Mika
Life In Cartoon Motion (2007)
1. Grace Kelly
2. Lollipop
3. My Interpretation
4. Love Today
5. Relax (Take it Easy)
6. Any Other World
7. Billy Brown
8. Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)
9. Stuck In The Middle
10. Happy Ending
11. Over My Shoulder (bonus)
12. Ring Ring (bonus)
13. Erase (bonus)
14. Sympathy (bonus)
Grace Kelly
(Mika)
Do I attract you?
Do I repulse you with my queasy smile?
Am I too dirty?
Am I too flirty?
Do I like what you like?
I could be wholesome
I could be loathsome
I guess I'm a little bit shy
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me without making me try?
I try to be like Grace Kelly
But all her looks were too sad
So I try a little Freddie
I've gone identity mad!
I could be brown
I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful
I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you walk out the door!
How can I help it
How can I help it
How can I help what you think?
Hello my baby
Hello my baby
Putting my life on the brink
Why don't you like me
Why don't you like me
Why don't you like yourself?
Should I bend over?
Should I look older just to be put on the shelf?
I try to be like Grace Kelly
But all her looks were too sad
So I try a little Freddie
I've gone identity mad!
I could be brown
I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful
I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you walk out the door!
Say what you want to satisfy yourself
But you only want what everybody else says you should want
I could be brown
I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful
I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you walk out the door!
Lollipop
(Mika)
Hey, what's the big idea?
Yo Mika.
I said,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down,
I said,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down.
Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down.
Say love, say love,
or love's gonna get you down.
say love, say love,
or love's gonna get you down.
I went walking in with my mama one day,
when she warn me what people say,
live your life until love is found,
'cause love's gonna get you down.
Take a look at the girl next door,
she's a player and a down right whore,
Jesus slows up, she wants more,
oh bad girls get you down.
Singing,
Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down.
Say love, say love,
or love's gonna get you down.
say love, say love,
or love's gonna get you down.
Mama told me what I should know,
too much candy gonna ride your soul,
if she loves you, let her go,
'cause love only gets you down.
Take a look at the boy like me,
never stood on my own two feet,
now I'm blue, as I can be,
oh love couldn't get me down.
Singing,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down.
Say love, say love,
or love's gonna get you down.
say love, say love,
or love's gonna get you down.
I went walking with my mama one day,
when she warn me what people say,
live your life until love is found,
or love's gonna get you down.
Singing,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down.
Say love (say love), say love (say love),
or love's gonna get you down.
say love (say love), say love (say love),
or love's gonna get you down.
Mama told me what I should know,
too much candy gonna ride your soul,
if she loves you, let her go,
'cause love only gets you down.
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, whoa-oh, lollipop.
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, whoa-oh, lollipop.
Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down,
say,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down.
My Interpretation
(Mika)
You talk about life, you talk about death,
And everything in between,
Like it's nothing, and the words are easy.
You talk about me, and you talk about you,
And everything I do,
Like it's something, that needs repeating.
I don't need an alibi or for you to realize,
The things we left unsaid,
Are only taking space up in our head.
Make it my fault, win the game
Point the finger, place the blame
It does me up and down,
It doesn't matter now.
'Cause I don't care if I ever talk to you again.
This is not about emotion,
I don't need a reason not to care what you say,
Or what happened in the end.
This is my interpretation,
And it don't, don't make sense.
The first two weeks turn into ten,
I hold my breath and wonder when it'll happen,
Does it really matter?
If half of what you said is true,
And half of what I didn't do could be different,
Would it make it better?
If we forget the things we know.
Would we have somewhere to go?
The only way is down, I can see that now.
'Cause I don't care if I ever talk to you again.
This is not about emotion,
I don't need a reason not to care what you say,
Or what happened in the end.
This is my interpretation,
And it don't, don't make sense.
It's really not such a sacrifice
'Cause I don't care if I ever talk to you again.
This is not about emotion,
I don't need a reason not to care what you say,
Or what happened in the end.
This is my interpretation,
And it don't, don't make sense.
And it don't have to make no sense to you at all,
'Cause this is my interpretation, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Love Today
(Mika)
Doom da da di da di Doom da da di da di
Everybody's gonna love today,
Gonna love today, gonna love today.
Everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today.
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to,
Love love me, love love me, love love.
I've been crying for so long,
Fighting tears just to carry on,
But now, but now, it's gone away.
Hey girl why can't you carry on,
Is it 'cause you're just like your mother,
Little tike, like to tease for fun,
Well you ain't gonna tease no other,
Gonna make you a lover.
