Del Amitri

All the shakers and the movers They are queuing up to climb The clean white steps to the furher Of our disinfected times He's a Christian and a groover, He's the silk out off the slides He is little empire hoover Of those willing little minds...

Have you not met her? Well, let me tell ya something first, oh yes, She arrives and your whole life hurts And you might be forgiven for killing to be with her Each little gesture Each little look cuts through your heart, oh yes, You'll be wishing you ne...

If you like to gamble, I tell you I'm your man You win some, lose some, it's - all - the same to me The pleasure is to play, it makes no difference what you say I don't share your greed, the only card I need is The Ace Of Spades The Ace Of Spades Playing for...

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 k...

There's a true blue moon in the black city sky But it looks white as an eyeball from here And I wonder tonight, does it look white from where you are too? And so far every morning, I wake up missing you The sweat in my T-shirts and dust in my shoes Remin...

I woke up to bells this morning, I woke up to birds I woke up to someone yawning and that yawn was hers I was dreaming of a scene where all my life was cursed By the Law of Love which states that things will just get worse When she turned 'round and said s...

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 relatio...

Who's gonna call you up every single day? Who's gonna hold you high 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...

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...

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...

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 ho...

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 jui...

All day long, sweeping up the dead pigeons from the pavement After the long dim dawn He remembered how she pulled him from disaster into laughter. Well it didn't take long for him to be consumed and he turned around and said as her caressing resumed "We...

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 but...

The white moon appears like a hole in the sky The mangroves grow quiet In la Brisa de la Palma A teenage Rasputin takes the sting from a gin "When a woman learns to walk she's not dependent anymore" A line from a letter, May 24 And out on the bay the cur...

I got a heart, I can't feel Those pretty fingers could never steel You've got a lightness in your way I swear is just politeness these days Canned laughter can't hide Our weak impressions of real life I make some gesture, you cheer Canned laughter is a...

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...

Good luck and lost love's knife cut a path leading through my life I weave through the gusts of change as a kite might through the sky. I feel down and degraded like I felt when you and me began to tire And we stopped long ago But I thought it was just...

Oh Cindy ain't you noticed that several of your friends have moved on And the street outside is just a little too quiet And your local papers run out of news I'm not persuading you or disengaging you But Cindy you and me we got to move Can you refuse, no tim...

Well it might not be 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, 'cause it...

Making your way through an orangepeel orchard Tracing your day from disillusioned to debauched and Spring passed quickly below the rotten elm tree You weren't kissed there you were pissed in the lavatory And shaving is something that you grew out of and i...

Someone's opening up for business The morning rings the same old way But someone should've taught me forgiveness Now I see it in the cruel light of day Tell him he's done me a kindness She was going to leave anyway But love is such sweet blindness 'Til...

If you think your mind is ready Then open your heart and let it fall If you keep on hiding from me You're not gonna' live your life at all Cause' if it's love that you want You've gotta' give me more than you've shown Because the sweet light of love won't com...

The World and the surrounding stars might change completely in the space of an hour but not an eclipse of the sky nor a colliding car will turn me back now that I've come this far. Not a shotgun blast nor a shooting star will bring her down from her stub...

So long, go on and do your best, Let all friends have whiskey on it's breath, The world may not be shaking yet but you might prove them wrong, Even long shots make it So go then, out into history, And show them how easy it can be, =You might not believe it ye...

Don't cry no tears around me Don't cry no tears around me 'Cause when all the water's gone, the feeling lingers on Yeah true love, it ain't too hard to see So don't cry no tears around me Well I wonder who's with her tonight And I wonder who's holding h...

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...

Pat is the guy with a 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 Joe does tele-sales and martial arts and Jim pushes patients 'round the public parks and Nancy makes sculptu...

Don't get so distressed If the good life won't arrive You've been reading S.O.S. When it's just your clock reading 5:05 And why are you so possessed By the thought that she got free And why are you figuring who's the best When just your luck ran out an...

