The Bachelor

Patrick Wolf The Bachelor Lyrics
1.Kriespiel


2.Hard Times

As they
Dig your ditches
Count my stitches
Generation justice wishes for
World at war
Final score
Media come and abhor us

As these are hard times
We'll work harder, harder
Through these hard times
I'll work harder, harder

Divided nation,
In sedation
Overload of information, that
We have grown up to ignore
Mediocrity applauded

In these hard times
We'll work harder, harder
Through these hard times
I'll work harder, harder
For resolution
Show me some revolution

This battle will be won!
Forced to count the hours
Since two towers
Fell to fiction
Those higher powers
Putting gods to war
Who keeps score?
Ignorance is still adored

And through these hard times
We'll work harder, harder
Give me hard times,
I'll work harder, harder
For revolution
Hard time for some resolution
Time for some revolution
This battle will be won!
Harder, harder, harder, now!

If they only see you with their fear
And they only hear you with their pride
And they only see you with their fear
And they only hear you with their pride
And we'll work harder, harder, harder, harder,
Harder, harder, harder, harder,
Hard times!


3.Oblivion

I fear you...but I'm not afraid of you

Father, where's my gun?
Now that the war has begun
Let me go it alone
I need no one
Said I need no one
But oh god now here it comes
and it's too dark to (?) this gun
Now faster, faster, faster
want to get out on the run
And I hear you say
'Oh my stubborn son,
just said you need no one
Don't you see danger, danger, danger,
heading to oblivion'
For all the hunt, far as I could
Through dozen weathers
??
And I took one shot, in the dark
Fired a bullet, Saw you ripped apart (?)
And god now here it comes
and it's too dark to (?) this gun
Now faster, faster, faster,
wants to get out on the run
'Oh my stubborn son,
just said you need no one
Don't you see danger, danger, danger,
heading to oblivion'
Oblivion...

Wait a second...have you come so far,
for it to end like this?
This is the challenge...
I dare you, to take a hold of
that darkness from deep down within you
Get back up, what are you so afraid of?
Show your face, face to me
Show you face, face to me
Be you my friend...
Or enemy?
Show you face, face to me
And do not fear oblivion
Say I do not fear oblivion
Oblivion...
Father, where's my gun?
I need no one
I need no one
I need no one...


4.The Bachelor

No one will wear my silver ring

Poor little turtle dove
sitting up in pine,
Mourning for your own true love,
Why not me for mine,
why not, why not me for mine?

I've got hogs in the pen
and corn to feed them up,
All I want is someone who will
feed them when I'm dead and gone,
feed them when I'm dead and gone.

'Cause I'm not gonna marry in the fall
And I'm not gonna marry in the spring
I'll never marry - marry at all
No one will wear my silver ring
Wear my silver ring, boy

I'm not gonna marry in the fall
And I'm not gonna marry in the spring
I'll never marry - marry at all
No one will wear my silver ring
Wear my silver ring, boy

Poor little turtle dove
sitting up in pine,
Mourning for your own true love,
Why not me for mine?
why not me for mine?

So I went up to this mountain
to give my horn a blow,
All the boys in the valley said,
'Yonder comes my beau,
Oh, yonder comes my beau.'

But I'm not gonna marry in the fall
And I'm not gonna marry in the spring
I will never marry - marry at all
No one will wear my silver ring

I'm not gonna marry in the fall
And I'm not gonna marry in the spring
I will never marry - marry at all
No one will wear my silver ring
wear my silver ring, no one

Poor little turtle dove
sitting up in pine
Mourning for your own true love,
Why not me for mine?

All I want is someone who'll feed them
when I'm dead and gone
When I'm dead and gone, now
I will never marry - marry at all
No one will wear my silver sing

Feed them when I'm dead,
feed them when I'm dead,
Feed them when I'm dead and and gone
I will never marry - marry at all
No one will wear my silver ring.


