You Can't Go Back lyrics - Del Amitri
You can't go back
Honey, that is what they told us
You know what I think of that
Cos I'm back here at your side
Were you lonely?
Were you eaten up inside
Thinking if only we'd tried...
You can't go back
But back then nobody could hold me
So I've come back round
And I'm holding you to this
That thing between us
That we knew was something special
Well, it seems it still is...
They can't destroy us
We put the seal on it
So be joyous
Cos once the fuse is lit
You can't go back
You can't go back
That thing between us
That we knew was something special
Well, it seems it still is...
You can't go back
That is what they told us
I know what you think of that
You've made it pretty clear
So, baby
Promise me forever
You will stay right here...
And you can't go back
You can't go back
You can't go back
You can't go back
That is what they told us...
(You can't go back...)
All Hail Blind Love lyrics - Del Amitri
Is this a revival
Or just the last breath
At the end of the regime?
People toast our survival
As if slogging on
Is living out the dream
So hold up your faces
Left to your devices
You'd have killed us off
We would have never kept going
If the going wasn't so damned rough
All hail blind love
All hail blind love
Don't assume we've mellowed
We still think of one another
As a fraud
Such strange bedfellows
It's the hatred and resentment
You applaud
So fill up your glasses
Here's to another thirty years full of
Wounding each other
Like we just can't get enough
All hail blind love
All hail blind love
All hail the trail of failures
Slights and snide remarks
Flung with a sneer
So add your wishes here
We can only hope you're both
Still blind next year
So hold up your faces
Left to your devices
You'd have killed us off
We would have never kept going
If the going wasn't so damned rough
All hail blind love
All hail blind love
All hail blind love
All hail blind love
All hail, all hail blind love
Musicians And Beer lyrics - Del Amitri
God doesn't love you
God doesn't care
You lie on the slab with
Blood in your hair
And the voices of angels
Are flat and austere
Well, that's what you get if you don't book
Musicians and beer
You stand on the vanquished
Your feet on their chests
Posing like starlets
In bulletproof vests
Your wife doesn't love you
She's sick of the fear
Sick of living without
Musicians and beer
So lock up your daughters
Shit, you already did
At least Muddy Waters
Can't fuck with your kids
I'm an avid blasphemer
With a passion for queer
Cos I can't live without
Musicians and beer
My granddaddy's bible
So brooding and black
Lies like a tombstone
On my own daddy's back
And we lowered him down
Without a tear
So he died like a pauper
Without musicians and beer
So this is an order
Get yourself some
Musicians and beer
Close Your Eyes And Think Of England lyrics - Del Amitri
Day by day we're winnowing away
At the kind of world the heathens have their eyes on
Step by step the sun is gonna set
On the waves that sully the horizon
So close your eyes and think of England
That boat afloat on the ocean sets my spine a-tingling
So let the boys brigade be singing
Close your eyes, close your eyes
Blow by blow, there's gonna be a show
We're gonna teach the goons the who is who of history
Deal by deal we'll crush them on a wheel
Of progress and manifest destiny
So close your eyes and think of England
That boat afloat on the ocean with the chains of state a-jingling
And at the sight of intermingling
Close your eyes, close your eyes
Close the door behind you, I feel kinda blue
I guess I miss the time
The scapegoat was always someone new
So step up to the camera, you
And close your eyes and think of England
That boat afloat all alone on the ocean is sinking
And a telephone is ringing, the coastguard have been drinking
Nobody had an inkling 'cause they closed their eyes
Close your eyes, close your eyes, close your eyes
Losing The Will To Die lyrics - Del Amitri
I wish I could feel like people feel
I wish I didn't have a heart
That sits like a stone in its jail of bones
Ready to be ripped apart
But yesterday I felt a funny thing
Maybe you know why
I'm losing the will
I'm losing the will to die
I thought I was done, I was way beyond
The solace of the sight of land
No flash of distress in the blackness
Everything beautifully planned
But suddenly I see searchlights
Maybe you know why
I'm losing the will
I'm losing the will to die
I've got pills and poisons
Hosepipes, knives
And ropes in rich supply
But the notes I wrote are mouldy
And the inkwell's going dry
Cos I'm losing the will
I'm losing the will to die
Hooray! Hooray! It's Saturday
Time to tie the noose
All praise to you and your savagery
The rope has another use
So happy that I've got an aim in life
Maybe you know why
I'm losing the will
I'm losing the will to die
I'm losing the will
I'm losing the will to die
Otherwise lyrics - Del Amitri
Otherwise
We'd be dancing on a beach
In the starlight
With a margarita each
Otherwise
We'd be riding on a bus
Into nowhere
Babe, I wish it was
Otherwise
Not barely getting through
Another night
With the curtains drawn
To keep us from
Seeing other people's lives
Otherwise
We'd be rolling in the aisles
And kids
Would be rolling their eyes
Otherwise
We're holding on
To the lifeboat's sides
And the only thing
Keeping us afloat
Is to dream what might have been
Otherwise...
Otherwise
I'd be leaving you alone
Not watching you try
To push the blood back in a stone
Otherwise
We'd walk along the sea
Not realise
That life is going to be
Otherwise
Babe, I wish it was
Otherwise
Babe, I wish it was
Otherwise
It's Feelings lyrics - Del Amitri
All the raindrops in the air
Come make a river through my hair
Come down and drown me
I don't care
'Cause it's feelings
That cut you
It's feelings
I can't bear
But it's feelings
That put you there
All the sickness, all the bruises
All the shit that no one chooses
Bring it on in its disguises
I'll take the knockouts with the prizes
'Cause it's feelings
That cut you
And it's feelings
I can't bear
But it's feelings
That put you there
(Put you there)
Trying to make some sense of why you can't see straight
(Put you there)
While the world goes past like a pantomime behind the glass
(Put you there)
Holding a dead man's hand as his watch ticks like the rain
It's just feelings
That cut you
It's just feelings
That put you there
It's just feelings
I'm So Scared Of Dying lyrics - Del Amitri
I'm so scared of dying
And leaving you behind
Every day I try just to stay alive
So you won't be sitting by
That empty chair at night
I'm smoking like a factory
Come on, keep ahead of me
Don't wanna think of you
Happy and alone
Cos I'm so scared of dying
And leaving you behind
I put a little poison in your cup one time
So lock me up, baby if mercy is a crime
I check your breathing as you sleep
Hoping it slows and stops for keeps
Don't wanna think you might
Have to be alone
Cos I'm so scared of dying
And leaving you behind
Don't wanna think of you
Running through the worst of me
Or you to figure out
You should've long ago got free
It is better for us both if I survive
So you never know how it feels
To truly be alive
Cos I'm so scared of dying
And leaving you behind
I'm so scared of dying
And leaving you behind
I'm so scared of
I'm so scared of dying
I'm so scared of
Every day I just try to stay alive
Cos I'm so scared of dying
Mockingbird, Copy Me Now lyrics - Del Amitri
I shout it at the moon
But my love gets hit by her lampoon
I'm just waiting for
My mockingbird to copy me now
She shoots straight from the throat
Under my gate, over the moat
But I'm just waiting for
My mockingbird to copy me now
Once I get the pills inside me
She'll follow through
She'll lie like a fresh kill beside me
Swallow what I do
I'll drink this venom at my leisure
And she'll mimic me measure for measure
I'm just waiting for
My mockingbird to copy me now
Mockingbird, copy me now
Baby, copy me now
Baby, copy me now
Missing Person lyrics - Del Amitri
I am lipsticked like a tart
In the cherry red of Côtes-du-Rhône
Prodding at the little fire of my phone
The lights behind the bar
Twinkle like they've always known
Only desperate little men ever drink alone
But as long as I'm here, I've disappeared
And it's vanishing
I'm a missing person doing my thing
As midnight strikes
I slip into this queen of dives
And quietly oblivion like sleep arrives
But I couldn't live without
This sewer of a place to be
Alone with my one obsession - me, me, me
Yeh, I can hear her remonstrate
You fool, that's three
What I'm doing here, ain't drinking beer
It's vanishing
I'm a missing person doing my thing
Just a missing person doing my thing
Missing the time I threw your crutch away
And ruined a perfect day
Now it's all ruins from here to daybreak
So I hang on to my chair
In this fish tank of sinking stars
Pickling their memories in Mason jars
I head out for a smoke
Leave your ghost there to hold my place
And line up with the other cheaters
In disgrace
Like runners in exile
From the human race
But as long as I'm here, this last brutal year
Is vanishing
I'm a missing person doing my thing
Just a missing person doing my thing
Second Staircase lyrics - Del Amitri
There is a second staircase
Leading from a chamber of my heart
Concealed behind a bookcase
Leading up into the dark
And the second staircase
Is tearing the house apart
There's a secret number
Written on a ticket in a drawer
I don't know if I love her
But I've been crazy since I saw her
There is a second staircase
Only I know what it's for
It is burning through my mind
I don't wanna leave this all behind
I built it all up from the ground
Why would I tear the old place down?
So I blocked the second staircase
Behind some old junk we never use
I threw the ticket in the fireplace
Forgot everything I knew
Cos beyond the second staircase
Is life without you
I can't take the second staircase
It's all too much to lose
Lonely lyrics - Del Amitri
Lonely I have been without her
Lonely I have been so long
The only thing that keeps me going is
I know she's wrong
Wrong to think I wouldn't miss her
Wrong to think I'd be alright
And wrong is all I feel
In bed at night
I listen out for the bell to ring
In the chapel on the hill
The crowd of sound from the streets around
Is a howl of sadness still
I don't think I could ever wander
I don't think I could ever stray
The mark she left on my heart
Is gonna stay
I walk my rumour through the city
To fill the empty afternoon
And turn for home
Under the mocking of the moon
The crazy thing about a golden ring
Is it will melt in any fire
But I didn't think for a minute
She would simply melt at his desire
Nation Of Caners lyrics - Del Amitri
We're a nation of caners
Excusers, explainers
We're wasting away every night, every day
Assuring ourselves we're blameless
Of everything heading their way
We use and we use, throw away and away
Caning the plains, planing the cane
Jetting the snuff and snuffing the pain
Nothing's enough, nothing's enough
A sniff on a cuff and a fag to a flame
Downing the foam and filling the drain
Ravenous men, ravenous girls
Ravage it all until nothing remains
Blue yonder, the wonder
Of getting beyond the pale
Slipping out of the jailed brain to a cage
We made in a rage of thirst
Thirst for ease, thirst for plunder
Thirst for junk and speed and candour
Thirst for splendour, a binge, a bender
Return to sender
Burn the canopy churn the blender
Rape the barley, bend the fender
Burn the embers, burn the embers
Cane and cane and cane dissenters
Ream the renters, shame the campers
Stamp the punters through
Members get a tent to hurl into
We all know where we're going to
We're a nation of caners
Who could blame us –
Have you seen the state of what
They left for us to use?
Have you seen the place
They think is fit for humans, fit for purpose?
Purpose being caning, caning
Purges in the virgin forest
Urges in the depth of dreaming
Muffled screaming coming from the cane
Desperate praying underneath the rain
Consume it all you must
Or there'll be never ending pain
A future filled with cesspits of the slain
A future that we never could
Explain for all the world
The caner boys, the caner girls
Buried in their shame
Nation against nation
Never sickening of the game
We're a race apart of caners
Floggers, torturers in trainers
Ostrich headed party planners
Carry-onners, carry-outers
Flat denial earthers, science doubters
Flabby thinkers, shabby lovers
Anti-social fatal drinkers
Shirkers, duckers, divers, wankers
Blissed and pissed within our blinkers
A caning nation
An acidic aberration
A full-force pillage through
The gifts of the creation
Heaven was our source
The underworld our destination
There are worthless whirls of bank notes
Floating through the station
Can you hear the desperate praying
Underneath the rain?
Can you feel the past
Shoving us on to the train?
We're a nation of caners
And who can blame us?
Mamma lets us follow
Anywhere our nature takes us
Fruit loop blitzers
We've got a taste for space
And need to fill the void with chasers
Need to drink to our disgraces
Peak grease racers
We can't stop until we die
Pull me back into the bar
Before I see the sky
Baby, you're working for the man
You're doing everything you can
The weight of shit you carry round
One day you're gonna just derail
Every time I pick you up
It's like I'm springing you from jail
We're a nation of caners
Who can blame us?
A nation of caners
Who can blame us?
We're a nation of caners
Who can blame us?
A nation of caners
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Can you hear the desperate praying
Underneath the rain?
Can you feel the past
Shoving us on to the train?
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Who?
Who can blame us?
Who?
Just Before You Leave lyrics - Del Amitri
Does your appetite for novelty still burn?
And do you pick a fight just to feel the heat of his concern?
Do you still misbehave, then beg for his reprieve?
And do you love to feel his needy hands pulling at your sleeve?
Don't you always fall in love again
Just before you leave?
Don't you always fall in love again
Just before you leave?
Do you still storm away? Do you slap him just to see
If he hits you back or backs away, or panics just like me?
Don't you always fall in love again
Just before you leave?
Don't you always fall in love again
Just before you leave?
Don't you cry
'Cos you know that's the one thing he hates
Don't you try
To bend him until he breaks
Like you broke me
Do you still turn in a second into stone?
And do you pepper him with petty threats of letting him alone?
Don't you always fall in love again
Just before you leave?
Don't you always fall in love again
Just before you leave?
And do you pick a fight just to feel the heat of his concern?
Do you still misbehave, then beg for his reprieve?
And do you love to feel his needy hands pulling at your sleeve?
Don't you always fall in love again
Just before you leave?
Don't you always fall in love again
Just before you leave?
Do you still storm away? Do you slap him just to see
If he hits you back or backs away, or panics just like me?
Don't you always fall in love again
Just before you leave?
Don't you always fall in love again
Just before you leave?
Don't you cry
'Cos you know that's the one thing he hates
Don't you try
To bend him until he breaks
Like you broke me
Do you still turn in a second into stone?
And do you pepper him with petty threats of letting him alone?
Don't you always fall in love again
Just before you leave?
Don't you always fall in love again
Just before you leave?
