Альбом Tindersticks

I wouldn’t shut your eyes just yet
I wouldn’t turn the lights down yet
`Cos there’s things you’ve gotta see here
There’s things you’ve gotta believe of me

I wouldn’t turn the sound down yet
Don’t even touch the dials, not yet
`Cos there’s things you’ve gotta hear here
There’s things you’ve gotta believe of me

I wouldn’t say a word just yet
Don’t even open your mouth, not yet
`Cos there’s things I’ve gotta say here
There’s things you wanna hear from me

I had shoes full of holes
When you first took me in
The path that you led
Wasn’t straight to your bed
There’s no cots to sleep in
And you showed me
Who I was running from
As if I had not known all along

Oh my old feet
They know this hard street
Stay like old friends
You’re flat on the ground
There’s no further down
There’s no cots to sleep in
So come in
Leave them outside the door
Tear off the paper
Tear off the carpet
Off the floor
Chorus:
LyricsAnd I know you’re hurting
And I can’t be there for you
And I know you’re hurting
And I can’t be there no more
I had shoes full of holes
When you first took me in
I had calluses, not sores
And I’d like to keep them
So go turn those sheets
Get back on the street
There’s nothing more I can bring to you
See I’m scared of the door
Afraid of the floor
Well, I’ll go and walk right through
And I’ll show you
Who I’ve been running from
It’s the feeling of waking
And it’s gone
Chorus
I had shoes full of holes
When you first took me in
I had calluses, not sores
And I’d like to keep them
Oh now your feet
They know this hard street
They’re like old friends
You’re flat on the ground
There’s no further down
There’s no cots to sleep in
So come in
Leave them outside the door
Tear off the paper
Tear off the carpet
Off the floor
Chorus
I had shoes full of holes
When you first took me in
I had calluses, not sores
And I’d like to keep them
So go turn those sheets
Get back on the street
There’s nothing more I can bring to you
See I’m scared of the door
Afraid of the floor
Well, I’ll go and walk right through
And I’ll show you
Who I’ve been running from
It’s the feeling of waking
And it’s gone

Do you remember my sister? How many mistakes did she make with those never blinking eyes? I couldn’t work it out. I swear she could read your mind, your life, the depths of your soul at one glance. Maybe she was stripping herself away, saying
Here I am, this is me
I am yours and everything about me, everything you see...
If only you look hard enough
I never could.
Our life was a pillow-fight. We’d stand there on the quilt, our hands clenched ready. Her with her milky teeth, so late for her age, and a Stanley knife in her hand. She sliced the tyres on my bike and I couldn’t forgive her.
She went blind at the age of five. We’d stand at the bedroom window and she’d get me to tell her what I saw. I’d describe the houses opposite, the little patch of grass next to the path, the gate with its rotten hinges forever wedged open that Dad was always going to fix. She’d stand there quiet for a moment. I thought she was trying to develop the images in her own head. Then she’d say:
I can see little twinkly stars,
like Christmas tree lights in faraway windows.
Rings of brightly coloured rocks
floating around orange and mustard planets.
I can see huge tiger striped fishes
chasing tiny blue and yellow dashes,
all tails and fins and bubbles.
I’d look at the grey house opposite, and close the curtains.
She burned down the house when she was ten. I was away camping with the scouts. The fireman said she’d been smoking in bed - the old story, I thought. The cat and our mum died in the flames, so Dad took us to stay with our Aunt in the country. He went back to London to find us a new house. We never saw him again.
On her thirteenth birthday she fell down the well in our Aunt’s garden and broke her head. She’d been drinking heavily. On her recovery her sight returned, a fluke of nature everyone said. That’s when she said she’d never blink again. I would tell her when she started at me, with her eyes wide and watery, that they reminded me of the well she fell into. She liked this, it made her laugh.
She moved in with a gym teacher when she was fifteen, all muscles he was. He lost his job when it all came out, and couldn’t get another one. Not in that kind of small town. Everybody knew everyone else’s business. My sister would hold her head high, though. She said she was in love. They were together for five years until one day he lost his temper. He hit her over the back of the neck with his bullworker. She lost the use of the right side of her body. He got three years and was out in fifteen months. We saw him a while later, he was coaching a non-league football team in a Cornwall seaside town. I don’t think he recognised her. My sister had put on a lot of weight from being in a chair all the time. She’d get me to stick pins and stub out cigarettes in her right hand. She’d laugh like mad because it didn’t hurt. Her left hand was pretty good though. We’d have arm wrestling matches, I’d have to use both arms and she’d still beat me.
We buried her when she was 32. Me and my Aunt, the vicar, and the man who dug the hole. She said she didn’t want to be cremated and wanted a cheap coffin so the worms could get to her quickly. She said she liked the idea of it, though I thought it was because of what happened to the cat and our mum

