TV On The Radio

Eyes wide mine, suddenly everything Flies by fine, mind goes on holiday In its stead, clicking along the curb Clucking tongues how could they have the nerve There is hardly a method you know It's a broken poem, started up yesterday And it came true now, mind...

Your slim frame Your eager eyes And your wild mane Oh they keep me where I belong All wrapped up in wrong You're to blame For wasted words of sad refrain Oh let them take me where they may Believe me when I say Oh I will be your accident If you will be my am...

From the depths I called you, Ma For your breath and breast so warm and fabled Your hands reached inside Grabbed my heart, enlarged, disabled Hailed for your mercy An ear that cares How the blues sound from up there? With my wet hair, I wipe the blood off...

Bomb your country Oh shed no tears TV dinner overfed your fears So make your money And spread your seed Better lap up luxuries But acknowledge need You've made a family Now kill 'em dead Oh it's not me Ma It's what the TV said Your final fantasy for your Final...

Now drop yourself with no concern On how to breathe When your mind is burned On optimistic, on overload Can we shift the heat back To when your heart's grown cold In severed light Our souls are damaged And with that caged To the cause of lig...

Oui, je t'aime Oui, je t'aime A demain, a la prochaine I know it's best to say goodbye But I can't seem to move away Not to say, not to say That you shouldn't share the blame There is a softness to your touch There is a wonder to your ways Don't know...

Shut down, give up the fight (Slamming the door, been here before, where do we go?) Stay drunk all night (Dan pours a good one, he keeps a seat open at the bar) Might not work out alright (Boy letting go, leave it alone, leave it alone) Look to love som...

Laugh in the face of death under masthead. Hold your breath through late breaking disasters, Next to news of the trite. And the codes And the feelings that meant to be noble Like coke in the nose of the nobles Keeps it alight. And the wrath And the riots And...

He's a what? He's a what? He's a newspaper man And he gets his best ideas From a newspaper stand; From his boots to his pants To his comments and his rants He knows that any little article will do! Though he expresses some confusion 'Bout his part in the plan...

Oh there is a murderess amongst us Her love is a violent spiral Hurling in upon us, conjured up At the birth of the world Durga is a dancer Mindless questions find no answers Slicing through the ether Yeah she's gleaming like mother of pearl Dirty little wh...

Congratulations on the mess you made of things on trying to reconstruct the air and all that brings. An oxidation is the compromise you own But this is beginning to feel like the dog wants her bones Say: La la laaa lala laa la La la la la la la lala la...

Oh simple girl Oh foolish man Trying to bend these lovers rules Into a simple plan Oh aching bones on sleepless bed They toss and turn and roll away From words unsaid It's just that all that you were Was all I could want Now I can't trust your lover's tongue...

All your dreams are over now And all your wings have fallen down Oh all your dreams are over now And all your wings have fallen down She's just like you So why keep doing what you do Why cut a friend Why cruise that mean lean to an end You could have heel toed...

baby boy dieing under hot desert sun, watch your colours run. did you believe the lie they told you, that christ would lead the way and in a matter of days hand us victory? did you buy the bull they sold you, that the bullets and the bombs and all the strong...

Under my love Wake up to your window The day calls in billows It's echoing moonlight on to the blue nightmare of your heart In cosy red rainbow It's shaking off halos And the memory of our sacred so and so's Oh take my hand sweet Complete your release and bur...

Beverly Hills, burning of plastic Scraped it away, I do, I may For the summer For the summer Here goes your man, dances the hourly Cape land to colors rolling through the valley For the summer For the summer Hold tight, horizon minds It’s writing it...

Out on the freeway I saw you wasted Nobody wants you to fall Except for me (Dental plan, marriages, lots of babies, dentogen) Except for me (Press hot sex, fuck more and love less) Call me up daily Just to remind me Nobody wants you at all Except for me (Char...

Heart beat sounding Ricocheting in their cage Thought I'd lose my balance With the grounds bounce and sway And all this violence And all this goes away And the vibes that rise like Fireflies illuminate our play Some light being Pulled you up from night's part...

The lazy way they turned your head Into a rest stop for the dead And did it all in gold and blue and grey The efforts to allay your dread, In spite of all you knew and said, Were hard to see and harder still to say A comfort plush all laced in lead Was sent...

Stuck in the shade Where there's no sunshine I don't wanna play With them other kids in the sun Since you left me babe It's been a long way down Yea, you left me babe It's been a long way down What you don't know won't hurt you, yea Ignorance is blis...

