Portishead

Dummy

1. Biscuit
2. Itīs A Fire
3. It Could Be Sweet
4. Mysterons
5. Numb
6. Pedestal
7. Roads
8. Sour Times
9. Strangers
10. Wandering Stars
11. Glory Box
12. Kick Out The Jams



1. Biscuit


I am lost and found,
Stranger things have come your way,
Itīs just Iīm scared,
Got hurt a long time ago,
Canīt make myself hurt,
No matter how hard I scream

Oh sensation,
Itīs enslaved of sensation,

Full-fed yet I still hunger,
Torn inside,
Haunted I tell myself, yet I still wonder,
Down inside,
Its tearing me apart

Oh sensation,
Itīs enslaved of sensation,

Iīll never fall in...
Iīll never fall in love again, x?
Itīs over now

At the last relief,
A motherīs son has left me sheer,
The shores I seek,
Are crimson taste divine
Canīt make myself hurt,
No matter how hard I scream

Oh sensation, itīs enslaved of sensation,
Iīll never fall in love again,
Itīs over now...



2. Itīs A Fire


Itīs a fire,
These dreams that pass me by,
The salvation I desire,
Keeps getting me down,
īcause we need to recognize mistakes,
For time and again,

So let it be known,
For what we believe in,
I can see no reason,
For it to fail,
īcause this life is a farce,
I canīt breathe through this mask,
Like a fool...
So breathe on, sister, breathe on,

from this one self,
Testify or tell,
Itīs fooling us now,

So let it be known,
For what we believe in,
I can see no reason,
For it to fail,
īcause this life is a farce,
I canīt breathe through this mask,
Like a fool...
So breathe on little sister, breathe on,
Oh, so breathe on little sister, like a fool...



3. It Could Be Sweet


I donīt want to hurt you,
No reason have I but fear,
Anī I ainīt guilty of crimes accused before,
But Iīm guilty of fear.
Iīm sorry to remind,
But Iīm scared of what weīre creatinī,
This love ainīt fair.

You donīt get something for nothing,
Ooh now,
Gotta try a little harder,
It could be sweet,
Like a long forgotten dream.

And we donīt need them,
To cast the fate we have,
Love donīt always shine through,
īcause I donīt want to loose,
What we had last time you were leaving,
This love ainīt fair

You donīt get something for nothing,
Ooh now,
Gotta try a little harder,
It could be sweet

But the thoughts we try to deny,
Take a toll upon our lives.
Struggle on the depths of pride,
Tangled up in single lives

īcause I donīt wanna loose,
What we had last time youīre leaving,
This love ainīt fair.

You donīt get something for nothing,
Ooh now,
Gotta try a little harder,

īcause I donīt wanna loose,
What we had last time youīre leaving,
This love ainīt fair.

You donīt get something for nothing,
Ooh now,
Gotta try a little harder,
It could be sweet



4. Mysterons


Inside youīre pretending,
Look īround youīve been swept aside,
Somewhere, where they can forget

Divine, a buried chain
Still holding on,
This ocean will not be grasped

All for nothing
Did you really want (*4)

Refuse to surrender,
Strung out until ripped apart,
Who dares,
Who dares to condemn?

All for nothing
Did you really want (*4)



5. Numb


Am ever so lost,
I canīt find my way,
Been searching, but I have never seen,
But turning, a turning from deceit

īcause a child rose his light,
Tried to reveal what I could feel

I canīt understand myself -anymore,
īcause Iīm still feelinī lonely, feelinī so unholy

īcause a child rose his light,
Tried to reveal what I could feel,
And this loneliness,
Just wonīt leave me alone,
Oh no

Iīm fooling somebody,
A faithless path I roam,
Seething to breathe this secretly,
A silence, this silence I canīt bear

īcause a child rose his light,
Tries to reveal what I could feel
And this loneliness,
It just wonīt leave me alone,
Oh no,

And this loneliness,
It just wonīt leave me alone,

Oh lady, youīre the one



6. Pedestal


How can I believe this miracle,
Where the wind blows dry
Your destiny,
Through the force of our mind,
Undenied by desire,
Oh, you abandoned me,
How I suffer
Ridicule breathes a sigh
You abandoned me,
Lost forever,
Hush, can you hear?

Enter and rejoice this pedestal,
Where the rainbowīs high,
Your destiny,
Mystery of all time,
Oh, no time make a reason,
Ridicule breathes a sigh,
No time, make a reason,
Hush hear him cry!

No time, make a reason



7. Roads


Ooh, canīt anybody see,
Weīve got a war to fight,
Love will find a way,
Regardless of what they say,

How can it feel this wrong?
from this moment, how can it feel this wrong?

