An Audience With The Pope Elbow

that she's asked me to do Will see a city of saints forgetting his name I have an audience with the Pope And I'm saving the world at eight But if she says she needs me She says she needs me everybody's

Pope Prince

(Stir it like coffee) The Pope (Stir it like muthafuckin' coffee) The Pope (The hell) This is the Pope Oh, your car got mags that be dippy dippy dope But the whole damn nation got the same Honey

This Blue World Elbow

This blue world and its countless sisters And all that came before that day Our atoms straining to a line Was the universe in rehearsal for us When all the world is sucking on it's sleeve You'll hear an

Real Life (Angel) Elbow

If you wake in the quake in the roll of the heartbroken Pounding the ground in a sawn off ballet Bring us in an indigo dawn with the lovelorn and renegade You always found peace in the grip of the beat

An Imagined Affair Elbow

A sky as black as regret Is rolling aside for the blue Impossible face to forget These feelings belong in a zoo She brings the morning She, she brings the morning sun So lost in the sound of her voice

Starlings Elbow

How dare the Premier ignore my invitations?

Mirrorball Elbow

I plant the kind of kiss That wouldn't wake a baby On the self-same face The wouldn't let me sleep And the street is singing with my feet And dawn gives me a shadow I know to be taller All down to you

every bit the little girl Elbow

It's cooler now An opening of the senses She's snowy wise Lined and kind Pen in her mouth Hair in pencils It's cooler now An opening of the senses It's cooler now It's cooler now And

Thunder And Lightnin' Audience

She pulls my leg and stretches my imagination Thunder and lightnin' couldn't tear us apart She puckers her lips up and proffers me an invitation No two-bit crowbar could prise us apart She brightens my

Imagined Affair Elbow

A sky as black as regret Is rolling aside for the blue Impossible face to forget These feelings belong in a zoo She brings the morning She, she brings the morning sun So lost in the sound of her

the birds Elbow

The birds are the keepers of our secret as they saw us where we lay In the deepest grass of springtime in a reckless guilty haze And they wove a sweet indifference and it settled on our skin Til the

The Take Off And Landing Of Everything Elbow

on you You kiss the wrist of the hand that has twisted itself all into your hair You close the blinds and doors behind me and clear all obstacles on the stair You are an open book I’m on the bathroom

The River Elbow

I walked with the river in kind of a dream Hand in hand, the all-knowing river and me To the clammer of rushes and deeply barren trees A drunk making blossom, the blush to be seen I told him my sorrows

My Sad Captains Elbow

And the streets are lined with one man shows ?Oh my soul ?Corner boys were moved along ?Oh my soul ?We're plummeting like crippled crows ?Oh my soul ? ?Oh, long before ?You and I were born ?

Whisper Grass Elbow

A freeze of you Is with me now A freeze of you With knitted brow A freeze of you Asking how I could A fury climb To prove myself A fury climb To a whisper grass shelf With God above And not

Devil's Elbow Colin Meloy

Stranded at the light house I think I saw my sister there Oregon in light house We are pondering the surf and waves A path to reach the alcove And me barefoot far behind Passing by the white house An old

Switching Off Elbow

Switching Off Last of the men in hats hops off the coil And a final scene unfolds inside Deep in the rain of sparks behind his brow Is a part replayed from a perfect day Teaching her how to whistle

Forget Myself Elbow

They’re pacing Piccadilly in packs again And moaning for the mercy of a never come rain The suns had enough and the simmering sky Has the heave and the hue of a woman on fire Shop shutters rattle

Switching Off (album version) Elbow

Last of the men in hats hops off the coil And a final scene unfolds inside Deep in the rain of sparks behind his brow Is a part replayed from a perfect day Teaching her how to whistle like a boy Love's

Grace Under Pressure (album version) Elbow

Grace under pressure Cooling palm across my brow Eyes of an angel Lay me down We still believe in love so fuck you

high ideals Elbow

There's a ladder tear in my high ideals Like I took a chair on the battlefield Anyd any noble friend that was burning in my chest Is acid in my belly at the very best There's a bayonnette in my family

Grace Under Pressure Elbow

Grace Under Pressure Grace under pressure Cooling palm across my brow Eyes of an angel Lay me down We still believe in love so fuck you

powder blue elbow

Nothing in between China white, my bride tonight Smiling on the tiles Bring that minute back We never get so close as when the sunward flight begins I share it all with you Powder blue Stumble

Powder Blue elbow

elbow powder blue Your eyes are just like black spiders Your hair and dress in ribbons. Babycakes In despair or incoherent.

mcgreggor Elbow

Oohhhh There was lying at the table Crying on the stairs A raven on the gables singing 'Jesus doesn't care' A woman at the window With her hands on her hips Staring out across the ocean Like the

What Time Do You Call This? Elbow

call this What time do you call this What time do you call this What time do you call this What time do you call this I've been craving to wilder on my days So then I'll find your face Shining out of the

the night will always win Elbow

I throw this to the wind But what if I was right Well, did you trust your noble dreams And gentle expectations to the mercy of the night?

