the night will always win Elbow

I throw this to the wind But what if I was right Well, did you trust your noble dreams And gentle expectations to the mercy of the night?

Great Expectations Elbow

And if it rains all day Call on you I'll call on you Like I used to Slide down beside and wrap you in stories Tailored entirely for you I'll remind you We exchanged a vow I love you I always will

Whisper Grass Elbow

you Is with me now A freeze of you With knitted brow A freeze of you Asking how I could A fury climb To prove myself A fury climb To a whisper grass shelf With God above And not much else The

The Blanket Of Night Elbow

Paper cup of the boat Even chest of the sea Carry both of us Carry her, carry me From 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

Fugitive Motel (album version) Elbow

Lost in a lullaby Side of the road Melt in a memory Slide in 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

Real Life (Angel) Elbow

If you wake in the quake in the roll of the heartbroken Pounding the ground in a sawn off ballet Bring us in an indigo dawn with the lovelorn and renegade You always found peace in the grip of the beat

Forget Myself Elbow

They’re pacing Piccadilly in packs again And moaning for the mercy of a never come rain The suns had enough and the simmering sky Has the heave and the hue of a woman on fire Shop shutters rattle

Buttons And Zips Elbow

Buttons And Zips Al had the guile and the sideways smile Bad boy and god Beck knew 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

Fugitive Motel Elbow

As it flies from the other side of the world From my room in my fugitive motel Somewhere in the dust bowl It flies from the other side of the world \\\"I\'m tired\\\" I said \\\"You always look tired

I've Got Your Number (album version) Elbow

Don't put this note by your face on the pillow Don't put this letter in the pocket near your heart Keep it in the bottom drawer where you hide the sex tools I pray you always need them Chorus I know what

I've Got Your Number Elbow

Don't put this note by your face on the pillow Don't put this letter in the pocket near your heart Keep it in the bottom drawer where you hide the sex tools I pray you always need them Chorus I know

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

Some Riot Elbow

The bruise turns a tall gentle boy to a terrible totem And the kids gather 'round trying to see what's inside I think when he's drinking he's drowning some riot What is my friend trying to hide?

My Sad Captains Elbow

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 ?You and I were born ?

Leaders Of The Free World Elbow

I’m sick of working for a living I’m just ticking off the days till I die I miss you Louise And the sickest little pleasures keep me going in between pulling teeth Periscope up I’ve been looking

The Bones Of You Elbow

So I'm there charging around with a juggernaut brow Overdraft, speeches and deadlines to make Cramming commitments like cats in a sack Telephone burn and a purposeful gait When out of a doorway The tentacles

Any Day Now Elbow

Don't play Coltrane you will sleep at the wheel Eyes on-horizon. Don't sleep at the wheel.

Buttons and Zips (album version) Elbow

Al had the guile and the sideways smile Bad boy and god Beck knew 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

snowball Elbow

Tied this letter to the red balloon Flew this letter off across the ruse Along with all the plans I made Ooh Over crippled cranes and twisted steel Deadlines overgrown and missing wheels I told you

Imagined Affair Elbow

A sky as black as regret Is rolling aside for the blue Impossible face to forget These feelings belong in a zoo She brings the morning She, she brings the morning sun So lost in the sound of her

An Imagined Affair Elbow

A sky as black as regret Is rolling aside for the blue Impossible face to forget These feelings belong in a zoo She brings the morning She, she brings the morning sun So lost in the sound of her voice

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

mcgreggor Elbow

Oohhhh There was lying at the table Crying on the stairs A raven on the gables singing 'Jesus doesn't care' A woman at the window With her hands on her hips Staring out across the ocean Like the

The Stops Elbow

I can't undo the day It won't go, won't go under the rug I pull all the stops And you, you pull the plug These are soberer days And I know it can't be But I'll miss you the way You miss the sea [Incomprehensible

Bitten By The Tailfly Elbow

You're a girl in this vicinity I'm a dog without a collar on This cattle-market cabaret Is the Sabbath every Saturday I'm full of wit and chivalry Until you've given in to me I'm a dog without a collar

Mirrorball Elbow

I plant the kind of kiss That wouldn't wake a baby On the self-same face The wouldn't let me sleep And the street is singing with my feet And dawn gives me a shadow I know to be taller All down to you

open arms Elbow

You're a law unto yourself And we don't suffer dreamers But neither should you walk the earth alone So with finger rolls and folding chairs?

