B i o g r a p h y (by Kathleen C. Fennessy)
Often compared to Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake — quite favorably, no less — singer/songwriter Kathryn Williams was born in Liverpool in 1974. Her father was a folksinger and, as a child, she studied piano and guitar and enjoyed listening to the classic rock of the 1960s. Although she studied art while in college at Newcastle, that was where and when her interest in songwriting flourished. As influences, she has claimed a diverse array of artists, including Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Tim Buckley, Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen, the Velvet Underground, and Nick Cave (whose "Into My Arms" played at her wedding). In 1999, Williams released her debut, Dog Leap Stairs, on her own Caw Records. Co-produced by P.J. Harvey associate Head, it's been said that it only cost 80 pounds to record (although some sources say as little as 75). As Mitchell has done with many of her album covers, Williams designed the arresting image on the front of hers. The album received praise for her clear voice and spare arrangements. That September, she played before her biggest audience yet (2,500) when she appeared as part of "English Originals," the Nick Drake Tribute Night at London's Barbican. Her performance of "Saturday Sun" was considered one of the highlights of the charity event and led to an invitation to provide backing vocals to Drake friend John Martyn's 2000 release, Glasgow Walker. Williams poured even more of her own money (3000 pounds) into 2000's Little Black Numbers, which was again co-produced by Head and released by Caw. It garnered her best reviews yet from the notoriously fickle British press and would go on to secure a prestigious Mercury Music Prize nomination (an award won that year by Badly Drawn Boy). The resulting sales got her out of debt and led to a licensing arrangement with East West (a subsidiary of AOL/TimeWarner), which re-released it in 2001. Williams continued to branch out beyond the confines of folk when she contributed "Day by Day" to Signs (2000) by the Indian-born electronica duo Badmarsh and Shri (it also appears on the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation soundtrack). Another surprising collaboration was "Demons in Cases," a 2002 single with electronica act Pedro (aka James Rutledge). Williams recorded her third full-length, Old Low Light, with Head in South Wales and Newcastle. Released by East West in 2002, the cover features a family photograph (of Williams and her father at the beach). By this time, her backing band had solidified around Laura Reid on cello, Jonny Bridgewood on bass, David Scott on guitar, and Alex Tustin on percussion. Later that year, she contributed "Easy and Me" to Total Lee! The Songs of Lee Hazlewood. Over the years, Williams has also released a number of singles; an unusual move for a folk artist, but also a sign that she has — or is perceived to have — "crossover potential." And that she does, hence the occasional comparison to more pop-oriented artists like Beth Orton, Turin Breaks, and Belle and Sebastian.
Dog leap stairs - 1999-05-10 -
Leazes park Night came What am i doing here No-one to blame Something like that Lydia Handy Dog without wings Fade Madmen and maniacs
Little black numbers - 2000-03-xx -
We dug a hole Soul to feet Stood Jasmine hoop Fell down fast Flicker Intermission (Instrumental) Tell the truth as if it were lies Toocan Morning song Each star we see We came down from the trees
Old low light - 2002-08-02 -
Little black numbers White, blue and red Mirrorball Devices Daydream and saunter Beatles Wolf Tradition Swimmer On for you No one takes you home 3am phonecall
Three Indifference #1 Breath Old Low Light #2 Just Like A Birthday Shop Window Escaping Beachy Head City Streets Until the Dark (Instrumental) Baby Blues Full Colour
Blue Onto You Let It Happen Sustain Pedal Stevie Sandy L When Glass Bottom Boat Hollow Opened Room In My Head
Carved Circle Round A Tree The River Pass Us By The Art Of Doing Nothing Memory Let Down Bebop Hard Shoulder End Of The Pier Evening Star Aim
Blackwater Side First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Foreign Skies Ghost Kiss the Forehead North country maid Some Kind Of Wonderful This woman's work Who knows where the time goes
Dog leap stairs
Leazes park
You waited for me On the green grass behind the park I felt your breath On the back of my neck From two hundred yards You waited for me You said you didn't I know you lied I've been watching you for hours I trusted you I cared for you With the most important thing And you said Everything you did Was for me Yeah look down at your feet Your own look me in ? 'Cause I waited for you And you waited for me 'Cause I waited for you And you waited, you waited for me Your just still love Your just still love Your just still love You're just a still love You're just a still love You're just a still love 'Cause I waited for you And you waited for me
Night came
Night came to me Like a tired movie star Crept up to me in the dark I heard it call You're too tired to listen to me But you'll miss me If you sleep And what's a day Without a night To give it birth Lie below Watch it rise What is worse I need her like She needs me How can you say The night is free You cursed me cause i stole the light But i helped the blind Took everybody's sight Then they bought the light from the day Now there's not a safe place And what's a day Without a night To give it birth Lie below watch it rise What is worse I need her like She needs me how can you say The night is free
What am i doing here?
What am i doing here When i was brought in the world Through blood and tears How will it end How will it end I'm not trying to be melodramic I try hard to think what i'm going to say 'Cause i want to keep the friends that i've got Well i think i do anyway How will it end How will it end I can't think of good things When they happen I wait for the shit to come And i love you one and all One and all What am i doing here When i was brought in the world Through blood and tears How will it end How will it end I'm going to stop being scared Of what happens when i say what I think I'm gonna stand up and be brave about it Look who i am i've got a brain I've got a thought between these ears Feelings between eyes You want to see And i am no pig with it's trotters on your plate To come and cut into and salivate into What am i doing here I was brought in this world through blood and tears How will it end How will it end How will it end How will it end How will it end
No-one to blame
Show it to me one more time Give it a try say that you were wrong And i was right There's no one to blame I'd prefer it wasn't me I don't chase fools or make rules Saying you and me are meant to be No, no, no, no, no ... Said it in basic french I've slept with someone I love her 'cause she looks like you There's no one to blame You just look the same Do i really have to choose? No, no, no, no, no ... In a hotel undercover Heard you speaking through my new lover I'm not to blame we‘re all the same You'll be tired of me when he gets tired of you No, no, no, no, no ... Bringing it down Down to my level Where you think i am Bringing it down, down down Down to my level Where you think i am Come down, down Down to my level I know you'll understand Down down down Down to my level I know you'll understand
Something like that
Saw the future to the past Saw the silence that is now Soaked it up in a cloth Hung it up with old rows Something like that Oh god it's all coming back Something like that Something like that Something like that ... I was calm sure of things I put on your boots And started to sing What a life which one do i choose You or her her or you I'll wait a while and have some fun with this Have some fun Something like that Oh i'm so coming back Something like that Something like that Something like that ... Something like that Oh god it's all coming back To see things you way I have to step out of me And look out of you Into me Something like that Something like that Something like that ...
Lydia Sometimes the rain rains Sometimes the sunshine shines Over and over again Washing us warm and dry Over the hill i watched you walk up to me Wind in the grass Brushed you up like from the sea Ahh ahh ahh ahh Darker than blue into grey We watched the sun go down Lights in the houses went on Like sun shining from the ground Then over the hill I watched you walk up to me Wind in the grass Brushed you up like from the sea.
Handy
Lonely never a thought from you Simply only Nothing to you I just wanted A slice of your life A bit of spice in my life A bit of nice in my life Something keeps you from me Nothing wrong in just letting it be Letting it be Stop the rain Close your eyes Close your sleepy eyes Listen to the traffic flow
Dog without wings
Ddogs been hanging 'round my door for three days Been barking like they're talking It's been raining for more than three days And still they're not moving I tasted her on your skin I didn't tell you You tasted her in your mind You didn't tell me You talk of angels and their wings Do you think your God Cause i am no angel with pretty wings I am barking with the dogs I saw her and me in your eyes Both of us inside you Two loves inside you And the only thing you wanted was you Dogs been hanging 'round my door for three days Been barking like they're talking It's been raining for more than three days And still they're not moving
Fade
Fade into the distance Paler and paler and Fade into the wallpaper Slowly when i don't look The more that i will you The less it hurts inside Time on my own is like cool fresh air After summer sunlight You fade away Beautifully dissolved And my profile is clear Ready to be resolved You were my back door key When there was a queue to get in Maybe i was a tease to laugh at you Eating out of that tin But it's hard not to be who i am When i feel so at home There's nothing more sexy Than watching someone who doesn't know They are being watched and You fade away Beautifully dissolved And my profile is clear Ready to be resolved Fade into the distance Paler and paler and Fade into the wallpaper.
Madmen and maniacs
No one is going to hurt you I'm the one who will protect you Let your walls down I wanna be around you I just don't want to surround you You think everyone has got it in for you I feel the same way It doesn't mean it's true Let your walls down I wanna be around you I just don't want to surround you I'm sinking down down in white sheets And hot sleep With the traffic of mad men and maniacs I'm sinking down down in white sleep and hot sheets With mad men and maniacs I'm sinking down with mad men and maniacs.
Little black numbers
We dug a hole
You said Clichés come from the truth Of beauty that every one feels they can own Is then truth Being rubbed out or watered down We dug a hole To keep everyone out of view We dug a hole Hoped it was big enough. The water was like creased old leather Lit by a bare bulb And we talked about the swirly island waters They dug a hole To keep everyone out of view They dug a hole Filled it with water Late into the night Through dried up popcorn and sticky carpets Words danced upwards To tired out lyrics They dug a hole To keep everything out of view They dug a hole Warmer than wood, bold and safe Warmer than wood, bold and safe Warmer than wood, bold and safe
Soul to feet
You only stop talking When you're sleeping There's got to be something wrong With your past I can't talk if i'm thinking I'm not gonna move so fast Is your life so exciting You have to tell everyone you meet Try to make it so enticing You wear your soul out to your feet Always leave before them You want them to think You've got so much to do Maybe they're not thinking of you If you would shut up Someone could save you Manipulate everything And that's how i love you Is your life so exciting You have to tell everyone you meet Try to make it so enticing You wear your soul out to your feet Always leave before them You want them to think You've got so much to do Maybe they're not thinking of you Is your life so exciting You have to tell everyone you meet Try to make it so enticing You wear your soul out to your feet Always leave before them You want them to think You've got so much to do Maybe they're not thinking of you If you would shut up Someone could save you Manipulate everything And that's how i love you
Stood
All i ask for is the sign for my fleeting Lift me to your light Felt the warmth back in my eyes I used to follow you round in a casual way Miss good shows on the radio just to see your face And you Just stood You kept me there Bare to what you were And you Just would Be happy to be loved by me But not for good Not for good. I never thought that i'd get to talk to you You are always about never in doubt of what you've got to do I knew i'd be nervous now What was i then Years had passed my frustration was masked I knew i would not be again And you Just stood You kept me there Bare to what you were And you Just would Be happy to be loved by me But not for good Not for good.
Jasmine hoop
Window light shines through the leaves of my plant And a jasmine hoop swings on the highest branch We took cheap shots at each other on the phone But it was my last chance before you were gone You stand there ignoring all my friends 'Cause you said i'm all you can stand I'm going to tell you half the story so you'll come back I'm going to tell you half the answers so if you get one You won't expect it Don't expect it dear I'm nobody's fool I'm nobody's fool I'm nobody's fool You stand there ignoring all my friends 'Cause you said i'm all you can stand I'm going to tell you half the story so you'll come back I'm going to tell you half the answers so if you get one You won't expect it Don't expect it dear 'Cause you said i'm all you can stand
Fell down fast
Ii fell down fast fell down free Lost my money lost my greed I just want the prize you gave to them Became a saint from just a friend Mending boats on white hot sands We all want to still think you are there 'Cause you were the one that spoke out We were the ones you tried to stay awake We were the ones sorting our lives out You were the one who made the break You fell down fast fell down free Found a freedom lost the needs I just want to prize you away We carry on we carry memories With every day your turning into dreams I just want one more argument 'Cause you were the one that spoke out We were the ones you tried to stay awake We were the ones sorting our lives out You were the one who made the break You fell down fast we fell down fast Fell down fast In just a flash you fell down fast Fell down fast You fell down fast you fell down fast Fell down fast In just a flash you fell down fast Fell down fast
Flicker
I watch you wait At the bus stop with one eye On your watch You turn and say To strangers there's not enough time For one man in one life Just a flicker and then a breeze Breeze, breeze But you sit there for hours Watching programmes you don't Plan to watch they just come on And if you had one chance to change Would you review your plans? 'Cause there's not enough time For one man in one life Just a flicker and then a breeze Breeze, breeze I keep my time Saved in a box From going fast in cars I've piled it up high From saying hello to friends With a quick goodbye 'Cause there's not enough time In one life for one man Just a flicker and then a breeze 'Cause there's not enough time For one man in one life Just a flicker And a breeze Breeze, breeze, breeze, breeze, breeze ...
