mewithoutYou Album

Let us die, Let us die
Then dying we reply,
oh dont you tell us
about your suffering,
now look in our eyes-
look in our eyes.
Let us be, Let us be
Our closeness is such that
where ever she rests her head
in the softness underneath,
She'll feel me and you'll
feel me

Je leverai les yeux a toi-
J'ai change cent foi de nom
Je leverai les yeux a toi-
Je n'ai pas d'espoir.

When you laugh you'll feel
my breath there filling up
your lungs. And when you cry
those arent your tears but Im
there falling down your cheek.
And when you say you love him
taste me, Im like poison on
your tongue. But when your
tired, if your quiet, you'll
hear me singing you to sleep.

I'll lie down for the last time
and fall far, Ill fall well away from her
And I insist that I'll be dearly missed
(please, say never)
I'll pour down like water
and In between the sky and doubt
we talked about 'forever'
all our other useless words.

Until I say "In his silent sound was the
peace I found" but she hides behind
her eyelids. and I feel the breath from
her nose on my neck as it blows by
the warmth passes me (like her love did)
"But a tree once cut down
came up new from the ground"
and she smiles a lie, "That may very well be,"
she replies "and so it goes,
it's the devil, I suppose but it doesnt matter much to me."

Put music to our troubles
and we'll dance them away.

From my left eye flow tears of joy
and sorrow from my right.
"You might seem too strong to surrender,
boy, but you're far too frail to fight."
That old dull pain beats in my brain
and falls down my back into every limb--
And its more of the same
as the warmth that I seem to lack,
you'll neither find in him.

You were a song that I couldn't sing
you were a story I couldn't tell
I've only ever loved myself
But I've loved myself so well.
And how defeated I return!
(you're nice and blue, you're nice and blue)
I missed what I was supposed to learn
and so i learned about what's missing you.

A life left half behind, though no longer
blind I can't yet see. I'm not the boy that
I once was, but I'm not the man I'll be.
I've been waiting now, for six years on
(and have only just begun)
For the day you'll hold her in your arms,
oh risen Lord, my precious one.

I was once the wine, and you the wineglass.
I was once alive, when you held me.
God became the glass
And all things left were emptiness
Oh, my little girl, if you look out
And see a trace of dark red that used
To be my face, in the clarity of his
grace: remember me

Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.

"As we melt let's make no noise
Oh the profanation of our love
To tell the world our passing joys!
And we, besides, care less to miss
Our eyes and lips and hands."

(But honey, I'm not who you think I am!)

"And so you'll be to me
Who must obliquely run
"Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun"
There's nothing wrong
As I'll be somewhere singing all along."

(No! tell me, where have you gone, my love.)

[No lyrics]

We never met, you and I
We were always inside, we were somewhere inside
one another. And I'll live without you love,
but what good is one glove, without the other?

You only ask about my leaving,
well honey I had no choice, so
I call and (when you hear that heavy breathing)
for that sound of your voice.

But you sit there silent, folded arms
And look down as I walk by
Though my face has changed, you know it's me
You know by the stillness in my eyes.
Come and whisper in my ear, "you're very pretty, dear" and
"it'll be alright." You're lying!
But I don't mind tonight.

So I wander and I wander
Your absence beating inside my chest
I try but I can't remember
The color of your eyes- just the shape of her dress.

And through a garden overgrown
Oh, it's a long walk home.
I said I'd not come back, well I'm coming back-
and you'd better be alone.

You sit there silent, folded arms
As you smile, as i walk by
My face has shamed, But you know it's me, YOU KNOW ITS ME!
Come and whisper in my ear,my dear! my dear!
it'll be alright.it'll be alright.it'll be alright.it'll be alright.
it'll be alright.it'll be alright.
No!NO!!

I said my goodbyes to the sun
My little one, so far away.
And how strange, how small we must become
Yet as familiar as yesterday

The bluest iris that I'd ever seen
She vanished like a dream, sinking back
Into the ground
Singing "maybe I wept real tears"
But maybe she was hiding because she wanted to be found
You wanted to be found!

