Confident Men lyric - The Cribs

It was a purry scurry fruit
What did I do?
I signed all and more I didn’t approve
Although I move I

But that is something I just can’t pretend
I’m feeling better that I won’t confess
Our ways we need the end
Our ways

Burning two suns like you knowingly
More than I should

E-mail’s the trail we both receive
More than I would
They want excuses for the things I never did
I may have kissed but the moon will shine
What you know, I can
No way

It’s spinning with waltz and I find out something
That he wanted two of you
He was a go

The e-mail we drown and both receive
For your own good
I’ll tell you something I just can’t pretend
I’m feeling better that I won’t confess
What can we aim react
But wait
I wait

Uptight lyrics - The Cribs

Tonight it seems unsure
If I’d made it up but then
We got nine hours or more
It makes no difference
Cos that thought drifts right in
On a Foehn wind
And tries to take me back
So I might have to go
Oh no

No-one has to tell me
I know I have to let it go
But it’s so nice
Being uptight
So sorry that I never will be
the kind of guy you’d like
but it’s so nice
Being uptight

Been treated like a sister
but here’s something she don’t know
In her basement hangs a picture
that fucked my heart up
A memory takes my hand
a real gentleman
in every way but one
that I don’t wanna know
Oh no

No-one has to tell me
I know I have to let it go
but it’s so nice
Being uptight
So sorry that I never will be
the kind of guy you’d like
but it’s alright
being uptight

Got a name, all that remains
some day you know this back will break
We’re not a million miles away
Some day you know this back will break

Chi-Town lyrics - The Cribs

Meet me down in Chi-Town, in Logan Square underground
You know the one, we were always there.
Meet me down in Chi-Town, in Logan Square underground
You know the one, we were always there.

Forget the airport and cut my hair short
Eat cookies and cream from the store at the end of the street,
There's so much junk in my head, will I only be here when you're dead?
But I'll still think of you to take it out on myself.

Meet me down in Chi-Town, in Logan Square underground
You know the one, we were always there.
Meet me down in Chi-Town, in Logan Square underground
You know the one, we were always there.

At the end of the rainbow, I took a photo
At my [?] do you call that [?] show I want
These things, I was here and now I know I won't return
But still I think of you and to take it out on everyone else.

Meet me down in Chi-Town, in Logan Square underground
You know the one, we were always there.
Meet me down in Chi-Town, in Logan Square underground
You know the one, we were always there.

Meet me down in Chi-Town, in Logan Square underground
You know the one, we were always there.
Meet me down in Chi-Town, in Logan Square underground
You know the one, we were always there.

Pure O lyrics - The Cribs

Pure O
You had me hurting
You should know that
I was certain in my head
When you know, you know
I can’t change

God-damn the times I thought of nothing
but the things I couldn’t prove
So perfect in my devising
I load it all on you
and your lonely heart, under pressure
a petal in a book
I carry this around, for luck
Cos I’ve got something I can’t say

Pure O
You have me hurting
You should know that
I was certain in my head
When you know, you know
and that’s the main thing
You should know that
I was certain in my head

Protect me still my treasured secret
In ways misunderstood
She keeps me still with over-thinking
I’d love to hold you but
My hands were tied so the chance was wasted
the thousandth never took
I carry this around

Cos I’ve got something I cant say

Pure O, oh I have wasted
So many years just on the same trip
Late night favour
Yeah I was nervous
that she don’t know yet
if I was only part-time

Back To The Bolthole lyrics - The Cribs

You follow Aurora and hope no-one saw you,
Peel back the screen door like everyone before,
Cartoons run on repeat in the room across the street,
So you go out to find her in some crappy roadside diner.

You’re a long long way from home.
And as the room goes cold you’re…

Crying in secret about the things you’re thinking
On a night.
That you, one day will die.
Just try to think it’s the one thing
That makes it all worthwhile.
That I, one day will die.

So where do we go?

We go back to the Bolthole.
Crack open the Rainiers.
The oxygen makes you thin here.
A Cascadian rainfall.
The couch has gone AWOL.
It’s as good place as any to forget about your family.

You’re a long long way from home.
And as the room goes cold you’re…

Crying in secret about the things you’re thinking
On a night.
That you, one day will die.
Just try to think it’s the one thing
That makes it all worthwhile.
That I, one day will die.

I Should Have Helped lyrics - The Cribs

You should take it back in no circumstance
I understand, remember
the man on the street is wrong
again

I used to think I knew something that
No - one else knew
I was a fool
When a lonely voice in a lonely town
Just couldn’t tell
I should have helped out

And the times you’d wait
Outside the corn exchange
With ghosts and rain
You were lost when the cloud came down
My friend

When a loved one’s dead
You look at the sky
In a different way, but that’s ok
Cos perfect things still can break your heart
that’s not to say I’d ever change that

There’s always still guilt

Stalagmites lyrics - The Cribs

We stand here in ceremonial dress,
With a knife in the garter.
Like the love you never get to feel,
This is the fame of the martyr.
You are the California smile,
You’re the cake decorator.

“He has this plan which is keep doing exactly what it is you’re doing
and somehow everything’s going to be alright.
And I was like, I’m growing stalagmites, I’ don’t want to be here anymore.
So I guess we’re going to live in this haunted city forever more,
Where the gray creeps through your front door and all the houses
look like jack’o’lanterns, exactly the same all stood in a row.
Glowing with the mundanity of an early evening being lived out inside.”

