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3 x 2
Transcribed by: Paul Dempsey

pray
wait for you
to come and fill this empty space
you will be one or the other
first star in the sky
or a rock thrown into
into glassy water
wait
anticipate
your arrival like an apparition
to test my faith
or the arrival of another day
patience i say
all will come to those who wait
to those who wait
we play (x3)
extended game of catch
you throw the ball to me
i catch it and throw it back
i like the way you move your arms when you throw
the ball goes high and long through the air
into my hands
patience i say
all will come to those who wait
to those who wait
if either of us drops the ball
likewise our spirits fall
but we are both very good players
patience i say
all will come to those who wait
to those who wait
those who wait (x2)
wait..

A Fool's History Pt.1
Transcribed by: somethingforkaty

Everything's understood and nothing more to know,
You sleep by the river and walk yourself home,
You picked a perfect reason, put back on your feet,
It shows you the way back to triggers and loopholes in the back of your mind,
Barefoot and walking home its still morning light,
I got one last chance to make it all alright,
So come and sit next to me and I'll tell you everything,
Another fool's history...

Innocent bystanders captured in the frame,
With unfinished business that don't show on your face,
Standing in the doorway between decisions unmade,
But you'll never know, you'll never know...

So come on now and leave all your sirens and cry,
And you and me we could stay quiet one time,
We'll throw open the windows and we'll turn out the lights,
And we'll lay in here listening but not telling everything,
Some other fool's history...

Ooo...

So come on now (come on now), come on now
So come on now (come on now), ooh... come on now

To triggers and loopholes in the back of your mind,
Barefoot, and walking home it's still morning light,
I got one last match to set it all alight,
But it's not what it seems to be,
And nobodies listening to another fool's history,
Whose plot faulted memory, will just deny everything,
If the cause of your misery is never deciphering,
Your hearts slowing whispering, you think you've seen everything
You think you've seen everything, you think you've seen everything...

Anarchitect
Transcribed by: Paul Dempsey

wait for the morning's first interruption
wait for an exchange
wait for the overall feeling
but the overall feeling in here is arranged
gentlemen (x2)
there's no space outward
the only way is upward
these primitive rituals i put myself through
these things will never change
get in the car
get to the point
get to the finish line
who needs friends when you can win?
gentlemen (x2)
there's no space outward
the only way is upward
towards the heavens
towards the sky
towards the stars
area, volume, contents reach
all of these things will only deceive
forging forward tunnel back, to back
gentlemen (x2)
please listen
please
there's no space outward
the only way is upward
towards the heavens
towards the sky
towards the stars

Anchorman
Transcribed by: Paul Dempsey

you've never met
someone you've never met
it's okay, it happened to someone you've never met
so you can stay, you can remain fearless
you can't hurt
you don't know what
what you don't know
can't hurt you
so at least today
you can remain fearless
fearless (x2)
i remember you from the bar
a charity gathering, five star
i saw you swimming inside a star
that was ready to blow us all apart
like strong and distant moonlight
the anchorman's voice (x3)
like strong and distant moonlight
the anchorman's voice guides me through the night
like strong and distant moonlight
the anchorman's voice guides me through the night
the anchorman (x3)
anchorman (x4)

Ashtray
Transcribed by: Paul Dempsey
Lyrics by Julian Carroll

i've been pushed down a long corridor
my head is aching
my back is sore
it was a line of laughing men
they keep pushing me to one big end
you go this way
and i'll go that way
don't be crazy
just do what i say
i found a room with a hundred doors
a falling roof
an unsteady floor
i've been pulled and pushed each different way
i can't decide and i can't stay
you'll go this way
and i'll go that way
don't be crazy
just do what i say
do i decide, do i have a choice?
cos you talk so loud i can't hear my own voice
just let me drift, isn't that okay?
cos i can't make up my mind today
you'll go this way
and i'll go that way
don't be crazy
just do what i say
do what i say

