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from Porcupine Tree 7집 - In Absentia (2002)
Black the sky, weapons fly
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
Stranded here on planet earth It's not much but it could be worse Everything's free here, there's no crowds Winter lasted five long years No sun will come again I fear Chemical harvest was sown And I will wait for you Until the sky is blue And I will wait for you What else can I do? A spaceship from another star They ask me where all the people are What can I tell them? I tell them I'm the only one There was a war but I must have won Please take me with you. |
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from Japan - Assemblage (1992)
The sidewalk's trading love
As subway lights grow brighter We're just another hype But the pressure's getting harder Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up Take it much higher A lovers' etiquette Make love on first impression And adolescent sex with juvenile intentions Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Well, the lady buys a thrill Excitement in succession But a heartache won't partake In articulate obsession Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Oh yeah! Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Oh, well, pretty things at rest No courtesy surprising For love is heaven blessed All catastrophies denying Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Aw, when you're out on the street With your lovers infections Counting possibilities by elimination And your body's still damp From your one-room apartment And your heartache remains, when Love's not the antidote You'll submerge again Emerge again Just get off the street! Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher |
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from Japan - In Vogue (1999)
The sidewalk's trading love
As subway lights grow brighter We're just another hype But the pressure's getting harder Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up Take it much higher A lovers' etiquette Make love on first impression And adolescent sex with juvenile intentions Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Well, the lady buys a thrill Excitement in succession But a heartache won't partake In articulate obsession Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Oh yeah! Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Oh, well, pretty things at rest No courtesy surprising For love is heaven blessed All catastrophies denying Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Aw, when you're out on the street With your lovers infections Counting possibilities by elimination And your body's still damp From your one-room apartment And your heartache remains, when Love's not the antidote You'll submerge again Emerge again Just get off the street! Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher |
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from Japan - Adolescent Sex (2004)
The sidewalk's trading love
As subway lights grow brighter We're just another hype But the pressure's getting harder Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up Take it much higher A lovers' etiquette Make love on first impression And adolescent sex with juvenile intentions Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Well, the lady buys a thrill Excitement in succession But a heartache won't partake In articulate obsession Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Oh yeah! Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Oh, well, pretty things at rest No courtesy surprising For love is heaven blessed All catastrophies denying Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Aw, when you're out on the street With your lovers infections Counting possibilities by elimination And your body's still damp From your one-room apartment And your heartache remains, when Love's not the antidote You'll submerge again Emerge again Just get off the street! Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher |
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from Japan - Adolescent Sex (2004)
The sidewalk's trading love
As subway lights grow brighter We're just another hype But the pressure's getting harder Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up Take it much higher A lovers' etiquette Make love on first impression And adolescent sex with juvenile intentions Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Well, the lady buys a thrill Excitement in succession But a heartache won't partake In articulate obsession Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Oh yeah! Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Oh, well, pretty things at rest No courtesy surprising For love is heaven blessed All catastrophies denying Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Aw, when you're out on the street With your lovers infections Counting possibilities by elimination And your body's still damp From your one-room apartment And your heartache remains, when Love's not the antidote You'll submerge again Emerge again Just get off the street! Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher |
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from Japan - Adolescent Sex (2004)
The sidewalk's trading love
As subway lights grow brighter We're just another hype But the pressure's getting harder Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up Take it much higher A lovers' etiquette Make love on first impression And adolescent sex with juvenile intentions Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Well, the lady buys a thrill Excitement in succession But a heartache won't partake In articulate obsession Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Oh yeah! Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Oh, well, pretty things at rest No courtesy surprising For love is heaven blessed All catastrophies denying Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Aw, when you're out on the street With your lovers infections Counting possibilities by elimination And your body's still damp From your one-room apartment And your heartache remains, when Love's not the antidote You'll submerge again Emerge again Just get off the street! Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Just keep on dancing Whatever gets you through the night Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher Get on up, get on up, get on up Take it much higher |
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from Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980)
You do me wrong but I'm still crazy 'bout you
Stay away too long and I can't live without you Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more But each hurt just makes my love stronger than before I know that flowers grow to rain But how can love grow to pain? Ain't that peculiar, a peculiarity Ain't that peculiar, peculiar as can be You tell me lies that you'll be honest to me But I'm so much in love that I don't see that The things you do and say are designed to make me blue It's a doggone shame my love that your lies seem true If the truth makes love last longer Why do lies make love last stronger? Ain't that peculiar, a peculiarity Ain't that peculiar, peculiar as can be Oh I've cried so much just like a child that's lost his toy Maybe baby you think these tears I cry are tears of joy A child can cry so much and still do anything you say Well, I'm like a child my tears don't help me get my way I know that love can last through years But how can love last through tears? Ain't that peculiar, a peculiarity Ain't that peculiar, peculiar as can be |
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from Japan - Quiet Life (1979)
Everything's neat and compact
There's not much to shout about But winter is breaking inside of me Now life is so incomplete But you're one of the boys again But is that all you want to be? Now that you feel the weather Was it all in vain? Now that we're together We seem so alien Slowly descend from heaven Anyway we turn we win But how can you always be so sure? Nightporters sleep on weekdays Living a lifetime too Walking away without a cure Now that you feel the weather Was it all in vain? Now that we're together We seem so alien The noise on the stairs disturbs me Somebody walks my way But can you rely on everything I feel? Driving through endless buildings The desert is so serene But Mondays were never really my ideal Now that you feel the weather Was it all in vain? Now that we're together We seem so alien |
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from Japan - In Vogue (1999)
Everything's neat and compact
There's not much to shout about But winter is breaking inside of me Now life is so incomplete But you're one of the boys again But is that all you want to be? Now that you feel the weather Was it all in vain? Now that we're together We seem so alien Slowly descend from heaven Anyway we turn we win But how can you always be so sure? Nightporters sleep on weekdays Living a lifetime too Walking away without a cure Now that you feel the weather Was it all in vain? Now that we're together We seem so alien The noise on the stairs disturbs me Somebody walks my way But can you rely on everything I feel? Driving through endless buildings The desert is so serene But Mondays were never really my ideal Now that you feel the weather Was it all in vain? Now that we're together We seem so alien |
