1.Absentee
Wandered by for everyone
Old pair of shoes the last place they were left
Out by the door where they always were kept
Brown laces
We stand in line to hear the news
We've not been together since Christmas last year
Room full of children all sad in the ear
Small faces
And child's music playing, playing
Our parents sleep and sleep
They don't remember the ones they have left
We find the magazines under your bed
Strange pictures
I play out in the street
And trip on the sidewalk all covered in blood
Tears not allowed, I pick myself up
No stitches
Absentee giving liaison
Your memory like disease holds on
The fellow has grown out again
And all, all the fields are yellow
We are CD's, car keys, diaries
My family kept these secretly
Your memory like disease holds on
Absentee giving liaison, liaison, giving liaison
2.24
you are watching a programme for exactly an hour
all of these hours they will add up to a day
you will sit there till they're done but there are 24 to play
there'll be rims around your eyelids by the 7th or the 8th
but if you go to sleep tonight you will be older when you wake
and you say one man is the parachute
and the other is the knife that cuts the brake
first we were born then we ran slowly out of luck
you are still not charles bukowski and i am not diane cluck
and i would suck the life from you if there was any left to suck
and i would love you if you told me there was something there to
love
i would marry you for money
i would marry you for money
i would marry you for money or for luck
i would marry you for money
but i don't suppose you'll ever have enough
well the man on the screen he has done more in a minute
than you have achieved in your whole entire life
when you finally realise i was the best thing you had in it
we'll be closing up your eyelids on the bed or once you die
and i'll be sorry if it happens to you
sorry if it happens to you
sorry if it happens to you but
i guess if one man is the cancer
then his death is just the knife that makes the cut
24 for every year that we have slept
day by day into the neck of the abyss
and i am 24 today i don't believe i'll sit
through another year of this
while you are sewing up your lips
and i'll be sorry that you happened to me
sorry that you happened to me
sorry that you happened to me but
they say that one man is the accident
the other is the hand that stops the blood
and i am looking for the other one
the hand that stops the blood
3.We Almost Had A Baby
well you didn't stop, when i told you to stop
and there was a month when i wasn't sure
if the next time i saw you out on the road
i'd have something to say, other than pay
all of the money that you owe.
and i would have liked to
to have something above you
to have something to hold
and know i could choose to let it grow
and i would have called you
and i'd have said hey
you know i'm in control and i'll let you know
if you have to come and choose a name
and i will think of you now that we are apart
i put my hand across my gut i plan to feed it with a heart
i'm not the girl that you remember from the start
i was only a baby, now i am what you made me
and i will think of you now that we are apart
i put my hand across my gut i plan to feed it with a heart
i'm not the girl that you remember from the start
i was only a baby, now i am what you made me
and once you left me in the spring
and twice you left in fall
and once i tried to make a life
to keep myself in yours
do you think of me when you are playing
the one and five in four
is country music
what your life is for？
we almost had a baby.
4.The Easter Parade
Is all that we've become,
Just nothing but hats and bags
We're waiting for taxi cabs
So you light cigarettes
And i'm taking drags
In the air, a sea of words,
That didn't come soon enough
In my mind a railway station
And a ticket stub
And it is easter in the town
I can hear as they strike off the bell
We're listening to some old man
Say he came back to life with a hole in his head
And now the sunday school is gathered
Together in pink and in blue
They're heralding angels for you
But not for me
They're singing
Gloria in excelsis
Deo deo
Gloria in excelsis
But there's no,
There's no hope
And i am grateful for the things
That you've tried to show to me dear
But there no arcadia
No Albion and theres no jerusalem here
And underneath your pastures green
There's earth and there ash
And theres bone
And there are things that dissapear
Into it and then they are gone
And there is light that hits the sky
And then it is midnight again
And there is my mother, my father,
And you and we are all impermanent
And on the green they tell their tales
About how even the dead can come back
I just dont believe in that
So you can keep on singing
Gloria in exclelsis
Deo deo
Gloria in excelsis
But there's no,
There's no hope
There's no such thing (x7)
There's no such thing as ghosts
5.Dylan
6.On The Museum Island
7.War
The dream that i have is always the same
a foot falls like an echo of a step i didn't take
and i see you coming in like you were never gone,
tell me, why did i wake？
Here in the world i was hiding from,
they're expecting it to rain
they say that the winter clears the drains
that time heals all things
and they said that the thought of you would fade,
well i see nothing change.
