TV On The Radio - Golden Age

Heart beat sounding
Ricocheting in their cage
Thought I'd lose my balance
With the grounds bounce and sway
And all this violence
And all this goes away
And the vibes that rise like
Fireflies illuminate our play

Some light being
Pulled you up from night's party
Said clap your hands
If you think your soul is free
And the silence was astounding
'cept some "Oh Lord!! Mercy Me's"
And oh you can't stop what's comin' up
You're never gonna stop gonna live it up
And oh it's gonna drop gonna fill your cup
And oh it's gonna drop gonna fill your cup

The age of miracles
The age of sound
Well there's a Golden Age
Comin' round, comin' round, comin' round

Give it up
'stead of grabbing for decay
What we viewed as gold
I believe pollutes this space
And its grace ascending
Like a snake up your tree
Up your happy ending understanding
All your s'pposed to be

Let it move right in
Let it kiss your face
Let it sow your skin
In perpetual embrace
Like I said "Love's Light is Laughter"
Like the sun spitting happiness into the hereafter
Oh here it comes like a natural disaster
Ah blowing up like a ghetto blaster
Ah here it comes, bring it faster
Ah here it comes, bring it faster

The age of miracles
The age of sound
Well there's a Golden Age
Comin' round, comin' round, comin' round

Love, don't you falter
Burning hearts
Dragged behind
The horses dancing on the altar
Hooves breaking Gods
To diamond dust and stars
And there you are...

Now we're all allowed to breathe
Walls dissolve
With the hunger and the greed
Move your body
You've got all you need
And your arms in the air stir a sea of stars
And oh here it comes and it's not so far

All light beings
Come on now make haste
Clap your hands
If you think you're in the right place
Thunder all surrounding
Aw feel it quake with the joy resounding
Palm to the palm you can feel it pounding
Never give it up you can feel it mounting
Oh its gonna drop gonna fill your cup and
Oh its gonna drop gonna fill your cup

The age of miracles
The age of sound
Well there's a Golden Age
Comin' round, comin' round, comin' round

The age of miracles
The age of sound
Well there's a Golden Age
Comin' round, comin' round, comin' round

