The Rewind The Film (Album) Lyrics Thread

[Porco]

Lyrics! ...suggestions for corrections welcome… discussion / opinions could go here too. Edit: Now we've seen the official lyric sheets, kindly scanned by halcy0nzombie, I've updated this post to mostly follow that. I've dropped the capitals though, and there's a few tiny differences/additional info here.

(Brackets denote alternate / additional vocals)
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Rewind The Film (Album) Lyrics


1. This Sullen Welsh Heart - Featuring Lucy Rose -

I don't want my children to grow up like me
It's too soul destroying
It's a mocking disease
A wasting disease

I don't want my children to grow up like me
It's too soul destroying
It's a mocking disease
A wasting disease

Some days I wake up with love still alive
I want to go to sleep
But I cannot I close my eyes
I cannot I close my eyes

I can't fight this war any more
Time to surrender time to move on (Time to surrender time to move on)

So line up the firing squads
Kiss goodbye to what you want
Go with the flow, go home (Go with the flow, go home)
You can't keep on struggling when you're alone (You can't keep on struggling when you're alone)

When you're alone

This sullen Welsh heart it won't leave it won't give up (This sullen Welsh heart it won't leave it won't give up)
The hating half of me has won the battle easily (The hating half of me has won the battle easily)
(This sullen Welsh heart it won't leave it won't give up)
(The hating half of me has won the battle easily)

The battle easily (The battle easily)

'The act of creation saves us from despair'
A phrase that keeps repeating in my head
In my head

It's not enough to succeed, others must fail
My unhappy mantra
I wish I could escape
I wish I could escape

I can't fight this war any more
Time to surrender time to move on (Time to surrender time to move on)

So line up the firing squads
Kiss goodbye to what you want
Go with the flow, go home (Go with the flow, go home)
You can't keep on struggling when you're alone (You can't keep on struggling when you're alone)

When you're alone

This sullen Welsh heart it won't leave it won't give up (This sullen Welsh heart it won't leave it won't give up)
The hating half of me has won the battle easily (The hating half of me has won the battle easily)
(This sullen Welsh heart it won't leave it won't give up)
(The hating half of me has won the battle easily)

This sullen Welsh heart it won't leave it won't give up (This sullen Welsh heart it won't leave it won't give up)
The hating half of me has won the battle easily (The hating half of me has won the battle easily)
(This sullen Welsh heart it won't leave it won't give up)
(The hating half of me has won the battle easily)

The battle easily (The battle easily)


2. Show Me the Wonder

This is no threat
Just an invitation
A sense of belonging
A sense of inspiration

Is Heaven a place
Where nothing ever happens?
Is it too much to ask
To disbelieve in everything?

Show me the wonder
I have seen the birthplace of The Universe
Show me the wonder
I have seen miracles move in reverse

If you're exiled
By all the cruel tongues
Then show me the wonder
The wonder of your love

The tapping pain of madness
Running through the veins
We may write in English
But our truth remains in Wales

Show me the wonder
I have seen the birthplace of The Universe
Show me the wonder
I have seen miracles move in reverse

Praying for the silence
When we look into the mirror
Staying so patient
We measure the nostalgia

Is Heaven a place
Where nothing ever happens?
Is it too much to ask
To disbelieve in everything?

Show me the wonder
I have seen the birthplace of The Universe
Show me the wonder
I have seen miracles move in reverse

Show me the wonder
I have seen miracles move in reverse


3. Rewind the Film - Featuring Richard Hawley -

Rewind the film again
I'd love to see my joy, my friends
Rewind the film again
So I can fall asleep content

Rewind the film once more
Turn back the pages of my books
Rewind the film once more
I want the world to see it all (I want the world to see it all)

I'll want to feel small
Lying in my mothers arms
Playing my own records
Hoping that they'll never stop

There is too much heartbreak
In the nothing of the now
I'll want to see it all
Never want to let it go (Never want to let it go)

Rewind the film once more
Turn back the pages of my books
Rewind the film once more
I want the world to see it all

((Let me hide under the sheets
And celebrate the boredom
Let me hide under the sheets
With the radio on))

Rewind the film again
I'd love to see my joy, my friends
Rewind the film again
so i can fall asleep content

Rewind the film once more
Turn back the pages of my books
Rewind the film once more
I want the world to see it all (I want the world to see it all)

I'll want to feel small
Holding on my father's hands
Playing broken records
Praying that they'll never stop

There is too much heartbreak
In the nothing of the now
I'll want to see it all
Never gonna let you down (Never gonna let you down)

Rewind the film once more
Turn back the pages of my books
Rewind the film once more
I want the world to see it all

((I want the world to see all the love and security
My childhood dreams
But now I am a busted flush and I am waiting for the night to come))

((So rewind the film again
I'd love to see my joy my friends
Yes rewind the film again
So I can fall asleep content))


4. Builder of Routines

I've sealed myself in
Laminated all of my skin
Sellotaped my world in bits
I must embrace paralysis

Only in you do we see ourselves
Only in you can we see our end
So sick and so tired of being 4 real
Only the fiction still has the appeal

