alex turner the lyricist

lyrical musings of the one and only alex turner

[thurnerstorms]

“Its funny you said ‘pink dust’ before actually because when we were recording Crying Lightning, I think that was right around the point where Jamie disappeared for, what? Like a day and a half we didn’t see him, when we were out there on the motor bikes. And then he returned in like a poncho with a sort of strange pink dust on his shoulders and seemingly under strict instruction to set the Echoplex to a certain… he was like ‘I know the increments, I know where it should be.’ And then that’s where his sound came from for Crying Lightning.”

— Alex Turner on Crying Lightning (via jamiephillipcook)

[alexturnerthelyricist]

she was walking on the tables in the glass house / endearingly bedraggled in the wind / subtle in her method of seduction / twenty little tragedies begin

The Age of the Understatement (TLSP)

[alexturnerthelyricist]

sharing secrets I was taking to the grave / nosebleeds from epiphanies I took full in the face

Anyways

[alexturnerthelyricist]

I wanna be in that damsel patterned alley / where you go for a smoke / and sorrow slow dances

All my own stunts

[alexturnerthelyricist]

I'm pinned down by the dark

Dangerous Animals

[alexturnerthelyricist]

not shy of a spark / the knife twists at the thought that I should fall short of the mark / frightened by the bite though it's no harsher than the bark / the middle of adventure, such a perfect place to start.

505

[alexturnerthelyricist]

see you later, innovator

Brainstorm

[alexturnerthelyricist]

AT: I think New York is a good place to write in general because it’s a grid. It’s organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam. Vanity Fair:I think that’s one of the unsung reasons why so many people can create here, the math. AT: Obviously there’s chaos if you want it, too.

Q&A: Alex Turner | Vanity Fair

[alexturnerthelyricist]

glass bottomed ego / still afloat but can’t you see the cracks appearing in the base?

The Bourne Identity

[alexturnerthelyricist]

don't you know an apparition is a cheap date?

Star Treatment

[alexturnerthelyricist]

happy birthday Alex Turner, you legend.

[alexturnerthelyricist]

lipstick on my pillow via my cheek

Dracula Teeth

[alexturnerthelyricist]

do you still think love is a laserquest / or do you take it all more seriously / I've tried to ask you this in some daydreams that I've had / but you're always busy being make-believe

Love Is A Laserquest

[alexturnerthelyricist]

frightened by the bite though it's no harsher than the bark

505

[alexturnerthelyricist]

and as your shrinking figure blows a kiss / I catch and smash it on my lips

Sweet Dreams, TN

[alexturnerthelyricist]

I’m not used to raising the roof then telling the truth

Vertigo (Mini Mansions)

[alexturnerthelyricist]

yeah, but his bird said it's amazing, though / so all that's left / is the proof that love's not only blind but deaf.

Fake Tales of San Francisco