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: FOREST/BEDROOM

I know you've been here before
I've seen you at my front door
Why couldn't you come in
I thought that you were my friend

Walk out to the forest
Spark up a cigarette
Think about what you said
Those thoughts will never end

Waiting for something to happen
Sadness is all I see
Waiting for something to happen
Sadness is all I see

ALBUM: TOYS EP (2012)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LESSON NO. 7/CLOCK OPERA

You crouch like a hunter
Seconds from a kill
But still an empty vessel impossible to fill
One fold in the future
One fold in the past
Shitting on present and you lashed to the last

Believe and seeing up all thoughts move on
And once I believe in you
One rule for the weak and one rule for the strong
But neither has nothing to loose

I wanna be persuaded
I wanna be talked down
I wanna be one looked
I want to be rub around
But you only talk in capitals
Come, come really interested
Lesson no. 7 is the right one to you

Believe and see it I pull faster on
And once I believed in you
One rule for the weak and one rule for the strong
Neither has nothing to loose

Every part of the heartbeat
Is a closing of the dawn
They came on a blood flowing
It can’t come back anymore
Hear the people calling
Calling out for you
A bliss just have been after
And it wanna calling you

Believe and see it I pull faster on
And once I believed in you
One rule for the weak and one rule for the strong
Neither has nothing to loose

ALBUM: LESSON NO. 7 (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: KEEP YOU CLOSE/dEUS

You were young
You had time
On your hands and I
Was a rollercoaster of the kind that needs to ride so high
To die so low
All the time I had to keep you close
Not finally now
How we must have hurt
To see all of your love and care
Only work a little while and then I go
All the time I had to keep you close

What you feel is what you get
You know there is no answer fit
We broke the code so long ago
I'm going to keep you ever close
Just like on the day we met
You pulling on me like a cigarette
So like the seaholes to the shore
I'm going to keep you ever close

Now the years turn away to make you forget
Make me stare at the same place I stared at
That the path we are on
Is the path we chose
I still remember how to keep you close
Linger on, linger on in the scheme of things
We're only inhabiting on
Dreams still come true
It's the way it goes
And in the meantime I will hold you close

And in my heart and in my head
You are the only dream I dread
The fear will keep me on my toes
I'm going to keep you ever close
Just like on the day we met
You pulling on me like a cigarette
So like the seaholes to the shore
I'm going to keep you ever close

So is this what they mean about moving on
Is this really the end
You won't stick around the one that stays
You are the one that throws
I'm the one that is kept you close
The last days definition of constant change
Transformation what we hope stays the same
Cold is the breeze but forever blows
One of the hands that would have had kept you close
Hold me says when days ahead
So when I see should I just pretend
The flower is cut but it still grows
I'm going to keep you ever close
Just like on the day we met
I'm pulling on you like a cigarette
So like the seaholes to the shore
I'm going to keep you ever close

ALBUM: KEEP YOU CLOSE (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE CIGARETTE DUET/PRINCESS CHELSEA

It's just a cigarette and it cannot be that bad
Honey don't you love me and you know it makes me sad
It's just a cigarette like you always use to do
I was do from then I don't need them to be cool

It's just a cigarette and it hurts your pretty lungs
Well it's only twice a week so there's not much other chance
It's just a cigarette and soon be only ten
Honey can you trust me when I want to stop I can

It's just a cigarette and it's just a Marlboro Light
Maybe but it isn't worth that we fight
It's just a cigarette that I got from Jamie Lee
She's gonna get a smack and I'm gonna give you three

It's just a cigarette and I only did it once
(It's just a cigarette and soon be only ten)
It's just a cigarette and it's only twice a week
(It will make you sick girl, there's not much other chance)
It's just a cigarette and I'm sorry that I did
(It's just a cigarette and we're sorry that we did)
Honey can you trust me when I want to stop I can

ALBUM: LIL' GOLDEN BOOK (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TAKE ME HOME/GERMANY GERMANY

Take me home tonight
Take me home tonight
Take me home tonight

ALBUM: ADVENTURES (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HANGING FROM A HIT/OKKERVIL RIVER

What this night wants is what it gets
Strung in silken knots
Lit by cigarettes
Flaring side by side with the streets all wet
As the only thing that's bright
And I don't need to cross that bridge
I find I'm swinging or sailing
Over the pit tonight
I'm hanging from a hit tonight
Was wild enough to order up
And toss across my lips

What's making all my tears
Is taking all my fears away
But I don't need to cry
'Cause now I'm clear

A moth that's swerving through the sage
A creature crashing from a cage
A shadow vaporized by a new sun ray
A day she spends the night
And I can hear her sighing
As she's almost asleep on one side
I lie back on my pillow and ask what her husband is like

And she says
I smile polite
And I tip and tithe
And I see the sights
With a well-trained eye
But I come and cry
'Cause I'm too much mine without him

And I lie, reclined
Where the room is quiet
And it's quiet at night
The soft silk is fine
And the waves are white
But the wind has died without him
And I scream my smiles
And I want my wires
And I need my stripes
And I read the lines
Until I lid my eyes,
And I'm losing time without him.
And I ignite inside
And I flash with fire
And I limp from life
And I'm blazing blind
And I'm surging live
And give up my mind
When with him

And then every dream inside turns to flames
Fades to grey and is dying
And the smoke rises into a white, blank, bare, broke-open sky

ALBUM: I AM VERY FAR (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: STAY (FARAWAY, SO CLOSE!)/U2