Builder of Routines
It makes me safe and clean
It crucifies parts of me
But never seems to make me bleed

Only in you do we see ourselves
Only in you can we see our end
So sick and so tired of being 4 real
Only the fiction still has the appeal

How I hate middle age
In between acceptance and rage
Democracy has sure made a fool out of me
But I am the builder of routines


5. 4 Lonely Roads - Featuring Cate Le Bon -

(*filtered intro*)

4 lonely roads
The terror it had flown
Never led you home

4 lonely roads
Got sunk into my heart
Then it fell apart

Staring with an idle eye
Measuring the pain inside
Darker hell stood up on high
Then disappeared without reply

4 lonely roads
I'm trapped inside the skin
Can't let love back in

4 lonely roads
The cities drunk and mute
Lost in your pursuit
(I tell them this)

Staring with an idle eye
Measuring the pain inside
Darker hell stood up on high
Then disappeared without reply
I don't know why...

(Three …Four…)

And if we can
Then we must
Hold our heads up
Learn to trust
It's up to you
It's up to us
Some dignity
A little love
A little love


6. (I Miss the) Tokyo Skyline

Lost on my own in the blazing sun
Down through the streets of Tokyo
Feeling like an alien is so much fun
This place somehow feels like a second home

I dream of the Tokyo skyline
I miss the emptiness and the silence
I long for the non-communication
Everything is happily lost in translation

I miss the Tokyo skyline
I miss the smog and the sunshine
Every night I sit and remember
This love I feel for a modern wonder

I dream of the Tokyo skyline
I miss the emptiness and the silence
I long for the non-communication
Everything is happily lost in translation

Lost on my own in the blazing sun
Down through the streets of Tokyo
Feeling like an alien is so much fun
This place somehow feels like a second home

I miss the Tokyo skyline
I miss the smog and the sunshine
Every night I sit and remember
This love I feel for a modern wonder


7. Anthem For A Lost Cause

It's a cold and lonely message
At the end of a song
It invaded hearts and minds
But they couldn't get along
It can ask you to remember
It can ask you for a dance
So it seems that every song
Now is just one last chance

Take this, it's yours
An anthem for a lost cause
Now ashes, bone and splinter
What once was a glittering prize
The composition rites

Oh redemption, love and departure
I think your work is done
Paris, St. Petersburg don't need a tower of song
Escape's not worth the capture
So walk that lonesome road
No joy or earthly rapture
Nothing to take the load

Take this, it's yours
An anthem for a lost cause
Now ashes, bone and splinter
What once was a glittering prize
The composition rites

Take this, it's yours
An anthem for a lost cause
Now ashes, bone and splinter
What once was a glittering prize
The composition rites

...Yours…
...Cause…

Take this, it's yours
An anthem for a lost cause
Now ashes, bone and splinter
What once was a glittering prize
The composition rites


8. As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)

(Sample from The Dust Blows Forward 'N The Dust Blows Back - Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band)
- Present on pre-release Radio / Promo copies of the album, but had to be omitted on the final retail version due to failing to get the necessary permissions.

"The dust blows forward 'n dust blows back
And the wind blows black thru the sky
And the smokestack blows up in suns eye
What am I gonna die?
Uh white flake riverboat just flew by"

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As holy as the soil that buries your skin
As holy as the love we'll never give
As holy as the time that drifted away
I love you so will you please come home

As holy as the Roman Empire
As holy as the coffee you made for us
As holy as those nights we walked in the rain
Oh, will you please come home

So come on
Would it be that hard
Just for once
We could save the world
Just me and you
Doing something true
Even if it only lasts for seconds

As lonely as the darkness between the stars
As fragile as the people we are
As sacred as those words we shared and displayed
I love you so will you please come home

As beautiful as the spring in Japan
As generous as your safe strong hands
As wasted as the lifetimes we spent apart
I love you so will you please come home

So come on
Would it be that hard
Just for once
We could save the world
Just me and you
Doing something true
Even if it only lasts for seconds

Oh I love you so won't you please come home
Oh, it's been so long, I can't let go.

Oh I love you so won't you please come home
I love you so won't you please come home


9. 3 Ways To See Despair

There are three ways to see despair
I've seen them all, I'm scared to say

The three ways are real
I've lived through them all
The fourth way is coming
So prepare for the fall

Can you save someone from the hidden depths
Of a darkened soul with no hope left
And I don't know how and I don't know when
But I pray that you'll beautiful again

Can you save someone from the hidden depths
Of a darkened soul with no hope left
And I don't know how, I don't know when
But I pray that you'll be beautiful again

But I pray that you'll be beautiful again

And I don't know how and I don't know when
But I pray that you'll be beautiful again

I am as tired as John Lennon sang
Conveying exhaustion like no-one else can
I'm no longer the centre of the universe
A bare admission that makes it seem worse

A bare admission that makes it seem worse
A bare admission that makes it seem worse


10. Running Out Of Fantasy

My eco-system is based on hatred
My DNA remains untested
I hate the tyranny of the Sun
It always rises, always comes down

I'm running out of fantasy

I don't expect your sympathy
I'm old, I'm strange I'm confidential
Has my fantasy run out of delusion?
Has my fantasy reached its logical conclusion?

