Enter Shikari

First topic message reminder :

"Common Dreads"

Send "Common Dreads" Ringtone to your Cell
A heedless and harrowing future is developing
For our generation and generations to come.

But as I walk the chartered streets of this familiar oblivion,
I recognise nothing but unyielding unconsciousness;
in which we have almost comfortably drowned.

It is madness
this normality is madness!

We are clinging to manufactured crippling constraints...

We must no longer commute
Between brand laden homes
And quickly accepted, aimless roams
From our factories of slavery
To wars of illusive bravery

We must unite

And we must let the flood gates open

Here tonight, I clock a thousand heads
Here to unite, through common dreads

"Enter Shikari"

Send "Enter Shikari" Ringtone to your Cell
Shit!
Shit!

"I've been hiding here for a thousand years, waiting for your ghost"
"I've been hiding here for a thousand years, waiting for your ghost"
Your life's about to flash before your eyes
Your life's about to flash before your eyes

Stand your ground; this is ancient land
I was guided here by the spirit's hand
we shall meet, at Hells gate
This is fate (This is fate)
This is fate (This is fate)

"Not all is lost" the spirits shriek
you will be hunted, we shall seek
perseverance, turn the page
enter shikari, enter shikari

We're not hiding (We're not hiding)
We're not hiding (We're not hiding)
We're not hiding (We're not hiding now)

I'm in the zone
I'm in the zone
Alright

And still we will be here standing like statues
And still we will be here standing like statues
And still we will be here standing like statues
And still we will be here standing like statues
And still we will be here standing like statues
And still we will be here standing like statues

"Frozen Landscape"

Send "Frozen Landscape" Ringtone to your Cell
And let there be life
One space, a universe.
Our world, born like a blind child
One confined habitat.

And asks the same questions that we ask.
And asks the same questions that we ask.

And let there be life
One soul, one universe.
Our world, born like a blind child
One confined habitat

And asks the same questions that we ask
And asks the same questions that we ask.

And in this frozen landscape,
And in this frozen landscape,
I need you.
I collect the tears
Fallen from even the hardest of eyes...
I just can't realise the pain and the lies
It's all inside...

"Score 22"

Send "Score 22" Ringtone to your Cell
It was score 22 days ago since I carved you out of the finest pine
it's now my quest to find
all the splinters you gave that scar my mind

What would you rather be? [x3]
Hated and remembered?
or just forgotten?
When her last breath echoes "you complete me"

"yeah we'll stay...
I want to be..."

"Nodding Acquaintance"

Send "Nodding Acquaintance" Ringtone to your Cell
And you’d better be yourself
yourself tastes better
better than pieces of your heart [x2]

Buy me some Indians
to oppose my bored dead cowboys
Buy me some time to spend
Staring into your eyes...

Caught sipping from
the cup of denial
your precious addiction
Your lies taste vile

And you’d better be yourself
yourself tastes better
better than pieces of your heart [x2]

Buy me some Indians
to oppose my bored dead cowboys
Buy me some time to spend
Staring into your eyes...

Caught sipping from
the cup of denial

your precious addiction
Your lies taste vile

And a nodding acquaintance
will be all that’s left for us
I’ll swear I used to know you
but obviously not enough? [x2]

a nodding acquaintance for me

"Empty"

Send "Empty" Ringtone to your Cell
A blank sheet of
A blank sheet of paper
just begging to be filled
But tonight I cannot pour my heart out
Because you escaped with it
in your back pocket
Because you escaped with it
in your back pocket
Television remote controls
(cannot save me)
From destroying myself
under these scented quilts
The absence of your lower case screams
Punching out your fragile please
Tonight I feel helpless
Tonight I feel scared
Tonight I feel helpless
Tonight I fell scared

Whoa!

Tonight yes my ears are in pain yeah

A blank sheet of
A blank sheet of paper
just begging to be filled
But tonight I cannot pour my heart out
Because you escaped with it
in your back pocket
Because you escaped with it
in your back pocket
Television remote controls
(cannot save me)
From destroying myself
under these scented quilts
The absence of your lower case screams
Punching out your fragile please
Tonight I feel helpless
Tonight I feel scared
Tonight I feel helpless
Tonight I fell scared

Whoa!

Tonight yes my ears are in pain yeah

Come now and leave with me
This place is almost empty.
Come now and leave with me
This place is almost empty.
Come now and leave with me
This place is almost empty.
Come now and leave with me
This place is almost empty.

