Blackfield I (2004)
Blackfield II (2007)

Open Mind

[Lyrics - Steven Wilson]

Here's a song from an open mind
I give it to you because I can
And if you're thinking that it's not that kind
It's cos my mood swings make me feel ashamed
It can pass the time

A girl with eyes that see a hundred years
Half remembered, this is my dream
Spinning out from where the hole appears
I've never seen her but I've got photographs
It can blow your mind

An idea falls from a porcelain sky
It won't make you rich and it won't get you high

Out of the void it comes
From an open mind
Out of the void it comes
It comes from my mind

Blackfield

[Lyrics - Steven Wilson]

Curling lips, fingertips, dead eye dips
I saw it all in the blackfield
Splinter cracks, summer tracks, paperbacks
We found them all in the blackfield
In the shade, whistle blades, singing fades
In the blackfield

She wants to stay and talk all day
So I remark when it gets dark
All the pale things under the earth
Will reverse

River glass, cycle past, overcast
I saw it all in the blackfield
Copper sky, shadows rise, bridge of sighs
We had all in the blackfield
Skin tracks, face facts, fade to black
In the blackfield

She wants to stay and talk all day
So I remark when it gets dark
All the pale things under the earth
Will reverse

Glow

[Lyrics - Steven Wilson, based on an idea by Aviv Geffen]

I show the scars of every fear and doubt
I hurt myself to let the darkness out
Out

The days go by and nothing brings me joy
The glow was strong when I was a boy
But it's gone

And the glow
It goes
So slow
It goes

Cracks appear and passion slips away
Colours fade and turn to shades of grey
Fade away

If you knew the man I used to be
Please hold me under the sea
Or scratch my arms till they bleed
Save me
Will you help me to feel the glow?

Scars

[Lyrics - Steven Wilson]

Brightest city buried in the dust
Lonely people stop and stare at us
Together you and me are getting lost
The sky falls

It's getting hard for me to see the truth
I lost my soul and gave myself to you
You are an angel and the devil too
A tear falls

All that I got left are my precious scars

I watch a teardrop falling from your eye
You are so perfect when you cry
In the corner all our endings lie
Alone now

All that I got left are my precious scars

It's me that you need now
It's me that you love now

All that I got left are my precious scars
(I wish I was immune then it wouldn't hurt)

Lullaby

[Lyrics - Steven Wilson]

Share my cup
Tie me up
Never part
Break my heart
Go to sleep
Wound me deep
Be at peace
Make me bleed

Do no harm
Twist my arm
Lie with grace
Smash my face
Kiss the ground
Drag me down
Stop the noise
Smash my toys

How does it feel without your drugs? (Sing you a lullaby)
How does it feel with my love? (Sing you a lullaby)

Pain

[Lyrics - Aviv Geffen]

Here I'm standing on the seashore
She is gone, now she's gone
All the angels praying for me
As I fall, as I fall

While I'm melting in the rain, deep in pain, she is so far
Will we ever meet again as friends, after so long?

To the nightmare with the devil
I'll go strong, I'll go strong
All my friends now try to save me
What a joke, what a joke

While I'm melting in the rain, deep in pain, she is so far
Will we ever meet again as friends, after so long?

Summer

[LYRICS - Steven Wilson and Aviv Geffen]

Love me as the summer gone
When eyes were closed and days were long, so long
I burned a torch for you but all the while
Somewhere in the haze you lost your smile

Love me as the winter comes
Don't cast your shadow on my soul, please don't
Don't let me sink, don't let the darkness in
Let your perfect fingers touch my skin

Heart needs a home
It's a dark and empty road when you're alone

Love me as the springtime comes
Let your song drift down the stairs to me
Waiting here along the way to blue
Remembering the days I spent with you

Heart needs a home
It's a dark and empty road when you're alone

Cloudy Now

[Lyrics - Steven Wilson and Aviv Geffen]

In a violent place we can call our country
Is a mixed up man and I guess that's me
The sun's in the sky but the storm never seems to end
It's a place of sorrow but we call it a home
And the darkest thoughts, yeah I guess they're my own
There's wealth in the bank but there's nothing to show inside

In a special place that I call my life
The father was cruel and he lost his wife
But I don't see either cos I live across the street
It's a beautiful thing when it starts to rain
A man who drinks just to drown the pain
And I can't stop from dreaming there's something else

We are a fucked up generation
It's cloudy now
We gotta get out of here
It's cloudy now

The Hole In Me

[Lyrics - Aviv Geffen]

