Tracey Thorn [보컬,기타,어쿠스틱 기타,프로듀서]

And I see forests and it's the 25th of December
and my old man plays the piano for Christmas.
He plays the piano for Christmas.

And we're all there all the aunties and uncles
and the angle's on the top of the tree.
Up there o the top of the tree.

And I never no I never ever realised.
And I never no I never ever realised.

Have I enough time have I just some time
to revisit to go back to return, to open my mouth again
and say something different this time.

And I see bags of newspaper and a car in the carport,
and you're a grown up and still unsure,
and I'm thirty and I don't know nothing no more.

And I never, no I never ever realised.
And I never, no I never ever realised.

And I'm sitting, sitting on the top of the stairs,
and you're crying out on the towpath by the river
with all the swans and all the people walking by.

And all of a sudden I'm stuck with an urge to unlock a door
with a key that's too big for my hands
and I drop it, and it falls at your feet.

Come on, come on, it's there at your feet.
And I never, no I never ever realised.
And I never, no I never ever realised

Apron strings hanging so empty,
crazy things my body tells me, I want
someone to tie to my apron strings.

Apron strings waiting for you, pretty things
that I could call you, I want
someone to tie to my lonely apron strings.

Your baby looks just like you when you were young,
and he looks at me with
eyes that shine and I wish that he were mine, then I go home to my apron
strings, cold and lonely,
for time brings thoughts that only will be quiet
when someone clings to my apron strings.

And I'll be perfect in my own way
when you cry I will be there, I'll sing
to you and comb your hair,
all your troubles I will share.

For apron strings can be used for other things
than what they're meant for,
and you'd be happy wrapped in my apron strings,
you'd be happy wrapped in my
apron strings.

Over dale and over hills
I'll take you through the cotton mills
To the ginnels where we played
And where are friendships all were made

Still they came and tore them down
And now we live in Anytown
They came and tore it down
And now this place could be Anytown

Can't forget and won't forgive
The places we've been forced to live
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But rather that than live alone

For they came and tore it down
And now we live in Anytown
They came and tore it down
And now this place could be Anytown

Rags to riches, that's a lie
For some things money just can't buy
Thicker than water blood may be
And comfort still brings misery

For they came and tore it down
And now we live in Anytown
They came and tore it down
And now this place could be Anytown

They took the heart when they ripped it down
And in its place sent Anytown

Summer in the driving rain
I can hear the Oldham train.

Apron strings hanging so empty,
crazy things my body tells me, I want
someone to tie to my apron strings.

Apron strings waiting for you,
pretty things that I could call you,
I want someone to tie to my lonely apron strings.

Your baby looks just like you when you were young,
and he looks at me with eyes that shine and I wish that he were mine,
then I go home to my apron strings, cold and lonely,
for time brings thoughts that only will be quiet
when someone clings to my apron strings.

And I'll be perfect in my own way when you cry I will be there,
I'll sing to you and comb your hair,
all your troubles I will share.

For apron strings can be used for other things
than what they're meant for,
and you'd be happy wrapped in my apron strings,
you'd be happy wrapped in my apron strings.

Narrow streets breed narrow minds and
Care for king but not for kind
It's a short hop to a long weekend
when every move you apreehend
You'll never find room to find your feet
to walk out of this avenue
Your pockets are lined with promises
when did you promise ever pay for shoes?

Counting coal trucks by the line and
raise your glasses one more time
'Cause Billy has gone off to war
And God knows what he's fighting for
But wartime will make him a man
Work that no one see, if you can
A hero's grave is 6 feet deep not
Room enough for all his plans.

She can scrub the step but if he'll never gleam
If he did she'd smash the dream
And they've held the world too long
But dreams are what you wake up from

Father was a fighter too
The only way to jump the queue
Boxing clever, times were tough
But will that ever be enough?
You'd never find room to find his feet
To walk out of these avenues
Their pockets are lined with promises
When did they promise ever pay for shoes?
When did they promise ever pay for shoes?

don't talk to me in that familiar way
when the keys are in my hand
don't say that everything is here to stay
and I must try to understand
when I'm trying not to look into your eyes
trying not to listen to your lies
trying just to keep hold of myself
oh but it's hard when you leave me on the shelf

you say that I set a path for you to follow
and I've already given in
but I only meant for you to taste not swallow
where I end is where you must begibn
so try not to look into their eyes
try not to listen to their lies
try just to keep hold of yourself
oh I know it's hard when they leave you on their shelf

she's such a sweet girl
free of the taints of this world
think that's a compliment
don't be so full of sentiment
why you worship sweetness
what virtue's there in weakness
being pushed about is nothing much to shout about I know

Lying in bed on a weekday night
Listening to the title fight
From a town the radio said was Atlantic City
The branches brush the windows
The hour is early evening
And Frankie's beating hell out of the champion

Frankie is the one, you know
Frankie is the boy
I hope my sister's listening
from her place in Illinois

For though the world is turning darkly
all the stars are out tonight
There are dreams still shining, redefining
all that makes us feel alright

Lying in bed in the afternoon
listening to Frankie Lymon tunes
While the people make their way home
from the dusty city
The breezes blow the curtains
the hour is early evening
and Frankie's singing songs just like a champion

Frankie was the one, you know


Frankie was the boy
My sister shook his hand the night
he played at the Savoy

And though the world is turning darkly
all the stars are out tonight
There are dreams still shining, redefining
all that makes us feel alright

Frankie is the one, you know
Frankie is the boy
Frankie bears the weight of
all our sorrow and our joy

For though the world is turning darkly
all the stars are out tonight
There are dreams still shining, redefining
all that makes us feel alright
I feel alright

Leaving at dawn to beat the traffic, do you remember that too? Curled asleep on the back seat, do you remember that too? The soundless dark, the empty road, do you remember that too? And that child asleep, only eight years old, do you recognise as you?

June, July, September, stretched ahead and out of view. The whole world seemed a safe place, and never ending too. But it was never as simple as you thought, there were just things you never knew, and up ahead your parents bore the weight of all their worries and yours too.

Windows down on the coast road, wanting to be first to see the sea. The whole world seemed a safe place, temporarily. But it was never as simple as you thought, and you found out as you grew, that up ahead your parents had borne the weight of all their worries and yours too. All their worries and yours too.

Come Hell or high water
You just do as you please,
Waste your time when you oughta
Be charming the birds from the trees.
A voice straight from heaven
So you like to believe
And who cares if its only
Your poor self you deceive.
You look in the mirror and what do you see?
Too much care and scheming, too little beauties
Come Hell or High water, you never will be
A goddess or a genius, a drunkard at 23
And all that you yearn for, is attention I guess
Come Hell or high water you deserve nothing less.
Come Hell or high water you will stray off the rails
and I won't try to change you for god knows I would fail
and its to the angels that each day you pray
Come hell or high water I know you will meet them someday

Baby come home, I miss the sound of the door
Your step on the stair's not there to wake me no more
And every day's like Christmas Day without you
It's cold and there's nothing to do

And it's mighty quiet here now that you're gone
I've been behaving myself for too long
'Cause I don't like sleeping
or painting the town on my own
So please come on home

Baby, what's keeping you all this time
You're wasting your days out there in the sunshine
And who can I turn to if you believe still
That England don't love you and she never will

For it's mighty quiet here now that you're gone
And I've been behaving myself for too long
I don't like sleeping
Or watching TV on my own
So please come on home

Now and then
Do you wash your hands of me again?
Wish me anywhere but home
Drunk and on the end of your phone

From time to time
Do you guess what's really on my mind?
Guess that "How you keeping now?"
Means "Where are you sleeping now"

But of course it's not polite
To ask you where you spent last night
And if I did you might reply
That I have no right
And anyway I'm fine
Glad that you're no longer mine
If I should tell a lie
I'll cross my heart and hope to die

You'd be appalled
If you knew what I was doing
When you called
Yes, I can see I'm blundering
Always end up wondering

Will it ever be alright
To ask you where you spent last night
And can it be polite
The way we never write,
Of course I don't have the time,
And anyway I'm fine
If I should tell a lie
I'll cross my hear and hope to die

I hope we never die

Look at you now you've disenchanted
can't believe how things can change
Take a little out of life and things get strange
And now you find the wishes you were granted
things you thought were in your hands
have slipped away
How much can you withstand

The wasted time the money spent
a sign that reads 'For Sale or Rent'
And everything is at a standstill
and where's someone who'll be on hand till
you're no longer disenchanted
thinking everything is wrong

