lyrics for blow

Done (Carter/Fits)

Red light flashing madly
And a stop sign saying no more road to go - no!
I ain't run out of track!
I got track and plenty behind it
Done!
Good as done!
Up and down and bounced like a seesaw
Whatchu sayin' whydidja leave for?
So obvious cut out and final and
Done
Good as done
Whatchu sayin' whydidja leave for?
Whatchu sayin' whydidja leave for?
Sad men suffer gladly and this here is no matter of theory!
Done
Good as done
Done


Falling (Carter/Fits)

Who is this man with his fate in his hands?
He's dancing naked on a wire
He's coming down, yeah let's give him a hand
A big ovation for our flier

Falling, falling, falling, falling

I'm gonna do it, do it, do it, you ain't gonna stop me
Goin' down, down, down, the ground that'll hug me
Cause I count, count, count the ways that you love me
And I couldn't keep ...?... the one if you wanted

Who is this clown planning on coming down?
He's doing a tango on a wire
He's gonna land, yeah let's give him a hand
He couldn't come from any higher

Cause I count, count, count the ways that you love me
And I couldn't keep ...?... the one if you wanted
I'm gonna do it, do it, do it, you ain't gonna stop me
Goin' down, down, down, the way that you are me

Gonna hit the stand, crowd'll love it
Gonna do it, do it, do it, the way that you promised
etc.


Joyride (Carter/Fits)

I've got a ticket to fly, I've got a ticket to fly
I'm coming out, change the cover of your time
I'm gonna paint it all right
I've got a kick in my head, I got a kick in my head
What's all inside in all the people all divide
and can go elsewhere instead

And it should be soon, cause it should be
No point in questioning why
Got a bucket of height on a bolted line
Coming out under fire
And it feels real good when it hits me,
Joyride, spit 'em out upon a
Joyride, close to crashing but it's
All right, spit 'em out upon a
Joyride

I've got a kick in my head, I got a kick in my head
A buzzing mind is close to buzzing all the time
and we could use it instead
I've got a tic in my eye, I've got a tic in my eye
Kinda scared like when the going's going weird
and you won't wanna know why


Cat Inna Can (Carter/Fits)

Space cat, feline Apollo
Stop that, it's time you went home
Act like there is no tomorrow
Act out into actual fact
What wall are you gonna run into next?
Do do do do do do

Catch like a cat inna can
Big beast gonna stop in the track
Do do do do do do

Space cat, feline Apollo
Stop that cause it's time you went home
Getting sick and tired of your playing around in the waves
Do that, there'll be no tomorrow
To chew up again...
Do do do do do do

Sick and tired
You'll make a little compromise
You take a little less each time
You look a little, little like you're...


Sycamore (Carter/Fits)

Without you got a black and a blue mind
Without you get a view of the whole sky

Starting today, down by the sycamore
Sky'll be blue, I'll make it mine
Going on to the other side
Going on through, and then just a little more

Sycamore blooms, you stole my eye
Today is the day you fell and died
No going round you like I did before
Starting today, sky'll be blue
Without you, my sycamore

I'm going on to the other side
Going on through, I'll make it mine
I'm chopping down the giant sycamore
Starting today, sky'll be blue
Starting today, without you

Sycamore blew and caught my eye
Shot up and grew and stole my sight
That's not happening here anymore
Starting today, sky'll be blue
Blue every day, without you
You in the way, my sycamore


Brother's Keeper (Carter/Fits)

Crack up the back of a dangerous design
His helicopters put beauty in the sky
Apocalypse behind bowing and smiles
It channels, channels, channels, channels
It's chewing gum to stick up the mind
And daylight robbery is just for the criminal kind

You, your brother's keeper, your brother's keeper
You try to keep him where the sun won't shine
You tie the weak up, you tie the weak up
You chain the beast but you can't change minds

Here's people wanting to eat in a line
Here's twenty thousand and one ways to die
Everyone thinking that one won't deny
A million places are built by design
And razor teeth hiding out behind a beautiful smile

Keep minding the matter, it's reason enough to be careful
You keep minding the matter, it's reason enough to be fearful


Train (Carter/Fits)

You look stupid asking, but what will you do?
Shame of the stars make a fool of the moon
Just wanna know one thing that maybe you knew
Waiting till then and then what will you do?

Got a train by waiting, coming by soon
Crystal neck in the wheels, tell me what will you do?

I think you're spoiled for choices
I think the list of the memories
You speak in too many voices
What did you mean...?

What do you want running through me again?
Train...
What do you mean running through me again?
And where will you go...?