The hole in me
I cannot reach
The one who bleeds
Please set him free
The hole in me

The hole in me
That no-one sees
The hole too deep
Inside of me

What have I done?
Treat me tonight like a movie star
Who will never die
Always surrounded by girls like you
Kill all my loneliness

The hole in me
That never sleeps
Born with me
It's killing me

What have I done?
Treat me tonight like a movie star
Who will never die
Always surrounded by girls like you
Kill all my loneliness

Hello

[Lyrics - Steven Wilson and Aviv Geffen]

Through a different kind of silence
I'm waiting, I'm wasting
Into the road of sadness
I'm walking without you

Hello, hello, hello, hello
Is it gonna last?
Why don't you come and take me with you?
And so I know you had to go
I'm dreaming of the past
An echo of the years we passed through

Asleep in your arms I'm drifting
I'm falling in sorrow
Dead to the world you left me
In footsteps I follow

Hello, hello, hello, hello
Is it gonna last?
Why don't you come and take me with you?
And so I know you had to go
I'm dreaming of the past
An echo of the years we passed through

Perfect World

[Lyrics - Steven Wilson and Aviv Geffen]

Here on the other side
You've found a place to hide
So wave goodbye to your wasted life

You never seem to care
If God can hear your prayers
There's no sign of angels in the air

So light my way
And wish me sunny days
A wish will be reborn to a perfect world
So dry your tears
And tear up all your fears
A wish will be reborn to a perfect day

You always plead for time
To say what's on your mind
You're always scared
But making out you're fine

You leave no one to cry
On the day you die
They hate you more than you hate to be alive

So light my way
And wish me sunny days
A wish will be reborn to a perfect world
So dry your tears
And tear up all your fears
A wish will be reborn to a perfect world

Where Is My Love?

[Lyrics - Aviv Geffen]

Endless fields of emptiness in my dark and wounded heart
Where is my love?

The freezing moment when you turned your head and waved goodbye
Where is my love?

Even all the biggest storms can't take my pain away
Where is my love?
Noisy happy people crossing streets from side to side
Where is my love?

I gave you everything I could but you want the stars
Where is my love?
Endless fields of emptiness in my dark and wounded heart
Where is my love?

Even all the biggest storms can't take my pain away
Where is my love?
Noisy happy people crossing streets from side to side
Where is my love?

Once

Want you to know
That I could go anytime
I want you to know

Gave me her lips
Gave me her perfect hips
And I slow down
I slow down in love

Once I rise inside

Once she would hold me
She was my only
Only true love
Once she had told me
That I'm holy
Only so long

She'll stay all night
She'll be so quiet
And she won't laugh at my jokes

Once I rise inside

Once she would hold me
She was my only
Only true love
Once she had told me
That I'm holy
Only so long

1,000 People

A thousand people yell,
They're shouting my name,
But I want to die in this moment,
I want to die,
And a thousand people smile
They're smiling at me
But I want to die in this moment,
I want to die,

No way to understand
Why I've become the way I am,

But when the sky if filled with stars,
I find the place inside my heart,

Some people can take a blow
And won’t ever drop,
But I want to die in this moment,
I want to die,
She will tell me she loves me
And she won’t ever stop,
But I want to die in this moment,
I want to die,

Coldness in my soul
And I reach out for her to hold,

And then I watch her close her eyes,
It's only me that needs to cry

And if I stay with you,
Do you believe that love comes true?

No way to understand
Why I've become the way I am,

And when the sky is filled with stars,
I find the place inside my heart,
And then I watch her close her eyes,
It's only me, who needs to cry,

A thousand people yell,
They're shouting my name,
But I want to die in this moment,
I want to die.

Miss U

They said you're in love again
And I tried to hide my pain
I was buried in my bed
With your pictures in my head

You were living another life
It cuts me like a knife
I hope you understand
I'm the one who's left behind

Tomorrow you'll be gone
And I'll miss you
Yeah I'll miss you
Yeah I'll miss you

They said you're in love again
And my eyes start to burn
Wherever you are now
I wish you could hear my silent sigh

It's not that I try to blame
It's just kind of a rainy day
I hope you understand
I'm the one who's left behind

Christenings

I met you in a record store,
You were slapped in the clothes you wore,
But I knew I'd seen you somewhere before,

What happened to your guitar?
What happened to the prettiest star?
Can you still play the songs that got you so far?

