1. |
My Heart Went Boom
03:01
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Her eyes are full of the kind of light
That cuts laser-like through your habits
How I love the words 'Dancing Queen'
On the back of her satin jacket
She likes tormenting late night barmen
Sending them back and forth for slices of lemon
My heart went boom as she mesmerized the room
My heart went boom with a mix of love
And a sense of impending doom
Elements of her mind get lost between the olive and the martini
I wave an imaginary twelve-star flag
In the hope she might see me
She's not the kind to take any kind of nonsense
She says hanging's too good for Boris Johnson
And it is
My heart went boom as she mesmerized the room
My heart went boom with a mix of love
And a sense of impending doom
You're never entirely free
From the danger of the right smile at the wrong moment
The meeting of light and dust, a skyline,
Shadows and a heart that's homeless
Then there's glitter everywhere
Mostly when you thought you didn't care
Boom…
My heart went boom as she mesmerized the room
My heart went boom
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2. |
Charm School
03:37
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She never went to a charm school
She didn't really need to
She can charm sunbeams to light up her dreams
She can charm anything at all out of me
Charm is a colour I was painted without
Blurting things out and sarcasm don't really count
I could cure all my ills with some social skills
But don't go holding your breath
Charm won't be on the radar any time soon yet
If you've got the heart you claim
Let me hear it beat, stop playing charm school games
Charm is a colour that even shades the way she walks
A flash of an eye and it's game over, the idea's sold and bought
She has the morals of quite an immoral alley cat
If I'm honest with myself, I quite like that
If you've got the heart you claim
Let me hear it beat, stop playing the charm school games
Lavender oil steaming in the bath
Violins floating through the steam
She lies back and softly laughs
Pouring the charm down the phone to me, to me
If you've got the heart you claim
Let me hear it beat, stop playing games
If you've got the heart, if you've got the heart you claim
Let it shout aloud, stop playing your charm school games
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3. |
In A Minor Heartbreak
03:21
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Love seemed a lonely place
I walked into that place and we came face to face
How much memory space for that glittering file?
Your head on my shoulder outside time
If there's a minor heartbreak
It's just a thing I know I can take
She disappeared into the timeslip again
She's velvet in tone
Would she like a shoulder if she cries?
In a minor heartbreak
Love wasn't even our second favourite word
We said it so quietly was I even sure I heard?
Now she's my guardian angel and I try to be hers
Oh those eyes - the girl in black velvet with my heart inside
If there's a minor heartbreak
It's just a thing I know I can take
She disappeared into the timeslip again
She's velvet in tone
Would she like a shoulder if she cries?
In a minor heartbreak
I had a beautiful dream that I dreamt the most
Cut London and Scotland off from the Yarmouths and Stokes
And into the sunset we would all float
And I'm even past caring if we don't
In a minor heartbreak
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When the punters arrive I take a while to get up from the screen
They can wait for their tickets, I'm lost in a dream
I make it look like I'm hooked up to a transport hub
Instead of tabloid girls and broken love
I rise from the nerve centre of planetary train news
To note with dismay there's an angry queue
I'm loath to lament
(The trains are fucked, is England fucked?)
I wonder where all the time went
(The trains are fucked, is England fucked?)
Sunbeams poured onto my train-set in my lair
I ran it round again as they called up the stairs
I dreamt of running the trains out of St Pancras
And I'm stuck in the sticks with all of these wankers
At least in the old days they'd shout and moan
Now they just get drunk and stare at their phones
I'm loath to lament
(The trains are fucked, is England fucked?)
I wonder where all the time went
(The trains are fucked, is England fucked?)
I heard the St Pancras minor chords from afar
I danced a waltz up to the champagne bar
I was hooked up to the network, I ran the game
I swapped spam for caviar, cold tea for champagne
I'm loath to lament where all the time went
The trains are fucked
Is England fucked?
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5. |
Italian Darkness
03:09
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That close-up of her eye, Italian darkness
A vivid dream leaps off the screen
And reverse blurs back into sharpness
Conservations cut off as the little girl came in
You might mean well but how to tell?
The photos that get lost, the steps that get missed
That girl's life is in the photo
And when you look into her eyes, you know…
And now that she's all grown-up
And she found out the darker truth
With the sun in her eyes
She wakes to find a letter of photos from the past
With dark eyes that burn just like hers do
That girl's life is in the photo
When you look into her eyes, you know…
Something went so wrong all that way back
A box of photos now won't act as a payback
You missed out on her, it's too late for the truth
She's grown up pretty great without you
When you look into her eyes, you know…
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6. |
Chinese Burn
02:15
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Here she comes again, that nurse I like
I know she's undressed under her clothes
Knowing that makes my blood run faster
Blood tests are easier I suppose
She says "If you love me, why don't you move your toes?"
