lyrics for melt

Here at last, the actual proper lyrics from the lyrics sheet, thanks to Richard Stewart!

Bad Note For A Heart (Carter/Fits)

Mr Livid's living in a red house
So vivid it reflects on everybody else
Keep your hat on, huh?
Keep it on, it on, keep it on

He's got dreams that keep running away on him
He's got a head like an aching upper hemisphere
And he can't keep it calm

Yeah, it's quite a problem
But it's just one more to join the hordes
He keeps beneath
Avoid the boy's cellar

He's got a tune but he can only hum it in parts
Wouldn't wanna share it with anyone
He's got a bum note for a heart, bum note for a heart
A bad note he thinks can float in harmony
But it can't, yes he can't get it out on any release
Always humming the wrong song

It's quite a problem
But it's just one more to join the hordes
He keeps beneath
Avoid the boy's cellar

Keep it calm
Yeah, keep it calm
And don't go diving


Missing Presumed Drowned (Carter/Fits)

Talk about treason, that's some term you're using
I say it's better called leaving
Here comes the pastor of walking disaster, cursing and a-reeling
Hull full of water and absolutely nothing on deck ta heaven on rent
While only the sails fail
The boat goes down
Missing presumed drowned
You got it hard you want it easy
Blanks the least uneven of the shades for today
But today won't go away no matter how many you cancel
That'll never ever change
Here comes the pastor of walking disaster, cursing and a-reeling
Nothing left on deck (uh-huh)
Reeling, nothing left on deck
While only the sails fail
The boat goes down
Boat goes down
Missing presumed drowned


Melt Against Yourself (Carter/Fits)

Am a stranger out in orbit
Around a different world to me
Ideally I would enter
Bullets blazing
I will drop down from the heavens
With an arsenal and a message
I'll arrive

All my arms open force of hunger on my side
I'll sway all resistance, melt
Lower all walls and make it well
You can't be content with now
Your world is all mistaken and you're not s'posed to act
Against yourself
Against yourself
Melt

And the drawbridge is down
I will walk it
Not even dare to look down

Just sway all resistance, melt
Lower all walls and make it well
You can't be content with now
Your world is all mistaken and you're not s'posed to act
Against yourself


Headwind (Carter/Fits)

Saw truth explode through false windows
Caught and lifted the hood
Caught and lifted like I never thought it would
Killed the pretence and unmasked the fools
And I'm seeing in full circle
360 degrees
And find no need to fight these things crawling inside
Like slaters on dead wood
Nothing's forever so make sure it's good
High as vertigo goes
Funny how things come to a head
Laughing at sick jokes - don't have to
Saw truth explode through false windows
It caught and lifted the hood
And for once this headwind's wound the way it should


Down In Splendour (Brough/Fits)

Hey down in splendour, join the slide
Standing on the seashore and the tide
Comes rolling through your eyes
You've got no place to go
Comes rolling through your mind
You've got no one to know
Hey down in splendour, take a bow
Blinded in the white light and the crowd
Die slowly in your arms
You're left to lie alone
And save your face of changing colour
And your smile of fading colour
'Cause you'll never find another
Who will give you ever after
And you shouldn't have to say goodbye
And wonder if this way is how
It's going to be...


A.P.S. (Carter/Fits)

Wide 'n 'scraper high
Miles 'round, massive boulder
Got to roll the whole thing over
It's awful quiet
No one nowhere, 'cept for you there
Man in suit introduces some phonier high
Some lonelier high
Some phonier high
You are the more than meets the eye
The scenery is missing sky
Not an awful pretty sight
Weather here hardly holding
Pretty awful sight unfolding
Dry, but hardly fine
No one nowhere, 'cept for you there
Know no lonelier high
No phonier high


Quiet Come (Carter/Fits)

The fall of quieter lies primed and just above
Looks like it's wicked enough to fall with force
But when does quiet come anymore, harder?
Quiet come
Cause you get
Shown that you could be quite content to live it
Never questioning anyone anything coming within it
Yeah, pour your scorn, elsewhere here there's a limit
Long days of ground in habit
The wheels keep dragging
My Gibson whispers nothing to me
Those days I pine for silence,
The fall of quiet just isn't loud enough
Song, woman, winding outwards
Just don't add up, when all is
Deep, cold, hell and I mean trouble!
When I'm intolerable, uncontrollable
Inconsolable, I will try, I will try
Anything possible to free the scheme of all these
Long days of ground in habit
The wheels keep dragging, my Gibson whispers nothings to me
Those days are primed for silence, fall of quiet
Won't come anymore, harder
Quiet come


Such A Daze (Brough/Fits)

Well in diaries of days, the allusion of ways
To a life that was never known
Set you free
And in the pages now torn
Lived the lives of those spurned
By the rage of a tortured heart
You can't see
In such a daze
So don't slip away

And all this talk about love and of things from above
Leave you searching the distant waves
For the sea
Seems you're falling through clouds from a thousand miles high
With no one to catch your fall
They can't see
In such a daze
So don't slip away
After all the memories burned
Dead and buried ashes of your dreams


Skin To Wear (Carter/Fits)

And it seemed so clear
Dark in the dawning
I'll cut down your morning
I'll put you right out of your misery and heartache
Down to the flesh, stripped bare
Have my skin to wear

Sickness in the family, put down somewhere handy
Watch out, the putting down, will fall on you for landing
And it's a weight to bear
Can you stand it there?

So I'll take it alright?
Erase it, put it by
I'll put you right out of your misery and heartache
And when the let downs jump out
I'll cushion them for landing
I'm gonna lay right here
And stay right there, yeah

Have my skin to wear
I won't start complaining in case you hear
I'll put you right out of your misery and heartache
And when the let downs jump out
I'll cushion them for landing
I'm gonna lay right here
And stay right there, yeah


Hand In Mine (Brough/Fits)

Will only the harms of unlove invite the cold
And always stay and winter blows
Drown in icy rivers
So never wander too close to lonesome roads
They'll never stay, and seems we know
Drowned, then our eyes would revert

Wake this hand in mine
And so it goes
Cold inside forever
And winter blows
Drown inside together
When you place your hand in mine
Hand in mine


Roller Ride (Carter/Fits)

We're going out so clean your teeth
Prepare them for sinking
Into a thrill beyond yer dreams
See what it's like
Put on a smile a mile long
Twist it to size
Finding a retreat much better than nothing
Whadareya? scared, or something else?
You'll lose yourself
And go dizzy, up on a twisted roller ride
It feels so brilliant I could crawl off to hide
And when the ride is finally through
You'll find laughing clowns on yer side
Their empty eyes for seeing through
Mouths open wide
As if to say enough won't do
Dizzy twisted roller ride
It feels so brilliant I could crawl off and hide
And the view from the ground makes me blind to the thrill of the ride


Cast Stone (Carter/Fits)

Yeah I changed my wine into water
Had a miracle or four since I saw ya
Some came on time
Some took a while
And some swear to God leaving can lead you places
It's said all you need's some sign
Well some just need time, some just need time
Not a really silly way to go

Someone else outside
I wanna leave the light on
Burn bright and never die till I'm gone
Gonna let the tide and its sea wash me gently
Caught in its swirl, yeah that's the way I wanna go!
Then I'll go

Wonder if I mind like I oughta
Wonder if this sight's got distorted
And I wonder if you wouldn't mind at all, although
This time, it is for me, not you to know
So in the prime improbability of conversation
Yeah if we had the time
I'd offer one line, one eight words wide:
It was a really stupid way to go


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