Like the rabbits with ointment in their eyes
Trying to focus in cages.
The lives are lived so what is it?
An hourglass or two faces?
We’re only human is our excuse,
Let’s just keep blaming nature.
My heart melts less over the years,
Whilst the past rings in my ears.
You are the California smile,
You’re the cake decorator.

“So if needs be I’ll batter you with unrelenting dignity,
My mouth will be sealed tighter than a nervous clam.
Because all words will be meaningless when you’re washed up on the sand.
Try not to think about the future.
Try not to live in the past.”

In the meantime I’ll write down all of these words
And sing songs of being lost then found,
Being loved and lost.

Like A Gift Giver lyrics - The Cribs

Little birds in a box of tea
just waiting to die
Like a gift giver I will change the way
that you see, or I’ll try

But I know, it’s not even
but try when you’re in Heaven
to call me up

It’s hard to believe in anything
that I’ve learned in my life
but whisper something trivial
that sounds good and I might

But I know, it’s not even
but try when you’re in Heaven
to call me up

Butterflies lyrics - The Cribs

Waiting for my friend to wake up
So we can talk in the night
like the old days

Though you like the songs I sing to you
all the words they are untrue
but I'll promise, just like I always do
though you like the songs I sing to you
all the words are no longer true
but I'll promise, just like I always do

I need to see the world
through her eyes now
It seems she thinks
all leaves are butterflies now

Though you like the songs I sing to you
all the words they are untrue
but I'll promise, just like I always do
though you like the songs I sing to you
all the words are no longer true
but I'll promise, just like I always do

Arena Rock Encore With Full Cast lyrics -

Sorry that it’s taken years
We were victims of our own ideals
But I’d rather be tied to myself than to anyone else

"Ignore The Ignorant" (2009)

We Were Aborted lyrics - The Cribs

In the grey of yesterday
A breeze blew over exposing
A memory so small
What is it here for

Your virility, makes me forget empathy
Dig your hole
That's what we're here for

To make you feel important
cause you knew we were aborted
It's the same things that we're saying all the time

And they have have everything
They kept there ribs, i'm sure of it
It's what they're all about
But getting inside counts

Mass virility, has made me forget empathy
Dig your hole
It's what we're here for

To make you feel important
cause you knew we were aborted
It's the same things that were saying all the time
(they may be views , but they'll never be mine)

The mid-shelf masturbation
Leaves a smear on half the nation
Its the same things that they're saying all the time

Oh your virility, has made me forget empathy
dig your hole
its what they're here for

To make you feel important
cause you knew we were aborted
its the same things that we're saying all the time

The mid-shelf masturbation
Leaves a smear on half the nation
It's the same things that they're saying all the time

Cheat On Me lyrics - The Cribs

I could be someone else if you’d rather
Try to win you over like a new step father
smart but still a sucker for whoever asks you
i pictured the scene
so you wont have to spell it out for me

cause things go together
better than others
like manic depression
and active sexuality

that’s another, that’s another
cheat on me, cheat on me yeah
that’s another, that’s another
cheat on me, cheat on me yeah

Giving up, without a thought
And then you’ll be the chosen one
Through which your friends live vicariously
cause things go together
better than others
like manic depression
and active sexuality

That’s another, that’s another
Cheat on me, cheat on me yeah
that’s another, that’s another
cheat on me, cheat on me yeah

We Share The Same Skies lyrics - The Cribs

A strange union the other day
It's a dead Russian, the papers say
But it would be nice if they realised
That she thought 'he is mine'

This town has got you down and I know
I was helping you out
While your hope died under northern skies
and it shows
I was helping you to realise
The reason why, it was no surprise
No way

The act will pass by no-one
And I'm sad to say it's no different today
Be comforted by we share the same skies
And for once pay no mind

I have decided it's best that you know
I'm still thinking about
Old ties as north-west skies grow cold
No point in denying
Anxiety was my favourite feeling after jealousy
Yeah, I'll concede

That I could not be as nervous as I was
I could not, no way

City Of Bugs lyrics - The Cribs

It came to me like a voice from above
Or like a message in praise of platonic love
And if you stand in the booth
Then you don't have to sit with a stranger
A perfumed gust drifts to my core
I give you one last look
Through a cross-hatched door
But I'm a messed up baby
Like the Berlin Wall
Tonight
It came to me like a voice from above
Or like a message in praise of platonic love
But I'm a messed up baby
Like the Berlin Wall
Tonight

You feel the rape in the city of bugs
Fill the hole with glass...
...Vessels burst after love
But don't go too long without letting them know
That you're there
A perfumed gust drifts to my core
I give it one last look
It was a cross-hatched door
But I'm a messed up
Baby I'm the Berlin Wall
Tonight

You came into reach
Like the Serpent and Peach
Came to me in the dream
That contractions set free
But it's never too late to admit to me
That you're worried
Never a choice
Don't remember your voice
I was born out of glass
I'll return there at last
In a shattering climax

The wall falls

It came to me like a voice from above
Or like a message in praise of platonic love
And if you stand in the booth
Then you don't have to sit with a stranger
You feel the rape of the city of bugs
So fill the hole with glass...
...Vessels burst after love
But don't go too long without letting them know
That you're there

Never a choice
Don't remember your voice
I was born out of glass
I'll return there at last
In a shattering climax
For left out children to carry
A world without sin is a laughable thing
So go out on a limb
Take a stone for a swim
In a shattering climax

The wall falls