Wastelands (2013) - Lyrics
RUNNING OUT OF NEEDS
I am asking you to be the last one that I love forever
The first one that is never ending, circle that has no beginning
Round and round till nothing takes its place, a snake that’s biting off its face
Despite its head, despite its tail, it’s just a funny kind of world
You’re just a funny kind of girl
I am asking something pleading something wanting never needing
Do your needs outweigh my needs, which one grows the most amount?
I don’t want the things I used to want but I want everything you don’t
You run away at such a speed, I run away and let it bleed
I think I’m running out of needs
I think I’m running out of needs
Hang a sign on me and tell me what you see
A man you used to know or a stranger on the road
And everything’s ok, but I dream of yesterday
Running out of needs but your running out on me
I am asking you to be the last one that I love forever
The first one that is never ending, circle that has no beginning
Round and round till nothing takes its place, a snake that’s biting off its face
Despite its head, despite its tail, it’s just a funny kind of world
You’re just a funny kind of girl
I am asking something pleading something wanting never needing
Do your needs out weigh my needs, which one grows the most amount?
I don’t want the things I used to want but I want everything you don’t
You run away at such a speed, I run away and let it bleed
I think I’m running out of needs
NOT ALONE
Into the night I saw you walking on the edge of knife
So satisfied I caught you crawling on you’re hands in the fire
I wanna rise like the sun but you said like the moon
Your eyes were crazy when you walked into the room
Hide from the high, fade into the blue
Well don’t give up so soon
You don’t have to walk away for nothing
You know that you’re not the only one
You could be an ocean all around us or you could be an island on your own
You don’t need a light, I heard you calling through the smoke and the glass
Some satellite, I see you climbing but you’re falling fast
I wanna rise like the sun but you said like the moon
Your eyes were crazy when you walked into the room
Hide from the high, fade into the blue
Well don’t give up so soon
You don’t have to walk away for nothing
You know that you’re not the only one
You could be an ocean all around us or you could be an island on your own
But you know you’re not alone
Just pick it up don’t let it go
We’ll never stop now feel the low
We keep believing it’s alright
We’ll chase the high into the dawn
We’ll feel the light come through the walls
We keep believing it’s alright
You don’t have to walk away for nothing
You know that you’re not the only one
You could be an ocean all around us or you could be an island on your own
But you know you’re not alone
GOT WHAT YOU NEED
In the cool of the evening time
She will rise from above
All she wants is the easy life
But all she gets is enough
Just enough
If you want it you got it
I got what you need
Well she lives in an easy town
With a sky scraper smile
But she just wants to burn it all down
‘Cause she’s burning inside
And she cries
If you want it you got it
I got what you need
So they say this is happiness and money only buys you a brand new dress
And I can’t tell you what to believe
If you want it, you got it,
I got what you need
If you want it you got it
I got what you need
So they say this is happiness and money only buys you a brand new dress
Well I can’t tell you what to believe
If you want it, you got it,
I got what you need
SAD SONG
Listen to the sad song
Love and devotion
Sitting in the sunshine
Staring at the shoreline
I wish I could stay this way with you
There’s nothing I can do
There’s nothing I can say
Just listen to the sad song
Love and devotion
I wish I could stay this way with you
There’s nothing I can do
There’s nothing I can say
Tell a little lie, tell a little lie, tell a little lie to your eyes, your eyes
I wish I could stay this way with you forever
Tell a little lie, tell a little lie, tell a little lie to your eyes, your eyes
And even with my wondering eye, I’m rising over you like a tide without a moon
And even with my wondering eye, I’m rising over you
EVERY HARMONY
When I sing to myself I hear it like makes no sense
And we all sing along like a chorus when we take that chance
Well somewhere there you lost your mind
You hear it playing out of time
And we’re searching for gold
It’s easy when the light shines on
Does it all seem the same like the stars up against the sun?
Somewhere there you lost your mind
You hear it playing out of time
So sing it to me
Come on my love, every harmony is so cold
Now I sing it alone
Come on my love, every harmony is so cold
Am I over, over you?
All you have to do is say go and you know I’ll follow you
Can you hear the bells ring louder than the angels sing?
And they all sing along like a chorus when the light comes in
Somewhere there you lost your mind
You feel it slipping out of time
So sing it to me
Come on my love, every harmony is so cold
Now I sing it alone
Come on my love, every harmony is so cold
Am I over, over you?
You tell me that I’m moving to slow and now I sing it alone
Come on my love, every harmony is so cold
Am I over, over you?
Can you hear the bells ring louder than the angels sing?
Can you let the sound in, just enough to shed your skin?
