Your Heart Is A Weapon The Size Of Your Fist

by Lux Lisbon

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released 26 January 2012
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All songs written by Stuart Rook
(except 11 Chris How Kin Sang)

Produced by Guy Elderfield (www.Random-Recordings.co.uk)
Artwork by Nathan Vernau (www.nathanvernau.com)



Songs performed by :-

Joe Yoshida
Chris How Kin Sang
Charlie Austen
Stuart Rook
Alastair Jones


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Lux Lisbon are an English Rock and Roll band (other bands are available) – but more specifically Lux Lisbon are the band that Wings could have been (tinyurl.com/5qcmg9). We sing songs that are mostly epic widescreen indie-rock rubbish - taking their cues from songs what we reckon are well good (and also from some well good bits of songs what are not well good). Often it would seem that this manifests itself as bittersweet love stories set to soaring melodies, boy-girl harmony, clarion-call guitar, piano and violin. Yes, look impressed, because it is impressive.

Hear are some empty words. GO ! 'we have headlined The Fly, The Metro, Bull and Gate, Waters Rats, Zigfrid Von Underbelly, 229 and played at Proud Camden and Stealth/Rescue Rooms/Bodega Social in Nottingam. We have had 4 number one 'hits' on established music blog/chart www.thesixtyone.com and seem to have accumulated over 100,000 myspace plays and 19,000 myspace friends for what that is worth. Which of course, is nothing.

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Track Name: Animals
ANIMALS

All I want to do tonight is dance
But baby, not like that
No not like that

Soon Animals and Robots will fade to black
So let's watch the Robots dance – Lets watch the robots dance
Cos we’re all Animals – Sure as the stars shine down on us
Yeah we’re all Animals – So baby check your pulse.

Take a thumb and two fingers and wrap them round your wrist
Yeah baby check your pulse – I’ll check you off my list

We’re all Animals so ch-check your pulse – We’re all Animals

Take a thumb and four fingers, and baby make a fist
I need the sweetest shot, straight from your lips

I don’t wanna dance like a Robot
Just wanna feel it when my heart stops
Don’t wanna dance like a Robot
Just wanna dance, dance, dance with you.
Track Name: We Don't Believe In Love No More
WE DON'T BELIEVE IN LOVE NO MORE

We were just taking our last dance and chasing our demons across the sky –
Praying for the night to come, show mercy and cover us in its sweet, sweet lies
In it sweet, sweet lies
We’ll dance, lets take our last dance here.

Why are we racing to make a heart beat faster ?
When I look into their eyes then I get my answer -
We don’t believe in love no more

Please wake me up when this dance is over because I don’t
want to see your face – Just show me your scars and your broken heart –
So I can keep believing that we’re all the same
We hear the static scream out, from neon billboards it shouts

“You need much more than you’ve got, you can’t believe in
love, you need some other drug, because nothing,
no nothing you already have is enough”

So tell me – Why are we racing to make a heart beat faster ?
When I look into their eyes then I get my answer -
We don’t believe in love no more.

Why do we race to make hearts beat faster ?
I look in their eyes and I get my answer -
Its we don’t believe in love
No we don’t believe in love
We don’t believe in love no more.
Track Name: Cherry Blossom Tree
CHERRY BLOSSOM TREE

“In the cherry blossom’s shade there’s no such thing as a stranger.” — Kobayashi Issa

Baby please, stay safe tonight
Cos its gonna blown and then it’ll light
Light up light up – your pretty face, such a pretty face

Oh Baby it’ll light up your pretty face, Yeah baby it’ll light up
your pretty face

Can’t you hear me coming, can’t you see me,
yeah baby I know that I’m a little late
But it all comes so god damn easy, pretending that good things come to those who wait
And so I will wait

I hit the floor almost everytime I rub away the sleep and open my eyes
Just enough to see your pretty face, such a pretty face, such a pretty face

Baby it’ll light up your pretty face, Yeah baby it’ll light up your pretty face

So can’t you hear me coming, can’t you see me, yeah baby I
know that I’m a little late
But it all comes so god damn easy, pretending that good
things come to those who wait

So meet me underneath the Cherry Blossom Tree
Meet me underneath the Cherry Blossom Tree

Just close your eyes – think of a time – go back and start again
Just close your eyes – think of a time – go back and start again
Track Name: Sunflower
SUNFLOWER

I think I’m coming round
I think I’m coming back
Since I hit the ground when I felt you pack
Oh that sucker punch that I love so much
Always gets me drunk on you

Pull me out pretty Sunflower
Hold me down, pull me round
Help me out of this rainshower
Hold me down, pull me round
Hold me down, pull me round
My Sunflower

Since the summers gone and the bottom fell out
All of these winter flowers, they left such little doubt
I’ve got to scrape myself out from the roof of your mouth

Bring it on, bring it on now baby
Bring it on, bring it on now baby
Come and have a go if you think your good enough.
Track Name: Nobody Else Will Know
NOBODY ELSE WILL KNOW

