Tindersticks

Ah, those days, those days where did they go?
They shuffled through our doorways.
Are they here?

Ah, those days, those days they follow us home
and peer through our windows.
And they're here?

For all our hoping
they're here.

Ah, those nights, those nights they tiptoed by,
they crackle under our pillows
and they're here.

Then our yesterdays tomorrows,
then our yesterdays tomorrows,
then our yesterdays tomorrows,
they're here.

And still we try
to reach for what has gone behind,
but they're here.

The sun arrived, beat down until that life ran dry
and every moment burned with that fire
but they're here.

Then our yesterdays tomorrows,
then our yesterdays tomorrows,
then our yesterdays tomorrows,
they're here.

For all our hoping,
all our wondering,
they're here.

Wake up, it's all right
I don't need to know where you've been
Went for a walk, out of my sight
You went astray again
Wake up, it's all right
You don't have the words, it's okay
I make it worse, I can make it better
I can chase it away
And the emotion running and flapping
Faster and faster, breathing hard
Just for a moment, we're on a breeze
Hold on, hold on tight
You've gone astray again
Wake up, it's alright
I don't need to know where you've been
Went for a walk, out of my sight
You went astray again
Wake up, it's alright
You don't have the words, that's okay
I make it worse, but I can make it better
Can chase it away

There are places I don't remember
There are times and days, they mean nothing to me
I've been looking through some of them old pictures
They don't serve to jog my memory

I'm not waking in the morning,
staring at the walls these days
I'm not getting out the boxes, spread all over the floor
I've been looking through some of them old pictures
Those faces they mean nothing to me no more

*I travel light
You travel light
Everything I've done
You say you can justify, mmm you travel light
I can't pick them out,
I can't put them in these sad old bags
Some things you have to lose along the way
Times are hard, I'll only pick them out,
wish I was going back
Times are good, you'll be glad you ran away


Do you remember, how much you loved me?
You say you have no room in that thick old head
Well it comes with the hurt and the guilt, and the memories
If I had to take them with me I would never get from my bed
There's a crack in the roof where the rain pours through
That's the place you always decide to sit
Yeah I know I'm there for hours,
the water running down (my) (your)face
Do you really think you keep it all that well hid?

No but I travel light
You don't travel light
Everything I've done
It's just a lie, you don't travel light

I'm travelling light
No you don't travel light
I'm travelling light
No, no, you don't travel light
I'm travelling light
You don't travel light

You've been lying in bed for a week now
Wondering how long it'll take
You haven't spoken or looked at her in all that time
It's the easiest line you could break
She's been going (about) around her business as usual
Always with that melancholy smile
But you were too busy looking into your (affairs) head
To see those tiny tears in her eyes

Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don't let them pour all over me

How can you hurt someone so much your supposed to care for
Someone you said you'd always be there for
But when that water breaks you know you're gonna cry, cry
When those tears start rolling you'll be back

Tiny tears...

You've been thinking about the time, you've been dreading it
But now it seems that moment has arrived
She's at the edge of the bed, she gets in
But it's hard to turn the opposite way tonight

Tiny tears...

You've been lying in bed for a week now
Wondering how long it'll take
You haven't spoken or looked at her in all that time
For that was the easiest line you could break

She's been going round her business as usual
Always with that melancholic smile
But you were too busy looking into your affairs
To see those tiny tears in her eyes

Chorus:
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don’t let them pour all over me

How can you hurt someone so much
you're supposed to care for
Someone you said you'd always be there for
But when that water breaks
you know you're gonna cry, cry
When those tears start rolling you'll be back

Chorus
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don't let them pour all over me

You've been thinking about the time,
you've been dreading it
But now it seems that moment has arrived
She's at the edge of the bed, she gets in
But it's hard to turn the opposite way tonight

Chorus

Don't let them pour all over me

You've been lying in bed for a week now
Wondering how long it'll take
You haven't spoken or looked at her in all that time
For that was the easiest line you could break

She's been going round her business as usual
Always with that melancholic smile
But you were too busy looking into your affairs
To see those tiny tears in her eyes

