Hail to the Thief

2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm.) Lyrics

[Intro]

We're on, that's a nice way to start, Jonny

[Verse 1]

Are you such a dreamer

To put the world to rights?

I'll stay home forever

Where two and two always makes a five

[Verse 2]

I'll lay down the tracks

Sandbag and hide

January has April showers

And two and two always makes a five

[Bridge]

It's the devil's way now

There is no way out

You can scream and you can shout

It is too late now

Because

[Chorus]

You have not been

Paying attention

You have not been

Paying attention

You have not been

Paying attention

You have not been

Paying attention

[Outro]

I try to sing along

But I get it all wrong

'Cause I'm not, 'cause I'm not

I swat 'em like flies

But like flies, the bugs keep coming back

Not, but I'm not

All hail to the thief

But I'm not, but I'm not

Don't question my authority or put me in a box

'Cause I'm not, 'cause I'm not

Oh, go and tell the king

That the sky is falling in

But it's not, but it's not, but it's not

Maybe not, maybe not

Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders.) Lyrics

[Chorus]

Sit down, stand up

[Verse 1]

Walk into the jaws of hell (Sit down)

Walk into the jaws of hell (Stand up)

Anytime (Sit down)

Anytime (Stand up)

[Chorus]

Sit down, stand up

Sit down

[Verse 2]

Hey, we can wipe you out anytime (Stand up)

We can wipe you out (Sit down)

Anytime

[Interlude]

Stand up

Sit down

[Outro]

The raindrops, the raindrops

Sail to the Moon. (Brush the Cobwebs Out of the Sky.) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I sucked the moon

I spoke too soon

And how much did it cost?

I was dropped from moonbeams

And sailed on shootin' stars

[Verse 2]

Maybe you'll be president

But know right from wrong

Or in the flood you'll build an ark

And sail us to the moon

[Outro]

Sail us to (to) the moon

Sail to

Backdrifts. (Honeymoon Is Over.) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

We're rotten fruit, we're damaged goods

What the hell, we've got nothing more to lose

One gust and we will probably crumble

We're backdrifting

[Verse 2]

This far, but no further

I'm hanging off a branch

I'm teetering on the brink of

Honey sweets, so full of sleep

I'm backsliding

[Chorus]

You fell into our arms

We tried but there was nothing we could do

Nothing we could do

[Verse 3]

All evidence has been buried

All tapes have been erased

But your footsteps give you away

So you're backtracking

[Chorus]

Ah-ah-ah

You fell into our arms

We tried but there was nothing we could do

Nothing we could do

[Post-Chorus]

You fell into our, you fell into our...

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 1]

We're rotten fruit, we're damaged goods

What the hell, we've got nothing more to lose

One gust and we will probably crumble

We're backdrifters

[Instrumental Outro]

Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Something for the rag and bone man

Over my dead body

Something big is gonna happen

Over my dead body

[Verse 2]

Someone's son or someone's daughter

Over my dead body

This is how I end up sucked in

Over my dead body

[Chorus]

I'm gonna go to sleep

And let this wash all over me

[Bridge]

We don't really want a monster taking over

Tiptoe 'round, tie him down

We don't want the loonies taking over

Tiptoe 'round, tie him down

[Chorus]

May pretty horses

Come to you as you sleep

I'm gonna go to sleep

And let this wash all over me

Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In.) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

There's a gap in between

There's a gap where we meet

Where I end and you begin

And I'm sorry for us

The dinosaurs roam the earth

The sky turns green

Where I end and you begin

[Bridge]

4, 5, 6, 7 (I’m in heaven)

[Verse 2]

I am up in the clouds

And I can't and I can't come down

I can watch but not take part

Where I end and where you start

Where you, you left me alone

You left me alone

[Verse 3]

X will mark the place

Like the parting of the waves

Like a house falling in the sea

In the sea

[Outro]

I will eat you alive, I will eat you alive

There'll be no more lies, there'll be no more lies

I will eat you alive, I will eat you alive

There'll be no more lies, there'll be no more lies

I will eat you alive, I will eat you alive

There'll be no more lies, there'll be no more lies

I will eat you alive, I will eat you alive

I will eat you alive

Good!