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from Japan - Quiet Life (1979)
And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties A hand-me-down dress from who knows where To all tomorrow's parties Where will she go What shall she do When midnight comes around She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown And cry behind the door And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties The silken trimmings of yesterday's gown To all tomorrow's parties What shall she do With Thursday's rags When Monday comes around She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown And cry behind the door And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties Thursday's child is Sunday's clown From whom no-one ever borrows A blackened shroud A hand-me-down gown of rags and silks her costume Fit for one who sits and cries For all tomorrow's parties |
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from Japan - Assemblage (1992)
And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties A hand-me-down dress from who knows where To all tomorrow's parties Where will she go What shall she do When midnight comes around She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown And cry behind the door And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties The silken trimmings of yesterday's gown To all tomorrow's parties What shall she do With Thursday's rags When Monday comes around She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown And cry behind the door And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties Thursday's child is Sunday's clown From whom no-one ever borrows A blackened shroud A hand-me-down gown of rags and silks her costume Fit for one who sits and cries For all tomorrow's parties |
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from Japan - In Vogue (1999)
And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties A hand-me-down dress from who knows where To all tomorrow's parties Where will she go What shall she do When midnight comes around She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown And cry behind the door And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties The silken trimmings of yesterday's gown To all tomorrow's parties What shall she do With Thursday's rags When Monday comes around She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown And cry behind the door And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties Thursday's child is Sunday's clown From whom no-one ever borrows A blackened shroud A hand-me-down gown of rags and silks her costume Fit for one who sits and cries For all tomorrow's parties |
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from Porcupine Tree 9집 - Fear Of A Blank Planet (2007)
A good impression
Of myself Not much to conceal I'm saying nothing But I'm saying Nothing with feel I simply am not here No way I... Shut up, be happy Stop whining, please And because of who we are We react in mock surprise The curse of "There must be more" So don't breathe here Don't leave your bags I simply am not here No way I... Shut up, be happy Stop whining, please The dust in my soul makes me feel the weight in my legs My head in the clouds, and I'm zoning out I'm watching TV, but I find it hard to stay conscious I'm totally bored, but I can't switch off Only apathy from the pills in me It's all in me, all in you Electricity from the pills in me It's all in me, all in you Only MTV and cod philosophy We're lost in the mall, shuffling through the stores like zombies Well, what is the point? What can money buy? My hands on a gun, and I find the range, God, tempt me Well, what did you say? Think I'm passing out Only apathy from the pills in me It's all in me, all in you Electricity from the pills in me It's all in me, all in you Only MTV and cod philosophy Water so warm that day I counted out the waves As they broke into shore I smiled into the Sun The water so warm that day I was counting out the waves And I followed their short life As they broke on the shoreline I could see you But I couldn't hear you You were holding your hat in the breeze Turning away from me In this moment, you were stolen There's black across the Sun Water so warm that day I counted out the waves As they broke into shore I smiled into the Sun |
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from Porcupine Tree 8집 - Deadwing (2005)
Never stop the car on a drive in the dark
Never look for the truth in your mother's eyes Never trust the sound of rain upon a river rushing Through your ears Arriving somewhere but not here Could you imagine the final sound as a gun Or the smashing windscreen of a car? Did you ever imagine the last thing you'd hear as you're fading out Was a song? Arriving somewhere but not here [Chorus:] All my designs, simplified And all of my plans, compromised And all of my dreams, sacrificed Ever had the feeling you've been here before? Drinking down the poison the way you were taught Ever thought from here on in your life begins And all you knew was wrong? Arriving somewhere but not here All my designs, simplified And all of my plans, compromised And all of my dreams... Did you see the redness block your part? Did the scissors cut a way to your heart? Did you feel the end before the suns of mothers Tearing you apart? Arriving somewhere but not here |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
I am - in my pram Look you - I'm so new I am - sleeping there Underneath the stairs If you - wanted to You'd find - inside my mind Things so surreal My lips are sealed In the rain in cellphane Pale dogs and demigods They won't bring me down The clocks go round, they never stop I've been - in limousines I've nseen - inside your dreams It's raining there Try not to stare |
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from Porcupine Tree 10집 - The Incident (2009)
You have no interest in the past
Where you came from Where you're going to There's a cliche in your eye File the edges down Soon be underground There's nothing here for you under the sun There's nothing new to do, it's all been done So put your faith in another place Never seem to get away from this It's all fallen into an abyss So put your foot on the pedal boy All you know is secondhand Will it pass through The cage inside you? You stole the only thing you love So unfaithful |
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from Porcupine Tree 7집 - In Absentia (2002)
A mother sings a lullaby to a child
Sometime in the future the boy goes wild And all his nerves are feeling some kind of energy A walk in the woods and I will try Something under the trees that made you cry It's so erotic when your make-up runs I got wiring loose inside my head I got books that I never ever read I got secrets in my garden shed I got a scar where all my urges bled I got people underneath my bed I got a place where all my dreams are dead Swim with me into your blackest eyes A few minutes with me inside my van Should be so beautiful if we can I'm feeling something taking over me |
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from Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes (2003)
A mother sings a lullaby to a child
Sometime in the future the boy goes wild And all his nerves are feeling some kind of energy A walk in the woods and I will try Something under the trees that made you cry It's so erotic when your make-up runs I got wiring loose inside my head I got books that I never ever read I got secrets in my garden shed I got a scar where all my urges bled I got people underneath my bed I got a place where all my dreams are dead Swim with me into your blackest eyes A few minutes with me inside my van Should be so beautiful if we can I'm feeling something taking over me |
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from Porcupine Tree 10집 - The Incident (2009)
Can't feel the pain that I expected
I still place keys in the ignition I know what will be One thought is stopping me from sleeping I saw the future and it's breeding I know what will be Could be your last resort Like gold against your soul There are three things that I would die for But I am sure you're not one of them I know what will be Could be your last resort Like gold against your soul (whispered: You think you've got it all wrapped up now You stumble on so unsuspecting I know what will be) I hold your birth control to ransom The cells divide and grow inside you I know what will be I know what will be I know what will be |
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from Porcupine Tree 4집 - Signify (1996)
We invite you, wherever you are ? whether you are at home or whatever ? to kick your shoes off and put your feet up and lean back and get yourself a cup of coffee or something, and just relax and join us in enjoying some very quietened, romantic and relaxed music for a couple of hours.
