1 PLANS 2 THE SADDEST THING I KNOW 3 THE DARK SIDE OF LOVE 4 IN THE VEINS OF DEATH VALLEY5 CIRCLES 6 WILD AT HEART 7 THE GAP 8 MURMURS 9 THE UNSPEAKABLE SCENE

10 WAITING FOR THE WOLVES 11 IF THIS SHIP SINKS (I GIVE IN)

PRODUCED BY SCOTT HORSCROFT. CO-PRODUCED BY ADAM SPARKMIxED BY MICHAEL BRAUER

1 PLANS 2 THE SADDEST THING I KNOW 3 THE DARK SIDE OF LOVE 4 IN THE VEINS OF DEATH VALLEY5 CIRCLES 6 WILD AT HEART 7 THE GAP 8 MURMURS 9 THE UNSPEAKABLE SCENE

10 WAITING FOR THE WOLVES 11 IF THIS SHIP SINKS (I GIVE IN)

PLANS We made plans to kiss the sun at night Hopeless dreamers, hopeless types Shedding skin you show your beauty scars Don’t forget me or who you are You know this don’t feel right Who knows what we feel? I just met you I can read your thoughts What they tell me is what I want I’ll keep you guessing, keep you wanting more ‘Cos where we’re going no one knows You know this don’t feel right Who knows this could feel right I just met you, I swear I read your thoughts So don’t forget me or what you want Light up the stage, make your move, give me something So I can dance in your light and to your rhythm Soon it unfolds who we are in this masquerade of stars Tear off the mask, the face you hide is what I’m missing We made plans to kiss the sun at night Hopeless dreamers, hopeless types One was turning, one was standing still I won’t forget what was promised here You know this don’t feel right Who knows what we feel? THE SADDEST THING I KNOW How long you been asleep at the wheel? Out of control, gathering up speed. Your heart is on the dashboard, head’s in the street I hope that you wake up in time to scream. Race me for tail or for heads Your attitude is mud and your promise is dead You counteract the fuel with the drink and the drugs It’s not what you did, it’s what you will do So take another turn on the merry-go-round Your numbers all come up now you’re king of the town So buckle up and chase yourself a new thrill You’re never going to feel like before You keep coming back for more to find the old wolf knocking on your door Say man, you are the saddest thing I know You got a cold sweat begging for a score, you lose it all as you stumble to the floor Say man, you are the saddest thing I know You keep coming up for air to find your own foot pushing on your head Say man, you are the saddest thing I know I see that dried up blood that’s in your hair, you’ve got the old kaleidoscopic stare Say man, you are the saddest thing I know When are you going to finally admit it’s the end of the line, you’ve been hammered and hit Your body is a wreck and your mind is amiss I know what you want, I think this is it THE DARK SIDE OF LOVE Love is a ticking clock that laughs and leads us to believe we are one It’s a sick game, the winner takes their prize the loser’s left to slowly die. I can’t take much more I’m leaving for another place where no one knows me Here I’ll start it over I will find a way to piece myself together Over you and me and this has to be the dark side of love So many nights have I been down. I’ve been thinking of you So many right, so many wrong What have you done to me? Where have you gone my dear? Where do you go? Just let it take control and drag you to the bottom now It’s a long way down on your own, so you must take a passenger along I can’t take no more I’m leaving for another place where you won’t find me Here I’ll start it over I will find a way to piece myself together Over you and me and this has to be the dark side of love So many nights have I been down. I’ve been thinking of you So many right, so many wrong What have you done to me? Where have you gone my dear? So many nights have I been down I’ve been thinking of you So many right so many wrong I’ve been thinking of you So many nights have I been down I don’t know what to do So many right so many wrong What have you done to me? Where have you gone my dear? Where do you go?

