[Written by Steven Wilson] Stranded here on planet earth It's not much but it could be worse Everything's free here, there's no crowds Winter lasted five long...

Access denied All of the smarter kids they stay inside But out in the pouring rain You're kicking me with that look of sheer disdain The fat controller man He ...

[Lyrics - Alan Duffy / Music - Steven Wilson] I feel no pain Cos I'm an island I will remain In the deafness of your silence I love you sometimes Always Never...

A good impression of myself Not much to conceal I'm saying nothing But I'm saying nothing with fear I simply am not here No way I Shut up, be happy Stop whinin...

Never stop the car on a drive in the dark Never look for the truth in your mother's eyes Never trust the sound of rain upon a river Rushing through your ears A...

[Written by Steven Wilson] I am - in my pram Look you - I'm so new I am - sleeping there Underneath the stairs If you - wanted to You'd find - inside my mind ...

You have no interest in the past Where you came from Where you're going to There's a cliche in your eye File the edges down Soon be underground There's nothin...

A mother sings a lullaby to a child Sometime in the future the boy goes wild And all his nerves are feeling some kind of energy A walk in the woods and I will ...

Can't feel the pain that I expected I still place keys in the ignition I know what will be One thought is stopping me from sleeping I saw the future and it's br...

Dried up, a guitar upon my knee I should have sold out when the devil came for me Dig a hole and throw it out to sea Break the code, how happy I could be I sti...

Little retrograde, wonder where you are Another motorcade, under radar A boy in borrowed clothes, knows he is a girl Shards of light come down, stillness in th...

I won't shiver in the cold I won't let the shadows take their toll I won't cover my head in the dark And I won't forget you when we part Collapse the Light Int...

I cross the city backwards There's a lot of soul to find A million ways to loose control I've got colourflow in mind I find a safer haven And get myself a line...

Up there a mountain rises Down here an ocean dives A stranger with a head full of lead Photographs me Steel bars and a doctor's note Don't give up They can ple...

[Written by Steven Wilson] Inside the vehicle the cold is extreme Smoke in my throat kicks me out of my dream I try to relax but its warmer outside I fail to c...

And something warm and soft just passed through here It took the precious things that I hold dearer It rifled through the grey and disappeared The creeping dark...

We made the world believe we didn't care We gate crashed parties and just stood and stared We moved to London and stayed in all year You wrote poetry while I di...

Written by Steven Wilson A dislocated day Peers in to the ether Counts the stars inside the sky And flies in to the never Looped around my eyelids A thousand ...

[Written by Steven Wilson] A light snow is falling on London All sign of the living has gone The train pulls into the stations And no-one gets off and no-one g...

Camphor crossed with lace, it is the witching hour Cinematic but crude Teasing all my feelings out, you move away It seems so natural to you Still siren, climb...

So you have been of use And you have been abused You know you look pale today Your lipstick has gone astray You sold out and lost your looks You gave away all...

[Written by Steven Wilson] A body is washed up on a Norfolk beach He was a friend that I could not reach He thought I was cold but I understand But for the gra...

[Written by Steven Wilson] Modem load and failsafe Electric teenage dust Hit the solvent keypad Start the neural rust Power on the highway Data in my head Sur...

[Lyrics - Alan Duffy / Music - Steven Wilson] I sat in the room with a view The girl in the photograph knew Can't you see? Why is she laughing at me? I stumbl...

Sunlight coming through the haze No gaps in the blind To let it inside The bed is unmade Some music still plays TV, yeah it's always on The flicker of the scre...

[Written by Steven Wilson] So see how long I can last You can pretend that I don't exist for you And I can laugh about it now But I hated every minute I was wa...

Nothing is new here underneath the sun All of the big new charlatans will sneer at us Barely a flicker of the light to come Only the people who always think the...

I saw her footprints on the sea I knew her eyes were watching me So I ventured further in my mind In the hope that I would find: "Tangerine Trees and Marmalade...

[Written by Steven Wilson] Six of one a half a dozen Black guitars and plastic blues Hide behind a wall of nothing Nothing said and nothing new 4 Chords that ...

You were the one that made her cry You were the one that told her lies You were the one whose brain moved in circles Neither and adult or a child Now it only m...

Feeling all your touching Feeling all your blood Feeling all your touching Felling all your love Seen it though a windscreen Seen through the glass Seen it in ...

Open your eyes now Hear me out before I lose my mind I've been waiting for hours Let the salt flow, feel my coil unwind Give me a smile please Count the calm a...

A summer day In garlands I feel secure A useless faith That I will get you, somehow Reach out, I wonder where you are now Hey, there's you With placid eyes Ob...

