I've been looking so long at these pictures of youThat I almost believe that they're realI've been living so long with my pictures of youThat I almost believe that the pictures are all I can feel Remembering you, standing quiet in the rainAs I ran to your heart to be nearAnd we kissed as the sky fell in, holding you closeHow I always held close in your fear Remembering you, running soft through the nightYou were bigger and brighter and whiter than snowScreamed at the make-believe, screamed at the skyAnd you finally found all your courage to let it all go Remembering you, fallen into my armsCrying for the death of your heartYou were stone white, so delicate, lost in the coldYou were always so lost in the dark Remembering you, how you used to beSlow drowned, you were angelsSo much more than everythingHold for the last time, then slip away quietlyOpen my eyes, but I never see anything If only I'd thought of the right wordsI could've held on to your heartIf only I'd thought of the right wordsI wouldn't be breaking apartAll my pictures of you Looking so long at these pictures of youBut I never hold on to your heartLooking so long for the words to be trueBut always just breaking apartMy pictures of you There was nothing in the world that I ever wanted moreThan to feel you deep in my heartThere was nothing in the world that I ever wanted moreThan to never feel the breaking apartMy pictures of you

"I think it's dark and it looks like rain," you said"And the wind is blowing like it's the end of the world," you said"And it's so cold, it's like the cold if you were dead"Then you smiled for a second "I think I'm old and I'm feeling pain," you said"And it's all running out like it's the end of the world," you said"And it's so cold, it's like the cold if you were dead"Then you smiled for a second Sometimes you make me feelLike I'm living at the edge of the worldLike I'm living at the edge of the world"It's just the way I smile," you said

I'm running out of timeI'm out of step and closing downAnd never sleep for wanting hoursThe empty hours of greed And uselessly, always the needTo feel again, the real beliefOf something more than mockeryIf only I could fill my heart with love

Whenever I'm alone with youYou make me feel like I am home againWhenever I'm alone with youYou make me feel like I am whole again Whenever I'm alone with youYou make me feel like I am young againWhenever I'm alone with youYou make me feel like I am fun again However far awayI will always love youHowever long I stayI will always love youWhatever words I sayI will always love youI will always love you Whenever I'm alone with youYou make me feel like I am free againWhenever I'm alone with youYou make me feel like I am clean again However far awayI will always love youHowever long I stayI will always love youWhatever words I sayI will always love youI will always love you

I'm so glad you cameI'm so glad you rememberedTo see how we're endingOur last dance togetherExpectant, too punctualBut prettier than everI really believe that this time it's forever But older than me nowMore constant, more realAnd the fur and the mouth and the innocence turnedTo hair and contentmentThat hangs in a basementA woman now standingWhere once there was only a girl I'm so glad you cameI'm so glad you rememberedThe walking through wallsIn the heart of DecemberThe blindness of happinessOf falling down laughingAnd I really believedThat this time was forever But Christmas falls late nowFlatter and colderAnd never as brightAs when we used to fallAll this in an instantBefore I can kiss youA woman now standingWhere once there was only a girl I'm so glad you cameI'm so glad you rememberedTo see how we're endingOur last dance togetherReluctantly, cautiouslyBut prettier than everI really believe that this time it's forever But Christmas falls late nowFlatter and colderAnd never as brightAs when we used to fallAnd even if we drinkI don't think we would kissIn the way that we didWhen the woman was only a girl

I spy something beginning with 's'... On candy stripe legs, the spiderman comesSoftly through the shadow of the evening sunStealing past the windows of the blissfully deadLooking for the victim, shivering in bed Searching out fear in the gathering gloomAnd suddenly, a movement in the corner of the roomAnd there is nothing I can do, and I realize with frightThat the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight Quietly, he laughs, shaking his headCreeps closer now, closer to the foot of the bedAnd softer than shadow and quicker than fliesHis arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes "Be still, be calm, be quiet now, my precious boyDon't struggle like that or I will only love you moreFor it's much too late to get away or turn on the lightThe spiderman is having you for dinner tonight" And I feel like I'm being eatenBy a thousand million shivering furry holesAnd I know that in the morning I will wake up in the shivering coldAnd the spiderman is always hungry "Come into my parlour," said the spider to the flyI have something...

