This Mortal Coil - With Tomorrow

It was more like a dream than reality
I must have thought it was a dream while you were here with me
When you were near I didn't think you would leave
When you were gone it was too much to believe

So with tomorrow, I will borrow
Another moment of joy and sorrow
And another dream, and another
With tomorrow

So with the sun there won't be time just to look behind
There will be reasons not exclusions for my place of mind
There was so much I was told, it was not real
So many things that I could not taste, but I could feel

So with tomorrow, I will borrow
Another moment of joy and sorrow
In another dream, and another
With tomorrow

(originally recorded by Gene Clark)

This Mortal Coil - Thais (Bird Of Paradise)

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This Mortal Coil - Drugs

And all I see is little dots
Some are smeared and some are spots
Feels like a murder but that's alright
Somebody said there's too much light
Pull down the shade and it's alright
It'll be over in a minute or two.
I'm charged up...Don't put me down
Don't feel like talking...Don't mess around
I feel mean...I feel O.K.
I'm charged up...Electricity
The boys are making a big mess
This makes the girls all start to laugh
I don't know what they're talking about
The boys are worried, the girls are shocked
They pick the sound and let it drop
Nobody know what they're talking about
I'm charged up...I'm kinda wooden
I'm barely moving...I study motion
I study myself...I fooled myself
I'm charged up...It's pretty intense.
I'm charged up...Don't put me down
Don't feel like talking...Don't mess around
I feel mean...I feel O.K.
I'm charged up...Electricity.

(originally recorded by The Talking Heads)

This Mortal Coil - Carolyn's Song

I heard that you said that you feel all alone
Do you think that they could understand
When they told you go ahead

Is it in your head are you upside down
You drive around feeling sad

And I wish you everything I ever said
Do you understand, are you feeling dead?
Are you lost, are you sad?
Did I leave you alone?
Do you think that I don't understand?
What it's like to feel all alone?

(originally recorded by The Rain Parade)

This Mortal Coil - Not Me

It may be as you say, I'll admit
But you don't sound convinced
Between the surface you and the surface me
You didn't touch me
It may be as well that
I didn't see the point
You didn't touch me
I suppose it's just hollow
No idea, no spark
But I thought that in order to survive you need to touch me
All of the me's

(originally recorded by Colin Newman)

This Mortal Coil - Meniscus

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This Mortal Coil - Another Day

The kettle's on, the Sun has gone, another day
She offers me, Tibetan tea, on a flower tray
She's at the door, she's want's to score, she really needs to say

I once loved you a long time ago, you know
Where the winds own forget-me-nots blow, you know
But I couldn't let myself go
Not knowing what on earth there was to know
But I wish that I had, 'cause I'm feeling so sad
That I never had one of your children

Across the room, inside a tomb, a chance is waxed and waned
The night is young, why are we so hung-up, in each other's chains
I must take her, I must make her, while the dove domains
See the juice run as she flies
Run my wings under her sighs
As the flames of eternity rise
To lick us with the first born lash of dawn

Oh really my dear, I can't see what we fear
With ourselves, sat here between us
And at the door, we can't say more, than just another day
Without a sound, I turn around, and I walk away

(originally recorded by Roy Harper)

This Mortal Coil - Help Me Lift You Up

I don't have to tell you that you're all alone
Hear what you will, you're not gone
You'll have to be with your kind
I'll have to stay with my own kind
Help me lift you up, help me lift you up

So sorry if I can't stop pretending
So sorry if I don't let you go
Like this, but not like this is ending
I think you know, I think you know
Help me lift you up, help me lift you up

I have a dream, it's very clear
You're all around, but never near
Help me lift you up, help me lift you up

(originally recorded by Mary Margaret O'Hara)

This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears

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This Mortal Coil - 'til I Gain Control Again

Just like the sun over the mountain top
You know I'll always come again
You know I love to spend my morning times
Like sunlight dancing on your skin

What you see is what I've been
There is nothing I could hide from you
You see me better than I can
Out on the roads that lies before me now
There are some turns where I will spin
I only hope that you can hold me now
'til I can gain control again

Like a lighthouse you must stand alone
And mark a sailor's journey's end
Nno matter what seas I have been sailing on
I'll always row this way again

Out on the roads that lie before me now
There are some turns where I will spin
I only hope that you can hold me now
'til I can gain control again

I only hope that you can hold me now
'til I can gain control again

(originally recorded by Emmylou Harris)

This Mortal Coil - Strength of Strings

In my life the piano sings
Brings me words that are not the strength of strings

Fiery rain and Ruby's cooling sun
Now I see that my world has only begun

Notes that roll on winds with swirling wings...
Brings me words that are not the strength of strings

In my life the piano sings
Brings me words that are not the strength of strings

Fiery rain and Ruby's cooling sun
Now I see that my world has only begun

Notes that roll on winds with swirling wings...
Brings me words that are not the strength of strings

(originally recorded by Gene Clark)

This Mortal Coil - Mr. Somewhere

Day comes up sicker than a cat
Something's wrong that is that

Mr. Somewhere missing somewhere never did figure just how much

A boat from the river takes you out
'cross the other side of town, to get out, to get out
You take the tide, any tide, any tide
like there isn't gonna be any tide

