Playlist Broken Bells

broken bells - after the disco

After your faith has let you down
I know you'll want to run around
And follow the crowd into the night
But after the disco
All of the shine just faded away
Oh oh oh oh
Do what you want
Do what you will
Don't tell me it's not our time

Cause I'm
Waiting here much too long and
Don't assume
That I need your love
The chill of night has got you dancing away
And I'm
Not the dreamer or the dream you're
Out there looking for

How did I get in this winding maze of love?
And there's something wrong and it's sending you
Round and round 'til we go nowhere

I see the ashes on the ground
I know the world is burning down
And under the cold and empty moon
But after the disco
All of the shine just faded away
Oh oh oh oh
Do what you want
Do what you will
But you can't hide
Oh oh oh oh
Do what you want
Do what you will
Don't tell me it's not our time

Cause I'm
Waiting here much too long and
Don't assume
That I need your love
The chill of night has got you dancing away
And I'm
Not the dreamer or the dream you're
Out there looking for

How did I get in this winding maze of love?
And there's something wrong and it's sending you
Round and round 'til we go nowhere

broken bells - an easy life

So tell me where it hurts
do those stunts prove anything
I doubt that I believe that anyone is doing it

Darling read this from a book
but you're the one you're hurting
no no

Safe this from distraction
polishing all these severed hands
oblivion is nice
'til it bites you in the ass

Up in your role
without a single clue
the riddle of name
in every poison arrow end

Twilight hours on a hook
with no money burning
no no

I gotta desert you
quietly slide out your back door
the vertigo is nice
but it makes it hard to dance

Guess you want to win a prize
company odds exchange this night
losing it all again ain't wise

Whoa, wait
she said that I record
I got shift than I deserve
look back from anything, but
the question is simple
Why not be smiling ?
no no

What did it hurt ?
leaving it all to happenstance
one of these nights
when I can't get settled down

What did it hurt ?
leaving it all to happenstance
one of these nights
when I can't get settled down
when I can't get settled down

broken bells - citizen

This is a day without
A trace of reason
No matter where you turn...

And the walls will fall
Affirming nothing
So what's it all about?

Call on a bright star
Or play your hand as an intellect
Wounds always speak too loud...

Get along for awhile
See the sin in the sea
How the innocent are bound to the damned
What is, just is, I know
So we're trapped by answers
Love haunts to the end...

Are we all to ride
The edge of nothing?
Shake hands if I deny...

And if they don't know
Their heart is stopping
Cause everyone is right...

Get along for awhile
See the sin in the sea
How the innocent are bound to the damned
What is, just is, I know
So we're trapped by answers
Love haunts to the end...

From the moment that we're born
Till we're old and tired out
Do we ever know?

From the moment that were born
Till we're old and tired out
Do we ever know?

broken bells - heartless empire

And what you found was gold
As black as dried blood
The taste was so, so sweet
And one loves to love

The whole idea seems unfair to all
But it's always that way

So circles, crowds take in
Coincidental sun
And careful hands tie their knots
And you're dumb to be done

No, i'm not desolate enough
And heartless empire from
Where to end it

Those who search search by themselves
Leaving nothing to gain
Cast like stones into the night
We're all one and the same

broken bells - holding on for life

Girl, take a seat
Rest your weary bones
Your secret's safe
In my hands

Tell me about the years and
Let me buy an hour
Maybe help me to understand

Oh, ain't nobody calling
Ain't nobody home
What a lovely day to be lonely

You're holding on for life
Holding on for life, love
Holding on for love

You're holding on for life
Holding on for life, love
Holding on for love

Light another cigarette
Burning in the cold
Waiting on the street
For your man

You're trying not to look so
Young and miserable
You gotta get your kicks
While you can

And in the Latin quarter
Sitting on your own
What a lovely day to be lonely

You're holding on for life
Holding on for life, love
Holding on for love

You're holding on for life
Holding on for life, love
Holding on for love

Well,
you
might belong
to another time
Still you have to carry on, yeah

No
where
else to go
and you never know
what to hide and what to show, no

You're holding on for life
Holding on for life, love
Holding on for love

You're holding on for life
Holding on for life, love
Holding on for love

broken bells - lazy wonderland

I'm down by the fire
At the ocean side
Just waiting for that underwater world to say good night

Don't you hear that sound?
From that tide and send
They'll tell us to keep rowing and rowing if we can

So I've learnt to keep my head in this lazy wonderland

Well you had to know
that I had to know
The tricks for us not to be found out
There's a place we can go
The trip is on but we can find a way

