Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance (2015)

• Nobody's Empire
• Allie
• The Party Line
• The Power Of Three
• The Cat With The Cream
• Enter Sylvia Plath
• The Everlasting Muse
• Perfect Couples
• Ever Had A Little Faith?
• Play For Today
• The Book Of You
• Today (This Army's For Peace)
• Born To Act (Limited Edition Bonus Track)
• Two Birds (Limited Edition Bonus Track)
• Piggy In The Middle (Limited Edition Bonus Track)
• A Politician's Silence (Limited Edition Bonus Track) 

Nobody's Empire lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

Lying on my bed, I was reading French

With the light too bright for my senses

From this hiding place life was way too much

It was loud and rough round the edges

So I faced the wall when an old man called

Out of dreams that I would die there

But a sight unseen, you were pulling strings

You had a different idea

I was like a child, I was light as straw

And my father lifted me up there

Took me to a place where they checked my body

My soul was floating in thin air

I clung to the bed and I clung to the past

I clung to the welcome darkness

But at the end of the night there's a green green light

It's the quiet before the madness

There was a girl that sang like the chime of a bell

And she put out her arm, she touched me when I was in hell

When I was in hell

Someone sang a song and I sang along

Cause I knew the words from my childhood

Intellect, ambition they fell away

And they locked me up for my own good

But I didn't mind, cause the silence was kind

It spoke to me in whispers

There was the sound of the wind and the cold cold dawn

And the quiet hum of business

Let me dangle awhile in this waiting room

I don't need to go, I don't need to know what you're doing

Know what you're doing

Lying on my side you were half awake

And your face was tired and crumpled

If I had a camera I'd snap you now

Cause there's beauty in every stumble

We are out of practice we're out of sight

On the edge of nobody's empire

And if we live by books and we live by hope

Does that make us targets for gunfire?

Now I look at you, you're a mother of two

You're a quiet revolution

Marching with the crowd, singing dirty and loud

For the people's emancipation

Did I do okay, did I pave the way?

Was I strong when you were wanting?

I was tied to the yoke with a decent bloke

Who was stern but never daunting

And he told me to push and he made me feel well

He told to me to leave that vision of hell to the dying

Oh to the dying

Allie lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

Allie, what would you do?

When there's bombs in the middle east, you want to hurt yourself

When there's knives in the city streets, you want to end yourself

When there's fun in your mother's house, you want to cry yourself to sleep

Allie, what would you do?

With your fears, because they're adding one by one

And your mountains are obscured behind the sun

And the person that you could be is crumbling into dust

You're in the mess 'cause you thought

You'd be someone else

'Cause the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie

Allie, hand on your head

And a prayer from the soon-to-be-closing library

And if you looked from here, you would surely see

There's a softness in your heart, there's a poetry to come

You bought that gun 'cause you thought

You'd be someone else

'Cause the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie

You made a list of all your heroes

And you thought about what they went through

Yeah, you thought about what they went through

It's much darker, much harder, than anything that happened to you

Allie, what would you do?

When your seven-year plan happens to someone else

And the people in your life you would happily shelf

When day falls night, you are truly on your own?

You're in this place 'cause you thought

You'd be someone else

But the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie

The Party Line lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

How did I get here? I heard a rumour

From your girlfriend's sister that you knew me

And you end up dancing closer to me

I know that I broke the rule already

She asked me if I'm single

Going steady

I just drop my head and took a step off into the dark

Standing on the black and white tiles

Don't dance on the lines

Cause the bears eat the pretty ones

We are like the islands, divided

Jump to the beat of a party line

Jump to the beat of a party line

There is nobody here

But your body, dear

Jump to the beat of the party line

Stay

You stay

I am on this morning quite distracted

The tug of war begins on our emotion

I am leaving many people feeling

Worse than before

People like to drive their cars and smoke up

People like to sit inside and toke up

People like to shoot at things with borrowed guns and knives

I am happy to look and run

Where were you when I was king in this part of town?

Now the days of glory are gone

Jump to the beat of a party line

Jump to the beat of a party line

There is nobody here

But your body, dear

Jump to the beat of the party line

Jump to the beat of a party line

Jump to the beat of a party line

There is nobody here

But your body, dear

Nobody here

But your body, dear

Jump to the beat of a party line

Jump to the beat of a party line

There is nobody here

But your body, dear

Jump to the beat of the party line

Jump to the beat of a party line

Jump to the beat of a party line

There is nobody here

But your body, dear

Nobody here

But your body, dear

The Power Of Three lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

Some people say two is company

Sherlock Holmes found the sign of four

I don't listen to that number theory

I'm always looking for a trio, them and me

One for all and we're all for one

Musketeers have got to have the power of three

Every time I read the horoscope, I read three

Virgo, Pisces, Aquarius

Nobody can tell what's down the road for us

You could be Holmes, I'll be Watson

Every hero, yes even me

Everybody has their Moriarty

Keep your friends close

Your enemies at your side

Always keep your green eyes open wide

Depth perception, a change of direction

And all signs point to a bumpy ride

Then I saw the fourth dimension, another line

We move in space and we can move in time

Everything existed right from the start

It's the blink of an eye

It's the beat of a heart

It's the beat of a heart

We've got enemies and nemesis

And a world of possibilities

In everything you leave a clue

A little trace, a sign of you

The Cat With The Cream lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

Sitting at the old kitchen table

Peace and health and dreams

Stretching out in the darkness

Mother's up the stairs with her ageing new boyfriend

Cathy's staying in to make sure nothing happens

All aboard the freak parade

I cover up my head and pray

I'm praying for the light

Down amongst the old city chambers

Men in frocks debate all the policy changes

Everybody bet on the boom and got busted

Everybody bet and in the government trusted

Grubby little red MP

Yellow flapping hopelessly

Tory like the cat with the cream

Tory like the cat with the cream

I studied you in history

I studied in the library

In days of old when knights were bold

They'd settle it with sword and shield

In days of old when knights were bold

It's settled by the king

Praying for a friend is contagious

Specially when it comes at the old kitchen table

Listening for the swoosh of his quickening paces

Watching for the smile on the bravest of faces

How I wish you'd read to me

Verses rich in swallows and trees

Get me though the night

Waiting at the old kitchen table

Listening for my code listening for my instructions

Surely now I'm here, I am destined for greatness

I want to be the Queen pulling kids out of rivers

All aboard the freak parade

I cover up my head and pray

Praying for the cat with the cream

Praying for the cat with the cream

I studied you in history

I studied in the library

In days of old when knights were bold

They'd settle it with sword and shield

In days of old when knights were bold

It's settled by the king

It's settled by the king

It's settled by the king

It's settled by the king

Enter Sylvia Plath lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

Come, and steal my thoughts away

Thief of my identity

I was holding on to decency, reality

Come, and take me for a while

Up to your abundant pace

I’ll be your sidecar if you want to race

Want to race

Put your hand on mine

And take me from this tired ride

Take me from this early night

From the sea and rain and countryside

If you talk to me then soon

I’ll be your accomplice in words

And we will talk only in verse

Talk only in verse

I will leave the ones I love

Leave them for the years to come

Even though I may be doing wrong, doing wrong

I will follow in your steps

Walk out to the station cold

Buy a ticket and and then slowly go, slowly go

In this place and time

Easy is the first escape

I got money I need no disguise

I’m a citizen and city wise

In this time and place

There is no one who will shoot you down

No one who will take a girl

And tell her she can’t have the world

You constantly struggle for self improvement

You have the ability to analyse and solve any problem

You are heading in the right direction

Your mind is creative, original and alert

Boy, you don’t know what you want

It isn't what you think it is

All the dreams, and guilt and loneliness, loneliness

Boy, if we were to be friends

Subtle is the art required

To draw the evil from this lonely pyre, lonely pyre

Take this hand from me

And guide me round your tools of work

Fashion me into your junior clerk

Let me live in shadows of your words

And when things get tough for you

As they did when you came up through the ranks

You can borrow from my faith

From my faith

Take this hand from me

And guide me round your tools of work

Fashion me into your junior clerk

Let me live in shadows of your words

And when things get tough for you

As they did when you came up through the ranks

You can borrow from my faith

From my faith [x36]

The Everlasting Muse lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

I want to find this girl I know

I need to take her out

I'll set a snare in evening air

Made of faith and hope and doubt

I want to spend some time with her

Learn the secrets of her trade

I wouldn't mean to cross the line

And look into the other side

Forbidden to my kind

Forbidden to my kind

I need to hangout with my love

The raven headed sprite

I know I'll never dance like her

Or keep her up at night

I need to hang around with her

I need to let her know

Her cause is mine, I'm but a slave

I look into her wondrous gaze

And taste the strangest chord

And make the purest noise

What I would do to meet the girl

I'd stand out in the rain

Outside my window, watching close

She will appear again

Still polishing her crazy nails

Still wispy, careless, drunk on song

If I could only right my wrongs

And take her to my favourite place

And steal a melody

'Cause I need only see her face

And doubts and worries fall away

And music rushes in

Listen to the sound of life

(I don't want to be friends)

Drink deep of the day

(I don't need your advance)

Wait for her, but don't obsess

(Why do you have to ask?)

