Guillemots Album

Fell in love with a boy
Grew tired of it
Fell in love with the world
Yearned to fly from it
Fell in love with myself
Broke it off for the breeze
Broke it off for the weather

Walking slowly through space
Pleased and terrified
Backing out of the race
Extra edified
I want my sentences back
Can't remember their faces

And I'm still here
Holding on to nothing, man
Stand on my life
I'm writing my delivery
Walk the river
Like a hunted animal

Everything was the life
The summer holidays
Christmastime in the drive
Always out of range
Sit down and fall on a star
Did someone mention the weather
Did someone mention the weather

And I'm still here
Holding on to nothing, man
Stand on my life
Here is my delivery
Walk the river
Like a hunted animal

It's an endless conversation
With an endless voice, over endless fascination
Over endless choice, and my heart's going out of missions on imagined motorways
I never said I was right, I just hoped you thought it anyway

Walk the river
Like a hunted animal
Walk the river
Like a hunted animal
Walk the river
Like a hunted animal
Walk the river
You hunted animal
Walk the river
We are lost old animals

There's a man with a face like sorrow
Now he's gone for good
How could anyone hold you without feeling good?

There's a shop where the thoughts that I borrow
Swim around my head like snow
How could anyone ignore you?

So play on, play on, play on
The skies are made vermillion
We're singing in a concrete star
Oh we're all just castles in the cards

There's a hope in my blood when I see you
I hear crashing drums
How could any other language hope to lead me on?

Little sparks in the puddles shoot like darts
at all the things we might be
you and me
and time itself is frozen

So play on, play on, play on
The skies are made vermillion
We're killing all the saints tonight

Oh play on, you shadows of the light

So play on, play on, play on
The skies are made vermillion

If all I was was all I felt
Then the sun itself would start to melt
Into waterfalls pouring down like song
Oh play on

So play on, play on, play on
The skies are made vermillion
Killing all the saints tonight
Oh we're all just dancers in the night

I don't wanna know your name
I don't ever wanna speak again
I just wanna be somewhere I can lose myself
Is that alright?

I don't wanna play any games
Someone always loses and they usually share my name
Just take me out of here
Let me be your souvenir

Just take my hand and stop the moonlight fading
Just take my hand and lead me up the stairs
Just take my hand and make me feel amazing
'Cos I don't feel amazing now

Does it even matter where you go
If we're living for the window or the radio
Just take your medicine in silence, take your medicine and write home

See the stars have lost their gaze
And I thought we had a lot of days to share
Oh anyway my heart is on the table
You can take it if you want, it's yours

Just take my hand and make me glad I'm changing
Oh take my hand and and take me anywhere
Oh take my hand and make me feel amazing
'Cos I don't feel amazing now

So if you've nothing else to do then come with me
You can make believe all good things come for free
Can't stop these noises at the door
Oh, well no, no, there's nothing there at all
Oh, no, no, there's nothing there at all
Oh, no, there's nothing there at all
Not at all

I don't feel amazing now
I don't feel amazing now

Oooooooh

I don't feel amazing now
I don't feel amazing now

Just take my hand and laugh like you are crazy
Oh take my hand and tell me life is fair
Oh take my hand and tell me I'm amazing, darling
'Cos I don't feel amazing now, amazing now

Can't get the noise out of my head
Singing away
Can't stop thinking about you instead
Every day isn't love when you're lonely
(Oh did I let you go
Oh how I let you go...)

Greet the new day
Greet the new day
Greet the new day with a smile on your face
With a smile on your face
Lovers in the dark and sentimental songs
They make it sound so easy, but I don't know
I don't know

Oh I'm so alive, I'm so alive
but I can't stop the tears from falling down
Summer came today
Summer came today
Summer came today, but I didn't know, I didn't know

The ice room is melting
The ice room is melting
The ice room is melting, let it go, let it go

Oh I'm so alive, I'm so alive
but I can't stop those tears from falling down
Let it go, let it go
Oh I'm so alive, I'm so alive
but I can't stop those tears from falling

I'm so alive, oh I'm so alive
but I can't stop those tears from falling
I can't stop those tears from falling
I can't stop those tears from falling down
falling down, falling down
I can't stop the tears

I came so close to giving up
So very close to giving up
The trees were timber waiting for fire
My home was a heartbeat, and heartbeats tire

But then I was stolen in love
I wish I was stolen in love
Love is anybody calling
Can you hear them now?
Can you hear them now?

I remember the feeling of being in one place,
When home was a harbour asleep in her face
But now I'm running with the stripeless tigers of the world
How can I stand in the hot hot sun
And not think about the cold?

And get stolen in love
I wish I was stolen in love
Oh love is anybody calling
Can you hear them now?
You can hear them now

Saying I don't have a clue
No I don't have a clue
No I don't have a clue
No I don't have a clue
No I don't have a clue
Oh no, you're going to have to let me go

'Cos I'm a tumbling star
Home isn't anywhere we ever are
Home is a look on a face
Home isn't here or any place
Home is anybody calling to get stolen in love
Stolen in love
I wish I was
I wish I was
I wish I was
I wish I was

I drove all night
To beat the morning
Inside
There were cracks in the mirror
There was smoke in the glimmer
Inside

Take me with you
Take me with you
Take me with you
Something's going on inside
Yet so far away

Something borrowed me in the night
A crack in the smile of the harbourlights
Rapture round our fingertips

I'd like to get to know the places you let go inside
Oh come out to play
You dark dogs carry me with you