TV On The Radio - Happy Idiot

Stuck in the shade

Where there's no sunshine

I don't wanna play

With them other kids in the sun

Since you left me babe

It's been a long way down

Yea you left me babe

It's been a long way down

What you don't know won't hurt you yea

Ignorance is bliss

I'm a happy idiot

Waving at cars

I'm gonna bang my head to the wall

'Till I feel like nothing at all

I'm a happy idiot

To keep my mind off you

Stuck in a daze and I've lost my mind

I don't wanna stay

Where the blame's all mine

Since you left me babe

It's been a long way down

Yea you left me babe

It's been a long way down

So I shut it off

So I shut it all off

So I shut it off

So I shut it all off

It's been a long way down

It's been a long way down

What you don't know won't hurt you yea

Ignorance is bliss

I'm a happy idiot

Waving at cars

I'm gonna bang my head to the wall

'Till I feel like nothing at all

I'm a happy idiot

To keep my mind off you

To keep my mind off you

To keep my mind off you

TV On The Radio - Will Do

It might be impractical

To seek out a new romance

We won't know the actual

If we never take the chance

I'd love to collapse with you

And ease you against this song

I think we're compatible

I see that you think I'm wrong

But anytime will do

My love

Anytime will do

No choice of words will break me from this rule

Anytime will do

My love

Anytime will do

What choice of words will take me back to you

Your love makes a fool of you

You can't seem to understand

Our heart doesn't play by rules

And love has it's own demands

But I'll be there to take care of you

If ever you should decide

But you don't want to waste your life

In the middle of a lovesick lullaby

Anytime will do

My love

Anytime will do

No choice of words will break me from this rule

Anytime will do

My love

Anytime will do

What choice of words will take me back to you

Oh my reddest rose, caldera, set it off

How your fire grows hermosa caldera glistening

Through your fussed blows careen your caldera set it off

As your body flows the second hand flashes passes

Over your skin like time

Anytime will do

My love

Anytime will do

My love

Anytime will do

My love

Anytime will do

My love

Anytime will do

No choice of words will break me from this rule

Anytime will do

No choice of words will break me from this rule

Anytime will do

No choice of words will break me from this rule

Anytime will do

No choice of words will break me from this rule

Anytime will do

What choice of words will take me back to you

TV On The Radio - A Method

Eyes wide mine, suddenly everything

Flies by fine, mind goes on holiday

In its stead, clicking along the curb

Clucking tongues how could they have the nerve

There is hardly a method you know

It's a broken poem, started up yesterday

And it came true now, mind was on holiday

It's an open road will we soon see the end

It's an open book, a story to tell the band

There is hardly a method you know

I'm a storm faced cloud, hanging in dystrophy

I'm a cold, base clown laughing at enemies

It's a rough wild world could you please chaperone

It's a mind field trip, oh leave it the fuck alone

This is hardly a method you know

There's a purple pain strangling yesterday

There's a purple stain spattered on interstates

It's an awkward stage grasping at anything

Cause it's lost the page

Can't find a word to say

But they want you to

Oh they want you to

Yes they want you too

Oh they want you, too

Broken plates on dirty highways

Pave the way for alien grace

There is hardly a method you know

TV On The Radio - DLZ

Congratulations on the mess you made of things;
On trying to reconstruct the air and all that brings.
And oxidation is the compromise you own
But this is beginning to feel like the dog wants a bone
Say
La la la

You force your fire then you falsify your deeds
Your methods dot the disconnect from all your creeds
And fortune strives to fill the vacuum that it feeds
But this is beginning to feel like the dog's lost the lead
Say
La la la

This is beginning to feel like the long winded blues of the never
This is beginning to feel like it's curling up slowly and finding a throat to choke

This is beginning to feel like the long winded blues of the never
Barely controlled locomotive consuming the picture and blowing the crows to smoke

This is beginning to feel like the long winded blues of the never
Static explosion devoted to crushing the broken and shoving their souls to ghost

Eternalised. Objectified.
You set your sights so high.
But this is beginning to feel like the bolt busted loose from the lever

Never mind
Death professor
Your structure's fine
My dust is better
Your victim flies so high
All to catch a bird's eye view of who's next

Never you mind
Death professor.
If love is life,
My love is better.
Your victim flies so high,
Eyes could be the diamonds
Confused with who's next

Never you mind
Death professor.
Your shocks are fine,
My struts are better.
Your fiction flies so high,
Y'all could use a doctor
Who's sick, who's next?

Never you mind
Death professor.
Electrified,
My love is better
It's crystallized, so am I.
All could be the diamond
Fused with who's next

This is beginning to feel like the dawn of a loser forever
This is beginning to feel like the dawn of a loser forever
This is beginning to feel like the dawn of a loser forever
This is beginning to feel like the dawn of a loser forever

Tv On The Radio - King Eternal

All men condemned by men to die
Damned by blind bitch in hallowed halls
Hear it, heed this call:

Oh fucking eternal

Infinity's hourglass will measure all measure all
So, power

Cover your balls
'Cause we swing kung fu

Oh fucking eternal
Oh fucking eternal

Afraid of thunder children, so hide your ears
Hope your fortress holds up for many many many years
Shudder, it's a shame
Lightning, call the game
Send us up a baby boy
Let the smoke carry his name

If it's a girl let her shine

We will be

Oh fucking eternal

The hour of man is nigh
So gather up all supplies
And stack 'em up high
Stack 'em up high

Faith, Nathan I could see it in your eyes
Warmth, Nathan I can see it in your eyes

Golden houses, silver brides
Immortal erection, tongues untied

Oh fucking eternal
Oh fucking

TV On The Radio - Let The Devil In

Beg the bee's forgiveness as it's falling from your sleeve
Watch its guts pump poison into sting
Watch it reach completeness, see it fall asleep
Legs above fold in eternal dream

Oh that calls to mind a joke, an off coloring
About these fools blindfolded, drugged, and raped and left laughing
They let the devil in, he brought his pirate friends
They brought a hunger for blood, and flesh and bone and skin

So teeth left chattering, and tongues flexed to sing
Got dressed up in so many fancy things

