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Because We're Dead Lyrics
Well, I don't know
what i'm doing here
I could say that I do
But I don't
You could wrap a million candles
Into a torch and hope that it steers you home
You could cut all the telephone wires
And hope that nobody does get through
I might not have the power of telepathy
But I'm gonna be contacting you
Because I borrowed a book that I saw
Was planted deep inside your bag
It gave me an excuse
To see you again
But I'm not a thief
I'll give it back
And don't you ever wonder
Who's living in that house
It's too small for people we all said
But there's people in the floorboards said the mouse
And I showed you the things that I'd made
You didn't think that they were too great
But I'm glad that you thought of it
Think what you're taught
Because everybody else's mind is grey
We kept up the act for, two-o-o-o-o
dates before it needed glue
Well, I didn't drink what you drank
You didn't sink when I sank
So there's little else for us to do
And don't you ever wonder
Who's living in that house
It's too small for people we all said
But there's people in the floorboards said the mouse
Said the mouse
Well, I didn't say goodbye today
Oh I did it the coward's way
I tied it to the neck of a seafaring deck
That was sailing off down your way
But you poured petrol all over
The ship you used to sail the sea
You didn't think that you'd be coming home again
So you set fire to me
Don't you ever ponder
On things we never said
Yes I did
But when we were kids
Now it's too late
Because we're dead
Because we're dead
Because we're dead
Because we're dead
what i'm doing here
I could say that I do
But I don't
You could wrap a million candles
Into a torch and hope that it steers you home
You could cut all the telephone wires
And hope that nobody does get through
I might not have the power of telepathy
But I'm gonna be contacting you
Was planted deep inside your bag
It gave me an excuse
To see you again
But I'm not a thief
I'll give it back
Who's living in that house
It's too small for people we all said
But there's people in the floorboards said the mouse
You didn't think that they were too great
But I'm glad that you thought of it
Think what you're taught
Because everybody else's mind is grey
dates before it needed glue
Well, I didn't drink what you drank
You didn't sink when I sank
So there's little else for us to do
Who's living in that house
It's too small for people we all said
But there's people in the floorboards said the mouse
Oh I did it the coward's way
I tied it to the neck of a seafaring deck
That was sailing off down your way
The ship you used to sail the sea
You didn't think that you'd be coming home again
So you set fire to me
On things we never said
Yes I did
But when we were kids
Now it's too late
Because we're dead
Because we're dead
Because we're dead
Because we're dead
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"so you set fire to me"
not
"you said bye to me"
=)
Should be:
"I didn't say goodbye today Oh I did it the coward's way I tied it to the neck of a seafaring deck That was sailing off down your way"
Fantastic song! :D
Anyone noticed how most of their songs, while beautiful, contain some reference to death? Or even some kind of grevious injury. Usually in a kind of quirkily poetic, but also melancholy and haunting way, where it sounds so pretty and innocent, but when you look at the lyric is actually kind of disturbing!
Because we're dead - kinda speaks for itself
Come on Youth: "Even if I did, I'd be talking to bones in the ground" "Charles you've killed the choir, the boy set himself on fire"
I'm Alive - really the opposite I suppose, but still has odd bits in it
Let's Fall Back in Love: "Come and share this too, with the rest of our dead family"
Pirates: "You shot me in the back"
Summer Shakedown: "Not my little finger please, because I lost it to a rotary fan" "The eyes of your opponents, may they fall to the floor"
Thinking Drinking Sinking Feeling: "Are you the one who ends up dead"
Trick Question: "You will soon be bones in a bag, buried south of our house"
"When I go" - all about death really.
These guys are amazing, both live and on record, but I never realised how these haunting undertones come through the innocent, energetic melodies.
"dates before we needed glue"- not "blue"