Minnie Driver Complete Lyrics Archive

B i o g r a p h y
(by Label Zoe)

"This would have come a lot sooner, but I had a baby, and I wanted to focus on being a mum for awhile," Minnie Driver says of Ask Me to Dance, her third Rounder/Z�e album, and her first new release since 2007. In a musical career that's run concurrently with her endeavors as one of her generation's most acclaimed and in-demand actresses, Minnie Driver has consistently demonstrated an organic, distinctive set of talents that have been honed through a lifetime of music-making. Ask Me to Dance marks another notable landmark in Driver's creative evolution. Where her first two albums, 2004's Everything I've Got In My Pocket and 2007's Seastories, focused on her own vivid songwriting, Ask Me to Dance finds the artist interpreting a selection of compositions by some of her favorite songwriters, demonstrating the breadth of her musical interests while showcasing her substantial interpretive skills. Driver lends her warmly expressive voice to an impressively diverse set of songs, underlining her talent as a song stylist as well as her deeply personal engagement with the material. She submerges herself in the bittersweet vibe of "Waltz #2" by Elliott Smith, whom Driver befriended when both were in the early stages of their respective careers, and brings a jazzy lilt to The Cure's "Close To Me." While her readings of Neil Young's "Tell Me Why," John Prine's "Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness," and Neil Finn's "Better Be Home Soon" cut straight to the emotional heart of those songs, she reinvents the Killers' "Human" as an affecting country ballad, reworks the swinging Sinatra standard "Fly Me To The Moon" as a stark, moody ballad, and recasts Stevie Wonder's "Master Blaster" as a pensive, introspective mood piece.

"This is something that I've always wanted to do," Driver says of the covers project. "Every single song on it has enormous resonance for me, for one reason or another. It's called Ask Me to Dance because a lot of it is my entire teenage experience of standing at the side of a dark dance hall, just willing someone to ask me to dance. Some of these songs are the ones that helped me through being a teenager. "But it wasn't just about going back to the past," she continues. "The point was to choose songs that I felt a real connection to, and then metabolizing the song and seeing how I could bring something new to it. It was much harder than I thought it would be, and it was quite a challenge to try to turn these songs into something new, and to find myself in them in a way that would also be meaningful to other people." London-born Amelia Fiona Driver spent much of her early childhood in Barbados, until her parents separated and sent her back to England to attend boarding school. As a teenager, she began singing and playing guitar in London jazz clubs, while earning her degree in drama from the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. By the time she reached her 20s, she was acting regularly on British TV, while singing with the jazz group Puff, Rocks and Brown. "I don't know if I actually did the whole Malcolm Gladwell thing of playing for 10,000 hours, but I felt like I did," Driver recalls. "I had planned to make music my primary thing, but then I got offered a film and it all went off in a different direction. At the time, I thought that I was ready to take on the music industry, but I don't think that I really was. I had to grow up enough to have something to say."

Although her band won a development deal with Island Records, Driver temporarily put her musical passions on hold when her acting career took off, first with her breakout role in Circle of Friends in 1995, and subsequently with high-profile turns in such films as GoldenEye, Big Night, Grosse Pointe Blank, Sleepers and Good Will Hunting. Her work in the latter film earned Driver her first Academy Award nomination, along with a London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Supporting Actress of the Year. As her acting career gained momentum, Driver found time to continue writing songs, gravitating towards a rootsy folk-pop sound that she unveiled with the release of 2004's Everything I've Got in My Pocket and refined on 2007's Seastories. Both albums received considerable critical acclaim and won Driver a substantial fan base. Driver was hardly idle in the seven years separating Seastories and Ask Me to Dance. In addition to raising her now-five-year-old son, she won wide acclaim for the FX TV series The Riches, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award as Best Lead Actress. She also starred in the 2010 BBC series The Deep, and appeared in the feature films Conviction and Barney's Version, for which she won a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress. Most recently, Driver starred in the television movie �Return to Zero,� a devastating true story of a couple�s attempts to navigate their way through a pregnancy filled with doubt, grief and trepidation. Driver was nominated for a 2014 Critics� Choice Television Award, as well as a 2014 Primetime Emmy Award on behalf of her performance in the film. She's also currently one of the stars of the NBC series About A Boy, which will premiere its Second Season on Tuesday, October 14th at 9:30PM.

