Fontaines D.C. - Romance Album Lyrics

Into the darkness again
In with the pigs in the pen
God knows I love you
Screws in my head
I will be beside you
'Til you're dead

Deep in the night I confide
That maybe my goodness has died
I pray for your kindness
Heart on a spit

And maybe romance is a place
Yeah
Maybe romance is a place
Yeah
Maybe romance is a place
For me
And you
And you
And

It may feel bad
It may feel bad
It may feel bad

I wanna see you alone, I wanna sharp the stone
I wanna bounce the bone, I wanna mess with it
I wanna lay the deville, the whole crew on the sill
I want the preacher and pill, I wanna bless with it
I wanna head to a mass and get cast in it
That shit's funnier than any A-class, in' it?
I wanna talk with the clown who has apologies down
Pay him 300 pound to take a class in it
I wanna bite the phone, I wanna bleed the tone
I wanna see you alone, alone, alone, lone
I wanna strait the shark and find me somewhere to park
Like the light when it's dark, it's dark, it's dark, dark
A few stars about make it feel like peace in a way
A complimentary round
Constellation got a twist in it
For a GPO and all the hits in it

I'm gon' hit your business if it's momentary blissness
I'm gon' hit your business if it's momentary blissness
I'm gon' hit your business if it's momentary blissness
I'm gon' hit your business if it's momentary
(It may feel bad)

I wanna talk with a gag if it's a bottle or bag
I wanna strike with the SAG, I need the friends from it
I want a shot in the dark, I wanna make the mark
I want to live the arc, I call the ends on it
I wanna take the truth without a lens on it
My God given insanity, it depends on it
How I feel? How I feel? How I feel? I wanna keel
Over harder than a turned up challenger
I wanna keep all of your charm in a canister
Do you inspire like the same did Salinger?
I'm the pig on the Chinese calendar
I got a shadow like a .58 Caliber
I wanna move like a new Salamander
I love the carrion who's a real Scavenger
It's moral tyranny keeping me from thee

Hit me for the day
For the light
That you suffered
To come by
Take to my sky
Never wanting
Only wonder
To live out of reach
Sloping family
Short to tall
One to three
Swallow the key
In their footprints
I will follow

I'm gon' hit your business if it's momentary blissness
I'm gon' hit your business if it's momentary blissness
I'm gon' hit your business if it's momentary blissness
I'm gon' hit your business if it's momentary blissness

So here's the thing
I know you're watching
I feel your pain
It's mine as well
I know you're right
I know you're right, girl

And if you change your mind
I will be waiting
I know your thoughts
They're mine as well
I know you're right
I know you're right, girl

Shockin' pretty is that face you're makin'
Is there a sentiment you'd like to tell?
But if you tell them what the real story is
I'm afraid it wouldn't play that well
Oh no

So here's the thing
I need commotion
I know your thoughts
They're mine as well
I know you're right
I know you're right, girl

And if you change your mind
I will be waiting
To keep your pain
With mine as well
I know you're right
I know you're right, girl

Aren't people made to chime?
It never makes me happy anymore
Always singing in my mind
And talking just provokes it, ahh-ah

So here's the thing
I know you're watching
I feel your pain
It's mine as well
I know you're right
I know you're right, girl

To be anaesthetized
And crave emotion
So beautiful
To hurt so well
I know you're right
I know you're right, girl

So here's the thing
I know you're watching

Deep they've designed you
From cradle to pyre
In the mortal attire
Desire
Desire
It's so hard to find you
The mist you've acquired
Has you turned to a liar
Desire
Desire
Desire
Desire

I see them driving into nothing where the nothing is sure
They drown their wishes in the fountain like their fathers before
And in the park the firefighters turned their bodies to glass
Some people seemed to take their time when they pass

Deep they've designed you
From cradle to pyre
In the mortal attire
Desire
Desire
It's high to be wanted
But haunted is higher
And the change requires
Desire
Desire
Desire
Desire
Desire

Every twenty four wretchin' with desire (desire)
All twenty four wretchin' with with desire (desire)
Every twenty four wretchin' with desire (desire)
All twenty four wretchin' with with desire (desire)
Every twenty four wretchin' with desire (desire)
All twenty four wretchin' with with desire (desire)
All twenty four wretchin' with with desire (desire)
All twenty four wretchin' with with desire (desire)

