Screen Violence (2021)

• Asking For A Friend
• He Said She Said
• California
• Violent Delights
• How Not To Drown
• Final Girl
• Good Girls
• Lullabies
• Nightmares
• Better If You Don't
• Killer (Bonus Track)
• Screaming (Bonus Track)
• Bitter End (Bonus Track) 

Asking For A Friend lyrics - Chvrches

I don't want to say that I'm afraid to die

I'm no good at goodbyes, I can't apologise

And if I don't stop now will it follow me down?

I guess I have to try, it's the art of getting by

'Cause I sunk some ships with selfish lips

And it all came back to me

I was terrified, I never told them why

And the songs I wrote 'bout hearts I broke

Would never come for free

I cheated and I lied but I meant it when I cried

So what do you say when you lose your way?

The past is in the past, it isn't meant to last

But if I can't let go, will you carry me home?

Can we celebrate the end? I'm asking for a friend

'Cause I filled my bed with my regrets

But it hasn't killed me yet

None of it mattered, none of it mattered

And the mess we made on Fridays

Gave me Sundays on my knees

But you still matter, you still matter

You still matter

You still matter

You still matter

You still matter

You still matter

You still matter

You still matter

You still matter

I don't want to say that I'm afraid to die

The past is in the past, t isn't meant to last

But if I can't let go, will you carry me home?

Can we celebrate the end? I'm asking for a friend

Home

Can we go?

Can we go?

Can we go?

Home

Can we go?

Can we go?

Can we go?

Home

Can we go?

Can we go?

Can we go?

Home

Can we go?

Can we go?

Can we go?

He Said She Said lyrics - Chvrches

He said, "You bore me to death"

"I know you heard me the first time" and

"Be sad, but don't be depressed"

Just think it over, over and

He said, "It's all in your head"

"But keep an ear to the grapevine" and

"Get drunk, but don't be a mess"

Keep thinkin' over, over

I try

But it's hard to hit rewind

When I feel like

I feel like I'm losin' my mind

(Feel like I'm losin' my mind)

Feel like I'm losin' my mind

(Feel like I'm losin' my mind)

Over and over, I

Feel like I'm losin' my mind

(Feel like I'm losin' my mind)

Feel like I'm losin' my mind

Over and over, I try

Ooh, ooh, ooh

He said, "You need to be fed"

"But keep an eye on your waistline" and

"Look good, but don't be obsessed"

Keep thinkin' over, over

I try

But it's hard to know what's right

When I feel like I'm borrowin' all of my time

And it's hard to hit rewind

When I feel like

I feel like I'm losin' my mind

(Feel like I'm losin' my mind)

Feel like I'm losin' my mind

(Feel like I'm losin' my mind)

Over and over, I

Feel like I'm losin' my mind

(Feel like I'm losin' my mind)

Feel like I'm losin' my mind

Over and over, I

(Feel like I'm losin' my mind)

Feel like I'm losin' my mind

(Feel like I'm losin' my mind)

Over and over, I

Feel like I'm losin' my mind

(Feel like I'm losin' my mind)

