I’m waiting for my moment to come
I’m waiting for the movie to begin
I’m waiting for a revelation
I’m waiting for someone to count me in

Cos now I only see my dreams, in everything I touch
Feel their cold hands on, everything that I love
Cold like some, magnificant skyline
Out of my reach, but always in my eyeline now

We’re tumbling down
We’re spiralling
Tied up to the ground
We’re spiralling

I fashioned you from jewels and stone
I made you in the image of myself
I gave you everything you wanted
So you would never know anything else

But everytime I reach for you, you slip through my fingers
Into cold sunlight, laughing at the things that
I had planned, the map of my world gets
Smaller as I sit here, pulling at the loose threads now

We’re tumbling down
We’re spiralling
Tied up to the ground
We’re spiralling
(When we fall in love
We’re just falling
In love with ourselves
We’re spiralling)

Did you wanna be a winner?
Did you wanna be an icon?
Did you wanna be famous?
Did you wanna be the president?
Did you wanna start a war?
Did you wanna have a family?
Did you wanna be in love?
Did you wanna be in love?

I never saw the light
I never saw the light
I waited up all night
But I never saw the light

When we fall in love
We’re just falling
In love with ourselves
We’re spiralling
We’re tumbling down
We’re spiralling
Tied up to the ground
We’re spiralling

Ooo!
Ooo!

I dreamed I was drowning
In the river Thames
I dreamed I had nothing at all
Nothing but my own skin

I dreamed I was drifting
On the howling wind
I dreamed I had nothing at all
Nothing but my own skin

Slipped away from your open hands
Into the river
Saw your face looking back at me
I saw my past, and I saw my future

You take the pieces of the dreams that you have
Because you don’t like the way they seem to be going
You cut them up and spread them out on the floor
You’re full of hope as you begin rearranging
Put it all back together
But any way you look at things
Looks like
The lovers are losing

I dreamed I was watching
The young lovers dance
I reached out to touch your hair
But I was watching from a distance

We cling to love like a skidding car
Clings to a corner
I tried to hold onto what we are
The more I squeeze, the quicker we’re over

You take the pieces of the dreams that you have
Because you don’t like the way they seem to be going
You cut them up and spread them out on the floor
You’re full of hope as you begin rearranging
Put it all back together
But any way you look at things
Looks like
The lovers are losing

I dreamed I had nothing at all; Nothing but my own skin
I dreamed I had nothing at all; Nothing but my own skin
I dreamed I had nothing at all; Nothing but my own skin
I dreamed I had nothing at all; Nothing at all

You take the pieces of the dreams that you have
Because you don’t like the way they seem to be going
You cut them up and spread them out on the floor
You’re full of hope as you begin rearranging
Put it all back together
But any way you look at things
Looks like
The lovers are losing

You take the pieces of the dreams that you have
Cos you don’t like the way they seem to be going
You cut them up and spread them out on the floor
You’re full of hope as you begin rearranging
Put it all back together
But in the final reckoning
Looks like
The lovers are losing

You can do so much better than this
You can do so much better than this

I’ve been checking my sums
Oh where did the time go?
Holding my photograph
Up to the window
Through the paper
And refracted sun
Oh woah oh!
I can see all the things
I wish that I’d done

You can hang your hopes on the medicine
You can put your faith in the phone-in
You can tell yourself you’re doing your best
You can do so much better than this

Get a grip on yourself
Get a grip on yourself
Could have been something, but you’re too late
And you weren’t invited anyway

Because the photograph showed the wrong man
Because there is no soap star holding your hand
You don’t see yourself in the freeze frame
Must be someone else using your name

And everyone will be the same
And everyone will glow
And everywhere you’ll see your name
In every shop window

It’s better than this
You can do so much better than this
You can do so much better than this
You can do so much better than this

You take a beautiful thing
Pull off a wing, pull off a wing
With a safety pin
They never shine quite as bright again

But you haven’t told me anything
That I didn’t already know
No you haven’t said a single thing
That I didn’t already know

Everything I love stuck in the mud
Stuck in the mud
Stuck in a rut
Not a piece in your puzzle or a paper cut

So same time next week
Kiss on the cheek, kiss on the cheek
And say after me
Everything’s tied up nice and neat

But you haven’t told me anything
That I didn’t already know
No you haven’t sold me anything
That I didn’t already own

I feel for you, I really do
Nothing adds up like you want it too
No words can mend this fix I’m in
Give me your words, I won’t even blink
Right between the eyes, I won’t feel a thing

Because you haven’t told me anything
That I didn’t already know
No you haven’t said a single thing
That I didn’t already know

No you haven’t told me anything
No you haven’t told me anything
No you haven’t told me anything
No you haven’t told me anything

I wish I could make sense of what we do
Burning down the capitals
The wisest of the animals

Who are you?
What are you living for?
Tooth for tooth
Maybe we’ll go one more

This life is lived in perfect symmetry
What I do
That will be done to me

Read page after page of analysis
Looking for the final score
We’re no closer than we were before

Who are you?
What are you fighting for?
Holy truth?
Brother I choose this mortal life

Lived in perfect symmetry
What I do
That will be done to me
As the needle slips into the run-out groove
Love – maybe you’ll feel it too

And maybe you’ll find life is unkind
And over so soon
There is no golden gate
There is no heaven waiting for you

Oh boy, you oughta leave this town
Get out while you can
The meter’s running down
The voices in the streets you love
Everything is better when you hear that sound
Woah!
Woah!
Woah!

