[ti:Nobody's Empire] [ar:Belle and Sebastian] [al:Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Nobody's Empire - Belle & Sebastian [00:36.02]Lying on my bed I was reading french [00:39.42]With the light too bright for my senses [00:43.84]From this hiding place life was way too much [00:47.08]It was loud and rough round the edges [00:50.83]So I faced the wall when an old man called [00:54.99]Out of dreams that I would die there [00:58.45]But a sight unseen you were pulling strings [01:02.90]You had a different idea [01:07.24]I was like a child I was light as straw [01:10.50]And my father lifted me up there [01:14.90]Took me to a place where they checked my body [01:18.32]My soul was floating in thin air [01:22.39]I clung to the bed and I clung to the past [01:26.18]I clung to the welcome darkness [01:29.57]But at the end of the night there's a green green light [01:33.92]It's the quiet before the madness [01:37.48]There was a girl that sang like the chime of a bell [01:41.05]And she put out her arm she touched me when I was in hell [01:48.48]When I was in hell [01:53.48]Someone sang a song and I sang along [01:57.06]Cause I knew the words from my childhood [02:01.25]Intellect ambition they fell away [02:04.35]And they locked me up for my own good [02:08.24]But I didn't mind cause the silence was kind [02:12.36]It spoke to me in whispers [02:16.03]There was the sound of the wind and the cold cold dawn [02:20.01]And the quiet hum of business [02:23.76]Let me dangle awhile in this waiting room [02:27.70]I don't need to go I don't need to know what you're doing [02:35.20]Know what you're doing [03:10.91]Lying on my side you were half awake [03:14.07]And your face was tired and crumpled [03:18.75]If I had a camera I'd snap you now [03:21.91]Cause there's beauty in every stumble [03:25.68]We are out of practice we're out of sight [03:29.53]On the edge of nobody's empire [03:33.44]And if we live by books and we live by hope [03:37.12]Does that make us targets for gunfire [03:41.88]Now I look at you you're a mother of two [03:45.25]You're a quiet revolution [03:49.53]Marching with the crowd singing dirty and loud [03:52.92]For the people's emancipation [03:56.58]Did I do okay did I pave the way [04:00.71]Was I strong when you were wanting [04:04.45]I was tied to the yoke with a decent bloke [04:08.49]Who was stern but never daunting [04:12.28]And he told me to push and he made me feel well [04:16.32]He told to me to leave that vision of hell to the dying [04:23.33]Oh to the dying