Take my hand and let's run from this place
So faraway to some wide open space

You can die just standing still, its the little lie that kills you
Everytime you close your eyes, there's still a light that shines on me

And nobody else will know
Nobody else will know
Nobody else will know
Nobody else will know

We'll run so fast that sparks will fly
And write our name right out across the sky
Tonight we'll fly away from here
We'll fly away from here

And nobody else will know
Nobody else will know
Nobody else will know
Nobody else will know

We'll run so fast that sparks will fly
we'll move our feet and we'll kick up dust
Through the skin and the bone and the blood
We're young and in wanderlust

Take my hand and let's run from this place
So faraway

Where I can see your beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful face.
Track Name: Poppy Fields
POPPY FIELDS

“Through the dancing poppies stole,
A breeze most softly lulling to my soul” – John Keats

Oh we haven’t come so very far at all my baby
I’ve sunk this gorgeous bomb into my tiny, dirty skull before
But this time baby i’m gonna spit it out,
Just like the words are poison in my mouth

So let me catch my breath
Just let me catch my breath

Oh you are so beautiful my love
Oh you are just so beautiful my love

I’ve got to tell you just how lovely you are
Cos If I don’t I’ll fall and maybe the cuts will scar

Oh you are so beautiful my love
Oh you are just so beautiful my love

That I wanna run, run, run through poppy fields chewed up
by bombs just to be with you

ABOUT POPPY FIELDS

Poppy Fields is an older song of ours but probably one of our best. It is broadly speaking a song of yearning – broadly speaking, set in wartime – for whatever reason alot of WW2 imagery seems apropos.

Placing almost anything in the context of a war makes it all that more poignant, and it can’t hurt to remind ourselves of just how fortunate we are that everything we do is free of such suffocation.

The point of this song I guess is that anyone expressing the sentiments of the lyric in peacetime – might well have the same strength of feeling as the hypothetical flanders field soldier, but it is humbling how much less strife we have to go through to act upon those feelings. There is nothing like considering that your predecessors have managed to cross decimated, shrapnel ridden bogs in order to make themselves heard to put ones own temporary bout of coyness into perspective. So let's take some comfort from what other people have overcome, cos it must have happened.

None of this makes any sense unless you read the lyric that is above. And not even then, because its fluffy bedwetting rubbish.
Track Name: Plastic Lullaby
PLASTIC LULLABY

I close my eyes and count to ten
I black out at three and then fall down and start again

Well I don't know but I've been told
By the aspect of your eye
That you just need a little time, tonight

Cos I can't pretend that I don't want you
Because I want you baby
And I can't pretend you don't want me
Because I see it in your eyes every time you smile
So sing me a plastic lullaby
So I can sleep tonight

I hear my heart beat tick and tock
How come you always arrive just in time to see it stop ?

Baby don't be so cruel, don't be so cruel
Don't be so god damn cruel

Cos I'm tired, so sing me a plastic lullaby so I can sleep tonight.
Track Name: Dance Until The Morning Comes
DANCE UNTIL THE MORNING COMES

“Two souls with but a single thought,Two hearts that beat as one.”

- Friedrich Halm

I’ve got a secret and I’m gonna keep it alive till I know that its true
It fizzes and darts and it spits and it sparks
Through my head makes it so hard to move

So what your gonna do when it all comes crashing down ?
You take a quick one-two, and then you hit the ground -
And from the place in which you fell, no nothing seems the
same – so kiss the dirty ground on this road you made

Won’t you lie to me – sing me a song
We’ll dance until the morning comes -
And when the morning comes it won’t be long -
Till we dance to the beat of the shots of a gun

We’ll dance until the morning comes
We’ll dance until the morning comes

So take everyone you know, and everyone you ever knew
Round them all up and stick them in the same room
And tell them everything you know and everything you ever
knew is standing my your side staring back at you

Singing – lay down beside me and tell me a story so good I can’t believe that its true
It fizzes and darts and it spits and it sparks through my head makes it so hard to move

Won’t you lie to me – sing me a song
We’ll dance until the morning comes -
And when the morning comes it won’t be long -
And when the morning comes I lay down my gun
And when the morning comes I throw down my gun
Cos its broken and useless and dumb.

