THE WALLFLOWERS - BREACH (2000)
Now coming down
Out of this swandive to your arms
I make no sounds
When I move through your reservoirs
I wake up quick
I wake up sick
As you abandon me
Into these fields of rank and file
Through this cloud I hear you breathing
Through these bars I watch them bring more in
Now I send back letters from the wasteland home
Last slowdance to this romance on my own
May take two to tango, but boy it takes one to let go
It just takes one to let go.
Now boy keep still
Now don't spread yourself around
Get back in line
Eat your bread
And just work the ground
'Cause you're not through
They're not done with with you
Did you think you were
The only one who's been let down
So sleep tight little boys of the new dam
Let them drop in the town with the quicksand
Now I send back letters from the wasteland home
Last slowdance to this romance on my own
May take two to tango, but boy it takes one to let go
Now another bad idea gets through
Down they send me unto you
Every bridge I should have burned
Every lesson I've unlearned
When the smoke give way to ruins
Incarcerated lovesick fools
I wait for you to cut me loose
But until then
I send back letters from the wasteland home
Last slowdance to this romance on my own
Now I send back letters from the wasteland home
Last slowdance to this romance on my own
May take two to tango, but boy it takes one to let go
Now I send back letters from the wasteland home
From where I slowdance to this romance on my own
Whatever I know too much
You won't be anyone
Now tell me what you are thinking of
How could you think you would be enough
It's not that you have stayed too long
It's not that you've done something wrong
It's not your fault
But you embarrass yourself
Hand me down
It's better when you're not around
You feel good and you look like you should
But you will never make us proud
You've been used by an army of kings
You've been touched by the lips of a queen
Now we've all made good use of you
But you won't be needed again
So don't you move and let someone else in
Make some room for a new harlequin
It's never enough
So don't disappoint us again
Hand me down
It's better when you're not around
You feel good and you look like you should
But you won't ever make us proud
Hand me down
It's better when you're not around
You feel good and you look like you should
But you could never make us proud
Hand me down
So look at you with your worn out shoes
Living proof evolution's through
We're stuck with you
This revolution's due
Hand me down
It's better when you're not around
You feel good and you look like you should
But you could never make us proud
Hand me down
It's better when you're not around
You feel good and you look like you should
But you won't ever make us proud
Maybe I could be the one they adore
That could be my reputation
It's where I'm from that let's them think I'm a whore
I'm an educated virgin
Sleepwalker, don't be shy
Now don't open your eyes tonight
You'll be the one that defends my life
While I'm dead asleep dreaming
Cupid, don't draw back your bow
Sam Cooke didn't know what I know
I'll never be your valentine
The sleepwalker in me and God
Only knows that I've tried
Let me in, let me drown or learn how to swim
Just don't leave me at the window
I could be the one to be your next best friend
You may need someone to hold you
Sleepwalker, take this knife
You may see someone tonight
You'd be the one that saves my life
When I'm dead asleep dreaming
Now Cupid, don't draw back your bow
Sam Cooke didn't know what I know
Never be your valentine
The sleepwalker in me and God
Only knows that I've tried
I'm in your movie
And everyone looks sad
But I can hear you
Your voice in the laugh track
But you never saw my best scene
The one where I sleep
Sleepwalk into your dreams
Now, Sleepwalker, what's my line
It's only a matter of time until I
Learn to open up my eyes
When I'm dead asleep dreaming
Now Cupid, don't draw back your bow
