Elbow

I walked with the river in kind of a dream Hand in hand, the all-knowing river and me To the clamour of rushes and deeply bowing trees And drunk making blossom, that blushed to be seen I told him my...

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

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? The night will always win The night has darkness on its side...

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 Till the...

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 make...

Well, give that girl my very best Though it never made 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...

Lippy kids on the corner again Lippy kids on the corner begin Settling like crows Though I never perfected the simian stroll The cigarette senate was everything then Do they know those days are...

Before leaving, get to the bar No one 'round here makes you pay Never very good at goodbyes So (gentle shoulder charge), love you, mate Love you, mate Salford Skyline Blue Always you Could fly 'round...

Got to 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...

Flying dream 143 I stretched out my arms And my feet left the floor And how all fifteen stone flew to you I don't know Hey Hey Hey