Hail to the Thief

2+2=5

({either} Hello {or} We're on)
(That's a nice way to start, isn't it?)
Are you such a dreamer
To put the world to rights?
I'll stay home forever
Where two and two always makes five

I'll lay down the tracks
Sandbag and hide
January has April's showers
And two and two always makes five

It's the devil's way now
There is no way out
You can scream and you can shout
It is too late now

Because!

You have not been
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention (x4)

I try to sing along
But the music's all wrong
'Cause I'm not
'Cause I'm not
I swat 'em like flies but like flies the buggers keep coming back and NOT
But I'm not
All hail to the thief
All hail to the thief
But I'm not
But I'm not
But I'm not
But I'm not

Don't question my authority or put me in the dock
'Cause I'm not
'Cause I'm not
Oh go and tell the king that the sky is falling in
When it's not
But it's not
But it's not
Maybe not
Maybe not
THE GLOAMING

Genie let out of the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Genie let out of the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Murderers, you're murderers
We are not the same as you
Genie let out of the bottle
Funny ha ha, funny how?
When the walls bent, when the walls bent
With your breathing, with your breathing
When the walls bent, when the walls bent
With your breathing, with your breathing
With your breathing

They will suck you down to the other side
They will suck you down to the other side
They will suck you down to the other side
They will suck you down to the other side
To the shadows blue and red, shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells, your alarm bells
Shadows blue and red, shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells, your alarm bells
They should be ringing {x12}

This is the gloaming
SIT DOWN.STAND UP.

Sit down, stand up
Sit down, stand up
Walk into the jaws of hell (sit down, stand up)
Walk into the jaws of hell (sit down, stand up)
Anytime (sit down)
Anytime (stand up)
Sit down, stand up
Sit down, stand up
We can wipe you out anytime (sit down, stand up)
We can wipe you out (sit down, stand up)
Anytime (sit down)
Anytime
Stand up
the rain drops {x47}

 

THERE THERE

In pitch dark I go walkin' in your landscape
Broken branches trip me as i speak
Just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean itÕs there
Just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean itÕs there
There's always a siren
singing you to shipwreck
(Don't reach out, don't reach out {x2})
Steer away from these rocks
we'd be a walking disaster
(Don't reach out, don't reach out {x2})
Just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there
(thereÕs someone on your shoulder {x2})
Just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there
(there's someone on your shoulder {x2})
There there

Why so green
And lonely {x3}
Heaven sent you
To me {x3}

We are accidents waiting
Waiting to happen
We are accidents waiting
Waiting to happen

SAIL TO THE MOON

I sucked the moon
I spoke too soon
And how much did it cost?
I was dropped from
Moonbeams
And sailed on shooting stars
Maybe you'll
Be president
But know right from wrong
Or in the flood
You'll build an Ark
And sail us to the moon
Sail us to the moon
Sail us to the moon
Sail us to the moon
I WILL

I will
Lay me down
In a bunker
Underground
I wonÕt let this happen to my children
Meet the real world coming out of your shell
With white elephants
Sitting ducks
I will
Rise up
Little babies' eyes eyes eyes eyes
Little babies' eyes eyes eyes eyes
Little babies' eyes eyes eyes eyes
Little babies' eyes eyes eyes
BACKDRIFTS

We're rotten fruit
We're damaged goods
What the hell, weÕve got nothing more to lose
One gust and we will probably crumble
WeÕre backdrifting
There's far but no further
I'm hanging off a branch
I'm teetering on the brink
Of honey sweet
So fall asleep
I'm backsliding

You fell into our arms
You fell into our arms
We tried but there was nothing we could do
Nothing we could do

All evidence has been buried
All tapes have been erased
But your footsteps give you away
So youÕre backtracking
Oh oh oh

You fell into our arms
You fell into our arms
We tried but there was nothing we could do
Nothing we could do
You fell into our
You fell into our

We're rotten fruit
We're damaged goods
What the hell, weÕve got nothing more to lose
One gust and we will probably crumble
WeÕre backdrifters
 
A PUNCH-UP AT A WEDDING

No {x42}
I don't know why you bother
Nothing's ever good enough for you
I was there
it wasn't like that
You've come here just to start a fight

You had to piss on our parade
You had to shred our big day
You had to ruin it for all concerned
In a drunken punch-up at a wedding, yeah

Hypocrite
Opportunist
Don't infect me with your poison
A bully in a china shop
When I turn 'round you stay frozen to the spot

The pointless snide remarks
Of hammer-headed sharks
the pot will call the kettle black
it's a drunken punch-up at a wedding, yeah
GO TO SLEEP

Something for the rag and bone man
Over my dead body
Something big is gonna happen
Over my dead body
Someone's son or someoneÕs daughter
Over my dead body
This is how I end up sucked in
Over my dead body
IÕm gonna go to sleep
And let this wash all over me
We don't really want a monster taking over
Tip toe around, tie him down
We donÕt want the loonies takinÕ over
Tip toe around, tie him down
May pretty horses come to you as you sleep
IÕm gonna go to sleep
And let this wash all over me
MYXOMATOSIS

