Soapbox The Crookes

False praise as good as rope to wide eyed youth tortured with hope and all the ghosts that came before all signed the walls of toilet tours The inkwell’s dry the stairwell bleeds Your restless hand’s so

Soapbox Call Me No One

Here we are again The time has come To crash and burn I swear we will not ever learn Look out now Here comes the saint and all the condescending faces Makes you feel complacent all day long Heres

The Cooler King The Crookes

Jimmy's a patchwork player and he plays in old tights By bodegas are where we'll find our boy tonight With a dead eyed smile something in the way I heard our Jimmy boy say Let's begin Let's go find the

Stars The Crookes

These cheap clothes suit us darling We're poor but happy darling These cheap clothes suit us darling We're in the gutter Who cares We're happy sweetheart here in the gutter now Tennessee's uptight Baby

Echolalia The Crookes

Each day’s the same ‘til I think that I hear your name in echolalia And each time it hurts ‘cos I don’t know who said it first Echolalia And empty refrains, they still cut me like an old razor blade Still

Before The Night Falls The Crookes

with all the apathy that she could muster said To Hell Are you coming angel Let’s live out scenes from movie screens from our cheap seats onto the dance floor We’ll hotbox old cars, drive ‘em just as far

Yes, Yes, We Are Magicians The Crookes

Yes my love oh we are magicians you and I And soon you'll see that the cloud shapes in our eyes are blind but fly forever just the same Yes my love oh we are magicians you and I And soon you'll

Howl The Crookes

Each and every conversation flickers like old film and you know each assignation lives on only in my imagination… or maybe in the mirror There’s an echo through these streets that half the world’s forgot

Maybe In The Dark The Crookes

together Maybe you're young I'll bite your tongue your lip will bleed We're trash forever Maybe you're right Just for tonight Your clumsy kiss won't taste so clever And all I need is a substitute Maybe in the

Collecting Skies The Crookes

It’s just a love affair with the ocean isles Your silver smile beneath the blue The skyline melted as we cruised the North Sea To slip inside a dream’s not hard to do Oh lover you know Oh lover you know

Afterglow The Crookes

Lose yourself in lights and we'll always have tonight can't these days hold fast we're not the only ones to ask save us when we're all lying in the afterglow oh oh oh oh ohh oh oh oh x4 Faded memories

The I Love You Bridge The Crookes

Faith shook in romance My imagination danced on the 38 to Notre Dame It's a magic trick an escape from this Sleeping in Park Hill Frankie's art is on the pill He comes down on the 7th still It's a magic

Dance In Colour The Crookes

black and white but you should always dance in colour dance in colour Some dream of quiet love I favour chaos I want a love like no other so let’s dance in colour I want life to sprawl to twist with the

Sofie The Crookes

Bite marks on her arm And she wakes up before the sound of her alarm The voice on the radio it makes her nervous lets her know That she is one step from skid row Smoke your cigarettes And drink your coffee

Somewhere Over The Bus Stop The Crookes

Standard Tuning Capo on 3rd Fret C He spends the morning smoking foggy damp - bus stop cold. F Am G Darling, youre only 17, why are you scared of growing old?

Born Under A Bad Sign The Crookes

Born under a bad sign. Ive been down since I began to crawl. If it wasnt for bad luck, I wouldnt have no luck at all. Bad luck and troubles my only friend, Ive been down ever since I was ten. ...

Play Dumb The Crookes

I’ve had my mid life crisis by the age of twenty five You say my head ain’t right I’m tired of myself but don’t know why I’m dirt under your thumb, not pretty enough to play dumb I don’t need you no more

Don't Put Your Faith In Me The Crookes

You tell me you need something to believe in, some worthy cause to set you straight but if you find you’re thinking of the future your faith in me’s misplaced I’ve never been somebody to look up to Lord

Holy Innocents The Crookes

You and me and your record player, you’d choose the music as I’d just lie there Oh, at the start we were holy innocent And maybe I remember every word you ever said as day bled to night from the corner

Outsiders The Crookes

You know I love to be an outsider even though they try to drag me in… This is where it begins… You know that we are nothing like them, don’t smile at their jokes or toe the line… God it must be dull on

When You're Fragile The Crookes

need you on your knees so darling break down and just please me Once again we come undone Fools like us we don’t belong If it don’t hurt it ain’t worthwhile I love you most when you’re fragile… You play the

Marcy The Crookes

She the kinda girl who come from beauty She the kinda girl who come from wealth and she know jus what she doin’ to me I put problems, she put passion on the shelf And it like she got a million best friends

American Girls The Crookes

Those American girls They make it easy Jazz 45's and young dusty lust in a three o'clock wind I lost quick lovers to sloe gin Well I was happy chasing your skirt heartbeat racing Then I skipped across the

Hold Fast The Crookes

We met like strangers through a smoke screen Downtown we danced a razor's edge You fed the slot machines an old routine on cold caffeine Uptown he's standing on a ledge My head is screaming Oh we're from

