Fireflies Take Flight Ed Harcourt

Fireflies Take Flight Oh beware of bleeding lung And bugs that eat their young The demons in your head The wolves under your bed The bones of dinosaurs Hidden below the floors They rattle and they

From Every Sphere Ed Harcourt

From Every Sphere Take me far away And make me lose control For now I need to pray Think of forgotten souls Disappear from every sphere Watch them high Then slowly die Then slowly die If you shut

Let Love Not Weigh Me Down Ed Harcourt

the beauty blind my vision So shed all the tears that you want Run from the places you haunt If you think you`re lost Or just double-crossed Don`t try to make sense of it all Let the music and words take

Angels On Your Body Ed Harcourt

And nail it on to those who doubt The angels on your body, baby They laugh all the time The ground will burn Where you walk The wheels will turn When you talk You turn most men Into mush But willing to take

Something To Live For Ed Harcourt

This is for the broken fools Whose flames are gone before their time And if you see me trip and fall Save me from my swift decline I want to sink beneath a drunken sea Look in your eyes when you take

Shadowboxing Ed Harcourt

Hanging off the bridge by a fingernail Trapped in the harbour when the ship set sail Boy you're one card short of the pack Begging for your baby to take you back Stubbed a cigarette out on his hand Scrawls

Good Friends Are Hard To Find Ed Harcourt

defeatist state of mind I know you're shy in the limelight God knows you've done it before All the girls who dig all your mental scars And the boys who pat you on the back You and I will take

You Put A Spell On Me Ed Harcourt

a spell on me Yeah, you put a spell on me Made a painting for your birthday For my words they come out wrong Couldn't say the things I'm feeling So I threw them in a song I'm not sure if I can take

Still I Dream Of It Ed Harcourt

my mother told me Jesus loved the world And if that's true then why hasn't he helped me to find a girl And find my world 'til then I'm just a dreamer I'm convinced of it the hypnosis of our minds can take

Fireflies John Grant

On a summer night, 1975 Maybe earlier, now I don't remember She catches fireflies at the ice cream social And oh We watch them take flight He is coming now with the rake on fire He destroys the nest of

The Music Box Ed Harcourt

The Music Box sung by Ed Harcourt The music box is all that's left in the empty house Must've left it when they moved out In a hurry to flee the town Armoured tanks broke through all the soldier's

This One's For You Ed Harcourt

I feel so far away from love 'Cus I can never get enough Like the kid with the cookie jar And if I came back from the grave for a while Would you, could you make a dead man smile I´ll wear you on ...

Strangers Ed Harcourt

Deliciously I drink up all your tears On a piano out of tune I sit and persevere Deliriously I eat up all your words And jumble them around Til they become absurd Remember how it was They said it w...

Bittersweetheart Ed Harcourt

Bittersweetheart by Ed Harcourt if I could only see straight I wouldn't be lonley these days I'd drag my body out of this place and every sunday I sleep and pray that my soul will keep for I'll

Metaphorically Yours Ed Harcourt

Metaphorically Yours by Ed Harcourt oh baby, can`t you see when you get mad at me your eyes light up your face oh baby, just a minute if both my wrists were sled you`re banish a new style and

All Of Your Days Will Be Blessed Ed Harcourt

All Of Your Days Will Be Blessed by Ed Harcourt with beady black eyes, the bluebird has died it's feathers have dried, it couldn't survive from the winter's grasp, nothing ever lasts but you and i

Ghostwriter Ed Harcourt

Ghost Writer Hey - what's that sound in the bathroom? Hey - they're the voices in my head Hey - put your money where your head lays Hey - never sleep in your bed Hey - organise random chaos He...

The Birds Will Sing For Us Ed Harcourt

The Birds Will Sing for Us Little girl don't be sad I've set your eyes on fire Don't say I'm a liar that I don't love you Something has brought me down but I won't give up hope It's hard for you...

Sister Renee Ed Harcourt

Sister Renee Sister Renee, the jack of all trades don't put that hatchet in my back, in my back Watch myself fade on the bed that was made not by Nurse Ratchet but by you, yeah by you Your uniform ...

Undertaker Strut Ed Harcourt

Undertaker Strut Down in the valley where the river flows There's a man with a long black coat Rain is falling and clouds that are black On the coffin that starts to float Children they cry When th...

Bleed A River Deep Ed Harcourt

Bleed a River Deep When the clock strikes dead on midnight Books fly through the hall All the lampshades turn and rotate She walks through the wall With hands in pockets I search for rockets that m...

Jetsetter Ed Harcourt

Jetsetter Making an apperance at the club tonight Playing some songs that I think are alright I'm not post-modern just a man who can bark And bite with teeth that leave a mark In the winter your ey...

Watching The Sun Come Up Ed Harcourt

Watching The Sun Come Up by Ed Harcourt You know it feels nice, watching the sun come up and I`ve realized I can never return Oh babe it feels good, watching the sun come up I can attack the day

Something In My Eye Ed Harcourt

Spider has eight legs, you knowSpins its web, the patterns flowThere's something in my eyeBloodshot in disguiseGod knows I really triedMaking the big timeAiming to climb highScattered seeds can't f...

God Protect Your Soul Ed Harcourt

Well I hope God protects your soulI don't know if you should leave home aloneMaybe you've been drinking from the Devil's bowlI can't express myself 'cause I'm not fully grownMy heartache, is my mis...

Those Crimson Tears Ed Harcourt

Moving like a dancing bear It's in my blood Falling down the marble stairs It's in my blood Oh my dear, that's the way I am made, I'm afraid Those crimson tears Drip on the floor, drip on the bar T...

