# any lines with a # are comment (the entire line) # _ _____ _____ _ _ _______ _____ # | | |_ _/ ____| | | |__ __/ ____| # | | | || | __| |__| | | | | (___ # | | | || | |_ | __ | | | \___ \ # | |____ _| || |__| | | | | | | ____) | # |______|_____\_____|_| |_| |_| |_____/ # lyrics (c) Lights Poxleitner 2008-2025 # # lurker's little lights lyrics lottery # # ~ Compiled by gcr and the rest of the Lights community ~ # BIG THANKS to Elamind who tirelessly proofread all of the # lyrics. ALL OF THEM. # # These are all the lyrics that lurker might choose from. They should be # short sentence fragments (less than 55 letters), and we only want the # recognizable ones. Take pains to ensure corrections are as accurate as # possible please! One lyric per line and order does not matter. No # duplicates! # # Corrections? contact gcr or Elamind --- The last thing on your mind: | Don't think too hard if you think it hurts that bad Don't talk about it; don't let it get you down! It's only one part of the story Just let it go; don't let it bring you down now Sing the last thing on your mind! The last word on your breath! I'll be the one to keep you! I'll be the one to keep you one disaster less! Straighten up your tie, take the microphone Forget about it, don't let it get you down! Now is not the time and you're not alone I'll be okay! I'll be okay if you... I Owe You One: | What you've given me is more than I can say! 'Cause I don't know the words to thank you properly You pulled me from the grave and stood me on a hill When I was afraid, you made me still For the love You bring Owe You everything! For the breath You give You're my cause to live For everything under the sun, I owe you one Chaos all around! Explosions and fire! You took me off the ground and lifted me higher! Now I'll never be the same. White: | Are there oceans full of things you'll never say? Are there skylines of the cities you don't see? Is there music muted playing underneath? Is mathematics keeping you from thinking free? Do you see lights? Turn your shadows white! Do you see lights? Turn your shadows white! Don't let rain clouds cry at all of your parades Let the other side of darkness kiss your face Into the sea! Into the sea. All the things I want to say... All the shadows in the way... February Air: | If you don't believe me, if you don't like my plans We walk the city How I know your face like the back of my hand My arms get cold in February air! Please don't lose hold of me out there! Say that you're with me Say you know my face like the back of your hand Drive my Soul: | Seems somebody put out the moon Now the road is a minefield I can't follow the way she moves I can't see past the shadows You make the darkness disappear! I feel found when you stand near I know where I am when you are here! My way becomes so clear... When you're gone, will I lose control? You're the only road I know! You show me where to go! Who will drive my soul? Seems somebody burned up the signs Where there's no borders, there are no lines! You make the street lights reappear! I feel bright when you stand near I know what I am when you are here! River: | Out across cities, I see buildings burn into piles. And watch the world in wonder as mountains turn into tiles And trees losing their leaves, and our faces becoming tired I wish I could discover something that doesn't expire! Come and stumble me! Take me river; carry me far! Lead me, river, like a mother! Take me over to some other unknown! Pull me in the undertow. Such are the things that make a kingdom rumble and shatter The same dynamic that another day would never matter Things that don't make sense are always a little deceiving I wanna go where you're going! A follower following! Changing but never changed! Claiming but never claimed! Ice: | My mouth is frozen so I can't even speak! What a disappointment, I had it perfectly! What I was going to bring up suddenly Stood like a stone as you stood quietly You're making it hard for me! All I can do is freeze! What I mean is all I need is just a little emotion 'Cause all I see is you not feeling And you're giving me nothing nice! I tried to do you right. Why'd you have to go and turn to ice? I don't think you're knowing how hard this is for me I'm not the type to say sorry constantly So I swallowed my pride and I got on my knees But still you just stood there as you stared at me Your ego is getting old! How did you get so cold? I'm looking at you looking at me, what can I do but say sorry? It's a little late but you know I just want you to be happy! What I got to say to make you let me get away with it this time? I know you're upset and that