Destroyer: 'Trouble In Dreams" Lyrics

Destroyer's 9th album, Trouble In Dreams, is released today on Merge Records, you can buy the record here. Not sure if the official release has a lyric sheet yet, so here's an attempt I found to decipher Mr Bejar's lyrical treats on this album. Some parts aren't very clear and are represented by a question mark.

If you've got any ideas or clues as to what these parts are, please throw up a comment to enlighten us all.

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Destroyer Albums at eMusic
Trouble In Dreams 2008
Destroyer's Rubies
Your Blues
This Night
Streethawk: A Seduction
Thief
City Of Daughters
We'll Build Them A Golden Bridge


Trouble in Dreams Lyrics
"Blue Flower/Blue Flame"
Okay, fine, even the sky looks like wine
And everywhere I turn there’s
a new face in town stuck inside the well
Fresh hells to attend to
Blue flower/blue flame
A woman by another name is not a woman
Don’t know why
Don’t know when
A cathedral sick of the sky again says to it:
“Oh please, not now, will you just look at the time.
It’s standing still.”
Somewhere applause falls dead on the hill-side
Blue flower/blue flame
A woman by another name is not a woman
I’ll tell you what I mean by that
Maybe not in seconds flat, maybe not today
Blue flower/blue flame
A woman by another name is not a woman
I’ll tell you what I mean by that
Maybe not in seconds flat, maybe never
A gray ashen sadness rises like the sun
Oh well, it was time I decided to try this hotel...
Tulip has an inner animal

She’s in it for a good time
I was on the outs for a while, but now things are alright
I gave you a flower because foxes travel light
And a penny for your thoughts was never enough
Your head gets filled with that stuff
Your head gets filled with that stuff

"Dark Leaves Form A Thread"
Susan, the truth is
Sipping sherry, branded by moonlight’s
just a game people are playing tonight
Seriously, terror advances
So..
Sorry if you should find me
Thinking of only the things that I need
I’ve been living in America, churches of greed
It’s sick
Nah, it’s cool
You go
I’ll stay
Perfectly at home with this dread
Dark leaves form a thread
So, should you still want me
You can find me down at the café
A little bit too busy being served
Sworn enemy of the waitresses there
A late September sunlight travels through her hair
It wants to be... seen
Nah, it’s cool
You go
I’ll stay
Perfectly at home with this dread
Dark leaves form a thread

"The State"
The state cut off my arms, the state tore my eyes with her nails
Hell just put on this earth a bad wind to trash the sails
of all you evil men
You should know somewhere in the night
there’s a blue broken drum playing dead (?)
and that’s good to know
The state toured (?) our hearts and the state exposed our hearts
And wounded me, gave me this bad knee, tore down my baby’s favorite tree
You should know somewhere in the night
there’s a blue broken drum playing dead
and that’s good to know
????????????????????
Ah, but maybe you should know
somewhere in the night there’s a blue broken drum playing dead

"Foam Hands"
True love regrets to inform you
There are certain things you must do
to perceive his face in the stains on the wall

I didn't know what time it was at all
I didn't know what time it was at all
Foam hands

Since you've been gone
Since you've been gone
Me and the King have been steadily growing apart
He lives down the hall

I didn't know what time it was at all
I didn't know what time it was at all
Foam hands

I'm not the kind
To tell you what is true
And what is totally out of control

I didn't know what time it was at all
I didn't know what time it was at all
Foam hands
Foam hands
Foam hands
Foam hands

"My Favorite Year"
You in white and me in gray go well tonight
So let’s linger here
This used to be my favorite palm tree
I was starving in that shit-house, the world
But now it’s gone and the whole point of everything's the moving on
Well, let’s see a calm and a storm and
okay, a star’s born - now let me just sit here ‘neath these omens (?)
On three and four and...
Beware the company you reside in (?)
Nicole, she, blasting on ecstasy (?)
Some movie’s spent her harbor (???)
circa 1993
It was a good year
It was a very good year
And now it’s gone
You say the whole point of everything’s the moving on
And I can’t help but feel somewhat opposed to this
Like she had been --- by fascists,
or in some small way, we’re all traitors to our own kind (?)



"Shooting Rockets from The Desk Of Night's Ape"
"Caution: Hot Ashes!" -- the girl says to her first kiss.
They stuck eternity inside a bird's fist just to watch it fly!
Just to make it go!
Just to let things slip away!

Don't ask me how I know, I just do...
Night Surgeon dons his robes to take apart a fellow amateur!

You may have heard it said one gives what one gets
Well, I didn't go out into the world just to be stung by a rich man's hornets...

Who amongst us has left these things undone,
And who let these animals into my kingdom?

A blind doe learns to work the rig...
A once-thin man turns into a pig...

The endless groves wherein my soul pukes the night away...

The problem as I see it --
I was messed up on a tangent that was wrong.
They mix 'em strong and I was partial to the feeling.
It is a terrible feast we've been stuffing our face on...
A terrible breeze from the East comin' on...

It bears the scent of our one hundred first kills...

You love her. You leave her.
You try to achieve a breadth of vision that she has from the start.
I got Street Despair carved into my heart...
I got Street Despair carved into my heart...

My dear, didn't you hear, a chorus is a thing that bears repeating.
The problem, as I see it is girls stay away from that shit!

Saw you in Swan Lake -- you were great!
Saw you down in Strathcona Square, devouring an After Eight
(who cares! I didn't mean it!)

For the third encore, you saw yourself in half... It was just you and your raft and this
crummy requiem...shooting rockets

Run or fly --
At some point I had to ask why..
I had to show you
a world not tethered to
Disasters but this would prove impossible...
I snuck a look inside your skull
and said --
Don't look now but Gretchen's seeing red again!"

