1.Starlings
How dare the premier
ignore my invitations？
He'll have to go.
So to the bunchy luncheons
with the second on my list of things to do.
At the top you're stopping by your place of work
and acting like I haven't dreamed of you and I
and marriage in an orange grove.
You are the only thing in any room you're ever in
I'm stubborn, selfish, and too old.
I sat you down and told you how the truest love
that's ever found is for oneself.
You pulled apart my theory with a weary
and disinterested sigh
So yes i guess i'm asking you to back a horse
that's good for glue and nothing else
But find a man that's truer than,
find a man that needs you more than I.
Sit with me a while and let me listen to you
talk about your dreams and obsessions
I'll be quite and confessional
The violence explode inside me
when i meet your eyes
Then I'm spinning and diving
like a cloud of starlings.
Darling is this love？
2.The Bones Of You
So I'm there,
Charging around with a juganaut brow
Over draft speeches and deadlines to make
Cramming commitments like cats in a sack
Telephone burning, purposeful gait
When out of a doorway the tentacles stretch
Of a song that i know, and the world
Moves in slow - mo
Straight to my head
like the first cigarette of the day
And it's you, and it's me,
and we're sleeping through the day
And I'm five years ago
and every thousand miles away...
You have turned
A man of my caliber stood in the street
Like a sleepwalking teenager i know
That I dealt with this years ago
I took a hammer to every momento
But image on image like beads on a rosary
Move through my head as the music takes hold
And the second it hits
I can work till i break
But i love the bones of you that i will never escape
And it's you, and it's me,
and we're sleeping through the day
And I'm five years ago every thousand miles away...
And i can't move my arm,
for the fear that you will wake
And I'm five years ago every thousand miles away...
And I'm five years ago every thousand miles away...
And I'm five years ago every thousand miles away...
And it's you, and it's me,
and we're sleeping through the day
And I'm five years ago every thousand miles away...
3.Mirrorball
I plump the kind of kiss
that wouldn't wake a baby
on the self-same face
that wouldn't let me sleep;
and the street is singing with my feet,
and the dawn gives me a shadow I know to be taller.
All down to you, dear.
Everything has changed.
My sorriness
has made it to graffiti.
I was looking for
someone to complete me.
Not anymore, dear;
everything has changed.
When we make the moon our mirror ball
the street's an empty stage;
the city sirens - violins.
Everything has changed.
So lift off love.
Lift off love.
We took the town to town last night.
We kissed like we invented it!
And now I know what every step is for：
to lead me to your door.
Know that while you sleep,
everything has changed.
We made the moon our mirror ball.
The street's an empty stage;
the city sirens - violins.
Everything has changed.
Everything has changed.
Everything has changed.
So lift off love
lift off love
Down to you, dear／ lift off love
Down to you, dear／ lift off love
Down to you, dear／ lift off love
Down to you, dear／ lift off love
Down to you, dear／ lift off love
Down to you, dear...
4.Ground for Divorce
Mondays is for drinking to the seldom seen kid
I've been working on a cocktail
called Grounds for Divorce
Whoah
Polishing a compass that I hold in my sleeve
Whoah
Down comes him on sticks
but then he kicks like a horse
Whoah
There's a Chinese cigarette case
And the rest you can keep
And the rest you can keep
And the rest you can keep
There's a hole in my neighborhood
down which of late I cannot help but fall
There's a hole in my neighborhood
down which of late I cannot help but fall
Mondays is for drinking to the seldom seen kid
Oooo
Oooo
There's this whispering of jokers
doing flesh by the pound
To a chorus of supposes from the little town whores
There'll be twisted karaoke at the Aniseed lounge
And I'll bring you further roses
But it does you no good
And it does me no good
And it does you no good
There's a hole in my neighborhood
down which of late I cannot help but fall
There's a hole in my neighborhood
down which of late I cannot help but fall
There's a hole in my neighborhood
down which of late I cannot help but fall
Someday we'll be drinking with the seldom seen kid
Oooo
Oooo
5.An Audience With The Pope
Sweet Jesus I'm on fire.
She has the sweetest, darkest eyes
and when it comes into her eyes
i know iron and steel couldn't hold me
good god I'm easily bruised
so often in love to her flame
and the things that she's asked me to do
will see a city of saints forgetting his name
I have an audience with the pope
and I'm saving the world at eight
but if she says she needs me
she says she needs me
everybody is going to have to wait
(Where could she be)
Was that a minute or an hour？
(Where could she be)
She turns the hours into days
Kill the phone, cover the cage
and wait for the doorbell to ring
(Where could she be)
No she won't come running
(Where could she be)
The world is turning at her pace
Kill the phone, cover the cage
and wait for the doorbell to ring
I have an audience with the pope
and I'm saving the world at eight
but if she says she needs me
she says she needs me
everybody is going to have to wait
I have an audience with the pope
and I'm saving the world at eight
but if she says she needs me
she says she needs me
everybody is going to have to wait
I have an audience with the pope
and I'm saving the world at eight
but if she says she needs me
she says she needs me
everybody is going to have to wait
everybody is going to have to wait
ahh huh.