Tell the truth as if it were lies
You said your words i walked to the door Then you walked behind me Went to the station the train was late You said i feel dead In this place You listen to yourself All of the time Cut off every line i say How did you turn it all around I won't be playing your game today You tell the truth As if it were lies You tell the truth As if it were lies I did what i could to make myself seen But you said you liked secrets Well here is a secret just for you I'm more now i'm not with you Everything is an act, every line is a test You're clothes are just a costume The beauty you keep is not from within You'll be saying bye bye bye bye bye bye bye to it soon You tell the truth As if it were lies You tell the truth As if it were lies You said your words i walked to the door Then you walked behind me Went to the station the train was late You said i feel dead In this place You said you said you said you said
Toocan
The bird flew into the window Saw himself and got confused Saw himself and fell in love Flew straight into the glass Nothing can move me at this minute Changing my life to fit myself in it A passion in life is all i want in it Please let me wake up one day And find myself found Find myself found The bird flew into the window
Morning song
There's a mood on your mouth Sparkles like a jewel It's the morning So you're going to be cruel With your quiet dismay Of one more day That you just have to live through And put your clothes on Don't walk around bare I said put your clothes on There's nobody there Lie back asleep Go back to your dreams And live on
Each star we see
You left me in your house Full of mysteries full of silence I looked at all your things 'til i believed they were mine Sit and relax, sit and relax, sit and relax And there's no contemplation of our situation Only at night do we think of our lives Being a blink of a greater world But each star we see in the sky is a sun like our own beginnning to die And our future in their past or the other way round Come on see it the other way round Around He can hear a pin drop from fourty yards With the door shut So why can't he hear my heart Escape through the back door No, you're like a cup of water Swimming on a bigger sea You can't spill out of yourself Spill on the floor spill onto me But each star we see in the sky is a sun like our own beginnning to die And our future in their past or the other way round Come on see it the other way round Around Each star we see in the sky is a sun like our own beginnning to die And our future in their past or the other way round Come on see it the other way round Each star we see In the sky Is a sun Like our own Beginnning to die Each star, each star, each star Each star we see, each star we see Each star, each star, each star
We came down from the trees
When we say what we've done And shown how we've grown Wwe'll never hold onto What we think we own All we can say is We came down from the trees We came down from the trees And did we learn sarcasm Or fighting with glasses Dividing the money and making the classes Before we came down From the trees We came down from the trees Ed and Neil said There was so much confusion On what is called progress And what's evolution Maybe we were happier before We came down from the trees We came down from the trees And i'm swinging from my branch Waiting for my arms to get longer So i can reach the next tree Move into it's shelter But i am so tired I'm so so tired I just, and I just come down Come down Come down from the trees I might just come down from the trees I might just come down from the trees
Old low light
Little black numbers Pushed over steel Is what you hear To make you feel free Little black numbers Pushed over wood Is all that you could live for You are to me Deeper than souls Pushed in the ground Time is a clock That pushed us together Makes us feel old Makes us feel old Sound pushing down Sound pushed us down If heaven and hell Were both in the same place Would fences appear If all the wasps were devils And bees were the angels We'd bat them about We'd bat them about But bees and wasps Are just fat men and thin girls They're just fat men and thin girls They're just fat men and thin girls Fat men and thin girls Fat men and thin girls Fat men and thin girls ...
White, blue and red
Smoke a galouise at the after show Even though you gave up a year ago Think of all the ways to meet your heroes While she wraps you around her ego It's lost its charm Change the scenery round Pick the colours up town Where the noise is loud Now where did my spirit go You think you would have learnt by now That broken love can still be bound You still have the photos she looked her best When she was with you instead of all of the rest It's lost its charm Change the scenery round Pick the colours up town Where the noise is loud Now where did my spirit go Show me the way i'm sick of waiting For love to show its head again White blue and red My love changed from my head And left on its own
Mirrorball
Mirrorball You lit every dark corner Made the air feel like it was dancing Your eyes like an old coloured vinyl Were hiding in grooves a smile Like a sweet aria I was searching for something divine And ended up making the mundane into my shrine And we all know A little but we're tricked by the same sense of wanting Like silence mistaken for knowing Like a desert's mistaken for sea Like a tongue has a mother We belong to each other We belong to each other Moonlight Is so overrated Complete darkness Is so embracive And as we travelled north There were crows and seagulls Stood on either side Like angels and demons And we knew what we wanted to hear The wind singing like your sweet aria And the clouds blew at shadows Tricked by the same sense of wanting Like silence mistaken for knowing Like a desert's mistaken for sea Like a tongue has a mother We belong to each other We belong to each other.
Devices
If i was left to my own devices I wouldn't go out in the rain If i was in a room with all of my vices You'd never see me again You sing 'cause you're loosing The last threads of night There's no time for dancing But maybe you might The sort of song you sing on sundays Could be as down as rain The things i do to get to see you The random hanging 'round on trains You sing 'cause you're loosing The last threads of night There's no time for dancing But maybe you might Pick your three favourite roll necks And catch the next flight But you won't
Daydream and saunter
Your shadow danced on the side of the train All i was left with was a memory that was tamed I know there's no more in you than you The only thing that could keep us together now is glue And you daydream and saunter like life was your lover I know you'll be like that when you're older You were eyes moving slowly You were lips that knew their beauty i was nothing that i really am Trying to love this man You daydream I want the proof Insulting me more than i insulted you And you daydream and saunter like life was your lover I know you'll be like that when you're older
Beatles
Our lives were like lines on a map You could measure us by comparison She found out if she took off her clothes She could score men by embarrassment We were nodding dogs in her company And she hitch hiked through houses Going nowhere on the sign But then she'd leave the sign behind And she said there was no music Before i came along They changed my brain And I made the beatles appear I made the beatles appear Out of nowhere You can drop me off here Seeing me at the side of the road With all the wheel trims You'd guess my old life comes with me a story for you But i made the beatles And I could even invent you
Wolf
You chose silence You chose it more than life You chose everything that you could I knew from then more would be had from you 'Cause you blow the life You blew the light You blow the life out of her You sit around You sit around Wanting her To want you back You don't see yourself as the wolf You only see her as the girl You won't be out in the woods You'll be waiting for her behind the curtains You don't see the mess you've made You don't see the life you've taken from her With every breath you suck in You're more than the wolf You're more than the wolf Suck in like wolf Suck in, suck in, suck in Suck in, suck in, suck in Sucking
Tradition
Driving home from the wedding feeling static From everything moving Like the man on his farm who fought for the motorway To be built on either side Everywhere tradition draws circles to define A big round honeymoon a wedding ring a hug from your dad As you walk in slowly And waltz back out again Everywhere tradition draws circles to define Everywhere tradition draws circles to define I thought of you all Up there drawing hearts above their heads Like plane trails drawn in permanent ink In permanent ink Driving home from the wedding Driving home from the wedding
Swimmer
You said that i'm the best swimmer You've seen give me a ring You sat there up on you're high chair Give me a ring 'Cause i can't swim to the edge Feel i'm becoming the marie celeste And there's choosing to live Instead of changing into a myth You said i'm better than deceit So give it a rest He's somewhere drinking 'til he forgets Who he really is He built himself up lonely Wish his life was as peaceful As the marie celeste And there's choosing to live But he'd love he'd love he'd love to be a myth And there's fight s on the wall How come pints are so small Than three months ago And there's choosing to live But it could end any minute so he'll drift he'll drift he'll drift into myth Into myth, into myth, into myth Into myth, into myth, into myth Into myth
On for you
The streetlights are on for you Shine behind your curtains A carnival of cars on wet Bring shell sounds of oceans You light your fire And don't look down I watch the last light turn off in your flat And silence the town I'm inside the dark for you You're still shining Look at the mess i've made The path i've given you But you light your fire And don't look down I watch the last light turn off in your flat And darken the town You light your fire And don't look down I watch the last light turn off in your flat And silence the town
No one takes you home
Now is the time to find out why you're buying everything Now is the time to find out why you sigh at everything You dress your self up to the top of your knickers And you smell so good it's like a box of chocolates But no one takes you home No one takes you home You've watched all the romance on the television It's too much to bear you've got to get a new sort of vision You've done your best at the gym you've got your lip-gloss on You're going to the doctors to see if it's a medical problem 'Cause no one takes you home No one takes you home It's breakfast, it's lunchtime, it's dinnertime Spent with all those women's magazines That tell you you're not as fine as you look To yourself in the mirror In the morning when you smile To get yourself out of the door To give life why can't life give you some more? 'Cause no one takes you home
3am phonecall
I've been here before this situation is sold The form that it takes And the end result Your life feels it's been wrote into The same sad ending Your heart keeps on holding For the next script to come in It's the game you've entered And life's what you're getting Life has always been yours She looked up quick and back down Like a flash from a light house He noticed the sea asleep in her eyes He knew from that point That this was her gift to him Movement of the moon And love with no sad end It's the game you've entered And life's what you're getting Life has always been yours It's the game you've entered And life's what you're getting Life has always been yours Life has always been yours
Relations In A Broken Dream
( David Bentley )
Every day I spend my time drinking wine, feeling fine… Waiting here to find the sign that I can understand, yes, I am. In the days between the hours, ivory towers, Bloody flowers push their hands into the air… I don't care if I ever know, there I go. Don't push your love too far. Your wounds won't leave a scar. Right now is where you are… In a broken dream! Did someone bow their head? Did someone break the bread? Good people are in bed before nine o'clock. On the pad before my eyes, paper cries, telling lies, The promises you gave from the grave of a broken heart… Hmmm… Every day I spend my time drinking wine, feeling fine… Waiting here to find the sign that I can understand, yes, I am. Oooooh! I sit here in my lonely room… Don't push your love too far. You know your wounds won't even leave a scar. Right now is where you are… In a broken dream! And don't forget what I said? Hoooooo! Ivory towers… Bloody flowers Birds
( Neil Young )
Lover, There will be another one Who'll hover Over you beneath the sun Tomorrow See the things that never come Today When you see me Fly away without you Shadow on the things you know Feathers fall around you And show you the way to go It's over, it's over. Nestled In your wings my little one This special Morning brings another sun Tomorrow See the things That never come Today When you see me Fly away without you Shadow on the things you know Feathers fall around you And show you the way to go It's over, it's over.
Thirteen
( Big Star )
Won't you let me walk you home from school Won't you let me meet you at the pool Maybe Friday I can Get tickets for the dance And I'll take you Won't you tell your dad, "Get off my back" Tell him what we said about "Paint It, Black" Rock 'n Roll is here to stay Come inside where it's okay And I'll shake you. Won't you tell me what you're thinking of. Would you be an outlaw for my love If it's so, well, let me know If it's "no" well, I can go. I won't make you.
Hallelujah
( Leonard Cohen )
Well I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? Well it goes like this The fourth, the fifth The minor chord and the major lift. The baffled king composing Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you And she tied you To her kitchen chair, Broke your throne, and cut your hair. And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah . Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Baby, I've been here before I know this room and I've walked this floor You know, I used to live alone before I knew you And I've seen your flag on the marble arch, Love's not some kind of victory march, It's a cold and a broken Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah There was a time when you let me know What's really going on below But now you never show it to me, do you? But I remember when I moved in you, Holy dove was moving too, And every breath we drew was Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah
*** Thanx a lot to Debbie who corrected this one ***
The Ballad Of Easy Rider
( The Byrds )
The river flows, it flows to the sea Wherever that river goes that's where I want to be Flow river flow, let your waters wash down Take me from this road to some other town All he wanted was to be free And that's the way it turned out to be Flow river flow, let your waters wash down Take me from this road to some other town Flow river flow, past the shady trees Go river go, go to the sea Flow to the sea The river flows, it flows to the sea Wherever it goes that's where I want to be Flow river flow, let your waters wash down Take me from this road to some other town
A Guy What Takes His Time
( Ralph Rainger )
A guy who takes his time I'll go for any time I'm a fast movin' gal I'd like some slow Got no use for fancy drivin' while I see a guy arrivin' in love I'd be satisfied, electrified to know a guy who takes his time. A hurry up affair, I always give the air, Wouldn't give any rushing gent a smile I would go for any swinger who would contemplate to linger awhile An alibi would be supplied to have a guy who takes his time. Ohhh A guy who takes his time I'll go for any time A hasty job really spoils a master's touch I don't like a big commotion, I'm a demon for slow motion or such Why should I deny that I would die to know a guy what takes his time. There isn't any fun In getting something done If you're rushed when you have to make the grade I can spot an amateur, appreciate a connesseur of his trade Who'd qualify, no alibi to be the guy what takes his time.
*** Thanx a lot to Foster & Posi who corrected this one ***
Candy Says
( Lou Reed )
Candy says I've come to hate my body And all that it requires in this world Candy says I'd like to know completely What others so discretely talk about Candy says I hate the quiet places That cause the smallest taste of what will be Candy says I hate the big decisions That cause endless revisions in my mind I'm gonna watch the blue birds fly over my shoulder I'm gonna watch them pass me by Maybe when I'm older What do you think I'd see If I could walk away from me
How Can We Hang On To A Dream
What can I say, he's walking away From what we've seen What can I do, still loving you It's all a dream How can we hang on to a dream How can it ever be the way it seems What can I do, he's saying we're through With how it was What will I try, I still don't see why He says what he does How can we hang on to a dream How can it ever be the way it seems What can I say, she's walking away From what we've seen What can I do, still loving you It's all a dream How can we hang on to a dream How can it ever be the way it seems How can we hang on to a dream What can I say, she's walking away From what we've seen What can I do, still loving you It's all a dream How can we hang on to a dream How can it will it be the way it seems How can we hang on to a dream
I Started A Joke
( Bee Gees )
I started a joke which started the whole world crying But I didn't see that the joke was on me oh no I started to cry which started the whole world laughing Oh If I'd only seen that the joke was on me I looked at the skies running my hands over my eyes And I fell out of bed hurting my head from things that I said 'Till I finaly died which started the whole world living Oh If I'd only seen that the joke was on me I looked at the skies running my hands over my eyes And I fell out of bed hurting my head from things that I said 'Till I finaly died which started the whole world living Oh If I'd only seen that the joke was on me Oh no that the joke was on me
Easy And Me
( Lee Hazelwood )
We road on train With anger and pain But we didn't cry Easy and me And some other guy We hooked some ride Stood side by side And watch cars go by Easy and me And some other guy Days and nights We care for each other The wrongs and the rights We shared with each other Then one day last week He kissed my cheek And whispered goodbye Then easy walked on With some other guy One day last week He kissed my cheek And whispered goodbye Then easy walked on With some other guy
*** Thanx a lot to Foster who corrected this one ***
Spit On A Stranger
( Pavement )
However you feel, whatever it takes Whenever it's real, whatever awaits Whatever you need, however so slight Whenever it's real, whenever it's right I'll be thinking long and hard About the things you said to me Like a bitter stranger Now I see the long and short And never ever what's in between I could spit on a stranger You're a bitter stranger Whatever you feel, whatever it takes Whenver it's real, whatever awaits me Whatever you need, however so slight Wherever it leads, whenever it's right Honey, I'm a prize and you're a catch And we're a perfect match Like two bitter strangers And now I see the long and short of it And I could make it last I could spit on a stranger You're a bitter stranger Well, I could spit on a stranger You're a bitter stranger I see the sunshine in your eyes I'll try the things you'll never try I'll be the one that leaves you high
All Apologies
( Nirvana )
What else should I be All apologies What else should I say Everyone is gay What else could I write I don't have the right What else should I be All apologies In the sun In the sun I feed as one In the sun In the sun I'm married buried I wish I was like you Easily amused Find my nest of salt Everything is my fault I'll take all the blame Aqur scafoam shame Sunburn with freezeburn Choking on the ashes of her enemy All in all we all are
Beautiful Cosmos
( Ivor Cutler )
You are the centre of your little world and I am of mine. Now and again we meet for tea, we're two of a kind. This is our universe, cups of tea. We have a beautiful cosmos, you and me. We have a beautiful cosmos. What do we talk of whenever we meet? Nothing at all! You sit with a sandwich I look at a roll. Sometimes I open my mouth, and shut it. We have a beautiful cosmos, you and me. We have a beautiful cosmos. You are the centre of your little world and I am of mine. We have a beautiful cosmos, you and me. We have a beautiful cosmos.
