THE PAPER KITES Twelvefour LYRICS
album: "Twelvefour" (2015)
Electric Indigo
Never meant to cause you trouble with my coloured lies
But you're holding me with something locked behind your eyes
And I've been waiting for it all to take control
You're setting me right
Cause you've got something that I need
Something I can't find
Distance never made me stronger it tore us apart
And I know I left you questions and a lonely heart
But you've been waiting long enough to let it go
I'll do you right
Cause time is just a remedy
Covered in disguise
And all I know
Is that I want you so
Heavy on my mind
And the feeling grows
When you're dancing slow
I see your fire go
Electric Indigo
What's it gonna, what's it gonna take?
Writer(s): Samuel Alexander Bentley
Copyright: Emi Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd., Wonderlick Pty Limited
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Renegade
Had a dream that I sent for your love in the morning
And you came to me at about a quarter to three
Said I didn't look like I used to look and man I do not know your face
And I woke to discover that the things that you said
Were true to me in some kind of way
So I stared down the figure in the bathroom mirror
Took the razor in my hand
Now I could draw a line or I could cut my hair
But it don't change the way I am
Cause I'm a part of the world I live in now
Only set apart from the world I live in now
Ghost of a renegade
San Marino sun took me in, it eclipsed me
And the world it was vacant like I'd never seen
And once I walked the rhythm in my own damn way
Part of the evolving age
But I heard the warning from that young mans lips
And he said that times would change
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Bleed Confusion
You always say you want to create things like I do
You want to move the world with colour and sound
You like the idea of translating an expression from your fingertips
Now I didn't much like that face that you put on your canvas
And I couldn't help but say to you I said that I looked sad
You turned and sincerely asked 'Well why do you feel that way'?
I'm not like you, but I'm a lot like you
And still you make me bleed confusion right through
Now I've seen you lie with your head pressed to the window pane
You exhale and trace your fathers name in to your breath
I never knew him but you tell me that you smile the same way
And I often wonder how men spoke before they could speak
Using only their hands and their eyes
What would I say if I could speak with you that way?
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Revelator Eyes
Branded on fire
Sure in your love
Chasing a light in a locked door
And I do want it, want it for a peace of mind
Want it tonight
It's so right, so right, so right
Tell me when you let go
You can let it right in
I don't like the way you
Speak like you're tied up
You can say what you want but I'm giving it a chance
You can say what you want but I'm giving it a chance
Give me little reason to refuse my centre
Shifting in with feelings of a sweet surrender
I can feel it I can feel it alone
And I know why I can see it show
In your revelator eyes
In your revelator eyes
Stand on your side
Won't give it up
Take the desire in you I saw
And I do want it, want it for a peace of mind
Want it tonight
It's so right, so right, so right
I can see you lie low
Keeping to your hiding
Call it reaction
To your denying
You can say what you want but I'm giving it a chance
You can say what you want but I'm giving it a chance
Give me little reason to refuse my centre
Shifting in with feelings of a sweet surrender
I can feel it I can feel it alone
And I know why honey it won't go
In your revelator eyes
In your revelator eyes
In your revelator eyes
In your revelator eyes
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Neon Crimson
Wonder at the scarlet avenger
Who tore out all my vitals
Washed them pink and clean
Never did I see such an ugly confession
Sprung from my lips and met with open arms
Such a prize must be showered with better than 'never sure'
No I'm owing more
It's a shot of neon crimson to the brain
Lost sight in the streets of Manhattan
Walked alone through the George Square
Down the old fifth avenue
Never had I felt more alone in the big lights
I almost told you I wasn't coming home
And all the building were hiding my view of
Where I'm from and what I want
It's a shot of neon crimson to the brain
Taste me, it's not wrong to embrace me
I know I seem like a stranger
Like a song you used to sing
But here I, here I stand at your feet
And you're finding words to say
But the only thing that matters anyway
Is a shot of neon crimson to the brain
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I’m Lying To You Cause I'm Lost
Shaking in the evening sun
Counting all the times I run
Trying to be honest
Selfish from a point of view
How'd it get away from me?