Cash And Prizes lyrics - Del Amitri
I've got cash and prizes more than a man could dream
I've got a hundred houses, some that I've never seen
I've got walls of paintings high as the Hoover Dam
I've got cash and prizes, but I don't know who I am
I've got a thousand people act on my every word
Point at the sky above me, and I own every bird
I've got a wife who holds me in her diamond-studded hands
I've got cash and prizes, but I don't know who I am
I've got buildings, I've got planes
That light the skyline with my name
I am everywhere but here
A colossus on the index, but touch the cancel key and I just disappear
I've got cash and prizes 'cause I've got the stuff it takes
I've got a Rolls-Royce running just 'cause I love the sound it makes
But cash and prizes I guess is all that they can see
I've got a hundred houses, some that I've never seen
I've got walls of paintings high as the Hoover Dam
I've got cash and prizes, but I don't know who I am
I've got a thousand people act on my every word
Point at the sky above me, and I own every bird
I've got a wife who holds me in her diamond-studded hands
I've got cash and prizes, but I don't know who I am
I've got buildings, I've got planes
That light the skyline with my name
I am everywhere but here
A colossus on the index, but touch the cancel key and I just disappear
I've got cash and prizes 'cause I've got the stuff it takes
I've got a Rolls-Royce running just 'cause I love the sound it makes
But cash and prizes I guess is all that they can see
Drunk In A Band lyrics - Del Amitri
Pat is the guy with the record shop
And John sells fruit but wants to be a cop
And Paul deals speed in a Celtic top
But I'm just a drunk in a band.
Jo does tele-sales and martial arts
And Gill pushes patients round the public parks
And Nancy makes sculptures out of hoover parts
But I'm just a drunk in a band.
Danny puts the cones on the motorway
And Donna dances tables in her lingerie
And Gerry, Dave and Billy, man, they're puttin' on a play
But I'm just a drunk in a band.
I could be a soldier, I could drive a van,
Guide rivers of pain into little red cans
Walk rich men's dogs, bring 747s into land
But I'm just a drunk in a band.
And John sells fruit but wants to be a cop
And Paul deals speed in a Celtic top
But I'm just a drunk in a band.
Jo does tele-sales and martial arts
And Gill pushes patients round the public parks
And Nancy makes sculptures out of hoover parts
But I'm just a drunk in a band.
Danny puts the cones on the motorway
And Donna dances tables in her lingerie
And Gerry, Dave and Billy, man, they're puttin' on a play
But I'm just a drunk in a band.
I could be a soldier, I could drive a van,
Guide rivers of pain into little red cans
Walk rich men's dogs, bring 747s into land
But I'm just a drunk in a band.
One More Last Hurrah lyrics - Del Amitri
One more last hurrah
One more fearless stand at some nightclub bar
One more last hurrah
Gonna kiss our friends and then crash our cars
Crash our cars
One more last hurrah
Before we knuckle down and button up
and figure out that fading out's the statement we've been looking for
The state that we've been looking for
Hold on, I wanna say,
"My life looks okay"
Okay
One more last hurrah
Whatever else is waiting for us one last waste of time is all we're asking for
All we're asking for
One more last hurrah
One more chance to forget who our enemies are
Hold on, I wanna say,
"My life looks okay"
"My life looks okay"
Okay
One more fearless stand at some nightclub bar
One more last hurrah
Gonna kiss our friends and then crash our cars
Crash our cars
One more last hurrah
Before we knuckle down and button up
and figure out that fading out's the statement we've been looking for
The state that we've been looking for
Hold on, I wanna say,
"My life looks okay"
Okay
One more last hurrah
Whatever else is waiting for us one last waste of time is all we're asking for
All we're asking for
One more last hurrah
One more chance to forget who our enemies are
Hold on, I wanna say,
"My life looks okay"
"My life looks okay"
Okay
Buttons On My Clothes lyrics - Del Amitri
I've been drinking all through summer
I guess I've had a laugh
I've had every kind of fun I could have had
Looking at my crowd tonight
There's a sober kind of sparkle in their eyes
That I don't like
'Cause everybody knows she ain't coming back
The buttons on my clothes are as plain to see as that
I'm a man of reputation in this rocker's town
I have lived it up so long I'll never live it down
Every back room bet I've made
Every all night thrill room-service bill I've paid
Looks cheap today
'Cause everybody knows she ain't coming back
The buttons on my clothes are as plain to see as that
I took a chemical vacation in my head
But now I'm back here at the station with a trunk of regret
Thought I found myself a frequency beyond her voice
But the memories keep breaking through the noise
So brother, send a ship for me before I wash upon the shore of clarity
I can see
That everybody knows she ain't coming back
The buttons on my clothes are as plain to see as that
Yeah, everywhere I go, there are ghosts of what I had
Like the buttons on my clothes, they are everywhere I'm at
I guess I've had a laugh
I've had every kind of fun I could have had
Looking at my crowd tonight
There's a sober kind of sparkle in their eyes
That I don't like
'Cause everybody knows she ain't coming back
The buttons on my clothes are as plain to see as that
I'm a man of reputation in this rocker's town
I have lived it up so long I'll never live it down
Every back room bet I've made
Every all night thrill room-service bill I've paid
Looks cheap today
'Cause everybody knows she ain't coming back
The buttons on my clothes are as plain to see as that
I took a chemical vacation in my head
But now I'm back here at the station with a trunk of regret
Thought I found myself a frequency beyond her voice
But the memories keep breaking through the noise
So brother, send a ship for me before I wash upon the shore of clarity
I can see
That everybody knows she ain't coming back
The buttons on my clothes are as plain to see as that
Yeah, everywhere I go, there are ghosts of what I had
Like the buttons on my clothes, they are everywhere I'm at
Baby, It's Me lyrics - Del Amitri
Who's gonna call you up every single day?
Who's gonna hold you hard when stuff gets ugly?
Cause baby if you wanna find someone
As big as a door that fits in your palm
A wall of support as small as a gun
Can't you see?
Baby it's me
Who's gonna miss you just cause you leave the room?
Who's gonna kiss your brow when your dreaming haunts you?
Cause baby if you wanna find someone
With all that they need but nothing they want
Full of themselves but with a hole where you aren't
Can't you see?
Baby it's me
Baby it's me
Living in the lining
Where your coins are chiming
When we drive at night it's my eyes you're shining
Who's gonna call you up every single day?
Can't you see
Baby it's me
Who's gonna hold you hard when stuff gets ugly?
Cause baby if you wanna find someone
As big as a door that fits in your palm
A wall of support as small as a gun
Can't you see?
Baby it's me
Who's gonna miss you just cause you leave the room?
Who's gonna kiss your brow when your dreaming haunts you?
Cause baby if you wanna find someone
With all that they need but nothing they want
Full of themselves but with a hole where you aren't
Can't you see?
Baby it's me
Baby it's me
Living in the lining
Where your coins are chiming
When we drive at night it's my eyes you're shining
Who's gonna call you up every single day?
Can't you see
Baby it's me
Wash Her Away lyrics - Del Amitri
Eyes like a slash across her face
Lips I'd kill a man to taste
Whatever this stuff is, I'm buying
Whatever it does, I'll do it 'til I'm dying
I can't wash her away
It's getting under my skin
I can't wash her away
I can feel her closing in
Hands like a carnival of queens
Hair like a heart attack of dreams
A voice so soft you could cut it with a kiss
Screams so small you could hold them in your fist
Little white fingertips running up your back
Little needling scores where her nails leave a track
I can't wash her away
She's living in my skin
I can't seem to wash her away
I can feel her closing in
Eyes like a slash across her face
Lips so damn sweet you'd cut your tongue out for a taste
Whatever this stuff is, I'm buying
If she's nothing but a coffin least she's good enough to die in
She's a ballroom full of dancing chairs
She's a child in disguise hiding bullets in her hair
A voice so soft you could cut it with a kiss
Screams so small you could hold them in your fist
Every one night stand is a six week stretch
Craving her arms twisted up around your neck
Skin so white, a heart so pure
If you opened up her veins you'd see the light run through her
Lips I'd kill a man to taste
Whatever this stuff is, I'm buying
Whatever it does, I'll do it 'til I'm dying
I can't wash her away
It's getting under my skin
I can't wash her away
I can feel her closing in
Hands like a carnival of queens
Hair like a heart attack of dreams
A voice so soft you could cut it with a kiss
Screams so small you could hold them in your fist
Little white fingertips running up your back
Little needling scores where her nails leave a track
I can't wash her away
She's living in my skin
I can't seem to wash her away
I can feel her closing in
Eyes like a slash across her face
Lips so damn sweet you'd cut your tongue out for a taste
Whatever this stuff is, I'm buying
If she's nothing but a coffin least she's good enough to die in
She's a ballroom full of dancing chairs
She's a child in disguise hiding bullets in her hair
A voice so soft you could cut it with a kiss
Screams so small you could hold them in your fist
Every one night stand is a six week stretch
Craving her arms twisted up around your neck
Skin so white, a heart so pure
If you opened up her veins you'd see the light run through her
Last Cheap Shot At The Dream lyrics - Del Amitri
I can't look into the future, but I can't cheat the past
I will wipe away my memory, I will find freedom at last
I will walk away from everything that I used to want so bad
I can't look into the future, but the future is the only thing I have
The only thing I have
I am standing on the pavement, I am staring at a sign
A cheaper flight to paradise I am told I'll never find
There are cameras on the rooftops, there are crazies on the green
I will jump a plane to any place far enough away to get me out of who I've been
Get me out of who I've been
I have shaken, never bitten, every hand that ever hit me
Time has taken what it wanted, now I'm gonna get my victory
With my last cheap shot at the dream
I can't look into the future, but I can't cheat the past
I will wipe away my memory, I will find freedom at last
I can't look into the future, but I know I don't wanna see
Another day in Hell with all the mediocrities
I will walk away from everything that the world wants me to do
I can't look into the future, but the future's where I'm walking to
I'm walking to
I will wipe away my memory, I will find freedom at last
I will walk away from everything that I used to want so bad
I can't look into the future, but the future is the only thing I have
The only thing I have
I am standing on the pavement, I am staring at a sign
A cheaper flight to paradise I am told I'll never find
There are cameras on the rooftops, there are crazies on the green
I will jump a plane to any place far enough away to get me out of who I've been
Get me out of who I've been
I have shaken, never bitten, every hand that ever hit me
Time has taken what it wanted, now I'm gonna get my victory
With my last cheap shot at the dream
I can't look into the future, but I can't cheat the past
I will wipe away my memory, I will find freedom at last
I can't look into the future, but I know I don't wanna see
Another day in Hell with all the mediocrities
I will walk away from everything that the world wants me to do
I can't look into the future, but the future's where I'm walking to
I'm walking to
Out Falls The Past lyrics - Del Amitri
You hold the key to whether we will ever last
I know I can't forever hide behind this mask
'Cause everytime I fall in love, out falls the past
You'll hear my reputation anywhere you ask
They'll say I'm always chasing, so the die is cast
'Cause everytime I fall in love, out falls the past
Everytime I find somebody, the whispering begins
About how I change my women like traffic switches lanes
But girl, believe me, I'm the one that's changed
Back then, the girls, I guess, I kissed and got out fast
But that's all you need to know then girl, you should have asked
Everytime I fall in love, out falls the past
Everytime I find somebody, the whispering begins
About how I change my women like traffic switches lanes
But girl, believe me, I'm the one that's changed
You hold the key to whether we will ever last
But I hold when we're together; I ain't ever held on another so fast
'Cause everytime I fall in love, out falls the past
I know I can't forever hide behind this mask
'Cause everytime I fall in love, out falls the past
You'll hear my reputation anywhere you ask
They'll say I'm always chasing, so the die is cast
'Cause everytime I fall in love, out falls the past
Everytime I find somebody, the whispering begins
About how I change my women like traffic switches lanes
But girl, believe me, I'm the one that's changed
Back then, the girls, I guess, I kissed and got out fast
But that's all you need to know then girl, you should have asked
Everytime I fall in love, out falls the past
Everytime I find somebody, the whispering begins
About how I change my women like traffic switches lanes
But girl, believe me, I'm the one that's changed
You hold the key to whether we will ever last
But I hold when we're together; I ain't ever held on another so fast
'Cause everytime I fall in love, out falls the past
She's Passing This Way lyrics - Del Amitri
She's passing this way
And if you're looking for love, she'll give it away
Yeah, we've all drunk from that cup
You'll be hooked within minutes of tasting a drop
'Cause she is something, that is true
But just a kiss, my friend, you're through
'Cause when she walks and leaves you blue
You'll look like the junkies standing here in front of you
But hey, you should follow your heart
Maybe she won't desire for just pulling apart
And I don't care if she does
Once she's got you in deeper, there'll be one more of us
'Cause she is something, that is true
But just a kiss, my friend, you're through
'Cause when she walks and leaves you blue
You'll look like the junkies standing here in front of you
And if you're looking for love, she'll give it away
Yeah, we've all drunk from that cup
You'll be hooked within minutes of tasting a drop
'Cause she is something, that is true
But just a kiss, my friend, you're through
'Cause when she walks and leaves you blue
You'll look like the junkies standing here in front of you
But hey, you should follow your heart
Maybe she won't desire for just pulling apart
And I don't care if she does
Once she's got you in deeper, there'll be one more of us
'Cause she is something, that is true
But just a kiss, my friend, you're through
'Cause when she walks and leaves you blue
You'll look like the junkies standing here in front of you
Jesus Saves lyrics - Del Amitri
Jesus saves, saves little children in distress
Jesus saves, he saves the sick, the penniless
Jesus saves, he saves the dying in their beds
Jesus saves, he saves the drowning, saves the wrecks
Jesus saves, he saves the pure and leaves the rest
Jesus saves, he saves the homeless on the streets
Jesus saves, saves the afflicted, saves the meek
Jesus saves, he saves the hungry, saves the weak
Jesus saves, saves every soul that he can reach
Jesus saves, he saves the useful, leaves the obsolete
Jesus loves, he loves the underdog, he does
Jesus loves downtrodden sinners just like us
Jesus loves, he loves to hear the sound of pain
Just because, well he can't save you if you ain't one of us
The damned, the blind, the deaf, the never-walk-again
Jesus gives to the lame, he gives their limps
Jesus gives to the prostitues, their pimps
Jesus gives, gives us the crackhead's crying wince
Jesus gives, he gives the derelicts their drinks
Jesus gives, so he can watch the swamp of people squirm and sink
'Cause Jesus craves, he craves the brotherhood of man
Jesus craves the bony gripping of its hands
Jesus craves, he craves the cross, he craves the nails
Jesus craves, he craves the pain the mortal feels
Jesus craves all the cruelty that ever made him real
Jesus saves, saves every sinner you can see
Jesus saves, saves even amateurs like me
Jesus saves, saves men of evil, men of greed
Jesus saves, saves you from thinking, just believe
That Jesus saves, and you can lemming-like go walking, to the
Cliffs of eternity
Jesus saves, he saves the sick, the penniless
Jesus saves, he saves the dying in their beds
Jesus saves, he saves the drowning, saves the wrecks
Jesus saves, he saves the pure and leaves the rest
Jesus saves, he saves the homeless on the streets
Jesus saves, saves the afflicted, saves the meek
Jesus saves, he saves the hungry, saves the weak
Jesus saves, saves every soul that he can reach
Jesus saves, he saves the useful, leaves the obsolete
Jesus loves, he loves the underdog, he does
Jesus loves downtrodden sinners just like us
Jesus loves, he loves to hear the sound of pain
Just because, well he can't save you if you ain't one of us
The damned, the blind, the deaf, the never-walk-again
Jesus gives to the lame, he gives their limps
Jesus gives to the prostitues, their pimps
Jesus gives, gives us the crackhead's crying wince
Jesus gives, he gives the derelicts their drinks
Jesus gives, so he can watch the swamp of people squirm and sink
'Cause Jesus craves, he craves the brotherhood of man
Jesus craves the bony gripping of its hands
Jesus craves, he craves the cross, he craves the nails
Jesus craves, he craves the pain the mortal feels
Jesus craves all the cruelty that ever made him real
Jesus saves, saves every sinner you can see
Jesus saves, saves even amateurs like me
Jesus saves, saves men of evil, men of greed
Jesus saves, saves you from thinking, just believe
That Jesus saves, and you can lemming-like go walking, to the
Cliffs of eternity
Just Getting By lyrics - Del Amitri
Look at me, I'm the one who got away, the one who could've shone
I tried to do my best, but I guess your best don't last for long
Look at me, standing with my tattered pride of toothless little lions
We try to make a difference, do something no one else had tried
But if you see me walking and you're wondering why
Well it's just the business of life
If you're not getting lucky, you're just getting by
Look at me, is it written on my face, the luxuries I've known?