You look stupid asking
Oh I've discovered that anyway
It could have been well taken and mistaken too
You look at them, it disappears, you find other ways to render it useless


Let It Blow (Carter/Fits)

Stop me if you've heard this one, but I really have nothing to say
Cause every time I figure out the words to get away
And your lies you criticise, I recognise the score
That enough is enough, it's a shame about us
but I really can't try anymore

The reason just disappear
And you can do nothing there, accept this to yourself
Gotta let it lie, then you gotta let it go
Goin' la la la la la la la la la la let it blow

Accept this to yourself, reasons disappear
No scenes at all, and the things that had happened here
I've cried, bored, battered your door
staggered these streets like a drunk
Swaying and praying and crying and dying
and praying and all kinds of junk
You wanted more, I'll give you more
I recognise the score
That enough is enough, it's a shame this is rough
cause I really can't try anymore

And then you gotta let it feel, just so you know
Goin' la la la la la la la la la la let it blow

Accept this to yourself, reason is disappeared
No sense at all, and the things that had happened here
Accept this to yourself, drag another year
Down to the bone, they say you're only here
Until tomorrow


If I Were You (Carter/Collie/Fits)

If I were you my friend, I'd clear my head and start again
I'd try the new one on, admire the way it looks so good on
If I were you and yours was mine, I'd take like a dog to the water
All I could do with the brand new sway, oh
If I were you, I'd hold you and touch all the water
I wouldn't stay up too long
Maybe for just a while, long enough to feel the place where you live

If I were you my friend, I'd wear your dress and steal your friends
I'd watch the words I said and wash my mouth and start again
Unscrew the thread that changed your mind
and twist it the way that you would have
If I were you then you'd define
I'd do it the way that you should have
And if I were you, I wouldn't come down so soon
If I were you, put on like a coat in the winter
I wouldn't stay up so long
Maybe for just a while, pray on everything you think about, time I said
And I come, come too soon
Do, do do do, do do
Do, do, do do, ahh

If I were you, I wouldn't come down so soon
If I were you, give me something new to think about
If I were you, I wouldn't trade places, no
And if I were you, I'd be like a light switched on in your room


Turn (Carter/Fits)

Stand down, I'm sorry I have proven
But it's you asking rude
Questions
Have you ever been surprised?
Or do you keep a more careful station
Looking out through others' eyes?
And do you feel most lonely
Standing hidden in a crowd?
And do you feel the need to hold me
Keeping close you're almost on me

Stand down, I'm sorry I have proven
But it's you asking rude...
Turn down, you're coming close to glowing
Shining brightly, you know only what you do

Quickly
How to live with all your lies
With a list of names and maybes
All your friends for alibis
Fools [...?...] told you
You keep 'em paid and wound up on you
And now your hand upon my shoulder
Another hand to make, roll over where

Like your light, your turn to fly
Stand down, to
Turn down, move
Move round, to


Way (Carter/Fits)

Dream a dream of just for two
Your imagination's too
Vivid for me to see two
Fragments I can hold on to

Don't you look that way
Don't you look back in a glance
Turn it round your way
Turn it round your way

Coming there, it's earth to you
Is any signal getting through?
My heads burst to bits of you
Shrapnel up from here to you

Don't you look that way
Don't you look back in a glance
Turn it round your way
Turn it right around your way

And whatever will do
It's a new kind of angle
Use any excuse
As you must when you have to

Don't you look that way


Burn It Up (Carter/Fits)

My city said on Channel Z
One picture that'll keep me warm forever
You should be grateful
You should be thankful
I care enough, to far too much
And stay around to be in touch
One single touch, I'll put it out, I'll burn it up

My city said on Channel Z
One picture there
One image cares, will keep me warm forever
You should be thankful
I build it up, to far too much
More than what is, more than what was
My temperature is far too much
Don't put it out, I'll burn it up
One single touch, I'll put it out, I'll burn it up

Yeah every time I think maybe I finally got your measurement, got a side staring up, maybe even got myself caring about you
Stop...to think again
Every time I think maybe I finally got you measured
Stop...

I build it up to far too much
More than what is, more than what was
And when the moment's not enough
We're standing still to still begrudge
My temperature is far too much
Don't put it out, I'll burn it up
One single touch, I'll put it out, I'll burn it up


Spacing (Carter/Fits)

Feel at a loss now
Shut out put down
The less has grown more now
But I'm round to stay
And I don't mind if I don't
Do what you do the sensation about you is
Slow motion
I'm idle a spacing about you
Feel light 'n' loose now
Unbound in wait
And I don't mind if I don't
Ever come down from the high notes
Space that I found with nobody else around
but you to see
I put a wall around it
A piece of mind cut my eye
Rest fell out but I don't mind
Messin' out on half a mind
Ain't no placing the spacing about you
Slow motion
I'm idle and in there behind ya
Don't mind if I don't
Do what you do cos wherever I'll find you
in slow-mo' no mistaking I'm spacing about ya
Spacing on out there


back to straitjacket fits

Corrections to poppycocteau@flashmail.com

Thanks to the Floribunda Impetigo Experience!