Everybody's gonna love today,
love today, love today.
Everybody's gonna love today,
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to,
Love love me, love love me, love love.
Girl with a groove with the big bust on,
Big bust on, big bust on.
Wait till your mother and your papa's gone,
Papa's gone
Momma, momma papa, shock shock me,
Shock shock me, shock shock.
Everybody's gonna love today,
Gonna love today, gonna love today
I said,
Everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today,
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to,
Love love me, love love me, love love.
Carolina sits on ninety five
Give her a dollar and she'll make you smile.
Hooker, what a looker, walk away!
Carry dresses like a kid for fun,
Licks her lips like they're something other,
Tries to tell you life has just begun,
But you know she's getting something other
Than the love from her mother
Everybody's gonna love today,
Love today, love today
Everybody's gonna love today,
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to,
Love love me, love love me, love love.
Girl with a groove with the big bust on,
Big bust on, big bust on.
Wait till your mother and your papa's gone,
Papa's gone
Momma, momma papa, shock shock me,
Shock shock me, shock shock.
I said,
Everybody's gonna love today,
Gonna love today, gonna love today
I said,
Everybody's gonna love today,
Gonna love today,
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to,
Love love me, love love me, love love.
Doom da da di da di Doom da da di da di Doom da da di da di Doom da da di da di...
Everybody's gonna love today,
Gonna love today, gonna love today
Everybody's gonna love today,
Gonna love today,
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to,
Love love me, love love me, love love.
Doom da da di da di Doom da da di da di Doom da da di da di Doom da da di da di...
Relax (Take it Easy)
(Mika)
Took a right to the end of the line
Where no one ever goes.
Ended up on a broken train with nobody I know.
But the pain and the (longings) the same.
(Where the dying
Now I’m lost and I’m screaming for help.)
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
It’s as if I’m scared.
It’s as if I’m terrified.
It’s as if I scared.
It’s as if I’m playing with fire.
Scared.
It’s as if I’m terrified.
Are you scared?
Are we playing with fire?
Relax
There is an answer to the darkest times.
It’s clear we don’t understand but the last thing on my mind
Is to leave you.
I believe that we’re in this together.
Don’t scream – there are so many roads left.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
It’s as if I’m scared.
It’s as if I’m terrified.
It’s as if I scared.
It’s as if I’m playing with fire.
Scared.
It’s as if I’m terrified.
Are you scared?
Are we playing with fire?
Relax
Relax
Any Other World
(Mika)
In any other world
You could tell the difference
And let it all unfurl
Into broken remnants
Smile like you mean it
And let yourself let go
'Cause it's all in the hands of a bitter, bitter man
Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in
Take a bow, play the part of a lonely, lonely heart
Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in
To the world you thought you lived in
I tried to live alone
But lonely is so lonely, alone
So human as I am
I had to give up my defenses
So I smiled and tried to mean it
To make myself let go
'Cause it's all in the hands of a bitter, bitter man
Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in
Take a bow, play the part of a lonely lonely heart
Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in
To the world you thought you lived in
'Cause it's all in the hands of a bitter, bitter man
Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in
Take a bow, play the part of a lonely lonely heart
Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in
To the world you thought you lived in
Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in
Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in
Say goodbye
In any other world
You could tell the difference
Billy Brown
(Mika)
Oh Billy Brown had lived an ordinary life.
Two kids, a dog, and a precautionary wife.
While it was all going accordingly to plan
Then Billy Brown fell in love with another man.
He met his lover almost every single day
Making excuses for his dodgy holiday
Unto religion that he said and duly found
They didn't know that his faith was earthly bound
Brown... Oh Billy Brown.
Don't let the stars get you down.
Don't let the waves let you drown.
Brown... Oh Billy Brown.
Gonna pick you up like a paper cup.
Gonna shake the water out of every nook.
Oh Billy Brown.
Oh Billy Brown needed a place, somewhere to go.
He found an island off the coast of Mexico
Leaving his lover and his family behind.
Oh Billy Brown needed to find some peace of mind.
And on his journey and his travels on the way,
He met a girlie who was brave enough to say,
When they made love he shared the burden of his mind.
Oh Billy Brown you are a victim of the times.
Brown... Oh Billy Brown.
Don't let the stars get you down.
Don't let the waves let you drown.
Brown... Oh Billy Brown.
Gonna pick you up like a paper cup.
Gonna shake the water out of every nook.
Oh Billy Brown.
Brown... Oh Billy Brown.
Gonna pick you up like a paper cup.
Gonna shake the water out of every nook.
