lyrics
מילים
In absentia
This new album is now available
in Israel in a special 2CD edition! We are happy to provide you with the full
lyrics! Enjoy!
- Blackest Eyes (4.23)
- Trains (5.56)
- Lips of Ashes (4.39)
- The Sound of Muzak (4.59)
- Gravity Eyelids (7.56)
- Wedding Nails (6.33)
- Prodigal (5.32)
- .3 (5.25)
- The Creator Has a Mastertape (5.21)
- Heartattack in a Layby (4.15)
- Strip the Soul (7.21)
- Collapse the Light Into Earth (5.52)
Bonus CD:
-
Drown with me
- Chloroform
- Strip the soul (Edit)
BLACKEST EYES
A mother sings a lullaby to a child
Sometime in the future the boy goes wild
And all his nerves are feeling some kind of energy
A walk in the woods and I will try
Something under the trees that made you cry
It's so erotic when your make up runs
I got wiring loose inside my head
I got books that I never ever read
I got secrets in my garden shed
I got a scar where all my urges bled
I got people underneath my bed
I got a place where all my dreams are dead
Swim with me into your blackest eyes
A few minutes with me inside my van
Should be so beautiful if we can
I'm feeling something taking over me
TRAINS
Train set and match spied under the blind
Shiny and contoured the railway winds
And I've heard the sound from my cousin's bed
The hiss of the train at the railway head
Always the summers are slipping away
A 60 ton angel falls to the earth
A pile of old metal, a radiant blur
Scars in the country, the summer and her
Always the summers are slipping away
Find me a way for making it stay
When I hear the engine pass
I'm kissing you wide
The hissing subsides
I'm in luck
When the evening reaches here
You're tying me up
I'm dying of love
It's OK
LIPS OF
ASHES
Paralysed
Lips of Ashes
Synchronised
Blue vein
crashes
Touching you inside
Idolised
Black Eyes fading
You
and I
Connection failing
I drill down inside
THE SOUND OF
MUZAK
Hear the sound of music
Drifting in the aisles
Elevator
prozac
Stretching on for miles
The music of the future
Will not
entertain
It's only meant to repress
And neutralise your brain
Soul
gets squeezed out
Edges get blunt
Demographic
Gives what you
want
Now the sound of music
Comes in silver pills
Engineered to
suit you
Building cheaper thrills
The music of rebellion
Makes you
wanna rage
But it's made by millionaires
Who are nearly twice your
age
One of the wonders of the world is going down
It's going down I
know
It's one of the blunders of the world that no-one cares
No-one cares
enough
GRAVITY
EYELIDS
Open your eyes now
Hear me out before I lose my
mind
I've been waiting for hours
Let the salt flow, feel my coil
unwind
Give me a smile please
Count the calm and watch my breathing
slow
Winding me up tease
Get inside my head and make it
show
Gravity eyelids come down
Touching your oil skin
Slipping
hands down past your waist to find
I've been waiting for hours
Let the
salt flow, feel my coil unwind
Go to the edge swim
Brown the eyes that
sleep has rendered blind
1. Gravity eyelids come down
2. Come love so
young with your gold arms so I wake her
3. Here's a will that will glow in
the dark
WEDDING
NAILS
(instrumental)
PRODIGAL
I
don't know whose side I'm on
I don't think that I belong round here
If I
left the stage would that be wrong ?
I tried to find myself a better
way
I got religion but I went astray
They took my money and I lost my
faith
Rain keeps crawling down the glass
The good times never seem to
last
Close your eyes and let the thought pass
I tried the capsule and
I tried the smoke
I tried to aid escape like normal folk
But I never
seemed to get the joke
These are my old clothes
This is a new
low
This is my blood flow
This is my headstone
I spend my days with
all my friends
They're the ones on who my life depends
I'm gonna miss them
when the series ends
Rain keeps crawling down the glass
(Pull yourself
together)
The good times never seem to last
(You know it's not so
bad)
Close your eyes and let the thought pass
(Close your eyes and let it
pass)
.3
Black the
sky, weapons fly
Lay them waste for your race
THE CREATOR HAS A
MASTERTAPE
He captured and collected things
And he put them in a
shed
He raised a proper family
So he could tie them to a bed
The
creator had a mastertape
But he left it in a cab
I stared into the void
tonight
The best dream I ever had
He worked himself into the
ground
And drove a spike into his head
A voice said ³Are you happy now
?²
³Your sordid home is running red²
Pills and chloroform
All the
pages torn
HEARTATTACK IN A
LAYBY
I pull off the road
East of Baldock and Ashford
Feeling
for my cell
In the light from the dashboard
Hissing from the
road
The smell of rain in the air con
Maybe check the news
Or just put
a tape on
Lighting up a smoke
I've got this feeling inside me
Don't
feel too good
If I close my eyes
And fell asleep in this
layby
Would it all subside
The fever pushing the day by
Motor
window wind
I could do with some fresh air
Can't breathe too
well
(She waits for me. Home waits for me.)
I guess I should go
now
She's waiting to make up
To tell me she's sorry
And how much she
missed me
I guess I'm just burnt out
I really should slow down
I'm
perfectly fine but
I just need to lie down
We'll grow old
together
We'll grow old together
We'll grow old together....
STRIP THE
SOUL
This is my home, this is my own, we don't like no
strangers
Raise the kids good, beat the kids good and tie them up
Spread
it wide, my wife, my life, push the camera deeper
I can use, I abuse, my
muse, I made them all
This machine
Is there to please
Strip the
soul
Fill the hole
A fire to feed
A belt to bleed
Strip the
soul
Kill them all
They are not gone, they are not gone, they are only
sleeping
In graves, in ways, in clay, underneath the floor
Building walls,
overalls, getting bored, I got faulty wiring
Brick it up now, brick it up
now, but keep the bones
(Do you want a western home in the rubble
?)
COLLAPSE THE LIGHT INTO
EARTH
I won't shiver in the cold
I won't let the shadows take
their toll
I won't cover my head in the dark
And I won't forget you when
we part
Collapse the Light Into Earth
I won't heal given time
I
won't try to change your mind
I won't feel better in the cold light of
day
But I wouldn't stop you if you wanted to stay
Collapse the Light
Into Earth
DROWN WITH ME
Music and lyrics - Steven Wilson
So you have been of
use
And you have been abused
You know you look pale today
Your
lipstick has gone astray
You sold out and lost your looks
You gave
away all your books
(You should drown with me)
Your coil has been
wound up tight
Unwind it with me tonight
(You should drown with
me)
Tyre tracks
Fresh on the ground
Where she will be found
Held
under the water
Resting there in a stream
View from the cold
water
Buried in green
Orange filter sky
Your drowning in family
there
When will you come up for air
(You should drown with
me)
Don't feel you let 'em down
Cos they have already
drowned
(You should drown with me)
CHLOROFORM
Lyrics - Steven Wilson / Music - Steven Wilson & Chris
Maitland
Little retrograde, wonder where you are
Another
motorcade, under radar
A boy in borrowed clothes, knows he is a
girl
Shards of light come down, stillness in the air
Big sleeper, your
deeper, too deep for me yeah
Speak clearer, can't hear you, I'm going
under
On the mountain side, hold me in your gaze
But it's over now,
cos I got kids to raise
