Get Up

A piano fell on my face
d
You told me to get up
d
When I could not control myself
d
You said to get up
d
Consciousness demolished
d
When I tried to hold the pain inside
d
You say to hold it in
d

Love me forever
d
Don’t forget me
d
It’s late in the game to ask
d
But I’m still asking
d

A harmonica fell on my face
d
It did not hurt that much
d
If you leave no one will find my corpse
d
You said
d
Rise from the dead!
d
Sometimes a person cannot help what they do
d
You mumble to get up
d
Operating now without belief
d
You say sh sh sh
d
And to get up
d

Do you hate me
d
Because I seem so stupid?
d
Or do you just very quickly
d
Hate me right back?
d

During the rape of everything decent
d
The flickering flames impressed me
d
A saxophone fell on my face
d
How is a mystery
d
When I am shocked
d
By my own foolishness
d
You say you are not as shocked
d
When I repeat that I am shocked by my own foolishness
d
You get up and leave the room
d

Love me forever
d
Don’t forget me
d
It’s late in the game to ask
d
But I’m still asking you
d

You’re the only reason I was born
d
You’re the only reason I was born
d

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-get-up-lyrics

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Wondering

Tonite is anything
d
Goodbye to anything
d
Outside of anything
d
Collide with everything
d

Ring a dong ding ding
d
Down on your knees
d
Ring a ding ding ding
d
Swallow defeat
d
Ring-a ding-a ding
d
Ding ding dong ding
d

Wondering, maybe?
d
Wondering, maybe?
d
Wondering, maybe?
d
Wondering
d
Wondering
d

There’s not a chance, there’s never been
d
Destroyed by color on the wind
d
It is so clear it is so clean
d
And unforgivably obscene
d

Alive is anything
d
Alight to anything
d
Denied of anything
d
Surprised with everything
d

Oh, love was stronger then
d
Life went on without an end
d
Now to feel the sun
d
Burn our rights and wrongs
d
The shock of ash upon hope and peace
d

There’s not a dance that’s never been
d
Jealous of envy on the wind
d
It is plain, it is so pure
d
And unforgivably obscure
d

Wondering, maybe?
d
Wondering, maybe?
d
Wondering, maybe?
d
Wondering
d
Wondering
d

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-wondering-lyrics

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Queen of the Losers

Barely wear enough
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To pad a crutch
d
Your face is made up
d
For taking a punch
d
I want to eat it and I will not wait
d

Everyone loves you
d
Pain has just begun
d
Everyone hates you
d
Pain has just begun
d

Rough and ready to be never awake
d
How do you feel?
d
I say pretty OK
d
Queen of the Losers
d
Take it, take it away!
d

Everyone loves you
d
Pain has just begun
d
Everyone hates you
d
Pain has just begun
d

What’s your name?
d
Fuckin’ nothing
d
What’s your name?
d
Fuckin’ nothing
d
What’s your name?
d
Fuckin’ nothing
d

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-queen-of-the-losers-lyrics

The Call

You want to see it
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You want to tick it
d
You want to lick it
d
Want to kiss it
d
Want to whisper in my ear bitch?
d
But I don’t give a fuck girl
d
Because you gave me a thousand bucks
d

Ask can one un-ring a bell
d
(A mutiny and you from me)
d
Plink upon a clavinet
d
(The exotic sounds of BLAHhHh)
d
Always feeling like I knew
d
(Who you were you but, never what)
d

Just for once, come to me
d
When looking for what means the most
d
Just for once, come to me
d
When looking for what means, oh oh oh
d

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
d
Hang up
d
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
d

(Clap, bitches
d
Clap, bitches
d
Clap, bitches
d
Clap, bitches)
d

Denounce yourself and walk the street
d
(A private and a boring dream)
d
Don’t ask yourself if it isn’t true
d
(And wet your everything with cream)
d
Kill the hippies, kill yourself
d
(How you would but, never why)
d

Just for once, come to me
d
When looking for what means the most
d
Just for once, come to me
d
When looking for what means, oh oh oh
d

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
d
Hang up
d
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
d

I call out your name in the night
d
I call out your name in the night
d
And with certainty you are worthless
d
And with certainty you are worthless
d

(Clap bitches, clap clap clap, bitches, clap
d
Clap bitches, clap clap clap, bitches, clap)
d

(Why why why, bitch, why why, cunt, why
d
Why why why why why why
d
Clap bitches)
d

Source: https://genius.com/12489366

Josie’s Past

Diary . . . December 14, 1986
s

I dreamed about BOB last night. Not a real nice dream at all, a little sick in my opinion because I have so much hatred for the way he spoiled me, made me feel ugly and bad for wanting love or affection. He ruined all of my pride and self-esteem for the longest time…I could only be pretty and sweet, because pretty and sweet was easy…good grades even better. No one wanted me…I wouldn’t even let on that I knew what sex was
s

He did ruin me, didn’t he? I mean, in the dream he came to the window at Leo’s and saw me. It was a nastier scene in the dream than it was last night in reality. He kept showing this image of me again and again
s

And then he was standing by the tree and he said, YOU WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO ANY OF THAT IF IT WEREN’T FOR ME.
s

I told him he was wrong. I told him I learned all that he saw when I was alone, so that I could do something to make myself feel good and be able to heal the wounds that he made
s

