A Joyful Noise

Gossip A Joyful Noise Lyrics
1.Melody Emergency

Lyricist:Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie
Writer(s):Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie

You got a head on your shoulders
You got a bone on your back
So you're not a rock and roller
And there is nothing wrong with that
I'm ready in the picture book,
Your lady's interview
You may try to get another, animal in you
Whoa, whoa, animal
Whoa, whoa, emotional
Whoa, whoa, animal
Whoa, whoa, emotional

You gotta be somebody's maybe
You gotta learn to lose control
You gotta go a little crazy, release the animal
A beating on your ego until it's black and blue
All that's left to save me, the animal in you
Whoa, whoa, animal
Whoa, whoa, emotional
Whoa, whoa, animal
Whoa, whoa, emotional

We are both common people
Sharing the same combination
It's lethal, each others, gone to the night
We are both common people
Sharing the same combination
It's lethal, each others, gone to the night
Whoa, whoa, animal
Whoa, whoa, emotional
Whoa, whoa, animal
Whoa, whoa, emotional.


2.Perfect World

Lyricist:Beth Ditto Toby Scott Luke Fitton Brian Higgins
Writer(s):Beth Ditto Toby Scott Luke Fitton Brian Higgins

Oh oh and I
And I put a wish in
Made it my mission
To end the conflict
But oh

I put a wish in

Hoping you'd listen

By my accompice

But ohhh

Relax, it's only dreaming facts

Giving way to feelings

No one ever stays long

it's over when you wake up

So I knew that it was

in the Picture perfect world

We can be more than before

I said it was

I made it stronger

From the beginning

My head was spinning

The perfect star

Oh a church

A place to fit in

A new religion

I found your
But oh oh


Relax, it's only dreaming facts

Giving way to feelings

no one ever stays long

it's over when you wake up

So I knew that it was

in the Picture perfect world

we can be more than before

I said it was

I made it stronger

In an Picture perfect world

in the Picture perfect world

we can be more than before

I said it was

I made it stronger

Don't get mad

You did your best

and now it's

all in the past to stay

so I knew that it was

in the Picture perfect world

we can be more than before

I said it was

I made it stronger

in the Picture perfect world

we can be more than before

I said it was

I made it stronger


3.Get A Job

Lyricist:Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie
Writer(s):Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie


I'd love to stay and party but I gotta go to work
I'd love to stay and party but I gotta go to work
I'd love to stay and party but I gotta go to work
Work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work

I hear you laughing but I don't think it's funny
What good can happen spending other people's money
But, you better get a job
It was adorable when you were in your 20's
Not so cute anymore now that you're pushing 30
You better get a job
But you never know, I was gonna go
You gotta try, try, try, try, try
I know it's hard, but you never know
How it's gonna go, end up tomorrow
You gotta try, try, try, try, try

Girl, you gotta get a job,
Oh girl, you need to work real hard

Just turn your head down, but when I ask you for the rent
You need to get a job

What kind of life is it, when everyday's a weekend
How quickly we forget when I'm at work you're sleeping in
You need to get a job
But you never know, I was gonna go
You gotta try, try, try, try, try
I know it's hard, but you never know
How it's gonna go, end up tomorrow
You gotta try, try, try, try, try

Girl, you gotta get a job,
Oh girl, you need to work real hard

I'd love to stay and party but I gotta go to work
I'd love to stay and party but I gotta go to work
I'd love to stay and party but I gotta go to work
Work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work

Who's gonna hire you with you lack of experience
Who's gonna wire you, the last of your inheritance
Girl, you gotta get a job,
Oh girl, you need to work real hard
But you never know, I was gonna go
You gotta try, try, try, try, try
I know it's hard, but you never know
How it's gonna go, end up tomorrow
You gotta try, try, try, try, try.