Spineless dreamers
Hide in churches
Pieces of, pieces of
Rush hour buses
I dream in e-mails
Worn-out phrases
Mile after mile of just
Empty pages

Wrap yourself around me
Wrap yourself around me

As the needle slips into the run-out groove
Maybe you’ll feel it too
Maybe you’ll feel it too

Spineless dreamers (Maybe you’ll feel it too)
Hide in churches (Maybe you’ll feel it too)
Pieces of, pieces of
Rush hour buses
I dream in e-mails
Worn-out phrases
Mile after mile of just
Empty pages

But you’re moving so fast
Through this beautiful scene
You don’t see me
You don’t see me

Oh truly we are, a fortunate few
Who turn on your axis, revolve around you
All spinning outwards from your sun
Passing your reflection on

In your hurry to grasp
Everything you see
You don’t see me
You don’t see me
You don’t see me
No, you don’t see me

Such a beautiful view
I guess you’ve seen it all
But you
You see nothing at all
Such a beautiful view
Shining so bright

Shining so bright
So bright

All moving at the speed of life
Reflecting in each others’ eyes
But you’re moving with such irresistible speed
You don’t see me
You don’t see me
You don’t see me
No, you don’t see me
No, you don’t see me
Oh oh…Oooo, ooo…

Give me something that’s real
Give me half of your bitterest pill
Something from under the surface you actually feel

We say these words again and again
But they still sound the same
It was in your eyes, in your eyes
They were just easy lies

The lightest words are heavy
And promises are easy
And no one’s ever happy or sad for very long
Well just because I said it
It doesn’t mean I meant it
I guess that was the way all along

I’m just shaping the sound
I’m just turning the syllables round
Dipping my toe in the water
And watching you drown

We say these words again and again
But they still sound the same
It was in my eyes, in my eyes
They were just easy lies

And we’ve been a long time waiting
And it’s been a lifetime in the making

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

We said, “When you are alone and afraid
I will come to your aid”
Was it just a dream, just a dream
Because it was real to me

We say these words again and again
But they still sound the same
We say these words again and again
And again and again

I’m going to go to the country, where nothing goes on
Going to bury my head, where I can’t hear the sound of bombs
Playing along

Me, I’m just playing along
You and I, so many good people all
Just playing along

I’m going to go to a bar
Where the jukebox is on
Going to shut out the noise
With a rock’n'roll song
Playing along

I’m going to turn up the volume
I’m going to turn up the volume
I’m going to turn up the volume
Till I can’t even think

Tell us a tale of the proud and the free
Sing us a swingtime American melody
From ‘Follow The Fleet’

Me, I’m just playing along
You and I, a billion people all
Just playing along

I’m going to turn up the volume
I’m going to turn up the volume
I’m going to turn up the volume
Till I can’t even think
I’m going to turn up the volume
I’m going to turn up the volume
I’m going to turn up the volume
Till I can’t even think
I’m going to turn up the volume
Till I can’t even think

I’m going to turn up the volume
Till I can’t even think
I’m going to turn up the volume
Till I can’t even think
I’m going to turn up the volume
Till I can’t even think
I’m going to turn up the volume
Till I can’t even think

I’m going to turn up the volume
Till I can’t even think
I’m going to turn up the volume
Till I can’t even think

Pretend that you’re alone now and everything’s gone
Just animal reflexes no one looking on
Forget about fashion, forget about the law
Pretend that you’re alone now

I wonder what I’d do if I could wake up every morning with a clean slate
I’d burn through the cities, I’d tear through the towns because there’s no deals to make
So break out of the cages, the delicate structures we cling to all our lives
Because we are just the monkeys who fell out of the trees
When we were trying to fly

Pretend that you’re alone now and everything’s gone
Just primal desire, no right and no wrong
Forget about the future, forget about blame
Pretend that you’re alone now
Pretend that you’re alone now

She’s not waiting for tomorrow
And she has no love in her eyes

Oh no, I want to come down right now
Pull over, I want to get out right now

Oh oh!

Pretend that you’re alone now and everything’s gone
Just animal reflexes no one looking on
Forget about religion, forget about shame
Pretend that you’re alone now
No numbers in your phone now there’s nothing going on
Just primal desire, no right and no wrong
Forget about fashion, forget about fame
Pretend that you’re alone now
Pretend that you’re alone now
Pretend that you’re alone now

Do do do do…

Leave this life
Its unrelenting appetite
For feeding off the weak
Who never had their time to speak

The sky will be my shroud
A monument of cloud

If we could turn back
You can paper over the crack
But it will return now
And your heart will burn black

Give me your hand
Cut the skin, let me in
The molecules of us
Bleeding into one again

The sky will be my shroud
The cenotaph of cloud

If we could turn back
you can paper over the crack
But it will return now
And your heart will burn black

Forgotten my way home
Forgotten everything that I know
Every day a false start
And it burns my heart
I know

Everything you said was right and I suppose
Everything is here forever till it goes
You gave it all away, kept nothing for yourself
Just a picture on the shelf

Je souhaiterais m’immerger
Dans les profondeurs des mers
Y disparaître
Pour ne plus jamais être vu

Burning up
Now I’m racing down a road I don’t recognise
I realise I’ve forgotten my way home
Forgotten everything that I know
Every day a false start
And it burns my heart
Turn back