Shadows

Teenage Fanclub Shadows Lyrics
1.Sometimes I Don't Need To Believe In Anything

Drifting back through blossom streets
The silent me, too loud
The cooling towers and the mysteries
The gloaming light surrounds

Deep inside, you never let go
Deep inside, you never let this go

Taking a ride on a subway train
To feel more alive when you get back out again
And if you meet those eyes you feel all is known
Under a summer sky there's a gentle wind is blowing

Sometimes I don't need to believe in anything
Sometimes I don't need to believe in anything
Sometimes I don't need to believe in anything

Heading west towards the glowing evening sunset
On an August night
Waking up before the mist is fully lifted
In the morning light

You feel the sadness in her eyes
As the autumn wind and golden leaves starts singing

Sometimes I don't need to believe in anything
Sometimes I don't need to believe in anything
Sometimes I don't need to believe in anything

Sometimes I don't need to believe in anything
Sometimes I don't need to believe in anything
Sometimes I don't need to believe in anything


2.Baby Lee

Love me, leave me
Take my possessions and go
Wine me, dine me
Wreck all the things that I know

I'm enchanted I've fallen under your spell
How can I resist when you cast them so well

Baby Lee I'm only trying to remind you
They had me in mind oh yeah when they designed you
And Baby Lee, I'm always watching from a distance
Oh marry, marry me, oh baby, now I am insisting

Wake me, shake me
Put my emotions on show
Make me suffer
Tell everyone that you know

I'm enchanted I've fallen under your spell
How can I resist when you cast them so well

Baby Lee, I'm only trying to remind you
They had me in mind, oh yeah, when they designed you
And Baby Lee, I'm always watching from a distance
Oh marry, marry me, oh baby, now I am insisting


3.The Fall

I fell into another world
I tried to discover what I was
I fell into my lovers arms
And I tried to recover what I'd lost

I'll miss part of the day
I feel the feelings I've lost
Crossing lines I'd never thought I'd cross
To uncover new ways

I turn my back on the city sights
And I climb into the mountains to see the stars
My eyes fixed time on those ancient lights
Like gravity makes fountains what they are

I'll miss part of the day
I feel the feelings I've lost
Spend my time and never count the cost
Crossing lines I'd never thought I'd cross
To uncover a new way

A new way

The leaves on the trees shield my eyes from the sun
But the leaves that I see they won't be there for long
When I light a fire underneath what I was
I won't feel sad only warmed by the loss


4.Into The City

Headlights turned on and set to stun
Waiting with everyone in the starless night
Steep climb right into the mists of (??)
Down through the cloud again (on?) the northern (side?)

Over there is a brand new river, the slow continuous (??)
By the open moors and empty fields, the serpentine twisting
right
Live wires and endless streets, the crowded valley's alight
Breaking through the warm electric glow that stretches deep out
of sight
As we drive again to the city

The city secrets open up before my eyes
The colored street is beautiful, there's butterflies
It feels so alive
Feels so alive

Street lights, I've been away too long
Missing you strolling on, every day and night
For the sweet life, joy in my heart is (strong?)
Feel it's where I belong, every day and night

Street lights...


5.Dark Clouds

The wind it haunts the valleys
The rivers running away
The cities and the soil
The pavements, stones and the clay

Dark clouds are following you
But they'll drift away
I watched the night turning into a day

The memories, illusions
Are pouring over my mind
The beautiful confusion
A voyage into the night

Dark clouds are following you
But they'll drift away
I watched the night turning into a day

The lovers and the mothers
The summers spent in the sun
The living and the dying
The race is still to be run

Dark clouds are following you
But they'll drift away
I watched the night turning into a day

Dark clouds are following you
But they'll drift away
I watched the night turning into a day

Dark clouds are following you
But they'll drift away
I watched the night turning into a day


6.The Past

Rolling through the city sprawl
On a late night train
The moon will survive us all
Waiting for a friend to call
I'm adrift again
I search for nothing at all

Modern life corrodes us all
You know that it's true
Give yourself a wake-up call
Let the past come back to rescue you

Seduced by a friendly fire
I just watch the window
Machines couldn't take me higher
Don't wanna to be a lonely liar
With a living tombstone
Your warmth fills my desire

Modern life corrodes us all
You know that it's true
Give yourself a wake-up call
Let the past come back to rescue you

I wake up to the morning star
Embraced by false phosphorescence
My dreams stay where they are
I don't know where to start
Alone and lost and guessing
Revealed by an open heart

Modern life corrodes us all
You know that it's true
Give yourself a wake-up call
You know what it'll do
Memory detains it all
Your know that it's true
Give yourself a wake-up call

