Everything But The Girl

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?

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.

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

*Repeat

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

*Repeat

My heart is that much harder now
That’s what I thought before today
My heart is that much harder now
I thought that it would stay that way,
Before today
Before today

But I don't want a phone that never rings

*Repeat

I want your love ...

You don't know what's wrong, you only know it isn't right.
You don'tremember for how long, but you wake in tears at night.
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 say 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
what is it you wanna feel?
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. What is it you wanna feel?
I don't think you wanna feel.

London, summer
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.
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 and what I fear is always here my atmosphere.
Pig in the middle
I mean a lot, I mean a little
I mean a lot, I mean a little

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

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?

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
I don't wanna feel this way

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

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)

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
Do you want me back
Do you want me back
Do you want me back
Do you want me back

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? Why don't you love me?

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.

<< 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.

<< 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 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 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.
Wherever you go I will follow you,
cause I was wrong

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.

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

And I see forests and it's the 25th 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
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
newspapers and a car in the carport, and you're 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 at 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 struck 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. (Come on, come on,
it's there at your feet).....

Look at you now, you're 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?

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

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 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

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.

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

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
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
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 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
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
I guess 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

and I miss you
you've found some better place
and I miss you
like the deserts miss the rain
and I miss you
like the deserts miss the rain
and I miss you
like the deserts miss the rain
and I miss you
like the deserts miss the rain
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

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 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.

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

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

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 word 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, 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 babe that's
something that I don't disregard. I don't disregard. But with your
troubled mind, you're like a goods train running through my life.

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 ahve put into them,
and that's my problem, but you tied these knots,
now you undo them. you undo them.
Oh think before you speak, my darling.

Cause with your troubled mind,
you're like a goods train running through my life.
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, love you.

With your troubled mind,
you're like a goods train running through my life.
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 babe that's something I don't disregard.
I said, I don't disregard.

With your troubled mind,
you're like a goods train running through my life
With your troubled mind,
you're like a goods train running through my life.

With your troubled mind, you know
I love you, love you, love you, love you.
With your troubled mind, you know
I love you, love you, love you, love you.
With your troubled mind,
you're like a goods train running through my life.

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 christsakes anyway
to judge a life this way when my own's in disarray?
I watch Saturday kid's TV with the sound turned down
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 life from day to day,
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 own's in disarray

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 christsakes anyway to judge a life this way, when my own's in
disarray? I watch Saturday kid's TV 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, 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 own's in disarray....

I met your boyfriend on St. Martin's Lane
and he said"Fancy running into you again".
We talked a minute or sothen 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

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

If you loose your faith babe you can have mine
and if you're lost I'm right behind
cause we walk the same line.

Now I don't have to tell you
how slow the night can go
I know you've watched for the light.

And I bet you could tell me
how slowly four follows three
and you're most forlorn just before dawn.

So if you loose your faith babe
you can have mine
and if you're lost I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line.

When it's dark baby,
there's a light I'll shine,
and if you're lost, I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line.

And I don't need reminding
how loud the phone can ring
when you're waiting for news.

And that big old moon
lights every corner of the room.
Your back aches from lying
and your head aches from crying.

So if you loose your faith babe,
you can have mine,
and if you're lost, I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line.

When it's dark baby,
there's a light I'll shine,
and if you're lost, I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line.

And if these troubles
should vanish like rain on midday,
well I've no doubt there'll be more.

And we can't run and we can't cheat,
cause babe when we meet
what we're afraid of,
we find out what we're made of.

So if you loose your faith babe,
you can have mine,
and if you're lost, I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line.

When it's dark baby,
there's a light I'll shine,
and if you're lost, I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line

If you lose your faith, babe, you can have mine, and if you're lost I'm
right behind, cause we walk the same line. Now I don't have to tell you
how slow the night can go, I know you've watched for the light. And I
bet you could tell me how slowly four follows three, and you're most
forlorn just before dawn. So if you lose your faith, babe, you can have
mine, and if you're lost I'm right behind, cause we walk the same line.
And I don't need reminding how loud the 'phone can ring when you're
waiting for news. And that big old moon lights every corner of the
room. Your back aches from lying and your head aches from crying. So if
you lose your faith, babe, you can have mine, and if you're lost I'm
right behind, cause we walk the same line. And if these troubles should
vanish like rain at midday, well I've no doubt there'll be more. And we
can't run and we can't cheat, cause baby when we meet what we're afraid
of, we find out what we're made of. So if you lose your faith, babe, you
can have mine, and if you're lost I'm right behind, cause we walk the
same line...