These days
( Jackson Browne )
I've been out walking I don't do too much talking These days, these days. These days I seem to think a lot About the things that I forgot to do And all the times I had the chance to. I've stopped my rambling, I don't do too much gambling These days, these days. These days I seem to think about How all the changes came about my ways And I wonder if I'll see another highway. I had a lover, I don't think I'll risk another These days, these days. And if I seem to be afraid To live the life that I have made in song It's just that I've been losing so long. La la la la la, la la. I've stopped my dreaming, I won't do too much scheming These days, these days. These days I sit on corner stones And count the time in quarter tones to ten. Please don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
Over fly over
Three How did love appear on my face like glasses? You've seen my faults now I see them too I'll believe in anything you say As long as it's lasting I'll believe in you A secret piece of you has broken off And now it's on display, I can't get enough Can't get enough of that secret piece of you If only you could hear what I think This woman told me, maybe you're good to be around Cause some people latch on, and you have to learn how to pull them off And you just turn round and they're crawling back to get back on Oh I wish I could make you hear what I think As long as you get access to a closed door
Indifference #1 I think I know you but I never wanted you born Thought I loved you thoughts don't come close Indifference is everywhere But it doesn't really matter I never knew you were in love For the first time Thought you'd have me waiting At the end of the line We're different in every way But it doesn't really matter In no way could you say I was the last to catch your love One person to one person Is how you face yourself If you want more than that You have to try the personals
Breath He knows who I am He looks at me slowly Each morning he gets up I lie and miss his body It's not a waste of time To feel the heat Leave the sheets Because breath between talking is life Waiting for the end of now is life The gas on the sun sizzles We wait around like rain inside clouds Inside clouds clouds I don't have a plan I've usually got one I want this to last I think I can hold on It's not a waste of time To drive past his work Because breath between talking is life Waiting for the end of now is life The gas on the sun sizzles We wait around like rain inside clouds Inside clouds clouds Because breath between talking is life Waiting for the end of now is life The gas on the sun sizzlesa
Old Low Light #2 In a room banging on about the world in words There's an old low light it flicks on and off Like our opinions Three hours without a word Then you stroke my arm There's an old low light in me And it switches on It's not visible to anyone but our love lives There- I can feel it glimmer It's slow and quiet and stares out at years And it makes me love you more More, more, more, more In a different city bed in my sister's house There's an old low light it keeps me awake Without the shape of you Track four on a CD you made for me There's a note like light and it changes the air And it makes me love you more More, more, more, more, more It's not visible to anyone but our love lives There- I can feel it glimmer It's slow and quiet and stares out at years
Just Like A Birthday Watching cartoons turning their bodies inside out With a whack of a hammer I'm feeling you lemsips For three days your body has hidden For three days your brain has been switched off It's just a cold and we're just in love and I'll Remember this just like a birthday The bird cage has left its door on the latch The bird could fly Whether it wants to is another cage The cage that we're happy with Like a light show the left to the right Of car lights on the ceiling It's just a cold And we're just in love And I'll remember this just like a birthday It's a scandal I'm here lots of glasses on walls In the dark the bird shit smells worse And I'll remember this Just like a birthday It's just a cold And we're just in love
Shop Window I'd pay good money to sort your head out To blank out the screen To take us back to simple pleasures and means It's a barbed little comment Not big enough for the outside to see But that's how you love it That's how you kept it between you and me All appearance is kept up Everyone is envious Make them feel like we've Got it made Like a gift that some god sent to us But it's just a shop window You're undressing it again I'll stand where you want me to Pointing where our relationship's going I'm not an arrow or dart for throwing I'd pay good money to get out of this To turn my back to your dream I'd pay good money to make this window steam It's a barbed little comment Not big enough for the outside to see
Escaping There's nothing in me Do you feel it too? Caught in a conversation With nothing to say My mouth is moving Have you seen yet? That it's only air Nicholas said Don't listen too hard They don't to you It's only air escaping Holding it back Behind the cage of my teeth When can I let myself go? Moving towards you The air that I've taken As if I want to touch you But it's only air Nicholas said don't listen too hard They don't to you It's only air escaping You see money in notes How do they hook to your heart All pyrotechnics And dancers in spotlights Nothing is human I can't see any air It's only air escaping
Beachy Head Feel like I'm being taken over And I know this isn't me Feels like it's too high to get over These waves just roll over me Which way to go? What happened to you? Did you slip off the edge? What happened to you? Did you slip off the edge? The sweetest sea air falling downwards The sky arching like I'm trying to hold you Ten sailors pants could be cut out of this sky of blue Will anything take hold in you? Training the morning to get up early Ask in the evening to get a good night's sleep Wanting to change everything about me Which way to go? What happened to you? Did you slip off the edge? What happened to you? Did you slip off the edge? Sweetest salty air falling downwards The sky arching like I'm trying to hold you Ten sailors pants could be cut from this sky of blue Is anything going to take hold in you? What you really want is to fall upwards into the sky Turn the world upside down So you don't stop falling So you never stop falling So people will turn and say What happened to you? Did you slip off the edge? What happened to you did you slip? What a feeling inside Pulling forwards pulling backwards When are you going to fly Will anything take hold in you Will anything take hold of you Will anything grab anything inside of you
City Streets Been walking round these city streets Like I'm walking round my living room Pavements wet like lino sheets Autumn light goes dark too soon Things have changed since the beginning of time From the beginning of the week This place has grown and shrunk in a year Building fall and friends disappear Things will always move We're still here moving dust Talking about friends with wanderlust You say this city is dead for you But it will stand long after you Things have changed since the beginning of time From the beginning of the week This place has grown and shrunk in a year Buildings fall and friends disappear Things will always move I never could like, maybe when I was younger Maybe last week You left and asked, is it all the same? All I could say was, Starlings roost as dusk sets in Things have changed since the beginning of time From the beginning of the week This place has grown and shrunk in a year Buildings fall and friends disappear Things will always move Been walking round these city streets Like I'm walking round these city streets
Baby Blues You can hear the grass grow And feel what the birds think But you won't drink What they give to you Prettier than sunsets Brighter than a revelation You say it's just mild sedation For your other life Your cross protects you when it's dark When you close your eyes You think with your heart You watch for the boredom Steal a seat for your visitors Seen through your eyes You laugh if the phone rings You drew it on the wall The line goes down to the floor Then fades away Your cross protects you when it's dark When you close your eyes You think with your heart Because your prettier than sunsets And brighter than a revelation
Full Colour In full colour in front of everyone You drained out The only part of you that was any fun You're a late starter You like everyone Every dog on the street knows that people Are a disappointment People like you and me could leave this world And go unnoticed in another People like you and me could leave this world And go unnoticed just the same as before We faced each other Breathing into bellies Wondering as we entwined Like a creeper back on itself How we would separate A small pad of paper Holds the puzzles to all of my riddles It stands out of my pocket and falls into the road People like you and me could leave this world And go unnoticed in another
Leave to remain
Blue onto you Blue I love you But you're so sad It's deep above us and deep below It's smooth on Krishna's skin And blue doesn't really exist Colour happens within us A thought from light it bursts in the morning And it bathes in the night They bathe jaundiced babies in blue light Progressive medicine is a thought from light I was wrong about moonlight And I was wrong about you Blue came from within me And I pushed the thought of light Onto you Onto you Dada da da da dada da da da da Dada da da da da. Da da dada da Blue came from within me And I pushed the thought of light Onto you Let it happen Have you been crying to yourself Is your imagination ever going to stop Dressed in brown to match the seine Your eyes like dark windows Your brain's working faster than the cars Let it happen relax Don't try to fight it It's slipped away and it's never Coming back The sky open and blue Like the letters that came from Africa We look at drawings of lions And imagine them sat by gas fires Sat by gas fires Let it happen relax Don't try to fight it It's slipped away and it's never Coming back I want to cry but I can't Like when it's too cold to snow The day I left the wind blew shut Velvet curtains I became older Let it happen relax Don't try to fight it It's slipped away and it's never Coming back and it's never Coming back It's never coming back and it's never… Coming back. Sustain pedal Your breath from a kiss went down my throat I felt how you breathed into the world Kiss me if only for one might It's not a matter of love Lets just make one night feel right Shy away again pull your eyes down Hold your breath and then let it out Hold the sustain pedal down Make this note last until it's drowned Kiss me and put the world to right Kiss me if only for one night Shy away again pull your eyes down Hold your breath then let it out Hold the sustain pedal down Make this note Last until it's drowned Stevie She draws scratchy pen and ink women and cats She looks like any old lady dressed in another time hat Walking to the shops, thinking of dead things that rhyme She's with another time You might see her over there Stevie's not waving but drowning Normal people in the park beat with monkey hearts And she draws on them with cries and smiles And one day we'll all be done in But it's more about the living You might see her over there Stevie's not waving but drowning They say that she's obsessed about death and that But what else do you laugh at? While you live your live she don't care She won't be possessed and that's why She's stood over there And Stevie's not waving but drowning Sandy L My name is sandy L sandy L I named myself after myself I watch people and people watch me The best time is when they sleep I'm going to dream of dreaming My name is sandy L sandy L Sometimes I end up talking to myself I can see them and they can see me Laid flat like a closed book Closed to you closed to me I'm going to dream of dreaming Streets aren't so easy for me You need a place to go and a place you've been My hardware is humming with me That and you on the screen keeps me company You don't need to know people to love them, As long as you don't want to own them I'm going to dream of dreaming My name is sandy L sandy L It's my password, my logo, my business, my shadow I've switched off and i've shut down I can see the lights from the town going out going out I'm going to dream of dreaming Next to somebody dreaming I'm going to dream of dreaming Next to somebody dreaming I'm going to dream of dreaming Next to somebody dreaming I'm going to dream of dreaming Next to somebody dreaming I'm going to dream. When When all the nights have come When all the day time goes When all the work is done what then When your lovers come When your love has gone When a touch comes down on who it's meant to rest on We've saved for a time That may not come Working for names above doors To get everything done We're flapping about for a week in the sun Is there someone there? A click on the line Are you playing a game? For a call I'll be waiting When you sat at your table When you drank yourself silly Just to forget that in the week they own your energies We've saved for a time That may not come Working for names above doors To get everything done We're flapping around for a week in the sun Da dad a dada dad a dad a dad a da Down down down down Glass bottom boat Your face has all the features Of my favourite landscape Wild rocky and desolate A place where the weather can play I've seen it so many times tired or asleep I've seen it try and hide it when There's people you don't want to see And it's never the same Like the sun on the run And I'm never the same Now I've found someone We're sat in Barry's bar We're as tired as rock pools We've been fucking all afternoon Burning like fossil fuel I feel like you've turned me into A glass bottomed boat You see everything I hide but still Keep me afloat Wild rocky and desolate, is that all I can say I held your hand, but I still look away I can see that I lost it now, scared of the day But you were always there, telling me Don't be afraid, don't be afraid While winter comes autumn hides While winter comes autumn hides Hollow Your need fills the hollow in me You hit speed to slow the solemn in you There's a time and a place But this isn't it, this isn't it Can I live with the hole? Leaving you behind leaves Without the plan or the plough It gets bigger the seed Of doubt, the seed Like the click of a camera The world's stopped for my scrutiny I can magnify raindrops And see what they slice through I can push back forgotten And ring in the new, ring in the new Can I live with the space? Leaving you behind leaves Without wanting a light Constellations appear Is this my course? With doubts? Your need fills the hollow in me Can I still fill the hollow in you? Opened Nights have fallen down on you Because of him Claustrophobic, sleeping hot Law can't keep the power That you want within But who is your future resting its head upon? Will you love in the same way? Or will it come back unopened? Change came unexpected Like it always does You either move with it Or run away from it's clutches But it will come back Where is you future going to settle down? Will you move pushing boundaries? Or leave them unopened? Is this your future holding back your heart? Keeping it at a distance To never be unopened To never be opened Room in my head There's a room in my head And you want the key To find a way to Hear what's in me It's all locked up All locked up It's all locked up All locked up You'll never get in You'll never get in The room in my head A museum With framed pictures of you A mausoleum It's all locked up All locked up It's all locked up All locked up And you'll never get out No you'll never get out The room in my head Like the bottom of the sea. Everything that's sunk and lost Is swimming in me It's all washed up all washed up It's all washed up all washed up And I cannot even swim You'll never get in No you'll never get in
Two
6 am corner Sunlight blooms and falls through your window There's nothing wrong with the day I hear a creak, of letting in shadows Let's sit and hear what they say You and I can be quiet Sat still in the corner Let none in here but the dawn I wish I was tired but sleep has gone walking And your talking has no aim But just as you are Lets just sit looking I know we can see things the same Eyes in space coloured trace None to catch us As the night slides away I hear Daryl's voice come through the wall Sweet talk is under her head To lie with a man might keep me together I hope I never say that again For my one is the one Who'll never be found Like some queens crown in the sand
Innocent when you dream The bats are in the belfry The dew is on the moor Where are the arms that held me And pledged our love before And pledged our love before And it's such a sad old feeling The leaves are soft and green It's memories that i'm stealing But you're innocent when you dream, when you dream You're innocent when you dream I made my love a promise That we would never part I gave to her a locket And then I broke her heart And then I broke her heart And it's such a sad old feeling The leaves are soft and green It's memories that I'm stealing But you're innocent when you dream, when you dream You're innocent when you dream Running through the graveyard We laughed my friends and i We said we'd be together Until the day we die Until the day we die And it's such a sad old feeling The leaves are soft and green It's memories that I'm stealing But you're innocent when you dream, when you dream You're innocent when you dream
Come with me Come with me darling I'll show you something We've waited long enough till now Let's do something about it Come with me darling There's no more talking We've stayed up til it's nearly dawn Let's make ourselves warm Taken by the tide way out to sea Past the friends that we used to be We've talked all evening about being free Now we're moving close Come with me darling I'll show you something We've waited long enough till now Let's do something about it People been leaving in dribs and drabs Leaving the sleeper who's blocking the stairs If we go any further we can't go back What do you want to do Come with me darling It's nearly morning The birds are waking up for us They're singing for us Come with me darling Come with me darling
Before it goes Two of us laughing hard on a chair Tomorrow we're strangers going nowhere Let's capture this feeling and drink it down Before it goes Doors just opened without a push What was our whole world ran out with the rush Might be the last time I hold you tight Before it goes Two of us laughing hard on a chair I picture you always with me there Let's capture this feeling and hold you hard Before it goes Before it goes Before it goes
Blue fields Blue fields blue fields Seeds that I've never seen are growing Leaves that I've never seen are showing In the blue fields blue fields Fish that I've never seen are swimming Selfish people are now giving in the Blue fields blue fields Dandelion seeds are flying up in the air Birds are running across the grass Dandelion seeds are showing us the time While worms show their faces at last Blue fields blue fields Seeds that I've never seen are growing Leaves that I've never seen are showing Fish that I've never seen are swimming Selfish people are now giving in the Blue fields Blue fields
Frame I used to be a picture on your wall You'd look at me everyday No I'm locked up with nowhere to go You've taken me out of your frame A masterpiece rolled under a bed What are your hands going to say Do the walls shiver now they're bare? Do the brass hooks ache for weight? Get out your pens and draw me again You can make it up Make me young make me dance Give me all that I want What am I if I'm not looked at by you? Will I disappear? Will the colours stay brighter in the dark? Is this just like being preserved? Look at that picture on a hotel wall Seen by lonely eyes Don't go into hotels looking for dreams Don't go into them with thoughts of your life Get out your pens and draws me again You can make it up Make me young make me dance Give me all that I want
Grey goes With my big net I'm catching colours I've caught a red one And trapped a deep blue I found green hiding behind a big bush And a yellow has heard me coming through I've looked in shadows and tapped on walls Went to school to find a uniform But I can't see where all the grey goes I swallowed purple When you left me I threw orange back into the sea I used black and white On how you hurt me And buried pink To stop reminding me I've looked in shadows and tapped on walls Melted storm clouds to find out where they grey goes All along The grey was in me The grey was in me The grey was in me Grey was in me...
