LOSING TOUCH | Empathy Test

Empathy Test lyrics - Losing Touch (album)

Kirrilee

You remind me
Of places, I have never been.
You take me to places
I wish that I had seen with my own eyes.
(But) you know that I am happy here
Staring into yours.
Light another cigarette now honey
Mix another snakebite & black

We’ve only a short while here,
To be, ourselves.
We’re only a short while here,
So just be, yourself now Kirrilee.

I caught my mouth upon
The stud, on your lower lip.
I tossed you the paperclip
To unlock the door, unlock the door
But you, stepped right inside of me.
We’re only a short time here
So just be, yourself now Kirrilee.

We’ve only a short while here,
To be, ourselves.
We’ve only a short while here,
To be, ourselves.
We’ve only a short while here,
To be, ourselves.
We’re only a short while here,
So just be, yourself now
Kirrilee.

Holding On

The moment that you wake from your disguise
They record you with their eyes.
No matter how, long or hard they try
You know they won’t shake it
You know they won’t shake it.

Reaching for the seam that holds you in
To find where you begin.
Frozen in the pose they’ve chalked us in
You know we can’t break it
You know we can’t break this.

Slowly disappearing out of view
Holding on to you.

The shutter clicks and we’re immortalised
Flashbulb our goodbyes.
No matter how, long or hard you try
You know you can’t fake it
You know you can’t fake this.

Slowly disappearing out of view
Holding on to you.

Losing Touch

Scared of losing touch
If I really mean that much
Why pretend that you love him?

Don't call me out the blue
When it's clear that I still do
And you know he knows it too.

Going home alone
The only love I've known
It's always been you.

It’s always been you.

Tell me it's not real
Tell me he doesn't make you feel
The way I made you feel.

If you care for me at all
You'll hang up when I call
You'll clear me space to fall.

If you give I will receive
And despite what they believe
It's always been you.

It's always been you.

It’s always been you.

When you're feeling alone
And you're colder than stone
Call me you know...

It's always been you.

Sleep

Stay here for a while, don’t go
Don’t leave me alone or we’ll never know.
Stay here for a while, let’s sleep
Don’t wake me up ‘cause I need to dream.

I need to sleep and to dream.

Stay here for a while, let’s weep
There is too much sorrow for me to keep
Inside of me
I need to sleep and to dream.

I am, not in love

These feelings will just fade away.

I am, not in love
These feelings will just fade away

And though I think of you here today
You’re further and further away.

Stay here for a while, don’t go
Don’t leave me alone or we’ll never know.

Stay here for a while, let’s sleep
Don’t wake me up ‘cause I need to dream.

I am, not in love

These feelings will just fade away.

I am not in love
These feelings will just fade away

And though I think of you here today
You’re further and further away.

Where I Find Myself

If it wasn’t for the loneliness (then)
I could bare the solitude of
These terrible silences, these
Horrific injuries are
Simply where I find myself now.

Where I find myself.

And I’ve been down so long now that
It just looks like up to me.
These terrible silences, these,
Horrific injuries are,
Simply where I find myself now.

Where I find myself.

We bury ourselves deep inside with the
Things we cannot vocalise and
These terrible silences, these
Horrific injuries are
Simply where I find myself now

Where I find myself.

But even as my back is turned your
Undoing all the things we’ve learned and
These terrible silences, these
Horrific injuries are
Simply where I find myself now.

Where I find myself.

Hope For Me

I know how you want things to be
And I know how far, away we are
And I know that you need someone
Who worships you.

But I think that you know by now
That’s not, what I do, or who I am.
Let’s not try to change each other
We are, who we are.

And every time you hope for me
This is what you get from me.
Every time you hope for me
This is what you get from me.

I know how you want me to be
And I know how far, away I am
And I know that you need someone
Who cares, for you.

But I think that we know by now
That when, I’m up, you're always down.
How can we be together
But still, feel alone.

