Calling Places,collecting careless Sentences I write them down so I ignore them You should too,should ignore every word Is calling what you can surrender The on...

In 1903 through 70 He came from nowhere, I fell from nowhere All he had were his good looks 1903 through 70 He came from nowhere, I fell from nowhere All he ha...

I'm back in the hotel The worst time of my life Do you ever get the notion That you're not born sometimes It's bad dreams for you every night Until the end (te...

You can't always be the strange one I'm spending you without a hope For one Pride in yourself into it If you don't wanna stay Go out into the light You'll be be...

This fascination where did it come from? what does it mean when your fascinated by things? but you know, you'll never see i overheard this conversation as it ...

It is a future of your life You think it's certain but nothing is certain No nothing is certain but nothing is certain I know what you think you think this film...

What if your heart Is your only home You can go around Maybe you wont go around And if your heart Is your only home You can go around Maybe you wont go around ...

If I know, what I know, then no one will watch over you So someone shouldn't really tell me what I want to know I know, I owe, and I know that matters don't mat...

You thought the fire could protect you from it I felt that fire could protect me from everything But why have you been so, why have you been I'll informed? You'...

All of us seem to walk away from everything It takes a certain amount of originality to describe this place as home And all of us seem to walk away from everyt...

when your alive now or if your alive now you're always ignored so you sleep on the floor you're above me now above me now Annihilate now and now you late now ...

Apron Strings (Watt, Thorn) Idlewild Tracey Thorn - vocals, Ben Watt - guitar & vocals Album: Everything But The Girl (1988) WEA, LtdSire Records, 25721-21 Apr...

It's always 3am in your world So I'm drinking this as if I hadn't slept Telling stories which tell their stories themselves You didn't even hear them I thought ...

All the mistakes I made I made because I didn't know myself very well And by this stage I feel like I really shouldn't know myself I'm forced into a sponsored s...

I would say i'm sorry If I thought that it can change your mind But I know that this time I have said too much Been too unkind I try to laugh about it Cover it...

I kick stones, kick stones, kick stones through windows I kick stones, which somehow got home But i'm not proud, that i'm a broken window And i'm not proud, tha...

this is my ideas for captain a girl in a flower dress whos face is a real mess she scribbles my words she scribbles the real words i'd rather these were not my ...

Since your breathing, is it all that a space can fill? So just by looking in, I'll be looking still You find and follow stories well You're naked except for a n...

You've gotta put on a punk overcoat if you want to wear that overcoat You've gotta put on a punk overcoat if you want to You've gotta put on a punk overcoat if ...

I'll meet you outside the city halls, I'll be standing on the step of the hall, And we wait until I find you. You said "Be there or be square and meet me out...

Cos I'm the only one who knows everyone barbecue lungs None of you know what I'm thinking Who on earth would believe a word you say? You're disturbed in a stran...

I watch you stumble through the morning I watch you stumble home at night Silhouetted by a sun without sunlight I've watched you walk straight through an evenin...

You won't let me change, You don't let me change, Tell me I can grow up, And age will forget that I'm old, You won't let me change, You don't let me change, Th...

By the harbour I harbor The strangest memories Older than I could ever be Stranded in nostalgia So tonight i'll try harder But it's hard to fix this spotlight o...

I'm not that medieval, sometimes I write my thoughts down I can never remember who I am Who I am, where I am, what on earth I'm doing here What on earth I know ...

The first time I saw the moon I cursed the sun As I watched it shine I watched it burn a hole I watched it burn a hole Every time I cursed the moon I cursed th...

Purple Sky, sky, sky I am the night and this is your soul and, Purple in the sky, in the sky, in the sky, I am the night and this is your soul and, Purple lover...

The night begins In early moments No easy moment Three of us are sitting up til dawn There are no outskirts To New York City If I'm leaving Leave me gone I only...

All I can hear is another year pass me by They pass me by They pass underneath you know theres nothing to see here, except ten bridges They pass underneath you ...

When I look upon the heaven that happened I realise that it's all around So we play our part in what's happening And what happens to you then happens to me And ...

Galveston, she was my only friend so I did and I don't want to talk about i did it with the flowers and I said dead, galvestons dead, galvestons dead, galvesto...

How did I find myself in a world, I can't see through, And I'm standing right beside you, I'm hoping that you don't move, Blocking our views so they don't get ...

