Tricky
False Idols lyrics


 
 
 

   
Somebody's Sins
(written by Van Morrison, lyrics added by Patti Smith)
   
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Francesca:
Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine
Meltin' in a pot of thieves
Wild card up my sleeve
Thick heart of stone
My sins my own
They belong to me, me
People say 'beware!'
But I don't care
The words are just
Rules and regulations to me, me

Francesca & Tricky:
Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine
Meltin' in a pot of thieves
Wild card up my sleeve
Thick heart of stone
My sins my own
They belong to me, me
People say 'beware!'
But I don't care
The words are just
Rules and regulations to me, me

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine
Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine

from:_false idols
source: booklet
originally performed by Patti Smith
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Nothing Matters
   
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Nneka-Lucia Egbuna:
It bothers me, it bites me, stings me, deprives me
Off my track, the ways you make me pass, by highways
I am forced to trust your wicked ways
You use me, abuse me, control me, but...

Nothing really matters, Nothing really matters,
This broken heart's a shatter
As long as you love me
But something is the matter, when love deceives it batters
These gunshots are a shatter... So you must love me

In my mind I have killed you, long ago
Born pretender, spirit high jacker, you killed my love for you
Innocent blood, excuse me now, Mr. Right, knight tell me
Stuck in a days, can't even understand no more,

Well, Nothing really matters, Nothing really matters,
These broken hearts are shattered
As long as you love me
But something is the matter, when love deceives it batters
These gunshots are a shatter... So you must love me

Born pretender, spirit high jacker, in the name of love
You heart snatcher, backbiter, 
yes they are partakers of sucking innocent blood, 
nights walking vampires, excuse me now
Introduce me to your industry 
'cause with me you will definitely go very far, 
stuck in a daze, can't even understand unknowingly
Approaching the world through a vivid glance
But it concerns me, and it concern us, yet it condemns us
For this is the fact, the truth and it will forever hunt us but...

Nothing really matter, Nothing really matters,
These broken hearts are shattered
As long as you love me
But something is the matter, when love deceives it batters
These gunshots are a shatter... So you must love me

from:_false idols
source: booklet
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Valentine
   
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sample of Chet Baker:
My funny Valentine
(4x)

Tricky:
Knew a girl used to make me wait for hours
On the train in the rain with some flowers
Street girl used to live in the towers
Real sweet and then sour
Hard life just like Cinderella
Single Mum had a kid with a fella
She was real, real like concrete
By herself walk like she own street
The other fella he was kinda like trash
The son's father but never did give her cash
I said there's things you really shouldn't have to do
Come with me and I'll look after you

sample of Chet Baker:
My funny Valentine
(4x)

Francesca:
My Valentine take me away
Council flats make me blind
I try but these towers so grey
Nowhere for my children to play
My baby needs fun
My skin needs the sun
My Valentine

sample of Chet Baker:
My funny Valentine
(4x)

Tricky:
Knew a girl, street girl
used to live in the towers
Real sweet and then sour
Hard life just like Cinderella
Single Mum had a kid with a fella

sample of Chet Baker:
My funny Valentine
(4x)

from:_false idols
source: booklet
lyrical quote: My Evil Is Strong
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Bonnie & Clyde
   
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Francesca & Tricky:
Without a trace
I move to place
We go thirds on it
I grab my gun
Goes down the sun
Tie up the guard with it
We use that rope
Tie up that dope
Make sure it's tight baby
Tell that girl
Don't you speak
And we'll be gone baby
No need to speak
I'll go weak
If I get 12 on it

I shoulda listened
Oh no, time slow
shoulda listened
Shoulda listened
Oh no, time slow
Shoulda listened

Can't go by train
Or run to Spain
It's like a game
They're on it
We'll beat this game
But just in case
We'll be gone baby
I hear some shots
It must be cops
Let's go baby
A Car crash
I start to blast
They got 5 on me
Shots hit my chest
I'm wearing vest
Shoulda run from it

I shoulda listened
Oh no, time slow
I shoulda listened
I shoulda listened
Oh no, time slow
(repeated)

from:_false idols
source: booklet
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Parenthesis
(written by The Antlers & Tricky)
   
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Peter Silberman 
(Tricky in the background):
One broken wing
Soaring and suffering
Arm in a sling
I don't owe you anything

I'm a bad absentee
You know when I want to leave
So close up your knees
And I'll close your parenthesis

