SUCH A CAUTIOUS DISPLAY, an arthur/eames mix
01. exits - foals
now the sea eats the sky, but they say it's a lie
cause they watch us in sleep, the language that we speak
and the secrets that we keep / in our dreams
oh, to dream this all off
in the islands of the mind, the places they can't find
oh, to meet you again
to pass you on the stairs, to see you everywhere / in my dreams
I said I'm so sorry, to have kept you waiting around
I wish I could've come up / I could've shouted out loud
they got exits covered / all the exits underground
I wish I could figure it out / but the world's upside down
02. farewell to the fairground - white lies
the lights still in our eyes, we're leaving this whole fairground behind
it's a dream that's going cold
goodbye to this dead town
we move towards the stars,
and all that we touch becomes ours
we'll head South, just hold my hand now
I feel like I've casted off my clothes,
and I'm running through the snow towards the sunset
and I'm always with you
03. brainy - the national
everywhere you go is swirling, everything you say has water under it
you know I keep your fingerprints in a pink folder in the middle of my table
you might need me more than you think you will
you keep changing your fancy, fancy mind every time I decide to let it go
I was up all night again, boning up and reading the American dictionary
you'll never believe me what I found, think I better follow you around
04. munich - editors
I'm so glad I found this
people are fragile things; you should know by now
be careful what you put them through
with one hand you calm me, with one hand I'm steel
05. enchanting ghost - sufjan stevens
tell me what you saw in me / and I'll try and replicate it with a scene
if it troubles you to breathe / wait a moment; I could change the scenery
it's only that I meant to bring
love and liveliness, to your breast on the scene
did you cut your hands on me?
are my edges sharp, am I a pest to feed?
don't carry on carrying regrets, no no
somewhere there's a room for us to speak alone
06. sober - lorde
played it so nonchalant, it's time we danced with the truth
we're sleeping through all the days/ I'm acting like I don't see
every ribbon you used to tie yourself to me
but my hips have missed your hips, so let's get to know the kicks
when you dream with a fever, bet you wish you could touch our rush
bodies all through my house, I know this story by heart
Jack and Jill get fucked up and possessive when it gets dark
07. los ageless - st. vincent
the winter never comes / but I can keep running
the waves they never break / they build and build until you don't have no escape
but how can I leave? / I just follow my hood to the sea
go to sleep
how can anybody have you?
how can anybody have you and lose you?
how can anybody have you and lose you, and not lose their minds, too?
I guess that's just me, honey, I guess that's how I'm built
I try to tell you I love you and it comes out all sick
08. love is a laserquest - arctic monkeys
do you still feel younger than you thought you would by now
or darling, have you started feeling old yet?
I've tried to ask you this in some daydreams that I've had
but you're always busy being make believe
do you look into the mirror to remind yourself you're there?
and I can't think of anything to dream about, I can't find anywhere to hide
it gets easier to pretend that you were just some lover
09. sky took hold - grizzly bear
your mind is racing
the sky took hold
of all my little daily fears / they never seem to go
a dusty vista
you hunger for the core
I never meant to take it so far / a mirror never shows
who I am beneath the surface, hiding out so long inside my mind
every day I stay blind to it
habit comes and tears me open wide, all the time
10. lilys - warpaint
honestly, slowing down is making sense
waking up, the weather has changed
never understood normal anyway
come in from the cold, you're a wanderer
come and bare yourself, don't be a stranger
why do we have to fight?
would you rather be happy or be right?
we're so dangerous and complicated / I can't sleep; we're so dangerous
11. talking in your sleep - rogue wave
when you close your eyes and you go to sleep
and it's down to the sound of a heartbeat
I can hear the things that you're dreaming about
when you open up your heart and the truth comes out
all the dreams that you keep inside, you're telling me the secrets that you just can't hide
you tell me that you want me, you tell me that you need me, you tell me that you love me
and I know that I'm right, cause I hear it in the night
I hear, the secrets that you keep
when you're talking in your sleep
12. born to beg - the national
crushed on a train, we'd stand by the window
later that year in the back of the Warsaw
I thought you and I might be okay
spinning and quiet, you leaned in against me
said "I'm gonna have it all some day"
If your heart was in it, I'd stay a minute
I'm dying to be taken apart
13. fossa - daughter
I said too much, said the wrong thing
remembering the image I was trying to project to you
I'm going, mad / checking checking, waiting waiting for some kind of response from you
let me know / I haven't opened up, the floodgates again, to another man
I feel sick, you're drowning in the pit of my stomach
you don't know that I'm caught
while you're busy diving down I find I feel alone
I don't owe you much, but I miss you
I gotta get him out of my mind
14. not even jail - interpol
I'll subtract pain by ounces,
yeah I will start painting houses
if things come alive
I promise to commit no acts of violence / neither physical, or otherwise
if things come alive
when personality is scarred tissue, it travels south with disuse
I pretend like no one else / to try to control myself
I'm subtle like a lion's cage, such a cautious display
oh but hold still darling, your hair so free
can't you feel all the warmth of my sincerity?