LIKE EATING GLASS

It's so cold in this house
Open mouth swallowing us
The children sent home from school
Will not stop crying

And I know that you're busy
Do I know that you care
You got your finger on the pulse
You got your eyes everywhere
And it hurts all the time when you don't return my calls
And you haven't got the time to remember how it was

It's so cold in this house
It's so cold in this house

I can't eat, I can't sleep
I can't sleep, I can't dream
An aversion to light
Got a fear of the ocean

Like drinking poison
Like eating glass
Like drinking poison
Like eating glass
Like drinking poison
Like eating glass
Like drinking poison
Like eating…

It's so cold in this house
It's so cold in this house
It's so cold in this house
It's so cold in this bed

Like drinking poison
Like eating glass
Like drinking poison
Like eating glass
Like drinking poison
Like eating glass
Like drinking poison
Like eating…

Come and show me how, how it was…

We've got crosses on our eyes
Been walking into the walls again
We've got crosses on our eyes
Been walking into the furniture
We've got crosses on our eyes
For richer
For poorer
For better
For worse
We've got crosses on our eyes
We've been walking into the furniture

HELICOPTER

North to south
Empty
Running on
Bravado
As if to say, as if to say
As if to say he doesn't like chocolate
He's born a liar, he'll die a liar
Some things will never be different

Stop being so American
There's a time and there's a place
So James Dean
So blue jeans
He's gonna save the world
He's gonna...

Are you hoping for a miracle?
Are you hoping for a miracle?
Are you hoping for a miracle?
Are you hoping for a miracle?

Three out of five, three out of five
(It's not enough)
Six out of ten
Better luck next time
Just like his dad, just like his dad
(The same mistakes)
Some things will never be different
Hungry and dumb, hungry and dumb
(So wait in line)
Queuing up for some more junk food
It's not my fault, it's not my fault
(Just this once)
They're getting so much younger

Why can't you be more European?
Bastard child of guilt and shame
Bury your head in the sand
I'm thinking six, six, six
I'm thinking six

Are you hoping for a miracle?
Are you hoping for a miracle?
Are you hoping for a miracle?
Are you hoping for a miracle?

Are you hoping for a miracle?
(It's not enough)
Are you hoping for a miracle?
(It's not enough)
Are you hoping for a miracle?
(It's not enough)
Are you hoping for a miracle?
(It's not enough)

POSITIVE TENSION

He said
"You're just as boring as everyone else
When you tut and you moan
And you squeal and you squelch"

He said
"You're just as boring as everyone else"
Nothing ever happens…

Things replace things
Days replace days
Things replace things

She said
"I'm going to use my teeth and my claws"
She said
"I'm going to use my teeth and my claws"
She said
"I'm going to use my teeth and my breasts"
I'm gonna make it happen
She said...

"Run run run, run run run"
And you cannot run or ever, ever escape
"Run run run, run run run"
You cannot run or ever hide it away
"Run run run, run run run"
Something glorious is about to happen
"Run run run, run run run"
The reckoning

They go
"You're just as boring as everyone else
When you tut and you moan
And you squeal and you squelch"
They go
"You're just as boring as everyone else"
Stuck past-timing

The fear and the yearning
The fear and the consumption
The fear and the yearning
It's gonna to eat you alive
They go...

"Run run run, run run run"
And you cannot hide or ever, ever escape
"Run run run, run run run"
And you cannot hide or ever put it away
"Run run run, run run run"
Something glorious is about to happen
"Run run run, run run run"
The reckoning

They go...
They say...
They go...
They say...
They go...

Why'd you have to get so hysterical?
Why'd you have to get so hysterical?
Why'd you have to get so hysterical?
Why'd you have to get so hysterical?
Why'd you have to get so hysterical?
(success, success, success is over)
Why'd you have to get so hysterical?
(success, success, success is over)
Why'd you have to get so hysterical?
(success, success, success is over)
Why'd you have to get
So fucking useless!?

Play it cool boy
Play it cool boy
Play it cool

BANQUET

A heart of stone, a smoking gun
I can give you life, I can take it away
A heart of stone, a smoking gun
I'm working it out
Why’d you feel so underrated?
Why'd you feel so negated?

Turning away from the light
Becoming adult
Turning into my soul
I wanted to bite not destroy
To feel her underneath
Turning into the light

She don't think straight
Not, not, not
She don't think straight

She's got such a dirty mind
And it never ever stops
And you don't taste like her
And you never ever will
And we don't read the papers
We don't read the news
Heaven's never enough
We will never be fooled

Turning away from the light
Becoming adult
Turning into my soul
I wanted to bite not destroy
To feel her underneath
Turning into the light

And if you feel a little left behind
We will wait you on the other side

'Cause I'm on fire
'Cause you know I'm on fire when you come
'Cause you know I'm on fire
'Cause you know I'm on fire so stub me out

'Cause I'm on fire
'Cause I'm on fire
'Cause I'm on fire
'Cause I'm on fire

BLUE LIGHT

You'll find it hiding in shadows
You'll find it hiding in cupboards
It will walk you home safe every night
It will help you remember