6.Weather To Fly
Are we having the time of our life？
Are we having the time of our lives？
Are we coming across clear？
Are we coming across fine？
Are we part of the plan here？
Are we having the time of our lives？
Are we coming across clear？
Are we coming across fine？
Are we having the time of our lives？
Are we part of the plan here？
We have the driver and time on our hands
One little room and the biggest of plans.
The days were shaping up,
Frosty and bright.
Perfect weather to fly.
Perfect weather to fly.
Pounding the streets where my fathers feet still
Ring from the walls,
we'd sing in the doorways,
or bicker and row
Just figuring how we were wired inside
Perfect weather to fly.
So in looking to stray from the line
we decided instead
we should pull out the thread that was
stitching us into this tapestry vile,
And why wouldn't you try？
Perfect weather to fly.
We have the driver and time on our hands
One little room and the biggest of plans.
The days were shaping up,
Frosty and bright.
Perfect weather to fly.
Perfect weather to fly.
Pounding the streets where my fathers feet still
Ring from the walls,
we'd sing in the doorways,
or bicker and row
Just figuring how we were wired inside
Perfect weather to fly.
So in looking to stray from the line
we decided instead
we should pull out the thread that was
stitching us into this tapestry vile,
And why wouldn't you try？
Perfect weather to fly.
lives？
weather to fly.
still
1. 感謝 Mixxapple
7.The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver
Gotta get out of TV
Just pick a point and go
The ticker-tape tangles my feet
As I search for a face that I know
Come on, tower crane driver
There's not so far to go
I must have been working the ropes
When your hand slipped from mine
Now I live off the mirrors and smoke
It's a joke, a fix, a lie
Come on, tower crane driver
Oh so far to fall
Send up a prayer in my name
Just the same
They say I'm on top of my game
Dwindle gentle rose
Send up a prayer in my name
8.The Fix
The fix is in
There's a nag gonna dance home at Epsom
The fix is in
Can't wait to see how it upsets 'em
Too many times we've been postally pipped
We've loaded the saddles,
the mickeys are slipped
We're swapping the turf for the sand
and the surf and the sin
Cause the fix, the fix is in
The fix is in
The odds that I got were delicious
The fix is in
The jockey is cocky and vicious
The redoubtable beast has had pegasus pills
We'll buy him the patch in the Tuscany hills
And the Vino di Vici will flow
like a river in spring
Now the fix, the fix is in
The fix is in
The snaps of the steward so candid
The fix is in
Yes, our pigeons have finally landed
The Donahue sisters will meet us in France
In penguins and pearls,
we'll drink and we'll dance
'Til the end of our days,
cause it ain't left to chance
That we win
Cause the fix, the fix is in
9.Some Riot
A friend of mine grows his very own brambles
They twist all around him 'til he can't move
Beautiful, quivering, chivalrous shambles
What is my friend trying to prove？
The bruise turns a tall,
gentle boy to a terrible totem
And the kids gather round
trying to see what's inside
I think when he's drinking
he's drowning some riot
What is my friend trying to hide？
Cause it's breaking my heart,
it's breaking my heart
And it's breaking my heart
to pull out the rain
Brother of mine,
don't run with those fuckers
When will my friend start singing again？
When will my friend
start singing again？
10.One Day Like This
Drinking in the morning sun
Blinking in the morning sun
Shaking off the heavy one
Heavy like a loaded gun
What made me behave that way？
Using words I never say
I can only think it must be love
Oh, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day
Someone tell me how I feel
It's silly wrong but vivid right
Oh, kiss me like the final meal
Yeah, kiss me like we die tonight
Cause holy cow, I love your eyes
And only now I see the light
Yeah, lying with me half-awake
Oh, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day
When my face is chamois-creased
If you think I'll wink, I did
Laugh politely at repeats
Yeah, kiss me when my lips are thin
Cause holy cow, I love your eyes
And only now I see you like
Yeah, lying with me half-awake
Stumbling over what to say
Well, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day
So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right!
So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right!
So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right!
So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right!
So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right!
So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right!
So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right!
So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right!
So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right!
So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right!
So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right!
So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right!
So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right!
So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right!
So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right!
11.Friend Of Ours
Before leaving get to the bar
No one round here makes you pay
Never very good at goodbyes
So gentle shoulder charge
Love you mate
Love you mate
Salford skyline gloom
Always you
Could fly round any corner
But until you do
Love you mate
12.We're Away
The headlines drip with horror
Beware, beware, beware!
The news says no tomorrow
But how can I be scared...
...In her arms？
World do your worst
She and I have closed our eyes
And lifted every curse
We're away....
In-caving concave military light
Is merely rain against the glass
For lovers in the night.
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