Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love Album Lyrics

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Scream (Funk My Life Up)

How was I to know you'd just come along?
(And funk my life up)
Lips like they've been singing sexed up strawberry songs
(Just funk my life up)
Never heard it coming, thought it's just another woman
With a shotgun in her hand
(Funk my life up)

She's the bass, she's the beat, she's the rhythm, she's the band
(Just funk my life up)
And the girl, so fine
Makes you wanna scream Hallelujah

Sly hands, spinning webs like silk
Beats are dripping on me, like spider milk
And I never heard the warning when I woke up this morning
With my sunshine on a drip

She's my rock, she's my bud, she's tequila, she's a trip
And that girl, so fine
Makes you wanna scream Hallelujah

How can I refuse? I'm not fit to chose
(Just funk my life up)
I said the only way I win is the way I lose
(Just funk my life up)
And I never got the script, I unzipped
Got a little bit wet up in my brain
She's your church, she's your sin, she's atomic,
she's the oh she's the rain
And the girl, so fine you wanna scream
Yeah, yeah

She gets me silly, she's like a trick on me
Hell, I don't even know her name but yet she sticks to me
And in the climax she would scream with me
Yeah, she sticks to me
She gets me funny, she doesn't want none of my money
So I pour it over her like gasoline
Light a match and then I'm back in my teens
Me and super girl smoking my green
Me and super girl smoking my green

Unload, reload, eyes back swinging,
Sweet thing, knows things, Jeff Beck sings
Roundhouse, going down...... Let's go!
And the girl so fine makes you wanna scream Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Yeah, the girl, so fine, you wanna scream

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Let Me Down Easy

Let me down easy
Though your love for me is gone
Let me down easy
Since you feel to stay is wrong

We are broken by others
But we mend ourselves
We take comfort in strangers
But I don't think it helps
If every fool wore a crown
I would be a king and not a clown
Cause love can be (oh)
Closer than our hands and our feet

But it's lost on me
Oh oh
It's lost on me
Let me down easy
Though your love for me is gone
Let me down easy
Since you feel to stay is wrong
There was no sweeter fruit than this
With no taste of bitterness
It was so fresh and sweet before
But I can't taste it anymore

I was like a man with no care
I had everything
But it's lost on me
Lost, lost on me, yeah
Let me down easy

Though your love for me is gone
Let me down easy
Though your love for me is gone
Let me down easy
Since you feel to stay is wrong

On a better day
We'd be waiting on our corner
Selling dreams of redemption
But this time you've gone your way
So I'll go mine
Out of sight, out of love, out of time

Though your love for me is gone
Let me down easy
Though your love for me is gone
Let me down easy
Since you feel to stay is wrong

Let me down
Let me down easy

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Bus Talk



[Instrumental]

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One Day

From the corner of my eye
To the back of my mind
I recognize what you mean to me
And all the corners of our pictures
Are a long time afraid
They still symbolize what you mean to me

You ask me to remember
A kiss is but a kiss
Well I'd be a fool to want more from you
And I'm gone in a while
I'll be gone in a while
I'll be gone in a while
It's all that I do

I'll cry and you cry and we'll cry
Till the rain turns black
And the devil moves and clings to us
And for a moment there is beauty
It's not a simple yearning
Sometimes it feels like it's all I've gotten
It's all a dream

And I ask you to remember
A kiss is but a kiss
You'd be a fool to want more from me
And I'm gone in a while
I'll be gone in a while
I'll be gone in a while
It's all that I do

From the corner of my eye
Through the back of my mind
I recognize what you mean to me

And the and promises captured in one kiss
We had and we seek and we squander
That there's more
Something more than me

And I'm gone in a while
I'll be gone in a while
I'll be gone in a while
It's all that I do
It's all that I do
It's all that I do
It's all that I do

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Numpty

Hey, la, la, la
Building a house so we can fall at the first brick
If the cement don't stick
But I've been told
That it only gets harder from there!

Hmm, now that I'm young I just do what I do
I don't second guess too much.
Shed my ties and I'm not that wise
I'm all grown up as such.
But all the talk about the ring and the baby
Gets me every time
Am I big enough, strong enough to walk along your line?
Yeah, baby

Building a house so we can fall at the first brick
If the cement don't stick
But I've been told
That it only gets harder from there!