She'll go the other way

(No, I don't want to dance)

Winds will blow and storms will rage

(But your phrases are poor)

The news is always sad

(And you try hard to rhyme)

Money tends to disappear

(And I can't read your words)

Beauty crumbles with the years

(But I can read your mind)

But music is for us

(Music is for us)

Music is for us

(Music is for us)

What I would do to meet the girl

I'd stand out in the rain

Outside my window, watching close

She will appear again

Still polishing her crazy nails

Still wispy, careless, drunk on song

If I could only right my wrongs

And take her to my favourite place

And steal a melody

'Cause I need only see her face

And doubts and worries fall away

And music rushes in

If I could only see her face

And know that she was close

There is a deeper magic here

The Everlasting Muse

I left the danger for an hour

I left the sadness for a day

I know that I am in safe hands

She pays the bill and smokes cigars

And on the napkin silk

She weaves a manuscript with skill

An intro, outro, middle 8

A tapestry of words

A subtle gift to modern rock

She says "be popular, play pop"

And you will win my love

A subtle gift to modern rock

She says "be popular, play pop"

And you will win my love

Perfect Couples lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

I know some friends of mine

Think about them all the time

Why can't my life be like that?

I've seen them in the park

Restauranting after dark

Working out on their yoga mats

Stars of the dancehall crowd

Married young, took their vows

Comfort in their boldness and their flair

Dab hands for all to see

Stroke of brush and poetry

His cut of cloth, the contours of her hair

Thank you for the invite tonight

Perfect snacklets, perfect drinks

I'm getting ideas from your interiors

Perfect apartments, perfect kids

Perfect couples are breaking up

What have they done?

Those perfect couples are breaking up

What have they done?

Don't make me feel so good

Expect that stuff in Hollywood

Not in my current milieu

Sexual tension at the fridge

He makes for the organic figs

Belmondo lips, dangling a cig

And she, just back from her hike

And to the gallery she might

Glide by with a basket on her bike

They've got issues too

But what can you do?

Bad times

They'll always see them through

(It always lurked in her mind)

Perfect couples are breaking up

What have they done?

(In the back of her mind)

Those perfect couples are now breaking up

What have I done?

(It always lurked in his mind)

Those perfect couples are breaking up

What have they done?

(In the back of their minds)

Those perfect couples, they keep breaking up

What have I done?

Never happy with my girl

Jealous of a different world

Suddenly the years slip away

What am I waiting for?

(I see those perfect couples and I)

What makes me close the door?

I see those perfect couples

(Why can't I be like them?)

I admire the most

Finding fault with my heart

(It's always been the same and then)

And always back to the start

What makes me get in the fray

Then just throw it away

Yes I throw it away

Yes I throw it away (only to find)

Yes I throw it away (only to find)

Perfect couples are breaking up...

Ever Had A Little Faith? lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

With your headphones on

Through the drizzled pane

Of a wet slate roof

Sun will turn to rain

Why are you the one?

Couldn't take the pain

Something good will happen, wait and see

Something good will happen, wait and see

Do you spend your day?

Second guessing faith

Looking for a way

To live so divine

Drop your sad pretence

You'll be doing fine

You will flourish like a rose in June

You will flourish like a rose in June

Ever had a little faith?

Ever had a little faith?

Morning came

The hope rose up in your heart, girl

You felt ashamed

When morning came

Roll away the stone of doubt, girl

If you're calm, then listen out for

A quiet voice, the sign from the window

Passion beating on your brow

You wish it were, you wish it was now

Past the sound of driving traffic

Past the madman's drunken attic

You climb the stair

It's dark and it's draughty

Smell of incense drawing you

Sky of light imploring you to

Then she ran from street to street

Looked up and down she must have missed him

If she could only find him she would

Throw her arms around and kiss him tenderly

She would give herself on bended knee

Never thinking if it's wrong or right

Courage sister, there's a little light

Ever had a little faith?

Ever had a little faith?

Who can you trust?

Trust the little man

Whispers in the trees

And the river can

Speak the calming verse

From the age of brave

Something good will come from nothing

Something good will come from nothing

Something good will come from nothing

Something good will come from nothing

Something good will come from nothing

Something good will come from nothing

Something good will come from nothing

Something good will come from nothing

Ever had a little faith?

Ever had a little faith?

Play For Today lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

I'm in a play written today about a boy

Who hides in attics when the sun is up

Everyone is at work

What will I do? Where will I go?

Show me the way, the truth, the anger

Show me rules of thumb

Show the way to grow old

Love is a guide

The endless river of the soul

But we are mean

The dried up riverbeds of rock and stone

Lust is my friend

She comes to me when I am tired

Life is a road, death is a myth

Love is a fraud, it's misunderstood

Work is a sentence, family's a drag

This house is a trap

I'm in a play written today about a girl

She gets on perfectly with young and old

Everybody loves her

What will she wear? The cut of her hair

The way that she slides

Gracefully into the working week

She hides her baggage inside

She's got a friend

An ugly monster that will eat your face

She hides a crime

A hefty catalog of wasted time

She's got a friend

A lonely monster that will prey on you

Life is a secret, death is a myth

Love is a fraud, it's misunderstood

Work is a sentence, family's a drag

This house is a trap

Life is a secret, death is a myth

Love is a fraud, it's misunderstood

Work is a sentence, family's a drag

This house is a trap

I'm in a play written today about a boy

Tired and melancholy takes the weight

Takes the weight of the world

I walked alone, loving the sun

Walking the earth

A worn out sister who was twenty three

Dried and wrinkled, alone

I'll give you a month

To see past shadows in your sacred mind

Give you a week

To look Medusa in the eye

I'll give you a month

To notice heaven at the side of stage

(Author, author! Author, author!)

You're king inside your head

You're sitting on a throne of sand

You're pushing back the tide

So lift the mountain up

So tie the writer's ribbons down

Assemble all your troops

We go to war with metaphors

You'll suddenly see sense (and suddenly see sense)

And when you do, I'll have the higher grounds (I'll have the higher grounds)

You're not the king of me

I'll take my chance and play for tyranny

I build the sets, I light the scene

We're braver when we're on the sacred screen

I build the sets, I light the scene

We're braver when we're on the sacred screen

The backstage of your life

Is filled with props and lines you should have sung

The backstage of your life

Is filled with echoes of the ones you loved

The Book Of You lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

Everybody’s making plans

For tomorrow

Stone can turn to sand

But I just

I want to take you back in time

I’ll draw the line

I would write a different story

A new final act

I don’t need the drama

But I would never write you out

Everyone’s a thread

We’re woven together

Read it in the tears and fraying edges

Read the book of you

The book of me

We’re fading into memory

But something is left

A gesture, a phrase or a photograph

The warp and weft

We’re always walking in the rain

And you’re just trouble, so I claim

Pretend the world can see

That I’m the one for you

And you’re the one for me

Valentine, if you could change

With the weather

Faith would just evaporate

Untethered

In a fresh disguise

I catch your eye

See behind the mask

And find you never went far

That’s not the last time

I’ve thought about the way we are

We’re always walking in the rain

And you’re just trouble, so I claim

But then the world can see

That I’m the one for you

And you’re the one for me

Today (This Army's For Peace) lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

Today

I want to slip back to the dream I had

When you had urged me to look out

Upon the window of my life

Today

The choices have all clashed upon my head

Is it wrong to leave your charges

And go charging round the bend?

