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| 1. |
| 2:49 | 
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If you ever feel the time to drop me a loving line
maybe you should just think twice I don't wait around on your advice You tell me I can go this far, but no more Try to show me heaven and then slam the door You offer shelter at a price much too dear And your kind of love's the kind that soon disappears So don't brag how you have changed And everything's been rearranged I thought all that was over and done But I still get the same from Each and Everyone Being kind is just a way to keep me under your thumb and I can cry because that's something we've always done you tell me I'm free of the past now and all those lies then offer me the same thing in a different guise |
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| 2. |
| 2:49 |
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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 that 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 begibn so 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 |
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| 3. |
| 3:05 |
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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 she's had up to here because it's not his baby after all |
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| 4. |
| 2:13 |
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Apron strings hanging so 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 shine and I wish that he were mine, then I go home to my 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 own 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, you'd be happy wrapped in my apron strings. |
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| 5. |
| 3:30 |
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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 me 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 but I couldn't give up all that we have today |
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| 6. |
| 1:39 |
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spending time with him again
intending to put things back when they were alright just when we reach dry land why must it all get out of hand again tonight drinking till my tongue got loose and thinking that the way it used to be was wrong staying till the evening's wrecked by saying things just for effect, went on too long I used to think that you were all that kept me sane when all else failed now I think you were probably what drove me off the rails talking with our voices raised walking home to silent days and tears I said would rather shout for after all what's love to cry about I used to think you would hold out best of us all am I flattering myself or was I the one who made you cynical? |
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| 7. |
| 3:23 | 
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| 8. |
| 2:32 |
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if I say I'll always stay by your side
stupid things say some night can you tell me I am wrong till I cry tell me do you have the right if I say that seas could never sweep me overboard and far away do you still say you wouldn't try to keep me if I lost the will to stay you won't promise this will last much longer than the time it takes to stay you excuse is that my heart's much stronger and some of you love has been drained away I can't bear it when the tears fill your eyes And I've said too much once more don't be angry now you must realise my only fear's of losing something I adore |
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| 9. |
| 3:10 |
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You take the name of a man you hardly know
and then you grow up and that name has to go married with kids and they don't want to know about the dreams you had let go You're still waiting for a knight in shining armour to steal you against your will and while you're waiting and doing no harm you know there's plenty of time to kill when you say you wouldn't change a day makes me wonder where I went astray satisfied with things that leave me tired we're as unlike as Frost and Fire And now yourself you start to see in me pictures of things you could've been torches I find I am bearing for you when you know you could've carried them too we give up so easily what little they leave us to lose and if I didn't have the fire to struggle I could freeze your shoes when you say you wouldn't change a day makes me wonder where I went astray satisfied with things that leave me tired We're as unlike as Frost and Fire |
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| 10. |
| 3:20 |
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I won't try to stop you
When you speak of the past Doubt is over now And I can join in when you laugh Facination makes us ask for more Than we'd like to know I needn't explain I think you know Reaassure me when my hearts Not bold enough to bear her name If you were in my shoes And scared I would do the same And though I may ask There's no need for past details Although I may laugh alone My courage fails Did you know See how I've changed now My heads so clear Still there are some things That I don't want to hear There must be so much I know That you cannot forget And I mustn't wish your life began The day we met They say as we go remind you Of when you were here before So you talk and tell me You don't think about it anymore There is something I know Hasn't quite been left behind So I'll ask you once again To prove that I don't mind To prove that I don't mind |
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| 11. |
| 3:11 |
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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 o 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 |
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| 12. |
| 2:00 |
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There's a brown shirt swapped for a thin blue tie
There's a black truth swapped for a thin blue lie There's a slim man sporting a clean cut dream There's a slim man courting a wide extreme There's a fly-blown flag in a dry-bone town There will be no ships because they've all gone down There's a man with a medal but he'll never sleep There are guns in his head, they say the war was cheap There are heaped up dreams on the mounds of slag There are moped up tears as the hours drag There's a suitcase gone and there's an empty drawer There's a broken cup lying on the floor There are questions asked in the house tonight There's a wife been involved in a pillow fight There's a husband there who she hardly knows There's a patched up dream for a winter rose There's a soft touch finally come to blows |
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