The mongrel cat came home
Holding half a head
Proceeded to show it off
To all his new found friends
He said I been where I liked
I slept with who I like
She ate me up for breakfast
She screwed me in a vice
But now

I don't know
why I feel so tongue-tied
Don't know why I feel
So skinned alive

I sat in the cupboard
And wrote it down in neat
They were cheering and waving
Cheering and waving
Twitching and salivating like with myxomatosis
But it got edited fucked up
Strangled, beaten up
Used as a photo in time magazine
Buried in a burning black hole in Devon

I don't know
Why I feel so tongue-tied
I don't know
Why I feel so skinned alive

My thoughts are misguided and a little naive
I twitch and I salivate like with myxomatosis
You should put me in a home or you should put me down
I got myxomatosis
I got myxomatosis
Yeah no one likes a smart ass but we all like stars
(for a reason) That wasn't my intention (for a reason) I did for a reason (reason)
It must have got mixed up
Strangled beaten up
I got myxomatosis
I got myxomatosis

I donÕt know
Why I feel so tongue-tied
WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN

There's a gap in between
There's a gap where we meet
Where I end and you begin
I'm sorry for us
The Dinosaurs roam the earth
The sky turns green
Where I end and you begin (4, 5, 6, 7)
I am up in the clouds
I am up in the clouds
And I can't and I can't come down
I can watch and not take part
Where I end and where you start
Where you, you left me alone
You left me alone
X'll mark the place
Like the parting of the waves
Like a house falling into the sea
Into the sea
I will eat you alive {x4}
ThereÕll be no more lies {x4}
I will eat you alive {x4}
ThereÕll be no more lies {x4}
I will eat you alive {x4}
There'll no more lies {x4}
I will eat you alive {x3}
SCATTERBRAIN

I'm walking out in a force ten gale
Birds thrown around, bullets for hail
The roof is pulling off by its fingernails
Your voice is rappin' on my windowsill
Yesterday's headlines blown by the wind
Yesterday's people end up scatterbrain
Any fool can easy pick a hole (I only wish i could fall in)
A moving target in a firing range
Somewhere I'm not
Scatterbrain
Somewhere I'm not
Scatterbrain
Lightning fuse, powercut
Scatterbrain
WE SUCK YOUNG BLOOD

Are you hungry?
Are you sick?
Are you begging for a break?
Are you sweet?
Are you fresh?
Are you strung up by the wrists?

We want the young blood (la {x8})
Are you fracturing?
Are you torn at the seams?
Would you do anything?
Fleabitten, motheaten?

We suck young blood (la {x8})
We suck young blood (la {x8})

Won't let the creeping ivy
Won't let the nervous bury me
Our veins are thin
Our rivers poisoned

We want the sweet meat (la {x8})
We want the young blood
La {x8}


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* lyrics@offisial site in 2001:

wont let the nervous bury me
wont let the creeping ivy
we want the young blood
we want the sweet meats.
our veins are thin
our rivers poisoned
come work for us
hmmm
not good enough
we suck the young the blood
we want the young blood.
we want the sweet meats
they help keep us young
we want the young blood.

A WOLF AT THE DOOR

Drag him out your window
Dragging out the dead
Singing I miss you
Snakes and ladders
Flip the lid
Out pops the cracker
Snaps you in the head
Knifes you in the neck
Kicks you in the teeth
Steel toe caps
Takes all your credit cards
Get up get the gunge
Get the eggs
Get the flan in the face
The flan in the face
The flan in the face
Dance you fucker dance you fucker
Don't you dare
Don't you dare
Don't you flan in the face
Take it with the love, it's given
Take it with a pinch of salt
Take it to the taxman
Let me back let me back
I promise to be good
Don't look in the mirror
At the face you don't recognize
Help me, call the doctor
Put me inside
Put me inside
Put me inside
Put me inside
Put me inside

I keep the wolf from the door
But he calls me up
Calls me on the phone
Tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up
Steal all my children
If I don't pay the ransom
And I'll never see 'em again
If I squeal to the cops

No {x70}
Walking like giant cranes and
With my X-ray eyes I stripped her naked
In a tight little world and are you on the list?
Stepford wives who are we to complain?
Investments and dealers investments and dealers
Cold wives and mistresses
Cold wives and sunday papers.
City boys in first class
Don't know they're born, they know
Someone else is gonna come and clean it up
Born and raised for the job
Someone always does
I wish you'd get up get over get up get over
Turn your tape off.

I keep the wolf from the door
But he calls me up
Calls me on the phone
Tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up
Steal all my children
If I don't pay the ransom
And I'll never see 'em again
If I squeal to the cops

So I just go...

EXIT

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