Imogen Heap - Sparks Album Lyrics

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You Know Where To Find Me

You know where to find me
When you're on your way out
All bustle and busy
Enough is enough
Because life's sweet assemblages
Equate to driftwood away
Be still with me

You know where to find me
For no particular reason
To stop traffic behavior
Or to get something off your chest
Cause we go a long way back
Back to nothing at all
Mmmmm
Be still with me

Oh-oh-ohhhhhhh
Won't you be-
Be still with me

You know where to find me
If you think it's all over
I can sense it a mile off
It's no friendly hello
You could be screaming drunk
Well I've got my bad days too
I'm gonna be here for you
Be still with me

In a public place, private thoughts
A reminder of a precious loss
(you can be a source of constant reassurance)
Let the breeze block sadness drop
Oh-oh-ohhhhhhhhhh
Won't you be-
Be still with me

[Vocalizations]

Don't mistake my charity
For what it is
Deem me into believing necessary
Don't mistake my open arms
For what it is
They can turn on you
So show me the money.
Show me the money.

Blue and green,
Fresh eyes on me
I'm young again
All things to mend with
Bite-size life boats
I'll fix your smashed up head

Be still with me
If you want
To be alone
If you'd rather die
Then tell
You'll know where I'll be
Where to find me
For high talk
To cut it off or bring it on
A proposal
If you're broken,
I'll be here,
I'll be here

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Entanglement

Here we are
Blood pressure rising fast
Air electric
Conduct this orchestra

A micro utopia born
As the overture plays
This prelude to life long love
Our bodies' entanglement take
You all over me
Me all over you

Fearless heart
I'm going to take care of you
Whether spark or spiral
I'll pull the strength of suns

It's home where you hold me
So show me no mercy
On islands of cotton
Taboos get forgotten
Our body entanglement wants
You all over me
Me all over you

Burst me into bloom I dare you to
Lose yourself in our embodiment
Ravage this palate of pinks and reds
Dissolve into radiance

It's home where you hold me
So show me no mercy
On islands of cotton
Taboos get forgotten
Our body entanglement wants
You all over me
Me all over you

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The Listening Chair

Cat, blue, piano
Are just some of the things I like
So the more that I see of them in my day
The better I sleep at night

Mum, dad, Giles, (Lizzie) and Juliet (Uncle James)
Are just some of the people I love
So the more of all them I can get in my day
The better I'll sleep at night

I can moonwalk, build castles, play ping pong, talk to animals,
hold my breath for a really long time...and tell the future
Are just six of the things I can do
And the more I can fit of these things in my day
The better I sleep at night
Ahhh, the better I sleep at night

Composer or maybe an astronaut
This is what I'm gonna be when I grow up
I know cuz I sing out all through the day
I fly through space by night
The teasing, the fighting, the hospitals
I don't wanna go anymore
I put a brave face on, battle through the day
But I might cry myself to sleep

Pinch, pinch, punch, punch
Dancing round the car park after lunch
Copy cats, gold stars, cola cubes for good marks
Shy type, show off
Your mom's got her masters, so what?
Swap stickers, best friends, knight rider
Whatcha tell the time again
Popular, blonde hair, all the pretty girls sit over there
Sister's in school, he's cool, our brother knows karate

What do I do to make you hate me so much?
Is it the clothes I wear? The way I speak?
Wonder bra thrown 'round the German classroom
You wouldn't understand
I'll never live it down
Hiding in the bushes
Or tip-toeing down the corridor
Stop it, you'll make me laugh
Why would I ever need to know this?
Somehow I'll get through
I never want this to end
This night, this music, with you in my arms
Switch in to the real world
No idea what I'm doing
But here it goes (there she goes)

I've found the place, feels like home
But I caught you kissing her
So suddenly I'm on my own
There's just not enough hours in the day
Things are going great, I can't complain
When I stumble to bed, I sleep like a baby
Finding my feet
Make love, make money, make a difference
Finding my feet
Connect (connect)
Finding my feet
Make love, make money, make a difference
How d'you do that again?
Connect together

I find myself gazing out of the window for no reason
When did I stop eating bread... and cheese? I love cheese
I want to have children,
But I don't want to have children, you know?
Something nibbling, a feeling I can't quite explain (A question)
Online, offline, like I'm not really here (A choir)
Awake or sleeping, somehow can't tell the difference (A question)
Bright light outside, dark deep down within

It's a cover up, it was a cover up operation all along
Honing in, I'm honing in on the heart of it all
Toughen up, I've got to toughen up
Coz I'm breaking it all apart
What's at the heart
What's at the heart of it all?

