Everything is Borrowed

Everything is borrowed

[Verse 1: Mike Skinner]
This is my hour, I’m never going to bed
The sky is still black, but begs to be red
I just put my book down, but it begs to be read
I’ll not nod, I’ll not nap, I never rest my head
Some days I feel I’m getting smaller and smaller
But some nights, I seem to grow taller and taller
And we keep shrinking and shrinking, but this will not finish
You’re never nothing if you didn’t disappear
Just when I discover the meaning of life, they change it
Just when I’m loving life, it seems to start raining
I pull the sail safe switch, seas settle, and I’m aimed at stars
I love the rain on my scars
The sky’s now red, my eyes reflect jest
Smiling at this blessing, this life is the best

[Chorus: Adam Love, Laura Vane & Mike Skinner]
I came to this world with nothing
And I leave with nothing but love
Everything else is just borrowed

[Verse 2: Mike Skinner]
I wanna notice chances I’ve passed without notice
I wanna see details previously veiled
I wanna grab that chance, carry it home
So I can marry and know
That I noticed every chance
I could’ve passed without notice
I saw details that to all were veiled
And I grabbed those chances, carried them home
And then I’ll have had it with roaming

[Chorus: Adam Love, Laura Vane & Mike Skinner]
I came to this world with nothing
And I leave with nothing but love
Everything else is just borrowed

[Verse 3: Mike Skinner]
I want to speak every cliché but tweak if I see change
In a new way it could be said
If it’s bleak, or if the week’s leaking down the street
Or if any day is wasted, I wanna face facts
My time on this earth is my only penny
Wise is the gent counting every moment spent
I don’t want to explain things, don’t want to fill in the gaps
I want to look at my friends and in that minute be at

[Bridge: Laura Vane]
Memories are times we borrow
For spending tomorrow
Memories are times we borrow
For spending tomorrow

[Chorus: Adam Love, Laura Vane & Mike Skinner]
I came to this world with nothing
And I leave with nothing but love
Everything else is just borrowed

[Verse 4: Mike Skinner]
It’s a bit like luck: you can only seem
To borrow it, you can’t keep it
When the wind of change whistles into play
Will I blink or flinch away?
The wind of change won’t whistle me away
If I spin my tails and sail
And sail away, and let yesterday become today

[Chorus: Adam Love, Laura Vane & Mike Skinner]
I came to this world with nothing
And I leave with nothing but love
Everything else is just borrowed

[Post-Chorus: Mike Skinner]
As time will say nothing but
“I told you so”

[Outro: Laura Vane]
Memories are times we borrow
For spending tomorrow

Heaven for the weather

[Chorus: Richard Wayler]
I wanna go to heaven for the weather
But hell for the company
I wanna to go to heaven for the weather
But hell seems like fun to me

[Verse 1: Mike Skinner]
There’s something in the sun this day, I feel it
Or maybe it’s just my hay fever (Uh-huh)
The weeds are green, the sky is shining
But it’ll soon be night, which is nicer
Then cracks peel back and hell bends the room
And the devil gestures to you
You, you’ve never seen such a Beelzebub
And he’s telling you to make up your bean
On what’s left of your evening
About whether to flake out or fecking stay out
What does you make of this doubt?
The devil wants to know if you’re going down or up
Easy, I know what my speech should be

[Chorus: Richard Wayler]
I wanna go to heaven for the weather
But hell for the company
I wanna to go to heaven for the weather
But hell seems like fun to me

[Verse 2: Mike Skinner]
The devil beams a big beaming grin
The sort which leads you up the streets of sin
He holds up paperwork: “Sign the line”
Let’s clash with madmen, grime is fine
It sounds all hectic, you’re having cold feet
Things are out of hand, you make embarrassing retreat
Let’s ride the Valkyrie, commit a bit of sin
Turn rock to rubble, punch me in the chin
I simply, Lucifer, refuse to wind up
On fire with low-life liars
Then you’re destined for the world without chores and sweating
The eternal hell of boredom in heaven

[Chorus: Richard Wayler]
I wanna go to heaven for the weather
But hell for the company
I wanna to go to heaven for the weather
But hell seems like fun to me

