Battle For The Sun

Placebo Battle For The Sun Lyrics
1.Kitty Litter

The way you're dancing
Makes me come alive
Makes me shiver and perspire
Your surreptitious glancing
The way you crack a smile
You really start a fire

So move closer
I want to feel your touch
So come over
Come on

Love of mine
This fortress in our heart
Feels much weaker
Now we're apart
Love of mine
This fortress in our heart
Comes crashing down

I need a change of skin
I need a change

The way you're moving
Hips from side to side
Makes you all that I desire
Batsheba of my choosing, I'm so unsatisfied
You got what I require

So move closer
I gotta feel your touch
So come over
So come on

So move closer
I gotta feel your touch
So come over
Come on

Love of mine
This fortress in our heart
Feels much weaker
Now we're apart
Love of mine
This fortress in our heart
Comes crashing down

I need a change of skin
I need a change I need a change,
I need a change of skin
I need a change, I need a change of skin
I need a change, I need a change of skin
I need a change, I need a change of skin

Love of mine
This fortress in our heart
Feels much weaker
Now we're apart
Love of mine
This fortress in our heart
Comes crashing down


2.Ashtray Heart

Mi cenicero, mi cenicero
Mi corazon de cenicero
Mi cenicero, mi cenicero
Mi corazon de cenicero

You are the burden to our ways
You are the one who took my place
You took a jump into forever
A leap of faith I could not take

And it was
A leap of faith I could not take
A promise that I could not make
A leap of faith I could not take
A promise that I could not make

Mi cenicero, mi cenicero (my ashtray heart)
Mi corazon de cenicero (my ashtray heart)
Mi cenicero, mi cenicero (my ashtray heart)
Mi corazon de cenicero

You were alone before we met
No more forlorn than one could get
How could we know we had found treasure?
How sinister and how correct

And it was
A leap of faith I could not take
A promise that I could not make
A leap of faith I could not take
A promise that I could not make

Mi cenicero, mi cenicero (my ashtray heart)
Mi corazon de cenicero (my ashtray heart)
Mi cenicero, mi cenicero (my ashtray heart)
Mi corazon de cenicero

Mi cenicero, mi cenicero (my ashtray heart)
Mi corazon de cenicero (my ashtray heart)
Mi cenicero, mi cenicero (my ashtray heart)
Mi corazon de cenicero

I tore the muscle from your chest
And used it to stub out cigarettes
I listened to your screams of pleasure
Now watch the bedsheets turn blood red

Mi cenicero, mi cenicero (my ashtray heart)
Mi corazon de cenicero (my ashtray heart)
Mi cenicero, mi cenicero (my ashtray heart)
Mi corazon de cenicero

Mi cenicero, mi cenicero (my ashtray heart)
Mi corazon de cenicero (my ashtray heart)
Mi cenicero, mi cenicero (my ashtray heart)
Mi corazon de cenicero


3.Battle For The Sun

I, I, I will battle for the Sun, Sun, Sun,
And I, I, I won't stop until I'm done, done, done,

You, you, you are getting in the way, way, way,
And I, I, I have nothing left to say, say, say

I, I, I, I, I
Will brush off all the dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt,
And I, I, I, I, I
Will pretend it didn't hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt,
hurt,
You, you, you, you,
you are a black and heavy weight, weight, weight,
Weight, weight, weight, weight,
And I, I, I, I, I will not participate,
Pate, pate, pate, pate, pate, pate, pate

Dream brother, My killer, My lover
Dream brother, My killer, My brother

I, I, I will battle for the Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun,
Cause, I, I, I have stared down the battle of a gun, gun, gun
...
No fun, you, you, you, you, you are a cheap and nasty,
Fake, fake, fake, fake, fake fake fake...
And I, I, I, I, I am the bones you couldn't break,
break, break, break, break, break, break, break

Dream brother, My killer, My lover
Dream brother, My killer, My brother

Dream brother, My killer, My lover
Dream brother, My killer, My brother
Dream brother, My killer, My lover
Dream brother, My killer, My brother

I, I, I will battle for the Sun.


