PORTISHEAD:- Dummy [from Waxing Lyrical]
Track Listing:
(1) Mysterons (7) Numb
(2) Sour Times (8) Roads
(3) Strangers (9) Pedestal
(4) It Could Be Sweet (10) Biscuit
(5) Wandering Star (11) Glory Box
(6) It's a Fire
The Lyrics:
(1) Mysterons
Inside you're pretending
Crowns have been swept aside
Somewhere, where they can forget
Divine upper reaches
Still holding on
This emotion will not be grasped
All for nothing
Did you really want (x4)
Refuse to surrender
Strung out until ripped apart
Who dares, who dares to condemn
All for nothing
Did you really want (x4)
(2) Sour times
To pretend and one can find
Fantasies and morning rose
Forbidden fruit, hidden lies
Courtesies that I despise in me
Take a ride, take a shot now
`Cos nobody loves me, it's true, not like you do
Covered by the blind belief
That fantasies of sinful screams
Bare the facts or sooner die
End the vows no need to lie in chain
Take a ride, take a shot now
`Cos nobody loves me, its true, not like you do
Am I what and why?
`Cos all I have left is my memories of yesterday
Oh the sour times
`Cos nobody loves me, it's true, not like you do
After time the bitter taste
Of innocence disintegrates
Scattered seed, buried lives
Histories of our disguise reborn
Circumstance will decide
`Cos nobody loves me, its true, not like you do (x3)
(3) Strangers
Can anybody see the light
Where the moon beats the dew
And the tide is rising
Did you realise no one can see inside your view
Did you realise the world inside belongs to you
Oh just set aside your fears of life
With the sole desire
Done in morning, done in now , and it ain't real
On this side
Done in morning, done in now , and it ain't real
On this side
Done in morning, done in now , and it ain't real
Done it morning and nothing matters, this ain't real
On this side
Oh can anybody see the light
Where the moon beats the dew
And the tide is rising
Did you realise no one can see inside your view
Did you realise the world inside belongs to you
(4) It could be sweet
I don't want to hurt you
No reason have I for fear
I ain't guilty of crimes accused before
But I'm guilty of fear
I'm certain that
But I'm scared of what we're creating
This love affair
You don't get something for nothing
Too now
Got to 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 through
`Cos I don't want to lose
What we had last time your leaving
This love affair
You don't get something for nothing
Too now
Got to try a little harder
It could be sweet
But the thoughts we try to deny
Take a toll upon our lives
Struggle on in depths of pride
Tangled up in single lives
`Cos I don't want to lose
What we had last time your leaving
This love affair
You don't get something for nothing
Turn back
Got to try a little harder
`Cos I don't want to lose
What we had last time your leaving
This love affair
You don't get something for nothing
Turn back
Got to try a little harder
It could be sweet
(5) Wandering star
Please couldn't you stay a while to share my grief
It's such a lovely day to have to always feel this way
And the time that I will suffer less
It's when I never have to wait
Wandering stars
For whom it is preserved
The blackness, the darkness, forever
Wandering stars
For whom it is preserved
The blackness, the darkness, forever
Those who have seem the needles I now tread
Like a husk from which your darkness now has fled
And the masks that the monsters wear
To feed upon their prey
Wandering stars
For whom it is preserved
The blackness, the darkness, forever
Wandering stars
For whom it is preserved
The blackness, the darkness, forever
Doubled up inside
Take a while to share my grief
Always doubled up inside
Taunted, cool
Wandering stars
For whom it is preserved
The blackness, the darkness, forever
Wandering stars
For whom it is preserved
The blackness, the darkness, forever
(6) It's a fire
It's a fire
These dreams that pass me by
The salvation I desire
Keeps getting me down
`Cos we need to recognize our state
For time and again
So let it be known
For what we believe in
I can see no reason
For it to fade
`Cos this life is a farce
I can't breathe through this mask
Like a fool
So breathe on, little sister, breathe on
From this warm cell
Testify or tell
It's fooling us now
So let it be known
For what we believe in
I can see no reason
For it to fade
`Cos this life is a farce
I can't breathe through this mask
Like a fool
So breathe on, little sister, breathe on
Oh, so breathe on little sister, like a fool
(7) Numb
I'm ever so lost
I can't find my way
Been searching but I have never seen
A turning, a turning from deceit
`Cos a child roses light
Tried to reveal what I could feel
I can't understand myself anymore
`Cos I'm still feeling lonely
Feeling so unholy
`Cos a child roses light
Tried to reveal what I could feel
And this loneliness
It just won't leave me alone, oh no
I'm fooling somebody
A faithless bed I roam
Seething to breath this secretly
A silence, this silence I can't bear
`Cos a child roses light
Tried to reveal what I could feel
And this loneliness
He just won't leave me alone, Oh no
And this loneliness
It just won't leave me alone
Oh lady you're the one (x2)
(8) Roads
Oh, can't anybody see
We've got a war to fight
Never find our way
Regardless of what they say
How can it feel this wrong?
From this moment
How can it feel this wrong?
Stone in the morning light
I feel no more
Can I say
From self to myself
I got nobody on my side
And surely that ain't right
Surely that ain't right
Oh, can't anybody see
We've got a war to fight
Never find 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?
From this moment
How can it feel this wrong?
Oh, can't anybody see
We've got a war to fight
Never find our way
Regardless of what they say
How can it feel this wrong?
From this moment
How can it feel this wrong?
(9) Pedestal
How can I believe this miracle
Where the wind blows dry
Through the forest of our mind
Undenied by desire
Oh you abandoned me
How I suffer
Ridicule breaths a sigh
You abandoned me
Lost forever
Hush can you hear
Enter and rejoice this pedestal
Where the rainbow's high
Your destiny
Mystery of all time
Oh no time make a reason
Ridicule breaths a sigh
No time, make a reason
Hush hear him cry
No time, make a reason (x3)
(10) Biscuit
I'm lost and found
Stranger things have come your way
It's just I'm scared
Got hurt a long time ago
Can't make myself heard
No matter how hard I scream
Oh sensation
It's in slave of sensation
Fully fed yet I still hunger
Torn inside
Haunted I tell myself yet I still wander
Down inside
It's tearing me apart
Oh sensation
It's in slave of sensation
I'll never fall in love again
It's all over now
At last relief
A mother's son has left me sheer
The shores I seek
Are crimson distant valley
Can't make myself heard
No matter how hard I scream
Oh sensation
Sin slave of sensation
Sample repeat over and over :
I'll never fall in love again
It's all over now
(11) Glory box
I'm so tired of playing
Playing with this bow and arrow
Gonna give my heart away
Leave it to the other girls to play
For I've been a temptress too long
Hmm yes
Give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be a woman
I just want to be a woman
From this time unchained
We're all looking at a different picture
Through this new frame of mind
A thousand flowers could bloom
Move over and give us some room
Yeah
Give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be a woman
I just want to be a woman
So don't you stop being a man
Just take a little look from outside when you can
Sow a little tenderness
No matter if you cry
Give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be a woman
I just want to be a woman
Its all I want to be, a woman
So I just want to be a woman
For this is the beginning of forever and ever
It's time to move over now
So I want to be
I'm so tired of playing
Playing with this bow and arrow
Gonna give my heart away
Leave it to the other girls to play
For I've been a temptress too long
Hmmm yes
Give me a reason to love you
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