Steven Wilson

You cross the schoolyard with your head held down And walk the streets under the breaking cloud With a 100 futures cascading out It’s complicated You think of love as just a memory A fog that smothers you, its hard to breathe But when you're on your own...

A girl with the romanest nose on the planet Crinoline runs down her face The embers of firelight arrange into shadows A black winter burned By the summer gone Down on it's luck Now the wind blow the leaves around forever Autumn strong Candle blows out...

With no eyes This skin is made of leather I know we Can make it work together I need to think I need to see reports Here's a guide I have to win the war now Looking up the holes in killing time A western home here amongst the rubble is what you g...

The other half is somewhere else A play in the dark Whines like dogs I am restless, I am lost Time freezes up Flawless eyes The rope you used to tie yourself Dreams enter planes Scatter remains I reach for you, belying your touch Snow starts to gl...

Dream Cold Let Go Saint Rose Don't Go I Will Sing To
You Stay Near Cleanse Clear Stay Here My Dear Saw There Soul In Showers
Rain For Hours Be Still No Will Fulfill Until Insect Heavy Dawn Find The
Spawn.. 

Reason never seems to come to guilty men Things that meant so much mean nothing in the end That function is dysfunction and to hide the truth Distracted by their faith, ignoring every proof A bicycle A garden wall A mother's call A love is born And af...

[Steven Wilson] All that I know is You'll be gone before I get home Heartbreaker butterfly On a wheel before I let go [Steven Wilson] Nothing left for us Nothing is left but the blank tapes Nothing left for us Nothing is left but the blank tapes In...

How about getting off of these antibiotics How about stopping eating when I'm filled up How about changing a line 'cos it dont make sense How about that ever elusive kudo Thank you India Thank you terror Thank you disillusionment Thank you frailty Tha...

I Must have left my house at eight, because I always do My train, I'm certain, left the station just when it was due I must have read the morning paper going into town Having gotten through the editorial, no doubt I must have frowned I must have made my de...

Come closer and see See into the trees Find the girl If 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 In...

The pupil is twelve, attractive withdrawn In a midnight blue school uniform Lips just a little too full for her face Distant eyes full of space In her posture no trace of coquette No defiance She fingers the frets looking forlorn Crossing her legs whe...

In france a skinny man Died of a big disease with a little name By chance his girlfriend came across a needle And soon she did the same At home there are seventeen-year-old boys And their idea of fun Is being in a gang called the disciples High on crack...

Cut ribbon from your hair round your neck It's only... it's only nature's way Cause and effect Always select Collapse the light into the earth Uncoil, reset the universe You are so very pure My child... my star Hands in your dress Always select C...

Oh once in a while I learn how to smile And horse's shadows and rain on stone No god here I'm sure This must be the cure For all this carrion and aimless drift Retreat from the begging And invites to the wedding Revelation means nothing here In time we forg...

Great God, I don't believe in you But still I will do What you want me to Stand up and fight in the city streets This much I know You expect of me And the ones who are given it all The good looks, the wealth And the charm and the innocence They are...

Cold windowpane A car upturned in the rain Wait on in vain Don’t try to bear the blame Deal with the pain Dust down your wings again You need to clear away all the jetsam in your brain And face the truth Well love can make amends While the darkness a...

Drink the poison down Drink the poison down Cold immersion now Cold immersion now Arms are closing 'round Arms are closing 'round Tap the fluid now Tap the fluid now Keep disrupt the sound Keep disrupt the sound Accelerating now Accelerating now Bones pi...

Four trees down I will wait Underground I've got time Warm earth weighs down in my lungs I miss the summer sun In the spring Footsteps fall Frail birds sing Insects crawl And I had so much to say The time just slipped away Known paths stays Wh...

Open the car door slow Don't think you'll ever know my name Get all that you deserve, in this world Love more than you can know Have more than you'll ever need from me Get all that you deserve, in this world Get all that you deserve Get all that you deserve...

Together we have this love Even so it's not enough Bruised and burned we won't lose heart And just because life gets hard Writing lying e-mail to our friends back home Feeling guilty if we sometimes wanna be alone Hand cannot erase this love Hand cann...

Something in this town is draining me Could be the junk food or the gasoline I hide it well... Tangled up in my last cigarette for a hundred years I'm not as much of a slave to it as I appear I'm just bored... Sorry that was cruel I only meant for you t...

Hey brother, happy returns It’s been a while now I bet you thought that I was dead But I’m still here, nothing’s changed Hey brother, I’d love to tell you I’ve been busy But that would be a lie ‘Cause the truth is The years just pass like trains I wa...

