THEN UP LYRICS
1. BURN OUT
Hey there, girl
Have you seen yourself of late?
Oh, you should take a step back and wait
Before you jump back in again
‘Cos it takes some time to build a fire like you;
Sky high, like the state you’ve gotten to
Spinning round this loop
And when you burn out
And oh, you’ll burn out
It’s time to fight these flames
So when I burn out
Next time I burn out
I won’t light up again
And it’s no cause to break and never learn
Why it hurts more, if every time you run
You hit the same wall
And when you burn out
And oh, you’ll burn out
It’s time to fight these flames
So when I burn out
Next time I burn out
I won’t light up again
You can’t fight fire with fire
I won’t fight fire with fire
I won’t fight fire
Because you’ll burn out
And yes, you’ll burn out
It’s time to fight these flames
So when I burn out
Next time I burn out
I won’t light up again
Oh, when I burn out
I won’t light up again
2. LEAVING
This city asks me only questions
It’s infinite under my feet
It’s like this town is trying to test out how alone I can be
I see St Paul’s rise from the darkness
I see the lights on Southbank gleam
But all around me seems just madness
And I can’t break free, no I can’t break free
London, you are playing with my heart
I love you but I’m yearning to get out
I see myself in green fields and breathe in
But London, I’m not leaving
See, I’m not done with just exploring
I’m not done with all the rain
I can’t help but still get drawn in to the things that make me stay
I love that hill in Greenwich park where
You can see the city sprawl
I think I kind of left my heart there after all, after all
London you are playing with my heart
I love you but I’m yearning to get out
I see myself in green fields and breathe in
But London, I’m not leaving
London you are playing with my heart
I love you but I’m yearning to get out
I see myself in green fields and breathe in
But London, I’m not leaving.
London, I’m not leaving
3. VODKA AND TONIC
I’ll have a vodka and tonic
With ice and a lemon too
Grey Goose, if you’ve got it
Now, how about you?
Oh, I see that your girlfriend’s gone
But I don't see why you should be alone
Go
Break my heart
Break my heart
Break my heart.
Go
Break my heart
Break my heart
Break my heart
I am lost as a habit
The world’s such a weary place
But if I like something, I grab it
And I like what I see in your face
Oh, the night’s so young
So let’s have us some fun
Oh
Break my heart
Break my heart
Break my heart.
Go
Break my heart
Break my heart
Break my heart
If you’d prefer to take my number
And have me wait for you to call
Do I look like the kind of girl who likes to wait at all?
No
Break my heart
4. SKIN CHANGER
I see your game, skin changer
I see how you’ve got to me
Oh, you don a new shirt with each sunrise
But who’s heart do you wear on your sleeve?
Is this still your hand that’s upon mine?
And who’s pulse have you chosen to beat?
Tell me your desires, skin changer
Oh, who will I next get to meet?
Oooh
Tell me your name, skin changer
Show me who’s face you obscure
With each unveiling, I feel more danger
To find out what might hide at your core
Oooh
I see your game, skin changer
I know how you like to play
But did it not occur, my sweet stranger,
That I might shed my own skin one day?
5. A LETTER
I want to tell you that
it’s easy, that it can be done
I so want to show you that I’m breezy and I know the road to wherever I’m going
When I get there, I’ll send a flare your way
:
But this is my answer and I can’t explain
I look into your eyes and I see what you want me to say
And I want to help you, but I’ll just send you on your way
Just don’t lose the smile in your eyes when you sing
And when your heart breaks, don’t let it break everything
And just don’t forget all the joy you had at the start
Cos’ that’s what you’ll need to keep you whole
If you fall apart
And it’s so frustrating, all this passion that you have to feel
With no satisfaction, just determined to make it all real
And don’t ever tell me that you don’t ever dream you will
Just don’t lose the smile in your eyes when you sing
And when your heart breaks, don’t let it break everything
And just don’t forget all the joy you had at the start
Cos’ that’s what you’ll need to keep you whole
If you fall apart
And oh, when the sun’s shining
You feel every ray, warm on you skin
You forget how it feels to be cold
And oh, if you keep climbing,
Chipping away at whatever’s within,
Don’t forget how it feels to let go
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And don
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t lose the smile in your eyes when you sing
And when your heart breaks, don’t let it break everything
And just don’t forget all the joy you had at the start
Cos’ that’s what you’ll need to keep you whole
When you fall apart
6. SPARK
Blurred like ink, so indistinct
It could gently fall to the floor
See, it’s just a thought, barely there at all
Can you name a thing so small?
But it shook my faith and for safety’s sake
I pressed my back to the wall
See, it’s just a spark
But it burned so hard
That I love your smile
And maybe that’s enough for a while
And could you be everything to me
To me
If I had a say, I’d just fade away
When my face burned like the sun
See, I can’t let go and I crave control
And surrender felt so wrong
And it shook my faith and for safety’s sake
I pressed my back to the wall
See, it’s just a spark
But it burned so hard
That I love your smile
And maybe that’s enough for a while
And could you be everything to me
To me
7. THE DANCE UPON NOTHING
Down by the docks and in the yard
They gave them clubs and rifles
Bow Street Runners in the dark
Corrupt and courageous
And there in the night they found their peace
A soul, for a ticket or release, they captured
And all just to find the shabby rogue
To catch the Toms of Bedlam
So none could escape the hearty choke
The morning drop in Tyburn
See, up on that hill they learned to dance
Light as a leaf under a branch, they capered
A thief, he did cap and cackle both
And every cove despised him
So drawn to the place he took his oath
They air and exercised him
And out on the deadly nevergreen
He danced with the others and the crowd went wild
Hempen fever, blind my eyes
Tonight I dance for my last time
8. REASON
Sticks and stones all thrown, scars and old bones come to life
And the words won’t hurt ‘til they twist and turn to lies
Shuddered smile, oh child, you could just go back to sleep, back to sleep
Funny how it came round like a boomerang back to me, back to me
And the pills won’t work, they just make you hurt and feel
Like a lion’s roar, screaming out the door,
‘What's real?’
