Lyrics
Apologies to the Queen Mary
You are a Runner and I am my Father’s Son
Modern World
Grounds for Divorce
We Built Another World
Fancy Claps
Same Ghost Every Night
Shine a Light
Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts
I’ll Believe in Anything
It’s a Curse
Dinner Bells
This Heart’s on Fire
Others (With thanks to Karpe and Marshy)
Disco Sheets
Killing Armies
Lousy Pictures
Secret Knives
The National People’s Scare
Wits or a Dagger
No One Saves The Day
Things I Dont Know
You are a Runner and I am my Father’s Son
I got a number on me
I got a number
Won’t make it through the high noon sun
Well I am my Father’s Son
I am my Father’s Son
His bed is made
I was a hero
Early in the morning
I ain’t no hero
In the night
I am my Father’s Son
And I’ll build a house inside of you
I’ll go in through the mouth
I’ll draw three figures on your heart
And one of them will be me as a boy
And one of them will be me
And one of them will be me watching you run
Watching you run
Into the high noon sun
Watching you run
Farther than guns will go
You are a runner
With a stolen voice
You are a runner
And I am my Father’s Son
I am my Father’s Son
I am my Father’s Son
I’m not in love with the modern world
I’m not in love with the modern world
It was a torch driving the savages back to the trees
Modern world has more ways
And I don’t mention it since it’s changed
While the people go out and the people come home again
It’s gotta last to build up your eyes
And a lifetime of red skies
And from my bed saying your haunted hissing in my bed
Modern world don’t ask why
Cause modern world will build things high
Now they house canyons filled with life
Modern world I’m not pleased to meet you
You just bring me down
Modern world I’m not pleased to meet you
You just bring me down
Modern world I’m not pleased to meet you
You just bring me down
Modern world I’m not pleased to meet you
You just bring me down
You said you hate the sound
Of the busses on the ground
You said you hate the way they scrape their brakes all over town
I said pretend it’s whales
Keeping their voices down
Such were the grounds for divorce I know
On the radio
And the bouncing body’ drone
Found eighteen reasons I can’t pick up on the phone
I said look at the clouds
It’s a show all on its own
Such were the grounds for divorce I know
But the darling is dead
We hit her on the head
It looked like a wedding cake
Though the darling is dead
We hit it on the head
It looked like a newlywed
But look at the lovers
And they way they stand
And the way they move and the way move their hands
And look at their babies
And their tiny little hands
And the way they get loved and the way they get loved oh
Oh look at the lovers
And they way they stand
And the way they move and the way move and the way move their hands
You said you hate the sound
Of the busses on the ground
You said you hate the way they scrape their brakes all over town
I said pretend it’s whales
Keeping their voices down
Such were the grounds for divorce I know
Looked like a newlywed
On the radio
And the bouncing bodies’ drone
Found eighteen reasons I can’t pick up on the phone
I said look at the clouds
It’s a show all on its own
Such were the grounds, such were the grounds, for divorce I know
At the party we got chained at the wrists
Outside there’s girls saying falling bricks
It’s not gonna be just only a kiss
Everyone’s disguised just a little bit
I had a bad bad time tonight
I had a bad bad time tonight
Bad things happen in the night
Where we built another world
Styles surround you here comes the night time
Where we built another world
Evening time
I made a loud sound and shake some teeth
Outside the lights pale across the street
It’s not gonna be just only a kiss
Everyone’s disguised just a little bit
I had a bad bad time tonight
I had a bad bad time tonight
Bad things happen in the night
Where we built another world
Styles surround you here comes the night time
Where we built another world
Evening time
Where we built another world
Hang ghosts from the trees and that’s what I saw
Where we built another world
Hang ghosts from the trees and that’s what I saw
Where we built another world
Where we built another world
Where we built another world
Here comes the night time
Where we built another world
Here comes the night time
