Old Songs
New Songs
(p) + (c) The Frames 2002-2006
Lying in the sickbed waiting to go
Fill me with
Morphine and
Demerol
Swads of the cast off, just lye in the shade
Closer to Christ now, kneeling down on the blade
But don't leave me drowning
The river surrounds me and into my soul
Don't leave me lying,
sickbeds ever dying
Are calling me home So
proud, stay at home, start to weigh on my will to go
The air of
Philetus floats through the hall
Woke me up crying next to you by the wall
Don't leave me scathing, the ashes are breaking
me to my bones
Don't leave me lying, sickbeds ever dying
Calling me home
Down, down, down, down... 
We live and die indefinitely
Give way to the new
We fall on days full of trial
And our penance will be soon
And the arrow cuts straight and true
This journey isn't graced
_____ instilled you find you oars
This long forgiving place
The vanished and the disappeared
Speak now from a younger place
Of conclusions long forgone
And here now as the morning breaks
We're closer to an end
Put value to a life of mistakes
I'm still learning from
And if I had your whole belief
Your day would end right here
Down in the street, they're calling your name
If you stay here with me, you'll only complain
So let go my hand, go be with your friends
You turn out the light, will I see you tonight
My one little hopeful
My one little hope....ful
And up on the hills, they're locking their doors
They're hiding away, and you choose to ignore
And you keep it well hide, do not share with the kids
And I'll stand here alone, at the end of this phone
My one little hopeful
My one little hope....ful
La la la la, la la la la la
If I win some races, it don't mean that I'm fastest
It don't mean that I'm better than anyone
And if I ride some horses with great speed over courses
It'll be 'cause you waited for me at the line 'Cause for you I would win
And for you I would trust myself
And for you I would throw away
And abandon all glory and fame to the wind 'Cause I never left you
And you never let me go, oooh no And if I had the glory, I'd share it out gladly
And deflect all the limelight
Not let it get in your eyes
So come walk beside me for the end of this story
And I'll let you go gently among your own kind 'Cause for you I would win
And for you I would trust myself
And for you I would throw away
And abandon all glory and fame to the wind 'Cause I never left you
And you never let me go, oooh no
I'm the bananaman, I go uppa that tree
I go downa that tree, I go home for me tea
I'm the bananaman, and I drink me Coca Cola
And I play me rock'n'rolla down by the sea Everybody like banana.. [Thanks Iarla]
[Lyrics]
Well I'm heading back to pack a bag
To head out on the road
To take away what I know is mine
I'm running down past the yellow house
with ____
Into the breeze where no-one seems to care
I'm feeling the pull
Dragging me off again
I'm feeling so small against the sky tonight
These stories of an open line
And every time we work ourselves up into a rage
In a smash-n-grab we pulled the handle no-one cares
But everybody wants to be the one who's just climbing out
Don't use that word friend with me
if you don't know what it means to me
don't use that word friend with me
if you really are my enemy
don't speak the word so solemnly
speaking it with enmity
don't use that word friend with me
if you don't know what it means
it was underneath an apple tree
i roused you on your mother's knee
and you rose to kiss and say to me
all those secret words you made for me
in earnest wonder I did stray
into you and far away
the hips that sing and a heart that rings
are calling to me every day
so don't use that word friend with me
if you don't know what it means to me
don't use that word friend with me
if you don't know what it means
i walked you past the violinists
and told you all my favourite things
and tripped so soft and steadily
one constant step ahead of me
you placed a seal upon my heart
and you slowly pulled us both apart
and the end came slow and achingly
and there was one for you and one for me
so don't use that word friend with me
if you don't know what it means to me
don't use that word friend with me
if you don't know what it means
you gave me cause beneath the pines
pulling yourself complete in line
and what a wonder you turned out to be
when you told me you would wait for me
but I found you out through black and look
on a path I very seldom took
and you were sworn to secrecy
the lover of my enemy
so don't use that word friend with me
if you don't know what it means to me
don't use that word friend with me
if you don't know what it means
[unreleased song, unofficial lyrics]
Laugh, I'll tell you why
'Cos soon you're gonna fly
And the weight that held you down
Will disappear with the ground
Resist, it's only right
To wanna stay here and face the fight
And the ones you'll live to tell
Will sing us songs so very well
And you are golden, you are golden
You are golden, you are gold
Don't explain, I heard you right
You're gonna leave here, this very night
And the one that takes you down
is gonna come without a sound
Cos you are golden, you are golden
You are golden, you are gold
You are golden, you are golden
You are golden, you are gold
Ná téigh amach anocht
Tá lócaistí sa spéir
'S tá fórsaí an oilc ag oibriú mar a bhíonn
'S an mhallacht a bhí ort tráth..