Weather forever Today the weather stopped Mixed up all the words And people just made noise To fill the sky and hear their voice Today the silence came As thick as fog It zipped the ground The night came quicker And we closed the back door Locked it till next summer time Oh lover, oh lover I wish forever could be forever Oh lover, oh lover I wish forever could be forever Rugged as the rocks that grow Your face a precious stone Kissed it cold to watch it warm Open and kind as if you were just born Oh lover, oh lover I wish forever could be forever Oh lover, oh lover I wish the weather could be forever Oh lover, oh lover I wish forever could be forever Oh lover, oh lover I wish the weather could be forever
Shoulders Shoulders lean on a wall Shadow a doorway To nowhere at all The sky has no surface So you look at the floor Eyes tire out when You're searching for more The crook of your shoulder is where I belong The crook of your shoulder is where I belong The crook of your shoulder Like a fancy domed clock Moves the sky over time Looking behind me when you're only in my mind Searching is endless When there's nothing to find Someone brushed past me My name shouted out The voice in my head when I'm walking about Endlessly searching To figure it out The crook of your shoulder is where I belong The crook of your shoulder is where I belong The crook of your shoulder Like a fancy domed clock The sky is a circle Days are repeated Around over time Instead of beginnings The clock ticks on and through And through and through and through And through and through and through
Armchair Love me like an armchair Hang me up on your wall Put me under your pillow Put me up in the hall Open me like a door Like a window you can see through I'll sweeten you like sugar When the world has been fucking with you. I'm not going anywhere With your pepper at tea Grow me bug in your garden Sail me off on your sea I'm the gold in your filling I'm the glue on your shoe I'll sweeten you like sugar When the world has been fucking with you If I make myself small You can take me with you I'll sit quiet in your pocket fix the holes up for you Be your street map your bible And your ticket ride home too I'll sweeten you with sugar When the world has been fucking with you I'll sweeten you with sugar When the world has been fucking with you
Rolling down All the little tears are rolling down But they won't make a river or a frown Life's a string of goodbye's and hello's But when it's hanging in mid air where can it go When we turn around who'll be walking When we turn around who'll be running You closed the clasp that finished a chain And put the ring around my neck again It's not a sign an answer or a promise It's just hanging there being honest When we turn around who'll be walking When we turn around who'll be running When we turn around who'll be walking When we turn around who'll be running
All Books that are written And books that are read Do nothing to help Just sit by a bed You can switch on the news Hear it twenty four hours The world's at an end Because people want power When all of this Sits heavy on you Why is it life can come Glistening through Where did you get All of the good things in you
Holes in your life One day I'll fit all the pieces together Then I can put the box back on the shelf If only my life would fit into the corners I'd slot back the shapes that make me myself The holes in your life Maybe it's the only way the light gets in One day the days and the nights will have meaning Then I can get my diary out While I am writing my beautiful sonnets The sunlight and moonlight will all scream out The holes in your life Maybe it's the only way the light gets in The holes in your life Maybe they're the best bits A mystery to me and a wonder to you A place for the future for something that's new One day I'll fit all the pieces together
The Quickening
50 White Lines The road is alone It's still and it's dark And the thoughts in my head Are like sparks, like sparks Lights on the dash board Darting like fish I can drive through this town And I can vanish Like sparks, like sparks Sparks like sparks Sparks like sparks Like sparks, like sparks We made this our own Eyes dim to dark The nerves down my arms Hit like sparks Like sparks Lights in the mirror Darting like fish If I can drive through this town I can vanish Like sparks, like sparks Sparks like sparks Sparks like sparks Like sparks, like sparks
Just A feeling Sad songs don't sound so sad in the sun Palm trees sway with minor chords Ask someone who looks like me Which way we should go Cloudless heavens in your head Rain storms dripping in your bed Is belief a scratch you've got to itch What if love is just a feeling Clouds play hopscotch pavement toast Our car, in 20 million like a ghost Ask a road that looks like this Which way we should go Cloudless heavens in your head Rain storms dripping in your bed Is belief a scratch you've got to itch What if love is just a feeling
Winter is Sharp Oh the winter is sharp Yes it's sharp, yes it's sharp And the sun on the harbour Yes it's dark, yes it's dark Your ship never came back They say you'll nebver be back So the winter is dark Yes it's dark, yes it's dark And the harbour is sharp Yes it's sharp, yes it's sharp I have two of them home Two young home Too young to know Thei eyes soft like cod roe Soon as wet as my soul They say you'll never be back I say "Don't ever say that" And the winter is sharp Yes it's sharp, yes it's sharp And the harbour is dark Yes it's dark, yes it's dark
Wanting and Waiting All of these hours Ttoo many hours Left in this longing day The city between us Feels as big and wide As a mountain range Watch you in my mind All through my lunchtime Like a silent matinee show Wanting and waiting This day to be over And the night to go slow Wanting and waiting Waiting and wanting Tower blocks chimneys And glass office buildings Would part like the great red sea So I could stand and wave At you waving at me See you in my head Laughing like the dead Time is an expensive thing Wanting and waiting What only you can bring Wanting and waiting Waiting and wanting I′d climb the Pyrenees Just to get you closer to me Wanting and waiting Waiting and wanting Waiting and wanting Wanting and waiting Waiting and wanting Wanting and waiting Waiting and wanting Wanting and waiting Waiting, waiting, waiting Waiting, waiting, waiting
Black Oil Thought it was a trick of the light How the fields shone yellow When it was so close to night There must be some fire in those flowers Because they get crushed up and turned into black oil Black oil Black oil Thought it was night But the birds were head to toe in black oil
Just Leave Look what I don't know The secret part of you The wandering heart of you That wants to go It's begun to grow It doesn't want to talk Our beds are full of thoughts With nowhere to go Such a powerful pull Away from me We're both in the room I can hardly breathe The weight in the silence Is crushing me Just leave Just leave Just leave Look what I have done I let go slow I put this silence down To bad things Now I just don't know If you left me because of me Endless questioning Just needing to know Such a powerful pull Away from me We're both in the room Spearately The weight in the silence Falls endlessly Just leave Just leave Just leave Just leave Just leave Just leave Just leave Just leave Just leave
Smoke Holding you is like holding smoke I look up when you float And I can take hold of the things that's burning But nothing's gonna catch you Nothing's gonna grab you So I hold on tothe flame And I reach for you again and again I never learn your type I kiss and I blow and you float out of sight That's how you turned like the wind You'll turn on the wind Cream of the crop I've seen there's room at the top Because the first class on trains Are always empty You just look like a helicopter Like someone who could tempt me It could be you That little jump You could be the thing that makes me rise to the top It could be you Yes it could be you Cream of the crop Well I've seen the fancy restaurants With their white tablecloths And I know there's a reservation for you and me I'll call them up If you call me up I just need someone to tempt me And that could be you That little jump You could be the thing that takes me straight to the top To get me from This bass line that I'm on Cream of the crop But I'm invisible One glance impossible Lift me out of here I know that you've got love More than I ever should have Life me to it dear And it could be you That little jump You could help me rise Straight to the top To get me through This downer cold and blue Cream of the crop Cream of the crop
There are keys Pylons on stiletto toes All chained together Charging clockwork birds Somewhere there are keys Somewhere a piano's playing Trees are waiting their time to turn Underneath the steel statues Never mind your headache girl Somewhere there's a key Somewhere there's a key Chasing stages, chasing shadows I've got a twist in my gut Want to know you're all right Need to know that you're safe Somewhere there's a key Somewhere there's a key Flap, flap Flap, flap, flap Buzzzzzzz Flap, flap Flap, flap, flap Buzzzzzzz Somewhere there's a key Clic, clac, clic, clac, key
Noble Guesses Mendeleev was sick of trying Years and the elements still wouldn't fit He gave up, let it go, went to sleep And I don't know A picture came of a table With all the elements not born yet And when he woke He had the holes to make everything else fit Dreams Are where inventions sleep Dreams Are where inventions sleep It's always in the censorship That makes the art the news What isn't seen or heard Isn't tired or used The missing Polaroid in the family album Just an outline left Tells the biggest stories Because it's not left behind Dreams Are where inventions sleep Dreams Are where inventions sleep Holes are the biggest anwsers Gaps have the best prizes Holes are the biggest anwsers Gaps have the best prizes Holes, holes, holes, holes Holes, holes, holes, holes Holes, holes, holes, holes Holes, holes, holes, holes... Little lesson What is the word that brought you back To me, to me What is the words that brought you back To me, to me Give a little lesson for our love Give a little lesson for our love Give a little lesson for our love Give a little lesson for our love What's in a smile that taps me in To you, to you What sort of smile do you use To fool, to fool Give a little lesson for our love Give a little lesson for our love Give a little lesson for our love Give a little lesson for our love Our love Give a little lesson Give a little lesson Give a little lesson Give a little lesson Give a little lesson Give a little lesson Give a little lesson Give a little lesson Give a little lesson Give a little lesson Give a little lesson Lesson
Up north Up north where I live The sky is bigger It arcs from left right over to right Domed black rainbow night colour I have enough of it to not feel boxed in I have enough of it to keep me on the ground If I could be next to you, I would If I could always be next to you, I would This is where I live Next to my lover And from left right over to right An umbrella of warmth and shelter I have enough of it to not feel boxed in But when it's cold it hits me like the ground If I could be next to you, I would If I could always be next to you, I would If I could be next to you, I would If I could always be next to you
Presents... The Pond
Aim High wires, church spires Paper planes, and water stains Oh my desire, in this life Is to aim higher Aim higher Aim higher, aim higher Running up hills, gas bills Blue pills, cheap thrills Oh my desire in this life Is to aim higher Aim higher, aim higher Aim higher You give me high, I give you low I'm going take you right down below You give me sky, I give you slow I'm gonna make you gangan ga joe joe Aim higher I'm going to take you higher Ga joe joe Aim higher, oh oh You take me high, I take you low Aim I'm gonna I'm gonna aim higher
Crown Electric
Underground Underground and underfoot Nowhere to go but it's still a rush Escalator waterfall Keep to the right Or rush some more I've got get out, got to slow down Everybody's looking down And I'm underfoot underground All come and go Faces in crowds Like one big wave Crashing into town See same people on the train Don't say hello Don't even wave I've got get out, got to slow down Everybody's looking down And I'm underfoot underground You know people they leave Think they won't but the world will change People they leave And the world will always change I don't want to live like this Till I'm underground, under this Always think that life will wait Wish I was out And not working late I've got get out, got to slow down Everybody's looking down And I'm underfoot underground I'm underfoot underground I'm underfoot underground
Gave it away Elvis drove trucks for crown electric before he was the king Never knowing which way light would shine on history's wing The things we give up and the things we hold Well stones can just feel as heavy as gold I haven't lost love I gave it away It's been passed on passed on Too hard to trace I never lost love I gave it away It's been passed on passed on Too hard to trace Felt so free the weight of it gone Now there's nothing left to give to someone The ending for Elvis and Michael and Whitney Felt strange in the close and the stamp out of mystery Didn't lose love I gave it away It's been passed on passed on Too hard to trace I never lost love I gave it away It's been passed on passed on Too hard to trace Passed on passed on Too hard to trace Everyone dies there is no escape What's left behind becomes the new shape
Heart Shaped Stone Work comes round town go south We climb into bed with the lights turned out My oh my I have no doubts I'm working so hard I'm all burned out For all the times you're on your own Looking on the beach for a heart shaped stone All the times you've been and gone Looking on beach for a heart shaped stone Heart shaped stone Heart shaped stone Heart shaped stone Eyes flash what we're thinking The distance in us now so sick of sinking Outside world mirrors my heart COld lighted rain has torn the sky apart For all the times you're on your own Looking on beach for a heart shaped stone All the times you've been and gone Looking on beach for a heart shaped stone Heart shaped stone Heart shaped stone Heart shaped stone Of all the fished in the sea I cast my net You chose me All around the tide is low We ebb and flow ebb and flow ebb and flow For all the times you're on your own Looking on beach for a heart shaped stone All the times you've been and gone Looking on beach for a heart shaped stone Heart shaped stone Heart shaped stone Heart shaped stone
Count I've got to make these hours count These hours count themselves I've got to make these seconds count The numbing the pills I've got enough friends like a full bookcase Tip-toeing all around me I've got to cut to the chase I've got to make these hours count These hours to help my guilt I've got to make these seconds count The numbing from the pills People close doors Bad behaviour is learnt I like to keep a promise But now it's your turn I've got to make these hours count These hours count themselves I've got to make these hours count These hours count themselves Tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock
Out of time When your thoughts are sitting in the sun And the rush of day is gone You want to know you can hold someone That's the most important part of all Someone to catch your fall Tell them to get over your wall Walking out of time When you supposed to know you're in your prime Until it's behind you In a story book they always hook you in Suspecting and expecting you know the end You're always in someone else hands But day to day we lead ourselves astray No-one says to go or stay Who's going to turn our page Walking out of time When you supposed to know you're in your prime Until it's behind you
