In love with a view

I had a plan 
That was built on thinking to long 
Canadian winters 
At home with your sisters 
the romance was hard to ignore 
You were beautiful
I was happy to fall
So happy to fall

I remember you searching 
I thought you were searching 
that´s how I picked up the phone 
Happy to hear you remembered the view 
So glad to assume it was fate 
I thought at the time it was clear
I thought at the time it was clear

So I stood at the station 
With a plan and a pocket of poems 
Heroically tragic 
Bearded and blind with obsession 
I´m a car without hope 
Too close to the ditch to go far 
I showed you my field 
I said this is my field
But you weren´t impressed 

You said why are we here
Your motives are clear 
In this room with a view 
and so much of you
is so far from here 
it's so far from here
it's so far from here
it's so far from here


Oh my heart
It just fell apart 
And i wished I could show you 
The same view 
of you by the window and me
feeling fine 
And me just feeling fine 
Yeah me just feeling fine 

© 4AD, Written by Neil Halstead

Trying to reach you 

I got a number on my wall 
Someday soon I´m gonna call you 
Been trying to reach you for a 
long long time 
Been tryina reach you 
But I could not find a line 

Finding an easy way to break your heart 
Finding the hardest part is leaving 

I got a number on my wall 
Someday soon I´m gonna call you 
It takes a while before you really 
Know whats right 
It takes a while before you know 
What´s right 

© 4AD, Written by Neil Halstead

My life in art 

Wendy gets high for the 2nd show 
I watch her dance and I watch her flow 
for a dollar 
She dreams of Vegas and the desert strips 
Where she can dance and she can make a lot of money 
She left her home in a pickup truck 
Left her husband when he beat her up 
And now she works all night 

But the Kansas wind won´t freeze her heart 
No the train just rolls right off her back 
She´s gonna be alright 

Just tell me about the boulevards 
Tell me about your life in art 
Yeah tell my about the boulevards 
cos Europe always seemed so far 

You look so young and you talk so old 
Lighten up babe i might just take you 
home if you´re lucky 
and those bums on the corner will take your time 
Sell you for their stories for a nickel 
and a dime 
you could learn something 
and she stares so hard at those neonlights 
I swear to God she´s gonna bust them up 
She´s gonna bust them up 

Just tell me about the boulevards 
Tell me about your life in art 
Yeah tell my about the boulevards 
cos Europe always seemed so far 

You read som ebooks and thay 
broke your heart 
But you don´t know 
one thing about life 
You´re just a pretty boy 

She laughs as she lights 
a ciggarette 
Throws her arms around my necj 
She says I´ll kill you just for trying 
Cos you don´t even have the money 
Just buy me a drink and we´ll call 
it quits 
Tell me all about your pretty boy face 


© 4AD, Written by Neil Halstead


Return to sender 

The sun don´t love me 
and it´s easy to cry 
I send a letter 
But I get no reply 
Just a note 
Return to sender 

We talk on tiptoe 
everytime we meet 
But I´m think breaking up 
Is just a congiet 
Cos love turns sour 
Every hour 

I stand all day 
With a rose in my teeth give it to the first girl 
That will say something sweet 
She says thank you but this flower 
It will die within the hour 
Return to sender 

I went looking for a priest 
I said say something please 
I don´t wanna live my life 
All alone 
He said God will take care 
Of those that help them 
selves 
But you look pretty screwed, Send a letter 

And the word on the street 
Is that death is complete 
When you think that 
You know where you´re going 
Amd the headline in my mind says 
Patience for the blind 
If you find us 

return to sender 


© 4AD, Written by Neil Halstead

When you´re driftin´ 

When was the day 
When suddenly 
All of the time rolled away 
You were drifting along 
Having some fun 
When you noticed the clock 

Suddenly everything 
fell out of place 
You burned all your bridges 
Cos you grew up too late 
And the people you love 
Are just so far away 
When You´re drifting 

Ten years on the road 
And you still can´t make it back home 
You were caught out on your own 
Still waiting for the wistle to blow 

Suddenly... 


© 4AD, Written by Neil Halstead



Any day will be fine 

I love the sun
and the hi-lights in your hair
they turn me on
and if you wanna go
Just go we´ll run away

Cos anyday will be fine
Anyway will be fine
Still some distance left to run
Lets keep movin´ on

You say it´s wrong
But it feels so right to me
Cos all these things
Are just a state of mind

Cos anyday will be fine
Anyway will be fine
Still some distance left to run
Lets keep movin´ on



© 4AD, Written by Neil Halstead

She broke you so softly 

Were you tired of laughter 
Were you bored of the pain
Is the bond now broken 
Does nothing remain
Shoulder to shoulder
Like two stones in a bag
Did you rub one another
Until there was nothin yeah
Nothing but dust

And still you talk soft
So desperate and kind
So pure and so pointless
So helpless and blind
And is there no anger
Just pills for the pain
My friend you´ve been broken
And you will be again

And you wait for a whirlwind
To unwind your soul
And you cry like a baby
You feel so alone
She broke you so softly
You can´t see the blame
Like a dog with a bone
You refuse to let go

