MARILLION

Turn your life upside down
Take a car into town
Wait until the world's asleep
And tear it up and never stop again
Take a train to the sea
Stay up all night ..and be
It only takes a fraction of a second
To turn your life upside down
upside down, upside down

Take a train to the sea
Be anyone you want to be
A little spark of light inside your mind
Safe and sound off the ground upside down
upside down, upside down

Wide awake on the edge of the world
Wide awake on the edge of the world
Wide awake on the edge of the world
Wide awake on the edge ...

2. Interior Lulu

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As you lie there on your bed
Beneath the face of Louise Brooks
With your makeup and your teddy bear
And your C.S. Lewis books
Bad seed
You're a bad seed

You're a decadent in chrysalis
Waiting sleepily to emerge
When you'll visit every seedy need
Of your random obsessive urge
All the ruses that you use
All the food that you refuse
All the dust and tired air that feeds Interior Lulus
All the poisoned attitudes
And the lust for the unknown
And the second best that devils use
To make this world their own
Interior Lulu, Interior Lulu, Interior Lulu, Interior Lulu

Use the anger
Paint a picture of it
Throw the colours
Use the pain, use the pain
Scream back a brand new emotion
As it runs across the skin
Fire across paper
Burn and curl, burn and curl
You thought you couldn't feel like this
But it's happening again and you're waking up in pain
Tattooed in that private place
Microsoft and tears

If you can carry it out you can take it away
If you can carry it out you can take it away
If you can buy it, it can be bought
If you can buy it, it can be stolen
If you can break it
It's already broken
Lately, I can stand to hear other people talking
So many empty conversations
What a waste of lips
Lately I can stand to stand on Primrose Hill
Look down upon the city
A heart pumping the roads
In our racing stripes
We rejoice at being connected
Without touching
Thank god for the internet
We stare at our screens
All our lives
What a waste of eyes
'Till the electrical storm blows our fuses
And we gaze, dumbfounded, at the rain

3. Out Of This World

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Three hundred miles an hour on water
In your purpose-built machine
No one dared to call a boat
Screaming blue
Out of this world
Make history
This is your day
Blue Bird
At such speeds, things fly

What did she say?
I know the pain of too much tenderness
Wondering when or if you'll come back again
Wanting to live for you
And being banned from giving

But only love will turn you around
Only love will turn you around
Only love
Only love will turn you around

So we live you and I
Either side of the edge
And we run and we scream
With the dilated stare
Of obsession and dreaming
What the hell do we want
Is it only to go
Where nobody has gone
A better way than the herd
Sing a different song
Till you're running the ledge
To the gasp from the crowd
Spinning round in your head
Everything that she said

4. Wrapped Up In Time

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Things come wrapped up in time
Like the past in a present
Or the perfect line in a song
They take their time
And when they're gone
They take their time with them
And you can't have them back
For the time for them has gone
And their time has gone with them
The time for them has gone
There's an echo of them
An echo of the time they were wrapped in
Sweet or bitter in the memory
But an echo is all, it's all I can reach now
An echo of you
An echo of you
in your time
Still echoing
Like a star in the sky
Like a star in the sky above me
And the story of it's life
Told backwards down this rod of light
But at it's beginning..
Long extinct.

5. The Space

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The space around the stars is something that you know
A biBion miles of darkness
Left you feeling love
The space around the stars is something that you know

On top of the world like a flag on a mountain
Feeling so high you can feel so alone
Unabie to breathe at the height that you flew
Staring on clouds with no view of beiow
On top of a girl like a dream in a hotel
Falling towards something out of control
Unable to miss like the man in the tarn
Crashing your car in Amsterdam
The space around the stars is something that you know A billion miles of darkness Left you feeling low The space around the stars is something that you know
Everything about you
So perfectly restrained
But everything inside you
Bites you
The space around the star Is something that you know A biion miles of darkness Left you feeling low The space around the stars Is something that you know
Everybody in the whoie of the world
Feels the same Inside
Everybody in the whole of the world
Lives and ioves and laughs and eats
And sleeps and grows and dies

6. Hard As Love

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Well I hear that you were looking out to hunt me down
And I guess you're used to having everything you want
But you Know that love can be as hard as sticks ond stones
Tell you nothing else con be as hard as love can
Well I hear you got my number and you want my name
I'm a stream of naughts and crosses in your R-A-M
But you know that love can be as hard os algebra
Baby nothing else has ever been as hard as love

Well I hear that you were lookin 1 out to take me home
And I hear that you can handle It and you're not scared
Have you heard about the pictures on my bedroom wall?
Baby nothing else has ever been as hard as tove

It makes you hungry and it makes you high
It makes you suffer and it makes you cry
It makes you panic and ft makes you vain
it makes you primitive ond sick inside
it makes you angry and it makes you blind
It makes you guilty and it makes you lie
Tied up and beaten
Spat out and eaten
Suicidal
Nothing's ever been as hard
It makes you hungry and it makes you high
It makes you suffer ond it makes you cry
But its all worthwhile
It makes you humble and it makes you crawl
It makes you tremble and if makes you fall
But Its all worthwhile
It makes you desperate and It makes you dream
It makes you dangerous and it makes you scream
But its all worthwhile
It makes you angry and it makes you bind
Makes you guilty and it makes you lie
But its all worthwhile

Well I hear that were lookin' out to change my faith
You can bash me with your book of words and hammer me down
But you know that love can be as hard as six inch nails
Baby nothing else has ever been as hard as love

7. Quartz

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I can imagine nothing more tedious
Than trying to have fun with you again
Maybe it's just something in my mind
But I hate feeling like I'm trying all the time
It's a kind of lie
When we pretend that we're still friends
And every time I smile d'you wonder if I'm laughin' at you?
And with every little grin you don't want to be wonderin'
Just exactly what it is I'm taking pleasure in
Although I always said
We were basically the same and all one
All one
It's so easy to persuade myself
That I'm clockwork and you're quartz
I'm clockwork and you're quartz
You're only happy when you're oiled and jewelled
You're only happy when you wind me up
And I know you're so reliable it isn't true
And it's so easy for me to break down
If I could jump a ride between the skin and silicon then
We could join hands and understand. Hallelujah1
But I listen to my own ticking
I guess we're worlds apart...

