Stephen Duffy - I Love My Friends (2001) by Stephen Duffy (보컬) on maniadb.com

I was born in poverty but when I was about nineteen
I wrote a song called 'Kiss Me', and soon it was pay day
A terraced house in that country, I thought that would do for me
It's seemed to be the lilac time, but when the lilac died
I went back to town and cried, I need someone who'll always love me

The day after someone dies, waking little lesser lies
Why do the wicked seem to survive, Eucharistain song
We're little more alone, the moments took that were never known
They'll never see my happy home, you see them everyday
I know you want to say, you won't forget we'll always love you

When you're young and you fall down and cry
When you're old and you fall down and died
I am in between, there will never be
Anywhere or sincere with anyone that I find dear

Checking in around twilight, the hotel where we board the tonight
I run a path and pack some books, which we will embrace
Told me that your father died, when you buried him you cried
You're sorry and you are surprised, he died and you were born
So you don't have to mourn, live your life alone, always love you
Love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you

I was born in Birmingham
But soon I would escape
With education incomplete
And two songs on a tape
When my girlfriend was expelled
We took the London coach
Her sister gave her daffodils
Her mother, an old brooch

And she smiled and she smiled
And she smiled...

She was so beautiful - 17
She was so beautiful - 17

We didn't have much money then
No hi-fi or TV
So we made love, I'd sing her songs
And she would read to me
But we were young
I didn't know what love was all about
When I slept with her best friend
Of course she threw me out!

And we cried and we cried
And we cried...

I was looking for a deal
Looking for a hit
The affectations of success
The airs that go with it
While she was looking for a man
Who didn't need a maid
She modelled for an agency
Who made sure she got paid

When she smiled, when she smiled
When she smiled...

I was an empty head libertine

You film the dark in Technicolor
And I?ll be wrapped around your finger
If you?ve a lesson you can teach my heart

You rescued me out of a lake
So deep and dark with my mistakes
That I get wet whenever we?re apart

You are more than what I bargained for

You are my guiding star
You are, that?s what you are
You are my Shangri-La
You are, that?s where you are

Did I pretend to crave their souls?
To serve while kissing all their holes
Did I pretend to be their truest friend?

Another string, a bow of sin
My heart, a silent violin
At least you made me tune it in the end

You are more than what I bargained for

You are my guiding star
You are, that?s what you are
You are my Shangri-La
You are, that?s where you are

And if you want to run away for the day
I will stay by your side
But if you want to leave me here
Then my dear, I won?t fear suicide
More than I bargained for

You are my guiding star
You are, that?s what you are
You are my Shangri-La
You are, that?s where you are

You are my guiding star
You are, that?s what you are
You are my Shangri-La
You are, that?s where you are

You are, you are, you are
You are, you are, you are

She belongs to all, she talks as she undresses
The love that she expresses when nothing can be said
Pennies in a stream, my love songs unrequited
And all the dicks you slighted are at your door

I won?t erase your teenage writings from my wall
Where you wrote, love is all, you meant it you know you did
Where others see the mother of another child
I still see, your eyes ablaze and wild outside your faculty

She belongs to all, among the facts and fictions
The crutches and addictions of everyday
Even in the grey, solar energy is transmuted
The one thing that can?t be disputed is on its way

I won?t erase your teenage writings from my wall
Where you wrote, love is all, you meant it you know you did
Where others see the mother of another child
I still see your eyes ablaze and wild, outside your faculty

L?amour est tout, je te jure, monsieur

I won?t erase your teenage writings from my wall
Where you wrote, love is all, you meant it you know you did
Where others see the mother of another child
I still see your eyes ablaze and wild, outside your faculty

I'm not very bright but I know right from wrong
And I've not been right, for I don't know how long

I cry in my sleep, I laugh when you weep, I lie and I cheat
I talk with my feet, I'm running away, I'm lost and I long for oblivion

You gave me life, I gave you make believe
You wanted to be my wife, I wanted you to leave

I cry in my sleep, I laugh when you weep, I lie and I cheat
I talk with my feet, I'm running away, I'm lost and I long for oblivion

I took the darkest ways down and doubtful
?I'm sorry?, I heard you say, we can work it on

I cry in my sleep, I laugh when you weep, I lie and I cheat
I talk with my feet, I'm running away, I'm lost and I long for oblivion

You think your're gay, gets in the way
Being in love with your boyfriend
You dump and see blokes, you don't laugh at jokes
Your Anti Christ could be a God send

Come down now, I guess you found how
Most of it's live will have to forgive you

Not knowing if you get a little bit of something good, grab hold of it
Never let go, you don't know what they broke from it
If you get a little bit of something good hold on to it
Never let go, you don't know what they come against

We were the punks the bolly one drunks
The last to be out school teenagers
No one drops out, nobody shouts
Because the crash course to the neighbhours

Come down now, I guess you found how
Most of it's live will have to forgive you

Not knowing if you get a little bit of something good, grab hold of it
Never let go, you don't know what they broke from it
If you get a little bit of something good, hold on to it
Never let go, you don't know what they come against

Something good, something good
Something good, something good

Why am I always the one, won't let go just hanging on
After all the love is gone, long gone

Why did you leave Camden town, something good
Why don't we see you around, something good
Why did you leave Camden town, something good
Why don't we see you around, something good

Why did you leave Camden town, something good
Why don't we see you around, something good
Why did you leave Camden town, something good
Why don't we see you around, something good

Why did you leave Camden town, something good
Why don't we see, something good

I moved to town at 23
And launched myself in society
From a squat in Archway, N19
Looking for a thrill
I fell in love with Ecstasy
Which seemed to fuel my vanity
I swore to write just poetry
And live upon a hill

It wasn't her my love, it was me
Looking for another way to see
Looking for another place to be

I sang my songs of Birmingham
How did you relate to them?
Did you dig the proleterian way
I got it wrong?
I bet you never thought I'd dream of you
More than that I'd fall for you
Walk just to bump into you
Like you bumped into this song

And I'd betray my childhood
Betray my class if I could
For a moment truly understood
A reason to believe
In ornamental flower beds
There in blooms the memory
Of all those who can't come back to me
The love we have to leave