In the villa of Ormen, in the villa of Ormen
Stands a solitary candle, ah-ah, ah-ah
In the centre of it all, in the centre of it all
Your eyes
On the day of execution, on the day of execution
Only women kneel and smile, ah-ah, ah-ah
At the centre of it all, at the centre of it all
Your eyes, your eyes
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
In the villa of Ormen, in the villa of Ormen
Stands a solitary candle, ah-ah, ah-ah
At the centre of it all, at the centre of it all
Your eyes, your eyes
Ah-ah-ah
Something happened on the day he died
Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside
Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried
(I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar)
How many times does an angel fall?
How many people lie instead of talking tall?
He trod on sacred ground, he cried loud into the crowd
(I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar, I’m not a gangstar)
I can’t answer why (I’m a blackstar)
Just go with me (I’m not a filmstar)
I’m-a take you home (I’m a blackstar)
Take your passport and shoes (I’m not a popstar)
And your sedatives, boo (I’m a blackstar)
You’re a flash in the pan (I’m not a marvel star)
I’m the Great I Am (I’m a blackstar)
I’m a blackstar, way up, on money, I’ve got game
I see right, so wide, so open-hearted pain
I want eagles in my daydreams, diamonds in my eyes
(I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar)
Something happened on the day he died
Spirit rose a metre then stepped aside
Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried
(I’m a blackstar, I’m a star's star, I’m a blackstar)
I can’t answer why (I’m not a gangstar)
But I can tell you how (I’m not a flam star)
We were born upside-down (I’m a star's star)
Born the wrong way ‘round (I’m not a white star)
(I’m a blackstar, I’m not a gangstar
I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar
I’m not a pornstar, I’m not a wandering star
I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar)
In the villa of Ormen stands a solitary candle
Ah-ah, ah-ah
At the centre of it all, your eyes
On the day of execution, only women kneel and smile
Ah-ah, ah-ah
At the centre of it all, your eyes, your eyes
Ah-ah-ah
I lie in a field, in the trailer park of my dreams
saving up for someday
but what does someday mean?
and I'm young but I let it slip on by
I'm co-dependent and I'm lost inside
and you, you look like freedom
you look like the avalanche I need
the avalanche I need
And there's a road, leads away from here
and every day I stand in place and watch it disappear
and there's a bird, circles in my mind
security's the whore in me that never lets me fly
and you, you look like freedom
and you, you look like change
you look like the avalanche I need
the avalanche I need
With your sunburned soul
and your hunger for the road
I'm snowblind and I'm crying after
yeah, like nothing matters
When you go down take me
When you go down, yeah, make me
go down
I got a hunger you could feed
you're the avalanche I need
the avalanche I need
and I know it's a fine line divides
the place I'm looking for and what's inside
and I know it's a long, long way
through the outskirts of everyday
and you, you look like freedom
you, you look like change
you look like the avalanche I need
the avalanche I need
In the wee small hours of the morning,
While the whole wide world is fast asleep,
You lie awake and think about the girl
And never, ever think of counting sheep.
When your lonely heart has learned its lesson,
You'd be hers if only she would call,
In the wee small hours of the morning,
That's the time you miss her most of all.
My love I am the speed of sound
I left them motherless, fatherless
Their souls dangling inside-out from thier mouths...
But it's never enough
I want you
I carved your name across three counties
And ground it in with bloody hides
Broken necks will line the ditch
Till you "stop it! stop it! stop this madness! "
I want you
I have waited with a glacier's patience
Smashed every transformer with every trailer
Till nothing was standing
Sixty-five miles wide
But still you are nowhere, still you are nowhere, nowhere in sight
Come out to meet me, run out to meet me
Come into the light
Climb the boxcars to the engine
Through the smoke and to the sky
Your rails could always outrun mine so I
I picked them up and crashed them down
In a moment close to now
Cause I miss, I miss, I miss, I miss
How you'd sigh yourself to sleep
When I'd rake the springtime across your sheets
My love, I'm an owl on the sill in the evening
But morning finds you
Still warm and breathing
This tornado loves you, what will make you believe me?