Oh behold
The parapet’s falling out
We’ll behold
When it reaches the ground
We’ll behold
We’ll behold, when
We can sing
To cracks in the crossbeams
We can sing
Very very quietly
We can sing
We can sing for each other
Until then don’t tear your hair out
I won’t tear it out if you don’t
When I die
I’m making you my feet
When you die
You can stand up for me
Make a lie and all they can do you can put me in your hair I’ll be happy there
Oh oh
Oh oh
Oh oh
Oh behold
When my parapet’s fallen out
You’ll behold
When we’ve picked it up off the ground
We’ll behold then
We’ll behold then
We can sing then
We’ll behold then
When you’re on your own
Spread out on the mat, dead
The highway’s endless drone
Something familiar
How we love the seasons that hide in our stomachs
That howl and howl and howl as if dropped from a great height
And I thought the hours that lie in the kitchen
They drag him drag him drag into black night
Dropped from a great… height
Dropped from a great height
It was strange
Cops turn blue
And the same ghost every night
It was strange
Cops turn blue
And the same ghost every night
I go walking
Just to find
My own breath my own breath through the path
I go walking
Just to find
My own breath my own breath through the path
Dropped from a great… height
Dropped from a great… height
It was strange
Cops turn blue
And the same ghost every night
It was strange
Cops turn blue
And the same ghost every night
I go walking
Just to find
My own breath my own breath through the path
I go walking
Just to find
My own breath my own breath through the path
We are raised up very high
We are raised up very high
My own breath
I keep my head uptight
I make my plans at night
And I don’t sleep I don’t sleep I don’t sleep ’til it’s light
Something’s flowing, someone buried alive
There is an awful sound
This haunted town
And it will not it will not it will not just be quiet
Some ghosts sing, someone get called to the life
Spend boring hours in the office tower
In a bus on a bus back home to you and
That’s fine I’m barely alive
It’s just a matter of time
No one gets out alive
And I’m content I’m content I’m content to be quiet
It’s only six. Someone get called to the life
You know our hearts beat time out very slowly
You know our hearts beat time
They’re waiting for something that’ll never arrive
You know our hearts beat time out very slowly
You know our hearts beat time
They’re waiting for something that’ll never arrive
I keep my head on tight
I make my plans at night
And I don’t sleep I don’t sleep I don’t sleep ’til it’s light
Pulse flowing, someone buried alive
And if that head opens we built a life of work
Where we’re chain chain chain chain, chained to the life
But that’s fine, our blood is alive
You know our hearts beat time out very slowly
You know our hearts beat time
They’re waiting for something that’ll never arrive
Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts
I got a hand,
So I got a fist,
So I got a plan
It’s the best that I can do
Now we say it’s in God’s hands
But God doesn’t always have the best God damn plans, does he?
I ain’t quite the beauty
Who holds up two guns and shoots at the pretty pretty people
And God I keep thinking things of hunter and kings
To block out the view
I gotta get a new bell to ring
A new song to sing
A steady hand to ring
A readiness of things
A new plan to bring to the people
People, I can trick ‘em into thinking anything
‘Cause you know
Rust it just right in the light it’s gold
It’s gold and you know
I got watering holes in my hand
I’m a digger of holes in the land of holes
And you know it’s the easiest way
And you know it’s the easiest way
And you know it’s the easiest way
And you know it’s the easiest way
So I go
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
I got water and I got holes, oh
La la la la la la
Dear Sons and Daughters of hungry ghosts, oh
La la la la la la
I got water and I got holes, oh
La la la la la la
Dear Sons and Daughters of hungry ghosts oh go go
La la la la la la
I got water and I got holes, oh
La la la la la la
Dear Sons and daughters of hungry ghosts oh go go
I got a hand (La la la la la la)
So I got a fist
So I got a plan it’s the best I can do
Say is it in god’s hands? (La la la la la la)
But god doesn’t always have the best god damn plans, does he?
