Elbow

Shifting my weight now from foot to foot What did she see in this man I'm not superstitious but if I can get This ball in the basket, then he'll wake up dead Your sweet reassurances don't' change the fact That he's better looking than me Yet he'd look ideal '...

[Verse 1] Young man with a bruised old soul One snap to bring you back Hands black with smudging the night into day Lend time in the alley, you could slip away But there are still fences to squeeze through And I'll reach you, spirits to cancel [Chorus]...

Sweet Jesus I'm on fire. She has the sweetest, darkest eyes And when it comes into her eyes I know iron and steel couldn't hold me Good god I'm easily bruised So often in love to her flame And the things that she's asked me to do Will see a city of saints forg...

A sky as black as regret Is rolling aside for the blue Impossible face to forget These feelings belong in a zoo She brings the morning She, she brings the morning sun So lost in the sound of her voice I don't even hear the words When she says, come on get ou...

What's got into me? Can't believe myself! Must be someone else. Must be someone else. Must be, Any day now hows about getting out of this place. Any ways. Got a lot of spare time. Some of my youth and all of my senses on overdrive.(x4) What's got into me? Ca...

Were you crushed Did I rush you All my time is yours My twisted heart is yours The faithless shit is yours The shameless fits of love that only smother you for moments Until I fold them up and leave All yours (chorus) Oh you had to ask didn't you (x2) Oh you...

You're a girl in this vicinity I'm a dog without a collar on This cattle-market cabaret Is the Sabbath every Saturday I'm full of wit and chivalry Until you've given in to me I'm a dog without a collar on You're a girl in this vicinity Bitten by the tail-fly...

Al had the guile and the sideways smile Bad boy and god Beck knew how to push a boy to blush Known as The Fox Tom came out in June to a crowded room No one was shocked Ed had the hair, the blues and the shoes Got me arrested once Chorus 'Will I ever get this...

Can't stop thinking I won't stop drinking I need that comfort I don't need discipline Twilights tailing I had self belief (They don't compromise) This has battered me That's my history Hold this shaking frame Pull this back together What's your story? I want...

I am electric With a bottle in me Got a bottle in me And glory be these fuckers are ignoring me I’m from another century I am a preacher When I’ve got it on me And I’ve got it on me And glory be these fuckers are ignoring me We never learn from his...

All clear Good Lord Did well to be ignored Your falling temperature like cooling kisses All through your head A made-up water’s edge A summer gone on tabling fabled blisses And I’d love to see you waving From the far side of the swim Gathered in by...

Found a hole and slipped on through Kissed the stone and learnt the lines Jumped the cue all the time forgetting you Best dishevelled lover 3yrs running Coming second to A picket fence white 9-5 whos Just alive Beyond repair, there is nothing to say Save som...

It's crawling with idiot I'm itching to leave I'm soft with fatigue I need something I've never seen anything quite like you In here Chorus Come on it's not serious I just need arms tonight You're blue collar pride And you're loose cotton cool You're wiltin...

Dear friends You are angels and drunks You are magi Old friends You stuck a pin in a map I was in And this is a note for a road sign Cuttin' the breeze in this tennesee sundown Came the sounds of the voices I know I've been pondering trees On the steeliest c...

And I don't know Jesus anymore And an endless sleep is awaiting me And I haven't finished yet And I'm not a dog for the end of days I'm a bird in a hurricane With the heaviest heart jackhammering in me And I don't know Jesus anymore Unstuck and the who...

Don't mix your drinks Don't mix with him. It will kill you one day. Good advice. Sound advice. You need to be like him, like me. Look what you could achieve. I'm coming cap-in-hand. Begging you to listen Something draws me in! I just can't christen it. 

Baby Empires crumble all the time Pay it no mind You just happened to witness mine Don't let all the light fall from your eyes Come come Empires crumble all the time How can a dismally typical Tuesday Delivering blues with lead in its canopy Scruff me...

All the fallen angels Roostin' in this place Count back the weeks on worried fingers Virgin mother whats'erface Chorus You don't need to sleep alone You bring the house down Choose your favourite shoes And keep your blues on cruise control All the gelded mon...

It's a lethal ballet Air traffic congestion I'm having a baby Second thoughts, scotch, dinner And someone's dancing on the box A former MP And no one was watching My oldest friends are a serious habit Fly boy blue, so bring your faces home, To my swe...

Flying dream 143 I stretched out my arms And my feet left the floor And how all fifteen (ahem) stone flew to you I don't know 

They're pacing Piccadilly in packs again And moaning for the mercy of a never come rain The suns had enough and the simmering sky Has the heave and the hue of a woman on fire Shop shutters rattle down and I'm cutting the crowd All scented and descending from...