The boy I love’s got another girl
He might be fucking her right now
I don’t have an apartment
Thought if I was smart I’d make it far
But I’m still at the start
Guess I’m contagious it’d be safest if you ran
Fuck that’s what they all just end up doing in the end
Take my car and paint it black
Take my arm, break it in half
Say something, do it soon
It’s too quiet in this room
I need noise
I need the buzz of a sub
Need the crack of a whip
Need some blood in the cut
I need noise
I need the buzz of a sub
Need the crack of a whip
Need some blood in the cut
I need blood in the cut
I need blood in the cut
Met back up with the boy I love
Cried on the streets of San Francisco
I don’t have an agenda
All I do is pretend to be ok so my friends
Can’t see…
Drifting like it's 1974
Dressing like the rolling stones
Hey! Ho! Let's go get some more
Like young Ramones
Some nights feel like every night
This one feels brand new
Only got bad things on my mind
When I'm with you
And so it goes, we found our sweet disaster
In a river of champagne
Swimming through the morning after
We float away
Dreaming like it's 1984
Dancing like the talking heads
Last call 40's at the corner store to take to bed
Tell me that you need me on the floor
Passed out in your dirty clothes
Ask me what the hell I'm looking for
Like you don't know
You're making it so easy
To throw myself away
And so it goes, we found our sweet disaster
In a river of champagne
Swimming through the morning after
We float away
Sweet disaster
Sweet disaster
Some nights feel like very night
This one feels brand new
Only got bad things on my mind
When I'm with you
And so it goes, we found our sweet disaster
In a river of champagne
Swimming through the morning after
We float away
Sweet disaster
Sweet disaster
The ghost who walks she's on the prowl
For the man she loved he cut her down
It was an ordinary night in June
When he drove her to the lake so they could watch the full moon
The ghost who walks she's on the prowl
For the man she loved he laid her down
In the tall grass he kissed her cheek
But with a knife in his hand he plunged it in deep
She looked at him with pleading eyes
He softly spoke my dear love has died
And then he muffled her desperate cries under the moonlight
The ghost who walks she's on the prowl
Wanders in the moonlight, she's crying to herself
Because his eyes never looked cruel
But the moon in the blade it shimmered like a jewel
She looked at him with pleading eyes
He softly spoke my dear the love has died
And then he muffled her deadly cries under the moonlight
Under the moonlight
Under the moonlight
Under the moonlight
A journey into a land unknown
A place no other man has seen
Somewhere only you can go
A place where everything comes to life
The trees are smiling
Embracing you into this foreign place
You melt into the ground below
You're part of something bigger than life
You get away from a grey day
You go to see the sunlight
To look at all the beauty
Connecting dots between the wrong and right
You float around in this state of mind
Thinking of all the things you want to say
Look around at the people in sight
They don't understand, they never will
I'm all alone and it's all so bright
Let me go home to my normal life
Let me be understood and let me understand
What life should be in the sunlight
Take my hand
Break my stride
Make me smile
For every time I've cried
Hold my heart
In the palm of your hand
Don't listen to it breakin'
Just listen to the band
Do you want to ride in my car?
It's parked out on the street
Or just stay with me a while
Before I fall asleep
Take these tears
Wash your skin
I'm havin' trouble breathin'
Since you walked in
My hands are tied
My head is reelin'
My eyes have cried
A million tears
From wishin' you were here
All my life
I've welcomed pain
I've made up more excuses
To bring it back again
Now I'm here
And I'll drink to the shame
I'll drink to the madness
That made me this way
My hands are tied
My head is reelin'
My eyes have cried
A million tears
From wishin' you were here
Take these tears
Wash your skin
I'm havin' trouble breathin'
Since you walked in
We've been trying something
a little different this tour.
We've been looking at
one of our songs
from a different angle,
under a different light,
so we can hopefully kind of
see it almost for the first time.
We'd like try that for you tonight, is that okay?
We're gonna need your help though.
We're gonna need your help
and your permission,
so we need you to find
a comfortable space,
that is not only comfortable,
but vulnerable.
I want you to shut your eyes and go there,
and we'll meet you on the other side..
Saw that gap again today.
While you were begging me to stay.
Take care not to make me enter.
If I do we both may disappear.
