Nick O'Malley [Bass, Arctic Monkeys]

I’m going back to 505, if it’s a 7 hour flight or a 45 minute drive,
In my imagination you’re waiting, lying on your side,
With your hands between your thighs

Stop and wait a sec,
Oh when you look at me like that my darling,
What did you expect,
I’ll probably still adore you with your hands around my neck,
Or I did last time I checked

Not shy of a spark,
The knife twists at the thought that I should fall short of the mark,
Frightened by the bite though its no harsher than the bark,
The middle of adventure is such a perfect place to start

I’m going back to 505, if it’s a 7 hour flight or a 45 minute drive,
In my imagination you’re waiting, lying on your side,
With your hands between your thighs.

But I crumble completely when you cry,
It seems like once again you’ve had to greet me with goodbye
I’m always just about to go and spoil the surprise
Take my hands off of your eyes too soon

I’m going back to 505, if it’s a 7 hour flight or a 45 minute drive,
In my imagination you’re waiting, lying on your side,
With your hands between your thighs, and a smile

Running off over next door's garden
Before the hour is done
It's more a question of feeling
Than it is a question of fun
The confidence is the balaclava
I'm sure you'll baffle 'em good
With the ending wreak of salty cheeks
And runny makeup alone

Oh will blood run down the face
Of a boy bewildered and scorned
And you'll find yourself in a skirmish
Where you wish you'd never been born
And you tie yourself to the tracks
And there isn't no going back
And it's wrong wrong wrong
But well do it anyway 'cause we love a bit of trouble

Are you pulling her from a burning building
Or throwing her to the sharks
You can only hope the ending is as pleasurable as the start
The confidence is the balaclava, I'm sure you baffle 'em straight
And its wrong wrong wrong
she can hardly wait

That's right, he wont let her out his sight
Now the shaggers perform
And the daggers are drawn
Who's the crooks in this crime?

That's right, he wont let her out his sight
Now the shaggers perform
And the daggers are drawn
Who's the crooks is this....
Crime!

That's right, he won't let her out his sight
That's right, he won't let her out his sight
That's right, he won't let her out his sight

Will You be able to post any day of the most
For the sights of all time

You knew that it could be trouble right before the very first kiss
Quiet and unassuming but your heard that they were the naughtiest
She pleaded with you to take it off
But you resisted and fought
Sorry sweetheart I'd much rather, keep on the balaclava.

Brian, top marks for not tryin'
So kind of you to bless us
With your effortlessness
We're grateful and so strangely comforted

And I wonder, are you puttin' us under?
Cause we can't take our eyes off
The t-shirt and ties combination
Well see you later, innovator

Some want to kiss, some want to kick you
There's not a net you couldn't slip through
Or at least that's the impression I get
Cause you're smooth and you're wet
And she's not aware yet, but she's yours

She'll be sayin' "Use me,
Show me the jacuzzi"
I imagine that it's there on a plate
Your rendezvous rate means that you'll never be frightened
To make them wait for a while

I doubt it's your style
Not to get what you set out to acquire
The eyes are on fire
You are the unforecasted storm

(Brian)
Calm, collected, and commandin'
(Top marks for not tryin')
You made the other stories standin'

With your renditions and jokes
Bet there's hundreds of blokes
That have wept cause
You've stolen their, thunder

Are you puttin' us under?
Cause we can't take our eyes off
The t-shirt and ties combination
Well see you later, innovator

He knew what he wanted to say
But he did not want to word it
The dirty little Herbert
Was thinking an escape
But the place was well guarded
The guiltiness that started
Soon as the other part had stopped

D is for Delightful
And try and keep your trousers on
I think you should know you're his favourite worst nightmare

D is for
Desperately trying to stimulate
What it was that was alright
Three quarters of an hour ago
That had led him to be in a position
And every compromission
On the brink of an episode

He's nearing the brink but he thinks first
The parallel universe perhaps could be the perfect scene
He's nearing the brink but he thinks first
The parallel universe perhaps could be the perfect scene
He's nearing the brink but he thinks first
The parallel universe perhaps could be the perfect scene
He's nearing the brink but he thinks first, the parallel
I think you should know you're his favourite worst nightmare

D is for Delightful
And try and keep your trousers on
You should know you're his favourite worst nightmare

Well the morning was complete.
There was tears on the steering wheel dripping on the seat,
Several hours or several weeks,
I'd have the cheek to say they're equally as bleak!

It's the beginning of the end, the car went up the hill,
And disappeared around the bend, ask anyone they'll tell you that.
It's these times that it tends,
The start to breaking up, to start to fall apart
Oh! hold on to your heart.

