lights-lyrics.org

#+CATEGORY: day

* Little Machines lyrics
** Portal -- Lights
: (sweet guitar solo)
: In the throes of the ruby red river that flows through the darkening
: concrete devouring ghosts that float by, I'm with them.
: Up in the current and taken in whole, I've been struggling,
: strangling, others in tow. Have my eyes gone missing?
: 
: Imagining sequences, playing back visions by stereo air and fragmenting
: emissions, I'm lost and found in ---.
: The loneliest thing in the shape of a fist that I wish I could bring
: into this bitter abyss is my petrified heart, still pounding.
: 
: Out on the balcony, reaching out to design this epiphany and what the
: sidewalks will do. Am I just ---?
: In the processes, it's the means to the end, it's the glass-bottomed vessel
: and the depths that extends through the spans between us
: 
: If I could, I'd cut through the cables and cords, but I'd never be
: able -- my life's at the table with yours, immortal.
: Nothing is sacred and nothing is sure anymore, except all that you are
: and stand for got me toward your portal.
: 
: Oooh-ooh-ooooh!
: Oooh-ooh-ooooh!
: Oooh-ooh-ooooh!
: Oooh-ooh.
: Your portal (Oooh-ooh-ooooh!)
: Your portal (Oooh-ooh-ooooh!)
: Your portal (Oooh-ooh-ooooh!)
: Your portal (Oooh-ooh.)

** Running with the boys (Lights)
: We were kind of feral, wicked little machines.
: Captains and cavalries, forming empires in the shade of the trees.
: Without hesitation, kings of the forest town, holding the ocean down.
: We were half this heavy and twice this loud.
: 
: So turn up the noise!
: Dressed to the nines
: Running with the boys, your hand in mine
: Singing every song
: Loving every line 'til the night is gone
: Just like the old times! [x2]
: 
: It was what you made it
: We had our friends around.
: All the images and sounds, superimposed into all the backgrounds
: We used to be clumsy, lost in a thousand ways
: Captivated by the craze
: Those were -- hands down! -- my favorite days
: 
: So turn up the noise!
: Dressed to the nines
: Running with the boys, your hand in mine
: Singing every song
: Loving every line 'til the night is gone
: Just like the old times! [x3]
: 
: Suspicion rose in our heads. It was only underneath the beds.
: Saline eyes didn't have to hide. They were always open way too wide!
: 
: So turn up the noise.
: Dressed to the nines
: Running with the boys! Your hand in mine!
: Singing every song
: Loving every line 'til the night is gone
: Just like the old times! [x2]
: 
: Just like the old times! [x4]
: Just like the old times.

** Up we go (Lights)
: Here in a familiar place,
: we've got our heads down
: and then we pretend it's cause the night is dark;
: we're running out of space for us to run around,
: but it's a dead end and money's tight and
: it's been a long time of this.
: Something has got to give.
: 
: Everyone here is ready to go. It's been a hard year with nothing to show.
: From down this low, it's only on we go (on we go)
: Everyone here is ready to go. It's been a hard year and I only know
: From down this low, it's only up we go (up we go)
: 
: Let's get on another flight!
: Maybe set out to sea --
: kick it up and shake our fists on it,
: 'cause death is harder to come by than it is to breathe
: when you gotta make or break for it
: 'cause it's been a long time of this.
: Something has got to give!
: 
: Everyone here is ready to go. It's been a hard year with nothing to show.
: From down this low, it's only on we go (on we go)
: Everyone here is ready to go. It's been a hard year and I only know
: From down this low, it's only up we go (up we go)
: 
: Nothing gives easy.
: Easy gives nothing.
: I'm just trying to keep it from coming in
: Dawn is bound to break
: when the night is done
: Always darker days before brighter ones
: 
: Everyone is ready to go. It's been a hard year with nothing to show.
: From down this low, it's on we go (on we go)
: Everyone is ready to go. It's been a hard year and I only know
: From down this low, it's up we go (up we go)

