sl records 2002

avant garde music

the girl who works in the record shop
she says that i am not avant garde enough
well so what
she only works in a record shop
she only works in a record shop
and i don't give a fuck what she says or she thinks about me

well we shot fake plastic ducks in the park
and drank cheap plastic wine out of cheap plastic glasses until it got dark
and the only thing we had to decide
was whether and where we were going to sleep together that night

sometimes i think that i don't know anything at all

and now the queen is waving to me
as i walk down the street trying to mind my own business i wish
that the queen would leave me alone
there are so many things that are far more important to me going on

and the girl who works in the record shop
she says that i am not avant garde enough
well so what
she only works in a record shop
she only works in a record shop
and i don't give a fuck what she says or she thinks about me

and now i'm strapped in an aeroplane
flying ten thousand miles over frozen mountains to see you again
but the only thing i learned from the flight
was watching the birds in the bay of san francisco at night
sometimes i think that i don't know anything at all

back

where do the nights of sleep go to when they do not come to me?

and there's a memory in your heart
and it's a terrifying thing
it remembers all the people
all the people you've betrayed
and the people that you failed
because you were not brave enough
or you panicked and you ran
or you were not brave enough

and there's a poem about a creature in the desert
who's squatting naked on the ground and eating something
and the poet adventurer who finds him
asks him what it is that he's eating
and what it tastes like
and the creature looks at him and says:
'it's my heart, and it tastes bitter,
but i like it,
because it tastes bitter
and because it's my heart'

and it's funny how it breaks
and it's funny how it breaks
and i am never brave enough
and it's funny how it breaks

and it's funny how your heart can be breaking
for a hundred thousand years or more
without ever actually breaking at all
or it can break in a moment so small
that they don't even have a name for it yet
sometimes they call it a heartbeat, but it's much quicker than that
sometimes they call it a heartbeat, but it's much quicker than that

and it's funny how it breaks
and it's funny how it breaks
and i am never brave enough
and it's funny how it breaks

where do the nights of sleep go to
when they do not come to me?

back

you can't spend your whole life hanging around with arseholes

sometimes i wonder what's wrong with you anyway
there's nothing and no-one you like and who likes you the way i do
but the way i do
is not the way you want me to

and the only way out is the only way in to the things you despise
and the things you despise
are the things
that other people like

sometimes i wonder what you will become
when you've run out of people to love
sometimes i wonder what you will become
when there's nothing and no-one to love

and you're running round town with a fistful of money
that you got from a hole in the wall and it's funny that you
you didn't see it there before

you're with a man on the piss and a man on a mission
and a man of respect and exalted position
he is not like
he's not like those other men

sometimes i wonder what i will become
when i've run out of people to love
sometimes i wonder what i will become
when there's nothing and no-one to love

and you can't spend your whole life hanging round with arseholes
and you know that i am never coming back

back

i wonder if you're drunk enough to speak with me tonight

a fear of failure won't hold me back from hoping someday you'll be mine
a fear of failure won't hold me back from hoping someday i'll be right

and i will write my name upon you, take you home to bed and keep you warm
through the darkest night
and i wonder if you're drunk enough
i wonder if you're drunk enough
i wonder if you're drunk enough
to sleep with me tonight

we grew up fast
couldn't wait 'til morning
we stayed awake 'til dawn
and spent the whole day falling asleep
we grew up fast
couldn't wait 'til morning
we stayed awake 'til dawn
and spent the whole day falling apart

and i wonder if you're drunk enough
i wonder if you're drunk enough
i wonder if you're drunk enough
to sleep with me tonight

a fear of failure won't hold me back from hoping someday i'll be right
a fear of failure won't hold me back from hoping someday you will

kiss me like you mean it
kiss me like you mean it
kiss me like you mean it
this time

so kiss me like you mean it
this time...