Driver recorded Ask Me to Dance with noted producer Marc "Doc" Dauer, who also produced her first two albums, and legendary engineer Jim Scott, who worked on Seastories, along with many of the same musicians who played on her prior releases. "I really like the continuity of working with the same people," Driver states. "To me, that's a lot more interesting to me than the idea of going to France to make a record with Phoenix or going to North Africa to work on some world beats. I'm more interested in finding my own groove, and I like where I'm at with these guys, because there's a shorthand and a communication that's developed over time. This time, we were all in the room together, and it just felt so good and so positive. I gave a little speech every time we started a new song, letting them know what the song meant to me, and they got it." Having ended her extended recording hiatus, Minnie Driver is returning to music with a renewed passion. She's also looking forward to return to playing live, and planning to work around About A Boy's shooting schedule to bring Ask Me to Dance to life on stage. "Everyone's journey is different, and there's a million different ways of doing it," she reflects. "With my first record, because I had been waiting for such a long time to do it, I felt such a need to prove myself. And then people actually listened and realized that it wasn't a self-aggrandizing trainwreck, so now I don't feel like I have quite so much to prove. But music is still very important to me, and I feel like I'm still learning and still growing. "You can't talk people into believing that you're good at something," Driver concludes. "You just have to show them, and then you just have to keep doing it and keep getting better at it, and let the work speak for itself."

Everything I've Got In My Pocket

I want to lay down with you forever
Or just this afternoon
Watching the shadows getting long
I'll sing you a quiet song
Watch you sleep so slow and deep

Baby I know that all your pain will pass
I know you're sad, but it won't last
I'm betting you everything that I've got in my pocket
When you're staring out into the sky
See what you have
And don't ask why
Things can't be different, they're perfect

Want to remind you how you laugh
Sometimes you don't even make a sound
Till you fall down on the ground
I'm going to love you every day
Maybe it'll balance out the pain
That I can't take away

Baby I know that all your pain will pass
I know you're sad, but it won't last
I'm betting you everything that I've got in my pocket
when you're staring out into the sky
See what you have, and don't ask why
Things can't be different
They're perfect

So come on and lay down with me
I'll tell you all the useless things
That I have learned
But this one good thing my old man told me

Baby I know that all your pain will pass
I know you're sad, but it won't last
I'm betting you everything that I've got in my pocket
when you're staring out into the sky
See what you have, and don't ask why
Things can't be different
They're perfect

Invisible Girl

Panda eyes and your sister's dress that you took and you tore
And you know that you got a long walk home
Pick your way over drunken shapes on the lawn by the pool
And you lost both your shoes that his Mom's gonna find

Her dress,
Your shoes,
Little flower bruise
Old smoke in your hair,
No subway fare, but you just don't care

Heart shines like a neon sign
For tonight won't you just be mine
Invisible girl, in the sodium light
She's the Queen of the Night

Crown starts to slip and fade, little feet on the street
tired girl in someone else's clothes
Stand in the quiet house, making tea, making toast
Making room for your daytime ghost

Her dress,
Your shoes,
Little flower bruise
Old smoke in your hair
No subway fare, but you just don't care

Heart shines like a neon sign
For tonight won't you just be mine
Invisible girl, in the sodium light
She's the Queen of the Night

Heart shines like a neon sign
For tonight won't you just be mine
Invisible girl, in the sodium light
She's the Queen of the Night

Your sun is the evening star
Your temple the downtown bar
Invisible girl, in the sodium light
She's the Queen of the Night
She's the Queen of the Night

Fast As You Can

Oh be a man, as fast as you can,
Oh be a man, as fast as you can
Growing up wild, out in the fields
In awe of the stars, and the power they wield

Oh you loved them anyway
Don't think they noticed you

See how the stars change, from summer to fall
The sole indication, that we're moving at all
Carry the world, with the hands of a child
You can't be a boy, she wants you to be wild

She was the sun, sun, sun
And you were the moon
And the light of the sun
Fills up the room

Oh you loved her anyway
And she tried to love you

When she was asleep, you'd watch her face
Taken in sleep to a more peaceful place
You'd stand by the door, cause you were her guard
And you'd love her in silence, and it wasn't that hard.

