The Hampdens lyrics

[Asleep On The Lawn]

Wondering why you never sleep
It's in your dreams
That you don't know
Please don't change nothing at all
The futures blank and everlasting

But I can see
The clouds through channelling, fencing, explode
From the ground
And consume me

I fell asleep
Out on the lawn
I work out a barn
Way down the road
I am young but I don't belong
I am no one who can see your soul
Your soul
Oh no

So limelight comes
In different states
Shadows fall with no intention
But if only you'd answer your phone
Come tonight I'm going no where

I can see
The clouds through channelling, fencing, explode
From the ground
And consume me

I fell asleep
Out on the lawn
I work out a barn
Way down the road
I am young but I don't belong
I am no one who can see your soul
Your soul
Oh no

But I told you
You're not the one
You're not the one
You never were

I fell asleep
Out on the lawn
I work out a barn
Way down the road
I am young but I don't belong
I am no one who can see your soul
Your soul
Oh no

[Croupier]

Yes I saw you today.
When things go I don't know.
It's all in what you're telling.
I see where it went it's too hard to be there again.
But it's close it's rubbing off.
At the Grand is where swear I left you, all alone.
At the Grand is where I swear I saw your face.
See it's hurting me and I when I can see it hurts you too.
It hurts so bad.
But maybe not?
When things go I don't know.
It's all in what you're telling.
There's danger it's special it's like I'm waiting for a sign.
And I'm close I'm on the edge

[Forget To Begin]

You're always on my mind.
You're the voice inside my head.
As I travel through this life I try to stay ahead
But I'll never see you again.
I disappear when you turn on the lights.
You've got to forget to begin this time.
Even if it's going to hurt somehow,
You've got to forget to begin somehow.
If I'd want to stay in line
I'd never leave my bed.
And I wonder all the time
If you meant the things you said
You life me up, I'm so wrung out
But now it's coming back
I'll never be just forgotten and alone.

[Generation Y]

I'm sick and tired of apathy
And Cobain tributes
Buy some time and make a bid for Generation Y
Why can't I get it together?
Meet me tonight on myspace, I'll be there waiting
A Backlit sky could be nuclear, or just a late sunrise
The day is waiting

Another stolen glance, on a friday night
But you could never know
This not a life, it is an addiction

Across the bar I watch you dance
But nevermind, it's over now for Generation Y
French Vogue knows that spiders cling to model's faces
Another high rise
A facsimile of the mottos of our youth
So long ago I don't recall them

(A beating heart in a dark club
You're not from the town that I grew up in
My friends do all the thing that other folks do
To keep the world from closing in
Take my hand
And come back to the town that I grew up in)

[Hands In The Ground]

If you're gone before I'm there
And your yellowing walls appear
Through the scrubbed graying sheets
Look inside and see
If you can't believe it's me
Hiding out beneath eiderdown skies
You are so hard to deceive
Forget everything

I go outside
To virgin ground and dig a hole
And bury my hands in the soil
Because I don't like how I'm feeling

If you can shake your head
And break through my shadowy walls of sleep
Draw the blinds above your bed
And try hard to see
Through the windows into the street
At little patches of ironed out lawn
It is so hard to believe you can do anything
I don't know
Everybody's on their backs
And I don't know if they're sleeping

I go outside
To virgin ground and dig a hole
And bury my hands in the soil
Because I don't like how I'm feeling

(Go outside,
Shake your head
Draw the blinds above your bed
Feel the sun on the street and the dirt beneath your feet
Take a chance
Leave your home
Pack your bags before you go
Call your friend
Shake his hand
And then set off and don't look back)

[The Belljar (Summer In The Hamptons)]

Bought a new one yesterday.
It never suited me anyway
But I'm not the only one
Who looks bad in Louis Vuitton

Something burns me out
My only hope is by the sea
I'm feeling uptight, nothing on the inside
Soaking up the sunlight
Trying to make it alright

At home I keep a bar
It means I never have to travel far
To be near the only thing
That's worth the pain it brings

Something burns me out
My only hope is by the sea
I'm feeling uptight, nothing on the inside
Soaking up the sunlight
Trying to make it alright

Can't believe it's so hot
I could buy a sports car
Take it to the Hamptons
And drive into the water

[The Hype]

I don't even know where you are coming from
There is all the silence I can't take
Everything you do is incessant
I'm trying hard just to clam down

But,
Don't believe the hype(3 times)
Don't believe
Don't believe the signs the sold you now
Yes because it's cold, it's cold and it's getting colder
Down there you go every time.
And I don't know why.
I don't know, do you feel?
Heat rises from the ground as nails fall from the sky.
I don't know, do you feel?
Women stop and stare as my face dissoves away.

Yes it's going a little more each time
But all you say
All the time is "I agree"

[The Last Party]

There's lead in the water (you've seen the sun)
Paranoia is my favourite word (so far away)
I'm a social X-ray (you've come undone).
I define my generation.
I'm Jaded
But I took all the things you said
Just to please you,
But I've lost all track of time
At the last party
You're going off your head once again
No one hears you say
A thousand blank voices
No one hears your sigh.
Once again.
What are you going to do once the party ends?
My second favourite word is future (you've seen the sun).
Television tells me I need help (so far away).
I'm an intimate void (you've come undone).
I dream of digital displays