DISCOGRAPHY | The World is Too Big For One Lifetime

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The World Is Too Big For One Lifetime

SINGLES from the album

TRACKS
01 - Figurine
02 - Mercury
03 - Storm
04 - The World Is Too Big for One Lifetime
05 - Hearts Are Hollow
06 - Raven
07 - Themis
08 - How Vampires Kiss
09 - If Wishes Were Bullets
10 - What a Heart Is for
11 - Sound in Colour

Released - DR2 / Global Music

Produced by - Mark Williams

Artwork/Design by - Shelley Hannan

TITLE - Mercury

Released - May 10th 2010

TRACKS - Mercury

FIGURINE

Someone’s been sticking pins

Into my waxen image.

The further they get screwed in,

The more I give up on living.

All I ever learned from you

Was how to satisfy a craving,

To give in to desire when the pulse is fading.

Figurine, spinning in endless motion.

Does she look serene, ‘‘til the cold blooded dance is over.

Guess you don’t know your own strength.

Brittle bones lay broken.

Hanging limp from a white fence.

Head smashed gaping open.

All I ever learned from you

Was how to satisfy a craving,

To give in to desire when the pulse is fading.

Figurine, spinning in endless motion.

Does she look serene, ‘til the cold blooded dance is done.

In its presence we grow weak.

In it’s absence seek its heat.

Fire that purifies the soul.

Cleanses and consumes us whole.

Porcelain figurine

Forever turning

Fixed expression

No emotion.

All I ever learned from you

Was how to satisfy a craving,

To give in to desire when the pulse is fading.

Figurine, spinning in endless motion.

Does she look serene, ‘til the cold blooded dance is over.

MERCURY

This unholy temptation grows,

it's an epidemic

sweeping through my soul.

Tell me my familiar,

should I dare to go

with my hand in his,

an unfurling rose.

Do good things come to those who wait

or do they wait forever.

We made a pact in blood and tears

that we could not be severed.

Nerves run high and resistance low,

and our misconceptions,

they begin to show.

But we're mercury,

and with heat we roll

back toward each other

to rejoin as whole.

Do good things come to those who wait

or do they wait forever.

We made a pact in blood and tears

that we could not be severed.

Though we trample every path,

though we stumble through the dark,

our souls are s‘till joined at the seams.

I would never take your dreams

away.

STORM

I took you up to the roof

And we stood with the storm.

Waves came crashing, smashing street lights,

And shadow galleons strained to hold their course.

Oh……

It feels real and absolute,

Let’s us know we are alive.

With eyes that flash like electric sequins

We made four new stars appear tonight.

Oh….

So don’t you dare look,

So don’t look down.

So don’t you dare look,

So don’t look down.

So don’t you dare look,

So don’t look down.

You could let me slip far away with the water,

Tears raining down like shells making craters.

Don’t look down, don’t look down.

THE WORLD IS TOO BIG FOR ONE LIFETIME.

I won’t love you for the rest of my life

But I’ll bear the scars of the red-hot knife

That history scorched into my hand.

In the cities of glass they wear this brand.

From hy-brasil to the virtual worlds

Where dreamers drown as they dive for pearls.

I’m gonna fire up a forge that’s real

And turn this weight into wings of stee.l

The lead that pinned me to the track

Will set me free.

You’re never gonna hold me back.

The world is too big for one life

And time is never on our side.

The world is too big for one life

And time is never on our side.

I lived a whole life through the moment I first saw you

And my hunger won’t be denied.

Floating intangible in dreams,

In my dreams.

It’s hard to take each day as it comes when you’re

Looking for the love you need.

But we carry all our paths inside

It’s all in me, and it’s all you need.

HEARTS ARE HOLLOW

Through with my own company

I heard the jokes, they were all on me

Freedom never felt so solitary

This shade of loneliness looks dull on me.

Wolves who smile through gritted teeth

Those eyes with daggers hid beneath

Who needs friends with enemies like these

They give me all the insentive I could need.

Dig up all the bones you need

The same old eccentricities

It’s been this way for a thousand centuries

No prize, no safety rail, no guarantees.

Come wallow in my sorrow

You’ll be my feast tomorrow

Where I lead dare you follow

To a place where hearts are hollow.

Tarot cards and self improvement books, horoscopes and the suffrage movement.

You’re equipped but you don’t use it

Did this path choose you or you choose it?

Use it

Choose it

Abuse it

Lose it

Come wallow in my sorrow

You’ll be my feast tomorrow

Where I lead dare you follow

To a place where hearts are hollow.

RAVEN

Rivers reverse to welcome him.

The unnamed prince, the raven king.

In his red courtyard corpses swing

To the rhythm of the chaos that he brings with him.

Sky will speak with earth and stone.

Calculate his safe return.

From the sea will rise his throne.

Angels of mist guide his ships in.

All compasses are set to spin.

His schemes tattooed upon the skin

Of those who serve beneath his velvet wing.

Sky will speak with earth and stone.

Calculate his safe return.

From the sea will rise his throne.

Birds ride across the sky, circling.

Fingers in the trees beckoning

For his sweet return, the quickening.

Clouds paint an amulet of summoning.

And we will summon him.

We will summon him.

Sky will speak with earth and stone.

Calculate his safe return.

