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Metroland

We live and we die
We love and we lie
In hope and in plan
Consuite in metroland

You say run away
I say here we stand
Today is yesterday
Everyday in metroland

We fail and we fall
We fear and we crawl
With faith in our hands
We’ve burned in metroland

You say run away
I say here we stand
Today is yesterday
Everyday in metroland

You say run away
I say here we stand
Today is yesterday
Everyday in metroland

Metroland… metroland
Metroland… in metroland
Every day in metroland, metroland…
Metroland metroland

Night Café

Sitting in the night cafe,
Like a Hopper painting on a very bad day
Drinking like I used to do, with a
Manner that you hate me too, and then
People come and people go, but
Who they are I’ll never know, and I’m
Unaware of what they say and I
I really don’t care anyway, oh no

Sitting in an empty room, at the
Middle ending on a day of doom, and I’m
Dreamin’ like I used to do, of the
Way it was when I met you, and the
Memories they come and go, like
Shadows on the stair below,
A voyeur in the high window, as
Unobserved I watch you go, oh no

Sitting in the early train, on
Sunday morning and it’s pouring rain, and I’m
Dying like I used to do with a
Head and heart so full of you, and then
Feelings come and feelings go, but
When they stop I’ll never know, and I’m
Unaware of what you say, and I
I really don’t care anyway, oh no

Sitting in the night cafe
Sitting in the night cafe
Sitting in the night cafe
Sitting in the night cafe

The Future Will Be Silent

What does the future sound like?
What does the future sound like? Go
What does the future sound like? Go
What does the future sound like?
What does the future sound like? Stop, Go
What does the future sound like? Stop, Go
What does the future sound like? Stop, Go
What does the future sound like?
The future will be silent

What does the future sound like? Stop, Go
What does the future sound like? Stop, Go
What does the future sound like? Stop, Go
What does the future sound like?
The future will be silent

The future was not supposed to be like this
The future was not supposed to be like this
The future was not supposed to be like this
The future was not supposed to be like this

The future will be silent
The future will be silent

What does the future sound like? Silent
Where is the paradise that was promised? Silent

The future is the shadow of today
The future is the shadow of today

Not supposed to be like this
Not supposed to be like this

The future will be silent. Like this
The future was not supposed to be like this
Silent

Helen Of Troy

Helen of Troy, Is that your name?
Stupid girl, Stupid game
Helen of Troy, Far away
Are you happy now? There to stay

Because I, Cannot cry, Ever again

Helen of Troy, Black and white
Cries all day, and cries all night
Helen of Troy, you got so strong
Does that make you right and make me wrong?

Because I, Cannot cry, Ever again

Helen of Troy, broken down
There’s bits of you all over town
Helen of Troy, suicide, virgin Mary and martyr bride

Because I, Cannot cry, Ever again

Our System

Across the Universe
Our system is expanding
Crystal velvet void
Stained by the disease

Empty words and deeds
Pleading to the ether
Perfect wires and steel
Pierced the cold abyss

Across the Universe
We’re reaching out to Heaven
Only to perceive
No-one there at all

Every world we reach
Perfect, pure and clean
Every word we preach
Spoken to deceive

Across the Universe
We’re broken and we’re bleeding
Pointing to the stars
Stolen by degrees

Taken to the edge
Beautiful, serene
Save us from ourselves
Delivered from this end

Kissing The Machine

I want you to want me?
I need you to need me?
I know that you love me?
I want you to need me?

You’ve come a long way from just TV?
From a distant voice to ecstasy?
Now you need to know what’s on my mind?
Can I break your heart with every time?
She gives no love and won’t let go?
And when she fails she tells you so?
The perfect touch is cold and clean?
She steals your soul when kissing the machine?

Her hand of love enshrouds my face?
She moves and turns with rigid grace?
The light reflection on her skin?
The words repeat and draw me in?
And what I say is what she’ll do?
Repeat the words I told her to?
The perfect touch is cold and clean?
She steals your soul when kissing the machine?

Ich moechte, dass du mich willst
Ich brauche, dass du mich brauchst
Ich weis, dass du mich liebst
Ich moechte, dass du mich willst

If destiny is sometimes cruel?
Then once again I am it’s fool?
To give my heart to wires and steel?
But what you get is what you feel?
No flesh and blood can give you more?
The key to love is at this door?
The perfect touch was cold and clean?
She steals your soul when kissing the machine?

Kissing the machine?
Kissing the machine?
Kissing the machine.

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Stay With Me

Like a little child
You tried pretending for a while
But you’d feel the pain
Seems like I felled you once again

If only I could stop them falling
Falling down like rain
If only I could stop those tears that
Knock you down again

Stay
Why don’t you stay
Stay with me

You could settle down
Give up the fight before you drown
But you stand alone
Cos your lonely house is not a home

If only time could fall or stumble
On all the years we claimed
If only time could heal us all with
No-one left to blame

Stay
Why don’t you stay
Stay with me

If only I could stop them falling
Falling down like rain
If I could only stop those tears that
Knock you down again

Stay
Why don’t you stay
Stay with me

Why don’t you stay

Why don’t you stay
Why don’t you stay
Stay with me

Why don’t you stay
Why don’t you stay
Stay with me

Dresden

Set the dials to overload
My head is ready to explode
I can’t breathe the air you leave
Abandoned to your fantasy

Torn the children far away
Burned the house where they once played
This terrifying wall of pain
Is pouring down upon me once again

Silence screaming louder still
Torches burning will not kill
Burn the soul down to the core
Kick the ashes to the floor

Everything I tried to say
Everything I tried to do
Everything you begged of me
Nothing was ever enough for you

Now you know it hurts to be alone
Praying that your heart was made of stone
Trapped inside a head but not a home
You’re tearing all the flesh away from bone

I can’t live
I can’t live with you and I can’t live
I can’t live without you
I can’t live

I can’t live with you and
I can’t live without you now

I can’t live
I can’t live with you and I can’t live
I can’t live without you
I can’t live

I can’t live with you and
I can’t live without you now

Atomic Ranch

I want a house, and a car, and a robot wife
I want 2 kids, and the yard, and the perfect life
I want a house, and a car, and a robot wife
I want 2 kids, and the yard, and the perfect life
I want a job, in a block, that can touch the sky
I want a future so bright, that it burns, my eyes

I want a house, and a car, and a robot wife
I want a house, and a car, and a robot wife,
I want more
I want a house, and a car, and the perfect life
I want the future
I want a house, and a car, and a robot wife
I want to love
I want a house, and a car.

Final Song

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Bring out the dead when the plague has gone
Toll the bell for the silent one
Kicking the dark that has done no wrong
Spitting the words to the final song

Break all the bones of the dying man
Drink the blood from the poison can
Singing in the dark when the crowd has gone
The empty words of the final song

Burn the pins and the voodoo doll
Dripping lies and vitriol
Cursing the years that you stayed too long
Singing the words of the final song

At night when everything is quiet
The old house seems to breathe a sigh
Lonely house
Lonely me