Interpol - The Other Side of Make-Believe Album Lyrics

Flame down Pacific highway
Still in shape, my methods refined
(Yes)
Long gone superstitions falling
Be seen how my memories refused

I'd like to see them win
I like the inspiration like it's going in the right direction
That's to me
I'd like to see them win
It's my kind of aspiration like it's going in the right direction
That's to me, to me, to me, to be (but you don't notice)

The aim now is perfection always
The aim now is f*ckin' leave it behind
(Yes)
Oh no, through perception's hallways
When the change comes we'll live in green skies

I'd like to see them win
I like the inspiration like it's going in the right direction
That's to me, to me, to me, to me (but you don't notice)
I'd like to see them win
It's my kind of aspiration like it's flowing in the right direction
That's to me (but you don't notice)

Who are you to doubt us?
Who are you to doubt us?
(Who are you to doubt us?)
Who are you to doubt us?

Let me tell you 'bout the wayward starlet, face adorned with bones
Looked me up and down, said, "Babe we're soaring, but you don't notice"
Let me tell you 'bout the wayward starlet, face adorned with skulls
Lift you up and down, the whale is soaring, but you don't notice
Above the ocean
Above the ocean
Above the ocean
Above the ocean
Above the ocean
Above the ocean

You're truly erupting too hard
That's why you're a sizeable God
And I am decidedly cold
I ain't taking the fall
I have forsaken you all
I was mistakenly chose
Now I'm mistaking my own
You can't take me

It's time we made something stable
'Cause we're in the sights of perfect danger
All is lost to the time beyond the fables
And the circular rise of guileless angels
Say all is fine

I'll do it over again
Time I was drunk in the Seine
Now I'm back drinking again
'Cause it was Satan, that's known
This running around without jokes
A boarded up house on the coast
And time is making me broke
You can't take me

It's time we made something stable (something)
We're in the sights of perfect danger (something)
All is lost to the time beyond fables (something)
And the circular rise of guileless angels (something)
Say all is fine, fine
For the sake of time

Come on, baby, it was a pleasure to know
You're so amazing

I do it all for the glow
I stand unbearably close
How could you possibly know?
I ain't taking the call
I have forsaken you all
I was mistakenly chose
Now I'm just taking my own
You can't make me

It's time we made something stable (something)
We're in the sights of perfect danger (something)
All is lost to the time beyond the fables (something)
And the circular rise of guileless angels (something)
All is fine, fine
For the second time

Come on, baby, it was a pleasure to know
You're so amazing
Higher, higher than trails of meteors
Come on, baby, it was a pleasure to know
You're so amazing
Higher beyond the flames of meteors
Come on, baby, it was a pleasure to know
You're so crazy
Higher, higher than trails of meteors

Step around, don't stand there
Waiving, son, on abandoned string
Seems to me they took violence for dancing

Steady now, who are you betraying?
That's some underhanded shit
Time to try some new crime of fashion

Only when the clouds will know me
We all make those faces once
'Cause it's solo lonely, old and stony
Into the night we go (into the night)

Step it down no separating
Ah, the band you're in
No need to take there's still a way to fence it

We're in here now no sense parading
As the anvil swings
We used to say the future was paved with penalties (penalties, penalties)

Only when the clouds will know me
We all make those faces once
'Cause it's solo lonely, old and stony
Into the night we go (into the night)

Holly's in the darkness
Holly's in the wild
Sentimental neighbors
Fallen trees are calling me
To guide them through the soil
Into the night

Fate came down on me
We sever together
She's really, really warm
Her center can make automatons breathe

Only when the clouds will know me
We all make those faces once
'Cause it's solo lonely, old and stony
Into the night we go (into the night)

Holly's in the darkness
Holly's in the wild
All are sons and daughters
Fallen trees are calling me
To guide them through the soil
People lie in the ground
We saw their shade
People lie in the ground
They saw the other way

Evening snowflake
Time had to go late
I brought you a piece of pie

Peace and doting
Whole day safer
It's more than we deserve?

