No Cities Left

Release Date: April 12, 2004
Label: MapleMusic Recordings (CAN) + SpinART/One Little Indian (USA) + Bella Union (UK) + Speak’n'Spell (Australia/New Zealand) + Japan (Pony Canyon)

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We Can Have It

Last night all the horrible
Things in life stormed through my dreams and
I just want to shut it up
Shut it down
Or shut it off

Going where we lost it all
Yet things before are with us now
It hurts it kills
It takes the joy
It brings no light
It brings no love

And what we want most is nowhere
To be found some people care
They’re going long
They’re going deep
And still it’s nowhere to be found

We’re looking far
We’re searching wide
Still it’s nowhere to be found
What we want is gone for good
It’ s simply nowhere to be found

Somewhere is the one that never will
Burn out is out there
Looking for a heart
Looking for a home
Looking for a hand to stoke its head
You’re not alone
And you never said I’ll see you again
You never said I will
I will

Somewhere someone says they got it all
But that’s not even what we want
Not even close
It won’t ever be what we want

Who Are You, Defenders Of The Universe?

We want your information
We will do what we must
But not here or in front of people or on the phone

We’re not all blood-sucking leeches
For we all have families too
But that don’t mean that we really love them or that we don’t
‘Cos I can’t love you
And you can’t love me
But I can love you
And you can love me

Love me

It’s not a confrontation
(All across the world open your mouth)
We are here because we are broke
(Give us what we want, we’ve had enough)
But we don’t expect a hand out or anything
(Soul, soul, soul)
‘Cos I can’t help you
And you can’t help me
Oh I can help you
And you can help me
I can help you
You can help me

Help me
Help you
It’s not an impossible situation

I know there is doubt we can do this but
I can help you

Lost In The Plot

Take me for a drive to the coastline
Pull me to the depths of the sea
Leave me in the middle of the ocean
I can walk the rest of the way
But I promise not to cry anymore
Although reasons beat the crap out of me
Everyday when I wake up
They are waiting
But I promise not cry anymore
‘Cos it’s the same old plot to these things

Our love
Don’t mess with our love
Our love
Is so much stronger

It’s the same old plot to these things
Oh I promise not to cry
Anymore

Second Part

Two days have passed
And all I want is to feel better
They won’t be back
And a long weekend is coming up
I left the house
It was just see you
For an hour
Hoping for two

I was short of breath
As I passed the doorman for a second time
And it rained all day
I don’t have a raincoat of my own
I then arrived
Ten minutes early with no smokes
And I was broke
Without a smoke

All of the time
I thought I was crazy ‘cos you told me so
It was profound
Like the piano I was humbled by
Our tongues may have touched
But all I remember was your nose
And I supposed
Our eyes were closed

Two days have passed
And all I want is gone
For good this time

Don’t Lose The Faith

Feeling
Self-conscious
It’s the only way to save us
And forget about the awful past
Do it now or we’ll never last
Noble and yet famous
Will they ever have that on us for we’ve
Got the anti-social plague
We want friends but we’ll never beg
And you’d think they would have called out our name
But the voices all sound the same
They do yeah

Don’t you lose the faith
How many days are left to live
When we’ve given all we can give
Don’t you lose the faith
We’re tired of being held in this place
When it’s half of the world away

Expect The Worst/’Cos She’s A Tourist

This town
A likely down
Well, my summer in Perth was nice
Gimme Corona
Aeroplanes
And buxom dames
And I haven’t been sleeping well
I’ve been a loner
My heart is aching
My back is breaking
It’s you!

So you decided on an art school
So it’s not that you were trying to be cruel
All she wanted was a boyfriend
Or a means to justifiable ends
Thirty years ago this wouldn’t be
I was happy
Last night I flickered off to sleep at four AM
Now it’s seven
Well, the ocean is long and deep
But I’m gonna try
Maybe I’ll die (don’t hold me back)
Don’t hold me back

Pinned Together, Falling Apart

I
Have
Been terrified
By the thought of losing you
So very terrified
By the thought of losing you
Stop telling me
I don’t want to know
Stop telling because I just don’t
Want to know
No no no

I’ve been petrified
By the thought of losing you
Absolutely horrified
By the thought of losing you
Stop telling me
I don’t want to know
Stop telling me because I just don’t want know
No no
No no no

Never Destroy Us

Whatd’you say that we go down together and try to find out all the answers
Whatd’you say that we go down together and try to find out what we missed
I will drop everything you better believe it
‘Cos I mean it
And I know we can last
If we can forget about the past and start again
Again

‘gain-start again-start again-start a-

Warm And Sunny Days

We’ve been surrounded
For it was genius
There is no other way
And we know we won’t escape
All of our time
Spent on warm and sunny days
From you there’s nowhere left
I want to run

Stay
My arms are flailing
Am I a failure
My god the pressure’s on
And I still don’t have a son
My body’s sore from sleeping on the couch because you’re gone
These feelings that I have tonight
Waiting for the phone to ring
My stomach hurts it’s tearing us apart

Stay
Stay
There’s nowhere left to run
Stay

I get so paranoid
I’ve got to think of warm and sunny days
Imagining and planning out the course of both our lives
but that is as far
As I am willing to go
Planning out the rest of both our lives
Stay
Stay
There’s nowhere left to run
Stay
Stay
There’s nowhere left to hide

22: The Death Of All The Romance

I have never cried
In anybody’s arms
The way that I have often cried in yours
Please be the one to take my tears away
I was 20 too
I’ve had my share of views
I just can’t steal that “happiness” from you
But I’ll be the one to take your tears away

I can’t believe that things you say
Tell me, tell me
Tell me the lies

Fasting love
Will lead us all to nowhere
When
When will we learn
I
Shall avenge
The death
Of all the romance
Until
Until I’m gone

I can’t believe the things you say
Tell me, tell me
Tell me the lies

Postcard From Purgatory

We have not wasted
Wasted all
All of our lives
Empty heads
Empty mouths
Empty hearts
Empty souls

No Cities Left

Let’s just keep fighting the end
We’re holding hands
We’re making plans
For life
Let’s keep on fighting the end
Last time I swear or
We’ll go nowhere tonight
Tonight

Don’t you think that now
Is the time to move on
If you don’t mind well I’ll
Just keep holding on
For good

Let’s just keep fighting
The end of the world
We will hold hands and
We will make plans
For life