I walked the city late at night
Just everyone here, do the same
I wanna live the things I see
'cause every face, replace my name

Across the street, take a right
Pick up the pace, pass a fight
Did I grow up? Did you stay home?
I'm not inmune, 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 drive the city late at night
It's in my mouth, it's in my head
And the people filled the city
'Cause the city fills the people, oh yeah

Across the street, avoid the freeze
The city's warm by couple of degrees
The smell of food, the smell of rain
I'm not inmune, I love this tune

I wanna love more (there's a river in my head)
I just wanna love you more (there's a river in my head)
I wanna love you more (there's a river in my head)
I just wanna love you more (there's a river in my head)

Only way out is down
Only way up is down

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 walked the city late at night
Just everyone here, do the same
I wanna live the things I see
'cause every face, replace my name

Across the street, take a right
Pick up the pace, pass a fight
Did I grow up? Did you stay home?
I'm not inmune, 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 drive the city late at night
It's in my mouth, it's in my head
And the people filled the city
'Cause the city fills the people, oh yeah

Across the street, avoid the freeze
The city's warm by couple of degrees
The smell of food, the smell of rain
I'm not inmune, I love this tune

I wanna love more (there's a river in my head)
I just wanna love you more (there's a river in my head)
I wanna love you more (there's a river in my head)
I just wanna love you more (there's a river in my head)

Only way out is down
Only way up is down

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 walked the city late at night
Just everyone here, do the same
I wanna live the things I see
'cause every face, replace my name

Across the street, take a right
Pick up the pace, pass a fight
Did I grow up? Did you stay home?
I'm not inmune, 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 drive the city late at night
It's in my mouth, it's in my head
And the people filled the city
'Cause the city fills the people, oh yeah

Across the street, avoid the freeze
The city's warm by couple of degrees
The smell of food, the smell of rain
I'm not inmune, I love this tune

I wanna love more (there's a river in my head)
I just wanna love you more (there's a river in my head)
I wanna love you more (there's a river in my head)
I just wanna love you more (there's a river in my head)

Only way out is down
Only way up is down

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 walked the city late at night
Just everyone here, do the same
I wanna live the things I see
'cause every face, replace my name

Across the street, take a right
Pick up the pace, pass a fight
Did I grow up? Did you stay home?
I'm not inmune, 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 drive the city late at night
It's in my mouth, it's in my head
And the people filled the city
'Cause the city fills the people, oh yeah

Across the street, avoid the freeze
The city's warm by couple of degrees
The smell of food, the smell of rain
I'm not inmune, I love this tune

I wanna love more (there's a river in my head)
I just wanna love you more (there's a river in my head)
I wanna love you more (there's a river in my head)
I just wanna love you more (there's a river in my head)

Only way out is down
Only way up is down

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 walked the city late at night
Just everyone here, do the same
I wanna live the things I see
'cause every face, replace my name

Across the street, take a right
Pick up the pace, pass a fight
Did I grow up? Did you stay home?
I'm not inmune, 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 drive the city late at night
It's in my mouth, it's in my head
And the people filled the city
'Cause the city fills the people, oh yeah

Across the street, avoid the freeze
The city's warm by couple of degrees
The smell of food, the smell of rain
I'm not inmune, I love this tune

I wanna love more (there's a river in my head)
I just wanna love you more (there's a river in my head)
I wanna love you more (there's a river in my head)
I just wanna love you more (there's a river in my head)

Only way out is down
Only way up is down

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 know i wasn't good
- maybe i was evern 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.
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.
now you forgot the words,
please don't forget you name.
and who gave that to you?
well that was me again.
who let you down and love you?
that was me again.
and who's the one to blame?
that was me again.
i'm the one to blame.

la la la la
dum de dum de

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 than a year.
i could almost like you,
now it's nearly over,
now you're feeling hopeless,
now you're looking older.
i heard what you said,
and i recognised those feelings.
i know how hard it is to watch it go.
and all the effort that it took to get there
in the first place
and all the effort not to let the effort show.
i could almost like you
now you're looking over your shoulder.
who's gonna come and find you?
if you can ride the backlast
there's still time for a comeback.
you don't heave to lie down and die.
but lazarus he only did it just the one time
- he couldn't face another cry.
i could almost like you
now you're falling over,
now you're feeling hopeless,
now you're looking over your shoulder.
who's gonna come and find you?
who's coming up behind you.