Monday Morning I can't believe it's Monday morning Monday morning comes too soon I can't believe it's Monday morning Never-ending work to do Wishing for the weekend in my head Wishing I could stay inside my bed Wishing I could be by your side But the work goes on and I go on And the work goes on and 1 go on instead I can't believe it's Monday morning Monday morning comes too soon I can't believe its Monday morning Never-ending work to do All this time the work goes on and on I wonder what the world would do without us How could it collapse if we were gone But the work goes on and I go on And the work goes on and I go on without you I can't believe it's Monday morning Monday morning comes too soon I can't believe it's Monday morning Never-ending work to do But the work goes on and I go on And the work goes on and I go on without you I can't believe it Monday morning Monday morning comes too soon I can't believe it Monday morning Never-ending work to do
Darkness light It's time I told you something I've not said I've felt it for so long But words that match my feelings never come Except when I'm alone Before you I made my own mistakes It's a habit that you've helped me break I've been wrong so many times to your right It's not easy sharing my life Sometimes there are shadows that I have to fight But you can make the darkness bright You can make the darkness bright It's time I showed you something you've not seen I've held it all inside I'm scared of losing all that we've got Just because of my pride I call "come the darkness" You smile and shadows grow long If only I could let you know the light Which you own Before you I made my own mistakes It's a habit that you've helped me break I've been wrong so many times to your right It's not easy sharing my life Sometimes there are shadows that I have to fight But you can make the darkness bright You can make the darkness light You can make the darkness light
Picture Book I've heard people say they like me And then laugh when I fail And some have said they own me But only give the price of betrayal But I think you're different And I want to let you in I can tell you my life And where I've been Like a book begins And if you could draw a picture of you Of what you think is inside Would it be you or me we recognise And if you could draw a picture of me Of what you think is inside Would it be you or me we recognise Paint in the fields the sky and rain And imaginings unset Rub out the dark lines And sleeping in the cites of regret And if you could draw a picture of you Of what you think is inside Would it be you or me we recognise And if you could draw a picture of me Of what you think is inside Would it be you or me we recognise Secrets are passed down in our hair Like cartoons flying in the air
Morning Twilight The wanting of what we cant have The friction we feel in the night The day won't let it belong to The lives that we build to make us feel right The death of thoughts that we store Never taken out in the light You can't remember them all And the mayflies come back tonight But the sparks as were sleeping send tears in the dreaming Leave us hot for the morning The sparks as we are sleeping send tears in the dreaming Morning twilight comes, it comes When I think of the way that you walked Got it mixed with a man from a film He was trying to save the whole town Looking backwards and falling down The projector has run out of film Just a flickering bright white light Everyone else has gone home Red seats have flipped upright But the sparks as we're sleeping send tears in the dreaming Leave us hot for the morning The sparks as we are sleeping send tears in the dreaming Morning twilight comes, it comes
Arwen From the bottom to the top I didn't think I would make it As the downs were spread beyond It was the land they shaped it Can we hear what is buried below Up to our toes Will we sail How deep is the sea Up to our knees You took the noice from my head And in came the outside Trains tractors cars and birds Mixed with insect hillsides Can I hear what is buried below Up to our elbows Can I hear what is buried in me Up to my teeth Arwen, Arwen, Arwen Arwen, Arwen, Arwen
Tequila Be brave enough to be yourself Sun beams through dust And a ship on a shelf Speed of light and how it bends It was a race to the end Speed of light and how it bends It was a race to the end Computer screen dirty from a kiss Your lemon smiles and my salty wish Speed of light and how it bends It was a race to the end Speed of light and how it bends It was a race to the end Speed of light and how it bends It was a race to the end Speed of light and how it bends It was a race to the end Speed of light and how it bends It was a race to the end Speed of light and how it bends It was a race to the end Speed of light and how it bends It was a race to the end
Sequins Fix my face into a smile Hand's resting on the book Place the sequins on my eyes Even in death, the earth cares how you look I'm winning the years The desintegration Now the fillers are holding And I like the sensation I'm pulling the strings For strange medication I've never felt better And I like the sensation Of feeling numb Of finally feeling numb Maybe the sinners would like it Maybe I'll see if there's a table downstairs Maybe the opening hours are longer Should've been braver when I was odwn there Heels get stuck in the cracks of the clouds Lightning strikes at he pull of a shoe If I walk the after-life with no make-up on I'll be frightening the angels for good When I finally die Put sequins on my eyes Sequins on my eyes
The Known I've got maps of places Discovered by men before me And if I walk, down this road It takes me to a place that's always been Where's the unknown Where's a place I call my own Why do you hang your hat On this random town Where you happen to he born Why should this place Define my soul Where do I really belong Take me far away from here Wipe away the years And wash use up to a foreign shore Where's the unknown Where's a place I can call my own In all of the towns With all of their worries Are all of the fears That make me so sorry All of the walls circling round To keep people in and segregate out All of the fathers who don't see their sons Who do they look to A damage is done All of the mothers who envy their daughters When we should be teaching what's inside that matters Gravity wins time and again Bricks are all falling The lines on your face What is this that we call progression Money for finance and banks upping earnings We should care and fund for care It doesn't make profits it's got its own worth And where's the unknown Where's a place I call my own
Hypoxia
Electric The news is following me Black inky shadows behind me They rerun your fate I imagine the switch the gold and the plate Electric When did we discover Knowing doen't cover and pull all things together Electric My hand tries to grasp her Shadows are moving closer Darkening Faster Swinging on a gate Choices fell I was too late The letters fold in I lost my chance to write on the slate Electric When did we discover Knowing doesn't cover And pull all things together Electric Who am I to follow Made cast of me Made me hollow And the silent noice is dripping in And the silent noise Is dripping in
Mirrors As the lift door closed I pressed button For the fourth floor Your metal eyes cast a stare And I didn't know what you could see No one came in or out And I can count So you must be me You must be me Then I awoke again When I thought I wouldn't see more You stared at me A window on a wall A man black and blue... Or No one came in or out And I can count So I must be you I must be you I am a head line I'm a cliff I'm the working parts under the ship You can't come into the eye of the storm Where it's calm And things go around I am tricked by glass and by foil You think I'm the flower I feel like the soil Come on and take a spin in the eye of the storm Where it's warm And calmly watch the alarm Paint me a picture to recognise me more I relate more to the you ten seconds before Come take a spin in the storm Where it's warm No one came in or out And I can count So I must be more I must be more No one came in to see I can count up to three So you must be me You must be me Battleships We sit facing each other Planting mines Inside you is ticking And you hope it won't go off this time Battleships on a grid I want to get rid Oh ticking ticking bomb I'm not the one Ticking ticking bomb You've had time to swell Read me the poem you wrote And it stuck like sick in my throat Battleships on a grid I want to get rid Oh ticking ticking bomb I'm not the one Ticking ticking bomb And your parents are so happy That I've come to see you here You're going to ask me the question And all I want to do is disappear Battleships on a grid I want to get rid Oh ticking ticking bomb I'm not the one Ticking ticking bomb Ticking ticking bomb Cuckoo Oh my little girl's gone mad And who will they blame but me Why couldn't she go quietly All the other eggs got thrown To the bottom of the tree Just one open mouth left Waiting for a feed Cuckoo cuckoo In my nest Cuckoo cuckoo In my nest It's not what I deserve Pressed into the curve I got a cuckoo in my nest I got a cuckoo in my nest You put birthday flowers in the bin Wipe the dribble from your chin When you got hurt you would run to your dada You were never someone I felt I had Cuckoo cuckoo in my nest Cuckoo cuckoo In my nest It's not what I deserve Pressed into the curve I got a cuckoo in my nest I got a cuckoo in my nest What are your instincts Where are you now I couldn't pick you out I couldn't pick you out I couldn't pick you out in a crowd Cuckoo cuckoo In my nest Cuckoo cuckoo In my nest It's not what I deserve Pressed into the curve I got a cuckoo in my nest I got a cuckoo in my nest I got a cuckoo in my nest I got a cuckoo in my nest Beating heart The ways I tried to stop my heart The tricks I pulled The time under water And every time the body pulled apart From all the wishes my mind was under Because a heart beats on its own Plotting out the times to come It knows it can It beats I am I am I am I am I can I can I can I can The ways I tried to stop my brain The tricks I pulled The time in the cellar And every time my body pulled away From all the wishes my mind was under Because a heart beats on its own Plotting out the times to come It knows it can It beats I am I am I am I am I can I can I can I can Because a heart beats on its own Plotting out the times to come It knows it can It beats I am I am I am I am I can
Tango With Marco On the back of your eyes there's a list Of the different ways to hit then kiss The man holding a pretty ring Has the arms to embrace And the slap that will sting Every woman hater I meet Gets me shuffling my feet Shuffling my feet Like a tango with Marco Tango with Marco Tango with Marco A coat draped on your arm I'm a jar on your shelf Or a pig in a farm You're the wearer and the hook And if I shout out in pain You call it a good fuck Every woman hater I meet Gets me shuffling my feet Shuffling my feet Like a tango with Marco Tango with Marco Tango with Marco Like a tango with Marco Tango with Marco Tango with Marco ??? Hit the bone Rip the stone
When Nothing Meant Less We both went different ways I read about the time you took some pills You balanced on a ledge You felt the needle Blacking out But you didn't have a thread That was then Back when nothing meant less And when you thought I was strong I always knew you were wrong I always balanced on the edge I felt a needle black it out But the moon sews silver thread That was then Back when nothing meant less And how we measured ourselves Against each other Sleeping with all pour fears Under the covers And I don't even know how your story ends 'Cause you turned a corner and I stayed on the bend I felt a needle black it out But the moon sews silver thread
The mind has its own place Oh please put down your fears My plan was always to get you out of here Get you clear A woman in this world Forever being told to be a girl Be a good girl Walk around these inside walls Behaviour is what we do face to face You're not the root or the cause 'Cause the mind is its own place The mind has its own place The world that you came from Folded in and ran out of options Left you as no one I hope you know I care I understand the world is hard to wear Hard to bear Walk around these inside walls Behaviour is what we do face to face You're not the root or the cause 'Cause the mind is its own place The mind has its own place
A part of Us Well the last time I felt lonely The room was full You don't have to be alone Misunderstood Because I read a book last night And I felt loved Loneliness was never a part of us Well the last time I felt lonely My heart was full If you're going to tell a story Then make it good You're the sweetest in the forest Don't get eaten up Loneliness was never a part of us You can cut us out in silhouettes You can sing a song With no regrets Loneliness was never a part of us Loneliness was never a part of us
Resonator
You Don't Know What Love Is You don't know what love is Until you've learned the meaning of the blues Until you've loved a love you've had to lose You don't know what love is You don't know how lips hurt Until you've kissed and had to pay the cost Until you've flipped your heart and you have lost You don't know what love is Oh well you copy you paste you're a stupid robot Do you know how lost heart feels At the thought of reminiscing And how lips that taste of tears Lose their taste for kissing You don't know how hearts burn For love that cannot live yet never dies Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes You don't know what love is What love is, what love is You don't know how hearts burn For love that cannot live yet never dies Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes You don't know what love is My Funny Valentine My funny valentine Sweet comic valentine You make me smile with my heart Your looks are laughable Unphotographable Yet you're my favorite work of art Is your Figure less than Greek Is your mouth a little weak When you open it to speak Are you smart Oh well you copy you paste you're a stupid robot But don't change a hair for me Not if you care for me Stay little valentine stay Each day is Valentine's day Is your figure less than Greek Is your mouth a little weak When you open it to speak Are you smart But don't change a hair for me Not if you care for me Stay little valentine stay Each day is valentine's day Every Time We Say Goodbye Everytime we say goodbye I die a little Everytime we say goodbye I wonder why a little Why the Gods above me Who must be in the know Think so little of me They allow you to go Oh well you copy you paste you're a stupid robot When you're near There's such an air Of spring about it I can hear a lark somewhere Begin to sing about it There's no love song finer But how strange the change From major to minor Everytime we say goodbye When you're near There's such an air Of spring about it I can hear a lark somewhere Begin to sing about it There's no love song finer But how strange the change From major to minor Everytime we say goodbye I'm A Fool To Want You I'm a fool to want you I'm a fool to want you To want a love that can't be true A love that's there for others too I'm a fool to hold you Such a fool to hold you To seek a kiss not mine alone To share a kiss that Devil has known Oh well you copy you paste you're a stupid robot Time and time again I said I'd leave you Time and time again I went away But then would come the time when I would need you And once again these words I had to say Take me back, I love you I need you I know it's wrong, it must be wrong But right or wrong I can't get along Like Someone in Love Lately, I find myself out gazing at stars Hearing guitars like someone in love Sometimes the things I do astound me Mostly whenever you're around me Lately I seem to walk as though I had wings Bump into things like someone in love Each time I look at you I'm limp as a glove And feeling like someone in love Oh well you copy you paste you're a stupid robot Lately I seem to walk as though I have wings Bump into things like someone in love Each time I look at you I'm