"The Bearer Of Bad News"

Send "The Bearer Of Bad News" Ringtone to your Cell
You provoke tears that stain
you control my face
you arrange it to show
a broken expression

I hate to be the bearer of bad news
As the cracks appear to run
But we'll meet again on better terms

You provoke tears that stain
you control my face
you arrange it to show
a broken expression

I hate to be the bearer of bad news
As the cracks appear to run
But we'll meet again on better terms

I hate to be the bearer of bad news
As the cracks appear to run
But we'll meet again on better terms

I hope to god we, get out alive
[Repeat]

"When A Jealous Man Finds A Gun"

Send "When A Jealous Man Finds A Gun" Ringtone to your Cell
And we'll grip each other tight
in this desolate canteen
That sells life at a price
that i am not prepared to pay

So go ahead and shoot us
it will only take on bullet
go ahead and shoot us

So go ahead and shoot us
it will only take on bullet
go ahead and shoot us

And we'll grip each other tight
in this desolate canteen
That sells life at a price
that i am not prepared to pay

So go ahead and shoot us
it will only take on bullet
go ahead and shoot us

So go ahead and shoot us
it will only take on bullet
go ahead and shoot us

Get your needle out and your black cotton
and stitch us back together again
Get your needle out and your black cotton
and stitch us back together again
(stitch us back together again [x4])

But that stitch
it will only last one life
([sniff sniff]
O shit)

what about the others
what about the others
what about the others
what about the others

"We Can Breathe In Space, They Just Don't Want Us To Escape"

Send "We Can Breathe In Space, They Just Don't Want Us To Escape" Ringtone to your Cell
And what comes next?
A chance to save ourselves?

Imagine magma encrusted in rock
And on the surface of this world, all eyes are on the clock
Cos all our empires, our philosophies, our practiced faiths, our revolutions
our proud sciences, are but a flicker in one day of the lives of the stars.

We can breathe in space, they just don't want us to escape
We can breathe in space, they just don't want us to escape

And what comes next?
A chance to save ourselves?

The constellations yes all 88 of them
Like the G8 they meet to procrastinate

Greetings, we are an infant species
crawling, into our own, premature decline
The north star is chairing the meeting, he knows we're spoilt
and he's sniggering at histories.

We can breathe in space, they just don't want us to escape
We can breathe in space, they just don't want us to escape

the hollow proposals mean we'll migrate
but they'll bleed us dry until that 11th hour
and when dawn breaks i'll sit and stagnate
with this metric ton on your shoulders, how do you cope?

we are an infant species
crawling, into our own, premature decline
The north star is chairing the meeting, he knows we're spoilt
and he's sniggering at histories.

lets prove the stars wrong.
we've got to do this.
and I find it hard to believe that we're are alone...

"Tribalism"

Send "Tribalism" Ringtone to your Cell
Shikari was a third generation Aztec, his tribe accepting human reality
It was the basis of their ability, to sustain with human tranquility
But civilizations encouraged religions which in turn introduced depravity
And that was as big a realization as when my boy Newton discovered gravity
Cos it transformed the way we bounce about on a daily basis
Not content with a doubt about the knowledge of who's up there
Quick! give him a name, a trident, and a chair sharpish
What happened to wonder?
Why can't we accept we're not capable of thunder?
So we welcome the lies with open arms,
and we turn into Suckers when they turn on the charms

You're trying to run us all into the ground,
to be swallowed by the soil and trapped by the rain,
You shout through our speakers
And we don't turn them off, cos trapped in silence is tougher

But this time we'll turn the speakers off
And we won't stay silent, WE'LL MAKE AS MUCH NOISE AS WE CAN!

And I ask what's a though without a voice to voice it
It's just a thought
It's just a thought

The original affluent society, floating free of capitalistic society
But all that's left is the pack vibe, but the catch is dogs don't eat other dogs
We're able animals employed by criminals in this cannibalistic society
Where we scrimp and save, just to behave with the utmost propriety

You're trying to run us all into the ground,
to be swallowed by the soil and trapped by the rain
In your concrete garden of falseness
You're trying to run us all into the ground,
to be swallowed by the soil and trapped by the rain
In your concrete garden of falseness
You shout through our speakers
And we don't turn them off, cos trapped in silence is tougher

But this time we'll turn the speakers off
And we won't stay silent, WE'LL MAKE AS MUCH NOISE AS WE CAN!