Mansions, there are mansions in the sun

There's no hiding

Defying the night

Come out into the light

Today

Today

My thoughts were like a tent put up in heaven

Build a shelter for your mind

Invite a stranger to come in and share the wine

Mansions, there are mansions in the sun

There's no hiding

Defying the night

Come out into the light

Today

Today

They want to tear my body from my mind

The rust will show

I am an iron bridge that's giving into time

Today

The wind blows west the heather and the broom becalms

The spirit of a fighting man and lays him

Where his wild spirit belongs

Victims will be justified

The lame will be leaping

This army's for peace

Come out into the light

Today

Victims will be justified

The lame are believing

This army's for peace

Come out into the light

Today

Born To Act lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

There is a girl on the floor, she dances way out

She’s a snub nose beauty, she’s a no doubt

But if I talk to her, I even look hard

She’ll be out of this place and she’ll be out of my life

So we busted a move we got the hell out

We got stories to tell, we got our whole life

We drink coffee till late because we jet lagged

We put a fortune into the greatest

Music machine in the land

Play a wonderful song to me and it’s better than a date

Play the tune where the girl sings high

She’s my lover surrogate

And the waitress is rolling by, shining high

Smiling for a tip

Every boy dreams of it

So the girl dances in, she takes the next booth

I break the rule of my life, I make a big move

Cos my accent is funny, got a head start

If you wanna make good, you got to use what you got

We go with her friends and there’s a big crowd

There’s a girl who can’t stand up till she falls down

There’s a pressure that’s building and it’s too late

Cos eh leaves in the morning, there’s a flight

It’s a family affair

Play a wonderful song to me and it’s better than a date

Play the tune where the girl sings high

She’s my lover surrogate

And the waitresses rolling by, shining high

Smiling for a tip

Every boy dreams of it

So we met a month later, she had long hair

She was driving the bus I paid the full fare

It was easy to talk and she drove real fast

And she told me the story of her dirty old past

All the boys she had loved and all the bad sex

All the things she must learn and all her prospects

I was there for the ride and for the old soul

But we couldn’t go further, no we couldn’t go

But we couldn’t go further, no we couldn’t go

But we couldn’t go further cos the story was already told

Two Birds lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

Two birds sitting on a wire

Big one makes his move

He spreads his feathers, rubs his beak

Boy and girl are leaving school

He is shy, but she will follow him

She don’t know why

Life is short, and then you sleep

Pull down the wall

It’s only masking honesty

Pull down the wall

It’s breaking up the family

Pull down the wall

Hear the true call

Start the day with little things

They’ll blossom into prayers and little wings

Look at what is in your heart

How could it be wrong?

The little man is telling you

People gathering in the square

They’ve had enough

Their leaders they are killing them

Life is short, and then you sleep

Pull down the wall

It’s only masking honesty

Pull down the wall

It’s breaking up the family

Pull down the wall

Hear the true call

Start the day with little things

They’ll blossom into prayers and little wings

When all the banks began to fail

I thought that we would have a change

But they found all this cash

We didn’t have to patch it up again

They never think to spend the money

On the everlasting broke

Or the sick, what a waste

Two birds in the promised land

One is building walls to keep the other in its place

Imprisoned like the special son

He became the greatest, broke his chains and busted out

Life is short, and then you sleep

Pull down the wall

It’s only masking honesty

Pull down the wall

It’s breaking up the family

Pull down the wall

Hear the true call

Start the day with little things

They’ll blossom into prayers and little wings

Piggy In The Middle lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

I’m alone

I’m not with you

When I get in at night the many facets of the conversation

Roll around inside my head

Who’s going with who?

Who’s going with you?

You are the girl who for a twist plays ventriloquist

To other boys line up to be your pooch

But if I draw a circle and I walk around it

You’re the piggy in the middle

I love my little pig until it hurts

I want to dance

Give the boy a chance

I want to lose myself in 1986

The darkened cinematic days of love and trance

Your crisp white tee – shirt

Rock a bill eee – hurts

An army of affected youth

They’re cute in boots

I look at her the girl is looking back at me

And with a thought that cuts me

She will turn and curtsey to her rockabilly boyfriend

It’s too late the damage done

I will catch them on the stairs

I’m like a bad smell that stays

They will turn round and see me

They will kiss stroke and feel

Just for the benefit: the boy voyeur

His camera makes up for what he’s lost

You know I know you’re the Queen

But when there’s nothing to rule

Who is the fool?

Wait for spring

I want to sing

Sleep is a drag love is the drug flu is the bug

I got my bag it’s full of stuff I want to bring

There is a club

There is a girl

Give her the secret sign that I’ll be there

A little clue

Maybe she’ll pick it up

Maybe she’ll pass

But I go into the building and she’s over by the bar

And by the time they play New Order

She is over in the corner

And she’s telling me stuff

I think she feels pretty rough

She has to lean on her shoulder

She is drunk, I am sober

And I take her confession

It’s the coolest little session of the month

As I take her confession

I confess I got my hand under her blouse

A Politician's Silence lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

The cherry tree is broken

The maple leaf is brown

The wind is in the north east

It’s blowing through the town

Morning is the mother

She pulls you out of bed

Noon is like the sister

No hiding from the threat

I want you for a lover

I want you in the dusk

Your thoughts are deep, unspoken

Buried in your past

The cherry tree is broken

The maple is a lie

The north east wind is building

The people go inside

I want to stay in this place

Where thoughts are warm and bright

I want to stay by your side

And listen to your words

The chaos is unbroken

All the news is grim

Feeds into the conscience

Chase away the dream

The cherry tree is broken

The maple has blown down

The water it is rising

The power has gone out

I want to find some respite

From ignorance and lies

I run from passing strangers

I run from evil eyes

I need to take some shelter

I look for you in storms

I know you have a foxhole

I know it’s dark and warm

I see you in the kitchen

I see you by the fire

Absorbing life’s great stories

Drinking from your eyes

Drinking wine in goblets

Knees tucked to the chin

Sitting in a straw chair

Hair like golden sun

Love you in the firelight

Love you in the dark

Think one day I’ll tell you

That accidents can spark

A trail of life’s destruction

A fissure of intent

A comfort blanket hanging

For every crisis spent.

Think one day I’ll tell you

I’ll catch you from behind

Cover eyes to trick you

Guessing will decide

The ash is like my brother

He took the lazy path

To summer and the good life

The last leaf in the park

A wise old head on shoulders

On boards of adamant

He watched us by the river

He watched us in the dusk

Ribbons fell from your hair

They came down from the war

The drunks fell out of houses

The food of love would flow

And just then for the one day

Beneath the tree of joy

We were equal in our beauty

To the sunset girls and boys

You’re too cool to rush in

Which lover could it be

A politician’s silence

Will be the death of me

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A Bit Of Previous lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

 I want to climb inside a work of art

I want to get away from all your comments that are barbed

Just because you're getting older

Doesn't mean you're getting clever

Just because you've got the high ground

Doesn't mean you're at the fairground

And just because you're ground down to a halt

It doesn't mean you have to throw the stone you always hold

Just because you're getting older

Doesn't mean you're getting wiser

Just because you've got the high ground

Doesn't mean you have the most fun

I want to hide inside a piece of you

(I want to hide inside a piece of you)

In the longest run I am your mother and your child

Beaten by the force that assails you

Your so-called friends have surely failed you

Some come back from the edge of crazy

And come back to the edge of envy

God Help The Girl lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

 (from "God Help The Girl" soundtrack)

