give me a story and give me a bed give me possessions oh love luck and money they go to my head like wildfire it's good to have something to live for you'll find live for tomorrow live for a job and a perfect behind, high time England my country the home of the free, such miserable weather but England's as happy as England can be why cry
and did you know desire's a terrible thing the worst that I could find and did you know desire's a terrible thing but I rely on mine, a-ah
England my country the home of the free, such miserable weather but England's as happy as England can be why cry
and did you know desire's a terrible thing the worst that I could find and did you know desire's a terrible thing but I rely on mine did you know desire's a terrible thing it makes the world go blind but if desire, desire's a terrible thing you know that I really don't mind
and it's my life and though I can't be sure what I want any more it will come to me later well it's my life.... and it's my life and though I can't be sure if I want any more it will come to me later... ah, yeah
Love picture myself as a thin white child back to the day I was born on they slapped me into line as it crossed my mind I've felt better I've felt worse this is my life and it's all very well but never again
as they say "we've been robbed" and don't you know that this time
love, just love yourself like no one else love, it's enough they can say what they like but they still can't take that
distance myself from the things I'd like but everyone has something I need don't let me wake up & find all those others leaving me behind if you don't have a clue about life then I'm happy to say neither have I although I'm not going to shrug my shoulders & suck my thumb this time
cos there's something I deserve
love, just love yourself like no one else love, it's enough they can say what they like but they still can't take that
picture my house in a postcard town picture a bomb in the sky history at the door who could ask for more? I've felt better so kill me with love just love yourself like no one else time's so scarce where I come from let them say what they like cos they still can't take your love
What do you think? I need a night off but I'll take all year will you take any message? I need a night off I can't stay here I'm sure to find a way out of this I need a night off just read my lips are you getting the message? I'm sick as a dog but I'll just say this you're as sick as I am
so what do you think about me? what do you think about me? everyone around me is driving me mad
here I go along this road feeling I don't want to slow down these days of obsession I need a night off because life's too dear let me show you my photographs see me work, see me rest see me play o I'm sure I had it better back then
so what do you think about me? I couldn't live without me but everything about me is driving me mad
here I go along this road feeling I don't want to slow run so hard, I lose my breath one thing I don't want to know now these days of obsession delirious and uncertain still and will they always stay uncertain still?
24 Hours few true cares have I as the world turns round I was blind but now I'm still blind too few cares have I as the world turns sour I was blind but now I'm still blind I liked you for 24 hours in your house
and when the time has come to live again I shall and I liked you for 24 hours in your house and now the time has come to live again I shall
I liked you but that was before why me? I never knew then and I don't know now
o the things you do all come back to you that's why I hung back but I'll say what I like now
Blood on my hands when people say it's sad you know it can't be bad and on any other day I'd be soul destroyed but now I can't afford to listen to a word they say and of all the times we had o the ultimate late night didn't taste right true words that I should know
blood on my hands when you looked around I couldn't be found a crime's a crime, I'll have to pay
now I find that I'm thigh deep too young for the worst of my mind you whispered behind me "if I may make so bold" call it young & wild but I ran a mile in a minute and there's no going back true words that I should know
blood on my hands when you looked around I couldn't be found a crime's a crime, I'll have to pay
true words I said to myself as the wind chilled my bones "home alone, you call that a late night?" when people say you're dead you know you caught their eye and on any other day I'd be soul destroyed but that's just not the way now
I don't mind telling you nothing is quite what it seems true words that I should know must have been blood on my hands when you look around I couldn't be found a crime's a crime but I don't mind true words that I should know well but surely by now I could say to myself "the days are getting longer so I better get stronger fast" surely by now?
