Heading for the airport before the world’s woken up
 Gotta get to the other side of the country
 It’s a commuter flight, going to work for the week
 Going everywhere, never seeing a thing

  I’m racin’ the sun
  Racin’ the sun 

 I’m gonna try my very best to force you not to suppress the
 Soul you have in favor of a career path
 Not even you can see, so let’s burn it to the core
 And never have to race again 

  Racin’ the sun
  Racin’ the sun 

   What’s stability good for when you’re stable at being “okay”
   Static and numb, I’d rather relive every bad day 

  Racin’ the sun
  Racin’ the sun
  Racin’ racin’ racin’ the sun the sun the sun

Birds sitting on the telephone lines wait for a target
 But they can’t do a thing to get my telephone to ring 

       But their feet won’t feel the signals
       From windowsill to windowsill
       And I won’t cry all night
       No I won’t cry, well maybe just tonight 

 Reaching out to zeroes and ones, without an answer
 It’s hard to find any clear thoughts 

 at the bottom of a whiskey glass 

      But their feet won’t feel the signals
      From windowsill to windowsill
      And I won’t cry all night
      No I won’t cry, well maybe just tonight 
   
 He can’t seem to get his words out
 He can’t seem to get his words out
 She says you’re my perfect fit tonight
 She says you’re my perfect fit tonight 
 Every heart’s fogged in
 He can’t seem to get his words out
 No he can’t seem to get his words out
 She says you’re my perfect fit tonight
 Because your heart’s fogged in with mine. 

The day I ran away
 It was a very strange day
 Downtown they had a parade
 So I kept on going 
 Just outside of town
 I met a curious man
 He gave me a job catching props
 And in the ring I was golden 
   
    That’s how the juggler stole my heart
    Between kick-ups and cascades
    That’s how the juggler stole my heart
    That very same day 

 He took me on the road
 I ran away with the show
 But don’t ask me where I’ve been
 ‘cuz I can’t stop staring at his hands 

   Chorus 

 And each day I stand hoping he doesn’t drop my heart
 With those nimble hands I don’t want to let him go, no no no 
   
   Chorus
   
 The day I ran away
 It was a very fine day. 

4. Movement on Both Sides
     
 They’re moving out into the light,
 Revealing to everyone what they’ve done.
 I’m bracing my stance for the fight.
 There’s movement on both sides. 
     
    Don’t say a word,
    ‘Cuz the more they know the more it hurts.
    It’s love in disguise—secrets and lies.
   
 I’m making my move, ready for battle.
 The heart is pumping harder than ever.
 I’ll shoot between the whites of their eyes.
 There’s movement on both sides. 

    Don’t say a word,
    ‘Cuz the more they know the more it hurts.
    It’s love in disguise—secrets and lies. 

 All this heat burns my skin,
 And bears on my path drink my tears.
 If I give up now, we’ll never win.
 It stops here and sanity begins. 
   
   Don’t say a word,
   ‘Cuz the more they know the more it hurts.
   It’s love in disguise—secrets and lies. 

Had a hole in my soul for far too long.
 Got to sew it up, got to carry on.
 The patch that I sew is weaker than the force of your hold,
 And after weeks of suffocation it hurts to breathe.
 There’s nothing to keep my heart form rushing out. 

   So I sew this patch and I fill it in,
   Gotta close it up.
   But the hole’s too big and I’m bleedin’ out 
   and you’re rushing in. 

 I don’t know who I am when you’re gone, my mind defeats me.
 It spins out of control in the dark, my soul leaves me.
 I drown some more with each breath that I take.
 The thread is too weak to set my heart straight.
 How can I go on without a love I can’t live without? 

   So I sew this patch and I fill it in,
   Gotta close it up.
   But the hole’s too big and I’m bleedin’ out 
   and you’re rushing in. 

 There’s nothing left for me to do,
 I can’t live this way.
 Right now it’s gotta be me or you.
 I don’t want you to stay. 

  So I sew this patch and I fill it in,
  Gotta close it up.
  But the hole’s too big and I’m bleedin’ out 
  and you’re rushing in. 

