Cruel Guards

The Panics Cruel Guards Lyrics
1.Live Without

Lyricist:Julian Grigor, Justin Laffer, Paul Otway, Drew Wootton, Myles
Wootton

You don't tell me, we don't talk no more
Feels like a lifetime on an endless chore
I had it coming, I could tell by the guilt that she wore
If there were noises late at night coming from my door

You won't be knockin' to that sound no more
We have a chance and a plan to restore
You scraped this body down to its core
You had me hearing voices that were loud as a war

You were the face that would come tumblin' down with it all
We took a corner â~round an unknown ridge
A conversation by the unused bridge
You had no face at all, I had to dig a hole or swim

And now I just won't fight, I ain't gonna battle no more
I have tried to weather that storm
Now it's calm and it's clear but it's never gone

Did you ever have a moment of doubt
I'm living here alone and this is still a crowd
I'll never work you out
How can I forgive, now I have to live without

I was looking back at every face in the street
Screaming at the shadows with a howl of defeat
I admit, I had some trouble keeping my feelings discreet
And now the memory I keep, well, it's not one I've shown

It creeps like a fever and it bleeds on its own
And what has died here, may sleep
Better if it's left alone

And now I just won't fight, I ain't gonna battle no more
No, I just won't fight, I ain't gonna battle no more
I have tried to weather that storm
Now it's calm and it's clear but it's never gone


2.Cruel Guards

Lyricist:Julian Grigor, Justin Laffer, Paul Otway, Drew Wootton, Myles
Wootton

I see you in the papers through a foggy lens
Waving with a fist, my team, she always wins
He looks into your eyes like an old friend
Tells you there's a difference
There's us, us, us and them

It's a cheat to make me feel happy when it's on loan
When you ain't ever home, no, you ain't ever home

There is a bright, bright heat
They are the cruel, cruel guards
A most unfortunate charm
It's always calm, it's always calm
Right before you do me harm

I lost it once in a market queue
Dropped my bags, felt gagged and left
Seeing black and blue

Found us drowned in the cobblestone
Forget your supplies
For the waters will rise on their own

It's a cheat to make me feel happy when it's on loan
When you ain't ever home, no, you ain't ever home

There is a bright, bright heat
They are the cruel, cruel guards
A most unfortunate charm
It's always calm, it's always calm
Right before you do me harm

It's always calm, it's always calm
Right before you do me harm


3.Sundowner

Lyricist:Julian Grigor, Justin Laffer, Paul Otway, Drew Wootton, Myles
Wootton

They put a cup in my hands
A hand across my eyes
Said I looked older
And not a bit wise

You see the words they were learned
And certainly mine
I spent six months looking
For the rest of the rhyme
I wanna get more, not just get by

C'mon, c'mon , I'm waiting on you
C'mon, c'mon, give me the news
I'm counting on you

There's clouds in my bottle
Smoke in my eyes
And over my shoulder
A dishwater sky

Further is the heat , bending the light
The cabin door swings on one stubborn wire
I wanna get more, not just get by

C'mon, c'mon , I'm waiting on you
C'mon, c'mon, give me the news
I'm counting on you


4.Don't Fight It

Lyricist:Julian Grigor, Justin Laffer, Paul Otway, Drew Wootton, Myles
Wootton

I have no other way, there is a price to pay
For what the man will say that I was a million miles away
In a promise full of steam, it could take no vacant dream
To persuade me to believe

I think just don't fight it, don't fight it, don't fight it
If you don't know what it is, if you don't know what it is

I left my heart in places, forgot everyone of their faces
And tried to navigate a broken path
Of which I may have helped create
In any incident, this is never no accident
To stand alone and let the silence make itself at home

Ah, give it up, those dirty tricks
No quick fix, can undo it
Ah, give it up, I won't resist
My answers always this

I said, don't fight it, don't fight it, don't fight it
If you don't know what it is, if you don't know what it is

Just don't fight it, don't fight it, don't fight it
If you don't know what it is, if you don't know what it is

Where has my light gone? Where has my fight gone?
What keeps us burning when the fire is long gone?
When I can't relate to that voice without a face
Should I be afraid or is it just a voice I did create?