Before leaving get to the bar. No one round here makes you pay. Never very good at good bye's So gentle shoulder charge, love you mate Love you mate Salford skyline gloom Always you, could fly round any corner Until you do Love you mate  

Lost in a lullaby Side of the road Melt in a memory Slide in a solitude Not 'til I can read by the moon Am I going anywhere Not 'til I can read by the moon Chorus I blow you a kiss It should reach you tomorrow As it flies from the other side of the world From...

[Verse 1] I will fly swift and true straight to you, like an arrow Just to be where you lie Meet my quest, do my shambling best to be near you Where you lie I've found peace in your arms [Chorus] Gentle storm Rage my way Fall in love with me Fall in...

What's to do? Didn't they want to play? Not to fret Wait a while Do it again Glory be! I died and went to France Now I'm climbing carpet walls, For just another chance Not today, Just suck on your plastic spoon Chase the thought that George lassoes the moon I...

Once there was a way to get back homeward Once there was a way to get back home Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry I will sing a lullaby Golden slumbers fill your eyes Smiles awake you when you rise Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry And I will sing a lullaby A...

Grace under pressure Cooling palm across my brow Eyes of an angel Lay me down We still believe in love so fuck you 

And if it rains all day Call on you I'll call on you Like I used to Slide down beside and wrap you in stories Tailored entirely for you I'll remind you We exchanged a vow I love you I always will A call girl with yesterday eyes Was our witness and priest Stoc...

...Mondays is for drinking to the seldom seen kid I've been working on a cocktail called -Grounds For Divorce-, whoa Polishing a compass that I hold in my sleep, whoa Doubt comes in on sticks, but then he kicks like a horse, whoa There's a Chinese cigaret...

There's a ladder tear in my high ideals Like I took a chair on the battlefield Anyd any noble friend that was burning in my chest Is acid in my belly at the very best There's a bayonnette in my family things It was made in the USA to defend the King With all...

I live and die by the hot and cold in strangers' eyes But danger lies behind the tape across my door I know a place where angels lace the lemonade And I cannot stay where all the broken plans were made Broken devotion Can I jump in the gun And fly over...

Don't put this note by your face on the pillow Don't put this letter in the pocket near your heart Keep it in the bottom drawer where you hide the sex tools I pray you always need them Chorus I know what you have done Throwing advice like grenades at the tab...

I have a drop-leaf window With cats and broken yards Sunflowers and paint cans And stolen shopping carts And nothing to be proud of And nothing to regret All of that to make as yet All of that to make as yet I have a single heartbreak I celebrate and mourn A...

I'm sick of working for a living I'm just ticking off the days till I die Oh, I miss you Louise, yeah... And the sickest little pleasures keep me going in between pulling teeth Oh periscope up I've been looking for a ladder I need to see the commander in chie...

Lippy kids on the corner again Lippy kids on the corner begin Settling like crows And I never perfected that simian stroll The cigarettes and it was everything then Do they know those days are golden? Build a rocket boys Build a rocket boys One long...

The whole towns slippin down a hill. Like the spine of something dead. Slide in shadow cobble-creep. Burn your mark and leave. The trench conventions yellow eyes Follow her the local flower The girls a priest (to me at least) Since baptism peroxide. And fear...

A muffled battle cry across the kitchen table A baffling contretemps that shakes the day unstable Confessions from the cab, a habit that I got from dad The flurry of departure in a cyclone of cologne Would often devastate the gate and hedge And set our ti...

Fell like a crippled crow, spinning through and breaking branches I'm in a bad way. Call my friends, they'll know what to do I'm a better friend than I've ever been a lover And that's not saying much, but I'm not saying much today In this cellular age phone s...

This is where, this is where the bottle lands Where all the biggest questions meet With little feet stood in the sand This is where the echoes swell to nothing on the tide And where a tiny pair of hands Finds a sea-worn piece of glass And sets it as a s...

Oohhhh There was lying at the table Crying on the stairs A raven on the gables singing 'Jesus doesn't care' A woman at the window With her hands on her hips Staring out across the ocean Like the prow of a ship No blinking or emotion Like the prow of a ship Jus...

I plant the kind of kiss that wouldn't wake a baby on the self-same face that wouldn't let me sleep; and the street is singing with my feet, and the dawn gives me a shadow I know to be taller. All down to you, dear. Everything has changed. My sorry name has...