** Same sea (Lights)
: (not sure about these)
: Going the distance every occasion
: Headed for somewhere out of the way
: Movin' and shakin' every persuasion keeping us out there caught in the
: waves
: 
: Try to wander in the deeep
: Just waiting for the tides to meet
: 
: And when the currents take us out again to opposite oceans out of the
: hands of safety, from the shallows to the deepest end, places we'd break
: and bend, you're the one in it with me
: 
: No matter how far we get, oceans we are in still connect
: and when the currents circle back again, they'll carry us with them to the
: arms of the same sea
: (confusing synth solo follows)
: 
: Isn't all just part of the nature? Piece of the business? Part of the
: view?
: Physical labor, human behavior -- it's an illusion I'm passing
: through
: 
: No places to stand or set my feet
: Just waiting for the ends to meet
: 
: And when the currents take us out again to opposite oceans out of the
: hands of safety; From the solace to the deepest end, places we'd break
: and then you're the one that (is) with me
: 
: No matter how far we get, oceans we are and still connect
: and when the currents then go back again, to carry us with them to the
: arms of the same sea
: (confusing synth solo follows)
: 
: The tides we carried in
: The lakes that take us out
: They come around again and bring me back to you
: and when the currents then go back again, to carry us with them to the
: arms of the same sea
: 
** Speeding (Lights)
: (sweet synth solo follows)
: 
: One by one, out the door.
: Wanted you. She wanted you more.
: It's OK. It's okay.
: I don't mind -- moving on.
: Don't wait up. I'm already gone.
: Can't stay still! Can't stay still.
: 
: The world in the rear view mirror doesn't matter
: I won't be coming back here after
: 
: Speeding 'cause it feels good to be moving on.
: Sleep is for the weary. I'm not slowing down
: And when the record is done, I'll put another one on
: Speeding 'cause it feels good. 'Cause it feels good.
: 
: Window down to feel the night
: Whatever I touch, I can make mine
: It's enough. It's enough.
: I say go. I'm the one.
: You won't see me stopping for anyone.
: Can't stay still. Can't stay still!
: 
: The world in the rear view mirror doesn't shake me!
: I haven't looked back there maybe
: 
: Speeding 'cause it feels good to be moving on.
: Sleep is for the weary. I'm not slowing down
: And when the record is done, I'll put another one on
: Speeding 'cause it feels good.
: 
: Lines that line the city guiding all the residents,
: from where I am sitting, I can see the evidence
: Lines that line the city guiding all the residents,
: from where I am sitting, I can see the evidence
: 
: 'Cause I am
: Cause I am
: Speeding 'cause it feels good to be moving on
: Sleep is for the weary. I'm not slowing down
: And when the record is done, I'll put another one on
: Speeding 'cause it feels good. 'Cause it feels good.
: 'Cause it feels good. [x8]
: 
** Muscle memory (Lights)
: After having spent a fast year
: waiting for the next time i can get you close
: I grew used to being back here
: like a chorus and rhyme, soldier at his post
: 
: You call and I respond, the sparrow and the song
: I miss you when you're gone
: 
: When I am alone, I see you in the dark
: I talk into the empty like you were with me
: Started on a cold night
: felt you in the low light
: noticing the reflex taking over me
: I see you when I reach
: Muscle memory
: 
: Again, off into the next fall,
: I am on the back steps trying to let you in
: See you standing in the front hall
: Maybe this is madness underneath my skin?
: 
: Guess love is the response
: of the body -- it haunts
: and we do what it wants
: 
: When I am alone, I see you in the dark
: I'm talking to the empty like you were with me
: Started on a cold night
: (I) felt you in the low light
: noticing the reflex taking over me
: I see you when I reach
: Muscle memory
: I feel you endlessly
: Muscle memory
: 
: When you feel the chains of a thousand words
: and I speak your name like I know you heard,
: I could feel you there.
: I could hear you move.
: And it moves me too.
: 
: When I'm playing games. When I'm drinking wine
: and I see your glass sitting next to mine,
: I could feel you there when you're not at home
: like I'm not alone
: 
: When I'm alone, I see you in the dark
: I'm talking to the empty like you were with me
: Started on a cold night
: (I) felt you in the low light
: noticing the reflex taking over me
: I see you when I reach
: Muscle memory
: I feel you endlessly
: Muscle memory
: 
** Oil and Water (Lights)
: Gone when you get stuck
: Sleeping when you wake up
: Lover on the other coast
: Off to the races
: headed other places
: Chasing a familiar ghost
: 
: No one said it would be this hard. How could I know?
: Why do we always get so far before we let go?
: 
: And we separate
: Nothing is the same forever
