Mystery Jets

Lyrics to Making Dens :
I have a plane,
One of the few
With roundels on its wings.
Lullaby for me and for you,
When it flys high it sings

Rock me to sleep
With que sara,
Dear monde do you suppose?
As I feel my eyelids close,
The otherside is not so far.

I dug a hole
Under the ground
And made myself a den.
It's there that I can be found,
Not if you return but when.

There's a place
A place called Hell,
Spend some time there,
In the dark I cast a spell
To bury all,
All of my fears.

Oh D... (?)
Oh D...
Oh D...
I would but I couldn't spell your name.

Once I fell from a great height,
'Are you ready? I've come for you'
A voice spoke from the graveyard (?)
'Not yet' I said,
'Got some things to do.'

And all this time I've been making dens,
And I'm still making them now.
And I know, I know
I can never make ammends,
But I've got to reach you somehow.

I can tie my laces (Ohh Oh)
On my own shoes and I can (Ohh Oh)
Count up to to thirty too.

Oh D... (?)
Oh D...
Oh D...
I would but I couldn't spell your name.

I'm sorry
There are so few words
... (?)
I waited
A long time
And I never, never came back.
I see you often
In everyday places
I want to ... (?)
But I can't find the words.
But I can't find the words.
And I can't find the words
Oh I can't find the words.
And I can't find the words.
And I can't find the words.
They won't come.

(La la la la la)

Lyrics to Alas Agnes :
Agnes it all ended up in tears

Well we were an odd couple you and I
In our strange and original attire
I thought, I thought it was love at first sight
My mother, my mother, she shivered with fright

Well I couldn't tell if you were boy or girl
My mind was in such a swirl
I couldn't tell if you were boy or girl
True love roams, it roams where it will

Alas, Oh Agnes
I still adore you, oh Agnes
Oh Agnes, Oh Agnes, Oh Agnes, Oh Agnes

Agnes it all ended up in tears
Mind, you still have your souvenirs
You've got scars from head to toe
It's getting hard to tell your friends from foe

Well, you picked me up at King's Cross station
After my backstreet operation
You broke me, you broke the painful news
You dumped me, you dumped me for a pretty young muse

Well my lessons they are there to learn
My scars are caused by cigarette burns
I have no memories and I spend all day
Balancing the porcelain

Alas, Oh Agnes
I still adore you, oh Agnes
Oh Agnes, Oh Agnes, Oh Agnes, Oh Agnes

Oh Agnes I adore you
Oh Agnes I adore you
Oh Agnes I adore you
Oh Agnes I still adore you

Lyrics to Diamonds In The Dark :
Looking back now I regret,
You're a promise that I never kept.
Waiting in my room in vain,
Time winds back and back again.

Outside the school gates,
We first met in a basement near the park
(Diamonds in the dark)
We danced all night and then we kissed,
Your smile like diamonds in the dark.

It's a long way to fall
When the words stray
No-one calls

We would have little children,
We would be together forever.
(Diamonds in the dark)
We would live on the Delancy Street,
Then you cut your hair
And it ended there.

It's a long way to fall (long way)
When the words stray
No-one calls

Looking back now I regret,
You're a promise that I never kept.
Waiting in my room in vain,
Time winds back and back again.

Now I've nothing left to lose,
Clinging to a cliff-face
Staring at your shoes
And tell me, tell me, tell me
Do you feel the same?
Or are we just waiting for a day we can't,
A day that we can't change.

And now there's this no-mans land
Between you and me
(Diamonds in the dark)
But I still wander between
The sheets and streets
And other places we've been

It's a long way to fall (long way to fall)
When the words stray
No-one calls (such a long way to fall)
It's a long way to fall (long way to fall)
When the words stray
No-one calls

Looking back now I regret,
You're a promise that I never kept.
Waiting in my room in vain,
Time winds back and back again.

Back and back again,
Back and back again,
Back and back again,
Back again

Lyrics to Little Bag Of Hair :
Nintendo machines in hospitals are always broken
Chewing jay cloths relieves the pain from mouth ulcers
I've got a crush on a girl
But I'm gonna have to work on that
They say that being in the army makes you hard
But I don't know about that

Ice cream blender, pocket money spender
Off-chart behaviour, granulated banana flavour

Let's play nurses and doctors
Until the real nurses and doctors catch us shouting curses
Hiding in boxes until the real nurses and doctors come

I used to have a little bag of hair
And wish it was my hair
My Dad would bring me Airfix fighters
The glue would get all over the bed
At my fingertips enough morphine to put me in that jet
A 4am that little red button was all I had left

Ice cream blender, pocket money spender
Off-chart behaviour, granulated banana flavour

Let's play nurses and doctors
Until the real nurses and doctors catch us shouting curses
Hiding in boxes until the real nurses and doctors come...