You see, I'm always on the hustle
That I don't know just how good I get it
That it's plenty of men out there with money and muscle
Look at these hips, baby, don't you forget them
Oh, but the curls will go, the money will spend
What we left within the end?
She's more than happy, she's taken her play
I'm saying, 'who's that bitch with my second name? '

Oh, he's building a house so we can fall at the first brick
If the cement don't stick
But I've been told
That it only gets harder from there!

Yeah, baby, truth be told
I'm only trying to keep my head above the water
Responsibility, turn on monogamy,
I'm not a father, child
Are you a mother, are you?
Uh, my pride and joy
Yeah, you, you are my pride and joy!

Oh, building a house so we can fall at the first brick
If the cement don't stick
But I've been told
That it only gets harder from there!
Yeah, baby,
Building a house so we can fall at the first brick
If the cement don't stick
But I've been told
That it only gets harder from there!
But I've been told
That it only gets harder from there!
But I've been told
That it only gets harder from there!
Eeeee uuuuuuuu
Uuuuuuuuuu
Uuuuuuuuuu
Eeeeeeeee

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Superfly



[Instrumental]

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Better Man

She makes me smile
She thinks the way I think
That girl makes me wanna be better

Took her down Bleecker Street
Saw she drank the way I drink
I kissed the sky to send her blue a letter

That girl makes me wanna be a better man
Yeah, and should she see fit
Gonna treat her like a real man can

She's fearless, she's free
She is a real live wire
And that girl, she's got me feeling so much better

Oh you trade all the money in the world
Just to see this girl's smile
All the while, she'll make you feel so much better

Oh that girl makes me wanna be a better man
Yeah, and should she see fit,
Gonna treat her like a real man can

Ah, ah, la la la
Come on in my arms
You make me feel alright
You make me feel alright

You know I might get eager
I might lose my cool
Feel like I'm in detention in the office at the school

And you'll either love me or you hate me
'Cause I can see you've got no time for the in-between
But the reflection in your eyes gonna look so much better

I said that girl makes me wanna be a better man
Yeah yeah yeah
And should she see fit,
Gonna treat her like a real man can
Gonna treat her like a real man can
Gonna treat her like a real man can
Gonna treat her like a real man can

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Iron Sky

We are proud individuals living on the city,
But the flames couldn't go much higher.
We find God and religions to,
To paint us with salvation.
But no one,
No nobody,
Can give you the power,

To rise over love,
And over hate,
Through this iron sky,
That's fast becoming our minds.
Over fear and into freedom.

Oh, that's life
That's dripping down the walls
Of a dream that cannot breathe
In this harsh reality
Mass confusion spoon fed to the blind
Serves now to define our cold society

From which we'll rise over love,
Over hate,
From this iron sky,
That's fast becoming our minds.
Over fear and into freedom.

You just got to hold on!
You just got to hold on!

Ohhh ohhhh oh oh

(To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair.
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed,
the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die,
and the power they took from the people will return to the people.
And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men -
machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!
You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men!
You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful,
to make this life a wonderful adventure
Let us use that power!
Let us all unite!)

And we'll rise over love,
And over hate,
Through this iron sky,
That's fast becoming our minds
Over fear,
Into freedom.
Into freedom!

From which we'll rise over love,
And over hate,
Through this iron sky,
That's fast becoming our minds.
Over fear and into freedom.
Freedom!

Oh!
Rain on me!
Rain on me!
Rain on me!

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Diana

Drowning in you. Askin' nothin', takin'.
Do you believe in passion and romance?
Destined to be within us and around us?

Diana, she loves me
No innocence or compromise
Diana, she loves me
The only way she knows

When the soul's in flight, you set your body free
And all of your lighted lessons, in all it's fantasies
And as a shiver reverts the tension
From an materialized dementia

The make belief, our liberty
You offer some love, swifts and chains
Never change you for all the dames
I stand for you, you open up the me
She said she wanted both of us to go
And she won't give up for nothing

Diana, she loves me
No innocence or compromise
Diana, she loves me
The only way she knows

Diana, she loves me
No innocence or compromise
Diana, she loves me
The only way she knows

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Fashion

Flying on a big jet plane.
Gonna make it in the land of milk and honey.
Called and said you're on your way.
Gonna stake your claim.
Make your money.
I'm picturing you.
With Manolos on your feet.
Strutting cool down Carnaby Street.
What a body.
What a woman.
Putty in your hand.
All your one night stands.
You just.
You gotta keep them coming.

