art of fighting - second storey:

along the run

everything in nature moves in waves
watch them extend out in every way
waves of fire sick with flame
waves of water form the ocean's blame
just to see you go that way
lost from sight and then seen again
your one true wave
your one true way
it always takes you back to the same place
with every minute a mystery
every day was a tragedy
yeah all and every single one
and every minute i spent with you
another minute that i could use
to show you why our time was done
cause i lost you somewhere along the run
farewell the chance that you could be the one
try not to feel let down
get filled up with the pouring rain
or the the wind with its awful sound
or the sun with its simple shame
you know i always will see your face
and i always will say your name
yeah i'll always remember you

your easy part

i had a name some old day
when the crime of you kept me in the frame
and we had a look both you and me
like a handful of colour thrown on the street
that's right now
but i felt ashamed most of those days
cause the summer came but the winter stayed
well what can you say to a dying day
'will you stay here a while, keep the darkness away?'
and oh you don't wanna know you don't wanna be known
and oh you don't wanna see you don't wanna be shown
that i just wanna be your easy part
now the memory burns cause the days were flames
yeah the nights were cool but they were all the same
but if i go there again well i wont be sane
not a calling guest just a ghost in the rain
and oh you don't wanna know you don't wanna be known
and oh you don't wanna see you don't wanna be shown
that i just wanna be your easy part
what would i be needing to find?
what would i be needing to see?
what would i be needing to say?
what would i be needing to do?
yeah if everything's a question for you
then every answer has its own question too
yeah and that's what bleeds the life out of you
oh oh oh
yeah i had a name some old day
when the crime of you kept me in the frame

break for me

now that all the many ways that you occupy your days
have left you without hope
you're caught between the way and not knowing the way
and you don't know which you need the most
you're listening for the distant waves
and watching all the stars coming down
the kind of things you do when you think that nobody wants to see you around
and i can see it in your eyes
like i can see it the skies of these constant, turning days
and i can feel it like a curse
yeah it's only getting worse
it's never too far away
they pulled you from the crying water
they took you to the broken ground
the kind of thing you do to a person when you don't wanna see them around
break for me
cause where you have light well you have vision too
but there's some things that you just wont see through
and so you feel you have no air in you
but distant eyes, distant eyes this is your future too
so if you want to run to the water
if you want to go to the sea
i will come and meet you there
and the waves will carry us free
break for me

busted, broken, forgotten

if you're looking for a good thing
if you're looking for a clean heart
looking over this way
is not a very good start
been hanging on an old line
been living in a fixed time
been sticking to the same moves
and now i'm busted broken fogotten
old and worn and used
it's ok i know it now
and there's nothing like the truth
in anything that i can still do
in anything that i can still be
if there's a part of me that's still true
it's trying to promise what i cannot prove
so in the daylight you will see me
as not a definite or real thing
just as a shadow left to shifting
now that i'm busted broken forgotten
lost beyond all use
it's ok i know it now
and there's nothing like it
false signs and faulty lines well they may be excused
but how will time forgive me all the damage that they'll do?
so baby i'm leaving yeah i'm packing up and moving away
you'll never see me the broken boy is leavin' today
and you'll never find me from the the pieces scattered all along the way
cause they're bound to fade
now that i'm busted broken fogotten
lost beyond all use
it's ok i know it now
and there's nothing like the truth

two rivers

come brace yourself against the wind
feel it rise against your chest
all things that lie in valleys grow
the kind of growth we'll never know again
oh no
got washed around the river bend
the kind of chase that never ends
oh yeah oh no
and that's why whenever i see you now
it closes me up closes out
where our two rivers came about
blows that coldest wind
i have ever felt
so little was that mystery
it all became plain history
so fast so well
like captured drops of water sent
down rivers that are summer spent
oh yeah oh no
and that's why whenever i see you now
it closes me up closes out
where our two rivers came about
blows that coldest wind
i have ever felt

where trouble lived

listen i can hear the heart i thought i knew
where trouble was hiding all along
arms can reach and eyes can smile and nothing's true
you do it just cause you do
and then one day you raised your head and looked around
and dreams flew in your opened eyes
wish i'd been there wish it had been me as well
shown colours all so new
and i could wish i'd beat you to leaving
and i could hope for hell to follow you
i guess your heart turned grey
can't believe i never noticed
but now i hope some colours breathe
where trouble lived in you
and i wonder when it happened did you feel bad?
or did colours blind your woken eyes?
i can see you now your sweet face turned towards
a light i know you need

sing song

someone, somewhere
has my pictures of us
but it's ok
because it's hard
to make out details in those faded photographs
a picture of us sunny and true
faded to irrelevant blue
so you've found new ways
of keeping memory
in rythmn and melody
your songs
just like my songs
they're made up of questions
but if you really wanna know what i'm like
take a fucking look in my eyes
and so you keep on singing that song
as if nothing is wrong
sing as loud as you want
'cause soon i'll be gone
but its never easy no it's never easy no it's never that easy
not even now that i'm leaving
and though all of it's done yeah and all of it's closed now and all of it's gone
still going to stay there in your songs
how do old songs
speak in new ways
oh so many years on?
so long
maybe there's one
that we can both learn from
a ballad broken over the rocks
or a lullaby that always gets lost

real time

so many nights have passed me now
those giddy lights they chased me down
all frozen time
is melted in an early sun
does anybody know me now?
did anybody notice how?
always leaving at an early hour
'yeah, take good care, i'll see you around'
'oh hey, hi'
every little eccentricity
and all the little things that have stayed with me
all of my electric memories
spread across my head like some hot disease
every single thing that i said to you
every little thing that i tried to do
not on one thing does this life depend
so tonight i'm gonna see where this darkness ends
‘cause i'm drowing in unforseen circumstances
drowing in unforseen circumstances
in real time

come round and show me

down in the city of you
crosses and cranes
building a riot in you
over the days
I just want to be your eyes
face is gone
mystery prison
now i know
just what your trouble is
i do, i'm right
and i can fix it for you right
over the water of you
up in the sky
lights in a pattern of you
factories and fires
and i don't wanna be my eyes
see you go
wish and worry now I know
just what your trouble is
i do, i'm right
and i can fix it for you in the darkness of the turning night
get corrupted in the city sky
we might
if you're lonely, lonely
come round and show me
where lies the memory of you
sift through the ground
find all the million pieces
and bring them around

heart translation

wanna hold you like a secret wanna hold you like a hand
wanna hold you like a prisoner in the arms of my remand
caught for good
because to leave you with those days is never something i could do
there'll always be a part of me that needs to be with you
that's just what's true
there you were black silver dressed in gold
like every story ever told
a million words in so few sentences
when you spoke to me it rang out like a song
that dared all ears to hear it wrong
to never know to never see to never reach a place to be
to never understand your way has put a limit on my days
so long it's too late
so i said heart, translate
cause i dont understand a thing that you say
maybe we'll see it all as it's fading away
different memories will come
different seasons and days
and as long as it takes
oh the heart it translates
it can never be wrong
it can only be late