Lyrics to Zootime :
ZOOTIME, ZOOTIME etc...(CHANT)

Oh, and all the things too fragile to see
Well your tin hat you take off around me
In your copper caravan, you can't have a clue
Wir sind die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

Lyrics to Horse Drawn Cart :
If you don't trust me i'll fall

I've wind in my sails
but the seas make me pale
and the floorboards are creaking below

Find me the oars
to row me to shores
where the natives will say hello

Emotion pulls you like a horse drawn cart
You can but only follow it into the day into the dark

Where are the fruits
growing from promised roots?
How far can this beer be thrown?

Here, take from me
this supposed ability
My feather's flown further than it was to be blown

Oooh ah ah ah ah oooh ho hoo

Emotion pulls you like a horse drawn cart
You can but only follow it into the day into the dark
Emotion pulls you like a horse drawn cart
You can but only follow it into the day into the dark

If you don't trust me i'll fall
(trust me i'll fall)
If you don't trust me i'll fall
(trust me i'll fall)
If you don't trust me i'll fall
(trust me i'll fall)
If you don't trust me i'll fall
(trust me i'll fall)
If you don't trust me i'll fall
(trust me i'll fall)
If you don't trust me i'll fall
If you don't (trust me i'll fall)
If you don't trust me i'll fall
If you don't (trust me i'll fall)
If you don't trust me i'll fall
If you don't (trust me i'll fall)
If you don't trust me i'll fall
If you don't (trust me i'll fall)
If you don't trust me i'll fall
If you don't (trust me i'll fall)

If you don't trust me i'll fall
If you don't (trust me i'll fall)
If you don't trust me i'll fall
If you don't (trust me i'll fall)
If you don't trust me i'll fall
If you don't (trust me i'll fall)
If you don't trust me i'll fall
If you don't (trust me i'll fall, fall, fall)

Lyrics to The Boy Who Ran Away :
There was a boy who ran away
from what he didn't know
And whom he wouldn't say he just had to go
Something it snapped inside of him as he fled from a nameless threat
Crowds of people stand aloof in Waterloo there's no sunset
And when he gets to that mythic place the streets are
dirty dark and deep
There is no rest there is no place to lay a head to sleep
There was a boy who ran away from what he didn't know
And whom he wouldn't say he just had to go
I went to so much trouble to banish you from my side
He said that your an accident
an accident about which I should forget
And now that the wheel has gone around he's back where he belongs
And he knows there is no hope only solace in the words of this song
There was a boy who ran away from what he didn't know
And whom he wouldn't say he just had to go

Lyrics to Soluble In Air :
To be the hero of my story
Forced are the events of my life
You're young, oh twice but once
Save my trouble

You struggle
You struggle

Bathe me in water vapour
Erase me to ashes with fire
I grow old to dust in the dark
You left me be soluble in air

If I, really knew the truth
I'd probably turn back with love
Better to not know too much too soon
Mankind is always in the tongue

Bathe me in water vapour
Erase me to ashes with fire
I grow old to dust in the dark
You left me be soluble in air

Bathe me in water vapour
Erase me to ashes with fire
I grow old to dust in the dark
You left me be soluble in air

Lyrics to Purple Prose :
I'm a tourist,
World at my feet.
Across hither and dither
and hither and dither
and hither and dither
wont fall off my seat.

I've a camera,
Keep my photos in a book.
The more i keep shooting and shooting
and shooting and shooting and shooting
and shooting,
The less i have to look.

Im a tourist
I'm a tourist
Oh Cairo where did you go,
Oh Cairo where did you go,
Oh Cairo where did you go,
Oh Cairo where have you gone
(where have you gone x3)

You're an Oyster,
That's food for thought,
Whats not for sale,
for sale for sale for sale for sale
for sale for sale cannot be bought.

I'm a tourist
I'm a tourist
Oh Cairo where did you go,
Oh Cairo where did you go,
Oh Cairo where did you go,
Oh Cairo where did you go,
Oh Cairo where did you go,
Oh Cairo where did you go,
Oh Cairo where did you go,
Oh Cairo where have you gone
(where have you gone x3)

Lyrics to You Can't Fool Me Dennis :
You can do anything you want
As long as it makes sense
You can do anything you want
As long as it makes sense

What a long haul it's been
My old and trusted friend
Don't think I'm being mean
Just can't find a gift to send

You didn't portray a sign
Not a tremble of the limb
In life were all duffels chum
Of all wisdom this is the sum

You can't fool me Dennis
You can't fool me Dennis
You can't fool me Dennis
No, you can't fool me Dennis

You can do anything you want
As long as it makes sense
You can do anything you want
As long as it makes sense

Remember those barmy days
Through a rose-tinted haze
Pal, you weren't a cypher
Pal, you were a man!
All the students drove a van

Well, it always pays to be brave
From the cradle to the grave
When the cat be friended the mouse
There wasn't a dry eye in the house

You can't fool me Dennis
You can't fool me Dennis
You can't fool me Dennis
You can't fool me Dennis

You can't fool me Dennis
You can't fool me Dennis
You can't fool me Dennis
No, you can't fool me Dennis

I know there's something a miss
You can't fool me Dennis
Knock me in a cocked hat
You always played with a straight bat

I know, I know, I know, I know...

