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| ALIEN | ARCLIGHT | |
| With my faded map thirty years old And the landscape's changed And I'm moving too slow And people notice my quaint dress I ran the last five miles breathless And the sky looks like oil And the warm rain hurts As I stumble along past the haunted dirt Of the broken pavements Of this couldn't-care town No orders came down with me When I was beamed down here I am alien I was built for another world I am alien I'm the kind of creature dogs never bite Women don't run to men never fight A translucent hithcer with nothing to say I was born yesterday I was born just yesterday I carry messages in languages I do not understand I am alien Come hold this alien's hand With my worn out name in another man's shoes And these alien streets I wander through Grattan, Hausmann, La Guardia, Wren Proud departures, garbled ends Just stone to clean just stone to mend Are you alien as well? Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
Shine like an arclight Sing like a bird might sing When he was higher than heaven Higher than every other thing Some kind of arclight Sparks in the street I know that you've no answers All I need is for you to shine Shine like an arclight Like I want you to shine I know that you've nobody And I know that you're not mind But the light that you are And the light you can be Is the only thing I want The only light I can see You don't have to know the words And you don't have to know the rules You just shine in the morning like the sun Burn like a candle in the night Shine like a book that's never been read Burn like a saint who knows he's right Shine like a shard of glass On the forest ground When you shine you know You burn me down Well I don't wear no chains I've got no cross to bear And I'm as free as the wind I'm as free as the air I'm as free as the old I'm as cold as the dawn And I'm as lost as you are You are the only law You don't have to know the words And you don't have to know the rules And you never had to speak Chorus Down, down, down You burn me down Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
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| BE STILL | BOIL | |
| Lace curtains drawn For self-respect Ripped down and torn Now the neighbours will never forget Don't let them forget Time get hard Then get harder still A crack in the pain The gap between Those who remain Those who have been I'm cracked, I'm scratched Bloody, but one thing One thing stays the same Time get hard Then get harder still I will be here I will be here Time get hard I am harder still I will be still Birthday present From the rag-and-bone shop A heart that works too well A heart that won't stop Beating Beating Though sometimes I wish it would stop Time get hard Harder still Time get hard Harder still Time get hard Harder still Time get hard I am harder still I will be still Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
What I am bequeath is above reproach And beneath despair Half my copybook used up and not enough to talk about When I'm not there Strip the paint drain the oil let me boil I get so angry I just can't lose Then I get too tired to be tired of you as well And I don't have the strength to say no to you So save yourself I do my best I do nothing at all Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
| BROKEN INTO | BUT | |
| Here's my sign Here's my warning What's true tonight won't be true tomorrow morning What's true tonight has never ever been true Don't you know I am Broken into? Here's my light Here's my action This is how we touch in traction This is why we hardly touch at all Don't you know? Don't you know? Half a heart A pair of wings These are my medals These are the things that I wear Half of me wants Half of you Can't you see I am Broken into? Broken into Break my code Throw my warning What's true tonight won't be true tomorrow morning What's true tonight has never ever been true Don't you know? Don't you know? Half a heart A pair of wings These are my medals These are the things that I wear Half of you knows Half of me Is this the first time, the first time You've ever seen What's always been true? Broken into Don't you know Don't you know Don't you know Don't you know I am broken into? Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
I am sincerely yours no more I quit I know life is long but life is Too short for this Cold rain fell on the iron bridge Of this rusty new town The friendly place I came to face Stepping down I'm sorry but I'm leaving but I am sincerely yours no more I quit I know life is long But... Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
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| COLOURBLIND | CONTACT | |
| Give us Saint Jude the things that we need To crawl through our days This search for new senses Has blown all my old flames away The things I used to feel Just don't feel the way they used to I've wasted all my tasting Chasing headlong after you You turned me blind You turned me colourblind I have turned colourblind A red rag another blue day A white rage a green light The glue my soul used to pick up has care-dried 'Wake-up' I shout at myself but I can't 'Feel it' they sing but I find that I don't I'm planning to lose myself Make no excuses To see if I notice I'm no longer here Trying to shock myself Love myself Knock myself clear Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
