Porcupine Tree are a progressive rock band formed by Steven Wilson in 1987 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. Their music is difficult to categorize, being associated with both psychedelic rock and progressive rock, yet having been influenced by trance trance music , krautrock and ambient Ambient music due to Steven Wilson and Richard Barbieri's liking for the Kosmische Musik scene of the early '70s, led by bands such as... [read more] - Shallow
I don't rememberSomething in my past, create a hole.Don't use your gender.It drives a steak right through my soul.I live to function,On my own is all I know.No friends to mention,No destruction, nowhere to goShallow,...
- Kneel And Disconnect
Kneel and disconnectAnd waste another yearFill the applicationStart a new careerKneel and disconnectAnd waste another yearFill the applicationStart a new career
- Drawing The Line
Camphor crossed with lace, it is the witching hourCinematic but crudeTeasing all my feelings out, you move awayIt seems so natural to youStill siren, climbing up the victory towerLike there's something left to proveI...
- Time Flies
I was born in '67The year of Sgt. PepperAnd Are You Experienced?Into a suburb of heavenYeah, it should've been foreverIt all seems to make so much senseBut after a whileYou realize time fliesAnd the best thing that...
- Flicker
Nothing is new here underneath the sunAll of the big new charlatans will sneer at usBarely a flicker of the light to comeOnly the people who always think they know bestNothing is new here underneath the sunAll of the...
- Black Dahlia
You have no interest in the pastWhere you came fromWhere you're going toThere's a cliche in your eyeFile the edges downSoon be undergroundThere's nothing here for you under the sunThere's nothing new to do, it's all...
- Occam's Razor
[Instrumental]
- Bonnie The Cat
Can't feel the pain that I expectedI still place keys in the ignitionI know what will beOne thought is stopping me from sleepingI saw the future and it's breedingI know what will beCould be your last resortLike gold...
- The Incident
At junction 8 the traffic starts to slowArtilleries of braking lights and bluish glowAscending in a plumage of twisted steelShattered glass and confetti dashed upon the wheelWhen a car crash gets you off you've lost...
- Remember Me Lover
I didn't want to feel like a slave to your mood swingsAnd I'm not saying anything I wouldn't say behind your backAnd all this shit could have happened to anyoneAll that matters now is how you gonna pick it up to throw...
- Your Unpleasant Family
Your unpleasant family,smashed up my car(perfectly uncalled for)Your unpleasant family,how vile they are(I crawled out of the wreckage on my knees)It's alright my flowerso what did we learn?(there I found regret...
- Great Expectations
A summer dayIn garlands I feel secureA useless faithThat I will get you, somehowReach out, I wonder where you are nowHey, there's youWith placid eyesOblivious to what's to comeThey locked you upSo I forgot youForgot...
- Octane Twisted
We go following sorrow to feel yourBlood spilling out of the reeds thereGive me a sign I can breathe airBlood flowing out of the stream there(give me something new please, something I can love)
- The Blind House
If you wanna stayAlways hereAll these yearsThe last frontierIt's no concern of theirsThe world outsideCorrupts my childSo trust these eyesFaith is in your soulBut in these wallsHormones stallDogs will crawlThe vices...
- Slave Called Shiver
I need you more than you can knowAnd if I hurt myself it's just for showI found a better way to curb the painYou put a trigger here inside my brainMother I need herI'm falling apartMother I need herAnd it's only the...
- Baby Dream In Cellophane
I am - in my pramLook you - I'm so new I am - sleeping thereUnderneath the stairsIf you - wanted toYou'd find - inside my mindThings so surrealMy lips are sealedIn the rain in cellphanePale dogs and demigodsThey won't...
- Stranger By The Minute
Ghosts in the parkAppear just after darkKillers, children ...But no-one has a harpThey look like touristsIt makes me want to laughUnder floorboardsIt's hard to fly a kiteUnderwaterMy cigarette won't lightStanding in...
