Fish : Fellini Days
Les paroles
1. 3D
The character actor plays romantic leads and the kitten curls in wet anticipation,
The opportunity is here.
It's not the first time, it's not a dream, she cowers in the corner, she pretends
It's just a scene.
The Maitre D' has seen it all before, the actor, the actress, the gigolo, the whore,
Between the lines, between the sheets, there's no rehearsal,
They make a deal, he'll soon be home.
Living in Wonderland, the grass is so green,
Tongue-tied, a dry mouth swallows a scream,
Yours to pretend, it's yours to pretend, this trip never ends, it's coming at you
In 3D.
The freeway's jammed, the lights bleed red, and the anger gathers in the fog, I meditate in green.
A wall of horns, blasts away, and the exit road to Jericho stands steady,
Held in amber beams that play on misty screens and smoky cars
Whose occupants mouth curses at a world that doesn't hear
Living in Wonderland, the grass is so green,
Tongue-tied, a dry mouth swallows a scream,
Yours to pretend, it's yours to pretend, this trip never ends, it's coming at you in 3D.
2. SO FELLINI
Dance, dance, dance milady
Weave your spell
Take the floor milady
Catch a tiger by it's tail
Catch this tiger by it's tail
I caught your breath milady
Fell into your smile
Watched my own reflection
Swimming in your eyes
Swimming in your eyes
So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!
Milady dance your dance
Dance your dance
I slide inside your body
You steal into my heart,
Used the key that I provided
Milady dance your dance, milady dance your dance
Milady dance your dance
So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!
Milady dance your dance
Oh, dance your dance
Dance, dance, dance milady,
Weave your spell
Take the floor milady
Caught a tiger by it's tail,
You have this tiger by it's tail
So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!
Dance your dance,
So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!
Milady dance your dance,
Milady dance your dance
3. TIKI 4
She holds court, queen of all the mountains
Snow leopards hide amongst her hills,
The bong billows clouds up to the ceiling
Fresh stars day-glo in the night.
Mai-Tais at the bar, she only sees charlie at weekends,
The cocktail monkeys are climbing, a tower is chiming, faraway.
Micha is smiling back in Tiki 4
Back in Tiki 4.
One eye is all that is needed to be king of all he surveys,
Grandmaster, apprentice of architects
Design curves where others leave trails
It's freaking you out as you search for the lock on the door
Pillars of smoke are guiding you back to the floor
Back to Tiki 4
Tiki 4
Tiki 4
And the darkness zips up the city like a body bag
The good citizens are lying asleep in their beds dreaming of the day ahead
Meanwhile we're back in Tiki 4.
Tiki 4
Tiki 4
Back in Tiki 4
Renee is curled up on the sofa
Judy scratches away at her scars
Loud lines that were only a whisper
Too weak for the angels to hear
But she's proud, she got the respect of her mother
She didn't waver, straight down the lines and out of sight
Judy woke up in Tiki 4
Back in Tiki 4
And the darkness zips up the city just like a body bag
The good citizens are lying asleep in their beds dreaming of the day ahead
Meanwhile we're back in Tiki 4.
Tiki 4
Back in Tiki 4
Writing graffiti on the moon
Graffiti on the moon
Writing graffiti on the moon
4. OUR SMILE
So sorry, I never meant to fall in love with you,
Don't worry, I know you think I have to let go,
Believe, I would stay but we know that we'll wake up alone,
Pretend,
That there's nothing there between us
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell,
And I hide a smile, I hide a smile for you.
It's so funny,
I never thought I'd feel like this again,
I'm so scared,
But we know that we can't run away,
So easy to deny the attraction, the call of Fate,
And wake up and declare that it's only a dream.
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell,
The affair we declare to be over,
We lie to ourselves,
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell
And I hide a smile, I hide a smile for you
I hide a smile for you
Our smile, our smile, our smile.
I'm so drunk,
I'm so high, I'm not sure that I'm still making sense,
Can't explain,
For the first time these feelings inside,
And I'd thought
I'd control of my heart that this chapter was over
And you rewrote my life and showed me a happy end
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell,
The affair we declare to be over,
We lie to ourselves,
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell
And I hide a smile, I hide a smile for you,
I hide a smile for you
5. LONG COLD DAY
It's so funny, you don't call at night, always missing in action,
I'm left out in the cold and you'd never have thought I was thinking,
Turning it over
Putting the pieces in place and building a case for my anger
I'm taking it in, I'm taking my time in taking you out,
'Cause it'll be a long cold day in Hell before I take you back,
So tired of your lying, I can't sleep at night,
I'll accept what I'm told, take what I'm sold,
There's no question to ask,
To sort out the answers,
To prove who is wrong or who is right,
But I know in my heart that we're breaking apart.
If we admit to the truth,
Pretend it's all been an act,
As a matter of fact
It'll be a long cold day in Hell before I take you back.
Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a dreamboat on wild and heavy seas,
I was cast adrift or fallen overboard, I catch my breath and head for shore,
I turn around, the ship sails on
This ship sails on.
Funny, you don't call at night, always missing in action
I'm left out in the cold and you'd never have thought I was thinking
I was thinking
Still thinking
Still thinking
Said I was, said I was
So tired of your lying, I can't sleep at night,
I'll accept what I'm told, take what I'm sold,
There's no question to ask,
To sort out the answers,
To prove who is wrong or who is right,
But I know in my heart that we're breaking apart.
If we admit to the truth,
Pretend it's all been an act,
As a matter of fact
It'll be a long cold day in Hell before I take you back.