You’ve been lying in bed for a week now
Wondering how long it’ll take
You haven’t spoken or looked at her in all that time
For that was the easiest line you could break
She’s been going round her business as usual
Always with that melancholic smile
But you were too busy looking into your affairs
To see those tiny tears in her eyes
Chorus:
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don’t let them pour all over me
How can you hurt someone so much you’re supposed to care for
Someone you said you’d always be there for
But when that water breaks you know you’re gonna cry, cry
When those tears start rolling you’ll be back
Chorus
You’ve been thinking about the time, you’ve been dreading it
But now it seems that moment has arrived
She’s at the edge of the bed, she gets in
But it’s hard to turn the opposite way tonight
Chorus

Did you ever wonder what’s inside that keeps us together?
Did you ever want to take that knife and discover?
Like cutting into a sack of grain
Going to watch our love run away
And look at each other
Sometimes it seems we’re joined at our sides
It keeps us together
I like to think we’re not along for the ride
But sometimes I wonder
So go and cut into that sack again
See if we’re worth it anyway
And look at each other

Did you ever wonder what’s inside that keeps us together?
Did you ever want to take that knife and discover?
So go and cut into that sack again
See if we’re worth it anyway
And we’re on different sides of the line
And we look at each other
There’s trains approaching from either side
Going to jump over those tracks for you
Go anywhere you’re going to
I’m going with you

Would you prefer a stone
That I chose for you?
That lay on a beach
Was just a sea of stone
Wasn’t meant for you
Jumped into my eyes
Choice of millions
Would you prefer a stone
From your window?
It walks through the streets
Feeling young and tense
They said he had this all in mind for you
`Cos it’s so much strain
Choice of only a few
Would you prefer a look
That was contrived?
Or a look that says how I really keep with you?
I have no plans in my mind
Just kind of go
Go with you
Would you prefer a hello or a goodbye?
My mind is something I don’t know
The truth, why should I lie?
Just kind of go
Go with you

(Instrumental)

Talk to me darling
Before you throw it away
Look into these eyes now
Look into these eyes

If it’s too far to fall
It still makes you cry
You can’t kill this love no,
You can’t kill this love
You feel the rush in your arm
You see shadows form
You move forward slowly
To find nothing at all

In a hall of mirrors
You get sick of yourself
Think you can just leave the blade there
Sit and wait...
Chorus 2x:
I know it’s scary darling
It comes back from the dead
LyricsClimbs on out of the ground
Back into our bed
So talk to me darling
Before you throw it away
Look into these eyes now
Look into these eyes
If it’s too far to fall
If it still makes you cry
You can’t kill this love no,
You can’t kill this love
Chorus

There’s no more affairs
No more fooling around
There’s no more affairs
Are you gonna find out?
If I tremble in your arms
If I sigh through your hair
This last affair
There’s no more fooling around
There’s no more affairs
Are you gonna find out?
If my hand’s by my side
If I avoid your stare
This last affair
There’s no more affairs
No more fooling around
There’s no more affairs
No, no more fooling around
There’s no more affairs
Are you gonna find out?
If I tremble in your arms
If I sigh through your hair
LyricsThis last affair
There’s a place in my mind
Where I know what’s going on
But it grows, shifts into time
Leaves me hanging on
And though we were only having fun
It seems such a crime now
Go and play, play in the road
You’re gonna get run down, run down
There’s no more affairs
No more fooling around
There’s no more affairs
No more fooling around
There’s no more affairs
Are you going to find out?
It’s an impulsive thing
But we caught the other
Climbed into bed with all our previous lovers
Gets crowded in there
There’s no more affairs

(Instrumental)

(Stuart; Carla; Both)
There are places I don’t remember
There are times and days, they mean nothing to me
I’ve been looking through some of them old pictures
They don’t serve to jog my memory
I’m not waking in the morning, staring at the walls these days
I’m not getting out the boxes, spread all over the floor
I’ve been looking through some of them old pictures
Those faces they mean nothing to me no more
Chorus:
I travel light
You travel light
Everything I’ve done
You say you can justify, mmm you travel light
I can’t pick them out, I can’t put them in this saddle bag
Some things you have to lose along the way
Times are hard, I’ll only pick them out, wish I was going back
Times are good, you’ll be glad you ran away
Chorus
Do you remember, how much you loved me?
You say you have no room in that thick old head
LyricsWell it comes with the hurt and the guilt, and the memories
If I had to take them with me I would never get from my bed
There’s a crack in the roof where the rain pours through
That’s the place you always decide to sit
Yeah I know I’m there for hours, the water running down my /your face
Do you really think you keep it all that well hid?
No but I travel light
You don’t travel light
Everything I’ve done
It’s just a lie, you don’t travel light
I’m travelling light
No you don’t travel light
I travel light
No, no, you don’t travel light
I’m travelling light
You don’t travel light

