Thao & Mirah

Thao & Mirah Thao & Mirah Lyrics
1.Eleven

When love is love, don't let it go away
My love is love, it won't go away
Don't ever let anybody go
Why's it so hard to hold, how come I never know?

I'm the traveling gentleman, I knew I would come back again
I swear my days were not lost on me

When love is love, don't let it go away
My love is love, it won't go away

So sorry that I couldn't put the past away
I was hoping, hoping I could hold you all the same
That I was broke and I was like a paper-weight
Holding nothing down from getting blown away
When we know we're not gonna take it all the way
We'll just have to learn to give it in a different kind of way

I know about the human heart, I have been watching yours
Forgive me for the mess I left, but?

Too sweet for my mouth, too soft for my hands
So sorry that I couldn't put the past away
I was hoping, hoping but I had you all the same
Kinda when you called to hear me calling out your name
Won't you help me keep it open, hell you want to stay

3X
When love is love, don't let it go away
My love is love, it won't go away
Don't ever let anybody go
Why's it so hard to hold, how come I never know?


2.Folks

Hold me
I am weak
Dropped from the sky
Onto my knees

Raised by wolves
Of necessity
Come closer to me

Shout like
I am near death
Reason like
I have no sense

They fed me food
And that is all
They fed me food
And that is all

I used my body
Like a handshake
Count and see
All the friends I made

Please don't be
Upset with me
You know you know
How you know
But you cannot believe


3.Little Cup

and you said you knew
how you were gonna take it
that you'd take it all
that you knew my heart was not that small
and how could we ever manage
carts and horses could never carry

all I want to give
not give enough
I want to give
not give you love

I chose the strangest little cup
to drink you from and stir you up
and you were beautiful it's true
and all I ever wanted was
to be good to you

and when you see me cry
you ask me, but I think that
you already know why
I'm staring up at the sky

and you said you understood
but promises are not that good
in this improper marriage
love and justice found miscarriage
at the only embassy
with an office for the damage

and when you see me cry
you ask me, but I think that
you already know why
I'm staring up at the sky
(x2)


4.Rubies And Rocks


5.Teeth

You have teeth I can't bear
I am out of here
I have teeth I must bare
I am out of here

What do you intend to do
To mark the end of this
When you hold
You are half letting go of it

This is the last time
I drag myself from your bed

I can't go
Please be kind
Let me loose, let me loose I said

Next time I swear:
More hope less fail

Oh, how I have tried

But I have teeth I must bare


6.Spaced Out Orbit

well I saw something that resembled that place,
on the otherside where we were together
on the moon we walked and kicked up lots of dust
we made a space cloud of us
and all that stuff we were afraid of
we had a home there
and in the glowing stare at each other
and nothing other than each other
and I thought nothing could ever touch us except the space dust
all around us


but now there's something digging down into the crust,
trying to find a ocean there
under the home we share
they sat there way down
like an earthquake we cracked
was it the government who sent them?
was it their scientific vision?
to destroy past recognition?
they did approach without concern
and when they warned us of their plan, we didn't listen
and they would take our gentle light,
our moon and our whole life
replace what we had grown with their ambition
and we would be sure to fail
if we began to form an opposition

nobodies right, they say
nobodies wrong, they say
we are generous and good
and we will have it our way
yes, we will have it our way, they say
now take all of your dust
your love and all your trust
we're sending you upon your final mission
and then I found myself in orbit
and the last thing I observed
the last words that I heard
were don't forget to send in your transmissions
we expect you to report on your condition

then I saw something that resembled that place,
on the otherside where we were together

they will take our gentle light,
our moon and our whole life
x6


7.How Dare You

Oh oh how dare you
Oh oh how dare you

[This is how I dare to
This is how I dare to]

I'm coming over to remind you of me

[No you can't lay there
That's where we used to sleep]

I swear it happens better
When it happens again

[I told you from the start
I could only see the end]

Sugar if you're sure you're going
We'll move a little slower then
If you want I could be decent
You gotta let me know when

[You can have this much
It is left from before]

I am sick with my effort
I am sick without yours

[To be fair to be fair
I never said I'd try
But I'll be fair I'll be fair
In how I spend your time]

Well I can't help it
Oh I should spare you
But I can't help it
Oh I would not dare to

Well I can't help it
Oh I should spare you
But I can't help it
Oh I would not dare to


8.Sugar And Plastic

hello today, are you still here in my home?
my dear, we awake everyday
but how can anybody stay when those lonesome tears
don't even wash away in the morning
they don't even wash away in the morning

you see in the past, there was a hopeful one
who thought that love could last
but she got eaten by surprise in the pale moonrise
and the nights gave up their night vision
that was the night she lost her night vision

and after you, I ran so fast
and after you, I panted
but then I stumbled and I cracked it,
sugar and plastic
there was just a shadow in a looking glass
wanted to see more than a shadow in a looking glass


9.Likable Man


10.Hallelujah

If you start to think that it's all over now
That the work you have done has been lost somehow
You wake up hungry in this world you've made
So much so how could you be turned away

Under thunder we drove through a black sky,
Paved with the threat we might die, oh we were so afraid
You can throw your body up against the glass but you can't stop
the rain
From pouring in once the cracks have been made

But there's still time to sing
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

Who could stay sleepin' when that garbage man came?
He stormed up the street 'cause we called out his name
With the sounds of us choking on the mess that's been made
Dig us out from this slumber

We've given salt, we've sweated off, done all this and more
So heed when you hear us knockin' on your door
We don't want to be the currency gets spent on war
And then come home wondering what was it all for

That's no way to sing
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

We been hard hard working
We've got a plan
Send home dollar bills

And fistfuls of honey
We've been working working for that money


11.Squareneck