electronic :: songs

(electronic)

upside down

i’m here alone all by myself with no-one else
i need someone to share these thoughts about myself
i don’t know who i can trust
this picture is starting to rust

and as i press upon myself a form of torture
i write these words for someone else, just like an author
i don’t know who i can trust
i don’t know who i can trust

everybody won’t you come with me
we’ll take a ride across the sea
when we get there, if we don’t drown
i’ll turn your whole life upside down

and later on with each illegal breath i take
i lose resistance for an instant to my fate
how i’ll miss you when you are gone, oh yeah
i’m a number lower than one

i’m on my own, i think this stuff is getting stronger
i’m wide awake and i can’t take it any longer
how i’ll miss you when you are gone
i’m a number lower than one

everybody won’t you come with me
help me find what i can’t see
i’m sick of crawling along the ground
help me turn my world around

everybody won’t you come with me
everybody come with me
if i don’t find what i’ve come for
you won’t see me anymore

sometimes it’s hard just to find some peace of mind
it feels like i am going crazy almost all of the time
and if we can’t live this way, then what will i do
like my father and my mother i’m depending on you

you’ve got to fight just to keep your peace of mind
you’ve got to hold on tight, don’t cross that line
sometimes i cry like a baby when i look outside
i’m on a losing streak, driving through moss side

like the river deep or the ocean wide
like the river deep or the ocean wide
like the river deep or the ocean wide
there’s a crack in the wall but i just can’t hide

album version—5:11
alternative mix—5:22
uncut edit—5:10

vivid
twisted tenderness
twisted tenderness::deluxe

twisted tenderness hits its stride early on with this heady, confident rock song, which brings together sumner’s recurring themes of isolation, ambivalence and resolution into one intoxicating whole. the poetic strength of the words is indicative of the whole album: there is much more lyrical purpose and inspiration on twisted tenderness than on its occasionally overwrought predecessor. listen to it loud.