Daylight (2002)












Genius (Never Came Through) lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Clearly I'm a genius
If she only knew it
but somewhere in her radius
I really blew it
I know, I know what I said to her
and I know what I did
What I don't know is how I could ever be
so incredibly stupid

[CHORUS:]

(you don't really need to know every last detail.
Its hardly worth telling
suffice to say I said that I would be there
i never came through)

Maybe I'm a genius and
she just don't see it
I fronted,
I should have admitted,
she saw right through it
I never thought that I could be
so underhanded.
somehow I've cornered the market on
the double standard

[CHORUS]

For this act of genius
and so many others
I know I should apologize
and see how it goes

what am I waiting for?
come on, come on, come on, come on

sha la la la la la sha la la la la la la la

to all of the geniuses...

[CHORUS]

Half-life lyrics - Duncan Sheik

I'm awake in the afternoon
I fell asleep in the living room
and it's one of those moments
when everything is so clear

before the truth goes back into hiding
I want to decide 'cause it's worth deciding
to work on finding something more than this fear

It takes so much out of me to pretend
tell me now, tell me how to make amends

maybe, I need to see the daylight
to leave behind this half-life
don't you see I'm breaking down

lately, something here don't feel right
this is just a half-life
is there really no escape?
no escape from time
of any kind

I keep trying to understand
this thing and that thing, my fellow man
I guess I'll let you know
when i figure it out

but I don't mind a few mysteries
they can stay that way it's fine by me
and you are another mystery i am missing

It takes so much out of me to pretend

maybe, I need to see the daylight
to leave behind this half-life
don't you see I'm breaking down

Lately, something here don't feel right
this is just a half-life
is there really no escape?
no escape from time
of any kind

come on lets fall in love
come on lets fall in love
come on lets fall in love
again

'cause lately something here don't feel right
this is just a half-life,
without you I am breaking down

wake me, let me see the daylight
save me from this half-life
let's you and I escape
escape from time

come on lets fall in love
come on lets fall in love
come on lets fall in love
again

Start Again lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Peace has lost its meaning
now we've hit the ceiling
all is said and all is done
here goes start again

You're better than you think so
something I hold onto
I'm better too holding on to you
start again

[CHORUS:]

(So meet me and we'll drive this car away
we can leave right now what do you say
we'll head out for the wide and open spaces
if we can clear the way)

Save yourself don't save me
save the one you may be
let it be the best that it can be
start again

[CHORUS (X2)]

On Her Mind lyrics - Duncan Sheik

She's wearing the tee-shirt
of a band I really like
maybe that's coincidence
maybe that's alright

I keep thinking about the way
she said "I'll see you soon"
was it more than words?

I'm just tryin' to find
what's on her mind?

I don't know when I'll see her
but I'm sure that I will
its just another matter of time
some more time to kill

I can imagine so many things
her and I sometime in the spring
...something's happening

I'm just tryin' to find
what's on her mind?

[CHORUS:]

(I want peace but I don't make it
I want love but I don't give it
i want hope but I can't find it
and I want her to heal me)

she's wearing the tee-shirt
of my favorite band
I should've told her
that I was a fan

people say I should just leave it be
leave it up to destiny
but that ain't for me

I'm just trying to find
what's on her mind?

[CHORUS and outros]

Such Reveries lyrics - Duncan Sheik

you and I in the room with the balcony
you lie on the bed while I stare at the sea
I stare at the sea
on such reveries

and we're riding the ponies in Mexico.
the moonlight leaps through the palm tree groves
oh, wouldn't you know?
we're in Mexico

yes all of these things, all of these things
they are such reveries, ohh
all of these things, all of these things
they are such reveries

the oceans waves loomed as large as could be
they threw us below but you held onto me
yeah, you held onto me
oh such reveries

'cause you are my treasure, a love that astounds
the end of my searches, my looking around
no more looking around
a love that astounds.

yes all of these things, all of these things
they are such reveries, ohh
all of these things, all of these things
they are such reveries

but don't listen to me,
it's my imagination
I don't even know you
it never happened
just dreams in slow motion
they never happened
all that I told you
it never happened ever

'cause all of these things, all of these things
they are just reveries, ohh
all of these things, all of these things
they are just reveries
yes all of these things, all of these things
they are just reveries, ohh
all of these things, all of these things
they are just reveries

so many visions still to see
and many travails before I may sleep
but then when I sleep
oh such reveries

On A High lyrics - Duncan Sheik

I'm on a high, I'm on a high
there's nothing more to it.
We are the sea and the sky
and the blue that runs through it, yeah.

and there are some who say there are so many things I need
so I run or I fight and I crawl or I scream and I bleed
I bleed, I bleed

well, it's a lie it's a lie - don't you believe it.
if you're fine then you're fine - it's all how you see it.
oh, there never will be no conspiracy of happiness.

