LYRICS

First album

Nectar
tyed/tie-dye
a sweet sweet man
whiskey and water
blood
City sickness
patchwork
marbles
milky teeth
Jism
piano song
raindrops
Her
drunk tank
paco de renaldo's dream
the not knowing

Second album

El diablo en el ojo
a night in
my sister
tiny tears
snowy in f# minor
seaweed
vertrauen II
Talk to me
no more affairs
travelling light
cherry blossoms
she's gone
mistakes
vertrauen III
sleepy song

Curtains

another night in
rented rooms
don't look down
dick's slow song
fast one
ballad of tindersticks
dancing
let's pretend
desperate man
buried bones
bearsuit
(tonight) are you trying to fall in love again
i was your man
bathtime
walking
a marriage made in heaven (US version only)

Simple Pleasure

Can we start again?
If You're Looking For A Way Out
Pretty Words
From The Inside
If She's Torn
Before you close your eyes
(You Take) This Heart Of Mine
I Know That Loving
CF GF

 

Singles and EPs

For Those...
Rotweilers and Mace
Kooks
Untitled
We have all the time in the world
Kathleen
Plus De Liaisons
Here
Harry's Dilemma
I've Been Loving You Too Long
Shadow
Make Believe

Various

The Girl on Death Row
Take Me
Velvet Fog

 

First album

Nectar

My letters sit on your window-sill
Yellowed by the sun
Written that time our love was in its prime
They just ran off my pen
My pen is broken now
Couldn't eat a thing
Couldn't sit next to you

For all this sorrow the joy brings
It only shows me the truth
Changing

So I fretted at you, to swallow the pill
that's getting bitterer every day
All that joy couldn't help the boys
But we look so ...

Just like burning up the crockery
With your fire we melt our joy
Pour in the sorrow this joy brings
Took away the doubt from me
Changing

My letters sit on your window-sill
Yellowed by the sun
Written that time our love was in its prime
They just ran off my pen
I can't write them now
I can't eat a thing
Couldn't sit next to you

All this sorrow the joy brings
It only shows me the truth
Changing
I'm changing
Changing
Changing
Changing

tyed/tie-dye

The sheet that was cut
Caught the blood
Was opened
The sheet that was cut
Caught the blood

Was opened and dried
Sheet that was cut and caught the blood
Was opened and dried
And stretched out
Sheet that was cut and caught the blood
Was opened, dried and stretched out
Hung on the wall

The sheet that was cut
Caught the blood
Was opened
The sheet that was cut
Caught the blood
Was opened and dried
Sheet that was cut and caught the blood
Was opened and dried
And stretched out
Sheet that was cut and caught the blood
Was opened, dried and stretched out
Hung on the wall

a sweet sweet man

(Part 1)

She sang for me, her heart on her tongue
She sang so pretty
She danced for me, her heart on her hips
She danced so fine
She said "Oh, a sweet sweet man like you,
What can I do for you?"
I said "A sweet sweet man like me
I can only bring you the misery"

(Part 2)

I lay awake that night, listening to her breathing
Thinking how strange it would be
If I awoke and she wasn't there
I can feel myself, feel myself changing
No longer me, I was only a part of her

She said "Oh, a sweet sweet man like you,
What can I do for you?"
I said "A sweet sweet man like me
I can only bring you the misery"

(Part 3)

So they put me down, back where I started from
But where I started seems so high
I start to climb

whiskey and water

Turn my whiskey into water
My cigarettes, I don't know what they taste like
Other women seem so ugly to me now
Playthings stand dusty
Books lie open on the page where I met her
And that other life
Is just a memory to me now

Chorus:

So tell me how it feels
It feels so good
Tell me how it goes
It goes so fast
So tell me how it feels
It feels so good
Tell me how it goes
It goes so fast
So fast
 

I was clumsy, heavy-handed
Grown selfish, ill-tempered
But that life
Is just a memory to me now
Softly nudge toward her
Gently put inside her
And that other life
Just seems so ugly to me now

