Bat for Lashes

(Come) closer and see See into the trees Follow the girl While you can (Come) closer and see See into the dark Just follow your eyes Just follow your eyes I hear her voice Calling my name The sound is deep In the dark I hear her voice (And) start to run Into...

From inside his mouth I lick the blood But he is roaring and biting I wash off the mud Cause the tempest is out to wrestle a while Stop charging my darling Come closer, be quiet Cause when you see a wall I see a door Set up with no map And turn off yo...

Never see the big, church steeple, when I call you on the phone Never feel the rush of angels, when we stay up late alone Never whisper you a great love story, only scream and cry or more But you’re a good man, but you’re a good man I keep telling myself t...

The caves of our mouths are forest darkness And the air in between is overflowing And the rushing wolverine flies past His shiny shiny teeth And she is kind, and he is free and full of knowing She is sure She is sure The caves of our mouths are bear's...

Alors, j'ai l'histoire d'une fille forte Une fille qui lutte avec amour Pour remplir sa mission Elle me dit que les hommes enfants Ne sont pas bons pour moi Puis elle me tient jusqu'à la glace Et place des bijoux dans mes yeux Et j'ai une petite hist...

Some say my lover is a pale green light He hovers high where the moon shines bright I feel him come to me in the dead of night And I go to the other side And when he lovingly takes my hand Pulls me close to a windswept land I can't make anybody else und...

Clouds rush through your eyes Clouds, black and white I am lost until some day When you will come and love me Rain, I will take as a sign Rain, heavy grace I did find Rain, will you wash me through the night? Rain, divine, divine, divine Clouds brush...

Daniel, when I first saw you I knew that you had a flame in your heart And under wild blue sky Marble movie skies I found a home in your eyes We'll never be apart And when the fires came The smell of cinders and rain Perfumed almost everything We laughed and...

Came running out of the dark With the tears in your eyes This time I’m not afraid ‘Cause my heart’s ablaze Baby, throw your head back Let your hair down Ooooooh Baby, let your hair down It’s time to get enchanted You’re a deep sea diver Tides are t...

I love ya I feel for you Ah ah ah ah, oh I love ya I feel for you Ah ah ah ah [instrumental] I love ya I feel for you Ah ah ah ah, oh I love ya I feel for you Ah ah ah ah, oh I love ya I feel for you Ah ah ah ah, oh I love ya I feel for...

I will rise now And go about the city In the street's Broadways I seek Him whom my soul loveth Went over the sea What did I find? A thousand crystal towers A hundred emerald cities And the hand of the watchman In the night sky Points to my beloved A knight i...

In the night time we are found Misty sorrow swoop unbound Whisper you mean it, say you'll stay Hold my heart till brighter days Now I am searching how to get alone This queen of heart's dancing on her throne But I need sorrow, baby, life's sorrow is the drug...

My brightest star's my inner light let it guide me Experience and innocence bleed inside me Hallucinogens can open me or untie me I drift in inner space, free of time I find a higher state of grace, in my mind I'm beautiful I wasn't born to follow I liv...

Walking out, walking out in this cold winter light All the pretty girls, all the pretty ones have tears in their eyes And I can't because I don't have you here by my side And I'll always be, I'll always be the girl that was denied Driving my car in the ni...

They're gonna come and get you They're gonna come and find out They're gonna come and get you They're gonna come and find out Colors dancing in the sky All my ancestry up so high And if I call, don't make a fuss Don't tell your friends about the two of us 'C...

Got woken in the night, by a mystic golden light. My head soaked in river water. I had been dressed in a coat of armor. They called a horse out of the woodland. "Take her there, through the desert shores." They sang to me, "This is yours to wear. You're t...

I curse the road, I curse the road and I came home to the love you gave And as I walk through my door, I saw the stars spelled out “saved” And all the gardens bloomed a flower for each day I was away Now I’m saved Baby, saved And I was alive (x4) You an...

Howl into the night To the still of the dark Shout into the silence And etch out your bark How angry you are You won't take it anymore And watch as the people run to your door They hurt your heart They hurt it well And came to your assistance In a humanitaria...

[Verse 1] Tomorrow you will ask me if I do Know that the sorrow will drop away Like June, from a flower in bloom [Chorus] When you say "I do" When you say "I do" [Verse 2] Tomorrow you will take me for your bride And know that the grey skies will bl...

I saw a light I saw a light Coming through the trees I saw a light Coming through the trees Freshly cut lawns And little children sleepwalking I saw a light I saw a light Shining on a car And a couple inside Had committed suicide Death in your arms Death in...

One of these nights One of these days I will love again Oh, I was a deer in the lights I was lost in the waves But I will love again Cause I will turn it back around I'll be homeward bound I will turn it back around I'll be homeward bound One of th...