Diretto da WIM WENDERS and MARK NEALE

Green light, Seven Eleven
You stop in for a pack of cigarettes
You don't smoke, don't even want to
Hey now, check your change
Dressed up like a car crash
Your wheels are turning but you're upside down
You say when he hits you, you don't mind
Because when he hurts you, you feel alive
Hey babe, is that what it is

Red lights, gray morning
You stumble out of a hole in the ground
A vampire or a victim
It depends on who's around
You used to stay in to watch the adverts
You could lip synch to the talk shows

And if you look, you look through me
And when you talk, you talk at me
And when I touch you, you don't feel a thing

If I could stay
Then the night would give you up
Stay and the day would keep its trust
Stay and the night would be enough

Faraway, so close
Up with the static and the radio
With satelite television
You can go anywhere
Miami, New Orleans, London, Belfast and Berlin

And if you listen I can't call
And if you jump, you just might fall
And if you shout, I'll only hear you

If I could stay
Then the night would give you up
Stay then the day would keep its trust
Stay with the demons you drowned
Stay with the spirit I found
Stay and the night would be enough

Three o'clock in the morning
It's quiet and there's no one around
Just the bang and the clatter
As an angel runs to ground
Just the bang
And the clatter
As an angel
Hits the ground

ALBUM: ZOOROPA (1993)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: JESUS IS A ROCHDALE GIRL/ELBOW

I have a drop of 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 make as yet

I have a single heartbreak
I celebrate and mourn
A single shining sister
And all the tricks of dawn
Asingle yellow duvet
A single switch to flick
But a thousand boxes yet to tick
And a thousand boxes yet to tick

And Jesus is a Rochdale girl
And forty five cds
Got a house that you can smoke in
So all my friends found me
And they found me full of myself
And bloody minded will
And as yet a box to fill
And as yet a box to fill

ALBUM: BUILD A ROCKET BOYS! (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MYSTICAL MACHINE GUN/KULA SHAKER

Everybody stay calm
Don't panic
It's just the end of the world

Alien identities
Don't hide your pretty face from me
You awoke to the riddle of your life
But no one was there for you
Open up to where you first began
As a nicotine junkie singing
For a kodacam
Are you glad to see how far you've come?
You're a wizard in a blizzard
A mystical machine gun

Watch the skies
For the mystical machine gunfire

Alien identities
Don't hide that special place from me
You walked through a fire with a ten headed lion
And turned on your destiny
Open up, forget your life
Breathe in, breathe out
Retain a sense of suicide
Are you glad to see
How far you've come?
You're a wizard in a blizzard
A mystical machine gun

Watch the skies
For the mystical machine gunfire

Well you've got to be stronger now than them
Now you've got to be strong
You'll be singing the song of life 'til then
You'll just got to be strong

Mystical machine gunfire
Om Namah Shivaya
Everybody stay calm
Don't panic
Mystical machine gunfire
It's just the end of the world
It will be all right at all
Every all kid just sing
Mystical machine gunfire

ALBUM: PEASANTS, PIGS AND ASTRONAUT (1999)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MIND OVER MONEY/TURIN BRAKES

Mind over money bent over backwards
Light up my life like a very last cigarette
Time after time dear
We will just lie here
Staring at ceilings it doesnt really matter where we are

Wearing a smile like it's going out of style
Look at your self
There's nothing in there
Just put points on a grave stone
Can you see yourself sinking
Staring at ceilings it doesnt really matter where you are

That's alright I warned myself
Keep blood on the inside and nowhere else
Up on a shelf that's where I need to be

I need to get something
I can't sleep forever
Internal combustion can that really happen?
I take it back
Whatever I did
I didn't mean it
I was only joking

But what does this matter in the grand scheming sky
All that I multiply adds up to nothing

That's alright I warned myself
Keep blood on the inside and nowhere else
Up on a shelf that's where I need to be

ALBUM: THE OPTIMIST LP (2001)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THINKING ABOUT YOU/RADIOHEAD

Been thinking about you, your records are here
Your eyes are on my wall, your teeth are over there
But I'm still no one, and you're now a star
What do you care?
Been thinking about you, and there's no rest
Shit, I still love you, still see you in bed
But I'm playing with myself, and what do you care
When the other men are far, far better

All the things you've got
All the things you need
Who bought you cigarettes
Who bribed the company to come and see you, honey?

I've been thinking about you, so how can you sleep?
These people aren't your friends, they're paid to kiss your feet
They don't know what I know and why should you care
When I'm not there
Been thinking about you, and there's no rest
Should I still love you, still see you in bed
But I'm playing with myself, what do you care
When I'm not there

All the things you've got
She'll never need
All the things you've got
I've bled and I bleed to please you

Been thinking about you

ALBUM: PABLO HONEY (1993)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SMOKERS OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL DOORS/EDITORS

Pull the blindfold down
So your eyes can't see
Now run as fast as you can
Through this field of trees

Say goodbye to everyone
You have ever known
You are not gonna see them ever again

I can't shake this feeling I've got
My dirty hands, have I been in the wars?
The saddest thing that I'd ever seen
Were smokers outside the hospital doors

Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?

How can we wear our smiles
With our mouths wide shut
'Cause you stopped us from singin'

I can't shake this feeling I've got
My dirty hands, have I been in the wars?
The saddest thing that I'd ever seen
Were smokers outside the hospital doors

Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?
Now someone turn us around
Can we start this again?

We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Left smashed off the floor

I can't believe you
If I can't hear you
I can't believe you
If I can't hear you

We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor
We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor

Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?
Now someone turn us around
Can we start this again?

ALBUM: AN END HAS A START (2007)