Such a pale light Such a long night Pick up that key Don't drop your gaze in your coffee Is it me? Do I look beautiful in the half light? It's been so long Yea...

God is in my fingers God is in my head God is in the trigger God is in the lead God is freedom, God is truth God is power and God is proof God is fashion, God ...

[Lyrics - Wilson, music - Edwin, Wilson] This is a hate song just meant for you I thought that I'd write it down while I still could I hope when you hear this ...

I pull off the road East of Baldock and Ashford Feeling for my cell In the light from the dashboard Hissing from the road The smell of rain in the air con Mayb...

[Written by Steven Wilson] The letters pile up in the hallway Junk mail and bills from the catalogues And the neighbours have guessed 'cos I've cancelled the m...

When this freedom stains my coat With the winter in my throat When I'm lost I dig the dirt When I fall I drive the hearse And silence is another way Of saying ...

Written by Steven Wilson We lost the skyline We stepped right off the map Drifted in to blank space And let the clocks relapse We laughed the rain down Slow b...

Dust in the kitchen Coffeepot Microdots Now we are coasting Talking less Breathing stress Somewhere inside I have died So I will lie In formaldehyde People wa...

I locked myself inside the capsule And watched the planet slowly turning blue The lights before me flashed and sparkled Holding keys to lives I've wandred throu...

Jupiter Island is full of pleasures Glowing gardens holding hidden treasures Luminous flowers of yellows and greens Glittering petals that have to be seen Here'...

[Written by Steven Wilson] [a) Winding Shot (Summer 1981)] If you fall asleep with me You can dream and drowse The miuntes turn to hours We could climb a tre...

As the cheerless towns pass my window I can see a washed out moon through the fog And then a voice inside my head breaks the analogue And says "Follow me down ...

[Written by Steven Wilson] The sun is a light bul A candle's a treat The curtains stay closed now On my little retreat And I'll only take medicine If it's foll...

Linton Samuel Dawson Lives in inner space He hangs around with a circus troupe Outside the human race Linton Samuel Dawson Has just reached 25 Artists travel f...

A light snow is falling in London All sign of the living has gone The last train pulls into the station And no one gets off, and no one gets on [chorus] I searc...

A tiny flame inside my hand A compromise I never planned Unravel out the finer strands And I'm looking at a blank page now Should I fill it up with words someh...

Come together men of wood Burning sunsets where you stood Like three hats lying in the snow There's nowhere left for you to go Light escaping through the door ...

All the things that I needed I wasted my chances I have found myself wanting When a mother and father Gave me their problems I accepted them all Nothing ever ...

The butterfly sailed on the breeze Past a field of barbed wire trees Where golden dragons chased around Pampered poppies on the ground Two silver trout sat way ...

We go following sorrow to feel your Blood spilling out of the reeds there Give me a sign I can breathe air Blood flowing out of the stream there (Give me somet...

Nothing like this Felt in her kiss Cannot resist her Fell for her charm Lost in her arms I keep a photograph Give me a glimpse Let me come in Be there inside he...

Blackfield - Open Mind Artists > Blackfield > Open Mind Submitted by YtseJam on April 13, 2004 Here's a song from an open mind I give it to you Because i can An...

I look at all the sad story people Lost in the seasons passing them by Inside my head lies a life on an island Flooded with darkness deep into the sky But they...

[Written by Steven Wilson] I remember piano lessons The hours in freezing rooms Cruel ears and tiny hands Destroying timeless tunes She said there's too much ...

I don't know whose side I'm on I don't think that I belong round here If I left the stage would that be wrong ? I tried to find myself a better way I got relig...

[Written by Steven Wilson] You keep me waiting You keep me alone in a room full of friends You keep me hating You keep me listening to the Bends No amount of ...

Written by Steven Wilson Run through forests on a hot Summer day Trying to break down walls of numbing pain Give me the freedom to destroy Give me radioactive...

I didn't want to feel like a slave to your mood swings And I'm not saying anything I wouldn't say behind your back And all this shit could have happened to anyo...

[part 1 - Wilson / part 2 (instrumental) - Barbieri, Edwin, Maitland, Wilson] You think I deserve this You said I was stupid All my thoughts are like coal But ...

Never want to be old And I don't want dependence It's no fun to be told That you can't blame your parents anymore I'm finding it hard To hang from a star Don't...

[Written by Steven Wilson] Telepath Carbon trapped under stone Brother mother pale body is thrown Only way I know to have fun Fill up my blood, my veins, my lu...

I don't remember Something in my past, create a hole Don't use your gender It drives a steak right through my soul I live to function, On my own is all I know ...