Lyrics to Twenty One :
The boy who cried wolf couldn't take it anymore
They all tried to help but he'd heard it all before
Now he sits in a room with a lock on the door
Holding pictures in his arms and staring at the floor

But boy, you don't look a day over twenty one
But you already feel like half your life has gone
And you're close to the edge but you're hanging on
Do yourself a favour, don't do yourself any harm

And you want to tell your story but you don't know where to start
Well, your mother's pretty lonely but she don't have a heart
And you met the rich and famous and they're screwed up the same
Even "love will tear us apart" don't ease the pain

You can wipe the blood from your shoes and the tear from your eye
But the scars on your arms, well, they're harder to hide
Drawing on a cigarette, hoping your head will clear
Is like rubbing on a lamp untill a genie appears

And the last time you counted you were twenty three
But you still don't know who you want to be
And all of your heroes took their own lives
Do yourself a favour and take my advice

Oh you want to tell your story but you don't know where to start
Well, your mother's pretty lonely but she don't have a heart
And you met the rich and famous and they're screwed up the same
Even "love will tear us apart" don't ease the pain

Oh boy, you don't look a day over twenty one
But you already feel like half your life has gone
And you're close to the edge but you're hanging on
Do yourself a favour, don't do yourself any harm

And you want to tell your story but you don't know where to start
Well, your mother's pretty lonely but she don't have a heart
And you met the rich and famous and they're screwed up the same
Even "love will tear us apart" don't ease the pain

Lyrics to Behind The Bunhouse :
Did I strangle you with my love, think I saw it wrapped around your throat
The last time I saw you, you looked so pale, and white just like a ghost
It was fun for about five little minutes and then you cleared your throat
My eyes swelled up, I curled my toes and you said I almost choked
And you said I almost choked.

But honey, why did you go behind the bunhouse?
Didn't you know how much I had to give?
You knocked me over the head with a rolling pin
And then you got down and you kicked me in the ribs

The penny dropped even before I clocked just where your hands had been
It was like you'd done your hair for somebody else, scared that you might have been seen
I slipped down a flight of stairs and my face must have looked so long
Cos even the tosser with the saxophone was asking me what's wrong
He said "Buddy, what is wrong?"

But honey, why did you go behind the bunhouse?
Didn't you know how much I had to give?
You knocked me over the head with a rolling pin
And then you got down and you kicked me in the ribs

Please won't you spare me the details before I get up and I go
Who was it that stabbed me in the back or do you think I ought not to know?
You see the way I was before we met, I was curled up in a shell
And if I'm not counting planes up in the sky
Then I'm falling down a well
I'm at the bottom of a well

HOney, why did you go behind the bunhouse?
Didn't you know how much I had to give?
You knocked me over the head with a rolling pin
And then you got down and you kicked me in the ribs
The ribs(x3)

Lyrics to First To Know :
There are people I know
They don't seem to mind or if they do, it don't show
But I can't sleep at night
Unless I know it's your talk talk time

I know I'm so paranoid
But I've been that way since I was a boy
Knee high, stage fright
Even if you're alright
I've got to be

The first to know
The first to know
The first to know
The first to know
The first to know

I know it was a long time ago
You left on your own
You kerb crawled home
And I still kick myself now
Should have never allowed
You out of my sight

And I cross my heart and hope to die
If anything happens to you
When you're out of my sight
Wanna be the guy who steps in the way
When you're in harm's way
I wanna be

The first to know
The first to know
The first to know
The first to know
The first to know

And if you want some space just squeeze my hand, girl
I understand
You don't have to lie, we're on the same side, girl

I don't wanna be a ball and chain
But I'm just afraid of change
And I'm not ashamed
But if you think I wanna hold you back
You should know me better than that

I just wanna be the first the know
The first to know
The first to know
The first to know
The first to know
The first to know
The first to know
The first to know
The first to know

Lyrics to Young Love :
(feat. Laura Marling)

If i only knew your name i'd go from door to door
searching all the crowded streets for the face that i once saw
if i only knew your name i'd go from door to door
tell me have you seen the girl i met just once before?

one night of love,
nothing more nothing less
one night of love,
to put my head in a mess
is that you on the bus?
is that you on the train?
you wrote your number on my hand but it came off in the rain.

one night of love,
nothing more nothing less
one night of love,
has left my bed in a mess
is that you on the bus?
is that you on the train?
you wrote your number on my hand but it came off in the rain.

if i only knew your name i'd go from door to door
searching all the crowded streets for the face that i once saw
if i only knew your name i'd go from door to door
tell em have you seen the girl i met just once before

whoooaa.

young love never seems to left
far too young until they have a past
playing games,
people move so fast
you don't need eyes to see
if someones got a heart of glass

young love never seems to last
far too young until they have a past
one night of love, nothing more nothing less
one night of love
that left my heart in a mess

if i only knew your name i'd go from door to door
searching all the crowded streets for the face that i once saw
if i only knew your name i'd go from door to door
tell me have you seen the boy i met just once before?

whooaa