IN THE VEINS OF DEATH VALLEY I told you to let the good ones in You’re worth your weight in gold Struggle to fight the feud within to face what you’ve become Just when you think you’re at the end you circle on yourself It’s true what they say when things get crazy, we learn to thicken skin Feels like the poison is creeping in, stripping your vein it’s settled in Straight to the heart, good luck, you’re finished for sure Say now it’s been a lifetime of dreaming This is the last time I bleed for you So long, it’s not forever and I’ll stay here for the echoes instead of you I want you to know you’re in the deepest of the oceans I don’t think that you can swim You tell me that everything is fine here and you can handle it You’re just on the edge I think you’re breaking, the cracks are showing up Feels like the poison’s creeping in, stripping your vein it’s settled in Straight to the heart, good luck, you’re finished for sure Say now it’s been a lifetime of dreaming This is the last time I bleed for you So long, it’s not forever, I’ll stay here for the echoes instead of you and the walking dead You’re too far gone Feels like the poison’s creeping in, stripping your vein it’s clear to see You’re staring at death in the face and you’re all here alone Say now it’s been a lifetime of dreaming This is the last time, when you’re gone Things will get better, and I’ll be the last one laughing Cry out - no one can hear you Alone now - no one will miss you Cast out - never to be seen again It’s sweet at the bitter end, your time has come. CIRCLES I’m being followed by my shadow, he’s been creeping around asking where I’ve been. He keeps tapping on my shoulder, telling me it’s over. So where do I begin? These dark days are getting harder, I feel I’m treading water, so will I sink or swim? Roll on, push a little further, I keep saying Is this worth it, or should I just give in? I don’t know I don’t know which way I’m supposed to spin in this circle I won’t waste my time on your concern until it’s over Look back on a distant border, I fear I’m getting older. There’s so much that I missed Walk on, following a faint line, see if I can define where I came undone I don’t know which way I’m supposed to spin in this circle I won’t waste my time on your concern until it’s over I will wait my turn. My time will come - this ‘aint over. I can’t wait no more, no sweet return. This is over - so it is. WILD AT HEART You’ve got your motive you set the scene So how about another taste or would you like to remind me why we are here As I walk to the water to cleanse off the blood on my hands The weight of this crime leaves a stain in the sand I hope new tides come to wash me clean for good You know that I fought with many and won for some We stared at ourselves ‘til our breaking point We wear our bruises like watermarks - the life and the death of the wild at heart This empty bottle this busted man highlights mistakes of a broken man He won’t speak up, no he won’t come out of his hole We were led to believe that the language of love was god So few were forgiven I’ll lead a march to the wall and we’ll pull it down so we can rebuild it I fought with many and I won for some We stared at ourselves to our breaking point We wear our bruises like watermarks - the life and the death of the wild at heart When was the moment it all fell apart with no sign of warning, no raised alarm We still wear our bruises, we show our scars Forever the wild at heart You know that I fought with many and I won for some We stared at ourselves ‘til our breaking point We wear our bruises like watermarks The life and the death of the wild at heart When was the moment it all fell apart with no sign of warning, no raised alarm We still wear our bruises, we show our scars Forever the wild at heart.

THE GAP I’ve been at the bottom, I’ve been living in hell The highest of highs got me nothing but stares Maybe with the lights out we can be bad I’m licking my wounds, I’ve been resting my head So how were you to know? That I was the one who let the devil insist I think you ought to know Maybe with the lights out we can be bad It started when your eyes rolled back in your head. See I can fool them all With you there’s no way, I’ve got nothing at all I strap up my boots then I kick in the door So how were you to know? I know what I’ve done but I’ll be coming for more I think you ought to know Maybe with the lights out we can be bad It started when your eyes rolled back in your head. Stay the hell away from me. ‘Cos I did you wrong, I’m begging you leave I’ve seen it plenty - I know how this ends It’s nothing I want to see again, I’m begging you please to let me go, Free yourself. The world you know is somewhere else I have seen it all. The rage in the bull, the white of his horns You know me better than I know myself My greatest mistake was giving you up for nothing at all. MURMURS Here in this moment the silence is comforting There’s no sign of movement At peace with the true divine All that we hope for, all that we call our own There’s no rules to follow We must break in or be left out We are on our own pulling teeth out for the fun of it I can’t believe it, you showed courage the brave dream of I live to regret you, the murmur inside my heart Time waits for no one, no one has time to waste We shuffle through pockets for the answers and lint we find We are on our own pulling teeth out for the fun of it I can’t believe it, you showed courage the brave dream of I live to regret you, the murmur inside my heart Just as I’m sinking down you reach in and pull me out Safe from the rising tide Safe from the world outside THE UNSPEAKABLE SCENE Just when you think that you’re warm, you’re getting colder Just when you think that you’re fine, soon the unspeakable scene will unfold. Would you want to do it all again if you could have just one chance to change Every little thing that could have been as beautiful and so real you’ll never know You’re bent out of shape, flat out of luck, you try to bury this load, dig brother dig A little deeper strike a nerve and leave a scar so you won’t forget Just when you think that you’re warm, you’re getting colder Just when you think that you’re fine, soon the unspeakable scene will unfold. Hey speak up Let me hear what you harbour please don’t lie I will be fair to your soulless, pale dead eyes Wait. What did you say? Did you just call for help? Just when you think that you’ve won, you’ll soon be the loser How did you think this would end up? Stupid and foolish Just when you think that you’re okay, you start hearing voices. Just when you think that you’re fine, soon the unspeakable scene will unfold.

