Unreleased Songs

The Maccabees Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.Can You Give It?

Lyricist:Rupert Alexander Jarvis, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando Thomas
Pen Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White

One last push with all the strength of us all
Under one great shadow floor show
Take the strain for us all

Can you give it? Can you give it?
Can you give it? Can you give it?
Can you give it?

One last pull to tight the slack of before
Slow rolling bolder, rock, stone, pebble
Grit, sand, dust, grain, speck of it all

Can you give it? Can you give it?
Can you give it? Can you give it?
Can you give it?

Bolt hold, tape together
Concrete to another, bind tight and deliver
Hold fast, hold fast, hold fast

Can you give it? Can you give it?
Can you give it? Can you give it?
Can you give it?


2.17 Hands

Call out the soft sound
The four letter word that you found
Call it out
Call out the soft sound
And make it round
Everyone together
Hell for leather over good ground

All caught up and love struck
All caught up in love struck hands, struck hands
You're all caught up and love struck
Never seem to get enough
And everything you wanted
Gonna get it go aesthetic go

Hold out your left one
The number three finger from your thumb
And put it on, put it on the left one
And lay it down one upon the other
As a measure of the way it stands

All caught up and love struck
All caught up in love struck hands, struck hands
You're all caught up and mud stuck
Money made on good luck
And everything you wanted
Gonna get it go aesthetic go

So call out you're all fired up
You're all fired up
Call it out
Call out you're all fired up
You're all fired up
Call it out

Call out if you're love struck
All caught up with love struck hands around
Call out, you found it out

Cos you always would set it up
Only to let up

Hey, hey those are silver hairs
On your father's chin
And on your mother's head

Hey, hey those are still laughter lines
On your father's brow
And round your mother's eyes.


3.Latchmere

Lyricist:Shepherd Rupert A Jarvis, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando Thomas
Pen Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White

Swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming
Just stay in your lanes
Swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming
Just stay in your lanes

No bombing and no heavy petting
So just stay in your lanes
Verruca socks and not forgetting to
Just stay in your lanes

Madam's and monsieur's, please return to your cubicles
Madam's and monsieur's, please return to your cubicles
Madam's and monsieur's, please return to your cubicles
Madam's and monsieur's, please return to your cubicles

Madam's and monsieur's, please return to your cubicles
Madam's and monsieur's, please return to your cubicles
Madam's and monsieur's, please return to your cubicles
Madam's and monsieur's, please return to your cubicles

Latchmere's got a wave machine

Came out of the changing room
And absolutely nothing had changed
So I stayed in your lane
Came out of the changing room
And absolutely fuck all had changed
So I stayed in your lane

Speedo, speed boy
Speedo, speed boy
Speedo, speed boy
So I stayed in your lanes

Bido bipop, bido bipop
Bido bipop, bido bipop
Bido bipop, bido bipop
Bido bipop
Bido bipop, bido bipop

Madam's and monsieur's, please return to your cubicles
Madam's and monsieur's, please return to your cubicles
Madam's and monsieur's, please return to your cubicles
Madam's and monsieur's, please return to your cubicles

Madam's and monsieur's, please return to your cubicles
Madam's and monsieur's, please return to your cubicles
Madam's and monsieur's, please return to your cubicles
Madam's and monsieur's, please return to your cubicles

Latchmere's got a wave machine

Stayed in your lanes, stayed
Just stay in your lanes
Just stay, just stick in your lane

Latchmere's got a wave machine


4.Lego

Lyricist:Shepherd Rupert A Jarvis, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando Thomas
Pen Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White

Mum said no to Disneyland
And Dad loves Church
Hallelujah

And when the boys chew Lego
So now we can't build castles for robots
'Cause the pieces don't fit together

So, look left and look right
And cross the road but hold my hands
Look left and look right
Cross the road but hold my hands

And we'll hold on
And we'll hold

Only one where once stood four
And closer to the kitchen floor
The family favorite

Today we learnt
To scream, 'Are we there yet?'
Doesn't get you there any faster

So, look left and look right
And cross the road but hold a hand
Look left, look right
Cross the road to hold my hand

And we'll hold on
And we'll hold on

Crossed the road and said goodbye
Crossed the road there wasn't a dry eye

Crossed the road you said goodbye
There wasn't a dry eye there wasn't a dry eye

You crossed the road, you said goodbye


5.Toothpaste Kisses

Lyricist:Shepherd Rupert A Jarvis, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando Thomas
Pen Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White