You thought shyness was to blame And you'd get to live your life again When you get to wish everyone goodnight As the crowd booed out your name At least they sp...

You blame no one there's no one to blame Now only your name remains You're not a ghost, you're just a girl who lost hope And certain words spoken convince you t...

House alone, house alone House alone, house alone House alone, house alone I'm in the house alone at night, but I don't want to go to bed now I don't want to g...

When it happens You'll feel like an islander You'll see ships and they'll be reminders I'm on an island That you're on an island But I'm not disappointed The c...

Aim for the body rare, you'll see it on TV The worst thing in 1954 was the bikini See the girl on the TV, dressed in the bikini She doesn't think so but she's d...

Mountains wouldn't part for me They have no uncertainty I'm just a passing emotion Just hoping they take notice And you are an opportunity Without an opportunit...

History is made, not repeated And you hide behind words that make you feel needed And what you read in those books made you so conceited So in order for love to...

She's got a car crash for a soul through restriction and repetition I'm growing old And it doesn't feel like this Everyone doesn't know what they really can do ...

First and foremost you've been the ultimate friend But you know that's not a passport to me It's seems secondary to the official reasons I have But you know th...

I am the best message out of the rest of them Are you all alone, are you all alone? I am the best message out of the rest of them Are you all alone, are you all...

The world is in my chaos dream but i am not invited, i said The world is in my chaos dream but i am Coz you don't know what people say The world is in my chaos ...

Dear Hugh Miller, I've thought it through for a while but it doesn't get any easier And three months on in this bad design won't make it feel any easier Your gr...

You could break me by the bones Until you break me inside You could drag me from my home And lay me down by the riverside Where there was lie in your eyes Now ...

In competition for the worst first line I could use In conversation for the first time Find salvation and breathe in each breath that I choose In competition fo...

Album: The remote part (2002) (IN REMOTE PART) In the beginning, there were answers Then they came along and changed All these questions and their answers seem...

In Remote Part) In the beginning, there were answers Then they came along and changed All these questions and their answers seem to change So I'll wait 'til I ...

It's like a storm at sea Everything is closed And the fretful sailors Calling out their woes And each one is closed They are all gentlemen They will hang up If...

I woke up first this morning I've never seen the dawn But I know what the world looked like before How would I know what you said? You're always first to go to ...

You listen to what you've got And then you realise that it's nothing I might as well be talking backwards What's in these bad dreams? You might as well be talki...

I found a mountain on my own (I'm encouraged) Trust history to say it's unknown (it's discouraging) There's a seventeen contest in my own home (discourage) Sick...

There are times that I should try, To be so much more alive But if time was right then I would be with you again Or do you worry that I try to avoid the point A...

Every step takes a beat of your heart Through a city that's falling apart On a night that rises and clears In a sky that's clouded by years My anger is a form o...

It's knowing what's important Hidden lockets of your hair Felt excactly every moment Even moments we never share And all this land has been discovered Every fra...

I've contacted Someone that I've always wanted I've contacted Someone that I've always wanted to be We'll talk about reality You and me We'll talk about cruel u...

(right, mince showercap part 1 tape rolling) You don't have to tell her how beautiful she looks on the water but I don't reflect on the water I'm confused I'm ...

I couldn't stand up looking up at the faded party I couldn't stand up looking up at a faded party It was a mistake pageant It was a mistake from the start This...

Can you hear the words I'm trying to find For the feelings that define you There's no point in trying to hide From the skeleton that surrounds you So we speak n...

never has the future seemed so dated never have i been so lost for words youll take a chance if youre given it and youd fall in love with anything never has th...

There is a long forgotten voice I know it's not your voice, cause it's always strained I wake up hearing unfamiliar voices Convinced they're trying to explain T...

To come apart in mountain tops Is to come apart in rain Every note creates a picture of A road worn over again You speak only in memories But what memories dict...

Out of routine and the explanations you have You're still loath to give them All because you phrased them in a way So the explanations you have The words dont g...

My wintertime came fast about your drawing pad And then you told me You didn't like closely You don't like walking home You're not sure who you are And no-one k...

the palace flophouse, is a good place to be if you ever need any help, like if anyone's ever dead the palace flophouse, is a good place to be if you ever need a...

Keep the line straight I'm a paranioid but I've got to keep the line straight I've got to keep the line straight Keep the line straight I'm a paranioid but I'v...

