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Walking with you through the courtyard
Everything's marble and smooth
You said the idea of perfection
Was just fundamentally cruel
And about joining the circus
And trading your face for a mask
Oh, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you can
We made quite a pair in the morning
We both tend to traffic in dreams
Seeing it now from the outside
You kept all your dark ones from me
And said that you meant to go rambling
As you sat on the big window sill
Oh, I know that you want to
I just don't believe that you will
You long to go hide in the bramble
Or fall off the face of the earth
You wish you could live with the beggars
On the steps of some crumbling church
You say that you'd like to go hungry
But the truth is you've just had your fill
Oh, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you will
On Sundays you stroll through the market
And feel like you've traveled through time
Buying back all your possessions
That were stolen in some former life
Return to me tied in a corset
To say, "Don't you know who I am!?"
Oh, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you can (x2)
Been trying to make an invention
Something the world's never seen
To sweep away all of the trouble
And leave the place shiny and clean
Patent your brave new creation
And hold it right there in your hand
Oh, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you can
I waited for you at the landing
The water was crystal and calm
All these ideas of forever
Are just fundamentally wrong
You say that your love makes you honest
Then you're caught with your hand in the till
Oh, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you will (x3)
Everything's marble and smooth
You said the idea of perfection
Was just fundamentally cruel
And about joining the circus
And trading your face for a mask
Oh, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you can
We both tend to traffic in dreams
Seeing it now from the outside
You kept all your dark ones from me
And said that you meant to go rambling
As you sat on the big window sill
Oh, I know that you want to
I just don't believe that you will
Or fall off the face of the earth
You wish you could live with the beggars
On the steps of some crumbling church
You say that you'd like to go hungry
But the truth is you've just had your fill
Oh, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you will
And feel like you've traveled through time
Buying back all your possessions
That were stolen in some former life
Return to me tied in a corset
To say, "Don't you know who I am!?"
Oh, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you can (x2)
Something the world's never seen
To sweep away all of the trouble
And leave the place shiny and clean
Patent your brave new creation
And hold it right there in your hand
Oh, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you can
The water was crystal and calm
All these ideas of forever
Are just fundamentally wrong
You say that your love makes you honest
Then you're caught with your hand in the till
Oh, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you will (x3)
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Submitted by
yellowbird999 On Jan 02, 2010
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new song from show with simon joyner, only available version so far at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvzo5NfBqwY hard to decipher some of it
in the car with your hand in the till? maybe?
I hear "You say that your love makes you honest. And you're caught with your hand in the till" Could be wrong, because it's hard to hear.
in the last part, confirmed by this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI48KUXr6VY which btw this song should be filed under bright eyes technically, since its being released as a new song on the rerelease of the Neva/ BE split "One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels"
I hear:
All these ideas of forever Are just fundamentally wrong You say that your love makes you honest Then you're caught with your hand in the till Oh I know you, want to, I just don't believe that you will