Ah, give it up, those dirty tricks
No quick fix, can undo it
Ah, give it up, I won't resist
My answers always this

I said don't fight it, don't fight it, don't fight it
If you don't know what it is, if you don't know what it is

Just don't fight it, don't fight it, don't fight it
If you don't know what it is, if you don't know what it is

No, don't fight it
Don't know what it is, don't know what it is
No, don't fight it
Don't know what it is, don't know what it is
No, don't fight it
Don't know what it is, don't know what it is


5.Ruins

Lyricist:Julian Grigor, Justin Laffer, Paul Otway, Drew Wootton, Myles
Wootton

I'm close enough to know you're near
But not enough to make it real
Have I become like all the others here?
A ruin in the deepest of all fears

Before I had a chance to look
You went and turned your back for good
Don't act as if it's understood
When it only takes one look

At the crater, where we once stood
I don't know what we will become
I just know that I'm not the one
Yeah, I know that I'm not the one
That you're looking for

I hope that I can go without
Someone else will have to guide you now
That can only break a spirit down
Guided by a goal you never found

Somewhere in the back looms
A kitchen that's become her own tomb
On the wall, I watch the shadow of her figure
Floating 'round the room
'Til she hits the lights and is gone from view

I don't know what we will become
I just know that I'm not the one
Yeah, I know that I'm not the one
That you're looking for
Yeah, I know that I'm not the one
That you're looking for


6.Feeling Is Gone

Lyricist:Julian Grigor, Justin Laffer, Paul Otway, Drew Wootton, Myles
Wootton

Well, I know you're moving on
And it's clear we're moving on alone
I hope you find what you're looking for
And I know that one thing's for sure

The feeling is gone
As long as I'm hoping it stays
I'm hoping it stays

Well, every time that feeling is mine
I let it go to waste
When I feel it go wrong
I leave it too long

So long it hurts to say
The feeling is gone
As long as I'm hoping it stays
I'm hoping it stays, I'm hoping it stays

And though it left you too
I wanna give that feeling back to you

The feeling is gone
(I'm hoping it stays, I'm hoping it stays)
The feeling is gone
(I'm hoping it stays, I'm hoping it stays)
The feeling is gone
(I'm hoping it stays, I'm hoping it stays)
The feeling is gone away

And though it left you too
I wanna give that feeling back to you


7.Something In The Garden

Lyricist:Julian Grigor, Justin Laffer, Paul Otway, Drew Wootton, Myles
Wootton

Theres a place they sit
Where the wind don't hit
With a shadow hanging over it
And sing with a sigh

My dirt, my dirt is dry
They put us on the steep
Side of the hill
Into our weather board shack on stilts

All of the while
The deeper the spiral
Inside, all eyes
Fix upon a great divide
Outside, all eyes
Fix upon an empty sky

There's something in the garden
That makes her unhappy
There's something in the garden
That makes her unhappy

I dreamt that they found us
The color of coal
As smoke crept through the fly wire holes
And my dirt it was drier
Than the ash from the fire

I count the days
In sand and sticks
And act brave on the face of it

Theres not a cloud in the sky
My dirt, my dirt is dry
Inside ,all eyes
Fix upon a great divide
Outside, all eyes
Fix upon an empty sky

There's something in the garden
That makes her unhappy
There's something in the garden
That makes her unhappy
Come on, let it wash us down
Down deep


8.Creaks

Lyricist:Julian Grigor, Justin Laffer, Paul Otway, Drew Wootton, Myles
Wootton

I've marked out the creaks in the floor
I have so much I could say
But I wanna slip away
So I'll wait 'til you're asleep

You have kept me inside
Like a still life caught
In a buzzing beehive
Go on now close your eyes
Blink and you'll miss me

I've made up my mind
I just wanted to be somewhere else for a while
I was looking for a little bit more
But now I've been away so long

I don't remember what I'm looking for
There were times I was sure
I'd traveled too far to look behind anymore
And if our chances are bleak

I'm only so brave
I'll make my moves while you sleep
I just wanted to be somewhere else for a while
I was looking for a little bit more
But now I've been away so long

I don't remember what I'm looking for
Because I made my plans for the rest of my days
I made my plans for every day
And I made my plans for yesterday thinking of you


9.Get Us Home

I've seen his face before
and I wonder what it means
three lonely fi gures standing at my door
and one he spoke to me
with a letter from my home
and a fever in his eyes
a chill went through my bones
and I bid my host goodbye
he gave me no reply
and I never looked behind
You've gotta get us home right now
There's no comfort in the cradle where
we sleep
It's a land of dark and wide
It won't let us survive for free
I made my way on trains,
through the brick and the lanes
where the burnt wrecks lay dead on
the plains
and it leaves your heart the same
but it must be in disguise
if in this distance is my prize
out here sometimes it can play a cruel trick
on the mind
it's playing one on mine
You've gotta get us home right now
There's no comfort in the cradle where
we sleep
It's a land of dark and wide
It won't let us survive for free
You've gotta get us home
you've gotta lay it in stone


10.Confess

I hit the dirt to begin
our story had hardly begun
before I even got my turn
I had been outdone
There was a moment there
I gave in and I lost my share
buried it inside
threw it back without a care
Now what have I come home to
and what good could I ever do
I am not the first or the final one to break
the rules
Though I gave it all
I don't know what for
I have nothing at all to confess
Some boys they throw their hands
some make unfair demands
some see the science
and they deny to the end
Now why have I come home
and what have I come home to
why have I come home
just to break the rule
Though I gave it all
I don't know what for
I have nothing at all to confess