Patrick Wolf

As the bell tower blocks the summer light
All the seeds in our garden fight
To break and blossom, all to be adored
And look, your skirt is torn
And there's blood on our sheets
As comes the long arm of the law
Fist tight, banging on the door
And knocking me down on its way in

As I pass out into a dream
Of whooping cranes and wooden beams
Great white wings beating
In an attic, in a house, in the dead of night
Singing

Oh, my Augustine, Augustine
Oh, is this forever, ever?
Oh, oh
Sweet Augustine, Augustine
What does this mean for us?

Does it mean that I can never change my ways?
And that's why, love, you shouldn't stay
Still you will and love me


Like a mother or a maid bringing you down, down
Down on your brazen knees
Watering the worms and the weeds
Thinking, why does love leave me so damn cold?
Now I'm getting old
And is this what it should be?
Well, is it?

Oh, my Augustine, Augustine.
Oh, is this forever, ever?
Oh, oh
Sweet Augustine, Augustine
Or do we kill this one tonight?

And now come the tears, heavy and hot
As it comes clear, this is all we got
As I hold you to my bed
Like a cancer, or a curse
Now be my loving nurse
As we fall back into the impossible dream

Lucy, remember
The smell of that fall
The fires of fungus and the rotting leaves

I fell off the wagon
Into your arms
Into this long month of sundays

And you were my husband
My wife, my heroin
Now this is our final December

Now deep in a forest
Losing all though of spring
And nothing can help me remember

And I'm going nowhere fast
A darker day has holed at last
Deep in a dream I set the calmness to spinning

And your love has come too late
Away from the garden gate
Wake me up when the bluebells are ringing
Ringing

How can it be over after all that we had?
And how come a river runs through the rafters
Down, down, down?

Does it leave me sleeping
Dreaming only of spring?
The phone rings out and I remember

And I'm going nowhere fast
A darker day has holed at last
Deep in this dream I let the calmness keep spinning

And your love has come too late
Now wave to the garden gate
Wake me up when the bluebells are ringing
Ringing...

Wanna hear them ringing, my love
Wanna hear them ringing
Ringing...

Enchanted, enchanted This magical place that we've found No one here but us and the sound Of the stars and the night owls Your breath and the rolling clouds Enchanted, I am, by you Now love has come to me And set apart thee From all of the maddening crowds The orchard is leaning her bows To hear our laughter And we roll in the arder Enchanted, I am, by you

Let's go my love

We could go to the cinema
Big effects and big name stars
We could go to that private view
But darling these days
My favorite view is you

Let's just bend the invitation
Leave our bikes down at the station
And lose all sense of direction
I'm going to get lost with you

Yes, we will run
Come get lost with me
Slip away discreetly
You're my love
So come get lost with me
We will run 'til empty

We could stay here 'til closing time
But the drinks are flat
And the price is a crime
We could dance 'til our feet turn red
But the beat's so boring
And I'd rather be home in our bed

This town's skipping like a record
Reruns get me so bored
So with a nothing we can afford
We're gonna get lost again

Yeah, we will run
Come get lost with me
Slip away discreetly
You're my love
So come get lost with me
We will run 'til empty
Let's go

PATRICK: magpie, was it you who stole the wedding ring? or what other thieving bird would steal such hope away? magpie, I am lost among the hinterland, caught among the bracken and the fern and the boys who have no name. MARIANNE: there's no name for us. PATRICK: still we sing. MARIANNE: and still we sing. little boy, little boy, lost and blue, listen now, let me tell you what to do. you can run on, run along, alone or home between the knees of her all among her bracken and her ferns and the boy will have a name. BOTH: we will sing. MARIANNE: and we will sing. MARIANNE: one for sorrow. PATRICK: two for joy. MARIANNE: three for a girl. PATRICK: four for a boy. MARIANNE: five for silver. PATRICK: six for gold. MARIANNE: seven for a secret, never to be told.

It's wonderful what a smile can hide
If the teeth shine bright and it's nice and wide
It's so magical all you can keep inside
And if you bury it deep no one can find a thing, no

So come on now, open wide, open up now
Don't you think it's time

To look back at that boy on his way to school
Such a heavy heart, such a heavy jewel hiding Something that one day he'll sell
But now if no one shows, no one tells a thing, no

So come on love, open wide, open up now
Don't you think it's time

Now after all these years you are at last opening was it
Worth all that war just to win
So caught up in the speed of the days in your sin
Don't forget how the story begins no
Don't forget now

Now I'm seeing all your lovers and enemies
They've been turning their keys so full of need
All trying to see that sure you keep
What makes it shine, what makes it mine
But I don't care, no

Just come on now, open wide, open up now
There's so much love for what you'll find
But what will you find

Now after all these years you are at last opening
Was it worth all that war just to win

If it was can you take me back to where it begins
Come and take me back to where it begins
Come and take me back to where it begins
Come on, open wide and let some light in

Let us in
Let us in

Turn the key
Open open?

