Regina, Don't Get Lost lyrics - The Cribs

 Purple evening light

Can't explain just why, this time

Could be the last shot

Playing dress up

Is that what you want from me?

Knowing how it feels, in the heels

Of the others

Who went before


The evening holds your thoughts

Regina, don't get lost


Illinois in march

But will you play, or pass, or run?

Call from a stranger

Made some changes

My body's giving up on me

In the parking lot of every rest stop

I'll be fine

Just leave me here


The evening holds your thoughts

Regina, don't get lost


I don't need your words in my diary

Run A Mile lyrics - The Cribs

 Overseas, under leaves

In the room, inside you

Every time I'm all alone

Taking turns to turn it 'round


Can't you see it's them or me?

We're wasting time

Run a mile

You've labelled me but you'll never see, yeah


Getting back, laying low

I don't remember anything like that at all

I'll nod my head, but won't agree

I'd never seen that side to me


Don't you see it's them or me?

We're wasting time

Run a mile

You've labelled me but you'll never see, yeah


Don't you see it's you or me?

We're wasting time

Run a mile

Can't you see it's killing me?

So Hot Now lyrics - The Cribs

 I was obsessed with what if's

I was unusually selfish

No one believes I said this

Just make small talk, oh forget it


Tan lines on flabby body

Says he was wearing a vest

Wife-beater chic is so hot now

Nice to know you're laying with the best


A negative of a body image

No way to make it mine

They stole your soul through photos

Ten years on you left for me to find


Shyness is a curse and shyness could be the end of me


And what are you?

Song From Practice 1 lyrics - The Cribs

 What's the other side of consistency?

What's on the other side of consistency?

Yeah you come on

You always fall

I'm always falling away

Anyway...


And I go round

And I go round

When I go around

The lost and found


What's the other side of consistency?

What's on the other side of capability?

Yeah you come on

You'll always fall

I'm always falling away

In a way...


And I go round

And I go round

When I go around

The lost and found


Len, where do you keep 'Suburban Commando'?

Sucked Sweet lyrics - The Cribs

 Sucked sweet, we're fading together

Still at war, refused the white feather

From yourself and what you believe

Made yourself harder to see

But conjoined you're stuck to me

And I'm convinced all the things I

Can't tell you could lead to

Death by misadventure

An explosion of the lungs

A choking on my tongue

Did you stand beneath the sun even once?


The things we held inside us are now trying to escape

Almost makes me wish we'd burned in the first blaze

Stuck between the worlds so if we have to watch it die

Let's just hope the downswing is as thrilling as the ride


And the clothes don't fit well anymore

You lived long enough to become bored

The black dog lives in your head

And milked until you bled

Ignore what Candy said

She won't help you


The things we held inside us are now trying to escape

Almost makes me wish we'd burned in the first blaze

Stuck between the worlds so if we have to say goodbye

Let's just make the downswing as thrilling as the ride


You can't be kept warm by love

If you never get close enough

Swinging At Shadows lyrics - The Cribs

 When whispers tempted me in

Spent the afternoon pinned

On the far side of the playing field

Then shall we skip to the part

Where I'm hung from the bars, or not?


And then behind the grandstand

Where we made all our plans

The moment came and left without me

On the last bus back

I'm gonna think about that, only


And they'll never let us in

We'll be outsiders once again

If we were ever anything else, I don't know

But that just brings us closer

Yeah, they'll never let us in

We'll be outsiders once again

If we were ever anything else, I don't know, no


We blew the hours we got

From dandelion clocks

And as they drift off they weigh hard on me

'Cause as we draw near the end

It's just if not now, then when? Again


An though we felt we were free

We spent an eternity

With difference places that we need to be

Me without you

And you just fine without me


And they'll never let us in

We'll be outsiders once again

If we were ever anything else, I don't know

But that just brings us closer

Yeah, they'll never let us in

We'll be outsiders once again

If we were ever anything else, I don't know, no


Oh, and after everyone's gone home

They're still out there

And they're swinging at shadows

Wasting time holding lines that have become

Just like the blanks fire from a hired gun

Ringing out for no-one


Yeah, they'll never let us in

We'll be outsiders once again

If we were ever anything else, I don't know

But that just brings us closer

And they'll never let us in

We'll be outsiders once again

If we were ever anything else, I don't know, no

Taken To Tualatin lyrics - The Cribs

 Oh, my little friend

You turned the corner before me

But you're still playing in my mind

As I face this new reality


The wind rattles at the door

And I thought that you had returned

Fools me every time

Oh, I wonder if I'll ever learn?


Couldn't put it into words

But it was always understood

Loved me with a strength

That only an Olympian could


Thinking of the day

Who's night I thought would never come

Chew it over in my mind

And blow it like it's bubblegum


Lonely sentry

Will you still be watching from the stars?

Pink metal heart


Standing on my own

I'm scattered like a bowling pin

When they told me on the phone

You'd been taken to Tualatin


Later in the day

The shadows frame my evening walk

While I'm searching for something

In the streets I thought I knew before


Lonely sentry

Can you still see me from where you are?

Pink metal heart


Oh, Gracie

Stay with me

And protect us still

Oh, Gracie

Stay with me

And protect us still...

