The Guitar and Other Machines
@ALBUM: The Guitar and Other Machines
The Durutti Column

Lyrics transcribed by R Stanzel
and Michael B. Branch
Please contact us with comments or corrections.
93/06/07

@SONG: Red Shoes

Red shoes
Blue car
Never run 
Too far

Winds push
Us along
We're so weak
And they're so strong

All I ever need
The mercy of your lies
All I ever need
The mercy of your lies
And the clouds that break
And the clouds that break

Red shoes
Blue car
Never run 
Too far

Winds push
Us along
We're so weak
And they're so strong

All I ever need
The mercy of your lies
All I ever need
The mercy of your lies
And the clouds that break

@SONG: When the World

We're coming close to sunrise
Lights burn red in your streets
Stay faithful
I'm sure of these feelings
We're coming close to sunrise
Lights burn red in your streets
Stay faithful
I'm sure of these feelings

[chorus]
When the world is no longer watching
When the world is no longer watching
Stay faithful to your drug
When the world is no longer watching
When the world is no longer watching
Stay faithful to your drug

People sell themselves
There's a fashion to their smiles
You often need comfort
Raising my eyes to you
People sell themselves
There's a fashion to their smiles
You often need comfort
Raising my eyes to you

[chorus]

@SONG: Bordeaux Sequence

In France you are sleeping
I wish I could see you
It's always this way
Love sent from Bordeaux
Love sent from Bordeaux
I try to say something
The words they grow fainter
And you're slipping away
Love sent from Bordeaux
Love sent from Bordeaux

Just in odd moments
I wish you could see me
It's always this way
Love sent from Bordeaux
Love sent from Bordeaux

@SONG: Don't Think You're Funny

The chorus in your head
They change all the time
You ask us do I care
And I say your voice is mine
We take some time out
To smile as we stumble
And laugh when we're down
And laugh when we're down

[vinyl: child's voice "don't think you're funny, Vini!"]

@SONG: You Won't Feel Out of Place

[sampled intro]
"it makes me feel so good"
"it makes me feel so good"
"it gives me something to believe in"
"it makes me feel so good"
"it gives me something to believe in"

Are we so far away
We seem so far away
Tell me I never know
What you are going to say

[chorus]
I would
Suffer it all again
Suffer it all again
I would
Suffer it all again
Suffer it all again

Are you so blown away
You seem so blown away
And as you leave me now
I meet myself again

[chorus]

Now all the days the same
This habit forming pain
Oh how I need your love
I need you home to stay

[chorus]

"you won't feel out of place"
"you won't feel out of place"