Those fingers in my hair
That sly come hither stare
That strips my conscience bare its witchcraft
And I've got no defense for it
The heat is too intense for it
What good would common sense for it do
'Cause it's witchcraft
Wicked witchcraft
And although I know it's strictly taboo
When you arouse the need in me
My heart says yes indeed in me
Proceed with what your leading me to
It's such an ancient pitch
But one I wouldn't switch
'Cause there's no nicer witch than you
'Cause it's witchcraft
That crazy witchcraft
And although I know it's strictly taboo
When you arouse the need in me
My heart says yes indeed in me
Proceed with what your leading me to
It's such an ancient pitch
But one I never switch
'Cause there's no nicer witch than you
Sometimes there's nothing to feel Sometimes there's nothing to hold Sometimes there's no time to run away Sometimes you just feel so old The times it hurts when you cry The times it hurts just to breathe And then it all seems like there's no-one left And all you want is to sleep
Fight fight fight Just push it away Fight fight fight Just push until it breaks Fight fight fight Don't cry at the pain Fight fight fight Or watch yourself burn again Fight fight fight Don't howl like a dog Fight fight Just fill up the sky Fight fight fight Fight til you drop Fight fight fight And never, never, never, never, never Never stop
So when the hurting starts And when the nightmares begin Remember you can fill up the sky You don't have to give in You don't have to give in Never give in Never give in Never give in
Wake up in the dark The after-taste of anger in the back of my mouth Spit it on the wall And cough some more And scratch my skin with razor blades
And make up in the new blood And try to look so good Follow me Make up in the new blood And follow me to where the real fun is
As stale and selfish as a sick dog Spurning sex like an animal of god I'll tear your red hair by the roots And hold you blazing Hold you cherished in the dead electric light Your face I'll never see you this way again I captured it so perfectly As if I knew you'd disappear away
You hit me again You howl and hit me again The same sharp pain Cuts me in the dark And cuts me from my throat to my pounding heart My heart, my shaking heart
We slept all night in the virgin's bed And dreamed of death And breathed like sick dogs We slept all night in the virgin's bed And breathed like death And dreamed of sick dogs
Shake shake Shake dog shake Shake shake Shake dog shake
Wake up, wake up, wake up Shake dog shake Wake up, wake up, wake up Shake dog shake
Make up in the new blood Shake up in the new blood Fake up in this new blood And follow me to where the real fun is Shake dog shake Shake dog shake Shake dog shake
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Oh, it's opening time Down on Fascination Street So let's cut the conversation And get out for a bit Because I feel it all fading And paling and I'm begging you To drag you down with me To kick the last nail in Yeah, I like you in that Like I like you to scream But if you open your mouth Then I can't be responsible For quite what goes in Or to care what comes out So just pull on your hair Just pull on your pout And let's move to the beat Like we know that it's over If you slip going under Slip over my shoulder So just pull on your face Just pull on your feet And let's hit opening time Down on Fascination Street
So pull on your hair Pull on your pout Cut the conversation Just open your mouth Pull on your face Pull on your feet And let's hit opening time Down on Fascination Street Fascination Street Fascination Street Fascination Street Fascination Street
I lift my lips from kissing you To kiss the sky Cloud soft and blue And slow the sun melts down Into your golden words for me
I lift my hands from touching you To touch the wind that whispers through This twilight garden Turns into a world Where dreams are real
No one will ever take your place I am lost in you No one will ever take your place So in love with you
I lift my eyes from watching you To watch the star rise shine onto Your dreaming face and dreaming smile You're dreaming worlds for me
No one will ever take your place I am lost in you No one will ever take your place So in love with you
I lift my lips from kissing you And kiss the sky wide deepest blue And slow the moon swims up Into your golden words for me
No one will ever take your place I am lost in you No one will ever take your place So in love with you No one will ever take your place I am lost in you No one will ever take your place
I've been watching me fall for it seems like years Watching me grow small, I watch me disappear Slipping out my ordinary world, out my ordinary eyes Slipping out the ordinary me into someone else's life Into someone else's life
There's a thin white cold new moon and the snow is coming down And the neon bright Tokyo lights flicker through the crowd I've been drifting around for hours and I’m lost and I’m tired When a whisper in my ear insatiable breathes Why don't you follow me inside?
