Another Century lyrics - The Church
I gotta light a candle for you
So you can see yourself in the dark
I gotta get a handle on you (so you can see yourself)
And the hand will leave a mark
I gotta get directions off you (can you see yourself)
The mirror flare could be anywhere
The night is a liar
Overthrow the tyrant
Overthrow the tyrant
And in the fading light I saw
When you asked yourself
Why has this happened to me
Once or twice (once or twice)
Something nice might have come of it
I gotta fight a battle for you
Dial it back another century
Another night I'd settle for you (you can see yourself)
Every morning and everywhere
Today is a liar
Undergo the silence
Undergo the silence
And in the fading light I saw
When you asked yourself
Why has this happened to me
Once or twice
In the fading night I heard
When they shoot themselves
How did this happen to me
Once or twice (once or twice)
Something nice might have come of it
Something nice might have come of it
I gotta light a candle for you
So you can see yourself...
Submarine lyrics - The Church
It's all about love
It's all about love
It's all about love
It's all about love
Submarine the city
Sydney city of lizards
City in a jungle
City in a desert
(No matter what you say)
A desert swallows a forest
A glacier in your valley
Valley in the ocean
Desert in a sea
Nature loves a winner
We gonna end up some creature's dinner
Devil loves a sinner
You were on the menu
You're just a beginner
(So scared of love)
Submarine the monster
Shudders in its mansion
Ugly in its city
Ugly in its beauty
An ocean swallows the island
Takes us squares and guard us
Takes us city and mansions
Takes her devil and monster
For King Knife lyrics - The Church
A song for king knife
Along the lines of the vine of life
A new song for the king
The king of nearly everything
The king
The king
The king
A dog and a unicycle
A thimble and a thrush, no rush
The show will start without you
A pony and a clown
A ticket to the dance, no chance
The show will start without you
A crown for queen spoon
A lovely eiderdown, been too soon
A new crown for the queen
The queen I've nearly never seen
The queen
The queen
The queen
A wicked little mannikin
A squirrel and a bird, I heard
The show will start without you
A window in a tree
A flourish and a feather forever
The show will start without you
And the show will start without you
Yes the show will start without you
Undersea lyrics - The Church
Fly makes a honey man bee sorta
Sky makes the money man flee sorta
Lie makes a funny man plead and slaughter
Crack makes a low boy ache faster
Flack makes a slow boy shake faster
Slack makes a show boy fake his master
Fly makes a honey man bee sorta
Sly makes a honey man bee sorta
Why makes a honey man bee sorta
(I can see the water)
You are the bee, the best of the bunch
And they laugh out loud at this stupid little lunch
Comin' closer following a hunch (find you're out there)
Undersea
(Fly makes a honey man
Fly makes a honey man bee
Fly makes a honey man)
Fly makes a honey man bee sorta
Sky makes a money man flee sorta
Lie makes a funny man plead and slaughter
(I can see the water)
Crack makes a low boy ache faster
Flack makes a slow boy shake faster
Slack makes a show boy fake his master
(Its effect disaster)
You wanna take the rest of the stuff
Well everybody said we can never get enough
Comin' closer, a blind man's bluff
That's rough, I can tell you it's rough
(...best you might bee)
You want all your love off the cuff (slow boy, low boy)
Comin' closer, puff by puff
Undersea (undersea)
(Fly makes a honey man bee sorta
Fly makes a honey man bee)
Fly makes a honey man bee sorta
Fly makes a honey man bee
Fly makes a honey man bee sorta (fly makes a honey man)
Fly makes a honey man bee (fly makes a honey man)
Fly makes a honey man
Fly
Before The Deluge lyrics - The Church
Well you never really had a choice
Fall in line now your mind's full up stuck
Life is a distraction in a dream
Bundle of bees follow the breeze
Lost love
They found you now
Round 'em up
You got me now
Well I never really had a clue
My hands are full of sandals
Feet so tender bare
Stumble in a cyclone of drones
They're watching everything we cannot see
Shanghai
You turn me on
Oceania
You got me now
Something
Something so huge
Before the deluge
No refuge
Something
Something in the wild reeking of despair
Some grand gesture gone and test your scant resolve
Recontextualizing sex
Your accidental rehab in a lab
Century
Century of roll
Brasilia
Oh you got me now
Twilight falls so cold into the aching rooms
Sign of love now is alive on grooves
Life is a sequence in a routine
New test tube baby can be in tears upon the tracks
Baby, oh America
Bad hit you got me now
Something
Something so huge
Before the deluge
No refuge
Something
Something so huge
Before the deluge
No refuge
I Don't Know How I Don't Know lyrics - The Church
Voyage begins with a single sail
Weave through the heaving sea
Even as the city leaves me
I don't know how I don't know why
Pale glare deceiving
Jail bird sings such a sad song
Even as the city leaves me
I gotta choose sometime
I gotta lose sometime
I don't know how I don't know why
I don't know how I don't know why
I step into the shade where the fading loom
I get a bit delayed in the waiting room
I get a bit unmade on a mushroom
I get a bit abraded in your jaded tomb
I gotta choose sometime
I gotta lose sometime
I gotta choose sometime
I don't know how I don't know why
I don't know how I don't know why
I don't know how I don't know why
I don't know how I don't know why
I don't know how I don't know why
A Face In A Film lyrics - The Church
Crocodiles and allegations
Scale of your intrigue
Never mind my palpitations
It's like the League of Nations
Snakes and laddered stockings
Are ripping in the sea
Never mind the boat is rocking
Sequences unlocking
Sing but seldom seen the sun of salvation
New moon of celebration in your sky
A face in a film I saw
To whom you bore a strange similarity
I walk before you like a door
Monsters and mirages
A minaret, a coronet
Like a motor when it charges
Gotta pay for all the surges
Silhouettes and sentimental
A figure in the surf
Oh the time is tempermental
All our lives are not attained
Sing but seldom seen the sun of salvation
New moon of celebration in your sky
A face in a film I saw
To whom you bore a strange similarity
I walk before you like a door
In Your Fog lyrics - The Church
Soul unto soul
Until everybody know
All the lost souls went below
When you see her say hello
Greed unto greed
Until everybody feed
Exhaust a mustang
You burn down a boulevard painted new
When suddenly bang!
You take your last look
You read your last book
You're unobtainable in your fog
Unashame-able like a dog
Greed into greed
Until everybody feed
Meek will be a seed
Need to succeed
Soul unto soul
Until everybody know
And youth must go
You shake from the battle when your bottle is lean
And when you gone
You do the fast bit
You have your last hit
It is delusional
The unreal deal
I'm confused enough
Like an eel
Holy water
Fill me with euphoria
Holy water
Fill me with euphoria
It tastes delusional
The unreal deal
I'm confused enough
Like an eel
You take your last look
You read your last book
You're unobtainable in your fog
Unashame-able like a dog
Something Out There Is Wrong lyrics - The Church
Oh no
All the little rivers and the shivers go
Blow me down
Look, see
All the little devils and their hooks in me
Wake me up
Shake me down
When the stars align
A line appears so fine
When the stars align
Oh boy
All the little singers that we will enjoy
Turn my head
Then we
Take a little trip to like Italy
With its heel
What you feel
When the stars align
A line appears so fine
When the stars align
Something out there is wrong
Something out there is wrong
Something out there is wrong
Oh yeah
Rush right in we just don't care
Careless fools
Dumb luck
All the little gigabytes what the fuck
What the hell
Who can tell
So hard
Sold my little soul now by the yard
Hardly a star
Pick a card
Something out there is wrong
Something out there is wrong
Something out there is wrong
Something out there is wrong
Something out there is wrong
Something out there is wrong
Dark Waltz lyrics - The Church
When you penetrate the empty sound of the rain with all your being
Said you never knew such rapture could stop your tiny eyes from seeing (when I wasn't there)
When you turn out for fun but someone's playing a part that someone else is reading (when I wasn't there)
Down hotel corridor room 44 before your harm [heart?] was bleeding
Oh, all over it
Feels like never again
When you penetrate the empty sound of the rain
(When I wasn't...)
When you orchestrate a breakout through the emerging surge of bleak ideas (when I wasn't there)
And overhead the camera's idiot gaze, it just blinks and leers (when I wasn't there)
When you apprehend the weekend that just ended has been gone for years (when I wasn't there)
Oh, all over it
Feels like never again
When you penetrate the empty sound of the rain
When you live and die and laugh and cry all in the space of a second (when I wasn't there)
When you hit the subtotal on your bill and still it was all so much more than you reckoned (when I wasn't there)
When you stumble on the path of tears don't crumble now that future has beckoned
Oh, all over it
Feels like never again
Oh, all over it
Feels like never again
When you penetrate the empty sound
Oh, all over it
Feels like never again
When you penetrate the empty sound of the rain
Oh, all over it
Feels like never again
When you penetrate the empty sound of the rain
(When I wasn't there) [repeated to end]
Vanishing Man lyrics - The Church
Sinister bastard
Your casket groans from sins
You pulled a fast one
Slug a drug from plugins
Narcissus black
It's grim up to the brim
You little cracker
Watch your back pilgrim
Can't stop it
We got it coming
We got a calling, majesty and power
Like you know you should
We got a feeling
We cannot feel it
We gotta send this majesty and power
Like you know you could
And when you bring the fire
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Vanishing man
You can appear as you like
You took her demand
Bestrode it like a bike
Lucifer Jones
In heck up to your neck
A big bag of bones
Oh watch your spell check
Can't stop it
We got it coming
We got a calling, majesty and power
Like you know you should
We got a feeling
We cannot feel it
We gotta send this majesty and power
Like you know you could
And when you bring the fire
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Beelzebub brown
It's hot holed in this grotto
You dang it down
I frown at you
You're blotto
Like you know you should
Like you know you could
And when you bring...
(Majesty and power)
(Majesty and power)
Your casket groans from sins
You pulled a fast one
Slug a drug from plugins
Narcissus black
It's grim up to the brim
You little cracker
Watch your back pilgrim
Can't stop it
We got it coming
We got a calling, majesty and power
Like you know you should
We got a feeling
We cannot feel it
We gotta send this majesty and power
Like you know you could
And when you bring the fire
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Vanishing man
You can appear as you like
You took her demand
Bestrode it like a bike
Lucifer Jones
In heck up to your neck
A big bag of bones
Oh watch your spell check
Can't stop it
We got it coming
We got a calling, majesty and power
Like you know you should
We got a feeling
We cannot feel it
We gotta send this majesty and power
Like you know you could
And when you bring the fire
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Beelzebub brown
It's hot holed in this grotto
You dang it down
I frown at you
You're blotto
Like you know you should
Like you know you could
And when you bring...
(Majesty and power)
(Majesty and power)
Delirious lyrics - The Church
Sedate me
I'm fated to be seriously delirious
It's not far with all my heart
And I can't even understand a thing or two
What you gonna do
Aaah, aaah
If anyone thinks this is easy
When everyone thinks it's deliberately done
These pieces are easy, they try to put them all together
It's impossible, do you think you could please me
Deflated, undersaturated
I'm captivated, delirious
I hope so with all my soul
And I can almost comprehend night from day
What you gonna say
Aaah, aaah
If anyone thinks this is easy
And everyone thinks it's deliberately done
These pieces are easy, they try to put them all together
It's impossible, do you think you could please me
Oooh, oooh
The pieces are easy
Try to put them together
Oooh
Try to put them all together
And I, I can almost recognize wrong from right
Almost but not quite
If anyone thinks this is easy
And everyone thinks it's deliberately done
These pieces are easy, they try to put them all together
It's impossible, do you think you could please me
You're delirious
It's deliberately done
Delirious
Do you think you could please me
I'm fated to be seriously delirious
It's not far with all my heart
And I can't even understand a thing or two
What you gonna do
Aaah, aaah
If anyone thinks this is easy
When everyone thinks it's deliberately done
These pieces are easy, they try to put them all together
It's impossible, do you think you could please me
Deflated, undersaturated
I'm captivated, delirious
I hope so with all my soul
And I can almost comprehend night from day
What you gonna say
Aaah, aaah
If anyone thinks this is easy
And everyone thinks it's deliberately done
These pieces are easy, they try to put them all together
It's impossible, do you think you could please me
Oooh, oooh
The pieces are easy
Try to put them together
Oooh
Try to put them all together
And I, I can almost recognize wrong from right
Almost but not quite
If anyone thinks this is easy
And everyone thinks it's deliberately done
These pieces are easy, they try to put them all together
It's impossible, do you think you could please me
You're delirious
It's deliberately done
Delirious
Do you think you could please me
Pride Before A Fall lyrics - The Church
On tippy-toe, quiet you go
So not to wake the sleeper
And now you know that actual love
It goes further, deeper
Pride before a fall
Dark before the dawn
Fall and fall and fall
Call into you all
You face the blame graceless, ashamed
But baby it's a creeper
You fan the flame, empty flame of fame
But if the heart is deeper / But it burn harder, steeper
Lust and anger, pride and sloth
We took her from the same cloth
All that envy, vanity
Gonna be the end of me
On tippy-toe, careful and slow
Find the knees are weaker / loser, weeper
Pride before a fall
Dark before the dawn
Fall and fall and fall
Call into you all
(Seek light from the stars tonight
Up from the planet sky
Live love as the sunlight)
Pride before a fall (She's caught in the spotlight)
Dark before the dawn (Seek sun from the planet sky)
Fall and fall and fall (Live bright as the sunlight)
Call into you all (Pride before a fall)
So not to wake the sleeper
And now you know that actual love
It goes further, deeper
Pride before a fall
Dark before the dawn
Fall and fall and fall
Call into you all
You face the blame graceless, ashamed
But baby it's a creeper
You fan the flame, empty flame of fame
But if the heart is deeper / But it burn harder, steeper
Lust and anger, pride and sloth
We took her from the same cloth
All that envy, vanity
Gonna be the end of me
On tippy-toe, careful and slow
Find the knees are weaker / loser, weeper
Pride before a fall
Dark before the dawn
Fall and fall and fall
Call into you all
(Seek light from the stars tonight
Up from the planet sky
Live love as the sunlight)
Pride before a fall (She's caught in the spotlight)
Dark before the dawn (Seek sun from the planet sky)
Fall and fall and fall (Live bright as the sunlight)
Call into you all (Pride before a fall)
Toy Head lyrics - The Church
When you take off your head
But the darkness prevails
And they loosen the screws
But that remedy fails
You flake away just like gold
The flecks are under my skin
And you reach into time
Feel the era begin
When you take off your head
And you see the void yawn
And you feel the bough break
And a monster is born
You walk away like a fool
Darts fly into your flesh
Don't wait around too long
Hook is deep in the mesh
Ahh-ahh, take it off, go to bed
Ahh-ahh, take off your head
Why do we come here?
Why do we come here?
Why do we come here?
Why do we come here?