- Even Less
A body is washed up on a Norfolk beachHe was a friend that I could not reachHe thought I was cold but I understandBut for the grace of god goes another manAnd I may just waste away from doing nothingBut you're a...
- A Smart Kid
Stranded here on planet earthIt's not much but it could be worseEverything's free here, there's no crowdsWinter lasted five long yearsNo sun will come again I fearChemical harvest was sownAnd I will wait for youUntil...
- This Is No Rehearsal
How many children did I bring into this world?How many did I lose in the shopping arcade?This is no rehearsal - play it backand throw things at the screenThis is no rehearsal - somebodyinterpret this for meAnd still I...
- Don't Hate Me
A light snow is falling on LondonAll sign of the living has goneThe train pulls into the stationsAnd no-one gets off and no-one gets onDon't hate meI'm not special like youI'm tired and I'm so aloneDon't fight meI...
- Piano Lessons
I remember piano lessonsThe hours in freezing roomsCruel ears and tiny handsDestroying timeless tunesShe said there's too much out thereToo much already saidYou'd better give up hopingYou're better off in bedYou don't...
- Stop Swimming
This song leaks out onto the pavementIt could be a joke, it could be a statementThe more that I fake it and pretend I don't careThe more you can read in to what isn't thereMaybe it's time to stop swimmingMaybe it's...
- Pure Narcotic
You keep me waitingYou keep me alone in a room full of friendsYou keep me hatingYou keep me listening to the BendsNo amount of pointless daysCan make this go awayYou have me on my kneesYou have me listless and...
- Lightbulb Sun
The sun is a light bulbA candle's a treatThe curtains stay closed nowOn my little retreatAnd I'll only take medicineIf it's followed by sweetsA sickly pink liquidThat puts me to sleepMy head beats a better wayTomorrow...
- Four Chords That Made A Million
Six of one a half a dozenBlack guitars and plastic bluesHide behind a wall of nothingNothing said and nothing new4 Chords that made a millionYou belong there on the coverYou are the emperor in new clothesA man who...
- How Is Your Life Today?
The letters pile up in the hallwayJunk mail and bills from the cataloguesAnd the neighbours have guessed 'cos I've cancelled the milkAnd they don't hear your voice through the walls anymoreHow is your life today ?I...
- Feel So Low
So see how long I can lastYou can pretend that I don't exist for youAnd I can laugh about it nowBut I hated every minuteI was waiting for your emailAnd each day that you forgot to callJust made me feel so lowSo...
- Where We Would Be
Tied - tied to a timeWhen we knew that the sun would shineAnd you were all smilesAnd we could just talk for a while...Of where we would be when the future comesAnd how you would paint while I wrote my songsIf I could...
- Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled
[a) Winding Shot (Summer 1981)]If you fall asleep with meYou can dream and drowseThe miuntes turn to hoursWe could climb a tree or twoAnd watch the sun go downUpon our sleepy townAfter all the time I spent with...
- Russia On Ice
You think I deserve thisYou said I was stupidAll my thoughts are like coalBut Russia on ice is burning a holeCan't stop myself drinkingCan't stop being meIf I call will you come and will you save me ?I see the whole...
- The Rest Will Flow
I was pretending to be floating strongBut I was sinkingIn to still waterEyes closedAll of the rest will flowThen out of darkness I found I could still feelSomething goodOut of the woodsEyes closedAll of the rest will...
- She's Moved On
You move in wavesYou never retraceYour newest crazeStraight out of the Face by the bed unreadI'm left behindLike all the othersSome fall for youIt doesn't make much difference if they doShe changes every time you...
- Hatesong
This is a hate song just meant for youI thought that I'd write it down while I still couldI hope when you hear this you'll want to sueOh it's a lonely life in my empty bedAnd it's a quiet life that leaks from my...
