White Lies

When the daylight weighs a tonne
And all my friends are gone
There's rust around
the things I love
When it's fraying at the seams
of reality and dreams
All those dreams are
quiet and dull
This town's alright
But it's not enough
I'm looking for a quick exit
Like a prisoner on the run
This town's alright
But it's not enough
I'm looking for a quick exit
Like a prisoner on the run
Big time breakdown
Look how the stars come out
Big time breakdown
Why didn't you just shout
I'm lonely and I'm looking
For a place to go
Where everything's an embrace
And everybody wants to know
I'm your absent Valentine
And the pigtails in the bride
I'm the still that carves the
toes in your bottle
I'm the lynch mob in the dark
I'm the silk worm in your heart
Spinning out my perfect circle
This town's alright
But it's not enough
I'm looking for a quick exit
Like a prisoner on the run
This town's alright
But it's not enough
I'm looking for a quick exit
Like a prisoner on the run
Big time breakdown
Look how the stars come out
Big time breakdown
Why didn't you just shout
I'm lonely and I'm looking
For a place to go
Where everything's an embrace
And everybody wants to know
I'm on the water
Fetch your brother
fetch your daughter
Come come undone
Fetch your sister fetch your son
This town's alright
But it's not enough
I'm looking for a quick exit
Like a prisoner on the run
This town's alright
But it's not enough
I'm looking for a quick exit
Like a prisoner on the run
Big time breakdown
Look how the stars come out
Big time breakdown
Why didn't you just shout
I'm lonely and I'm looking
For a place to go
Where everything's an embrace
And everybody wants to know
I'm lonely and I'm looking
For a place to go
Where everything's an embrace
And everybody wants to know

You took the tunnel route home, you've never taken that way with me before
Did you feel the need for change?
Apologies on your fingernails, love flickered in the city of lights
Like good singers on radio waves

I don't need your tears
I don't want your love
I just gotta get home

And I feel like I'm breaking up, and I wanted to stay
Headlights on the hillside, don't take me this way
I don't want you to hold me, I don't want you to pray
This is bigger than us

You went where the horses cry, you've never taken that way with me before
Did you feel the need for change?
Guilt smeared across your lips, I was tired and cold from the window
You're time, nothing has changed


I don't need your tears
I don't want your love
I just gotta get home

And I feel like I'm breaking up, and I wanted to stay
Headlights on the hillside, don't take me this way
I don't want you to hold me, I don't want you to pray
This is bigger than us

Hold tight for heartbreak
Buckle up for loneliness
Right time to get away
Where I'm going, I couldn't care

I'm bored and I'm afraid
I'm falling like rain for you
So tired and picking skin
Just cos it's something to do

Bored girls and sad boys
Dull roads to anywhere
Bad sex and enthanol
High scores on solitaire

Im numb and getting off
Getting real done with you
Big plans that never come
Holding out for something new

Can anybody hear me?
Is anybody out there?
Not a soul in a street-light
This might be love
Can anybody hear me?
Is anybody out there?
Not a soul in a street-light
This might be love

Hold tight for heartbreak
Buckle up for loneliness
Right time to get away
Where I'm going, I couldn't care

Dead dreams and dirty clothes
Calls that are long overdue
Cheap highs and souvenirs
So many knots that I'll never undo

Can anybody hear me?
Is anybody out there?
Not a soul in a street-light
This might be love
Can anybody hear me?
Is anybody out there?
Not a soul in a street-light
This might be love

Can anybody hear me?
Is anybody out there?
Not a soul in a street-light
This might be love
Can anybody hear me?
Is anybody out there?
Not a soul in a street-light
This might be love

You were writhing on the floor like a moth in molasses
Whoever taught you to move your body like that?
Goose pimples just vanished like some out of date acid
Whoever taught you to scream like that?

Maybe someday I could move like you
(Maybe someday I could move like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost
Maybe someday I can scream like you
(Maybe someday I can scream like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost

You were crying on the shoulders of the men in the shadows
Whoever taught you to sell your sex like that?
I'm thinking two halos in a stain-glass window
Jesus' strangers are as strange as that

Maybe someday I could move like you
(Maybe someday I could move like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost
Maybe someday I can scream like you
(Maybe someday I can scream like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost

Maybe someday I could move like you
(Maybe someday I could move like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost
Maybe someday I can scream like you
(Maybe someday I can scream like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost

The market-place has nothing to sell
Left alone its awning's shiver
Wind whilstles through the wood
Fish teeth snapping in a river

Peaks puncture the sky
Like a child's icy toes
Dipped in a stream
That a few of us know

And the clouds just a ripple?
A shock from the impact?