(Chorus)

blood

Was there once something so pure
That left me whole and precious?
But now, broken, wondering
Why this new ingredient?
Everything I crave I become
Everything I left forgotten
Everything I love I become
Cos that's what happens when you reach the bottom

Chorus:

Where does the blood go?
It runs away from broken lives
Where does the blood go?
It runs away from broken lives

There's an ugly crowd here beside me
They specialise in violations
Once they numbered only a handful
Grew out the ashes of what we had good
There'll be another awkward scene tonight

As we choose to ignore the obvious

Quickly averting our eyes

When we see what there is left of

Chorus

Our love hangs here beside us
From its feet, twitching, desperate
The juice that splashes our white boots
Now they're matted and confused
There'll be another ugly scene tonight
As we refuse to accept the obvious
We panic and jump up and down
Trying to suck those last breaths

Chorus

City sickness

I'm crawling, I don't know where to or from
The centre of things from where everything stems
Is not where I belong
I have the city sickness, growing inside me
So this is where I ran for freedom
Where I may not be free

 Chorus:

I have these hands beating with love for you
And you're not here to touch
Sent you away, what else can I do
When I need something that much?
 Oh I'm hurting babe, in the city there's no place for love
It's just used to make people feel better
That's not like us
I got this sickness as I got off the train
Now it chafes away at my heart
Until nothing remains

 

Chorus

I have these hands beating with love for you
And you're not here to touch
Sent you away, what else can I do
When I need something that much?

That much

 I'm okay afterwards
Afterwards lasts for minutes only
I'm okay during
You kind of fill up my mind
It's just that before may last forever
It's just that before may just fuck my mind

 Chorus

 

patchwork

I know it's wrong
I know it's selfish

It's such a short life

With so little time
You know this pattern
Patchwork of any direction
Cobbled together
In odd shape and size

Take my hand, we'll walk through this together
But my hand gets sweaty
You somehow slip away
Try to call you, but I don't call too loud, no
Try to love, and never look that hard

 

Chorus:

Cos this blue's a swirling ocean
The green: the ambition
The red is the guilt
There's a lot of red
 

I know it's wrong
I know it's selfish
It's such a short life
So little time
Try to call you, but I don't call too loud, no
Try to love, and never look that hard

 

Chorus

The yellow is my sunshine
Comes out on odd occasion
Barely enough to keep you around

 

 

marbles

Her haircut, she looked what she'd made her
In that dress growing ever tighter
It was saddening the lengths she had gone to
To appear more attractive
In the process losing something
We never knew but still missed

You knew you were lost as soon as you saw her
You saw your life as a series of complicated dance steps
Impossible to learn, they had to come naturally
Together you squirmed and wriggled
And I could only jerk along behind

 

Chorus:

They're going to hurt you
They always will

She is now with me, inside of you
And I could only stare wide-eyed
As everything closed in around the three of us
Things you never saw, talking of the power and rescue

That were rushing through our body

And it's good

 

Chorus

She opened the door his face bruised and swollen
Before he knew, pushed, falling down curved stairs
Our message lost and our plans forgotten
Surrounded by men in suits, and black shiny shoes
Moving in, kicking, stamping
Bland expressionless faces
A handful of marbles thrown in a dustbin
Memories, memories (??)

 

Chorus

In a northern town there were amazing rows of standing stones arranged on the southern slope
They got out in the last few seconds of consciousness
Look for their inscriptions one day, the most distant ocean plains, those who make the desert island
I saw you in a tin bath in red water
Were the ones who went to Washington to do their laundry
They wanted to see the mysterious hurricane
I never believed in New York, or where you intended to stand
But we don't actually want to see the shipwrecked
I just had to go
They came

 

milky teeth

Well you know I'm a kisser
I wanted you for that mouth
Hey you know I'm a listener
I loved you for what came out
It's your mind and your body
That makes me feel so dirty
And it's my mouth
What comes out
What comes out

You say you love me when I'm sleeping
It's the sleep of the innocent
But in my sleep, I'm still faking
If you could only see what that meant
You think my body is clean now
It's stretching out in your tub
But the more you soak me
The more I wonder what comes off
And what comes out

