Lyrics

Life on the edge, tumbling down, soundless as mime, timeless as time
Eating away and savouring nothing, the loneliest feeling
The beat of my heart is lost in my chest, hurtling slowly, north by south-west
So long since I screamed, the giant below me is shrinking an wilting

Gathering speed, too tired to blink, this nothing is empty so how can I think?
Will you hold my hand? These thousands of miles are making me dull
Tears can float, stinging my eyes, a beautiful picture filling the sky
It’s dark all around, the candle is fading, my light has gone out

I can see a wonder, I can see a wonder
Rising in the sky or am I rising up myself?
Crying in a space ship, looking out the back door
Rabbit in the headlights…

This glass is too thin, I wish it was cracking, a cold deep inside that cannot be warmed
I was never this lost, where did I come from? Where is my picture?
Passing these gods, burning forever, a dead silent tempest through which I must pass
These tears still sting because I can’t show you how much I love you

I can see a wonder, I can see a wonder
Rising in the sky or am I rising up myself?
Crying on a space ship, looking out the back door
Rabbit in the headlights…

I can see a wonder, I can see a wonder
Rising in the sky or am I rising up myself?
Crying on a space ship, searching for the back door
Rabbit in the headlights…

Make me out a scapegoat, raining through my raincoat
Maybe it’s the same rope pulling at my neck
Crying on a spaceship, searching for my tin can
Human in the starlight…

Twenty-First century saying
Human in the starlight
Human in the starlight…

Clinging on to the big picture
Nothing else is left
Sent away by the cold shoulder
Bringing out the dead
Nil by mouth, I’m immobile
A friend for life left at the turnstile
How I have betrayed you…

Being here isn’t so easy
All the life is gone
If the germs ever stop breeding
I’ll be needing some
Bandages, are you there?
Broken legs that hang in the air
How I have betrayed you…

This place is like a grave
This place is like a grave
This place is like a grave

Every sound has a dead shadow
No one ever sees
When you cry it’s a black tangle
In screaming atrophy
Vocal chords in a wet pile
Harmonise at the birth of a live child
How I have betrayed you…

This place is like a grave
This place is like a grave
This place is like a grave

The sound of my feet as I run make me ashamed
I’d give anything to be real, my right arm to be brave
But I’m the first persone I think of to save
This place is like a grave

If I could fight your fight I’d’ve probably died anyway
And if I can’t get away this place will be my grave
Far apart I will leave you
Every bone in her heart re-grew

Through your armour a small girl sits
Waiting to be seen
I want to care but the hope there
Means hardly anything
But life awaits in the dark
You’ll cross your fingers
And I’ll cross my heart
How I have betrayed you…

This place is like a grave
This place is like a grave
This place is like a grave

The air’s getting thin
An you’re getting lost in your skin
The door’s sealed closed
I’ll be back in the shape of a ghost

I’ll return if you can wait
I’ll be screaming just outside
I will stare at endless space
We’ll see what is left behind

Flashlights, tears in your eyes
Tell me when the stars collide
Life inside an air tank
Choking in a bin bag
I don’t wanna say goodbye

Our home is burning up
Feel free to interrupt giving up
I can see from your eyes
That this time it’s ok to say goodbye

Nothing makes you feel as small
So powerless an pitiful
Hold my hand an don’t let go
We’ll suffocate together slow

Flashlights, tears in your eyes
Tell me when the stars collide
Life inside an air tank
Choking in a bin bag
I don’t wanna say goodbye

Flashlights, tears in my eyes
Tell me when the stars collide
Life inside an air tank
Choking in a bin bag
I don’t wanna say goodbye…

I know what a tongue is
You are the ghost in the pipeline
Every tree has a splinter
An I’m pinned to the ground
Get out from under my bed
My ankles aren’t yours for a feast

I know what the sky is
You are the breath at the window
Every moon has a dark side
Every soul, everywhere
I know the fiend you’ve become
I know the fiend that you were

If you wanted me to go
Now would be the time to say so
Don’t pretend you’re on your own
Don’t lie because I know

(Love is blind, how can we be so lonely?
Eyes are dry, this feeling is dying slowly)

I know what a church is
I know the place where the light dies
Even stars have a life-time
You have scars just like mine
So if you’re scared of the dark
The dark, too, will eventually die

