TV Girl Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Don't move, your lover is calling
Or did they just let the sirens ring
As the bombs were falling?
And all of these boys would just do like you say so
And if you tried to leave the room
They would grab your ankles

[Chorus]
But ooh (Ooh-ooh-ooh, ah-ah)
It doesn't matter what you do
I'll be faithful
I'll be faithful
I'll be faithful (I'll be, I'll be)
I'll be faithful

[Verse 2]
Was it love or art or was it drugs or something?
Don't tell me every hole you could notch on a belt
Added up to nothing
It was water or wine or whatever you paid for
And you could spit right in my drink
And I'd be grateful

[Chorus]
But ooh (Ooh-ooh-ooh, ah-ah)
Doesn't matter what you do
I'll be faithful
I'll be faithful (I'll be faithful, woah yeah)
I'll be faithful (I'll be, I'll be)
I'll be faithful (I'll be, I'll be faithful)

[Bridge]
You thought that you were Axl or Iggy or Jimi or Janice or Johnny or Sidney
But really baby you weren't anything like that
Still, you would smile like a little brat
As you donned your jacket and they would swoon
And you would laugh and they would watch themselves
As they watched you looking back
Just skip the mass, you can keep the faith
You can sleep for days on a golden lawn
You can swear to God for just one second
How you could see heaven through this smog
And you would tell how you transcended in the back seat of a car
As you said a prayer for every derelict that got caught beneath the stars

[Chorus]
But, hey (Ooh-ooh-ooh, yeah)
If you say so
I'll be faithful (Ooh)
I'll be faithful (Faithful, yeah, yes I will)
I'll be faithful (I'll be faithful)
I'll be faithful (Unto you)
I'll be faithful (Yeah, I'll be)
I'll be faithful (I'll be)
I'll be faithful (Faithful, yeah)
I'll be faithful (Faithful, I'll be faithful)

[Verse 1]
I'd like to be a bit like you
I'd like to have your problems too
I'd treat love like an act of charity
Now I watch as your eyes turn blue
As you floated across the room
And move from moment to moment of clarity

[Chorus]
You should know what to do
And maybe you do
You should know what to do
Well let's skip to your room
You should know what to do
When they were looking at you
They weren't really looking at you
They were looking all the way through you
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, oh, oh, ooh, oh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, oh, oh, ooh, oh

[Verse 2]
I think that I'm a bit like you
Maybe more than you even knew and
If I could I would stick to you
Like glitter sticking into glue and
I would watch as your eyes turn blue
As we sat in our separate rooms
I swear her voice would too
If I could only find out who's

[Chorus]
You should know what to do
And maybe you do
You should know what to do
Well let's skip to your room
You should know what to do
When they were looking at you
They weren't really looking at you
They were looking all the way through you
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, oh, oh, ooh, oh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, oh, oh, ooh, oh

[Verse 1]
I don't understand your green eyes
They sure looked blue to me
You could stay we could watch the sea rise
Find shade in some raging heat
I know that my face is ugly
I've known since I was seventeen
That there ain't no god above me
Looking out for a boy

[Pre-Chorus]
Who's life's so wrong
So wrong
So wrong

[Chorus]
I don't know, you just do what you can
To hang on
Hang on
You just do what you can to delude yourself and stay strong (To delude yourself and stay strong)
But hang on
You found someone to hang on to
If it ain't tied down you just take what you can and move on (Take what you can and move on)

[Verse 2]
Please don't explain your tattoos
The snake with the inverted cross
'Cause when you lay it down beside me
They were neither down or up
I saw how your lips were shining
Leaving stains upon a silver cup
Dear lord could you please remind me
Why it is you would let me sleep

[Pre-Chorus]
For so long
So long
So long

[Chorus]
I don't know, you just do what you can
To hang on
Hang on
You just do what you can to delude yourself and stay strong (To delude yourself and stay strong)
You hang on
You found someone to hang on to
If it ain't tied down you just take what you can and move on (Take what you can and move on)

[Outro]
But hang on (Hang on)
Hang on
You hang on
Hang on
Hang on
Hang on (Hang on)
Hang on (Hang on)
Hang on (Hang on)
Hang on (Hang on)

[Verse 1]
This old world, it ain't my home
Nice place to visit, but you wouldn't stay
A few more risings and settings of the sun
And I would cross my legs and be on my way

[Chorus]
You can look up to me, baby
And I might see you looking down
'Cause there ain't no higher ground
There ain't no higher ground

[Interlude]
Upon the pretty cross
'Course I'm bad
Mister everybody tell their testimony
Why won't they say anything now?
Yeah, Lord

[Verse 2]
Listen, baby, you ain't my friend
Even though we float together down this raging flood
You could rip your dress and add fuel to the fire
But you can't take the smoke out of these dirty lungs