Chorus:
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don’t let them pour all over me

How can you hurt someone so much
you're supposed to care for
Someone you said you'd always be there for
But when that water breaks
you know you're gonna cry, cry
When those tears start rolling you'll be back

Chorus
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don't let them pour all over me

You've been thinking about the time,
you've been dreading it
But now it seems that moment has arrived
She's at the edge of the bed, she gets in
But it's hard to turn the opposite way tonight

Chorus

Don't let them pour all over me

You've been lying in bed for a week now
Wondering how long it'll take
You haven't spoken or looked at her in all that time
For that was the easiest line you could break

She's been going round her business as usual
Always with that melancholic smile
But you were too busy looking into your affairs
To see those tiny tears in her eyes

Chorus:
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don’t let them pour all over me

How can you hurt someone so much
you're supposed to care for
Someone you said you'd always be there for
But when that water breaks
you know you're gonna cry, cry
When those tears start rolling you'll be back

Chorus
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don't let them pour all over me

You've been thinking about the time,
you've been dreading it
But now it seems that moment has arrived
She's at the edge of the bed, she gets in
But it's hard to turn the opposite way tonight

Chorus

Don't let them pour all over me

You've been lying in bed for a week now
Wondering how long it'll take
You haven't spoken or looked at her in all that time
For that was the easiest line you could break

She's been going round her business as usual
Always with that melancholic smile
But you were too busy looking into your affairs
To see those tiny tears in her eyes

Chorus:
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don’t let them pour all over me

How can you hurt someone so much
you're supposed to care for
Someone you said you'd always be there for
But when that water breaks
you know you're gonna cry, cry
When those tears start rolling you'll be back

Chorus
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don't let them pour all over me

You've been thinking about the time,
you've been dreading it
But now it seems that moment has arrived
She's at the edge of the bed, she gets in
But it's hard to turn the opposite way tonight

Chorus

Don't let them pour all over me

You've been lying in bed for a week now
Wondering how long it'll take
You haven't spoken or looked at her in all that time
For that was the easiest line you could break

She's been going round her business as usual
Always with that melancholic smile
But you were too busy looking into your affairs
To see those tiny tears in her eyes

Chorus:
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don’t let them pour all over me

How can you hurt someone so much
you're supposed to care for
Someone you said you'd always be there for
But when that water breaks
you know you're gonna cry, cry
When those tears start rolling you'll be back

Chorus
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don't let them pour all over me

You've been thinking about the time,
you've been dreading it
But now it seems that moment has arrived
She's at the edge of the bed, she gets in
But it's hard to turn the opposite way tonight

Chorus

Don't let them pour all over me

You've been lying in bed for a week now
Wondering how long it'll take
You haven't spoken or looked at her in all that time
For that was the easiest line you could break

She's been going round her business as usual
Always with that melancholic smile
But you were too busy looking into your affairs
To see those tiny tears in her eyes

Chorus:
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don’t let them pour all over me

How can you hurt someone so much
you're supposed to care for
Someone you said you'd always be there for
But when that water breaks
you know you're gonna cry, cry
When those tears start rolling you'll be back

Chorus
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don't let them pour all over me

You've been thinking about the time,
you've been dreading it
But now it seems that moment has arrived
She's at the edge of the bed, she gets in
But it's hard to turn the opposite way tonight

Chorus

Don't let them pour all over me

You've been lying in bed for a week now
Wondering how long it'll take
You haven't spoken or looked at her in all that time
For that was the easiest line you could break

She's been going round her business as usual
Always with that melancholic smile
But you were too busy looking into your affairs
To see those tiny tears in her eyes

Chorus:
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don’t let them pour all over me

How can you hurt someone so much
you're supposed to care for
Someone you said you'd always be there for
But when that water breaks
you know you're gonna cry, cry
When those tears start rolling you'll be back

Chorus
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don't let them pour all over me

You've been thinking about the time,
you've been dreading it
But now it seems that moment has arrived
She's at the edge of the bed, she gets in
But it's hard to turn the opposite way tonight

Chorus

Don't let them pour all over me

The turns we took to get here
The turns we took to get here

The turns we took to get here
But the ending is it so near?
'Cause we set out so long ago …
I can't remember how or why we took that road
I can't remember how …

Sometimes I wonder about
(The turns we took to get here.)
And I wander backwards through my mind
(The turns we took to get here.)
Always that feckless youth,
Taking me down roads I never wanted to travel
Is that how I got here?