I'm running out of miracles Oh my soul And the streets are lined with one-man shows Oh my soul Corner boys were moved along Oh my soul We're plummeting like crippled crows Oh my soul Oh, long before You and I were born Others beat these benches with...

Well, give that girl my very best Though it never made the grade If it seems that it's just not enough to love Then love lie down And would you tell her Not to talk as if I died Though a tiny part just did And would you tell her I'm from a long line of survivo...

My high priestess folded neatly Back in your box, oh Lord Called the song he sang so sweetly Back in your box, oh Lord Found myself astride a tiger Lifting my head just like you said Drown me now in down of eider Get me to bed, oh Lord Lay my bones i...

The first to put a simple truth in words Binds the world in a feeling all familiar Cause everybody owns the great ideas And it feels like there's a big one round the corner Antenna up and out into New York Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers A...

I'll be the corpse in your bathtub Useless I'll be as deaf as a post If you hold me like a newborn Whisper what you feel My badly strung declaration To You You'll spend the end of your days Gently smiling like a newborn Whisper what you feel My badly strung de...

Hey there, tell me Does he kiss, your eyes. Do you talk like I've died. . . now. . . Hey there, tell me Does he kiss, your eyes. Do you talk like I've died. . . now. . . 

Pull the final splinters Of missing picture winters You have to give yourself a break What's the fascination With lovers at the station You have to tear yourself away Chorus The dream again nobody understands Walking through the long grass on your hands It's...

Drinking in the morning sun Blinking in the morning sun Shaking off the heavy one Heavy like a loaded gun What made me behave that way? Using words I never say I can only think it must be love Oh, anyway It's looking like a beautiful day So...

Nazi's and Morris dancers Cookery and home improvement shows All mysteries to me All mysteries to me Oh yeah Gymnasiums amaze me And building schemes confuse you Riverdance, new romance Plenty much amusement These modern mysteries Are just not my cup of cha...

You're a law unto yourself And we don't suffer dreamers But neither should you walk the earth alone So with finger rolls and folding chairs And a volley of streamers We can be there for tweaks and repairs Should you come back home We got open arms for broke...

Drinking In order to feel Thinking Reinventing the wheel Kicking up mischief and feeding the fire Kicking up mischief and walking the wire Little fish you count for nothing Do your thing until you die Keep your powder dry In order and line Thinking...

Your eyes are just like black spiders Your hair and dress in ribbons. Babycakes In despair or incoherent. Nothing in between China white, my bride tonight Smiling on the tiles Bring that minute back We never get so close as when the sunward flight begins I s...

My Brother Fear is only natural You need to chill your fucking bones Lay her down, drink this in While you can. Whisper, rest easy, There's a belly full of life. Watch her, she's dreaming Of a belly full of life Right there on the pillow. This is why we are...

I leaned on you today I regularly hurt but never say I nearly wore the window through Where was air sea rescue? The cavalry with tea and sympathy You were there Puncture repair I leaned on you today I regularly hurt but never say You patched me up and sent me...

If you wake in the quake in the role of the heartbroken Pounding the ground in a sawn off ballet Bring us in an indigo dawn with the lovelorn and renegade You always found peace in the grip of the beat, darling Time alone with the pounding of your heart...

Come as you are sweetheart, come as you are. You know you've got nothing to prove I'll put you to bed you can let it all go You've been playing too rough lately You burn too bright You live too fast This can't go on too long You're a tragedy starting to happe...

We blew the doors didn't we? Pissed in their champagne And did a real thing didn't we? Gave ourselves a name And peeled away the shame I wanted to explode To pull my ribs apart And let the sun inside Red stain blossoms And all you have is kisses And when the...

Been climbing trees I've skinned my knees My hands are black the sun is going down She scruffs my hair in the kitchen steam She's listening to the dream I weaved today Crosswords through the bathroom door While someone sings the theme-tune to the news And my s...

Stuff was started Things had ends Stuff regarding all my friends Some were married All were fine These are good friends these are mine Chorus I got deep warm drunk And I lost my words And it does not hurt And that moon is… Absurd 

A friend of mine grows his very own brambles They twist all around him 'til he can't move Beautiful, quivering, chivalrous shambles What is my friend trying to prove? The bruise turns a tall gentle boy to a terrible totem And the kids gather 'round tryin...

How dare the Premier ignore my invitations? He'll have to go So, too, the bunch he luncheons with It's second on my list of things to do At the top I'm stopping by Your place of work and acting like I haven't dreamed of you and I And marriage in an ora...

