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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
Stranded here on planet earth It's not much but it could be worse Everything's free here, there's no crowds Winter lasted five long years No sun will come again I fear Chemical harvest was sown And I will wait for you Until the sky is blue And I will wait for you What else can I do? A spaceship from another star They ask me where all the people are What can I tell them? I tell them I'm the only one There was a war but I must have won Please take me with you. |
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from Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980)
You do me wrong but I'm still crazy 'bout you
Stay away too long and I can't live without you Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more But each hurt just makes my love stronger than before I know that flowers grow to rain But how can love grow to pain? Ain't that peculiar, a peculiarity Ain't that peculiar, peculiar as can be You tell me lies that you'll be honest to me But I'm so much in love that I don't see that The things you do and say are designed to make me blue It's a doggone shame my love that your lies seem true If the truth makes love last longer Why do lies make love last stronger? Ain't that peculiar, a peculiarity Ain't that peculiar, peculiar as can be Oh I've cried so much just like a child that's lost his toy Maybe baby you think these tears I cry are tears of joy A child can cry so much and still do anything you say Well, I'm like a child my tears don't help me get my way I know that love can last through years But how can love last through tears? Ain't that peculiar, a peculiarity Ain't that peculiar, peculiar as can be |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
I am - in my pram Look you - I'm so new I am - sleeping there Underneath the stairs If you - wanted to You'd find - inside my mind Things so surreal My lips are sealed In the rain in cellphane Pale dogs and demigods They won't bring me down The clocks go round, they never stop I've been - in limousines I've nseen - inside your dreams It's raining there Try not to stare |
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from Japan - Tin Drum (1981)
We're pushing through these farming towns
We worked hard ploughing over ground Red army calls you the call of the crowd Red army needs you they call you now Cantonese boy Bang your tin drum Cantonese boy Civilian soldier Cantonese boy Bang your tin drum Cantonese boy Red army calls you home We're singing marching through the hills We're changing the lives we've led for years Red army calls you the call of the crowd Red army needs you they call you now Cantonese boy Bang your tin drum Cantonese boy Civilian soldier Cantonese boy Bang your tin drum Cantonese boy Red army calls you home Red army calls you Red army needs you Gentlemen you heard us call Raised your glass and called for more Only young men broke the wall |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
A light snow is falling on London All sign of the living has gone The train pulls into the stations And no-one gets off and no-one gets on Don't hate me I'm not special like you I'm tired and I'm so alone Don't fight me I know you'll never care Can I call you on the telephone, now and then? One light burns in a window It guides all the shadows below Inside the ghost of a parting And no-one is left, just the cigarette smoke |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
A body is washed up on a Norfolk beach He was a friend that I could not reach He thought I was cold but I understand But for the grace of god goes another man And I may just waste away from doing nothing But I'm a martyr to even less A choirboy is buried on the moors Where we used to go dreaming when we were bored So some kids are best left to fend for themselves And others were born to stack shelves And I may just waste away from doing nothing But I'm a martyr to even less |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
So see how long I can last You can pretend that I don't exist for you And I can laugh about it now But I hated every minute I was waiting for your email And each day that you forgot to call Just made me feel so low So low Christmas 1998 I tried to call I just couldn't wait And your message was out of date So I left my voice on your machine But you did not respond OK OK OK you've won You make me feel so low So low |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
Six of one a half a dozen Black guitars and plastic blues Hide behind a wall of nothing Nothing said and nothing new 4 Chords that made a million You belong there on the cover You are the emperor in new clothes A man who thinks he owns the future Will sell your vacuum with his prose 4 Chords that made a million And then a moron with a cheque book Will take you out to lunch who knows ? He will tell you you're a saviour And then he'll drop you like a stone 4 Chords that made a million And I have tried and I have died Trying to get through But in the end I can't defend you. 4 Chords that made a million |
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from Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980)
Now there's a girl about town I'd like to know
I'd like to slip away with you And if you said you love me how could I mind? Is there another side to everything you do? Take in the country air You'll never win Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Breathe life into me Spin me round And I'll just sit and wonder why Just a foreign town with a foreign mind Why is everything so cut and dried? The taste of country air you'll never know Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Take in the country, ah you'll never win Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love |
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from Japan - Tin Drum (1981)
When the room is quiet
