"Desire Lines" (2013)

• This Is Love (Feels Alright) lyrics - Camera Obscura
• Troublemaker lyrics - Camera Obscura
• William's Heart lyrics - Camera Obscura
• New Year's Resolution lyrics - Camera Obscura
• Do It Again lyrics - Camera Obscura
• Cri Du Coeur lyrics - Camera Obscura
• Every Weekday lyrics - Camera Obscura
• Fifth In Line To The Throne lyrics - Camera Obscura
• I Missed Your Party lyrics - Camera Obscura
• Break It To You Gently lyrics - Camera Obscura
• Desire Lines lyrics - Camera Obscura

This Is Love (Feels Alright) lyrics - Camera Obscura

When I found your girlfriend crying

I could have slapped you in the face

What lesson is she learning 

With you acting this way?

You are a good boy

She's a killer tease

You are both so deserving

You are both keen to please

We're going to listen to Kokomo

Desert island dreaming

Go forth or be lured

You're a good, good, good, good boy

She's a killer tease

You are both discerning

You are both keen to please

So turn out the light

Just give in to the night

This is love (feels alright)

You're a star on this fine night

We could turn down the light

To give in to the night

This is love (it's alright)

You're a star on this fine night

On this fine night

On this fine night

On this fine night

Troublemaker lyrics - Camera Obscura

It's late, we turn the TV off

It's old, makes the sound of a salt-shaker

You want to build fires on hot days

Feel the coolness of my gaze

I'm a troublemaker

Three years in and I call to crush what remains of this love

On a cold morning of you arriving

I was struggling for survival

It's late, we turn the TV off

It's old, makes the sound of a salt-shaker, a windbreaker

You want to build fires on hot days

Feel the coolness of my gaze

I'm a troublemaker

Three years in and I call to crush what remains of this love

It's going to be one hell of a year.

Keeping secrets in water tight compartments, Dear

It's giving me the fear

I fall down like a tonne of bricks

What makes me sick won't make me quit

I fall down like a tonne of bricks

What makes me sick won't make me quit

I knew what you were talking about

I knew what you were talking about

I knew what you were talking about

I knew what you were talking about

William's Heart lyrics - Camera Obscura

A postcard of Byron by the bed

It's a reminder of every word that he said

To die in the arms of a twenty year old

A figure of porcelain with moves so bold

You'd love to have a heart of gold

You would have to have come from a better mould

To die in the arms of a twenty year old, twenty year old

Ending the shift of a sleepless night

Tossing and turning and holding on tight

To die in the arms of a twenty year old, twenty year old

Want to know about William's heart?

Is it broken in two? Who's feeling bad?

Is there enough of a spark to sparkle again?

Is he lost?

Does he need a friend?

Lying to those who know you the best

Keeping a secret close to your chest

To die in the arms of a twenty year old, twenty year old

The agony of the late night pub

Talking too much, old age is a curse

Want to know about William's heart?

Is it broken in two? Who's feeling bad?

Is there enough of a spark to sparkle again?

Is he lost? Does he need a friend?

William where have you gone?

Will you return to me?

William where have you gone?

Please return to me

If it's a single man or a single malt

That I take in my arms when I'm feeling low

You'll say honesty has made me cruel

I say you're soft and you're made of wool

You are made of wool

New Year's Resolution lyrics - Camera Obscura

New year's resolution - to write something of value

New year's resolution - to write something would be fine

All I ever wanted was someone to rely on

All I ever wanted was somewhere to call home

You offer a friendship I can not reciprocate

So don't beg me, in a garden, for it not to end this way

I've been cool with you

I've been cool with you

I've been cool with you

The sooner you admit it I will too

New year's resolution - to kiss you like I mean it

With cheeks the colour of Rhubarb we'll be fine

Everybody's rushing around like they got a meeting

I just want to be here with a friend of mine

We decided to brave the elements of Spain

Because The Seven Year Itch was on telly again

I've been cool with you

I've been cool with you

I've been cool with you

The sooner you admit it I will too

I decided this pain was a landscape of blame

I decided to be only myself these days

I've been cool with you

I've been cool with you

I've been cool with you

The sooner you admit it I will too

Stay now

I wish that you would stay now

Stay now

You nearly went away now

Stay now

I wish that you would stay now

I wish you would stay now

You nearly went away now

Stay now

You nearly went away

Stay now

I wish you would stay now

Do It Again lyrics - Camera Obscura

Call my number

26 and three-quarters

Turn down the lights now

Let's do it again

You were insatiable

I was more than capable

And you fought in my corner

Would you do it again?

