Wolf Parade Album

I was asleep in a hammock,
I was dreaming that I was a web.
I was a dreamcatcher hanging in the window of a mini-van
parked along the water's edge.
I'd say that I was all alone,
I'd say that I was all alone,
I'd say that I was all alone,
but I will never be born as a scorpion.
You're gonna be okay come morning,
find your legs and find your horns.
Everybody's gotta be reborn,
but never be born as a scorpion.
Oh! - Everybody's gotta gotta be reborn
but you will never be born as a scorpion.
You're gonna be okay come morning,
find your legs and find your horns.
You're not just another pair of boat shoes
walking away from the harbor.
Cloud shadow on the mountain,
cloud shadow on the plains,
cloud shadow make an island nation
on the fabric of this terrain.
You gotta jump, jump over the island
like a gazelle.
You gotta jump
over the island
like a new long legged gazelle.
But you will never be born as a scorpion,
or just another pair of boat shoes
walking away from the harbor.
You're gonna be okay come morning,
find your legs and find your horns.
Everybody's gotta be reborn,
but you will never be born as a scorpion.
Oh! - Everybody's gotta gotta be reborn
but you will never be born as a scorpion!

My baby woke from an awful dream of rotten tropics by the sea
Just up from her father's place
Cutting through some empty space
Where trash would turn to gold
Palm Road

We could see it from the shore,
The cities ragged burning core
Hole in the sky and the fish get drowned
Something moving underground
The world was ending slow
on Palm Road

Take your lover all apart
Looking for his shipwrecked heart
But his heart could not be found
Baby it just can't be found
'Cause they turned the lights down low
On Palm Road

You said it's killing me it's killing me the way we go
But as we're running over miles they turned to gold

So teach your darlings how to dance
Tell them how to make romance
And whisper things they don't know
From a thousand years ago

Something began to glow….
You said it's killing me the way we go
I saw it coming…

What did my lover say
when she was driving with you?
I could not see her face
from my new bed.

I don't think I should be sorry
for things I do in dreams.
Just like the tumbling birds come tumbling down.

I got a sandcastle heart
made out of fine black sand.
Sometimes it turns into glass
when shit gets hot.

I wonder if all the beaches,
in all your holiday towns,
will turn to giant shining earrings against the cheek of the sea
When finally this supernova goes down.

Just like my lover said,

see,
It always had to go this way.
It always had to go this way.
It always had to go this way.
It always had to go this way.

I sleep all night with the light on,
and dream about the sun.
Maybe because of the light,
Maybe because of the sun.

I got a friend who's a genius
nobody listens to him.
I got some friends that got famous,
la la lala la la lala.

I don't think I should say sorry
for things I do in dreams.
Some people live like they're falling,
some people die in their sleep.

It always had to go this way.
It always had to go this way.
It always had to go this way.
It always had to go this way.

You lived in a place long, long ago
Where nothing moved and time went slow
And someone sang about a Golden Age
In Cenetaph Park, drinking in the dark
This place was the machine that put the iron in your heart

So we hung around and we hung around
and we hung around for days
In the parking lot stoned, stars shone out of phase
And the rain came down, cassettes wore out, Oh No!
Then you left town feeling pretty down
With your headphones and your coat and
your dirty graduation gown you were
In the bedroom singing radio songs
Sing them loud
Sing them all night, Emily
You need something to help you along
Freeze, freeze, freeze Little Golden Age

I don't miss my Little Golden Age
‘Cause the body takes the heart, takes the heart
around from place to place
And this place still stands, this place remains unchanged
And you can't go back
Oh, who would want to anyway

You were in the bedroom singing radio songs
Sing them loud
Sing them all night, Emily
You needed something to help you along
My Little Golden Age

I am a wall of sand and stone
and you, you're some kind of ivy I'm trying to hold as best as I can.
As best as I can.

But I'm a disaster,
I could not be burning faster

I stick my arms into webs,
I take my meals with weirdos,
And play with my rocket ships.

And all the while you, you
are so composed.
So composed
So composed

You are the most gracious thing I know.
Touched by crooking flowers
Touched by snow

And I put my rockets away.
I think you're fantastic.
I'll put my rockets away.
I know that you care.
I'll put my rockets away.
And you
I'll put my rockets away.
are a house of skin and hair.

I've been running off of fumes again.
I've been running off my mouth.
I've been running in the hours
between midnight and dawn
In the direction of the moon.
With the impression that's the way,
the way to find your house.

So, hey, I will build your bastion
And hey, how long can you put up with these questions
When you got nowhere to go except
into the terrible air?

And I put my rocket away.
I think you're fantastic
I'll put my rocket away.
I know that you care
I'll put my rockets away.
And you
I'll put my rockets away.
are a house of skin and hair)

Erring on the side of culture apparently past
Come down from the good rack crystal glass

'Cause I, I'm a wall of sand and stone.
And you, your some kind of ivy I'm trying to hold
as best as I can.