I need you more than you can know And if I hurt myself it's just for show I found a better way to curb the pain You put a trigger here inside my brain Mother I...

At the age of sixteen I grew out of hope I regarded the cosmos Through a circle of rope So I threw out my plans Ran on to the wheel And emptied my head Of all c...

This means out This is your way out Do or drown Do or drown in (??) Leave no trace All my files erased Burn my clothes Burn my Prada (??) Let's sleep together...

Lip read, a mountain stream, fibres in the car Shut down, a cheerless a town, a head rolls in the park Once seen my libertine undresses in the dark She puts he...

Written by Steven Wilson The moon shook and curled up like gentle fire The ocean glazed and melted wire Voices buzzed in spiral eyes Stars dived in blinding sk...

[Written by Steven Wilson] This song leaks out onto the pavement It could be a joke, it could be a statement The more that I fake it and pretend I don't care T...

[Written by Steven Wilson] Ghosts in the park Appear just after dark Killers, children But no-one has a harp They look like tourists It makes me want to laugh ...

This is my home, this is my own, we don't like no strangers Raise the kids good, beat the kids good and tie them up Spread it wide, my wife, my life, push the c...

[Written by Steven Wilson] I'm sending you a letter Because I don't think there's much time Time to lear the cobwebs Time to bear the crime It's only a number...

If you wanna stay Always here All these years The last frontier It's no concern of theirs The world outside Corrupts my child So trust these eyes Faith is in y...

He captured and collected things And he put them in a shed He raised a proper family So he could tie them to a bed The creator had a mastertape But he left it ...

At junction 8 the traffic starts to slow Artilleries of braking lights and bluish glow Ascending in a plumage of twisted steel Shattered glass and confetti dash...

Riding on a unicorn Stranded in my mind Electric raven met me there To see what we could find Strange days Incredible days Bring all my children to me Strange ...

[Lyrics: Alan Duffy / Music: Steven Wilson] A systematic killer Returning from Madrid Murdered Mozart in his garden Mussolini ran and hid He was chosen by his ...

Springtime is over Don't head for home Creep up the ladder And steal over stone No time to forget this World's in your eyes Sway in the cloud blur And light up...

A Caterpillar crawled to me one day and said "Oh what the hell goes on inside your swollen head? I don't believe that you can see as much as I Now close your ey...

[Written by Steven Wilson] I was pretending to be floating strong But I was sinking In to still water Eyes closed All of the rest will flow Then out of darkn...

Under gas light the joining of hands Chanting a name over and over A table tilts the circle is broken Doubting no more They pay what they owe her Disembodied ...

We lost the skyline We stepped right off the map Drifted in to blank space And let the clocks relapse We laughed the rain down Slow burn on the lawn Ghosts acr...

[Written by Steven Wilson] At the age of sixteen I grew out of hope I regarded the cosmos Through a circle of rope So I threw out my plans Ran on to the wheel ...

Hear the sound of music Drifting in the aisles Elevator prozac Stretching on for miles The music of the future Will not entertain It's only meant to repress An...

Always in my thoughts you are Always in my dreams you are I got your voice on tape I got your spirit in a photograph Always out of reach you are Cold inside my...

[Written by Steven Wilson] How many children did I bring into this world? How many did I lose in the shopping arcade? This is no rehearsal - play it back and ...

A systematic killer Returning from Madrid Murdered Mozart in his garden Mussolini ran and hid He was chosen by his elders Sitting on the shelf They passed his h...

I was born in '67 The year of Sgt Pepper And Are You Experienced? Into a suburb of heaven Yeah, it should've been forever It all seems to make so much sense B...

Train set and match spied under the blind Shiny and contoured the railway winds And I've heard the sound from my cousin's bed The hiss of the train at the railw...

[Written by Steven Wilson] Sleep Until the colours dissolve Leave the dream to rain-soak forever In blessed moments Viewed from trains of half-truths Monument...

The LSD trip is a pilgrimage far out beyond your normal mind, into that risky and revelatory territory which has een explored for thousands of years by mystics ...

Waiting to be born again Wanting the saddest kind of pain Waiting for the day when I will crawl away Nothing is what I feel Waiting for the drugs to make it r...

Out at the train tracks I dream of escape But a song comes onto my iPod And I realize it's getting late And I can't take the staring And the sympathy And I don...

[Written by Steven Wilson] Tied - tied to a time When we knew that the sun would shine And you were all smiles And we could just talk for a while Of where we ...

Your unpleasant family, Smashed up my car (Perfectly uncalled for) Your unpleasant family, How vile they are (I crawled out of the wreckage on my knees) It's ...