Flying
   High overhead
   Flying
   High 
   Swinging
   Time it right to catch my wrists
   Hold ‘em tight to swing again
   Flying 

     Chorus:
       Then the thought creeps in
       The universe is always fallin’
       What if I hit the net again

   Flying 
   Throw a trick
   Resin up, secure the grip
   Flip around your head spins
   Styling 
   Spot light
   Somersaulting three times
   Drum roll, the music stops
   Flying 

     Chorus:
       Then the thought creeps in
       The universe is always fallin’
       What if I miss the net again
       Falling (falling)
       Falling  (falling)
       Then I’m flying  (falling)
       Then I’m flying  (falling)
       Then I’m flying 

All the trite things have been said, over and over again
 And your verbs have already moved to the past tense
 You sit alone trying to find meaning in the loss
 You want to drink but you know it’ll only make it worse,
 so you endure the pain 
     A clod has washed away and I am diminished, 
     we all are 
 It’s the waking up just to go to sleep again 
‘cuz that’s all that’s left
 Your head on your pillow your mind wanders no matter how
 hard you try
 To focus on the crashing waves or the poppy fields 
 or being the catcher in the rye 
     But a clod has washed away and I am diminished,
     we all are 
     This is our lot. This is our challenge.
     Fear of life is what living’s all about.
     And tomorrow brings another sun
     And the same warmth for all time.
     And the same warmth for all time.
     And the same warmth for all time. 
     But a clod has washed away; 
     yeah a part has washed away. 
     As the ocean takes you away, I am diminished. 
     We all are. 

Something about you makes me feel again
   Maybe it’s your music or is it the man? 

      You have my head spinning round and round
      You have my heart jumping up and down
      What am I to do?  I’m falling over you. 

   You always hear me, no matter what I say.
   The notes sound so clearly in just the right way. 

      You have my head spinning round and round
      You have my heart jumping up and down
      What am I to do?  I’m falling over you. 

   Dreaming… it hurts me when I’m alone.
   I don’t know what to say, except please don’t go. 

     But you have my head spinning round and round, and round
     You have my heart jumping up and down, up and down
     What am I to do?  I’m falling over you. 

I live in California where the sun always shines
 I gotta fill the room next to my tomato plants
 I’m tired of waitin’ for that one to walk by
 So I’m gonna take matters into my own hands 

  Chorus:
   I’m gonna grow me a man, tall and lean and dressed pristine
   Grow me a man, buy some miracle grow
   Grow me a man, big strong arms to hold me tight (He-Man!)
   Grow me a man, it’ll all work out fine  (Yeah Right!) 

 I’ll plant a red leather jacket so he’s cool like James Dean,
 A bar of ivory soap to make him real clean,  (Squish-Squish!)
 A piece of Godiva chocolate for his rich brown hair,
 Water with cool blue water so I get lost in his stare,
 I’ll put in a guitar, well maybe just a pick,
 I wouldn’t want to hurt such a fine instrument,
 I’ll add a cowboy boot so he’s tough like a wrangler,(Yee-Haw!)
 Wait 6 to 8 weeks for him to sprout on up! 

  Chorus 

   Grow me a man
   Grow me a man
   I’m gonna grow me a man  (You’re gonna have to water a lot.)

I wanna cry the tears I never shed.
 I wanna get things out to clear my head.
 The years of being strong have taken their toll,
 And now I’m trying so hard not to let it go. 
 Motivation is lacking these days.
 Everything I thought I was I never was.
 Don’t you know it was always a play?
 Is it ironic if the actress doesn’t know it’s performance day? 

    Chorus:
      Melody’s my disease,
      Hurts so much I can’t breathe,
      Shakes my heart violently and then
      All those doctors, doctors try to medicate me again. 

 I’m washing my sheets of you today,
 Erasing my mind and machine of all you say.
 I thought we were so much older then,
 But you’re younger than that now. 

      Melody’s my disease,
      Hurts so much I can’t breathe,
      Shakes my heart violently and then
      All those doctors, doctors try to medicate me again. 

     Bridge:
        The rain comes and washes away the dream,
        Smears the picture that you thought you’d seen.
        So take a recording and impress it on your mind.
        Hit playback to live it again and again and again… 

      Melody’s my disease,
      Hurts so much I can’t breathe,
      Shakes my heart violently and then
      All those doctors, doctors try to medicate me again.

I’m too far from the beach to hear the ocean
 The walls around us have grown and we feel trapped
 Looking back at the pieces they seem like separate lives
 Warm places but none quite right 

   Chorus:
      We scatter like lights across the canyon
      As the sunrise battles us home
      Mother nature ties us all together even
      As we battle the sunrise home

 Time can never be stopped and we can’t go back
 The clarity we had then may not return
 But we lacked the formula for a permanent life
 So we go on healed but no fixed 

     We scatter like lights across the canyon
     As the sunrise battles us home
     Mother nature ties us all together even
     As we battle the sunrise home

      Bridge:
        The future we don’t know
        Scares us to the bone
        It’s a game of wait and see
        I’ll let the canyon lights lead me 

    We scatter like lights across the canyon
    As the sunrise battles us home
    Mother nature ties us all together even
    As we battle the sunrise home

 Light scatters like children across the canyon
 As we follow the daylight home 

Words and music by Bjork.