Say ‘La la la la la la’
I can’t believe in the guns
I can’t believe in the view
I say ‘La la la la la la’
I can’t believe in those hunters and kings
You know
Say ‘La la la la la la’
I got a new plan to bring
I got a new song to sing it goes
La la la la la la
I got a new plan to bring and you know
And you know it’s the easiest way
And you know it’s the easiest way
And you know it’s the easiest way
And you know it’s the easiest way
So I go
Give me your eyes, I need sunshine
Give me your eyes, I need sunshine
Your blood, your bones, your voice, and your ghost
We’ve both been
A very brave
Walk around with both legs
Fight the, the scary day
We both pulled the tricks out of our sleeves
I’ll believe in anything and
You’ll believe in anything
I Said
I’ll believe in anything and
You’ll believe in anything
If I could get the fire out from the wire
I’d share a life and you’d share a life
If I could take the fire out from the wire
I’d share a life and you’d share a life
If I could take the fire out from the wire
I’d take you where nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn
I said nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn
And I could take another hit for you
And I could take away the trips from you
And I could take away the salt from your eyes
Take away skin and salt in you
And I could give you my apologies
By handing over my neologies
And I could take away your shaky knees
And I could give you all the olive trees
And look at the trees and look at my face and look at a place far away from here
So give me your eyes, I need sunshine
Give me your eyes, I need sunshine
Your blood, your bones, your voice, and your ghost
We’ve both been very brave
Walk around with both legs
Fight the, the scary day
We both pulled the tricks out of our sleeves
But I’ll believe in anything and
You’ll believe in anything
If I could take the fire out from the wire
I’d share a life and you’d share a life
If I could take the fire out from the wire
I’d share a life and you’d share a life
If I could take the fire out from the wire
I’d take you where nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn
I said nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn
I said nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn either way
About your blood, your bones, your voice, and your ghost
Because nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn either way
You know I’ll believe in anything and
You’ll believe in anything
Because nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn either way
Just the other night
Body twisted in a pattern
You know they stare at the light
They are too dead but the body don’t mind
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
You know a neutral sky
And nothing to do at night
Little highway lights
They shine
From the top of the mountain to the rock and sand
Drive a dead farther west til they ran out of land
We walked five whole minutes to the dark edge of town
Took a long look at nothing and turned back around
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
You know the neutral sky
And nothing to do at night
Little highway lights
They shine
From the top of the mountain to the rotten sand
Drive a dead farther west til they ran out of lead
We walked five whole minutes to the dark edge of town
Took a long look at nothing and we turned back around
I heard all your reasons
I heard all your plans
I have seen the seasons
Clutched up in your hands
You’re the one eyed feather
You’re the lion’s mane
Swear you’ve heard the weather
Calling out your name
There’ll be no more winters
There’ll be no more spring and
There’ll be no more dinner bells
Left for you to ring
There’ll be no more dinner bells
Dinner bells to ring
Maestro learns the music
Musicians learn to dance
There’ll be no more trumpets
There’ll be no more flutes
No more clapping hands
I’ve heard all your reasons
I’ve heard all your plans
I heard of your treasons
and I’ve heard all your pleas
And i’ve made friends with the hang man
So there’ll be no more winter
There’ll be no more spring and
There’ll be no more dinner bells
Left for you to ring
There’ll be no more dinner bells
Dinner bells to ring
There’ll be no more dinner bells
Dinner bells to ring
There’ll be no more dinner bells
Dinner bells to ring
Sometimes we rock and roll
Sometimes we stay at home and it’s just fine
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
I am my Mother’s hand
And left the body in the bed all day
We don’t know what to do
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
A thousand little gloves
What makes ___________ know your alive
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
It’s getting better all the time
It’s getting better all the time
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
And now my favourite thing
Tell it everywhere I go I don’t know what to do
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
Sometimes we rock and roll
I’d rather stay at home and build a life
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
It’s getting better all the time
It’s getting better all the time
It’s getting better all the time
It’s getting better all the time
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
This heart’s on fire
I saw a secret place
Oh yes, show it to me again show me to
Your secret place
Oh yes, show it to me again, show it to me.
