Tanya Donelly

Wait
Wait I'm on the edge of my chair
And it's you who put me there
You keep me there

Wait, wait, wait
I'm not complaining
I haven't lost anything
I can't recover

I want to throw our story high
But too many words to sky-write
Of acrobats and liars
Paper moons in mackerel skies

Ten years fly stand at your window tonight
I'm coming by
I'm coming back for you

And tonight
Honey we ride
Hey who let the psycho in
He's messing up everything
Doesn't anyone see him

Wait wait wait
I'm not complaining
He can't take anything
I can't recover

I want to throw our story high
But too many words to sky-write
Of acrobats and liars paper moons in mackerel skies

Ten years fly
Stand at your window tonight
I'm coming by
I'm coming back for you

And tonight
It's alright when we ride
When we ride
When we ride
It's alright when we ride
When we ride
It's alright
I'm coming back for you
And tonight
Honey we ride
Tonight
Honey we ride

What it comes down to
What could ever take your place
What it comes down to
Honey what could take your place

Not a song
Not a thousand strong
You will not be turned away
Will it come soon
The voice in the corner of the room
The hissing head by the bed
I spit back but it just laughs
And then attacks
And I reach for you

Every devil in this house
Wants to have it out
But i can reach for you
Not in song but with real arms warm
And not be turned away

I can turn and turn i can turn
And still be facing the wrong way
And you grab me by the belt
And spin me you spin me
And we're dancing again
Dancing again

Every devil in this house
Wants to have it out
But i can reach for you
Every devil in this house
Tries to call me out
But i can reach for you

I can reach for you
I can reach for you
I can reach for you

I can reach for you
I can reach for you
I can reach for you
And not be turned away

You accuse me of fancy talk
When i'm just trying to find my words
You've got a funny way of saying my name
Like i just ripped it off

These whiskey tango ghosts
Won't leave us alone
But you are too polite to complain
Of the art of speaking plain
I haven't gathered a thing

While I know we're dug in deep here
Why can't we live high with the wind
You're just a freckle away from changing everything
I'll make this easy
By calling on my gypsy pedigree

These whiskey tango ghosts
Won't leave us alone
Of the art of speaking plain
I haven't gathered a thing

While i know we're dug in deep here
Why can't we live high with the wind
Can't we live

Of the art of making waves
I had my lesson in spades
And these ghosts they make it plain
They're never going away

And my ghost she makes it plain
I haven't gathered a thing
Though I know we're dug in deep here
Why can't we live high with the wind
Can't we live

There i said it i've done you wrong
The miles i ran away to call you on the phone
And whisper uglinesses sweetly down the line
I believed your heart was mine

I'm unspeakably full of it
I keep my heart on hinges just in case you quit me
When we were diving gold and pearling in the waves
I pretended I was brave

But weren't we were we magic and dizzy
And weren't we were we deadly and blue
And weren't we riding high crossing a thousand fine lines
When I was young and ballsy and true, to you

Is it hot out there
Is it hard to breathe
And do you need me
I can do this thing
I can make it rain
I will make sure it finds you

There I said it I've done you wrong
You say i'm here and i say what took you so long
When we were finally free I stumbled in your room
Telling stories telling stories

But weren't we were magic and dizzy
And weren't we were we blinding and blue
And weren't we riding high spinning a thousand fine lies
When I was young and ballsy and true to you
When i was young and ballsy and true to you

What's that thing
About a butterfly wing causing a typhoon
If it's true a wire runs through each thing we do
Then I better stay in my room
Better stay in my room
Better stay in my room

A dressing man will choose the white
By this he saves a life
I don't see her there 'till he comes up behind the sun shines on white
I see the light i hit the brakes the dead girl walks away
And I better stay in my room
Better stay in my room
Better stay in my room
Better stay in my room

Better stay in my room
Better stay in my
Better stay in my room

You go for a ride a girl won't come home
Or maybe that's not the way it goes
Maybe she's fine
Maybe you see a light in time
People are born blaze and collide
We go outside
My hand pushes air
I don't care
I don't think
About the butterfly thing

Honey come outside
And don't think about
The butterfly thing

This perfect day
We make our way to the end of it
With perfect grace
I lay my head in your lap and walk away
These days are sweet and strange
We're happy in our star-scattered way
Always

In this my life
In this my life as a ghost
In this my life
My happy life as a ghost

I've been lifting out the stains from the stones
Planting flowers where you'll never find my bones
Seven sisters seven stars shooting home
Shouts and whispers of a better fight in better times
A day for the sweet and strange
Or happy in some star-shattered way
Our way

