Elbow - "Starlings" & set list

... setlist

Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands - March 25, 2004

Starlings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yNtQihXCh8

How dare the Premier ignore my Invitations?
He'll have to go
So, too, the bunch he luncheons with
It's second on my list of things to do

At the top I'm stopping by
Your place of work and acting like
I haven't dreamed of you and I
And marriage in an orange grove
You are the only thing in any room you're ever in
I'm stubborn, selfish and too old.

I sat you down and told you how
the truest love that's ever found
Is for oneself
You pulled apart my theory
With a weary and disinterested sigh

So yes I guess I'm asking you
To back a horse that's good for glue
And nothing else
But find a man that's truer than,
Find a man that needs you more than I

Sit with me a while
And let me listen to you talk about
your dreams and your obsessions
I'll be quiet and confessional
The violets explode inside me
when I meet your eyes
Then I'm spinning and I'm diving
Like a cloud of starlings

Darling is this love?



Starlings
The Bones of You
Leaders of the Free World
Mirrorball
Grounds for Divorce
Great Expectations
The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver
The Stops
Newborn
One Day Like This

Encore:

Switching Off
Station Approach
Scattered Black and Whites