Maxïmo Park Album

You've been, with me
A year, to the day
365 days
Watching me decay

We used to talk about girls who play guitars
We used to talk about plans in tiny bars

In the gaps, inbetween words
Are the things that really intrigue me
It's the gasps, and the sighs
That say more about what's inside you

We used to climb up on a high horse everytime
We used to talk about boys with missing spines

It's her life and her life is worth living (it's her life)
It never struck her to pause for one minute (it's her life)

The path, of excess, just led, to boredom
You've lived, your life, with your mouth, wide open

It's her life and her life is worth living (it's her life)
It never struck her just to pause for one minute (it's her life)

When you lie on my bed in your limo with your friend (?)
Don't you know how much that hurts?
You could pretend and I wouldn't know
I could be who you wanted in the dark

She goes and she gets drunk
She gets off
She goes and she gives up
She goes and she gets drunk
She gets off
She goes and she gives up

It's her life and her life is worth living (it's her life)
It never struck her just to pause for one minute (it's her life)

And her life is worth living

We used to talk about girls who play guitars
We used to talk about girls who play guitars
We used to talk about girls who play guitars

I’m not a man, I’m a machine
Chisel me down until I am clean
I buy books, I never read
And then (I’ll) tell you some more about me

Beneath the concrete there’s a sound
A muffled cry below the ground
There is a poison in the air
A mix of chemicals and fear

Mama, i've just hunches
I’m not sure what they mean
You’re asking for commitment
When I’m somewhere in between

Never, never try to guage temperature
When you tend to travel at such speed
It's our velocity

Is it cold where you are this time of year?
You didn’t leave a scar

A stream of numbers hit a screen
And you’re expected to know what they mean
throughout the conflict I was serene
I can't outrun the sadness I’ve seen

Are you willing to resist
For people you’ve never met
The devil's wheel revolves
But it needs to be reset

Never, never try to guage temperature
When you tend to travel at such speed
It's our velocity

Please tell me
Is it cold where you are this time of year?
You didn’t leave a scar

I’ve got no one to call
In the middle of the night anymore

I’m just alone
With these thoughts

I’ve got no one to call
In the middle of the night anymore

I’m just alone
With my thoughts

I watched a film to change my feelings
Strong enough to bear a burden
If everyone became this sensitive
I wouldn’t have to be so sensitive

If everyone became so sensitive
I wouldn’t have to be so sensitive

Love is a lie, which means I've been lied to,
Love is a lie, which means I've been lied to,
Love is a lie, which means I've been lied to,
etc.

I’ve got no one to call
In the middle of the night anymore
I’m just alone
With these thoughts

I’ve got no one to call
In the middle of the night anymore
I’m just alone
With my thoughts

Never, never try to guage temperature
When you tend to travel at such speed
It's our velocity

Night falls and towns become circuit boards
We can beat the sun as long as we keep moving
From the air, stadium lights stand out like flares
And all I know is that you're sat here right next to me

We rarely see warning signs in the air we breathe
Right now I feel each and every fragment

This paper trail leads right back to you
You say you need me to step outside
You spent the evening unpacking books from boxes
You passed me up so as not to break a promise
Scattered polaroids and sprinkled words around your collar in the long run
Said you knew that this would happen

Well this is something new but it turns out it was borrowed too
Why does every let down have to be so thin?
Rain explodes at the moment that the cab door closed
I feel the weight upon your kiss ambiguous

You have to leave, I appreciate that
But I hate when conversation slips out of our grasp

You spent the evening unpacking books from boxes
You passed me up so as not to break a promise
Scattered polaroids and sprinkled words around your collar in the long run
Said you knew that this would happen

Two bodies in motion
This is a matter of fact
It wasn't built to last

Two bodies in motion
This is a matter of fact
It wasn't built to last

You spent the evening unpacking books from boxes
You passed me up so as not to break a promise
Scattered polaroids and sprinkled words around your collar in the long run
Said you knew that this would happen

The pounding rain continued it's bleak fall
And we decided just to write after all, after all

The pounding rain continued it's bleak fall
And we decided just to write after all

Modern architecture
Already left to decay
You don't know what you're breathing in
What it is, I couldn't say

We'll meet in russian literature
For floode day
Travel in transpenines
She said she'd wait

More empty buildings
For invisible men
No market vaule to justify the price of the rent

Ignorance isn't bliss
Familiarity still enters contempt

We're going to need sometime
But she said she'd wait for me
(Wait for me)
(Wait for me)

Are you hopeful or just gullible?
Are you hopeful or just gullible?

She won't be saved
We can't be saved
I can't live my life being nervous about tomorrow
I already knew her name!
I already knew
Well I knew her name

There's a news blackout
'Cus it just got worse
Status depends, on the size of your purse
There it is again that lock of hair that won't sit still

Our earthly pleasure distract us against our will
(Against our will)
Are you hopeful or just gullible?
Are you hopeful or just gullible?

