alvvays - adult diversion
How do I get close to you
Even if you don't notice
As I admire you on the subway
When it's dark outside your house
You won't let anybody out
And keep a padlock on your door
Well one more cocktail
And I'm on your trail
If I should fall
Act as though it never happened
I will retreat
And sit inside so very quietly
How do I grow old with you
Even if you don't notice
As I pass by you on the sidewalk
When it's dark outside your house
You won't let anybody out
You're keeping a dead girl in the closet
One more cocktail
Is it a good time
Or is it highly inappropriate
If I should fall
Act as though it never happened
I will retreat
And then go back to university
If I should fall
Act as though it never happened
I will retreat
And sit inside so very quietly
I won't waste a moment (x3)
If I should fall
Act as though it never happened
I will retreat
And sit inside so very quietly
If I should fall
Act as though it never happened
I will retreat
And then go back to university
alvvays - ones who love you
Love, love the ones who love you
Oh, leave the ones who don't
Oh, love the ones who loved you
Leave, leave the ones who won't
When lightning strikes
I'll be on my bird
I'll be stuck inside
I will be taken for
Love, love the ones who love you
Oh, leave the ones who don't
Here, here for the ones that need you
Watch put for the ones who?
When lightning strikes
I'll be on my bird
I'll be stuck inside
I will be taken for
And when the wheels come off
I'll be an astronaut
I will be lost in space
I will be skipping rocks
When you live on my way
Nothing ever falls in place?
And you can't never feel your face
You can't fucking feel your face
When lightning strikes
I'll be on my bird
I'll be stuck inside
I will be taken for
And when the wheels come off
I'll be an astronaut
I will be lost in space
I will be skipping rocks
alvvays - archie marry me
You expressed explicitly your
Contempt for matrimony
You've student loans to pay
And will not risk the alimony
We spend our days locked in
A room, content inside a bubble
And in the night time we go
Out and scour the streets for trouble
Hey hey marry me archie
Hey hey marry me archie
During the summer, take me
Out sailing out on the atlantic
I won?t set my sights on
Other seas there is no need to panic
So honey take me by the
Hand and we can sign some papers
Forget the invitations,
Floral arrangements and bread makers
Hey hey marry me archie
Hey hey marry me archie
Too late to go out and
Too young to stay in
They're talking about
Us living in sin
Hey hey marry me archie
Hey hey marry me archie
Hey hey marry me archie
Hey hey a-r-c-h-i-e
alvvays - atop a cake
I lie on a sofa awake it's what you said last night
You'd like us on top of a cake, but you won't let me take a bite
Flowers arriving in fleets, can't we talk about this
Why let the state in our sheets can't we do without it
Well I don't mean to wind you up, but I'd like to slow it down
How do I remain a pup, if you put be in a gown
What's it got to do with you, what's it got to do with me
How could I lose control, when you're driving from the backseat
What's it got to do with you, what's it got to do with me
How could I lose control, when you're driving from the backseat
Corners begin to repeat, I think we're getting lost
We walked to the end of the street, but we were bitten by the frost
So if you have to thaw me out, you can put me in a pail
Can we take another route, I don't want to wear a vail
What's it got to do with you, what's it got to do with me
How could I lose control, when you're driving from the backseat
What's it got to do with you, what's it got to do with me
How could I lose control, when you're driving from the backseat
I'll wait in the lobby for someone to show
And if they don't come, I will know where to go
The bodies are lined up outside in the hall
I don't want to decay in a mall
If everything you say is true, then why would I disagree how could I lose control
What's it got to do with you, what's it got to do with me
How could I lose control, when you're driving from the backseat
When you're driving from the backseat
alvvays - dreams tonite
Rode here on the bus
Now, you're one of us
It was magic hour
Counting motorbikes on the turnpike
One of Eisenhower's
Live your life on a merry-go-round
Who starts a fire just to let it go out?
