Newness Ends Lyrics

I ran from the haunted mansion. Left behind my inventions. A talent for my own destruction is all I've ever owned. And in the dark a fog descends, the velvet edges split and then, ...Read Full Lyrics

There was a terrible crash. They found his still beating heart in the ash. He'd turned down a dark road, and was blinded by a dizzying flash. My boy, my boy, I'm sorry. Je suis vra...Read Full Lyrics

This is the last song I will write for you. The inter-titles in our silent picture show. I spent my whole life singing to you, but you never seemed to know. This is the last song I...Read Full Lyrics

I'm not a saint, I'm not a soldier. I'm just a picture frame that could not hold her. But don't cry for me, Argentina. I tried to make a bride out of a ballerina. And she's still.....Read Full Lyrics

I took a job at the factory, (when I realised) that you were not coming back to me. I put your letters in the kitchen drawer. I should not read them anymore. The Substitute Cult He...Read Full Lyrics

The songs are wrong but the kids have come and the band is waiting. So give me the ghost. Give me the crumbs. And something to help me sleep at night. Give me the ghost. Give me th...Read Full Lyrics

Alone in your dorm trying to stay warm, you're scared of the words that you might write, if you stay in again tonight. Like all the saints and whores who lay here before, you're sc...Read Full Lyrics

Take our photograph. We're all pop stars underneath our raincoats. Dancing in this house, our pockets full of suicide notes. And I can hear a synthesizer play a song for all the da...Read Full Lyrics

(Detectives! Detectives!) Only ghosts and detectives remain, in this town named after the sound of rain. I'm here, I'm making a stand against invisible, impossible plans. The men w...Read Full Lyrics

The girl in the picture, won second prize for something she did when she was in school. Now she wants me to drive her home, Now she wants me to play that song again, "Play it again...Read Full Lyrics