He said, ”OH YEAH, THEN WHY DO YOU WANT LEO TO TIE YOU UP, MAYBE EAT YOU THAT WAY, MAKE YOU A SLAVE…I KNOW YOU WANT IT…JUST THE WAY I TAUGHT YOU, LITTLE BITCH. I SAW YOU WITH THE WAND, PLAYING WITH YOURSELF…YOU WERE THINKING OF BAD BOY LEO, NOT BOBBY LITTLE BOY WHO WEEPS AFTER HE GETS FUCKED BY A LITTLE SLUT LIKE YOU”
s

And I woke up. Ashamed. Horrified. Guilty. And I imagined him suddenly, right before me at the edge of my bed
s

YOU FORGOT, LAURA, I KNOW EVERYTHING, SEE EVERYTHING, GO ANYWHERE I WANT…I COULD TELL YOU MORE ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK ARE SECRETS THAN YOU COULD TELL YOURSELF! YOU LET YOUR GUARD DOWN, DIDN’T YOU, LET ME HAVE A NICE VACATION FROM THAT STENCH OF YOURS…THEN YOU HAD TO CALL ME BACK… RANCID LITTLE BITCH! YOU’RE PRETTY MEAN TO ME SOMETIMES WHEN YOU WRITE, AREN’T YOU! WE’LL HAVE TO FIX THAT. MAKE YOU LOVE ME LIKE YOU USED TO. I REMEMBER THAT… SOON YOU WILL TOO
s

And then he disappeared. I need to do something that is right and good, TODAY!
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Who in the fuck is he and why does he hate me so much?
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I want to die, and to forget everything else. I can’t take it anymore! I begin to feel good and then someone makes me feel that I’m dirty. Then someone kisses me just right and I feel wanted and excited all over again
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I need to know if what I’m doing is right. I can’t let BOB be the one who taught me to wish to be tied up sometimes
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I don’t ever want to be hurt. I never have. I only want to play the games where I have to say dirty things sometimes, not mean things like BOB thinks, and if I am punished I am punished with sex, not pain
s

BOB is not who puts these ideas in my head. I won’t let him be the one. These are my private thoughts. I’m afraid I’ll never make it in and out of another sexual experience, ever, without being afraid he will come and tell everyone lies about me
s

If someone who loves me reads this years from now, please try not to hate me. I only feel the way I feel. I don’t hurt anyone else, and I don’t want to. I try every day to be better and more the way I think the world wants to see a girl like me
s

But I am Laura. I am sad. God, I’m sad again! Why! I miss laughter and a day where time is spent with my friends who don’t care what I think of late at night. They don’t hate me for sometimes dreaming late at night, with my hand buried between my legs, ashamed, and of how I wish that my other hand would simply pull the trigger
s

BOB, I forbid you to come to me ever again, in dreams or in reality. You are not welcome! I HATE YOU
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I feel so alone, Laura
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Oh! Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
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A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?
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If it sounds queer and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey
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Well then, “Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy!”
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Oh! Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
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A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?
s

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-josies-past-lyrics

Falling

Don’t let yourself be hurt this time
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Don’t let yourself be hurt this time
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Then I saw your face
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Then I saw your smile
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The sky is still blue
s
The clouds come and go
s
Yet something is different
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Are we falling in love?
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Don’t let yourself be hurt this time
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Don’t let yourself be hurt this time
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Then your kiss so soft
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Then your touch so warm
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The stars still shine bright
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The mountains still high
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Yet something is different
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Are we falling in love?
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Falling
s
Falling
s
Are we falling in love?
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Falling
s
Falling
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Are we falling in love?
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-falling-lyrics

Sycamore Tree

I got idea man
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You take me for a walk
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Under the sycamore trees
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The dark trees that blow baby
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In the dark trees that blow
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And I’ll see you
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And you’ll see me
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And I’ll see you in the branches that blow
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In the breeze
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I’ll see you in the trees
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I’ll see you in the trees
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Under the sycamore trees
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And I’ll see you
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And you’ll see me
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And I’ll see you in the branches that blow
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In the breeze
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I’ll see you in the trees
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I’ll see you in the trees
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Under the sycamore trees
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-sycamore-tree-lyrics

Into the Night

Into the night
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I cry out
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I cry out your name
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Into the night
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I search out
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I search out your love
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Night so dark
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Where are you?
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Come back in my heart
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So dark
s
So dark
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Into the night
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Shadows fall
s
Shadows fall so blue
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I cry out
s
I cry out for you
s

Night so dark
s
Where are you?
s
Come back in my heart
s
So dark
s

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-into-the-night-lyrics

Just as I Am

Just as I am, without one plea
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But that Thy blood was shed for me
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And that Thou bid’st me come to Thee
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O Lamb of God, I come
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Just as I am, and waiting not
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To rid my soul of one dark blot
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To Thee whose blood can cleanse each spot
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O Lamb of God, I come
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Just as I am, though tossed about
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With many a conflict and many a doubt
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Fightings within and fears without
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O Lamb of God, I come
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Just as I am, Thou wilt receive
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Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve
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Because Thy promise I believe
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O Lamb of God, I come
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Just as I am, of fed, free love
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The breadth, length, the height to prove
s
Heal, four seasons and then above
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O Lamb of God, I come
s
Lamb of God, I come
s

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-just-as-i-am-lyrics