I like people who change every day Who correct their mistakes Who are never anything other than fake They do it all for your sake I like people who shine out of line I like people who are generous with their time Who know how to ride or die And can do it all with a smile She told me why she made a mistake I have to listen to these lies every day But if she wore my eyes and could see it in my way She’d see that it’d I making the mistake She asked me for forgiveness And I wonder what she ever did to deserve it Posthumous pardon Why, when there are so many other people in my life? And it gets realer and realer I like people who don’t let anybody get in their way People for whom everything is just a game The world is a stage and this is a big play And that in itself is a mistake Diamonds falling out of reach And then she’s crying Nothing I could do about the timing Most of all I wonder if you’re gonna die drink driving one night

You speak as if one day you’ll complete me I talk to you as if you weren’t there But it bothers me when I know you’re not listening Bothers me to know you don’t care The words with which you speak won’t affect me I’ll never listen till the day that I die And the words with which I talk don’t represent me Or anything inside my mind It’s weird The things we feel And the people we see Why did the world ever bring us together? I just think it seems a little harsh Why do I need these constant reminders Of times when I was lost out in the dark? Then one day it’s a case of ‘you get me’ And it’s a case of knowing it all along I suffer this in silence only briefly For I don’t want to spoil your song One day it’s a case of ‘I tricked you’ Well done for finally finding out You don’t usually get caught up in these abstractions Don’t wanna know the why or the how But I’ll tell you this You get so…get so high And you love me Love me so well Why does a part of me think you’re perfect? Why do I have so much trouble letting go? Why do you have to resemble somebody I knew Long ago, well my brain gets confused And tries to make ties with all the other data Tries to rewire so it’ll all hold But as is the nature of human complications I just get bored and then I fold And why doesn’t life ever give you lemons It’s not as if I’m asking for a gold castle Or a Lamourghini I’m just passing time Trying to find a way And you love me here and now

Find me Parts of me missing, waiting patiently Fill me in Dig deep Face all the troubles that are haunting you And keep you awake Dance with me Ease all the memories and freeze time Peace from within Build me All of the pieces that you’ve gathered now Put them in place Late nights Fawn in the alleyway in darkness Make no mistake Mind maze Part of me tells me that you get me Perfectly played It never crossed my mind Dine with me Feed me completely and release me from my pen Live wire It’s important that you find me here Try get it right Tease me Bored of the pieces you selected so start over again Slowly Uncanny valley symptoms creeping in Turn out the light It never crossed my mind You never made me die Yep, it never crossed my mind

Would you like to be somebody’s hero some day? When things aren’t as they seem, all I need is the truth to release me The spool unravels and the images are laid out so plain I know where I wanna be So won’t you make it easy? I need sunlight one of these days An explanation No Reyes filter on my eyes Once in a lifetime I stake my claim to get away, you know Please give me time and space It’s three and I’m analysing frames from the instant replay With your misplaced felicity I wonder what it is you even did to me But the numbers don’t lie And it seems it’s about that time Duck and dive, swallow my pride, follow the racing line I need sunlight one of these days An explanation No Reyes filter on my eyes Once in a lifetime I stake my claim to get away, you know Reyes It’s Halloween I need sunlight one of these days An explanation Reyes filter on my eyes What goes around comes back around again some day Pays not to hide

Sometimes she stays Tonight she’s been on an escapade She seemed so wired all day Spills the ashtray, she’s faded She speaks of mice and angels Says 'Daddy, I don’t deserve you' And I say 'babe, lights out, it’s so late' But she gets up, staggers around Before she makes a sound And then she’s splayed naked on the ground I bring towels And lay her down And wait around to make sure she’s okay When she wakes She don’t remember when she said Many days she’d catch my gaze and wonder What is the reason for your saving face? She says babe, hey, I’m wide awake So I choke her out and pin her down And we wrestle as if we were meeting For the last time of our lives Cause the lines between when we fight and when we love Are what keep us dancing through the pain And then she’s wide awake again She’s sweating from the MDMA So I tell her I have something else that she can take To fade away And when she wakes She knows that she’ll feel safe with me I know she won’t remember But this place And all the friendship that you gave will never fade Lying awake I catch your gaze Your eyes are glazed Did I mistake you for more than a phase? So tell me What is the reason? What is the value? What is the life you’d give to someone strange?