There is no way I'm looking for a boyfriend

There is no way I'm looking for a scene

I need to save some dough

I'm a working girl, you know

I'll fend attention off I keep to myself

I love my room, I'm getting used to sleeping

Some nights I really like to lie awake

I hear the midnight birds

The message in their words

The dawn will touch me in a way a boy could never touch

Their promise never meant so much to me

You have been warned, I'm born to be contrary

Backward at school, I wrote from right to left

Teacher never cared for me

Preacher said a prayer for me

God help the girl, she needs all the help she can get

I sit for hours just waiting for his phone call

I'll leave the chocolate hidden in the fridge

I'll play his messages

Analyze his intonation

Please stop me there, I'm even boring myself

I think of him when I'm doing the dishes

I think of him while looking in the sink

This ain't no play on words

My love for him is absurd

If he gave me a sign I'd think about it for a week

I'd build it up and then I'd turn him down

You have been warned, I'm born to be contrary

Backward at school, I wrote from right to left

Teacher never cared for me

Preacher said a prayer for me

God help the girl, she needs all the help she can get

Paper Boat lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

 I think it's going to be all right

I think it's going to be just fine

I think it's going to get much better than before

I think we're going to see the sun

I think we're going to have some fun,

I think we're going walk out through the open door

And maybe when we wake up in the morning

Maybe when the darkness starts to fade

Maybe in a paper boat we'll both just float away

Underneath the river trees

Off towards a lazy sea

Underneath the bridge that carries people home

Past the church where Jesus saves

Up and down upon the waves

Sailing off towards adventures of our own

Maybe when we wake up in the morning,

Maybe when the darkness starts to fade

Maybe in a paper boat we'll both just float away

Maybe when we wake up in the morning,

Maybe when the trumpet starts to play

Maybe in a paper boat we'll both just float away

I think it's going to be good fun

Protecting The Hive lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

 Strangely my dreams just seem to get farther out

The more we stay in the one room, my sleep wants to shout

About my lovers and others and my friends from the past

When the world was a party, we all had a blast

It's hard to escape the coming feeling of dread

The streets are still full of people, they're worried to death

I work on a paper and I read on the wires

They're making plans for disaster, the leadership lies

I only believe what I can see with my eyes

And I never understood why people pray when they die

I never understood the desperation feeling till now

Coming round to the idea, I'm taking a vow

I'm here in my teenage bedroom staring at flowers

That he bought at the weekend when the weekend was ours

Now the colours are fading like it's 1944

I'm waiting for my fiancé to come back from the war

I only believe what I can see with my eyes

I never understood why people pray when they die

I never understood the desperation feeling till now

Coming round to the idea, I'm taking a vow

The dress I wanna wear tonight hangs lonely on a hook

And the only excitement is my paperback book

I thought I loved him and the absence makes me randy as hell

But then it could be illusion, I'm stuck down a well

I only believe what I can see with my eyes

And I never understood why people pray when they die

I never understood the desperation feeling till now

Coming round to the idea, I'm taking a vow

It feels like everything tonight has come to an end

The lonely blackbirds are singing, I'm missing my friends

I'm making cup cakes and waiting for my soldier to survive

We're in a war of submission protecting the hive

I only believe what I can see with my eyes

And I never understood why people pray when they die

I never understood the desperation feeling till now

Sign me up for conversion, I'm taking a vow

Sometimes lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

 Sometimes you are the lonely one

Sometimes your heart is so tired

Sometimes the people abandon you

It's hard to be here when the people don't care

Like they used to care

Sometimes you feel a wall of hate

Like smoke it clings to your soul

Don't look, don't look, don't look in the crystal ball

If you look when you're scared

Then you're sure to find something to be scared of

Sometimes conditions are crowding you out

You've got no strength to compete

Be calm, be calm, go to your secret place

Find some hope in the morning, some life in the void

Hope in the morning, some life in the void

Hope in the morning, some life in the voices you hear

Sometimes (Sometimes) you catch a stranger's eye

Sometimes you give them your love

Your seed, your seed is falling on rocky ground

Love the ones in your life even though it is hard

Love the ones in your life even though it is hard

Love the ones in your life even though it is hard

They are there for you

You Can Do It If You Try lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

 (from "Yo Gabba Gabba!" soundtrack)

When things seem very hard

Don't hang up your hat

You'll get through it if you try

When the finish line seems far away

Keep on running to it

You'll get there if only you don't give up

Well, we're behind you all the way

You've got friends in us

If you're not winning, don't lose heart

Because what matters is taking part

You can do it if you try

You can do it if you try

You can do it if you really try-y

Uh-eye-eye

You can do it (you can do it) if you try

You can do it (you can do it) if you try

You can do it if you really try-y

Uh-eye-eye

You can do it if you really try

"Write About Love" (2010)

I Didn't See It Coming Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

Make me dance, I want to surrender
Your familiar arms, I remember
We've been going transcontinental
Got no car, we just take a rental

But we don't have the money
(money makes the wheels and the world go round)
Forget about it, honey

Make me dance, I want to surrender
Your familiar arms, I remember
Everybody's talking about you
Every word's a whisper without you

But we don't have the money
(money makes the wheels and the world go round)
Forget about it, honey
Trouble's never far away when you're around

I didn't see it coming
I'm just not in the running

Take me on a train 'cos I'm not flying
I can see the world from a different side
Read about us in the morning papers
When we make it alive

I didn't see it coming
I'm just not in the running

And we don't need a lifetime
We're following the right line

Come On Sister Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

Six in the morning
The men started working
I can't sleep
No, I can't sleep
I keep feeling the lights
So I think I should get up and call you
Going to find you

And it's fun
Thinking of you like a movie star
And it's dumb
Thinking of you like the way that you were

Everyone loves you
The boy in the corner
The postman
The policeman
It does me no good
To keep looking ahead at your future
Adoration

And it's fun
Thinking of you like a movie star
And it's dumb
Thinking of you like the way that you were

Every moment like a sudden pleasure
Every moment that will get you by
And it's going to cause a crisis
Might just lose a little faith

I've seen all kinds of strangers
The rich and the famous
They don't count
No, they don't count
Now I'm back on my beat
On the same greasy street
There's an angel on my shoulder
Saying, "Ho, have you ever said an honest word?"
Saying, "Yo, have you ever said a pretty word?"

Every moment like a sudden pleasure
Every moment that will get you by
And it's going to cause a crisis
Might just lose a little faith
Don't touch me
If you touch me you could never go back

Faith

Come on, sister have a drink
Have a seat at the bar
Tell me all about your men
And your hopes
And the hours of your life

You could love
After all that's what you're looking for
You can love
It's a currency unspoken of

But it's hard to form a good opinion
Yet you're going to look at me that way
And it's going to cause a crisis
Might just lose a little faith
Don't touch me
If you touch me you can never go back

Faith

Come on, sister have a drink
Have a seat at the bar
Tell me all about your men
And your hopes
And the hours of your life

Calculating Bimbo Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

A lack of understanding
You took for being lazy
I was just being lazy
I'm even doing it now

I know that you have saved me
I love that you have saved me

Save your pennies careful
Let both blue eyes be watchful
It's best to forget freedom
It's best to be enslaved

It's better still to love first
It's harder still to love first

You're my winter queen that disappeared
Your hands grew cold
You ran a mile from my wings(?)
I still heard you had a full-flown view
With lots of time
And notebook full of the finest creamy, rich-girl parchment pages
Slowly filled with all your passing days
Every sacred word paints a picture

Bigger were his muscles
? his ?
But when you are in trouble
And when you are uptight

I get the midnight phone call
I'm your captain for the long haul

If someone else is near me
You scuttle up the pavement
It's no one that I care for
I pause for an effect
You calculating bimbo
I wish you'd let the past go

I Want The World To Stop Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

I want the world to stop (I want the world to stop)
Give me the morning (give me the understanding)
I want the world to stop (I want the world to stop)
Give me the morning, give me the afternoon
The night, the night

Let me step out of my shell
I'm wrapped in sheets of milky winter disorder
Let me feel the air again, the talk of friends
The mind of someone my equal

I want the world to stop…

Tinseltown has followed me from Tinseltown to
Grey adorable city by the docks
Girls will walk in moving air the sun hangs low the girls don’t care
As they paint themselves at dusk.

I want the world to stop…

Towns’ and cities’ populations up and grow
The workers move to the suburbs
In between I watch and go
I run along side rush hour traffic a prayer for every car

I want the world to stop…

I want to write a message to you
Everyday at 10 o clock in the evening
Yellow pearl my city is
This is your art this is your Balzac your Brookside and your Bach

Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian (feat. Norah Jones)

[Stuart:]
What a waste, I could've been your lover
What a waste, I could've been your friend
Perfect love is like a blossom that fades so quick
When it's blowing up a storm in May

Travel south until your skin turns, woman
Travel south until your skin turns brown
Put a language in your head and get on a train
And then come back to the one you love

[Norah:]
Yeah you're great, you're just part of this lifetime of dreaming
That extends to the heart of this long summer feeling
Quiet night, you see the tv's glowing
Quiet night, you hear the walls are awake

Being you I'm getting out of a party crowd
Can I see what's underneath your bed?
Can I stay until the milkman's working?
Can I stay until the coffee awakes?