Do me a favour, break my nose!
Do me a favour, tell me to go away!
Do me a favour, stop asking questions!

She walked away, well her shoes were untied,
And the eyes were all red,
You could see that we've cried, and I watched and I waited,
'Till she was inside, forcing a smile and waving goodbye.

Curiousity becomes a heavy load,
Too heavy to hold, too heavy to hold.
Curiousity becomes a heavy load,
Too heavy to hold, will force you to be cold.

And do me a favour, and ask if you need some help!
She said, do me a favour and stop flattering yourself!
How to tear apart the ties that bind, perhaps fuck off, might be too kind,
Perhaps fuck off, might be too kind.

You used to get it in your fishnets
Now you only get it in your night dress
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness
Landed in a very common crisis
Everything's in order in a black hole
Nothing seems as pretty as the past though
That Bloody Mary's lacking a Tabasco
Remember when he used to be a rascal?

Oh that boy's a slag
The best you ever had
The best you ever had
Is just a memory and those dreams
Not as daft as they seem
Not as daft as they seem
My love when you dream them up...

Flicking through a little book of sex tips
Remember when the boys were all electric?
Now when she tells she's gonna get it
I'm guessing that she'd rather just forget i
Clinging to not getting sentimental
Said she wasn't going but she went still
Likes her gentlemen to not be gentle
Was it a Mecca Dobber or a betting pencil?

Oh that boy's a slag
The best you ever had
The best you ever had
Is just a memory and those dreams
Weren't as daft as they seem
Not as daft as they seem
My love when you dream them up
Oh, where did you go?
Where did you go?
Where did you go? Woah.

Falling about
You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
You just sounded it out
You're not coming back again.

Falling about
You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
You just sounded it out
You're not coming back again.

You used to get it in your fishnets
Now you only get it in your night dress
Started all the naughty nights with niceness
Landed in a very common crisis
Everything's in order in a black hole
Everything was pretty in the past though
That Bloody Mary's lacking in tabasco
Remember when he used to be a rascal?

If you were there, beware the serpent soul pinchers
Three hundred and fifty 'no thank you's' and nobody flinches
Go on girl, go on, give us something gruesome
We require your grief, the thugs help the thieves
As they're trying to rob the words from her gob
And take the source of the innocence

If you were there, beware the serpent soul pinchers
Can't you sense she was never meant to fill column inches?
And you've had enough, what you're trying to dig up
Isn't there to be dug, the thieves help the thugs
As they're trying be the good grace of a sweetheart
Out to the point she'll comply

Why leave her on her own?
If I'd have known then I wouldn't have said it
I wouldn't have said it if I would have known

Why leave her on her own?
If I predicted tears then I wouldn't have said it
I wouldn't have said it if I would have known

There's a circle of witches,
ambitiously vicious they are
Our attempts to remind them of reason won't get us that far
I don't know what it is that they want
I don't know what it is that they want
But I haven't got it to give
She hasn't got it to give

Old yellow bricks,
Love's a risk,
Quite the little Escapoligist
Looked so miffed,
When you wished,
For a thousand places better than this,

You are the fugitive,
But you dont know what you're runnin from,
You cant kid us,
And you couldnt trick anyone,
Houdini, love you dont know what you're runnin away from,

Who wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up?
Blinded by nostalgia,
Who wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up?

She was enraged by the way,
That the emperor put traps in the cage,
And the days she being dull,
Lead to nights readin beer bottles,

You're such a fugitive,
But you dont know what you're runnin from,
You cant kid us,
And you couldn't trick anyone,
Houdini, love you dont know what you're runnin away from,

Who wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up?
Blinded by nostalgia,
Who wants to sleep in a city that never wakes up?

You're at a loss,
Just because,
It wasnt all that you thought it was,

You are a fugitive but you dont know what you're runnin away from,

She said I want to sleep in the city that never wakes up,
And revel in nostalgia,
I know I said he wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up but,
Dorothy was right though

to moon6pence from papayeverte






In a foreign place, the saving grace was the feeling,
That it was a heart that he was stealing,
Oh he was ready to impress and the fierce excitement,
The eyes are bright he couldnt wait to get away,
I bet the juliet was just the icing on the cake,
Make no mistake no,

And even if somehow we could have shown you the place you wanted,

Well I'm sure you could have made it that bit better on your own,
And I bet she told a million people that she'd stay in touch,
Well all the little promises they dont mean much,
When theres memories to be made,
And I hope you're holding hands by new years eve,
They made it far too easy to believe,
That true romance cant be acheived these days,

And even if somebody could have shown you the place you wanted,
Well I sure you could have made it that bit better on your own,
You are the only ones who know

