Lyrics Latest Update: Jun 10 2009
Tracklist
01. Kitty Litter
02. Ashtray Heart
03. Battle For The Sun
04. For What It's Worth
05. Devil In The Detalis
06. Bright Lights
07. Speak In Tongues
08. The Never-Ending Why
09. Julien
10. Happy You're Gone
11. Breathe Underwater
12. Come Undone
13. Kings Of Medicine
Song Quotes
About ... 'Ashtray Heart'
(Italian) Rock One Mag: Possiamo quindi
vedere un'analogia o un riferimento
al periodo in cui Brian e Stefan
suonavano negli'Ashtray Heart',
i primi passi dei Placebo, in una
canzone di "Battle for the Sun "
che ha lo stesso nome ...
Brian: "No veramente no. Ci sono
molte persone che hanno fatto
questa associazione, ma non è così.
Ho composto la canzone con due amici
durante una mia vacanza in Nicaragua.
Mi è venuta perchè chiedevo sempre
il posacenere (ride). L'abbiamo
cominciata a cantare in spagnolo,
da cui il titolo della canzone.
Inizialmente non era pensata per i
Placebo ma poi sono stato così
contento del risultato che ho
deciso di includerla"
Fonte: Rock One Mag, 13th May 2009
About ... 'Battle For The Sun'
Can you explain to us the meaning
and inspiration behind the lyrics of
'Battle For The Sun' – what are you
fighting against on that track?
Stefan: Well, Brian is the main writer
for this band, so the only way
I can answer is by offering you
my own interpretation.
There's always a bit of a conflict
going on in the characters
that are there in the songs
that he writes. I think 'Battle
For The Sun' works in the same
way that 'Without You I'm Nothing'
did as the title track on the second album.
'Battle For The Sun' kind of puts a
little umbrella over what the characters
are going through in the other tracks,
in the sense where the moon is in front
of the sun, and when the moon is
there like the umbrella, it's dark but
when it moves away there is light
and you can choose whether to be
in the dark or in the light.
You can choose to lead a happier life,
it might not be easy, but you should
hold on to the hope and the optimism.
Puoi spiegarci il significato e
cosa ha ispirato il testo di
'Battle for the Sun' - contro chi
state lottando in questa canzone?
Stefan: Beh, è Brian che scrive
principalmente i testi, quindi l'unico modo
per riponderti è darti la mia interpretazione
personale. C'è sempre una sorta di conflitto
che va avanti tra i personaggi contenuti
nelle personi che scrive. Penso che
'Battle for The Sun' ha lo stesso ruolo che
ha avuto 'Without You I'M Nothing' come
titolo del secondo album. 'Battle of the Sun'
mette una sorta di ombrello su ciò che fanno
i personaggi nelle altre tracce, nel senso che
dove la luna è in fronte al sole, e quando la
luna è li come un ombrello, è buio ma quando
se ne va c'è la luce e tu puoi scegliere se stare
nel buio o nella luce. Puoi scegliere di vivere
una vita felice, potrebbe non essere facile,
ma tu dovresti aggrapparti alla speranza
e all'ottimismo.
Fonte: Clicmusic.com
About ... 'For What It's Woth'
Tell us about the concept for the
new video 'For What It's Worth'
and what the labels in that are about?
Stefan: We worked with one of our
favourite video directors, Howard Greenhalgh,
who has been working with us for a long time.
He has done loads of stuff for us including
'Nancy Boy', 'Bruise Pristine' and 'The Bitter End',
so we had a long relationship with him that
enabled us to feel more relaxed, especially
now we are introducing a new member
to the public. We wanted it to be quite
performance based and the tags were
basically about the fact that sometimes
what you see, is not what is real.
We wanted to play with that.
People like to portray themselves
as something that is completely
the opposite of what is inside of them.
With the lyrics, Brian describes them as
being quite optimistic but if you listen
to them on face value, "got no friends,
got no lover", it's like "shit, you're in the gutter"
but to him the song is like a celebration of life.
It's that dichotomy of what you see and what
you hear not always being what is actually there.
Steve: You can take a photo and it can be
two people, they can be hanging out and
happy but if you put a label on,
it completely changes the whole meaning of it.
It could be like "cunt". My favourite bit is
the guy with the suitcase walking to work
and it's like "detonation". It's brilliant.
Parlaci del nuovo video di
'For What It's Worth' e qual'è il
significato delle etichette?
