LYRICS

JOHN SMITH LYRICS

BELOW ARE THE LYRICS TO ECHOLALIA:
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stunt show:
you hold me in mid air and you keep a measure from impact
you stop and ask me if the ringing in your ears might be the sound of thought
you're like a long slow accident, time stood still while motion emptied you out
and i watched you like a slide show, 1,2,3,4 and there you go
we all stop and stare, from start to finish, we're measuring again
you keep trying to show us how you can carry 50times your own weight
you've gotta whole new story but you're bound to like your invention like a ball and chain
and we watched you like a stunt show
hold our breath and here we go

how will you get yourself out of this one?
you stand by watching and this how your life is turning out

woohhhooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

how will you get yourself out of this one?
you stand by watching and this how your life is turning out
 
 

3dimensions:
you're not the first to think that everything has been thought before
i spoke to an echo an he said
i'm not satisfied, i want something more
coz i bored with three dimensions
i'm in love with three dimensions
and if i listen to the second it reminds me of echolalia

what now? fragments are found in a mist and in a sound
coz i am bored with three dimensions
i'm in love with three dimensions
and if i listen to the second it reminds me of echolalalalalia
lalalalalalalalalalaaaa

you're not the first to think
you're not the first to think
that i am bored with three dimensions
i'm in love with three dimensions
and if i listen to the second it reminds me of echolalia
echolalalalaia
echolalalalaia
echolalia
 
 

Jerry stand up:
jerry stand up, pull back the curtains and let some light in
quit your job, because you hate it and it's wasting you

once upon a time you were running
singing to the crowd every morning
once upon a time you were...

jerry stand up, am i the only one who's noticed that you've been missing?
remember yourself man, remember that you have chance and possibility
once upon a time you were running
singing to the crowd every morning
once upon a time you were crazy

ohhhhhh

jerry, you're not getting any younger
all you need is fresh air, a nice new suit, a walk in the park every day or two
fresh air, a nice new suit, a walk in the park every day or two
fresh air, a nice new suit, a walk in the park every day or two
every day and every way, every day

once upon a time you were running
singing to the crowd every morning
once upon a time you were crazy
 
 

Monsters:
i was hanging upside down from the overpass waiting to discover something about the world
i couldn't get with the program and i couldn't listen to them,
it was like trying to think in reverse
and i don't want to slide into apathy
and i don't wanna die in captivity
but these monsters follow me around, hunting me down
trying to wipe me out
wipe me out

i was hiding away underwater
waiting for distance and buying some time
trying to be 200,000 yrs younger
so i could excuse myself from humankind
coz i don't wanna be a container
or a bastard with a 10page disclaimer
but these monsters spin me around
get me down
just try to shut me out
shut me out

hold it in your head
hold it in your head
hold it in your head
believe and make believe and make believe

i was hiding away underwater
waiting for distance waiting for time
and i don't wanna slide into apathy
and i don't wanna live in captivity

shut me outttt
 
 

Old pictures:
let these pages fly away
flagpoles in the sun
same saturday
reflected in a window is where you'll stay
where u'll stay

i turned you in .. i turned into whispers
i turned you in.. i turned you into old pictures
i turned you into whispers

i built you out of nothing to have you near
i remembered you on trains
so now you're on every train i hear

i turned you in .. i turned you into whispers
i turned you in.. i turned you into old pictures
i turned you in.. i turned into whispers
i turned you into old pictures

i wish that you were gone
so you're gone

let these pages fly away
flagpoles in the sun
same saturday
reflected in a window is where you'll stay

i turned you in .. i turned you into whispers
i turned you in.. i turned you into old pictures
i turned you in.. i turned into whispers
i turned you in.. into old pictures, and whispers
 
 
 

You only hide:
so i keep watch and you keep breaking
breaking formation to become someone else
and your eyes become corridors
where i wander with a candle calling out to you

and you only hide because you know i'll find you

you say you just wanna feel
the way to used to feel
the way you should feel
and i wander, i wander through
the lost city of you

and you only hide because you know i'll find you
and you only hide because you know i'll find you
 
 
 

Feeding the birds and hoping for something in return:
he sees streets waiting for him to decide
forcing directions on the air
insisting
and he wants to move it up
and he wants to move across anything, just anything
in a city that rumbles like an impatient child, he hears everything
and i know the sound of panic
and i know emergency and i know i've planned it like a battle
when i'm done shaking i'll be simple

he hears trees talking about the wind or something
and he can't remember waking up, so he refuses to believe that he ever was asleep and he's exhausted
he sits under a tree, feeding the birds and hoping for something in return

and i hate the silence in him
and i know emergency
and i know i've planned it like a battle
when i'm done shaking i'll be simple
i'll be simple
i'll be simple simple simple

he sees the buildings waiting
he sees them tired and leaning on each other
and all the words i had escaped and all the things i soul i shaped?
and i'm forgetting everything faster than i can remember what i'm missing
i'm missing everything

i know i've planned it like a battle
i know i've planned it like a battle
when i'm done shaking i'll be....
 
