Better To Be Dead lyrics - Duncan Sheik
I present to you a story
Set upon a northern shore
The denizens of lighthouse
During times of war
The foolish things they did
The foolish things they said
I'm sure you will agree
They would be better off dead
Lily keeps the lighthouse
She's afraid of the unknown
She's no ray of sunshine
So mostly she's alone
And no one cares about her longing
Or the dreams on which she's fed
And though I'm sad to say it
She would be better off dead
Next we have a sheriff
Charles is his name
He's something of a sideshow
Every sheriff is the same
Will he stand for justice
Or something else instead?
Either way it hardly matters
'Cause he's better off dead
When everything is done
And everything is said
Life is naught but pain
It's better to be dead
Release your heavy heart
Rest your weary head
When all the world's at war
It's better, it's better
Witness Yasujiro
He hails from old Japan
He searches for redemption
In this strange and foreign land
And now he works for Lily
To earn his daily bread
But the most that one can say
Is that he's better off dead
Please, welcome young Christopher
He's come here on a train
His father flew to heaven
In a fiery aeroplane
He's come to live with Lily
He's got visions in his head
He may be our main attraction
But he's better off dead
When everything is done
And everything is said
Life is naught but pain
It's better to be dead
Release your heavy heart
Rest your weary head
When all the world's at war
It's better to be dead
Everything is done
All things have been said
It's good to be a ghost
It's better, it's better to be dead
It's good to be a ghost
It's better to be dead
We're Here To Tell You lyrics - Duncan Sheik
Indeed there's such a thing as ghosts
And more to cause you fear
You never know where or when
But surely they'll appear
Quiet men turn into wolves
During certain moons
And sirens sing their siren songs
Sweet and deadly tunes
We are here to tell you
All of this is real
If you are terrified today
It's how you're supposed to feel for real
We are here to tell you
Ghosts are here for good
If this doesn't terrify you
It should, it should
Don't you know the feeling
When blood has left your veins
And horsemen of apocalypse
Ride through poison rains
The devil's in the details
And in the grand design
And once he gets your number
He calls you all the time
We are here to tell you
That all of this is real
And if you're terrified today
It's how you're supposed to feel for real
We are here to tell you
Ghosts are here for good
If this doesn't terrify you
It should, it should
And Now We Sing lyrics - Duncan Sheik
And now we'll sing of drowning things
No wondering what might happen
Upon that ship we played the popular songs
Some sang along, now all that's gone
Thrown below the raging tides
We hope to rest, we were denied
So now we haunt the ocean side
Live this pale eternal life
And now you're here and so we'll pass the tide
Secret's ours and phantom wide
And now it seems so long ago
But once we lived, but didn't know
That every life is quite a show
If it answered prayers and tales of woe
The Tale Of Solomon Snell lyrics - Duncan Sheik
Listen if you will, I have a tale to tell
Of an unfortunate man, the name of Solomon Snell
And the philosophy he should have embraced
That says no matter what you do, you'll never be safe
Ring the bell, ring the bell for Solomon Snell
Too much trust is the road to hell
Rightfully nervous, he took every precaution
He paid three armed men to drive him to Boston
But wouldn't you know it, he was broke on arrival
His own men robbed him and took off in style
So he wanted to marry a girl who was true
And on the basis of her name he would fidelity prove
She had a handsome cousin she would visit in Charlotte
Well, she said he was her cousin, the brazen harlot
Ring the bell, ring the bell for Solomon Snell
He played it safe and it didn't end well
Ring the bell, ring the bell for Solomon Snell
Too much trust is the road to hell
He caught yellow fever, down Charleston way
Before you knew it, they were digging his grave
But he was most terrified of being buried alive
And so to his finger a bell was tied
You see Snell had arranged for a man to be paid
To listen for the bell when he was buried in his grave
But the man got drunk and when the bell did sound
Solomon lived but he stayed in the ground
No one heard a sound
Ring the bell, ring the bell for Solomon Snell
Too much trust is the road to hell
Ring the bell, ring the bell for Solomon Snell
You can play it safe but it won't end well
You can play it safe but it won't end well
You can play it safe but it won't end well
Earthbound Starlight lyrics - Duncan Sheik
What are you looking at, what do you see?
Is it the truth or a strange fantasy?
