Tom Mcrae

Tom Mcrae Tom Mcrae Lyrics
1.You Cut Her Hair

Time
Has coloured in
The black and white
Of your sin
So burn
Burn the flag
Rip it up
Bury the rags

But i will find you still
Move in for the kill
You cut her hair

So live
Live long
See her face
In everyone
And turn
Turn the page
Start again
Change your name

But i will find you still
Move in for the kill
You cut her hair
You cut her hair
You cut her hair


2.End Of The World News

You wake up to the sound of alarms and your
Driving your fabulous car
Listening to the music that reminds you
You used to be young you used to be young

And now you're searching, for a sign with your name
To define you the king of the game
What will you do when there's nothing left
For you to earn and for you to learn

So dose me up once is not enough
I can still see the ground
And from this high rise view looking down on you
I'm not the one wasting my time

And every culture has it's own magazine
And information takes the place of your dreams
Finding ways to fill up the silence
But it's all that you need turn on your tv

So dose me up once is not enough
I can still see the ground
And from this high rise view looking down on you
I'm not the one wasting my time

This is the end of the world news
This is the end of the world news sponsored by god

So dose me up once is not enough
I can still see the ground
And from this high rise view looking down on you
I'm not the one wasting my time

So dose me up once is not enough
I can still see the ground
And from this high rise view looking down on you
I'm not the one wasting my time

So dose me up once is not enough
I can still see the ground
And from this high rise view looking down on you
I'm not the one wasting my time


3.2nd Law

Tell all my friends
I have gone to the moon
Tell all my friends
I will write them soon
And tell them
If you see them
That i am better left alone

'cause i'm living up here where the air is thin
And where gravity don't bring you down
Yeah i'm living up here and i'm watching your universe cooling
down

I spend my days beneath a perspex dome
I think that i have finally come home

So tell them
If you see them
That i am better left alone

'cause i'm living up here where the air is thin
And where gravity don't bring you down
Yeah i'm living up here and i'm watching your universe cooling
down

Yeah i'm living up here where the air is thin
And where gravity don't bring you down
I'm living up here and i'm watching your universe cooling down


4.Bloodless

This train don't stop at the stations of the cross
No reasons left to believe
Trying to stay awake gave yourself a caffeine headache
To hide the taste of sleep

In choosing to forget you cut away the safety net that holds
your heart, holds your heart
And you go in search of youth touching up your empire roots
But these days we don't know how to march
Satisfied with a knife in your spine you're bloodless

So tell me again what am i feeling you know me so well
So what am i feeling and how can you tell
I've got a feeling you don't know

We think that we're the ones we're the bright unconquered suns
Wait a while we'll watch the light grow stale
And we smell so very clean but we're the
Oil in this machine and this machine
This machine is going wrong

So choose your sides when it comes to the fight you're bloodless
So tell me again what am i feeling you know me so well
So what am i feeling and how can you tell
I've got a feeling you don't know

You choose your side but in the fight i see your blood run
white, your blood run white
And i've seen it all before and i see it again

And i see it again
So what am i feeling you know me so well
So what am i feeling and how can you tell
I've got a feeling you don't know

So tell me again now what am i feeling you know me so well
So what am i feeling and how can you tell
I've got a feeling

So tell me again now what am i feeling you know me so well
So what am i feeling and how can you tell
I've got a feeling you don't know


5.Draw Down The Stars

Coming back to the city
That i never quite leave
Picture you be the ocean
Picture me coughing into my sleeve

Like a snake eating snake you confuse me
Who's killer ? who's captive ? who's free ?
In a city that kills by constriction
Throw your streets around me and squeeze

And draw down the stars
Draw down the stars
What's in your heart?

....


6.One More Mile

I feel the night is on your side
Shadows wait you when you rise
You hold the weight of every moment
Move no distance in your stride

And while you wallow in your wounds
You let the devils draw near
One more mile is all we have
You got nothing to fear

I feel the night is on your side
And i don't recognise this road
We sleep all day and walk all night
You're leading me too far from home

And he says pour another drink
And take a good look around
One more mile is all we have
Until the lost become the found

And by the firelight i see footprints
Shadows circle on the floor
And everything is so familiar
We have come this way before

Do i have the will
Do i
One more mile
One more mile
Do i have the will
Do i
One more mile
One more mile

...


7.The Boy With The Bubblegun

Welcome to the second reel glad that you can make it
We thought your fate was sealed it's not what we expected
But you punch above your weight and you're stronger than you
look
And the ending's not the same they changed it from the book

I'm the boy with the bubblegun
I'm taking aim
I cannot hit to hurt or cause you pain
If words could kill i'd spell out your name

It's time to kill the king it's written in the scripture
See what tomorrow brings got to get a bigger picture
So forgive me forgive me for i am born to be what i must be and
i must be

The boy with the bubblegun i'm taking aim
I cannot hit to hurt or cause you pain
If words could kill i'd spell out your name
I'm the boy with the bubblegun
The boy with the bubblegun
I'm the boy with the bubblegun with work to do
If songs could kill this one's for you


