Back To The Tears
Refugees You are the dust and I am the rain Let's go out in the rust and Let's gather the change Let's take to the streets You and I we're life's refugees But like Bonnie and Clyde we're free Don't say there's nothing between us You stain the pavements, I'll take the blame Our love is our saviour, our life is our grave Let's take to the streets You and I we're life's refugees But like Bonnie and Clyde we're free Don't say there's nothing between us We're all refugees and we're all drifting like leaves But like Bonnie and Clyde we're free Don't say there's nothing between us Well we'll live for the sunshine and Smile through the rain Cos we're all refugees and We're all drifting like leaves But like Bonnie and Clyde we're free Don't say there's nothing between us So let's take to the streets You and I compete with the freaks And like Bonnie and Clyde we'll be free Don't say there's nothing between us Well there's nothing between us Well there's nothing between us Autograph And the morning comes with coffee we can share And the smell of cigarettes is in your hair There's the sound of shouts outside the hotel room Like the night before when cameras flattered you And if we don't have a future If our lives split like shattered bits of glass And if we don't have a future just leave your autograph Your autograph And the night before the neon lit our fate And our shadows painted many different shapes But now the mood has turned complex and altered you There's just the smell of cigarettes left in the room And we make fake conversation And we pick through broken bits of glass And it's all just complication And too complex to ever last Cos if we don't have a future And if this kiss dissolves into the past And if we don't have a future just leave your autograph Your autograph Just leave your autograph Your autograph Just leave your autograph Your autograph Co-Star Alone in my room I switch on the tube And wave at the screen, it stares back at me So I turn to the sky and watch as it cries Just waiting in here for the car to appear Cos when we're together the world smiles And when we're together it feels right We'll live for the future and it's scenes When we're together my co-star and me Your plane is delayed so I walk from the gate But when you appear I'll stick to you dear And we'll stumble outside and dance in the sunlight Like ice in the sun we'll melt into one Yes when we're together the world smiles And when we're together it feels right We'll live for the future and it's scenes When we're together my co-star and me When we're together the planets align When we're together I burn from the inside We'll live for forever in this insanity When we're together my co-star and me When we're together the world smiles And when we're together it feels right We'll live for the future and it's scenes When we're together my co-star and me When we're together the planets align When we're together the stars are gonna shine We'll live for forever in this insanity When we're together my co-star and me Imperfection You grow your nails too long There's scratches on your arms You taste like orange chocolate and You always put your hands in my pocket Your teeth are not quite straight Your mood swings oscillate Your language is appalling and You play with my hair in the morning Your imperfections are so beautiful I can't control my animal soul Your imperfection has got me on a chain Can't concentrate I'm a sucker for your beautiful mistakes And sometimes when we kiss You touch my fingertips Synthetic words can't hide me Passion creeps like death inside me This moment we become one We stick like chewing gum I want your language to be appalling I want you to play with my hair in the morning Your imperfections are so beautiful I can't control my animal soul Your imperfection has got me on a chain Can't concentrate I'm a sucker for your beautiful mistakes Your imperfections are so beautiful I can't control my animal soul Your imperfection has got me on a chain Can't concentrate Your imperfections make you what you are My defective star, my inelegant love Your imperfections are so beautiful I'm out of control A sucker for the defects in your, your soul The Ghost Of You I threw out the photographs like yesterdays flowers I try to erase the past but it won't go away And those were the curtains that you had made One thing's for certain, the ghost of you stays I painted the second room and cleared out the basement And smelled some of your perfume on a scarf that you made The Salvation Army collected your things I gave them the jewelry, all the bracelets and rings Your clothes in black bin bags, I gave them away I try to move on but the ghost of you stays The ghost of you stays The ghost of you stays I threw out the photographs like yesterdays flowers I try to erase the past but it won't go away I wake in the morning and try to be brave But it's hard to move on when the ghost of you stays It's hard to move on when the ghost of you stays The ghost of you stays The ghost of you stays Two Creatures This country looks like one big car park, the winters are so very long And everybody wonders where the light has gone And Europe has it's moving statelines but Africa has winter sun And you and me we're just two creatures on the run And we'll go where the crowds don't stare And no one laughs at what we wear The phone might ring, the rain might sting oh but we don't care We'll fly over the endless ocean, we're heading for the winter sun Cos you and me we're just two creatures on the run And Europe has it's moving statelines but Africa has winter sunshine And you and me we're just two creatures on the run And we'll go where the crowds don't stare and No one hates us for our hair The phone might ring, the rain might sting oh but we don't care We'll fly over the endless ocean, we're heading for the winter sun Cos you and me we're just two creatures on the run America's our supermarket, in India we'll take some stopping Cos you and me we're just two creatures on the run In Asia we can mend our breakdown cos you and me we must escape now Yes you and me we're just two creatures on the run You and me we're just two creatures on the run You and me we're just two creatures on the run You and me we're just two creatures on the run Lovers She shivers in