Friend Of Ours Elbow

Before leaving get to the barNo one around here makes you payNever very good at goodbyesSo gentle shouldercharge love you mateLove you mateSalford skyline gloomAlways you could flyaround any corner...

Some Riot Elbow

A friend of mine grows his very own brambles They twist all around him 'til he can't move Beautiful, quivering, chivalrous shambles What is my friend trying to prove?

high ideals Elbow

There's a ladder tear in my high ideals Like I took a chair on the battlefield Anyd any noble friend that was burning in my chest Is acid in my belly at the very best There's a bayonnette in my family

Lucky With Disease Elbow

Fell like a crippled crow Spinning through and breaking branches Im in a bad way Call my friends, theyll know what to do Im a better friend Than Ive ever been a lover And thats not saying much But Im not

Loss Elbow

be 6 tall Id have recognised his footsteps anywhere at all He used to throw me round the room Roads lead to roads lead to He wont leave me alone Loss took human form Tried to introduce me to a friend

The Take Off And Landing Of Everything Elbow

a prayer to the take off and landing of everything To the take off and landing of everything To the take off and landing of everything good In a prayer to the take off and landing of everything To

The Blanket Of Night Elbow

Paper cup of the boat Even chest of the sea Carry both of us Carry her, carry me From the place we were born To the land of the free Carry both of us Carry her, carry me The ocean That bears us from our

Mercy Street Elbow

looking down on empty streets, all she can see are the dreams all made solid are the dreams all made real all of the buildings, all of those cars were once just a dream in somebody's head she pictures

Real Life (Angel) Elbow

If you wake in the quake in the roll of the heartbroken Pounding the ground in a sawn off ballet Bring us in an indigo dawn with the lovelorn and renegade You always found peace in the grip of the beat

Any Day Now Elbow

Any day now how's about getting out of this place. Any ways. Got a lot of spare time. Some of my youth and all of my senses on overdrive. What's got into me? Can't believe myself!

Grounds For Divorce Elbow

comes him on sticks but then he kicks like a horse There's a tiny cigarette case And the rest you can keep And the rest you can keep And the rest you can keep There's a hole in my neighborhood Down which of

jesus is a rochdale girl Elbow

I have a drop-leaf window With cats and broken yards Sunflowers and paint cans And stolen shopping carts And nothing to be proud of And nothing to regret All of that to make as yet All of that to

My Sad Captains Elbow

I'm running out of miracles ?Oh my soul ?And the streets are lined with one man shows ?Oh my soul ?Corner boys were moved along ?Oh my soul ?We're plummeting like crippled crows ?Oh my soul ? ?

Fly Boy Blue / Lunette Elbow

thoughts, scotch, dinner And someone's dancing on the box A former MP And no one was watching My oldest friends are a serious habit Fly boy blue, so bring your faces home To my sweet trampoline And acres of

Weather To Fly Elbow

Are we having the time of our life? Are we having the time of our lives? Are we coming across clear? Are we coming across fine? Are we part of the plan here? Are we having the time of our lives?

Newborn Elbow

I'll be the corpse in your bathtub Useless I'll be as stiff as a post If you hold me like a newborn Whisper what you feel My badly strung declaration To you You'll spend the end of your days Gently

Newborn (Album ver.) Elbow

I'll be the corpse in your bathtub Useless I'll be as deaf as a post If you hold me like a newborn Whisper what you feel My badly strung declaration To You You'll spend the end of your days Gently

Newborn (Single Edit) Elbow

from shootigstar I'll be the corpse in your bathtub Useless I'll be as deaf as a post If you hold me like a newborn Whisper what you feel My badly strung declaration To You You'll spend the end of

Fugitive Motel Elbow

Lost in a lullaby Side of the road Melt in a memory Slide in a solitude Not \'til I can read by the moon Am I going anywhere Not \'til I can read by the moon I blow you a kiss It should reach you tomorrow

Forget Myself Elbow

They’re pacing Piccadilly in packs again And moaning for the mercy of a never come rain The suns had enough and the simmering sky Has the heave and the hue of a woman on fire Shop shutters rattle

every bit the little girl Elbow

It's cooler now An opening of the senses She's snowy wise Lined and kind Pen in her mouth Hair in pencils It's cooler now An opening of the senses It's cooler now It's cooler now And

The Bones Of You Elbow

So I'm there charging around with a juggernaut brow Overdraft, speeches and deadlines to make Cramming commitments like cats in a sack Telephone burn and a purposeful gait When out of a doorway The tentacles

Colour Fields Elbow

Did well to be ignored Your falling temperature Like cooling kisses All through your head A made-up water’s edge A summer gone on tabling fabled blisses I’d love to see you waving From the far side of

Whisper Grass Elbow

A freeze of you Is with me now A freeze of you With knitted brow A freeze of you Asking how I could A fury climb To prove myself A fury climb To a whisper grass shelf With God above And not

Honey Sun Elbow

lace the lemonade And I cannot stay where all the broken plans were made Broken devotion Can I jump in the gun And fly over the ocean Can I jump in the gun And string up a net across Lafayette And sing of

mcgreggor Elbow

There was lying at the table Crying on the stairs A raven on the gables singing 'Jesus doesn't care' A woman at the window With her hands on her hips Staring out across the ocean Like the prow of

the birds (reprise) Elbow

The birds are the keepers of our secret As they saw us where we lay In the deepest grass of springtime In a reckless guilty haze Did they sing a million blessings As they watched us slowly part?