If that's the way it is
Then that's the way it is
If that's the way it is
Then that's the way it is
If that's the way it is
Then that's the way it is
If that's the way it is
Then that's the way it is

I still feel you and the taste of cigarettes
Where could I ever run to?
Just tell me it's tearing you apart
Just tell me you cannot sleep

If that's the way it is
Then that's the way it is
If that's the way it is
Then that's the way it is

And I didn't even notice
When the sky turned blue
And we couldn't tell the difference
Between me and you
And I nearly didn't notice
The gentlest feeling

The gentlest feeling
The gentlest feeling
The gentlest feeling
The gentlest feeling

You are the bluest light
You are the bluest light
You are the bluest light
You are the bluest light

SHE'S HEARING VOICES

Hey, hey, hey, hey

She's hearing voices, call her
She's hearing voices, warn her
She just can't sleep in her bed
She just can't sleep
She's falling down the stairs
She's tearing out her hair
She's screaming my name
In the night
To keep her warm

She got a
Red pill, blue pill
Red pill, blue pill
Red pill, blue pill
Red pill, blue pill
Milk of amnesia

Hey, hey, hey, hey

Come on in
I know that you want it
Was it nothing, nothing to write home about?
Did the earth, did the earth not move?

She got a
Red pill, blue pill
Red pill, blue pill
Red pill, blue pill
Red pill, blue pill

She got a
Red pill, blue pill
Red pill, blue pill
Red pill, blue pill
Red pill, blue pill
Milk of amnesia

She's scared of the blacks
And she's scared of the Jews
She is walking around
She is yesterday's news
And she calls out my name
In the dead of the night
She is leaving my room
She is crying on her side
Walking on eggshells
Walking on glass
Burnt by the mirror
Burnt by the light
Feeling rejection
I'll burn down your house
Tearing down posters
I was never, never alive

THIS MODERN LOVE

To be lost in the forest
To be cut adrift
You've been trying to reach me
You bought me a book
To be lost in the forest
To be cut adrift
I've been paid
I've been paid

To be lost in the forest
To be cut adrift
You've been trying to reach me
You bought me a book
To be lost in the forest
To be cut adrift
I've been paid
I've been weighed
I've been...

Don't get offended
If I seem absent minded
Just keep telling me facts
And keep making me smile
Don't get offended
If I seem absent minded
I get tongue-tied
Baby, you've got to be more discerning
I've never known what's good for me
Baby, you've got to be more demanding
I'll be yours

I'll pay for you anytime
I'll pay for you anytime

And you told me you wanted to eat up my sadness
Well jump right in shorty
You can gorge away
You told me you wanted to eat up my sadness
Jump right
Baby, you've got to be more discerning
I've never known what's good for me
Baby, you've got to be more demanding
Jump left

What are you holding out for?
What's always in the way?
Why so damn absent minded?
Why so scared of romance?

This modern love breaks me
This modern love wastes me

Do you wanna come over and kill some time?
Do you wanna come over and kill some time?
Do you wanna come over and kill some time?
Throw your arms around me

THE PIONEERS

If it can be broke then it can be fixed
If it can be fused then it can be split
It's all under control
It's all under control
It's all under control
It's all under control

If it can be lost then it can be won
If it can be touched then it can be turned
All you need is time
All you need is time
All you need is time
All you need is… time
All you need is… time

If it can be broke then it can be fixed
If it can be fused then it can be split
It's all under control
It's all under control
It's all under control
It's all under control

If it can be lost then it can be won
If it can be touched then it can be turned
All you need is time
All you need is time
All you need is time
All you need is...

We promised the world we'd tame it
What were we hoping for?
We promised the world we'd tame it
What were we hoping for?
We promised the world we'd tame it
What were we hoping for?
We promised the world we'd tame it
What were we hoping for?

A sense of purpose and a sense of skill
A sense of function but a disregard
We will not be the first
We will not be the first
We will not be the first
We won't
We said we were gonna conquer new frontiers
Go stick your bloody head in the jaws of the beast

Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe in

So here we are reinventing the wheel
I'm shaking hands with a hurricane
It's a colour that I can't describe
It's a language I can't understand
Ambition, tearing out the heart of you
Carving lines into you
Dripping down the sides of you

We will not be the last
We will not be the last
We will not be the last

PRICE OF GASOLINE

I've been driving a mid-sized car
I never hurt anyone
Is that a fact?
Is that a fact?
Is that a fact?
Is that a fact?

