The Idler Wheel Is

Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel Is Lyrics
1.Every Single Night

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

Every single night i endure the flight
Of little whims of white flame
Butterflies in my brain
These ideas of mine percolate the mind
Trickle down the spine
Form the belly swelling to a blaze

Thats where the pain comes in
Like a second skeleton
Trying to fit beneath the skin
I cant get the feelings in

Every single nights a light
With my brain

And i say to her
Why'd i say it to her
What does she think of me
That i'm not what i ought to be
That i'm what i try not to be
Has got to be somebody else's fault
I cant get caught

If what i am is what i am
Cuz i does what i does
Then brother get back cuz my breast gonna bust open
The rib is the shell and the heart is the yolk
And i just made a meal for us both to choke on

Every single nights a fight
With my brain

I just wanna feel everything x3

So i'm gonna try to be still now
Gonna renounce the mill a little while
And if we had a double king size bed
We could move in it and id soon forget

If what i am is what i am
Cuz i does what i does
And maybe i'd relax let my breast just bust open
My hearts made of parts of all thats around me
And thats why the devil just cant get around me

Every single nights alright
Every single nights a fight
Every single fights alright
With my brain

I just wanna feel everything


2.Daredevil

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

I guess I must just be a daredevil
I don't feel anything until I smash it up
I'm caught on the cold, caught on the hot
Not so with the warmer lot
And all I want's a confidant
To help me laugh it off

And don't let me ruin me
I may need a chaperone

Say I'm an airplane
And the gashes I got from my heartbreak
Make the slots and the flaps upon my wing
And I use them to give me lip
Hip hip for the lift
Hip hip for the drag
I want them all in my bag
Oh give me anything and I'll turn it into a gift

And don't let me ruin me
I may need a chaperone

Seek me out
Look at, look at, look at, look at me
I'm all the fishes in the sea
Wake me up
Give me, give me, give me what you got
In your mind, in the middle of the night

Maybe you let me look out for you
Protect that I founded you
And never let it starve
Then that way, you let me stay
Skirt in my skirt like I want to
And I will try hard to hold onto you with open arms

And don't let me ruin me
I may need a chaperone


3.Valentine

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

You didn't see my valentine
I sent it via pantomime
While you were watchin someone else
I stared at you and cut myself

Its all ill do cuz i'm not free
A fugitive too dull too flee
I'm amorous but out of reach
A still life drawing of a peach

I'm a tulip in a cup
I stand no chance of growing up
I've made my peace i'm dead i'm done
I watched you live to have my fun

I root for you, i love you x2

I made it to a dinner date
My teardrops seasoned every plate
I tried to dance but lost my nerve
I cramped up in the learning curve

I'm a tulip in a cup
I stand no chance of growing up
I'm resigned to sail on through
In the wake of tales of you

I root for you, i love you x4


4.Jonathan

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

Jonathan, call again
Take me to Coney Island
Take me on the train
Kiss me while I calculate
And calibrate and heaven's sake
Don't make me explain

Just tolerate my little fist
Tugging on your forest chest
I don't wanna talk about
I don't wanna talk about anything
I don't wanna talk about
I don't wanna talk about anything

Jonathan, anything
And anyone that you have done
Has gotta be alright with me
If she's part of
The reason you are how you are
She's alright with me

Just tolerate my little fist
Tugging on your forest chest
I don't wanna talk about
I don't wanna talk about anything
I don't wanna talk about
I don't wanna talk about anything

You're like the captain
Of a capsized ship
But I like watching you live

You're like the captain
A capsized ship
But I like watching you live

Jonathan, call again
Take me to Coney Island
Take me on the train
Kiss me while I calculate
And calibrate and heaven's sake
Don't make me explain

Just tolerate my little fist
Tugging on your forest chest
I don't wanna talk about
I don't wanna talk about anything
I don't wanna talk about
I don't wanna talk about anything


5.Left Alone

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

We made you make your overtures
When you were a chauven'd orotund mutt
And I was still a dewey petal
Rather than a moribund slut
My love wrecked you
You packed to twirl your skirt at the palace
It hurt more than it ought to hurt
I went to work to cultivate a callus

And now I'm hard, too hard to know
I don't cry when I'm sad anymore, no no
Tears calcify in my tummy
Fears go inside ?

How can I ask anyone to love me
When all I do is beg to be left alone?

