Here Before

once I had a child

he was wilder than moonlight

he could do it all

like he'd been here before

once I had a child

she was smiling like sunshine

she could see it all

like she'd been here before

then I had a child

took his while like northern summer

and he knows it all

like he's been here before 

Vashti Bunyan

Compulsion

Charms in limited supply

And refusing to stretch

That indefinable nothing

Somehow keeps pushing you

Finding the right words

Can be a problem

How many times must it be said

There's no plan

It had to happen

Got to move on sometime

And it's about time

By putting one foot in front of another

And repeating the process

Cross over the street

You're free to change your mind

Strength through diversity

Couldn't have put it more plainly

Got to move on sometime

Charms in limited supply

Under threat of extinction

That indefinable nothing

Somehow motivates you

Finding the right words

Can be a problem

How many times must it be said

There's no plan

It had to happen

Got to move on sometime

And it's about time

By putting one foot in front of another

And repeating the process

Cross over the street

You're free to change your mind

Strength through diversity

Couldn't have put it more plainly

Got to move on sometime

Joe Crow

Unconditional

I've spent my whole life surrounded

and I've spent my whole life alone

I wonder why I never wonder why

The easiest things are so hard

I just want, I just want love

I just want, I just want love

I just want, I just want love

I just want something

Something for nothing

Something, something for nothing

I'm a beggar and I'm a chooser

I'm accused, I'm an accuser

But nothing's unconditional

I hold the whole world accused

I've only got myself to blame

I wonder why, I never wonder why

The easiest things are so hard

I just want, I just want love

I just want, I just want love

I just want, I just want love

I just want something

Something for nothing

Something, something for nothing

I just want, I just want love

I just want, I just want love

I just want, I just want love

I just want something

Something for nothing

Something, something for nothing

I'm a beggar and I'm a chooser

I'm accused, I'm an accuser

But nothing's unconditional

The Bravery

An Honest Mistake

People

They don't mean a thing to you

They move right through you

Just like your breath

But sometimes

I still think of you

And I just wanted to

Just wanted you to know

My old friend...

I swear I never meant for this

I never meant...

Don't look at me that way

It was an honest mistake

Don't look at me that way

It was an honest mistake

An honest mistake

Sometimes

I forget I'm still awake

I fuck up and say these things out loud

My old friend...

I swear I never meant for this

I never meant...

Don't look at me that way

It was an honest mistake

Don't look at me that way

It was an honest mistake

An honest mistake

Don't look at me that way

It was an honest mistake

Don't look at me that way

It was an honest mistake

An honest mistake

The Bravery

Cosmic Country Noir

Look in the mirror that's held out

See the spot that concerns us all

The universal place

Common ground, common space

Have to go through so much violence

To get to that forsaken place

Via this paradox

That space can be attained

Gone the torments, uncertainties

Place where we finally

Agree

Stereolab

Barricade

I did not take to analysis 

So I had to make up my mind and hold it for a while

I would not just leave you without a kiss

But I guess there must come a time, when there's no more tears to cry

Thieves and snakes need homes, need homes

Barricade

It starts to feel like a barricade 

To keep us away, to keep us away

It kind of does 

It starts to feel like a barricade 

To keep us away, keep us away

I could not lean on the politics

'Cause I didn't want to train my eye to hold so short a time

Oh so high, just don't know where the blind could lead the sightless

But I still like to witness

Thieves and snakes need homes, need homes

Barricade

It starts to feel like a barricade 

To keep us away, to keep us away

It kind of does

It starts to feel like a barricade 

To keep us away, keep us away

Full speed, half blind

Full tilt, decline

We turn to past times

Full speed, half blind 

You know us

You know us

And we said....

I'm sorry

Say I'm sorry

Sometimes it feels like a barricade 

To keep us away, keep us away

It kind of does 

How much fear can you fabricate

To keep us away, keep us away

You know us

Full speed, half blind

Full tilt, decline

We turn to past times

Full speed, half blind

Interpol

The Door In The Wall

Does it finish, does it end?

does it ever end what are the chances of it?

what you wished for, coveted pitchfork stuck through the heart of it

if you stretch, can you see, can you ever see round dusty corner is it

even thinking, monitors blinking, stuck through the heart

through the heart

I see you smiling, I see you turning your face to the wall

It's not that I think you're wrong, I just can't keep my eyes on that door

anymore

I've seen you crying, I've see you holding your head by the wall

It's not that I don't sympathize, I just can't wait by the door

anymore

Does it have many stops, are we nearly there?

watching the houses and the woman waving hesitate fading, still is the heart

and in the evening when all the shadows are long by the wall

I will take your hand in my hand and we'll walk through the door

through the door

and all the voices we heard rising up from the lawn

will gather as one company and we'll not wait anymore

anymore

and in the evening we know the shadows are long by the wall

I will take your hand in my hand and we'll walk through the door

we'll walk through the door

Grasscut

Yoyo

You change your minds when the wind blows 

Did no one ever tell you know? 

You go up and go down like a yoyo 

You know even the smell you think you know 

You know even the less that you know 

You change your minds when the wind blows 

Follow your lines on the arrows 

Follow a white line to white arrows 

We walk around you in circles 

We stand up on out tip toes 

You go up and go down like a yoyo 

Did no one ever tell you know? 

You change your minds when the wind blows 

You go up and go down like a yoyo 

You change your minds when the wind blows 

Fujiya and Miyagi

Special Death

A terrible mistake was made

The weight would break the backs

Of ten strong horses tried to save

The castle in the fray

If you knew that I could take the pain

Inflicted at the battle

With faithful arrows you

Might get back in the saddle

But it's a special death you saved

For me, the brown-eyed daughter

Once you made it hotter

The thankless, holy praise

Is left alone. Why bother

To cast a stone in water?

Mirah