Unreleased Songs

The New Pornographers Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.Fugue State

Lyricist:Carl Allan Newman

Strange but true
Divide the night, divide the night by two
And you'll see
You let the pieces fall and you will leave

In a fugue state, far behind in first place
Lady, I think that you are a new race
And left alone with this fate
Anyone in my place would leave you
What anyone in my place would do

You've earned the recent reputation
True
In your wake
You cross the avenues and stop to shake

Through your fugue state, passing time without trace
Lady, I think that you are a new kind
And your eyes fill in time, green and almost like mine
They're see-through, slightly darker and strange

Strange but true
Divide the night, divide the night by two
You were played
You left in what could only be portrayed

As a fugue state, left behind and made late
Lady, I think that you are a new race
And left alone with my fate
Anyone in my place would leave you
Anyone in my place would leave you


2.Breakin' the Law

Lyricist:Kenneth Downing, Robert Halford, Glenn Tipton

I can never place the name with the face
I can never place the name with the face
Don't touch me, don't touch me up
To the tee, by the numbers

It's not much but I'm going under
It's not much but I'm going under
It's not much but I'm going under

Liar, liar, everything's on fire
So I don't want to hear how you crossed the wires
Don't touch me, don't touch me up
Watch, I'll take it to the river

You'll come to, little Indian giver
You'll come to, little Indian giver
You'll come to, little Indian giver

So give us the keys now
We'll burn this Hall of Justice down
Around the ankles or just to the ground
Hats off to the city fathers

They're no longer a hundred feet tall
They're no longer, no longer
And we're just here
Another hundred feet stronger

Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah


3.All for Swinging You Around

Lyricist:Carl Allan Newman

Exploding international, the scenes, the sounds
And famously the feeling that you can't squeeze ground
While tearing off another page of loose change outrage
It's another perfect day until the night shows

Exploding international, the wind did howl
The sky above was thick with rings of smoke and clouds
And hanging on the bleeding end of conscious, who's this?
Was there anything I missed, as far as you know?
As far as you know?

Was it all for swinging you around?
All for swinging you around

Exploding international, the sun, the sights
The moments you are viewing through a beam of light
Propel you through the golden age we crash-land the first page
On a crumbling world stage, into the front rows
Into the front rows

And all for swinging you around
All for swinging you around

And off your feet all the love you found, spinning round
And off your feet all the love you found, spinning round
And off your feet all the love you found, spinning round
Spinning round, spinning round

We're twisting incognito with no time, cant talk
Cant tell if this is fantasy or culture shock
Or remnants of a golden age that's near mint unplayed
Or a welcome overstayed beneath the light show
Beneath the light show

All for swinging you around
All for swinging you around
All for swinging you around

All for swinging you around
All for swinging you around
All for swinging you around


4.Your Daddy Don't Know

Lyricist:J. Hernandez, J. Romano, R. Miranda, T. Garcia

Making your move
You come down as fast as lightning
Crossing the stage
I know you can feel the excitement

Shake it up
Turn it on
Shake it up
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Your daddy don't know
What your mama's gonna do tonight
Your daddy don't know
What your mama's gonna do tonight

She's breakin' your heart
You'd better be your own best friend
'Cause once you learn the steps
It's somethin' you'll never forget

So shake it up
Turn it on
Shake it up
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Your daddy don't know
What your mama's gonna do tonight
Your daddy don't know
What your mama's gonna do tonight

Your daddy don't know
What your mama's gonna do tonight
Your daddy don't know
What your mama's gonna do tonight

Your daddy don't know
What your mama's gonna do tonight
Your daddy don't know
What your mama's gonna do tonight


5.Ballad Of A Comeback Kid

Lyricist:Billy Stewart

Pray for content, settle for free rent
The tenements recall Rome
High five, look up, look alive
As the scions of history, guess another mystery wrong, wrong,
wrong

Recite your lines and I'll quote scriptures
Everything was fine until membership lost its privileges
Everyone in town, wanted to be around you
This went on for awhile until they finally found you

Ever so careful, on the strip we cruise
Crippled in someone else's shoes
Who knew? Mind you, I never had to stand in line
You did, for the ballad of a comeback kid

Watch your step, as you step down from the podium
Returned from the war to a hero's welcome
What's more you just had to win?
Blazing new trails, waving goodbye to the audience
Held captive, the crowd was inactive, it made such perfect sense

Ever so careful, on the strip we cruise
Crippled in someone else's shoes
Who knew? Mind you, I never had to stand in line
You did

But you won't, Kelly says, she could have
But you won't, Kelly says, she could have
Like a bat out of hell, time has come for
Like a bat out of hell, time has come for
Like a bat out of hell, time has come for you

Ever so careful, on the strip we cruise
Crippled in someone else's shoes
Who knew? Mind you, I never had to stand in line
You did

Ever so careful, on the strip we cruise
Crippled in someone else's shoes
Who knew? Mind you, I never had to stand in line
You did, for the ballad of a comeback kid


6.Star Bodies

Lyricist:Amber Dotson, Philip Eugene O'donnell

On a tear, under siege, under oath, Anna Lee
Won't you come strap yourself to my side?
With our grill in disguise, we've got more lives than I
Ever dreamed you could own at one time

There's a shake with the shock and a gift off with them
They carry the dust of the failing wisdom
For you there's not any warning, for you there's not any warning
And love is 5 in the morning, for you there's not any warning

On a tear cautiously, we advance Anna Lee
Won't you come pass the torch, bring your hands?
Yes and no, there's no right but we have no better light
To see through to our star bodies go

