White Lies - What If We're Bad Together

Winter at every door, you make your call to praise of again
The air is rich, but your heart's still poor
As if I needed only to fair

Don't you ever feel yourself? The only time is time you miss
Don't you ever shop for change, or try to find a rhyme that don't exist?

What if we're bad together? What if we're bad together?
What if we're bad together? What if we're bad together?

Frost on your sicken nose, oh how we kick and scream at the end

What if we're bad together? What if we're bad together?
What if we're bad together? What if we're bad together?

No need to write or call, you sent a tanked up truck for the bed
Not since a little boy have I struck a wall so hard with my head

What good is saving change when all the banks are burned to bits?
What good are driving lanes when you're so hellbent on the ditch?

What if we're bad together? What if we're bad together? Ooh
What if we're bad together? What if we're bad together?

(I don't need, I don't need her)
What if we're bad together? (All through my head I see the shape of you)
(I don't need)
What if we're bad together?
(All through the nights, the lies of me and you)
(I don't need, I don't need her)

White Lies - Am I Really Going To Die

All alone here on the internet
Looking for cures that ain't invented yet
If I don't want to die, then I'm not gonna die

I need validation for your parking lot
Though I'm not sure your science is even worth the cost
She said “Now mister, sit down, and I'll tell you again
There ain't no magic potion for the state that you're in.”
And I need another opinion, see you, thanks a lot.

I need another prescription from illegal stock
Why I'm so denied, is a mystery that no key unlocks
I said “You might as well give enough for six weeks hey
And have you any new info, I'll be quiet and pay”
Oh, I really can't be dealing with these crooked docs

I see a rare looking bird out the car window
Flying like a sign, like he's saying “I know”
This isn't my time to die, you're never really gonna die
I never really want to die, I'm never really gonna die

Life…it holds a whip and beats you to the clock
But why it picks on mine, is an unfairness I can't miss off
I've done the juices and the cleanses, but it's too New Age
I'm waiting for the gold that the big labs make
And I'm getting near my wits end with this feudal hock

I find a penny on the floor at the late-night show
And a girl called Lucky, well what do you know?
This isn't my time to die, I’m never really going to die
I call my daughter right up, just to say “Hello”
I'm clawing at the bottom of an all-time-low

Am I really gonna die?
Am I really gonna die?
“Hey, Dad, don’t say that”
“Hey, Dad, don’t say that”

White Lies - Roll December

Night out, and no moving
Life under streetlight brooding
Low sound, oh how soothing
Summer caught with red-hand looting
All this talk of missing
Could make a man wanna die if he was ever alive

No crown, no new king
Dread in a worn eye proving
Old heart fit new wings
Just never been good at losing
All this feeble wishing
Could make a kid wanna cry if he was ever alive

It's getting harder to remember
How a good time used to feel
When the pit of cracked November
Is always tricking out my feet
This is something monumental
A stain on a linen sheet so I pray
Roll, roll December
But the waves are whipping me

Right thought, but wrong feeling
Cards cut and moonlight dealing
White chalk, hope peeling
Dead earth and a diamond ceiling
All this empty living
Could make a kid wanna cry if he was ever alive

Cut fruit, old papers
Look how a life-line tapers
If she's bored, engage her
A little chore can sometimes save you
All this aimless kicking
Could make a man wanna die if he was ever alive

It's getting harder to remember
How a good time used to feel
When the pit of cracked November
Is always tricking out my feet
This is something monumental
A stain on a linen sheet so I pray
Roll, roll December
But the waves are whipping me

Are you gonna get it?
Are you gonna get it?
Are you gonna get it?
Are you gonna get it?
You paid your way to heaven
Paid your way to heaven
Paid your way to heaven
With a maxed-out credit

Said are you gonna get it?
Are you gonna get it?
Are you gonna get it?
Are you gonna get it?
You paid your way to heaven
Paid your way to heaven
Paid your way to heaven
With a maxed-out credit

