PALE FOREST LYRICS

1. Exposed Reel

Broken words lay on the floor
Lines I cannot fix
Thoughts that were, but are no more forgotten in the mix

And all my great designs, they’re fade
Like butterflies in frost
Dead souls gasping for more air long after life is lost

I wonder if they breath on planets far away
Technicoloured beauties

A sentence spoken in a dream will vanish when I wake
Leaving just the melody of its sweet refrain
Like plans you made when you were young that never came to be
But still would be your favourite song if capture by your ears

I wonder if they live all those hopes and dreams
In a secret place
I wonder if they breath on planets far away
Technicoloured beauties

2. Second Hand Balloons

Let me tell you all about a man just down the street
He’s wearing second hand balloons and cardboard on his feet
Telling wicked stories
He laughs with nervous friend
He’s really quite amusing when your life goes down the bends

Let me sing a song for you of little lady lay
She goes with anyone she meets
She’ll go with you one day
And if the lord would come to her she’d follow him for sure
But he has never asked her out or offered her a cure

Soothing
Let the ever eluding rust soothe you, my friend

Let me walk a while with you and watch the rain come down
On every little print I make upon the soggy ground
I’ll tell you that there’s no excuse for feeling left behind
To make this circle spin around I guess our teeth must grind

Soothing
Let the ever eluding rust soothe you, my friend

3. Oh, Gigantic Paradox, Too Utterly Monstrous For Solution

I might be mad
The days have no end
I might be lost cause I keep missing a beginning of everything

I might be sad
I can’t get enough
I might be lost cause I am shrinking

So am I nothing or am I all?
Am I the resurrection or am I the fall?

I might be mad
I think I’m the one
I might be lost cause I keep thinking I’m nothing and everything

4. Mandrake Makes A Hypnotic Gesture

Stick to one like old man Drake
He poured lemonade and made a cake
Served it to the princess upon her happiest of days

They were a signal, a beacon through space
He dared to fly above the maze
High enough to win that single pearl

Where ever you may see him
There is where she’ll be
His little jar of honey
He’s not afraid of the stinging bees

They were a grain, a child in the womb
All of their days he gently crooned
Only one, my only one

Where ever you may see him
There is where she’ll be
His little jar of honey
He’s not afraid of the stinging bees

5. New

Mosquito swarm under my skin
Drooling old man on the pyre within
The hall is empty but it’s never quiet
You’re a better man than I Mr. Sin

But I wanna be new
Try to fill the holes in my head
New. Let them drown the old instead
New. Try to separate the good from the bad
New. Throw away all the feelings I’ve had for you

My head is painted with the words of your call
I see the shadow of a noose on the wall
I have to kill you or I’ll die instead
A million pieces of my disco ball

6. Abra Cadabra

I know what you’ve done righteous mister hunter
I know what has become of you and the fox
I ain’t happy with you, not at all satisfied
I feel the need to scroll holes into your head

Abra cadabra all ethics and morals out the window

So you caught the fox
Know what it means?
The stain of border crossed
Became your prize to keep

I know what you are

7. Ding-A-Ling

Shadows in my head again
Too far from you bed, my friend
I stand on shaking shoes
And I’ll never be of much use

Counting toes beneath the table
The rain will flow when they are able
To fly this low to get me
And I’ll never be of much use

Foghorns blowing from the bar
The sky reveals a lucky star
For everyone but I
And I’ll never be of much use

8. Echo Star

While you’re moving through the show
While you’re letting no one know
That somewhere there’s someone no one loves
Who lives inside the goddess they behold

While they cling to you like snow
While you’re slowly letting go
Knowing you will fade but always be
The only image they could ever see

You give life to the twinkle in their eyes
You give meaning where all reason dies
You’re just like the echo of a falling star
Shining still cause they can’t see that far

While you vanish they become
While you choke they take breath one
And you’re the dream to bring them to the source
A saviour on the quickest horse

9. Envy

I’d like to be a silent fly on your wall
Reveal your tendencies to know it all
I’d like to hear it when you call me names
And to be a poison you drink from my veins

I’d like to be a little twist of your tongue
Make all your sentences come out wrong
I’d like to be a worm under your skin
And to fuck you up from deep within

Cause my name is envy the yellow fever
Myself I worship
I’m a believer

Yeah, you smile at everyone just like on TV
Why can’t you leave and be gone?
I just want them to see me

I’d like to be a hair in your hundred-dollar soup
I’d like to be a chair with an electrical loop
I’d really like it if you sizzled and burnt
I’d really like for you to see how I have yearned

I breathe, I breed

I just want you to see me.

10. The End

Sinking to the level between
This room and all the places that we've been
I breath behind the walls and this door
and all the things I used to be before.

What you are.

Smiling by the touch of your skin,
I have to end before I can begin.
I leave you by these walls and this door
and all the things I used to be before

What you are.

What you're looking for.
I won't beg more
Awake all night,
I'll lose this fight.

What you are.

So this is where I leave you, my friend,
This is what I'd like to call the end.







PALE FOREST LYRICS