I'm on a high I'm on a high
and there's nothing more to it
I have the sun, it's a star
why should I refuse it

and there are so many reasons I could give you why I should be down
there's not enough money or time and my love you're not around
around, around

but it's a lie it's a lie - don't you believe it.
if you're fine then you're fine - it's all how you see it.
oh, there never will be no conspiracy of happiness.

you're alive you're alive - how else could you hear me?
you are fine, you are fine - there's nothing worth fearing
'cause there never will be no conspiracy of happiness

I'm on a high, on a high
we are the sea and the sky
I'm on a high, on a high
I'm on a high

It's a lie, It's a lie don't you believe it
'Cause I've tried and I've tried, and I can't really see it
Yeah, I'm trapped inside my conspiracy of happiness
said I was yours, you were mine but I didn't really mean it
and I lied and I lied
and I wish you hadn't seen it
'cause I'm trapped inside my conspiracy of happiness
I'm on a high, on a high, there's nothing more to it, yeah.

Magazines lyrics - Duncan Sheik

you see them everywhere
you know those magazines
yeah I've bought a few
they show you everything

so many news stands
as I'm passing by
but rows and rows of you
are bound to catch my eye

now everyone can gaze upon your body
its good for you - I guess you have no shame
I never knew if how I acted
would make you seek revenge
and now I know
and you're in magazines

but is it really you
in the empty world
I shouldn't be surprised
you're an ambitious girl

with all that naked skin as sweet as honey
Maybe you just really needed money
I wondered if I would be punished for
my voyeuristic pleasure

and now I know
and you're in magazines
and now I know
and you're in magazines
now I know

I tear through pages
of every kind of pose
but its not really you I see
when I look real close
no you're a little bit different
you're a little bit different
you're a little bit different

and now I know
and you're in magazines
now I know
and you're in magazines
I'm alone
and you're in magazines
so it never was you
no, it never was you
it never was you
in magazines

For You lyrics - Duncan Sheik

For you I want to sing a happier song
for you I'm gonna try to right all my wrongs
for you I'm gonna break my bad habits
there's a golden ring and I want you to have it
there's a golden ring and I want you

For you I'm gonna sit and patiently wait
it's great if you're early but if its fine if you're late
for you I feel love and I just want to show it
you're a beautiful girl and want you to know it
you're a beautiful girl and want you to know it
you're a beautiful girl and want you to know it
it's an infinite world and I want you

Once again I am opened
Once again I am opened
Once again I am opened
Once again I am opened

For you I'm waiting on the ticket line
I gotta get back I don't wanna waste time
but the people are tired and the line is so long
so all I can do is sing this song

Good Morning lyrics - Duncan Sheik

I awake to find the devil
sitting near my bed.
we have a conversation
...........he says:

Good Morning Mr. Cut-throat
these are most exciting times
we are surrounded by fools and crooks,
strangers that give us dirty looks,
so many different people to despise

it's tearing you apart / you haven't got the heart
I don't mean to complain, but it seems a little strange

good evening Mr. Turncoat!
well done!
you've been watching the so-called news
(and now yo see it)
that no news is good news,
we don't want to confuse
the popular pursuit
of absolute truth
and who has time for such remote endeavors

you wanna disappear,
how did you end up here?
I don't mean to complain
but it seems a little strange

take me to your leader
I sure could use a laugh
(I hear) he's made a new birdfeeder
and he sleeps in a birdbath
who needs to join the circus
come on, just look around
we are surrounded
by a bunch of f**king clowns!

they sing la la la la la la la la
they all sing la la la la la la la
we all sing la la la la la la la la
everybody sing, la la la la la la la la

its tearing you apart / you haven't got the heart
you sit there and complain, it seems a little lame.

good morning, Mr. Misanthrope
I sure do hope you remember our terms

Memento lyrics - Duncan Sheik

I'm threading through the evening
it's later than I thought
a friend of mine is waiting
for cigarettes I brought

she smiles she seems so tired
so nothing is required

I reach into my pocket
some things she left behind
nothing really happens
in ways I can't define

loose talk of hearts and heads
of sleep in other beds
it's better left unsaid

she says that she is cold
I wish that I could hold

but no,
how can you hold a soul?
you just can't hold a soul
that shines like gold
she shines like gold

I will, I won't, I would
I've said more than I should

she leaves she goes uptown
she may not come back down
she may not come back down
she may not turn around
she may not make a sound
she may not come back down

Shine Inside lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Are you aware? when you just stare,
for hours, into the sky
what do you see? can you show it to me
the beauty...

