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Doesn't Add Up
02:52
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Here come the equations I don't understand
Bored with the answers and every demand from the world
Here come all the symptoms of a lack of faith
Shivering and sweating as your soul, is trying to escape
I fell for a face that I'd never seen
So I painted it on everyone that I'd ever meet
I'd rather try luck cause I fucking hate maths
I'll jump from that bridge if the odds are, I'll get sent back
I'll leave it to chance, I'm too lazy to think
Give it my all and throw the kitchen sink
It'll all get thrown back at me
Here come all the answers that don't add up to me
I took one deep breath and ran away, naturally
The pain it felt real but I couldn't admit
I fell on my words and my actions, they didn't fit
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2. |
John O'Shea
02:28
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Usually found in the middle of the park
Clashing with shins and at it until after dark
The engine room can be pretty mean
So if there's no room
I'd even play full back, just to be on your team
Some might call it a booking but I'd protest
I was just running my heart out all over my chest
I swear by the gods that tackle was clean
But if my run is over
I'd even play in goal, just to be on your team
Here comes the walk of shame as our battle is lost
My comrades and me hung our heads and froze in the frost
There's nowhere to go after the ninety
When they blow the whistle
I'd even bring in the cones, just to be on your team
When I drank from my bottle I froze my tongue
Even forgot I had ears until I heard someone
Tell me that was the best display they'd seen
All that mattered to me was the privilege to be
The privilege to be on your team
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3. |
Everything is Clear
03:21
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Well if the world will be so bold
We can hide under the stone
In front of us is every fear
Wipe our eyes until everything is clear
Well if the world could figure it out
The silence wouldn't be so loud
They'll always try to bend the ear
Run around with me 'till everything is clear
Clear
Clear and estranged
From that past it's spinning in the most peculiar way
Here
Here where we lay
They found another victim to overpay
They bought the world and turfed us out
Then hover above your head a cloud
They came for all that you hold dear
Come and hide with me 'till everything is clear
We were caught
Caught by the waves
The undertow undressed us for days
As the steel
Shrieks it's way through your heart
The gentry came and ripped it all apart
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4. |
Car in the Lake
02:42
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I wonder if this is worse
But I got out the spell with a rough lesson learned
Here comes a fist
Here comes my cheek it couldn't resist
The road is a soft surface
The sky has no purpose but I'll wait
This place feels like a circus
These people are making me nervous get out of my face
Panting until I faint
There's a car in the lake and that's something I can't explain
But I wont make that mistake
Of ignoring the details that my mind had erased
Some clown read out the service
The people they sat there all perverts licking their lips
The room couldn't mistake
The accelerator from the brake
But oh how they tried
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Headfirst
03:07
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They told me to give
To give up on life
They said you can be brave
But in this tunnel there's no light
They drained your body dry and ran away with the skin
You've seen it's being sold in bargain bins
I hit a wall hit a wall 'cause they sold it to me
Cradled by the familiar feeling of something empty
I saw the future and I'm sat taking this in
Staring at that spreadsheet patience wearing thin
I played this life 'cause I didn't know what else to do
Spent the day with my brain
It's starting to stew
Thought to hard
I wish I could for anything else
I never learnt to dance
My feet can't keep in time
I've not got the clothes
So I don't exercise
I tried the world but I don't really think it's a fit
Whichever way that it spins
For the biggest profit
I hit a wall hit a wall 'cause they sold it to me
I ran headfirst faster than you'd believe
I just got paid for doing not that much at all
But banging my head
Against the wall
My time could be used way worse than this
For that I'll never forgive
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I'm waiting
On some story
One to keep things ticking
One to stand me off my seat
I saw some
People on their knees
With something to believe in
Glad it wasn't me
I missed my chance
Oh well
So I wont meet god
Oh well
I didn't catch their name
Oh well
So you ran away
Oh well
I heard
Some people had their eyes out
Said they didn't need them
Instead they'd just believe them
The streets they
Keep on sending signals
Ones to keep me sleeping