The daylight almost gone It seems there's something I should know Well I ought to leave but The rain it never stops And I have no particular place to go Just when I think I'm winning When I've broken every door The ghosts of my life Blow wilder than before Just when I thought I could not be stopped When my chance came to be king The ghosts of my life Blew wilder than the wind Well I'm feeling nervous And I find myself alone The simple life's no longer there Once I was so sure Now the doubt inside my mind Comes and goes but leads nowhere Just when I think I'm winning When I've broken every door The ghosts of my life Blow wilder than before Just when I thought I could not be stopped When my chance came to be king The ghosts of my life Blew wilder than the wind |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
This is a hate song just meant for you I thought that I'd write it down while I still could I hope when you hear this you'll want to sue Oh it's a lonely life in my empty bed And it's a quiet life that leaks from my head These are the last rites The line is dead Yes, I'm hearing voices too And I'm more cut up than you |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
The letters pile up in the hallway
Junk mail and bills from the catalogues And the neighbours have guessed 'Cos I've cancelled the milk And they don't hear your voice Through the walls anymore How is your life today? How is your life today? I was kissed on the cheek by a cold mouth While the taxi was waiting like a getaway car Each second seems like a lifetime And the cat it's been staring at me all this time La la la la la la, la la la la la la... How is your life today? How is your life today? |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
If you fall asleep with me
You can dream and drowse The miuntes turn to hours We could climb a tree or two And watch the sun go down Upon our sleepy town After all the time I spent with you Summer went away And we just weren't the same It's just you and me alone Not grown ups but not kids You kissed me on the lips [instrumental] |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
The quickest album we ever made (in 3 months flat and within only a few months of the release of the previous one) and we all feel our best work to date. Although superficially it seems to be a continuation of "Stupid Dream" it is a much more intense work - possibly less immediate, but ultimately more rewarding. Lyrically I arrived at a point where I was no longer interested in writing about abstract concepts like war, religion, space...etc... These are very personal and emotionally raw songs. It took me a long time to have the confidence and experience to be able to write them and some of them are dripping with negative emotions (Hatesong and Feel So Low particularly). Feel So Low pleased me a lot as I resisted the temptation to refine the original stream of consciousness words and left the nerve ends dangling. Musically we wanted to bring back some of the experimental aspects that had been to some degree lost on "Stupid Dream". Richard and I worked on creating some unique keyboard sounds for the album - e.g. the "fairground" on "How is Your Life Today ?" and the "insects" at the end of "Russia On Ice". There was also an influence from industrial and metal music coming through (we'd all been listening to Nine Inch Nails "The Fragile") - for example part of the beauty of the guitar solo on Where We Would Be (my favourite solo of mine to date) comes from the fact that it was played relatively straight but then fed through so many distortion and lo-fi processes that it began to fizz and disintegrate. The riffing guitars on Russia On Ice are pure metal and one of the solos of Hatesong I call my "Korn solo" on account of the fact that the bottom strings on the guitar are tuned down so low that the notes can be bent several tones. On the other hand there is a whole set of songs where the pastoral sound of long-gone English summers exerts it's influence on me (not for the first time). In a song like "Winding Shot" there are shades of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Nick Drake, although the end result is hopefully pure Porcupine Tree. This effect is accentuated by the fact that many of the instruments and vocals on the album are much more up front and given less of a sheen than on "Stupid Dream" (where the "stadium" production is I think the weakest aspect). Organic is the word I like to use. As we had on "Stupid Dream" we expanded our musical colours to include things like banjo, hammered dulcimer, the string arrangements of Dave Gregory and several African and Morrocan instruments that Colin brought back from his travels. To date it's the only album we've made that I still rated highly by the time we'd finished it - even the B-sides and leftovers seemed too good not to be on an album, but we were determined to keep the album below the one hour mark. The only point of contention was the inclusion of the song "The Rest Will Flow". Some of the band didn't really want it on the record, but it sounded so much like possible single that it seemed perverse not to include it. Favourite tracks - "How is Your Life Today ?", "Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth..." and "Feel So Low" (plus most of the others to be honest). Steven Wilson Although it appears to be a continuation of sorts from "Stupid Dream" there are quite obvious differences as well. Certainly on the production side there is a more intense and upfront sound apparent. Also parts of the arrangements are stripped down to the bare essentials. Steven's lyrics became more personal and less ambiguous and so the arrangements by definition became more stripped down and more direct. Much of my keyboard experimenting took place on tracks like "Russia On Ice", "Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth...", "Feel so Low" and "4 Chords That Made a Million"", while other tracks didn't seem to need a great deal of keyboards. I'm not one for playing all over a track if I can't see a genuine need for it. For me this album has an honesty and emotion that places it above all the other Porcupine Tree albums, although I would also say that not every track is as strong as some individual tracks on past albums. My favourites are "Russia On Ice" and "Feel So Low". Richard Barbieri |
