Tindersticks

I've been watching you play Getting caught And when you turn your face your eyes are about To take this heart of mine And when you stop and stare long They're so blind and I can't understand You take this heart of mine Hey little boy Do you wan...

But you have friends What do you offer your friends to make them so supportive? What do you offer? 100, 91, 84, 81, 72, 69, 58, 44, 37, 38, 42, 21, 28, 12, 7 Hatch opens Stark light The television talks Full of eyes The spirits of sight A...

She fell in love with my singing She knew the bells started ringing She thought there was only her there But, me, I just live for the clapping A hand delivery of an invite to my premiere (Nikki Sin version): I sent him tickets for my new film When he fel...

I had shoes full of holes When you first took me in The path that you led Wasn’t straight to your bed There's no cots to sleep in And you showed me Who I was running from As if I had not known all along Oh my old feet They know this hard street Stay...

(Part 1) She sang for me, her heart on her tongue She sang so pretty She danced for me, her heart on her hips She danced so fine She said "Oh, a sweet sweet man like you, What can I do for you?" I said "A sweet sweet man like me I can only bring you th...

All the love All the love inside me Is on its way Is on its way to find you Don't try to hide From my love for you All the love All the love inside me Is on its way Is on its way to find you Like the tide I'll always return to you And all the lov...

Greed's all gone now, there's no question And I can see you push your hair behind your ear Regain your balance Doesn't matter where she is tonight Or with whoever she spends her time If these arms were meant to hold her They were never meant to hold her so tig...

My my, it doesn't matter what you say From the start, I hang off every word you say Oh, tonight, are you trying to fall in love again? Does it make it all right? Are you trying to fall in love again? Now, I'm a hard man gone soft The lines were so clear...

The first time we flew in It was cheap and cramped The vodka running out half-way across the Atlantic Even the steward screamed and joined in it We didn't think we were going to make it Now we're stretched out in wide, furry seats Flicking through menus...

There's a city filth that lingers All over my naked hands Deep into the weave of the clothes I wear And every step brings another Every hour adds some more Till I'm on the other side leaning on your door Are the taps running, darling? Is the air thick w...

I'm laying on my back She climbs over me Pricks out her nails Runs them over my proud belly I'm a tired, hungry bear Spoiled and sleepy Her finger's on my zipper She pulls it down slowly I'm not ready Turn over, settle down again Throw her off But s...

Just as your eyes are closing There was something that I meant to say Like falling from my heart But I don't know how Before you close your eyes I don't know how Chorus: I never cry for our love I never cry I never cry for our love I never cry The...

Was there once something so pure That left me whole and precious? But now, broken, wondering Why this new ingredient? Everything I crave I become Everything I left forgotten Everything I love I become Cos that's what happens when you reach the bottom...

I could take all the craziness out of you That's what I loved you for Take away all the oranges, greens and blues That's what I loved you for Take a look at me You think it really could be that easy? I mean, take a look at me You think it really could b...

Finding love Now seems like the easy part Just turn round the corner You standing there I felt the wind Was pushing behind us there It’s taking us someplace that darling we’ve never been Don’t you feel the wind It’s pushing us further now Are we jus...

So many times I said that I love them Looking over my shoulder at the door So many times I can't live without her The wheel kept turning round My feeling's changed I went my own way What can I say To make you stay? Cos in my dreams They smother all...

A black television screen Snow white and black Deep and open Splashing against the windows Looking out onto a three-terrace town There's a garden, grey-green And cherry blossoms Get in in the morning (All seasons here, saved for a rainy day) Climb in b...

Need to find a way Find another time There’s nothing I could say To give her peace of mind Need to find the words Need to find a way But only those With nothing to say Can look into her eyes And not turn away For only those Have nothing to say I c...

It had been the perfect Friday afternoon, the job was almost done. The house we were decorating was owned by a little old man, forever in the same three piece suit he'd probabbly had since he was demobbed. He seemed to be forever on his way to the post off...

I'm crawling, I don't know where to or from The centre of things from where everything stems Is not where I belong I have the city sickness, growing inside me So this is where I ran for freedom Where I may not be free Chorus: I have these hands beating...

Why don't you come out the guards have gone they forgot their purpose and shuffled their lungs have come feel the sun Why don't you come out the dogs lie sleeping their lips they twitch with the chills in their dreams they come feel the sun Why don't...

"Come Inside" Come inside I've been expecting you Been such a long time Thought you might never show I'm living my life From day to day Hoping that you Would never come my way Come inside I've been expecting you Been such a long time Thought you...

