"Two Suns" (2009)

Glass Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

I will rise now
And go about the city
In the street's
Broadways I seek
Him whom my soul loveth

Went over the sea
What did I find?
A thousand crystal towers
A hundred emerald cities

And the hand of the watchman
In the night sky
Points to my beloved
A knight in crystal armour

And I tried to hold him
I tried for the creed
I'll make a suit of colours
To stop the blinding mirrors

Saw a cape of red and gold
Stifle up the being
With the perfect armour
With a perfect dream

To be made of glass
When two suns are shining
The battle becomes blinding
To be made of glass
But we ride tonight, tonight, tonight, we ride

And with two suns spinning
At two different speeds
Was born a hot white diamond
Burning through the rainbow

Flames fell into orbit
To hold eternally
Two heavenly spirits
That just wouldn't seem

To be made of glass
When two suns are shining
The battle becomes blinding
To be made of glass
But we ride tonight, tonight, tonight, we ride

Hey, oh
Hey, oh oh oh
Hey, oh
Hey, oh oh oh
Hey, oh
Hey oh oh oh

Sleep Alone Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

You know my darling, I can't stand to sleep alone
No sweetheart in the dark to call my own
You're my own, you're my own, I can sing it, I can groan
But the darkness is a stranger and I'm lonely, lonely, lonely, low

Last night's parties and last nights horrorshow
Smiling and whirling and kissing all I know
Give my soul, give my soul, sing it free across the sea
A lonely spell to conjure you, but conjure hell is all I do

Lonely, lonely, lonely, 'cause my mama told me
The dream of love is a two hearted dream
Lonely, lonely, lonely, 'cause my mama told me
The dream of love is a two hearted dream

They say for every high high there must be a low, low, low, low, low
From every sun ascending a lonesome moon will grow, grow, grow, grow
Drive my heart, drive my heart, into the fire of a burning heart's desire
A lonely spell so you be seen, do you hear me coming in my blue dream?

Lonely, lonely, lonely, 'cause my mama told me
The dream of love is a two hearted dream
Lonely, lonely, lonely,
The dream of love is a two hearted dream

Moon And Moon Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

Lover, when you don't lay with me
I'm a huntress for a husband lost at sea
If I had you here
Braid our hair together
I'd be boy and you'd be girl
Beautiful

Calling moon and moon
Shoot that big bad hand
It'll drag me to your door
And I won't see you no more

When this wild world
Is a big bad hand
Pushing on my back
Do you understand?
When I get home
Been in the jungle
Where's my bear to lick me clean?
Feed my soul milk and honey

Calling moon and moon
Shoot that big bad hand
It'll drag me to your door
And I won't see you no more

I won't see you no more

Daniel Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

Daniel, when I first saw you
I knew that you had a flame in your heart
And under wild blue skies
Marlboro movie skies
I found a home in your eyes
We'll never be apart

And when the fires came
The smell of cinders and rain
Perfumed almost everything
We laughed and laughed and laughed

And in the golden blue
Car you took me to
The darkest place you knew
And you set fire to my heart

When I run in the dark, Daniel
To a place that's vast
Under a sheet of rain in my heart
I dream of home

But in the goodbye bed
With my arms around your neck
Into our mouths the tears crept
Just kids in the eye of the storm

And as my house spun round
My dreams pulled me from the ground
Forever to search for the flame
For home again
For home again

When I run in the dark
Into a place that's vast
Under a sheet of rain in my heart
I dream of home

When I run in the dark
Into a place that's vast
Under a sheet of rain in my heart
I dream of home

Peace Of Mind Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

Look at this and look at us
We wonder, oh we're wondering
Unalike, to say we're lost
Try my best with needing us
Build a ladder to the sky
Sit up there and say oh my
Does looking down make a me a queen
All the sorrow that I see
If I ever get back down
Find a map that takes me back
Through the wounded, through the wars
To a time that came before
To hover bored into the sun
Come back when my time is done
A mother for this childless world
An arrow of light for every boy and girl

Peace of mind
Peace of mind
Peace of mind
Peace of mind
Peace of mind
Peace of mind

Peace of mind

Siren Song Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

Are you my family?
Can I stay with you a while?
Can I stop off in your bed tonight?
I could make you smile.

