Devils Elbow

The Mess Hall Devils Elbow Lyrics
1.Keep Walking

Oh, looking to the cracks,
At the blood on the money machines
Well, the rain came down
And I found myself in a dream

Where the neon's pressed
Up against your flesh
And nobody's saying a thing
Then I wait from a (nine?)
In broad daylight
Sent the whole world into a spin

I'm (?) in a field
(?) in a field
(?) in a field of ice

There are ways
To keep walking
Don't get in the way
Just keep walking
Just keep...

I got nothing but the taste
Nothing but the smell of the piss stains
A writer only comes
When he comes with the setting sun

A girl may lie to a suit and tie
For the vibe in the back of his jeans
Hanging in the air with a pinhole stare
In the bowels of the pleasure machine

I'm calling
I'm calling
I'm calling
To say...

There are ways
To keep walking
Don't get in the way
Just keep walking
Just keep...

(?) on a field
(?) on a field
(?) on a field of ice
(?) on a field
(?) on a field
(?) on a field of ice
(?) on a field
(?) on a field
(?) on a field of ice
(?) on a field
(?) on a field...

There are ways
To keep walking
Don't get in the way
Just keep walking

There are ways
To keep walking
Don't get in the way
Just keep walking
Just keep...


2.Pulse

Flip from a car, split the road in two
I felt something pass by, made me feel brand new

Now im standing on a corner, eyes kick the back of my head,
nothing breathing in a picture, but the calling of a ?

The Air is kinda rotten, rotten like a fires been through, Last
thing that i remember, I was crawling after you.

I here a Girl sing

You stoped? me head too, as my brand seemed to gather, to a
memory or an echo of you sayin nothing else matters,
im walking here in this dimm light, it makes a fire of a soul, i
can taste a little leather, leather as the air gets cold

and the girl sings

I want the sun in the sky now,
my brain was all i ever felt in my head,
and wat gatherd in the distance,
gatherd north, east, south and west like a shadow,
staggers in the headlight,
it could be easy just to crawl in to the next life,
bold as a boy can be,
the milatary standing on the side walk looking at me,

just rasing my arms to a chromatic sky,
looking for a weapon while the devil rides high,
or away, away to move into the next life,
I shot crashed then a valley of fire
And my head is a picture built to decay,
then anything i ever had falling away,

Im burning so fast like new born star, hearing nothing but a
voice just breaking my heart
singing boy your bent by wat you can't control, youv seen it in
the daylight, and find your way for your will to bend?


3.City Of Roses

Something in my head don't feel so straight since i sold it
I said you might stop walking around here looking for explosives
Yeah walking in 7/8 time looking for you
I said i might start walking around here looking for explosives

I'm a born liar who walks like a killer
I'm a born liar who walks like a killer
I'm a born liar who walks like a killer
I'm a, born liar who walks like a killer

I get up
From where i sit (i sit)
You turn me upside down
just looking at the back of your head (your head, your head)
I get up (i get up)
From where i sit (i sit)
You turn me upside down
Just looking at the back of your head (your head, your head)

I get cranked
Yeah, i get cranked
Yeah, i get cranked
So cranked

Down the days to bend my ways and keep honest
I can't help wishing my mind a city full of roses
Well i'm digging up buried time just to spend it with you
Walking down pony road
And the sky's so blue

I'm a born liar who walks like a killer
I'm a born liar who walks like a killer
I'm a born liar who walks like a killer
I'm a, born liar who walks like a killer

I get up
From where i sit (i sit)
You turn me upside down
Just looking at the back of your head (your head, your head)
I get up (i get up)
From where i sit (i sit)
You turn me upside down
Just looking at the back of your head (your head, your head)

Just walking around
In this city i drown
Like a worried man
I'm in the city of roses


4.Load Left

You ask of man, did he give you everything
The answer is no, but i guess we read in between

The lines in your face have stalled
They ain't anywhere
Lost are the eyes of the one who brought me here

Cold are your hands
They will drive you now nowhere
Still is your blood
As the sea holds one last stare

Bound is the love i hunt
When the morning tears
A hole in my heart
Where my true love did once rest

Slow is the time
Now the bells have all been rung
Long is the wait
For the sun to one day come

Vast is the land
That holds one day everyone
Wait for me there
And we'll start what we'd begun

Fly little bird
Though tender are your wings
Fly little bird
Because you'll be everywhere

I carry this load you left
You'll be everywhere
I carry this load you left
You'll be everywhere
You'll be everywhere
I carry this load you left


5.Lorelei

Just leave all your things
Believe me my dead
The horses approach, the cavalry's close
There's no place for you here

Ride through the day
Under light as it fades
Just follow the scent of steel and cement
Where the rich man is made

I'm no perfect stranger, i'm a man you can trust
So what i will offer, i'll offer just once

When you get to the city
Raise the men from their sleep
Tell them 1000 strong
They're as wide as they're long
And they're coming in deep

From the horizon they swing
They curse and they sing
In all manner of clothes
From their heads to their toes
You couldn't dream such a thing

I'm no perfect stranger, i'm a man you can trust
So what i will offer, i'll offer just once

If i don't make it home
If i don't make it home
Let another wear my clothes
Burn all my things, you don't need what i own