There's nothing left to stop it
How long we knew
Seems we brought some trouble with us
How we wanted
Mr. Credit is dead and buried
Farewell
It's all a part of the game

I wanna be there when you touch fire
I'll be the hand that you can clutch

I had a dream
The ground was black
And the air was searing
Oh no
The heavens are backing the sea
Are they backing me?
The roads are just scratches
The talk is severe
That's how it works
It's all impossibly cold

I wanna be there when you touch fire
I'll be the hand to pull you up, tiger
I wanna be there when you cut the wire
I'm the living end I plead as such

I saw you when you gave chase
I follow when you hit the ground
It's cloudy when I come to Vegas

I saw you when you gave chase
I follow when you hit the ground
It's cloudy when I come to Vegas
It's a small town anyway

Wire
I'll be the hand to lift you up higher
I wanna be there when you cut the wire
I wanna be there when you touch fire
I'm the living end, I plead as such
I'm the living end
I'm the living end, I plead as such
I'm the living end
I wanna be there when you touch

I waited through shame for this

I waited through shame for this
Are you there?
Every day I'd see if chance was calling
Are you there?

I got a numb skull
I got a green heart

Something changed, we're outgoing
We all suffer the same things
We're in the sun, like nothing
All waging the good fight
Something changed, now I'm stuck here, so defensive

I wanna see
What kind of place they'd lay for me

I don't like these open endings
Are you there?
Well I forgive you but there's no pretendings
Are you there?

I got a numb skull
I got a green heart

Something changed, I'm outgoing
I wanna speak fast
And as we know, without substance
It's more powerful than they can supply
Every day, we're all stuck here, so effective

I wanna see
What kind of place they'd lay for me

I forgive you but there's no pretending
(It becomes automatic, it becomes all but free)
It becomes automatic, it becomes all but free
It becomes automatic, it becomes all but free

Something changed, we're outgoing
You may wanna stay back
It's not the same, no sense in running
For the sake of the old pad
No parade, nobody's coming
We're all part of the same pack

And I wanna see
What kind of place they'd lay for me

It becomes automatic, it becomes all but free
It becomes automatic, it becomes all but free

Draw me a million years
And I'll probably make them my home
Eternity brought me tears
But it's the cold I collect on my own

Call me for sake of change
It's a custom how gluttons do
Infinity will turn the page
But not forever
Not for you

The serpent spins
Around the silken cyclone
The world will bend
For one alone again
For one alone

Call me from any age
And hope the godly will help to steer
Subliminal we turn the page
But you can't save the programmable fears

The serpent spins
Around the silken cyclone
The world will bend
For one alone again
For one alone

No, no, no
No, no, no
No, no, no
No, no

Out on the wing we go
It's starting to feel like summer
Out on the wind where some
Will get stolen

But not forever

The serpent spins around the silken cyclone
The world will bend for one alone again
For one alone

Roll up the window (no, no, no)
You might get stolen (no, no, no)
Roll up the window (no, no, no)
You might get stolen (no, no, no)
You might get stolen (check)

Met a girl then
One who'd stand by me

Renegade hearts
Make escape art
Renegade hearts
Make escape art
Renegade hearts
Make escape art

Met a girl then
Said she'd stand by me

Renegade hearts
Make escape art
Renegade hearts
Make escape art
Renegade hearts
Make escape art

Met a girl
One who'd stand by me

I'm on the other side of make believe
If I go unchecked what will the world make of me
I don't feel hunted but I fear faithfully
I would never cheat
But I might take advances

These little statements are mere replacements
For something they stole
Times I was laughed at
When I'd fall into a hole
Fade into a flashback
Real close

Free from these fables
We can grow
Blossom into bodies
Too frail to hold
As I commit to this high wall of love
Will I ever sleep
While I wait for the world to give it all back?