Am I a foreign presence, someplace that used to be my home?
So if you see me walking, just a regular guy
Well it's just the business of life
If you're not getting lucky, you're just getting by
And in that weightlessness that comes with good luck
The one thing you don't expect is feeling the drop
Look at me, I'm the one who got away, and then came crawling back
I try to do my best, but I guess I never had the knack
So if you see me walking, and you're wondering why
Well it's just the business of life
If you're not getting lucky, you're just getting by
I tried to do my best, but I guess your best don't last for long
Look at me, standing with my tattered pride of toothless little lions
We try to make a difference, do something no one else had tried
But if you see me walking and you're wondering why
Well it's just the business of life
If you're not getting lucky, you're just getting by
Look at me, is it written on my face, the luxuries I've known?
Am I a foreign presence, someplace that used to be my home?
So if you see me walking, just a regular guy
Well it's just the business of life
If you're not getting lucky, you're just getting by
And in that weightlessness that comes with good luck
The one thing you don't expect is feeling the drop
Look at me, I'm the one who got away, and then came crawling back
I try to do my best, but I guess I never had the knack
So if you see me walking, and you're wondering why
Well it's just the business of life
If you're not getting lucky, you're just getting by
Not Where It's At lyrics - Del Amitri
With some girls it don't matter who you hang with
With some girls it don't matter how you talk
And some girls they are easy to be yourself with
But the one girl that I want ain't easy to please with what I've got
With some girls it don't matter where you're aiming
With some girls it don't matter how you act
And some girls they don't care what car you came in
But the one girl that I want, she wants that one bit of geography I lack
Yeah, she don't want me 'cos I'm not where it's at
And some girls they will worry about reactions
And some girls they don't give a damn for that
But somehow I ain't ever in on the action
'Cos the one girl I want, she wants that one little quality I lack
Yeah, she don't want me 'cos I'm not where it's at
I don't have my finger on the pulse of my generation
I just got my hand on my heart, I know no better location
Yeah, she don't want me 'cos I'm not where it's at
No I'm not where it's at
With some girls it don't matter how you talk
And some girls they are easy to be yourself with
But the one girl that I want ain't easy to please with what I've got
With some girls it don't matter where you're aiming
With some girls it don't matter how you act
And some girls they don't care what car you came in
But the one girl that I want, she wants that one bit of geography I lack
Yeah, she don't want me 'cos I'm not where it's at
And some girls they will worry about reactions
And some girls they don't give a damn for that
But somehow I ain't ever in on the action
'Cos the one girl I want, she wants that one little quality I lack
Yeah, she don't want me 'cos I'm not where it's at
I don't have my finger on the pulse of my generation
I just got my hand on my heart, I know no better location
Yeah, she don't want me 'cos I'm not where it's at
No I'm not where it's at
Some Other Sucker's Parade lyrics - Del Amitri
I must've had a million damn unlucky days
But there ain't no cloud that a bottle can't chase away
And I've done my deal of living, ran from place to place
But when the roof comes in I don't wanna take it straight
They say with faith any soul can make it
But hell, why should I wait
Till the clouds go rain on some other sucker's parade
I've had my share of heartaches, let-downs and tricks
But the everyday blues is the one thing I can't fix
And I've heard those holy brethren muttering my name
But it ain't no sin to drink when you're suffering
Patience, they say, is a saintly virtue
But hell, why should I wait
Till the clouds go rain on some other sucker's parade
When every heavy skyline just empties on your fate
Sometimes keeping dry's something to celebrate
So if the road of sin is the one I'm taking
I ain't gonna stray
Till the clouds go rain on some other sucker's parade
But there ain't no cloud that a bottle can't chase away
And I've done my deal of living, ran from place to place
But when the roof comes in I don't wanna take it straight
They say with faith any soul can make it
But hell, why should I wait
Till the clouds go rain on some other sucker's parade
I've had my share of heartaches, let-downs and tricks
But the everyday blues is the one thing I can't fix
And I've heard those holy brethren muttering my name
But it ain't no sin to drink when you're suffering
Patience, they say, is a saintly virtue
But hell, why should I wait
Till the clouds go rain on some other sucker's parade
When every heavy skyline just empties on your fate
Sometimes keeping dry's something to celebrate
So if the road of sin is the one I'm taking
I ain't gonna stray
Till the clouds go rain on some other sucker's parade
Won't Make It Better lyrics - Del Amitri
So you say you are sick of love
Got a mind to give the damn thing up
Got a house full of stuff your lovers left
Gonna take a bus to the city dump with it
So you want to throw away the old you
But the old you's old enough to know
It won't make it better
It won't make it better
Sick of being a loser, so you say
Gonna go out and choose a new personality
Ain't gonna look at her pictures, lying awake all night
Got a dazzling future with your inner light
So you want to throw away the old you
But the old you's old enough to know
It won't make it better
It won't make it better
I've set out on that mission too
A little revolution to forget her
Trying to make it better
So you want to throw away the old you
But the old you's old enough to know
It won't make it better
It won't make it better
Got a mind to give the damn thing up
Got a house full of stuff your lovers left
Gonna take a bus to the city dump with it
So you want to throw away the old you
But the old you's old enough to know
It won't make it better
It won't make it better
Sick of being a loser, so you say
Gonna go out and choose a new personality
Ain't gonna look at her pictures, lying awake all night
Got a dazzling future with your inner light
So you want to throw away the old you
But the old you's old enough to know
It won't make it better
It won't make it better
I've set out on that mission too
A little revolution to forget her
Trying to make it better
So you want to throw away the old you
But the old you's old enough to know
It won't make it better
It won't make it better
What I Think She Sees lyrics - Del Amitri
I've been in this place many times before
With my baby's things among my shoes and strings and clothes
But just because I'm here
Don't mean I can't run out that door
Ain't that what those running shoes are for?
Baby likes to sleep on floorboards bare
And just to keep the peace, well I join her there
And she might say to me
'A better man I can't recall'
But what I think she sees ain't me at all
It ain't me at all to need somebody
Like some lovestruck casualty
It ain't me at all to feel so ready
To be what I think she sees
Baby claims I kiss like I really care
Well, I guess I'd say I don't but the truth ain't fair
And sometimes she looks at me and says
'Babe, my heart just stalled'
But what I think she sees
What I think she sees
What I think she sees ain't me at all
With my baby's things among my shoes and strings and clothes
But just because I'm here
Don't mean I can't run out that door
Ain't that what those running shoes are for?
Baby likes to sleep on floorboards bare
And just to keep the peace, well I join her there
And she might say to me
'A better man I can't recall'
But what I think she sees ain't me at all
It ain't me at all to need somebody
Like some lovestruck casualty
It ain't me at all to feel so ready
To be what I think she sees
Baby claims I kiss like I really care
Well, I guess I'd say I don't but the truth ain't fair
And sometimes she looks at me and says
'Babe, my heart just stalled'
But what I think she sees
What I think she sees
What I think she sees ain't me at all
Medicine lyrics - Del Amitri
You can find another country if you want
Somewhere you can hide yourself away
Find yourself another set of holes to haunt
Get yourself another debt that you can't pay
Yeah, you can try to run for cover everywhere
Add another letter to your name
Burn everything you ever used to wear
Get yourself another lover that looks the same
But sometimes it's the medicine
Sometimes it's the medicine
Sometimes it's the medicine itself that makes the pain
Well, you can always make another move again
Another set of keys, a different town
And you can try to lose yourself in them
Tell the truth, it catches up and cuts you down
'Cos sometimes it's the medicine
Sometimes it's the medicine
Sometimes it's the medicine itself that makes the pain
And you can always hide the wreckage that you come from
But every new disguise is just another lie to run from
You can only try to fool yourself so long
With any kind of measure you can find
'Cos every phony pleasure you've been on
Has lifted off and left the pain behind
'Cos sometimes it's the medicine
Sometimes it's the medicine
Sometimes it's the medicine itself that makes the pain
Somewhere you can hide yourself away
Find yourself another set of holes to haunt
Get yourself another debt that you can't pay
Yeah, you can try to run for cover everywhere
Add another letter to your name
Burn everything you ever used to wear
Get yourself another lover that looks the same
But sometimes it's the medicine
Sometimes it's the medicine
Sometimes it's the medicine itself that makes the pain
Well, you can always make another move again
Another set of keys, a different town
And you can try to lose yourself in them
Tell the truth, it catches up and cuts you down
'Cos sometimes it's the medicine
Sometimes it's the medicine
Sometimes it's the medicine itself that makes the pain
And you can always hide the wreckage that you come from
But every new disguise is just another lie to run from
You can only try to fool yourself so long
With any kind of measure you can find
'Cos every phony pleasure you've been on
Has lifted off and left the pain behind
'Cos sometimes it's the medicine
Sometimes it's the medicine
Sometimes it's the medicine itself that makes the pain
High Times lyrics - Del Amitri
Little Snow White, she was sleeping 24 hours a day
She's got a right to be lazy, flat out of reasons to breathe
And it's cold baby, yes it's cold
But everything is relative can't you see we're living in
High times, dig the new domain
Living through high times, just don't crash my spiritual plane
Little Snow White, she was hungry
Told her, 'Go out and graft for it'
At the end of the rainbow she was mind-blown
To be staring at a crock of shit
And it's hard baby, yes it's hard
But with a little intuition you can shift position in the
High times, touch the magic stone
Living through high times, pick up that spiritual phone
Frittering packs of refuseniks, too drunk to muster any contempt
Ten ways to relax on a cruise ship, one way to cover the rent
I've whored myself around enough to know, baby
You don't come with the customers and smile when you're spoken to in
High times, catch the cosmic vibe
Living through high times, hey, has Ginger Baker died?
Living through high times, my planet's all out of line
Living through high times, man, just like '69
She's got a right to be lazy, flat out of reasons to breathe
And it's cold baby, yes it's cold
But everything is relative can't you see we're living in
High times, dig the new domain
Living through high times, just don't crash my spiritual plane
Little Snow White, she was hungry
Told her, 'Go out and graft for it'
At the end of the rainbow she was mind-blown
To be staring at a crock of shit
And it's hard baby, yes it's hard
But with a little intuition you can shift position in the
High times, touch the magic stone
Living through high times, pick up that spiritual phone
Frittering packs of refuseniks, too drunk to muster any contempt
Ten ways to relax on a cruise ship, one way to cover the rent
I've whored myself around enough to know, baby
You don't come with the customers and smile when you're spoken to in
High times, catch the cosmic vibe
Living through high times, hey, has Ginger Baker died?