You walked around, thought yourself beautiful Just too bad they stared, Just too bad they stared Broke up your crown, called you unusuable See how well you fared Stole underground, To kick your heart around Banished from above, banished from above Forgot your...

I was a lover, before this war held up in a luxury suite, behind a barricaded door now that I've cleaned up, gone legit I can see clearly: round hole round whole, square peg don't fit I'm locked in my bedroom, so send back the clowns my clone wears a brown sh...

In the dark of the night I found Without my love, my love, these words are not a bit profound, if it's just another cheap line flung. Outside ecstatic love, what did we think we'd find? Over that broken road, out past the land mines. I'm gonna keep y...

All men condemned by men to die Damned by blind bitch in hallowed halls Hear it, heed this call: Oh fucking eternal Infinity's hourglass will measure all measure all So, power Cover your balls 'Cause we swing kung fu Oh fucking eternal Oh fucking eternal...

Four thousand years ago, I came back to my senses Jumped on a laser ray and blew into a new dimension This vertical line, I watch it go by Chop down your master plan in nanoseconds, man I hope you understand that nothing living lasts forever This vertica...

Beg the bee's forgiveness as it's falling from your sleeve Watch its guts pump poison into sting Watch it reach completeness, see it fall asleep Legs above fold in eternal dream Oh that calls to mind a joke, an off coloring About these fools blindfolded, drug...

Lonely little love dog that No one knows the name of I know why you cry out Desperate and devout Timid little teether Your eyes set on the ether Your moon in a bella luna and Howling hallelujah Nameless you above me Come lay me low and love me This lonely li...

Funny now it's all loud See what only nakedness could hide Something's got you tongue tied Like you're barely handling the ride Sentimental storm clouds Gathering, let's try to play them down They've been there the whole time Following from grip To cal...

Oh but the longing is terrible A wanton heart under attack I wanna love you all the way off I wanna break your back Colour of all that's hysterical Travels along your bones Just to be near you Sucking your skin Not gonna leave you alone Yes here of course th...

I caught a glimpse of professional evil, On the day our poor hearts died I fell in love with professional evil, On the day you left my side I see tons of people looking lost and lethal And I think we're all the same So I scale the steeple and I take a...

Don't hold on go get strong well don't you know there is no modern romance Time, time is gone it stops stops who it wants well i was wrong it never lasts there is no this is no modern romance in time, time is gone never lasts, stops who he was well i was wro...

Hey girls, hey boys no don't mind the noise It's just the sound of being dragged ahead It's just a pornographic annulationship As we watch the spider's web eat itself All this death above extinguishing All that you've ever known Turn your touch screen...

Why so pathetic? Never thought you, I Every heavenly light Such a sinister way Roll your eyes all day At all the people kickin Golden girls, stop and stare Double decker, so lookin pretty. Why such a serious miss just made my serious list. Now I demand that...

Yeah, burned up all your credit On a family of kids who pop your pills And smoke your pipe And after the war, broke your piggy bank Ah, the bastards broke the world this time So we sleep with our guns And no jive won't get done But we're heavy and high...

Today, Today I was on the train today And I was looking at you Looking, Looking, Looking. Today (I was on the) And I was looking at you Looking (oh) I was on the train today (looking) And I was looking at me (today) looking at you (oh) Lokking at you I was loo...

Playhouses Swept away by the river now Confounded Sound it out now Vodka cran in your hand and whose litte girl are you now? Oh I'd ask for this dance but I know you'd play like you don't know how What your coy smile exposes A recent memory of when we shit ou...

I'm not looking for a mommy Don't seem like you need a poppy Plenty of time till you're an old lady And the same for me before I'm an old man We could celebrate it monthly How we stayed individuated Oh kid, congratulations You held on to your dear dear dear i...

Suddenly, all your history's ablaze Try to breathe, as the world disintegrates Just like autumn leaves, we're in for change Holding tenderly to what remains And all your memories, are as precious as gold And all the honey, and the fire which you've stole Have...

How much do I love you? How hard must we try To set into motion A love divine? I should really give it up sometime Should've known by the way things started But I should really give it up sometime And I should really give it up sometime Nor agree for...

Hey Jackboot Fuck your war Cause I'm fat and in love and no bombs are falling on me for sure But I'm scared to death That I'm living a life not worth dying for And your plow shear It's a sword And its wide arcing swing chops the heads off of many things Mono...

To arrive ahead of its time Is the fate of the fish washed up on shore Do you know that it just won’t feel right? ‘Til we’re swallowed up by the tide Thought he might know better Hold it to capital lifestyle heights Got a head full of fever and it feels...

