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Return to Cookie Mountain
by Tv On The Radio
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Overall Rating:
3.5597
Avg. Critic Score:
3.4213
Return to Cookie Mountain Lyrics
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- I was a lover, before this war
- held up in a luxury suite, behind a barricaded door
- now that I've cleaned up, gone legit
- I can see clearly: round hole
- round whole, square peg don't fit
- I'm locked in my bedroom, so send back the clowns
- my clone wears a brown shirt, and I seduce him when there's no one around
- mano y mano, on a bed of nails
- bring it on like a storm, till I knock the wind out of his sails
- And we don't make eye contact, when we have run-in's in town
- just a barely polite nod, and nervous stares towards the ground
- I once joined a priest class, plastic, inert
- in a slowdance with commerce
- like a lens up a skirt
- And we liked to party
- and we kept it live
- and we had a three volume tome of contemporary slang
- to keep a handle on all this jive
- Ennui unbridled, let's talk to kill the time
- how many styles did you cycle through before you were mine?
- and it's been a while since we went wild and that's all fine
- but we're sleepwalking through this trial
- and it's really a crime it's really a crime it's really a crime
- it's really criminal
- We're just busy tempting, like fate's on the nod
- running on empty, bourbon and god
- it's been a while since we knew the way
- and it's been even longer since our plastic priest class
- had a goddamned thing to say
- I was a lover before this war
- [Thanks to Allison (emotionsrhigh@mail.com) for these lyrics]
- You walked around, thought yourself beautiful
- Just too bad they stared, Just too bad they stared
- Broke up your crown, called you unusuable
- See how well you fared
- Stole underground, To kick your heart around
- Banished from above, banished from above
- Forgot yourself, Your home and shot your health
- Left it all for love
- And on their lips
- Delirious quips
- Last seen with friends wishing them well
- Delayed, seduced you listened for the truth
- Just too bad they lied, just too bad they lied
- O come around in form of future youth
- Summoned from the sky
- Ooo....[repeating]
- Ono Omode..[repeating]
- Refuse these cruel
- Unusual fools
- Leave them to rule
- In hallowpoint Hell
- You've much to do
- Now listen to the truth
- Cradled in a cry, cradled in a cry
- Your light'll shine
- Fire undisputable
- Keep your head on high
- Keep your head on high
- Oh walk around,
- Know your beautiful, aimless and alive
- Broken and divine
- O walk around know you are
- Future youth
- Summoned to the sky
- [Thanks to Allison (emotionsrhigh@mail.com) for these lyrics]
- Suddenly, all your history's ablaze
- Try to breathe, as the world disintegrates
- Just like autumn leaves, we're in for change
- Holding tenderly to what remains
- And all your memories, are as precious as gold
- And all the honey, and the fire which you've stole
- Have you running through all your red-cheeked days
- Shaking loose these souls, from their sacred hiding space
- Hold your heart courageously
- As we walk into this dark place
- Stand steadfast erect and see
- That love is the province of the brave
- Pushed under this expanse of bursting stars
- Let this burning brightly illuminate the where we are
- In this hollow that lovers' voices occupy
- Let it follow that we let it free, let it fly
- Breaking open the walls of this cage
- Intoxicated, Oh so amazed
- Much like falcons tumbling from the heights at play
- Conjoined, talons engaged
- Hold these hearts courageously
- As we walk into this dark place
- Stand steadfast beside me and see
- That love is the province of the brave
- [Thanks to Allison (emotionsrhigh@mail.com) for these lyrics]
- Playhouses
- Swept away by the river now
- Confounded
- Sound it out now
- Vodka cran in your hand and whose litte girl are you now?
- Oh I'd ask for this dance but I know you'd play like you don't know how
- What your coy smile exposes
- A recent memory of when we shit our bed of roses
- And I know the moon above is shining down
- But not for our love
- So for who?
- So for who?
- Beneath the cigarettes and sugar shit of alcohol breath
- I can taste the ocean of your tongue
- Remember when we sat on the sidewalk of your old block
- Against the wall under the stars
- Talking about love's meaning
- Well, I wasn't dreaming
- I meant every word
- Just didn't know your demons
- Do you know mine, babe?
- Are we wasting time, babe?
