These Four Worlds | Lyrics
These Four Worlds
These four worlds
Cracked in time suspended moment
All I know
Snapped in half and splintered frozen
Worn out seams
Left aching out in desperation
Where to go?
Where nothing matters nothing’s broken?
I sold my eyes for beans
But – don’t panic girl
Night-sight’s waiting in the darkness
Sold my boat at sea
But – don’t panic girl
Your not stranded in the bathroom
Don’t panic girl
These are your four worlds
These four worlds
I lost the time and still it’s slowing
Taken fight
Adrenaline this river flowing
Through these veins
And breathing in the clear blue water
Holding tight
Its you the son and for you that I fight
I sold my eyes for beans
But – don’t panic girl
Night-sight’s waiting in the darkness
Sold my boat at sea
But – don’t panic girl
Your raft is floating in the bathroom
Don’t panic girl
These are your four worlds
These are your four worlds
These are your four worlds
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No Ropes on Me
The sun on the city rose up so slow
I missed the morning, missed the train yeah I know
But look close, close
There’s no ropes on me
Ive heard it said that I tripped in the street
Mistaken the moment I missed it you see
But look close, close
There’s no ropes on me
The boat left the shore
With my moon hanging by,
I had no ticket back out
Tell me why?
I got no, no ropes on me
I pull you in so close to me
Tying a knot to set you free
Wondering what it takes to be
Alive and breathing
Wondering what takes to be
No ropes on me
So gather you all!
In pain and slate!
Keep back from the safe!
Stay back from the gate!
Cause there’s no, no, no ropes on me
All of these days they roll into years
Watching the faces hop rolling hop rolling
But still there’s no ropes on me..
I pull you in so close to me
Tying a knot, tying a knot
To set you free
Wondering what it takes to be?
Alive and breathing
Wondering what takes to be?
No ropes on me
No ropes on me
No ropes on me
So please tell me how to lay it to rest
Uncover the fight and run with the best
Free falling
So please tell me how to lay it to rest
Uncover the fight and run with the best
Free falling – with no ropes on
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Blackbird
I’m pulled down by the groundswell
I’m lost deep in this cave
I grip tight to the guide rope
Still praying I can change
Some people swear by folk law
But I think we are made of other stuff
I dreamed I held the blackbird in my palm
Cause to fly, that’s enough.
So march me to the frontline
Stand still in lines of fire
I reaching for the silence
The centre of this pyre
Some people swear by folk law
But I think we are made of other stuff
I dreamed I held the blackbird in my palm
Cause to fly, that’s enough,
Yes to fly, that’s enough.
I’ll hide you from destruction
If you shade me from all pain
And we’ll cut these ropes that hold us down
Balloons drifting out in space
Some people swear by folk law
But I think we are made of other stuff
I dreamed I held the blackbird as my god
Cause to fly, that’s enough,
Yes to fly, that’s enough,
Cause to fly, that’s enough.
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Keep this Moment Alive
With open hands and open eyes
I wanna keep this moment alive
So call it in
Keep it really close
I wanna keep this moment alive
And no more shall we hold our breath inside
You bring me to life
With open heart and open eyes
I wanna keep this moment alive
Your unchartered lands never walked before
I know we’ll keep this moment alive
And there’s burning stars lighted overhead
I wanna keep this moment alive
And no more shall we hold our breath inside
You bring me to life
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Metal Bird
Like a metal bird, with a cold, cold heart
Living in a tiny cage, one thing’s for certain
She will never fly away
Like a metal bird, with an old old heart
Living in a tiny cage, one thing’s for certain
She will never fly away
Looking in the glass and she’s wondering why?
Wondering all the chances that have passed her by,
Beauty has a price to pay - she will never fly away,
Wondering at the river flooding, flooding down her road
She’s soaking wet and freezing to the bone
Warmth has a price to pay - she will never fly away
Wondering at the roses, that have grown so tall
Climbing creepers if she climbs she’ll fall - safety has a price to pay,
She will never fly away
Just like a metal bird, with a cold, cold heart
Living in a tiny cage, one thing’s for certain
She will never fly away
Like a metal bird, with an old, old heart
Living in a tiny cage, one thing’s for certain
She will never fly away
Catch her in the birdsong, as they fly away
Catch on the riverbank, on a summers day
Catch her in a car shine, by the launderette
Running in the soapsuds, she’s down the drain again,
Catch a little boat to the other side of the road
Catch a little boat, catch a little boat, catch a little boat
To the other side, gonna sail the sea in the garden,
She will never fly away,
She will never fly away,
She will never fly away
Just like a metal bird, with a cold, cold heart
Living in a tiny cage, one thing’s for certain…..