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from Japan - Tin Drum (1981)
We're pushing through these farming towns
We worked hard ploughing over ground Red army calls you the call of the crowd Red army needs you they call you now Cantonese boy Bang your tin drum Cantonese boy Civilian soldier Cantonese boy Bang your tin drum Cantonese boy Red army calls you home We're singing marching through the hills We're changing the lives we've led for years Red army calls you the call of the crowd Red army needs you they call you now Cantonese boy Bang your tin drum Cantonese boy Civilian soldier Cantonese boy Bang your tin drum Cantonese boy Red army calls you home Red army calls you Red army needs you Gentlemen you heard us call Raised your glass and called for more Only young men broke the wall |
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from Japan - Oil On Canvas (1983)
We're pushing through these farming towns
We worked hard ploughing over ground Red army calls you the call of the crowd Red army needs you they call you now Cantonese boy Bang your tin drum Cantonese boy Civilian soldier Cantonese boy Bang your tin drum Cantonese boy Red army calls you home We're singing marching through the hills We're changing the lives we've led for years Red army calls you the call of the crowd Red army needs you they call you now Cantonese boy Bang your tin drum Cantonese boy Civilian soldier Cantonese boy Bang your tin drum Cantonese boy Red army calls you home Red army calls you Red army needs you Gentlemen you heard us call Raised your glass and called for more Only young men broke the wall |
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from Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring [ep] (2007)
> Lying through my teeth again
I've been bad again, black lies Skirting round the truth again To escape the look in your eyes Cover up the facts again With the money men, disguise Losing my integrity Well it's lost to me, I don't mind Feel my soul going Feel my soul colder Blackening my soul again With another lie, it's my style Burying my face again God I'm so ashamed, this time Feel my soul going Feel my soul colder. |
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from Porcupine Tree 7집 - In Absentia (2002)
I won't shiver in the cold
I won't let the shadows take their toll I won't cover my head in the dark And I won't forget you when we part Collapse the Light Into Earth I won't heal given time I won't try to change your mind I won't feel better in the cold light of day But I wouldn't stop you if you wanted to stay Collapse the Light Into Earth |
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from Japan - Assemblage (1992)
Your skin a white stained sensation
Clinical bodies won't do And as we're pumping, pumping and resisting Inserting love into you Communist China Take me to heaven Somebody wrong We'll throw glass in your face Call it new propaganda Still, we've been waiting for so long I'll take you out in the moonlight Oblique horizons won't do The knife in your fist Is breaking up the white walls Here's penetration for you Face-to-face confrontation Personal problems for you And conversation's getting far too vicious Impersonation won't do |
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from Japan - Adolescent Sex (2004)
Your skin a white stained sensation
Clinical bodies won't do And as we're pumping, pumping and resisting Inserting love into you Communist China Take me to heaven Somebody wrong We'll throw glass in your face Call it new propaganda Still, we've been waiting for so long I'll take you out in the moonlight Oblique horizons won't do The knife in your fist Is breaking up the white walls Here's penetration for you Face-to-face confrontation Personal problems for you And conversation's getting far too vicious Impersonation won't do |
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from Japan - Adolescent Sex (2004)
Your skin a white stained sensation
Clinical bodies won't do And as we're pumping, pumping and resisting Inserting love into you Communist China Take me to heaven Somebody wrong We'll throw glass in your face Call it new propaganda Still, we've been waiting for so long I'll take you out in the moonlight Oblique horizons won't do The knife in your fist Is breaking up the white walls Here's penetration for you Face-to-face confrontation Personal problems for you And conversation's getting far too vicious Impersonation won't do |
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from Porcupine Tree 8집 - Deadwing (2005)
And something warm and soft just passed through here
It took the precious things that I hold dearer It rifled through the grey and disappeared The creeping darkness makes the small hours clearer Like a cancer scare In the dentist's chair Sucking in the air Wire across the stair Kicking down the door At your local store With the world at war Voices through the floor Unexpected news Wearing high heeled shoes Blowing out the fuse Paying all your dues Deadwing lullaby Like a fracture tied It's a worthless lie To the public eye I don't take waifs and strays back home with me My bleeding heart does not extend to charity Yes I'd have to say I like my privacy And did you know you're on closed circuit TV? So smile at me And a dream you had Of your mum and dad On a beach somewhere And the poison air With the cancer threat In a cigarette Deadwing lullaby Find a place to hide And from the yellow windows of the last train A spectre from the next life breathes his fog on the pane I look with you into the speeding black rain Afraid to touch someone, afraid to ask her for her name And in the morning when I find I have lost you I throw a window open wide and step through |
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from Japan - Quiet Life (1979)
Doucement, ne les derangez pas
Il y a des gens qui vivent comme ca Les artistes de demain En desespoir agreable (Translation) Quietly, now, don't disturb them There are people who live like that The artists of tomorrow In pleasant despair |
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from Porcupine Tree 3집 - The Sky Moves Sideways (1995)
A dislocated day
Peers in to the ether Counts the stars inside the sky And flies in to the never Looped around my eyelids A thousand shining flecks Pale against the canvas Which hangs around my neck Dislocated day I will find a way To make you say The name of your forgiver Stood beside an inlet A starfish leads a dance It dreams it is a human And falls into a trance A hole inside my body Is wired up to a charge Chemical imbalance Tells me who you are Insects hide the silence November brings deep rain Between the flow to freezing And yesterday's sustain |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