I know everybody’s got something disgraceful
Everybody, that’s what the sake of…
It looks so pretty in the light—
In the night’s light
Show it to me again, show it to me again,
Show it to me again, show it to me, oh
I’m sorry about the dark…
Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum [bum]…
I’m sorry about the dark…
Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum [bum]…
You breathe (clapclapclap)
Deeper than I do, (clapclapclap)
I do. (clapclapclapclap clap)
He breathes (clapclapclap)
Deeper than I do, (clapclapclap)
I do. (clapclapclapclap clap)
I breathe shallow like I could’ve spied on spite
One time I spied on you.
I’m sorry about the dark…
Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum [bum]…
I’m sorry about the dark…
Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum [bum]…
Everybody got their lid on tight,
Everybody says, “Come with me,
I’m easy, and then we’ll see who’s got the secrets.”
So if you’re looking for romance I got answers
Where the dancers evidently say, “Come with me,
I’m easy, and we’ll see who is the deepest.”
And everybody got their hair just right,
And their lips just right, and their eyes say, “Come with me,
I’m easy, and then we’ll see who gots the secrets.”
No one has to see, believe me
Oh, I’m sorry about the dark…
Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum [bum]…
I got a party started up
I let my hair down
I heard she’s ready to start to leave
I heard you’re coming home
I won’t believe what they say
I’m not too good for you
I’m going to leave for just today
I’ve nothing else to do
You’ve got your hair down
I heard that you can kill things
You’ve got your hair down
I heard that you can kill things
You’ve got your hair down
I heard that you can kill things
You’ve got your hair down…
I heard you’re killing armies now…
So
Don’t let your head get too big
Don’t let your party go
I’m really not going to bed today.
I’ve nothing else to do
But no one said I can’t put up a fight
That’s why she’s breathing like I’m holding a light
Well I never asked for something from you
I got the party ‘PARTY!’ papers and the candles are ready to light
But no one said I can’t put up a fight
That’s why she’s breathing like I’m holding a light
Well I never wanted any but answers
You know you’ve owed me for a thousand nights
You’re holding out, when holding out
When holding out, when holding out
I got a party started up
I let my hair down
I heard she’s ready to start to leave
I heard you’re coming home
So come home…
You’ve got your hair down
I heard that you can kill things
You’ve got your hair down
I heard that you can kill things
You’ve got your hair down
I heard that you can kill things
You’ve got your hair down…
Where did you go?
Across the sea?
Sat on the beach
With the rusting machines?
Where did you go?
Across the sea?
Sat on the beach
With the rusting machines?
I know there was a time
Before we were born
We stood in the trees
Heads filled with nothing
I know there was a time
Before we were born
We stood in the trees
Heads filled with nothing
An angel with its wings on fire
Become an angel with its wings on fire
I’m in the basement delivering the hours
With famous sticks we
Threw rocks at the sky
Old cities where they built things high
Got famous sticks we
Threw rocks at the sky
Old cities where they built things high
I know there was a time
Before we were born
We stood in the trees
Heads filled with nothing
I know there was a time
Before we were born
We stood in the trees
Heads filled with nothing
They had a photograph (All I wanted were)
A Lousy Picture Of You (Lovely pictures of you)
Just something to remind me (All I have are lousy pictures of you)
They had a photograph (All I wanted were)
A Lousy Picture Of You (Lovely pictures of you
Just something to remind me (Oh, oh, oh, lousy pictures of you)
They had a photograph (All I wanted were
A lousy Picture Of You (Lovely pictures of you)
Just something to remind me (Oh, oh, oh, lousy pictures of you)
They had a photograph (All I wanted were pictures of you)
A lousy Picture Of You (All I have are lousy pictures of you)
Just something to remind me (Oh, oh, oh, oh, lousy pictures of you)
An angel with its wings on fire
Become an angel with its wings on fire
I’m in the basement delivering the hours
I’m in the basement just killing the hours.