Sal Paradise The Crookes

Baby wore those 501's with flare Baby chased the ocean without a care Baby said Our backyard spreads out past all those girls' beds Tell me how the stars still smile on us Tell me how your footprints split

Where Did Our Love Go? The Crookes

Silent screams ripped the seams of teenage dreams Empty words so absurd my heartbreak smirks We gave all we could was it ever enough Years were spent sharing beds with you my friend Boys in love just enough

Bear's Blood The Crookes

Drip feed hope to a blind homeless man Stars explode like aerosol cans and scar the face of Jalla Jalla You felt lust at the edge of your lips Spread like ichor to your fingertips I fell in love with

A Soapbox Opera Supertramp

beginner I don't see you as a winner I said, Sister Robinson, you're all washed up Collecting teardrops in a paper cup If I could tell you what you need to know If I could help you to get on with the

invisible rainbirds

As now I walk the crookes lines (I like to walk the crooked lines) I found it to hard to discover They were over (They are over) The times when I was invisible My coat of dreams is torn, the shreds

Splendid Isolation Little Angels

she's got many more years, ahead of it all, there's a fire in her heart tells her so So she's walking pretty tall into those old mantion halls Just to let them all know [Chorus:] Come down from your soapbox

Heroes All Time Low

and over and over Not gonna file you under latest nostalgia Nor happily ever after Not gonna listen to your played out songs Don't wanna think about you over and over and over Not gonna read about the

Pro-filing Dad Rocks!

Different language, different skin Makes flying a different thing At the customs checking in When eyes start flickering The salesman sings out to me ”It’s made of wood Make yourself understood” He wants

Golden Cattle The Low Anthem

As the blind walk the blind through the blackness of freedom Who writes the songs that we all will be singing Who writes the books where I lay my hand out open So to swear myself into your grace As the

Louder than Words Against All Authority

you treat the symptoms not the sickness and condemn a whole race for the benefits your system's offering you attack the class and claim you support their ass and still you defend the system that

Parasite Polaris

they breed and multiply Draw blood, you parasites Flatline, as you pull the splinters from your eye I won’t watch you plead your case High up on your soapbox stage As you appoint yourself authority Condemner

Bloodwine (Album Ver.) Gizmachi

Pummeled tidal waves displeasure my saturated dream Reality a shadow in a mirror crimson silhouettes of me Tighten the noose oxygen negotiates my mind True vanity stronger flawless standing On my soapbox

Misunderstood Screw 32

you 'cause you won't see and its us too and its always me My penalty is feeling underfoot Time again and its gone away Strange looks no matter what I say We try and fall and don't think its much Get the

Thunderwing T. Rex

I was walking down the skyway my way When I saw the legs that I love <Interlude> I was thinking about drinking something When I saw the legs that I love <Interlude> I bought a car '

Hanging Blue Side Son Volt

"Say hello to the blue side hanging around Didn't think it mattered, just a force of habit With room to roam, the wayside heals all thats wrong Didn't think it mattered, now the writings on the wall Been

Ball And Biscuit White Stripes

It's quite possible that I'm your third man girl But it's a fact that I'm the seventh son And right now you could care less about me But soon enough you will care, by the time I'm done Let's have

Vehement Showbread

You talk so much that you must think Your tongue spools out from your brain But those around you demand your wisdom To combat the lowly inane And oh how you make me hate the freedom of speech Because

SPIRIT THING Newsboys

<Chorus> It's just a spirit thing, It's just a holy nudge, It's like a circuit judge in the brain.

Story Of The Grandson Of Jesus Cloud Cult

Today is a good day to flex the muscles of the weary. A miracle is a miracle, even when it's ordinary. We will walk on the water even though it seems scary, if someone will show us the way.

Ball and Biscuit The White Stripes

It's quite possible that I'm your third man girl But it's a fact that I'm the seventh son And right now you could care less about me But soon enough you will care, by the time I'm done Let's have

It Was Only Love The Cribs

Oh, you know there's no one to tell us no Oh, because you can't regret something that you'll forget And that's the beauty I like you because you're strange Oh, but you say that you need to change

Holy wars ... the punishment due Megadeth

Brother will kill brother spilling blood across the land killing for religion something I don't understand Fools like me, who cross the sea and come to foreign lands ask the sheep, for their

Holy Wars...The Punishment Due (Live At The Cow Palace, San Francisco) Megadeth

Brother will kill brother Spilling blood across the land Killing for religion Something I don't understand Fools like me who cross the sea And come to foreign lands Ask the sheep for their beliefs Do you

Holy Wars... The Punishment Due Megadeth

Brother will kill brother Spilling blood across the land Killing for religion Something I don't understand Fools like me,who cross the sea And come to foreign lands Ask the sheep, for their beliefs Do

Loquid Sky Queensryche

I’m just the man for you. Holding out as secrets travel, they kind of get to you. Everybody says that it could’ve been something. Never was a smart kid, never knew a good thing.

Liquid Sky Queensryche

I'm just the man for you. Holding out as secrets travel, they kind of get to you. Everybody says that it could've been something. Never was a smart kid, never knew a good thing.