When I saw you I knew you were the one
I want to orbit you like youre the sun
but let me know before I come undone
am I the one for you
Im like a puzzle with a missing piece
I got a car but didnt get the keys
and only you can set my mind at ease
so what am I to do
I have everything but the girl I want, its sad but true
and everything but the love I need to make it through
and every time I look into your eyes, thats when I realize
just how much I love you
Some say lady luck is on my side
and that my life has been an easy ride
but they dont know how many times I cried
cause I am nothing without you
I have everything but the girl I want, its sad but true
and everything but the love I need to make it through
and everytime I look into your eyes, thats when I realize
just how much I love you
I dont know how long I can keep it up
I need a sign to make it through
You gotta tell me now, you gotta let me know
The future of the future will still contain the past
Time goes slow and time goes fast
I can feel you looking back at me
To see how I've done
What is it inside you
That makes you want to be my God
Well it's so bright tonight
It's so bright tonight
It's so bright tonight
Do you see those cars, those lights?
Oh baby, oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby, oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby, oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby, oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby, oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby, oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby, oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby, oh oh
The future of the future will still repeat today
But time goes fast and fades away
And you say, "Think of the old days
We could have them back again"
Well I thought about the old days
They'd go bad like they did then
Well it's so bright tonight
It's so bright tonight
It's so bright tonight
Do you see those cars, those lights?
Oh baby, oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby, oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby, oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby, oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby, oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby, oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby, oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby, oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby, oh oh, oh baby
Oh oh, oh baby, oh oh
The future of the future will still contain tonight
The passage of day, the passage of light
And I'm not going home again
Tomorrow will never come
And I'm not going home again
Tomorrow will never come
Well it's so bright tonight
It's so bright tonight
Do you see those cars, those lights?
Do you see those roads, these skies?
What ya gonna do about me now?
What ya gonna do about me now?
What ya gonna do about me now?
What ya gonna do about me now?
What ya gonna do about me now?
What ya gonna do about me now?
What ya gonna do about me now?
What ya gonna do about me now?
It's so bright tonight
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
When I was ten, I thought my brother was God
He'd lie in bed and turn out the light with a fishing rod
I learned the names of all his football team
And I still remembered them when I was nineteen, yeah
Strange the things deal that I remember still
Shouts from the playground when I was home and ill
My sister taught me all that she learned there
When we grew up, we said, we'd share a flat somewhere
When I was seventeen, London meant Oxford Street
Where I grow up, there were no factories
There was a school and shops and some fields and trees
And rows of houses one by one appeared
I was born in one and lived there for eighteen years
Then when I was nineteen, I thought the Humbler would be
The gateway from my little world into the real world
But there is no real world
We live side by side and sometimes collide
When I was seventeen, London meant Oxford Street
It was a little world, I grew up in a little world
There is no real world
Not for the first time I look back on all those years
Not for the last time names will ring in my ears
When there was just a gang of us
Storming the town by train and bus
A moment of thought this heart sends to old friends
Not for the first time I look back on my first love
Unable to speak or think or move hand in glove
But what of it now and where is he
He who once meant so much to me
Because we are not, I can't pretend now old friends
I was told love should hold old friends
I was told love should hold old friends
But when you leave you will close the door behind you
Don't we always and time won't make amends to old friends
Standing here with my arm around you, life's moved on
And all its borderlines are being redrawn
The winter has come the roads are white
Everyone's home late tonight may we stay or will it depend
As old friends in the end still old friends
Old friends
The old friends
Oh, it's so funny
To be seeing you after so long, girl
From the way you look I understand
That you were not impressed
But I heard you let that little friend of mine
Take off your party dress
I'm not going to get too sentimental
Like those other sticky valentines
'Cause I don't know if you've been loving somebody
I only know it isn't mine
Alison, I know this world is killing you
Oh Alison, my aim is true, yeah
Well, I see you've got a husband now
Did he leave your pretty fingers lying
In the wedding cake?
You used to hold him right in your hands
I'll bet he took all he could take
Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking
When I hear the silly things that you say
I think somebody better put out the big light
'Cause I can't stand to see you this way
Alison, I know this world is killing you
Oh Alison, my aim is true, my aim is true
My aim is true, yeah yeah, my aim is true
My aim is true, my aim is true
What?s it all about, Alfie?
Is it just for the moment we live?
What?s it all about when you sort it out, Alfie?
Are we meant to take more than we give
Or are we meant to be kind?
And if only fools are kind, Alfie
Then I guess it?s wise to be cruel
And if life belongs only to the strong, Alfie
What will you lend on an old golden rule?
As sure as I believe there?s a heaven above, Alfie
I know there?s something much more
Something even non-believers can believe in
I believe in love, Alfie
Without true love we just exist, Alfie
Until you find the love you?ve missed you?re nothing, Alfie
When you walk let your heart lead the way
Blown in the winds of mischance
He would stay but that's not his way
What escape for her, she swims in the dark
In too deep but still waves
I'm okay and I don't need his name, thank you
Mine fits me nicely, mine will do
Yeah, mine will do
Unsteady footsteps can't walk alone yet
He sends a postcard, he says he's in debts
Now she's treading water got a back room to let
Curses in the backyard, neighbors on the doorstep
You must give your child a name some time
Well you mean his and what's wrong with mine?
Yeah, what's wrong with mine?
Sometimes she could kill him
And sometimes this house gets too small
She drives him to distraction
To see if he will fall
But if the truth were told which it never is
With a family like that who needs enemies
I don?t want excuses
I don?t want your smiles
I don?t want to feel like
We're apart a thousand miles
And I don?t want your attitude
I don?t want your things
And I don?t want a phone that never rings
I want your love and I want it now
I want your love and I want it now
I don?t want your history
I don?t want that stuff
I want you to shut your mouth
That would be enough
I don?t care if you've been here before
You don?t understand
Tonight I feel above the law, I?m coming into land
I want your love and I want it now
I want your love and I want it now
My heart is that much harder, now
That?s what I thought before today
My heart is that much harder, now
And I thought that it would stay that way
Before today, before today
I don?t want a phone that never rings
I want your love, I don?t want your history
My heart is that much harder, now
That?s what I thought before today
My heart is that much harder, now
And I thought that it would stay that way
Before today, before today
I don?t want a phone that never rings
I was alone thinking I was just fine
I wasn't looking for anyone to be mine
I thought love was just a fabrication
A train that wouldn't stop at my station
Home alone, that was my consignment
Solitary confinement
So when we met I was gettin around you
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you...
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you, honey
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you, baby, oh no
I didn't know I was looking for love
I didn't know I was looking for love
Coz there you stood and I would
Oh I wonder could I say how I felt and not be misunderstood
A thousand stars came into my system
I never knew how much I had missed them
Slap on the map of my heart you landed
I was coy but you made me candid
And now the planets circle around you
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you...
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you, baby
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you, baby
I didn't know I was looking for love
I didn't know I was looking for love
So we build from here with love as the foundation
In a world of tears won consolation
And now you're here there's a full brass band
Playin' in me like a wonderland
And if you left I would be two-foot small
And every tear would be a waterfall
Soundless, boundless I surround you
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I just didn't know
Didn't know I was looking for love until I found you..
Love...love...
I just didn't know...
Love...love...
Until I found you
Didn't know I was looking for love...
Love...love..
Until I found you...
I met your boyfriend on St. Martin's Lane
and he said, "Fancy running into you again".
We talked a minute or so, then he turned to go,
and I walked into the crowd again.
And the morning was a different place,
in every passerby I saw your face.
Love leaves a lonely ghost,
with one thought uppermost
- is this the case in every case?
Am I walking to you?
Am I walking to you?
In everything I do,
am I just walking to you?
It was seven years ago to the day,
you rang my house and we met halfway.
We walked round Leicester Square and
sat through 'Being There' and every moment I replay.
And I was desperate for love to be pure,
though what that meant, I never ws sure.
You spent your time on me,
I took it willingly,
and I made you trust in litterature.
Am I walking to you?
Am I walking to you?
In everything I do,
am I just walking to you?
I just don't know what to do.
And I see forests and it's the 25th of December
And my old man plays the piano for Christmas
He plays the piano for Christmas
And we're all there, all the aunties and uncles
And the angels on the top of the tree
Up there on the top of the tree
And I never, no I never ever realized
And I never, no I never ever realized
Have I enough time, have I just some time
To revisit, to go back, to return, to open my mouth again
And say something different this time
And I see bags of newspaper and a car in the carport
And you're a grown up and still unsure
And I'm thirty and I don't know nothing no more
And I never, no I never ever realized
And I never, no I never ever realized
And I'm sittin', sittin' at the top of the stairs
And you're cryin' out on the towpath by the river
With all the swans and all the people walking by
And all of a sudden I'm stuck with an urge to unlock a door
With a key that's too big for my hands
And I drop it, and it falls at your feet
Come on, come on, it's there at your feet
And I never, no I never ever realized
See I never, no I never ever realized
Come on, come on, it's there at your feet
And I never, no I never ever realized
Come on, come on, it's there at your feet
See I never, no I never ever realized
Come on, come on, it's there at your feet
And I never, no I never ever realized
Come on, come on, it's there at your feet
What is it that I think I need?
Is there love in me that wants to be freed?
Or is it selfishness and ego
we carry with us everywhere that we go?
This feeling that life's incomplete
- do you feel that too?
Do you want what I want?
And if I should start to cry,
and I can't begin to tell you why,
and I stumble when I begin,
it's cause I don't understand anything.
People say that we're so close,
how can there be something that I don't know.
Oh but even though I share your bed,
baby, I don't get inside your head.
This feeling of some mystery
- do you feel that too?
Do you know what I mean?
And if I should start to cry,
and I can't begin to tell you why,
and I stumble when I begin,
it's cause I don't understand anything.
Watch me stumble, watch me slip
My fingers loose their grip.
Now I'm down on my knees,
Is that what you wanted to see?
What is it that I think I need?
What is it that I think I need?
And if I should start to cry,
and I can't begin to tell you why,
and I stumble when I begin,
it's cause I don't understand anything.
You reach for me from miles away,
you reach for me from miles away.
Look at you now, you've disenchanted,
can't believe how things can change.
Take a little out of life and things get strange.
And now you find the wishes you were granted,
things you thought were in your hands,
have slipped away.
How much can you withstand?
The wasted time, the money spent,
a sign that reads 'For Sale or Rent'.
And everything is at a standstill,
and where's someone who'll be on hand till
you're no longer disenchanted,
thinking everything is wrong?
You know you're not the only one to wait so long.
I wonder, can you try again?