And I still remember sailing on that dreamboat on starlit mirrored seas.
I hold my breath and I gaze from shore from this empty beach and this pile of clothes
I hit the water, the ship sails on
I hit the water, the ship sails on
I hit the water, the ship sails on
I hit the water, the ship sails on
6. DANCING IN FOG
All that you left behind in this empty room was a question for which an answer was due,
If I admit to the truth, I admit to the lie
One bottle, one glass, a crisp Chardonnay, outside in the park the maples ablaze,
The ghosts from the hill whisper your name
Where no one can see and no one can hear
And no one's aware of the passion we feel
They all disappear when we're fog-dancing
I heard you laugh, I turned around
To face someone else I once knew I once found
Someone I've loved
Someone I've lost in fog
The message was lost, the picture was clear
I followed your call till no-one was near
Now I'm left in the dark while you're fog-dancing.
I drift through the days that fade into grey
The picture dissolves when you enter the frame
I follow your trail, I follow desire
The cry of the dog, the howl of the world
And somewhere above there's a crow in the clouds
Laughing away while we're fog-dancing.
I drift through the days that fade into grey
The picture dissolves when you enter the frame
I followed your trail I followed you fog-dancing
Where no one can see and no one can hear
And no one's aware of the passion we feel
They all disappear when we're fog-dancing
I heard your laugh I turned around
To face someone else I once knew I once found
Someone I'd loved
Someone I'd lost in fog
Lost in fog
Lost in fog
Lost in fog
I'm lost in fog.
7. OBLIGATORY BALLAD
Time was when I called you before we went to sleep
No matter where we were,
No matter the moment, no matter the time
Time was when the words we spoke were always true,
There was no need to lie or hide at that time the answers we knew,
There were no questions, there was no need, our love was there to be believed
But in time the passion seemed to appear so obligatory.
Time was when the moments seemed to last forever,
Time was when we never thought we would be anything but together,
Lonely people in separate rooms, lonely people with nothing to do,
Lonely people just like me and you, so predictable, so sadly true,
So sadly true, so obligatory,
Just like me and you, so obligatory, so obligatory.
If time will be a healer then time will be my friend
And in time the shadows lift and I can begin to live again,
But in the hollows of this aching heart remains a soul that was torn apart
And in time I will make a new start, oh so obligatory,
Learn to love again, oh so obligatory, so obligatory.
I will love again, so obligatory.
Once upon a time it was easy to say I love you, I love you,
I still love you, so obligatory,
It all became so obligatory.
8. THE PLIGRIM'S ADRESS
Mr President, you don't know my name,
But you could find it if you really cared,
Because I pay my taxes and I pay my dues,
All I ask for in return is the truth.
Can we just be honest, I've heard that speech is free
So please believe me that this address is sincere
I'm no-one special, just a regular guy
But I just can't keep on wondering why
That the shells we fired they now kill our own
And we waste away like shadows in our homes.
I fell from blue skies, fought through desert storms
I froze in firefights, I killed someone,
That had a father who loved him just like mine
Who believed the sacrifice was justified
In the name of freedom and in the name of God
While shifting sands hid all our sins and all the blood
In the wake of glory, I flew back home
I watch videos at night in my uniform
Of those towns and cities being blown apart
By those bombs that fool the people by being smart
As they flew down chimneys, flew along corridors
And explode on film and everyone goes 'awe!'
And you read the stories about how no-one's killed
And I think about the photos that I kept
To remind me that it was all for real
And the ghost that I've become will be released
To the sands still shifting that cover all the lies
About what really happened and who really died.
Was it really worth it?
Was it worth the cost?
Did we really take the high ground or have we lost all the moral battles, did we lose the war?
Mr President I need to know for sure
That with all this knowledge, all this control
That we were on the right side after all
That we weren't lied to, that we weren't used
And the country that we fought for still upholds the truth.
Mr President you don't know my name
But you can find it if you really cared
It's on a black wall, it's on a cross of stone
In the Balkan States, the Gulf and close to home
On not so foreign islands out on city streets
Mr President, just tell me why I'm here
This is my question, this is my life, this is my address
Mr President
Mr President, Mr President
This is my address, this is my address, this is my address,
Mr President
Mr President
This is my address.
9. THE CLOCK MOVES SIDEWAY
Wheels within wheels, turning wheels, tumbling towards a conclusion.
A crimson cascade, the blood in the bowl,
And the mind that you're in is walking the world but you feel like you're walking on water,
Face up to the facts, face up to the truth, face up to reality, you're just being used
There's a spark in your eyes, when she calls you'll explode and she's blaming it all on crossed wires.
When the clocks move sideways, when the clocks move sideways, Fellini days
Fix a stare at the wall, avoiding the accusations that lurk in the mirror, trying to catch my attention,
Reflect on the fact that your life is such a mess.
Whose fault is that anyway?
The shutters are closed, did you lock all the doors?
Arm the alarms? Sheath all the knives?
Unload all the guns? Throw out all the pills?
Did you remember to switch off the TV?
Don't answer the phone,
Provide the impression there's nobody home,
As if there was anyway.
As if there was anyway.
When the clock moves sideways, the clock moves sideways.
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock
Tock, tock, tock, tock...
When the clock moves sideways, when the clock moves sideways
Fellini days
Fugazi
Don't answer the phone
Fugazi
Wheels within wheels within wheels,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Wheels within wheels within wheels,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Tumbling towards a conclusion
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
For auld lang syne
For auld lang syne
Fellini days
Fellini days
Fellini days
BONUS DISC
1. 3D (LIVE IN ROTTERDAM 10/5/01)
The character actor plays romantic leads and the kitten curls in wet anticipation,
The opportunity is here.
