Echolalia

Track Listing

Stunt Show

you hold me in mid air and you keep me a measure from impact
you stop and ask me if the ringing in your ears might be the sound of thought
you're like a long slow accident, time stood still while motion emptied you out
and we watched you like a slide show 1,2,3,4 and there you go

we all stop and stare from start to finish
yeah we're measuring again
you keep trying to show us how you can carry fifty times your own weight
you've got a whole new story but you're bound to your invention like a ball and chain
and i watched you like a stunt show, hold my breath and here we go

how will you get yourself out of this one
you stand by watching and this is how your life is turning out ( x 4 )

Three Dimensions

you're not the first to think that everything has been thought before
i spoke to an echo and he said "i'm not satisfied i want something more"

'cause i am bored with three dimensions
i'm in love with three dimensions
and if i listen to the seconds
reminds me of echolalia

what now, fragments are found
in the mess and in the sound

repeat chorus

you're not the first to think

repeat chorus

Jerry, Stand Up

jerry stand up
pull back the curtains and let some light in
quit your job
because you hate it and it's wasting you

once upon a time you were running
singing to the ground every morning
once upon a time you were

jerry stand up
am i the only one who's noticed that you've been missing
remember yourself man
remember that you have chance and possibility

once upon a time you were running
singing to the ground every morning
once upon a time you were crazy

jerry
you're not getting any younger
all you need is fresh air
a nice new suit and a walk in the park every day or two
every day in every way

repeat chorus

Monsters

i was hanging upside down from the overpass
waiting to discover something about the world
i couldn't get with the program and i couldn't listen to them
it was like trying to think in reverse
and i don't want to slide into apathy
and i don't want to die in captivity
but these monsters follow me around
hunting me down, trying to wipe me out

wipe me out

i was hiding away under water
waiting for distance and buying some time
trying to be two hundred thousand years younger
so i could excuse myself from humankind
'cause i don't want to be a container
or a bastard with a ten page disclaimer
but these monsters spin me around
get me down, just try and shut me out

shut me out

hold it in your head
believe and make believe and make believe

i was hiding away under water
waiting for distance, waiting for time
and i don't want to slide into apathy and i don't
and i don't want to live in captivity

Old Pictures

let these pages fly away
flagpoles in the sun
same saturday
and reflected off a window is where you'll stay
where you'll stay

i turned you in
i turned you into whispers
i turned you in
i turned you into old pictures

i build you out of nothing to have you near
i remembered you on trains
so now you're on every train i hear

repeat chorus

i wished that you were gone
so you're gone

repeat first verse

repeat chorus

You Only Hide

so i keep watch
and you keep breaking
breaking formation to become
someone else
and your eyes become corridors
where i wander with a candle
calling out to you

and you only hide
because you know i'll find you

you say you just want to feel
the way you used to feel
the way you should feel
and i wander through
the lost city of you

and you only hide because you know i'll find you

Feeding the Birds and Hoping for Something in Return

he sees streets
waiting for him to decide
forcing directions on the air, insisting
and he wants to move it up
and he wants to move across
anything, just anything
in a city that rumbles like an impatient child
he hears everything

and i know the sound of panic
and i know emergency and i know
i've planed it like a battle
but when i'm done shaking i'll be simple

he hears trees
talking about the wind or something
and he can't remember waking up
so he refuses to believe that he ever was asleep
and he's exhausted
he sits under a tree
feeding the birds and hoping for something in return

and i hate the silence in here
it's all emergency and i know
i've planned it like a battle
but when i'm done shaking i'll be simple

and he sees the buildings waiting
he sees them tired and leaning on each other
and all the words i had escaped
and all the things i saw lost shape
and i'm forgetting everything faster than i can remember what i'm missing
and i'm missing everything
and i know i've planned it like a battle
but when i'm done shaking i'll be.....

Twenty Years

he is alive and kicking
he calls it gymnastics, calls it velocity
and you spend twenty years climbing and never change your mind
and you call it the path of least resistance
and you have everything you ever need

and you sing if you can't beat them join them
all the way up to your floor
memorise and repeat it
and sing it like you mean it

they are talking to me and i am nowhere to be found
there's somewhere else i had to be
call it necessity, mutiny, entropy
they think i'm down
they tell me i should brighten up
but that's just 'cause they don't know an explosion when they see one

and they sing if you can't beat them join them
all the way up to your floor
memorise and repeat it
and sing it like you mean it
all the way home to your front door
yeah you better believe it
sing it like you mean it

repeat first chorus

Say Something

tonight is like space invaders
there is nothing at work
the faces have become like traffic
multi-purpose conversation
i stand like a lighthouse
i have become a lighthouse
but if we met we would exhaust this place
and if you spoke then this world would short-circuit

say something
make it a direct hit
say something
make me never forget

i don't want to stand and compute
i want days and weeks to burst out of you
i am listening for dear life
i want you to talk like it's a breakthrough

repeat first chorus

Manmade Horse

ask me how i am, ask me how i've been
and then stand and watch and hope and wait and with any luck
i will be an earthquake
and i will clear a space here
where you can put pictures and silence and sleep
and you can stop asking 'cause you'll be

you'll be
down in the centre of the earth with me
now you see me
now you don't bother looking twice

i picture myself like a column of smoke
and when questioned i see myself riding around forever on a manmade horse and you
and you

you'll be
moving randomly
you'll be
now you see me
now you don't bother looking twice

so you can go
through a wall
keep it
secret
try not
to grow
you can't do it

you'll be
riding around forever

Happy Endings

this town makes my mind slow down
lines in my face like highways now
chasing breezes, kicking boulders
and all of the while just getting older

i leave pieces of paper
pieces of myself along the way
out the window, out the window
and i tell myself that

i'll come back for them before i go
and then i won't sing this song tomorrow

reason calls i'm never listening
there's always something more distracting
take everything so seriously
then leave and burn up on re-entry

for happy endings
all these little victories
gathered up and hung on the wall like trophys
i tell myself that

i've been down this road before
so i won't sing this song anymore

i've been down this road before
so i won't sing this song anymore
i've been down on myself enough before
so i won't sing this song anymore

Seasick

you make it look so easy
you seem to fit inside your own skull so comfortably
but i haven't been myself lately
and thank you
the pressure has been all mine
as i wait for my pulse to catch up with me

if i could leave here today then i would
if i could change my face and my name then i would
if i could run to some technicolour place then i would
if i could learn from my mistakes then i would

the lights come back on
and what has my imagination done for me lately
i sit in this chair
concentrating on a crack in the ceiling
and thank you, thank you
the pressure has been all mine
as i wait for my breath to catch up with me

if i could see with your eyes then i would

repeat first chorus

you make it look so easy
you make me
seasick

if i could leave here today then i would
if i could run then i would
if i could learn then i would
if i could fly then i would

White

you think of white
somewhere outside
somehow connected to your brain
or about to knock on your door

eternity
is a policy

magnetism and mystery
wishful thinking and fantasy
and i hope that you're not
hoping for me

you think of sight
and reason collides
somehow transmitting from space
asking you to line up and take your place

infinity
is a reality

life jackets and sympathy
bullshit daydreams
i know you can't be knowing for me and i hope that you're not
hoping for me