Turin Brakes

Feeling Oblivion

Cubscouts are screaming,
Needing icescreaming & all the pleasures of June
I’m in a parked car.
Flowers seem friendly & people in hall ways feel walls.
Now it is night time maybe we’re cruising avoiding the anti-cruise.
Oh I don’t really know where we are.
If things get real promise to take me somewhere else,
By the time fear takes me over will we still be rolling & feeling oblivion.
Once in a while the lie in the laughter can burn through a hole in my ears,
Like a man with glasses catching a sunbeam and burning the skin of a kid.
Hypereal fragments disturbing the stagnants of almighty fear.
Well I’ll just go under the water.
If things get real promise to take me somewhere else,
By the time fear takes me over will we still be rolling & feeling oblivion.
So don’t leave me here on my own.
So don’t leave me here on my own.
If things get real promise to take me somewhere else,
By the time fear takes me over will we still be rolling & feeling oblivion.

Underdog (Save Me)

Two black line streaming out like a guidance line.
Put one foot on the road now where the sybourgs are driving,
With the WD-40 in their veins the screeching little brakes complain.
With the briefcase empty and the holes in my shoes,
I try to stay friendly for the sugary abuse.
So tell my secretary now to hold all of my calls,
I believe I can hear through these walls.
Oh please save me, save me from myself.
I can’t be the only one stuck on the shelf.
You said you’d always fall for the underdog.
Well I’ve been dreaming of jetstreams and kicking up dust,
A thirty seven thousand foot of wonderlust 
And with skyline number 9 ticked off in my mind,
Oh can you hear me screaming out now through the telephone line.
Oh please save me, save me from myself.
I can’t be the only one stuck on the shelf.
You said you’d always fall for the underdog.
 

Emergency 72

Well all my colours bleed for you
           Can’t you see them running?
My hazy hills glow green for you
You could just call me, you know?
On my mobile number cause I’m always in
And I was just thinking about you on emergency 72 72 72 yeah
Well all my lust comes down to dust
Can’t you see it crumbling?
My hazy hill come down to rust
But you could call me, you know?
You’re pulling me out of this whirlpool
Your making me breathe again
And I was just thinking about you on emergency 72 72 72 yeah
And I just can’t forget 72
And I just can’t forget 72
72 72 72 72 72 yeah 72
72 72 72 72 72 yeah 72
72 72 72 72 72 yeah 72
72 72 72 72 72 yeah 72
 

Future Boy

So future boy where are you from my time machine crashed over yonder.
Syphillis is a bitch but contracting HIV is much worse.
Why are you pushing info into me, 
I have no need for it, I’m from the stars.
I thought you’d like to know the scoop 
I’m taking babies back with me, yeah.
I’m taking them back home 
so they can see there’s a much better place.
I’ve got a sister with an open mind and my friends are all junkies
But there still my friends, as long as they don’t use monkeys,
We enjoy the heat of stolen days in the summer of ’93.
Well the future boy said I’ve got friends but you know sometimes 
it all depends on how tall they are against yourself.
I am the future boy
My friends have all gone and left me 
so I decided to come here and see myself as a baby,
but it looks like I’m stuck here this time, oh shit,
I’m gonna miss my friends.
No your still the future boy,
Yes I’m still the future boy
We’ll build you a time machine to get back home.
Still the future boy…
Well I’m still the future boy.

The Door

So take the fast road and get going now 
Before you leave no trace 
Time in this place is closer than my friends 
Remember my eyes not my face 
Ain't no sense has no sense it invents 
Another man unfolds 
I'm standing next to myself the sink 
Staring into the black hole 
I panic at the quiet times 
Decisions at the door 
I panic at the quiet times 
Fate leaves me to much more. 
On the inside it hurts less 
The outside seems so cold 
I need to climb 
Gotta find some tenderness 
Before I get too old 
Sun come from behind, hurts my eyes 
It dries my hair so nice 
I watch the boiling sea meet the open sky 
But my soul still feels like it's ice 
I panic at the quiet times 
Decisions at the door 
I panic at the quiet times 
My fate leaves me to much more.