It's not the first time, it's not a dream, she cowers in the corner, she pretends
It's just a scene.
The Maitre D' has seen it all before, the actor, the actress, the gigolo, the whore,
Between the lines, between the sheets, there's no rehearsal,
They make a deal, he'll soon be home.
Living in Wonderland, the grass is so green,
Tongue-tied, a dry mouth swallows a scream,
Yours to pretend, it's yours to pretend, this trip never ends, it's coming at you
In 3D.
The freeway's jammed, the lights bleed red, and the anger gathers in the fog, I meditate in green.
A wall of horns, blasts away, and the exit road to Jericho stands steady,
Held in amber beams that play on misty screens and smoky cars
Whose occupants mouth curses at a world that doesn't hear
Living in Wonderland, the grass is so green,
Tongue-tied, a dry mouth swallows a scream,
Yours to pretend, it's yours to pretend, this trip never ends, it's coming at you in 3D.
2. SO FELLINI (LIVE IN POZNAN 31/05/01)
Dance, dance, dance milady
Weave your spell
Take the floor milady
Catch a tiger by it's tail
Catch this tiger by it's tail
I caught your breath milady
Fell into your smile
Watched my own reflection
Swimming in your eyes
Swimming in your eyes
So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!
Milady dance your dance
Dance your dance
I slide inside your body
You steal into my heart,
Used the key that I provided
Milady dance your dance, milady dance your dance
Milady dance your dance
So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!
Milady dance your dance
Oh, dance your dance
Dance, dance, dance milady,
Weave your spell
Take the floor milady
Caught a tiger by it's tail,
You have this tiger by it's tail
So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!
Dance your dance,
So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!
Milady dance your dance,
Milady dance your dance
3. TIKI 4 (LIVE IN OSLO 18/05/01)
She holds court, queen of all the mountains
Snow leopards hide amongst her hills,
The bong billows clouds up to the ceiling
Fresh stars day-glo in the night.
Mai-Tais at the bar, she only sees charlie at weekends,
The cocktail monkeys are climbing, a tower is chiming, faraway.
Micha is smiling back in Tiki 4
Back in Tiki 4.
One eye is all that is needed to be king of all he surveys,
Grandmaster, apprentice of architects
Design curves where others leave trails
It's freaking you out as you search for the lock on the door
Pillars of smoke are guiding you back to the floor
Back to Tiki 4
Tiki 4
Tiki 4
And the darkness zips up the city like a body bag
The good citizens are lying asleep in their beds dreaming of the day ahead
Meanwhile we're back in Tiki 4.
Tiki 4
Tiki 4
Back in Tiki 4
Renee is curled up on the sofa
Judy scratches away at her scars
Loud lines that were only a whisper
Too weak for the angels to hear
But she's proud, she got the respect of her mother
She didn't waver, straight down the lines and out of sight
Judy woke up in Tiki 4
Back in Tiki 4
And the darkness zips up the city just like a body bag
The good citizens are lying asleep in their beds dreaming of the day ahead
Meanwhile we're back in Tiki 4.
Tiki 4
Back in Tiki 4
Writing graffiti on the moon
Graffiti on the moon
Writing graffiti on the moon
4. PILGRIM'S ADRESS (LIVE IN OSLO 18/05/01)
Mr President, you don't know my name,
But you could find it if you really cared,
Because I pay my taxes and I pay my dues,
All I ask for in return is the truth.
Can we just be honest, I've heard that speech is free
So please believe me that this address is sincere
I'm no-one special, just a regular guy
But I just can't keep on wondering why
That the shells we fired they now kill our own
And we waste away like shadows in our homes.
I fell from blue skies, fought through desert storms
I froze in firefights, I killed someone,
That had a father who loved him just like mine
Who believed the sacrifice was justified
In the name of freedom and in the name of God
While shifting sands hid all our sins and all the blood
In the wake of glory, I flew back home
I watch videos at night in my uniform
Of those towns and cities being blown apart
By those bombs that fool the people by being smart
As they flew down chimneys, flew along corridors
And explode on film and everyone goes 'awe!'
And you read the stories about how no-one's killed
And I think about the photos that I kept
To remind me that it was all for real
And the ghost that I've become will be released
To the sands still shifting that cover all the lies
About what really happened and who really died.
Was it really worth it?
Was it worth the cost?
Did we really take the high ground or have we lost all the moral battles, did we lose the war?
Mr President I need to know for sure
That with all this knowledge, all this control
That we were on the right side after all
That we weren't lied to, that we weren't used
And the country that we fought for still upholds the truth.
Mr President you don't know my name
But you can find it if you really cared
It's on a black wall, it's on a cross of stone
In the Balkan States, the Gulf and close to home
On not so foreign islands out on city streets
Mr President, just tell me why I'm here
This is my question, this is my life, this is my address
Mr President
Mr President, Mr President
This is my address, this is my address, this is my address,
Mr President
Mr President
This is my address.
5. CLOCK MOVES SIDEWAY (LIVE IN OSLO 18/05/01)
Wheels within wheels, turning wheels, tumbling towards a conclusion.
A crimson cascade, the blood in the bowl,
And the mind that you're in is walking the world but you feel like you're walking on water,
Face up to the facts, face up to the truth, face up to reality, you're just being used
There's a spark in your eyes, when she calls you'll explode and she's blaming it all on crossed wires.