We won't be saved
She can't be saved
I can't live my life feeling nervous about tomorrow

I already knew her name
I already knew
She won't be saved
We can't be saved
I can't live my life feeling nervous about tomorrow

I already knew her name!
I already knew
Well I knew her name!

You write a list of things to do
To occupy your time that you could use
But in my mind it's never final
And when you sleep I try not to wake you as I leave

Oh, I waited up for you
But you didn't come back home
Oh, I waited up for you
Couldn't you come back home?

If someone gets run down
Karaoke plays somewhere in the background
But there is no explanation
What makes a grown man cry
Karaoke plays
If someone gets run down

We never did want the dawn to break
Decided from the sheets in which we laid
You know I changed my ways forever
The North Sea crashes through your dreams as I leave

Oh, I waited up for you
But you didn't come back home
Oh, I waited up for you
Couldn't you come back home?

If someone gets run down
Karaoke plays somewhere in the background
But there is no explanation
What makes a grown man cry
Karaoke plays
If someone gets run down

I came home, there were radio waves
I heard voices through the radio waves
I came home, you were nowhere to be found
The lights were on and the radio played
I came home, there were radio waves
A children's cry out through the radio waves
Every night we've got so much to say
I wanna hear all the things you did today

If someone gets run down
Karaoke plays somewhere in the background
But there is no explanation
What makes a grown man cry
Karaoke plays
If someone gets run down

You don't have to deny your urge,
It doesn't make you bad.
On our admission the make weight's lifted,
Stop dwelling on the past.

I think about the three of us,
I wonder how we tesselate,
It would have been much wiser,
To allow these feelings to rebate.

Empty words so free of connotations,
All dreams come to an end.
Codify your utterance, communicate your needs,
Prepare your vocabulary.

My nervousness prevails me,
My thoughts are becoming fugitive,
And when I'm in your arms,
I wonder how much I can give.

The weekend is a Godsend,
The night time is a lifeline,
Another useless fumble,
Another drunken stumble,
The pinkness round your iris,
Reveals that you've been crying,
But I don't know what my crime is,
I cause upset without trying.

People are judged on their mistakes,
And how much money that they make.
No-one wants to lose their youth,
In a trench like this.

Visiting the same places,
Kissing all the same faces,
Building up support,
Looking for rapport.

I empty out my pockets at the end of the Night,
Another scrawled first name,
Another sense of shame.

I need to get to bed,
Before I fail myself again,
We got to close that night,
And I reached out for your hand.

The night time is a lifeline,
The weekend is a God send,
Another useless fumble,
Another drunken stumble,
Oh but the pinkness near your iris,
Reveals that you've been crying,
But I don't know what my crime is,
Behind my crumbling veneer.

My strength is sapping,
My heart strings are snapping,
Ooooooooo.

My strength is sapping,
My heart strings are snapping,
Ooooooooo.
Ooooooooo

The lines of transport make their way through towns
The lines of transport make their way through towns
At any cost, name a price

Digging through towns
Make way, like Moses through the waves
Pick and choose, from the folklore to describe the biggest events

Did I make it all up?

The tritus gathers, until dirt is the only layer you see
Scratch away, scrap away
Lacerate
Keep scratching!

Have we become the unshockable or
Have we become this saddened?
Activities absolute, and things are looking scarce!

The human heart is on trial for a limited spell
The human heart is on offer for a limited spell

Your body was your great strength
How do you feel, now there's nothing left?
The moments gone for me, you spent too many hours in bed

Do you think this is (Do you think this is?) Cool?
Cigarette clowns, and laughter
We hide behind our hands
Take them away, move them away
Stand up straight
Keep turning!

Have we become the unshockable or
Have we become this saddened?
Activities absolute, and things are looking scarce!

Have we become the unshockable or
Have we become this saddened?
Activities absolute, and things are looking scarce!

Conceal those thoughts
That ring linger on your breath
Keep them hidden
Or they'll catch their death

Conceal those thoughts
That ring linger on your breath
Keep them hidden
Or they'll catch their death

The lines of transport forge their way through towns
The moods of transport forge their way through towns

Take them away, move them away
Take them away, keep turning
Take them away, move them away
Keep turning

Have we become the unshockable or
Have we become this saddened?
Activities absolute, and things are looking scarce!

Have we become the unshockable or
Have we become this saddened?
Activities absolute, and things are looking scarce!