4.For What It's Worth

The end of the century
I said my goodbyes
For what it's worth I always aim to please
But I nearly died
For what it's worth C'mon lay with me
'Cause I'm on fire
For what it's worth I tear the sun in three
To light up your eyes

For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth

Broke up the family
Everybody cried
For what it's worth I have a slow disease
That sucked me dry
For what it's worth C'mon walk with me
Into the rising tide
For what it's worth filled a cavity
Your god shaped hole tonight

For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth

No one cares when you're out on the street
Picking up the pieces to make ends meet
No one cares when you're down in the gutter
Got no friends, got no lover
No one cares when you're out on the street
Picking up the pieces to make ends meet
No one cares when you're down in the gutter
Got no friends, got no lover

(For what it's worth) Got no lover
(For what it's worth) Got no lover
(For what it's worth) Got no lover
(For what it's worth) Got no lover
(For what it's worth) Got no lover
(For what it's worth) Got no lover
(For what it's worth) Got no lover
Got no friends got no lover


5.Devil In The Details

I've been wasting all my time
With the devil in the details
I got no energy to fight
He's a fucking pal of mine
The devil in the details

And he's fixing up to take a bite
I don't see the point in trying
I got the devil in the details
He's gonna teach me wrong from right
That fucking pal of mine
The devil in the details
I'm gonna dance with him tonight

All of my wrongs
No more wicked ways
Come back to haunt me, come what may
He wrote the songs
That I hoped to write someday
Looks like the devil's here to stay

Let me take you for a ride
With the devil in the details
We'll kiss and tremble with delight
Everything is fine
With the devil in the details
We're gonna dance with him tonight

All of my wrongs
No more wicked ways
Come back to haunt me, come what may
He wrote the songs
That I hoped to write someday
Looks like the devil's here to stay
Looks like the devil's here to stay

Looks like the devil's here to stay

All of my wrongs
No more wicked ways
Come back to haunt me, come what may
He wrote the songs
That I hoped to write someday
Looks like the devil's here to stay
Looks like the devil's here to stay

Looks like the devil's here to stay

I've been wasting all my time
With the devil in the details


6.Bright Lights

Cast your mind back to the days
When I pretend' I was OK
I had so very much to say
About my crazy living
Now that I've stared into the void
So many people I've annoyed
I have to find a middle way
A better way of living

So I haven't given up
That all my choices, my good luck
Appear to go and get me stuck
In an open prison
Now I am trying to break free
In a state of empathy
Find the true and enemy
Eradicate this prison

No-one can take it away from me
And no-one can tear it apart
'Cause a heart that hurts
Is a heart that works
A heart that hurts
Is a heart that works

A heart that hurts
Is a heart that works
No-one can take it away from me
No-one can tear it apart
Maybe's an elaborate fantasy
But it's the perfect place to start

'Cause a heart that hurts
Is a heart that works
A heart that hurts
Is a heart that... works


7.Speak In Tongues

Kitty came back home from on the island
But Kitty came on home without a name
She and me's history of violence
But I long and burn to touch her just the same

So we both can speak in tongues
Ah-ah-ah-oh
So we both can speak in tongues
Ah-ah-ah-oh

Every single sense in me is heightened
There's nothing left inside to re-arrange
Like a slave to history and science
How long I burn to touch you just the same?

So we both can speak in tongues
Ah-ah-ah-oh
So we both can speak in tongues
Ah-ah-ah-oh
Until the Universe is done
Ah-ah-ah-oh
And the course of time has run
Ah-ah-ah-oh
So we both can speak in tongues

Hah-oh
Hah-oh
Hah-oh
Hah-oh
Hah-oh
Hah-oh
Hah-oh

Don't let them have their way
Don't let them have their way
You're beautiful and so blase
So please don't let them have their way
Don't fall back into the decay
There is no law we must obey
So please don't let them have their way
And don't give in to yesterday

We can build a new tomorrow, today
We can build a new tomorrow, today
We can build a new tomorrow, today
We can build a new tomorrow, today
Today
Today


8.The Never-Ending Why

The atom will implode
The fragile kingdom fall
The tremor becomes a quake
And there's a body in the lake

And as the two of us rebel
Damn you all to hell
I wonder is this all there is?

Time will help you through
But it doesn't have the time
To give you all the answers
To the never-ending why

The sound of silence grows
As spiders kissing slay
And the tumor becomes malign
But the kids are doing fine

And as the two of us rebel
And damn you all to hell
I wonder is this all there is?

