Karmarama

Picture House Karmarama Lyrics
1.A Thousand Years Of Evolution

(browne/maitland)

He wants her
She leads him on and on
He just can't escape
A thousand years of evolution
Build at once into confusion
He watches
Her walking home again
He just can't pretend
Tries to look in other places
As she bends to tie her laces

(chorus)
They see everything from everywhere
Could be anyone of anywhere
The world sees her everywhere
The shape god gave her
Never saved her from

White collar
He wants her everytime she opens her mind
Comes to him for consultation
Secret midnight visitation
He wants her
She's showing off again
The show's just for him
He promises of god's forgiveness
Gives himself unfinished business

(chorus)

She led a beautiful life such a beautiful life
A beautiful crime she knows now
She found out every man
Is one and the same
'for these things they never train us
Beautiful's the same as famous'

(chorus)

They see everything from everywhere
Could be anyone or anywhere
Nothing changes
Nothing changes


2.All The Time In The World

(browne/maitland)

There was a time we saw life
Like it had no end
And no darkness in our days
For our sins you walk in
And everything changed
Now we stare darkness in the face

Just like the papers say
When they always say goodbye
And just like we're here today
We will always stay together until then

(chorus)
We have all the time in the world
We have all the time in the world
All the time in the world
We have all the time in the world

We've got something inside
You and i
We'll get through it
Don't be scared to be afraid
There's many days many nights
In another life
Every moment that we've saved (then it begins)
Things we'll never say
We will never say goodbye
And just like we're here today
We will always stay together until then

(chorus)


3.Bring The House Down

(browne)

Like a crowd when the pin drops
Like a ride that you can't get off
High wire on a high hope
Tight walk on a tight rope
Cold night make you breathe in
Hot lights make the show begin

Catch your breath as your heart stops
It's what you want but it's never enough
Grey days in a blue town
Every time the circus calls round
Pulling out of a tail spin
Put it up in the mess you're in

Chorus
Once you bring the house down, bring the house down
I'd walk if walking meant that i lose myself
Look if looking made me go blind
Scream but screaming only serves to cloud my mind

Strange scene that you don¹t know
Ringside at the freak show
Paint cracks as you're walking on in
Butter's thick and the air is thin
By now you're the star of the show
Sat alone in a gaping hole

Chorus


4.Do't Believe Me

(browne)

Corners round off the edges
Of my broken heart
Borders, close off the edges
Of my mind
Won't you be my love
Every time i see that
Look in your eyes
Be my life
It's only then that i realise
Be my home
Don't believe me
When i tell you goodbye
Whatever i might say
Don't believe me

Slow down
What hurry are you in anyway
I wonder now
There's nothing
Nothing i won't do to keep you here

So won't you be my love


5.Fear Of Flying

(browne/glenister)

Heart says i have to try
For all the wherefores
All the whys
Head says i'll be lying
Like a building fell to the ground
The glass foundations crashing down
Love, there's no denying

So i'll wait
Till the fire stops
Wait till the pressure drops
Over your fear of flying
Fear of flying

Like this cold wind
That's blowing through this love
Left a hole deep in my side
Slowly agonising
And my heart says it's time to lie
Watch the world from higher skies
Head says no surprises
You're so nearly gliding

So i'll wait
Till the fire stops
Wait till the pressure drops
Over your fear of flying
Yes i'll wait till you come around
Till you know you won't hit the ground
Over fear of flying


6.Got To Let You Go

(browne/maitland)

I've got to let you go
'cause i feel that i'm changing
I've got to let you go
'cause i fear that we might fade

How many ribbons could we untie?
How many pleasures do we deny?
I guess the river's finally run dry

Oh i've got to let you go
All those pictures you see us in
Really just a show
They were taken in two

(chorus) how can this move forward when it's barely alive
I'd love it to thrive
The chance just passed us by and if another ever arrives
I'd love to be there but it's no longer right
Oh i've got to let you go


7.Life Goes On

(browne/maitland)

Like a holy floor
That you walk over
Like an open sore
Needs to be bandaged
I need you here
Like a little child
Has an open mind
Too near the time
To see the darkness
I need you here

I hoped i'd find
I know it only matters 'till it's gone
Once it's gone
Life goes on


8.Love In The Streets

(browne/maitland)

Opens the show, the devil you know
You're better off staying at home
High on the grass and the lebanese
Lying at home, what do you know
You're better off hanging up the phone
There's nobody there but the sound of the breeze

And you can't deny there's a world outside
With an earth and a moon and a sun in the sky
You might die trying but you might find
Love in the streets
There's got to be love in the streets
There's got to be love there for me
I'm tired of believing a broken dream
Ah yeah
There's got to be love in the air
Before someone kicks out my chair
I'm through with believing there's no-one there
It would make me feel alright
If you would take me out tonight
'cause i'd just love to spend the summer in the streets

