Austin City Limits

-"Austin City Limits" presents a special hour with music from deep in the catacombs of Paris.

Queens of the Stone Age.

- Forget the rat in the race, we'll choke chain them all Where will you run?

Where will you hide?

Lullabies To paralyze -Thank you, Austin City Limits!

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Queens of the Stone Age.

[ Bell tolling ] - When I was a little boy I looked under the stairs The king and the pawns Were caught unawares Standing in the shadows A whisperer to be Was fishing in the darkness Of possibilities Just look at you now Yeah, look at you now Yeah Oh, look at you now Among such style and grace Our highest hopes None standing still The running joke Where goes the warm embrace It fades without return That lives to slip through fingertips and burn I don't care what you think anymore Doesn't matter anyway Joan of Arc, victim, perpetrator Just a paper machete, yeah The truth is just a piece of clay You sculpt, you change, you hide, then you erase You think you're brave?

All the plans you made Behind my back and from far away Truth is, face to face, you're a coward Sharp as a paper machete, yeah Now I know you'd use anything, anyone To make yourself look clean In sickness, no vows mean anything So long, cruelty So long, too late So long, my love is dead [ Cheers and applause ] But just look at you now Yeah Oh, look at you now, yeah Oh, look at you now, yeah Oh, look at you now Ohh, ohh Look at you now Yeah Oh, look at you now Yeah Look at you now [ Cheers and applause ] - I Never lie To myself Tonight Rose Tinted eyes Color my sorrow A shade of wine Bye-bye, black balloon See you real soon Wave bye-bye Bye-bye Oh, why you so sad?

What have they done?

Forget those mindless baboons They're off playing God Copycats in cheap suits are playing it safe While cannibals of bad news consume a parade Oh Is it wonderful?

- Kalopsia - Ohh Ohh Kalopsia Kalopsia Far, far from shore The land of nightmares Gone forevermore And I love you more Than I can control I don't even try Why would I?

Oh, why the long face?

You've got it all wrong Forget the rat in the race, we'll choke chain them all Fates favor the ones who help themselves The rest feel the sting of the lash As they row the boat To Hell Oh, oh Oh, oh Mm Oh, oh Mm Ugh [ Laughter ] [ Cheers and applause ] I miss you now, what's come over me?

We're hostages of geography The wait is long And heavy too Despite what you're accustomed to I know life moves on That's what scares me so Have no intentions of letting go Only us No one in the world Only us No one in the world Mm-mmm Mm-mmm I'd better do something Move earth and sky And patiently, sweetly With all of my might I sing only for you To the beat of my footsteps in the night Close your eyes And dream me home Forever mine I'll be forever yours Always, evermore, and on and on Always, evermore, and on and on Always, evermore, and on and on Always, evermore Yeah Ohh There's no magic bullet No cure for pain What's done is done Till you do it again Life in pursuit of a nameless prey I've been so close, I'm so far away It's so hard to explain, so easy to feel I need you now, nothing is real Save me from the villains of circumstance Before I lose my place Close your eyes And dream me home Forever mine I'll be forever yours I'll be forever yours I'll be forever yours Always, evermore, and on and on Always, evermore, and on and on Always, evermore, and on and on Always, evermore Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh [ Cheers and applause ] When you say It's dead and gone Yes, I know You're wrong Cut and slash Sharpest knife It won't die Poison cup Drank it up It won't die No fire, no gun No rope, no stone It won't die Oh Why you gotta shove it in my face As if you put me in my place?

'Cause I don't care if you or me is wrong or right Ain't gonna spend another night In your bed In your bed The laws of men Are just pretend So what, you know?

[ Cheers and applause ] Love so good Love so bad It won't die Oh Some talk too long They know it all Well, I just smile And move on Words ain't free Like you and me Mmmm I don't mind, yeah Why'd you have to be so mean and cruel?

The dogs are loose, I'm on to you You ball and chained together from the dawn to dusk Can't call it leavin' 'cause it's just I never came I never came I never came I never came I never came I never came [ Vocalizing ] Yeah, yeah, yeah Ohh [ Cheers and applause ] -Follow the light.

- Ohh Mm Once you're lost In twilight's blue You don't find your way The way finds you Ahh Yeah Tempt the fates Beware the smile It hides all the teeth, my dear And what's behind them Ahh Ahh So glad you could stay forever So glad you could stay forever So glad you could stay forever So glad you could stay forever Ohh He steps between the trees A crooked man There's blood on the blade Don't take his hand Ahh Oof!

I got what was I want to take what's left No talk will cure What's lost, or save what's left I... I remember... I remember like it was yesterday.

I remember like it was yesterday.

It was the last day I was a small boy, the years lined up in a row.

The years lined up in a row like -- like little shoes on a mantel place over the fire.

One year larger than the next.

Or was it smaller than the next?

I don't even care.