Cause she was the sun, sun, sun
And you were the moon
And the light of the sun
Eclipses the moon

Oh you loved her anyway
And she tried to love you

She never asked you, what you're dreaming of
She told you 'bout Texas, and liquor and love
She was hard-edged and broken, she blamed a man
But she told you to be one, as fast as you can

Wire

Living on a wire, the sight of you could save my skin
And the sun is in my eyes, and the breeze lifts the hair from my neck
So precariously I am inching my way across my life
I could fall if you don't call
a sick safety net appears when I'm with you

Oh, I climb, so high waiting to fall
And then I cry, like a child, on a neverending ride

How does it go down, when you're the biggest kid in your own playground
And how do you see me, how do I fit in your hierarchy?
Oh you tell the girls line up in single file, just gotta rearrange my denial
So I can play with you, and now I see, all the shit that isn't me
I'm too relieved to be mad, relieved and sad

I misplaced my mind, thought it was lost
But now I find, you were just very, very unkind

You know I always found, that my feet were dangling looking for solid ground
Is it maybe worth closing down the Ivory Tower
And coming back down to earth?

Home

Angel, asleep on my shoulder
You don't know, how you're gonna grow.
Think you'll be strong and kind like your daddy
Sweet and generous, as your mamma too.
Sky above, endless and ever blue
filled with stars, shining their light on you
They're there when you're feeling scared you're all alone, they lead you home.
Home
Angel, look what you've come to.
Like the deep blue sea love is all around you.
It's there when you're standing tall
it'll be there when you fall
It's at the edge of all the dreams you dream
Sky above, endless and ever blue
filled with stars, shining their light on you
They're there when you're feeling scared, you're all alone, they lead you home.
Home
Angel, asleep on my shoulder
you don't know how you're gonna grow.
Think you'll be strong, like your daddy
sweet and generous, as your mamma too.
It's waiting for you, it's waiting for you, it's waiting for you.

Deeper Water

Take me out, take me out
Far into the deeper water
Show me how, show me how
For I have longed to love deep water

I was washed up on the shore
You take me out in the water once more

Slowly, I cannot swim fast
And I know, neither can you
We'll float, let all the clouds pass by
You and I, you and I
You and I, you and I

Why you blue, why you blue
Did she bring you out here too
Wait and see, wait and see
The tide might bring you here to me

I was washed up on the shore
You take me out in the water once more

Slowly, I cannot swim fast
And I know, neither can you
We'll float, let all the clouds pass by
You and I, you and I...

So Well

I will pass by your house and not look
I won't pick up the phone
I'll read a book
I will put your pictures in a wooden box
I will find a heart next time
With fewer locks

I can let you go
I can let you go
But I can lie as well
Ask your friends how you doing
They say you're doing well
But you can lie as well
So well

I won't feel the rush of you under my skin
My poor brain will hear your voice
I'm not tuning in
Too soon to know the first thing I'll forget
I can let this go
Just not, your memory yet

I can let you go
I can let you go
But I can lie as well
Ask myself how you doing
You say you're doing well
But you can lie as well
So well

Hungry Heart

Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack
I went out for a ride and I never went back
Like a river that don't know where it's flowing
I took a wrong turn and I just kept going

Everybody's got a hungry heart
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybody's got a hungry heart

I met her in a Kingstown bar
We fell in love I knew it had to end
We took what we had and we ripped it apart
Now here I am down in Kingstown again

Everybody's got a hungry heart
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybody's got a hungry heart

Everybody needs a place to rest
Everybody wants to have a home
Don't make no difference what nobody says
Ain't nobody like to be alone

Everybody's got a hungry heart
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybody's got a hungry heart

Down

Too bad, she don't love you no more
And I've a half a mind to give her a call
Curled up in a ball
Is that where you are
Is that where you are