Is it a waste of time, please tell me if you mind
Me dipping into useless sentimentality
A rant on how things used to be when this shit was free
I answered my own question, I can hear the crickets yawning

But in the back pocket of a discarded pair of jeans
Is still a priceless ticket to the grandest opening
So when the chariot arrives, you'd best enjoy the ride
Cause when we get to heaven's gate, we're not getting inside

Better beg forgiveness
Better drop to knees
Better find your ticket
Before we join the bees

TV On The Radio - Keep Your Heart

In the dark of the night I found
Without my love my love
These words are not a bit profound
If it's just another cheap line flung
Outside ecstatic love
What did we think we'd find?
Over that broken road
out past the land mines

I'm gonna keep your heart
I'm gonna keep your heart
With the world all falling apart
I'm gonna keep your heart

Can I coax it out its shell
Brush the dust off
Get its wings on

In this little bell
We will also feel the singing, oh

Shine on light of love
On all these bruises and scars
Ruins in every less
But it can't cancel out the stars
Dropped all your clothes and life
Wonder Woman of mine
Kneeling above this playful body
Teach Superman to fly

How'm I gonna keep your heart?
How'm I gonna keep your heart?
If the world all falls apart
How'm I gonna keep your heart?

Time alone will tell
If you're the kind who keeps the veil on
Biding time will tell us
When and if to sail on

All these blues I have cried
In the end will come undone
Tried all the new designs
Still ended up in love

Still we're kind of shy
You've nothing to be ashamed of
Though its hard to tell
If I'll ever feel the same love

I'm gonna keep your heart
I'm gonna keep your heart
If the world all falls apart
Still I'm gonna keep your hear

TV On The Radio - Lazerray

Four thousand years ago, I came back to my senses
Jumped on a laser ray and blew into a new dimension
This vertical line, I watch it go by

Chop down your master plan in nanoseconds, man
I hope you understand that nothing living lasts forever
This vertical line, I watch it go by

I can feel it
Overheating
So bad, it makes me want to cry
I can feel it
Overheating
A burning heart unstuck in time

Now I'm a solar flare, now I'm that light that rages
Now I'm that laser ray that blows a hole right through the ages
This vertical line, I watch it go by

Ain't got no second-hand, just got my good intentions
Just got my laser ray exploding into new dimensions
This vertical line, I watch it go by

I can feel it
Overheating
So bad, it makes me want to cry
I can feel it
Overheating
A burning heart unstuck in time

AHLAHA!
From the side, gets hot
That she could fuse us into one
If only we could take the light
Well, I got mine, yes, I got mine

Four thousand years ago, I came back to my senses
Swallowed a laser ray and blew my mind in all directions
This vertical line, I watch it go by

Chop down your master plan in nanoseconds, man
I hope you understand that nothing living lasts forever
This vertical line, I watch it go by

I can feel it
Overheating
So bad, it makes me want to cry
I can feel it
Overheating
A burning heart unstuck in time

AHLAHA!
Seen the stars last night
We're only vehicles for life
So should your mind begin to shine
Say "hey, alright!", say "I got mine!"
Say "hey, alright!", say "I got mine!"
Say "hey, alright!", say "I got mine!"
Say "hey, alright!", say "I got mine!"

TV On The Radio - Winter

Oh, it's the winter of the wanted
Yeah, it's the hardest part of nature
Lord, have mercy on this creature
Give me some heat, I know you've got it
And who knows what the summer's gonna bring us?
Comes on slow, gotta keep the fire in us

So completely in the dark now
I hope that night will last forever
Yeah, you know I like it better
When we're a little bit frightened
And who knows what the night is gonna show us?
And we'll go where nobody's gonna know us

I was blinded by sympathy
For a minute, I was strung out
Got my eyes wide open now
I can see the storm ahead of me
I say "go" cause I know it's gonna clean us
No control, let the physical redeem us

This is my confession, yeah
Think I'll learn my lesson, yeah
This is my confession, yeah

Can you hear me calling out
Like a siren to a sailor?
Only trip that last forever
Let the ocean take us over now
Gotta know that there's a chemistry between us
Gonna show that I want you and I need it

