- A World Without You
Slip your hand into my hand
And our feet will move in time
I've got winged heels, if it's the way you feel
Then we can leave our distance behind
Slip your hand over my hand
There's a meeting of our minds
Take my energy, show me all you see
And we can leave our difference behind
- Beautiful
Belle Sebastian - Beautiful
She lay in bed all night watching the morning change
She lay in bed all night watching the colours change
She lay in bed all night watching the colours change into green and gold
The doctor told her years ago that she was ill
The doctor told her years ago to take a pill
The doctor told her years ago that she'd go blind if she wasn't carefulThey let lisa go blindThe world was at her feet and she was looking down
- Come On Home
Come on home
There's a hole the size of ancient Rome
Come on back
You're giving me a heart attack
We are young, running through the fields of life
Playing all the games that people play
When you see them in the films from yesterday
Give a chance to the old
- Deathbed of My Dreams
Whistling through the summertime
School can whistle for my return
I've got plans and I've got schemes
To live and I've love to burn
The girl I've got, she laughs a lot
She asks me what I mean
I paint the perfect picture
The deathbed of my dreams
- Do It for Your Country
Lying next to you
How could I go wrong?
Lying in your state of glory
Sad to see you go, miss you, little ho
Sad to reach the end of story
Watch, baby, as you go
If you think the world's full of people sent to hate you
Then it will be so, 'cause you make the world
- Enter Sylvia Plath
Come, and steal my thoughts away
Thief of my identity
I was holding on to decency, reality
Come, and take me for a while
Up to your abundant pace
I’ll be your sidecar if you want to race
Want to race
- Fickle Season
Every time we feel the wind blow
Travel south beyond the deep snow
When the birds know it's time to fly
River running, it's deep and wide
Fickle season, summer's gone
So on ancient routes we travel
Way of stars and way of gravel
Feel the rhythm of wings and feet
- For the Price of a Cup of Tea
For the price of a cup of tea
You'd get a line of coke
For the price of a night with me
You'd be the village joke
For the price of a pint of milk
I'll tell you all I know
About the state of the world today
Sit down, enjoy the show
- I Fought in a War
I fought in a war and I left my friends behind me
To go looking for the enemy, and it wasn't very long
Before I would stand with another boy in front of me
And a corpse that just fell into me, with the bullets flying round
And I reminded myself of the words you said when we were getting on
And I bet you're making shells back home for a steady boy to wear
Round his neck, well it won't hurt to think of you as if you're waiting for This letter to arrive because I'll be here quite a while
- I Love My Car
I love my car
I'll admit today I've gone too far
To enamor myself of my little motor car
I love my dog
I love my pussy cat, I love the rat
That lives under the floor and makes his bed from novelettes
I wish I could say the same for you
The day will come soon when I look in your eyes but
- Mayfly
Lovesick on a sunny afternoon,
You were tired of waiting in,
You were waiting for a sign.
Mayfly, woken up when skies are blue,
I don't mind the sight of you.
Keep me company till she comes again.
You are the one who's privy to,
- Mornington Crescent
Mornington Crescent
I think of you
Rain in the southeast
Men feeling blue
Men with their bowlers
Kids with their spats
Ladies with chauffeurs
Dogs wearing hats and jackets
- piazza, new york catcher
Elope with me Miss Private and we'll sail around the world
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?
Oh elope with me in private and we'll set something ablaze
A trail for the devil to erase
San Francisco's calling us, the Giants and Mets will play
- Prophets On Hold
Can I call you sometime?
Talk it out on the phone
We don't have to be lovers
We could be less alone
It's a rough, rocky road
And it's going to get steep
I just wanted your soft tone
To allow me to sleep
- Reclaim the Night
I've got to get you off my mind
I've got the world to see
I want to keep you out of sight
Don't try to follow me
I've got to get you off my mind
I've got the world to see
Hide from the light, stay out of sight
Live parallel with me
- Sea of Sorrow
When I see the faraway smiling faces
When I feel the subtle pull of your graces
When the sun is falling on magic places
You're giving me hints of ecstasy
Every other day I'm frozen with worry
Looking for a way to shed my own body
But I know it's just like a jacket, a layer of skin
Though we wreck ourselves
- Sister Buddha
Sister Buddha takes the all night bus
Sister Buddha looking for the thing that makes her buzz
Sister Buddha wakes up far from home and all she knows
There's an itch that she's dying to scratch
Her face, her clothes, her skin
Step across the lonely threshold of your selfish mind
And embrace the loving goodness of your human kind
And if God won't show her face, fall upon your inner soul's embrace
- Song for Sunshine
Honey'd sweet apples, they're rotting away
Millions of people never start in the race
There's stuff on out plates that has not been alive
Someone pays full price for my cheap flight life
'Sunshine, we all see the same sky'
I am a man filled with longing desire
- Talk to Me, Talk to Me
I'm looking through a portal
It's got eyes and a mastery of gravity
I'm lucky to be here now
I was lonely, talk to me, talk to me
I got a new perspective
The glass in my hand, it ain't exactly full
The place at my table is an empty stool, talk to me, talk to me
Confusion is trying to take a hold of me
- The Blues Are Still Blue
Look at the kid from school
He's teaching mamas and papas how to be a little cool
He's changing fashion, the way he dress
The tracksuits are old, and the hoody's way too moody
For a kid with the will to funk
He dances in secret; he's a part-time punk
She's getting off the plane
- The Everlasting Muse
I want to find this girl I know
I need to take her out
I'll set a snare in evening air
Made of faith and hope and doubt
I want to spend some time with her
Learn the secrets of her trade
I wouldn't mean to cross the line
- Unnecessary Drama
I read your letter from before
You've been having so much fun
And is it possible you're just telling me
To draw me in?
There's an array of douchebags lining up
To play their stupid parts
And did you ever pause
Before you gave your love away?
- Waiting for the Moon to Ris
All the way back home
I'm telling you I caught the sun
Creeping up behind my shoulder;
Another day's begun.
I was following a trail
I'd never been along before,
Chasing darkened skies above me,
Looking like the spring,
- We Rule The School
On a beech tree rudely carved
NC was here
Why did she do it?
Was she scared or sad?
On a beech tree rudely carved
NC loved me
Why did she do it?
- When The Cynics Stare Back From The Wall
There's somebody that I want you to know
She's a sweet, sweet friend of mine
If she has a fault, she will go overboard
When there's a man around, she flirts like a child
Darling, take a hint once and for all
Stay away from them
'Cause everything you say
Just seems to them so strange
- Working Boy in New York City
Pray, hey, you are a working boy in New York City
You took the train to liberate your body
And liberate your heart, you are trying to find a home soon
Always the saddest when a friend can't make it
Love everyone along the way
You never had a chance to tell them
What you would like to do
If the love permits you
- Young and Stupid
I was yelling in my sleep
I was crying feeling week
Do we have to feel this way?
It wasn't like this yesterday
Everything is fine
When you're young and stupid
Everything's divine
When you're young and stupid