Radlands

Mystery Jets Radlands Lyrics
1.Radlands

Writer(s):Blaine Harrison / Kai Fish / Kapil Trivedi / William Rees

I've heard there's a place where we go to die
It's a terribly overrated horse-shit shaped hole in the sky
Kick off your heels and come with me tonight
And we'll pack up your car and we'll board up the house
And we'll die for our country though it never loved us
And it didn't need us these wonderful wonderful people
We'll redefine love in these papers and cry

So may the bridges we burn light the way
Out of the darkness of where we have been
Though at times it may feel like a lie
We both know nothing is quite as it seems
When the debris comes falling from the sky
Heaven will still be ours
Load up Old Bill's twelve-gauge and meet me by the lake
There's a place I know where nobody goes down by the old
interstate
The future gets shorter the longer we wait
So let's step on the gas and if they come to find us
We'll run to the hills they say hills never loved us
But since we were children these wonderful wonderful people
We'll redefine love on our tombstones and cry

But someone will get all the glory
But I'll have yours and you'll have mine, you'll have mine

So may the bridges we burn light the way
Out of the darkness of where we have been
Though at times it may feel like a lie
We both know nothing is quite as it seems
And I know when I look into the deep blue of your eyes
Heaven will still be ours

We'll be together until hell,
Until hell, until hell freezes over
Until hell, until hell,
Until hell, freezes over.
Together until hell, until hell
Until hell, freezes over.
Until hell, until hell,
Until hell, freezes over.

So may the bridges we burn light the way
Out of the darkness of where we have been
Though at times it may feel like a lie
We both know nothing is quite as it seems
Then when the world is itself about to die
Our story will still play itself on the screens
And all these stars that come falling from the sky
Will always be ours


2.You Had Me At Hello

Writer(s):Blaine Harrison


3.Someone Purer

Writer(s):Blaine Harrison / William Rees

I was gripped with a bitter fear,
Worried the one thing that I loved,
Back when I was just a kid,
Might now never be enough,
That the body I was in,
Might belong to someone else, someone kinder, someone surer,
someone
Innocent,
Young and beautiful, someone purer, but that`s no one I know.

I was scratching at my skin,
Hoping the changes would begin,
But what laid beneath was blood, well of course,
What the hell was I thinking of?
Won't you take me down to the creek?
Wash away our sins and sheep, I feel so tired
As though I might not wake at all on the other side
That's no way to go.

Oh my dear one, bathe me in your glow
cut out my lonely heart
and bury it in the snow
nothing really means nothing
is the saddest thing I know
so deliver me from sin
and give me rock and roll

And in the morning there'll be hope
and in the morning there'll be light
and if I sleep and dream up a system
a solution
to fend off perils of the night
come on in, I'll be born again
born again as someone else
Someone kinder
Someone surer
Someone beautiful
someone purer

and when I am you'll know
and when I am you'll know

Oh almighty one
the devil knows my name
will salvation come
and wash away my pain?
for I was once a kid
with a pure and innocent soul
so deliver me from sin
and give me rock and roll

Give me rock and roll
Give me rock and roll
a pure and innocent soul
and a pure and innocent soul

Give me rock and roll
Give me rock and roll
and a pure and innocent soul
and a pure and innocent soul


4.The Ballad Of Emmerson Lonestar

Writer(s):Henry Harrison / William Rees


5.Greatest Hits

Writer(s):Blaine Harrison

You can take 'The Lexicon of Love' away but I'm keeping Remain
in Light'
You can take away 'It's a Shame About Ray' but I'm holding on to
'Country
Life' (Ohhh)
You can keep 'No Need to Argue' and I'll keep 'The Aeroplane
Over the Sea'
But hold on to 'The Boy with the Arab Strap' cos I'm holding on
to 'Village
Green'

I don't know if the knot just needs untangling cos the tapes get
stuck all
the time
Either way I'm keeping 'Double Nickles on the Dime'

These were our greatest hits (Shalalalalalalala Shalalalala)
The best of me and you(Shalalalalalalala Shalalalala)
These were our greatest hits (Shalalalalalalala Shalalalala)
The best of me and you

I still remember buying you 'Band on the Run' on the first day
that we
kissed
But you always did prefer 'McCartney I' because it reminded you
of being a
kid
No way your having 'This Nation's Saving Grace' you only listen
to it when
your pissed
But when you sober up its always 'Why the fuck are you still
listening to
Mark E. Smith?'

I don't know if the knot just needs untangling or if we forgot
which way's
up and which way is down
But still the tape keeps going round and round

These were our greatest hits (Shalalalalalala lalalalala)
The best of me and you (Shalalalalalala Shalalalala)
The best of me and you
Of me and you

Still the tape keeps going round and round.

These were our greatest hits (Shalalalalalalala Shalalalala)
The best of me and you (Shalalalalalalala Shalalalala)
Our Desert Island Discs (Shalalalalalalala Shalalalala)
The best of me and you (Shalalalalalalala Shalalalala)


6.The Hale Bop

Writer(s):Henry Harrison / William Rees


7.The Nothing

Writer(s):Blaine Harrison / Henry Harrison


8.Take Me Where The Roses Grow

Writer(s):Sophie Rose Harper / William Rees


9.Sister Everett

Writer(s):Henry Harrison / William Rees


10.Lost In Austin

Writer(s):Blaine Harrison / Kai Fish / Kapil Trivedi / William Rees


11.Luminescence

Writer(s):Blaine Harrison / Henry Harrison