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Idlewild lyrics
Album: The Remote Part [2002]
| You Held the World in Your Arms | |
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Every face, even the one you saw yesterday
It looks different today,
Because everything’s changed since yesterday
In every possible way, things seem different today,
Not like yesterday
Is consideration, more like an exception, of consideration?
You held the world in your arms tonight
And what if you held the world in your arms
When you’re secure, do you feel much safer?
When days never change and it’s three years later
It’s like your life, hasn’t changed and it’s three years late
How does it feel to be three years late
and watching your youth drift away?
What seems different seems different today
What seems different seems different today
Is consideration, more like an exception, of consideration?
You held the world in your arms tonight
And what if you held the world in your arms
You held the world in your arms tonight
And what if you held the world in your arms
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| A Modern Way of Letting Go | |
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Artist: Idlewild
Album : A Remote Part
Submitted by Scott Stinson
Enjoy this song..... Idlewild Are Going To BE Big Very Soon! Mark My Words !!
If I know, what I know, then no one will watch over you
So someone shouldn’t really tell me what I want to know
I know, I owe, and I know that matters don’t matter as much
As you think they do
You will only be yourself
When you can never be yourself
And you will only be yourself
When you understand what you know
How long, will we go on with a modern way of letting go,
tell me how long will we go on with the modern way of letting you go?
If I know, what I know, losing isn’t learning to be lost
It’s learning to know when you’re lost
If I know, what I know,
I’ll want to make the most of what it seems like
You will only be yourself
You can never be yourself
And you will only be yourself
When you understand what you know
How long, will we go on with a modern way of letting you go,
tell me how long will we go on with the modern way of letting you go?
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| American English | |
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VERSE 1
Songs when they're truth
Are all dedicated to you
In this invisible world
I choose to live in
And if you believe that
Then now I understand
Why words mean so much to you
They'll never be about you
Maybe you're young without youth
Or maybe you're old without
Knowing anything's true
I think you're young without youth
BRIDGE
Then you contract the American dream
You never look up once
You've contracted American dreams
I require you to stop and look up
CHORUS
Sing a song about myself
Keep singing a song about myself
Not some invisible world
VERSE 2
Constantly searching to find something new
But what will you find when you think that nothing's true
Maybe it's that nothing is new
So you let me hear songs that were written all about you
The good songs were written for you
They'll never be about you
BRIDGE
Then you contract the American dream
You never look up once
You've contracted American dreams
You never look up once so don't look up
CHORUS x2
And I won't tell you what this means
Coz you already know
And I won't tell you what this means
Coz you already know so
CHORUS x2*
*on 2nd repitition sing:
"And you came along and found the weak spot
That you've always wanted
Let yourself be everything
That you've always wanted
It doesn't have to be so exciting
As you've always wantedNo need for explanations
You've always wanted" over the chorus*
And you'll find what you find when you find there's nothing x2
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| I Never Wanted | |
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i created myself to be on my own
but i didnt expect to be alone
did you create yourself to be on your own?
these are the reasons things should be unknown
the days wont let you know
the days wont let you know
that all i ever wanted was to be there with you
all i ever wanted to know anywhere with you
no one creates themself
unless they try to shut out the caution that made them lied to
all this talk but no one will tell me
where and when i need to go
the days wont let you know
the days wont let you know
that all i ever wanted was to be there with you
all i ever wanted to know anywhere with you
there is no reason
there is no reason
there is no reason for that now
there is no reason
there is no reason
there is no reason for that
all i ever wanted was to be there with you
all i ever wanted to know anywhere with you
all i ever wanted was to be there with you
all i ever wanted to know anywhere
ever wanted to know anywhere with you
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| (I Am) What I Am Not | |
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Calling places, collecting careless
Sentences I write them down
So I ignore them, and you should too, you should ignore every word
Is calling what you can surrender
The only way to really learn
That the alphabet made up the words
You could never resist to quote
If all this wisdom is true
Then I doubt it could really have come from you
Then I am what I am not, I am what I am not
So there must be something more then
If I am just a thought I’m not
Faster than the destination
Of knowing where you really are
Is where you’ve always been
Or is it where you began
And happiness, did it happen
Sooner than the doubt it cost you
You learn from the mistakes that I taught you
If all this wisdom is true
Then I doubt it could really have come from you
Then I am what I am not, I am what I am not
So there must be something more then
I am what I am not,
If there’s nothing more then
I am what I am not, I am what I am not
There must be something more then