Mr. Somewhere missing somewhere never did figure just how much
Missing somewhere never did figure just how much

A world like tomorrow wears things out
It's hard enough to get what's yours for now
And the hardest words are spoken softly
Softly look, no hands upon

Mr. Somewhere missing somewhere never did figure just how much
Missing somewhere never did figure just how much

Now the milkman beats you to the door
That was once a home, home no more
Mr. Somewhere, missing somewhere couldn't get the calendar to stop
Missing somewhere, never did figure just how much
Missing somewhere, never will admit just how much

(originally recorded by The Apartments)

This Mortal Coil - Fond Affections

Fond affections are never said.
They're only sung in songs.
I never was naive enough to know when I was wrong.
There's no light at the end of it all.
Let's all sit down and cry.
There's no light at the beginning.
Let's all sit down and cry.

Now it's time to say goodbye.
Now it's being forced upon you.
It's just the person by your side remaining distant.
Now the winter's growing close.
The days are getting older.
I can tell by your face
That your heart is getting colder.
There's no light at the end of it all.
Let's all sit down and cry.
There's no light at the beginning.
Let's all sit down and cry.

This Mortal Coil - The Jeweller

The jeweller has a shop on the corner of the boulevard

In the night, in small spectacles, he polishes old coins

He uses spit and cloth and ashes

He makes them shine with ashes

He knows the use of ashes

He worships God with ashes

The coins are often very old by the time they reach the jeweler

With his hands and ashes, he will try the best he can

He knows that he can only shine them, cannot repair the scratches

He knows that even new coins have scars, so he just smiles

H e knows the use of ashes

He worships God with ashes

In the darkest of the night

Both his hands will blister badly

They will often open painfully and the blood flows from his hands

He works to take from black coin faces, the thumbprints from so many ages

He wishes he could cure the scars

When he forgets he sometimes cries

He knows the use of ashes

He worships God with ashes

(originally recorded by Pearls Before Swine)

This Mortal Coil - I Am The Cosmos

Every night I tell myself

"I am the cosmos, I am the wind"

But that don't get you back again

Just when I was starting to feel okay

They're on the phone

I never wanna be alone

I never wanna be alone

I'd hate to have to take you home

Want you too much to say no, no

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Never wanna be alone

I'd hate to have to take you home

Want you too much to say no

No, yeah, yeah, yeah (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!)

Yeah, yeah, yeah

My feeling's always having something I couldn't hide

I can't comply

Don't know what's going on inside

So every night I tell myself

"I am the cosmos, I am the wind"

But that don't get you back again

I'd really like to see you again

I really wanna see you again

I'd really like to see you again

I never wanna see you again

(originally recorded by Chris Bell)

This Mortal Coil - A Single Wish

You and I, alone here
You and I
It'll end in tears
...
You know it'll end in tears
It'll end in tears

This Mortal Coil - Morning Glory

I lit my purest candle close to my

Window, hoping it would catch the eye

Of any vagabond who passed it by

And I waited in my fleeting house

Before he came I felt him drawing near

As he neared I felt the ancient fear

That he had come to wound my door and jeer

And I waited in my fleeting house

"Tell me stories," I called to the Hobo;

"Stories of cold," I smiled at the Hobo;

"Stories of old," I knelt to the Hobo;

And he stood before my fleeting house

"No," said the Hobo, "No more tales of time;

Don't ask me now to wash away the grime;

I can't come in 'cause it's too high a climb,"

And he walked away from my fleeting house

"Then you be damned!" I screamed to the Hobo;

"Leave me alone," I wept to the Hobo;

"Turn into stone," I knelt to the Hobo;

And he walked away from my fleeting house

(originally recorded by Tim Buckley)

This Mortal Coil - Tarantula

I'm living but I'm feeling numb, can see it in my stare
I wear a mask so falsely numb, and I don't know who I am
Despite the worlds inside of me, thwarting me away
I've noticed in other eyes, time's closing in

But when the thunder breaks, it breaks for you and me
Tarantula, tarantula, tarantula, tarantula

The future's looking rather grim, strange black tide
Decisions lie with stupid men, alone with my life
That choking and the hype in me, expecting me to fall
But only if I'm threatened will the tables turn

But when the thunder breaks, it breaks for you and me
Tarantula, tarantula, tarantula, tarantula

My world's under a sentence of death, I was born underground
But when the pressure gets too much for me, I bite

(originally recorded by Colourbox)

This Mortal Coil - We Never Danced

Between heaven and earth
There's a ballroom floor
Where the couples glide
In the evermore.

Floating through the clouds
Dancing in the rain
Eyes that see no lies
Hearts that feel no pain.

Hope it's not too late
We were more than friends
I can hardly wait
'til we meet again

If you don't really know
Where you want to go
It makes no difference
Which road you take

Hope it's not too late
We were more than friends
I can hardly wait
'til we meet again

We never danced
We never danced
We never danced the night away

We never danced
We never danced
We never danced the night away

(originally recorded by Neil Young)

This Mortal Coil - The Lacemaker

Dreams are like water, colourless and dangerous.