Ed Harcourt Album

Well what starts as a warm breeze turns into something more
Like the lightning that burns down houses
Or the wind that blows down doors
Oh I see it in the distance
It moves much faster than I think
Yes this storm will wreak much havoc
Bring my sanity to the brink

Once I was so young and careless
Never strayed much from the path
Now I find myself in trouble
Never knowing when to laugh
And as my eyes sink in my skull
I am wired to the max
Gonna pull myself together
You can see I'm coming back

If the storm is coming, the storm is coming
The storm is coming
It's gonna make a beautiful sound
I hope it turns your life upside down

Now the wooden gate is creaking
And the windows loudly rattle
Yet I still venture towards it
Like I'm marching into battle
Oh I could heed your good advice
And stay in comfort back at home
Yet there it is in splendor
And it's chilling me down to the bone

Once I was so young and careless
Never strayed much from the path
Now I find myself in trouble
Never knowing when to laugh
And as my eyes sink in my skull
I am wired to the max
Gonna pull myself together
I got to pull myself together

If the storm is coming, the storm is coming
The storm is coming
It's gonna make a beautiful sound
I hope it turns your life upside down

If the storm is coming, the storm is coming
The storm is coming
It's gonna make a beautiful sound
I hope it turns your life upside down

Down
Down
Down
Down

I hope it turns your life upside down

I was born the year punk broke
Days before the king was dead
It was the year of the snake
I was a red-faced child
Who stumbled where he tread
Was kept in orderly file
My parents named me Ed
I tried my hardest to smile
And like my daddy said
I've tried to be myself
Sometimes daydreaming for hours
Wishing for a dangerous life
Cut the leash some slack
Run into the morning light
Race the trains by the track
Until my mouth feels dry

But can you count on me?
I might let you down
In a world that is so sensational
No you can count on me
I'm living for the now
Up against the older generation's wall

Born in the 70's
Born in the 70's

After a length of time
You're this parody
Just like the record's stuck
Always repeating the past
That never liked you before
You had no reason to last
Were in a silent war
A telepathic blast
And like my daddy said
These are exciting times
The future grabs my throat
And let's me know it's alright
If I believe in love
Then I believe in hate too
I'll taste the darker stuff
To find some lasting truth

But can you count on me?
I might let you down
In a world that is so sensational
No you can count on me
I'm living for the now
Up against the older generation's wall

Born in the 70's
Born in the 70's
(We don't really give a fuck about you)

I feel so far away from love
'Cus I can never get enough
Like the kid with his hand in the
highest jar
And if I came back from the grave
for a while
Would you, could you make a dead
man smile
I?ll wear you on my arm like a brand
new scar

My oh my oh my I've had a few
My oh my oh my this one's for you
My heart is on it's sleeve
I need you to believe that the dark
times will fade

So crack the shell of the hardest
heart
Slip inside when they're caught off
guard
Kill all the urgent lies that stain their
blood
And if you think that you know
everything
Don't give me this chance to sing
I'm not a fool, I fall to lighten up

My oh my oh my I've had a few
My oh my oh my this one's for you
My heart is on it's sleeve
I need you to believe that the dark
times will fade

And I can't stop staring at you
And your expression looks a little
confused
This little story will end so well

Deliciously
I drink up all your tears
On a piano out of tune
I sit and persevere

Deliriously
I eat up all your words
And jumble them around
'Til they become absurd

Remember how it was
They said it wouldn't last
You proved them wrong
Took on everyone

Ferociously
We fumble in the dark
Two lovers acting like strangs
Society won't cage

Remember how it was
They said it wouldn't work
You proved them wrong
Took on everyone

Like a clock that can't keep time
Bad thoughts to hide
Or a poem that can't ever rhyme
Now strangers sing, this song for her

Mao mao mao (ect)

Oh remember how it was
They said it wouldn't last
You proved them wrong
Took on everyone

Remember how it was
Remember how it was

Let love not weigh me down
Let the cursed air be clean
When you've lost faith in the human race
Let love not weigh you down

Let love not cause me pain
Oh, let it all seem like a dream
And I won't regret what I can forget
Let love not cause you pain

So let your beauty blind my vision
Oh, let it move me 'til I die
And the seeds of despair won't be fruits that I bear
Let your beauty blind my vision

So shed all the tears that you want
Run from the places you haunt
If you think you're lost or just double-crossed
Don't try to make sense of it all
Let the music and words take you back
To the times when your heart wasn't cracked
We won't be suffering with drugs and bad medicine
We'll drink 'til the curtain calls

Let love not weigh me down
Let its weakness be my guide
And all this intensity makes perfect sense to me
Let love not weigh you down

Shed all the tears that you want
Run from the places you haunt
If you think you're lost or just double-crossed
Don't try to make sense of it all
Let the music and words take you back
To the times when your heart wasn't cracked
We won't be suffering with drugs and bad medicine
We'll drink 'til the curtain calls

We'll drink 'til the curtain calls

She's moving like a forest fire,
Leaving no part unscathed.
Too young to be as jaded as I am,
But old enough to feel the strain.
I hope that I can hold onto
the beauty that I'll never match.
Never ending open wound,
that started from a simple scratch.