Living through high times, my planet's all out of line
Living through high times, man, just like '69
Mother Nature's Writing lyrics - Del Amitri
Open up your eyes,
Everything is crying out 'This could be your time'
She fell out of the sky
Must every star be working on heavenly designs
A crooked line of lightning
A silent movie moon
Mother nature's writing to you
So button up your lip
You don't get many chances in the time between the tides
The weather's rolling in
In a minute flat you'll be soaking wet, so kiss her while it's dry
A crooked line of lightning, a silent movie moon
Mother nature's writing to you
Open up your eyes, mother nature's writing to you
Everything is crying out 'This could be your time'
She fell out of the sky
Must every star be working on heavenly designs
A crooked line of lightning
A silent movie moon
Mother nature's writing to you
So button up your lip
You don't get many chances in the time between the tides
The weather's rolling in
In a minute flat you'll be soaking wet, so kiss her while it's dry
A crooked line of lightning, a silent movie moon
Mother nature's writing to you
Open up your eyes, mother nature's writing to you
No Family Man lyrics - Del Amitri
Well I talk like a boy to my baby sometimes
And you talk like a baby when your boy is crying
You made something to love but I love what I am
No family man
So don't tell me you've got something better than me
Don't say that it's a great mystery
It's just making love what you want it to be
That's why I am no family man
And that is why all that I have in the world
Is an ocean of time with this beautiful girl
You got something to prove with your own little you
Have I wasted my time, cut through the family line
In the race to life I am an also-ran
But I've run enough to know I'm no family man
Yeah I've done enough to know I'm no family man
And you talk like a baby when your boy is crying
You made something to love but I love what I am
No family man
So don't tell me you've got something better than me
Don't say that it's a great mystery
It's just making love what you want it to be
That's why I am no family man
And that is why all that I have in the world
Is an ocean of time with this beautiful girl
You got something to prove with your own little you
Have I wasted my time, cut through the family line
In the race to life I am an also-ran
But I've run enough to know I'm no family man
Yeah I've done enough to know I'm no family man
Cruel Light Of Day lyrics - Del Amitri
Someone's opening up for business
The morning rains the same old way
But someone should've taught me forgiveness
Now I see it in the cruel light of day
Telling me he's done me a kindness
She was going to leave anyway
But love is such sweet politeness
Till you see it in the cruel light of day
Last night was just a comedy
And I woke up like a walking tragedy
And it was right in front of me
But I just laughed and turned my eyes away
So pour me another cup of coffee
I ain't ever seen the city look so grey
And those pretty little diamonds in the darkness
Ain't no jewels in the cruel light of day
No I ain't some accessory
She can slip off from her back and just fold away
I don't need no-one undressing me
When I wake up in the same suit every day
So someone's opening up for business
The shutters roll so familiarly
And out of darkness comes relief, sing the witless
But I don't see it in the cruel light of day
No I don't see it in the cruel light of day
The morning rains the same old way
But someone should've taught me forgiveness
Now I see it in the cruel light of day
Telling me he's done me a kindness
She was going to leave anyway
But love is such sweet politeness
Till you see it in the cruel light of day
Last night was just a comedy
And I woke up like a walking tragedy
And it was right in front of me
But I just laughed and turned my eyes away
So pour me another cup of coffee
I ain't ever seen the city look so grey
And those pretty little diamonds in the darkness
Ain't no jewels in the cruel light of day
No I ain't some accessory
She can slip off from her back and just fold away
I don't need no-one undressing me
When I wake up in the same suit every day
So someone's opening up for business
The shutters roll so familiarly
And out of darkness comes relief, sing the witless
But I don't see it in the cruel light of day
No I don't see it in the cruel light of day
Funny Way To Win lyrics - Del Amitri
So you want me to play the bleeding role
Just so he can know how I needed you
Well that's OK with me, it's a part I think I know
God knows he won't need to suspend belief
I know it's just a game
And losing you's how it just begins
Ain't that a funny way to win
Ain't that a funny way to win
So I run around dragging people down
Holding my broken heart like a cheap cartoon
Just so he can see it's a sucker who
Does to you what you did to me
I know it's just a game
And losing you's how it just begins
Ain't that a funny way to win
Ain't that a funny way to win
So if there's another need that I can still serve
I'm low on self esteem but I'm high on nerve
I know it's just a game
And losing you's how it just begins
Ain't that a funny way to win
Yeah, that's a funny way to win
Just so he can know how I needed you
Well that's OK with me, it's a part I think I know
God knows he won't need to suspend belief
I know it's just a game
And losing you's how it just begins
Ain't that a funny way to win
Ain't that a funny way to win
So I run around dragging people down
Holding my broken heart like a cheap cartoon
Just so he can see it's a sucker who
Does to you what you did to me
I know it's just a game
And losing you's how it just begins
Ain't that a funny way to win
Ain't that a funny way to win
So if there's another need that I can still serve
I'm low on self esteem but I'm high on nerve
I know it's just a game
And losing you's how it just begins
Ain't that a funny way to win
Yeah, that's a funny way to win
Through All That Nothing lyrics - Del Amitri
Honey, sometimes those big blue eyes
Can make me fall out of bed in surprise
In the bright morning sun
In the howling wind, in the shirt you sleep in
You're the one
'Cos it's you that I tried to find
Every day and every night through all that nothing
The hands of fate couldn't have done it all
As if the rain ever cared where it falls
And there were times when I know that I
Just fell in love to give myself an alibi
'Cos it's you I was waiting for
Every day and every night through all that nothing
So it's true now, I can see
All that nothing that I knew
Was so something like you'd come to me
Can make me fall out of bed in surprise
In the bright morning sun
In the howling wind, in the shirt you sleep in
You're the one
'Cos it's you that I tried to find
Every day and every night through all that nothing
The hands of fate couldn't have done it all
As if the rain ever cared where it falls
And there were times when I know that I
Just fell in love to give myself an alibi
'Cos it's you I was waiting for
Every day and every night through all that nothing
So it's true now, I can see
All that nothing that I knew
Was so something like you'd come to me
Life Is Full lyrics - Del Amitri
People say you are a stand-up guy
You'd never hurt no-one and you'd never try
And you laugh and you cry
And you do all the things that anybody does to show they are alive
Friends say you are a careful man
You always favour reason where you can
And you laugh and you cry
And you do all the things that anybody does to show they are alive
But wherever you go, whatever you do
You know that they won't find a fool quite like you
Yeah life is full
Of easy choices
Yeah life is full
Of simple rules
When love comes you don't have no room
When life is full
People say you are a patient guy
You never rush something if it ain't right
And you laugh and you cry
And you do all the things that anybody does to show they are alive
But wherever you go, whatever you do
You know that they won't find a fool quite like you
Yeah life is full
Of easy choices
Yeah life is full
Of simple rules
When love comes you don't have no room
When life is full
And you make those mistakes that everybody does
And you deal with them as you go
From tripping on a shoelace to falling in love
You keep things under control
But wherever you go, whatever you do
You know that they won't find a fool quite like you
Yeah life is full
Of easy choices
Yeah life is full
Of simple rules
When love comes you don't have no room
When life is full
You'd never hurt no-one and you'd never try
And you laugh and you cry
And you do all the things that anybody does to show they are alive
Friends say you are a careful man
You always favour reason where you can
And you laugh and you cry
And you do all the things that anybody does to show they are alive
But wherever you go, whatever you do
You know that they won't find a fool quite like you
Yeah life is full
Of easy choices
Yeah life is full
Of simple rules
When love comes you don't have no room
When life is full
People say you are a patient guy
You never rush something if it ain't right
And you laugh and you cry
And you do all the things that anybody does to show they are alive
But wherever you go, whatever you do
You know that they won't find a fool quite like you
Yeah life is full
Of easy choices
Yeah life is full
Of simple rules
When love comes you don't have no room
When life is full
And you make those mistakes that everybody does
And you deal with them as you go
From tripping on a shoelace to falling in love
You keep things under control
But wherever you go, whatever you do
You know that they won't find a fool quite like you
Yeah life is full
Of easy choices
Yeah life is full
Of simple rules
When love comes you don't have no room
When life is full
Lucky Guy lyrics - Del Amitri
Baby, hold it, just let me try
For just one minute to be this other guy
And live his life
With my home and faithful wife
And your pretty face to kiss some nights
Ain't I a lucky guy
I get what I want, yeah
Ain't I a lucky guy
Unlucky for some
Baby, I like it, it feels all right
Now that I see it through his cheating eyes
I can't stop smiling
How could I not be satisfied
So glad I ain't the one on the losing side
Ain't I a lucky guy
I get what I want, yeah
Ain't I a lucky guy
Unlucky for some
No need to feel guilty baby
I'm happy to be
The one that you come to baby, 'stead of me
You'd better believe it, baby
So I don't know where tonight
Love will lead me but that's all right, 'cos
Ain't I a lucky guy
I get what I want, yeah
Ain't I a lucky guy
Unlucky for some
So lucky, baby
So lucky, baby
For just one minute to be this other guy
And live his life
With my home and faithful wife
And your pretty face to kiss some nights
Ain't I a lucky guy
I get what I want, yeah
Ain't I a lucky guy
Unlucky for some
Baby, I like it, it feels all right
Now that I see it through his cheating eyes
I can't stop smiling
How could I not be satisfied
So glad I ain't the one on the losing side
Ain't I a lucky guy
I get what I want, yeah
Ain't I a lucky guy
Unlucky for some
No need to feel guilty baby
I'm happy to be
The one that you come to baby, 'stead of me
You'd better believe it, baby
So I don't know where tonight
Love will lead me but that's all right, 'cos
Ain't I a lucky guy
I get what I want, yeah
Ain't I a lucky guy
Unlucky for some
So lucky, baby
So lucky, baby
Make It Always Be Too Late lyrics - Del Amitri
What I want is everything to clear
So let the clocks be wrong
Let the evening be longer, let me drown in here
'Cos what I want gets clouded by the sun
I can't see beyond
The petty things that living here brings everyone
So get lost with me
Let the whole world wait
Make it always be too late
What I want is right before my eyes
So set me up a drink
Pull the shutters down on all those prying satellites
'Cos what I want is everything to clear
So if you stop your watch
You might stop the morning's cruel hammer falling here
So get lost with me
Let the whole world wait
Make it always be too late
So let the clocks be wrong
Let the evening be longer, let me drown in here
'Cos what I want gets clouded by the sun
I can't see beyond
The petty things that living here brings everyone
So get lost with me
Let the whole world wait
Make it always be too late
What I want is right before my eyes
So set me up a drink
Pull the shutters down on all those prying satellites
'Cos what I want is everything to clear
So if you stop your watch
You might stop the morning's cruel hammer falling here
So get lost with me
Let the whole world wait
Make it always be too late
Scared To Live lyrics - Del Amitri
Walk into the lightning of a midnight bulletin
Our brave new world sits smiling with egg on its chin
And love gets so lazy, love gets so slow
We stopped making love in the hours of daylight too many moons ago
But now that we've given all that we have to give
Maybe we're just scared to live
Since I go so blinkered to nothing else but you
I've been playing for each cheap reward like game show gluttons do
And love's the honest truth Babe
And love's such a beautiful lie
So don't look so confused Honey, know it's true tonight
But now that I've given all that I have to give
Maybe I'm just scared to live
Why can't I wake up and make something of my life
Why can't I wake up to this life
How can you have no faith in this your own home town?
Can't you practice a little discretion, play the whole thing down
And since you got so blinkered to the highs and lows of a hopeless thing
Maybe you can take this heart and pass it on to him
Now that I've given all that I have to give
Maybe I'm just scared to live
Maybe you can take this heart and pass it on to him
Our brave new world sits smiling with egg on its chin
And love gets so lazy, love gets so slow
We stopped making love in the hours of daylight too many moons ago
But now that we've given all that we have to give
Maybe we're just scared to live
Since I go so blinkered to nothing else but you
I've been playing for each cheap reward like game show gluttons do
And love's the honest truth Babe
And love's such a beautiful lie
So don't look so confused Honey, know it's true tonight
But now that I've given all that I have to give
Maybe I'm just scared to live
Why can't I wake up and make something of my life
Why can't I wake up to this life
How can you have no faith in this your own home town?
Can't you practice a little discretion, play the whole thing down
And since you got so blinkered to the highs and lows of a hopeless thing
Maybe you can take this heart and pass it on to him
Now that I've given all that I have to give
Maybe I'm just scared to live
Maybe you can take this heart and pass it on to him
The Return Of Maggie Brown lyrics - Del Amitri
She stepped off the bus with a burst suitcase and a frown
And she could smell the breweries and abattoirs on the edge of town
And the man who owes her money won't even lend her an ear
When she phones to demand his answer's vague;
He says, "I'll get back to you but right now I've got to catch the plague."
Down in a bargain basement she goes to shuffle through careers
When all they offer her is friendship and peace souvenirs
And the receptionist was playing with a pencil at her lip
She asked her if she knew a place to sleep
She says, "I'll get back to you but now I've got appointments to keep."
There was a shop called B.J.'s that she stepped into to get out of the gale
They sold only British manufactured, lifetime guaranteed to fail
And a store detective asked her what she had under her coat
"It's just a little something that I wrote;
It says, 'I'll get back to you unless first your girlfriend slits your throat.'"
And by the time the sun set she was penniless and frozen to the core
The Salvation Army girls refused her on the grounds they didn't know her
So she asked some whino for advice, but it turned out to be
A Sunday sport reporter who was following his nose
He said, "I'll get back to you but first we need a picture without clothes."
So she stepped back on that bus with a burst suitcase and a frown
She had come to the conclusion that this was not the place for Maggie Brown
And it was 6 in the morning when she telephoned me;
Until then I'd been living on my knees,
But I got back up when she got back to me
And she could smell the breweries and abattoirs on the edge of town
And the man who owes her money won't even lend her an ear
When she phones to demand his answer's vague;
He says, "I'll get back to you but right now I've got to catch the plague."
Down in a bargain basement she goes to shuffle through careers
When all they offer her is friendship and peace souvenirs
And the receptionist was playing with a pencil at her lip
She asked her if she knew a place to sleep
She says, "I'll get back to you but now I've got appointments to keep."
There was a shop called B.J.'s that she stepped into to get out of the gale
They sold only British manufactured, lifetime guaranteed to fail
And a store detective asked her what she had under her coat
"It's just a little something that I wrote;
It says, 'I'll get back to you unless first your girlfriend slits your throat.'"
And by the time the sun set she was penniless and frozen to the core
The Salvation Army girls refused her on the grounds they didn't know her
So she asked some whino for advice, but it turned out to be
A Sunday sport reporter who was following his nose
He said, "I'll get back to you but first we need a picture without clothes."
So she stepped back on that bus with a burst suitcase and a frown
She had come to the conclusion that this was not the place for Maggie Brown
And it was 6 in the morning when she telephoned me;
Until then I'd been living on my knees,
But I got back up when she got back to me
In The Frame lyrics - Del Amitri
Put me in your pocket now, put me in your dress
I will remain the one you love best
Don't try to rip me up
If I hurt you when
Everything is fowled up at the end
Let me always stay now
Laughing as you say, "How
Do I always look like I'm in pain?"
And you always get your finger in the frame
Put me in your bottom drawer under old exams
There I will be always your cheating hand
Don't try to send me back in some maudlin phase
What has developed here you can't erase
Let me always stay now
Laughing as you say, "How
Do I always look like I'm in pain?"
And you always get your finger in the frame
And maybe all the fights will never happen
Maybe nothing's going to change
Maybe I'll be always laughing
Nothing standing in the way
Nothing clouding up the future
Not the faintest threat of rain
Nothing clouding up the picture
But a finger in the frame
So put me in the pocket of this very dress
And I will remain the one you love best
And I will always stay now
Laughing as you say, "How
Do I always look like I'm in pain?"
And you will always have your finger in the frame
I will remain the one you love best
Don't try to rip me up
If I hurt you when
Everything is fowled up at the end
Let me always stay now
Laughing as you say, "How
Do I always look like I'm in pain?"
And you always get your finger in the frame
Put me in your bottom drawer under old exams
There I will be always your cheating hand
Don't try to send me back in some maudlin phase
What has developed here you can't erase
Let me always stay now
Laughing as you say, "How
Do I always look like I'm in pain?"
And you always get your finger in the frame
And maybe all the fights will never happen
Maybe nothing's going to change
Maybe I'll be always laughing
Nothing standing in the way
Nothing clouding up the future
Not the faintest threat of rain
Nothing clouding up the picture
But a finger in the frame
So put me in the pocket of this very dress
And I will remain the one you love best
And I will always stay now
Laughing as you say, "How
Do I always look like I'm in pain?"
