Geography - swimming pool

How many times do you think that we have tried

to stop this ship from going down?

It seems to me that it don’t matter what we do,

we just keep picking up the pieces, coming back around.

And I’ve been difficult it’s true, with all my complications,

But I’m just as bad as you when you get crazy on your own.

And I know you and I have been through every nightmare situation,

But it doesn’t stop me coming back for you.

You say that you don’t mean to hurt me when you hurt me,

when you scar me like you do.

I know my whereabouts have sometimes been in question,

I was testing your affection, I never wanted something new.

And it’s improbable I know, that we’ll ever change this station,

But I wanted you to know that I guess that I don’t mind.

And if you ever get to thinking you might change your destination,

You’ll probably find me waiting there for you.

(Instrumental)

So here we go again with our midnight conversation,

where it’s difficult to see just what makes you go around.

But if you need an invitation, or a shift of my persuasion,

You know that I’d try anything for you.

geography - sky

You and I were pretty stoned. And we were taking it all in.

Just lying heavy in a field, with something starting to begin.

And you were looking at the sky, I was picking out a vapour trail.

And it was happening so fast, felt like the world was standing still.

And I was thinking how, could it be true?

That out of the millions of people, I wound up here with you.

And I was thinking why, why oh why?

Should we not be lovers together under this perfect sky?

So you were sitting in my car, and we were high up on a hill.

And though the wind was blowing hard, we didn’t care we both had time to kill.

And everything we said was true, and there was nothing left to lose.

All wrapped up in your camp college coat and those rainbow coloured laces

in your shoes.

And I was thinking how, could it be true?

That out of the millions of people, I wound up here with you.

And I was thinking why, why oh why?

Should we not be lovers together under this perfect sky?

We don’t know where we’re gonna go, but you know

Something this strong is gonna be hard to hold on to when

Life is cruel and people disappear, so let’s stay

Let’s stay, let’s stay, let’s stay right here.

If only for a little while.

geography - looking down

Say my name, say my name.

There was a time long ago when it kept me from looking down.

Looking down.

What will be, what will be.

It’s only now that I see, it’s all coming clear to me.

We hold our lives in our hands as we stand on these buildings.

Silently longing, for the faster way down.

What it is, what it is in our hearts we’ve been missing.

Hard to believe, it can ever be found.

Little loves, little loves.

They can take oh so much when you find that you’re losing touch.

Four o’clock, five o’clock.

Could it be that your babies are all out to wear you down?

Take a look at this life it would all seem so natural.

But when you’re here, it’s just a merry go round.

That little thing, that little thing in your heart you’ve been missing.

All through the days and the nights when you thought you could turn it around.

(Instrumental)

I don’t believe there’s a need to be running yourself down.

So many reasons, to be working it out.

All the time that you spend in your own little prisons.

Under the light of the stars with your feet hardly touching the ground.

geography - atheist

What a fool to believe you could really go and win it all.

When everybody knows there’s only losers in this town.

And you should know that just for asking we can kill you anytime we choose.

You’ve got your head up in the clouds and we’ll be pissing on your shoes.

And so you think that any action you might make is gonna change something.

You must be on drugs to say a stupid thing like that!

Cause round here we believe you ain’t ever gonna win at all.

Cause everybody knows there’s only losers in this town.

You don’t ever want to know just what happens to your soul.

When you know your light is failing and your feet just won’t stop shaking.

You don’t ever want to know just what happens when you’re gone.

How can you believe in heaven when the sky goes on forever?

And just by doing this you shake us all to ruin with your constancy.

What do you think that’s gonna do to your mother in the end?

All the trouble that you’re causing with your selfish little misery.

Why don’t you grow up baby, put a stop to all this pretend?

Don’t try to show us the way, don’t wanna listen to your prophecy.

The last thing that we need round here is a prodigal son.

You’re talking to yourself, you’re only talking to yourself boy.

Don’t you know there’s only losers in this town?

geography - henceforth

And henceforth, you will do what I want you to do, you’ll never get it better.

I’ll be ruler and you will be queen, you’ll never get it better.

I’ll throw parties and you will be seen, not heard over dinner.

We’ll glide gracefully through all the scenes, you’d better watch your manners.

I am an ignorant whirlpool, I’ll swallow you up and keep you with the fishes.

Slowly devour your soul. I’ll watch as you sleep when you’re doing the dishes.

I’ll creep by and catch you in worry

I’ll press you so you always hurry

I need you, you make my life solid

I love you. Oh I do.

Sometimes I wonder why I can’t sleep, there’s ghosts in my body.

You were the one thing that made me compete, now I feel like I’m sorry.