There's nothing so sacred
I ain't tried to chase it
I need something to hold
Someone to grasp at
When I fall into a hole
With a mountain on my back
Real close

(Hey, hey, hey, hey)

Save me I'm in my head
Save me I'm in my head

Please, you know why
Please, you know why
Fall, fall

There's nothing so sacred
I ain't tried to chase it
I need something to hold
Someone to grasp at
When I fall into a hole
And fade into a flashback
Real close

(Hey, hey, hey, hey)

Save me I'm in my head
Save me I'm in my head

Please, you know why
Please, you know why
Fall, fall

Kept along I got nothing
But my own dreams
Just these old things
A few libations necessary
All along I was bluffing
'Cause my nature made me hate
These conversations for conversation's sake

It's all right to be not to behave
Selling like a drug
And it rain on these people
It's all right to be not to behave
Someone I can trust
And I don't want these problems

Stepped along now my troubles
Got their own themes
Their own machines
Few citations yet to break me
All along I was different
'Cause my nature made me great
Not that great
Good vibrations

It's alright to be not to behave
Selling like a drug
And I don't want these problems
It's alright to be not to behave
Someone I can trust
Let it rain on these people

It's out there
It's really out there
A small light I'm looking for
It's out there
I see it so clear
Sailing on a wing to nature's home

It's alright to be not to behave
Someone I can trust
And I don't want these problems
It's alright to be not to behave
Selling like a drug
Let it rain on these people

It's out there
It's really out there
A small light I'm looking for
It's out there
I see it so clear
Sailing on a wing to nature's home

It's out there
It's really out there
A small light I'm looking for
It's out there
It's really out there
Sailing on a wing to nature's home
Sailing on a wing to nature's home
Sailing on a wing to nature's home

On the streets of Cozumel
Where my age is slow
The mirror treats my light
To a grey refrain

On the streets of Cozumel
Where the faces glow
I would gladly give my life
To be there

So close I'm taking notes
On my brain
Will you be faithful?
Will you be my origin?
I'll leave these obsolete gardens
A-burning
'Cause I'll do anything
To know you're here again

On the streets of Cozumel
Where my age is slow
The mirror treats my life
To a grey refrain

On the streets of Cozumel
Where the faces glow
I would gladly give my life
To be there
Be there

All that we've got to be is candid
And gentle
To be certified
And I really love to mentor
Sometimes it's hard to be expansive
Need to free some light to enter
Reflections ethereal to render
I see you in everything

I see you in everything
I see you in everything
I'll be there

I see you in everything
I see you in everything
I see you in everything
In my truly vacant heart

I see you in everything
I see you in everything
I see you in everything
I'll be there, I'll be there

I see you in everything
I see you in everything, and I
Would gladly give my life to be there
I'll be there

Stop the operation
Help me off the table
We need to leave
I'm not the type to cry
But the more I stay alive
I feel the tendencies increase

(Believe)
I can give you what you see
And a drunken heartbeat up my sleeve
We'll take it up and come home clean
(Believe in me)
It's a whole and mystic reverie
A sunken signal submarined
We'll shake it up and come home sweet
(Believe in me)

Stop the operation
(Stop the operation, stop the operation, stop the operation)

Big shot city losing vibration over me
Girl, you look gritty
I'll cruise invitations overseas
Stop the operation
Don't know how we even got here
And this story reeks of want

(Believe)
I can give you what you see
And a drunken heartbeat up my sleeve
We'll take it up and come home clean
(Believe in me)
It's a whole and mystic reverie
A sunken signal submarined
We'll shake it up and come home sweet
(Believe in me)

Stop the operation

Big shot city

Big shot city losing vibration over me
Girl, you lookin' gritty
I'll cruise invitations overseas
And the sign says, "That's why how train"
It's like the other side don't know how or when to die
As long as the trees are born
Oh, yeah

Did we know that was halcyon (oh, yeah)
Did we know that was halcyon
Did we know that was halcyon
Did we know that was halcyon

Go easy
Go easy
Go easy
Go easy
Don't matter what you bring (come on)

I felt fated for so long
Now all these harbingers have their say
While I'm rolling out my face to the harbor
Somebody's shelter can more than reach your soul

Go easy
Don't matter what you bring
Go easy
Don't matter what you bring

I'll keep pushing forward (go easy)
Now all the obstacles in my way have been falling (go easy)
I take shape on the highway to exotic states
You must celebrate to behold
At the yard sale, the bride's veil was there (come on)

Go easy
Don't matter what you bring (come on)
Go easy
Don't matter what you bring (come on)
Go easy
Don't matter what you bring (come on)
Go easy
Doesn't matter what you bring (come on)
Go easy
Don't matter what you bring