Oh Billy Brown.
Oh Billy Brown had lived an ordinary life.
Two kids, a dog, and a precautionary wife.
While it was all going accordingly to plan
Then Billy Brown fell in love with another man
Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)
(Mika)
Big girl you are beautiful
Walks in to the room
Feels like a big balloon
I said, 'Hey girls you are beautiful'
Diet coke and a pizza please
Diet coke I'm on my knees
Screaming 'Big girl you are beautiful'
You take your skinny girls
Feel like I'm gonna die
Cos a real woman
Needs a real man is why
You take your girl
And multiply her by four
Now a whole lotta woman
Needs a whole lot more
Get yourself to the Butterfly Lounge
Find yourself a big lady
Big boy coming around
And there we gonna do baby
No need to fantasise
Since I was in my prizes
A watering hole
With the girls around
And curves in all the right places
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Walks in to the room
Feels like a big balloon
I said, 'Hey girls you are beautiful'
Diet coke and a pizza please
Diet coke I'm on my knees
Screaming 'Big girl you are beautiful'
You take your girl
And multiply her by four
Now a whole lotta woman
Needs a whole lot more
Get yourself to the Butterfly Lounge
Find yourself a big lady
Big boy coming around
And there we gonna do baby
No need to fantasise
Since I was in my prizes
A watering hole
With the girls around
And curves in all the right places
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Get yourself to the Butterfly Lounge
Find yourself a big lady
Big boy coming around
And there we gonna do baby
No need to fantasise
Since I was in my prizes
A watering hole
With the girls around
And curves in all the right places
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Oh you are beautiful
Get yourself to the Butterfly Lounge
Find yourself a big lady
Big boy coming around
And there we gonna do baby
No need to fantasise
Since I was in my prizes
A watering hole
With the girls around
And curves in all the right places
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Oh you are beautiful
Get yourself to the Butterfly Lounge
Find yourself a big lady
Big boy coming around
And there we gonna do baby
No need to fantasise
Since I was in my prizes
A watering hole
With the girls around
And curves in all the right places
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girl you are beautiful
Stuck In The Middle
(Mika)
I sit and think about the day that you're gonna die,
Your wrinkled eyes betrayed the joy with which you smiled.
Care to see my reason?
Care to put your life in mine?
Lookin' at life from the perspective of a boy
Who's learned to love you but has also learned to grow.
Could we make it better, stormy weather,
So hard to know
Oh, oh, oh - Is there anybody home?
Who will believe me, won't deceive me, won't try to change me?
Ah, ah, ah - Is there anybody home?
Who wants to have me, just to love me?
Stuck in the middle.
I look at you,
You look at me,
We bite each other.
And with your bitter words you kick me in the gutter.
But my troops are bigger than yours
'Cause you'll never stand my fight.
Ours is a family that's based upon tradition
But with my careless words I tread upon your vision.
Are five kids better than one, who'd doesn't like to be gone?
Oh, oh, oh - Is there anybody home?
Who will believe me, won't deceive me, won' try to change me?
Ah, ah, ah - Is there anybody home?
Who wants to have me, just to love me?
Stuck in the middle.
Yea... Yea... Yea...
This is to my name,
This ain't a greater plan to break your heart of me.
I know that what I've started means that when we have parted
I can live in honesty
Oh, oh, oh - Is there anybody home?
Who will believe me, won't deceive me, won't try to change me?
Ah, ah, ah - Is there anybody home?
Who wants to have me, just to love me?
Stuck in the middle,
Stuck in the middle,
Stuck in the middle,
Stuck in the middle
Happy Ending
(Mika)
This is the way you left me,
I’m not pretending,
No hope, no love, no glory,
No happy ending
This is the way that we love,
Like its forever,
Then live the rest of our life,
But not together
I Wake up in the morning,
Stumble on my life,
Can’t get no love without sacrifice,
If anything should happen,
I guess I'd wish you well,
Mmm a little bit of heaven,
But a little bit of hell.
