12 HOURS IT TAKES SOMETIMES 

You maybe far from me
but I dont need you any less
it maybe cold in your bed
but you know my love is warm
with new rules it is hard
when you cant ask anyone
who survived the distance test
and has still got strength and love

we'll be here for 30 years or maybe more
you dont have to worry that we don't have time
lets find are way to meet in the middle of
somewhere finer in our own time when we can

we try to hold our heads
above the water line
at times it's hard not to rise
to the shit you have to take.
We'll hold our heads and we'll wait
till our feet will fit there shoes
and learn to make all the choices that
all the others never made

BILLED AS SINGLE 

I take a bow
about an hour too late
I've drunk so much
that I can't see that straight
I'll make out I'm dancing
and there's no pride lost
I wonder what there saying
they are awfully close

I'm breaking out in rashes and cold fevers
under breath as warm as my face is cold

you make no sense then you rarely do
with any other row we'd of packed it in and screwed
you don't like my tone and I don't feel to good
so I just stop talking and you leave with someone else

BUDAPEST 

I cannot dare to look
At exactly what you took
I give it time to breath
And wipe its tears on my sleeve

And it will break my heart
With every sound it makes on you
And it's all over dear
You squeeze my hand and I
I know it's true

His little hand round my thumb
Makes me warm and numb
I hold my breath and smile

CARTWHEELS 

I'm doing cartwheels (x3)

My wounds are nicely salted dear
I never got to thank you right
I was finished way before I could see
Quite what you had in mind for me

I'm doing cartwheels (x3)

Now the pessimism in the yards
As I'm pissing on their perfect front lawns
A voice calls out behind my back
And I take off into the grass

I'm doing cartwheels (x3)

It'll all tie me up into knots
It'll all tie me up into knots

I didn't mean to speak out of turn
Now you can sit and watch me squirm
The party's really in full swing
I wish I had a friend I could bring

I'm doing cartwheels (x3)

You're really loving this aren't you dear
Now you've got me on the ropes out here
With nowhere else to run to now
Just stay and face the music

Oh all tie me up into knots
It'll all tie me up into knots
It'll all tie me up into knots
It'll all tie me up into knots

COLD WATER 

I feel faint, what have I just heard?
I feel dead from the neck up
Could you pour some water on my face?
It feels cold, at least I'll feel something else

I am not ready, I am not ready

It's hard enough to believe you've left us
But no goodbyes and no signs that you hurt
I could cry like you should of years ago
So I'll see you when I, I'm ready to go

I am not ready, I am not ready
I am not ready, I am not ready

FIRE BELL 

if you can make mistakes
why can't I
I'll teach you what I know
there's no harm you can learn
cut off in my prime
I was fine till I looked
and then I stuck to me
like disease all I have

I'LL BE HERE WHEN YOU WAKE 

Leave my bed warm and I'll breathe in your smell
You shouldn't tell a single soul you know it's red
I wanna shout it out it's killing me to hold
Hold it in my head when there's barely room for me

And I say your name in the darkness like you could be
there
And I miss you more when I'm coming down and I fear the
door

You leave my brain in knots that I'll never quite unfurl
I can't make head nor tail of this fizzing on my tongue
Both my hands are tied so I can't pick up the phone
Even if I wanted to by god I don't

And I say your name in the darkness like you could be
there
And I miss you more when I'm coming down and I fear the
door

I'VE NEVER UNDERSTOOD 

your skin is soft against the sky
it burns my heart in my chest
we'll take time all it takes
to sit back and hold our breath

your mouth tastes strange
on my tongue
I change my mind
and fall right in
it shouldn't work
that's why it does
I cannot tell which is worse

IF EVERYTHING FELL QUIET 

be my guide
be my pilot
be the breath on my face
be the arms that can form it
be the heart in my chest

this is the way i want you to begin my life.
i couldn't face another night like that again.

be my hope, ill be your hope.
be the hair that knots with my hair.
be the drink when i am thirsty.
be the hand to hold at night.

this is the way i want you to begin my life.
i couldn't face another night like that again.

STING 

breathing on my ear
I want to push you off but can't
your every move's an itch
and I can't move at all for fear
that body language is
a language you're fluent in dear
and I say who's for tea
and someone else offers to go
and you hold on to me
and say "let them" you always go