A black television screen
Snow white and black
Deep and open
Splashing against the windows
Looking out onto a three-terrace town
There’s a garden, grey-green
And cherry blossoms
Get in in the morning (All seasons here, saved for a rainy day)
Climb in beside you (A part of a hole)
Watch the clock for half an hour (An orange and its peel)
It’s cold on the outside
There’s steam on the windows (A star in a night sky)
And I put myself there all the time (A gentle beauty)
You let me forget again
And I snore on and on
You let me forget again
Forget how it feels to be wrong
If I could show her completely (Funny how everything makes you feel low when you’re already low)
But it comes out so drunkardly now (Lying on the bed, the light-bulb banging down)
Fall over on my words (Get up, pull the sheet from the window, to see the rain still coming down)
That peace when the door slams (Downstairs there’s hot coffee, sit down to a cigarette)
Soon shattered the hot light (Down to the filter, another and down to my last)
I came so well-oiled (Another and my last penny)
You let me forget again (4 a.m. 6 feet down. Already up with the larks)
And I came stumbling through
You let me forget again (4 a.m. 6 feet down. Already up with the larks)
Forget what I always knew

She’s gone
And it’s quiet now
Took her mother with her
Left town
Took her mother’s eye
Stole her mother’s heart
It’s a compromise
We nurture that part and she’s gone
Says she can walk now
Says she can walk now
Seen her walking
She totters and falls
And when I’m not looking
Leans onto the wall
And she’ll hold on to me only when she wants
And she’ll fall and be up again
It’s part of the fun
But she’s gone
Thinks she can walk now
Thinks she can walk now
Thinks she can walk
LyricsShe’s gone
And it’s quiet now
Took her mother with her
Left town
Took her mother’s eye
Stole her mother’s heart
It’s a compromise
We nurture that part and she’s gone
And it’s quiet now
Took her mother with her
Left town

Erreurs
Je sais que je les porterai toute ma vie
Mes erreurs
Comme de celle
Tu sais laquelle
Quand on a coupé mes cordes
Je me suis envolée ailleurs
On a coupé mes cordes
Et je ne redescendais pas

Mistakes I’ve made
I know I’ll live with them all my life
Mistakes I’ve made
Like the one
You know the one
When I had my strings cut
I went flying around
And I had my strings cut
I wasn’t coming down

These days I’m only happy when I cannot move
LyricsThese days I’m only happy when I’m tied down
Next to you
Not with my strings cut
When I’m flying around
Not with my strings cut
When I’m not coming down

Mistakes I’ve made
I know I’ll live with them all my life
Mistakes I’ve made
Like the one
You know the one
And I had my strings cut
I went flying around
And I had my strings cut
I wasn’t coming down

(Instrumental)

Tell me
I can think right
Am I going home tonight
Or staying here?

Turn over
Turn out the light
I’m going home tonight
Not staying here
If you let me sleep
I won’t wake up
I haven’t closed my eyes for days
Sleep
I won’t wake up
I haven’t closed my eyes
Tell me
I can think right
I’m going home tonight
Not staying here
Turn over
Turn out the light
I’m going home tonight
Not staying here
If you let me sleep
I won’t wake up
I haven’t closed my eyes for days
Sleep
I won’t wake up
I haven’t closed my eyes

Plus de liaisons
Plus de trahisons
Plus de liaisons
Comment devineras-tu ?
Si je tremble dans tes bras
Si je soupire dans tes cheveux
Cette dernière liaison
Maintenant plus de trahisons
Plus de liaisons
Comment devineras-tu ?
Si mes bras tremblent
Si j'évite ton regard
Cette dernière liaison
Plus de liaisons
Plus de trahisons
Plus de liaisons
Non, plus de trahisons
Plus de liaisons
Comment devineras-tu ?
Si je tremble dans tes bras
Si je soupire dans tes cheveux
LyricsCette dernière liaison
Quelque part dans ma tête
Je sais ce qui se passe
Mais tout ça a grandi
Ne me laisse pas le choix
S'amuser seulement
Ca me semble un tel crime a présent
Va jouer, jouer sur la route
Et tu mourras écrasée
Plus de liaisons
Plus de trahisons
Plus de liaisons
Comment devineras-tu ?
C'était spontané
Mais on a rappelé les autres
On s'est amusé avec nos précédents amants
Il y a foule là-dedans
Plus de liaisons