Quotes / Bat for Lashes

Went over the sea
What did I find?
A thousand crystal towers
A hundred emerald cities

—Glass, from the album Two Suns

When the fires came
The smell of cinders and rain
Perfumed almost everything
We laughed and laughed and laughed

—Daniel, from the album Two Suns

I drove past true love once, in a dream.

—Good Love, from the album Two Suns

We are strangers in a strange land
Wanderers in a vast and unknowable universe

—Two Planets, from the album Two Suns

Never fall in love with potential

—Travelling Woman, from the album Two Suns

Play in the ashes of what you once were

—Travelling Woman, from the album Two Suns

Today I was a dead girl walking
City life burned through the tears

—All Your Gold, from the album The Haunted Man

Can we dance upon the tables again?

—Laura, from the album The Haunted Man

Twisted all our dreams
Until you became a nightmare

—The Haunted Man, from the album The Haunted Man

Your power's so strong and if you don't know why
Then there's a deeper knowledge in that big old sky

—Rest Your Head, from the album The Haunted Man