I'm leaving here on the morning train And I will never see this world again I've felt pleasure and I have felt pain And I know now that I can never be the same ...

Give me the easiest thing I can do Let me blank it from my mind Tell me the easiest thing I can do Let me blank it from my mind The world seems so small The so...

He can't take it all in, he refuses to take it all in he has no idea where he's at or where he's been And he asks himself who will be the queen of the troubled ...

I want to fly a little to the right, I'll never get to Crowsdell And I want to stay awake all night to realise (I'm not Ben Hoy) What should I take with me to ...

If I said I'd lost my way Would you sympathise Could you sympathise? I'm jumbled up Maybe I'm losing my touch I'm jumbled up Maybe I'm losing my touch But you k...

Rose, ability There is no roseability Rose, ability There is no roseability You've got off with too much now You're getting off with too much now Stop looking ...

You look worn out, more and more each day With every step, and every page You look worn out, more and more each day With every step, and every page Your croft,...

The common mistake is to forget And concentrate on your neverthought The common mistake is to forget I've remembered the part in your book So I know exactly wha...

The sea is never calm it always blows and knows it too but I'm alone I'm alone in the satan polaroid I said it always seems kinda strange and the drinking has g...

In the beginning there were answers Then they came along and changed All these questions and their answers seemed to change So I'll wait 'til I find the remote...

1, 2, 3, 4 When it feels like, when it feels like Culture gets too much for me, I go , I go outside Singing songs to alabys, singing songs to alabys, Singing so...

it sometimes happens it always happens to me but always isn't a word i use always isn't a word i chose when i know that this won't survive much longer unless w...

I have to stop saying “to be honest”, it's not a real defeat To have to stop saying "to be honest", it's not a great defeat (No, no, no, not such a great defeat...

It felt cold inside, so we threw the radio onto the fire It felt good to watch it, burn away to nothing You said you felt weak I hope its got nothing to do Wit...

All the walls of your house, Were painted in deep blue, You're at that indecisive age to choose colours that reflect you, And everything and nothing, Is in the ...

I don't remember anything, I remember, I forget her I don't remember anything, I remember, I forget her I don't remember anything, I remember, I forget her Send...

I felt alone I put on my new shoes and hit the town I still felt alone I'm convinced everyone's built to be put down I had to say (I had to say) What I wanted ...

i thought home is where we went when we fell out of favour ive since learned that home is where we go to learn what favours are home is a language we all unders...

It's a better way to feel Don't be real, be post modern (it's not that one dimensional, it's not the only thought) It's a better way to feel When you're not re...

have you been rollin/smoking cigarettes here are you a lot like like me cos I haven't seen anyone like you here are you a lot like me This is worse Cos some p...

Everything is always changing And nothing stays in the same place for too long I've been too long awake And everyone seems like they're slowly changing No one s...

Someone more important has come along And been discovered for Something more important You'll be the first to know that it was Something that you didn't do But ...

I go outside to find the middle of nowhere Everyone needs their own empty stage Just like the sky with no beginning or ending I like reading a book without a la...

Bookmark (will help me find a place) Bookmark (helps me find a place) Ripped page (will help me find a place) Bookmark (helps me find a place) I've just set fi...

I'm gonna go down, I'm gonna go down, I'm gonna go downtown to see the sun And when I go down, when I go down, when I go downtown to see the sun I won't go anyw...

Calling places, collecting careless Sentences I write them down So I ignore them, and you should too, you should ignore every word Is calling what you can surre...

I'm not really sure of all this pressure, i'm never going to lose any of my old letters They'll stay with me, until i can see, until i can see that i'm no-one T...

Winter is blue Living is gone Some are just sleeping In spring they'll go on Our love is dead Nothing but crying Love will not find even One more new morning ...

Take the hand that's holding up your head With the hand that's holding your heart It's more than I am More than I am Hold your hand above your head Wiser hands...

"Is it recording?it's onyeah it's alright we just Recording are you? all ok then, goit's all set You Don't Have The Heart" 9, 9, 8, 8, 7, 7, 6, 6 (Turn the page...

Lovers in the basement sipping on a cola their friend goes in to see them but they don't have to be afraid I go down the stairwell I stare at the stairwell I st...

What do you say if you've taken me over? You say you're taking me over You say you're taking me over But I don't wanna be illicit We try to calm down We seem t...