PORCUPINE TREE – Stop Swimming

This song leaks out onto the pavement
It could be a joke, it could be a statement
The more that I fake it and pretend I don’t care
The more you can read in to what isn’t there

Maybe it’s time to stop swimming
Maybe it’s time to find out where I’m at
What I should do and where I should be
But no-one will give me a map

I’ll leave now this can’t continue
But I forget which door I came through
And I know that the lift can be painfully slow
So I think I’ll leave by the window

PORCUPINE TREE – Even Less

A body is washed up on a Norfolk beach
He was a friend that I could not reach
He thought I was cold but I understand
But for the grace of god goes another man

And I may just waste away from doing nothing
But you’re a martyr for even less

A choirboy is buried on the moors
Where we used to go dreaming when we were bored
So some kids are best left to fend for themselves
And others were born to stack shelves

And I may just waste away from doing nothing
But you’re a martyr for even less
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PORCUPINE TREE – Drown With Me

So you have been of use
And you have been abused
You know you look pale today
Your lipstick has gone astray
You sold out and lost your looks
You gave away all your books
(You should drown with me)
Your coil has been wound up tight
Unwind it with me tonight
(You should drown with me)
Tyre tracks Fresh on the ground
Where she will be found
Held under the water
Resting there in a stream
View from the cold water
Buried in green
Orange filter sky
Your drowning in family there
When will you come up for air
(You should drown with me)
Don’t feel you let ‘em down
Cos they have already drowned
(You should drown with me)

PORCUPINE TREE – Dislocated Day

A dislocated day
Peers in to the ether
Counts the stars inside the sky
And flies in to the never

Looped around my eyelids
A thousand shining flecks
Pale against the canvas
Which hangs around my neck

Dislocated day
I will find a way
To make you say
The name of your forgiver

Stood beside an inlet
A starfish leads a dance
It dreams it is a human
And falls into a trance

A hole inside my body
Is wired up to a charge
Chemical imbalance
Tells me who you are

Insects hide the silence
November brings deep rain
Between the flow to freezing
And yesterday’s sustain

PORCUPINE TREE – Cure For Optimism

Up there a mountain rises
Down here an ocean dives
A stranger with a head full of lead
Photographs me

Steel bars and a doctor’s note
Don’t give up
They can plead and beg but don’t let them fix your head

Outside a path to knowledge
Inside a waste of cells
A serpent with a mobile phone
Sweet talks me

PORCUPINE TREE – Collapse The Light Into Earth

I won’t shiver in the cold
I won’t let the shadows take their toll
I won’t cover my head in the dark
And I won’t forget you when we part

Collapse the Light Into Earth

I won’t heal given time
I won’t try to change your mind
I won’t feel better in the cold light of day
But I wouldn’t stop you if you wanted to stay

Collapse the Light Into Earth

PORCUPINE TREE – Buying New Soul

Dried up, a guitar upon my knee
I should have sold out when the devil came for me
Dig a hole and throw it out to sea
Break the code, how happy I could be

I still wave at the dots on the shore
And I still beat my head against the door
I still rage and wage my little war
I’m a shade and easy to ignore

White wall, I had to paint a door
I always find that I’ve been through it before
Close it up and throw away the key
Break the code, how happy I could be

I woke up and I had a big idea
To buy a new soul at the start of every year
I paid up and it cost me pretty dear
Here’s a hymn to those that disappear

PORCUPINE TREE – Arriving Somewhere But Not Here

Never stop the car on a drive in the dark
Never look for the truth in your mother’s eyes
Never trust the sound of rain upon a river
Rushing through your ears

Arriving somewhere but not here

Did you imagine the final sound as a gun?
Or the smashing windscreen of a car?
Did you ever imagine the last thing you’d hear as you’re fading out was a song?

All my designs, simplified
And all of my plans, compromised
All of my dreams, sacrificed

Ever had the feeling you’ve been here before?
Drinking down the poison the way you were taught
Every thought from here on in your life begins
And all you knew was wrong?

Did you see the red mist block your path?
Did the scissors cut a way to your heart?
Did you feel the envy for the sons of mothers tearing you apart?

PORCUPINE TREE – Anesthetize

A good impression of myself
Not much to conceal
I’m saying nothing
But I’m saying nothing with feel

I simply am not here
No way I…
Shut up, be happy
Stop whining please

Because of who we are
We react in mock surprise
The curse of “there must be more”
So don’t breathe here,
Don’t leave your bags

I simply am not here
No way I…
Shut up, be happy
Stop whining please

The dust in my soul
Makes me feel the weight in my legs
My head in the clouds
And I’m zoning out

I’m watching TV
But I find it hard to stay conscious
I’m totally bored
But I can’t switch off

Only apathy from the pills in me
It’s all in me, all in you
Electricity from the pills in me
It’s all in me, all in you
Only MTV, cod philosophy

We’re lost in the mall
Shuffling through the stores like zombies
What is the point?
What can money buy?

My hand’s on a gun
And I find the range, God tempt me
What did you say?
Think I’m passing out

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Only apathy from the pills in me
It’s all in me, all in you
Electricity from the pills in me
It’s all in me, all in you
Only MTV, cod philosophy

Water so warm that day (water so warm that day)
I counted out the waves (I counted out the waves)
As they broke into shore
I smiled into the sun

The water so warm that day
I was counting out the waves
And I followed their short life
As they broke on the shoreline
I could see you
But I couldn’t hear you

You were holding your hat in the breeze
Turning away from me in this moment
You were stolen as black across the sun

Water so warm that day (water so warm that day)
I counted out the waves (I counted out the waves)
As they broke into shore (as they broke into shore)

PORCUPINE TREE – Access Denied

Access denied
All of the smarter kids they stay inside
But out in the pouring rain
You’re kicking me with that look of sheer disdain

The fat controller man
He doesn’t understand he’s my biggest fan
So I’ll stay here on the floor
It’s better to be ignored than to be adored

Church spires ticking
Hose pipes hissing

Don’t want to smother you
Just want you to be the mother of my children (now)
And you do

Good morning lucky man
I hope you enjoyed your sojourn in Japan
It’s such a perfect scene
Back here in Golders Green – cut…end of dream