Super Deluxe -- Via Satellite


your pleasure's mine

Well, you've got something on your mind  (you've got something on your mind)
Which isn't always the easiest thought to find
Oh, but the concept you pursue
Wishing only that I knew what you knew

I swear everywhere I go (I swear everywhere I go)
I feel your presence there as if to let me know
It's only my heart that you desire
Wrapped in tears and cellophane kisses and barbed wire

Well I'm afraid to look
I can see you staring, feel you set the hook
It's not that I don't find you beautiful at times
I'm not sure what you've heard
But perhaps you've misinterpreted my words
Now that I decorate your shrine
Valentine...
Your pleasure's mine

Deluded by your constant dreaming
Reality's a nightmare too
You've got me so afraid of sleeping
For fear that I might dream of you

Aaaahh...

All those darling things you say (all those darling things you say)
Like, "Hey, could you lend me your soul just for the day?"
And promise you'll give it back to me
Once you've exorcised and set my spirit free
Blaming the voices that you hear
On all the precious words I've whispered in your ear

Well I'm afraid to look
I can see you staring, feel you set the hook
It's not that I don't find you beautiful at times
I'm not sure what you've heard
But perhaps you've misinterpreted my words
Now that I decorate your shrine
Valentine...
Concubine...
Your pleasure's mine

lost in your failures

(fire away...)

I can see you, safe and young and pure
Underneath you, where no one else can see
Calling your name, waiting for reply
It will not be easy to deny

Don't wanna be lost in your failures
Don't wanna be laid down by you
Don't wanna be lost in your failures
Don't wanna be stuck inside your angry world

I can feel you, reaching toward the door
Moving slowly, crawling on the floor
Finding your way, falling out of sight
Keep it inside, taking it away

Don't wanna be lost in your failures
Don't wanna be laid down by you
Don't wanna be lost in your failures
Don't wanna be stuck inside your angry world

Don't want...
Leave me be... all alone
Leave me be... all alone

I can see you, safe and young and pure
Underneath you, no one else can see
Calling your name, waiting for reply
It will not be easy to deny

Don't wanna be lost in your failures
Don't wanna be laid down by you
Don't wanna be lost in your failures
Don't wanna be stuck inside your angry world
 

farrah fawcett

I'll get most everything I wanted
Except for Farrah Fawcett
I never see her anymore
I left you while my voice was still changing
While writing and arranging
My life's pathetic little score

I don't know if I'll ever get over her
You were the closest thing
Almost identical, as far as I could tell
Like one of Charlie's Angels

Making out with you there in the closet (oh yeah, oh yeah)
You reminded me of Farrah Fawcett (oh yeah, oh yeah)

Promise, you'll never make a promise
You put me on your hit-list
At least you never were a bore
I'll take any thoughts you don't use
I give away what I lose
Everything that I adore

I don't know if I'll ever get over her
You were the closest thing
Almost identical, as far as I could tell
Like one of Charlie's Angels

Making out with you there in the closet (oh yeah, oh yeah)
You reminded me of Farrah Fawcett (oh yeah, oh yeah)
I was still a virgin when I lost it (oh yeah, oh yeah)
Everything seemed like it really, really was

Medals from my tournaments d'amoure have left me kind of sour
Maybe I should get a whore and charge her after for the hour
Woo-hoo!

Making out with you there in the closet (oh yeah, oh yeah)
You reminded me of Farrah Fawcett (oh yeah, oh yeah)
I was still a virgin when I lost it (oh yeah, oh yeah)
Everything seemed like it really, really was
 

love liquid wraparound

Love...
Love liquid wraparound
You're getting me down
And you're coming around

Love...
Queen you are crowned
You're feeling down
And I'm coming around

You can make me feel much better
I can make you feel much better
Love...

Love...
Queen you are crowned
You're feeling down
And I'm coming around

You can make me feel much better
I can make you feel much better

When I look at you I swear I lose control
Once I have you I'll never let you go
How I want you when I touch you
Know I need and want to please you
Love to love you, need to feel you
Baby, I go mad without you
Love...
I have to have you now

You can make me feel much better
I can make you feel much better, now

When I look at you I swear I lose control
Once I have you I'll never let you go
How I want you when I touch you
Know I need and want to please you
Love to love you, need to feel you
Baby, I go mad without you
Love...
I have to have you now

Love...
Love liquid wraparound
You're getting me down
And you're coming around
You're coming....
You're coming....
You're coming around

alright

Lay to rest, and ease your mind
Leave the world behind
Inside, to try to find
A place in which to leave things be

Coming back, to realize
That everything will be
Alright...