'Cause she's in fashing.
She's chic.
She's the belle nouvelle on Boogie Street.
She's in fashion.
Le freak.
She's the belle nouvelle on Boogie Street.
And she's my queen.

More to life than sex appeal.
But sometimes it takes an angel to remember.
Oh and this lady she's the real deal.
On the cover from December to December.
Though her eyes - reveal her vanity.
She's got soul, she's got class - and originality.
She's got style and a personality.
And she wears it on her sleeve.

'Cause she's in fashion.
She's chic.
She's a belle nouvelle on Boogie Street.
She's in fashion.
La freak.
She's a belle nouvelle on Boogie Street.
She's my queen.

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Looking For Something

Another day is washed away
And all alibis are out
And the hand that used to heal me only cursed me now.
The echoes of a woman so kind
Rain like waterfalls and ice-cream on my worried mind.
I lay there in the puddle of myself
Fishing from a brand new wish from that bucket down the well.
And in her colors I find my faith,
Cause I remember every word that lady used to say.

She said that hearts can't break themselves
Looking for something, leaving with nothing
But souls can't save themselves
Learning to fly, sweet mother of mine!
Be a long home without you
It's just a long way home without you
Yeah, yeah!

That's my mother, like no other,
Made me human, made me brother
And it's swelling with blister for my sake and my sisters
The guardian of my karma, keep my feet on terrain firmer
And then release me like a scient to the sky!

She said that hearts can't break themselves
Looking for something, leaving with nothing
But souls can't save themselves
Learning to fly, sweet mother of mine!
It's just a long way home

Sister, you have some hungry eyes
And by back you're hypnotized
Smiling faces in disguise
By back you're hypnotized.
Keep going against the grain
And soon that's all, soon that's all you'll know
And soon that's all you'll know
And let's get this straight
Sometimes you'll rise, and there's time you'll fall
After all, you're just blood and bones
And you don't owe no one, oh
No, you don't owe no one
So don't live like one price is right,
Cause there is some things in your life that you can't fight!

She said that hearts can't break themselves
Looking for something, wind up with nothing
But souls can't save themselves
Learning to fly, sweet mother of mine!

She said that hearts can't break themselves
Looking for something, leaving with nothing
But souls can't save themselves
Learning to fly, learning to fly
She said that souls can't save themselves
Learning to fly, learning to fly
Oh souls can't save themselves
Learning to fly, learning to fly
Oh momma, how I love you!
Learning to fly, learning to fly
No momma, how I love you
Learning to fly, sweet mother of mine!

We're a long way home without you

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Cherry Blossom

I got this soul crow on my shoulder
The evil eyed leads a curious fight
And even angels can get caught in the end
With their halos round their throat

Must be something in the water
Part time lovin' on the primitive still
Two glass mantras on a hook, on a rail
Both trying to come together

You see me down on easy street,
Just trying to find my feet
Seems like I'm doing the same old shit
Over a different beat
Let hearts blow somewhere,
Where all the dark can't see
Alone and alive

Yeah, you should taste her majesty
My lil' cherry blossom
Just like a crow, it cut my throat
My lil' cherry blossom
My lil' cherry blossom

And all the rest seems circumstantial
Scattered cross a less predictable stage
Scrambled softly, they're all over your plate
I'll go and eat it all, like a

You see me down on easy street,
Just trying to find my feet
Seems like I'm doing the same old shit
Over a different beat
Let hearts blow somewhere,
Where all the dark can't see
Alone and alive

Yeah, you should taste her majesty
My lil' cherry blossom
Just like a crow, it cut my throat
My lil' cherry blossom
My lil' cherry blossom
Oh yeah now
She's all right now
Yeeeah
Yeeahh
Yeeahh

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Someone Like You

Someone like you wasn't meant to be defined
Or confined or even met eye to eye
Just there to be explored and then all the while adored
Someone like you, someone like you

Someone like you, is so beautifully designed
From the hands, all the way to the mind
Just there to be explored, and then all the while adored
Someone like you, someone like you

La la la la lalalalala
La lalalala