Marvin The Album

A girl is the word
That she hasn't heard
The truth is tiptoeing the edge of her skirt
The traffic's a blur
The street's a river
She's bigger and braver than she is clever

See it's her! it's her!
See it's her! it's her!

A mind so complex
It's breaking her neck
She thinks she's a car
Driving to its own wreck

Too wild and cool, vulnerable
To think one could change her
That's where i'm a fool

Won't you see it's her! it's her!
See it's her! it's her!

A girl is a verb
A whirl of colour
In doing she's being
She never thought she was thinking
Anything you could

See it's her! it's her!
See it's her! it's her!

A girl is the word
A girl is a verb
A girl is the world...

Am i real and what do i feel
Hate is half a heart
Only i am in my arms

You were sold as something to hold
Nothing's as rude as the cold
Stupidly beautifoolish true you
Maybe madness is a heart
Maybe heaven is a habit

If i could fly i'd live in the sky
I'd come from why and obviously you do too
The very start of everything hard could be the slip of a fingertip

There's a girl i know with a poison rose
She's gonna bring her
I suppose

Everybody's got a pretty friend
The words they buy
The time they spend
Goodnight

When her friend's around
She disappears
Amid the broken stems
And tears

Everybody's got a pretty friend
The words they buy
The time they spend
Goodnight

It's a bitter pill
And it's hard to swallow
She could take the lead
But she never follows

The bed of roses
Turn to nails
The best laid plans
Always fail

Everybody's got a pretty friend
The words they buy
The time they spend
Goodnight
Goodnight
Da-la-la-la-la...

You get the world for your birthday baby
Open your eyes and say yes, no, maybe
The box ticks on, the core is a bomb
The world is silent
You listen like a lover to it

Sometimes a mirror's a miracle
Sometimes it's nothing at all
In this reflection even angels fall
You could fly anytime

Ba-da-da-daa etc.

(even though you own your own comet)

Ordinary people
It's okay
You don't have to wear those wings
They're stupid things

I know some dizzy, easy heights
Don't stop your life at the lights
Don't be smart, be a beginner
Don't be wrong, even when it's right

Ordinary people
It's okay
We're not watching anyway
It's okay

Ba-da-da-daa etc.

Do you ever wake up in the morning
Somebody's changed the deal
Who you are, the way you feel
The whole situation's just a little unreal
You're sleeping with an eight minute warning
Living hanging over your head
It's just god's hand but i understand
Sometimes it's kinda difficult to get out of bed

Naked in my storm
You haven't even got a future just to keep you warm
You once were something wild
Someone's lover, someone's child
Do you hear that sound?
Another young lover just hit the ground
Do you know me at all?

Do you ever look out of the window
Somebody's changed the scene
You feel like you're standing in another country
Nobody can understand what you mean
Are you happy with your human hatred?
Stand up and look into the vacancy and tell me -
Have you already decided to die?
Have you already decided to die?

Do you hear that sound?
Another young lover just hit the ground
All the boys and girls are falling in a hush in the unkind world
I remember a time when we were all quite prepared
To climb, but we were so young
And the one you say you love
Is just the one you most mistrust
And you tiptoe through your lives
You pretend you're all so
Dangerous

I love my country
But it wears a uniform
It speaks with foreign guns
In the background you can almost hear
The sound of intervention

And i don't know when liberty fell
But we rang every mission bell
We rang them loud and clearly
For a world that wouldn't listen

I don't want to die
I'm as innocent as anybody
I don't even know how to spell
Revolutionary
Jesus in the sky
The bullets in the guns
You don't even know what we
Mean by repression

Blood is the colour of the sunset
You walked into the darkness
I did not hear your last breath
There will not be an inquest
This is not human interest

We danced the dirt with
Surrender for our drumbeat
We danced for the balance sheet
Died for the kind of lasting peace
That pleases the world policeman

And fatherland raped motherhood
And told her it was for the global good
And now we ring the mission bell
To warn their children

And i don't want to die
I'm as innocent as anybody
I don't even know how to spell
Revolutionary
Jesus in the sky
The bullets in the guns
You don't even know what we
Mean by repression

Blood is the colour of the sunset
You walked into the darkness
I did not hear your last breath
There will not be an inquest
This is not human interest

Here's a door and
Here's a window
Here's the ceiling
Here's the floor
The room is lit like
A black and white movie
The t.v.'s on, that's what it's for
And if you walk real slowly
You can feel the planet breathe
There's no need to feel so lowly
Now that we've all learned to give

Accidently kelly street
Where friends and strangers
Sometimes meet
Accidently kelly street
I never thought life
Could be so sweet

In the garden birds are singing
The sun is shining on the path
The wind is talking to the flowers
The dogs and cats all take a bath
And if you stop that talking
You can hear the traffic sigh
Throw away those keys
Start walking, watch those
Tiny things go by

Accidently kelly street
Where friends and strangers
Sometimes meet
Accidently kelly street
I never thought life
Could be so sweet

It's sunday everyday
And there's no need to rush around
Inside of everybody there's sun
And laughter to be found
It seems that we're on holidays
And sleeping in is not a sin
All the housework's done by teatime
I'm feeling good about
The way i've been

Perhaps this optimism
Will crash on down
Like a house of cards
I know that my decision
To change my life was not that hard

Accidently kelly street
Where friends and strangers
Sometimes meet
Accidently kelly street
I never thought life
Could be so sweet

Accidently kelly street
Where friends and strangers
Sometimes meet
Accidently kelly street
I never thought life
Could be so sweet

Accidently...
Accidently...
Accidently kelly street
I never thought life
Could be so sweet!