Feel like I'm losin' my mind

Over and over

I try

California lyrics - Chvrches

Waste a month, waste a year

Waste the time you could've been here

Count the debt, count the tears

Count the truths and all of my fears

I didn't want to be cynical

Passing place for the soul

You were never predictable

Now I need to let it go

Found the song, played it back

Heard your voice under the feedback

Found a tape that was blank

Saw your face fading into black

I know love is delusional

And I hate when I'm wrong

Yours was never conditional

And now I need to get it gone

No one ever warns ya

You'll die in California

Falling in a dream, you let, let go

No one ever seems to say, say so

No one ever tells ya

There's freedom in the failure

Dying in a dream feels like home

No one ever seems to say, say so

Close my eyes, close my heart

Close the book I never meant to start

Say your name in the dark

No one said it would be this hard

I didn't go to the funeral

Heard you cry on the phone

Your voice was so beautiful

And now I need to let it go

No one ever warns ya

You'll die in California

Falling in a dream, you let, let go

No one ever seems to say, say so

No one ever tells ya

There's freedom in the failure

Dying in a dream feels like home

No one ever seems to say, say so

God bless this mess that we made ourselves

Pull me into the screen at the end and

God bless this mess that we made for ourselves

Pull me into the screen at the end

Pull me into the screen at the end

Pull me into the screen at the end

To the screen at the end

Violent Delights lyrics - Chvrches

Had a dream your father died

I couldn't scream

I couldn't cry

The second night, I dreamt you drowned

You couldn't fight

You were not found

These violent delights

Keep creeping into my nights

And they're reading my rites

And I'll never sleep alone again

And these violent delights

Keep bleeding into the light

And I'll never be right

But they'll never sleep alone again when I'm gone

When I'm gone

A photograph will steal your soul

An epitaph won't make you whole

If I disappear, they'll say I killed myself

I never feared for my own health

These violent delights

Keep creeping into my nights

And they're reading my rites

And I'll never sleep alone again

And these violent delights

Keep bleeding into the light

And I'll never be right

But they'll never sleep alone again when I'm gone

When I'm gone

I don't want to see it

I don't want to see it

I don't want to sleep alone, no

I don't want to see it

I don't want to see it

Never sleep alone again, no

I don't want to see it

I don't want to see it

I don't want to sleep alone, no

I don't want to see it

I don't want to see it

Never sleep alone again when I'm gone

These violent delights

Keep creeping into my nights

And they're reading my rites

And I'll never sleep alone again

And these violent delights

Keep bleeding into the light

And I'll never be right

But they'll never sleep alone again when I'm gone

When I'm gone

Alone again when I'm gone

When I'm gone

How Not To Drown lyrics - Chvrches (feat. Robert Smith)

I'm writing a book on how to stay conscious when you drown

And if the words float up to the surface

I'll keep them down

This is the first time I know

I don't want the crown

You can take it now

You promised the world and brought me it hanging from a string

Stuck it in my mouth, into my throat

Told me to sing

That was the first time I knew

You can't kill the king

And those who kiss the ring

Tell me how

It's better when the sun goes down

We will never escape this town

I wasn't scared when he caught me

Look what it taught me

Tell me how

It's better if I make no sound

I will never escape these doubts

I wasn't dead when they found me

Watch as they pull me down

I'm writing a chapter on what to do after they dig you up

On what to do after you grew to hate what you used to love

That was the first time I knew

They were out for blood

And they would have your guts

Tell me how

It's better when the sun goes down

We will never escape this town

I wasn't scared when he caught me

Look what it taught me

Tell me how

It's better if I make no sound

I will never escape these doubts

I wasn't dead when they found me

Watch as they pull me down

Watch as they pull me down

Watch as they pull me down

Pulling me down

Dead when they found me

Watch as they pull me down

Watch as they pull me down

Watch as they pull me down

Pulling me down

Dead when they found me

Watch as they pull me down

I'm writing a book on how to stay conscious when you drown

And if the words float up to the surface

I'll keep them down

This is the first time I know

I don't want the crown

You can take it now

You can take it now

Take it now

Final Girl lyrics - Chvrches

Swallowing the seeds of sins we sewed into the ground

Keeping secrets until everything became a bit too loud

I could wash it down

I could drown it out

By filling up the silence with an organ sound

And by writing sentences I used to think were quite profound

And it feels like the weight is too much to carry

I should quit, maybe go get married

Only time will tell

And I wonder if I should've changed my accent

Tried to make myself more attractive

Only time will tell

In the final cut

In the final scene

There's a final girl

And you know that she should be screaming

Telling all the tales took time that I just do not have

Sifting further through the wreckage, I think you just have to laugh

Try to take it back

As it turns to black

Don't want to find your daughter in a body bag

So I need to get out now while most of me is still intact

And it feels like the weight is too much to carry

I should quit, maybe go get married

Only time will tell

And I wonder if I should've changed my accent

Tried to make myself more attractive

Only time will tell

In the final cut

In the final scene

There's a final girl

Does she look like me?