You know you're not the only one to wait so long.
I wonder, can you try again
Are you that strong
more Everything But The Girl

You will be a star
And I will be so jealous when you are,
But you'll always be a fool
So I will catch you when the world is cruel

And though dizzy heights are on your mind
Oh honey please don't leave me behind

You think it's so easy
But listen, oh they once said the same to me
And you'll be loved for sure
But I think I will always deserve it more

And when you fall I think you'll find
That you never really left me behind
Don't leave me behind

While you're down here I will be kind
Tell everyone that to my mind
You should be being wined and dined
So don't forget me and don't leave me behind

Sorrow is a lonely road
Where the rain like your tears
Beats heavy on the roof above your head
Tomorrow is a lovers' town
That's been beaten down
And the hands of winter holds the life we've led

Instead of drowning in despair
For I find small comfort in a bottle
When we're apart
Don't let the teardrops rust your shining heart

I used to drive all night for you
While the children were asleep
And as the dawn broke on your room
Back into my house I'd creep
Where my husband slept alone
Of course he must have known
But we always hide the truth
For fear of losing what we own

So don't forget the words that we choose
And constantly misuse
They were written down every time we were apart
Don't let your teardrops rust your shining heart

Everything But The Girl - Driving Lyrics rnrnOh loverboyrnTo you I belongrnBut maybe one day you'll wakernand you'll find me gonernBut loverboyrnIf you call me homernI'll come drivingrnI'll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnOh loverboyrnI know you too wellrnAnd all of my lonely secretsrnTo you I tellrnTHe highest of highsrnThe lowest of lowsrnI'll come drivingrnI'll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnStretching away as far as my eyes can seernDeserts and darkness, my hand on the wheelrnloverboy, please call me homernA girl can get lonely out here on the roadrnYou seernSome days I find the old waysrnFrighten me too easilyrnI leave my key and sayrn

Everything But The Girl - Driving Lyrics rnrnOh loverboyrnTo you I belongrnBut maybe one day you'll wakernand you'll find me gonernBut loverboyrnIf you call me homernI'll come drivingrnI'll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnOh loverboyrnI know you too wellrnAnd all of my lonely secretsrnTo you I tellrnTHe highest of highsrnThe lowest of lowsrnI'll come drivingrnI'll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnStretching away as far as my eyes can seernDeserts and darkness, my hand on the wheelrnloverboy, please call me homernA girl can get lonely out here on the roadrnYou seernSome days I find the old waysrnFrighten me too easilyrnI leave my key and sayrn

Everything But The Girl - Driving Lyrics rnrnOh loverboyrnTo you I belongrnBut maybe one day you'll wakernand you'll find me gonernBut loverboyrnIf you call me homernI'll come drivingrnI'll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnOh loverboyrnI know you too wellrnAnd all of my lonely secretsrnTo you I tellrnTHe highest of highsrnThe lowest of lowsrnI'll come drivingrnI'll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnStretching away as far as my eyes can seernDeserts and darkness, my hand on the wheelrnloverboy, please call me homernA girl can get lonely out here on the roadrnYou seernSome days I find the old waysrnFrighten me too easilyrnI leave my key and sayrn

If you ever feel the time to drop me a loving line
maybe you should just think twice
I don't wait around on your advice
You tell me I can go this far, but no more
Try to show me heaven and then slam the door
You offer shelter at a price much too dear
And your kind of love's the kind that soon disappears

So don't brag how you have changed
And everything's been rearranged
I thought all that was over and done
But I still get the same from Each and Everyone
Being kind is just a way to keep me under your thumb
and I can cry because that's something we've always done
you tell me I'm free of the past now and all those lies
then offer me the same thing in a different guise

You tell me I can go this far, but no more
Try to show me heaven and then slam the door
You offer shelter at a price much too dear
And your kind of love's the kind that soon disappears

if I say I'll always stay by your side
stupid things say some night
can you tell me I am wrong till I cry
tell me do you have the right
if I say that seas could never sweep me
overboard and far away
do you still say you wouldn't try to keep me
if I lost the will to stay

you won't promise this will last much longer
than the time it takes to stay
you excuse is that my heart's much stronger
and some of you love has been drained away

I can't bear it when the tears fill your eyes
And I've said too much once more
don't be angry now you must realise
my only fear's of losing something I adore

I've never been skating on a frozen river
Joni and Jane make it sound so cool
Sometimes I can get so down it seems
Nothing much is gonna turn me around

They could freeze the brook outside my home
But it's only small, not like the Hudson
Where I'd be clean away, the only one
Down through winter trees, on a smooth run on a frozen river

But look at me now I'm getting to you
And all afternoon you have been so bright
"No use turning good into bad"
At times like this you are always right

And the snowdrops are through, I never knew
And my oldest jokes still have you reeling
I'll put the troubles I find to the back of my mind
Sometimes my love has the craziest feeling like a frozen river



Half the world will sleep alone tonight
Friends of mine as well
Half the world are on their own tonight
Friends of mine as well

There's a river below this bright night sky
So full of stars, it's the best for ages
Where I stand in the lane, having shut off the car
Just hearing your wonder like a frozen river

You're like a frozen river

Still can't believe that you two are now just friends
You've got no lover and he's free at weekends
I know he said when you first met
That you must always play the hand you get
But you're two years on a losing streak
Get back together
Get back together
It's something you could do next week
Get back together
Get back together
Why don't you get back
Try to get back together?
Matches are not made in heaven
They're made right here on earth
He searched the starry skies
Ended up in your arms
You taught him all he knows
Just think what you could have been
Another Arthur and Marilyn
Now you're two years on a losing streak
Get back together
Get back together
It's something you could do next week
Get back together
Get back together
Why don't you get back
Try to get back together?
And then you say that you got bored
How can you say that you got bored?
Some people search their whole lives through
And never find what was shown to you
Still can't believe that you two are just friends
You've got no lover and he's at loose ends
Hey girl listen to what I say
Don't let that boy just walk away
Won't you get back
Try to get back together?

I never thought I'd grow up so fast so far.
To know yourself is to let yourself be loved.

And I want to be addicted
I want to be secure
I want to wake up after the night before
but do you ever get me?

Do you ever get me?

I'll press your hand against my face
weaken my resistance.
I'll pull the sheets over our heads
let the broken sky break above our heads.

And I want to be addicted
I want to be secure,
I want to wake up after the night before,
but do you get me?

Do you ever get me?

Shower me with affection and I'll return in kind.
I have no hidden motive, I am blind.

I'm a stone inside a box,
I'm a spring inside a clock,
you can wear me on your wrist
and I'll tell you things ten thousand times,
but do you ever get me?
Do you ever get me

I was alone thinking I was just fine,
I wasn't looking for anyone to be mine
I thought that love was just a fabrication,
A train that wouldn't stop at my station
Home, alone, that was my consignment,
Solitary, confinement
So when we met, I was getting around you,
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you.

I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love
I didn't know I was looking for love

'Cuz there you stood, and I would,
Oh I wonder, could I say how I felt and not be misunderstood?
A thousand stars came into my system,
I never knew how much I have missed them.
Slap, on the lap, of my heart you landed,
I was coy, but you made me candid,
And now the planets circle around you,
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you.

I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love
I didn't know I was looking for love

So we build from here with love the foundation
In the world of tears, one conselation
Now you're here and there's a full brass band
Playing in me like a wonderland
But if you left I would be two foot small
And every tear would be a waterfall
Soundless, boundless, I surround you
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you.

I just didn't know.

I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love
I didn't know I was looking for love

I can tell by your eyes
that you've probably
been crying forever

and the stars in the sky
don't mean nothing to you
they're a mirror

I don't wanna talk about it
how you broke my heart
if I stay here just a
little bit longer
if I stay here won't you listen
to my heart oh my heart
if I stand all alone
will the shadows hide the
colors of my heart
blue for the tears
black for the night's fears
the stars in the sky
don't mean nothing to you
they're a mirror

I don't wanna talk about it
how you broke my heart
if I stay here just a
little bit longer
if I stay here won't you listen
to my heart oh my heart

I don't wanna talk about it
how you broke this all heart
if I stay here just a
little bit longer
if I stay here won't you listen
to my heart oh my heart
My heart all my heart

You kissed my head as you stood in the door
And then you said: "don't want to see you no more"
All I could say as you walked out on me
Was how I hoped you'd remembered your key
Took one last look
Took the phone of the hook
I must confess I agree

All o those days when I went through a phase
Of missing the love that you bore
In retrospect there's something I can't neglect
I was missing a love but not yours

The love that you bore that thing that I once adored
Was no gift that you gave me each time
Thinking again, what a fool I was then
It was a trophy of yours and a burden of mine

So here we are in Italy
With a sun hat and a dictionary.
The air is warm, the sky is bright,
Your arms are brown you're sleeping well at night.
So why does England call?
The hedgerows and the townhalls.
After all, there'll soon be nothing left at all.