Apron strings, hanging empty crazy things
My body tells me, I want someone
To tie to my apron strings
Apron strings, waiting for you pretty things
That I could call you, I want someone
To tie to my lonely apron strings
Your baby looks just like you when you were young
And he looks at me with eyes that shined
And I wish that he were mine
Then I go home with my eyes
Apron strings, cold and lonely for time brings
Thoughts that only will be quiet when someone clings
To my apron strings
And I'll be perfect in my way
When you cry I will be there
I'll sing to you and comb your hair
All your troubles I will share
For apron strings, can be used for other things
Than what they're meant for and
You'd be happy wrapped in my apron strings
We are not true
We are not pure
We are not right
Oh, but still I'll steal to you at night
Too selfish by half, too ugly by far
Oh, but when your songs have been sung
Come to me, come to me
Come to me, come to me
Rumors are rife and winter blows cold
Reminds me of such wretched times
And yet all the same
I will never deign to think ill of you
When all's well
My love is like cathedral bells
When all's well
My love is like cathedral bells
We are not true
We are not pure
We are not right
Amongst all the dross the lies and the grief
There are so many things you just wouldn't believe
But amongst all the dross
The lies and the grief
When all's well
My love is like cathedral bells, yeah
When all's well
My love is like cathedral bells
When all's well
My love is like cathedral bells
When all's well
My love is like cathedral bells
When all's well
I wanted everything for a little while
Why shouldn't I
I wanted to know what it was like
I pushed you too far
And you started laying down the law
Till I didn't love you anymore
Now you can pull a little bit
And there's a little give and take
And love will stretch a little bit
But finally it's gonna break
Wherever you go I will follow you
'Cause I was wrong
Wherever you go I will follow you
'Cause I was wrong
So there we both were in that little house
Just hanging out
You didn't know what you were about
And you turned to me as you were
Threading daisies on a chain
You said, "It's decision time again"
Now you can pull a little bit
And there's a little give and take
And love will stretch a little bit
But finally it's gonna break
Wherever you go I will follow you
'Cause I was wrong
Wherever you go I will follow you
'Cause I was wrong
And the ground's gonna swallow you
I was wrong
'Cause I was wrong
I was wrong, I was wrong
I wanted everything for a little while
Why shouldn't I
I wanted to know what he was like
Now you can pull a little bit
And there's a little give and take
And love will stretch a little bit
But finally it's gonna break
Wherever you go I will follow you
'Cause I was wrong
Wherever you go I will follow you
'Cause I was wrong
Wherever you go I will follow you
'Cause I was wrong
Wherever you go I will follow you
'Cause I was wrong
Wherever you go I will follow you
'Cause I was wrong
'Cause I was wrong
'Cause I was wrong
Well, it's not for me to say
But I can't see what you see in him anyway
But such righteousness in me
Is not a nice thing to display
And who am I
For Christ sakes anyway
Oh, to judge a life this way
When my owns in disarray
My owns in disarray
My owns in disarray, hey
And I watch Saturday Kids' TV
Yeah, with the sound turned down
And I leave food on the eiderdown
All my thoughts pushed underground
Maybe you're happy, everyone says you are
You drive around on two star
You leave your life ajar
And God knows you deserve it
Bad luck follows everyone
So go on and stop listening to me
Stop listening to me
And don't ask me how I feel
Don't ask me how I feel
So it's not for me to say
Because I change my mind from day to day
Oh, and when I look at you
I only see bits of myself anyway
So go on and stop listening to me
Stop listening to me
And don't ask me what to say
Or to judge a life this way
When my owns in disarray
My owns in disarray
Out amongst the walking wounded
Every face on every bus
Is you and me and him and her
And nothing can replace the us I knew
Nothing can replace the us I knew
And no, I'm never gonna let you go
And no, I'm never gonna let you go
And now I know I had a choice
Though you never made it clear to me
I thought you never felt it deeply
Now I'm never gonna let you go
No, I'm never gonna let you go
'Cause I could have loved you forever
I could have loved you forever
What do you want from me?
Are you trying to punish me?
Punish me for loving you, punish me for giving to you
Punish me for nothing I do, punish me for nothing
You punish me for nothing, for nothing
Out amongst the walking wounded
Every face on every bus
Is you and me and him and her
And nothing can replace the us I knew
Nothing can replace the us I knew
Now I'm never gonna let you go
Now I'm never gonna let you go
And now I know I had a choice
Though you never made it clear to me
I thought you never felt it deeply
Now I'm never gonna let you go
No, I'm never gonna let you go
'Cause I could have loved you forever
I could have loved you forever
Oh, I could have loved you forever
I could have loved you forever
What do you want from me?
Are you trying to punish me?
Punish me for loving you, punish me for giving to you
Punish me for nothing I do, punish me for nothing
You punish me for nothing, for nothing
Out amongst the walking wounded
Every face on every bus
Is you and me and him and her
And nothing can replace the us I knew
Nothing can replace the us I knew
Out amongst the walking wounded
Every face on every train
Is you and me and him and her
Some days I think I could go insane
Now we're in twin cities
Where the Mississippi rises and then falls
One is Minneapolis
And the other no less famous is St. Paul?s
There are stray dogs on the highway
And the local farmers moan about lack of rain
When the winds blew last winter I swear
England had another hurricane, hurricane
And we are twin cities, and we are that river
From the standing still, we will be delivered
Last time in New York was with Mandela
And Madonna and The Mets
They?re icons of an era where
That?s about as famous as it gets
(That?s what I call famous, babe)
I?ve seen cities full of ticker tape
And cotton trains through Utah, disappearing out of sight
Now I?m standing in a city
That?s as pretty as an ocean in the night
And we are twin cities, and we are that ocean
From the standing still, we are set in motion
And no one calls me up to say
?How long are you going to be away??
(Are you ever coming back?)
Yeah, yeah
(Are you ever coming back?)
No one calls me up to say
?Don?t let that life lead you astray?
(Don?t forget to come back)
Yeah
(Don?t forget to come back)
They were rioting in Detroit on the night
The Pistons won it back to back
I was out of there the next day
And I only had just two bags to pack
And we are twin cities, and we are one river
From the standing still, we will be delivered
And we are twin cities, and we are one ocean
From the standing still, we are set in motion
Yeah, we are twin cities
We are one river
(We are twin cities)
One ocean
We are twin cities
(We are twin cities)
We are one river, yeah
One ocean
We are twin cities, one ocean
You're only two the whole wild world revolves around you
And nothings happened yet that you might ever wish to forget
It doesn't stay that way, if I could I'd make stay that way
And this you will recall in after years
Though you may weary of this vale of tears
These days remember, always remember
You're only two and I've no wish to worry you
So pay no mind to those who say the world is unkind
That's just something they've read and if I could I'd strike them dead
And this you will recall in after years
Though you may weary of this vale of tears
These days remember, always remember
And honey there's no rush
The world will wait for you to grow up
And this you will recall in years after years
Though you may weary of this vale of tears
These early days remember always
I hope you never change, I'll call you Jimmy, they call you James
Don't ever change, I'll call you Jimmy, they call you James
These early days
I hope you never change, I'll call you Jimmy, they call you James
(Remember always)
Don't ever change, I'll call you Jimmy, they call you James
(These early days)
(Remember always)
I hope you never change, I'll call you Jimmy, they call you James
(These early days)
Don't ever change, I'll call you Jimmy, they call you James
You packed your books last night
You break with the past tonight
I hope you find some beach house on the coast
Out there with plenty of light
'Cause I know the road is very long
But in my head I'll always hold your song
And I'll keep a good thought for you
And I'll keep a good thought for you
You left us 'The Best of Frank'
And on the back you signed your name
'One For My Baby'
Was underlined again
Now I know the road is very long
But in my head I'll always hold your song
And I'll keep a good thought for you
(If you're lonely think of me)
And I'll keep a good thought for you
(If you're lonely think of me)
There's a couple you knew quite well
They moved away last spring
And though he can't find suits
They don't miss much of anything
They're raising a baby now
At least that's one gift that this world allows
And I'll keep a good thought for you
And I'll keep a good thought for you
'Cause I know the road is very long
But in my head I'll always hold your song
And I'll keep a good thought for you
(If you're lonely think of me)
And I'll keep a good thought for you
(If you're lonely think of me)
I know you rather talk instead
About the things inside your head
Everythin', everythin' that I overheard
Tells me you just don't have the words
'Cause you never learned to speak the language of life
And here you are a grown man
Who can't talk to his wife
And the children you don't understand
You think you've come on pretty far
Still got the job, the house and the car
But there's one thing, one thing that you never get
A grip on life's sweet alphabet
'Cause you never learned to speak the language of life
And here you are a grown man
Who can't talk to his wife
When things get out of hand and the kids you don't understand
Love is foreign land, over words you have no command
(You have no command)
It's not that you don't care admit it baby
And you've half way there
'Cause you know, you know that you feel much more
Than you ever have the words for
'Cause you never learned to speak the language of life
And here you are a grown man
Who can't talk to his wife
And the children you just don't understand
Never learned
You never learned, language of life
Here you are a grown man
Never learned, language of life
This temperamental side
The one you say that you can't hide
Do you ever see yourself
The way it looks to someone else?
This temperamental trick
The one you say you can't predict
You're like an empty cup
Forgive me if I don't wait up
I don't get where you're comin' from
What is real and what's put on
What is stayed and what is gone
And how long will this thing go on and on?
I don't want you to love me
I don't want you to love me
You're like an empty cup
But I can't fill you up
What planet are you on?
Not the same one, I am from
Do I just waste my time?
You pour your heart on mine
You think it screws you up
Forgive me if I don't wait up
I don't get what you're trying to say
What is wrong and what's okay
You beat yourself up one more time
You trample on this fierce heart of mine
I don't want you to love me
I don't want you to love me
I don't want you to love me
I don't want you to love me
I don't know what you want from me
All this endless sympathy
You beat yourself up one more time
You trample on this fierce heart of mine
I don't want you to love me
I don't want you to love me
I don't want you to love me
I don't want you to love me
I don't want you to love me
I don't want you to love me
I don't want you to love me
Married in black, divorced in white
Though daddy tried to teach her wrong from right
It's hard to resist on a wintry night
When you're out of mind, when you're out of sight
This you shouldn't, this you should
Oh, but sugar finney never could be good
Never could be good
I've grown a little weary of this old town
A conscience sure can bring you down
I'd like to hang around Chicago bars
With murderers and movie stars
And Presidents who'd rather be
Alone with would be sinners like me
America is free, cheap and easy
America is free, cheap and easy
They say sugar finney went off her head
Lay once a month in a blood stained bed
But me, I'm careful where I tread
No handsome boy will ever leave me dead
For beauty is no guarantee
I'll take the looks and the rest you can keep
America is free, cheap and easy
America is free, cheap and easy
For beauty is no guarantee
I'll take the looks and the rest you can keep
The rest you can keep
And I hope it makes you happy
Sugar finney
America is free, cheap and easy
America is free, cheap and easy
Children pray for me
Such is the price of infamy
Tell them I was never happy
Goodbye Bobby Kennedy
In the White House still asleep
Goodnight Jackie Kennedy
America is free, cheap and easy
America is free, cheap and easy
I called you from the hotel phone
I haven't dialed this code before
I'm sleeping later, waking later
I'm eating less and thinking more
And how am I without you
Am I more myself or less myself
I feel younger, louder
And like I don't always connect
Like I don't ever connect
Do you like being single?