[Verse 3: Mike Skinner]
You tell the devil in no uncertain terms
You’ll never be evil, you’ll never be turned
What is this evil? And who decides this?
When left to devices, some humans try shit
And this is the reason we should all be tied up?
We’re just normal people exploring our minds
We don’t go ’round here putting poison in wine
But we enjoy what we like, which is not always right
People are intricate, people aren’t swines
Let’s screw the rules up and rely on our minds
“Sign on the line”, you sign on the line
He clutches the wine and tips in cyanide

[Chorus: Richard Wayler]
I wanna go to heaven for the weather
But hell for the company
I wanna to go to heaven for the weather
But hell seems like fun to me
I wanna go to heaven for the weather
But hell for the company
I wanna to go to heaven for the weather
But hell seems like fun to me
I wanna go to heaven for the weather
But hell for the company
I wanna to go to heaven for the weather
But hell seems like fun to me

I love you more (then you like me)

[Verse 1: Mike Skinner]
We haven’t even started and it’s almost the end
We never talked it over, in fact, we never said anything
Two of the same kind of sorts, hiding thoughts
As the small talk ebbs away, the silence is awkward
You hardly even know me and I’m starting to show that
I hardly even know you, but I like what I know
I want to talk about it, but I quake in my skin
It’ll only push you further into making decisions
You want to like me, but you were likely undecided
The voice inside me’s always right
Which is why the awkward silence
Not gonna risk losing you
Which is why I’m never gonna woo you

[Verse 2: Mike Skinner]
Any other day and you’d have not looked twice
The joking went along with my roll of the dice
Purely by chance, I happened on feeling
Really confident around the place and people
You caught a no-hitter, hitting winning strokes
I never am a winner, I’m a lonely bloke
Acting exciting like a man for a while
Until you realised I can act like a child
Eternal optimism is spurring me onto think
That acting on yearnings like this might lead me to learn a secret
But I don’t really know, or why I think so
It’s just a good hunch, hunches are always right though

[Bridge: Mike Skinner]
I drew a drawing of you after last time I saw you
I never felt to draw a picture like that before
I learnt a lot about myself drawing all morning
It was absolutely shit, I’m awful at drawing

[Chorus: Mike Skinner, Laura Vane & Teddy Mitchell, Mike Skinner]
I think I love you more than you like me
Although I’m never surer, maybe I should want to be blind
I think I love you more than you like me
Because this is even crossing my mind
I think I love you more than you like me
Although I’m never surer, maybe I should want to be blind
I think I love you more than you like me
Because this is even crossing my mind

The way of the Dodo

[Intro]
What, now?
Yep

[Refrain]
Everybody doin’ the dodo
Everybody doin’ the dodo
Everybody doin’ the dodo (The dodo)
Everybody doin’ the dodo
Everybody doin’ the dodo
Everybody doin’
Everyone’s gotta do the dodo

[Chorus]
It’s not Earth that’s in trouble
It’s the people that live on it, no, no
Earth will be here long after
We’ve all gone the way of the dodo
It’s not Earth that’s in trouble
It’s the people that live on it, no, no
Earth will be here long after
We’ve all gone the way of the dodo

[Verse 1]
I can’t imagine the day when things have actually faded away
But the day I may not be able to pay my way could be today
It’s not that I don’t care
Just that I’m way too caught up breathing air
To grieve for the trees and the air or how breathable air is
You go first, I’ll follow suit
Make your mistakes I’d probably make
I’m right behind you, but don’t expect me to ride like it’s a race
‘Cause you’ll be back there picking scraps
While I’m Mr. Mug, do-gooding around
And I’ve lost my rank and place
I’ve got to manage my little space

[Verse 2]
I’m not a stereotypical ‘Give you what I want when I want
With a big cherry on it’
Just another brother trying to love my son and mother
Providing for my wife is the vibe I’m on in life
I might well starve, that’s what would happen
If I started off this march
It’s not my world, but I’m in it to win it
Put it in the bin, if you wish it, listen
Let’s all start at the same point
Following rules, equally losing
Tell me if it does, I wish it be true
But never gonna happen, we’re not equal
For the kids, let’s make the rules
But I saw the film and hated the sequel

[Refrain]
Everybody do the dodo

[Verse 3]
You and me are family
Pass the love ’round and back to me
Two and three, that’s the feeling
Scramble for the top, for the bottom of the ceiling
Conspiracy theories, we all hear these
We all see the deal, we will seal the deal
If you don’t know where you’re going
Any road will take you there
If you don’t know where you’re going
Then any road will take you there
If you don’t know where you’re going
Then any road will take you there
We do not know where we’re going
Any road