One day at the age of eight She feels the ground shake, and then a burst of flame So she looks up to the sky and sees a man die, and it’s her father Oh, life will never be the same my child She says that every single day Well the image plays round and round inside her brain But she wants to be someone, leave behind her life of petty crime And make her father proud when she comes of age What is your lifeline? We practice at the firing range But she doesn’t have the patience, she can’t find her aim So I sit her down and explain You get out of life what you put into it But she says she’ll be okay What is your lifeline? The top of the scoreboard is crowded out and it’s impossible to break You made a loser’s mistake, you’ll find it very hard to take But you’ll find another way You’ll find your feet and pick it up again For your father never needed wingmen

When you cut me down You’re the first to catch me When you step into my house You bend the rules I just think it’s so inspired, the way that you were wired And now I’m like guessing, cut the green wire But then you swan around, cause bust-ups like clockwork Only then to find you feel so alone Only feel that I should have kept you in your cellophane wrapping As there’s no returns What is the game that you play? Who are the people inside your brain? Why is it so? Only you know who you are my friend All I really ask is don’t stand in my sunlight All it really takes is to know your place It’s just that it’s so explicitly been explained to me The reasons you’re a demon and I should get away What is the game that you play? Who are the people inside your brain? Or will you attest to your devilish ways? Why is it so? Only you know who you are my friend Life, oh, coming to get you Far faster than you’d even know So pack all your things and go Don’t look back, we don’t negotiate with ghosts No, for me it moves so slow, oh Why do people never ever grow? Change, stuck in stasis Light me up You might say I see you Do you have a heart Or is it complicated? Do you have the wisdom to know who you are? Or is it that you’re starved of affection And in need of attention As protection for your inner child? When you gotta put up a fight, it ain’t right When you gotta read the signals on the turnstile lights, take flight When you find you duck down, come back around She takes you up and down You gotta bow out What is the game that you play? Who are the people inside your brain? Will you continue to bore me with this game? Or will you attest to your devilish ways? Why is it so? Only you know who you are my friend Hold tight when you need to unwind, It’s never more than a few second away By design I put aside time where I just go with the flow Like never mind Light My Fire is playing on the DAB radio again Me and Iris, some of the guys, we can get by just fine We’re playing a different game

Bring down the fader The shader has a mutator And the data on the display Is arranged in a way that breaks the matrix A big fix And she’s thinkin’ bout the diamonds Redlining, and I remind her The line and the timing Were designed by the guy we met on the fourth of July You know, Slick Dick Who’s got the papers to aid our escape And erase all the trails that we make And liaise with the snakes Who will tamper with the brakes, oh Old tricks Cause her disguise with the red eye Derives from her rising sign Divided like a Gemini with a Pisces mind Sitting on the Green Line, seems fine It gets easier every time When you find it hard to unwind Take my advice What’s the justification for your frustration? It’s amazing, at the break of day you seemed so elated And now you’re acting out like a little bitch You need fine tuning, you’re clueless You get your boots licked but the blues stick around And you get so down and you don’t feel proud So we’ll take you round to see the witch She’s got the potions to set your soul in motion Stir your devotion, rewire your emotions Synergise, deep dive, redline Old tricks Cause my disguise with the fake eye Derives from a line that I heard as a child In an Oscar Wilde play, small brain, big brain Go again? Sitting on the Green Line, seems fine It gets easier every time When you find it hard to unwind Take my advice He’s got a getaway car awaiting It’s strange the connections you make He’s got a cast of characters Making phone calls in the background He’s articulate and he knows your secrets So look out, keep an ear to the ground And slowly I remember what I’ve taken We’re at Major Lazer And I take one look at my creation And I hate it