When you take off your head
Then there's the glow of the burn
All the shadows increase
All the horrors return
Ahh-ahh, take it off, go to bed
Ahh-ahh, let's take off your head
Ahh-ahh, take it off, go to bed
When you take off your head
And you set it aside
Yet the fog will persist
And the morning subside
When you take off your head
Ahh-ahh-ahh
Ahh-ahh-ahh
Yes you slip off the barbs
In some idiot's bed
You were looking for laughs
And the laughs disappeared
You're a million years old
Ahh-ahh-ahh
Ahh-ahh-ahh
So you take off your head
But you find love inside
And you do as you're told
You get a vulture eye view
So you take off your head
Ahh-ahh-ahh
(Ahh-ahh-ahh, take off your head)
(Ahh-ahh-ahh, take off your head)
But the darkness prevails
And they loosen the screws
But that remedy fails
You flake away just like gold
The flecks are under my skin
And you reach into time
Feel the era begin
When you take off your head
And you see the void yawn
And you feel the bough break
And a monster is born
You walk away like a fool
Darts fly into your flesh
Don't wait around too long
Hook is deep in the mesh
Ahh-ahh, take it off, go to bed
Ahh-ahh, take off your head
Why do we come here?
Why do we come here?
Why do we come here?
Why do we come here?
When you take off your head
Then there's the glow of the burn
All the shadows increase
All the horrors return
Ahh-ahh, take it off, go to bed
Ahh-ahh, let's take off your head
Ahh-ahh, take it off, go to bed
When you take off your head
And you set it aside
Yet the fog will persist
And the morning subside
When you take off your head
Ahh-ahh-ahh
Ahh-ahh-ahh
Yes you slip off the barbs
In some idiot's bed
You were looking for laughs
And the laughs disappeared
You're a million years old
Ahh-ahh-ahh
Ahh-ahh-ahh
So you take off your head
But you find love inside
And you do as you're told
You get a vulture eye view
So you take off your head
Ahh-ahh-ahh
(Ahh-ahh-ahh, take off your head)
(Ahh-ahh-ahh, take off your head)
Laurel Canyon lyrics - The Church
All those times we parted
All those times we saw it through
Couldn't finish what I started
I was diminished without you
There's music in my memory
And I listen as the miles go by
I guess I'm only temporary
Like a love song flowing by
Going to Laurel Canyon
Finding my own way
In some cool dimension
Where it's always Saturday
Said that I was always welcome
When we said goodbye in the harshest lights
I sense that should that will come again
I'd find a hundred men to mind you get out alright
And even as I stand here
I understand there has been some mistake
And even as I roam here
That lonesome sound, that old heartbreak
Going to Laurel Canyon
Finding my own way
In some cool dimension
Where that is I just can't say
I just can't say
Where the birds are singing vespers
The four rivers bringing out my best
In this place forgive our trespasses
Unless there's more, much more to confess
Going to Laurel Canyon
Finding my own way
In some cool dimension
Where you can never hide away
All those times we saw it through
Couldn't finish what I started
I was diminished without you
There's music in my memory
And I listen as the miles go by
I guess I'm only temporary
Like a love song flowing by
Going to Laurel Canyon
Finding my own way
In some cool dimension
Where it's always Saturday
Said that I was always welcome
When we said goodbye in the harshest lights
I sense that should that will come again
I'd find a hundred men to mind you get out alright
And even as I stand here
I understand there has been some mistake
And even as I roam here
That lonesome sound, that old heartbreak
Going to Laurel Canyon
Finding my own way
In some cool dimension
Where that is I just can't say
I just can't say
Where the birds are singing vespers
The four rivers bringing out my best
In this place forgive our trespasses
Unless there's more, much more to confess
Going to Laurel Canyon
Finding my own way
In some cool dimension
Where you can never hide away
Love Philtre lyrics - The Church
The buzzing chrome of blue unending
Pretending I still have somewhere left to turn
The fading flower of hours wilting
Love philtre, still something left to learn
There's still a love to live for
We're reinvented, our minds are made up
The moon's pretending, our lives invaded
The way corroded, our love is philtred
The sensual realm of stone invaded
Pervaded by a sense of betrayal
The hidden life of love corroded
I'm loaded to love's details
There's still a love to live for
We're reinvented, our minds are made up
The moon's pretending, our lives invaded
The way corroded, our love is philtred
A lovely loss of blossom scented
Repented by the tops of the hoy, coy
The moon's pretending, our lives invaded
The way corroded, our love is philtred
The moon's pretending, our lives invaded
The way corroded, our love is philtred
The moon's pretending, our lives invaded
The way corroded, our love is philtred
Pretending I still have somewhere left to turn
The fading flower of hours wilting
Love philtre, still something left to learn
There's still a love to live for
We're reinvented, our minds are made up
The moon's pretending, our lives invaded
The way corroded, our love is philtred
The sensual realm of stone invaded
Pervaded by a sense of betrayal
The hidden life of love corroded
I'm loaded to love's details
There's still a love to live for
We're reinvented, our minds are made up
The moon's pretending, our lives invaded
The way corroded, our love is philtred
A lovely loss of blossom scented
Repented by the tops of the hoy, coy
The moon's pretending, our lives invaded
The way corroded, our love is philtred
The moon's pretending, our lives invaded
The way corroded, our love is philtred
The moon's pretending, our lives invaded
The way corroded, our love is philtred
Globe Spinning lyrics - The Church
Long and lonely
Long and lonely song
Only longed twice in a row
When you fall in a group
Then out you go
(Saved the last star, falling far away
Saved the last star, falling far away
Saved the last star, falling far away)
It's almost never tomorrow
Time has left no footprint in these sands
No hint of passing in these lands
When there's no light to follow
Long and lonely
Long and lonely song
Only longed twice in a row
When you fall in a group
Then out you go
The power to stop is beholding
You cowl but I think withholding from love
After the pain has dropped
After the rain
(Saved the last star, falling far away
Saved the last star, falling far away
Saved the last star, falling far away
Saved the last star, falling far away)
We're spending more than we borrow
Money has no meaning in the hand
It's just columns buried in the ground
Scheme of things so heavily hollow
Long and lonely
Long and lonely song
Only longed twice in a row
When you fall in a group
Then out you go
The coward has charges misleading
He barges in disbelieving no more
Back but no emptier
Covered in dirt
Out you go, out you go, out you go
Falling far away
Out you go, out you go, out you go
Falling far away
Falling far away
Long and lonely song
Only longed twice in a row
When you fall in a group
Then out you go
(Saved the last star, falling far away
Saved the last star, falling far away
Saved the last star, falling far away)
It's almost never tomorrow
Time has left no footprint in these sands
No hint of passing in these lands
When there's no light to follow
Long and lonely
Long and lonely song
Only longed twice in a row
When you fall in a group
Then out you go
The power to stop is beholding
You cowl but I think withholding from love
After the pain has dropped
After the rain
(Saved the last star, falling far away
Saved the last star, falling far away
Saved the last star, falling far away
Saved the last star, falling far away)
We're spending more than we borrow
Money has no meaning in the hand
It's just columns buried in the ground
Scheme of things so heavily hollow
Long and lonely
Long and lonely song
Only longed twice in a row
When you fall in a group
Then out you go
The coward has charges misleading
He barges in disbelieving no more
Back but no emptier
Covered in dirt
Out you go, out you go, out you go
Falling far away
Out you go, out you go, out you go
Falling far away
Falling far away
Old Coast Road lyrics - The Church
Sun coming down on my shoulder
Moon going down in the sea
I knew nothing could hold her
It took everything from me
We drove into the salt water
A clear sweet shadow lit out
Rolled in stolen Corona
The highway was drowning her out
And then she told me
Don't be afraid of yourself
But when she rolled my dice
That double six was for someone else
I asked if it was over
I mask over my hate
Sadder, well I could control her
Down to her matter late
And then she told me
You've only got today
But when I asked for another
She looked at me and looked away
And then she showed me the menace in her past
And then she showed me another way
And then she owed me everything
But she couldn't stay
Sun coming down on the shoulder
Moon coming up from the sea
Days pass from warmer to colder
Return like a child unto me
And then she told me
Don't be afraid of yourself
And then she told me
You only got today
And then she told me
You'll never be alone
But on that Old Coast Road
When I woke up there was no one home
Moon going down in the sea
I knew nothing could hold her
It took everything from me
We drove into the salt water
A clear sweet shadow lit out
Rolled in stolen Corona
The highway was drowning her out
And then she told me
Don't be afraid of yourself
But when she rolled my dice
That double six was for someone else
I asked if it was over
I mask over my hate
Sadder, well I could control her
Down to her matter late
And then she told me
You've only got today
But when I asked for another
She looked at me and looked away
And then she showed me the menace in her past
And then she showed me another way
And then she owed me everything
But she couldn't stay
Sun coming down on the shoulder
Moon coming up from the sea
Days pass from warmer to colder
Return like a child unto me
And then she told me
Don't be afraid of yourself
And then she told me
You only got today
And then she told me
You'll never be alone
But on that Old Coast Road
When I woke up there was no one home
Lightning White lyrics - The Church
The toffee tar of our wrong road has melted
Crashed the car but no one ever felt it
In summer when it rains on a hot wet night
And everything looks spooky in the lightning white
You say, 'Hey, is everything ok?'
You're in your old Arabian nights
Long, long way to me
And has the money been sorted
Have all the men disappeared
And have the people cavorted
It's reported
We're near
Just as I fear
The greedy smile of a creature now ending
Another mile and everyone befriending
Those humid evenings, it's just like Pompeii
When the first shock hit it lit up like day
When the players all stopped and dropped down their acts
And the lava lover lie, stops in her tracks
You go 'Oh!' over a rainbow and the old Arabian nights
Right now, long ago
And has the stuff been imported
And have the audience cheered
And have the customers bought it
Its sort of cheer
Just as I fear
I gotta go in the other direction
I got a god, his name is perfection
I got a girl, she is my reflection
I got a world of total connection
In summer when the atmosphere caves in the roof
And all the stars in the black sky hold themselves aloof
You think my eyes are on the blink
But I'm in my old Arabian nights drowning in the sink
And has the money been sorted
And have the room disappeared
And have you people cavorted
It's reported
We're near...
Crashed the car but no one ever felt it
In summer when it rains on a hot wet night
And everything looks spooky in the lightning white
You say, 'Hey, is everything ok?'
You're in your old Arabian nights
Long, long way to me
And has the money been sorted
Have all the men disappeared
And have the people cavorted
It's reported
We're near
Just as I fear
The greedy smile of a creature now ending
Another mile and everyone befriending
Those humid evenings, it's just like Pompeii
When the first shock hit it lit up like day
When the players all stopped and dropped down their acts
And the lava lover lie, stops in her tracks
You go 'Oh!' over a rainbow and the old Arabian nights
Right now, long ago
And has the stuff been imported
And have the audience cheered
And have the customers bought it
Its sort of cheer
Just as I fear
I gotta go in the other direction
I got a god, his name is perfection
I got a girl, she is my reflection
I got a world of total connection
In summer when the atmosphere caves in the roof
And all the stars in the black sky hold themselves aloof
You think my eyes are on the blink
But I'm in my old Arabian nights drowning in the sink
And has the money been sorted
And have the room disappeared
And have you people cavorted
It's reported
We're near...
Let Us Go lyrics - The Church
See the baby walking through the sleet
A monster moves in the violent sea
Go, I let that go
The tightrope breaks, the magic's gone
Nothing matters, we're falling stars
Evaporate, dust in space
The music fades, no accolades
No, that's a snow
If you touch us we'll disappear
If you're waiting we're never here
If you listen, please just let us know
Please let us go
If you touch us we disappear
If you're waiting we're never here
Oh, let it grow
See a baby walking through the sleet
A monster moves in the violent sea
She's the one with the wild white feet
She's the one with the moon and star
No, I let that go
The tightrope breaks, the magic's gone
Nothing matters, we're falling stars
Evaluate, does this taste so good
No, please, let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go (Please let us go) (No please don't let us go)
Let us go (Please) (No please don't let us go)
Let us go
A monster moves in the violent sea
Go, I let that go
The tightrope breaks, the magic's gone
Nothing matters, we're falling stars
Evaporate, dust in space
The music fades, no accolades
No, that's a snow
If you touch us we'll disappear
If you're waiting we're never here
If you listen, please just let us know
Please let us go
If you touch us we disappear
If you're waiting we're never here
Oh, let it grow
See a baby walking through the sleet
A monster moves in the violent sea
She's the one with the wild white feet
She's the one with the moon and star
No, I let that go
The tightrope breaks, the magic's gone
Nothing matters, we're falling stars
Evaluate, does this taste so good
No, please, let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go (Please let us go) (No please don't let us go)
Let us go (Please) (No please don't let us go)
Let us go
Volkano lyrics - The Church
We never recognize the tell-tale signs
Well boys, make your choice, make up your minds
All of this cargo and all of the seas
Wherever they go it was by a beaked prow and a fair breeze
Gone, running for the sun
Before the storm erupts again
Over our head, coming right along
Oh do you wanna stay and say hello
To the volkano (to the volkano)
We never anticipated anything that happens
The minute the light gets thinner the sky just blackens
And all of these waves, all of this sound
Wherever we go it was by our lucky fingers and our honour bound
Gone, running for the sun
Before the storm erupts again
Over our head, coming right along
Oh do you wanna stay and say hello
To the volkano (to the volkano)
And all of this water, and all of this land
We gotta give the people something they gonna understand
Gone, running for the sun
Before the storm erupts again
Over our head, coming right along
Gone, running for the sun (do you want to stay and say hello)
Before the storm erupts again (to the volkano)
Oh do you wanna stay and say hello (wanna stay and say,
stay and say hello) (wanna stay and say hello)
To the volkano
(Do you wanna stay)
Well boys, make your choice, make up your minds
All of this cargo and all of the seas
Wherever they go it was by a beaked prow and a fair breeze
Gone, running for the sun
Before the storm erupts again
Over our head, coming right along
Oh do you wanna stay and say hello
To the volkano (to the volkano)
We never anticipated anything that happens
The minute the light gets thinner the sky just blackens
And all of these waves, all of this sound
Wherever we go it was by our lucky fingers and our honour bound
Gone, running for the sun
Before the storm erupts again
Over our head, coming right along
Oh do you wanna stay and say hello
To the volkano (to the volkano)
And all of this water, and all of this land
We gotta give the people something they gonna understand
Gone, running for the sun
Before the storm erupts again
Over our head, coming right along
Gone, running for the sun (do you want to stay and say hello)
Before the storm erupts again (to the volkano)
Oh do you wanna stay and say hello (wanna stay and say,
stay and say hello) (wanna stay and say hello)
To the volkano
(Do you wanna stay)
Miami lyrics - The Church
I'm moving back to Miami
And you'll be able to see me
I'm living down by the sea babe
Now you'll be able to see me (any time you like)
And if you walk away
Nothing will change
I think that it's strange
I think that it's easy
It's easy for you
Asleep in the darkness
After what you went through
My curtains are open
Fog confuses the light
Some distant reflection
Some elusive night
Alright
Ahh baby
Won't you fly down to me
In the place by the sea
I think Humphrey Bogart stayed there in 1943
He was joined by Janet Leigh, babe
And if you never come
Well that would be strange
I don't think I've changed
I don't think I mentioned
I met someone else
Her compassionate tears
Oh they were like tiny bells
She was better than both of us
I shoulda stayed my hand
I shoulda stayed in Miami
With the seagulls and sand
But the devil is doubt
And I'm out on the street
Walking about
Talking so sweet
Bringing brief reminders
I singing your softest song
I thinking it's all a dream
And I'll wake up and be gone
Be gone!