Oh, when I try to love
I can love the same man in the same bed in the same city
But not in the same room, it's a pity, but
Oh, it never bothered me before
Not 'til this guy, what a guy, oh God what a good guy
And I can't even enjoy him

And now I'm hard, too hard to know
I don't cry when I'm sad anymore, no no
Tears calcify in my tummy
Fears go inside ?

How can I ask anyone to love me
When all I do is beg to be left
When all I do is beg to be left
When all I do is beg to be left alone
Alone, alone

My ills are articulate
My woes are granular
The ants weigh more than the elephants
Nothing, nothing is manageable
So couldn't we skip the validictories?
I can see a the door there
Shut it and forget my number

And now I'm hard, too hard to know
I don't cry when I'm sad anymore, no no
Tears calcify in my tummy
Fears go inside ?

How can I ask anyone to love me
When all I do is beg to be left
When all I do is beg to be left
When all I do is beg to be left alone


6.Werewolf

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

I could liken you to a werewolf the way you left me for dead
But I admit that I provided a full moon
And I could liken you to a shark the way you bit off my head
But then again I was waving around a bleeding an open wound

But you were such a super guy 'til the second you get a whiff of
me
We're like a wishing well and a bolt of electricity
But we can still support each other, all we gotta do is avoid
each other
Nothing wrong when a song ends in a minor key
Nothing wrong when a song ends in a minor key

The lava of the volcano shot up hot from under the sea
One thing leads to another and you made an island of me
And I could liken you to a chemical the way you made me compound
a compound
But i'm a chemical, too, inevitable you and me would mix
And I could liken you to a lot of things but I always come
around
'cause in the end i'm a sensible girl, I know the fiction of the
fix

But you were such a super guy 'til the second you get a whiff of
me
We are like a wishing well and a bolt of electricity
But we can still support each other, all we gotta do's avoid
each other
Nothing wrong when a song ends in a minor key (x 3)


7.Periphery

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

Oh, the periphery
They throw good parties there
Those peripheral idiots
Always have a bite to bare
Bear it if you can
If you really want to

Go to the periphery
Have them celebrate your name
Have them forge you a pedigree and then you'll be
Left to run the races lame
Run it if you want
If you think it's worth it
But not with me

Cause I don't appreciate
People who
Don't appreciate
All that loving must've been lackin' something
If I got bored tryin' to figure you out
You let me down
I don't even like you anymore at all

Oh, the periphery
I lost another one there
He found a prettier girl than me
With a more even-tempered air
And if he wants her, he should get her
Cause I think he thinks she's worth it
And maybe they'll move from the periphery
By themselves, or on a plot of land
And I'll care in a different capacity, I'll just be
Hoping he makes a good family man
And if he finds himself yearning
For his throne on the silly side
Nothing wrong as long as he's learning
Besides, you can take it up with his brethren
Or with his bride, just not with me

Cause I don't appreciate
People who
Don't appreciate
All that loving must've been lacking something
If I got bored tryin' to figure you out
You let me down
I don't even like you anymore at all

Oh, the periphery
Oh, the periphery
Oh, the periphery
Oh, the periphery
Stay away
Stay away
Away, away
Stay away, away


8.Regret

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

'Member when we argued on the concept of regret?
You were an expert even then but not me, not yet
Now all you gotta do's remind me that we met
And there you got me, that's how you got me, taught me to regret

'Member how I asked you why are you so mean?
You didn't know how to yet to bein' seen
I tried to be your friend, you made me seem so ?
And there you got me, that's how you got me, you taught me to be
mean

I ran out of white dove feathers
To soak up the hot piss that comes through your mouth
Every time you address me

I ran out of white dove feathers
To soak up the hot piss that comes through your mouth
Every time you address me

'Member when I was so sick and you didn't believe me?
Then you got sick too and guess who took care of you?
You hated that, didn't you? Didn't you?
Now when you look at me, you're condemned to see
The monster your mother made you to be
And there you got me, that's how you got free, you got rid of me

I ran out of white dove feathers
To soak up the hot piss that comes through your mouth
Every time you address me

I ran out of white dove feathers
To soak up the hot piss that comes through your mouth
Every time you address me

Alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone, leave me alone
Leave me alone, leave me alone
Alone


9.Anything We Want

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

My cheeks were reflecting the longest wavelength
My fan was folded up and grazing my forehead
And I kept touching my neck to guide your eye to where I wanted
You to kiss when we find some time alone

My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights
I looked like a neon zebra shaking rain off of stripes

