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Afterlife Blues

by Fast Romantics

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1.
Friends 03:32
Out in the crowd there’s a point of light on your telephone that shines like a star in the night all the planets spin around on a sheet of glass I tap my finger on your shoulder but you can’t look back No one in the world will ever love you like I do No one in the world will ever love you like I do All them little fireflies buzz around your head I know all them pretty boys’ll take you home instead Oh, but no one in the world will ever love you like I do No one in the world will ever love you like I do And if I’ve been cruel I didn’t mean to offend And if I have lied I only meant to pretend If you feel sad I didn’t intend And if I left you alone It’s ‘cause I am your friend I am your friend I am your friend I am your friend Yes I am No one in the world will ever love you like I do No one in the world will ever love you like I do No one in the world will ever love you like I do No one in the world will ever love you like I do I am your friend I’ll be your friend
2.
Funeral Song 04:45
I just got back from your funeral you were lying on a sheet with some strange man standing over you as though he knew you more than me But you’ve still got that body and you can dress it up in black but when I look at you you don’t look back When I saw you at the spaceship door they were calling you aboard from all the people at your funeral I couldn’t take you anymore But you’ve still got that body and you’ll remind us all of that but when I look at you you don’t look back I would rather give my heart to the traveling band I set out to sail the moon and all that I found was sand I would rather hold your heart in my two hands I set out to sail the moon and I came back a lonely man I would rather give my heart to the traveling band I set out to sail the moon and all that I found was sand I would rather hold your heart in my two hands I set out to sail the moon and I came back so lonely I just got back from your funeral you were lying on a sheet with some strange man standing over you as though he knew you more than me But you’ve still got that body and you’ve reminded me of that but when I look at you you don’t look back when I look at you you don’t look back when I look at you you don’t look back
3.
I’ll turn a light on for you I’ll turn a light on for you, darlin’ From up here it makes me feel so small From up here it makes you seem so small I’ll turn a light on for you ‘Cause I would do anything to see you I would hold you like a bedroom wall I would hold you like a bedroom wall ‘til there’s nothing left to hold at all I got the afterlife blues I got the afterlife blues I got the afterlife blues I got the afterlife blues can’t you hear the news? I got the afterlife blues And all the words I’m savin’ up for you All the mixed up things I did not do All the mixed up love I gave to you All the things I learned for heaven’s sake All the millions that I could not take All the millions that I could not take that I worked myself to death to make I got the afterlife blues I got the afterlife blues I got the afterlife blues I got the afterlife blues for every stone inside my shoes I got the afterlife blues I got the afterlife blues I got the afterlife blues I got the afterlife blues I got the afterlife blues
4.
Take Me Back 04:18
Take me back back to any time before I felt the fear back to any place before I wound up here I don’t know the road I took I didn’t follow no map take me back oh, take me back Take me back and I’ll pretend that I don’t know where I have been I’ll forget about the wonders I have seen I’ll just remember how you looked when the sky went black take me back oh, take me back You always said that you would take me back like in some ancient black and white you always said that you would take me back well, I’m gonna take you back tonight I never stole your heart I didn’t steal your heart You know I came by your heart honestly Oh, take me back It’s all black there ain’t a morning I don’t wake up without a bell ain’t no moment I ain’t wired up in a cell ain’t no place that I can look without the clickity-clack take me back oh, take me back You always said that you would take me back like in some ancient black and white you always said that you would take me back well, I’m gonna take you back tonight I never stole your heart I didn’t steal your heart You know I came by your heart honestly Oh, take me back I never stole your heart I didn’t steal your heart You know I came by your heart honestly Oh, take me back
5.
Time 04:15
All night you never answered fell asleep in the doorway with my key in the door I got an ocean that’s as wide as a river flowing only your love Oh, but it takes time it takes time it takes time it takes time White lights all on the shoreline and the hours and minutes buzzing like an old ship I got an ocean that’s as wide as a river flowing only your love Them white lights shining all around us spinning songs of love and hate when we get hungry for me Oh, but it takes time it takes time it takes time it takes time darlin’ if you’ve got time come on and give me a sign so that I know that it’s mine Now all I ever wanted was your love for life your love for life your love for life Darlin’ won’t you show a little love tonight Your love tonight could throw me right in the ocean Fill me up like the river flowing only your love Oh, but it takes time it takes time it takes time it takes time darlin’ if you’ve got time come on and give me a sign so that I know that it’s mine