And you will always have your finger in the frame
Sleep Instead Of Teardrops lyrics - Del Amitri
Cry. Cry out your eyes forever
It wont go away
I. I'm just a dumb observer
It's so stupid what I say
Like everyone else will do
I'm gonna lie to you
Tell you that life is cruel
But someday you're gonna wake up
With sleep instead of teardrops in your eyes
An so
Nobody lives forever
The crassest of clichés
Like time
Time is the greatest healer
But it's a murderer today
Like everyone else will do
I'm gonna lie to you
Tell you that life is cruel
But someday you're gonna wake up
With sleep instead of teardrops in your eyes
You know my holding you won't change, anything
I can't stop this whole charade, continuing
As each consoling kiss remains, on your face, like a stain
So cry
Cry out those tears an let them
Succumb to gravity
And try
Try as I might I'll never
Fill that vacancy
Like everyone else will do
I'm gonna lie to you
Tell you that life is cruel
But someday you're gonna wake up
With sleep instead of teardrops in your eyes
Someday you're gonna wake up
With sleep instead of teardrops in your eyes
It wont go away
I. I'm just a dumb observer
It's so stupid what I say
Like everyone else will do
I'm gonna lie to you
Tell you that life is cruel
But someday you're gonna wake up
With sleep instead of teardrops in your eyes
An so
Nobody lives forever
The crassest of clichés
Like time
Time is the greatest healer
But it's a murderer today
Like everyone else will do
I'm gonna lie to you
Tell you that life is cruel
But someday you're gonna wake up
With sleep instead of teardrops in your eyes
You know my holding you won't change, anything
I can't stop this whole charade, continuing
As each consoling kiss remains, on your face, like a stain
So cry
Cry out those tears an let them
Succumb to gravity
And try
Try as I might I'll never
Fill that vacancy
Like everyone else will do
I'm gonna lie to you
Tell you that life is cruel
But someday you're gonna wake up
With sleep instead of teardrops in your eyes
Someday you're gonna wake up
With sleep instead of teardrops in your eyes
Long Journey Home lyrics - Del Amitri
By the time you get to hear this I'll be long gone down the road
Without a toothbrush or a suitcase in a world I didn't know
By the time you get through college, by the time you learn to drive
I'll be picking thought the garbage of my life
By the time you get adjusted to your objectionable role
I'll be deleted, deselected from that very long street you know
When you've lost your sense of direction and burned every happiness you know
I'll have made my last connection on the long journey home
By the time you get to hear this you'll be completely alone
Counting down the hours to your destination on your long journey home
Without a toothbrush or a suitcase in a world I didn't know
By the time you get through college, by the time you learn to drive
I'll be picking thought the garbage of my life
By the time you get adjusted to your objectionable role
I'll be deleted, deselected from that very long street you know
When you've lost your sense of direction and burned every happiness you know
I'll have made my last connection on the long journey home
By the time you get to hear this you'll be completely alone
Counting down the hours to your destination on your long journey home
Paper Thin lyrics - Del Amitri
He was a self made man
Made a killing on copper mines
He loved beautiful girls
Got a taste for fancy wines
And the suits he wore were paper thin
He built a big white house
In the valley of the kings
Took a beautiful wife
Bought her every possible thing
And the silk she wore was paper thin
Well, they travelled in style
Paid cash for everything
Had a beautiful child
Had a champagne christening
But as they raised their glasses in toast to him
He saw the crystal was paper thin
So the shadows came
Whispering words to him
He sold the company out
And cashed all those futures in
But it all still looked so paper thin
Well, it was late one night
And the rain was streaming down
He called his wife's name out
Said honey, it's over now
I'm gonna burn it all
I can't take this any more
But as he struck the match
She took a pistol from the drawer
She said I ain't going down with you
Pulled the trigger in
And the bullet it passed right through
Like he was paper thin
Made a killing on copper mines
He loved beautiful girls
Got a taste for fancy wines
And the suits he wore were paper thin
He built a big white house
In the valley of the kings
Took a beautiful wife
Bought her every possible thing
And the silk she wore was paper thin
Well, they travelled in style
Paid cash for everything
Had a beautiful child
Had a champagne christening
But as they raised their glasses in toast to him
He saw the crystal was paper thin
So the shadows came
Whispering words to him
He sold the company out
And cashed all those futures in
But it all still looked so paper thin
Well, it was late one night
And the rain was streaming down
He called his wife's name out
Said honey, it's over now
I'm gonna burn it all
I can't take this any more
But as he struck the match
She took a pistol from the drawer
She said I ain't going down with you
Pulled the trigger in
And the bullet it passed right through
Like he was paper thin
The Last Love Song lyrics - Del Amitri
This is the last love song we'll sing
Now that the death of our dreams
Has poisoned everything
The shadow of the squaw shades our door
And grayness invades our every pore
This is the last love song we'll sing
This is the last chance we have to say absolutely nothing
This is the last movie we'll see
While our country's sleep walking through every major scene
Our age of convenience becomes
A state that don't care for anyone
This is the last love song we'll sing
This is the last chance we have to do absolutely nothing
This is the last love song we'll sing
This is the last chance we have to do absolutely nothing
Now that the death of our dreams
Has poisoned everything
The shadow of the squaw shades our door
And grayness invades our every pore
This is the last love song we'll sing
This is the last chance we have to say absolutely nothing
This is the last movie we'll see
While our country's sleep walking through every major scene
Our age of convenience becomes
A state that don't care for anyone
This is the last love song we'll sing
This is the last chance we have to do absolutely nothing
This is the last love song we'll sing
This is the last chance we have to do absolutely nothing
The Verb To Do lyrics - Del Amitri
If you or I don't say it who's going to
We can dance around it or dance for the truth
We sit here conjugating every variation through
Of the verb to do
Now I don't want to hang it all on you
If blame must be allotted, I'll take some too
But someone just say "Damn it, I need to be tonight with you"
The verb to do
If I don't seem to want it, if it won't show through
It's only because it has me paralysed for want of loving you
So if you and I don't make it, well who's going to
Why can't we just state it bold as blue
Look out over this city - the first word they're taught to use
Is the verb to do
We can dance around it or dance for the truth
We sit here conjugating every variation through
Of the verb to do
Now I don't want to hang it all on you
If blame must be allotted, I'll take some too
But someone just say "Damn it, I need to be tonight with you"
The verb to do
If I don't seem to want it, if it won't show through
It's only because it has me paralysed for want of loving you
So if you and I don't make it, well who's going to
Why can't we just state it bold as blue
Look out over this city - the first word they're taught to use
Is the verb to do
In The Meantime lyrics - Del Amitri
Maybe you are crying now
Or maybe you're relieved
I guess we both stopped trying Baby to believe
And maybe you are hurting badly
Or maybe you feel free
Taking one last journey with me away from you and me
But who is there to go to now
And what are we to do
Living in the meantime until we find somebody new
Maybe this will help you now
Give you room to breathe
Or maybe all the pain you feel will never ever leave
And who is there to turn to now
Who can help us make it through
Living in the meantime until we find somebody new
So you said you loved me baby
For the last time now it seems
And I said I loved you baby, but I don't know what that means
And who is there to lie to now
How do I survive this without you
Living in the meantime until we find somebody new
Or maybe you're relieved
I guess we both stopped trying Baby to believe
And maybe you are hurting badly
Or maybe you feel free
Taking one last journey with me away from you and me
But who is there to go to now
And what are we to do
Living in the meantime until we find somebody new
Maybe this will help you now
Give you room to breathe
Or maybe all the pain you feel will never ever leave
And who is there to turn to now
Who can help us make it through
Living in the meantime until we find somebody new
So you said you loved me baby
For the last time now it seems
And I said I loved you baby, but I don't know what that means
And who is there to lie to now
How do I survive this without you
Living in the meantime until we find somebody new
Long Way Down lyrics - Del Amitri
Its been a long way down...
From what I was then, to what I'm now.
I was up there, and baby you were proud.
Yeah its been a long way down.
Yeah its been a slow road back.
To havin' nothing again, from having it.
You were mine babe, and we were right on track.
Yeah its been a slow road back.
Yeah its been a long way down.
I was high, but you were right about how,
The higher you get on love, the longer it takes to forget...
and get out of.
Yeah its been a hard trail home.
We went somewhere I'd never known,
From livin it up babe to waking up alone,
Yeah its been a hard trail home.
Its been a long way down.
I was high, but you were right about how,
The longer the dream goes on, the harder the fall will seem
When it has gone.
Yeah its been a long way down
We had everything heaven would allow.
From the desert heights to the life I'm livin' now,
yeah its been a long way down.
From what I was then, to what I'm now.
I was up there, and baby you were proud.
Yeah its been a long way down.
Yeah its been a slow road back.
To havin' nothing again, from having it.
You were mine babe, and we were right on track.
Yeah its been a slow road back.
Yeah its been a long way down.
I was high, but you were right about how,
The higher you get on love, the longer it takes to forget...
and get out of.
Yeah its been a hard trail home.
We went somewhere I'd never known,
From livin it up babe to waking up alone,
Yeah its been a hard trail home.
Its been a long way down.
I was high, but you were right about how,
The longer the dream goes on, the harder the fall will seem
When it has gone.
Yeah its been a long way down
We had everything heaven would allow.
From the desert heights to the life I'm livin' now,
yeah its been a long way down.
Whiskey Remorse lyrics - Del Amitri
There is a girl I used to know
She had a hundred ways of hurting and so
I packed my bags and left her as she watched some TV show
There is a girl I used to know
There is a town I used to love
It once contained most everything I'd ever dare dreamed of
Me and my baby in the basement whilst the traffic trawled above
There is a town I used to love
There is a bar I used to know
I still sometimes drop by when I have no place left to go
It's where the kings of comedy compare their tattered souls
There is a bar I used to know
So buy me one more drink before you go
Or lend me a twenty and I'll get drunk on my own
You always find some company, who come in to use the phone
Someone who can't stand to see a friend go home alone
There is a joke I used to tell
Some guy who gets three wishes, ends up wasting them to hell
And in the end in misery, he tells the joke himself
There is a guy I used to know
He once had everything that any man could hope
Now he sits here drinking with a tale that always goes
'There is a girl I used to know'
She had a hundred ways of hurting and so
I packed my bags and left her as she watched some TV show
There is a girl I used to know
There is a town I used to love
It once contained most everything I'd ever dare dreamed of
Me and my baby in the basement whilst the traffic trawled above
There is a town I used to love
There is a bar I used to know
I still sometimes drop by when I have no place left to go
It's where the kings of comedy compare their tattered souls
There is a bar I used to know
So buy me one more drink before you go
Or lend me a twenty and I'll get drunk on my own
You always find some company, who come in to use the phone
Someone who can't stand to see a friend go home alone
There is a joke I used to tell
Some guy who gets three wishes, ends up wasting them to hell
And in the end in misery, he tells the joke himself
There is a guy I used to know
He once had everything that any man could hope
Now he sits here drinking with a tale that always goes
'There is a girl I used to know'
Before The Evening Steals The Afternoon lyrics - Del Amitri
Lovers they walk on the bright side of the street
And the city it shines in surprise in the ice cream heat
And I want to be kissed in the haze of this hotel room
Before the evening steals the afternoon
And the traffic it shakes as my travel shaver drones
And the maid she mistakes my 'come in' for a 'please leave me alone'
But I want to be held in the swell of her sweet perfume
Before the evening steals the afternoon
Before the daylight dies and the dusty sky gets rusted up with tungsten
Before the phony night stakes its claim on walkers waiting at the junction
From the blue shade of the park, couples emerge
Dropping hands like they're still scared to get caught
But I want to be caught in their rage of embraces too
Before the evening steals the afternoon
And the city it shines in surprise in the ice cream heat
And I want to be kissed in the haze of this hotel room
Before the evening steals the afternoon
And the traffic it shakes as my travel shaver drones
And the maid she mistakes my 'come in' for a 'please leave me alone'
But I want to be held in the swell of her sweet perfume
Before the evening steals the afternoon
Before the daylight dies and the dusty sky gets rusted up with tungsten
Before the phony night stakes its claim on walkers waiting at the junction
From the blue shade of the park, couples emerge
Dropping hands like they're still scared to get caught
But I want to be caught in their rage of embraces too
Before the evening steals the afternoon
So Many Souls To Change lyrics - Del Amitri
As the sun rises over Mexico
And sets on the African plains
On a tourist jet, the in-flight magazines
Sets out your rate of exchange
While the unhealed and homeless are wondering
If they will ever feel safe again
They give you drinks and show you sailors
Dancing in the warm New York rain
So many souls to change
So mother and child while travelling to Deli
Have to jump off a burning train
While the puppet rich bible class third world society
Meets to discuss it's slogan campaign
You are complicit in this conspiracy
You are unable to get free
They send the rich ones to University
And the rest get comics and TV
So many souls to change
You are shocked with shots of corpses
And seduced by scenes of greed
So your overloaded conscience
Goes out looking for some kind of relief
And the church, the government and charity
They collectively agree
You cannot simply print more money
Just to save some poor country from disease
So many souls to change
So when you die and go to heaven
Looks like there could be hell to pay
As the saints and angels ask how anyone
Could treat mortals that way
And sets on the African plains
On a tourist jet, the in-flight magazines
Sets out your rate of exchange
While the unhealed and homeless are wondering
If they will ever feel safe again
They give you drinks and show you sailors
Dancing in the warm New York rain
So many souls to change
So mother and child while travelling to Deli
Have to jump off a burning train
While the puppet rich bible class third world society
Meets to discuss it's slogan campaign
You are complicit in this conspiracy
You are unable to get free
They send the rich ones to University
And the rest get comics and TV
So many souls to change
You are shocked with shots of corpses
And seduced by scenes of greed
So your overloaded conscience
Goes out looking for some kind of relief
And the church, the government and charity
They collectively agree
You cannot simply print more money
Just to save some poor country from disease
So many souls to change
So when you die and go to heaven
Looks like there could be hell to pay
As the saints and angels ask how anyone
Could treat mortals that way
The Whole World Is Quiet lyrics - Del Amitri
Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse seem stuck for what to say
Even the presence of Jesus in this house couldn't chase those demons away
The whole world is quiet
And Charlie Brown with his big baseball glove finds it hard to keep the blush upon his face
When only an uncle knows the secret of the stolen drops of pearl on your pillowcase
The whole world is quiet
Look who's got a present for sweet little you
You'd better button up about it or he'll cry
Someone's in the kitchen mixing biscuits in a bowl
You can hear it if you lie completely quiet
Just like Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse
The whole world is quiet
Even the presence of Jesus in this house couldn't chase those demons away
The whole world is quiet
And Charlie Brown with his big baseball glove finds it hard to keep the blush upon his face
When only an uncle knows the secret of the stolen drops of pearl on your pillowcase
The whole world is quiet
Look who's got a present for sweet little you
You'd better button up about it or he'll cry
Someone's in the kitchen mixing biscuits in a bowl
You can hear it if you lie completely quiet
Just like Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse
The whole world is quiet
Food For Songs lyrics - Del Amitri
There's people hauling people
Out from under their homes
There's people hauling people
Out through the groaning stones
You can see me tonight,
I'll be shell shocked and white in the cold light of dawn
But I ain't gonna cry just to give some guy
Food for songs
People going hungry,
Stand like a sackfull of bones,
People going hungry, feeding a billion homes
So I put my dead child down, you put your TV on
Well I ain't gonna cry just to give some guy
Food for songs
Yeah, there's people beating people,
To keep the system strong
People beating people, to keep the illusion going
So I'm going to fight every day of my life 'til they're gone
But I ain't gonna die just to give some guy
Food for songs
Yeah, there's people holding people,
Making those wailing sounds,
Yeah, there's people holding people,
Watching them lower me down
So I take my leave and you take what you see
And you make it what you want
But when I see you in hell, I will give you some
Food for songs.