5.Damaris

Black rain
Floods the downs
Ferrets burrow
Moles make mound
Round your bones
Deep underground
But nobody knows
Nobody knows
How I wait for you
Summer, Spring
Autumn, Winter
Here perishing

Gypsy, stray
Bleak orphan
No one could say
The land you came from
But deep in my arms
You belonged
But nobody knows
No body knows
How I wait for you
Summer, Spring
Autumn, Winter
Here perishing

My god damned Damaris
Killed with last kiss
God damned Damaris
I loved you
My god damned Damaris
Killed with last kiss
God damned Damaris
I loved you
I loved you

Goddam these tears
And this religion
Thought I was more
Than just my father's son
Who says in limbo
Be where you've gone
But nobody knows
No body knows
How I wait for you
Summer, Spring
Autumn, Winter
Here perishing

My god damned Damaris
Killed with last kiss
God damned Damaris
I loved you
My god damned Damaris
Killed with last kiss
God damned Damaris
I loved you
I loved you

And now I kiss
I kiss the earth
Oh rise up
Rise up
Rise up
Now
From the earth
And I smash my fist
Into the earth
Oh rise up
Rise up
Rise up
Now
From the earth

Black rain
Floods the downs
The black rain
Black rain


6.Thickets

(Just a little further up the hill boy,
You'll be home soon enough.)

All along the river,
peddling as fast as I could
Watch as the wasteland flowers
All cars and rubbish flourish,
with black berries and red berries
Sweet black berries
Tainted red berries
Berries
Berries

When looking for my tower
of all the rails and the roads
I need a resurrection
as my desires and power, grown thicket
tall around me
Tall around me
Tall around me
Around
Around
Around now

Well, have I been travelling so long
that I forgot how to stop?
Why are my brakes all broken?
Wheels spinning out of control
In mirror
pale and deathly have become
Oh, what have I become?
Mother
what have I have become?
Become
Become
Become now
Now
And all my wastelands flower
(and all my wastelands flower)
And all my thickets grow on and
And all my wastelands flower
(when all my wastelands flower)
And all my thickets grow tall and tall
Still damn tall
Tall and tall
And around
All around me
(round and round and round)
What have I become?
Pale and deathly have become
What have I become?
Pale and deathly have become


7.Count Of Casualty

Awake young minister,
There is message to be delivered
Awake young passenger
Awake your country

Youre going to need
to find some strength now
to wake up

this war without an end
What peace do you defend?
This was without an end
What Fear do you depend on?

I dare you
Log off
Sign out
Deliverence
Start to count your
Count your casual
Count your casualties
Count your casual
Count your casualties
Count your casual
Count your casualties

We come
This war without an end
What peace do you defend
this war without an end
What fear do you depend on?

Count your casualties
Start.

A thousand Human Lives.
with you alive
Human Lives
with you alive


8.Who Will

Who will penetrate the tightening muscle
Who will cut across the thickening skin
Who will be the one to reach their hand then
And pull off a golden harp
Who will
Who will
Who will
Who will
From oh hmm hmm hmm the ashes
Of oh hmm hmm hmm the crushes
Who will
Be the one
Be the one
Who will lay down in green pastures
Or leave me from the burning sand
Who will be the one to lay their cards down
And always hope the winning hand
Who will
Who will
Be the one
From ohh ohh hmm hmm the ashes
Of ohh hmm hmm hmm the crushes
Who will
Be the one
be the one
Who will be the one


9.Vulture

losing my head to hollywood
my liver to london
my youth to tokyo
still on with the show
on
and on
and on
on'
'it's a
hard
lesson
but let me learn...'
'and the big wheels turn, turn
all your forest fires burn
and all my dead meat yearns
for the vulture's return
take this
d-d-d-d-d-d-dead meat
my
d-d-d-d-d-d-dead meat
your
d-d-d-d-d-d-dead meat
my
d-d-d-d-d-d-dead meat
coming down
vulture
coming down
down
down
down'

down in santa monica
suicide motel
one date with the devil
satan
seven days in hell
but mother don't worry
i said the boy is doing fine
home in a hurry
i'll be sane with good time'