Starlings Elbow

He'll have to go So, to the bunch he luncheons with It's second on my list of things to do At the top I'm stopping by Your place of work and acting like I haven't dreamed of you and I And marriage in an

Presuming Ed Elbow

Whisper, rest easy, There's a belly full of life. Watch her, she's dreaming Of a belly full of life Right there on the pillow. This is why we are here. Rest easy. This is why we are here.

This Blue World Elbow

universe in rehearsal for us When all the world is sucking on it's sleeve You'll hear an urgent morse in the gentle rain And if you plot your course on the windowpane You'll see the coldest star in the arms of

the birds Elbow

The birds are the keepers of our secret as they saw us where we lay In the deepest grass of springtime in a reckless guilty haze And they wove a sweet indifference and it settled on our skin Til the

Little Beast Elbow

Like the spine of something dead. Slide in shadow cobble-creep. Burn your mark and leave. ...

My Very Best Elbow

the grade If it seems that it's just not enough to love Then love lie down And would you tell her Not to talk as if I died Though a tiny part just did And would you tell her I'm from a long line of

The River Elbow

I walked with the river in kind of a dream Hand in hand, the all-knowing river and me To the clammer of rushes and deeply barren trees A drunk making blossom, the blush to be seen I told him my sorrows

Fugitive Motel (album version) Elbow

Lost in a lullaby Side of the road Melt in a memory Slide in a solitude Not 'til I can read by the moon Am I going anywhere Not 'til I can read by the moon Chorus I blow you a kiss It should reach you

Mexican Standoff Elbow

not superstitious but if I can get This ball in the basket, then hell wake up dead Your sweet reassurances dont change the fact That hes better looking than me Yet hed look ideal neath the wheels of

Station Approach Elbow

Artist: Elbow Album: Leaders Of The Free World Year: 2005 Title: Station Approach I haven't been myself of late I haven't slept for several days But coming home I feel like I Designed these buildings

Leaders Of The Free World Elbow

I’m sick of working for a living I’m just ticking off the days till I die I miss you Louise And the sickest little pleasures keep me going in between pulling teeth Periscope up I’ve been looking

The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver Elbow

Gotta get out of TV Just pick a point and go The ticker-tape tangles my feet As I search for a face that I know Come on, tower crane driver There's not so far to go I must have been working the ropes When

Grace Under Pressure (album version) Elbow

Grace under pressure Cooling palm across my brow Eyes of an angel Lay me down We still believe in love so fuck you

Grace Under Pressure Elbow

Grace Under Pressure Grace under pressure Cooling palm across my brow Eyes of an angel Lay me down We still believe in love so fuck you

Bitten By The Tailfly Elbow

You're a girl in this vicinity I'm a dog without a collar on This cattle-market cabaret Is the Sabbath every Saturday I'm full of wit and chivalry Until you've given in to me I'm a dog without a collar

dear friends Elbow

Dear friends You are angels and drunks You are magi Old friends You stuck a pin in a map I was in And this is a note for a road sign Cuttin' the breeze in this tennesee sundow Came the sounds of

the long war shuffle Elbow

Im so sick of waiting And I know you feel the same Im not getting any younger And I know you feel the same So everyone dance as if you didnt care And everyone move, pretend it isnt there Take a deep

snowball Elbow

across the ruse Along with all the plans I made Ooh Over crippled cranes and twisted steel Deadlines overgrown and missing wheels I told you so communicate Ooh Told you so Told you so The biggest of

the night will always win Elbow

I throw this to the wind But what if I was right Well, did you trust your noble dreams And gentle expectations to the mercy of the night?

Switching Off Elbow

Switching Off Last of the men in hats hops off the coil And a final scene unfolds inside Deep in the rain of sparks behind his brow Is a part replayed from a perfect day Teaching her how to whistle

Great Expectations Elbow

a vow I love you I always will A call girl with yesterday eyes Was our witness and priest Stockport supporters club kindly supplied us a choir Your vow was your smile As we move down the aisle Of

Switching Off (album version) Elbow

Last of the men in hats hops off the coil And a final scene unfolds inside Deep in the rain of sparks behind his brow Is a part replayed from a perfect day Teaching her how to whistle like a boy Love's

What Time Do You Call This? Elbow

you call this What time do you call this What time do you call this What time do you call this What time do you call this I've been craving to wilder on my days So then I'll find your face Shining out of