A Brighter Beat
1. We're All Going To Die2. Fight Like the Night
3. A Brighter Beat
4. Death Love Depression Love Death
5. Fuck It, I Love You
6. Stay Close Sit Tight
7. Four Cigarettes
8. Somebody Loves You
9. Up Late At Night Again
10. Superhero Songwriters
We're All Going To Die
We’re all going to die and what if there’s nothing
We’ll all have to face this alone
There’s a when not an if inside everybody
Mortal thoughts like this can make you feel so alone
You’re gonna die, you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die alone
You’re gonna die, you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die alone
All alone.
And what if I don’t become famous posthumously
Maybe my story’s no good
If I can take one posession then it’ll have to be my duvet
When oblivion comes calling it’ll be so cold
You’re gonna die, you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die alone
You’re gonna die, you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die alone
All alone.
When you can’t sleep at night and there’s no one to hold you
Remember I’m going through the same
You’ve got to laugh into the dark
We’re all one in a million
We’re alive, we existed, we took part, in the game.
We’re gonna die, we’re gonna die, we’re gonna die alone
We’re gonna die, we’re gonna die, we’re gonna die alone
We’re gonna die, we’re gonna die, we’re gonna die alone
All alone.
Fight Like The Night
You can be my hero, by not letting me down
Not letting me down again, and being around
You can be my hero, by crawling into the rut
Crawling into the rut with me, and holding my chin up
You fight like the night
Weakness is my guide
I’m walking a dark road
I’m running out of time
I don’t want to die
I love your eyes
They show me above all
Show me I’m loveable
On goes the battle
Rages the war
Casualties of the week day
The figures soar
our past The General
He stands on the line
His body a spiral
salt in his mind
Burn every book, punch every friend,
we’ll stay here while they ascend,
If this is it , if it’s really the end
Let’s commit sins and collect sand
You can be my hero, by not letting me down
Not letting me down again, and being around
This town is a great place
I love you at night
When it’s darker we’re stronger
Getting ready to fight
But for now it’s the grey slates
And one side of noise
The banks are circling again
I don’t wanna to wear clothes
Take a mic and get upfront
Shout at kids like it hurts
Tell your life, don’t pretend
Lie to yourself, begin again
You can be my hero, by not letting me down
Not letting me down again, and being around
You can be my hero, by crawling into the rut
Crawling into the rut with me, and holding my chin up
You fight like the night
Weakness is my guide
My wrongs show me what’s right
We’re running out of time
I love your eyes
They show me above all
Show me I’m loveable
So the captains fall
As the grey light crashes down
our last stand defeated
As the last hope is doused
laugh and carry on
Skip into the flames
In a blaze of coming home
Now you’ve gone and left me and there’s nothing here
But a tenner in my pocket and a fridge full of beer
There’s an army around the country, we’re all stuck in our rooms
It takes a lot of preparation to make a move
Out the door
Down the stairs
Out the close
Down the street
On the bus
To the pub
And there people meet
But I’d rather sit and stare and wonder what might happen there
If I could move my head in time with a brighter beat
Now they’ve gone and left us
And we’re not here
Just the ghosts of the people they once held dear
We’re an army around the country, we’re all stuck in our rooms
It takes a lot of desperation to make a move
Out the door
Down the stairs
Out the close
Down the street
On the bus
To the pub
And there people meet
But we’d rather sit and stare and wonder what just happened there
If we could move our heads in time with a brighter beat
Death Love Depression Love Death
Death, loving, in my life, nothing
I will leave behind, time is running
I will stay behind, now you’re my woman,
And we’ll both die
So we’ll have to change our minds
From the streets to the stars
To the fields from the bars
My love is a picture out the corner of my eye
your death is a number but I cannae count that high
Now you can see in my eyes everything
I’ve ever done and who I’ve ever been
You don’t need to hear the words out loud
You are my darlin’
Very unusual things, have a habit of happening
No one’s safe from statistics or sure things
I can hear my blood howling in my skin
I cant hide feelings the walls are much too thin
You’ll never find me comfy in a crowd
My hands are starving
Very unusual things, have a habit of happening
No one’s safe from statistics or sure things
Very amazing things, have a habit of bypassing
You can make things happen if you jinx them
Today’s as black as the white Scottish sky
The burning grey as the clocks struggle by
Crude oil in my veins and coal in my lungs
I cant stretch my neck
Death, loving, in my life, nothing
I will leave behind, time is running
I will stay behind, now you’re my woman,
And we’ll both die
So we’ll have to change our minds
From the streets to the stars
To the fields from the bars
My love is a picture out the corner of my eye
your death is a number but I cannae count that high
Fuck It, I Love You
There’s a boxfull of showergels I’ve left around the world
In the toilets and bathrooms I’ve been
Chips of my youth fallen off along the way
I’ve been a long time falling down.