Stefan: (...) Volevamo comunicare che
essenzialmente ciò che vedi non sempre è
ciò che è in realtà. Le persone tendono a far
vedere di sé stesse l'opposto di ciò che sono dentro.
Brian nel testo le descrive come ottimiste
ma se le ascolti 'got no friends, got no lover',
è come dire 'shit, you're in the gutter' ma per
lui è come una celebrazione della vita.
E' questa la dicotomia di ciò che vedi e ciò
che senti che non sempre rappresentano
ciò che avviene.
Fonte: Clicmusic.com
Lyrics 'Battle For The Sun'
Kitty Litter
The way you're dancing
Makes me come alive
Makes me shiver and perspire
Your surreptitious glancing
The way you crack a smile
Nearly start a fire
So move closer
Want to feel your touch
So come over
Come on
Love of mine
This fortress in our hearts
Feels much weaker
Now we're apart
Love of mine
This fortress in our hearts
Comes crashing down
I need a change of skin
I need a change
The way you're moving
Makes me start to sigh
Makes you all that I desire
I shiver off my jeans and I'm so unsatisfied
You're all that I require
So move closer
Gotta feel your touch
So come over
Come on
So move closer
Gotta feel your touch
So come over
Come on
Love of mine
This fortress in our hearts
Feels much weaker
Now we're apart
Love of mine
This fortress in our hearts
Comes crashing down
I need a change of skin
I need a change
I need a change, I need a change of skin
I need a change, I need a change of skin
I need a change, I need a change of skin
I need a change, I need a change of skin
Love of mine
This fortress in our hearts
Feels much weaker
Now we're apart
Love of mine
This fortress in our hearts
Comes crashing down
Ashtray Heart
You are a burden to our ways
You are the one who took my place
You took a jump into forever
A leap of faith I could not take
And it was
A leap of faith I could not take
A promise that I could not make
A leap of faith I could not take
A promise that I could not make
Mi cenicero, mi cenicero
My ashtray heart
Mi corazón de cenicero
My ashtray heart
Mi cenicero, mi cenicero
My ashtray heart
Mi corazón de cenicero
You were alone before we met
No more forlorn than one could get
How could we know we had found treasure?
How sinister and how correct
And it was
A leap of faith I could not take
A promise that I could not make
A leap of faith I could not take
A promise that I could not make
Mi cenicero, mi cenicero
My ashtray heart
Mi corazón de cenicero
My ashtray heart
Mi cenicero, mi cenicero
My ashtray heart
Mi corazón de cenicero
Mi cenicero, mi cenicero
My ashtray heart
Mi corazón de cenicero
My ashtray heart
Mi cenicero, mi cenicero
My ashtray heart
Mi corazón de cenicero
I tore the muscle from your chest
And used it to stub out cigarettes
I listened to your screams of pleasure
Now watch the bedsheets turn blood red
Mi cenicero, mi cenicero
My ashtray heart
Mi corazón de cenicero
My ashtray heart
Mi cenicero, mi cenicero
My ashtray heart
Mi corazón de cenicero
Mi cenicero, mi cenicero
My ashtray heart
Mi corazón de cenicero
My ashtray heart
Mi cenicero, mi cenicero
My ashtray heart
Mi corazón de cenicero
Battle For The Sun
I will battle for the sun
And I won't stop until I'm done
You are getting in the way
And I have nothing left to say
I will brush off all the dirt
And I will pretend it didn't hurt
You are a black and heavy weight
And I will not participate
Dream brother, My killer, My lover
Dream brother, My killer, My lover
I will battle for the sun
'Cause I have stared down the barrel of a gun
No fun, you are a cheap and nasty fake
And I am the bones you couldn't break
Dream brother, My killer, My lover
Dream brother, My killer, My lover
Dream brother, My killer, My lover
Dream brother, My killer, My lover
Dream brother, My killer, My lover
Dream brother, My killer, My lover
I will battle for the sun
For What It's Worth
The end of the century
I said my goodbyes
For what it's worth
I always aimed to please
But I nearly died
For what it's worth
Come on lay with me
'Cause I'm on fire
For what it's worth
I tear the sun in three
To light up your eyes
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
Broke up the family
Everybody cried
For what it's worth
I have a slow disease
That sucked me dry
For what it's worth
Come on walk with me
Into the rising tide
For what it's worth
Filled a cavity
Your god shaped hole tonight
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
No one cares when you're out on the street
Picking up the pieces to make ends meet
No one cares when you're down in the gutter
Got no friends, got no lover
No one cares when you're out on the street
Picking up the pieces to make ends meet
No one cares when you're down in the gutter
Got no friends, got no lover
For what it's worth
Got no lover
For what it's worth
Got no lover
For what it's worth
Got no lover
For what it's worth
Got no lover
For what it's worth
Got no lover
For what it's worth
Got no lover
For what it's worth
Got no lover
Got no friends got no lover
Devil In The Detalis
I’ve been wasting all my time
With the devil in the details
And I got no energy to fight
He’s a fucking pantomime
The devil in the details
He’s fixing up to take a bite
I don’t see the point in trying