Well it was the same for me, I'll tell you what you will see
As you go
Down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down

I never wished you any harm
But Karma has a certain charm
My dad always used to say
You never run up a tab, you don't eventually have to pay

Well it was the same for me, I'll tell you what you will see
As you go
Down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down

Buy a book that'll teach you how to relate
Then tell her all the things you learned too late

In time, the pain will go away
And you'll be free to love and lose another day
Mind what you do
Cause as you see, things come back to you

What do you want from me?
I'm not sorry

That you are down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down

Yellow Eyes

She had the yellow eyes of opal moons
So full of love, how could she see?
He thought he'd drown in them
So he set sail
Gracefully she dreamed him free

The Indian Ocean washed him on her shore
Flat backed on a dirt packed floor
One eye on the door
You're ten thousand miles away
As the birds fly, and you want to die
Because you let her go

You say, you say

Oh when she holds me, nobody told me
All of the fear her love would bring
If you could see me
Would you believe me darling
That all my fear was only love

He had a one time look at paradise
A white light, it was bright to blinding paradise
All of the angels that you can't see
When you're equating love
Equating love, with never being free

And you say, you say

Oh when she holds me, nobody told me
All of the fear her love would bring
If you could see me
Would you believe me darling
That all my fear was only love

She had the yellow eyes of opal moons
You looked away from them too soon
The best I can say to you
Though I don't know when
Is that I know you'll feel this way
I know, I know you'll feel this way again

And next time

Tell her you love her
You're always with her
Even when you are far away
Cause if she could see you
I think she'd believe you darling
That all your fear was only love
All your fear was only love

Ruby Adeline

Ruby Adeline
Your life will be so fine
Ruby Adeline
You're gonna have the sweetest time

I could wish you lots of things
A clever mind and diamond rings

The knowledge that you're always free
Compassion for all that you see

But the best thing, I can think of
Is to wish you love

Ruby Adeline
Your life will be so fine
Ruby Adeline
You're gonna have the sweetest time

So right from the very start
I wish you a lions heart
A little darkness let it come
So that you will always know the sun
May it shine down from above
Let it fill your life with love

Ruby Adeline
Your life will be so fine
Ruby Adeline
You're gonna have the sweetest time

Stars & satellites

You court the darkness like she's your lover
A girl you nailed one time
And can't get over
Feverish and sleepless at night
It's only because you cannot
Tear your eyes away from her

If love is the answer you seek
You're asking the kind of questions.
The wrong kind of questions will keep
You asking me, asking me for love
And all the stars and satellites give you nothing.
'Cause all the satellites died.

And all the satellites in your atmosphere
They burn for you but you're cold as mars.
I know you see the light in the sky like I do
But for you they're just dying stars

If love is the answer you seek
You're asking the kind of questions.
The wrong kind of questions will keep
You asking me, asking me for love
And all the stars & satellites give you nothing
'Cause all the satellites died.

I guess there's poetry in a dayless life
And profit to be made from your pain
I hope you call me up if you ever get old
I would like to see your face again

If love is the answer you seek
You're asking the kind of questions
The wrong kind of questions will keep

You asking me, asking me for love
You asking me, asking me for love
You asking me, asking me for love

If love is the answer you seek
You're asking the kind of questions

If love is the answer you seek
You're asking the kind of questions�

Sorry baby

(feat. Liz phair)

I wish you everything good
It's no less than you deserve
Wish I could fake what you want
Oh, I give you my love

Sorry baby
Sorry baby
Sorry baby, I'm sorry baby
I miss you now

You grow like a tree in my life
Yeah, but I'm like a vine
Can't let you carry my weight anymore
Baby, it's mine

Sorry baby
Sorry baby
Sorry baby, I'm sorry baby
I miss you now

You are a thousand miles away
And I can't come find you anymore
Anymore

Oh, I've got a ghost in my head
Yeah, he's a bad man
Some kind of lingering dept
Oh, I pay what I can