The price of gas keeps on rising
Nothing comes for free
Make like a stone make
Make like a plant make
Make like a stone make
Make like a plant

I can tell you how this ends

We're gonna win this
We're gonna win this
(more, more, more, more)
We're gonna win this
(more, more, more, more)

With spades and truncheons
Guns and trowels
That is how the war will be won
Just swat the fly just
Just swat the fly just
Just swat the fly just
Just swat the fly

Taking care of cars and bodies
Nothing ever comes for me
The ghosts are here the
The ghosts are here red
Red white and blue red
Red white and blue

I can tell you how this ends

We're gonna win this
We're gonna win this
(more, more, more, more)
We're gonna win this
(more, more, more, more)
We’re gonna win…

We're gonna win this
We're gonna win this
(more, more, more, more)
We're gonna win this
(more, more, more, more)
We’re gonna win

SO HERE WE ARE

I caught a glimpse
But it’s been forgotten

So here we are
Again

I made a vow
To carry you home
Home

I really tried
To do what you wanted
It all went wrong
Again

I made a vow
To carry you home
If you fall sick
If you pass out
Out

I figured it out
I figured it out
I figured it out
I figured it out

I can see again
I can see again
I can see again
I can see again
I can see again

LUNO

And you're tired of your mum
And you're tired of your dad
Got you jumping through hoops
Got you shaving your legs
Let it pass, let it pass
Let it pass over you

And you're tired of your face
And you're tired of your nose
Got you jumping through hoops
Got you shaving your legs
Let it pass, let it pass
Let it pass through you

And your nose is bleeding
And your nose is bleeding
You've been lying to me

There will be no hesitation
There will be no confrontation
There will be no indication
There will be no cause

There will be no exultation
There will be no justification
There will be no way at all

And your nose is bleeding
And your nose is bleeding
You've been lying to me

Luno, Luno, Luno

Come back to me the way you were
The way you were when we were young
I'm trying to tell you everything
I'm trying to tell you everything

I can heal the blind
I can cure the sick
I can heal the blind
I can cure the sick
I can say the right things
I can say the right things

Where d'you get so cruel?
Where d'you get so cruel?
Where d'you get so cruel?
Where d'you get so cruel?

Where do you go?
'Cause you're never here

And your nose is bleeding
(You deserve it)
And your nose is bleeding
(You deserve it)
You've been lying to me

Luno, Luno, Luno

Come back to me the way you were
The way you were when we were young
I'm trying to tell you everything
I'm trying to tell you everything

PLANS

Wake up dreamer
It's happening without you
Cut your hair and shave your beard
You squandered your chances
I'll give you a thousand pounds
To show me how you do it
Stop being so laissez-faire
We're all scared of the future

Been training vipers to come for you
In your dreams to release you
Been training vipers to come for you
In your sleep

And the ravens are leaving the tower
And the ravens are leaving the tower
And the ravens are leaving the tower
Make your peace

I've got a taste for blood
Leave the weak
Leave the young
I've got a taste for blood
I'm walking out without you
You will kill or be killed
It's about progress
I've got a taste for blood

Wake up sleepyhead
It's happening without you
Such a nice guy
You tell me everything twice
Whipcrack speed jump
We will run backwards
Stop being so laissez-faire
We're all scared of the future

We make plans for big times
Get bogged down, distracted
We make plans for good times
All neon, all surface
So kiss me before it all gets complicated
I've got a taste for blood

Taste for blood
Taste for blood
Taste for blood
Taste for blood

COMPLIMENTS

We sit and we sigh
And nothing gets done
So right, so clued-up
We just get old

And all the while
Been torn asunder
Nicotine
And bacteria

What are we coming to?
What are we gonna do?

TWO MORE YEARS

In two more years, my sweetheart
We will see another view
Such longing for the past
For such completion
What was once golden
Has now turned a shade of grey
I've become crueller in your presence

They say
"Be brave, there's a right way and a wrong way"
This pain won't last forever
This pain won't last forever

Two more years
There's only two more years
Two more years
There's only two more years
Two more years so hold on

You've cried enough this lifetime
My beloved polar bear
Tears to fill a sea to drown a beacon
To start anew all over
Remove those scars from your arms
To start anew all over
More enlightened

I know (I know)
My love
This is not the only story you can tell
This pain won't last for ever
This pain won't last for ever

Two more years
There's only two more years
Two more years
There's only two more years
Two more years so hold on

You don't need to find answers
For questions never asked of you
You don't need to find answers

Dead weights, balloons
Drag me to you
Dead weights, balloons
To sleep in your arms

I've become crueller since I met you
I've become rougher
This world is killing me

And we cover our lies
With handshakes and smiles
And we try to remember our alibis
We tell lies to our parents
We hide in their rooms
We bury our secrets in the garden
Of course we could never make this love last
I said, of course we could never make this love last
The only love we know is love for ourselves
We bury our secrets in the garden

LITTLE THOUGHTS

Been thinking little thoughts
Keep on walking try to stand up
Pay attention to the details
We go slowly, slowly down

Been thinking little thoughts
Keep on walking try to stand up
Pay attention to the details
We go slowly
Down!

I'll go back (I'll go back)
If you ask
I'll go back (I'll go back)
If you ask me
I'll go back (I'll go back)
If you ask
I'll go back (I'll go back)
If you ask me
I'll go back if you ask
I'll go back if you ask me
I'll go back if you ask
I'll go back, back, back…
backwards

This world ain't just made of facts
Every half hour is a countdown

If it's 'cause of my age then you're a coward
If it's 'cause of my age then you're a coward
If it's 'cause of my age then you're a coward
I haven't got the guts to stand alone