I can see you shine inside
I want to see the world - see it in a new light
I can feel your spirit rise
I want to see the world through your eyes

I watch you breathe, sitting under the tree
the peace that you find
you take my hand, waves crash on the sand
what's done - left behind

I can see you shine inside
I want to see the world - see it in a new light
I can feel your spirit rise
how it shines

scene changes, rearranges
oh nature's song
the river is fire the river is water
the river is sweet sweet wine

is it the time? is there a sign?
how do I find your state of mind

I can see you shine inside
I want to see the world - see it in a new light
I can feel your spirit rise
how it shines

scene changes, rearranges
oh nature's song
I'm seeing, I'm believing
I'm feeling strong
the river is fire, the river is water
the river is sweet, sweet wine
the river is moving, moving through me
the river it shines inside

Phantom Moon (2001)




















The Wilderness (Prelude) lyrics - Duncan Sheik

The word is told, now
The word is said
The word is old, now
And the stone is bread

The heart is born, now
The heart is flesh
The heart is known, now
And the no is yes

Longing Town lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Oh, so cold

Evening gray consumed in dark
No more day to hold me
Sounds won't stay to play their part
Only what strangers told me
Why is the ghost who listens so cold and alone?

Wind, tell her lightly
All that we might be
While I sit nightly

Watching the shadows and drifting down
Twilight descends so blue, so brown
And longing begins in this longing town

When the haze falls through my heart
When its arms enfold me
Oh, my song won't go that far
I can't sing how lonely
Home is a note of distance, a word for gone

Wind, tell her lightly
All that we might be
While I sit nightly

Watching the shadows and drifting down
Twilight descends so blue, so brown
And longing begins in this longing town

Oh, so cold, no one home
All of the notes, a word for gone

Mr. Chess lyrics - Duncan Sheik

So good to meet you, Mr. Chess
I've always heard that you're the best
At housing knights
And castles high up in the air

So I beseech you, Mr. Chess
To let me sleep inside your bed
And would you sleep too
Would you sleep too in the chair?

You see, I dream of many things
Of floating solitary kings
Of pawns and people
With blue sequins through their hair

The jesters sings
The bishop brings the queen
A hollow following
And all the pawns and people stop
And people stare

So I too stop
At three o'clock
I stumble to your door
And knock

And ask to see you
Ask to be you, Mr. Chess
Oh, Mr. Chess

Now, I beseech you, Mr. Chess
To let me sleep, to let me rest
To let me dream, to let me sing without a care

And I will dream you things so fair
I'll sing you castles in the air
And I will sleep too
I will sleep too, well, I will rest

Oh, Mr. Chess
My Mr. Chess

The Winds That Blow lyrics - Duncan Sheik

All the shadows blue, in the winter moon
The stars within the darkness
They remember you and they sorrow too
With all the winds that blow

Every book you'd read, in the evening breeze
As stars shone in the darkness
Still it waits to see, will you turn its leaves
With all the winds that blow

See, the window too that once you looked through
Out on the stars, the darkness
It remembers you, in this empty room
With all the wind so cold

And that phantom moon is a window too
The stars look through the darkness
To some summer noon, where our ghosts still move
Among the winds that blow

You were my soul and my silence
You were my hope, my lightness
You were the sword at my side
Through all the winds that blow

Now, the children play, through these shorter days
Till stars show through the darkness
Now, the young men stray and nobody waits
Among the winds that blow

All the shadows blue, in the winter moon
The stars within the darkness
They'll remember you, they will sorrow too
And all the winds will blow

All the winds will blow
All the winds will blow
All the winds will blow
All the winds will blow

Mouth On Fire lyrics - Duncan Sheik

There the bones do sleep
And there the soul is soul
And there the Gods do weep
When the angels fall

But here the thoughts won't keep
And here the blood runs cold
And here the grave is deep
And the devil calls

Brought my heart to feed, but my mouth was fire
Brought the earth my seed, but it would not flower
Where the jeweled stream? Where the eased desire?
In some fool's dream? In the ending hour?

I brought my voice, just noise to poor old silence
A clanging toy, a clanging toy, empty strident
I brought my eyes, in utter ruin sightless
The tears I cried, the tears I cried still so frightened

Brought my heart to feed, but my mouth was fire
Brought the earth my seed, but it would not flower
Where the jeweled stream? Where the eased desire?
In some fool's dream? In the ending hour?

