Retrospective Design

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

Daniel

Daniel, when I first saw you
I knew that you had a flame in your heart
And under wild blue skies
Marble movie skies
I found a home in your eyes
We’ll never be apart

And when the fires came
The smell of cinders and rain
Perfumed almost everything
We laughed and laughed and laughed

And in the golden blue
Crying took me to
The darkest place you knew
And set fire to my heart

When I run in the dark, Daniel
To a place that’s vast, Daniel
Under a sheet of rain in my heart, Daniel
I dream of home

But in a goodbye bed
With my arms around your neck
Into our mouths the tears crept
Just kids in the eye of the storm

And as my house spun round
My dreams pulled me from the ground
Forever to search for the flame
For home again
For home again

When I run in the dark, Daniel
Into a place that’s vast, Daniel
Under a sheet of rain in my heart, Daniel
I dream of home

When I run in the dark, Daniel
Into a place that’s vast, Daniel
Under a sheet of rain in my heart, Daniel
I dream of home

© Bat For Lashes: Daniel