A Woman A Man Walked By

PJ Harvey & John Parish A Woman A Man Walked By Lyrics
1.Black Hearted Love

I think I saw you in the shadows
I move in closer beneath your windows
Who would suspect me of this rapture?

And who but my black hearted love
And who but my black hearted love

When you call out my name in rapture
I volunteer my soul for murder
I wish this moment here forever

And you are my black hearted love
And you are my black hearted love
In the rain, in the evening I will come again

I'd like to take you;
I'd like to take you to a place I know
My black hearted
I'd like to take you;
I'd like to take you to a place I know
My black hearted
I'd like to take you;
I'd like to take you to a place I know
My black hearted
I'd like to take you;
I'd like to take you to a place I know
My black hearted


2.Sixteen. Fifteen. Fourteen

Erica, Erica
Is watching
Danielle, Danielle
Is hiding
Erica, Erica
Is counting

Sixteen, fifteen, fourteen
Twelve, eleven, ten, nine

Erica, Erica
Is counting
Sun is setting, see
In the garden it's starting to rain
The trees are trembling
Erica's repeating

Erica, there is no laughter in the garden

Erica is feeling something
Danielle is hiding
She's counting

Sixteen, fifteen, fourteen,
Thirteen, twelve, eleven, ten,
Nine, eight

Sun is leaving the scene
Took a look and turning away
The trees are trembling
Erica's repeating


3.Leving California

California
Leaving
California
California
Leaving
California

No one but me is walking
under palms that give no shade
I'm leaving you today

California
Leave me
California Leave
California
Leave Me
California

How cruel was I to think that
I could you change
Oh give me some shade
Oh England come soon
How could I've believed
that I could live and breathe in you
Ooh

California
Killed me
California
California
Killed me
California

I think it's time to leave
I think it's time to leave
I told no one I'd stay
I think it's time to leave
Ooh


4.The Chair

Where, where have you gone?
Daniel, my only son
I, I even slept with you
To be here in your chair
Sitting in your favourite chair

When you snuck into the water
I felt you leave through one thousand
Yawning miles
My heart slowed, my heart slowed
Never to pick up again

Pieces, pieces of my life
Are gone
Washed away in water that took
My son


5.April

April, how could
I not have seen
April, you coming
April how could I've
Worn inappropriate clothing?

April, all that careful stepping,
Rounding of my soul
And now your rain
April, I feel you leaving

I don't know what silence means
It could mean anything

April, won't you answer me?
These days just seem to crush me
Hatching, collapsing, tumbling down
April, what if I drown?
I drown?

April, I see you leaving
I don't know what silence means
It could mean anything

I dream
I dream

April, April
Did I want you?
Did I want change?

April, your rain overcomes me


6.A Woman A Man Walked By

I once knew a woman man
A courageous friend I thought
It turned out so wrong was I
When we were up against the wall

He had chicken liver balls
He had chicken liver spleen
He had chicken liver heart
Made of chicken liver parts

Liver little parts

Prematurely going bald
Any passion long gone cold
But I wanted to explore
The damp alleyways of his soul

All the times he tried to help
He spit in my face and laughed
That woman man
I want his fucking ass
I want his fucking ass
I want his fucking ass
I want your fucking ass

My friend, darting
He's looking likely
Crammed in a taxi
I see you all too clearly
Sucking on a little pea
Sucking on a little pea...

My, my you little toy
He's just a mummy's boy
Where's your liver?
Where's your heart?
What's with all your woman parts?
Now it's my turn to laugh
Just stick it up your fucking ass
Just stick it up your fucking ass
Just stick it up your fucking ass
Just stick it up your fucking ass...

(Instrumental)


7.The Soldiers

I imagine a dream
In which I'm a soldier
And I'm walking
On the faces
Of dead women
And everyone I've
Left behind me

It's the year when
The troops entered
The thirty-ninth
Thirty-ninth parallel

Send me home restless
Send me home damaged
And wanting

It's the year when
Some poet said
'We must live, or accept the
Consequences'
I want you to share
Every pinprick of guilt
That I have felt
That I have felt

Send me home restless
Send me home damaged
Send me home disposes
Send me home damaged
And wanting


8.Pig Will Not

I...
I will
I will not
I will not

No, I will not

How dare you, says the angel
He crashes down from the heights
Shakes the disbeliever
Shakes the disbelievers head
Shakes him harder
Instructing you well....

Hear me, do you hear the law?
All that rubbish inside your rotting mind
I am your guardian, I am your fairy
Get out of my way or...

Such lovers, this is true love
This is true love that we are doing now
Even everywhere that I was before, all broken
Your face all mashed up

I will not
I will not
I will not
I will not..


9.Passionless. Polintless

Let's Talk
Let's talk
Let the dirt fall
Let Heads Roll

No kind hand is reaching out for me tonight
I slept facing the wall
I dreamt of buildings in pieces
You slept facing the wall
and you wanted less than I wanted

Passionless, Pointless.
Where does the passion go? I'm asking
There's no kindness in your hands
No reaching out for me tonight

You slept facing the wall
and you wanted less than I wanted
I slept facing the wall
but when I met you how did you enter?
I don't remember
How did we ever?


10.Cracks In The Canvas

Had do we cope
With the days after a death?
Empty days, nothing left
Not even a funeral

I see shapes falling inside
Paintings
Animals and humans, row upon row
Walking toward something
Waiting for something

I'm looking for an answer,
Me and a million others
Disbelievers
Deserted lovers
Dear God,
You better not let me down this time

Cracks in the canvas
Look like roads
That never end