Oh baby
Whatever I say, it has escaped me
Maybe I'll find the money
Fly you first class on BOAC
If you come down to Miami
You can leave right away
If you are game
I think I'm the same
I think of you cold
I think of you still
I think of you living
Your ziggurat on a hill
The gardens were moving
Like waves on a shore
My head always aching
My eyes always sore
Swim in cool heat
Some weather door slammed
A car started up
Frequencies jammed
Miami, Miami
My fingers and pores
Someone picks up
All in due course
And you'll be able to see me
I'm living down by the sea babe
Now you'll be able to see me (any time you like)
And if you walk away
Nothing will change
I think that it's strange
I think that it's easy
It's easy for you
Asleep in the darkness
After what you went through
My curtains are open
Fog confuses the light
Some distant reflection
Some elusive night
Alright
Ahh baby
Won't you fly down to me
In the place by the sea
I think Humphrey Bogart stayed there in 1943
He was joined by Janet Leigh, babe
And if you never come
Well that would be strange
I don't think I've changed
I don't think I mentioned
I met someone else
Her compassionate tears
Oh they were like tiny bells
She was better than both of us
I shoulda stayed my hand
I shoulda stayed in Miami
With the seagulls and sand
But the devil is doubt
And I'm out on the street
Walking about
Talking so sweet
Bringing brief reminders
I singing your softest song
I thinking it's all a dream
And I'll wake up and be gone
Be gone!
Oh baby
Whatever I say, it has escaped me
Maybe I'll find the money
Fly you first class on BOAC
If you come down to Miami
You can leave right away
If you are game
I think I'm the same
I think of you cold
I think of you still
I think of you living
Your ziggurat on a hill
The gardens were moving
Like waves on a shore
My head always aching
My eyes always sore
Swim in cool heat
Some weather door slammed
A car started up
Frequencies jammed
Miami, Miami
My fingers and pores
Someone picks up
All in due course
Marine Drive lyrics - The Church
No need for turquoise tortoise
No heed the board is toward us
No need for idle mortis
Can't I'm gonna short us
Down on Marine Drive
You can aspire
Line 'em up and shine 'em up and sign 'em up (if you find a fortune key)
Well I don't care
Burn 'em up and learn 'em up and turn 'em up (won't you find a sweeter key)
I don't mind
Cash 'em up and bash 'em up and lash 'em up (if you find a sweeter key)
Well I don't care
Sweet weed for mask and snorkel
No bubble when you chuckle
Down on Marine Drive
You can aspire
Line 'em up and shine 'em up and sign 'em up (if you find a fortune key)
Well I don't care
Burn 'em up and learn 'em up and turn 'em up (oh won't you find a sweeter key)
I don't mind
Cash 'em up and bash 'em up and lash 'em up (if you find a sweeter key)
Well I don't care
Stick 'em up and lick 'em up and hit 'em up (won't you find a sweeter key)
Well I don't mind (I don't mind, I don't mind)
No heed the board is toward us
No need for idle mortis
Can't I'm gonna short us
Down on Marine Drive
You can aspire
Line 'em up and shine 'em up and sign 'em up (if you find a fortune key)
Well I don't care
Burn 'em up and learn 'em up and turn 'em up (won't you find a sweeter key)
I don't mind
Cash 'em up and bash 'em up and lash 'em up (if you find a sweeter key)
Well I don't care
Sweet weed for mask and snorkel
No bubble when you chuckle
Down on Marine Drive
You can aspire
Line 'em up and shine 'em up and sign 'em up (if you find a fortune key)
Well I don't care
Burn 'em up and learn 'em up and turn 'em up (oh won't you find a sweeter key)
I don't mind
Cash 'em up and bash 'em up and lash 'em up (if you find a sweeter key)
Well I don't care
Stick 'em up and lick 'em up and hit 'em up (won't you find a sweeter key)
Well I don't mind (I don't mind, I don't mind)
The Girl Is Buoyant lyrics - The Church
Continental driftwood feels good
Hold it down, floating around
King of the disclaimers
Defamer of the famous
Rocking the boat
Never know love as loud
Without sin the girl is buoyant
You can see she is clairvoyant
Then they say the girl is bolder
Got this day job night had sold her
Elemental ocean
A quotient of salt
Don't float down
Beginning with our town
The rush of heat succeeds against the [?]
Without a sound, we all run around
(Without a sound)
Without sin the girl is buoyant
You can see she is clairvoyant
Then they say the girl is bolder
Got this day job night had sold her
Scraping past he's faster than the last one
Freshly crowned, we all run around
Without a sound
Hold it down, floating around
King of the disclaimers
Defamer of the famous
Rocking the boat
Never know love as loud
Without sin the girl is buoyant
You can see she is clairvoyant
Then they say the girl is bolder
Got this day job night had sold her
Elemental ocean
A quotient of salt
Don't float down
Beginning with our town
The rush of heat succeeds against the [?]
Without a sound, we all run around
(Without a sound)
Without sin the girl is buoyant
You can see she is clairvoyant
Then they say the girl is bolder
Got this day job night had sold her
Scraping past he's faster than the last one
Freshly crowned, we all run around
Without a sound
Xmas lyrics - The Church
Drifting along at eventide, it was Christmas
Loneliest day of the year if you're alone
Where you going to?
Nobody knows
What's it coming to?
It's coming blow by blow
No snow for you
No not today
You stop your bridges
And you burn them all away
Walking about, give me a shout, it was Christmas
The saddest day of the year if you're still sad
Holiday spot, all hurrying up for the Christmas
Those rich Italian girls with their mum and their dad
Rolling along quite nicely thanks
Or lolling about our malleable shanks
And the serpents cut through the surface
With all their spray
Drifting around at the eventide, it was Christmas
Loveliest day of the year if you're alone
Where you going to?
I'm going home I suppose
What's it coming to?
It's coming and it shows
No cheer for you
No not today
They took your baubles and your tinsel
And threw them all away
Where you going to?
I'm gonna change my clothes
What's it coming to?
Well nobody knows
Where you going to?
Where the wildflower grows
Where's it coming from?
Where the river flows
No cheer for you
No not today
They took your baubles and your tinsel
And threw them all away
No snow for you
No not today
You stop your bridges
And you burn them all away
Loneliest day of the year if you're alone
Where you going to?
Nobody knows
What's it coming to?
It's coming blow by blow
No snow for you
No not today
You stop your bridges
And you burn them all away
Walking about, give me a shout, it was Christmas
The saddest day of the year if you're still sad
Holiday spot, all hurrying up for the Christmas
Those rich Italian girls with their mum and their dad
Rolling along quite nicely thanks
Or lolling about our malleable shanks
And the serpents cut through the surface
With all their spray
Drifting around at the eventide, it was Christmas
Loveliest day of the year if you're alone
Where you going to?
I'm going home I suppose
What's it coming to?
It's coming and it shows
No cheer for you
No not today
They took your baubles and your tinsel
And threw them all away
Where you going to?
I'm gonna change my clothes
What's it coming to?
Well nobody knows
Where you going to?
Where the wildflower grows
Where's it coming from?
Where the river flows
No cheer for you
No not today
They took your baubles and your tinsel
And threw them all away
No snow for you
No not today
You stop your bridges
And you burn them all away
EP: "Pangaea" (2009)
- Pangaea lyrics - The Church
- LLC lyrics - The Church
- Insanity lyrics - The Church
- So Love May Find Us lyrics - The Church
LLC lyrics - The Church
Baby
I've fallen for you babe
I've fallen for you baby
I won't let you down
Baby
I'm over the moon over you
I'm over the moon over you
I won't let you down
You found your way here as if by a star
And people you meet might not know who you are
The world that surrounds you, strangers are far
And I'm over the moon
I'm over the moon over you, yeah
I'm over the moon over you
Baby
I've fallen for you babe
I've fallen for you baby
I won't let you down
Caring and sharing with all that you found
??? but strong and your laugh's a great sound
When I'm away I miss you around
And I'm over the moon
I'm over the moon over you, yeah
I'm over the moon over you
Baby
I've fallen for you babe
I've fallen for you baby
I won't let you down
Eyes just so blue you can't help but charm
You walk round with an ages old calm
Your beat catches on when you pound on a drum
I'm over the moon
I'm over the moon over you, yeah
I'm over the moon over you
I've fallen for you babe
I've fallen for you baby
I won't let you down
Baby
I'm over the moon over you
I'm over the moon over you
I won't let you down
You found your way here as if by a star
And people you meet might not know who you are
The world that surrounds you, strangers are far
And I'm over the moon
I'm over the moon over you, yeah
I'm over the moon over you
Baby
I've fallen for you babe
I've fallen for you baby
I won't let you down
Caring and sharing with all that you found
??? but strong and your laugh's a great sound
When I'm away I miss you around
And I'm over the moon
I'm over the moon over you, yeah
I'm over the moon over you
Baby
I've fallen for you babe
I've fallen for you baby
I won't let you down
Eyes just so blue you can't help but charm
You walk round with an ages old calm
Your beat catches on when you pound on a drum
I'm over the moon
I'm over the moon over you, yeah
I'm over the moon over you
Insanity lyrics - The Church
It's just insanity
The concept and the fee
The lunatics are free
The nightmares in my dream
A time I live again
Is only pain in my head
And you can't let them take it if you're suicidal
And it's full of holes is only your rival
I need some recompense
It's just insanity
The concept and the fee
The lunatics are free
The nightmares in my dream
The jailers hands turn sour
It's getting worse by the hour
And you know that solution's getting complicated
And I can't believe how long I've waited
Can you get back to that other place
That we are now afraid to face
It's insanity
The concept and the fee
The lunatics are free
The nightmares in my dream
And it's inexcusable and unacceptable, out of character and incontestable
Poisonous, viscious and underhanded
And it surely can't be the way God planned it
And let's just admit that everything's random
And the riots that come, and then its hard to withstand them
It's totally insane
The concept and the fee
The lunatics are free
The nightmares in my dream
A time I live again
Is only pain in my head
And you can't let them take it if you're suicidal
And it's full of holes is only your rival
I need some recompense
It's just insanity
The concept and the fee
The lunatics are free
The nightmares in my dream
The jailers hands turn sour
It's getting worse by the hour
And you know that solution's getting complicated
And I can't believe how long I've waited
Can you get back to that other place
That we are now afraid to face
It's insanity
The concept and the fee
The lunatics are free
The nightmares in my dream
And it's inexcusable and unacceptable, out of character and incontestable
Poisonous, viscious and underhanded
And it surely can't be the way God planned it
And let's just admit that everything's random
And the riots that come, and then its hard to withstand them
It's totally insane
So Love May Find Us lyrics - The Church
I'm feeling uneasy
And I'm feeling weird
Everything's coming down the line
Exactly as I feared
And nobody helps me
And nobody knows
Nobody left in this city with its...
Its hits and its blows
And the first time the end appeared
I was skeptical like the rest
I marvelled as the markets fell
'Cause up till then I guess we've been blessed
First the water
And then the earth
And then the air, yeah
For all it was worth
The fire was subtle
It burned in your bones
It churned in your sea
And left you alone
It was then that I noticed the stars
Dismayed to see them look so old and red
I was hidden as the animals roared
Watched it all from inside your head
And nobody sees me
Now nobody cares
Nobody living in the city
With its graces and airs
The fire was icy
It burned in your veins
It turned in your wake
Shot up your brain
I'm feeling uncertain
I'm feeling exposed
I'm feeling there could be much, much more to this
Than I ever suppose
When I think about afterlife
I become so confused
I shiver when I think of my friend
And I think what's the use
Now we've gotta try, try, try
Gotta learn to say goodbye
Gotta spit right in your eye
And find some truth within this great lie
Feeling I'm injured
I'm feeling so raw
Like some childish imbecile
Like some crashing bore
The fire was distant
It burned without smoke
It learned to stand water
It stood up and spoke
Feeling uneasy
Feeling weird
Everything coming down the line
Exactly as I feared
In between the ether and the water line (I'm hearing voices, screams)
Down beside the engines as we ride and glide and churn inside (he didn't get you somewhere else)
And outside the reckless night, uncertainty delivered me (he wanted our spirits)
In between the cracks have all appeared (so that love may find us)
(Haven't seen her, should believe her, she'll be a living soul)
(Haven't seen her, should believe her, she'll be a living soul)
I don't want your spirit or your doubt
I don't want your deserts or your seas
I don't want the city or it's dreams
I just want to see you on your knees
And I'm feeling weird
Everything's coming down the line
Exactly as I feared
And nobody helps me
And nobody knows
Nobody left in this city with its...