Yeah those teeth, they look so milky
You would trust them with your neck
Like a kitten and it's mother
Just secure you and fear no fall
These teeth, they'll break you
As they close around your scruff
You look my way, your smile opens
And I wonder about what comes out
What comes out (4x)

 

Jism

If she'd have known
She'd have shown me in
I need to taste her pain
For encouragement

If she'd have known
She'd have shown me in
I need to taste her pain
For accomplishment

See, I can only take it out on you
There's no-one else I can trust
See, I can only take it out on you
There's no-one else but us around

You hide these things so well

There's no finding
You hide these things so well
There's no finding, no finding

And the pain runs into the blue
There are no edges
How do I know where you are tonight?
Need these paper cuts
Need those gravel grinds
Need those pinches to wake me
Give up the drugs
Take the power I offer
Oh the deeper I go
The further I fall
The more I know
The tighter your grip around me
So easily broken
Running down your skin

And the pain runs into the blue
If there's ever anyone else, I'll understand
- And kill them
And I'll overflow your every inlet
You will not cough and spit
You awoke from the end

And I tell you with my tongue between your toes
If there's ever anyone else
Don't let them do this
And I'll laugh and revel
As you scratch and crawl
If there's ever anyone else
Just show them the ugly mess

You hide these things so well
There's no finding
You hide these things so well
There's no finding, no finding

 

 

piano song


Shut up
I'm thinking
Shut up
I'm thinking
Shut up
I'm thinking
I'm thinking
So shut up

If I hold you too tight
Just say let go
I know this touch can leave you hurting
When my words clatter about your head
Don't go to bed
Just say "shut up"

`Cos in my sleep I still clench my teeth
I'm at my strongest only when I'm weak
I can give you those bruises just by talking to you
You know I can laugh `til you're almost through
Shut up, yeah
Shut up, yeah
Shut up, yeah
I'm thinking, oh

Shut up, yeah
Shut up, yeah
Shut up, yeah
I'm thinking, oh

 

raindrops

Silence is here again tonight
The silence is here again tonight
Will the love ever come back?
Will the love ever come back?
I know I've been pushing you away
I know it's been going on for days
Those awkward little things
So endearing
Those awkward little things
Wear on me

See, what we got here is a tired love
What we got here is a lazy love
It mooches around the house
Can't wait to go out
What it needs, it just grabs
It never asks
We sit and watch the divide widen
We sit and listen to our hearts who crumble
With our only chance to jump
Neither of us had the guts
Or maybe we're just too proud
To say it out loud

Silence is here again tonight
Silence is here again tonight

 

Her

Scared of my shadow
Afraid of myself
Never thought I could be so shallow
Resort to playing a man
It's a thin line that I walk for her
A thin line that I walk
Between myself and what I have to do
The action and the thought

 

Chorus:

Oh her, her her her her, it's her
Oh her, her her her her
 

Feel like I've been dancing
The lights have finally come on
Just waiting for my eyes adjusting
To see how ugly I've become
She asked me for no promises
I made them to myself
I've given myself no choices now
It's the only way out

 

Chorus

She tied back her hair
Wrapped the band around
Pulled off her rings
And dropped them in a jar
I'm not there, not waving my arms round
I've gotten the `flu
It's blocking my heart
To her

 

Chorus

 

 

drunk tank

(OK...1,2,3,4....)

