HALF LIES

Up on the roof / Back in the dunes / You caught me in the half light / Behind the door / Back in my room / Decisions took me all night / It involved a lot of guessing / And things I just made up / Hoping you’d believe them / Before they come unstuck / Only half lies / They’re only half lies / Go tell your mum / you’ll take the track / back home after sunset / We’re in your car / Crammed in the back / We saw the moon come up / Your hair was in your face / It covered up your eyes / It couldn’t hide your lying / But I was still buying / Your half lies / The words you whisper / And what they spell / Say less than the unspoken ones / When you tell me half lies / I’ll take double / Of what you’re selling / We’re late, in trouble / It’s time for telling

GOT A FEELING

Don’t wanna hear a sound / But if I hear a sound again / I wanna hear like only you could hear it / Don’t wanna touch the noise / But if I touch the noise again / It’s gotta feel like only you could feel it / I can’t taste the morning / I can’t feel the force / I got left home alone / And I drifted off course / I wanna burn my fingers / I wanna feel the flame / In my nerves let it linger / In my bloodstream and my brain / Got a feeling only you can feel it / Got a feeling only you / Got a feeling only you can feel it / Don’t wanna see the light / Just wanna know what light feels like / Through your eyelids / In the morning bright / Don’t wanna see the sun / Don’t even want it on my skin / Kinda feel like only you can / Let the sunlight in / I wanna cut the fences / I wanna cross the wires / Got left with my senses / And a new pair of pliers / I wanna stop the signals / Before they form / I wanna feel the pressure drop / I wanna smell the storm / I kinda feel like I’m spinning round / I kinda feel like I’m spinning round / But I’m not spinning round

ALL OVER IT AGAIN

You fall behind, I didn’t know / In a different mind, just goes to show / I couldn’t follow, got left behind / So hard to swallow or to define / I toed the line, you wouldn’t know / It was all a lie, just didn’t show / You were trying, wouldn’t let it go / Push against me when I go too slow / And it’s over, all over it again / Going over everything again / When it’s over we’ll go over it again / Going over everything again / We decide to go over it again / We forget to get over it again / We forget to go over it again / We forget to go over it again

GOING TO CALIFORNIA

Don’t bother standing up / Not gonna carry you / Going to California / Can’t afford to marry you baby

SHELTER

I know what I know / What do you want? / I know what side I’m on / I know what I want / What do you know? / Do you know what side you’re on? / Do we need to ask her / Is she safe with the lover? / Is there a monster? / Is this Helter Skelter? / Get it right now, get it right now / Pull it right over and get it right over / And get it right now / Will he neglect her? / Teach him to protect her / Cause she needs a shelter, / Not helter skelter / And what of the mother? / She needs a shelter / Not helter skelter

FALLING

I said I’m gonna kill you / I thought about it a lot / I know I’m gonna have to / I know I’m gonna have to / After all the rules are twisted / I’m out from under glass / I feel myself falling / I can feel myself falling / I’m pressed up to the mouthpiece / My lips and neck are wet / From a second hand expression / From a second hand expression / Of something once remembered / Of everything you’ve said / and what it might have meant now / and what it might have meant / I can feel the lava rising / and how it should have felt / But nothing will replace it / Nothing will replace it / And you’re gonna stop running / This place that you’re holding / Oh maybe there’s no one / O baby there’s no one there / I thought I might have felt you / But I was just pretending / Go now, it’s a long way home / I don’t want to walk the long way / After all the doors are opened / I’m out from under glass / I feel myself falling / I can feel myself falling

ALONE IN A CROWD

You surround yourself with people / And I know everyone / We’re alone in a crowd / And you know everyone / I know everyone has secrets / But I won’t ever tell / That I’m alone in a crowd / And you know everyone / I don’t care what people are thinking / And I won’t ever say / You’re alone in a crowd / No one’s business anyway / We surround ourselves with secrets / And I told every one / And you won’t ever tell / ‘Cause we know everyone / I don’t care what people are saying / And I won’t ever tell / That I’m alone in a crowd / And you know everyone

MAKING IT UP

I thought that you’d stopped trying / It’s like you don’t know / what the point is any more / It seems you stopped your crying / Is it cos you just don’t feel / That much any more? / I couldn’t tell if quietness / Meant you didn’t care / I kinda thought that stoicism / Was you just feeling scared / But I’ve been making it up so long / Making it up so long / I’ve been making it up so long / That it’s kinda come true / I wanted to impress you / But I could feel you getting / harder to impress / How could I have guessed you / Might be feeling shy / Or ashamed of yourself unless / You thought that you had let me down / And I had pulled away / Or had we fallen out of step / Ran out of things to say / I couldn’t tell if quietness / Meant you were getting bored / I kinda thought that cynicism / Would stop you feeling sore