When the clocks move sideways, when the clocks move sideways, Fellini days
Fix a stare at the wall, avoiding the accusations that lurk in the mirror, trying to catch my attention,
Reflect on the fact that your life is such a mess.
Whose fault is that anyway?
The shutters are closed, did you lock all the doors?
Arm the alarms? Sheath all the knives?
Unload all the guns? Throw out all the pills?
Did you remember to switch off the TV?
Don't answer the phone,
Provide the impression there's nobody home,
As if there was anyway.
As if there was anyway.
When the clock moves sideways, the clock moves sideways.
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock
Tock, tock, tock, tock...
When the clock moves sideways, when the clock moves sideways
Fellini days
Fugazi
Don't answer the phone
Fugazi
Wheels within wheels within wheels,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Wheels within wheels within wheels,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Tumbling towards a conclusion
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
For auld lang syne
For auld lang syne
Fellini days
Fellini days
Fellini days
6. DANCING IN FOG (HISTORY OF GUNS RE-MIX)
All that you left behind in this empty room was a question for which an answer was due,
If I admit to the truth, I admit to the lie
One bottle, one glass, a crisp Chardonnay, outside in the park the maples ablaze,
The ghosts from the hill whisper your name
Where no one can see and no one can hear
And no one's aware of the passion we feel
They all disappear when we're fog-dancing
I heard you laugh, I turned around
To face someone else I once knew I once found
Someone I've loved
Someone I've lost in fog
The message was lost, the picture was clear
I followed your call till no-one was near
Now I'm left in the dark while you're fog-dancing.
I drift through the days that fade into grey
The picture dissolves when you enter the frame
I follow your trail, I follow desire
The cry of the dog, the howl of the world
And somewhere above there's a crow in the clouds
Laughing away while we're fog-dancing.
I drift through the days that fade into grey
The picture dissolves when you enter the frame
I followed your trail I followed you fog-dancing
Where no one can see and no one can hear
And no one's aware of the passion we feel
They all disappear when we're fog-dancing
I heard your laugh I turned around
To face someone else I once knew I once found
Someone I'd loved
Someone I'd lost in fog
Lost in fog
Lost in fog
Lost in fog
I'm lost in fog.
7. OBLIGATORY BALLAD (SPACED OUT RE-MIX)
Time was when I called you before we went to sleep
No matter where we were,
No matter the moment, no matter the time
Time was when the words we spoke were always true,
There was no need to lie or hide at that time the answers we knew,
There were no questions, there was no need, our love was there to be believed
But in time the passion seemed to appear so obligatory.
Time was when the moments seemed to last forever,
Time was when we never thought we would be anything but together,
Lonely people in separate rooms, lonely people with nothing to do,
Lonely people just like me and you, so predictable, so sadly true,
So sadly true, so obligatory,
Just like me and you, so obligatory, so obligatory.
If time will be a healer then time will be my friend
And in time the shadows lift and I can begin to live again,
But in the hollows of this aching heart remains a soul that was torn apart
And in time I will make a new start, oh so obligatory,
Learn to love again, oh so obligatory, so obligatory.
I will love again, so obligatory.
Once upon a time it was easy to say I love you, I love you,
I still love you, so obligatory,
It all became so obligatory.
8. CLOCK MOVES SIDEWAY (TWO CLOCKS IN ONE WHOLE RE-MIX)
Wheels within wheels, turning wheels, tumbling towards a conclusion.
A crimson cascade, the blood in the bowl,
And the mind that you're in is walking the world but you feel like you're walking on water,
Face up to the facts, face up to the truth, face up to reality, you're just being used
There's a spark in your eyes, when she calls you'll explode and she's blaming it all on crossed wires.
When the clocks move sideways, when the clocks move sideways, Fellini days
Fix a stare at the wall, avoiding the accusations that lurk in the mirror, trying to catch my attention,
Reflect on the fact that your life is such a mess.
Whose fault is that anyway?
The shutters are closed, did you lock all the doors?
Arm the alarms? Sheath all the knives?
Unload all the guns? Throw out all the pills?
Did you remember to switch off the TV?
Don't answer the phone,
Provide the impression there's nobody home,
As if there was anyway.
As if there was anyway.
When the clock moves sideways, the clock moves sideways.
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock
Tock, tock, tock, tock...
When the clock moves sideways, when the clock moves sideways
Fellini days
Fugazi
Don't answer the phone
Fugazi
Wheels within wheels within wheels,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Wheels within wheels within wheels,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Tumbling towards a conclusion
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
For auld lang syne
For auld lang syne
Fellini days
Fellini days
Fellini days
9. OUR SMILE (ACOUSTIC VERSION)
So sorry, I never meant to fall in love with you,
Don't worry, I know you think I have to let go,
Believe, I would stay but we know that we'll wake up alone,
Pretend,
That there's nothing there between us
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell,
And I hide a smile, I hide a smile for you.
It's so funny,
I never thought I'd feel like this again,
I'm so scared,
But we know that we can't run away,
So easy to deny the attraction, the call of Fate,
And wake up and declare that it's only a dream.
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell,
The affair we declare to be over,
We lie to ourselves,
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell
And I hide a smile, I hide a smile for you
I hide a smile for you
Our smile, our smile, our smile.
I'm so drunk,
I'm so high, I'm not sure that I'm still making sense,
Can't explain,
For the first time these feelings inside,
And I'd thought
I'd control of my heart that this chapter was over
And you rewrote my life and showed me a happy end
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell,
The affair we declare to be over,
We lie to ourselves,
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell
And I hide a smile, I hide a smile for you,
I hide a smile for you.