10.Blackdown

and i walked west sussex sunlight
up by dead mans pool
where ma, mudlarck and lewes
stared me down, you drunken fool
old teenage debts engulfed my chest
as i contemplate death
put a challenge to its glamour
and all its loss and glory
wet afternoon breath
was taken deep into my lungs
thinking of the man i must become
my story has just begun
and i will be returning to myself soon
for i've been alone for too many
of the great moments in my life
alone like so many
but at this moment in my life.....
father, father, any way i can help ye?
I am only just growing better to know thee....
thank you for all the things you've given to our family...
given with your heart to your wife and my sister and me...
now i look out west of battle where our ancestors lie in grave,
out to breed where the blacksmith put root to our family name...
I get proud of my birthright,
think of the things i must leave
when i leave behind the city
and the living
finally

desire
desire
deep down inside of me
you are not the maker nor the master of me
help me to better support my family
to better better of a brother be....
desire
desire
deep down inside of me
you are not the wrecker nor the ruler of me
desire
desire
deep down in me
i've been alone for so many
of these great moments in my life...
alone like so many
desire, despair and death
you are not the wrecker nor the ruler of me


11.The Sun Is Often Out

parliament is closing, and all of bermondsey's asleep.
the street light warps the water, rising fast and dark and deep.
was your work of art so heavy that it will not let you live?
you'll be missed.
soon there'll be flowers in the river, tears being shed.
you'll be missed, you'll be missed.

see, life has blessed you with a gift, boy,
that you've gone and thrown away.
you've ruined your only future, and left behind your family.
they're throwing flowers in the river,
tears are being shed, you are missed.
they're throwing flowers in the river
where your body cold was found, you are missed.

now i sit down here at low tide.
(???)
stephen, this is where i live now,
and i've overcome my demons.
i have grown out of that thinking
that would not let me live or give.
i throw my flowers in the river,
tears are being shed, you are missed.
and the poem reads,
and i remember the day you told me that the sun,
the sun, the sun, the sun is often out.
yes, the sun, the sun, the sun, the sun is often out.
i wish i had known you better.
yes, the sun, the sun, the sun, the sun is often out.
was your work of art so heavy that it would not let you live?


12.Theseus

so once you've killed the minotaur
how you gonna find your way out of the maze
here the jealous hand of bitter men
carve the meat before the table is laid
and they are hungry, they are hungry for you
and they are hungry, they are hungry for you
with an appetite so insatiable
they are hungry, they are hungry for you

the warm thread of love leads you to freedom
once the hero's deed is done
you leave her lying without a parasol
in the slow solitaire sun
and she is hungry, she is hungry for you
and she is hungry, she is hungry for you
with an appetite so generous
she is hungry, she is hungry for you

no surrender to a lover
or the wars of the news
of many blisses to uncover
a black sail billows, the sun hits a blade
and you are hungry, you are hungry for you
and you are hungry, you are hungry for you


13.Battle

Drive!
Battle means victory

B-b-b-back up
Back up in New York
Back up for equal rights
Battle, battle, battle, battle

Back up all your liberties
back up all night
Battle, battle, battle, battle

It's your time so join the tribe

It's our time for some victor
I lay here untied

Fight!
Ride!

Lest they be certain of their heirloom (?!?)

Then battle the conservative
Battle for your
Battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle the homophobe, battle for that war
Battle, battle, battle, battle
It's your time to join the tribe
It's our time for some victor
Reigning victor
Your victor!

Fight!
An activist
Drive!
An optimism fight

Fight!
Battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle, battle, battle, battle
Drive
It's your time
v-v-v-v-v-victory

Since I was twelve
And me versus the world
Got so sick of being told
My identity was a minority

I would not try
But you've got a battle
Drive!
And it's our time
Did you know it's time to get some, get some victory?
Yes it's time for some victor
yeah me, oh
Yeah me, yeah!
Battle, battle, battle, battle
Victory!
This is our battle


14.The Messenger - Patrick Wolf (2009)

Yes I can make home here in good time
But in good time is a gift that won't be mine
That's fine

I'll seize the day
Make life as traveler
Work as messenger
With my pain and my pleasure
All want me

I won't fear what tomorrow may take
Still blind to my future and fate
Start my traveling now

Feelings kept deep
First came that dream, to be seen
To know love, the world and all it's stages
Now 25, made it alive and what a life I have known
Not gonna stop, never fully grown

Remember
I won't fear what tomorrow may take
Still blind to my future and fate
I want to hear what the others may say
Let only the love lead the way
And start my traveling now

Traveling
I'm traveling
I'm traveling

I see the redwoods, the deserts, my brothers, my sisters
The music, the moments I can never regret the cursed and blessed
open road
Open road
Open road
Open road

Open road

When all else fails, remember
Always
Always
The open road