Better Than This Better Than This (Stuart Price Remix)

• Fecha de salida: 16 de marzo de 2009
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I'm waiting for my moment to come
I'm waiting for the movie to begin
I'm waiting for a revelation
I'm waiting for someone to count me in

Because now I only see my dreams in everything I touch
Feel their cold hands on everything that I love
Cold like some magnificent skyline
Out of my reach but always in my eye line

Now we're tumbling down
We're spiralling
Tied up to the ground
We're spiralling

I fashioned you from jewels and stone
I made you in the image of myself
I gave you everything you wanted
So you would never know anything else

But every time I reach for you, you slip through my fingers
Into cold sunlight, laughing at the things that I had planned
The map of my world gets smaller as I sit here
Pulling at the loose threads

Now we're tumbling down
We're spiralling
Tied up to the ground
We're spiralling
When we fall in love
We're just falling
In love with ourselves
We're spiralling

Did you want to be a winner?
Did you want to be an icon?
Did you want to be famous?
Did you want to be the president?
Did you want to start a war?
Did you want to have a family?
Did you want to be in love?
Did you want to be in love?

I never saw the light
I never saw the light
I waited up all night
But I never saw the light

When we fall in love
We're just falling
In love with ourselves
We're spiralling
We're tumbling down
We're spiralling
Now we're tumbling down
We're spiralling
Tied up to the ground
We're spiralling

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I dreamed I was drowning in the River Thames
I dreamed I had nothing at all
Nothing but my own skin

I dreamed I was drifting on the howling wind
I dreamed I had nothing at all
Nothing but my own skin

Slipped away from your open hands
Into the river
Saw your face looking back at me
I saw my past and I saw my future

You take the pieces of the dreams that you have
Because you don’t like the way they seem to be going
You cut them up and spread them out on the floor
You’re full of hope as you begin rearranging
Put it all back together
But any way you look at things
Looks like the lovers are losing

I dreamed I was watching the young lovers dance
I reached out to touch your hair
But I was watching from a distance

We cling to love like a skidding car
Clings to a corner
I try to hold on to what we are
The more I squeeze the quicker we alter

You take the pieces of the dreams that you have
Because you don’t like the way they seem to be going
You cut them up and spread them out on the floor
You’re full of hope as you begin rearranging
Put it all back together
But any way you look at things
Looks like the lovers are losing

I dreamed I had nothing at all
Nothing but my own skin

You take the pieces of the dreams that you have
Because you don’t like the way they seem to be going
You cut them up and spread them out on the floor
You’re full of hope as you begin rearranging
Put it all back together
But any way you look at things
Looks like the lovers are losing

You take the pieces of the dreams that you have
Because you don’t like the way they seem to be going
You cut them up and spread them out on the floor
You’re full of hope as you begin rearranging
Put it all back together
But in the final reckoning
Looks like the lovers are losing

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Is this what you meant?
Is this what you dreamed of
When you were making your plans
Shaking the dirt off?
Do you feel like you and I belong?
Just keep your eyes on the road
And nothing can go wrong

You can do so much better than this
You can do so much better than this

I’ve been checking my sums
Oh where did the time go?
Holding my photograph up to the window
Through the paper and refracted sun
I can see all the things I wish that I’d done

You can hang your hopes on the medicine
You can put your faith in the phone-in
You can tell yourself you’re doing your best
You can do so much better than this

Get a grip on yourself
Get a grip on yourself
Could have been something but you’re too late
And you weren’t invited anyway

Because the photographs show the wrong man
Because there is no soap star holding your hand
You don’t see yourself in the freeze frame
Must be someone else using your name

And everyone will be the same
And everyone will glow
And everywhere you’ll see your name
In every shop window

It’s better than this
You can do so much better than this
You can do so much better than this
You can do so much better than this

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In a pearl grey room one afternoon
In one afternoon what are you going to do?
I hang on your words but there’s nothing new

You take a beautiful thing
Pull off a wing, pull off a wing
With a safety pin
They never shine quite as bright again

But you haven’t told me anything
That I didn’t already know
No you haven’t said a single thing
That I didn’t already know

Everything I love is stuck in the mud
Stuck in the mud, stuck in a rut
Not a piece in your puzzle or a paper cut

So same time next week
Kiss on the cheek, kiss on the cheek
And say after me
Everything’s tied up nice and neat

But you haven’t told me anything
That I didn’t already know
No you haven’t sold me anything
That I didn’t already own

I feel for you, I really do
Nothing adds up like you want it to
No words can mend this fix I’m in
Give me your worst, I won’t even blink
Right between the eyes, I won’t feel a thing

Because you haven’t told me anything
That I didn’t already know
No you haven’t said a single thing
That I didn’t already know

No you haven’t told me anything

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I shake through the wreckage for signs of life
Scrolling through the paragraphs
Clicking through the photographs

I wish I could make sense of what we do
Burning down the capitals
The wisest of the animals