They sped up to the point where they provoke
the punchline before they have told the joke
Concealed desperation to be seen
staring at the television screen
They sped up to the point where they provoke
you to tell the fucking punchline before you have to the joke
I`m sorry, sunshine, it doesn`t exist
it wasn`t in the top 100 list

And it`s the thousandth time that it`s even bolder
Don`t be surprised when you get bent over
they told ya
but you were dyin` for it


She saw it and she grabbed it and it wasn`t what it seemed
The kids all dream of making it, whatever that means



Another variation on a theme
A tangle on the television and a magazine
D`you reckon that they do it for a joke?
D`you reckon that they make them take an oath that says that we are
defenders of any poser or professional pretender around

When did your list replace the twist and turn
and the fist replace the kiss, don`t concern
Don`t be bothered
I don`t want your prayer
Save it for the morning after

And it`s the thousandth time that it`s even bolder
don`t be surprised when you get bent over
they told ya
but you were gagging for it

Let`s have a game on the teddy picker
not quick enough can i have it quicker
already thick, can you get in quicker

Let`s have a game on the teddy picker
not quick enough can i have it quicker
already thick, can you get in quicker

Coz you meant that all things are equal
Who`d want to be men of the people
When there`s people like you

to moonn6pence from papayeverte



Do the bad thing,
Take off your wedding ring,
But it wont make it that much easier, it might make it worse,

Oh the nights like a whirlwind,
Somebody's girlfriend's talkin' to me but its alright,
She's sayin that hes not gonna slap me or try to attack me,
Hes not the jealous type,
And I ony need to get half an excuse and im away,
But when theres no excuses thats much easier to say,
I've been before,
And all these capers make her too forward to ignore,
Well She's talkin but im not entirely sure, ohh

Do the bad thing,
Take off your wedding ring,
But it wont make it that much easier, it might make it worse,

Oh im stood at the bar and somebody's partner's talkin to me,
But I dont know that is what she isnt she murmors things to confirm That the tragedy is true,
And I knew 'how could she could have anyone she wants,
And im strugglin to think of an immediate response,

Like I dont mind,
Be a big mistake,
For you to wait,
And let me waste your time,
Really love its fine,
Really love its fine,

And then the first time it occured that there was something to destroy,

I knew before the invitation that there was this ploy,
Oh but she carried on suggestin, a struggle to refuse,
She said "its the red wine this time, but that is no excuse"

This house is a circus, berserk as fuck
We tend to see that as a perk though. Look
What it's done to your friends their memories are pretend
And the last thing they want is for the feeling to end
This house is a circus, berserk as fuck
We tend to see that as a perk though. Look
What it's done to your friends their memories are pretend
And the last thing they want is for the feeling to end

Looking for trouble and there's lovers to be had
Those ones next to us are such lovely lads
Scaling the corridors for maidens in the maze
And the anomaly is slipping into familiar ways
And we're forever unfulfilled
Can't think why
Like a search for murder clues
In dead man's eyes
Forever unfulfilled
And can't think why
Like a search for murder clues
In dead man's eyes

The more you open your mouth
The more you're forcing performance
All the attention is leading me to feel important (completely obnoxious)
Now that we're here, we may as well go too far

Wriggling around just so that you won't forget
There's certainly some venom in the looks that you collect
Aimlessly gazing at the blazers in the queue
Struggling with the notion that it's life not film

This house is a circus, berserk as fuck
We tend to see that as a perk though. Look
What it's done to your friends their memories are pretend
And the last thing they want is for the feeling to end
This house is a circus, berserk as fuck
We tend to see that as a perk though. Look
What it's done to your friends their memories are pretend
And the last thing they want is for the feeling to end

You used to get it in your fishnets
Now you only get it in your night dress
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness
Landed in a very common crisis
Everything's in order in a black hole
Nothing seems as pretty as the past though
That Bloody Mary's lacking a Tabasco
Remember when he used to be a rascal?

Oh that boy's a slag
The best you ever had
The best you ever had
Is just a memory and those dreams
Not as daft as they seem
Not as daft as they seem
My love when you dream them up...

Flicking through a little book of sex tips
Remember when the boys were all electric?
Now when she tells she's gonna get it
I'm guessing that she'd rather just forget i
Clinging to not getting sentimental
Said she wasn't going but she went still
Likes her gentlemen to not be gentle
Was it a Mecca Dobber or a betting pencil?

Oh that boy's a slag
The best you ever had
The best you ever had
Is just a memory and those dreams
Weren't as daft as they seem
Not as daft as they seem
My love when you dream them up
Oh, where did you go?
Where did you go?
Where did you go? Woah.

