You’re living in a place you left behind
Going ’round in circles all the time
Can see the way your head, it’s like you’re blind
So open your eyes and

Time realign just what you got
With what you nearly had and what you want
You fall asleep and then the moment’s gone
So open your eyes and

Yeah, hard to undo time
Hard to separate my past from the wrong
‘Cause how can you separate milk from lime
Waste my time

Looking back
You always seem to be looking back
Feels like your mind’s always somewhere else
You’re always looking over your shoulder

Think about the places you could never be
Beauty in the faces that you never see
As you lie there sleeping, how the moment flies
So open your eyes and

Yeah, they say life makes us backwards
Only you got to live it forward

Don’t waste your time, no
Don’t waste your time just looking back
You always seem to be looking back
Feels like your mind’s always somewhere else
You’re always looking over your shoulder

Looking back
You always seem to be looking back
Feels like your mind’s always somewhere else
You’re always looking over your shoulder

Am I the only one tryna fight off an army
Of memories, dressed up, all tryin’ to harm me
I feel cocky running up the steps like Rocky
Until the past comes flashing like paparazzi

Nothing is new so I open my folder
My favorite view is over my shoulder
Everything backwards is my plight
It’s landing first would end my flight

Even my tears run up my cheeks, back in my eye
Live I die

Don’t waste your time just looking back
You always seem to be looking back
Feels like your mind’s always somewhere else
You’re always looking over your shoulder

You always seem to be looking back
Feels like your mind’s always somewhere else
You’re always looking over your shoulder

You’re always looking back
Over and over and over
You’re always looking back

I didn’t want to go
Go back and look for you
But it’s a heartless drug
I’m addicted to

And when I drive that road
And start to feel that chill
I think I see your face
Do you come here still?

Those were the times and these were the places
Your love was so good
And now that I’m here, I suddenly find that I’m tumbling backwards

I’m back to where I was before
Dreaming of glory and your love
And now I’m lying on your floor
Crashed on the surface of your love

The chemicals react
And molecules collide
The poison works its way
Somewhere down inside

When we were young I really believed
Love would never leave us
But time has a knack of pulling the rug out
From underneath us

And nothing matters anymore
I’m still a victim of your love
And now I’m banging on your door
Tumbling backwards with your love
Over and over in your love

I know they’re only ghosts
And memories that I’m clutching at
Maybe I’m reaching back
For something I never had
Still it seems so real to me
These ragged threads
That lead me back to you

I’m back to where I was before
Tumbling backwards at your love
And now I’m lying on your floor
Crashed on the surface of your love
and the other dreams we had
Fractioned and frozen with your love

You put a spell upon me there
Never be broken in your love
Nowhere to run to but your love
Over and over in your love

See how the world goes round
You’ve got to help yourself
See how the world goes round
And you’ll help someone else

See how the world goes round
You’ve got to help yourself
See how the world goes round
And you’ll help someone else

pika pika no kutsu o nuide
tabako o keshite
daiji na yubiwa o hazushitara
nanatsu no botan o hazushi
umareta mama ni
ikiteru jibun o
aishite miyou

See how the world goes round
You’ve got to help yourself
See how the world goes round
And you’ll help someone else

jiman no bag o oite
rouge o totte
namida no shinju o fuitemite
jyouzu na kesho o otoshi
kokoro no oku o
kagami no naka ni
utsushite miyou

See how the world goes round
You’ve got to help yourself
See how the world goes round
And you’ll help someone else

jyouzu na kesho o otoshi
umareta mama ni
ikiteiru jibun o
aishite miyou

See how the world goes round
You’ve got to help yourself
See how the world goes round
And you’ll help someone else

See how the world goes round
You’ve got to help yourself
See how the world goes round
That you will help me

[Keane]
Some days, feel my soul has left my body
Feel I’m floating high above me
Like I’m looking down upon me

Start sinking, every time I get to thinking
It’s easier to keep on moving
Never stop to let the truth in

