Gazelle Twin - The Entire City Lyrics

THE ENTIRE CITY
Lyrics by Elizabeth Walling. Copyright © 2009 - 2013

CONCRETE MOTHER
When all has turned to dust
Our city is a ghost
The Concrete Mother stands alone
A hidden world.

The colours will all fade
Flooded forests and undergrowth
But she'll still be there when it's done
She'll be our home.

I'll live ashore
I'll wait under her neon heart, so long
And she'll teach me love subconsciously
For everything that now, cannot be.
For she is stone
She is stone.

She'll teach me love subconsciously
For everything that now, cannot be.
For she is stone.

MEN LIKE GODS
Now I'm a demon running wild
All minds are upon me
So come out and reveal your deepest fear
When your heart gives in too soon
To Gods
Gods.

Now I'm collecting your souls tonight
A million fires before your harvest comes
To burn out
Wear the mask of a heathen
For the moon's lonely eyes
They see
They see
The Gods
Gods
Gods
Gods.

To Gods
Gods
Gods
Gods.

I AM SHELL I AM BONE
Made of iron made of stone
I am shell and I am bone
Teach the Mother's skull away
I'll tell them now
I'll tell you all.

We have no tongue
We have no choice
Now I don't care
What He said was 'light', no.

Made of concrete made of gold
I am young and I am old
Preach the Son's eternity
You tell them lies
You tell them all

You are the child
You have no choice
Now I don't care
What He said was 'light', no.

CHANGELINGS
I'll sit here a while
I'm waiting lonely like a shadow in the night sky.
You sit here a while
And wait beside me 'till the next star rises.

I came and I saw
I saw the end of the world we know
You came and you saw
You'll disappear before the next star rises.

Out of time...
You change so very easily
Changing over and again and again and again.

So you
You go feel the Son
I'll watch you knowing all your cheaters and liars.

BELL TOWER
When will I know it’s over?
Enough has already passed.
I’m not even sure I’ll ever know
How much it all cost me
Dearly.

Such an open wound to heal
I twitch, yet I’m so near.

WHEN I WAS OTHERWISE
I’d chosen all the names
I’d cheated all the games
And no one made a sound
Until I had grown.
Let all your fear be gone
I'll lie here
Wasted.

When seeds are sown
And love has grown
But all I’ve known
Is Him.

Now you see me
Now you don’t.

OBELISK
Deep beneath for so long
I see it grow in living roots
We live in caution in your arms.

Lifting up so far it scares me cold
It typifies
It highlights all our lies.

Like an automatic living force within us
Waging war upon war
With our fires burning
Obelisk.

Waking up from a deep sleep
We don't know what's ours until it's gone
We live in caution in your eyes
And when we give up
We won't feel the destruction
Living was hard enough
With our fallen minds
We'll call
To you we shall
To your arms
Your open arms
Obelisk

Like an automatic living force within us
Waging war upon war
With our fires burning
Your open arms
Your open arms
Your open arms
Your open arms.

NEST
Beyond the sun there is so much
Soon it will stop shining back on everything-
Us.
After all is said and done
We are living.

When time catches up will we still misunderstand?
Its icy touch
Amazing how we're still alive
We will fly, we will fly
The universe our nest
We will fly

When it's too late
When life is sink or swim
Will we stop then?
Will we ever learn?
You take your time and you will easily break.

Its icy touch
Amazing how we're still alive
We will fly, we will fly
The universe our nest
We will fly.

ABANDON
Hide
I would give up
All of my needs
I'd willingly throw away
All my hidden goods
I would sacrifice
Every living creature
In my world
Just to hold you
Hide

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I TURN MY ARM
Watch the mirror
You know you're going to need it
Touch the cold air
You know you're going to feel it.
Now you're seeing me move all of my fingers
See me holding up my hand in the faltering strip light.

Turn my arm, touch the cold air

Touching everything I want to hold
Black on my skin
It's sheer and cold.
Feel a thousand pins all over my thumb
Twenty-seven bones as I turn my arm.

Touch the cold air
Turn, turn my arm
Touch the cold air
Turn my arm.

THIS IS MY HAND
This is my hand
It will turn away
I can move it
Blood gushing.

This is my heart
It will drip away
I can feel it
Blood gushing.

As a young child
I made silhouettes
Touching pitch black
Blood gushing.

Mother beside me
Sleeping silently
I could hear her
Blood gushing.

I used to think
Nothing would end
I used to think
Nothing would end.

Well help me
Please.
Insufferable end.

HEARTBEAT
Lyrics by Colin Newman.

I feel icy
I feel cold
I feel old
Is there something there behind me?
I'm sublime

I feel empty
I feel dark
I remark
I am mesmerised
By my own beat
Like a heartbeat
In it's own beat
Like a heartbeat.