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Silverchair lyrics
Album: Diorama [2002]
| Across the Night | |
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Across the night
It was the moon that stole my slumber
Across the night
I fell in love with people sleeping
And hugged a man's arthritic shoulder
I fell tired, asleep in a golden ocean
Your eyes perspired, a spike in my fascination
I don't mean to make you cry
But this feeling will run right through the night
And I'll only make you cry with these feelings
Sleepless, untamed without a leash on the light around me
So let us be married and have another baby
Coz I don't wanna be lonely I just wanna be alone
Yes let's just get married shouting baby, baby, babies
"You'll never sleep at all"
But I don't wanna be lonely
Never seen the sunshine
From higher points than sunrise
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| The Greatest View | |
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Silverchair - The Greatest View
You're the analyst
The fungus in my milk
When you want no one
And you got someone
Through the wind
You crawl
And laugh at burning dunes
When no one else will
Ever see
Now that you know why you feel like you do
They're turning their head whilst they wait
For no one
And finally I know why you feel like letting go
I'm watching you watch
Over me and I've got
The greatest view from here
I'm watching you watch
Over me and I've got
The greatest view from here
Mistakes don't mean a thing
If you don't regret them
So pack your tactic toes for the winter
Chain a waterfall to burned and withered skin
No-one else will ever see
I'm watching you watch
Over me and I've got
The greatest view from here
I'm watching you watch
Over me and I've got
The greatest view from here
Now that you know why you feel like you do
They're turning their head whilst they wait
For no one
And finally I know why I feel like you're letting go
I'm watching you watch
Over me and I've got
The greatest view from here
I'm watching you watch
Over me and I've got
The greatest view from here
The greatest view from here
The greatest view
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| Without You | |
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Miles away
There's hopeless smiles brighter than mine
And I need for you to come and go
Without the truth falling out
Old incisions refusing to stay
Like the sun through the trees on a cloudy day
And you brighten my life like a polystyrene hat
But it melts in the sun like a life without love
And I've waited for you so i'll keep crying out
Without you...
Without you...
Telephone
Socially scared and impaired
If the trees will bloom the wind can blow
Without the fruit falling out
Feels like the wind blows
Holding you with us
She takes no other
Falls light and ashes
Blooming like winter
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| World Upon Your Shoulders | |
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All the bridges in the world
won't save you
If there is no other side
to cross to
When you're world's not feeling ugly
and the world's not too much
Take the world upon your shoulders
Take the world upon your shoulders
And burn, burn, burn, burn, burn
Take the world upon your shoulders
Half full glasses
Lost in empty houses
When you're world's not feeling ugly
and the world's not too much
Take the world upon your shoulders
Take the world upon your shoulders
And burn, burn, burn, burn, burn
Take the world upon your shoulders
Violent, big and violent
Like a thing that's big, big
and violent
When you're world's not feeling ugly
and the world's not too much
Take the world upon your shoulders
Take the world upon your shoulders
And burn, burn, burn, burn, burn
Take the world upon your shoulders
Take the world upon your shoulders
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| One Way Mule | |
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Silverchair - One Way Mule
VERSE
Let my spirit ride on a one way mule
Blistered skin in a cold hearted room
Distant demotion on a concrete wall
Naked naked
I'll climb right back to you
CHORUS
Love me for my mind
'coz im a dangerous heart
and I've got time to kill
I'm coming back to you
Distant demotion on a concrete wall
BRIDGE
Do you feel
Do you feel
Do you need
CHORUS
Love me for my mind
'coz I'm a dangerous heart
And I've got time to kill
I'm coming back to you
Do you love me for my mind
'coz I'm a dangerous heart
And I've got time to kill
I'm coming back to you
Patient, we're all asleep in some danger
RUN MY WAY GO
CHORUS
Love me for my mind
'coz im a dangerous heart
And I've got time to kill
I'm coming back to you
Do you love me for my mind
'coz I'm a dangerous heart
And I've got time to kill
I'm coming back to you
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| Tuna in the Brine | |
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I fondle keys to my heart
when everyone's heart seems so calm
And you found the lock to my dorm and opened the doors to my trust
Fund my vestry
The light in my darkest hour is fear
Denies me of anything good so
Don't lose your heart you'll need it
And don't lose your heart you'll have to
Take another pill and tell another lie
And lie amongst your lies like tuna in the brine
Take everything that you're not
and don't be so scared to tamper (temper) with (temper)
"tampered with" evidence (tamper)
Coz you'll come along for the sun if you come at all
The light in my darkest hour is fear
Denies me of anything good so
don't lose your heart you'll need it
And don't lose your heart you'll have to
lie amongst your lies like tuna in the brine
And don't lose your heart
Don't lose your - don't lose your heart
To lose your heart you'll have to...