8.Hidden Camera Show

If you won't
Carry a gun
And if you won't
Learn to run

Hide from the world
It will come for you
You have no place in this time

If you won't
Carry a gun
And if you won't
Learn to run

Hide from the world
It will come for you
You have no place in this time

And it's the cars on the highway
It's the drunks singing 'my way'
We're all caught in a hidden camera show
And it's the thrill of deception
It's the chill of rejection
In the faces of the people we don't know

If you love
Bury it deep
When you talk
Know that talk is cheap
Swallow your tounge
This is not your fight
It's braver sometimes just to run

And it's the cars on the highway
It's the drunks singing 'my way'
We're all caught in a hidden camera show

And it's the cars on the highway
It's the drunks singing 'my way'
We're all caught in a hidden camera show
And it's the blink of a shutter
It's the hitman in the gutter
We're all caught in a hidden camera show
And i close my eyes
Turn my face to the sky
I won't smile for your hidden camera show


9.A & B Song

a & b song

A say's he's glad to be here, b's chasing storms in the
lightning state,
Where everyday above ground is a good day, and life is great.
A's got a cocaine body, b's got a benylin brain,
A knows he's gonna be some body, b don't believe in fame.

And all our time slips away

A's got a girl for each season, b's got a mail order bride,
A knows he's headed for salvation, b's afraid to die.
If hell is in the detail, babe, i'm a microscope,
I know i'll live to see you swinging, given enough rope.

And all our time slips away

A's growing tired of conversation, he's ready for his final
scene,
B's whistling hotel california, and still living out the dream.
Here we are together, let's roll the dice just one more time,
Odd number says we walk away now, even says we die ...don't
wanna die.

And all our time slips away
And all our time slips away

Producer : chris hughes.
Tom mcrae : vocals, acoustic guitars, percussion, harmonica.
chris hughes:
Drums, percussion.
Mark frith : electric guitar, hammond, bass. tony marrison:
programming.

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Language of fools

I cannot use this language of fools to communicate with you.
The things that you say to mark the time of the day are
calculated to bemuse.
And hey yeah ...hey hey yeah

Won't you hide me, won't you hold my life, let me have this
time.
And lie here while i close my eyes, hold me through this night.

One good day will lead the way for another, my love.
Living here things are never so clear you discover my love,
And hey yeah ...hey hey yeah.

Won't you hide me, won't you hold my life, let me have this
time.
And lie here while i close my eyes, hold me through this night.
Hide me, won't you hold my weight, hold me through this night.

Produced : chris hughes/tom mcrae.
Tom mcrae : vocals, guitars, piano, percussion. clive jenner :
drums. mark
Frith : piano, hammond.
Chris hughes : percussion. strings arranged by anthony clarke.

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Untitled

Get me out, get me out, get me out of this room, let me see.
Cut it out, cut it out, rip it out from this wound, let me
bleed.
But wait now, wait now for me... won't you...

Shut it out, shut it out, black it out with the night, to put me
at ease won't
You...
Talk it out, talk it out, yell out to the ghosts that stalk the
street.
But wait now, wait now for me...

And we'll sail on the high tide, drift on the open sea.
I've been waiting for so long.

Take my hand, take my hand, kiss me softly, then take your
leave..won't you..
Sit down, sit down, take the weight of me, let me grieve.
But wait now, wait now for me.

And we'll sail on the high tide, drift on the open sea.
I've been waiting for so long.

But wait now, wait now for me.

And we'll sail on the high tide, drift on the open sea.
I've been waiting for so long.

Producer : chris hughes. tom mcrae : vocals. howard jones :
piano.

,-------

Sau paulo rain

There's always a party on funeral row, where the cross flashes
red to the
Street.
And gasoline dreams of girls in blue jeans, he's grazing the
surface od sleep.

The vultures on main street are eyeing you up, calculating the
wait of your
Bones.
And midnight graffiti appears on your door, so we all can sleep
safe in our
Homes.

And the storms in the distance hold no rain, and i feel my
resistance giving
Way.
Shelter me from this sky, dance with me one last time... sau
paulo rain... sau
Paulo rain

Do not disturb this blood red earth, there's giants sleeping
beneath,
And carnival queens on their deathbed scenes all go through the
motions of
Grief.
Take another hit, let the bottle slip through your fingers and
break like a
Promise made...
The day i remember, my heart i will keep, my voice i surrender
and i will not
Speak to lie.

We were so alive, we were so alive.
Shelter me from this sky, dance with me one last time... sau
paulo rain... sau
Paulo rain

Producer : tom mcrae/jamie cullum.
Tom mcrae : vocals, acoustic/electric guitars.
Tony marrison : bass, keyboards.
Clive jenner : drums.
Anthony clarke : piano.


10.Language Of Fools


11.Untitled


12.Sao Paulo Rain


13.I Ain't Scared Of Lightning

I aint scared of lightning
Come on and do your worst
If they gave degrees
For cheating destiny
Then man
I got a first

No i aint scared of lightning
It's the same old empty threat
I've been standing proud
Beneath the gathering cloud
And man
I ain't dead yet
No i ain't scared of lightning
And thunder never killed
I was born in a summer storm
I live there still
Yeah i was born in a summer storm
I live there still