Saturday night, the lights are all lit up There's a bottle of wine beside an overfilled paper cup And the cigarette she left lit is all burned up But the heat from where she lay is not Like smoke from factories, we leave our heat behind Like wound down b...

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...

So who was first? Obviously not me. She's locked up inside herself and I can't get anything free So won't somebody tell me please Why the former owner always keeps the keys. There's no bubbles to burst No bursting out crying nor dying of thirst She's...

So you want me to play the bleeding role Just so he can know how I needed you. Well that's okay 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 funn...

I suppose love lives in a dustbin behind the garden wall You have to grovel on the ground and be pretty disgusting to find it at all And I suppose that it grows on you Standing there with no clothes on, and I suppose because there's beautiful girls in thi...

Lovehearts on an old stone building Have no relevance now Sherry bottles in a bus-stop litter bin Remind me of you somehow You look so young it's frightening Life's been good to you But strike me down with bolts of lightning If I wasn't good to you too Throw...

Like it or not you'll see my face soon I'll force my way up into your room the things I say will soon make you swoon I'll point to the sun and say it's the moon So you needn't fret, I'll get in your life yet Make you sit back and enjoy the touch of a boy...

Hey I'm with you, let me just get you a light And if we'd 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 And sometimes I could sell my soul...

Little snow white, she is 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 ti...

Though the coffins are calling I'm not coming I'm too young to listen and I'm still scrawling on see-saws and slides, skipping ropes and swings, Toothpaste and trousers, watches and wedding rings. She shouted to me under the juggernaut roar, "This is the...

Daylight comes with such surprising speed Yesterday you talked of love and now you want to leave But don't expect me to stand in your way I am powerless to alter any action you might take And I won't take the blame I was not the one who played the joker...

Has the light spread, or the darkness shrunk? Do the nights not fall anymore? In the silver chain of lakes I sunk 'Til something hauled me ashore And G-d was watching with his beady eye Salivating, waiting for my cry But then she came by, kicked the ange...

Put me in your pocket now, put me in your dress I will remain the one you loved 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ha...

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...

I have overloved you and overseen you and now you're refusing the gifts that I bring you My hands have been clasping my hot head and asking "If she submits to me, will she be my property?" You may be bleeding but you're not dying though you are dying to g...

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 All those times when our lips were kissing Our tongues were telling lies And all those signs that I've been...

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 thin...

It's twelve o'clock, the TV's on and I'm just sittin' around I'm restless and blue, but I can't figure out why As the drunks on the park benches are putting their blankets down I'm thinking boy, you'd better learn to cry Well I could go to sleep or else r...

So you were right when you said I was just a fake You just got used and when you're used you're thrown away Look at me now, look at the lines upon my face And look at my crowd, haven't we all lived like it's a race And there are times I sense the trails o...

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...

I've been waiting in this station for what seems like a year It's midday now but I don't trust the clocks they have in here And maybe 'round the corner you'll be stepping off that bus And then I will remember what it feels like to be us And now the fog is...

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...

It's 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, it's been a long way down It's been a slow road back To having nothing again, from having that You were mine babe, and we were right on track Ye...

Suicide, still here, everybody's giving I'm the King of cube in a town full of swinging Will you be my guy now Need help to find my way out Should buy stuff from the hippie in the kitchen I got low friends in high places Low friends in high places A...

Baby, hold it, just let me try For just one minute be this other guy Live his life With my home and my faithful wife And your pretty face to kiss some nights Ain't I a lucky guy, I get what I want Ain't I a lucky guy, unlucky for some. Baby, I like it...

What I want is everything to clear So let the clocks be wrong Let the evening be longer let me drown in here 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 worl...

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 eve...

I bet you I can tell you just how much I love you Quicker than you'd ever know I won't send you flowers or take you to some fancy show 'Cause I can tell you quicker than you'd ever know  I love you I love you See, there you go  I bet you I can tell...

Open up your eyes, Everything is crying out this could be your time She fell out of the sky, Must every star been 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 do...

A struck match faded like a nervous laugh Beyond the halo of a naked bulb 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 aw...