Sorry baby
Sorry baby
Sorry baby, I'm sorry baby
I miss you now

Beloved

The late light of the desert made
The mountains a silhouette
As curved as a woman's side
As far off as I feel inside
This gravity that used to feel like fear
Pulls me to a new conclusion
The light of you is the weight that keeps me here

I wake up with my soul on fire
I'm swimming in my heart's desire not
Drowning in somebody's wake, not
Smiling for somebody's sake
Why don't you just stay here in the sun
Beats me why you disappear honey
Ain't I your beloved one

My beloved, my beloved, my beloved one
My beloved, my beloved, my beloved one

I see you blue eyed old and grey still
Up all night 'til break of day.
You dance me across the kitchen floor,
You still got one eye on the door.
How you love me with,
Them halfway eyes.
And when I think there's nothing left
I think of love and all the time it buys.

My beloved, my beloved, my beloved one
My beloved, my beloved, my beloved one

The late light of the desert made
The mountains a silhouette
As curved as a woman's side,
As far off as I feel inside.
The battle was hard fought but nobody won,
I'll be your magnetic north baby,
You be my beloved one.

My beloved, my beloved, my beloved one
My beloved, my beloved, my beloved one

Cold dark river

Sky's on fire
It's blazing up into the sun
Shouting red on everyone
But you're blue

Oh, I'm better than I used to be
Finally got up off my knees
I can't save you

Don't let it bring you downstream
You're drinking all of that cold dark river

Oh, love come down on me
Tell my heart to set me free
Oh, love come down on me

Can't shake you
You're there in everything I know
You're staring out from my soul
In every song, in every song I sing

Mountains, mountains
That I should have learned
I'll stand by and watch them burn with you

Don't let it bring you downstream
You're drinking all of that cold dark river

Oh, love come down on me
Tell my heart to set me free
Oh, love come down on me

Mockingbird

Sure do song a pretty song darlin'
Pretty music, lord, and pretty words
Like a lark and sweeter than a starling
But mostly like a mockingbird.

Words that leave your mouth all turn to ashes.
They flutter to the ground like falling snow,
They make a bed that's soft enough to lie in
And your foot steps make no sound as you go.

Mockingbird, you just sound like what you said you were
Mockingbird, you were the sweetest thing, I ever heard.

The colour of desire is a wretched blue,
It burns just like the centre of a flame.
It pulls the loosest thread inside your mind.
It burns everything
But it calls you out by name.

Mockingbird, you just sound like what you said you were
Mockingbird, you were the sweetest thing, I ever heard.

The devil stole the wings from a poor angel
They grew into the skin upon his back
Now half of his heart for me it beats
And the other half just repeats
The things I�m feeling for my mockingbird.

Oh my my my my,
My mockingbird.

Mockingbird, you just sound like what you said you were
Mockingbird, you were the sweetest thing, I ever heard.

How to be good

I could write the book of you
And illustrate the pages
You shouldn't read it
I'm the one that you put down,
It was written in a hurry,
Slipped through your fingers.

I do everything I should
Still got to learn,
How to be good.
You got two strong arms I see,
Can't you bring them around
Wrap them around me?

I lay my storms down at your feet
Maybe you'll build a shelter,
Maybe do my heart work for me.
Oh, I kick and scream,
But the job is mine,
So I�ll stay by the ocean
You got your own hills to climb.

I do everything I should
Still got to learn,
How to be good.
You got two strong arms I see,
Can't you bring them around
Wrap them around me?

And I know that I am full of holes
Still they let me, see on through to the other side.
And the southern cross has got you in her sights.

I do everything I should
Still got to learn,
How to be good.
You got two strong arms I see,
Can't you bring them around
Wrap them around me?

Gotta wrap 'em around
Gotta wrap 'em around
Gotta wrap 'em around me...

I do everything I should
Still got to learn,
How to be good.
You got two strong arms I see,
Can't you bring them around
Wrap them around me

King without a queen

Indigo light as the day starts to fade
Still enough light for me to stand in your shade.
I have developed a good idea
Of the words you love,
Yeah, what you want to hear.

All alone with the wind whistling round your throne.