Oh, it's opening time down on Fascination StreetSo let's cut the conversation and get out for a bitBecause I feel it all fading and paling and I'm beggingTo drag you down with me, to kick the last nail in Yeah, I like you in that, like I like you to screamBut if you open your mouth, then I can't be responsibleFor quite what goes in or to care what comes outSo just pull on your hair, just pull on your pout And let's move to the beat like we know that it's overIf you slip going under, slip over my shoulderSo just pull on your face, just pull on your feetAnd let's hit opening time down on Fascination Street So pull on your hair, pull on your poutCut the conversation, just open your mouthPull on your face, pull on your feetAnd let's hit opening time down on Fascination Street Down on Fascination StreetDown on Fascination StreetDown on Fascination StreetOn Fascination Street

You shatter me, your grip on me, a hold on me, so dull it killsYou stifle me, infectious sense of hopelessness and prayers for rainI suffocate, I breathe in dirt and nowhere shines, but desolate and drabThe hours all spent on killing time again, all waiting for the rain You fracture me, your hands on me, a touch so plain, so stale it killsYou strangle me, entangle me in hopelessness and prayers for rainI deteriorate, I live in dirt and nowhere glows but drearily and tiredThe hours all spent on killing time again, all waiting for the rain You fracture me, your hands on me, a touch so plain, so stale it killsYou strangle me, entangle me in hopelessness and prayers for rain Prayers for rainPrayers for rainPrayers for rain

Kiss me goodbye, pushing out before I sleepCan't you see I try? Swimming the same deep water as you is hard"The shallow drowned lose less than we", you breatheThe strangest twist upon your lips"And we shall be together""And we shall be together" "Kiss me goodbye, bow your head and join with me"And face pushed deep, reflections meetThe strangest twist upon your lipsAnd disappear, the ripples clearAnd laughing break against your feetAnd laughing break the mirror sweet"So we shall be together" "So we shall be together" "Kiss me goodbye", pushing out before I sleepIt's lower now and slower nowThe strangest twist upon your lipsBut I don't see and I don't feel But tightly hold up silentlyMy hands before my fading eyesAnd in my eyes, your smileThe very last thing before I goThe very last thing before I goThe very last thing before I go I will kiss you, I will kiss youI will kiss you forever on nights like thisI will kiss you, I will kiss youAnd we shall be together

Oh, I miss the kiss of treacheryThe shameless kiss of vanityThe soft and the black and the velvetyUp tight against the side of me And mouth and eyes and heart all bleedAnd run in thickening streams of greedAs bit by bit, it starts the needTo just let go, my party piece Oh, I miss the kiss of treacheryThe aching kiss before I feedThe stench of a love for younger meatAnd the sound it makes when it cuts in deep The holding up on bended kneesThe addiction of duplicitiesAs bit by bit, it starts the needTo just let go, my party piece I never said I would stay to the endSo I leave you with babies and hoping for frequencyScreaming like this in the hope of the secrecyScreaming me over and over and over I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickeryStains on the carpet and stains on the scenerySongs about happiness, murmured in dreamsAnd both of us knew how the ending would be So it's all come back round to breaking apart againBreaking apart like I'm made up of glass againMaking it up behind my back againHolding my breath for the fear of sleep again Holding it up behind my head againCut in deep, to the heart of bone againRound and round and round, it's coming apart againOver and over and over And now that I know that I'm breaking to piecesI'll pull out my heart and I'll feed it to anyoneCrying for sympathy, crocodiles cryFor the love of the crowd and three cheers from everyone Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roofThrough the roof of your mouth, through the mouth of your eyeThrough the eye of the needle, it's easier for meTo get closer to Heaven, than ever feel whole again I never said I would stay to the endI knew I would leave you with babies and everythingScreaming like this in the hole of sincerityScreaming me over and over and over I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickeryAnd stains on the carpet and stains on the memoryAnd songs about happiness, murmured in dreamsAnd we, both of us, knew how the end always isHow the end always is How the end always isHow the end always isHow the end always isHow the end always isAlwaysAlways