Let the lightning strike me down now
As long as we're together
Can't think of nothing better
Than a union in the afterglow
Let it go, all the thinking and the reason
Here we go to the lovin' and the pleasin'

Lay me down, if you know
Let's go out, I'm ready for
Gently now, we can go on
Gonna keep you for the winter
Gonna keep you for the winter
Gonna keep you for the winter
Gonna keep you for the

TV On The Radio - Ride

Caught up in the feeling
Cut right through the ceiling
Ground below receding
Blink of an eye, higher than high
Father, sister, brothers
Others born of mothers
Every friend and lover
Now is the time, get on the ride
Caught up in the feeling
Up against the feeling
Caught up in the feeling
Now is the time, I'm gonna ride

Like a resolution
Crying in confusion
There’s one sure solution
Leave it behind, it’s time to ride
Pull into the station
With no hesitation
Well, congratulations
I'm by your side, it's time to ride

Say the word and I'll make it go
(Alright!) Where I used to be miserable
In a vision, a confession ain't visible
We are more than only human
Roll, roll, roll, like reflections roll
(Alright!) From my hands to your hands come and take a hold
This is the ride of your life
And it goes all day and all night

Every friend and lover
Soon we will discover
We turn into each other
Into the night, we're gonna ride
Think about the future
Think about the future
Think about the future
I know it's mine, I'm gonna ride
Everyone together
All at once, together
Everyone together
Look to the sky, it's time to ride

Like a resolution
Crying in confusion
There’s one sure solution
Leave it behind, it’s time to ride
Pull into the station
With no hesitation
Well, congratulations
I'm on your side, it's time to ride

Say the word and I'll make it go
(Alright!) Where I used to be miserable
In the mirror, a confession ain't visible
We are more than only human
Roll, roll, roll, like reflections roll
(Alright!) From my hands to your hands come and take a hold
This is the ride of your life
And it goes all day and all night

Say the word and I'll make it go
(Alright!) Where I used to be miserable
In the mirror, a reflection ain't visible
We are more than only human
Roll, roll, roll, like reflections roll
(Alright!) From my hands to your hands come and take a hold
This is the ride of your life
And it goes all day and all night

TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me

Say say my playmate
won't you lay hands on me
mirror my malady
transfer my tragedy

Got a curse I cannot lift
shines when the sunset shifts
when the moon is round and full
gotta bust that box gotta gut that fish

My mind's aflame

We could jet in a stolen car
but I bet we wouldn't get too far
before the transformation takes
and bloodlust tanks and
crave gets slaked

My mind has changed
my body's frame but god I like it
my hearts aflame
my body's strained but god I like it

My mind has changed
my body's frame but god I like it
my hearts aflame
my body's strained but god I like it

Charge me your day rate
I'll turn you out in kind
when the moon is round and full
gonna teach you tricks that'll blow your
mongrel mind
baby doll I recognize
you're a hideous thing inside
if ever there were a lucky kind it's
you you you you

I know its strange another way to get to know you
you'll never know unless we go so let me show you
I know its strange another way to get to know you
we've got till noon here comes the moon
so let it show you
show you now

Dream me oh dreamer
down to the floor
open my hands and let them
weave onto yours

Feel me, completer
down to my core
open my heart and let it
bleed onto yours

Feeding on fever
down all fours
show you what all that
howl is for

Hey hey my playmate
let me lay waste to thee
burned down their hanging trees
it's hot here hot here hot here hot here

Got a curse we cannot lift
shines when the sunset shifts
there's a cure comes with a kiss
the bite that binds the gift that gives

Now that we got gone for good
writhing under your riding hood
tell your gra'ma and your mama too
it's true
we're howling forever

TV On The Radio - Dreams

All your dreams are over now
And all your wings have fallen down
Oh all your dreams are over now
And all your wings have fallen down
She's just like you
So why keep doing what you do
Why cut a friend
Why cruise that mean lean to an end
You could have heel toed
To another place
You could have peeled slow
To a better face

But your heart can't grieve
For your little dreams
Oh no your heart can't grieve
Not for your little dreams

All your dreams are over now
And all your wings have fallen down
All your dreams are over now
And all your wings have fallen down