: See you drive away -- wish I could make you stay!
: 
: Oooh-ooh-ooooh-oh
: Oil and water
: Oooh-ooh-ooooh-oh
: Oil and water
: 
: Cycle seasons
: Watching you leaving
: Thinking I could change the rules
: Rocks on the ocean, wheels in motion,
: Wishing is the game of fools
: 
: No one said it would be this hard. How could I know?
: Why do we always get so far before we let go?
: 
: And we separate
: Nothing is the same forever
: See you drive away  -- wish I could make you stay!
: 
: Oooh-ooh-ooooh-oh
: Oil and water
: Oooh-ooh-ooooh-oh
: Oil and water
: 
: Kicking, screaming, softly speaking -- near our parting ways
: We'll go under oil and water. Are we separate?
: Kicking, screaming, softly speaking -- near our parting ways
: We'll go under oil and water. Are we separate?
: 
: And we separate
: Nothing is the same forever
: See you drive away -- wish I could make you stay!
: 
: Oooh-ooh-ooooh-oh
: Oil and water
: [x4]
: 
** Slow Down (Lights)
: In the garden, with the wild,
: I could feel you like a child
: Seeing shadows in the room
: Like a fall and a rise of the yearn in the wise
: Playing dead with the moon
: Chasing you
: 
: When I was young, you were only a ghost
: Taking no friends. Leaving me alone
: When we are gone, tell me: where do we go so fast?
: Taking my cheeks in the palm of your hand
: Making me weak when I understand
: If I can't keep you, nobody can!
: 
: Slow down. Slow down!
: 
: In the speed of the traffic, of the rush in the rapids
: where the ends come and meet
: I will know you by the taste from the moment we awake
: like the sour and the sweet
: and you can see
: 
: When I was young, you were only a ghost
: Taking no friends. Leaving me alone
: When we are gone, tell me: where do we go so fast?
: Taking my cheeks in the palm of your hand
: Making me weak when I understand
: If I can't keep you, nobody can!
: (softly)
: 
: Slow down. Slow down!
: Slow do-own.
: 
: Oooh-oooh-ooh-oooh, ooh-ooh-oooooooh? [x2]
: 
: When I was young, you were only a ghost
: Taking no friends. Leaving me alone
: When we are gone, tell me: where do we go so fast?
: Taking my cheeks in the palm of your hand
: Making me weak when I understand
: If I can't keep you, nobody can!
: (softly)
: 
** Don't go home without me (Lights)
: This is the song I will sing to you
: when you're old and tired.
: I will sing it to remind you
: that I'm old beside you.
: 
: And if you're tired of hearing my voice,
: I'm gonna sing it to you anyway.
: Cause I know that if we made it this far,
: those differences have been put away.
: 
: And I'll sing, oh! It's amazing that you're here!
: So alone I would be...
: In a world that you're not near,
: don't go home without me!
: 
: Without me
: 
: So if our bodies get ugly
: and our hearts stop beating,
: Our house is crumbling underneath
: and my kids start leaving,
: I hope you know I appreciated
: you in every possible way
: All of the little things that you did,
: they got me through the hardest days!
: 
: And I'll sing, oh! It's amazing that you're here!
: So alone I would be...
: In a world that you're not near,
: don't go home without me!
: 
: You know that I'll be hangin' around
: Every mighty mile (?)
: And when you call me, I'll be right down,
: and we'll go out in style.
: 
: In style!
: 
: And I'll sing, oh! It's amazing that you're here!
: So alone I would be...
: In a world that you're not near,
: don't go home without me!
: [x4]
: 
** Child (Lights)
: What is this about?
: Where is everybody going?
: What am I doing here?
: Can't separate what I really need to know
: and what I just want to hear
: 
: Maybe I'm alone
: Maybe everybody's lost too?
: Looking for a way out?
: Maybe, I don't know, maybe I don't even want to
: just don't want to be let down
: 
: There is no sureness
: I kind of just stumble along
: There must be purpose in trying to keep on
: 
: But what do I know? I'm a child!
: Just trying to talk like a mother does
: Seeing life come and go all the time!
: It's never as long as you wish it was!
: Oh-oh-oh!
: Maybe I'm still trying to see like a child does.
: 
: And I always feel like I did when I was younger
: Can't talk sense into me
: How do you decide when to know or how to wonder?
: Or how to just get free?
: 
: There's no certainty
: I kind of just stumble along
: Doesn't bother me
: I'm trying to keep on
: 
: What do I know? I'm a child!
: Just trying to talk like a mother does
: Seeing life come and go all the time!
: It's never as long as you wish it was!
: Oh-oh-oh!
: Maybe I'm still trying to see like a child does
: 
: I've seen both sides of the door
: I'm not a child anymore
: but I can stand in it the way I did when I was a kid
: 
: Oh, what do I know? I'm a child!
: Just trying to talk like a mother does
: Seeing life come and go all the time!
: It's never as long as you wish it was!
: Oh-oh-oh!
: Maybe I'm still trying to see like a child does