Anna

The Courteeners Anna Lyrics
1.Are You In Love With A Notion

Run away from this God forsaken place
And hide away from everybody's prying face
You told Deborah that he is the one
You're going to quit Debenhams
Elope and get married in the sun

Have you really thought this through?
Is he really the one for you?

Why are you so in love with
Why are you so in love with a notion?
It doesn't do you any good
It doesn't do you any good at all

You linger on a feeling
That you can't quite put your finger on
Reminiscent of a summer in the Isle of Wight
But you think that it's too late
To back out at this stage
You need to emancipate
Step back and disengage

Have you really thought this through?
Is he really the one for you?

Why are you so in love with
Why are you so in love with a notion?
It doesn't do you any good
It doesn't do you any good at all

I dunno if he'd stay or if he be on his pedalo
Cramping from the frantic pace
You told Alison next door
That all your dreams were made
But then your home screen flashed some more
He never was one for serenade

Have you really thought this through?
Is he really the one, really the one?

Have you really thought this through?
Is he really the one for you?

Why are you so in love with
Why are you so in love with a notion?
It doesn't do you any good
It doesn't do you any good at all


2.Lose Control

Lately I've been going through
One or two things that would make the nurses on the ward turn
blue
Rabbit in the headlights with no place else to go
Can you pinpoint the place where you lost control?

Where did you lose control?
Where did you lose control?

You looked amazing, radiant like the sun
I was hold up in the hall of holes hiding from everyone
If I dried up, then I'll come back drowned
Welcome to this town

Where did you lose control?
Where did you lose control?

Rabbit in the headlights with no place else to go
Can you pinpoint the place where you lost control?


3.Van Der Graaff

Live a little bit
Have a little laugh
Roll up your sleeves and
Stick 'em on the Van Der Graaff
And watch it float away
She said 'never do this, never do that,
Watch where you're swinging that rounders bat'
What do you know?
I could've been MLB

Heart like a stone
Messages on my phone
Aftermath.
I don't need you in my life
But I want you tonight
Van Der Graaff

Complicated and pointless
Thinking of better elsewheres
Low on energy
But never sleeping
Someone call the cavalry
Sniper peeping
Solitude is a place on earth
And I've got a season ticket
We're splitting off like the A57
Cutting my own through the thicket

Heart like a stone
Messages on my phone
Aftermath.
I don't need you in my life
But I want you tonight
Van Der Graaff


4.Push Yourself

You think that you're so clever
And you think you know it all
You're risk-free, the king of stability
But the doctors predict a fall

You're content, intent, even
Of spending your days with a screen
This is the most predictable waste of life
The nation has ever seen

You need to push yourself
This is not the world
You need to push yourself
Think of Ziggy, think of all the girls

I'm not flattered, and I'm not surprised
That you roll this way
You stand back, fuck me, you're so on-track
You gobble up the Gospel as they say
'You need to come a little closer'
'No, you're wrong', you need to see the edge of the rails
Get both of your hands up
Locaste the chalkboard
And scrape your nails

You need to push yourself
This is not the world
You need to push yourself
Think of Ziggy, think of all the girls

You need to push yourself
This is not the world
You need to push yourself
Think of Ziggy, think of all the girls

You need to push yourself
This is not the world
You need to push yourself
This is not the world
You need to push yourself
This is not the world
You need to push yourself
This is not the world


5.When You Want Something You Can 't Have

So I hear your rebuilding your life
Down in Mexico way
To act out your favourite play
With your cat and piano
I always new you could play
I knew you better than your friends
Would suggest
The one who's laid claim to being your best

Well that's always the way
When you want something
That's always the way
When you want something you can't have
When you want something you can't have

You were my favourite one
But I suppose that's
Fallen on deaf ears
Because of the way that it was left
It was in the hands of the gods the sods
There an un ruley mob and on there Cv
They can now write down theft

Something's they are not for the best
And that's always the way
When you want something
That's always the way
When you want something you can't have
That's always the way
When you want something you can't have
When you want something you can't have

I never wanted this to happen this way
When do we ever a little time called never
Retrospect is such a cruel invention
No cruel intentions not a single bad

I never wanted this to happen this way
When do we ever a little time called never
Retrospect is such a cruel invention
No cruel intentions
I want something I can't have


6.Welcome To The Rave

It's always darkest before dawn
They ripped the bloody roof off
Yeah you could say the place was torn
But the city's view is slanted
Do we take our dreams for granted
Are The walls falling all around us
Oh can we be saved

Because I'm feeling like I'm leaving
Everything behind and I'm feeling
Like I'm leaving everything behind
The sun is ours to find

So how do you want to live
I've got a pass for aladdin's cave
Are you coming with
I swear you 'll never look back in to the sun
It's good to have you back
Your bones are flying out
Welcome to the rave