Unyielding situations always seem to hide behind my door
Spilled out and pouring on an open floor
But everything's alright

Alright, alright
I'm taking it back, alright
Alright, alright
I'm taking it back, alright

On-line to see and hear what's going on
With who and why and what
Deprived and always laden in bad luck
He sometimes feels like giving up
But everything's alright

Alright, alright
I'm taking it back, alright
Alright, alright
I'm taking it back, alright

Finding faults in everything
I've heard and seen it all before
Helpless to all that's going on
An endless ride just slips right through

No calls and sitting, waiting, by the phone
Thinking of regrets
No one to see him feeling all alone
Wanting someplace to call home
But everything's alright

Alright, alright
I'm taking it back, alright
Alright, alright
I'm taking it back, alright
Alright, alright
I'm taking it back, alright
Alright, alright
I'm taking it back, alright

commonplace

I made a date to confront myself
Completely unaware of my mind state
My brilliant mind finds me defined and redefined

I made a pact and how I deliver
Completely unrehearsed for what I lack
My steps to trace to commonplace, commonplace

I won't hide behind my words
I mean exactly what I say
I say, for better or for worse
I won't hide behind my words
Hide behind my words...

I made a vow and how I'm committed
Completely understood
I will allow this loss of face to commonplace, commonplace

I won't hide behind my words
I mean exactly what I say
I say, for better or for worse
I won't hide behind my words
Hide behind my words...

But I'm serious
So serious
How serious am I?
But I'm serious
So serious
How serious am I?
Am I?

I won't hide behind my words
I mean exactly what I say
I say, for better or for worse
I won't hide behind my words
Behind my words
Behind my words
Behind my words...

divine

I'm fine behind your broad shoulder
Picked up and put down over and over
It seems like it's all a dream
Dividing -- I'm still here

To mend or defend, say you're sorry (say you're sorry)
To hide or confide your short temper
(Still she says...)
It seems like it's all a dream
Dividing, I'm still here

Sometimes -- Divine
The little things that he will show you
One way, betrayed
Watching as it rolls before you
Well, I don't know you, splitting into two
It's terrifying all the things you do
Well I'm through

Sometimes -- Divine
The little things that he will show you
One way, betrayed
Watching as it rolls before you
Sometimes -- Divine
The little things that he will show you
One way, betrayed
Watching as it rolls before you
Sometimes...
Divine... (one way)
Sometimes...

what's up with me

What's up with me?  Would you believe
I'm not exactly what I'm supposed to be?
A grand cliché, on holiday
From what I've read I guess a dead giveaway

A reluctant dilettante
With no favorite work of art
Or beloved poem that I wrote in Rome or somewhere
I get every lesson a la carte
And a purple heart starved for air

Je parle français, while I'm away
Though I never have a thing to say
What's up with me?  And blatancy
Far too obvious for you to agree

An idiot savant
Wondering if he's dumb or smart
Struck by cupid's arrow or a poision dart filled with fear
And how everything might fall
Ending at the start insincere
What's up with me?

Born a scorpio
The deviations on display
Well, I feel all wrong though I'm a-okay, so they say...
I know better than to act this way
Hell, I put you on touché
What's up with me?
What's up with me?
What's up with me?
What's up with me?

Champs Elysees, suddenly she's there, telling me that I'm to blame
Je suis content, getting what I want, though I whisper the wrong name
Au revoir, no small faux paus, thinking of you

one in a million

Feeling less better, a hopeful regretter
Suffering symptoms, becoming a victim
Now... nothing ever hurts

Through re-creation, times revelation
Looking things over, being too sober
Now... nothing ever hurts

I am one in a million, I am all that I'll ever be
I have nothing but myself to fall back on and I don't believe in me

Below what I'm above, the need I'm in lack of
I swallow depressants of guilt and resentment
Now... nothing ever hurts
 
I am one in a million, I am all that I'll ever be
I have nothing but myself to fall back on and I don't believe in me

I give to take and always win
By my mistake I fail to live
And only survive learning to die
And still be alive

I am one in a million, I am all that I'll ever be
I have nothing but myself to fall back on and I don't believe in me

new variations

Down in flow, she starts to go
Lead me down into desperation
Hard to find your state of mind
I can't seem to see just how it works

I wanna be your life -- new variations
On how we can be
Just let me come inside and take your frustrations
And leave them with me

Caught in eyes, nowhere to hide
I find it hard to even stand up
Lost in time, watch me unwind
Can't seem to find which way is up

I wanna be your life -- new variations
On how we can be
Just let me come inside and take your frustrations
And leave them with me
Yeah...!

