Razorlight

The bell boy brings you coffee, There are letters from every shore, There are flowers of the season, Heels are capsized by the door. You're well protected, Cold as you must be to survive, But I know somewhere behind your barricade, There's a love that can be...

Well I know a girl She told me everything she'd done She said, with these tiny hands How am I gonna catch some fun? I said, well all of your words Everything you do All of your action I need it from you No not really Cause we just can't do that We just ain't...

What a drag it is The shape i'm in Well I go out somewhere Then I come home again I light a cigarette 'Cause I can't get no sleep Theres nothing on the TV nothing on the radio That means that much to me All my life Watching America All my life There's panic...

Back to the start Back to the start again I go Back to the start Back to the start again And I don't know why I feel this way But I couldn't stay here for One more day I go back to the start Before I loose my mind Mary got the message It was Monday morning...

Oh one more drink and then I'll go But there's one more thing I've got to know Does he take you places that I don't? What happened to the story that we wrote? You just say you don't know, you don't know Oh no you don't know, you don't know Woo Oh let's just...

There is a stillness in the thrashing of despair there is a calm in the rush of your store and I'm now beyond to care experience been gained and we're back to back and strain to strain There is a stillness breathes in you and me music calls without answer whe...

Two weeks of wishing And I'm finally off the streets She's got a place for me right in her arms Where the sky and cieling meet And all her sad memories Only shatter and shake I break the stairs and shoot the sky And someone serious says that: It's okay, it's...

She was swinging from her handbag on the King's Road, Fresh from boarding school and double-barreled shame. Now there are worms in her skin, she's razor thin, her eyes are pinned, I get the 'daddy never noticed' story again. And she takes me to a warehouse in...

I can't stop this feeling I've got, I know who i am and i know what im not, I know what i've gained and i know what I've lost But i cant stop this feeling ive got Wasnt looking ahead and i heard Didnt i see, didnt i learn and i dont know what you mean to...

Your shoes are by the door Two bodies lying on the floor Saying goodnight, agree not to tell Breathing fire, yes, 'best not to tell' Well the child must lead the man When the man chooses not to understand But it's good to rock until your bodies come Lik...

It's a big big world And you can do what you like You can do anything you want Because darling, it's your life But don't go back to Dalston Don't go up the junction Don't go round the houses But just come back to me Come back to me Come back to me Come back t...

She waits She waits, for you Come back Dean, take your time Take your time To come back Cause nobody does Nobody does it Nobody does it the way you do it but well No matter how much you know No matter how much you know No matter how much you know Well you g...

It's a big big world and you can do what you like You can do anything you want because darling it's your life But don't go back to Dalston Don't go up the junction Don't go round the houses Well just come back to me Come back to me Come back to me...

Oh one more drink and then I'll go But there's one more thing I've got to know Does he take you places that I don't? What happened to the story that we wrote? You just say you don't know, you don't know Oh no you don't know, you don't know Woo Oh let's just...

The night's calling, are you close behind? The night's calling, are you close behind? Trees without leaves and notes that don't ring. Wine left to rot and a voice that can't sing And hours of making love in silence And a light that just won't shine in the dar...

Well she had an old record but nowhere to play it There was something on her mind But she just couldn't say it I said, oh what on earth do you mean Then the band started playing the beat's all wrong The singer lost the words to his favourite song And they fell...

There is a stillness To the thrashing of despair There is a calm In the rush of your stare And I'm now beyond care Experience been gained And we're back to back And strain to strain There is a stillness Breathes in you and me Music calls without answer Where t...

We talked all night about suicide And she said if this is living How come i never feel alive? First time you're there Well it gets you up Second time alright But its just not enough No, it shootss through your veins Tears all you nerves appart Well, you give...

I know a girl with the golden touch She's got enough, she's got too much But I know, you wouldn't mind You could have it all if you wanted You could have it all if it mattered so much But then all they know is how to put you down When you're there, they're you...

I just got off the plane about ten minutes ago And I'm nine drinks down, I've got nowhere to go But I ride a single star That generates no heat in your hand And I'm a boxer bucking on the back of the beat I'm a jet plane rising, turning on the heat And I'll sw...

Alphabet soup, it was alphabet soup Which learned me to talk, when that was all I could do Which turned one complication into the next Gave me more confusion than I'd ever expect And I never got better, never got worse I told my stories that you'd never heard...

Well now your here you are in your life and now your finding out why youve got to learn how to fight before you learn how to fly so stick your fist up proove them wrong dont lose the words to the song coz its a long way down i guess you know that by now but...

You make yourself a prisoner of me You blind yourself so you don't have to see You turn your life to a power above You make yourself a hostage of love You turn from me, you turn from the strain Devote yourself to the power again Distance yourself from a...

Up here with all the famous faces You always knew your looks would take you places Now every word sounds like a sinister whisper Pretty faces look like ugly blisters You know I'll never give a damn about it You know I'll never change my mind about it You know...

Well it's a close one, a real close one And no-one gets hurt, but she's got twice the fun But now they kiss in the rain And did someone call out someone's name From a white cadillac on a wide wind To her white dress across the great divide Into the warm moonli...

I don’t know what I’m doing wrong Maybe I’ve been here too long The songs on the radio sound the same Everybody just looks the same But then last night was so much fun And now your sheets are dirty The streets are dirty too but You never look back on what you’...