4.Move In The Right Direction

Lyricist:Beth Ditto Toby Scott Jason Resch Kieran Jones Brian
Higgins Fred Falke
Writer(s):Beth Ditto Toby Scott Jason Resch Kieran Jones Brian
Higgins Fred Falke

One step closer I'm feeling fine
getting better one day at a time
I'm moving forward with all of my might
I'm heading toward a new state of mind
so I hold back tears

move in the right direction

face my fears

move in the right direction

I'm doing fine

one step closer every day at the time

I won't lose my mind, lose my mind, uh uh

Motivation a powerful strength

hesitation was my first instinct

I got the notion my weekness was

total devotion it's okay

Because I will hold back tears


so I can move in the right direction

I have faced my fears

now I can move in the right direction

I'm doing fine

one step closer every day at a time

I won't lose my mind, lose my mind, uh uh

Keeping my head up, looking forward

reminiscing will get you no where

never say never starting over

it's not perfect but it's getting closer

I hold back tears

so I can move in the right direction

I have faced my fears

now I can move in the right direction

I'm doing fine

one step closer every day at the time

I won't lose my mind, lose my mind, ah ah


5.Casualties Of War

Lyricist:Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie
Writer(s):Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie

When I opened my eyes what did I see
Falling from the skies in front of me
Not quite but close
As though I'd seen a ghost
Was it too much to feel the touch

Of someone there you couldnt love

Cause someone there comes and goes

So how are you I'm doing well

I'm fighting tears you couldnt tell

I'm not as strong as you thought I was

When you fall down do you hear the sound
Of broken dreams

Hiting the ground

Baby please the casualties of war

You lost the fight I heard it was a good fight

The kind that no one wins and no one's right

I could've walked away

I should've walked away

You always had that habit of keeping score

You might have wone the battle but not the war

What goes around comes around

So how are you, I'm doing well

I'm fighting tears you couldnt tell

I'm not as strong as you thought I was


6.Into The Wild

Lyricist:Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie
Writer(s):Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie

You want me to be honest
Tell you all the words you want to hear
So I went and made a promise
And I quickly became your worst fear out here
In the wild, to the wild
We'll self-destruct together
I'm part of you now
In the wild, to the wild
We'll self-destruct together
It's all over now

Few fail to break the silence
Most prefer the calm before the storm
You choose cities over islands
I'm returning to the place where I was born at home

In the wild, to the wild
We'll self-destruct together
I'm part of you now
In the wild, to the wild
We'll self-destruct together
It's all over now

Oooh, oooh
Don't wanna risk it
Taking it too
I existed for you
Don't wanna risk it
Taking it too
I existed for you

In the wild, to the wild
We'll self-destruct together
I'm part of you now
In the wild, to the wild
We'll self-destruct together
It's all over now


7.Get Lost

Lyricist:Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie
Writer(s):Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie

It was a show stopping moment
The minute that you caught my attention
Really something to see, yeah
With every movement, every motion, every word
In the conversation
It meant so much to me, yeah
I decided to move on, move on,
To find me something I could lean on
Something I could look forward too
Don't get caught up in the past

Get lost, you're dancing to the beat of a different drum
Because, you could never feel that I was coming bored off
The past, won't do it now, whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa, oho

You came along and just for time to call in for desperate
measures
Is this desperate enough, yeah, yeah, yeah
You was tumbling for words to impress
You were charming and glamour
When I was down on my love, yeah, yeah, yeah
I decided to move on, move on
To find me something I could lean on
Something I could look forward too
Don't get caught up in the past

Get lost, you're dancing to the beat of a different drum
Because, you could never feel that I was coming bored off
Get lost, you're dancing to the beat of a different drum
Because, you could never feel that I was coming bored off
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa, oho


8.Involved

Lyricist:Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie
Writer(s):Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie


I'm beginning to wonder what you look like
these tears go by, I hardly recognize
too tired to leave, too tired to fight
but sometimes it's alright
I'm fooling myself but seeing this so
you're fool of yourself assuming in cold
but sooner or later that story gets old
too old it's been told