Do you want me back? Do you want me back?
Do I like being single?
Am I coming back? Am I coming back?
I'll put my suitcase here for now
I'll turn the TV to the bed
But if no one calls and I don't speak all day
Do I disappear?
Look at me without you I'm quite proud of myself
I feel reckless, clumsy
And like I'm making a mistake
A really big mistake
And do you like being single?
Do you want me back? Do you want me back?
Do I like being single
Am I coming back? Am I coming back?
Do you want me back?
Do you want me back?
Do you want me back?
Do you want me back?
Do you want me back?
Do you want me back?
And now I know each time I go
I don't really know what I'm thinking of
And now I know each time I go
I don't really know what I'm thinking of
Do you want me back?
Do you want me back?
Do you want me back?
I still haven't got over it even now
I want to spend huge amounts of time on my own
I don't want to cause any serious damage
I want to make sure that I can manage
Because I'm not really in your head
I'm not really in your head
And I see love and disaffection
The clouds build up, won't pass over
This is my road to my redemption
And my life is just an image of a roller coaster anyway
I still haven't got over it even now
I want to spend huge amounts of time in my room
And I'm not comin' out till I feel I'm ready
I'm running out while my heart's unsteady
And I'm not really in your head
I'm not really in your head
And when your sky falls to minus zero
Some things must disappear
This is my road to my redemption
And my life is just an image of a roller coaster anyway
And the names may have been changed but the faces are the same
And the names may have been changed but it's people not the same
And I'm not, no I'm not
No I'm not really in your head
And my life is just an image of a roller coaster anyway
This girl I know needs some shelter
She don't believe anyone can help her
She's doing so much harm
Doing so much damage
But you don't want to get involved
You tell her she can manage
And you can't change the way she feels
But you could put your arms around her
I know you want to live yourself
But could you forgive yourself
If you left her just the way you found her
I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow, protection
I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow, protection
You're a boy and I'm a girl
But you know you can lean on me
And I don't have no fear
I'll take on any man here
Who says that's not the way it should be
I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow, protection
I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow, protection
She's a girl and you're a boy
Sometimes you look so small, you look so small
I've got a baby of your own
When your baby's grown, she'll be the one
To catch you when you fall
I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow, protection
I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow, protection
You're a girl and I'm a boy
You're a girl and I'm a boy yeah
You're a girl and I'm a boy
You're a girl and I'm a boy hey
Sometimes you look so small, you need some shelter
Just runnin' round and round, helter skelter
And I've leaned on me for years now you can lean on me
And that's more than love, that's the way it should be
Now I can't change the way you think
But I can put my arms around you
That's just part of the deal
That's the way I feel
I put my arms around you
I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow, protection
I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow, protection
You're a boy and I'm a girl
You're a boy and I'm a girl, hey
You're a boy and I'm a girl
Your words stung me to the heart
I hadn't even noticed how far we had drifted apart
Can I still count you as a friend
Or have I done to much now to ever make amends
'Cause I once needed just an open mind
Well, that's no reason why I now should
Leave you behind
A word from out of the blue
Reminds me how much I once needed you
Oh, but that's all in the past now
So much that I can scarcely remember how
I once needed just a hand to hold
'Cause now the few times we meet
All I sense is a love grown cold
You can't hold on to everything
And I've forgotten what we talked about
A long time since
Can't recall days with regret
Tomorrow remember today
And all the rest forget
'Cause time's gone by
And all the things we did
And now so much water under
Another bridge
I step off the train I'm walkin' down your street again
And past your door but you don't live there anymore
It's years since you've been there
And now you've disappeared somewhere
Like outer space you've found some better place
And I miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you, oh
Like the deserts miss the rain
Could you be dead?
You always were two steps ahead of everyone
We'd walk behind while you would run
I look up at your house and I can almost hear you shout
Down to me where I always used to be
And I miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain
Back on the train I ask why did I come again
Can I confess I've been hangin' 'round your old address?
And the years have proved to offer nothin' since you moved
You're long gone but I can't move on
And I miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you, yeah
Like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you, yeah
Like the deserts miss the rain
Oh, I miss you, yeah
Like the deserts miss the rain
I step off the train I'm walkin' down your street again
Past your door, I guess you don't live there anymore
It's years since you've been there
And now you've disappeared somewhere
Like outer space you've found some better place
And I miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you, yeah
Like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you, and I miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you, yeah
Like the deserts miss the rain
Deserts miss the rain
Like the deserts miss the rain
Like the deserts miss the rain
You never knew the teenage me and you would not believe
The things you didn't see, some pretty, some ugly
And the lovely mirrorball reflected back them all
Every triumph every fight under disco light
Come on girl, it's alright
Come on girl, it's alright now
Come on girl, it's gonna be alright now
Well, I guess some boys adored me, but the one I loved ignored me
And caused me in the end to murder my best friend
And though I got her letter, it never did get better
And I got out of my head then I joined a band instead
Come on girl, it's alright
Come on girl, it's alright now
Come on girl, it's gonna be alright now
Some good times I remember, my birthday that September
We laid down on the lawn and counted until dawn
The stars that we lay under and is he still I wonder
The fairest of them all, mirror, mirrorball, mirrorball, hey
Come on girl, it's too late
Come on girl, it's too late now
Come on girl, let it all go
Come on girl, it's too late now
Come on girl, it's gonna be alright
Come on girl, it's never gonna be alright, yeah
It's too late now, let it all go
'Cause it's never gonna be alright
'Cause it's never gonna be alright
'Cause it's never gonna be alright
How much of yourself
Do you give away
After someone's left your life
In disarray
It still hurts
But it won't show
Because I'm too proud
So you're never ever gonna know me
I saw you standing at the bar
Don't know your name or who you are
It's packed at 2 a.m
I've got no coat
Are you on your own
I'm into you
When are you going home?
Get into me
How much of the day
Can you sit around
Letting all your feelings
Drag you underground?
I don't care
And I do care
Because I want it
If I know that it's out there everywhere
I saw you standing at the bar
Don't know your name or who you are
It's packed at 2 a.m
I've got no coat
Are you on your own?
I'm into you
When are you going home?
Get into me
I'm into you
You get into me
I'm into you
You get into me
I saw you standing at the bar
Don't know your name or who you are
It's packed at 2 a.m
I've got no coat
Are you on your own?
I'm into you
When are you going home?
Get into me
Are you on your own?
I'm into you
When are you going home?
Get into me
I'm into you
I'm into you
I'm into you
London in the low tide of the night and not a taxi cab in sight
Anesthetized I start the journey home
I've been living months alone, I've been avoiding things
The phone rings, I use the answer phone
Inside out in the daytime, outside in in the night time
Inside out in the daytime, outside in in the night time
When you're down and troubled you don't tell your friends
You don't tell your family, I won't let them talk about me
I'm gonna let nobody down
Soho in the high tide of the day and for a while I'm swept away
I just forget it
I use my walkman when I walk and I don't talk
But later on the moment's gone and I don't get it
Inside out in the daytime, outside in in the night time
Inside out in the daytime, wrong at the right time
When you're down and troubled you don't tell your friends
You don't tell your family, I won't let them talk about me
I'm gonna let nobody down, down, down
Who shall I be tonight?
Who's gonna see tonight?
Who shall I be tonight?
Inside out in the daytime, wrong at the right time
I wanna know I'm good for you
Outside in in the night time, right at the wrong time
I wanna know I'm good to you
When you're down and troubled you don't tell your friends
You don't tell your family, I won't let them talk about me
I'm gonna let nobody down, down, down, down
When you're down and troubled you don't tell your friends
You don't tell your family, I won't let them talk about me
I'm gonna let nobody down, down, down, yeah
When you're down and troubled you don't tell your friends
You don't tell your family, I won't let them talk about me
I'm gonna let nobody down, down, down, yeah
No, no, no, no, I won't let them talk about me
Almost blue, almost doing things we used to do
There's a boy here and he's almost you
Almost all the things that your eyes once promised
I see in his too, now your eyes are red from crying
Almost blue, flirting with this disaster became me
It named me as the fool who only aimed to be
Almost blue, it's almost touching, it will almost do
There is a part of me that's always true, always
Not all good things come to an end now it is only a chosen few
I've seen such an unhappy couple
Of course I feel betrayed
That's the way it goes, everyone knows
Trying to make you love me again
Crying at your door just to hold you once more
Darling, I know it's so hard to let a love go
It's not easy letting love go
It's so hard to let a love go
Darling, don't I know, it is never easy letting go
When it's gone on and on and on and on
On and on and on and on
Darling, don't I know, it is never easy letting go
When it's gone on and on and on and on
On and on and on and on
Your friends said you looked well
You promised that you'd write and call them at night
But if you wake up in another town
And it's loneliness you've found just 'cause I'm not around
Then darling you'll know it's so hard to let a love go
It's not easy letting love go
It's so hard to let a love go
Darling don't I know, it is never easy letting go
When it's gone on and on and on and on
On and on and on and on
Darling don't I know, it is never easy letting go
When it's gone on and on and on and on
On and on and on and on
But I'm not gonna pretend
I find it hard to forgive and find a new way to live
And if I had my time again, I'd still have you back
It's as simple as that
Darling I know it's so hard to let a love go
It's not easy letting love go
It's so hard to let a love go
Darling don't I know, it is never easy letting go
When it's gone on and on and on and on
On and on and on and on
Darling don't I know, it is never easy letting go
When it's gone on and on and on and on
On and on and on and on
It ain't easy I know
But you gotta let go
It ain't easy I know
But you gotta let go, oh no
It ain't easy I know
Kid, what changed your mood?
You've gone all sad so I feel sad too
I think I know
Some things we'll never outgrow
You think it's wrong
I can tell you do
How can I explain
When you don't want me to?
