Slack Romance Lyrics

(direct transcription from album sleeve with one or two minor adjustments)

Midmay
She's a honey
With the clumsiness of a borrowed father
Bleed
Christmas on Mars
Khartoum
Lady Lazarus
Superbadasssweetdaddyjones
Purr
I hope you understand
Precious State
Feline Groovy
Extreme Paranoia (I lend my smile)

Midmay

Give Me Shelter
Please I am pleased to be please
Oh crazy whore
You are god and believe in the reds 'cos they're red and they're red and believe in the greys 'cos they're grey and they're grey
Midmay

Hard light soft light
Give to the mouse
He is old and weak and lithe
If you look at the smile on his face that's my face if you gaze at the dew in his eye he will try
Midmay

Hold that cow she's your friend till the end
If she tastes good, eat her and pray in your hell
'Cos she's cold in this world
When she lives, when she lives
And she's warm in your mouth in heaven, in heaven
Midmay

She's a honey

Edie says goodbye
In the south they wonder why
Complacency's for free
Where the grass is burnt away and it's killed the golden rays
Lately summer filled my eyes
All the lizards sit and dream on the stones and out to sea
Throwing pebbles in the sand
Soon the trouble starts again
When I die I make it ten
Ten more dreamers on their way, although I would love to stay

Promise it's for real
Promise for me how scared will I be?
I loved your face when you sleep, people always say I'm wasting away but I'm a ghost yeah, hey, hey, hey
Girl you're so pretty to me, you're so pretty to me, you're so pretty to me

Silence is for good
Hold my hand and look deceitful, her legs are tied in a bow, yesterday we were low, low and god sent a glow
But I'm a ghost yeah,
hey, hey, hey

What's your name
When I am old I will kick it and smile with a gun in my hand and a flower for trial
She's an eloquent queen but she falls over me, she's a natural friend

With the clumsiness of a borrowed father

I've been here too long
Thus we must live on
Wide eyes and green
She was so clean my sweet sixteen
This man I see once loved by me, his sweet sixteen

I'm on a roll
I've sold my soul
She wanted to leave
I wanted misery
I've sold my soul

Bleed

We're insane
We're insane
We're doing it again and in the middle of the evening when the sky is deep and bleeding, feed the cats and go to bed
Close that box, don't peer inside, and in the wild and changing seasons
When the trees are flying demons
Close your eyes and don't come back
I have to go
I've shaken off the snow and when you're walking away from here and you're so far away
I'm walking a dream and the rain keeps coming
I'm in heaven again

Christmas on Mars

Well I cannot breathe without bleeding
Well I cannot bleed without breathing
Maybe the sun will rise too soon
Maybe the trees will reach the moon
And all the young dudes you choose to kill
And all the weirdos left on the hill
Weirdos in love
And that day was all I had to myself
It took me away from lustre hell

Khartoum

Down, down, down 'cos the world is apart and we're back at the start
I'm quite content to live through everyday like my life is okay
Bang, bang, bang
Now the warmth is gone and it's all gone along with it
I want it back
I know nothing is real
I know people don't steal
I know everything's okay 'till I wake the next day
I know nothing
Sing, sing, sing and we sing in time and the words have to rhyme
I've gone numb, I can't think anymore and I've closed all the doors
Kill, kill, kill 'cos it's plain to see that we'll all have to bleed to be
I want it black
While my heart is on fire
I've burnt all the liars
I have to be free to believe in me
She is my heart and my soul and she wants to live
More or less
I have to be free to believe
Bang, bang, bang, now the warmth is gone and it's all gone along with it
I want it black

Lady Lazarus

Girl, I've run out of time
This feeling is mine
This feeling is mine
Hey, it's so green and grey
It's gleaming so pale
It's gleaming so pale
And I know there are demons in the snow
We will always be as one as one
It will never be the same again, again
And I know there are demons in the snow
And we'll be there soon
Take my hand
Hate Margarita
Help Margarita
So laze on by with this in mind
And let me down
And let me down

Superbadasssweetdaddyjones

I have seen my silhouette
Send me away to my grave
Find my grave
Please re-use me, deem me cleansed
I am cleansed
Send me to sea
Rescue me
I can hear her breathing slowly

Purr

When the sky is blue I will float with you
When the sky is grey we will float away
When I look at her I feel like I'm purring

I hope you understand

Lady wake me effortlessly
Naked, fall asleep by me
You, you are my angel
Me, I am a saint
I feel warm inside of you
I don't like what I do
I, I am a monster
You, you are a saint
Goodnight day and look my way
Can I feel your skin within
And I hope you understand
Good morning
We are full of sin
Kiss farewell my girl of hell
And I hope you understand

Precious State

I am made so wrong
Only my legs are strong
Aching like an angel
Wasted naked angel
Talking dolls on fire
Witches to admire
Torch themfor their feelings
Try for sacred dealings
Darkness in my room
Her hair sets off the moon
Tender are the nights here
They'll always come
I can help you
Your mummy says come in your precious state
Darkness in this land
It's where I stand
Folded in black rags
Wander streets with bags
Where have all those days gone
Lucky my ship sails on
Finally says the son
Father my deeds are done
When do I get paid then
Son you have been paid then
Since the time of birth you've been crawling around in the earth
Someday son you'll know me
When I'm dead forego me
Darkness in my room
Her hair sets off the moon
Tender are the nights here
Thay'll always come
I can help you
Your mummy says come in your precious state
Darkness in this land
It's where I stand

Feline Groovy

Hey you pick another boy
Pick another poor boy so we can go
Hey, man she's lying down
She's lying down now
We can go
God save the queen
God said fuck the queen
We can go
Oh no, it's all in a kind mind
We can go
Lately, lately to me, lately it seems to me
We can go
Run home to bed
Run home your daddy says
We can go
Please sir I wanna speak sir
I wanna speak first sir
We can go
I need coke everyday
Coke everyday so we can go
I see pigs on a leash
Pigs on a leash saying we can go
He's an ordinary man with an ordinary life
He likes his wife's life
He can't go
I need peace of my mind
See it's all up in the skies
In the bright skies
We can go

Extreme Paranoia (I lend my smile)

Complicate days
It's all become a phase
Come down to my home
Kill me
I'm not worth it at all
I am certain I'll fall
Tell me what you think
Tell me how you blink
When you're staring at your work
Kill me
I'm not worth it at all
I am certain I'll fall
And when you'tr sleeping pillow fades
And turns away in sunset shades
I'll lend my smile
You'll turn to me and say goodbye
I'll see your shadow turn and cry
I'll lend my smile
Come to the end when summer falls again
And come before
A thousand years or more
I can give myself to seasons
Take away the shame
We'll travel to furthest plains
But we'll never relieve the pain
I wish that you were here
And I wanted to laze on by
And I never did make you cry
I never will make you cry
Please die with me
I wanted to set you free
And I knew it was meant to be