Down down down

Down down down

Down down down

Down in the park And the lust of the light Among the stray dogs and families I smell the bonfires, and Watch the bonbs Fireworks burst above the trees And to pillows of white cloud, and Another year has gone Now it is the fifth of november I lock the doors, and Swallow the key And draw the curtains, closed forever Forever

So let the people talk It's Monday morning walk Right past the fabulous mess we're in It's gonna be a beautiful day So do the bluebirds sing As I take your hand And you take my kiss And I take the world 'Cause out of all the people I've known The places I've been The songs that I have sung The wonders I've seen Now that the dreams are all coming true Who is the one that leads me on through It's you Who puts me in the magic position, darling now You put me in the magic position To live, to learn, to love in the major key And I know how you've hurt And been dragged through the dirt But c'mon get back up It's the time to live So give your love to me I'm gonna keep it carefully Deep in the treasure chest below my breast 'Cause out of all the people I've known The places I've been The songs that I have sung The wonders I've seen Now that the dreams are all coming true Who is the one that leads me on through It's you Who puts me in the magic position, darling now You put me in the magic position, darling now Let me put you in the magic position, darling 'Cause I'm singing in the, the major key Let me put you in the major key

I saw, I saw the stars tonight
Mama, I saw the stars tonight

Mama, I saw the stars tonight
Orion, the plow, are burning bright
Cannot recall of where I drove
An empty lane, the lonely road home

But I saw, I saw my star tonight
Mama, the stars are burning bright
And it came clear, that the light years
Are here at last

At left, at right, the death, the life
As all unseen came into sight
The pull, the scales, the dark, the light
Mama, Papa, voila! The night!

The night...

So now, to the one with the never-ending invisible scars
Look up, look up! The stars!

Look up, and see the stars tonight
Look up, look up the stars tonight
Look up, and see the stars tonight
Look up, look up the stars tonight!
Tonight, tonight!

I wake at dusk to go alone.
Without a light
to the unknown.
I want this night inside of me.
I want to feel.
I want this speeding.
I want that speeding.

My blood beats black tonight! (3,5x)

No need for comfort
no need for light.
I am hunting for secrets tonight.
Eat the sorrow lick the spark.
Uh oh my blood beats dark (x2)

And here it comes
it comes for me
I want to run
I want to scream.
Get in my car with both eyes closed.
Full pedal down
And I am speeding!
And I am speeding!

My blood beats black tonight!(x4,5)

No need for comfort
no need for light.
I'm hunting down demons tonight.
Eat the terror lick the spark.
Uh oh my blood beats dark. (x2)

Since i met you. this house has started to decay
and every wall that once was clean. has turned a shade of grey.

so much to rescue. so much you just cant understand
now the streets are dark and empty. and the problems in our hands.



i cant leave you. see back home my house is falling down.
i cant leave you. and back home my house is falling down

since i met you. my basement has started to bleed
the floors are all collapsing. still im begging to be free

I used to say just follow your heart
But my heart always led me in circles
and i used to say just follow your dreams
but my dreams always led me to murder

so now i don't say nothing at all
i just bow my head to the battle
a thousand miles above our heads
they are weaving
giant currents around the sun
if you're brave enough you'll just let it happen
if youre brave enough you'll just succumb

Dont say no to it


You cant say no to it

just throw yourself in
just give yourself in
to the pattern

a thousand miles above our heads
they are bleeding
mighty currents uopn the day
if youre brave enough you'll just let it happen
if youre brave enough you'll give yourself away

Dont say no to it!
You cant say no to it!

Sundark on darker streets. its violent times for weary feet.
carjackers and bullet showers. a yellow sign. too many fools in power
but see. i will be gone by morning. my dear friend i lost a fight
forget me. i wash my hands in your grey slowing night.



coming down from darkened heights. i taste the thames with my cycle lights
by saint paul's by big ben. by god's name, i repent.
but see. i will be gone by morning my dear london goodnight
forget me, i wash myself in your grey river light

I was once a boy.
'Til i cut my penis off.
And i grew a hairy skull
of stubborn fire.

Then i was a girl.
'Til i sewed my hole up.
And i grew a hairy heart of dark desire.

But.
There's no answer. Just surrender,
send all your barriers into the fire.

