Songs From The Deep Forest

Paint my picture if you must
Please remember to be kind
But darlin, your broken heart was never on my mind

Paint me with a villain heart
Like some cruel Valentine
But darlin, your broken heart was never on my mind

And when you feel the clash
And you don’t want me around
Could you endure the rasp
As my kisses filled with fibre-glass rain down?

Heavy as a humming bird
But more difficult to find
Darlin, your broken soul was never on my mind

Clumsy as a rag-time clown
Or some dancing Frankenstein
Darlin, your broken heart was never on my mind

so pull that canvas down
Beneath this angry moon
As you endure the sound
Of one more singer who’s singing out of tune

Paint my picture if you must
Not forgetting to be kind
But darlin, your broken heart was never on my
Darlin, your broken heart was never on my
Darlin, your broken heart was never on my mind

Packed a lung with smoke
Crossed the line
There’ll be no glory train
For me this time
Now just where do I begin
After all I’ve taken in

I bought your fire-trees
Your Sunday bells
I spoke your Holy Ghost
Drank your wells
Now that tongue has had to go
sight and centigrade in tow

Take me crawling from the corner

Would you lay your love on me
Won’t you shake me ‘till I’m clean
A salvation tambourine

I heard from Canada
The day she died
The clowns are killing me
To join their side
Certain I can’t pay the fare
Bloodshot vision keeps me here

Take me crawling from the corner

Would you lay your love on me
Won’t you shake me ‘till I’m clean
Would you lay your love on me
Won’t you shake me ‘till I’m clean
A salvation tambourine

I could go to London maybe that’s where you are
I could go to Paris I could look from the tower
I could go to London maybe that’s where you are
I could go to America I could go to America
I could go to London maybe that’s where you are
I could go to Paris I could jump from the tower
I could go to London maybe that’s where you are
I could go to Jerusalem I could go to Jerusalem

Wake up Scarlett
It’s been a long night and a high price
It’s up, I’m done
See your soul sway in the daylight

Did I steal your sense of wonder,
Innocence and sight?
I’m strung up like a highwayman
Who didn’t get it right

I feel like I’m falling down
I feel like I’m falling down
I’m hard as the hardestest ground

Stand up Scarlett
Seal this bad scene with the ocean
Burn up, return
And I’ll build with you a dwelling
And the sadness will be healing

Tripping through the birdsong
Just as guilty as a gun
Dropping like a suicidal
Planet in the sun

I feel like I’m falling down
I feel like I’m falling down
I’m cold as the coldest ground

I don’t love you, everybody knows
Everybody knows, and I can’t say I enjoy the feeling
I could leave, well, everybody goes
Everybody goes, and I won’t say that is not appealing

But I don’t wanna feel what everybody feels
I’ve got more to lose
They’re not significant, I don’t care who’s listening
They’re not in my shoes

I know that everbody wants a little something, something
Everybody wants a little something good
But I don’t love you
I don’t love you half as much as I should

I don’t get those Pop Idol shows
Everybody knows that the good things take a little longer
Twelve years on, the cracks begin to show
I’m scared you wanna go, but I hope that we’re a little stronger

But I don’t wanna feel what everybody feels
I’ve got more to lose
They’re not significant, I don’t care who’s listening
They’re not in my shoes

I know that everybody wants a little something, something
Everybody wants a little something good
But I don’t love you
I don’t love you half as much as I should

Rose, she ain’t like the others
she spins, a dervish mother
Her bright brown hair and her acorn eyes
she gets me there when she hypnotises
But Brixton leaves me alone

Another drunken evening
Red wine you’re so deceiving
Her photograph is my only friend
This one wild year just won’t seem to end
And Brixton leaves me alone

But the sun will rise once more
Well, it better
The sun will rise once more
If we let her
But Brixton leaves me alone

Just one more night in London
Home is a distant drumlin
With it’s ‘No retreat’ and ‘Our time has come’
Well, curse those fifes and damn those drums
Belfast leave me alone

But the sun will rise once more
Well, it better
The sun will rise once more
If we let her
But Brixton leaves me alone

Save me from the movies and someone else’s dreams
While angels make their music and give my spirit wings
I just concertina and wrap around the world
Staying out ‘til 6 o’clock and singing like a fool

I’ve only got this morning to live
Look at all the colours at my fingertips

I don’t want to stand still
I just want to freewheel
I don’t want to lose this

Save my feet from dancing with anyone at all
Worn out shoes because lotus blue is hanging in the hall
You’re a face in the distance I hope to recognise
It’s like running through deep water trying to look into your eyes

I’ve only got this morning to live
Look at all the colours at my fingertips

I don’t want to stand still
I just want to freewheel
I don’t want to lose this

Take a picture if it helps you sleep
Then expose me as your royal creep
For now I’ve torn it we are not the same
There’s a sun that’s breaking through my window pane
It’s burning up my face yes it’s doing it again

No cover up
No room for hiding
No cover up
My faith is sliding
No cover up
Just sharp reminding of the fake I was

There are faces that we should not know
There are places we’re not meant to go
If you try to find me you will never win
For behind each layer lies another skin
I’d love to let you near me if you find a way in

No cover up
Just so much trouble
No cover up
I’m bent in double
No cover up
Just wreck and rubble of the person I was

I am broken and I stand accused
Is there someone who can let me loose
If you find the answer make a careful note
I could use you pardon and a lot of hope
I’m getting to that part at the end of the rope

No cover up
I feel the burning
No cover up
Nor time for turning
No cover up
I hope I’m learning some honesty
some honesty

Cant put this off forever,
I’ve got to tell you some time.
But when I try and say it,
My mouth just gives up and dies.

