Song For The Dead - Queens of the Stone Age

Awake without warning, the black of the morning All shimmery jewels from the voice of a fool Echoes through the halls of the building He built in her place He'll shake through the winter and dream of her mister The picture he drew her resembled her sister Oh, how the wind can pull you in Or push you away You'll move like a tiger into the thicket Claws in the dirt, you'll sing like a cricket Song of the mystery, song of the system Song for the guilty, song for the living Song for the dead A comma of silence relieves all the violence You've dragged into bed with the sheets soaking red It's a glimmer of light through a prism That's calling a truce With your beautiful hair, so displayed on the chair And your head on the arm, and your legs in the air And the words dancing out from your lips Like a sad ballet Now move like a tiger into the thicket Claws in the dirt, you'll sing like a cricket Song of the mystery, song of the system Song for the guilty, song for the living Song for the dead You'll move like a tiger into the thicket Claws in the dirt, you'll sing like a cricket Long for the mystery, long for the system Long for the guilty, long for the living Move like tiger into the thicket Claws in the dirt, you'll sing like a cricket Song for the mystery, song for the system Song for the guilty, song for the living Song for the dead Song for the dead Song for

Manifesto You never read the lines Manifesto from a festival Preparing every night Another show for the living Suffered and crafty people The truth is where they are In trance, get into it You are still looking for What you had there at all times You call it, true will And now I ask you to wear the skin of the conqueror... Dance with the dead All I can give you are these rhymes I wrote for you They are not from heaven. Dead music for the living takes my heart Now god is Dead It's Dead, It's Dead, It's Dead Manifesto You never read the lines Manifesto from a festival Preparing every night Another show for the living Suffered and crafty people The truth is where they are In trance, get into it You are still looking for What you had there at all times You call it, true will And now I ask you to wear the skin of the conqueror... Dance with the dead All I can give you are these rhymes I wrote for you They are not from heaven. Dead music for the living takes my heart That heart is Dead It's Dead, It's Dead, It's Dead

Well these days things ain't been alright My best friends been the bottle nearly every night So honey won't you let me in I don't got much time as far as I can tell I've been walking the line between heaven and hell So honey won't you let me in I just need some where to lay my head And someone there to warm my bed So honey won't you let me in Now my bones they are a aching from the choices I've been making I've been drinking me away from all the names I should've taken So honey won't you let me in Oh honey won't you let me in Yeah honey won't you let me in I need some help, I need a friend I need some loving, baby come and let me in Well I got more baggage than I can afford That's why folks keep on catching me and knocking at their doors And I know it's time for crawling out of this hole in the ground It's been too long running round and round and round and round And I know I'm not the one whose been paying of his debts But the winds are getting heavy here so come on baby let me in Well now that I've been knocking at your door For about half an hour or so maybe more My fists are getting sore so honey won't you let me in And I seen an old pal just a walking on by Says: Come on man you're looking bone dry So I took a big swig from his bottle, and that was that I just need some where to lay my head And someone there to warm my bed So honey won't you let me in Now I'm sitting right here all by my lonesome Making my home on the pavement stone 'Cause my honey won't let me in No my honey won't let me in Yeah my honey won't let me in I need some help, I need a friend I need some loving, baby come on let me in Well I got more baggage than I can afford That's why folks keep on catching me and knocking at their doors And I know it's time for crawling out of this hole in the ground It's been too long running round and round and round and round And I know I'm not the one whose been paying of his debts But the winds are getting heavy here so come on baby let me in And I know it's time for crawling out of this hole in the ground It's been to long running round and round and round and round And I know I'm not the one whose been paying of his debts But the winds are getting heavy here so come on baby let me in

The only rule to stay alive Just keep breathing you'll be fine You know she's pulling up outside The car lights crawl across the curtain So put the gun back on the wall Take the suitcase from the wardrobe There's a dead man on the floor He's not going anywhere You're moving to the door And everything he ever did He only ever did for love Everything he ever said He only ever said for love And now, now he lies dead, He's dead for love His mind's at ease, he sleeps in peace Your reflection in her eyes You just don't recognise And soon you'll realise This guy's not going anywhere Now he's done with you once more Race with the shadows to the door A guy like this needs to be sure No one was there was there when the devil rode out before And everything he ever did He only ever did for love Everything he ever said He only ever said for love And now, now he lies dead, Oh he's dead for love His mind's at ease, he sleeps in peace In English shadows you will walk tall And there you'll stay until you fall And when the final hour arrives It's only lovers left alive Wretched souls and gangsters' molls Beyond the valley of the dolls The story they will never tell Because their lips are sealed And everything you ever did You only ever did for love And everything you ever said You only ever said for love And now, now he lies dead, Oh he's dead for love Your mind's at ease, you sleep in peace And everything you ever did You only ever did for love And everything you ever said You only ever said for love And now, now he lies dead, Oh he's dead for love Your mind's at ease, you sleep in peace

