Everything But The Girl

I step off the train
I'm walking down your street again
and past your door
but you don't live there anymore

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 around your old address

And the years have proven
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

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 angle's on the top of the tree.
Up there o the top of the tree.

And I never no I never ever realised.
And I never no I never ever realised.

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 realised.
And I never, no I never ever realised.

And I'm sitting, sitting on the top of the stairs,
and you're crying 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 realised.
And I never, no I never ever realised

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.

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 can hear the Oldham train.

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.

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 apreehend
You'll never find room to find your feet
to walk out of this avenue
Your pockets are lined with promises
when did you 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 6 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
But 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 they promise ever pay for shoes?
When did they promise ever pay for shoes?

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

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
I 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. All their worries and yours too.

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 scheming, too little beauties
Come Hell or High water, you never will be
A goddess or a genius, a drunkard at 23
And all that you yearn for, is attention 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
Come hell or high water I know you will meet them someday

Baby come home, I miss the sound of the door
Your step on the stair's not there to wake me no more
And every day's like Christmas Day without you
It's cold and there's nothing to do

And it's mighty quiet here now that you're gone
I've been behaving myself for too long
'Cause I don't like sleeping
or painting the town on my own
So please come on home

Baby, what's keeping you all this time
You're wasting your days out there in the sunshine
And who can I turn to if you believe still
That England don't love you and she never will

For it's mighty quiet here now that you're gone
And I've been behaving myself for too long
I don't like sleeping
Or watching TV on my own
So please come on home

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

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
Are you that strong
more Everything But The Girl

You will be a star
And I will be so jealous when you are,
But you'll always be a fool
So I will catch you when the world is cruel

And though dizzy heights are on your mind
Oh honey please don't leave me behind

You think it's so easy
But listen, oh they once said the same to me
And you'll be loved for sure
But I think I will always deserve it more

And when you fall I think you'll find
That you never really left me behind
Don't leave me behind

While you're down here I will be kind
Tell everyone that to my mind
You should be being wined and dined
So don't forget me and don't leave me behind

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
Don't let your teardrops rust your shining heart

Everything But The Girl - Driving Lyrics rnrnOh loverboyrnTo you I belongrnBut maybe one day you'll wakernand you'll find me gonernBut loverboyrnIf you call me homernI'll come drivingrnI'll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnOh loverboyrnI know you too wellrnAnd all of my lonely secretsrnTo you I tellrnTHe highest of highsrnThe lowest of lowsrnI'll come drivingrnI'll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnStretching away as far as my eyes can seernDeserts and darkness, my hand on the wheelrnloverboy, please call me homernA girl can get lonely out here on the roadrnYou seernSome days I find the old waysrnFrighten me too easilyrnI leave my key and sayrn

Everything But The Girl - Driving Lyrics rnrnOh loverboyrnTo you I belongrnBut maybe one day you'll wakernand you'll find me gonernBut loverboyrnIf you call me homernI'll come drivingrnI'll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnOh loverboyrnI know you too wellrnAnd all of my lonely secretsrnTo you I tellrnTHe highest of highsrnThe lowest of lowsrnI'll come drivingrnI'll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnStretching away as far as my eyes can seernDeserts and darkness, my hand on the wheelrnloverboy, please call me homernA girl can get lonely out here on the roadrnYou seernSome days I find the old waysrnFrighten me too easilyrnI leave my key and sayrn

Everything But The Girl - Driving Lyrics rnrnOh loverboyrnTo you I belongrnBut maybe one day you'll wakernand you'll find me gonernBut loverboyrnIf you call me homernI'll come drivingrnI'll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnOh loverboyrnI know you too wellrnAnd all of my lonely secretsrnTo you I tellrnTHe highest of highsrnThe lowest of lowsrnI'll come drivingrnI'll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnStretching away as far as my eyes can seernDeserts and darkness, my hand on the wheelrnloverboy, please call me homernA girl can get lonely out here on the roadrnYou seernSome days I find the old waysrnFrighten me too easilyrnI leave my key and sayrn

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

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

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

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

You're like a frozen river

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
Why don'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
It's something you could do next week
Get back together
Get back together
Why don'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
And never find what was shown to you
Still can't believe that you two are just friends
You've got no lover and he's at loose ends
Hey girl listen to what I say
Don't let that boy just walk away
Won't you get back
Try to get back together?

I never thought I'd grow up so fast so far.
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?

I'll press your hand against my face
weaken my resistance.
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?