Thom: Should we do that again then?

Do we really need to?

Thom: I'm joking!

We Suck Young Blood. (Your Time Is Up.) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Are you hungry, are you sick?

Are you begging for a break?

Are you sweet, are you fresh?

Are you strung up by the wrists?

[Hook 1]

We want the young blood

[Verse 2]

Are you fracturing?

Are you torn at the seams?

Would you do anything?

Flea-bitten, moth eaten?

[Hook 2]

We suck young blood

[Verse 3]

Won't let the creeping ivy

Won't let the nervous bury me

Our veins are thin

Our rivers poisoned

[Hook 3]

We want the sweet meats

We want the young blood

The Gloaming. (Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold.) Lyrics

1 ContributorThe gloaming (Radiohead cover) LyricsGenie let out of the bottle

It is now the witching hour

Genie let out of the bottle

It is now the witching hour

Murderers, you're murderers

We are not the same as you

Genie let out of the bottle

Funny, ha-ha, funny how

When the walls bend, when the walls bend

With your breathing, with your breathing

When the walls bend, when the walls bend

With your breathing, with your breathing

With your breathing

They will suck you down to the other side

To the shadows blue and red, shadows blue and red

Your alarm bells, your alarm bells

Shadows blue and red, shadows blue and red

Your alarm bells, your alarm

They should be ringing, they should be ringing

This is the gloaming

There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

In pitch dark

I go walking in your landscape

Broken branches

Trip me as I speak

[Refrain]

Just 'cause you feel it

Doesn't mean it's there

Just 'cause you feel it

Doesn't mean it's there

[Verse 2]

There's always a siren

Singing you to shipwreck

(Ooh-ah, don't reach out, don't reach out)

Steer away from these rocks

We'd be a walking disaster

(Ooh-ah, don't reach out, don't reach out)

[Refrain]

Just 'cause you feel it

Doesn't mean it's there

(Someone on your shoulder)

Just 'cause you feel it

Doesn't mean it's there

(Someone on your shoulder)

[Interlude]

There, there

[Bridge]

Why so green and lonely, and lonely

And lonely?

Heaven sent you to me, to me

To me

[Outro]

We are accidents waiting, waiting

To happen

We are accidents waiting, waiting

To happen

I Will. (No Man’s Land.) Lyrics

[Текст песни «I Will (Radiohead Cover)»]

[Куплет]

Как словить звезду?

Времени на ловлю нет

Я с дуба рухнул прямо в Moscow

Сука, кухня, воздух плотный клубом

Гвозди в руки, она бросила мне кости

Судя по всему я тот стиль с улиц

Тот тип монстра, что пытается семью запихнуть в улей (е-е-е)

Как словить звезду?

Времени на ловлю нет

Я с дуба рухнул прямо в Moscow

Сука, кухня, воздух плотный клубом

Гвозди в руки, она бросила мне кости

Судя по всему я тот стиль с улиц

Тот тип монстра, что пытается семью запихнуть в улей (а-а-е-е-е)

[Припев]

I will

Lay me down

In a bunker

Underground

I won't let this happen

To my children

Meet the real-world coming

Out of your shell

A Punchup at a Wedding. (No No No No No No No No.) Lyrics

[Intro]

No, no, no, no, no, no

[Verse 1]

I don't know why you bother

Nothing's ever good enough for you

I was there, it wasn't like that

You've come here just to start a fight

[Chorus]

You had to piss on our parade

You had to shred our big day

You had to ruin it for all concerned

In a drunken punch-up at a wedding, yeah

[Verse 2]

Hypocrite, opportunist

Don't infect me with your poison

A bully in a china shop

When I turn 'round, you stay frozen to the spot

[Chorus]

The pointless snide remarks

Of hammerheaded sharks

The pot will call the kettle black

It's a drunken punch-up at a wedding, yeah

[Outro]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Myxomatosis. (Judge, Jury & Executioner.) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

