How to Persuade

ALL THE LYRICS FROM THE ALBUM

COLLIDE I don't care too much about conclusions but do care about talking to you but do care about talking to you and you ask me, where we are I say take the piano, I'll play the guitar and you ask me, where to start and I say I'll count you in, I will count you in one two three, one two three, one two three one two three four! but I don't care too much about the meter but I do care about where my feet are pointing at, if it's steep or flat, and if I'll like it when I arrive there oh, I know it would come to this oh, for you I intended a bliss but what came out was the fuzz and the fight and the walls grow less wide and there’s limit to the sky and that's when we collide but I don’t care too much about collusions ‘cause they break us apart and they bring us back I think it’s the glue that makes me stick to you ‘cause they break us apart and they bring us back I think it’s the glue that makes me love you ------------------- CATAPULT An applause for those who suffer An applause for those who try An applause for those who stand up when the rest are sitting down Long shadows paint the windows windows that were blue blue they were, as I recall, the day before I met you But the rich they wear their tuxes and they waltz and carry on The corner shop is closing now it’s dark and I’m alone Oh, bring me back to those golden days like a storm in a hat, I imagine a boat that just sank Why did you take me? Like storms often do you took me and shook me and left but the older they play the younger they get the storm made me ten years older in a day I have wasted years on thinking about what could have been an applause for those who have the strength to stand against the wind I see rats as running shadows alleys black and pearl white skin, powdered nose tips vacant dancers, vacant girls Oh, bring me back to those golden days like a storm in a hat I imagine a boat that just sank Why did you take me? Like storms often do you took me and shook me and left but the older they play the younger they get and the storm made me ten years older in a day ------------------- LAKE CARGELLIGO Deep darn night it's a long car ride Lay your hand on my knee and one hand on the steering wheel We’re driving on a moonlit mountain side and the mountain is a chest I rest my head on and you say let’s go faster You’ve got angels above your head You say let’s go while we can it’s the only chance we have Dry red earth, wide open plains and the vastness fills my mind with space The drought almost stops my breath and the dry wind fills the car when I sing along with Bruce when we arrive to Lake Cargelligo Let’s go swimming let’s dive in Let’s forget everything we know Won’t not remember anything The pulse is slow, they come and they go in curly winds, on dusty roads Just passing through again the silent terrain waiting for rain but we are in Lake Cargelligo We go swimming we dive in We forget everything we know Won’t not remember anything ------------------- WITHOUT WORDS there is nothing but playing Without you there is nothing but waiting Without short there is nothing but tall Without horrible there’s nothing like safe and warm Without fuck you there’s nothing like I love you And he sank in the bank feet by feet a tie tightly tightened around his neck, a mistake to tie a knot in a suit that didn’t suit him very well a square, trying to place him there, not fitting in With your kind of love there is nothing that I wouldn’t do without waltzing there’s nothing like standing still Take a bow for the brown cow in town take a step back from the freak on the corner What you are when you’re with me tonight you take a step back from the chair in my kitchen Your kind of love is stronger than you let it be With your kind of love you winning is losing for me Without waltzing there’s nothing like standing still ------------------- KICK THE DOG Kick the dog take out the power from its bark feed the fraud ‘til we can’t tell truth from tale Stop the heart from falling, take out the batteries and recycle them Pull the plug, let the water pour from bathtub into the sea Oh the morning after the lies that we begin first you shut me up and then you close me in, count me in! Kick the dog I feed it while I have the guts to go near it It’s getting strong to overpower is a thirst! Get it up on all four and make him run! Covering your eyes the dim rusty street lights then I see that you are at war and in the cold air your breath rises up like white clouds above the rooftops that mingles with the chimney smoke and the night sky is turning into day my ships are sailing while yours are at bay Kick the dog before my love for it grows too strong Clean the floor of all its hairs and prints of paws Oh can u see it? Oh my heart Oh can you see it fall? ------------------- FISHBOWL Can you see what it’s like to be me? in a fishbowl, longing for sea no wind in sail, feeling frail but I’m going to Vegas today Through my window a little bird sings its song is sad but so interesting a lonely cry, a wish to fly but I’m going out on town tonight to have a good time with some friends of mine Oh, it’s nice to meet a stranger, ‘cause a stranger doesn’t know your name I’m a carnival on fire, a broken car tire I’m drawn to the flame, like a ball in a game I’m being kicked around, high over the ground I’m falling, flying... but here comes the rain putting out the flame, I feel so plain I’m black and white unlike others, in widescreen technicolour, waiting for the next refrain It’s so dark, where’s my spark? but I’m going out on town tonight to have a good time and a glass of wine Oh it’s nice to meet a stranger, cause a stranger doesn’t know your name He’s a carnival on fire, a broken car tire I’m drawn to his flame, I’m drawn to his flame I belong at sea, but the sea doesn’t want me, he’s too far away! Can’t you see that I’m frail? Blow wind in my sail! ------------------- BELOW Fevers I carried myself the sharp sharp pain that lingers long after the sting Nuth carries the sky under her wing beyond her is an endless space of nothing and we are still orbiting there are flashes of light and a strong wind Below us no safety net Battles that we fought there in the dark the lack of words, the hunger in our hearts to fill the void, but I’m the asteroid crashing into you with all I’ve got the quasars and the crab nebula passing us by, can’t make it stop Below us no safety net What is the question to which you will say yes? Where is the handle to the doors that will open up and Where is the sky I can put the clouds in? and where is the hair that will grow so long? and fall down your feet and make you warm? and hold you when you weep and make you calm ------------------- HOW TO PERSUADE If I had a man today, I wouldn’t be so lonely and grey If I knew the time and place, I would start the race But water is flowing, a warm wind is blowing at sea! A room on top of you, built of me, fixed with glue my hair as roof, my legs and hands as walls and doors. But water is flowing, a warm wind is blowing at sea! I’m blown away, by Chardonnay I swallow every word you say a pointless prophecy on how to persuade The blame on me is duty ­free A little scream squints at me: Oh! It’s too cold to stand still! One more dance if you will Come dance with me! ------------------- NICOTINE & SACCHARINE I am summertime I am the winter blossom chilling I am nicotine and saccharine that puts your heart to sleep I am cold I am the blushes on your cheek I am an opened door I am before the wall that keeps you here For the ones that I longed for For the ones that are gone For the ones that I let go For the ones that I scarred For the ones that I killed For the ones that I lost For the ones that I thrilled For the ones that I loved I am skyscrapers high I am the sunset when you fly I am melody and symphony the memories you keep