Playlist Duncan Sheik

duncan sheik - a body goes down

Once in a while
A man comes along
Even his failures were favorite songs
Oh to have made something so unsurpassed
As certain things fall away
So certain things last

A body goes down
In the Mississippi waters
Weighted by a beauty
Afraid of its light
Notify your holy men
Console your sons and daughters
And tell me one more time
What is just
What is right

Chances are good
We spread blasphemous lies
Safe to say nobody knew what was inside
Of course there is grace
And those halos of pain
Maybe he sang what he came here to sing

A body goes down
In the Mississippi waters
Weighted by a beauty
Afraid of its light
Notify your holy men
Console your sons and daughters
And tell me one more time
What is just
What is right

Speed on to the next world
Speed on to the next life
Better I'm sure by far
Orpheus driven
Treasures given
Heal the most broken of hearts...
Speed on...
Speed on...
Speed on...

duncan sheik - a mirror in the heart

There is a swan-white curtain
Somewhere within the sky
It's known of every sermon
Every anguished cry
The howls of hopeless people
Frightened and alone

There is a spotless silver mirror
That hangs within the moon
It's witnessed every winter
The cities charred and ruined
The herds of homeless people
Filling all the roads

Some may pray to their mirrors
Some may kneel before the sun
Me, I say there's a mirror
In the heart of everyone

Bullets paint the blue distance
The mirror's stained from every gun
Still, I say that it glistens
In the heart of everyone

And there are golden whispers
Within the afternoon
They've held the brothers, sisters
Felt the mothers' wounds
The broken-hearted people
Burying their own

Some may pray to their mirrors
Some may kneel before the sun
Me, I say there's a mirror
In the heart of everyone

Strike the bell, and we listen
Light the candle, and we're shown
The gods themselves throwing incense
As all the world begins to glow

Such a flame, such a mirror
In the heart of everyone

Such a flame, such a mirror
In the heart of everyone

duncan sheik - alibi

Did you come down to give me
Or take me away
I ad so many things to tell you
But now I don't have much to say
This feeling like we're hiding out, is getting in the way

Let's quit the town just look around
There's nothing here to keep us alive
If they try to run us down
You know I'm on your site

And I want you to be my alibi
So they won't find me
And they won't find you
An we may tell lies
But we may the true

Did you come down to take me
Or give me away
I had so many things to ask you
Now you don't have much to say
And these alchoholic afternoons, are getting in the way

Let's quit the town just look around
There's nothing here to keep us alive
If they try to run us down
You know I'm on your site

And I want you to be my alibi
So they won't find me
And they won't find you
An we may tell lies
But we may the true

I want to be your alibi... Till the day we die

duncan sheik - barely breathing

I know what you're doing
I see it all to clear
I only taste the saline when i kiss away your tears
You really had me going, wishing on a star

But the black holes that surrounded you are heavier by far
I believed in your confusion, you were so completely torn
It must've been that yesterday was the day that i was born
There's not much to examine, there's nothing left to hide
You really can't be serious, you hafta ask me why
I say goodbye...

Cause I am barely breathing
And I can't find the air
Don't know who I'm kidding
Imagining you care
And I could stand here waiting
A fool for another day
I don't suppose it's worth the price, worth the price
The price that I would pay

Everyone keeps asking, what's it all about?
I used to be so certain and I can't figure out
What is this attraction? I only feel the pain
There's nothing left to reason and only you to blame
Will it ever change?

Cause I am barely breathing
And I can't find the air
I don't know who I'm kidding
Imaginging you care
And I could stand here waiting
A fool for another day
But I don't suppose it's worth the price, worth the price
The price that I would pay
But I'm thinking it over anyway...

I've come to find
I may never know
Your changing mind
Is it friend or foe?
I rise above
Or sink below
With every time
You Come and go
Please don't come and go

Cause I am barely breathing
And I can't find the air
I don't know who I'm kidding
Imagining you care
And I could stand here waiting
A fool for another day
But I don't suppose it's worth the price, worth the price
The price that I would pay
But I'm thinking it over anyway...

duncan sheik - bite your tongue

Such an annoying conversation
I'm sorry but I'm tired to trying
To be some picture of compassion
...and anyway it sounds like I'm lying
...and yes I've heard the world has conspired
To steal away your god-given right
To a happy home and comfortable children
Next you'll sue them for abandoning you!!!

