Pavement Lyrics Quotes

JAMIE'S SONG 'I Had No Choice': I had no choice, I had to be hers. And now she’s gone, I have to be hurt. She’s not the one that I wanted, She’s just the one that I had. She’s not the one that I’d chosen, She’s just the one I got given. I never said, ‘Hey, she’s the one for me,’ It was already built in me. I didn’t say, ‘Hey, she’s so pretty,’ It’s just these eyes were made to see… her. I had no choice, I had to be hers. And now she’s gone, I have to be hurt. I had no choice, that’s how it was written. I had no choice, that’s the life I got given.

JAMIE'S SONG 'Bright Blue Dream': I watch the world go round and round. And see the sun go up and down. I think I’ve heard most every sound Except your voice. I feel the river by my feet. And let the tears dry indiscrete. Seems the horizon’s incomplete Without your face. The world is a colder place, Shadows everywhere you used to be. Darker than the darkest nights I’ve seen. And I try go back to that Bright blue dream. When there was nothing, there was nothing, but you and me. Clear blue sky. Yes there was something, there was something, I could not see.

JAMIE'S SONG 'ONE HALF': I wish you wouldn’t try, to find me where I hide. I am fine where I reside, So please don’t follow. I wish you wouldn’t cry, can’t bear that in your eyes. I am more than terrified. Please say you won’t go. If I could make two of me, you would get one half. But there’s only one of me, and that’s more than enough. I wish you wouldn’t want from me, what I cannot give. I wish you could be satisfied, with what you now receive. There is only one of me, and I belong to her. If I live another life, hope you come before her.

JAMIE'S SONG 'She': There’s something about her eyes. I don’t know what I see. She wears a cloak of lies. I don’t know what I mean. She hides behind those eyes. Will she let me in? I could feel the barrier between, Her and the world and sea. She is not what she may seem.....

JAMIE'S SONG 'Mukti': She’s sitting on the step, staring back at me. Wonder why she does, wonder what she sees. Nothing but the lies. Nothing but the cries. There’s nothing in her eyes except for me. I don‘t really quite see, what I’m meant to find. But something in me says, there’s something in her mind, That I need to know, have to comprehend. Wonder what she’ll see if I want to be her friend. Nothing but the lies. Nothing but the cries. There’s nothing in her mind except for me.

JAMIE'S SONG 'KILL ME': In the darkness of the night, you come to me to fight. You tell me stories of your life, and make me miss you all the while. I used to crave you but now I find, I’m not living, I’m blind. And the daylight has combined, with the hollow that’s inside. This black space that’s in me, is all you’ve left me to feel. The love you took from me, was all I had, is all I feel. But now there’s nothing left of me. You should’ve killed me, or buried me alive. You could’ve shot me, even stabbed me with a knife. I wish you’d killed me; I wish you’d kill me instead.

JAMIE'S SONG 'August and November': They say it was a beautiful summer. I say I felt so cold the whole short while. I heard that it rained for days, Between August and November. Well I didn’t see it rain on the enslaved river. I am the river no more (x2) And the rain is just acid water from their cloudy black smoke. And now I’m at a standstill on the streets, That are lit up like a funfair from some forgotten dream. Yet faces, headlights, and the whole world passes by me. Without taking a step, I’m down in the hole too. And if it rains this coming Dark and lonely December, I will never watch it fall on the entrapped river. I am the river no more (x2) And the rain is acid water from their cloudy black smoke.

JAMIE'S SONG 'LOVE TRANSFUSION': I’m not sleeping nights, I’m not doing good. I’m not eating right, have no use for food. All I do is bleed dry for you. But somehow I survive, And wake up with more love for you. It’s not blood running through my veins, it’s you. I’ve had a strange blood transfusion, To add to my confusion. It’s not compatible; I’m going hysterical. It’s some kind of love transfusion. Love transfusion. Love transfusion. I’ve had a strange blood transfusion. Blood transfusion. Blood transfusion. It’s not blood running through my veins, it’s you.

JAMIE'S SONG 'UN-BROKE': Un-broke and, All is well. I did not expect that. Unspoken, All I felt. I should not have done that. But now that is all behind me. Something else, something more defines me. I could be scattered all over the world again, And I would still be me. Find my way back here again. Though I don’t think that could happen, I feel so unbreakable, Now that I am un-broke. Like the wind, I floated. I could not change one thing. Like the trees, I stood there. Branches swayed bare in Spring. My darkest days are behind me. Blinding sun and stars always find me. I could be shattered into the abyss again, But I would still be free. Climb out of the hole again. I’ll see the skies that never darken. I know I’m unbreakable, Now that I am un-broke.

We had a good gag in the middle of the song where the lyric talks about ‘being left out on the pavement,’ and a girl’s voice says, ‘Goodbye.’ The girl we used for that is the actual girl who’d dumped Martin and caused him all the heartache that inspired the album. The words Martin came up with for the end of the song were ‘And all my friends just might ask me. They say, “Martin, maybe one day you’ll find true love,”’ which I thought worked well, and we capped it off by a block of vocals at the end, during which you can hear me singing, ‘Be lucky in love.