Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance

Belle and Sebastian

2015 Released

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Nobody’s Empire

05 : 08

Allie

03 : 16

The Party Line

04 : 14

The Power of Three

03 : 57

The Cat With the Cream

05 : 17

Enter Sylvia Plath

06 : 48

The Everlasting Muse

05 : 25

Perfect Couples

05 : 29

Ever Had a Little Faith?

04 : 21

Play for Today

07 : 33

The Book of You

04 : 23

Today (This Army’s for Peace)

05 : 35

Born to Act

03 : 09

Two Birds

03 : 47

Piggy in the Middle

04 : 21

A Politician’s Silence

05 : 46

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Track Lyrics

Allie Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Allie, what would you do?

When there's bombs in the Middle East, you want to hurt yourself

When there's knives in the city streets, you want to end yourself

When there's fun in your mother's house, you want to cry yourself to sleep

[Verse 2]

Allie, what would you do?

With your fears, because they're adding one by one

And your mountains are obscured behind the sun

And the person that you could be is crumbling into dust

[Pre-Chorus]

You're in the mess 'cause you thought

You'd be someone else

[Chorus]

But the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a

Tricks in your head are a lie

[Verse 3]

Allie, hand on your head

And a prayer from the soon-to-be-closing library

And if you looked from here, you would surely see

There's a softness in your heart, there's a poetry to come

[Pre-Chorus]

You bought that gun cause you thought

You'd be someone else

[Chorus]

But the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a

Tricks in your head are a lie

[Bridge]

You made a list of all your heroes

And you thought about what they went through

Yeah, you thought about what they went through

It's much darker, much harder, than anything that happened to you

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 4]

Allie, what would you do?

When your seven-year plan happens to someone else

And the people in your life you would happily shelf

When day falls night, you are truly on your own?

[Pre-Chorus]

You're in this place cause you thought

You'd be someone else

[Chorus]

But the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a

Tricks in your head are a lie

[Chorus]

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a

Tricks in your head are a lie

The Party Line Lyrics

[Verse 1]

How did I get here, I heard a rumour

From your girlfriend's sister that you knew me

And you end up dancing closer to me

I know that I broke the rule already

She asked me if I'm single going steady

I just drop my head and took a step off into the dark

[Pre-Chorus]

Standing on the black and white tiles

Don't dance on the lights 'cause the bears eat the pretty ones

We are like the islands divided

[Chorus]

Jump to the beat of the party line

There is no one in here but your body dear

Jump to the beat of the party line

Stay, you stay

[Verse 2]

I am on this morning quite distracted

The tug of war begins in our emotion

I am leaving many people feeling worse than before

People like to drive the cars and smoke up

People like to sit inside and toke up

People like to shoot at things with borrowed guns and knives

[Pre-Chorus]

I am happy to look and run

Where were you when I was king in this part of town?

Now the days of glory are gone

[Chorus]

Jump to the beat of the party line

There is no one in here but your body dear

Jump to the beat of the party line

There is no one in here but your body dear

Jump to the beat of the party line

There is no one in here but your body dear

Jump to the beat of the party line

There is no one in here but your body dear

Jump to the beat of the party line

The Cat With the Cream Lyrics

10 ContributorsThe Cat with the Cream LyricsThis song is one of the most extensively orchestrated Belle and Sebastian songs, with a deliberately discordant string section.Sitting at the old kitchen table

Peace and love and dreams, stretching out in the darkness

Mother’s up the stairs with her aging new boyfriend

Cathy’s staying in to make sure nothing happens

All aboard the freak parade

I cover up my head and pray

I'm praying for the light

Down amongst the old city chambers

Men in frocks debate all the policy changes

Everybody bet on the boom and got busted

Everybody bet and in the government trusted

Grubby little red MP

Yellow flapping hopelessly

Tory like the cat with the cream

I studied you in history, I studied in the library

In days of old when knights were bold

They'd settle it with sword and shield

In days of old when knights were bold

It's settled by the king

Praying for a friend is contagious

Specially when it comes at the old kitchen table

Listening for the swoosh of his quickening paces

Watching for the smile on the bravest of faces

How I wish you'd read to me

Verses rich in swallows and trees

To get me through the night

Waiting at the old kitchen table

Listening for my code listening for my instructions

Surely now I'm here, I am destined for greatness

I want to be the Queen pulling kids out of rivers

All aboard the freak parade

I cover up my head and pray

Praying for the cat with the cream

I studied you in history, I studied in the library

In days of old when knights were bold

They'd settle it with sword and shield

In days of old when knights were bold

It's settled by the king

Enter Sylvia Plath Lyrics

[Plath] represents other authors, the… Read More [Verse 1: Stuart Murdoch]

