Static & Silence lyrics

Do some people wind up with the one that they adore
in a heart-shaped hotel room it's what a heart is for
the bubble floats so madly will it stay sky-high?
Hello partner, kiss your name bye-bye

ooh sometimes...

romantic piscean seeks angel in disguise
chinese-speaking girlfriend big brown eyes
liverpudlian lady, sophisticated male
hello partner, tell me love can't fail

you ask me why I'll tell you then
two worlds collide we bury them
we're far too drunk to see these things as they are
you painted me and I sat quite still
a tiny room in Notting Hill
it was far too dark to look at things as they are

I've seen the light vanish out of your eyes
(aah oh no, from your eyes, aah oh)
so goodbye

you tell me now I'm young and wild

over the rooftops a plane in the sky
beat of a bass drum cars passing me by
under a bridge dark then back into light
a river of raincoats and a forest of faces
still for a moment then red into green
slow shuffling shoes whisper sight unseen
row upon row of houses return an empty stare
let the daydream for a little while longer

ah.. yeah...
hope I'll never wake

dream and fantasize
Slave to your desire, you'll buy anything
Curse and criticize
middle-aged and at your door
and they're selling you the son of God

it's so hard to ignore
You want so much and then you want some more
somehow your appetite grows
you'd just love what you can't possess
you know it's out there somewhere

read and memorize
make a wish come true

she's all weak and her heart beats so
she can't speak with the lights so low

just to be one of a crowd
feet scuttling across the floor
spinning lights round and round
it's adolescent war

she craves noise and the music blares
girl calls to a boy (and my heart is true, oh to you)
he just stands and stares

just to be one of a crowd
feet scuttling across the floor

it's 4 in the morning July in ‘69
me and my sister
we crept down like shadows
they're bringing the moon right down to our sitting room
static and silence and a monochrome vision

they're dancing around
slow puppets silver ground
and the world is watching with joy
we hear a voice from above and it's history
and we stayed awake all night

gone forever, the writing on the wall
they've boarded-up the cinema
strawberry dreams and the dust-filled beams
shut down in a modern town

see you walking, see you talking

recollection on streets you used to know
forgotten pleasure smoulder
images fade but the town won't let them go

sleepwalking, see you talking
feel the city inside you
(ooh) leave this city behind you

lying awake dead of night and eyes that never close
flowers decay - a still life calls for a change

I can't wait, forever

miles away dead of night and it's quiet as the grave
when there's more in your head than you find in your life
calls for a change

I can't wait, forever

and the days and the hours and the years
keep turning in my mind
I've been waiting forever

You've stolen my heart and I want you to remember
now what'll I do? living alone
you've stolen my heart and it hurts me to remember
now where'll I go to? living alone

and a butterfly in the wind is drifting like I do
it's dumb - I know what I want to say
but I can't even take one breath

as night falls I hear voices on the radio
(ooh) I'll follow their dreams
and wake up alone

summer sky and a throat bone dry
and the fields are all gold
dusty lane with a song in my brain
and it stoned me to my soul

I climb higher move towards the fire.....blaze sun

silver trees and a whispering breeze
are my sight and my sound
the thought of heaven couldn't drag me from the path
when I'm wandering here alone

I climb higher move towards the fire.... so blaze sun

and I'm standing on a platform
now I'm staring from a train
and all the trees roll back beside but I'm so oblivious
to the dark to the light
it's all the same

you gave me so much and now it's of the earth
and it makes me cry
(it makes me cry, it makes me cry)
it can make me cry

and you're standing here beside me
in a picture in a frame

fashion - the timing's all wrong
they taste another flavour
and pretty soon you're gone
fashion - this time it's too late
you knew you'd have to pay for this one day

he loves me now - he loves me not-
he loves me once again
usual story, another surprise

(ooh yeah, ooh yeah)

fashion - this time it's alright
they tickle you with a feather
they tell you you're sublime