So bite your tongue
You're not the only one
Who's been let down
Bite your tongue
Maybe it's good for you
To hit the ground

Oh, Christ... it's gonna sound like I'm agreeing
With the most ultra-boring ideas
Of pop psychological western gurus
Who haven't gotten lucky in years
...and so you see I have no intention
Of giving you the easy way out
Yes I'll smile as I burn the self-help section
Of my local bookstore!!!

So bite your tongue
You're not the only one
Who's been let down
Bite your tongue
Maybe it's good for you
To hit the ground

Blame the shapes and blame the angles
Blame it on your own dark planes
If you blame on something other...
The victim's somg remains...
Remains...

So bite your tongue
You're not the only one
Who's been let down
Bite your tongue
Maybe it's good for you
To hit the ground

duncan sheik - blasphemous rumours

Girl of sixteen
Slashed her wrists
Bored with life
Didn't succeed
Thank The Lord
For small mercies

Fighting back the tears

Mother reads the note again
Sixteen candles burn in her mind
She takes the blame
It's always the same
She goes down on her knees
And prays

I don't want to start
Any blasphemous rumours
But I think that God's
Got a sick sense of humor
And when I die
I expect to find Him laughing

Girl of eighteen
Fell in love with everything
Found new life in Jesus Christ
Hit by a car
Ended up
On a life support machine

Summer's day
As she passed away
Birds were singing
In the summer's sky
Then came the rain
And once again
A tear fell
From her mother's eye

I don't want to start
Any blasphemous rumours
But I think that God's
Got a sick sense of humor
And when I die
I expect to find Him laughing

duncan sheik - chimera

born scorpio boy
chased by storms
always safe

rush out of bed
tornado is dead
in its wake, sunlight
the land in uproot

taken down south
to a hurricane town
fallen down bombs
wishing for snowbound home

robbed by time
the shadows of birds
fortunes won and lost
and still, i'm wandering...
wandering...
wandering...

duncan sheik - days go by

I know it's not fashionable
To be this hopeful...well laugh away
I didn't think it was possible
To be grateful...anyway
I know it's not sensible
To be this passionate...everyday

Days go by
I catch myself smile
More than you'd ever expect
It's been a long while
Since it's been o.k.
To feel this way

In the volumes of history
Have you ever seen anything...so pure
In the wildest mythology
Were the gods and goddesses...ever so in love
In your own experience
Have you ever known tenderness...like this

Days go by
I catch myself smile
More than you'd ever expect
It's been a long while
Since it's been o.k.
To feel this way
These are the most precious
Of all my days

duncan sheik - everyone everywhere

Faded longing
Tired of wanting
Can't explain the fear that's haunting you
Should I go?
I may be wrong
...so wrong

Hear me calling from Eagle Mountain
One of millions of suns
Perfect nature
Deepest wisdom
Lies within everyone
Everyone
... and everywhere the brilliant horizon

Some say sacred
Some profane
There are no distictions
Then again...yes...
I may be wrong
But ir feels right
So right...

Hear me calling from Eagle Mountain
One of millions of suns
Perfect nature
Deepest wisdom
Lies within everyone
Everyone
...and everywhere the brilliant horizon
'Cause everywhere lies within everyone

duncan sheik - far away

If, again, you wander
If, too soon again, you wander
Far away, far away...
Let this, too, be with you,
And old tune somewhere within you --
Far away, far away...
Falling through the autumn evening,
Every darkened street. Calling to forgotten feeling
The passing ghosts and scattered leaves
If, again, you love him
If, too soon again, you love him --
Far away, far away...
Let this, too, be with him,
Humming smoothly when you kiss him --
Far away, far away...
Hauting all the talk, and stalling
Every hope of sleep
Calling to some distant longing,
Another soul within your sheets...
If, some day, you love me,
If, truth, some day, you love me,
Far away, far away...
For if, some day, I wander
Then, too soon, I too will wander
Far away, far away...
Far away... Far away... Far away...
Calling to your heart, and stealing
All the want away...

duncan sheik - for you

For you I want to sing a happier song
for you I'm gonna try to right all my wrongs
for you I'm gonna break my bad habits
there's a golden ring and I want you to have it
there's a golden ring and I want you

For you I'm gonna sit and patiently wait
it's great if you're early but if its fine if you're late
for you I feel love and I just want to show it
you're a beautiful girl and want you to know it
you're a beautiful girl and want you to know it
you're a beautiful girl and want you to know it
it's an infinite world and I want you

Once again I am opened
Once again I am opened
Once again I am opened
Once again I am opened

