Retrospective Design

Marilyn

See your face at night
Touch you black and white
You’re a silver screen
Visual balladry
Wanna move in the dark
Play the part
Put your star in me
Visual balladry

Holding you I’m touching a star
Turnin’ into a Marilyn
Leanin’ out of your big car
Holding you I’m touching a star
Stay the night if you think you know
Think you know what you’re good for

See your face at night
In forever light
You’re a silver beam
Visual balladry
On a move in the dark
Play the part
Put your star in me
Visual balladry

Holding you I’m touching a star
Turnin’ into a Marilyn
Leanin’ out of your big car
Holding you I’m touching a star
Stay the night if you think you know
Think you know what you’re good for

© Bat For Lashes: Marilyn

All Your Gold

Never see the big church steeple when I call you on the phone
Never feel the rush of angels, when we stay up late alone
Never whisper you a great love story, only scream and cry and moan
But you’re a good man, but you’re a good man
I keep telling myself to just let go
Oh, let go of the one who took all your gold

I get home and there’s a love note waiting
But only he is here tonight
And the words, the promises you’re making
Only echo all these lies
And for every sweet nothing you whisper
Why is goodbye my reply?
‘Cos you’re a good man, ‘cos you’re a good man
I keep telling myself to just let go

There was someone that I knew before
A heart from the past that I cannot forget
I let him take all my gold, and hurt me so bad
But now for you, I have nothing left of all my gold

Stare my heart blank, am I ever gonna let him go? Get my gold back
And today I was a dead girl walking, see the light burn through tears
Heard you say my name and get to talking of the love and all the fears
And you saw all the pain I was holding, and yet still you’d hold me near
‘Cos you’re a good man, ‘cos you’re a good man,
I keep telling myself to just let go

There was someone that I knew before,
A heart from the past, that I cannot forget
I let him take all my gold, and hurt me so bad
But now for you, I have nothing left

‘Cos there was someone that I knew before
A heart from the past, that I cannot forget
I let him take all my gold, and hurt me so bad
But now for you, I have nothing left of all my gold

© Bat For Lashes: All Your Gold

Rest Your Head

Come on and rest your head
And I’ll protect you
You’ve been running too far
Strullin’ for fear
You’ve gotta stop sometime soon

Pushing through barriers and pushing through seas
And a witch will come for you
You’ve been running up hills and running too slow
I just keep on running, keep on running
Look what you find, look what you find

Come on and rest your head
And I will protect you
Come now, come on and rest your head
You’ve gotta stop sometime soon

Your power’s so strong and if you don’t know why
There’s deeper knowing in that big old sky
Could see in the wrong place at the right time
I just keep on running, keep on running
Stick to the spars

Come on and rest your head
And I will protect you
Come now, come on and rest your head
You’ve gotta stop sometime soon

© Bat For Lashes: Rest Your Head

Siren Song

Are you my family?
Can I stay with you a while?
Can I stop off in your bed tonight?
I could make you smile.

In the morning I’ll make you breakfast
in the evening I’ll warm the bed.
And I’ll always be happy to kiss you
Promise I’ll never get sad.
‘Til the siren come calling, calling
It’s driving me evil, evil.

Momma was a heartbreaker
Loved you the same way I do.
But I’ve got so much wickedness and sin.

My name is Pearl
and I love you the best way I know how
My blonde curls slice through your heart.
And the siren come calling
In the night
Until you leave.

Help you dress yourself up fancy
and bathe you when you get sore
I’ll be good
I think I could be all you would want and more and more.
Be proud when you dazzle the wondrous
Glitter your eyes for the town
Tell every last boy that you’re my man
I’ll try not to let you down.

‘Til the siren come calling, calling
It’s driving me evil, evil.
Momma was a heartbreaker
Loved you the same way I do.
But I’ve got so much wickedness and sin.

My name is Pearl
and I love you the best way I know how
My blonde curls slice through your heart.

And the stars are exploding the lights
It won’t be long until you’ll be mine
No, it won’t be long ‘til you break
It won’t be long until you break
It won’t be long until you leave
cause I’m evil, evil…

© Bat For Lashes: Sleep Alone

Good Love

In the night time we are found
Misty sorrow swoop unbound
Whisper you mean it, say you’ll stay
Hold my heart till brighter days

Now I am searching how to get alone
This queen of heart’s dancing on her throne
But I need sorrow, baby, life’s sorrow is the drug
So will I ever find that place they call good love?

Good love
Passed it last night in a dream
Good love
And my heart caught fire

I drove past true love once, in a dream
Like a house that caught fire, it burned and flamed
Then the magician disappeared as quickly as he came
And with a sound like white magic caught in a black car’s blazing trail

The house set fire to my heart
Like an inferno we shone rays
I swallowed the sun in your form

I woke up and you were crying
I woke up and you were saying

Good love
Passed it last night in a dream
Good love
Cause my heart caught fire

Good love
Passed it last night in a dream
Good love
Cause my heart caught fire

© Bat For Lashes: Good Love