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It isn’t gonna be that way
You’ve travelled so far, the wind in your face
You thinking you found the one special place
Where all of your dreams will walk out in line
And follow the course you’ve made in your mind
Well it isn’t gonna be that way
It isn’t gonna be that way..
I came on my own and felt much like you
I thought I was king and knew what to do
But everything burned and fell from my hands
I had to turn back
Or build a new plan
Cause it isn’t gonna be that way
If I were a god,
I’d give you a clue
This minute would crack and I could go through
And walk out in time,
Where no one has been
I’d come back to you and tell what I’d seen
But it isn’t gonna be that way
It isn’t gonna be that way..
You’ll just have to live
And see what you find
And take it from there
And follow the signs
You think you can live
And dream your own fate
You think wish
And walk through the gate
But it isn’t gonna be that way
It isn’t gonna be that way..
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The Twig that Cracks
Tell me where I find myself today?
I think I left my heart outside again.
I know your face
I know your hands so well
I know your stories and I know your smell
But like a twig that cracks
It’s here and gone
Count the seconds before too long
Breathe the air
It’s clean and good
In this moment you are understood
I don’t know which way I’m up today
Are you my lover?
Are you going away?
I though I saw you on the news today
Just a static voice suspended there in the rain
But like a twig that cracks
It’s here and gone
Count the seconds before its gone
Breathe the air
It’s clean and good
In this moment
You are understood
Feather in my hat
I’m in the sun
My arms outstretched towards the way that we’ve come
I hold onto remembering your ways
In holding on
I hope I learn to stay
But like a twig that cracks
It’s here and gone
Count the seconds before too long
Breathe the air
It’s clean and good
In this moment
You are understood
You are understood
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Losing it all to you
Bird on the wire
Hanging on to the truth
Caught on the line
Stretched between me and you
Oh tick-tock the time
Hanging into the silent room
As I scratch out these lines
All the words that I thought I knew
Losing it all to you
What am I supposed to do?
Losing it all to…
Lost all I knew
Though I thought it was real
Traded a love lost
A soul on the wheel
Losing it all to you….
So check up my mind
Cause I’m searching for proof
Cause if nothing is mine
Save for all that I lose
Then turn back the clocks
Let me out into the pouring rain
Cause when there’s nothing to lose
There is all left to play
Losing it all to you
What am I supposed to do?
Losing it all to…
Lost all I knew
Though I thought it was real
Traded a life lost
A soul on the wheel
Losing it all to you….
Losing at all to you….
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The Place In-Between
I watered the plants for you yesterday
There was a message for you on the phone
I wondered could you hear the words they say?
I waited for you by the clock
But you never came….
I’ve got a hollow inside my head
I’ve got a handful of rain
Show me where the path lies
To the place that’s in-between
Bridge this empty river
With your kisses cover me
Cut right back the screen that shuts your light out of my day
The light was you and without you,
I’ve nothing left to say
I need to be at the place in-between
I wandered off the path and held my breath again
I dared the dream to pass me in the street
I close my eyes and ask if you are here again?
In the shadow against the wall there - by the stairs
Show me where the path lies
To the place that’s in-between
Bridge this empty river
With your kisses cover me
Cut right back the screen that shuts your light out of my day
Because the light was you and without you,
I’ve nothing left to say
I need to be, at the place in-between
I need to be, at the place in-between
Ask me the time
I wont know what to say
To hold this moment
I’m keeping really still
In a moments silence
You catch me unawares
I think I’ve seen the place
That’s in-between
Show me where the path lies, to the place that’s in-between
Bridge this empty river, with your kisses cover me
Cut right back the screen that shuts your light out of my day
Because the light was you and without you, I’ve nothing left to say
I need to be, at the place in-between
I need to be, at the place in-between
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Volta
I am under your fingers
I am under your hands
I am under illusion
I am under your sand
I am under your spell dear
I am under your sea
I am undertaking wonder
Do you understand me?
A sea between us lay
But distance does not fade
A cut already made
Volta - take me anywhere…
I am walking your winter
I am touching your freeze
I am walking your land
And dropping breadcrumbs at sea
I am under your footsteps
You are under my skin
I am under illusion
Like a stone that you skim
A sea between us lay
But distance does not fade
A cut already made
Volta - take me anywhere…
I am floating this moment
I am floating at sea
I am floating your imprint
That you’ve left indelibly
I am holding my hands out
I am pulling at dreams
I am stepping
To dare back
All that’s left here of me…
A sea between us lay
But distance does not fade
A cut already made
Volta - take me anywhere…
A sea between us lay
But distance does not fade
A cut already made
Volta - take me anywhere…
Volta - take me anywhere…
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You be my Heart
You be my heart open
Don’t worry baby….