I haven't been myself of late I haven't slept for several days But coming home I feel like I Designed these buildings I walk by You know you drive me up the wall I need to see your face that's all You little sod, I love your eyes Be everything to me tonight B...

Phone sex delirium Leads me into town Love over here and there Blessed while dressed and down Out at the edge, touching madly Watching them all being so fierce Stealing the dregs, flailing wildly Wind me up and watch me go Love could make me Love could just b...

Last of the men in hats hops off the coil And a final scene unfolds inside Deep in the rain of sparks behind his brow Is a part replayed from a perfect day Teaching her how to whistle like a boy Love's first blush Chorus Is this making sense? What am I trying...

Love, love is a verb Love is a doing word Fearless on my breath Gentle impulsion Shakes me makes me lighter Fearless on my breath Teardrop on the fire Fearless on my breath Nine night of matter Black flowers blossom Fearless on my breath Black flowers blosso...

The birds are the keepers of our secret As they saw us where we lay In the deepest grass of springtime In a reckless guilty haze And they wove a sweet indifference And it settled on our skin Till the eyes that I remembered For the last time drew me in The bi...

So I'm there. Charging around with a juggernaut brow. Overdraft speeches and deadlines to make Cramming commitments like cats in a sack. Telephone burn and a purposeful gait. When out of a doorway the tentacles stretch of a song that I know and the wor...

In the chorus this morning I heard a carrion sing He was flat and outrageous Sounded like he needed a drink Lying there I realized what the problem had been I wasn't pretty enough for you, was I? I suppose self-respect kept the answer hidden so long Strange t...

All my saints have taken bribes Singing going going gone All the angels taken dives Leaving you the only one If I loose a sequin here and there More salt than pepper in my hair Can I rely on you When all the songs are through To be for me the everthere, evert...

The fix is in There's a nag gonna dance home at Epsom The fix is in Can't wait to see how it upsets 'em Too many times we've been postally pipped We've loaded the saddles, the mickeys are slipped We're swapping the turf for the sand and the surf and the sin...

Gotta get out of TV Just pick a point and go The ticker-tape tangles my feet As I search for a face that I know Come on, tower crane driver There's not so far to go I must have been working the ropes When your hand slipped from mine Now I live off the mirrors...

I throw this to the wind But what if I was right Well, did you trust your noble dreams And gentle expectations to the mercy of the night? The night will always win The night has darkness on its side I'll throw this to the wind I miss your stupid face...

I walked with the river in kind of a dream Hand in hand, the all-knowing river and me To the clammer of rushes and deeply barren trees A drunk making blossom, the blush to be seen I told him my sorrows and broken-down dreams Confessed every lie, replayed ever...

I can't undo the day It won't go under the rug I pull out all the stops And you pull the plug These are soberer days and I know it can't be But I'll miss you the way you miss the sea Don't look down Keep staring like you've never seen the stops If you need m...

This blue world and its countless sisters And all that came before that day Our atoms straining to a line Was the universe in rehearsal for us? When all the world is sucking on it's sleeve You'll hear an urgent morse in the gentle rain And if you plot y...

I just don’t trust the sun to rise When I can’t see your eyes You’re my reason for breathing The napkin inks the words away My numb dismay is deafening I forget to blink And I used to love a bar full of flickering stars Far from home But I’m pressing...

holy bravado tinsel mikado waving from windows nobody you know i needed to see you remember a feeling strange what the sun through the trees through the window can do to you holy bravado tinsel mikado nobody you know sorry i called you sorry i c...

The headlines drip with horror Beware, beware, beware! The news says no tomorrow But how can I be scared... ...In her arms? World do your worst She and I have closed our eyes And lifted every curse We're away.... In-caving concave military light Is merely r...

Are we having the time of our life? Are we having the time of our lives? Are we coming across clear? Are we coming across fine? Are we part of the plan here? Are we having the time of our lives? Are we coming across clear? Are we coming across fine? Ar...

What time do you call this? What time do you call this? What time do you call this? What time do you call this? What time do you call this? I've been craning, bewildered all my days To now find your face Shining out of the crowd Love was just a word...

I was born with trust That didn't survive the white noise of the lies The white heat of injustice has taken my eyes I just wanna get high I am the great collector I tally catalogue and hold to the light Forgotten scenes of love Some of them were mine...

Best intentions bring joyless droughts Pack your hacksaw come push me out When your dentures prevent your smile These adventures will fill your eyes With love With love You've been going see-through, could do with a little sun I'd give my liver to see you ab...

As soon as you're born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be They hurt you at home and they hit you at sc...