Beneath The Heart Of Darkness Ed Harcourt

Beneath the heart of darknessLies an old machine that's dyingSpluttering like an army of artillery sporadically firingThe roots of the house are cracking, caving inThere's no way out, it's trapped ...

Wind Through The Trees Ed Harcourt

Oh my deserted oneYou must put down your father's gunWhen the sundial reaches middayShut your eyes and then look awaySomething's wrong, they're all goneI will walk through the long, long grass and ...

Birds Fly Backwards Ed Harcourt

Sad, blue, the world is upside downAnd birds fly backwardsCats, dogs, fall first upon the groundAnd birds fly backwardsPacked bags in the hallwayWhere we used to play all dayWe're hitting the road ...

Shanghai Ed Harcourt

Let's move away together, go interplanetaryMaybe in Chinese weather, where it's sanitaryI'll go out trawler fishing, yeah we'll have tuna steakI'm on a special mission, for us to have a breakWe'll ...

She Fell Into My Arms Ed Harcourt

well I burned all my travellers Cheques Just to show you my respect Then I hung myself out to dry And You looked at me and asked me why So I said I don`t mind if I lose Cos if I win ill be so confu...

Apple Of My Eye Ed Harcourt

When you're on your own You walk in the rain You walk around the house Then walk around it again You pretend you're happy That you've got it all But don't be upset If you fall on your knees And beg...

Visit From The Dead Dog Ed Harcourt

Visit From The Dead Dog - Ed Harcourt Got a visit from the dead dog He slept at the end of my bed last night He could tell I was fading And somehow fighting against the light Everyday when I open

Hanging With The Wrong Crowd Ed Harcourt

Hey baby Jane, you have been climbing down the drain And you run in the rain to the playground climbing frame And the air seems so good and moist and cool When you meet him by the swimming pool Wha...

I'Ve Become Misguided Ed Harcourt

Sometimes I'm afraid of my shadowIt's always following meIn my home in an old trombone lives a family of bumblebeesAnd I'm fearful of the sharp sting that fractures through the skinWalking on the d...

Attaboy Go Spin A Yarn Ed Harcourt

Attaboy, go spin a yarn about the good old daysCatching fish laughing aloud out on Compton BayI'm not one for nostalgia, don't really like the pastI'm just a happy man with a ship and a sail and a ...

He's Building A Swamp Ed Harcourt

He don't live in the cityHe don't live in a townHe lives close to the woodlandBuilding a swamp in the dirty groundSo watch me crawlBreak down the doorI'll nail you to the wooden floorLove won't cra...

Whistle Of A Distant Train Ed Harcourt

Scream through the silence and over the hills10 thousand years have gone byPassing the islands and broken down millsThe train silhouettes through the skylineMere emotion, see the oceanJust for one ...

The Storm Is Coming Ed Harcourt

Well what starts out as a warm breezeTurns into something moreLike the lightning that burns down housesOr the wind that blows down doorsOh I see it in the distanceIt moves much faster than I thinkY...

Born In The '70s Ed Harcourt

I was born the year punk broke Days before the king was dead It was the year of the snake I was a red-faced child Who stumbled where he tread Was kept in orderly file My parents name me Ed I tried my hardest

The Trapdoor Ed Harcourt

On a summer night I took a walkOut in the fields where the grass snakes hideSix years old, tall as a chairFound the trapdoor hidden from sightFell into the blackness, seemed like hoursI hit the gro...

Loneliness Ed Harcourt

In an empty cinema (loneliness)When your old friends drift apart (loneliness)Wandering round the house in the dark (lonelines)Faded glory of a broken star (loneliness)LonelinessLoneliness What woul...

Open Book Ed Harcourt

It's clear to us this love affairHas self combusted everywhereAnd I don't feel so debonairMy piano collects dustA funeral with no mournersI wish that I'd turned cornersTo see the signs that warn us...

Kids (Rise From The Ashes) Ed Harcourt

Kids you're our only hopeSave us now we need an antidoteKids get out on the streetThrough this smoke rise through the city heatYou loved me like a friendBut now I can't pretendThe time we used to s...

Black Dress Ed Harcourt

For days I've searched for the wordsSo I don't make a mess of thisI'll trade my eyes for a fleeting wishI woke at 7amThe cold air was not becoming This tune I started hummingAnd you lay there so st...

Only Happy When You'Re High Ed Harcourt

one. two. three.It's funny, when losing your headIt feels like in a hospital bed.It's funny, losing our minds, and irony is dead.It's been for a long time.Forgetful, I miss place your name.I've met...

T Bone Tombstone Ed Harcourt

Is it wrong to sing a sad sad songTo tell a story that is much too long'Bout a man who made his way back homeAnd found his name on an old tombstoneNobody knew who he wasWhy he came and for what cau...

Here Be Monsters Ed Harcourt

Fell in the wellChurch rang a bellPriests they just tried to help but he went straight to hellLost in the flames, such a shameHere be monsters againHere be monsters againBrain wash the weakJoin up ...

When Americans Come To London Ed Harcourt

When Americans come to London wearing their clean white shoesThe men wear baseball caps and the women they look confusedWhenever I travel I try to blend in the crowdFlowing to airports not thinking...

Alligator Boy Ed Harcourt

Alligator boy, get back in the swampAlligator boy, you're looking so scaredAlligator boy, get back in the swampAlligator boy, you're looking so scaleyFlicking your tail from side to side with a sic...