And, let no foot, mark your ground.
Let no hand, hold you down.

You were once so sad,
til' you cut your suffer off.
Now you please yourself,
and fight your own wars.

And you were once so weak,
till you sewed your wounds up.
Now you've learnt to sing about sun and shine!

Be your own hero.
Be your own saviour.
Send all your suffering into the fire.

And let not foot, mark your ground.
Let no hand, hold you down.
Let no foot, mark your ground.
Let no hand, hold you down.

It's all yours, (and ours).

(one, two, three) It's all yours.
(Let no foot, mark your ground)
It's all yours.
(Let no hand, hold you down).
Be your own hero.
(Let no foot, mark your ground).
Be your own saviour.
(Let no hand, hold you down)
Send all your suffering into the fire.

Let no foot, mark your ground.
Let no hand, hold you down.
Let no foot, mark your ground.
Let no hand, hold you down.

It was seven in the morning when the spark
began to give.
The bath was spilling over, my self pity spilling with it.
So I, I fled the country to start it all again
and I found myself in Paris in the cemetery rain.

Dear anne came to me and took me by the arm.
Showed me old disasters embedded in the palm.
Warned me of a lady with the sun behind her head.
With a a granite neck, a singer who can never sing again.
but you, my love:

You must come, come to joy, turn your head to the sun
its down to you, you can shine,
you can shake all the sorrow from your palm..
It's down to you if you dare to come to joy.

What was it i ran from, what burnt away inside?
Four hundred schoolboys and a lawyer at my side.
Always running with these legs going nowhere.
A ghost in the system, and angel on the stairs...
But oh! This time....

I shall turn, turn my head to the sun..
They are marching out of me.. One by one.
Walking free. Oh! It's going out of....
Oh! I can feel it moving, this time, yeah. I'm really moving.
Now, are you ready to come, come to joy,
turn your head to the sun it's down to you, you can shine, you can give it up.
It's all down to you, hold the key in your hands, it's all in your hands.

It's all in the palm of your hands. (x4)

I was stumbling into battle
i was walking into walls
'till i walked myself to peter
and i let my shadows fall.

he's a boy who never ages.
rides a goat around the lake
he's a friend who never falters
to change my circling fate.



he said dance across the battle
but punch straight through that wall
though your knuckles may be bleeding
they'll be healed before the fall.

after war comes peace
after peace comes war
but remember
if it weren't for fighting.
we'ld be fighting for ever mo

London, did you have to take my child away?
You buried him under rent and low pay.
I've been cycling in circles 'round your empty streets.
I've been searching in the pouring rain.

I've been going alone to the cinema.
I've been stealing all my food from the electric avenue.
Now the pigeons gather 'round my feeding hand.
And we talk 'til the evening fades.

I have learnt how it goes.
What you wait for never shows.
And what you least wanted, holds you down like a stone.
just like a stone.

So.
Now i feed the birds. Day after day.
Only they can hear me pray for.
A lighter heart. A lighter load.
To be moving. Moving. Moving my way home.

My, way home.
Way home.
My, way home.

The day our house collapsed
I went down stream.
I followed the swans
Like i follow my dreams.

oh! i was living on borrowed time in a
borrowed house for a borrowed crime.
in need of help i came to your door.
saw the spike of the railings from
the 28/3rd floor.
singing
"build your castle, stop collecting stones
and the river bed shall not be yoru home"

To the lighthouse my friend!
I bless your words and education
To the lighthouse my friend.
just go! just go!
To the lighthouse my friend.
I am sorry that you came to find


"great great minds
against themselves conspire'

now the bombs drop around our feet,
do we throw them back
or bow and greet them.
everyone now, is so terrified
of the glowing dark
and those orange skies.

sing it:
'build your castle, stop throwing stones
cos' those fire birds are
coming down on our homes"

To the lighthouse my friends
it cannot even be a question
To the lighthouse my friends
we must go, we must go

Walk tall beneath these trees boy
you monolith not scarred by fallout.
Us wolves were right behind you and lucifer will never find you.
oh no!

The moon, let it guide you, when Selene comes, we'll alll know how to fight.
Dear Fenrir, my saviour, come and eat the ones, we know who taste the best.

I know just where you've been boy, i've watched you by the stream.
And don't be afraid of the dark
'cos the darkness is simply a womb for the lonely.
Swallow your pride and walk with us through the trees and hills.
Oh yes! your english eyes they are turning red.
I I I I oh I I I I.

The moon, let it guide you and i shall find you a home in our heartland,
a heart in our homeland.
Until the moon is down, until the moon is down.