In this my life
In this my life as a ghost
In this my life
My happy life as a ghost

This perfect day
I lay my shield at your feet and beg to stay

You're in the room I can feel you
I don't want to then I do
I hear the voices of the graces in here
Swimming around
Up in the corners of our room

You hold the center and I sing forever
And you won't hear the same song twice
We're shorter of breath maybe longer in tooth lately
You are the love of my life

I'm on your side
Believe it or not
Just don't sneak up on me
And we'll do just fine hold out your arm
And i will fly you
To bring your leather
And i will sink my pins in

You hold the center and i sing forever
And you won't hear the same song twice
We're shorter of breath maybe longer in tooth lately
You are the love of my life

You are the mountain i'm the low-flying bi-plane
We come together in the most calamitous ways
You're the tsunami i am the fisher in the bay
We come together
In the most glamorous ways
You hold the center
I ride the satellite
We come together
You are the love of my life

I'm not afraid
Of a voice I hear
Calling me strong
Calling me on

I hold these pretty dreams of mine
Struggling between my teeth
Like a cat I let you go free
Only to drag you back home with me
I know
I might go crazy from love
And probably I won't snap out of it
But for now I hold myself back
Just out of reach like a cat

And suddenly
I feel the sun on me
Born to strange sight
Still i make it through the night
And suddenly
I'm in a sea of honey pouring down on me
And I won't be the freak
When I come clean

In the golden mean
In the golden mean
Deep from my heart I know it I feel it i'm about
To finally to start moving clearing cleaning the bad luck out
But for now i hold myself back

And suddenly I feel the sun on me
Born to strange sight
Still I make it through the night
And suddenly I'm in a sea of honey pouring down on me
Won't it be a scream
When I come clean

In the golden mean
It starts here
I hear the voice calling strong and clear
Calling me forward and it starts here
And i'm not afraid

Hey, what i meant to say
Let's get lost and find our way
And chance might shine on us, today

We fight we win we fight we lose we fight
We get lost and call it a night
Our mouths will tire before our devils do
There's a promise hidden in my blood
In the name of everything I love

I will draw the crescent down
And set it in your crown

Remember what you said
Better to run than play dead
Here's our chance to prove it
Let's just do it
I have a dream and we are looking back and laughing
And there's a promise hidden in my blood
In the name of everything I love
I will draw the crescent down
And set it in your crown

Look at him looking
Everybody see how he looks at me
Like to set me on fire like to burn
Like to set me on fire like to burn
But i'll always get out i'm not afraid
With these hips these lips these getaway sticks
I've got it made
There's always a greenn door and green gets you out
Green is sliding and diving and proteins colliding
It's your hipness your fitness your undying witness
Leave the locks on the door
I can find my own way home
For tomorrow i'm sure tomorrow i'll find the green door
Everyone out now it's just you and me
And i warned you i warned you i warned you i warned you i warned you
You look at me like to set me on fire like to burn
But i'll always get out i'm not afraid
I'll always get out i've got it made

Honey won't you let yourself speak free
Honey won't you let yourself speak freely
'Cause you're scaring me now
You're scaring me

Everything is pouring out of me now
I spread my hands to catch it but there's too much and there it goes
And we thought we'd fool them all
We thought we'd fool them all
And ha ha ha
But there's too much and there it goes

And I can't stop the fallout
After all

Honey
I want you
I still want you
I always do
I always will
Is that enough
'Cause here we go

And I can't stop the fallout
And I can't stop the fallout
After all

(T. Donelly / D. Fisher)

All your friends have changed
Another moment too soon for you
The angle shifts again
Another moment too soon
Now it's time to take a walk
Now it's time to take the walk you've been side-slipping

Time to move your sorry bones up off the floor
Time to rise above your situation
Time to make sure the current pauses at your door
Time to seek your own level baby

Amazing things have strayed within your reach
Are you unfazed and unimpressed by all you could have had with ease
Amazing things have strayed within your reach
Another moment too soon for you
Now it's time to take the walk you've been side-slipping

Time to move your sorry bones...

So what if you come undone on your way to the sun
Your home-made kite melts down and out of sight
You'll find that your arms are fine and strong and move you along
And not a moment too soon

Time to move your sorry bones...

