LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE PRIZE/GRAVENHURST

Every time you come around
The warning sign in my head just gets drowned out
By waves of anticipation
Breaking vows as I make them
To chase that dream just one last time around
Chase that dream just one last time around

Bad karma hangs like cancerous lanterns
A poisonous glow, a poisonous glow
When the house lights turn reveal cigarette burns and the tired line
Of last night's cries of despair
That emanate from the underpass and echo back to anywhere, to anywhere
Still the ties that bind us blind us to the emptiness of the prize, of the prize

Once more walking into town
You make the calls, I keep my eyes to the ground
In waves of anticipation
Breaking vows as I make them
To chase that dream just one last time around
Chase that dream just one last time around

Bad karma hangs like cancerous lanterns
A poisonous glow, a poisonous glow
when the house lights turn reveal cigarette burns and the tired line
Of last night's cries of despair
That emanate from the underpass and echo back to anywhere, to anywhere
Still the ties that bind us blind us to the emptiness of the prize, of the prize
Still the ties that bind us blind us to the emptiness of the prize, of the prize
Still the ties that bind us blind us to the emptiness of the prize, of the prize
Still the ties that bind us blind us to the emptiness of the prize, of the prize

ALBUM: THE GHOST IN DAYLIGHT (2012)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: APOCALYPSE DREAMS/TAME IMPALA

This could be the day that we push through
It could be the day that all our dreams come true
For me and you
Terrified me enough just another day

You're too terrified to try your best
Just to end up with an educated guess
Not success
Let us dance you wake up mystified

It feels so real in my sleep
Never felt so good so close I do with you
Until the day this could be feeling
Do you realise that I could feel it

Everything is changing
And there's nothing I can do
My love is turning pages
While I am just sitting here

Well am I'm getting closer?
Will I ever get there?
Does it even matter?
Do I really need it?
Wish that I'd remember
And I'm on the outcome?
Did I really want it?
Does it really matter?
It was only yesterday
Didn't even know you?
Now I'm gonna miss you

Nothing ever changes
No matter how long you do your game
It's the same to everyone else
Everything is changing
I guess I should want my love
But she'd just be excited

ALBUM: LONERISM (2012)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MARATHON RUNNER/YELLOW OSTRICH

When I was a boy of seventeen
I know it's mean but I
I told my friend to give up on her dreams
She hated me, but I
I knew that dreams were for the best of us
Not for the rest of us, and I
I didn't want to share with anyone

I need a way to sing the greatest dance
And make them laugh
I could win the wars or lose the battles too
Whichever's true
I can live in other people's lives
I can't stop putting on other people's clothes
I love them 'til I leave

I am a marathon runner
And my legs are sore
And I'm anxious to see what I'm running for
I am a hot air balloon
On a sailboat
I would make this my home
If I'd learned to float

So take my treasures, take my earthly life
I'll try to cry
I will live without the things I love the best
So hold them to your chest
I will lose my faces, lose my stolen wigs
The heads of kings
I will run until I know what to believe

I am a marathon runner
And my legs are sore
And I'm anxious to see what I'm running for
I am a hot air balloon
On a sailboat
I would make this my home
If I'd learned to float

I am a marathon runner
And my legs are sore
And I'm anxious to see what I'm running for
I am a hot air balloon
On a sailboat
I would make this my home
If I'd learned to float

ALBUM: STRANGE LAND (2012)

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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: WILL YOU PLEASE SPEND NEW YEARS WITH ME?/ALLO DARLIN'

When I feel kinda like a giant useless slump
Ready to be taken to the rubbish dump
You call me up on your red telephone
Make me happy again and then you have to go
But I've been trying to think positively
About taking up new activities
I'll do yoga and learn chinese
Play accordion and eat my peas

But will you spend new year's eve with me?
We can hide in my bedroom and watch cartoons all night

Everybody else will be out drinking
But I don't feel like drinking
Do you wanna stay in and hang out with me
We could play some Monopoly
It's embarrassing to think that at 25
I'm not doing something more wild with my life
There's a party over here, a party there
But my favourite party is in my bed

So will you please spend new year's with me?
We can hide in my bedroom and watch cartoons all night

We can play Nintendo if you'd let me win
But you're super competitive with these things
That's okay, i don't mind, let's make pop-corn
Do you feel like watching Harold and Maude
You're the greatest the friend that I've ever had
I want you to know that i'm grateful for that
I won't let our acquaintance ever be forgot
Happy new year, I love you, you're the best of the lot

So will you please spend new year's with me?
We can hide in my bedroom and watch cartoons all night

ALBUM: MERRY CHRISTAMS FROM ALLO DARLIN' EP (2008)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THIS IS WHY WE FIGHT/THE DECEMBERISTS

Come the war
Come the avarice
Come the war
Come hell
Come attrition
Come the reek of bones
Come attrition
Come hell

This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
And this is why
This is why we fight
When we die
We will die
With our arms unbound
And this is why
This is why
Why we fight
Come hell

