My Very Best Elbow

Well, give that girl my very best Though it never made the grade If it seems that it's just not enough to love Then love lie down And would you tell her Not to talk as if I died Though a tiny part

high ideals Elbow

There's a ladder tear in my high ideals Like I took a chair on the battlefield Anyd any noble friend that was burning in my chest Is acid in my belly at the very best There's a bayonnette in my family

Some Riot Elbow

A friend of mine grows his very own brambles They twist all around him 'til he can't move Beautiful, quivering, chivalrous shambles What is my friend trying to prove?

Everthere Elbow

All my saints have taken bribes Singing going going gone All the angels taken dives Leaving you the only one If I loose a sequin here and there More salt than pepper in my hair Can I rely on you

The Everthere Elbow

All my saints have taken bribes Singing going going gone All the angels taken dives Leaving you the only one If I lose a sequin here and there More salt than pepper in my hair Can I rely on you when all

Friend Of Ours Elbow

Before leaving get to the bar No one around here makes you pay Never very good at goodbyes So gentle shoulder charge love you mate Love you mate Salford skyline gloom Always you could fly around any corner

with love Elbow

Best intentions Bring joyless drought Pack your hacksaw Come bust me out When your dentures prevent your smile These adventures will Fill your eyes with love You've been going see-through Could

Little Beast Elbow

But it’s the best you’re gonna get Sharp blow to the bridge of the nose Sharp blow and anything goes. ...x2

New York Morning Elbow

feeling all familiar 'Cause everybody owns the great ideas And it feels like there's a big one round the corner A tenner, up and out into New York Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers And oh, my

Coming Second Elbow

to moonn6epnce from shootingstar Found a hole and slipped on through Kissed the stone and learnt the lines Jumped the cue all the time forgetting you Best dishevelled lover 3yrs running Coming

My Sad Captains Elbow

Oh my soul ?And the streets are lined with one man shows ?Oh my soul ?Corner boys were moved along ?Oh my soul ?We're plummeting like crippled crows ?Oh my soul ? ?Oh, long before ?

neat little rows Elbow

My high priestess folded neatly, back in your box, oh lord Call the song he sang so sweetly, back in your box, oh lord Found myself astride a Tiger lifting my head, Just like you said Drown me now

What Time Do You Call This? Elbow

What time do you call this What time do you call this What time do you call this What time do you call this What time do you call this I've been craving to wilder on my days So then I'll find your face

Honey Sun Elbow

I live and die by the hot and cold in strangers' eyes But danger lies behind the tape across my door I know a place where angels lace the lemonade And I cannot stay where all the broken plans were made

love blown down Elbow

Someone's staking out my house So don't be sitting drunk Outside my window 'cause when your love is love blown down You must live with yourself Someone's opening my mail So don't be sending us it

Snooks (Progress Report) Elbow

Snooks (Progress Report) Stuff was started Things had ends Stuff regarding all my friends Some were married All were fine These are good friends these are mine I got deep warm drunk And I lost

Ribcage Elbow

Gave ourselves a name And peeled away the shame I wanted to explode To pull my ribs apart And let the sun inside To pull my ribs apart And let the sun inside Red stain blossoms And all you have

The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver Elbow

Gotta get out of TV Just pick a point and go The ticker-tape tangles my feet As I search for a face that I know Come on, tower crane driver There's not so far to go I must have been working the ropes When

Scattered Black And Whites Elbow

Been climbing trees I've skinned my knees My hands are black the sun is going down She scruffs my hair in the kitchen steam She's listening to the dream I weaved today Crosswords through the bathroon

Grounds For Divorce Elbow

Mondays is for drinking to the seldom seen kid I've been working on a cocktail called grounds for divorce Polishing a compass that I hold in my sleeve Down comes him on sticks but then he kicks like a

Flying Dream 143 (album version) Elbow

Flying dream 143 I stretched out my arms And my feet left the floor And how all fifteen (ahem) stone flew to you I don't know

Fly Boy Blue / Lunette Elbow

It's a lethal ballet Air traffic congestion I'm having a baby Second thoughts, scotch, dinner And someone's dancing on the box A former MP And no one was watching My oldest friends are a serious habit

Flying Dream 143 Elbow

Flying Dream Flying dream 143 I stretched out my arms And my feet left the floor And how all fifteen (ahem) stone flew to you I don't know

Buttons And Zips Elbow

how to push a boy to blush Known as The Fox Tom came out in June to a crowded room No one was shocked Ed had the hair, the shoes and the blues Got me arrested once ‘Will I ever get this song off my

Fugitive Motel Elbow

Slide in a solitude Not \'til I can read by the moon Am I going anywhere Not \'til I can read by the moon I blow you a kiss It should reach you tomorrow As it flies from the other side of the world From my