New York Morning Elbow

The first to pour a simple truth in words Binds the world in a feeling all familiar 'Cause everybody owns the great ideas And it feels like there's a big one round the corner A tenner, up and out into

Great Expectations Elbow

all day Call on you I'll call on you Like I used to Slide down beside and wrap you in stories Tailored entirely for you I'll remind you We exchanged a vow I love you I always will A call girl with

Mercy Street Elbow

looking down on empty streets, all she can see are the dreams all made solid are the dreams all made real all of the buildings, all of those cars were once just a dream in somebody's head she pictures

One Day Like This Elbow

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte) Drinking in the morning sun Blinking in the morning sun Shaking off the heavy one Heavy like a loaded gun What made me behave that way?

The Bones Of You Elbow

So I'm there charging around with a juggernaut brow Overdraft, speeches and deadlines to make Cramming commitments like cats in a sack Telephone burn and a purposeful gait When out of a doorway The tentacles

snowball Elbow

Tied this letter to the red balloon Flew this letter off across the ruse Along with all the plans I made Ooh Over crippled cranes and twisted steel Deadlines overgrown and missing wheels I told you

Puncture Repair Elbow

I leaned on you today I regularly hurt but never say I nearly wore the window through Where was air sea rescue?

Not A Job (album version) Elbow

Pull the final splinters Of missing picture winters You have to give yourself a break What's the fascination With lovers at the station You have to tear yourself away Chorus The dream again nobody understands

love blown down Elbow

Someone's staking out my house So don't be sitting drunk Outside my window 'cause when your love is love blown down You must live with yourself Someone's opening my mail So don't be sending us it

Not A Job Elbow

Pull the final splinters Of missing picture winters You have to give yourself a break What's the fascination With lovers at the station You have to tear yourself away Chorus: The dream again nobody

with love Elbow

Best intentions Bring joyless drought Pack your hacksaw Come bust me out When your dentures prevent your smile These adventures will Fill your eyes with love You've been going see-through Could

The Blanket Of Night Elbow

Paper cup of the boat Even chest of the sea Carry both of us Carry her, carry me From the place we were born To the land of the free Carry both of us Carry her, carry me The ocean That bears us from our

dear friends Elbow

Dear friends You are angels and drunks You are magi Old friends You stuck a pin in a map I was in And this is a note for a road sign Cuttin' the breeze in this tennesee sundow Came the sounds of

Some Riot Elbow

The bruise turns a tall gentle boy to a terrible totem And the kids gather 'round trying to see what's inside I think when he's drinking he's drowning some riot What is my friend trying to hide?

My Very Best Elbow

just did And would you tell her I'm from a long line of survivors And I'll be swinging with the kids Keep your sympathy Don't need the healing to start You've gone Gone and made a beautiful hole

Grounds For Divorce Elbow

Mondays is for drinking to the seldom seen kid I've been working on a cocktail called grounds for divorce Polishing a compass that I hold in my sleeve Down comes him on sticks but then he kicks like a

open arms Elbow

You're a law unto yourself And we don't suffer dreamers But neither should you walk the earth alone So with finger rolls and folding chairs?

Lucky With Disease Elbow

do Im a better friend Than Ive ever been a lover And thats not saying much But Im not saying much today In this cellular age Phone sex is too expensive Not as handsome as my brother But Ive been lucky with

Crawling With Idiot Elbow

Crawling With Idiot It’s crawling with idiot I’m itching to leave I’m soft with fatigue I need something I’ve never seen anything quite like you In here Come on it’s not serious I just need arms

Fly Boy Blue / Lunette Elbow

on the box A chinless prefect gone Godzilla My newest friends have forgotten my name But so have I, so far so good and home You and me trampoline and oceans of crash site love What can be said of the

jesus is a rochdale girl Elbow

I have a drop-leaf window With cats and broken yards Sunflowers and paint cans And stolen shopping carts And nothing to be proud of And nothing to regret All of that to make as yet All of that to

Target Audience Marilyn Manson

Am I'm sorry the sky went black Put your knives in baby's backs Am I sorry you killed the Kenneydys And Huxley too But I sorry Shakespeare was your scapegoat And your apple sticking into my throat

Crawling With Idiot (album version) Elbow

It's crawling with idiot I'm itching to leave I'm soft with fatigue I need something I've never seen anything quite like you In here Chorus Come on it's not serious I just need arms tonight You're blue