FAITH
A pile of bricks signposted 'home'
Just one memory labelled 'a taste of the future'
Get down on your knees
And you say you don't believe
That you've lost faith
There's a god you don't believe in
And he's turning his face
But when your'e talking in tongues
Your words are a double-edged sword
My mouth is bleeding from your love
If you won't let me be your salvation
Let me be your sin, let me be your downfall
And I would forfeit my soul to possess yours
Let me possess you, and have faith in me
And the world you created, it rots from the core
With a beauty that lies on the surface
Enticing you for more
Taste it, touch it, breathe it, just don't believe it
You can forbid but don't forget
And you practice what you preach
And I'm begging you to put down your stones
And show me some mercy
There's a logic to my controversy
And I'm shouting from your steeple
"Take me higher"
If you won't let me be your salvation
Let me be your sin, let me be your downfall
And I would forfeit my soul to possess yours
Let me possess you, and have faith in me
Word by word and piece by piece
I'll skin myself of my hopes and dreams
To be yours and to be complete
I'm not looking for heaven
All I'm wanting is you
All I'm looking for is you
If you won't let me be your salvation
Let me be your sin, let me be your downfall
And I would forfeit my soul to possess yours
Let me possess you, and have faith in me
Have faith in me
GLITCH
I learned to live dicing death
I learnt a gamble can keep you at second best
I seem to play best when playing my cards alone
Imagine my confusion when you came along
With subtle lips and a fragile song
Finding our teachings
In melodic lines between right and wrong
Maybe I knew then, maybe I knew then
That I'll be the sound of your voice
When the echoes don't find you
I'll be the glitch in your heart
That replays till you're sick of it
I'll be the fire that burns every inch of your skin
If only I could find the words to let you in
So I held your heart in both hands
Shielded your eyes
From the light that the truth commands
Your sweet serenity, I'm just a replication
Of buried histories that are best kept forgotten
So I will not repeat myself, I can't repeat this
I'll be the sound of your voice
When the echoes don't find you
I'll be the glitch in your heart
That replays till you're sick of it
I'll be the fire that burns every inch of your skin
If only I could find the words to let you in
To let you in, I'd let you in, to let you in...
I'd be the sound of your voice
When the echoes don't find you
I'd be the glitch in your heart
That replays till you're sick of it
I'd be the fire that burns every inch of your skin
If only I could find a way to let you in
ILLUSIONS
My thoughts, illusioned
Such beautiful combinations of it all
My love, oh my love
Your words, such a beautiful contradiction
The silence aches from your tongue
My love, oh my love
Though your blood runs as steel
Your very touch stings like silver
You've already gone, no you're already gone
As you're stealing away
From the truth that lies between us
I already know, no I already know he's the one
Playing anagrams with your emotions
Just to feel like someone understands
My love, oh my love
Please forgive my childish ways
But I thought love would be easy
Such a beautiful mistake
How can it be the one that kills me
My love, oh my love
Though your blood runs as steel
Your very touch stings like silver
You've already gone, no you're already gone
As you're stealing away
From the truth that lies between us
I already know, no I already know
He's the one, he's the one
Fixed upon my sky
Doesn't matter if your linings start to fade
Let the seas demand revenge
Fixed upon my sky
Doesn't matter if those linings start to change
Let the seas demand re-
Let them command you
Though your blood runs as steel
Your very touch stings like silver
You've already gone
No, you're already, already stealing away
From the truth that lies between us
I already know, no I already know
He's the one
He was, he was, he was
SKELETONS
I watch you wake as I'm learning
Each move you make
How could I have been
So wrong to see you with me
He holds so tightly to himself
Reminded by the consequence
We stop this moving forward
We live in darkness
For the fear of being blinded
I hear the skeletons whispering
I feel them closer as they try to fit my skin
I will them further
Don't you dare possess my innocence
I will wait for him till Heaven's doors give in
I walk this path with subtlety
Hoping it leads me further
My busy feet won't falter
Till they're by your side
Help me by your side
I hear the skeletons whispering
I feel them closer as they try to fit my skin
I will them further
Don't you dare possess my innocence
I will wait, I will wait
Don't you dare tell me to be silent
I will raise my voice
Till the air we breathe is common ground
I will make this choice
I'll be loving you softly from this distance
You'll be on my mind
I hear the skeletons whispering
I feel them closer as they try to fit my skin
I will them further
Don't you dare possess my innocence
I will wait
As they try to fit my skin, I will them further
Don't you dare possess my innocence
I will wait for him, I will wait for him
KISSING PALMS (with Joe Bayliss)
Joe:
I'm the thorn in your side
I'm the sand in your eyes
I'm the bruise that keeps on blooming, love
But you're the cross that I bear
All heart-stained disrepair
You're the gift that just keeps on giving, love
Emi:
Such simple ways, such poetic a mind
Oh, how quietly he breaks my heart
Such eloquence in his sweet surrender
I didn't feel his eyes burning
I didn't feel his eyes burning
Joe:
Eleventh hour, you've changed your mind
I'm all knuckles clenched and eyes wide and white
The thought of you is exhausting
But it's a pin drop from lust
You're the tear that keeps the tears flowing
Emi:
Just for once, would you show me peace
Would you settle down deep in my bones
The root of it all, you've staked your claim
Would you find me when it's over
Find me when it's over
Emi & Joe:
If I close my eyes
With god-like restraint
You can tell me tomorrow where the punches land
Breath at last, I've choked here on trust
Every time I washed the shade of you from the sheets
I've changed my mind
I'm willing to try. I'm willing to try
Emi:
Let me leave
I'm sick of waiting on somebody else's high ideals
This tainted state, with ragged heart
I'll be subtle as I leave you
I promise I'll be subtle as I leave you, love
Joe:
Your heart's an empire
That's five a penny and tailor-made
Between the bricks beneath there's just the two of us
I'm for kissing palms and bending knees
If it keeps the taste of you on my skin
I'm the thorn in your side
I'm the sand in your eyes
I'm the bruise that keeps on blooming, love
SWEET RETURN
He questions the silence
As he haunts my every sound
He lives for desire
As he holds me down to the wire
He says 'don't you trust me now, once again'
'Don't you trust me now, trust me now'
So give me fire, give me blood
Give me reason to give this up
For the arson in my veins
Give me pleasure, give me pain
Give me understanding
Though my heart can't stand it
Let us burn
I'll be waiting on you, and your sweet return
So vacant, so agile
Yet he yearns like a child
His sweet melody grows stale on the summer breeze that pulls him away
Further from me, yet still he says
'Don't you trust me now, once again'
I can't trust him now, trust him now
So give me fire, give me blood
Give me reason to give this up
For the arson in my veins
Give me pleasure, give me pain
Give me understanding
Though my heart can't stand it
Let us burn
I'll be waiting on you
You, you, you
So give me fire, give me blood, give me reason
For the arson in my veins
Give me pleasure
Give me understanding
Though my heart can't stand it
Let us burn
I'll be waiting, I'll be waiting on you