Falling about
You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
You just sounded it out
You're not coming back again.

Falling about
You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
You just sounded it out
You're not coming back again.

You used to get it in your fishnets
Now you only get it in your night dress
Started all the naughty nights with niceness
Landed in a very common crisis
Everything's in order in a black hole
Everything was pretty in the past though
That Bloody Mary's lacking in tabasco
Remember when he used to be a rascal?

They sped up to the point where they provoke
the punchline before they have told the joke
Concealed desperation to be seen
staring at the television screen
They sped up to the point where they provoke
you to tell the fucking punchline before you have to the joke
I`m sorry, sunshine, it doesn`t exist
it wasn`t in the top 100 list

And it`s the thousandth time that it`s even bolder
Don`t be surprised when you get bent over
they told ya
but you were dyin` for it


She saw it and she grabbed it and it wasn`t what it seemed
The kids all dream of making it, whatever that means



Another variation on a theme
A tangle on the television and a magazine
D`you reckon that they do it for a joke?
D`you reckon that they make them take an oath that says that we are
defenders of any poser or professional pretender around

When did your list replace the twist and turn
and the fist replace the kiss, don`t concern
Don`t be bothered
I don`t want your prayer
Save it for the morning after

And it`s the thousandth time that it`s even bolder
don`t be surprised when you get bent over
they told ya
but you were gagging for it

Let`s have a game on the teddy picker
not quick enough can i have it quicker
already thick, can you get in quicker

Let`s have a game on the teddy picker
not quick enough can i have it quicker
already thick, can you get in quicker

Coz you meant that all things are equal
Who`d want to be men of the people
When there`s people like you

Thought I saw you in the battleship
But it was only a look a like
She was nothing but a vision trick
Under the warning light
She was close, close enough to be your ghost
But my chances turned to toast
When I asked her if I could call her your name

I thought I saw you in the rusty hook
Huddled up in wicker chair
I wandered up for a closer look
And kissed who ever was sitting there

She was close, and she held me very tightly
'Til I asked awfully politely, please
Can I call you her name

And I elongated my lift home,
Yeah I let him go the long way round
I smelt your scent on the seatbelt
And kept my shortcuts to myself

I thought I saw you in the parrots beak
Messing with the smoke alarm
It was too loud for me to hear her speak
And she had a broken arm

It was close, so close that the walls were wet
And she wrote it out in letraset
No you can't call me her name

Tell me where's your hiding place
I'm worried I'll forget your face
And I've asked everyone
And I'm beginning to think I imagined you all along

I elongated my lift home
Yeah I let him go the long way round
I smelt your scent on the seatbelt
And kept my shortcuts to myself

I saw your sister in the cornerstone
On the phone to the middle man
When I saw that she was on her own
I thought she might understand

She was close, well you couldn't get much closer
She said I'm really not supposed to but yes,
You can call me anything you want

I sat in the cafe by the cracker factory
You were practicing a magic trick
And my thoughts got rude, as you talked and chewed
On the last of your pick and mix

Said your mistaken if your thinking that I haven't been caught cold before
As you bit into your strawberry lace
And then a flip in your attention in the form of a gobstopper
Is all you have left and it was going to waste

Your past-times, consisted of the strange
And twisted and deranged
And I love that little game you had called
Crying lightning
And how you like to aggravate the ice-cream man on rainy afternoons

The next time that I caught my own reflection
It was on it's way to meet you
Thinking of excuses to postpone
You never look like yourself from the side
But your profile did not hide
The fact you knew I was approaching your throne

With folded arms you occupy the bench like toothache
Saw them, puff your chest out like you never lost a war
And though I try so not to suffer the indignity of a reaction
There was no cracks to grasp or gaps to claw

And your past-times, consisted of the strange
And twisted and deranged
And I hate that little game you had called
Crying lightning
And how you like to aggravate the icky man on rainy afternoon

Uninviting
But not half as impossible as everyone assumes
You are crying lightning

Your past-times, consisted of the strange
And twisted and deranged
And I hate that little game you had called
Crying lightning
Crying lightning
Crying lightning
Crying lightning

Your past-times, consisted of the strange
And twisted and deranged
And I hate that little game you had called
Crying

I heard the truth was built to bend
A mechanism to suspend the guilt
Is what you are requiring still
You've got to dance little liar

Just like those fibbs that pop and fizz
And you'll be forced to take that awful quiz
And you're bound to trip
And she'll detect the fiction on
Your lips and dig a contradiction up

And the clean coming will hurt
And you can never get it spotless
When there's dirt beneath the dirt
The liar take a lot less time