Medicine dig down to the earth here outside lose my mind here any day now don't be sad, we're only half way there o no, that's what I call home you remember the hills we slithered down "I'm not going anywhere" you lied
hell on my own hell here on my own and don't go imagining that time is medicine mark those days & swallow your pills proud of my wise head on young shoulders too bad there was nothing there at all
hell on my own hell here on my own
and it was such a really cold hand I held as the wind sighed "I'm not going & how could I lie?" just be glad there's no way back there I need another look at before though heaven knows how I'd ever make my way back there
and I need another look at before although heaven knows how I'd ever make my way back there
now I know it's hopeless and I realise it's nowhere hell here on my own
people I know places I go make me feel tongue tied I can see how people look down they're on the inside
here's where the story ends
people I see, weary of me showing my good side I can see how people look down I'm on the outside
here's where the story ends ooh here's where the story ends
it's that little souvenir of a terrible year which makes my eyes feel sore oh I never should have said the books that you read were all I loved you for it's that little souvenir of a terrible year which makes me wonder why & it's the memories of the shed that make me turn red surprise surprise surprise
crazy I know, places I go make me feel so tired I can see how people look down I'm on the outside
oh here's where the story ends ooh here's where the story ends
it's that little souvenir of a terrible year which makes my eyes feel sore & who ever would've thought the books that you brought were all I loved you for oh the devil in me said go down to the shed I know where I belong but the only thing I ever really wanted to say was wrong, was wrong, was wrong
it's that little souvenir of a colorful year which makes me smile inside so I cynically, cynically say the world is that way surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise
here's where the story ends ooh here's where the story ends
God Made Me looking for an insult there's a trickle in my head seeing it's worth the effort I forgive myself talks that we had are becoming a blur if only I could love my neighbour waiting here for the next time with a bottle in my hand doing it for the exercise I forget myself the face thet you had is becoming a blur but how was I supposed to know that?
because God made me that's all they told me before and how about you? and it's off to work we go now you can forget about a labour of love
it just won't wash anymore we'd love to be good but we'd rather be bad but how was I supposed to know that?
because God made me that's all they told me before and how about you? because God made people that was the luck of the draw we do what we want
God made me that's what they told me before who knows what they'll say today? because God made me for his sins imagine my eyes when I first saw we can do what we want how could I know? how could I know about it?
I won ooh, let me take a candle to a cellar tonight and I'd like to take some matches there and set it alight I can, cos I've seen those kind of places before ooh, I'd like to have a party in a cellar tonight and I'd love to have a party but it wouldn't be right I shan't, cos I've seen those kind of people before I won the war in the sitting room I won the war but it cost me I won the war and I feel proud but I don't know why it's hard to get to sleep in my house
ooh, I have to pull the blankets up to cover my head and I have to pull the blankets right up but I don't know why it's hard to get to sleep in my house
well you keep following the feel of the fire it's not difficult to see that you're young and selfish, and liberty and money, don't go
let me take a candle to a cellar tonight and you should see the parties we've had before give me the time, give me the time give me your watchword, give me whatever you like (soon we'll be free) I won the war in the sitting room I won the war but it cost me I won the war and I feel proud but God only knows why it's hard to get to sleep in my house ooh (supercilious smile) ooh (you're supercilious so....)
well you keep following the feel of fire it's not difficult to see that you're beautiful and young, and critical of nothing and you keep following the feel of fire it's not difficult to see that you're beautiful and young, but liberty and money, don't go
where's the harm in voicing a doubt you'll find me in the lavatory and where's the harm in talking out loud when I'm on my own what's so wrong with reading my stars when I'll be in the lavatory and what is so wrong with counting the cars when I'm all alone
you're not the only one that I know and I'm too proud to talk to you anyway you're not the only one that I know and I'm far too proud to talk to you any day so I say I'm in love with the world
and what is so wrong with voicing a doubt when I'm on my own it's perfectly fine to sleep in a chair from Monday 'til Saturday and what is so wrong with talking out loud when I'm all alone
you're not the only one that I know and I'm too proud to talk to you anyway you're, you're not the only one that I know but I'm far too proud to talk to you any day
so they rode out west to the seaside and they gladly decided to stay after two hours wandering outside ooh the sea air drove them away, yeah