Who am I now?
Who am I now?

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Cycle Song

[Instrumental]

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Telemiscommunications

Hey babe, how's your day been?
No, you first..
Oh.. what? The delay's quite bad
Yeah, sorry..
Where are you, I can't really hear you
A taxi distracted..
Anyway you.. You were saying?
Wait, uh..
Now they're waving me over
Can I call you back?
Yeah, everything's fine
Why am I.. I don't know why
I probably just need sleep
It's been a busy week
Sorry, I've got to go
So, ok.. bye

This is just so unlike us
Cut back to horizontalisms
If we could win just one small touch
Contact versus tele-miscommunications

Plan foiled
The sirens pass by
Kids screaming
The longest public announcement
Reach check-in, finally got through
Running for a flight, shoes off
You're calling voicemail
In joke, group laughter
Closing scenes in a meeting
Angel (angel) why didn't you tell me?
One second, someone needs directions
Can't you see I'm on the phone?

This is just so unlike us
Cut back to horizontalisms
If we could win just one small touch
Contact versus tele-miscommunications

So unlike us (unlike us)
Cut back to horizontalisms
If we could win just one small touch
Contact versus tele-miscommunications

Did I tell you I loved you today?
Did I tell you I loved you today?
(kiss kiss)
Did I tell you I loved you today?
Did I tell you I loved you today?
Did I tell you I loved you today?
Did I tell you I loved you today?
(kiss kiss)
Did I tell you I loved you today?
Did I tell you I loved you today?

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Lifeline

Freeze frame on me
Mmm, can you read it on my face?
Data mining from old memories

Sunflowers and a smile catching
Mmm, welcoming a heartbeat to the family
Light tie lanterns, wish bound in the night

Who? What? When?
All in one stir of a teaspoon
I'm shaken and gasping for air

Lifeline, before and after
in an instant of great white gravity
Hold tight, 'cause all is against me
Every cell in my body, brace,
and keep breathing,
keep breathing

Gracious future,
Mmm, won't you lend a hand to pull me through?
'Cause me and you've got some things we need to see to

Adventures in the multiverse
effervescent candlelit closeness
Plus, I feel like I've just got the hang of this living thing

Who? What? When?
All in one stir of a teaspoon
I'm shaken and gasping for air, air, air, air

I will, on one day,
and sometime, in some place,
I've still got some go in me yet

Lifeline, before and after
in an instant of great white gravity
Hold tight, 'cause all is against me
Every cell in my body, brace

Rise high, cling to the laughters
for that moment of broken tragedy
Bright-eyed, the world is against me
Every cell in my body, brace,
and keep breathing,
keep breathing,
still breathing

My bones stay strong,
my days, still long,
my heart has many heartbeats,
and home is where love is

Lifeline, before and after
in an instant of great white gravity
Hold tight, 'cause all is against me
Every cell in my body, brace

Rise high, cling to the laughters
for that moment of broken tragedy
Bright-eyed, the world is against me
Every cell in my body, brace,
and keep breathing
keep breathing
keep breathing
keep breathing
keep breathing
keep...

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Neglected Space

Hello
I watch you come and go
I know you can hear my voice
Don't walk away
Come daydream with me
In closed loops and future-proof cardboard to caviar.
Let's show them how good we are.
If you look after me, I'll look after you.

Sonar, night vision or desperate lovers
Seeking privacy for their forbidden...
I am their defenseless host.
Through my open wounds they let themselves in.
Sheltered (sheltered), they mock me (they mock me).

If you stand up for me, I'll stand up for you.

I'm weather-beaten in a losing battle punctured by nature, becoming organic
The air in here ages me, ungracefully!
But if you take care of me, I'll take care of you.

Oh, my crumbling heart!
If you'll be good to me,
I'll be good to you.

I'm amidst:
I could be the best decision you ever made, a beacon, your peaceful corner.
Find me, cherish me, take me on or pull me down. You choose.
Wait!

Oh, safe in the ache of soul-decay!
Cause I will remember you - will you remember me?