Talk Radio lyrics - The Cribs

 Get up, get up, get up

And wake up to, a city

Where forgetting who you are

Is all too easy...

This is a sad throwback to a summer's past

The siren wails again

You won't try that again

God is waiting


I've made peace with all my flaws

Stuck here, counting all the walls

Still learning things from talk radio

Like now, the place that I was born

The streets are filled with bird song

You only hear 'cos things are going wrong


I know it must be hard

But after we're gone, just face it

As the day becomes the night

My time was wasted

Missing the way of the olden days

I know you feel the same

It's all been locked away

What a shame...


I've got post-traumatic needs

Lights out, on the smoky streets

Bleach burned, and covered in paper dust

Not really getting any sleep

Let's have another cup of tea

The only answer, that makes some sense to me, to me


So get up, get up, get up

And wake up to, a city

Where forgetting who you are

Is all too easy...

This is a sad throwback to a summer's past

The siren wails again

You won't try that again

Keep God waiting

You won't try that again, no

God is waiting

Please don't try that again

God is waiting

The Day I Got Lost Again lyrics - The Cribs

Well I'll carry the weight of everyone

And all of the things I left undone

'Til the fires that took away Portland's sun

Were breaking at last, then finally passed

And showed me where I need to be


It's all so familiar

Except the road back, but then

Guess that was my intent?

The day I got lost again

And you could find me if you wanted to

But I'll drive you back around the bend

Looking for a dead end

The day I got lost again


Head down, where eyes won't meet them

Back and forth, without reason

Like a ghost that's haunting Glisan

Reminded me of me

And what I used to be

And maybe I could be again


It's all so familiar

Except the road back, but then

Guess that was my intent?

The day I got lost again

And you could find me if you wanted to

But I'll drive you back around the bend

Better than a dead end

Today I got lost again

Things Could Be Better lyrics - The Cribs

 A last cigarette in the blazing heat

The perfume of trash drifts down the lower east

And around this time, it first crossed my mind

Perhaps

Things could be better than we could imagine


A cut without blood left me free

Like yesterday's stales, fresh from the bakery

And all of the time, it was on my mind

Perhaps

Things could be better than we could imagine


To end up loved or lost

It's all the same to me, oh


The only place left that will let us in

For a few hours' sleep as the laundry spins

And all of this time my mind was on fire

Thinking perhaps

Things could be better than we could imagine

Things could be better than we could imagine

Things could be better than we could imagine

Tryna survive till the music plays

Tonight lyrics - The Cribs

 I hold your hand in mine, tonight

Say that things ain't right, tonight

As I hold your hand in mine, tonight

Don't go


We start to lose the light, tonight

You know, I think you're right, tonight

We kiss we lose the fight, tonight

Don't go


It ain't gonna happen, baby baby

It ain't gonna happen, baby baby

It ain't gonna happen, baby baby

Don't go


We start to lose the light, tonight

You know, I think your right, tonight

We kiss and lose the fight, tonight

Don't go


It ain't gonna happen, baby baby

It ain't gonna happen, baby baby

It ain't gonna happen, baby baby

Don't go

It ain't gonna happen, baby baby

It ain't gonna happen, baby baby

No it ain't gonna happen, baby baby

Don't go

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? lyrics - The Cribs

 (originally by the Shirelles)


Tonight you're mine completely

You give your love so sweetly

Tonight the light of love is in your eyes

But will you love me tomorrow?


Is this a lasting treasure

Or just a moment's pleasure?

Can I believe the magic of your sighs?

Will you still love me tomorrow?


I'd like to know that your love

Is love I can be sure of

So tell me now, and I won't ask again

Will you still love me tomorrow?

Will you still love me tomorrow?

Will you still love me tomorrow?

Wish I Knew You In The 90's lyrics - The Cribs

I saw you in a video

But it's alright, cos now I know you

My only hope back then was living in fright

But if you saw me all those years ago

You'd probably laugh, and I wouldn't blame you

It's not like I was ever going anywhere, right?


Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah now I just don't care

Cos it all went past me

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah I remember...


Running outside, cos you're panicking

In the silent, early evening

Scream her name but, she don't hear ya

You and your hopes lost in suburbia

Find her photos, pick a favorite

Obsess over it, till we make it

Have a freak out, throw a whitey

Wish I knew you in the 90's


I only have old videos

But it's alright, cos now I know you

Was your hair curly back then

Or am I just remembering something kinda wrong...


Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah now I just don't care

Cos it all went past me

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah wish we could go back there

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah now I just don't care

Cos it all went past me

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah I remember...

Yellow Venus lyrics - The Cribs

Yellow Venus

I just can't do it


Yellow Venus

And all the places you will go

I found a reason

To try and leave my home

But across the ocean

I hang the phone up, let you go

Never really


Said with feeling

All the words that I had spoke

Became nothing

More than a promise I had broke

Now that I'm older

It feels like just a cruel joke

To say I'm sorry


Just like we watched the flowers wilt

You can make your choice and stand by it

Or run away and feel like shit


In a clearing

Of a place I used to go

I determined

To try and leave my home

But across the ocean

I hang the phone up, let you go

Never really

Never really

Never really