Playlist Camera Obscura

camera obscura - double feature

Close comes the winter
Summer is no longer
and things, they seem much bleaker
we'll see a Catherine Deneuve double feature
and our lives will fade as in darkness we will bathe

And our lives will fade as in darkness we will bathe
(double feature, you will survive
last forever so rest your eyes
play with words when we cannot sing
this bouble feature means everything)

camera obscura - the last song

I can't call you
My phone will be relieved
You can't call me
'Cause someone else will feel deceived
I don't understand this
How did you get hold of me?
You've got me questioning my fidelity

I'll send a package in the post
I've got love to send
Should I want you the most?
It feels like I have no defense

The tree in my garden is blossoming still
It's late this year
It's just like me, it?s wavering
Going through the motions
I want to be at home
It's an effort to get on this plane at all

It was love for sure
Every cliché in the book
I loved you more and more
With every desperate look

Don't thank me for breakfast
With your naked skin
Don't lie, don't pretend
You feel anything
My heart is no longer a friend of mine
It wants to betray me most of the time

I love you my darling
I love you my friend
I love you my darling
But it feels like this is the end

camera obscura - a red red rose

O my Luve?s like a red, red rose
That?s newly sprung in June
O my Luve?s like the melodie
That?s sweetly play?d in tune

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass
So deep in luve am I
And I will love thee still, my Dear
Till a, the seas gang dry

Till a? the seas gang dry, my Dear
And the rocks melt wi? the sun
I will love thee still, my Dear
While the sands o? life shall run

And fare thee weel, my only Luve!
And fare thee weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve
Tho? it were ten thousand mile!

camera obscura - a sisters social agony

You bruise like a cherry my darling girl
Words can mean nothing to some in this world
I want you to know I thought about you last night
I cried
Play indie rock if that?s what you want
Quote Mike Leigh films it will turn them all on
I heard you were going on a first date
That?s great

Don?t apologise
Try your best not to disguise
To get misty eyed at times is fine
Sometimes it feels like you?re the only one
A freckle appeared on your lip from the sun
Those kids that you run with, they put you down
Make no sound

camera obscura - alaska

I?m in love with the Hawthorn
Sure I like the Birch
I need a hand, a volunteer
Why does the Sycamore mean so much?

Do you dream of a cold Alaska?
Better wrap up warm tonight
All I know is we?re in a blue time
Where the land is snow drop white

You were such a pretty one
You had a kid
Did you have any idea of the damage you did

I?m in love with the Hawthorn
Sure I like the Birch
I need a hand, a volunteer
Why does the Sycamore mean so much?

Is this the day that loneliness takes a hold of me?
I?ve been stupid, unkind but I?m not too blind too see

camera obscura - amigo mío

Permanece detrás
No tan cerca de mí
No sabes dónde he estado

No te sientes a mi lado
Permanece tan lejos de mí
Como yo quiero estar de ti

Este sitio es tan frío
No hables por mí
No quiero hablar
Es perder mi tiempo
No me hagas reír
No me hagas llorar
No me preguntes mi nombre
No me mires a los ojos
Amigo mío

camera obscura - anti western

Sure to be a loner, I hear you're not the loving kind
Come on darling, I've something in mind

You're too good looking I'm alway gonna put up a fight
give in baby, be mine tonight

You talk about Lee but your words are untrue
saying that Nancy's got nothing on you
you listen to rubbish I really despise
and tell me that sand is just grit in your eyes

Moved around honey, to stay here now would feel just fine
I'm taking your boots off, I'll keep them with mine

I'm coming around 'cause I know they say we only live twice
well this is the first life, a need to entice

You talk about Lee but your words are untrue
saying that Nancy's got nothing on you
you listen to rubbish I really despise
and tell me that sand is just grit in your eyes

You talk about Lee but your words are untrue
saying that Nancy's got nothing on you
you listen to rubbish I really despise
and tell me that sand is just grit in your eyes

camera obscura - away with murder

How many times have you told me you wanna die?
How many times have you told me now that you've tried?
How many times will I let you get away with murder?
Oh and how many times will you make me feel alive?

