Please Come Back I Will Listen, I Will Behave, I Will Toe the Line (Edit) - King Creosote & Jon Hopkins

Ooooooooh x2 Can we slow down Just for a moment, see Some things never get old Let us rearrange We could perfectly At least that's what I've been told And your mother won't leave you alone And your father won't leave you alone And though many things could change At least until you got old It's the middle of the night That's my favorite part It keeps me under the gun There's a part of me that keeps coming through And I will come back To you x5 Glad I changed things I can't wait to see What you come up with next Point somewhere on the map It's okay to leave You can always come back And your mother won't leave you alone And your father won't leave you alone So you book yourself a room Where a video plays on a loop It's the middle of the night, the night That's my favorite part Keeps me under the gun There's a part of me that keeps coming through And I will come back, I will come back To you There's a part of me That keeps coming through And I will come back, I will come back To you x6

I just want you to know, I just want you to know I just want you to know, I just want you to know I just want you to know, I just want you to know I just want you to know, I just want you to know I just want you to know, I just want you to know I just want you to know, I just want you to know I just want you to know, I just want you to know I just want you to know, I just want you to know I just want you to know, I just want you to know Well, if only I had a heart to rip into Because you owe me A breakdown that would not include Not to stay around And see this night through Girl, don't stay around And bathe with me in blue Just one of those things Just one of those things I just want you to know, I just want you to know Just wanna let you know (I just want you to know) "In God's name think what you're doing" (I just want you to know) I just want you to know, I just want you to know I just want you to know, I just want you to know I just want you to know, I just want you to know "No! Jesus Christ! Oh my God! Christ! No, no dear God, no, Christ!"

Honestly, I've not the foggiest idea Just what I'm doing here But why should I go? I can't believe (I can't believe) That our home is blown (to smithereens) And at night the radiation makes it glow You see, I've been inclined To get you off of my mind So I will, I will tonight Alright, yeah! It's not so bad To be the only one left here Though the science may seem queer It's all that I've got now I can't believe that you left me here The sole survivor Of the bomb that dropped from the holocaust You see, I've been inclined To get you off of my mind So I will, I will tonight Oh no! See I've been inclined To get you off of my mind So I will, I will tonight Do it again! See I've been inclined To get you off of my mind So I will, I will Tonight The only trouble is You're gettin' hard to resist But I will, I will I'll take that little pill Oh, I will, I will Tonight

No, I shan't complain If on an April day and the ice gusts in from Norway Scours the sand Off of your grieving skin And as you lay me down to sleep And under earth two metres deep Take the stones and the coals from the saw arms You place them at my head You place them at my feet No, I shan't complain If only a dozen or so of the loves of my life Cannot contain their grief And they weep real tears Of all those wasted years And as you lay me under earth take comfort in the knowing That they haven't an ease A bitter soul to keep No, I shan't complain I had the best time laughing with my girls I had the best life offered up by this blue marble Or any alien world And no, I shan't complain If the lasting memory of me is the sign of a new life budding In the leaves of the elm trees No, I shan't complain I had the best time laughing with my girls I had the best life offered up by this blue marble Or any alien world I shan't complain No, I shan't complain I had the best time laughing with my girls I had the best life offered up by this blue marble Or any alien world No, I shan't complain I had the best time laughing with my girls I had the best life offered up by this blue marble Or any alien world I shan't complain No, I shan't complain No, I shan't complain

And I've gone silver in my travels, Growing silver in my sideburns I've started to unravel Heard my heartbeat on a downhill, I counted 18 on my pulse As Kilrenny clock struck three For 3 o'clock what else? What else? And you said 12 years in retirement. The hours go by like sips of water. The record lies unbroken And no doubt it's white flour in my diet That's going to be the death of me A sweet drum roll for those embittered big ideas. It's such a waste of all that I had. You mentioned bats in the attic So now you're lifting off the tiles To get around those conservation rules I'm locked down in the basement I'm hanging upside down I gag across my mealy mouth. And how I'll laugh out loud about that. When I read your simple novel That uses all our real names And go make yourself a fortune There's nothing left for us Than us left dangling just a little shamefaced. It's such a waste of all that we have. And it's such a waste of all that we have. And it's such a waste of all that I am.