- Playhouses
- Haunted by
- Broken spirits
- Just trying to get high
- Well we chose this course but
- The weather changed
- And the river froze
- And when it thawed it was running
- Backwards and dry now
- I suppose it's appropriate to cry now
- Over wasted time
- And naked lies
- Still get wasted sometimes
- [Thanks to Allison (emotionsrhigh@mail.com) for these lyrics]
- Say say my playmate
- wont you lay hands on me
- mirror my malady
- transfer my tragedy
- Got a curse i cannot lift
- shines when the sunset shifts
- when the moon is round and full
- gotta bust that box gotta gut that fish
- My mind's aflame
- We could jet in a stolen car
- but i bet we wouldnt get too far
- before the transformation takes
- and bloodlust tanks and
- crave gets slaked
- My mind has changed
- my bodys frame but god i like it
- my hearts aflame
- my bodys strained but god i like it
- My mind has changed
- my bodys frame but god i like it
- my hearts aflame
- my bodys strained but god i like it
- Charge me your day rate
- ill turn you out in kind
- when the moon is round and full
- gonna teach you tricks that'll blow your
- mongrel mind
- baby doll i recognize
- you're a hideous thing inside
- if ever there were a lucky kind it's
- you you you you
- I know its strange another way to get to know you
- you'll never know unless we go so let me show you
- i know its strange another way to get to know you
- we've got till noon here comes the moon
- so let it show you
- show you now
- Dream me oh dreamer
- down to the floor
- open my hands and let them
- weave onto yours
- Feel me, completer
- down to my core
- open my heart and let it
- bleed onto yours
- Feeding on fever
- down all fours
- show you what all that
- howl is for
- Hey hey my playmate
- let me lay waste to thee
- burned down their hanging trees
- it's hot here hot here hot here hot here
- Got a curse we cannot lift
- shines when the sunshine shifts
- there's a cure comes with a kiss
- the bite that binds the gift that gives
- now that we got gone for good
- writhing under your riding hood
- tell your gra'ma and your mama too
- it's true
- we're howling forever
- [Thanks to Allison (emotionsrhigh@mail.com) for these lyrics]
- Beg the bee's forgiveness as it's falling from your sleeve
- Watch its guts pump poison into sting
- Watch it reach completeness, see it fall asleep
- Legs above fold in eternal dream
- Oh that calls to mind a joke, an off coloring
- About these fools blindfolded, drugged, and raped and left laughing
- They let the devil in, he brought his pirate friends
- They brought a hunger for blood, and flesh and bone and skin
- So teeth left chattering, and tongues flexed to sing
- Got dressed up in so many fancy things
- Is it a waste of time, please tell me if you mind
- Me dipping into useless sentimentality
- A rant on how things used to be when this shit was free
- I answered my own question, I can hear the crickets yawning
- But in the back pocket of a discarded pair of jeans
- Is still a priceless ticket to the grandest opening
- So when the chariot arrives, you'd best enjoy the ride
- Cause when we get to heaven's gate, we're not getting inside
- Better beg forgiveness
- Better drop to knees
- Better find your ticket
- Before we join the bees
- [Thanks to Allison (emotionsrhigh@mail.com) for these lyrics]
- Oh there is a murderess amongst us
- Her love is a violent spiral
- Hurling in upon us, conjured up
- At the birth of the world
- Durga is a dancer
- Mindless questions find no answers
- Slicing through the ether
- Yeah she's gleaming like mother of pearl
- Dirty little whirlwind
- Commander, controller
- I found you
- Dirty little whirlwind
- I am pinned by the heat of your swirl
- Dirty little whirlwind
- Defender, destroyer
- I found you
- Dirty little whirlwind
- Tangled up in the flesh of a girl
- Oh you could curl me beside you
- The spark in your eyes belies the Apocalypse inside you
- Twisting the pits from the particle
- Skull can't save face
- So shake the shame from it
- Burn me up inside you
- Let me churn in your furnace of whirl
- Dirty little whirlwind
- Commander, controller
- I found you
- Dirty little whirlwind
- I am pinned by the heat of your swirl
- Dirty little whirlwind
- Defender, destroyer
- I found you
- Dirty little whirlwind
- All caught up in the flesh of a girl
- All that I ever wanted to be was destroyed at sea
- Hurricane rescued me salvaged calamity
- Do not delay we stood in place for it
- Turn me up inside you
- Up and into the heart of your world
- [Thanks to Allison (emotionsrhigh@mail.com) for these lyrics]
- From the depths I called you, Ma
- For your breath and breast so warm and fabled
- Your hands reached inside
- Grabbed my heart, enlarged, disabled
- Hailed for your mercy
- An ear that cares
- How the blues sound from up there?
