Serena lyrics - Duncan Sheik

So what, life's rough

You should get over yourself

Like everyone else and enjoy

The girls and the boys

Everything in between

Serena

In an effort to avoid

The things that annoy you

You hide far, far away

And life just passes you by

Are you gonna give up? Are you gonna give out?

Ain't that a shame

You've got no one to blame

But your conscience

It doesn't make sense

I know that only too well

So tell me

Did it happen one day

When the day that you faced

Wasn't happening?

It just didn't bring

Anything more, anything more than despair

Serena, Serena

Serena

Do you remember?

Morning would come

Just like a child filled with the sun

And the hours never seemed long

Where have those days gone?

Beyond us or so you would believe

But I can't agree, those illusions

Will you ever get through them

And find the diamond

Find the diamond inside?

Serena, Serena

Serena, Serena

Out Of Order lyrics - Duncan Sheik

I hear what you're sayin'

I may seem out of order

Nothing's quite the same now

As it ever was before her

And you're lookin' at me

With one of those sideways glances

You say I'm givin' up too much

And takin' too many chances

But I won't believe you now

I've got to check this out

Nothin' you can say

Will convince me otherwise

You're just tryin' to be a friend

I know the message is well meant

But none of it does compare to her eyes

Just go easy on me

I'm feelin' out of order

I'm beaten and I'm wounded

Like I never was before her

And I know you're talkin' sense

But I can't forget about her

You say I'm good as dead

If I keep it up much longer

But I won't believe you now

I've got to check this out

Nothin' you can say

Will convince me otherwise

You're just tryin' to be a friend

I know the message is well meant

But none of it does compare to her eyes

It may be unwise, you may be right

But I don't mind, I just can't mind

It may be unwise, you may be right

But I don't mind, I just can't mind

November lyrics - Duncan Sheik

The past we seek some certainty

The seasons we remember

The light of May and darkest days

The month we call November

To leave behind the wasted time

And every bad decision

And harder still, what force of will

To feel we are forgiven

But something stays

So who am I to say

There's nothing more between us?

And I don't know the reasons

Nothing's clear

I've come to no conclusions

Said and done

Is it all said and done?

So here we are, not very far

From when we said forever

And all we have, this restless past

The month we call November

Home lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Don't get me wrong

I'm feeling okay

But when I'm without you

It's just not the same

Don't misunderstand me

I'm feeling alright

But when I'm without you

The day turns into night

Into night

I dream of a future

A possible place

We lie together

Face to face

And I'm looking forward

I will not deny

I dream of a future

Made for you and I

You and I

I'm with you

No longer alone

When I'm with you

Feels like I'm home

And you are with me

No longer alone

How can it be?

Feels like I'm home

I look through the darkness

Into the sky

The moon up above me

Brilliantly shines

I've never been happier

Watching it glow

Here by myself

But I know I'm not alone

I'm not alone

I look through the brightness

Into the sky

The sun up above me

Spitting out fire

Call me a child

Call me naive

The world is much brighter

Than it ever used to be

Used to be

I'm with you

No longer alone

When I'm with you

Feels like I'm home

And you are with me

No longer alone

How can it be?

Feels like I'm home

Feels like I'm home

Feels like I'm home

Feels like I'm home

Feels like I'm home

The End Of Outside lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Should I say I'm sorry

For what I'm going to say?

I guess it's way beyond me

To sleep with yesterday

I want to see my future

I want to know my past

The everlasting present

Is that so much to ask?

Does it make you wonder

What's at the end of outside?

They say there's other vision

Deeper than the light

Maybe they're just voices

Coming from my mind

A hundred million faces

Enlightened or afraid

What is going to save us

From all uncertain fate?

Does it make you wonder

What's at the end of outside?

I want to feel closer now

To the stars in the sky

Tell me sweetly, give me

The love of everyday

Human nature

I don't remember how to feel that way

Anyway

Dropped inside the ocean

Covered by the sands of time

Walk me through the seasons

Of every single life

Does it make you wonder

What's at the end of outside?

I want to feel closer now

To the stars in the sky

Little Hands lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Some sweet perversion on the telephone line

I've been waiting for such a very long time

For her to be free

The evening was nice but there were too many people

And all my thoughts, so depraved and evil

Oh Lord, what would she say?

She says, "Well, I'm afraid, it's not to be

You're a sweet guy but you ain't for me

I live my life in a different way

You know those things you're thinking are a big mistake"

We stayed out late 'til morning came

I said, "I'll take you home if it's all the same"

Her indifference fills the room

Some weak seduction on the morning after

How it slays me every time I touch her

But she just wants to sleep

She says, "How long 'til you understand

The last thing that I need is another man

Didn't you promise to give it a rest?

Right now I need a lover like a hole, like a hole in the chest"

Oh well, can't blame a guy for tryin'

And I'm smiling even though I'm dying

To know the love she says will never be

One last conversation at the crowded bar

And even though the music is louder by far

I hear every word she says

She says, "Don't take it bad, don't worry about it

You're friend of mine and there's no way around it

Sometimes you get there early, sometimes you get there late

But even if you had a chance you never, never knew the game"

Little hands, open smile, I'm glad we got to talk for a while

I feel okay, yeah I'm feeling better, I'll let it go but I'll never say never

It's okay, yeah it's okay, it's okay, it's okay

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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