Rain, come down, and fall forever Drain, the dirt, into the wasteland Pray, for sound, to quiet the howling Feel, no shame, too brave Feel, afraid, to wait forever Kneel, to fade, the day's corrosion Crawl, depart, towards perdition Gray, the part, the bruis...

Bricks and mortar and so much more The piano drifts through an open door A glass of wine and the twilight fades Shadows march as the dark invades Think a witch lives inside the woods I heard her singing and she plays real good Crawling into my hiding place A...

Download sex and download God. Download the funds to meet the cost. Download a dream home and a wife. Download the ocean and the sky. Another day on earth has passed me by. But I have lost all faith in what's outside. The awning of the stars across the...

INDEX I'm a collector, I collect anything I find I never throw anything away that's mine And I'd collect you too if I was given half a chance And trap you under the glass and add my autograph I catalogue, I preserve and I index And file you in to my co...

Holy Mother of the simple one, When you smile at me you bring me down, You betray your thoughts. All your prayers too low. Now out of debt, you speak in tongues, And out of bread, your work is done, And your dream, absolve. And your path, dissolve. And your...

Holy mother of the simple one When you smile at me, you bring me down You betray your thoughts All your prayers too naught Now, out of death, you speak in tongues And, out of breath, your work is done And your dream absolves And your past dissolves A...

Well that’s something that you’re laughing at me And I hope you know what it is that you’re laughing about
 Cos it won’t be long now ’til they’re reeling you in
 The same situation, the same disappointment you bring
 So I hope you’re happy with the impression...

Here we all are Born into a struggle To come so far But end up returning to dust Oxfam panache tips his hat (laces undone) He has no truck with idle chat (work to be done) The songs he learned from scratched LP's Stops in mid-flow to sip his tea He...

Here is the moment And the coil has been unwound Here is the moment Nothing wears me down Here is the moment There's no need to pretend To think about the future When this moment ends Here is the moment Here is the moment Here is the moment Here...

"My Book Of Regrets" In the back of a taxi cab in London town It's like watching TV with the sound turned down Cause I can feel it I've got a buzzin' in my head And I'm on my way I see the kids deserting ships like shopping malls On street corners they...

I feel worn out There's no point drinking When life slows right down And holds you up above the water line So sleep will never come One last time then Before I lose you You don't have to pretend I know the love for you was just security There's no part of me...

Draggin’ a lake Find the owner of the voice I zip in the bag And drove all across the noise Examine the hairline His archives in the strands He turned into something That puts the weakness in my hands I see what I suppose I breathe what I dispose Black wheel...

Six feet underground We move backwards now At the speed of sound We are nowhere now Too much time to kill Too much wasted air Too much everything There's no need to think Here above the clouds I am free of all the crowds And I float above the stars...

A raven holding to narrow wrist Pull it tight Clothes are torn and the body twists A single light The worse the struggle the more you fail Strands fall down The more you like it the more it hurts Why stop now? An only child A winning smile A killin...

I'm tired of weakness, tired of my feet of clay I'm tired of days to come, I'm tired of yesterday And all the worn out things that I ever said Now it's much too late, the words stay in my head So the day will begin again Take comfort from me, it's up to...

I live in the flat next door And I can hear you fuck your girlfriend through the wall But the only thing we share Is the slightest nod as we're passing on the stairs But behind the closed doors The bees were buzzing Inciting me to war You're penitent m...

[Katherine Jenkins:] When I was 13 I had a sister for 6 months. She arrived one February morning, Pale and shellshocked, From past lives I could not imagine. She was 3 years older than me, But in no time we became friends. We’d listen to her mixtape...

Somewhere on the highway With a luminous moon Swimming after dark and then Awaken to you Hold on Hold onto the minute And sing it And live it It's always there Hold on Hold onto the minute And feel it Believe it And time is moving on And liste...

Somewhere on the highway With a luminous moon Swimming after dark and then Awaken to you Hold on Hold onto the minute And sing it And live it It's always there Hold on Hold onto the minute And feel it Believe it And time is moving on And liste...

My lost boy you've been lonely I know I'll bring peace and I'll carry you home Please come home Please come home Make me whole Again You have once recalled harbor lakes You have sheltered from crawling astray Please come home Please come home Make me whole...

Safeguard Hole shows Keepsakes in time No place for old ways Stone kills Don't throw your hat inside Spilt the egg with the tide Go, you go Name your price Ugly little ghost Your bones 

I think it's time that I got off the kitchen floor But is there really any point at all? Waking up this morning felt the same Better sleep while life is so mundane It could have been yesterday that I locked the door I blocked the windows up so I can't be sure...