You said you'd like to see me again
And then, it all unravelled
I heard that you were seeing someone
Not such an insignificant other

It seems my moves were far too swift
In life, some things are worth the effort
I touched the place where your hair had been
I pulled on the shirt that you left round mine

Defacing pictures of famous people on the train
Standing by the monument just waiting for the rain

In my wallet with your photobooth smile
And I, wearing my waterproof jacket
Posterity has hold of us now
Am I just waiting for the next chapter

We'll sleep tonight in seperate towns
At dusk, we see our disparate futures
I tore a sock to bind up your golden hair
We found a hotel bar to sustain our last night in vain

Defacing pictures of famous people on the train
Standing by the monument just waiting for the rain

No more late night calls
Where tear drops fall
No more late night calls
Where tear drops fall
Tear drops fall

Standing by the monument just waiting for the rain
I'm just passing my time with you on my mind
I'm just wasting my precious time

I'm just wasting my time with you on my mind

You were born in winter
The summer came too fast
Like a child you can't control
Now isn't it obvious?

You still value his word
Now that it's not there
A love life down the drain
Now isn't it obvious?

Some people hide their emotions
And some people show too much
I'm aiming for somewhere central
Now isn't it obvious?

He changed his luck for you
But you changed your life for him
Now was the verdict worth the trial?
Did we go too far, is that why your nose is bleeding?
Last night I dreamt we kissed on a bench in the evening

What went wrong with you?
I never took you for a fool
But all it takes is a rumour
Now isn't it obvious?

I'd love to clear the air
But I can't bear to hear your voice
It's tainted with his name
Now isn't it obvious?

He changed his luck for you
But you changed your life for him
Now was the verdict worth the trial?
Did we go too far, is that why your nose is bleeding?
Last night I dreamt we kissed on a bench in the evening

Did we go too far, is that why your nose is bleeding?
Last night I dreamt we kissed on a bench in the evening
I was the one who followed
And you were the one who was leading
When last night I dreamt we kissed on a bench in the evening

In a fortnight's time
You will be mine
I'll bide my time

Your a paradime
Of woman kind
You could be mine

I distrust myself
But I've got to try
I catch your eye

Would you like to go on a date with me?
And I know, it's old fashioned to say so
Five times five equals twenty five
Don't you know your times tables by now?
Don't you know?

On the last train home
You want a phone
Instead you rub your eyes
The reflection is grim
In the windowpane
It's the human stain

Do you have a drink
To erase the day
There's another way

So
Would you like to go on a date with me?
And I know, it's old fashioned to say so
Five times five equals twenty five
Don't you know your times tables by now?
Don't you know?

When it comes to girls I'm mostly hypothetical
If I list their names it's purely alphabetical
When it comes to girls I'm truely theoretical
If I test a nerve it's merely dialetical

And so
Would you like to go on a date with me?
And I know, it's old fashioned to say so
Five times five equals twenty five
You should know your times tables by now
Don't you know?
I said don't you know?

In a fortnight's time
You will be mine
You will be mine

Solarised (the overlap)
A dividing line (the dyed glass)
Like a cog (the centrepiece)
Standing still (sewn-up)

Follow me down this rope ladder
Our bodies becoming shapes on the sails
It's a leap of faith; it's a crash landing
Thin ice softly splinters

Sandblasted and set free
A trial run on paper
The earth is solid, you can dig it up
Or you can pave it over

Balconies (a poster)
Like diving boards (a placard)
Naked heels (perspex)
Cotton reels (creates a spectrum)

Follow me down this rope ladder
Our bodies becoming shapes on the sails
It's a leap of faith. Towards a crash landing
Thin ice softly splinters

Sandblasted and set free
A trial run on paper
The earth is solid, you can dig it up
Or you can pave it over
Sandblasted and set free
I fell in love with flirtation

Sandblasted and set free
A trial run on paper
The earth is solid, you can dig it up
Or you can pave it over
Sandblasted and set free

The brevity of sensation
I fell in love with flirtation
We're moving targets, you can set us up
The brevity of sensation

Parisian skies,
Shadows beneath your eyes,
All we have is now,
And the arc of your brow

You came to leave these shores,
You had an inkling in your pores.
We came to bid farewell,
The tears began to swell.

Ooooo, Oooooooo

Ohhhhh
I don't think she knew,
And I can't forget her

The dark with holes,
Our lives unfold,
We always slept so well,
Our bodies seemed to gel.

The mind persists,
We have thoughts to exist,
It was a test I failed,
Her passion never tailed.

Ooooo, Oooooooooo

Ohhhhh
I don't think she knew,
How much I loved her.
Ohhhhh,
I don't think she knew.

Is this the thrill of the chase,
How can I keep up the pace.

Parisian skies,
Shadows beneath your eyes,
We always slept so well,
The present cast a spell.

You said we never talked,
But there's a lightness that it brought.
Refracting all my sins,
We never (acted thin)

Oooooo, Ooooooooo

Ohhhhh
I don't think she knew,
How much I loved her
Ohhhhh
I don't think she knew,

Your loss is mine too.

Did you ever feel the thrill of the chase,
The breath on your neck,
And the locked embrace

Did you ever feel the thrill of the chase,
The hairs on your neck,
And a lost embrace

All of the tiny events in your back,
It reminds me of the way that porcelain cracks