Duncan Sheik Lyrics
Better Things For Better Living lyrics - Simon Kafka & Duncan Sheik
Common
Common mistakes
There's plenty of time
There's plenty of time
Isn't this something?
Hidden, hidden nearby
A sense of déjà vu
Rooted to the spot
Isn't this something?
Hidden nearby, hidden nearby
Hidden nearby, hidden nearby
Hidden nearby, hidden nearby
Chimera lyrics - Duncan Sheik
Born Scorpio boy
Chased by storms
Always safe
Rush out of bed
Tornado is dead
In its wake, sunlight
The land in uproot
Taken down south
To a hurricane town
Fallen down bombs
Wishing for snowbound home
Robbed by time
The shadows of birds
Fortune's won and lost
And still, I'm wandering
Wandering
Wandering
Fake Plastic Trees lyrics - Duncan Sheik
Green plastic watering can
Fake Chinese rubber plan
In the fake plastic earth
She bought from a rubber man
Town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself
Wears her out
Wears her out
Wears her out
Wears her out
She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns
Used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins
Wears him out
Wears him out
Wears him out
Wears...
She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
I can't fight the feeling, no
I could blow through the ceiling, yeah
If I just turn and run
Wears me out
Wears me out
Wears me out
Wears me out
If I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted
All the time, all the time...
Foreshadowing lyrics - Duncan Sheik
Maybe I'll just whisper
Neither humble, neither proud
Listen if you care to
But I will not sing too loud
No, not tonight
Just before I'm over and out
I want to sing of better times
I want to sing of hope
But you've heard those empty promises
They sound like such a joke
So I stumble
So hard to say, so difficult
Sometimes I am not able
To separate my dreams from forced cliche
But more and more I hear it
I feel the spirit rise
The people here are talking 'bout
The oneness of all life
Maybe I will turn away
Maybe you will run
But it just may be a foreshadowing of what's to come
So anything can happen
I don't believe in fate
I won't try to convince you
'Cause it's getting kind of late
But there it is
Just before I'm over and out
My parting shot
Is just to say you hold the reins
But more and more I hear it
I feel the spirit rise
The people here are talking 'bout
The oneness of all life
Maybe I will turn away
Maybe you will run
But it just may be a foreshadowing of what's to come
And if you struggle to realize
This earthly paradise is just so far
above us to put away the poisonous ideas
You know it's just ideas
We're the only enemies around here
I see your eyes are closing
I didn't mean to keep you up
There's more that I can say now
But I guess I've said enough
So sleep well
Just before I'm over and out
Yeah, sleep well
Just before I'm over and out
But more and more I hear it
I feel the spirit rise
The people here are talking 'bout
The oneness of all life
Maybe I will turn away
Maybe you will run
But it just may be a foreshadowing of what's to come
I Am A Pilgrim lyrics - Duncan Sheik
(from "TransAmerica" soundtrack)
I am a pilgrim and a stranger
Traveling through this wearisome land
I have a home in that yonder city, good Lord
And it's not, not made by hand
I've got a mother, a sister and a brother
Who all have gone this way before
I am determined to go and meet them, good Lord
Over on, on that other shore
I'm goin' down to the river of Jordan
Just to bathe my, my weary soul
If I could just touch the hem of his garment, good Lord
Then I know he would make me whole
I am a pilgrim and a stranger
Traveling through this wearisome land
I've got a home in that yonder city, good Lord
But it's not, not made by hand
Lost On The Moon lyrics - Duncan Sheik
Without you
Lost on the moon
Without you
Here the world is desert gray
Never do I see the day
Here there is a different light
There?s only night, only night
Just a trace of gravity
Nothing to hold on to me
Sometimes there are passing ships
Away they slip, away they slip
If you hear me let me know
Radio
I walk across the rocky ground
Up here the stars make tiny sound
But still there is no atmosphere
You are not here, you are not here
Somewhere above the fearsome heights
Satellites
Without you
Lost on the moon, yeah
Without you
Lost on the moon
Without you
How I dream of sweet return
To fall so fast and feel the burn
Confetti flies, the brass band plays
A small parade, a small parade
Will I ever be found
Will I ever be homeward bound?
Without you
Lost on the moon, yeah
Without you
Lost on the moon
Without you
Lost on the moon, yeah
Without you
Lost on the moon
Not A Common Man lyrics - Duncan Sheik
(from "American Psycho" soundtrack)
Look at history, open the books,
There are statues with great looks,
There are gods, there are kings,
I'm pretty sure I'm the same thing.
Beyond boundaries, beyond rules,
I've been taught in the best schools,
There is little I won't do,
Is the same thing true of you?
I am needing so much more,
Every pleasure is a bore,
I am something other than a common man,
I'm not a common man.
I do suspect I'm one of few,
I can show you something new,
All the constraints, they are all gone,
I'll confess no interest in right and wrong.
I am needing so much more,
Every pleasure is a bore,
I am something other than a common man,
I'm not a common man.
I am greedy, you're a whore,
What's the difference? Who's keeping score?
There's no reason to be fair,
Doesn't matter if you're not there.
Are you losing too much blood?
Let it flow, let it flood,
Just keep breathing, if you can
And you will see I'm not a common man.
I am needing so much more,
Every pleasure is a bore,
I am something other than a common man,
I'm not a common man.