You, you, you're walking around

Can you see tears on this clown?

I said one more time around

Let's do it again

Let's do it again

Let's do it again

Let's do it again

Said 'Call my number'

26 and 3/4

Turn all the lights down

Let's do it again

You were insatiable

I was more than capable

And you fought in my corner

Would you do it again?

You, you, you're walking around

Can you see tears on this clown?

I said one more time around

Let's do it again

Let's do it again

Let's do it again

Let's do it again

You, you, you're walking around

Can you see tears on this clown?

I said one more time around

Let's do it again

Let's do it again

Let's do it again

Let's do it again...

Cri Du Coeur lyrics - Camera Obscura

I like to think when I'm driving

I like to daydream a little

I like to think about the people

The faces of the young and the old

I want to watch the whole story unfold

I'm gonna drive real fast now

Forget about my past now

I know I'm a fuck up

I know, a real tragedy

I never listen to people, you see

You can't say what's on your mind

Just go for it

Come on this time

I know, I know, I know I'll cry

I'll cry

Hot ideas in this cool head

Forget about what she said

Idolater of beauty

Cri du coeur

She's going to leave you always wanting more, wanting more

You can't say what's on your mind

Just go for it

Come on this time

I know, I know, I know I'll cry

I'll cry

I'll cry

Cri du coeur

Every Weekday lyrics - Camera Obscura

The last thing I want is to be tiptoeing around you

I want you to know that I'm proud of you

In my head you're nineteen going on ninety nine

You are Saturday and Sunday

Every weekday friend of mine

We got a little butter we took a little bread

It's there for the taking, come put us to the test

We're going to make a record then sail around the world

We might not storm the charts completely

but we'll do our very best

As long as I'm with you

I'll have a friend so true

There is nobody quite like me you say

There is no one half as good as you

I don't want to sound like I've written us off

The words and the feelings are pouring and

I can't turn them off

No I can't turn them off

I won't let you down

Take all of my time

But don't

Don't

No don't let me down

Fifth In Line To The Throne lyrics - Camera Obscura

I gave you a regal name

Cause you treat me like a queen

But like a queen I don't know when I'll be slain

Now, I'm fifth in line to the throne

How am I gonna tell my king

That I don't trust his throne, anymore

If you want me to leave, then I'll go

If you want me to stay, let it show

Do you want me to leave, let me know

Just let me know

I have seen your deepest flaws

I'm ashamed to say they made me want you more

But I was in awe

If you want me to leave, then I'll go

Do you want me to stay, let it show

If you want me to leave, let me know

Just let me know

If you want me to leave, then I'll go

If you want me to stay, let it show

If you want me to leave, let me know

Just let me know

Let me know

Let me go

I Missed Your Party lyrics - Camera Obscura

I'm genuinely sorry that I missed your party

You should try holding all the guilt I still carry

Is it any wonder that I say I'm burned out?

When you say you're bummed out.

'Cause I missed your party

Bourbon won't kill it, so I'll just have to will it

I won't drink the Kool-Aid, try not to be afraid

You say you can see all the goodness inside me, dear me

Say that you want me, for all that I can be

I listen to Billy Joel

I watch Flashdance again

I'm going to get through Walt Whitman

I'm going to be in bed by ten

The Roller Girls are rolling and the rocking boys are rocking

Am I just holding onto memories golden?

I could go out dancing to feel bodies close to my skin

I'd better stay in to face the trouble we are in

I listen to Billy Joel

I watch Flashdance again

I'm going to get through Walt Whitman

I'm going to be in bed by ten

I'm going to be in bed by ten

I listen to Billy Joel

I watch Flashdance again

I'm going to get through Walt Whitman

I'm going to be in bed by ten

I'm going to be in bed by ten

These days I'm well travelled

You can watch me unravel

I'm genuinely sorry that I missed your party

Break It To You Gently lyrics - Camera Obscura

You had the office before you had the business

You had the ring before you found the girl

If it were up to you would she be suffering still?