If we were born outside of place and time,
To make our choice, well this would be mine.
To live and die under a sun that shines.
But something pulls, something I can't define
Tells me England calls, whatever she's done wrong.
Always calls, "This is where you belong."
And I'm lonesome for a place I know.

Oh but Florence you tempt me (here) to stay,
Amidst your hills to while my years away.
But your roots in soil lie, mine in paving stone.
And I hate what it's become, but in my bones
I'm lonesome for a place I know.
Why does England call?

My three guardian angels say
Each time you smile that way
Dangers lies that way
No-one will believe me
For that sort of thing's beneath me
But I keep repeating three words
It won't last, it won't last
I've been here before it will pass
Don't say I'm mercenary
That's unnecessary
That's not the way love is
Love is here where I live
Love is here here where I live
Desire is a child that clings
And I know the trouble it brings
I remind myself each minute
My home is here and my love is in it
But that's not the way love is
Love is here where I live
Love is here where I live
So I keep repeating three words
It won't last, it won't last
I've been here before it does pass
Reason is unkind
But still I'll know next time
That's not the way love is
Love is here where I live
Love is here where I live
That's not the way love is
Love is here where I live
Love is here where I live
That's not the way love is
Love is here where I live
That's not the way love is
Love is here where I live
That's not the way love is
Love is here where I live

Love, love is strange
Many people take it for a game
Once you've had it you're in an awful fix
'Cause after you've had it you never wanna quit
A lot of people, they don't understand
They think lovin' is money in their hand
Your sweet lovin' is better than a kiss
When you leave me those kisses I will miss

Love, oh woh, love is strange
Many people, oh woh, take it for a game
Once you've had it, oh woh, you're in an awful fix
'Cause after you've had it, oh woh, you never wanna quit
A lot of people, woh woh, they don't understand
They think lovin', oh woh, is money in their hand
Your sweet lovin', oh woh, is better than a kiss
When you leave me, oh woh, those kisses I will miss
When you leave me, oh woh, those kisses I will miss
Those kisses I will miss, those kisses I will miss
Those kisses I will miss

Me and Bobby D don't get along that easily.
You told the world, "Be free, love life".
Tell me, is it true you beat your wife?
You see, me and Bobby D don't get along that easily.
You told the world, "Skip rules fave fun".
Knocked her from here to kingdom come?
How many girls have you had today?
And how many bottles have you downed today?
And while you're on the skids, who's minding the kids?

Go to sleep Bobby D, here's a kiss,
don't worry your pretty head about this.

Me and Saint Jack K never had too much to say.
It's easy driving with your feet,
with some good ol' girl in the passenger seat
watching the road all day,
"Oh honey, what funny things you do say."
But while you're out of your head
who's making the bed?

Go to sleep Bobby D, here's a kiss,
don't worry your pretty head about this.
Go to sleep Saint Jack K,
don't worry your tiny head today

Me and old Bobby D don't get along that famously
A saviour and a seer? Maybe,
but he never meant that much to me.
Sure, I'd love a wild life,
but every wild man needs a mother or wife.
The seven seas you roam
and who's waiting at home?

Blown in winds of mischance
he would stay but that's not his way
What escape for her she swims in the dark
In too deep but still waves

I step off the train
I'm walking down your street again
and past your door
but you don't live there anymore

It's years since you've been there
Now you've disappeared somewhere
like outer space
you've found some better place

and I miss you
like the deserts miss the rain

Could you be dead
You always were two steps ahead
of everyone.
We'd walk behind while you would run

I look up at your house
and I can almost hear you shout
down to me
where I always used to be

and I miss you
like the deserts miss the rain

Back on the train
I ask why did I come again
Can I confess
I've been hanging around your old address

And the years have proven
to offer nothing since you moved
You're long gone
but I can't move on

and I miss you
like the deserts miss the rain

I step off the train
I'm walking down your street again
and past your door
but you don't live there anymore

It's years since you've been there
Now you've disappeared somewhere
like outer space
you've found some better place

and I miss you
like the deserts miss the rain

Could you be dead
You always were two steps ahead
of everyone.
We'd walk behind while you would run

I look up at your house
and I can almost hear you shout
down to me
where I always used to be

and I miss you
like the deserts miss the rain

Back on the train
I ask why did I come again
Can I confess
I've been hanging around your old address

And the years have proven
to offer nothing since you moved
You're long gone
but I can't move on

and I miss you
like the deserts miss the rain

Great mistakes are made when love gets lonely
far from home. Beds are empty, nights are long, and
you miss him bad when you're on your own. That's
how I let my fate begin, threw back the sheets, let
someone in, and thought that love would understand,
but nothing ever goes as planned and now my baby
don't love me any more, and I'm all done talking.
My baby just walked up to the door and kept right
on walking.

Now I would walk the earth and back again just
to change his mind, but I'm so compromised I cannot
say he's being unkind. Take me back to fields and
woods, when we first met and love was good. It's
that that really breaks his heart -- a memory of how
you start, and now my baby don't love me any more
and I'm all done hoping. My baby just walked out of
the door and theh door's still open.

Love has made mistakes before, it picks
itself up off the floor. For most of us that's how
we live, but my love never could forive and now
my baby don't love me any more and I'm all done
talking. My baby just walked up to the door and
kept right on walking.

Stone the crows if you've done it again,
if I've told you once, told you a thousand times.
Sometimes I am so convinced we're casting pearl amongst the swine.

Don't ever let me hear you say this is the life we folks must lead.
We shun the limelight, shun the glare,
and the circus built on a bigot's creed.

Heaven is a place I'v heard but we haven't been there yet, I fear.
We may have opened pearly gates but sometimes hell stills steals in here.

Don't ever let me hear you say this is the life we folks must lead.
Do you think silver turns our locks?
What gold do you think paves our streets?

You say we're in a different world now,
where money and love go hand in hand.
But can't you see we share this town,
so why should we fight on our native land?
Can't you see we share this town,
so why on earth should we tear it down?

Not for the first time I look back on all those years.
Not for the last time names will ring in my ears.
When there was just a gang of us,
storming the town by train and bus.
A moment of thought this heart sends to old friends.
Not for the first time I look back on my first love.
Unable to speak or think or move, hand in glove.
But what of it now and where is (s)he,
(s)he who once meant so much to me?
Because we are not, I can't pretend, now old friends.

I was told love should hold old friends.
I was told love should hold old friends.
But when you leave you will close the door behind you
don't we always?and time won't make amends to old friends.

Standing here with my arm around you,
life's moved on, and all its
borderlines are being redrawn.
The winter has come, the roads are
white. Everyone's home late tonight.
May we stay or will it depend, as old friends?
In the end, still old friends?

A summer evening I walk past the window
Baby's crying; Someone's cooking dinner
There's laughter on the TV
Someone's learning the violin.
How at home, it heals
At times like this, I feel that

CHORUS:
I would like to live like anybody else
In one place
And I could be happy and fulfilled
In one place

So I get the map out
And draw a line of where we've been
It goes thru sea and sky
Twenty-five planes this year
And it's only July
This is not some Bible, like "On The Road"
It's just a song about coming home
And whether

CHORUS:
I would like to live like anybody else
In one place
And I could be happy and fulfilled
In one place

And you know that I have found
That I'm happiest weaving from town to town
And you know Bruce said
we should keep moving 'round
Maybe we all get too tied down, I don't know
Hell, I don't know
I'm happy to be home (Still alive)
Happy to be home

In the end, if you take care
You can be happy or unhappy anywhere

CHORUS:
And I think we maybe all rely too much
On one place
I know I never would deny the need
For one place

So I get the map out (get the map out)
Yeah I get the map out (get the map out)
C'mon, get the map out (get the map out)
Get the map out (get the map out)

I know your part'll go fine.
Fly down to Mexico.
Da-n-da-da-n-da-n-da-da and here I am,
The only living boy in New York.