How you doing tonight?
Pull the blankets tight
The drunks shout outside your window
Light scrapes across your wall
Think of me
It never goes away
Think of me, I know
It never goes away

How you doing tonight?
I don't wanna fight
Just walked these miles
To be passing by
Just to say
That I'm okay
For you to see the state of me
I know I said
We'd better get home to bed
And I was the one
I always stayed out so late
Always forgiving
My inconsideration
It's a different story
When you can never go home again
I'm home, home again

My hands came back today
Finally set themselves free
No more fists on the end of my arms
Just these hands, trembling
Think of me
It never goes away
Think of me
The way I used to be
I know I said
We'd better get home to bed
And I was the one
I always stayed out so late
Always forgiving
My inconsideration
It's a different story
When you can never go home again
I'm home, home again

 

paco de renaldo's dream

It was a dream I had

This room was in the middle of a sandy plain
The walls were gone but the doors and windows remained
At the side of the bed were soft cushions

Two-dimensional ships like ocean liners sailed across this desert
As they passed, their huge bulks disappearing into a thin line
These ships were always full of people facing windows
And sometimes find their problems seem like day's work
Following deep tracks, the boats kept passing by

Came to an unmanned sort of harbour
Stood on the sand in no water
And watch like the boat's tail lowered its doors
And one by one the ships descended to the sand
And sailed off in different directions across the desert
The carrier was then refilled with ships arriving in perfect time

 

I watched seven or eight of these drop-offs
And realised the process, the ships and the people within them never differed
I thought about following any of these ships to the end of their journey
But suspected I would end up back here
Or a place so similar that I wouldn't be able to tell the difference

 

I can't sleep in this bed anymore
It's like a padded cell
The sheets are too tight
[ ? ]
A man of your success
I'm tired of it

[ ? ]
Walked over to the window
Climbed on the window-ledge
And jumped out
I wasn't scared
I know I can fly

A quiff, a whiff of smoke, an empty egg

Roses north (I don't know how long we'd been waiting)
A front room (Endless hours, weeks, years even)
Lino, yellow formica (We didn't know)
Lots of milky tea (Only onward, forward, inward, in, over a field) (I don't want to do this)
Unmatched to match the unmatched plates (The sun sets in the west) (I really really really don't want to do this)
Straight-backed chairs (This is where we started each night) (You made me do it)
Steamy glass-pane window (We could only travel at night) (Bang bang bang on the door)
Warped door, Embassy No. 6 ashtray (We would conceal ourselves in the missing light `till darkness fell) (I awoke, ran downstairs)
Chewy chop (Nobody knew where we were) (A letter dropped to the floor)
Toasted cob, mustard (Where we were going) (I bent, reached)
Crinkly-cut chips, bendy fork (A vague sense of direction) (Swung open)
Polyester, pink gingham (Cracked my head)
(Nothing told us where we were) (Unconscious fell)
(We always somehow managed to keep a straight line) (I awoke, the dog)
Licking my dick

 

 

the not knowing

Hey, I've been wondering
Where you go so late at night
And hey, I've been hoping
You'll be thinking of me no matter what the time
And hey, I'm not listening
When you tell me there's no more words to say
In your voice, hesitation
You quickly light a cigarette and turn away

I'm not crying, up inside I'm smiling
Seen that look in your eye
Jump in your stare
It's a feeling I never saw leaving
Well it's something I don't deserve to have, oh no

 

Chorus:

The not knowing is easy
And the suspecting, that's okay
Just don't tell me for certain
That our love's gone away
It's gone away

And hey, I've been wondering
Where you go so late at night
And hey, I've been hoping
You'd be thinking of me no matter what the time
And hey, as our love's flown away
Over the hills on a seagull's wing
Our ideas were like kids in a playground
Now I'm waiting for the bell that never rings

 

 

Chorus 2x

 

Second album

 

El diablo en el ojo


I wouldn't shut your eyes just yet
I wouldn't turn the lights down yet
`Cos there's things you've gotta see here
There's things you've gotta believe of me

I wouldn't turn the sound down yet
Don't even touch the dials, not yet
`Cos there's things you've gotta hear here
There's things you've gotta believe of me

I wouldn't say a word just yet
Don't even open your mouth, not yet
`Cos there's things I've gotta say here
There's things you wanna hear from me

 

a night in

I had shoes full of holes
When you first took me in
The path that you led
Wasn’t straight to your bed
There's no cots to sleep in
And you showed me
Who I was running from
As if I had not known all along