A light snow is falling on London All sign of the living has gone The train pulls into the stations And no-one gets off and no-one gets on Don't hate me I'm not special like you I'm tired and I'm so alone Don't fight me I know you'll never care Can I call you on the telephone, now and then? One light burns in a window It guides all the shadows below Inside the ghost of a parting And no-one is left, just the cigarette smoke |
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from Porcupine Tree 10집 - The Incident (2009)
Drawing the Line - Porcupine Tree Camphor crossed with lace, it is the witching hour Cinematic but crude Teasing all my feelings out, you move away It seems so natural to you Still siren, climbing up the victory tower Like there's something left to prove I trap the beads of sweat that run between my eyes And free the fever to move I'm drawing the line, I'm drawing the line I'm drawing the line, I draw the line And I have my pride I'm taking control, I'm taking control I'm taking control, I'm taking control And I save my soul I'm shutting you out, I'm shutting you out I'm shutting you out, I'm shutting you out And I have no doubt Dreamt the sound of scissors, cutting stitches out Then discarding the used Recording all my problems onto memory cards Your compassion unmoved Onto others what they always do to you The most twisted of your rules Distill malaise and photograph the hole it leaves Running out a copy for you I'm drawing the line, I'm drawing the line I'm drawing the line, I draw the line And I have my pride I'm taking control, I'm taking control I'm taking control, I'm taking control And I save my soul I'm shutting you out, I'm shutting you out I'm shutting you out, I'm shutting you out And I have no doubt |
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from Japan - Assemblage (1992)
Scurrying across the broadwalk
Some places I tend to forget Echoings deep in my throat It's so cold in this luncheonette, well Somebody wants to know you An ordinary boy Somebody wants to know you A standard polaroid, well Here I am European son Sometimes the passenger European son Here I am Suffragettes in Washington Disposable serviettes Searching for the quiet life There's no love in this luncheonette, well |
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from Japan - In Vogue (1999)
Scurrying across the broadwalk
Some places I tend to forget Echoings deep in my throat It's so cold in this luncheonette, well Somebody wants to know you An ordinary boy Somebody wants to know you A standard polaroid, well Here I am European son Sometimes the passenger European son Here I am Suffragettes in Washington Disposable serviettes Searching for the quiet life There's no love in this luncheonette, well |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 5집 - Stupid Dream (1999)
A body is washed up on a Norfolk beach He was a friend that I could not reach He thought I was cold but I understand But for the grace of god goes another man And I may just waste away from doing nothing But I'm a martyr to even less A choirboy is buried on the moors Where we used to go dreaming when we were bored So some kids are best left to fend for themselves And others were born to stack shelves And I may just waste away from doing nothing But I'm a martyr to even less |
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from Porcupine Tree 4집 - Signify (1996)
Modem load and failsafe
Electric teenage dust Hit the solvent keypad Start the neural rust Power on the highway Data in my head Surfing on the network Part of me is dead Every Home is Wired Swimming in the circuit Somebody has expired This world will be the future Every home is wired |
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from Japan - Quiet Life (1979)
A summerhouse in Texas
Searching for Siberia Pioneering underground We looked a lot like you Now work is done, the table set Deliver insufficient sound Oh my, fall in love with me Oh my, fall in love with me Cross military lines Nobody would believe us now The weather working with us We looked a lot like you Now every boy's a refugee Living for the moment Through the shrieking wails Trans-European overseas Silently leaving Amsterdam We looked a lot like you Shy away from standard life Each bitter moment lingers on |
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from Japan - In Vogue (1999)
A summerhouse in Texas
Searching for Siberia Pioneering underground We looked a lot like you Now work is done, the table set Deliver insufficient sound Oh my, fall in love with me Oh my, fall in love with me Cross military lines Nobody would believe us now The weather working with us We looked a lot like you Now every boy's a refugee Living for the moment Through the shrieking wails Trans-European overseas Silently leaving Amsterdam We looked a lot like you Shy away from standard life Each bitter moment lingers on |
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from Porcupine Tree 9집 - Fear Of A Blank Planet (2007)
Sunlight coming through the haze No gaps in the blind To let it inside The bed is unmade Some music still plays TV, yeah it's always on The flicker of the screen A movie actress screams I'm basking in the shit flowing out of it I'm stoned in the mall again Terminally bored Shuffling round the stores And shoplifting is getting so last year's thing X-box is a god to me A finger on the switch My mother is a bitch My father gave up ever trying to talk to me Don't try engaging me The vaguest of shrugs The prescription drugs You'll never find A person inside My face is mogadon Curiosity Has given up on me I'm tuning out desires The pills are on the rise How can I be sure I'm here? The pills that I've been taking confuse me I need to know that someone sees that There's nothing left I simply am not here I'm through with pornography The acting is lame The action is tame Explicitly dull arousal annulled Your mouth should be boarded up Talking all day With nothing to say Your shallow proclamations All misinformation My friend says he wants to die He's in a band They sound like Pearl Jam The clothes are all black The music is crap In school I don't concentrate And sex is kinda fun But just another one Of all the empty ways Of using up a day How can I be sure I'm here? The pills that I've been taking confuse me I need to know that someone sees that There's nothing left I simply am not here Bipolar disorder Can't deal with the boredom You don't try to be liked You don't mind You feel no sun You steal a gun To kill time You're somewhere, you're nowhere You don't care You catch the breeze You still the leaves So now where? |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