[Together:]
Do you hate me in the light?
Did you get a fright?
When you looked across from where you lay

Yeah you're great, you're just part of this lifetime of dreaming
That extends to the heart of this long summer feeling
All the history of wars I invent in my head
Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John

All the history of wars I invent in my head
Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John

[Stuart:]
What a waste, I could've been your lover

[Norah:]
What a waste, I could've been your friend

Write About Love Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

I know a spell
That would make you well
Write about love
It can be in any tense
But it must make sense

I know a trick
Forget that you are sick
Write about love
It can be in any form
Hand it to me in the morning

[Chorus:]
I hate my job, I'm working way too much (every day I'm stuck in an office)
At one o'clock, I take my lunch up on the roof
The city spread below
I write about a man
He's intellectual and he's hot, but he understands

The seconds move on (if you watch the clock)
And the sky grows dark (if you're looking up)
And the girls move from thrill to thrill on the tightrope walk (on the tightrope walk)

[Chorus]

I know a way (so you know the way)
Get on your skinny knees and pray (Maybe not today)
You've got to see the dream through the windows and the trees of your living room (of your living room)
You've got to see the dream through the windows and the trees of your living room

I'm Not Living In The Real World Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

Born on a Sunday, everyday is Monday
That is what I've heard
About the real world
Up on the morning,
Heading for the schoolyard
Big boys being bullies make it so hard?

It's a lesson for the real world
Seems so far away the real world

Up to the bigger school
Trying not to be foot
Hear I am new shoes and cagoule
Look I'm getting closer to the real world
("Tell me where the girls are?")

Thinking about happiness
Thinking about Tara
Thinking about sorrow
Thinking about Sara
Sorrow and Sara are the very same word

In my young life I get so hurt
Will I make it in the real world?

Gluing up my Airfix kit
Cigarettes after gym
Had a pint of Special Brew
Won't do that again

Train for examination, got me traction.
Mickey mouse college course,
Looking for action
Play guitar, stacking shelves
Holding back in the real world

Now it's Monday morning,
I'm still yawning
Scuffing down the city street
Heading for the clock on
Bought a 'Daily Record' like a real man

Well I made it to the real world
But I'm not living in the real world

Ghost Of Rockschool Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

I've seen God in the sun
I've seen God in the street
God before bed and the promise of sleep
God in my dreams and the free ride of grace
But it all disappears
And then I wake up

Was it too late?
Was it just your fate?
There's a demon that waits at the garden gate
If you get past him maybe Lawrence and Phil
Will be waiting to take you to the ghost of rockschool

Everything hums
As the blue heart turns
And the blue girls dawn us when the sun goes down
A story tonight is from your solitude heights
I got a window on your constellation

Master I love from the ground above
There's the stars below as my memory flows
Every picture frame is beating louder than time
Every clock in the hall is bending slowly

She's in her tower
And she's beautiful, sure
The quicker you learn she has no soul to discern
At least no business of yours
You bear the vacuum of scars
She was put there to tempt you
Like the perfume of flowers

I've seen God in the sun
I've seen God in the street
God before bed and the promise of sleep
God in my dreams and the free ride of grace
I've seen God shining up from her reflection

I've seen God in the sun
I've seen God in the street
God before bed and the promise of sleep
God in the puddles and the (?)
I've seen God shining up from her reflection

Read The Blessed Pages Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

Love and pain and sorrow keep the band together
She was like my soulmate
Whispered in my ear
Love was playing music
It was all we wanted
Making plastic records of our history

How I knew it mattered
To a certain person
Heard the boy in London call out from the crowd
Said something that I .. to me 10 years later
Wishing that he still called
Like he called that night

Pulling songs from thin air
Pulling songs from bridges
Smell the air in small town

Where the train line stops
Ever will I love you
Now your chapter's over
Ever will I love you
You were good to me

Now our pain and memory
is a cherished story
Moan about the present
then ... the past
Love is like a novel
Read the blessed pages
Did I do my best dear?
That is all you ask

I Can See Your Future Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

I saw you around
When you were young and free
How did I know
Try but I can't remember
How it began (back in the day)
Was there a plan? (follow my way)
I'm living in the past
You're making history

The road into town
That's when it came to me
I'm not alone
I felt the world stop turning
Stop in your tracks (where could I go?)
Cover my back (let yourself show)
I took the long way home
I feel a blistering

Listen up we'll make a deal
And I'll tell you what I see

And when the second hand
Hits the morning
You will hear me calling
Come to me, come to me

Don't leave me behind
Stuck in a memory
Caught in a lie
Something that once you told me
Fortune or fame
Please don't be late
Watching the world will fall in the sand

Forward's the only way to go
You catch me up I'll take it slow
I can see your future, there's nobody around
[Repeat x6]

Sunday's Pretty Icons Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

There is no hole in which to hide
There is no plane to catch
No hope, tell them that's warm enough
No rent to a room that's quiet

A friend I've known through six degrees
Cools down to where I hide
A friend I've known through dreams and prayers
She comes back to my side

You're so far from wanting to talk
You're so far from wanting to say something good
Feel something good

The sea cries of loves of girls
The sea cries of boys
The storm, we are the both of us
Too close to ever love

Whiskey from the island of Sun
Whiskey from the year you were born
Tastes like kidnap and ransom and exile

Somebody asked me what hell was like
Somebody asked me for help
Somebody asked me what hell was like
Lunging and happening, parting of souls

Every girl you ever admired
Every boy you ever desired
Every love you ever forgot
Every person that you despised is forgiven

Blue Eyes Of A Millionaire Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

Shyness hanging like a wendy
Bad clothes keep you in the village hall
Sunday nothing for the rest of us
Sunday listen to your spirits soar
Thank you thank you for the holiday
We talk sometimes in a quiet world
Three years taking all the scenery
Black walls cloudy as a sea of gulls

Let the summer go
Let tomorrow take care of itself
If you believe like you tell me so
Hand in hand your lover will be every sweet and hungry soul

Stage scope falling like a summer end
Trees strip wrap yourself in color brown
Some dead's underneath the capricorn
Bell rings summer need to feeling warm
Mornings must have thought about you
All night reach out with a single call
Not my place to be your confidante
I just thought I'd catch you as you fall

Let the summer go
Let tomorrow take care of itself
If you believe like you tell me so
Hand in hand your lover will be every sweet and hungry soul

Goodness glowing like a firefly
Cheap bones blue eyes of a millionaire

Suicide Girl Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

My friend,
She wants,
To be a suicide girl.
I'll take her picture,
For the whole wide world.
I've known her for a long time,
You could say that I'm a fan,
But I always thought that I would be her man.

My friend,
She wants,
To be the girl of suicide.
She wants a number,
For her radical side.
I know that she is special,
I can see what she has got,
But without her gloves and garnered clothes (?)
She will take them to the world,
Exposed, she gives it all away.

My friend,
She sometimes gets anxiety and stress.
She got a man,
From the NHS.
She proclaims a week of sadness!
She's abstained from telling jokes!
The world will see her poor image, (?)
A butterfly to empathy.
I know that I can do it,
I'm in to light, I'm in to shade.
But let's face the facts,
We ain't goin' back,
When she takes off her clothes we'll never be the same again!

"The Life Pursuit" (2006)

Act Of The Apostle Part 1 Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

Morning prayers took the girl unawares
She was late for class and she knew it
The broadcaster had a voice that was soothing
She couldn't tell if it was a man or woman
A patch of sun fell onto her neck
She put her head on her arms on her desk

The lesson today was Acts of Apostles
The crazy hippies, they're running scared
She shut her eyes and imagined the desert
No cars, no mobiles, just sun and bread
What would she look like standing by the well?
More like a women and less like a girl

'Oh, if I could make sense of it all!
I wish that I could sing
I'd stay in a melody
I would float along in my everlasting song
What would I do to believe?'

