Faithless - Killer´s Lullaby lyrics

Album: Sunday 8 PM (1998)

I am sittin´ at a coffee table, unable to see straight
Watchin´ parallel lines unwind & undulate
Behind the rain-streaked windowpane, the scene´s bleak
Another train leavin´ home,
conceding defeat with a low moan

Hangin´ in A sky, made of stone
Everybody´s leavin´ home, I called my man Jerome
To come meet me in the twilight zone
Leave your mobile phone at home & come alone

I bought him coffee & a snack,
settled back, started speakin´
He was tweakin´ with the peak of his cap
While I am seekin´ to discover what it takes to stay sober
Not cover my mistakes,
try to maybe make sense of the evidence
It is over, she has gone for good
Why should I lie, singin´ a killer´s lullaby
Identified by the dying ring of her goodbye
The last thing you hear before your life disappear

Now it just gets worse, like my stomach ´ll burst,
feel like I have been cursed.
With seven centuries of bitter memories
And inadequacies, previous he has & she has
I am movin´ round this old house for the last time
Scene of my past crimes, been here for lifetimes
Hearin´ the chimes of the old clock that used to mock
You got eternity for takin´ stock,
this place is like a padlock
You look shocked.
Trust me, nothing ever moves but the dust,
Theres just us & I am here to torment & tease
And that is how it was for centuries
Me & my memories, until you brought the keys
Took the couple of Saturdays
I moved in runnin´ from tragedies & boozing
Seven hundred yeahrs since I came here
You appear, same hair, same quizzical stare
I could not get near,
And the sheer frustration was more than I could bear
I was really cursed, thought I would been through the worst part

That was just the 1st part, just the start
Every night I would be sittin´ with dread pickin´ my heart
In case the man she would been chasin´ gets to 1st base
An´ I just can´t escape, I am in bad shape
You making love to someone else is more than I can take
And so I make all the movement I can to no avail
Scream & yell, sinkin´ deeper into my personal hell

I am getting heated, I am sorry, have another coffee
I needed to release my sparrow chest from just a piece of this pressure
Unless an escape route is found,
I am going down underground
Into lifetimes of pain, it is absurd
The heaviest chain is contained is the sound of one word
So I am referred back to hell, huh
Just as well, I hate needles an´ get twinges at the thought
of syringes

J, I am going insane with shame
I dream & watch her makin´ love over & over again
With what I call a farmer´s swain
Unintelligent, pea-brained retard who has dick is always hard
Oh God, of course I am jealous, fellows,
oversexed flexing his pec´s
Jesus, what´s he going make her do next?
I am mad vex, the way she gently scratches his chest
You used to do that to me back in 1253
Pity me, while you lie with your lover
I stare & suffer in despair while you ruffle his hair
Unaware of who else is there
I move quick, I wanna try my trick one last time
You know it is possible to vaguely define my outline
When dust move in the sunshine
So I am tryin´ to change, vibrate myself to near-human pitch
Which reminds me how I used to come unstitched
And switch ´round the house in a blind rage
It took yeahrs & an ocean of tears to find the key to this
cage
And write another stage into a new age,
it is difficult to gauge
But I know that I will see you again, on that you may depend
I just don´t know how or when
Sleep on, my lost love on gone

Jerome took me home under steel skies
Knowing I am prone to dramatize but unknown for telling lies
And what I verbalize he can see behind my eyes
The why oh why´s that identify killer lullabies
And he surmised
No surprise couldn´t hear that
Closed my eyes as he steered that old black BM home again
Not knowing how & not knowing when.


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