Idlewild are a Scottish Scotland rock rock music band, formed in Edinburgh, in 1995, comprising Roddy Woomble (lead vocals), Rod Jones Rod Jones (musician) (guitar, backing vocals), Colin Newton (drums), Allan Stewart Allan Stewart (musician) (guitar) and Gareth Russell (bass). To date, Idlewild have released six full-length studio albums, with their latest, Post Electric Blues, self-released to fans in June 2009.
Initially,... [read more] - These Wooden Ideas
It's a better way to feelDon't be real, be post modern(it's not that one dimensional, it's not the only thought)It's a better way to feelWhen you're not real, you're post modern(it's not that one dimensional, it's not...
- Actually It's Darkness
You thought the fire could protect you from itBut why have you been so, why have you been ill informed?I felt that fire could protect me from everythingYou're just too gullibleActually it's darkness, I don't know what...
- I'm Happy To Be Here Tonight
The world is in my chaos dream,But I am not invited.I said the world is in my chaos dream, but I..'Cause you dont know what people say,'Cause you dont know what people say,'Cause you dont know what people want to...
- Listen To What You've Got
You listen to what you've gotAnd then you realise that it's nothingWhat's in these bad dreams?I might as well be talking backwardsWhat's in these bad dreams?You might as well be talking to yourselfYou listen to what...
- Idea Track
Dear Hugh Miller, I've thought it through for a while but it doesn't get any easier And three months on in this bad design won't make it feel any easierYour grave, it's your graveDear Hugh Miller, it's four months now...
- Roseability
Rose, ability. There is no roseability Rose, ability. There is no roseability You've got off with too much nowYou're getting off with too much nowStop looking through scrapbooks and photograph albumsBecause I knowThey...
- Mistake Pageant
I couldn't stand up looking up at the faded partyI couldn't stand up looking up at a faded partyIt was a mistake pageantIt was a mistake from the startThis is a mistake pageantBut it's unsuitable to laugh like the...
- Let Me Sleep (Next To The Mirror)
I woke up first this morningI've never seen the dawnBut I know what the world looked like beforeHow would I know what you said?You're always first to go to bedYou're intent on sleeping it offLet me sleep, next to the...
- Little Discourage
I found a mountain on my own (I'm encouraged)Trust history to say it's unknown (it's discouraging)There's a seventeen contest in my own home (discourage)Sick of seventeen contests in my own home (discourage)Don't...
- The Bronze Medal
It felt cold inside, so we threw the radio onto the fireIt felt good to watch it, burn away to nothingYou said you felt weakI hope its got nothing to do With the things you told meNothing but your eyesLooking down on...
- I Don't Have The Map
When it happens You'll feel like an islanderYou'll see ships and they'll be remindersThat you're on an islandI'm on an islandThe chances are there's a reason we've been left hereBut I'm not disappointedThe chances are...
- Rusty
You look worn out, more and more each dayWith every step, and every pageYou look worn out, more and more each dayWith every step, and every pageYour croft, dated back to the beginning of the centuryIt's the beginning...
- Quiet Crown
I want to fly a little to the right, I'll never get to CrowsdellAnd I want to stay awake all night to realise (I'm not Ben Hoy)What should I take with me to the North? It's the good NorthThe promised success, the...
- Goodnight
You thought shyness was to blameand you'd get to live your life againwhen you get to wish everyone goodnightas the crowd booed out your nameat least they spelled it rightso you don't complainwhy everyone is wishing...
- Not Just Sometimes But Always
here is a long forgotten voiceI know it's not your voicebecause it's always strainedI wake up hearing unfamiliar voicesconvinced they're trying to explainthat if my words were clearerthen maybe I would know what...
- Too Long Awake
Everything is always changingand nothing stays in the same placefor too longI've been too long awakeand everyone seems like they're slowly changingno one stays in the same place for too longI've been too long...
- Disconnected
I watch you stumble through the morningI watch you stumble home at nightsillouetted by a sun without sunlightI've watched you walk straight through an evening when you're laden with the dayand the light of the moon,...
