Текст песни Lumineers - The Lumineers (album)

The Lumineers

1. Flowers in Your Hair
2. Classy Girls
3. Submarines
4. Dead Sea
5. Ho Hey
6. Slow it Down
7. Stubborn Love
8. Big Parade 
9. Charlie Boy
10. Flapper Girl
11. Morning Song

1. Flowers in Your Hair

When we were younger

We thought everyone was on our side

Then we grew a little
And romanticized the time I saw
Flowers in your hair
Takes a boy to live
Takes a man to pretend he was there

So then we grew a little
Knew a lot

And now we demonstrated it to the cops
And all the things we said
We were self assured
It's a long road to wisdom
It's a short one to being ignored

Be in my eye
Be in my heart
Be in my eye, eyeyeye
Be in my heart

So now I think that I could love you back

And I hope its not too late

'Cause you're so attractive
And the way you move
I won't close my eyes
Takes a man to live
Takes a woman to make him compromise

Be in my eye
Be in my heart
Be in my eye, eyeyeye
Be in my heart

2. Classy Girls

Capo 5

Well, she was standing in the bar
I said, "Hello, how do you do?"
She handed me a beer with a kangaroo

She spoke of places I had never
That she had travelled to
And we slowed danced along to faster tunes

I made her laugh, I made a pass, I showed her my half dollar ring

She said, "That's pretty cool,
But classy girls don't kiss in bars, you fool"

So later on the crowd calmed down
And I believe it was as if
Something drew me closer to her lips

So picture my surprise when 
I had tried to lean in for a kiss
And she just smiled and turned her head down

I asked her, "Why?" and she replied,
"It was nothing I was doing wrong, its just what it is"
No, classy girls don't kiss in bars like this

No, classy girls don't kiss in bars
Boys will break their backs and hearts
But its alright, the hardest part is through
Oh through
Oh Oh
Hardest Part

3. Submarines

I believe submarines
Underneath deep blue seas
Saw the flags: Japanese
No one will believe me

Ran back to the town bar and
I told the people how
I had seen the submarine and
Everyone laughed aloud 

               x2  

I did spy a periscope
Dead of night on the eastern coast
The police made them jokes
Told me I'd seen a ghost

Everyone thinks I'm a liar
No one knows the truth
If it was a bigger fire
I would be on the roof

               x4

Ships will rust in Baldwin Bay
No one trusts what I say
Oh my God, no one paid
Overnight my hair turned gray

In the end it boils down 
to credibility
I have none, so I will die 
with the secrets of the sea

               x2

             Submarine...

4. Dead Sea

I stood alone, upon the platform in vain
Puerto Ricans they were playing me salsa in the rain
With open doors and manual locks
In fast food parking lots

I headed West, I was a man on the move

New York had lied to me, I needed the truth
Oh, I need somebody, needed someone I could trust
I don't gamble, but if I did I would bet on us

Like the Dead Sea
You told me I was like the Dead Sea
You'll never sink when you are with me
Oh Lord, like the Dead Sea
Whoa, I'm like the Dead Sea
The finest words you ever said to me
Honey can't you see,
I was born to be, be your Dead Sea

You told me you were good at running away
Domestic life, it never suited you like a suitcase
You left with just the clothes on your back
You took the rest when you took the map

Yes, there are times we live for somebody else

Your father died and you decided to live
It for yourself you felt, you just felt it was time
And I'm glad, cause you with cats, that's just not right

Like the Dead Sea
You told me I was like the Dead Sea
You'll never sink when you are with me
Oh Lord, like the Dead Sea
Whoa, I'm like the Dead Sea
The nicest words you ever said to me
Honey can't you see,
I was born to be, be your Dead Sea

I been down, I been defeated
     You're the message I was heeding
     Would you stay,
Would you stay the night?

Like the Dead Sea
You told me I was like the Dead Sea
You'll never sink when you are with me
Oh Lord, I'm your Dead Sea

Whoa, I'm like the Dead Sea
The nicest words you ever said to me
Honey can't you see,
I was born to be, be your Dead Sea

5. Ho Hey

I've been trying to do it right
I've been living the lonely life
I've been sleeping here instead
I've been sleeping in my bed
I've been sleeping in my bed

So show me family
And all the blood that I will bleed
I don't know where I belong
I don't know where I went wrong
But I can write a song.

I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweetheart
I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweet

I don't think you're right for him
Think of what it might've been if you
Took a bus to Chinatown
I'd be standing on Canal...and Bowery
And she'd be standing next to me

I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweetheart
I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweetheart

And love, we need it now
Let's hope for some
Cuz oh, we're bleeding out

I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweetheart
I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweet

6. Slow it Down
Capo 1

I feel a filth in my bones
Wash off my hands till it's gone
Your walls they're closing in
With velvet curtains

Some love was made for the lights
Some kiss your cheek and goodnight
Lift up a red high heel
Lock up your doors with steel

You're making noise in my street
My blinds are drawn, I can't see
Smashed in my car window
Didn't touch the stereo

Slow it down
And you come back to bed
Rest your arms and rest your legs

Act like you've been here before
Smile less and dress up some more
Tie up your scarf real tight
These boys are out for blood tonight

Slow it down
And you come back to bed
Rest your arms and rest your legs

And when she stood she stood tall
She'll make a fool of you all
Don't ask for cigarettes
She ain't got nothing left for you

I never, she never, we never look back
That wasn't what we were good at
And when it came to love
We were not good enough for it

Slow it down
And you come back to bed
Rest your arms and rest your legs

Don't you frown when you're feeling like that
Only love can pick you out of this

7. Stubborn Love

She'll lie and steal and cheat, and beg you from her knees
And make you thinks she means it this time
She'll tear a hole in you, the one you can't repair 
But I still love her, I don't really care 