Out from under their homes
There's people hauling people
Out through the groaning stones
You can see me tonight,
I'll be shell shocked and white in the cold light of dawn
But I ain't gonna cry just to give some guy
Food for songs
People going hungry,
Stand like a sackfull of bones,
People going hungry, feeding a billion homes
So I put my dead child down, you put your TV on
Well I ain't gonna cry just to give some guy
Food for songs
Yeah, there's people beating people,
To keep the system strong
People beating people, to keep the illusion going
So I'm going to fight every day of my life 'til they're gone
But I ain't gonna die just to give some guy
Food for songs
Yeah, there's people holding people,
Making those wailing sounds,
Yeah, there's people holding people,
Watching them lower me down
So I take my leave and you take what you see
And you make it what you want
But when I see you in hell, I will give you some
Food for songs.
Start With Me lyrics - Del Amitri
With all the stuff they sell you night and day
With all the trash they try to trick you with you lie to me
Well I don't need it but I get it anyway
With all the sadness and lunacy,
With all the dispossessed hopeless, you're leaving me
Well I don't want it but it's how it's going to be
Yeah, you can try to save the world
And baby, that's fine
But is it such a hateful crime to start with me?
With all the bad debts and misery
With all the dirty tricks and hypocrites you cheat on me
Well I don't want it but it's all that I can see
With all the discrete obscenities
With all the money freaks and doublespeak you turn away
Well I don't need it, but I guess it's gonna stay
Yeah, you can try to save the world
Well baby, that's fine
But is it such a hateful crime to start with me?
With all the trash they try to trick you with you lie to me
Well I don't need it but I get it anyway
With all the sadness and lunacy,
With all the dispossessed hopeless, you're leaving me
Well I don't want it but it's how it's going to be
Yeah, you can try to save the world
And baby, that's fine
But is it such a hateful crime to start with me?
With all the bad debts and misery
With all the dirty tricks and hypocrites you cheat on me
Well I don't want it but it's all that I can see
With all the discrete obscenities
With all the money freaks and doublespeak you turn away
Well I don't need it, but I guess it's gonna stay
Yeah, you can try to save the world
Well baby, that's fine
But is it such a hateful crime to start with me?
Here And Now lyrics - Del Amitri
Hey I'm with you, let me just get you a light
And if we had thought to listen
We might have checked if the weather was right
And I don't mind if you want to drive all day
Hey, it's raining, I should have brought my coat
Sometimes I could sell my soul
Just to sit and watch you smoke
And I don't mind if you want to break my heart
'Cos you can burn paper
You can turn on a wheel
But you can't change later
Here and now just how good we can feel
Hey, stop talking, think I can hear the sea
And did I tell you the sound of the surf
Makes strange things happen to me
And I don't mind if you want to crash the car
'Cos you can turn traitor
You can turn on your heels
But you can't change lady
Here and now just how good we can feel
And hey don't worry, so that black cat's some kind of curse
'Cos if bad times are coming up ahead
Just put us in reverse
I don't want to waste time thinking 'bout here and now
Nothing else matters but what we've got here and now
And if we had thought to listen
We might have checked if the weather was right
And I don't mind if you want to drive all day
Hey, it's raining, I should have brought my coat
Sometimes I could sell my soul
Just to sit and watch you smoke
And I don't mind if you want to break my heart
'Cos you can burn paper
You can turn on a wheel
But you can't change later
Here and now just how good we can feel
Hey, stop talking, think I can hear the sea
And did I tell you the sound of the surf
Makes strange things happen to me
And I don't mind if you want to crash the car
'Cos you can turn traitor
You can turn on your heels
But you can't change lady
Here and now just how good we can feel
And hey don't worry, so that black cat's some kind of curse
'Cos if bad times are coming up ahead
Just put us in reverse
I don't want to waste time thinking 'bout here and now
Nothing else matters but what we've got here and now
One Thing Left To Do lyrics - Del Amitri
So long, hope you dreams come true
Now I've gone i know you're gonna bloom
And did you want me to say I'd die for you
What you wanted I couldn't give
I guess I needed it to live
And did you want me to say I'd die for you
And did you want me to give my heart to you,
Well I wanted to but I wasn't sure who I belonged to
And so long to everything
Now there's only one thing left to do,
I guess I want to prove that I'd die for you
I don't think of you, like I used to do,
I can't figure who, I'm writing this to
And it's OK if you want to say I died for you.
Now I've gone i know you're gonna bloom
And did you want me to say I'd die for you
What you wanted I couldn't give
I guess I needed it to live
And did you want me to say I'd die for you
And did you want me to give my heart to you,
Well I wanted to but I wasn't sure who I belonged to
And so long to everything
Now there's only one thing left to do,
I guess I want to prove that I'd die for you
I don't think of you, like I used to do,
I can't figure who, I'm writing this to
And it's OK if you want to say I died for you.
Tell Her This lyrics - Del Amitri
Tell her not to go
I ain't holding on no more
Tell her something in my mind freezes up from time to time
Tell her not to cry
I just got scared, that's all
Tell her I'll be by her side, all she has to do is call
Tell her the chips are down
I drank too much and shouted it aloud
Tell her something in my heart
Needs her more than even clowns need the laughter of the crowd
Tell her what was wrong
I sometimes think too much
But say nothing at all
Tell her from this high terrain, I am ready now to fall
Tell her not to go
I ain't holding on no more
Tell her nothing if not this: all I want to do is kiss her
Tell her something in my mind freezes up from time to time
Being Somebody Else lyrics - Del Amitri
How are you going to pass the time of day
In your beautiful empty shell,
When you've shaken the hand of so many sinceroes
You feel like a fake yourself
How do you choose between you and me
When we both feed on being somebody else
So you suck on the juice of youth and use any chemical you can get
You get deeper in debt every step you take on your ladder of lifelessness
Bye bye to the boring times,
Hello to my friend, how you been being somebody else?
Now the troops in you head won't obey what you say
And the mutiny seems to spread
And all you can hear is a voice in your ear and it's telling you that
you're dead
The sun sets in a coffee cup, the moon throws up
The flood flows over the house,
The books start jumping from the shelf
And the clothes horse races itself
Now we're all so busy being somebody else.
roll to me
In your beautiful empty shell,
When you've shaken the hand of so many sinceroes
You feel like a fake yourself
How do you choose between you and me
When we both feed on being somebody else
So you suck on the juice of youth and use any chemical you can get
You get deeper in debt every step you take on your ladder of lifelessness
Bye bye to the boring times,
Hello to my friend, how you been being somebody else?
Now the troops in you head won't obey what you say
And the mutiny seems to spread
And all you can hear is a voice in your ear and it's telling you that
you're dead
The sun sets in a coffee cup, the moon throws up
The flood flows over the house,
The books start jumping from the shelf
And the clothes horse races itself
Now we're all so busy being somebody else.
roll to me
Roll To Me lyrics - Del Amitri
Look around your world, pretty baby
Is it everything you'd hoped it'd be?
The wrong guy, the wrong situation
The right time to roll to me
Roll to me
And look into your heart, pretty baby
Is it aching with some nameless need?
Is there something wrong and you can't put your finger on it
Right then, roll to me
And I don't think I have ever seen
A soul so in despair
So if you want to talk the night through
Guess who will be there?
So don't try to deny it, pretty baby
You've been down so long you can hardly see
When the engine's stalled and it won't stop raining, it's the
Right time to roll to me
Roll to me
Roll to me
And I don't think I have ever seen
A soul so in despair
So if you want to talk the night through
Guess who will be there?
So look around your world, pretty baby
Is it everything you'd hoped it'd be?
The wrong guy, the wrong situation
The right time to roll to me
The right time to roll to me
the right time to roll to me
Is it everything you'd hoped it'd be?
The wrong guy, the wrong situation
The right time to roll to me
Roll to me
And look into your heart, pretty baby
Is it aching with some nameless need?
Is there something wrong and you can't put your finger on it
Right then, roll to me
And I don't think I have ever seen
A soul so in despair
So if you want to talk the night through
Guess who will be there?
So don't try to deny it, pretty baby
You've been down so long you can hardly see
When the engine's stalled and it won't stop raining, it's the
Right time to roll to me
Roll to me
Roll to me
And I don't think I have ever seen
A soul so in despair
So if you want to talk the night through
Guess who will be there?
So look around your world, pretty baby
Is it everything you'd hoped it'd be?
The wrong guy, the wrong situation
The right time to roll to me
The right time to roll to me
the right time to roll to me
Crashing Down lyrics - Del Amitri
Well it might not be so important to you now
When the night is young and everyone's around
And the music flows
Through your doped up Disney mind.
But you'll be crying like a baby when it comes
And you will try it anyway you can
To find a place to run, 'cos it ain't no fun
In party town, when loneliness comes crashing down
And you'll be hurting in a way you can't explain
And all those pretty things you love will look so vain
'Cos the laughing crowd is such a hopeless sound
When loneliness comes crashing down
And you might not thing about
Just what happens now as your guests collect their coats.
In an empty house full of ashtray doubts
Your formless future floats
So the bad and beautiful still remain
With their depleted bounty of bad cocaine, we love the house
But we can't quite place the name
And it might not be important to you now,
When the night is young and you are loose and loud
'Cos there ain't no sound in party town
Quite like loneliness crashing down
When the night is young and everyone's around
And the music flows
Through your doped up Disney mind.
But you'll be crying like a baby when it comes
And you will try it anyway you can
To find a place to run, 'cos it ain't no fun
In party town, when loneliness comes crashing down
And you'll be hurting in a way you can't explain
And all those pretty things you love will look so vain
'Cos the laughing crowd is such a hopeless sound
When loneliness comes crashing down
And you might not thing about
Just what happens now as your guests collect their coats.
In an empty house full of ashtray doubts
Your formless future floats
So the bad and beautiful still remain
With their depleted bounty of bad cocaine, we love the house
But we can't quite place the name
And it might not be important to you now,
When the night is young and you are loose and loud
'Cos there ain't no sound in party town
Quite like loneliness crashing down
It Might As Well Be You lyrics - Del Amitri
There is nobody here tonight, who doesn't dance to the same tune as I
Looking for that special someone new, and hey babe it might as well be you
And as I fumble through my change, the dance floor illuminates
And there you are again
I'm looking for someone to hold on to
And hey, babe, it might as well be you
It might as well be you that I wake up to tomorrow
And it might as well be you that tonight whispers my name
And it might as well be you that I cling to, that I laugh with and sing to
That I kiss good-bye to never see again
And through the fog that love creates the night is filled with all the usual mistakes
they say you're looking lonely babe, and they've been looking too
And hey, they might well be for you
And by the light of cigarettes, we introduce ourselves in a way you don't forget
I'm looking for something and anything will do
So, hey babe, it might as well be you
And if we go home tonight, you might find the very thing
That come the morning light, might well have washed your mind of him
So let me in tonight so we two losers might start to win
It might as well be you that I wake up to tomorrow
And it might as well be you that tonight will call my name
And it might as well be you that I cling to, that I laugh with and sing to
Yeah babe, it might as well be you that reminds me
It was once her here beside me
That I kissed good-bye, to never see again
Looking for that special someone new, and hey babe it might as well be you
And as I fumble through my change, the dance floor illuminates
And there you are again
I'm looking for someone to hold on to
And hey, babe, it might as well be you
It might as well be you that I wake up to tomorrow
And it might as well be you that tonight whispers my name
And it might as well be you that I cling to, that I laugh with and sing to
That I kiss good-bye to never see again
And through the fog that love creates the night is filled with all the usual mistakes
they say you're looking lonely babe, and they've been looking too
And hey, they might well be for you
And by the light of cigarettes, we introduce ourselves in a way you don't forget
I'm looking for something and anything will do
So, hey babe, it might as well be you
And if we go home tonight, you might find the very thing
That come the morning light, might well have washed your mind of him
So let me in tonight so we two losers might start to win
It might as well be you that I wake up to tomorrow
And it might as well be you that tonight will call my name
And it might as well be you that I cling to, that I laugh with and sing to
Yeah babe, it might as well be you that reminds me
It was once her here beside me
That I kissed good-bye, to never see again
Never Enough lyrics - Del Amitri
With two hundred people in suits all the same
You walk off that last lonely train.
On the half finished buildings only seagulls remain
As you try to think back to the root of this pain
And life ain't worth living without a little love
But a little love is never enough
So some folks are fighting for freedom, but you're just fighting the flab
And therein lies the reason that life is a drag.
So you gaze at the television
As some publicity goons cut loose those useless balloons.
Down in the darkness of your lying little heart
There's a space for you to change
So you can take this world apart.
And these days the morning mirror seems to say to you now,
That you used to be pretty but you're alright now.
And sometimes you find you're dreaming as you're late for work again
Thinking there's not many trees you can see from this train.
Life ain't worth living
Without a little love
But a little love is never enough
You walk off that last lonely train.
On the half finished buildings only seagulls remain
As you try to think back to the root of this pain
And life ain't worth living without a little love
But a little love is never enough
So some folks are fighting for freedom, but you're just fighting the flab
And therein lies the reason that life is a drag.
So you gaze at the television
As some publicity goons cut loose those useless balloons.
Down in the darkness of your lying little heart
There's a space for you to change
So you can take this world apart.
And these days the morning mirror seems to say to you now,
That you used to be pretty but you're alright now.
And sometimes you find you're dreaming as you're late for work again
Thinking there's not many trees you can see from this train.
