Playlist White Lies

white lies - a place to hide

Could I sit alone and ask about my future?
When you replied I'd just turn away
I've been searching through my books to try and find some truth
Perhaps disguise is a mysterious way?
And if I made a promise
Could I stay by your side?
Would you guarantee my safety?
And say that I'd be alright?
But if judgement day started tonight
At least I'd know I was right
And I'd be laughing at the end of the world
But take my hand tonight I think we'll be alright girl

And I can see it on the TV
There's an air attack
People on the mountains
Screaming I'll be back
And I'm banging on your door
So come on and let me in
I need a place to hide
I need a place to hide before the storm begins

If I told you all the times when I'd done wrong
Could you bathe my soul and wash it all away?
I can't forgive the things that I can still remember
So I think my friend these sins are here to stay
And I could make a promise
With a tear in my eye
And all the hope in my heart
But all the doubt in my mind
But if judgement day started tonight
At least I'd know I was right
And I'd be laughing at the end of the world
But take my hand tonight I think we'll be alright girl

And I can see it on the TV
There's an air attack
People on the mountains
Screaming I'll be back
And I'm banging on your door
So come on and let me in
I need a place to hide
I need a place to hide before the storm begins

white lies - bad love

I was waiting in the back-seat of the car
When I knew i'd given up
Down one of the back-streets by the park
So sick of the taste of blood

I'm gonna write your girl a letter
It'll make everything better

Screaming down the phone-line to your mum
She said "Honey ain't home right now"
I bought a tuxedo and I bought a gun
And wore them all around this town

Nobody dares to lift a finger
They can see my heart is down and injured

If i'm guilty of anything, its loving you too much
Honey, sometimes love...
Means getting a little rough

This is not bad love, this is not bad love

I've been going to church but I don't believe
I'll ever clear this pain
Walk like a ghost through the streets
Soaked from the pouring rain

And I won't ask your god for mercy...
My spirits low, my soul is dirty

If i'm guilty of anything, its loving you too much
Honey, sometimes love...
Means getting a little rough

This is not bad love, this is not bad love

white lies - bigger than us

You took the tunnel route home, you've never taken that way with me before
Did you feel the need for change?
Apologies on your fingernails, love flickered in the city of lights,
Like intermittent radio waves

I don't need your tears
I don't want your love
I just gotta get home

And I feel like I'm breaking up, and I wanted to stay,
Headlights on the hillside, don't take me this way,
I don't want you to hold me, I don't want you to pray,
This is bigger than us

You went where the horses cry, you've never taken that way with me before.
Did you feel the need for change?
Guilt smeared across your lips, I was tired and cold from the window
You're tired, nothing's changed

I don't need your tears
I don't want your love
I just gotta get home

And I feel like I'm breaking up, and I wanted to stay,
Headlights on the hillside, don't take me this way,
I don't want you to hold me, I don't want you to pray,
This is bigger than us

white lies - black song

I can't think straight,
I've been thinking in love triangles,
and vicious circles,
is it the same as before?

And I said I could never lie to you,
but you know I always do,
is it the same as before?

And misery is like a hearse,
cause you know where you're going,
There's crowds at the windows,
but no way of knowing,
who they got this time,
and who's going next,
she always leaves a letter
and signs off with an S.

I can't think straight,
I've been thinking in love triangles,
and vicious circles,
is it the same as before?

And I said I could never lie to you,
but you know I always do,
is it the same as before?

And misery is like a hearse,
cause I know where you're going
The waves getting higher
And I'm tired of rowing
She whispers in my ear
Sings the cold Black Song
Hold me a while longer
She won't be gone for long
And fetch the cargirl
I think it's time we got out of here
No brakes into the night
And we sang as my mistress
And we got a fine witness

Just drive to lift their lives.

white lies - come down

Felt love last night for the first time in a long time
Feels like coming home to stay
Like falling in the sea when it's too hot in the sun
Made things so much worse today

I know you said you'll miss me
But I know that you won't
Cos time is like a wave that washes all the pain away
When you come down
I know I said I'll see you
When it gets to New Year
But now that all the rain's stopped falling
All I think is getting out of here

Felt love last night for the first time in a long time
Feels like I never went away
Like drifting back to sleep when I'm aching and I'm tired
Made me feel so much worse today

I know you said you'll miss me
But I know that you won't
Cos time is like a wave that washes all the pain away
When you come down
I know I said I'll see you
When it gets to New Year
But now that all the rain's stopped falling
All I think is getting out of here

I know I've been welcome
But tell me how far
Ceremonial notes sound
The gaps in my heart beat now
Never been good enough
For you or for me
I've buried my pride
I've buried my key

I know I've been welcome
But tell me how far
Ceremonial notes sound
The gaps in my heart beat now
Never been good enough
For you or for me
I've buried my pride
I've buried my key

