B-sides, Seasides & Freerides

You told so many lies
Your tongue is black with fireflies
But you spit them out and pretend you're sneezing
And every word is such a joke
With so many pasts you'd be ninety years old
Don't you wonder why the room keeps on leaving

Hey, hey - what's that i heard you say
Don't think that i would never need it
Hey, hey - what's that i heard you say
Don't think that i would ever believe it

It's just a thought and nothing more
That all your thoughts and moves are taught
And memorised each night before your sleeping
And every word is such a joke
Strung from neon masts flying flags you hope
Will win you friends and give your life some meaning

(repeat chorus)

You told so many lies
Your tongue is stained with alibis
You've been around the world and found it pleasing
And every word is such a joke
With so many pasts you'd be a hundred years old
Don't you wonder why the room keeps on leaving

(repeat chorus)

Your dream make-up is cracked and wearing thin
Your eyes are on your chin
It's getting hard for you
But to make up is only make-believe
And we don't need a scene like this

Whatever happened to the beautiful losers
Whatever happened to the beautiful losers

Your eyes closed and dreamed of places that you and i would go
It's getting hard for me to love you, like i used to
I don't believe "hello"
Do you?

Whatever happened to the beautiful losers
Whatever happened to the beautiful losers

Shirley was a lady whose teeth were made of gold
She danced before the music and everything it told

Huckleberry grove
Where the music plays into tomorrow night
Huckleberry grove
Only fools would need to argue or to fight

Shirley had eight children and each of them were told
You got joy for singing burning in your soul

Huckleberry grove
Where the idiots can't ease you of your mind
Huckleberry grove
Take a free train, leave your luggage far behind

Oh she sings shangri-la
Oh she sings shangri-la

Shirley was a lady who mostly stayed at home
But she went out dancing down huckleberry grove

Huckleberry grove
Where the music plays into tomorrow night
Huckleberry grove
You'll be groovin' on the best days of your life
Huckleberry grove
Where the music's guaranteed to blow your mind
Huckleberry grove
Leave your luggage, get a free train, get behind

Oh she sings shangri-la
Oh she sings shangri-la

For all of her diction; her self medication
She fell down and dented her nose
And laughed at the coroners
Desperately warning her
Watch now the way that it goes
And she knows...

She's living at the top of the world

In need of salvation she spoke to her mother
Who died in the service of king
What is the meaning of wallflowers receiving a glance
It would mean everything
And she thinks...

She's living at the top of the world

Three minutes later she looked in the mirror
And cracked half a smile at her toes
And she knows, she knows...

She's living at the top of the world

When you're starting to choke take some pills with your coke
It's inspirational
When your life is a mess light one more cigarette
It's so logical

Well it's something your mother can't abide
But it's something that i freely prescribe

Take yourself for a ride
It never felt so good
As the night that you and i played robin hood
Stealing from the backrooms of my mind
Remembering a time when we were five
A time i thought we'd left behind

When i'm starting to cry
Come and sit by my side
I will love you so
And when nightmares come
I will try to be fun, even though;
I'm so scared you know

Well it's something your mother can't abide
But it's something that i freely prescribe

Take yourself for a ride
It never felt so good
As the night that you and i played robin hood
Stealing from the backrooms of our minds
Stealing from a time when we were five
A time i thought we'd left behind

Stealing from the backrooms of our minds
Stealing from a time when we were five
A time i thought we'd left behind

When you're starting to choke take some pills with your coke
It's hysterical

I never saw it as the start
It's more a change of heart
Rapping on the windows, whistling down the chimney pots
Blowing off the dust in the room where i forgot
Yeah i laid my plans in solid rock
Stepping through the door like a troubadour whiling just an hour away
Looking at the trees on the roadside feeling it's a brighter day

You and i should ride the coast
And wind up in our favourite coats just miles away
Roll a number, write another song like
Jimmy heard the day he caught the train

He sipped another rum and coke and told a dirty joke
Walking like groucho sucking on a number 10
Rolling on the floor with the cigarette burns walked in
Yeah i miss the crush and i'm home again
Stepping through the door with the night in store whiling just an hour away,
Looking at the trees and the star-bright feeling it's a brighter day

Repeat chorus

You and i should ride the tracks
And find ourselves just wading through tomorrow
But you and i when we're coming down
We're only getting back
You know i feel the sorrow

When you find that things are getting wild
Don't you want days like these...
Don't you need days like these...

I'm not one to judge that much
And anyway i just wanna get high on you
But thirteen year old girls in hotels on the other side of the world
Seems a little much for me

Yeah, i wanna stay alive with you...

But they look you in the eye
And anyway they'll always slip a smile at you
But thirteen year old girls in rat-holes on the other side of the world
They're gonna lie to you

Yeah, i wanna stay alive with you...

Free-runs in a town where the boys and girls are settling down for the night
To make up and make eyes at you

Yeah, i wanna stay alive with you...