Tanya Donelly

You'd have to be an acrobat to touch her Where she can feel a thing You'd have to be a racecar diver To catch up with him You'd have to be an astronaut you'd have to be a shrink You'd have to be an acrobat 'Cause where they go Nobody knows She throws...

All your friends have changed Another moment too soon for you The angle shifts again Another moment too soon Now it's time to take a walk Now it's time to take the walk you've been side-slipping Time to move your sorry bones up off the floor Time to rise abov...

I live underwater and you live on the moon You can't breathe around me And i can't breathe around you We start and my heart's in traction I'm living i'm living i'm dying for you 4-3-2-1 breathe Your love is dark inside of me Everything in here is all w...

Some lucky bum Took away my right to some Sweet honey love Look what's been done to me look what i've become In for the fight fo your life today I'm giving you a head start You better run bum Look what you've done what you've become One unlucky bum...

Bury my heart separately It's something that don't belong to me Like Mary did Percy's Now do this for me Bury my heart separately He was a bleeder by '78 Letter to Carter Squared by the straight I was the lucky one I bloom late I bloom late He was a...

What's that thing About a butterfly wing causing a typhoon If it's true a wire runs through each thing we do Then I better stay in my room Better stay in my room Better stay in my room A dressing man will choose the white By this he saves a life I don't see h...

Winter is on us Winter is watching us Cutting and quiet Winter is all over me I got caught on the wing Now I spin I look down for my feet and i see I'm much higher than i thought i'd be Don't look down don't look down Words about winter Pull you in...

From the dark side of the sun My supernatural one You fell into grace Move slowly if not carefully Then in silence sometimes Blighted and solo This is where I come in reeling Our future waits on the field of fair play I will meet you there someday You come o...

This is easy this sweet cacophony It's like shooting fish in a cyclone I'm on top of this, over my head again It's like taking candy from a psycho Oh where are my enemies Have they abandoned me Where's my evil twin Once my only friend I'm shooting fish again...

I have lost something On the way And i can't explain What you wouldn't Want to hear then anyway Our divine Sweet divide So let's just gaze In the space Between your face and mine Our divine Sweet divide Divine sweet divide Fingers touching toes tipped on the...

What it comes down to What could ever take your place What it comes down to Honey what could take your place Not a song Not a thousand strong You will not be turned away Will it come soon The voice in the corner of the room The hissing head by the bed I spit...

Honey won't you let yourself speak free Honey won't you let yourself speak freely 'Cause you're scaring me now You're scaring me Everything is pouring out of me now I spread my hands to catch it but there's too much and there it goes And we thought we'd fool...

See my child my past Hoping yours is a blast I park my heart in your driveway Now i'm healing hell I wanted a lion but I ended up With a man who wanted a gazelle But I am a goat girl I am a goat girl I am a goat girl I am a goat girl And I do my brut...

I'm not afraid Of a voice I hear Calling me strong Calling me on I hold these pretty dreams of mine Struggling between my teeth Like a cat I let you go free Only to drag you back home with me I know I might go crazy from love And probably I won't snap out of...

I wish I had a head for math So I could talk to you And hear the song behind the sign And maybe dance there too. Lose my license, lose my breath And lose my precious cool. And fall asleep in the spiral arms of the Milky way with you. Blessed be, your work thr...

Oh she's right in front of you And a light year away Her hair could be on fire And you'd just ask her How her day went She's an invisible one You say, well some of us are She may be an invisible one But she didn't get there alone Oh it might take a little wh...

There i said it i've done you wrong The miles i ran away to call you on the phone And whisper uglinesses sweetly down the line I believed your heart was mine I'm unspeakably full of it I keep my heart on hinges just in case you quit me When we were diving gol...

I'm keeping you I'm keeping you I'm keeping you so realize your fate I'm keeping you I'm keeping you I'm keeping you so settle down now You landed here from inner space You landed with that screwed-up look on your face I wanted you from way back when I wanted...

You think it might Turn out all right After the fighting You're sweeter than me You think that people Aren't truly evil That peace will come You're sweeter than me Help me out Help me out Help me out Help me out I've come unveiled Without the veil my resour...

I've sunk a lot into this venture i expect returns I've suffered all the slings and arrows i know where it hurts I'm unstable you seem able Organize me start with anything you want Wide awake and sleepwalking in don't you want me don't you We could break...

Come on what's-your-name I've got a good game I've got a story Hope you like 'em gory And it's much too late for bed Come on tiger why so tired I've got good game plus i'll let you win again And it's much too late for bed So shi-shine on me Shi-shin...

And a shadow fell Bringing sleep to all Life is but a dream Ours When you disappear You are everywhere Life is but a dream Ours In our beauty sleep In big sleep together Nothing ever ends Nothing lasts forever You'll come back again I am waiting then Life i...

The first time lightning hit me Was the night I met your daddy It flew down the dance tent pol Threw me to the red dirt floor And as I reached to him For the very first time Tiny fire flew from his hand to mine Fixed me to the spot Feu de grace I want to tell...

