The Fountain - Lyrics

[Mr. Brian]

I think you've got something with that "Rimini" part:

One of out favourite tracks on the album is 'Shroud of Turin'. The guitars on it sound fantastic. Tell us about the track.

Mac: You like the fucking guitars? What about the words? What about where I’m talking to Jesus, man? I talk to fucking Jesus in that record, and you like the guitars?

OK, what brought on the chin-wag with Jesus then?

Mac: It’s conversation with Jesus. It’s tongue-in-cheek really, but I suppose it’s just another way of praying. I based it on a gig I did in Rimini at a club called the Transylvania, and I saw this image of Jesus’ face in the monitors. I stopped the song and said to the audience if you all want to file past you can see the Shroud of Turin. It’s also a play on the word urine you see, as he pissed his kecks on the cross. Oh that urine stained shroud in Rimini. Yeah man.

http://thequietus.com/articles/02873-ec ... fect-steak

[neil]

maybe its one of those weird old fashioned ganes like they used to have on 'indoor league' in the 1970s with freddie trueman?

Ah'll sithee....

[bluegrace]

I think you've got something with that "Rimini" part:

OK, what brought on the chin-wag with Jesus then?

Mac: It’s conversation with Jesus. It’s tongue-in-cheek really, but I suppose it’s just another way of praying. I based it on a gig I did in Rimini at a club called the Transylvania, and I saw this image of Jesus’ face in the monitors.

I d-i-d wonder 'Why Rimini?'

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

It's definitely not "Some death wish pity" - listen also to "Epic" 27 seconds in on YouTube. "Some" and "Such". Sound completely different. Unless Mac's teeth fell out on both the recorded version and Epic so it sounds like "Suomuucha death wish..." There isn't a "The Life Round" either. Definitive lyrics below other than that "That you're in a stained shroud and" on Shroud of Turin.

Forgotten Fields

In the tree-lined cities in forgotten fields
Some are born too pretty, some are born too real
Such a death wish pity, while the selfish steal some ground
So just hunch back plans to start to feel
As the rise of man names his price to deal
It's look ma no hands on the steering wheel
Going round

Goes round
Goes round
Goes round
Slows down

Some are early blooms, some are made to wait
Some arrive too soon, some way too late
Some think the moon can navigate
Life round

Life round
Life round
Life round
Life round

Hey can't you see?
What will be
Can't you see
Hey can't you see
What will be
Can't you see

It's behind you
It's behind you
It's behind you
Looks behind you
Look behind you
Look behind you
Look behind you
Look behind you

Hey can't you see?
What will be
Can't you see
Hey can't you see
What will be
Can't you see
Hey can't you see?
What will be
Can't you see


Shroud of Turin

I saw him
He saw me
That you're in a stained shroud and ... (there's a word on the end that I can't make out)
He cried
And I cried
We both died
Laughing him and me
Why me?
Why Rimini?

I want you
You want me
We both want the things we'll never be now
We see now
It's sad how some things aren't meant to be for real
Just you and me

Never happens when you want it to
Never does what it's supposed to do
It's never good enough to see me through
See me through

I love that shroud that you're in
I love that you're maturing
I love that sweet sack you're in
I love your saccharin
I love that shroud that you're in
I love that you're from Turin
I love that sweet sack you're in
I love your saccharin

Never happens when you want it to
Never does what it's supposed to do
It's never good enough to see me through
See me through

He saw me
I saw him
We both saw beneath each other's skin deep
But then deep we both sleep
To dream of what could be for me
I sing hymns for him and me

Never happens when you want it to
Never does what it's supposed to do
It's never good enough to see me through
See me through

I love that shroud that you're in
I love that you're maturing
I love that sweet sack you're in
I love your saccharin
I love that shroud that you're in
I love that you're from Turin
I love that sweet sack you're in
I love your saccharin

[bluegrace]

I love this song, so here are the lyrics as far as I can tell.