Last night you touched my fingers I almost felt at home That old sick hope woke up in me Contact was shown And now it doesn't really matter No reasoning applies Danger is important Contact would be nice And you know And you know And you know But I don't know And you know And you know And you know But I don't know I need to know Give me that contact Give me that contact And now We are together But we may fall apart Still we have made contact Contact is the start And you know And you know And you know But I don't know And you know And you know And you know But I don't know I need to know Chorus Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
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| DEBORAH | DRONNING MAUD LAND | |
| Here I stand outside your door I don't know why So here goes wow for broken hearts This one is mine Because love ain't about promises Love ain't about being nice Love is a pain in your stomach That keeps you awake at night Deborah, it's me again Deborah, it's me again Deborah, it's me again Couldn't take the loneliness I'd rather have the pain There you stand, you laugh You laugh at me I opened up again This is how I know our love Was not love that happens between friends Because love don't grow on trees no more Love don't fall from the sky Love is a twinkle The twinkle I can't understand in your eye Deborah, it's me again Deborah, it's me again Deborah, it's me again Couldn't take the loneliness I'd rather have the pain And when you turn to someone else You know you turn the knife in me Oh Deborah please turn again Oh Deborah please turn Turn back to me Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
I seem to have grown myself a pair Of old man's hands Dronning Maud Land Yes, she's gone, how could she stay Knowing just where I stand Dronning Maud Land I loved her Nothing could hold her from leaving Nothing could save me from grieving here Head in the sand Of Dronning Maud Land Is a place where everything's free Cider and whiskey, the penguins and me And the cold blue sun Smiling on down You did the right thing That's why you're alone I loved her Nothing could hold her from leaving Nothing could save me from grieving here Head in the sand Of Dronning Maud Land Yes dear Come on back here It is time That I told you more lies I need to tell lies I loved her Nothing could hold her from leaving Nothing could save me from grieving here Head in the sand Of Dronning Maud Land Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
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| And the girls go out and it's a date And the boys stay in now it's too late Still I fall in love six times a night In vain on sight And this bottle laughs back in my face See how easily I lose my place And the way I look tonight's a crime Where does the time go? Where has the time gone But if I held you in my arms again This time I'd never let you go And I would feel the universe for you And I would let you know We don't leave ourselves in many things Just in letters, leases, writs and rings And when the last one's sold or lost or gone We don't belong here And the stupid bells that hang round London town They cannot pick me up, they cannot dust me down Things would have always turned aout about this way Where there's an up, there'll always be a down you say Where there's an up There'll always be a down Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
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| GRAVY TRAIN | PLACEHOLDER | |
| Every morning she takes the train They call the gravy train Past the broken-down buildings Full of people and pain She'd call herself a lover How can that be? She don't love anybody else She sure don't love me So what you going to do When this train don't run through Your town no more? What you going to do When this train run you down Put you back on the floor Like everybody else? Train I ride Won't be long Start off slow But baby we move strong And when you hear us coming You'd better watch out Train I ride is going to run you down So what you going to do When this train don't run through Your town no more? What you going to do When this train run you down Put you back on the floor Like everybody else? Train I ride Is a thousand miles long And when she's gone We're going to roll So what you going to do When this train don't run through Your town no more? What you going to do When this train run you down Put you back on the floor Like everybody else? Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
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| HORSE WATER WIND | PLACEHOLDER | |
| Take a man of impressionable age Lock him in his own ribcage What do you get? To have is human to hold divine I'm never strong enough I just do what I am let But I want to be a wave breaking On the shores of undiscovered land And I have had enough of making plans And taking stands Horse Take me back take me through Take me to where you will think I will understand you Horse water wind Do exactly what I tell you to you will be hurt But I will know it's true Horse water wind And I have had enough of just demands And holding hands Horse water wind Come carry me Horse water wind Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
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| JOHNNY SUNRISE | PLACEHOLDER | |
| 'You're a star' he says 'you've bottled your
