Ninetynine Lyrics

180 Degrees album

(note: lyrics below are what I think the band is singing in the song; the lyrics are pretty tough for me to figure out, and I'm sure lots of them aren't "correct", but... )

 

Polar Angle

i've got a polar angle
i've got a triangle
i've got to disentangle
without the (dimango?)
internal line is vicious
you act so seruptitious
is that the way you want her
you've got, you've got to get her
i've got to, i've got to
i've got to, i've got to

save myself wishes living
a time long ago
components are missing
and i know, i know, i know, i know, we know

i've got a polar angle
i've got a triangle
i've got to disentangle
without the (dimango?)
internal line is vicious
you act so seruptitious
is that the way you want her
you've got, you've got to get her
i've got to, i've got to
i've got to, i've got to

save myself wishes living
a time long ago
components are missing
a time long ago
how selfish is living

i've got a polar angle
i've got a triangle
i've got to disentangle
without the (dimango?)
internal line is vicious
you act so seruptitious
is that the way you want her
you've got, you've got to get her

 

Hemisphere

falls in hemispheres
but i know the scene
this time is getting clear
i know there are days
particular ways
grounds a scale
what i'm getting to is
that erasable
rise and fall, rise and fall
please cement
this no time intent

everything i want to try and
everything i want to say
the words define it,
everything that won't go away
everything i want to try and
everything i want to say
who's afraid of you, virginia woolf?
it's on the shelf
it won't take long
to pass through hell
falls to scale
cement
this no time intent

 

Transient

machine and tire
telegraph wire
and host the transient
what was the line
can this meanings the words were defined
in my brilliant design

tile walk a mile
the girl elastic
i build you backwards
and host the transient

what was the line?
can this meanings the words were defined
and i'm inclined
where our worlds collide
it filled the time
was always the sign
this brilliant design
don't tell me the time
tell her tonight
is this mine?
hands in the crime??

 

cois il hamdu lilah

i be still, and walk away
i be still, and try my way
i be still, and walk away
i be still, don't try my...

i be still, and walk away
i be still, and try my way
i be still, and walk away
i be still, i be still

 

Imperial

this brilliant facade
the districts of living
the dissent dust ??
pretends to be given
??
this brilliant exchange
adds to the tone
laces the background
acknowledgement found

 

Mesopotamia

in no way
i'm eating the distance
but i'll be the test
of what's missing
always around
never relay it
it's the easiest word
will you never say it

in no way
remembering this place
but i'll be the test
of what's displaced
always around
never to notice
is that the word
it's never enough

you speak in circles
when speaking's too much
and to the back of it
scarce to the wall
almost with something
is nothing at all
stare at the ceiling
are you nervous as hell
almost a good time
i can never tell

tell me
and i will believe it
but i'll be the test
of what's leaving
always around
never to notice
is that the word
it's never enough
you speak in circles
when speaking's too much
and to the back of it
scarce to the wall
almost with something
is nothing at all
stare at the ceiling
are you nervous as hell
almost a good time
i can never tell

you'll pretend
that you never noticed
i'll devise
a way not to show it's
getting to me
the tense of the moment
even the reason is
free of desire then

you'll pretend
that you never noticed
i'll devise
a way not to show it's
getting to me
the tense of the moment
even the reason is
free of desire then
into the back of it
scarce to the wall
almost with something
is nothing at all
stare at the ceiling
are you nervous as hell
almost a good time
i can never tell

 

Revisionist

i refuse
revisions of voltage
there's not a shortage
gas or electric

on and on, forever it goes
if it's a problem, can you relay it
on and on, revisionist knows
material shortage set to convey it

i refuse
revisions of voltage
there's not a shortage
gas or electric

on and on, forever it goes
if it's a problem, can you relay it
on and on, revisionist knows
material shortage set to convey it

 