And the rivulets had you riveted to the places that I wanted you
to
Kiss me when we find some time alone

And then we can do anything we want
And then we can do anything we want
And then we can do anything we want

We started out sippin' the water
And now we try to swallow the wave
And we try not to let those bastards get us down

Oh, we don't worry anymore
Cuz we know when the guff comes we get brave
After all look around it's happening it's happening
It's happening now

Let's pretend we're eight years old playing hooky
I'll draw on the wall and you can play UFC rookie
Then we'll grow up and take our clothes off
And you remind me that I wanted you to kiss me
When we find some time alone

And then we can do anything we want
And then we can do anything we want
And then we can do anything we want
And then we can do anything we want


10.Hot Knife

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

If I'm butter - if I'm butter-
If I'm butter, then he's a hot knife,
He makes my heart a cinemascope,
He's showing the dancing bird of paradise.

If I'm butter - if I'm butter-
If I'm butter, then he's a hot knife,
He makes my heart a cinemascope,
He's showing the dancing bird of paradise.

He excites me
Must be like a genesis of rhythm
I get feisty
Whenever I'm with him

If I'm butter - if I'm butter-
If I'm butter, then he's a hot knife,
He makes my heart a cinemascope,
He's showing the dancing bird of paradise

I'm a hot knife- if I'm a hot knife-
I'm a hot knife if he's a pad of butter.
If I get a chance, I'm gonna show him that
He's never gonna need- never need another.

I'm a hot knife- if I'm a hot knife-
I'm a hot knife if he's a pad of butter
If I get a chance, I'm gonna show him that
He's never gonna need- never need another.

(And you can, and you can, and you can wild up around me)

(If I'm butter - if I'm butter-
If I'm butter, then he's a hot knife,
He makes my heart a cinemascope,
He's showing the dancing bird of paradise)

(And you can, and you can, and you can wild up around me)

I'm a hot knife- if I'm a hot knife-
I'm a hot knife if he's a pad of butter
If I get a chance, I'm gonna show him that
He's never gonna need- never need another.

(And you can, and you can, and you can wild up around me)

He excites me
Must be like a genesis of rhythm
I get feisty
Whenever I'm with him...


1.Every Single Night

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

Every single night i endure the flight
Of little whims of white flame
Butterflies in my brain
These ideas of mine percolate the mind
Trickle down the spine
Form the belly swelling to a blaze

Thats where the pain comes in
Like a second skeleton
Trying to fit beneath the skin
I cant get the feelings in

Every single nights a light
With my brain

And i say to her
Why'd i say it to her
What does she think of me
That i'm not what i ought to be
That i'm what i try not to be
Has got to be somebody else's fault
I cant get caught

If what i am is what i am
Cuz i does what i does
Then brother get back cuz my breast gonna bust open
The rib is the shell and the heart is the yolk
And i just made a meal for us both to choke on

Every single nights a fight
With my brain

I just wanna feel everything x3

So i'm gonna try to be still now
Gonna renounce the mill a little while
And if we had a double king size bed
We could move in it and id soon forget

If what i am is what i am
Cuz i does what i does
And maybe i'd relax let my breast just bust open
My hearts made of parts of all thats around me
And thats why the devil just cant get around me

Every single nights alright
Every single nights a fight
Every single fights alright
With my brain

I just wanna feel everything


2.Daredevil

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

I guess I must just be a daredevil
I don't feel anything until I smash it up
I'm caught on the cold, caught on the hot
Not so with the warmer lot
And all I want's a confidant
To help me laugh it off

And don't let me ruin me
I may need a chaperone

Say I'm an airplane
And the gashes I got from my heartbreak
Make the slots and the flaps upon my wing
And I use them to give me lip
Hip hip for the lift
Hip hip for the drag
I want them all in my bag
Oh give me anything and I'll turn it into a gift

And don't let me ruin me
I may need a chaperone

Seek me out
Look at, look at, look at, look at me
I'm all the fishes in the sea
Wake me up
Give me, give me, give me what you got
In your mind, in the middle of the night

Maybe you let me look out for you
Protect that I founded you
And never let it starve
Then that way, you let me stay
Skirt in my skirt like I want to
And I will try hard to hold onto you with open arms

And don't let me ruin me
I may need a chaperone


3.Valentine

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

You didn't see my valentine
I sent it via pantomime
While you were watchin someone else
I stared at you and cut myself