you're not the only one that I know and I'm too proud to talk to you anyway you're not the only one that I know and I'm far too proud to talk to you any day you're not the only one but I'm far too proud you're (son) you're young but I know, I know, I know, I know I'm far too proud to talk to you any day but if you do, don't you know that I don't mind, no, no, no
a certain someone live your life, have your say read your stars, day by day if I could have anything in the world for free I wouldn't share it with anyone else but me oh, live your life, go your way and I said oh no live your life, stake your claim wash your clothes, change your name ooh, and I said oh, no, no if I could have anything in the world for free I wouldn't share it with anyone else but me
ooh, ah.... you're too twisted by half.... but that's far enough
so live your life, build a home and fill it full of flowers and a bottle of old cologne yeah, if I could have anything in the world for free I wouldn't share it with anyone else but me except perhaps a certain someone except perhaps a certain someone except perhaps a certain someone just to be shown another way out
you're too twisted by half..... but that's far enough
oh, I'd be careful living in a block of flats and I never take the lift to the top no I never take the lift to the top Ah, you're too twisted by half but that's far enough take a swim round, take a look down I'll never believe what we've found we figured it out, we figured it out we lived in a house, in a cold room
I kicked a boy when the weather's fine, when it's sunny outside think about the time I kicked a boy 'til he cried oh, I could've been wrong, but I don't think I was he's such a child when I am alone, I remember so well how merrily I tripped a boy so he fell oh I could've been wrong, but I don't think I was he's totally wild
and I've been wondering lately just who's gonna save me
now I have a cold, and no story to tell I'd marry you but I'm so unwell and I could've been wrong well I don't think I was he's totally wild
and I've been wondering lately just who's gonna save me yes you should've been wise oh hysterical child where'd you learn to do that
my finest hour when the world, it shows me up my clothes, they show me up I never knew this before the finest hour that I've ever known was finding a pound on the Underground when my words came stumbling out then I went tumbling out I've never been hit before the finest hour that I've ever known was finding a pound on the Underground
and I keep hoping you are the same as me and I'll send you letters and come to your house for tea we are who we are, what do the others know but poetry is not for me, so show me the way to go (home)
when the words came stumbling out of my mouth and I went tumbling out (here, no no, no no)
but I keep hoping you are the same as me and I'll send you letters and come to your house for tea we are who we are, what do the others know but poetry is not for me, so show me the way to go oh, I'm going home
but I'll keep hoping you are the only one yes, and I'll send you letters, oh, wouldn't it be such fun oh, we are who we are, whatever the others say but poetry is not for me, as much as I'd like to stay oh, I just want to go home
you're, you're, you're too young should've been, you, you're, you're too young it should've been, you too, you're too, you're too young it should've been, you, you, you're too young you should've been... safe here bribed the judge and then sat down ooh, you're, you're, you're too young
joy the Lone Ranger sold his wardrobe the Lone Ranger sold his bad dog well you saw him and you could hardly know cos times change.... I know some days he's more than humble on some days he's cold and mad, mad as hell well you saw him and you can hardly know it's so strange.... and well I, I know those lakes of golden water those lakes of gold are all running out well you saw him and you could hardly know it's so strange... and well I, I know
joy, joy, joy work, work, work harder sure as the hours joy, joy, joy work, work, work harder you say
your eyes you ask me why I'll tell you then two worlds collide we bury them we're far too drunk to see these things as they are you painted me and I sat quite still a tiny room in Notting Hill it was far too dark to look at things as they are I've seen the light vanish out of your eyes (aah oh no, from your eyes, aah oh) so goodbye you tell me now I'm young and wild you spare the rod and you spoil the child I'd love to stay but I think I'm off to Japan anyway I've seen the light vanish out of your eyes (aah oh no, from your eyes, aah oh) so goodbye (from your eyes, aah oh no, where has it gone?) your eyes have lost their shine
homeward You've stolen my heart and I want you to remember now what'll I do? living alone you've stolen my heart and it hurts me to remember now where'll I go to? living alone and a butterfly in the wind is drifting like I do it's dumb - I know what I want to say but I can't even take one breath as night falls I hear voices on the radio (ooh) I'll follow their dreams and wake up alone and a butterfly in the wind is drifting like I do it's dumb - I know what I want to say but I can't even take one breath so now still burning silently away a storm without the thunder
folk song summer sky and a throat bone dry and the fields are all gold dusty lane with a song in my brain and it stoned me to my soul I climb higher move towards the fire.....blaze sun silver trees and a whispering breeze are my sight and my sound the thought of heaven couldn't drag me from the path when I'm wandering here alone I climb higher move towards the fire.... so blaze sun watch until it dies slow falling from the sky pale fading sun
