The Family Jewels

Marina And The Diamonds The Family Jewels Lyrics
1.Are You Satisfied

I was pulling out my hair
The day I cut the deal
Chemically calm
Was I meant to feel happy
That my life was just about to change?

One life pretending to be
The cow who got the cream
Oh, everybody said
Marina is a dreamer

People like to tell you what you're gonna be
It's not my problem if you don't see what I see
And I do not give a damn if you don't believe

My problem is my problem
That I never am happy
It's my problem, it's my problem
On how fast I will succeed

Are you satisfied with an average life?
Do I need to lie to make my way in life?

High achiever, don't you see?
Baby, nothing comes for free
They say I'm a control freak
Driven by a greed to succeed
Nobody can stop me

Cause it's my problem
If I wanna pack up and run away
It's my business if I feel the need to
Smoke and drink and swear

It's my problem, it's my problem
If I feel the need to hide
It's my problem if I have no friends
And feel I want to die

Are you satisfied with an average life?
Do I need to lie to make my way in life?
Are you satisfied with an easy ride?
Once you cross the line will you be satisfied?

Sad inside
In this life
I'm satisfied praying
Sad inside
In this life
I'm satisfied waiting

Are you satisfied with an average life?
Do I need to lie to make my way in life?
Are you satisfied with an easy ride?
Once you cross the line will you be satisfied?

Are you satisfied? (x8)


2.Shampain

Laid back in bed inside a lonely bed
Trying to hide the hole inside my head
Watching the stars slide down to reach the end
The sleep is not my friend

Drinking champagne to forget yesterday
Coz I remember, the way, the way, the way
It ended that day, the day, the day, the day
That I walked away, away, away, away

Drinking champagne, made by the angel
Who goes by the name of Glitter and Gabriel
Drinking champagne made all the angels
Tears and pain, but I feel celestial

Elderly stars slide down the morning sky
Slipping away to find a place to die
I wonder when the night will reach it's end
The sleep is not my friend

Drinking champagne, meant for a wedding
Toast to the bride, a very sad ending
Drinking champagne, a bottle to myself
Savor the taste of fabricated wealth

Drinking champagne, made by the angel
Who goes by the name of Glitter and Gabriel
Drinking champagne made all the angels
Tears and pain, but I feel celestial

Drinking champagne, made by the angel
Who goes by the name of Glitter and Gabriel
Drinking champagne made all the angels
Tears and pain, but I feel celestial

Drinking champagne, made by the angel
Who goes by the name of Glitter and Gabriel
Drinking champagne made all the angels
Tears and pain, but I feel celestial


3.I Am Not A Robot

You?ve been acting awful tough lately
Smoking a lot of cigarettes lately
But inside, you?re just a little baby
It's okay to say you?ve got a weak spot
You don't always have to be on top
Better to be hated than love, love,
loved for what you're not

You?re vulnerable, you?re vulnerable
You are not a robot
You?re loveable, so loveable
But you?re just troubled

Guess what? I?m not a robot, a robot
Guess what? I?m not a robot, a robot

You?ve been hanging with the unloved kids
Who you never really liked and you never trusted
But you are so magnetic, you pick up all the pins
Never committing to anything
You don?t pick up the phone when it ring, ring, rings
Don?t be so pathetic, just open up and sing

I?m vulnerable, I?m vulnerable
I am not a robot
You?re loveable, so loveable
But you?re just troubled

Guess what? I?m not a robot, a robot
Guess what? I?m not a robot, a robot

Can you teach me how to feel real?
Can you turn my power on?
Well, let the drum beat drop
Guess what? I?m not a robot
Guess what? I?m not a robot

Guess what? I?m not a robot, a robot
Guess what? I?m not a robot, a robot
Guess what? I?m not a robot, a robot
Guess what? I?m not a robot, a robot


4.Girls

Look like a girl but I think like a guy
Not ladylike to behave like a slime
Easy to be sleazy when you've got a filthy mind
You stick to your yogurts
I'll stick to my apple pie

Girls are not meant to fight dirty
Never look a day past thirty
Not gonna bend over and curtsey for you

Is there any possibilty
You'll quit your sucking up on me
To hide your insecurities
All you say is 'blah, blah'