Take... take... take...
Painting a lie seeing the colours but you seem closer to everything
Closer now than we ever have been
We're closer now that we ever should (we) be
Closer now than we've ever been before
Closer to everything
Busking for change and changing everything
Feeble fables aren't changing many things
It's my time to shine like a tuna in the brine
For my pregnant paws aren't changing anything...
To all of the animals who
keep sipping the sweat from my back,
You're making me ill and I can't get enough
So take another pill and tell another lie
And lie amongst your lies like tuna in the brine
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| Too Much of Not Enough | |
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She tripped on a hole
that I'd dug in the soil to be part
of a human garden
And I couldn't stand
in the straight postured sun
But you stood in the mud
which came unsoiled
When I came along, when I came along
when I came along
So you never stop needing
You never stop needing
A close look at something so close - it's too much of not enough
A close look at something so close - it's too much of not enough
When all we need is just a taste
I strapped myself in
for a safe saccharide
Before it started I tried
To be anything I saw fit
And it all seemed to fit
but you came undone
When I came along, when I came along
when I came along
So you never stop needing
You never stop needing
A close look at something so close - it's too much of not enough
A close look at something so close - it's too much of not enough
When all we need is just a taste
Blind white lies and shallow truth
Broken strings and stolen youth
I've seen too much of not enough
But you came much closer then they had before
You came much closer then they had before
You came much closer then they had before...
You never stop needing
You never stop needing
You never stop needing
And it's good for nothing...
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| Luv Your Life | |
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You don't know the truth
and I luv your life
You don't know the truth
and I luv your life...
Thrust the candle
to the dark of your disease
Burn the fishplate
execute ill memories
Labyrinth of sympathy in which I'm lost and can't leave
And too much truth
overshadows the time lies
And what lies beneath the clouds is an altered perception
And I'll pay for sanity
But sanity don't come cheap
You don't know the truth and I luv your life
You don't know the truth and I luv your life
'Coz you don't know the truth and I love your life
Doo doo doo-woop doo doo, doo doo doo doo-woop, doo dooh...
Flinch against the fire
but this ain't winter
And I'm all by myself
The way I wanna be
Where I'm content to be
to be all by myself
But frozen eyes are bound to melt
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| Lever | |
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Turn the mirrors face the wall
Don't you feel a little weak?
And I'd catch you when you fall
But you're falling all the time
Do you need it anymore?
Or do you need a little more?
Living your life like a bull in the trade
He doesn't know how it feels
Under my thumb like a bone under nail
She's in the know, how's it feel?
Live your life under machine guns
Canary down the mine
Maybe I'm on the lever
Spoiling my broth like a radio kid
Programmed computerised minds
Waving my luck under your nose
Like I found a four leaf clover
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| My Favorite Thing | |
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Got my fever down,then weighed it up
and i know the
sounds remaining wont strain all the silt form my eyes
bleach the green from the pastures,feast on the grey
of teh night straight from the vines refusal to shine
your me favorite thing the one that i love
your the one so id die for your love
Blind the deafened moon stimulate the tombs of angels
ill open my heart wont fall apart
dont fall apart
your my favorite thing
and i feel like letting go...
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| After All These Years | |
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Breathe in the night
That crushed a tired sunrise
Born again the day brings young naivety
A laptop souvenir is worth it's weight
In silver a golden son
You'll be home again
And I'll be home again
Mend in my sleep
I'm boxing under water
Waddle on the wake
Waking on a summer day
After all these years
Forget about the troubled times
After all these years
Forget about the troubled times
And every fathers pain
Casts a shadow over a broken son
You'll be whole again
And I'll be whole again
Munificent, artless and ascetic
Playing like a scared
Enthusiastic pawn
After all these years
Forget about the troubled times
After all these years
Forget about the troubled times
All those years
I was hurting to feel
Something more than life
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