You say your arms ache from the weight of your mistakes

You're the keeper of the doomsday clock

Did I get that wrong?

Little darling, I try

Oh at least I look on the bright side

I'll break it to you gently

Break it to you gently

With their 45s from 82 and the looks that say

I'm cooler than you

They hide behind boxing fists and arrogance

I got nothing, nothing, nothing to say

About the way you spend your day

You rest your head on your hands.

would you let it slip away?

Little darling, I try

Oh at least I look on the bright side

I'll break it to you gently

Break it to you gently

Little darling I try

Oh at least I look on the bright side

I'll break it to you gently

Break it to you gently

Little darling, I try

Oh at least I look on the bright side

I'll break it to you gently

Break it to you gently

Little darling, I try

Oh at least I look on the bright side

I'll break it to you gently

Break it to you gently

I'll Break it to you gently

Desire Lines lyrics - Camera Obscura

I went to California

I needed sun, I warned you

When the green of your eyes met my blue by surprise

There was a storm yeah

We could send letters

Beautiful, let us?

I could illustrate for you my day to day

Would that mend us?

Desire Lines sent me to Badlands

But I am on my way back now

I'm going to love you as I know how

I know how

The shade of Jacaranda

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

You mention the name

That fills my lungs with pain, eyes like Panda

I could bottle up this love

Find a stall and serve it up

It won't be the same, my heart's calling your name, love

Desire lines sent me to Badlands

But I am on my way back now

I'm going to love you as I know how

I know how

Desire lines sent me to Badlands

But I am on my way back now

I'm going to love you as I know how

I know how

Desire lines sent me to Badlands

But I am on my way back now

Let me love you as I know how

I know how

Ginger Rogers Road

I was heading home

With an official polling card to vote for you, lad

I vote for you, lad

I vote for you, lad

I vote for you, lad

I vote for you, lad

I vote for you

"My Maudlin Career" (2009)

• French Navy lyrics - Camera Obscura
• The Sweetest Thing lyrics - Camera Obscura
• You Told A Lie lyrics - Camera Obscura
• Away With Murder lyrics - Camera Obscura
• James lyrics - Camera Obscura
• Careless Love lyrics - Camera Obscura
• My Maudlin Career lyrics - Camera Obscura
• Forests And Sands lyrics - Camera Obscura
• Other Towns And Cities lyrics - Camera Obscura
• Honey In The Sun lyrics - Camera Obscura

French Navy lyrics - Camera Obscura

Spent a week in a dusty library

Waiting for some words to jump at me

We met by a trick of fate

French navy my sailor mate

We met by the moon on a silvery lake

You came my way

Said, I want you to stay

You with your dietary restriction

Said you loved me with a lot of conviction

I was waiting to be struck by lightning

Waiting for somebody exciting

Like you

Oh, the thing that you do

You make me go ooooh

With the thing that you do (you do, you do)

I wanted to control it

But love, I couldn't hold it

I wanted to control it

But love, I couldn't hold it

I'll be criticized for lending out my art

I was criticized for letting you break my heart

Why would I stand for disappointed looks?