 
 

20years:
he is alive and kicking and screaming
calls it gymnastics, calls it velocity
you spend 20yrs climbing and never change your mind or change direction
and you call it the path of least resistance and you have everything you ever need

so you sing if u can't beat them join them
all the way up to your fall
memorise and repeat it
and sing it like you mean it

they are talking to me and i am nowhere to be found
there's somewhere else i had be
call it necessity, mutiny, entrapy
they think i'm down they tell me i should brighten up
that's just coz they don't know an explosion when they see one

so you sing if u can't beat them join them
all the way up to your fall
memorise and repeat it
and sing it like you mean it
all the way home to your front door
yeah you better believe it and sing it like you mean it

they are talking to me
and i am nowhere to be found

so you sing, so you sing if u can't beat them join them
all the way up to your fall
memorise and repeat it and sing it like you mean it
 
 

say something:
tonight is like space invaders
there is nothing at work
the faces have become like traffic

multipurpose conversation
i stand like a lighthouse
i have become a lighthouse

if we met we would exhaust this place
if you spoke then this world would short circuit

say something
make it a direct hit
say something
make me never forget

i don't wanna stand and compute
i want days and weeks to burst out of you
i am listenin for dear life
i want you to talk like it's a breakthrough
ohhhhhh

say something
make it a direct hit
say something
make me never forget this, this
say something
 
 

man made horse:
ask me how i am, ask me how i've been
and then stand and watch and hope and wait and with any luck
i'll be an earthquake and i will clear a space here
where you can put pictures and silence and sleep and you can stop asking coz you'll be

you will be, you will be, you will be down in the centre of the earth with me
now you see me, now you bother twice

i picture myself like a column of smoke
when questioned i see myself riding around forever on a man made horse and you
and you will be, moving randomly
you will be, yeah you'll be

now you see me
now you don't bother looking twice

so you can go
through all
keep it
secret
try not to grow
you can do it
do it

you will be, riding around forever
you will be riding, riding, riding around forever
forever, riding around forever
 
 

Happy Endings:
this town makes my mind slow down
got lines on my face like highways now
and chasing breezes, kicking boulders
and all of the while just getting older

i'll leave pieces of paper
pieces of myself along the way
out the window
out the window
i'll tell myself that:
i'll come back for them before i go
then i won't sing this song tomorrow

reason calls, i'm never listening
there's always something more distracting
and you take everything so seriously
and you leave and burn on re-entry

the happy endings
all these little victories
gathered up and hung on a wall like trophies
i'll tell myself that:
i've been down this road before
so i won't sing this song anymore, anymore, anymore

heyyyy ohh

i've been down this road before
so i won't this song anymore
said i've been myself enough before
so i won't sing this song anymore

ohhhhhh
 
 
 

Seasick:
you make it look so easy
you seem to fit inside your own skull so comfortably
and i haven't been myself lately
and thank you the pressure has been all mine
as i wait for my pulse to catch up with me

if i could leave you today then i would
if i could change my face and my name then i would
if i could run to some technicolour place then i would
if i could learn from my mistakes then i would

the lights come back on
and what has my imagination done for me lately
i'll sit in this chair, concentrating on a crack in the ceiling
and thank you, thank you the pressure has been all mine
as i wait for my pulse to catch up with me

if i could see with your eyes then i would
if i could change my face and my name then i would
if i could run to some technicolour place then i would
if i could learn from my mistakes then i would

ohhhhhhhh
i would
i would

you make it look so easy
you make me seasick

if i could leave you today then i would
if i could changed then i would
if i could run then i would
if i could fly then i would
i would
 
 

white:
you think of white
somewhere outside
somehow connected to your brain
or about to knock on your door
eternity is a policy

magnetism and mystery
wishful thinking and fantasy
and i hope that you're not hoping for me

you think of sight
and reason collides
somehow transmitting from space
asking you to line up and take your place
infinity is a reality

lifejackets and sympathy
bullshit daydreams
i know you can't be knowing for me
and i hope that you're not hoping for me