I know you said you'll miss me
But I know that you won't
Cos time is like a wave that washes all the pain away
When you come down
I know I said I'll see you
When it gets to New Year
But now that all the rain's stopped falling
All I think is getting out of here.

white lies - death

i love the feeling when we lift up
watching the world so small below
i love the dreaming when i think of
the safety in the clouds out my window
i wonder what keeps us so high up
could there be a love beneath these wings
if we suddenly fall should i scream out
or keep very quite and cling to my mouth as i'm crying
so frightened of dying
relax yes i'm trying
this fears got a hold on me

yes, this fears got a hold on me

i love the quite of the night time
when the sun in the deathly sea
i can feel my heart beating as i speed from
then sense of time catching up with me
the sky set out like a pathway
but who decides which path we take
as people drift into a dream world
i close my eyes as my hands shake and when i see a new day
who's driving this anyway
i picture my own grave
cause fears got a hold on me

yes this fears got a hold on me

Floating neither up or down i wonder when i'll hit the ground
well the earth beneath my body shake
and cast your sleeping hearts awake
could it tremble stars from moon light skies
could it drag a tear from your cold eyes
i live on the right side i sleep in the left
that's why everything's got to be love or death

yes this fears got a hold on me

white lies - est

If you tell me to jump then I'll die
In my dreams I'm there
I always hoped that I'd learn how to fly
In my dreams I'm there

You can tie my hands to the walls
But you can't tie my dreams to this place
I might fall like a rock from your heart
But you won't see me fall from grace

Fate always loses hope
Like electric sparks in my heart
Fate always loses hope
Now be a good girl and do what you're told

If you tell me to jump then I'll die
In my dreams I'm there
I always hoped that I'd learn how to fly
In my dreams I'm there

I leave my memoirs in blood on the floor
And my fears with the nurse on the stairs
I'm only going where you'll be some day
So don't say rest in peace in your prayers

Fate always loses hope
Like electric sparks in my heart
Fate always loses hope
Now be a good girl and do what you're told

I hope you, remember me
I hope you, never pretend for me
I hope you, remember me
I hope you

Fate always loses hope
Like electric sparks in my heart
Fate always loses hope
Now be a good girl and do what you're told

I hope you, remember me
I hope you, never pretend for me
I hope you, remember me
I hope you, never forget about me
I hope you, remember me
I hope you, never pretend for me
I hope you, remember me
I hope you

white lies - farewell to the fairground

Lights still in our eyes, we're leaving this whole fairground behind, it's a dream that's going cold.

Circus never dies, the act forever haunts these skies, i know we cannot stay.

Farewell to the fairground, these rides aren't working anymore.
Goodbye to this dead town, until the ice begins to thaw.

This place used to gleam, i see it in my hopeful dreams, now i had to get away.
We move towards the stars, and all that we touch becomes ours, lets keep warm till it's day.

Farewell to the fairground, these rides aren't working anymore.
Goodbye to this dead town, until the ice begins to thaw.

We'll head south, just hold my hand now. I feel like i'm casting off my clothes and i'm running through the snow towards the sunset and i'm always with you.

Keep on running, keep keep on running, there's no place like home, there's no place like home.

Farewell to the fairground, these rides aren't working anymore. Goodbye to this dead town, until the ice begins to thaw.

We'll head south, just hold my hand now, i feel like i'm casting off my clothes, and i'm running through the snow towards the sunset, where i'm always with you

white lies - fifty on our foreheads

On the cusp of vessel 18
A look of terror in our eyes
The moonlight licked the face of danger
Innocence made us like soldiers
Untouchable and golden
The quilt of darkness dotted with our teardrops

I know you're sad I'm leaving
So this may hurt a little
But girl look from your window late tonight
You think my heart is frozen
While yours is slowly grieving
You'll see the boy you loved start burning in the sky

We were a dozen to the project
With a galaxy of questions
And all we heard was lies about the truth
No choice but be obedient
Like prisoners of war
Caught on the wrong side of morality and youth

We thought about our loved ones
Tallied 50 on our foreheads
With the pen your mother gave me in the Spring
The sun beat at the windows
Within an hour James had cracked
Left the ship and died still clinging to the wings

white lies - from the stars

I saw a friend that i once knew at a funeral,
He took the time out to be seen.
His eyes kept glancing to the hour hand on the gold watch, that he'd been given by a magazine.

He didn't cry when the priest gave the sermon,
Just pulled up the woolen collar on his fleece.
Crossed his arms, gave a sigh and checked the time again,
As he sat inches from the wife of the deceased.

He catches raindrops on his window, it reminds him how he falls,
From the stars back to our cities, where we've never felt so small

Rain drops from his window making puddles in his hands,
He thinks how quick the water's rising as another raindrop lands

He took a chauffeur driven car back to his hotel,
Passing through the sick streets where he was born
He said "Driver, what's happened to these buildings? They all look run down and so alone."