In the morning I'll make you breakfast
in the evening I'll warm the bed.
And I'll always be happy to kiss you
Promise I'll never get sad.
'Til the siren come calling, calling
It's driving me evil, evil.

Momma was a heartbreaker
Loved you the same way I do.
But I've got so much wickedness and sin.

My name is Pearl
and I love you the best way I know how
My blonde curls slice through your heart.
And the siren come calling
In the night
Until you leave.

Help you dress yourself up fancy
and bathe you when you get sore
I'll be good
I think I could be all you would want and more and more.
Be proud when you dazzle the wondrous
Glitter your eyes for the town
Tell every last boy that you're my man
I'll try not to let you down.

'Til the siren come calling, calling
It's driving me evil, evil.
Momma was a heartbreaker
Loved you the same way I do.
But I've got so much wickedness and sin.

My name is Pearl
and I love you the best way I know how
My blonde curls slice through your heart.

And the stars are exploding the lights
It won't be long until you'll be mine
No, it won't be long 'til you break
It won't be long until you break
It won't be long until you leave
cause I'm evil, evil...

Pearl's Dream Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

There's a place I must go
There's a place I must go
It's not a place I have seen
But I'll get there in a new dream

Down an ocean road
Past a sign that says "good love town"
Into a darkness where the stars do drown
Where the starry me needs to be free

And when the battle was done
I was promised my son
But with a thousand (k)nights gone
To any kingdom I run

And when the battle was done
I was promised my son
But with a thousand (k)nights gone
To any kingdom I run

There's a place I must go
There's a place I must go
For my heart is a child
That stumbles lonely for the arms of a bride

Hear the desert sigh
Sing the city's lullaby
The giant iris of the wide blue sky
Showing me the way

And when the battle was done
I was promised my son
But with a thousand (k)nights gone
To any kingdom I run

And when the battle was done
I was promised my son
But with a thousand (k)nights gone
To any kingdom I run

You know that it's time to go up, up, up, up, up
Had a big machine riding your shoulders
You know that it's time to go up, up, up, up, up
Had a big machine riding your shoulders
You know that it's time to go up, up, up, up, up
Had a big machine riding your shoulders

Good Love Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

In the night time we are found
Misty sorrow swoop unbound
Whisper you mean it, say you'll stay
Hold my heart till brighter days

Now I am searching how to get alone
This queen of heart's dancing on her throne
But I need sorrow, baby, life's sorrow is the drug
So will I ever find that place they call good love?

Good love
Passed it last night in a dream
Good love
And my heart caught fire

I drove past true love once, in a dream
Like a house that caught fire, it burned and flamed
Then the magician disappeared as quickly as he came
And with a sound like white magic caught in a black car's blazing trail

The house set fire to my heart
Like an inferno we shone rays
I swallowed the sun in your form

I woke up and you were crying
I woke up and you were saying

Good love
Passed it last night in a dream
Good love
Cause my heart caught fire

Good love
Passed it last night in a dream
Good love
Cause my heart caught fire

Two Planets Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

Show me moonlight on the sunrise
I've seen so many planets dancing
I've seen too many people hiding
Show me sunset and I won't forget
That I am one of two planets dancing
I am part of two planets dancing

Shallow man!
Sign your name
On my sun!

The song of Solomon
Died in the battleground
The song of Solomon
Died in love's battleground

I am full
Shattered by this sailing time
For all your suffering by night
Oh warm, but under bright
And life is so much dark and light
When day cannot exist without a night
And you are not separate from me
I am a heart that's full of life

And to be shared
On this night
Feel my hands
Feel my life
For the Sun
And the stars
Are my Mother
And my sister
I know where the form is changing
I know that the stars will follow me..