Hey I got a feeling that there is something going wrong
I put my thoughts in a letter, send it when I'm feeling strong
Anytime you became the girl that you wanted to be
Oh I told you all along there was no point looking to me

Oh it's been hard to be strong with all of this going on
Yeah it's been hard to be strong with all of this going on
I've been lonely too, like you
I'm just like you
I'm just like you

People have been traveling miles just to hear us sing
It's a February night and I don't want to feel anything
To get away maybe I could sell kisses
In Portland I tried my pretty hand at fishing ()

Oh it's been hard to be strong with all of this going on
Yeah it's been hard to be strong with all of this going on
I have been lonely too, like you
I'm just like you
I'm just like you

I'm just like you
I'm just like you

Hey I got a feeling there is something going wrong
I put my thoughts in a letter, send it when I'm feeling strong

camera obscura - before you cry

No sense no style
I said I loved you for a little while
When you cried no
High speed became go slow
Come back this time
Wishful thinking is going to make you mine
Push turns to shove
I got no more room for love

I hope you hear me
I can?t stand you next to me
Get lost goodbye
I?ll smile before you cry
I love you baby
Please don?t hate me
You?re feeling a little sad tonight but you?ll be alright

camera obscura - books written for girls

You can compliment me on the style of my hair
Give me marks out of ten for the clothes I wear
You probably thought I had more upstairs
I disappoint you, I can see through your perfect smile
He likes to read books written for girls
Prides himself on being a man of the world
It?s in the darkest places he gets his thrills
He will disappoint you, if you see through his perfect smile

Chorus

I think separation is ok
You?re no star to guide me anyway
You only wanted me to play the fool
Play by your rule
Now my door has swollen from the rain
God knows we?ll never see her face again
People get shattered in many ways
They can disappoint you if you see through their perfect smiles

Chorus

I think separation is ok
You?re no star to guide me anyway
You only wanted me to play the fool
Play by your rule

camera obscura - careless love

Honey...
I've been really struggling
To think of you and I being friends
I blow hot and cold
Yeah, I'm like a yo-yo
So I don't think I should see you again

Careless love and
I didn't talk for it wasn't my style
I've had enough
I don't think that we could really be friends

And honey,
I've been really struggling
To think of you and I anonymous
You're off to mourning so
The love you give ebb and flows
So I don't think I should see you again

Careless love and
I didn't talk for it wasn't my style
I've had enough
For I don't think that we can really be friends
But I'll try again

Oh, the love I feel for you it's real
Oh, the love I feel for you it is real

Honey
I've been really struggling
To see this thing through
To the end

Careless love
I didn't talk for it wasn't my style
I've had enough
For I don't think that we can really be friends
But I'll try again

camera obscura - come back margaret

Come back Margaret he wants to adore you
Come back Margaret I?d like to explore you
Can?t you see the tears in my eyes?
With love for him I disguise

I like the free days with no expectations
I like it my way with no limitation
Still you see there are tears in my eyes
With love for him I despise

Darling you will always be around
Whether my mood?s up or if it?s down
In dreams I try to take you far away
But you never stay
No you never stay
No you never stay

camera obscura - country mile

Silver Birch against a Swedish sky
The singer in the band made me want to cry
We?re all inside our own heads now
We are leaving new friends
We are leaving this town
I wish you could be here with me
I would show you off like a trophy
The road it winds, it twists, it turns, now my stomach burns

Once again I?ll be the foolish one
Thinking a blink of these lashes would make you come
Don?t you worry, don?t get in a state
I don?t believe in true love anyway
Who?s being pessimistic now?
I could document this as our first and our last row
The more you look forlorn, the more to you I warm

I won?t be seeing you for a long while
I hope it?s not as long as a country mile
I feel lost

camera obscura - dory previn

Fed up of girls in pretty dresses
With boys who want to teach them a lesson
Sick of the sight of my old lover
Went under sheets and covers to get away from him

I can?t see what he once meant to me
I think it?s time I put him out of my mind

So I took a glimpse of Montana
Now nothing else matters
I?ll heal eventually
How I adore you Dory Previn
Turned you up to eleven for the band?s ears to bleed

I can?t see what he once meant to me
Do you think it?s time I put it out of my mind?
Do you think it?s time I put it out of my mind?

I can?t see what he once meant to me
Do you think it?s time I put it out of my mind?
I can?t see what he once meant to me
Do you think it?s time I put it out of my mind?

I can?t see what he once meant to me
Do you think it?s time I put it out of my mind?
I can?t see what he once meant to me
Do you think it?s time I put it out of my mind?
I think it?s time I let my love for him die

camera obscura - eastwood

How can you agree
With all that you concede
When all the while to me
It's cruel and can't be real
But I don't have to feel this way

My ambition fails with every passing day
My thoughts of going home are half a world away
There's something else that I could say

Maybe you can take it easy
Maybe you can take too long
Maybe you can lose the meaning all alone

You take all the plans and make them your demands
You won't be so unkind when you are on my side
I know that I can change your mind

Maybe you can take it easy
Maybe you can take too long
Maybe you can lose the meaning all alone

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