So you’ll be off seeking some other life, love, I already miss you.

You’ll grow further away from my soul, though I may still kiss you.

And I am an arrogant fool, I’ll blast you with anger and shatter your silence.

Gently tipping the balance. East maybe West, maybe walking in silence.

I’ll shout at you like we’re part of some tradgedy

That I could never be ready for

Always you keep me unsteady

I love you. Oh I do.

(Instrumental)

So henceforth I will do what you want me to do, I’ll never get it better.

You may walk on my face in your shoes, I’ll never have it better.

I am your bevy of fools, I’ll hang by a wire, abide by the rules.

I’ll smartly stand to attention, whenever a hint of your name is in mention.

I’ll wear you like you are in fashion

I’ll stay sharp and savour my ration

I’ll keep quiet on affairs of the heart

But I’ll love you.

I’ll love you.

I love you.

Love.

geography - valentine

trike a match you’re attached to a simple feeling.

Pick a place, crack a face, let them know you’re dealing.

Cause this love ain’t ever gonna be

Cause this love ain’t ever gonna be the one.

See the smoke in this room every picture lingers.

Like the cigarette burning down to your fingers.

And this love ain’t ever gonna be

No this love ain’t ever gonna be the one.

And you feel so insecure. But you’re coming back for more.

Just how long can you keep doing this for?

I guess it looks from your books that you’re educated.

So why’d you let what he said get you so frustrated?

Don’t you know he ain’t ever gonna be the one?

Justify what inside makes you feel you want it.

But you know that you’re already up above it.

Cause this love ain’t ever gonna be

Cause this love ain’t ever gonna be the one.

And you know it’s not your place, but you just can’t find the space.

To lean over now and tell it to his face.

Valentine, it’s over now. You can’t find it in your heart.

Let this be your wake up call.

Find another place to start.

And so it goes, now you know that you sometimes miss.

And so it seems that your dreams really aren’t made of this.

Cause this love ain’t ever gonna be the one.

Strike a match you’re attached to a simple feeling.

Pick a place, crack a face, let them know you’re dealing.

Cause this love ain’t ever gonna be

Cause this love ain’t ever gonna be the one.

geography - body

Hmmm. So there you are. All in your place.

While I just sit here, questioning my sorry state.

Feels like suicide, but somehow I survive.

Going nowhere over you.

And I get so scared when I realise, that there’s no way to make it right.

And it’s so underlined. But you don’t seem to mind.

String me up cause I’m a fool.

So how could you let another man touch your sacred skin?

And how could it not mean anything more than a midnight tryst,

In his arms you twist.

As I let the insects bite through the sweat pearled on my skin.

Coming alive to your every sigh as I watch you making love to him.

Your body is a temple baby. So why don’t you let me in?

You’re so much better when you’re with me darlin’.

Can’t you feel me pulling on your skin?

It gets so cold without you honey, remember when I had you tied?

Your body is a temple baby, when you gonna let me back inside?

And I don’t know. The games you’re playing.

And I don’t know just what I’m doing here.

As I twist my wrist and find, I’m still so unsatisfied.

I’m bending backwards over you.

So how could you let another man touch your sacred skin?

And how could it not mean anything more than a midnight tryst,

In his arms you twist.

As I lie with my soul on fire, knowing all the things you do.

The whispers and sighs and the heavy eyes.

Remembering the way you cried.

Your body is a temple baby. So why don’t you let me in?

You’re so much better when you’re with me darlin’.

Can’t you feel me pulling on your skin?

It gets so cold without you honey, remember how I had you tied?

Your body is a temple baby, when you gonna let me back inside?

geography - stop this car

 ou think that I am made of stone.

And you can’t do a thing to me.

But I am only flesh and bone.

And it’s amazing how you cut through.

My heart is parcelled up and tied.

You may do with it what you please.

It seems that I don’t know you.

I was so sure of everything.

And it’s amazing how you get through.

How did you get so strong?

How did you get so strong?

Stop this car, wait just one minute,

try walk too fast, go slow, you’re falling apart.

I hear your words ten times every second, so loudly hours creep by.

And you seem to think I’ll be here anytime you want

cause I got no place else to go.

And I’ll always be the one to leave.

And I’ll always be the last to…(rpt)

You think that I am made of stone.

And you can’t do a thing to me.

My heart is parcelled up and tied.

You may do with it what you please.

It seems that I don’t know you.

I was so sure of everything.

And it’s amazing how you get through.

How did you get so strong?

How did you get so strong?

How did you get so strong?

How did you get so strong?

geography - geography

What makes somebody be bitter and cold?