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from Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980)
It's a new design
The cut and style you know so well Spins across the floor It's the same routine Just one last word before you go Why should I ask for more? Then out of the blue you're here by me Moving Taking my chance Learning Methods of dance It's such as price to pay You sense the doubt inside my mind But never ask me why No second chances now I could be sure if I were to live at your speed of life Then out of the blue you're here by me Moving Taking my chance Learning Methods of dance Oh, oh, oh Methods of dance |
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from Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980)
I never wanted to be on my own
I could be wrong but I just slipped away from home Now I'm gone Well way down south having minor ups and downs And then moving on ahead in leaps and bounds Why, boy, they're playing our song outside where no-one can hear Why, boy, they're playing our song at the start of my new career Well it's a different walk of life That I've come to know because at every port of call comes a time to go Well they say down south the sun won't set on my hometown It's just driving in this heat that gets me down I could never hurt anyone Least of all you |
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from Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980)
Could I ever explain
This feeling of love it just lingers on The fear in my heart that keeps telling me which way to turn We'll wander again Our clothes they are wet We shy from the rain Longing to touch all the places we know we can hide The width of a room that can hold so much pleasure inside Here am I alone again A quiet town where life begins Here am I just wondering Nightporters go Nightporters slip away I'll watch for a sign And if I should ever again cross your mind I'll sit in my room and wait until nightlife begins I'm catching my breath We'll both brave the weather again Here am I alone again A quiet town where life gives in Here am I just wondering Nightporters go Nightporters slip away |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
I remember piano lessons
The hours in freezing rooms Cruel ears and tiny hands Destroying timeless tunes She said there's too much out there Too much already said You'd better give up hoping You're better off in bed You don't need much to speak of No class, no wit, no soul Forget you own agenda Get ready to be sold I feel now like Christine Keeler Sleepwaking in the rain I didn't mean to lose direction I didn't want that kind of fame (Take your hands off my land) Credit me with some intelligence (if not just credit me) I come in value packs of ten (in five varieties) And even though I got it all now My only stupid dream I see you and me together And how it should have been I remember piano lessons Now everything seems clear You waiting under streetlights For dreams to disappear |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
You keep me waiting You keep me alone in a room full of friends You keep me hating You keep me listening to the Bends No amount of pointless days Can make this go away You have me on my knees You have me listless and deranged You have me in your pocket You have me distant and estranged No narcotics in my brain Can make this go away I'm sorry that, I'm sorry that I'm not like you I worry that I don't act the way you'd like me to You find me wanting You find me bloodless but inspired You find me out You find me hallucinating fire No narcotics in my brain Can make this go away Have we ever been here before? Running headlong at the floor Leave me dreaming on a railway track Wrap me up and send me back |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
You think I deserve this You said I was stupid All my thoughts are like coal But Russia on ice is burning a hole Can't stop myself drinking Can't stop being me If I call will you come and will you save me ? I see the whole thing come down I blow it to the ground Well what the hell did you say ? You said you hate me this way It's just a matter of time A drop in the ocean A significant motion Nothing melts in this cold But Russia on ice is burning a hole |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
You move in waves You never retrace Your newest craze Straight out of the Face by the bed unread I'm left behind Like all the others Some fall for you It doesn't make much difference if they do She changes every time you look By summer it was all gone - now she's moved on She called you every other day So savour it it's all gone - now she's moved on So for a while Everything seemed new Did we connect ? Or was it all just biding time for you ? |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
I need you more than you can know And if I hurt myself it's just for show I found a better way to curb the pain You put a trigger here inside my brain Mother I need her I'm falling apart Mother I need her And it's only the start I may be nothing now but I will rise I'll have more followers than jesus christ Through all the smashing and crashing cars I love the ground you walk with all my heart |
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from Japan - Tin Drum (1981)
Sometimes I feel I've been here forever
Sometime ago Sometimes we sense the doubt together Sometimes alone I'm tired but we won't sleep at all even though the air is calm Something here and something warm something cuts the scars inside tonight Sons of pioneers are hungry men Every voice I hear sounds so familiar Every song I know Still there's been no change in the weather But sometime we'll have to go I'm tired but we won't sleep at all even though the air is calm Something here and something warm something cuts the scars inside tonight Sons of pioneers are hungry men |
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from Japan - Tin Drum (1981)
Sometimes the comfort of a room
