| 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}
|
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... |
Through tHe
brOken Mirror | Radiohead
http://thomthomthom.com