- With my wet hair, I wipe the blood off your feet
- Carry me through these shark infested waters
- Well you spared me from slaughter for sure,
- But these sharks are equally in need of a martyr
- Oh kindness shared
- Undeserved purest gift, this life you've spared
- How the blues sound from up there?
- Teeth gnashing, masticating this dumb tongue
- Quiet now, quiet now, hear that supplication
- Echo into the void
- Been received by no one
- Oh my sweet dear
- Cold alone poisoning ourselves
- Engulfed in our own tears
- Signed, blues from down here.
- Pull the pin, drop it in, let it wash away our
- Time for your favorite story
- Of how to achieve golden glory
- Wash yourself all squeaky clean
- All in white, all hallow's eve
- Lessen your desire,
- Hold your breath so patiently
- Never inquire how to be free
- Just stay on your knees
- You might doubt it
- Think there's nothing left for
- To do but stomp my feet
- And shout about it
- From the depths I called you
- Now I'm waiting for an answer patiently
- Stuck here at the bottom of this well
- It's not the last you've heard from me
- [Thanks to Allison (emotionsrhigh@mail.com) for these lyrics]
- My mind is like an orchard
- Clustered in frozen portraits
- Of blossoms that bloomed so fine
- Just to drop from the vine
- I've seen 'em all tonight
- Could keep it silent and tortured,
- Or shove it unto the floorboards
- A rusty heart starts to whine
- In its tell tale time
- So free it up tonight
- Life deals a measly portion
- Light on good friends and fortune
- It's chipped you away inside
- And drawn all your blinds
- Concealed it all from sight
- Could cut that final corner
- Charge the void no quarter
- Or skip to the final line of some
- Suicide note well publicized
- Or give it up tonight
- Kindly reverse the order
- Of the options you've laid before you
- The needle, the dirty spoon
- The flames and the fumes
- Just throw them out
- To Night
- The time that you've been afforded
- May go unsung unrewarded
- Some nameless you cannot know
- May be coming to show you
- Unbridled love and light
- Should you grow in an orchard
- Covered in dusty portraits
- Of blossoms that bloomed so fine
- Just to drop from the vine
- Oh, listen up tonight
- Don't keep it silent and tortured
- Or shove it unto the floorboards
- Your busted heart will be fine
- In its tell tale time
- So give it up tonight
- [Thanks to Allison (emotionsrhigh@mail.com) for these lyrics]
- Little flightless metal birds
- High above in limbless tree
- Echoes from their tiny box
- Ring out into the atmosphere
- Creating beauty inadvertently
- It was a technological feat
- This little bird
- Wading through the market's waste
- We locked eyes felt our loneliness abate
- True desire showed its face, but only momentarily
- Grey cascades in foreign waves
- Wash the day away
- I bought you flowers from the dying woods of Brazil
- This little bird
- While the kids burned down the greenhouse pushed the charred frame into the landfill
- Put his beak to the word
- We bought new bodies we bought diamond encrusted guns
- So who the hell are you?
- Making out so high in the backseat of a car-bomb under carcinogenic sun
- Grey cascades in foreign waves
- Wash the day away
- Grey cascades in foreign waves
- We did believe in magic we did believe
- We let our souls act as canaries
- Our hearts gilded cages be
- Watched a million dimming lanterns float out to sea
- Lay your malady at the mouth of the death machine
- Aeroplane odabo,
- Ba mi ki won lo odabo.
- Eko meji, o yo mi
- O yo mi
- O yo mi
- Grey cascades in foreign waves
- Wash the day away
- Grey cascades in foreign waves
- [Thanks to Allison (emotionsrhigh@mail.com) for these lyrics]
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