So see how long I can last You can pretend that I don't exist for you And I can laugh about it now But I hated every minute I was waiting for your email And each day that you forgot to call Just made me feel so low So low Christmas 1998 I tried to call I just couldn't wait And your message was out of date So I left my voice on your machine But you did not respond OK OK OK you've won You make me feel so low So low |
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from Porcupine Tree 10집 - The Incident (2009)
Nothing is new here underneath the sun
All of the big new charlatans will sneer at us Barely a flicker of the light to come Only the people who always think they know best Nothing is new here underneath the sun All of the big new charlatans will sneer at us Barely a flicker of the light to come Only the people who always think they know best |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
Six of one a half a dozen Black guitars and plastic blues Hide behind a wall of nothing Nothing said and nothing new 4 Chords that made a million You belong there on the cover You are the emperor in new clothes A man who thinks he owns the future Will sell your vacuum with his prose 4 Chords that made a million And then a moron with a cheque book Will take you out to lunch who knows ? He will tell you you're a saviour And then he'll drop you like a stone 4 Chords that made a million And I have tried and I have died Trying to get through But in the end I can't defend you. 4 Chords that made a million |
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from Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980)
Now there's a girl about town I'd like to know
I'd like to slip away with you And if you said you love me how could I mind? Is there another side to everything you do? Take in the country air You'll never win Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Breathe life into me Spin me round And I'll just sit and wonder why Just a foreign town with a foreign mind Why is everything so cut and dried? The taste of country air you'll never know Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Take in the country, ah you'll never win Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love |
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from Japan - Oil On Canvas (1983)
Now there's a girl about town I'd like to know
I'd like to slip away with you And if you said you love me how could I mind? Is there another side to everything you do? Take in the country air You'll never win Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Breathe life into me Spin me round And I'll just sit and wonder why Just a foreign town with a foreign mind Why is everything so cut and dried? The taste of country air you'll never know Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Take in the country, ah you'll never win Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love |
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from Japan - Exorcising Ghosts (1994)
Now there's a girl about town I'd like to know
I'd like to slip away with you And if you said you love me how could I mind? Is there another side to everything you do? Take in the country air You'll never win Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Breathe life into me Spin me round And I'll just sit and wonder why Just a foreign town with a foreign mind Why is everything so cut and dried? The taste of country air you'll never know Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Take in the country, ah you'll never win Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love they fall in love |
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from Japan - Tin Drum (1981)
When the room is quiet
The daylight almost gone It seems there's something I should know Well I ought to leave but The rain it never stops And I have no particular place to go Just when I think I'm winning When I've broken every door The ghosts of my life Blow wilder than before Just when I thought I could not be stopped When my chance came to be king The ghosts of my life Blew wilder than the wind Well I'm feeling nervous And I find myself alone The simple life's no longer there Once I was so sure Now the doubt inside my mind Comes and goes but leads nowhere Just when I think I'm winning When I've broken every door The ghosts of my life Blow wilder than before Just when I thought I could not be stopped When my chance came to be king The ghosts of my life Blew wilder than the wind |
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from Japan - Oil On Canvas (1983)
When the room is quiet
The daylight almost gone It seems there's something I should know Well I ought to leave but The rain it never stops And I have no particular place to go Just when I think I'm winning When I've broken every door The ghosts of my life Blow wilder than before Just when I thought I could not be stopped When my chance came to be king The ghosts of my life Blew wilder than the wind Well I'm feeling nervous And I find myself alone The simple life's no longer there Once I was so sure Now the doubt inside my mind Comes and goes but leads nowhere Just when I think I'm winning When I've broken every door The ghosts of my life Blow wilder than before Just when I thought I could not be stopped When my chance came to be king The ghosts of my life Blew wilder than the wind |
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from Japan - Exorcising Ghosts (1994)
When the room is quiet
The daylight almost gone It seems there's something I should know Well I ought to leave but The rain it never stops And I have no particular place to go Just when I think I'm winning When I've broken every door The ghosts of my life Blow wilder than before Just when I thought I could not be stopped When my chance came to be king The ghosts of my life Blew wilder than the wind Well I'm feeling nervous And I find myself alone The simple life's no longer there Once I was so sure Now the doubt inside my mind Comes and goes but leads nowhere Just when I think I'm winning When I've broken every door The ghosts of my life Blow wilder than before Just when I thought I could not be stopped When my chance came to be king The ghosts of my life Blew wilder than the wind |
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from Porcupine Tree 8집 - Deadwing (2005)
Feeling are you touching?
