Patrick Wolf

A boy like me is told he is both nine and ninety and A boy like me should shut those books join the army But a boy like me would never be seen fighting for peace I want total chaos and a holiday home in the east And a boy like me should know much better Than...

I have made a new home I have made myself known For creating such a fine fine man Oh Lord! Here we go These accidental fires And the river's banks are bursting Oh Lord! Who let the cat out of the bag? No I can never go home Who let the cat out It's...

Emergency So come on Give me the worst and then again I'm feeling braver than I've ever been From the skull down to the feet all of the blood and sweat and meat and for Accident Emergency Terrorist Catastrophy Dump this agony and misery give me Accident and...

beautiful bright white adder under beautiful bright white sun come underneath the ... underneath the ... under- now the friends have all gone away don't it feel so good to be alone? and no friends, no phones, no questions nor slave to master no question, no an...

Cease to know or to tell Or to see or to be (your own) Cease to know or to tell Or to see or to be (your own) Have someone else's will as your own Have someone else's will as your own You are beautiful and you are alone You are beautiful and you are al...

The birds they sang At the break of day Start again I heard them say Don't dwell on what Has passed away Or what is yet to be Ah the wars they will Be fought again The holy dove She will be caught again Bought and sold And sold and bought again T...

Sail away, sail away my little boy Let the wind fill your heart with light and joy Sail away my little boy Let the rain wash away your cloudy days Sail away into a dream Let the wind send you a fantasy Of the ancient silver sea Now you see that only dreams C...

[Coat of black, coat of black] [Weary waiting, weary waiting] I turn out the light, We kiss goodnight. And weary waiting, Weary waiting to come closer, Closer to where we belong. Outside, the city children brandish, Sharp, their knives - sharpen kniv...

As the belltower blocks the sunlight All the seeds in our garden fight To break and blossom all to be adored And look your skirt is torn And there's blood on my sheets Here comes a lowman of the law Fist tight, banging on the door And knocking me down on it's...

Tribe! Battle the patriarch Battle for equal rights Battle, battle, battle Battle back your liberty Battle the long night Come on Battle battle battle It’s your time To join the tribe Yes it’s time For some victory Your time Fight! If you’re sick Of being...

She kisses him on Bermondsey Street and, Rises high on the balls of her feet. Declares this the greatest love of the century. He fumbles for a wedding ring, She's no, no clone from Vogue Magazine. She is complex in all her complexions, Love is here to h...

In my stomach There is a fire You give it fuel And the flame burns higher I'm a black dog Running across the moor To bring the travel (recording cuts out) And I am not sorry, no For this part of me Why should I be sorry For my bestiality So lock y...

Nunca se olvida nunca Que siempre viva Lucy's bitten Neck is bleeding bad The teeth have long departed Yet the desire burns strong On in desire for destruction One on which she'll depend One that ceases to deepen Into near bitter end Treasures burie...

And I walked west Sussex sunlight Up by dead man’s pool Where ma, mudlark and Lewes Stared me down you drunken fool Old teenage debts engulfed my chest As I contemplate death I put a challenge to its glamours And all its loss and glory Late afternoon breath T...

I wake at dusk to go alone Without a light To the unknown I want this night inside of me I want to feel I want this speeding I want that speeding My blood beats black tonight! No need for comfort No need for light I am hunting for secrets tonight Eat the sor...

Lucy, remember The smell of that fall The fires of fungus And the rotting leaves I fell off the wagon Into your arms Into this long month of Sundays And you were my husband My wife, my heroine Now this is our final December Now deep in a forest Losing all t...

Was it a marriage made in heaven? Was it a gift from God above? Did you believe the things you told me, Or was it simply careless love? You told me once when we were dreaming, Through life together we would walk. Those words of love seemed said in star...

Awake yon’ minister There is message To Be Delivered Awake young passenger Awake your country You’re going to need to find some strength now To wake up! In this war without an end What peace do you defend? In this war without an end What peace do you depend...

Black rain Floods the downs Ferrets burrow Moles make mound Round your bones Deep underground But nobody knows Nobody knows How I wait for you Summer, Spring Autumn, Winter Here perishing Gypsy, stray Bleak orphan No one could say The land you came from But d...