So take everyone you know, and everyone you ever knew
Round them all up and stick them in the same room
And tell them everything you know and everything you ever
knew is standing my your side staring back at you

Cut off my head and turn me upside down -
Shake me till all of my secrets fall out -
Shake me and shake me and shake me – its true
Don’t wanna grow up and never wanted to.
Track Name: Lucky Boy
LUCKY BOY

My father said to me boy you don’t know your luck
Or what it means things get tough -
So come up take your medicine, just suck it up -
When too much is just not enough

So listen up listen hard boy
You don’t know how lucky you are, boy
You don’t know how lucky you are, boy

My father said to me boy tell me all you know -
Of love and life when they get cold -
How flying sling and arrows and dumb sticks and stones
Can bloody tired hearts and bones

He said look in my eyes, look at my face -
Look in the mirror boy – you’re a disgrace
A disgrace – You’re a disgrace

You say that they’re all so beautiful and vain -
But you are no different boy, you’re just the same -
You should hang your head in shame

You should hang your head in shame
You should hang your head in shame

So listen up listen hard boy
You don’t know how lucky you are, boy
You don’t know how lucky you are, boy
Track Name: Maginot Line
MAGINOT LINE

take the red out my face
make my eyes both the same loosen my tongue just enough
so I can sing in these chains
sing in these chains, again

We’ll sweep the ticker tape thats left from the parade
Into the gutter like glitter
It won’t leave a trace
And we can sing in these chains, again

Because there's still a little bit
Still a little bitter taste in our mouths,
Yeah theress still a little bit, still a little bitter taste in our mouths

So you hold your breath, and i’ll hold mine
And hand in hand we’ll waltz the Maginot Line

Take down your defences, move close to the flame
Suck out the air until darkness is all that remains
and we’ll sing in these chains again

So you hold your breath, and i’ll hold mine
And hand in hand we’ll waltz the Maginot Line
Track Name: Come In From The Cold
COME IN FROM THE COLD

We saw the devil run,
To the hills and hide,
Now he lives in the mountains,
And only comes out at night
To take us to water, to drink deep and hold tight
We rode this river wild, when our hearts were both on fire
Now its houses of red and white through stinging salt in tired eyes
Stinging our tired eyes
So with a barbaric yalwp I cry

Come in !
Come in from the cold !
My body is broken, the devil, he knows
He smells blood cos love ain’t easy no more
So batten the hatches and bolt all the doors
And I’ll hold you in my arms, so there won’t be no false alarms
When you come in, come in out of the cold.

Come kiss me and I will stick, my dumb little head up, out over the parapet
You blow the horn and I'll bang the drum and white dust will chalk up all the hearts that we've won.
We rode this river wild when our hearts were both on fire but then we closed our eyes
So with my barbaric yalwp I cry
Track Name: Plastic Lullaby (Live at Camden Crawl 2011)
PLASTIC LULLABY

I close my eyes and count to ten
I black out at three and then fall down and start again

Well I don't know but I've been told
By the aspect of your eye
That you just need a little time, tonight

Cos I can't pretend that I don't want you
Because I want you baby
And I can't pretend you don't want me
Because I see it in your eyes every time you smile
So sing me a plastic lullaby
So I can sleep tonight

I hear my heart beat tick and tock
How come you always arrive just in time to see it stop ?

Baby don't be so cruel, don't be so cruel
Don't be so god damn cruel
Track Name: Dance Until The Morning Comes (Live)
Written by Stuart Rook

Performed by :-

Drums and Percussion : Joe Yoshida
Acoustic and Electric Guitars : Chris How Kin Sang
Bass : Alastair Jones
Vocals : Stuart Rook, Charlie Austen
Piano, Organ : Stuart Rook
Glock : Stuart Rook
Violin : Eleanor Garlick
Shouty Gang Vocals : Alastair Jones, Chris How Kin Sang, Charlie Austen, Stuart Rook

Produced by Guy Elderfield
Artwork by Nathan Vernau

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DANCE UNTIL THE MORNING COMES

“Two souls with but a single thought,Two hearts that beat as one.”

- Friedrich Halm

I’ve got a secret and I’m gonna keep it alive till I know that its true
It fizzes and darts and it spits and it sparks
Through my head makes it so hard to move

So what your gonna do when it all comes crashing down ?
You take a quick one-two, and then you hit the ground -
And from the place in which you fell, no nothing seems the
same – so kiss the dirty ground on this road you made

Won’t you lie to me – sing me a song
We’ll dance until the morning comes -
And when the morning comes it won’t be long -
Till we dance to the beat of the shots of a gun

We’ll dance until the morning comes
We’ll dance until the morning comes

So take everyone you know, and everyone you ever knew
Round them all up and stick them in the same room
And tell them everything you know and everything you ever
knew is standing my your side staring back at you

Singing – lay down beside me and tell me a story so good I can’t believe that its true
It fizzes and darts and it spits and it sparks through my head makes it so hard to move

Won’t you lie to me – sing me a song
We’ll dance until the morning comes -
And when the morning comes it won’t be long -
And when the morning comes I lay down my gun
And when the morning comes I throw down my gun
Cos its broken and useless and dumb.

So take everyone you know, and everyone you ever knew
Round them all up and stick them in the same room
And tell them everything you know and everything you ever
knew is standing my your side staring back at you

Cut off my head and turn me upside down -
Shake me till all of my secrets fall out -
Shake me and shake me and shake me – its true
Don’t wanna grow up and never wanted to.