I'm sure it's clear and plain to me
Its not an alibi you need just yet
Oh no it's something for those beads of sweat
Yes that we'll get you back to normal

And after you have dabbed the patch you'll grieve
And then proceed to scratch the varnish off
That newly added calmness
So as not to raise any alarms too soon

And the clean coming will hurt
And you can never get it spotless
When there's dirt beneath the dirt

The liar takes a lot less

Time to decide on his saunter
Have you got itchy bones
And in all your time alone
Can you hack your mind being riddled
With the wrong memories

And the clean coming will hurt
And you can never get it spotless
When there's dirt between the dirt

Been fighting with my sheets
And nearly crying in my sleep
Yes, I'm battling that well taught gripe
The most restraining type
You should have racing stripes

The way you keep me in pursuit
Sharpen the heel of your boot
And you press it to my chest and you make me wheeze
Then to my knees you do promote me

I'm pinned down by the dark
A-N-I-M-A-L
Makes my head pirouette
More than I won't be willing to confess
D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S

The light it fidgets through
The thoughts'll soon revert to you
About as bashful as a tribal dance
The first and final chance
And cause the audience

The frighteners and fiends
Divided up into two teams
When the acrobat fell off the beam
She broke everyone's hearts

I'm pinned down by the dark
A-N-I-M-A-L
Makes my head pirouette
More than I would be willing to confess

D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S
D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S

The most unsuitable pet
It's been long enough now so let's
Make a mess lioness

Pinned down by the dark
I'm pinned down by the dark

D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S
A-N-I-M-A-L

D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S
A-N-I-M-A-L

You showed me my tomorrow
Beside a box of matches
A welcome threatening stir

My hopes of being stolen
Might just ring true
Depends who you prefer

But if it's true you're gonna run away
Tell me where
I'll meet you there

Am I snapping the excitement
If I pack away the laguther
And tell you how it feels

And does burden come to meet ya
If I've questions of the feature that runs on your dream wheel

The day after you stole my heart,
Everything I touched told me it would be better shared with you

And you're hiding in my soup
And the book reveals your face
And there's a splashing in my eyelids
The concentration continually breaks

I did request the mark you cast
Didn't heal as fast
I hear your vioce in silences
Will the teasing of the fire be followed by the thud?

And the jostling crowd
You're not allowed to tell the truth
And the photobooth's a liar
And the sharpened explanations
But theres no screaming reason to inquire
I'd like to poke them in their prying eyes with things they never see if it smacks in their temples

If you can summon the strength, tow me
I can't hold down the urgency
You've got to make your decent slowly
And oil up those sticky keys

Coax me out, my love
And have a spin of my propeller

It's a necessary evil
No cause for emergency
Borrow the beak of a bald eagle
Oh, momentary synergy

Coax me out, my love
Sink into tomorrow
Coax me out, my love
And have a spin of my propeller

My propeller won't spin and I can't get it started on my own
When are you arriving?

My propeller won't spin and I can't get it started on my own
When are you arriving?

My propeller won't spin and I can't get it started on my own

When are you arriving?
My propeller

I was biting the time zone,
And we embellish the banks of our bloodstreams,
And threw caution to the colourful
Then we fell asleep in the car,
Until the bumps woke me up in your grip
And the tide took me to your mouth,
And then swept me back down to your palms

It's them that put me inside the reminder
That yours is the only ocean,
(Yours Is the only ocean)
That I wanna swing from,
Yours is the only ocean,
That I wanna hang on

I've got this ego mechanic,
She's always trying to give me vitamins
Oh she'd be frightened of your reflection,
I preferred her as a cartoon
If I could be someone else for a week,
I'd spend it chasing after you,
Cos she's not shattering my attitude,
No matter how she folds the potion

Yours is the only ocean,
That I wanna swing from,
Yours is the only ocean,
That I wanna hang on to
I'm swinging on
Yours is the only ocean,
Yours is the only ocean,
Yours is the only ocean,
Yours is the only ocean

Potion approaching, shield your eyes,
Potion approaching, visualize,
Holding a token, swollen in size,
Potion approaching, shield your eyes

Oh but if we're gonna escape though,
We really ought to think it through,
Would you like me to build you a go kart?

Tricking through the morning,
The tramp with the trampoline under his arm,
Shifts past your whiskers,
So spark is a charm with the barking alarm,
Weighs coil 'til the corner is turned.

And the bicycle wheels, all struggle to move round,
In your muddy mind,
Blatantly cape town,
And will intertwine in co-operative time,
Shall we sit on the springs 'til the mung goes dry?