Broke trust in two
Now no one's looking out for you
Why keep it cruel
Why waste so much to play the fool

And maybe I'm the fool but I think we'd find
That we could all be so so kind
If you'd just leave your tread mill powertrip behind
Oh leave your treadmill powertrip behind
And maybe it's best that you're so so blind
It's best that your so so blind
Because your heart can't grieve
I know your heart can't grieve

I know your heart can't grieve
What your eyes won't see
But you were my favorite moment
Of our dead century

I know your heart can't grieve
What your eyes won't see
But you were my favorite moment
Of our dead century

But all your dreams are over now
And all your wings have fallen down
Oh all your dreams are over now
And all your wings have fallen down

Oh warfarin' terrapin
Unconfined undesigned
Undersigned bantering
Bartering bellowing
Barracking blundering
Pillaging plundering
Living and lavishing
Hammerings harrowing
Flourishing flattening
Levelling reveling
Wrecking and ravaging
Savoring savaging

Oh warfarrin terrapin
Unconfined undesigned
You've got me worried and wondering

All your dreams are over now
And all your wings have fallen down
All your dreams are over now

TV On The Radio feat. David Bowie - Province

Suddenly, all your history's ablaze
Try to breathe, as the world disintegrates
Just like autumn leaves, we're in for change
Holding tenderly to what remains
And all your memories, are as precious as gold
And all the honey, and the fire which you've stole
Have you running through all your red-cheeked days
Shaking loose these souls, from their sacred hiding space

Hold your heart courageously
As we walk into this dark place
Stand steadfast erect and see
That love is the province of the brave

Pushed under this expanse of bursting stars
Let this burning brightly illuminate the where we are
In this hollow that lovers' voices occupy
Let it follow that we let it free, let it fly

Breaking open the walls of this cage
Intoxicated, Oh so amazed
Much like falcons tumbling from the heights at play
Conjoined, talons engaged

Hold these hearts courageously
As we walk into this dark place
Stand steadfast beside me and see
That love is the province of the brave

TV On The Radio - Poppy

I'm not looking for a mommy
Don't seem like you need a poppy
Plenty of time till you're an old lady
And the same for me before I'm an old man

We could celebrate it monthly
How we stayed individuated
Oh kid, congratulations
You held on to your dear dear dear identitiy
Even while spending so much time with me

I see two blackbirds in the yard
They are paired together
They are feeding
They are flying
They are fucking

I see two dragonflies do the same in midair
There is something
Special in the air

We wake up in the same bed
But with different bodies
God bless our separate heads
Oh desire will run about

That's what the geese were all roaring about
The fact that our love
Is not that kind of love
Not that selfish love

Says what's yours is mine
And what's mine is yours

I don't need to turn you out
You don't need to turn me into your whore

We are not some rutting pair of wild boars
We're just psyched so psyched
So psyched so fucking psyched

That's what the geese are all roaring about
That's what their hearts were all open about

Our love
That kind of love
Unselfish love

TV On The Radio - Second Song

Confidence and ignorance approved me
Define my day today
I've tried so hard to shut it down, lock it up
Gently walk away

Appetites and impulses confuse me
Decide my day, today
Now my body says it's over
Shaking hands move to tear my face away

And when the night comes I'm fiending like a pyrale
And I know stables my survival
When there's music all around me and I haven't got a single word to say

And then the light shines
It's gleaming like a bottle
And lord knows I tackeled it full throttle
May I illuminate the nameless faceless saints of this out and open grace

Every lover on a mission shift your known position into the light
Every diamond elemental you are instrumental to the light
Every sonic evolution make your contribution to the light
Every lover on a mission shift your known position to the light

Oh body mine please leave behind
And I'll do you one better
While you define
Your heartless time
I'll defend my love forever

Every lover on a mission shift your known position into the light
Every diamond elemental you are instrumental to the light
Every sonic evolution make your contribution to the light
Every glorious disaster every bond is gonna bring you faster out into the light

TV On The Radio - Halfway Home

The lazy way they turned your head
Into a rest stop for the dead
And did it all in gold and blue and grey

The efforts to allay your dread,
In spite of all you knew and said,
Were hard to see and harder still to say