if we lie lie lie
come on to the other side
float a floating on the night tide
just beyond where the sun dies

if we fly fly fly
fly with me now over oceans wide
higher than heaven
higher than the sky
you and me and god
can watch the sun rise

baby come on
baby come on

drivetime
on a drive time
all the drivetime
driving by

if we lied lied lied
wearing our mistakes in a rising tide
makes us and breaks us
theres no one to guide
spirits follow in the blind

if we fly fly fly
will it take us into high high
a prayer and a wish
just the why why
we can't see the skyline for the sky

baby come on
baby come on

drivetime
on a drive time
all the drivetime
driving by

ooooohhhh oh oh oh oooooh oh
oh oh

why why why why why why
early sunrise (?)

baby come on
baby come on

drivetime
on a drive time
all the drivetime
driving by

drivetime
on a drive time
all the drivetime
driving by

ooooohhhh oh oh oh oooooh oh
oh oh

[Crystal Days]

The Idolness Of Gods.

The last verse is quite tough, here's my first go.

If the world was half as mad as me,
Like that could ever be,
I'd say the world was crazy.

If I'm just half the man I was,
I'd say that's just because,
I must have gotten lazy, lazy..

In duty and in love,
The beauty wearing off???
Beware, be weary of....
The idolness of gods.

The idolness of gods.

The idolness of gods.

On the ropes against the tide,
There's nowhere left to hide,
Once you've seen my inside(s)/ insight???
Broken, hopeful open wide??
See the knockout punch your pride,
I've got you seats at ringside, ringside.

In duty and in love,
The beauty wearing off???
Beware, be weary of....
The idolness of gods.

The idolness of gods.

The idolness of gods.

Oh what now..

No not now..

I .... tears are falling down,
Keep splashing to the ground,
Eye lashes getting drowned, drowned.
Life's full of tears??? grew walls around,
New pastures? can't be found,
I'm crashing cars?? your town???
Your town...

In duty and in love,
The beauty wearing off???
Beware, be weary of....
The idolness of gods.

The idolness of gods.

The idolness of gods.

[Crystal Days]

if we lied lied lied**ride ride ride?**
wearing our mistakes**the mist takes us** in a rising tide
makes us and breaks us
theres no one to guide
spirits follow in**following** the blind

I'm not saying mine are right, just the way I hear it.

[bluegrace]

it is definitely Some to death wish pity while the selfish steal some ground.

Perhaps he changed the lyrics, since it used to be "Epic," but it definitely is as above.

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

Are the lyrics posted on the insert cover of The Fountain? I have noticed quite often that Mac doesn't sing them exactly as they are written down/published. So maybe that's the case here.

[bluegrace]

The Idolness Of Gods

Last verse

Idle tears are falling down
Keep splashing to the ground
Eye lashes getting drowned, drowned
Life's frontiers grew walls around
New pastures? can't be found
I'm crashing cars in your town
Your town...

For duty and for love
The beauty wearing off
Beware be weary of
The idolness of gods

The idolness of gods
The idolness of gods

My take
(Don't know "pasture")...

[voz]

1 Think I Need It Too

Must've forgotten something
How to forget how to be true
Covered myself in nothing
Don't touch me and i won't touch you
Tryin' to remember something
Why am I here and who are you?
You must admit something
Animals came in two by two

Whatever you want
Whatever you need
Whatever you want
Whatever you need
I think I need it too
I think I need it too
I think I need it too

Just as I thought I'm thinking
How can I change when I don't want to
Kept getting caught
Kept drinking
How can I blame what I got to
Putting the wheels in motion
Autopilot I can't drive
Covered in chalomine lotion
scratching my heatlumps bee-stung hives

Whatever you want
Whatever you need
Whatever you want
Whatever you need
I think I need it too
I think I need it too
I think I need it too

Whatever you want
Whatever you need
Whatever you want
Whatever you need
Whatever you want
Whatever you need
Whatever you want
Whatever you need
I think I need it too
I think I need it too
I think I need it too

2 Forgotten Fields

In the tree-lined cities in forgotten fields
Some are born too pretty, some are born too real
Some are death wish pity, while the selfish steal some ground
So just hunch back plans to start to feel
As the rise of man names his price to deal
It's look ma no hands on the steering wheel
Going round