Fuck it I love you, there you go
Three little words on a mobile phone
When are you coming home?
When are you coming home?
Don't want to be alone
Been careless with my friends
Even harder on myself
There’s A few stars in the sky I’ve killed
Pieces of my heart broken off along the way
I’ve been a long way falling down.
Pretending I’m pretending that everything’s ok
So many masks I’m wearing my own face
I can feel my toes burning from my deeds along the way
Before you get up you’ve got to go down.
Getting trounced being beaten at every turn
I record my mistakes but I never learn
Are you coming home?
When are you coming home?
Don't want to be alone
I can feel stuff coming
I’m scared of a life of pain
Just round the corner is sadness and misery
Tomorrow I can die
Today I need to sort this out
Start with the kitchen, the bedroom, then my family
I can feel depression coming
It always starts with the clouds
Then the fear of phones and mirrors and not wanting you around
You stay close
And you sit tight
Don’t be so faraway tonight
I may be bad
And I may be wrong
But you know I won’t stay this way for long
Then I remember
That you remind me
I do have have some stuff to look forward to
Like those replica screaming eyes
That are going to look to me
To tuck them in at night and raise them right
Don’t call me
Because I wont pick up the phone
Don’t come around
Because I probably won’t be home
There’s this little thing that is mundane and a bore
But it locks me up and stares me out and drills a hole
Don’t invite me
I’m safer where I am
Best not to make plans
Because I’ll just agree and then cancel
There’s this little thing that is mundane and a bore
But it locks me up and stares me out and drills a hole
you are the end, you are the light,
you are the reason I'm up late tonight
I think about you sleeping with your legs on my side
of the bed and you're dreaming putting up a fight
against the world and what we know is right
we'll break away somehow I'll be running at your side
we need to get away get away to someplace
that nobody's ever bothered about
and everything we do and everything we say
will be the first time it's ever happened that way
we're four cigarettes away from having to leave the house
got to make them last till the sun goes down
waiting for the dark so we can come to life
waiting for a laugh or lightening to strike
and I just remembered I've forgot where I am
just had a nightmare that I stopped dreaming
so what happened there? and where did that go?
I've sweated out ambition done with longing gone fishing
in a river that is dry through a land that is age-ing
de-accelerating, quietly deflating
you know I'm trying to find my way
I cant remember luck, I can't remember luck
I remember failure, after failure after failure,
I'm drinking too much, I'm running away
come here,
before I go away again there's something I'd like you to hear,
somebody loves you and I know who it is
a million dollar answer if you're up for the quiz
close your eyes, spin around you're done,
it's me you're after
I am the one
come here,
before I go away again there's something I'd like you to hear
the devil deals the cards out
he's all hearts and queens
even an idiot knows what this means
there's never enough blood for the heart and the head
a world is rocked without a word being said
listen here,
the mid october sun and I have never seen eye to eye
a little yellow flower
a little ball of flame
a slow walk up a steep hill
and I'm in love again
a stranger sky I've never seen
in a stranger's eyes is where you've always been
and you’ll always be
Up Late At Night Again
Up late at night again
The clock’s ticking me
Dragging me towards the morning
What would you rather be
The captain out at sea
Or the drunk man falling
I don’t ever want to say goodbye
If I go first I’ll tell you what its like
I’ll always want to have you by my side
For all time
I try to write again
This pen’s tricking me
Scratching lies like always
I turn off the light again
The silence pricking me
And then I’m gone till the morning
I don’t ever want to say goodbye
But if I go first I’ll tell you what its like
I’ll always want to have you by my side
For all time
Alarm clocks pressgang me
Back to life
The Queen Of Snooze is rising
You know what you mean to me
I’m the captain drunk at sea
and you're the starlight falling
I don’t ever want to say goodbye
But if I go first I’ll tell you what its like
I’ll always want to have you by my side
For all time
I’m never going to leave you by yourself
I know you’ll get lonely if I’m not around
You’ll need someone to help you get through
The good times
I'll follow you
through the people to
the train station
you're one in a million you're blue
I’ll take a lesson from you
be taught what not to do
in situations where
the animal’s in me
I'll stop dreaming
start living through
the lives of my children and you
my ego's dying
to hold onto
the better part that lived here before but I'm
getting older
moving further from
the heart of the sun
what have I done.
locked out of life
stripped of my stripes
I’ve even been banned from the Smile Party
I can't commit myself
to waking up
posessed by arseholes
they channel through me and rule.
Frank's the greatest
at 55 he's dead
I play his songs just to keep him alive in my head
he'll watch over
a budding failure
bad luck maker
walking out of step with sense.
Superhero songwriters
Fixing to change the world from our rooms
Maybe I should stick to writing wills
Coz I’m no good at finding ways
Superhero songwriter
Super-cliché chorus finder
I can feel a blue moon coming my way
Any day