limp as a glove And feeling like someone in love Lately I seem to walk as though I have wings Bump into things like someone in love Each time I look at you I'm limp as a glove And feeling like someone in love The Very Thought Of You The very thought of you and I forget to do The little ordinary things that everyone ought to do I'm living in a kind of daydream I'm happy as a king And foolish though it may seem To me that's everything Oh well you copy you paste you're a stupid robot The mere idea of you, the longing here for you You'll never know how slow the moments go till I'm near to you I see your face in every flower Your eyes in stars above It's just the thought of you The very thought of you, my love The mere idea of you, the longing here for you You'll never know how slow the moments go till I'm near to you I see your face in every flower Your eyes in stars above It's just the thought of you The very thought of you, my love The Man I Love Someday he'll come along, The man I love And he'll be big and strong, The man I love And when he comes my way I'll do my best to make him stay Oh well you copy you paste you're a stupid robot He'll look at me and smile, I'll understand Then in a little while, he'll take my hand And though it seems absurd We both won't say a word Maybe I shall meet him Sunday Maybe Monday, maybe not Still I'm sure to meet him one day Maybe Tuesday will be my good news day He'll build a little home, that's meant for two From which I'll never roam, who would, would you And so all else above I'm dreaming of the man I love Embraceable You Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you Embrace me, my irreplaceable you Just a look at you My heart grew tipsy in me You and you alone Bring out the gypsy in me Oh well you copy you paste you're a stupid robot I love all the many charms about you Above all, I want these arms around you Don't be a naughty baby Come to mama, come to mama do My sweet embraceable you I love all the many charms about you Above all, I want my arms around you Don't be a naughty baby Come to mama, come to mama do My sweet embraceable you Stormy Weather Don't know why There's no sun up in the sky Stormy weather Since my man and I ain't together Keeps rainin' all of the time Life is bare Gloom and misery everywhere Just can't get my poorself together I'm weary all the time So weary all the time When he went away the blues walked in and met me If he stays away old rockin' chair will get me All I do is pray the Lord above will let me Walk in the sun once more Oh well you copy you paste you're a stupid robot I can't go on Every thing I had is gone Stormy weather Since my man and I ain't together Keeps rainin' all the time Keeps rainin' all the time When he went away the blues walked in and met me If he stays away old rockin' chair will get me All I do is pray the Lord above will let me Walk in the sun once more I can't go on Every thing I had is gone Stormy weather Since my man and I ain't together Keeps rainin' all the time Keeps rainin' all the time Autumn Leaves The falling leaves drift by the window Falling leaves of red and gold I see your lips, the summer kisses The sun-burned hands I used to hold Oh well you copy you paste you're a stupid robot Since you ran away the days grow long And soon I'll hear old winter's song I miss you most of all my darling When autumn leaves start to fall Since you ran away the days grow long And soon I'll hear old winter's song And I miss you most of all my darling When autumn leaves start to fall Autumn leaves start to fall When autumn leaves start to fall
Common Ground It was early morning when she left And the city, under a grey sky was still sleeping A note left on the table lying fl at Held the secrets she’d been keeping We have no common ground, my love We have no common ground So I am leaving with the dawn, my love And I never will be found Crossing that dirty green London common As the sky turned from grey to blue A suitcase, a long-distance airfare And a life to start living new We have no common ground, my love We have no common ground So I am leaving with the dawn, my love And I never will be found Architect I was an architect I changed my name With just a pencil and line I’m going to knock it down Build it back up from the ground Oh, a pencil and a line So beautiful and fi ne Just a pencil, a pencil and a line My windows open like a smile I paint my walls teeth bright white And then I rest a while Rest a while I rest a while Like a pencil and a line A pencil, a pencil Oh, a pencil and a line So beautiful and fi ne Just a pencil, a pencil and a line Just a pencil, pencil A blank page A flag on a ship A sail full of wind and A blueprint print print print Oh, a pencil and a line So beautiful and fine Just a pencil, a pencil and a line Oh, a pencil and a line So beautiful and fi ne Just a pencil, a pencil and a line Living Free I met a man who said he was living free Nothing before him but the open road He said, ‘Why don’t you just leave it all And come with me? Who only knows, who only knows Where it will lead? Just leave it all behind Give me this sad old world, I’ll set it free ‘You know it looks different when you’re living free The sun rises higher in the deep wide sky The wind it gets stronger, and the air so sweet Oh, who only knows, who only knows Where it will lead? Just leave it all behind Give me the sad old world, I’ll set it free’ And so I followed him and I tried living free Who could believe that open road was mine? The wind it grew stronger and yes, the air was sweet Who only knows, who only knows Who we can be? Let’s leave it all behind Give me the sad old world, I’ll set it free Living free I Wrote You a Love Song I wrote you a love song But I forgot all of the words The melody in my head Just sounded like all the others I’ve heard So I started again And wondered how I could tell you That life looks so different Now I’m under your spell I need to tell you How deep and far I fell There’s just something about you And I don’t know what it is Your face in the morning And the taste of your kiss And the shape that your body Leaves in our unmade bed Your hand in my hand And your voice in my head The look in your eyes Says it’s better left unsaid So this is your love song It’s simple, I know Cast your spell on me, darling And don’t let me go Don’t let me go Don’t let me go Don’t let me go Just Us Two There’s you in the morning When I open my eyes And you in the evening When we say our goodbyes It’s just us two and that’s enough for me Just us two and that’s enough for me It’s just us two and that’s enough for me It’s just us two Just us two Some are only happy When they’re in a crowd Others walk alone In the dead of sound It’s just us two and that’s enough for me Just us two and that’s enough for me It’s just us two and that’s enough for me It’s just us two Just us two One and one is all we need One and one is all we need It’s just us two and that’s enough for me Just us two and that’s enough for me It’s just us two and that’s enough for me It’s just us two Just us two Road of Shadows In the dark Sodium glows The white lines come and the white lines go Under quiet chimney ghosts We’re knocking down miles like dominoes The old world music is the scenery The back drop, back line, you don’t see me Engine hums as the feeling grows We’re knocking down miles like dominoes Knocking down miles like dominoes Rolling past this town on this road of shadows Knocking down miles like dominoes Rolling past this town on this road of shadows Well listen here, listen there’s nothing I need When I’m on the road just you and me To feed the song inside that grows Knocking down miles like dominoes Above us the moon’s so round tonight Wheels like wings as we take fl ight And as the grass beneath, beneath us grows Knocking down miles like dominoes Knocking down miles like dominoes Rolling past this town on this road of shadows Knocking down miles like dominoes Rolling past this town on this road of shadows Knocking down miles Dominoes Knocking down miles Stop. Go. Dominoes Knocking down miles Stop. Go. Dominoes Knocking down miles Stop. Go. Dominoes Knocking down miles Stop Don’t Step On the Cracks Don’t step on the cracks, he said That sad-eyed old man With the dirty and tattered blue coat And the bag in his hand holding everything he owned I told him I wouldn’t But that was a lie For I look for danger His rules are not mine Don’t step on the cracks, you said You’ve broken my heart again It’s shattered and splintered apart And fallen too far to make up from the start I told you I wouldn’t But that was a lie For I want my freedom And rules are not mine I’ll step on the cracks to get there Although it may seem I don’t care If I have to leave you, it’s not fair But I’ll step on the cracks to get there I told you I wouldn’t But that was a lie For I want my freedom And rules are not mine They’re not mine they’re not mine they’re not mine She Wears a Dress She wears a dress Of silk and feathers That was her mother’s They sewed it together Needle in the lamplight Dancing in the gaslight That hand she held so tight She’ll wear her mother’s dress tonight She’ll wear her mother’s dress tonight She’ll wear her mother’s dress tonight She wears a dress Of lace and linen The girl who was chosen What was she given? Needle in the lamplight Dancing in the gaslight That hand she held so tight She’ll wear her mother’s dress tonight She’ll wear her mother’s dress tonight She’ll wear her mother’s dress tonight Needle in the lamplight Dancing in the gaslight That hand she held so tight She’ll wear her mother’s dress tonight She’ll wear her mother’s dress tonight She’ll wear her mother’s dress tonight Lilies Lilies in the bathroom Old men in the back room Talking in low voices the way old men do The young girl and her mother Gentle with each other Eat their dinner In their fi nest Sunday clothes Did you see the fl owers, Mama I think they’re called lilies, Mama Oh if we could buy some for her And put them in my room Lilies in the bathroom I am in the back room With the old broom And all things left behind The young girl has a mother They’re gentle with each other While I eat my dinner in this room that was yours Yes, I saw the fl owers, daughter And yes, I also thought of her And yes, why don’t we buy some for her And put them in your room Flowers in the bedroom Mother’s in the back room You are in the garden and Autumn is coming soon Brightest Star Flying through this empty night-time sky Bridging the distance between your heart and mine Nothing at the windows but the night And a tiny yellow quiver looking like some fire Sirius you are the brightest star The wishing and the wanting, that will get you so far So come and share the limelight, honey Come and shine your starlight over me Oh, is it the darkness in your eyes The black hole where I fell for all your lies But space between us only seems to grow All you want is for the whole world to know That yes, you are the brightest star The highest and the brightest I have seen by far So come share the limelight, honey, Come and shine your starlight next to me The brightest star The brightest star However far Oh, you’re so far The brightest star The brightest star Oh, you’re so far My brightest star In This Garden They were young when they were married Two kids of slender means He was working for the council She was painting all the scenes And the house that they moved into Was dark and old and cramped Too hot to breathe in summer And in winter, cold and damp But outside, there was a garden They planted beds of fl owers And she took his hand and told him "This garden here This garden here This garden here is ours" It’s years since they were married Those kids of slender means He still works for the council She painted on their dreams And the house that they still lived in No longer dark and cramped In summer open windows And the warm light of a lamp Outside, there was a garden They lay in beds of fl owers And she took his hand and told him "This garden here This garden here This garden here is ours" Queen of the Snow New York was silent With fresh fallen snow The glass and the concrete The hard neon glow On the fifty-fi fth floor On the Lower East Side A woman stood and watched Her newborn child Oh daughter, my daughter Your mother is here The queen of the snow The empress of tears The mirror, it shattered The shard’s in my eyes Ice and shadows In this great kingdom of mine One day, it will be yours This freezing cold land My face in your mirror My hand in your hand Oh daughter, my daughter Your mother is here The queen of the snow The empress of tears May you grow taller Than I ever was May you bring sunlight To this nation of ice Oh daughter, my daughter Your mother is here The queen of the snow The empress of tears Oh daughter, my daughter Your mother is here The queen of the snow The empress of tears Home Home is a house Where the windows are open Music is playing And soft words are spoken All these presents We just keep on opening Look at what we call a home Home is a place Where the kids play outdoors Trees in the garden And rugs on the fl oors We’ve done all our shopping We’re out to get more Look at what we call a home Home is a flat On the rough side of town With a sheet for a curtain A patch of hard ground Look at the Christmas tree That we found Sometimes you just need a home Home is a roof That lets in the rain Mould on the walls An ugly black stain Carols they’re singing Are always the same Sometimes you just need a home Home is a bridge A tunnel, a yard A cold rush of air A mattress of card Sit round the TV as if it’s a fi re And feed all the need and the greed and desire (Shoo wap a doo we doo wop wop wop sha doobie do wap) At Christmas For home At Christmas Home At Christmas Home At Christmas Home Edge of the World On the beach Threw your arms out wide Closed your eyes against the sun Turned your face up to the sky If I could fi nd a way to stay there One moment in time Stay behind each other’s closed eyes "This feels like the edge of the world," You said, "The land bleeds into the sea And the wind blows free. This feels like the edge of the world," You said, "I am the body of the sea And my mind is free" On the beach No one but us Nothing but the wind in its rush If I could fi nd a way for us back there One moment in time Behind each other’s closed eyes "This feels like the edge of the world" You said "The land bleeds into the sea And the wind blows free This feels like the edge of the world," You said "My body is the sea And my mind is free And my mind is free" Oh the sea, the sea, the sea, the sea, the sea, the sea Gethsemane I pawned a golden evening The sign said "Please wait for me" I called it a resting place You are the shadow of the trees Because we always follow Up the hill, Gethsemane Up the hill in fear And dropping to my knees Oh save me father Save me Call me Gethsemane I am lonely Call me Gethsemane I stood with them and watched him Garden of Gethsemane He held me so tightly Evening of Gethsemane You are the shadow of the trees Eyes burn so brightly Told me you’d set me free Oh please believe me Oh save me father Save me Save me Gethsemane I am lonely Call me Gethsemane He told me he would set me free Set me free Gethsemane Love would set me free Love would set me free Love would set me free Love would set me free Love would set me free When Morning Comes I have spent so many nights, love Restless and alone Sleepless in my own bed Weary for the dawn Well tonight I am awake, love Like all those nights before But nothing is the same I’ve found a cure When morning comes I will reach for you When morning comes I call you When morning comes I can throw off the darkness I have lived in for too long And I will listen listen listen To the song To your song I knew that nothing Could turn me around Nothing of my own doing Could help me be found When you came around to me You opened something closed And when you let the light in Love grows When morning comes I will reach for you When morning comes I call you When morning comes I can throw off the darkness I have lived with for too long And I will listen listen listen To your song To your song