Oh my old feet
They know this hard street
Stay like old friends
You're flat on the ground
There's no further down
There's no cots to sleep in
So come in
Leave them outside the door
Tear off the paper
Tear off the carpet
Off the floor

 

Chorus:

And I know you're hurting
And I can't be there for you
And I know you're hurting
And I can't be there no more

I had shoes full of holes
When you first took me in
I had calluses, not sores
And I'd like to keep them
So go turn those sheets
Get back on the street
There's nothing more I can bring to you
See I’m scared of the door
Afraid of the floor
Well, I'll go and walk right through
And I'll show you
Who I've been running from
It's the feeling of waking
And it's gone

 

Chorus

I had shoes full of holes
When you first took me in
I had calluses, not sores
And I'd like to keep them
Oh now your feet
They know this hard street
They're like old friends
You're flat on the ground
There's no further down
There's no cots to sleep in
So come in
Leave them outside the door
Tear off the paper
Tear off the carpet
Off the floor

 

Chorus

I had shoes full of holes
When you first took me in
I had calluses, not sores
And I'd like to keep them
So go turn those sheets
Get back on the street
There's nothing more I can bring to you
See I’m scared of the door
Afraid of the floor
Well, I'll go and walk right through
And I'll show you
Who I've been running from
It's the feeling of waking
And it's gone

 

my sister

Do you remember my sister? How many mistakes did she make with those never blinking eyes? I couldn't work it out. I swear she could read your mind, your life, the depths of your soul at one glance. Maybe she was stripping herself away, saying

Here I am, this is me
I am yours and everything about me, everything you see...
If only you look hard enough

I never could.

Our life was a pillow-fight. We'd stand there on the quilt, our hands clenched ready. Her with her milky teeth, so late for her age, and a Stanley knife in her hand. She sliced the tyres on my bike and I couldn't forgive her.

She went blind at the age of five. We'd stand at the bedroom window and she'd get me to tell her what I saw. I'd describe the houses opposite, the little patch of grass next to the path, the gate with its rotten hinges forever wedged open that Dad was always going to fix. She'd stand there quiet for a moment. I thought she was trying to develop the images in her own head. Then she'd say:

I can see little twinkly stars,
like Christmas tree lights in faraway windows.
Rings of brightly coloured rocks
floating around orange and mustard planets.
I can see huge tiger striped fishes
chasing tiny blue and yellow dashes,
all tails and fins and bubbles.

I'd look at the grey house opposite, and close the curtains.

She burned down the house when she was ten. I was away camping with the scouts. The fireman said she'd been smoking in bed - the old story, I thought. The cat and our mum died in the flames, so Dad took us to stay with our Aunt in the country. He went back to London to find us a new house. We never saw him again.

On her thirteenth birthday she fell down the well in our Aunt's garden and broke her head. She'd been drinking heavily. On her recovery her sight returned, a fluke of nature everyone said. That's when she said she'd never blink again. I would tell her when she started at me, with her eyes wide and watery, that they reminded me of the well she fell into. She liked this, it made her laugh.

She moved in with a gym teacher when she was fifteen, all muscles he was. He lost his job when it all came out, and couldn't get another one. Not in that kind of small town. Everybody knew everyone else's business. My sister would hold her head high, though. She said she was in love. They were together for five years until one day he lost his temper. He hit her over the back of the neck with his bullworker. She lost the use of the right side of her body. He got three years and was out in fifteen months. We saw him a while later, he was coaching a non-league football team in a Cornwall seaside town. I don't think he recognised her. My sister had put on a lot of weight from being in a chair all the time. She'd get me to stick pins and stub out cigarettes in her right hand. She'd laugh like mad because it didn't hurt. Her left hand was pretty good though. We'd have arm wrestling matches, I'd have to use both arms and she'd still beat me.

We buried her when she was 32. Me and my Aunt, the vicar, and the man who dug the hole. She said she didn't want to be cremated and wanted a cheap coffin so the worms could get to her quickly. She said she liked the idea of it, though I thought it was because of what happened to the cat and our mum.