Whenever you're watching, changing the scene
The time is a place, this place is a song
Where mothers are distant and fathers are gone
He too may be watching but he's not letting on
Can't dry your eyes or say it's alright
Even though he might and she can't kiss your cheek
As the days become weeks, no rewind, no repeats
Days, nights, wrongs, rights, earthbound starlight
Hey, are you listening?
What is the sound of things that you lose
That you never have found?
You're finding the way or turning around
Dancer with destiny, tempter of fate
The life that you lived is only a taste
Sometimes the sweetest is the time that you waste
I won't dry your eyes or say it's alright
'Cause sometimes that's the lie even if she kissed your cheek
Still the days become weeks, no rewind, no repeats
Steal your heart, life is hard, never easy, believe me
There'll be no more questions, maybes or mights
Darkest descends, run out of light
When you go blind you get second sight
The deeper you dive the greater the heights
So don't dry your eyes or say it's alright
Life is hard, it's a fight even if she kissed your cheek
Still the days become weeks, no rewind, no repeats
As the days become weeks, no rewind, no repeats
Days, nights, wrongs, rights, earthbound starlight
Play Your Part lyrics - Duncan Sheik
Here are your lines, now stick to the page
Like the wise man said, "All the world's a stage"
And don't forget, you have a role to play
You can't improvise, and you can never stray
Play your part, you'll go far I can see it now
Play your part and never stray
Play your part, one of these star we can show you how it goes
Everyone knows, you can't stop the show
It's a treacherous business, it's hard to make a buck
If you don't like how the story ends, you may be out of luck
'Cause the writer's left the building, the script has been approved
You know who's gonna win this and who is gonna lose
Play your part, you'll go far I can see it now
Play your part and never stray
Play your part, one of these star we can show you how
Play your part and never stray
Play your part, you'll go far I can see it now
Play your part and never stray
Play your part, one of these star we can show you how it goes
Everyone knows, you can't stop the show
You've Really Gone And Done It Now lyrics - Duncan Sheik
You've really gone and done it now
You've hit the lowest low
You thought that you could handle this
But there's a lot that you don't know
You're just a child and haven't learned
The world is cold, the world is rough
And you're not strong and you're not tough
Your moves were just not good enough
That doesn't look good, it doesn't bode well, kid
You're a ship that's crashed on rocky ground
Sinking now, soon to drown
That doesn't look good, it doesn't bode well, kid
Things are broke, way past mending
Don't look now, the world is ending
Don't look now, the world is ending
Don't look now, the world is ending
You've really gone and done it now
They're sending you away
High time that you abandon hope
Get on your knees and pray
You're all loose lips and sinking ships
You never stood a chance
You tried to be a hero
But you're still in your short pants
That doesn't look good, it doesn't bode well, kid
Help is far beyond your reach
Shipwrecked on a barren beach
Oh yeah, you've really gone and done it now
Things are broke, way past mending
Don't look now, the world is ending
Don't look now, the world is ending
Don't look now, the world is ending soon
How It Feels lyrics - Duncan Sheik
Wind so restless, yearning breathless
Sons and daughters sometimes they do meet
I remember one September
How I felt a strange late summer heat
Distant oceans, wild notions
When you feel the touch of one you love
But they leave you or deceive you
All that you can do is cry to heaven above just like us, just like us
You'll learn how it feels
Hearts break and never heal
Secret places, stolen gazes, soft exchanges of you ever dream
It will change you how it pains you when it's cold
And all that you can do is plead, oh take heed, how we need
Can't you see how we need?