The truth is a thing to coax out of its shell...
The truth is -- "On this, you and I are going to tangle"
Off, treacherous bliss!! Off!

First you come in all sweet
And then on tiger's paws you retreat
into a darkened nether shadow region.

And It'd be true what they say, were they to say --
"Why, yes, I dig the scourge!" It'd be true what they say, were they to say --
"Why, yes, I dig the scourge!"

It's not that I quit...
It's not that my poems are shit
In the light of the privilege of dreams...
"Alive", she cried once. Now "Alive," she screams...

Shooting rockets

Praise be the delightful muezzin, tending his flock
And
Praise be those alabaster hands running amok on your body..
They love you in spite of your lame scene...
We live in darkness. The light is a dream, you see...
We live in darkness. The light is a dream, you see...
We live in darkness. The light is a dream

Shooting rockets
Shooting rockets
Shooting rockets
Shooting rockets
Shooting rockets
Shooting rockets

"Introducing Angels"
Common scars brought us together
Common scars brought us together
Common scars brought us together
beneath an idiot moon
It comes too soon
Just plant Tulip and watch her bloom
Introducing Angels
Introducing Angels
Common scars brought us together
Common scars brought us together
Prominent scars brought us together
beneath the light of the moon
It’s not too soon
Flower-girl stalks the groom
A degenerate drunk on war,
grace should guide me Misty Poets
Introducing Angels
Introducing Angels

"Rivers"
See the sun crawling over the sky
Keep an eye on the surf and the sea and the sand
Don't you know every night is a stand-off with the fucking horizon?
You had a real time of it staring off into the light
Hands tied behind your back (?)
Steel chair (?) giving you shivers
You've always had a problem flowing down rivers

See the rain falling down from the sky
To its death smashed on the street in despair somewhere over there I swear
You had a real time of it staring off into the light
Hands tied behind your head, go

Stranded on the carousel
A cripple from the wreck
I was ringing a bell's neck looking for a sign
"Three stars means I'm losing you", says the night to one of her romances
The plane lands, everybody dances, it's fine

You had a real time of it staring off into the light
Hands tied behind your head
Steel chair (?) giving you shivers
You've always had a problem flowing down rivers
You've always had a problem flowing down rivers

"Leopard Of Honour"
The leopard of honor speaks to a crowd of the dead, shouting out for more
Suspiciously formed of the fast ones, you must always leave them wanting, he said
So we went down to the store
I saw you at the store
Now, in this regards, where do I start to keep us free - keep us apart?
I wanted to speak up, but it was not my place
Just some little shit in love with your eyes - a brute adrift in space
Pirouettes across the sky’s faces where you’ll find me
I was dead on my feet
Asleep for days
A stranger to the sun’s brutal gaze, ah yeah
Mother Superior’s the only one who calls
She says, “Hey, when are you ever coming over?”
Remove that wretched writing from the wall
It’s just more pictures again.
Jenny fell like a ton of bricks
Jenny fell like a ton of bricks
These are characterized as special times, and these are special times -- oh
Jenny fell like a ton of bricks
She travels in and out of you like some shade whistlin' Dixie
I didn’t know why, I guess I was high
Sick mansions freckle the skies, saying, "For Christ’s sakes, inhabit me"
I was dead on my feet
Asleep for days
A stranger to the sun’s brutal ways, ah yeah
Mother Superior’s the only one who calls
She says, “Baby, when are you ever coming over?”
Enjoy the wretched writing on the wall
Enjoy!
Will the leopard of honor speak? Will the leopard of honor speak?
Please stand, open your mouth, put out your hand and say
“I saw you standing there singing for money”
Going dum da da dum (etc.)

"Plaza Trinidad"
I was caught in the middle of a world war
This time it was dense light vs. the azure
I was high as a kite, I was never coming home tonight
And I couldn’t believe how loud it was
What devilry the source of this screaming
You and your dress forgave the birds of Plaza Trinidad
and soon you can watch them go
I was stuck inside a river’s flow, a corridor’s glow
sad year of an ocean - okay, it’s agreed I wasn’t much to look at then
Known mostly for the whites of my eyes
I had fucking escaped from her torn surface
And I couldn’t believe how loud it was
What devilry the source of this screaming
You and your dress forgave the birds of Plaza Trinidad
and soon you can watch them go
I was stuck inside a river’s flow, a corridor’s glow
a world at war! the kind of thing we’d seen before!
dense light vs. the azure
I was high as a kite, I was never coming home tonight
And I couldn’t believe how loud it was, how loud it was
And I couldn’t believe how loud it was, how loud it was
And I couldn’t believe how loud it was, how loud it was

"Libby's First Sunrise"
Libby’s first sunrise
You’ve been wasted from the day
of wandering and boozing and sleeping outside
Now the light holds a terrible secret
And now you know-whoa
That this is what you get
You’ve been wandering around
You’ve been fucking around
You’ve been wandering around
You’ve been fucking around - ah
Libby’s first sunrise
You’ve been wasted from the day
of wandering and boozing and sleeping outside
Playing the idiot all of your life
and this is what you get
Master of all you survey, but today
You’ve been wandering around
You’ve been fucking around
You’ve been wandering around
You’ve been fucking around - oh
Libby’s first sunrise
You’ve been wasted from the day
and now you know-whoa
Suffering idiots all of your life
And this is what you get
Now the light holds a terrible secret
The light holds a terrible secret
The light holds a terrible secret
The light holds a terrible secret
Ah, the light…
Oh, the light…
Oh, the light…
Oh, the light…