I'm fully grown, but I'm on tenterhooks

Ooh with the looks, on tenterhooks

Ooh with the looks, the looks, the looks

I wanted to control it

But love, I couldn't hold it

I wanted to control it

But love, I couldn't hold it

Relationships were something I used to do

Convince me they are better for me and you

We met by a trick of fate

French navy, my sailor

I wanted to control it

But love, I couldn't hold it

I wanted to control it

But love, I couldn't hold it

The Sweetest Thing lyrics - Camera Obscura

I'm going on a date tonight

To try to fall out of love with you

I know, I know, this is a crime

But I don't know what else to do

My love, you're in a magazine

My love, you're doing fine, you're on TV

You wore my heart out then you ran away

From Chicago to Cleveland you made me pay

You made me pay

When you're lucid, you're the sweetest thing

I would trade my mother to hear you sing

When you're lucid, you're the sweetest thing

I would trade my mother

On the bus radio

"50 ways to leave your lover", oh no

I laughed at the irony

But like a stupid, the irony got lost on me

It got lost on me

When you're lucid, you're the sweetest thing

I would trade my mother to hear you sing

When you're lucid, you're the sweetest thing

I would trade my mother

You challenged me to write a love song

Here it is I think I got it wrong

I focused on the negative

The pain was too much of an incentive

Always my incentive

When you're lucid, you're the sweetest thing

I would trade my mother to hear you sing

When you're lucid, you're the sweetest thing

I would trade my mother to hear you song

When you're lucid, you're the sweetest thing

I would trade my mother to hear you sing

When you're lucid, you're the sweetest thing

I would trade my mother

But she don't know just how far I'd go

Would I walk for a hundred miles for a glimpse of your northern smile?

You Told A Lie lyrics - Camera Obscura

If you were a season you would be in bloom

I wish I had good reason to see you soon

No need to convince me that you were a catch

I bought my ticket and so at last

Who was it that said that love conquers all?

Oh, he was a fool 'cause it doesn't add up

Should I believe you told a lie

On the way to my heart and on the way back?

Are my eyes the coldest blue?

You said once this was true

If it is I don't know what I'll do

'Cause I'm stuck with them and they're stuck on you

Was I quite bad that nothing could never challenged anyone

Or was I a lazy lazy snake?

Do you want me to be a gentle diplomat?

Oh, you can beg and you can plead

Are my eyes the coldest blue?

You said once this was true

and if it is I don't know what I'll do

'Cause I'm stuck with them and they're stuck on you

Are my eyes the coldest blue?

You said once this was true

If it is I don't know what I'll do

'Cause I'm stuck with them and you're stuck on you

'Cause I'm stuck with them and they're stuck on you

I'm stuck with them and they're stuck on you

I'm stuck with them and they're stuck on you

Away With Murder lyrics - Camera Obscura

How many times have you told me you wanna die?

How many times have you told me now that you've tried?

Ooh and how many times will I let you get away with murder?

Ooh and how many times will you make me feel more alive?

Hey, I got a feeling there's something going wrong

I put my thoughts in a letter, send it when I'm feeling strong

In the time you became the girl that you wanted to be

Oh I told you all along there was no point looking to me

Oh, it's been hard to be strong

All of this going on

Yes, it's been hard to be strong

With all this going on

I've been lonely too, like you,

I'm just like you....

I'm just like you....

People have been travelling miles just to hear us sing

It's a February night & I don't wanna feel anything

To get away, maybe I could sell kisses

In Portland I tried my pretty hand at fishing

Oh, it's been hard to be strong

With all this going on

Yes, it's been hard to be strong

With all this going on

I've been lonely too, like you,

I'm just like you....

I'm just like you....

I'm just like you....

I'm just like you....

Hey, I got a feeling there's something going wrong

I put my thoughts in a letter, send it when I'm feeling strong

Swans lyrics - Camera Obscura

There's flowers in my house

And I bought them myself

No surprises in the record collection

You must have thought I was someone else

I'm still afraid to get lost

In a city I might explore

But I'm not afraid to have

An eloquent boy at my door

at my door

at my door

at my door

Oh you want to be a writer

Fantastic idea

You say you've never seen America

I really think you'll like it there

Maybe you should travel with me

Is this the best idea

Because you've never seen a Redwood

and you've never touched a deer

a deer

a deer

dear

a deer

a deer

my dear

Are swans deceiving us all?

Oh I for one should know

I never felt myself so graceful

And I never swam so slow

so slow

so slow

so slow...

James lyrics - Camera Obscura

James, he came to my place

He said he had to see my face

He hopes that we can still be friends

In his own way, he'll love me til the end

And, James, he came to the door

Wanting to know for sure

Why love gets up and goes

I'm sorry, but it had no place to grow

Oh, James. My love for you is stronger, don't you know?

I'd like to celebrate you, dear

All in all, it's been a pretty good year

I looked deep within myself

I got scared by just how hard I fell

Oh, James. You broke me, I thought I knew you well.