Feeling are you blind? Feeling are you touching? Feeling all your love Seen it though a windscreen Seen it through the clouds Seen it in a pantry Seen it in your heart Feeling are you touching? Feeling all your love Feeling are you touching? Feeling all your love |
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from Porcupine Tree 7집 - In Absentia (2002)
Open your eyes now
Hear me out before I lose my mind I've been waiting for hours Let the salt flow, feel my coil unwind Give me a smile please Count the calm and watch my breathing slow Winding me up tease Get inside my head and make it show Gravity eyelids come down Touching your oil skin Slipping hands down past your waist to find I've been waiting for hours Let the salt flow, feel my coil unwind Go to the edge swim Brown the eyes that sleep has rendered blind 1. Gravity eyelids come down 2. Come love so young with your gold arms so I wake her 3. Here's a will that will glow in the dark - |
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from Porcupine Tree 10집 - The Incident (2009)
A summer day
In garlands I feel secure A useless faith That I will get you, somehow Reach out, I wonder where you are now Hey, there's you With placid eyes Oblivious to what's to come They locked you up So I forgot you Forgot your name, so strange I wonder if you got out |
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from Japan - Quiet Life (1979)
The cottage is windswept
Now there's only sorrow here Follow evacuation signs You're detached and broken and so sentimental now Remembering how we passed our time Somebody waits for me Far beyond our halloween Germanic forces marching on concrete squares Our love is just defenceless sound And could we believe that all you said was true We would be so determined now Slowly emerging Dividing Germany Everyone's lost in East Berlin Only believing just what you want to hear We're waiting at stations once again |
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from Japan - In Vogue (1999)
The cottage is windswept
Now there's only sorrow here Follow evacuation signs You're detached and broken and so sentimental now Remembering how we passed our time Somebody waits for me Far beyond our halloween Germanic forces marching on concrete squares Our love is just defenceless sound And could we believe that all you said was true We would be so determined now Slowly emerging Dividing Germany Everyone's lost in East Berlin Only believing just what you want to hear We're waiting at stations once again |
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from Porcupine Tree 8집 - Deadwing (2005)
God is in my fingers
God is in my head God is in the trigger God is in the lead God is freedom, God is truth God is power and God is proof God is fashion, God is fame God gives meaning, God gives pain You can be right like me With God in the hole you're a righteous soul I got a halo 'round me, I got a halo 'round me I'm not the same as you 'Cause I've seen the light and I'm gaining in height now I got a halo 'round me, I got a halo 'round me I got a halo 'round my head God is on the cellphone God is on the net God is in the warning God is in the threat God is freedom, God is truth For God is power, God is proof God is fashion, God is fame God gives meaning, God gives pain You can be right like me With God in the hole you're a righteous soul I got a halo 'round me, I got a halo 'round me I'm not the same as you 'Cause I've seen the light and I'm gaining in height now I got a halo 'round me, I got a halo 'round me ('Cause I've got a halo 'round my head) I got a halo 'round my head You can be like me With God in the hole you're a righteous soul I got a halo 'round me, I got a halo 'round me I'm not the same as you 'Cause I've seen the light and I'm gaining in height now I got a halo 'round me, I got a halo 'round me I got a halo 'round my head 'Cause I've got a halo 'round my head |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
This is a hate song just meant for you I thought that I'd write it down while I still could I hope when you hear this you'll want to sue Oh it's a lonely life in my empty bed And it's a quiet life that leaks from my head These are the last rites The line is dead Yes, I'm hearing voices too And I'm more cut up than you |
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from Porcupine Tree 7집 - In Absentia (2002)
I pull off the road
East of Baldock and Ashford Feeling for my cell In the light from the dashboard Hissing from the road The smell of rain in the air con Maybe check the news Or just put a tape on Lighting up a smoke I've got this feeling inside me Don't feel too good If I close my eyes And fell asleep in this layby Would it all subside The fever pushing the day by Motor window wind I could do with some fresh air Can't breathe too well (She waits for me. Home waits for me.) I guess I should go now She's waiting to make up To tell me she's sorry And how much she missed me I guess I'm just burnt out I really should slow down I'm perfectly fine but I just need to lie down We'll grow old together We'll grow old together We'll grow old together.... |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
The letters pile up in the hallway
Junk mail and bills from the catalogues And the neighbours have guessed 'Cos I've cancelled the milk And they don't hear your voice Through the walls anymore How is your life today? How is your life today? I was kissed on the cheek by a cold mouth While the taxi was waiting like a getaway car Each second seems like a lifetime And the cat it's been staring at me all this time La la la la la la, la la la la la la... How is your life today? How is your life today? |
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from Porcupine Tree 10집 - The Incident (2009)
When this freedom stains my coat
With the winter in my throat When I'm lost I dig the dirt When I fall I drive the hearse And silence is another way Of saying what I wanna say And lying is another way Of hoping it will go away And you were always my mistake... Given time I fix the roof Given cash I speak the truth And silence is another way Of saying what I wanna say And lying is another way Of hoping it will go away And you were always my mistake... When I'm down I drive the hearse When this boredom wears me out Then the sky begins to cloud Sleeping with my ball and chain When she cries I take the blame And pride is just another way Of trying to live with my mistakes Denial is a better way Of getting through another day And silence is another way Of saying what I wanna say And lying is another way Of hoping it will go away And you we're always my mistake... When I'm down I drive the hearse |
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from Japan - Assemblage (1992)
Maybe you want to give me kisses sweet
But only for one night with no repeat Maybe you'll go away and never call And a taste of honey is worse than none at all Oh little girl In that case I don't want no part I do believe that would only break my heart So if you feel like loving me If you've got that notion I second that emotion So if you feel like giving me A life-time of devotion I second that emotion Maybe you think that love will tie you down And you don't seem to like to hang around Or maybe you think thot love was made for fools So it makes you wise to break the rules I second that emotion I second that emotion I second that emotion (Oh little girl) |
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from Japan - In Vogue (1999)
Maybe you want to give me kisses sweet