Ones to keep me awake
I know
That I'm just dreaming but I wont wake up too soon
My teeth
Were shattering inside me then I woke to an empty room
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7. |
The Unwanted Guest
02:49
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This house is all wonky
This house isn't right
The people who fill it
Blabber through the night
I stumble through subjects and sometimes agree
To things when I'm zoned out that I don't believe
Well I just need to breathe
Take it all in
Make something up
I just need to be
Someone I've seen
Someone not me
The ground wont stop shaking
The people wont move
The first one to flinch
Sends shock waves through the room
Then all the ice breaks
I cannot tell
If that stories real, well then they're straight to hell
You, you cannot tell
But it's not too late it's not you it's this place
I followed a dream
Then fell into this
Endless abyss
Don't take my word
Just roll with the punch
Follow your gut
Or just call it a hunch
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8. |
Point Break
03:35
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I want it
Need it
But I'm shit outta luck
They heard it
They saw it
So they ripped out my gut
Don't speak it
Don't think it
They'll steal the sun
I pissed on
The flames of
This floating gun
The cold weather sleeps while you battle with aches
That forever drag
The clouds would weep from the shackles that claw
At your heart to pull down
No surprises
I'd been smiling
For when this came around
See I sold out
My soul now
They're owed me in the ground
The fleeting moments you treasure have all
But disappeared
Give in to the great unknown to forget
About all your fears
I swallowed my dreams
'Cause I couldn't believe this was happening to me
Under the trees
I fed to new life then I was free
When I found it
Dumbfounded
That I'd seen it before
Then I felt it
As I lost it
It's then I'm floored
Fully loaded
Bloated
They'll steal the sun
I pissed on
The flames of
This floating gun
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Wear Me Out
03:09
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Swimming through the streets
The rain is pelting my feet
Thought I was singing in key
I guess the world was missing a beat
I didn't notice
I was falling
Falling pretty fast
Running in circles
Coming out last
I wouldn't wear me out
Now look whose showing up
It's someone I don't wanna see
They said I looked real rough
Someone here can never be clean
They told me it's over
Get under your bed sheet
Never look back
Stay there hungover
You were getting off track
I wouldn't wear me out
I'd settle for the Antichrist if that gets me up on time
Careful not to inflate this ego of mine
Lying in bed destitute humming someone else's tune
But I wont let it get me down
No I wont let it wear me out
When the day's almost done
The most of it I'd spent asleep
I could have sweetened the world
But I went sour as I struggled to breathe
I was forgetting
All of the reasons
For getting out of bed
Lamenting each season
But missing each step
It all wears me out
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My wife Mary made a lovely shepherd's pie and peas
With carrots and gravy, oh and cabbage as an additional green
I said that looks fantastic love and I tucked in hungrily
My daughter Karen didn't, something I wish I'd seen
For soon my plate was empty, I said "Mary, is there any more?"
She said "No, love, but its treacle sponge for afters" and I said "phwoar"
I'd had a couple of mouthfuls, when I heard Karen declare
"I can't eat any more of this shepherds pie mum"
Well it filled me with despair
(because if I'd known that I wouldn't have started my sweet)
But I can't go back to savoury now
That shepherd's pie was stunning
But I'm, halfway through my pudding
I can't go back to savoury now
My taste buds would go crazy
And I can't go back to savoury now
My tummy was in turmoil, I was panicked and confused
And as Karen's dinner grew colder, so did my sweet
For my pleasure in that treacle sponge was now massively reduced
By the sight of fluffy potato, and glistening meat
Take this plate from me oh Lord, before I go insane
Should I press on with my afters, or go back to my main?
Oh I can't go back to savoury now
That shepherd's pie was stunning
But I'm, halfway through my pudding
I can't go back to savoury now, Oh No
My taste buds would go crazy
And I can't go back to savoury now
I can't go back, I won't go back
I'd love to go back but I mustn't do that
I can't go back, I won't go back
I'd love to go back obviously, but I mustn't do that
At that moment I heard a sound, a scrape of knife on plate
As I watched Karen's dinner go in the dog's dish
My appetite now gone, my pudding suffered the same fate
I can only assume this appalling outcome
Was God's wish
I can't go back to savoury now
That shepherd's pie was stunning
But I'm halfway through my pudding
I can't go back to savoury now
My taste buds would go crazy
And I can't go back to savoury now
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