If I saw you on the street
Would I have you in my dreams tonight?
If I saw you on the street
Would I have you in my dreams tonight?
Tonigth?
On the lead guitar
Said you'd go to work in the waking hour
In fluorescent light
Antisocialites watch a wilting flower
Live your life on a merry-go-round
Who builds a wall just to let it fall down?
If I saw you on the street
would I have you in my dreams tonight?
If I saw you on the street
Would I have you in my dreams tonight?
Tonight?
If I saw you on the street
Would I have you in my dreams tonight?
Tonight?
If I saw you on the street
Would I have you in my dreams tonight?
Tonight?
Don't sit by the phone for me
Wait at home for me
All alone for me
Your face was supposed to be hanging
Over me like a rosary
So morose for me; seeing ghosts of me
Writing oaths to me
Is it so naive to wonder?
If I saw you on the street
Would I have you in my dreams tonight?
Tonight?
If I saw you on the street
Would I have you in my dreams tonight?
Tonight?
If I saw you on the street
Would I have you in my dreams tonight?
Tonight?
If I saw you on the street
Would I have you in my dreams tonight?
Tonight?
alvvays - in undertow
You find a wave and try to hold on
For as long as you can
You made a mistake you'd like to erase
And I understand
What's left for you and me?
I ask that question rhetorically
Can't buy into astrology
And won't rely on the moon for anything
No turning, there's no turning
There's no turning back after what's been said
No turning, there's no turning
There's no turning back
Meditate, play Solitaire, take up self-defense
When you get old and faded out
Will you want your friends?
What's left for you and me?
You respond to my question metaphorically
Don't read into psychology
And won't rely on your mood for anything
No turning, there's no turning
There's no turning back after what was said
No turning, there's no turning
There's no turning back after what was said
You find a wave and try to hold on
For as long as you can
You made a mistake you'd like to erase
And I understand
What's next for you and me?
I'll take suggestions we toss
and turn in undertow
Time to let go
There's no turning, there's no turning
There's no turning back after what's transpired
No turning, there's no turning
There's no turning back; I'm so uninspired
No turning, there's no turning
There's no turning back, no turning back
alvvays - already gone
If there were an ocean
We'd be wading in the distance
There would be only water
Creating our resistance
A place to decompress
A vat of chlorine's close enough I guess
If there were an ocean we'd glisten on the surface
Surface
Instead of an eruption
We bubbly only briefly
When there is erosion
We both regret it deeply
I arrived at the scene you were perfectly surrounded by pylons
When the crowd separated the officer said you were already gone
Appetite minuscule
Middle of the nite
Drain the pool
The summer's over
I don't think I could find it
I don't know how to find it again
Don't think that I could get behind it
I don't think I will ever find it again
alvvays - dives
All the documents you keep
And the friends that never phone
Spend the winter in a Jeep
And your summer months at home
No love
To share
So what?
Who cares?
Bleeding light into your room
Makes you cower beneath the sheets
Waste away
All your days
No love
To share
So what?
Who cares?
I've been waiting on our lives together
I've been patient for a long time
We've been hanging out in dives forever
We never get it on the first try
We never get it on the first try
We never get it on the first try
The first try
So what?
Who cares?
alvvays - hey
Hey
Have you lost your sense of place?
Hold a brush to your white toothpaste
Does the mirror look a little strange?
You
Satisfied with making do
(Don't think so, yeah)
Should we pull the parachute?
(Don't think so)
I will land on my feet but
I probably won't leave
the house for awhile
and it feels like forever
since you held me like I was a human being
And I am a human being
Blind drunk in an alleyway
Assuring you I'm fine
Blind in an alleyway
Positive I'm fine
Molly Mayhem
On your doorstep
At three Am
Fight and you run and you run
And it's likely over now
Fight and you run and you run
And you want it over now
Over now
Over now
This is the nineteenth round
And you know it
This is not the right crowd
And you know it