For you I'm waiting on the ticket line
I gotta get back I don't wanna waste time
but the people are tired and the line is so long
so all I can do is sing this song

duncan sheik - foreshadowing over and out

Maybe I'll just whisper
neither humble neither proud
Listen if you care to,
but I will not sing too loud
No, not tonight
Just before i'm over and out
I wanna sing of better times,
I wanna sing of hope
We've heard those empty promises
Sound like such a joke
And so I stumble
So hard to say, so difficult
Sometimes I am not able
To separate my dreams from false cliches

CHORUS
But the more and more I hear it
I feel the spirit rise
The people here are talking 'bout
The oneness of our lives
Maybe I will turn away, maybe you will run
It just maybe a foreshadowing
Of what's to come

So anything can happen,
I don't believe in fate
I wont try to convince you
'Cause it's getting kind of late
There it is.Just before i'm over and out
My parting shot - just to say you hold the reins

But the more and more I hear it
I feel the spirit rise
The people here are talking bout
The oneness of all life
Maybe I will turn away, maybe you will run
It just maybe a foreshadowing
Ofwhat's to come

And while you struggle.
to realize this earthly paradise
Isn't so far above us
So put away those poisonous ideas
You know it's just ideas
They're the only... enemies 'round here
I see your eyes are closing,
didn't mean to keep you up
There's more that I could say now
but I guess i've said enough
So sleep well.Just before I'm over and out
Yes, sleep well, just before I'm over and out

The more and more I hear it,
I feel the spirit rise
The people here are talking about
the oneness of all life
Maybe I will turn away, maybe you will run
but it just may be,
a foreshadowing of what's to come

duncan sheik - genius

Clearly Im a genius
If she only knew it
But somewhere in her radius
I really blew it
I know, I know what I said to her
And I know what I did
What I dont know is how I could ever be
So incredibly stupid

Chorus:

[you dont really need to know every last detail.
Its hardly worth telling
Suffice to say I said that I would be there
I never came through]

Maybe Im a genius and
She just dont see it
I fronted,
I should have admitted,
She saw right through it
I never thought that I could be
So underhanded.
Somehow Ive cornered the market on
The double standard

Chorus

For this act of genius
And so many others
I know I should apologize
And see how it goes

What am I waiting for?
Come on, come on, come on, come on

Sha la la la la la sha la la la la la la la

To all of the geniuses...

Chorus

duncan sheik - good morning

I awake to find the devil
sitting near my bed.
we have a conversation
...........he says:

Good Morning Mr. Cut-throat
these are most exciting times
we are surrounded by fools and crooks,
strangers that give us dirty looks,
so many different people to despise

it's tearing you apart / you haven't got the heart
I don't mean to complain, but it seems a little strange

good evening Mr. Turncoat!
well done!
you've been watching the so-called news
(and now yo see it)
that no news is good news,
we don't want to confuse
the popular pursuit
of absolute truth
and who has time for such remote endeavors

you wanna disappear,
how did you end up here?
I don't mean to complain
but it seems a little strange

take me to your leader
I sure could use a laugh
(I hear) he's made a new birdfeeder
and he sleeps in a birdbath
who needs to join the circus
come on, just look around
we are surrounded
by a bunch of f**king clowns!

they sing la la la la la la la la
they all sing la la la la la la la
we all sing la la la la la la la la
everybody sing, la la la la la la la la

its tearing you apart / you haven't got the heart
you sit there and complain, it seems a little lame.

good morning, Mr. Misanthrope
I sure do hope you remember our terms

duncan sheik - half life

I'm awake in the afternoon, I fell asleep in the living room
it's one of those moments when everything is so clear
before the truth goes back into hidding
I wanna decide cause it's worth deciding
to work on finding something more than this fear
it takes so much out of me to pretend
tell me now, tell me how
make amend

Maybe, I need to see the daylight
live beyond the half life
don't you see I'm breaking down
oh, lately..the sun here don't feel right
this just a half life
is there really no escape, no escape from time
of any kind

I keep trying to understand
this thing and that thing my felo man
I guess I'll let you know when I figure out
I don't mind a few mysteries they can stay that away
It's fine by me you are another mystery I am missing
It takes too much out of me to pretend

Maybe I need to see the daylight
live beyond the half life
don't you see I'm breaking down
oh, lately... the sun here don't feel right
this is just a half life
is there really no escape, no escape from time
of any kind

c'mon lets fall in love
well c'mon let's fall in love
c'mon let's fall in love..again

Cause lately, the sun here don't feel right
this is just a half life
without you I get breaking down
oh, wake me
I wanna see the daylight
save me from this half life
let you and I escape
escape from time

C'mon lets fall in love
C'mon lets fall in love
C'mon let's fall in love...again

duncan sheik