[Chorus]
Might be Heaven up above us
But even if it could be found
There ain't no higher ground
There ain't no higher ground
There ain't no higher ground
There ain't no higher ground

[Interlude]
Upon the pretty cross
'Course I'm bad
Mister everybody tell their testimony
Why won't they say anything now?
Yeah, Lord

[Intro]
It's a shame
It's a shame
It's a shame
It's a shame

[Verse 1]
Wherever you go, I'll go with ya, and
Whatever you smoke, I'll smoke with ya
Whenever you pose, I will take your picture
Even though I just wish I was in it, just have something to remember
We lit our cigarettes with studied thoughtfulness, and
Dreamed of high consciences but really one of the opposite, and
Who unscrewed the bottle and poured booze onto the flame?
Who gives a damn about all the consequence?
I just wanted to know your name

[Pre-Chorus]
It's a shame (It's a shame)
But all in love is fair, and
It's a shame (It's a shame)
It's pain we have to bear
And it's a shame (It's a shame)
When you got no one left to blame and you say
"Don't go," But they're are already there
It's a shame (It's a shame)
It's just a shame (It's a shame, It's a shame)
It's a shame (It's a shame)
It's just a shame (It's a shame, It's a shame)
It's a crying shame

[Verse 2]
Whenever you pay, I'll pay for ya, and I
Wherever you lay, I'll lay on ya, and I
Whatever you say, I will do the octave
Even though you don't care much for harmonies
I just wanted to give you the option
We drink and we womanize, we
Fuck and we fetishize, we
Get clean and testify, we
Relapse and we justify, but
So many to eulogize when no one calls the press
And I guess our love it just crystallizes and some stays in the air

[Pre-Chorus]
And it's a shame (It's a shame)
We just can't get along, and
It's a shame (It's a shame)
When things just turn out wrong
And it's a shame (It's a shame)
When you've got nothing left to say
And so you put it in a song but you only wanted to explain that

[Chorus]
It's a shame (It's a shame)
It's just a shame (It's a shame)
It's a shame (It's a shame)
It's just a shame (It's a shame)
It's a crying shame
It's a shame (It's a shame)
Oh, it's a shame (It's a shame, It's a shame)
It's a shame (It's a shame)
It's a shame (It's a shame)
It's a crying shame

[Verse 1]
If you wanna get higher
Just let me know if it's the pink or the blues
If you're tired
I had the speed somewhere in my shoes
I know you were lyin'
When you said you'd be with me in the end
Guess I know where I'll find ya

[Chorus]
Ooh, ooh-ooh
And if I see you in Hell
I won't mind the fire
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh
I won't mind the fire
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh

[Verse 2]
If you're wired
Just even out with the booze
And if I'm required
To lie awake so I can look after you
I wouldn't mind it
Just wish we had time
So don't go killing thе vibe
Baby, everyonе's dying

[Chorus]
Ooh, ooh-ooh
And if I see you in Hell
I won't mind the fire
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh
I won't mind the fire
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh
I won't mind the fire
Fire, fire, fire
I won't mind the fire
Fire, fire, fire
I won't mind the fire

[Bridge]
Every high you chase (Fire)
Every glass you break (Fire)
Every moan you make (Fire)
Every walk of shame (I won't mind the fire)
I can hear you say (Fire)
As you flailed on the stage (Fire)
How we're born in a cage (Fire)
On some rock out in space (I won't mind the fire)
With no plan to escape (Fire)
Always running in place (Fire)
As we kick and we rage (Fire)
All the difference it makes (I won't mind the fire)
Whether clean or behaved (Fire)
Or debauched or defaced (Fire)
All the sinners and saints (Fire)
Holding hands in the grave (I won’t mind the fire)
Neither lost, neither saved (Fire)
Neither pleasure, nor pain (Fire)
Nothing spent, nothing gained (Fire)
Nothing still, nothing changed (I won't mind the fire)
No nirvana attained (Fire)
And no karma exchanged (Fire)
Nothing real, nothing fake (Fire)
Nor revealed, nor explained (I won't mind the fire)

[Outro]
No, no
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh
I won't, won't mind the fire
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh
I won't mind
I won't mind the fire

[Chorus]
One of these mornings
It won't be long
You're gonna look for me, child
And I'll be gone
One of these mornings
It won't be long
You're gonna look for me, child
And I'll be gone

[Verse 1]
What does it mean?
Ooh, tell me what does it mean?
To live free
Anywhere
When you're stuck in this body
When you're stuck in this house
You're stuck in your ways
A bird in a cage
Stuck with it's brain
Making the same mistakes
But that's okay
'Cause you can change your hair and change your life
You change your mouth, your nose, your eye, your skin
You can change into a twenty year old deadbeat
And drop acid in a warehouse somewhere and abandon the kid but

[Pre-Chorus]
I heard it's said but we never told
You see it in their eyes and you know it's true
We could stand here in the same painted room
But our eyes would be different hues