Cradle me, I'll cradle you
I'll win your heart with a woop-a-woo
Pullin' shapes just for your eyes

So with toothpaste kisses and lines
I'll be yours and you'll be

Lay with me, I'll lay with you
We'll do the things that lovers do
Put the stars in our eyes

And with heart shaped bruises
And late night kisses, divine


6.Mary

Lyricist:Shepherd Rupert A Jarvis, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando Thomas
Pen Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White

I was in the other room
When handsome was gettin' liver and laces
Couldn't save the family
'Cause heroes wear masks and Lycra

Out, out, out, out, out, Mary get out
You're freezin'
In, in, in, in, in, brother get in

And get your head kicked
In, in, in, in
'Cause it's in, in, in, in

Down, down, down, down, down
Heard you fell down
And you scraped your knee

Up, up, up, up, up
Kick yourself up
And get plaster on your cut
'Cause it's sewn up, and it's sewn

You wish that it was you
You wish that it was you
You wish that it was you

So, you've got yourself in a hole
You can't get out
I won't be there, I can't be around

So hold me down, I'll let you know
About the places we can't go

I won't let go and I won't hold you back
And I'm fallin' away
I've paid the price and I'm willing to pay

So willing to pay the price you paid
And the reason I can't stay
'Cause you live so far away

You wish that it was you
You wish that it was you
You wish that it was you

You wish that it was you
You wish that it was you
You wish that it was you

So out, out, out, out, Mary get out
'Cause you're freezing
And in, in, in, in, brother get in

Brother get in
Brother get in
Brother get in


7.About Your Dress

Lyricist:Shepherd Rupert A Jarvis, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando Thomas
Pen Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White

It's just what all young lovers do
It's just what all young lovers do

I noticed you
You stood out like a sore thumb
The most beautiful sore thumb I'd ever seen

I took you out
And showed you a good time, we danced all night
And I waited till the time was right when

I was almost sick on you
Echo, echo of mine
It's just what all young lovers do

Do you recall
The night that we first met
And how I burnt your dress with my cigarette?

I don't know why
But I'll play this game for you
'Cause I'm guessin' it's just what all young lovers do

You say that it's
Never wrong, never right, never wrong, never right
Echo, echo of mine

Never wrong, never right
Never wrong, never right
Never wrong, never right
Never wrong, never right

Never wrong, never right
Never wrong, never right
Never wrong, never right
Never wrong, never right

So echo on, echo on
Echo on, echo

It's just what all young lovers do
It's just what all young lovers do
It's just what all young lovers do
It's just what all young lovers do


8.Tissue Shoulders

Lyricist:Shepherd Rupert A Jarvis, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando Thomas
Pen Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White

Never cry on your own, never cry
But when you cry
Just try and find some perfect stranger
With the tissue shoulders on

'Cos I know the score and it's hard
When it's her cryin' for

So never go on your own, never go
But when you go
Just try to find someone or other
With the G P S turned on

'Cos I've been here before and it's hard
When it's her you're cryin' for

So take her and lay her in the ground
And I'll be here waiting so patiently not makin' a sound

Don't wanna lie alone
Don't wanna lie alone
Don't wanna lie alone
Don't wanna lie alone

I'll find, I'll find another


9.All In Your Rows

Lyricist:Shepherd Rupert A Jarvis, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando Thomas
Pen Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White

So, it's stars and crosses
Reasoning for losses
You learn right from wrong and then

You write the book yourself
Right the wrongs, you know
And then you're all in your rows

All in your rows
All in your rows
All in your rows

Domination favorin' with war-torn tradition
Picking holes in holy
And in blinkered vision

You left us standing with no understanding
There's no give
Here's no give

And then you're all in your rows
All in your rows
All in your rows
All in your rows

The cityscape and countryside
You've got local boys, they're going nationwide

So here's your church
And here's your steeple

And you're locking your doors
To keep in all the people, let them go


10.Happy Faces

Lyricist:Shepherd Rupert A Jarvis, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando Thomas
Pen Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White

Run boy, run
Run boy, run
Run boy, run
Run boy, run

Here she comes
Here she comes
She's coming for you

So, run boy, run
Run boy, run

Here she comes
Here she comes
She's coming for you

'Cause these are tears of joy, not woe
'Cause woe betide, I open wide
And let inside the flow

These are cries of happy rejoice
They are heartfelt and coarse
Can you not tell from the pain?