the rain it's the capital connecting with her veins Stepping under statues and on trains till we are under covers She giggles like a child with no sign of all the tension in her life It's winter on her t-shirt and in her eyes that there is no other Cos we are the lovers, we are the lovers We're different colours but we stand up as one We are the lovers, we are the lovers Two different colours but we stand up as one All the silly things we do just remind me of the flippancy of youth Kissing under statues, throwing food and getting into trouble She shivers in the cold it's the capital connecting with her bones Jumping into taxis here we go, yes there is no other Cos we are the lovers, we are the lovers We're different colours but we stand up as one We are the lovers, we are the lovers Two different colours but we stand up as one Cos we are the lovers, we are the lovers We're different colours but we stand up as one We are the lovers, we are the lovers Two different colours but we stand up as one La la la, la la La la la, la la La la la, la la la La la la La la la, la la La la la, la la La la la, la la la La la la) Stop! Fallen Idol Eyes that stare through television Intermission in his mind Where there once was such ambition that blared Like a bassline when the bassline's right Shame he's just this fallen idol Shattered like some broken glass Shame he's just this fallen idol with Bits of paper for his past Years are scattered like the rain drops Sits at the window through the empty day Competitions in the paper Stares at the sky when the sky turns grey Shame he's just this fallen idol Shattered like some broken glass Shame he's just this fallen idol Shame he's just this fallen idol Empty as the middle class Shame he's just this fallen idol with Bits of paper for his past Bits of paper for his past Brave New Century The pages burn, the babies scream And lovers text in Japanese The more you give the more they need The more you live the less you see Religion breeds like a disease While people spit on refugees The more you live the less you see The more you give the more they need In this brave new century So mother where do I belong? And mother what should I believe? Just look what's happened to your son In this brave new, in this brave new century We sit and choke on magazines And worship shit celebrities The more you give the more they need The more you live the less you see In this brave new century Century, Century Century, Century Century, Century Century Beautiful Pain I'm shaking and aching and talking to the sky And I shiver in the night but I can't sleep You're dark as the mascara that drips down from your eyes Look what you've done to me You're as dark as the ocean, as cold as the rain You got me weak with emotion, you're such a beautiful pain Such a beautiful pain So I shelter in the wardrobe and shiver on the stairs And I slide down in the gutter with the leaves And I try to talk to God as if he is really there Look what you've done to me You're as dark as the ocean, as cold as the rain You got me weak with emotion, you're such a beautiful pain And I cling to my pillow and scratch at my veins You kiss like a killer, you're such a beautiful pain Such a beautiful pain Such a beautiful pain Such a beautiful pain As dark as the ocean, as cold as the rain You got me weak with emotion, you're such a beautiful pain And I cling to my pillow and scratch at my veins You kiss like a killer, such a beautiful pain The Asylum When I hear the men outside my window kicking down the door And all the megaphones are screaming letters of the law Would you walk in through the gates and visit me? Would you please? In the asylum When they're counting out the chemicals and doing daily tasks And giving out prescription drugs and putting on their masks Would you wander through the grounds to visit me? As they opened up the gates and turned the key Would you please? In the asylum If they burned my brain away would you understand? If they tried to hold me down would you hold my hand? Could you stand, stand the asylum? In the asylum In the asylum In the asylum Apollo 13 Estuary girl you're not the one You don't belong to the world that I'm from Your lazy words blow like confetti in the wind In the wind Estuary girl you're not part of my scene Your feet don't belong near my upholstery And sometimes I sink when you call me on the phone On the phone Oh but if you follow me, I will follow you into the unknown Oh like Apollo, like Apollo we'll fly to the moon Oh yes if you follow me, I will follow you into the unknown Oh like Apollo, like Apollo 13 we'll explode Sad as a song you're a child of the streets Your skin don't belong on my designer sheets In eye-liner you wrote me a note that I'll never read at all Estuary girl Oh but if you follow me, I will follow you into the unknown Oh like Apollo, like Apollo we'll fly to the moon Oh yes if you follow me, I will follow you into the unknown Oh like Apollo, like Apollo 13 we'll explode Oh yes if you follow me (Estuary girl), I will follow you into the unknown (You're not the one) Oh like Apollo (You don't belong to the world that I'm from), like Apollo we'll sink like a stone Oh yes if you follow me (Estuary girl), I will follow you into the unknown (You're not the one) Oh like Apollo (You don't belong to the world that I'm from), like Apollo 13 we'll explode Oh (Estuary girl) oh (You're not the one) Oh (You don't belong to the world that I'm from) Oh (Estuary girl) oh (You're not the one) You don't belong to the world that I'm from A Love As Strong As Death We're all looking for a love as strong as death That's part of our minds and part of our flesh Looking for a love that takes away our breath That's equally heart and equally head To be a wave that crashes over us To be a wave that crashes over us Like summer rain that washes over, over us Like summer rain that washes over Looking for a love as strong as death That's equally heart and equally head And we wonder if this love that people say is as strong as death Is out there somewhere or just in their heads Is it a wave that crashes over us? Is it a wave that crashes over us? Or summer rain that washes over, over us? Or summer rain that washes over, over us? Over us Ooh hoo hoo hoo Over us Ooh hoo hoo hoo Over us Ooh hoo hoo hoo It's over