And I ask, "What's a though without a voice to voice it?"
It's just a thought
It's just a thought
It's just a thought
And I ask, "What's a though without a voice to voice it?"
It's just a thought
It's just a thought
It's just a thought
We will shout our heads off, we wont stop until you hear
We wont stop until you trip up upon yourselves

And I ask, "What's a though without a voice to voice it?"
It's just a thought
It's just a thought
It's just a thought
And I ask, "What's a though without a voice to voice it?"
It's just a thought
It's just a thought
It's just a thought

And we won't stay silent, we'll make as much noise as we can
We won't stay silent, WE'LL MAKE AS MUCH NOISE AS WE CAN!

We won't stay silent
We won't stay silent
We won't stay silent
We won't stay silent
We won't stay silent
We won't stay silent
We won't stay silent
We won't stay silent
We won't stay silent

"The Feast"

Send "The Feast" Ringtone to your Cell
We're trapped in the ribcage of a wilder beast.
Come join the feast.
Sit down at the head of the table
We'll eat our way out now

The orangutan is quite content, sipping its champagne.
The minotaur has lost its cool, it's time to start his reign.

Now raise your glass, let's make a toast.
Let's make this carcass fit for a king.
Now raise your glass, let's make a toast.
Let's make this carcass fit for a king.
Come join the feast.

Roll up, roll up,
I am your host.
The father, the son and the,
Holy ghost.

I will not let you escape
I will not let you escape
I will not let you escape
I will not let you escape

Ohhhhhh... Go!

I'm swinging from a chandelier?
I'm swinging from a chandelier?
I'm swinging from a chandelier?

Let's crash the party!

Now raise your glass, let's make a toast.
Let's make this carcass fit for a king.
Now raise your glass, let's make a toast.
Let's make this carcass fit for a king.
Come join the feast.

Now raise your glass, let's make a toast.
Let's make this night just fit for a king.
Now raise your glass, let's make a toast.
Let's make this night just fit for a king.
Come join the feast.

Come join the feast.
Come join the feast.

"Keep It On Ice"

Send "Keep It On Ice" Ringtone to your Cell
I'm biting the blade of your scissors
As the champagne fizzes
Keep it on ice
There's plenty more biting to do yet

Words dribble from my mouth
As I freeze your lungs
So have little hope
Of penetrating
Your fucking noodle is tangled
Your fucking noodle's been tango'd

I'm biting the blade of your scissors
As the champagne fizzes
Keep it on ice
There's plenty more biting to do yet
I freeze your lungs
So have little hope
Of penetrating
You fucking nooby fandango
Your fucking noodley tango
Oooo

Biting the blade of your scissors [x3]

I'm biting the blade of your scissors
As the champagne fizzes
Keep it on ice
There's plenty more biting (to do yet)
Words dribble from my mouth
As I freeze your lungs
So have little hope
Of penetrating
Your fucking noodle is tangled

"Thumper"

Send "Thumper" Ringtone to your Cell
Yes, axiomatic subject matter,executed with absolute lucidity.

Alright

We can't keep deferring action,
only surviving by the skin of our teeth.
We can't keep deferring action,
only surviving by the skin of our teeth.
We're sick of the same old story,
tonight the motionless must vacate,
so we can accelerate out of a stagnant society.
We're sick of the same old story,
tonight the motionless must vacate,
so we can accelerate out of a stagnant society.

We will, we will never be sane
We will, we will never be sane
We will, we will never be sane
In an unsane system
Keep the tempo up, keep the pressure on
Keep the tempo up, keep the pressure on
Keep the tempo up, someone take the first step,
be brave and cave in.

Alright

(Okay, I admit it, we are totally lost)
Imagine that, and then they say..

We've lost the movement, we've lost the beat.
We got so tied up in making a profit
that we choked when we realised that it was at our feet
We've lost the movement, we've lost the beat.
We're all made of the same dark matter,
its intrensic that we rise to our feet.
We'll start a movement, we'll start a beat.
We're all made of the same dark matter,
its intrensic that we rise to our feet.

We're sick of the same old story,
tonight the motionless must vacate,
so we can accelerate out of a stagnant society.
We're sick of the same old story,
tonight the motionless must vacate,
so we can accelerate out of a stagnant society.

We will, we will never be sane
We will, we will never be sane
We will, we will never be sane
In an unsane system
Keep the tempo up, keep the pressure on
Keep the tempo up, keep the pressure on
Keep the tempo up, someone take the first step,
be brave and cave in.

