Be My Downfall - Del Amitri

I like filling the silence with casual violence I'm killing my time just to quiet my mind So, I'm numb to the pain now My life's filled with haze How did I let these distractions become my bad habits? Obsessed with the status of everything That just don't mean anything now It's emptying me out This is my downfall Lose control, watch me go I'm slipping, I'm slipping down the rabbit hole Can't stop it Can't stop my downfall Lose control, watch me go I'm slipping, I'm slipping down the rabbit hole This is my, my downfall (Downfall, my downfall) This is my, my downfall (my downfall) This is my, my downfall I guess my oasis was really a cage And now I can't escape it It's of my own making And I can't let me out Why can't I let me out? My eyes are faking and all I can see (all I can see) Is my isolation circling me (circling me) I'm drowning, I'm drowning in my apathy (hey) This is my downfall Lose control, watch me go I'm slipping, I'm slipping down the rabbit hole Can't stop it Can't stop my downfall Lose control, watch me go I'm slipping, I'm slipping down the rabbit hole This is my, my downfall This will be my downfall The writing's on the wall This will be my downfall Why don't I care at? This will be my downfall The writing's on the wall This will be my downfall Why don't I care at? This is my downfall Lose control, watch me go I'm slipping, I'm slipping down the rabbit hole Can't stop it Can't stop my downfall Lose control, watch me go I'm slipping, I'm slipping down the rabbit hole This is my, my downfall This is my, my downfall This is my, my downfall

I wonder how you sleep I wonder what you think of me If I could go back, Would you have ever been with me? I want you to be uneased I want you to remember I want you to believe in me I want you on my side Come on and lay it down I've always been with you Here and now Give all that's within you Be my savior And I'll be your downfall Here we go again Ashamed of bein' broken in We're gettin' off track I wanna get you back again I want you to trouble me I wanted you to linger I want you to agree with me I want so much so bad Come on and lay it down I've always been with you Here and now Give all that's within you Be my savior And I'll be your downfall Yeah, be my savior (Only love can save us now Come lay me down Only love can save us now) I'll be your downfall (Our love can save us now Love save me now) Lay it down I've always been with you Hear me now With all that's within you Be my savior And I'll be your downfall Now I'm back on my own Hear my feet, they are made of stone And I'll make you go where I go Well, hell, you, can I take you home? Now, I'm coming home, on my back Kissin' me, your lips painted black Saying, "Woah oh oh Lemme be your downfall Woah oh oh Lemme be your downfall, baby."

They want all for one and none for all I want to be there to witness the downfall They'll only sell us out when our backs are turned But we'll keep paying the price until our lesson is learnt So cast your votes, watch them shed their skin Every snake has its price If the money's on the table, they don't think twice So cast your votes, watch them shed their skin We are paralysed But there are none so blind as those who will not see What's it going to take to get us to stand up? 'Cause you can see it in their eyes They don't give a fuck About what matters to us Another faceless figure, an empty silhouette They'll line their pockets and leave us six feet deep in debt So cast your votes, watch them shed their skin Always out for blood, preying on the weak We can count on them to paint the future bleak But we're still standing by whilst they bleed us dry We are paralysed But there are none so blind as those who will not see What's it going to take to get us to stand up? 'Cause you can see it in their eyes They don't give a fuck About what matters to us So enough is enough What's it going to take to get us to stand up? 'Cause you can see it in their eyes They don't give a fuck Right and wrong, it's all the same to me Thick as thieves as far as I can see They are leeches all (they are leeches all) Right and wrong, it's all the same to me (same to me) Thick as thieves as far as I can see (I can see) They are leeches all But we're still standing by whilst they bleed us dry They want all for one and none for all I wanna be there to witness the downfall We are paralysed They want all for one and none for all I wanna be there to witness the downfall

Everybody in the funhouse Says they want out But we're taking our time 'Cause we're in love with time Whole generations thinkin' of themselves As infidels and pop stars While the bomb loses patience We line up and just lean against the bar Stone cold sober Looking for bottles of love Stone cold sober Looking for bottles of love Caught in the headlights Wide-eyed and ready to receive We are the dead life Locked in dogfights, lost in disbelief And these dark days Makes the nights seem brighter than they are So, while Fleet Street rolls and the moon glows In the funhouse, the fun starts Stone cold sober Looking for bottles of love We're stone cold sober Looking for bottles of love, love Love We are the dead life, we are the dead life So come on, come on Born in the half-light of threats and bribes In a hopeless porn parade We get the dog's life, tidbits train us What to wear, what not to say When you're footloose and you just feel limbless Life gets in the way So, we get loaded or totally legless But stay the same Stone cold sober Looking for bottles of love We're stone cold sober Looking for bottles of love, love (We're stone cold) stone cold sober Looking for bottles of love We're stone cold sober Looking, looking So come on, come on (Come on, come on) (Come on, come on) We are the dead life, we are the dead life We are the dead life, we are the dead life We are the dead life, we are the dead life We are the dead life, we are the dead life

Find something to do Something worth playing I'm just passing through Don't think I'll be staying 'Cause I promise you I I'll be gone in a second Like teardrop's dried I'll be gone in a second Right out of the blue Just as you're waking I'll be there to give you A little shoulder shaking But I promise you I I'll be gone in a second Like a fleck in your eye It'll be gone in a second A second of love, a second of life A second remembering it right Watching a soul slip out of sight Into the glitter of the night In a second Find something to do Before I wander Into your mind Like a roll of thunder 'Cause I promise you I I'll be gone in a second Like a flash of light It'll be gone in a second I promise you I I'll be gone in a second I promise you I I'll be gone in a second (I'll be there for you) 'Cause I promise you I I'll be gone in a second I promise you I I'll be gone in a second I'll be gone in a second

Hey, I'm with you Let me just get you a light And if we'd thought to listen We might have checked if the weather was right I don't mind if you want to drive all day And hey, it's raining I should have brought my coat Sometimes I could sell my soul Just to sit and watch you smoke And I don't mind if you wanna break my heart 'Cause you can burn paper You can turn a wheel But you can't change later Here and now, just how good we can feel But hey, stop talking Think I can hear the sea And did I tell you, the sound of the surf Makes strange things happen to me? And I don't mind if you wanna crash the car 'Cause you can turn traitor You can turn on your heels But you can't change later Here and now, just how good we can feel And hey, don't worry (don't worry) So that black cat's some kind of curse 'Cause if bad times are coming up ahead Just put us in reverse I don't wanna waste time thinking 'bout it here and now Nothing else matters, but what we' got here and now I don't wanna waste time thinking 'bout it here and now Nothing else matters, but what we got here and now I don't wanna waste time thinking 'bout it here and now Nothing else matters but what we got here and now (you can feel, you can learn) I don't wanna waste time thinking 'bout it here and now Nothing else matters, but what we got here and now (we can feel) I don't wanna waste time, no, no I don't wanna, yeah I don't wanna waste time 'Cause nothing else matters, babe Nothing's gonna change the way we feel