A comfort plush all laced in lead
Was sent to quell your sentiment
And keep your trembling sentinel hand at bay

And when a sudden silhouette
Escaped the top-side of your bed
I knew you'd never ever be the same

Is it not me?
Am I not folded by your touch?
The words you spoke
I know too much
It's over now
And not enough

Is it not me?
The damage you hold inside your blush?
The load you towed
You showed it up
It's over now
And I'm insane

Wild spirits winds from out your chest
Collides with world and wilderness
It needs a gentle hand to call it home

Now surfs the sun and scales the moon
And winds the waistband of her womb
All eyes ablaze the day you break your mold

Is it not me?
Am I not culled into your clutch?
The words you spoke
I know too much
We're closer now
And said enough

Is it not me?
Am I not rolled into your crush?
The road you choose
Unloads control
See it take me so

Go on throw this stone
Into this halfway home

TV On The Radio - No Future Shock

You burned up all your credit
On a family of kids who pop your pills
And smoke your pipe
And after the war broke your piggy bank
The bastards broke the world this time

So we sleep with our guns
And no jive won't get done
But we're heavy-hand high
Oh stuck in the middle of a
Silly little riddle
Control your dam, control
Till it blows your mind

Oh dance!
Don't stop!
Oh do the no future, do the no future shock
Don't stop!
Do the no future, do the no future
Oh you're aware, blow your top
Lord, do the no future, do the no future
Oh you're aware, blow your top
Oh do the no future, do the no future

Oh mother dear, did they really cop a feel
Before they robbed you blind?
We're all lacking nourishment
We searched around the world
Looks like a man's gonna drop
Tell it to me, baby girl
Fall into this burning world
Are you ready?
Here comes the cop to lock us up for smoking
Crack well...blow mountaintops
Are you ready?

Oh dance!
Don't stop!
Oh do the no future, do the no future shock
Don't stop!
Oh do the no future, do the no future shock
Don't stop!
Oh do the no future, do the no future shock
Don't stop!
Oh do the no future, do the no future

Honey and it's burning blood money
So i leave the motor running all night
Absurdities confirming me
Like want to start them up 'cause here, funny, it just doesn't seem right (so tight!)
...in the fishery
Clean water running out of sight
Come on come on
See the whores transforming
Feel it...

Oh drop
And bounce
And shake it shake it like it is the end of time
Oh see that you get down
In the town
In the country in the city in the middle of a beautiful
Get-left-behind
Oh work it out ...
Get ready ... 
Father to the mother:
What went wrong?
I can't say no, won't live too long
Hold it steady
Girl, it falls apart

Don't stop
Oh do the no future do the no future
Don't stop
Do the no future do the no future shock
Don't stop
Do the no future do the no future shock

TV On The Radio - Lover's Day

Oh but the longing is terrible
A wanton heart under attack
I wanna love you all the way off
I wanna break your back

Colour of all that's hysterical
Travels along your bones
Just to be near you
Sucking your skin
Not gonna leave you alone

Yes here of course there are miracles
A lover that loves that's one
Groomed with the laughter
Ecstatic disaster
Come let's arouse the fun

We could build an engine
Out of all your rising stars
Tear apart the apart
We seem to think we are
Call off work let's lay
Call it lover's day
Call it lover's day

Give me the keys to your hiding place
I'm not gonna tear it apart
I'm gonna keep you weak in the knees
Try to unlock your heart

You're gonna turn me animal
You're gonna turn me dumb
Your kiss in the night
Bringing the light
You're like the rising sun

I hunger for you like a cannibal
Not gonna let you run
I'm gonna take you
I'm gonna shake you
I'm gonna make you cum

Swear to God it'll get so hot
It'll melt our faces off
Then we can see
The you the me
Beyond mirrors outside clock
Held naked in the light
Held gently held tight
So soft
Get off
Get off

Ball so hard we'll smash the walls
Break the bed
And crash the floors
Don't stop
Laugh and scream
And have the neighbors call the cops
'Til all the eyes that've seen our fire play

Can't forget
Mark it down
Call it lover's day

Yes here of course there are miracles
Under your sighs and moans
I'm gonna take you
I'm gonna take you
I'm gonna take you home