Where the silver streets? Where the blossoming?
Where sounds so sweet? Where songs of spring?
Where words for things? Where golden memories?
Where quiet seas? Where certainty?

Where all might cease
The talk, the want, the posturing?

Brought my heart to feed, but my mouth was fire
Brought the earth my seed, but it would not flower
Where the jeweled stream? Where the eased desire?
In some fool's dream? In the ending hour?

Where poetry?
Where mystic harmonies?
Where love that frees?
Where security?

Where sympathy?
Where tranquility?
Where rest in peace?
In the dream or in the fire?

Mouth on fire
Mouth on fire

Sad Stephen's Song lyrics - Duncan Sheik

And there were mermaids, weren't there?
Sweet, silver mermaids
All through that gray Trafalgar square
Such silver mermaids

And they were young and they were fair
They brushed their bronze and dusky hair
And whispered, "Come, sad Stephen
Come and play here"

"You will love, you will be loved
You will grow up and do so much
You will be strong, you will be sung
By all the mermaids, silver mermaids"

And once they'd sung their satin song
They beckoned to me from the fog
They spread their arms and lifted
Pale portrait faces, I was taken

To their coral cavern halls
To rooms with oyster shells for walls
To sandy nooks, pearly books and ivory dolls
In ivory stalls, in ivory stalls

And there were mermaids, weren't there?
Sweet, silver mermaids
All through that wan, forgotten square
Silver mermaids

They were young and they were fair
And they brushed their bronze and dusky hair
And whispered, "Come, sad Stephen, come"
And I was taken

Was I wrong? Should I have run?
I wanted all, I wanted young
And portrait faces, I was taken

Did I love? I didn't care
Did I grow up? Well, unaware
And was I strong? And was I sung?
How do I haunt Trafalgar fog?

And find I want so much, still want
And no more mermaids
No more mermaids
And no more mermaids

Time And Good Fortune lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Drifter, what about her conversation?
Drifter, how about an explanation?
Where you go when you receive?
And why you never let her feed?
On all that truth you hold so dear
But never let another near

No one around
My, don't we love?
No one around

No, to the quiet gazes
No, to the muttered phrases
No, to the utter waste of
Time and good fortune

Taster of the poetry
Of Pater, Proust and Socrates
What are you to do but sleep
When are you to stop and weep?
For all your inability
To mate with your own memory

No one around
My, don't we love?
No one around

No, to the mindless gazes
No, to the splintered phrases
No, to the utter waste of
Time and good fortune

Singer, will the singing say it?
Singer, would such saying change it?
A whole long life spent tuning strings
And will it now mean anything?
But empty chords that only bring
An endless, voiceless sorrowing

No one around
My, don't we love?
No one around

No, to the frightened gazes
No, to the stuttered phrases
No, to the utter waste of
Time and good fortune

Time and good fortune
Time and good fortune

Far Away lyrics - Duncan Sheik

If, again, you wander
If, too soon again, you wander
Far away, far away
Let this, too, be with you
An old tune somewhere within you
Far away, far away

Falling through the autumn evening
Every darkened street, calling to forgotten feeling
The passing ghosts and scattered leaves

If, again, you love him
If, too soon again, you love him
Far away, far away
Let this, too, be with him
Humming smoothly when you kiss him
Far away, far away

Haunting all the talk, and stalling
Every hope of sleep
Calling to some distant longing
Another soul within your sheets

If, some day, you love me
If, in truth, some day, you love me
Far away, far away
Let the words within you
Whisper to you how I miss you
Far away, far away

For if, some day, I wander
Then, too soon, I too will wander
Far away, far away
Far away, far away, far away
Calling to your heart and stealing
All the want away

This Is How My Heart Heard lyrics - Duncan Sheik

This is how my heart heard
That little thing in tears, they call the truth
It said, "Be done with her, she's done with you"
This is how my heart heard

This is how my arms burn
That used to hold her tight until the dawn
And now they weep to find that she is gone
This is how my heart heard

I forgot the taste of fears
And how they haunt the lips you're kissing
And how the song could waste its tears
On someone who is missing

And how I shed such tears but never cry
This is how I want her
And how I kiss her lips and taste goodbye
This is how I want her

I forgot the taste of fears
And how they haunt the lips you're kissing
And how love's just a waste of tears
On someone who is missing

This is how I want her
And how I shed such tears but never cry
And how I tasted lips that kissed goodbye
This is how my heart heard

This is how my heart heard
This is how my heart heard

A Mirror In The Heart lyrics - Duncan Sheik

There is a swan-white curtain
Somewhere within the sky
It's known of every sermon
Every anguished cry
The howls of hopeless people
Frightened and alone