Don't be afraid of him.
Be still.

Save my skin, I need a medic
Hold me down, I'm only sewn down.
Save my teeth, show me you meant it
Catch my death, I'm only sewn together.

My eyelids are heavy, and the night's wearing on
Your story's familiar, and your innocence is gone
We'd burn like the morning then break like your heart
Fall in love without warning just to fall back apart
All fevered and blistered, with nothing at stake
I feel the warmth of her whisper, and the cold of my mistakes
Her soul in the balance, my heart in her hands
I made her a widow, she made me a man.

You might sleep, but you'll never dream
Onward! Progress! Or so it seems.
You might laugh, but you'll never smile.
Come on in and waste away awhile.

When dreams of rings of flowers fade and blur
Giving way to that familiar ill
come over and part your soft white curtains
Where I'm waiting for you still
If you'd unlatch the window,
If you'd let me lay there on your floor
If you'd give me another chance,
If you'd forget the pain I caused before
No use in saying how I'm sorry
So I'm trying not to speak
I'll sing in silence, lay beside you
With my face there on your cheek
My stomach swears there's comfort there
In the warmth of the blankets on your bed
My stomach's always been a liar-
I'll believe it's lies again.

[No lyrics]

Don't waste your lips on words I've heard before
Kiss my tired head.
And each letter written wastes your hand, young man
Come and lead me to your bed
You gave me hope that I'd not lost her
And then thought it rather strange to see me smile-
as I don't do too much smiling these days.

She put on happiness like a loose dress
Over pain I'll never know
"So the peace you had," she said,
"I must confess, I'm glad to see it go."
We're two white roses lying frozen just outside his door
I've made you so happy and so sad,
But which should I be more sorry for?

Come kiss my face goodbye,
that space below my eye and above my cheek
Cause I'm faint and fading fast, I see a darkness
And I shall be released.
I'll pass like a fever from this body,
And softly slip into his hands
I tried to love you and I failed,
But I have another plan.

How long, My Lord, how long to sing this song?
And my Lord, how much more of this pretending to be strong?
When she stands before your throne
Dressed in beauty not her own
All soft and small, you'll hear her call,
"You brought me here, now take me home."

The cure for pain is in the pain,
so it's there that you'll find me.
Until again I forget,
and again he reminds me,
Hear my voice in your head,
and think of me kindly.

Let me be, let me be..

Lowered down like a casket
and buried just below her chest.
Whatever I was searching for,
it was never you, she says.
The record ended long ago,
we go on dancing nonetheless.

I opened like a locket,
If you're ever cold, I wrote,
there's warmth inside me.
I'm the pocket of an old winter coat.
But where she used to say I need you.
Now....I don't.

You'd only make the softest sound,
like sugar pouring into tea.
Darling let your Self pour down
and dissolve into the Love
who revealed himself there quietly to me...

(Jesus have mercy on us.)

(This is an acoustic and extended track of the song The Cure for Pain
which starts on the 10:51 mark on track 12)


You might sleep, but you'll never dream
Onward, Progress or so it seems
You might laugh, but you'll never smile
Come on in and waste away a while
My stomach swears there's comfort there
In the warmth, in the blankets, on your bed
My stomach's always been a liar
I'll believe it lies again(again)
No use in saying how im sorry
So I'm trying not to speak
I'll sing in silence, as I lay beside you
My face against, against your cheek

When dreams of rings of flowers fade and blur
Giving way to that familiar ill
Come over, come over, where I'm waiting
No use in saying how I'm sorry
So I'm trying not to speak
Sing in silence, as I lay beside you
My face against, against your cheek

You're used to saying
(If you'd unlatch the window)
How I'm sorry
(If you'd let me)
So I am trying not to speak
(If you'd give me another chance)
I'll sing in silence
(If you'd forget that pain)
As I lay beside you
(If you'd unlatch the window)
My face against, against your cheek
(If you'd let me lay there on your floor)