Yeah, the room is small, the room is bright Her hair is black, the bed is white And the night is always young Is always young, always young The night is always young
I’ve been seeing them strip to the bone in the mirror on the wall Seeing her swallow him whole like it's not me at all She holds out her hands and I follow her down to my knees And the sucking inside insatiable smiles You will forget yourself in me
Yeah, the room is small, the room is bright Her eyes are black, the bed is white And the night is always young And the night goes on and on And the night is always young And the night is never over and over and over and over and over And then it's gone And then it's gone Yeah then it's gone
It's a cruel mean cold new day and outside the snow is still coming down And in the blood red Tokyo bed I watch me coming round She pulled him down for hours Deeper than I’ve ever been And as I fall in the mirror on the wall I'm watching me scream I'm watching me scream I'm watching me scream I'm watching me scream
I’ve been watching me go for it must be years Watching me get slow, I watch me disappear And one day, I know, I won't come back at all And always over and over in his ordinary eyes I'm watching me fall I'm watching me fall I'm watching me fall I'm watching me fall
Ok, non sarà un vero e proprio canto natalizio, ma tra i brani che citano la parola christmas nel testo, è senza dubbio il migliore che abbia mai ascoltato.
Whisper your name in an empty room You brush past my skin As soft as fur Taking hold I taste your scent Distant noises Other voices Pounding in my broken head Commit the sin Commit yourself And all the other voices said Change your mind You're always wrong Always wrong
Come around at christmas I really have to see you Smile at me slyly Another festive compromise But I live with desertion And eight million people Distant noises Of other voices Pulsing in my swinging arms Caress the sound So many dead And all the other voices sing Change your mind You're always wrong
We go down to the indie disco every thursday night Dance to our favourite indie hits until the morning light At the indie disco The indie disco At the indie disco
We've got a table in the corner that is always ours Next to the poster of Morrissey with a bunch of flowers We drink and talk about stupid stuff Then hit the floor for Tainted Love You know I just can't get enough At the indie disco The indie disco At the indie discor Give us some Pixies and some roses and some valentines Give us some Blur and some Cure and some Wannadies And now we're moving to the beat And staring at each others feet I wonder if she fancies me At the indie disco The indie disco At the indie disco
And when it's over and I'm freezing on the night-bus home I think of her and I sing the words to my favourite song She makes my heart beat the same way As at the start of Blue Monday Always the last song that they play At the indie disco The indie disco At the indie disco
The big hand makes all of your favourite things Like all your dreams go small And all your friends run away Until your memories fail And the words don't fit But the way the big hand smiles You just won't care about it
The big hand makes all of your favourite things Like all your days run out And all your hopes disappear And your smiles just stop And your eyes go dead And the shadows start to crawl In the back of your head
But when the big hand speaks It's like fireworks and heaven So you listen Don't think And wish for nothing at all And when the big hand sings It's like fireworks and friends Leaving alone I'm not Leaving alone Leaving alone I'll never Leave alone again
So when the big hand holds up all your favourite things And with a touch like glass Starts to squeeze You don't ask Why me? You just slip to the floor Just slip to your knees
But when the big hand speaks It's like fireworks and heaven So you listen Don't think And wish for nothing at all And when the big hand sings It's like fireworks and friends Leaving alone I'm not Leaving alone Never leaving alone Leaving alone I'm not Leaving alone Leaving alone I'm not leaving alone again
Una due giorni milanese straordinaria, probabilmente irripetibile: due concerti eccezionali in appena 24 ore.
1° GIORNO/THE NATIONAL
Quando arriviamo all'Alcatraz la fila per entrare arriva quasi all'angolo dell'isolato, ma è veloce ed ordinata. C'è il tutto esaurito, e questo fa capire come i National, giunti ormai al quinto album, siano passati definitivamente da formazione di nicchia allo status di band mainstream. Il gruppo di supporto, i Phosporescent, stanno già suonando. All'incirca verso le 22:00, Scott Devendorf e compagni salgono sul palco: si inizia sottovoce, con Runaway, poi la splendida Anyone's Ghost. L'ultimo, strepitoso disco, High Violet, viene suonato quasi per intero, ma non mancano riferimenti alla produzione precedente, come Mistaken For Strangers, Apartment Story, Fake Empire. La voce di Matt Berninger è incredibile, profonda, avvolgente; la batteria di Bryan Devendorf sempre prepotentemente in primo piano. Ad essere pignoli, è un peccato che un eccesso di divertissement interrompa l'esecuzione di Conversation 16, uno dei pezzi migliori del repertorio. E proprio quando il concerto si avvia alla conclusione, il colpo di scena che non ti aspetti: Matt Berninger, fin lì estremamente composto, scende in platea percorrendo tutta la sala dell'Alcatraz, letteralemente tutta, ripetendo la linea finale di Terrible Love, "It takes an ocean not to break" come in un mantra, tra il pubblico esterrefatto, compreso il sottoscritto che ad un certo punto se lo ritrova esattamente di fronte. Come dire che aver ascoltato i National è un po' come averli conosciuti, sul serio, personalmente: si fanno ottimi incontri, a Milano.