The mongrel cat came home

Holding half a head

Proceeded to show it off

To all his newfound friends

He said, I been where I liked

I slept with who I like

She ate me up for breakfast

She screwed me in a vice

But now

[Chorus]

I don't know why I

Feel so tongue tied

[Verse 2]

I sat in the cupboard

And wrote it down in neat

They were cheering and waving, cheering and waving

Twitching and salivating like with myxomatosis

But it got edited, fucked up

Strangled, beaten up

Used in a photo in Time magazine

Buried in a burning black hole in Devon

[Chorus]

I don't know why I

Feel so tongue tied

Don't know why I

Feel so skinned alive

[Verse 3]

My thoughts are misguided and a little naïve

I twitch and I salivate like with myxomatosis

You should put me in a home or you should put me down

I got myxomatosis, I got myxomatosis

Yeah, no one likes a smartass, but we all like stars

Wait, that wasn't my intention, I did it for a reason

It must have got mixed up, strangled, beaten up

I got myxomatosis, I got myxomatosis

[Chorus]

I don't know why I

Feel so tongue tied

Scatterbrain. (As Dead as Leaves.) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I'm walking out in a force ten gale

Birds thrown around, bullets for hail

The roof is pulling off by its fingernails

Your voice is rapping on my windowsill

[Verse 2]

Yesterday's headlines blown by the wind

Yesterday's people end up scatterbrain there

Any fool can easy pick a hole, I only wish I could fall in

A moving target in a firing range

[Outro]

Somewhere I'm not

Scatterbrain

Somewhere I'm not

Scatterbrain

Lightning fuse, powercut

Scatterbrain

A Wolf at the Door. (It Girl. Rag Doll.) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Drag him out the window

Dragging out your dead

Singing "I miss you"

Snakes and ladders

Flip the lid

Out pops the cracker

Smacks you in the head

Knifes you in the neck

Kicks you in the teeth

Steel toe caps

Takes all your credit cards

Get up, get the gunge

Get the eggs

Get the flan in the face

The flan in the face

Dance, you fucker, dance, you fucker

Don't you dare, don't you dare

Don't you, flan in the face

Take it with the love it's given

Take it with a pinch of salt

Take it to the taxman

Let me back, let me back

I promise to be good

Don't look in the mirror

At the face you don't recognize

Help me, call the doctor, put me inside

Put me inside, put me inside

[Chorus]

I keep the wolf from the door, but he calls me up

Calls me on the phone, tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up

Steal all my children if I don't pay the ransom

And I'll never see them again if I squeal to the cops

[Bridge]

No no no no no no no no no no no no no

No no no no no no no no no no no no no no

[Verse 2]

Walking like a giant cranes and with my X-ray eyes, I strip you naked in a tight little world and are you on the list?

Stepford wives, who are we to complain?

Investments and dealers, investments and dealers

Cold wives and mistresses

Cold wives and Sunday papers

City boys in First Class

Don't know we're born just know

Someone else is gonna come and clean it up

Born and raised for the job

Someone always does

Oh, I wish you'd get up

Get over, get up, go over and turn this tape off

[Chorus]

I keep the wolf from the door but he calls me up

Calls me on the phone, tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up

Steal all my children if I don't pay the ransom

And I'll never see them again if I squeal to the cops

So I'm just gonna...

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Track Lyrics

2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm.) Lyrics

Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders.) Lyrics

Sail to the Moon. (Brush the Cobwebs Out of the Sky.) Lyrics

Backdrifts. (Honeymoon Is Over.) Lyrics

Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.) Lyrics

Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In.) Lyrics

We Suck Young Blood. (Your Time Is Up.) Lyrics

The Gloaming. (Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold.) Lyrics

There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.) Lyrics

I Will. (No Man’s Land.) Lyrics

A Punchup at a Wedding. (No No No No No No No No.) Lyrics

Myxomatosis. (Judge, Jury & Executioner.) Lyrics

Scatterbrain. (As Dead as Leaves.) Lyrics

A Wolf at the Door. (It Girl. Rag Doll.) Lyrics