Bespoke to broken, this interwoven tapestry of tragedy,
Crooked frames and cracked glazing
Slithers of wistful window gazes glint in borrowed light.

Where doorways with no door stage a ballet of leaves,
Who pirouette in the footsteps of once glorious days...

By peeling paint, I'm a sunken ceiling,
I'm cracking up, and can seem threatening.

I'm falling apart.

I'm scary at night.
Take dark, forbidden: keep out, keep out! No, no, no go forth.

A has-been, a once was, the leftovers, an eyesore, bleeding, oxidising,
A few remaining, unloved, emotionally damaged, a waste of space,
A nuisance, I haven't had time to become, unwanted!
What's gone? I'm losing it
This is not what I stand for
This is not what I stand for
This is not what I stand for

It was a perfectly good grand piano.

Stop in the name of love! I've got just what you're looking for!
I've got tree-lined interiors, where we can dine with the biosphere.

If you'll take care of me, I'll take care of you.
If you be good to me, then I'll be good to you.

Oh... I'm a story in mourning, and you're the author
So pour out your masterpiece.

Entropy increasing, how long before I'm dust?

Can we discuss?

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Minds Without Fear

Naseeba

Nearly every inch of us on the line
Plucking on the string of everything
That could have been
Such unrest future
Just factors of our lives
Tham ja murh ja naseeba

Kahaan le aaye naseeba

If you move like lightning
Charging through the angry skies
And intercept on the arrow of time

Kahaan le aaye naseeba

But we just might make this up
With our heads held high
So this story continues with
Minds without fear

Baadal lehraaye maat ka jo

Ban jaa bijli baadal ko cheer tu

Rooh ko kar de yun roshan
Bas mushqil hai naamumkin toh nahi

Ban jaa bijli naseeba

Kahaan le aaye Naseeba

If you move like lightning
Charging through the angry skies
And intercept on the arrow of time

Kahaan le aaye naseeba

But we just might make this up
With our heads held high
So this story continues with
Minds without fear

Jhi jhi re jhi jhi re jhi jhi re jhi jhi re
jhi jhi re jhi jhi re jhi [x4]

Kahaan le aaye Naseeba

If you move like lightning
Charging through the angry skies
And intercept on the arrow of time

Kahaan le aaye naseeba

But we just might make this up
With our heads held high
So this story continues with
Minds without fear

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Me, The Machine

A blip in the algorithm
A break in the clouds
Soft circuits, jumping. Soft circuits, jumping.
The pincodes of happiness
Access denied
Switching to manual, switching to manual

Oh, to share a scent of that sweet summer breeze
A love for a squeeze
How can you teach me these things
Me, the machine can dream

An acquaintance with benefits
A work in progress
Downloading romance, downloading romance
Relationship asterisk
This footnote's in plain text
Marking your words, marking your words

Oh, to share a scent of that sweet summer breeze
A love for a squeeze
How can you teach me these things
Me, the machine can dream

I can't do everything
I'll get over it
Trigger, point, trip
On top, pilot
Over my job
See, stop

Oh, a scent in a sweet summer breeze
A love for a squeeze
How can you teach me these things
Me, the machine can dream
Me, the machine can dream
Me, the machine can dream

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Run-Time

Sparkss might fly, in no time.
It's a delayed reaction of the third kind. (ooh)
I'm so ready for this.
Shrink-wrapped tones, I can face the music.
Stop matters bonding us way beyond
Our best by-days.

You know we've had it good, we've had it bad, so no hard feelings.
We've done all we could and all again. I'm done pretending.
Let's quit while we're still friends.

Making up stories that grew to be too tall,
My fortress to forget couldn't take anymore.
You nearly watched me ruin everything, everything!
There's a number one rule of don't-do's.
Well we knew it all too well.
You were supposed to be looking out for me!
Have you any idea how difficult it's been?

You know we've had it good, we've had it bad, so no hard feelings.
We've done all we could, and all again. Let's save ourselves a sorry ending.
You know we've had it good, we've had it bad, but this is as far as we can stretch.
Let's stop pretending, stop pretending.
And quit while we're still friends
[x2]

Well I was so young, misguided maybe.
But still this hands over my every pen to paper.
And this all started with a song.
Let this be our last one.
Drop, drop. Bridge, bridge!

We've had it good, we've had it bad, but this is as far as we can stretch.
Stop pretending!
And quit while we're still friends.