I'm running out of fantasy

The dying fall of my sentences
The magic of lost consequences
The seduction of a fading power
In a hotel room in the middle of nowhere

I'm running out of fantasy

I don't expect your sympathy
I'm old, I'm strange I'm confidential
Has my fantasy run out of delusion?
Has my fantasy reached its logical conclusion?

I'm running out of fantasy

I'm revealing myself in layers
Exposing a core to the inner eye
Drawn deep into some distant episodes
I don't know whether to laugh or cry

Running out of fantasy

The obsession with change has bled my dry
My fantasy forever locked inside
The obsession with change has bled my dry

The obsession with change has bled my dry
My fantasy forever locked inside
The obsession with change has bled my dry


11. Manorbier

!-instrumental-!


30 Years Of War

It's the longest running joke
In history
To kill the working classes
In the name of liberty

The lies of Hillsborough
The blood of Orgreave
All the evasion at the BBC

And 30 years of war
To darken all our class
Black propaganda, lies and mistrust
See it in our eyes, the fire dimming away
The old-boy network won the war again

The old-boy network won the war again
The old-boy network won the war again

So you hide all Lowry's paintings
For 30 years or more
'Cos he turned down a knighthood
And you must now settle the score

And the endless parade of old Etonian scum
Line the front benches so what is to be done?
All part of the same establishment
I ask you again what is to be done?

I ask you again what is to be done?
I ask you again what is to be done?

These verses at attention stand
Ready for the immortal command
The armies of my pages may never fight again
Happy for the order to meet eternal fame

Blame the poor
Praise the rich
Make the connections
Put them in print
Keep 'em boxed in
Keep 'em kettled in

Create a mistruth
So bewildering

Create a mistruth
So bewildering
Create a mistruth
So bewildering

So you hide all Lowry's paintings
For 30 years or more
'Cos he turned down a knighthood
And you must now settle the score
And the endless parade of old Etonian scum
Line the front benches so what is to be done?
All part of the same establishment
I ask you again what is to be done?

I ask you again what is to be done?
I ask you again what is to be done?

So you hide all Lowry's paintings
For 30 years or more
'Cos he turned down a knighthood
And you must now settle the score
And the endless parade of old Etonian scum
Line the front benches so what is to be done?
All part of the same establishment
I ask you again what is to be done?

I ask you again what is to be done?
I ask you again what is to be done?

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[Dac X Lee]

Wow, that was very dilligent and kind of you.

[mar]

Yes, thank you Porco for the work of posting these!

[Porco]

Honestly it's a pleasure typing these words up… even if we'll probably all have them in print on Monday. lol.

4 Lonely Roads is tricky because I'm not used to Cate Le Bon's voice like I am James'.

[sofarsideways]

Thanks for this, excellent work I am now dying all over AHATS and ROOF.

...yes, I am dying all over a hat and roof

[Porco]

Originally Posted by sofarsideways

Thanks for this, excellent work I am now dying all over AHATS and ROOF.

...yes, I am dying all over a hat and roof

Well they both keep your head dry when it's raining… that's thematic that is

I think I am saying it is 'heels' (in ROOF) unless someone has a better idea, based on the Quietus track-by-track interview. Likewise 'composition rites' for AFALC, I think.

[exopotamie]

Thanks Porco!! Doing it so we don't have to

[gladstone]

Good work sir!

[tzb]

Thanks Porco

[Porco]

You're all very welcome.

Going to need some help with the remaining bits'n'pieces I'm not so sure on… We have until Friday when the German release happens I think?!

Those 30 Year War lyrics choked me up a bit at one point… amazing.

[The Quatercircle]

Thanks very much.

I couldn't get the chorus to 30 year war! I was like hide all whose paintings!!?!

Lowry, fantastic!

There's really some special stuff on the new record!

[Porco]

Originally Posted by The Quatercircle

Thanks very much.

I couldn't get the chorus to 30 year war! I was like hide all whose paintings!!?!

Lowry, fantastic!

There's really some special stuff on the new record!

I admit that one had me stumped until I re-read the Quietus piece I linked to a few posts back!

And I think I just got another line, 'See it in our eyes, the fire dimming away' (30YW). Played at 75% speed it suddenly became clearer!

You're right, I really love some of the lyrics on this album

I'm still not 100% on all these, I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few howlers when we see what the lyrics booklet says and hear the tracks in better quality than radio play.

Edit: …need… sleep… but …

4 Lonely Roads:

"That ever entered frame
Never led you home" ????? It's all I can make of it.

And is it really "Darker hell stood up on high" or do I just want it to be that because I think it's such a cool line?!

Ah well, hopefully not long to confirm it now.

[ZiZi]

Brilliant work, Porco!

[*Found That Soul*]

Great work!

Thought this line "The lies that fills breath" was "The lies of Hillsborough"

[tzb]

"Some days I wake up with love still alive" is a candidate for clumsiest Manics lyric, it sticks out like a sore thumb... then seconds later "The act of creation saves us from despair" cements itself as one of their most elegant lyrics to date.

DIS FUCKIN BAND