I lose my meaning when I get this feeling.

Last night I nearly died,
But I woke up just in time.
Last night I nearly died,
But I woke up just in time.

I’m not who you think I am,
I slipped a stranger inside.
It helps the nights go quicker,
But I diminish each time.

And in the morning I shake the warning.

Last night I nearly died,
But I woke up just in time.
Last night I nearly died,
But I woke up just in time.

I get this feeling
I got this feeling
I woke up
I woke up
I’m gonna wake up
Gonna wake up

I lose my meaning when I get this feeling

Oh, last night I nearly died,
But I woke up just in time.
Last night I nearly died,
But I woke up just in time.

Last night I nearly died
Last night I nearly died
Last night I nearly died

Let me down baby,
I’m driving me crazy.
You need to erase all the things I have done.
I shake and I shiver,
I poison my liver.
I’m riding a river, that river is blue.

I can see what you can see, it’s worrying.
I’m fading my fast towards my last, I’m hurrying.
I wish that I could pacify the guilt that I feel.

I know the wrongs this vagabond has done to you.
I head rewind, well, every time that tape runs through.
Your memory is haunting me, and cuts to my bones.
I’m drunk and I’m tired,
I’m wound up and wired.
I think I’ve acquired a problem or two.
I quake and I quiver,
And give up my liver.
I’m riding a river, that river is blue.

I can see what you can see, it’s worrying.
I’m fading my fast towards my last, I’m hurrying.
I wish that I could pacify the guilt that I feel.

I’m riding this river
The river is you

This slip of a girl has slipped right through
And now I don’t know what to do
I know most anyone would walk a way
But there’s something about
This slip of a girl that’s making me stay

You know that
I’d do anything for you now
I’d do anything for you
Just to see you look at me now baby
Just a slip of a girl

This slip of a girl has slipped right through
And now I don’t know what to do
I know most anyone would walk a way
But there’s something about
This slip of a girl that’s making me stay

You know that
I’d do anything for you now
I’d do anything for you
Just to see you look at me now baby
Just a slip of a girl

I let go to feel the fall
And know that I’m alive
I see my breath and think of God
And everything I have

This could be my last day
This could be my last day

I touch your grave it comforts me
Tells me to be true
Everyone’s a burning star
Time is running through

This could be my last day
This could be my last day

Everything is fragile
Everything is broken
You were full of living colours
And such a sense of wonder
Prophecy is written
Prophecy is spoken
I wish I could have saved you
But I think I’m going under

This could be my last day
This could be my last day

11 years and 8 September
Never be the same
Charing Cross and woven hats
Flinching at your name

This could be my last day
This could be my last day

Everything is fragile
Everything is broken
You were full of living colours
And such a sense of wonder
Prophecy is written
Prophecy is spoken
I wish I could have saved you
But I saw you going under
I wish I could have saved you
But I think I’m going under

This could be my last day
This could be my last day
This could be my last day
This could be my last day

It’s not like I ever claimed to know
What shadows were pressing on your soul
It’s just I wish you’d pause for breath
And didn’t have to go

I saw you were spinning from the sky
It burned in the corner of my eye
I sat there frozen and in that moment
You bid your soul goodbye

I, I was only wondering
If you would ever change your mind
You could give it up but something might happen
It’s all too much but something might happen
You’ll break this cup but something might happen

I know what it’s like to feel alone
To always be looking for your home
To stand upon a riverbank
Try to make your demons go

I, I was only wondering
If you could ever change your mind
You could give it up but something might happen
It’s all too much but something might happen
You’ll break this cup but something might happen

So break this cup ‘cause something might happen

She loved me once
Loved me twice
I broke her heart
And left her reeling

I could not look her
In the eyes
I could not face
Where this was leading

I know that I should lose her now
It’s true, I don’t deserve her
And though I love her ‘til I die
I know that I must leave her

She said “no,
Our love goes deeper than this.”
She said “no,
Our love goes deeper than this.”

Sent a rose
A blackened rose
To atone
for my mistreating

When she pressed it
To her breast, it
Pierced her flesh
And left her bleeding

I know that I should lose her now
It’s true, I don’t deserve her
And though I love her ‘til I die
Now I must desert her

She said “no,
Our love goes deeper than this.”
She said “no,
Our love goes deeper than this.”

Even though
There’s poison in each kiss
She said “no,
Our love goes deeper than this.”

I know I can’t undo what’s done
It’s true, I don’t deserve her
And though I love her ‘til I’m gone
Now I must desert her

She said “no,
Our love goes deeper than this.”
She said “no,
Our love goes deeper than this.”

Even though
There’s poison in each kiss
She said “no,
Our love goes deeper than this.”