Are you gonna get it?
Are you gonna get it?
Are you gonna get it?
Are you gonna get it?
You paid your way to heaven
Paid your way to heaven
Paid your way to heaven
With a maxed-out credit

Said are you gonna get it?
Are you gonna get it?
Are you gonna get it?
Are you gonna get it?
You paid your way to heaven
Paid your way to heaven
Paid your way to heaven
With a maxed-out credit

White Lies - Is Love

She stares into the mirror
Youth fading with the sun
The hollows in her face
Like wishing wells
Scarlet as a papercut
And jewelled as the Orion
She'd never worn that jewellery as a girl

She says 'the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds
Is love'

He stares into the river
Heart falling to the drift
An argument of cars
Moving full steam behind
Blood-shot as a baby
And sulking like a valley
Fishing in reflections, killing time

He says 'the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds
Is love'

It's the bath that's getting cold while you're frozen to your bed
The milk that's going rancid on the table
The panic in the evening, the photos in the dustbin, the pointless items we forgot to label
It's the perfume on her wrist, that stinks of easy birthdays
The spare keys like asbestos on the side
It's the cross around his neck, for luck and not for honour
Like diamond over knuckle on a newly married bride

She says 'the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds
Is love'

He says 'the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds
Is love'

I know the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds
Is love

White Lies - From The Stars

I saw a friend that I once knew at a funeral

He took the time out to be seen

His eyes kept glancing to the hour hand

On the gold watch

That he'd been given by a magaze

He didn't cry when the priest gave the sermon

Just pulled up the woollen collar on his fleece

Crossed his arms gave a sigh and checked the time again

As he sat inches from the wife of the deceased

He catches raindrops from his window

It reminds him of how we fall

From the stars back to our cities

Where we've never felt so small

Raindrops from his window

Making puddles in his hands

He sees how quick the water's rising

As another raindrop lands

He took a chuffeur driven car back to his hotel

Passing through the city streets where he was born

He said "Driver what's happened to these buildings?

They all look rundown and so forlorn"

He took a shower in the bathroom of his penthouse

Put the 'do not disturb' on his door

When the maid came in the morning

She found him shivering on the bedroom floor

He catches raindrops from his window

It reminds him of how we fall

From the stars back to our cities

Where we've never felt so small

Raindrops from his window

Making puddles in his hands

He sees how quick the water's rising

As another raindrop lands

He catches raindrops from his window

It reminds him of how we fall

From the stars back to our cities

Where we've never felt so small

Raindrops from his window

Making puddles in his hands

He sees how quick the water's rising

As another raindrop lands

White Lies - As I Try Not To Fall Apart

Am I a faulty kind of man, so tender in the heart?
Are clues embedded in my hands, a horoscope or cards?
No, I'm no special grain of sand or undiscovered star
If there's a great and holy plan I'd rather have no part

Ain't that the way, ain't that the way
You always unwind my head, unmake the bed like Sunday
Ain't that the way, ain't that the way
You get me talking to the dead and questioning if I'm alive at all

Why every morning waking up
Must I try not to fall, must I try not to fall apart?
You take me in your grateful arms
And I try not to fall, oh I try not to fall apart
It's not the way a man like me behaves
It's not the way the world would have me play my part
Then why does every fibre shake
As I try not to fall, as I try not to fall apart?

Am I a lone and lacking man, no shimmer to my soul?
Am I a spindle wound too tight, a fraction of a whole?
No, I've no party tricks, my hand is empty as a vault
If there's a charge, oh then I'll stand and do the time for every fault

Ain't that the way, ain't that the way
You always unwind my head, unmake the bed like Sunday
Ain't that the way, ain't that the way
You get me talking to the dead and questioning if I'm alive at all

Why every morning waking up
Must I try not to fall, must I try not to fall apart?
You take me in your grateful arms
And I try not to fall, oh I try not to fall apart
It's not the way a man like me behaves
It's not the way the world would have me play my part
Then why does every fibre shake
As I try not to fall, as I try not to fall apart?