Kid, my only kid
You look so small, you've gone so quiet
I know, you know
What I'm about, I won't deny it
But you forgive
What you don't understand
You've turned your head
You've dropped my hand
All my sorrows, all my blues
All my sorrows
Shut the light, go away
Full of grace, cover your face
Kid, gracious kid, your eyes are blue
But you won't cry
I know angry tears are too dear
Oh, and how he loved you
Oh, and how he loved you
Oh, and you believed him
Oh, and you believed him
You said you both deserve better
You both deserve better
Could make it a real thing
Could make it a real thing
On a clear day
You can see the sea from your place
On a fine day
You can still remember his face
He just kept right on
Imagining America
He just kept right on
Imagining America
And he was so handsome
He was so handsome
It was 1919
It was 1919
Sailing to New York
Sailing to New York
Just for you
Just for you
It was a clear day
Waiting from the quay, saw him
Was a fine day
Standing with the world before him
He just kept right on
Imagining America
He just kept right on
Imagining America
Don't he have no feelings
Always feel like mountains
And deserts and stars
Cities have been tamed
And they all know your name
They have money
And houses and cars
So I stand here
So I stand here
In his footsteps
In his footsteps
We deserve better
We deserve better
And I can make it a real thing
And I can make it a real thing
It's a clear day
It's a clear day
Only in a final embrace
Only in a final embrace
It's a fine day
It's a fine day
The world remember our face
The world remember our face
And I just kept right on
Imagining America
And I just kept right on
Imagining America
We keep on, we keep
You kissed my head as you stood in the door
And then you said, "Don't want to see you no more"
All I could say as you walked out on me
Was, how I hoped you'd remembered your key
Took one last look, took the phone of the hook
I must confess I agree
All those days when I went through a phase
Of missing the love that you bore
In retrospect there's something I can't neglect
I was missing a love but not yours
The love that you bore, that thing, that I once adored
Was no gift that you gave me each time
Thinking again, what a fool I was then
It was a trophy of yours and a burden of mine
As you stood in the door
And then you said, "Don't want to see you no more"
All I could say as you walked out on me
Was, how I hoped you'd remembered your key
Took one last look, took the phone of the hook
I know you're down again and you see nothing but rain
You put your friends through hell and that's why we get along so well
You see, I always was your girl
It always will be you and me against the world
We know, the years can give romance to the street where we once lived
You wondered why no one called between you and me, we scared them all
You see, I always was your girl
It always has been you and me against the world
Maybe we're wrong and the world is right but don't tell me that, tonight
Self-assured and abusing guests, that's the way I like you best
You see, I always was your girl
It always will be you and me against the world
You see, I always was your girl
Suburbia, 1 a.m. you're walking home again
Shopping bags and broken glass
I hate going through the underpass
I wish there was some other way around
But you got beaten up by the playground
And it's no use you'll have to go through
Suburban shopping center pedestrian walkways
I think they were meant to make things better
It's just emptier the scary nighttime
Hatfield, at that time
This is the place I live
Where is everyone? We the only ones
This is the place I live
And so does everyone, and so does everyone
Hatfield 1980
I'm seeing my first knife my first ambulance ride
I hold your hand the whole way crying get home the next day
Police have already been well, you can imagine the scene
And if I'm going home
I better change my clothes
I better change my clothes
And if I'm going home
I better change my clothes
I better change my clothes
This is the place I live
Where is everyone? We the only ones
This is the place I live
And so does everyone, and so does everyone
When I'm looking back I look for everyone
And when I fall down I fall for everyone
When I'm looking back I look for everyone
Slowly runs the lazy river
And in it I pitched all my dreams
And all the things I ever wanted
And watched them heading slowly downstream
For I have learned that such things fade
Like photographs and family holidays
And every Monday is goodbye Sunday
I guess you'd like me to throw away
That box of diaries and old letters
For they do nothing but feed my memories
But really you should know me better
For I am too fond of the past
But I think I am learning at last
That every Monday is goodbye Sunday
That every Monday is goodbye Sunday
Yes, it's true that I cling to things
That I should leave behind
As if those were the golden days
Well, I just hope that you really don't mind
Slowly runs the lazy river
For I am too fond of the past
But look I'm happy at last
And every Monday is goodbye Sunday
That every Monday is goodbye Sunday
And every Monday is goodbye Sunday
And every Monday is goodbye Sunday
And every Monday is goodbye Sunday
And every Monday is goodbye Sunday
And every Monday is goodbye Sunday
I don't wanna feel this way
I don't wanna feel this way
I don't wanna feel this way
Won't somebody take away this feeling?
I'm looking at a open sky
It's like my roof has got no ceiling
It's wrong to feel this way, I know it's wrong, I know it's bad
To only see what isn't there, to want and want and never have
But you know there's more to me now, don't you?
You always cover for me, won't you, won't you?
And this used to look half full
Now some days it looks half empty
And some days it feels like nothing
It always used to feel like plenty
But it's wrong to feel this way, I know it's wrong, I know it's bad
To only see what isn't there, to want and want and never have
But you know there's more to me now, don't you?
You always cover for me, won't you, won't you, won't you?
I don't wanna feel this way
Won't somebody take away this feeling?
You play good cop, I play bad cop
Still my roof has got no ceiling
Still my roof has got no ceiling
I don't wanna feel this way
I don't wanna feel this way
I don't wanna feel this way
London, summer 92 I think I've changed a lot since then, do you?
Ideas that I'd held for years, emotional baggage, hopes and fears
Seen somehow in a different light, not as wrong, but not as right as they
Seemed before was I different then? Have I changed?
And will I change again?
I'm thinking of a mental free-fall, a partial total memory recall like what of
The future, what of the past, what of the present will last?
And say I did forget and revert to the old days, forget this hurt
Am I better off or in reverse, untaught by experience and therefore worse?
I mean a lot, I mean a little
I mean a lot, I mean a little
I'm like a coastline, a beach and spit Spurn Point and the rest of it
With the sea, the tide, the salt and foam, I'm the blasted land
The sand shifting, drifting out and back, then breached, drowned
Defenses down, rebuilt from this day on or maybe not
Maybe my moment's gone
I mean a lot, I mean a little
I mean a lot, I mean a little
Am I the same person I seemed to be? Does all of this depress me?
I won't listen, I won't talk a weightless life, I moonwalk
I mean a lot, I mean a little I'm supple, brittle, pig in the middle
There's resilience inside my face, but sometimes nothing deep space
What I feel what I fear is always here my atmosphere
Pig in the middle
I mean a lot, I mean a little
You say you're lonely
Don't care anymore
Emptiness abounds
and love surrounds
the hole besides your heart
You're feeling so sad,
And it's never been this bad..before
Don't wanna change the world
But I'm gonna change your mind
I'll only say that if you stay
Love is what you'll find
But you're gone...'cause love takes so long
You say you're empty
Don't feel anymore
Loneliness abounds
And the music pounds around and around and around...
You're moving way too fast
Like nothing ever lasts
Just keep on ... pushing
Could be anything you want
Could do anything you feel
Love is all around you
But you don't believe it's real
Just be fearless
Baby be fearless...
Do it now
Do it now
Do it now
Do it now
All my life
I sit and wonder
Why you put yourself down
What's so bad, what's so bad, what's so bad, what's so bad
About what we have now?
Raise your hands... in the twilight
Raise your hands... to the sky
And say I love you
No fear anymore
Happiness is found
Let love come down
and shine inside your heart
You're beautiful inside
I'm in love with your mind and your heart and your soul and your eyes
Could be anything you want
Could do anything you feel
Love is all around you
But you don't believe it's real
Open up your mind
Listen to your heart
Leave loneliness behind
Come on, come on, come on
Do it now
Do it now
Do it now
I walk the city late at night
Does everyone here do the same?
I want to be the things I see
Give every face and place my name
I cross the street, take a right
Pick up the pace, pass a fight
Did I grow up just to stay home?
I'm not immune, I love this tune
I wanna love more
I just wanna love more
I wanna love more
I just wanna love more
I wanna love more
I just wanna love more
I wanna love more
I just wanna love more
I drag the city late at night
It's in my mouth, it's in my hair
The people fill the city because
The city fills the people, oh yeah
I cross the street avoid the freeze
A city's warmer by a couple of degrees
The smell of food the smell of rain
I'm not immune, I love this tune
I wanna love more
(There's a river in my head)
I just wanna love more
(There's a river in my head)
I wanna love more
(There's a river in my head)
I just wanna love more
I wanna love more
(There's a river in my head)
I just wanna love more
(There's a river in my head)
I wanna love more
(There's a river in my head)
I just wanna love more
The only way out is down
The only way up is down
The day's roll by like thunder
Like a storm that's never breaking
All my time and space compressed
In the low pressure of proceedings
And they beat against the sides of my life
Like fist against inside, in my life
And the roads all lead behind me
So I wrap the wheel around me
And I go out
There's a river in my head
There's a river in my head
There's a river in my head
I'll take you home and make it easy
(There's a river in my head)
(There's a river in my head)
I'll take you home and make it easy
(There's a river in my head)
Love more
Love more
Love more
Well, it's so easy to be witty in retrospect
When you're out of door you pause a moment to reflect
On all the crushing one-liners that you should have said
But you always were reduced to angry words instead
Fighting talk on the stairs
Is enough to show who never cared
Fighting talk, who will be spared
The abuse that's always hurled as you curse and swear
But it's so cruel how the moment
Can let you down
And how eloquence deserts you
When you find yourself on sensitive ground
You slam the door and turn the catch
You turned your home into a prison
Conversation into a slanging match
Fighting talk on the stairs
Is enough to show who never cared
Fighting talk, who will be spared
The abuse that's always hurled as you curse and swear
But oh my love, I'm sick and tired
Of all the cruelty love's acquired
We never more need come to harm
If you lay your head here on my faithless arm
Fighting talk on the stairs
Is enough to show who never cared
Fighting talk, who will be spared
The abuse that's always hurled as you curse and swear
Fighting talk on the stairs
Fighting talk on the stairs
Fighting talk on the stairs
From the top you can see so far into the distance
Look, it's downhill all the way from here
And getting there is quicker, let go and you just slide
Shouldn't take more then a year
I could almost like you
Now it's nearly over
Now you've shown some weakness
Now you're looking older
I heard what you said and I recognize those feelings
I know how hard it is to watch you go
And all the effort that it took to get here in the first place
And all the effort not to let the effort show
And I could almost like you
Now you're falling over
Now you're feeling hopeless
Now you're looking over your shoulder
If you can ride the backlash there's still time for a comeback
You don't have to lie down and die
But Lazarus he only did it the one time
He couldn't face another try
And I could almost like you
Now it's really over
Now you've shown some weakness
Now you're looking over your shoulder
Who's gonna come and find you?
Don't say one thing one day,
then something else the next day.
I'm trying to keep up with you
- it's hard enough when you speak clearly,
but when you're confused,
it's like a goods train running through these rooms.
And I'm reading more into your words than you have put into them,
and that's my problem, but you tied these knots, now you undo them.
You undo them.
Oh and think before you speak my darling.
Cause with your troubled mind,
you're like a goods train running through my life.
We all walk through this world alone,
we keep ourselves untouched, unknown.
You look up to the sky above you,
read this there - I love you.
Oh it's written there,
you know I love you, love you, love you.
But with your troubled mind,
you're like a goods train running through my life.
And when you're down,
you bring me down too,
and babe that's something I would not do.
I know it's hard, yeah I know it's hard,
and baby that's something I don't disregard.