He took a shower in the bathroom of his penthouse,
Put the Do not Disturb on his door
When the maid came in the morning
She found him shivering on the bedroom floor

He catches raindrops on his window, it reminds him how he falls,
From the stars back to our cities, where we've never felt so small

Rain drops from his window making puddles in his hands,
He thinks how quick the water's rising as another raindrop lands

He catches raindrops on his window, it reminds him how he falls,
From the stars back to our cities, where we've never felt so small

Rain drops from his window making puddles in his hands,
He thinks how quick the water's rising as another raindrop lands

white lies - holy ghost

You were writhing on the floor like a moth in molasses
Whoever taught you to move your body like that?
Goose pimples just vanished like some out of date acid
Whoever taught you to scream like that?

Maybe someday I could move like you
Well I'm not looking for a holy ghost.
Maybe someday I can scream like you
Well I'm not looking for a holy ghost.

You were crying on the shoulders of the men in the shadows,
Whoever taught you to sell your sex like that?
I'm thinking two halos in a stain-glass window
Jesus' strangers are as strange as that

Maybe someday I could move like you
I'm not looking for a holy ghost.
Maybe someday I can scream like you
I'm not looking for a holy ghost.

white lies - is love

She stares into the mirror, youth fading with the sun.
The hollows in her face like wishing wells.
Scarlet as a paper-cut, and jewelled as the Orion,
She'd never worn that jewellery as a girl.

She says 'the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds.
Is love

He stares into the river, heart falling to the drift"
An argument of cars moving full steam behind.
Blood-shoot as a baby, and sulking like a valley
Fishing in reflections, killing time.

He says 'the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds
Is love

It's the bath that's getting cold
While you're frozen to your bed,
The milk that's going rancid on the table.
The panic in the evening,
The photos in the dustbin,
The pointless items we forgot to label.
It's the perfume on her wrists
That stinks of easy Birthdays,
The spare keys like asbestos on the side.
It's the cross around his neck,
For luck and not for honour,
Like diamond over knuckle
On a newly married bride.

She says 'the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds.
Is love

He says 'the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds
Is love

And I know the only thing I've ever found,
That's greater than it always sounds.
Is love.

white lies - nothing to give

You talked me to sleep last night
I hadn't left that sad in years
Your eyes like glass mistakes
They moved me close to tears
You speak those favourite fables
Which I am yet to live
And Casually confirm my fears
That I've got nothing to give

I wish I could say
That I've got no regrets
But saying that would be one more
To pile on my desk
I wish I could say I've clung to time like gold
Bust as you said goodbye I almost died

I take it back all of it
Those names I called myself
Like hardbacks on the shelf
I take it back those promises
I made to everyone
I'm falling through a ribbon last
Before I'd learn to run

I wish I could say
That I've got no regrets
But saying that would be one more
To pile on my desk
I wish I could say I've clung to time like gold
Bust as you said goodbye I almost died

white lies - peace amp quiet

After the red ants, the black-out comes peace and quiet
Those little footprints fleshed out calm in my mind
I lay like a compass, digits accusing the sunrise
Raindrops abseil the window and flinch through the hurt cries

I feel this great pressure coming down on me
And the tide of my bliss, pulling at your sympathy
I feel this great pressure coming down on me
(when my nerve's on the high-wire)
My bliss, pulling at your sympathy

After the hunt and the sweat now comes peace and quiet
Your head on my heart anchored the storm in my eyes
I lay like a carcass, your lips never letting the blood dry
And so I pray for tomorrow and wait listening out for a reply

I feel this great pressure coming down on me
And the tide of my bliss, pulling at your sympathy
I feel this great pressure coming down on me
(when my nerve's on the high-wire)
My bliss, pulling at your sympathy

white lies - strangers

I pressed my ear to your chest
And heard something personal.
A whisper that knew my name.
Is this how your heart treats all strangers?
Whith love and affection?
Then I feel cold and empty.

I've got a sense of urgency.
I've got to make this happen.
No stone unturned.

I've got a sense of urgency.
I've got to make something happen.
No stone unturned.

I held your hand while you were sleeping
The whole night you griped to mine.
A grip that begged me to stay.
Is this how your limbs treat all strangers?
With love and affection?
Then I feel weak and empty.

I've got a sense of urgency.
I've got to make this happen.
No stone unturned.

I've got a sense of urgency.
I've got to make something happen.
No stone unturned.

Strangers don't hide.
The morning hunts you down.
And there's nothing stranger
Than to love someone.

Strangers don't hide.
The morning hunts you down.
And there's nothing stranger
Than to love someone.

I heard the water beat at your skin
A shower of discipline, as havy as iron.
And I imagined the hand that gripped mine.
Now gripping the gaps in the tiles.
Just holding on tight.

white lies