Everything But The Girl

I don't want excuses.
I don't want your smiles. I don't want to feel
like we're apart a thousand miles.
I don't want your attitude. I don't
want your things.
But I don't want a 'phone that never rings.
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. And I
don't care if you've been here before.
You don't understand - tonight I
feel above the law and I'm coming in to land.
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 and I want it now.

If the train don’t go there
I’ll get a jet or a bus
I’m gonna find you
You’re mine and I know I’ll find you
My head is my only house
Until I find you
I’ll walk the meadow plains
Water deserts by my eyes until I find you
I won’t sleep until I find you
I won’t eat until I’ve found you
Heart won’t beat
Until I can wrap my arms around you
Heart won’t beat
Until I’ve found you
My arms are just two things in the way until I can wrap them around you
You can make a sad song happy
And a bad world good
I can feel you out there movin’
You’re mine and I know I’ll find you
And my head is my only house unless it rains
I hate to let other people hear me sing this song
If it reaches you before I do
Follow this song to I love you
That’s where you’ll find me
That’s where you’ll find me
Heart won’t beat
Until I can wrap my arms around you
Heart won’t beat
Until I’ve found you
My head is my only house unless it rains

I hate to let other people hear me sing this song
If it reaches you before I do
Follow this song to I love you
That’s where you’ll find me
That’s where you’ll find me
Heart won’t beat
Heart won’t beat
Heart won’t beat
Until I found you
And my head is my only house unless it rains

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
and the clouds build up and won't pass over
This is my road to my redemption
And my life is just an image of a rollercoaster anyway

I still haven't got over it even now
I want to spend huge amounds of time in my room
And I'm not coming out until I feel ready
not running out for a while my heart's unsteady
and I'm not really in your head
I'm not really in your head

When you sky falls to minus zero
well some things must dissappear
Oh this is my road to my redemption


And my life is just an image of a rollercoaster anyway
The names may have been changed but the faces are the same
The names may have been changed but as people we're 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 rollercoaster anyway
Yeah, my life is just an image of a rollercoaster anyway

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O Redentor, que lindo!

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O que ??짤 felicidade
Meu amor

Quiet nights of quiet stars
Quiet chords from my guitar,
Floating on the silence that surrounds me.
Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams,
Quiet walks by quiet streams,
And a window looking out on the mountains and the sea, how lovely!
This is how I want to be,
Here with you so close to me,
Until the final flicker of life's ember.
I who was lost and lonely,
Believing life was only,
A bitter tragic joke have found with you,
The meaning of existence, oh my love.

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

I don't want excuses. I don't want your smiles. I don't want to feel
like we're apart a thousand miles. I don't want your attitude. I don't
want your things. But I don't want a 'phone that never rings. 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. And I
don't care if you've been here before. You don't understand - tonight I
feel above the law and I'm coming in to land. 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 and I want it now.

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 -

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 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? (x6)

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? (x5)

Wherever you go I will follow you
Cuz I was wrong
Wherever you go I will follow you
Cuz I was wrong
Wherever you go I will follow you
Cuz I was wrong
Wherever you go I will follow you
Cuz I was wrong

I wanted everything for a little while,
why shouldn't I?
I wanted to know what it was like
But 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
There's a little give and take
And love will stretch a little bit
But finally its gonna break
Wherever you go I will follow you
Cuz I was wrong

Wherever you go I will follow you
Cuz I was wrong
Wherever you go I will follow you
Cuz I was wrong

Now there we both were in that little house
Just hanging out
You didn't know what you were about
You turned to me as you were
threading daisies on a chain
and you said "It's decision time again"

Now you can pull a little bit
There's a little give and take
And love will stretch a little bit
But finally its gonna break
Wherever you go I will follow you
Cuz I was wrong

Wherever you go I will follow you
Cuz I was wrong
Wherever you go I will follow you
Cuz I was wrong

I step off the train,
I'm walking down your street again,
and past your door,
but you don't live there any more.
It's years since you've been there.
Now you've disappeared somewhere,
like outer space,
you've found some better place,
and I miss you - 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.
Back on the train,
I ask why did I come again?
Can I confess I've been hanging round your old address?
And the years have proved,
to offer nothing since you moved.
You're long gone but I can't move on,
and I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain.