But with your troubled mind,
Um cantinho, um violão
Esse amor, uma canção
Prá fazer feliz a quem se ama
Muita calma prá pensar
E ter tempo prá sonhar
Da janela vê-se
O corcovado Redentor que lindo
Quero a vida sempre assim
Com você perto de mim
Até o apagar da velha chama
E eu que era triste
Descrente deste mundo
Ao encontrar você eu conheci
O que é felicidade meu amor
E eu que era triste
Descrente deste mundo
Ao encontrar você eu conheci
O que é felicidade meu amor
your my sunrise,
and my sunset,
but when night falls,
but the music,
your my sunrise,
and my sunset,
but when night falls
but the music,
your my sunrise,
(cascades of color slip right through your hands)
and my sunset,
(the castles in the clouds swim back to the man)
but when night falls,
(if i just slept away with no other man)
but the music,
I have a friend and she comes from the high plains
Wise as the hills and fresh as the rains
Took me an Atlas to find her town
To realize that the world is round
I have a friend and she taught me daring
Threw back the windows and let the air in
She taught me how it's too easy to lie
I had lots of my learning to do
For all she knows
Bless my blue moon rose
And for all she knows
Bless my blue moon rose
I have a friend and we talk about books
She comes around and she drinks while I cook
She seems at home in her tiny blue jeans
Whether she brings wide open spaces
For all she knows
Bless my blue moon rose
And for all she knows
Bless my blue moon rose
I have a friend and she comes from the high plains
Wise as the hills and fresh as the rains
She seems at home in her tiny blue jeans
Whether she brings wide open spaces
For all she knows
Bless my blue moon rose
And for all she knows
Bless my blue moon rose
For all she knows
Bless my blue moon rose
For all she knows
Bless my blue moon rose
Bless my blue moon rose
I have a friend and we talk about books
She comes around and drinks while I cook
I have a friend and she taught me daring
I know I wasn't good
Maybe I was even bad
But I was way too young
To know just what I had
And if I let you down
Now I let you go
But I was so young
And now it's all gone
I'm the one to blame
I'm the one to blame
You must never think
I wish that you had stayed
Look at where we are
I'm glad you got away
But who's your daddy now
And where's your home?
You're living somewhere new
D'you think he'd take me too?
I'm the one to blame
I'm the one to blame
I'm the one to blame
I'm the one to blame
Blame
Blame
Now you forgot the words
Please don't forget your name
And who gave that to you?
Well, that was me again
Who let you down and loved you?
That was me again
And who's the one to blame?
That was me again
I'm the one to blame
I let you down and loved you?
I'm the one to blame
Blame
Blame
I'm the one to blame
Don't talk to me in that familiar way
When the keys are in my hand
Don't say that everything is here to stay
And I must try to understand
When I'm trying not to look into your eyes
Trying not to listen to your lies
Trying just to keep hold of myself
Oh, but it's hard when you leave me on the shelf
You say, I set a path for you to follow
And I've already given in
But I only meant for you to taste, not swallow
Where I end is where you must begin
And try not to look into their eyes
Try not to listen to their lies
Try just to keep hold of yourself
Oh, I know it's hard when they leave you on their shelf
She's such a sweet girl free of the taints of this world
Think that's a compliment, don't be so full of sentiment
Why you worship sweetness? What virtue's there in weakness?
Being pushed about is nothing much to shout about, I know
So try not to look into their eyes
Try not to listen to their lies
Try just to keep hold of yourself
You don't know what's wrong
You only know it isn't right
And you don't remember for how long
But you wake in tears at night
Big deal
Big deal
You spend four nights a week now
Looking for your inner child
What you gonna say when you find him?
Suppose you don't like him or he doesn't like you?
Suppose once you wake him up
He won't go back to bed
And wants to stay up late watching TV
But you say there must be some reason why you feel this way?
Big deal, that's the way we all feel
Big deal, that's the way I feel
Big deal, that's the way we all feel
Big deal, what is it you wanna feel?
You say you wanna get cured
You wanna turn off your head
You say you wanna get cured
You wanna turn off your head
Oh and you say it hurts
And you feel unsure
First you doubt yourself
And then you doubt her
Big deal, that's the way we all feel
Big deal, what is it you wanna feel?
Big deal, that's the way I feel
Big deal, what she think she feels?
What is it you wanna feel?
Don't drag me down just because you're down
Just 'cause you're blue don't make me too
And though you've found, you need more then me
Don't talk to me about being free
That's freedom without love
Magic without love
Magic without love
Hear me say, "Better things will surely come my way"
Hear me say, "Better things will surely come my way"
You say the magic's gone, well, I'm not a magician
You say the spark's gone, well, get an electrician
And save your lying about needing to be free
Oh, that's bullshit, baby, just want rid of me
Your freedom without love
Magic without love
Magic without love, hey
Hear me say, "Better things will surely come my way"
Narrow streets breed narrow minds and
Care for king but not for kind
It's a short hop to a long weekend
When every move you apprehend
You'll never find room to find your feet
To walk out of this avenue
Your pockets are lined with promises
When did a promise ever pay for shoes?
Counting coal trucks by the line
And raise your glasses one more time
'Cause Billy has gone off to war
And God knows what he's fighting for
But wartime will make him a man
Work that no one see, if you can
A hero's grave is six feet deep not
Room enough for all his plans
She can scrub the step but if he'll never gleam
If he did, she'd smash the dream
And they've held the world too long
Dreams are what you wake up from
Father was a fighter too
The only way to jump the queue
Boxing clever, times were tough
But will that ever be enough?
You'd never find room to find his feet
To walk out of these avenues
Their pockets are lined with promises
When did a promise ever pay for shoes?
Why does he still go on like she's a baby
Sayin' that's no kind of language for a lady?
He knows she hates that word, that's why he said it
He can be childish too and she won't forget it
"Don't tell me I don't understand"
He said, "I know I don't understand
I understood when you were ten
But nothin's added up since then"
He said, "I'll give you a piece of my mind
And you're not too old to take it
Oh, just a piece of my mind"
And that's him and her mum on honeymoon
She was born in January and that was in June
But now her life and his, they just don't mix
And he don't like her boyfriends or her politics
"Don't tell me what you think of me"
He said, "I know what you think of me
I understood when you were ten
But nothin's added up since then"
He said, "I'll give you a piece of my mind
And you're not too old to take it
Just a piece of my mind"
Still he remembers her head
On the pillow of her little bed
All at once she's sixteen and now
She hates him, she hates him
Yeah, yeah, yeah
"Don't tell me you don't understand"
She said, "What is there to understand?
I've grown up since I was a kid
And maybe, Dad, it's time that you did"
She said, "I'll give you a piece of my mind
And you're not too old to take it
Oh, just a piece of my mind and not too old
'Cause I'm not your baby, not your little girl
I'm getting too used to this way of life
Fame is a baby, she rocks me at night
Far from the cold and the brash city lights
We purchase from sorrow a moment's respite
And each time you smile
I know I would follow you a country mile
For all that I'm chasing is worthless and vile
I was a backwater girl, home most nights
That was before I saw my name in lights
Stardom and squalor were not dreams of mine
But I've seen the Hollywood sign now and oh how it shines
But when you smile
I swear I would follow you a country mile
Please save me before I do things that aren't worth my while
And each time you smile
I swear I would follow you a country mile
Darkness will trip darkness will fall
Get no sleep on Salisbury street
Mud on my shoes sweat on my palms
Get no sleep on Salisbury street
There is another time it could have been different
I know if it were you'd be there
Over the Pennines and out of the station
And finally up to a room
A voice in my head and the cut won't heal
On Amberigde walk in Salisbury street
And what about her well she nettles my thoughts
Hatred creeps down Salisbury street
To gloat is as ugly as soaking yourself
In a wave of remorse
I shout on the shingle soaked to the skin
By a river that's taken its course
To do good is so tempting it hurts
A tale complete from Salisbury street
To do bad is as easy as sin
Sorrow is a lonely road
Where the rain like your tears
Beats heavy on the roof above your head
Tomorrow is a lovers' town
That's been beaten down
And the hands of winter holds the life we've led
Instead of drowning in despair
For I find small comfort in a bottle
When we're apart
Don't let the teardrops rust your shining heart
I used to drive all night for you
While the children were asleep
And as the dawn broke on your room
Back into my house I'd creep
Where my husband slept alone
Of course he must have known
But we always hide the truth
For fear of losing what we own
So don't forget the words that we choose
And constantly misuse
They were written down every time we were apart
I can tell by your eyes that you've prob'bly been cryin' forever,
and the stars in the sky don't mean nothin' to you, they're a mirror.
I don't wanna talk about it, how you broke my heart.
If I stay here just a little bit longer,
If I stay here, won't you listen to my heart, whoa, heart?
If I stand all alone, will the shadow hide the colors of my heart;
blue for the tears, black for the night's fears.
The star in the sky don't mean nothin' to you, they're a mirror.
I don't wanna talk about it, how you broke my heart.
If I stay here just a little bit longer,
if I stay here, won't you listen to my heart, whoa, my heart?
I don't wanna talk about it, how you broke this ol' heart.
If I stay here just a little bit longer,
if I stay here, won't you listen to my heart, whoa, my heart?
Won't you get back, won't you try to get back, get back together
Won't you get back, won't you try to get back, get back together
Still can't believe that you two are now just friends
You've got no lover and he's free at weekends
I know he said when you first met
That you must always play the hand you get
But you're two years on a losing streak
Get back together, get back together
It's something you could do next week
Get back together, get back together
Ooh, won't you get back, try to get back together?
Ooh, won't you get back, try to get back together?
Matches are not made in Heaven
They're made right here on earth
He searched the starry skies
Ended up in your arms
You taught him all he knows
Just think what you could have been
Another Arthur and Marilyn
Now you're two years on a losing streak
Get back together, get back together
Something you could do next week
Get back together, get back together
Ooh, won't you get back, try to get back together?
Ooh, won't you get back, try to get back together?
And then you say that you got bored
How can you say that you got bored?
Some people search their whole lives through
But never find what was shown to you
Won't you get back
Won't you try to get back
Get back together
Still can't believe that you two are just friends
You've got no lover and he's at the lose ends
And hey girl listen to what I say
And don't let that boy just walk away
Ooh, won't you get back, try to get back together?
Ooh, won't you get back, try to get back together?
Ooh, won't you get back, try to get back together?
Ooh, won't you get back, try to get back together?
Baby get back, baby, baby get back
Baby get back, baby, baby get back, get back together
Baby get back, baby, baby get back, get back together
When the light fades on a long bad day,
I sometimes weaken.
Then I turn to see you've been waiting for me,
I know I'm not beaten.
'Cause you
lift me up, you do.
Coming home sometimes
I catch the headlines.
It's been raining since
Saturday night.
And the trains run late,
I'm stuck at Notting Hill Gate.
But you'll make it alright.
'Cause you lift me up
(you make it alright), you do.
Such a little thing,
our love won't make the world alright,
but love makes sense of life and that's enough,
at least tonight.
