Playlist Steven Wilson

steven wilson - 3 years older

You cross the schoolyard with yer head held down
You walk the streets under the breaking clouds
With a hundred futures cascading out
It's complicated

You think of love as just a memory
A fog that smothers you, it's hard to breathe
But when you're on your own, that's when you're free
You're three years older
and you'll always be now

I can feel you more than you really know
I will love you more than I'll ever show

There was a time when someone seemed to care
A tourist in your bed, you left him there
You found a simple life with no one to share
It's not complicated

You make a list of all your big regrets
You share with people that you never met
You slowly move towards the medicine chest
You're three years older
and you'll always be now

I can feel you more than you really know
I will love you more than I'll ever show
You only have to say
and the world will slip away
From you

Shame on you for getting older every day
This place is not for you, so why do you still stay?
You stand in with the other fuckers in the rain
Life is not some silly cure for your pain
You'll have to pay

I can feel you more than you really know
I will love you more than I'll ever show
You only have to say
and the world will slip away
From you

steven wilson - abandoner

The other half is somewhere else
A play in the dark
Whines like dogs

I am restless, I am lost
Time freezes up
Flawless eyes

The rope you used to tie yourself
Dreams enter planes
Scatter remains

I reach for you, belying your touch
Snow starts to glide
I confide

steven wilson - ancestral

Reason never seems to come to guilty men
Things that meant so much mean nothing in the end
That function is dysfunction and to hide the truth
Distracted by their faith, ignoring every proof

A bicycle
A garden wall
A mother's call
A love is born
And after all, the sleet that falls on me

In this city there are those who'd live alone
Twilight brings them from the gloom into our homes
And hiding there among the wreckage left behind
They see things that aren't there
when they close their eyes

Go back if you want to
And remember who you are
'Cause there's nothing here for you my dear
And everything must pass

When the world doesn't want you
It will never tell you why
You can shut the door but can't ignore
The crawl of your decline

Come child
Go back if you want to

steven wilson - don 039 t hate me

A light snow is falling on London
All sign of the living has gone
The train pulls into the stations
And no-one gets off and no-one gets on

Don't hate me
I'm not special like you
I'm tired and I'm so alone
Don't fight me
I know you'll never care
Can I call you on the telephone, now and then?

One light burns in a window
It guides all the shadows below
Inside the ghost of a parting
And no-one is left, just the cigarette smoke

Don't hate me
I'm not special like you
I'm tired and I'm so alone
Don't fight me
I know you'll never care
Can I call you, I'm terrified

steven wilson - hand cannot erase

Together we have this love
Even so it's not enough
Bruised and burned we won't lose heart
And just because life gets hard

Writing lying e-mails to our friends back home
Feeling guilty if we sometimes wanna be alone

Hand cannot erase this love
Hand cannot erase this love

And a love like this makes us strong
We laugh it off if things go wrong
It's not you, forgive me if I find I need more space
Cause trust means we don't have to be together everyday

Hand cannot erase this love
Hand cannot erase this love

Hand cannot erase this love
Hand cannot erase this love

steven wilson - happiness iii

Something in this town is draining me
Could be the junk food or the gasoline
I hide it well

Tangled up in my last cigarette for a hundred years
I'm not as much of a slave to it as I appear
I'm just bored

Sorry that was cruel I only meant for you to lose your balance in the snow
Slip on the ice so I can catch you fall

Sorry that's not true I didn't think that you would take it all to heart

I'm tired of burning up the time at my pc
I only end up downloading the same old pornography
The same old scene

Sorry that was cruel I only meant for you to lose your balance in the snow
Slip on the ice so I can catch you fall

Sorry that's not true I didn't think that you would take it all to heart
I just to made it up so I could watch you crawl

Sorry if I'm rude I'm getting at your side a darker mood comes over me

Are there any reasons left to get out of bed
Is there anything else I can write that I haven't read
It's all been said

Sorry that was cruel I only meant for you to lose your balance in the snow
Slip on the ice so I can catch you fall

Sorry that's not true I didn't think that you would take it all to heart
I just to made it up so I could watch you crawl

Sorry if I'm rude I'm getting at your side a darker mood comes over me
And it's always worse in the shopping mall

Sorry that was cruel I only meant for you to lose your balance in the snow
Slip on the ice so I can catch you fall

Sorry that's not true I didn't think that you would take it all to heart
I just to made it up so I could watch you crawl

steven wilson - happy returns

Hey brother, happy returns
It's been a while now
I bet you thought that I was dead
But I'm still here, nothing's changed