Its hits and its blows
And the first time the end appeared
I was skeptical like the rest
I marvelled as the markets fell
'Cause up till then I guess we've been blessed
First the water
And then the earth
And then the air, yeah
For all it was worth
The fire was subtle
It burned in your bones
It churned in your sea
And left you alone
It was then that I noticed the stars
Dismayed to see them look so old and red
I was hidden as the animals roared
Watched it all from inside your head
And nobody sees me
Now nobody cares
Nobody living in the city
With its graces and airs
The fire was icy
It burned in your veins
It turned in your wake
Shot up your brain
I'm feeling uncertain
I'm feeling exposed
I'm feeling there could be much, much more to this
Than I ever suppose
When I think about afterlife
I become so confused
I shiver when I think of my friend
And I think what's the use
Now we've gotta try, try, try
Gotta learn to say goodbye
Gotta spit right in your eye
And find some truth within this great lie
Feeling I'm injured
I'm feeling so raw
Like some childish imbecile
Like some crashing bore
The fire was distant
It burned without smoke
It learned to stand water
It stood up and spoke
Feeling uneasy
Feeling weird
Everything coming down the line
Exactly as I feared
In between the ether and the water line (I'm hearing voices, screams)
Down beside the engines as we ride and glide and churn inside (he didn't get you somewhere else)
And outside the reckless night, uncertainty delivered me (he wanted our spirits)
In between the cracks have all appeared (so that love may find us)
(Haven't seen her, should believe her, she'll be a living soul)
(Haven't seen her, should believe her, she'll be a living soul)
I don't want your spirit or your doubt
I don't want your deserts or your seas
I don't want the city or it's dreams
I just want to see you on your knees
Cobalt Blue lyrics - The Church
Desert wind in a telephone box
Dial my numbers up
Picks my locks
Picks his kind
To go and mingle in my mind
Here I am on the edge of every town
You read my fortunes up
You lead it down
Lead me to land
Let it run right through my hand
And its nothing
Nothing you could know
Let it go
Nothing really that you could know
Motel bar, the dirty sulky moon
Turn my head up
Let it all cocoon
Let it go
Nothing really we could know
And its nothing
Nothing you could know
Let it go
Nothing really that you could know
Dial my numbers up
Picks my locks
Picks his kind
To go and mingle in my mind
Here I am on the edge of every town
You read my fortunes up
You lead it down
Lead me to land
Let it run right through my hand
And its nothing
Nothing you could know
Let it go
Nothing really that you could know
Motel bar, the dirty sulky moon
Turn my head up
Let it all cocoon
Let it go
Nothing really we could know
And its nothing
Nothing you could know
Let it go
Nothing really that you could know
Deadman's Hand lyrics - The Church
On our way to crush the revolution
Camp by a lake in the blackened lands
Dealing out love and retribution
Dealing out the deadman's hand
We've all known the pain
And we're all gonna hurt again and again
Empire's got you by the balls
And sleep keeps awake for the tear
And it's calling you
Pulling you back here
On our way to crush a revolution
Lost in the caves of a used up place
Night comes down with all its implication
Something brushing against your face
And we've all known fear
And we're all gonna find more of it here
Empire's got you by the balls
And you wish that you never appeared
And it's pulling you
Pulling you back here
(Where are we)
(Where are you)
On the way to crush the revolution
Wilderness and its burning bush
The enemy seeks our dissolution
All he needs is a little push
And we've all known hurt
And we're all gonna find it here in this dirt
Empire's got you by the balls
And war keeps drawing near
And it's pulling you
Pulling you back here
Camp by a lake in the blackened lands
Dealing out love and retribution
Dealing out the deadman's hand
We've all known the pain
And we're all gonna hurt again and again
Empire's got you by the balls
And sleep keeps awake for the tear
And it's calling you
Pulling you back here
On our way to crush a revolution
Lost in the caves of a used up place
Night comes down with all its implication
Something brushing against your face
And we've all known fear
And we're all gonna find more of it here
Empire's got you by the balls
And you wish that you never appeared
And it's pulling you
Pulling you back here
(Where are we)
(Where are you)
On the way to crush the revolution
Wilderness and its burning bush
The enemy seeks our dissolution
All he needs is a little push
And we've all known hurt
And we're all gonna find it here in this dirt
Empire's got you by the balls
And war keeps drawing near
And it's pulling you
Pulling you back here
Pangaea lyrics - The Church
I got my hand on my heart
I got my heart on my mind (we've drifted apart)
I gotta jump on the clock
I gotta find me some time
Pangaea ahhh alright
Pangaea ahhh (gotta try so hard) together (gotta try so hard)
You got your hands 'round my throat
You got your voice in my head (no matter what)
You better jump on the clock
You better watch where you tread
Pangaea ahhh alright
Pangaea ahhh (gotta try so hard) together (gotta try so hard)
(gotta try so hard)
(gotta try so hard)
They got their rationales
They had their winning streaks (it's never enough)
They better jump on the clock
They better count up their weeks
Pangaea ahhh alright
Pangaea ahhh (gotta try so hard) together (gotta try so hard)
Pangaea ahhh (gotta find some time) ahhh (gotta find some time)
I got my heart on my mind (we've drifted apart)
I gotta jump on the clock
I gotta find me some time
Pangaea ahhh alright
Pangaea ahhh (gotta try so hard) together (gotta try so hard)
You got your hands 'round my throat
You got your voice in my head (no matter what)
You better jump on the clock
You better watch where you tread
Pangaea ahhh alright
Pangaea ahhh (gotta try so hard) together (gotta try so hard)
(gotta try so hard)
(gotta try so hard)
They got their rationales
They had their winning streaks (it's never enough)
They better jump on the clock
They better count up their weeks
Pangaea ahhh alright
Pangaea ahhh (gotta try so hard) together (gotta try so hard)
Pangaea ahhh (gotta find some time) ahhh (gotta find some time)
Happenstance lyrics - The Church
When the distant charge of love is felt
And the fruit is heavy on the vine
Rivers rushing as the snow it melts
I should take some time
Really make you mine
Happenstance
Such a charmer
Like an extinguished star
You're gone yet still remain
And you've taken it so far
Return to outer space
If I lay me beside you
Your golden hair frozen
Happenstance
Such a charmer
Close your eyes in the dark
And open up a door
You feel the energy arc
You're not here anymore
When the honeyed days of love return
And the king is drunk upon his throne
City's empty and the crystal burnt
I should take some space
Be with you some place
When the hopeless nights of love have gone
And the spirits are still within the trees
And we're running back to Albion
I should take some chance
Given happenstance
Happenstance
Such a charmer
And the fruit is heavy on the vine
Rivers rushing as the snow it melts
I should take some time
Really make you mine
Happenstance
Such a charmer
Like an extinguished star
You're gone yet still remain
And you've taken it so far
Return to outer space
If I lay me beside you
Your golden hair frozen
Happenstance
Such a charmer
Close your eyes in the dark
And open up a door
You feel the energy arc
You're not here anymore
When the honeyed days of love return
And the king is drunk upon his throne
City's empty and the crystal burnt
I should take some space
Be with you some place
When the hopeless nights of love have gone
And the spirits are still within the trees
And we're running back to Albion
I should take some chance
Given happenstance
Happenstance
Such a charmer
Space Saviour lyrics - The Church
My little lonely
She's my one and only
All the love just stone me
And I can't let it go
Like a siphon or straw
Something to adore
On the fatal flaw
And I can't let it go
Oh my little saviour
On her good behaviour
All the self she gave you
Now you can't let it go
Like a needle or tack
When she's giving you back
And the stages go black
And you can't let it go
And I gotta get up
And I gotta get on
And I gotta get off
And I gotta get out
And I gotta get up
And I gotta get on
And I gotta get off
And I can't let it go
My little heart
With a cosmic handshake
Hammer on till daybreak
I can't let it go
Like a Zorro or zealot
Bite it just too feel it
She gonna reveal it
Then you can't let it go
Oh my little wonder
Makes you stop to ponder
Makes me kind of fonder
I can't let it go
Like I live and I learn
Like a Chinese burn
Just wait till you turn
I can't let it go
I gotta get up
I gotta get on
I gotta get off
I gotta get out
I gotta get up
I gotta get on
I gotta get off
And I can't let it go
My little panda
I don't understand her
With her natural grandeur
I can't let it go
Like a trick or tornado
No she ain't afraid
Nothing gets delayed
And she won't let it go
My little golden
Her love and her holdin'
Only serves to embolden
And I can't let it go
Like a fraction or flake
I do it all for her sake
I do it all for her sake
Then I can't let it go, no, no
And I gotta get up
And I gotta get on
And I gotta get off
And I gotta get up
And I gotta get on
And I gotta get off
But I can't let it go
Can't let it go
It doesn't know
Cause I can't let it
I can't let it go
Baby don't say no
Can't let it go
I can't let it go
Can't let it go
She's my one and only
All the love just stone me
And I can't let it go
Like a siphon or straw
Something to adore
On the fatal flaw
And I can't let it go
Oh my little saviour
On her good behaviour
All the self she gave you
Now you can't let it go
Like a needle or tack
When she's giving you back
And the stages go black
And you can't let it go
And I gotta get up
And I gotta get on
And I gotta get off
And I gotta get out
And I gotta get up
And I gotta get on
And I gotta get off
And I can't let it go
My little heart
With a cosmic handshake
Hammer on till daybreak
I can't let it go
Like a Zorro or zealot
Bite it just too feel it
She gonna reveal it
Then you can't let it go
Oh my little wonder
Makes you stop to ponder
Makes me kind of fonder
I can't let it go
Like I live and I learn
Like a Chinese burn
Just wait till you turn
I can't let it go
I gotta get up
I gotta get on
I gotta get off
I gotta get out
I gotta get up
I gotta get on
I gotta get off
And I can't let it go
My little panda
I don't understand her
With her natural grandeur
I can't let it go
Like a trick or tornado
No she ain't afraid
Nothing gets delayed
And she won't let it go
My little golden
Her love and her holdin'
Only serves to embolden
And I can't let it go
Like a fraction or flake
I do it all for her sake
I do it all for her sake
Then I can't let it go, no, no
And I gotta get up
And I gotta get on
And I gotta get off
And I gotta get up
And I gotta get on
And I gotta get off
But I can't let it go
Can't let it go
It doesn't know
Cause I can't let it
I can't let it go
Baby don't say no
Can't let it go
I can't let it go
Can't let it go
On Angel Street lyrics - The Church
Sunday disappears into a fog
Darkness invites us all inside
To hide amongst the lamplight radial glow
Shadow in the pool
Winter in the wind
A message in the fallen leaves
Cruise down to the plaza in your Merc
Never really know how or where to go
Blow me down you're outside a bank on Angel Street
I arrive but never leave
You leave but never stay
It kind of reminds me of the salad days
I saw your brother during lunch
I saw at once that he was lost and he was mad
He had been standing in the rain to get some snow
But the snow it couldn't fall
The people all go home
And he just kind of stood there helplessly
You should change the message on your machine
So sad, so strange baby to hear my name
Makes me cry when you say we're not at home
And the line it just goes dead
And the trail it just goes cold
I guess that story's told anyway
Darkness invites us all inside
To hide amongst the lamplight radial glow
Shadow in the pool
Winter in the wind
A message in the fallen leaves
Cruise down to the plaza in your Merc
Never really know how or where to go
Blow me down you're outside a bank on Angel Street
I arrive but never leave
You leave but never stay
It kind of reminds me of the salad days
I saw your brother during lunch
I saw at once that he was lost and he was mad
He had been standing in the rain to get some snow
But the snow it couldn't fall
The people all go home
And he just kind of stood there helplessly
You should change the message on your machine
So sad, so strange baby to hear my name
Makes me cry when you say we're not at home
And the line it just goes dead
And the trail it just goes cold
I guess that story's told anyway
Sunken Sun lyrics - The Church
I drowned in a river that had run dry
I drank a sea of gold
I shivered like a stone in the great unknown
Oh, not unknown but just untold
I dreamed I saw the Minotaur
I dreamed I was his twin
It seemed I tore some kind of door
Because now he can get right back in
And I don't wanna talk about it anymore
And if I have to do it again I'll give you what for
I watched the sullen sun shrink
And the levee run out of steam
Eternity loomed in my garret room
I saw you once in some kind of dream
I had a girl in the underworld
She was a spirited little thing
She was so cute, oh, you shoulda seen Pluto
She opened up her heart to sing
And I don't want to talk about it anymore
And if I had to do it again I'll give you what for
I ripped up my return ticket
I hurled it into the sky
I knelt down, I kissed the ground
I knew then it was your turn to fly
I drank a sea of gold
I shivered like a stone in the great unknown
Oh, not unknown but just untold
I dreamed I saw the Minotaur
I dreamed I was his twin
It seemed I tore some kind of door
Because now he can get right back in
And I don't wanna talk about it anymore
And if I have to do it again I'll give you what for
I watched the sullen sun shrink
And the levee run out of steam
Eternity loomed in my garret room
I saw you once in some kind of dream
I had a girl in the underworld
She was a spirited little thing
She was so cute, oh, you shoulda seen Pluto
She opened up her heart to sing
And I don't want to talk about it anymore
And if I had to do it again I'll give you what for
I ripped up my return ticket
I hurled it into the sky
I knelt down, I kissed the ground
I knew then it was your turn to fly
Anchorage lyrics - The Church
Scales of an angel
Wings of a snake
Living here in the future
With the racket that you make
Memory of a scream
Heart of the flame
Talking in a lark's tongue
And more of the same
Green ice is on the melt
Just the way the dead have felt
Nothing like the way my name is spelt
But I belt it out anyway
Darkness returning
My torch keeps on burning for you
In the life you keep on spurning
Everything is hurting me
Mouth of a river
The fingers of a flute
The trees get used for rifles
Growing lovely shoots
Around the captain's table
The silent diners slept
In the white of morning
The distance slowly crept
And the ice in my glass
And the hit of the past
And the great icy blast
I pass it on to you
Darkness returning
My torch keeps on burning for you
In the life you keep on spurning
Everything is hurting me
'thing is hurting me
Words of a mute
The passion of a rock
Waking early on an Easter Sunday
Just before the cock
The motion of a statue
The honour of a rat
The street was almost empty
But then you saw through that
And the ice in the box
Falling off the shelf in blocks
Down at the docks
Well I was shocked not to be discovered
Darkness returning
My torch keeps on burning for you
In the life you keep on spurning
Everything is hurting me
Strength of a lamb
The shape of a cloud
The eyes of the star
Cruelty of a crowd
This afternoon is crushing down
The bars are all closed today lady
Middle of town is a long way down
I'd hate to see you break your crown
And the ice in my drink
My drink in your lap
Just a process in a trap
I'll slap it out of you
Slap it out of you
Music of the snow
Tempts the flake
Nature, you don't know
A nice delicious ache
The conscience of a fox
Love about the size of a shoe box
The school of hard knocks
They box it out of me
The ice in my throat
A message in the note
Just like a sinking boat
You coat yourself with sympathy
Darkness returning
My torch keeps on burning for you
In the life you keep on spurning
Everything is hurting me 'thing is hurting me
Wings of a snake
Living here in the future
With the racket that you make
Memory of a scream
Heart of the flame
Talking in a lark's tongue
And more of the same
Green ice is on the melt
Just the way the dead have felt
Nothing like the way my name is spelt
But I belt it out anyway
Darkness returning
My torch keeps on burning for you
In the life you keep on spurning
Everything is hurting me
Mouth of a river
The fingers of a flute
The trees get used for rifles
Growing lovely shoots
Around the captain's table
The silent diners slept
In the white of morning
The distance slowly crept
And the ice in my glass
And the hit of the past
And the great icy blast
I pass it on to you
Darkness returning
My torch keeps on burning for you
In the life you keep on spurning
Everything is hurting me
'thing is hurting me
Words of a mute
The passion of a rock
Waking early on an Easter Sunday
Just before the cock
The motion of a statue
The honour of a rat
The street was almost empty
But then you saw through that
And the ice in the box
Falling off the shelf in blocks
Down at the docks
Well I was shocked not to be discovered
Darkness returning
My torch keeps on burning for you
In the life you keep on spurning
Everything is hurting me
Strength of a lamb
The shape of a cloud
The eyes of the star
Cruelty of a crowd
This afternoon is crushing down
The bars are all closed today lady
Middle of town is a long way down
I'd hate to see you break your crown
And the ice in my drink
My drink in your lap
Just a process in a trap
I'll slap it out of you
Slap it out of you
Music of the snow
Tempts the flake
Nature, you don't know
A nice delicious ache
The conscience of a fox
Love about the size of a shoe box
The school of hard knocks
They box it out of me
The ice in my throat
A message in the note
Just like a sinking boat
You coat yourself with sympathy
Darkness returning
My torch keeps on burning for you
In the life you keep on spurning
Everything is hurting me 'thing is hurting me
Lunar lyrics - The Church
All that it was was a fine-toothed comb
Only in on the night
All that it was was just one pound of flesh
And you didn't get it right
All that it was was a cannibal buzz
Leading you on, day on day
All that it means was in old Paris scenes
An old, sour Beaujolais
All that it wore was a little brittle slip
Drooping right over my head
All that it says is there's nothing left to bless
All that it said is it's dead
Only in on the night
All that it was was just one pound of flesh
And you didn't get it right
All that it was was a cannibal buzz
Leading you on, day on day
All that it means was in old Paris scenes
An old, sour Beaujolais
All that it wore was a little brittle slip
Drooping right over my head
All that it says is there's nothing left to bless
All that it said is it's dead
Duncan And Mary lyrics - The Church
Mmmm...
Mmmm...
The white of her beneath the white
And in my thoughts
Where I can enslave everyone and everything
I cross the space between our bodies
I place my mouth upon her breast
She expresses neither surprise nor shock
But only sucks in her breath
Moans
Slowly places her soft hands behind my head
Drawing me into her
Her hands so cool on my hair
Her body soft soft soft soft
I think I'm going mad
Mmmm...
