d u m m y   -   p o r t i s h e a d

mysterons | sour times | strangers | it could be sweet

wandering star | numb roads | pedestal

biscuit | glory box | it's a fire





mysterons

inside you're pretending,
crowns have been swept aside,
somewhere, where they can forget.

divine upper reaches,
still holding on,
this emotion will not be grasped.

chorus:
all for nothing
did you really want * 4 times

refuse to surrender,
strung out until ripped apart,
who dares, who dares to condemn

chorus


sour times

to pretend and one can find,
fantasies and morning rose,
forbidden fruit, hidden lies,
courtesies that I despise in me

take a ride, take a shot now,
coz nobody loves me, it's true, not like you do.

covered by the blind belief,
that fantasies of sinful screams,
bare the facts or sooner die,
end the vows no need to lie in chain

take a ride, take a shot now,
coz nobody loves me, it's true, not like you do.

am i what and why?
coz all i have left is the memories of yesterday,
oh the sour times

coz nobody loves me, it's true, not like you do.

after time the bitter taste,
of innocence disintegrates,
scattered seed, buried lives,
histories of our disguise reborn,
circumstance will decide

coz nobody loves me, it's true, not like you do. * 3


strangers

can anybody see the light,
where the moon beats the dew,
and the tide is rising,
did you realise no one can see inside your view?
did you realise the world inside belongs to you?

oh just set aside your fears of life,
with the sole desire
done in morning, done in now, and it ain't real,
on this side,
done in morning, done in now, and it ain't real,
on this side,

done it, mourning and nothing matters, this ain't real
on this side,

oh can anybody see the light,
where the moon beats the dew,
and the tide is rising,
did you realise no one can see inside your view?
did you realise the world inside belongs to you?


it could be sweet

i don't want to hurt you,
no reason have i for fear,
i ain't guilty of crimes accused before,
but i'm guilty of fear.

i'm certain of that,
but i'm scared of what we're creating,
this love affair.

chorus:
you don't get something for nothing,
turn back, too late now,
got to try a little harder,

it could be sweet,
like a long forgotten dream.

and we don't need them,
to cast the fate we have,
love don't always shine through,
coz i don't want to lose,
what we had last time
you're leaving, this love affair.

chorus

it could be sweet.

but the thoughts we try to deny,
take a toll upon our lives.
struggle on in depths of pride,
tangled up in single lives

coz i don't want to lose,
what we had last time
you're leaving, this love affair.

chorus

got to try a little harder

coz i don't want to lose,
what we had last time
you're leaving, this love affair.

chorus

got to try a little harder,
it could be sweet


wandering star

please couldn't you stay a while to share my grief,
it's such a lovely day to have to always feel this way,
and the time that i will suffer less,
it's when I never have to wait

chorus:
wandering stars,
for whom it is preserved,
the blackness, the darkness, forever
wandering stars,
for whom it is preserved,
the blackness, the darkness, forever

those who have seem the needles i now tread,
like a husk from which your darkness has now fled,
and the masks that the monsters wear,
to feed upon their prey

chorus

doubled up inside,
take a while to share my grief,
always doubled up inside,
taunted, oh

chorus


numb

i'm ever so lost,
i can't find my way,
been searching but i have never seen,
a turning, a turning from deceit

coz a child rolls his eyes,
tried to reveal what i could feel

i can't understand myself anymore,
coz i'm still feeling lonely, feeling so unholy

coz a child rolls his eyes,
tried to reveal what i could feel,
and this loneliness,
it just won't leave me alone,
oh no

i'm fooling somebody,
a faithless bed i roam,
seething to breath this secretly,
a silence, this silence i can't bear

coz a child rolls his eyes,
tried to reveal what i could feel
and he's so lonely,
he just won't leave me alone,

and this loneliness,
it just won't leave me alone,
oh no,

oh lady you're the one * 2


roads

chorus:
oh, can't anybody see,
we've got a war to fight,
never find out way,
regardless of what they say,
how can it feel this wrong,
from this moment,
how can it feel this wrong?

shone in the morning light
i feel no more,
can i say from self to myself,
i got nobody on my side,
and surely that ain't right,
surely that ain't right

chorus

how can it feel this wrong,
from this moment,
how can it feel this wrong?

chorus


pedestal

how can i believe this miracle,
where the wind blows dry,
through the forest of our mind,
undenied by desire,
oh you abandoned me,
how i suffer
ridicule breaths a sigh
you abandoned me,
lost forever,
hush can you hear

enter and rejoice this pedestal,
where the rainbow's high,
your destiny,
mystery of all time,
oh no time, make a reason,
ridicule breaths a sigh,
no time, make a reason,
hush hear him cry

no time, make a reason * 3


biscuit

i'm lost and found,
stranger things have come your way,
it's just i'm scared,
got hurt a long time ago,
can't make myself hurt,
no matter how hard i scream

oh sensation,
it's in slave of sensation,
fully fed yet i still hunger,
torn inside,
haunted i tell myself yet i still wander,
down inside,
it's tearing me apart

oh sensation,
it's in slave of sensation,
i'll never fall in love again,
it's all over now

at last relief,
a mother's son has left me sheer,
the shores i seek,
are crimson valley distant,
can't make myself hurt,
no matter how hard i scream

oh sensation,
sin slave of sensation,
i'll never fall in love again,
it's over now


glory box

i'm so tired of playing,
playing with this bow and arrow,
gonna give my heart away,
leave it to the other girls to play.
for i've been a temptress too long,

chorus:
oh yeah,
give me a reason to love you,
give me a reason to be a woman,
i just want to be a woman

from this time unchained,
we're all looking at a different picture,
through this new frame of mind,
a thousand flowers could bloom,
move over and give us some room

chorus

so don't you stop being a man,
just take a little look from outside when you can,
show a little tenderness,
no matter if you cry

chorus

it's all i want to be, a woman,
so i just want to be a woman,
for this is the beginning of forever and ever,
it's time to move over now,
so i want to be

back to start again and fades


it's a fire

it's a fire,
these dreams that pass me by,
the salvation i desire,
keeps getting me down,
'cause we need to recognize our state,
for time and again,

chorus:
so let it be known,
for what we believe in,
i can see no reason,
for it to fade,
'cause this life is a farce,
i can't breathe through this mask,
like a fool
so breathe on, little sister, breathe on,

from this warm cell,
testify or tell,
it's fooling us now,

chorus

oh, so breathe on little sister, like a fool





lyrics | words | gallery | links | design | home | email
Act V. THE TRUTH. (Love is hard work. And, sometimes, hard work can really hurt.) Love is a game. If they didn't tell you before, we will tell you now. Love is a game and if you play you either win, lose, or get ejected before the game is over. There are no ties. Maybe you'll lose and learn some great, meaningful answer from it all (like if it looks to good to be true, it is). It's easy to love something when you don't have to work at it. It's harder when it asks something of you. You just might be afraid to give. Give it anyway. The heart is the most resilient muscle. It is also the stupidest. So if this love you've found is good to you, hold it, keep it, shout about it. If it isn't, then maybe you should just become very good friends.