I get the news I need on the weather report.
I can gather all the news I need on the weather report.
Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile.
Da-n-da-da-n-da-da-n-da-da here I am
The only living boy in New York

Half of the time we're gone but we don't know where
And we don't know where
Ah... Here I am

Tom, get your plane right on time.
I know you've been eager to fly now.
Hey let your honesty shine, shine, shine
Da-n-da-da-n-da-da-n-da-da
Like it shines on me
The only living boy in New York
The only living boy in New York

Ah... Here I am
Ah... Here I am
Ah... Here I am
Here I am

When I was ten I thought my brother was God - he'd lie in bed and turn out the
light with a fishing rod. I learned the names of all his football team, aid I
still remembered them when I was nineteen.
Strange the things deal that I remember still - shouts from the playground when
I was home and ill. My sister taught me all that she learned there; when we
grow up, we said, we'd share a flat somewhere.
When I was seventeen, London meant Oxford Street.
Where I grow up there were no factories. there was a school and shops and some
fields and trees, and rows of houses one by one appeared. I was born in one and
lived there for eighteen years.
Then when I was nineteen. I thought the Humber would be the gateway from my
little world into the real world. But there is no real world - we live side by
side, and sometimes collide. .
When I was seventeen, London meant Oxford Street. It was a little world; I grew
up in a little world.

You always loved the sad songs, like you loved it when I lost, so I don't tell you when I'm happy because it only makes you cross. And I thought as I was leaving, and it strkes me every time, politics aside we always, I thought we always got on fine.

Crystal clear were my intentions, but you didn't want to know, when there's no point in staying, you just go.

And I'll be driving through provincial towns and places sweetly named, and I'll be looking for a centre, for a sense of live contained. But them I'm out the other side and through suburban avenues and I realise it never was there. Well, that's how I feel about you.

Crystal clear were my intentions, but you didn't want to know, when there's no point in staying you just go.

I still haven't got over it even now
I want to spend huge amounts of time on my own
I don't want to cause any serious damage
I want to make sure that I can manage
because I'm not really in your head
I'm not really in your head

And I see love and disaffection
and the clouds build up and won't pass over
This is my road to my redemption
And my life is just an image of a rollercoaster anyway

I still haven't got over it even now
I want to spend huge amounds of time in my room
And I'm not coming out until I feel ready
not running out for a while my heart's unsteady
and I'm not really in your head
I'm not really in your head

When you sky falls to minus zero
well some things must dissappear
Oh this is my road to my redemption


And my life is just an image of a rollercoaster anyway
The names may have been changed but the faces are the same
The names may have been changed but as people we're not the same

And I'm not, no I'm not, no I'm not
really in your head

And my life is just an image of a rollercoaster anyway
Yeah, my life is just an image of a rollercoaster anyway

Let me tell you about this torch I carry
It's not much of a career
And it won't make my fortune I fear
But it stays alight and won't be buried
It's brighter year-by-year
And someday it will surely disappear

When it does I'll know I've laid to rest
The ghost of your unhappiness
That flits around from room to room
A widow on a honeymoon
A shadow on a harvest moon

So put away this torch you carry
For it's doing you no good
And surely you know by now that you should
And come the day you die or marry
Will you be understood
When you say that you wanted but never could

Turn your back and lay to rest
The ghost of your unhappiness
That flits around from room to room
A widow on a honey moon
A shadow on a harvest moon

I write these words to make them true,
"I've drowned my torch and so should you."

Hush your mouth now honey mine
Have you been waiting all this time
To so loudly disagree
Kick the feet from under me
Did you come here to shoot me down
Bury my on my own home ground

Hold your tongue now mother mine
For you've held it all this time
And now's no time to shout and swear
That you despise the things I care about
For your territory
Will always be miles and miles from me

Stop my mouth with kisses dear
For ever they will keep me here
And these drunken blasphemies
Must never make us enemies
For we'll have to meet once more
Sober and as strongly BOUND as before

All this short summer night long I've been waiting for you
Just to give me a sign that you feel this way too

There are people on the streets for the weekend
But I don't hear them

There are others I could meet for the weekend
But I don't see them

Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city
Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city

I have a dream, of an inky blue sea
You could give up your job and go there with me

I know we'd miss the football and the dancing
There's always something

And you'd worry that the people here'd be talking
But that's nothing

Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city
Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city

In the morning I sit on the train and wonder
If I can go through all this again you know I
Feel like staying till the end of the line this time...
This time, this time, this time

Oh yeah. uh huh.

We come to fight and dream in this fairground of a town


Through the sweet and sickly streets from the airless undergrounds
While the planes fly out of Heathrow taking people late at night
To where the fields are like Australia in the early morning light

Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city
Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city

Talk to me like the sea
In the morning I sit on the train

Talk to me like the sea
Hey hey hey

Talk to me like the sea
In the morning I sit on the train

Talk to me like the sea
Oh oh yeah

Talk to me like the sea
Oh yeah, I sit on the train.

Talk to me like the sea

and still he lies awake at night
restless while every silence screams
and still she sleep turned to the wall
he fears the onslaught of his dream

touches her back but she doesn't stir
then round her hand his finger close
feeling the ring that cost more than the car
all of those questions that never arose

and still she lies awake at night
silently stares at the bedroom wall
feeling his hand dare to touch her back
it's been a month since ha started to paint the hall

and brightly burns the landing light
the baby's screaming down the hall
she shuts her eyes and she shuts her ears
she's had up to here because it's not his baby after all

Who would be born into a mans's man's man's world?
But what do children care
For grown ups' despair
A house can hold both boy and girl

But every mother's son grows up
And daughters imitate
And the burden of careworn world
Is his to bear
--Hers to wait

As the open world of a tomboy girl
Closes on a growing wife
From a childhood clear
Through teenage years
That always seem to be more
Trouble than strife.

From the hot dark of the night
To the cold light of day
From the cradle to wife to grave
Unless I stand in the way

As the open world of a tomboy girl
Closes in with growing strife
For my own sake I'll comfort take
To know I'd never make a wife
As the open world of a tomboy girl
Closes in with growing strife
For my own sake I'll comfort take
In the knowledge that I'd never make a wife

You hear them talk of women's way with hatred
And it cuts me like a knife
Poor men, so much to bear
The children and the trouble and strife

The open world of a tomboy girl
Is the best of life
From a childhood clear
You end up here
In trouble and strife

Don't say one thing one day,
then something else the next day.
I'm trying to keep up with you
It's hard enough when you speak clearly,
but when you're confused,
it's like a goods train running through these rooms.

And I'm reading more into your
words than you ahve put into them,
and that's my problem, but you tied these knots,
now you undo them. you undo them.
Oh think before you speak, my darling.

Cause with your troubled mind,
you're like a goods train running through my life.
With your troubled mind,
you're like a goods train running through my life.

We all walk through this world alone,
we keep ourselves untouched, unknown.
You look up to the sky above you,
read this there I love you.
Oh it's written there, you know
I love you, love you, love you, love you.

With your troubled mind,
you're like a goods train running through my life.
With your troubled mind,
you're like a goods train running through my life.

And when you're down, you bring me down too,
and babe that's something I would not do.
I know it's hard, yeah I know it's hard,
and babe that's something I don't disregard.
I said, I don't disregard.

With your troubled mind,
you're like a goods train running through my life
With your troubled mind,
you're like a goods train running through my life.

With your troubled mind, you know
I love you, love you, love you, love you.
With your troubled mind, you know
I love you, love you, love you, love you.
With your troubled mind,
you're like a goods train running through my life.

Now we're in twin cities, where the Mississippi rises and then falls.
One is Minneapolis, the other though less famous, is St. Paul.
There are stray dogs on the highway and the local farmers moan about lack of rain.
When the winds blew last winter I'd swear England had another hurricane.

And we are twin cities and we are that river.
From the standing still, we will be delivered.
The last time in new york was with Mandela and Madonna and the Mets.
For icons of an era, well, that's about as famous as it gets.

I've seen cities full of ticker tape and cotton trains through Utah disappearing out of sight.
And now I'm standing in a city that's as pretty as an ocean in the night.
And we are twin cities and we are that ocean. from the standing still, we are set in motion.
And no one calls me up to say, "how long are you going to be away?"

No one calls me up to say, "don't let that life lead you astray"
They were rioting in Detroit on the night the pistons won it back to back.
I was out of there the next day and I only had just two bags to pack.
And we are twin cities and we are one river.

From the standing still, we will be delivered. and we are twin cities and we are one ocean.
From the standing still, we are set in motion.