And I'm feeling like I'm leaving
Everything behind and I'm feeling
Like I'm leaving everything behind
The sun is ours to find

And I'm feeling like I'm leaving
Everything behind in behind in behind

Woah oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ohhhhh

Because I'm feeling like I'm leaving
Everything behind and I'm feeling
Like I'm leaving everything behind
The sun is ours to find

Woah oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ohhhhh


7.Save Rosemary In Time

Tried your luck by the vending machine
You think that they'll never suspect a thing
But I'm smarter than the average bear
And I'll be buying that ring

I'm gonna save Rosemary in time

You've taken her prisoner
But I've got a get out of jail free card
And I'm slipping it to her
Cause if you gimme an inch I'm gonna take a yard

I'm gonna save Rosemary in time

Don't say nothing I will be there any day now

Time is ticking, I don't wanna alarm you
I'll be your knight in shining armour
You gotta get out, I don't wanna alarm you
I'll be your knight in shining armour

I'm gonna save Rosemary in time

Don't say nothing
Don't say one word
Don't say anything at all


8.Sharks Are Circling

The sharks are circling
The water's getting clearer
Smiling with his six rows
The megalodon are nearer
They go out in schools
Dream they are supreme
Cast insults our way
We'll cast you down stream

There's a ghostly tread
Overheard overhead

Footsteps in the canyon
Slip away until you've found them
They stop and stare
A hundred eyes on you
But don't worry just do
Those things that you do
And so the girl cries
So let's crack out the fanfare
Hear it for the good times
Dry those dark eyes

They cracked the whip
The acid tongue dripped from the lip
Tut tut finger wag
It takes 10 years to shake a tag
But they wear theirs with pride
A septic thorn in society side
We will rise above
Through the colour of our love

There's a ghostly tread
Overheard overhead

Footsteps in the canyon
Slip away until you've found them
They stop and stare
A hundred eyes on you
But don't worry just do
Those things that you do
And so the girl cries
So let's crack out the fanfare
Hear it for the good times
Dry those dark eyes

A hundred eyes on you
But don't worry just do
Those things that you do
And so the girl cries
So let's crack out the fanfare
Hear it for the good times
Dry those dark eyes

A hundred eyes on you
But don't worry just do
Those things that you do
And so the girl cries
So let's crack out the fanfare
Hear it for the good times
Dry those dark eyes


9.Marquee

Stay up late and think
Of where you might be
I can't sleep I've got the image of you and him in the marquee
He made you smile when did I stop doing that?
Was it happening for a while?
You should've of just said
Instead I'm lying here wresting demons in my bed
Around and round we go
Demons in my bed

I don't mean to be so rude
But next time you think you might not love someone
Don't you think it's best to tell them earlier on

Was he one of those whom you swore was just a friend
And did he used to send those messages through the night
Your screen would flash and in tone so brash
You'd say it's the time zone
And you're working late you're working too hard
You're working us to the ground
And I don't feel too sound
Is he better pound for pound?
You'll never know

I don't mean to be so rude
But next time you think you might not love someone
Don't you think it's best to tell them earlier on

I don't mean to be so rude
But next time you think you might not love someone
Don't you think it's best to tell them earlier on


10.Money

I noticed you in the photograph
A ghost like you why don't you laugh?

Five years on and your baby's got the gun
Picking off the memories one by one
Bang bang bang goes the lover's ideal
Bang bang bang

She said
Sit down and shut your mouth
Pack your things and then drive south
Drive south and stay there honey
Keep going in search of the money

How come you're always making fun of them
It's unbecoming and it's cruel

The way they raised you says a lot about who you are
Where you're going and if you've gone too far
A little rain check every now and again
Will do you the world of good
So I'll say it again

Sit down and shut your mouth
Pack your things and then drive south
Drive south and stay there honey
Keep going in search of the money


11.Here Come The Young Men

I'm in work in an hour and a half
And the gin is stil fresh on the end of my scarf
How long can we keep up with this?
And if we didn't is there anything that we would miss?

The sun comes up over Raven South
You're a raving, misbehaving mouth
I never thought that we'd like eachother
But lo and behold
This love will last forever and ever and ever
Here come the young men

I'll never show my back to the painting
Youth encompassed, ready and straight in
She looks at me like nobody else can
Eye to eye, eye to eye

Are we getting older?
Are we getting wiser?
Or are we getting none of the above?
And does it matter when
This love will last forever and ever and ever
Here come the yong men

This love will last forever and ever and ever, and then

And so the party's finished
Seratonin has diminished
The curtains become see through
And there's a Cadbury's flake in the corner
And we'll be doing it all again
Weekend in Burnage was our den
A bond we made together

This love will last forever and ever and ever
Here come the young men.