grace It's a laugh to watch you try to keep pace With the steps we made together one night with beer And you called me Johnny Sunrise' Johnny Sunrise walks away from me Takes his time and he takes me too seriously Locks his thoughts away in a box he built While I was gone Johnny Sunrise But remember the bite of those November nights When we rode out To fight for the light of our lives To be turned on Sweat and perfume and new bread as the moon faded Stumbling home spilling out stories We wouldn't forget in a hurry But then we weren't in a hurry Our faces are mirrors Lines and scars that we've earned All the classes we missed all the lessons we learned All the roads that we took that took us apart Now you're smiling there saying 'Let's go back to the start' And he says : 'Lose that luggage let it all go Job you got job you lost What it all cost All the things you now know All the girls you once had and the man that you are Let's climb off this world again And climb into my car Let's climb into my car Drive away in my car Spilling out stories we wouldn't forget in a million years But then we didn't have a million years Johnny hurry up Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
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| LOVE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN | PLACEHOLDER | |
| When will I find The love turned upside down? When will I find When will I find The love turned upside down? When will I find? You tell me to Stand on my own two feet They are feet of clay All this growing and I-don't-knowing Don't mean that I'm running away When will I find All the things you promised me? When will I find? When will I find All the things you promised me? When will I find? Take a look at you and me Blind with dignity Slowly drifted apart So how about talking Turn around, walking back How about open arms? When will I find When will I find The love turned upside down? Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
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| MAN SCARED | PLACEHOLDER | |
| The ache of the old The shock of the new These are the scary little things Turned me into you I'm sick and tired I must be tired of life itself I feel like a house that no-one's lived in For twelve long years I'm lost and I don't know why If the black mountains can scratch the blue sky You won't reach your hand and touch A man who's scared of the dark The ache of the old The shock of the new These are the scary little things Turned me into you Horse stuck before the cart I am shacked up with this bleeding heart Waiting for someone to come my way And tear my world apart again I'm lost and I don't know why If the black mountains can scratch the blue sky You won't reach your hand and touch A man who's scared of the dark Gently does it Gently does it Gently will have to do Because I can't decide between the sweet and clean And swimming in the deep blue sea I'm lost and I don't know why If the black mountains can scratch the blue sky You won't reach your hand and touch A man who's scared of the dark Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
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| PROVIDENCE | PLACEHOLDER | |
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| PROVIDENCE | PLACEHOLDER | |
| Where were you when my dreams came true And my ship finally came in I was flying head in the clouds and You were back in providence I crawled out of my arc of doubt Stepped up to claim my prize A fingerprint in the matelpiece paint A letter of just three lines I played hard I played hard to get And hard to understand And every night was a fight to the death And every day was planned Where were you then I finally knew The truth you'd always known No matter how far you travel away You always end up home Where was this place Where I finally fell to grace And found you'd faded out Now all the rain that's fallen on me The sun that's worn me down But I'm still walking in this same old pair of shoes I'm walking on the same ground Oh yes I know nobody chooses anybody And noone means to lie But when the weather changes you turn into strangers Learning how to say goodbye I'm writing from this town Where I let you down once too often But I'm thinking of that other lucky place Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
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| SHOW OF MYSELF | STEALING A PLANE | |
| Sowing marbles in marshmallows Sewing sequins onto rags Cutting out my finest moments Cutting anything that drags Putting on my coats and tails Putting on my party hat Follow anything that moves baby moves Just to try and follow that And I learned to trust my body And I learned to trust myself Until this man of straw Had nothing left to hide I'm making a show of myself Accidents that never happened Loves that never could have been Falling from a rock onto a soft place Fall somewhere in between And how could I be here on my knees And four hours sleep? You put a cat among the vultures You set a child to catch a thief And the call of the canvas Becomes a curtain call For me to stumble over For me to be in fear of To show me And everything I am And everything I do Is trying to paint a miracle Bold lyrical and new just to show you And I'm tired playing trick or treat And I'm tired of love that goes for a song And I'm tired of letting circus animals loose But I'm not tired enough to stop Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