And every time you hope for me
This is what you get from me.
Every time you hope for me
This is what you get from me.

Demons

All of my dreams have flown away
All of my ambition with the wind
Now you’re here.

I never thought I would be satisfied
With anything I had
Now I’m not so sure.

I waited so long for you
Now you’re here I don’t know what to do
With you.

I went hunting for love
When I thought I’d lose.
I meant to shoot down a dove
Shot an angel instead.
And now she wakes up every day and she invites
All of my demons to play.

Fade in fade out like a musical
Rhythm and rhyme in time
Our heart beats sing
Just to remind you we’re still alive in here.

I waited so long for you
Now you’re here I don’t know what to do
With you.

I went hunting for love
When I thought I’d lose.
I meant to shoot down a dove
Shot an angel instead.
And now she wakes up every day and she invites

All of my demons to play.

Well I love her, I hate her
I abhor her, I adore her
Just the same, just the same

Just the same, just the same.

Well I love her, I hate her
I abhor her, I adore her
Just the same, just the same

Just the same, just the same.

Here is the Place

Drive me slow, down the road
Sound the horn on every bend.
Bow your heads, respect the dead
For he had many, many friends.

Now follow the road, through the tunnel of trees
To the big, wide open field
And take a left, up the muddy track
To the house where I grew up.

And here is the place, when I die
I want you to bury me.
Beneath this old, willow tree;
Enough of an epitaph for me.
And here is the place, when I die
I want you to bury me.
These friendly roots, will hold my bones
And I will never be alone.

Stop the car, on the track
Stoop to kiss me - I can’t kiss you back.
Shed no tears, for all the years
You’ve made up for what I lacked.
Heave me up, to head height
On the shoulders of my friends
And lay me down, on the lawn
When all the curtains have been drawn.

Last Night on Earth

She sings me the saddest of songs
I cannot help but sing along
Forever after in my head.

There’ll be no stopping once she starts
The eternal burden of the queen

of my heart
I want to be free, but can't let go.

She doesn't really know why...

I feel so tired I could die
Leave my window open wide
Let my spirit feel the night.

Now I have nothing more to say
I said too much now anyway
Lead me out into the night

The last night on earth...

And it’s you -
Running rivers through me
It's like you always knew me
From the moment of my birth
You'll be the death of me.

It’s you -
Running rivers through me
It's like you always knew me
From the moment of my birth
You'll be the death of me.

And now I have nothing more to say
I said too much now anyway
Lead me out into the night.

Throwing Stones

Flicking through yesterday’s news

Slipping my neck into the noose again

Well it fits so well.

Doesn’t know where her loyalties lie -

Then again neither do I.

Going out getting drunk on gin

Waking up in her arms but then I

Never knew it would be so hard

Never knew I would be a part of this

Bitterness.

I try to fall awake but I still sleep

Wait for a week but I am weak

And resolutions fail

And once again I’m throwing stones

At your window.

Throwing stones

At your window.

Stand in the payphone count to ten

But you won’t call me back again.

Sends a little shiver right through me

When I hear you running down to me.

But I know you’ll only turn away

‘Cause you’ve got nothing left to say to me

Well hear me out.

I try to fall awake but I still sleep

Wait for a week but I am weak.

And resolutions fail

And once again I’m throwing stones

At your window.

Siamese

Too late, too tired
My eyes were open yours were wide.
You looked for the sympathy that I
Couldn't find for you again, tonight.

Too late, although I tried
I knew the distance was all too wide.
I feel you reaching out for me but I
Couldn't be with you again, tonight.

I find myself thinking
How much easier it would be
If you, and me, were
Siamese

You call me late at night
You tell me all, the heartache in your life.
I do my best to empathise but I
Haven't got a clue what you're going through.

Maybe I never will,
Maybe I never really will.

And I find myself thinking,
How much easier it would be,
If you, and me, were
Siamese.