The character actor plays romantic leads and the kitten curls in wet anticipation,
The opportunity is here.
It's not the first time, it's not a dream, she cowers in the corner, she pretends
It's just a scene.
The Maitre D' has seen it all before, the actor, the actress, the gigolo, the whore,
Between the lines, between the sheets, there's no rehearsal,
They make a deal, he'll soon be home.
Living in Wonderland, the grass is so green,
Tongue-tied, a dry mouth swallows a scream,
Yours to pretend, it's yours to pretend, this trip never ends, it's coming at you
In 3D.
The freeway's jammed, the lights bleed red, and the anger gathers in the fog, I meditate in green.
A wall of horns, blasts away, and the exit road to Jericho stands steady,
Held in amber beams that play on misty screens and smoky cars
Whose occupants mouth curses at a world that doesn't hear
Living in Wonderland, the grass is so green,
Tongue-tied, a dry mouth swallows a scream,
Yours to pretend, it's yours to pretend, this trip never ends, it's coming at you in 3D.
2. SO FELLINI
Dance, dance, dance milady
Weave your spell
Take the floor milady
Catch a tiger by it's tail
Catch this tiger by it's tail
I caught your breath milady
Fell into your smile
Watched my own reflection
Swimming in your eyes
Swimming in your eyes
So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!
Milady dance your dance
Dance your dance
I slide inside your body
You steal into my heart,
Used the key that I provided
Milady dance your dance, milady dance your dance
Milady dance your dance
So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!
Milady dance your dance
Oh, dance your dance
Dance, dance, dance milady,
Weave your spell
Take the floor milady
Caught a tiger by it's tail,
You have this tiger by it's tail
So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!
Dance your dance,
So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!
Milady dance your dance,
Milady dance your dance
3. TIKI 4
She holds court, queen of all the mountains
Snow leopards hide amongst her hills,
The bong billows clouds up to the ceiling
Fresh stars day-glo in the night.
Mai-Tais at the bar, she only sees charlie at weekends,
The cocktail monkeys are climbing, a tower is chiming, faraway.
Micha is smiling back in Tiki 4
Back in Tiki 4.
One eye is all that is needed to be king of all he surveys,
Grandmaster, apprentice of architects
Design curves where others leave trails
It's freaking you out as you search for the lock on the door
Pillars of smoke are guiding you back to the floor
Back to Tiki 4
Tiki 4
Tiki 4
And the darkness zips up the city like a body bag
The good citizens are lying asleep in their beds dreaming of the day ahead
Meanwhile we're back in Tiki 4.
Tiki 4
Tiki 4
Back in Tiki 4
Renee is curled up on the sofa
Judy scratches away at her scars
Loud lines that were only a whisper
Too weak for the angels to hear
But she's proud, she got the respect of her mother
She didn't waver, straight down the lines and out of sight
Judy woke up in Tiki 4
Back in Tiki 4
And the darkness zips up the city just like a body bag
The good citizens are lying asleep in their beds dreaming of the day ahead
Meanwhile we're back in Tiki 4.
Tiki 4
Back in Tiki 4
Writing graffiti on the moon
Graffiti on the moon
Writing graffiti on the moon
4. OUR SMILE
So sorry, I never meant to fall in love with you,
Don't worry, I know you think I have to let go,
Believe, I would stay but we know that we'll wake up alone,
Pretend,
That there's nothing there between us
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell,
And I hide a smile, I hide a smile for you.
It's so funny,
I never thought I'd feel like this again,
I'm so scared,
But we know that we can't run away,
So easy to deny the attraction, the call of Fate,
And wake up and declare that it's only a dream.
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell,
The affair we declare to be over,
We lie to ourselves,
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell
And I hide a smile, I hide a smile for you
I hide a smile for you
Our smile, our smile, our smile.
I'm so drunk,
I'm so high, I'm not sure that I'm still making sense,
Can't explain,
For the first time these feelings inside,
And I'd thought
I'd control of my heart that this chapter was over
And you rewrote my life and showed me a happy end
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell,
The affair we declare to be over,
We lie to ourselves,
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell
And I hide a smile, I hide a smile for you,
I hide a smile for you
5. LONG COLD DAY
It's so funny, you don't call at night, always missing in action,
I'm left out in the cold and you'd never have thought I was thinking,
Turning it over
Putting the pieces in place and building a case for my anger
I'm taking it in, I'm taking my time in taking you out,
'Cause it'll be a long cold day in Hell before I take you back,
So tired of your lying, I can't sleep at night,
I'll accept what I'm told, take what I'm sold,
There's no question to ask,
To sort out the answers,
To prove who is wrong or who is right,
But I know in my heart that we're breaking apart.
If we admit to the truth,
Pretend it's all been an act,
As a matter of fact
It'll be a long cold day in Hell before I take you back.
Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a dreamboat on wild and heavy seas,
I was cast adrift or fallen overboard, I catch my breath and head for shore,
I turn around, the ship sails on
This ship sails on.
Funny, you don't call at night, always missing in action
I'm left out in the cold and you'd never have thought I was thinking
I was thinking
Still thinking
Still thinking
Said I was, said I was
So tired of your lying, I can't sleep at night,
I'll accept what I'm told, take what I'm sold,
There's no question to ask,
To sort out the answers,
To prove who is wrong or who is right,
But I know in my heart that we're breaking apart.
If we admit to the truth,
Pretend it's all been an act,
As a matter of fact
It'll be a long cold day in Hell before I take you back.
And I still remember sailing on that dreamboat on starlit mirrored seas.