I feel alive
In the city
That you like
And wait for the day
To go dreaming
Right by

Oh-oh oh-oh
Seems so hard not to be free
When you walk
Right beside me

In the modern world (what?)
In the modern world
I don't feel anything in the modern world
I don't feel bad, Charlene
Kissing on the corner (yeah?)
Wait for just a minute (what?)
Come away with me and Sal
I promise you'll be in it
I don't feel bad

I feel alive
In the city
You despise
And wait for the day
When you come
Riding on by

Oh-oh oh-oh
Seems so hard just to be
If it matters
You complete me, yeah

In the modern world (what?)
In the modern world
I don't feel anything in the modern world
I don't feel bad, Charlene
Kissing on the corner (yeah?)
Wait for just a minute (what?)
Come away with me and Sal
I promise you'll be in it
I don't feel bad

In the modern world (what?)
In the modern world
I don't feel
No, I don't feel
I don't feel bad

As long as I've known
As long as I've known
As long as I've known
There's no feeling to draw
You may be the reason
But I am the law
The law
As long as I've known
There's no feeling to draw
You may be the reason
But I am the law
The law

I feel alive
In the city
That you like

In the modern world (what?)
In the modern world
I don't feel anything in the modern world
I don't feel bad, Charlene
Kissing on the corner (yeah?)
Wait for just a minute (what?)
Come away with me and Sal
I promise you'll be in it
So don't feel bad

In the modern world (what?)
In the modern world
I don't feel
No, I don't feel
(As long as I've known)
I don't feel bad
(As long as I've known)
Charlene
As long as I've known (yeah?)
There's no feeling to draw (what?)
You may be the reason
But I am the law
I don't feel bad

Changed my name to "promise you", yeah
Dying inside 'cause I want to, yeah
Didn't I say I wanted to, yeah?
Honey, I've changed before you, yeah
Twenty-eight years are coming to end
The rain chased me down the gully again
Now I'm higher than anyone here
And dirt ain't nothing on me, yeah

B-b-b-baby, I swear it, I wanted to call
But on my way around, I happened to fall
She's a MUA at Carnegie hall
In her vanity mirror, we're losing it all
Well we shacked up swift, abandonment way
Catch the sweet rain inside a beret
I'm in it, I'm reflecting all of the day
And I will fade in the night, yeah

Will you apologize
For the remainder of your life?
Do you accept the charges?
I promise you, I'll promise to, yeah

Well now she curls up with his favorite son
He's the ugliest man in heaven for one
As long as there's nobody fooling me there
Then dirt ain't nothing on me, yeah, yeah
They threw me out like I was a wedding bouquet
Now I can't quite remember what I had to say
'Til I get higher than everyone here
And I will fade in the night, yeah

In the charmless morning
I promise to be gone
I almost felt the feeling
That I wanted to, I wanted to, yeah, ah
You thought I was here
But I am farther than the sun, the sun

Ah, silent as the feeling
That I've promised you, I promise you, yeah

Well, I changed my name to "promise you", yeah
It's easier than making apologies, yeah
Now I'm higher than anyone, yeah
And dirt ain't nothing on me, yeah

Dreams, they got me choking
I'm joking in mine
People sick with feeling
They never align
All the life I've shown you
Will own you in time

It's fine
I know
You rain, I snow
You stay, I go

Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle boy

Sinner shows emotion
Provokes them to hang
People stood in silence
When they tied him, they sang
Drowned him in the crowd swells
Our church bells, they rang
No one wants a madness they start to understand

It's fine
I know
You rain, I snow
You stay, I go

Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle boy
Motorcycle

It's fine
I know
You rain, I snow
You stay, I go

In my dreams
I can't help it
In my dreams
Seen it coming
In my dreams
I can't help it
In my dreams
Turns to nothing

A sadness in the soul
I dreamed it long ago
But I have not belonged
To any setting sun
A destination low
And I'd hate to see you go
Now that I can feel it
It's faster if I call you

