Sleepyhead Ed Harcourt

I'm a sleepyhead I'm always tired I'm a sleepyhead with no desire To face the same old day Go to the same old place And yawn there and back again And the night is cold, my favourite time And the day is

The Music Box Ed Harcourt

The Music Box sung by Ed Harcourt The music box is all that's left in the empty house Must've left it when they moved out In a hurry to flee the town Armoured tanks broke through all the soldier's

This One's For You Ed Harcourt

I feel so far away from love 'Cus I can never get enough Like the kid with the cookie jar And if I came back from the grave for a while Would you, could you make a dead man smile I´ll wear you on ...

Strangers Ed Harcourt

Deliciously I drink up all your tears On a piano out of tune I sit and persevere Deliriously I eat up all your words And jumble them around Til they become absurd Remember how it was They said it w...

Bittersweetheart Ed Harcourt

Bittersweetheart by Ed Harcourt if I could only see straight I wouldn't be lonley these days I'd drag my body out of this place and every sunday I sleep and pray that my soul will keep for I'll

Fireflies Take Flight Ed Harcourt

Fireflies Take Flight Oh beware of bleeding lung And bugs that eat their young The demons in your head The wolves under your bed The bones of dinosaurs Hidden below the floors They rattle and they ...

Metaphorically Yours Ed Harcourt

Metaphorically Yours by Ed Harcourt oh baby, can`t you see when you get mad at me your eyes light up your face oh baby, just a minute if both my wrists were sled you`re banish a new style and

From Every Sphere Ed Harcourt

From Every Sphere Take me far away And make me lose control For now I need to pray Think of forgotten souls Disappear from every sphere Watch them high Then slowly die Then slowly die If you shut y...

All Of Your Days Will Be Blessed Ed Harcourt

All Of Your Days Will Be Blessed by Ed Harcourt with beady black eyes, the bluebird has died it's feathers have dried, it couldn't survive from the winter's grasp, nothing ever lasts but you and i

Ghostwriter Ed Harcourt

Ghost Writer Hey - what's that sound in the bathroom? Hey - they're the voices in my head Hey - put your money where your head lays Hey - never sleep in your bed Hey - organise random chaos He...

The Birds Will Sing For Us Ed Harcourt

The Birds Will Sing for Us Little girl don't be sad I've set your eyes on fire Don't say I'm a liar that I don't love you Something has brought me down but I won't give up hope It's hard for you...

Sister Renee Ed Harcourt

Sister Renee Sister Renee, the jack of all trades don't put that hatchet in my back, in my back Watch myself fade on the bed that was made not by Nurse Ratchet but by you, yeah by you Your uniform ...

Undertaker Strut Ed Harcourt

Undertaker Strut Down in the valley where the river flows There's a man with a long black coat Rain is falling and clouds that are black On the coffin that starts to float Children they cry When th...

Bleed A River Deep Ed Harcourt

Bleed a River Deep When the clock strikes dead on midnight Books fly through the hall All the lampshades turn and rotate She walks through the wall With hands in pockets I search for rockets that m...

Jetsetter Ed Harcourt

Jetsetter Making an apperance at the club tonight Playing some songs that I think are alright I'm not post-modern just a man who can bark And bite with teeth that leave a mark In the winter your ey...

Watching The Sun Come Up Ed Harcourt

Watching The Sun Come Up by Ed Harcourt You know it feels nice, watching the sun come up and I`ve realized I can never return Oh babe it feels good, watching the sun come up I can attack the day

She Fell Into My Arms Ed Harcourt

well I burned all my travellers Cheques Just to show you my respect Then I hung myself out to dry And You looked at me and asked me why So I said I don`t mind if I lose Cos if I win ill be so confu...

Apple Of My Eye Ed Harcourt

When you're on your own You walk in the rain You walk around the house Then walk around it again You pretend you're happy That you've got it all But don't be upset If you fall on your knees And beg...

Visit From The Dead Dog Ed Harcourt

Visit From The Dead Dog - Ed Harcourt Got a visit from the dead dog He slept at the end of my bed last night He could tell I was fading And somehow fighting against the light Everyday when I open

You Put A Spell On Me Ed Harcourt

Bring you flowers in the morning I don't know what else to do Got a suitcase and a passport But all I really want is you I'm not sure if I can fake it I only write songs when I'm sad But being isn'...

Good Friends Are Hard To Find Ed Harcourt

I wish you all the more success More than I could ever have I wish you most happiness Good friends are hard to find Don't make the mistakes I've made And if you do, don't be afraid The grea...

Something In My Eye Ed Harcourt

Spider has eight legs, you knowSpins its web, the patterns flowThere's something in my eyeBloodshot in disguiseGod knows I really triedMaking the big timeAiming to climb highScattered seeds can't f...

God Protect Your Soul Ed Harcourt

Well I hope God protects your soulI don't know if you should leave home aloneMaybe you've been drinking from the Devil's bowlI can't express myself 'cause I'm not fully grownMy heartache, is my mis...

Those Crimson Tears Ed Harcourt

Moving like a dancing bear It's in my blood Falling down the marble stairs It's in my blood Oh my dear, that's the way I am made, I'm afraid Those crimson tears Drip on the floor, drip on the bar T...

Beneath The Heart Of Darkness Ed Harcourt

Beneath the heart of darknessLies an old machine that's dyingSpluttering like an army of artillery sporadically firingThe roots of the house are cracking, caving inThere's no way out, it's trapped ...

Wind Through The Trees Ed Harcourt

Oh my deserted oneYou must put down your father's gunWhen the sundial reaches middayShut your eyes and then look awaySomething's wrong, they're all goneI will walk through the long, long grass and ...