SONIC SOUVENIRS

You got me jumping out of my skin / I’m rattling round like a skeleton / Setting me off like a rocket / It’s been so long / I’ve nearly forgotten what it’s like / You couldn’t have seen me coming / Through the forest and the trees / The blossoms and the leaves / You’re exactly what I need / They think that magic could be something / If the scientists just believed / And I got lots of funny new ideas / And I’ve got lots of sonic souvenirs / And I’m going away for a long long time / I see you coming but I don’t mind / I won’t be around for very long / I see you coming but I’ll be gone I’ll be gone / Like a senator in waiting / Always a bridesmaid / Haters gonna be hating / Destroying the stories they’ve been fabricating, / They’ll be gone they’ll be gone. / And I’ve got lots of funny new ideas / And I’ve got lots of sonic souvenirs / And I’m going away for a long long time / I see you coming, but I don’t mind / And I won’t be around for very long / I see you coming but I’ll be gone / And I don’t believe it anymore / I see you coming but I’ll be gone / I see you coming but I’ll be gone

KAREN TRUST ME

I skipped a beating down on the floor / Still ended up feeling kinda sore / My heart was beating two to four / I stitched my mouth up to be sure / I met the current, I felt the flow / Come let it take me where it would go / This dump is fairly kicking / Come watch me playing dead / Can’t spell my name but I’ve got soul feeling / Down past the bike track I’ll play my part / Got a propane brain and a sciatic heart / Karen trust me, I’ll play my part / Got a propane brain and a sciatic heart / Got an hour of sunlight with my name on it / If it’d be fun I might take the blame for it / My heart was beating two to four / I couldn’t say much with a broken jaw / Down past the bike track I’ll play my part / Got a propane brain and a sciatic heart / Karen trust me, I’ll play my part / Got a propane brain and a sciatic heart

NOT AFRAID

I wanna taste the dirt on my fingers / Wanna wake with my hair in the sand / I’m not afraid of dreams I’ve been having that I don’t understand / Overcome by the volume of history / Outdone by the weight of the world / Pushing down distorting my vision / Crushing my skull / Wanna squint into the sunlight / Lay me down neath the powerlines / Been so long since I felt electricity / Sing in my mind / There’s a dark horizon / I already knew / When I closed my eyes I had / A lot of forgetting to do / I wanna stop the movie from ending / I like the scene with your hair in the dirt / Been so long since I started pretending / This ain’t gonna hurt / I wanna float away from the capsule / Wanna feel the temperature drop / Not afraid of being abandoned / Or getting forgot / On a dark horizon / Where I already knew / If I closed my eyes there was / So much forgetting to do / There are empty spaces / I’ve already begun removing traces / Of all the forgetting I’ve done / At the dark horizon / I already knew / If I closed my eyes I had / So much forgetting to do

REGRETS

I might have some regrets / But I don’t let them kill me / Things I’d like to forget / Or try to change / Sometimes I get over / Your blaming of the past / It’s gonna get you nowhere, nowhere fast / I might have some regrets / But the decade wasn’t wasted / A letter to my family / A letter to my friends / Might explain away the strangeness / Don’t say you couldn’t tell / I don’t handle changes, changes well / You wanna get forgiven / You wanna let it go / You find you’re living in a shadow / Make better friends with / Who you became / It always ends with / Someone trying to pass the blame / Mistakes I should have learned from / Trying to avoid them / The second time around / To say that I was wasted / Or I was trying to waste your time / I was only wasting wasting mine

SCIATIC HEART

Oh oh oh I’m so high / Oh oh oh I’m so low / I explode like a volcano / Oh my heart’s a pathogen / Burning blood and oxygen / Try to leach it out and then / Oh oh start it all again / It’s my sciatic heart / It’s my medicated part / It’s the end before the start / It’s a permanent malaise / A continuing distaste / My emotions are displaced / My thoughts acting out in haste / Oh oh oh clench my jaw / Leaves me trembling and sore / I am crawling back for more / I’m collapsed here on the floor / It’s my sciatic heart / It’s my medicated part / It’s the end before the start