Shadows on the streets
Look like veils at morning
Ice blots in the stone cracks
Where tears must have fallen

Oil by the bucket feeds flares to the heavens
Offerings of incense, small bills and lemons
Drumbeats in the caves and hearbeats in the huts
Protectors unveiled for the first time in months

You find some best friends
We'll hold each other
And I'll turn the bells
I'll turn the bells
You find some best friends
We'll hold each other
And I'll turn the bells
I'll turn the bells

The storm clouds pass
And everything's for sale
The chattering of rapids
And the bartering of sunset

Beads crunch like bones
Through fingers and knuckles
Poor hands pick cheap Quartz
In the quarries and cliff-ledge

A group of sandalwood trees
With clotted blood coloured bark
Candle-lit teeth
Half-moon smiles in the dark

The biker gangs smoking on the edge of the lake
The smoke like white horses, a white-eyed mistake
There's spirits in the water like photos in a box
They're torn by the current and crushed by the rocks

You find some best friends
We'll hold each other
And I'll turn the bells
I'll turn the bells
You find some best friends
We'll hold each other
And I'll turn the bells
I'll turn the bells

You find some best friends
We'll hold each other
And I'll turn the bells
I'll turn the bells
You find some best friends
We'll hold each other
And I'll turn the bells
I'll turn the bells

I was waiting in the back-seat of the car
When I knew I'd given up
Down one of the back-streets by the park
So sick of the taste of blood
I'm gonna write your girl a letter
It'll make everything better

Screaming down the phone-line to your mum
She said, "Honey ain't home right now"
I bought a tuxedo and I bought a gun
And wore them all around this town
Nobody dares to lift a finger
They can see my heart is down and injured

If I'm guilty of anything
It's loving you too much
Honey, sometimes, love
Means getting a little rough
This is not bad love
This is not bad love

I've been going to church but I don't believe
I'll ever be clear this pain
Walk like a ghost through the streets
Soaked from the pouring rain
And I won't ask your god for mercy
My spirits are low, my soul is dirty

If I'm guilty of anything
It's loving you too much
Honey, sometimes, love
Means getting a little rough
This is not bad love
This is not bad love

If I'm guilty of anything
It's loving you too much
Honey, sometimes, love
Means getting a little rough
This is not bad love
This is not bad love

If I'm guilty of anything
It's loving you too much
Honey, sometimes, love
Means getting a little rough
This is not bad love
This is not bad love

Felt love last night for the first time in a long time
Feels like coming home to stay
Like falling in the sea when it's too hot in the sun
Made things so much worse today

I know you said you'll miss me
But I know that you won't
Cos time is like a wave that washes all the pain away
When you come down

I know I said I'll see you
When it gets to New Year
But now that all the rain's stopped falling
All I think is getting out of here

Felt love last night for the first time in a long time
Feels like I never went away
Like drifting back to sleep when I'm aching and I'm tired
Made me feel so much worse today

I know you said you'll miss me
But I know that you won't
Cos time is like a wave that washes all the pain away
When you come down

I know I said I'll see you
When it gets to New Year
But now that all the rain's stopped falling
All I think is getting out of here

I know I've been welcome but tell me how far
Ceremonial notes sound the gaps in my heart beat now
Never been good enough for you or for me
I've buried my pride, I've buried my key

I know I've been welcome but tell me how far
Ceremonial notes sound the gaps in my heart beat now
Never been good enough for you or for me
I've buried my pride, I've buried my key

I know you said you'll miss me
But I know that you won't
Cos time is like a wave that washes all the pain away
When you come down

I know I said I'll see you
When it gets to New Year
But now that all the rain's stopped falling
All I think is getting out of here