So, run boy, run boy, run boy, run
She's coming for you

Happy faces alone
Happy faces alone
Happy faces alone
Happy faces alone

So, run boy, run boy, run boy, run
She's coming for you

Happy faces alone
Happy faces alone
Happy faces alone
Happy faces alone

In these, the times of unhealthy regret
It's the last cigarette
And all the lonely days ahead

In these, the times of 'you wish you would'
When all the bridges have been burned
Then she slowly turns

So, run boy, run boy, run boy, run
She's coming for you

Happy faces alone
Happy faces alone
Happy faces alone
Happy faces alone

So, run boy, run boy, run boy, run
She's coming for you

Happy faces alone
Happy faces alone
Happy faces alone
Happy faces alone

Happy faces alone
Happy faces alone
Happy faces alone

Happy faces alone
Happy faces alone
Happy faces alone
Happy face

So, run boy, run boy, run boy, run boy
Run boy, run boy, run boy, run

So, run boy, run boy, run boy, run boy
Run boy, run boy, run boy, run


11.O.A.V.I.P.

Lyricist:Shepherd Rupert A Jarvis, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando Thomas
Pen Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White

She collects medicines in the box
Where once he had kept his

And holds out hope the year-old worries
Will be gone, long before she goes

So when's your start and when's your end?
Your slow depart happenin' again

The fun-size can you can expect
It only reflects her wants for you

When's your start and when's your end?
Your slow depart happenin' again

'Cause this is not farewell, oh dear
This is not farewell, oh dear

So when's your start and when's your end?
Your slow depart happenin' again


12.X-Ray

Lyricist:Shepherd Rupert A Jarvis, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando Thomas
Pen Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White

She's the flutter in my heart, the springs in my step
My empty head sees the lump form in my throat
The view in my mind's eye
My empty heart, heart, heart, heart, heart
In my heart, heart, heart, heart, heart

She's got her suspicions
(X-ray, x-ray, x-ray, x-ray)
Romantic intuition
(X-ray, x-ray, x-ray, x-ray)

She sees through me with her
X-ray, x-ray, x-ray, x-ray vision
X-ray, x-ray, x-ray, x-ray vision

My empty head sees the tongue get to my cheek
My conscience bleak
My empty heart, heart, heart, heart, heart
In my heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart

She's got her suspicions
(X-ray, x-ray, x-ray, x-ray)
Romantic intuition
(X-ray, x-ray, x-ray, x-ray)

She sees through me with her
X-ray, x-ray, x-ray, x-ray vision
X-ray, x-ray, x-ray, x-ray vision

And with this power
She can see
Through solid objects
Like you and me


13.First Love

Lyricist:Shepherd Rupert A Jarvis, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando Thomas
Pen Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White

First love, last love
Only love, it's only love

First love, last love
Only love, it's only love

Do you miss home?
Do you miss home?
And are you cool
Symmetrical?

'Let's get married
And tick the boxes'
Says, and so she says
'Oh, let's get married
And tick the boxes'

Do you want to be alone?
D'you wanna be alone?
And are you cool
Symmetrical, hypocritical, analytical?

So critical
Nothing's perfect and I'm hoping I'll do, do
But I will not do
'Cause nothing's perfect so I'll have to make do

And it's my mistake
And no mistake
And I would take it back if I could
So stay with me tonight

And I've made my bed, I'm lyin' here
And pillow-talkin' into it
I've make my bed, I'm lyin' here
I enticed you with its leopard print
And matching velvet duvet

First love, last love
Only love, it's only love

First love, last love
Only love, it's only love

Only love, only love
It's only love


14.Precious Time

Lyricist:Shepherd Rupert A Jarvis, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando Thomas
Pen Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White

Pound for pound and cheek to cheek
Cheek paler than the lamp-light
Take me down to light the box
And play Super Scalextrics

Turn to this darkness
Into light and then I'll turn to fight

And I'll need heart and you'll need courage
We all need

Toe to toe, nowhere to go
So, I'm tiptoein' around it
I held you down and I held my own
Now, I feel like I'm floating

So turn to this head on
Then keep on
Keeping on

And I'll need heart and you'll need courage
We all need time

So, let's make time work for us
Let's make time work for us
Let's make time work for us
Let's make time work for us

Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it

Don't you know nobody knows
If there's somebody awaitin'?
You hold yourself up and you hold yourself in
And pray that you're growing

And you turn to this darkness
You turn it into light and then you'll turn to fight

And I'll need heart and you'll need courage
We all need time

So, let's make time work for us
Let's make time work for us
Let's make time work for us
Let's make time work for us

Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it

Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about

'Cause we'll need heart and we'll need courage
In these times
We'll need heart and we'll need courage
In these times
'Cause time can mean so much

Are you still mine?