The white of her beneath the white
And in my thoughts
Where I can enslave everyone and everything
I cross the space between our bodies
I place my mouth upon her breast
She expresses neither surprise nor shock
But only sucks in her breath
Moans
Slowly places her soft hands behind my head
Drawing me into her
Her hands so cool on my hair
Her body soft soft soft soft
I think I'm going mad
Even The Flies Have Eyes lyrics - The Church
(Even the flies have eyes) Janice [repeated several times]
The Gray Caps lyrics - The Church
"Do you think she can see us from in there?"
"Naw-she's busy."
"She's deep in thought, she is-but what could she be thinking about?"
"How long's she been in there?"
"Seven days. I bring her food and drink. I take it out again. She's got enough paper in there to last another week."
"Wasn't her brother the mad historian who went digging into the secrets of the gray caps? Didn't he go under the city?"
"He's there now, some say, along with the snails and the cursed gray caps."
"What's she do then?"
[?]
"What could she be typing so furiously?"
"The story of your life. A history of pubs and bars. How should I know."
"Whatever it is, it must be important. To her."
"Funny. That typewriter's like an echo. It falls away when we stop talking."
"Yes, yes it does! Do you think she's...?"
"Naw-I must be wrong. Hasn't got anything to do with us. Hasn't got anything to do with us."
"Naw-she's busy."
"She's deep in thought, she is-but what could she be thinking about?"
"How long's she been in there?"
"Seven days. I bring her food and drink. I take it out again. She's got enough paper in there to last another week."
"Wasn't her brother the mad historian who went digging into the secrets of the gray caps? Didn't he go under the city?"
"He's there now, some say, along with the snails and the cursed gray caps."
"What's she do then?"
[?]
"What could she be typing so furiously?"
"The story of your life. A history of pubs and bars. How should I know."
"Whatever it is, it must be important. To her."
"Funny. That typewriter's like an echo. It falls away when we stop talking."
"Yes, yes it does! Do you think she's...?"
"Naw-I must be wrong. Hasn't got anything to do with us. Hasn't got anything to do with us."
Ambergris lyrics - The Church
Dare I deprive the reader of that first glimpse of Ambergris? That first teasing glimpse during the carriage ride from the docks? That glimpse, and then the sprawl of Albumuth Boulevard, half staid brick, half lacquered timber? The dirt of it, the stench of it, half perfume, half ribald rot. And another smell underneath it-[Coughs]-the tantalizing scent of fungi, of fruiting bodies, of spores entangled with dust and air, spiraling down like snow. [Violently coughs] The cries of the vendors, the cries of the newly robbed, or the newly robed. The first contact of shoe on street out of the carriage-the resounding solidity of that ground, and the humming vibration of coiled energy beneath the pavement, conveyed up through shoe into foot, from foot into the rest of the body suddenly energized and woken up. The sudden hint of heat to the air-the possibilities! [Maniacal laughter]-and, peeking out from the storm drains, from the alleyways, the enticing, lingering darkness that spoke of tunnels and sudden exploration. One cannot mention our move to Ambergris without setting that scene, surely! That boulevard became our touchstone, in those early years, as it had to countless people before us. It was how you traveled into Ambergris, and it was how you carried them out when you were finally left.
But as fascinated as Duncan would become with Ambergris, he went elsewhere for his education. At our mother's insistence, in one of her few direct acts of parenting. Duncan received his advanced degrees in history from the Institute of Religiosity in Morrow [or as the historians call it, "that other city by the River Moth," a good hundred miles from Ambergris] Hooo-ahhh! Yeah! Hoo-hoo-hooaaahhhh! Yeah! No, no, no, no, no....
Duncan devoted one dark, ripe little corner to the "changing facade of Ambergris," as he called it. At first, this corner consisted only of overlapping street plans, as if he were building an image of the city from its bones. The stark white paper, the midnight black veins of ink, contrasted sharply with everything else in his rooms. [Maniacal laughter] No, no, no, no, no....
But as fascinated as Duncan would become with Ambergris, he went elsewhere for his education. At our mother's insistence, in one of her few direct acts of parenting. Duncan received his advanced degrees in history from the Institute of Religiosity in Morrow [or as the historians call it, "that other city by the River Moth," a good hundred miles from Ambergris] Hooo-ahhh! Yeah! Hoo-hoo-hooaaahhhh! Yeah! No, no, no, no, no....
Duncan devoted one dark, ripe little corner to the "changing facade of Ambergris," as he called it. At first, this corner consisted only of overlapping street plans, as if he were building an image of the city from its bones. The stark white paper, the midnight black veins of ink, contrasted sharply with everything else in his rooms. [Maniacal laughter] No, no, no, no, no....
My Love, Last Night lyrics- The Church
My love, last night was wonderful. I've never talked to anyone the way I've talked to you. You teach me so much. You make me understand things so well. You make me feel I'm floating on a cloud, on a star, so light do you make me feel. Until next time, sorrowful and sick. I will not sign this letter, in case it is discovered, you know who I am. You know who I am, my love.
Your skin is so smooth I want to lick it all day long. Your body makes me hum with pleasure. Your hair, your breasts, your small hands, your ears, as delicate as the most delicate of fungi, your strong thighs, your elbows, your eyes, your kneecaps, even! I want all of you, again and again.
Your skin is so smooth I want to lick it all day long. Your body makes me hum with pleasure. Your hair, your breasts, your small hands, your ears, as delicate as the most delicate of fungi, your strong thighs, your elbows, your eyes, your kneecaps, even! I want all of you, again and again.
Incident On Bannerville lyrics
We were on a street called Bannerville. I remember that. Huh. The streetlights were bare of the terrible burden of death. Yeah. Some of them work. They glowed green. At the end of Bannerville, we'd turn to the right and we'd be a block away from the Truffidian Cathedral.
A strange surge of joy or recognition overtook us, all out of proportion to our reality. We began to run, to laugh, abandoning our shuffle through the shadows; with safety so close, it was agony to walk slowly. The worst seemed past. It really did. I was already thinking about what I'd say to Bonmot. I was already thinking about that, Truff help me.
And Sybel had been holding my hand. He was a little behind me at this point. We were almost at the end of Bannerville, not more than twenty feet from safety. Overhead, a street lamp flickered free of the green glow that pervaded the rest of the city.
And we were both about to turn the corner. I could hear Sybel's heavy breathing as he ran. Then I heard an unfamiliar sound-a sound trapped between a gasp and a moan-and when I turned and looked at Sybel, all I could see was a mist of blood, floating out in streamers. I stopped running and stared. I couldn't breathe for a second. Nothing of him was left-not even his shoes, man. Nothing at all. His dissolution was complete and utter. There was such a final terrible beauty to it. I thought it must be an absurd magic trick, a horrible joke. But it wasn't, and the laughter caught in my throat and became a sob. Yeah, laughter caught in my throat and became a sob. Yeah.
(The closer I get to the end)
(The closer I get to the end)
(The closer I get to the end)
The closer I get to the beginning
(The closer I get to the end)
(The closer I get to the end)
The closer I get to the beginning
(The closer I get to the end)
(The closer I get to the end)
The closer I get to the beginning
(The closer I get to the end)
A strange surge of joy or recognition overtook us, all out of proportion to our reality. We began to run, to laugh, abandoning our shuffle through the shadows; with safety so close, it was agony to walk slowly. The worst seemed past. It really did. I was already thinking about what I'd say to Bonmot. I was already thinking about that, Truff help me.
And Sybel had been holding my hand. He was a little behind me at this point. We were almost at the end of Bannerville, not more than twenty feet from safety. Overhead, a street lamp flickered free of the green glow that pervaded the rest of the city.
And we were both about to turn the corner. I could hear Sybel's heavy breathing as he ran. Then I heard an unfamiliar sound-a sound trapped between a gasp and a moan-and when I turned and looked at Sybel, all I could see was a mist of blood, floating out in streamers. I stopped running and stared. I couldn't breathe for a second. Nothing of him was left-not even his shoes, man. Nothing at all. His dissolution was complete and utter. There was such a final terrible beauty to it. I thought it must be an absurd magic trick, a horrible joke. But it wasn't, and the laughter caught in my throat and became a sob. Yeah, laughter caught in my throat and became a sob. Yeah.
(The closer I get to the end)
(The closer I get to the end)
(The closer I get to the end)
The closer I get to the beginning
(The closer I get to the end)
(The closer I get to the end)
The closer I get to the beginning
(The closer I get to the end)
(The closer I get to the end)
The closer I get to the beginning
(The closer I get to the end)
A Tale For You lyrics - The Church
Here's a tale for you
Once upon a time
A woman decided to tell a story about how she tried to kill herself
Her brother saved her
At the last second
And then sent her north to be dissected by various disciples of empirical religions, yeah
Until one day
Until one day
Until one day
Until one day
She escaped
Ah, she escaped
Once upon a time
A woman decided to tell a story about how she tried to kill herself
Her brother saved her
At the last second
And then sent her north to be dissected by various disciples of empirical religions, yeah
Until one day
Until one day
Until one day
Until one day
She escaped
Ah, she escaped
Dream Of Edward lyrics - The Church
Whoa...
I've-I fell asleep for a while. I couldn't help it.
I've been pushing myself to the end even faster, taking fewer breaks.
I dreamt while I slept. Edward was in my dream.
Neither of us had really ever left the insane asylum.
We just sat there in matching straitjackets in uncomfortable chairs, facing each other.
We were surrounded by huge orange-red-and-black mushrooms.
The sight of their amber gills above us, slowly breathing in and out in a sussurating mimicry of conscious life, was strangely calming to me.
"Where have you gone?" I asked him.
"Underground," he said.
"What did you find there?" I asked.
"Acceptance, everlasting life, and mushrooms," he said, and smiled.
It was a lovely smile. It radiated outwards to suffuse his entire face in a golden light.
"Is that all?" I said. "Was it worth it? Did you have to give up anything?"
"My fear. My consciousness. My former life."
"What was that like?"
"Do you remember those trust exercises they made us do? Where one of us would fall into the arms of the others, and you just had to fall and keep falling and believe they would catch you?"
"It was like that?"
"It was like that. Except imagine falling for a hundred years before you're caught, looking at a black sky full of dead stars in front of you, and the abyss at your back."
"You're dead," I said. It wasn't an accusation.
"Probably," he replied.
I've-I fell asleep for a while. I couldn't help it.
I've been pushing myself to the end even faster, taking fewer breaks.
I dreamt while I slept. Edward was in my dream.
Neither of us had really ever left the insane asylum.
We just sat there in matching straitjackets in uncomfortable chairs, facing each other.
We were surrounded by huge orange-red-and-black mushrooms.
The sight of their amber gills above us, slowly breathing in and out in a sussurating mimicry of conscious life, was strangely calming to me.
"Where have you gone?" I asked him.
"Underground," he said.
"What did you find there?" I asked.
"Acceptance, everlasting life, and mushrooms," he said, and smiled.
It was a lovely smile. It radiated outwards to suffuse his entire face in a golden light.
"Is that all?" I said. "Was it worth it? Did you have to give up anything?"
"My fear. My consciousness. My former life."
"What was that like?"
"Do you remember those trust exercises they made us do? Where one of us would fall into the arms of the others, and you just had to fall and keep falling and believe they would catch you?"
"It was like that?"
"It was like that. Except imagine falling for a hundred years before you're caught, looking at a black sky full of dead stars in front of you, and the abyss at your back."
"You're dead," I said. It wasn't an accusation.
"Probably," he replied.