Its all ill do cuz i'm not free
A fugitive too dull too flee
I'm amorous but out of reach
A still life drawing of a peach

I'm a tulip in a cup
I stand no chance of growing up
I've made my peace i'm dead i'm done
I watched you live to have my fun

I root for you, i love you x2

I made it to a dinner date
My teardrops seasoned every plate
I tried to dance but lost my nerve
I cramped up in the learning curve

I'm a tulip in a cup
I stand no chance of growing up
I'm resigned to sail on through
In the wake of tales of you

I root for you, i love you x4


4.Jonathan

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

Jonathan, call again
Take me to Coney Island
Take me on the train
Kiss me while I calculate
And calibrate and heaven's sake
Don't make me explain

Just tolerate my little fist
Tugging on your forest chest
I don't wanna talk about
I don't wanna talk about anything
I don't wanna talk about
I don't wanna talk about anything

Jonathan, anything
And anyone that you have done
Has gotta be alright with me
If she's part of
The reason you are how you are
She's alright with me

Just tolerate my little fist
Tugging on your forest chest
I don't wanna talk about
I don't wanna talk about anything
I don't wanna talk about
I don't wanna talk about anything

You're like the captain
Of a capsized ship
But I like watching you live

You're like the captain
A capsized ship
But I like watching you live

Jonathan, call again
Take me to Coney Island
Take me on the train
Kiss me while I calculate
And calibrate and heaven's sake
Don't make me explain

Just tolerate my little fist
Tugging on your forest chest
I don't wanna talk about
I don't wanna talk about anything
I don't wanna talk about
I don't wanna talk about anything


5.Left Alone

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

We made you make your overtures
When you were a chauven'd orotund mutt
And I was still a dewey petal
Rather than a moribund slut
My love wrecked you
You packed to twirl your skirt at the palace
It hurt more than it ought to hurt
I went to work to cultivate a callus

And now I'm hard, too hard to know
I don't cry when I'm sad anymore, no no
Tears calcify in my tummy
Fears go inside ?

How can I ask anyone to love me
When all I do is beg to be left alone?

Oh, when I try to love
I can love the same man in the same bed in the same city
But not in the same room, it's a pity, but
Oh, it never bothered me before
Not 'til this guy, what a guy, oh God what a good guy
And I can't even enjoy him

And now I'm hard, too hard to know
I don't cry when I'm sad anymore, no no
Tears calcify in my tummy
Fears go inside ?

How can I ask anyone to love me
When all I do is beg to be left
When all I do is beg to be left
When all I do is beg to be left alone
Alone, alone

My ills are articulate
My woes are granular
The ants weigh more than the elephants
Nothing, nothing is manageable
So couldn't we skip the validictories?
I can see a the door there
Shut it and forget my number

And now I'm hard, too hard to know
I don't cry when I'm sad anymore, no no
Tears calcify in my tummy
Fears go inside ?

How can I ask anyone to love me
When all I do is beg to be left
When all I do is beg to be left
When all I do is beg to be left alone


6.Werewolf

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

I could liken you to a werewolf the way you left me for dead
But I admit that I provided a full moon
And I could liken you to a shark the way you bit off my head
But then again I was waving around a bleeding an open wound

But you were such a super guy 'til the second you get a whiff of
me
We're like a wishing well and a bolt of electricity
But we can still support each other, all we gotta do is avoid
each other
Nothing wrong when a song ends in a minor key
Nothing wrong when a song ends in a minor key

The lava of the volcano shot up hot from under the sea
One thing leads to another and you made an island of me
And I could liken you to a chemical the way you made me compound
a compound
But i'm a chemical, too, inevitable you and me would mix
And I could liken you to a lot of things but I always come
around
'cause in the end i'm a sensible girl, I know the fiction of the
fix

But you were such a super guy 'til the second you get a whiff of
me
We are like a wishing well and a bolt of electricity
But we can still support each other, all we gotta do's avoid
each other
Nothing wrong when a song ends in a minor key (x 3)


7.Periphery

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

Oh, the periphery
They throw good parties there
Those peripheral idiots
Always have a bite to bare
Bear it if you can
If you really want to

Go to the periphery
Have them celebrate your name
Have them forge you a pedigree and then you'll be
Left to run the races lame
Run it if you want
If you think it's worth it
But not with me

Cause I don't appreciate
People who
Don't appreciate
All that loving must've been lackin' something
If I got bored tryin' to figure you out
You let me down
I don't even like you anymore at all