An Audience With The Pope Elbow

Sweet Jesus, I'm on fire She has the sweetest, darkest eyes And when it comes into her eyes I know iron and steel couldn't hold me Good God, I'm easily bruised So often in love to her flame And the things

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

jesus is a rochdale girl Elbow

shopping carts And nothing to be proud of And nothing to regret All of that to make as yet All of that to make as yet I have a single heartbreak I celebrate and mourn A single shining sister And all the

The Take Off And Landing Of Everything Elbow

on you You kiss the wrist of the hand that has twisted itself all into your hair You close the blinds and doors behind me and clear all obstacles on the stair You are an open book I’m on the bathroom

Don't Mix Your Drinks Elbow

Don't mix your drinks Don't mix with him It will kill you one day Good advice, sound advice Why can't you be Like him, like me Look what you could achieve I'm coming cap in hand Begging you to

the birds Elbow

The birds are the keepers of our secret as they saw us where we lay In the deepest grass of springtime in a reckless guilty haze And they wove a sweet indifference and it settled on our skin Til the

The River Elbow

I walked with the river in kind of a dream Hand in hand, the all-knowing river and me To the clammer of rushes and deeply barren trees A drunk making blossom, the blush to be seen I told him my sorrows

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

Mercy Street Elbow

looking down on empty streets, all she can see are the dreams all made solid are the dreams all made real all of the buildings, all of those cars were once just a dream in somebody's head she pictures

This Blue World Elbow

This blue world and its countless sisters And all that came before that day Our atoms straining to a line Was the universe in rehearsal for us When all the world is sucking on it's sleeve You'll hear an

New York Morning Elbow

The first to pour a simple truth in words Binds the world in a 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

buffalo ghosts Elbow

Deadlines pass year on year, Whisper grass, the falling tears, Whisper grass, wish you were here.

Weather To Fly Elbow

Are we having the time of our life? Are we having the time of our lives? Are we coming across clear? Are we coming across fine? Are we part of the plan here? Are we having the time of our lives?

every bit the little girl Elbow

It's cooler now An opening of the senses She's snowy wise Lined and kind Pen in her mouth Hair in pencils It's cooler now An opening of the senses It's cooler now It's cooler now And

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

Little Beast Elbow

The whole towns slippin down a hill. Like the spine of something dead. Slide in shadow cobble-creep. Burn your mark and leave. ...

Picky Bugger Elbow

Drinking In order to feel Thinking Reinventing the wheel Kicking up mischief And feeding the fire Kicking up mischief And walking the wire Little fish you count for nothing Do your thing until

the birds (reprise) Elbow

The birds are the keepers of our secret As they saw us where we lay In the deepest grass of springtime In a reckless guilty haze Did they sing a million blessings As they watched us slowly part?

Switching Off Elbow

Switching Off Last of the men in hats hops off the coil And a final scene unfolds inside Deep in the rain of sparks behind his brow Is a part replayed from a perfect day Teaching her how to whistle

Fly Boy Blue / Lunette Elbow

on the box A chinless prefect gone Godzilla My newest friends have forgotten my name But so have I, so far so good and home You and me trampoline and oceans of crash site love What can be said of the

My Very Best Elbow

just did And would you tell her I'm from a long line of survivors And I'll be swinging with the kids Keep your sympathy Don't need the healing to start You've gone Gone and made a beautiful hole