All the pretty visitors came and waved their arms
And cast the shadow of a snake pit on the wall,
All the pretty visitors came and waved their arms
And cast the shadow of a snake pit on the

What came first the chicken or the dickhead?
Split sleep reeps through rewards and ill fitting thoughts,
A twilight force, she doesn't wanna walk,
Your legs start running and your head gets caught,
Cannot be nineteen, it's perfectly placed for the reasonably frightening,
Pulled from the after taste, you'll have to slip away,
And I'm happy to say,
Behold as the crook in a hammock plays

All the pretty visitors came and waved their arms
And cast the shadow of a snake pit on the wall,
All the pretty visitors came and waved their arms
And cast the shadow of a snake pit on the wall

Behold as the crook in the hammock plays,
Crawling with the base of the scales,
And fiddles with the feet on a balancing act,
Gagged, bound and craft in a tale,
Trailing wrapped in a gasp,

Crawling with the base of the scales,
And fucking fiddles with the feet on a balancing act,
You were gagged, bound and craft in a tale,
Trailing wrapped in a gasp.

All the pretty visitors came and waved their arms
And cast the shadow of a snake pit on the wall,
All the pretty visitors came and waved their arms
And cast the shadow of a snake pit on the wall.

Fools on parade cavort and carry on
For waiting eyes
That you would rather be beside than in front of
But she's never been the kind to be hollowed by the stares

She swam out of tonight's phantasm
Grabbed my hand and made it very clear
There's absolutely nothing for us here

It's a magnolia celebration
To be attempted on a Wednesday night
It's better than to get a reputation
As a miserable little tyke
At least that's the conclusion
She came to in this overture

The secret door swings behind us
She's saying nothing
She's just giggling along

Her arms were folded most indignant
Not looking like she was soon to leave
I had to squint in order to believe
And then like a butler pushing on a bookshelf
I'm unveiling the unexpected
How she was never gonna look to?
Suddenly embarrassed and corrected
How could such a creature
Survive in such a habitat

The secret door swings behind us
She's saying nothing
She's just giggling along
And even if they were to find us
I wouldn't notice, I'm completely occupied

At all the fools on parade
Cavort and carry on for waiting eyes
That you would rather be beside than in front of
But she's never been the kind
To be hollowed by the stares

Fools on parade
Frolic and fuck about to make her gaze
Turn to a scribble on a page by a picture
That holds her options
But you're daft to think she'd care

Fools on parade [3x]
Conduct a sing-along

Break a mirror, roll the dice
Run with scissors through a chip pan fire fight
go into business with a grizzly bear
but just don't sit down cause I've moved your chair

find a well known hardmanand start a fight
wear your shell suit on bonfire night

Fit a circular hole with a peg that's square
but just don't sit down cause I've moved your chair

(Ohhhh Yeah Yeah Yeah)
(Ohhhh Yeah Yeah Yeah)

bite the lighting and tell me how it tastes
kung-fu fighting on your rollerskates
do the macarena in the devil's lair
but just don't sit down cause I've moved your chair

(Ohhhh Yeah Yeah Yeah)
(Ohhhh Yeah Yeah Yeah)
(Ohhhh Yeah Yeah Yeah)

Caricatures of your wrecking ball gown, in my mind
All the time
I wanna be in that, damsel patterned alley
Where you go, for a smoke
And sorrow slow dances
The phones are lighting up
Taking no chances
Close but never close enough
Been watching cowboy films,
on gloomy afternoons
Tinting the solitude
Put on your dancing shoes
And show me what to do.
I know you've got the moves
All my own stunts
High noon changed it's tune
Linking arms, syncing hearts
And sorrow slow dances
Around the edges of her eyes
Taking no chances
The last one out, to win a prize

Been watching cowboy films,
on gloomy afternoons
Tinting the solitude
Put on your dancing shoes
And show me what to do.
I know you've got the moves
Wooah
Wooah
Wooah
Wooah
"coz i'm from high green,
i'm from high green"

Lately I've been seeing things
Belly button piercings
In the sky at night
When we're side by side
And I don't mean to rain
On anybody cabriolet
One of those games
You're gonna lose
But you wanna play it
Just in case

Now it's getting dark
And the sky looks sticky
More like black treacle than tar
Black treacle
Somebody told the stars
You're not coming out tonight
And so they found a place to hide

Does it help you stay up late
Does it help you concentrate
Does it tune you in
When you chew your chin
Am I ruining your fun

And you talk the talk alright
But do you walk the walk
Or catch the train
You wanted it, you got it
But you don't want it now

Now it's getting dark
And the sky looks sticky
More like black treacle than tar
Black treacle
Somebody told the stars
You're not coming out tonight
And so they found a place to hide