Well it's not for me to say,
but I can't see what you see in him anyway
But such righteousness in me
is not a nice thing to display,
and who am I for christsakes anyway
to judge a life this way when my own's in disarray?
I watch Saturday kid's TV with the sound turned down
I leave food on the eiderdown
All my thoughts pushed underground
Maybe you're happy - everyone says you are
You drive around on Two Star,
you leave your life ajar, and God knows
you deserve it.
Bad luck follows everyone.
So go on, and stop listening to me
Stop listening to me.
And don't ask me how I feel
don't ask me how I feel
So it's not for me to say
because I change my life from day to day,
and when I look at you
I only see bits of myself anyway
So go on, and stop listening to me
Stop listening to me
And don't ask me what to say, or to judge a life this way
When my own's in disarray

You're here, but what if you weren't
What would have happened to me
That candle, unburnt, is history
One thing I guess this place would be a mess
For my standards at best are undemanding
And that takes some understanding

Still here, but what if we weren't
Where'd you think I would be (where would I be)
For love I have learned depends on geography
Fortune found us when all around us
Half the couples we knew were disbanding
And that needs your understanding

And do you know even when we disagree
And freedom holds out a hand to me
You know I would nver want to be without your company
And I mean that totally

We have reached an understanding
Understanding, understanding.

I met your boyfriend on St. Martin's Lane
and he said "Fancy running into you again"
We talked a minute or so then he turned to go
and I walked into the crowd again

And the morning was a different place
in every passerby I saw your face
Love leaves a lonely ghost
with one thought uppermost
is this the case in every case

Am I walking to you
Am I walking to you
In everything I do
am I just walking to you

It was seven years ago to the day
you rang my house and we met halfway
We walked round Leicester Square and
sat through 'Being There' and every moment I replay

And I was desperate for love to be pure
though what that meant, I never ws sure
You spent your time on me
I took it willingly
and I made you trust in litterature

Am I walking to you
Am I walking to you
In everything I do
am I just walking to you
I just don't know what to do

If you loose your faith babe you can have mine
and if you're lost I'm right behind
cause we walk the same line.

Now I don't have to tell you
how slow the night can go
I know you've watched for the light.

And I bet you could tell me
how slowly four follows three
and you're most forlorn just before dawn.

So if you loose your faith babe
you can have mine
and if you're lost I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line.

When it's dark baby,
there's a light I'll shine,
and if you're lost, I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line.

And I don't need reminding
how loud the phone can ring
when you're waiting for news.

And that big old moon
lights every corner of the room.
Your back aches from lying
and your head aches from crying.

So if you loose your faith babe,
you can have mine,
and if you're lost, I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line.

When it's dark baby,
there's a light I'll shine,
and if you're lost, I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line.

And if these troubles
should vanish like rain on midday,
well I've no doubt there'll be more.

And we can't run and we can't cheat,
cause babe when we meet
what we're afraid of,
we find out what we're made of.

So if you loose your faith babe,
you can have mine,
and if you're lost, I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line.

When it's dark baby,
there's a light I'll shine,
and if you're lost, I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line

We are not true
We are not pure
We are not right

O but still I'll steal to you at night
Too selfish by half
Too ugly by far
But when your songs have been sung, come to me
Rumours are rife
And winter blows cold
Reminds me of such wretched times
And yet all the same
I will never deign
To think ill of you
When all's well
My love is like cathedral bells

Amongst all the dross
The lies and the grief
There are so many things you just wouldn't believe
But amongst all the dross
The lies and the grief
When all's well
My love is like cathedral bells

When the light fades on a long bad day, I sometimes weaken. Then I turn
to see you've been waiting for me, I know I'm not beaten. 'Cause you
lift me up, you do.

Coming home sometimes I catch the headlines. It's been raining since
Saturday night. And the trains run late, I'm stuck at Notting Hill
Gate. But you'll make it alright. 'Cause you lift me up (you make it
alright), you do.

Such a little thing, our love won't make the world alright, but love
makes sense of life and that's enough, at least tonight.

So late at night maybe, when you call me baby, the day will just fall
away. 'Cause you lift me up, you do.

Words and music by Tracey Thorn.

Lying in bed on a weekday night
Listening to the title fight
From a town the radio said was Atlantic City
The branches brush the windows
The hour is early evening
And Frankie's beating hell out of the champion

Frankie is the one, you know
Frankie is the boy
I hope my sister's listening
from her place in Illinois

For though the world is turning darkly
all the stars are out tonight
There are dreams still shining, redefining
all that makes us feel alright

Lying in bed in the afternoon
listening to Frankie Lymon tunes
While the people make their way home
from the dusty city
The breezes blow the curtains
the hour is early evening
and Frankie's singing songs just like a champion

Frankie was the one, you know
Frankie was the boy
My sister shook his hand the night
he played at the Savoy

And though the world is turning darkly
all the stars are out tonight
There are dreams still shining, redefining
all that makes us feel alright

Frankie is the one, you know
Frankie is the boy
Frankie bears the weight of
all our sorrow and our joy

For though the world is turning darkly
all the stars are out tonight
There are dreams still shining, redefining
all that makes us feel alright
I feel alright

Lying in bed on a weekday night
Listening to the title fight
From a town the radio said was Atlantic City
The branches brush the windows
The hour is early evening
And Frankie's beating hell out of the champion

Frankie is the one, you know
Frankie is the boy
I hope my sister's listening
from her place in Illinois

For though the world is turning darkly
all the stars are out tonight
There are dreams still shining, redefining
all that makes us feel alright

Lying in bed in the afternoon
listening to Frankie Lymon tunes
While the people make their way home
from the dusty city
The breezes blow the curtains
the hour is early evening
and Frankie's singing songs just like a champion

Frankie was the one, you know
Frankie was the boy
My sister shook his hand the night
he played at the Savoy

And though the world is turning darkly
all the stars are out tonight
There are dreams still shining, redefining
all that makes us feel alright

Frankie is the one, you know
Frankie is the boy
Frankie bears the weight of
all our sorrow and our joy

For though the world is turning darkly
all the stars are out tonight
There are dreams still shining, redefining
all that makes us feel alright
I feel alright

Leaving at dawn to beat the traffic, do you remember that too? Curled asleep on the back seat, do you remember that too? The soundless dark, the empty road, do you remember that too? And that child asleep, only eight years old, do you recognise as you?

June, July, September, stretched ahead and out of view. The whole world seemed a safe place, and never ending too. But it was never as simple as you thought, there were just things you never knew, and up ahead your parents bore the weight of all their worries and yours too.

Windows down on the coast road, wanting to be first to see the sea. The whole world seemed a safe place, temporarily. But it was never as simple as you thought, and you found out as you grew, that up ahead your parents had borne the weight of all their worries and yours too. All their worries and yours too.

I've never been skating on a frozen river
Joni and Jane make it sound so cool
Sometimes I can get so down it seems
Nothing much is gonna turn me around

They could freeze the brook outside my home
But it's only small, not like the Hudson
Where I'd be clean away, the only one
Down through winter trees, on a smooth run on a frozen river

But look at me now I'm getting to you
And all afternoon you have been so bright
"No use turning good into bad"
At times like this you are always right

And the snowdrops are through, I never knew
And my oldest jokes still have you reeling
I'll put the troubles I find to the back of my mind
Sometimes my love has the craziest feeling like a frozen river



Half the world will sleep alone tonight
Friends of mine as well
Half the world are on their own tonight
Friends of mine as well

There's a river below this bright night sky
So full of stars, it's the best for ages
Where I stand in the lane, having shut off the car
Just hearing your wonder like a frozen river

You're like a frozen river

I've never been skating on a frozen river
Joni and Jane make it sound so cool
Sometimes I can get so down it seems
Nothing much is gonna turn me around

They could freeze the brook outside my home
But it's only small, not like the Hudson
Where I'd be clean away, the only one
Down through winter trees, on a smooth run on a frozen river

But look at me now I'm getting to you
And all afternoon you have been so bright
"No use turning good into bad"
At times like this you are always right

And the snowdrops are through, I never knew
And my oldest jokes still have you reeling
I'll put the troubles I find to the back of my mind
Sometimes my love has the craziest feeling like a frozen river



Half the world will sleep alone tonight
Friends of mine as well
Half the world are on their own tonight
Friends of mine as well

There's a river below this bright night sky
So full of stars, it's the best for ages
Where I stand in the lane, having shut off the car
Just hearing your wonder like a frozen river

You're like a frozen river

Love, love is strange
Many people take it for a game
Once you've had it you're in an awful fix
'Cause after you've had it you never wanna quit
A lot of people, they don't understand
They think lovin' is money in their hand
Your sweet lovin' is better than a kiss
When you leave me those kisses I will miss

Love, oh woh, love is strange
Many people, oh woh, take it for a game
Once you've had it, oh woh, you're in an awful fix
'Cause after you've had it, oh woh, you never wanna quit
A lot of people, woh woh, they don't understand
They think lovin', oh woh, is money in their hand
Your sweet lovin', oh woh, is better than a kiss
When you leave me, oh woh, those kisses I will miss
When you leave me, oh woh, those kisses I will miss
Those kisses I will miss, those kisses I will miss
Those kisses I will miss

Not for the first time I look back on all those years. Not for the last
time names will ring in my ears. When there was just a gang of us,
storming the town by train and bus. A moment of thought this heart sends
to old friends.

