Written, Arranged and Produced by Patrick Wolf Mixed and Engineered by Matt Lawrence, Jonathan Shakhovsky, Tom Fuller,

Patrick Wolf. Mastered by Tony Cousins at Metropolis Patrick Wolf - Vocals, Celtic Harp, Bentside Spinet, Grand Piano, Gusli, Accordion, Baritone Ukulele, Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer and Viola String Quartet Violin One Victoria Sutherland Violin Two - Kotono Sato Viola - Sarah Helen Cello - Katie Wright Wood Wind Quartet Bassoon Katie Lawrence Clarinet - Anthony Lawton Clarinet - Emma Frampton Cor Anglais Craig White Spanish Guitar - Javier Moreno Bohdran Drum - Eamon Murray Double Bass - Ben Nicholls Musical Saw - David Coulter Bermondsey Street - Protest Spoken Word contributed by the World Wide Wolf Pack. Many thanks to Buffy St Marie for inspiring and updating the new lyrics of Hard Times on this record with me.

Photography by Saga Sig Art direction by David Motta and Patrick Wolf. Wardrobe curated by David Motta Many thanks to Detmar Blow and Harriet Vierney at Hilles House Graphic Design by Modo and Patrick Wolf Illustration by Patrick Wolf With love and gratitude to The Apps Family, William Pollock, Craig White, Sam Smith, Gwendoline Christie, Anton Douglas, David Motta and Saga Sig, all at Real World studios and Miloco. John Jenkinson, Calpernia Addams, Mira Boutique, Mark Howe, Sandro Kopp, Sam Kirby, Pippa Brooks, Emma Banks, Victoria Sutherland Rebecca Wedlake, Marti Green, Murray Chalmers, Frazer Lawton, Paul Spraggon. To all that have supported me and listened to my work over the last 10 years, I am truly grateful to be able to make this album a decade on from the first record and truly for the audience I have found along this journey.

www.patrickwolf.com Management: Sam Smith at Fairsound Management Distributed by Essential ROW/ Liberator Music Australia Published by Chrysalis Music

Wind in the wires Its the sigh Of wild electricity Im on the edge of a cliff Surpassing comfort and security But here comes a gale A crippling anger Seabirds are blown Into the rocks Grace is lost To thunder Pressure Getting lower Pressure Getting lower But see her waters break Rain falling to the sea Into a granite wave A unit A family But its just a sigh This wild electricity Made static by industry Like a bird in an aviary Singing to the sky Just singing to be free All alone I was singing To the sky All alone I was singing To be free Singing to the sky Give me back My family

Father Wheres my gun? They say war Had begun So let me go it alone I need no one I need no one But Oh God Now here it comes Its too dark to aim this gun Faster faster faster Once again Im on the run And I hear you say Oh my stubborn son I know that you said You need no one But dont you see Danger danger danger Headed to oblivion I followed the hunt Far as I could Through desert weathers Petrified wood Took one shot In the dark Backfired the bullet Silver to heart And Oh God Now here it comes Its too dark to aim this gun Faster faster faster Once again Im on the run And I hear you say Oh my stubborn son I know that you said

You need no one But dont you see Danger, Danger Headed to oblivion Oblivion... Wait a second I didnt come this far For it to end like this So darkness Show your face Face to me Show your face Face to me Be you a friend Or enemy? Because I do Not fear Oblivion Why do I Do not fear Oblivion? Father Let me I need I need I need wheres my gun? go it alone no one no one no one

In this drought.. Of truth and invention The motorway Wont take a horse The wanderer Has found a course To follow The traveller Unpacked his bags For the last time The troubadour Cut off his hand Now he wants mine Oh no Not me The circus girl Fell off her horse Now shes paralysed The hitchhiker Was bound and gagged Raped on the roadside The libertine Is locked in jail The pirate sunk And broke his sail But Ive still got to go Ive got to go so here I go Im going to run The risk Of being free The All The Are And magicians secrets revealed preachers lies all concealed all our heroes

Lack any conviction They shout Through bars Of clich And addiction So Ive got to go Ive got to go So here I go Im going to run The risk Of being free And in this drought Of truth and invention Whoever shouts the loudest Gets the most attention And we pass the mic And they got nothing To say except Bow down Bow down To your god So we hit the floor Make ourselves False idols To bow before Well I cant and I wont Bow down anymore So if you cant and you Wont bow down anymore Then run Run The risk The risk Of being Being Free

Losing my head to Hollywood My liver to London My youth to Tokyo Still on with the show On and on and on Its a Hard Lesson To learn L.A Big wheels Turn! Turn! And all your forest fires burn And all my dead meat yearns For the vultures return Take my dead meat Vulture Dead meat Vulture Coming down Down in Santa Monica Suicide motel One date with the devil Seven days in hell Mother dont worry Your boy is doing fine Home in a hurry And be sane with good time After hard lessons To learn After these hard lessons To learn L.A big And all burn And all For the Yearns Yearns wheels Turn! Turn! the forest fires my dead meat yearns vultures return

Rifle mounted Above the bed Knuckles noosing Neck and head Forced pledge Allegience Allegeince To the beast My face pressed Down In pillow deep Soon santa ana Winds will come Hell as on earth His kingdom Won...

