The Predictable Crisis of Modern Life

Click any track to expand the lyrics.

• 1 What Does Your Heart Say?

  What does your heart say?

  Is it pulling you away?

  Is it scared about the future?

  Is it trying not to break?

   

  I can be delicate

  Like an origami crane

  Listening to your rhythms

  What does your heart say?

   

  Does it write you long letters?

  Does It tell you how it feels?

  Is it up and down in circles

  Like some lonely Ferris wheel?

   

  I can be patient

  So you can take your time

  Go diving through your memories

  What does your heart say?

  Mine says "All i want is you".

   

  I could be an island

  Or the ocean that surrounds

  Always ever changing

  But for your i'm solid ground

  And you can fight it with your reasons

  Or you can call a spade a spade

  Forget your interjections

  What does your heart say?

• 2 Strung Along

  The eyes of an actress and dripping in subtext

  Always a hard one to read

  Kiss me hello then tell me 'bout your boyfriend that you had when you were 19

  And i don't mind at all

   

  "You're younger than me but you still make me nervous"

  I said with my hands in my jeans

  "I like your hands and your voice when you're singing"

  You said as you packed up to leave

  And I don't mind at all

   

  I want to know what you've been hiding

  Oh I wish you would string me along

  Time is the difference between falling and flying

  I wish you would string me along

   

  Smelling like red wine and cigarette smoke

  And you're looking like Bridgette Bardot

  Empty my pockets my cards on the table

  I thought that you might want to know

  And i don't mind at all.

• 3 Tunnel Vision

  Tunnel vision is a killer

  Getting closer by the day

  I went walking over mountains

  Tried to breath it all away

  Saw the jet stream arching over

  Saw a flower after rain

  And I ain't never looking backwards again

   

  The road behind me has helped me journey

  Across the weirdest wildest place

  And i've been lonesome and i've had company

  As i traveled on my way

  I met a girl who gave me something that will never be replaced

  And i ain't never looking backwards again

   

  I can see so clearly

  I can see so far

   

  In the distance I see storm clouds

  Doing battle in the sky

  But i'll keep walking ever onwards

  Like a one track troubled mind

  Ever cyclone has its center

  And ever hurricane must end

  So I ain't never looking backwards again...

• 4 Wherever It Is

  Sleep steady on your feet

  Forget about the things that chase you

  Scared and Stumbling

   

  All that you can ever be

  A child of your situation

  Probably

   

  Breeze and tension in you sails

  Wherever it is you run to

  Roses guard your window

  Wherever it is you run to

   

  I know I'm not the one

  Who gets to call you love

  And sleep next to you when it rains

   

  Still you're the company i keep

  When I get time for me

  I want to give it straight to you

   

  The planets align

  And the stars shout your sign

  And you're standing on a rock in the middle of the sky

  When their is nothing left

  But the sun in your eye

  Laugh at the ludicrous chance you had of being alive

• 5 Intermission

  Instrumental

• 6 Reasons To Be Afraid

  Well everyone keeps talking through their poison pointed teeth

  Like I’m a child that won’t stop swearing or the bringer of disease

  I ain’t got nothing that you’ll get, because you’re all immune to me

  I sit here wishing I had company

  And the ocean at my feet is swaying like a drunken lawyer

  Who is talking to his friends about how everybody loves him

  If I try to change the topic the topographic tilt will mean

  I’m swimming in my clothes again

   

  Reasons to be afraid:

  Help is on its way

  Your friends all know your name

  You’ll have to let them in someday

   

  So I stumble ‘round here smiling like I’m hiding something strange

  Hidden underneath my armour in the cortex of my brain

  And my brain’s the very thing that made me climb aboard this train

  So I can’t trust it anymore

  And my only ray of sunshine lives one thousand miles away

  And I’ll probably never get to see her pretty face again

  Because I thought that I’d be selfless and I left her on a whim

  And she don’t want me anymore

   

  My family all keep telling me that they are there for me

  But I guess I’d best keep moving so they don’t have time to see

  That I’m the first-born paratrooper who got tangled in a tree

  And all my comrades hit the ground

  And you just can’t light a match with all the gas these people spew

  About their yoga pants and pension plans, how they’re better than you

  Well I’ve been a lot of places and I’ve paid a lot of dues

  And my opinions are my own

   

  So, if you’re looking for a reason not to get to sleep at night

  Remember silence means you’re all alone and darkness leaves you blind

  So keep playing with your mobile phone whilst Government satellites

  Track every f**king move you make

  They can watch me all the like ‘cause I’ve got nothing left to hide

  Except this knot that’s in my stomach and a relentless voice inside

  That tells me “run across the country till you reach the other side

  And plunge yourself into the sea”

  But this country isn’t ours and that is plain enough to see

  It’s ruled by racist lobby groups and fat cat mining companies

  And a brainless bunch of bat-sh*t-boring serpent tongued MP’s

  Who think that they’re above the law

  So I try to make it better by forgetting who I am

  And by numbing it with alcohol and girls who like my band

  But I fall in love to easy so I had to change my plans

  And dig a moat to keep me safe

  Well a few have rowed across it or come flying from above

  They came bumping into me with boredom dressed up like its love

  And then knocking some things over undid all the good I’ve done

  But I still want them all the same

  Its like I’m a picket for a grape vine or the legs upon her throne

  Like I’m propping up the things that help her not feel so alone

  Well I kept the coin she kissed and gave to me then sent me home

  I hope it helps my luck to change.