(Tonight we'll go)
Laughing all the way, my love
(Tomorrow we'll go)
Back in time to live today

To all the men who ride
in the morning light
? at the ending of another lovely night

And I've misplaced my mind, don't know how or why
and when it wonders back I hope it's still a friend of mine

Well you had to know
that I had to know
the tricks for us not to be found out
and there's a place we can go
The trip is on but we can find a way

(Tonight we'll go)
Laughing all the way, my love
(Tomorrow we'll go)
Back in time to live today

broken bells - medicine

This ordinary room is turning
Into something of a prison hole
And the only thing we know for certain is that
Don't nobody know

You think none of this is real
That's why you never try
So tear it down or build it up, it's the same

And on another lonely evening
When you're staying up counting omens
In the morning is it so disturbing that you
Just won't let it go

You think hurting gives you license
To do anything at all
But you gotta take your medicine
Allow your hands to lose their grip and let it fall

It's a wonder anyone can breathe here
With a smoke too thick to cough
So we're falling as we run from cover from the
Bombs we're setting off
You think hurting gives you license
To do anything at all
But you gotta take your medicine
Allow your hands to lose their grip and let it fall
Allow your hands to lose their grip and let it fall

So we watch another good day fading
How we gonna leave the hang man hanging
Girl one day, you know it all melts into air

broken bells - meyrin fields

Cycle down in the belly
Of the ocean
Why he ever notice it as
Sucking up?
Rise up and sound this state
That everything else in this
World can be broken...

When the scolding flow
Closes the distance
Up from the devil then
Seeping out
Your tiny vengeful life
Might pass through my mind
But I blink and it's over...

It's coming
Wait for it
Redawning
No contest
All of a sudden
Your Body and Soul
Will call a grave
You've been avoiding...

This city
Your culture
Your modern
Day suffering
Is over
So what if
I love it
I can't help it
That's all...

Several times in the glimpse
Of our intentions
I turned the stone and found
A brand you light
I can form no more words as
I cannot dare see no drama
Washing me over me...

Will someone measure
This moron now?
I'm back again in this
One light town
I cut the tie and
I don't have to rely
On nothing no more...

It's coming
Wait for it
Redawning
No contest
All of a sudden
Your Body and Soul
Will call a grave
You've been avoiding...

This city
Your culture
Your modern
Day suffering
Is over
So what if
I love it
I can't help it
That's all...

broken bells - mongrel heart

Is it hard to wait
Drawn by your mongrel heart again
If you don't answer, would you want to be found out
You duck through the wind in your old blight on the town

Love is turning you out
Sliding worry round
I try to warn its waiting game
To bring that spectre down

And would it be wrong
To clamp down on your racing heart, love
And if they'd known, what sifted down to be found out
It's not what you deserve

Love is turning you out
Sliding worry round
I try to warn its waiting game
To bring that spectre down

Faster than you were going to allow
Turn out the lights or say get out
If you don't answer, would you want to be found now
Five days on, trapped by a wave

Love is turning you out
Sliding worry round
I try to warn this waiting game
To bring that spectre down

Black corn was soaking
You'll be cut down in the seedy stairway
If you don't answer, would you want to be found now
Sapped from the bed to the window

Looking back on that time
Starting in the minds
What it is to be twenty nine
Fame sets your life down

Would it be wrong
Would it be wrong
To disappoint you now
Disappoint you now

broken bells - no matter what you 039 re told

[Verse 1]
You?re falling way behind;
We?ll give it just a little bit of time:
Cause when we?re all exposed
Do you wanna be the first
In line?

Below?s the witching crowd
The smoke they blow can make you head pop
The ego is playing its tricks on you again
And again

[Hook]
We?ll blow all our chances thinking we know
All the answers. Then so it goes
With all the changes ;
And nothing changes
No matter what you?re told

[Verse 2]
So you?re picking up signs;
You?re scared you might be losing your mind
And all the hopes of any shot you got of leaving you
Behind

[Bridge]
You?re making light of this I know
And it?s a shame
But your silly, sentimental heart is to blame

[Hook]

[Bridge 2]
You don?t wanna end up in the lost and found - you better hold
On tight
All the time it evens when you?re upside-down - you gotta hold
On tight
I don?t wanna be there when you hit the ground - you need to hold
On tight

[Hook]

broken bells - october

So you showed me around your town
To hell again and back
Our love sucks
Already made all the friends hand off