I'm a bad amputee
With no phantom memory
So close up your knees
And I'll close your parenthesis


from:_false idols
source: booklet
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Nothing's Changed
   
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Francesca & Tricky:
Follow where Mary goes
Cherish the things she knows
Says if I change my stride
Then I'll fly

Nothing's changed
Feel the same
It's just shorter days 
Still hurt the same 

Nothing's changed, 
Feel the same 
Nothing's changed, 
I still feel the same 

Follow where Mary goes
Cherish the things she knows
Says if I change my stride
Then I'll fly

Change my stride 
Don't think I've tried
I was born a king 
Streets calling 

Nothing's changed
Feel the same
Nothing's changed
Still feel the same 

Tricky:
Nothing's changed
I still feel the same
Nothing's changed
I still hurt the same 

Francesca & Tricky:
Nothing's changed
Feel the same
Nothing's changed
Still feel the same 
(2x)

from:_blowbacknothings changed
source: booklet
lyrical quotes: Makes me wanna die
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If Only I Knew
(written by FiFi Rong & Tricky)
   
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FiFi Rong:
We floated in the formless
We were in love for just a second
You leave me with all those questions
That lead me to no direction

Was it just me
Your heart I never reached
You decided what it is
And let my heart sink
You decided what it is
(booklet: And let my heart sink
You decided what it is)
Left me no chance to speak

I didn't know that kiss meant goodbye
It's funny how things played out in your mind
(2x)

How does it feel like to be so heartless
Why are you breaking me for no reason
Don't you know they're things I never learn
Teach me how to read your sign language

Only if I knew
Why would I want more from you
What kind of man ... end (???)

Only if I knew
Why I want more from you
I can't go back then
I've done it again

I didn't know that kiss meant goodbye
It's funny how things played out in your mind
(2x)

I didn't know that kiss meant goodbye
It's funny... (fade out)

from:_false idols
source: booklet
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Is That Your Life
   
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Francesca:
Pick up my weed and bring it come
Take what you need
Bring, bring a gun
What you need, we can serve
Want that money, we reserve
We want that car, we want that house
Informer boy, shut your mouth
I lost my boy, I lost my friend
Got locked down, give him ten
My brothers gone, back in again
My cousins gone and shot my friend

Pick up my weed and bring it come
Take what you need
Bring bring a gun

Is that your, is that your
Is that your life
Think before, think before
You got one life
(2x)

Easy boy, I cut your throat
Smoke that weed, snort the coke
I got caught up, I caught a case
You can't hide, you're not safe
I drive my Porsche, I can't slow down
What's that sound, up on the town
Bring the keys make sure you're armed
Here's the code, switch the alarm
Tie that guy, don't let him breath
On the ground, you can't leave

Pick up my weed and bring it come
Take what you need
Bring, bring a gun

Is that your, is that your
Is that your life
Think before, think before
You got one life
(2x)

Tricky:
Take what I want, take what I need
Best believe, I feed my greed 
Better to take kerosene (?)
You take a break, you drink champagne
You touch a bird, you keep your word (?)
You touch a bird, you keep your word (?)

Francesca:
Is that your, is that your
Is that your life
Think before, think before
You got one life
(3x)

from:_false idols
source: booklet
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Tribal Drums
   
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Francesca & Tristan Cassell:
Can't seem to find my steps at all 
I'm walking
Can't find the words I need to say
Talking
I run around inside my head
Alright
I run around to sound and step
Alright

Can't seem to find my steps at all 
I'm walking
Can't find the words I need to say
Talking
I run around inside my head
Alright
I run around to sound and step
Alright

So I'm running in this space
Lose my sights and leave my taste
Evil come and evil go
Evil come and evil go
(2x)

Can't seem to find my way home
I'm calling
No voice, it's just a dialing tone
I'm falling
I'm walking around just like they think
Alright
They say the worst TV is dead
Alright 

Can't seem to find my way home
I'm calling
No voice, it's just a dialing tone
I'm falling
I'm walking around just like they think
Alright
They say the worst TV is dead

So I'm running in this space
Lose my sights and leave my taste
Evil come and evil go
Evil come and evil go
(2x)

I'm lost and found
I walked on time
I'm lost in sound
I walked in time
I'm lost and found
I walked on time
I'm lost in sound

from:_false idols
source: booklet
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We Don't Die
   