Standing on the shore of a shipwrecked promise
Standing on the shore of a shipwrecked promise

I'm driving with you
I'm driving with you
I'm driving with you
To the roads
To the roads inside

And I'm dying like you
I'm dying like you
I'm a child like you
Take me with you inside

Snow falling

The storm is over
Chase the rain
And up on nowhere hill the sun is out again

I must be a lover
I must be a lover
The tangled beauty of the fight has fallen in my arms
It's begging for a light

Come find me
I must be a lover
I must be a lover

Oh sometimes I
I feel like dying
I feel like failing
Rather than trying

But oh no I'm not going back
I'm not going back
I'm not going back
I'm not going back
To the place those thoughts attack

So lift me high above the clouds
Where electricity is calling to the crowds
Of better lifetimes to discover
For all you jilted lovers

And if you're listening far away
Hold up your hands and let me know that you're okay
Oh life will be alright
It's just the past you're leaving

Oh I must be a lover
I must be a lover
Let it go, let it go, let it go
Get the memory
Let it go, let it go, let it go

We are standing on the shore
I'm sure, I'm sure
We are standing on the shore
Get the memory, get the memory
Let the memory out the door
Let it go
Get the memory
Let it go
Let the memory go

The light is changing colour
Come outside, be a lover

The storm is over

Slow train going out of here tonight
Slow train's going out of here tonight
Come back away from here
Come back away from here

Slow train's going out of here tonight
And I want it but I cannot see it
And I'm in it but I cannot see it

Don't slow me down
It's just another day
Don't slow me down
It's just another day

Don't count your cornerstones
Come count your cornerstones

Slow train's going out of here tonight
And something that you cannot see is so far away you're almost in it

Don't slow me down
It's just another day
Don't slow me down
It's just another day

Don't slow me back to ground
Don't show me back around, around

Oh it's heavier than you'd believe
So light that you can barely feel it

Don't slow me down
It's just another day
Don't slow me down
It's just another day
It's just another day
It's just another day
It's just another day

I hope you'll be alright
Alright, seeing your friends
Alright

I hoped you'd be alright

Could we be somewhere dark?
Could we be anywhere at all?

Maybe I'll try to forget you
Though you hold a blade in my heart

Sometimes I remember wrong
Sometimes I remember wrong
Sometimes I remember wrong
Sometimes I remember wrong

Fly on across the dell
My little bluebell
Taking off above my head
All things will live until they're dead

Sometimes I remember wrong
Sometimes I remember wrong
Sometimes I remember wrong
Sometimes I remember wrong

So pull the power on the band
I still don't want to understand
So if it's just the way it is
If everything ends up like this
Let everybody go abroad

Sometimes I remember wrong
Sometimes I remember wrong
Sometimes I remember wrong
Sometimes I remember wrong

I wake up
And nothing is where it should be
Why do these things happen to me?
I thought I was free
Now I appear to be
A standing stone

You knock me over
You knock me over
Come on and do it again

Conversations
How we run into the cellar door
Yeh I'm a backstroke swimmer for sure
To the basket I'll return for evermore

You knock me over
You knock me over
You knock me over

And lately I've been getting a feeling
I've been running backwards down the stairs
In a masterpiece that no one bothered painting
Everybody's too busy with those baskets of theirs

You knock me over
You knock me over
Don't remember anything
Anything at all

You knock me over
You knock me over
Now it's happening again
There's something wrong with my head
Is this heaven ahead

Miles above the ground below
No particular place to go
Flying higher

Stumble back home to the news at 10
Catch a thought
Let it go again
Flying higher

It's a long way down
Down's not where I want to be

And if these days would never end
If laughter was my very oldest friend
Not a growing trend
Where what I have I always tend to lose
By dancing in the devil's shoes

The clock strikes 10 at the edge of doubt
Nothing I know is my world right now
Play on, play on

And could I see my soul turn blue
Cross the sun
Get burnt for you
Play on
Play on

It's a long way home
When home is the violet sky

And there's a torm in every bottle of wine
There's a ghost that finds me every single time I think of the games we'll miss
The playground and the avarice

Oh I should learn to know what to keep
What to let go
Talking out loud is not a good thing to do
When you're dancing in the devil's shoes

And I wish your face was just your face
And not the moonlight's chosen resting place
How can the world compare?
It's just a planet when you're not there

Come watch me hit the ground
With the most fantastic sound
Talking out loud is not a good thing to do
When you're dancing in the devil's shoes
Dancing in the devil's shoes

Miles above the ground below

Yesterday came walking
Yesterday got found
Yesterday went barking
At the underground

Yesterday went surfing in another town
Yesterday's deserting
So come clear the ground

Yesterday is dead
Yesterday is dead
Yesterday is dead

Yesterday is dead
Yesterday is dead
Yesterday is dead

Yesterday's a liar
Yesterday's a joke
Yesterday is fire
Desert island smoke

Yesterday is dead
Yesterday is dead
Yesterday is dead

All I really want to do is burn
Burn out with the style and the grace of a metre
Stretched out for a mile

Yesterday is dead
Yesterday is dead
Yesterday is dead

Yesterday is dead
Yesterday is dead
Yesterday is dead

Yesterday is dead
Yesterday is dead
Yesterday is dead

Yesterday is dead
Yesterday is dead
Yesterday is dead

If only we believed in someone
If only we believed in someone
If only we believed in someone
If only we believed in someone
If only we believed in someone
If only we believed in someone