Demolition Since i met you. this house has started to decay and every wall that once was clean. has turned a shade of grey. so much to rescue. so much you just cant understand now the streets are dark and empty. and the problems in our hands. i cant leave y...

You’ll be filled, filled with the good things again You’ll be fulfilled, you’ll be filled full You’ll be filled, filled with the good things again You’ll be fulfilled, you’ll be filled full When I lived in Olympia I would drink myself to sleep Sleepwa...

I used to say just follow your heart But my heart always led me in circles And I used to say just follow your dreams But my dreams always led me to murder So now I don't say nothing at all I just bow my head to the battle A thousand miles above our heads They...

Empress of this glorious feeling Your palace above me I journey to give me Until you found power I thought we were always us Us forever this fire forever. I journey through forest and concrete I never stop never sleep without you far Sweet fire coming through...

Enchanted, enchanted This magical place that we've found No one here but us and the sound Of the stars and the night owls Your breath and the rolling clouds Enchanted, I am, by you Now love has come to me And set apart thee From all of the maddening crowds The...

So long My friend There must always Be an end But all our love And life And song Carries on I carry it on Now the lightships Are guiding you Over the sea And the lightships Are sailing you Away from me Over the edge of the world The edge of the world Over...

A submarine Dry English ground Forgotten by the modern crown With strength and shovel Dirt under nails Digging through the struggle Singing we must never fail Again So I did walk Them hills to find The boy once Was Laid down to die Eustacia I p...

Get Lost We could go to the cinema Big effects and big named stars And we can go to that private view But darling these days my favorite view is you Lets just bend the invitations And leave our bikes down at the station Lose our sense of direction We're only...

While I'm asleep My spirit crawls out Of my belly button And goes down to the sea To gather the wind The wires and the shore To wander the hills Like a day gone before When beauty was in season Oh! Beauty in season! Endangered by reason Great love with no la...

Ten miles I've walked today Along the shore I saw your ghost again The seasoning and birds gather to go And I laid down at the top of a cliff Confessed my sins into the wind And the sky lay a feather in my mouth Good lord it was a beautiful day For untangling...

As they Dig your ditches, Count my stitches Generation justice wishes for World at war Final score Media come and abhor us These are hard times We'll work harder, harder Through these hard times I'll work harder, harder Divided nation, In sedation Overload o...

Oh, I love this house, I love this house Gives me the greatest peace I've ever known Oh, I love to hear those conkers fall Smash on morning Southwark stone Oh I love that here you live with me Gives me the greatest peace I've ever known Cause I've been...

I keep looking for a place to fit Where I can speak my mind And I keep trying hard to find the people That I won't leave behind They say I got brains But they ain't doing me no good And I wish they could Each time things start to happen again I think...

And am I born to die? To lay this body down? And must my trembling spirit fly Into a world unknown - A land of deepest shade, Unpierced by human thought, The dreary regions of the dead, Where all things are forgot? Soon as from earth I go, What will...

Jacob The ladder Is falling Down Heaven Is out Of reach For us now The golden gates The closing clouds Jacob The ladder Has fallen Down 

And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy lamb of god, On Englands pleasant pastures green? And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? An was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dar...

The work is done and the record pressed Now you're doing battle With the fickle press You've got to strike the hammers And pull the bow And another fool Is just another show It's all the same And you've seen it before And don't it seem like too long a time Si...

Sundark on darker streets It's violent times for weary feet Carjackers and bullet showers A yellow sign To many fools in power But see I will be gone by morning My dear friend I lost a fight Forget me I wash my hands in your grey slowing night Calm down from...

I was once a boy Till I cut my penis off And I grew a hairy skull Of stubborn fire Then I was a girl Till I sewed my hole up And I grew a hairy heart Of dark desire But There's no answer Just surrender Send all your barriers into the fire And Let no foot Mar...

Patrick: Magpie, was it you who stole the wedding ring? Or what other thieving bird would steal such hope away? Magpie, I am lost among the hinterland, Caught among the bracken and the fern and the boys who have no name Marianne: There's no name for us Pa...

It was a day not to forget The sun shone golden apples through the wheatfields We wandered dappled lanes up to the house your brother said was haunted Someone once had been murdered there You gave me kiss I’ll never regret I’ll be loving you for all my t...

