Artist: Elbow
Lyrics of Artist: Elbow
  1. [Lyric] What Am I Without You (Elbow)

    [Verse 1] The universe keeps singing this song Your eyes are diabolical blue Ooh I've been watching you walk on the water lately My arms outstretched when you do What am I? What am I on the earth for If not to put you to bed? If not to remind you to eat sometimes? If If not to cradle your head? What am I without you? [Verse 2] The universe keeps...Learn More
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  2. [Lyric] Is It a Bird (Elbow)

    Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Or is it a jettisoned beautiful warrior's soul Blazing 'cross the sky on its way back home? Is it a plane? Or is it a jettisoned beautiful warrior's soul Blazing 'cross the sky on its way back home? Is it a plane? Or is it a jettisoned beautiful warrior's soul Blazing 'cross the sky on its way back home? Or is it a...Learn More
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  3. [Lyric] The Seldom Seen Kid (Elbow)

    [Verse 1] The roses are heavy With rain and for ages Veil after veil And the pictures are whispering The ones we belong to Caught in forever Startled and proud Or laughing together And babe, if you'd met him I picture you'd sit Blasting my wisdom With two-barrelled wit Then he'd steal you for dancing And you'd lend him your arms And I'd stooge for...Learn More
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  4. [Lyric] Six Words (Elbow)

    [Verse 1] I'm falling in love with you I'm falling in love with you Six words released like birds Into the brightening ether And, oh, to read those words returned I'm fuzzy, I've stumbled onto Some heavenly escalator [Verse 2] And, oh, to read those words returned The sky's gonna open up and I'll be flooded out to open water Six lanes of homeward...Learn More
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  5. [Lyric] Flying Dream 1 (Elbow)

    [Verse 1] Flying dream one Dead of the night when the prayer group was gone Mum and my sisters all blissful at feather Candlewick swaddled my golden wee brother Dad's across town tonight fixing The Mirror Shaking his head at a richer man's grammar Swerving the creakers, I slide to the stairs Tighten my dressing gown, mutter a Mary Then I lean...Learn More
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  6. [Lyric] Starlings (Elbow)

    How dare the Premier ignore my invitations? He'll have to go So, too, the bunch he luncheons with It's second on my list of things to do At the top is stopping by Your place of work and acting like I haven't dreamed of you and I And marriage in an orange grove You are the only thing In any room you're ever in I'm stubborn, selfish and too old I...Learn More
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  7. [Lyric] After the Eclipse (Elbow)

    A shadow raced across the earth Taking the day and confusing the birds And the sun was the moon And the moon was the sun And the circle of fire God's appalling eyeball on us, baby Come out into the sun Come out into the sun If you’ve nowhere better to be Me and him gonna be sonic racing Maybe cracking the case of the pedalo thieves In crash hats,...Learn More
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  8. [Lyric] Come On Blue (Elbow)

    [Verse 1] Dust to dust Trust and wonder glowing in your marrow I picture your growing bones, you know And I dread and love tomorrow [Pre-Chorus] Come on, Blue As if that moon's not there for you Oh, oh, love transcends anything that ever ends [Verse 2] Lying here, your day done, head upon my shoulder What could be spinning in my wee Ganymede? May...Learn More
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  9. [Lyric] Red Sky Radio Baby Baby Baby (Elbow)

    [Verse 1] Come on, baby, I'm waiting for you You ray of brilliant sunshine, you We'll roll it all up in the fireside booze Come on, baby, I'm waiting for you Come on, baby, it's not too late No Menai Straits, no Golden Gates I don't remember now a single word It's half a life and half a world ago But I remember when And that I loved you...Learn More
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  10. [Lyric] Lay Down Your Cross (Elbow)

    Lay down your cross Cross off your day Lady, lady Turn off your phone Lie where you lay Lady, lady Please, please Love, let me love Love, let me love Love, let me love Let me love her again Love, let me love Let me love her again Oh, yeah Kick off your feet Twist off your head Lady, lady Burn all your clothes And then let's go to bed And get...Learn More
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  11. [Lyric] Calm and Happy (Elbow)

    [Verse 1] Low bright February shadows And I can hear a school A woman humming to the radio (Wireless) That never didn't improve the tune [Chorus] Margaret Saddleworth DNA of those dark and bitter days No, it never came my way Titania in corduroy and Marigolds [Verse 2] Baby lamb, did you steal some matches? They're guilty in my fist Baby lamb,...Learn More
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  12. [Lyric] The Only Road (Elbow)

    [Verse 1] The open road unrolling And you in reach beside me And a very chatty monkey Fast asleep behind me And the mountains rose before us Noble brass for the chorus And we talk of country kindness As we put some miles behind us [Chorus] And I guess we'll get to Inverness tonight And I've lined a piper up just to make you cry And the moon shows...Learn More
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