Time will help you through
But it doesn't have the time
To give you all the answers
To the never-ending why

Time will help you through
But it doesn't have the time
To give you all the answers
To the never-ending why

Time will help you through
But it doesn't have the time
To give you all the answers
To the never-ending why

Time will help you through
But it doesn't have the time
To give you all the answers
To the never-ending why

Time will help you through
But it doesn't have the time
To give you all the answers
To the never-ending why


9.Julien

The payback is here
Take a look, it's all around you
You thought you'd never shed a tear
So this must astound, must confound you

Buy a ticket for the train
Hide in a suitcase if you have to
This ain't no singing in the rain
This is a twister that will destroy you

You can run but you can't hide
Because no one here gets out alive
Find a friend in whom you can confide
Julien, you're a slow motion suicide

Fallen angels in the night
And everyone is barred from heaven
Just one more hit to make it right
But everyone turns into seven

Now that it's snowing in your brain
Even ten will not placate you
This ain't no cure for the pain
This avalanche will suffocate you

You can run but you can't hide
Because no one here gets out alive
Find a friend on whom you can rely
Julien, you're being taken for a ride

You can run but you can't hide
Because no one here gets out alive
Find a friend in whom you can confide
Julien, you're a slow motion suicide
Slow motion suicide...
Slow motion suicide...
Slow motion suicide...
Slow motion suicide...
Slow motion suicide...
Slow motion suicide...
Slow motion suicide...
Slow motion suicide...
Slow motion suicide...


10.Happy You're Gone

Breathe me every time you close your eyes
Taste me every time you cry
This memory will fade away and die
Just for today, breathe me and say goodbye

How many times?
How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
How many times?
How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye

See me, in the eyes of another's child
Turn away, when you see me walking by
Once in a while
This melody will fade away and die
Just for today, breathe me and say goodbye

How many times?
How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
How many times?
How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye

And I don't even want to try
My my my my
'Cause every word from you is a lie
My my my my my my

How many times?
How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
How many times?
How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye


11.Breathe Underwater

Here comes another fall from grace
I'm always falling on my face
This attitude that I embrace
For the love I'm trying to replace
I try to kill the song
'Cause the melodie's all wrong
And there's a fever coming on

It's hard to reconcile
What I've become
With the wounded child
Hiding deep inside

Breathe underwater
I'm coming up for air
I wanna see you knock the door
I'm coming up for air
Sick of this slaughter
I'm coming up for air
'Cause I've been floating here too long

Take my ego for a ride
'Cause there's nobody by my side
It's getting hard to justify
And it won't be long to like a lie come on
My weaknesses is lay there
As people stop and stare
But it's the last time I swear

It's hard to reconcile
What I've become
With the wounded child
Hiding deep inside

Breathe underwater
I'm coming up for air
I wanna see you knock the door
I'm coming up for air
Sick of this slaughter
I'm coming up for air
'Cause I've been floating here too long

Start breathing
Start breathing
Start breathing
Start breathing
Breathe underwater
I'm coming up for air
I wanna see you knock the door
I'm coming up for air
Sick of this slaughter
I'm coming up for air
'Cause I've been floating here too long

I'm coming
I'm coming, I'm coming, coming up for air
Coming up for air
Coming up for air


12.Come Undone

You don't know how you're coming across
You don't know what you're coming across
You don't know who you're coming across
You don't know how you're coming across
So you come undone

You don't know how you're coming across
Acting like you don't give a toss
Walking around like you're on some kind of cross
And it's a shame on you, the irony's lost
When you come undone
You come undone
You know, you come undone
You know, you know, you know


You don't know how you're coming across
You don't know how you're coming across
And I don't think that you're aware of the cost

So you come undone
You come
You come undone
You know, you know, you know


13.Kings Of Medicine

They're picking up pieces of me
While they're picking up pieces of you
In a bag you will be before the day is over
While you're looking for somewhere to be
Or looking for someone to do
Stupid me to believe that I could trust in stupid you
And on the back of my hand
Were directions I could understand
Now that old buzzer Johnny Walker
Has gone and ruined all our plans
Our best mate plans

Don't leave me here to pass through time
Without a map or road sign
Don't leave me here, my guiding light
'Cause I, I wouldn't know where to begin
I ask the kings of medicine

They're picking up pieces of me
While they're picking up pieces of you
Lying on ice you will be before the day is over
So case in point, baby
That you never thought it through
Stupid me to believe I could depend on stupid you
And on the tip of my tongue
Were words that always came out wrong
'Cause they were drowned in southern comfort
Left to dry out in the sun, the noon day sun

Don't leave me here to pass through time
Without a map or road sign
Don't leave me here, my guiding light
'Cause I, I wouldn't know where to begin
I ask the kings of medicine
But it seems they've lost their power
Now all I'm left with is the hour

Don't leave me here to pass through time
Without a map or road sign
Don't leave me here, my guiding light
'Cause I, I wouldn't know where to begin
I ask the kings of medicine
But it seems they've lost their power
Now all I'm left with is the hour

Don't leave me here
Don't leave me here, oh no
I wouldn't know where to begin