In the final cut

In the final scene

There's a final girl

And you know that she should be screaming now

Good Girls lyrics - Chvrches

Killing your idols is a chore

And it's such a fucking bore

'Cause I don't need them anymore

So

Maybe if you just got some guts

We'd kill 'em with a thousand cuts

And say we did it out of love

So save your breath

Give a little of what you have left

Do they know something I don't?

Is it easier when you don't have to count to ten?

When you don't have to pretend?

I want to know that feeling

Is it easier when you don't have to start again?

When you don't want to make amends?

I want to know that feeling

Good girls don't cry

And good girls don't lie

And good girls justify but I don't

Good girls don't die

And good girls stay alive

And good girls satisfy but I won't

They tell me I'm hellbent on revenge

I cut my teeth on weaker men

I won't apologize again

And

I never had a taste for liars

Or the uniquely uninspired

'Cause I don't need to be desired

Is it easier when you don't have to count to ten?

When you don't have to pretend?

I want to know that feeling

Is it easier when you don't have to start again

When you don't want to make amends?

I want to know that feeling

Good girls don't cry

And good girls don't lie

And good girls justify but I don't

Good girls don't die

And good girls stay alive

And good girls satisfy but I won't

No, I won't

Killing your idols is a chore

And it's such a fucking bore

But we don't need them anymore

We don't need them anymore

Lullabies lyrics - Chvrches

I've lost my appetite

Drinking the pesticide

Thinking that it's not a suicide if we act polite

Jesus Christ

I'm getting tired of the alibis

All the excuses and reasons why build inside my mind

No reply

I wish that I'd known ahead of time

And I wish I had been more kind

I wish, I...

Paralysed and spinning backwards

Lullabies don't comfort me

Televise the great disaster

We're better off inside of the screen

I'm terrified of falling faster

Lullabies don't comfort me

So televise the great disaster

We're better off inside of the screen sometimes

I'm lying on the floor

What are we waiting for?

I'm getting tired of trying so hard to be adored

Close the door

Wish I'd reached out to my mother more

Wish that I hadn't kept the score

I wish, I...

Paralysed and spinning backwards

Lullabies don't comfort me

Televise the great disaster

We're better off inside of the screen

I'm terrified of falling faster

Lullabies don't comfort me

So televise the great disaster

We're better off inside of the screen sometimes

Nightmares lyrics - Chvrches

I get the last word only because I write on the walls in my head

Maybe some things are better unsaid

To be left on the sheets of your bed

Can I forgive if I forget

All my mistakes and my regrets?

If all of this is for the best?

I've been singing that song again

Another ballad that won't make amends

It's been giving me nightmares again

And they don't end

I've been singing along again

Another poem designed for revenge

Now I'm living the nightmare again

And it won't end

Pity the actor canning the laughter

I know I waited too long

I played so dumb

I was under the thumb

A conclusion far too foregone

Can I forgive if I forget

All my mistakes and my regrets?

If all of this is for the best?

I've been singing that song again

Another ballad that won't make amends

It's been giving me nightmares again

And they don't end

I've been singing along again

Another poem designed for revenge

Now I'm living the nightmare again

And it won't end

For, for, forgiving

For, for, forgetting

For, for, forgiving

For, for, forgetting

It might have looked like love but it tasted a lot like blood

What is it like to be the apple of your own eye?

Always loved

Always seen

Always gratified

Always heard

Always safe

Always satisfied

An ugly song came from a Ballad For A Friend

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it never ends

I was no sweet dream but I was never a nightmare

I'm glad that we can all now stop pretending that you cared

I was no sweet dream but I was never a nightmare

I love it when you talk about it to people who weren't there

The arrogance and narcissism laid bare

I was no sweet dream but I was never a nightmare

I've been singing that song again

Another ballad that won't make amends

It's been giving me nightmares again

And they don't end

I've been singing along again

Another poem designed for revenge

Now I'm living the nightmare again

And it won't end

For, for, forgiving

For, for, forgetting

For, for, forgiving

For, for, forgetting

For, for, forgiving

For, for, forgetting

For, for, forgiving

For, for, forgetting

Better If You Don't lyrics - Chvrches

Drinking to the things I can't take back

Thinking of the friends and faith I lack

And no one broke my heart quite like that man

It's better if you don't care but if you do

I won't follow you again

TV's on but facing at the wall

Can they tell I don't like me at all?