I hold my breath and I gaze from shore from this empty beach and this pile of clothes
I hit the water, the ship sails on
I hit the water, the ship sails on
I hit the water, the ship sails on
I hit the water, the ship sails on
6. DANCING IN FOG
All that you left behind in this empty room was a question for which an answer was due,
If I admit to the truth, I admit to the lie
One bottle, one glass, a crisp Chardonnay, outside in the park the maples ablaze,
The ghosts from the hill whisper your name
Where no one can see and no one can hear
And no one's aware of the passion we feel
They all disappear when we're fog-dancing
I heard you laugh, I turned around
To face someone else I once knew I once found
Someone I've loved
Someone I've lost in fog
The message was lost, the picture was clear
I followed your call till no-one was near
Now I'm left in the dark while you're fog-dancing.
I drift through the days that fade into grey
The picture dissolves when you enter the frame
I follow your trail, I follow desire
The cry of the dog, the howl of the world
And somewhere above there's a crow in the clouds
Laughing away while we're fog-dancing.
I drift through the days that fade into grey
The picture dissolves when you enter the frame
I followed your trail I followed you fog-dancing
Where no one can see and no one can hear
And no one's aware of the passion we feel
They all disappear when we're fog-dancing
I heard your laugh I turned around
To face someone else I once knew I once found
Someone I'd loved
Someone I'd lost in fog
Lost in fog
Lost in fog
Lost in fog
I'm lost in fog.
7. OBLIGATORY BALLAD
Time was when I called you before we went to sleep
No matter where we were,
No matter the moment, no matter the time
Time was when the words we spoke were always true,
There was no need to lie or hide at that time the answers we knew,
There were no questions, there was no need, our love was there to be believed
But in time the passion seemed to appear so obligatory.
Time was when the moments seemed to last forever,
Time was when we never thought we would be anything but together,
Lonely people in separate rooms, lonely people with nothing to do,
Lonely people just like me and you, so predictable, so sadly true,
So sadly true, so obligatory,
Just like me and you, so obligatory, so obligatory.
If time will be a healer then time will be my friend
And in time the shadows lift and I can begin to live again,
But in the hollows of this aching heart remains a soul that was torn apart
And in time I will make a new start, oh so obligatory,
Learn to love again, oh so obligatory, so obligatory.
I will love again, so obligatory.
Once upon a time it was easy to say I love you, I love you,
I still love you, so obligatory,
It all became so obligatory.
8. THE PLIGRIM'S ADRESS
Mr President, you don't know my name,
But you could find it if you really cared,
Because I pay my taxes and I pay my dues,
All I ask for in return is the truth.
Can we just be honest, I've heard that speech is free
So please believe me that this address is sincere
I'm no-one special, just a regular guy
But I just can't keep on wondering why
That the shells we fired they now kill our own
And we waste away like shadows in our homes.
I fell from blue skies, fought through desert storms
I froze in firefights, I killed someone,
That had a father who loved him just like mine
Who believed the sacrifice was justified
In the name of freedom and in the name of God
While shifting sands hid all our sins and all the blood
In the wake of glory, I flew back home
I watch videos at night in my uniform
Of those towns and cities being blown apart
By those bombs that fool the people by being smart
As they flew down chimneys, flew along corridors
And explode on film and everyone goes 'awe!'
And you read the stories about how no-one's killed
And I think about the photos that I kept
To remind me that it was all for real
And the ghost that I've become will be released
To the sands still shifting that cover all the lies
About what really happened and who really died.
Was it really worth it?
Was it worth the cost?
Did we really take the high ground or have we lost all the moral battles, did we lose the war?
Mr President I need to know for sure
That with all this knowledge, all this control
That we were on the right side after all
That we weren't lied to, that we weren't used
And the country that we fought for still upholds the truth.
Mr President you don't know my name
But you can find it if you really cared
It's on a black wall, it's on a cross of stone
In the Balkan States, the Gulf and close to home
On not so foreign islands out on city streets
Mr President, just tell me why I'm here
This is my question, this is my life, this is my address
Mr President
Mr President, Mr President
This is my address, this is my address, this is my address,
Mr President
Mr President
This is my address.
9. THE CLOCK MOVES SIDEWAY
Wheels within wheels, turning wheels, tumbling towards a conclusion.
A crimson cascade, the blood in the bowl,
And the mind that you're in is walking the world but you feel like you're walking on water,
Face up to the facts, face up to the truth, face up to reality, you're just being used
There's a spark in your eyes, when she calls you'll explode and she's blaming it all on crossed wires.
When the clocks move sideways, when the clocks move sideways, Fellini days
Fix a stare at the wall, avoiding the accusations that lurk in the mirror, trying to catch my attention,
Reflect on the fact that your life is such a mess.
Whose fault is that anyway?
The shutters are closed, did you lock all the doors?
Arm the alarms? Sheath all the knives?
Unload all the guns? Throw out all the pills?
Did you remember to switch off the TV?
Don't answer the phone,
Provide the impression there's nobody home,
As if there was anyway.
As if there was anyway.
When the clock moves sideways, the clock moves sideways.
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock
Tock, tock, tock, tock...
When the clock moves sideways, when the clock moves sideways
Fellini days
Fugazi
Don't answer the phone
Fugazi
Wheels within wheels within wheels,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Wheels within wheels within wheels,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Tumbling towards a conclusion
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
For auld lang syne
For auld lang syne
Fellini days
Fellini days
Fellini days
BONUS DISC
1. 3D (LIVE IN ROTTERDAM 10/5/01)
The character actor plays romantic leads and the kitten curls in wet anticipation,
The opportunity is here.