- .3
Black the sky, weapons flyLay them waste for your race
- The Sound Of Muzak
Hear the sound of musicDrifting in the aislesElevator prozacStretching on for milesThe music of the futureWill not entertainIt's only meant to repressAnd neutralise your brainSoul gets squeezed outEdges get...
- Chloroform
ChloroformLittle retrograde, wonder where you areAnother motorcade, under radarA boy in borrowed clothes, knows he is a girlShards of light come down, stillness in the airBig sleeper, your deeper, too deep for me...
- Collapse The Light Into Earth
I won't shiver in the coldI won't let the shadows take their tollI won't cover my head in the darkAnd I won't forget you when we partCollapse the Light Into EarthI won't heal given timeI won't try to change your mindI...
- Gravity Eyelids
Open your eyes nowHear me out before I lose my mindI've been waiting for hoursLet the salt flow, feel my coil unwindGive me a smile pleaseCount the calm and watch my breathing slowWinding me up teaseGet inside my head...
- Heartattack In A Layby
I pull off the roadEast of Baldock and AshfordFeeling for my cellIn the light from the dashboardHissing from the roadThe smell of rain in the air conMaybe check the newsOr just put a tape onLighting up a smokeI've got...
- Trains
Train set and match spied under the blindShiny and contoured the railway windsAnd I've heard the sound from my cousin's bedThe hiss of the train at the railway headAlways the summers are slipping awayA 60 ton angel...
- Lips Of Ashes
ParalysedLips of AshesSynchronisedBlue vein crashesTouching you insideIdolisedBlack Eyes fadingYou and IConnection failingI drill down inside
- Strip The Soul
This is my home, this is my own, we don't like no strangersRaise the kids good, beat the kids good and tie them upSpread it wide, my wife, my life, push the camera deeperI can use, I abuse, my muse, I made them...
- Prodigal
I don't know whose side I'm onI don't think that I belong round hereIf I left the stage would that be wrong ?I tried to find myself a better wayI got religion but I went astrayThey took my money and I lost my...
- The Creator Has A Mastertape
He captured and collected thingsAnd he put them in a shedHe raised a proper familySo he could tie them to a bedThe creator had a mastertapeBut he left it in a cabI stared into the void tonightThe best dream I ever...
- Blackest Eyes
A mother sings a lullaby to a childSometime in the future the boy goes wildAnd all his nerves are feeling some kind of energyA walk in the woods and I will trySomething under the trees that made you cryIt's so ***...
- Drown With Me
Drown With MeSo you have been of useAnd you have been abusedYou know you look pale todayYour lipstick has gone astrayYou sold out and lost your looksYou gave away all your books(You should drown with me)Your coil has...
- Footsteps
I saw her footprints on the seaI knew her eyes were watching meSo I ventured further in my mindIn the hope that I would find:"Tangerine Trees and Marmalade Skies andPlasticine Porters with Looking Glass Ties"My mind...
- And The Swallows Dance Above The Sun
I'm sitting in the concreteI'm listening for a heartbeatI'm sitting in the paintingI promised I'd be waitingI'm sitting in the windowI'm listening to the wind blowI'm sitting in an hour glassI'm waiting for the march...
- The Nostalgia Factory
A Caterpillar crawled to me one day and said"Oh what the hell goes on inside your swollen head?I don't believe that you can see as much as INow close your eyes and tell me what do you say?""I watched nine cats dance...
- The Long Silence
A systematic killerReturning from MadridMurdered Mozart in his gardenMussolini ran and hidHe was chosen by his eldersSitting on the shelfThey passed his heart to SatanWho showered them with wealthA Purple Haze crawled...
- It Will Rain For A Million Years
I locked myself inside the capsuleAnd watched the planet slowly turning blueThe lights before me flashed and sparkledHolding keys to lives I've wandred throughCircuits buzzing, visions passingMysterious and cold upon...