Oh, you had me

Honey and me, oh, sun and the moon

I'll be fine by June

I could tell that you weren't well

Oh, James. You broke me, I thought I knew you well

Oh, can't you see you belong with me?

I could tell that you weren't well

Oh, James. You broke me, I thought I knew you well

Careless Love lyrics - Camera Obscura

Honey...

I've been really struggling

To think of you and I being friends

I blow hot and cold

Yeah, I’m like a yo-yo

So I don’t think I should see you again

Careless love and

I didn't talk for it wasn't my style

I've had enough

I don't think that we could really be friends

And honey,

I've been really struggling

To think of you and I anonymous

You're off to mourning so

The love you give ebb and flows

So I don't think I should see you again

Careless love and

I didn't talk for it wasn't my style

I've had enough

For I don't think that we can really be friends

But I'll try again

Oh, the love I feel for you it's real

Oh, the love I feel for you it is real

Honey, I've been really struggling to see this thing through

To the end

Careless love

I didn't talk for it wasn't my style

I've had enough

For I don't think that we can really be friends

But I'll try again

My Maudlin Career lyrics - Camera Obscura

You kissed me on the forehead

Now this kiss is giving me a concussion

We were love at first sight

Now it's crush

It's crushing

I traced your steps through the city of romance lazily

I took to the desert with your harshest words

and they saved me

I'll bail you out again

I've got the readies

I'm not a child I know

We're not going steady

Your pain's gigantic but it's not as big as your ego

Promise not to abandon you, please let me go

Now I've been worrying about your feelings

Yeah they were worth protecting

They say I'm too kind and sentimental

Like you could catch affection

Oh in your eyes there's a sadness

Enough to kill the both of us

Are those eyes overrated?

They make me want to give up on love

I'll brace myself for the loneliness

Say hello to feelings that I detest

This maudlin career has come to an end

I don't want to be sad again

This maudlin career has come to an end

I don't want to be sad again

This maudlin career has come to an end

I don't want to be sad again

This maudlin career has come to an end

I don't want to be sad again

Forests And Sands lyrics - Camera Obscura

I'm in a van,

And you're holding my hand

And you were travelling with me through forest and sands

I've been ever so needy learning your language

And you've been taking full advantage, haven't you?

Oh, don't say it's true

I've been so afraid,

I'm a sadness again

And we kissed once, even that was the last

I know I need more than given

Moments and sentimental stories

Words only spoken seemingly

That I'm warming your heart that way

Oh, it feels like none of this is real

I'll pretend that my heart and my head are well

But if the blood pumping through my veins could freeze,

Like a river in Toronto,

Then I'd bleed please,

You said I made you feel warm, said I made you feel warm inside

Oh, it feels like none of this is real

I'll pretend that my heart and my head are well

But if the blood pumping through my veins could freeze,

Like a river in Toronto,

Then I'd bleed please,

You said I made you feel warm, said I made you feel warm inside

It feels like none of this is real

I'll pretend that my heart and my head are well

But if the blood pumping through my veins could freeze,

Like a river in Toronto,

Then I'd bleed please,

You said I made you feel warm, said I made you feel warm inside

Other Towns And Cities lyrics - Camera Obscura

Drinking whiskey reminds me of you

You're the first in ages to have gotten through

I know you mean well, I know that you do

But sooner or later you're going to break me in two

Were my pupils dilated?

Could you tell that I liked you?

We were so unlikely

You flirt with an ex, put me to the test

Still I want to tell you that I love you the best

We turned the radiators on and there was no way back

Did you know

You had The Plough star trail on your back?

Your voice is quiet and I need it loud

In the night you went up

And the morning you went down

It's like you to forbid me to say goodnight

I had your brown eyes and limbs

On me through the night

These words are weak and to your dislike

You'll never believe them so I guess it's alright

Do you like the view I show you?

I say look at the light

Do you still miss the way that I hold you?

In other towns and cities

Who's holding you tonight?

The dresses came out of the bag then the tears came

Drinking has never been the same again

I shared your trouble, I shared your weight

I lost it with you today

We don't share a birthday but we do share a sign

We shared something or was it all in my mind

There was talk of love and how I need it back

I'd be better for you than that last love of mine

You're in another town or city

You mean nothing to me tonight