Brutal Romantic (2014)




















Psychosocial lyrics - Brooke Fraser

I love your projection but I don't love you
Your perceived perfection though it's just not true
I want an escape and tonight that's you

You are my victim, you are my muse
Just one specimen of a multitude
I want a cliché I can click on cue

Psychosocial [x4]

Give me all access, give me what I want
The companionship of your "tableu vivants"
I'm entertained until I'm not

Psychosocial [x4]

You don't call, you don't write
It's like I don't even know you
You don't look, you never reply
And you won't cause I'm a psychosocial
It's like I don't even know you
And you won't cause I'm a psychosocial
It's like I don't even know you
It's like I don't even know you
I love your projection but I don't love you

Thunder lyrics - Brooke Fraser

I appear in the wild
Hologram in the distance
I’m lighting up the bayou
We speak in storms
We’re all electric, we’re all electric
You’re a fiend for a fight
You tend to misfire
Scorched earth, burnt skin
We speak storms
We’re all electric, we’re all electric

Thunder, thunder
Thunder, thunder

We are down to the wire
We’re misconnecting
Combustible, explosive
Untamed
We’re pyrotechnic, we’re all electric
So we roll and we rage
Small scale destruction
Scorched earth, burnt skin
We’re speaking storms
We’re all electric
We’re all electric

Thunder, thunder
Thunder, thunder

Air it bends (air it bends)
Then it breaks (then it breaks)
But we’re holding our ground (hold our ground)
First the light (First the light)
First the light (First the light)
Then the sound

Thunder, thunder
Thunder, thunder

Start A War lyrics - Brooke Fraser

I remember when we ruled the scene
Back when we reigned supreme
Black words in golden speech
The weapons in our reach

Tell me did I stutter?
Did you hear me right?
As the crowd begins to roar
Tell me where’s the limit and I’ll tell you why
You will be shaken by the sound
‘Cos I’m gonna touch the sky
I’m damaging at my new discipline
I’m telling you

Can you smell the blood that’s in the air
It’s ours but we don’t care
Burning the resistance to the ground
In line to claim your crown

Tell me did I stutter?
Did you hear me right?
As the crowd begins to roar
Tell me where’s the limit and I’ll tell you why
You will be shaken by the sound
‘Cos I’m gonna touch the sky
I’m damaging at my new discipline
I’m telling you I’m gonna touch the sky
I’m falling out where I was falling in
I’m telling you I’m gonna touch the sky

If you’re gonna start a war
You better know the choice you made is one worth fighting for
You can have your ground
‘Cos when I touch the sky I’m taking everything you’ve got

Tell me did I stutter?
Did you hear me right?
As the crowd begins to roar
Tell me where’s the limit and I’ll tell you why
You will be shaken by the sound
‘Cos I’m gonna touch the sky
I’m damaging at my new discipline
I’m telling you I’m gonna touch the sky
I’m falling out where I was falling in
I’m telling you I’m gonna touch the sky

Kings & Queens lyrics - Brooke Fraser

We've got a long way to go but we got the energy
It took a little while to find reality
We've come a long way you know, living inside a dream
Waking to find that we are kings and queens

Lights on
Sometimes this feels like sleeping with the lights on
The memories stay
They loop their lies on endless replay

Been sleeping where I fall if I can sleep at all
Cuz I wake where I wanna if I wake at all
To see the lines are blurred, reality deferred
And we're chasing down tomorrow

We've got a long way to go but we got the energy
It took a little while to find reality
We've come a long way you know, living inside a dream
Waking to find that we are kings and queens

Ride on
Let's ditch the dark babe, we just gotta ride on
Don't let lies through
They'll trick your mind and turn your heart to stone

Forget the wars we fight, forget the tears you cry
Cuz we go where we wanna but that won't be tonight
To see the edges fade between the light and shade
And we're chasing down forever

We've got a long way to go but we got the energy
It took a little while to find reality
We've come a long way you know, living inside a dream
Waking to find that we are kings and queens

We've got a long way to go but we got the energy
It took a little while to find it, to find it, to find it
We've come a long way you know, living inside a dream
It took a little while to find it, to find it, to find it

We've got a long to go but we got the energy
It took a little while to find reality
We've come a long way you know, living inside a dream
Waking to find that we are kings and queens

We've got a long to go but we got the energy
It took a little while to find reality
We've come a long way you know, living inside a dream
Waking to find that we are kings and queens

Bloodrush lyrics - Brooke Fraser

Something inside you
Breaks a little bit when you turn away and in
Down beneath the pieces
You say you don’t feel a thing

It’s atrophy in motion
The slowing down of necessary moving parts
It wouldn’t be so tragic
If it weren’t machinery of the heart

You’ve got so much soul
You’ve got to get out and prove it to yourself
Babe you’ve got so much soul
You got so much soul

You’re doing a post mortem
Of a future you still can have
Heed your own warning
Those tears in the night
Won’t fall in the morning