When we were young, Oh Oh, we did enough
When it got cold, Ooh Ooh, we bundled up
I cant be told, Ah Ah It cant be done

It's better to feel pain, than nothing at all
The opposite of love's indifference
Pay attention now, I'm standing on your porch screaming out
And I wont leave until you come downstairs

So keep your head up, keep your love
keep your head up, my love 
keep your head up, my love 
Keep your head up, keep your love

I don't blame ya dear for running like you did, all these years
I would do the same, your best believe
The highway signs say we're close, but I don't read those things anymore
I never trusted my own eyes

When we were young, Oh Oh, we did enough
When it got cold, Ooh Ooh, we bundled up
I cant be told, Ah Ah It cant be done

So keep your head up, keep your love
keep your head up, my love 
keep your head up, my love 
Keep your head up, keep your love

8. Big Parade 

Capo 4

Lovely girl won't you stay, won't you stay, stay with me

All my life I was blind, I was blind, now I see
Lovely girl won't you stay, won't you stay, stay with me
All my life I was blind, I was blind, now I see

Fleet of black, fleet of black limousines
These tinted machines, here comes the cavalcade
With the armoured cars, armoured cars like Berettas
Flags on antennae designed to keep me safe, keep me safe

And oh my my oh hey hey
Here he comes, the candidate
Blue eyed boy, united states
Vote for him, the candidate

Diamonds cut, diamonds cut for the carrots
Plaster of Paris, the floats fill up the street
And the beauty queens, beauty queens with the white gloves
All sick from the night clubs, they wave with pageantry, pageantry

Oh my my oh hey hey
Here it comes, the big parade
Marching bands and barricades
Make way, for the big parade

Canvas covered, canvas covered in resin
The violent men who dance the blood ballet
And the bookies say, bookies say it's the 3rd round
Oh when Louie will go down, if he don't there's hell to pay, and hell to 
raise

And oh my my oh hey hey
Here he comes, the welterweight
Take a dive, for goodness sake
Or say goodbye to the welterweight

Catholic priest, catholic priest in a crisis
He's torn between romance and Jesus, who will win the civil war
And he says I'm in love, I'm in love with a woman
Yea this is my confession, I'm leaving I can't a priest anymore, anymore

And oh my my oh hey hey
There he goes, the man of faith
Left the church for a fiancé
Let him love, the man of faith

TV. cameras, TV. cameras and stage hands
American bandstand, electric guitars
And he's singin songs, singin songs for the lonely
All the girls with the room keys, they know all his words by heart, by heart

and they all sing

Lovely girl won't you stay, won't you stay, stay with me
All my life I was blind, I was blind, now I see
Lovely girl won't you stay, won't you stay, stay with me
All my life I was blind, I was blind, now I see
Lovely girl won't you stay, oh oh ohoh

Oh my my oh hey hey
Here she comes by saving grace
Burn the car and save the plates
She's arrived, my saving grace

9. Charlie Boy

Charlie boy, don't go to war, first born in forty-four
Kennedy made him believe we could do much more

Lillian, don't hang your head, love should make you feel good
In uniform you raised a man, who volunteered to stand

Play the bugle, play the taps and
Make your mothers proud
Raise your rifles to the sky boys
Fire that volley loud

News was bad on Upland Ave, my touch and mourn our loss
Sons rebelled, while fathers yelled, 
and mothers clutched the cross

Play the bugle, play the taps and
Make your mothers proud
Raise your rifles to the sky boys
Fire that volley loud

10. Flapper Girl

Cut off all of your hair
Did you flinch, did you care
Did he look, did he stop and stare
At your brand new hair

Local boy, local news
Power lines hanging boots
Firemen in their trucks cut loose
A local boy's shoes

Cadillac, Cadillac
Businessmen dressed in slacks
Imma buy one for us when I get back
A big Cadillac

And you can wave to all of your friends
And I'll never leave you again

Would you write, would you call back baby if
I wrote you a song
I've been gone, but you're still my lady and
I need you at home

Romeo, Juliet
Balcony in silhouette
Making O's with her cigarette
Is Juliet

Flapper girl, flapper girl
Prohibition in curls
Hair of gold and a neck of pearls
Is flapper girl

And you can wave to all of your friends
And I'll never leave you again

Would you write, would you call back baby if
I wrote you a song
I've been gone, but you're still my lady and
I need you at home

Cause if you ain't behind my door
Then I ain't got a home anymore

Would you write, would you call back baby if
I wrote you a song
I've been gone, but you're still my lady and
I need you at home

Lovers come, lovers go, lovers leave me alone
She'll come back to me

11. Morning Song

The carbonation in my drink
The bubbles rise while my heart sinks
And I'll I tend to do is think of you

Was it easier to pack your bags
And book that flight to Paris as
The plane began to move that afternoon

When all the trains have pulled away
From local stations in decay
It's I who waits, it's you who's late again

And did you think of me when you made love
To him, was it the same as us
Or was it different, it must have been

And all the pretty dames
They'll hug and kiss you all the same
And when they go, they're gone
They're not running late
Oh all, all the pretty dames

And the kids you hold in your arms
With promises to protect them from harm
But they grow, and they go
And you're all alone
All the kids, all the kids that you hold

And it's a shame that it ends this way
With nothing left to say
So just sit on your hands, while I walk aw-ay
It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame
When my hands begin to shake
When bitterness is all I taste
And may car won't stop
Cause I cut the brakes
I hold on to a hope in my fate

Oh oh ah ah hey hey
May you return to love one day
Well I hope and I pray
You get what you gave