Evil British Taxi - The Tunnel Song Lyrics

Almost a man
I was almost a man with my own thoughts and body
No trembling hands
Or paper skin
I could have been more

I could've haunted this city
Had a seat in every house
Outside every window in this town
Then you could be anyone

Almost a man
I was almost in control of my body
I could almost stand by myself
But I could hear that voice
You could be better again

And that was all that I needed
It was all that I want
I know since then I've started dying
But I'll know where to haunt

I could mirror your movements
And I would tell you I'm sick
And you would tell me it's perfectly normal
To be treated like this

The word is nervous
It's an attack on the nerves
It's not your fault that I'm shaking
It's my body that's making me hurt

I'm using this melody wrong
I need a more powerful song

I'm using this melody wrong
I need a more powerful song

These are such important lyrics

I'm not pretending
And I'm not being romantic
As I understand it

And I'm not pretending
This is all I can do
Over and over and over

You is not you
It's just a word that I use
To describe all the people I've sewn myself to

But I want it to mean something

Someday it will hurt
And I will get what I deserve
For disguising myself as a person
But I wanted to need someone

When we were facing each other
Our faces looked kinda twisted in pain
And I can't help but feel
We'd have gotten much further without them

You looked at me and said
That we look like the wrong kind of animal
I looked at you and said
Hey, that's the point of the album

And now the memory burns
And now the memory hurts
So why would I remember it
Why would my mind betray me like that

You make me so nervous and sad
And I don't have a clever way to say that

The tower that united us will crumble at last
And it will gently kiss you on the way down

When you sell the rights
To my body and my life
The lines that keep me here will all blur

And when you go to sleep
And they toss flowers at your feet
They'll say, Jesus Christ, what a talented monster

There will be no grand revival
I will not be satisfied
Until every part of me
That's just one person has died

If the forest fades away
If space expands backwards
Will you die with me
Will you admit we're sick

And if the dreamer wakes
If I become human
Can I leave you here
Can I trust you not to live

Can you swing your hammer down
Towards the house that we've haunted
Can you let me believe
I might die somewhere else

Can you say I'm sorry you're hurt

Why
Why
Why
Why did I need that from you
Why can't I do a goddamn thing by myself
What's so bad about me anyway
What did I do wrong

There is nothing wrong with me
Is the forest still there
There is nothing wrong with me
Are you ever gonna go away

The Tunnel

Topple the mountain upon which your gods live
Restore your fine nation's faith in false prophets
This land is dirty, but it's ours
We will be grateful to die upon it

Allow from your image a foul beast to spring forth
To sully the waters and destroy the small earth
To subsume the microcosm
And its creator in turn