I know it might seem odd
Because your not the only one
I remember my self as a lonely child
So I was
And you've got me wrong
You've got me wrong

(Ground your sense of worth
Cos the spark of morning burns
And all of your searching eyes
Could scold your tender mind)

Remember what they say
Their's no shortcut to a dream
It's all blood and sweat
And life is what you manage in between

But what you don't know
Is you're too young and eager to love
Seething eyes
So you're about to get into
The ditch that you opened up

(Ground your sense of worth
Cos the spark of morning burns
And all of your searching eyes
Could scold your tender mind)

Sister's allay
and leave you behind
You want it sewn
I cut the light
of a lot of mood

Sister you know enough
But for now just let it go
Don't run, don't rush
Just flow

Through the give and take you had to learn
How to cross the coals and not get burned
But you're really just a little girl
Playing in the park until the sun goes down

sometime you want to rise
One did it's our desire
No doubt you think you braided your own hair
So you're all grown up

Should you want to cross the line
Which way do you want to fly?
Pretend that love could help you find your way
But you got me wrong
But you got me wrong

broken bells - perfect world

Oh London moon
Help me stumble home
Let me lose myself along the way
I've got nothing left
It's kind of wonderful
Cause there's nothing they can take away
Away

The open doors
Left me wanting more
Never thought they'd close them all away
The ordinary life they want for you
Is it too much to have to bear?
But it's another way to win a useless fight
You've been lying so long from the way that you're faking
(See the water run and rise)
Just another day into a useless night
I been pushing so hard that my hands are shaking
(See the water run and rise)
But I've been turned around
I was upside down
I thought love would always find a way
But I know better now
Got it figured out
It's a perfect world all the same
World
But I've been turned around
I was upside down
I thought love would always find a way
But I know better now
Got it figured out
It's a perfect world all the same
World, world, world, world
World, world, world, world
I was hoping for
An easy rambling life
Till an ocean came to my mind
We look for exit signs
But we can't be changed
Into nothing overnight
Though we know it's over
It keeps exploding
Every morning when we rise

broken bells - the angel and the fool

[Verse 1]
Leaning out the window, watch the dying of the sun
Balancing the weight of the pill on her tongue
She'll be getting that look in her eyes
Cold and lonely, but I don't know why

[Hook]
See her near the border at the end of the light
She falls down and I can't do enough
But I won't ever let her give up
The angel and the fool

[Bridge]
You rolling now, keep rolling
You rolling now, keep rolling
You rolling now, keep rolling
You rolling now, keep rolling now

[Verse 2]
She found herself in a world full of men
Watching them slowly destroy all her plans
Gives all the love, she won't allow
Herself to even dream about
But both of us are rolling out, it won't be long
The early morning silence [?]
Cause we [?] this heart enough for there's no one else around

[Hook]

[Bridge]

broken bells - the changing lights

[Verse]
What did the stone wash away
Are you bailing out, out of the plans he already made
It won't bother me now, and you know I'll be okay
You gotta lead your life, but you're not sure you know the way
Well you want to walk in white, you wanna win but you're too shy
So the candle just keeps burning on you

[Chorus]
The cards are on the table, I'm here tonight
And I don't need anything from you
Down on the bowery, the changing lights
And I'll still be waiting here for you

[Verse]
I saw that look on your face
You don't need me now, and sometimes you wonder if it's off
Just another mistake, and why don't you just walk away
You gotta measure the cost, what do you gain when you lost
Lay off and wonder why, you wanna win but you won't fight
So the candle just keeps burning on you

[Chorus 2x]

broken bells - the ghost inside

She sold her love to a modern man
Cause solid currency's the hardest to love
All other modern hels you cover your eye
Don't let the lady finger blow in your hat
Di-da

For That dollar
She's like a star tonight
Without wanting
She gave up
The ghost inside

Just like a whiskey bottle drained on the floor
She got no future, just a love to endure
This gives some matter to shaking her hide
'Too late to leave him' are the songs in her car
Di-di-da

For That dollar
Without wanting
She gave up
The ghost inside
They call it chivalry
Never pull a punch for free
You ever wonder what it had to move on
This phony article
That put you on the floor
A double standard
Here we look when we walk

For That Dollar
She's like a star tonight
Without wanting
She gave up
The ghost inside

Was it all for show?
To turn into all of them
Turning a page
Trust me darlin'
I'm carving 'em up through the dust in your town
Crawling over rubble just to sound me out
Tend to wonder why?

broken bells