Hey you with your shadow in the gutter,
How low have got to go before you're through?
High times and fuck her in the morning,
All your memories are coming out of your shoes,

Black dog, sitting in the park,
Odd looks from the brothers of the devils own,
Shoplifting getting your essentials,
Gate crashing christenings and funerals
And weddings too

I used to see you all the time on MTV,
Read your life story in a magazine,
I guess you thoughts that's the way it would always be,
But I believe in you,
Cause I think that'd you'd want me to,
Though I never really liked your songs it's true

Hey you with your shadow in the gutter,
How low have got to go before you're through,
High times and fuck her in the morning,
All your memories are coming out of your shoes,

Black dog, sitting in the park,
Odd looks from the brothers of the devils own,
Shoplifting getting your essentials,
Gate crashing christenings and funerals
And weddings too.

This Killer

Don't leave the door ajar
Don't walk away
Don't leave me in the dark

You think you know me well
It makes me laugh
Cause I don't know myself

This killer on the run
He steals from me a song
He'll catch me off my guard
He likes me when I'm down
And when I'm sad
Fallen man
Fallen man

It's always me alone
That hears the noise
Cause it's my inner voice

So stay inside your hole
We'll hide away
Before I lose control

This killer on the run
He steals from me a song
He'll catch me off my guard
He likes me when I'm down
And when I'm sad
Fallen man
Fallen man

This killer on the run
He steals from me a song
And I can say I know him well
And so can he, because it's me
He is me
He is me

Epidemic

Don’t say everything’s okay
Don’t tell me that it’s just a phase
It doesn’t help me

All the stars are standing still
The anger and the sleeping pills
Are all that’s left now

An epidemic in my heart
Takes hold and slowly poisons me
Her will won’t let me breathe
It comes in waves and bleeds me dry
This love is slowly killing me
For me, there’s no one else

Jealousy just eats me up
Another’s made the deepest cuts
My heart is popping

You say there must be an end
But afterwards we’ll still be friends
It seemed so easy

An epidemic in my heart
Takes hold and slowly poisons me
Her will won’t let me breathe
It comes in waves and bleeds me dry
This love is slowly killing me
For me, there’s no one else

My Gift Of Silence

If I compiled
All my crimes and my lies,
Into amnesty,
Would you come back to me,

The smile on my lips
Is a sign that I don't hear you leaving me,
And I don't hear my own soul scream,

I'll read your lips,
Watch your scarf play at your hips,
And I know its true,
But I don't hear him call to you,
Don't blame yourself,
Don't change yourself,
Just want to be over you
Save you love,
Don't hate yourself,

If I compiled
All my crimes and my lies into amnesty,
Would you come back to me,

The smile on my lips
Is a sign that I don't hear you leaving me,
And I don't hear my own soul scream,

Don't blame yourself,
Don't change yourself,
Just want to be over you
Save you love,
Don't hate yourself.

Some Day

When you were a boy
You had no place inside your parents' world.
You were falling like the leaves
From an old and dying tree

You went to school,
But the teachers made you feel a fool
While the children played with joy
You're the one who were avoid

Some day you will find a better place to stay
You'll never need to feel this way again

Show a smile,
They'd like to have you in the members club
They'll buy you drinks and tell you lies
Paper umbrella with some ice.

No one cares,
About that fucking pretty face you have,
It means nothing much this life
So find the highest cliff and dive.

Some day you will find a better place to stay
You'll never need to feel this way again

End Of The World

Don't you forget what I've told you
So many years
We are hopeless and slaves to our fears
We're an accident called human beings

Don't be angry for loving the baby
And say it's unreal
So many lives turned to salt
Like roses who're hiding their thorns

It's the end of the world
The end of the world
It's a prison for dreams and for hopes
And still we believe there is God
It's the end of the world
The end of the world
We're dead but pretend we're alive
Full of ignorance, fools in disguise

In your room doing nothing
But staring at flickering screens
Streets are empty, but still you can hear
Joy of children turning to tears

Disease hides around every corner
Quiet, lay still
Wait for a moment to hear
We forgot what is touch, what to feel

It's the end of the world
The end of the world
It's a prison for dreams and for hopes
And still we believe there is God
It's the end of the world
The end of the world
We're dead but pretend we're alive
Full of ignorance, fools in disguise

Take this pill, it will make you feel dizzy
And then give you wings
Soon, boy, you'll fall into sleep
Without nightmares, without any fears

If you wake up in hell or in heaven
Tell the angels we're here
Waiting below for a dream
Here in the garden of sin

It's the end of the world
The end of the world
It's a prison for dreams and for hopes
And still we believe there is God
It's the end of the world
The end of the world
We're dead but pretend we're alive
Full of ignorance, fools in disguise