[Originally by Bruce Springsteen] Hey little boy is your mama home Did she go and leave you alone, no Got a bad desire Oh, I'm on fire Tell me now baby is she good to you Can she do to you the things that I do Oh, I can take you higher Oh, I'm on fire Somet...

[Verse 1] You know that you came at the perfect time There was a mountain I had to claim as mine And you brought every weather from storm to shine But I'm thankful for who you helped me find [Chorus] Baby, if I knew what I know now I would never turn i...

[Verse 1] In God's house I do wait For my love on our wedding day Dewy eyes and lashes long for my love But I'm feeling something's wrong [Chorus] What's this I see? My baby's hands on the wheel What's this I see? Fire Fire [Verse 2] Through this...

I don't want to party no more Somehow that scene can be such a bore I don't even want to paint the town red I don't want to waste my time Putting on dresses and drinking wine I just wanna be in your arms instead Let's lay in your bed and dream together...

There's a tear in my lover's eyes He's at my window, it's a gloomy night Said he dreamt of God's search light It remembered his name Lays his hand gently to my face Through the promise of wedding lace And I feel his dark embrace As my baby, he cries I...

I first saw you You had on blue jeans Your eyes couldn't hide anything I saw you breathing, oh I saw you staring out in space I next saw you You was at the party Thought you was a queen Oh so flirty I came against Didn't say excuse Knew what I was d...

Lying next to you We could be on the moon Tell me you’re not leaving 'Cause you’re always on my mind It’s been such a dark night Boy, I know you’ve been grieving Riding through the pines See you in the red light And everything is on fire Let’s take...

Well the winter it came, my love And I did not know my own name So I drove down that old country road And the spirits conjured something Grey clouds over storms did roll And I searched for you in the cyclone For my love, I will bleed And I drive till I...

You say that they've all left you behind Your heart broke when the party died Drape your arms around me and softly say Can we dance upon the tables again? When your smile is so wide and your heels are so high You can't cry Put your glad rags on and let...

Natasha: Touch me I'm cold, unable to control Touch me I'm golden and wild as the wind blows And tumbling tumbling, don't go fascination If just for tonight darling, let's get lost If just for tonight darling, let's get lost Beck: Let me come closer, I'm not...

Again tonight I sang a song, a prayer if you will Fell to the floor on blackened knees, and all the trees fell still Press my hands between my thighs, and poured the thistle milk Begged the thunderbolts to strike and mark me as alive Oh the lilies on the...

Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely eyes Lonely face, lonely lonely in your place. Lonely, lonely, lonely eyes, lonely face, Lonely lonely in your place. I thought that I knew all that there was to, Lonely, lonely, lonely... Melanie Jane, won't feel the pa...

See your face at night Touch you black and white You're a silver screen Visual balladry Wanna move in the dark Play the part Put your star in me Visual balladry Holding you I'm touching a star Turning into a Marilyn Leaning out of your big...

Lover, when you don't lay with me I'm a huntress for a husband lost at sea If I had you here Better here together I'd be boy and you'd be girl Beautiful Calling moon and moon Shoot that big bad hand It'll drag me to your door And I won't see you no more When...

On a road, forever You will be riding to me Metal death, cliffs exploding Sirens mourn to me Nightmares come and they don't go For my love is gone And I will never forgive the angels for that And I will never forgive the angels for that On a road, fo...

I am whole Hot is the night The grass is so tall And slow The air is wet And I feel alive Let the perfume drip Let it rise! I am whole And I walk the night Luscious and lost So alone Touch the rocks And lick the light Let the hot winds howl So...

Look at this and look at us We wonder, oh we're wondering I don't like to say we're lost Try my best with needing us Build a ladder to the sky Sit up there and say, oh my Does looking down make me a queen? All the sorrow that I see If I ever get back down Fi...

There's a place I must go There's a place I must go It's not a place I have seen But I'll get there in a blue dream Down an ocean road Past a sign that says 'good love town' Into a darkness where the stars do drown Where the starry me needs to be free And wh...

Leave the wasting world behind us We will make it out alive Leave the waiting world behind us We will not look back this time Hold on to our reasons And plan the escape Hold on to our reasons And plan the escape Hold on to our reasons And plan the e...

Leave the wasting world behind us We will make it out alive Leave the waiting world behind us We will not give up this time Hold on to our reasons And plan the escape Hold on to our reasons And plan the escape Hold on to our reasons And plan the es...

There's a girl that wants to start Been thinking about having a couple of kids Comb a brush around their heads in the morning To be needed, simply and with meaning Her name is Karen Been on the road for so long She wants to live in a place that ha...

Come on now, rest your head And I’ll protect you You’ve been rolling too fast, running for fear You’ve gotta stop sometime soon Pushing through barriers and pushing through seas I know which will come for you You’ve been running up hills and running too slow...