When the daylight weighs a tonne
and all my friends are gone,
there's rust around the things I love,
when it's fraying at the seams of reality and dreams,
all those dreams are quiet and dullThis town's alright
But it's not enough
I'm looking for a quick exit
like a prisoner on the run
(x2)Big time break down
Look how the stars come out
Big time break down
Why didn't you just shoutI'm lonely and I'm looking
For a place to go
Where everything's an embrace
and everybody wants to knowI'm your absent Valentine
And the pigtails in the bride
I'm the still that carves the toes in your bottle (I think?!)
I'm the lynch mob in the dark
I'm the silk worm in your heart
Spinning out my perfect circleThis town's alright
But it's not enough
I'm looking for a quick exit
like a prisoner on the run
(x2)Big time break down
Look how the stars come out
Big time break down
Why didn't you just shoutI'm lonely and I'm looking
For a place to go
Where everything's an embrace
and everybody wants to knowI'm on the water
Fetch your brother, fetch your daughter
Come, Come undone
Fetch your sister, fetch your son(Repeats through)
This town's alright
But it's not enough
I'm looking for a quick exit
like a prisoner on the run
(x2)Big time break down
Look how the stars come out
Big time break down
Why didn't you just shoutI'm lonely and I'm looking
For a place to go
Where everything's an embrace
and everybody wants to know

You were writhing on the floor like a moth in molasses
Whoever taught you to move your body like that?
Goose pimples just vanished like some out of date acid
Whoever taught you to scream like that?

Maybe someday I could move like you
(Maybe someday I could move like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost
Maybe someday I can scream like you
(Maybe someday I can scream like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost

You were crying on the shoulders of the men in the shadows
Whoever taught you to sell your sex like that?
I'm thinking two halos in a stain-glass window
Jesus' strangers are as strange as that

Maybe someday I could move like you
(Maybe someday I could move like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost
Maybe someday I can scream like you
(Maybe someday I can scream like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost

Maybe someday I could move like you
(Maybe someday I could move like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost
Maybe someday I can scream like you
(Maybe someday I can scream like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost

You were writhing on the floor like a moth in molasses
Whoever taught you to move your body like that?
Goose pimples just vanished like some out of date acid
Whoever taught you to scream like that?

Maybe someday I could move like you
(Maybe someday I could move like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost
Maybe someday I can scream like you
(Maybe someday I can scream like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost

You were crying on the shoulders of the men in the shadows
Whoever taught you to sell your sex like that?
I'm thinking two halos in a stain-glass window
Jesus' strangers are as strange as that

Maybe someday I could move like you
(Maybe someday I could move like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost
Maybe someday I can scream like you
(Maybe someday I can scream like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost

Maybe someday I could move like you
(Maybe someday I could move like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost
Maybe someday I can scream like you
(Maybe someday I can scream like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost

You were writhing on the floor like a moth in molasses
Whoever taught you to move your body like that?
Goose pimples just vanished like some out of date acid
Whoever taught you to scream like that?

Maybe someday I could move like you
(Maybe someday I could move like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost
Maybe someday I can scream like you
(Maybe someday I can scream like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost

You were crying on the shoulders of the men in the shadows
Whoever taught you to sell your sex like that?
I'm thinking two halos in a stain-glass window
Jesus' strangers are as strange as that

Maybe someday I could move like you
(Maybe someday I could move like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost
Maybe someday I can scream like you
(Maybe someday I can scream like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost

Maybe someday I could move like you
(Maybe someday I could move like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost
Maybe someday I can scream like you
(Maybe someday I can scream like you)
But I'm not looking for a holy ghost

I pressed my ear to your chest
And heard something personal.
A whisper that knew my name.
Is it how your heart treats all strangers?
With love and affection?
Then I feel cold and empty.

I've got a sense of urgency.
I've got to make this happen.
No stone unturned.

I've got a sense of urgency.
I've got to make something happen.
No stone unturned.

I held your hand while you were sleeping
The whole night you griped to mine.
A grip that begged me to stay.
Is this how your limbs treat all strangers?
With love and affection?
Then I fell weak and empty.

Strangers don't hide.
The morning hunts you down.
And there's nothing stranger
Than to love someone.

I heard the water beat at your skin
A shower of discipline, as heavy as iron.
And I imagined the hand that gripped mine.
Now gripping the gaps in the tiles.
Just holding on tight.