[K'naan]
Sometimes I feel like it’s all been done
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one
Sometimes I wanna change everything I’ve ever done
I’m too tired to fight and yet too scared to run

[Keane]
And if I stop for a minute
I think about things I really don’t wanna know
And I’m the first to admit it
Without you I’m a liner stranded in an ice floe

[K'naan]
I feel like a thief who has no faith
Maybe more than by the grade
Of the drugs you took that day

Sinking in the pain he’s been inflicting
Yet he’s feeling like the victim
Just a horoscope’s to blame

[Keane]
Sometimes I feel like a little lost child
Sometimes I feel like the chosen one
Sometimes I wanna shout out ’til everything goes quiet
Sometimes I wonder why I was ever born

And if I stop for a minute
I think about things really I don’t wanna know
And I’m the first to admit it
Without you I’m child and so wherever you go
I will follow

[K'Naan - rap]
One… yeah…
And baby you are just beautiful from crown to your cuticles
You held down my two sons, you never frown when duty calls
You know me, I gave you more than you can handle
But you still keep a handle on it, even when I take something beautiful and vandal on it
No more females? Well how come my emails got notes on a scandal
It’s like Eve with the apple,
A priest in the chapel
Overcome by the devil’s tackle
I’m still shackled the bad til I know
I’m such a hassle every time I let my thoughts go
I get baffled so I hardly pause
I just crossed seas with these gnarly broads
Cos it hurts me just to see what I finally lost
So I guess I’m just a fiend
Consumed by the scene
The stage and the screens
Where it’s just me and Keane

[Keane]
And if I stop for a minute
I think about things I really don’t wanna know
[K'naan]
So I guess I’m just a fiend
Consumed by the scene
[Keane]
And I’m the first to admit it
Without you I’m a liner stranded in an ice floe
[K'naan]
The stage and the screens
Where it’s just me and Keane

I’ve got time to kill
I’m not living for the moment anymore
I don’t wanna wake up
I’ve got time to kill
I’m not living for the future anymore
I don’t wanna wake
I don’t wanna wake up

She goes back in time
She goes back in time
She goes back in time

Time, I wait for you
Hibernating, hoping life will start again
Petal in the water
The days all seem the same
I dream by day, I shut the light out, I escape
I don’t wanna wake
I don’t wanna wake up

She goes back in time
She goes back in time
She goes back in time
She goes back in time
She goes back in time

Slumping backwards, I forget, I forget
Time has wrapped its drowsy arms around my neck
Don’t wanna wake up
Don’t wanna wake up

She goes back in time
She goes back in time
She goes back in time
She goes back in time
She goes back in time
She goes back in time
She goes back in time

And back again
And back again

High on the bell tower
I took my view
Over the downtown
To the avenues

Where the streets are wide
And the people thrive
And it’s further to fall down
‘Cause you fly so high

I’ve never seen such beauty
I’ve never seen such clear skies
I’ve never seen such high hopes
I’ve never seen such tired eyes

And I wish that I could be
Everything you are
Everything you are

Down in the delta
The city wakes
Turns on the TV
As the levy breaks

Where the streets are burnt
By the summer sun
And there’s nowhere to run to
When your time has come

I’ve never seen such beauty
I’ve never seen such clear skies
I’ve never seen such high hopes
I’ve never seen such tired eyes

[Incomprehensible] up piece by piece
Felt life watching over me
Took my pills and I went to sleep
Oh, and I sang myself to sleep

And I wish that I could be
Everything you are
Everything you are, oh

And I wish that I could see
The world the way you do
As selfishly as you

Yeah, and I wish that I could be
Everything you are
Everything you are

And I wish that I could stay
My faith the way you do
As certainly as you

Clear skies gonna fall on you
Clear skies gonna fall on you
Clear skies gonna fall on you
On you, on you

Clear skies gonna fall on you
Clear skies

Baby, I’ve been travelling so long
Searching for the things for which you ask,
Trying to make you think I could become
The things you want