WAITING FOR THE WOLVES Tell me when are you coming home? Are you alone? Bitten by the hand that feeds your house, your home You’ve been waiting for the wolves to come and finish you. Show a little fake, a smile and waltz on through You’re here to entertain the world but they won’t change you You try to spit another line as your teeth fall out Choking up on every word they just won’t come out Tell me when are you coming home? Are you alone? Bitten by the hand that feeds your house, your home So you think you’ve made your mark and they know you now. Dropping every name around in the coolest crowds They’re telling you you’re number one, yeah you wear it well Underneath the scales and skin it’s just sell sell sell. Tell me when are you coming home? Are you alone? Bitten by the hand that feeds your house, your home You’ve been waiting for the wolves to come and finish you. You’ve been waiting for the truth to spell out the end of you. IF THIS SHIP SINKS (I GIVE IN) I’m trying to get my head straight, I’m playing in a game that I can’t win I started in the wrong place. A slap to the cold face of love, I want to stop this goddamn beating heart It’s killing me I’m trying to get my head straight, I didn’t see the warning signs ahead I’m feeling like a dead weight, long gone If I could make it alright I would I never thought I’d say these things to you, it’s killing me This is killing me I can’t stop this train I can’t get off, but I can’t go back I’ve come too far to stop There’s too many signs to read them all, there’s too many roads I need to stumble down. I gotta get my head straight, I never thought a day like this would come I’ll never be the same way as once I wanna know if this is for real, I’ve got to know what fate has planned for me I give in Believe me when I say, there’s something I wish I could say You were always so good to me Even when it’s so hard to be I sailed myself too far out to sea on favoured winds that won’t sing for me There’ll be no rescue, no finding me, as I become an old memory you once knew. It’s silent as I sink into the sea Weightless as the tide carries me to darker water where I believe Something’s down here waiting for me. The numbing cold has taken from me everything I’m so far beneath My eyes they open one last time to see, You are staring right back at me.All songs written and performed by BIRDS OF TOKYO. (Mushroom Music Publishing Australia) Ian Kenny - Vocals, Adam Spark - Guitar / Vocals / Keys / Programming, Adam Weston - Drums, Anthony Jackson - Bass. Produced by Scott Horscroft. Co-Produced by Adam Spark. Engineered by Scott Horscroft. Assistant Engineer: Jean Paul Fung. Recorded at; BJB Studios, Sydney AUS, Svenska Grammofon Studion, Gothenburg SWE. Mixed by Michael Brauer at Electric Lady Studios, New York USA. Mix Co-ordinator: Erik Eger at Three Management, New York. Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway, Maine - New York USA. Glenn Sarangapany played Piano, Keys, Organ on this record. String arrangements and composition by Audrey Riley & Adam Spark. Strings Recorded at AIR Studios, London UK. Extra percussion by Scott Horscroft here and there. Management & Booking: Ross Macpherson - No Dice Management. Band Photography Kanye Lens. Design by Debaser.

BIRDS OF TOKYO WOULD LIKE TO THANK: Ross Macpherson, Scott Horscroft, JP Fung, Michael Brauer, Bob Ludwig, Audrey Riley, John Zucco, Mike Wafer, Dave & Ed at Primary UK, The Industry Standard - Caleb, Tony, Steve, Lombi, Luke, Bodes & James. Richard Kingsmill, Heidi Weston, Megan Vanderheyden, Craig, Mark, Di and all at EMI Music Australia, Brent Eccles, Matt, Mark, Jeff & Brooke from EMI NZ. Ampeg, Cole Clark, Rotosound Strings, Yamaha Drums, Promark, Evans Heads, Sabian Cymbals, Mark Bond, Kane Hibberd, Matt Weston, David Homer, Aaron Hayward and all of you who listen to our records and come to our shows. This record is for you.

All recordings π 2010 Birds Of Tokyo Pty Ltd. Manufactured and distributed by EMI Music Australia Pty Ltd under exclusive licence.Artwork © 2010 Birds Of Tokyo Pty Ltd.