In my dreams (I just wanna hear you call)
I can't help it (waiting for a while)
In my dreams (you know I'm not cynical)
Seen it coming (I give into a smile)
In my dreams (well, I just wanna feel it)
I can't help it (waiting for a while)
In my dreams (wish that I could feel it)
Turns to nothing (yeah)

So you who will contend
With things until they end
Will sleep another off
And try to start again
Fascination lines
Down all your face and eyes
And say you'll never feel it
It's faster if I call you

In my dreams (I just wanna hear you call)
I can't help it (been waiting for a while)
In my dreams (you know I'm not cynical)
Seen it coming (I give into a smile)
In my dreams (well, I just wanna feel it)
I can't help it (waiting for a while)
In my dreams (I wish that I could feel it)
Turns to nothing

In my dreams
In my dreams
In my dreams
In my dreams

Basics
Understanding basics
You'll never let your guard down
And always leave a card out
But always
The word is not so friendly
It brings some f*cking baggage
It's a word that's used for lying

And never
Never I would trust
It sticks around for some
While always stays for none

Will someone
Find out what the word is
That makes the world go 'round
'Cause I thought it was love
But some say
That it has to be choice
I read it in some book
Or an old packet of smokes

Basics
I guess I get the gist
There's not that much to miss
You choose or you exist

When you came into my life, I was lost
And you took that shine to me
At what cost?
You recognised the smell
Human pain
Said, "I'd learn to love the chain"
It was

Shit, shit, shit
Battered
I caved in
My promise was clattered
Amazing stars from the drink
I made a promise and I killed
Shit, shit, shit
Battered
I live meretricious, you shattered
Amazing stars from the dreaming
I made a promise

When you said I taste like sleep
I was dead
When will you step in the room out of your head?
You said that I was bad
That was fine
When you said I could be good, I wouldn't have it
There's a certain kind of air
In the smoke
Must be some amount of truth
In the joke
For it to make you laugh
Ha-ha-ha
Teary faces know the craft

Shit, shit, shit
Battered
I caved in
My promise was clattered
Amazing stars from the drink
I made a promise and I killed
Shit, shit, shit
Battered
A whole life meretricious, you shattered
Amazing stars from the dreaming
I made a promise, oh we'll kill it

Shit, shit, shit
Battered
I caved in, my promise
Was clattered
Amazing stars from the drink
I made a promise

Did you know
I can claim the dreamer from a dream?
Make you feel
Everything you've never even seen
Yeah, it's been
A long, a long, a long, a long, a long, long
You were my
Favorite for a long time

Stitch and fall
The faces rearranged
You will see
Beauty give the way to something strange
Yeah, it's been
A long, a long, a long, a long, a long, long
You were my
Favorite for a long time

Well, look who's just the newest clown
Thirty-five hours coming down
How the sun shines on new pavement
And you don't even feel it
It's a cry far from bed radios
And days spent playing football indoors
When they painted town with Thatcher
They never even wanted to know ya

Feel alone?
I can split the sunshine to the day
Yeah, and
Stick your heart to everything you say
Yeah
To be gone, be gone, be gone, be gone, be gone
You were my
Favorite for a long time
You were my
Favorite for a long time

Favorite for a long time
Favorite for a long time
Favorite for a long time
(Ba-ba-ba-ba-pa) all the pieces last forever
(Ba-ba-ba-ba-pa) all the pieces last forever
(Ba-ba-ba-ba-pa) and all the pieces
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
(Ba-ba-ba-ba-pa) and all the pieces, ooh
Da-da-da, da-da-da

Did you know
Cities on return are often strange?
Yeah, and now
Every time you blink, you feel it change
And it's been
A long, a long, a long, a long, long, long
You've been my
Favorite for a while

Ahh
Makes sense when you understand
The misery made me another marked man
And I'm always looking over my shoulder
And each new day, I get another year older
Shoulder bound to the frame of a door
Chewed into shape like a stone on the shore
But if there was lightning in me
You'd know who it was for

Did you know
I can claim the dreamer from a dream?
Make you feel
Everything you've never even seen
Yeah, it's been
A long, a long, a long, a long, long, long
You were my
Favorite for a long time
You were my
Favorite for a long time
You were my
Favorite for a long time
You were my
Favorite for a long time