Later on she plays Morning Has Broken
She knows she's bad
She is slowing everbody down
The choirmaster, usually a bastard, knows her mother's sick
He'll be nice to her
She thinks that she shouldn't be there at all
Her worries make everything else seem trivial

'Oh, if I could make sense of it all!
I wish that I could sing
I'd stay in a melody
I would float along in my everlasting song
What would I do to believe?'

Another Sunny Day Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

Another sunny day, I met you up in the garden
You were digging plants, I dug you, beg your pardon
I took a photograph of you in the herbaceous border
It broke the heart of men and flowers and girls and trees

Another rainy day, we're trapped inside with a train set
Chocolate on the boil, steamy windows when we met
You've got the attic window looking out on the cathedral
And on a Sunday evening bells ring out in the dusk

Another day in June, we'll pick eleven for football
We're playing for our lives the referee gives us fuck all
I saw you in the corner of my eye on the sidelines
Your dark mascara bids me to historical deeds

Everybody's gone you picked me up for a long drive
We take the tourist route the nights are light until midnight
We took the evening ferry over to the peninsula
We found the avenue of trees went up to the hill
That crazy avenue of trees, I'm living there still

There's something in my eye a little midge so beguiling
Sacrificed his life to bring us both eye to eye
I heard the Eskimos remove obstructions with tongues, dear
You missed my eye, I wonder why, I didn't complain
You missed my eye, I wonder why, please do it again

'The lovin is a mess what happened to all of the feeling'
I thought it was for real; babies, rings and fools kneeling
And words of pledging trust and lifetimes stretching forever
So what went wrong? It was a lie, it crumbled apart
Ghost figures of past, present, future haunting the heart

White Collar Boy Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

You're a white collar boy and you gave into the law
Give in to the pressure the cops gonna getcha
You were a thieving dog at work until they caught your little paw
Your wage won't stretch, to picking up checks
A custodial sentence you narrowly avoided
Community service you had to go along with
You're banging the rocks at the old city docks
Poor boy poor boy poor boy poor boy

You were chained to a girl that would kill you with a look
It's a nice way to die she's so easy on the eye
She said let's get away, but you played it by the book
You're a warden's pet, she's a screaming suffragette
'We ain't in prison, we'll just finish up and go home'
She said, 'Not for me, I've got plans for later on'
So she belted the sarge and she jumped on a barge
You fell, you fell you fell you fell

White collar, got dirt in your pants
You got egg in your hair
You got spit in your chin
White collar, scared to be bored
Blue Collar, she's opening doors
White collar boy, on the run from the law

She said 'You ain't ugly, you can kiss me if you like'
Go ahead and kiss her, you don't know what you're missing
You said 'Baby, you're special,
But there's something not quite right.'
She's a Venus in flares and you wanna split hairs!
'I am innocent, you are a rocket.
Things were ok till you took out the copper'
Leave me alone, and get used to the chains
You're a pain, a pain, a pain, a pain

White collar, got dirt in your pants
You got egg in your hair
You got spit in your chin
White collar, scared to be bored
Blue Collar, she's opening doors
White collar boy, on the run from the law

The Blues Are Still Blue Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

Look at the kid from school
He's teaching mamas and papas how to be a little cool
He's changing fashion, the way he dress
The tracksuits are old, and the hoody's way too moody
For a kid with the will to funk
He dances in secret; he's a part-time punk

She's getting off the plane
She wants to write a thesis on the population underprivileged
The kids fighting up the lane
Shop lifting, just drifting
Like The Switchblade And The Cross
But if there's trouble she's got the moves
She's taking an elementary class in Kung fu

I left my washing in the launderette
You can put some money on it, you can place a little bet
That when I see my washing
The black will be grey and the white will be grey
But the blues are still blue

I'm crying out for my mum
If the malady don't go away we're in a little trouble
With the boss of the company
I'm a singer, a swinger I'm a layabout but laying on
The dock in the lazy sun
Will never quite relegate me to a bum

I left my lady in the launderette
You can put some money on it, you can place a little bet
That when I see my lady
The black will be white and the white will be black
But The Blues Are Still Blue

Baby, I love your face
I've been creeping round this town because?
Well, creeping's just my way
But with a little wink I'll be there
I'll be excited for a week, but then excitement starts to fade
I know your young, but you're out of touch
You're French, your vocabulary's not quite formed

I left my homework in the launderette
I got a letter from my mamma which my stoopid dog has ate
I hid behind the fence
Here comes the deputy head with the bark of a bulldog
He's not making much sense

I left my lady in the launderette
You can put some money on it, you can place a little bet
That when I see my lady
The black will be white and the white will be black
But the blues are still blue?

Dress Up In You Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

I'm the singer, I'm the singer in the band
You're the loser, I won't dismiss you out of hand
Cos you've got a beautiful face
It will take you places

You kept running
You've got money, you've got fame
Every morning I see your picture from the train
Now you're an actress!
So says your r'sum?
You're made of card
You couldn't act your way out of a paper bag

You got lucky, you ain't talking to me now
Little Miss Plucky
Pluck your eyebrows for the crowd
Get on the airplane
You give me stomach pain
I wish that you were here
We would have had a lot to talk about

We had a deal there
We nearly signed it with our blood?
An understanding
I thought that you would keep your word
I'm disappointed
I'm aggravated
It's a fault I have, I know
When things don't go my way I have to

Blow up in the face of my rivals
I swear and I rant, I make quite an arrival
The men are surprised by the language
They act so discreet, they are hypocrites so fuck them too!

I always loved you
You always had a lot of style
I'd hate to see you on the pile
Of 'nearly-made-it' s
You've got the essence, dear
If I could have a second skin
I'd probably dress up in you

You're a star now, I am fixing people's nails
I'm knitting jumpers, I'm working after hours
I've got a boyfriend, I've got a feeling that he's seeing someone else
He always had thing for you as well

Blow in the face of my rivals
I swear and I rant, I make quite an arrival
The men are surprised by the language
They act so discreet, they are hypocrites forget them
So fuck them too!

Sukie In The Graveyard Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

Sukie was the kid, she liked to hangout in the graveyard
She did brass rubbings, she learned you never had to press hard
When she finished hanging out she was all alone
She decided that she better check in at home
There was an awful row between her mum and dad
They said she hadn't done this, she hadn't done that
If she wanted to remain inside the family home
She'd have to tow the line, she'd have to give it a go
It didn't suit Sukie
So she took her things and left

Sukie was the kid, she liked to hang out at the art school
She didn't enrol, but she wiped the floor with all the arseholes
She took a bijou flat with the fraternity cat
She hid inside the attic of the sculpture building
She had a slut slave and his name was Dave
She said 'Be my photo bitch and I'll make you rich'
He didn't believe her but the boy revered her
He got her meals and he got her a bed
He watched behind the screen and she started to undress
He never got far
Just lookin' and playing guitar

Autumn hanging down all the trees are draped like chandeliers
Sukie saw the beauty but she wasn't wet behind the ears
She had an A1 body and a face to match
She didn't have money, she didn't have cash
With the winter coming on, and the attic cold
She had to press her nose on the refectory wall
They served steamed puddings she went without
She had to pose for life for all the scholars of art
She didn't feel funny, she didn't feel bad
Peeling away everything she had
She had the grace of an eel, sleek and stark
As the shadows played tricks on the girl in the dark

Sukie was the kid, she liked to hangout in the graveyard

We Are The Sleepyheads Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

Tired like the beggar with the cold inside his bones
Looking for the pleasure that he knew was so far gone
So far gone
I took a turn to myself
And I was surprised, cause I saw everyone who ever I had loved
I felt a whole lot better after that

People look at us and they think were doing fine
People look at us cause they see us all the time
All the time
But they never take to us
We've been in this town so long we may as well be dead
So long as people turn their heads
And cross the street whenever we walk on by

Someone told the truth when it really mattered most
The beauty of the moment is the beauty sadly lost
Sadly lost
So I went around to your house
Over tea and gin we talked about the things we read
In Luke and John the things he said
And now it's morning we are the sleepyheads

Song For Sunshine Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

Honey'd sweet apples, they're rotting away
Millions of people never start in the race
There's stuff on out plates that has not been alive
Someone pays full price for my cheap flight life

'Sunshine, we all see the same sky'

I am a man filled with longing desire
The gifts of creation are ready for hire
A look and a label are all I require
Enough's not enough, I never ask why

'Sunshine, we all see the same sky
Looking, learning, asking the same 'why?''