War Of The Houses lyrics - The Church
War
War of the houses
War
War of the houses
War of the houses
War of the houses
War of the houses
War of the houses
War of the houses
War of the houses
War
War of the houses
War of the houses
War of the houses
War of the houses
War of the houses
War of the houses
The Aan Tribal War lyrics - The Church
She stumbled
Caught herself
Blinked twice
Stopped screaming
But no
She was still screaming
It was just soundless
A look had come over her
Destroyed unity
Between mouth, eyes, forehead, cheekbones
Before me she became undone
Looking through those glasses
She fell to her knees
Now grappling
They didn't want to come off
She still couldn't close her eyes
She still couldn't close her eyes
She still couldn't close her eyes
She still couldn't close her eyes
Caught herself
Blinked twice
Stopped screaming
But no
She was still screaming
It was just soundless
A look had come over her
Destroyed unity
Between mouth, eyes, forehead, cheekbones
Before me she became undone
Looking through those glasses
She fell to her knees
Now grappling
They didn't want to come off
She still couldn't close her eyes
She still couldn't close her eyes
She still couldn't close her eyes
She still couldn't close her eyes
Block lyrics - The Church
I was down in the city on a miracle street
I flailed like a swimmer through the summer heat
I was waiting for a friend that I needed to meet
And I's hopin' she was bringin' with her something sweet
And I's hopin' for an open little opening
And I suffer for a groovy little happening
But it's all going wrong just like I sing in that song
The song I wrote about you that they put on TV
The TV that I gave you 'cause you wanted to see
But all you saw were spaces where the people used to be
The hundred bastard voids with their pull on me
In the valley of death you'll be breathless and free
You'll be dancing like a fool by the swollen sea
You'll be twitching like a drunk in a pharmacy
You'll be swatting at the flies in the pavillion
Where the millionare just blew a gazillion
Fingernails are all hot vermillion
When the traffic grinds down to a standstill(ion)
And the mynah birds are pecking at the carrion
And you read it already in Hyperion
And you read about my trial in the Clarion
A sack full of ashes I've been carrying
When the lights turn green I dissolve the screen
When the lights turn red I put the whole thing to bed
Well I got a fever
And I'm feeling fainter
I'm a dim receiver
I'm a Cold War painter
If you can just hold still
I will make you all so beautiful
When the lights turn blue I know what to do
I'll drown my tomorrows in an ocean or two
And the pretty little things with their magnets and rings
Blooming like a flower through a series of springs
Thank you Fate and the freight that she brings
Thank you Fortuna and the song that she sings
Thank you to my manager for letting me live
Thank you to my friends and the friends that you're with
Thank you to the Lord who created all this
There's a whole lotta hurt before you get to the bliss
Why even Jesus Christ was betrayed by a kiss
But that was long before that he got in show biz
Well I understand the land and the land ain't no sea
But when I try to walk I'm sinking you see
So I got a fever
And I'm feeling fainter
I'm a dim receiver
I'm a Cold War painter
If you can just hold still
I will make you all so beautiful
I flailed like a swimmer through the summer heat
I was waiting for a friend that I needed to meet
And I's hopin' she was bringin' with her something sweet
And I's hopin' for an open little opening
And I suffer for a groovy little happening
But it's all going wrong just like I sing in that song
The song I wrote about you that they put on TV
The TV that I gave you 'cause you wanted to see
But all you saw were spaces where the people used to be
The hundred bastard voids with their pull on me
In the valley of death you'll be breathless and free
You'll be dancing like a fool by the swollen sea
You'll be twitching like a drunk in a pharmacy
You'll be swatting at the flies in the pavillion
Where the millionare just blew a gazillion
Fingernails are all hot vermillion
When the traffic grinds down to a standstill(ion)
And the mynah birds are pecking at the carrion
And you read it already in Hyperion
And you read about my trial in the Clarion
A sack full of ashes I've been carrying
When the lights turn green I dissolve the screen
When the lights turn red I put the whole thing to bed
Well I got a fever
And I'm feeling fainter
I'm a dim receiver
I'm a Cold War painter
If you can just hold still
I will make you all so beautiful
When the lights turn blue I know what to do
I'll drown my tomorrows in an ocean or two
And the pretty little things with their magnets and rings
Blooming like a flower through a series of springs
Thank you Fate and the freight that she brings
Thank you Fortuna and the song that she sings
Thank you to my manager for letting me live
Thank you to my friends and the friends that you're with
Thank you to the Lord who created all this
There's a whole lotta hurt before you get to the bliss
Why even Jesus Christ was betrayed by a kiss
But that was long before that he got in show biz
Well I understand the land and the land ain't no sea
But when I try to walk I'm sinking you see
So I got a fever
And I'm feeling fainter
I'm a dim receiver
I'm a Cold War painter
If you can just hold still
I will make you all so beautiful
Unified Field lyrics - The Church
Your money is so pretty
It's too beautiful to spend
Evening is so magical
Too elaborate to end
The air here is so sweet
It's much too pure to breathe
It's already over
I don't want to leave
Unified field
No one here is gonna yield
No one here you've seen before
Magnetic strip
Pull me further in its grip
No one here you can't adore
Your scenery is unusual
It's too elusive for me to view
Your food is just delicious
But I can't eat it like you do
Darkness all around us
It's the only thing I see
The music is so sacred
It can never get me free
Unified field
No one here is gonna yield
No one here you've seen before
Magnetic strip
Pull me further in its grip
No one here you can't adore
Your energy exhausts me
It drives you like a lash
Your enthusiasm's contagious
Covers me like a rash
Your gravity supports me
It guides me through the crash
Unified field
No one here is gonna yield
No one here you've seen before
Magnetic strip
Pull me further in its grip
No one here you can't adore
It's too beautiful to spend
Evening is so magical
Too elaborate to end
The air here is so sweet
It's much too pure to breathe
It's already over
I don't want to leave
Unified field
No one here is gonna yield
No one here you've seen before
Magnetic strip
Pull me further in its grip
No one here you can't adore
Your scenery is unusual
It's too elusive for me to view
Your food is just delicious
But I can't eat it like you do
Darkness all around us
It's the only thing I see
The music is so sacred
It can never get me free
Unified field
No one here is gonna yield
No one here you've seen before
Magnetic strip
Pull me further in its grip
No one here you can't adore
Your energy exhausts me
It drives you like a lash
Your enthusiasm's contagious
Covers me like a rash
Your gravity supports me
It guides me through the crash
Unified field
No one here is gonna yield
No one here you've seen before
Magnetic strip
Pull me further in its grip
No one here you can't adore
Space Needle lyrics - The Church
Getting kinda greedy, need a space needle
Stick it straight through the crust
Suck up all the magma, put it in a bagma
And blow it through your brains till you bust
Where oblivion is beckoning
Where leviathan is reckoning
Getting kinda famished with all this talk of famine
I can't survive on bread alone
Give me space needle so I don't whine or wheedle
I need these planets close to my bone
Where oblivion is beckoning
Where leviathan is reckoning
Getting kinda nervous the way your lips is curvous
It's a mystery to me we don't fall
Where's my space needle, I want a little treacle
I want to wish good luck to you all
Where oblivion is beckoning
Where leviathan is reckoning
Stick it straight through the crust
Suck up all the magma, put it in a bagma
And blow it through your brains till you bust
Where oblivion is beckoning
Where leviathan is reckoning
Getting kinda famished with all this talk of famine
I can't survive on bread alone
Give me space needle so I don't whine or wheedle
I need these planets close to my bone
Where oblivion is beckoning
Where leviathan is reckoning
Getting kinda nervous the way your lips is curvous
It's a mystery to me we don't fall
Where's my space needle, I want a little treacle
I want to wish good luck to you all
Where oblivion is beckoning
Where leviathan is reckoning
Overview lyrics - The Church
Listen
Can you even imagine how this all went wrong
Was supposed to be good trip
We're all supposed to feel like we belong
Don't pitch me the script
I've got a suggestion for the end of it
Don't beat up your computer, don't downplay your soul
Don't find it wanting when you've lost control
Just like the stories they tell ya
Just like the tripe that they sell ya
Just like the damned you say 'hell yeah'
Watch out
You can never be certain if anyone is really a friend
This could be such a sweet thing
We all should be leaving in the end
Your network's gone down
No one can connect you up in this town
You scoped out a slot, you scooped out a niche
You're strutting along on the end of a leash
Just like the stories they tell ya
Just like the tripe that they sell ya
Just like the damned you say 'hell yeah'
Help me
Can't find my way back
I feel like I'm already off the map
This should have been such a pleasure
I thought it would all fall right in my lap
Conversing with cash
You've cashed all your chips
You fished out my sea, see
You dropped all the drips
Just like the stories they tell ya
Just like the tripe that they sell ya
Just like the damned you say 'hell yeah'
Can you even imagine how this all went wrong
Was supposed to be good trip
We're all supposed to feel like we belong
Don't pitch me the script
I've got a suggestion for the end of it
Don't beat up your computer, don't downplay your soul
Don't find it wanting when you've lost control
Just like the stories they tell ya
Just like the tripe that they sell ya
Just like the damned you say 'hell yeah'
Watch out
You can never be certain if anyone is really a friend
This could be such a sweet thing
We all should be leaving in the end
Your network's gone down
No one can connect you up in this town
You scoped out a slot, you scooped out a niche
You're strutting along on the end of a leash
Just like the stories they tell ya
Just like the tripe that they sell ya
Just like the damned you say 'hell yeah'
Help me
Can't find my way back
I feel like I'm already off the map
This should have been such a pleasure
I thought it would all fall right in my lap
Conversing with cash
You've cashed all your chips
You fished out my sea, see
You dropped all the drips
Just like the stories they tell ya
Just like the tripe that they sell ya
Just like the damned you say 'hell yeah'
Easy lyrics - The Church
Any day now you'll see me coming rambling down your street at night
In the broad moonlight
Underneath the blooming trees a seasons greeting's beating up the shore
So open up your door
Easy baby
You don't have to say a word
Easy now
You don't have to do a thing
You'll protect me with your arts and it all starts again surrounding me
Inevitably
Hiding in your haven, maybe stark and maybe raving, completely sane
It's just so plain arcane
Easy baby
You don't have to act so hard
Easy now
You don't have to be like that
Any day now you'll hear me ringing, hear me singing down the line
Or just in your mind
You'll embrace me, turn to face me, try to replace me, it will be too late
Now that's all I'll say
Easy baby
It's so hard to walk away
Easy now
You don't have to end like this
In the broad moonlight
Underneath the blooming trees a seasons greeting's beating up the shore
So open up your door
Easy baby
You don't have to say a word
Easy now
You don't have to do a thing
You'll protect me with your arts and it all starts again surrounding me
Inevitably
Hiding in your haven, maybe stark and maybe raving, completely sane
It's just so plain arcane
Easy baby
You don't have to act so hard
Easy now
You don't have to be like that
Any day now you'll hear me ringing, hear me singing down the line
Or just in your mind
You'll embrace me, turn to face me, try to replace me, it will be too late
Now that's all I'll say
Easy baby
It's so hard to walk away
Easy now
You don't have to end like this
She'll Come Back For You Tomorrow lyrics - The Church
Tremblin' the winter comes, penetrates the room
Sits beside you, takes hold of your hand
And the glances that she gives you
As your body turns to stone
And you shatter into pieces
As she leaves you all alone
She'll hypnotise you, make you follow
Or she'll come back for you tomorrow
And she's smiling and she's vicious
And she's sour and delicious
Can't ignore her or resist her
Try to leave her and I missed her
She'll hypnotise you, make you follow
Or she'll come back for you tomorrow
The sphere of life that glows and twists entices you to fall
Grants your wishes then takes them all away
And it crushes and it squeezes
Breaks the spirit, kills the soul
And it does just as it pleases
Did you hurry it to the hole
She'll hypnotise you, make you follow
Or she'll come back for you tomorrow
She'll come back for you tomorrow
Or she'll come back for you tomorrow
She'll come back for you tomorrow
Sits beside you, takes hold of your hand
And the glances that she gives you
As your body turns to stone
And you shatter into pieces
As she leaves you all alone
She'll hypnotise you, make you follow
Or she'll come back for you tomorrow
And she's smiling and she's vicious
And she's sour and delicious
Can't ignore her or resist her
Try to leave her and I missed her
She'll hypnotise you, make you follow
Or she'll come back for you tomorrow
The sphere of life that glows and twists entices you to fall
Grants your wishes then takes them all away
And it crushes and it squeezes
Breaks the spirit, kills the soul
And it does just as it pleases
Did you hurry it to the hole
She'll hypnotise you, make you follow
Or she'll come back for you tomorrow
She'll come back for you tomorrow
Or she'll come back for you tomorrow
She'll come back for you tomorrow
Pure Chance lyrics - The Church
What chance of meeting
So far out here
As if repeating
What's never clear
The verdant meadows
The smoky coil
The air and ether
The boiling soil
I read your novel
The names were switched
I heard you travel
You must be rich
Those distant cities
Are safe and warm
Within their walls
Of chloroform
Home
It's so far away now
Pure chance
It's so far
It's so far away now
My wife was warm
But the water was cold
And she was young
And the ocean was old
There were voices singing from under the sea
As I followed them down I felt them drowning me
What chance of meeting
So long ago
Just for a fleeting...
Ah, well you know
How unintentional
A random whim
Coincidental
A shallow thing
Home
It's so far away now
Pure chance
It's so far
It's so far away now
My wife was soft
The mountain was hard
Her skin was smooth
The rocks were scarred
There were voices singing above in the sky
As I followed them up I was prepared to die
So far out here
As if repeating
What's never clear
The verdant meadows
The smoky coil
The air and ether
The boiling soil
I read your novel
The names were switched
I heard you travel
You must be rich
Those distant cities
Are safe and warm
Within their walls
Of chloroform
Home
It's so far away now
Pure chance
It's so far
It's so far away now
My wife was warm
But the water was cold
And she was young
And the ocean was old
There were voices singing from under the sea
As I followed them down I felt them drowning me
What chance of meeting
So long ago
Just for a fleeting...
Ah, well you know
How unintentional
A random whim
Coincidental
A shallow thing
Home
It's so far away now
Pure chance
It's so far
It's so far away now
My wife was soft
The mountain was hard
Her skin was smooth
The rocks were scarred
There were voices singing above in the sky
As I followed them up I was prepared to die
Never Before lyrics - The Church
The streets are paved with money
Where nothing's ever sold
Rain falls while it's sunny
And sights worth more than gold
The fires alive are burning
To warm those in the fold
Like never before
Like never before
Like never before
With a portal left to be tried
And find you're not denied
Even filmed in grey at a matinee
It's like never before
Daybreak's a sign for many
Whose work is not in vain
Worth less without any
But measured not by gain
A game that all are winning
As they're guided down destiny lane
Like never before
Like never before
Like never before
With a portal left to be tried
And find you're not denied
Even filmed in grey at a matinee
It's like never before
A night pierced with stars
Like never before (never before)
And time wears the scars
Like never before (never before)
The song's sad melody
Like never before (never before)
And pain's just a memory
Like never before (never before)
Where nothing's ever sold
Rain falls while it's sunny
And sights worth more than gold
The fires alive are burning
To warm those in the fold
Like never before
Like never before
Like never before
With a portal left to be tried
And find you're not denied
Even filmed in grey at a matinee
It's like never before
Daybreak's a sign for many
Whose work is not in vain
Worth less without any
But measured not by gain
A game that all are winning
As they're guided down destiny lane
Like never before
Like never before
Like never before
With a portal left to be tried
And find you're not denied
Even filmed in grey at a matinee
It's like never before
A night pierced with stars
Like never before (never before)
And time wears the scars
Like never before (never before)
The song's sad melody
Like never before (never before)
And pain's just a memory
Like never before (never before)
Real Toggle Action lyrics - The Church
I wish that you could see yourself
I wish that you could be yourself
The things you try to do
They never benefit you
I wish that you could free yourself
You never stop to wonder why (oh no)
You're not a curious kind of guy
You got the deep space blues
You ought to change, here's a fuse
You're only happy when you're high
(High, high, high, high, be high, high)
I hoped that you could let it go
I hoped that you would come to know
We're actors in a play
Not even our own lines that we say
It's just that it's that kind of show
(High, high, high, high, be high, high)
[plus some melodic chanting]
I wish that you could be yourself
The things you try to do
They never benefit you
I wish that you could free yourself
You never stop to wonder why (oh no)
You're not a curious kind of guy
You got the deep space blues
You ought to change, here's a fuse
You're only happy when you're high
(High, high, high, high, be high, high)
I hoped that you could let it go
I hoped that you would come to know
We're actors in a play
Not even our own lines that we say
It's just that it's that kind of show
(High, high, high, high, be high, high)
[plus some melodic chanting]
Untoward lyrics - The Church
(How low)
It's further than you think so you better not let go
(Oh no)
It's better than you thought so you better take it slow, or it'll
(Un-go)
Go away from yourself well I oughta know, and I say
(Oh no)
It's further than you think so you better not let go
(Off and on)
(Mer)curial breakthrough
(Off and on)
Cold parable
(Off and on)
Coordinates locked in
(Off and on)
Journey begun
(Somehow)
I hope you get a ride 'cause it's too late for me now, so I
(Cow tow)
To any little despot with a crown upon his brow, and they
(Know how)
That's the kind of energy that nature can endow
(Off and on)
Metaphysical check-up
(Off and on)
Making them king
(Off and on)
Lifespan extensions
(Off and on)
Forever livin'
(One day)
One day I'm gonna change and I'll arrange it all my way
(One day)
One day I'll just ascend and they'll pretend I went away
(Off and on)
Natural science
(Off and on)
So you still wait
(Off and on)
Jump into neutral
(Off and on)
White spirit gate
(Off and on)
(Off and on)
It's further than you think so you better not let go
(Oh no)
It's better than you thought so you better take it slow, or it'll
(Un-go)
Go away from yourself well I oughta know, and I say
(Oh no)
It's further than you think so you better not let go
(Off and on)
(Mer)curial breakthrough
(Off and on)
Cold parable
(Off and on)
Coordinates locked in
(Off and on)
Journey begun
(Somehow)
I hope you get a ride 'cause it's too late for me now, so I
(Cow tow)
To any little despot with a crown upon his brow, and they
(Know how)
That's the kind of energy that nature can endow
(Off and on)
Metaphysical check-up
(Off and on)
Making them king
(Off and on)
Lifespan extensions
(Off and on)
Forever livin'
(One day)
One day I'm gonna change and I'll arrange it all my way
(One day)
One day I'll just ascend and they'll pretend I went away
(Off and on)
Natural science
(Off and on)
So you still wait
(Off and on)
Jump into neutral
(Off and on)
White spirit gate
(Off and on)
(Off and on)
Day 5 lyrics - The Church
Eventually
We came to a chasm dark and wide
And drifted in silence through endless anemones
In shallow dreams
Life was beginning to take a shape
Water was warm as it hastened our enemies
This kind of world will start a little colony
This kind of earth will eat a little energy
This kind of thing needs a little secrecy
After thousands of years
Our priests have predicted you would come
You with your death that appears in no photograph
You watch the night sky
We bickered like fools amongst ourselves
We sought protection in artificial youth
This kind of world will start a little colony
This kind of earth will eat a little energy
This kind of thing needs a little secrecy
This kind of thing needs a little secrecy
This kind of thing needs a little secrecy
This kind of thing needs a little secrecy
In a sickening jump
I fell through the surface of my life
And I was cut back by the hollow comraderie
The planet was still
Nothing moved as it slept in space
I pulled on my suit and exited quietly
We came to a chasm dark and wide
And drifted in silence through endless anemones
In shallow dreams
Life was beginning to take a shape
Water was warm as it hastened our enemies
This kind of world will start a little colony
This kind of earth will eat a little energy
This kind of thing needs a little secrecy
After thousands of years
Our priests have predicted you would come
You with your death that appears in no photograph
You watch the night sky
We bickered like fools amongst ourselves
We sought protection in artificial youth
This kind of world will start a little colony
This kind of earth will eat a little energy
This kind of thing needs a little secrecy
This kind of thing needs a little secrecy
This kind of thing needs a little secrecy
This kind of thing needs a little secrecy
In a sickening jump
I fell through the surface of my life
And I was cut back by the hollow comraderie
The planet was still
Nothing moved as it slept in space
I pulled on my suit and exited quietly
Song To Go... lyrics - The Church
I said he-hi
I said hello
I said a-where'd you want this little
Song to go....
