Lucky With Disease Elbow

what to 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

Fly Boy Blue / Lunette Elbow

former MP And no one was watching My oldest friends are a serious habit Fly boy blue, so bring your faces home To my sweet trampoline And acres of crash site love Presidential delays Suppose I'm just lucky

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

Lucky 7 Mary 3

And if I stay Lucky then my tongue will stay tied, and I won't betray the things that I hide. There's not enough years underneath this belt, for me to admit the way that I felt. Mean Mr.

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

Lucky Seven Mary Three

And if I stay Lucky then my tongue will stay tied, and I won？t betray the things that I hide. There？s not enough years underneath this belt, for me to admit the way that I felt. Mean Mr.

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 ?

What Time Do You Call This? Elbow

been craving to wilder on my days So then I'll find your face Shining out of the crowd Love is just a word Great friends didn't mention 'Cause love was just a joke So it battered me senseless Oh, shrink with

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

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

the birds Elbow

indifference and it settled on our skin Til the eyes that I remembered for the last time drew me in The birds Though I wore your glacial patience to a smudge of bitter dust On the last day you embraced me with

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

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

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

Switching Off Elbow

Early evening June This room and a radio play This I need to save I choose my final thoughts today Switching off with you All the clocks give in And the traffic fades And the insects like a neon

Starlings Elbow

He'll have to go So, to the bunch he luncheons with It's second on my list of things to do At the top I'm stopping by Your place of work and acting like I haven't dreamed of you and I And marriage in an

An Audience With The Pope Elbow

know iron and steel couldn't hold me Good God, I'm easily bruised So often in love to her flame And the things that she's asked me to do Will see a city of saints forgetting his name I have an audience with

Forget Myself Elbow

broken heart No I know I wont forget you but I’ll forget myself if the city will forgive me The man on the door has a head like Mars Like a baby born to the doors of the bars And surrounded by steam with

Switching Off (album version) Elbow

Early evening June This room and a radio play This I need to save I choose my final thoughts today Switching off with you All the clocks give in And the traffic fades And the insects like a neon choir

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.

Don't Mix Your Drinks Elbow

Don't mix your drinks Don't mix with him It will kill you one day Good advice, sound advice Why can't you be Like him, like me Look what you could achieve I'm coming cap in hand Begging you to

high ideals Elbow

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 things It was made in the USA to defend the King With

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

One Day Like This Elbow

tell me how I feel It's silly wrong but vivid right Oh, kiss me like the final meal Yeah, kiss me like we die tonight Cause holy cow, I love your eyes And only now I see the light Yeah, lying with

the night will always win Elbow

The night will always win The night has darkness on its side I'll throw this to the wind I miss your stupid face I miss your bad advice I tried to clothe your bones with scratches Super 8s, exaggerated

Puncture Repair Elbow

The cavalry with tea and sympathy You were there Puncture repair I leaned on you today I regularly hurt but never say You patched me up and sent me on my way

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

This Blue World Elbow

if you plot your course on the windowpane You'll see the coldest star in the arms of the oldest tree You'll know to come to me In the back of a broken car When the blizzard blossom flew Reading aloud with

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

Mercy Street Elbow

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 the broken glass, she pictures the steam she pictures a soul with

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

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

Some Riot Elbow

Cause it's breaking my heart, it's breaking my heart And it's breaking my heart to pour like the rain Brother of mine, don't run with those fuckers When will my friend start singing again?

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

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

dear friends Elbow

On the steeliest come down And now a moment I'm home I've got bluster enough For the sails of a clipper And the truth never frays a good yarn But it struck me to say while so far away You are with

The Blanket Of Night Elbow

Carry her, carry me The ocean That bears us from our home Could sail us Or take us far, if so The danger That life should lead us here My angel Could I have steered us clear Gone, the light from her eyes With

My Very Best Elbow

not enough to love Then love lie down And would you tell her Not to talk as if I died Though a tiny part just did And would you tell her I'm from a long line of survivors And I'll be swinging with

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

Grounds For Divorce Elbow

cannot help but fall There's a hole in my neighborhood Down which of late I cannot help but fall There's a hole in my neighborhood Down which of late I cannot help but fall Someday we'll be drinking with

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?

Red Elbow

Come as you are, sweetheart Come as you are You know you've got nothing to prove I'll put you bed you can let it all go You've been playing too rough lately You burn too bright You live too fast T...

Newborn Elbow

I'll be the corpse in your bathtub Useless I'll be as stiff as a post If you hold me like a newborn Whisper what you feel My badly strung declaration To you You'll spend the end of your days Gently...

Scattered Black And Whites Elbow

Been climbing trees I've skinned my knees My hands are black the sun is going down She scruffs my hair in the kitchen steam She's listening to the dream I weaved today Crosswords through the bathro...

Fugitive Motel Elbow

Lost in a lullaby Side of the road Melt in a memory Slide in a solitude Not \'til I can read by the moon Am I going anywhere Not \'til I can read by the moon I blow you a kiss It should reach you ...

lay down your cross Elbow

Lay down your cross Cross off your day Lady, lady Turn off your phone Lie where you lay Lady, lady Please, please Love let me love Love let me love Love let me love Let me love her again Love let...

the long war shuffle Elbow

The times they are a changing back You know the heat is rising I heard a million knuckles crack Is it so surprising? Im so sick of waiting And I know you feel the same Im not getting any younger An...

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 ever...

none one Elbow

Hey there, tell me Does he kiss, your eyes. Do you talk like I've died. . . now. . . Hey there, tell me Does he kiss, your eyes. Do you talk like I've died. . . now. . .