Not for the first time I look back on my first love. Unable to speak or
think or move, hand in glove. But what of it now and where is (s)he,
(s)he who once meant so much to me? Because we are not, I can't pretend,
now old friends.

I was told love should hold old friends. I was told love should hold old
friends. But when you leave you will close the door behind you - don't
we always? - and time won't make amends to old friends.

Standing here with my arm around you, life's moved on, and all its
borderlines are being redrawn. The winter has come, the roads are
white. Everyone's home late tonight. May we stay or will it depend, as
old friends? In the end, still old friends?

A summer evening; I walk past the window,
Baby's crying; Someone's cooking dinner
There's laughter on the TV
Someone's learning the violin.
How at home, it heals
At times like this, I feel that...

CHORUS:
I would like to live like anybody else
In one place
And I could be happy and fulfilled
In one place

So I get the map out
And draw a line of where we've been
It goes thru sea and sky
Twenty-five planes this year
And it's only July...
This is not some Bible, like "On The Road"
It's just a song about coming home
And whether...

CHORUS:
I would like to live like anybody else
In one place
And I could be happy and fulfilled
In one place

And you know that I have found
That I'm happiest weaving from town to town
And you know Bruce said
we should keep moving 'round
Maybe we all get too tied down, I don't know
Hell, I don't know
I'm happy to be home (Still alive)
Happy to be home...

In the end, if you take care
You can be happy or unhappy anywhere

CHORUS:
And I think we maybe all rely too much
On one place
I know I never would deny the need
For one place

So I get the map out (get the map out)
Yeah I get the map out (get the map out)
C'mon, get the map out (get the map out)
Get the map out (get the map out)

A summer evening; I walk past the window,
Baby's crying; Someone's cooking dinner
There's laughter on the TV
Someone's learning the violin.
How at home, it heals
At times like this, I feel that...

CHORUS:
I would like to live like anybody else
In one place
And I could be happy and fulfilled
In one place

So I get the map out
And draw a line of where we've been
It goes thru sea and sky
Twenty-five planes this year
And it's only July...
This is not some Bible, like "On The Road"
It's just a song about coming home
And whether...

CHORUS:
I would like to live like anybody else
In one place
And I could be happy and fulfilled
In one place

And you know that I have found
That I'm happiest weaving from town to town
And you know Bruce said
we should keep moving 'round
Maybe we all get too tied down, I don't know
Hell, I don't know
I'm happy to be home (Still alive)
Happy to be home...

In the end, if you take care
You can be happy or unhappy anywhere

CHORUS:
And I think we maybe all rely too much
On one place
I know I never would deny the need
For one place

So I get the map out (get the map out)
Yeah I get the map out (get the map out)
C'mon, get the map out (get the map out)
Get the map out (get the map out)

You always loved the sad songs, like you loved it when I lost, so I don't tell you when I'm happy because it only makes you cross. And I thought as I was leaving, and it strkes me every time, politics aside we always, I thought we always got on fine.

Crystal clear were my intentions, but you didn't want to know, when there's no point in staying, you just go.

And I'll be driving through provincial towns and places sweetly named, and I'll be looking for a centre, for a sense of live contained. But them I'm out the other side and through suburban avenues and I realise it never was there. Well, that's how I feel about you.

Crystal clear were my intentions, but you didn't want to know, when there's no point in staying you just go.

You always loved the sad songs, like you loved it when I lost, so I don't tell you when I'm happy because it only makes you cross. And I thought as I was leaving, and it strkes me every time, politics aside we always, I thought we always got on fine.

Crystal clear were my intentions, but you didn't want to know, when there's no point in staying, you just go.

And I'll be driving through provincial towns and places sweetly named, and I'll be looking for a centre, for a sense of live contained. But them I'm out the other side and through suburban avenues and I realise it never was there. Well, that's how I feel about you.

Crystal clear were my intentions, but you didn't want to know, when there's no point in staying you just go.

All this short summer night long I've been waiting for you
Just to give me a sign that you feel this way too

There are people on the streets for the weekend
But I don't hear them

There are others I could meet for the weekend
But I don't see them

Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city
Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city

I have a dream, of an inky blue sea
You could give up your job and go there with me

I know we'd miss the football and the dancing
There's always something

And you'd worry that the people here'd be talking
But that's nothing

Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city
Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city

In the morning I sit on the train and wonder
If I can go through all this again you know I
Feel like staying till the end of the line this time...
This time, this time, this time

Oh yeah. uh huh.

We come to fight and dream in this fairground of a town


Through the sweet and sickly streets from the airless undergrounds
While the planes fly out of Heathrow taking people late at night
To where the fields are like Australia in the early morning light

Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city
Talk to me like the sea, makes me want to get out of the city

Talk to me like the sea
In the morning I sit on the train

Talk to me like the sea
Hey hey hey

Talk to me like the sea
In the morning I sit on the train

Talk to me like the sea
Oh oh yeah

Talk to me like the sea
Oh yeah, I sit on the train.

Talk to me like the sea

Now we're in twin cities, where the Mississippi rises and then falls.
One is Minneapolis, the other though less famous, is St. Paul.
There are stray dogs on the highway and the local farmers moan about lack of rain.
When the winds blew last winter I'd swear England had another hurricane.

And we are twin cities and we are that river.
From the standing still, we will be delivered.
The last time in new york was with Mandela and Madonna and the Mets.
For icons of an era, well, that's about as famous as it gets.

I've seen cities full of ticker tape and cotton trains through Utah disappearing out of sight.
And now I'm standing in a city that's as pretty as an ocean in the night.
And we are twin cities and we are that ocean. from the standing still, we are set in motion.
And no one calls me up to say, "how long are you going to be away?"

No one calls me up to say, "don't let that life lead you astray"
They were rioting in Detroit on the night the pistons won it back to back.
I was out of there the next day and I only had just two bags to pack.
And we are twin cities and we are one river.

From the standing still, we will be delivered. and we are twin cities and we are one ocean.
From the standing still, we are set in motion.

Now we're in twin cities, where the Mississippi rises and then falls.
One is Minneapolis, the other though less famous, is St. Paul.
There are stray dogs on the highway and the local farmers moan about lack of rain.
When the winds blew last winter I'd swear England had another hurricane.

And we are twin cities and we are that river.
From the standing still, we will be delivered.
The last time in new york was with Mandela and Madonna and the Mets.
For icons of an era, well, that's about as famous as it gets.

I've seen cities full of ticker tape and cotton trains through Utah disappearing out of sight.
And now I'm standing in a city that's as pretty as an ocean in the night.
And we are twin cities and we are that ocean. from the standing still, we are set in motion.
And no one calls me up to say, "how long are you going to be away?"

No one calls me up to say, "don't let that life lead you astray"
They were rioting in Detroit on the night the pistons won it back to back.
I was out of there the next day and I only had just two bags to pack.
And we are twin cities and we are one river.

From the standing still, we will be delivered. and we are twin cities and we are one ocean.
From the standing still, we are set in motion.

You're here, but what if you weren't? What would have happened to me?
That candle, unburnt, is history. One thing, I guess, this place would
be a mess, for my standards at best are undemanding. And that needs your
understanding.

Still here, but what if we weren't? Where d'you think I would be? For
love, I have learnt, depends on geography. Fortune found us when all
around us half the couples we knew were disbanding. And that takes some
understanding.

And do you know even when we disagree, and freedom holds out a hand to
me, I know I would never want to be without your company. And I mean
that totally.

One thing is clear, after all these years, we have reached an
understanding. We have reached an understanding.