Sometimes I'm quite alone I pack to leave a foreign town It seems I'll never know But I'll rent new accommodation We'll make plans for mobile homes Slow boats moving with the tide Drifting far from shore It's the nature of this country life I've never known before Still we'll make plans for buildings and houses From mobile homes Plant life My life Still life in mobile homes Plant life My life Still life in mobile homes The sound of wildlife fills the air So warm and dry The bushland burns in this southern heat Like an open fire Still we'll make plans for buildings and houses From mobile homes...mobile homes Plant life My life Still life in mobile homes Blood life My life Still life in mobile homes A voice screams from heaven As we start to sail It's the calling of the fatherland I used to know so well 'Til I'll find new accommodation We'll make plans for mobile homes Plant life My life Still life in mobile homes Plant life My life Still life in mobile homes |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
This song leaks out onto the pavement It could be a joke, it could be a statement The more that I fake it and pretend I don't care The more you can read in to what isn't there Maybe it's time to stop swimming Maybe it's time to find out where I'm at What I should do and where I should be But no-one will give me a map I'll leave now this can't continue But I forget which door I came through And I know what the lift can be painfully slow So I'm happy to leave by the window |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
Ghosts in the park Appear just after dark Killers, children ... But no-one has a harp They look like tourists It makes me want to laugh Under floorboards It's hard to fly a kite Underwater My cigarette won't light Standing in the shade I'm getting frostbite Strange as I seem I'm getting stranger by the minute Look in my dreams They're getting stranger by the minute When I'm drowning You drag me up to you Rings in the water My only residue But you're just fiction And I'm a twisted boy |
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from Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980)
Tell me when the work is done
Tell me when the day is through And I'll drive safely inside my car Taking islands in Africa Shout if someone gets too near I'll know just what I ought to do I'll arrive safely in my car Taking islands in Africa Now you're feet are back on the ground again She'll say the weather's dim but relax my love Relax and swing Things you say are not too clear I'm someone you'll neither know again But I sit here and watch from afar Taking islands in Africa Whisper in the wind |
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from Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980)
Taking islands in Africa
Watch the slow boat hit and run Outside there's a world waiting I'll take it all by storm And when the sunset finds me I'm coming home Taking islands in Africa Watch the slow boat hit and run Everyday the sun beats down I pull away from shore The wind blows hard into my sails Now I know I'm out of touch And times they could get tough But I move on so I cannot fail Taking islands in Africa Watch the slow boat hit and run When the evening fires burn The daylight dead and gone With you beside me we can run Outside there's a world waiting I'll take it all by storm And when the sunset finds me I'm coming home Taking islands in Africa Watch the slow boat hit and run Taking islands in Africa Just watch the slow boat hit and run Everyday the sun beats down I'll pull away from shore The wind blows hard into my sails |
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from Japan - Tin Drum (1981)
I hear a voice I hear a sound
But nothing plays on my mind I take the car I travel round But nothing stays on my mind What do you do when things go wrong ? I'm winning In the heart of the bushland What do you do when things go wrong ? I'm winning In the heart of the bushland But now I'm scared Now I'm lost in love All these things were never done Your burning bridge my talking drum Now we're too late for heaven |
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from Japan - Tin Drum (1981)
Once I was young
Once I was smart Now I'm living on the edge of my nerves The things we said weren't quite so tough When we were young Well I'm burning I'm burning buildings I'm building...this time For the art of parties Under heavy weather The art of parties I'm burning...burning I'm living I'm living my life I'm living This time The wind blew through my hair Once I was young I'd shelter from the sun Once I was smart We lived on the strength of our nerves When we were young Well I'm burning I'm burning buildings I'm building...this time |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
I was pretending to be floating strong But I was sinking In to still water Eyes closed All of the rest will flow Then out of darkness I found I could still feel Something good Out of the woods Eyes closed All of the rest will flow One simple thing that I never could see But now I know All of the rest will flow Stay with me my angel I found you Now I don't feel low All of the rest will flow Eyes closed All of the rest will flow |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
How many children did I bring into this world? How many did I lose in the shopping arcade? This is no rehearsal - play it back and throw things at the screen This is no rehearsal - somebody interpret this for me And still I remember how I dressed him this morning And then he was gone - stolen, my only one |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
Tied - tied to a time When we knew that the sun would shine And you were all smiles And we could just talk for a while... Of where we would be when the future comes And how you would paint while I wrote my songs If I could find you And tell you about my life Or maybe just write And remind you of when we would dream... Of where we would be when the future comes And how you would paint while I wrote my songs Strange how you never become The person you see when you're young |
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