The Magic Position

Patrick Wolf The Magic Position Lyrics
1.Overture

It's wonderful

What a smile can hide
If the teeth shine right
And it's nice and wide
So magical
All you can keep inside
If you bury it deep
No-one can find a thing
No
Well come on now
Open wide
Open up now
Don't you think it's time?

To look back at that boy on his way to school
Such a heavy heart
Such a heavy jewel
Hiding something that one day he'll sell
Now if no one know
Then no one tells a thing
No?
Well come on now open wide
Open up now
Don't you think it's time?

Now after all these years
You are at last opening
Was it worth all that war just to win?
So caught up in speed of the days
And your sin
Don't forget how the story begins
Don't forget

Now I'm seeing all your lovers and your enemies
Been turning their keys
So full of need
All trying to seize that jewel you keep

'What makes it shine?
What makes it mine?'

I don't care
No
Just come on now
Open wide
Open up now
There's so much love for what you'll find
Now what will you find?

Now after all these years
You are at last opening
Was it worth all that war just to win?
Well
If it was
Then can you take me back
To where it begins
Take me back
To where it begins
Come on
Take me back
To where it begins
Come on
Take me back
To where it begins
Come on
Open wide
And let some light in

Let it in


2.The Magic Position

The magic position
So let the people talk
This Monday morning walk
Right past the fabulous mess we're in
It's gonna be a beautiful day
So do the bluebirds sing
As I take your hand
And you take my kiss
And we take the world
Cuz out of all the people I've known
The places I've been
The songs that I've sung
The wonders I've seen
Now that the dreams are all coming true
Who is the one that leads me on through
It's you
Who puts me in the magic position, darling now
You put me in the magic position
To live, to learn, to love in the major key
I know how you've hurt
And been dragged through the dirt
But c'mon get back up
It's time to live
So give your love to me
I'm gonna keep it carefully
Deep in a treasure chest below my breast
'Cause out of all the people I've known
The places I've been
The songs that I've sung
The wonders I've seen
Now that the dreams are all coming true
Who is the one that leads me on through
It's you
Who puts me in the magic position, darling now
You put me in the magic position, darling
So let me put you in the magic position, darling
'Cause I'm singing in the, the major key
Let me put you in the major key


3.Accident & Emergency

So c'mon
Give me the worst and then again
I'm feeling braver than I've ever been
From the skull down to the feet
All out for blood and sweat and meat
And for:

Accident! Emergency!
T-t-terrorists, catastrophe
Drop this agony, and misery
Give me
Accident and emergency

Edward Larrikin- So what happens when you lose everything
You just carry on and with a grin
Sing!
For all that your life has to bring
And just get yourself back into the ring
Knuckles out!

For accident and emergency
T-t-terrorists, catastrophe
Drop this agony, and misery
Hold on for accident and emergency

If you never lose
How you gonna know when you've won
If it's never dark
How you gonna know the sun
When it shines
You've got to let it shine
Whoo-hoo

Accident. Emergency.
Accident. Emergency.
C'mon!
Accident. Emergency.
Accident. Emergency.
C'mon!

Accident and emergency
bringing out the best in me


4.The Bluebell

Down in the park
In the lost of the night
Among the stray dogs and families
I smell the bonfires and
Watch the bums.
Fireworks burst above the trees.
Some pillows of white cloud and
Another year has gone.
Now it is the fifth of November.

Now lock the doors and
Swallow the key
Draw the curtains, closed forever
Forever.


5.Bluebells

Lucy, remember
The smell of that fall
The fires the fungus and the rotten leaves
I fell off the wagon
Into your arms
Into this long month of Sundays

You were my husband, my wife, my heroine
Now this is our final December
Now I'm deep in a forest
Losing all thought of spring
And nothing can help me remember

And I'm going nowhere fast
A darker day has hold at last
Deep in a dream I set the compass to spin
And your love has come too late
I wave from the garden gate
Wake me up when the bluebells are ringing
Are ringing

How can it be over
After all that we had
Now comes a river runs through the rafters
Down down down
As you leave me sleeping
Dreaming only of spring
The phone rings out
And I've no number

