- All Falls Down
Luck came dancing on the breeze tonight
Like a loose free ticket for one expensive ride
To where the light comes from
It just hung in the air like a song to be sung
She rides and you could almost die
And the sight of her excited flight
The scent and the size of a thousand brides
- Ambulance
Your slim frame
Your eager eyes and your wild mane
Oh they keep me where I belong
All wrapped up in wrong
You’re to blame
For wasted words of sad refrain
Oh let them take me where they may
- Blind
I seen a girl
With a guy
With hair like yours
From what I remember
He took her hand
And smiled her name
Her face like yours
- Blues From Down Here
From the depths I called you, ma
for your breath and breast so warm and fabled
Your hands reached inside
grabbed my heart, enlarged, disabled
Hailed for your mercy
An ear that cares
- Bomb Yourself
Bomb your country
Oh shed no tears
TV dinner overfed your fears
So make your money
And spread your seed
Better lap up luxuries
But acknowledge need
You've made a family
- Caffeinated Consciousness
Now drop yourself with no concern
On how to breathe
When your mind is burned
On optimistic, on overload
Can we shift the heat back
To when your heart's grown cold
In severed light
- Careful You
Oui je t'aime, oui je t'aime
À demain, à la prochaine
I know it's best to say goodbye
But I can't seem to move away
Not to say, not to say
That you shouldn't share the blame
There is a softness to your touch
- Crying
Laugh in the face of death under masthead
Hold your breath through late breaking disasters
Next to news of the trite
The codes and the feelings that meant to be noble
Like coke in the nose of the nobles
Keeps it alight
- Dancing Choose
He's a WHAT? He's a WHAT?
He's a newspaper man
and he gets his best ideas
From a newspaper stand;
From his boots to his pants
To his comments and his rants
He knows that any little article will do!
- Dirty Whirl
oh there is a murderous monster
her love is a violent spiral
hurling in the corners
congered up at the birth of the world
Dirgen is a dancer
mindless questions find no answers
slicin' through the ether
yeah she's gleamin like mother of pearls
- Dirtywhirl
Oh there is a murderess amongst us
Her love is a violent spiral
Hurling in upon us, conjured up
At the birth of the world
Durga is a dancer
Mindless questions find no answers
Slicing through the ether
- DLZ
Congratulations on the mess you made of things;
On trying to reconstruct the air and all that brings.
And oxidation is the compromise you own
But this is beginning to feel like the dog wants her bones
saved
You force your fire then you falsify your deeds
Your methods dot the disconnect from all your creeds
- DMZ
Congratulations on the mess you made of things
Поздравляю тебя с беспорядком, который ты устроил,
On trying to reconstruct the air and all that brings
Пытаясь перестроить эту атмосферу и её последствия.
And oxidation is the compromise you own
Окисление — единственный компромисс, который у тебя есть,
But this is beginning to feel like the dog wants her bones
Но по ощущениям это начинает походить на чувства собаки, требующей свои кости...
- Dreams
All your dreams are over now
And all your wings have fallen down
Oh all your dreams are over now
And all your wings have fallen down
She's just like you
So why keep doing what you do
Why cut a friend
Why cruise that mean lean to an end
- Family Tree
Under my love
Wake up to your window
The day calls in billows
It’s echoing moonlight on to the blue nightmare of your heart
In cosy red rainbow
It’s shaking off halos
And the memory of our sacred so and so’s
- Halfway Home
The lazy way they turned your head
Into a rest stop for the dead
And did it all in gold and blue and grey
The efforts to allay your dread,
In spite of all you knew and said,
Were hard to see and harder still to say
- Happy Idiot
Stuck in the shade
Where there’s no sunshine
I don’t wanna play
With them other kids in the sun.
Since you left me, babe,
It’s been a long way down
Yeah, you left me, babe
- Hours
You walked around, thought yourself beautiful
Just too bad they stared, Just too bad they stared
Broke up your crown, called you unusuable
See how well you fared
Stole underground, To kick your heart around
Banished from above, banished from above
Forgot yourself, Your home and shot your health
- I Don't Love You Anymore
Oh simple girl
Oh foolish man
Trying to bend these lovers rules
Into a simple plan
Oh aching bones on sleepless bed
They toss and turn and roll away
From words unsaid
- Love Dog
Lonely little love dog that
No one knows the name of
I know why you cry out
Desperate and devout
Timid little teether
Your eyes set on the ether
Your moon in a bella luna and
- Lover's Day
Oh but the longing is terrible.