As they dig your ditches Count my stitches Generation justice wishes For world at war Final score Media come And abhor us Through these hard times We work harder, harder Give us hard times Well think harder, harder Divided nation, In sedation Overload of information, That we have grown Up to ignore Mediocrity applauded Through these hard times Ill work harder Give me hard times Ill think harder, harder For resolution Show me some resolution No battle is ever won Forced to count the hours Since two towers Fell to fiction Higher powers Putting gods to war We keep score As Ignorance deified All through these hard times Got to work harder, harder Give us hard times, Got to think harder For resolution

Show us some resolution Time for some resolution Hard times, Hard times If they only see you with their fear And they only hear you with their pride And they only see us with their fear And they only hear us with their pride Then work harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, Think harder, harder, Harder through hard times

Lucys bitten Neck is bleeding bad The teeth have Long departed Yet the desire Burns strong On in desire For destruction One on Which shell depend One that Ceases to deepen Now into Near bitter end Treasures buried Soul deep Crossed under crack Now theres no voice Choice or Any road back Black through The mountain She turns her Loosening ring Guardian angel Sings I think youve Lost your wings Yours still yours But theyre yours Still yours So look up now Youve still a little Will left Will you? Be strong Give song Fullfill

The promises you made Slave to your self your health And your growing debts Keep thinking I know I can flourish still And re write these wrongs Make a home make a child Belong But treasures buried Soul deep Crossed under crack Now theres no voice Choice or Any road back Come back through The mountains Take off your loosening Rings Guardian angel Sings Come home now Find your wings Yours still Now you must love yourself Like youve never know hurt before Like weve never know hurt before Come home now find Your wings

Its wonderful What a smile can hide If the teeth shine bright and its nice and wide So magical all you can keep inside And if you bury it deep no one can find a thing No? So come on now Open wide, open up now Dont you think its time? To look back at that boy on his way to school Such a heavy heart Such a heavy jewel Hiding something That one day hell sell But now if no one asks No one tells a thing, No? So come on now Open wide, open up now Dont you think its time? Now after all these years you are at last opening But was it worth all that war Just to win? And so caught up in the speed And the weight of your sin Dont forget How the story begins Dont forget now Now Im seeing all Your lovers and enemies Turning their keys So full of greed

Trying to seize That jewel you keep What makes it shine? what makes it mine? Well I dont care Come on now Open wide, open up now Dont you think its time? Now after all these tears You are at last opening Was it worth all that war Just to win? So caught up in the speed And the weight of your sin Dont forget how Your story begins Dont forget now Take me back to where it begins Before the speed And weight of your sin Come and take me back To where it begins Is it worth all this war Just to win? Open wide let some Love In

It was seven in the morning When I lost the spark to give. The bath was spilling over My self pity spilling with it So I fled the country Just to start it all again And found myself in paris In the cemetery rain. Dear Anne came to me And took me by the arm Showed me old disasters Embedded in my palm Warned me of a lady With the sun behind her head With a granite neck Shes a singer But she can never sing again But you My love You must come Come to joy, Turn your head To the sun Its down to you You can shine You can shake All that sorrow From your palm Its down to you if you dare to come Come to joy

What was it I ran from what burnt away inside? Four hundred schoolboys Lawyers fighting by my side Always running With these legs going nowhere A ghost in the system An angel waiting on the stairs But oh this time I will turn Turn my head To the sun Yeah theyre Marching out of me One by one Walking free now Its going out of... This time This time This time Im really moving Now are you ready to come Come to joy Turn your head To the sun? Its down to you You can shine Or you can just Give it up Its all down to you Hold the key In your hands now Its all in the palm Of your hand

Alone again In Paris Travel drained I write to you Youve been on My mind Cold days Long nights A rooftop In Berlin I call Confess The state Im in These cities This view I see nothing Without you And I can do this Alone But we can do this So much better Together And I can make it Alone But we can make it So much better Together

Im sorry I hurt you I hurt Me too Forgive my jealousy Thats not the man I long to be By your side My whole life True love knows No sacrifice I put my arm Around your waist Pull you closer In embrace Say Divided we fall But stronger We stand Together

So let the people talk This Monday morning Walk right past The fabulous mess were in Its gonna be a beautiful day So too the bluebirds say As I take your hand And you take my kiss And we take the world Cos out of all The people Ive known The places Ive been The songs I have sung The wonders Ive seen Now that the dreams Are all coming true Who is the one That leads me on through? Its you! Who puts me in The magic position Darling now You put me in The magic position To live, to learn, to love In the major key And I know how youve hurt Been dragged through the dirt But come on get back up Its time to live And if you give your love to me Im gonna keep it carefully So deep in the treasure

chest Below my breast cos out of all The people Ive known The places Ive been The songs I have sung The wonders Ive seen Now that the dreams Are all coming true Who is the one That leads me on through? Its you! Who puts me in The magic position, Darling now You put me in The magic position Darling So let me put you In the magic position Darling cos Im singing in the.. The major key So let me put you In the major key.