Midnight Chorus
Dear Lord Even at Christmas There's no such a thing a free lunch Oh I go to midnight mass For the answer But only come home with a hunch And underneath the mistletoe I get not a kiss but a punch But I have a wish like everyone else As I pull the whisky from the top shelf And say to my miserable seasonal self Dear Lord As it's Christmas Dear Lord Just this year Dear Lord Let me meet Dolly Parton Just once Even at Christmas It's only the twelfth of twelve long months Oh I go to my phone for the anwser There on the screen no response Oh and from the closing time street I can hear the slurred singing of drunks But I have a wish like everyone else But I have a wish like everyone else As I pull the whisky from the top shelf And say to my miserable seasonal self Dear Lord As it's Christmas Dear Lord Just this year Dear Lord Let me meet Dolly Parton Dolly Parton If I ever have a problem Not Holly or Ivy Not Harley or Ava I think to myself Not Molly or Isla What would Dolly do Not Polly or Eva What would Dolly say Not Heidi or Lisa Dear Lord I really want to see you Let me meet Please just once Or Kayleigh or Kylie Dolly Parton Just once Dear Lord As it's Christmas Dear Lord Let me meet Not Molly or Ava Not Molly or Ivy Doly Parton Just once Snow Angel I could hear my mother calling From the house of cooking smells and light In the garden where the snow all day had fallen Where I waited for that Christmas night And the wheelbarrow looked like a manger The bushes looked like kneeling kings My arms outstretched were wings as I let go And I fell and made an angel in the snow Snow angel Snow angel Snow angel Snow angel I could hear my father calling From the house of love and candlelight And in the garden where the snow all day had fallen Where I waited for that Christmas night And the garden looked like a stable And an aeroplane looked like a star My arms were outstretched wings as I let go And I fell and made an angel in the snow Snow angel Snow angel Snow angel Snow angel Snow angel Snow I could hear my father calling Snow I could hear my mother calling Snow angel
Midnight Chorus Twelve cold gold bells rang So we formed a circle with our hands One, two, three, four five Six seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, then The brand new year arrives I could wish you wealth As we form a circle with our hands But I wish you health Without you here I wouldn't be myself when The brand new year rrives Here we go Mind how you go A fresh start for everyone Here we go Mind how you go A fresh start for everyone In the midnight chorus Of our United hearts Twelve cold gold bells rang So we formed a circle with our hands One, two, three, four five Six seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, then The brand new year arrives Here we go Mind how you go A fresh start for everyone Here we go Mind how you go A fresh start for everyone In the midnight chorus Of our United hearts In the midnight chorus Of our United hearts
Night Drives Human Am I human Yes, I am human I'm fairly certain I am mostly human Then what are you, what are you, what are you What are you to do the things that you do Am I human Yes, you are human I'm fairly certain you are almost human Then who am I, who am I, who am I Who am I to say I ???, I, I, I Are we human Yes, we are human I'm fairly certain we are mostly human What we do, what we do, what we do Should always make a change to be true Am I human Yes, I am human I'm fairly certain I am mostly human Answer In The Dark When the shadows fell on the bathroom floor And I just don't fold, like my ??? clothes As the wind comes off, I did not slow down He sat by my side and he helped me cry You're an answer in the dark But I don't know what it's sayin' Just an answer in the dark now I don't know from what direction Either way, either way In the second drop, on the left handed side I left the pen on top where I used to write The sound of your voice, it's not what you say It's the settle change, likе your lady day You're an answer in the dark But I don't know what it's sayin' Just an answеr in the dark now I don't know from what direction Either way, either way I hear You're an answer in the dark now But I don't know what it's sayin' Just an answer in the dark now I don't know from what direction You're an answer in the dark now But I don't know what it's sayin' Just an answer in the dark now Just an answer in the dark now Chime Like A Bell The room spun, oh, a carousel When love hits your heart, it can hurt like hell Chime like a bell The world spun, oh, a carousel When love hits your heart, it's like a bird down a weel Chime like a bell Look, the painted horses are laughing varnish cracking Baring teeth so bold All the little hands on the poles Have worked away the gold My head spun, oh, a carousel When love hits your heart, it's like the floor just fell Chime like a bell What have I bеcome Oh, a carousel When lovе hits your heart It can crack the shell Chime like a bell Look, the painted horses are laughing varnish cracking Baring teeth so bold All the little hands on the poles Have worked away the gold What have I become Oh, a carousel When love hits your heart It will hurt like hell Chime like a bell Chime like a bell Chime like a bell Radioactive Will you use up this precious day Use it up and just walk away 'Cause when I met you a song came out I captured it to make it stay It gave way to a dream about People walkin' round in crowds like clouds In a cumulus of hidden thought They captured me with all their hearts I want this song for you To ride on the airwaves, jump up off the staves and be Radioactive, radioactive, radioactive, radioactive, radioactive Just a piece of paper and a pen Going back to pictures like cavemen Preserve it so it won't dry out We captured it for now and when Fighting chaos with a thought-out plan But chaos is where we all began, all began I want this song for you To ride on the airwaves, jump up off the staves and be Radioactive, radioactive, radioactive, radioactive, radioactive Radioactive, radioactive, radioactive, radioactive, radioactive The Me For You In this moment I am lost And all that could be us, a cost far away Minds play how we could Live another life if we weren't in this one for good What if time Could run twice Split in two Be the me for you Be the me for you Be the me for you And if more gives us less And the person we turn into is not our best Playful thoughts bring unrest Every inch of you can only be a guess What if time Could run twice Split in two Be the me for you Be the me for you Be the me for you What if time Could run twice Split in two Be the me for you What if time Could run twice Split in two Be the me for you Be the me for you Be the me for you Be the me for you Be the me for you Moon Karaoke If the moon was on karaoke What would she sing If the stars were at the bar What would they drink The Earth is spinnin' 'round Like it's had one too many The universe expands It's got a hunger in its belly for a one night stand Everyone's having fun but me The wind is playin' out with the trees Clouds are pretending to be sheep I'm just tryna be me The plants are waltzing round the sun Comets play catch me if you can Saturn's hula hooped since time began And black holes whisper secrets behind their hands Everyone's having fun but me The wind is playin' out with the trees Clouds are pretending to be sheep I'm just tryna be me Everyone's having fun for me I'm so sick of being free Everyone's having fun but me The wind is playin' out with the trees Clouds are pretending to be sheep Oh, if life is musical chairs that last on the sea I'm just tryna be me I'm just tryna be me Just lonely little me Night Drive To The Lake Night drive to the lake Looking down for up Starry surface flames A car wreck rusts in us Corrodes the sky Holds it high What we see is buried in you and me Buried in you and me Riverbed of lust Rushes right past us The tongue the ton the ton It's come, it's come it's come The aching that I feel Almost makes it real You're pulling on my lead You're pulling on my lead but I'm a hollow little seed Night drive to the lake Looking down for up Starry surface flames A car wreck rusts in us Rippling sky, holds a fly What we see is buried in you and me Buried and you and me Buried in you Put The Needle On The Record Put the needle on the record, I've got to set it straight In the tides of the evening soft words lap at our feet Put the needle on the record, even though it’s getting late In the swell of the evening soft words seal our fate As we go walking into this maze (Where are you? Where are you?) You and I go different ways Now I am losing myself Getting lost inside you Now I am losing myself Put the needle on the record, watching blackness turn and move The air is thinning your eyes hold just in the grooves Put the needle on the record, two sides every time We guess each other all the clues are in your eyes As we go walking into this maze You and I go different ways Now I am losing myself Getting lost inside you Now I am losing myself Getting lost inside you Now I am losing myself Put the needle on the record (Put the needle on the record) Put the needle on the record (Put the needle on the record) Put the needle on the record (Put the needle on the record) Now I am losing myself Getting lost inside you Now I am losing myself Getting lost inside you Now I am losing myself Magnets Magnet, pull me like a magnet My true north has turned around, headed south Magnet, pull me like a magnet And your love is an invisible force We were lode stones, skimming on the water And the future lay folded up in the drawers We wondered if our plans would knit, fit together And sew up all of the holes Magnet, pull me like a magnet My true north has turned around, headеd south Magnet, pull me like a magnеt And your love is an invisible force In the deep sea, the deep sea of unknowing Won't tell us if we’ll make it home So, we search for, search on the horizon Past the edges of we've been before Magnet, pull me like a magnet My true north has turned around, headed south Magnet, pull me like a magnet And your love is an invisible force Magnet, pull me like a magnet My true north has turned around, headed south Magnet, pull me like a magnet And your love is an invisible force The Brightest Will I get old, get the full run I'd be content to see another year gone This unrehearsed world, a first night of a play Where love doesn't change when it comes off the stage And the brightest spark in me will still burn for you And the brightest spark in me will still burn for you If we get old (If we get old) Our time's almost gone (Our time's almost gone) I'd be content (I'd be content) To sit in the sun (To sit in the sun) Look at the world (Look at the world) Thе game that it played (The gamе that it played) Your love never changed (Your love never changed) Or went out of phase (Or went out of phase) And the brightest spark in me will still burn for you And the brightest spark in me will still burn for you And the brightest spark in me will still burn for you And the brightest spark in me will still burn for you And the brightest spark in me will still burn for you And the brightest spark in me still burns for you And the brightest And the brightest Starry Heavens The day wakes up, pulls its covers overhead The cat is on my chest, I don't want to move her yet And coffee seems a long way down the stairs And the dreams I had float into the ether Starry heavens and my walking hours have different plans The starry heavens and my walking hours have different plans The evening's here and I'm still in the chair And what is out there is an unknown danger And what to do and how to care The cat jumps on this chair so I think i'll sleep here Starry heavens and my walking hours have different plans The starry heavens and my walking hours have different plans The starry heavens and my walking hours have different plans The starry heavens and my walking hours have different plans I Am Rich In All I’ve Lost I am rich in all I’ve lost, I am rich in all I’ve lost The fruit that comes after the blossom drops I am rich in all I’ve lost, I am rich in all that I’ve lost I close the book and the story stops And they all fade away And turn to face the day I am rich in all I’ve lost, I am rich in all that I’ve lost The tingling chili lips taste a lingering frost I am rich in all I’ve lost, I am rich in all that I’ve lost The Madeline's on his tongue, all he tastes is the past And they all fade away And turn to face the day I am rich in all that I’ve lost I am rich in all that I’ve lost
Willson Williams Arrow Looking up said I've been low Kitchen morning, sun glow I know my top notes have been low Oh fallen arrow Looking up, said I've been down Kitchen morning, frosty ground How the seeds beneath the snow Elude the sparrow Gold, gold, gold Still aiming for the gold Gold, gold, gold Still aiming for the gold Gold, gold, gold Still aiming for the gold Gold, gold, gold Still aiming Our fallen arrow We came out at Shepherd's Bush City lights remembered us A ladder up there swapping our names For tomorrows We came each time here, just to try Asking of each other why What flies between us But fallen arrows Gold, gold, gold Still aiming for the gold Gold, gold, gold Still aiming for the gold Gold Still aiming for the gold Our fallen arrow Looking up, said I've been low Kitchen morning, sun glow I know my top notes have been low Oh fallen arrow I put my string into the knock Carry on, aiming up I'll always miss you Our fallen arrow Gold, gold, gold Still aiming for the gold Gold, gold, gold Still aiming for the gold Gold Still aiming for the gold Our fallen arrow Looking up, said I've been down Kitchen morning, frosty ground How the seeds beneath the snow Elude the sparrow Our fallen arrow Our fallen arrow Our fallen arrow
Grace Burning in the sun White shoes, green grass stains Did you ever kiss someone Waiting for the world to change Well, I've been reaching out for days Calling out for praise I missed what was in front of my face I was far away from Grace Freezing on the run You see my breath but I'm cold inside Did you ever miss someone And nothing in the world seems right Well I've been reaching out for days Calling out for praise I missed what was in front of my face I was falling Far away from Grace We are only young More I passed than left to come Did you ever love someone And left a song of love unsung Well I've been reaching out for days Calling out for praise I missed what was in front of my face I was falling In and out of Grace Amazing Grace Far away from Grace