Sam Cooke didn't know what I know
Never be your valentine
The sleepwalker in me
Now, the sleepwalker in me
Now, the sleepwalker in me
And God only knows that I've tried
I could break free from the
Wood of a coffin
If I need
But nothin's hard as
Gettin' free from places
I've already been
I've been waste-deep
In the burnin' meadows
Of my mind
In the engine
In cold December
Shootin' fire from the hose
Now turn off your lights
'Cause I'm not comin' home
'Til I'm delivered for the first time
I was first-born to a parade
That follows in rows
Down a narrow cold black river
Faceless shadows
Movin' slow
I would move swift when
The sounds of a trumpet would blow
I've been the puppet
I've been the strings
I know the vacant face it brings
Now the bells of curfew
They may ring before I'm through
But soon
I'll be delivered for the first time
You might keep clean
In the back of an angel motorcade
It doesn't matter who walks in
You know, the joke is still the same
You'll just wake up
Like a disposable lover
Decomposed
I've been gone
I've been remembered
I've been alive
I've been a ghost
So now, if downtown explodes
I'll still be on this road
'Til I'm delivered for the first time
I have drawn blood
From the neckline
When vampires were in fashion
You know I'd even learn
To cut my throat
If I thought I could fit in
'Cause I, I once heard
That you gotta learn
How to blend in to this mess
Where nothin's hard
Nothin's precious
And nothin's smooth or flawless
Now, no more amused
Just screaming to be delivered
For the first time
Now I'm 10 miles in the deep
And mighty blue sea
Looking back, towards a long white beach
Burnin' up into yellow flames
And I just wave back
Like a little boy up on a pony
In a show
'Cause I can't fix
Something this complex
Any more than I can build a rose
So just keep on letting go
'Cause I must be close
To being delivered for the first time
Now I'd rather bleed out
A long stream from being lonely
And feel blessed
Well than drown, laying face down
In a puddle of respect
I was once lost
In the corridors of the arena
In blindfolds
I've been the bull
I've been the whip
I just pulled down the matador
So now, turn on your lights
'Cause I'm comin' home
I've been delivered for the first time
I'm standing outside your window, baby
And there you are
Another year, another candle's burning
For the party girl
No one even knows that you're there
Happy Birthday, no one cares
You come around here,
You'd better bring a witness
Everyone in here's on the guest list
And when you're gone you won't be missed
Keep one eye open
When you kiss
Your wishes won't be coming true this year
Now darling don't you cry
We're going to teach you everything
You'll learn to get by
Now lesson number one in homicide
Is emotional murder is no crime
You come around here,
You'd better bring a witness
Everyone in here's on the guest list
And when you're gone you won't be missed
Keep one eye open
When you kiss
Now sticks and stones, baby, break your bones
But the names, in here, can kill
We'd let you leave
But no one else wants you
Your ransom was not made
Now you ain't got to stand up tall
But now baby, you must stand up
You come around here,
You'd better bring a witness
Everyone in here's on the guest list
Now we've never been so impressed
Keep one eye open when, whenever you kiss
We didn't make it
We did not pull through
You shouldn't blame me
I don't blame you
Now what else did you think
That I would do?
Ooooh as if it wasn't hard enough
I'm so tired of waking up
Feeling bad
You haven't been the kind of place I have
Could it hurt you now
To let this pass?
Oooooh as if it wasn't hard enough
You want to make it so much harder
Now in another world I could learn to forget
But 'til then I'm here
Making room for new regrets
Now some flowers they never bloom
And some flowers just bloom dead
The way you make me feel I could collapse
An epidemic I cannot outlast
How could you feel used
When I feel trapped?