While all those around them may smile.

A work that’s in progress from when we are born,

Always twisting our appetite.

One by one, all the meaningless things we have done.

Alter our geography.

It’s one rule for you and it’s one rule for them

But why does it seem so unfair?

How can we ask for a better design

when there’s so much that’s already there?

You and I have been bending and breaking inside.

Becoming one geography.

(Instrumental)

What do you say when you don’t understand?

You react with an arrogant fire.

Fear is the sum of the knowledge we lack and our

ignorance burns with desire.

Rough terrain, and no two of us ever the same.

Mixing our geography.

geography - weight in gold

ick your clothes up from the bedroom floor.

Get your shoes on and make your way past the kitchen door.

Unhook the telephone and wind the chord.

There’s no one calling this place anymore.

Remember when you used to say that good things come to those who wait?

Well, she’s not waiting anymore.

Get yourself together, you can take your drink.

And all the unfinished business that you kept in pieces underneath the sink.

Unearth the old games that you used to play.

Some of them ain’t yours, but you’re taking them with you anyway.

You used to work your fingers to the bone just trying to make it happen.

But you’re not working anymore.

You always thought that it was gonna be fine.

Only being happy in the meantime.

We all get blown away.

You were only looking for attention.

She got put away and never mentioned.

Well, too bad, cause she’s worth her weight in gold.

So clean the windows and sweep the floor.

You’re never gonna rest your sweet head here anymore.

No more.

Paradise ain’t all delicious, bits of junk can be so precious.

Now you see she was worth her weight in gold.

Now she’s gone, she was worth her weight in gold.

geography - day has become

I watch the time every tick of the clock, I’ve been gone too long.

My race is run while I’m still on the blocks, every day, it’s so wrong.

Tune my piano with a turn of the thread and I play until dawn.

And the songs always seem so much brighter than day has become.

Day has become.

My situation’s changed in so many ways, don’t know how to react.

My day begins no sooner than it has ended, so sad, it’s a fact.

And I’m so sorry I don’t pick up the phone but I know it’s all gone.

And the songs always seem so much brighter than day has become.

I have paid the price for my living.

When do I receive my reward?

Hold me now I’m falling.

Watch me as I go…

I read the papers of an ignorant world, it’s the same everywhere.

We’re all so busy keeping count of the cost, we don’t know, we don’t care.

Too quick to notice that we’re running the clock down and soon we’ll be gone.

And the songs always seem so much brighter than day has become.

I have paid the price of my living.

When do I receive my reward?

Hold me now I’m falling.

Watch me as, (RPT CHORUS)

geography - no place like home

Don’t wanna end up playing postman to your Coleridge.

Interrupting the flow. Inopportune anomaly that won’t seem to go.

But how would I know if that applied to me? If you lied to me.

Could it be that I might find myself a laughing stock?

A hole in the head. With reason to believe that I was sadly misled.

Kept in the shed with all the other things, that a lifetime brings.

Isn’t it cold alone?

Isn’t it cold alone?

Isn’t it cold alone?

When you’ve got no place like home.

How we pray that our old friends won’t find us lacking.

Dragging a limb. A weight around the ankle when you’re trying to swim.

The chances are slim that when the boat goes down,

they’re gonna stick around.

When you’re young it seems that life goes on forever.

Long August days, surrounded by the laughter, how the memory fades.

Lavender greys along with all the things, that a lifetime brings.

And takes away.

Isn’t it cold alone?

Isn’t it cold alone?

Isn’t it cold alone?

When you’ve got no place like home.

(Instrumental)

Isn’t it cold alone?

Isn’t it cold alone?

Isn’t it cold alone?

When you’ve got no place like home.

Got no place like home.

No place like home.

Place like home.

geography - land of broken hearts

Broken lovers washed up on the sand.

Blindly reaching out for any helping hand.

So difficult to find, baby you’ve been left behind.

Sleeping sailors drift out from the docks.

Only to be woken, broken on the rocks.

You won’t find it on the charts, the land of broken hearts.

Look for me, I’ll be waiting by the treeline,

Gazing to the valley far below.

Remembering how I used to make a beeline,

for the one true love, I’d ever know.

The sand is full of particles of pain.

Broken down through time to wake up whole again.

Tell me what were you in life?

A boy, a girl, a husband or a wife?

And as I search the rivers to the sea.

She sits on the mountain top and waits for me.

It’s the sum of all its parts, the land of broken hearts.

Where were you, when I was waiting by the ocean?

Certain in my heart, that you would show.

Wondering how I ever got the notion.

That I might have you, but still go where I wanted to go.