Birds Fly Backwards Ed Harcourt

Sad, blue, the world is upside downAnd birds fly backwardsCats, dogs, fall first upon the groundAnd birds fly backwardsPacked bags in the hallwayWhere we used to play all dayWe're hitting the road ...

Shanghai Ed Harcourt

Let's move away together, go interplanetaryMaybe in Chinese weather, where it's sanitaryI'll go out trawler fishing, yeah we'll have tuna steakI'm on a special mission, for us to have a breakWe'll ...

Shadowboxing Ed Harcourt

Hanging off the bridge by a fingernailTrapped in the harbour when the ship set sailBoy you're one card short of the packBegging for your baby to take you backStubbed a cigarette out on his handScra...

Until Tomorrow Then Ed Harcourt

If the world did endWould you be my apocalyptic friend?Until tomorrow thenIf the skies did fallWould you pick up my last call?Until tomorrow thenNavigate to the moonFlee the planet this afternoonUn...

Lately I've Been Feeling Rather Strange Ed Harcourt

"You’ve created a mob, But you must bear one thought. The mob has no rules. The mobhas no rules. Outstanding citizen shows off his mob. But is in fear of ridicule, when surrounded by fools. Latel...

T Bone Tombstone Ed Harcourt

Is it wrong to sing a sad sad songTo tell a story that is much too long'Bout a man who made his way back homeAnd found his name on an old tombstoneNobody knew who he wasWhy he came and for what cau...

Here Be Monsters Ed Harcourt

Fell in the wellChurch rang a bellPriests they just tried to help but he went straight to hellLost in the flames, such a shameHere be monsters againHere be monsters againBrain wash the weakJoin up ...

When Americans Come To London Ed Harcourt

When Americans come to London wearing their clean white shoesThe men wear baseball caps and the women they look confusedWhenever I travel I try to blend in the crowdFlowing to airports not thinking...

Alligator Boy Ed Harcourt

Alligator boy, get back in the swampAlligator boy, you're looking so scaredAlligator boy, get back in the swampAlligator boy, you're looking so scaleyFlicking your tail from side to side with a sic...

Weary & Bleary Eyed Ed Harcourt

Morphine sedates and sends you to sleepWhat I would give for a sleep that was deepI can hear birds calling my nameWhat I would give to send them awayCos I'm still awake and weary and bleary eyedI s...

Last Of The Troubadors Ed Harcourt

Over my dead bodyPeople place the flowersMeetings in the lobbyLemonade turned sourNobody is happy anymoreLast of the troubadoursI played in every ballroomA shadow of a manMy guitar was an heirloomI...

Little Silver Bullet Ed Harcourt

Little silver bullet hanging in my head And you know you won't dislodge it 'til I'm dead Got it in my dark days when I ????? And now I think I want to give it back And I can't get to sleep can't h...

Coal Black Heart Ed Harcourt

There's a scarecrow in the fieldBut it don't scare those crows awayI'm so happy on my own at homeI listen to the static of my record playerSometimes you have to have a breakFeed the ducks out on th...

Blackwoods Back Home Ed Harcourt

There is something in the blackwoodsGoing in cannot be goodAll these branches pull me inNotify my next of kinI smell the death tonightIt makes me feel so scared, uneasyThe darkness blinds the sight...

Still I Dream Of It Ed Harcourt

Time for supper now, day's been hard and I'm so tired I feel like eating nowSmell the kitchen now, hear the maid whistle a tune my thoughts are fleeting nowStill I dream of it of that happy day whe...

The Ghosts Parade Ed Harcourt

I slept for 19 days and always the sky was dreamingAnd when I chose to wake my eyes were red and streamingThe ghosts parade the house I'm lost in a place of madnessI wont ever venture out I'm shack...

Angels On Your Body Ed Harcourt

There's angels on your body, babyYou look so goodStrangers turn their heads to seeYou dance through the silver woodI would cut my heart outAnd nail it on to those who doubtThe angels on your body, ...

The Hammer And The Nail Ed Harcourt

I've been disguised by sunken eyeI sleep in cars and shout at starsThe killer said I'm not quite deadReplied then I must hidePlease don't say I'm stuck in woodThat I could sink like metal shouldAnd...

Sugarbomb Ed Harcourt

He threw me through the windowI lay bleeding in the glassIf that's the way he planned itI sure don't understand itIf I hadn't been with youHe Probably would have walked pastAnd like a dangerous dri...

Paid To Get Drunk Ed Harcourt

At the bottom of an empty glassSee myself going nowhere fastAnd the barman tells me it's time to leaveBut I haven't got time to careIf I have so much love to giveWhere is that will to liveMaybe you...

Atlantic City Ed Harcourt

Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night, now they blew up his house tooDown on the boardwalk they're gettin' ready for a fight gonna seewhat them racket boys can doNow there's troubl...

Hanging With The Wrong Crowd Ed Harcourt

Hey baby Jane, you have been climbing down the drain And you run in the rain to the playground climbing frame And the air seems so good and moist and cool When you meet him by the swimming pool Wha...

I'Ve Become Misguided Ed Harcourt

Sometimes I'm afraid of my shadowIt's always following meIn my home in an old trombone lives a family of bumblebeesAnd I'm fearful of the sharp sting that fractures through the skinWalking on the d...

Attaboy Go Spin A Yarn Ed Harcourt

Attaboy, go spin a yarn about the good old daysCatching fish laughing aloud out on Compton BayI'm not one for nostalgia, don't really like the pastI'm just a happy man with a ship and a sail and a ...