Tindersticks

I know it's wrong
I know it's selfish
You've 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 somehow slip away
Try to call you, but i don't call too loud, no
Try to love, and never look that hard

Chorus:

Cos this blue's a swirling ocean
The green, the ambition
The red is the guilt
There's a lot of red
I know it's wrong
I know it's selfish
Such a short life
So little time
Try to call you, but i don't call too loud, no
Try to love, but never look that hard
(chorus)

The yellow is my sunshine
Comes out on odd occasion
Barely enough to keep you 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 feels
It feels so good
Tell me how it goes
It goes so fast
So tell me how it feels
It feels so good
Tell me how it goes
It goes so fast
So fast
I was clumsy, heavy-handed
Grown selfish, ill-tempered
But that life
Is just a memory to me now
Softly nudge towards her
Gently put inside her
And that other life
Just seems so ugly to me now
(chorus)

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 only take it out on you
There's no-one else but us around
You hide these things so well
There's no finding
You hide these things so well
There's no finding, no finding

These runs into the blue
There are no edges
How do i know where you are now?
These paper cuts
Need those gravel grind
Need those pictures to wake me
Give up the drugs
Take the power i offer
Oh the deeper i go
The further i fall
The more i know
The tighter your grip around me
So easily broken
Running down your skin
And the pain runs into the blue
If there's ever anyone else, i'll understand
And kill them
And i'll overflow your every inlet
You will not cough and spit
You awoke from the end
And i tell you with my tongue between your toes
If there's ever anyone else
Don't let them do this
And i'll laugh and revel
As you scratch and crawl
If there's ever anyone else
Just show them the ugly mess

You hide these things so well
There's no finding
You hide these things so well
There's no finding, no finding

Her haircut, she looked virtually [ ? ]
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 her
You saw your life as a series of complicated dance steps
Impossible to learn, they had to come naturally
Together you squirmed and wriggled
And i could only jerk along behind

Chorus:

They're going to hurt you
They always will
She is now with me, inside of you
And i could only stare wide-eyed
As everything closed in around the three of us
Things you never saw, talking of the power and rescue (?)
(chorus)

She opened the door his face bruised and swollen
Before he knew, pushed, falling down curved stairs
Our message lost and our plans forgotten
Surrounded by men in suits, and black shiny shoes
Moving in, kicking, stamping
Bland expressionless faces
A handful of marbles thrown in a dustbin
Memories, memories

(chorus)

In a northern town there were amazing [ ? ] stones arranged on the southern slope
They got out in the last few seconds of consciousness
Look for their inscriptions one day, the most distant ocean plains, those who make the desert island
I saw you in a tin bath in red water
Were the ones who went to washington to do their laundry
They wanted to see the mysterious hurricane
I never believed in new york, or where you intended to stand
But we don't actually want to see the shipwrecked
I just had to go
They came

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 cigarette and turn away

I'm not crying, up inside i'm smiling
Seen that look in your eye
Jump in your stare
It's a feeling i never saw leaving
Well it's something i don't deserve to have, oh no
The not knowing is easy
And the suspecting, that's okay
Just don't tell me for certain
That our love's gone away
It's gone away

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, as our love floats away
Over the hills on a seagull's wing
Our ideas will i kiss in a playground
Now i'm waiting for the bell that never rings
The not knowing is easy
And the suspecting, that's okay
Just don't tell me for certain
That our love's gone away
The not knowing is easy
And the suspecting, that's okay
Just don't tell me for certain
That our love's gone away
It's gone away

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 sleeping
It's the sleep of the innocent
But in my sleep, i'm still faking
If you could only see what that meant
You think my body is clean now
It's stretching out in your tub
But the more you soak me
The more i wonder what comes out
What comes out

Those teeth, they look so milky
You would trust them with your neck
Like a kitten and it's mother
Just secure you and fear no fall
These teeth, they are breaking
As they close around your scruff
You look my way, your smile opens
And i wonder about what comes out
What comes out
What comes out
What comes out
What comes out

Sweet sweet man pt. 1
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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 misery"
I lay awake that night, listening to her breathing
Thinking how strange it would be
If i awoke and she wasn't there
I could feel myself, feel myself changing
No longer me, i was only a part of her
I said "a sweet sweet man like me
I can only bring you misery"

So they put me down, back where i started from
But where i started seems so high
I start to climb

Sweet sweet man pt. 2
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I lay awake that night, listening to her breathing
Thinking how strange it would be
If i awoke and she wasn't there
I could feel myself, feel myself changing
No longer me, i was only a part of her
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 misery"

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 bulks disappearing into a thin line
These ships were always full of people facing windows
And sometimes find their problems seem like a day's work
Following deep tracks, the boats kept passing by

Came to an unmanned sort of harbour
Stood on the sand in no water
[ ? ] lowered its doors
And one by one the ships descended to the sand
And sailed off in different directions across the desert
The carrier was then refilled with ships arriving in perfect time

I watched seven or eight of these drop-offs
And realised the process, the ships and the people within them never differed
I thought about following any of these ships to the end of their journey
But suspected i would end up back here
Or a place so similar that i wouldn't be able to tell the difference

I can't sleep in this bed anymore
It's like a padded cell
The sheets are too tight
[ ? ]
A man of your success
I'm tired of it

[ ? ]
Walked over to the window
Climbed on the window-ledge
And jumped out
I wasn't scared
I know i can fly

A quiff, a whiff of smoke, an empty egg

Roses north (i don't know how long we'd been waiting)
A front room (endless hours, weeks, years even)
Lino, yellow formica (we didn't know)
Lots of milky tea (only onward, forward, inward, in, over a field) (i don't want to do this)
Unmatched to match the unmatched plates (the sun sets in the west) (i really really really don't want to do this)
Straight-backed chairs (this is where we started each night) (you made me do it)
Steamy glass-pane window (we could only travel at night) (bang bang bang on the door)
Warped door, embassy no. 6 ashtray (we would conceal ourselves in the missing light `till darkness fell) (i awoke, ran downstairs)
Chewy chop (nobody knew where we were) (a letter dropped to the floor)
Toasted cob, mustard (where we were going) (i bent, reached)
Crinkly-cut chips, bendy fork (a vague sense of direction) (swang open)
Polyester, pink gingham ([ ? ]) (cracked my head)
(nothing told us where we were) (unconscious fell)
(we always somehow managed to keep a straight line) (i awoke, the dog)
(licking my dick)