Goes round
Goes round
Goes round
Slows down

Some are early blooms some are made to wait
Some arrive too soon, some way too late
Some think the moon can navigate
Life round

Life round
Life round
Life round
Life round

Hey can't you see?
What will be
Can't you see
Hey can't you see
What will be
Can't you see

It's behind you
It's behind you
It's behind you
What's behind you
Look behind you
Look behind you
Look behind you
Look behind you

Hey can't you see?
What will be
Can't you see
Hey can't you see
What will be
Can't you see
Hey can't you see?
What will be
Can't you see

3 Do You Know Who I Am?

Love it, hate it
Want it, had it
Need it, got it
Down da-down da-down

Take it, took it
Shaped (shaked?) it, shooked it
Flaked it, flucked it
Down da-down da-down da-down da-down da-down da-down

Do You Know Who I Am?
Do You Know What I Got?
Did You Know Who I Am?
Cos I know what you got

Read it, wrote it
Heard it, spoked it
Made it, broke it
Down da-down da-down da-down da-down da-down da-down

Do You Know Who I Am?
Do You Know What I Got?
Did You Know Who I Am?
Cos I know what you got

Love it, hate it
Want it, had it
Need it, got it
Down da-down da-down

Do You Know Who I Am?
Do You Know What I Got?
Did You Know Who I Am?
Cos I know what you got

4 Shroud of Turin

I saw Him
He saw Me
That You're in a stained shroud and women
He cried
And I cried
We both died
Laughing Him and Me
Why Me?
Why Rimini?

I want you
You want me
We both want the things we'll never be now
We see now
It's sad how some things aren't meant to be for real
Just you and me

Never happens when you want it to
Never does what it's supposed to do
It's never good enough to see me through
See me through

I love that shroud that you're in
I love that you're maturing
I love that sweet sack you're in
I love your saccharin
I love that shroud that you're in
I love that you're from Turin
I love that sweet sack you're in
I love your saccharin

Never happens when you want it to
Never does what it's supposed to do
It's never good enough to see me through
See me through

He saw Me
I saw Him
We both saw beneath each other's skin deep
But then deep We both sleep
To dream of what could be for Me
I sing hymns for Him and Me

Never happens when you want it to
Never does what it's supposed to do
It's never good enough to see me through
See me through

I love that shroud that you're in
I love that you're maturing
I love that sweet sack you're in
I love your saccharin
I love that shroud that you're in
I love that you're from Turin
I love that sweet sack you're in
I love your saccharin

5 Life of 1,000 Crimes

If I changed along the way,
Is there a price that I can pay,
Just tell me all I have to say,
And save me.

Just tell me it'll be ok,
That tomorrow won't be like today,
Don't meet me at the kneel and prey,
For maybes, just save me.

I heard it a thousand times,
I heard it a thousand times,
I heard it a thousand times,
Life of a thousand crimes.

Don't wanna know what I've become,
I want the ones I've done undone,
I need more than just the crumbs,
You gave me...

I wanna place where I can run,
I wanna race that can be won,
I wanna face in a golden sun,
To bathe me...bathe me.

I heard it a thousand times,
I heard it a thousand times,
I heard it a thousand times,
Life of a thousand crimes.

Do you wanna know,
Do you wanna know,
Do you wanna know, what I know?

And do you wanna go,
Never wanna go,
Do you wanna know...where I go.

If I changed along the way,
Is there a price that I can pay,
Just tell me all I have to say,
And save me.....save me.

I heard it a thousand times,
I heard it a thousand times,
I heard it a thousand times,
Life of a thousand crimes.

6 The Fountain

I slept by the mountain
The rivers we crossed
I dreamt of the fountain
And the coin that we tossed
Now I'm just counting
The dreams that were lost
One coin in a fountain
Is all that it cost
Is that all it cost?

I followed the oceans
I swallowed the seas
I buried emotions
I couldn't set free
I took every potion
From A to me (?)
And that was devotion
Was that really me?
Was that really me?