Caught up in the feeling Cut right through the ceiling Ground below receding Blink of an eye, higher than high Father, sister, brothers Others born of mothers Every friend and lover Now is the time, get on the ride Caught up in the feeling Up against...

I see you praying on the dancefloor See you moving so inspired It's got me wondering what you're asking for Why your soul is setting fires See, I've been trying locked doors It's getting kind of tired Like a lot of a people wanting more Reach for carrot...

i could not help but noticing all these robots fucking in the middle of the mini mall robots fucking in the middle of the mini mall robots fucking in the middle of the carwash robots fucking in the middle of citcom forbots fucking in the middle of the west win...

Your voice was a satellite spinning next to me Now I can't hear Over the radio, someone said a satellite just went down into the sea So I go I fathom leagues I am the undertow I wait peacefully Now I'm waiting for a signal or a sound Where can you be found now...

What is love can you tell me baby be, Is it the hole you put inside me. Young cavernous crater young windswept cave, If love is my salvation I don't want to be saved. But I never met a girl like you. Someone who made that dumb shit true So oo oo. (Lov...

Confidence and ignorance approve me Define my day today I've tried so hard to shut it down lock it up Gently walk away Appetites and impulses confuse me Decide my day today Now my body says it's over Shaking hands move to tear my face away And when t...

I know you eat your lovers when you sense that something isn't right I hope that's over and you're letting him go I always wondered what your gypsy heart would feel like I got a feeling that you're letting me know I told your sister that you're all I ever...

Soul, cast me out So I can feel it in another way I won't talk about Whoa, passenger's hide If I can feed it for another day It might run me dry I know the seasons evolve to a freeze Putting hearts in the balance here It's up to your knees And it's shifting d...

Cross the street from your storefront cemetary Hear me hailing from inside and realize I am the conscience clear In pain or ecstacy And we were all weaned my dear Upon the same fatigue We're staring at the sun Oh my own voice Cannot save me now Stan...

Faceless fall from this life and ah If you can't see the stars You've probably gone too far Like the voice that cried On the lonesome tide Like the wave was The only love it ever saw "What's this dying for"? Asks the Stork that soars With the Owl high above C...

Hope it isn't broken, try to keep it open But I couldn't hold it, smashed it down for all to see And I tried to get repairs done, I couldn't fix it So I picked it up and smashed it down for all to see But I remember when we were so cool And you were the...

Wake up in a magic nigger movie With the bright lights pointed at me As a metaphor Teachin' folks the score About patience, understanding, agape babe And sweet sweet amour When I realized where I was Did I stend up and testify Oh, fist up signify Or did I sho...

My mind is like an orchard Clustered in frozen portraits Of blossoms that bloomed so fine Just to drop from the vine I've seen 'em all tonight Could keep it silent and tortured, Or shove it unto the floorboards A rusty heart starts to whine In its tell tale t...

Oh, here comes trouble Put your helmet on, we'll be heading for a fall Yeah, the whole thing's gonna blow And the devil's got my number It's long overdue, he'll come looking soon Yeah, the whole thing's gonna blow Oh, here comes trouble These people ta...

Little flightless metal birds High above in limbless tree Echoes from their tiny box Ring out into the atmosphere Creating beauty inadvertently It was a technological feat This little bird Wading through the market's waste We locked eyes felt our loneliness...

I can barely move For want of room And I'm forgettin' to breathe But the sight of you Has me instantly Remember my needs Oh the lights spin And the beat breaks in And I'm smellin' your sweet Should I spend the next six hours Tryin' to get you Off your feet?...

It might be impractical to seek out a new romance We won't know the actual if we never take the chance I'd like to collapse with you and ease you against this song I think we're compatible, I see that you think I'm wrong Ref: But, any time will do, my l...

Oh, it's the winter of the wanted Yeah, it's the hardest part of nature Lord, have mercy on this creature Give me some heat, I know you've got it And who knows what the summer's gonna bring us? Comes on slow, gotta keep the fire in us So completely in t...

Say say my playmate won't you lay hands on me mirror my malady transform my tragedy Got a curse i cannot lift shines when the sunset shifts when the moon is round and full gotta bust that box gotta get that fish My mind's aflame We could jet in a s...

You Gave no reason for letting go I just thought you might like to know You're the only one I ever loved True We've demolished a thing or two But it seemed like the thing to do And you're the only one I ever loved Comes to know Though the feelings w...

My mast ain't so sturdy My head is at half I'm searching the clouds for the score My lady avails herself Of marked down freedom Forever cashed out to no more She put the blam in the blame Bullets bearing the name Of each tigress who's left you a tooth...