I got the devil in the details
And he’s gonna teach me wrong from right
That fucking pantomime
The devil in the details
Well, I’m gonna dance with him tonight
All of my wrongs
No more wicked ways
Come back to haunt me, come what may
He wrote the songs
That I hoped to write someday
Looks like the devil’s here to stay
Let me take you far away
With the devil in the details
We’ll kiss and tremble with the light
Everything is fine
With the devil in the details
We’re gonna dance with him tonight
All of my wrongs
No more wicked ways
Come back to haunt me, come what may
He wrote the songs
That I hoped to write someday
Looks like the devil’s here to stay
Looks like the devil’s here to stay
Looks like the devil’s here to stay
All of my wrongs
No more wicked ways
Come back to haunt me, come what may
He wrote the songs
That I hoped to write someday
Looks like the devil’s here to stay
Looks like the devil’s here to stay
Looks like the devil’s here to stay
I’ve been wasting all my time
With the devil in the details
I got no energy to fight
Bright Lights
Cast your mind back to the days,
When I pretend' I was OK.
I had so very much to say,
About my crazy livin'.
Now that I've stared into the void,
So many people, I've annoyed.
I have to find a middle way,
A better way of livin'.
So I haven't given up,
That all my choices, my good luck...
Appear to go and get me stuck,
In an open prison.
Now I am tryin' to break free,
In a state of empathy.
Find the true and enemy,
Eradicate this prison.
No-one can take it away from me,
And no-one can tear it apart.
'Cause a heart that hurts,
Is a heart that works.
A heart that hurts,
Is a heart that works.
A heart that hurts,
Is a heart that works.
No-one can take it away from me,
No-one can tear it apart.
Maybe ' an elaborate fantasy,
But it's the perfect place to start.
'Cause a heart that hurts,
Is a heart that works.
A heart that hurts,
Is a heart that... works.
Speak In Tongues
Kitty came back home from on the island
But kitty came on home without a name
She and me’s a history for violence
So I long, I burn to touch her just the same
So we both can both can speak in tongues
So we both can both can speak in tongues
Every single sense in me is heightened
There’s nothing left inside to rearrange
Like a slave to history and science
I long, I burn to touch you just the same
So we both can both can speak in tongues
So we both can both can speak in tongues
Until the universe is done
And the course of time has run
So we both can both can speak in tongues
Don’t let them get their way
Don’t let them have their way
You’re beautiful and so blasé
So please don’t let them have their way
Don’t fall back into the decay
There is no law we must obey
So please don’t let them have their way
Don’t give in to yesterday
We can build a new tomorrow, today
We can build a new tomorrow, today
We can build a new tomorrow, today
We can build a new tomorrow, today
The Never-Ending Why
Yeah, I'm well
The fragile kingdom fall
The tremor becomes a quake
in the lake
and as the two of us rebound
And damn you all to hell
I wonder if that's all there is
Time will help you through
But it doesn't have the time
To give you all the answers to the never ending why
The sound of silence grows
As spiders kissing
And the 'tumor' becomes a rhyme
But the kids are doing fine
And as the two of us rebel
And damn you all to hell
I wonder if that's all there is
Time will help you through
But it doesn't have the time
To give you all the answers to the never ending why
Julien
The payback is here
Take a look, its all around you
You thought you'd never shed a tear
So this must astound, must confound you
Buy a ticket for the train
Hide in a suitcase if you have to
This ain't no singing in the rain
This is a twister that will destroy you
You can run but you can't hide
Because no one here gets out alive
Find a friend in whom you can confide
Julien you're a slow motion suicide
Fallen angels in the night
And every one is far from heaven
Just one more hate to make it right
But every one turns into seven
Now that's it's snowing in your rain
Even ten will not placate you
This ain't no cure for the pain
This avalanche will suffocate you
You can run but you can't hide
Because no one here gets out alive
Find a friend on whom you can rely
Julien you're being taken for a ride
You can run but you can't hide
Because no one here gets out alive
Find a friend in whom you can confide
Julien you're a slow motion suicide,
slow motion suicide, slow motion suicide, slow motion suicide
Happy You're Gone
Breathe me every time you close your eyes
Taste me every time you cry
This memory will fade away and die
Just for today breathe me and say goodbye
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
See me in the eyes of another's child
Turn away
When you see me walking by
Once in a while
This memory will fade away and die
Just for today breathe me and say goodbye
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
And I don't even want to try
Bye bye
God every word from you is a lie
Bye bye
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
Breathe Underwater
Here comes another fall from grace,
I'm always falling on my face.
