The Life Pursuit

17 ContributorsAnother Sunny Day LyricsThe second track on the 2006 Belle & Sebastian album The Life Pursuit. The album reach the Top 20 in the UK, making it the band’s most commercially successful.Another sunny day, I met you up in the garden

You were digging plants, I dug you, beg your pardon

I took a photograph of you in the herbaceous border

It broke the heart of men and flowers and girls and trees

Another rainy day we're trapped inside with a train set

Chocolate on the boil, steamy windows when we met

You've got the attic window looking out on the cathedral

And on a Sunday evening, bells ring out in the dusk

Another day in June, we'll pick eleven for football

We're playing for our lives, the referee gives us fuck all

I saw you in the corner of my eye on the sidelines

Your dark mascara bids me to historical deeds

Now everybody's gone, you picked me up for a long drive

We take the tourist route, the nights are light until midnight

We took the evening ferry over to the peninsula

We found the avenue of trees went up to the hill

That crazy avenue of trees, I'm living there still

There's something in my eye, a little midge so beguiling

Sacrificed his life to bring us both eye to eye

I heard the Eskimos remove obstructions with tongues, dear

You missed my eye, I wonder why, I didn't complain

You missed my eye, I wonder why, please do it again

The loving is a mess, what happened to all of the feeling

I thought it was for real - babies, rings, and fools kneeling

And words of pledging trust and lifetimes stretching forever

So what went wrong? It was a lie, it crumbled apart

Ghost figures of past, present, future haunting the heart

11 ContributorsSukie in the Graveyard LyricsSukie was the kid, she liked to hangout in the graveyard

She did brass rubbings, she learned you never had to press hard

When she was finished hanging out, she was all alone

She decided that she better check in at home

There was an awful row between her mum and dad

They said she hadn't done this, she hadn't done that

If she wanted to remain inside the family home

She'd have to tow the line, she'd have to give it a go

It didn't suit Sukie, she took her things and left

Sukie was the kid, she liked to hang out at the art school

She didn't enroll, but she wiped the floor with all the arseholes

She took a bijou flat with the fraternity cat

She hid inside the attic of the sculpture building

She had a slut slave and his name was Dave

She said 'Be my photo bitch and I'll make you rich'

He didn't believe her, but the boy revered her

He got her meals and he got her a bed

He watched behind the screen and she started to undress

He never got far, just looking and playing guitar

Autumn hanging down, all the trees are draped like chandeliers

Sukie saw the beauty, but she wasn't wet behind the ears

She had an A1 body and a face to match

She didn't have money, she didn't have cash

With the winter coming on, and the attic cold

She had to press her nose on the refectory wall

They served steamed puddings she went without

She had to pose for life for all the scholars of art

She didn't feel funny, she didn't feel bad

Peeling away everything she had

She had the grace of an eel, sleek and stark

As the shadows played tricks on the girl in the dark

Sukie was the kid, she liked to hangout in the graveyard

6 ContributorsSong for Sunshine LyricsHoneyed sweet apples, they're rotting away

Millions of people never start in the race

There's stuff on our plates that has not been alive

Someone pays full price for my cheap flight line

Sunshine, we all see the same sky

I am a man filled with longing desire

The gifts of creation are ready for hire

A look and a label is all I require

Enough's not enough, I never ask why

Sunshine, we all see the same sky

Looking, learning, asking the same 'why?'

Honeyed sweet apples, they're rotting away

Millions of people never start in the race

There's stuff on our plates that has not been alive

Someone else pays the real price of my cheap flight life

Wheel of fortune spins

But the wheels on fire come crashing on you

Honeyed sweet apples, they're rotting away

Sunshine, we all see the same sky

Looking, learning, asking the same 'why?'