There is a spotless silver mirror
That hangs within the moon
It's witnessed every winter
The cities charred and ruined
The herds of homeless people
Filling all the roads

Some may pray to their mirrors
Some may kneel before the sun
Me, I say there's a mirror
In the heart of everyone

Bullets paint the blue distance
The mirror's stained from every gun
Still I say that it glistens
In the heart of everyone

And there are golden whispers
Within the afternoon
They've held the brothers, sisters
Felt the mothers' wounds
The broken-hearted people
Burying their own

Some may pray to their mirrors
Some may kneel before the sun
Me, I say there's a mirror
In the heart of everyone

Strike the bell and we listen
Light the candle and we're shown
The Gods themselves throwing incense
As all the world begins to glow

Such a flame, such a mirror
In the heart of everyone
Such a flame, such a mirror
In the heart of everyone
Of everyone, of everyone, of everyone

Lo And Behold lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Simon, he was a man
Held his heart out in his hand
A hollow land of autumn breeze

Evenings in the brittle rain
Leaves that fill the barren plain
With simple pain, embroideries

In the temple yesterday
Was a man, who came to pray
Who couldn't stay and couldn't leave

So, he fell down on his knees
Sued for grace and sued for peace
A little ease and not to grieve

Marion, she met a man
Took her to Jerusalem
To take a stand, escape a scene

To wander in the honey sea
Drink the milk of memory
And never be herself again

In the temple yesterday
Was a woman came to pray
Who couldn't say and couldn't see

So, she fell down on her knees
Sued for grace and sued for peace
Sued the priest to set her free

Lo, lo and behold
Lo, lo and behold
Lo, lo and behold
Lo, lo and behold

Requiescat lyrics - Duncan Sheik

And there was gone and there was ever more
And there was wheretofore hast thou
And what heretofore but not for ever more
Not for evermore, now

O Lord, went away
O Lord, well away
O Lord, that ye may keep her warm
Requiescat

A sorrow borne and borne for evermore
A sorrow borne with a howl
Thou'll come no more, no more for ever more
No more for ever more, now

O Lord, she's gone away
O Lord, well away
O Lord, that ye may keep her warm
Requiescat

The Wilderness lyrics - Duncan Sheik

The word is told, now
Word is said
Word is old, now
And the stone is bread

Heart is bone, now
The heart is flesh
The heart is known, now
And the no is yes

And all we hold
Is only in the past

Song is cold, now
The song is spent
The song is sold, now
And the thought is rent

Bird is flown, now
The bird is fled
The bird is gone, now
And the wind is fed

And all we hold
Is only in the past

Humming (1998)















In Between lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Hold the light up to me, get underneath my skin
I feel a little undefined, I want to let you in
And I listen to the messages, the endless train of thought
Now it feels like I'm returning, most everything I've bought

Some say it's all coming to an end
Some fool themselves with thoughts of new beginnings
Makes me wonder what they believe
We're in between

Sometimes it's just better to get on with it
Sometimes Lord knows you gotta get off
No use holding on to what I mean
'Cause I'm in between
There's no use wondering what I mean

Saints and sinners, losers, winners, masters and their slaves
The more you hide one or the other the earlier your grave
Oh the triumph and the tragedy, the endless bright parade
I know that most of us are innocent but some should be afraid

'Cause they say we're all coming to an end
They fool themselves with thoughts of new beginnings
Well I don't buy it, it's just too clean
'Cause we're in between

Sometimes it's just better to get on with it
Sometimes Lord knows you gotta get off
No use holding on to what I mean
'Cause I'm in between
There's no use wondering what I mean
'Cause I'm in between
Are you still wondering what I mean?

Hold the light up to me, get underneath my skin
Humming like the wind
I feel a little undefined, I'm sorry if I seem
So in between

It's so much better when you run your fingers through my hair
Humming like the air
I wish that I could hold you, I'm sorry if I seem
So in between

Rubbed Out lyrics - Duncan Sheik

She justified it then
She may well justify forever
She figures it's the only way
To keep herself together
Something about hotel rooms and horses
And losing all her friends
And hearing all their voices

She rubs it out, she covers it over
She's stronger by far, than a war-torn soldier
She rubs it out

She makes a little money
And sends it to the mother
She's living with some guy
Who's fighting off the sharks
She hopes some day
She'll get some kind of letter
Well you don't hold much
If you haven't got the heart

She rubs it out, she covers it over
She's harder by far, than a war-torn soldier
She rubs it out