Travelling Woman Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

Hang on travelling woman
Dont sacrifice your plan
'Cause it will come back to you
Before you lose it on the man
Never fall in love with potential
'Cause you can't see with your own eyes
All the pretty faces and sorry words
Can take away your pride
Got to listen to the vision
Some may say a dream, words from the unseen

Or it can make you tired, tell you lies and make you fall
Make you tired, tell you lies, make you fall
Make you tired, tell you lies, make you fall

Hang on travelling woman
Don't sacrifice your plan
'Cause it will come back to you
Before you lose it on the man
Got to listen to the vision
Got to listen to the vision
Play in the ashes of what you once were

The Big Sleep Lyrics – Bat for Lashes (feat. Scott Walker)

How can it be the last show?
(How can it be?)
How can it be the last show?
(How can it be?)

No more spotlights coming down from heaven
It's a goodbye, it's curtains down time
Not even out of my dress
And already my voice is fading
Goodbye my dear
(Goodbye)
And in to the big sleep

Wilderness Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

I took my lanes to the sea
we had just pressed the shells into our bones
and we saw the queen in the sky
gently revealing the treasures of her crowns
took off all of our Armour
every last single drop of gold
and we banished the land
lifted our bodies right up into the cold

Wilderness
in the darkest night
I call out to my brothers
come join me in flight

and the tears they did roll
from the salty sea, the rainy sky
and the wide eye, the wide eyes
my heart it did swell
as the grandest of stars burst out names in the skies
I can see but a thousand
of families and friends I have thought but long gone
and the thunder claps hands as I embrace them
and we held on to every single last word

Wilderness
in the darkest night
I call out to my brothers
come join me in flight

A Forest Lyrics – Bat for Lashes (originally by The Cure)

Come closer and see
See into the trees
Find the girl
While you can
Come closer and see
See into the dark
Just follow your eyes
Just follow your eyes

I hear her voice
Calling my name
The sound is deep
In the dark
I hear her voice
And start to run
Into the trees
Into the trees

Into the trees

Suddenly I stop
But I know it's too late
I'm lost in a forest
All alone
The girl was never there
It's always the same
I'm running towards nothing
Again and again and again

Use Somebody Lyrics – Bat for Lashes (originally by Kings Of Leon)

I've been roaming around, always looking down and all I see
Painted faces fill the places I can't reach

You know that I could use somebody
You know that I could use somebody

Someone like you and all you know and how you speak
Countless lovers undercover of the street

You know that I could use somebody
You know that I could use somebody
Someone like you

Off in the night while you live it up, I'm off to sleep
Waging wars to shake the poet and the beat

I hope it's gonna make you notice
I hope it's gonna make you notice

Someone like me
Someone like me
Someone like me, somebody

Go and let it out

Someone like you, somebody
Someone like you, somebody
Someone like you, somebody

I've been roaming around, always looking down and all I see

"Fur And Gold" (2006)

Horse And I Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

Got woken in the night,
by a mystic golden light.
My head soaked in river water.
I had been dressed in a coat of armor.
They called a horse out of the woodland.
"Take her there, through the desert shores."
They sang to me, "This is yours to wear.
You're the chosen one, there's no turning back...now."

The smell of redwood giants.
The banquet for the shadows.
Horse and I, we're dancers in the dark.
Came upon the headdress.
It was gilded, dark and golden.
The children sang.
I was so afraid I took it to my head and prayed.
They sang to me, "This is yours to wear. You're the chosen one, there's no turning back."
They sang to me, "This is yours to wear. You're the chosen one, there's no turning back."

There is no turning back.
There is no turn.
There is no turning back.
There is no turn.
There is no turning back.
There is no turn.