Just my luck! When Rosie came, She knew my name, she knew my size. She ate through me, she stole my eyes. She stole! She stole! When window light fed through the day, Rosie my charms, Rosie my prayer! Please don’t ever set me free. I always want to be by...

I don't like the things you don't say Leaving it for such a long long time Why do you show me those sad sad eyes Each time you decide to pass on by And when you smile those sad eyes Look sadder and sadder still Autumns you know sad eyes Makes me laugh and la...

Adopting Sarah's heart Was never gonna be easy With an angel tattoo sinking beneath her belt Sarah And the dirty blonde seawater Seawater gushing down Chewing fingernails in her shit-eating grin Sarah They cut out her heart when She was a little girl And in a...

The seals, they cried in jubilee The sharks, they howled along with me And birds, they flew into the wind The whale, he roamed the lonely sea And I dived into you I dived into you On this ocean hue 'Cause I dived into you The lighthouse dog lifted his brow T...

Are you my family? Can I stay with you a while? Can I stop off in your bed tonight? I could make you smile In the morning I’ll make you breakfast In the evening I’ll warm the bed And I’ll always be happy to kiss you Promise I’ll never get sad Til...

I’m a little older now There’s scars and there are frowns There’s memories in the dust The skin that I live in is cool and paper thin It’s got a swan song to sing I’ve blushed and I have bruised Felt the passing of youth I’ve bled and I have healed...

You know my darling I can't stand to sleep alone No sweetheart in the dark to call my own You're my own, you're my own, I can sing it, I can grow But the darkness is a stranger in our lonely, lonely, lonely lone Last night's parties and last night's heart ha...

(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh) I've been roaming around, I was looking down at all I see painting faces, building places I can't reach You know that I could use somebody... you know that I...

[Verse 1] See her in blue eyes Numb and shining In the face of strangers In the city lights Where he's climbing Cupid’s diving And I know that she's come To spend the night [Chorus] I see her in every place I go Sunday love is so cold Even though...

Sweet dreams are made of this Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas Everybody's lookin' for somethin'. Some of them want to use you Some of them want to get used by you Some of them want to abuse you Some of them want to be abuse...

Community saw the best in me Exchanging the common heart for the salt in the sea Children of the sun on a highway of hope The beauty of coming together In sorrow Tahiti we don't got no name Tahiti we don't got no home Tahiti we don't got no money Tahiti we do...

How can it be the last show? (How can it?) How can it be the last show? (How can it?) No more spotlights coming down from heaven It's a goodbye, it's curtains down time Not even out of my dress And already my voice is fading Goodbye my dears and into The big...

I couldn’t sleep last night ‘Cause I tried to forget you In the suffocated air I resolved to let you go Twisted all our dreams Til you became the nightmare Close it off inside Or else the hurt is gonna rise I couldn’t sleep last night ‘Caus...

Take a trip Trip up to the sun While our bodies are one And we play in our minds Cause it’s our blood And it fills up the sky Off the bridges we fly Can we keep us alive? I wanna fly You know how I like it I wanna feel Like I’m still alive I wanna...

Hang on travelling woman Dont sacrifice your plan Cos it will come back to you Before you lose it on the man Never fall in love with potential cos you can't see with your own eyes All the pretty faces and sorry words Can take away your pride Got to listen t...

The trophy that I made for us In fur and gold Got into the wrong pair of hands, In truth was sold They bought it for oh so much less Than it was worth And every man that touched it Found a heaven on earth Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms Heaven is a feel...

Show me moonlight on the sunrise I've seen so many planets dancing I've seen too many people hiding Show me sunset and I won't forget That I am one of two planets dancing I am part of two planets dancing Shallow man! Sign your name On my sun! The song of Sol...

We walked arm in arm But I didn't feel his touch A desire I'd first tried to hide, That tingling inside was gone And when he asked me: 'do you still love me?' I had to look away I didn't want to tell him That my heart grows colder with each day...

Come under with me Through young girls' dreams Don't wake me up too soon There's a halo on the moon You hunger, I'll thirst Pink stars do burst God of lightning, goddess of fern A map to memorize, a lullaby to learn Come on darling, take me there Wher...

I took my lanes to the sea we had just pressed the shells into our bones and we saw the queen in the sky gently revealing the treasures of her crowns took off all of our Armour Every last single drop of gold And we banished the land Lifted our bodies right up...

Hurtling through heavy snow Our hands are cold and the moon sets low Little sister let your sharp teeth show Purse, winter fields Stop the car by the old white post Scaredy rabbits make good paper goats Don’t lick the salt off the Sussex coast And fall...

Doing the mess around Push me down into the ground Taste the hands that drink my body Fight me in the dark Wrestle your bones over mine Into our moonless march come the wizard Come, the wizard comes The wizard comes The wizard comes The wizard comes Wants to...