We're sick of the same old story,
tonight the motionless must vacate,
so we can accelerate out of a stagnant society.
We're sick of the same old story,
tonight the motionless must vacate,
so we can accelerate out of a stagnant society.

We can't keep deferring action,
only surviving by the skin of our teeth.
We can't keep deferring action,
only surviving by the skin of our teeth.

"Kickin' Back On The Surface Of Your Cheek"

Send "Kickin' Back On The Surface Of Your Cheek" Ringtone to your Cell
Deck chairs out lads, heres the spot,
a spanking panoramic view.
The soil here is silk,
the air is SELECTIVE!

"Whose lungs shall I fill with my glorious vapours?
Whose lungs shall I fill with my glory?"

BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT
STAND TALL, STAND PROUD

Taking in all you see
You begin to register cliffs as teeth
Taking in all you see

The fucking penny drops
I've been kicking back on the surface of your cheek, all along...
I'm gonna dive right in your mouth
and cut off your tongue
and hide there FOREVER.

BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT
STAND TALL, STAND PROUD

TAKE TO THE SKIES
IT'S TIME TO LIVE

"Insomnia"

Originally by Faithless

Send "Insomnia" Ringtone to your Cell
I only smoke weed when I need to
and I need to get some rest
yo wheres the sex
I confess
I burned a hole in the mattress yes yes
that was me, I plead guilty
and at the count of three
I pulled back the duvet
make my way to the refrigerator
one dry potato inside
no lie not even bread, jam
when the light above my head went bam!
I can't sleep, something's all over me, greasy
Insomnia, please release me and let me dream
about making mad love on the heath,
tearing off tights with my teeth
but there's no relief, I'm wide awake in my kitchen
It's dark and I'm lonely
Oh if I could only get some sleep
Creaky noises make my skin creep
I need to get some sleep
I cant get no sleep.

"All Eyes On The Saint"

Send "All Eyes On The Saint" Ringtone to your Cell
22nd of June, 209 AD, A crowd gathers.
Ohhh they fuckin' love a good beheading.
Watch as St.Alban's head, rolls down the hill.
The crowd stood still, 'cause what they just saw,
It petrified them to the core,
Ahhh to the core.
Ahhhhhh.

As the executioner raised his as his axe,
I swear the saint smiled.

Welcome Verulamium, cathedral city,
All eyes on the saint.
Welcome Verulamium, cathedral city,
All eyes on the saint.

Our city with its beautiful history,
Is being diluted.
But we will not let go.
No we wont.
Now get a grip on your roots boy.
Don't let go.
But we will not let go.

Ahhhhhh.

As the executioner raised his as his axe,
I swear the saint smiled.

Welcome Verulamium, Cathedral city,
All eyes on the saint.
Welcome Verulamium, Cathedral city,
All eyes on the saint.

And it's cold outside.
And it's cold outside.
And it's cold outside.
And it's cold outside.

As the executioner swung his wedge,
His eyes popped right out his fuckin' head.
Then when he should see the ancient moment,
The making of the first British martyr.
British martyr.

Here lies truth, where I stand.
Here lies truth, where I stand.
Here lies truth, where I stand.
Here lies truth, where I stand.

So where St.Albans head,
Laid to rest, after the kill.
Fresh water sprung up from the ground,
At the bottom of what's now,
Holywell hill.
Holywell hill.

"Acid Nation"

Send "Acid Nation" Ringtone to your Cell
Huddled in this acid nation with apprehension,
You are expected to gulp down hindrance.

This is a celebration of spirit and of mind.
When your bodies resignation is heard you can ignore.

This is an assignation.
WE WILL PERSEVERE
This is an acid nation.
WE WILL PERSEVERE

FEEL THE RAYS BEAT DOWN
FEEL THE RAYS BEAT DOWN

Next time you open your eyes
be thankful the world never wears a disguise
here's the sun to reveal...

This is an assignation.
WE WILL PERSEVERE
This is an acid nation.
WE WILL PERSEVERE

FEEL THE RAYS BEAT DOWN
FEEL THE RAYS BEAT DOWN

And anyway who cares?
THE SUN IS OUT!

STARE, AT THE, SUN.
STARE, AT THE, SUN.

This is everything I ever wanted.
This is everything I ever wanted.
This is everything I ever wanted.
This feelings all I need.