Held up in the old Q.C
Watching out the window
Crying in my hotel room
Oh I'll do anything that you want
Except what you're wanting from me
I'm lying to you cause I'm lost
Lying to you cause I'm lost
Lying to you cause I'm lost
My mother seems to know it all
Sensed it from a distant call
How's she so objective?
Tell me how you really feel
And I was once a maker of my time
A celebrated man of mind
Always feels a dream until the real sets in
Oh I'll be anything
Except what you want me to be
I'm lying to you cause I'm lost
Lying to you cause I'm lost
Lying to you cause I'm lost
So tell me darling what's it cost
When I'm lying to you cause I'm lost?
Lying to you cause I'm lost
I'm lost, I'm lost
I'll be anything
I'll be anything
Except what you want me to be
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A Silent Cause
I heard that you're moving away
Fumbled in my pockets for a final word
And I tell you 'Don't be late'
Smile when you tell me you wont
Shuffle your feet and you don't
Want to read between the air of silence
Then the rain begins
I don't want to love you
I want to learn you
But I'd love to know you well
So long to your family home
I wonder if you'll ever get that feeling back?
Your family home
Covered my eyes with your hands
Walked me through all of your plans
I told you I could see it all
But all I saw was you
Through the space in your fingers
I don't want to love you
I want to learn you
But I'd love to know you well
You say all the people you know
All are slowly dying from a silent cause
From their quiet desperations
I walk you home in the rain
Pass by the yellow line train
Thought that I was different when you looked at me
But this quiet desperation is killing me too
Killing me too
I don't want to love you
I want to learn you
But I'd love to know you well
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Woke Up From A Dream
Well there's a stranger that I keep in my room
And it poses a question of the things that I don't want to do
But there's a hole at work asleep in the night
And it raises my glass to all the things that I don't want to deny
Sleeping in a bed I want to last for more
And I've been calling in my dreams for other things
And I don't even know why
Something's happening to me my love
Like I woke up from a dream only to find
That I still hadn't woke up
Oh and it's just your sweet love gone
Oh it's just your sweet love gone
And I've gotta find another way to go about it now
I'm disillusioned by the cinema view
And it plays like a song on repeat
And says it's better than you
But still it holds me like a grip on my mind
And I can't shake the feeling to wonder
Like there's something to find
But it's creeping in my head
That I've been feeding a lie
And either way you make a call
You've gotta live or you've gotta try
Misdirection always leaves me a mark
Like I fell in to a crowd all going different ways
And pulled me apart
Oh and it's just your sweet love gone
Oh it's just your sweet love gone
And I've gotta find a different way to go about it
To keep it around now
Something's happening to me my love
Like I woke up from a dream only to find
That I still hadn't woke up – I was asleep
And all the things that weren't right
Well they were still going on
I can't tell you it's right
When it's wrong
Oh and it's just your sweet love gone
Oh it's just your sweet love gone, it's gone
And I've gotta find a different way to go about it
To keep it around now
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Turns Within Me, Turns Without Me
Oh lover
I don't know a thing or two
And it never sounded like I thought it would
When I spoke it to myself
Oh lover
I'm still a stranger to you so
When you think about your mother
Could you say that any other
Loved you that long?
And you'll keep me settled for a while I know my love
Just let me waste a little time
It turns within me
It turns without me
And oh it turns me round, round, round
Oh dreamer
I've got to let some of you be
Cause I think I've found a turbulent
Solitary citizen like me
And oh lover
You've got a power on me now
It's the kind that brings me to my knees
Alchemizes libertines
And steals you from yourself
And you'll keep me settled for a while I know my love
Just let me waste a little time
It turns within me
It turns without me
And oh it turns me round, round, round
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Too Late
Magnetic, you're pulling me in with the words you don't say
Cinematic, this chemistry coming through
You're always in my head
Branding your fire on my lips
But this still won't work, no
No love you have come too late
No love you have come too late
Such darkness
But I know your face cause I learned it as if I was blind
In the moment
I feel like I am and I hate that I know it so well
You're always in my head
Searing your thoughts in to my skin
But this still won't work, no