you're happy just to sit and hate me! But I'll make a bet that you'll be better to forget about me! Even better yet, I'll let a little light melt the ice, ice baby! Saviour: | The night is deafening when the silence is listening I'm down on my knees, and I know that something is missing. I'm a bit of a manic when it's not as I plan it 'Cause I start losing my head and then I get up in a panic Are we denying a crisis or are we scared of admitting it? I don't want to know I just want to run to you And break off the chains and throw them away! I just want to be so much And shake off the dust that turned me to rust! Sooner than later, I'll need a saviour! Save me! It won't ever change if you want it to stay the same Stand me up and maybe I won't be so small! Free my hands and feet and maybe I won't always fall... The Listening: | Please excuse me. I'm not thinking clear. It must just be stress but I likely shouldn't be here! I never really ever know what to say I'm just trying to get us on the same page I always get it better right afterwards When all the wrong impressions are said and heard How come I can never get the right words I need to convey? I don't feel right Can I let the trees do the talking? Can I let the ground do the walking? Can I let the sky fill what's missing, and... Can I let my mouth do the listening? Pretend: | Once in a while, I act like a child It gets like a prison in the body I'm living in It would be nice to start over again before we were men Let's play pretend I'd give, I'd bend, let's play pretend Remember the times we had soda for wine? And we got by on gratitude. The worst they could do to you was check your attitude When fights were for fun, we had water in guns How we lost hold of home, I guess I'll never know. And when it's the end, our lives will make sense It's not going to be long before we're all gone Stop taking lives; come on, let's all grow up again! Second Go: | How many times will the clock go around? How many times can my hands hit the ground? How many coffins before there's a crown? How far will I fall 'til the alarm sounds? How can you love me when I am ugly? Guess I can only hope Give me a second go! Don't let me go alone! You saw me at the worst, You caught me falling first! No matter the weather there's never a break! Conquer a ladder then slip on a snake! Cried 'til my river turned into a lake! I'm wondering now before it's too late How come you save me when I am angry? Reasons I'll never know One to five I'm half alive! Six to nine I'm out of line. Ten to twelve I'm not myself by the millionth time I cry. Face Up: | It's late and I am tired! Wish I could spark a smile. The place is flying high but right now I want to be low Don't want to move an inch, let alone a million miles! And I don't want to go but I know I've gotta go I just want to feel alive! The times you don't want to wake up 'Cause in your sleep it's never over when you give up The sun is always going to rise up Look at the people all around you! The way you feel is something everybody goes through. Dark out, but you still gotta light up! You need to wake up, gotta keep your face up! Seems like the more you grow, the more time you spend alone Before you know it you end up perfectly on your own The city's shining bright, but you don't see the light! How come you concentrate on things that don't make you feel right? I'm looking for more than a little bit I'm gonna have to find my way through it Gonna leave a mark, I'm gonna set a spark I'm coming up off the ground! I won't be looking down. Lions: | Give me a disaster! Give me emergency! Stand me at the head of the crusade without a remedy! Show me to the shipwreck! Show me how your bones shake! And when I'm at the edge of Sorrow's Blade Show me how a heart breaks! Be steady on your feet No matter the trouble you meet Lions make you brave Giants give you faith Death is a charade You don't have to feel safe to feel unafraid Find me at the bottom looking at the vultures Standing in the heart of the disease I'm looking for the thunder I'm looking for the blackness I'm learning how to get up off my knees All it takes is practice I'm not the hunter, I'm not the marked Just looking for wisdom in the dark. Quiet: | I'm not yours and you're not mine We can sit and pass the time No fighting wars, no ringing chimes. We're just feeling fine. This is where we're supposed to be Sitting by a broken tree No tragedy, no poetry Just staring at the sky I could wait a thousand hours Stay the same in sun and showers Pick apart a hundred flowers Just to be quiet Tell me when you feel ready I'm the one, there's not too many Hold my hand