There's a shake with the shock and a gift off with them
They carry the dust of the failing wisdom
For you there's not any warning, for you there's not any warning
And love is 5 in the morning, for you there's not any warning

Now take me to where your sister lives
Take me to where your sister lives
Take me to where your sister lives
Take me to where your sister lives

On a tear far from home, by a thread Anna Lee
What's been said has to stay between us
Call me over, I trust, we lay here 'till we must
Make our break to our star bodies go

There's a shake with the shock and a gift off with them
They carry the dust of the failing wisdom
For you there's not any warning, for you there's not any warning
And love is 5 in the morning, for you there's not any warning

'Till we skip through the towns to the bright sweet past on
And bury the dust of the failing wisdom
For you there's not any warning, for you there's not any warning
And love is 5 in the morning, for you there's not any warning

Now take me to where your sister lives
Take me to where your sister lives


7.Mystery Hours

Always the true one, calm, selective
Stakin' a claim among the young defectives
Far off, under the nighttime, baby
Crawl into the wave

Got to be cool now, unprotected
You come around, every day to collect me
Far off, into the nighttime, baby
Crawl into the wave

Come on, give it to me
Yes, those mystery hours
Yes, those mystery hours
Yes, those mystery hours
Yes, those mystery hours

But officers, the rumblin'
The sound of the collective crumblin'
Around, to the ground
Surrender the town

I call out the numbers
The rumble of collected thunder today, hey
The wages are down

Come on, give it to me
Yes, those mystery hours
Yes, those mystery hours
Yes, those mystery hours
Yes, those mystery hours

Mystery hours
Mystery hours
Mystery hours
Mystery hours

But officers, the rumblin'
The sound of the collective crumblin'
Around, to the ground
Surrender the town

I call out the numbers
The rumble of collected thunder today, hey
The wages are down

Come on, give it to me
Yes, those mystery hours
Yes, those mystery hours
Yes, those mystery hours
Yes, those mystery hours


8.Centre for Holy Wars

Such dream-like view from the ceiling
Where every feeling's part of the fall
Kneeling out on the front lawn
Rise to occasions, grass stains and all

Exactly where we are
At the centre for holy wars
Hope it never comes down again
Floating in the air

With the stars of holy wars
Hope it never comes down again

Nearly but never arrested
But oh, Contessa, asleep in the stall
Still, you somehow have bested
The other contestants, grass stains and all

Exactly where we are
At the centre for holy wars
Hope it never comes down again
Floating in the air

With the stars of holy wars
Hope it never comes down again

Exactly where we are
At the centre for holy wars
Hope it never comes down again
Floating in the air

With the stars of holy wars
Hope it never comes down again

Hope grows greener than grass stains
Hope grows greener than grass stains
Hope grows greener than grass stains
...


9.The Fake Headlines

I wrote the news today in a tent outside the midway rides
And as my money flew, singin' to their pockets
You could only know your shame, knowin' what the good ones do

And when you see the bruises on my legs from kickin' pills yeah
Then you see how recklessly the pages are filled
Make headlines believe them come back
Make headlines believe them come back

Want to be upside down, maybe thrown from side to side
Want to fall from the clouds, sailing like a ship at sea
Want to think out so loud that the fashion police break me

And when you see the bruises on my legs from kickin' pills yeah
Then you see how recklessly the pages are filled
Make headlines believe them come back
Make headlines believe them come back
Make headlines believe them come back

You try, you try, you try believe me come back

I wrote the news today in a tent outside the midway rides
And as my money flew, singin' to their pockets, I
I filled the whole front page with the catchiest words I could
find

Believe me come back
Fake headlines believe them come back
Fake headlines believe them come back
Fake headlines believe them come back


10.Letter from an Occupant

Untold the eventual down falls
Just a bill from the restaurant
You told me I could order the moon, babe
Just as long as it's you what I want

What the last ten minutes have taught me
Bet the hand that your money is on
Where the hell I'd send these you bought me
You trade me away long gone

For the love of God you said
Got a letter from an occupant

The time that your enemy gives you
Good times are not the ones you want
I cried five rivers on the way here
Which one will you stay way on

The tune you'll be humming forever
All the the words are replaced and wrong
With a shower of yeahs and whatevers
You trade me away long gone

For the love of God you said
Got a letter from an occupant

Where've all sensations gone
Where've all sensations gone
Where've all sensations gone
Where've all sensations gone

For the love of God you said
Got a letter from an occupant

For the love of God you said
Got a letter from an occupant

For the love of God you said
Got a letter from an occupant

The song, the song, the song that's shaking me
The song, the song, the song that's shaking me
The song, the song, the song that's shaking me
The song, the song, the song that's shaking me

For the love of God you said
Got a letter from an occupant

For the love of God you said
Got a letter from an occupant


11.Graceland

Countdown to zero, to zero
I am listening through the walls
Not at all
What I thought I was missing

In my case there is something
In the will to escape life at last
As we ride into the sun
Safe we burst into flames

I don't know, I don't know
How you missed us
Rolling by, rolling by
Like the three ghosts of Christmas

In my life this will happen
To a boy every time
The perfect crime
Which as everybody knows pays just fine

So pay my way into Graceland
To Graceland
Pay my way into Graceland
We're even, we're even

Lights out and the first
Of your circuits is broken
Tell the post, good to go
Set it, give into motion

In my life this will happen
To a boy every time
The perfect crime
Which everybody knows pays just fine

So pay my way into Graceland
To Graceland
Pay my way into Graceland
We're even, we're even

So pay my way into Graceland
To Graceland
Pay my way into Graceland
We're even, we're even