The Indescribable Wow

Sam Phillips The Indescribable Wow Lyrics
1.I Don't Want To Fall In Love

We're not lovers you and i
I can't think of reasons why
I should want you like that
I'm stranded by my passion
The whole idea fits us
Like a suit gone out of fashion

As i said goodbye and drove away
Things i'd like to hear you say
Rolled across my mind like clouds
In an unexpected flurry
I stumbled on a minefield
Where desire was still buried

I don't want to fall in love - with the idea of
I don't want to fall in love - with love

Sentimental circumstance disguised
As fate with wild romance
Fools me into thinking you're the water
For my thirst
Not knowing what you're feeling for me
Only makes it worse

I don't want to fall in love - with the idea of
I don't want to fall in love - with love


2.I Don't Know How To Say Goodbye

I don't know how to say goodbye to you
I'm not good at things that i don't want to do
Should i pretend that i don't care
That you don't feel what i feel is there

I don't know how to say goodbye

A kiss might insist that we play
The game of lovers
A touch might give away too much
Would my feeling be discovered

Would you be scared if i just stared
And let you look inside me
Or should i smile and walk away
So my eyes won't betray me


3.Flame

Flame why do i come so close to you
Vain telling me what i shouldn't do
I saw you smoldering before
I let him burn me to the floor - flame

Flame why do you paralyze my soul
Pain if i hold you or let go
There's nothing bluer than your heat
You make the night bleed at your feet - flame

Break my fall into this wild fire of love
Stolen from dreams

Flame why do i dance so close to you
Stained with the longing of a fool
When fires rise the shadows fall
Over the edges where we crawl - flame


4.Remorse

Pulling the trigger
A shot would fire then he'd wake
To red lips above him smeared
With scorn and stale restraint
She covered him with pity
Like a snake about to strike
And then pronounced him hopeless
When he wouldn't do as she would like

He's so sorry he can't feel remorse
He tries to keep the helpless ship on course
The blameless sky pales as a storm comes
Taking it by force
He's so sorry

Flashes of justice
After all she'd done for him
For the first time she was quiet
As he touched her moon pale skin
They found him hours later
He was talking to the gun
Saying father please forgive her
She has killed her only son


5.What Do I Do

What do i do when i want to
Be as close as i can get to you
I feel like a cruel girl saying both yes and no
I want you to want me
I need to trust you though

What do i do when i fall through
Fears so long and dark that i lose you
I feel like a lost girl
Letting my torn heart show
If you're so far away boy
How will you ever know

I feel like a small girl
Falling beneath your form
If i set you on fire - will you keep me warm?


6.I Can't Stop Crying

I saw black and you saw red
Crawled to separate corners
The line went dead i closed my heart up tore your love
For me to shreds

Tangled wires / love can't breathe
Pulling tighter to my ruthless need
Don't look down i want you unconsolably

I can't stop crying

Stubborn distance closes in
With your assistance bitterly begin
To build a wall of silence cutting soul in two
Cloudy water in my eyes
I'm ashamed of words with secret knives
In dream i scream but you can't
Hear me calling you

I know that this heartache is
A speck in the sky of love
But it's all i feel around me


7.Holding On To The Earth

If i close my eyes
I'm afraid i won't wake up
If i stop and listen
I'm afraid i'll hear too much

Trying to hold on to the earth
Holding on for what it's worth

I've got a long black cadillac
Marble hot tub in the back
Champagne waterfall
Solid gold question mark twenty feet tall

Try to paint a world of shapes
Over the holes as we're falling
The tightened grip is our mistake
As we're trying to hold on to the earth

Looking for his name
Wet on brave lips carved on road
Look for flame and mercy
Hope that tired hands can hold


8.She Can't Tell Time

She can't tell time it's not listening to her
When faith went blind i could see light
Through her
Her vigils in the street left
My youth incomplete
Left meaning obsolete

Sleep i can't sleep / she can speak
But she can't tell time
Dream i can't dream / she can scream
But she can't tell time

She can't tell time she didn't get
What she deserved
When faith went blind she found the truth
But lost her nerve
When she won't act her age
The cat circles round the cage
Youth shrinks to tired rage


9.What You Don't Want To Hear

I can't hide the truth from you
In a closet of some kindness
Time will sharpen its blade
And it will cut you when you find it
I wish that i could lie to you baby

I've got what you don't want to hear
How do i tell you

I tried to hold my soul back
But its tide is so much stronger
Than the drifting feelings
We want to hold a little longer
I wish that i could lie to you baby

For far too long your lies protected you
Now i have to hurt you with the truth

We will find love someday
But the longer we hold on now
The longer it will be until we find it


10.Out Of Time

Tonight i'll leave you there where i found you
Starting up the hill / an echo standing still
Love has turned on us like the wild
Listen to the scream / of our desperate dream
Did we say forever and what ever did we mean

Now my friend we're out of time
Someone take me out of time

I dreamed of eyes like his open windows
Secrets looking through / dark sky burning blue
But i kept them to myself / quiet pieces
To the urgent voice / violent with choice

Tonight i'll leave you there where i found you
Starting up the hill / an echo standing still
Our shadows cry for us as the dust moves
Time won't tell us why we let love go by