Outside of Space and Time David Byrne, St. Vincent

rooms The kitchen's filled with food I'll find a place inside The dreams that pass across your face Come from a secret place Ev'ryone close your eyes It's true, I am a shaky ladder Intergalactic matter Outside

Dinner for Two David Byrne, St. Vincent

By the time the guests arrive Ooo, already it was dark outside Tables set with china dishes We're welcomed in with tiny kisses What's her name I don't remember Isn't that the famous author Harry's gonna

The Forest Awakes David Byrne, St. Vincent

The forest awakes A desert at dawn A mountain at night And the river moves on The people awake They're marching along The streets are alive With a terrible song Forwards and backwards In every direction

I Am an Ape David Byrne, St. Vincent

In a garden Stands a statue Of the man who won the war His expression Tender yearning Every nation near and far Oh sad and ancient father Sweet as honey tough as leather Running down the hill on Christmas

The One Who Broke Your Heart David Byrne, St. Vincent

All the beautiful people, they did some work on your face And in that struggle for freedom, everyone looks the same That's right And everybody is pregnant, and everybody's in pain We're all pushin' and

Lazarus David Byrne, St. Vincent

Hey, Hey Lazarus Working your backbone, swinging your shovel Hey, Hey Lazarus Gold in your river, there forever One of these days I'm gonna bring the hammer down Cool water I'm working hard, but my heart

Who David Byrne, St. Vincent

valentine Who'll lift this heavy load Who'll share this taxi cab Who wants to climb aboard Who is an honest man Who is an honest man Who'll help a tired soldier Far from his own hometown carry these men and

Why David Byrne

I see the world in a coffee cup And when I drink it down there I go We have our own kind of universe Sometime but not always true How come? Wait!

I Should Watch TV David Byrne, St. Vincent

I used to think that I should watch TV I used to think that it was good for me Wanted to know what folks were thinking To understand the land I live in And I would lose myself, and it would set me free

Black Rainbow St. Vincent

There's a black rainbow upon my house Match the curtains and the floors Think I'm glass I think I'm breaking it Wrecking ball outside the door Let the children act like furniture For the ladies of the

Optimist David Byrne, St. Vincent

Waiting, but I don't mind I'm all bus stops and heat I'm neon, in your daylight I'm the optimist of 30th Street How it is is how it oughta be I got anything but moneyed esteem Drinks are on Cond Nast I'm

Lightning David Byrne, St. Vincent

stay put right here Watching the sky for tears Let the fools and cowboys roar to wrecks But if I should wake up and find my home's in half Who is it Blame nature, I guess I have to laugh And if I should

Ice Age David Byrne, St. Vincent

Oh diamond How we've been Oh diamond It's such a shame To see you this way, freezing it out Your own little ice age Ice age Ice age Oh diamond Get out of bed All unbuttoned Seams are showing And you're

Weekend in the Dust David Byrne, St. Vincent

What's so mysterious Now decoded and used Now according to you What's so mysterious What's so mysterious Now decoded and used Now according to you What's so mysterious Rip it well well, you have won it

Burnt By The Sun ( LP Version ) David Byrne

Atom-smashers in the cocktail lounge tonight Opera singers in the graveyard keeping time And the DJ mixes them all And the music rhymes but it crawls And the music comes from hydrogen bombs Rock bands

You & Eye ( LP Version ) David Byrne

You and I - may kill ourselves You and I - go straight to hell Where they have barbeque and beer Better than they do up here And you know all the words to the songs Yeah - we smoke cigarettes We dance

Daddy Go Down ( LP Version ) David Byrne

The sun sinks low in the western lands Go down, daddy go-down, daddy oh daddy go-down And a woman's heart is like the wind Go down, daddy go-down, daddy oh daddy go-down And he could not put her from his

A Soft Seduction ( LP Version ) David Byrne

The words of love are not enough Though sweet as wine, as thick as blood Passionless moments and we are homeless Out on the street But life is cool and things aren't bad Got what he wants, lost what he

Pirates David Byrne

A distant car, a quiet night Like starin' at the ceiling My sleepy eyes, you smell so nice It's such a funny feeling Got no idea, what time it is Delightfully confusing The trees outside, the morning

Angels ( LP Version ) David Byrne

A sign, any kind of sign?

A Long Time Ago ( LP Version ) David Byrne

And in the land where I grew up Into the bosom of technology I kept my feelings to myself Until the perfect moment comes Then into your bloodstream I will go Until I turn into a part of you Flooding the

So Many Planets St. Vincent

Misfiring chemicals and scary ideas This revolution isn't fun, ma I'm out of fashion, I got God on my heels I'm dropping promises like H-bombs But keep calm I'm at the back of my head (Oh-ooh) Watching

Tiny Apocalypse David Byrne

Raise up - shake them lazy bones Read the T-shirt but still don't understand Comin' home with a little apocalypse It comes, now do you have time for this?

The Apocalypse Song St. Vincent

Wait I\'ll be swifter than the speed of light Carbon my body a billion years of time You wake with the stitches over both your eyes And deny me my body and all earthly delights It\'s time You are

Poison David Byrne

When time is tight. Huh? You can use it. Uhhuh. Gonna break this up. What? Before we lose it. Uhhuh. Uhhuh. We just let things slide. All the way home. Over all these years. And nothing was done.