Oh, the periphery
I lost another one there
He found a prettier girl than me
With a more even-tempered air
And if he wants her, he should get her
Cause I think he thinks she's worth it
And maybe they'll move from the periphery
By themselves, or on a plot of land
And I'll care in a different capacity, I'll just be
Hoping he makes a good family man
And if he finds himself yearning
For his throne on the silly side
Nothing wrong as long as he's learning
Besides, you can take it up with his brethren
Or with his bride, just not with me

Cause I don't appreciate
People who
Don't appreciate
All that loving must've been lacking something
If I got bored tryin' to figure you out
You let me down
I don't even like you anymore at all

Oh, the periphery
Oh, the periphery
Oh, the periphery
Oh, the periphery
Stay away
Stay away
Away, away
Stay away, away


8.Regret

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

'Member when we argued on the concept of regret?
You were an expert even then but not me, not yet
Now all you gotta do's remind me that we met
And there you got me, that's how you got me, taught me to regret

'Member how I asked you why are you so mean?
You didn't know how to yet to bein' seen
I tried to be your friend, you made me seem so ?
And there you got me, that's how you got me, you taught me to be
mean

I ran out of white dove feathers
To soak up the hot piss that comes through your mouth
Every time you address me

I ran out of white dove feathers
To soak up the hot piss that comes through your mouth
Every time you address me

'Member when I was so sick and you didn't believe me?
Then you got sick too and guess who took care of you?
You hated that, didn't you? Didn't you?
Now when you look at me, you're condemned to see
The monster your mother made you to be
And there you got me, that's how you got free, you got rid of me

I ran out of white dove feathers
To soak up the hot piss that comes through your mouth
Every time you address me

I ran out of white dove feathers
To soak up the hot piss that comes through your mouth
Every time you address me

Alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone, leave me alone
Leave me alone, leave me alone
Alone


9.Anything We Want

Lyricist:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

My cheeks were reflecting the longest wavelength
My fan was folded up and grazing my forehead
And I kept touching my neck to guide your eye to where I wanted
You to kiss when we find some time alone

My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights
I looked like a neon zebra shaking rain off of stripes

And the rivulets had you riveted to the places that I wanted you
to
Kiss me when we find some time alone

And then we can do anything we want
And then we can do anything we want
And then we can do anything we want

We started out sippin' the water
And now we try to swallow the wave
And we try not to let those bastards get us down

Oh, we don't worry anymore
Cuz we know when the guff comes we get brave
After all look around it's happening it's happening
It's happening now

Let's pretend we're eight years old playing hooky
I'll draw on the wall and you can play UFC rookie
Then we'll grow up and take our clothes off
And you remind me that I wanted you to kiss me
When we find some time alone

And then we can do anything we want
And then we can do anything we want
And then we can do anything we want
And then we can do anything we want


10.Hot Knife

:Fiona Apple
Writer(s):Fiona Apple

If I'm butter - if I'm butter-
If I'm butter, then he's a hot knife,
He makes my heart a cinemascope,
He's showing the dancing bird of paradise.

If I'm butter - if I'm butter-
If I'm butter, then he's a hot knife,
He makes my heart a cinemascope,
He's showing the dancing bird of paradise.

He excites me
Must be like a genesis of rhythm
I get feisty
Whenever I'm with him

If I'm butter - if I'm butter-
If I'm butter, then he's a hot knife,
He makes my heart a cinemascope,
He's showing the dancing bird of paradise

I'm a hot knife- if I'm a hot knife-
I'm a hot knife if he's a pad of butter.
If I get a chance, I'm gonna show him that
He's never gonna need- never need another.

I'm a hot knife- if I'm a hot knife-
I'm a hot knife if he's a pad of butter
If I get a chance, I'm gonna show him that
He's never gonna need- never need another.

(And you can, and you can, and you can wild up around me)

(If I'm butter - if I'm butter-
If I'm butter, then he's a hot knife,
He makes my heart a cinemascope,
He's showing the dancing bird of paradise)

(And you can, and you can, and you can wild up around me)

I'm a hot knife- if I'm a hot knife-
I'm a hot knife if he's a pad of butter
If I get a chance, I'm gonna show him that
He's never gonna need- never need another.

(And you can, and you can, and you can wild up around me)

He excites me
Must be like a genesis of rhythm
I get feisty
Whenever I'm with him...