But only for one night with no repeat Maybe you'll go away and never call And a taste of honey is worse than none at all Oh little girl In that case I don't want no part I do believe that would only break my heart So if you feel like loving me If you've got that notion I second that emotion So if you feel like giving me A life-time of devotion I second that emotion Maybe you think that love will tie you down And you don't seem to like to hang around Or maybe you think thot love was made for fools So it makes you wise to break the rules I second that emotion I second that emotion I second that emotion (Oh little girl) |
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from Japan - Quiet Life (1979)
Before the light of day reveals itself
I assured she won't forget But still I will console myself Should I lose something I could regret But now she turns to leave Exactly like she used to do Did nobody warn you boy Love's in vogue again my love Did nobody tell you girl Love's in vogue again my love Before the light of day I awake She's clearly not herself today Across a crowded room life begins Before the moment drifts away How bitter the morning feels Exactly like it ought to do |
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from Japan - In Vogue (1999)
Before the light of day reveals itself
I assured she won't forget But still I will console myself Should I lose something I could regret But now she turns to leave Exactly like she used to do Did nobody warn you boy Love's in vogue again my love Did nobody tell you girl Love's in vogue again my love Before the light of day I awake She's clearly not herself today Across a crowded room life begins Before the moment drifts away How bitter the morning feels Exactly like it ought to do |
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(Written by Wilson, Barbieri, Edwin and Maitland)
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from Porcupine Tree 10집 - The Incident (2009)
Kneel and disconnect
And waste another year Fill the application Start a new career Kneel and disconnect And waste another year Fill the application Start a new career |
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
If you fall asleep with me
You can dream and drowse The miuntes turn to hours We could climb a tree or two And watch the sun go down Upon our sleepy town After all the time I spent with you Summer went away And we just weren't the same It's just you and me alone Not grown ups but not kids You kissed me on the lips [instrumental] |
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from Porcupine Tree 8집 - Deadwing (2005)
As the cheerless towns pass my window
I can see a washed out moon through the fog And then a voice inside my head breaks the analogue And says "Follow me down to the valley below You know Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul" I survived against the will of my twisted folk But in the deafness of my world the silence broke And said "Follow me down to the valley below You know Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul" "My David don't you worry This cold world is not for you So rest your head upon me I have strength to carry you" (Ghosts of the twenties rising Golden summers just holding you) "Follow me down to the valley below You know Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul Come to us Lazarus It's time for you to go" |
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from Japan - Quiet Life (1979)
There's always something left inside him
I've really nothing much to lose It seems so sentimental Why should I care? Somewhere there's a sound of distant living Locked up in high society It seems so artificial Why should I care? Oh ho ho Life can be cruel Life in Tokyo Oh ho ho Life can be cruel Life in Tokyo Another vehicle heads for sunset No other providence will do They're only buildings and houses Why should I care Oh ho ho Life can be cruel Life in Tokyo Oh ho ho Life can be cruel Life in Tokyo |
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from Japan - Assemblage (1992)
There's always something left inside him
I've really nothing much to lose It seems so sentimental Why should I care? Somewhere there's a sound of distant living Locked up in high society It seems so artificial Why should I care? Oh ho ho Life can be cruel Life in Tokyo Oh ho ho Life can be cruel Life in Tokyo Another vehicle heads for sunset No other providence will do They're only buildings and houses Why should I care Oh ho ho Life can be cruel Life in Tokyo Oh ho ho Life can be cruel Life in Tokyo |
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from Japan - In Vogue (1999)
There's always something left inside him
I've really nothing much to lose It seems so sentimental Why should I care? Somewhere there's a sound of distant living Locked up in high society It seems so artificial Why should I care? Oh ho ho Life can be cruel Life in Tokyo Oh ho ho Life can be cruel Life in Tokyo Another vehicle heads for sunset No other providence will do They're only buildings and houses Why should I care Oh ho ho Life can be cruel Life in Tokyo Oh ho ho Life can be cruel Life in Tokyo |
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from Japan - Exorcising Ghosts (1994)
I see nothing
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from Porcupine Tree, Porcupine Tree 6집 - Lightblub Sun (2000)
The quickest album we ever made (in 3 months flat and within only a few months of the release of the previous one) and we all feel our best work to date. Although superficially it seems to be a continuation of "Stupid Dream" it is a much more intense work - possibly less immediate, but ultimately more rewarding. Lyrically I arrived at a point where I was no longer interested in writing about abstract concepts like war, religion, space...etc... These are very personal and emotionally raw songs. It took me a long time to have the confidence and experience to be able to write them and some of them are dripping with negative emotions (Hatesong and Feel So Low particularly). Feel So Low pleased me a lot as I resisted the temptation to refine the original stream of consciousness words and left the nerve ends dangling. Musically we wanted to bring back some of the experimental aspects that had been to some degree lost on "Stupid Dream". Richard and I worked on creating some unique keyboard sounds for the album - e.g. the "fairground" on "How is Your Life Today ?" and the "insects" at the end of "Russia On Ice". There was also an influence from industrial and metal music coming through (we'd all been listening to Nine Inch Nails "The Fragile") - for example part of the beauty of the guitar solo on Where We Would Be (my favourite solo of mine to date) comes from the fact that it was played relatively straight but then fed through so many distortion and lo-fi processes that it began to fizz and disintegrate. The riffing guitars on Russia On Ice are pure metal and one of the solos of Hatesong I call my "Korn solo" on account of the fact that the bottom strings on the guitar are tuned down so low that the notes can be bent several tones. On the other hand there is a whole set of songs where the pastoral sound of long-gone English summers exerts it's influence on me (not for the first time). In a song like "Winding Shot" there are shades of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Nick Drake, although the end result is hopefully pure Porcupine Tree. This effect is accentuated by the fact that many of the instruments and vocals on the album are much more up front and given less of a sheen than on "Stupid Dream" (where the "stadium" production is I think the weakest aspect). Organic is the word I like to use. As we had on "Stupid Dream" we expanded our musical colours to include things like banjo, hammered dulcimer, the string arrangements of Dave Gregory and several African and Morrocan instruments that Colin brought back from his travels. To date it's the only album we've made that I still rated highly by the time we'd finished it - even the