 Genius Lyrics
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Slowdive – Slowdive
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[Verse 1] / I hear your voice, but it can't bring me back / I'm chasing all the things I ever thought I had / I'm pushing down, I'm diving deep, yeah, slowdive to my dream / I'm
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Slowdive – Star Roving
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[Verse 1] / Give it away now, girl / Can't hold down tonight / Every black and white / Secret's a blinking light / Emma flies a kite / Said she's feeling love for everyone tonight
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Slowdive – Melon Yellow
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[Verse 1] / Sitting by, I watched you fall away / Sudden fall, I watched you for a day / You know I don't believe in death / Follow the sun, I watched you follow the sun / [Verse 2
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Slowdive – Alison
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“Alison” is the opening track on the Shoegaze classic Souvlaki. The narrator reminisces about a drug-fuelled dream about a girl called Alison.
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Slowdive – Sugar for the Pill
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[Verse 1] / There's a blizzard of gulls / They're drumming in the wind / Only lovers alive / Running in the dark / [Chorus] / Anna rolled away / Said we never wanted much / Just a
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Slowdive – Dagger
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The final song on Souvlaki, “Dagger” was written during a retreat to a Welsh cottage by Neil Halstead in the summer of 1992. It is about a “fucked up relationship”, likely the one
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Slowdive – Machine Gun
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“Machine Gun” is one of the most ethereally dreamy shoegaze tracks on *Souvlaki."
The capital of Sheba was the city of Ma'rib. Nearby was a great dam, which provided enough water
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Slowdive – Slomo
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Chorus] / You give me your love, it's a curious love / You give me your heart, it's a curious thing / Our lady of the shipwreck is running through the storm
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Slowdive – 40 Days
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“40 Days” was written and recorded in the after math of Neil Halstead’s breakup with Rachel Goswell. Seeking seclusion, he left on a 2 week trip to a Welsh cottage, where he
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Slowdive – Souvlaki Space Station
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Early demos for the album were influenced by David Bowie’s Low, among other albums. Low was produced by Brian Eno and Slowdive asked him to produce their album. He declined
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Slowdive – Sleep
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[Verse 1] / I can see you laughing / Through dreams of perfect sleep / Sleep away from me / You know what's in my mind / When you go I'm crying / Dream, dream away from me / [Verse
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Seven Lions – Slow Dive
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[Verse 1] / They don't ever teach us heartache / Even though it's gonna hurt / Show me everything you've guarded / 'Cause I got to know, I got to know / Tell me all you know about
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Slowdive – Altogether
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“Altogether” is the eighth track of Slowdive’s second studio album Souvlaki.
The song creates a sleepy mood with both its lyricism and its atmosphere – in the context of the band
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Slowdive – Here She Comes
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[Verse 1] / It's so lonely in this place / So cold, I don't believe / [Verse 2] / And as no one knows my name / It's easy to pretend / It's easy to believe / [Verse 3] / There's a
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Slowdive – Morningrise
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I cross the field and watch the sun go down / A million people clap, it makes me frown / Looking 'round, I see you slip away / You seem more beautiful than yesterday / The devil
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Slowdive – Don't Know Why
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[Chorus: Rachel Goswell] / Put it all behind you, put it in a song, yeah / I don't want to know about it / Put it in a corner somewhere I can't find it / I don't want to think
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Slowdive – skin in the game
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[Verse 1] / I won't know and you won't say it now / 'Cause you don't say and I will never ask / [Chorus] / Skin in the game / Skin in the game / Poison the heart won't go so far
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Slowdive – Sing
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Early demos for the album were influenced by David Bowie’s Low, among other albums. Slowdive asked Brian Eno to produce the album but he declined, however, he agreed to do a couple
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Slowdive – prayer remembered
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[Instrumental]
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Slowdive – shanty
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[Verse 1] / I was a junkman / A candle burning / Settled over / When the night rolled in / I waited for you / In my dreams of you / An idle moment / When the night rolled in / [
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Slowdive – Brighter
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[Verse 1] / She drifts in the sky, yeah / The birds made of grain / She can now see the sun / And everyone said, yeah / You're better off dead but / She didn't know we were alone