You'll learn how it feels
Hearts break and never heal
Tell us how it feels
Hearts break and never heal
Remember September and how it feels
I Don't Believe In You lyrics - Duncan Sheik
Life is like a sinking ship and you are at the wheel
You see the hole is filling up, you know your fate is sealed
But still you keep on trying to steer the ship to shore
It's time to learn the lesson you should've known before
Well, there's nothing you can do
And we don't believe in you
No, there's nothing you can do
And we don't believe in you
No, we don't believe in you
Life is like a ship at sea, we fear of storms to strike
Though you are the captain you can't keep up the fight
The truth is there is much to fear and more to make us cry
The ship is not worth saving hard as you may try
So there's nothing you can do
'Cause we don't believe in you
No, there's nothing you can do
And we don't believe in you
Hate to say it, it's time to face the truth
And we don't believe in you
Try your hardest, you couldn't help but lose
And we don't believe in you
No, we don't believe in you
No, we don't believe in you
Take A Bow lyrics - Duncan Sheik
Lieutenant Brando, brave commando
We hardly know you rolling in one scene
Sheriff Charles, you're a marvel
You're better when you don't do anything
If you have a bell let it ring
You're alive, you should sing
But the show's over for now
Take a bow
[?] hero, dear oh, dear oh
We liked you though you had to go away
Hey aunt Lily may sound silly
To try to wait, may come back someday
We won't say anything
We are ghosts, we just sing
But the show's over for now
Take a bow
If you have a bell let it ring
You're alive, you should sing
But the show's over for now
Take a bow
Christopher hears us, he used to fear us
Then decided, he dreamt us all alone
Here's a question for just a vision
Who's been singing all these ghostly songs?
If we learned anything
You should love, you should sing
But the show's over for now
Take a bow
If you have a bell let it ring
While you live you should sing
But the show's over for now
Take a bow
Yeah, the show's over for now
Take a bow
Oh, the show's over for now
Take a bow
The Ghost In You lyrics - Duncan Sheik
A man in my shoes runs a liar
All the papers lie tonight,
That falling over you is the news of the day.
Aw angels fall like rain,
And your love, is all of heaven away.
Inside you the time moves and she don't fade,
The ghost in you, she don't fade.
The race is on i'm on your side,
But hearing you my engines die,
I'm in the mood for you, or for running away.
Oh the stars come down in you
And love, love, love, you can't give it away.
Inside you the time moves and she don't fade away
The ghost in you, she don't fade.
Inside you time moves and she don't fade away
Don't you know she don't fade away.
So don't you go, cause it makes no sense
That all these talking supermen
Just take away the time, just to get it away.
Ain't it just like the rain
Cause love, love, love, love, love, is only heaven away.
Inside you the time moves, and she don't fade
The ghost in you, she don't fade away.
Inside you time moves, and she don't fade
The ghost in you, she don't fade.
The man in my shoes runs a liar,
All the papers lie tonight
That falling over you is the news of the day.
And love, will not fade away.
And love, love, love, will not fade away.
Hey Casanova lyrics - Duncan Sheik
Hey Casanova
You don't look too good
But I know times are tough
You never found your paradise
Like you said you would
And it's all catching up
Maybe that will never change
You may never come to your promised land
And it's a gray morning
With all you have
Still you turn your back
You're given every chance
How can you ask more than that?
Still you have to ask
Hey tragic hero
Did you get passed by?
What do all those heathens know?
Have a seat, cup of wine
And have a good cry
And then it's time to go
'Cause you're living up to your own worst cases
Looking for hope in some pretty strange places
And it's a gray morning
With all you have
Still you turn your back
You're given every chance
How can you ask more than that?
Still you have to ask
I really need for you to ask
With all you have
Still you're turning, turning, oh
With all you have
Still you're turning, you're turning, oh
Hey you lone ranger
Is it cold tonight?
So far beneath the stars
Maybe the desert do you good
The Dawn's Request lyrics - Duncan Sheik
If I crack up
Lose my head
Try to hid beneath my bed
And leave the television on
So I don't think of what's gone wrong
I beg the dawn
Break through, save me
Rescue me
Wake me from the dead
My weary head in your embrace
If I spin out
And off the rails
Build myself a bed of nails
And take the whole world down with me
Into my dime-store tragedy
Where will you be?