I understand everything I understand everything Take me in your arms You knew how I feel Before I knew, I was up to my neck First time we danced So I'll tell what brought you home tonight So, you're back, what brought you home? Oh, the dancing Take me...

She knows what happens when I'm without her How this ring itches on my finger Does she let me go to help me remember? Remember how I came in I was desperate then Remember what I am without her And that's a desperate man Before I go, when I'm without her...

Don't bring that stuff to bed I've gotta fall with a clear head Don't tell me of those mirrors I'll show you what you want to see Pay no mind to those voices I'll show you what you want to hear Of course it doesn't matter what you see You're beautiful...

See her there She hangs from me See her face She can't let go I can't look in here eyes She's holding on She needed this to hurt me so So it shot out of me As though all of the love just got ripped out of me She said I'm such a sap, I'm such a jerk H...

Learn to live, learn to love Learn to feel happy Learn to recognise Where the joy lies Learn to sing, learn to move Your foot tapping on the side You’ve been watching them For all of your life And don’t let those moments Pass you by You set your sl...

(OK...1,2,3,4....) How you doing tonight? Pull the blankets tight The drunks shout outside your window Light scrapes across your wall Think of me It never goes away Think of me, I know It never goes away How you doing tonight? I don't wanna fight J...

I’ve got memories I keep them away from me They won’t behave Won’t be what I want them to be I’ve seen it all and it’s all done I’ve been with everyone and no one So many squandered moments So much wasted time So busy chasing dreams I left myself be...

I wouldn't shut your eyes just yet I wouldn't turn the lights down yet `Cos there's things you've gotta see here There's things you've gotta believe of me I wouldn't turn the sound down yet Don't even touch the dials, not yet `Cos there's things you've...

Some kind of machine has been hollowed out inside me Don't know what I became or what I've left behind See I don't remember when Something plain about a girl brought me back here again Stumbled round her house tonight I could give her a call Stumbled ove...

When i ... escaping Through these walls... Worked until we are good to find our way Again standing in the...any more... ...if I could just hold you if I could just hold you if I could just hold you Love is kind love is weak Love is blind love is faith...

[Verse 1] No charisma and no escape I feel the loving, just let it stay Very tidy and therefore You can look inside yourself And see which side you on And you will help yourself [Verse 2] You just help yourself Fans got you, fans speak That no books...

Scared of my shadow Afraid of myself Never thought I could be so shallow Resort to playing a man It's a thin line that I walk for her A thin line that I walk Between myself and what I have to do The action and the thought Chorus: Oh her, her her her h...

Hey Lucinda, come out drinking with me tonight The summer is almost gone Hey Lucinda, time is running out Hey Lucinda, our time is running out I`m getting tired of those guys, tonight I'm gonna stay home (home) I’m tired of hanging out, maybe I’ll ju...

This is how he entered How he came in With an open heart and his eyes wide A rubber in his pocket With odd socks, and a skip in his step In an ill-fitting suit with something up his sleeve A sliver of a dream, a last chance And the fear in his eyes of h...

She sinks inside me It's so beautiful Not hear her calling And I would raise myself To live up to her love And not look down on me Forgiving me again And I hear her calling Do you wanna get out of the water Do you wanna try and carry on It gets so lo...

So, you wish I was your man, and I'd understand So, you wish I was your man, and I'd understand Not a surface thing, we could meet down inside Not a surface thing, we could meet way down inside You've got a smile that never reaches your eyes You want to t...

If I could tell you now Tell you how I feel Is that so hard When I saw you There's so much to leave There's so much to carry around Gonna sit now Gonna sit and watch the night fall There's nothing more It takes your breath away Its all for you Ther...

Love's fading babe I can see it in your eyes Your kiss is just the same but it's just a sweet disguise Ain't like just luck To worry about me When we promise to be our world Love each other for eternity Chorus: If you're looking for a way out I won’t...

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If she'd have known She'd have shown me I need to taste her pain For encouragement If she'd have known She'd have shown me I need to taste her pain For accomplishment See, I can only take it out on you There's no-one else I can trust See, I can onl...

Let's not make it into a big thing Let's not get lost in this I know it is, I know we could I guess we surely would Let's pretend it's not It doesn't mean a thing Let's not blow it out of all sense As though it meant so much It's always thought about f...

[Verse 1] Where do we go What do we see now Now our meeting place is gone Where do we hide Where do we cry now That our meeting place is gone Doesn’t matter [Chorus] Two of a kind You never know what you find When you stay too long Searching for y...

