Belly Lyrics: Star

Someone To Die For

Poor thing, poor thing
Do you have a sister?
Would you lay your body
Down on the tracks for her?

Step one tiptoe in hell
For her?

Don't you have someone you'd die for? (5x)

Angel

Give it to me please
I said to God
It's only fair
Instead he sent three angels
To move the river
So now it flows by my house
So now it goes by my house

Angel angel
I'd still rather have the moon

I've had bad dreams
So bad I threw my pillow away
Move the river
So now it flows by my house
So now it goes by my house

Angel angel
I'd still rather have a man

Dusted

Baby's playing dead in cellar
Gave her water, just got paler
Grass stains, back burns
She's a screamer
She's just dusted, leave her

If you see her, don't upset her
Never seems to get much better
Grass stains, back burns
She's a screamer
She's just dusted, leave her

Her hmm hmm goes to your heart
Her hmm hmm sticks in your head

Baby's playing dead in cellar
Gave her water, she got paler
Grass stains, back burns
She's a screamer
She's just dusted, leave her

Every Word

So you go to leave
More room for me

Uh uh oh, you gave me too much room
So I filled it up with chairs you can't sit on
But if you want to stand there, stand there

Uh uh oh, you told me too much
You thought I would leave you
I heard every word, I heard every word
I heard every word

So you go, and it all goes darker like
These chairs, these eyes, this room
Closes its windows
These chairs, these eyes, this room, this heart

I heard every word, I heard every word
I heard every word

Gepetto

So he's lying on top again
Just like Gepetto with his doll
And he's running around the bend
And I can't get him out of this house
And if you bore him, you'll lose your soul to him

So that kid from the bad home came over my house again
Decapitated all my dolls
And if you bore me, you'll lose your soul to me

(sha la na, sha la na, sha la na)
Hey Gepetto, where'd you put it? Oh Gepetto whoa whoa (2x)

And if you bore him, you're gonna lose your soul

(sha la na, sha la na, sha la na)
Hey Gepetto, where'd you get to? Oh Gepetto whoa whoa (2x)

(sha la na, sha la na, sha la na)
Hey Gepetto, what'd you get me? Oh Gepetto whoa whoa

So he's lying on top again
Just like Gepetto

(sha la na, sha la na) (3x)

Witch

You're not safe in this house
You're not safe

Here, here
In some witch's bed (2x)
You know the one
She lies all lit up (3x)

You're not safe
In this house

Slow Dog

Near the backroad
There's a dog will run out
Pickin' through spit up leaves a dog won't even touch
Come to shoot that dog long ago
Just can't leave that dog alone

Maria carry a rifle
Maria carry a dog on her back
That dog is hit again
That slow dog is hit again with his
See-thru skin, the kinda skin you can see through

He's shot again, he's shot again
He's shot (ah ah ah ah ah ah)
He's shot again
He's shot again
He's shot (ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)

Heal me by a river
Man retires his wife says but she was so sad and sick
His heart breaks in the mud
Thought I'd leave this world by 21
Couldn't leave that dog alone

Maria carry a rifle
Maria carry a dog on her back
That dog is hit again
That slow dog is hit again with his
See-thru skin, the kinda skin you can see through

He's shot again, he's shot again
He's shot (ah ah ah ah ah ah)
He's shot again
He's shot again
He's shot (ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)

Maria carry a rifle
Maria carry a dog on her back
Maria carry you on her back...

Low Red Moon

So what, you think this is usual
Strange moon, strange land
Strange man

Hold your hands with tiny horses
Hold'em, hold them kindly
Man

Low red moon
How can you
Sleep like a baby (2x)
When you shine so different on another
You shine different on another

I look up and I see the raising of an old hope
Brave and tattered
A shining knight with shining eyes
He shines around me brightly

So now I say "This is beautiful"
I think you are
Strange

Low red moon
How can you
Sleep like a baby (2x)
When you shine so different on another
You shine different on another
Strange moon, strange land
Strange

Moon you made me cry when I was young
And I was young
Now I've got strong arms
Strong arms for a skinny girl
And I say "He belongs to me, he belongs to me"
His arms hang on
Man that I love
Roses

Feed The Tree

This old man I've talked about
Broke his own heart, poured it in the ground
Big red tree grew up and out
Throws up it's leaves, spins round and round