Break through, heal me
Sing to me
Kneel beside my bed
My weary head in your embrace
Wake up, sunrise
I may be alone but I'm alive
And I will find a way to you
Sunrise, you saved me this time
You never even had to try
And you opened up my eyes
Sunrise, you treat me so kind
I was lost, I was blind
And you opened up my eyes
White Limousine lyrics - Duncan Sheik
I guess, they think it's what we want
A smooth and easy ride
Of constellations of ceiling lights
Hennessey and Naugahyde
America, America, this is our reward
Everything is boring, everyone is bored
Maybe a white
Maybe a white Limousine
Maybe a white, white
White, white Limousine
Who's the smart guy at the wheel
Runnin' out of gas
Likes to wear a flight suit
And fly around for laughs
Maybe a white
Maybe a white Limousine
Maybe a white, white
White, white Limousine
I feel incentives for the pharmacy
Hey, I'm feelin' better already
I don't want to be clear it's too much for me
I'm makin' up, oh, I'm makin' up
For lost time, for all the lost time
Maybe a white
Maybe a white Limousine
Maybe a white, white
White, white Limousine
Maybe a white
Maybe a white Limousine
Maybe a white, white
White, white Limousine
We have won the war
We have won the war
I Don't Believe In Ghosts lyrics - Duncan Sheik
Here and there
Haunting my closets and drawers
My evermore
Now and then
Forgetting that every thing's changed
I call her name
And I heard the stories
She tried to tell me
Don't believe in ghosts
I hear a sound
Maybe it's her coming home
But I'm alone
No, I've never seen one
I've never been one
I don't believe in ghosts
No, I won't think of her
I won't remember
I don't believe in ghosts
She knows
She knows
Nothing Fades lyrics - Duncan Sheik
Turning the wheel to emptiness
There when you breathe your final breath
No one to hold you anymore
Haven't they told you, baby
You're always alive
Always alive
Leaving the plane of time and space
Leaving the mask of every face
Just like the sun and every ray
Might as well smile 'cause baby
We all die one day
We all die one day
Not square, not round
The silence in the sound
Not short, not long
The quiet in the song
It carries you along
Some of the people here believe
Reading a book of prophesies
Some of you sigh and turn away
Nobody knows, so what's the play?
You're here now
You're here for now
What does it matter anyway
Whatever I sing or what you say
Taking a chance, we place a bet
It ain't gonna get you to black or red
This time around
This time around
No cause, no condition
Who knows your position?
Not you, no other
What will you discover?
You never disappear
So tell me why you fear
Neither are you born
Sometimes still you mourn
Never do you arise
You're never low or high
No one acts, no one is made
Nothing glows, nothing fades
Nothing fades, nothing fades
Nothing fades, nothing fades
Fantastic Toys And Corduroys lyrics - Duncan Sheik
One day maybe
When I grow up
A son you will have found
When I change my ways
One of these days
I know I'll make you proud
What I never say
Because of busy days
Is all I want for you
I'm just not the best
At being friends
But that's what we should do
When I see you happy,
When you laugh
I'm never sad
Fantastic toys
And corduroys
Everything you gave
Took me to school
I tried to be cool
And you let me get away with it
What I want to say
A thing I pray
For you to shine inside
The fighting words
How they sound absurd
when it's you who gave me life
When I see you happy
When you laugh
I'm never sad
I don't want to be sad
And you shouldn't be sad
We shouldn't be sad
What I never say
Because of busy days
Is all I want for you
I want to love
Like a mother's son
To always see you through
When I see you happy
When you laugh
I'm never sad
We shouldn't be sad
Shopping lyrics - Duncan Sheik
So you wrote me a letter
Which I thought was really kind
I don't recall which song it was
But there is one you really liked
And you asked me so innocently
Of my inspiration
Why I write the songs I sing
The reasons why I make them
Nothing here is what it seems
Risk the wreckage of your dreams
So that you are always shopping
To steal away the cash you're dropping
Listen to me when I say
Fantasies are built to fade
There you are, you're always shopping
Even try, there is no stopping
Don't misunderstand me
It always makes me smile
When I can serenade you
As you're rolling down the aisles
On this journey of your soul's desire
The paradise of goods
You're doing just exactly
What I think you should
Nothing here is what it seems
Risk the wreckage of your dreams
So that you are always shopping
While you roll, you're really rocking
Listen to me when I say
Fantasies are built to fade
There you are, you're always wanting
You don't have is always haunting
Still one thing I have to say
My confession's not complete
I've made is sound as if all this
Has nothing to do with me
Surely is not anything
Further from the truth
When I have pretty things to gain
And only useless things to lose
Wish there were another way
I must keep the wolves at bay
I hope that you don't find it shocking
Rock and roll is built on shopping
If you?re searching for my soul
Come check out my chains of gold
Grab your purse and let's go shopping
For lingerie and silky stockings
Let's go shopping together
So that we can find ourselves
So that we can buy ourselves
Let's go shopping together
'Cause we are always by ourselves
We are always by ourselves
Let's go shopping together
So that we can find ourselves
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