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(all lyrics written by Liam Howe/Chris Corner/Ian Pickering)
1. Half Life
2. Low Five
4. Curl
6. Empathy
7. Superbug
10. Ten to Twenty
11. Splinter
half life wastes before it goes
it's funny how your bee sting touch never leaves me whole
it's not enough to stay here almost trying
you keep your last laugh watch this dying
it's just half time vertigo
and if you want an
answer I don't know
[If you had completed me
don't think I'd be pleased with you
don't think I'd compete with you
with half of me to
take]
half life nothing I'd call home
it's lucky how these phantom limb bee stings never show
it's not enough to leave this falling kindly
you burn my star down twice as brightly
it's just your half light undertow
but if you need forgiveness
I don't know
half light breaks with nothing wrong
just a corner of my bed where you don't belong
it's kind of you to notice no one's dying
you choked your last laugh almost crying
it's just your half life long to know
and if you need a
reason so it goes
it takes too much to please me
attached but no real feeling
high fives and corporate anthems
nothing comes to mind
kitemarked for true low standards
where more wants all and no less
just change with no real progress
nothing comes to mind
I want higher
but nothing comes
to mind
[give me a low five
I can't help myself
I'm a low five downsize no one else
do you love yourself?]
altered states and egos
potential less than zero
found God in San Diego
nothing comes to mind[ch]
I half expect to find myself
in full control of nothing else
lost hope but learnt to hopeless
nothing comes to mind
I want higher
but nothing comes
to mind[ch]
strike you down give me everything you've got
strike me down I'll be everything I'm not
count the questions on one hand you don't ask me what I planned
strike me down should have asked me what went wrong
strike me down should
have stayed away too long
strike me down give it everything you've got
chance me now I'll be everything I'm not
hope's the child of what luck brings
points the faith in higher things
ask me now fire at everything at once
strike me down take
it any way you want
strike me down better left it all unknown
shout me down should have left it all alone
wash the questions off my hands
I'm the fate in no one's plans
strike me down give it everything you've got
strike me down I'll
be everything I'm not
now your future's got me told
stopped breathing on my own
I curl to break consent
To print the facts
in stone
suppose for seconds you forget your past
neglect to turn in
think straight stand out last
and I curl now to help me find you out
we're keeping devils
down and sleeping sound
now your newspeak's aging thin
a pale and hanging faith
a devil sick on sin
will curl against
it's place
itch to scratch
to strike my past from all it's owed
it's sold
I know you know my head's not in this now
Nothing you could keep so keep me down
like the stones beneath the water that you walk on to be taller
the hands you stuck together when you prayed you'd wait forever
just another fragile angel heart
falling down on lead
wings torn apart
[the words beneath my skin
the ink that put you in
destroying all the things you left around
earthbound coming
down]
so what you have the nerve to call a friend
is starved of all the sense to make amends
I'm the glass you break to touch but you never want me much
like the view across the water from the shoes and two feet smaller
I know it doesn't pay to be this hurt
falling off the morning
getting worse[ch]
her innocence is above me
today is dead she's around my head
between my history between my headphones
this is her home forever
her home
but I can't be her brother
to empower her to become her
trawl through this forgiveness
my memory's so empathy
low
this attitude beneath her
it's evident it denies us
proves herself to be closer
but not me forever
not me
this sickness avoids all cure
imperfection my downfall
learn myself through symptoms
my memory's so
empathy low
I aim to bug you on your vacancy
Never complicate but you talk it cheap
You sense but you don't know
Too lame to catch
a cold
Slowly the signs will read you dumb
Surely the times will feel you numb
I know the pains you took to show me
And I'm nothing but
your superbug for asking
I hate to bug you on your certainty
Never compromise-you're always weak
You care but you don't show
Too proud to catch
the flow
Under all the truth and facts there's faith enough
If you can't live
on love alone it isn't love
Slowly the signs will read you dumb
Surely the times will feel you numb
I know the depths you sunk to show me
I want the life the world still owes me
And I'm nothing but your superbug for asking
Answer-stamp me out
And I'd love to break your fall but no one's asking me
Answer-stamp me out
Slowly the signs will read you dumb
Surely the times will feel you numb
I know the pains you took to show me
You said it hurts your head to know me
And I'm nothing but your superbug for asking
Answer-stamp me out
We're always too always in doubt
Works on me
She's nowhere she mainlines helps me out
Now I can speak
Was heard not seen wasted nothing's free
Was black was bruised
fucked up twenty two
I'm amazed you eat you sleep you function at all
'cos my aim's so weak
I'd fail to get into my arm
was made the first to laugh
tried but the tribute short changed kindness
flowers and silence
was made the first to laugh
charmed but the weather broke me sober
I've never been colder
Seen braver seemed braver since then
But never been
No favors no saviors no sense
It's not in me
So nothing's free ghostdrunk out of reach
So action this cared less never missed
And you preach you teach did I learn you nothing at all
I'm too dumb to see
but you stooped for someone this small
You'll always be closing me down denied me remind me I'm sold out
Just skin and teeth
Left black and bruised fucked up nothing new
Was heard not seen
wasted so nothing's free
Pretty raw with it
Cute sushi lunches
Nineteen steps from out under your feet
Can't eat won't eat
Have have not me
Can't eat won't eat
Cute sushi lunches
Pretty down on this
Cold feet excuses
One lane talk where art and life don't meet
Can't see won't see
Have have not me
Hate like a child hates his haircut
Can't eat won't eat
Cute sushi lunches
Different ways of counting fingers running through your hair
Ten to twenty lifelines if you doubt how this compares
There's fear enough to share a fear of loathing
So easy how you bear
the trace of me without you there
[so fall like the snow too much to slow
too fragile to say hanging over every day
a breeze with contempt to shame the others
a story's too thin
to cater all your lovers]
count me out your standards shadow trade in competence
ten to twenty answers shouting down on confidence
too easy not to share to vain for secrets
there's fear enough
in there a taste of need in someone's care[ch]
I see you couldn't catch your breath
Believe me it's all that it must be
You see I never said my piece
If only you left it that easy
Fractured we have been since sometime sixteen
Failure was on me
but your ideals bore me
[does it take the fireworks to make you look in wonder?
Would you give reaction to the cause I'm under?
So colored by you but your monkey messed it up
Uncovered by you your monkey's longwhile had enough
You're like scissors in my coat
You're like splinters
in my cup
I know you couldn't care me less
Keep hoping it's all only token
You know I never had my say
If only you'd keep it that open
Loser may have been but it's lost on me
Splintered I will be when your peace breaks cheap
does it take the fireworks to make you look in wonder?
Would you give reaction to the cause I'm under?
Three color blind you but your monkey messed it up
surrendered by you your monkey's longwhile had enough
You're like scissors in my coat
You're like splinters
in my cup
Never so complete just failing on its feet
Choking out these last few days here
Never ever lied all confidence at all times
Trying hard to love myself
I think that I need some working on so work on me
I think that nothing's getting through so get to me
Just another no show waste of passing go
Christ knows how we
get to be here
[no one's broken no one's beaten
I can see a rainbow near them
I can see a rainbow]
Never so confused just laughed out cost abused
Aiming loosely your direction
Always too extreme all cause and case to plead
I think that I need some working on so work on me
I think that nothing's getting through so get to me
Just another no name taken passing blame
Christ knows how we
get to be here[ch]
Always coming clean all case and cause to bleed
Trying hard to like yourself
Never so complete just falling on its feet
Choking out these last few breaths here
I think that I need some working on so work on me
I think that nothing's getting through so get to me
Just another no show scissors paper stone
Christ knows why we
get to be here[ch]