lyrics

	
Skirt


	Drunk on hallelujahs  (lyrics: TDJ & Pete Smith)

	I'm holding auditions for a new guardian angel 
	The last one didn't work out
	Bored and distracted whenever I tangled with gloomy disaster and doubt
	A chandelier creature weak-winged and lazy 
	snagged in a blizzard of light
	Matchstick poker on benders with cronies 
	avoiding the subject 
	Drunk on hallelujahs
	Not inclined to mingle on this scrawny morning 
	heaving in a bucket of blame
	Feels like a bad day for interviewing angels 
	I'll stay in with my battles 
	Drunk on hallelujahs
	Am I overdrawn on my heavenly protection 
	The devil wants to buy me a drink
	Something as simple as an ordinary angel to live in my shadow 
	Drunk on hallelujahs


	Rise and shine  (lyrics: TDJ & PS)

	Trees dance like fingerprints on rushing skies 
	The river's running swollen 
	My tongue is so dry
	I know it's too late We're never going home 
	The bed is broken The curtains are drawn
	Rise and shine

	Your kisses taste like rusty nails as daylight is unfolding 
	my heart is so tired
	Your face is all wrong Time is running slow
	The well is empty The garden won't grow
	Rise and shine sweet love of mine

	Remember that time we drove into town 
	You wore your new shirt and danced me around
	Going home we stopped and made love to the sound of the stars

	I'll blow the dust away from your staring eyes 
	Our fighting days are over 
	I'll build a fire
	I know it's too late We're never going home 
	Dog is restless The buzzards are low
	Rise and shine sweet love of mine 


	She was the dynamite  (lyrics: TDJ & PS)

	There's blood on the sheets and steam on the mirror 
	He's drawing a map with his wedding ring finger 
	His bruises are mountains his veins churning rivers
	his eyes distant cities where you wouldn't raise children 
	and he remembers crossing the room walking towards her like a train 
	She was the dynamite waiting on his track 

	He's a sorry bewildered navigator his bearings unravelled 
	his compass demented 
	his passions delinquent his thoughts frozen roses 
	He travels in circles He's sleeping on the floor
	and he remembers crossing the room walking towards her like a train 
	She was the dynamite waiting on his track 

	Some other guy in some other town is buying her a drink 
	touching her thigh star in her eye She's laughing 
	and he remembers crossing the room walking towards her like a train 
	She was the dynamite waiting on his track 


	Ship  (lyrics: TDJ & PS & Syd Straw)

	When my ship comes in I'm gonna squeeze it in a bottle 
	Throw it back in the water 
	To whom it may concern 
	I've waited all my life and I'm waiting still 
	I'm rooted to the spot on the steepest hill 
	They say that there's a way if you have the will

	When my ship comes in I'm gonna break this holy bottle 
	and christen the ocean 
	To whom it may concern 
	The heart you break the most is probably your own 
	Afraid to need someone Afraid to be alone 
	Give up control and tumble down that hill 


	Too much girl  (TDJ) 

	I give too much away I have no armour 
	I didn't mean to say that much 
	You found a piece of me I thought I had well covered 
	I was an open spring in your hands 
	God damn monkey on my back 
	I am a nothing or a too much girl 

	This is a rainy day What is between us 
	I didn't think I'd feel so much 
	A smooth collision course my manic d.j. 
	you played a thousand songs in one day 
	God damn stab me in the back 
	I am a nothing or a too much girl 

	I live here deeper than this very deep 
	An ocean away you are too far from this 

	I'm tired of everyday I live with dreaming 
	I see your shadow haunting my walls 
	I wrote you off today I swept you under 
	I have a mark that tells where you lie 
	God damn take your loving back 
	I am a nothing or a too much girl


	Fix  (lyrics: TDJ & PS)

	My ghosts have gathered around 
	Phantom breath down my neck 
	Crowding the backseat of my old car 
	Come to disturb and protect
	You're the book I can't put down 
	Yours the eyes in which I drown 
	I get a fix out of you 

