Lyrics from the CD Hypertension
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Butterfly Hurricane
Clockwork
Crazy Johnny
H
Happy Room
Hey Child
Less To You
Swallow You Whole
Butterfly Hurricane
Butterfly
amplified
into a
hurricane
And again it lifts me off my feet and blows my mind
Follow the
human herd
against a
spinning world
Until it turns so fast they're walking past themselves
Don't beat your wings in my direction
A victim of unnatural selection
That could be me
Floating down
Stand atop
mountain high
shouting out
" Why do I
Have nothing at all to say, I crawl from day to day"
Sticks and stones may bust up my bones
But silence never leaves you alone
And when I jump I'll be
Floating down
Kisses blown
overflow
into a
hurricane
And again it lifts me off my feet and blows my mind
Don't beat your wings in my direction
A victim of unnatural selection
That could be me
Floating down
Clockwork
Will you shut the door
I'm aching from the noise
All my insides
are mechanical toys
They show me visions
make me blind
make my decisions
Please be kind
Turn me on
I'm still gone
It takes all my brain
to feel this confused
I smile like an idiot
And just look amused
Turn me on
I'm still gone
Crazy Johnny
Show you he cares
He'll touch you where nobody else can
And nobody else can
See him up close
Get another dose let him medicate you
He'll uncomplicate you
Give him some
He'll take you for another ride
Give him some
and he'll think it's funny
Give him some
then write a song where I confide in you
Gotta give in
to Crazy Johnny
A love that's gone
He fears no-one and he cares no more
but behind closed doors (and he keeps 'em closed)
Those cold-light-early-morning eyes
In a face that hides that hides the radiation
Of a contamination
Take him home
I tell his mum I tell his dad
Take him home
And I tell the news
Take him home
Then write a song to say he's mad with you
Gotta give in
to Crazy Johnny
Take him to his favourite place
the end of the pier
Leave him talking softly to the seagulls
Riding on the ferris wheel
we can see the world from here
But nothing gets through anymore
Show you I care
I'll touch you where nobody else can
And nobody else can
A love that's gone
I fear no-one and I care no more
but behind closed doors
H
Please relieve the hypertension
Please relieve, so reassuring
Please receive some close attention
Please receive my insecuring
You can keep searching but all you will find is me
Keep searching but all you will find…
When they bury me alive
Will they bury my thoughts there with me?
Will the memory survive
For a while?
I think I’m coming around
Coming
around
Coming
around
Let yourself surrender
To the humming neon angels
Be your own transcender
To the true, see and tell
From the high coming low I am counting you
Counting down to zero
When they bury me alive
Will they bury my thoughts there with me?
Will the memory survive
For a while?
I think I’m coming around
Coming
around
Coming
around
Effervesce
In cold caress
More is Less
Just say “Yes”
Need a fix for my fixation
Hit me smack between the eyes
Please receive my invitation
Please receive and paralyse
Am I escaping when all I can see is you?
Try escaping, but all I can see…
I think I’m coming around
Coming
around
Coming
around
You’re the one, you’re the one
You’re the one, you’re the one
You’re the one, you’re the one
You’re the one, you’re the one
Happy Room
TV shines from distant lands
Faces seen then disappear
Come out from behind your hands
Say welcome to the post-war years
And those of you whom god has blessed
Look down in their shining eyes
Say "you who bring us all our hope
Welcome to your post-war lives"
Say you want me to be happy too
You can find me in my happy room
You got to meet this friend of mine
He's always laughing all the time
You'd never know he's laughing at you
Please don't leave me, I'll be happy soon
I met a nice Sri Lankan man
He smiled as he spoke to me
I smiled back, though I didn't understand
But he spoke with such sincerity
He said
" Five aeroplanes went bang! explode
The airport in my country
Don't get me wrong I love all life
Cos that is my philosophy"
Say you want me to be happy too
You can find me in my happy room
You got to meet this friend of mine
He's always laughing all the time
You'd never know it's gasoline fumes
Please don't leave me, I'll be happy soon
Little eyes reflecting back
Pictures of a rising cloud
Bigger eyes connecting back
To things I'd never say out loud
Hey Child
Hey child wearing somebody else's shoes
What's the matter, got your feet dirty on the ground?
You look funny, wearing your mother's heels
Working nights, and then later you're taking to ground
Buy you dinner just to put something on your bones
Give you money, expect nothing in return
I don't love you, but somebody surely should
Less To You
I hear you at the speed of light, I see you at the speed of sound
The silences don't move so fast, they ain't so graceful pound for pound
I'm turning myself inside out, I want to show you where I hide
Your eyes start burning into me, please look away before it's too late
Our fire burns in fits and flashes
Smoke and ashes irritating my eyes
Graffiti on your bedroom walls, I read it as I suffocate
I'm terrified my heart has stopped, I need you to resuscitate
My body and my memories show the impressions of your touch
Like battlescars I wear them proudly til it all becomes too much
Our fire burns in fits and flashes
Smoke and ashes irritating my eyes
Anticipation separates my sense of now
And my elation means less to you
I hear you at the speed of light, I see you at the speed of sound
I'm falling to reality, I'm running as I hit the ground
I see you at the speed of light, I hear you at the speed of sound
I see you at the speed of light, I hear you at the speed of sound
Our fire burns in fits and flashes
Smoke and ashes bringing tears to my eyes
Swallow You Whole
Will you be long
Complete me fill me up I'm hollow
I meet myself and we follow
our feet to where we can swallow
you whole
Will you be long
to me
All lyrics are ©Jon Gomm. Not to be reproduced in any form without written permission.
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