There passed a summer Where our children went to war With conviction without cause Furnaces in the borough I was born Dreaming echelons Above my station The corners I walk in I waited and watched On the corners I dreamt on in my youth In my youth...

(I hear you, but I'm not afraid of you) Father, where's my gun? Now that the war has begun. Oh, let me go it alone, I need no one. I said I need no one. But oh, God, now here it comes, And it's too dark to aim this gun. And now faster, faster, faster. Once a...

I could breather so deep The glorious backdrop of my eyes ached I smiled until it hurt The centre of the field was at peace! For today I am a wild creature And tomorrow I will be lost again I threw my shoes to the right I flung my socks to the left M...

It's wonderful what a smile can hide If the teeth shine bright and it's nice and wide It's so magical all you can keep inside And if you bury it deep no one can find a thing, no So come on now, open wide, open up now Don't you think it's time To look back at...

It was seven in the morning when the spark began to give. the bath was spilling over, my self pity spilling with it, so i, i fled the country to start it all again and found myself in paris in the cemetery rain. dear anne came to me and took me by the arm sho...

Caught in the drifting years Between my youth And adulthood Must I slow down now? Between the breaking wave And the ghost of this towns glory days And the pelican suspension Here to refuel the passions spent On our loves tournaments Into the arms...

In a time of loneliness I fell into your strong open arms And in those arms you loved me well You hid me in your charm And in that charm we headed south Knowing nothing of my demons There were devils in the winds that night Walking fire among the hill...

I was stumbling into battle I was walking into walls Soi walked myself to Peter And I let my shadows fall He's a boy who never ages Rides a goat around the lake He's a friend who never falters To change my circling fate He said dance across the battle But pu...

London, did you have to take my child away? you buried him under rent and low pay. I've been cyling in circles round your empty streets. I've been searching in the pouring rain. I've been going alone to the cinema I've been stealing all my food from the elect...

Sometimes in the evening I find a green spot in this town And I hide myself thinking of those circling skies It takes me back to another time of duffel coats And drawing lines in the late september evening sand The pumpkin soup on the table The late se...

Truth, dead. It was late last summer I found out you went to one of those places That men go to meet, to sow their seed, spread disease Could swear you swore that you were mine What the fuck was I thinking? My heart's been sinking Down through my stom...

It doesn't hurt me. do you want to see how good it feels? Do you want to know that it doesn't hurt me? Do you want to hear about the deal that I'm making? it's you and me. it's you and me wont be unhappy If i only could, make a deal with God, I'd get...

Turn the Key Open Open? Down Down Down Down Down Down Down Down Down [Instrumental] 

The boy loves the wolf, The wolf loves the boy, They're kissing, in the forest, One hand on his shoulder, One hand on her hand of joy Singing la la, La la lala lala la la, la la lala lala la la, La la la, la la lala lala la la, la la lala lala la la....

It was 7 in the morning when the spark began to give The bath was spilling over, my self pity spilling with it So I, I fled the country to start it all again And found myself in Paris in the cemetery rain Dear Anne came to me and took me by the arm Showe...

If the world is wearying, You'll sing, sing, sing. If the day is darkening on you, Sing, sing, sing. Sing, from the bottom of your heart. Sing, blossom every broken part. Sing. [Come on] Sing, sing, sing. If death is seducing you, You must sing, sin...

Six moons ago The devil came To dress my wounds Gold in embrace We walked for miles Came to a cave Came to a tower Explored for hours Mother, please you could never know The load that lucifer had to show And good lord, I never Never thought I'd say...

Before you, I was living, In my silver first kitchen. Fruit fly clouds breathing, No hope, no religion. A nightmare on Haslett Road, I was too young to weep from the road. Too proud for help, too scared to grow, Out of my depth and out of control, I w...

Last winter you came home From an island of fire and stone With fire to relight the life you lost And stones to weigh out the heavy cost And the damage You put my hand to your heart And ran right hrough your history The souvenirs and lost luggage The shipwrec...

I saw, I saw the stars tonight Mama, I saw the stars tonight Mama, I saw the stars tonight Orion, the plow, are burning bright Cannot recall of where I drove An empty lane, the lonely road Home I saw, I saw my star tonight Mama, the stars are burning bright...

Teignmouth On the night train From the city to the south I saw spirits Crawl across the river mouth In skewed ascension With no destination Like this lone bachelor in me This constant yearning For great love and learning For the wind to carry me free So when...