- Jupiter Island
Jupiter Island is full of pleasuresGlowing gardens holding hidden treasuresLuminous flowers of yellows and greensGlittering petals that have to be seenHere's your chance don't let it pass you byTake my hand and we'll...
- Linton Samuel Dawson
Linton Samuel DawsonLives in inner spaceHe hangs around with a circus troupeOutside the human raceLinton Samuel DawsonHas just reached 25Artists travel from outside timeJust to see his rainbow jiveHe's bored, He's...
- Nine Cats
he butterfly sailed on the breezePast a field of barbed wire treesWhere golden dragons chased aroundPampered poppies on the groundTwo silver trout sat way on highAnd watched a royal samuraiPlant two black orchids in a...
- Radioactive Toy
Run through forests on a hot Summer dayTrying to break down walls of numbing painGive me the freedom to destroyGive me radioactive toyTaste the water from a stream of running deathEat the apple and cough a dying...
- Up The Downstair
SleepUntil the colours dissolveLeave the dream to rain-soak foreverIn blessed momentsViewed from trains of half-truthsMonuments burn into momentsUp into other worldsOther ascensionsWithout deep sorrow to endureBlack...
- The Sky Moves Sideways
We lost the skylineWe stepped right off the mapDrifted in to blank spaceAnd let the clocks relapseWe laughed the rain downSlow burn on the lawnGhosts across the lawnSwallowed up the stormSometimes I feel like a...
- Waiting Phase One
Waiting... to be born againWanting... the saddest kind of painWaiting for the day when I will crawl awayNothing is what I feelWaiting... for the drugs to make it realWaiting... for the day when I will crawl...
- Sleep Of No Dreaming
At the age of sixteenI grew out of hopeI regarded the cosmosThrough a circle of ropeSo I threw out my plansRan on to the wheelAnd emptied my headOf all childish idealsThe sleep of no feelingI married the first girlWho...
- Always Never
I feel no painCos I'm an islandI will remainIn the deafness of your silenceI love you sometimesAlways NeverHe said you're hereHere with me nowI feel no gainWhen you're around meI'll try againIn the darkness you...
- The Moon Touches Your Shoulder
Springtime is overDon't head for homeCreep up the ladderAnd steal over stoneNo time to forget thisWorld's in your eyesSway in the cloud blurAnd light up the skyCast off the colourAnd tune in to blackThe moon touches...
- Dark Matter
Inside the vehicle the cold is extremeSmoke in my throat kicks me out of my dreamI try to relax but its warmer outsideI fail to connect, it's a tragic divideThis has become a full time careerTo die young would take...
- Bornlivedie
Instrumental
- Pagan
Instrumental
- Waiting - Phase Two
Instrumental
- Signify
Instrumental
- Sever
Telepath Carbon trapped under stoneBrother mother pale body is thrownOnly way I know to have funFill up my blood, my veins, my lungsESP city - rainy and blueBurn down this town, I give it to youAero shallow,...
- The Sleep Of No Dreaming
- Idiot Prayer
Instrumental
- Intermediate Jesus
Instrumental
- Every Home Is Weird
Modem load and failsafeElectric teenage dustHit the solvent keypadStart the neural rustPower on the highwayData in my headSurfing on the networkPart of me is deadEvery Home is WiredSwimming in the circuitSomebody has...
- Oceans Have No Memory
Instrumental
- In Formaldehyde
Dust in the kitchenCoffeepotMicrodotsNow we are coastingTalking lessBreathing stressSomewhere insideI have diedSo I will lieIn formaldehydePeople walkThrough my insidesWhen I get out of hereI get a plastic vaseAnd you...
- Disappear
We made the world believe we didn't careWe gate crashed parties and just stood and staredWe moved to London and stayed in all yearYou wrote poetry while I disappearedYou made a choice for us to live it upI've got a...
- Cure For Optimism
Up there a mountain risesDown here an ocean divesA stranger with a head full of leadPhotographs meSteel bars and a doctor's noteDon't give upThey can plead and beg but don't let them fix your headOutside a path to...