to keep me steady Just to be quiet with you I like it here beside you dear You're even more than you appear And in the clouds my head is clear Every time you say hello So here's my heart and here's my mouth I can't help if things come out 'Cause there are words I want to shout But maybe I'll stay low... Up Up and Away: | We had a rocket that fell out of orbit We couldn't stop it; we couldn't control it We ran a good course. It was a good flight. But I felt a hard force holding me too tight! We are rockets in the sky! We are planets passing by! Up up and away! Forget me; go your own way. Sometimes a heart cools after the heat goes. And sometimes the mind fools; only the body knows # see # http://www.iamlights.com/myboots?cmpid=110310/lyricvid/news My Boots: | You might know if you're from around here What goes on for half of the year Have you seen the Queen of the Castle? Paint this city from ear to fear If the air was meant to be glitter It might not take all yours away When she swings, she's a heavy hitter! When she comes, you'll ask her to stay! Winter left a cover that I'm gonna end up under I've got my boots When I'm in a summer I forget how much I love her It's a love-hate romance 'Cause I could watch her dance if I've got my boots! A love-hate romance, I can't feel my hands I got on my boots; got my boots on! My boo-oo-oo-oo-oots! Something in the way she comes gliding Makes me need to fix up the hair! She gets me to come out of hiding And find something decent to wear! Stop and stare... Jess and Jonny: | The car will get us there so you don't have to wait. We'll drive, not walk, 'cause I know that you hate... I love your face, your hair, regardless of your mood We learn to talk it over 'til it's smooth It really makes you brave, but we do it all the time And I love you 'cause you're mine So talk to me and make me feel fine! I hope you can all the time Forgive me if I'm ever on a knee Kiss me if you're mad at mommy Love me even if I'm a mess! Take me as I am bad or best! Love me even if I'm a mess! Take me as I am bad or best! Jonny loves Jess! There are a couple things - we don't always agree On what to watch or what we're going to eat But I'm willing to change for the sake of me and you 'Cause I know you're changing too I try to think of how my life would probably be Without you, I would feel so unhappy 'Cause you balance me out You're the minus to my plus You're the minus to my plus when it's just the two of us! # this is the song that separates the men from the boys # thanks to JuliGrande at http://board.iamlights.com/index.php?/topic/2081-romance-is-by-lights/page__p__48058__hl__#2Bromace+#2Blyrics__fromsearch__1#entry48058 Romace Is: | You're three sides of my eight-sided circle Two lovers juxtapose red doorways. Broken window frames colour her eyes in with black lines Let it all run down... There's no explanation or forewarning Underneath all the silver linings We approach the streets with the clear conscious we'll survive It's one way to opt for a horizon It's one way to say we're abandoned And we don't belong here at all and romance just is Slow it all down, the damage is done Play the music loud, don't make a sound Let's raise a toast to a sad story! You made it hurt so bad With a little poison, we can burn this whole place down Burn this whole place down to the ground again # Note that the "opt for a horizon" line is hard to understand. t # thanks Elamind Pity scene: | I've come to realize that you've made up too many excuses and I've come to see that I'm in this alone You were only there when you wanted and I'm delirious I'm at my wits end, and you're ignorant to refuse it I don't understand why I'm in this alone. Where's your heart in this matter? Where's your hear--wha...?! oh wait I'm in drop D... Black turns gray; ahead, ahead... I played my part, if it matters It's clear that I care too much today. I care too much today sorry I was in drop D for that one and I hope you're hearing this # thanks Elamind Casanova: | Cheap words falling out of your teeth He heard, she heard, you heard me once With a love gone sour I've lost my appetite There's no more flavor In talking sweet, now fix it somehow Don't Casanova me I'm over you; it's over obviously Don't put your sugar on me! It's too late to sweeten this baby Hey Casanova, it's over! Year of the Cure: | Are we all radicals painting our own lines? Not at all practical, wasting our time? Always going, never knowing Give us a place to go where we can be found. We're out of time to keep being lied to. We all need to find a dream We all dream about love Cause these are the things we know for sure To live without