Stoned in the morning light
I feel,
No more can I say,
from self to myself,
I got nobody on my side,
And surely that ainīt right,
Surely that ainīt right

Ooh, canīt anybody see,
Weīve got a war to fight,
Love will find a way,
Regardless of what they say,

How can it feel this wrong?
from this moment, how can it feel this wrong?

How can it feel this wrong,
from this moment, how can it feel this wrong.

Ooh, canīt anybody see,
Weīve got a war to fight,
Love will find a way,
Regardless of what they say,

How can it feel this wrong?
from this moment, how can it feel this wrong?



8. Sour Times


To pretend that one can find,
Fantasies and morning rose,
Forbidden fruit, hidden lies,
Courtesies that I despise,
In me

Take a ride, take a shot now,
īcause nobody loves me, itīs true,
Not like you do

Covered by the blind belief,
That fantasies of sinful screams,
Bear the facts or soon will die,
End the vows no need to lie,
Enjoy,

Take a ride, take a shot now,
īcause nobody loves me, itīs true,
Not like you do

Uh, am I what and why?
īcause all I have left is the memories of yesterday,
Oh the sour times

Cause nobody loves me, itīs true,
Not like you do

After time the bitter taste,
Of innocence, descent or race,
Scattered seed, buried lives,
Mysteries of our disguise,
Reborn,
Circumstance will decide

īcause nobody loves me, itīs true,
Not like you do

īcause nobody loves me, itīs true,
Not like you do

Nobody loves me, itīs true,
Not like you do



9. Strangers


Oooh, can anybody see the light,
Where the moon meets the dunes,
And the tide is rising,
Did you realise no one can see inside your view,
Did you realise the world inside belongs to you
Ooh, just set aside your fears and lie
With the sole desire

Done it morning, done it now, and it ainīt real,
On in this side,
Done it morning, done it now, and it ainīt real,
On in this side,
Done it morning, done it now, and it ainīt real,
Done it morning, done it now, īcause this ainīt real,
On in this side

Ooh canīt anybody see the light,
Where the moon meets the dew,
And the tide rising,
Did you realise no one can see inside your view
Did you realise the world inside belongs to you



10. Wandering Stars


Please could you stay a while to share my grief,
Itīs such a lovely day to have to always feel this way,
And the time that I will suffer less,
Is when I never have to wait

Wandering stars,
For whom it is reserved,
The blackness, the darkness, forever
Wandering stars,
For whom it is reserved,
The blackness, the darkness, forever

Those who have seen the needles I now tread,
Like a husk from which your darkness now has fled,
And the masks that the monsters wear,
To feed upon their prey

Wandering stars,
For whom it is reserved,
The blackness, the darkness, forever
Wandering stars,
For whom it is reserved,
The blackness, the darkness, forever

Doubled up inside,
Take a while to share my grief,
Always doubled up inside,
Taunted, cool,

Wandering stars,
For whom it is reserved,
The blackness, the darkness, forever
Wandering stars,
For whom it is reserved,
The blackness, the darkness, foreve



11. Glory Box


Iīm so tired of playing,
Playing with this bow and arrow,
Gonna give my heart away,
Leave it to the other girls to play.
For Iīve been a temptress too long,

Hmm yes,
Give me a reason to love you,
Give me a reason to be a woman,
I just want to be a woman

From this time unchained,
We’re all looking at a different picture,
Through this new frame of mind,
A thousand flowers could bloom,
Move over and give us some room

Yeah,
Give me a reason to love you,
Give me a reason to be a woman,
I just want to be a woman

So donīt you stop being a man,
Just take a little look from outside when you can,
Sow a little tenderness,
No matter if you cry

Give me a reason to love you,
Give me a reason to be a woman,
I just want to be a woman

Its all I want to be, a woman,
So I just want to be a woman,
For this is the beginning of forever and ever,
Itīs time to move over now,
So I want to be

Iīm so tired of playing,
Playing with this bow and arrow,
Gonna give my heart away,
Leave it to the other girls to play.
For Iīve been a temptress too long,

Hmm yes,
Give me a reason to love you.



12. Kick Out The Jams


Well Iīve been elected to rock your asses ītill midnight
Well this is my term and Iīve shaved off my perm, but itīs alright
I solemnly swear to uphold the constitution
Got a rock īnī roll problem, well we got a solution
Just let me be who I am, and let me kick out the jams, yeah
Let me kick out the jams, I done kicked īem out

Well, Iīve been selected to orbit the planet in a rocket (in a rocket)
Iīm goinī to mars, I got a message for the poodle in your pocket
(in your pocket)
Well, mission control, callinī supernova, the hotlineīs rockinī,
You can come on over, and let us be who we am,
And let us kick out the jams, yeah kick out the jams, we done kickedīem out


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