Back To You
Transcribed by: Paul Dempsey

quietly
and gracefully
you move around the weight of the evidence
forever side stepping your own shadow and knowing
only what you wanna know
what you wanna know (x2)
says drama queen we're leaving
say your goodbyes for the hundred millionth time
this house is pushing us out
it's just turning heads now
sweet thing
with hopes like that
you're gonna need help
sweet thing
with hopes like that
you're gonna need help
avoiding the facts
ooh ooh
one of these days (x2)
i find myself talking to ghosts
and there's no such thing as a stupid question
but i watch her making so much noise
that she thinks that she can win them over
win them over
i watch her making so much noise
that she thinks that she can win them over
win them over
but i have a compass
i watch the sundial
and i defy gravity just to get myself
back to you

Beautiful Sharks
Transcribed by: Paul Dempsey

he was tracing out lines in the air
to make it perfectly clear
he was swimming with some beautiful sharks
entertaining
the man behind the bar (x2)
and i was there
and somebody was talking about luck
and i thought, i thought what if my luck ran out?
oh..
hottest night in twenty years
he is playing out a ceremony
playing out a ceremony
watch him turn on the spot
to see his memory from a different angle
he eased the element of surprise
to curve and sweep lines
and he is singing an old song
he is swimming with some beautiful sharks
and i was there
and somebody was talking about romance
and i thought, i thought what if my luck ran out?
oh..

Before Butterfly's Wings
Transcribed by: Paul Dempsey

living inside a barrel
a thousand years earlier than expected
poor unfortunate one
they're all standing in your sun
like that's just so unexpected
hey ooh
and now i wake up to the sounds of video games
there's a line
run for your life
before butterfly's wings
bring down everything
and staring into teacups
try to bring it all a little closer to something
nowhere, nothing
don't cry at me
cry at the movie screen
and keep your ticket torn in your pocket for the next six weeks
hey ooh
there's a line
run for your life
before butterfly's wings
bring down everything
everything (x3)
what you do for now
will it do for now?
what you do for now

Best Weapon
Transcribed by: somethingforkaty

From a walk to a run, by the time they're done there is only rust
And the official language of fucked up and static and...
Before he speaks, his machines all agree let's wind them up and march them out
History repeated and read out loud

This could be our best weapon now (best weapon now)
Said hey don't look now

(interlude) ooo, ooo... ooo, ooo, ooo

Stripes and suits (stripes and suits), pushing the numbers through
They treat them like they don't exist
And they count them up like they're matchsticks
And they don't recognise until spoken in a headline
They're just more words, they're just more words
That I can't wait to unlearn, I can't wait

This could be our best weapon now (best weapon now)
Better keep your head down
Down, down, down, down

(interlude) down, down

Said this could be our best weapon now (best weapon now)
Said hey don't look now, our best weapon now

(best weapon now...)

Best Weapon (Radio Edit)
Transcribed by: somethingforkaty

From a walk to a run, by the time they're done there is only rust
And the official language of fff...ed up and static and...
Before he speaks, his machines all agree let's wind them up and march them out
History repeated and read out loud

This could be our best weapon now (best weapon now)
Said hey don't look now

(interlude) ooo, ooo... ooo, ooo, ooo

Stripes and suits (stripes and suits), pushing the numbers through
They treat them like they don't exist
And they count them up like they're matchsticks
And they don't recognise until spoken in a headline
They're just more words, they're just more words
That I can't wait to unlearn, I can't wait

This could be our best weapon now (best weapon now)
Better keep your head down
Down, down

(interlude) down

Said this could be our best weapon now (best weapon now)
Said hey don't look now, our best weapon now

(best weapon now...)

