Faces Down
Album - 10 settembre 2001 - Debaser id 19099

When there is light from up above
Then there will come a sacred dove
To the basement, to the basement

When there is fear you won't have to cry
Napkins are here, they'll dry your eyes
And blind them, and blind them

They will come to your home
When they are here
Faces down

When there is greed taking control
Moving the bricks and starving the older people
Oh, people

If you seek shelter from your past
They'll come to point their fingers where you cast your shadow
Cast your shadow

They will come to your home
When they are here
Faces down

But you
Have been fooled
You knew the rules
By heart
There is
No guarantee
Against infamy
Out there

When there is trouble on the road
Dead passengers will guide you home
They will lead you
If they can just feed you

They will come to your home
When they are here
Faces down

Use every chance you've been given
She replied after several days
It's no good to be perfect
You know so well things are easy to tell
There is one thing I know
It goes like this
It's that when I'm down and out, it's you I miss

I have told you this before
And my transparent mind
Won't cover see-through hearts
I'll be straight with you now
Now I'm not what you want
Just like the rest
And you feel like you're subject to a test
But if there's one thing I know it's this
When I lose my sleep it's you I miss

You sleep all night
You know you lie awake
Tell me, yeah
And time is running out
And you know so well
It may never be

Use every chance you've been given
She is told, but it doesn't make her smile
She has no need to be perfect
She knows too well
Things are easy to tell
I have said what I thought you should know
But you never seem to recognize my face

Ask me anything you like
I'll reveal everything
I will treasure the truth
You could know anything
I am but a fool to play unaware of things
If I'd treasured the truth
I would tell it to you
I'm coming down to tell you what I know
To say what's real, to let you know
Where I have been and how I had to

Sleep on needles
You'll believe you are hard
Sleep on needles
And hear only the truth

Am I likely to succeed with the way things are?
Judging by your smile
You are holding something back
I'm sleepless around midnight
There's a change in the wind
The remembrance of things you used to hold back
I come around each time your notes are high
To tear you down and drag you up
To let you know what's going on while I

Sleep on needles
You'll believe you are hard
Sleep on needles
And hear only the truth

Who wants to know about these tortured souls?
Side two was about the tortured young and old
Side two will show you how it's meant to be
You'll see a blizzard and you'll leave
Side two will show you how it's meant to be

We're dying now
He helps us out
It is so sad to see what will become of me
But I know, oh I know

Who wants to know the names of those
who lived through execution, collecting votes?
You'll see a blizzard and you'll leave
Side two will show you things aren't what they seem

We're dying now
He helps you out
It is so sad to see what will become of me
But I know, oh I know

Who wants to know about all those
who placed their voices in a killing force?
Side two was about the tortured young and old

The moment has come, to face the truth
I'm wide awake and so are you
Do you have the clue what this is? (I don't know)
Are you everything that I missed? (Don't hope so)
We'll just have to wait and see (Wait and see)
If things go right we're meant to be

The surface is gone to scratch it off
We'll make some plans and let them go
Do you have the slightest idea? (No I don't)
Why the world is right when we leave (Is that so?)
Stay a while and wait and see (Wait and see)
If things go right we're meant to be

Oh, what a world this life would be
Forget all your technicolour dreams
Forget modern nature
This is how it's meant to be

The time is here for being straight
It's not too early and never too late
People say I should watch my pace (What do they know?)
Think how you spend all your days (They all say so)
They'll just have to wait and see (Wait and see)
If things go right they'll have to agree

Oh, what a world this life would be
Forget all your technicolour dreams
Forget modern nature
This is how it's meant to be

Du-dam-dam-duru-dam..

Do you have the slightest idea? (No I don't)
Why the world is right when we leave (Is that so?)
Stay a while and wait and see (Wait and see)
If things go right we're meant to be

Oh, what a world this life would be
Forget all your technicolour dreams
Forget modern nature
This is how it's meant to be

Forget modern nature
This is how it's meant to be

I've come to fill you up
I've come to taste the price I'll pay
I've come to leave a note
I've come to see you on and off again

There have been tragic affairs
Ever so unreliable
And I could just see through
these fingers and give it one more try

But nothing stays the same
I stand in my own way
I hear you called again
I know not what to say

I've changed, become another
The one you used to stalk is real
I've come to make it better
I've come to see you through the end again

And all the rumours in this house
Ever so unreliable
I would neglect them
If only lies gave us one more try

But nothing stays the same
I stand in my own way
I hear you called again
I know not what to say

I've come to know the reasons
I've come to realize the truth
'Cause though I leave he waiting
She knows I'll turn against myself again

But nothing stays the same
I stand in my own way
I hear you called again
I know not what to say

I am so amazed I am so amazed
That nothing stays the same
Nothing stays the same

Down in the valley, you're close to the sun
But we're heading closer, as close as can come
So you said "You have to put some truth into your words"

Down in the valley, inside your mansion
You won't have to speak to express what you feel
But I said "You know how it feels, but not what to do"

It doesn't make sense how
You can leave the ground
And enter the sky
And stay there too

No one's gonna come
Tell you how it's done
Tell you how it feels
'till you come down
It doesn't work by itself
How come?

Down in the valley, a myriad of fools
And sometimes you invite them to do what you do,
And these fools share my opinion that flying is crazy too

Down in the valley a choice has been made
A new reputation, it sleeps in your bed
Like you said: "It never was better than how it was"

I know what to say when things fall apart
Now that they grow, I'm talking in the dark

No one's gonna come
Tell you how it's done
Tell you how it feels
'till you come down
It doesn't work by itself
How come?

No one's gonna come
Tell you how it's done
Tell you how it feels
'till you come down
It doesn't work by itself
How come?

So I thought "That's how it works, who knows what to do?"

You can just call
I will pretend not to care
You'll pretend all
And I'll pretend you called

But no one's gonna come
Tell you how it's done
Tell you how it feels
'till you come down
It doesn't work by itself
How come?

No one's gonna come
Tell you how it's done
Tell you how it feels
'till you come down
It doesn't work by itself
It doens't work by itself

They were seen high-jacking someone's car
they drove far away
and it's in the news, the papers too
it's all around

Some of us already knew the truth
They call it salvation for the street
I'll make sure you'll come clean

It never happened before when we were playing
It's serious now, cause someone's luck runs out tonight
It's a terrible fright, yeah

Nanana...

They came here to steal the things they like:
computer equipment - mechanical stuff
cause we've have enough
we give it away

But someone left the scene of way too soon
It is tremendous in a way
We've never seen it in our street

It never happened before when we were playing
Now TV-shows - talking all they're saying now
Our luck runs out tonight

It's this simple: you believe - someone gives and you recieve
but somewhere along the way our luck ran out again

nanana...

Now they live in nevernever-land
claiming they're tourists
They light up the crowd
and don't talk so loud
anymore

But I'm sure we will see their brothers soon
Already racing to be first
They find it hard to adjust

It never happened before we have been playing
Let's do it again, forget what I've been saying now
Your luck runs out tonight

Nanana...
(Our luck runs out tonight,
Our luck ran out tonight X 4)