1.Falling Out Of Love (With You) (with Dean Wareham)
Lyricist:Stephen Merritt
In an old silver line
I was yours, you were mine
I was hoarse, you were mean
We designed drum machines
But every day in every way
I'm falling out of love with you
Every kiss means less and less
I'm falling out of love with you
Every hour kills a flower
I'm falling out of love with you
You just bore me more and more
I'm falling out of love with you
They made sounds much like drums
I was young you were dumb
Now you're older and I'm wiser
We design synthesizers
But every day in every way
I'm falling out of love with you
Every kiss means less and less
I'm falling out of love with you
Every hour kills a flower
I'm falling out of love with you
You just bore me more and more
I'm falling out of love with you
2.Just Like A Movie Star
Lyricist:Stephin Merritt
I spent all day dreaming
Of the way I'd like to hold you
So I got absolutely nothing done
But it was so much fun
And have I told you
How beautiful you are tonight?
Just like a movie star
Quit your job, dear
Then you can stay
Here at home beside me
You be James Dean
I'll be Sal Mineo
You can hide me
How beautiful you are tonight
Just like a movie star
3.You You You You You
Lyricist:Stephin Merritt
Even though I met you only recently
I find myself falling in love with you
I don't know quite how to put this decently
But what's the chance
That you could love me too?
Who, who, who, who, who
Has made my dreams come true
And turned my gray sky blue?
Why, it's you you you you you
Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo
Like amorous lovebirds do
Who made my world seem new?
'Tis, 'tis you you you you you
You make me feel like I'm seventeen again
You make everything beautiful seem true
I can't wait to go to sleep and dream again
'Cause every dream I dream's
A dream of dreamy little you
You make the world go round
The sun go up and down
The flowers bloom in May
The children laugh and play
Shall we choose the day?
4.Movies In My Head
Lyricist:Mary Chapin Carpenter, Gary Nicholson
While it may come as a shock, I wasn't born to love you
Though you've tried every trick known to Madison Avenue
I'll eat all chocolate fed to me, I'll ride in the park
But it's only fair to tell you, you're whistling in the dark
I can't remember anything you've ever said
You don't hold a candle to the movies in my head
I can't remember any life I might have led
I sit in the dark and watch the movies in my head
I'm always starring in the movies in my head
You can tell me all your secrets 'til you're blue in the face
You can stare in my eyes but I'll be off in a daze
In my Indonesian palace I will probably stay
You can give me rings and roses, I will throw them away
I can't remember anything you've ever said
You don't hold a candle to the movies in my head
I can't remember any life I might have led
I sit in the dark and watch the movies in my head
I'm always starring in the movies in my head
I can't remember anything you've ever said
You don't hold a candle to the movies in my head
I can't remember any life I might have led
I sit in the dark and watch the movies in my head
I'm always starring in the movies in my head
5.Aging Spinsters
You can have a fall
And winter of your own
Staying warm inside
Your Victorian home
But when the city's so hot
The windows burst into flames
When the Jesus freaks
Collapse with the weight of their claims
Marry young, Diana
I don't want to see you old and alone
It's no fun, Diana, I don't want to see you
Rot in the home for aging spinsters
You should fins someone
As loyal as a dog
Who will still love you
When you look like a frog
Someone to rock you chair
And bring you pink lemonade
Someone to peel your grape
At 100 in the shade
6.Dream Hat
I've been working in these here fields
It's like it's something real
Like it's got something to do with me
Looking out on a wasted life
With a wasted wife
Who will have nothing to do with me
But I wear a dream hat now
One that's made of silk and lace
I wear a dream hat now
The only way to leave this place
I wear a dream hat now
And give up on the human race
I wear a dream hat now
So I don't have to see your face
I have suffered a million fools
In factories and schools
And in my little trailer home
I have suffered a million fools
In rags and in jewels
I just want to be let alone
But I wear a dream hat now
One that's made of silk and lace
I wear a dream hat now
The only way to leave this place
I wear a dream hat now
And give up on the human race
I wear a dream hat now
So I don't have to see your face
7.You Can't Break A Broken Heart
Sometimes you remind me of a doll
Lifelike but so frail and so small
Your plastic eyes see nothing
And your painted lips are still
And I know you don't love me but you will
You've tried science, you've tried art
But you can't break a broken heart
You can tear my brain apart
But you can't break a broken heart
You cried when you knew I would look
You tried every trick in the book
But I read that book yesterday
And yesterday's for fools
And I won't play by yesterday's dumb rules
8.Winter In July
All alone in Melbourne
All I do is cry
All as I see is rain falling
It's winter in July
In another city
'Neath another sky
Are you feeling lonely?