I'm never as alone as I am back home

Pulling every thread

Seemed like a thing to do

Now I can't give it back

My favourite kind of blue

It's better if I don't dwell but if I do

I won't call on you again

Tinseltown was always in the rain

I've been gone and notice every change

And some of them are not our friends

And some of them are still our friends but dead

It's better if I don't think too much of you

I've been on my own

So I should see it through

I mumble when I speak

But I mean it when I do

I carry what I keep

I don't miss a lot of you

I drink and I think too much

I should quit one of the two

But I won't wish for luck

And I won't bother you

It's better if you don't care but if you do

I won't follow you again

Killer lyrics - Chvrches

I lost myself

My mental health

Yeah

On a broken carousel

Spun down to hell

How far we fell

Maybe just as well

The stones we throw

They told me so

Yeah

It was death by stereo

When they dealt the final blow

Nowhere to go

I turned into a killer

I'm insane

I'll cry you a river

Down the drain

Are you entertained?

No one to call

In my downfall

Yeah

In the valley of the dolls

I was climbing up the walls

No light at all

I turned into a killer

I'm insane

I'll cry you a river

Down the drain

I turned into a killer

Played the game

Don't look in the mirror

Fear no pain

Are you entertained?

I turned into a killer

I'm insane

I'll cry you a river

Down the drain

Are you entertained?

Screaming lyrics - Chvrches

Am I the deer?

Am I the headlights?

I know that I can't slow down

Everything fractures in the light

And I stand by watching it turn

And we used to laugh

At the broken glass

I should probably paper over all the cracks

Took a photograph

Of the aftermath

I should probably look less fondly on the past

Silent screaming

At the ceiling

Wondering when I lost heart

And time's been stealing

All my dreams and

I no longer look the part

And we used to laugh

At the broken glass

I should probably paper over all the cracks

Took a photograph

Of the aftermath

I should probably look less fondly on the past

Am I the butcher?

Am I the knife

If I don't know what all this is for?

I used to read myself to death

But I don't see the point anymore

Silent screaming

At the ceiling

Wondering when I lost heart

And time's been stealing

All my dreams and

I no longer look the part

And we used to laugh

At the broken glass

I should probably paper over all the cracks

Took a photograph

Of the aftermath

I should probably look less fondly on the past

On the past

Am I the deer?

Am I the headlights?

I know that I can't slow down

Bitter End lyrics - Chvrches

At twenty-four

I fell into the trap door

Threw a man overboard

As I swam for the shore

At twenty-five

I noticed red in my skies

Made a bed for his lies

In the whites of my eyes

I was naïve

It got harder to breathe

Still I don't let them see

That there's blood on my knees

All that I want

Is to hear that one song

When the noise is all gone

I'll be singing along

Teach me the sound that can take me away

Play it again and again until I find rapture

It never really ends

Teach me the sound that can take me away

Play it again and again until I find rapture

Until the bitter end

At twenty-nine

I didn't see all the signs

So I hung on the line

Till I lost my spine

I prayed to God

I could curb the black dog

Oh, the days were so long

With the oxygen gone

Teach me the sound that can take me away

Play it again and again until I find rapture

It never really ends

Teach me the sound that can take me away

Play it again and again until I find rapture

Until the bitter end

Rapture

Rapture

Ever after

In the bitter end

Guess that I learned

From every bridge that I burned

That your love should be earned

And the world will still turn

All that I want

Is to hear that one song

When the noise is all gone

I'll be singing along

Teach me the sound that can take me away

Play it again and again until I find rapture

It never really ends

Teach me the sound that can take me away

Play it again and again until I find rapture

Until the bitter end

Rapture

Rapture

Ever after

In the bitter end

Finding rapture

Rapture

Ever after

In the bitter end

Finding rapture

Ever after

Finding rapture

I need a rapture