Daughter, we stayed up all night.
Hearts drowned in the hollow light
And saved them where rotten bears stood
Down there, there…
Dollar keeps me up at night
Cars sound like a ruined choir
And all the songs on God’s radio
Oh, why always
Thousand people scare was a lie
Birds called the country bears over
There, bear! Bear there!
Bear there, bear there, bear there, bear there,
Bear there, bear……
Dollar, we stayed up all night
Hearts drowned in the hollow skies
Saying down by the rotten bears
Bear there then
Daughter keeps me up at night
Cars sound like a ruined choir
The sounds of God’s radio, why?
Thousand people scare was a lie
Birds caught the country bears over there, there, there, there.
Bear there, bear there. Bear there, bear there.
Bear there! Bear there…
I feel the minotaur’s eyes on my tenderloin
I see him looking to bite me
La la la
I see him getting a rise
I see him shaking his horns
I see him gettin’ excited
La la la
Gone craaazy in a maaaaaze…
Oh, done the signs, and
Trade the days and
I’ve gone crazy in a maze…
Bling-bling bling, and
Blood red teeth…
Should have had to pull that string
Oh, I know now I should have had it with me
Oh, I know now I should’ve had my wits or a dagger
To cut him off
These horns are not for honking.
I feel the minotaur slide right beside me in the room
I see him looking to ride me
la la la
I see him getting a rise
I see him shaking his horns
I see him getting excited
La la la
Gone craaazy in a maaaaaze…
Oh, done the signs, and
Trade the days and
I’ve gone crazy in a maze…
Bling-bling bling, and
Blood red teeth…
Gone craaazy in a maaaaaze…
Oh, done the signs, and
Trade the days and
You are going crazy in a maze…
Bling-bling bling, and
Blood red teeth…
I know, I know, I know…
Oh no, Oh no, oh no…
La la la la la la la la la la la la
The way he wanted it to go
Is the way it went
Don’t think were letting him
Get away with it
You say you saw him on the hillside
Well I swear I saw him in the meadow
Do you believe in ghosts or do you
Believe in fate
So don’t throw the bones away
And we’ll find a place to pray
Because I can see him and
You can see him
but no one saves the day
I say don’t throw the bones away
And force them into place
Because I can see him and
You can see him
but no one saves the day
He sent you to the east and he
Kept Me West
Ive got a compass and
Youv’e got a compass
To see with
And I know youv’e heard of such authors
Do you think the judge will ever die?
And captains are cruel when captains are cruel
You can’t blame the horses they ride
So don’t throw the bones away and
find a place to pray
Because I can see him and
You can see him
but no one saves the day
O C’mon
but no saves
O C’mon
but sometimes we love
O C’mon
but sometimes we love
O C’mon
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
I sing in ways
Youll never hear
i am a christian on sundays
i am looking for ears
if i could turn turn 100 songs i could turn 1 but I dont
there are things i dont know is my claim just piss in the snow oh oh
is the air between lovers when you measure it out that close?
and things i dont know
i sing you in houses
with the television on
if i keep getting the sunset down or just falling the sun?
in the coming of nothing boys will be boys
and they will gaze on
but i dont
there are things i dont know is my claim just piss in the snow? oh oh
is the air between lovers when you measure it out that close?
but how does it feel
how does it feel
to be sung in songs
how does feel
oh how does it feel
to be sung in songs about kicking the sunset down or just pissing you off
sing you in songs
i sing you in songs
and you have my hand
string me along
i sing you in songs
i sing you in songs
and you have my hand
and you my hand
you string me along
you string me along
well i sing you songs
well i sing you in songs
and you have my hand
and you have my hand
string me along