Lorelei, lorelei, lorelei let me drift in your soul

oh honey take the salt from your tears
And put them back in the ocean again
I'll be waiting in a place somewhere
And you may come wandering in
And your wild green eyes will take me back to where we began


6.Cookie

From waters to the west i settled down
But in the belly of the city i carve my ground
And as the days go by and the seasons change
A red tide comes in from the bay

There goes cookie with his knife
There goes cookie with his knife
There goes cookie with his knife
With his knife

I took a dirty, dirty wind from my chest
And blew it down to the water's edge

There goes cookie with his knife
There goes cookie with his knife
There goes cookie with his knife
With his knife

I'm gonna take off my clothes,
And empty my bones into the river
I'm gonna take off my clothes,
And empty my bones into the river
I'm gonna take off my clothes,
And empty my bones into the river

I took the wind and made it speak
And woke up all the freaks
I taught the cripples how to walk
And send them running to the peaks

Til everyone was naked
They were naked, they were raw
I drew a line down in the sand and made them fight a war

But they ran around in circles
So i rationed all their thoughts
I took away their systems, i took away their laws

And some were on their knees,
And some were swinging from the trees
And the ones left to walk in sync
I taught them to believe

Oh, to believe
That i could rain, rain on this whole parade
And watch it roll, watch it roll away..


7.Pt. 1

Let your broken little black moon fall
And spin your silhouette around my girl
'Cause i'm lying here, hoping the sirens will sing
One more song, one more song for the city to sing

One, one heart
Is so drunk and in love
And that heart beats too hard
Yeah it beats itself backward til it just falls apart

When a heart is too easy to hold it just slips from your hands
So hold on to that heart, with all that you have while you can

We're golden, we're golden
Who knows where we're going
One day we'll leave these hearts of ours for the dirt and sea
So hold on to me
Baby, we've just got to breathe

But a black and white dress on for me
'Cause i have no need for colours
Or any of life's in betweens

One heart
It sucks the sun
Of what it's got
And that heart beats like a drum
Yeah it beats itself backwards til it just falls apart

Well time is a blessing, but damn if it don't fade away
And leave you the pieces, the pieces to bookend your day

We're golden, and we're going
Where a fever is blowing
One day we'll leave these hearts of ours to the dirt and sea
So hold on to me
Baby, we've just got to breathe


8.Betty

Betty found the city
Now the city's found betty in a hole
With a tattoo around her ankle
And a tiny little jackal in her soul

They wrapped her up and put her in a hole
Yeah they put her in a hole
Wrapped her and put her in a hole
Yeah they put her in a hole

It was six in the morning
When i saw her shaking hands with a ghost
Trying to rub the cracks from her face
As a new day broke

They wrapped her up and put her in a hole
Yeah they put her in a hole
Wrapped her and put her in a hole
Yeah they put her in a hole

Some day, you'll be rid of this weight
She takes a foreigner's kiss,
And wipes it from her cold, cold lips
She takes a foreigner's kiss,
And wipes it from her cold, cold lips

Sitting on a park bench, waiting for the neon to glow
Tracing little pictures in the air
'Cause her boat don't row

They wrapped her up and put her in a hole
Yeah they put her in a hole
Wrapped her and put her in a hole
Yeah they put her in a hole

Some day, you'll be rid of this weight
She takes a foreigner's kiss,
And wipes it from her cold, cold lips
She takes a foreigner's kiss,
And wipes it from her cold, cold lips

Life ain't what it seems,
When you chase the tail of a dream
As she, she rides around
On a carousel
She, she rides around
On a carousel


9.Buddy

My hands are open, my soul is on fire
And i'm walking my way back to you

Cut from a landscape, so bold and abrasive
I played down canal for my food

I sucked in the air, and i spit it back out
As a fever unwound in my chest

My hands are open, my soul is on fire
And i'm walking,
I'm walking, i'm walking,
I'm walking, i'm

I play to the waters. where some mothers daughters
Are itching their gypsy feet raw

The band plays behind me, we march into liberty
Something inside of me turns

Maddened to silence, i'm blowing out violence
It's spilling all over my shirt

I'm goin' down as the crowd gathers around
But i'm walking, i'm walking
I'm walking, i'm walking, i'm

I'm wired to the sidewalk again
Lover now my hands are blistered
I'm soaked in nothing but wine
When i float to the surface
I'll find out your purpose
And hunt down your cellophane eyes


10.Be Not A Man

Shed your oversize clothes
Feel the dirt between your toes
And walk to the river, my boy

Be not a man, with your head in your hands
But a boy by the river once more

I'm taking the nights, and leaving the days
Because sometimes the light's just too tame

Be not a man, with your head in your hands
But a boy by the river once more

We had plans, there's no need to forget them
We're still playing in time

Be not a man, with your head in your hands
But a boy by the river once more

Burn your worries and shoot for the stars
Just don't anchor your spirit or deafen your heart
Because some ships will sail forever and ever
And ever and ever to roam

Shed your oversize clothes
Feel the dirt between your toes
And walk to the river, my boy

Be not a man, with your head in your hands
But a boy by the river once more
But a boy by the river once more
But a boy by the river once more