Talk     


Oh brother I can’t, I can't get through
I've been trying hard to reach you 'cause I don't know what to do
Oh brother I can't believe it's true
I'm so scared about the future and I wanna talk to you
Oh I wanna talk to you

You can take a picture of something you see
In the future where will I be?
You can climb a ladder up to the sun
Or write a song nobody has sung or do
Something that's never been done

Are you lost or incomplete?
Do you feel like a puzzle, you can't find your missing piece?
Tell me how do you feel?
Well I feel like they're talking in a language I don't speak
And they’re talking it to me

So you take a picture of something you see
In the future where will I be?
You can climb a ladder up to the sun
Or write a song nobody has sung or do
Something that's never been done, do
Something that's never been done

So you don't know where you're going and you wanna talk
And you feel like you're going where you've been before
You tell anyone who'll listen but you feel ignored
Nothing's really making any sense at all, let's talk
Let's talk, let's talk, let's talk

The Escapist      


And in the end
We lie awake
And we dream
We’ll make an escape

And in the end
We lie awake
And we dream
We’ll make an escape

Ooh…

The Scientist     

Come up to meet you, tell you I’m sorry,
You don’t know how lovely you are.
I had to find you, tell you I need you,
Tell you I set you apart.

Tell me your secrets and ask me your questions,
Oh, lets go back to the start.
Running in circles, coming in tales,
Heads are a science apart.

Nobody said it was easy,
It's such a shame for us to part.
Nobody said it was easy,
No-one ever said it would be this hard,
Oh take me back to the start.

I was just guessing at numbers and figures,
Pulling your puzzles apart.
Questions of science, science and progress,
Do not speak as loud as my heart.

And tell me you love me, come back and haunt me,
Oh and I rush to the start.
Running in circles, chasing tails,
And coming back as we are.

Nobody said it was easy,
oh its such a shame for us to part.
Nobody said it was easy,
No-one ever said it would be so hard.

Im going back to the start.

oh, ooooo,
ah, ooooo,
oh, ooooo,
oh, ooooo

Trouble     


Oh no, I see
a spiderweb is tangled up with me
and I lost my head
and thought of all the stupid things I'd said

oh no, what's this?
a spiderweb and I'm caught in the middle
so I turned to run
and thought of all the stupid things I'd done

and I never meant to cause you trouble
and I never never meant to do your wrong
ah, well if I ever caused you trouble
oh no I never meant to do you harm

oh no, I see
a spiderweb and it's me in the middle
so I twist and turn
but here am I in my little bubble

singing and I never meant to cause you trouble
and I never meant to do you wrong
ah, well if I ever caused you trouble
oh no I never meant to do you harm

they spun a web for me
they spun a web for me
they spun a web for me

Twisted Logic     

Sunlight opened up my eyes
to see for the first time
it opened them up

And tonight rivers will run dry
and not for the first time
rivers will run

Hundreds of years in the future
there could be computers
looking for life on earth

Don't fight for the wrong side
say what you feel like
say how you feel

You'll go backwards
but then
you'll go forwards
again

You'll go backwards
but then
you'll go

Created... then drilled and invaded
If somebody made it
Someone will mess it up

And you are not wrong to
Ask who does this belong to
It belongs to one of us

You'll go backwards
but then
you'll go forwards
and then
you'll go backwards
again
you'll go forwards

You'll go backwards
but then
you'll go forwards
again

You'll go backwards
but then
you'll go forwards

Ahhhhhhhhhh...

Violet Hill     

Was a long and dark December
From the rooftops I remember
There was snow
White snow

Clearly I remember
From the windows they were watching
While we froze down below

When the future's architectured
By a carnival of idiots on show
You'd better lie low

If you love me
Won't you let me know?

Was a long and dark December
When the banks became cathedrals
And the fog
Became God

Priests clutched onto bibles
Hollowed out to fit their rifles
And the cross was held aloft

There in me an armour
When im dead and hit the ground
Loves a poem
That unfolds

If you love me
Won't you let me know?

I don't want to be a soldier
With a captain of some sinking ship
Bestow
Far below

If you love me
Why'd you let me go?

I took my love down to violet hill
There we sat in the snow
All that time
She was silent still

If you love me
Won't you let me know
If you love me
Why don't you let me know

Viva La Vida     


I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sweep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own

I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes
Listen as the crowd would sing:
"Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!"

One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand

I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
Once you go there was never, never an honest word
That was when I ruled the world
(Ohhh)

It was the wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn't believe what I'd become

Revolutionaries wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh who would ever want to be king?

I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
I know Saint Peter will call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
(Ohhhhh Ohhh Ohhh)

I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
I know Saint Peter will call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
Oooooh Oooooh Oooooh

Warning Sign


Warning sign,
I missed the good part, then i realised,
I started looking, and the bubble burst.
I started looking for excuses.

Come on in,
I've gotta tell you,What a state i'm in,
I've gotta tell you, in my loudest tone,
That i started looking for a warning sign.

When the truth is, I miss you,
Yeah the truth is, That i miss you so.

Warning sign,
You came back to haunt me and i realised,
That you were an island,
And i passed you by.
And you were an island to discover,

Come on in,
I've gotta tell you What a state i'm in,
I've got to tell you in my loudest tone,
That i started looking for a warning sign.

When the truth is, I miss you,
Yeah the truth is, That i miss you so.

And i'm tired, I shouldn't of let you go.

So I crawl back into your opening arms,
Yes I crawl back into your open arms,
And i crawl back into your open arms,
Yes I crawl back into your open arms

We Never Change     


I wanna live life
and never be cruel
and I wanna live life
and be good to you
and I wanna fly
and never come down
and live my life
and have friends around

we never change, do we?
no, no
we never learn, do we?

so I wanna live... in a wooden house
I wanna live life
and always be true
and I wanna live life
and be good to you
I wanna fly
and never come down
and live my life
and have friends around

we never change, do we?
no no
we never learn, do we?

so I wanna live... in a wooden house
where making more friends would be easy
oh and I don't have a soul to save
yes and I sin every single day

we never change, do we?
we never learn, do we?

so I wanna live in a wooden house
where making more friends would be easy
I wanna live where the sun comes out

What If     


What if there was no light
Nothing wrong, nothing right
What if there was no time
And no reason, or rhyme
What if you should decide
That you don't want me there by your side
That you don't want me there in your life

What if I got it wrong
And no poem or song
Could put right what I got wrong
Or make you feel I belong

What if you should decide
That you don't want me there by your side
That you don't want me there in your life

Oooooooh that's right
Let's take a breath, jump over the side
Oooooooh that's right
How can you know it if you don't even try
Oooooooh that's right

Every step that you take
Could be your biggest mistake
It could bend or it could break
But that's the risk that you take

What if you should decide
That you don't want me there in your life
That you don't want me there by your side

Oooooooh thats right
Let's take a breath, jump over the side
Oooooooh that's right
How can you know it when you don't even try
Oooooooh that's right

Oooooooh thats right
Let's take a breath, jump over the side
Oooooooh that's right
You know that darkness always turns into light
Oooooooh that's right