I know all this and more
So take your hat off when you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree

This little squirrel I used to be
Slammed her bike down the stairs
They put silver where her teeth had been
Baby silvertooth she grins and grins

I know all this and more
So take your hat off boy when you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree
Take your hat off boy when you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree

This old man I used to be
Spins around, around, around the tree
Silver baby come to me
I'll only hurt you in my dreams

I know all this and
I know all this and
I know all this and more
So take your hat off boy when you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree

Take your hat off when you're talking to me
And be there when I feed the tree

Full Moon, Empty Heart

Sleepin' now now
Sleepin' now now now
It's still night out
Sleepin'

Don't look at me, looking back at you
Out the window backwards (2x)
Sleep...

See this child twice stolen from me
Out the window backwards (2x)

Sleepin' now now
Sleepin' now now now
Sleep now

Now fall into the bed
Put your hand in your hair
Now fall into the tile
Stick your finger in your eye
That's the only way you cry
Hey now, hey now

Full moon past the window sideways
Hey now, hey hey now
Sleepin' now now (3x)
Sleep, sleep, sleep...

White Belly

That was some hurricane
Rode in on the back of a heart attack
Made a mistake on a fire escape in San Francisco
Worked my way back in a hallway in L.A.

Put on your black dress
Float on your back
Too long, too late
Now I'm gone

Somewhere to sleep
Somewhere to sleep
Somewhere to scrape your body off my feet

Put on your black dress
Float on your back
Too long, too late
Now I'm gone

White belly up in the sun (4x)
I'm still diving for the big one

Put on your black dress
Float on your back
Put on your black dress (White belly up in the sun)
Float on your back (White belly up in the sun)
Too long, too late
Now I'm gone
White belly up in the sun (4x)

Untogether

I was friendly with this girl who insisted on touching my face
She told outrageous stories, I believed them
'til the endings were changing from endings before
She's not touching me anymore

Untogether, I couldn't help him, I got hard
You can try your life, but you can't save the unsaveably
Untogether

I was shipwrecked with this frog who was endlessly testing my faith
He made outrageous demands, I ignored him
'til I strapped on my bird feet and surfed into shore
He's not touching me anymore

Untogether, I couldn't help him, I got hard
You can try your life
You can't change the unchangeably
Untogether

Now the bird nest on my back, keeps me turning and straining to see
We threw outrageous parties, we were golden
Now the bird keeps her distance, and I keep my spleen
Sometimes there's no poison like a dream

Untogether, I couldn't help it, I got hard
You can dry your eyes,
You can't hold the impossibly
Untogether

Star

It's hard for star
Sweet sweet sweet wind
Burn off this skin
Get it to reach
Sachuest beach

I can never win
With this body I live in

Sad Dress

I'm so tipsy I danced through the wall
And you took me for me I've a hand in the door
And those cheekbones of yours shine in the dark
I swear they do

Think about dixie
She ducked when she ran
Had three bad reasons to stand by her man (he goes)
Miss the vein once
Try try again I swear
I just went my my your dress is so sad

So sad so sad
You don't care, you just stole it somewhere

Beat it, fight it
Your sweet face inside it
Your dress is so sad
So sad so sad
You don't care, you just stole it somewhere

I chew my foot off (2X)
To get out of this dress

Stay

Stay, oh uh oh oh stay (2x)

Solomon dives for that big dusky pearl
Solomon sighs, he knows he's older than me

Sleeps with the fishes soon
Stay (stay), oh uh oh oh stay (2x)

Solomon crawls on the belly of God
Solomon falls on his face in love with me
He grows as old as the sea
Deep where the fishes are

Stay, oh uh oh oh stay (4x)

He lives in the yard, he keeps himself hard
He keeps himself homeless and heartless and hard
He sleeps under stairs along with the heirs
Of nothing and nothing means no one who cares
But I love him dear and I love him dear
And I've loved him hundreds of thousands of years

Stay Stay (stay with me) oh uh oh oh, stay (stay with me)
Stay Stay (stay with me) oh uh oh oh, stay (stay with me)

It's not time for me to go (3x)

Stay

All songs written by Tanya Donelly except "White Belly" by Tanya Donelly & Fred Abong.
All songs published Slow Dog Music, BMI.

These lyrics were transcribed by Andrew Kieschnick
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