by The Triffids on album Peel Sessions
Sunlight was hot, and your mother was calling My chest burning, rising falling Dog licking drips from our garage tap Miles from nowhere just a little dot on the map I believe you will lead me to a lif
by The Triffids on album Bury Me Deep in Love
Holes in my body, holes in my shoes You can put your fingers in me Let the north wind blow straight through When you left I almost disappeared Now you've gone, I'm not quite here My friends say they
by The Triffids on album Bury Me Deep in Love
Bury me deep in love, Bury me deep in love Take me in, under your wing Bury me deep in love There's a chapel deep in a valley For travelling strangers in distress It's nestled among the ghosts of the
by The Triffids on album Bury Me Deep in Love
You can run me on a leash You can make me beg You can crack the whip on me I'll roll over and play dead You can take my self-esteem The flesh from off of my bones You can hurt me all you want But baby
by The Triffids on album Field of Glass
I walk a field of glass, I buy a diamond ring, I take a lonesome road, I'd buy you anything (He'd buy you anything) Yeah that's correct! I'd buy you anything I walk a field of glass, Under the sun of
by The Triffids on album Wide Open Road
You must have lost your nerve You won't take a step outside Going back to the stone age You're going to take a native bride Won't believe what happens to you... Some people say it's healthy Some peop
by The Triffids on album Wide Open Road
I stumble home at an ungodly hour. I pass out lying under the shower Look at the blood. Dear me, I must have cut myself Can't for the life of me think how I cut myself Just because I'm more level hea
by The Triffids on album Love in Bright Landscapes
In an old house in Paris, covered in vines lived a girl by the name of Madeline She was not afraid of spiders or mice Madeline loved winter, snow and ice She watched from her window, onto the street b
by The Triffids on album Love in Bright Landscapes
Old ghostrider, old ghostrider Even people in love get hit by bullets, old ghostrider (don't shoot) Footsteps/on a spiral stairwell When I'm trying to say, "Some other time Jack, I just don't feel wel
by The Triffids on album Love in Bright Landscapes
Step a little bit closer There was something you mentioned under your breath That's the something I'd always hoped you'd mention Say it louder now we'll soon be dead Tell me, tell me you love me or e
by The Triffids on album Love in Bright Landscapes
I have this monkey on my back l dare not even mention its name But it clambered aboard sometime back On the road to my El Alamain My sweetheart she swore it was a poison Turning my blood into brine Bu
by The Triffids on album Love in Bright Landscapes
My baby thinks she's a train She hears voices, little voices/only she can hear She hears voices, such little voices/sliding in her ear My baby thinks she's a train She don't know the difference betwee
by The Triffids on album Love in Bright Landscapes
Please don't drag me back to Rosevel/underneath your creaking bed No air, no hatches under there/no pleasantries hatched overhead I left/what was left of you, What was left of you/couldn't he kept, An
by The Triffids on album Love in Bright Landscapes
I had an itch I had to scratch a match to make and a fish to catch I got stung by a blue-bottle brush I had a red-nettle rash Cat o' nine tails upon my neck and back I called the pot and the kettle ba
by The Triffids on album Love in Bright Landscapes
In the beginning You really loved me But I was blind I could not see Now that you left me Oh how I cried You don't miss your water (till your well runs dry) I strayed and rambled I could not be true