Fiona Apple... lyrics from Tidal
Carrion Won't do no good to hold no seance What's gone is gone and you can't bring it back around Won't do no good to hold no searchlight You can't illuminate what time has anchored down Oh, Honey (I've gone a-) Oh, Honey (I've gone a-) Oh, Honey (I've gone away) Won't do no good to sing no love song No sound could simulate the presence of a man Won't do no good asking no questions Your divination should acquaint you with the plan Oh, Honey (I've gone a-) Oh, Honey (I've gone a-) Oh, Honey (I've gone away) My feel for you boy is decaying in front of me Like the carrion of a murdered prey And all I want is to save you honey Or the strength to walk away Won't do no good to go no distance The space between us is as boundless as the dark Won't do no good to throw no fist babe You can't intimidate me back into your arms Oh, Honey (I've gone a-) Oh, Honey (I've gone a-) Oh, Honey (I've gone away) My feel for you boy is decaying in front of me Like the carrion of a murdered prey And all I want is to save you honey Or the strength to walk away *********************************************** Pale September Pale September I wore the time like a dress that year The autumn days swung soft around me like cotton on my skin But as the embers of the summer lost their breath and disappeared My heart went cold and only hollow rythyms resounded from within But then he rose brilliant as the moon is full And sank in the burrows of my keep And all my armor falling down in a pile at my feet And my winter giving way to warm as I'm singing him to sleep He goes along just as a water lily Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats Unweighed down by passion or intensity Yet unaware of the depth upon which he coasts And he finds a home in me For what misfortune sows he knows my touch will reap And all my armor falling down in a pile at my feet And my winter giving way to warm as I'm singing him to sleep And all my armor falling down in a pile at my feet And my winter giving way to warm as I'm singing him to sleep *********************************************** Shadowboxer Once my lover now my friend What a cruel thing to pretend What a cunning way to condescend Once my lover and now my friend Oh you creep up like the clouds And you set my soul at ease Then you let your love abound And you bring me to my knees Oh it's evil babe the way you let your grace enrapture me When well you know I'd be insane to ever let that dirty game recapture me You made me a shadowboxer baby I wanna be ready for what you do I been swinging all around me Cause I don't know when you're gonna make your move Oh your gaze is dangerous And you fill your space so sweet If I let you get too close You'll set your spell on me So darlin I just want to say Just in case I don't come through I was on to every play I just wanted you But oh it's so evil my love the way you've no reverence to my concern So I'll be sure to stay wary of you love to save the pain of Once my flame and twice my burn You made me a shadowboxer baby I wanna be ready for what you do I been swinging all around me Cause I don't know when you're gonna make your move *********************************************** Sullen Girl Days like this I don't know what to do with myself All day and all night I wander the halls along the walls and under my breath I say to myself I need fuel to take flight And there's too much going on But its calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion Under the waves in the blue of my oblivion Is that why they call me a sullen girl sullen girl They don't know I used to sail the deep and tranquil sea But he washed me shore and he took my pearl And left an empty shell of me And there's too much going on But its calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion Under the waves in the blue of my oblivion Under the waves in the blue of my oblivion Its calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion *********************************************** Sleep to Dream I tell you how I feel but you don't care I say tell me the truth but you don't dare You say love is a hell you cannot bear And I say gimme mine back and then go there - for all I care I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream You got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem This mind, this body, and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways So don't forget what I told you don't come around I got my own hell to raise I have never been so insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas to wash down all this pride First you run like a fool just to be at my side Now you run like a fool,but you just run to hide and I can't abide I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream You got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream You got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem This mind, this body, and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways So don't forget what I told you don't come around I got my own hell to raise Don't make it a big deal don't be so sensitive We're not playing a game anymore you don't have to be so defensive Don't you plead me your case don't bother to explain Don't even show me your face 'cuz it's a cryin' shame Just go back to the rock from under which you came Take the sorrow you gave and all the stakes you claim And don't forget the blame I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream You got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem This mind, this body, and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways So don't forget what I told you don't come around I got my own hell to raise *********************************************** The First Taste I lie in an early bed thinking late thoughts Waiting for the black to replace my blue I do not struggle in your web because it was my aim to get caught But daddy longlegs I feel that I'm finally growing weary Of waiting to be consumed by you Give me the first taste let it begin heaven can not wait forever Darling just start the chase I'll let you win but you must make the endeavor Oh your love give me a heart contusion Adagio breezes fill my skin with sudden red Your hungry flirt borders intrusion I'm building memories on things we have not said Full is not heavy as empty not nearly my love not nearly my love not nearly Give me the first taste let it begin heaven can not wait forever Darling just start the chase I'll let you win but you must make the endeavor *********************************************** Never is a Promise You'll never see the courage I know Its colors' richness won't appear within your view I'll never glow the way that you glow Your presence dominates the judgements made on you But as the scenery grows I see in different lights The shades and shadows undulate in my perception My feelings swell and stretch I see from greater heights I understand what I am still to proud to mention to you You'll say you understand but you don't understand You'll say you'd never give up seeing eye to eye But never is a promise and you can't afford to lie You'll never touch these things that I hold The skin of my emotions lies beneath my own You'll never feel the heat of this soul My fever burns me deeper than I've ever shown to you You'll say don't fear your dreams its easier than it seems You'll say you'd never let me fall from hopes so high But never is a promise and you can't afford to lie You'll never live the life that I live I'll never live the life that wakes me in the night You'll never hear the message I give You'll say it looks as though I might give up this fight But as the scenery grows I see in different lights The shades and shadows undulate in my perception My feelings swell and stretch I see from greater heights I realize what I am now too smart to mention to you You'll say you understand you'll never understand I'll say I'll never wake up knowing how or why I don't know what to believe in you don't know who I am You'll say I need appeasing when I start to cry But never is a promise and I'll never need a lie *********************************************** The Child is Gone Darling give me your absence tonight Take the shade from the canvas and leave me the white Let me sink in the silence that echoes inside And don't bother leaving the light on Cause I suddenly feel like a different person From the roots of my soul come a gentle coercion And I ran my hand over a strange inversion A vacancy that just did not belong The child is gone Honey help me out of this mess I'm a stranger to myself But don't reach for me I'm too far away I don't want to talk cause there's nothing left to say So my darling give me your absence tonight Take all of your sympathy and leave it outside Cause there's no kind of loving that can make this alright I'm trying to find a place I belong And I suddenly feel like a different person From the roots of my soul comes a gentle coercion And I ran my hand over a strange inversion As the darkness turns into the dawn The child is gone The child is gone
