Martina Topley-Bird
Quixotic lyrics


 
 

   
Intro
   
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Martina:
I'm gonna make the whole world do it
I'm hustlin' and take 'em by the heart
Won't suffer
Not even for one night
You know there's no reason for alarm

Never to late, the sun don't love the day
And I'm not here just to play

No, no, no

You try to make the whole world do it
You hustlin' and take 'em by the arm
Don't suffer for the light
You know there's no reason for alarm

Never to late
I'm not here for to play

No, no, no


from:   quixotic
source: booklet
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Need One
   
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Martina:
Tell it face to face
You got you a race
Ain't got no time to taste
Low stars in fire (?)

If I went away
You could walk today
Time walks a world away
Screw me, you try

You're gonna kill some
You're gonna free some
You're gonna lose someone
You're gonna taste (fake?) some
You're gonna want some
You're gonna believe (need?) someone

What you're feedin me
Don't make a mark of me
I don't bruise so easily
No scars inside (?)

I tell it face to face
Got no time to taste
My memory's your fate
No scars inside (?)

You're gonna kill some
You're gonna free some
You're gonna lose someone
You're gonna taste some
You're gonna want some
You're gonna believe someone

Send me alone
I'm solemn and sorry

I'm gonna need some
I'm gonna need some
You're gonna need someone
Did you believe some
You're gonna breathe some
You're gonna free someone

Send me alone (?)
Aahhh...

Tell it face to face
You got you a race
Face to face
You got you a race
Tell it face to face


from:   quixotic
source: bookle
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Anything
   
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Martina:
No doubt
You're gonna be thinkin'
I'll run out
That's where you're so mistaken
You take me to a high
Of just no other kind

I don't want anything (but you)
I don't need anything (but you)
I don't want anything (but you)
I don't need anything (but you)

The size
Just seems to get bigger
The prize is, well, just go figure
When I think way back when
I can't go back again

I don't want anything (but you)
I don't need anything (but you)
I don't want anything (but you)
I don't need anything (but you)

My half
I thought I'd be stronger
But my path
T you just seems longer
You fake me to a high
Of just no other kind

I don't want anything (but you)
I don't need anything (but you)
I don't want anything (but you)
I don't need anything (but you)

Don't want anything (but you)
I don't need anything (but you)
I don't want anything (but you)
I don't need anything


from:   quixotic
source: booklet
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Soulfood
   
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Martina:
I wanna tell you (?)
I've come to feel
I wanna show you
How our love is real
...
In the morning

Leave your jacket on the floor
I'm coming around for more
Leave your heat in the bed
I wanna be there by your head (?)
As long as you wanna stay, baby, baby, 
I wanted to say
Nobody's coming around today

I'm gonna show you (show you)
Show you where the good times start, baby
I wanna show you (show you)
I wanna show you where the feeling sparks
I'm gonna let you (let you)
Take all the time you need
Cause when the soul starts fallin', baby (?)
We got time to leave (we got time to leave) (?)

We get trigger happy
Got the feeling all day and night
We get everybody
To sing along ?? summer night

You get everything I got
And I know you're feeling fine
The sweet sweet feeling you give to me baby
I wanna have a good time

In the morning
We're all singing
We're all free, yeah

I'm gonna show you (show you)
Show you where the good times start, baby
I wanna show you (show you)
I wanna show you where the feeling sparks
I'm gonna let you (let you)
Take all the time you need
Cause when the soul starts fallin', baby (?)
We got time to leave (we got time to leave) (?)

Ever since I was young
I wanted ... I wanted to know (?)
Ever since you came along
Feeling so much stronger
Every way that you show
Feelings open to love

I'm gonna show you (show you)
Show you where the good times start, baby
I wanna show you (show you)
I wanna show you where the feeling sparks
I'm gonna let you (let you)
Take all the time you need
Take all the time you need
Take all the time you need
Take all the time you need
Take all the time you need
(Take all the time you need)
Take all the time you need
(Take all the time you need)
Take all the time you need
(Take all the time you need)

Every way, every day
I want you near
I need you here
To be my sea of love
(Take all the time you need)


from:   quixotic
source: booklet
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Lullaby
   