 

tiny tears

You've been lying in bed for a week now
Wondering how long it'll take
You haven't spoken or looked at her in all that time
For that was the easiest line you could break

She's been going round her business as usual
Always with that melancholic smile
But you were too busy looking into your affairs
To see those tiny tears in her eyes

 

Chorus:

Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don't let them pour all over me

How can you hurt someone so much you're supposed to care for
Someone you said you'd always be there for
But when that water breaks you know you're gonna cry, cry
When those tears start rolling you'll be back

 

Chorus

You've been thinking about the time, you've been dreading it
But now it seems that moment has arrived
She's at the edge of the bed, she gets in
But it's hard to turn the opposite way tonight

 

Chorus

 

snowy in f# minor

Did you ever wonder what's inside that keeps us together?
Did you ever want to take that knife and discover?
Like cutting into a sack of grain
Going to watch our love run away
And look at each other
Sometimes it seems we're joined at our sides
It keeps us together
I like to think we're not along for the ride
But sometimes I wonder
So go and cut into that sack again
See if we're worth it anyway
And look at each other


Did you ever wonder what's inside that keeps us together?
Did you ever want to take that knife and discover?
So go and cut into that sack again
See if we're worth it anyway
And we're on different sides of the line
And we look at each other
There's trains approaching from either side
Going to jump over those tracks for you
Go anywhere you're going to
I'm going with you

 

seaweed

Would you prefer a stone
That I chose for you?
That lay on a beach
Was just a sea of stone
Wasn't meant for you
Jumped into my eyes
Choice of millions

Would you prefer a stone
From your window?
It walks through the streets
Feeling young and tense
They said he had this all in mind for you
`Cos it's so much strain
Choice of only a few

Would you prefer a look
That was contrived?
Or a look that says how I really keep with you?
I have no plans in my mind
Just kind of go
Go with you

Would you prefer a hello or a goodbye?
My mind is something I don't know
The truth, why should I lie?
Just kind of go
Go with you

 

vertrauen II

instrumental

 

Talk to me

Talk to me darling
Before you throw it away
Look into these eyes now
Look into these eyes


If it's too far to fall
It still makes you cry
You can't kill this love no,
You can't kill this love

You feel the rush in your arm
You see shadows form
You move forward slowly
To find nothing at all


In a hall of mirrors
You get sick of yourself
Think you can just leave the blade there
Sit and wait...

 

Chorus 2x:

I know it's scary darling
It comes back from the dead
Climbs on out of the ground
Back into our bed

So talk to me darling
Before you throw it away
Look into these eyes now
Look into these eyes
If it's too far to fall
If it still makes you cry
You can't kill this love no,
You can't kill this love

Chorus

no more affairs

There's no more affairs
No more fooling around
There's no more affairs
Are you gonna find out?

If I tremble in your arms
If I sigh through your hair
This last affair
There's no more fooling around
There's no more affairs
Are you gonna find out?
If my hand's by my side
If I avoid your stare
This last affair

There's no more affairs
No more fooling around
There's no more affairs
No, no more fooling around
There's no more affairs
Are you gonna find out?

If I tremble in your arms
If I sigh through your hair
This last affair
There’s a place in my mind
Where I know what's going on
But it grows, shifts into time
Leaves me hanging on
And though we were only having fun
It seems such a crime now
Go and play, play in the road
You're gonna get run down, run down

There's no more affairs
No more fooling around
There's no more affairs

No more fooling around

There’s no more affairs
Are you going to find out?

It's an impulsive thing
But we caught the other
Climbed into bed with all our previous lovers
Gets crowded in there
There's no more affairs

singing

instrumental (how ironic)

travelling light

(Stuart; Carla; Both)

There are places I don't remember
There are times and days, they mean nothing to me
I've been looking through some of them old pictures
They don't serve to jog my memory

I'm not waking in the morning, staring at the walls these days
I'm not getting out the boxes, spread all over the floor
I've been looking through some of them old pictures
Those faces they mean nothing to me no more

Chorus:

I travel light
You travel light
Everything I've done
You say you can justify, mmm you travel light

I can't pick them out, I can't put them in this saddle bag

 

Some things you have to lose along the way
Times are hard, I'll only pick them out, wish I was going back
Times are good, you'll be glad you ran away

Chorus

Do you remember, how much you loved me?
You say you have no room in that thick old head
Well it comes with the hurt and the guilt, and the memories
If I had to take them with me I would never get from my bed
There's a crack in the roof where the rain pours through
That's the place you always decide to sit
Yeah I know I'm there for hours, the water running down my /your face
Do you really think you keep it all that well hid?