So late at night maybe,
when you call me baby,
the day will just fall away.
Oh, I wish you could be here
To see the flowers, they only smell so sweet
Since you've been gone,
And all the day you left they bloom for hours
To compensate me for what you've had done
Oh, and I don't wish misfortune on your head
For I'm ask much to blame on, only stay
So wherever you'll may be and in which ever land you
roam
I hope there always be here a place you can call, oh
And I wish you could be here to see the baby
She is growing and she is walking in all its own
And I'm a working woman now, and maby
The child don't need a daddy much at all
And yes I've got a front door and a back
Oh but runs more than the roof above your head
So wherever you'll may be and in which ever land you
roam
I hope there always be here a place you can call, oh
Home from home
And whoever you love
And how many good friends you know,
I hope you'll always have a place you can call
Oh, Home from home
Born on the stage,
undersize and underage
when she sang good,
momma said she could
sing the world away.
She made the shop girls cry.
They said, "That woman's life is
tragic and pathetic and just like mine."
Can you sleep without the light?
Hang out the flags tonight.
Here's judy garland who
did all your suffering for you.
Slept alone so you
could stay home and feel blue.
She cried, "Look at me, I'm sad and you're happy.
Yes, I'm great and you're second rate, but I wish that I could be you."
Sleeping without the light,
hanging out the flags tonight.
Don't tamper with the clock, my dear.
Romance has been dead for years.
Can you sleep without the light?
O, hang out the flags tonight.
Can you sleep without the light?
O, hang out the flags tonight.
What went wrong with my life?
and who is this man standing at my door?
is he lying or is he true?
is this how I see you?
like a rolling pebble on the deepest ocean floor
life has rubbed me smooth.
but you cup me in your hands
and you roll me in your pocket.
how many men, unhappy, crammed inside their skin,
wordless to explain, stand at someone's door?
Am I too old for this?
is there kindness in his face?
a good man or a weak man?
there are horses in the room pulling me through fences
I throw the window open
and the light hits the pavement.
come in, come in, whoever you are.
I will know you, if only from afar.
once I saw a dry dock
and the rustling hulks of ships and trawlers
with a wind that could cut steel
it was so cold.
and I don't have to think that hard
and it all comes flooding back.
there is so much that neither of us will ever know.
come in, come in, whoever you are.
I called you from the hotel phone
I haven't dialled this code before
I'm sleeping later and waking later
I'm eating less and thinking more
And how am I without you?
Am I more myself or less myself?
I feel younger, louder
Like I don't always connect
Like I don't ever connect
And do you like being single?
Do you want me back?
Do you want me back?
And do I like being single?
Am I coming back?
Am I coming back?
I'll put my suitcase here for now
I'll turn the TV to the bed
But if no one calls and I don't speak all day
Do I disappear?
And look at me without you
I'm quite proud of myself
I feel reckless, clumsy
Like I'm making a bad mistake
A really big mistake
And do you like being single?
Do you want me back?
Do you want me back?
And do I like being single?
Am I coming back?
Am I coming back?
Do you want me back?
Do you want me back?
Do you want me back?
Do you want me back?
Do you want me back?
Do you want me back?
And now I know
Each time I go
I don't really know
What I'm thinking
And now I know
Each time I go
I don't really know
What I'm thinking of
Do you want me back?
Do you want me back?
Do you want me back?
Do you want me back?
gabriel, wherever you roam,
you know the longest way round is the shortest way home.
gabriel, wherever you go,
you know the longest way round is the shortest way home.
when you were here there was a beating of wings
in your heart doing senseless things.
when you were here there was a forest fire
raging in you like a wild desire.
gabriel, wherever you roam,
you know the longest way round is the shortest way home.
and everything you did only skimmed the surface of the day.
and deep inside there was an emptiness that would not go away.
Lying in bed on a weekday night
Listening to the title fight
From a town the radio said was Atlantic City
The branches brush the windows
The hour is early evening
And Frankie's beating hell out of the champion
Frankie is the one, you know
Frankie is the boy
I hope my sister's listening
from her place in Illinois
For though the world is turning darkly
all the stars are out tonight
There are dreams still shining, redefining
all that makes us feel alright
Lying in bed in the afternoon
listening to Frankie Lymon tunes
While the people make their way home
from the dusty city
The breezes blow the curtains
the hour is early evening
and Frankie's singing songs just like a champion
Frankie was the one, you know
Frankie was the boy
My sister shook his hand the night
he played at the Savoy
And though the world is turning darkly
all the stars are out tonight
There are dreams still shining, redefining
all that makes us feel alright
Frankie is the one, you know
Frankie is the boy
Frankie bears the weight of
all our sorrow and our joy
For though the world is turning darkly
all the stars are out tonight
There are dreams still shining, redefining
all that makes us feel alright
Leaving at dawn to beat the traffic, do you remember that too?
Curled asleep on the back seat, do you remember that too?
The soundless dark, the empty road, do you remember that too?
And that child asleep, only eight years old, do you recognise as you?
June, July, September, stretched ahead and out of view.
The whole world seemed a safe place, and never ending too.
But it was never as simple as you thought, there were just things you never knew,
and up ahead your parents bore the weight of all their worries and yours too.
Windows down on the coast road, wanting to be first to see the sea.
The whole world seemed a safe place, temporarily.
But it was never as simple as you thought, and you found out as you grew,
that up ahead your parents had borne the weight of all their worries and yours too.
Over dale and over hills
I'll take you through the cotton mills
To the ginnels where we played
And where are friendships all were made
Still they came and tore them down
And now we live in Anytown
They came and tore it down
And now this place could be Anytown
Can't forget and won't forgive
The places we've been forced to live
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But rather that than live alone
For they came and tore it down
And now we live in Anytown
They came and tore it down
And now this place could be Anytown
Rags to riches, that's a lie
For some things money just can't buy
Thicker than water blood may be
And comfort still brings misery
For they came and tore it down
And now we live in Anytown
They came and tore it down
And now this place could be Anytown
They took the heart when they ripped it down
And in its place sent Anytown
Summer in the driving rain
I've never been skating on a frozen river
Joni and Jane make it sound so cool
Sometimes I can get so down it seems
Nothing much is gonna turn me around
They could freeze the brook outside my home
But it's only small, not like the Hudson
Where I'd be clean away, the only one
Down through winter trees, on a smooth run on a frozen river
But look at me now I'm getting to you
And all afternoon you have been so bright
"No use turning good into bad"
At times like this you are always right
And the snowdrops are through, I never knew
And my oldest jokes still have you reeling
I'll put the troubles I find to the back of my mind
Sometimes my love has the craziest feeling like a frozen river
Half the world will sleep alone tonight
Friends of mine as well
Half the world are on their own tonight
Friends of mine as well
There's a river below this bright night sky
So full of stars, it's the best for ages
Where I stand in the lane, having shut off the car
Just hearing your wonder like a frozen river
As a youth, each Sunday, Dawn went to church and
Paid her respects and not to mention was a virgin
Kid pushed up, Dawn lettin' him
Since he made her laugh and all the other girls was sweatin' him
Then things started to move without cause
And a couple o' months later kid's pushin' for the drawers
Under pressure while exchangin' glances
Dawn finally gives in to the sexual advances
Although it was a mad high cost for her
?Cuz after the thrill was gone, so was the lust for her
Eventually he left her for another
Now feeling alone and betrayed by her lover
She cried for no longer knew which way she headed
Once dreamed of actually wearing white at her wedding
And really being pure, now she thought she'd die without
Still she finds strength to continue with her life without
Love
Without love
Without love
Without love
Verse two of Dawn's life the second segment
What could be worse than to now find out you're pregnant?
Poor Dawn couldn't sleep laid awake
Not ready for a child and plus her mother's gonna break
As she doesn't know how she's gonna bring up the subject
Consequences of being used as an object
In church though time's runnin' thin
She decides to have the child because the doesn't want to sin
Props to the girl although it hit hard times
It was hell finishin' school and working part-time
Yet Dawn did it though her youth went to waste
Little help from the government, she got her own place
Hard for an independent woman and a kid
And as soon as she could get off the assistance, she did
Without no man who she once thought she'd die without
Still she finds the strength to continue with her life without
Love
Life without love
Life without love
Continue with her life without love
While Dawn worked two jobs tryin' to meet ends
Her son was busy cuttin' school and hangin' with his friends
So when she got words she tried to slap out the taste in his mouth
And explain how important education is
Under stress, she takes two bufferin'
Son now tired of seein' his poor mother sufferin'
Starts to sell drugs though the cops did a raid
Guess who's in the mix, and being legal age
Could do time, please call her employer
To inform her that her son is gonna' need a lawyer
Never no good news, just more strife
Dawn barely havin' enough time to live her own life
Here's the judge's sentence, beggin' and pleadin'
Now spends nine hours on the bus to go and see him
Here's the judge's sentence, beggin' and pleadin'
Now spends nine hours on the bus to Goa and see him
Without no man who she once thought she'd die without
Still she finds the strength to continue with her life without
Love
Life without love
Life without love
Life without love
Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick,
And think of you
Caught up in circles confusion
Is nothing new
Flashback warm nights
Almost left behind
Suitcases of memories,
Time after
Sometimes you picture me
I'm walking too far ahead
You're calling to me, I can't hear
What you've said
Then you say go slow
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds
If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you I'll be waiting
Time after time
If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you I'll be waiting
Time after time
After my picture fades and darkness has
Turned to gray
Watching through windows you're wondering
If I'm OK
Secrets stolen from deep inside
The drum beats out of time
If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you I'll be waiting
Time after time
You said go slow
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds
If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you I'll be waiting
Time after time
If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you I'll be waiting
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Outside another yellow moon
punched a hole in the nighttime, yes
(I) climb through your window and down the street
I'm shining like a new dime
The downtown trains are full with all of those Brooklyn girls
They try so hard to break out of their little worlds
You wave your hand and they scatter like crows
They have nothing that can capture your heart
They're just thorns without the rose
Be careful of them in the dark
Oh, if I was the one you chose to be your only one
Oh baby can't you hear me, can't you hear me now
Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
Every night it's just the same, you leave me lonely now
I know your window and I know it's late
I know your stairs and your doorway
I walk down your street and past your gate
I stand by the light at the four-way
You watch them as they fall, they all have heart attacks
They stay at the carnival, but they'll never win you back
Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
Where every night, it's just the same,
you leave me lonely
Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
Well it's Saturday night
You're all dressed up in blue
I've been watchin' you a while
Maybe you're watchin' me too
So somebody ran out
Left someone's heart in a mess
Well if you're ready for love
Honey I'm tougher than the rest
Some girls want a handsome Dan
Or some good-lookin' Joe
On their arm, some girls like
A sweet-talking Romeo
Well around here baby
I learned you get what you can get
So if you're ready for love
Honey I'm tougher than the rest
Well the road is dark
And it's a thin, thin line
But I want you to know
I'll walk it for you any time
Maybe your other boyfriends
Couldn't pass the test
But if you're ready for love
Honey I'm tougher than the rest
Well it ain't no secret
I've been around a time or two
Well I don't know baby
Maybe you've been around too
But there's another dance
All you gotta do is say yes
And if you're ready for love
Honey I'm tougher than the rest
If you're sure you're ready for love
Love, love is strange
Many people take it for a game
Once you've had it, you're in an awful fix
'Cause after you've had it you never want to quit
A lot of people, they don't understand
They think lovin' is money in their hand
Your sweet lovin' is better than a kiss
When you leave me, those kisses I will miss
Love, oh, whoa, love is strange
Many people, oh, whoa, take it for a game
Once you've had it, oh, whoa, you're in an awful fix
'Cause after you've had it, oh, whoa, you never want to quit
A lot of people, whoa, whoa, they don't understand
They think lovin', oh, whoa, is money in their hand
Your sweet lovin', oh, whoa, is better than a kiss
When you leave me, oh, whoa, those kisses I will miss
When you leave me, oh, whoa, those kisses I will miss
Those kisses I will miss, those kisses I will miss
I was alone thinking I was just fine,
I wasn't looking for anyone to be mine
I thought that love was just a fabrication,
A train that wouldn't stop at my station
Home, alone, that was my consignment,
Solitary, confinement
So when we met, I was getting around you,
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you.