love is not what we're for We'll make it the year we find the cure So here we go heart and soul Ready to burn down I know I'm not ready to go home No not when there's work to be done # thanks susanxteasley Cactus in the Valley: | I never meant to wither, I wanted to be tall Like a fool, I left the river and watched my branches fall Old and thirsty, I longed for the flood to come back around To the cactus in the valley that's about to crumble down Wipe the mark of sadness from my face! Show me that your love will never change! If my yesterday is a disgrace Tell me that you still recall my name So the storm finally found me and left me in the dark In the cloud around me, I don’t know where you are If this whole world goes up in arms, all I can do is stand And I won’t fight for anyone until you move my hand Wipe the mark of madness from my face! In the shadow; here I am. And I need someone by my side! It becomes so hard to stand and I keep trying to dry my eyes Come and find me in the valley... Tell me that you'll still recall my name. Perfect: | Maybe I don't say all the right things Maybe I stumble on my words Maybe I laugh at all the wrong times Maybe I mumble and I curse The last thing I want is to let you down 'Cause all I want is to make you proud! But I'm perfect for you. I can't explain just why I'm acting this way! I can't control it, so I go with it. I'm just a girl; I won't be changing the world. And boy you know that I'm not perfect. But I'm perfect for you! I know I don't make all the best moves And I know sometimes I get weak But I know I've got nothing to prove Baby, that's what you love about me The best I can do is to be myself When you're in the room, my head is clear And you'll make a world just disappear Open up your eyes and see Siberia: | From the busy parks to the icy tides Someday, we'll decide where we want to live out our lives For now, we're two sparks tumbling along Keeping the heat on even though summer's come and gone I would sail across the east sea Just to see you on the far side Where the wind is cold and angry There you'll be to take me inside We'll find ways to fill the empty Far from all the hysteria I don't care if we suddenly find ourselves in Siberia! Inside a street car or on a mountain trail Details, details; you breathe in when I exhale No matter where we are or which way the wind blows Or how heavy the snow, nothing can change where we will go We'll leave Canada for Siberia Where the Fence is Low: | Where the fence is low and the water is rising And the fire comes down And the dark fills the skies in One foot on the ledge, one feeling for safety Somewhere between sure, and I don't know; maybe... I'm off of my rope here! I'm off on my own here! I find my hope here. I find my own here. I'm off of my rope here where the fence is low Each shadow I walk, to the edge of the forest In the shape of the hands that break the ground for us The fear that contains, and binds like a blessing I've been here before, then again I'm guessing... # Like a magpie and a ring, Toes: | If you are a cliff hanger ending I'm the one that doesn't know anything I am always gonna be looking right to you Oh, you capture my attention! Carefully listening! Don't wanna miss a thing! Keeping my eyes on you! Got me on my toes... If I were to hide out on the sea You'd be whispering from the westerlies In any book I'll ever read you'd be the line that sticks out to me Banner: | Maybe it's bricks and mortar now Whether or not they run it down I don't want anything to shake that shape away No one told us which way to come Nobody mapped oblivion So I go growing roses in the disarray Just like most, falling head in 'Til my ghost fills the bed in So lift it up like a banner! Hold it up over me! If this war is never ending... I'll take this love down with me I don't need fate to give it time It doesn't take pain to change your mind No weapon can sever the soul from me Not the sorceress, not the money All my cleverness, all my cunning It's around me in my surroundings It counts me when it starts the counting In the chaos, there is a standard I'm carrying it like a banner Heavy Rope: | Strange hands taking my wrist again Somehow, I'm still alone Voices shaking my steps again. I follow. I'm a little bit on the edge. Hold up and out of reach I can't hear much of what you said Come for me! Don't let me tumble away! Into the throes of the shadowy bay I cling to the rock and it's crumbling off Toss me a heavy rope! It's a slippery slope! Come bail me out of this God-forsaken precipice Turned up in this old place again Can't seem to get away.... Take me back to my element; I'm afraid