Shattered smile, oh child, you should just go back to sleep, back to sleep
Don’t how it spun out like a boomerang back to me
Can’t you breathe and see reason?
You reap just what you sow
Why do you need to find a reason?
Just close your eyes and throw your sticks and stones
You keep yourself too clean, oiling this machine you’ve made
But when you lose control, the illusion’s bound to fade
So shut it down now, try, let yourself go back to sleep, back to sleep
Surrender now and fly like a boomerang back to me
Oh, just breathe and see reason
You reap just what you sow
Why do you need to find a reason?
Just close your eyes and throw your sticks and stones
For no reason
You reap just what you sow
Why do you need to find a reason?
Just close your eyes and throw your sticks and stones
Just close your eyes and throw your sticks and stones
9. SIXTEEN
Who am I to pretend?
Who am I to play friend?
You and I used to be the same person
So who am I to believe that we could drift with such ease
Back into moulds we made worlds ago?
See I never realised it’s true
That I wasn’t
being myself around you
So who are we? You and me
When life leaves you lost and unfound, I’ll be there
And if growing up gets you down,
Oh, we can ride on the wings of change
Though we fly in our own separate ways,
In the end, I’ll be there
And oh, the world’s so pristine when you’re only sixteen
And promises can be made then broken
But look at all we’ve achieved, look at all we can be
We’re too old to leave words unspoken
And I never really could see
That maybe you weren’t quite yourself around me
So who are we? You and me
When life leaves you lost and unfound, I’ll be there
And if growing up gets you down,
Oh, we can ride on the wings of change
Though we fly in our own separate ways,
In the end, you know
When life leaves you lost and unfound, I’ll be there
And if growing up gets you down,
Oh, we can ride on the wings of change
Though we fly in our own separate ways,
You know, in the end,
I’ll be there
10. BAD DECISION
I made a bad decision
I made a big mistake
And now I’m choking on the broken thing I hoped to make
And with a bad decision, it’s easy looking back
‘coz in the rear view mirror you can see the marks you made were
black, black, black
Black
And on reflection, I can see me sliding down the wall onto the floor
The second that I said it, I heard it leave my mouth
I couldn’t take it back or hit undo or rub it out
And by your dark expression, I really hit a nerve,
Like every word I said could knock you down into the dirt
And it’s hard to walk with one foot in your mouth and make a clean getaway
So cuff me up and throw the key away
I am broken
I am shot
I am everything you’re not
I am human
I am flawed
I’m just what you’re looking for
It’s just a bad decision
It’s just a thing I said.
If every cutting word could kill, well then, we’d all be dead
And black and white are blurring all the lines we couldn’t cross and turning grey
So maybe you could try this blame on, see how much it weighs
I am broken
I am shot
I am everything you’re not
I am human
I am flawed
I’m just what you’re looking for
I am foolish, incomplete
Light your fire; I’ll face the heat
I am human, tooth and claw
11. GLORIA
Gloria’s returned to face the wall
Twenty-seven miles of nothing at all
‘Spreche mich und hab kein angst’
Beyond the towers and past the tanks
Gloria
Gloria
We can scale the wall and feel it crumble
Signal down the wire, across the rubble
Brushing bullets with our hands
Fingertips and palms out
Gloria
12. AFTER EVERY TRY
Only when you fail, only when you fall
Only when you have nothing left at all
Only then will you really truly know where you want to go
Only if you stand, only if you rise
After every try, after every try
After all, it’s all you ever wanted to be
And now you’re so close, you’ll never know how close you are.
So near, even it it seems so far
Ooh, with our feet to the floor
Ooh, we’ll run into the storm
Ooh, it won’t matter at all
Coz’ then we can dance in the rain, we can dance in the rain
Even if you’re pushed everywhere you go, even if you’re pulled through the undertow
Only then will you really truly know how it feels to be
So close, you’ll never know how close you are.
So near, even it it seems so far.
Ooh, with our feet to the floor
Ooh, we’ll run into the storm
Ooh, it won’t matter at all
Coz’ then we can dance in the rain, in the snow and the hail
And then we can sing through the wind and the noise of the gale
And then we can run through the dark with our arms open wide
And then we will know that we tried and we tried and we tried
Ooh, with our feet to the floor
Ooh, we’ll run into the storm
Ooh, it won’t matter at all
‘Coz we’ll know we danced in the rain
Yeah, we danced in the rain
Oh, be still, my beating heart
Held in here, caught where you are
You race and pound, but you won’t get out
So all I ask is
Oh, be still, my rushing thoughts,
Blindfolded, there at the edge, waiting to fall
Just close my eyes, as the ground replies
And the dust is blown up then still
Be still, my beating heart
Be still
This will pass, you know
And your heart will slow down
And be still