Bride of quiet
Bride of all unquiet things
Bride of quiet
Bride of hell
Come the archers
Come the infantry
Come the archers
Of hell

This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
This is why
This is why we fight
And when we die
We will die
With our arms unbound
And this is why
This is why we fight
Come hell
Come hell

This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
This is why
This is why we fight
And when we die
We will die
With our arms unbound
And this is why
This is why we fight

So come to me
Come to me now
Lay your arms around me
And this is why
This is why we fight
Come hell
Come hell
Come hell
Come hell

ALBUM: THE KING IS DEAD (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BATTLE/BLUR

Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone
Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone

Concaesing slash
Here I love the bow
See me walk on down to
Adorn myself, it's the end of hell
See me what you think of now

Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone
Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone

Can turn your sights
Kill until sub-zero
See me
Oh, it turns you on
Give me foil
It's the end of your
See me overcome

Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone
Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone

ALBUM: 13 (1999)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: VICTORY DANCE/MY MORNING JACKET

Should I close my eyes and prophesize
Hoping maybe someday come
Should I wet the ground with my own tears
Crying over whats been done
Should I lift the dirt and plant the seed
If you know I'll never grow
Should I wet the ground with the sweat from my brow
And believe in my good work
My good work
My good work
My good work

Hey there, I'm flying up above
Looking down on the tired earth
And I can see, I can see potential
Speaking through you, speaking to you
From all of heaven's possibilities
Power, hey do know how it works
Do you know that the meek, they shall inherit the earth
You should work, you should work
Leaving with something of the family

Should I hit the water or stay on dry land
Even though I've never swam
Take machete into the brush
Though at first there is no path
Taste the war paint on my tongue
As it's dripping with my sweat
Place my gaze in the futures path
Seeing things that ain't come yet

Hope to watch the victory dance
After whole day's work is done
Hope to watch the victory dance
In the evening's setting sun
Hope to watch the victory dance
over many lives to come
Hope to watch the victory dance
In the evening's setting sun
Setting sun
setting sun
setting sun

Hope to dance the victory dance
After whole day's work is done
Hope to dance the victory dance
In the evening's setting sun
Hope to dance the victory dance
Over many lives to come
Hope to dance the victory dance
In the evening's setting sun

ALBUM: CIRCUITAL (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TWO AGAINST ONE/DANGER MOUSE AND DANIELE LUPPI FEAT. JACK WHITE

Make no mistake I don’t do anything for free
I keep my enemies closer than my mirror ever gets to me
And if you think that there is shelter in this attitude
Wait 'til you feel the warmth of my gratitude

One, I get the feeling that it’s two against one
I’m already fighting me, so what’s another one?
The mirror is a trigger and your mouth’s a gun
Lucky for me, I’m not the only one

And if it looks to me like you in your reflection
Plan to add your own fight to this dimension
Then tell it that this ain’t no free-for-all to see
There’s only three
It’s just you and me against me

One, I get the feeling that it’s two against one
I’m already fighting me, so what’s another one?
The mirror is a trigger and your mouth’s a gun
Lucky for me, I’m not the only one
Lucky for me, I’m not the only one

And if your foot’s on to sick a thousand yes men
Brand or brake into the middle of this little plan
Then there’s your plan to hear me say
That I won’t play around the way, anyway
I plan to plan around them

One, I get the feeling that it’s two against one
I’m already fighting me, so what’s another one?
The mirror is a trigger and your mouth’s a gun
Lucky for me, I’m not the only one
Lucky for me, I’m not the only one

ALBUM: ROME (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE MAN WHO STOLE A LEOPARD/DURAN DURAN

Do you know where we are?
I'm longing for the dark
Of our nocturnal life
It begins and ends with you
Don't spill my secret

You were once running wild hiding in the morning mist
Game demands I make you mine
I thought that I could resist but the leopard in you
Silently preyed on me

I made my way back home
(Did you follow her?)
I handled her with care
(Were you in control?)
So elegant and sleek
(Were you not afraid?)
I need her to be near
(Does she belong to you?)
Don't spill my secret

You were once running wild hiding in the morning mist
Game demands I make you mine
I thought that I could resist but the leopard in you
Silently preyed on me

Deserted by my friends
(Don't they understand?)
She's so much more than them
(How could they compare?)
So now she's just for me
(No one else can see)
I watch her while she sleeps
(Be sure she dreams of you)
Don't spill my secret

(It's been quite a while)
Since we were last outside
(And do you miss the chase?)
Now that we've both been tamed
(Inside this gilded cage)
Prisoners of our thoughts
(You saved me from myself)
Don't spill my secret
Don't spill my secret

Today a man was taken from his apartment at the New Jersey Shore, and arrested under suspicion of entrapment of a wild animal. Police from forced entry discovered a caged leopard in the building. The fully grown feline was said to be surprisingly domesticated by zoological experts who gave her a thorough examination before preparing her for relocation. A large crowd has gathered outside to watch the beautiful creature, and the giant cage was lowered slowly onto the street by a crane. From here, the leopard was transferred into the back of a truck for it's journey ahead. A startled onlooker said, it's extraordinary to think that any human being could have lived in such close quarters with such a dangerous animal. Police are saying that the captive was simply besotted with the creature, and barely left her side. It's alleged that he hunted her in the wild and expertly forged documents to facilitate her illegal export to the United States of America. The incident has already created much controversy, and is now likely to lead to a major international investigation into the life of the man who stole a leopard.

