Artist: Elbow Album: Leaders Of The Free World {2005}

I haven�t been myself of late
I haven�t slept for several days
But coming home I feel like I
Designed these buildings I walk by
You know you drive me up the wall
I need to see your face, that�s all
You little sod I love your eyes
Be everything to me tonight
Be everything to me tonight

I never know what I want but I know when I�m low that I
I need to be in the town where they know what I�m like and don�t mind
I never know what I want but I know when I�m low that I
I need to be in the town where they know what I�m like and don�t mind
I never know what I want but I know when I�m low that I
I need to be in the town where they know what I�m like and don�t mind
I never know what I want but I know when I�m low that I
I need to be in the town where they know what I�m like and don�t mind
I never know what I want but I know when I�m low that I
I need to be in the town where they know what I�m like and don�t mind
I never know what I want but I know when I�m low that I
I need to be in the town where they know what I�m like and don�t mind

The streets are full of Goths and Greeks
I haven�t seen my mum for weeks
But coming home I feel like I
Designed the buildings I walk by
You know it drives me up the wall
I need to see your face, is all
You little sod I love your eyes
Be everything to me tonight
Be everything to me tonight
Be everything to me tonight

Drinking in order to feel
Thinking, re-inventing the wheel
Kicking up mischief and feeding the fire
Kicking up mischief and walking the wire

Little fish you count for nothing
Do your thing until you die
Keep your powder dry

In order and line
Thinking and sinking the wine
Kicking up mischief and feeding the fire
Kicking up mischief and walking the wire

Little fish just keep on flapping
Do your thing until you die
Keep your powder dry

Kicking up mischief and walking the wire
Kicking up mischief and feeding the fire
Feeding the fire

They�re pacing Piccadilly in packs again
And moaning for the mercy of a never come rain
The sun's had enough and the simmering sky 
Has the heave and the hue of a woman on fire
Shop shutters rattle down and I�m cutting the crowd
All scented and descending from the satellite towns
The neon is graffiti, singing, "Make a new start."
So I look for a plot where I can bury my broken heart

No, I know I wont forget you
But I�ll forget myself
If the city will forgive me

The man on the door has a head like Mars
Like a baby born to the doors of the bars
And surrounded by steam with his folded arms
He�s got that urban genie thing going on
He�s so mercifully free of the pressures of grace
Saint Peter in satin, he�s like Buddha with mace
He�s so mercifully free of the pressures of grace
Saint Peter in satin, he�s like Buddha with mace

No, I know I wont forget you
But I�ll forget myself
If the city will forgive me
No, I know I wont forget you
But I�ll forget myself
If the city will forgive me

Do you move through the room with a glass in your hand
Thinking too hard about the way you stand
Are you watching them pair off and drinking them long
Falling in love every second song
Do you move through the room with a glass in your hand
Thinking too hard about the way you stand
Are you watching them pair off and drinking them long
Are you falling in love, are you falling in love
Are you falling in love every second song

No, I know I wont forget you
But I�ll forget myself
If the city will forgive me
No, I know I wont forget you
But I�ll forget myself
And the city will forgive me

I can�t undo the day
It won�t go, won't go under the rug
I pull out the stops
And you, you pull the plug
These are soberer days and I know it can�t be
But I�ll miss you the way you miss the sea

Just don�t look down
Keep staring like you�ve never seen the stars - don�t look down
If you need me to remind you who you are - don�t look down
Little blossom, there�s the shiniest soul just behind those eyes

No longer my affair
Well, I can�t go there just yet
So, I�ve come to love and trust
Those friends that are holding your net
Falling off used to mean maybe grazing a knee
And I�ll miss you the way you miss the sea

Just don�t look down
Keep staring like you�ve never seen the stars - don�t look down
If you need me to remind you who you are - don�t look down
Little blossom, there�s the shiniest soul just behind those eyes

While I won�t second guess what you�re thinking of me
I will miss you the way you miss the sea

Just don�t look down
Keep staring like you�ve never seen the stars - don�t look down
If you need me to remind you who you are - don�t look down
Little blossom, there�s the shiniest soul just behind those eyes

I�m sick of working for a living
I�m just ticking off the days till I die
Oh, I miss you Louise, yeah
And the sickest little pleasures keep me going in between pulling teeth

Periscope up, I�ve been looking for a ladder
I need to see the commander in chief
Ooh, and remind him what was passed onto me

Oh, well, your mum don�t sleep
Oh, and the friends you keep
I didn�t raise a thief
I didn�t raise a thief
But the leaders of the free world are just little boys throwing stones
And it's easy to ignore till they�re knocking on the door of your homes, oh yeah

My thinking isn�t driven
Oh, but the music always gives me a lift
I�m so easy to please, yeah
But I think we dropped the baton like the sixties didn�t happen, oh no

