PORTISHEAD - DUMMY

 

MYSTERONS

 

Inside your pretending

Crimes have been swept aside

Somewhere where they can forget

Divine upper reaches

Still holding on

This ocean will not be grasped

All for nothing

Did you really want

Did you really want

Did you really want

Did you really want

Instrumental

Refuse to surrender

Strung out until ripped apart

Who dares, dares to condemn

All for nothing

Did you really want

Did you really want

Did you really want

Did you really want

 

 

 

 

 

SOUR TIMES

 

To pretend no one can find

The fallacies of morning rose

Forbidden fruit, hidden eyes

Curtises that I despise in me

Take a ride, take a shot now

Cos nobody loves me

Its true

Not like you do

Covered by the blind belief

That fantasies of sinful screens

Bear the facts, assume the dye

End the vows no need to lie, enjoy

Take a ride, take a shot now

 

CHORUS

Who oo am I, what and why

Cos all I have left is my memories of yesterday

Ohh these sour times

CHORUS

After time the bitter taste

Of innocence decent or race

Scattered seeds, buried lives

Mysteries of our disguise revolve

Circumstance will decide ....

 

CHORUS

Cos nobody loves me

Its true

Not like you

Nobody loves.. me

Its true

Not, like, you.. do

 

 

 

 

 

STRANGERS

 

Ohh........

Can anybody see the light

Where the morn meets the dew and the tide rises

Did you realise, no one can see inside your view

Did you realise, forwhy this sight belongs to you

Ohh........

Just set aside your fears of life

Thru this sole desire

Done it warning

Done it now

This ain't real

On in this side

Done it warning

Done it now

This ain't real

On in this side

 

Done it warning

Done it now

This ain't real

Done it waring

Done it now

This ain't real

On in this side

Ohh............

Can anybody see the light

Were the morn meets the dew and the tide rises

Did you realise, no one can ever see inside you view

Did you realise, forewhy this sight belongs to you

 

 

 

 

 

IT COULD BE SWEET

 

I don't want to hurt you

For no reason have I but fear

And I ain't guilty of the crimes you accuse me of

But I'm guilty of fear

I'm sorry to remind

You but I'm scared of what we're creating

This life ain't fair

You don't get something for nothing, turn now

Mmmm gotta try a little harder

It could be sweet

Like a long forgotten dream

And we don't need them to cast the fate we have

Love don't always shine thru

Cos I don't wanna lose

What we had last time your leaving this life ain't fair

You don't get something for nothing, turn now

Mmmm gotta try a little harder

It could be sweet.....

But the thoughts we try to deny

Take a toll upon our lives

We struggle on in depths of pride

Tangled up in single minds

Cos I don't wanna lose

What we had last time your leaving this life ain't fair

You don't get something for nothing, turn back

Mmmm gotta try a little harder

Cos I don't wanna lose

What we had last time your leaving this life ain't fair

You don't get something for nothing, turn back

Mmmm gotta try a little harder

It could be sweet

 

 

 

 

 

 

WANDERING STAR

 

Please could you stay awhile to share my grief

For its such a lovely day

To have to always feel this way

And the time that I will suffer less

Is when I never have to wake

Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved

The blackness of darkness forever

Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved

The blackness of darkness forever

... Those who have seen the needles eye, now tread

Like a husk, from which all that was, now has fled

And the masks, that the monsters wear

To feed, upon their prey

Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved

The blackness of darkness forever

Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved

The blackness of darkness forever

 

 (always) doubled up inside

Take awhile to shed my grief

(always) doubled up inside

Taunted, cruel.... ...

Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved

The blackness of darkness forever

Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved

The blackness of darkness forever

 

 

 

 

 

IT'S A FIRE

 

It's a fire

These dreams they pass me by

This salvation I desire

Keeps getting me down

Cos we need to

Recognise mistakes

For time and again

So let it be known for what we believe in

I can see no reason for it to fail.... ...

Cos this life is a farce

I can't breathe through this mask

Like a fool

So breathe on, sister breathe on

 

From this oneself

Testify or tell

Its fooling us now

So let it be known for what we believe in

I can see no reason for it to fail...

Cos this life is a farce

I can't breathe through this mask

Like a fool

So breathe on, little sister, breathe on

Ohh so breathe on, little sister, like a fool

 

 

 

 

 

NUMB

 

Unable so lost

I can't find my way

Been searching, but I have never seen

A turning, a turning from deceit

Cos the child roses like

Try to reveal what I could feel

I can't understand myself anymore

But I m still feeling lonely

Feeling so unholy

Cos the child roses like

Try to reveal what I could feel

But this loneliness

It just won't leave me alone

I'm fooling somebody

A faithless path to roam

Deceiving to breath this secretly

This silence, a silence I can't bear

Cos the child roses like

Try to reveal what I could feel

And this loneliness

It just won't leave me alone

And this loneliness,

It just won't leave me alone, ohh no

A lady of war

A lady of war

 

 

 

 

 

ROADS

 

Ohh, can't anybody see

We've got a war to fight

Never found our way

Regardless of what they say

How can it feel, this wrong

From this moment

How can it feel, this wrong

Storm.. in the morning light

I feel

No more can I say

Frozen to myself

I got nobody on my side

And surely that ain't right

And surely that ain't right

Ohh, can't anybody see

We've got a war to fight

Never found our way

Regardless of what they say

How can it feel, this wrong

From this moment

How can it feel, this wrong

 

How can it feel, this wrong

This moment

How can it feel, this wrong

Ohh, can't anybody see

We've got a war to fight