Let the past come back to rescue you
The past come back to rescue you
The past come back to rescue you
The past comes back to rescue you


7.Shock And Awe

Electrical is flicker
The anchor and the strife
They are analyzing details
Through the morning, through the night

From chaos, order
From darkness, light
I will offer no resistance
I can offer no respite

Wake me when the conflict is over
I aim for a peaceful life
Shake me when this madness is no more
I favor a peaceful life

Cain and Abel
The wrong and the right
I will offer no resistance
In the battle, in the fight

Wake me when the conflict is over
I aim for a peaceful life
Shake me when this blackness is no more
I favor a peaceful life

Wake me up when the fury is over
I like living a peaceful life
Shake me when this conflict is no more
My aim is a peaceful life


8.When I Still Have Thee

From the Western Isles to the Tasman Sea
There's a world of men and machinery
But the birds still sing and the sun shines free
No, I don't need much when I still have thee

Well, the Rolling Stones wrote a song for me
It's a minor song in a major key
But the stars still shine, the museums free
No, I don't need much when I still have thee

It's a modern hymn for the you and me
For the go between and the Red Army
Long as I still breathe and the air's still free
No, I don't need much when I still have thee

But the birds still sing and the sun shines free
No, I don't need much when I still have thee
For the Rolling Stones and the Red Army
No, I don't need much when I still have thee


9.Live With The Seasons

Well, I love New York like everyone
And I go to Las Vegas to chill
I like Denver Colorado 'cause it's so laid back
And Chicago keeps it real

I only leave Dallas when I have to
But when I do I like Tulsa, OK
And I ain't got nothing against California
But I can't stand LA

Well, Orlando Florida is humid but it's swell
Austin and Nashville both freakin' rock, yes, they do
And New Orleans is evil but it's part of the appeal
You can gamble drink and swear until you drop

The state of Ohio's been great to our band
Along with Phili and Green Bay
I got nothing but love for Hollywood
But I can't stand LA

I like Salt Lake City, Portland, Frisco, Santa Fe
Indianapolis and Hartford, too
Boise, Memphis, Sioux Falls and of course KC
Along with Pittsburgh and Kalamazoo

Atlanta is our home away from home
And here's a shout out to Sauget
And I wish my friends would leave that place
'Cause I can't stand LA

Traffic sucks, no protected lefts
Snooty fucks, pollution fills the air
Gang Fights, $7 beers
And the threat of breaking off into the sea

And now to give LA the benefit of the doubt
Jimmy Kimmel In and out and great sushi
And diversity everywhere
Really hot chicks wearing next to nothing
And the Santa Monica Pier

Thank you for hair metal and the 84 Olympics
And for the BFS radio play
But please, don't take this personally
No I'm happy to visit but I'm happier to leave
And I guess what it is I'm trying to say is
I can't stand LA


10.Sweet Days Waiting

Storm clouds in the harbor
Dark waves have been drawing you in
This big old world's getting harder
Waiting for the troubled days to end

I know you're strong and I wish you well
Caught like the air in a diving bed

Hard nights in the city
Holding for the breaking of the dawn
This big old world's getting darker
Sometimes it's hard to know what's going on

'Round to the light is declining
But somewhere beyond the horizon

Sweet, sweet days are waiting there for you
Sweet, sweet days are waiting there for you
There are sweet, sweet days waiting there for you
There are sweet, sweet days waiting there for you
Sweet, sweet days waiting there for you
There will be sweet, sweet days waiting there for you


11.The Back Of My Mind

She's in the mountains looking for a melody
She says there's music living in the breeze
You just can't look beyond the horizon
She is a diamond waiting to be ?free?

She calls to me
Sweet memory
She calls to me from the back of my mind

She is a stream that's searching for a river
She is the sunlight taken by the ??
She doesn't know what's dead or living
She's like a diamond waiting to be ?free?

She calls to me
Sweet memory
She calls to me from the back of my mind

She is a river searching for an ocean
She says there's magic hidden in the ?truth?
She doesn't if she's dead or living
She is a diamond waiting to be free

She calls to me
Sweet memory
She calls to me from the back of my mind


12.Today Never Ends

The sunlight pours in through my windows
I travel back in time
The past's a place where chaos stays indoors
The time you borrowed arise tomorrow
Today's the day that never ends

I listen to your conversation and look into your eyes
They transmit different information
The time you borrowed arise tomorrow
Today's the day that never ends
The time you borrowed arise tomorrow
Today's the day that never ends, ends