Honey'd sweet apples, they're rotting away
Millions of people never start in the race
There's stuff on out plates that has not been alive
Someone else pays the real price of my cheap flight life

Wheel of fortune spins,
But the wheels on fire come crashing on you
Honey'd sweet apples, they're rotting away

'Sunshine, we all see the same sky
Looking, learning, asking the same 'why?'
Sunshine, we all see the same sky'

Funny Little Frog Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

Honey lovin you is the greatest thing
I get to be myself and I get to sing
I get to play at being irresponsible
I come home late at night and I love your soul
I never forget you in my prayers
I never have a bad thing to report

You're my picture on the wall
You're my vision in the hall
You're the one I'm talking to
When I get in from my work
You are my girl, and you don't even know it
I am livin out the life of a poet
I am the jester in the ancient court
You're the funny little frog in my throat

My eye sight's fading, my hearing's dim
I can't get insured for the state I'm in
I'm a danger to myself I've been starting fights
At the party at the club on a Saturday night
But I don't get disapproving from my girl
She gets the all highlights wrapped in pearls..

You're my picture on the wall
You're my vision in the hall
You're the one I'm talking to
When I get in from my work
You are my girl, and you don't even know it
I am livin out the life of a poet
I am the jester in the ancient court
You're the funny little frog in my throat

I had a conversation with you at night
It's a little one sided but that's allright
I tell you in the kitchen about my day
You sit on the bed in the dark changing places
With the ghost that was there before you came
You've come to save my life again

I don't dare to touch your hand
I don't dare to think of you
In a physical way
And I don't know how you smell
You are the cover of my magazine
You're my fashion tip, a living museum
I'd pay to visit you on rainy Sundays
I'll maybe tell you all about it someday

To Be Myself Completely Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

Well my heart has fallen down
Thought I'd talked myself around
But to be myself completely I've just got to let you down

Well I knew I'd say goodbye
Though it's not my time to cry
And forever and for no one I will let it all go by
And to be myself completely I've just got to say goodbye
Z-list star in a hundred grand garrett
The ladies say 'Hey baby, you've earned it!'
I'm not so sure, I toured the land
You could call it work if you count the band
Still your voice calls out to me
Escort me to the harmony
I'm not sure what I will be
Find me in a bitter sweet hello

Well my heart has fallen down
Thought I'd talked myself around
Though we say goodbye and wonder
What's to know and who's to blame
But to be myself completely I will love you just the same

Act Of The Apostle Part 2 Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

I'm bored out my mind
Too sick to even care
I'll take a little walk
Nobody's going to know
I'm in senior year
It gives you a little free time
I'll just use it all at once!

Took the fence and the lane
The bus then the train
Bought an 'Independent' to make me look like I got brains
I made a story up in my head if anybody would ask
I'm going to a seminar!

I'm a genius
A prodigy
A demon at Maths and Science
I'm up for a prize
If you gotta grow up sometime
You've to do it on your own
I don't think I could stand to be stuck
That's the way that things were going

The bible's my tool
There's no mention of school!
My Damascan Road's my transistor radio
I tune in at night when my mum and my dad start to fight
I put on my headphones
And I tune out
I am devout
The girls are singing about my life
But they're not here, they've got the wild life

If you want to find out, find out
You got to look them in the eye
That's why my only choice
Is find the face behind the voice?.

She asked the man if the service was open
'Not today, just the choir from the radio'
'Couldn't I sit in? I've come all this way'
'Will you bugger off, I've got work to do.'

The city was losing its appeal
God was asleep
He was back in her village, in the fields

'Oh, if I could make sense of it all!
I wish that I could sing
I'd stay in a melody
I would float along in my everlasting song
What would I do to believe?'

For The Price Of A Cup Of Tea Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

For the price of a cup of tea
You'd get a line of coke
For the price of a night with me
You'd be the village joke
For the price of a pint of milk
I'll tell you all I know
About the state of the world today
Sit down, enjoy the show

She had several hours to find a place to stay
Try the coffee shop, but somewhere on the way
She heard about a place, somewhere she could go
Walked a couple of blocks to her destination

For the price of a cup of tea
You'd get a seven inches
Soul black vinyl to stop your tears
You can use my stereo?
You might be the village joke but
Don't listen to the gossip of the other folk

She just wants to be accepted in this place
There's something in her face
She will always seem exotic and aloof
If you want to know the truth
Her friend the stars dripping from the jewelled sky
When she was passing by
Would keep her calm
There was people that she knew, at least she thought she did
Be easy on the kid!

She took her winter coat from her plastic wrapper
Pushed back her fringe, see her birthmark
She can finally be the person she wanted to be

Mornington Crescent Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

Mornington Crescent
I think of you
Rain in the southeast
Men feeling blue
Men with their bowlers
Kids with their spats
Ladies with chauffeurs
Dogs wearing hats and jackets
Rich apartments
Old punk posters
Tartan garments
I love the exquisite array
I love the camp as camp parade
The possibilities suggest themselves to me
I'm feeling free

Mornington Crescent
The sun in the east
I've got a job on
For a Senegalese rich arbitrator
In African law
To paint his apartment, strip down the walls
Came down between us lately
Lust and want and need just caved in
'Is it wise?'
The answer's no
It never is but since you ask
We pause thoughtfully, for twenty seconds reprieve
Then it's off with the briefs

Mornington Crescent
Sin is my game
We'll all be lined up
Irrelevant fame
Next to the broker, the nurse and the drunk
I was a joker, the wannabe punk that got lucky
Had a good time
Life became fruitless
Egotistic swine to all your friends
All the ladies and the men
The possibilities suggest themselves to me
We're a little too free

"Push Barman To Open Old Wounds" (2005)

Dog On Wheels Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

When I was a boy I was confounded by you
Now I'm still a boy I am indebted to you
Every song I ever wrote was written for you
Written for you

Now I'm feeling flat you seem mile away
I'm so tired that down on the pavement I'll lay
Till the blossom on the tree comes falling on me
Fall on me

From my window I can see the mountains in snow
From my window I will shut my eyes and let go
Promise me you'll always be around when I call
And when I fall

On the river bridge up on the wall, looking down
On the river bridge, to me a vision was shown
If I could hold on to things till I was full grown
Peace would I know

To my dog on wheels I'll tell my pleasures and woes
To my dog on wheels I'll tell my secrets and more
Then one day in spring I'll take him down to the road
Anything goes

The State I Am In Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

I was surprised, I was happy for a day in 1975
I was puzzled by a dream, stayed with me all day in 1995
My brother had confessed that he was gay
It took the heat off me for a while
He stood up with a sailor friend
Made it known upon my sisters wedding day

I got married in a rush to save a kid from being deported
Now she's in love
I was so touched, I was moved to kick the crutches
From my crippled friend
She was not impressed that I cured her on the Sabbath
So I went to confess
When she saw the funny side, we introduced my child bride
To whisky and gin

The priest in the booth had a photographic memory
For all he had heard
He took all of my sins and he wrote a pocket novel called
"The State I Am In"
So I gave myself to God
There was a pregnant pause before he said ok
Now I spend my day turning tables round In Marks & Spencer's
They don't seem to mind

I gave myself to sin
And I've been there and back again
I gave myself to Providence
The state that I am in

Oh love of mine, would you condescend to help me
I am stupid and blind
Desperation is the Devil's work, it is the folly of a boys empty mind
Now I'm feeling dangerous, riding on city buses for a hobby is sad
Lead me to a living end
I promised that I'd entertain my crippled friend
My crippled friend

String Bean Jean Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

I got my fingers dirty at the school of rock
Yeah I got my fingers dirty so I took a walk
I went up to the country park and hung around till after dark
Till the girls got home
Till the girls got home

Did I tell you 'bout the one I know, she's on the rag
She spent the summer day inside her sleeping bag
Yeah she spent the summer day inside until it's time to work
And she works all night
Cause the girl's all right

The girls have got a house that's like a caravan
And it's like your holidays whenever you go round
And we always have a laugh and then we all get in the bath
To save on the leccy bill
Me & Jo & Phil'