THE NATIONAL/ALCATRAZ/MILANO, 16 NOVEMBRE 2010
01. RUNAWAY 02. ANYONE'S GHOST 03. MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS 04. BLOODBUZZ OHIO 05. SLOW SHOW 06. SQUALOR VICTORIA 07. AFRAID OF EVERYONE 08. AVAILABLE/CARDINAL SONG 09. CONVERSATION 16 10. SORROW 11. APARTMENT STORY 12. ABEL 13. DAUGHTERS OF THE SOHO RIOTS 14. ENGLAND 15. FAKE EMPIRE 16. ABOUT TODAY
17. LUCKY YOU 18. MR. NOVEMBER 19. TERRIBLE LOVE
2° GIORNO/INTERPOL
All'ingresso del PalaSharp l'atmosfera che si respira è coinvolgente, quasi rituale, un po' come accade ai concerti dei Cure, dei quali gli Interpol per certi versi sono una sorta di eredi. Il gruppo di supporto, i Surfer Blood, ha in comune con i Phosporescent, gli special guest dei National, le camicie a quadri e la sensazione di non incidere molto, nel bene o nel male. Alle 21:30 in punto si spengolo le luci e, quasi in sordina, la band di New York attacca con Success, traccia che apre anche l'ultimo disco, in modo atipico (non è certo un brano con un intro particolare) ma efficace. Giusto il tempo di acclimatarsi, quindi, che si decolla con Say Hello To The Angels. La scaletta alterna in modo eterogeneo la discografia del gruppo, passando con disinvoltura da un album all'altro: Narc, Summer Well, Rest My Chemistry, Slow Hands, NYC, una splendida esecuzione di Take You On A Cruise, fino a Memory Serves, uno dei pezzi più belli dell'ultimo lavoro, del quale viene proposta per intero la prima parte (sicuramente la migliore). La classe di Paul Banks è immutata, la chitarra di Daniel Kessler sempre graffiante, mentre David Pajo al basso fa il suo onestamente. Particolarmente intenso il bis: dopo una suggestiva versione di The Lighthouse, si chiude in crescendo con le taglienti Evil e The Heinrich Manuveur. Precisi ma emozionanti, elegantemente distanti ma incredibilmente coinvolgenti allo stesso tempo, gli Interpol dal vivo sono una macchina perfetta, un'esperienza assolutamente imperdibile.
INTERPOL/PALASHARP/MILANO, 17 NOVEMBRE 2010
01. SUCCESS 02. SAY HELLO TO THE ANGELS 03. NARC 04. LENGHT OF LOVE 05. SUMMER WELL 06. REST MY CHEMISTRY 07. SLOW HANDS 08. C'MERE 09. NYC 10. BARRICADE 11. TAKE YOU ON A CRUISE 12. LIGHTS 13. PDA 14. MEMORY SERVES 15. NOT EVEN JAIL
16. THE LIGHTHOUSE 17. EVIL 18. THE HEINRICH MANUVEUR
It could’ve been her golden hair That turned my head I didn’t want to stare Like I was hypnotized But I was fixed Without a name or memory I waited there Too scared to even breathe And I was tricked
It could’ve been her silver skin That drew me on I didn’t want to spin Like I was mesmerised But I was rapt Without a name or memory I waited there Too scared to even breathe She sang, she sang
Tell me you love me And beg me to stay Tell me you love me Before it’s too late Give me your life Or I must fly away And you will never hear this song again
It could’ve been her crystal eyes That made me stop I didn’t want to sigh Like I was stupefied But I was thrown Without a name or memory I waited there Too scared to even breathe Or mine alone She sang, she sang
Tell me you love me And beg me to stay Tell me you love me Before it’s too late Give me your life Or I must fly away And you will never hear this song
I saw your picture hangin' on the back of my door Won't give you my heart No one lives there anymore And we were lovers Now we can't be friends Fascination ends Here we go again Cause it's cold outside, when you coming home Cause it's hot inside, isn't that enough
I'm not in love I'm not in love I'm not in love I'm not in love
Could it be that time has taken it's toll Won't take you so far, I am in control And we were lovers Now we can't be friends Fascination ends Here we go again Cause it's cold outside, when you coming home Cause it's hot inside, isn't that enough
I'm not in love I'm not in love I'm not in love I'm not in love I'm not in love I'm not in love I'm not in love I'm not in love
Now we can't be friends Fascination ends Here we go again Cause it's cold outside, when you coming home Cause it's hot inside, isn't that enough
I'm not in love I'm not in love I'm not in love I'm not in love We are not in love We are not in love We are not in love We are not in love We are not in love
I went into the butchers I said wanted wanted wanted some meat I said pass me some of that steak over there It looks so sweet I lost my heart to a meathook
That butcher man was some lady You know he really stole my heart He hung me up on his meathook A real piece of slaughterhouse art I lost my heart to a meathook
I got a meathook in my heart Tearing me all apart Ripping out my insides But I just can't get away I can't leave my meathook
The world is neither fair nor unfair The idea is just a way for us to understand But the world is neither fair nor unfair So one survives The others die And you always want a reason why But the world is neither just nor unjust It's just us trying to see that there's some sense in it No the world is neither just nor unjust And though going young So much undone Is a tragedy for everyone It doesn't mean there has to be a way of things No special sense that hidden hands are pulling strings But living on in others, in memories and dreams Is not enough You want everything Another world where the sun always shines And the birds always sing