If you wanted me to go
Now would be the time to say so
Don’t pretend you’re on your own
Don’t lie because I know

(Love is blind, how can we be so lonely?
Eyes are dry, this feeling is dying slowly)

Faces at the window
I know you saw them
It’s Our Little Secret
It’s not a problem

You needed someone
You had to try
I can forgive you
Most of the time

I know you travelled
Far from this planet
Reason ejected
Insides polluted

I miss you so much
We are the same
But you know what they say
No pain no gain

Love is blind
Eyes are dry
Love is blind
Eyes are dry

I don’t know what I’m doing for the first time in my life
Everything I think I want changes overnight
An I’ve broken something beautiful by holding it too tight
Where are you?
Where are you?

I wish that I could smile, I wish my eyes were blue
I’m making paper aeroplanes big enough for two
An I’ve ruined something magical by believing in you
Where are you?
Where are you?

You made me wish I was something I’m not
But I know who I am now, that’s the hardest part
You can shoot my engine, blow me out of the sky
But my paper aeroplane flies
My paper aeroplane flies…

I know you are guarding a scrapyard of broken hearts
‘Cause every one can be re-built into a spare part
And I wanted to fix everything so I’d have a head start
So where are you?
Where are you?

You made me wish I was something I’m not
But I know who I am now, that’s the hardest part
You can shoot my engine, blow me out of the sky
But my paper aeroplane flies
My paper aeroplane flies…

You made me wish I was something I’m not
But I know who I am now, that’s the hardest part
You can shoot my engine, blow me out of the sky
But my paper aeroplane flies

Yeah, you made me wish I was something I’m not
But I know who I am now, that’s the hardest part
You can shoot my engine, blow me out of the sky
But my paper aeroplane flies
My paper aeroplane flies…

My thirst for revenge is all but dried up
I never dreamt I’d ever quench it
But now I drained the whole cup
In my nuclear storm drain I can hide for a year
Wait for the fall out in this dusty December
Wait for the air to clear

Catapult back to when I was different
I never think about it for long
Then I was a magical person
An I feel another change coming on

I am cold and uncaring. I never used to be
Look how many times I’ve already said ‘I’
I just want you to care about me
I am cruel an I’m spiteful. I’ll have to change that someday
I never did get that revenge that I set
An my feet are always running away

An you know i hate what I am becoming
But I never think about it for long
Before I was a loveable person
An I feel another change coming on

Swap a heart for a bottle. It’s useless asking for help
I could kill anyone that hurt you
Just so I could kill you myself
Perhaps you think that I’m going crazy
Leave me outside scratching the door
You might think he wants you for your mind or your body
But I know what he really wants you for

An it’s tough to think that you might be hurting
But I never think about it for long
Back then you were everything in my world
An I feel another change coming on

Dearly departed, my teeth shrinking one at a time
This memory’s old but the action’s just started
This dead fruit is coming alive

Can’t lift a finger, my thirst for you can’t be replaced
This desert’s been blasted to oceans of glass
And I can’t let a tear go to waste

Blood on my hands, a portal to the unknown
Drifting in a dream through a hole in the O-Zone
Navigate your way through a mine-field of metaphor
T minus nine, eight, seven, six, five, four
three, two, one lift off

Hopeless as ever, feet over head over feet
Tumbling slow towards endless horizons
My life back on Earth on repeat
Thinkin about you. The past is preserved an sublime
You know that you’re dead an your life is on loan
If you bleed when you’re tellin the time

Blood on my hands, a portal to the unknown
Drifting in a dream through a hole in the ozone
Navigate your way through a minefield of metaphor
T-minus nine, eight, seven, six, five, four
Three, two, one, lift off!

Dearly departed, hour-glass sands
Lay on the table, hold out your hands
Clenching your eye lids, catching your breath
Whispering curses designed to impress
Thinkin about you, recalling a dream
Where I made you suffer, an I made you scream
Bent on survival, granted my wish
Scrambled to offer me one last…

Blood on my hands, a portal to the unknown
Drifting in a dream through a hole in the ozone
Navigate your way through a minefield of metaphor
T-minus nine, eight, seven, six, five, four…

Blood on my hands, a portal to the unknown
Drifting in a dream through a hole in the ozone
Navigate your way through a minefield of metaphor
T-minus nine, eight, seven, six, five, four
Three, two, one, lift off!