[Outro]
These are my wings, this is my beak

On the flip of a coin

[Verse 1]
From the point he gazed from, the choice was made
But walk the cave, or the shore?
The oily cave seemed to breathe on him from gravestone jaws
His little hand grasped in anguish as he weighed up his coin
Somewhere, a blue-eyed girl in the world is just waiting for a boy
Footprints trailed as if trod by slaves up to the grey cave floor
But not one graze from anything ever escaping this fort
So with coin on hand, his joy came back
When ordered to take the shore
“Why on earth”, as he wandered the warmth
“Am I obeying this coin?”

[Chorus]
Turn your life on the flip of this coin
Turn upside a choice you’d normally avoid
And promise me you’ll follow what it says
Whatever it says

[Verse 2]
Again, walk within the trusted beach, or swim the swell of the sea?
And again, the scarier alternative looked like certain death to he
He’d never learnt the skill of swimming
It never occurred to be very easy
And again, he winced as he flipped his coin
And it twirled to his feet
“How is this sane?” he blamed the coin, now aiming for the waves
As he hesitated at the swirl of water that now raged and rained
Blue-eyed girls were waiting and he was drowning in the spray
Blue-eyed girls he should be acquainted with
But for shouting and flailing

[Chorus]
Turn your life on the flip of this coin
Turn upside a choice you’d normally avoid
And promise me you’ll follow what it says
Whatever it says

[Verse 3]
He finally slugs it back to land, feeling chewed-up and foolish
Empties his pockets on the sand, spewing a pool each
Staggers back to his dad, who’s too cool to be
So he says, “Why did you have me follow this stupid rule, please?”
“To be honest, little fellow, I’ll tell you, I was just as afraid as you
But you said you wanted to get with people and places ever new
And I got a bit scared about the fate of my baby son’s future
So I invented a reason to see whether you could ever make do
As soon as you appeared behind that rock, looking angry at me
I soon realised what a hell of a man you’ve ended up being
I knew you’d worked out how to swim, which I hadn’t had in me
And I stand as a companion of you, proudest a man has ever been”

[Chorus]
Turn your life on the flip of this coin
Turn upside a choice you’d normally avoid
And promise me you’ll follow what it says
Whatever it says

On the edge of a cliff

[Verse 1]
“I’m really okay, thanks, there’s nothing to witness”
I said as I looked back from the edge of the cliff
The old man looking down leant over the ridge
Just looked with a grin as if a blessing had hit him
I slumped on the jut of the cliff
“Just leave me alone, this is none of your business”
“I will”, said the old man, “but just one thing”
And what he said was so lovely it stunned me

[Pre-Chorus]
He said, “I lay right there once at the edge of the rock
I was ready to jump, I was ever so lost
But this gentleman stopped and said something I never forgot”

[Verse 2]
And then the old man walked away and out of sight
‘Til the sound of him hiking turned into the sound of silence
I just froze in a profound surprise
And from down on my pride, I found a smile to my eyes
And for many days again, I’ve been passing the same cliff
And on many occasions, I’d chance on the same thing
Laying in the moss, in the same way I was
Would be another man looking like he needed a change of luck

[Pre-Chorus]
So I’d say, “I lay right there once at the edge of the rock
I was ready to jump, I was ever so lost
But this gentleman stopped and said something I never forgot”

[Chorus]
For billions of years since the outset of time
Every single one of your ancestors survived
Every single person on your mum and dad’s side
Successfully looked after and passed onto you life
What are the chances of that, like?
It comes to me once in a while
And everywhere I tell folk, it gets the best smile
For billions of years since the outset of time
Every single one of your ancestors survived
Every single person on your mum and dad’s side
Successfully looked after and passed onto you life
What are the chances of that, like?
It comes to me once in a while
And everywhere I tell folk, it gets the best smile

Never give in

[Verse 1]
I don’t mean to sound so keen
But you know me and I don’t feel
To spoil what we’ve got, enjoying watching dots
Drawing outlines for ’em all in good time
Through the scent of flowers and the humility of love
The evening is thus set up for a thorough dreaming up
The gentle guessing games with the sense of sex unsaid
Every sentiment lending metaphors for bed

[Verse 2]
I’ll soon lie to you tonight
About the true size of you in my mind
I’ll keep my arms with me from wrapping right ’round you
‘Til one word sparks off a thought that could drown you
Does she do or does she don’t love me true or fuck me won’t?
The only time I know of love is when silence is violent
Optimism fizzing in the clonk in dizzy imagery
A rocking hot humidity, but this is sizzling
Stumble over innuendo, does she notice? Does she? Fuck no
A stifling evening, rifling through feelings (Ahh!)