And I know it wears you down,
So slowly
You chased me all around
Just to show me,
That your head is hanging down
From the weight of your own crown,
You're a king without a queen.

Stop the thunder when you come around,
And the white lighting that burn
Me to the ground.
You say you want me,
But just not now.
Should I be afraid,
Maybe you'll show me how.

And I know it wears you down,
So slowly
You chased me all around
Just to show me,
That your head is hanging down
From the weight of your own crown,
You're a king without a queen.
A king without a queen...

All alone with the wind whistling round your throne.

And I know it wears you down,
So slowly
You chased me all around
Just to show me,
That your head is hanging down
From the weight of your own crown,
You're a king without a queen

Mary

Eyes as blue as the cheapest streets
You build your hotels on.
You take the pennies I'm betting with,
Because cash is cash.
I steal your whiskey and cigarettes,
From behind the old television set
It's still got a dial,
When I get sick you smile.

Oh oh are you watching?
Sometimes it's so hard to see
Oh oh are you watching?
Mary watch over me.

When I was bloodied and broken,
From a deadbeat kind of love.
You laughed as you held my hand,
And said "go on and cry,
But let that be the very last thing,
That you give him darling
Now let's go on in the house,
And make a voodoo doll."

Oh oh are you watching?
Sometimes it's so hard to see
Oh oh are you watching?
Mary watch over me.

Got a faded photograph
A lion just like me
I folded it in half
I keep it with me.

Oh you didn't go quietly
Into the great white shining light,
You were hopped up on love,
And singing Johnny Cash.
You looked up and you yelled at me,
You said "Bad is cheap and good is free,
So don't pull any fast ones kid,
'Cause I'll be watching you."

Oh oh are you watching?
Sometimes it's so hard to see
Oh oh are you watching?
Mary watch over me.

Lakewater Hair

Lakewater hair,
The sweetest smile you've seen for awhile
In the green tipped afternoon.
Trade the sun for the moon and the velvet of the night,
Gives you a buzz, gives you a second sight,
You know that she's the one.

Last time you fell in love, was the first time.
Last time you fell in love, was the first time.

Love has a shape,
Feel it swallow dive into your head
And surface in your heart
In the late summer night
There's a bending of time
And a million years seems to last all night,
You know that she's the one.

Last time you fell in love, was the first time.
Last time you fell in love, was the first time.

Oh it gives you something to talk about
Something to hold onto, forever

Say goodbye, a half wave through the window
Of a car then the tail lights drown her out
Go down to the lake and you stay out all night,
You get pretty drunk, feel bad inside,
That girl was the one.

Last time you fell in love, was the first time.
Last time you fell in love, was the first time.

London Skies

I'm an alien in my life,
Don't you know
My skin is white as snow.
I went running to the sun it burned me up,
A painful kind of fun.

You, your loving me give me eyes to see.

Rain, cool me down
I'm feverish oh, and i'm to blame,
Rain, calling me from London Skies,
Bring me home again.

And you always let me go,
Even when you knew I was gone for good
In the wreckage of the hell I made,
You were there, the fire storm and you.

You, your loving me give me eyes to see.

Rain, cool me down
I'm feverish oh, and i'm to blame,
Rain, calling me from London Skies,
Bring me home again.

So I tell you that I love you,
Though words are cheap
And they cannot buy me time.
When my shadow cuts my life in two,
I can see, the best of me is you.

You, your loving me give me eyes to see.
You, you'll never know how much you mean to me.

Rain, cool me down
I'm feverish oh, and i'm to blame,
Rain, calling me from London Skies,
Bring me home again.

We alter and grow,
Oh how we change,
But some things stay immutable
We alter and grow,
Oh how we change,
But some things stay immutable
Like love.

Coming back to life

I see you coming back to life
I didn't know when you died.
I watch you in the morning sun
You're sleeping hard alone but,
Now I think the darkness is done.

Believe, believe in me, and I will
Be in your real life, your real life.

People feeling safe when you're sad
Throws into relief what they have
And sympathy just tightens the knot
They're smiling but they're thinking
"...there but for the grace of God..."