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i lost you, but i found country music

i lost you, but i found country music
i found country music to hold me and soothe me
the way you used to do

and i miss you, but luckily there's music
luckily there's music
to get me through

and i think of you everyday of my life
and everyday i miss you and wonder and guess
what you are listening to
and everyday i miss you and wonder and guess
what you are listening to
what you are listening to
what you are listening to

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a europewide search for love

it was only me who was awake
to see the financial reports from the american markets
under a huge stars and stripes which hung over an empty wall street
and i didn't really care about the slump or the rally
it didn't mean anything to me
it didn't mean anything to me if the share prices were bearing up under the economic strain

and if they lose some money
then they lose some money
and i don't really care
because tonight i'm thinking about much more important things
tonight i'm thinking about much more important things

someone once told me 'the world is moving because you are'
and tonight there are people travelling through europe on trains
looking for something that they've never had before
wondering if they'll find and if they'll recognise it if they do

and tonight they're thinking about more important things

and they're wondering
if they can keep it if they find it
and if what they get will be what they want
and they're wondering if what they want is what they really need

and they're wondering what will happen if they find what they really want
and what they really need
and they lose it

will they ever be able to forget or to forgive themselves?

and tonight i'm thinking about much more important things
tonight i'm thinking about much more important things

and i don't really care about the crash or the rally
i don't really care

and the world will continue to move
and more people will climb on trains
and head into europe

and the world will continue to move
and more people will climb on trains
and head into europe

to search for love...

back

something is going to happen soon

you're hiding out at the swimming pool
you're hiding out
on blue plastic seats
with vogue magazine

and you know that something's going to happen
you know that something's going to happen
you know that something's going to happen
you know that something's going to happen
you know that something's going to happen
you know that something's going to happen soon

and the cellos kick in
and the lights start to flash
and everyone watching me
can see right to my heart

surrounded by drink
and surrounded by drunks
i never knew
what a mess you'd become

but you made yourself
look great today
but nobody noticed you except me
and you never notice me anyway

and no-one will ever love you
as much as i do
no-one will ever love you
like i do

and the cellos kick...

you're hiding out
at the swimming pool
you're hiding out
on blue plastic seats
with vogue magazine

and no-one will ever love you
as much as i do...

back

nobody really knows anything

the neighbours thought they'd seen it all last night
but i'm just glad that it's all over now
and nobody really knows anything
and you threw me out of your bedroom once again
for being too drunk to sleep with you
you said i was no use to anyone

and i know that this is not the answer
i know that this is not the answer
i know that this is not the answer
but i do it anyway

we had it all and we threw it all away
and now i wish we had it all again
but i guess that no use to anyone
and all the boys you say you used to know
come back to haunt you now that you're alone
sometimes you think it's what you need

and we can pretend that it's not dying
we can pretend that it's not dying
we can pretend that it's not dying
but it's dying anyway

and if i get drunk then i won't have to sleep with you
and we can pretend for a little while
that everything has stayed the same
and if you get drunk it might work for a little while
but everything is not the same
no matter what we say

and we can pretend that it's not dying
we can pretend that it's not dying
we can pretend that it's not dying
but it's dying anyway

and all the boys you say you used to know
come back to haunt you now that you're alone
you think it's what you need
and all the boys you say you used to know
come back to haunt you now that you're alone
sometimes you think it's what you need

back

sex is boring

take me back to your room
tie me up and strip me naked
and lie me on your floor
and then you'll see that sex is boring with me
it's not what i came here for
it's not what i came here for

you know about hip hop and
you know about trip hop and
you know about punk rock and
you know about house music
and house music, house music is the greatest thing of all

and you've read more books than i
i could ever read and you
you've seen more films than i
i could ever see so
why is it, why is it, that you don't know any more than me

and i hate hip hop and i
i hate trip hop and i
i hate punk rock and i
i hate house music
because house music, house music never meant anything at all to me.

so take me back to your room
tie me up and strip me naked
and lie me on your floor
and then you'll see that sex is boring with me
it's not what i came here for
it's not what i came here for

and it's not like you are going to save me
although you think you are

and i've got miles to go before i sleep
and you're not going to save me
although you think you are

back

meet me at the shooting range (available for download)

meet me at the shooting range
because i have lots to say
so meet me at the shooting range
because one of us
is not coming back again

but if i
if i was going to kill you
i wouldn't tell you
i wouldn't tell you
but i
i'm not going to kill you
but i realise
that that's what i would say

but if i
if i was going to kill you
i'd do it with style
there would be planning
and preparation
and conversation
for a while

so meet me at the shooting range
because i have lots to say
so meet me, my love, at the shooting range
because one of us
is not coming back again

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