Lyrics for the album Sirens:

The Longest Year

Our bodies clung to lovers, entangled 'til we could not hold no more
We drifted with the waning tide 'til we were all alone

From inside out we twisted up, shed some tears, packed it up
Prepared to leave the country to escape our memories

We're gonna run run run... like there's no future

It's only for a year I will be coming back
But I am, I'm not coming back

Last winter it was very cold/ we bundled up to face the snow
We covered up our bodies but we could not hide our souls

Last year was the longest year that we have ever known
We hid it from our friends, our insides twisted old

We're gonna run run run... like there's no future

It took that night for the point to hit, we were right in the thick of it
But tonight, it will be alright tonight has been the worst of it

The year you never went outside
Every greeting a goodbye or a fight, 'cos you still live with them

Sore eyes aching for a sight/ like someone longing for a sigh
And who believes in being nice/ but there's no one like that no more

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Searchlights 1

Baby you can trust me if I can't see the whites of your eyes
There's one thing I've learned in this business there's no point to being nice in disguise
There are some people who are after me, I need some help to leave the country
I'll tell all in a phonecall if you promise you'll forget my name

I promise not to tell you no more lies, at the very least I live a double life
But the things I've said curled up in bed I won't take them back on my life
But the things I've seen have changed me I can't bring you into this life

'Cos the searchlights are in the spotlight
And the spotlight is just a searchlight

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Whisper Sister

You've traveled so far, been to so many place
And you've sacrificed things you didn't believe you would miss
Crowds can scream and shout but it don't matter who knows what your name is
There's no one to whisper is softly as she did
You're not where you thought you'd be, just somewhere across the sea

Gotta get out, gotta leave this place, gotta leave this town behind
I can't see the money in this country
Loved by some but not by all, that's what you've got to change
You've got a super-mission to achieve your global vision

Plane ticket! Out of town
Don't look back! And don't look down
Everywhere you go leave a big sound and you'll be known from here to underground

Whisper-whisper sister, swear you've missed her but you never said you did
Now she's always on her own

Don't you kick it in my face I never meant to do her harm
I'm not really off much better soon we'll surely both recover

When she gets all whisper-whisper you say, "Honey, you're not thinking big enough"
But you still kissed her every day

I won't pretend I never loved her but to be among the long remembered
There's a sacrifice I've had to choose to make

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Debussy Song

Wait for the day you get so far away you end up too far in to a life you didn't mean to begin

Is there a turning point or no return from here?
How do you keep from hurting the people who are dear?

Terrified to discover there was nothing from which I had to recover
Everybody lives this way and the world is a scary place

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Winding Up

I'm editing notes that no one will read
I'm working late, don't wait up for me
Are you trying to tell me something
Or am I waiting for nothing?

I'm making bills to cover the bills
Only manage the rent and cheap physical thrills
Are you real scared of something
So afraid that your head is crumbling?

Now you've littered the floor with balled up bunches of paper
And all of them just say, "don't leave it 'til later"
The common sense sunset said, "maybe you should kick it in the head"

Now the house is a mess and when you're at your best
You're barely hanging on
A scary voice inside you said, "Maybe you should do it 'til it's dead"

What would you do in order to break through?
Breaking your back to be a star
Is it something you do or just something you are?

When I was a kid I ran away two towns over
Packed toys and a lunch I'll return when I'm older
As I got further from home I got bolder
Later that day thought it over

Got home at seven, where did my bravery go?
Been so far away, my mom didn't know
I didn't tell nobody the things that I did
They thought I'd been playing with the neighbourhood kids

Doctors are scary and my love is fading
Now I don't see nothing, just grey and a suitcase
Your heart gets strong as your head gets weak
I'm begging you please don't leave it to me

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Don't Do It, Jack!

Her legs walk away in a huff
Her eyes say, "Follow me or else
You'll find out exactly how tough she can be under that pretty shell"

Her lips smile glad to have you near
Her teeth say something else
And clearly you're nearly in her grasp and cheery but,

Don't do it, Jack! (I know, I know)
Don't do it, Jack, she's a femme fatale.
Don't do it, Jack, she's a fatale (Can't you see I know, I know)

She's been in front of cameras, she's been in front of fools
If you play to them just the same they'll see you how you choose
It's so clear to me, you need not be dear to me for me to be dear to you

Don't do it, Jack! (I know, I know)
Don't do it, Jack, she's a femme fatale.
Don't do it, Jack, she's a fatale (Can't you see I know, I know)

You won't believe the things that they say
She's far too good to you to behave that way
But you'll sure believe the things that she did
When you check your car, check your things, check your bank account and it's all gone!