I wanna be your life -- new variations
On how we can be
Just let me come inside and take your frustrations
And leave them with me
I wanna be your...
I wanna be your...
I wanna be your life
I wanna be your...
I wanna be your...
I wanna be your life

half asleep

The vinyl sparkles on the seat where you are scheming
The ticket window won't open until you start believing
In the wonders you once found in a fabric store uptown
While the horoscope proves wet paper on the ground

You belly-flop across life's little hurdles
Night clubs and yo-yo diets turning, turning you in circles
Well reality doesn't care if you do or don't dye your hair
Whatever you choose don't let your soul vanish into thin air

Half asleep (half asleep)
You may take this all for granted
Half alive (half alive)
Life is disenchanting sometimes

The escalator to fortune somehow eludes you
Mixing m&m's and essential oils doesn't always work for you
And what of deserted homes where the dear and dysfuctional roam (i wonder why?)
Wrap it up with a letter and a bow

Half asleep (half asleep)
You may take this all for granted
Half alive (half alive)
Life is disenchanting sometimes
Disenchanting sometimes
Woo-hoo..

i can see

It doesn't matter what I say
You keep on smiling as I turn and walk away
And even though your head's unclear
It's funny how my phrases always disappear

She sells the sunlight
She sells the sun
All the tears that I sent to you

I don't know the reasons why you hide
It seems to me that you are never satisfied
And even though your head's unclear
You find it funny that my phrases disappear

She sells the sunlight
She sells the sun
All the tears that I sent to you

I can see her coming down
I can see her coming down
I can see her coming down
I can see her coming down
Well now...

It doesn't matter what I say
You keep on smiling as I turn the other way
Coming around she's filled with fear
Not sure just where she went or how she got back here

She sells the sunlight
She sells the sun
All the tears that I sent to you

I can see her coming down
I can see her coming down
Spinning 'round without a sound (I can see her coming down)
I can see her coming down (I can see her coming down)
I can see her coming down
I can see her coming down
I can see her coming down
I can see her coming down

suicide doll

You spend your nights there in the park
Alone in the dark waiting for your meal
You're not concerned with how you might survive
Or if you'll even be alive when you make your next deal

I've never met you, and still I care for you
I cannot help you, but oh how I would want to
It's a shame to watch you fall
It's a shame that your tragedy does not affect us all
Suicide doll

You feel secure in living hell
And linger at that wishing well
Suffering out the season
But soon your hope gives out to fate
You clench, you share and wait
Abandoning all reason

I've never met you, and still I care for you
I cannot help you, but oh how I would want to
It's a shame to watch you fall
It's a shame that your tragedy does not affect us all
Suicide doll

And when you're 24 years old, your destiny you've sold
You say, "No one can save me"
And when you're asked if you'll reach 30
You say softly, "No, well maybe..."

I've never met you, and still I care for you
I cannot help you, but oh how I would want to
It's a shame to watch you fall (It's a shame to watch you fall...)
It's a shame that your tragedy does not affect us all
Suicide doll
Suicide doll
Suicide doll
Suicide doll

years ago

We'd met one silent second once before
Collided in tension all for fear
Walking the threshold that we musn't ignore
Message received, loud and clear

I lost my heart to you years ago
Where are you? Where are you now?
And so I learn what I already should have known
Years ago...

Somewhere else again, then with someone else
My thoughts drift straight into you
While I am bitterly betrayed by myself
Despite the fight of intellect, instinct will rule

I lost my heart to you years ago
Where are you? Where are you now?
And so I learn what I already should have known
Years ago...

Love cures and love hurts
Love is, and isn't, true
Love -- we're all alone

In my mind, I see you move silently while you seduce me
I imagine every detail, hear you as you're saying slowly
Come on, come on, right or wrong
Your choice is only give in to me

I lost my heart to you years ago
Where are you? Where are you now?
And so I learn what I already should have known
Years ago...
Years ago...
Years ago

rock 'n roll
If the deal is dipped in honey
Well, I'll hold my breath
Because the contract is getting wet
And if the style scares somebody
The scene is redefined
And the blame or the blunder
Yeah, the blunder is mine
I question my design
I won't pretend I'm blind
If you're wasting all my...
Wasting all my time, yeah

If the deal is for the money
I won't be reassured
If the point's only been ignored
And if the style scares somebody
The scene is redefinded
And the blame or the blunder
Yeah, the blame or the blunder
Mine...
I question my design
I won't pretend I'm blind
If you're wasting all my...
Wasting all my time, yeah
 

All songs written by Braden Blake and John Kirsch.
These are official lyrics taken from the Via Satellite CD insert, except:
The introduction to "Alright" and the closing of "What's Up With Me," which are not in the lyric sheet and are unofficial;
"Rock 'n Roll," which is not in the lyric sheet but is posted on the Super Deluxe official site;
A few other lyrical additions not included in the lyric sheet.
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