The State of Things

Blindfold me tie me up or tie me down yeah take me anywhere
Keep your ears close to the ground
Listen to me but don’t die laughing
And all things must end yeah
But I can see my fate in your eyes
As I’m stitched up by my friends again
They just can’t defend the state of things between
You and me
Used to be on fire
So slip off your shackles
Cause you don’t need them where we’re going
See what happens just happens
There ain’t no straight lines in the state of things
So try to cling on for dear life
And don’t forget the world keeps on turning round despite
You and me
Used to be on fire
Now look now
See when we’re going 
I don’t know where I’m going
I don’t know 
 

By TV Light Wine bottle why are you weary? 
And why are my eyes so grey? 
Semi-circle people are pointing 
And staring up to the sky 
And the dogs are all gone 
And my muesli is mouldy 
And the saints they are sinners in their songs 
And the crickets they call to their rusted rainbow 
I swear if you listen you might just hear our song 
TV light flickers so fiercely 
Bridging the gap between my eyes 
Outside the rain is tapping my window 
A jet trail left hanging in the sky 
And the puddles reflect the sky in the morning
  Then the pavements lead to another place 
With one ear to the west 
And then ocean beside me 
I swear if you listen you could just hear our song
  Electric sensations will not stay with us for long 
Wine bottle why are you weary? 
And why are my eyes so grey? 
Semi-circle people are pointing 
And staring up to the sky 
And the dogs are all gone 
And my muesli is mouldy 
And the saints they are sinners in their songs 
And the crickets they call to their rusted rainbow 
I think if you listen you might just hear our song 
Eclectic sensations will not be with us for long
 

Slack

  I’ve got a rifle on my back.
Swinging past the birch trees.
Well I set of a bomb way back there.
I don’t care about nobody but me.
‘coz I ain’t slack.
Ran back home and drunk all the wine.
Well I stole a bottle for myself.
With insects crawling in my hair.
The trees are black and I don’t care.
‘coz I ain’t slack
rescued a cat from a tree.
Its fur was all caked in dirt
But I killed it dead for liking me.
Yeah I stole a car and drove to town.
Well I ain’t slack.

Starship  Starship myself to an island paradise guided by stars.
Given the chance I would leave this place on a rocket ship for mars.

The Road

There's a road with two yellow lines 
They go on for years 
And the people there smile and wave 
It's not like back home 
In their doorways 
Where the evening sky 
Lights up my room 
Lights up my room 
Lights up my room 
Lights up my room 
Times are fierce and times are fine 
Yeah it goes that way 
Down some highway 
Down some lonely road 
In that old fashioned way 
In the garden 
On the ceiling 
Light up my room 
Light up my room 
Light up my room 
Light up my room
But the darkness 
Let's him see here all of the people they never knew 
Float into space 
Falling through red puddles and places they never seen
  Will my soul be angry? 
When you die do you feel alright? 
In the garden 
When the evening sky 
Lights up my room 
Lights up my room 
Lights up my room 
Lights up my room 
There's a road with two yellow lines 
They go on for years 
And the people there smile and wave 
It's not like back home 
In their doorways 
Where the evening sky 
Lights up my room 
Lights up my room 
Lights up my room 
Lights up my

Mind Over Money

Mind over money bent over backwards
Light up my life like a very last cigarette
Time after time dear we will just lie here
Staring at ceilings it doesn’t really matter where we are
Wearing a smile like its going out of style
Look at your self , theres nothing in there 
Just put points on a grave stone 
Can u see yourself sinking
Staring at ceilings it doesn’t really matter where you are
That’s alright I warned  myself
keep blood on the inside and nowhere else
up on a shelf that’s where I need to be 
la da da dee
I need to get Something
I can’t sleep for red eye
Internal combustion can that really happen?
I take it back yeah whatever I did yeah I didn’t mean it
I was only joking
But what does this matter in the grand scheming sky 
All that I multiply adds up to nothing
that’s alright I warned  myself
keep blood on the inside and nowhere else
up on a shelf that’s where I need to be 
la da da dee

The Optimist 

Sitting here staring out the window. 
Traffic always makes me feel like I’m coming home.
Cold blood bleeding still at least I’m breathing.
Patiently waiting clinging to my mobile phone.
Cracked skulls with a creepy mind inside.
I’m planning the greatest of escapes you know.
Patiently waiting in the line.
Soon I’m gonna stand up
Yeah I’m gonna rear up and there’s no escape.
Lonely planet
Cold blood bleeding still at least I’m breathing.
Patiently waiting soon I’m gonna take control.
Cracked skulls with a creepy mind inside.
I’m planning the greatest of escapes you know.
Patiently waiting in the line.
Soon I’m gonna stand up
Yeah I’m gonna rear up and there’s no escape.
Lonely planet
Oh its too late lonely planet.