[Verse 3]
I don’t mean to sound so keen
But you know me and I don’t feel
To spoil what we’ve got, enjoying watching dots
Drawing outlines for ’em all in good time (Ahh!)

[Chorus]
I’ll never give in ’til you’re laying with me
You may as well tell me when that day will be
I’ll never give in ’til you’re laying with me
You may as well tell me when that day will be
I’ll never give in ’til you’re laying with me
You may as well tell me when that day will be
I’ll never give in ’til you’re laying with me
You may as well tell me when that day will be

The Sherry end

[Chorus: Adam Love]
‘Til the very end
We’ll be just as friends
I’ve known you better, you’ve seen my worst
So let’s invent words

[Verse 1: Mike Skinner]
When a good night flounders and it’s over
How good it was, I tend to know
By adding up or rounding down
The evening’s count of jokes
Me and my ilk share a twang
That’s undeciphered by other gangs
That’s a thing I love about my
Fine brothers in slang
If it’s got a funny story, it’s made to me
It’s not for others in ear splash
It’s ours, it’s mad, it’s many hours
Spent laughing at events passed
We smirk at how smart the quirk that we spark
A word which people laugh at
It sparks around the crowd
This work of art which we have found

[Chorus: Adam Love]
‘Til the very end
We’ll be just as friends
I’ve known you better, you’ve seen my worst
So let’s invent words

[Verse 2: Mike Skinner]
I love the craze of the latest phrase
Amazing mongrels of conjoinment
Crazy paving sayings
Are a joy to say with mates
And girls all love the lingo
They curl right up and bingo
They go that extra smile
They go the whole damn snog
I mean it though, the joke from that one night
That was wrong, that makes no sense, really
Shorten to a word then to a nod
That is friendship to me
The secret handshake of three mad mates
That makes me pleased to share traits
In understanding absurdities
That mean our brains play

[Chorus: Adam Love]
‘Til the very end
We’ll be just as friends
I’ve known you better, you’ve seen my worst
So let’s invent words

Alleged legends

[Verse 1: Mike Skinner]
Some people live their lives by a little red book
That points the right line out and guides them good
They never really mimic every word by eye
‘Cause if they did, they’d be in a whole world of strife
The book’s quite old school, back then it was tough
It contains some quite experimental justice
The thinking people are thinking that without this book
That without these verses, we’d pillage and murder, but
Following this red book word for word
Leads you to actually pillage and murder
Could it be so what we think to be right
Is simply the opinion that survived?

[Chorus: Nick Shirm & Mike Skinner]
Do what you think’s right
And you will feel alright
‘Cause when you’re bad, you will feel sad
That’s the religion I live by

[Verse 2: Mike Skinner]
There’s a bloke in the book who made everything
He knows every individual and every trick in them
Way above emotion, never getting stressed
But when men choose against him, gets jealous
People fight for him in crippling wars
But since he has the power of infinite awe
And we’re merely itching on futility’s floors
Should we really be needing to assist him at all?
If he loves us all, knowing all we think
Should he only like people with faith in him?
Given I can’t control what I truly believe
Can I be forgiven for only believing who I see?

[Chorus: Nick Shirm & Mike Skinner]
Do what you think’s right
And you will feel alright
‘Cause when you’re bad, you will feel sad
That’s the religion I live by
Do what you think’s right
And you will feel alright
‘Cause when you’re bad, you will feel sad
That’s the religion I live by

[Verse 3: Mike Skinner]
Could it be time to avoid this bush?
So we wouldn’t be blind when joining up coulds?
Could we see both sides of the coin for the good?
Breed less strife on our voyage for good?
Getting threatened by men with questions
We’ll never get anywhere rejecting evidence
Could we test everything instead of betting
On alleged legends?
If we teach that it’s right to blindly believe
If we reach to the sky to define our meaning
We’ll not agree what’s right
We’ll keep driving people to fight with people

