LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: YEAR OF THE TIGER/ST. VINCENT

When I was young
Coach called me the tiger
I always had
A knack with the danger

Living in fear in the year of the tiger
Living in fear in the year of the tiger

Italian shoes
Like these rubes know the difference
Suitcase of cash
In the back of my stick shift
I had to be the best of the bourgeoisie
And my kingdom for a cup of coffee

Living in fear in the year of the tiger
Living in fear in the year of the tiger
Living in fear in the year of the tiger
Living in fear in the year of the tiger

Oh America can I owe you one
Oh America can I owe you one
Oh America can I owe you one
Oh America can I owe you one

Living in fear in the year of the tiger
Living in fear in the year of the tiger
Living in fear in the year of the tiger
Living in fear in the year of the tiger

ALBUM: STRANGE MERCY (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: IS LOVE/WHITE LIES

She stares into the mirror
Youth fading with the sun
The hollows in her face
Like wishing wells
Scarlet as a papercut
And jewelled as the Orion
She'd never worn that jewellery as a girl

She says the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds is love
She says the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds is love

He stares into the river
Heart falling to the drift
An argument of cars
Moving full steam behind
Blood-shot as a baby
And sulking like a valley
Fishing in reflections
Killing time

She says the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds is love
She says the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds is love

It's the bath that's getting cold while you're frozen to your bed
The milk that's going rancid on the table
The panic in the evening
The photos in the dustbin
The pointless items we forgot to label
It's the perfume on her wrist
That stinks of easy birthdays
The spare keys like asbestos on the side
It's the cross around his neck
For luck and not for honour
Like diamond over knuckle on a newly married bride

She says the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds is love
He says the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds is love
I know the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds is love
I know the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds is love

ALBUM: RITUAL (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SURFACING/CHAPEL CLUB

Strange, the god of your name is piscean too
Shells and silvery scales and torrents of blue
One more pilot fish come to swim with the shark
Dreams of bloodiest extremes picks me from their mouth

Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper I love you
Bodies swinging in the sycamore tree
Dream a little dream of me

Cold, your blood is your soul but blood is the lie
Soul, the hand that you hold before you arrive
You're perfect, you're worth it, your friends said
I guess that it's true
You mean it, I've seen it
The poets got nothing on you

Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper I love you
Bodies swinging in the sycamore tree
Dream a little dream of me

Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper I love you
Bodies swinging in the sycamore tree
Dream a little dream of me

Dream a little dream
Dream a little dream
Dream a little dream of me
Dream a little dream
Dream a little dream
Dream a little dream of me

ALBUM: PALACE (2011)