(I wanna be a witchman…) No one will wear my silver ring Poor little turtle dove Sitting up in pine Mourning for your own true love Why not me for mine? I got hogs in the pen And corn to feed them on And all I want is someone Who will feed them when I’m dea...

Down in the park And the lust of the light Among the stray dogs and families I smell the bonfires, and Watch the bonbs Fireworks burst above the trees And to pillows of white cloud, and Another year has gone Now it is the fifth of november I lock the doors, an...

I was still a child when you caught me and tied me to your bed you gave me shoes and pretty clothes, and i gave you what i had between my legs Just a rite of passage, you held me down and said "I'm gonna be your right of passage, so boy you better spread, spre...

(won't, won't let the city, won't, won't let the city) Won't let the city destroy our love Won't let the city destroy our love You know I I hate to see you cry But when you open up to me I take you in my arms Wish you the top, top, top, top of the morning N...

The days, Passing days. I see the steeple, And trace to the spire. And the sunset, Deepening red, Phoenix and firefly. And the time stops, Rush hour traffic slows. And my heart starts beating this dark, Through old flesh, And cold bones. And I...

Looking up, up, up for love - finally. [Hey, hey] Down in the foundry we forge for us the changing bell. Turn your back against the wind, Spit down the wishing well. With nothing left to waste but opportunity, To be the lovers we have longed to be. No...

Summer in San Francisco, Kissing chlorine in the swimming pool. Out of fuel, at the Phoenix Motel. I slept alone again that night, And sweet dreams of Mother Ireland, And Father Albion. Sweet dream that you'll come near, I see my future clear, And the...

Drawing a line A ship in a harbour Yes I will go I’ll be going there soon A blue map of Cornwall Up on a bedroom wall Drawing a line I’ll be following soon But how do I follow? What road to be choosing? Do I follow the star Or the gypsy king? I recall when...

There’s this one hair on my head And i’m not sure with it.. what to do It has avoided the stylish hairdresser And not succumb to cheap shampoo And no matter how i crimp, bleach and dye It cannot change… it will not compromise It’s as stubborn as a concr...

Great bird of grace, come calm me down Build your nest up in this heavy crown Come tell the story of the prince who brings the dawn Comes the earthquake, swallows the storm And the sea shall be still, when he comes And the sea shall be still, and the sea...

I went out to the hazel wood Because a fire was in my head And cut and peeled a hazel wand And hooked a berry to a thread And when white moths were on the wing And moth-like stars were flickering out I dropped the berry in a stream And caught a little s...

The motorway won't take a horse The wanderer has found a course to follow The traveller unpacked his bags for the last time The troubadour cut off his hand and now he wants mine Oh no, not me. The circus girl fell off her horse and now she's paralysed The hi...

So let the people talk It's Monday morning walk Right past the fabulous mess we're in It's gonna be a beautiful day So do the bluebirds sing As I take your hand And you take my kiss And I take the world 'Cause out of all the people I've known The places I've b...

At the foot of a forest of dark hair Is a door there, and here comes the key As the grammar of one finger Forms a language Of this ecstasy Where the back of her neck Meets the back of her leg Meets the back of her head Meets the back of her breast F...

Over the hill, you come speeding, to the fresh face troubadour. You are the bull, I am the bloody, red, stubborn semaphore. Over the hill, over my freedom, with a sickle and a cape. You try to reap what I’ve been sowing, darling that’s where you made your...

I could make home here In good time But if good time is a gift Not long to be mine That’s fine I’ll seize the day Make life as traveler Work as messenger Let my pain And my pleasure All one be I won’t fear what tomorrow May take Stay blind to my future And f...

There's a house By the rails that I know In a valley Of It's own With trains and bones And birds in the yard Where the wild Nettles Grow Growing over the door Growing up through the walls Growing up Growing over A treasure to be told So wave goodbye To livi...

Too many sails Not enough breeze To sail on out Of your shadowseas Too many rocks Not enough breeze To sail on out Of your shadowseas To sail on out Of your shadowseas 

( I saw, I saw the stars tonight Mama, I saw the stars tonight ) Mama, I saw the stars tonight Orion, the plow, are burning bright Cannot recall of where I drove An empty lane, the lonely road Home I saw, I saw my star tonight Mama, the stars are burning bri...