- Welcome Home
I go outside to find the middle of nowhereeveryone needs their own empty stagejust like the sky with no beginning or endingor reading a book without a last pageStop and turn aroundand say it with your eyes closedyou...
- El Captain
By the harbour I harborthe strangest memoriesolder than I could ever bestranded in nostalgiaso tonight i'll try harderbut it's hard to fix this spotlight on mein a cast that's taking placesi'm not sure of where I want...
- I Understand It
Mountains wouldn't part for methey have no uncertaintyI'm just a passing emotionjust hoping they take noticeAnd you are an opportunitywithout an opportunityanother passing emotionand hope that someone will take...
- As If I Hadn't Slept
It's always 3 a.m.in your worldso I'm drinking thisas if I hadn't slepttelling stories which tell their storiesthemselvesyou didn't even hear themI thought to somewhere elseAs long as I go somewhereyou'll still be...
- I Want A Warning
History is made, not repeatedand you hide behind words that make you feel neededand what you read in those books made you so conceitedso in order for love to be truemy dreams will have tobecome my only rulesI want a...
- Love Steals Us From Lonliness
Every step takes a beat of your heartthrough a city that's falling aparton a night that rises and clearsin a sky that's clouded by yearsmy anger is a form of majestySo I'd rather have hope than sadnessAnd you said...
- Blame It On The Obvious Ways
All the mistakes I made I made becauseI didn't know myself very welland by this stage I feel like I really shouldn't know myselfI'm forced into a sponsored silencewhere I'm only paid if I don't saywhat I want to...
- American English
Songs when they're true are all dedicated to you,and this invisible world I choose to live in.And if you believe that then now I understandWhy words mean so much to you: 'cause they'll never be about you.And maybe...
- A Modern Way Of Letting Go
If I know what I know that no one will watch over you and someone shouldn't really tell me what I want to knowI know oh hoI know that matters don't matter as much as you think they do'Cause you will only be...
- In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction
In the beginning, there were answersThen they came along and changedAll these questions and their answers seem to change So I'll wait til I find the remote part of your heartNowhere else will let us choose a...
- I Never Wanted
I created myself to be on my ownBut I didn't expect to be aloneDid you create yourself to be on your own?These are the reasons things should be unknown The days won't let you knowDays won't let you know That all I...
- Out Of Routine
Out of routine, the explanations you haveYou're still loathe to give themAll because you've phrased it in a waySo the explanations you haveThe words don't go away If your heart gets in the way of what you wanted To...
- Century After Century
Since your breathing, is it all that a space can fill?So just by looking in, I'll be looking stillYou find and follow stories wellYou're *** except for a newspaper, the headline telling meThat fortune favours the...
- (I Am) What I Am Not
Calling places, collecting carelessSentences I write them downSo I ignore them, and you should too, you should ignore every wordIs calling what you can surrenderThe only way to really learnThat the alphabet made up...
- Tell Me Ten Words
I have to stop saying to be honest, it's not a real defeatTo have to stop saying "to be honest", it's not a great defeat(No, no, no, not such a great defeat) All these things that you don't know, it seems so much...
- You Held The World In Your Arms
Every face, even the one you saw yesterdayIt looks different today, Because everything's changed since yesterdayIn every possible way, things seem different today, Not like yesterday Is consideration, more like an...
- Stay The Same
It sometimes happens, it always happens to meBut then "always" isn't a word I use, "always" isn't a word I chooseWhen I know that this won't survive much longerUnless we alter what we haveBut then again survival is...
- Live In A Hiding Place
There are times that I should try, to be so much more aliveBut if time was right then I would be with you againOr do you worry that I try to avoid the point and then denyThe time I spent deciding it was you again....
- When I Argue I See Shapes
I'm not really sure of all this pressure,i'm never going to lose any of my old lettersThey'll stay with me, until i can see,until i can see that i'm no-oneThey'll stay with me, until i can see,until i can see that i'm...
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