All I remember was looking up at the top of the water through my eyes, drowning.

Do you remember the last day you were a child?

It happens in a flash.

Like a flash before your eyes.

You can kiss it goodbye.

You don't have to kiss it goodbye.

But it kisses you goodbye.

You think to yourself, "Where did I go?"

But you can't go home.

You can't go home.

And as the years grew on and the pathway into the forest got smaller, I realized -- I realized I don't want to go home.

The world I knew shrunk every day.

And if I stayed inside, I'd just... get smaller.

Until I -- Smaller until I... Until I vanished.

So there is no way to go home.

There's no way to call home.

Maybe it's a good thing now.

Maybe it's a good thing now.

I don't even -- I don't care.

It's been so long since I left it behind.

It's been so long since I left it behind.

And I realized something.

To face down your demons, you've got to free them To seize all your demons, Carpe demon To face down your demons, you've got to free them To seize all your demons, Carpe demon Whoa Ahh Whoa Ahh Whoa Whoa Sing it!

- Whoa Ahh - Whoa - Ahh -Louder.

- Whoa - Ahh - Whoa -Sing it up there.

Let me here you.

- Whoa - Ahh - Whoa - Ahh - Whoa - Ahh - Whoa - Ahh - The look in your eyes Says, "I love you" And, oh, I love you too Ooh Whoa-oa-oa Whoa-oa-oa Whoa-oa-oa Whoa-oa-oa Yeah Yeah [ Cheers and applause ] Thank you.

Hello, Austin.

Hello, Austin City Limits.

How are you?

[ Cheers and applause ] I know, I know the sun is hot Mosquitoes come and suck your blood And leave you there all alone Just skin and bone When you walk among the trees Listening to the leaves The further I go, the less I know The less I know Where will you run?

Where will you hide?

Lullabies To paralyze Fat and soft, pink and weak Foot and thigh, tongue and cheek You know, I'm told they swallow you whole Just skin and bone Cutting boards and hanging hooks Bloody knives, cooking books Promising you won't feel a thing at all Swallow and chew Eat you alive All of us food That hasn't died And the knife says Ooh Oh, oh, ohh Ohhh Ohhh Oh, oh, ohh Ohhh Oh, oh, ohh [ Cheers and applause ] Simmering, pick and pluck Tenderize bone to dust The sweetest grease, the finest meat You'll ever taste - Taste - So you scream, whine, and yell Supple sounds of dinner bells We all will feed the worms and the trees So don't be shy Where will you run?

Where will you hide?

Lullabies To paralyze Thank you so much.

[ Cheers and applause ] Scared, aren't you?

Me too.

Don't look, just keep your eyes peeled Thoughtless, traipsing my mind's field Shotgun, never behind the wheel Anymore Danger, monsters of smoke and mirror Slowly, can one so lost be found?

Well, I know you'll never believe I play as though I'm all right If life is but a dream Then wake me up Fallen leaves Realize they are No friend of autumn The view from Hell is blue sky So ominously blue Daydream until all the blue is gone Well, I know you'll never believe I play as though I'm all right If life is but a dream Wake me!

Underwater Is another life Disregarding Every myth we write Rag doll churning Over and over and gasping in horror So breathless you surface, and just as the next wave hits Big smile Really a show of teeth Without a care in a world No fear Lonely You don't know how I feel Praise God Nothing is as it seems [ Cheers and applause ] Once Out in the rain I was able to strangle my shadow, unshackle the chain Chain What What will you do?

Is it safe to play God in the garden or king of the zoo?

Holes Well, they need to be filled Positions available Some are quite hard to get out of, or in In Spinning in the daffodils Dizzy from a dozen twirls Spinning in the daffodils Yeah Cold Alone and alive You're afraid but that's not what I asked Wanna go for a ride?

Sharpen your teeth, my darlings Sharpen your minds Take a finger if the hand feeds you... Take one scalp at a time Get 'em, boys Fail As big as a whale Like a canine that chases the bone that's tied to its tail I wish I was a beautiful balloon I would rise up above it all and then fade out of view Gracefully fade Fade out of view What have you turned me into?

Spinning in the daffodils Dizzy from a dozen twirls Spinning in the daffodils Yeah Yeah What have you gone And done again, my love?

Incinerated In the morning sun Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah!

[ Cheers and applause ] Ooh Ohhh Ohh, oh Ohh I'm So high I just May never come down I'm So high I just May never come down I'm So high I just May never come down Yeah, I'm So high I just May never come down I'm So high I just May never come down I'm So high I just May never come down [ Cheers and applause ] -We love you so much.

Thank you.

[ Cheers and applause ] - The truth is just a piece of clay You sculpt, you change, you hide, then you erase You think you're brave?

All the plans you made Behind my back and from far away Truth is, face to face, you're a coward Sharp as a paper machete, yeah