I started singing
Made up some words
I sang it like a sonnet
I sang it for the birds
I sang about the distance
I sang about the time
I introduced some chaos
And tried to make it rhyme
I hope somebody listened
And heard another world
Pure haze on the better words, they were
Catching a song
A song about the fountain
A song about a day
About a song about a modern day
With a little delay
I said goodbye
I said hold on
Where did you want that little
Song to go...
I said hello
I said a-where'd you want this little
Song to go....
I started singing
Made up some words
I sang it like a sonnet
I sang it for the birds
I sang about the distance
I sang about the time
I introduced some chaos
And tried to make it rhyme
I hope somebody listened
And heard another world
Pure haze on the better words, they were
Catching a song
A song about the fountain
A song about a day
About a song about a modern day
With a little delay
I said goodbye
I said hold on
Where did you want that little
Song to go...
Snowfaller lyrics - The Church
Ice is forming 'round this heart of mine
I seen a lot of damage baby, but I won't get hurt this time
Now I got a reason
Now I got a stake
Now I gotta put you back every time you break
Left my ego in the mezzanine
Here he comes again, bustin' up my scene
Now I got a future
Now I gotta try
Now I, I gotta live for you every time you die
Imagine it's snowfaller
Bring winter, just call her
Imagine it's snowfaller
I left my ego in the mezzanine
But here he comes again, bustin' up my scheme
Now I got a future
Now I gotta try
Now I gotta live for you every time you die
Imagine it's snowfaller
Bring winter, just call her
Imagine it's snowfaller
Imagine it's snowfaller
Bring winter, just call her
Imagine it's snowfaller
I seen a lot of damage baby, but I won't get hurt this time
Now I got a reason
Now I got a stake
Now I gotta put you back every time you break
Left my ego in the mezzanine
Here he comes again, bustin' up my scene
Now I got a future
Now I gotta try
Now I, I gotta live for you every time you die
Imagine it's snowfaller
Bring winter, just call her
Imagine it's snowfaller
I left my ego in the mezzanine
But here he comes again, bustin' up my scheme
Now I got a future
Now I gotta try
Now I gotta live for you every time you die
Imagine it's snowfaller
Bring winter, just call her
Imagine it's snowfaller
Imagine it's snowfaller
Bring winter, just call her
Imagine it's snowfaller
Pantechnicon lyrics - The Church
Lost myself a picture book
Best you've never seen
Slowed half down I take a hook
Hang it on the ring
Got my head
Got my red
Got my violet-green
Just give back my old stranger
Wherever you have been
And it's all in the photographs
And it's all in the past
It's at home in the memory
It's the least and the most
Got involved in secrets
In 1943
Judged myself a player
Wherever I may be
Got my black
Got my shack
Got my rosemary
Never gonna get to Paris
Before Burgundy
And it's all in the photographs
And it's all in the past
It's at home in the memory
It's the least and the most
Saw a lot of rivers in the desert
Wandering in the trees
Thinking I was quite alone
I lectured to the breeze
Got my sap
Got my rap
Got my fiddler's threes
Never gonna get your honey
Angering the bees
And it's all in the photographs
And it's all in the past
It's at home in memory
It's the least and the most
Best you've never seen
Slowed half down I take a hook
Hang it on the ring
Got my head
Got my red
Got my violet-green
Just give back my old stranger
Wherever you have been
And it's all in the photographs
And it's all in the past
It's at home in the memory
It's the least and the most
Got involved in secrets
In 1943
Judged myself a player
Wherever I may be
Got my black
Got my shack
Got my rosemary
Never gonna get to Paris
Before Burgundy
And it's all in the photographs
And it's all in the past
It's at home in the memory
It's the least and the most
Saw a lot of rivers in the desert
Wandering in the trees
Thinking I was quite alone
I lectured to the breeze
Got my sap
Got my rap
Got my fiddler's threes
Never gonna get your honey
Angering the bees
And it's all in the photographs
And it's all in the past
It's at home in memory
It's the least and the most
Unreliable External lyrics - The Church
Come on now baby let's have a little fun tonight
2,000 long years and they're all leading up to tonight
Why'd you wanna be so cruel to me like that
But you're already near me, you already see
And you look so good tonight
Sky so black tonight
Everybody knows that you got it for free
If they catch up with ya you're gonna wanna know me
Alright
Sometimes I think I'll go crazy from the things that you say
I can't understand why you say that everything is dead
You saw the light, it was too bright, and you said
Then you turn around and you found it's me instead
Look so fine tonight
Sun is gonna shine tonight
Everybody knows that you know one of us
If they catch up with you don't make a fuss
Alright
Desired these purple vile lips in your tonight
Common steel rover maxed out like a lira tonight
Tuffunnel caaa-ves in resulting in a hurt
All my little experiments right down the drain tonight
That's alright
(That's right!)
2,000 long years and they're all leading up to tonight
Why'd you wanna be so cruel to me like that
But you're already near me, you already see
And you look so good tonight
Sky so black tonight
Everybody knows that you got it for free
If they catch up with ya you're gonna wanna know me
Alright
Sometimes I think I'll go crazy from the things that you say
I can't understand why you say that everything is dead
You saw the light, it was too bright, and you said
Then you turn around and you found it's me instead
Look so fine tonight
Sun is gonna shine tonight
Everybody knows that you know one of us
If they catch up with you don't make a fuss
Alright
Desired these purple vile lips in your tonight
Common steel rover maxed out like a lira tonight
Tuffunnel caaa-ves in resulting in a hurt
All my little experiments right down the drain tonight
That's alright
(That's right!)
Pearls lyrics - The Church
Well I hope
You're well insured
If my poor little heart
Becomes injured
And I hope
You can appreciate
When I say I'm coming early
I'm bound to be late
So don't
Change your rate
In the morning
Buildings swarming
Pearls are forming
In the seas
In the evening
Birds are leaving
In the seething
Canopy
In my time
With this name
I've been so many different men
Which one do you blame?
In my skin
With this face
I dreamt I was a dragonfly
Gone from this place
And I soared
Into the light
But I was unmade into a human
Just tonight
In the morning
Buildings swarming
Pearls are forming
In the seas
In the evening
Birds are leaving
In a seething
Canopy
You're so kind
You're so soft
And I could never see the strings
That hold you aloft
You're so vain
You're so obscure
And I wouldn't take any more of that
It might be pure
You're so in love
You're so outdoors
I wouldn't take any more of that
It isn't yours
In the morning
Buildings swarming
Pearls are forming
In the sea
In the evening
Birds are leaving
In a seething
Canopy
You're well insured
If my poor little heart
Becomes injured
And I hope
You can appreciate
When I say I'm coming early
I'm bound to be late
So don't
Change your rate
In the morning
Buildings swarming
Pearls are forming
In the seas
In the evening
Birds are leaving
In the seething
Canopy
In my time
With this name
I've been so many different men
Which one do you blame?
In my skin
With this face
I dreamt I was a dragonfly
Gone from this place
And I soared
Into the light
But I was unmade into a human
Just tonight
In the morning
Buildings swarming
Pearls are forming
In the seas
In the evening
Birds are leaving
In a seething
Canopy
You're so kind
You're so soft
And I could never see the strings
That hold you aloft
You're so vain
You're so obscure
And I wouldn't take any more of that
It might be pure
You're so in love
You're so outdoors
I wouldn't take any more of that
It isn't yours
In the morning
Buildings swarming
Pearls are forming
In the sea
In the evening
Birds are leaving
In a seething
Canopy
Saturation lyrics - The Church
Cast adrift
On these solar seas
The humble servant
Of your majesties
In the orbits tremor
The slightest string is pulled
Corral the villains
Where are the fools
And it's all in a day, a generation
When you get to the saturation
It's all down, down, down, down
If only
If only I could solve it for you
If only
If only I could dissolve it for you
You cut my hand
On a chandelier
You know what I was searchin'
For a little good cheer
In the planes above us
The slightest prick is felt
And we break down
And we just melt
And it's all in a spell incantation
When you get into penetration
It's all down, down, down, down
If only
If only I could solve it for you
If only
If only I could dissolve it for you
I'm set apart
On the broken reef
I'm as helpless
As the smallest leaf
And in the lethal jungle
The slightest sound is heard
Who are the humans?
Where are the birds?
And it's all in a miscreation
And you get to the explanation
It's all down, down, down, down
If only
If only I could solve it for you
If only
If only I could dissolve it for you
Alright!
On these solar seas
The humble servant
Of your majesties
In the orbits tremor
The slightest string is pulled
Corral the villains
Where are the fools
And it's all in a day, a generation
When you get to the saturation
It's all down, down, down, down
If only
If only I could solve it for you
If only
If only I could dissolve it for you
You cut my hand
On a chandelier
You know what I was searchin'
For a little good cheer
In the planes above us
The slightest prick is felt
And we break down
And we just melt
And it's all in a spell incantation
When you get into penetration
It's all down, down, down, down
If only
If only I could solve it for you
If only
If only I could dissolve it for you
I'm set apart
On the broken reef
I'm as helpless
As the smallest leaf
And in the lethal jungle
The slightest sound is heard
Who are the humans?
Where are the birds?
And it's all in a miscreation
And you get to the explanation
It's all down, down, down, down
If only
If only I could solve it for you
If only
If only I could dissolve it for you
Alright!
Heading South lyrics - The Church
The wind in the wireless
Smell of the neon
Rustle our papers
Starlight broke down
Alone in the backseats
Rain on the windshield
Face in the rain drops
Mist rolling in
We're heading south
We're heading south again
We're heading south
Heading south again
Lightning is frozen
TV's gone haywire
The traffic on Broadway
The sound of the moon
Golden impression
This certain explosion
The price of a ticket
Beating a drum
We're heading south
Heading south again
We're heading south
Heading south again
Romeo vacuum
Cyrillic adaption
Smooth application
Tomorrow vision
Ending abruptly
I stop for a moment
Possible outcome
Rational thought
We're heading south
We're heading south again
We're heading south
Heading south again
Smell of the neon
Rustle our papers
Starlight broke down
Alone in the backseats
Rain on the windshield
Face in the rain drops
Mist rolling in
We're heading south
We're heading south again
We're heading south
Heading south again
Lightning is frozen
TV's gone haywire
The traffic on Broadway
The sound of the moon
Golden impression
This certain explosion
The price of a ticket
Beating a drum
We're heading south
Heading south again
We're heading south
Heading south again
Romeo vacuum
Cyrillic adaption
Smooth application
Tomorrow vision
Ending abruptly
I stop for a moment
Possible outcome
Rational thought
We're heading south
We're heading south again
We're heading south
Heading south again
Ionian Blues lyrics - The Church
Shapeless thing in the wine dark sea
Amphitrite's currents bring my love home to me
And it's over and over in the brine
Just like a man run out of time
And I'm crashing in the surf
Then I'm lying in the earth
Thunderclouds rend the sky
Old Earth-shaker won't be happy till I die
Been sitting here, Calypso, nearly seven long years
The hour of my release steadily nears
And I'm playing on your lyre
Then I'm burning in the fire
Amphitrite's currents bring my love home to me
And it's over and over in the brine
Just like a man run out of time
And I'm crashing in the surf
Then I'm lying in the earth
Thunderclouds rend the sky
Old Earth-shaker won't be happy till I die
Been sitting here, Calypso, nearly seven long years
The hour of my release steadily nears
And I'm playing on your lyre
Then I'm burning in the fire
Anthem X lyrics - The Church
According to evidence
We all descended from god's magnificence
The holy world, a diamond tower
We are the sirens of this ruined lie
Oh you fools, glow glorious
Return the fire that was stolen from us
A million things must come and pass
We are the casing and the cover and the cast
Come inside, pull you down
Let light and music and honor be born
My golden ones who dare to fight
You stand against the fabrications of the night
Writing tunes with much revere
Preserved by people and cut and battered here
Take those blows, stand your ground
Or wander lost and never to be found
We all descended from god's magnificence
The holy world, a diamond tower
We are the sirens of this ruined lie
Oh you fools, glow glorious
Return the fire that was stolen from us
A million things must come and pass
We are the casing and the cover and the cast
Come inside, pull you down
Let light and music and honor be born
My golden ones who dare to fight
You stand against the fabrications of the night
Writing tunes with much revere
Preserved by people and cut and battered here
Take those blows, stand your ground
Or wander lost and never to be found
Night Sequence lyrics - The Church
Another warm chlorinated night
The pool throws blue light
The harbor sprawling in the garden
The spirit of the earth
Coming up through the ground
Tonight there is no weather
As if out here
You're on a set
Of painted on yachts
Fake glittering stars
The pool turns out to be blue cellophane
The grass is actually paper
The camera moves in
We detach from our unit
Actors uncertain
He motions to someone out of view
Shares a joke
And accepts a drink
From some accomplice
Sipping quiet he's waiting for his monologue
Mynah birds still whirr and click
But all else is still and listening
A makeup girl does his hair and disappears
The actor is actually playing you
We dissolve in close
He finishes his drink
He begins, ahh
'A long time ago...'
He leaves off
Someone hands him a phone
Something terrible has occurred
Is this part of the story?
The audience may at this point choose
If you want a happy ending
Then you may jump to another story
If you wanted to see some more of the yachts
They'll be back in other scenes
Yeah!
If you think you can move along a little faster
Here we go...
The actor is having an argument
We overhear:
'Bu... But... But that's... but that's not possible!
I... I... I know, but why... but when... why wouldn't know...
They'll never know... but why wouldn't... I...
Cue in music
Moonlight Sonata
Sped up with some subtle disco beat
Bring up more starry light
Let a zephyr blow through this garden
A woman appears on the set
It's that famous actress who is the actor's girlfriend in real life
But who is actually also playing your wife in this film
They embrace
She takes the phone from the actor
And dismisses the crew
We're left dangling
We can't wait to find out
If, how, why
If, how, why
We think about the nature of performance
And we see the garden darken
Clouds now cover the stars
The yacht's completely gone
The harbor was a projection
Actress was a hologram
The garden was a stage
Aww, the night is suddenly gone
We're blinking in the sudden light
People push past
The air is filled with smoke, perfume, sweat
Voices shout, some whisper
A cab pulls up
Now this is strange
We climb inside
The actor is in there
He slides over begrudgingly
Wow, he really looks like you close up
We begin our journey
Him on one side, you on the other
I fall asleep
Ha! When I awake I'm confused
Who is who?