Ooooh as if it wasn't hard enough
And just as my conscience starts to clear
I drag the river and you're still there
The way I bring you down, could not compare
Ooooh as if it wasn't hard enough
You want to make it so much harder
Now in another world
I could learn to forget
But till then I'm here
Making room for new regrets
Now some flowers they never bloom
But some flowers just bloom dead
Now some flowers they neveVergr bloom
And some flowers just bloom dead
The way I sleep
This bed just can't be made
I pull the covers up around my head
Now when I think of me
I think of somebody else instead
As if it wasn't hard enough
You're gonna make it so much harder
Now in another world
I could learn to forget
But 'til then I'm here
Making room for new regrets
Now some flowers they never bloom
And some flowers just bloom dead
Now some flowers they never bloom
And some flowers they just bloom dead
Mama don't 'you send me no love this month
'Cause my heart is all used up
And mama I wanna come home
I wanna get back home
So look out into the morning rain
'Cause I'm on the mourning train
I'm bringing down my suitcase now
I'm shining up my good shoes brown
'Cause no-one knows my name
Now, no-one knows my name
So look out into the morning rain
'Cause I'm on the mourning train
Mama look at me now
Oh how I wish
You were around
So many friends I wish
I had right now
Mister you can't hurt me now
You've got my girl, I still don't know how
But it don't matter now
No it don't matter now
So look out into the morning rain
'Cause I'm on, I'm already on
The mourning train
Well I'm down here in the well
Looking back up at the hill
Well I thank heavens I fell
Must look more
Like myself
Now everyone is so kind
Everyone looks like
A long lost friend of mine
I'm on top of the world again
When I'm looking
Up from under Babylon
I had a home in the fields
Earned my wage in the factories there
And I was raised by the mill
And I worked with my brothers there
I told my mother I'd always write
I headed west for the coast
With the big city lights
Now mamma I'm so sorry I've forgotten
But now I'm looking
Up from under Babylon
Now tell me how far I've been
And how deep was I in
Tell me how I conceived
The vanity to believe
That I would not be outnumbered
By the thumbs I have been under
Now stray dogs in the street
Learn how to beg, steal, borrow and cheat
And in the dead summer heat
I fell asleep with blood on my teeth
But those days before I met you girl
Were just ice cream falling down
On the shoes of my world
I'm so happy that you're my friend
When we're looking
Up from under Babylon
When we're looking
Up from under Babylon
Never thought that I knew too much
I always thought I knew enough
I didn't want to learn this stuff
I didn't ever want to be that tough
But love was just implied
And everything else died
This class has now begun
In Murder 101
You can learn it in the first degree
You could even make yourself believe
That you'll never even think of me
When you're packing up your things to leave
Now my intuition failed
I can't graduate unskilled
They don't excuse the young
This is Murder 101
Find yourself another heart that needs a rest
Tie a hook onto a single thread
Drop it down beneath the chest
There's the first part of this test
They'll grade you on a curve
They're including everyone
No matter what you've heard
You know this class has now begun
Drop out before they come
To Murder one by one
Just look what we've done
In Murder 101
Just look what we've done
In Murder 101
Just look what we've done
This is Murder 101
Just look what we've done
To Murder one by one
So sad that you took it so badly
And acted so madly
So scared
Like a baby by the morning
With sunlight unfolding
Your eyes have turned red
And are holding me
Inside your story
In the end
You'll have started on a new one
Of anguish and delusions
He smiles
Just like a magician
Who's just cast his illusions
Of castles and sandstones
On the backbeach
And bright lights
Within your reach
The sounds
Of a warning
By the morning
Of hound dogs coming for me
With the ropes leading back to your knees
And you looking straight at me
On your knees in the rain
With a basket of flowers
Just for me
As the bells in the trees up above
All swung and rang softly
You said you rang them for me
For me
Welcome back, babybird
With your dirty wings in tatters
Welcome home, where you belong, nobody knows you better
Now bring back your loving heart and we'll make you brand new feathers
Sleep through the morning light with your arms around your brothers
Babybird, now come back home
Oh baybird you are never really on your own
Now outside faces cry with the tears of lonesome orphans
Behind every nest is the face of another
Where ever you have been, where ever you took cover
No arms that pulled you in, could hold you like your mother
Babybird, now come back home
Oh baybird, you are never really on your own
When all my colours faded and my wings, they turned to leather
One of the reasons why God let me get older
When all my days are through and I fly these hills no longer
I'll wait beneath the stars and I'll watch you flying over
Babybird, now come back home
Now babybird, you are never really on your own
Babybird, now come back home
Now babybird, you will never be all alone