This world is a wrap-around skirt
This world is a wrap-around skirt
And i'm gonna throw it off
I'm gonna throw it off
I'm rising up rising up
Maybe i worry cause i know how things work
I know how things can work out
Maybe they don't
Maybe that's how

This world is a fickle young girl
This world is a fickle young girl
It's high time we married her off
How about to gassy old jupiter
Maybe i worry cause i know how things work
I know how things can work out
Maybe they don't
Maybe that's how

Someone draw me a map so i can get back
To the edge of the world
And make my place in negative space
Among my kin
That's the only way to begin

I'm an angel dark, darker than loam
Come to steer your runaway home
I'm a moonbeam monkey on spec
Come to bring your strange kid back

No one saw him gimpy going round the bend
And no one but me knows the stuff it takes to mend him
I will get him back on the right track
I will bring your strange kid back

He saw something there, something in the ice
Sees it still when he closes his eyes
He's not talking, just taking it alone
I will bring his story home

He's not talking, just taking it alone
He's a good boy, your good son
I'm an angel dark, darker than loam
I will bring your strange kid home

(T. Donelly)

I'm keeping you I'm keeping you
I'm keeping you so realize your fate
I'm keeping you I'm keeping you
I'm keeping you so settle down now

You landed here from inner space
You landed with that screwed-up look on your face
I wanted you from way back when
I wanted you for years, then years again

I'm keeping you I'm keeping you
I'm keeping you so settle in now

My return to wildlife by satellite
By beautiful moon-shining girl
Whether by hard ground or splashdown
We're safely back in the world

My heart's not new
I'm not like you
I've loved and been loved well and badly too
My body's been through everything
I've used and been used
I got over it
There's something that you learn on a tightrope
Just outside the spotlight there's a big net waiting for...

My return to wildlife by satellite
By beautiful moon-shining girl
Whether by hard ground or splashdown
We're safely back in the world

I'm keeping you

(T. Donelly / D. Fisher)

In the beginning my love was fierce
One heart stopped and another started
I flashed my eyes, cracked wise and left them dry
Now I sit with my babe at my breast
I was never this good at my best
Never higher

The moon was paper white the night you saved my life
When my spirit guide left me behind
The wood was closing in, foggy was the night
The night you saved my life
When my spirit guide left me behind

I spy with my third eye
Something volatile and vital
So say goodnight, sleep tight, don't let them bite
Now I stand with the wind at my back
Every day brings a new breed of jackass
I was never good at monkey-in-the-middle
Never a fighter

The moon was paper white the night you saved my life
When my spirit guide left me behind
The wood was closing in, foggy was the night
The night you saved my life
When my spirit guide left me behind
The moon was paper white the night you saved my life
When my spirit guide left me behind

(T. Donelly)

Look I can't watch you
Sleep-walking through this
Should we find another party
I'm not shining tonight just radioactive
You have carbonated my bloodstream

When I stumble
It will be under your spell, at your command
And when I stumble
It will be into your hand

Too much passion we waste
In just trying to get it right one time
With our clothes on we're brave
And mummified and out of sight

When I stumble...

Can it be
Can it be the storm has passed

I'm not finished yet, I'm under construction
You can peek behind the curtain if you want
You watch, don't stop
My reputation's shot
I just wanted to get it right

Can it be
Can it be the storm has passed

And a shadow fell
Bringing sleep to all
Life is but a dream
Ours

When you disappear
You are everywhere
Life is but a dream
Ours

In our beauty sleep
In big sleep together
Nothing ever ends
Nothing lasts forever

You'll come back again
I am waiting then
Life is but a dream
It's ours

Life is but a dream

(T. Donelly / D. Fisher)

From the dark side of the sun
My supernatural one
You fell into grace
Move slowly if not carefully
Then in silence sometimes

Blighted and solo
This is where I come in reeling
Our future waits on the field of fair play
I will meet you there someday

You come on like a sunburn baby
My runaway old flame
I know you come in peace
But I'm still afraid

From the dark side of the sun
My supernatural one
You fell into my grace
Suffer me if not gladly
Then in silence sometimes
Our future waits on the field of fair play
I will meet you there someday

You come on like a sunburn baby
My runaway old flame
I know you come in peace
But I'm still afraid

Blighted and solo
This is where I come in

Look inside this milky whiteness
No power of the hand to dry
I'm swimming in it i'm swimming out to you
For reasons, my reasons
So photograph it the milky way
It spills into the hand and dries
I am here now and i'm staying put
For reasons, my reasons
And so to bed to bed
My soul to share
An island of the brave my soul to save
In hopes that god's awake my soul to take
I'm swimming in it i'm swimming out to you
For reasons to be home
So photograph me in milky white dreams
Spill into my head
And when i hold you like to tomorrow you might die
Well that's because you might
But i am here now
And i am staying put for reasons my heart knows