lyrics for hail

Dialing A Prayer (Carter/Fits)

Well you wind me up, just to let me go
To see if what's promised is really so
I'm your teddy bear, I'm your living doll
I'm your big red flexible rubber ball

But it feels like I'm dialing a prayer
Oh, it's like no one's there
Oh, dialing a prayer
Oh, it's like no one's there

Taint your beauty with your lies
Oh...drive me away!

But it feels like I'm dialing a prayer
Oh it's like no one's there
Ahh...dialing a prayer
Oh, it's like no one's there
Dialing a prayer
Oh it's like no one, no one's there


Telling Tales (Carter/Fits)

It's such a relief to die in your sleep
to know that it's only a dream
The moment's so sweet
almost makes all those dreams worthwhile
nearly makes those nights worthwhile
And you'll smile
the burrows of sorrow will drain and dry
It will help you some
to fear the dark is to feel the light
And these telling tales have a habit of...
They trip you up to pick you up
so find your feet and you will run again
and again you'll smile
Sunlight will eat away the remains of grey
its caressing rays will help you some
to fear the dark is to feel the light


Dead Heat (Carter/Fits)

Deep in scarring night and the stars have died
while the moon refuses to shine
Skies like the blankets over my eyes
as his blankets fall over your thighs
And I just want to
never laugh with you again
I just want to
It's not that my sense of humour's not black
or even saintly white
It's just that your comedic timing is flat
and this time
my grimace will not pass for a smile
And I just want to
never laugh with you again
I just want to


Hail (Carter/Fits)

Your words feel homesick
watch them flounder in midair
How I wish that they'd never flown
Your costume is bedecked
like the emperor's used clothes
And you worry such you wonder whether
your head will explode

And it's hailing under your umbrella
but it's clearing overhead


Only You Knew (Carter/Fits)

Show me serpent slowly what you will do
these dissolving impressions
Dress all your charms in an indigo hue
magnetic blue
If only you knew
And granted, in dreamstyle
you took the keys and seized a ticket of leave man
Stole me lyrically with visions invisible to everyone
that only you knew
If only you knew
I could cast these streams of strings that control me
if only
show me only
Roll me in a cocoon that's woven for holding
knowing only you're a feeling I never will lose
feeling for you


She Speeds (Carter/Fits)

And I quietly count with her gone
Name any number and I'm counting beyond
Playing it coolly, though you know it isn't even really there
Caress one night away, I was looking for more
More, more, more

But she
She speeds
Elusive as a thief in the night, she's stealing away
She rides the wind, she burn, burns
Yeah she rides the wind, she burn, burns

And her speeding, her freedom's what's appealing to me
to stop her in her tracks
Match an act with flat tactics of attack
These eyes may be steady but my cigarette is shaking
With way deep saying, why don't you leap in
But she, she goes, so no
Leave it, but you know at times it seems
oh I need her more than my mind
Yeah, I need her more than my mind
Oh I need her more than my mind


Sparkle That Shines (Brough/Fits)

It's a million to one that I won't take you home
'Cross the moon in scattered light
As we gaze at the stars in these fashionless years
With the memories all falling round
I got changes in mind, but I'm falling behind
In a vacuum of loveless nights
Stare at the wall and feel nothing at all
'Midst the glitter of glamorous years

What will we feel when everyone feels no pain?
Where will we turn when everyone turns away?

I don't feel the sparkle that shines through our eyes
I don't feel anymore

It's a million to one that I won't take you home
To the sound of silent fears
etc.


Take From The Years (Brough/Fits)

Caught within years of callow whims
that drift among the tears
Spilt on the tide of hapless cares
that course beyond the shore
Drown in the warmth
with effortless calm
The cold sinks in again
Shiver inside haunted by
the ghost of cloudless blue
Found no way of turning away
from love in bitter style
Found no way of spending the days
in thoughts of restless while
as we take from the years
as the years disappear
and wonder how long
'til the pain passes on


So Long Marianne (Leonard Cohen)

Come over to the window my darling
I'd like to try to read your palm
I used to think that I was some type of gypsy boy
before I let you take me home

So, so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again

And your letters they all say you're beside me now
So why do I feel so alone?
You left me on the ledge with your thin spider web
fastening my ankle to a stone

Oh for now I need your hidden love
I'm as cold as a new razor blade
You left me when I said I was curious
Well I never, I never said that I was brave


Grate (Carter/Fits)

And I shiver tho' it's not cold
it's out of breath
it's all been blown
Some victory so sweet
but the spoils turn bad
as your skin crawls to escape my hand

There is cold steel
it is grating

So as you go turn out the light
you'll find the black is less finite
It all stays the same
when it's all grate
A grate of the knife, a slice of life
leaves very little
takes more than is its right

There is cold steel
it is grating
Suffocation greets everything we breathe
There is cold steel
it is grating


Fabulous Things (Brough/Fits)

We used to walk
through sweet disarray
and we laughed
People would pass by
we'd gaze in their eyes
and they'd smile
You asked to dance but lost the way
half way there
We talked in times that came to
smile in our dreams
After the show I'll never know
so it seems
I won't forget the times when
you used to cry
You're on your way home
Don't get caught in the rain
don't get lost in the storm
We always talked of
fabulous things


All That That Brings (Carter/Fits)

Stolen kiss in goodbye circumstances
Oh, seemed to be hello
My mouth won't move, silence sings I want you
Alone, and along
With all that that brings
Yeah, all that that brings

Now honesty is one big lie to me
When I can hide behind the truth
Of lost lorn longing, torn me up and coming
In a blue view of you, of you
And all that that brings
Yeah, all that that brings

And I'm breaking the finger that points
Yeah I'm breaking, I'm breaking
It's a short term shock, it won't stop
these hands so full from reaching
Oh from reaching

Now don't talk to me about honesty
It's one big lie to me
Cause I can hide behind the truth

And if I were to die of pleasure
With looks to kill, you'd do
Yeah you'd do, ah you'd do,
but if you would then that's entirely up to you
And I am full to overflow but I'm willing to loan
any room, any home to you
Yeah you, ah you
And all that that brings
Yeah all that that brings


Life In One Chord (Carter/Fits)

There's hawks on our shoulders
More circling lower
We're letting them peck at the back of our necks
What more could we want?
Plip plop, drip drop
The tap drips on my head rot
The pressure is building up
So much to tend to that nothing's getting down
So I think I'll build myself a hole
Where nothing really matters, I'm alone
Pushing and jabbing, the mouths that are stabbing
The lines of losing lovers
What more could we want?
So I think I'll build myself a hole
Where nothing really matters, I'm alone


This Taste Delight (Carter/Fits)

And I fell in even when fallen bleed
But a siren sings, heals any injury
Senseless fear turns to air
and riding higher inside
a desire designed to die
It's ashened low but the embers still glow
with a heat of their own
And while the rules that call the tune
may leave you tired,
you'll find riding higher inside
a desire designed to die
was ashened low but the embers still glow
So go ahead and take your time
and mix it with more than a pinch of mine
and it'll taste just fine
Purely ours
this taste delight


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