jumbled up
Maybe i'm losing my touch
I'm jumbled up
Maybe i'm losing my touch
But you know i didn't have it anyway

Won't you come on down to my
Won't you come on down to my rescue

Things are wrong
Things are going wrong
Can you tell that in a song
I don't know what i want anymore
First i want a kiss and then i want it all

Won't you come on down to my
Won't you come on down to my rescue
Rescue, rescue, rescue

Things are wrong
Things are going wrong
Can you tell that in a song
Losing sense of those harder things
Is this the blues i'm singing?
Is this the blues i'm singing?
Is this the blues i'm singing?
Is this the blues i'm singing?

Won't you come on down to my
Won't you come on down to my rescue
Is this the blues i'm singing
Won't you come on down to my rescue

Won't you come on down to my
Won't you come on down to my
Won't you come on down to my
Won't you come on down to my
(is this the blues i'm singing?)
Won't you come on down to my
(rescue)
Won't you come on down to my
(is this the blues i'm singing?)
(rescue)
Won't you come on down to my
(is this the blues i'm singing?)
(rescue)
Won't you come on down to my
(is this the blues i'm singing?)
(rescue)
Won't you come on down to my
(is this the, i'm singing)
Won't you come on down to my
(is this the, i'm singing)


7.Seven Seas

stab a sorry heart
With your favourite finger
Paint the whole world blue
And stop your tears from stinging
Hear the cavemen singing
Good news they're bringing

Seven seas
Swimming them so well
Glad to see
My face among them
Kissing the tortoise shell

A longing for
Some fresher feeling
Belonging
Or just forever kneeling
Where is the sense in stealing
Without the grace to be it

Seven seas
Swimming them so well
Glad to see
My face among them
Kissing the tortoise shell

Burning my bridges
And smashing my mirrors
Turning to see if you're cowardly
Burning the witches with mother religious
You'll strike the matches and shower me
In water games
Washing the rocks below
Taught and tamed
In time with tear flow

Seven seas
Swimming them so well
Glad to see
My face among them
Kissing the tortoise shell

Seven seas
Swimming them so well
Glad to see
My face among them
Kissing the tortoise

Seven seas
Swimming them so well
Glad to see
My face among them
Kissing the tortoise shell


8.Silver

Swung from a chandelier
My planet sweet on a silver salver
Bailed out my worst fears
'cause man has to be his own saviour
Blind sailors
Imprisoned jailers
God tame us
No one to blame us

The sky is blue
My hands untied
A world that's true
Through our clean eyes
Just look at you
With burning lips
You're living proof
At my fingertips

Walked on a tidal wave
Laughed in the face of a brand new day
Food for survival thought
Mapped out the place where i planned to stay

All the way
Well behaved
Just in case
It slips away

The sky is blue
My hands untied
A world that's true
Through our clean eyes
Just look at you
With burning lips
You're living proof
At my fingertips

La la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la

The sky is blue
My hands untied
A world that's true
Through our clean eyes
Just look at you
With burning lips
You're living proof
At my fingertips
Ti-ti-ti-ti-tips
Ti-ti-ti-ti-tips
Ti-ti-ti-ti-tips
Ti-ti-ti-ti-tips

La la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la


9.The Cutter

Who's on the seventh floor
Brewing alternatives
What's in the bottom drawer
Waiting for things to give

Spare us the cutter
Spare us the cutter
Couldn't cut the mustard

Conquering myself
Until i see another hurdle approaching
Say we can, say we will
Not just another drop in the ocean

Come to the free for all
With seven tapered knives
Some of them six feet tall
We will escape our lives

Spare us the cutter
Spare us the cutter
Couldn't cut the mustard

Conquering myself
Until i see another hurdle approaching
Say we can, say we will
Not just another drop in the ocean

Am i the happy loss
Will i still recoil
When the skin is lost
Am i the worthy cross
Will i still be soiled
When the dirt is off

Conquering myself
Until i see another hurdle approaching
Say we can, say we will
Not just another drop in the ocean
Ocean

Watch the fingers close
When the hands are cold

Am i the happy loss
Will i still recoil
When the skin is lost
Am i the worthy cross
Will i still be soiled
When the dirt is off

Am i the happy loss
Will i still be soiled
When the dirt is off


10.The Killing Moon

Under blue moon i saw you
So soon you'll take me
Up in your arms
Too late to beg you or cancel it
Though i know it must be the killing time
Unwillingly mine

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

In starlit nights i saw you
So cruelly you kissed me
Your lips a magic world
Your sky all hung with jewels
The killing moon
Will come too soon

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

Under blue moon i saw you
So soon you'll take me
Up in your arms
Too late to beg you or cancel it
Though i know it must be the killing time
Unwillingly mine

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him
You give yourself to him

La la la la la...

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

La la la la la...

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

La la la la la...


11.The Puppet

I'll practice my fall
For practice makes perfect
Chained to the wall
For maximum hold
The window's too far
Too far from my legs
Open the door and let out the cold

You knew about this
With your head in your hands
All along
I was the puppet
I was the puppet

Trampolines broken
Ceiling has come down
The ache in my back tells me
Something's gone wrong
Rocking horse rocks
As the wallpaper peels
Curtain would like to know
What he has done

You knew about this
With your head in your hands
All along
I was the puppet
I was the puppet

We're the salt of the earth (i'll practice my fall for practice
makes perfect)
And we know what to say
(chained to the wall for maximum hold)
We're the salt of the earth
(the window's too far too far from my legs)
And we know our place
(open the door and let out the cold)

You knew about this
With your head in your hands
All along
I was the puppet
I was the puppet

All along
(you knew about this)
With your head in your hands
All along
(you knew about this)
I was the puppet
I was the puppet

(you knew about this)
Head in your hands
(you knew about this)
I was the puppet
I was the puppet
(we're the salt of the earth)
You knew about this
(we know what to say)
Your head in your hands
(we're the salt of the earth)
All along
((you knew about this))
(we know our place)
I was the puppet
(we're the salt of the earth)
All along
(we know what to say)
((you knew about this))
Your head in your hands
(we're the salt of the earth)
I was the puppet
((you knew about this))
(we know what to say)
I was the puppet