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Slowdive – Shine
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Shine through the light / So my thoughts won't / Have to fight / For your love / Just to see you in me / Hurts too much / Mind fills with the thought / Love you till I caught
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Slowdive – Avalyn I
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Silence grows / My feelings flow / I’m dreaming now / Of all the things I know / I am here / I think of you / My feelings flow around / All the things I know / I am here / Rivers
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Slowdive – kisses
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[Verse 1] / Tell me, "You're the best thing" / I tell you, "That's what you need" / Rolling on those good looks / Maybe it's just enough / I know you dream of snowfields / Floating
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Slowdive – Changes (Early Version)
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[Verse 1] / In the soul, play / In the wall, hide / Is it for love / Of what we saw here? / [Verse 2] / Lose that form and / I'm a long shadow / And the form, hide / In what we
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Slowdive – Waves
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[Verse 1] / Watch the waves so far away / They're washing 'cross the paths that I have made / Leaving all my sins, I turn away / Like soaring birds, I watch my sorrows play / [
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Slowdive – alife
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[Refrain] / Two lives are hard lives with you / Two lives are hard lives with you / Two lives are hard lives with you / [Verse] / Hey, just look at us now / Time made fools of us
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Slowdive – I Believe
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[Chorus] / I believe / I believe / I believe / I believe / I believe / I believe / [Verse] / The first time, tell me where's your mind, I'm a fool / But my baby thinks it's cool
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Slowdive – Bleed
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Bleed / And when the starship falls away / I thought I saw you / It's falling down most everywhere / I thought I saw you bleed / I saw the streets today / Took it all and walked
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Slowdive – Hide Your Eyes
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Silly girl / You don't look so good / There's nothing here that makes you feel the way you should / The summer's gone and you've lost your way / Why hide your heart / You know it's
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Slowdive – Richard
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Richard, who's lying by your side? / Your love and all side of mine / Richard, I fall inside your lies / Richard, this world is not your home / The silent life falls apart / Your
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Slowdive – Falling Ashes
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[Verse 1] / Boy and the man / Hear the ghost in this town / Could this be it / Your final words, your own / We rolled the bed / Piece by piece, plank by plank / Then gathered in
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Slowdive – andalucia plays
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[Verse 1] / The sun's coming up / And I see you're smiling / I dream like a butterfly / The prayers of Saint Christopher / Travellers and stones / And ghosts on the river / Days
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Slowdive – So Tired
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So tired / It's so hard to feel / But it's alright / Cause I believe / And I guess I'll dream / I guess I'll take the time to dream / It's alright / I'm just sleeping / Slow down
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Slowdive – When the Sun Hits
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According to Slowdive fans, “When The Sun Hits” is one of their finest songs. Surprisingly, it was almost left off Souvlaki. Apparently Christian and Nick “fought like hell” to get
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Slowdive – Rutti
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Into the light of mine / Inside I fall / Into the light of mine / It's just a love / Into the soul of mine / In by the bed / Into the soul of mine / His soul / His soul the light
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Slowdive – No Longer Making Time
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[Verse 1] / You come anyway / You say you're clean and you like it that way / You got a new boy / He keeps it light, yeah, you like a light love / Who cares anyway / Oh Lord, I
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Slowdive – In Mind
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Watch you while you're thinking / Wonder what's inside / Why you're always thinking / Am I in your mind? / Am I in your mind? / Watch you while you're thinking / Wonder what's
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Slowdive – Spanish Air
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[Verse 1] / Screams that seem unreal / Shouts follow the sins / There's nothing here for me now / The wind blows for as far as I can see / [Chorus] / I long for the sun / The
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Slowdive – Untitled No. 3
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Stars are shining bright, you know / He looks just like the man you thought he was / You thought he was / Stars are shining bright, you know / He looks just like the man you
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Slowdive – Golden Hair
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Lean out your window, golden hair / I heard you singing in the midnight air / My book is closed, I read no more / Watching the fire dance, on the floor / Singing and singing, a
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