Ain't that the way, ain't that the way
You always unwind my head unmake the bed like Sunday
Ain't that the way, ain't that the way
You get me talking to the dead and questioning if I'm alive at all
Why every morning waking up
Must I try not to fall, must I try not to fall apart?
You take me in your grateful arms
And I try not to fall, oh I try not to fall apart
It's not the way a man like me behaves
It's not the way the world would have me play my part
Then why does every fibre shake
As I try not to fall, as I try not to fall apart?

As I try not to fall apart
As I try not to fall apart
As I try not to fall apart
As I try not to fall apart

White Lies - Finish Line

Too late

He knows you're all back-to-front

Your bottom lip shaking

Your happiness quakes as it's torn apart

Sunday late

When you go and get your stuff

"What's your is mine"

That unpractical line back to bite your arm

No, don't leave him anything

No letters on the side

You've gone over everything

Screw-ups and the whys

Erase him, his memory

A tortured decline

Was never your style

And it's wild dreams of the start

At the finish line

Gum peeling apart

From each other's lives

Too late

They all know you hate your jobs

Your liminal friends with their plans to ascend

Like some holy mob

Get it straight

A lifeboat's for better hearts

Prescription or not

There's some morals forgot white-tattoo them on

No, don't read him anything

No poem, song or line

There's virtue in everything

But most in all that's quiet

An action is meddling

A dagger in time

Better leave it to dry

And it's wild dreams of the start

At the finish line

Gum peeling apart

From each other's lives

And it's wild dreams of the start

At the finish line

Gum peeling apart

From each other's lives

Wild dreams of the start

At the finish line

Gum peeling apart

From each other's lives

Wild dreams of the start

At the finish line

Gum peeling apart

From each other's lives

White Lies - Morning In LA

Sometimes I have to wake up

But it's all a little painful

All the street noise

This city's make up

Too heavy for me to shake off

Is it morning in LA?

I need to talk to my friend

Or maybe night time in Shanghai

Tell them what I'm feeling

They all got disconnected

And I'm left hanging on, hanging on

There's some days, where I think of leaving

But I'm discouraged by some feeling

All places of which I'm dreaming

Could break a heart instead of healing

Is it morning in LA?

I need to talk to my friend

Or maybe night time in Shanghai

Tell them what I'm feeling

They all got disconnected

And I'm left hanging on, hanging on

Is it morning in LA?

I need to talk to my friend

Or maybe night time in Shanghai

Tell them what I'm feeling

They all got disconnected

And I'm left hanging on, hanging on

Is it morning in LA?

Is it morning in LA?

Is it morning in LA?

Cause I'm left hanging on, hanging on

White Lies - Mother Tongue

The city stays high, all night

Lit up and shivering

Like a pinball table of fireflies

An echo of home, on the edge of life

Shot through the veins of an angel

I'm a devil in exile

But if you have forgotten

Your precious mother tongue

What do you think your mother

Would say of what you've done?

And if you can't remember the place

You call a home, or having trouble placing

Who's calling on the phone...

Who's calling on the phone...

Dip the nose of the car to the sugar lines

Out to the desert

Under cinnamon hills and moonshine

He said 'what can I do to make you mine?'

Kiss out the twang from my lips

On the way to big-time

But if you have forgotten

Your precious mother tongue

What do you think your mother

Would say of what you've done?

And if you can't remember the place

You call a home, or having trouble placing

Who's calling on the phone...

Who's calling on the phone...

Forgot your mother tongue

Forgot your mother tongue

Forgot your mother tongue

Forgot your mother tongue

But if you have forgotten

Your precious mother tongue

What do you think your mother

Would say of what you've done?

And if you can't remember the place

You call a home, or having trouble placing

Who's calling on the phone...