Some time ago, I thought that she was trying to move on
I thought wrong

She rubs it out, she covers it over
She's harder by far, than a war-torn soldier
I'd die for her gladly
Lord knows I've told her
But she rubs it out

I justified it then
I may well justify forever

Bite Your Tongue lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Such an annoying conversation
I'm sorry but I'm tired of trying
To be some picture of compassion
And anyway it sounds like I'm lying

And yes I've heard the world has conspired
To steal away your God-given right
To a happy home and comfortable children
Next you'll sue them for abandoning you

So bite your tongue
You're not the only one
Who's been let down

Bite your tongue
Maybe it's good for you
To hit the ground

Oh Christ, it's gonna sound like I'm agreeing
With the most ultra-boring ideas
Of pops psychological western gurus
Who haven't gotten lucky in years

And so you see, I have no intention
Of giving you the easy way out
And yes I'll smile as I burn
The self-help section of my local bookstore

So bite your tongue
You're not the only one
Who's been let down

Bite your tongue
Maybe it's good for you
Hit the ground

Blame the shapes and blame the angles
Blame it on your own dark planes
If you blame on something other
The victim's song remains, remains

So bite your tongue
You're not the only one
Who's been let down

Bite your tongue
Maybe it's good for you
To hit the ground

Alibi lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Did you come down to give me
Or take me away
I had so many things to tell you
But now I don't have much to say

This feeling like we're hiding out
Is getting in the way

Let's quit the town just look around
There's nothing here to keep us alive
If they try to run us down
You know I'm on your side
And I want you to be my alibi
So they won't find me
And they won't find you
And we may tell lies
But we may be true

Did you come down to take me
Or give me away
I had so many things to ask you
Now you don't have much to say

And these alcoholic afternoons
Are getting in the way

Let's quit the town just look around
There's nothing here to keep us alive
If they try to run us down
You know I''m on your side
And I want you to be my alibi
So they won't find me
And they won't find you
And we may tell lies
But we may be true
So they won't find me
And they won't find you
And we may tell lies
But we may be true

I want to be your alibi
Till the day we die

Varying Degrees Of Con-artistry lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Promised cures for everyman
Snake oil and circuses
You can get to Heaven, yes you can
So judge the books by their surfaces

And someone's taking care of business
The market place is doing fine
As long as there's no witness
How can there be a crime

The illusion is lasting, such beautiful masking
We hold it in our arms
It's all just varying degrees of con-artistry
But no one seems alarmed, no one seems alarmed

I'll promise love without end
I'll believe myself, if I can
And like a baby soft and helpless
I won't ask questions

The illusion is lasting, such beautiful masking
We see it all the time
It's all just varying degrees of con-artistry
But no one seems to mind, no one seems to mind

That Says It All lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Hit the town, still dressing down
Looking for some action, Mr. Jagger said it best
He knows you never get, no satisfaction
But Mr. Dylan knows, that everyone is more or less a Rolling Stone
And Mr. Lennon, so quiet, knows better, so I've been told

That says it all, doesn't it?
We always want what we never get
Well listen hear, my friend
I can't continue to pretend that it's alright
'Cause that ain't right, and that ain't right

I hear you're gonna make it big, rake it in
With your master plan, Mr. Hendrix understood
Those are only, a castles made of sand
And Mr. Wilson took some pills and I don't blame him
It's hard to be alive and Mr. Page how he played
Mr. Drake stayed up late and made me cry

That says it all, doesn't it?
We always want what we never get
Well listen hear my friend
I can't continue to pretend that it's alright

They've said it all haven't they?
But what I want, what I want to say
Is listen hear my friend
I can't continue to pretend that it's alright

No matter what we get, we never find our happiness
Ain't that a crime?, Maybe that's why I've been told
Since I was six years old to compromise
But that ain't right, well that ain't right

Everyone, Everywhere lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Faded longing, tired of wanting
Can't explain the fear that's haunting you
Should I go or I could be wrong
So wrong

Hear me calling from eagle mountain
One of millions of suns
Perfect nature, deepest wisdom
Lies within everyone, everyone
And everywhere the brilliant horizon

Some say sacred, some profane
There are no distinctions, then again yes
But I may be wrong, but it feels right
So right

Hear me calling from eagle mountain
One of millions of suns
Perfect nature, deepest wisdom
Lies within everyone, everyone
And everywhere the brilliant horizon
Everywhere lies within everyone

A Body Goes Down lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Once in a while a man comes along
Even his failures were favorite songs
Oh to have made something so unsurpassed
As certain things fall away some certain things last