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Francesca & Tricky:
We don't, we don't
We don't die
(2x)

Far we go, away somewhere
Where we go, away don't know
Times not mine, we meet sometime
You rest in peace, your soul release

We don't, we don't
We don't die
(2x)

You won't dance alone, alone with me
Rest your head, enough's been read
Fly you fly, you're home, you're home
You swim in moon, you left too soon

We don't, we don't
We don't die
(repeat)

from:_false idols
source: booklet


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Chinese Interlude
(written by FiFi Rong)
   
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FiFiRong:

click for a bigger pic

from:_false idols
source: booklet
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Does It
   
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Tricky:
Does it make you feel good
(Does it) make you feel hood
Can I flow through your vains
Can you make me feel strange  (hey)
Can you fall through the sky
Will you leave me and die
Will you come back again
Will you meet me at ten

Francesca:
Where are the protesters
The slogans and sign
This will be a swift decline
I wouldn't be caught dead in love
I wouldn't be caught dead in love

Tricky:
Will you fight for a cause (hey)
Will you break all the laws (hey)
Will you come back again
Remember back when
Are you living free
Are you leaving with me

Does it make you feel good
(Does it) make you feel hood

Francesca:
Where are the protesters
The slogans and sign
This will be a swift decline
I wouldn't be caught dead in love
I wouldn't be caught dead in love
(2x)

from:_false idolsnothings changed
source: booklet
lyrical quotes: The Ropes - Love Is A Chainstore
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I'm Ready
   
   

Tricky:
Ok, I'm ready
Ok, I'm ready

Tricky & Francesca:
Ok, I'm ready, concentrate my mind state heavy
I do a tour and invade like I'm at war no prisoners
What they seeking asylum for
I been insane and I've been contained
Manufactured and you sound the same
Your voice is not choice and your beats are lame
Round and round we all must go until we die
Round and round we all must go until we die

There's no freedom and we have none
For the reasons you can choose one
Through the seasons yeah we still try
Don't be worried you can feel fine
Don't you hurry they conceal time
They're too greedy you won't get none
They can steal it take your left lung
There's no freedom and you get none
Round and round we all must go until we die
Round and round we all must go until we die
Round and round we all must go until we die
Round and round we all must go until we die

from:_false idols
source: booklet


 

   
 


 

   
Hey Love
   
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Tricky:
Hey love how you been love 
Long time since I've seen love 
Hey love how you been love 
Long time since I've seen love 
Hey love how you been love 
Long time since I've seen love 

Remember when, when we met love 
Sat in, in the park love 
Sat just, just apart love 
But not, not for long love 
Sat apart not for long love 
We grew real strong love 
Sat in the park just long love 
Just, just long love 

Tricky & Francesca:
Leave me alone you'll be alright 
Oh be a man don't take it light 
Leave me alone you'll be alright 
Oh be a man don't take it light 
(2x)

Tricky:
To the noose, to the neck
boosts, check
micic, psychic
To the circuit
To the games pains to blame
Make it same
Make it dance, not a chance
See her run, I feel her come
See her run, I feel her come
Totally cunning she is dark heart
no soul, no soul

To the noose, to the neck
To the boosts, to the check
To the micic, to the psychic
To the circuit
To the games pains to blame
To the freedom
Make it rain
 

Tricky & Francesca:
Leave me alone you'll be alright 
Oh be a man don't take it light 
Leave me alone you'll be alright 
Oh be a man don't take it light 
(2x)

from:_false idols
source: booklet
lyrical quotes: Piano, C'mon Baby
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Passion Of The Christ
   
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Tricky:
(There's) too many people
Too many dying
Too many lying
Too many crying

(There's) too many voices
So little choices
At night I lie awake
Feels like heartache
Feels like heartache
How long will the night take
How long will the night take
It feels like heartache

The night has come
They say I rise crime rate
... can't wait (?)
I rise my fist the thunder break through
Make a wish who will you run to
(There's) too many prisons taking away from family
Too many reasons to lose your sanity

I lie awake and let the visions take me
Think of life and how it tried to break me
Had no choice, had to settle
Hear a voice now they burn from metal
There's too many shouts and they call it treason
Can't relate and hate without reason
(There's) too many guns, pray for God to come quick
He doesn't come, my God is real sick

from:_false idols
source: booklet
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