Maybe I just don't understand
Make me feel like another man
And I kissed you there on orchard road
Oooh oh oooh oooh

Pulled the car from the empty street
Empty room and empty anekatips sea
I know they're dancing there invisibly
ooh ooh oooh oooh

Little vision come shake me up, shake me up (x4)

Said your heart was a swarm of bees
And they don't and they will never leave
I hear them buzzing there invisibly
oooh oooh oooh oooh ooh ooh

And now it's just you and me
Well I could do a little mystery
And you just had to know
ooh oooh oooh oooh ooh ooh

Little vision come shake me up, shake me up (x7)

A little vision come, come and shake me up (repeat)
Ghost Pressure come shake me up, shake me up (repeat)

Early morning Sun has risen gold and chrome for Anastasia
Wake up slowly out the window someone calls for Anastasia
And I don't know how to stop it at all
I just don't know how to stop it at all
And I don't know how to stop it Anastasia

He wants your heart in his little fictions
But he just hasn't earned it yet baby
So raise your hands
As he's explaining how he built this city on cocaine lasers
And he don't know how to stop it at all
He just don't know how to stop it at all
And he don't know how to stop it Anastasia

Morning will turn turn everything back to gold

So kill the lights
For slow slow dancing
Oh as if no one would notice
And sing your songs
Sing them all night baby
If it's out of key well nobody's perfect
And you don't know how to stop it all
You just don't know how to stop it at all
And you don't know how to stop it
But morning will turn turn everything back to gold

Oh! You'll never know you'll never know know about
How his little heart his little heart was feeling so down

In the aftermath of storms
I'll let you use my hammer.
I was emboldened so I went and stole it
In the cover of the wailing of the storm.

My man, I can see her smiling.
I can see her smiling, my man.

When the old bone dry days whipped into a night of dancing,
cause I, I can see into the future.

And no one is ever gonna touch you
or get closer than they could to the sun.
You got the promise that I gave you,
you got the strongest one.

We are two oxen under one whip.
We are two men in new tuxedos.
And we are ready to jump from behind the wall.

Hey teacher! Love is never dead.
Hey teacher! Love is never dead.
Hey teacher! Love is never dead.
Hey teacher, hey teacher.

In the aftermath of storms
I'll let you use my hammer.
I was emboldened so I went and stole it
In the cover of the wailing of the storm.

Oh you, old thing.
Still got vibrations in your streets.
They move me to come down from the chandelier
I have been watching you from.

Bon soir, bon soir ma ville.
I'm gonna leave you now in the arms of babes.

I've got a new way to live through the storms you're so famous for
Oh, that's the sound of some new rocket upon the door.

Who's gonna steam up all your dancehalls?
Who'll put your lilies in a vase,
when all the good men have had all their daughters, and
all the other men have fallen in with daises?
I don't want to be the last one standing,
I don't want to reach the bitter end.
As much as I have always loved your dancing,
I hate the sounds that come from crowds
that just don't get my moves.

From here, in the sky,
I see rows of lights as as violent web.
And I will miss the way I got caught up in you.

Oh you, old thing.

I'm gonna leave you now in the arms of babes.
I've got a new way to live
In the storm, in the storm
In the storm.

Diamonds in the face of night time
Watch them as they float along
I was up there floating with them
And you know that I am gone
The radio sings a patriot's song, it's the devil that you know
Yulia

We were standing on the platform
The favorite sons of history
While you're back in Prostronaya
Writing in your diary
They flip on switch at mission control and I'm never coming home
Yulia

Oh! I woke up from a fever dream
Oh! Of floating in the salty sea
I'm stranded up here floating along
and my heart beats slow and I hope they
Bring my body back
Yulia

So when they turn the cameras on you
Baby please don't speak of me
Point up to the dark above you
As they edit me from history
I'm 20 million miles from a comfortable home
And space is very cold
Yulia

There's nothing out here nothing out here nothing out
nothing out here nothing out here there's nothing out here
nothing nothing out here nothing out here nothing nothing out

Cave-o-sapien -
you were made for breaking of my back.
As I carried you past quiet houses,
kicking through the roses in the yard, I spied
the wildflower kisses on your neck – saw the garden
had been trampled past repair.

Oh, Cave-o-sapien.

You look like the sunrise!
- purple, lemon, baby-blue and gold -
but I knew it sounded bad when you said NO REGRETS
and then said nothing more.
And while you're leaning deep into the smoke
of those sticks
you keep rubbing together,
I keep thinking about how bad it's gonna burn,
and all the people I loved, back home,
who I loved, and love,
that you turned on.
People just offering shelter from the wind.
So bow your head into the wind,
my Cave-o-sapien.

I had a vision of a gorilla,
and he was a killer,
A killer!

Alone,
in fields of stone,
you're not the sunrise,
you're just alone.

But I've got you, until you're gone