[Chorus]
One of these mornings
It won't be long
You're gonna look for me, child
And I'll be gone
One of these mornings
It won't be long
You're gonna look for me, child
And I'll be gone

[Verse 2]
I meant to tell ya
Thought that I told ya
But heaven is a boardroom
It's a place on earth between saved and the drawn
With immaculate reception
And you could tell me again how you preferred sensitive men
But how you could make an exception
And how pagans and virgins and whores down on the floor
On all fours, eyes glazed over in genuflection
But what if you're just too fucked up to ascend
And what if your halo is bent so far that it touches your head and sharpens the edge?
And what if the word on high was passed down, written on a stone and crossed out in pen but

[Pre-Chorus]
I heard it's sad though I didn't hear
I'm sorry, kid, I just can't forget
Can't wash your sins when they're caked on so thick
If you did, there'd be nothing left

[Chorus]
One of these mornings
It won't be long
You're gonna look for me, child
And I'll be gone
One of these mornings
It won't be long
You're gonna look for me, child
And I'll be gone

[Intro]
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom

[Verse 1]
Well, the morning is for lovers
The afternoon, for picnics in the park
Twilight is for poets
But you and me just wait 'til it gets dark

[Chorus]
'Cause the nighttime
The nighttime is for fuck-ups
Yeah, the nighttime
The night belongs to us

[Post-Chorus]
(We bring it all here, from under the temple)
(We bring it all here, from under the temple)

[Verse 2]
The sunshine is for children
The clouds, for seeing images of women
As they're floating by
Past the window of your building
And everything was just understood
But some folks just got it bad
And some folks just got it good
And some folks just got it no good

[Chorus]
And the nighttime
The nighttime is for fuck-ups
Yeah, the nighttime
The night belongs to us

[Post-Chorus]
(We bring it all here, from under the temple)
(We bring it all here, from under the temple)

[Outro]
(Oh, in the beginning and He's the ending, yeah)

[Verse 1]
One of these days and probably soon
I'm gonna go up to Heaven and meet my Lord
Gonna press that flame to the silver spoon
I'm gonna go up to Heaven and meet my Lord
One of these days I'm telling you, boy
I'm gonna go up to Heaven and meet my Lord
I'm gonna slip right into that big black void
I'm gonna go up to Heaven and meet my Lord

[Chorus]
(Ooh) Your rose is red but you're turning blue
(Ooh) Silver cord wrapped around your neck
As you dangle from the moon

[Verse 2]
Sold my body for all it was worth
I'm gonna go up to Heaven and meet my Lord
Still couldn't buy any peace on Earth
I'm gonna go up to Heaven and meet my Lord
You could sleep with a hundred girls
I'm gonna go up to Heaven and meet my Lord
No man alive ever fucked the world
I'm gonna go up to Heaven and meet my Lord

[Chorus]
(Ooh) I tried money, I tried drugs
(Ooh) There's no pill so translucent
Ain't no powder white enough

[Verse 3]
I heard it said, though they never told
I'm gonna go up to Heaven and meet my Lord
The nose of an angel is lined with gold
I'm gonna go up to Heaven and meet my Lord
And if I make it to holy ground
I'm gonna go up to Heaven and meet my Lord
I'm gonna bag it up, sell it by the pound
I'm gonna go up to Heaven and meet my Lord

[Chorus]
(Ooh) And if you find yourself in Hell
(Ooh) Kiss the devil on the lips
And you swear you would never tell

[Verse 4]
One of these days and it won't be long
I'm gonna go up to Heaven and meet my Lord
They're gonna glorify me in a tragic song
I'm gonna go up to Heaven and meet my Lord
One of these days I'm telling you, boy
I'm gonna go up to Heaven and meet my Lord
I'm gonna slip right into that big black void
I'm gonna go up to Heaven and meet my Lord

[Verse 1]
What if the truth is required but your tongue is dry and you can't get it out now?
What if you're floating away but you get too high and you can't come back down?
Up, up and away, looking back at the rest of the flock still down, down bad
What if you oughta go home but you bump again, and you bump again

[Chorus]
And ooh
Most of us just won't make it
Most of us just gotta fake it
But ninety is close and
Ninety nine is almost true
Ninety nine and a half, it just won't do
It just won't do
It just won't do, ooh, ooh, ooh
It just won't do

[Verse 2]
What if your man steps out and you're stuck with the junk and they're working on the clamp down?
Oh, I thought I told you before, you never take it so far that you can't take it back now
But if you want a fix, I'm a broken man, it's bad enough we exist on the stolen land
I said you just can't ignore the past, she said, "What the hell are you talking about? Baby, of course you can"

[Chorus]
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Most of us just won't make it
Most of us just gotta take it
Someone right the wrongs or
Someone sing a song to kill my blues
Ninety nine and a half, it just won't do
Just won't do
Just won't do
Just won't do