Once you're lost In twilight's blue You don't find your way The way finds you Tempt the fates Beware the smile It hides all the teeth, my dear And what's behind them So glad you could stay forever So glad you could stay forever So glad you could stay forever So glad you could stay forever He steps between the trees A crooked man There's blood on the blade Don't take his hand You warm by the firelight In twilight's blue Shadows creep and dance the walls He's creeping too So glad you could stay forever So glad you could stay forever So glad you could stay forever So glad you could stay forever So glad you could stay So glad you could So glad, so glad you could stay So glad you could stay

Fast approaching Monsters, marching in a row Grab what slips your mind and what your memory won't hold Run, darling run I'll stall them if I can You'll escape and I'll be left rotting on the vine Ah, ah, oh, oh Ah, ah, oh, oh Run, darling run I'll stall them if I can You'll escape and I'll be left rotting on the vine Avert the childrens eyes, forget left untold Don't look back to see the blood river in the road Ah, ah, oh, oh Ah, ah, oh, oh Lets get revenge with my blood River in the road

Holding hands Skipping like a stone On our way To see what we have done The first to speak Is the first to lie The children cross Their hearts and hope to die Bite your tongue Swear to keep your mouth shut Ask yourself Will I burn in hell Then write it down And cast it in the well There they are The mob, it cries for blood To twist the tale Into firewood Fan the flames With a little lie Then turn your cheek Until the fire dies The skin, it peels Like the truth, away What it was I will never say Bite your tongue, swear to keep Keep your mouth shut Make up something, make up something good Holding hands Skipping like a stone Burn the witch Burn to ash and bone Burn the witch Burn to ash and bone Burn the witch Burn to ash and bone

I don't care what the people say If you gotta knock, then go away Oh, fears, ideas, they grow like a weed Used to wash my brain, but dirty thoughts just came and came No time in life for shit Spoonful by the pound, ain't having it Do you practice to preach or pretend to be? You a tiger, a trash can, royalty? Don't care what the people say Going deaf deliberately And the wolf's on the creep with the sheep on the merry-go-round And the wolf's on the creep with the sheep on the merry-go-round And the shepherd sleeps while the blood seeps into the ground On the outskirts of town where the headlights bleed Oh, Teen Angels in tangles I don't care if the people grow They all say done did doesn't make it so That school or a prison? Looks same to me I got one eye open and one hand free I don't care what the people know The world's gonna end in a month or so You may run the institutional learning facility But you don't run her, and you don't run me I don't care what the people say Got a tip for your trip, cop stopping me And the wolf's on the creep with the sheep on the merry-go-round And the wolf's on the creep with the sheep on the merry-go-round And the shepherd sleeps while the blood seeps into the ground On the outskirts of town where the headlights bleed Oh, Teen Angels Tonight is the night The kids are taking you to school Tonight is the night Setting fires, breaking the rules Tonight is the night You ain't who we answer to Tonight is the night You ain't so fucking cool We got our eye on you And the wolf's on the creep with the sheep on the merry-go-round And the wolf's on the creep with the sheep on the merry-go-round Tonight is the night The kids are taking you to school Well, tonight is the night So what you gonna do? Tonight is the night Setting fires, breaking the rules Well, tonight is the night Future tripping, skipping school Tonight is the night You ain't who we answer to Tonight is the night The tables gonna turn on you We got our eye on you

The sky is falling Human race that we run Is left me crawling Staring straight at the sun Only a moment I notice Every dog has his day I paid attention Cost me so much to today For so long I saw only wrong But now to remind It's a waste of time Close your eyes And see the skies are falling Close your eyes And see the skies are falling I wanted something Nothing blank I don't know It's all deflecting Stones are easy to throw Only a moment I notice Hours, days left behind Of wasted, useless Selfless, none of a kind For so long I saw only wrong But now to remind Not to go back to the low That has drained my life so low That has drained my life so low That has drained my life so low That has drained my Close your eyes And see the skies are falling Close your eyes And see the skies are falling Close your eyes And see the skies are falling Close your eyes And see the skies are falling Close your eyes And see the skies are falling Close your eyes And see the skies are falling Close your eyes And see the skies are falling Close your eyes And see the skies are falling