Everything But The Girl - Everything But The Girl (2001) by Everything But The Girl (보컬) on maniadb.com

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

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

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.

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

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

Each day she love you more but you couldn't care less,
you left me open mouthed and I couldn't eat a thing.

Oh

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

Don't show your tears boy they'll laugh you out the house.
Got to be a man now, anything less is just not allowed,
but don't keep it quiet girl don't rest until
they come round to your way of thinking, soon enough they will.

And all this talk of love when that's something you've never known,
it's too undignified, and much too close, it's much too close to home.

Times are tough and that's no way to live.
Well you may be right but I don't like your alternative,
and times like these they sort the boys out from the men,
and down here with the girls is where I end up again.

And all this talk of love when that's something you've never known,
it's too undignified, and much too close, it's much too close to home.

Well should I say well done when I know how he was stung.
You were his prize and jewel, you turned out to be cruel.

But I always rejoice to see us win some ground from off the boys.

And all this talk of love when that's something you've never known,
it's too undignified, and much too close, it's much too close, much too close,
it's much too close to home.

Blown in 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

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
A tale complete from Salisbury street

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,
so why on earth should we tear it down?

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?

Is the riverbed dry?