ALBUM: ALL YOU NEED IS NOW (Full length album) (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE STARS CAME OUT ONCE THE LIGHTS WENT OUT/THE VEILS

I'm caught between the pen and the page
Lost in the remains of the age
Daddy when you were young was it all this strange?
Fear's inching up the ridge of my spine
The talking clock reminded me
I've never felt all myself and I don't know why

I can't seem to get to grips with it
I almost touched my fingertips to it
Why oh my, oh my?
Then the stars came out once the lights went out
And I could not speak so I had to shout
And then the moon passed sadly by

The joys are few and far between
I've got the Doomsday app on my iPhone screen
Honey I've seen the truth and it's worth than it seemed
Sins derived and sins original
Lies eclipsed and lies made visible
I'm turning my back on the world and fixing my eyes on the sky

I can't seem to get to grips with it
I almost touched my fingertips to it
Why oh my, oh my?
Then the stars came out once the lights went out
And I could not speak so I had to shout
And then the moon passed sadly by

Love, will I see you again?
'Cause I could do with some mending
Love, will I see you again?
'Cause I'm through with pretending
Will I see you again?
'Cause I could do with some mending
Will I see you again?

ALBUM: TROUBLES OF THE BRAIN EP (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TRIATHLON (CASASONICA REMIX)/CRISTINA DONÀ FEAT. SAMUEL

So che un braccio dopo l’altro
Porterò a destinazione
Questo corpo calpestato
Dalle tue rigide mancanze
Ho attraversato giorni da diluvio universale
Ora so scivolare sull’acqua
È una questione orizzontale
Scivolerò sui tuoi rimpianti
Mai pianti con me
Scivolerò, ma il tuo amore dov’ era?

Tengo al minimo il battito
Controllo che il respiro non ceda
Tengo al minimo il battito
Controllo che il respiro mi segua
Tengo al minimo il battito
Controllo che il respiro non ceda
Tengo al minimo il battito
Controllo che il respiro mi segua

La ruota davanti m’implora
Di non insistere con la pressione
Il cuore sul manubrio
Sembra pronto a decollare
Hai trasformato pianure
In salite devastanti
Ora tornerò a sognare
Coi miei occhi scintillanti
Aumento la distanza
Il vantaggio su di te
E non aspetto che qualcun altro provveda

Tengo al minimo il battito
Controllo che il respiro non ceda
Tengo al minimo il battito
Controllo che il respiro mi segua
Tengo al minimo il battito
Controllo che il respiro non ceda
Tengo al minimo il battito
Controllo che il respiro mi segua

I piedi toccano terra
Comincerà la resurrezione
È l’ultima parte di fuga
Vedo la polvere che si solleva
Fuori da un passato confuso
Con dentro l’alibi di una visione
Continuerò la corsa
Ma non sono più preda

Tengo al minimo il battito
Controllo che il respiro non ceda
Tengo al minimo il battito
Controllo che il respiro mi segua
Tengo al minimo il battito
Controllo che il respiro non ceda
Tengo al minimo il battito
Controllo che il respiro mi segua

(Triathlon)

ALBUM: DOVE SEI TU (2003)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LA MAREGGIATA DEL '66/NON VOGLIO CHE CLARA

Ognuno parli per sé
Di quello che rimane dell'amore
Se te ne vuoi andare
Se tutto quel che ho fatto
Per farti restare
E per tenerti qui
Non è abbastanza
Tu ami l'onda e devi stare
Sempre in fronte al mare
E farti investire

Ma se mi chiederanno
Se ti verrò a cercare
Io, con parole nuove
Gli saprò spiegare
Che ognuno corre per sé
E che la fatica per riaverti qui
Non conta niente
Io amo la terra
E ho da correre
Fino a stancarmi
Per dormire bene

ALBUM: DEI CANI (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: UNO/MUSE

This means nothing to me
'Cause you are nothing to me
And it means nothing to me
That you blew this away
'Cause you could've been number one
If you only found the time
And you could've ruled the whole world
If you had the chance

You could've been number one
And you could've ruled the whole world
And we could've had so much fun
But you blew it away

You're still nothing to me
And this is nothing to me
And you don't know what you've done
But I'll give you a clue
You could've been number one
If you only had the chance
And you could've ruled the whole world
If you had the time

You could've been number one
And you could've ruled the whole world
And we could've had so much fun
But you blew it away
You could've been number one
And you could've ruled the whole world
And we could've had so much fun
But you blew it away

ALBUM: SHOWBIZ (1999)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE RACING RATS/EDITORS