Sunshine, we all see the same sky

[Verse 1]

Honey, lovin' you is the greatest thing

I get to be myself and I get to sing

I get to play at being irresponsible

I come home late at night and I love your soul

I never forget you in my prayers

I never have a bad thing to report

[Chorus]

You're my picture on the wall

You're my vision in the hall

You're the one I'm talking to

When I get in from my work

You are my girl and you don't even know it

I am livin' out the life of a poet

I am the jester in the ancient court

You're the funny little frog in my throat

[Verse 2]

My eyesight's fading, my hearing's dim

I can't get insured for the state I'm in

I'm a danger to myself, I've been starting fights

At the party at the club on a Saturday night

But I don't get disapproving from my girl

She gets the all highlights wrapped in pearls

[Chorus]

You're my picture on the wall

You're my vision in the hall

You're the one I'm talking to

When I get in from my work

You are my girl and you don't even know it

I am livin' out the life of a poet

I am the jester in the ancient court

And you're the funny little frog in my throat

[Verse 3]

I had a conversation with you at night

It's a little one-sided, but that's alright

I tell you in the kitchen about my day

You sit on the bed in the dark changing places

With the ghost that was there before you came

You've come to save my life again

[Verse 4]

I don't dare to touch your hand

I don't dare to think of you in a physical way

And I don't know how you smell

You are the cover of my magazine

You're my fashion tip, a living museum

I'd pay to visit you on rainy Sundays

I'll maybe tell you all about it someday

5 ContributorsTo Be Myself Completely LyricsWell, my heart has fallen down

Thought I'd talked myself around

But to be myself completely

I've just got to let you down

Well, I knew I'd say goodbye

Though it's not my time to cry

And forever and for no one, I will let it all go by

And to be myself completely

I've just got to say goodbye

Z-list star in a hundred grand garret

The ladies say 'Hey baby, you've earned it!'

I'm not so sure, I toured the land

You could call it work if you count the band

Still your voice calls out to me

Escort me to the harmony

I'm not sure what I will be

Find me in a bittersweet hello

Well my heart has fallen down

Thought I'd talked myself around

Though we say goodbye and wonder

What's to know and who's to blame

But to be myself completely

I will love you just the same

6 ContributorsAct of the Apostle II LyricsFollowing Act of the Apostle Part 1, Part 2 was re-used as part of Stuart Murdoch’s “God Help The Girl” project. In the film, Eve is a patient at a hospital, recovering from anorexia. There are parallels to… Read More I'm bored out of my mind

Too sick to even care

I'll take a little walk

Nobody's going to know

I'm in senior year

It gives you a little free time

I'll just use it all at once!

Took the fence and the lane

The bus then the train

Bought an Independent to make me look like I got brains

I made a story up in my head if anybody would ask

I'm going to a seminar!

I'm a genius

I'm a prodigy

A demon at Maths and Science

I'm up for a prize

If you gotta grow up sometime

You've to do it on your own

I don't think I could stand to be stuck

That's the way that things were going

The bible's my tool

There's no mention of school!

My Damascan Road's my transistor radio

I tune in at night when my mum and my dad start to fight

I put on my headphones

And I tune out

I am devout

The girls are singing about my life

But they're not here, they've got the wild life

If you want to find out, find out

You got to look them in the eye

That's why my only choice

Is find the face behind the voice

She asked the man if the service was open

'Not today, just the choir from the radio'

'Couldn't I sit in? I've come all this way'

'Will you bugger off, I've got work to do.'

The city was losing its appeal

God was asleep

He was back in her village, in the fields

'Oh, if I could make sense of it all!

I wish that I could sing

I'd stay in a melody

I would float along in my everlasting song

What would I do to believe?'

[Verse 1]

Mornington Crescent

I think of you

Rain in the southeast

Men feeling blue

Men with their bowlers

Kids with their spats

Ladies with chauffeurs

Dogs wearing hats and jackets

Rich apartments

Old punk posters

Tartan garments

I love the exquisite array

I love the camp as camp parade

The possibilities suggest themselves to me

I'm feeling free

[Verse 2]

Mornington Crescent

The sun in the east

I've got a job on

For a Senegalese rich arbitrator

In African law

To paint his apartment, strip down the walls

Came down between us lately

Lust and want and need just caved in

'Is it wise?'

The answer's no

It never is, but since you ask

We pause thoughtfully, for twenty seconds reprieve

Then it's off with the briefs

[Verse 3]

Mornington Crescent

Sin is my game

We'll all be lined up

Irrelevant fame

Next to the broker, the nurse and the drunk

I was a joker, the wannabe punk that got lucky

Had a good time

Life became fruitless

Egotistic swine to all your friends

All the ladies and the men

The possibilities suggest themselves to me

We're a little too free