A body goes down in the Mississippi waters
Weighted by a beauty, afraid of its light
Notify your holy men, console your sons and daughters
And tell me one more time, what is just, what is right

Chances are good we spread blasphemous lies
Safe to say nobody knew what was inside
Of course there is grace and those halos of pain
Maybe he sang what he came here to sing

A body goes down in the Mississippi waters
Weighted by a beauty, afraid of its light
Notify your holy men, console your sons and daughters
And tell me one more time, what is just, what is right

Speed on to the next world, speed on to the next life
Better I'm sure by far
Orpheus driven, treasures given
Heal the most broken of hearts

Speed on, speed on, speed on

Nothing Special lyrics - Duncan Sheik

You play guitar for perfect strangers
You write some words they try to sell
And then you sing these things in public
Sometimes not very well

You get paid to go to parties
Drinking colors talking trash
You get laid because you're arty
And you wonder why it never lasts

Maybe these are wonders more than we may know
Well I hate to steal your thunder

You ain't nothing special
You're no more celestial than anyone else
As far as I can tell I call it mythology
We see what we want to see
And everyone wants their distant dreams

So sure enough they want your picture
And your deepest point of view
Well you should know you ain't not that pretty
And you haven't got a clue

But how you love the adoration
You believe you're in-house press
And half the critics always hate you
So you get horribly depressed

Maybe these are wonders, more than we may know
Well, I hate to steal your thunder

You ain't nothing special
You're no more celestial than anyone else
As far as I can tell I call it mythology
We see what we want to see

You ain't nothing special
You're no more celestial than anyone else
As far as I can tell I call it mythology
We see what we want to see
And I am the snake who bites his own tail

House Full Of Riches lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Had a house full of riches
Threw it all away
I'm not a worthy man
No matter what you say

I promise forever
And left without a word
I'm not a worthy man
No matter what you've heard

My mind and my spirit
Were sharp and strong
I threw it all away
Tell me where did I go wrong

But the purest of those moments
Pierce me through and through
Wistful and hopeless
No matter what I do

Somewhere within this heart of mine
Demons are working overtime
Would that I ruled by sweet, sweet fate
Never facing the choice I made

I had a love of such beauty
I just can't describe
I threw it all away
I could not tell you why

But I remember her laughing
Drenched in summer sun
I'm not a worthy man
But I could have been one

Somewhere within this heart of mine
Demons are working overtime
Would that I ruled by sweet, sweet fate
Never facing the choice I made

I threw it all away
I threw it all away
I threw it all away
Threw it all away
Threw it all away
Threw it all, threw it all, threw it all away

She comes to me only in the hours before I wake

Nichiren lyrics - Duncan Sheik

He beat the drum and lit the fires
He sent the messages in vain
But the sound of his philosophy
Rose above the falling rain

And to you who find it difficult
To believe in anything
I praise you for the outrage
At the horror you have seen

So I'm trying to remember
I try to understand
Every holocaust has meaning
Not set in stone but drawn in sand

And in some cold and barren place
He spoke the phrase and thus I heard
With every small decision
You change a heart, you change the world

Duncan Sheik (1996)




















She Runs Away lyrics - Duncan Sheik

You may not see the end of it
But luckily she comes around
It isn't what she talks about
It's just the way she is

And she says, "Ooh darlin' don't you know
The darkness comes and the darkness goes?"
And she says, "Ooh babe, why don't you let it go?
Happiness ain't never how you think it should be so"

I mystified the simple life
I covered up with consciousness
I saw myself and broke it down
'Til nothing more was left

She saw the symptoms right away
And spoke to me in poetry
"Sometimes the more you wonder why
The worse it seems to get"

And she says, "Ooh darlin' don't you know
The darkness comes and the darkness goes?"
And she says, "Ooh babe, why don't you let it go?
Happiness ain't never how you think it should be so"
She runs away, she runs away

And then you know there comes a time
You need her more than anything
You may believe yours are the wounds
That only she can heal

Then everything will turn around
She becomes so serious
What she chose to offer you
Was all that you could have

And she says, "Ooh darlin' don't you know
The darkness comes and the darkness goes?"
And she says, "Ooh babe, why don't you let it go?
Happiness ain't never how you think it should be so"
She runs away, she runs away
She runs away, she runs away

In The Absence Of The Sun lyrics - Duncan Sheik

For all the good you say it does
It seems no better when you had your say
You may believe its just because
Words get colder when you've gone away
I thought I understood
What I was to you

I don't want to feel this way no
I don't want to say I'm just a friend
I don't want to wait around here
Cause you don't want to feel no pain again
We just lie about it
As we become shadows of ourselves