You said you'd marry me if i was 23 but i'm one that you can't see if i'm only 18 tell me who made these rules obviously not you who are you answering to? oh, jenny don't be hasty no, don't treat me like a baby let me take you where you'll let me beca...

You keep the right profile Eat the right food Keep the right profile You do what you do You keep it all tied up You keep it all tight You don't stay in bed all morning Don't stay up all night When your gone you don't come back You've got to keep the r...

From the stomas came the novation It rattled the foundations of the house that I live in Now I can't live there anymore A child sleeps then he awakens He shrieks until he is taken To a house he can live in Take him to a house he can live in And in the morni...

Oh when did you decide To start living like it's suicide And wasting all my time And messing up my mind Oh now darling please leave me alone I'm so tired I wanna be on my own But you come on calling on my telephone And I wish I could show you somewhere better...

I've been sitting here patiently I've been talking too myself Trying to shake that sinking feeling Wishing I was somebody else And I know it's not easy When you don't get what you deserve You can say that you love me But that's not what I've heard Tonight in...

Well I've gotta get out of this place I got this feeling all around me, yeah I've, I've got to escape cause I know you can't stand me, yeah We're jetting round the sun in Caribbean Now the shores of Eve Lucia The chintz of the manner is bound to inspire an au...

If lust and longing were all we knew And love was kissing on the roofing view Of the office workers and their camera phones My heart would pump to let you know That you could take this song, if it's any good at all Hide it somewhere when your new love calls A...

I've got a flaming road of karma and a mobile phone I was raised by the radio in a broken home, I've got a broken smile and an arrogant line I'm really no-one special but I'm in my prime. I've got a hardbody girlfriend I've got a wallet full of cash, You can...

Everyone is losing it Everybody's given up Given up the ghost And turn it in on themselves Lets head for somewhere Absolutely anywhere Get outta here And leave this city alone So let me know, I'll take you there Just think it over Then take what you need Co...

Hey girl, get on the dancefloor And rip it up, yeah That's what it's there for That's what it's there for So rip it up, yeah Ah rip it up and tear it up Until you really don't know why Until you don't know why I seen a man there Down at the station He's got a...

There's too much silence in her night She calls herself an angel, and she comes to town I said L-O-N-D-O-N Just so she can fall There's something about the way she walks, you know It suits the city streets so well and yet No one's heard her band yet, but they...

You're an emotional wreck You don't know who you are You never say what you mean And you keep your mouth shut And your night stays still And then you come and call on me You say I just can't help myself I really, really wish I could be Somewhere else than here...

We were down in the Club 100 100 Club of the night Another band, another drink I'll do my best But every worn out dreamer's seen the razor's edge And there's a scotch on the rocks for his nerves, oh well I've seen it from both sides now I guess I get what I de...

I don't want to get to know you Get too close to you, Though you may want me to. I've been watching you They've been deceiving you, It gives you an excuse To taste some abuse. No one likes to Be lied to Now you lie to me to protect yourself Please remember t...

I heard that it was a really big deal But then I found out it was just nothing at all You always say it's such a big deal But we both know that that's nothing at all And I get over the breaks And I, I stumble and fall And I get over the breaks And sometimes st...

If it is as you say and it's coming your way Who will stop ya? If it is what you do and it's all up to you Don't watch your TV when your broken up These middle class kids are so strange Get everything for nothing, nothing comes your way Emotional, bored and s...

There's a full moon over this ancient town A clock faced the colour of the sky And every street that we walk down Belongs to the house, where my father died Where prisoners march in luck step with each other Reavers test the limit of their reign Dragging thei...

Away and away, over bridges and sighs And on and on, on and on She keeps it all locked up right inside While up above, where the looking glass skies Go on and on, on and on She can't say a word, she keeps it inside To the sea To the sea Oh down into the sea Y...

I lost the sacred feeling but I Made a couple of friends and now Our things have never looked so good Our things have never been so clear And now I'm alone with you I'm always up all night And I get music running in my head And I, I lose the strength to fight...

Wild is the wind that strips away our sins Yours is the night, but you don't know where to begin But I heard you say You've got a feeling that it's just around the bend I heard you say Sometimes you fall into the arms of no-one at all I mean to say that that's...

When he was 20 he started a riot He had so much charisma he couldn't keep quiet And the girls all know but they're not telling My best friend's sister she's always rebelling And you know you really should go Cause if you stay, you'll find another way And I kno...

This party isn't working, oh no Yeah we need to find days like we used to Living off a shoe string Never, never knew what the night would bring Now you look like you've been up for days People walk in Then they fall out There's really not much to shout about...

Oooh darling who needs love? Who needs a heaven up above? Who needs the clouds, in the sky, not I Oooh darling who needs the rain? Who needs somebody that can feel your pain? Who needs the disappointment, of a telephone call, not I No I don't need that at all...

What is love but the strangest of feelings? A sin you swallow for the rest of your life You've been looking for someone to believe in To love you until your eyes run dry She lives by disillusion’s glow We go where the wild blood flows On our bodies we s...

You think I'm happy, I know I'm not You say "just think about all the things that you've got" You're right from your side, and I'm right from mine But you know I'll get you next time All that I know here Is you should be going Your hair is too long, girl Your...

You say you're thinking of me And you'll do it at any cost And you say that you believe in life Any love you've never lost Everything keeps changing on me I can't tell you how I feel People shift and rearrange on me How should I know what is real? An...