When the light fades on a long bad day, I sometimes weaken. Then I turn
to see you've been waiting for me, I know I'm not beaten. 'Cause you
lift me up, you do.

Coming home sometimes I catch the headlines. It's been raining since
Saturday night. And the trains run late, I'm stuck at Notting Hill
Gate. But you'll make it alright. 'Cause you lift me up (you make it
alright), you do.

Such a little thing, our love won't make the world alright, but love
makes sense of life and that's enough, at least tonight.

So late at night maybe, when you call me baby, the day will just fall
away. 'Cause you lift me up, you do.

Words and music by Tracey Thorn.

I was alone thinking I was just fine,
I wasn't looking for anyone to be mine
I thought that love was just a fabrication,
A train that wouldn't stop at my station
Home, alone, that was my consignment,
Solitary, confinement
So when we met, I was getting around you,
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you.

I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love
I didn't know I was looking for love

'Cuz there you stood, and I would,
Oh I wonder, could I say how I felt and not be misunderstood?
A thousand stars came into my system,
I never knew how much I have missed them.
Slap, on the lap, of my heart you landed,
I was coy, but you made me candid,
And now the planets circle around you,
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you.

I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love
I didn't know I was looking for love

So we build from here with love the foundation
In the world of tears, one conselation
Now you're here and there's a full brass band
Playing in me like a wonderland
But if you left I would be two foot small
And every tear would be a waterfall
Soundless, boundless, I surround you
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you.

I just didn't know.

I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you
I didn't know I was looking for love
I didn't know I was looking for love

I still haven't got over it even now
I want to spend huge amounts of time on my own
I don't want to cause any serious damage
I want to make sure that I can manage
because I'm not really in your head
I'm not really in your head

And I see love and disaffection
and the clouds build up and won't pass over
This is my road to my redemption
And my life is just an image of a rollercoaster anyway

I still haven't got over it even now
I want to spend huge amounds of time in my room
And I'm not coming out until I feel ready
not running out for a while my heart's unsteady
and I'm not really in your head
I'm not really in your head

When you sky falls to minus zero
well some things must dissappear
Oh this is my road to my redemption


And my life is just an image of a rollercoaster anyway
The names may have been changed but the faces are the same
The names may have been changed but as people we're not the same

And I'm not, no I'm not, no I'm not
really in your head

And my life is just an image of a rollercoaster anyway
Yeah, my life is just an image of a rollercoaster anyway

Everything But The Girl - Driving Lyrics rnrnOh loverboyrnTo you I belongrnBut maybe one day you'll wakernand you'll find me gonernBut loverboyrnIf you call me homernI'll come drivingrnI'll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnOh loverboyrnI know you too wellrnAnd all of my lonely secretsrnTo you I tellrnTHe highest of highsrnThe lowest of lowsrnI'll come drivingrnI'll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnStretching away as far as my eyes can seernDeserts and darkness, my hand on the wheelrnloverboy, please call me homernA girl can get lonely out here on the roadrnYou seernSome days I find the old waysrnFrighten me too easilyrnI leave my key and sayrn

Still can't believe that you two are now just friends
You've got no lover and he's free at weekends
I know he said when you first met
That you must always play the hand you get
But you're two years on a losing streak
Get back together
Get back together
It's something you could do next week
Get back together
Get back together
Why don't you get back
Try to get back together?
Matches are not made in heaven
They're made right here on earth
He searched the starry skies
Ended up in your arms
You taught him all he knows
Just think what you could have been
Another Arthur and Marilyn
Now you're two years on a losing streak
Get back together
Get back together
It's something you could do next week
Get back together
Get back together
Why don't you get back
Try to get back together?
And then you say that you got bored
How can you say that you got bored?
Some people search their whole lives through
And never find what was shown to you
Still can't believe that you two are just friends
You've got no lover and he's at loose ends
Hey girl listen to what I say
Don't let that boy just walk away
Won't you get back
Try to get back together?

Oh, and how he loved you
Oh, and how he loved you
Oh, and you believed him
Oh, and you believed him
You said you both deserve better
You both deserve better
Could make it a real thing
Could make it a real thing

On a clear day
You can see the sea from your place
On a fine day
You can still remember his face

He just kept right on
Imagining America
He just kept right on
Imagining America

And he was so handsome
He was so handsome
It was 1919
It was 1919
Sailing to New York
Sailing to New York
Just for you
Just for you

It was a clear day
Waiting from the quay, saw him
Was a fine day
Standing with the world before him

He just kept right on
Imagining America
He just kept right on
Imagining America

Don't he have no feelings
always feel like mountains
and deserts and stars
Cities have been tamed
and they all know your name
They have money
and houses and cars

(sax solo)

So I stand here
So I stand here
In his footsteps
In his footsteps
We deserve better
We deserve better
And I can make it a real thing
And I can make it a real thing

It's a clear day
It's a clear day
Only in a final embrace
Only in a final embrace
It's a fine day
It's a fine day
The world remember our face
The world remember our face

And I just kept right on
Imagining America
And I just kept right on
Imagining America

We keep on, we keep
Imagining America, America

Of course I feel betrayed,
but that's the way it goes, everyone knows.
Trying to make you love me again,
crying at your door ust to hold you once more.
Darling I know it's so hard to let a love go,
it's not easy letting love go,
it's so hard to let a love go.
Darling don't I know, it is never easy letting go
when it's gone on and on and on and on.

Your friends said you looked well,
you promised that you'd write and call them at night.
But if you wake up in another town
and it's loneliness you've found just cause I'm not around,
then darling you'll know it's so hard to let a love go,
it's not easy letting love go,
it's so hard to let a love go.
Darling don't I know it is never easy letting go
when it's gone on and on and on and on.

But I'm not gonna pretend --
I find it hard to forgive and find a new way to live.
And if I had my time again, I'd still have you back,
it's as simple as that.
Darling I know it's so hard to let a love go,
it's not easy letting love go,
it's so hard to let a love go.
Darling don't I know it is never easy letting go
when it's gone on and on and on and on.

Me and Bobby D don't get along that easily.
You told the world, "Be free, love life".
Tell me, is it true you beat your wife?
You see, me and Bobby D don't get along that easily.
You told the world, "Skip rules fave fun".
Knocked her from here to kingdom come?
How many girls have you had today?
And how many bottles have you downed today?
And while you're on the skids, who's minding the kids?

Go to sleep Bobby D, here's a kiss,
don't worry your pretty head about this.

Me and Saint Jack K never had too much to say.
It's easy driving with your feet,
with some good ol' girl in the passenger seat
watching the road all day,
"Oh honey, what funny things you do say."
But while you're out of your head
who's making the bed?

Go to sleep Bobby D, here's a kiss,
don't worry your pretty head about this.
Go to sleep Saint Jack K,
don't worry your tiny head today

Me and old Bobby D don't get along that famously
A saviour and a seer? Maybe,
but he never meant that much to me.
Sure, I'd love a wild life,
but every wild man needs a mother or wife.
The seven seas you roam
and who's waiting at home?

Meet me in the morning
I'll have the motor running
Down icy lanes, under a glass blue sky
This is living
This is living
I haven't come to be a stranger
I haven't come to break your home
I haven't come to harm your children
I've come to be your love
Don't let the grass grow under your feet
The sands of times keep running
For now at last I'm down on the street
With the engine running
Meet me in the evening
I'll have the log fire burning
Down frosty lanes, under a darkening sky
This is living
This is living
I haven't come to be a stranger
I haven't come to break your home
I haven't come to harm your children
I've come to be your love

Great mistakes are made when love gets lonely
far from home. Beds are empty, nights are long, and
you miss him bad when you're on your own. That's
how I let my fate begin, threw back the sheets, let
someone in, and thought that love would understand,
but nothing ever goes as planned and now my baby
don't love me any more, and I'm all done talking.
My baby just walked up to the door and kept right
on walking.

Now I would walk the earth and back again just
to change his mind, but I'm so compromised I cannot
say he's being unkind. Take me back to fields and
woods, when we first met and love was good. It's
that that really breaks his heart -- a memory of how
you start, and now my baby don't love me any more
and I'm all done hoping. My baby just walked out of
the door and theh door's still open.

Love has made mistakes before, it picks
itself up off the floor. For most of us that's how
we live, but my love never could forive and now
my baby don't love me any more and I'm all done
talking. My baby just walked up to the door and
kept right on walking.