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love
I didn't know I was looking for love
'Cuz there you stood, and I would,
Oh I wonder, could I say how I felt and not be misunderstood?
A thousand stars came into my system,
I never knew how much I have missed them.
Slap, on the lap, of my heart you landed,
I was coy, but you made me candid,
And now the planets circle around you,
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you.
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love
I didn't know I was looking for love
So we build from here with love the foundation
In the world of tears, one conselation
Now you're here and there's a full brass band
Playing in me like a wonderland
But if you left I would be two foot small
And every tear would be a waterfall
Soundless, boundless, I surround you
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you.
I just didn't know.
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love
I didn't know I was looking for love
You always loved the sad songs, like you loved it when I lost,
so I don't tell you when I'm happy because it only makes you cross.
And I thought as I was leaving, and it strkes me every time,
politics aside we always, I thought we always got on fine.
Crystal clear were my intentions, but you didn't want to know,
when there's no point in staying, you just go.
And I'll be driving through provincial towns and places sweetly named,
and I'll be looking for a centre, for a sense of live contained.
But them I'm out the other side and through suburban avenues
and I realise it never was there. Well, that's how I feel about you.
Crystal clear were my intentions, but you didn't want to know,
You watch the phone like it was the tv.
If you're all alone, well whose fault can that be?
Your keys, your bag, the car - they're where they always are.
And the light goes down and all the lights come on
and they call to me, oh come on, come on
and you don't make, you don't make no difference to me.
You look at me, say "what you talking about?"
well me, I'm going out, with or without.
I know I don't get far and we're where we always are.
But the light goes down and all the lights come on,
and they call to me oh come on, come on
and you don't make, you don't no difference to me.
You don't make no difference to me.
You don't make no difference to me.
So you fix a drink, cause its time to drown,
and the clock speeds up and then it slows right down.
The life that we have missed, I think it still exists - how can you resist?
But the light goes down and all the streetlights shine
and they call to me, you'll be dead a long time
and it makes, it makes a difference to me.
And the light goes down and all the lights come on
and they call to me, oh come on, come on.
You can make, you can make a difference to me.
Come on, make a difference to me.
your here what if you weren't
what will happen to me
love can prove unburn it's history
one thing i guess this place would be a mess
for my standard of a start
undemanding
1.2.3.4.
that means your understanding
still here what if we weren't
where do you think i would be (where would i be?)
love i have learned depends on geography
fortune found is when all battle and less
half where couples we knew are dispanding
1.2.3.4.
that takes some understanding
do you know even if we disagree
freedom holds out on a hand to me
I know I would never want to be without you company
and I mean it totally. oohhh... ohhhh...
oh. yeah.
one thing is clear
after all these years
we have reach an understanding (2x)
1.2.3.4.
we have reach an understanding (6x)
have we darling
we have reach an understand
ohh.yeah. understannd
All this short summer night long I've been waiting for you
Just to give me a sign that you feel this way too
There are people on the streets for the weekend
But I don't hear them
There are others I could meet for the weekend
But I don't see them
Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city
Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city
I have a dream, of an inky blue sea
You could give up your job and go there with me
I know we'd miss the football and the dancing
There's always something
And you'd worry that the people here'd be talking
But that's nothing
Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city
Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city
In the morning I sit on the train and wonder
If I can go through all this again you know I
Feel like staying till the end of the line this time...
This time, this time, this time
Oh yeah. uh huh.
We come to fight and dream in this fairground of a town
Through the sweet and sickly streets from the airless undergrounds
While the planes fly out of Heathrow taking people late at night
To where the fields are like Australia in the early morning light
Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city
Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city
Talk to me like the sea
In the morning I sit on the train
Talk to me like the sea
Hey hey hey
Talk to me like the sea
In the morning I sit on the train
Talk to me like the sea
Oh oh yeah
Talk to me like the sea
Oh yeah, I sit on the train.
imagine waking unaware
the light of heaven touched your hair
morning struggled sun was here and gone
born into empty air the signals changed the engines flared
there's a place you know i'm always there
ride on the early train past the wedding in the rain
they closed the opened door and the white smoke blew away
and never made a dumb mistake
to eat your orange and your cake
but never say your good luck isn't there
if i could speak with you about a hundred things i'd say
dear friend it's true all that you say
and these days that passed through time
you closed your eyes you could see the lights of te touan shine
in the morning you were drinking again
and born into wealth and care
imagine waking unaware and there's a place you know i never dare
if i could speak with you it sure a hundred years away
dear friend it's true all that you say
and never made a dumb mistake
so eat your orange and your cake
but never say your good luck isn't there
Stayed true to the things I knew when I was younger
And food and love was all but left to hunger
'Cause when I stray from my truth as I grow older
Too much leaves an empty hollow hunger
I think about you on a moonlit night
And the stars all seem to weep
When there's so much to lose
There's never any time for sleep
Look at me doing all these things without you
We always left a new world untrue
Where was it we tried hard not to go to?
I think that's how I finally came through
All the things we took for granted
The words still live on in my head
All the times I took for granted
All the words I never said
I think about you in the moonlit night
And the stars all seem to weep
When there's so much love to give
There's never any time for sleep, yeah
So I stayed true to the things I knew when I was younger
And human life was all but left to hunger
'Cause when I stray from the truth as I grow older
Too much leaves an empty hollow hunger
Too much leaves an empty hollow hunger
Living without you
Living without you
Well I hate to have to tell you this
But there are pigeons in the attic room
Where you left me spent and gasping that afternoon
Ans where the floorboards left their splinters
And you left me so soon
Pardon me, I'm drunk again
And when I'm drunk I make no sense
But I crack more jokes and that's my self-defence
You caused me to think
And I thought about what I had home without you
You drove me to drink
Conspired again to protest in vain
that you'll never feel that way again.
Despair and desire above far too sustain
you'll never sink this low again.
Bitter as children we are now too much all of the time.
What god would punish such sweet children
for such a sweet crime?
Wrong as the world and right as rain,
we'll never feel that way again.
Riverbed dry, this is my terrain.
I'll never feel that way again.
But I've tired of the city never blessed
with respite from the rain,
or has that changed too?
Is the riverbed dry?
Is the riverbed dry?
Is the riverbed dry?
Conspired again to protest in vain,
that you'll never feel that way again.
Despair and desire above far to sustain,
you'll never sink this low again.
Well, I've tired
with your city never blessed,
with respite from the rain
or has that changed too?
When I look into your eyes
I can see a love restrained
But darlin' when I hold you
Don't you know I feel the same
'Cause nothin' lasts forever
And we both know hearts can change
And it's hard to hold a candle
In the cold November rain
We've been through this auch a long long time
Just tryin' to kill the pain
But lovers always come and lovers always go
An no one's really sure who's lettin' go today
Walking away
If we could take the time
To lay it on the line
I could rest my head
Just knowin' that you were mine
All mine
So if you want to love me
Then darlin' don't refrain
Or I'll just end up walkin'
In the cold November rain
Do you need some time... on your own
Do you need some time... all alone
Everybody needs some time... on their own
Don't you know you need some time... all alone
I know it's hard to keep an open heart
When even friends seem out to harm you
But if you could heal a broken heart
Wouldn't time be out to charm you
Sometimes I need some time... on my own
Sometimes I need some time... all alone
Everybody needs some time... on their own
Don't you know you need some time... all alone
And when your fears subside
And shadows still remain
I know that you can love me
When there's no one left to blame
So never mind the darkness
We still can find a way
'Cause nothin' lasts forever
Even cold November rain
Don't ya think that you need somebody
Don't ya think that you need someone
Everybody needs somebody
You're not the only one
Do you want to get on in this cowering country now?
Do you want to get on
Or would you be happy just to get by?
The small thoughts of a small town girl
Grew up and wanted to change the world
Will heaven echo back my plea
Or cast it as a curse on me.
Do you want to get on in this beautiful country girl?
Listen hard to what the big folks say
And you'll believe anything
If you believe what they say of this world
From the orcahrd to the foundry
From farms to the city night
Everyone cracks if the price is right
Ideals soon begin to fail
God must know by now
Every day brings change
And the world puts on a new face
Certain things rearrange
And this whole world seems like a new place
Secretly I've been tailing you
Like a fox that prays on a rabbit
I had to get you and so I knew
I'd have to learn your ways and habits
Oh, you the catch that I was after
But I looked up and I was in your arms
And I knew that I was captured
What's this whole world coming to?
Things just aren't the same
Anytime the hunter gets captured by the game
I had laid such a tender trap
Hoping you might fall into it
But love hit me with a sudden slap
A warm kiss and then I knew
Oh, my plans didn't work out
Like I thought
Cause I had laid my trap for you
But it seems that I got caught
What's this whole world coming to?
Things just aren't the same
Anytime the hunter gets captured by the game
I had laid such a tender trap
Hoping you might fall into it
But love hit me with a sudden slap
A warm kiss and then I knew
Oh, my plans didn't work out
Like I thought
Cause I had laid my trap for you
But it seems that I got caught
What's this whole world coming to?
Things just aren't the same
Don't go, don't go, don't go
Baby, baby, baby
I'm lonely, can't you see?
Baby, baby, baby
Come give your love to me
'Cause I'm just a prisoner
Don't set me free
Before you turn around
Take one look at me
Take me in your arms
Won't you love me one more time?
Take me in your arms
Won't you love me one more time
Before you go?
Baby, baby, baby
Chained and bound, can't you see?
Baby, baby, baby
Chained and bound, can't you see?