Girls they never hear from me
Because I fall asleep when they speak
Of all the calories they eat
All they say is 'na na na na na' (na na na na na)

Girls, oh girls, buying cheap magazines
Cut out the face and you cut out the dream
Coz this was all you ever wanted to be
Give in and you go to fuel a new security

Girls are not meant to fight dirty
Never look a day past thirty
Not gonna bend over and curtsey for you

Is there any possibilty
You'll quit your sucking up on me
To hide your insecurities
All you say is 'blah, blah'

Girls they never hear from me
Because I fall asleep when they speak
Of all the calories they eat
All they say is 'na na na na na' (na na na na na)
All they say is 'na na na na na' (na na na na na)

I feel I've been riding in a fast car
Burning dirty gas won't get you that far
I feel I've been riding up the wrong path
But I'm gonna make sure I get the last laugh

Is there any possibilty
You'll quit your sucking up on me
To hide your insecurities
All you say is 'blah, blah'

Girls they never hear from me
Because I fall asleep when they speak
Of all the calories they eat
All they say is 'na na na na na' (na na na na na)
All they say is 'na na na na na' (na na na na na)


5.Mowgli's Road

Cuckoo! x 2

Ten silver spoons coming after me,
One life with one dream on repeat,
I'll escape if I try hard enough,
Till, King of the Jungle calls my bluff,

Oh Lord, (Oh Lord)
I have been told, (Have been told)
I must take the unforsaken road (Forsaken road)
There's a fork in the road,
I'll do as as I am told,
I don't know,(Don't know don't know don't know don't know)
Who I want to be.

Cuckoo!

You say Y-E-S to everything,
Will that guarantee you a win?
Do you think you will be good enough,
To love others and to be loved?

Oh Lord, (Oh Lord)
Now I can see, (Now I can see)
The cutlery will keep on chasing me, (Forsaken road)
There's a fork in the road,
I'll do as as I am told,
I don't know, (Don't know don't know don't know don't know)
Who I want to be.

We are the spoons, THEY'RE TELLING ME
We scoop our way into your dreams,
To knock the knives out bloody cold,
as in to knock them out.. punch them!
And lead you down the unforsaken road.

There's a fork in the road,
I'll do as as I am told,
I don't know, (Don't know don't know don't know don't know)
Who I want to be.


6.Obsessions

Sunday, wake up, give me a cigarette.
Last night's love affair is looking vulnerable in my bed
Silk sheet, blue dawn, Colgate, tongue warm
Won?t you quit your crying? I can?t sleep
One minute I?m a little sweetheart
And next minute you are an absolute creep

We?ve got obsessions
I want to wipe out all the sad ideas that come to me when I am
holding you
We?ve got obsessions
All you ever think about are sick ideas involving me, involving
you

Supermarket, what packet of crackers to pick?
They?re all the same, one brand, one name, but really they?re
not
Look, look, just choose something quick
People are staring, time to come quick in (?)
Cheeks are on fire; just choose something, something, something
Pressure overwhelming
Next minute I am turning out of the door, facing one week
without food
A day, a day when things are pretty bad
Don?t let it make you feel sad, the crackers were probably bad
luck anyway
Can?t let your cold heart be free
When you act like you?ve got an OCD

We?ve got obsessions
I want to erase every nasty thought that bugs me every day of
every week
We?ve got obsessions
You never tell me what it is that makes you strong and what it
is that makes you weak.

We?ve got obsessions
I want to erase every nasty thought that bugs me every day of
every week.
We?ve got obsessions
You never told me what it was that made you strong and what it
was that made you weak
Makes you weak, makes you weak, make you weak, make you weak,
make you weak
Make you?

Sunday, wake up, give me a cigarette
Last night's love affair is looking vulnerable again


7.Hollywood

American queen is the American dream
American queen is the American dream

She is a Polish girl in America
Tall, tanned hot blonde called Anya
I asked her Why would you wanna be a hollywood wife?'
Because I don't want to end up living in a dive on Vine
I'll do anything for a dime
Looking for the golden lie

Hollywood infected your brain
You wanted kissing in the rain
Oh oh, Living in a movie scene
Puking American dreams
Oh oh, I'm obsessed with the mess that's America
I'm obsessed with the mess that's America