Don't go, don't go, don't go.
Baby, baby, baby, I'm lonely can't you see.
Baby, baby, baby come give your love to me.
Cause I'm just a prisoner, don't set me free.
Before you turn around, take one look at me.
Take me in your arms, won't you love me one more time.
Take me in your arms, won't you love me one more time
before you go.

Baby, baby, baby, chained and bound, can't you see.
Baby, baby, baby, chained and bound, can't you see.
Cause I'm just a prisoner, don't set me free.
Before you turn around, take one look at me.
Take me in your arms, won't you love me one more time.
Take me in your arms, won't you love me one more time
before you go.

You packed your books last night, you break with the past tonight.
I hope you find some beach house on the coast out there with plenty of light.
Cause I know the road is very long
But in my head I'll always hold your song
And I'll keep a good thought for you.
I'll keep a good thought for you.

You left us "The Best of Frank" and on the back you signed your name.
"One For My Baby" was underlined again.
Now I know the road is very long
But in my head I'll always hold your song,
And I'll keep a good thought for you -
If you're lonely think of me.
I'll keep a good thought for you -
If you're lonely think of me.

There's a couple you knew quite well, they moved away last Spring,
And though he can't find suits they don't miss much of anything.
They're raising a baby now.
At least that's one gift that this world allows.
And I'll keep a good thought for you,
I'll keep a good thought for you.
Cause I know the road is very long
But in my head I'll always hold your song,
And I'll keep a good thought for you -
If you're lonely think of me.

I don't want excuses.
I don't want your smiles. I don't want to feel
like we're apart a thousand miles.
I don't want your attitude. I don't
want your things.
But I don't want a 'phone that never rings.
I want your love and I want it now.
I don't want your history. I don't want
that stuff. I want you to shut your mouth.
That would be enough. And I
don't care if you've been here before.
You don't understand - tonight I
feel above the law and I'm coming in to land.
I want your love and I
want it now. My heart is that much harder now.
That's what I thought
before today. My heart is that much harder now.
And I thought that it
would stay that way, before today. Before today.
I don't want a 'phone
that never rings.
I want your love and I want it now.

I don't want excuses.
I don't want your smiles. I don't want to feel
like we're apart a thousand miles.
I don't want your attitude. I don't
want your things.
But I don't want a 'phone that never rings.
I want your love and I want it now.
I don't want your history. I don't want
that stuff. I want you to shut your mouth.
That would be enough. And I
don't care if you've been here before.
You don't understand - tonight I
feel above the law and I'm coming in to land.
I want your love and I
want it now. My heart is that much harder now.
That's what I thought
before today. My heart is that much harder now.
And I thought that it
would stay that way, before today. Before today.
I don't want a 'phone
that never rings.
I want your love and I want it now.

know I wasn't good
Maybe I was even bad
But I was way too young
To know just what I had
And if I let you down
Now I let you go
But I was so young
And now it's all gone
I'm the one to blame

You must never think
I wish that you had stayed
Look at where we are
I'm glad you got away
But who's your daddy now
And where's your home
You're living somewhere new
D'you think he'd take me too
I'm the one to blame

Now you forgot the words
Please don't forget your name
And who gave it to you
Well that was me again
Who let you down and loved you
That was me again
And who's the one to blame
That was me again
I'm the one to blame

know I wasn't good
Maybe I was even bad
But I was way too young
To know just what I had
And if I let you down
Now I let you go
But I was so young
And now it's all gone
I'm the one to blame

You must never think
I wish that you had stayed
Look at where we are
I'm glad you got away
But who's your daddy now
And where's your home
You're living somewhere new
D'you think he'd take me too
I'm the one to blame

Now you forgot the words
Please don't forget your name
And who gave it to you
Well that was me again
Who let you down and loved you
That was me again
And who's the one to blame
That was me again
I'm the one to blame

Num cantinho um viol??짙o
Este amor, uma can??짠??짙o
Pr??징 fazer feliz a quem se ama
Muita calmap r??징 pensar
E ter tempo pr??징 sonhar
Da janela v??짧-se o Corcovado
O Redentor, que lindo!

Quero a vida sempre assim
Com voc??짧 perto de mim
At??짤 o apagar da velha chama
E eu que era triste
Descrente deste mundo
Ao encontrar voc??짧 eu conheci
O que ??짤 felicidade
Meu amor

Quiet nights of quiet stars
Quiet chords from my guitar,
Floating on the silence that surrounds me.
Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams,
Quiet walks by quiet streams,
And a window looking out on the mountains and the sea, how lovely!
This is how I want to be,
Here with you so close to me,
Until the final flicker of life's ember.
I who was lost and lonely,
Believing life was only,
A bitter tragic joke have found with you,
The meaning of existence, oh my love.

Num cantinho um viol??짙o
Este amor, uma can??짠??짙o
Pr??징 fazer feliz a quem se ama
Muita calmap r??징 pensar
E ter tempo pr??징 sonhar
Da janela v??짧-se o Corcovado
O Redentor, que lindo!

Quero a vida sempre assim
Com voc??짧 perto de mim
At??짤 o apagar da velha chama
E eu que era triste
Descrente deste mundo
Ao encontrar voc??짧 eu conheci
O que ??짤 felicidade
Meu amor

Quiet nights of quiet stars
Quiet chords from my guitar,
Floating on the silence that surrounds me.
Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams,
Quiet walks by quiet streams,
And a window looking out on the mountains and the sea, how lovely!
This is how I want to be,
Here with you so close to me,
Until the final flicker of life's ember.
I who was lost and lonely,
Believing life was only,
A bitter tragic joke have found with you,
The meaning of existence, oh my love.

From the top you can see so far into the distance
Look it's downhill all the way from here
Getting there is quicker like going you just slide
Shouldn't take more then a year

I could almost like you
Now it's nearly over
Now you've shown some weaknesses
Now you're looking older

And I heard what you said
And I recognise those feelings
I know how hard it is to watch you go
And all the effort that it took to get here in the first place
And all the effort not to let the effort show

And I could almost like you
Now you're falling over
Now you're feeling hopeless
Now you're looking over your shoulder

Who's gonna come and find you
Who's coming up behind you

If you can ride the backlash
There's still time for a comeback
You don't have to lie down and die
But Lazarus only did it the one time
He couldn't face another try

And I could almost like you
Now it's really over
Now you've shown some weakness
Now you're looking over your shoulder

Who's gonna come and find you
And who's coming up behind you

From the top you can see so far into the distance
Look it's downhill all the way from here
Getting there is quicker like going you just slide
Shouldn't take more then a year

I could almost like you
Now it's nearly over
Now you've shown some weaknesses
Now you're looking older

And I heard what you said
And I recognise those feelings
I know how hard it is to watch you go
And all the effort that it took to get here in the first place
And all the effort not to let the effort show

And I could almost like you
Now you're falling over
Now you're feeling hopeless
Now you're looking over your shoulder

Who's gonna come and find you
Who's coming up behind you

If you can ride the backlash
There's still time for a comeback
You don't have to lie down and die
But Lazarus only did it the one time
He couldn't face another try

And I could almost like you
Now it's really over
Now you've shown some weakness
Now you're looking over your shoulder

Who's gonna come and find you
And who's coming up behind you

Everything But The Girl - Driving Lyrics rnrnOh loverboyrnTo you I belongrnBut maybe one day you'll wakernand you'll find me gonernBut loverboyrnIf you call me homernI'll come drivingrnI'll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnOh loverboyrnI know you too wellrnAnd all of my lonely secretsrnTo you I tellrnTHe highest of highsrnThe lowest of lowsrnI'll come drivingrnI'll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnStretching away as far as my eyes can seernDeserts and darkness, my hand on the wheelrnloverboy, please call me homernA girl can get lonely out here on the roadrnYou seernSome days I find the old waysrnFrighten me too easilyrnI leave my key and sayrn

Everything But The Girl - Driving Lyrics rnrnOh loverboyrnTo you I belongrnBut maybe one day you\'ll wakernand you\'ll find me gonernBut loverboyrnIf you call me homernI\'ll come drivingrnI\'ll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnOh loverboyrnI know you too wellrnAnd all of my lonely secretsrnTo you I tellrnTHe highest of highsrnThe lowest of lowsrnI\'ll come drivingrnI\'ll come driving fast as wheels can turnrnStretching away as far as my eyes can seernDeserts and darkness, my hand on the wheelrnloverboy, please call me homernA girl can get lonely out here on the roadrnYou seernSome days I find the old waysrnFrighten me too easilyrnI leave my key and sayrn\