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 pomised I see in him 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 that we're almost through There's a part of me that's always true∼ always All the things never come to an end now it is only a chosen few I've seen such an unhappy couple Almost me Almost you Almost blue

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

Now and then
Do you wash your hands of me again?
Wish me anywhere but home
Drunk and on the end of your phone

From time to time
Do you guess what's really on my mind?
Guess that "How you keeping now?"
Means "Where are you sleeping now"

But of course it's not polite
To ask you where you spent last night
And if I did you might reply
That I have no right
And anyway I'm fine
Glad that you're no longer mine
If I should tell a lie
I'll cross my heart and hope to die

You'd be appalled
If you knew what I was doing
When you called
Yes, I can see I'm blundering
Always end up wondering

Will it ever be alright
To ask you where you spent last night
And can it be polite
The way we never write,
Of course I don't have the time,
And anyway I'm fine
If I should tell a lie
I'll cross my hear and hope to die

I hope we never die

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. Some good times I remember - my
birthday that September, we lay 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? Come on girl, it's too late. Come on
girl, it's too late now. Let it all go. It's gonna be alright now. Oh
it's never gonna be alright. But it's too late now. Let it all go.
'Cause it's never gonna be alright.

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 not your baby, not your little girl"

<< Walking Wounded >>
--- Everything But The Girl

Out amongst the walking wounded, every face on every bus is you and me
and him and her. Nothing can replace the us I knew. Nothing can replace
the us I knew. I'm never gonna let you go. You know I'm never gonna let
you go. Now I know I had a choice, though you never made it clear to
me. I thought you never felt it deeply. And now I'm never gonna let you
go. 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. Punish me for nothing. For nothing. Out amongst
the walking wounded, every face on every bus is you and me and him and
her. Nothing can replace the us I knew. Nothing can replace the us I
knew. I'm never gonna let you go. You know I'm never gonna let you
go. Now I know I had a choice, though you never made it clear to me. I
thought you never felt it deeply. And now I'm never gonna let you go. I
could have loved you forever. Or I could have left 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. 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. Somedays I think I could go insane. Somedays I
think I could go insane.

I wanted everything for a little while
Why shouldn't I
I wanted to know what it was like
But I pushed you too far and
you started laying down the law till
I didn't love you any more
Now you can pull a little bit
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
So there we both were in that little house
just hanging out
You didn't know what you were about
You turned to me as you were
threading daisies on a chain and you said
"It's decision time again"
Now you can pull a little bit
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
And the ground's gonna swallow you
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
there's a little give and take
And love will stretch a little bit
but finally it's gonna break

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 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? (x6)

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? (x5)

<< Walking Wounded >>
--- Everything But The Girl

Out amongst the walking wounded, every face on every bus is you and me
and him and her. Nothing can replace the us I knew. Nothing can replace
the us I knew. I'm never gonna let you go. You know I'm never gonna let
you go. Now I know I had a choice, though you never made it clear to
me. I thought you never felt it deeply. And now I'm never gonna let you
go. 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. Punish me for nothing. For nothing. Out amongst
the walking wounded, every face on every bus is you and me and him and
her. Nothing can replace the us I knew. Nothing can replace the us I
knew. I'm never gonna let you go. You know I'm never gonna let you
go. Now I know I had a choice, though you never made it clear to me. I
thought you never felt it deeply. And now I'm never gonna let you go. I
could have loved you forever. Or I could have left 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. 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. Somedays I think I could go insane. Somedays I
think I could go insane.

this temperamental side,
the one you say that you can't hide.
d'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 coming from
- what is real and what's put on,
what has stayed and what has gone.
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 say it screws you up.
for gi e 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 know what you want from me.
all this endless sympathy.
you beat yourself up on 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.