Trophy Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

The trophy that I made for us
In fur and gold
Got into the wrong pair of hands
In truth was sold
They bought it for oh so much less
Than it was worth
And every man that touched it
Found a heaven on earth
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms

The queens and the court jesters
Clapped, adored
Their hearts swelled to
Overdrive and mercy soared
Mercy this and mercy that
Let justice prevail
But I just want my trophy back
It's not for sale
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms

Creatures of mercy
Shoot shoot
Shoot them down
And set me free

Creatures of mercy
Shoot shoot
Shoot them down
And set me free

When I got my trophy back
It took some time
To polish it, to go from black
And shoot the lion
When I put it back inside
I locked the door
A trophy of mercy
Is a trophy no more
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms

Creatures of mercy
Shoot shoot
Shoot them down
And set me free

Creatures of mercy
Shoot shoot
Shoot them down
And set me free

Tahiti Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

Community saw the best in me
Exchanging the common heart for the salt in the sea
Children of the sun on a highway of hope
The beauty of coming together
In sorrow

Tahiti we don't got no name
Tahiti we don't got no home
Tahiti we don't got no money
Tahiti we don't got no
Honey

But we do the dishes, we make the bread
We are powdered ashes in the light of the beauty
He said

Wear those dark glasses to help us see
Hot tears rolling down and our arms are knitted

Creatures of the night on a highway of hope
And the beauty that we'll leave each other
Tomorrow

Tahiti we don't got no name
Tahiti we don't got no home
Tahiti we don't got no money
Tahiti we don't got no
Honey

What's A Girl To Do? Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

We walked arm in arm
But I didn't feel his touch
The desire I'd first tried to hide,
That tingling inside was gone
And when he asked me:
'do you still love me?'
I had to look away
I didn't want to tell him
That my heart grows colder with each day

When you've loved so long
That the thrill is gone
And your kisses at night
Are replaced with tears
And when your dreams are on
A train to train-wreck town
Then I ask you now, what's a girl to do?

He said he'd take me away
That we'd work things out
And I didn't want to tell him
But it was then I had to say
Over the times we've shared
It's all blackened out
And my bat lightning heart
Wants to fly away

When you've loved so long
That the thrill is gone
And your kisses at night
Are replaced with tears
And when your dreams are on
A train to train-wreck town
Then I ask you now, what's a girl to do?

What's a girl to do? [x3]

Sad Eyes Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

I don't like the things you don't say
Leaving it for such a long long time
Why do you show me those sad sad eyes
Each time you decide to pass on by

And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still

Autumns hue in those sad eyes
Makes me love and love them more
I'll have a bath, I'll make the dinner and then I'll go away for a long long time
But still you haven't passed my door

And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still

I can tell that you're lonely
But it seems now
There's nothing you want me to do
So I won't try to take the sadness from those eyes that I love
Leave it open for someone else to

And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still

Trying to hold it together
Keep my love as light as a feather
Sad eyes baby it's been such a long time
Keep my heart breaking in the dark
Come and spend the night

Trying to hold it together
Keep my love as light as a feather
Sad eyes baby it's been such a long time
Keep my heart breaking in the dark
Come and spend the night

The Wizard Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

Doing the mess around
Push me down into the ground
Taste the hands that drink my body

Fight me in the dark
Wrestle your bones over mine
Into our moonless march come the wizard
Come, the wizard comes
The wizard comes
The wizard comes
The wizard comes

Wants to feel you shake and shooting
He will be our leader
Wants to feel you shake and shooting
He will be our leader

Trembling midnight lands
I travel with the wizard
Drink his blood and he's our leader

Breath songs in my head
Slow arrow flies & burning
And the trouble we possess
While the sunshine goes on sleeping
The sunshine

Wants to feel you shake and shooting
He will be our leader
Wants to feel you shake and shooting
He will be our leader...

Prescilla Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

There's a girl that wants to start
Been thinking about having a couple of kids
Comb a brush around their heads in the morning
To be needed, simply and be needing
Her name is Karen
Been on the road for so long
She wants to live in a place that has a number in a name
Find lovers and anchor before the courage is gone

She really loves him, Prescilla
She really loves him, Prescilla
She really loves him, I tell you
She really loves him, Prescilla
She really loves him, Prescilla
She really loves him, I tell you

To live life outside of the world
To break the cross that bears her name
She's not your queen anymore, queen of the highway
Needs something better than learning away

She really loves him, Prescilla
She really loves him, Prescilla
She really loves him, I tell you
She really loves him, Prescilla
She really loves him, Prescilla
She really loves him, I tell you