And still you talk soft
So desperate and kind
So pure and so pointless
So helpless and blind
And still there´s no anger
Just pills for the pain
My friend you´ve been broken
And you will be again


© 4AD, Written by Neil Halstead

Prayer for the paranoid 

I´ll send you a letter 
From the frontline
Please send applause
And som good advice
You were born with a compass
A map on your table
Tell me how did you find out
Your bearings were wrong

Just pray for us 
pray for sunshine
These days are cold
and I´m missing you
The city is no place to lose
Ah, But I never thought
I could choose
It was plain from the start
I was playing for time

I need laughter and love
some special drug
I need ciggarettes

There´s killers behind us
Devils ahead
Send protection
I will drown in this city
I will drown in this trench
Boilt for us
And the only thing left
Yeah the only thing left
Is the running

And these clouds keep on rolling
and I , I don´t know why
Take this guitar out of my hands
I surrender
This town don´t need drunkards
Or singers of bad poetry
Thay need dancing and drugs and laughter
and we don´t have them

Just pray for us
Pray for sunshine
These days are cold
And I´m missing you

This letter was meant for your eyes
Destroy it and then 
Just go hide
You´re the only thing left
That makes any sense
Please don´t blow it 

© 4AD, Written by Neil Halstead

Bringin´ me home 

Just a rainy day in my usual place
Where noone hears me
Been pulled off course again
Down by the water so I can feel free
Feel so alive now I´m here in my safety net
Y´know it´s like she calls me

Playin´ with my life again
Just playin´ with my time again

I´ve taken time with you & I´ve crossed lines for you
Won´t take this anymore
You gace my strength away
now you want me to try
& Stay here hust for you
But I feel so alive when I´m down
By the water Y´know it´s like she needs me

Messin´ with my mind again
Just messin´ with my mind again

Another lazy day back in my usual place
Wehere no-one knows me
Been pulled off course again
I´ll stick with water where I can feel free
She gives me strength & She gives me space
Y´know it´s like she loves me

She´s lovin´ me again
She´s lovin´ me again


© 4AD, Lyrics written by Rachel Goswell, Music by Mojave 3

Got my sunshine 

The sun came up today and it burned my blues away
The sun came up today and it burned my blues away
Go ahead if you have to leave me
You ain´t coming back this time, nope that´s fine

Got my sunshine I´ll get by
Got my sunshine I´ll get by
Got my sunshine I´ll get by

The wind rose up today & it blew my blues blues away
The wind rose up today & it blew my blues blues away
Go ahead if you have to leave me
You ain´t coming back this time, nop that´s fine

Got my sunshine I´ll get by
Got my sunshine I´ll get by
Got my sunshine I´ll get by

Lalalasoooooo

Fly take your things & Fly got my sunshine
I´ll get by
Got my sunshine, got my sunshine,
Got my sunshine


© 4AD, Written by Ian McCutcheon

Krazy Koz 

Krazy koz, Rick's on the run, 
He's been gone for far too long, 
Can't break the back of it, 
This lonely track, 
Can't break the back of this track. 
Hope you're feeling fine, 
Some people are so unkind, 
I hope I see ya in the morning, 
Cause when she's gone, 
You'll carry on, 
And we won't see ya in the morning. 
Krazy koz, Rick's on the run, 
He don't know what he's done wrong, 
Each time it starts, 
He just falls apart, 
Can't break the back of this track. 
Hope you're feeling fine, 
Some people are so unkind, 
I hope we'll see ya in the morning, 
Cause when she's gone, 
You'll carry on, 
I hope we'll see ya in the morning. 
Hope you're feeling fine, 
Some people are so unkind, 
I hope we'll see ya in the morning, 
Cause when she's gone, 
We'll carry on, 
I hope we'll see ya in the morning. 

© 4AD, Written by Ian McCutcheon 
Transcribed by Brad Bowman

Always Right 

You say you got no problem, 
Being where you are, 
You don't want to understand, anyway. 
Cause everybody tells ya, 
When you're right or wrong, 
And they just want to have the right to disagree. 
Cause sometimes you feel so fine, yeah 
And sometimes you fall, 
Tomorrow's always find you, 
Digging for the bones, 
I thought you had the answer, 
For always being right. 
You always see it coming, 
But you never ever fight, 
You don't know how to fight. 
There's a cold wind blowing, 
On a silvery morning, 
And the air feels fine upon your face. 
And you walk cause your lonely, 
And you wish you had a job, 
Someone else who understood the little things. 
Cause sometimes you feel so fine, yeah 
And sometimes you fall, 
Tomorrow's always finds you, 
Staring at the wall. 
I thought you had the answer, 
For always being right. 
You always see it coming, 
But you never ever fight, 
No, you don't know how to fight. 
And you turn on the T.V. 
And you reach for the phone, 
Because someone read the news to you all wrong. 
And you say that you've discovered, 
A world that won't recover, 
And sometimes it's so hard to disagree. 
Tomorrow's always finds you, 
Staring at the wall. 
You thought you had the answer, 
For always being right. 
You always see it coming, 
But you don't know how to fight, 
No, you don't know how to fight. 

© 4AD, Written by Neil Halstead 
Transcribed by Brad Bowman