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Martina:
Let's take our wine closer to the fireside
No apologies, so much to say
And there is no time

There's a fairytale
You never learned to read or write
Oyster shell
You never learned to look inside

Take it from me
He and I were winter bees
I fell easily
For visions I'd never see

stardust falling from my halo

See there's this fairytale
You never learned to read or write
Oyster Pearl
You never cared to look inside

I keep it clean
Your fingers press my cheek
You're not like me
My duty speaks and it moves my feet

You don't understand
Just like the rock in my hand
You don't understand
Just like the rock in my hand

There's a fairytale
You never learned to read or write
Oyster shell
You never cared to look inside
There's a fairytale
You never learned to read or write
Oyster shell
You never learned to look inside

Never cared to look inside
Never cared, you never cared
Never cared to look inside
Never cared, you never cared
Never cared to look inside
Never cared, you never cared


from:   quixotic
source: booklet
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Too Tough To Die
   
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sampled:
...
Too tough to die

Martina:
I always wonder why
My mama left town
New Haven ain't a bag of salt
When nobody knows your name
You look so different over the phone
Seven states away they're doin'
Doin' the strange fruit swing
When they come down
You have to leave town

I am
Too tough to die
I am
Too tough to die

Blessed are those who believe
Who believe and have not seen
I wasn't there
And it's got me wondering
And the man you make then and now
He's burning
School's are learning you can't unlearn
No room to turn
Let alone run

And I am
Too tough to die
I am
Too tough to die

It's in their eyes
It's unspoken
Don't even know they're out to do you harm
Can't even see the pulse beating
In the axle of your arm

Outlaw wearin' diamond patches
of sunlight on his coat
Livin in a cage make a 7 time daddy
lose his mind to roam
Derision's a cold wind against my skin
You keep a-flayin til there's no skin at all
What's to hold it together when you stumble
And you fall

I am
Too tough to die
I am
Too tough to die

from:   quixotic
source: booklet
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Sandpaper Kisses
   
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Martina:
Sandpaper kisses, papercut bliss
Don't know what this is, but it all leads to this:

You're gonna leave Her
You have deceived Her
Just a girl

Ooh just a girl with featherweight curls
To expose all she knows you play like tease
Just a girl with featherweight curls
To expose all she knows you play like tease

You're gonna leave Her
You have deceived Her
Just a girl

I want the soul of something simple to
take home with me
The world as someplace simple it's my
home you see

You're gonna leave Her
You have deceived Her
Just a girl, a blood red pearl


from:   quixotic
source: booklet
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Ragga
   
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Tricky:
Someone wanna come around
Dumpin fun around
I bring my bat around
And pop one in your shoulder
(2x)
Pop one in your shoulder

Martina:
I'll be the same
I'll be the same

... a pacifist (?)
Cruising on my list (?)
Feeling...
...
(2x)

I come as fast as this
Like a Viper Kiss
Tricky make a vapour
Make you get your cold on

I wrap my tongue around
You get to be the clown
I come like underground
I make you feel older

Oh I like it so much
I'm doing things I wouldn't normally do
And when it comes to your touch
I'm doing things I wouldn't normally do

 I wrap my tongue around
You get to be the clown
 I come like underground
I make you feel older

 I wrap my tongue around
You get to be the clown

Oh I like it so much
I'm doing things I wouldn't normally do
And when it comes to your touch
I'm doing things I wouldn't normally do

Tricky:
Someone wanna come around
Dumpin fun around
I bring my bat around
And pop one in your shoulder
(2x)
Pop one in your shoulder
Pop one in your shoulder
Pop one in your shoulder

Martina:
Oh I love it so much
I'm doing things I wouldn't normally do
And when it comes to your touch
I'm doing things I wouldn't normally do
(3x)

from:   quixotic
source: booklet
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Lying
   
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Martina:
I walked out of the house in your
girlfriend's clothes
They fit me better than I would
have supposed

My mind close the curtain
on a lonely repose
And when I walk around town
everybody knows

I'm lying with you
Backsliding with you
Not trying with you
I'm lying with you

Out of the house with hangover shame
Don't punish me for not calling you
Come by the house, I'll be there at eight,
Waiting on the stoop for you

I'm lying with you
Backsliding with you
I'm not trying with you
I'm lying with you

Where are you Ilya?
Where are you Ilya?