Ní ghortóidh sé muid níos mó
's sláinte a chéile anseo againn á h-ól
Tá muid beirt ar aon, tá muid beirt ar aon
'S na cloig a d'árdaigh ár gcroíthe
'S muid a' luascadh 'sna rópaí
A shíleamar a chuirfeadh muid chun báis
'S an fonn nár scríobh tú fós
'S na briathra nach bhfuair beocht
Ag bailiú is ag fanacht ar amhrán
Tá mé ag bogadh liom, Ag fágáil slán,
Glacaim'se an milleán
Tá mé ag bogadh liom, Ag fágáil slán,
Glacaim'se an milleán
Ná cáill do mhisneach fós
‘Sí ab ansa leat go mór
Agus tiocfaidh an lá go dtuigfidh sí gan stró
Na briathra nach bhfuair beocht
's an ceol nár chum tú fós...
Ní chumfar é ‘s ní fhanfaidh sé go deo
Tá mé ag bogadh liom,
Ag fágáil slán
'S glacaim'se an milleán
Tá mé ag bogadh liom, ag fágáil slán
Glacaim'se an milleán
Tá mé ag bogadh liom,
Ag fágáil slán
'S glacaim'se an milleán
Tá mé ag bogadh liom, ag fágáil slán
Glacaim'se an milleán
Tar ar ais, 'speáin tú féin,
Féach a chroí,
Tá tú ró-uasal don saol,
Imeoimid..
Ná cuir suas lena gcuid bréag
Ná creid iad..
(Curfá)
Nó an fearr leat pian agus ciúnas
's ceann faoi
An fearr leat pian agus ciúnas,
Ní gá iad..
'Ah come on' tar liom féin,
Creidim a chroí,
Fáilte ar ais, bhí tú i gcéin,
Conas mar a bhí?
(Curfá)
An fearr leat pian agus ciúnas
's ceann faoi
Nó an fearr leat pian agus ciúnas,
Ní gá iad.. no..
Dúisigh.. Seo é do ghrá geal,
Dúisigh.. Seo é do ghrá geal..
(Curfá)
Níl gá le pian agus ciúnas
's ceann faoi
Níl gá le pian agus ciúnas,
Ní gá iad..
Dúisigh.. Seo é do ghrá geal,
Dúisigh.. Seo é do ghrá geal..
(Curfá)
Níl gá le pian agus ciúnas
's ceann faoi
Níl gá le pian agus ciúnas,
Ní gá iad..
Dúisigh.. Seo é do ghrá geal,
Dúisigh.. Seo é do ghrá geal..
Dúisigh!
Sad eyes don't use that word with me
When you don't know what it does to me
Sad eyes don't use that charm on me
When you know how it's disarming me
Sad eyes don't use that word love with me
When you don't know what it does to me
Don't use that word love with me
When you don't know what it means
I walked you passed the violins
I've showed you all my favourite things
You brought me to a place below
And I'm pleading now for you to know
I held you in my arms one time
You never said that you are mine
So don't use that word love with me
When you don't know what it means
Be safe
Be warm
Be young
Be brave
Be bold
Be all you ever hoped
Be safe
Be warm
Be young
Be brave
Be bold
Be all you hope, you hope
I walked you passed the violins
Yeah I showed you all my favourite things
You brought me to a place below
I'm pleading now for you to know
I held you in my arms one time
You never swore that you'll be mine
So don't use that word love with me
When you don't know what it does to me
So don't use that word love with me
When you don't know what it means
Be safe
Be warm
Be young
Be brave
Be bold
Be all you ever hoped
Be safe
Be warm
Be young
Be brave
Be bold
Be all be all you can
Be safe
Be warm
Be young
Be brave
Be bold
Be all you've ever hoped
Be safe
Be warm
Be young
Be brave
Be bold
Be all you ever hoped
(thanks to simulacra and jana)
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