Fly into your blue sky Stealing a plane baby Flying too high Stealing a plane baby To when we'd be alone And I looked right through baby And looked at the stone I woke this morning baby I know I'm strong enough to fly But the world can't hurt me with its lies The world is wrong We're going to fly I'm going to steal a plane tonight Now I won't wait no longer I waited so long baby I could not wait But we weren't flying baby and And I kept my faith I kept the time baby Stealing a plane And fly it to you To steal a plane baby Thought my life through I waited so long baby I needed more You waited in the paper I loved what I saw I met you in a paper Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
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| TWIST | THIS GUITAR | |
| Every time we touch I lose another layer
of skin Every name you drop you stop my heart from beating Everything I used to know you have made me doubt You've never been hungry until you've tasted regret And I almost killed myself trying to make myself forget But you're the taste that I can't wash from my mouth So what do I do when the love of you makes me hate myself And makes me hurt everybody else? I just do what anyone would do I twist for you I twist for you I twist for you I am twisted for you History has made me all I am today But I've already forgotton all those rotten games you play I was born with everything but concentration So what do I do when the love of you makes me hate myself And makes me hurt everybody else? I just do what anyone would do I twist for you I twist for you I twist for you Words like faith simply don't exist I am twisted for you And the wind can rattle windows And you can shiver like it's new And we can send these sins spinning Until they taste true I twist for you I twist for you I twist for you I am twisted for you (Words like faith simply don't exist Words like fear simply don't exist Words like fear simply don't exist I am twisted for you Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
This guitar won't kill your fascists This guitar never killed anyone This guitar is not as charming as a gun This guitar is never sure This guitar is scared of you This guitar is looking for a son But you, you think the world's a book to read And all you see are happy ends I need my means I need my doubts I need my friends I need guitar This guitar has had its dreams and This guitar it sometimes bleeds and This guitar it needs a simple mind Once this guitar thought it knew everything Everything a guitar could do but now This guitar is learning all the time But you, you would not understand sublime Not if I carved it on your arm In letters of quicktime this is not show This lives this breathes This guitar is alll I use To drain away those guitar blues The this guitar makes its excuse and leaves This guitar blows hot and cold This guitar needs truth to be told This guitar it wants to change your life You say this guitar touches you But you know you touch this guitar too And you know this guitar will survive I need you You must realise that there are stars beneath the skies above And that this, this is not peace, this is not love This is my heart This is guitar Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
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| WHO WANTS YOU | WORLD EXPLODING TOUCH | |
| Who wants you? Who wants your way out? Who wants your ghosts And your second posts? Who needs to know? Who wants you? Who's ready for your knife? Who wants your glories? Your war stories? Who's ready to be laid down low? Torch I carry burns so bright It would outshine the northern lights But you can't see my torch tonight You can't see the one who wants you Who wants you? Who wants your way out? Who wants your lies, Your sweet blue lies? I do, I do, I do Who wants you? Who wants control? Who'll take you plans And rip them down And give you a new set? Who wants you? Who wants it all? Who'll take whatever You can give him, Take whatever you can get? Torch I carry burns so bright It would outshine the northern lights But you can't see my torch tonight You can't see the one who wants you Who wants you? Who wants your way out? Who wants your lies, Your sweet blue lies? I do, I do, I do Honey If only you knew How fearfully I want you Who wants you? Who wants you? Who wants your way out? Who wants your lies, Your sweet blue lies? I do, I do, I do Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
I used to float six inches off the ground I was too weightless to ever be hurt And I never knew the truth about untrue Until I saw you in his shirt It's always small things that breakk you open They're the only things sharp enough The soft goodbye brush of your hand Upon my face Your world exploding touch It's a secret that I was never told Love is a cruel firework Love is to burn 'til you're cold Now I know how you feel when you feel too much And I know what you mean when you mean too much And I know how you taste when you taste too much I feel your world exploding touch And yes I know nobody lives forever And some day soon we'll all be gone But I think I'll recognise your touch in disguise When that day wanders along So don't keep secrets This life is too hot and too short Love is outlaws, love is to steal Until you're caught And this bedroom door that hangs forlornly open And the sheets upn this bed that I won't make And the soft morning light that tells me There's no point in fighting for you One touch is all you're going to let me take They say that you will never be a writer Until you find something that you can believe in Well I believe I believe in you You win Music & Lyrics : Nick Kelly |
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