It's so hard
So hard
So hard

8. If My Heart Were A Ball

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Did you ever fall in love
Did you ever fall in love
Did you ever fall in love
Did you ever dream of falling
If my heart were a ball It would roll uphill
If my heart were a ball It would roll uphill
We are alone in the world
We must do what we feel we should
We are told what is right
Need hurts within us
We can see sense
We can feel what feels right
And so often
All these things are not at atl the same
They're not at all the some
If my heart were a ball It would roll uphill
If my heart were a ball It would roll uphill
Hard ball dream love now roll
Fall clown space truth time
Race give fruit all one wild
Church state god fast as I could cry
Laugh hide feel no will
To win sweet seed you me
Hard ball dream love now roll
Fall clown space truth stay give...

9. It's Not Your Fault

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You're only human
So am I
It's such a shame we have these secrets and lies
That get discovered from time to time
Whatever rises eventually falls
The world turns and it turns on us all —
'You can't live life without making mistakes
Ybu can't live trying to keep the outside world away
It's time to stop
Beating yourself up
It's not your fault
It's not your fault
It's not your fault
I broke a mirror
Maybe two
Shattered reflections.
That's all I have of you
Crockin like eggshell beneath my fear
I couldn't'bfeathe, I couldnt keep the outside world away
Oh dear
When you lie down to sleep
Repeat after me
It's not your fault
It's not your fault
It's not your fault
We're both so tired
It's not your fault
It's just the way we're wired

10. Memory Of Water

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I wonder if my rope's still hanging from the tree By the standing poo! where you drank me And filled me full of thirsty love And the memory of water?
I wonder if a king still fishes there His back towards the burned-out air His laughing catches singing loud The memory of water
Your taste is blood and ecstasy But i must drink you all alone; You're freckled like a speckled egg A dove, but this bird has flown
Î stay with me sweet memory O stay with me
I wonder if my rope's still hanging from the tree
By the standing pool where you drank me
As pain flows through me like champagne
Of the memory of water

11. This Is The 21st Century

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A wise man once said
A flower is only
A sexual organ
Beauty is cruelty
And evolution
A wise man once said
That everything could be explained
With mathematics
He had denied
His feminine side
Now where is the wisdom in that?
I came just as fast as I could
Through the dirty air
Of your neighbourhood
Your name on a grain of rice
Hangin' around my neck
And a head like lead
This is the 21 st century
I heard everything they said
The Universe demystified
Chemicals for God
This is the 21 st century
A wise man once wrote
That love is only
A prima! instinct
For reproduction
Natural selection
A wise man once said
That everything could be explained
And it's all in the brain

This is the 21 st century
I heard everything you said
The universe demystified
Astronomy instead
This is the 21 st century
Can't you get it through your head
This ain't the way it was meant to be
Magic isnt dead
Come to bed
Come to bed
And rest your heavy head my love,., -:
And slowly from above.
She showed the answer's something ..':.
That can't be written down
This is the 21 st century
Its flash to crash and bum
But nobodys gonna give you anything
For nothing in return
There's a man up in a mirrored building
And he fust bought the world
Wouid you want
Your own Wds
Growing up
Into what's left of this?
She shook her head.
She said "Cant you see?
The world is you
The world is me."

12. Cannibal Surf Babe

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Well she tied me to the headboard with a surf leash
And her wet hair hugged her body like a long-lost friend
And I really tried my best to get across to her
But nothing she would say could be defended

Well her birthday suit it was her only present
When I looked into her eyes - no history
And I told her eating people wasn't pleasant
But she laughed a snake eye laugh and walked away from me

And I watched her as she walked across the coals
I watched her as she walked across the coals

Singing: I was born in nineteen sixty weird
And I'm your nightmare surfer babe
Mr. Wilson where's your sandbox and your beard
'You still looking for the perfect microwave?

So I really did my best to get across to her
I said: "One day every pebble hits the beach"
And I kissed her face and held her like a long-lost friend
But she was too far out there to be reached
To be reached
She was too far out there

She was singing: I was born in nineteen sixty weird
I'm your nightmare surfer babe
Mr. Wilson where's your sandbox and your beard
'You still looking for the perfect microwave?

And the sun came up over the mountain
And the waves rolled in across the bay
And the fabulous brightly-coloured birds flew up out of the forest
And she said "Well we're all heaven's beautiful children living together in paradise
Lie down my dear... you're going to enjoy this"

And she looked like she'd had sex
With a Tyrannosaurus Rex

Singing: I was born in nineteen sixty weird, old man
I'm your nightmare surfer babe
Mr. Wilson where's your sandbox and your beard
'You still looking for that perfect microwave?
Perfect microwave

And I watched her as she walked across the coals...

And the sun came up over the mountain
And the waves rolled in across the bay
And the fabulous brightly-coloured birds flew up out of the forest
And she said "Well we're all heaven's beautiful children living together in paradise
Lie down my dear... you have enjoyed this"

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