It's not the first time, it's not a dream, she cowers in the corner, she pretends
It's just a scene.
The Maitre D' has seen it all before, the actor, the actress, the gigolo, the whore,
Between the lines, between the sheets, there's no rehearsal,
They make a deal, he'll soon be home.
Living in Wonderland, the grass is so green,
Tongue-tied, a dry mouth swallows a scream,
Yours to pretend, it's yours to pretend, this trip never ends, it's coming at you
In 3D.
The freeway's jammed, the lights bleed red, and the anger gathers in the fog, I meditate in green.
A wall of horns, blasts away, and the exit road to Jericho stands steady,
Held in amber beams that play on misty screens and smoky cars
Whose occupants mouth curses at a world that doesn't hear
Living in Wonderland, the grass is so green,
Tongue-tied, a dry mouth swallows a scream,
Yours to pretend, it's yours to pretend, this trip never ends, it's coming at you in 3D.
2. SO FELLINI (LIVE IN POZNAN 31/05/01)
Dance, dance, dance milady
Weave your spell
Take the floor milady
Catch a tiger by it's tail
Catch this tiger by it's tail
I caught your breath milady
Fell into your smile
Watched my own reflection
Swimming in your eyes
Swimming in your eyes
So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!
Milady dance your dance
Dance your dance
I slide inside your body
You steal into my heart,
Used the key that I provided
Milady dance your dance, milady dance your dance
Milady dance your dance
So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!
Milady dance your dance
Oh, dance your dance
Dance, dance, dance milady,
Weave your spell
Take the floor milady
Caught a tiger by it's tail,
You have this tiger by it's tail
So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!
Dance your dance,
So Fellini! So Fellini! So Fellini!
Milady dance your dance,
Milady dance your dance
3. TIKI 4 (LIVE IN OSLO 18/05/01)
She holds court, queen of all the mountains
Snow leopards hide amongst her hills,
The bong billows clouds up to the ceiling
Fresh stars day-glo in the night.
Mai-Tais at the bar, she only sees charlie at weekends,
The cocktail monkeys are climbing, a tower is chiming, faraway.
Micha is smiling back in Tiki 4
Back in Tiki 4.
One eye is all that is needed to be king of all he surveys,
Grandmaster, apprentice of architects
Design curves where others leave trails
It's freaking you out as you search for the lock on the door
Pillars of smoke are guiding you back to the floor
Back to Tiki 4
Tiki 4
Tiki 4
And the darkness zips up the city like a body bag
The good citizens are lying asleep in their beds dreaming of the day ahead
Meanwhile we're back in Tiki 4.
Tiki 4
Tiki 4
Back in Tiki 4
Renee is curled up on the sofa
Judy scratches away at her scars
Loud lines that were only a whisper
Too weak for the angels to hear
But she's proud, she got the respect of her mother
She didn't waver, straight down the lines and out of sight
Judy woke up in Tiki 4
Back in Tiki 4
And the darkness zips up the city just like a body bag
The good citizens are lying asleep in their beds dreaming of the day ahead
Meanwhile we're back in Tiki 4.
Tiki 4
Back in Tiki 4
Writing graffiti on the moon
Graffiti on the moon
Writing graffiti on the moon
4. PILGRIM'S ADRESS (LIVE IN OSLO 18/05/01)
Mr President, you don't know my name,
But you could find it if you really cared,
Because I pay my taxes and I pay my dues,
All I ask for in return is the truth.
Can we just be honest, I've heard that speech is free
So please believe me that this address is sincere
I'm no-one special, just a regular guy
But I just can't keep on wondering why
That the shells we fired they now kill our own
And we waste away like shadows in our homes.
I fell from blue skies, fought through desert storms
I froze in firefights, I killed someone,
That had a father who loved him just like mine
Who believed the sacrifice was justified
In the name of freedom and in the name of God
While shifting sands hid all our sins and all the blood
In the wake of glory, I flew back home
I watch videos at night in my uniform
Of those towns and cities being blown apart
By those bombs that fool the people by being smart
As they flew down chimneys, flew along corridors
And explode on film and everyone goes 'awe!'
And you read the stories about how no-one's killed
And I think about the photos that I kept
To remind me that it was all for real
And the ghost that I've become will be released
To the sands still shifting that cover all the lies
About what really happened and who really died.
Was it really worth it?
Was it worth the cost?
Did we really take the high ground or have we lost all the moral battles, did we lose the war?
Mr President I need to know for sure
That with all this knowledge, all this control
That we were on the right side after all
That we weren't lied to, that we weren't used
And the country that we fought for still upholds the truth.
Mr President you don't know my name
But you can find it if you really cared
It's on a black wall, it's on a cross of stone
In the Balkan States, the Gulf and close to home
On not so foreign islands out on city streets
Mr President, just tell me why I'm here
This is my question, this is my life, this is my address
Mr President
Mr President, Mr President
This is my address, this is my address, this is my address,
Mr President
Mr President
This is my address.
5. CLOCK MOVES SIDEWAY (LIVE IN OSLO 18/05/01)
Wheels within wheels, turning wheels, tumbling towards a conclusion.
A crimson cascade, the blood in the bowl,
And the mind that you're in is walking the world but you feel like you're walking on water,
Face up to the facts, face up to the truth, face up to reality, you're just being used
There's a spark in your eyes, when she calls you'll explode and she's blaming it all on crossed wires.
When the clocks move sideways, when the clocks move sideways, Fellini days
Fix a stare at the wall, avoiding the accusations that lurk in the mirror, trying to catch my attention,
Reflect on the fact that your life is such a mess.