Don't do it, Jack, she's a femme fatale.
Don't do it, Jack, she's a fatale (Can't you see I know, I know)

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Numb

So numb
Same feeling every day
Is this what you wanted me to be?
So numb

Your dream
Is not my dream at all
An office down the hall
I've already explained

Well maybe I won't make you proud
Surely you won't understand

You look at me and see that I'm not a doctor
I'm not a scientist
And I can't count my money right
Look at me and tell me what do you see?
You should see someone leaving

I can't
I can't be what I'm not
An ordinary job

It didn't have to be this way
A choice between you and me
Surely I won't make you proud
Maybe you won't understand

You look at me and see that I'm not a doctor
I'm not a scientist
And I can't count my money right
Look at me and tell me what do you see?
You should see someone leaving

You're not a doctor, you don't got no PHD
You're not a science major, I don't see you splitting genes
I've accounted for all of this, put money into savings
I know that you'll leave but I still call this misbehaving

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Searchlights 2

[Helen]
It's just the cruel curse of the man who loved me long ago
Picked up a pistol, ran away like it was his only role

Mentioned something 'bout calling,but it wasn't a promise
He said it was his duty, he had found a sense of purpose

[Jack]
Try to understand
We're caught in a trap, we couldn't avoid, we move straight like we're haunted
Away like we're wanted, signs upon the wall, dead or alive or whatever you like

I was so scared all my life until I lay in your arms
But I remain suspicious of your charms and I'm not trained to lay down arms

[Helen]
You don't have to leave for that, afraid of being deserted
Abandon the ones you love 'cos you're afraid to hurt them

[Jack]
I don't know what is right, this mission or my wife

It's so hard to get it right
Sometimes all you need is love, sometimes it's not easy

I can pretend you are the end of my life
The be all and end all of the send offs and the lights

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Crossed The Line

Now that you threw the match and lost your brightest catch
Still staring even though you know

You crossed the town looking for her, but how could she come back?
You have set the tone, this house is not a home anymore

You knew what was right, but still you raised your hand
And you just want to fight, you have to prove that your a man

You've hit hard times, I'm more-or-less aware of it
You sold me lines I'm more than sure you're full of it

As far as I'm concerned you got what you deserved
I've heard what you've done, what you've done to her
Heaven help me if I should meet you again, I don't know what I would do

You crossed the line you should have stayed behind
She took the steep stairs to the door, as for lives, she's leaving yours
And who's to blame, who raised your hand?
Who picked those fights? You've already proved you're only half a man.

As far as I'm concerned you got what you deserved
I've heard what you've done, what you've done to her
Heaven help me if I should meet you again, I don't know what I would do

Trying to prove you're tough, but she has had enough
Trying to prove you're tough, but she's not in front of you any more than you are a good man.

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Professional Concerns

I'm about to do something I'll regret
Walk away from this place never see you again

When I'm up on a stage I tell it lies, "Everyone is much older now"

Though I am well aware that if we never met
Life would be much more simple but simple's not grand

If i cross my eyes left to right to see your point of view
That you've got no clue, afraid what to do
With professional concerns

Plan to wait until five o clock as to not jeopardize money or fame
A once in a lifetime chance must come before romance I would choose personal gain
But this tower is tall I can not grow alone I've proven that perfectly well
So I won't do something I'll regret, so I'm asking you now, I'm asking you now

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Sirens Of The Sea

My love set sail across the sea
Said he'd search for wealth to match my beauty
But the ring that he had given is the only gold I need

He said when he returns he'll be a good man, but I'm the one who needs a good man
Not the sea

He promised that he would return
I was a fool and I believed, I waited at the docks for months on end
There was no end

Of the ship he'd sailed there was no sign
For three long years I waited for the man who once was mine

Then a fateful post arrived that the man who i'd call mine
Had fallen to the sea, married to the sirens who had called him away from me

At the darkest point of the darkest night, I planned to join my love in the night
I had the nerve, I held a knife, appeared before me a ghostly sight
It was my love he was wounded and beautiful

He said he was a fool to leave this town, that his voyage had already occured
When he met me it was complete

But he said "I had to know, I had to know
What I only learned concretely the moment that I was completely lost

That we've already arrived, we're already alive
The love we feel is real and the sirens of the sea are just a fairy tale"

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