'Cause I'm just a prisoner
Don't set me free
Before you turn around
Take one look at me
Take me in your arms
Won't you love me one more time?
Take me in your arms
Won't you love me one more time
Before you go?
'Cause I'm just a prisoner
Don't set me free
Before you turn around
Take one look at me
Take me in your arms
Won't you love me one more time?
Take me in your arms
Won't you love me one more time?
Take me in your arms
Won't you love me one more time?
Take me in your arms
Won't you love me one more time
Before you go?
Baby, baby, baby, come
Baby, baby, baby
Intro/Chorus: repeat 2X
Girl you know that you need
to stop givin' me the silent.. treatment baby
Can't you see what you mean to me?
I wanna love you constantly, but you keep neglecting me
And treating me silently
Verse One: BlackThought
Yo, I had a Queen named Amina, height 5'7"
Caramel-complected, body like heaven
Met her through the sister of my man Big Vince
Like some shit from out the flicks we been in love ever since
She called me her chocolate brotha, I call her my sugar sista
Knew Shorty could work it since before I ever kissed her
I never dissed her, painted my picture to hit
But because sex she wasn't with, she started flippin an' shit
Like, "Listen man, I'm Queen Amina, Amina's not no freak and
that game is weak and keep tryin to hit I could quit speakin
Tariq in fact, you bein BlackThought don't get ya closer
I dig ya but won't bone ya because I'm so-called supposed ta
Most o' them would, but that couldn't be me, that's not my flava
Go home and think about that, maybe later on I'll page ya..."
I contemplated, and then concluded she was bluffin
Steady pursuin screwin, gettin nothin but the silent treatment
Chorus (+ "Silently bay-bee" at end)
Verse Two: BlackThought
Crazy frustration, about my lovin situation
When patience was a virtue, but I wasn't used to waitin
I want some Marvin Gaye healin, feelin is real inside
I slip and slide, my ride'll keep you occupied, I'd..
love to get wit it like that, but my baby's kitty cat's capped
and locked, Love Boat is docked at the shore
And what for? Later for groupies on tour
Why won't my sugar call me no more?
I mean, my Queen gets upset, rejectin and sexually neglect
Then sayin I'm more sewer than Das EFX, and closed-minded
It's like I'm blinded by the skinnin
I'm into women; because of that, this one's into communication
Temptation played the vandal, freakin my brain, my mind
Rippin the handle on physically scandalous acts
Yo! She knew what I wanted, but she fronted
... bust it
Chorus
Verse Three: BlackThought
Well umm
Movin right along with the song, plus the strong
feelings on my mind, desire to intertwine
Combine and blend, baby bust a message that I send
Ain't no need to pretend, cause shit is real til the end
I provide a place to hide from crime, hard times
and livin trife, while I open ya mind, you're in my life
like love, it ain't no way no one can rise above what's real
That's why I'm feelin like you're makin me bugged
I puff an El on fifty deuce while I walk in the rain
Heart feelin killa pain while I hop the train
Dial her number to the rest, and ain't no messages left
Regardless, my chest thumps from stress, yo it's a mess
I don't know what I got to do to make you understand
I'm for real and that's no question, no frontin or no guessin
Undressin, carressin, in the span, that I contain in my hand
could touch and make you say that I'm such a man
and call my name, so let me set your body aflame
I'll never treat you like a dame or run game
Now who's to blame?
I know you're not a hoe for niggaz with a lot of dough
But I just wanted you to know
Chorus (+ "silently" at end)
Chorus 1/2 (+ "silently, si-lent-ly" at end)
I dreamed about you again last night
You never have the same face twice
But I always know it's you
And you're always looking better than you really do
Than you really do
And I walk around the whole next day
Feeling like I've still got something to say
But I don't know what it is
And I don't know how to reach you even if I did
Even if I did
Do I wanna hear that you forgive me?
Do I wanna hear you're no good without me?
Am I big enough to hear
That you never even even think about me?
Why should you ever think about me?
And I thought that I'd outgrow this kind of thing
Tell me, aren't we supposed to mature or something?
I haven't found that yet
Is this as grown-up as we ever get?
Maybe this is as good as it gets
And years may go by
But I think the heart remains a child
The mind may grow wise but the heart just sulks and it
Whines and remains a child
I think the heart remains a child
Why don't you love me?
Why don't you love me?
Living on honeycomb
Outside the fair still rages
Young men the wrath of ages in their heads
Fight for the comfort of their beds
And inside here we lie alone
Living on honeycomb you've guessed
Truly we are blessed
My love is like the raging sea
The wind that knocks the birds out of the trees
I'm at home, living on honeycomb
Where would I be without you?
Giving my love just the same
To a man who couldn't even spell my name
Or hoping for a wintry smile from every hard faced passerby
Or the man who run the crooked coconut shy
My love is like the raging sea
The wind that knocks the birds out of the trees
I'm at home, living on honeycomb
Where would i be without you?
You always were the best my friend on the ruthless rifle range
And I'm glad to see you haven't changed
But the big wheel frightened me you see
Made me dizzy now my head is spinning
Take me back home to my bed
My love is like the raging sea
The wind that knocks the birds out of the trees
I'm at home, living on honeycomb
I never thought I'd grow up so fast so far
And to know yourself is to let yourself be loved
And I want to be addicted, I want to be secure
I want to wake up after the night before
But do you ever get me?
Do you ever get me? Hey
Do you ever get me? Yeah, yeah
And I'll press your hand against my face
Weaken my resistance
And I'll pull the sheets over our heads
Let the broken sky break above our heads
And I want to be addicted, I want to be secure
I want to wake up after the night before
But do you get me?
Do you ever get me? Hey
Do you ever get me? Yeah
Shower me with affection and I'll return in kind
I have no hidden motive, I am blind
I'm a stone inside a box, I'm a spring inside a clock
You can wear me on your wrist
And I'll tell you things ten thousand times
But do you ever get me? Yeah
Do you ever get me? Yeah, yeah
Do you ever get me? Hey
Do you ever get me? Yeah, yeah
Do you ever get me? Oh, yeah
A summer evening; I walk past the window,
Baby's crying; Someone's cooking dinner;
There's laughter on the TV
Someone's learning the violin.
How at home, it heals
At times like this, I feel that...
CHORUS:
I would like to live like anybody else
In one place
And I could be happy and fulfilled
In one place
So I get the map out
And draw a line of where we've been
It goes thru sea and sky
Twenty-five planes this year
And it's only July...
This is not some Bible, like on the road
It's just a song about coming home
And whether...
CHORUS:
I would like to live like anybody else
In one place
And I could be happy and fulfilled
In one place
And you know that I have found
That I'm happiest weaving from town to town
And you know Bruce said
we should keep moving 'round
Maybe we all get too tied down, I don't know
Hell, I don't know
I'm happy to be home (Still alive)
Happy to be home...
In the end, if you take care
You can be happy or unhappy anywhere
CHORUS:
And I think we maybe all rely too much
On one place
I know I never would deny the need
For one place
So I get the map out (get the map out)
Yeah I get the map out (get the map out)
C'mon, get the map out (get the map out)
and still he lies awake at night
restless while every silence screams
and still she sleep turned to the wall
he fears the onslaught of his dream
touches her back but she doesn't stir
then round her hand his finger close
feeling the ring that cost more than the car
all of those questions that never arose
and still she lies awake at night
silently stares at the bedroom wall
feeling his hand dare to touch her back
it's been a month since ha started to paint the hall
and brightly burns the landing light
the baby's screaming down the hall
she shuts her eyes and she shuts her ears
something has come between me and the world that knew
what I thought wild last is falling apart in the face of something new
how can I explain that I had no choice
the sound of the waves fills her ears and drowns out my voice
and I'm just too far away for her to believe what I say
she couldn't hear me, she wouldn't listen anyway
how can I write a letter the post is so slow
if I'm to disappoint her then that's something she ought to know
I can just hear her voice fall as I wait here alone
how can so much harm be done by just two minutes spent on the phone
you say that things will get better
but she would hate me if I let her
and she reads so much in every word that I say
I thought that being apart would lust bring us some variety
but after some time it seems clear that she's changed in a different way from
and I would like to shout at someone but no one's to blame
it's just her it's just me and everything that is
just not the same
sometimes I would turn back the clock
and recapture all that we've lost
Come Hell or high water
You just do as you please,
Waste your time when you oughta
Be charming the birds from the trees.
A voice straight from heaven
So you like to believe
And who cares if its only
Your poor self you deceive.
You look in the mirror and what do you see?
Too much care and sceming, too little beauties
Come Hell or High water, you never will be
A goddess or a genius, a drunkerd at 23
And all that you yearn for, is attentino I guess
Come Hell or high water you deserve nothing less.
Come Hell or high water you will stray off the rails
and I won't try to change you for god knows I would fail
and its to the angels that each day you pray
Great mistakes are made
When love gets lonely far from home
Beds are empty, nights are long
And you miss him bad when you're on your own
That's how I let my fate begin
Threw back the sheets, let someone in
And thought that love would understand
But nothing ever goes as planned
And now my baby don't love me any more
And I'm all done talking
My baby just walked up to the door
And kept right on walking
Now I would walk the earth and back again
Just to change his mind
But I'm so compromised
I cannot say he's being unkind
Take me back to fields and woods
Where we first met and love was good
It's that that really breaks his heart
A memory of how you start
And now my baby don't love me any more
And I'm all done hoping
My baby just walked out of the door
And the door's still open
My baby, talking about
My baby don't love me
My baby
Love has made mistakes before
It picks itself up off the floor
For most of us that's how you live
But my love never could forgive
And now my baby don't love me any more
And I'm all done talking
My baby just walked up to the door
And kept right on walking
My baby don't love me
Talking about my sweet baby
My baby don't love me any more
My baby, talking about
My baby don't love me
My baby, my sweet baby
Never Could Have Been Worse
Each day she love you more but you couldn't care less,
you left me open mouthed and I couldn't eat a thing.
Dark glasses hide an eye thickened with pain,
she said she fell downstairs but I've seen the size of your fists.
Oh, could have been better,
Never could have been worse.
Dead years like pages missing from a book she knew
makes no sense without them, left her still like a child.
Oh, could have been better,
Never could have been worse.
Oh, could have been better,
Never could have been worse.
Could have been better.
Stone the crows if you've done it again,
if I've told you once, told you a thousand times.
Sometimes I am so convinced we're casting pearl amongst the swine.
Don't ever let me hear you say this is the life we folks must lead.
We shun the limelight, shun the glare,
and the circus built on a bigot's creed.
Heaven is a place I'v heard but we haven't been there yet, I fear.
We may have opened pearly gates but sometimes hell stills steals in here.
Don't ever let me hear you say this is the life we folks must lead.
Do you think silver turns our locks?
What gold do you think paves our streets?
You say we're in a different world now,
where money and love go hand in hand.
But can't you see we share this town,
so why should we fight on our native land?
Can't you see we share this town,
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