The Sundays

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