Her haircut, she looked what she'd made her In that dress growing ever tighter It was saddening the lengths she had gone to To appear more attractive In the process losing something We never knew but still missed You knew you were lost as soon as you saw...

This medicine you want Medicine you need Medicine to get you on your feet I feel weak Cause every single day And every single hour too That medicine it works inside of you In your head In your dreams In your dreams You worked it so hard You tried...

Well you know I'm a kisser I wanted you for that mouth Hey you know I'm a listener I loved you for what came out It's your mind and your body That makes me feel so dirty And it's my mouth What comes out What comes out You say you love me when I'm slee...

Erreurs Je sais que je les porterai toute ma vie Mes erreurs Comme de celle Tu sais laquelle Quand on a coupé mes cordes Je me suis envolée ailleurs On a coupé mes cordes Et je ne redescendais pas Mistakes I've made I know I'll live with them all my...

She's my oblivion - it's to her I run Out on the balcony - she waits for me Out on the boundary - she smiles She's my oblivion Which way to turn? The edges of our love are in the stars And on the balcony She waits for me Out on the boundary She smile...

Do you remember my sister? How many mistakes did she make with those never blinking eyes? I couldn't work it out. I swear she could read your mind, your life, the depths of your soul at one glance. Maybe she was stripping herself away, saying Here I am, this...

My letters sit on your window-sill Yellowed by the sun Written that time our love was in its prime They just ran off my pen My pen is broken now Couldn't eat a thing Couldn't sit next to you For all this sorrow the joy brings It only shows me the truth...

There is a need in me darling For you I can't tell The hole that?s inside me That drains as it fills You know these arms How they hold you so tight And these needs of mine I can't tell either way Say what you want now make you cry You say how you fee...

Seems like so long ago now But I can still remember those feelings Of being left alone with myself Sitting in the garden Watching our house burn Knowing I couldn’t help it It always had to end in a big statement like that We were always so intense Out...

There's no more affairs No more fooling around There's no more affairs Are you gonna find out? If I tremble in your arms If I sigh through your hair This last affair There's no more fooling around There's no more affairs Are you gonna find out? If my...

It was a dream I had This room was in the middle of a sandy plain The walls were gone but the doors and windows remained At the side of the bed were soft cushions Two-dimensional ships like ocean liners sailed across this desert As they passed, their huge...

I know it's wrong I know it's selfish It's such a short life With so little time You know this pattern Patchwork of any direction Cobbled together In odd shape and size Take my hand, we'll walk through this together But my hand gets sweaty You someho...

You know I’ll always wait Each time you take a step So rest yourself down here a while Rest your sleepy little head But how do I know if that’s what you want How do I know if you’d care You’d better watch yourself The way you’re drifting They watch y...

Shut up I'm thinking Shut up I'm thinking Shut up I'm thinking I'm thinking So shut up If I hold you too tight Just say let go I know this touch can leave you hurting When my words clatter about your head Don't go to bed Just say "shut up" `Cos...

With your lip between your nails too Your hair pinned and falling down With your elbows extending I follow the shape of your brow And there's a new kind of beauty That I've never seen before In the flickering of a candle With paint on my brow Pinky in...

Pretty words Likes ones you've never heard Oh those pretty words What can they say? It felt like the first summer’s day When I heard those pretty words Oh those pretty words Oh those... Pretty words Like ones you've only overheard They hang together...

Silence is here again tonight The silence is here again tonight Will the love ever come back? Will the love ever come back? I know I've been pushing you away I know it's been going on for days Those awkward little things So endearing Those awkward litt...

There's the same hotel, and we can go there now We can go there now if you want to Through the doors of that rented room Yeah, we stumbled through It was only hours It seemed such a short while We had no time to cry Or sit and wonder why We had so many...

Would you prefer a stone That I chose for you? That lay on a beach Was just a sea of stone Wasn't meant for you Jumped into my eyes Choice of millions Would you prefer a stone From your window? It walks through the streets Feeling young and tense Th...

[Verse 1] Found love Before I could begin to fight I found great before I could be mistified by you You know I never said I’m sorry Around a place Looking to be enlightened by you [Chorus] Say I’m the second chance man The last chance man You’re the...

She's gone And it's quiet now Took her mother with her Left town Took her mother's eye Stole her mother's heart It's a compromise We nurture that part and she's gone Says she can walk now Says she can walk now Seen her walking She totters and falls...

Show me...Show me ... Complexities Treacheries We watch through glass we see nothing Latex on the fingertips we touch through glass feel no fear Out of care out of all scattered like stones (show me ... show me ... ) Out of mess We could take these sto...

