Building
|
first
recorded in 1996/1997 ? |
original
version : Building EP (Shifty Disco), february 1997. It's a Shifty Disco compilation, february 1998. second version :Almost Here, may 1998. |
I'm
in a city where the people help each other
To their beds.
Say what you want, say what you want.
Complete the picture with a girl
Who only listens to the dead.
Say what you want, say what you want.
And did I choose to be the one who is left,
Or is this something sinister ?
And is this proof against my ignorance,
Or am I meant to waste away ?
Complete the picture with a girl
Who only listens to the dead.
Prays to them, please say what you want,
Say what you want, say what you want,
Deliverance can wait,
Say what you want, say what you want,
And how I should behave.
Just talk.
Trapped in a building
With the ghosts of all the people I betrayed.
Say what you want, say what you want.
And there's no reason
To step out into a nation that won't see me.
Say what you want, say what you want.
And is this proof against my ignorance,
Or am I meant to waste away ?
And did I choose to be the one who is left,
Or is this something sinister ?
Say what you want (8 x)
|
Nigel:
"Actually, we released this as a single before we signed to Virgin
on a small english label called Shifty Disco. We thought, at that time,
it was one of our best songs, certainly the most evocative." (France
Inter, january 1998). |