If I am what I am not
Then I am what I am not, I am what I am not
There must be something more then
I am what I am not,
I know there’s nothing more then
I am what I am not, I am what I am not
I know there’s nothing more then
If I am what I am not
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| Live in a Hiding Place | |
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there are times that i should try
to be so much more alive
but if time was right then i would be with you again
or do you worry that i try
to avoid the point and then deny
the time i've spent deciding it was you again
it's when i
i live in a hiding place
it's the only way i feel safe
when i'm safe in a hiding place
that's not hidden now
i'm safe in a hiding place
it's the only way i feel safe
when i'm safe in a hiding place
and your full facts were not things that could
add up to words
think about meaning more as an after word
i return but don't remain
i'm impatient for a reason to complain
about winter making me see-through again
or is it your damaged reply
that makes me realise that the more i try
the less that plans will help me comprehend again
so i
i live in a hiding place
it's the only way i feel safe
when i'm safe in a hiding place
thats not hidden now
i'm safe in a hiding place
it's the only way i feel safe
when i'm safe in a hiding place
and your full facts were not things that could add up to words
think about meaning more as an after word
and your full facts were not things that could add up to words
think about meaning more as an after word
as an after word
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| Out of Routine | |
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out of routine
and the explanations you have
you're still lothed to give them
all because youve praised it in a way
so the explanations you have
the words do go away
if your heart gets in the way
of what you wanted to deny
everything i say is not uncommon
the only thing that's definately forgoten
is what you wanted and what you really needed
but i can only try to know what i wanted
i will only try to know what i want
if i can only try to know what i wanted
how can it become
out of routine
but its not as bad as you think
it's only chance you're looking for
still in routine
and the explanations you have the ideas go between
if your heart gets in the way
of what you wanted to reply
to everything i say is not uncommon
the only thing that's definately forgoten
is what you wanted and what you really needed
but i can only try to know what i wanted
i will only try to know what i want
if i can only try to know what i wanted
how can it become
and its already blown
and nothing can take it back
its already blown
and nothing can take it so keep hold
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| Century After Century | |
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since you're breathing
is it all that space can fill
so just by looking in
ill be looking still
(find and follow stories well)
you make it except for
a newspaper
the headline's telling me
that fortune favours the brave
ive never been known to be that brave
what i want is on its way out
all i needed was an easier way to stay
walking around the city
as the light fades
is that all that you remain
i'm thinking about these promises
that i have ever made
i know what they will never say
i know what they will never say
century after century may remain
and if i need to remember
that the entire earth is outside this window
so close the windows
keep the curtains shut forever
and if i need to remember
the entire earth is outside this room
so close the windows
close the windows
isn't it romantic to be romantic
when you dont understand what you love
or if a word like that could ever mean anything
but what you want is on its way out
i didnt hear
cheerleading for creative writers
your cheekbones
dont taste of anything at all
its on its way out
its just an easier way to stay
talking about a city
that the light mades
is it all that you remain
its the same story told
but its these stories that dont fade
i know what they will never say
i know what they will never say
century after century may remain
is it all that you remain
is it all that you remain
is it all that you remain
is it all that you remain
is it all that you remain
(i know what they will never say)
is it all that you remain
(i know what they will never say)
is it all that you remain
(i know what they will never say)
is it all that you remain
(i know what they will never say)
is it all that you remain
is it all that you remain
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| Stay the Same | |
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it sometimes happens it always happens to me
but then always isnt a word i use
always isnt a word i choose
when i know that this wont survive much longer
unless we alter what we have
but then again survival
its not why we should stay the same
if we cant be the same
we wont stay the same
our similar thoughts will never let us stay the same
if we cant be the same
we wont stay the same
if we retain
you know that i wont be much help to you
if it wont happen the way
that youve always planned it
just so you could become
more interesting this time for a purpose
only now i know the purpose
and i know that what is here will not be here much longer unless
we alter what we have
or alter what we dont have
what we wont have, what weve never seem to have
what we try to have, we fail to have
and all of this just so we wont stay the same
if we cant be the same
we wont stay the same
our similar thoughts will never let us stay the same
if we cant be the same
we wont stay the same
just because we think we are the same
just so we wont stay the same
if we cant be the same
we wont stay the same
when we believe we are not the same
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