I fight security making plays for me
As soon as I touch down in old LA, he said,

Oh my god, you look just like Shakira
No no, you're Catherine Zeta
Actually, my name's Marina

Your mind is just like mine
All filled up with things benign
You're looking for the golden lie

Hollywood infected your brain
You wanted kissing in the rain
Oh oh, I've been living in a movie scene
Puking American dreams
Oh oh, I'm obsessed with the mess that's America
I'm obsessed with the mess that's America

American dream is the American queen
American queen is the American dream
Is the American dream
Hollywood infected your brain
You wanted kissing in the rain
Oh oh, I'm living in a movie scene
Puking American dreams

Hollywood infected your brain
You wanna kiss it in the rain
Oh oh, I'm living in a movie scene
Puking American dreams
Oh oh, I'm obsessed with the mess that's America
I'm obsessed with the mess that's America


8.The Outsider

Feeling like a loser
Feeling like a bum
Sitting on the outside
Observing the fun

Don't get on my bad side
I can work a gun
Hop into the backseat baby
I'll show you some fun

These people are really weird
And they're giving me the fear
Just because you know my name
Doesn't mean you know my game

All of us are in your face
And whisper 'I'm in the wrong place'
Is there more to lose than gain
If I go on my own again? (On my own again)

Inside the outsider (on my own again)
Inside the outsider (on my own again)
Inside the outsider (on my own again)
Inside...

People are connecting
Don't know what to say
I'm good at protecting
What they want to take

Spilt the milk at breakfast
Hit me double hard
And I grinned at you softly
Because I'm a fucking wild card

These people are really weird
And they're giving me the fear
Just because you know my name
Doesn't mean you know my game

All of us are in your face
And whisper 'I'm in the wrong place'
Is there more to lose than gain
If I go on my own again? (On my own again)

Inside the outsider (on my own again)
Inside the outsider (on my own again)
Inside the outsider (on my own again)
Inside...
All I know is I cannot pretend
I'm sitting on the outside again

On my own again
Inside the outsider (on my own again)
Inside the outsider (on my own again)
Inside the outsider (on my own again)
Inside (again)


9.Hermit The Frog

Yeah I feel I'm bordered down
Whenever he's around
I put on the frown of frowns
And melt slowly to the ground

Yeah I feel it coming on
When I've been static for too long
And an explosion comes in time
Before I go and cross the line
They say you used to be so kind
I never knew you had such a dirty mind
Well, I went to the doctors believing
The devil had control over me
I was finding it hard to breath and
Finding it hard to fight the feeling

That my heart just burst like a glass baloon
And that it fly too high and shattered too soon
I was the wrong damn girl in the wrong damn room
I broke my glass balloon
I let go of my glass baloon

Oh oh oh

They call him Hermit the Frog
He's looking for a dog
Did you find a bitch in me
Oh you're a abominable socially
You're just a little bit too much like me
Says you used to be so kind
Well baby I give you your dirty mind
I wanna tell you a secret
You can take your double standard love and keep it
I can't help the devil likes to make my heart a double bed
I can't help he sometimes like to come and rest his little head

Well my heart just burst like a glass baloon
We let them fly too high and they shattered too soon
They'll be the wrong damn people in the wrong damn room


10.Oh No!

Don't do love, don't do friends
I'm only after success
Don't need a relationship
I'll never soften my grip

Don't want cash, don't want card
Want it fast, want it hard
Don't need money, don't need fame
I just want to make a change
I just wanna change (x4)

I know exactly what I want and who I want to be
I know exactly why I walk and talk like a machine
I'm now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy
Oh, oh no, oh no, oh no

One track mind, one track heart
If I fail, I'll fall apart
Maybe it is all a test
Cause I feel like I'm the worst
So I always act like I'm the best

If you are not very careful
Your possessions will possess you
TV taught me how to feel
Now real life has no appeal
It has no appeal (x4)

I know exactly what I want and who I want to be
I know exactly why I walk and talk like a machine
I'm now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy
Oh, oh no, oh no, oh no
I know exactly what I want and who I want to be
I know exactly why I walk and talk like a machine
I'm now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy
Oh, oh no, oh no, oh no

I'm gonna live, I'm gonna fly,
I'm gonna fail, I'm gonna die,
I'm gonna live, I'm gonna fly
I'm gonna fail, gonna die, die, die, die