Now I'm out of place
And I'm not getting any wiser
I feel like The Sundance Kid
Behind the synthesizer
And I tried last night
To pack away the laugh
Like a key under the mat
But it never seems to be there
When you want it

Black treacle
Black treacle

I wanna build you up Brick by brick
I wanna break you down Brick by brick
I'm gonna reconstruct Brick by Brick
I wanna feel you love
Brick by brick Ahhhhhh
Brick by brick Ahhhhhh
I wanna steal your soul Brick by brick
I wanna rock and roll Brick by Brick
I wanna rock and roll Brick by brick
I wanna rock and roll
Brick by brick Ahhhhhh
Brick by brick Ahhhhhh
I wanna brick by brick Brick by brick
I wanna blow wide berth Brick by brick
I wanna melt this soul Brick by brick
I wanna brick by brick, by brick, by
Brick by brick Ahhhhhh
Brick by brick Ahhhhhh
Brick by brick Ahhhhhh
Brick by brick Ahhhhhh

Break a mirror, roll the dice
Run with scissors through a chip pan fire fight
go into business with a grizzly bear
but just don't sit down cause I've moved your chair

find a well known hardmanand start a fight
wear your shell suit on bonfire night

Fit a circular hole with a peg that's square
but just don't sit down cause I've moved your chair

(Ohhhh Yeah Yeah Yeah)
(Ohhhh Yeah Yeah Yeah)

bite the lighting and tell me how it tastes
kung-fu fighting on your rollerskates
do the macarena in the devil's lair
but just don't sit down cause I've moved your chair

(Ohhhh Yeah Yeah Yeah)
(Ohhhh Yeah Yeah Yeah)
(Ohhhh Yeah Yeah Yeah)

Library pictures of the
quickening canoe
The first of it's kind
to get to the moon
Trust some ellipses
to chase you round the room
Through curly straws and
metaphors and goo
Been watching all the neon
blossom flickering
You look as if you've all
forgotten where you've been
Going riding through the thunder
suckle fuzz canyon
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4
3, 2, 1
Library pictures of the
quickening canoe
The first of it's kind
to get to the moon
Give me an eenie meenie miney mo
Or an ip dip dog shit rock n roll

Do you still feel younger than you thought you would by now
Or, darling, have you started feeling old yet
Don't worry, I'm sure that you're still breaking hearts
With the efficiency that only youth can harness
And do you still think love is a laserquest
Or do you take it all more seriously
I've tried to ask you this in some daydreams that I've had
But you're always busy being make-believe
And do you look into the mirror to remind yourself you're there
Or have somebody's good-night kisses got that covered
Well I'm not being honest, I'll pretend that you were just some lover

Now I can't think of there without thinking of you
I doubt that comes as a surprise
And I can't think of anything to dream about
I can't find anywhere to hide
And when I'm hanging on by the rings around my eyes
And I convince myself I need another
And for a minute it gets easier to pretend that you were just some lover

When I'm pipe and slippers and rocking chair
Singing dreadful songs about something
Well I've found a better method of pretending you were just some lover
Well I've found a better method of pretending you were just some lover

I etched the face of a stopwatch
On the back of a raindrop
And did a swap for the sand in an hourglass.
I heard the nun happy ending it sort of sounds like you’re leaving
I heard the piledriver waltz, it woke me up this morning.

You look like you’ve been for breakfast at the heartbreak hotel
Inside of a back booth by the pamphlets and the literature on how to lose.
Your waitress was miserable and so was your food.
If you’re gonna try and walk on water make sure you wear your comfortable shoes.

Mysteries flashing amber go green when you answer but the red on the rest of the questionnaire never changes.
I heard the news that you’re trying to shoot me out of a cannon.
I heard the piledriver waltz, it woke me up this morning.

You look like you’ve been for breakfast at the heartbreak hotel
Inside of a back booth by the pamphlets and the literature on how to lose.
Your waitress was miserable and so was your food.
If you’re gonna try and walk on water make sure you wear your comfortable shoes.

Oh, piledriver.

(Grazie a Federica per questo testo)
I etched the face of a stopwatch
On the back of a raindrop
And did a swap for the sand in an hourglass.
I heard the nun happy ending it sort of sounds like you’re leaving
I heard the piledriver waltz, it woke me up this morning.

You look like you’ve been for breakfast at the heartbreak hotel
Inside of a back booth by the pamphlets and the literature on how to lose.
Your waitress was miserable and so was your food.
If you’re gonna try and walk on water make sure you wear your comfortable shoes.

Mysteries flashing amber go green when you answer but the red on the rest of the questionnaire never changes.
I heard the news that you’re trying to shoot me out of a cannon.
I heard the piledriver waltz, it woke me up this morning.