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?
Do you ever get me

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

I can tell by your eyes
that you've probably
been crying forever

and the stars in the sky
don't mean nothing 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 oh my heart
if I stand all alone
will the shadows hide the
colors of my heart
blue for the tears
black for the night's fears
the stars in the sky
don't mean nothing 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 oh my heart

I don't wanna talk about it
how you broke this all heart
if I stay here just a
little bit longer
if I stay here won't you listen
to my heart oh my heart
My heart all my heart

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

So here we are in Italy
With a sun hat and a dictionary.
The air is warm, the sky is bright,
Your arms are brown you're sleeping well at night.
So why does England call?
The hedgerows and the townhalls.
After all, there'll soon be nothing left at all.

If we were born outside of place and time,
To make our choice, well this would be mine.
To live and die under a sun that shines.
But something pulls, something I can't define
Tells me England calls, whatever she's done wrong.
Always calls, "This is where you belong."
And I'm lonesome for a place I know.

Oh but Florence you tempt me (here) to stay,
Amidst your hills to while my years away.
But your roots in soil lie, mine in paving stone.
And I hate what it's become, but in my bones
I'm lonesome for a place I know.
Why does England call?

My three guardian angels say
Each time you smile that way
Dangers lies that way
No-one will believe me
For that sort of thing's beneath me
But I keep repeating three words
It won't last, it won't last
I've been here before it will pass
Don't say I'm mercenary
That's unnecessary
That's not the way love is
Love is here where I live
Love is here here where I live
Desire is a child that clings
And I know the trouble it brings
I remind myself each minute
My home is here and my love is in it
But that's not the way love is
Love is here where I live
Love is here where I live
So I keep repeating three words
It won't last, it won't last
I've been here before it does pass
Reason is unkind
But still I'll know next time
That's not the way love is
Love is here where I live
Love is here where I live
That's not the way love is
Love is here where I live
Love is here where I live
That's not the way love is
Love is here where I live
That's not the way love is
Love is here where I live
That's not the way love is
Love is here where I live

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 wanna 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 woh, love is strange
Many people, oh woh, take it for a game
Once you've had it, oh woh, you're in an awful fix
'Cause after you've had it, oh woh, you never wanna quit
A lot of people, woh woh, they don't understand
They think lovin', oh woh, is money in their hand
Your sweet lovin', oh woh, is better than a kiss
When you leave me, oh woh, those kisses I will miss
When you leave me, oh woh, those kisses I will miss
Those kisses I will miss, those kisses I will miss
Those kisses I will miss

Me and Bobby D don't get along that easily.
You told the world, "Be free, love life".
Tell me, is it true you beat your wife?
You see, me and Bobby D don't get along that easily.
You told the world, "Skip rules fave fun".
Knocked her from here to kingdom come?
How many girls have you had today?
And how many bottles have you downed today?
And while you're on the skids, who's minding the kids?

Go to sleep Bobby D, here's a kiss,
don't worry your pretty head about this.

Me and Saint Jack K never had too much to say.
It's easy driving with your feet,
with some good ol' girl in the passenger seat
watching the road all day,
"Oh honey, what funny things you do say."
But while you're out of your head
who's making the bed?

Go to sleep Bobby D, here's a kiss,
don't worry your pretty head about this.
Go to sleep Saint Jack K,
don't worry your tiny head today

Me and old Bobby D don't get along that famously
A saviour and a seer? Maybe,
but he never meant that much to me.
Sure, I'd love a wild life,
but every wild man needs a mother or wife.
The seven seas you roam
and who's waiting at 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

I step off the train
I'm walking down your street again
and past your door
but you don't live there anymore

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 around your old address

And the years have proven
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

I step off the train
I'm walking down your street again
and past your door
but you don't live there anymore

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 around your old address

And the years have proven
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

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, when 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 theh door's still open.

Love has made mistakes before, it picks
itself up off the floor. For most of us that's how
we live, but my love never could forive 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.

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?

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 (s)he,
(s)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?

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)
Get the map out (get the map out)

I know your part'll go fine.
Fly down to Mexico.
Da-n-da-da-n-da-n-da-da and here I am,
The only living boy in New York.

I get the news I need on the weather report.
I can gather all the news I need on the weather report.
Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile.
Da-n-da-da-n-da-da-n-da-da here I am
The only living boy in New York

Half of the time we're gone but we don't know where
And we don't know where
Ah... Here I am

Tom, get your plane right on time.
I know you've been eager to fly now.
Hey let your honesty shine, shine, shine
Da-n-da-da-n-da-da-n-da-da
Like it shines on me
The only living boy in New York
The only living boy in New York

Ah... Here I am
Ah... Here I am
Ah... Here I am
Here I am

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, aid I
still remembered them when I was nineteen.
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
grow 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 Humber 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.

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, when there's no point in staying you just go.