Life ain't worth living
Without a little love
But a little love is never enough
It's Never Too Late To Be Alone lyrics - Del Amitri
Summer here is over in a million different ways
You look like a dream sometimes, but I don't dream these days
Yesterday the snow fell, by four o'clock it thawed
And last night making love to you, well honey, it was such a fraud
'Cos you can find yourself a lover
You can find yourself a home
You can want no other ever
But it's never too late to be alone
So everything is settled or so we do pretend
From a beautiful beginning babe to a muted kind of end
And our separate possessions are shuffled up on shelves
Like our fingers lock together when we talk about ourselves
You can find yourself one day staring into space
With a suitcase waiting by the door
You can think you've got it made 'til it hits you in the face
That these are not the people you want to be before
Summer here is over, you can feel it in the air
From the down-town shells to the upland hills
The chill is everywhere
Driving With The Brakes On lyrics - Del Amitri
Driving through the long night
Trying to figure who's right and who's wrong
Now the kid has gone
I sit belted up tight
She sucks on a match light, glowing bronze
Steering on
And I might be more a man if I stopped this in its tracks
And said, come on, let's go home
But she's got the wheel,
And I've got nothing except what I have on
When you're driving with the brakes on
When you're swimming with your boots on
It's hard to say you love someone
And it's hard to say you don't
Trying to keep the mood right
Trying to steer the conversation from
The thing we've done
She shuts up the ashtray, I say it's a long way back now, hon
She just yawns
And we might get lost some place
So desolate that no one where we're from would ever come
But she's got the wheel and I've got to deal from now on
When you're driving with the brakes on
When you're swimming with your boots on
It's hard to say you love someone
And it's hard to say you don't
But unless the moon falls tonight
Unless continents collide
Nothing's gonna make me break from her side
'Cos when you're driving with the brakes on
When you're swimming with your boots on
It's hard to say you love someone
And it's hard to say you don't
It's hard to say you love someone
And it's hard to say you don't
Trying to figure who's right and who's wrong
Now the kid has gone
I sit belted up tight
She sucks on a match light, glowing bronze
Steering on
And I might be more a man if I stopped this in its tracks
And said, come on, let's go home
But she's got the wheel,
And I've got nothing except what I have on
When you're driving with the brakes on
When you're swimming with your boots on
It's hard to say you love someone
And it's hard to say you don't
Trying to keep the mood right
Trying to steer the conversation from
The thing we've done
She shuts up the ashtray, I say it's a long way back now, hon
She just yawns
And we might get lost some place
So desolate that no one where we're from would ever come
But she's got the wheel and I've got to deal from now on
When you're driving with the brakes on
When you're swimming with your boots on
It's hard to say you love someone
And it's hard to say you don't
But unless the moon falls tonight
Unless continents collide
Nothing's gonna make me break from her side
'Cos when you're driving with the brakes on
When you're swimming with your boots on
It's hard to say you love someone
And it's hard to say you don't
It's hard to say you love someone
And it's hard to say you don't
Be My Downfall lyrics - Del Amitri
Well the bus is pulling out
And I guess I'd better go
Before I make a grave mistake and let my feelings show
And twenty miles away
She waits alone for me
But when I try to picture her you're the one I see
And in another situation I could put up a fight
But you will be my downfall tonight
So the night is coming down
Drowning us in blue
And it all points towards the things we know we shouldn't do
And as I look at you
And I fall under your spell
Well, I know I should be thinking of her lying there herself
And when faced with temptation you know a man should stand and fight
But you will be my downfall tonight
Be my downfall
Be my great regret
Be the one girl
That I'll never forget
Be my undoing
Be my slow road to ruin tonight
Well the bus is pulling out
And I'm grounded here with you
And I want to say the sweet things babe I've always wanted to
So tell me now the tail-lights have gone out of sight
Baby won't you be my downfall once again tonight
And I guess I'd better go
Before I make a grave mistake and let my feelings show
And twenty miles away
She waits alone for me
But when I try to picture her you're the one I see
And in another situation I could put up a fight
But you will be my downfall tonight
So the night is coming down
Drowning us in blue
And it all points towards the things we know we shouldn't do
And as I look at you
And I fall under your spell
Well, I know I should be thinking of her lying there herself
And when faced with temptation you know a man should stand and fight
But you will be my downfall tonight
Be my downfall
Be my great regret
Be the one girl
That I'll never forget
Be my undoing
Be my slow road to ruin tonight
Well the bus is pulling out
And I'm grounded here with you
And I want to say the sweet things babe I've always wanted to
So tell me now the tail-lights have gone out of sight
Baby won't you be my downfall once again tonight
Just Like A Man lyrics - Del Amitri
I still don't believe it, how much we lied
Last night you made it with him now I'm supposed to be dignified
Just like a man
Well I spend my night-times drinking and you spend your days in bed
And I guess it's up to us to choose the methods by which we forget
And just like a man he holds you gently
And just like a man he strokes your hair
And just like a man I still pretend that I'm
Immune to the whole affair
But I wanna die, I wanna cry, I wanna tell you that I was wrong
Yeah I wanna die, I wanna cry but it's too late
So I soldier on just like a man
I don't believe it, you were easy to leave but now
I do my best to relieve it in the only way that I know how
Just like a man
And I don't wanna possess you, and I don't wanna take his place
But I don't wanna see my last few pleasures written all over his face
And just like a man he holds you gently
And just like a man he strokes your hair
And just like a man I still pretend that I'm
Immune to the whole affair
But I wanna die, I wanna cry, I wanna tell you I was wrong
Yeah I wanna die, I wanna cry but it's too late
So I soldier on just like a man
And I have something to tell you but it doesn't matter now
I'll stick to small talk and leave the little bits of flattery to him
I could call you but why would I bother to
You might not be in or he might misunderstand
Just like a man
Last night you made it with him now I'm supposed to be dignified
Just like a man
Well I spend my night-times drinking and you spend your days in bed
And I guess it's up to us to choose the methods by which we forget
And just like a man he holds you gently
And just like a man he strokes your hair
And just like a man I still pretend that I'm
Immune to the whole affair
But I wanna die, I wanna cry, I wanna tell you that I was wrong
Yeah I wanna die, I wanna cry but it's too late
So I soldier on just like a man
I don't believe it, you were easy to leave but now
I do my best to relieve it in the only way that I know how
Just like a man
And I don't wanna possess you, and I don't wanna take his place
But I don't wanna see my last few pleasures written all over his face
And just like a man he holds you gently
And just like a man he strokes your hair
And just like a man I still pretend that I'm
Immune to the whole affair
But I wanna die, I wanna cry, I wanna tell you I was wrong
Yeah I wanna die, I wanna cry but it's too late
So I soldier on just like a man
And I have something to tell you but it doesn't matter now
I'll stick to small talk and leave the little bits of flattery to him
I could call you but why would I bother to
You might not be in or he might misunderstand
Just like a man
When You Were Young lyrics - Del Amitri
Look at the fool you have been
They drained the pool while you drowned in the dream
They bought your beauty and your soul
Then softly sold you back what they stole
So look into the mirror do you recognise someone
Is it who you always hoped you would become
When you were young
The disappointment of success
Hangs from your shoulders like a hand-me-down dress
And down nostalgia's rocky road
You watch your former lovers growing old
So look into the mirror do you recognise someone
Is it who you always hoped you would become
When you were young
Sometimes your lack of sympathy gets hard to explain
So on your mask of make-up you just paint
A little parody of pain
So I look into the mirror and I recognise someone
It is who you always hoped you would become
When you were young
They drained the pool while you drowned in the dream
They bought your beauty and your soul
Then softly sold you back what they stole
So look into the mirror do you recognise someone
Is it who you always hoped you would become
When you were young
The disappointment of success
Hangs from your shoulders like a hand-me-down dress
And down nostalgia's rocky road
You watch your former lovers growing old
So look into the mirror do you recognise someone
Is it who you always hoped you would become
When you were young
Sometimes your lack of sympathy gets hard to explain
So on your mask of make-up you just paint
A little parody of pain
So I look into the mirror and I recognise someone
It is who you always hoped you would become
When you were young
Surface Of The Moon lyrics - Del Amitri
Snow in a soulless city covers up the cracks in the road
As a wastrel buys her cigarettes and wipes her pretty nose
Like a part-time Elvis imitator these streets I knew so well
Have been pasted beyond recognition with a temporary smell
Now the midnight train eases out leaving everyone marooned
And without her it might as well be the surface of the moon
From the well-swept streets of Jackson Heights to the dockside drudgery
Everything's now a replica of what it used to be
And since they tarted up the trenches and painted the bridges blue
It seems less like a home to me than just a place they bury you
Now we're lit up like a cathedral in our frozen concrete ruin
And without her it might as well be the surface of the moon
So I need her and I love her that is true
But I'm stuck here like some shipwreck still holding on to you
So when they beat out the tramps and patch up the slums
Everything will be fine
There'll be a new facade for us to hide behind
So on the ancient trails of our coupling in the places we used to meet
I am amazed by the lack of memories that I thought would flood through me
And the riverside where we first kissed has now been reduced
To a phoney old world market where only shoppers get seduced
Now your arms embrace me strangely in your unfamiliar room
And for all I care it might as well be the surface of the moon
Yeah for all I care it might as well be the surface of the moon
As a wastrel buys her cigarettes and wipes her pretty nose
Like a part-time Elvis imitator these streets I knew so well
Have been pasted beyond recognition with a temporary smell
Now the midnight train eases out leaving everyone marooned
And without her it might as well be the surface of the moon
From the well-swept streets of Jackson Heights to the dockside drudgery
Everything's now a replica of what it used to be
And since they tarted up the trenches and painted the bridges blue
It seems less like a home to me than just a place they bury you
Now we're lit up like a cathedral in our frozen concrete ruin
And without her it might as well be the surface of the moon
So I need her and I love her that is true
But I'm stuck here like some shipwreck still holding on to you
So when they beat out the tramps and patch up the slums
Everything will be fine
There'll be a new facade for us to hide behind
So on the ancient trails of our coupling in the places we used to meet
I am amazed by the lack of memories that I thought would flood through me
And the riverside where we first kissed has now been reduced
To a phoney old world market where only shoppers get seduced
Now your arms embrace me strangely in your unfamiliar room
And for all I care it might as well be the surface of the moon
Yeah for all I care it might as well be the surface of the moon
I Won't Take The Blame lyrics - Del Amitri
Daylight comes with such surprising speed
Yesterday you talked of love; now you want to leave
Don't expect me to stand in your way
I am powerless to alter any action you might take
But I won't take the blame
I was not the one who played the joker in this game
I was not the one who feels nothing anymore
So if you walk out that door
I won't take the blame
As I look at the girl I once adored
You tell me that I hold you back, you tell me that you're bored
So like a pair of clowns we stand around and fight
Why don't you get it over with and walk out on my life?
But I won't take the blame
I was not the one who played the joker in this game
I was not the one who feels nothing anymore
So if you walk out that door
I won't take the blame
And the steps of this stone church are peppered with confetti hearts
Like a million little love affairs waiting to fall apart
And I won't take the blame
I was not the one who played the joker in this game
I was not the one who feels nothing anymore
So if you walk out that door
I won't take the blame
I won't take the blame
I won't take the blame
I won't take the blame
Yesterday you talked of love; now you want to leave
Don't expect me to stand in your way
I am powerless to alter any action you might take
But I won't take the blame
I was not the one who played the joker in this game
I was not the one who feels nothing anymore
So if you walk out that door
I won't take the blame
As I look at the girl I once adored
You tell me that I hold you back, you tell me that you're bored
So like a pair of clowns we stand around and fight
Why don't you get it over with and walk out on my life?
But I won't take the blame
I was not the one who played the joker in this game
I was not the one who feels nothing anymore
So if you walk out that door
I won't take the blame
And the steps of this stone church are peppered with confetti hearts
Like a million little love affairs waiting to fall apart
And I won't take the blame
I was not the one who played the joker in this game
I was not the one who feels nothing anymore
So if you walk out that door
I won't take the blame
I won't take the blame
I won't take the blame
I won't take the blame
The First Rule Of Love lyrics - Del Amitri
You'll get hooked, you'll get drugged
She'll be your essence she'll be your blood
And you'll want her so much but you'll never get enough
And that's the first rule of love
She'll smell so sweetly in the morning
She'll make you feel so good inside
And you'll want her so much you'll give everything else up
And that's the first rule of love
You'll grow comfortable together
You'll start to fit like hand and glove
And then you'll start to hate the men she used to dream of
And that's the first rule of love
You'll miss her madly, when you're apart
Love is like gravity holding down your heart
You'll grow envious and bitter
She'll be enquiring and concerned
And you'll feel so close to her but never close enough
To get past the first rule of love
And with the awkwardness of strangers
You will finally give up
No exceptions to the first rule of love
She'll be your essence she'll be your blood
And you'll want her so much but you'll never get enough
And that's the first rule of love
She'll smell so sweetly in the morning
She'll make you feel so good inside
And you'll want her so much you'll give everything else up
And that's the first rule of love
You'll grow comfortable together
You'll start to fit like hand and glove
And then you'll start to hate the men she used to dream of
And that's the first rule of love
You'll miss her madly, when you're apart
Love is like gravity holding down your heart
You'll grow envious and bitter
She'll be enquiring and concerned
And you'll feel so close to her but never close enough
To get past the first rule of love
And with the awkwardness of strangers
You will finally give up
No exceptions to the first rule of love
The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere lyrics - Del Amitri
Go and tell your mother, go and tell your friends
You've been fooled again
He appeared like magic and he left you on a late night train
Yeah, some things never change
Cos baby the ones that you love lead you nowhere
Yeah baby the ones that you love lead you nowhere
If you could just be patient, pretty soon you would forget his name
And face this world again
If you could just stop looking for someone special
You might save yourself some pain
Cos baby the ones that you love lead you nowhere
Yeah baby the ones that you love lead you nowhere
Every little lie makes you look so dumb
They tell you nobody has ever come as close as you've come
So baby tonight you've got the right to feel so numb
Cos baby the ones that you love lead you nowhere
Yeah baby the ones that you love lead you nowhere
You've been fooled again
He appeared like magic and he left you on a late night train
Yeah, some things never change
Cos baby the ones that you love lead you nowhere
Yeah baby the ones that you love lead you nowhere
If you could just be patient, pretty soon you would forget his name
And face this world again
If you could just stop looking for someone special
You might save yourself some pain
Cos baby the ones that you love lead you nowhere
Yeah baby the ones that you love lead you nowhere
Every little lie makes you look so dumb
They tell you nobody has ever come as close as you've come
So baby tonight you've got the right to feel so numb
Cos baby the ones that you love lead you nowhere
Yeah baby the ones that you love lead you nowhere
Always The Last To Know lyrics - Del Amitri
So you're in love with someone else
Someone who burns within your soul
And it looks like I am the last to know
I hear you've never felt so alive
So much desire beyond control
And as usual I am the last to know
The last to know how you're feeling
The last to know where you are
The last to know if you're happy now
Or if he's treating you like I treated you
Or if he's cruel
I'll be the last to know
We spent summers up beyond the bay
And you said these are such perfect days
That if the bomb drops baby
I wanna be the last to know
But now you're living up behind the hill
And though we share the same city and feel the same sun
When your winter comes
I'll be the last to know
Always the last to know how you're feeling
The last to know where you are
The last to know if you're happy now
Or if he's pleaded with you
Like I pleaded with you if you go
Don't let me be the last to know
Don't let me be the last to know
Creation's gone crazy
The TV's gone mad
Now you're the only sane thing that I've had
Always the last to know how you're feeling
The last to know where you are
The last to know if you're happy now
Or if he's cheated on you
Like I cheated on you, oh
You were the last to know
You were the last to know
Don't let me be the last to know
Oh, Oh, Oh.