London Bridge The rain At last Back in your arms Again

Loves knows no boundaries Sees beyond sexuality Holds the sun In the palm of its hand Laughs down On the cynical man No fear of society No guilt of the governement Nor the hate or hurt Gone before She kisses him On Bermondsey Street And rises high On the balls of her feet Declares this The greatest love Of the century He fumbles for A wedding ring Shes no clone From Vogue magazine She is complex In all her complexion Love is here to heal And Im so proud of you Now you must too Take pride in what This love you do He kisses him On Bermondsey Street And standing brave On the balls of his feet Declares this The greatest love of the century

He fumbles for A wedding ring Hes no clone From Colt magazine He is complex In all his complexion Love is here to heal And im so proud of you Now you must too Take pride in what This love you do Now you know Love knows no boundaries Sees beyond sexuality Holds the sun In the palm of its hand Laughs down on the Cynical man Here in what I see In two kisses sweet On Bermondsey street These are My dreams of love Ideals of love On Bermondsey Street..

Lucy Remember the smell of that fall? The fires, the fungus And the rotting leaves I fell off the wagon Once more Into your arms Into this long month of Sundays You were My husband My wife My heroin Now this is our final December Now Im deep in a forest Losing all thought of spring And nothing can help me remember Im going nowhere fast A darker day has hold at last Deep in a dream I set the compass to spinning And your love has come too late I wave to the garden gate Wake me up When the bluebells are ringing How can this be over After all that we had? Now comes A river runs

Through the rafters Down, down, down As you leave me Sleeping Dreaming only of spring The phone rings out And I remember That Im going nowhere fast Darker days have hold at last Deep in this dream I let the compass keep spinning And your love has come too late I wave to the garden gate Wake me up When the bluebells are ringing Want to hear You ringing With my love Wake me up When the bluebells Are ringing

On the night train From the city to the south I saw spirits Crawl across the river mouth In skewed ascension With no destination Like this lone bachelor in me This constant yearning For great love and learning For the wind to carry me free So when the birds fly south Reach up and hold their tails Pull up and out of here Bridle the autumn gales Down to the burning cliffs To the unrelenting roll! To marry the untold blisses And anchor this lost soul Lost soul From my window

I saw two birds lost at sea And I caught our reflection In that silent tragedy But with hope prevailing I draw galleons sailing In full sail billowing free Billowing free So when the birds fly south Well reach up and hold their tails Pull up and out of here Bridle the autumn gales Now I give you my hand The fingers unfold To have and forever hold To marry the untold blisses And anchor this lost soul Pull up and out of here Anchor this Lost Soul

Sundark On darker streets Its violent times For weary feet Carjackers And bullet showers A yellow sign Too many fools in power But see I will be gone by morning My dear friend I lost the fight Forget me I wash my hands In your grey slowing night Coming down From darkened heights I taste the Thames With my cycle lights By Saint Pauls By big ben By gods name I repent I repent now But see I will be gone by morning My dear London goodnight Forget me I wash myself In your grey riverlight Baptise me with the courage

That has seen you Through great fire Doodelbug and bombscare The courage of the immigrant Canonize the blacks, dogs and irish Who led me to be born to your bells Raised me to not sink in your suffer Nor perish in our plagues Of demolition London Goodnight Sundark Riverlight

Oh I love this house I love this house Gives me The greatest peace Ive ever known Oh I love to hear Those conkers fall Smash on morning Southwark stone And I love That here you live with me Gives me The greatest peace Ive ever known Cos Ive been too long A lonely man Yes Ive been too long A rolling stone So let seasons turn Grow paradise gardens End to my Migration The native has returned Oh I love The curling of your hair Gives me The greatest peace Ive ever known I see Dylan Thomas In your face Recite Butler Yeats There in your grace So let seasons turn Grow paradise gardens End to my Migration The native has returned And If I had to die today

Scatter my ashes on this place Let me live on In your grieving heart But until that day That we depart This is the greatest peace Ive ever known The greatest peace Ive ever known But only your love Makes house A home Home Home Home This house Is home

Walk tall Beneath These trees Boy You monolith Not scarred By fallout Us wolves Are right behind you Now Lucifer Will never find you The moon Let it guide you When selene comes Well all know How to fight Dear Fenrir My saviour Come and eat The ones We know Who taste The best I know Just where Youve been Boy Ive watched You by the stream And Dont be Afraid of the dark The darkness Is simply a womb For the lonely

Swallow your pride And walk with us Through the hils And the trees Yeah your English eyes They are turning red The moon let it guide you And I shall find you A home in our heartland A heart in our homeland Until the moon is down Until the moon is down Walk tall Until the moon Is down