Come and steal my thoughts away

Thief of my identity

I was holding on to decency reality

Come and take me for a while

Up to your abundant pace

I'll be a sidecar if you want to race born to race

[Verse 2: Stuart Murdoch]

Put your hand on mine

And take me from this tired ride

Take me from this early night

From the sea and rain and countryside

If you talk to me, then soon

I'll be your accomplice in words

And we will talk only in verse

Talk only in verse

[Verse 3: Stuart Murdoch]

I, I will leave the ones I love

Leave them for the years to come

Even though I may be doing wrong, doing wrong

I will follow in your steps

Walk out to the station cold

Buy a ticket and then slowly go, slowly go

[Verse 4: Stuart Murdoch, Sarah Martin]

In this place and time

Easy is the first escape

I got money, I need no disguise

I'm a citizen and city-wise

In this time and place

There is no one who will shoot you down

There's no one who will take a girl

And tell her she can't have the world

[Bridge: Sarah Martin]

You constantly struggle for self-improvement

You have the ability to analyse and solve any problem

You are heading in the right direction

Your mind is creative, original and alert

[Verse 5: Sarah Martin]

Boy, you don't know what you want

It isn't what you think it is

All the dreams and guilt and loneliness, loneliness

Boy, if we were to be friends

Subtle is the art required

To draw the evil from this lonely pyre, lonely pyre

[Chorus: Stuart Murdoch, Sarah Martin]

Take this hand from me

And guide me round your tools of work

Fashion me into your junior clerk

Let me live in shadows of your words

When things get tough for you

As they did when you came up through the ranks

You can borrow from my faith, from my faith

Take this hand from me

And guide me round your tools of work

Fashion me into your junior clerk

Let me live in shadows of your words

When things get tough for you

As they did when you came up through the ranks

You can borrow from my faith, from my faith

[Outro]

From my faith, from my faith

The Everlasting Muse Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I want to find this girl I know

I need to take her out

I set a snare in evening air

Made of faith and hope and doubt

I want to spend some time with her

Learn the secrets of her trade

I wouldn't mean to cross the line

And look into the other side

Forbidden to my kind

[Verse 2]

I need to hang out with my love

The raven-headed sprite

I know I'll never dance like her

Or keep her up at night

I need to hang around with her

I need to let her know

Her cause is mine, I'm but a slave

I look into her wondrous gaze

And taste the strangest chord

And make the purest noise

[Chorus]

What I would do to meet the girl

I'd stand out in the rain

Outside my window watching close

She will appear again

Still polishing her crazy nail

Still wispy, careless, drunk on song

If I could only right my wrongs

And take her to my favourite place

And steal a melody

Cause I need only see her face

And doubts and worries fall away

And music rushes in

[Verse 3]

Listen to the sound of life (I don't want to be friends)

Drink deep of the day (I don't need your advance)

Wait for her, but don't obsess (Why do you have to ask?)

She'll go the other way (No, I don't want to dance)

[Verse 4]

Winds will blow and storms will rage (But your phrases are poor)

The muse is always sad (And you try hard to rhyme)

Money tends to disappear (And I can't read your words)

Beauty crumbles with the years (But I can read your mind)

But music is for us (Music is for us)

Music is for us (Music is for us)

[Chorus]

What I would do to meet the girl

I'd stand out in the rain

Outside my window watching close

She will appear again

Still polishing her crazy nail

Still wispy, careless, drunk on song

If I could only right my wrongs

And take her to my favourite place

And steal a melody

Cause I need only see her face

And doubts and worries fall away

And music rushes in

[Post-Chorus]

If I could only see her face

And know that she was close

There is a deeper magic here

The everlasting muse

I left the danger for an hour

I left the sadness for a day

I know that I am in safe hands

She pays the bill and smokes cigar

And on the napkin silk

She weaves a manuscript with skill

An intro, outro, middle eight

A tapestry of words

A subtle gift to modern rock

She says, "be popular, play pop

And you will win my love"

[Outro]

A subtle gift to modern rock

She says, "be popular, play pop

And you will win my love"

Perfect Couples Lyrics

[Jackson] had the idea of the “Perfect Couples” song about how he’d always shyed away from thinking that his relationships were acceptable because… Read More I know some friends of mine

Think about them all the time

Why can't my life be like that?

I've seen them in the park

Restauranting after dark

Working out on their yoga mats

Stars of the dance hall crowd

Married young, took their vows

Comfort in their boldness and their flair

Dab hands for all to see

Stroke of brush and poetry

His cut of cloth, the contours of her hair

Thank you for the invite tonight

Perfect snacklets, perfect drinks

I'm getting ideas from your interiors

Perfect apartments, perfect kids

[Chorus]

Perfect couples are breaking up

What have they done?