From the sea will rise his throne.

And we will summon him.

We will summon him.

THEMIS

You hold the scales.

Balance my crimes.

Themis made flesh

Under the strip light.

Show me the cliff from which I’ll be pushed.

Show me the rocks on which I’ll be crushed.

It’s the wrong century to run away to sea

But that’s where your mind goes..

Doesn’t it…doesn’t it?

At the place where the sea swallows the sun,

A firefly extinguished by the closing of a fist.

The sea turns black and my heart turns blue

Left here all alone with a ghost of you.

It’s the wrong century to run away to sea

But that’s where your mind goes..

Doesn’t it…doesn’t it?

And I’ll hold my breath

‘til the tide brings you in.

Return to me, return to me,

Take your place beneath my skin.

Return to me.

HOW VAMPIRES KISS

Stockholm Syndrome

Misplaced loyalty

Take risks as an art from

Lose all liberties.

Too much confusion

Too much empathy

Swinging in ribbons

To extremities

You had me walking a razor wire.

Took out a contract on desire.

Well this must be how vampires kiss,

With your hands round my neck

I shake like this.

Three years to wake up

Three minutes to suffocate

Three seconds to break up

Three days to dehydrate

Three weeks without food

Three words to defend

Three sacks of blackmail

No feelings at the end.

You had me walking a razor wire.

Took out a contract on desire.

You want promises, here’s my best>

You bit me but I’m not possessed.

You had me walking a razor wire

Took out a contract on desire

Well this must be how vampires kiss,

With your hands round my throat

I shake like this.

A flick of the wrist

feels just like a

kiss with a fist…

You had me walking a razor wire.

Took out a contract on desire.

You want promises, here’s my best>

You bit me but I’m not possessed.

You had me walking a razor wire

Took out a contract on desire

Well this must be how vampires kiss,

With your hands round my throat

I shake like this.

I shake like this!

IF WISHES WERE BULLETS

Got a new taste in my mouth.

This time I don’t wanna spit it out.

I don’t know how it happened.

I was losing the battle.

I became resigned to a state of mind.

Came from nowhere

I don’t know how

So don’t struggle

You got me now

I don’t know where you came from

But I know it don’t feel wrong

All that I can do is give myself to you.

Can I trust it?

Is it real?

Will it leave me in mourning?

All of this new blood I feel,

Is it a slow killing poison?

If wishes were bullets we’d all be dead.

Prayers come soaring way overhead.

Confronted with substance, I double take.

If this is an error it’s mine to make.

Straight in the vein so I look away.

Pain never comes but there’s no restraint.

Intoxicated but I don’t faint.

I count up my fingers and all the saints.

Can I touch it?

Is it real?

Didn’t come with a warning.

All of this new blood I feel,

Is it a slow killing poison?

Can I trust it?

Is it real?

Will it leave me in mourning?

All of this new blood I feel,

Is it a slow killing poison?

WHAT A HEART IS FOR

Take a shot if you think you’re tough

It takes skills to trip me up

Cos I am not an ordinary girl.

Let me know when you’ve had enough

You’re my loss I’m your head fuck

We can’t exist together in this world.

What’s delicate can’t be confused with a fault that needs constraining.

Your get out cards have all been used with just the truth remaining.

You know how to make me cry, you cut me down but I don’t die

And god knows how hard we both tried to find a shred worth saving

You think you know what a heart is for

But you nailed yours to my door.

I never asked you to and that’s for sure.

Tell the earth that it can’t spin

Persuade me that you can win.

I make up my own mind and that’s the law.

What’s delicate can’t be confused with a fault that needs constraining.

Your get out cards have all been used with just the truth remaining.

You know how to make me cry, you cut me down but I don’t die

And god knows how hard we both tried to find a shred worth saving

It takes a death, it takes a war,

A sacrifice, a need for more,

to show us what a heart is for.

But sad to say that no one’s sure

Tell me what a heart is for

It takes a loss, it takes a war,

A sacrifice, a need for more

But s‘till we’re not exactly sure.

You think you know what a heart is for,

Ripped it out and nailed it to my door.

You should take better care of yours

Before it slips from your sleeve down to the floor.

You think you know what a heart is for,

Ripped it out and nailed it to my door.

What’s delicate can’t be confused with a fault that needs constraining.

Your get out cards have all been used with just the truth remaining.

You know how to make me cry, you cut me down but I don’t die

And god knows how hard we both tried to find a truth worth saving.

SOUND IN COLOUR

I don’t need a place to sleep in.

Find me hanging from your ceiling.

Hook me up when I need feeding

Mouth tastes like my brain is bleeding.

I saw sound in colour.

You were terrifying.

Seething, breathing fire.

Your forked tongue was lying.

On the table bread is breathing.

In the bushes creatures breeding.

On the floor where I am kneeling

Watching all the layers peeling.

I saw sound in colour.

You were terrifying.

Seething, breathing fire.

Your forked tongue was lying.

Get through to the dawn,

That’s when I’ll be leaving.

Get through to the dawn,

That’s when I’ll be leaving.

I have to make it through,

I’m looking for some detachment,

And when the cycle breaks

I will never fall

I will never crawl again.

I saw sound in colour.

You were terrifying.

Seething, breathing fire.

Your forked tongue was lying.

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