I'm not in love
who did you think I was?
I'm not above the rest of us
And just because I tremble when we touch
I'm not in love with you
I'm just involved
I'm just involved with you

I like it so much I turn the blind out
you are on my mind 90Â % of the time
the loss of attraction can be unkind
or too kind a fight line
I was spending my days forgetting the nights
you were in my head and out of sight
a bad mistake and that's putting it nice
it's true right

I'm not in love
who did you think I was?
I'm not above the rest of us
And just because I tremble when we touch
I'm not in love with you
I'm just involved
I'm just involved with you

All of my life I was for what was mine
all of the nights
I set at home and cry


could I've been mine
but you took more than you gave
Take my advice
and hear me when I say


9.Horns

Lyricist:Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie
Writer(s):Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie


I heard it from a little bird
Who gave me permission
The naughtiest words I ever heard
That will be posed on
Some girls, we need proof
Of real root awakening
To chase the dogs away
And notify another day
Cause the beat goes on
When our fire's gone

Oh anything can sound absurd
Depends on how you say it
As long as you have the first word
The rest is what you make it

Some boys don't mean to
The real root awakening
They know now what they say
So chase the dogs away
Because the beat goes on, yes it does, yes it does
And the fire's gone, then the fire's gone away
And the lights go down, when the lights go down, go down

Who gave me permission
The smartest words I've ever heard
That the beats go on

Some boys don't mean to
The real root awakening
They know now what they say
So chase the dogs away
Because the beat goes on, yes it does, yes it does
And the fire's gone, then the fire's gone away
And the lights go down, when the lights go down, go down


10.I Won't Play

Lyricist:Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie
Writer(s):Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie

You get the worn idea from someone else
How you live with her, instead of live with yourself
What your secret, what your secret, what your secret
It's a mystery how you sleep at night
And it seems to me you're digging deeper,
and deeper, and deeper!

Chorus:
And the blame is the name, is a name of a game
Then I won't play, if it means losing to you
I'm on a first main basis with your victims of love
I give you so many chances but you stood me all up
I hope it's a..

Oh, oh, oh, all your jokes are on me,
but who's laughing now?
You're ancient history, another face in the crowd
How you're doing, you're doing, you're doing
Common decency, imagine the
..the sympathy just wasn't deserved
And she won't either, don't either, won't either

Chorus: (x2)
And the blame is the name, is a name of a game
Then I won't play, if it means losing to you
I'm on a first main basis with your victims of love
I give you so many chances but you stood me all up
I hope it's a..


11.Love In A Foreign Place

Lyricist:Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie
Writer(s):Nathan Howdeshell Beth Ditto Hannah Blilie

I put my make up on and
Head for the other side of town
With my dress from the night before
Fading the countdown
Outside a sea of people forming
Walking after work this morning
They look right through me as I'm passing by
Not even so much as an evil eye

The city speaks to you
So much to live for, so much to lose
The end is coming, beginning is here
Anything you look for, you'll find it here
I found love in a foreign place
I could stay forever
It's my time, it's now or never

I've been so many places
Nowhere could ever turn me down
All I ever wanted was so much more
Than life in a small town
I find it hard to hide my feelings
Looking down to ancient buildings
Looking down on me, towering above
Time was standing still as we fell in love

The city speaks to you
So much to live for, so much to lose
The end is coming, beginning is here
Anything you look for, you'll find it here
I found love in a foreign place
I could stay forever
It's my time, it's now or never
I've had love as the world was ending
Not getting any younger
I feel life taking over

So much to live for, so much to lose
So much to live for, so much to lose

I've been so many places
Nowhere could ever turn me down
All I ever wanted was so much more
Than life in a small town

I found love in a foreign place
I could stay forever
It's my time, it's now or never
I've had love as the world was ending
Not getting any younger
I feel life taking over