and the dream that i have, breaks just like the day
i walk along the shore,
i take a picture of the waves
and then i throw it to the floor,
i say why did i wake？
Here in the world there is nothing
more than your absence
now the sky is turning grey
now the birds have left the bay
now time is shrinking and they
said that the thought of you would fade
well i feel nothing change.
and hey, do you remember me the way
that i remember you？
and every movement of the waves,
oh they replaced the train
all the people went away, and i feel nothing
they say that winter clears the drains
well i dream lightly.. of sunshine
8.First Love
I remember how we met
but your name I forget
like the door that I have kept unopened
I remember it was wet
and the swelter and the sweat
and the shelter of the bed we were cloaked in
You were stroking me like a pet
but you didn't own me yet
and the tape in the cassette deck was choking
Spat out a broken hallelujah
But I've seen the way the earth
throws its aces with a curve
You were waiting for the words
to come to yer.
Just to say that you prefer
to be lonely to be cursed
and to do the very worst you can do.
Yeah I remember you like a verse
that I didn't want to learn
I just looked into your eyes and I knew yer.
Now the thought of you is burnt
on my body from the first time
you did rewind that line from Hallelujah.
The original Leonard Cohen version.
Well I wish I never met you that day
You said I have a room and music to play
I have a room let me show you the way
I wish that I'd never come
But now that I have, I would do it again
I would forget like I'd piss on a grave
I would forget like I'd piss on a grave
that the words as they came to my tongue
were hallelujah. Hallelujah!
And the sky was so much bluer
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
And the world was so much newer.
You said I have a room
at the top of the stairs
I have a room with a view
I know we all have a cross that we bear
and I'd like to show it to you.
And you left me in the light
and you met me in the light
and we only had a night between the two.
You were waiting for the worst
You were listening for a curse
but the only thing I heard was hallelujah.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
And the sky was so much bluer
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
And the world was so much newer.
you said I have a room
at the top of the stairs.
I have a room with a view.
I know we all have a cross that we bear
and I'd like to give it to you.
And I won't forget how the sky was set
I said I have a place to go back to.
La La La I will have you yet
I will carry you there if I have to.
No I won't forget no I won't.
No I won't forget no I won't
No I won't forget no I won't
No I won't forget no.
Woah. Woah. Woah. W-o-o-o-ah.
First love.
9.MIA
the day that we
took out a car in the rain
is the day you forgot how to
brake and see
how quickly the picture will change
filled with fingers and voices and teeth
i still remember holding my hand
against your face just before it was sprayed
across the radio
as it played
and you and me
are still but the scenery moves
well why would it stop just 'cause
suddenly
there's one where there used to be two
and everything's quiet but yo
looks like the speaker lived through the blow
still playing some compilation you made
feels like a lifetime sitting alone
so i start humming along to the tape
i always liked this singer
i remember how you were the one
who told me that her name
was either mia
or m.i.a.
and i am thinking
how many hours till i'm home
how long do i stay in this place
who's going to wash all the blood from my clothes
who's gonna cancel my date
who's gonna cancel my date
and i think
i always liked this singer
i remember how you were the one
who told me that her name
was either mia
and i think
i always liked this singer
i remember how you were the one
who told me that her name
was either mia
or m.i.a.
and the day that we
took out a car in the wet
i thought to myself that the sky was blue
as i've ever seen it but yet
still tinted with red
10.The Easter Parade 2
11.Bad Things Coming,We Are Safe
12.Everything Reminds Me Of You
13.City Song
The city called me so I came
It isn't mine to question what it said
I sleep until the point when I'm awake
I walk until there's nothing left to trek
And everyone is looking for an answer
And everyone is waiting for a break
I came and I was bored of it soon after
But I had nowhere to go and so I stayed
I dreamed a lifetime of this place
It seemed an awful thing to waste
Well the morning fills my mouth up with decay
I like it, it reminds me how you taste
Sometimes I feel you rising up behind me like the wind
But I still try to look away
What will you look like when you're old？
(What will you look like when you're old？)
What will I do if I don't know you？
(What will I do if I don't know you？)
I guess that I decided not to ask the day I took the road
Down to the city as it called
Sun making silhouettes of gauze
I don't remember you at all
The city called me and I came
It isn't mine to question why
Sometimes the clouds will rise ahead, I hear your name
It's like a choir in the sky
What will you look like when you're old？
(What will you look like when you're old？)
What will I do if I don't know you？
(What will I do if I don't know you？)
I guess that I decided not to know the day I took the road
Down to the city as it called
Sun making silhouettes of gauze
I don't remember you at all
They pulled a human from my waist
It had your mouth, it had your face
I would have kept it if I'd stayed.
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