Tower Bridge Is closing And all of Bermondsey Is asleep Streetlight walks the waters Rising fast and dark and deep Well is your work of art so heavy That it will not let you live? You’ll be missed Soon there’ll be flowers in the river Tears being shed You...

left, right left, right and left, right left, right and ... weary from the war as I stumble into fortune strike a deal with a witch and cut off her head with pockets full of gold, boy, I journey into town and trade my scuffed boots for bribes and burberry b...

It's a wild stretch of land Such a sad place to be When the night comes heavy down And the sands turn to sea Many saints have lost their love Many a pilgrim dies unseen In that wild stretch of land In that fire to be free 

All along the river I ran in weald As the autumn flower burning into Blackberries, redberries William, where is the tower? I crawled through these hours Begging the resurrection My needs, my wants, my powers Are thickets, tall and deathly William, wh...

What lies beneath The Door What keeps you? Explore! Do you take the chance To defeat the source The gates are opening The choice The future The future is yours! So now you've found all you Were looking for How you going to find your way out Of t...

(Just a little further up the hill, boy You'll be home soon enough) All along the river Pedaling fast as I could Watch As the wasteland flowers Old cars and rubbish flourish With blackberries and red berries Sweet blackberries Take your red berries Berries...

The storm blows around This harbour town I listen to its wind as a choir The shipping forecast Is crackling Like wet wood upon a fire And time slows and slips away The tourists come around in May 'Till August when the clouds roll in The pier cracks, the awnin...

From the east to the south I tongue the roof of my mouth To new days of doubt without you First gear, I face the trouble ahead Final word has been said Long distance spread between us I tell myself to Hold on, won’t be long Till I grow through this st...

Tremors of dark heart Depart as you come near Underneath the Orchard Branches bare Better the bitter cold For into your hand to fold Semaphore your sorrow I'll decipher code';. We drum for the winter sun Dream to bury the gun Wait for providence to...

The day our house collapsed I went down stream. I followed the swans Like i follow my dreams. Oh! I was living on borrowed time in a Borrowed house for a borrowed crime. Inneed of help I came to your door. Saw the spike of the railings from The 28/3rd floor....

Alone, again in Paris, Travel drained, I write to you. You've been on my mind, Cold days, long nights. A rooftop in Berlin, I call, confess the state I'm in. These cities, this view, I see nothing without you. And I can do this alone, But we can do...

I am the tragedy And the heroine I am lost And I am rescuing The storm is come And I am following My name is Tristan And I am alive Forever young I come from God knows where 'Cos now I’m here Without a hope or care I am trouble And I am troubled too My na...

That first night I near died in your arms You said “No more your self I’ll let you harm Over our years Fear and pressure ill depart I know it’s hard To believe The languages conceived Between us Yes I see how you’ve travelled Through deceit and betraya...

There is a hollow space Under the pavement Wherever you happen to walk You wake up at night And see the light in the basement Through the crack in the floor Broken shelf, lack of storage Mouldy sink, a ghost in the shower Crimson dust mystery Things...

Losing my head to Hollywood My liver to London My youth to Tokyo Still on with the show On and on and on On and on and on It’s a hard lesson But let me learn L.A Big wheels Turn, Turn And all your Forest fires Burn And all my dead Meat yearns For the vulture...

Who will penetrate the tightening muscle Who will cut across the thickening skin Who will be the one to reach their hand in and pull out the golden heart Who will Who will Who will Who will Who will Who will From all the ashes of all the crashes Who will be...

And I showed you my ugly heart, Yet you did not surrender. Love me back to life, Through my self destruction, December. All paranoias to trust, I turned my bodies functions, I remembered. So 'til the going down of suns, Oh William, will you be my conq...

Wind in the wires It's the sigh of wild electricity I'm on the edge of a cliff Surpassing comfort and security Here comes a gale A crippling anger Sea birds are blown Into the rocks Grace is lost to thunder Thunder (pressure) Pressure (pressure)...

Walk tall beneath these trees boy You monolith not scarred by fallout Us wolves were right behind you and lucifer will never find you Oh no! The moon, let it guide you, when Selene comes, we'll alll know how to fight Dear Fenrir, my saviour, come and eat the...