Gone away
Queen of the Highway
Gone away
Hide away
Queen of the Highway
Gone away

Bat's Mouth Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

The caves of our mouths are forests,
Darkness and the air,
In between is over-
Flowing and the rushing
Wolverine flies past,
his shiny shiny teeth,
She is kind, he is free
Full of knowing

She is sure [x2]

The caves of our mouths are bears'
Bellies and the air,
In between this spewing,
Comets and the dancing,
Centaur queen flies past,
her tiny tiny teeth
He is kind, she is free
Wants to show him

She is sure [x3]

Find him in the bat's mouth
He is singing in her bat's mouth
He is shaking and dancing in a bat mouth
He is getting tired and sleeping in a bat mouth
And she's holding him tight in a bat arms
She is wrapping him up in a bat arms
And she's thanking her mother Sea
"Thank you mother Sea
For letting him see
The sea in me"

She is sure [x8]

Seal Jubilee Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

The seals, they cried in jubilee
The sharks, they howled along with me
And birds, they flew into the wind
The whale, he roamed the lonely sea

And I dived into you
I dived into you
On this ocean hue
'Cause I dived into you

The lighthouse dog lifted his brow
The crippled trees bent low to growl
And swans, they wrestled with lifetime's grasp
In hopefullness they nestled the past
Teachers and travellers made their mark
They dined and feasted on whale and shark
And so the ocean lost its depths
And boredom rained as the ocean wept

Birds they raised their young for dead
And ladies used feathery pillows for bed
And black snow came and black snow stayed
And froze the ocean out of love
Out of love

I lay quiet, next to you
Transformed a whole
Transformed anew
No longer diving into
But lying quiet next
To you

Sarah Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

Adopting Sarah's heart
Was never gonna be easy
With an angel tattoo sinking beneath her belt
Sarah
And the dirty blonde sea-water
Sea-water gushing down
Chewing fingernails in her shit-eating grin
Sarah

They cut out her heart when
She was a little girl
And in the fishing boat she thought
She saw the shadow of God
Sarah
He didn't smile at her and she decided
He never came at all
And when she died, she was going nowhere
Nowhere, nowhere

Sarah, I want to be like you
Sarah
You know sometimes I want to live like you
Sarah
So I know how it feels not to feel

Adopting Sarah's heart
Was never gonna be easy
Changing from black to blonde to black to blonde
Sarah
But on the dirty tarmac of
The tarmac of a melting motorway
She gave me her clothes and told me to take her place, her place

Sarah, I want to be like you
Sarah
You know sometimes I want to live like you
Sarah
So I know how it feels not to feel

Sarah, I want to be like you
Sarah
You know sometimes I want to live like you
Sarah
So I know how it feels not to feel

I Saw A Light Lyrics – Bat for Lashes

I saw a light
I saw a light
Coming through the trees
I saw a light
Coming through the trees
Freshly cut lawns
And little children sleepwalking
I saw a light

I saw a light
Shining on a car
And a couple inside
Had committed suicide

Death in your arms
Death in your arms

I saw a light
I saw a light
Coming through the trees
And I packed my things

After I saw the light
I packed my things
The light gave me life
Helped me see more clearly
And the children went to sleep
And the car was towed away
And the leaves were rustling
As the night turned to day

I saw a light
Getting smaller in the distance
And I said goodbye

I'm On Fire lyrics - bat for lashes

(originally by Bruce Springsteen)

Hey, little boy, is your mama home?
Did she go and leave you alone?
Oh, got a bad desire
Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire

Tell me now, baby, is she good to you?
Does she do to you the things that I do?
Oh, I can take you higher
Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, edgy and blunt
Put a six inch valley through the middle of my soul
Oh, at night I lay at home with the sheets soaking wet
And a freight train running through the middle of my head
But you, you cool my desire

Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and blunt
Put a six inch valley through the middle of my soul
Oh, at night I lay at home with the sheets soaking wet
And a freight train running through the middle of my head
But you, you cool my desire
Oh, I'm on fire