	You've been growing on me 
	Growling under my skin 
	You patrol my perimeter 
	Lightning-strike my within
	You're the book I can't put down 
	Yours the eyes in which I drown 
	I get a fix out of you 

	A calendar of hidden desire 
	fingernail-scratched on the wall 
	A prisoner of wishful thinking 
	going down with the home-wrecking ball

	Torn and polarised heart 
	Bridges that stop in mid air 
	Forgive my delinquent attentions 
	I would follow you anywhere
	You're every fish in the ocean 
	You're my long distant devotion 
	You're the book I can't put down 
	Yours the eyes in which I drown 
	I get a fix out of you 


	This is hell  (TDJ) 

	In a water of words I'm losing it 
	Count the brain waves 
	A short or two 
	Wires incorrecting 
	Five or six skip out 
	And I'm told connections aren't working too well 
	There are some are missing altogether
	This is hell

	Responding wrong 
	Lashing out at anyone 
	Raving airwaves 
	Where is your name 
	I lost that idea long ago 
	I don't sleep so well
	And I'm told connections aren't working too well 
	There are some are missing altogether
	This is hell
 
	Too little is sinking in and even less clinging 
	I'm losing my language 
	except on my own at five in the morning crosswords 
	Cross words Words that cross Everything is crossed 
	Cross 
	This is hell 

	I'm driving this thing 
	My opinion is the only one 
	I'm in scarewaves 
	This is my bad brain falling me apart 
	Heaven help me 
	And I'm told connections aren't working too well 
	There are times I'm missing altogether 
	Who can tell 
	This is hell


	Damage  (lyrics: TDJ & PS)

	We love like we want to be loved 
	Write letters we'd like to receive 
	Caught on the wire that hangs in between what we know 
	and what we'd like to believe 
	And we live with the damage we've done 
	Still your voice beats my heart like a drum 
	
	I walk in a sleepwalker's dream 
	Search in places you've never been 
	I think I see you but can't be sure when I watch a stranger 
	walk out the door 
	And we live with the damage we've done 
	Still your voice beats my heart like a drum 
	
	and the ghost of your kiss still lingers on my lips 
	
	We dream of impossible things 
	You sleep in an unknown bed 
	Leaves have fallen 
	They're muddy with rain 
	and the sky today is the colour of lead 


	Skinning  (TDJ)
 
	I am leaving 
	Shedding this place of days of dust and anguish 
	Taking the world I have made mine 
	I peel it back until it bursts to tell me 
	what I know I know 
	I am skinning myself alive Expose the veins 
	the blood and the muscles 
	These are the building blocks of me and not my shadow 
	I will watch myself 
	reflected in the mirror of eyes and glass 

	Skinning 
	Rid of you Out of here 
	Taking my bones and I am leaving 

	I will swallow and look at the heart move down my throat I will 
	watch it beating where it belongs 
	I will eat well until I forget and I reach into the wardrobe 
	where I've hung my old skin 
	Try it on 
	It will always fit but it will scratch me
 
	I am losing my way but I'll find another one 
	Bulldoze my path until I make one that suits me 
	I will keep it till it no longer keeps me warm or I grow out of it 
	I'll peel it back until it bursts to tell me what I know I know 
	Or it starts to split 
	I will moult like a snake 


	Crack my heart  (TDJ)

	What does it take to crack my heart 
	What does it take to crack my heart 
	And I'm lost in a vacant place 
	trying to feel for you 
	
	I have built me a box where it never rains 
	and the windows are movies I am showing 
	and the sound is the sound of one person breathing 
	There is so much to cry for 
	and no way to cry 
	What does it take to crack my heart 

	I'm a stone I am cold in my emptiness 
	and there's no one and nothing can touch me 
	There must be a way to break me open 
	There is too much to feel for 
	Something has to give 
	What does it take to crack my heart
 
	This is nowhere Give me pain 
	Make me happy Bring cocaine 
	
	I have built me a box where it never rains 
	and the phone rings I answer and I don't care 
	Somewhere inside me someone is beating 
	There is so much to cry for 
	and no way to cry 
	
	What does it take to crack my heart