Big Screen Television
Transcribed by: Paul Dempsey

big screen television
say no more
switch it on and i'll see you in hell
we got the good seats
just look at the smiles on our faces
right now (x2)
we are the luckiest people in the whole wide world
whole wide world (x2)
big screen tv
in a glass house
wanna lay down next to you and sleep
but are you dreaming?
are you dreaming? (x3)
look at you tracing circles in the grass
getting bigger and bigger and over and out
we're almost ready to leave
to follow the weather and go where the colour goes
send a message to the birds that sing in the trees
always awake before me and always louder than tv

By Numbers
Transcribed by: Paul Dempsey

these pictures remind me
of something else entirely
it�s frightening
there�s a hole in the sky
i thought i saw something living here before
but i was wrong
just smoke in my eyes
you can have complete control
you can have the upper hand
execute your master plan
you can..
you can burn this skin
try to find something else therein
i'll let you win (x2)
you can choose how we go
you can have complete control
but after this, it's no longer growth
no nothing
no better
no such thing (x3)
long enough
i was there long enough
i was there long enough to do some damage (x2)
you can have complete control
you can choose how we go
but after this, it's no longer growth
growth (x3)

California
Transcribed by: somethingforkaty

I'm all chalked out on the ground by the curtain call,
All the sharp observations, a paper trail 40 storeys tall,
Yeah where any conclusions might slip through my fingers,
As I'm listening to the stories she's telling now...

It's a beautiful life, it's a beautiful lie...

When it's late she's still talking about California,
Where a distance to the myth has never been greater,
From the sea to the boulevard stretching our arms to the desert

It's a beautiful life, such a beautiful lie...
It's a beautiful life, but she's leading me one step behind
With a promise one day we'll arrive

And if she ever runs out of California,
She's always got, she's always got last summer,
And a state of mind with occasional tremors

It's a beautiful life, under restless and fluorescent skies,
She's all coloured all into the lines, lines, lines, lines, lines

It's a beautiful life, yet she's leading me one step behind
With the promise one day we'll arrive, one day we'll arrive, one day we'll arrive...

ooo, ooo, ooo...

When I get there I, when I get there I... am always one step behind

Captain (Acoustic)
Transcribed by: Paul Dempsey

i built an aeroplane
it was just like the real ones that i saw when i was younger
but it was too small for me
to crawl inside the cockpit and fly away
fly away (x2)
at a million miles an hour (x4)
and it took me years
underneath the house we lived in
i threw my head and my heart in the cockpit
the sounds of the engines
the voices from upstairs i only heard my crew
preparing me for take off (x4)
preparing me (x5)
and it's just a model
built with plastic and with glue
but every day i go down to the airport
and i fly away from
i fly away from you (x4)

Captain (Million Miles an Hour)
Transcribed by: Paul Dempsey

i built an aeroplane
it was just like the real ones that i saw when i was younger
but it was too small for me
to crawl inside the cockpit and fly away
at a million miles an hour (x4)
and it took me years
underneath the house we lived in
i threw my head and my heart in the cockpit
the sounds of the engines
the voices from upstairs i only heard my crew
preparing me for take off (x4)
preparing me (x2)
and it's just a model
built with plastic and with glue
but every day i go down to the airport
and i fly away from
i fly away from you (x2)

Chapel St. Etc.
Transcribed by: Paul Dempsey

all that's heard is
every word is
just a little less than
etc. etc. etc. etc.
it travels like a wave
almost exact.. same
just when it came
all the wires and springs and machinery that held it in place
had fallen out of the air and into the ocean
all of the above
one after another, all after each other
locked into a line
people from above
folding into one piece, holding each other's leash
all's an exhibit
wheels set to roll, set to roll
just a little less than
special effects and camera tricks with mirrors and lights
that make it so real, but yet..
a camera rolls on its tracks
alongside the car
and here's the soundtrack
here it is..
all of the above
one after another, all after each other
locked into a line
people from above
folding into one piece, holding each other's leash

Cigarettes and Suitcases
Transcribed by: somethingforkaty

Maybe maybe nothing could prepare you,
That something and that someday always comes,
And the only thing around worth hanging on to,
Is a love of the twisted symmetry demanding it be done,
This way home, this way...

You're always the last to know,
Your cigarettes and suitcases,
And so on the story goes,
You're shell shocked in your shoelaces,
And now that you're on your own

Oooh oh oh x 3
Oooh

And it won't be so far away tomorrow,
Yeah everybody says cause everybody knows,
And one by one in single file to follow, and paying up to drop like dominoes,
Today, huh, today...

