Always New Depths American Kids Banquet Blue Light Compliments Helicopter Like Eating Glass Little Thoughts Luno Pioneers Plans Positive Tension Price Of Gas She's Hearing Voices So Here We Are Staying Fat Storm & Stress The Answer The Marshals Are Dead This Modern Love Tulips Two More Years Always New Depths All the clouds are black Mother is cried out Someone else broke my fall I don't remember Internationally bastardised Internationally tongue-tied The truth is I'm not sorry It's bigger than the both of us A pillar of salt, a box of want You were pulled out of the embers It was never my intention All the clouds are black Mother is cried out Summertime has come and gone All used up with wishful thinking Get sussed out, get cynical In this world there are no second chances Crawling round on all fours Curl yourself into a circle I will tear myself apart If you promise to paint me As a work of art You don't need to preach to me I'm a believer baby You don't need to preach to me I'm a believer If you want lies I can tell them If you want lies I got 'em All the pennies in the Thames Will not make it how it was Always new depths ^{Words: Kele} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ American Kids In your house, your daddy's car You salt the slugs, keep at bay Happy when your eyes are closed In vogue this year I hate your kind I just can't stop ^{Words: Kele} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ 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 my soul 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 And if you feel a little left behind I will see you on the other side Cos I'm on fire I'm on fire when you come I'm on fire so stub me out ^{Words: Kele} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ 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 way it is Then that's the way it is I still feel you and the taste of cigarettes What could I ever run to Just tell me it's tearing you apart Just tell me you cannot sleep And you didn't even notice When the sky turned blue And you couldn't tell the difference Between me and you And I nearly didn't notice The gentlest feeling You are the bluest light ^{Words: Kele} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ 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 ^{Words: Kele} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ Helicopter North to south Empty Running on Bravado 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? 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? It's not enough. ^{Words: Kele & Gordon} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ 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 But 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 It's so cold in this house It's so cold in this house It's so cold in this bed 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 ^{Words: Kele} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ Little Thoughts Been thinking little thoughts Keep walking try to stay up Attention to the details We go slowly, slowly down I'll go back if you ask I'll go back if you ask me Backwards This world ain't just made of facts Every half hour is a countdown If it's because of my age then you're a coward If it's because of my age then you're a coward If it's because of my age then you're a coward I haven't got the guts to stand alone I'll go back if you ask I'll go back if you ask me Backwards ^{Words: Kele} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ 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 over you 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 You've been lying to me Luno Come back to me the 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 say the right things I can say the right things Where d'you get so cruel Where do you go Cos you're never here And your nose is bleeding You deserve it You've been lying to me ^{Words: Kele & Gordon} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ 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 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 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 won't You said you were going to conquer new frontiers, Go stick your bloody head in the jaws of the beast We promised the world, we'd tame it, what were we hoping for? Breath in, breath out 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ 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 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 ^{Words: Kele} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ 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 that 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 use my teeth and my claws She said I'm going use my teeth and my claws She said I'm going 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 You cannot run or ever hide it away Something glorious is about to happen 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 eat you alive They go... And you cannot hide or ever, ever escape And you cannot hide or ever put it away Something glorious is about to happen The reckoning They go... They say... They go... They say... They go... 