I'm not a lost cause. I'm just stuck in a spot. And I'm close to falling off, so toss me a heavy rope! Timing is Everything: | You were walking in your sunset again without a hassle In the interim, the princess was in another castle Rolling different rocks, reverse days and nights In opposite towns, if we hadn't walked the same way Would I end up on your ground? There I was, none the wiser Both of us. Different trajectories! Who'd have thought we'd be right here? In this spot, timing is everything! Seems impossible to time it out right when you get no hints You don't know; you've got to trust It will go if you just roll with the punches Roll with the punches, your guts, and your hunches Peace Sign: | If they take my hand, will it be to burn me or to say Amen? We beckon so we can make amends And with the same flip of the hand, we curse our friends When it's all a blur, you are the hard line In the disorder, you are the peace sign It's getting hard to know if I'm on the tracks When no truth ever easily shows So I'll follow you no matter where you go I can't tell if they're laughing at me or with me All these hints and subtleties They got me on my knees begging for serenity # Source: http://www.iamlights.com/news/2011/07/20/everybody-breaks-glass-lyrics Everybody Breaks a Glass: | It's not a solid, not a soft thing To pull the wool up like a smoke screen Nobody does it like a prophet It's gone before you know you lost it There are reasons you keep your hands tied There's certain things you shouldn't have tried So if you gotta tell me something, you better go from the beginning We all forget to sleep and crash at someone's feet Everybody skips a beat We let the chances pass the few we held so fast Everybody breaks a glass And here I'm standing in the middle Not just a little but a hill full Wondering how I got a head cold Wishing I didn't know what I know It's never been about the money We're worthy or we are not worthy However much you got on your plate You're as good as you reciprocate We all pretend to keep our tongue out of our cheek Everyone's the fool they seek We all go off the track, and feel for our way back Somewhere perfection lies, but not for you and I Everybody trips some time When cities fall like shacks, walls eventually crack #Shock #scared to look #at peers when they peer back #It’s weird how we fear that #It’s weird how we wear masks #It appears that we fear our own tears #More than tear gas #My team’s struggling in years past #Looking to draft beers #To bring cheers back #But when the drinking game’s finished #No Guinness- just a clear glass #Seeing our real image mirrored back #The places that we go to cope #It’s so strange #When we’re older folks #It don’t change #Trying to hang, we don’t know the ropes #When we fall, we got more than our shoulders broke #It’s no game #It’s why we overdose on cocaine #Get our brains comatose, there’s no blame #If you’ve ever know shame #Known pain #Known days when it really don’t feel ok Suspension: | Somewhere we go to kill a while A moment continuing for miles... Stars wed overhead; you're everywhere... Don't need anything as much. Soul shed on a thread, stranded in air... When you get too far to touch. I'm a ship sailing, and the seas are rough! I'm a satellite in the space above! When I'm holding here, where I'm hanging up... I'm in suspension. You're not close enough! You're not close enough. Then comes the sun, the solar flare... In the suspension: find me there. Lift my spirit high when you come here Enemy under the heel The sky feeling I get when you're near... I'd give up gravity to feel Flux and Flow: | Well, I guess I lost this round. The mountains have come down. I won't go where they go. No, I'll be back around. I won't go where they go. No, I'll be back around. With our heads above the trees And the storm at our knees Come all the tides and tows, we'll stand above the sea! Highs and lows... There are pits and lands... On the ground that you stand. So flux and flow! Flux and flow, and you'll fix your plans. Then you'll trade in your hand. When we taste a bitter end and hunger life again... We take another turn with a better hand. Fourth Dimension: | I could take steps in this moon and that cloud Look at my breath and still feel the warm out This isn't about seasons or about rhyme and reason Trying to be smart, but my Ohs and my Ones Only show stars in my toes and my thumbs Nothing adds up but agrees, you becomes us and makes three Cheers to such an old invention Dear, we touched the fourth dimension Bottle rockets and time bombs and warheads We could go back or keep on or be led Follow me to the chapel, we're