Fuzzy Freaky ( LP Version ) David Byrne

Rose is tattooed in a perfect place She bears the burden of a pretty face The monkey boy, the leopard girl The strange is also beautiful It's summer time and the grass is high Fuzzy freaky, funny family

Dialog Box David Byrne

Picture this Bumping lips Everyone talks Do a dialogue box They shake and bake Make a cranky face They got rocks in the head Got rocks in the bed Pull the hood down Grab the fold out Is it too loud?

Buck Naked ( LP Version ) David Byrne

Give me your time And I'll give you my trust And we're buck naked now Like when we were born When will we find out?

Hanging Upside Down David Byrne

And I don't need to watch the news at night Anyone can see we're out of time Hangin' on Hangin' out Got my hundred dollar shoes Hangin' round Hangin' free And we got nothin' else to do What goes up Must

A Million Miles Away David Byrne

see your house from here And I feel like I'm walkin' on air Oh - Oh A million miles away from here And I ain't gonna work here no more You can't tell a man by his clothes You can't tell a man by his clothes

Carnival Eyes David Byrne

Gone away Someone else son's gone What a day For dreaming Hard hurt heart The holds the door Buried in time In hallways bleeding And all the time they walk the line And all the time in asking land Who's

Civilization David Byrne

Somewhere between the darkness and light Faces all glow but its not too bright Civilization, its all about knives and forks Isn't she here? What time is it now? Is this the right place?

Cities (David Byrne) phish

Cities (David Byrne) Think of London - small city Dark - dark in the daytime People sleep - sleep in the daytime If they want to - if they want to I'm checkin' 'em out I'm checkin' 'em out I've got

Pieta St. Vincent

Baptized in the shallow end Of a Holiday Inn Limbs dangled over my Pa Like an inverse Pieta Mother Nature cried You are Leviathan, my child You are Leviathan inside And my lungs runneth over With chlorinated

Dance On Vaseline ( LP Version ) David Byrne

I'm taking back the knowledge I'm taking back the gentleness I'm taking back the ritual I'm giving in to sweetness Come preacherman, shoot me with your poisoned arrow But I dance on Vaseline And I'm tripping

Lazy (featuring David Byrne) X-Press 2

Lazy I'm lazy when I'm lovin', I'm lazy when I play I'm lazy with my girlfriend a thousand times a day I'm lazy when I'm speaking, I'm lazy when I walk I'm lazy when I'm dancin' and I'm lazy when

Prince Johnny St. Vincent

Prince Johnny, you're kind but you're not simple By now I think I know the difference You wanna be a son of someone Remember the time we went and snorted That piece of the Berlin Wall that you'd extorted

What Me Worry St. Vincent

What me worry I never do I'm always amused and amusing you Sans le fear of impending doom Life is like banquet food Pleasure to peruse Do I amuse you, dear Would you think me queer If while standing beside

Girls On My Mind David Byrne

Seems like ev'rywhere I go Seems like ev'rything I do Seems like ev'rything I dream about Seems like ev'rywhere I look Well I got girls, girls on my mind I think about them mostly all the time Oh - so

Just the Same But Brand New St. Vincent

The people in the street had overtaken you By the time you rounded Second Avenue So I walked away All perfumed Felt just the same But brand new And anything you wrote I checked for codes and clues The

What Me Worry? St. Vincent

I never do I\'m always amused and amusing you Sans le fear of impending doom Life is like banquet food: pleasure to peruse Do I amuse you, dear?

What A Day That Was David Byrne

And on the first day, we had everything we could hold Ooh and then we let if all And on the second day, there was nothing else left to do Ooh what a day that was.

Independence Day David Byrne

Now and then I get horny At night you do At night you do Smile - from side to side At night you do At night you do She'll be comin' round the mountain Six white horses by her side No stops for

The Gates Of Paradise ( LP Version ) David Byrne

And the laws of men are not the laws of heaven And angel's breath is like the desert wind And terrorists are acting out of love, sweet love To bring us home again It's a sin to seek perfection It's a sin

Don't Want To Be Part Of Your World David Byrne

soldiers on patrol Singing Don't want Don't want Don't want to be part of your world And we don't want Don't want Don't want to be part of your world Underneath the floorboards In between the walls Ev'rywhere

Eggs In A Briar Patch David Byrne

Lord, I been such a bad boy I been disobedient I made mistakes I made blunders That's true of thousands and thousands of people Little children don't mean anything!

I Don't Remember David Byrne

I got no means to show identification I got no papers show you what I am You'll have to take me just the way that you find me What's gone is gone and I do not give a damn Empty stomach, empty head I got

My Love Is You ( LP Version ) David Byrne

Some men desire a princess And others lust for a temptress Well I don't need one of those 'cause, my love is you My love is you Some men replace their mamas And some want a young baiana I have no use for

Dirty Old Town David Byrne

Well, there are sixteen people in danny's apartment Sixteen people are living in there Remember the days of rent control Grandpa remembers rock and roll These days won't last forever These days won't last

Crash ( LP Version ) David Byrne

I met my love at a funeral I'm tired of good-byes and burials Friends I have known Some I just met Standing around It's hard to forget - now isn't it?