Believe, believe in me, and I will
Be in your real life, your real life.

Let me be in your real life, your real life,
I'll take the weight of your real life,
Your real life, oh your real life
Not the one you made to hide away.

I had a dream of you and I,
We were falling side by side
There was no where left for us to be
And nothing complicated
Just the way you looked at me...

Love is love

When I saw your eyes for the first time
They were bluer than in my dream
I felt my life, run to catch you up
And I was there before you smiled

Love is love, hoe can I stop
Know that I never would
'Cause you are something
And we are nothing
But love is good

Waltz #2 (xo)

( Elliott Smith )

First the mic then a half cigarette
Singing Cathy’s clown
That’s the man that she’s married to now
That’s the girl that he takes around town

She appears composed, so she is, I suppose
Who can really tell
Well she shows no emotion at all
Stares into space like a dead china doll

I’m never gonna know you now
But I’m gonna love you anyhow

Now she’s done and they’re calling someone
Such a familiar name
I’m so glad my memories remote
'Cause I’m doing just fine
Hour to hour, note to note

Here it is the revenge to the tune
"you’re no good"
"You’re no good, you’re no good, you’re no good"
Can’t you tell that it’s well understood

I’m never gonna know you now
But I’m gonna love you anyhow

I’m here today and expected to stay
On and on and on
Oh I’m tired, tired

Looking out on the substitute scene
Still going strong
Xo, mom
It’s ok, it’s alright, nothing’s wrong

Mr. Man with impossible plans
Just leave me alone
In the place where I make no mistakes
In the place where I have what it takes

I’m never gonna know you now, but I’m gonna love you anyhow
I’m never gonna know you now, but I’m gonna love you anyhow
I’m never gonna know you now, but I’m gonna love you anyhow

Close To Me

( The Cure )

I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought that this day would end
I never thought that tonight could ever be
This close to me

Just try to see in the dark
Just try to make it work
To feel the fear before you're here
I make the shapes come much too close
I pull my eyes out, hold my breath
And wait until I shake

But if I had your faith
Then I could make it safe and clean
If only I was sure
That my head on the door was a dream

I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought that this day would end
I never thought that tonight could ever be
This close to me

But if I had your face
I could make it safe and clean
If only I was sure
That my head on the door
Was a dream

Master Blaster (Jammin')

( Stevie Wonder )

Everyone's feeling pretty
It's hotter than July
Though the world's full of problems
They couldn't touch us even if they tried

From the park I hear rhythms
Marley's hot on the box
Tonight there'll be a party
At the corner at the end of the block

Didn't know you
Be jammin' until the break of dawn
Nobody ever told you that you
Be jammin' until the break of dawn
You're jammin', you're jammin', you're jammin', you're jammin'

You ask me am I happy
And my answer today
Is to let all my worries
Like a breeze through my fingers slip away
Oh , like a breeze through my fingers slip away

They want us to join together
Joined as children in Jah
'Cause when you're moving in the positive
Your destination is your brightest star

Didn't know you
Be jammin' until the break of dawn
Nobody ever told you that you
Be jammin' until the break of dawn
You're jammin', you're jammin', you're jammin', you're jammin'
Jammin', you're jammin', you're jammin', you're jammin'

Human

( The Killers )

I did my best to notice
When the call came down the line
Up to the platform of surrender
I was brought, but I was kind

Sometimes I get nervous
When I see an open door
Close your eyes, clear your heart
Cut the cord

Are we human or are we dancer
My sign is vital, my hands are cold
And I'm on my knees looking for the answer
Are we human or are we dancer

Pay my respects to grace and virtue
Send my condolences to good
Give my regards to soul and romance
They always did the best they could

And so long to devotion
You taught me everything I know
Wave goodbye, wish me well
You've gotta let me go

Are we human or are we dancer
My sign is vital, my hands are cold
And I'm on my knees looking for the answer
Are we human or are we dancer

Will your system be alright
When you dream of home tonight
There is no message we're receiving
Let me know, is your heart still beating

Are we human or are we dancer
My sign is vital, my hands are cold
And I'm on my knees looking for the answer