the kings of the castle! It's a science, but there's room to believe In the riots, I find you and I breathe This isn't for the weak hearts But everyone's here at some part Here's an honorable mention I'm on moons and clouds where worlds wrap around # These two are ambiguous, which is really a shame # Thirty-nine more days left # Twenty-nine more days left ...And Counting: | Forty days and counting I'm going to sleep. When I wake up, there will be When I fall asleep, I feel you with me 'Til I fall asleep and you are with me Thirty days and counting I'll stay right here. Up all night dear I'll stay right here 'till you're right here # Thanks to Baushi for clarification Frame and Focus: | All those sum-ups, long days, short cuts Love notes, strings struck Far-aways, close-ups Troubles test me. Time unrests me. But you kiss me; get the best of me We're just a mess of moments That's adding up to where we are And you're the frame and focus That's making sense of it so far Fall back, scarecrow, in my marrow Shot an arrow through a sparrow I've crissed, I've crossed; I've kissed, and it's cost I've loved and I've lost, and I owe him a lot I'm not depressed or hopeless I'm only walking in a blur I'm the scene, you're the director # if you get one of these, gratz. "The Horror ( see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjK_ObeTzvo )": | Save me from the horror! I've been reading all of the wrong books Filling my head with the wrong scenes Fall Back Down: | Don't worry about me, I'm gonna make it alright Got my enemies cross-haired in my sight Take a bad situation; gonna make it right In the shadow of darkness, I stand in the light. See, it's our style to keep it true Been knocked out beat down black and blue She's not the one coming back for you If I fall back down, you're gonna help me back up again If I fall back down, you're gonna be my friend It takes disaster to learn a lesson Gonna make it through the darkest night Some people betray one and cause treason Gonna make everything all right The worst of times now? They don't phase me Even if I look and act really crazy On my way down, you betrayed me Now my vision is no longer hazy I'm very lucky to have my crew stood by me when she flew # Thanks, Elamind! "In The Dark I See (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7r5N9NLENo )": | Here in the stillness, the quiet place Where I'm lying with a down-turned face You come and distract me from what's coming at me Oh, give me something to look forward to... Truth be told, sometimes it's only you Nothing is at stake here when we are awake here It's you who brings the morning! And you who takes the sun when I sleep... You're the only one who stuck around for me You're the only one who stuck around for me when I was losing faith When I was losing faith in what I thought I would be You're the only one in the dark I see... I know I lose my heart so easily Trying to only show the best of me And I go into hiding each time I stop trying Oh, you remind me of the little things 'Til I forget the part that's troubling And I feel so much better when we are together # You Got the Girl: | # let's keep these out for now # NOT PROOFREAD #Hell, your grip is solid on me #I'm delicate you know, I'm delicate I"m told #Why can't you be careful with me? #You never let me go, and I just can't say no #'cause you are what I'm always missing #what what can I do now #I'm taken by you now # #you're sizing me up #you're making me blush #I'm not pretty enough # #I'm yours, hook and sinker, #you know you win this round # #she's down, you're the winner this time, #aren't you happy you got that girl #I'm yours, song and singer, you know you won this round #she's down, you're the winner tonight #aren't you happy you got that girl # Where R All the 'Corns At? :'( "Unicorn summoning song ( see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g43YQOm3lT0 )": | So bright the moon! So soft the breeze! I see silver horns beneath the trees! Come leap and twirl! Come tap and soar! There'll be dancing on the forest floor! # lyric: http://lightsalot.tumblr.com/post/4282951550/april-fools "Your Soul is Precious to the Angels (see http://tinyurl.com/lights-april1)": | Believe in your heart and be strong! Follow what you know in your body It’s true, yes you belong! And your soul is precious to the angels. that stupid song Lights promised to cover: | I'd like to make myself believe Because my dreams are bursting at the seams Never gonna give you up! Never gonna let you down! "Troll's Dictionary": | bet you puppies will never guess this lung disease: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis