Elbow Glastonbury

APPLAUSE AND CHEERS

My favourite three words in the world.

Good evening, Glastonbury! APPLAUSE AND CHEERS

# The birds

# Are the keepers of

# Our secret

# As they saw us where we lay

# In the deepest grass of springtime

# In a reckless guilty haze

# And they wove a sweet indifference

# And it settled on our skin

# Till the eyes that I remembered

# For the last time drew me in

# The birds

# Though I wore your glacial patience

# To a smudge of bitter dust

# On the last day you embraced me

# With a glistening sapling trust

# Did they sing a million blessings

# As they watched us slowly part?

# Do they keep those final kisses

# In their tiny racing hearts?

# Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh

# Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh

# Ooh ooh ooh ooh

# Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh

# Ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh... #

Everybody OK?

CHEERING

# Oh oh

# Oh oh oh

-# What are we gonna do with you?

-Oh

-# Same tale every time

-Oh

-# What are we gonna do with you?

-Come on inside

# Looking back is for the birds

-# What are we gonna do with you?

-Oh

-# Same tale every time

-Oh

# What are we gonna do with you?

# Come on inside

# Looking back is for the birds

# What are we gonna do with you?

# Same tale every time

# What are we gonna do with you?

# Come on inside

# Looking back is for the birds

# What are we gonna do with you?

# Same tale every time

# What are we gonna do with you? Come on inside

# Looking back is for the birds

# Oh

# The birds

# Are the keepers of our secret

# As they saw us where we lay

# In the deepest grass of springtime

# In a reckless guilty haze

# What are we gonna do with you?

# And they wove a sweet indifference

-# And it settled on our skin

-What are we gonna do with you?

-# Till the eyes that I remembered

-What are we gonna do with you?

-# For the last time drew me in

-What are we gonna do with you?

# Same tale every time

-# What are we gonna do with you?

-Come on inside

# Looking back is for the birds

-# What are we gonna do with you?

-Come on inside

# Is for the birds

# Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh

# Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh

# Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh

# Ooh ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERS

Is everybody OK?

CHEERING

Are you in the most perfect place on Earth?

CHEERING

Is the sun shining? CHEERING

Are you all secretly hippies? CHEERING

I know.

Put your hand up if you haven't been kissed by somebody with glitter on their face in the last two days.

That's almost none of you.

Let's do some festival things. Show me your hands again.

That's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

# I plant the kind of kiss

# That wouldn't wake a baby

# On the self-same face

# That wouldn't let me sleep

# And the street is singing with my feet

# And dawn gives me a shadow I know to be taller

# All down to you, dear

# Everything has changed

# My sorry name

# Has made it to graffiti

# I was looking for

# Someone to complete me

# Not any more, dear

# Everything has changed

# And we made the moon our mirrorball

# The streets, an empty stage

# The city sirens violins

# Everything has changed

# So lift off love

# Lift off love

# Lift off love

# We took the town to town last night

# We kissed like we invented it

# And now I know what every step is for

# To lead me to your door

# Know that while you sleep

# Everything has changed

# We made the moon our mirrorball

# The streets, an empty stage

# The city sirens violins

# Everything has changed

# Everything has changed

# Everything has changed

# So lift off love

# Lift off love

# Lift off love

# Lift off love

# Lift off love

# Lift off love

# Lift off love

# Down to you, dear. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERS

Craig Potter on the piano, everyone! APPLAUSE AND CHEERS

Right, hands, everyone.

Right to the back.

RHYTHMIC CLAPPING

# My high priest is

# Folded neatly

# Back in your box

# Oh, Lord

# Call the song he sang so sweetly

# Back in your box

# Oh, Lord

# Found myself astride a tiger

# Lifting my head

# Just like you said

# Drown me now in down of eider

# Get me to bed

# Oh, Lord

# Lay my bones in the cobblestones

# Lay my bones in neat little rows

# Lay my bones in the cobblestones

# Lay my bones in neat little rows

# Angels and idols spiralling wild

# Wind in your necks

# Oh, Lord

# Landed gentry ride up behind me

# Wind in your necks

# Oh, Lord

# Smoky progress, backroom changes

# Let me back in, put back the pin

# Cos now I've found those torn-out pages

# Can't read the text

# Oh, Lord

# Lay my bones in the cobblestones

# Lay my bones in neat little rows

# Lay my bones in the cobblestones

# Lay my bones in neat little rows

# In the house where they grew you

# There were secrets and mistakes

# That the eyes that see through you

# Would do anything to erase

# But picture them counting your fingers

# Waiting for the focus of your eyes

# No, don't point fingers

# Fingers are for pointing at the sky

# No, don't point fingers

# Fingers are for pointing at the sky

# Ya-da da-da da-da da-da

# Ya-da da-da da-da da-da

# Ya-da da-da da-da da-da

# Lay my bones in the cobblestones

# Ya-da da-da da-da da-da

# Ya-da da-da da-da da-da

# Ya-da da-da da-da da-da

# Lay my bones in neat little rows

# Ya-da da-da da-da da-da

# Ya-da da-da da-da da-da

# Ya-da da-da da-da da-da

# Lay my bones in the cobblestones

# Ya-da da-da da-da da-da

# Ya-da da-da da-da da-da

# Ya-da da-da da-da da-da

# Lay my bones in neat little rows. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERS

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Pete Turner on bass!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERS

Everybody do this.

# Whoa-oh whoa-oh

-CROWD:

-# Whoa-oh whoa-oh

It's the Freddie Mercury thing.

You run out of ideas after a certain amount of time.

# Whoa-oh whoa-oh

# Whoa-oh whoa-oh

# Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh

# Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh

# Whoa-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-whoa-oh-oh-oh

# Whoa-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-whoa-oh-oh-oh

# Whoa-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-whoa-oh-oh-oh

# Whoa-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-whoa-oh-oh-oh

# I've been working on a cocktail

# Called Grounds For Divorce

# Whoa-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-whoa-oh-oh-oh

# Polishing a compass that I hold in my sleeve

# Whoa-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-whoa-oh-oh-oh

# Doubt comes in on sticks but then he kicks like a horse

# Whoa-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-whoa-oh-oh-oh

# There's a Chinese cigarette case and the rest you can keep

# And the rest you can keep

# And the rest you can keep

# There's a hole in my neighbourhood

# Down which of late I cannot help but fall

# There's a hole in my neighbourhood

# Down which of late I cannot help but fall

# Mondays is for drinking to the seldom-seen kid

# Ooh ooh ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh ooh

# Ooh ooh ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh ooh

# There's this whispering of jokers doing flesh by the pound

# To a chorus of supposes from the little town hoods

# There'll be twisted karaoke at the Aniseed Lounge

# And I'll bring you further roses But it does you no good

# And it does me no good

# And it does you no good

# There's a hole in my neighbourhood

# Down which of late I cannot help but fall

# There's a hole in my neighbourhood

# Down which of late I cannot help but fall

# There's a hole in my neighbourhood

# Down which of late I cannot help but fall... #

Up on the hill, I can see you!

Come on, Glastonbury!

# Someday we'll be drinking with the seldom-seen kid

# Ooh ooh ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh ooh

# Ooh ooh ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh ooh. #

Yes!

Cheers, everybody.

CROWD CHANTS: Garvey! Garvey!

# Gotta get out of TV

# Just pick a point

# And go

# The ticker-tape tangles my feet

# As I search for a face

# That I know

# Come on, tower crane driver

# There's oh so far to go

# I must have been working the ropes

# When your hand

# Slipped from mine

# Yes, I live off the mirrors and smoke

# It's a joke

# A fix

# A lie

# Come on

# Tower crane driver

# There's oh so far

# To fall

# Send up a prayer in my name

# Just the same

# They say I'm on top of my game

# Simple, gentle

# Simple, gentle love

# Send up a prayer in my name... #

CHEERING

CHEERING INTENSIFIES

Mr Richard Jupp on the drums.

CHEERING

This next song...

This next song is for Dan.

Not that Dan.

INTRO TO "LIPPY KIDS"

GUY WHISTLING

GUY WHISTLING

CROWD WHISTLES IN RESPONSE

# Lippy kids on the corner again

# Lippy kids on the corner begin

# Settling like crows

# And I never perfected that simian stroll

# But the cigarette senate was everything then

# Do they know those days

# Were golden

# Build a rocket, boys

# Build a rocket, boys!

# One long June

# I came down from the trees

# And kerbstone cool

# You were a freshly painted angel

# Walking on walls

# Stealing booze

# And hour-long hungry kisses

# And nobody knows me at home any more

# Build a rocket, boys!

# Build a rocket, boys

-CROWD:

-# Build a rocket, boys!

# Lippy kids on the corner begin

# Settling like crows

# And I never affected that simian stroll

# No

HE WHISTLES

CROWD WHISTLES

# Do they know those days

# Are golden

# Build a rocket, boys

# Build a rocket, boys!

# One long June

# I came down from the trees

# And kerbstone cool

# You were a freshly painted angel

# Walking on walls

# Stealing booze

# And hour-long hungry kisses

# And nobody knew me at home any more

# Build a rocket, boys!

# Build a rocket, boys

# Build a rocket, boys!

HE WHISTLES

CROWD WHISTLES

HE WHISTLES

CROWD WHISTLES

CHEERING

-CROWD CHANTS:

-Down it! Down it!

CHANTING CONTINUES

Down it?

RAPTUROUS CHEERING

What gives you the impression that I'm a drinker?

CHEERING

GROANING

CHEERING

GROANING

CHEERING

LOUDER CHEERING

ECSTATIC CHEERING

We're over at Craig's house, over here.

It's very nice.

Oh, actually...

Michelle, could we have some drinks, please?

The lovely Michelle, everyone.

CHEERING

She's pretty.

CROWD CHANTING

Hang on.

Before you start all that business,

it's our anniversary today. We formed 20 years ago today, Glastonbury.

CHEERING

Well, it was this month, nobody can remember the exact day.

We thought it was the place to celebrate.

Will you sing us Happy Birthday at the tops of your voices?

Something for the grandchildren? # Happy...

-CROWD:

-# ..Birthday to you

# Happy birthday to you

# Happy birthday dear Elbow

# Happy birthday to you! #

CHEERING

This is the only song that's about the band.

I hope you like it.

I love coming over here.

One, two, three, oh yeah.

INTRO TO "WEATHER TO FLY" Oh, yeah.

Are you feeling that, Pete?

# We had the drive and time on our hands

# One little room and the biggest of plans

# The days were shaping up frosty and bright

# Perfect weather to fly

# Perfect weather to fly

# Pounding the streets where my father's feet

# Still ring from the walls

# We'd sing in the doorways

# Or bicker and row

# Just figuring how we were wired inside

# Perfect weather to fly

# So in looking to stray from the line

# We decided instead

# We should pull out the thread that should... #

HE LAUGHS

# ..Tapestry vile

# And why wouldn't we try?

# Perfect weather to fly. #

CHEERING

# Are we having the time of our lives? #

CHEERING

It's difficult, isn't it, it's very high-pitched,

it's not clear what I'm saying there, is it, Glastonbury?

I'm saying, "Are we having the time of our lives?"

CHEERING

# Are we having the time of our lives? #

CHEERING

# Are we having the time of our...

# ..lives?

I feel a bit silly doing that "lives".

# Are we having the time of our lives?

# Are we coming across clear?

# Are we coming across fine?

# Are we coming across clear?

# Are we having the time of our lives?

# We had the drive and time on our hands

# One little room and the biggest of plans

# The days were shaping up frosty and bright

# Perfect weather to fly

# Perfect weather to fly

# Pounding the streets where my father's feet

# Still ring from the walls

# We'd sing in the doorways

# Or bicker and row

# Just figuring how we were wired inside

# Perfect weather to fly

# So in looking to stray from the line

# We decided instead we should pull out the thread

# That was stitching us into this tapestry vile

# And why wouldn't we try?

# Perfect weather to fly

# We had the drive and time on our hands

# One little room and the biggest of plans

# The days were shaping up frosty and bright

# Perfect weather to fly

# Perfect weather to fly

# Pounding the streets where my father's feet

# Still ring from the walls

# We'd sing in the doorways or bicker and row

# Just figuring how we were wired inside

# Perfect weather to fly

# So in looking to stray from the line

# We decided instead

# We should pull out the thread

# That was stitching us into this tapestry vile

# And why wouldn't you try?

# Perfect weather to fly

# Are we having the time of our lives?

# Are we having the time of our lives?

# Are we coming across clear?

# Are we coming across fine?

# Are we coming across clear?

# Are we coming across fine?

# Are we having the time of our lives? #

CHEERING

# Are we having the time of our lives?

# Is Glastonbury the best party on Earth? #

ENTHUSIASTIC CHEERING

# You're a law unto yourself

# And we don't suffer dreamers

# But neither should you walk the Earth alone

# So with finger rolls and folding chairs

# And a volley of streamers

# We can be there for tweaks and repairs

# Should you come back home

# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh... #

Come on, Glastonbury!

# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

# We got open arms

# For broken hearts

# Like yours, my boy

# Come home again

# Tables are for pounding here

# And when we've got you surrounded

# The man you are will know the boy you were

# And you're not the man who fell to Earth

# You're the Man of La Mancha

# And with love enough to light the street

# Everybody's here

# We got open arms

# For broken hearts

# Like yours, my boy

# Come home again

# We got open arms

# For broken hearts

# Like yours, my boy

# Come home again

# Everyone's here

# Everyone's here

# The moon is out looking for trouble

# And everyone's here

# Everyone's here

# Everyone's here

# The moon wants a scrap or a cuddle

# And everyone's here... #

Come on!

# We got open arms

# For broken hearts

# Like yours, my boy

# Come home again

# We got open arms

# For broken hearts

# Like yours, my boy

# Come home again

# Everyone's here

# We got open arms

-# Everyone's here

-For broken hearts

-# Everyone's here

-Like yours, my boy

# Come home again

# The moon is out looking for trouble

# The moon wants a scrap or a cuddle

# The moon is face down in a puddle

# But everyone's here. #

CHEERING Yeah!

We love you very much. We're Elbow from Manchester,

it's been a great pleasure to play for you. Cheers, everyone!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

You might know this one.

INTRO TO "ONE DAY LIKE THIS"

CROWD SINGS ALONG TO INTRO

He's drunk!

# Drinking in the morning sun

# Blinking in the morning sun

# Shaking off a heavy one

# Yeah, heavy like a loaded gun

# What made me behave that way?

# Using words I never say

# I can only think it must be love

# Oh, anyway

# It's looking like a beautiful day

# Someone tell me how I feel

# It's silly wrong but vivid right

# Oh, kiss me like a final meal

# Yeah, kiss me like we died tonight... #

Why, Glastonbury?

# Cos holy cow, I love your eyes

# And only now I see the light

# Yeah, lying with you half-awake

# Oh, anyway

# It's looking like a beautiful day

# When my face is chamois creased

# If you think I wink, I did... #

You do this bit.

# Laugh politely at repeats

# Oh, kiss me when my lips are thin

# Cos holy cow, I love your eyes

# And only now I see the light

# Yeah, lying with you half-awake

# Stumbling over what to say

# Well, anyway

# It's looking like a beautiful day

# So throw those curtains wide

# One day like this a year would see me right

# Throw those curtains wide

# One day like this a year would see me right

# Throw those curtains wide

# One day like this a year would see me right

# Throw those curtains wide

# One day like this a year would see me right

# Holy cow, I love your eyes

# And only now I see the light

# Holy cow, I love your eyes

# And only now I see the light

# Throw those curtains wide

# One day like this a year would see me right

# Throw those curtains wide

# One day like this a year would see me right

-# Throw those curtains wide

-Ohhhh-ohh

# One day like this a year would see me right

-# Throw those curtains wide

-Ohhhh-ohh

# One day like this a year would see me right

# Throw those curtains wide

# One day like this a year would see me right

# Throw those curtains wide

# One day like this a year would see me right... #

Your turn, Glastonbury!

# Throw those curtains wide

# One day like this a year would see me right

# Throw those curtains wide

# One day like this year would see me right

# Throw those curtains wide

# One day like this a year...

# Would see me right

# Throw those curtains wide

# One day like this a year would see me right... #

Two more!

# Throw those curtains wide

# One day like this a year would see me right... #

Just you!

# Throw those curtains wide

# One day like this a year would see me right. #

CHEERING

An absolute privilege, enjoy the rest of your weekend.

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