Baby I’ve been working so hard
Scratching in the dirt and in the fire
Begging for the beautiful life
That you require

I know I’m like a difficult child
Screaming through the night
So, help me find the light
Without you I’m a broken down car
Rusting in the yard,
Still waiting for the part

Now finally I’m back in our road,
Crunching on the shingle in the drive,
Hungry for your love as I return,
But there’s no sign

I know I’m like a difficult child
Screaming through the night
So, help me find the light
Without you I’m a broken down car
Rusting in the yard,
Still waiting for the part

I thought that you’d be waiting like a soldier’s queen,
Gazing from your window, holding out for me
What a fool I’ve been again

I know I’m like a difficult child
Screaming through the night
So, help me find the light
Without you I’m a broken down car
Rusting in the yard,
Still waiting for the part

You built it up brick by brick
Put your heart into this baseless myth
Nurtured it like a child
And dressed its wounds when it ran wild

You stopped to fix your face
Someone else stepped in and took your place
Now everything you once knew
Is running circles around you

A car door slamming in your road
It jolts you like a kick inside
A year old message on your phone
That catches you when you can’t hide

I see you in the service station sign
I see you in the supermarket line
I see you silhouetted on a wall
But I don’t see myself there at all

This vessel of Balsa wood
Is the fag end tail of amoeba-hood
The busying cast confer
And get their taste of the drama

You stare through mindless daytime shows
And curse yourself for growing old
The sterile scent of shaving foam
Reminds you of another world

I see you in the roofless sombre sky
I see you when the lovers stop outside
I see you silhouetted on a wall
But I don’t see myself there at all

I see you in the sweetness of our child
I see you in the supermarket aisle
I see you when I’m kneeling on the floor
But I can’t see myself anymore

Hard times got the upper hand
Stole our feeble plans
The faces, shot me, spin me round
But I won’t lie down

Hard times shake me to the bone
Face bruised, bloody nose
Shell shocked, crawling on the ground
Still I won’t lie down

No I won’t lie down
No I won’t lie down
I won’t lie down

The boys are grinning from the photograph
It’s Friday night and they’re trying so hard
The sun is dropping and they want to go
Driving into town to see some girls they know

The boys, blazing on a summer night
Girls they want to watch them ride
Is that the way it was before?
Because I don’t remember.
Boys, friends at every bar in town
Running all the good days down
Is that the way it was before?
Because I don’t remember.

We felt like fighters when we caught the plane
Until that day we’d never heard its name
We did some things we didn’t understand
And now we feel like strangers in our own land

The boys, blazing on a summer night
Girls they want to watch them fight
Is that the way it was before?
Because I can’t remember.
Boys, friends at every bar in town
Running all the good days down
Is that the way it was before?
Because I can’t remember.

This photograph, I hold it when I sleep
Because people soon stop asking
When I cannot explain what I have seen
And at the bars in town
All the boys in town
Are running all the good days down
Running all the good days down
Running all the good days down
All the good days down

Lover I remember laying out a map
Throwing our possessions in the van
Your tapes piled on the back seat and a camera in your hand
Dressed for our arrival in the strangeland

Strangeland blind
You got no reason, you got no rhyme
You get no time to put things right
To put things right

You drove across the border as the winter rains ran dry
And only fit for birdsong, filled the sky
You threw your back screaming as we raced across wet sand
And leapt into the waters of the strangeland

Strangeland blind
You got no reason, you got no rhyme
You get no time to put things right
To put things right

You wound a rope around me and you pulled the knots in tight
And shook me like a bad dream from your sight
And now the things I’ve done to forget you, well it’s not what I had planned
The sweetest thoughts get twisted in the strangeland

Strangeland blind
You got no reason, you got no rhyme
You get no time to put things right
To put things…
Strangeland dreams
You tore my baby away from me
You get no time to put things right
To put things right
You get no time to put things right
To put things right
To put things right
To put things right