6.
White Lights 03:34
Marry me on a lonesome day to shutter all the fear away to swallow up the only key to fill my cup, won’t you marry me Marry me and we’ll fly away we’ll leave behind our ugly days from the day we met in high school when I said I’d sail you to the moon and we’d steer our ship into the sun there’d be a white light, a white light and the planets will all come undone and you’ll tie my hand and we’ll be as one The white lights, the white lights I can see so much clearer in the white lights they will wash away all our wicked nights the white lights the white lights I love you until I die I love you until I die I loved a girl when I was twenty-three (do you love her still?) that’s why I set her free the winter came and it married me and now I’m living in a cloud at the bottom of the sea The white lights, the white lights I can see so much clearer in the white lights they will wash away all our wicked nights the white lights the white lights The white lights, the white lights I can see so much clearer in the white lights they will wash away all our wicked nights the white lights the white lights
7.
Old Enough 05:39
When I was a kid there was always this light on when I’d come home after a night of your love And I’d fall asleep slow to the glow of these bright songs there behind the lids of my eyes were very pretty faces very pretty faces And I called your name down in my bedroom yeah, I called your name but I called too soon I can’t give you no love in this big balloon I can’t give you no love won’t you come home soon? I hear you’re comin’ home soon Now that we’re old enough old enough old enough For a hundred more years we’ll be fighting the same war for every time he looks in your eyes it’s a hundred more ‘cause we’ve been working so hard and we’ve wandered so far and it’s closing time and at the other end of the bar the very pretty faces And I called your name out across the room yeah, I called your name but I called too soon I can’t give you no love in this big balloon I can’t give you no love won’t you come home soon? I hear you’re comin’ home soon Now that we’re old enough old enough old enough
8.
90s Life 04:11
You’re a ghost just a lump inside my throat in the middle of the night I can see you, painted white that’s the colour of the string that I’m wearing like a ring I was fashioning a way I was sure that you would stay stay stay stay Let’s not fight do you remember all those nights when we’d turn out all the nights salty bedrooms sour minds zip your dress tie my tie we are animals in line everybody, float in time Why? Why? Why? Why? Tell me why? So stop and think like a drunk without a drink like a sailor on the shore I will wait behind the door to be sure but I’m not afraid of a god who makes us wait he’s just wasting all our time it’s a crime i am sure sure sure sure Tell me why? Why? Why? Why?
9.
Atoms 04:30
I got eyes so I can see her and a heart that wouldn’t cheat her we move until we glow we move until we glow my tongue will speak a needle put the people under tables we move until we glow we move until we glow I could spend half of my life and never leave you, darlin’ we move until we glow we move until we glow Did you forget just how bright it could be? I can see what we all are made of little ghosts spinning ‘round the apple tree I can see what we all are made of we will fly Enola Gay across the sea I can see what we all are made of but don’t forget just how bright it could be I can see what we all are made of Tonight, we smash our cars in make a fast friend before the world ends we move until we glow we move until we glow Tonight, we dance electrons ‘til the end of all the love songs we move until we glow we move until we glow Did you forget just how bright it could be? I can see what we all are made of little ghosts spinning ‘round the apple tree I can see what we all are made of we will fly our little plane across the sea I can see what we all are made of but don’t forget just how bright it could be I can see what we all are made of
10.
Isabelle 03:45
All I hear, Isabelle All I hear, Isabelle at the end of the day I’m yours it’s the end of the day that we fight for you’re all I need, Isabelle Why so sad, Isabelle? Why so sad, Isabelle? it’s the start of a brand new day I will chase all the monsters away you’re all I need, Isabelle And even though you’re with him I’m yours But I won’t beg I won’t beg anymore All I hear, Isabelle All I hear, Isabelle All I hear, Isabelle All I hear, Isabelle

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released October 8, 2013

Written by Matthew Angus
Arranged and Performed by Fast Romantics
Produced by Howard Redekopp and Fast Romantics.
Engineered by Howard Redekopp and Steve Singh.
Mastered by Joao Carvalho

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Check out "Funeral Song" from our last LP 'Afterlife Blues', or the new single we just put out called "Julia".

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