"Can You Do Me Good?" (2002)

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?

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

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.

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

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

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