Hey Brother, I'd love to tell you
I've been busy
But that would be a lie
'Cause the truth is
The years just pass like trains
I wave but they don't slow down

Hey brother, I see the freaks
Dispossed on day release
Avoiding the police
I feel I'm falling once again
But now there's no one left to catch me

Hey brother, I feel I'm living in parentheses
And I got trouble with the bills
Do the kids remember me?
Well I got gifts for them
And for you and Sorrow
But I'm feeling kind of drowsy now
So I'll finish this tomorrow

steven wilson - harmony korine

rain, come down, and fall forever
Drain, the dirt, into the wasteland
Pray, for sound, to quiet the howling

Feel, no shame, too brave
Feel, afraid, to wait forever

Kneel, to fade, the day's corrosion
Crawl, depart, towards perdition
Gray, the part, the bruise within you

Feel, no shame, too brave
Feel, afraid, to wait forever

Forever

Feel, no shame, too brave
Feel, afraid, to wait forever

steven wilson - home invasion

Download sex and download god
Download the funds to meet the cost
Download a dream home and a wife
Download the ocean and the sky

Another day on earth has passed me by
But I have lost all faith in what's outside
The awning of the stars across the sky
And the wreckage of the night

Download love and download war
Download the shit you didn't want
Download the things that make you mad
Download the life you wish you had

Another day on earth has passed me by
But I have lost all faith in what's outside
The awning of the stars across the sky
And the wreckage of the night

steven wilson - index

I'm a collector I'll collect anything I find
I never throw away anything anyway it's mine
And I'd collect you too if I was given half the chance
And trap you under the glass and add my autograph

I catalog, I preserve, and I index
And file you into my collectable rolodex
I keep me rubbish while all the people give away
And keep all of the pieces in a metal tray

Hoard
Collect
File
Index
Catalog
Preserve
Amass
Index

I'm a collector and I've always been misunderstood
I like the things the people seem to always overlook
I gather up and catalog it in a book I wrote
There's so much now there I forget if how to make a note

If I collected you and put you in a little cage
I could take you out and study you everyday
It isn't easy being me it's kind of lonely work
My obligation to collecting is my only thirst

Hoard
Collect
File
Index
Catalog
Preserve
Amass
Collect

steven wilson - insurgentes

Holy Mother of the simple one,
When you smile at me you bring me down,
You betray your thoughts.
All your prayers too low.

Now out of debt, you speak in tongues,
And out of bread, your work is done,

And your dream, absolve.
And your path, dissolve.

And your dream, absolve,
And your path, dissolve.

steven wilson - like dust i have cleared from my eye

That's something that you're laughing at me
And I hope you know what it is that you're laughing about
Cos it won't be long now 'til they're reeling you in
The same situation, the same disappointment you bring

So I hope you're happy with the impression you made
Deep in denial, like you planned it this way
But you're lost to me, like dust I have cleared from my eye
Your words have no meaning, so I stare up into the sky

Breathe in now... breathe out now...

steven wilson - no part of me

I feel worn out
There's no point drinking
When life slows right down
And holds you up above the water line
So sleep will never come

One last time then
Before I lose you
You don't have to pretend
I know that love for you was just security
There's no part of me in you

steven wilson - no twilight within the courts of the sun

Dragginâ?? a lake
Find the owner of the voice
I zip in the bag
And drove all across the noise

Examine the hairline
His archives in the strands
He turned into something
That puts the weakness in my hands

I see what I suppose
I breathe what I dispose
Black wheels get yellow in the sand
I steal every idea that I can

(Something something) shadows in the lake
(Something) she (something) beside (something)
(Something something) in a car
(Something something) in the dark

steven wilson - pariah

I'm tired of weakness
I'm tired of my feet of clay
I'm tired of days to come
I'm tired of yesterday
And all the worn out things that I ever said
now is much too late words stay in my head

So the day will begin again
Take comfot from me, it's up to you now
You're still here and you'll dig in again
That's comfort to you, it's up to you now
So Pariah, you will begin again
Take comfort from me and now I take comfort from you

I'm tired of Facebook
Tired of my failing health
I'm tired of everyone and that includes myself
Well being alone now, It doesn't bother me
Not knowing if you are, Well that's been Hell
you see

So the day will begin again
take comfort from me It's up to you now
You're still here and you'll dig in again
That's comfort to you, It's up to you now
So Pariah, you'll begin again
take comfort from me
It will take time

Don't you worry
Don't worry about a thing
'Cause nothing really dies
Nothing really ends

steven wilson