Telephone's ringing and I'm at work
Look around to see if anybody heard
When I'm undercover I know it's absurd
But I want it and I can't say no 
But I want it and I can't say no

I'm lying with you
Backsliding with you
Not trying with you
I'm lying with you

Where are you?
Where are you?

Dadada

from:   quixotic
source: booklet
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I Wanna Be There
   
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Martina:
I wanna be there when you arrive
I wanna see her I'll shred her eyes
I wanna be here when you defy
I wanna see it with my own eyes

You know you can't leave me fraying
I don't know what I'd do with myself
On the day I see you coming
I don't know what I'll do with myself

I don't like your sense of fun
I'll be laughing, watch you run
I don't like your sense of fun
I'll be laughing, watch you run, run, run

I wanna be there
I wanna be there
(repeated)


from:   quixotic
source: booklet
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I Still Feel
   
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Martina:
Wish that I could close my eyes
And stop this room from moving
Any sound could cause surprise
Except my blue phone ringing

Won't someone come see me
They could change my weather
We could talk together now

Because I still feel high
And so low (low low low)
I still feel high
And so low (low low low)

Is my reflection telling lies
Or is my mind just blinking
Self esteem and bottle mark
Compete for last position

Why don't you come home and be me
You could read my letter
We could talk together now

Because I still feel high
And so low (low low low)
I still feel high
And so low (low low low)

When the dark
Separates the ice
You wanna come down slow
You wanna come down nice

And when the dark
Turns out the light
You wanna come down slow
You wanna come down nice

You wanna come down slow
You wanna come down nice

Because I still feel high
And so low (low low low)
I still feel high
And so low (low low low)

...
...
...
And when we do my love is ... (?)
You wanna go
You don't wanna stay
You don't wanna stay
Don't wanna stay

(Feel so high
And so low)

I'm feeling so high
I'm feeling so high
So high

You take a ... today (?)
Make your world away (?) 
I'm not a ... (?)
You come and say (?)
...
Take a .. today (?)
Take a world away (?)


from:   quixotic
source: booklet
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Ilya
   
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Martina:
Tell you baby
I've been waiting
For so long
I want it over
It's pleasant waiting
It's pleasant hating
Placenta fed
Get out of my head

Life's a laugh
When you complain about
The way that I give
All I have to give
You say you want more:
You can't sustain without
You wanna live
But you don't know how

Overthinking,
Smoking and drinking
You're in my head
It's time for bed
One word my lover
I can be hollow
When you say
Goin' away

Cut you in half
See how you feel without
I want you to live
But you don't know how
Am I gone?
I want to be reborn
Thought I was in love
Tell me was I wrong

You know we were wrong together

Ain't it funny, they say it's sunny
And come the cloud:
My inside out
Water bed
In my head
It's pleasant waiting
It's pleasant hating

They say it's fine
And then come the storm
No memory of ever feeling warm
I don't mind
The rain and such
But I miss the warm
The warm of your ....

You know we were wrong together
You know we were wrong together
You know we were wrong together
You know we were wrong together
You know we were wrong together
Together
Together
Together
Together
Together


from:   quixotic
source: booklet
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Stevie's (Day's Of A Gun)
   
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Martina:
Somebody saw you on fire
These are the days of a gun
Nobody'd say you won't try it
You are the sword I'm falling on
...
Your not solid for no reason
What say you see them falling down dead

How do you stay a lover inside?
How do you stay a lover inside?

Somebody saw you on fire
These are the days of a gun
Nobody'd say you won't try it
You are the sword I'm falling on

Don't say there's no challenge
What sort of thing are we starting?

Who are you when you're not what you fear
What say you see them falling down dead

How do you stay a lover inside?
How do you stay a lover inside?

Learning blood
Long as your heart don't have to share
All turned on
To reach the wounded sounded fair
Handcuff a tongue
I can't believe it's so unfair

Some day
Some day


from:   quixotic
source: booklet
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