You’ve got so much soul
You’ve got to get out and prove it to yourself
Babe you’ve got so much soul
You got so much soul

Can you feel it yet?
Like a longed for thaw
Feel the blood rush back
Feel the frost withdraw
Vena cava, veins
Broken valves and vows
Feel the blood rush back
Feel the blood rush out

You’ve got so much soul
You’ve got to get out and prove it to yourself
Babe you’ve got so much soul
You got so much soul

Brutal Romance lyrics - Brooke Fraser

All shapes and colours
Rolled and stained in aging hands
Sculpted explosions
Histories unfold
Our Jackson Pollocked earth turns
A silent witness

Lonely as silent
Poets bequeath best attempts
Romanticising
The brutality
Of the ages and of us
Avarice and lust

Love and death, and death and love
Brutal romance
The silver thread, the sharpened knife
A spinning slow-dance
I can't remember before
Warmth in the veins, lead in the core
Brutal romance

You're dripping with gold
Mine is more interior
Yours is sinking you

Men at attention
Devouring a drowning fleet
Epaulettes of charm

Love and death, and death and love
Brutal romance
A silver thread, a sharpened knife
In a spinning slow-dance
I can't remember before
Breath in the lungs, blood on the door
Brutal romance

And I want to sing
Over them and into them
What can't be unsung
And I want to sing
Over you and into you
What can't be unsung

Love and death, and death and love
Brutal romance
A silver thread, a sharpened knife
A spinning slow-dance
I can't remember before
Washing of wounds, won inner wars
Brutal romance

Je Suis Pret lyrics - Brooke Fraser

I looked away while the water was receding
I looked away for a second, for a second
And it's gone, everyone was caught sleeping

I am awake and the air is pulsating
I am awake, as it gathers, see it growing
I'm in doubt, here it comes, am I ready?
Am I ready?

See the tempest looking my way
Drain the skies of all their color
And I meet it eye to eye
With a fire in my breast
Je suis pret
I am ready, I am ready
Je suis pret
I am ready, I am ready

I will be healed, and my brother, so shall you be
Stand over here, by my side
We will awake to the river, to the river
Washing away all our shy

See the tempest looking my way
Drain the skies of all their color
And I meet it eye to eye
With a fire in my breast
Je suis pret
I am ready, I am ready
Je suis pret
I am ready, I am ready

Wash away
Wash away
Wash away
Wash away

See the tempest looking my way
Drain the skies of all their color
And we meet it eye to eye
With a fire in our breasts
Nous sommes prêts
We are ready, we are ready
Nous sommes prêts
We are ready, we are ready

Magical Machine lyrics - Brooke Fraser

I'm your telescope
Help you see other worlds up close
I'm your submarine
You'll explore where you've never been
I'm your ticking clock
Hold my hands and the time will stop
I'm your megaphone
Turn you up ‘til the neighbours moan

Power me on
Light on demand
I'm your magical machine
We can dream digital dreams
Power me on
Control and command
I'm your magical machine
I'll be yours if you let me

I'm your MRI
Show you what's going on inside
I'm your ATM
Take what you like my supply won't end
I'm your MP3
I get sad when you don't pay for me
I'm your IED
Carry me very carefully

Power me on
Light on demand
I'm your magical machine
We can dream digital dreams
Power me on
Control and command
I'm your magical machine
I'll be yours if you let me
I'm wires and welding
Preset to auto
But if I wasn't you would never know
I'm wires and welding
Preset to auto
But if I wasn't you would never know

Power me on
Light on demand
I'm your magical machine
We can dream digital dreams
Power me on
Control and command
I'm your magical machine
I'll be yours if you let me

New Histories lyrics - Brooke Fraser

Blind man on a broken beam
Sharks circling under
Fine frenzies and rosy scenes
I don’t know which you are to me

Time passes for everyone
New histories, same old sun
One flame ignites, another dies
No one gets out of here alive

And I wait

I stare at the space you left
It stares back unimpressed
I said I was sorry
Now when will you come home to me
And I wait

Something’s gotta give, oh can’t you see
Someone’s gonna win eventually
We could write a new history
Oh, let’s write our new history

New Year's Eve lyrics - Brooke Fraser

It’s been a loud year and I really need the quiet
It’s been a loud year and I really need the quiet

It’s New Year’s Eve, babe
And I’d really like to be alone

We’re waiting on change but I don’t know if it’s coming
We’re waiting on change but I don’t know if it’s coming

It’s New Year’s Eve, babe
And I’d really like to be alone

Big eyes against the white
Big eyes beneath the lights
And no one seems to feel it
But I do
Our faces to the wind
My heart against my skin
Tonight I’m gonna find something true

It’s been a loud year and I really need the quiet
It’s been a loud year and I really need the quiet
It’s New Year’s Eve, babe
And I’d really like to be alone

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