But our song is carried on the wind
And we chase so hard we fall
She sees me down upon my knees
And says 'Hey Charlie boy, it's time to come on home,
It's time to stop pretending.'

Somewhere in my house is a piece of paper
(The turns we took to get here.)
A story that brings us to this place
(The turns we took to get here.)
And I follow back down that line.
('Cause we set out so long ago …)
Always that boy, scared of his own shadow,
(The turns we took to get here.)
Always that boy,
(The turns we took to get here.)
Turning me off, turning me on

The turns we took to get here
The turns we took to get here
But the ending is it so near?
The turns we took to get here
Ohhh …
The turns we took to get here
…

On the other side of the world is an island
The shape of a woman
And I know this place
From there, there is no escape

Y'know she held me
Not too tight for she would break me
Not too loose for I would slip away
To the other side of the world
Y'know she held me
Like I could leave at any time
And I could breathe into the wire
And tell myself I'm free

When it turned under my feet
And buildings and the trees left with the wind
Left me standing
In a dirty city street, where I'm a stranger to everyone
And everyone is a stranger to me

If I could talk to you darlin'
I'd tell you all the things I could never say
Like I couldn't hear
For I love you through this wilderness
I'll love you through the shit
I loved you through the best times that there ever was
From the other side of the world.

When it turned under my feet
And buildings and the trees left with the wind
Left me standing
Now I'm shouting at satellites
Screaming down the wires
To find you

On the other side of the world is an island
The shape of a woman
And I know this place
I know this place.

Needs must when the devil drives
He's been driving me all the way
He's got a hungry saw
He wants to tear it all up now

A gram of speed and a one-night stand
I left my baby in the devils hands
He's got an hungry saw
He wants to tear it all up now
He's got a hungry saw …

The first cut is the skin
The second is the muscle
There's a crack of the bone
And he's at your heart
There's a crack of the bone …
(And he's at your heart.)

Hello darkness my old friend
It's time to jerk those tears again
And he works that saw … so painlessly

Oh, those devils hands
Those devils hands … (oh no)
I feel them on my skin
And I love them so …
Those devils hands

(2x)
The first cut is the skin
The second is the muscle
There's a crack of the bone

And he's at your heart
There's a crack of the bone
And he's at your heart

And there's no need to 'phone home
'Cos your mother's out, with someone who ain't your dad

Those devils hands … (oh no)
Those devils hands …

Was that the flicker of a little girl?
(Some moments our story is meaningless.)
When you just want to feel safe, you just want to be loved
And you know there's no better place than this

Maybe I could prove myself wrong,
Maybe things fall together than pull apart

'Seen you when you were fourteen coming home from school
(It's so easy to be beautiful when you're young.)
I still see that light that is shining through those tired eyes
Could those eyes see what was coming then?

And we all want what we can't afford
And we all get what we deserve

Too many deaths and betrayals, too many lies
(Makes it hard to trust the moment you're in.)
Too many teardrops that you hold inside
(They were always gonna pour over me someday.)

Maybe I could prove myself wrong,
Held on to something I thought I never could
'Never carelessly mislaid
I always knew just where it was

Was that the flicker of a little girl?
(Some moments our story is meaningless.)

It's too long till I see you again

It's too long to be with you

You know these hands

They don't know what to do

You know these hands

They don't know how to


It's too long till I see you again

It's too long to be with you

You know these hands

They don't know what to do

You know these hands

They don't know how to


How to give me that sweet release

Give me that sweet release

Give me that sweet release

Give me that sweet release


There's too much time

Turning away from you

There's too much time

That I can afford now

You know these hands

They don't know what to do

You know these hands

They don't know how to


How to give me that sweet release

Give me that sweet release

Give me that sweet release

Give me that sweet release


It's too late to love you

It's too late to love you

Too late to love you

Too late to love you

It's too late to love you

You stop looking till you get what you want

It's too late to love you

It's too late to love you

You say it all until you need some now (?)