It's winter in July
Would you have fallen in love
If I'd stayed another day?
You could have fallen in love
But you let me fly away
I saw something in your eyes
That I'll never find again
And now there's something in mine
So I'll walk out in the rain
All alone in Melbourne
All I do is cry
All as I see is rain falling
It's winter in July
In another city
'Neath another sky
Are you feeling lonely?
It's winter in July
It's winter in July
9.Puerto Rico Way
The sun pissing in the streets
Of some hung over place
Dances with two left feet
Upon her face
But soft, she is fast asleep
Beneath her mosquitoes
You would never want to know
What she knows
I met a girl down Puerto Rico way
With an eye as true as steel
And the hair grew red upon her head
Oh, love it would have been ideal
The summer air down Puerto Rico way
Is as hot as it can be
But the orchestra plays night and day
Martina, will you dance with me?
She's drunk every single day
She's young most of the time
She's spent all of the rent
On her decline
She's fun, fun to be around
She's done everything once
She's a fallen woman
Fallen sound asleep in the sun
10.In The City In The Rain
In the city in the rain, you've got a beautiful face
In the city in the rain, you vanish without a trace
In the city in the rain, you've got mysterious ways
In the city in the rain, I'm gonna spend all my days
I think I'm gonna dance
All night long
I think I'm gonna dance
Till the moon goes down
In the city in the rain, inside a smoky cafe
In the city in the rain, you tell me that you'll stay
In the city in the rain, you suddenly slip away
In the city in the rain, I'm gonna spend all my days
I think I'm gonna dance
All night long
I think I'm gonna dance
Till the moon goes down
In the city in the rain, I hear the screaming of tires
In the city in the rain, I'm setting myself on fire
In the city in the rain, among the beautiful lights
In the city in the rain, I think I'll dance all night
I think I'm gonna dance
All night long
I think I'm gonna dance
Till the moon goes down
11.When I'm Out Of Town
Where do you go
When I'm not around?
Who do you love
When I'm out of town?
The butcher, the baker
The thin undertaker
Who makes not a sound?
Who do you love
When I'm out of town?
Have all my dreams
Come tumbling down?
Who's in your arms
Where I used to drown?
The old moneylender
The lonely bartender
The carnival clown?
Who do you love
When I'm out of town?
Don't say
'It doesn't matter anyway'
Because it doesn't matter
What you say
All of our pages
Are turning to brown
We're breaking up
And I'm breaking down
The man in the forest
The dashing young florist
The nurse musclebound?
Who do you love
When I'm out of town?
12.San Diego Zoo
Met you on a traffic island, we were there all day
In the middle of the world's highway
Summer left its light green lipstick on our war faces
Took us to all the pretty places
High 405 will take you from the Boom Boom Room
To Interstate 5 which goes right to the San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo, San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo, San Diego Zoo
How could I have ever left you?
Left you in a sidewalk café, I'm the restless kind
And I must have been out of my mind
'Cause I haven't slept since Wednesday, I've been getting thin
I just want to see your silly grin
High 405 will take you from the Boom Boom Room
To Interstate 5 which goes right to the San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo, San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo, San Diego Zoo
How could I have ever left you?
13.Glue
Could God really be so cruel?
To give us feelings that could never be fulfilled.
'cause I ain't ever found peace upon the breast of a girl
I ain't ever found peace with the religion of the world
I ain't ever found peace at the bottom of a glass
sometimes it seems the more I ask for the less I receive
In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch.
All the thoughts unuttered & all the feelings unexpressed
Play upon our hearts like the mist upon our breath.