Who is who?
Who is who?
Who is who?
The driver turns around
'This would be your stop'
And the cab stops
You get out
We drive on
The actor decides to act like you
He mimics your lazy minions
He has perfected your accent
His makeup and hair are amazing
Even from here
I can't believe they even knew where you live
We pull up outside your house
The actress playing your wife comes out
Out of your house
Carrying a phone
She climbs in the front seat
She hands you I mean, the actor the phone
You deny everything
I mean the actor
No, but that's not true
That's just not true
Cars speed past
The hum of the city
Song of the day
The actor hangs up
On closer examination the phone is a prop
He reads from a script all but concealed
Why?
Why did you give Kilbey my number?
She answers with:
'Maybe this is an imposter
Kilbey is your friend, what do you mean?'
[He replies:]
'I feel like he's watching us all the time
Incorporating us into one of his songs
Writing about our lives
In his dispassionate way'
The cab turns into Cleveland Street
The driver turns around
'Just after these lights then'
There's so much I would like to ask the actress
I lean forward to say something
The taxi stops
We climb out
We come to a warehouse
We go in where they are making a film
We go in where they are making a film
We go in where they are making a film
The garden
A harbor
The pool
The chlorine
The alcohol
A hot night is invoked
A breeze maker emits a gentle breeze
The recorded sounds of a distant drunken party
People, laughter, drifting on the air
Woozy music
Glasses clinking
Ice tinkling
Yachts on the harbor
People on board waving to us
Drinking
Laughing
Waving
Summer
Holiday
Night
Antics
Rockets go up
Framing the bridge
Push out of the crowd
Crowd of extras and wardrobe people
Some wearing swimming costumes
Some in evening wear
More fireworks
More fireworks
Their soft explosions thumping the night
Revelry
Abandonment
Music swelling up
Credits roll
You leave the premises
The pool throws blue light
The harbor sprawling in the garden
The spirit of the earth
Coming up through the ground
Tonight there is no weather
As if out here
You're on a set
Of painted on yachts
Fake glittering stars
The pool turns out to be blue cellophane
The grass is actually paper
The camera moves in
We detach from our unit
Actors uncertain
He motions to someone out of view
Shares a joke
And accepts a drink
From some accomplice
Sipping quiet he's waiting for his monologue
Mynah birds still whirr and click
But all else is still and listening
A makeup girl does his hair and disappears
The actor is actually playing you
We dissolve in close
He finishes his drink
He begins, ahh
'A long time ago...'
He leaves off
Someone hands him a phone
Something terrible has occurred
Is this part of the story?
The audience may at this point choose
If you want a happy ending
Then you may jump to another story
If you wanted to see some more of the yachts
They'll be back in other scenes
Yeah!
If you think you can move along a little faster
Here we go...
The actor is having an argument
We overhear:
'Bu... But... But that's... but that's not possible!
I... I... I know, but why... but when... why wouldn't know...
They'll never know... but why wouldn't... I...
Cue in music
Moonlight Sonata
Sped up with some subtle disco beat
Bring up more starry light
Let a zephyr blow through this garden
A woman appears on the set
It's that famous actress who is the actor's girlfriend in real life
But who is actually also playing your wife in this film
They embrace
She takes the phone from the actor
And dismisses the crew
We're left dangling
We can't wait to find out
If, how, why
If, how, why
We think about the nature of performance
And we see the garden darken
Clouds now cover the stars
The yacht's completely gone
The harbor was a projection
Actress was a hologram
The garden was a stage
Aww, the night is suddenly gone
We're blinking in the sudden light
People push past
The air is filled with smoke, perfume, sweat
Voices shout, some whisper
A cab pulls up
Now this is strange
We climb inside
The actor is in there
He slides over begrudgingly
Wow, he really looks like you close up
We begin our journey
Him on one side, you on the other
I fall asleep
Ha! When I awake I'm confused
Who is who?
Who is who?
Who is who?
Who is who?
The driver turns around
'This would be your stop'
And the cab stops
You get out
We drive on
The actor decides to act like you
He mimics your lazy minions
He has perfected your accent
His makeup and hair are amazing
Even from here
I can't believe they even knew where you live
We pull up outside your house
The actress playing your wife comes out
Out of your house
Carrying a phone
She climbs in the front seat
She hands you I mean, the actor the phone
You deny everything
I mean the actor
No, but that's not true
That's just not true
Cars speed past
The hum of the city
Song of the day
The actor hangs up
On closer examination the phone is a prop
He reads from a script all but concealed
Why?
Why did you give Kilbey my number?
She answers with:
'Maybe this is an imposter
Kilbey is your friend, what do you mean?'
[He replies:]
'I feel like he's watching us all the time
Incorporating us into one of his songs
Writing about our lives
In his dispassionate way'
The cab turns into Cleveland Street
The driver turns around
'Just after these lights then'
There's so much I would like to ask the actress
I lean forward to say something
The taxi stops
We climb out
We come to a warehouse
We go in where they are making a film
We go in where they are making a film
We go in where they are making a film
The garden
A harbor
The pool
The chlorine
The alcohol
A hot night is invoked
A breeze maker emits a gentle breeze
The recorded sounds of a distant drunken party
People, laughter, drifting on the air
Woozy music
Glasses clinking
Ice tinkling
Yachts on the harbor
People on board waving to us
Drinking
Laughing
Waving
Summer
Holiday
Night
Antics
Rockets go up
Framing the bridge
Push out of the crowd
Crowd of extras and wardrobe people
Some wearing swimming costumes
Some in evening wear
More fireworks
More fireworks
Their soft explosions thumping the night
Revelry
Abandonment
Music swelling up
Credits roll
You leave the premises
I Don't Know lyrics - The Church
I don't know what people say now
Walk away next Tuesday now
I don't know if you've been told
All that glitters is not cold
Mmm, and I don't know how you do it
After all, you've been through it
Well I don't know how you're feelin'
After all you've had to deal with
Well I don't know if all that's true
and I'm still me you're still you
Well I don't know what I should try, man
I'd like to live before I die, man
That's it
Walk away next Tuesday now
I don't know if you've been told
All that glitters is not cold
Mmm, and I don't know how you do it
After all, you've been through it
Well I don't know how you're feelin'
After all you've had to deal with
Well I don't know if all that's true
and I'm still me you're still you
Well I don't know what I should try, man
I'd like to live before I die, man
That's it
Jazz lyrics - The Church
Sometimes the morning elongates and waits around for you to show
Across the road I watch some episode of some new morning show
And it shows me how strange life can be if you're really free
And if you're really free how come you put these chains on me
Why can't you tell me it's alright
These doubts to lead on my delight
They took the color from my sight
I need the real jazz tonight
Still half asleep and not half awake
Half in the darkness just for your sake
Roaming the corridors in my mind
Looking for a door I can never find
Looking for a war that nobody wins
Trying to find a Bible when nobody sins
Searching for a lover who got what you has
Running from the blues, jonesin' for jazz
Sometimes the evening disappears and steers itself into the past
Across the fields I cool my heels 'cause it feels like it could last
And it lasts for a lifetime then it's high time to be gone
And if you're really gone why even sing this song
Why can't you tell me it's alright
These doubts to lead on my delight
They took the color from my sight
I need the real jazz tonight
Across the road I watch some episode of some new morning show
And it shows me how strange life can be if you're really free
And if you're really free how come you put these chains on me
Why can't you tell me it's alright
These doubts to lead on my delight
They took the color from my sight
I need the real jazz tonight
Still half asleep and not half awake
Half in the darkness just for your sake
Roaming the corridors in my mind
Looking for a door I can never find
Looking for a war that nobody wins
Trying to find a Bible when nobody sins
Searching for a lover who got what you has
Running from the blues, jonesin' for jazz
Sometimes the evening disappears and steers itself into the past
Across the fields I cool my heels 'cause it feels like it could last
And it lasts for a lifetime then it's high time to be gone
And if you're really gone why even sing this song
Why can't you tell me it's alright
These doubts to lead on my delight
They took the color from my sight
I need the real jazz tonight
Hitspacebar lyrics - The Church
The phone is ringing
The phone is ringing
The phone is ringing
The wires are bare
Avarice lime
You're hardly there
Your engines searching
The plonk is sour
The pizza's cold in wee small hour
What will it take, get you to wake up
Avarice lime
Shake it up
Hit space bar headache
The lights are on
The neighbour's place
You see her back
You see his face
You see the knife
You see the tear
You feel the shot
You're really there
What will it take to get you to wake up
Avarice lime
Shake it up
Hit space bar headache
The phone is ringing
The phone is ringing
The wires are bare
Avarice lime
You're hardly there
Your engines searching
The plonk is sour
The pizza's cold in wee small hour
What will it take, get you to wake up
Avarice lime
Shake it up
Hit space bar headache
The lights are on
The neighbour's place
You see her back
You see his face
You see the knife
You see the tear
You feel the shot
You're really there
What will it take to get you to wake up
Avarice lime
Shake it up
Hit space bar headache
Crash / Ride lyrics - The Church
Everything is something else these days
Dedicated to neutrality
I am the lord of all I survey
This stuff is top quality
Every day is somewhere else this time
I'm driving in a film down a French boulevard
I'm waiting in a cafe on old South Head Road
I'm chopping up guitars with Nic Hard
Fighting against the nods and the hopeless sods
Everything before the crash ride it out
Drumming up a little crowd, we played and bowed
Everyone is someone else tonight
I'm just singing down this long black wire
I'm drifting with the clock towards the bruised midnight
Where the stars and crows conspire
Fighting against the odds, and the hopeless sods
Everything before the crash ride it out
Drumming up a little crowd, we played and bowed
Everything before the crash ride it out
Fighting against the odds, and the hopeless sods
Everything before the crash ride it out
Drumming up a little crowd, we played and bowed
Everything before the crash ride it out
Fighting against the odds, and the hopeless sods
Everything before the crash ride it out
We played and bowed
Dedicated to neutrality
I am the lord of all I survey
This stuff is top quality
Every day is somewhere else this time
I'm driving in a film down a French boulevard
I'm waiting in a cafe on old South Head Road
I'm chopping up guitars with Nic Hard
Fighting against the nods and the hopeless sods
Everything before the crash ride it out
Drumming up a little crowd, we played and bowed
Everyone is someone else tonight
I'm just singing down this long black wire
I'm drifting with the clock towards the bruised midnight
Where the stars and crows conspire
Fighting against the odds, and the hopeless sods
Everything before the crash ride it out
Drumming up a little crowd, we played and bowed
Everything before the crash ride it out
Fighting against the odds, and the hopeless sods
Everything before the crash ride it out
Drumming up a little crowd, we played and bowed
Everything before the crash ride it out
Fighting against the odds, and the hopeless sods
Everything before the crash ride it out
We played and bowed
Tel Aviv lyrics - The Church
Well
She took me outside
And I was listening to her voice
I could tell ya
She said some things she may regret
And some things she may rejoice
Just like the fruits of sorrow
Dying on the vine
I too partook its bitter taste
And I shined
Just at that moment
Before God intervenes, yeah
Some kind asylum
Wide awake in Tel Aviv
When you fall into evil moods
And the spirits mock you in the radio static
Then you better hope the dope don't make you
Telepathetic
Just like the seeds of ruin
With its sickly blooms
I lost the good fight every day
In these rooms
She took me outside
And I was listening to her voice
I could tell ya
She said some things she may regret
And some things she may rejoice
Just like the fruits of sorrow
Dying on the vine
I too partook its bitter taste
And I shined
Just at that moment
Before God intervenes, yeah
Some kind asylum
Wide awake in Tel Aviv
When you fall into evil moods
And the spirits mock you in the radio static
Then you better hope the dope don't make you
Telepathetic
Just like the seeds of ruin
With its sickly blooms
I lost the good fight every day
In these rooms
Nervous Breakthrough lyrics - The Church
I don't know your name
I saw you from a distance
I thought I'd try to break through
We weren't gonna come
Now here we are all suddenly
And it's never what you think
Anyhow that's yesterday
When you was half a world away
If you're not brave imagine me
In the void of metamorphoses
Anyhow let's do it now
I must sustain myself somehow
It's so nice to be here
I'm thinking I could stay a while
Nice to eat, I mean meet someone new
You're so soft
And tender and so splendid
Come highly recommended
If you were me what would you...
Anyway that's yesterday
When you were half a world away
If you're not brave imagine me
In the void of metamorphoses
Anyhow let's do it now
I must sustain myself somehow
Why do you look so angry with me now
Have I said something true?
It's ok, I really didn't mean it
Really didn't matter to me
Anyway that's yesterday
When you were half a world away
If you're not brave imagine me
In the void of metamorphoses
Anyhow let's do it now
I must sustain myself somehow
I saw you from a distance
I thought I'd try to break through
We weren't gonna come
Now here we are all suddenly
And it's never what you think
Anyhow that's yesterday
When you was half a world away
If you're not brave imagine me
In the void of metamorphoses
Anyhow let's do it now
I must sustain myself somehow
It's so nice to be here
I'm thinking I could stay a while
Nice to eat, I mean meet someone new
You're so soft
And tender and so splendid
Come highly recommended
If you were me what would you...
Anyway that's yesterday
When you were half a world away
If you're not brave imagine me
In the void of metamorphoses
Anyhow let's do it now
I must sustain myself somehow
Why do you look so angry with me now
Have I said something true?
It's ok, I really didn't mean it
Really didn't matter to me
Anyway that's yesterday
When you were half a world away
If you're not brave imagine me
In the void of metamorphoses
Anyhow let's do it now
I must sustain myself somehow
The Illusion Mysteries lyrics - The Church
It was May Day in Arcadia
Everyone was there
Knocking back a sticky wine
Music in the air
Night caught in the trees
And the moonbeams safely under my thumb
Right down by the river
Its unmade bed come to be undone
Yeah, you should have seen us
Yeah, you should have been there
It was payday in Illyria
I think you know the deal
I was so touched by your concern
At least that's how I feel
So drink, drink up a little
Stories remind me of some other time
Think, think up a little
Something for the glorious summertime
Should have seen us
Yeah, should have been there
Well it was Thursday in Bohemia
The contract had been signed
50% guaranteed, or something
A good swift kick behind
Fly, the sky is your friend
And its holding you up again and again
High over the night
Where I labour and write this song once over again
Should have seen us
Yeah, should have been there
Well, it was May Day in Arcadia
Everyone was there
Knocking back a sticky wine
And music in the air
Everyone was there
Knocking back a sticky wine
Music in the air
Night caught in the trees
And the moonbeams safely under my thumb
Right down by the river
Its unmade bed come to be undone
Yeah, you should have seen us
Yeah, you should have been there
It was payday in Illyria
I think you know the deal
I was so touched by your concern
At least that's how I feel
So drink, drink up a little
Stories remind me of some other time
Think, think up a little
Something for the glorious summertime
Should have seen us
Yeah, should have been there
Well it was Thursday in Bohemia
The contract had been signed
50% guaranteed, or something
A good swift kick behind
Fly, the sky is your friend
And its holding you up again and again
High over the night
Where I labour and write this song once over again
Should have seen us
Yeah, should have been there
Well, it was May Day in Arcadia
Everyone was there
Knocking back a sticky wine
And music in the air
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