White Lies - Denial

You look from the roof to the smoke on good nights

Tall dreams at the beck of the stars seem alright

Your heart aglow

'Cause you know, you know

It was all raised up for your life

For your eyes

You live in the quiet that was sewn for good wives

Four kids - with the cat, might as well be called five

Oh, you know, you know

It's all for show

The city winks at your smile

It's your style

You know it's not denial

Not denial, not denial

Time is a fickle thrill

It's not denial, not denial

And there's a kind of heat

You leave behind when you go

It's not denial

Not denial, not denial

You lust for a love with the feel of old shoes

Great highs never brand, but the lows are all bruise

They know, they know

'Cause a childhood shows

A prize is hard to refuse

No excuse

You swear you'll come home in the week of New Year

No leaves on the oaks, oh, the past is too near

Oh, you know, you know

How they miss you so

Wish you all the best with old tears

With old fears

You know it's not denial

Not denial, not denial

Time is a fickle thrill

It's not denial, not denial

And there's a kind of heat

You leave behind when you go

It's not denial

Not denial, not denial

You know it's not denial

Not denial, not denial

Time is a fickle thrill

It's not denial, not denial

And there's a kind of heat

You leave behind when you go

It's not denial

Not denial, not denial

White Lies - Hold Back Your Love

I'd go out, right out
For a heart in a heartless town
I'd come unwind

And this love, my love
Isn't all what I though it was
Am I no one, without someone to need me?

Hold back your love, you know that I've had my doubts
Wanna see what I feel without
Every feeling is streaming out
Now you know that I need it

Hold back your love, you know that I've had my doubts
Wanna see what I feel without
Every feeling is streaming out
Now you know that I need it

I'd go out, right out
With the world nearly falling down
I go on out

And I saw no law
A town that's guilty of breaking more
No one adored, trying to reason and pleading

Hold back your love, you know that I've had my doubts
Wanna see what I feel without
Every feeling is streaming out
Now you know that I need it

Hold back your love, you know that I've had my doubts
Wanna see what I feel without
Every feeling is streaming out
Now you know that I need it

If I'm dreaming, where do I go?
Lost my feeling, so how will I know?

If I'm dreaming, where do I go?
Lost my feeling, so how will I know?

If I'm dreaming, where do I go?
Lost my feeling, so how will I know?

Hold back your love
Hold back your love
Hold back your love
How will I know?

Hold back your love
Hold back your love
Hold back your love
How will I know?

Hold back your love, you know that I've had my doubts
Wanna see what I feel without
Every feeling is streaming out
Now you know that I need it

White Lies - There Goes Our Love Again

There goes our love again
Forgive my heart
Forgive my heart
There goes our love again
Elate my heart and take the
Time that's burning at the back of my mind
Because I'm broken and blind
And holding up the jaw of desire
But there goes our love again

I didn't go far
I didn't go far
I didn't go far and I came home
I didn't go far
I didn't go far
I didn't go far and I came home
But he said 'there goes our love again'
There goes our love again

Home is a desperate end
Cocoon my heart
Cocoon my heart
And carry me to love again
Cocoon my heart and bring me calm,
Hushing out the fear and alarm
I know you're open and armed
Just trying to pick my feeling undone
There goes our love again

I didn't go far
I didn't go far
I didn't go far and I came home
I didn't go far
I didn't go far
I didn't go far and I came home
But he said 'there goes our love again'
But he said 'there goes our love again'
There goes our love again

I didn't go far
I didn't go far
I didn't go far and I came home
I didn't go far and I came home
I didn't go far and I came home
I didn't go far and I came home

White Lies - Come Down

I felt loved last night for the first time in a long time
It feels like coming home to stay
Like falling in the sea when it's too hot in the sun
But made things so much worse today

I know you said you'll miss me
But I know that you won't
Because time is like a wave
That washes all the pain away
When you come down

I know I said I'll see you
When it gets to New Year
But now that all the rain's stopped falling
All I think is getting out of here

I felt loved last night for the first time in a long time
It feels like I never went away
Like drifting back to sleep
When I'm aching and I'm tired
But made me feel so much worse today