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 ^{Words: Kele & Gordon} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ Price Of Gas I've been driving, a mid sized car, I never hurt anyone Is that a fact? The price of gas keeps on rising Nothing comes for free Make like a stone, make like a plant I can tell you, how this ends We're going to win this With spades and truncheons, guns and trowels That is how the war will be won Just swat the fly Taking care of cars and bodies Nothing ever comes for me The ghosts are here, red white and blue I can tell you how this ends We're going to win this -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ She's Hearing Voices 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 She's scared of the blacks And she's scared of the Jews She is walking around She is yesterday's news And she screams 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 alive ^{Words: Kele} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ So Here We Are I caught a glimpse, but its 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 I figured it out, I can see again -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ Staying Fat I rely on (bitter cold) I depend on (artic snow) A pair of trainers (I've got mine) Could make a God of the two of us (I want yours) I exist on (apropos) I insist on (arctic snow) A change of clothing (will fill the void) Could lift us into fidelity (will suck you in) The sound keeps you hemmed to the past The walls are coming in again The streets grid alone from the door You gotta spin the fucking treadle... I rely on (bitter cold) I depend on (arctic snow) The manmade fibres (I've got mine) That are the stuff of my birthright (I want yours) I decide on (apropos) I retreat from (arctic snow) The dregs of discourse (will fill the void) For a new world order (will suck you in) The sound keeps you hemmed to the past The walls are coming in again The streets grid alone from the door You gotta spin the fucking treadle... In a pile of days between no oceans All the kids are rioting There's no art in a broken head All the kids are staying fat And I'm air-kissing, back-slapping Check the body for valuables It's called progress Come on pilgrim sing to the pyres It's called progress If they want to kill themselves Then buy them the gowns It's called progress Progress ^{Words: Kele & Gordon} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ Storm & Stress Promise you'll say if it gets Promise you'll say if it gets too much Don't be so scared of corners Don't be so tired of this life You drink to laugh You drink to cry You wear me in You wear me You really suffer for it You really suffer for your art Don't be a martyr for it Don't be a martyr for the cause Your eyes tell it Your eyes tell the truth You drink to laugh You drink to cry You wear me in You wear me You're not always You're not always right A new fight for a last rite A new fight for a last rite You can fight a new fight You can fight it's alright You're the life of the party You make my world spin around The first time is the next time This time is the last time And this time is the last time Cos this time I will fight You're not always right ^{Words: Kele & Gordon} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ The Answer Feeding the five thousand was not done with prayers alone It takes blood and guts and it takes devotion So tired of standing up and so tired of drawing breath It's your turn to take the map and it's your turn to drop the soap Pretty pretty boys sucking on a cola Money to burn, money to burn, money to burn We got rules to protect us Isaac and Ishmael The magazine says it's okay Life as a billboard If you are the answer We are going straight hell Grown in a parental fugue Weight loss in self respect Bomb, bomb, bomb us back together A new way into a lost answer ^{Words: Kele & Gordon} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ The Marshals Are Dead Attention Unbelievers Fashion victims Opportunists Blood sport Cop killer Don't trust art Don't trust culture Cancel your thoughts out forever Milk it and strain it to residue An insult that dilates forever Passing from history that's made from arrangements Of tannoys and cordons in symmetry That cancel forever Forever Spring breaks in ranks and in boulevards A country that grows us But cannot contain us A curse on your houses Rivers run with your sons' blood No case for extenuation All the marshals are dead ^{Words: Kele & Gordon} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ 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 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 known never known what's good for me I will be yours I'll pay for you anytime You told me you wanted to eat up my sadness Well jump on, enjoy, you can gorge away You told me you wanted to eat up my sadness Jump right on Baby, you've got to be more discerning I've known never known what's good for me Baby, you've got to be more demanding I will be yours 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? Tell me facts, tell me facts, tell me facts Tell me facts Throw your arms around me ^{Words: Kele} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ Tulips When you said tulips I knew that you're mine When I caught you there Crying in the night Wearing my jacket Wearing that smile I knew that I'd found you This could be an opportunity Were you unawares Did it catch you out? Or did it break you in Right from the start It's as pure as fire It's as pure as snow I knew that I'd found you This could be an opportunity If you promise to let it grow 'Cos you're the one I love ^{Words: Kele} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^ 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 crueler in your presence They say: 'be brave, there's a right way and a wrong way' 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'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, 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... You don't need to find answers for questions never asked of you You don't need to find answers dead weights and balloons drag me to you dead weights and balloons to sleep in your arms i've become crueler since i met you ive become rougher, this world is killing me we cover our lies with handshakes and smiles we try to remember our alibis we tell lies to our parents he 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 ^{Words: Kele} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top ^