A wanton heart under attack.
I wanna love you all the way off.
I wanna break your back.
Colour of all that's hysterical.
Travels along your bones.
Just to be near you
- New Cannonball Blues
Hey girls, hey boys no don't mind the noise
It's just the sound of being dragged ahead
It's just a pornographic annulationship
As we watch the spider's web eat itself
All this death above extinguishing
All that you've ever known
- New Health Rock
Why so pathetic?
Never thought you, I
Every heavenly light
Such a sinister way
Roll your eyes all day
At all the people kickin
Golden girls, stop and stare
Double decker, so lookin pretty.
- Playhouses
I said
Playhouses
swept away by the river now
confound me
sound me out now
Like a crayon in your hand
and whos little girl are you now
- Province
Suddenly, all your history's ablaze
Try to breathe, as the world disintegrates
Just like autumn leaves, we're in for change
Holding tenderly to what remains
And all your memories, are as precious as gold
And all the honey, and the fire which you've stole
Have you running through all your red-cheeked days
Shaking loose these souls, from their sacred hiding space
- Red Dress
Hey Jackboot
Fuck your war
Cause I'm fat and in love
And no bombs are falling on me for sure
But I'm scared to death
That I'm living a life not worth dying for
And your plow shear
- Red Dress повторы сложные
Hey Jackboot, fuck your war 'cause I'm fat and in love
And no bombs are fallin' on me for sure
But I'm scared to death that I'm livin' a life not worth dying for
Not worth dying for
Not worth dying for
Not worth dying for
Not worth dying for
- Satellite
our voice was a satellite spinning next to me
Now I can't hear
Over the radio, someone said a satellite just went down into the sea
So I go
I fathom leagues
I am the undertow
I wait peacefully
Now I'm waiting for a signal or a sound
- Say You Do
What is love can you tell me baby be,
Is it the hole you put inside me.
Young cavernous crater young windswept cave,
If love is my salvation I don't want to be saved.
But I never met a girl like you.
Someone who made that dumb shit true
So oo oo.
- Second Song
Confidence and ignorance approved me
Define my day today
I've tried so hard to shut it down, lock it up
Gently walk away
Appetites and impulses confuse me
Decide my day, today
Now my body says it's over
- Shout Me Out
Storm, cast me out
So I can feel it in another way
I won't talk about
Warm passenger's high
If I could feel it for another day
It might run me dry
I know the season's evolved to freeze
- Snakes and Martyrs
everyone makes the same wave
at the same time
(like pebbles on water)
and we call all those interrupting lines
(sons and daughters)
a community
so lets join hands in song
blessed unity
- Staring At The Sun
Cross the street from your storefront cemetary
Hear me hailing from inside and realize
I am the conscience clear in pain or ecstacy
And we were all weaned my dear, upon the same fatigue
You're staring at the sun
Oh, my own voice cannot save me now
You're standing in the sea
- Trouble
Oh, here comes trouble
Put your helmet on, we'll be heading for a fall
Yeah, the whole thing's gonna blow
And the devil's got my number
It's long overdue, he'll come looking soon
Yeah, the whole thing's gonna blow
- Troubles
TV On The Radio - Troubles (Bonus Track) Lyrics
Scared to death on the first day of spring
Stood a robin who wanted to sing
So we took in the scene of impossible green
Wondering how we should cause such a thing
Had a feeling that love was the word
Unexplained and it's such underheard
- Wash The Day Away
Little flightless metal birds
High above in limbless tree
Echoes from their tiny box
Ring out into the atmosphere
Creating beauty inadvertently
It was a technological feat
- Will Do
It might be impractical to seek out a new romance
We won't know the actual if we never take the chance
I'd like to collapse with you and ease you against this song
I think we're compatible, I see that you think I'm wrong
Chorus
But, any time will do, my love
Any time will do, no choice of words will break me from this groove
- Wolf Like Me
Say say my playmate
wont you lay hands on me
mirror my lady
transfer my tragedy
Got a curse i cannot lift
shines when the sunset shifts
when the moon is round and full
- Young Liars
My mast ain't so sturdy, my head is at half,
I'm searching the clouds for a storm.
My lady reveals herself of marked-down freedom,
Forever cashed out to no more.
She put the plan in the blame. Who is bearing the name
For each digress who's left you up to
Save the skins for a better and the rest for a better.
We can't open, no nothing. Can't open, no nothing.