This is the hardest story,
that I've ever told,
No hope, no love, no glory,
Happy endings gone forever more
I feel as if I’m wastin',
And I'm wastin' everyday
This is the way you left me,
I’m not pretending,
No hope, no love, no glory,
No happy ending
This is the way that we love,
Like it’s forever,
Then live the rest of our life,
But not together
Two o'clock in the morning,
Something's on my mind,
Can’t get no rest,
Keep walking around,
If I pretend that nothing ever went wrong,
I can get to my sleep
I can think that we just carried on
This is the hardest story,
that I have ever told,
No hope, or love, or glory,
Happy endings gone forever more,
I feel as if I’m wastin',
And I'm wastin' everyday
Oh I feel as if I’m wastin',
And I'm wastin' every day
This is the way you left me,
I’m not pretending,
No hope, no love, no glory,
No happy ending
This is the way that we love,
Like its forever,
Then live the rest of our life,
But not together
A little bit of love
Little bit of love (repeated)
This is the way you left me,
I’m not pretending,
No hope, no love, no glory,
No happy ending
This is the way that we love,
Like its forever,
Then live the rest of our life,
Both not together
This is the way you left me,
I’m not pretending,
No hope, no love, no glory,
No happy ending
This is the way that we love,
Like it’s forever,
Then live the rest of our life,
But not together
This is the way you left me,
I’m not pretending,
No hope, no love, no glory,
No happy ending
This is the way that we love,
Like its forever,
Then live the rest of our life,
But not together
Over My Shoulder
(Mika)
Over my shoulder, running away,
Feels like i'm falling, losing my way,
Cold and dry,
Cold and dry.
Fog out my daylight, torture my night,
Feels like I'm falling, far out of sight,
Cold,
Drunk,
Tired,
Lost.
Over my shoulder, running away,
Feels like I’m falling, losing my way,
Cold, dry,
Cold and dry.
Fog out my daylight, torture my night,
Feels like I'm falling, far out of sight,
Cold,
Drunk,
Cold and drunk.
Ring Ring
(Mika)
I was sitting on the fence
And I thought that I would kiss you
I never thought I would've missed you
But you never let me fall
Push my back against the wall
Every time you call
You get so emotional
Oh, I'm freakin' out
Ring ring
Is that you on the phone?
You think you're clever
But you're never saying nothing at all
Hey hey
The way you spin me around
You make me dizzy when you play me
Like a kid with a crown
You got a dangerous obsession
Now I'm in need of some protection
That was never my intention
Used to love me
Now you hate me
See I drove you crazy
Well if I did
You made me
Won't somebody save me?
From you now
Ring ring
Is that you on the phone?
You think you're clever
But you're never saying nothing at all
Hey hey
The way you spin me around
You make me dizzy when you play me
Like a kid with a crown
Its words I wanted
Until you lost it
Why won't you leave me alone?
Hang up the phone
Just let me go
Ring ring
Is that you on the phone?
You think you're clever
But you're never saying nothing at all
Hey hey
The way you spin me around
You make me dizzy when you play me
Like a kid with a crown
Ring ring
Is that you on the phone?
You think you're clever
But you're never saying nothing at all
Hey hey
The way you spin me around
You make me dizzy when you play me
Like a kid with a crown
Ring ring
Ring ring
Ring ring
Erase
(Mika)
I shouldn't have called so late last night
Unsecure, out of my mind
I shoudln't have left that message on your phone
I shouldn't have said the things i said
Lookin for love we left for dead
In a grave without a stone
As soon as you hear my voice
Don't hesitate
Put your finger on the button
Erase!
My love.
I bet you can't erase!
My touch.
You're tryin' to replace
A feelin' without a name
With somebody else's face
In your head!
Everything's cool
The rent is paid
The house is clean
Your bed is made
But it's a ghost town in your mind
You never had time to go to sleep
We'd wake up tangled in the sheets
On a bed that we called home
When the pain won't go away
You might as well put your finger on the trigger
Erase!
My love.
I bet you can't erase!
My touch.
You're tryin' to replace
A feelin' without a name
With somebody else's face
In your head!
Erase!
Erase!
My love.
I bet you can't erase!
My touch.
You're tryin' to replace
A feelin' without a name
With somebody else's face
In your head!
Erase!
Erase!
Tryin' to replace
A feelin' without a name
With somebody else's face
In your head!
Erase!...
Ohohoh...
Sympathy
(Mika)
Running out of breath
Chasing down the big parade,
Rising up my hand,
Thought I'd beg the marching band to play, for me
All of these illusions,
They really mean the world to me, to me
Don't make me out to be this helpless child of misery,
Maybe love is what I need
But not your sympathy
In and out of space,
I'm always somewhere in between,
I try to make commands
But instead I make a mess of things, for me
I try paint by numbers,
But nothing's black and white for me, for me
Don't make me out to be this helpless child of misery,
Maybe love is what I need
But not your sympathy
Nothing can ever make your lies the truth,
and no one can stand inside my shoes
Don't make me out to be this helpless child of misery,
Maybe love is what I need
But not your sympathy
But not your sympathy