What a way to waste your wishes
Changing something for somehow
What I'd pay to taste your kisses oh yeah
Here and now
Here and now
Here and now
Here and now

Wash me down
Wash me down

Will there be thunder?
Will lightning strike?
Will I kneel and wonder
In a tunnel of light
Or will I go under and give up the fight
When they call my number
Called it a night
Call it a night

I cried the fountain dry
I climbed the mountains high
Hallelujah


7 Everlasting Neverendless

Everlasting
Neverendless
Moments lost in time
Everlasting
They can send us
Will be yours and mine and mine and mine

Don't look down
Don't look down
Don't look down

See this through or we could watch it die
Me and you saying our last goodbyes
Goodbye baby
Goodbye baby goodbye

Hear us calling
Ever crying
Wonder when it stops

Don't look down
Don't look down
Don't look down

See this through or we could watch it die
Me and you saying our last goodbyes
Goodbye baby
Goodbye baby goodbye
Goodbye baby
Goodbye baby goodbye

See this through
See this through
Me and you
Me and you
Me and you
See this through
Me and you
Me and you

8 Proxy


9 Drivetime

if we lie lie lie
lie come on to the other side
float a floating on the night tide
just beyond where the sun dies

if we fly fly fly
fly with me now over oceans wide
higher than heaven
higher than the sky
you, me and god
can watch the sun rise

baby come on
baby come on

drivetime
on a drive time
all the drivetime
driving by

if we lied lied lied
where the mist takes us in a rising tide
makes us and breaks us
theres no one to guide
spirits following the blind

if we fly fly fly
will it take us into high high
a prayer and a wish
just the why why
we can't see the skyline for the sky

baby come on
baby come on

drivetime
on a drive time
all the drivetime
driving by

ooooohhhh oh oh oh oooooh oh
oh oh

why why why why why why
early sunrise (?)

baby come on
baby come on

drivetime
on a drive time
all the drivetime
driving by

drivetime
on a drive time
all the drivetime
driving by

ooooohhhh oh oh oh oooooh oh
oh oh

10 The Idolness of Gods

If the world was half as mad as me,
Like that could ever be,
I'd say the world was crazy.

If I'm just half the man I was,
I'd say that's just because,
I must have gotten lazy, lazy..

In duty and in love,
The beauty wearing off???
Beware, be weary of....
The idolness of gods.

The idolness of gods
The idolness of gods.

On the ropes against the tide,
There's nowhere left to hide,
Once you've seen my insides
Broken, hopeful open wide
See the knockout punch your pride,
I've got you seats at ringside, ringside.

In duty and in love,
The beauty wearing off
Beware, be weary of....
The idolness of gods.

The idolness of gods.

The idolness of gods.

Oh what now..

No not now..

Idle tears are falling down
Keep splashing to the ground
Eye lashes getting drowned, drowned
Life's frontiers grew walls around
New pastors can't be found
I'm crashing cars in your town
Your town...

For duty and for love
The beauty wearing off
Beware be weary of
The idolness of gods

The idolness of gods
The idolness of gods

[voz]

It's definitely not "Some death wish pity" - listen also to "Epic" 27 seconds in on YouTube. "Some" and "Such". Sound completely different. Unless Mac's teeth fell out on both the recorded version and Epic so it sounds like "Suomuucha death wish..." There isn't a "The Life Round" either. Definitive lyrics below other than that "That you're in a stained shroud and" on Shroud of Turin.

Can you imagine how hard it is for us to understand the lyrics if even you guys can't always make out the right words? As far as the discusion between 'Some are' and 'Such a' death wish, I stay by the some are death - part as it follows to some are born.

The rest of the changes GoGP makes seems OK.

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

Sure, but at least someone answered your thread and took the trouble to listen to the lyrics and may not have bothered, which probably would have been easier. As for the some or such a, choose whatever you want. I'm finished with my contributions to the lyrics.

[voz]

Sure, but at least someone answered your thread and took the trouble to listen to the lyrics and may not have bothered, which probably would have been easier.

And I thank you for your efforts.

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

Small point if you are going with Some... Bluegrace said it was definately Some to, not some are.