Boy, you take me by surprise again you take me by the hand and then lead me down the streets of new york
on a willful afternoon when i thought love could choose i heard your song playing on the radio
i'm somewhere i don't want to be the city's moving over me but i think i'm going to stay Please dont be alarmed i'm at the start of something
i walked up the grand to our hotel and bought a round of perfect tens and imagined you were there and you, you became the man who explained if this wasn't love how could it have been anything else?
I'm somehwere I don't want to be The city's moving over me But I think I'm going to stay Please don't be alarmed I'm at the start of something
I want to ask you everything I want to ask you everything
We stayed and smoked another cigarette And if smoke lingers I wont forget I try to say I'm sorry
An you, you're with more than I could ever be But I looked up and you had disappeared And left ya crying to the rain
I'm somewhere I don't want to be The city's moving over me Yet I think I'm gong to stay Please don't be alone I'm at the start of something
I took a ride on your fingertips Heaven high with the thrill of it And in your eyes for a moment It's like we never said Goodbye We took a walk for the hell of it And we talked through the thick of it And in your eyes for a moment It's like we never said Goodbye
But something went wrong You never came home And time takes so long What are these tears we're crying?
'Cos I remember the open roads Met at the corner where no one goes And no one mattered at all And I remember the driving rain Soaked to the skin these were perfect days And I remember it all
'Friends' is such a horrid word I sit at home with the thing we learned You didn't phone And in a different world We'd have never said Goodbye
Where are we going with feeling alone? We'll never know What are these tears we're crying?
And I remember the open roads Met at the corner where no one goes And no one mattered at all I remember the driving rain Soaked to the skin these were perfect days And I remember it all
And as for then and as for now As for who and as for how There's just one thing I can't forget How beautiful How beautiful you are
Hold onto dreams and to memories They're the only things that really exist And in your eyes I remembered That we never said Never said goodbye
I came to see you in the morning sunshine Salt water dripping from your hair Ten-thousand leagues of love and sheer devotion That bubbled under breathes for air
I'd like to see you crawling from the shadows I'd like to see you colouring the air The darkest hour comes before the sunrise The darkest hour comes before the sun
Command a son and thou shalt have refusal You sold the honey to buy coal And ever squirrel shares a pearl of wisdom Higher the tree the greater the fall
I'd like to see you crawling from the shadows I'd like to see you colouring the air The darkest hour comes before the sunrise The darkest hour comes before the sun
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I'd like to see you crawling from the shadows I'd like to see you colouring the air The darkest hour comes before the sunrise The darkest hour comes before the sun
The sun is shining We should be making hay But we're dead from the waist down Like in California
Victory is emrty There are lessons in defeat But we're dead from the waist down We are sleeping on our feet
We stole the songs from birds in trees Bought us time on easy street Now our paths, they never meet We chose to court and flatter greed, ego disposability I caught a glimpse, and it's not me
Make hay not war Make hay not war Make hay not war Or else we're done for And we're d from the w down
There's no contracts binding No bad scene beyond repair But when you're dead from the waist down You're too far gone to even care
We stole the songs from birds in trees Bought us time on easy street Now our paths, they never meet We chose to court and flatter greed, ego disposability I caught a glimpse, and it's not me
Make hay not war Make hay not war Make hay not war Or else we're done for And we're d from the w down
He came on ecclesiastically His sermon loud and bold And I got hold of spiritual healing His eloquence, magnificent I didn't stand for long And there I learnt how prayer can be misguiding
But I'm a good girl Oh I'm a good girl I'm a good girl
They recommended counselling But I don't need to talk I don't get off on communal changing I'm better bred, much better led Leave my keys at home But brace yourselves for industrial cleavage
Cos I'm a good girl Oh I'm a good girl I'm good girl
If you live a lie you'll die a liar If you live a lie you'll die a liar Pants on fire
Joan of Arc, come kiss my art Leave a charcoal mark There's so much more to solitary refinement
Cos I'm a good girl Oh I'm a good girl I'm a good girl
Tedium is overcome From obscurity, through melody And when I'm blind it helps me See through your key
No one can touch, no need to rush Presented by my alibi When I'm down it brings me round So easily
I'll be a karaoke queen, it's not me you see I'm gonna take you down to a place I know you'd rather be It's just a three minute song It doesn't last very long But it'll take you to a place I know you'd rather be
Hey you can dance Oooh sha la la la la la la
Common sense has excuses Recklessness, its uses But don't go fusing silence with charisma
At nine o'clock you can count on me And when I'm up I'm ready Tonight I'm gonna be
I'll be a karaoke queen, it's not me you see I'm gonna take you down to a place I know you'd rather be It's just a three minute song It doesn't last very long But it'll take you to a place I know you'd rather be
Where you can dance
I'm doomed to fail The stage gives way It's an apostrophe to my legacy But though I'm bruised I'll happily do it all again
At 10 o'clock don't wait up for me Coz when I'm up I'm ready Tonight I'm gonna be Matthew!
I'll be a karaoke queen, it's not me you see I'm gonna take you down to a place I know you'd rather be It's just a three minute song It doesn't last very long But it'll take you to a place I know you'd rather be
And you an dance if you want to Show appreciation But step up to the mic for the full sensation
And you can dance And you can dance And you can dance And you can ooh la la la ooh sha la la la
I thought we'd escape I packed a fishing line and counted on it I thought we'd escape I packed a fishing line and counted on it
But dreaming is for moonrise And moonlight ails these tired eyes
I treat him like a lady I treat him as I would he unto me Give Rose rose-seller a run for her money With silicone and poetry But it's the end of me
I thought it could change I'd wake up one morning and find nothing to rearrange I couldn't get there Behind his wall of Sunday papers I thought it could change I'd wake up one morning and find nothing to rearrange
But dreaming is for moonrise And moonlight ails these tired eyes
I treat him like a lady I treat him as I would he unto me Give Rose rose-seller a run for her money With silicone and poetry And it's the end of me
Here I am Here I am And here I stand Here in my kitchen where I'm familiar with every brand Here I am A front line with labels where I witness custards last stand Here I am
Never meant you no harm Never meant you no harm, yeh yeh Never spun you no yarn Never spun you no yarn, yeh yeh
And she'll go yeh, where he goes, yeh We all go where nobody knows our name
If I step out of line I'll step out of line, yeh yeh Over land over sea One step two to Ynys free
And she'll go yeh, where he goes, yeh We all go where nobody knows our name
And don't cry if crying means you're sorry Whatever the case I always felt out of place As a matter of fact I always felt like that around you I'm disinclined to toe the line Under your thumb where I've become unwanted
So pick your way down to the sea Pick your way to the sea, yeh yeh It's not the tide you gotta watch it's me Not the tide you got it's me, yeh yeh
And she'll go yeh, where he goes, yeh We all go where nobody knows our name
And she'll go yeh, where he goes, yeh We all go where nobody knows our name