B-sides and leftovers seemed too good not to be on an album, but we were determined to keep the album below the one hour mark. The only point of contention was the inclusion of the song "The Rest Will Flow". Some of the band didn't really want it on the record, but it sounded so much like possible single that it seemed perverse not to include it. Favourite tracks - "How is Your Life Today ?", "Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth..." and "Feel So Low" (plus most of the others to be honest). Steven Wilson Although it appears to be a continuation of sorts from "Stupid Dream" there are quite obvious differences as well. Certainly on the production side there is a more intense and upfront sound apparent. Also parts of the arrangements are stripped down to the bare essentials. Steven's lyrics became more personal and less ambiguous and so the arrangements by definition became more stripped down and more direct. Much of my keyboard experimenting took place on tracks like "Russia On Ice", "Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth...", "Feel so Low" and "4 Chords That Made a Million"", while other tracks didn't seem to need a great deal of keyboards. I'm not one for playing all over a track if I can't see a genuine need for it. For me this album has an honesty and emotion that places it above all the other Porcupine Tree albums, although I would also say that not every track is as strong as some individual tracks on past albums. My favourites are "Russia On Ice" and "Feel So Low". Richard Barbieri |
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from Porcupine Tree 7집 - In Absentia (2002)
Paralysed
Lips of ashes Synchronised Blue vein crashes Touching you inside Idolised Black eyes fading You and I Connection failing I drill down inside |
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from Japan - In Vogue (1999)
She keeps her patience for the bedroom
Should satisfy her for a week Her domination is executed cheaply With her studio technique What's new? She carries love in a carrier bag What's new? She don't keep her body clean Oh, Oh, Oh Illegitimate contributions And neurotic fantasies conceived Love is infectious I don't know about that Love is infectious I don't know about it She keeps appointments by the hour glass Guerilla warfare in her bed And constant love is oh oh so negative We're simulating sex instead She carries love in a carrier bag She don't keep her body clean Oh, Oh, Oh Illegitimate contributions And neurotic fantasies conceived Love is infectious I don't know about that Love is infectious I don't know about it No personality's essential Nobody strictly in command She's not direct, elusive Or inadequate Love's incompatible commands What's new? She carries love in a carrier bag What's new? She don't keep her body clean Oh, Oh, Oh Illegitimate contributions And neurotic heartaches are conceived Love is infectious I don't know about that Love is infectious I don't know about it |
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from Japan - In Vogue (1999)
Begging, pleading lose your love to me
It's all that I need No fool can ease my heart, my love The way that you do I will follow you Lovers on main street Well, don't forget me when you're laughing Disbelieving in all that I said When you're lying back to back With your problems Satisfaction comes slow You will never know Lovers on main street But if you need somebody to love Think of me But if your time has come Lovers on main street Argumentative, self-conceited You console all the love I possess But you'll conceal your own misfortune Leave heartaches behind You can always find Lovers on main street |
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from Japan - Adolescent Sex (2004)
Begging, pleading lose your love to me
It's all that I need No fool can ease my heart, my love The way that you do I will follow you Lovers on main street Well, don't forget me when you're laughing Disbelieving in all that I said When you're lying back to back With your problems Satisfaction comes slow You will never know Lovers on main street But if you need somebody to love Think of me But if your time has come Lovers on main street Argumentative, self-conceited You console all the love I possess But you'll conceal your own misfortune Leave heartaches behind You can always find Lovers on main street |
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from Porcupine Tree 8집 - Deadwing (2005)
A tiny flame inside my head
A compromise I never planned Unravel out the finest trends And I'm looking at a blank page now Should have filled it up with words somehow I whispered something in her ear I'd bear my soul but she don't hear The scratching of a mellotron It always seemed to make her cry Well maybe she remembers us collecting space up in the sky The scratching of a mellotron It always seemed to make her cry (Nothing rises from ? fingertips, heart it slips) I lay her gently on my clove She will leave me, yes I know And I'm looking at a blank page now Should have filled it up with words somehow The scratching of a mellotron It always seemed to make her cry Well maybe she remembers us collecting space up in the sky The scratching of a mellotron It always seemed to make her cry (Nothing rises from ? fingertips, heart it slips) Well maybe she remembers us collecting space up in the sky (Nothing rises from ? fingertips, heart it slips) Don't look back into Don't let the memory or the sound drag you down Don't look back into Don't let the memory or the sound drag you down Don't look back into Don't let the memory or the sound drag you down Don't look back into Don't let the memory or the sound drag you down Don't look back into Don't let the memory or the sound drag you down Don't look back into Don't let the memory or the sound drag you down Don't look back into Don't let the memory or the sound drag you down |
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from Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980)
It's a new design
The cut and style you know so well Spins across the floor It's the same routine Just one last word before you go Why should I ask for more? Then out of the blue you're here by me Moving Taking my chance Learning Methods of dance It's such as price to pay You sense the doubt inside my mind But never ask me why No second chances now I could be sure if I were to live at your speed of life Then out of the blue you're here by me Moving Taking my chance Learning Methods of dance Oh, oh, oh Methods of dance |
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from Japan - Oil On Canvas (1983)
It's a new design
The cut and style you know so well Spins across the floor It's the same routine Just one last word before you go Why should I ask for more? Then out of the blue you're here by me Moving Taking my chance Learning Methods of dance It's such as price to pay You sense the doubt inside my mind But never ask me why No second chances now I could be sure if I were to live at your speed of life Then out of the blue you're here by me Moving Taking my chance Learning Methods of dance Oh, oh, oh Methods of dance |
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from Japan - Exorcising Ghosts (1994)
It's a new design
The cut and style you know so well Spins across the floor It's the same routine Just one last word before you go Why should I ask for more? Then out of the blue you're here by me Moving Taking my chance Learning Methods of dance It's such as price to pay You sense the doubt inside my mind But never ask me why No second chances now I could be sure if I were to live at your speed of life Then out of the blue you're here by me Moving Taking my chance Learning Methods of dance Oh, oh, oh Methods of dance |
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