
Date of issue: 18.01.2015
Record label: Matador
Song language: English
Play For Today |
Who hides in attics when the sun is up |
Everyone is at work |
What will I do? |
Where will I go? |
Show me the way |
The truth, the anger, show me rules of thumb |
Show the way to grow old |
Love is a guide |
The endless river of the soul |
But we are mean |
The dried up riverbeds of rock and stone |
Lust is my friend |
She comes to me when I am tired |
Life is a road, death is a myth |
Love is a fraud, it’s misunderstood |
Work is a sentence, family’s a drag |
This house is a trap |
I’m in a play written today about a girl |
She gets on perfectly with young and old |
Everybody loves her |
What would she wear? |
Cut off her hair? |
Wave as she slides |
Gracefully into the working week |
She hides her baggage inside |
She’s got a friend |
An ugly monster that will eat your face |
She has to cry |
A heavy catalogue of wasted time |
She’s got a friend |
A lonely monster that will prey on you |
Life is a secret, death is a myth |
Love is a fraud, it’s misunderstood |
Work is a sentence, family’s a drag |
This house is a trap |
Life is a secret, death is a myth |
Love is a fraud, it’s misunderstood |
Work is a sentence, family’s a drag |
This house is a trap |
I’m in a play written today about a boy |
Tired and melancholy, takes the weight |
Takes the weight of the world |
I walked alone, loving a song |
Walking the earth |
The worn-out sister who is twenty three |
Dried and wrinkled, alone |
I’ll give you a month |
To see past shadows in your sacred mind |
I’ll give you a week |
To look Medusa in the eye |
I’ll give you a month |
To notice heaven in the side of stage |
You’re king inside of your head |
You’re sitting on the throne of sand |
You’re pushing back the tide |
So lift the mountain up |
So tie writer’s ribbons down |
Assemble all your troops |
We go to war with metaphors |
You’ll suddenly see sense |
And when you do, I’ll have the higher ground |
You’re not the king of me |
I’ll take my chance |
and play for tyranny |
I build the sets and light the scene |
We’re prettier when we’re on the screen |
I build the sets and light the scene |
We’ll braver when we’re on the sacred screen |
The backstage of your life |
is filled with props and lines |
You should have sung |
The backstage of your life |
is filled with echoes of the ones you loved |
Name | Year |
---|---|
I Want The World To Stop | 2011 |
We Were Beautiful | 2018 |
Another Sunny Day | 2006 |
Funny Little Frog | 2006 |
The Boy With The Arab Strap | 1998 |
For the Price of a Cup of Tea | 2006 |
Dress Up in You | 2006 |
Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying | 1996 |
Ever Had A Little Faith? | 2015 |
To Be Myself Completely | 2006 |
Suicide Girl | 2011 |
Sleep The Clock Around | 1998 |
We Are the Sleepyheads | 2006 |
Piazza, New York Catcher | 2003 |
Poor Boy | 2018 |
If She Wants Me | 2003 |
The Fox In The Snow | 1996 |
The Blues Are Still Blue | 2006 |
The Party Line | 2015 |
Like Dylan In The Movies | 1996 |