But, awoken by grief, our spirits speak
'How could you believe that the life within the seed
that grew arms that reached
And a heart that beat.
And lips that smiled
And eyes that cried.
Could ever die?'
How many whores have walked through that door
Lain by my side & climbed in my mind
& taken me down to where the heat
blisters the skin upon my feet
makes me reach out & weep for the days when
I was pure of heart & slept in peace.
Everybody knows what's going wrong with the world
But I don't even know what's going on in myself.
I smell the pain upon the breath of the lost & lonely
I hear the thoughts that whisper in the hearts of all men.
You're the strangest feeling I ever had.
You make me cry when you look into my eyes.
And see me for who I really am.
I've got too much energy to switch off my mind,
but not enough to get myself organized.
Don't tell me what your name is--
I want your body, not your mind,
I want a feeling, worth paying for before I say goodbye
But as I was talking, I couldn't look her in the eyes,
I just kept wondering,--
How many men unleashed their frustration between her thighs?
I was trying so hard to please myself,
I was turning into somebody else.
Well, whats a man got left to fight for
when he's bought his freedom
by the look of this human jungle
It aint just the poor who'll be bleeding!
I was just another western guy,
--with desires that couldn't be satisfied
The calendar, on your wall, is ticking the days off.
The calendar on your wall is ticking the days off.
You've been reading some old letters --
You smile and think how much you've changed.
All the money in the world --
Couldn't bring back those days.
You could've done anything -- if you'd wanted --
And all your friends and family think that you're lucky.
But the side of you they'll never see --
Is when you're left alone with the memories --
That hold your life together like --
- GLUE
14.Heartland
Beneath the old iron bridges, across the victorian parks,
& all the frightened people running home before dark,
Past the Saturday morning cinema--
that lies crumbling to the ground,
& the piss stinking shopping centre in the new side of town.
I've come to smell the seasons change, & watch the city,
as the sun goes down again.
CHORUS
Here comes another winter, of long shadows & high hopes,
Here comes another winter, waitin for utopia,
waitin for hell to freeze over.
This is the land, where nothing changes,
the land of red buses & blue blooded babies,
This is the place, where pensioners are raped,
& the hearts are being cut, from the welfare state,
Let the poor drink the milk, while the rich eat the honey,
Let the bums count their blessings, while they count the money.
So many people, can't express what's on their minds,
Nobody knows them & nobody ever will,
Until their backs are broken & their dreams are stolen,
& they can't get what they want, then they're gonna get angry!
Well it ain't written in the papers, but its written on the
walls
The way this country is divided to fall,
So the cranes are moving on the skyline--
Trying to knock down--this town
But the stains on the heartland, can never be removed,
from this country, that's sick, sad, and confused.
CHORUS
The ammunition's being passed, and the lords been praised,
But the wars on the televisions will never be explained,
All the bankers gettin sweaty, beneath their white collars,
As the pound in our pocket, turns into a dollar.
This is the 51st state--of the U. S. A.
(Repeat and fade)
15.Lonely Planet
Planet Earth is slowing down
Overseas, underground
Wherever you look around
Lord, take me by the hand
lead me through these desert sands
To the shores of a promised land.
You make me start when you look into my heart
And see me for who I really am.
If you can't change the world. Change yourself.
If you can't change the world. Change yourself.
I didn't care if the sun didn't shine
& the rain didn't fall from the sky
I just cared about myself
From this world to the next
And from the next back to this.
By our actions we are bound.
We're running out of love
running out of hate
running out of space for the human race.
Planet Earth is slowing down.
You make me cry when you look into my eyes.
And see me for who I really am.
If you can't change the world. Change yourself.
If you can't change the world. Change yourself.
And if you can't change yourself....change the world.
I'm in love with the planet I'm standing on
I can't stop
I can't stop thinking of
All the people I've ever loved
All the people I have lost
All the people I'll never know
All the feelings I've never shown.
The world's too big. And life's too short.
To be alone...To be alone. side & climbed in my mind
& taken me down to where the heat
blisters the skin upon my
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