Who are you? What are you living for?
Tooth for tooth, maybe we’ll go one more

This life is lived in perfect symmetry
What I do, that will be done to me

Read page after page of analysis
Looking for the final score
We’re no closer than we were before

Who are you? What are you fighting for?
Holy truth? Brother I choose this mortal life

Lived in perfect symmetry
What I do, that will be done to me
As the needle slips into the run-out groove
Love - maybe you’ll feel it too

And maybe you’ll find life is unkind
And over so soon
There is no golden gate
There’s no heaven waiting for you

Oh boy you ought to leave this town
Get out while you can the meter’s running down
The voices in the streets you love
Everything is better when you hear that sound

Spineless dreamers hide in churches
Pieces of pieces of rush hour buses
I dream in emails, worn-out phrases
Mile after mile of just empty pages

Wrap yourself around me
Wrap yourself around me
As the needle slips into the run-out groove
Maybe you’ll feel it too
Maybe you’ll feel it too

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Like beautiful dolls
All made up and bright
Radiant people in splintering light
All moving at the speed of life
Reflected in each other’s eyes

But you’re moving so fast through this beautiful scene

You don’t see me
You don’t see me

Oh truly we are a fortunate few
Who turn on your axis, revolve around you
All spinning outwards from your sun
Passing your reflection on

In your hurry to grasp everything that you see

You don’t see me
You don’t see me
You don’t see me
No, you don’t see me

Such a beautiful view
I guess you’ve seen it all
But you, you see nothing at all
Such a beautiful view
Shining so bright
Shining so bright, so bright

All moving at the speed of life
Reflected in each other’s eyes
But you’re moving with such irresistible speed
You don’t see me
You don’t see me
You don’t see me
No, you don’t see me
No, you don’t see me

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Was it all in real time or was it just in my mind?
Was I just a ghost passing through you
Clinging to the wreckage, till I got the message?
Hanging at the edge of the room

Give me something that’s real
Give me half of your bitterest pill
Something from under the surface you actually feel

We say these words again and again
But they still sound the same
It was in your eyes, in your eyes
They were just easy lies

The lightest words are heavy and promises are easy
And no one’s ever happy or sad for very long
Well just because I said it, it doesn’t mean I meant it
I guess that was the way all along

I’m just shaping the sound
I’m just turning the syllables round
Dipping my toe in the water and watching you drown

We say these words again and again
But they still sound the same
It was in my eyes, in my eyes
They were just easy lies

And we’ve been a long time waiting
And it’s been a lifetime in the making

We said, “When you are alone and afraid
I will come to your aid”
Well was it just a dream, just a dream?
Because it was real to me

We say these words again and again
But they still sound the same
We say these words again and again
And again and again

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At the start of the news day
The fires begin
In words and in pictures
But I’m not listening
I’m not taking it in

I’m going to go to the country
Where nothing goes on
Going to bury my head
Where I can’t hear the sound of bombs
Playing along

Me, I’m just playing along
You and I, so many good people
All just playing along

I’m going to go to a bar
Where the jukebox is on
Going to shut out the noise
With a rock 'n' roll song
Playing along

I’m going to turn up the volume
I’m going to turn up the volume
I’m going to turn up the volume
Till I can’t even think

Tell us a tale of the proud and the free
Sing us a swing time American melody
From Follow The Fleet

Me, I’m just playing along
You and I, a billion people
All just playing along

I’m going to turn up the volume
I’m going to turn up the volume
I’m going to turn up the volume
Till I can’t even think

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We are just the monkeys who fell out of the trees
We are blisters on the earth
And we are not the flowers, we're the strangling weeds in the meadow
And love is just our way of looking out for ourselves
When we don't want to live alone
So step into the vacuum, tear off your clothes and be born again

Pretend that you're alone now and everything's gone
Just animal reflexes no one looking on
Forget about fashion, forget about the law
Pretend that you're alone now

I wonder what I'd do if I could wake up every morning with a clean slate
I'd burn through the cities and tear through the towns because there's no deals to make
So break out of the cages, the delicate structures we cling to all our lives
Because we are just the monkeys who fell out of the trees
When we were trying to fly

Pretend that you're alone now and everything's gone
Just primal desire, no right and no wrong
Forget about the future, forget about blame
Pretend that you're alone now

She's not waiting for tomorrow
And she has no love in her eyes

Oh no, I want to come down right now
Pull over, I want to get out right now

Pretend that you're alone now and everything's gone
Just animal reflexes no one looking on
Forget about religion, forget about shame

Pretend that you're alone now
No numbers in your phone now there's nothing going on
Just primal desire, no right and no wrong
Forget about fashion, forget about fame
Pretend that you're alone now

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I wish that I could be
In the cellars of the sea
And disappear in them
Never to be seen again

Leave this life
Its unrelenting appetite
For feeding off the weak
Who never had their turn to speak

The sky will be my shroud
A monument of cloud

If we could turn back
You can paper over the crack
But it will return now
And your heart will burn black