It's too late to love you

There's too much time

You stop looking till you get what you want

There's too much time

There's too much time

You take it all until you want some love (?)

There's too much time


Give me that sweet release

Give me that sweet release

Give me that sweet release

Give me that sweet release


It's too long till I see you again

It's too long to be with you

You know these hands

They don't know what to do

You know these hands

They don't know how to


How to give me that sweet release

Give me that sweet release

Give me that sweet release

Give me that sweet release


You make it so easy to beg Give me that sweet release

Then I'll beg you

You make it so easy to beg Give me that sweet release

Then I'll beg you

There's too much time Give me that sweet release

There's too much time

Give me that sweet release

Give me that sweet release

Give me that sweet release

Give me that sweet release

Give me that sweet release


Transcr. Chris Canter, Jan Imgrund

Shadow you'll bring me down
But every day I love you more
Shadow you'll bring me down
But every day I love you more
Than the day before
Body of a woman, mind of a child -
Shadow you shouldn't drive me wild
You're only 14 years old...
Shadow you seem to touch
All the things that I just don't know
Shadow means so much
I never thought I had so far to go
I need you so
Hair so dark, it's black as coal
Like I looked into your soul
Touch that makes you lose control
Shadow - she's gonna stay, won't go away
Shadow you'll bring me down
But every day I love you more
Shadow you seem to touch
Yet every day I need you more...

There's the same hotel, and we can go there now
We can go there now if you want to
Through the doors of that rented room
Yeah, we stumbled through
It was only hours
It seemed such a short while
We had no time to cry
Or sit and wonder why
We had so many things started to say
We had to get through
We tried the cinema
Within half an hour
We had to go find someplace else
Some more... you know
We tried a drinking bar
It gets so very hard
And when the cab ride ahead seems too long
We go fuck in the bathroom
We can't afford the time to sit and cry
Or to wonder why
We've got so many things started to say
We have to get through
Through the doors of that rented room
Yeah, we stumbled through
We had so many things started to say
We had to get through
We can't afford the time to sit and cry
Or to wonder why
We got so many things started to say
We have to get through
We haven't got the time for telling lies
Or to even try
There's only days in between
There's just tomorrow
Through the doors of that rented room
Yeah, we stumbled through
It was only hours - it seemed such a short while
In those pillows all the feathers that hold all our dreams
Whispered at the scene
Now they just seem to float on a breeze
I could have wrapped that pillow around my head
Face down on the bed
I could have drowned in those so-called dreams
We can't afford the time to sit and cry
Or to wonder why
There's only days in between
There's just tomorrow

There's the same hotel, and we can go there now
We can go there now if you want to
Through the doors of that rented room
Yeah, we stumbled through
It was only hours
It seemed such a short while
We had no time to cry
Or sit and wonder why
We had so many things started to say
We had to get through
We tried the cinema
Within half an hour
We had to go find someplace else
Some more... you know
We tried a drinking bar
It gets so very hard
And when the cab ride ahead seems too long
We go fuck in the bathroom
We can't afford the time to sit and cry
Or to wonder why
We've got so many things started to say
We have to get through
Through the doors of that rented room
Yeah, we stumbled through
We had so many things started to say
We had to get through
We can't afford the time to sit and cry
Or to wonder why
We got so many things started to say
We have to get through
We haven't got the time for telling lies
Or to even try
There's only days in between
There's just tomorrow
Through the doors of that rented room
Yeah, we stumbled through
It was only hours - it seemed such a short while
In those pillows all the feathers that hold all our dreams
Whispered at the scene
Now they just seem to float on a breeze
I could have wrapped that pillow around my head
Face down on the bed
I could have drowned in those so-called dreams
We can't afford the time to sit and cry
Or to wonder why
There's only days in between
There's just tomorrow

