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Sleeping With Ghosts

ENGLISH SUMMER RAIN

Always stays the same

Nothing ever changes

English summer rain

Seems to last for ages.

Always stays the same

Nothing ever changes

English summer rain

Seems to last for ages.

I'm in the basement

You're in the sky

I'm in the basement baby

Drop on by.

I'm in the basement

You're in the sky

I'm in the basement baby

Drop on by.

Always stays the same

Nothing ever changes

English summer rain

Seems to last for ages.

Always stays the same

Nothing ever changes

English summer rain

Seems to last for ages.

I'm in the basement

You're in the sky

I'm in the basement baby

Drop on by.

I'm in the basement

You're in the sky

I'm in the basement baby

Drop on by.

Hold your breath and count to ten

Then fall apart and start again

Hold your breath and count to ten

Start again, start again.

Hold your breath and count to ten

Then fall apart and start again

Start again, start again, start again, start again, start again, start again,

Start again.

Always stays the same

Nothing ever changes

English summer rain

Seems to last for ages.

Always stays the same

Nothing ever changes

English summer rain

Seems to last for ages.

Hold your breath and count to ten

Then fall apart and start again

Hold your breath and count to ten

Start again, start again.

Hold your breath and count to ten

Then fall apart and start again

Hold your breath and count to ten

Start again, start again.

Start again, start again, start again, start again, start again, start again, start again, start again

Start again, start again, start again, start again, start again, start again, start again, start again.

THIS PICTURE

I hold an image of the ashtray girl

Of cigarette burns on my chest

I wrote a poem that described her world

And put our friendship to the test

And late at night whilst on all fours

She used to watch me kiss the floor

What's wrong with this picture ?

Farewell the ashtray girl

Forbidden snowflake

Beware this troubled world

Watch out for earthquakes

Goodbye to open sores

To broken semaphore

You know we miss her

We miss her picture.

Sometimes it's fated

(We) disentigrate it

For fear of growing old

Sometimes it's fated

(We) assassinate it

For fear of growing old.

Farewell the ashtray girl

Angelic fruitcake

Beware this troubled world

Control your intake

Goodbye to open sores

Goodbye and furthermore

You know we miss her

We miss her picture.

Sometimes it's fated

(We) disentigrate it

For fear of growing old

Sometimes it's fated

(We) assassinate it

For fear of growin old.

Hang on

Though we try

It's gone.

Hang on

Though we try

It's gone.

Sometimes it's fated

(We) disentigrate it

For fear of growing old

Sometimes it's fated

(We) assassinate it

For fear of growing old.

I can't stop growing old

I can't stop growing old.

SLEEPING WITH GHOSTS

The sea's evaporating

Though it comes as no surprise

These clouds we're seeing

They're explosions in the sky

It seems it's written

But we can't read between the line.

Hush

It's OK

Dry your eye

Soulmate dry your eye

Dry your eye

Soulmate dry your eye

'Cause soulmates never die.

This one world vision

Turns us into compromise

What good's religion

When it's each other we despise ?

Damn the government

Damn their killing

Damn their lies.

Hush

It's OK

Dry your eyes

Soulmate dry your eyes

Dry your eyes

Soulmate dry your eyes

'Cause soulmates never die

Soulmates never die

Never die

Soulmates never die

Never die.

Soulmates never die

Soulmates never die.

THE BITTER END

Since we're feeling so anaesthetized

In our comfort zone

Reminds me of the second time

That I followed you home.

We're running out of alibis

On the second of May

Reminds me of the summertime

On this winter's day.

See you at the bitter end

See you at the bitter end.

Every step we take that's synchronized

Every broken bone

Reminds me of the second time

That I followed you home.

You shower me with lullabies

As you're walking away

Reminds me that it's killing time

On this fateful day.

See you at the bitter end

See you at the bitter end.

See you at the bitter end

From the time we intercepted

Feels more like suicide...

See you at the bitter end

See you at the bitter end.

SOMETHING ROTTEN

Get real

It seems

When you're here I miss you something rotten

The stinks

Are here

It's guaranteed all's forgotten.

Tell me

It's clear

Perhaps you have forgotten

Don't fear

You're clean

All is forgotten.

So you stand

I miss you soemthing rotten

So you stand

This crown

Is broken rotten.

Tell me

No it's not

It's all forgotten

Tell me

So you stand

I miss you something rotten.

Tell me

It stinks

It stinks it's something rotten

Don't fear

You're clean

All is forgotten.

And you're left behind, and you're left behind

And you're left behind, and you're left behind.

PLASTICINE

Beauty lies inside the eye

Of another youthful dream

That doesn't sell its soul for self-esteem

That's not plasticine.

Beauty lies inside desire

And every wayward heart redeemed

That doesn't sell its soul for self-esteem

That's not plasticine.