Those perfect couples are breaking up

What have they done?

Don't make me feel so good

Expect that stuff in Hollywood

Not in my current milieu

Sexual tension at the fridge

He makes for the organic figs

Belmondo lips, dangling a cig

And she, just back from her hike

And to the gallery she might

Glide by with a basket on her bike (On her bike)

They've got issues too but what can you do?

Bad times, they'll always see them through

It always lurked in her mind

[Chorus]

Perfect couples are breaking up

What have they done? (In the back of her mind)

Those perfect couples are now breaking up

What have I done? (It always lurked in his mind)

Those perfect couples are breaking up

What have they done? (In the back of their minds)

Those perfect couples, they keep breaking up

What have I done?

Never happy with my girl

Jealous of a different world

Suddenly the years slip away

What am I waiting for? (I see those perfect couples and I)

What makes me close the door?

I see those perfect couples (Why can't I be like them?)

I admire the most

Finding fault with my heart (It's always been the same and then)

And always back to the start

What makes me get in the fray

Then just throw it away

Yeah, I throw it away

Yes, I throw it away (Only to find)

Perfect couples are breaking up

Perfect couples, how did they fail

Perfect couples, they wind up in jail

Perfect couples are breaking up

They've got the issues too but they know just what to do?

Bad times, they always saw them through

From Hyndland to Hollywood, there they stand, they look so good

Perfect couples, I'll show them to you

Perfect couples are breaking up

The sun comes up in their coffee cup

But perfect couples they keep breaking up

They keep breaking up

They couldn't agree on their organic produce

They couldn't agree on the school for the kids

They came in at night and didn't have anything to say to each other

That's the price of perfection my friends

Nothing to say

The Book of You Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Everybody's making plans for tomorrow

Stone could turn to sand but I just

I want to take you back in time

I'll draw the line

And I would write a different story

A new final act

I don't need the drama

But I would never write you out

[Verse 2]

Everyone's a thread, we're woven together

Read it in the tears and fraying edges

Read the book of you

The book of me

We're fading into memory

But something is left

A gesture, a phrase, or a photograph

The warp and weft

[Chorus]

We're always walking in the rain

And you're just trouble, so I claim

But then the world can see

That I'm the one for you

And you're the one for me

[Verse 3]

Valentine, if you could change with the weather

Faith would just evaporate

Untethered in a fresh disguise

I'll catch your eye

And see behind the mask

And find you never went far

But that's not the last time

I've thought about the way we are

[Chorus]

We're always walking in the rain

And you're just trouble, so I claim

But then the world can see

That I'm the one for you

And you're the one for me

[Instrumental]

[Chorus]

We're always walking in the rain

And you're just trouble, so I claim

But then the world can see

That I'm the one for you

And you're the one for me

We're always walking in the rain

And you're just trouble, so I claim

But then the world can see

That I'm the one for you

And you're the one for me

Piggy in the Middle Lyrics

6 ContributorsPiggy in the Middle LyricsI'm alone

I'm not with you

When I get in at night the many facets of the conversation

Roll around inside my head

Who's going with who?

Who's going with you?

You are the girl who for a twist plays ventriloquist

The other boys line up to be your pooch

But if I draw a circle and I walk around it

You're the piggy in the middle

But I love my little pig until it hurts

I want to dance

Give the boy a chance

I want to lose myself in 1986

The darkened cinematic days of love and trance

Your crisp white tee(-shirt)

Rockabilly (Hurts)

An army of affected youth they're cute in boots

I look at her the girl is looking back at me

And with a thought that cuts me

She will turn and curtsey to her rockabilly boyfriend

It's too late the damage done

I will catch them on the stairs

Like a bad smell that stays

They will turn round and see me

They will kiss stroke and feel

Just for my benefit: the boy voyeur

His camera makes up for what he's lost

You know I know you're the queen

Oh, when there's nothing to rule

Who is the fool?

Wait for spring

I want to sing

Sleep is a drag love is the drug flu is the bug

I got my bag it's full of stuff I want to bring

There is a club

There is a girl

Give her the secret sign that I'll be there

A little clue, maybe she'll pick it up, maybe she'll pass

But I go into the building and she's over by the bar

By the time they play New Order

She is over in the corner

And she's telling me stuff

I think she feels pretty rough

She has to lean on my shoulder

She is drunk, I am sober

And I take her confession

It's the cutest little session of the month

As I take her confession

I confess I've got my hand under her blouse

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Track Lyrics

Allie Lyrics

The Party Line Lyrics

The Cat With the Cream Lyrics

Enter Sylvia Plath Lyrics

The Everlasting Muse Lyrics

Perfect Couples Lyrics

The Book of You Lyrics

Piggy in the Middle Lyrics