Faces that say you're well on your way
You've only got to get through today
Something's no good if it's in your way
And lying at home is the devil you know
You're better off hanging up the phone
There's nobody there but the sound of the breeze

(bridge and chorus)


9.Me Myself And You

(browne/maitland)

Sometimes
When i finally reach the end of the day
Where i've been i couldn't say
Meantime
I repeat myself in this familiar scene
Like a xerox machine spins around
They built it in

Some days things can be perfectly clear
And the next day hopelessly blurred
In the rear view mirror reflects
All those things i left behind
I'm a butcher i'm a baker
I'm a midnight undertaker
But there's nothing else on earth
I'd rather do
Me myself and you

Monday
Turns to friday in the spin of a wheel
And the price of my next meal
Meantime
When the only one who's making any sense
Is the drunkard on the fence
Between me and what's real

Chorus)
Someday soon we will all meet again
It's impossible to think that we have somehow reached the end
So here's to all our imaginary friends
The butchers and the bakers
And the stirrers and the shakers
And the hookers and the takers
And the addicts and the achers
And the midnight undertakers
And the rollercoaster fakers
Still there's nothing else on earth i'd rather do
Me myself and you


10.Midas

(browne/maitland)

Midas was sitting alone on the brink
It was only his time he was wasting
Holding a photograph framed with silver
He just couldn't turn into gold
And you won't believe the things that he'd say
He sits in the shade of the dreams that escaped him

She comes to him in his mind
Drifts in and out of his time
From a place with no day and no night
Will i be alright alright alright

Silas was shifting the dust from his memories
So little time left for saving
Out in the snow and she never came home
It was hard just to live through the cold
God only knows the things that he says
Are tricks of the trade to save from remembering

(chorus)

God only knows the things that he says
Are tricks of the trade to save from remembering

(chorus)


11.One In A Million

(browne/glenister)

Getting peeled off another bar
I've got to go but it's just too far
She's looking good for a night in a padded cell
Like a virus with no antidote
She's looking good but she might be a bloke
She could be venus but it's getting so hard to tell

(chorus)
How would i know the kind of love
One in a million girls
One in a million years
Could give me

I see the smiles through the coloured smoke
I'd love to laugh but i don't ge the joke
Guess i'm the star in a one man show
Pour me a cab with a lemon twist
A bowl of peanuts and a well-placed fist
Oooh i'm seeing those chips again

(chorus)

Looking at the world
Why can't it see me
You know i wish it could see me

(chorus)


12.Only A Friend

(browne/maitland/glenister)

You have all you want
Your shadow stands so tall
You can't see over it
And it's what you need

There's no-one going to
Stop you from believing it
And so the game begins
Watching the china spin
Walking on gilded pins

(chorus)
Become more than a mother's son
Who jumped the blocks before the gun
Disturbed the silent sun i know
Only a friend would know
And though you think it just don't show
Only a friend would notice
Only a friend would know

When you're getting down
Remember all the things
We used to dream about
How you'd leave this town
And be the only thing they'd talk about
There's something to be said
For laying down and playing dead
Why don't you live instead

(chorus)


13.Raining Stones

(browne/maitland)

Fade into day
It's a marvel of opium grey
I can't feel a thing
My head's on a string
Being led by the hand of a stranger
Welcome to where ever else in the world that you are
Slow motion kodachrome people are waving from cars
Who do you think we are?

(chorus)
I know something 'bout us that you don't know
And i've found something out that i can't let show
Now the lines have grown into skin and bone
And it's raining stones
But i can't feel them

Two you and me
When we walk into town we are three
The cold city smiles i drift in denial
Of the distance that's standing between us

Biting the hands of the people who feed us with care
Waking up shouting at someone when no-one is there
It's not that i'm scared of myself

(chorus)


14.Sunburst

(browne/maitland/glenister)

There's a sunburst whenever you're near me
There's a sunburst trying to break through
And i wait hopefully near you
Hoping you are trying to get nearer
To the sunburst, the one that i'm feeling
Such a sunburst, trying to break through
And i wait hopefully near you
Hoping you're maybe feeling it too

What a day
What a day
What a day she gives me
All i need
And she's taking me over
Breaking me open

Like a sunburst rising and waking
In her room she's leading me through
But i'll wait hopelessly dreaming
But knowing that dreaming is true

What a day
What a day
What a day she gives me
All i need
And she's taking me over
Breaking me open

Like a sunburst whenever you're near me
There's a sunburst trying to break through
And i wait hopefully near you
Hoping you're maybe feeling it too


15.You And I

(browne/glenister)

There you are running through
You and only you can soothe me
Can't deny this bitter truth
Addicted to this love of you
Everytime i take you out
You fill up my fear and doubts
I hold you closer than i should
As close as any killer could

(chorus)
'cause you and i aren't ordinary
This love i have will someday kill me
Who knows - maybe one day
I'll see the light
One day i might

As the day disappears
I feel you under deep beneath
My skin's alive day and night
There's nothing left that feels less right

(chorus)