There Once Was A Pirate lyrics - Duncan Sheik
(from "Spring Awakening" soundtrack)
There once was a pirate
Who put out to sea
His mates all around him
No maiden on his knee
Oh, sail for a little
A little little little
Oh, sail for a little
'Til she finds him
There once was a maiden
Who wandered the mead
To gather blue violets
Her mama would need
A wail through the willows
All hollow through the willows
She'll wail through the willows
'Til she finds him
The sea was so violent
The crew went below
They begged him to join them
But he would not go
Oh, sail a little little
For just a little little
Oh, sail for a little
'Til she finds him
Her heart was so laden
She fell by a tree
Sang of some pirate
Who haunted the sea
A wail through the willows
All hollow through the willows
She'll wail through the willows
'Til she finds him
A wail through the willows
(Sail for a little)
All hollow through the willows
(The willow willows)
She'll wail through the willows
(Sail for a little)
'Til she finds him
He'll sail for a little
A little little little
He'll sail for a little
'Til she finds him
He'll sail for a little 'til she finds him
This Is Not An Exit lyrics - Duncan Sheik (feat. Ben Aldridge, Matt Smith)
(from "American Psycho" soundtrack)
Maybe this schism is just a symptom
Of late capitalism
A Savior's died and risen
Of worlds that wouldn't listen
To their own collapse
Even if this story
Is overwrought and gory
It's not a fable, it's not an allegory
No cautionary tale, no memento mori
Or a vague perhaps
Maybe you've been slaughtered
Maybe you've been kissed
Either way means nothing
I simply don't exist
Look at what's been done here
Judge it how you wish
I am all alone here
I am a solipsist
This is what we've come to
What we have become
I am not a person
Known to anyone
All the doors are tried and tested
Know that this is not an exit
Am I just a version of the end of days?
Am I just an effect of a modern phase?
Am I just the end point of the grand parade?
Should we be afraid?
Maybe you've been slaughtered
Maybe you've been kissed
Either way means nothing
I simply don't exist
Look at what's been done here
Judge it how you wish
I am all alone here
I am a solipsist
This is what we've come to
What we have become
I am not a person
Known to anyone
All the doors are tried and tested
Know that this is not an exit
None of this exists for me
This is all a fantasy
There is no future here
There is no history
None of this is real
It's not reality
None of this exists for me
There is no consistency
There's only entropy
And even though I've tried and tested
I know that this is not an exit
Now
Touch Me lyrics - Duncan Sheik & Kathryn Gallagher
Where I go, when I go there
No more memory anymore
Only men on distant ships
The women with them swimming with them to shore
Where I go, when I go there
No more whispering anymore
Only hymns upon your lips
A mystic wisdom, rising with them to shore
Touch me, just like that
And that, oh yeah
Now, that's heaven
Now, that I like
God, that's so nice
Now lower down
Where the figs lie
Where I go, when I go there
No more shadows anymore
Only men with golden fins
The rhythm in them, rocking with them to shore
Where I go, when I go there
No more weeping anymore
Only in and out your lips
The broken wishes, washing with them to shore
Touch me
All silent
Tell me, please
"All is forgiven"
Consume my wine
Consume my mind
I'll tell you how, how the winds sigh
Touch me, just like that
Now, there, that's it
Oh God, that's heaven
I'll love you right
I'll love you right
We'll wander down
Where the sins cry
Touch me, just like that
Now lower down, where the sins cry
Love me, just for a bit
We'll wander down, where the winds sigh
Where the winds sigh
Where the winds sigh
Where the winds sigh...
Wishful Thinking lyrics - Duncan Sheik
[from "Great Expectations" soundtrack]
Listen to the waves
Everything communicates
Will it ever be
Anything more than wishful thinking?
Oh no, there you go
Looked away and missed the show
How much wasted time
Will you survive?
Feel the blades of grass
How it brings you back
It will always be
Only as green as you can see
Oh no, there you go
Looked away and missed the show
How much wasted time
Will you survive?
Oh yeah, fooled again
I don't know how and I don't know when
Not much else to blame
But wishful thinking
Little breakdowns
In coastal town
They come suddenly
Crashing over you
They come easily
I'm falling through the skies
And frozen places
Oh no, there you go
Looked away and missed the show
How much wasted time
Will you survive?
Oh yeah, fooled again
I don't know how and I don't know when
Not much else to blame
But wishful thinking
And I try to realize
That I needn't look any further
The whole of the universe is plain to see
And I try not to rely
On another world or the future
The whole of the universe is a mystery
Gets me over
It gets me over, yeah, oh
It gets me over
It gets me over, yeah
Listen to the waves
Everything communicates
Will it ever be
Anything more than wishful thinking?
Oh no, there you go
Looked away and missed the show
How much wasted time
Will you survive?
Feel the blades of grass
How it brings you back
It will always be
Only as green as you can see
Oh no, there you go
Looked away and missed the show
How much wasted time
Will you survive?
Oh yeah, fooled again
I don't know how and I don't know when
Not much else to blame
But wishful thinking
Little breakdowns
In coastal town
They come suddenly
Crashing over you
They come easily
I'm falling through the skies
And frozen places
Oh no, there you go
Looked away and missed the show
How much wasted time
Will you survive?
Oh yeah, fooled again
I don't know how and I don't know when
Not much else to blame
But wishful thinking
And I try to realize
That I needn't look any further
The whole of the universe is plain to see
And I try not to rely
On another world or the future
The whole of the universe is a mystery
Gets me over
It gets me over, yeah, oh
It gets me over
It gets me over, yeah
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