Periscope up, should be looking for a ladder
I need to see the commander in chief
Ooh, and remind him what was passed onto you and me

Oh, your mum don�t sleep
Oh, and the friends you keep
I didn�t raise a thief
I didn�t raise a thief
But the leaders of the free world are just little boys throwing stones
And it's easy to ignore till they�re knocking on the door of your homes
But the leaders of the free world are just little boys throwing stones
And it's easy to ignore till they�re knocking on the door of your homes

Passing the gun from father to feckless son
We�re climbing a landslide where only the good die young
Passing the gun from father to feckless son
We�re climbing a landslide where only the good die young
Passing the gun from father to feckless son
Periscope up, I�ve been looking for a ladder
I need to see the commander in chief
We�re climbing a landslide where only the good die young
Ooh, and remind him what was passed onto you and me, oh
Passing the gun from father to feckless son
We�re climbing a landslide where only the good die young
Passing the gun from father to feckless son
We�re climbing a landslide where only the good die young

A sky as black as regret
Is rolling aside for the blue
Impossible face to forget
These feelings belong in a zoo

She brings the morning
She, she brings the morning sun

So lost in the sound of her voice
I don't even hear the words
When she says, "Come on get out, the past will find us out
Come on get out please and don�t breathe a word."

She brings the morning
She, she brings the morning sun

But all this, an imagined affair
While sitting in a bar, spilling in a bar
Where I'll drink until the doorman is a Christmas tree
And my speech is just a gas leak

She brings the morning
She, she brings the morning sun

Shifting my weight now from foot to foot
What did she see in this man
I�m not superstitious but if I can get
This ball in the basket then he�ll wake up dead

Your sweet reassurances don�t change the fact
That he�s better looking than me
Yet he�d look ideal �neath the wheels of a car
Oh, Mexican standoff, I wish I was hard, yeah

Your sweet reassurances don�t change the fact
That he�s better looking than me
Yet he�d look ideal �neath the wheels of a car
Oh, Mexican standoff, I wish I was hard

All my saints have taken bribes
Singing, "Going, going gone."
All the angels taken dives 
Leaving you the only one

If I lose a sequin here and there
More salt than pepper in my hair
Can I rely on you when all the songs are through
To be for me the everthere, everthere

Slide into another book
Now and then laugh out loud
Throw that very dirty look which says
Okay - stop staring at me now

If I lose the sequence here and there
Less derring do than quiet care
Can I rely on you for a good talking to
To be for me the everthere, everthere

If I lose a sequin here and there
And take my time on every stair
Can I rely on you when this whole thing is through
To be for me the everthere, everthere

Well, give that girl my very best
Though it never made the grade
If it seems that it�s just not enough to love
Then love lie down

And would you tell her not to talk as if I died
Though a tiny part just did
And would you tell her I�m from a long line of survivors
And I�ll be swinging with the kids

So, keep your sympathy, don�t need the healing to start
You�ve gone, gone and made a beautiful hole in my heart

In the corner of the room
In the room we used to love
Of the love we should say this
There were switches never flicked
Long away and far apart
That�s how forest fires start
Start again, it felt like this
Fresh and simple as a kiss
I bounce these feelings off the moon
The echoes don�t come back

Keep your sympathy, don�t need the healing to start
You�ve gone, gone and made a beautiful hole in my heart

Of the love we should say this
There were, there were switches never flicked

Keep your sympathy, don�t need the healing to start
You�ve gone, gone and made a beautiful hole in my heart
Just keep your sympathy, don�t need the healing to start
You�ve gone, gone and made a beautiful hole in my heart
In my heart, in my heart, in my heart


Startin' to see why this album's takin' so long

And if it rains all day
Call on you, I�ll call on you
Like I used to
Slide down beside and wrap you in stories
Tailored entirely for you
I�ll remind you
We exchanged a vow
I love you, I always will

A call girl with yesterday eyes was our witness and priest
Stockport Supporters Club kindly supplied us a choir
Your vow was your smile as we move down the isle of the last bus home
And this is where I go just when it rains

Blinking and stoned, rain in your hair
You only smoke cos it�s something to share
Singing bring on the night, to have and to hold
The sodium light turning silver to gold

Spitfire thin and strung like a violin, I was
Yours was the face with a grace from a different age
Well, you were the sun in my Sunday morning
You were the sun in my Sunday morning telling me never to go
So I�ll live on the smile and move down the isle of the last bus home
And if you�re running late this is where I�ll go - know I�ll always wait

I leaned on you today
I regularly hurt but never say
I nearly wore the window through
Where was air-sea rescue
The cavalry with tea and sympathy
You were there - puncture repair

I leaned on you today
I regularly hurt but never say
You patched me up and sent me on my way
I leaned on you today