Sharp and openLeave me aloneAnd sleeping less every nightAs the days become heavier and weightedWaitingIn the cold lightA noiseA scream tears my clothes as the figurines tightenWith spiders inside themAnd dust on the lips of a vision of hellI laughed in the mirror for the first time in a year A hundred other words blind me with your purityLike an old painted doll in the throes of danceI think about tomorrowPlease let me sleepAs I slip down the windowFreshly squashed flyYou mean nothingYou mean nothing I can lose myself in Chinese art and American girlsAll the timeLose me in the darkPlease do it rightRun into the nightI will lose myself tomorrowCrimson painMy heart explodesMy memory in a fireAnd someone will listenAt least for a short while... I can never say no to anyone but you Too many secretsToo many liesWrithing with hatredToo many secretsPlease make it good tonight...But the same image haunts meIn sequenceIn despair of time I will never be clean againI touched her eyesPressed my stained faceI will never be clean again Touch her eyesPress my stained faceI will never be clean again I will never be clean again

It doesn't matter if we all dieAmbition in the back of a black carIn a high building there is so much to doGoing home timeA story on the radio... Something small falls out of your mouthAnd we laughA prayer for something betterA prayerFor something betterPlease love meMeet my mother...But the fear takes holdCreeping up the stairs in the darkWaiting for the death blow Stroking your hair as the patriots are shotFighting for freedom on the televisionSharing the world with slaughtered pigsHave we got everything?She struggles to get away... The painAnd the creeping feelingA little black haired girlWaiting for SaturdayThe death of her father pushing herPushing her white face into the mirrorAching inside meAnd turn me roundJust like the old daysJust like the old days Caressing an old manAnd painting a lifeless faceJust a piece of new meat in a clean roomThe soldiers close in under a yellow moonAll shadows and deliveranceUnder a black flagA hundred years of bloodCrimsonThe ribbon tightens round my throatI open my mouthAnd my head bursts openA sound like a tiger thrashing in the waterThrashing in the waterOver and overWe die one after the otherOver and overWe die one after the other after the other... It feels like a hundred yearsOne hundred years...

Sunk deep in the nightI sink in the nightStanding alone underneath the skyI feel the chill of iceOn my faceI watch the hours go by The hours go by... You sleepSleep in a safe bedCurled and protectedProtected from sightUnder a safe roofDeep in your houseUnaware of the changes at night At nightI hear the darkness breatheI sense the quiet despairListen to the silenceAt nightSomeone has to be thereSomeone has to be there Someone must be there

It's not a case of doing what's rightIt's just the way I feel that mattersTell me I'm wrongI don't really care It's not a case of share and share alikeI take what I requireI don't understand...You say it's not fair You expect me to actLike a loverConsider my movesAnd deserve the rewardTo hold you in my armsAnd wait...For something to happen It's not a case of telling the truthSome lines just fit the situationYou call me a liarYou would anyway It's not a case of aiming to pleaseYou know you're always cryingIt's just your partIn the play for today

He waits for her to understandBut she won't understand at allShe waits all night for him to callBut he won't call anymoreHe waits to hear her say ForgiveBut she just drops her pearl-black eyesAnd prays to hear him say I love youBut he tells no more lies He waits for her to sympathizeBut she won't sympathize at allShe waits all night to feel his kissBut always wakes aloneHe waits to hear her say ForgetBut she just hangs her head in painAnd prays to hear him say No moreI'll never leave again How did we get this far apart?We used to be so close togetherHow did we get this far apart?I thought this love would last forever He waits for her to understandBut she won't understand at allShe waits all night for him to callBut he won't callHe waits to hear her say ForgiveBut she just drops her pearl black eyesAnd prays to hear him say I love youBut he tells no more lies How did we get this far apart?We used to be so close togetherHow did we get this far apart?I thought this love would last forever

I play at night in your houseI live another lifePretending to swimIn your house I change the time in your houseThe hours I takeGo so slow... I hear no sound in your houseSilenceIn the empty rooms I drown at night in your housePretending to swimPretending to swim

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

Yeah I know who you remind me ofA girl I think I used to knowYeah I'd see her when the days got colderOn those days when it felt like snow You know I even think that she stared like youShe used to just stand there and stareAnd roll her eyes right up to heavenAnd make like I just wasn't there And she used to fall down a lotThat girl was always fallingAgain and againAnd I used to sometimes try to catch herBut never even caught her name And sometimes we would spend the nightJust rolling about on the floorAnd I remember even though it felt soft at the timeI always used to wake up sore... You know I even think that she smiled like youShe used to just stand there and smileAnd her eyes would go all sort of far awayAnd stay like that for quite a while And I remember she used to fall down a lotThat girl was always fallingAgain and againAnd I used to sometimes try to catch herBut never even caught her name Yes I sometimes even tried to catch herBut never even caught her name

Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you sayI just can't stay here every yesterdayLike keep on acting out the sameThe way we act outEvery way to smileForgetAnd make-believe we never neededAny more than thisAny more than this Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you doI know I'll never really get inside of youTo make your eyes catch fireThe way they shouldThe way the blue could pull me inIf they only wouldIf they only wouldAt least I'd lose this sense of sensing something elseThat hides awayFrom me and youThere're worlds to partWith aching looks and breaking heartsAnd all the prayers your hands can make Oh I just take as much as you can throwAnd then throw it all awayOh I throw it all awayLike throwing faces at the skyLike throwing arms roundYesterdayI stood and staredWide-eyed in front of youAnd the face I saw looked backThe way I wanted toBut I just can't hold my tears awayThe way you do Elise... believe I never wanted thisI thought this time I'd keep all of my promisesI thought you were the girl I always dreamed aboutBut I let the dream goAnd the promises brokeAnd the make-believe ran out... Oh EliseIt doesn't matter what you sayI just can't stay here every yesterdayLike keep on acting out the sameThe way we act outEvery way to smileForgetAnd make-believe we never neededAny more than thisAny more than this And every time I try to pick it upLike falling sandAs fast as I pick it upIt runs away through my clutching handsBut there's nothing else I can really doThere's nothing else I can really doThere's nothing elseI can really doAt all...

Going under slowlyIt never seems too lateGoing under so slow... Dressing up to kissDressing up to touch all thisI'm dressing up to dance all weekI'm dressing up to sleepDressing up to kissDressing up to be all this I could eat your faceI could eat all of youOh this night will never let me go... Going under slowlyNever seems too lateGoing under slowly... You'll pick me up again