This attitude that I embrace,
With a love I'm trying to replace.
Try to kill this song,
'Cause the melody's all wrong.
And there's a feaver, comin' on.
It's hard to reconcile,
What I've become.
With the wounded ch-i-ld,
Hiding deep ins-i-yide.
Breathe underwater,
I'm comin' up for air!
I wanna see another dawn,
(Comin' up for air!)
Sick of the slaughter,
(I'm comin' up for air!)
'Cause I've floating here too long.
Take my ego for a ride,
'Cause there's nobody by my side.
It's getting hard to justify.
And it won't be long 'til I collide.
My weakness laid bare,
As people stop and stare.
But It's the last time, I swear.
It's hard to reconcile,
What I've become.
With the wounded ch-i-ld,
Hiding deep ins-i-yide.
Breathe underwater,
(I'm comin' up for air!)
I wanna see another dawn,
(Comin' up for air!)
Sick of the slaughter,
(I'm comin' up for air!)
'Cause I've floating here too long.
Stop breathing...
Stop breathing...
Stop breathing...
Stop breath-ing!
Breathe underwater,
(I'm comin' up for air!)
I wanna see another dawn,
(Comin' up for air!)
Sick of the slaughter,
(I'm comin' up for air!)
'Cause I've floating here too long.
I'm coming, I'm coming... ,
I'm coming, ' coming...
Comin' up for air...
Comin' up for air!
Come Undone
You don't know how you're coming across
You don't know what you're coming across
You don't know who you're coming across
You don't know how you're coming across
So you come undone
You don't know how you're coming across
Acting like you don't give a toss
Walking around like you're on some kind of cross
And its a shame on you the irony's lost
When you come undone
You come undone
You know, you come undone
You know, you know, you know
You don't know how you're coming across
You don't know how you're coming across
And I don't think that you're aware of the cost
So you come undone
You come
You come undone
You know, you know, you know
Kings Of Medicine
They're pickin' up pieces of me,
While they're pickin' up pieces of you.
In a bag you will be, before the day is over.
Were you looking for somewhere to be.
Or looking for someone to do.
Stupid me, to believe that I could trust in stupid you.
And on the back of my hand,
Were, directions I could understand.
Now that old buzzard Johnny Walker,
Has gone and ruined all our plans.
Our best-made plans.
Don't leave me here, to cast through time,
Without a map, or road sign.
Don't leave me here, my guiding light,
'Cause I, I, wouldn't know where to begin.
I asked the Kings of Medicine.
They're pickin' up pieces of me,
While they're pickin' up pieces of you.
Lying on ice you will be before the day is over.
It's a case in point baby,
That you never thought it through.
Stupid me, to believe I could depend on stupid you.
And on the tip of my tongue,
Were, words that always came out all wrong.
'Cause they were drowned in Southern Comfort,
Left to dry-out in the Sun,
The noon-day Sun.
Don't leave me here, to cast through time,
Without a map, or road sign.
Don't leave me here, my guiding light,
'Cause I, I, wouldn't know where to begin.
I asked the Kings of Medicine,
But it seems that they've lost their powers.
Now all I'm left with is the hour.
Don't leave me here, to cast through time,
Without a map, or road sign.
Don't leave me here, my guiding light,
'Cause I, I, wouldn't know where to begin.
I asked the Kings of Medicine,
But it seems that they have lost their powers.
Now all I'm left with is the hour.
Don't leave me here,
Don't leave me here, oh no-oh,
I wouldn't know where to begin.