Don't forget to be the way you are

Don't forget to be the way you are.

The only thing you can rely on

Is that you can't rely on anything

Don't go and sell your soul for self-esteem

Don't be plasticine.

Don't forget to be the way you are

Don't forget to be the way you are.

Don't forget to be the way you are

Don't forget to be the way you are.

Way you are, way you are

Way you are, way you are.

SPECIAL NEEDS

Remember me when your the one that's silver screened

Remember me when your the one you always dreamed

Remember me whenever noses start to bleed

Remember me : special needs.

Just nineteen, a sucker's dream

I guess I thought you had the flavour

Just nineteen, a dream obscene

With six months off for bad behaviour.

Remember me when you clinch your movie deal

Think of me stuck in my chair that has four wheels

Remember me through flash photography and screams

Remember me : special dreams

Just nineteen, a sucker's dream

I guess I thought you had the flavour

Just nineteen, a dream obscene

With six months off for bad behaviour.

Just nineteen, a sucker's dream

I guess I thought you had the flavour

Just nineteen, a dream obscene

With six months off for bad behaviour.

Remember me, remember me.

Just nineteen, a sucker's dream

I guess I thought you had the flavour

Just nineteen, a dream obscene

With six months off for bad behaviour.

Just nineteen, a sucker's dream

I guess I thought you had the flavour

Just nineteen, a dream obscene

With six months off for bad behaviour.

Remember me, remember me.

I'LL BE YOURS

I'll be your water

Bathing you clean

With liquid peace

I'll be your ether

You'll breathe me in

You won't release

I've seen you suffer

I've seen you cry

The whole night through

So I'll be your water

Bathing you clean

With liquid blue.

I'll be your father

I'll be your mother

I'll be your lover

I'll be yours.

I'll be your father

I'll be your mother

I'll be your lover

I'll be yours.

I'll be your liquor

Bathing your soul

In juice that's pure

I'll be your anchor

You'll never leave

These shores that cure

I've seen you suffer

I've seen you cry

For days and days

So I'll be your liquor

Demons will drown

And float away.

I'll be your father

I'll be your mother

I'll be your lover

I'll be yours.

I'll be your father

I'll be your mother

I'll be your lover

I'll be yours.

I'll be your father

I'll be your mother

I'll be your lover

I'll be yours.

I'll be your father

I'll be your mother

I'll be your lover

I'll be yours.

Yours, yours, yours, yours

Yours, yours, yours, yours.

SECOND SIGHT

Walk away to save your face

You never were a genius

Walk away to save your face

You let it come between us

Walk away to save your face

You never were a genius

Walk away to save your face

You never were, you never were.

Yes it's just the second night

But I would break backsides for you

Yes I know you're the jealous type

'Cause I'm cursed with second sight so...

Walk away to save your face

You never were an actor

Walk away to save your face

Here comes the morning after

Walk away to save your face

You never were an actor

Walk away to save your face

You never were, you never were.

Yes it's just the second night

That I would break backsides for you

Yes I know you're the jealous type

'Cause I'm cursed with second sight so...

Third verse

Sang it first.

Walk away to save your face

You never were a genius

Walk away to save your face

You let it come between us

Walk away to save your face

You never were a genius

Walk away to save your face

You never were, you never were.

Yes it's just the second night

That I would break backsides for you

Yes I know you're the jealous type

'Cause I'm cursed with second sight so...

Walk away, walk away

Walk away, walk away.

Walk away

You never were

Walk away

You never were

Walk away

You never were

Walk away

You never.

PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT

It's the disease of the age

It's the disease that we crave

Alone at the end of the rave

We catch the last bus home

Corporate America wakes

Coffee republic and cakes

We open the latch on the gate

Of the hole that we call our home.

Protect me from what I want

Protect me, protect me.

Maybe we're victims of fate

Remember when we'd celebrate

We'd drink and get high until late

And now we're all alone

Wedding bells ain't gonna chime

With both of us guilty of crime

And both of us sentenced to time

And now we're all alone.

Protect me from what I want

Protect me, protect me.

Protect me from what I want

Protect me, protect me.

Protect me from what I want

Protect me, protect me.

Protect me from what I want

Protect me, protect me.

Protect me from what I want

Protect me, protect me.

CENTREFOLDS

Come on Balthazar

I refuse to let you die

Come of fallen star

I refuse to let you die.

'Cause it's wrong

And I've been waiting far too long

And it's wrong

I've been waiting far too long

For you to be

Be.

Be mine

For you to be mine

Be mine

For you to be mine.

And it's wrong

I've been waiting far too long

It's wrong

I've been waiting far too long

For you to be

Be.

All the centrefolds

That you can't afford

They've long since waved their last goodbyes

All the centrefolds

That you can't afford

You've long since faded from their eyes.

So be

Be mine

So be

Be mine.

RETOUR