But I'm going nowhere fast
A darker day has hold at last
Deep in a dream I set the compass keep spinning
And your love has come too late
And I wave to the garden gate
Wake me up when the bluebells are ringing
Raining raining raining
Hoooh
Raining raining raining
Hoooh


6.Magpie

magpie, was it you who stole the wedding ring
or what other thieving bird would steal such hope away
magpie, i am lost among the hinterland,
caught among the bracken and the fern and the boys who have no
name.

there's no name for us.
still we sing.

and still we sing.

little boy, little boy, lost and blue,
listen now, let me tell you what to do.
you can run on, run along, alone or home between the knees of
her;
all among her bracken and her ferns and the boy will have a
name.

we will sing.
and we will sing.

one for sorrow.
two for joy.
three for a girl.
four for a boy.
five for silver.
six for gold.
seven for a secret, never to be told


7.The Kiss


8.Augustine

As the bell tower blocks the summer light
All the seeds in our garden fight
To break and blossom, all to be adored
And look, your skirt is torn
And there's blood on our sheets
As comes the long arm of the law
Fist tight, banging on the door
And knocking me down on its way in

As I pass out into a dream
Of whooping cranes and wooden beams
Great white wings beating
In an attic in a house in the dead of night
Singing

Oh, my Augustine, Augustine
Oh, is this forever, ever?
Oh, oh
Sweet Augustine, Augustine
What does this mean for us?

Does it mean that I can never change my ways?
And that's why, love, you shouldn't stay
Still you will and love me
Like a mother or a maid bringing you down, down
Down on your brazen knees
Watering the worms and the weeds
Thinking 'why does love leave me so damn cold?
Now I'm getting old
And is this what it should be?'
Well, is it?

Oh, my Augustine, Augustine.
Oh, is this forever, ever?
Oh, oh
Sweet Augustine, Augustine
Or do we kill this one tonight?

And now come the tears, heavy and hot
As it comes clear, this is all we got
As I hold you to my bed
Like a cancer, or a curse
Now be my loving nurse
As we fall back into the impossible dream


9.Secret Garden

Turn the Key
Open Open?

Down Down Down

Down Down Down

Down Down Down


10.Get Lost

We could go to the cinema
Big effects and big name stars
We could go to that private view
But darling these days my favourite view is you

Let's just bin the invitations
Leave our bikes down at the station
Lose all sense of direction
With only time to lose

Come on and run, come, get lost with me
Slip away discreetly
You're my love and come away with me
Til we run on empty

Now we could stay here 'til closing time
But the drinks are flat
And the price is a crime
And we could dance 'til our feet turn red
But the beat's so boring
And I'd rather be home in our bed

This town is skipping like a record
And reruns get me so bored
So with nothing I can afford
Only time to lose

Come on and run, come, get lost with me
Slip away discreetly
You're my love, come away with me
Til we run on empty
Let's go now

Get lost with me darling
Get lost with me darling
Could this be love?
Could this be love?
Could this be love?
Come on
1,2,3, let's go
Get lost with me darling
Only time to lose
Could this be love?
Could this be love?

Let's go

Let's go


11.Enchanted

Enchanted, enchanted
This magical place that we've found
No one here but us and the sound
Of the stars and the night owls
Your breath and the rolling clouds
Enchanted, I am, by you
Now love has come to me
And set apart thee
From all of the maddening crowds
The orchard is leaning her bows
To hear our laughter
And we roll in the arder
Enchanted, I am, by you

Enchanted, I am, by you


12.The Stars

I saw, I saw the stars tonight
Mama, I saw the stars tonight

Mama, I saw the stars tonight
Orion, the plow, are burning bright
Cannot recall of where I drove
An empty lane, the lonely road
Home

I saw, I saw my star tonight
Mama, the stars are burning bright
And it came clear, that the light years
Are here at last

At left, at right.
The death, the life
As all unseen
Came into sight
The pull, the scales
The dark, the light
Mama, Papa, voila! The night!

The night!

So now to the one with the never ending invisible scars,
Look up. Look up! The stars!

Look up and see the stars tonight!
Look up. Look up! The stars tonight!

Look up and see the stars tonight!
Look up. Look up! The stars!
Tonight
Tonight
Tonight.


13.Finale