15.No Kind Words/Bag Of Bones, Pt. A

Lyricist:Rupert Alexander Jarvis, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando Thomas
Pen Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White

Dear friend of mine has broken his union
Broke from tradition
Broken his vision of the future

Alone, alone, alone, not alone at all

Dear friend of mine is testing his body
Tempting disaster
Testing water with another's daughter

Alone, alone, alone, not alone at all

Dear friend of mine, my ear is bending
I'm not helping, I'm not telling, I'm not solving
I'm not saying you're pretending

Alone, alone, alone, not alone at all
Alone, alone, alone, not alone at all

Dear friend of mine is helpless without helping
Healed without scab or scar
New union found him alone

Alone, alone, alone, not alone at all
Alone, alone, alone, not alone at all

If you've got no kind words to say
You should say nothing more at all
If you've got no kind words to say
You should say nothing more at all

If you've got no kind words to say
Carry no weight, let the weight carry you
If you've got no kind words to say
You should say nothing more at all


16.Kiss & Resolve

Lyricist:Rupert Alexander Jarvis, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando Thomas
Pen Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White

Begrudgingly I, I cut your hair
And argument it followed there
That's growing old together
Lover's kiss, let's kiss, kiss and resolve

So pride aside I clear the air
And sweet smells they followed there
That's compromise sweetheart
Lover's kiss, let's kiss, kiss and resolve

Oh, oh, oh, my love
There's ritual in the dance my love
And under day old sheets we will dance my love

So sins confessed I left you there
Went out into the midnight air
Taking my bedside manner
Lover's tryst on the list left to kiss and resolve

Oh, oh, oh, my love
There's method in this madness love
And in a moment of hold me love

Oh, oh, oh, my love
There's ritual in the dance my love
And under day old sheets we will dance my love

Little give, little take
Little something you break
Little salt, little shake

Sweetheart, oh sweetheart
Goodnight, goodnight
Sweetheart, goodnight


17.Bag Of Bones, Pt. B

Lyricist:Rupert Alexander Jarvis, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando Thomas
Pen Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White

Double noose a necklace
Bubble wrap to safe the place
Wrinkles of a trophy one
Could think of it as showing us the way
Think of it as showing us the way

Keep it all from sympathy
Your day today your dignity
Bring the other brothers 'round
We'll think of it as showing us the way
We'll think of it as showing us the way

Bag of bones, beautiful old bag of bones
So much more besides

Silent when you're so or silent
Nothing more to say
Could think of it as showing us the way
Could think of it as showing us the way

Bag of bones, beautiful old bag of bones
So much more besides

Bag of bones, beautiful old bag of bones
So much more besides

Bag of bones, beautiful old bag of bones
So much more besides


18.Sore Throat

Lyricist:Jarvis Shepherd Rupert Alexand, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando
Thomas Penhale Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White

Sore throat in the morning
Sore throat at night
Still got a sore throat from all the shouting
In our last fight

Cat fight

Fat lip in the morning
Fat lip at night
Still got a fat lip from that punch
In our last fight

Cat fight

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, huh
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
Uh uh

Scratched up in the morning
Scratched up at night
I've still got scars from the scratches

Cat fight, cat fight
Cat fight, cat fight


19.Bicycles

Service is suspended
Service shall resume
Service, running late again
Service, running smooth

Space becomes so lonely
With these feeling of mistrust
Because the monster in the cupboard
Has made us feel we must

Spot the train, train
Spot a hole
Spot the train
Spot the monster

And everyone's buying bicycles

Cities looking empty
Cities running scared
Cities got new friends
That they cities really cared

The looks are trifle shifty
And their not about to change
'Cos no one likes what they are not
And slowly we're strange

Spot the train, train
Spot a hole
Spot the train
Spot the monster

The quickest route to paradise
Is a short commute to paradise
And a sharp salute to paradise

And everyone's buying bicycles