Everything she says, everything she does
Is like a Chinese Burn
They're going spare in the room next door
Somebody's hidden matron's bag
I got the time to think and I don't think that's a good thing
They're telling me things are really bad
She says "You'd grass your friends up if you loved me,
Me and the drugs are the only friends you need"
She's like a Chinese Burn
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7. |
Everyone Says Hi
02:55
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The hills and the snow were like a lock down
In the darkest winter night rang out your rocking sound
A maniac stood shouting as you played
"These are going to be my friends", I knew straight away
Everyone says hi…
I live in my own world for sure, for sure
For a while way back then I lived in yours
That fabulous fifties world
Your brilliant Gretsch, cars and girls
Your mile-wide smile lit up the room and now it's everywhere I turn
Everyone says hi…
And there's a little juke joint on the outside of town
Cats pick 'em up and lay them down
You get your girl and I'll get mine
And we'll get together and have a good time
Everyone says hi
We look at the sky
It's because we want to say goodbye, goodbye
Everyone says hi
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8. |
London Trains
03:12
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Our love is like a London train
Hours spent waiting in the rain
12:36 at Kings Cross, carnage on the disco train
Please watch over me and guide me home again
Free papers and junk food strewn around
Drunk conversations’ random sounds
Our kisses fell asleep and missed their stop
And came home with the milkman all fucked up
Our love is like a London train
And I don't mean that in a good way
We knew what time we started out
Who knows when we'll get home again?
There's no-one there you can ask anyway
I often think they should renationalize them
Tempers flare, plates go flying
Hearts are breaking, hours spent waiting
The explanations are just grating
Our love is like a London train
Like a London train…
12:36 on the disco train
Hours spent waiting in the rain
They never explain and you never complain
That's the London trains
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9. |
Those Eyes
02:52
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Those eyes are blurred but vivid green
Like gleaming pools reflecting trees
A deep liquid mirror reflecting my heart
Things I try on and don't quite believe
I like to think they're Jaguar green
Sometimes they go off into a dream
Then snap back laughing in the heat haze
In the park under a canopy of trees
Those eyes, those eyes - they want what's right for me
They want what's right for me
Those eyes blink open on Sunday morning
They call around the room for me
You couldn't take a photo to capture their shine
There's just the moment to see
Anxiety makes you organized
I planned to take those green pools on a bus ride
Baby let's get our tickets punched
By the Lordship Lane Gainsbourg who's counting the holes until lunch
Those eyes, those eyes - they want what's right for me
They want what's right for me
Those eyes, those eyes - they want what's right for me
They shine so bright for me
Those eyes aren't even from here
And some days they feel like they're the only thing
Keeping this silly little island from exploding…
with a BANG…
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She lit the blue touch paper
With 'Swimming Pools' full of her dark eyes
She didn't retire to a safe distance away from the fire
I said "why don't you really kiss me this time?"
She determinedly pushed back her hair
And put her hands in mine
If you light the blue touch paper don't be surprised
If someone quite close to you gets set on fire
It's burning dark like your eyes
And it's all right, it's all right
The Shipping Forecast said there'd be fireworks
The clouds started to spin
We wasted time in the park with the summer rain on our skin
She smelt of perfume, cigarettes and sun
I wonder if I'd ever liked a mix of perfumes quite as much
If you light the blue touch paper don't be surprised
If someone quite close to you gets set on fire
It's burning dark like your eyes
It's all right, it's all right
She's like an hour waiting in the rain
She's lighting fires with me again
She's just afraid of the slightest touch
And of course love
Let it burn…
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11. |
In the Blue Corner
04:09
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This is the blue corner calling from the top of the dial
I haven’t been in this situation for a while
Some days I've got a spectacular talent for not making you smile
The world's right again when you just kiss me
Things become the way we might want them to be
A girl so beautiful you'd want to paint her
Or at least take a photo with a phone later
There are points of view for which I find I’ve got a lot of time
I don’t think I’ll try them out on her tonight
Our two hearts in the blue corner
Miles apart in the blue corner
If we love each other in our two corners
What good could that be to me?
The moon's tired of drinking
The stars are stumbling home
Dawn's waiting in the wings, fumbling for a comb
I hear the town waking up
Is it time perhaps to go home?
Our two hearts in the blue corner
Miles apart in the blue corner
If we love each other in our two corners
What good could that be to me?
That was the blue corner calling from the top of the dial
My world is painted so bright when you smile
But this is the blue corner calling from the top of the dial
Oh it's all so blue in here
My world is a million shades of blue without you
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12. |
En Amande
03:58
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A band of white gold, no more than a sliver
Making it's point, left hand third finger
Metaphorically speaking, the finger was flipped
Some days I'm so far off the radar, I'm barely a blip
In a moment, then in a moment…
I might find out everything
A drunken choir started to sing
Somebody's wedding, somebody else's ring
She said "you don't have to say the first thing in your mind"
With a shot of her almond eyes
I heard every stupid single syllable I said echo twice
Somebody's uncle fell over in time
There's such a distance between our kinds of lives
I'd need a space telescope to see her world from mine
It was a moment, a moment…
I might find out everything
There have to be people who aren't messed-up
To go around picking the rest of us up
I might find out everything
"En Amande"…
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13. |
Angela
02:27
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We fell in love too quickly like a runaway train
Walking round the summer town on a cloud and in a haze
She took my hand so softly, love is a lonely place
We overdid just about everything too soon, too soon
Angela, Angela, wear that dress for me
Angela, Angela, you’re where I want to be
From the human ashtrays to the sunny morning street
Every cat wonders what went wrong
Every paving-stone echoes your feet
We only speak in emoticons
I’m not sure what they convey
We overdid just about everything too soon, too soon
Angela, Angela, wear that dress for me
Angela, Angela, you’re where I want to be
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Sometimes I like to sit out at night on my front door step with my cat. I can hear people's television, people arguing, people talking to babies. Maybe I can imagine them in or out of love. I can hear their texts pinging across the universe.