Are we human or are we dancer
Are we human or are we dancer
Are we human or are we dancer

Fly Me To The Moon

( Frank Sinatra )

Fly me to the moon
And let me play among the stars
Let me know what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, darling, kiss me

Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you

Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you

Better Be Home Soon

( Crowded House )

Somewhere deep inside
Something's got a hold on you
And it's pushing me aside
See it stretch on forever

And I know I'm right
For the first time in my life
That's why I tell you
You'd better be home soon

Stripping back the coats
Of lies and deception
Back to nothingness
Like a week in the desert

And I know I'm right
For the first time in my life
That's why I tell you
You'd better be home soon

Don't say no
Don't say nothing is wrong
When you get back home
Maybe I'll be gone, oh

It would cause me pain
If we were to end it
But I could start again
You can depend on it

And I know I'm right
For the first time in my life
And that's why I tell you
You'd better be home soon

Oh, that's why I tell you
You'd better be home soon

Wild Wood

( Paul Weller )

High tide, mid afternoon
People fly by, in the traffic boom
Knowing, where you're blowing
Getting to where you should be going

Don't, don't let them get you down
Making you feel guilty about
Golden rain, will bring you riches
All the good things you deserve now
All the good things you deserve now

Climbing, forever trying
Find your way out of the wild wild wood
Now there's no justice
There's only yourself you can trust in

And I said high tide, mid afternoon
People fly by, in the traffic boom

Knowing, just where you're blowing
Getting to where you should be going
Day by day your world fades away
Waiting to feel all the dreams that say

Golden rain will bring you riches
All the good things you deserve now

Climbing, forever trying
Find your way out of the wild wild wood
You're gonna find your way out of the wild, wild wood

Tell Me Why

( Neil Young )

Sailing heart-ships
Through broken harbors
Out on the waves in the night
Still the searcher must ride the dark horse
Racing alone in his fright
Tell me why, tell me why

Is it hard to make arrangements with yourself
When you're old enough to repay but young enough to sell

Tell me lies later, come and see me
I'll be around for a while
I am lonely but you can free me
All in the way that you smile
Tell me why, tell me why

Is it hard to make arrangements with yourself
When you're old enough to repay but young enough to sell

Tell me why
Tell me why

Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness

( John Prine )

You come home late and you come home early
You come on big when you're feeling small
You come home straight and you come home curly
Sometimes you don't come home at all

So what in the world's come over you
What in heaven's name have you done
You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness
You're out there running just to be on the run

I got a heart that burns with a fever
I got a worried and a jealous mind
How can a love that'll last forever
Now get left so far behind

So what in the world's come over you
What in heaven's name have you done
You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness
You're out there running just to be on the run

It's a mighty mean and a dreadful sorrow
It's crossed the evil line today
Well, how can you ask about tomorrow
We ain't got one word to say

So what in the world's come over you
What in heaven's name have you done
You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness
You're out there running just to be on the run
You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness

Love Song

( Elton John )

The words I have to say
May be simple but they're true
Until you give your love
There's nothing more that we can do

Love is the opening door
Love is what we came here for
No one could offer you more
You know what I mean
Have your eyes really seen

You say it's very hard
To leave behind the world we knew
But there's no other way
So it's really up to you

Love is the key we must turn
Truth is the flame we must burn
Freedom the lesson we must learn
Do you know what I mean
Have your eyes really seen

Love is the key we must turn
Truth is the flame we must burn
Freedom the lesson we must learn
Do you know what I mean
Have your eyes really seen
Do you know what I mean
Have your eyes really seen

Learn to Be Lonely

(Phantom of the Opera soundtrack, oscar nominee 2005)

Child of the wilderness
Born into emptiness
Learn to be lonely
Learn to find your way in darkness

Who will be there for you
Comfort and care for you
Learn to be lonely
Learn to be your one companion

Never dreamed out in the world
There are arms to hold you
You�ve always known your heart was on its own

So laugh in your loneliness
Child of the wilderness
Learn to be lonely
Learn how to love life that is lived alone

Learn to be lonely
Life can lived, life can be loved alone