It's been a long long long time How could I ever have lost you When I loved you It took a long long long time Now I'm so happy I found you How I love you So many tears I was searching, So many tears I was wasting, oh oh Now I can see you, be you How can I...

Look inside this milky whiteness No power of the hand to dry I'm swimming in it i'm swimming out to you For reasons, my reasons So photograph it the milky way It spills into the hand and dries I am here now and i'm staying put For reasons, my reasons...

I'm an angel dark, darker than loam Come to steer your runaway home I'm a moonbeam monkey on spec Come to bring your strange kid back No one saw him gimpy going round the bend And no one but me knows the stuff it takes to mend him I will get him back on the r...

This perfect day We make our way to the end of it With perfect grace I lay my head in your lap and walk away These days are sweet and strange We're happy in our star-scattered way Always In this my life In this my life as a ghost In this my life My happy life...

I heard a song I heard the saddest song on WSUK They play it every other hour of every other day 'Cause the greaser sent them t's and toys for regular airplay All your heroes are whores All your heroes 'Cause it's a tinker toy world Wouldn't buy a chan...

It's June and I'm still wearing my boots Come soon, back to New England With its outspread arms And lost charms I do understand New England. Brutal old witch You near had us this year Trapped us inside past the point Of all human behaviour We got out with our...

Do I look like a liar Do I look like a liar to you Fighting crime in this time brings a girl down Makes a body sink so low And i sink pretty deep, pretty deep, pretty deep I sink pretty deep, pretty deep, pretty deep I wish i carried a camera I'd have...

I caught you down by the river again Down where the river girls lie It's two quiet tearless years it's been And you still can't say goodbye You'd have done better to call a friend You'd have done better to cry This river's gonna run Till the sun in the sky Bu...

So much to lose Anyway so much to prove Step away from the wreck But leave a match for my last cigarette Someone's got to pay Someone's got to pay for this I know my name has not been easy on your lips And I know that smile is evidence of this And I know my...

Wait Wait I'm on the edge of my chair And it's you who put me there You keep me there Wait, wait, wait I'm not complaining I haven't lost anything I can't recover I want to throw our story high But too many words to sky-write Of acrobats and liars Paper moon...

Climbing out, We stumble around, All smoky and soaked to the bone. I carry the crown of a girl underground. I'm down for a sweet ride. I'm down for a sweet ride. I'm down for a sweet ride, So follow me down. Once was lost now am found. This is my drea...

Look at him looking Everybody see how he looks at me Like to set me on fire like to burn Like to set me on fire like to burn But i'll always get out i'm not afraid With these hips these lips these getaway sticks I've got it made There's always a green...

Stone cold in this warm bed again Wide awake and waiting for them I send my shadow running on ahead again I wait and wait and....... I'm waving in my beautiful friends over there on the end of the The bright light the bright light begins it The grass is...

You're in the room I can feel you I don't want to then I do I hear the voices of the graces in here Swimming around Up in the corners of our room You hold the center and I sing forever And you won't hear the same song twice We're shorter of breath maybe longe...

In the beginning my love was fierce One heart stopped and another started I flashed my eyes, cracked wise and left them dry Now I sit with my babe at my breast I was never this good at my best Never higher The moon was paper white the night you saved my life...

Hey, what i meant to say Let's get lost and find our way And chance might shine on us, today We fight we win we fight we lose we fight We get lost and call it a night Our mouths will tire before our devils do There's a promise hidden in my blood In the name o...

Walk with me awhile I've got something to say to you or ask you I don't know It's been a long day If the dove falls in the sea Never bringing us a leaf Will you come into the shadow with me Will you follow me under If I wash up on the beach And I've lost all...

Look I can't watch you Sleep-walking through this Should we find another party I'm not shining tonight just radioactive You have carbonated my bloodstream When I stumble It will be under your spell, at your command And when I stumble It will be into your hand...

My face has never been one to betray me It lies when I need it to It sends out a white blinding light in your eyes 'Till I figure out what I'm gonna do We meet in the kitchen and roll on the floor And I look in your face for something restoring And take from...

Night falls and the light fades And still you won't take off your sunglasses I know what you're thinking You think the kids don't care And you're defeated And the rain comes And the rain goes again And you see this as some symbol of your pain This hungry life...

Leave a light on, lightkeeper Leave a light on, lightkeeper 'Cause I think I'm coming in again Yeah I think I'm coming in again And I need your light to find mine So leave a light on I caught the falling star But lost the hand I pulled the princess and Held b...

You accuse me of fancy talk When i'm just trying to find my words You've got a funny way of saying my name Like i just ripped it off These whiskey tango ghosts Won't leave us alone But you are too polite to complain Of the art of speaking plain I haven't gath...

How am I still in the dark when the world is on fire Lit by the passing of sparks I crouch low in my shadow When the world is on fire How am I still in the dark A puppet, a toy I am safe in my shadow Backlit by the passing of sparks I wake up from a media bl...

This world is a wrap-around skirt This world is a wrap-around skirt And I'm gonna throw it off I'm gonna throw it off I'm rising up rising up Maybe I worry cause I know how things work I know how things can work out Maybe they don't Maybe that's how This worl...