Saw that gap again today.
While you were begging me to stay
Managed to push myself away
And you as well, my dear
And you, as well
Pushed you away my dear
I will choke until I swallow
Choke this infant here before me
What are you but my reflection?
Who am I to judge or strike you down?
But you're pushing me
And Im shoving you
And your pushing me
And Im shoving you
Rest your trigger on my finger,
Bang my head upon the fault line
You better take care not to make me enter
If I do we both may disappear
But you're pushing me
And Im shoving you
And your pushing me
And Im shoving you
You still love me
We're pushing and were shoving
And you're pushing and I'm shoving
You still love me
And were pushing and were shoving
And I'm pushing as your shoving
And Im slipping back into the gap again
I feel alive when you touch me...
I feel alive when you hold me...
...down
Slipping back into you
I am somewhere I dont wanna be, yeah
Put me somewhere I dont wanna be
Push me somewhere I dont wanna be
Seeing someplace I don't wanna see
Never wanna see that place again...
Saw that gap again today
While you were begging me to stay
Managed to push myself away,
And you as well, my dear
If, when I say I may fade like a sigh if I stay,
You minimize my movement anyway,
I must persuade you another way
Pushing and Shoving and
Pushing and Shoving and
Pushing me
There's no love in fear.
Staring down the hole again.
Hands are on my back again.
Survival is my only friend.
Terrified of what may come.
Remember I will always love you,
As I claw your fucking throat away.
It will end no other way.
I've got a thing for you baby always have
Never knew how far my heart would take me
She's my friend but she treats you bad
Can't let that happen to such a decent man
If you let me in, let me stay a while
I'll do more than make you smile
Come to me child
I'm gonna soothe you
Hey baby
I know just what to do
My baby
Don't worry, I won't do you any harm
My touch is gentle, my body is warm
Lift your head, feel my cool hand on your face
Let me kiss your tears away
If you let me in, honey let me stay
Lay your head on my breast
I'll do the rest
I'm gonna soothe you
Hey baby
I know just what to do
My baby
Can you feel it
Comin' down like a trance
Forget your head remember how to dance
Can you feel it
Comin down like healin'
So deep, it just couldn't be a sin, now baby
Walk on in, baby come on in
Make yourself at home in my arms
I'm gonna soothe you
Hey baby
I know just what to do
My baby
So you can't hold a star in your hand
Though at least you can hold onto another plan
Rusted wheel
Planted still
I can tell it's summer
From the size of the bugs that fly through my window
Flying through my window
Rusted wheel
Planted still
Rusted wheel
Can't move on
I can tell it's winter
From the size of the lump in my throat
I got a lump in my throat
Rusted wheel
Planted still
Rusted wheel
Can't move on
And it feels just like the ground
Trapped in another way
Just still in the ground
And it feels just the like the ground
The ground
Trapped in another way
Just still in the ground
The ground
The ground
So you can't hold a star in your hand
Though at least you can move onto a better plan right now
Rusted wheel
Planted still
Rusted wheel
Can't move on
Rusted wheel
Planted still
Rusted wheel
Planted still
Rusted wheel
Planted still
Rusted wheel
Can't move on
Now that we've met
We can only laugh at these regrets
Common as a winter cold
They're telephone poles
They follow each other
One, after another, after another
But now my heart is green as weeds
Grown to outlive their season
And nothing comforts me the same
As my brave friend who says,
"I don't care if forever never comes
'Cause I'm holding out for that teenage feeling
I'm holding out for that teenage feeling"
All the loves we had
All we ever knew
Did they fill me with so many secrets
That keep me from loving you
'Cause it's hard, hard
Pretty little hair-do don't do what it used to
Can't disguise the living
All the miles that we've been through
Looking like a train wreck
Wearing too much makeup
The burden that you carry
Is more than one soul could ever bare
Don't look so sad, Marina
There's another part to play
Don't look so sad, Marina
Save it for a rainy day
Save it for a rainy day
Save it for a rainy day
You never make your mind up
Like driving with your eyes shut
Rough around the edges
Won't someone come and take you home
Waiting for a breakthrough
What will you set your mind to?
We stood outside the Chinese restaurant in the rain