Give me your hand
Cut the skin, let me in
The molecules of us
Bleeding into one again

The sky will be my shroud
A cenotaph of cloud

If we could turn back
You can paper over the crack
But it will return now
And your heart will burn black

Forgotten my way home
Forgotten everything that I know
Every day a false start
And it burns my heart

I know everything you said was right and I suppose
Everything is here forever till it goes
You gave it all away, kept nothing for yourself
Just a picture on the shelf

Je souhaiterai m’immerger dans les profondeurs des mers
Y disparaître pour ne plus jamais être vu

Burning up
Now I’m racing down a road I don’t recognise
I realise I’ve forgotten my way home
Forgotten everything that I know
Every day a false start
And it burns my heart
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Now is the time of our comfort and plenty
These are the days we've been working for
Nothing can touch us and nothing can harm us
No, nothing goes wrong anymore

Singing a song with your feet on the dashboard
The cigarette streaming into the night
These are the things that I want to remember
I want to remember you by

They won't come again
Cos love is the end
Oh no, my friend
Love is the end

I took off my clothes and I ran to the ocean
Looking for somewhere to start a-new
And when I was drowning in that holy water
All I could think of was you

Woah, my friend
Love is the end
So best not pretend
Cos love is the end

Take it back, don't let it die
Or rage against the fallen night
Cos I still do, depend on you
So don't say those words, that wrung me through

Woah, oh oh
Love is the end
So lets not pretend
Cos love is the end

So I tread the only road
The only road I know
Nowhere to go, but home
Nowhere to go
Maybe our time is up
But still you can't abandon
All the principles of love
Don't say those words
Don't say those words
Don't say those words
Don't say those words

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It's time to make a start
To get to know your heart
Time to show your face
Time to take your place

In every speck of dust
In every universe
When you feel most alone
You will not be alone

Just shine a light on me
Shine a light
I'll shine a light on you
Shine a light
And you will see my shadow
On every wall
And you will see my footprints
On every floor

It only takes a spark
To tear the world apart
These tiny little things
That make it all begin

Just shine a light on me
Shine a light
I'll shine a light on you
Shine a light
And you will see my shadow
On every wall
And you will see my reflection
In your freefall

Oooooh
Ooh ooh
Oooooh
Ooooh ooh

Just shine a light on me
Shine a light
I'll shine a light on you
Shine a light

Cos when your back's against the wall
That's when you show no fear at all
And when you're running out of time
That's when you hitch your star to mine

We won't be leaving by the same road that we came by
We won't be leaving by the same road that we came by
We won't be leaving by the same road that we came by
We won't be leaving by the same road that we came by

Oooh ooh
Oooh ooh
Oooh ooh
Oooh ooh

Now, picturing a scene, seen it all before
We drink, we drink a little much, drink a little more
To shake off the nerves
And take off the edge
And now is there any way back home?

Seen it all before, and I know the signs
We drink, drink a little much, to stimulate the mind
Now it's two hours to go
And told everyone that you know
Now it's such a long way home

Maybe it's time to go
Maybe it's time we went
You're making a spectacle
Maybe it's time we left
I don't want to spoil your night
I don't want to hurt your pride
But maybe it's time to go
Maybe it's time

Now, eating from your hand, laugh at every line
Soon, losing track of you, you're losing track of time
Now it's dead on the dancefloor
And nobody's laughing any more
Have I become a tiresome bore?

Maybe it's time to go
Maybe it's time we went
You're making a spectacle
Maybe it's time we left
I don't want to spoil your night
I don't want to hurt your pride
But maybe it's time to go
Maybe it's time

To go, where there's nowhere to hide
From what's broken inside
A faultline ripped wide open
Under the wide, wide ocean's tide
Under the wide, wide ocean

Maybe it's time to go
Maybe it's time we went
You're making a spectacle
Maybe it's time we left
I don't want to spoil your night
I don't want to hurt your pride
Maybe it's time to fly
Maybe it's time
Maybe it's time to go
Maybe it's time

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Things will seem much better in the morning light
Love will be much easier to own
Things will look much better in the pale sunlight
We can be together like before

You just need time to forget
You just need time to explain
You just need time to forget yourself again

You're lying on the floor and
Staring at the ceiling
Thinking of a place you
Have never seen before

Remember when you held someone for the first time?
Remember when this fire was all we had?

Now you want life without death
And you want love without pain
But you want time to go back and start again

You're lying on the floor and
Staring at the ceiling
Thinking of a place you
Have never seen before
Thinking of your old friends
And waiting for the feeling
Waiting for the old burning feeling to return

These days, you don't know who you are
These days, you don't know where you are
These days, we don't know who we are

So meet me by the road
Where we used to go
You're lying on the floor and
Staring at the ceiling
Thinking of a place you
Have never seen before, seen before
Waiting for the phone call
And waiting for the feeling
Waiting for the old raging feeling to return

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