And the silence, will it always follow you?
Come on my love, every harmony is so cold
Now I sing it alone
Come on my love, every harmony is so cold
Am I over, over you?
Am I over, over you?
And they all sing along like a chorus when the light comes in
Come on my love
DISGRACE
Disgrace, disgrace I knew that I would find this place
Just like my father and his father before him
I don’t know if I’ll sink or swim
Disgrace, disgrace, lead me further down the path into this place
Like you do
And if I turn my back on you
In a private conversation, you don’t always have to listen
And every word of spoken truth, lead me further down the path I know that I am sinking fast into disgrace
And please give me second place, and I will try and save some face
Just like my brother and his father before him
I’ll fight the urge to run again
From this place
This place
And if I turn my back on you
In a private conversation, you don’t always have to listen
To every word of spoken truth, lead me further down the path I know that I am sinking fast into disgrace
Lead me further down the path into this place
I always knew that this would be my fate
Lead me further down the path into disgrace,
Disgrace
WHAT YOU WANT
What you want, what you want, what you want you can’t get back
Oh please promise me a better life, I said what you give once you gotta give back twice
And darling, darling just let it go ‘cause you can’t control what you never know
Well the devil came again last night I tried to put up a fight
I know you pray for a daughter
So put your lovely hands in the water
What you want, what you want, what you want you cant get back
Oh darling, darling just let it go – cause you can’t control what you never know
And I know you pray for a daughter
So put your lovely hands in the water
Come to me in the dead of night, and stumble in my head like a cigarette light
Darling, Darling we had it all, so why did you run, why did you fall?
Well I tried to look for you last night, but you were somewhere out of sight
And I know you pray for a daughter
So put your lovely hands in the water
What you want, what you want, what you want you can’t get back
Oh darling, darling just let go, cause you can’t control what you never know
And I know you pray for a daughter
So put your lovely hands in the water
Well the devil came again last night, but you were somewhere out of sight
I know you pray for a daughter so put your lovely hands in the water and sing
What you want, what you want, what you want you can’t get back
Oh darling, darling just let go, ‘cause you can’t control what you never know
Oh darling, darling just let it be, cause you don’t know what it does to me
All I know is we had it all, so why did you run why did you fall
I know you pray for a daughter
So put your lovely hands in the water
HOW WAS I TO KNOW
Oh you got me, now try and stop me, I’m running again
You better run rabbit, run rabbit, run
And tell me is it the end?
All these reasons, you will always be the one but I’m gone
All these demons, who are you to tell me what to do when I’m wrong?
And I’m always going wrong
How was I to know, I’d make you go, well you’re better off on your own
How was I to know, you’d take your time, but you better not take too long
Cause I’ve never been on my own
All the weekends that we believed in are coming again
You’d better run for the fun till it’s gone
And tell me is it the end?
All these reasons you will always be the one but I’m gone
All these demons, who are you to tell me what to do when I’m wrong?
And I’m always going wrong
How was I to know, I’d make you go, well you’re better off on your own
How was I to know, you take your time, but you’d better not take too long
Cause I’ve never been on my own
KEEP IT COMING
Gone are the days you’d lead me on with serenades
Of just how good it could be then leave me hanging on in between
But that got old, and now you’re leaving me cold
I need to come unstuck, it’s like I need it too much
So baby have you got enough to
Keep it coming?
How can you just start me up?
And then you leave me nothing,
Is that all you got ‘cause I really wanna believe in something
So keep it coming
Show me the way we could both just slip away
And get messed up in the sun
You leave me hanging onto my gun
But that got old, and now you’re leaving me cold
I need to come unstuck, its like I need it too much
So baby have you got enough to
Keep it coming
How can you just start me up?
And then you leave me nothing,
Is that all you got cause I really wanna believe in something
So keep it coming
LAST BEACON LIGHT
Light the match and carry on
These are things that we’ve always done
I can feel the darkness in your soul
I’ll leave a little light so you can find your way back home
Take the love that slowly dies
I sometimes see it in your eyes
With a haunted stare and a crooked smile
Take a little time ‘till you can find your way back home
The last beacon light
Don’t let it go out
Out on me tonight
The last beacon light
Don’t let it go out
Out on me tonight
Fight the fire of strange desire
It only ever finds you in the darkest hour
I could be the one who will switch you on
Leave a little light so you can find your way back home
Everybody wants for this at night
So why does it always have to be so bright?
The cruelest trick is when you lose your sight
Take a little time so you can find your way back home
The last beacon light
Don’t let it go out
Out on me tonight
The last beacon light
Don’t let it go out
Out on me tonight