U 4 Real When I said that "I do" I mean I hope so I believe a dream came true I was wishing on a star That shone exactly where you were I thought that you knew me As if I would say anything So obvious and needy When love comes easy You gotta open up and let it out And I'm reading you Talking over there to someone new I catch your eye giving me a cue The room is full But it empties when I look at you And only I can hear your eyes say I can't think of anyone I'd rather spend my time with than you Hey, are you for real I don't know how to feel I can't think of anyone I'd rather spend my time with than you Hey, are you for real Do you recognise me Am I just a fading echo Of a shadow of a memory When you first met me You saw something you could love Like the first that you blew me I'm not hung like an elephant But I got a good memory The pleasures of the flesh How we learn to love the rest And I'm reading you Talking over there to someone new I catch your eye giving me a cue The room is full But it empties when I look at you And only I can hear your eyes say I can't think of anyone I'd rather spend my time with than you Hey, are you for real I don't know how to feel I can't think of anyone I'd rather spend my time with than you Hey, are you for real So take a chance On what started with a dance And dance with me I can't think of anyone I'd rather spend my time with than you Hey, are you for real I don't know how to feel I can't think of anyone I'd rather spend my time with than you Hey, are you for real I can't think of anyone I'd rather spend my time with than you Hey, are you for real I don't know how to feel I can't think of anyone I'd rather spend my time with than you Hey, are you for real Are you for real Our Best Here come the days Turning the years Turning the years No one told spring When to appear I long to hear So I close my eyes And wish upon the size Of the new moon tonight And just like I imagine You're here But you're gone Everything moves on We will just have to do Our best without Without you we will Just have to do Our best Here come the years Without a care Without a care You're not a saint And you never were You never were Where is the light To help fight my fear You'll find me here And I will open my eyes And look for the shape Of that new moon tonight And just like you imagined Everything carries on Only I'll know you're gone We will just have to do Our best without Without you we will Just have to do Our best Our best Our best We will Just have to do Our best without Without you we will Just have to do Our best Shelf The tower of self-help books by the bed Might crush me in my sleep The book you bought me three times Dropped it in the bath left it on a train It wasn't mine to keep We're gonna have to put a shelf up It's time And level with the spirit And draw the line Draw the line Got a tattoo when I was eighteen They drew a seahorse on my arm To seduce me and to save you The blood and ink worked like a charm I'm gonna have to trust my own luck Sometime And level with the spirit And draw the line Draw the line She said "You're always making me say something That I would never even say You write me into all your sad songs So you don't get in the way I'm gonna have to pick myself up It's time And level with the spirit And draw the line Draw the line Draw the line
Wish Off the train and running for cover Outside The Waverley The rainbows in the gutter With you, inside the rain The taxi stands The big queues of people It rained so hard Cuts lines between us And all we had to say, to say Well, I remember you at your best, in your grace When you could see life through In the way that you'd say Try not to wish it all away Try not to wish it all away It's been a year I still hear you in the echoes Under the bridge Not read yet to let go Of what you said to me You said the jewels Were still hidden in the castle Will I remember to surrender in the battle Will I forget your face, your face Well, I remember you at your best. in your grace When you could see life through in the way that you'd say Try not to wish it all away Try not to wish it all away Try not to wish it all away Try not to wish it all away Will I remember you Will I remember you Will I remember you Will I remember you Will I remember you I remember Will I remember you I remember... Sweetest Wine Now when you call I'm happy To hear your voice But the shame of how we scorned your name Carried blame as if you saw a choice Now the shadows grow to greet me And change my voice For the years I took it all in vain They carried me through life, rejoice Is it not the sweetest wine That fills my glass with sun's decline We always think we have more time So come on, wither on the vine Last night felt like I was swimming Beneath your voice Coming up for breath, I surfaced And dropped the things that hurt the most Is it not the sweetest wine That fills my glass with sun's decline We always think we have more time So come on, wither on the vine Is it not the sweetest wine That fills my glass with sun's decline We always think we have more time So come on, wither on the vine Weekend I wanted to be part of the crowd But I kept my coat on said the music was too loud And when the lights went up I saw A sea of faces shouting signing out for more I wanted to be part of the world I kept my collar up, didn't realise I was proud And when the lights went up I saw All the nights I wasted trying to feel more To feel alright Alright, alright, alright We go out on the weekend Have someone elses fun Get dressed up like someone Who belongs to the weekend I don't belong to the weekend I don't belong I wanted to be part of it all Everyone was diving in while I was scared to fall When the lights went up I saw I only tell the truth as I'm walking out the door To feel alright Alright, alright, alright We go out on the weekend Have someone elses fun Get dressed up like someone Who belongs to the weekend I don't belong to the weekend I don't belong to the weekend I don't belong to the weekend I don't belong We go out on the weekend Have someone elses fun Get dressed up like someone Who belongs to the weekend
Sing Out (Cat Stevens) Well, if you want to sing out, sing out And if you want to be free, be free 'Cause there's a million things to be You know that there are And if you want to live high, live high And if you want to live low, live low 'Cause there's a million ways to go You know that there are You can do what you want The opportunity's on And if you find a new way You can do it today You can make it all true You can make it undo You see, ah-ah-ah, it's easy, ah-ah-ah You only need to know Well if you want to say yes, say yes And if you want to say no, say no Yes 'Cause there's a million ways to go You know that there are And if you want to be me, be me And if you want to be you, be you 'Cause there's a million things to do You know that there are You can do what you want The opportunity's on And if you find a new way You can do it today You can make it all true You can make it undo You see, ah-ah-ah, it's easy, ah-ah-ah You only need to know And if you want to say yes, say yes And if you want to say no, say no Yes 'Cause there's a million ways to go You know that there are And if you want to be me, be me And if you want to be you, be you 'Cause there's a million things to do You know that there are Well, if you want to sing out, sing out And if you want to be free, be free 'Cause there's a million things to be You know that there are You know that there are You know that there are You know that there are Elvis Turn me like a wheel Take me to the place I'm feeling And if I lose my way Can you take on the driving Everyday I write the book But I lose sight of the ending Got the blues behind me now Notes were meant for bending Got the blues behind me Got the blues behind me now I'll be back again Even Elvis left the building When I told him who I knew He said "were you the last one standing" I said "you wouldn't want to You wouldn't want to know" It's time to make a stand Now's the time for dancing It's a ticker tape parade I'm just one ribbon falling In a ticker tape In a ticker tape parade Big Nothing Time flies doesn't it It comes to pass Tick tock, tick tock Round and round But something else doesn't (John Butler) Turn it down Inner sound Silence is relief Stories told Getting old Time it is a thief Here it comes Here it comes Dream a dream Inside a dream Sleeper is asleep If the waves Turn around Be more like the Sea Here it comes Here it comes Here it comes Here it comes Be nothing, be nothing Be nothing, big nothing Turn it down Inner sound Silence is relief Stories told Getting old Time it is a thief Here it comes Here it comes Be nothing, be nothing Be nothing, big nothing
Non Albums Tracks
Blackwater Side (Traditional / Live - VA - Daughters Of Albion - Folk Britannia At The Barbican) One evening fair to take the air Down by Blackwater Side It was in gazing all, all around me It was the Irish lad I spied All through the first part of the night Well, we lay in work and play Then this young man he arose And gathered his clothes He said, “Fare thee well today” Well, that's not the promise you gave to me When first you lay on my bed You could make me believe with your lying tongue That the sun rose in the west Then go home to your father's garden You go home and weep your fill And you think of your own misfortune That you brought with your wanton will For there's not one girl in this whole wide world As easily led as I Sure it's fishes they'll fly and the seas run dry 'Tis then you'll marry I
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face ( Ewan MacColl Cover / Live - VA - Daughters Of Albion - Folk Britannia At The Barbican)
The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes And the moon and stars were the gifts you gave To the dark and the empty skies, my love To the dark and the empty skies The first time ever I kissed your mouth And felt your heart beat close to mine Like the trembling heart of a captive bird That was there at my command, my love That was there at my command And the first time ever I lay with you I felt your heart belong mine I thought our joy would fill the earth And last till the end of time my love It would last till the end of time
Foreign Skies When the moon pull rushes in Crashes into sand It lingers in the last sunlight And holds onto every strand I'm as still as boats on land Sitting next to you Breathing in a foreign sky More shades that the word blue Air as warm as runny honey Pours golden on my skin The wind plays games with olive leaves And brushes the grass into lines I'm as still as boats on land Sitting next to you Breathing in a foreign sky With more shades than the word blue
Ghost
( Come with me EP ) All of my friends say they've seen you around I thought you'd gone to the coast And when they tell me It's told like a secret You always look like a ghost You always looked like a ghost You can't help walking down the same road Just where your shoes taking you Open up new worlds Then build an impasse Somewhere you can't get through Somehow you never got through You saw something in me I saw something in you Now all I get is people I know Saying they can see through you You saw something in me I saw something in you Now all I get is people I know Saying they can see through you I have this picture of the last time That's how I still see you Both of us clinging to a sinking love I let go of you You floated into a line of blue Off where the wind and I blew
Kiss the Forehead I kissed the forehead of someone I loved Then went up to bed cause everything was spinning I could hardly stand up And I wanted him I wanted to tell him But the next day he was gone And I felt like we'd talked on and on The next day he was gone He was always talking on and off and on I was sinking What he was saying wasn't interesting But when he left the room I really felt it When he left the room It felt so badly lit And I wanted him I wanted to tell him To lie here and not go out To not piss anyone else off To lie here and not go out To not piss anyone else off Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie….
North Country Maid ( Marianne Faithfull Cover / Kathryn Williams & Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy & Sheila Chandra & June Tabor & Lou Rhodes & Vashti Bunyan Live - VA - Daughters Of Albion - Folk Britannia At The Barbican) A north country maid up to london has strayed Although with her nature it did not agree. So she wept and she sighed and bitterly she cried, Oh, I wish once again in the north I could be. For the oak and the ash and the bonny ivy tree They all flourish blue in my north country While sadly I roam I regret my dear home, Where the lads and young lasses are making the hay. Where the birds sweetly sing, and the merry bells do ring And the maidens and meadows are pleasant and gay. For the oak and the ash and the bonny ivy tree They all flourish blue in my north country No doubt if I please, I could marry with ease, Where maidens are fair, many lovers will come. But he that I wed must be north country bred And carry me back to my own country. For the oak and the ash and the bonny ivy tree They all flourish blue in my north country
Some Kind Of Wonderful I don't need a whole lotta money I don't need a big, fine car I got everything that a girl could want I got more than I could ask for I don't have to run around I don't have to stay out all night Cause I got a sweet, sweet lovin man And he knows just how to treat me right See, my baby, he's alright See, my baby, we're so tight Don't you know he is some kind of wonderful Yes, he is He's some kind of wonderful Don't you know he is some kind of wonderful Let me tell you one more thing Now, when he holds me in his arms He sets my soul on fire And, ooh, when my baby kisses me, My heart becomes filled with desire When he wraps his loving arms around me He almost drives me out of my mind I get these funny little feelings inside of me Chills run up and down my spine My baby, he's alright Me and my baby we're so tight Don't you know he is some kind of wonderful Yes he is Some kinda wonderful He is some kind of wonderful Now, hold on, let me know just one more thing Is there anyone out there with a sweet loving man like mine? There's got to be somebody with a sweet, loving man like mine Now, tell me ladies Can I get a witness Can I get a witness up in here, Ladies? Can I get a witness Can I get a witness Can I get a witness Do you know what I'm talkin about, Ladies, are you listening? Can I get a witness Wonderful Some kinda wonderful Don't you know he is Some kind of wonderful Don't you know he is Some kind of wonderful Don't you know he is Some kind of wonderful (He's some kind of wonderful, Yes, he is) Don't you know he is Some kind of wonderful Don't you know he is Some kind of wonderful Don't you know he is Some kind of wonderful Don't you know he is Some kind of wonderful Don't you know he is Some kind of wonderful Don't you know he's some kind of wonderful Don't you know he is I'm talkin bout my baby, yeah
This Woman's Work
( Kate Bush cover / Kathryn Williams, Eliza Carthy and Lou Rhodes Live - VA - Daughters Of Albion - Folk Britannia At The Barbican) Kathryn: Pray God you can cope I stand outside this woman's work This woman's world Ooh, it's hard on the man Now his part is over Now starts the craft of the father Kathryn, Eliza & Lou: I know you have a little life in you yet I know you have a lot of strength left I know you have a little life in you yet I know you have a lot of strength left Kathryn: I should be crying, but I just can't let it show I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking Of all the things I should've said That I never said All the things we should've done That we never did All the things I should've given But I didn't Kathryn, Eliza & Lou: Oh, darling, make it go Make it go away Kathryn: Give me these moments back Give them back to me Give me that little kiss Give me your hand Eliza & Lou: I know you have a little life in you yet I know you have a lot of strength left I know you have a little life in you yet I know you have a lot of strength left Kathryn: I should be crying, but I just can't let it show I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking Eliza & Lou: Of all the things we should've said That were never said All the things we should've done That we never did All the things that you needed from me All the things that you wanted for me All the things that I should've given But I didn't Oh, darling, make it go Kathryn: Make it go away
Who knows where the time goes ( Sandy Denny Cover / Lou Rhodes & Kathryn Williams & Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy & Sheila Chandra & Vashti Bunyan Live - VA - Daughters Of Albion - Folk Britannia At The Barbican) Across the evening sky All the birds are leaving But how can they know It's time for them to go Before the winter fire I will still be dreaming I do not count the time For who knows where the time goes Who knows where the time goes Sad deserted shore your fickle friends are leaving Ah, then you know It's time for them to go But I will still be here I have no thought of leaving You know I have no thought of time For who knows where the time goes Who knows where the time goes And I am not alone While my love is near me I know it will be so Until it's time to go So come the storms of winter And then the birds in spring again I do not fear the time For who knows where the time goes Who knows where the time goes