Whose fault is that anyway?
The shutters are closed, did you lock all the doors?
Arm the alarms? Sheath all the knives?
Unload all the guns? Throw out all the pills?
Did you remember to switch off the TV?
Don't answer the phone,
Provide the impression there's nobody home,
As if there was anyway.
As if there was anyway.
When the clock moves sideways, the clock moves sideways.
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock
Tock, tock, tock, tock...
When the clock moves sideways, when the clock moves sideways
Fellini days
Fugazi
Don't answer the phone
Fugazi
Wheels within wheels within wheels,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Wheels within wheels within wheels,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Tumbling towards a conclusion
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
For auld lang syne
For auld lang syne
Fellini days
Fellini days
Fellini days
6. DANCING IN FOG (HISTORY OF GUNS RE-MIX)
All that you left behind in this empty room was a question for which an answer was due,
If I admit to the truth, I admit to the lie
One bottle, one glass, a crisp Chardonnay, outside in the park the maples ablaze,
The ghosts from the hill whisper your name
Where no one can see and no one can hear
And no one's aware of the passion we feel
They all disappear when we're fog-dancing
I heard you laugh, I turned around
To face someone else I once knew I once found
Someone I've loved
Someone I've lost in fog
The message was lost, the picture was clear
I followed your call till no-one was near
Now I'm left in the dark while you're fog-dancing.
I drift through the days that fade into grey
The picture dissolves when you enter the frame
I follow your trail, I follow desire
The cry of the dog, the howl of the world
And somewhere above there's a crow in the clouds
Laughing away while we're fog-dancing.
I drift through the days that fade into grey
The picture dissolves when you enter the frame
I followed your trail I followed you fog-dancing
Where no one can see and no one can hear
And no one's aware of the passion we feel
They all disappear when we're fog-dancing
I heard your laugh I turned around
To face someone else I once knew I once found
Someone I'd loved
Someone I'd lost in fog
Lost in fog
Lost in fog
Lost in fog
I'm lost in fog.
7. OBLIGATORY BALLAD (SPACED OUT RE-MIX)
Time was when I called you before we went to sleep
No matter where we were,
No matter the moment, no matter the time
Time was when the words we spoke were always true,
There was no need to lie or hide at that time the answers we knew,
There were no questions, there was no need, our love was there to be believed
But in time the passion seemed to appear so obligatory.
Time was when the moments seemed to last forever,
Time was when we never thought we would be anything but together,
Lonely people in separate rooms, lonely people with nothing to do,
Lonely people just like me and you, so predictable, so sadly true,
So sadly true, so obligatory,
Just like me and you, so obligatory, so obligatory.
If time will be a healer then time will be my friend
And in time the shadows lift and I can begin to live again,
But in the hollows of this aching heart remains a soul that was torn apart
And in time I will make a new start, oh so obligatory,
Learn to love again, oh so obligatory, so obligatory.
I will love again, so obligatory.
Once upon a time it was easy to say I love you, I love you,
I still love you, so obligatory,
It all became so obligatory.
8. CLOCK MOVES SIDEWAY (TWO CLOCKS IN ONE WHOLE RE-MIX)
Wheels within wheels, turning wheels, tumbling towards a conclusion.
A crimson cascade, the blood in the bowl,
And the mind that you're in is walking the world but you feel like you're walking on water,
Face up to the facts, face up to the truth, face up to reality, you're just being used
There's a spark in your eyes, when she calls you'll explode and she's blaming it all on crossed wires.
When the clocks move sideways, when the clocks move sideways, Fellini days
Fix a stare at the wall, avoiding the accusations that lurk in the mirror, trying to catch my attention,
Reflect on the fact that your life is such a mess.
Whose fault is that anyway?
The shutters are closed, did you lock all the doors?
Arm the alarms? Sheath all the knives?
Unload all the guns? Throw out all the pills?
Did you remember to switch off the TV?
Don't answer the phone,
Provide the impression there's nobody home,
As if there was anyway.
As if there was anyway.
When the clock moves sideways, the clock moves sideways.
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock
Tock, tock, tock, tock...
When the clock moves sideways, when the clock moves sideways
Fellini days
Fugazi
Don't answer the phone
Fugazi
Wheels within wheels within wheels,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Wheels within wheels within wheels,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Tumbling towards a conclusion,
Tumbling towards a conclusion
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
For auld lang syne
For auld lang syne
Fellini days
Fellini days
Fellini days
9. OUR SMILE (ACOUSTIC VERSION)
So sorry, I never meant to fall in love with you,
Don't worry, I know you think I have to let go,
Believe, I would stay but we know that we'll wake up alone,
Pretend,
That there's nothing there between us
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell,
And I hide a smile, I hide a smile for you.
It's so funny,
I never thought I'd feel like this again,
I'm so scared,
But we know that we can't run away,
So easy to deny the attraction, the call of Fate,
And wake up and declare that it's only a dream.
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell,
The affair we declare to be over,
We lie to ourselves,
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell
And I hide a smile, I hide a smile for you
I hide a smile for you
Our smile, our smile, our smile.
I'm so drunk,
I'm so high, I'm not sure that I'm still making sense,
Can't explain,
For the first time these feelings inside,
And I'd thought
I'd control of my heart that this chapter was over
And you rewrote my life and showed me a happy end
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell,
The affair we declare to be over,
We lie to ourselves,
They don't know the full story,
The one we never can tell
And I hide a smile, I hide a smile for you,
I hide a smile for you.
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