Streets, like prussian blues Split the cells in my blood Black, like the outer eye Adrenalized by love Glow of a cigarettes Illuminates from above Push, push down the earth Feel my hand through your glove Slump in the arbour door Skin belongs to me Point in...

A fist will make you understand intention To raise alarm is underhanded, so I cut off the phone I bind you up with tape and catch some TV It’s getting late, the shadows in the street are watching us Check for fibers in the gaps between the teeth, the floo...

Here in the wreckage The winter is hard I sleep in the same clothes That I dragged through the mud And if you ask me Nothing's changed There's nowhere else I can go So I stay With writhing rats We make beds in the straw And then we build houses Pa...

Scintilla falling behind
 Did you arrive at the place that you came from?
 A cultivator of dread
 The paranoia took root in your cold heart Neurotic up with the dawn
 Prescription pills to ignore, the map is useless
 If you would dare to dissolve
 You’...

What do I do with all the children's clothes such tiny things that still smell of them And the footprints in the hallway onto my knees scrub them away And how to be of use? make the tea and the soup All of their favorites throw them away And all their...

Robbers appoint at making you trust, You live in a lie, the pain in the dust. God always shouts and you always kick, Through passionless hours. Yeah you make me feel sick. Your secret is taught but the body rejected. Your smile's a question but the end is ex...

Pullin back from the precipice Feel so small now, stars shine bright above Don’t know why Receive a better life for a song Can't but try, other leads apply Lookin' up at tragic rush on underground Birds will turn and fly Don't know why Passin' through the day...

I'm truly sorry but This is my addiction You're deep in my system In my system I gave it all up I gave it up to show you that I care To show you that I could But don't you ever ask me to give up you I gave up all the late nights I gave up hunting ba...

It's not what you'll possess It's how you will express The essence of you It's not the wage you earn It's about the things you learn And the love that you feel It's not what you'll conceal It's all that you'll reveal That will make you be you The pe...

Discarded love today, and north will soon become I lost too much today, so myth will never come I threw my life away And for what? I blew my chances too I see the bitter truth I give up Relinquish all connection, and be yourself for once Distru...

Must have left my house at eight, because I always do My train, I'm certain, left the station just when it was due I must have read the morning paper going into town And having gotten through the editorial, no doubt I must have frowned I must have made my...

The holy drinker and his curse In constant serfage to unquenchable thirst And from his stupor the night gives birth The devil rises from right out of the earth With shaking hands and blackened heart The glass he pours, this time it's also the last In...

Carried away by the river that passes through bulrushes on to the sea Dragged by the current to rest on the stakes of the breakwater shaded by trees Beginnings and endings, love intersecting a rift that will break us apart Love learned In turn Dreams bur...

Sing for me Sing for me You can come with me You can live with me Heal my soul Make me whole Sister I lost you When you were still a child But I need you now And I need our former life I’m afraid to wake I’m afraid to love Just becouse I’mweak...

Are you proud of all your failures? Are you dragging mother nature down? You believe you have dominion So you force your lame opinions on me And my eggshell mind Wake it up to see through you We'll all disappear in the same asylum as before Make it up...

Cold blows the wind to my true love, And gently drops the rain. I've never had but one true love, And in green-wood he lies slain. I'll do as much for my true love, As any young girl may, I'll sit and mourn all on his grave, For twelve months and a day...

The watchmaker works all day and long into the night He pieces things together despite his failing sight Though all the cogs connects with such poetic grace Time has left its curse upon this place Each hour becomes another empty space to fill Wasted wit...

[Spoken Word] Once we've made sense of our world, we wanna go fuck up everybody else's because his or her truth doesn't match mine. But this is the problem. Truth is individual calculation. Which means because we all have different perspectives, there isn't o...

Fall of winter, fall of all sundowns The treachery of the coldness of your smile Violator, among the trees they hide Perambulator, fade into the night Buzz killers stride, fall into the tide headlong Twin sister stars, bouncing off cars are headstrong 

Cut through the country, speed through the dark A child in a train, tristessa departs It's only the start Filigree circles round her young wrist Her mother is frowning at something she missed She fixes her hair At the failing of the day she heard Her...

When you’re young, you’re sleepin’ With the love you’re feelin’ Waking up to evenin’ Check the pulse, you breathe in Nothing left, just ember Only we remember A bottle not for sharin’ Poison for a fairy 

Don't wanna see anybody Don't wanna see anybody but you Don't wanna see anybody Don't wanna feel anybody Don't wanna feel anybody but you Don't wanna feel anybody Don't wanna need anybody Don't wanna need anybody but you Don't wanna need anybody Do...