I know you said you'll miss me
But I know that you won't
Because time is like a wave
That washes all the pain away
When you come down

I know I said I'll see you
When it gets to New Year
But now that all the rain's stopped falling
All I think is getting out of here

I know I'de be welcome but tell me how far
Ceremonial knocks
Sounds the gaps in my heartbeat
And I'll never be good enough for you or for me
I've buried my pride
I've buried my key

I know I'de be welcome but tell me how far
Ceremonial knocks
Sounds the gaps in my heartbeat
And I'll never be good enough for you or for me
I've buried my pride
I've buried my key

I know you said you'll miss me
But I know that you won't
Because time is like a wave
That washes all the pain away
When you come down

I know I said I'll see you
When it gets to New Year
But now that all the rain's stopped falling
All I think is getting out of here

White Lies - Jo?

You hold the dice and I wait for your roll
It's not the first time that I'm losing control
With reddened eyes I blink out the days
I wait for your reply, am I still worth a save?

Where's your message for me Jo?
Time's not with me, don't you know
Call me back and pick me up
Take the pain and break it off, break it off

It takes a lot to unload to the void
Always digging out of our pain in the noise
It takes a nerve to leave me in the ditch
Coiled about myself as I reach for the itch

Where's your message for me Jo?
Time's not with me, don't you know
I need answers for a friend
Write me back and break a trend
Where's your message for me, Jo?
Sent my flare up hours ago
Call me back and pick me up
Take the pain and break it off, break it off

Storm clouds in the morning, voices raised tonight
Everything's a warning, everything's a fight
I wrote you all the details, wrote you all the truth
A stranger in my own bed, staying up for you

White Lies - Never Alone

I really tried to be good
But goodness, won't come easy to me
You're too good in your old ways
In others you're evil like me

When they call my name
I'm the first to smile
I put a few feet wrong on the moral pile
When I break the rank, I'm the first to gloat
And its a nice trip down
In the eye of a rope
In the eye of a rope

I put a coin in a cold hand
Still I seem to hurt everyone
Now, I'm the dud, I'm the short strand
I'm the burning wink in the line of a shotgun

You in your tall lighthouse
With that broken light
I'm gonna suffer on your rocks if it takes all night
You're the one clean soul at the back of a church
Go on, avert your eyes
This is going to hurt
This is going to hurt

I went bare-foot out into dirty snow
Saw the fires at the black with a sinful glow
There's an angry mob all downing pixel fuel
Taking blood with a lash from the skin of a fool
You can blame it on the web, on the sugar and fat
Entertainment is a spin, on an urge unwrapped
You can try another hammer just to hammer it home
But any modern thought
Is never alone
Is never alone
But any modern thought
Is never alone
Is never alone
But any modern thought
Is never alone

White Lies - To Lose My Life

He said to lose my life or lose my love
That's the nightmare I've been running from
So let me hold you in my arms a while
I was always careless as a child
And there's a part of me that still believes
My soul will soar above the trees
But a desperate fear flows through my blood
That our dead loves buried beneath the mud

Let's grow old together
And die at the same time
Let's grow old together
And die at the same time

I said I've got no time, I have to go
And I was more right than now I'll ever know
He said my heart is faint, will minds regret
And left him crying next to the chapel's steps

Let's grow old together
And die at the same time

Let's grow old together
And die at the same time

He said?

Let's grow old together
And die at the same time
Let's grow old together
And die at the same time

He said?