Synthetic

i must have you
precious thoughts utility
how does it go
when it reaches the statical

synthetic is a word
to be held, not against
the absurdest intentions

and everything's okay, by the way
i'm okay, but i'd much rather forget

and i must have you
precious thoughts utility
and how does it go
when it reaches the statical

and i guess i want to go
to the place where i'll be letting go
and never turn, go back but return
and i guess i want to stay
but the worst is yet to mention
and i guess i never thought
that the words could be so precious

everything's okay, by the way
i'm okay, but i'd much rather forget
you're the most to touch
your honesty's too much
in a daze but who's into pretending

how must it be
precious thoughts utility
and oh that i'm living alone
when it reaches the statical

and i guess i want to go
to the place where i'll be letting go
and never turn, go back but return
and i guess i'd like to stay
but the worst is yet to mention
and i guess i never thought
that the words could be so precious

 

New Delhi

everything i...
?? part lost in new delhi, why?
and everything about her
i lost in the end, to india
and though i tried to try
how could i retract what was mine?

?? know but why?
and everything that i care for
i sit by you, and you don't ?? why
and everything that was
fell into doubt ??
and though i tried to try
how could i retract what was mine?
in new delhi, why?
(all this time)
...

 

Song for Sally

i tried and i tried to reverse an obsession... i know what i did, every step forward, i took two going backwards. i just left you punching the walls, punching the floor, pushing ???? i just wanna say i apoligize, i'm sorry, i'm sorry, i'm sorry for the things i cannot rectify and correct.

but if you are going now, don't pretend that you are happy now. cuz i can see it in your smile, i can see ???????? and see the truth in time.

and if you are leaving now, why if my heart has become just a city now. but there's a host of people that will thank you when you're with them ?????....

and if you are happy now, just bring along your cancer hoping i.. oh i know the pains of time but i face to think there's a time when we'll get together again
when we will come again.

 

To Come to This

oh it's strange to come to this
(vocals are so quiet on this - i can't make them out!)

 

Pompeii

in the white cabin here
we're all civilized here
this particular right stuff
the preamble concedes it...

i believe it's the feeling of hating
i believe it's the image negating
innocent in the right sense
planning progress by fear

but i can't understand
with no gods and no masters
that the march has advanced to here

this particular right stuff
we're all civilized here
i believe it's the feeling of hating
i believe it's the image negating
innocent in the right sense
planning progress by fear

but i can't understand
with no gods and no masters
that the march has advanced to here

 

Fielding

never a thought, don't really know
how the turnstyle fills this space
oh the light is much too late
fielding thoughts as old as you
talk the stars a bridge to ??

i devise to fall
memories are why
building flies to you

running to wait, too much to say
all the thoughts that can't replace
don't have minds of in this space
it's much too fast, it's much too late
please don't please that follow

i devise to fall
memories are why
building flies to you

you're please is out
i devise to fall

i'm gonna wait, i'm gonna wait to fight
i'm gonna waste, i'm gonna waste the day

but that place was forbidden
that place is too much
gravity broke through
for the last time

i'm gonna wait, i'm gonna wait to fight
i'm gonna waste, i'm gonna waste the day
i'm gonna write, i'm gonna write to spell it
i'm gonna wait, i'm gonna wait to fight

 

Replica

mumble all the way, but i havent got a place
how did it get right here?
always alone that feeling on the phone
but really, you're so sincere
but i can't understand indifferent demand
magnificence ambivelanced speak
always alone not here for the most
but really you're so sincere

mumble all the way, but i haven't got a place
how did it get right here?
i know i'm alone, a long way from home
but really, you're so sincere
but i can't understand indifferent demand
magnificence ambivelanced speak
always alone, not clear, and on the phone
but really, you're so sincere

note to the right of perfection
indifferent trust
this past resurrection of us

mumble all the way, but i haven't got a place
how did it get right here?

note to the right of perfection
indifferent trust
this past resurrection of us

resonant minds, insignificant others
replica worlds think a like in the furthest

 

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