[Chorus: Nick Shirm & Mike Skinner]
Do what you think’s right
And you will feel alright
‘Cause when you’re bad, you will feel sad
That’s the religion I live by

The strongest person I know

[Verse 1]
One of the first things about you I did see
Is that you verse your views quietly
When nature verse truths, I get violent feelings
But softly, time will reply, “That’s wise”
A delicate gesture of why you see
The best route through this being right through here
But met with a cute blind snide of fear
But best to go there along their idea

[Chorus]
But you gently take things slowly
You softly bowl them over
That’s the delicate way you’ve shown me
You’re the strongest person I know
You gently take things slowly
You softly bowl them over
That’s the delicate way you’ve shown me
You’re the strongest person I know

[Verse 2]
After taking the worst route, blatantly
Bang on cue, we manage losing way
But in a squirmy back construed-up way
They actually managed passing you the blame
With that man, Mam, I’m wrapped with rage
Even then, your temper stays exactly the same
And in that manner is the manner you stay
A beautiful person that’s happily unchanged

[Chorus]
You gently take things slowly
You softly bowl them over
That’s the delicate way you’ve shown me
You’re the strongest person I know
You gently take things slowly
You softly bowl them over
That’s the delicate way you’ve shown me
You’re the strongest person I know

[Verse 3]
In the heat of speech, your words improve
Right out of reach in my stirred-up words
But every time they fucking blurt out drool
I’m noticing they’re all learning from you
‘Cause even though they know they cursed you
They should’ve admitted that they were fools
The next time they’re wanting to work things through
The very first person they turn to is you

[Chorus]
‘Cause you gently take things slowly
You softly bowl them over
That’s the delicate way you’ve shown me
You’re the strongest person I know
You gently take things slowly
You softly bowl them over
That’s the delicate way you’ve shown me
You’re the strongest person I know

The Escapist

[Verse 1: Mike Skinner]
All these walls were never really there
Nor the ceiling, or the chair
I am eking weeks of peace on a beach
I’ve seen the breezes weave the trees
These walls, you’ll find, are yours and mine
Defined not by them, I
I’m in times that lie behind my eyelids
The sunset still, the rising silence

[Chorus: Wayne Hart Singers & Kevin Mark Trail]
I’ll not feel no fear
‘Cause I’m not really here
I’m nowhere near here

[Verse 2: Mike Skinner]
There’s no rain on roof that grates and beats me
My favourite tree breaking light to pieces
Sprinkling sharded light on me
Throw a stone as high as you can
And hearing with hand, not hear it land
Nothing taxing, dusting sand
My window world spins and twirls
The walls then fall, I recall the sort
White clouds whitewash, faded spotless
The weighty shadows, ranges of rocks
The cold is all an illusion thought up
I stroll on the shore, snooze and explore
All possibilities in each new morning
‘Til satisfied, reaching out and yawning
Fish in a big dish, some rice and spice
Salt over shoulder, never salted so tight
The truth I have told was silence sometimes
But whose soul does not hide any crimes?
Wrapped in walls, encircled by work
The walls fall, the story occurs
No barrier, no boundary or allow as I please (Tick, tick, tick)
The freedom to stay or stray
Be fiend or friend, ’cause no harm but charm
The peaceful end

[Chorus: Wayne Hart Singers & Kevin Mark Trail]
I’ll not feel no fear
‘Cause I’m not really here
I’m nowhere near here
I’ll not feel no fear
‘Cause I’m not really here
I’m nowhere near here

[Verse 3: Mike Skinner]
Pale ancient woods strew white sandy bays
This ugly room pales away today
I’m swimming in the ocean, I sink slow motion
Fingers, toes floating
Every year ’til yesterday
I’ve seen the eternal setting sea
I compare all this to me
It’s all fleeting momentary me
I blink my eyes, this is reminding me
Life lies in the blink of an eye
The old die for reasons, new tides, four seasons
New life born is like sneezing
All these walls were really never there
Nor the ceiling or the chair
I’m eking weeks of peace on a beach
I see the breezes weave the trees
I’m not here at all, you’re dearly fooled
I see bustling trees, the shush at the sea
The mischievous fluttering seagulls
No, I’m not trapped in a box, I’m glancing at rocks
I’m dancing off docks
Since this dance began
That’s where I am

[Outro: Mike Skinner]
So done

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