The world is neither fair nor unfair The idea is just a way for us to understand No the world is neither fair nor unfair One survives And others die And you always want a reason why But the world is neither just nor unjust It's just us trying to see that there's some sense in it No the world is neither just nor unjust And though going young So much undone Is a tragedy for everyone It doesn't speak a plan or any secret thing No unseen sign or untold truth in anything But living on in others, in memories and dreams Is not enough And it never is You always want so much more than this An endless sense of soul and an eternity of love A sweet mother down below and a just father above For living on in others, in memories and dreams Is not enough You want everything Another world Where the birds always sing Another world Where the sun always shines Another world Where nothing ever dies
Pulling this watch as faces go Pulling in a word and done it slow this other time I see your face is silent We go away and play What have you done Takes a feeling inside us all Continue out with just one push in my mouth But you're so close now And you're so close now All I have to do is three short blows All that still is best inside The full when the wall And you don't even know All I have to do is kill her All I have to do is kill her All I have to do is kill her And the other faces here with me The others dressed in summer's thing If only one way is to be wonderful If only one way is to the other song And every time it's you It's like the blood on the stairs is sent away And every time we see it's all said before you
If only one way is to kill you You used to say this fear of drowning Fear no death by water Father walks in at the foot of the bed Six of you want to see you safe Just one time you'll meet this man All you've got to do is kill her And all you've got to do is kill her Trickle the sands against and pull the animals Just out of the womb Seeing the cow dead before he was born It's the man he loved The solid pieces fell on the ground He couldn't kill another life He couldn't kill another life He couldn't kill another life It's all been painted with love It could have been some friends Pulling strings to meet you All I want to do is reach it She says let go my shoulder See the sky And the sky goes black And the sky goes black I just want to feel her I just want to feel her I just want you to feel it I just want you to feel it
Everytime I looked up the stairs I used to see her die She would move so slow Anyone could've been but she was a cat Anyone could've been she was a cat Pulling away as I used to fight That's just playing so low That ugly or pretty Her face stays the same Her face stays the same Her face stays the same The ugly or pretty Her face stays the same, stays the same, stays the same And looking on the final walls And looking on the final walls Did you now find this malice out The angels fall Let's make some noise Let's make some noise Let's make some noise Make some noise Let's make some noise Let's make some noise Make some noise
Forever you to say Help me be your mother for just one day Let's fall in churches far outside They used to love They used to love They used to They used to love
You shatter me Your grip on me A hold on me So stale it kills You stifle me Infectious sense of hopelessness And prayers for rain I deteriorate I live in dirt And nowhere shines but desolate and drab The hours all spent on killing time again All waiting for the rain
You fracture me Your hands on me A touch so plain So pale it kills You strangle me Entangle me in helplessness And prayers for rain I deteriorate I live in dirt And nowhere glows but desolate and drab The hours all spent on killing tima again All waiting for the rain
You shatter me Your grip on me A hold on me So stale it kills You stifle me Entangle me in helplessness And prayers for rain
Christabel strips and slips like a dream Breaking ice with arms that gleam with pain Disdain, she throws her head And glides against the stream Throwing me her bravest smile Defiant, glittering, shivering guile Catching a cold is quick this time But fish? Fish may take a while
Christabel dips and slips from me And hand pushed deep inside is suddenly free Triumphant, reluctantly Struggling six legs held up for me to see Don't be so scared It's nothing new It's the same old game Only fun with two But fast and over and over I can`t play this game with you
Everything she tries to tell me Leaves me open mouthed and still Foolishly arrange tomorrow The way I always will
Christabel trips and grips my hand But never to be saved For a second I understand And I fall with her I'll never leave you Love you See you change into the man I want But it's not for long this thing It's not for long
Everything she tries to tell me Leaves me open mouthed and still Foolishly arrange tomorrow The way I always will Everything she tries to tell me Leaves me open mouthed and still Foolishly arrange tomorrow The way I always will