There's the same hotel, and we can go there now
We can go there now if you want to
Through the doors of that rented room
Yeah, we stumbled through
It was only hours
It seemed such a short while
We had no time to cry
Or sit and wonder why
We had so many things started to say
We had to get through
We tried the cinema
Within half an hour
We had to go find someplace else
Some more... you know
We tried a drinking bar
It gets so very hard
And when the cab ride ahead seems too long
We go fuck in the bathroom
We can't afford the time to sit and cry
Or to wonder why
We've got so many things started to say
We have to get through
Through the doors of that rented room
Yeah, we stumbled through
We had so many things started to say
We had to get through
We can't afford the time to sit and cry
Or to wonder why
We got so many things started to say
We have to get through
We haven't got the time for telling lies
Or to even try
There's only days in between
There's just tomorrow
Through the doors of that rented room
Yeah, we stumbled through
It was only hours - it seemed such a short while
In those pillows all the feathers that hold all our dreams
Whispered at the scene
Now they just seem to float on a breeze
I could have wrapped that pillow around my head
Face down on the bed
I could have drowned in those so-called dreams
We can't afford the time to sit and cry
Or to wonder why
There's only days in between
There's just tomorrow

Pretty words

Likes ones you've never heard

Oh those pretty words

What can they say?

It felt like the first summer's day

When I heard those pretty words

Oh those pretty words

Oh those...


Pretty words

Like ones you've only overheard

They hang together like pearls

I can't even say

Do you feel so much better now

Now you've heard those pretty words

Oh those pretty words

Oh those...


Oh those pretty words

They hang all around me now

Like a nicotine string of pearls

I'm falling inside them now

When there's a sound you hear

And it feels like everything

And it feels like everything

And it feels like...


You're just such a pretty one

You make everything feel undone

Waiting for those hands to come

Waiting for those hands.

Pretty words

Likes ones you've never heard

Oh those pretty words

What can they say?

It felt like the first summer's day

When I heard those pretty words

Oh those pretty words

Oh those...


Pretty words

Like ones you've only overheard

They hang together like pearls

I can't even say

Do you feel so much better now

Now you've heard those pretty words

Oh those pretty words

Oh those...


Oh those pretty words

They hang all around me now

Like a nicotine string of pearls

I'm falling inside them now

When there's a sound you hear

And it feels like everything

And it feels like everything

And it feels like...


You're just such a pretty one

You make everything feel undone

Waiting for those hands to come

Waiting for those hands.

Plus de liaisons
Plus de trahisons
Plus de liaisons
Comment devineras-tu ?
Si je tremble dans tes bras
Si je soupire dans tes cheveux
Cette derniere liaison
Maintenant plus de trahisons
Plus de liaisons
Comment devineras-tu ?
Si mes bras tremblent
Si j'evite ton regard
Cette derniere liaison

Plus de liaisons
Plus de trahisons
Plus de liaisons
Non, plus de trahisons
Plus de liaisons
Comment devineras-tu ?

Si je tremble dans tes bras
Si je soupire dans tes cheveux
Cette derniere liaison
Quelque part dans ma tete
Je sais ce qui se passe
Mais tout ca a grandi
Ne me laisse pas le choix
S'amuser seulement
Ca me semble un tel crime a present
Va jouer, jouer sur la route
Et tu mourras ecrasee

Plus de liaisons
Plus de trahisons
Plus de liaisons
Comment devineras-tu ?

C'etait spontane
Mais on a rappele les autres
On s'est amuse avec nos precedents amants
Il y a foule la-dedans

Plus de liaisons

I know it's wrong
I know it's selfish
YOU'VE SUCH A SHORT LIFE
You've so little time
You know this pattern
Patchwork of any direction
Cobbled together
In odd shape and size
Take my hand, we'll walk through this together
But my hand gets sweaty
You somehow slip away
Try to call you, but I don't call too loud, no
Try to love, and never look that hard

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

* Repeat

The yellow is my sunshine
Comes out on odd occasion
Barely enough to keep you around