Won't you save us from being saved?
before we get too old and waste away.
Like some lovers destined to die young.

And sort through all the loss you've seen.
The firends who sit and think too much.
Too fragile for the cold outside,
Too proud to say what's on their minds.
This is for the broken fools
Whose frames have gone before their time.
And if you see me trip and fall,
Save me from the swift decline.

I want to sink beneath a drunken sea.
Look in your eyes when you take the breath from me.
There's always something to live for.

On a summer night I took a walk
Out in the fields where the grass snakes hide
Six years old, tall as a chair
Found the trapdoor hidden from sight

Fell into the blackness, seemed like hours
I hit the ground on a sea of skulls
There was no treasure, just stolen souls
Taken years ago down this endless hole

Man must kill to live or quench his thirst
Let's go back to the source where it first came from

Looked death in the eyes, falling stalactites
Then burnt by a light as angels flew by
Who pulled me back up to the moonlit sky
Covered in dust, it was hard not to cry

Man must kill to live or quench his thirst
Let's go back to the source where it first came from

Falling through trapdoors wherever I go
Kicking and screaming 'cause nobody knows
There's always a trapdoor wherever you step
Keep your eyes open, you deserve what you get
Keep your eyes open, you deserve what you get
Keep your eyes open, you deserve what you get

The music box
Is all that's left in the empty house
Must've left it when they moved out
In a hurry to flee the town
Armoured tanks
Broke through all of the soldier's ranks
You can be sure they weren't shooting blanks
From bodies laid out on the ground

There's a song your father had sung
When you were just knee high
Now a soldier plays the same tune
From the toy you left behind

Something to remind you
Something to remind you

Burnt to black
There's a face you don't recognise
Just a doll with hollow eyes
And a feeling you can't describe
In factories
Toys are made by the companies
Who create our killing machines
So the planet can rest at ease

There's a story you had to hear
When you couldn't sleep at all
Now the pages are burning in some
Sad unholy war

Something to remind you
Something to remind you
Something to remind you
The ones you left behind you

Something to remind you
Something to remind you
Something to remind you
The ones you left behind you

The music box
Plays a song that I used to love
But now I can't remember what it was
For my memory has faded

In an empty cinema
Loneliness
When your old friends drift apart
Loneliness
Wandering round the house in the dark
Loneliness
Faded glory you're a broken star
Loneliness

Loneliness, loneliness what would I do without you?

Stays around won't let you be
Loneliness
Corners me in dead-end streets
Loneliness
To bring unwanted memories
Loneliness
That find their way into my blood stream
Loneliness

Loneliness, loneliness what would I do without you?
Loneliness, loneliness is this all you have to give me?

Your love is a place for a lonely man
With too much in his head
The liars and thieves who cramp your style
Won't be there for your last breath
Be there for your las breath

Loneliness, loneliness what would I do without you?
Loneliness, loneliness is this all you have to give me?
To give me

it's clear to us this love affair
has self combusted everywhere
and i don't feel so debonair
my piano collects dust

a funeral with no mourners
i wish that i'd turned corners
to see the signs that warn us
but i didn't make a fuss

well my life
keeps on spinnin'
it's this drunken procession
i can learn my lessons
these plates
that i'm spinning
soon they'll smash
on the ground
make a loud crashing sound

and i am still an open book
and you can have a secret look
inside
inside

as children make their way to class
i sit and raise another glass
'cause you don't dwell much on the
past
when it keeps haunting you

oh the marching band stomps down
the block
and makes the babies' cradles rock
and my keys they don't turn the lock
perhaps i don't want them to

well my life
keeps on spinnin'
it's this drunken procession
i can't learn my lessons
these plates
that i'm spinning
soon they'll smash
on the ground
make a loud crashing sound

and i am still an open book
and you can have a secret look
inside
inside

well my life
keeps on spinning
it's this drunken procession
i can't learn my lessons
these plates
that i'm spinnin'
soon they'll smash
on the ground
make a loud crashing sound

and i am still an open book
and you can have a secret look
and i am still an open book
and you can have a secret look
and i am still an open book
and you can have a secret look
inside
inside

Kids you're our only hope
Save us now we need an antidote
Kids get out on the street
Through this smoke rise through the city heat

You loved me like a friend
But now i can't pretend
The time we used to spend
Was wasted on you

Police sirens make me deaf
As I run trying to catch my breath
What's the world afraid of now
We are taught to clap our hands and bow

Rise from the ashes with a song to remember

Kids you're our only hope...

For days I've searched for the words
So i don't make a mess of this
I'll trade my eyes for a fleeting wish
I woke at 7am
The cold air was not becoming
This tune I started humming
And you lay there so still
With dark eyes shut and whiskey breath
You hadn't taken off your black dress
The curtain fell from it's rail
I shut the window so it wouldn't shatter
But it was nothing it didn't matter

To me our lives are barely built to last
How did you creep up on me so damn fast my dear?

I sat in the kitchen and thought
I've had a few knocks here and there
Was mostly my fault so i don't care
You said i have a bad side
It comes when all the clocks have stopped
I feel my heart begin to drop

To me our lives are fast approaching death
So lets go out in my suit and your black dress

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