Some may fear committed lives
I sure am one of them without you
Does it come to you as some surprise
I lay the ground beneath to doubt you
Was it ever, girl, something you could hold

I don't want to feel this way no
I don't want to say I'm just a friend
I don't want to wait around here
Cause you don't want to feel no pain again
We just lie about it
As we become shadows of ourselves

I don't want to look away
I don't want to be the one denied
It ain't no fault of mine
Someone somewhere told you lies
We don't talk about it
We just become shadows of ourselves
We don't talk about it
We just become shadows of ourselves

I don't want to feel this way no
I don't want to say I'm just a friend
I don't want to wait around here
Cause you don't want to feel no pain again
We just lie about it
As we become shadows of ourselves

I don't want to look away
I don't want to be the one denied
It ain't no fault of mine
Someone somewhere told you lies
We don't talk about it
We just become shadows of ourselves
We don't talk about it
We just become shadows of ourselves

Barely Breathing lyrics - Duncan Sheik

I know what you're doing
I see it all too clear
I only taste the saline
When I kiss away your tears

You really had me going
Wishing on a star
The black holes that surround you
Are heavier by far

I believed in your confusion
So completely torn
Must have been that yesterday
Was the day that I was born

There's not much to examine
There's nothing left to hide
You really can't be serious
If you have to ask me why
I say goodbye

'Cause I am barely breathing
And I can't find the air
Don't know who I'm kidding
Imagining you care

And I could stand here waiting
A fool for another day
I don't suppose it's worth the price
It's worth the price, the price
That I would pay, yeah yeah, yeah

Everyone keeps asking
What's it all about?
I used to be so certain
Now I can't figure out

What is this attraction?
I only feel the pain
There's nothing left to reason
And only you to blame
Will it ever change?

'Cause I am barely breathing
And I can't find the air
Don't know who I'm kidding
Imagining you care

And I could stand here waiting
A fool for another day
I don't suppose it's worth the price
It's worth the price, the price
That I would pay, yeah yeah, yeah
But I'm thinking it over anyway
I'm thinking it over anyway

I've come to find
I may never know
Your changing mind
Is it friend or foe?

I rise above or sink below
With every time
You come and go
Please don't come and go

'Cause I am barely breathing
And I can't find the air
Don't know who I'm kidding
Imagining you care

And I could stand here waiting
A fool for another day
But I don't suppose it's worth the price
It's worth the price, the price
That I would pay, yeah yeah, yeah
But I'm thinking it over anyway
I'm thinking it over anyway

Well, I know what you're doing
I see it all too clear

Reasons For Living lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Everyone's looking, everyone hides
Everyone's telling everyone lies
We're changing the subject, we're turning away
Away from the heart of it all

You say you are happy, do you think this is fun?
Well, it's only a firefly to the light of the sun
You say this is living, you feel so alive
Well, you know everything dies

Even my wonder, even my fear
Only amount to a couple of tears
There is a rhythm, it's near and it's far
It flows through the heart of us

Welcome to another day
It don't seem that different 'cause nothing has changed
Try to remember, try to remember
When we were just running in place

Reasons for living, never come cheap
But even your best ones can put me to sleep
What I am saying or trying to say
Is that there must be a better way

Even my wonder, even my fear
Only amount to a couple of tears
There is a rhythm, it's near and it's far
It flows through the heart of us

It's already in you, it's already there
You may disagree but I don't really care
Did you ever find out, did you ever find out
What's at the heart of us?
Did you ever find out, did you ever find out
What's at the heart?

Tell me all your wildest dreams
You don't really care, you don't know what they mean
Raiding the closets, skeleton keys
You know it's easier than you think

Even my wonder, even my fear
Only amount to a couple of tears
There is a rhythm, it's near and it's far
It flows through the heart of us

Reasons for living are all very fine
Leaving me cold though they're not really mine
Did you ever find out, did you ever find out
What's at the heart of us?
I don't know, I don't know

Days Go By lyrics - Duncan Sheik

Well, I know it's not fashionable
To be this hopeful, laugh away
I didn't think it was possible
To be this grateful anyway
And I know it's not sensible
To be this passionate everyday

Days go by, I catch myself smile
More than you'd ever expect
It's been a long while
Since it's been okay to feel this way

In the volumes of history
Have you ever seen anything so pure?
In the wildest mythology
Were the gods and goddesses ever so in love?
In your own experience
Have you ever known tenderness like this?

Days go by, I catch myself smile
More than you'd ever expect
It's been a long while
Since it's been okay to feel this way

These are the most precious
Of all my days

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

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