Not A Job (album version) Elbow

today Sleep it off Words to make her stay: you said Leave me and the plants die A panic smile across your face Corrugated browline The hissing bitter punchline Call when you can tie your lace You rule my

Snooks (Progress Report) (album version) Elbow

Stuff was started Things had ends Stuff regarding all my friends Some were married All were fine These are good friends these are mine Chorus I got deep warm drunk And I lost my words And it does not hurt

Newborn Elbow

I'll be the corpse in your bathtub Useless I'll be as stiff as a post If you hold me like a newborn Whisper what you feel My badly strung declaration To you You'll spend the end of your days Gently

Newborn (Album ver.) Elbow

I'll be the corpse in your bathtub Useless I'll be as deaf as a post If you hold me like a newborn Whisper what you feel My badly strung declaration To You You'll spend the end of your days Gently

Newborn (Single Edit) Elbow

to moonn6pence from shootigstar I'll be the corpse in your bathtub Useless I'll be as deaf as a post If you hold me like a newborn Whisper what you feel My badly strung declaration To You You'll

open arms Elbow

And a volley of streamers We can be there for tweaks and repairs Should you come back home We got open arms for broken hearts Like yours my boy, come home again Tables are for pounding here And when

Any Day Now Elbow

Some of my youth and all of my senses on overdrive. What's got into me? Can't believe myself! Must be someone else. Must be. Don't play Coltrane you will sleep at the wheel Eyes on-horizon.

Not A Job Elbow

Chorus: The dream again nobody understands Walking through the long grass on your hands It's not a job to do today You rule my world my brother You rule my world compare.....

Ribcage (album version) Elbow

Gave ourselves a name And peeled away the shame I wanted to explode To pull my ribs apart And let the sun inside Red stain blossoms And all you have is kisses And when the sunshine Throwin' me a lifeline

I've Got Your Number (album version) Elbow

hide the sex tools I pray you always need them Chorus I know what you have done Throwing advice like grenades at the table You're spinning your wisdom in stories that change Your lies are fluorescent my

I've Got Your Number Elbow

the sex tools I pray you always need them Chorus I know what you have done Throwing advice like grenades at the table You're spinning your wisdom in stories that change Your lies are fluorescent my

The Bones Of You Elbow

deadlines to make Cramming commitments like cats in a sack Telephone burn and a purposeful gait When out of a doorway The tentacles stretch of a song that I know And the world moves in slow-mo Straight to my

Lucky With Disease Elbow

Fell like a crippled crow Spinning through and breaking branches Im in a bad way Call my friends, theyll know what to do Im a better friend Than Ive ever been a lover And thats not saying much But Im not

Switching Off Elbow

Early evening June This room and a radio play This I need to save I choose my final thoughts today Switching off with you All the clocks give in And the traffic fades And the insects like a neon

Starlings Elbow

How dare the Premier ignore my invitations?

The Take Off And Landing Of Everything Elbow

You have the time-worn shimmer of tarantella on a Tuscan plain Patiently listen as dull reminiscences fall from my jaws in a jumble again You hold a lamp to my slumber I resurface just to do a new number

Buttons and Zips (album version) Elbow

how to push a boy to blush Known as The Fox Tom came out in June to a crowded room No one was shocked Ed had the hair, the shoes and the blues Got me arrested once Chorus 'Will I ever get this song off my

Switching Off (album version) Elbow

Early evening June This room and a radio play This I need to save I choose my final thoughts today Switching off with you All the clocks give in And the traffic fades And the insects like a neon choir

Grace Under Pressure (album version) Elbow

Grace under pressure Cooling palm across my brow Eyes of an angel Lay me down We still believe in love so fuck you

Grace Under Pressure Elbow

Grace Under Pressure Grace under pressure Cooling palm across my brow Eyes of an angel Lay me down We still believe in love so fuck you

dear friends Elbow

now a moment I'm home I've got bluster enough For the sails of a clipper And the truth never frays a good yarn But it struck me to say while so far away You are with me today You are here are in my

Real Life (Angel) Elbow

forgotten You with the eyes for the lonely whoever You with the life that could bring down a tenement Talking your way through the hearts of the citadel Up on the tables, or shoulders of strangers, or Under my

Fugitive Motel (album version) Elbow

a solitude Not 'til I can read by the moon Am I going anywhere Not 'til I can read by the moon Chorus I blow you a kiss It should reach you tomorrow As it flies from the other side of the world From my

The Blanket Of Night Elbow

the place we were born To the land of the free Carry both of us Carry her, carry me The ocean That bears us from our home Could sail us Or take us far, if so The danger That life should lead us here My

One Day Like This Elbow

final meal Yeah, kiss me like we die tonight Cause holy cow, I love your eyes And only now I see the light Yeah, lying with me half-awake Oh, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day When my