I wish you well.
I wish you well... (I wish you well, wish you well, wish you well)

Wish you well, I wish you well, I won't tell if you won't tell.
I won't hold it against you if you bow out gracefully. (gracefully)
Can we just not drag this out, please?
I wish you well, I wish you well, I won't tell if you won't tell.
I won't hold it against you if you bow out gracefully, (do it gracefully!)
Can we just not drag this out?

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Climb To Sakteng

[Instrumental]

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The Beast

Gently as we go, gently as we go
Steady as we go, steady as we go

I can sense in opening the front door as we came in
You were burning a hole in my back
Can we turn this around from where we lost you in the evening
Before things get out of hand
One by one eyes go optic, we're becoming the beast
Shear power and the heat of hate brings our army of two to its knees
Steel lungs are shouting the house down, going for the kill from the kiss
Battle stations are now navigation, have we driven love to this?

Gently as we go, gently as we go
Steady as we go, steady as we go

All fired up, you're a hot mess getting messier
I'd do anything for sleep
But I can think of far better ways to waste your energy
If you can bare to still touch me
One by one skin hardens, we're becoming the beast
Shear power in the heat of hate brings our army of two to its knees
Steel lungs are screaming the house down, going for the kill from the kiss
Battle stations are now navigation, have we driven love to this?

Have we left, have we left the building?
Did we die a little death?
Is this the end of the road for us, no more bridges for us to burn left?
Do we finally find ourselves at the point of no return?

One by one, we're becoming the beast
Sheer power in the heat of hate brings our army to its knees
Steel lungs are shouting the house down, going for the kill from the kiss
Battle stations are now navigation, have we driven love to this?

Gently as we go, gently as we go
Steady as we go, steady as we go

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Xizi She Knows

We come to your shores over misty millennia
From hustlers to emperors
For power and pleasure
We carve through the cars
Dance around the Daily News
Cue in the Grande ballabile
Even your ten-ton tone rings home for Marco Polo

Slow down
From a thread of sky
Slow down
To the warp and weft your being
Slow down
You're beautiful, graceful, like no other
Pretty damned good as you are

Slow down
Friend of mine
Slow down
In a terrible hurry for change
Slow down
As you unravel your marvels
From evergreen gardens
Remember we loved you this way

To treasure it all, scroll out to see
In gold, fire, wood, clay and water
Your structure and flow, adagio to allegro
With leaves to the tide
In full moon, plum blossom, we salute to you

Slow down
From a thread of sky
Slow down
To the warp and weft of your being
Slow down
Dynamic and playful, you opened my eyes yeah
You're pretty damned good as you are

Slow down
Friend of mine
Slow down
Could you go for progression not pace
Slow down
As you unravel your marvels
Don't lose them all on the way

Mantoshan

Slow down
From a thread of sky
Slow down
To the warp and weft of your being
Slow down
You're beautiful, graceful, like no other
Pretty damned good as you are

Slow down
Friend of mine
Slow down
You're in a terrible hurry to change
Slow down
Unravel your marvels, from evergreen gardens
Remember we loved you this way

Whoa, to the warp and weft of your being
You're beautiful, graceful, like no other
P-p-pretty damned good as you are

Xizi she knows that once it's gone, then it's gone
Xizi she knows that once it's gone, then it's gone
Xizi she knows that once it's gone
Then it's gone.

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Propeller Seeds

Propeller seeds
Corridor scene
Talk on, walk out.
It took me a minute, my mind was on other things
Oh, you got me at "Paris"�
I must be coming down with something to be thinking this

What's happening here?
I'm growing roots through my toes
And leaves from my fingertips

Unfold
Where does this story go?
Queue, food
Drink up
Continue

We float in tandem, past name tags and shaking hands
Immune to the hubbub of others
We're deep in discussion, the party's on mute.
(Oh woah, oh woah)
Our bubble's got it covered
(Ooh...)
You want me, well you've got me
It doesn't have to be today
I can't believe I said that out loud

What's happening here?
I'm growing roots through my toes
And leaves from my fingertips

I'm falling
What does this story know?
Wedding rings, children
Are all the good ones taken?
Rickshaw, disco
Goodnight kiss
Oh, cold shower

Call me for sweet... dreams of him
Where does this story go?
(Whoa whoa)
What does this story know?
(Whoa whoa)
What does this story hold... for us?