I had to leave them in the morning
I left the keys around the way
I had to catch a bus
I had to leave them in the morning
I left the keys down in the caf'
I had to go to work

And when Jo was short of cash I had to give her some
But I didn't really mind cause I was fit for once
So she paid the leccy bill and got the shopping and she still had
Some for the cinema
So we all went out

She asked me "Do I need to lose a bit of weight?"
And I told her "Don't be stupid 'cause you're looking great"
And I call her String Bean Jean because the label on her jeans says
Seven to eight years old - well that's pretty small
Seven to eight years old - that's pretty small
Seven to eight years old - that's pretty small
Seven to eight years old

Belle & Sebastian Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

I left the school I left my job
You saw me looking like a slob
When I was young you were the only fun in town

Everyone thought it was a shame
For Belle and the boy Sebastian
Belle was ok but oh Sebastian
Went too far again
Crashed his car in the rain

He wants to love and he wants to care
But when the boys are queuing up to tell her she's a star
Poor Sebastian is heading for a fall

Everyone thought it was a shame
For Belle and the boy Sebastian
Everyone thought it was a shame
Belle was ok but oh Sebastian
Went too far again
Crashed his car in the rain
Oh Sebastian wrote his diary that
He would never be young again
But you will
Fellow, you are ill
You'd better take a weight off of your mind and listen
To what other people say
Cause things are going wrong your own way

Lazy Line Painter Jane Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

Working the village shop
Putting a poster up
Dreaming of anything
Dreaming of the time when you are free from all the trouble you're in
In the mud, on your knees
Trying hard not to please
Anyone, all the time
Being a rebel's fine
But you go all the way to being brutal

You will have a boy tonight
You will have a boy tonight
On the first bus out of town
On the first bus out of town

Let's see your kit for games
All the girls look the same
You are challenging style for running miles
You're running miles in some boys jumper

Boo to the business world!
You know a girl who's tax free on her back and making
Plenty cash
While you are working for the joy of giving

You will have a boy tonight
You will have a boy tonight
And you hope that she will see
And you hope that she will see

You will have a boy tonight
Or maybe you will have a girl tonight
And you hope that she will see
And you hope that she will see

You are in two minds
Tossing a coin to decide whether you should tell your mum
About a dose of thrush you got while you were licking railings

But you read in a book
That you got free in Boots
There are lotions, there are potions
You can take to hide your shame from all those prying eyes

Lazy Jane, all the time
Painting lines
You are sleeping at bus stops
Wondering how you got your name
And what you're going to do about it

You will have a boy tonight
You will have a boy tonight
And you hope that she will see
And you hope that she will see

You Made Me Forget My Dreams Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

You made me forget my dreams
When I woke up to you sleeping
We had peace for a night at least
But the trouble starts today
This morning you'll say
"I'll see you sometime, maybe" and I
Fall back to uneasy sleep

You made me forget my dreams
I was building a space rocket
With the boy who played bass guitar
With the boy who's wearing flares
He didn't care
He lit the fuse and ran for a mile
The space rocket went up in style
The space rocket went up in style

I'll lend you two hundred quid
For a flight across the ocean
Maybe things will look better there
Because they couldn't be much worse
Than tears and a curse
For men with guns, maturing in age
Will always pay a shitty wage
They'll always pay a shitty wage

You made me forget my dreams
When I woke up to you sleeping
There was blood on the sheets again
And the view outside the window
Of gardens in bloom
Obscured by all the trouble we had
I think I better make a move
I think I better make a move

A Century Of Elvis Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

We were sitting in the living room on the sofa, the wrong way round, looking out the window.
It was quiet, and then in the car park across the road we saw Elvis - look, there beside the postman's van,
and he was walking round the postman's van, looking in the open door.
He looked as if he was thinking about getting in, but then the postman came back, and he swaggered off,
walked past the window and down the stairs, and then at the bottom of the stairs right by the caretaker's office,
he started licking the pavement.
Every night now since we moved in that new house there's this noise outside the door at just about half seven or eight o' clock every night.
And if we go and look outside the door, Elvis'll be standing there waiting to be let in.
And then he wanders into the living room, maybe sits down on one of the chairs or even lies down on the floor.
He doesn't say much, he just stays there for an hour or two, watching the TV.
We talk to him a bit, and then around ten o' clock, he'll go away again, and not come back until the next night.
There's a lot of lanes and stuff around here, around the house - although it's right in the middle of the city
it seems quite like the country, it's dead hidden - safe I suppose, made for night living.
There's a lot of squirrels and birds, and Stuart says he's seen about nine foxes there
when he's jumped over the fence on his way to Prior's Road.
Sometimes you can go out walking, and when you've been out for a wee while even you don't know where you are anymore,
so it would be pretty hard for anyone else to find you.
I suppose that's why he spends so much time there, that's why he's come to live there, or maybe it's just the squirrels.
I read about somewhere that he likes squirrels quite a lot.
There's these two videos that we got for wedding presents - called the e-files
e-files one and e-files two about how Elvis is supposed to be still alive.
And one time when he came round we were watching one of those, but he didn't say anything he just sat on the armchair.
He was playing with his collar a bit, and we watched it right through and then when it finished
he just got up and walked off into the mist and didn't say anything.
The first few times he came round I didn't speak to him at all, I wasn't really sure what to say.
And Karen spoke to him quite a lot - she seemed to know what to do more than I do.
He had quite a strange manner though, he'd go into your stuff and look through it,
then he'd maybe pick something up and play with it for a wee while, but he'd never make any comment about any of it.
Seemed pretty rude to me.
I just watched whatever Karen did, and listened to how she talked to him and then,
after a while I started to copy that, and tell him a few things,
not really bothered about whether he responded or said anything back or not.
I think the first time I spoke to him we were sitting up on the mezzanine and I said that I would tell him about me and wee Karen,
and how it was that we'd come to be living there.
I thought he probably liked the fact that we were living there because he came round so much,
so I thought he might want to know how it was that it came about.
We did it all over backwards, I told him.
First of all we got to know each other, and then a while after that we met,
and when we'd known each other for about seven years we decided to have an anniversary,
and that went quite well, so after the anniversary we had a honeymoon, and that went well too,
so after that we decided that we would get married.
That's why we're living there now. I used to think my dad was Elvis, but I haven't told him that yet.
I haven't told my dad either...

Photo Jenny Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

I'm in a mess, I'm in a dress
There's nothing from here till tomorrow morning
How will I get there?
I don't do drugs
All my friends are on their holidays

I go outside, it's not so bad
I saw my friend and he couldn't believe that
The girls were holding hands
The girls are holding hands
Don't be a fool
It's 1995, the girls are just friends

They got the drugs I could use but then I don't need any
All that I want is a photograph of Photo Jenny
How will I get one? I don't know
How will I get one? I don't know
How will I get her to strike a pose?

It's getting cold, I'll catch the bus
I saw my friend when she's finished working
Get some fish and chips
What's on the box?
'Man about the house' with Paula Wilcox

You see the boy/girl's at the bar
Everyone thinks she's really ugly
But I shut my eyes
And the star of it is Photo Jenny

A Century Of Fakers Lyrics – Belle and Sebastian

There are people going hungry every day
They've got nothing on their plates
And you're filling your fat face with every different kind of cake
And if you ever go lardy, or go lame
I will drop you straight away
That's the price you have to pay
For every stupid thing you say

There are people going lonely, and they'll stay
Lonely fay into the year
Because you're making blinkers fashionable
And fashionably you'll say
"All is equal in love and war" and
"I'm sorry, but I've got some things to do"
And you pretend to read a book you'll never finish till the day

That the author dedicates it
To A Century Of Fakers
They took your mould and they burned it on the fire in history today
Yeah, the author dedicates it
To A Century Of Fakers
He was an anarchist, he tried his best but it wasn't good enough

Did I say I would see you soon?
Well I'm sorry, but i just came off my bike
And my face is scarred
And chance has barred me seeing you tonight
I was over the other side of the city
And if the truth be known I'd say
That you look great from there before you shaved your golden hair today

Everybody's trying to make us
Another century of fakers
They took you mould and burned it on the fire of history today
Everybody's trying to make us
Another cool decade of fakers
Another century of fakers