Tell me I can think right Am I going home tonight Or staying here? Turn over Turn out the light I'm going home tonight Not staying here If you let me sleep I won’t wake up I haven't closed my eyes for days Sleep I won’t wake up I haven't closed m...

Did you ever wonder what's inside that keeps us together? Did you ever want to take that knife and discover? Like cutting into a sack of grain Going to watch our love run away And look at each other Sometimes it seems we're joined at our sides It keeps u...

It’s too long till I see you again It’s too long to be with you You know these hands They don’t know what to do You know these hands They don’t know how to It’s too long till I see you again It’s too long to be with you You know these hands They don’...

Talk to me darling Before you throw it away Look into these eyes now Look into these eyes If it's too far to fall It still makes you cry You can't kill this love no, You can't kill this love You feel the rush in your arm You see shadows form You mov...

We are the amputees Cut off at our knees Something's tickling at our feet No more the sufferers The dull thud of us Once our heels they Clacked in the street I miss you so bad I miss you so bad We are the stigmatized The prosthetisized Our love, and...

Hey, I've been wondering Where you go so late at night And hey, I've been hoping You'll be thinking of me no matter what the time And hey, I'm not listening When you tell me there's no more words to say In your voice, hesitation You quickly light a ciga...

The turns we took to get here The turns we took to get here The turns we took to get here But the ending is it so near ? 'Cause we set out so long ago I can't remember how or why we took that road I can't remember how Sometimes I wonder about ( Th...

[Verse 1] Hanging around Another day Waiting for collection Feeling blue Who's putting up the fence To keep the birds out? I got caught in a landslide Of feeling unsure [Chorus] Don't let me suffer Don't let me suffer Don't let me suffer Don't l...

Everything we cannot keep The rains to be left behind Meet you in the crowded room This did get the storm Don't want nothing that don't belong to us Don't want nothing we can live without In this fire of autumn This fire of autumn This fire of autumn...

You've been lying in bed for a week now Wondering how long it'll take You haven't spoken or looked at her in all that time For that was the easiest line you could break She's been going round her business as usual Always with that melancholic smile But y...

Tout l'amour, tout l'amour en moi est sur son chemin, est sur le point de vous trouver Ne pas essayer de cacher mon amour pour toi Toute la amour, tout l'amour en moi est sur son chemin, est sur le point de vous trouver Comme la marée, je vais toujo...

(Stuart; Carla; Both) There are places I don't remember There are times and days, they mean nothing to me I've been looking through some of them old pictures They don't serve to jog my memory I'm not waking in the morning, staring at the walls these days...

Tricklin' through my mind Tickles Tricklin' through my mind It quickens or decides to slow Tricklin’ through my mind It tickles me behind my eyes It’s tricklin’ through my mind It never quickens or decides to slow Tricklin’ through my mind It just rem...

Still trying to find a reason Still trying to find a home Just some place to spread my things in A place from where I can run Came from so far so silent You saw the stars above Your smiling faces cheer up (?) Take what we never had Chorus The lower...

The sheet that was cut Caught the blood Was opened The sheet that was cut Caught the blood Was opened and dried Sheet that was cut and caught the blood Was opened and dried And stretched out Sheet that was cut and caught the blood Was opened, dried a...

Wake up, it's all right I don't need to know where you've been Went for a walk, out of my sight You went astray again Wake up, it's all right You don't have the words, it's okay I make it worse, I can make it better I can chase it away And the emotion...

It's out there Skulking around Shuffling outside of our door Whispering It beckons us still Tapping away at our locks Through breaking days and falling nights It waits And when hunger creaks inside us Then it breathes its offer again This is not us...

[Verse 1] Can you see me by in this life You talking to shadows Can you recognize What we want is loving What we want is loving Look in the mirror there’s a fear Of finger tears Tracing the shape of my love To my tear Look like a lie that’s whisperin...

What are you fighting for It ain’t nothing you ain’t had before It ain’t nothing , you ain’t felt before And still you cry Is there nothing new Is there nothing to inspire you So you found that all your dreams came true And still you cry Time is around...

Turn my whiskey into water My cigarettes, I don't know what they taste like Other women seem so ugly to me now Playthings stand dusty Books lie open on the page where I met her And that other life Is just a memory to me now Chorus: So tell me how it fe...

Willow Where are you hiding now Willow Where are you hiding now In the [?] light [?] in the tree Spiders and a centipede Crawl across your hand Across your knees Willow Do you walk across the sand Willow Till the waves crash and fall And their fi...