- Access Denied
Access deniedAll of the smarter kids they stay insideBut out in the pouring rainYou're kicking me with that look of sheer disdainThe fat controller manHe doesn't understand he's my biggest fanSo I'll stay here on the...
- Buying New Soul
Dried up, a guitar upon my kneeI should have sold out when the devil came for meDig a hole and throw it out to seaBreak the code, how happy I could beI still wave at the dots on the shoreAnd I still beat my head...
- Half-light
Such a pale lightSuch a long nightPick up that keyDon't drop your gaze in your coffeeIs it me?Do I look beautiful in the half light?It's been so longYears have goneSince I belongedHold me pleaseStay with meAnd I will...
- The Start Of Something Beautiful
Always in my thoughts, you areAlways in my dreams, you areI got your voice on tapeI got your spirit in a photographAlways out of reach, you areCold inside my arms, you areSimples like a child, you areI remember when...
- Lazarus
Past the cheerless townsPast my windowI can see a washed-out moonThrough the fogAnd then a voice inside my headBreaks the analogAnd saysFollow me down, to the valley belowYou knowMoonlight is bleedingFrom out of your...
- Glass Arm Shattering
Feeling are you touching?Feeling are you blind?Feeling are you touching?Feeling all your loveSeen it though a windscreenSeen it through the cloudsSeen it in a pantrySeen it in your heartFeeling are you...
- Open Car
Nothing like thisFelt in her kissCannot resist herFell for her charm[???] her armsI keep a photographGive me a glimpseLet me come inBe there inside herHere it beginsHere is the sinSomething to lie aboutYou think...
- Deadwing
Something warm and soft just passed through hereIt took the precious things that I hold dearerIt rifles through the cling and disappearsThe creeping darkness makes the small hours clearerLike a cancer scareIn a...
- Halo
God is in my fingersGod is in my headGod is in the triggerGod is in the lead.God is freedomGod is truthGod is powerGod is proofGod is fashionGod is fameGod gives meaningGod gives painYou can be right like meWe've got...
- Arriving Somewhere, But Not Here
Never stop the car on a drive in the darkNever look for the truth in your mothers eyesNever trust the sound of rain upon a river, rushing through your earsArriving somewhere, but not hereDid you imagine the final...
- Mellotron Scratch
A tiny flame inside my headA compromise I never plannedUnravel out the finest trendsAnd I'm looking at a blank page nowShould have filled it up with words somehowI whispered something in her earI'd bear my soul but...
- What Happens Now?
So I got all these things, but so what?In the end you can't take them with youYou think you can save my soul? Well OK...Tell me, with all your convictionWhat happens now?Well I could be boarding an aircraftWith a bomb...
- Normal
Here is my car, my phone and my TVI've got it all but you can see through meBut am I here? It's kind of hard to tellI do a good impression of myselfBut what's normal now anyhow?Sullen and bored the kids stayAnd in...
- Cheating The Polygraph
Lying through my teeth againI've been bad again, black liesSkirting round the truth againTo escape the look in your eyesCover up the facts againWith the money men, disguiseLosing my integrityWell it's lost to me, I...
- Synthesia
I'm sending you a letterBecause I don't think there's much timeTime to lear the cobwebsTime to bear the crimeIt's only a numberIt's only a deathAnother soldier died in actionThe telegram regretsI'm lying on a...
- Small Fish
The first thing that I saw as,the fisherman smiled at meWere empty people dressed in grey,floating out to seaThe rain lashed down in darknessA lizard blinked an eyeAnd time stopped in the silenceThe small fish gave a...
- Fadeaway
I sat in the room with a viewThe girl in the photograph knewCan't you see?Why is she laughing at me?I stumbled through the dark unawareThe face in the hall isn't thereTomorrow has goneWhere do the voices come...
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