Don't let me be the last to know
No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No.
Someone who burns within your soul
And it looks like I am the last to know
I hear you've never felt so alive
So much desire beyond control
And as usual I am the last to know
The last to know how you're feeling
The last to know where you are
The last to know if you're happy now
Or if he's treating you like I treated you
Or if he's cruel
I'll be the last to know
We spent summers up beyond the bay
And you said these are such perfect days
That if the bomb drops baby
I wanna be the last to know
But now you're living up behind the hill
And though we share the same city and feel the same sun
When your winter comes
I'll be the last to know
Always the last to know how you're feeling
The last to know where you are
The last to know if you're happy now
Or if he's pleaded with you
Like I pleaded with you if you go
Don't let me be the last to know
Don't let me be the last to know
Creation's gone crazy
The TV's gone mad
Now you're the only sane thing that I've had
Always the last to know how you're feeling
The last to know where you are
The last to know if you're happy now
Or if he's cheated on you
Like I cheated on you, oh
You were the last to know
You were the last to know
Don't let me be the last to know
Oh, Oh, Oh.
Don't let me be the last to know
No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No.
To Last A Lifetime lyrics - Del Amitri
Roll down the window, let me hear the rain
Let me hear her whispering, honey everything is OK
Cos I've had enough bad news
To last a lifetime
I've had enough bad news
To last a lifetime
Well I drove all night under a seasick sky
And I made it my mid-afternoon
And I hope she's home so she can hold me tight and tell me
Everything is alright
Cos I've had enough bad news
To last a lifetime
I've had enough bad news
To last a lifetime
And I was struck by how much I remembered
And how everything sill looked the same
When a neighbour I met in her hallway said
"Looks like loverboy's too late again"
So take your troublesome baggage
And put it on the next train home
Cos you can guess somewhere else in the world right now
Someone else feels just as alone
Cos I've had enough bad news
I've had enough bad news
I've had enough bad news
To last a lifetime
To last a lifetime
To last a lifetime
To last a lifetime
Let me hear her whispering, honey everything is OK
Cos I've had enough bad news
To last a lifetime
I've had enough bad news
To last a lifetime
Well I drove all night under a seasick sky
And I made it my mid-afternoon
And I hope she's home so she can hold me tight and tell me
Everything is alright
Cos I've had enough bad news
To last a lifetime
I've had enough bad news
To last a lifetime
And I was struck by how much I remembered
And how everything sill looked the same
When a neighbour I met in her hallway said
"Looks like loverboy's too late again"
So take your troublesome baggage
And put it on the next train home
Cos you can guess somewhere else in the world right now
Someone else feels just as alone
Cos I've had enough bad news
I've had enough bad news
I've had enough bad news
To last a lifetime
To last a lifetime
To last a lifetime
To last a lifetime
As Soon As The Tide Comes In lyrics - Del Amitri
You'd better get some sleep for a change
Before tomorrow brings you down
By three o'clock they'll both be sitting on that plane
Hopelessly honeymoon bound
And I hope no one asks you to kiss this bride
Or tie tin cans to the car
And if friends and relations mingle outside
You can linger at the bar
So bring on the rainclouds and block out the moon
Let the action begin
You'll feel like some soap opera star
Predictably hitting the booze
With your standard issue broken heart
You step into your Saturday shoes
And you might feel better if you slapped her face
Or slipped some pills in his wine
But instead some voice in your head keeps saying
You'll look back and laugh sometime
So bring on the rainclouds and block out the moon
Let the action begin
Cos it's as sure as sunrise and as sure as time
The bride will be changing and you will be crying
And it will be raining as soon as the tide comes in
So put on your lipstick and check that you hat's straight too
Cos if they can go through with it you can do it too
So bring on the rainclouds and block out the moon
Let the action begin
Cos it's as sure as sunrise and as sure as time
The bride will be changing and you will be crying
And it will be raining as soon as the tide comes in
And it will be raining as soon as the tide comes in
Before tomorrow brings you down
By three o'clock they'll both be sitting on that plane
Hopelessly honeymoon bound
And I hope no one asks you to kiss this bride
Or tie tin cans to the car
And if friends and relations mingle outside
You can linger at the bar
So bring on the rainclouds and block out the moon
Let the action begin
You'll feel like some soap opera star
Predictably hitting the booze
With your standard issue broken heart
You step into your Saturday shoes
And you might feel better if you slapped her face
Or slipped some pills in his wine
But instead some voice in your head keeps saying
You'll look back and laugh sometime
So bring on the rainclouds and block out the moon
Let the action begin
Cos it's as sure as sunrise and as sure as time
The bride will be changing and you will be crying
And it will be raining as soon as the tide comes in
So put on your lipstick and check that you hat's straight too
Cos if they can go through with it you can do it too
So bring on the rainclouds and block out the moon
Let the action begin
Cos it's as sure as sunrise and as sure as time
The bride will be changing and you will be crying
And it will be raining as soon as the tide comes in
And it will be raining as soon as the tide comes in
Behind The Fool lyrics - Del Amitri
Don't tell her that you want her
Don't ask her to be yours
Don't tell her she is everything
Or she might see the fool behind the frown
And then the heart behind the fool
Don't tell her that you need her
Don't tell her that you care
Don't ask her to hold you
Or she might see the fool behind the frown
And then the heart behind the fool
Behind the cool, there's a dreading that
Someday she'll betray you
Someday she will dispose of
All her photographs of you
So don't tell her when you're lonely
Don't tell her when you're blue
Don't tell her she means everything to you
So don't tell her that you need her
Don't tell her that you care
Don't ask her to hold you
Or she might see the fool behind the frown
And then the heart behind the fool
Sometimes I Just Have To Say Your Name lyrics - Del Amitri
With the sweet drip of every raindrop
Time brings you closer to me
And with each new sign at every train-stop
Another hour without you is consigned to history
And with each tick of my alarm clock
I get crazy for the days to get to you
When I can hold you and kiss you have you
Instead of staring at some photo like a fool
But as day turns to night there's this hopelessness to fight
When I think that I might not make it through
But honey, sometimes I just have to say your name
To hear it hanging in the air, to know it sounds the same
And sometimes when I'm blue, I know just what to do
To keep the blues at bay you know I only have to say your name
So this morning I picked up a paper
In the useless descent of the rain
While partners in heartbreak the whole world over
Lie and cheat just the same
And the headlines proclaim everything has changed
Love can't save you now
As each little motion of my wristwatch
Holds up my faith somehow
But as day turns to night there's this hopelessness to fight
When I think that I might not make it through
But honey, sometimes I just have to say your name
To hear it hanging in the air, to know it sounds the same
And sometimes when I'm blue, I know just what to do
To keep the blues at bay you know I only have to say your name
When I've used up all my patience
When your letters have been read twenty times through
I can drink all the wine in this place of mine
But it ain't no replacement
It ain't no replacement for you
Time brings you closer to me
And with each new sign at every train-stop
Another hour without you is consigned to history
And with each tick of my alarm clock
I get crazy for the days to get to you
When I can hold you and kiss you have you
Instead of staring at some photo like a fool
But as day turns to night there's this hopelessness to fight
When I think that I might not make it through
But honey, sometimes I just have to say your name
To hear it hanging in the air, to know it sounds the same
And sometimes when I'm blue, I know just what to do
To keep the blues at bay you know I only have to say your name
So this morning I picked up a paper
In the useless descent of the rain
While partners in heartbreak the whole world over
Lie and cheat just the same
And the headlines proclaim everything has changed
Love can't save you now
As each little motion of my wristwatch
Holds up my faith somehow
But as day turns to night there's this hopelessness to fight
When I think that I might not make it through
But honey, sometimes I just have to say your name
To hear it hanging in the air, to know it sounds the same
And sometimes when I'm blue, I know just what to do
To keep the blues at bay you know I only have to say your name
When I've used up all my patience
When your letters have been read twenty times through
I can drink all the wine in this place of mine
But it ain't no replacement
It ain't no replacement for you
Kiss This Thing Goodbye lyrics - Del Amitri
It seems like weeks since you looked at me, baby, without that look of distaste
I don't know why your feelings are changing but I've seen it in your face
And all those times when our lips were kissing, our tongues were telling lies
And all those signs I've been missing right there in your eyes
So come on babe, let's kiss this thing goodbye
I sometimes feel when we're together baby, everything has turned out wrong
And I know you feel exactly the same way but still we carry on
I've been waiting up by the window watching these cars go by
And I tell myself that I'll go through the motions for the last time tonight
So come on babe, let's kiss this thing goodbye
Now I'm watching the fumes foul up the sunrise, I'm watching the light fade away
And I'm hoping tonight that I'll open the door, and you'll stand here and say
Come on babe, let's kiss this thing goodbye
Better make it sooner than later
Before it all turns sour
Don't you know we'd better kiss this thing goodbye
I don't know why your feelings are changing but I've seen it in your face
And all those times when our lips were kissing, our tongues were telling lies
And all those signs I've been missing right there in your eyes
So come on babe, let's kiss this thing goodbye
I sometimes feel when we're together baby, everything has turned out wrong
And I know you feel exactly the same way but still we carry on
I've been waiting up by the window watching these cars go by
And I tell myself that I'll go through the motions for the last time tonight
So come on babe, let's kiss this thing goodbye
Now I'm watching the fumes foul up the sunrise, I'm watching the light fade away
And I'm hoping tonight that I'll open the door, and you'll stand here and say
Come on babe, let's kiss this thing goodbye
Better make it sooner than later
Before it all turns sour
Don't you know we'd better kiss this thing goodbye
Opposite View lyrics - Del Amitri
We could be away from here
By ten o'clock tonight
Pennies won't get us to heaven, I know
But a borrowed car just might
Look through my wallet
There's enough for a hotel room
But no, no, no, you say
"I wanna stay in and get wet with you".
Why do you take the opposite view?
We could be different people tonight
Who do you want to choose?
I'll book a table in a suit and tie
And you can wear your sister's shoes
Look through my wallet
Which cities will we travel through?
But no, no, no, you say "You just got paid,
Money's not for wasting it's for holding onto".
Why do you take the opposite view?
Is it something in your nature
That makes it hard to say, "Baby, I do".
You don't have to agree
When someone says they love you
But you don't have to take
The opposite view
We can walk on the roofs tonight
And watch the midnight traffic flow
Unscrew the lightbulbs babe,
And we'll throw them from the 14th floor
I say we're yellow
If we don't do something new
But you just laugh and start filling up my glass
As if it's not true.
Why do you take the opposite view?
Every precious second is a chance to change
The present tense is perfect baby,
Let's rearrange it.
By ten o'clock tonight
Pennies won't get us to heaven, I know
But a borrowed car just might
Look through my wallet
There's enough for a hotel room
But no, no, no, you say
"I wanna stay in and get wet with you".
Why do you take the opposite view?
We could be different people tonight
Who do you want to choose?
I'll book a table in a suit and tie
And you can wear your sister's shoes
Look through my wallet
Which cities will we travel through?
But no, no, no, you say "You just got paid,
Money's not for wasting it's for holding onto".
Why do you take the opposite view?
Is it something in your nature
That makes it hard to say, "Baby, I do".
You don't have to agree
When someone says they love you
But you don't have to take
The opposite view
We can walk on the roofs tonight
And watch the midnight traffic flow
Unscrew the lightbulbs babe,
And we'll throw them from the 14th floor
I say we're yellow
If we don't do something new
But you just laugh and start filling up my glass
As if it's not true.
Why do you take the opposite view?
Every precious second is a chance to change
The present tense is perfect baby,
Let's rearrange it.
Move Away Jimmy Blue lyrics - Del Amitri
A struck match faded like a nervous laugh
Beyond the halo of a naked bulb
And your low voice mingles with your other half's
Schoolfriends in second-hand clothes
Eventually your world will shrink within four walls
Of neglected debts and stolen stereos
So move away Jimmy Blue
Before your small, small town turns around and swallows you
A drunk mother was the cue
For the legendary things that you do
Behind the carnival tent with mud on your face
Behind the old glue factory too
So move away Jimmy Blue
Before your small, small town turns around and swallows you
Wet feet visit the same old places
You're finding nothing new
It's a bin full of tissues from made-up faces
In a town full of nothing to do
A love match with the moon
In a layby, while insects hum and
You got put in the darkness of a woman's womb
Jimmy Blue, Jimmy Blue
So move away
Turn around and move away
Yeah, move away Jimmy Blue
Before your small, small town turns around and swallows you
Beyond the halo of a naked bulb
And your low voice mingles with your other half's
Schoolfriends in second-hand clothes
Eventually your world will shrink within four walls
Of neglected debts and stolen stereos
So move away Jimmy Blue
Before your small, small town turns around and swallows you
A drunk mother was the cue
For the legendary things that you do
Behind the carnival tent with mud on your face
Behind the old glue factory too
So move away Jimmy Blue
Before your small, small town turns around and swallows you
Wet feet visit the same old places
You're finding nothing new
It's a bin full of tissues from made-up faces
In a town full of nothing to do
A love match with the moon
In a layby, while insects hum and
You got put in the darkness of a woman's womb
Jimmy Blue, Jimmy Blue
So move away
Turn around and move away
Yeah, move away Jimmy Blue
Before your small, small town turns around and swallows you
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