He said to lose my life or lose my love
That's the nightmare I've been running from
So let me hold you in my arms a while
I was careless as a child
There's a part of me that still believes
My soul will soar above the trees
A desperate fear flows through my blood
Our dead loves buried beneath the mud
A desperate fear flows through my blood
Our dead loves buried beneath the mud

White Lies - Right Place

When does the show start?
When does it all get moving?
I feel something in the air
I don't know what I'm doing
Though the shapes are familiar
In the shadows of quiet rooms
I don't feel like I'm really there
Wait for me I'll be there soon

For now, just talk, oh please just talk
And say anything, just say anything at all
Just talk my love, just talk and
Say anything, just say anything at all

I've got my heart beating in the right place
I know it's just the wrong time
But when it starts, I'm not gonna miss a second no
Don't know 'bout love, but it feels like the right place to be
And it's the right time
But when it starts, I'll have to go

When does the show start?
Over strings and a drum-roll
I'll be there for the light show
On a hill below it all
Where does the road start
To where I think that I'm going
Don't tell me I missed the turn
Without someway of knowing

For now, just talk, oh please just talk
And say anything, just say anything at all
Just talk my love, just talk and
Say anything, just say anything at all

I've got my heart beating in the right place
I know it's just the wrong time
But when it starts, I'm not gonna miss a second no
Don't know 'bout love, but it feels like the right place to be
And it's the right time
But when it starts, I'll have to go

I'll have to go
I'll have to go
I'll have to go
I'll have to go

White Lies - Come On

I'm sick of all the noise
From the storm in here
I need a little quiet
To get things clear, but
Tell me something true
Or a lie I know
And show me that you're there
And I'm not alone now

So if the right words
Feel like the wrong kind to say
I'll keep my mouth shut, darling
Hope things all work out okay

But there's something wrong
Come on, come on, you know
We just play along
Come on, come on, you know

My war is over right
When my heart is spent
Though you know they overwrite
With the best intent, so
Tomorrow is a day
Like this gone by
I'll try to keep my hopes
From getting up too high now

So if the right words
Feel like the wrong kind to say
I'll keep my mouth shut, darling
Hope things all work out okay

But there's something wrong
Come on, come on, you know
We just play along
Come on, come on, you know

Love is just a word that ties
The gap between you and I
'Cause you know there's something wrong
You've known it for a while, come on

Love is just a word that ties
The gap between you and I
'Cause you know there's something wrong
You've known it for a while, come on

Love is just a word that ties
The gap between you and I
'Cause you know there's something wrong
You've known it for a while, come on

Love is just a word that ties
The gap between you and I
'Cause you know there's something wrong
You've known it for a while, come on

But there's something wrong
Come on, come on, you know
We just play along
Come on, come on, you know

But there's something wrong
Come on, come on, you know
We just play along
Come on, come on, you know

White Lies - Change

I'm going to miss the way I missed you
But I'm okay if you're okay
I've been lonely when I'm with you
But now I'm lonely all the same
If you need to find yourself
In the arms of someone else
I wish you on your way

But my love,
I've never been too good at change
I've never been too good at change

I'm gonna miss the way I kissed you
But I'll be brave if you'll be brave
And this is only the beginning
Although it feels just like the end
If you need to take some time
I'd surrender all of mine
I wouldn't make you stay

But my love,
I've never been too good at change
I've never been too good at change
I've never been too good at change
I've never been too good at change

White Lies - Death

I love the feeling when we lift off
Watching the world so small below
I love the dreaming when I think of
The safety in the clouds out my window
I wonder what keeps us so high up
Could there be a love beneath these wings
If we suddenly fall should I scream out
Or keep very quiet and cling to my mouth as I’m crying
So frightened of dying
Relax, yes, I’m trying
But fear's got a hold on me

Yes, this fear's got a hold on me

I love the quiet of the nighttime
When the sun is drowned in the deathly sea
I can feel my heart beating as I speed from
The sense of time catching up with me
The sky's set out like a pathway
But who decides which route we take
As people drift into a dreamworld
I close my eyes as my hands shake
And when I see a new day
Who’s driving this anyway
I picture my own grave,
'cause fear's got a hold on me

Yes, this fear's got a hold on me

Floating neither up or down
I wonder when I’ll hit the ground
Will the earth beneath my body shake
And cast your sleeping hearts awake
Could it tremble stars from moonlit skies
Could it drag a tear from your cold eyes
I live on the right side, I sleep in the left
That’s why everything’s got to be love or death

Yes, this fear's got a hold on me