In the afternoon I saw the bowlers in their whites on the green coming in for tea. There's a trough in the street for horses and dogs but now it's filled with flowers.
At night I think about the afternoon street and how now those people are winding themselves down like clocks. I can almost feel a story in every house - the baby next door, the 90-year old man the next house down and then suddenly… a cat fizzes across the street like a shooting star across the sky.
My own cat sits next to me and we while away this last hour. The things that seemed important that had to be done, that had to be a source of worry, well they just don't matter any more. The orange glow of the streetlights throws long shadows and I wonder why I can't feel this way at every moment of the day. The wild roses blaze red in the darkness and I wonder where the birds go to sleep.
I wonder where the birds go to sleep. Somewhere within memories we keep. High in the London trees, just out of reach. Where the birds go to sleep.
Good night, God bless.
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Imagine you're actually there on the dark side
Weren't the algorithms supposed to put you on the light?
It's shrill, someone's screaming, hate isn't a crime
Everyone's entitled to an opinion right?
You have to realize we're all living in an echo chamber
Everything seems fucked because of this unavoidable fact
You only ever hear things you like and agree with
Nobody's talking back
Imagine any of this actually might be true
It'll take a micro-second of your time
57 varieties of bad communication
And even less understanding coming down the wire
Make it easy on yourself
Only ever listen to your friends
Thus the extremes become the centre
This film's looking a lot like the end
You have to realize we're all living in an echo chamber
Everything seems fucked because of this unavoidable fact
You only ever hear things you like and agree with
Nobody's talking back
Imagine you're actually there on the dark side
When the algorithms put you in the light
It's shrill, someone's screaming, hate isn't a crime
But everyone's entitled to an opinion right?
You have to realize we're all in an echo chamber
Everything's fucked…
Echo chamber
Oh the danger
How and where in the world would you ever listen to a stranger?
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I used to see her hanging round my neighbourhood
Making noise in Spanish by the flats
I counted every single rose as I was walking down the road
I learnt to tell the time from all the cats
Painting the world in vivid red - that's her job for sure
Like the deep red roses round her door
I saw her come out of the heat haze
Her bruises and black eyes were just a blur
I sat her down on my front step
And I tried to make sense out of what she said
Her Dad had taken everything out on her
The sunbeams come and pick her up whenever she's on the floor
Like the deep red roses round her door
She never really cried
The deepest bruises were inside
At A and E I explained as best I could
Although I wasn't sure I understood about the roses
And how they bloomed in the light
I met her in the park a few years later
Her kids were laughing and dancing on the lawn
She had a smile ten miles wide as she ate ice cream outside
She said "never forget that roses all have thorns"
Now the sunbeams come and pick me up whenever I'm on the floor
Like the deep red roses round her door
And then she paints the world in vivid red - that's her job for sure
Like the deep red roses round her door
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When my uncle comes to stay
My mum and dad call him plenty of names
He's playing his clarinet in the morning
I hear them mutter "oh God put it away"
My uncle's had hundreds of girls,
He's been away, he's been all over the world
He always brings me a new football programme
And stories to make my hair curl
He can make his clarinet roar
He hid his tears behind the green door saying "don't say a word kid"
He can make his clarinet roar
He said "don't say a word kid", "don't say a word"
At Christmas he had a job at a party
Bouncing kids on his knee and smelling of beer
On Christmas Eve I crept downstairs
To see Santa kissing Mrs Jones from next door
And her dress had disappeared
AS IF BY MAGIC
Now my Gran says he's made his excuses
Whatever he does, he always loses
He's got this 'broken heart', I wonder if that hurts?
He's gone away to find out what the truth is
He can make his clarinet roar
He hid his tears behind that green door saying "don't say a word kid"
He can make his clarinet roar
He said "don't say a word kid", "don't say a word"
Because it's Christmas.
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We fell in love too quickly like a runaway train
Walking round the summer town on a cloud and in a haze
She took my hand so softly, love is a lonely place
We overdid just about everything too soon, too soon
Angela, Angela, wear that dress for me
Angela, Angela, you’re where I want to be
From the human ashtrays to the sunny morning street
Every cat wonders what went wrong
Every paving-stone echoes your feet
We only speak in emoticons
I’m not sure what they convey
We overdid just about everything too soon, too soon
Angela, Angela, wear that dress for me
Angela, Angela, you’re where I want to be
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There are horrible people everywhere
They're all over the streets, hiding under your stairs
Their minds are full of shit
You can't get away from it
There are horrible people everywhere
You have to be polite to them but you don't care
Cos their minds are full of shit
There's just no end to it
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