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 drag the city late at night.
it's in my mouth, it's in my hair.
the people fill the city
because the 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.
the only way out is down.
the only way up is down.
the days 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 fists against the sides of 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.
i'll take you home and make it easy.
love more.

suburbia, 1 a.m.
you're walking home again.
shopping bags and broken glass,
i hate going thru the underpass.
i wish there was some other way round
but you got beaten up by the playground,
and it's no use,
wei'll have to go thru the deseted shopping centre.
pedestrian walkways -i thought
they were meant to make things better,
but it's just emptier,
and scary at night time.
hatfield at that time.
this is the place i live.
where is everyone?
are we the only ones?
this is the place i live and so does everyone,
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.
this is the place i live.
where is everyone?
are we the only ones?
this is the place i live and so does everyone,
so does everyone.
when i'm looking back i look for everyone.
and when i fall down i fall for anyone.

london in the low tide of the night,
not a taxi cab in sight.
anaesthetised i start the journey home.
i've been living months alone,
i've been avoiding things - the phone rings,
i use the answerphone.
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 you family,
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,
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.
when you're down and troubled
you don't tell your friends,
you don't tell our family,
won't let them talk about me.
i'm gonna let nobody 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,
won't let them talk about me.
i'm gonna let nobody down.

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.
i'm on the dark side of the street,
not the light side of the street.
it's packed at 2 am.
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'm on the dark side of the street,
not the light side of the street.
it's packed at 2am.
i've got no coat, are you on your own?
i'm into you.
when are you going home?
get into me.
i saw you stading at the bar,
don't know your name
or who you are.
it's packed at 2am.
i've got no coat, are you on your own?
i'm into you.
when are you going home?
get into me.

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
- ther'e 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 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 does down
and all the lights come on,
and they call to me,
oh come on, come,
and 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 exist
- how can you resist?
but the light goes down
and the streetlights shine
and they call to me,
you'll be dead a long time
and it makes a difference to me.
and the light does down
and all the lights come on
and they call to me,
oh come on, come on.
you can make a difference to me.
come on,
make a difference to me.

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.

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
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 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

the future of the future
will still contain the past
where time goes slow
and time goes fast.
i can feel you looking back at me
to see how i've got on.
what is it eating at you
that makes you want me now i'm gone?
and it's so bright tonight.
do you see those cars, those light?
the future of the future
will still repeat today
where time goes fast
then fades away.
you say - "think of the old days,
we could have them back again".
well i've thought about the old days
and they'd go bad like they did then.
and it's so bright tonight.
do you see those cars, those lights?
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 it's so bright tonight.
do your see those cars, those lights?
do you see these roads, these sights?
what you gonna do about me now?
what you gonna do about me now?
it's so bright tonight.

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?e done
What is it inside you that makes you want to be my god

Well it? so bright tonight
It? so bright tonight
It? so bright tonight
Do you see those cars, those lights?

The future of the future will still repeat today
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? go bad like they did then

Well it? so bright tonight
It? so bright tonight
It? so bright tonight
Do you see those cars, those lights?

The future of the future will still contain tonight
The passage of day the passage of light
I? not going home again
Tomorrow will never come
I? not going home again
Tomorrow will never come

Well it? so bright tonight
It? so bright tonight
Do you see those cars, those lights?
Do you see those roads, these skies?

What ya gonna do about me now?
(Repeat 8x)

It? so bright tonight

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
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 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

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
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 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

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
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 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

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
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 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

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
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 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

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
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 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

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
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 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

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
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 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 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
Do you want me back
Do you want me back
Do you want me back
Do you want me back

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.

I have a friend and she comes from the high plains
Wise as the hills and fresh as the rains
I have a friend and she taught me daring
Threw back the windows and let the air in

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
Took me an atlas to find her town
And to realise that the world was round

For all she knows
Bless my blue moon rose

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 memory
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

Yes it's true that I cling to things
That I should leave behind
As if those were the goldens days
Well, I just hope that you really don't mind

Slowly runs the lazy river
Every Monday is Goodbye Sunday etc etc

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.

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

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

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.

Let me tell you about this torch I carry
It's not much of a career
And it won't make my fortune I fear
But it stays alight and won't be buried
It's brighter year-by-year
And someday it will surely disappear

When it does I'll know I've laid to rest
The ghost of your unhappiness
That flits around from room to room
A widow on a honeymoon
A shadow on a harvest moon

So put away this torch you carry
For it's doing you no good
And surely you know by now that you should
And come the day you die or marry
Will you be understood
When you say that you wanted but never could

Turn your back and lay to rest
The ghost of your unhappiness
That flits around from room to room
A widow on a honey moon
A shadow on a harvest moon

I write these words to make them true,
"I've drowned my torch and so should you."