You're always the last to know,
Your cigarettes and your suitcases,
And so on the story goes,
Your sweet dreams and your sci-fi sunsets,
And now that you're on your own (now that you're on your own)
Now that you're on your own silver, where are you gonna go? Ooo...

(Where to go? Where to go?)

So on the story goes, so on the story goes,
So on the story goes... nah nah nah nah,

You're always the last to know,
Your cigarettes and your suitcases,
And on and on you go,
You're shell shocked in your shoelaces,
Now that you're on your own, now that you're on your own silver,
Now that you're on your own, on your own, on your own,
You're on your own, own, uuh, ooo, ooo, uuh ahhh

ooo...

Clint
Transcribed by: Paul Dempsey

some things will stay the same
the shape of a power point won't change
and i won't back away and run
if you make me feel strange
she's the hand at the end of the arm
and she's got a lot to say
she thinks the world is falling apart
but that's okay
she just wants to be happy
a place for everything
and everything in its place
i get better, wait and see
they're confusing me
it's kinda hard to see in here
but there's nothing to see
so who cares?
drank coffee all night and now i can't sleep
i think i opened a secret file
i let her look for a little while
and now i'm waiting for the ambulance to arrive
she just wants to be happy
a place for everything
and everything in its place
i had better wait and see
they're confusing me
i couldn't understand the instructions
and the clock sounds like it's ticking slow
and this book is in another language
a language i don't know
i used to tie double knots
but now i couldn't be fucked
things are getting stupider all the time
she just wants to be happy
a place for everything
and everything in its place
i had better wait and see
she amazes me, you're confusing me
you're confusing me

Clint (ii)
Transcribed by: Paul Dempsey

some things will stay the same
the shape of a power point won't change
and i won't back away and run
if you make me feel strange
she's the hand at the end of the arm
and she's got a lot to say
she thinks the world is falling apart
but that's okay
she just wants to be happy
a place for everything
and everything in its place
i get better, wait and see
she amazes me
it's kinda hard to see in here
but there's nothing to see
so who cares?
drank coffee all night and now i can't sleep
i think i opened a secret file
i let her look for a little while
and now i'm waiting for the ambulance to arrive
she just wants to be happy
a place for everything
and everything in its place
i had better wait and see
she amazes me
i couldn't understand the instructions
and the clock sounds like it's ticking slow
and this book is in another language
a language i don't know
i used to tie double knots
but now i couldn't be fucked
things are getting stupider all the time
she just wants to be happy
a place for everything
and everything in its place
i had better wait and see
she amazes me, you're confusing me
you're confusing me

Clint (Performed by Jebediah)
Transcribed by: Paul Dempsey

some things will stay the same
the shape of a power.. point won't change
and i won't back away and run
if you make.. me look strange
she's the hand at the end of the yard
and she's got a.. lot to say
she thinks the world is falling apart
and well
that's okay (x4)
she just wants to be happy (x2)
a place for ev.. for everything
and everything in its place
i get better, wait and see (x2)
she amazes, she amazes me (x2)
me..
it's kinda hard to see in here
but there's nothing to see
so.. who cares?
drank coffee all night and now i can't sleep
can't sleep (x3)
i think i opened the secret file
i let her look for a.. little while
and now i'm waiting for the ambulance to arrive
to arrive (x3)
she just wants to be happy (x2)
a place for ev.. for everything
and everything in its place
i get better wait and see (x2)
she amazes, she amazes me (x2)
me..
i couldn't stand the instructions
and the clock sounds like it's.. ticking slow
this book is in another language
it's a language that.. i don't know
i used to tie double knots
but now i could.. not be fucked
and things are getting stupider all the time
all the time (x4)
she just wants to be happy (x2)
a place for ev.. for everything
and everything in its place
i get better wait and see (x2)
she amazes, she amazes me (x2)
me.. (x2)

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