No but I travel light
You don't travel light
Everything I've done
It's just a lie, you don't travel light

I'm travelling light
No you don't travel light
I travel light
No, no, you don't travel light
I'm travelling light
You don't travel light

 

cherry blossoms

A black television screen
Snow white and black
Deep and open
Splashing against the windows

Looking out onto a three-terrace town
There's a garden, grey-green
And cherry blossoms

Get in in the morning (All seasons here, saved for a rainy day)
Climb in beside you (A part of a hole)
Watch the clock for half an hour (An orange and its peel)
It's cold on the outside
There's steam on the windows (A star in a night sky)
And I put myself there all the time (A gentle beauty)
You let me forget again

And I snore on and on
You let me forget again
Forget how it feels to be wrong

If I could show her completely (Funny how everything makes you feel low when you're already low)
But it comes out so drunkardly now (Lying on the bed, the light-bulb banging down)
Fall over on my words (Get up, pull the sheet from the window, to see the rain still coming down)
That peace when the door slams (Downstairs there's hot coffee, sit down to a cigarette)
Soon shattered the hot light (Down to the filter, another and down to my last)
I came so well-oiled (Another and my last penny)
You let me forget again (4 a.m. 6 feet down. Already up with the larks)
And I came stumbling through
You let me forget again (4 a.m. 6 feet down. Already up with the larks)
Forget what I always knew

 

she's gone

She's gone
And it's quiet now
Took her mother with her
Left town
Took her mother's eye
Stole her mother's heart
It's a compromise

We nurture that part and she's gone
Says she can walk now
Says she can walk now
Seen her walking
She totters and falls
And when I'm not looking
Leans onto the wall
And she'll hold on to me only when she wants
And she'll fall and be up again
It's part of the fun
But she's gone
Thinks she can walk now
Thinks she can walk now
Thinks she can walk

She's gone
And it's quiet now
Took her mother with her
Left town
Took her mother's eye
Stole her mother's heart
It's a compromise

We nurture that part and she's gone
And it's quiet now
Took her mother with her
Left town

 

mistakes

Erreurs
Je sais que je les porterai toute ma vie
Mes erreurs
Comme de celle
Tu sais laquelle
Quand on a coupé mes cordes
Je me suis envolée ailleurs
On a coupé mes cordes
Et je ne redescendais pas

Mistakes I've made
I know I'll live with them all my life
Mistakes I've made
Like the one
You know the one
And I had my strings cut
I went flying around
And I had my strings cut
I wasn't coming down

These days I'm only happy when I cannot move
These days I'm only happy when I'm tied down
Next to you
Not with my strings cut
When I'm flying around
Not with my strings cut
When I'm not coming down

Mistakes I've made
I know I'll live with them all my life
Mistakes I've made
Like the one
You know the one
And I had my strings cut
I went flying around
And I had my strings cut
I wasn't coming down

 

vertrauen III

instrumental

 

sleepy song

Tell me
I can think right
Am I going home tonight
Or staying here?


Turn over
Turn out the light
I'm going home tonight
Not staying here
If you let me sleep
I won’t wake up
I haven't closed my eyes for days
Sleep
I won’t wake up
I haven't closed my eyes

Tell me
I can think right
I'm going home tonight
Not staying here
Turn over
Turn out the light
I'm going home tonight
Not staying here
If you let me sleep
I won’t wake up
I haven't closed my eyes for days
Sleep
I won’t wake up
I haven't closed my eyes