I know exactly what I want and who I want to be
I know exactly why I walk and talk like a machine
I'm now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy
Oh, oh no, oh no, oh no
I know exactly what I want and who I want to be
I know exactly why I walk and talk like a machine
I'm now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy
Oh, oh no, oh no, oh no

Da-da-dum...
Oh, oh no, oh no, oh no


11.Rootless

I'm a cloud drifting by
Dripping tears from the sky
I'm a snail without a shell
A leper with a golden bell
I've got nowhere to do
I'm a stray cat on the roam
Choking on a chicken bone
For a home sweet, no sweet home

For a root, for a leaf, for a branch, for a tree
But there's somebody that reminded them of me
Running with my roots pulled up
Caught me cold so they could cut
What there was left of love
I'm rootless (x2)

Work your fingers to the bone
Building castles out of snow
I'm a nomad walking on
Humming to the same old song
Lower case society
In touch with no community
A kingdom without a king
With no sense of belonging

For a root, for a leaf, for a branch, for a tree
But there's somebody that reminded them of me

Running with my roots pulled up
Caught me cold so they could cut
What there was left of love
I'm rootless (x2)

Running with my roots pulled up
So they could cut me free of love

Running with my roots pulled up
Caught me cold so they could cut
What there was left of love
I'm rootless (x2)

Jagged roots through the snow
For a home sweet and no sweet home
I've got nowhere to go
I'm rootless (x2)


12.Numb

One track mind, like a goldfish,
Stuck inside my pantry dish.
I can't breathe, and I can't smile,
This better be worth my while.

I feel numb most of the time,
The more I get the higher,
I'll climb, and I will wonder why,
I got dark only,To shine.
Looking for the golden light,
Oh, it's a reasonable sacrifice.

C-C-C-Cry

Far gone families, far gone friends,
That's how it started, and how it ends,
I can't open up and cry,
'cause i've been saddened all my life.

I feel numb most of the time,
The more I get the higher,
I'll climb, and I will wonder why,
I get dark only,To shine.
Looking for the golden light,
Oh, it's a reasonable sacrifice.

C-C-C-Cry
C-C-C-Cry

Ooh, I get dark,
Ohh, and I'm in hell,
I need a friend,
Ooh, but I can't yell,
Yeah, i'm no good,
No good to anyone,
'Cause all I care about,
Is being number one.

Shine,
Looking for the golden light,
Oh, it's a reasonable sacrifice.

Shine,
Looking for the golden light,
Oh, it's a reasonable sacrifice.
Sacrifice.

I feel numb most of the time,
The more I get the higher,
I'll climb, and I will wonder why,
I get dark only,To shine.
And I'll light up the sky,
Stars that burn the brightest,
Fall so fast and pass you by,
Puff like empty lighters,

I feel numb most of the time,
The more I get the higher,
I'll climb, and I will wonder why,
I got dark only,To shine.
And I'll light up the sky,
Stars that burn the brightest,
Fall so fast and pass you by,
Spark like empty lighters.

Dum dum dum, duh dah da.


13.Guilty

I was dreaming something bad
Hiding body parts
A broken dagger, broken leg
I left it cold, I left it dead

Oh I'm a guilty one
And I know what I have done
Yeah, I'm a troubled one
And I won't be forgiven

Guilty on the run
And I know what I have done
Guilty on the run
And I'm never forgiven

I was just a kid
That you could not forgive
Because it's harder

I was just a kid
And all I really wanted was my father

I killed a dog so smart and red
Touched his techni-coloured hair
I left it bruised and black and lame
I left it running for shame

Oh I'm a guilty one
And I know what I have done
Yeah, I'm a troubled one
And I won't be forgiven

Guilty on the run
And I know what I have done
Guilty on the run
And I'm never forgiven

I was just a kid
That you could not forgive
Because it's harder

I was just a kid
And all I really wanted was my father

Spent years singing to forget him
Spent years singing, no regrets
Then suddenly it all becomes clear
I've been sorry all these years

I was just a kid
That you could not forgive
Because it's harder

I was just a kid
And all I really wanted was my father

Guilty on the run
And I know what I have done
Guilty on the run
And I'm never forgiven

Guilty on the run
And I know what I have done
Guilty on the run
And I'm never forgiven