You look like you’ve been for breakfast at the heartbreak hotel
Inside of a back booth by the pamphlets and the literature on how to lose.
Your waitress was miserable and so was your food.
If you’re gonna try and walk on water make sure you wear your comfortable shoes.

Oh, piledriver.

Topless models doing semaphores
wave their flags as she walks
by and get ignored
Illuminations on a rainy day
When she walks her footsteps
sing a reckless serenade
I've been trying to figure out
exactly what it is I mean
Called up to listen
to the voice of reason
And got the answering machine
The type of kisses
where teeth collide
When she laughs her heaven's horn
A stun gun lullaby
Those twinkling vixens
With a shine spiralize
Their hypnosis goes unnoticed
when she's walking by
I've been trying to figure out
exactly what it is I need
Called up to listen
to the voice of reason
And got his answering machine
I left my message
but did he fuck back to me
And now I'm stuck still and
wondering how it's meant to be
Singing a reckless serenade,
reckless serenade
Reckless serenade,
reckless serenade
Reckless serenade
Reckless serenade
Reckless serenade

She's thunderstorms
Lying on her front
Up against the wall
She's thunderstorms

I've been feeling foolish
You should try it
She came unsubstituted the peace and quiet
For acrobatic blood flow concertina
Cheating heartbeat, rapid fire

She's thunderstorms
Lying on her front
Up against the wall
She's thunderstorms

Here is your host
Sounds as if she's pulling close
When the heat starts growing horns
She's thunderstorms

She's been loop-the-looping around my mind
Her motorcycle boots give me this kind of
Acrobatic blood concertina
Cheating heartbeat, rapid fire

She's thunderstorms
Lying on her front
Up against the wall
She's thunderstorms

In an unusual place
When you're feeling far away
She does what the night does to the day

She's thunderstorms
Lying on her front
Up against the wall
She's thunderstorms

Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms

Your love is like a studded
leather headlock
Your kiss it could put creases
in the road
You're rarer than a can of
dandelion and burdock
And those other girls are just
post-mix lemonade
Suck it and see
You never know
Sit next to me
Before I go
Jigsaw women with
hollow movie shoes
Be cruel to me 'cause
I'm a fool for you
I poured my aching heart
into a pop song
I couldn't get the hang of poetry
That's not a skirt girl, that's
a sawn-off shotgun
And I can only hoped you've got
it aimed at me
Suck it and see
You never know
Sit next to me
Before I go
Jigsaw women with
hollow movie shoes
Be cruel to me cause
I'm a fool for
Blue girls from once a
upon a Shangri La
How I often wonder where you are
You have got that face
that just says
Baby, I was made
to break your heart
Suck it and see
You never know
Sit next to me
Before I go
Go Go Go
Jigsaw women with
hollow movie shoes
Be cruel to me cause
I'm a fool for you

a pussyfooting setting sun
make a wish that weighs a tonne
there are no handles for you to hold
and no understanding where it goes
jealously in technicolor
fear by name, love by numbers
streamlamp amber, wonderlust
blunderbuss
she looks as
if she's blowing a kiss at me
and suddenly the sky is a scissor
sitting on the floor with a tambourine
crushing up a bundle of love
don't take it so personally
you're not the only one
that time has got it in for honey
that's where you're wrong
all the old flames fastened on
make a wish that weighs a tonne
there are no handles that you can hold
and no understanding where it goes
she looks as if she's blowing a kiss at me
and suddenly the sky is a scissor
sitting on the floor with a tambourine
crushing up a bundle of love
don't take it so personally
you're not the only one,
that time has got it in for honey
that's where you're wrong
that's where you're wrong
that's where you're wrong

Just when things are getting complicated in the eye of the storm
She flicks a red-hot revelation
off the tip of her tongue
It does a dozen somersaults and it leaves you supercharged
Makes me wanna blow her candles out
just to see if you glow in the dark Shalalala Shalalala Shalalala Shalalala
Home sweet home, home sweet home, home sweet booby-trap
I took the batteries out my mysticism and put 'em in my thinking cap
She's got a telescopic hallelujah hanging up on the wall
For when it gets too complicated in the eye of the storm
Shalalala Shalalala Shalalala Shalalala
Oh...
And in a hellcat spangled cavern
When your judgement's on the run
And you're acting like a stranger
Cause you thought it looked like fun
Well did you ever get the feeling
Did you think she set the fall
Her steady hands may well have done the devil's pedicure
What you waiting for?
To sing another fuckin'
Shalalala Shalalala Shalalala Shalalala