Wall Of Arms

The Maccabees Wall Of Arms Lyrics
1.Love You Better

Better
Get another coal on the fake fire cover on the wet tiles
On the wet tiles
Better
Running out of of time is gonna cost you more than just your
sweet smile
To a sweet smile

And I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better

And I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better

Headway
Learn to love a thriller so the words you leave me on my pillow
read better
Cheap card forever
Headway
Can pull it apart and in time you see it's going better than
ever
It's going better than ever harder for safe guard in your bed
clothes

I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better

I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better

And the thought and the thought and the thought of you
I thought we'd be doing the fateful few together, together
And I'd thought that you might feel the same
With your insect skin and my lions mane
And be you
To be you

And the thought of you was crystal clear,
I could warn myself or bin you dear
It could of been you, could of been you
To be you


2.One Hand Holding

Oh love I was torn, I was torn
But I put those thoughts away love
Just a thought
Will the gods look kindly
Those thoughts are behind me
Oh why would you be led to suppose
Oh why would you be led by your nose
Why would you kill it, kill it, kill it before it dies
Why would you kill it, kill it, kill it before it dies
Those puffy eyes are no surprise

When there's a devil in the doorway
Heaven in the hallway
Say you'll still adore me
And I'm far out on an ocean
Trapped in a disaster
I'd say I still adore you
Oh why would you carry on a name
Oh why would you carry on the same
Why would you kill it, kill it, kill it before it dies
Why would you kill it, kill it, kill it before it dies
Those killer eyes don't look the same,
the same, the same as they used to do
Not like the eyes, the eyes,
the eyes that I make at you
I make at you, I make at you

It was torn up
But now it's alright, alright
It was torn up alright
It was torn up
But now it's alright, alright
It was torn up alright


3.Can You Give It

One last push with all the strength of us all
Under one great shadow floorshow
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


4.Young Lions

Roses in the car
Roses in the car
Bony saddle, bony street
Corrugated iron sheet
This bed is not concrete
This bed in which you sleep
Flesh is flesh til blood runs cold
And blood is blood, so I am told

Your carbon makes a star
Your carbon makes a star
And after all, that's all we are
After all, that's all we are
That's all we are
That's all we are
That's all we are
That's all we are
That's all we are

All these young men, these young lions
All these young men, these young lions

You don't know if it's true
Or if to believe in you
There are tunnels through the stone
Where weaker hearts have made a home

Their roses in a car
Their roses in a car
And after all that's all we are
After all that's all we are
And isn't it bizarre
The adults that we are
Still playing
Follow the leader

Body don't break
Body don't break
Body don't break
Til broken
Body gonna make
Body gonna make
Body gonna make
Another body
Don't want to be the last to leave


5.Wall Of Arms

I woke up with a loved one's eyes upon me
Loved one's arms around me
Oh...She's my one and only
I grew up in the bosom of my family
Eight strong arms around me
Oh...from the seed they've grown me
And I thank those
Those who kept me company
They are a wall of arms around me
Oh...it is they who are my army
Oh? it is they who are my army
Through these eyes
There's no god above me
No devil below me
No purgatory, no pearly gates
The worms are what await me
It's only me that can forgive me and
I have faith, oh...I have faith
I have faith, oh...I have faith
In those who put up with me
She's my one and only
If I'm the seed they've grown me
They who are my army
The wall of arms around me
She's my one and only
If I'm the seed they've grown me
They who are my army
The wall of arms around me


6.No Kind Words

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


7.Dinosaurs

True ring true ring
Gonna make this crystal sing
Other ways other ways otherwise
We're just going backward

True ring true ring
Gonna make this songbird sing
Get a load get a load
Get a load, get a load of it

True ring true ring
For the one that's listening
Sound advice, sound advice
Empty hands and tired eyes

True ring true ring
Giving up and giving in
Little arms little arms
Little arms on a big body

And I hold you to the light to see
And keep you safe inside of me
Oh, restore this crack so

I want nothing tonight to hold but you
I keep this pillow it's such a poor substitute
For a soul, a soul,
For a soul, a soul

Truth told, truth told
Tear the tear and fold the fold
Pick it up, pick it up,
Pick it up when it's yours to hold

Truth told truth told
When you hit the ground just roll
Bend your knees bend your knees, bend your knees
When you're lifting these

And I hold you to the light to see
And cotton wool you safe in me
Oh, restore this crack so

I want nothing tonight to hold but you
Keep close the cold compress
Such a poor substitute
For a soul, a soul
For a soul, a soul


8.Kiss And Resolve

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

So pride aside I clear the air
And sweet smells they followed there
That's compromise sweetheart
Lovers 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


9.William Powers

There is love
There is lust
There is love fuelled lust
Little thing called trust
Which I must not break, for you
Forsaking all others but you

There are storms
I must brave
There are things I must do
Things I must not do to break, for you
Forsake all others for you

And I'll see you when you're older
When we're older
And I'll see you when you're older
When we're older

Strong arms they held you to it
That's what they are singing in the shadows
There's all this nonsense in the dark

We may bend
No doubt stretch
Pull at the seams
Of these four legged jeans
For what is at stake
I will not break, for you
Forsake all others for you

And I'll see you when you're older
When we're older
And I'll see you when you're older
When we're older

And in faith I left you to it
That's what they sing in the shadows
There's all this nonsense in the dark
Left you in strong arms
Two strong arms that held you through it
And I blew it
And I blew it

Now now now now now
There's something in it
Now now now now now
We've grown up with it
Now now now now now
We know, if that's enough
Then that's enough for now


10.Seventeen 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.


11.Bag Of Bones

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