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...

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 jus...

Look behind these eyes, honey, what do you see? I'm not sure that I know And if it's the man that you imagined was me Make sure that he knows there's no holding on I told you some secrets and I told you some lies Just 'cause you were near And if you did...

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...

1. Post office clerks put up signs saying position closed And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats Janitors padlock the gates For security guards to patrol And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink While the married ones turn on a cha...

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 statem...

Feel so lucky, feel so free I got one hand around your waist, And it feels real good to me You've got the motion, and you've got me And the music's slow and pretty And we step so silently But I don't know, where we're going And I don't know what we'll...

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...

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 want to stay in and get wet with you." Why do you take the...

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...

He was a self made man Made a killing on copper mines He loved beautful 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...

Last night I dreamt of you You stood right here in my room I could see you, I could feel you Last night I swear, it was you Right here in jeans and my old shoes I could see you, I could feel you So like a princess in my arms But I wake up and I find...

Look around your world pretty baby Is it everything you hoped it'd be The wrong guy, the wrong situation The right time to roll to me Roll to me Look into your heart pretty baby, Is it aching with some nameless need. Is there something wrong and you can't put...

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...

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...

Cry, cry out your eyes forever It won't 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 A...

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 sailor...

I must've had a million damn unlucky days But there ain't no cloud that a bottle can't chase away 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...

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 yo...

You can grin, but you can't hide All the emptiness inside Since she left You like Spit in the rain. Without doubt, it is true She was the only love you knew Now she's gone, It fades away, like Spit in the rain. And you can try, to find her But you'll be look...

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...

Here I am, hardly breathing in at all I cough when I can and that's about all I am this man and though I turn the tape To a happier song, my face can't find a smile because it's been looking too long You arrive like a locust swarm You devastated me and...

Everybody in the funhouse Says they want out But we're taking our time 'cos we're in love with time Whole generations thinking of themselves As infidels and pop stars While the bomb loses patience We line up and just lean against the bar Stone cold sober, loo...

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 tr...

You have to laugh a lot at what we throw away that half the Earth's not got And who's in charge when there's barbed-wire fences 'round the graveyards And I know it's about time we got to the point we've been denying Maligning problems of the world is fine...

Tell her not to go I aint 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 thats all Tell her Ill be by her side, all she has to do is call Tell her the chips are down I drank too much and sh...

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 yo...

Sometimes I think what's the point of loving anyone... In the end, each time you finish a fight its just the start of a new one again You put all the pain to the back of your mind Move up close, pray it works out fine That's when you know the heart is a ba...

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 absol...

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 Yeh, some things never change Cos baby the ones that you love lead you nowhere Yeh baby the ones that you love lead yo...

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...

If you or I don't say it who's going to We can dance around it or dance for truth We sit here conjugating every variation through 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 "D...

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 onl...

Nobody's perfect, and that's something that I'm sure she'll know 'Cos trying to tell her lies from the truth at times Is like trying to divide ice from snow When I knew it was over, I jumped into a taxi And said, Just guess where to go And the driver tur...

Well I don't deny the things I did then but if I didn't still love you, I couldn't say it again And I know you, so don't pretend you're sleeping 'Cause lately you've been saying something differently; those three little words, straight from his lips,...

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...

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 Well I drove all night under a seasick sky And I made it by mid-afternoon And I hope she's home so she can hol...

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...

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 floor boards bare A...

You sent greetings from Liverpool and I took the next train Passed by people putting flowers on graves and We got delayed When I arrived you had vanished like steam and left me in a diesel day So I walked around and spent ten pounds in amusement arcades...

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 Wh...

There is a girl I used to know She had a hundred ways of hurting you 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 ever did dream of My...

So you say you are sick of love Got a mind to give the damn thing up Got a housefull 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...

All the things you wrote about In your secret book of doubt Let me hear you reading how you love me What it was you were thinking of When we were making love Am I supposed to forgive you 'cause you love me? Whatever you did won't be a big surprise Aft...

I turned on a T.V. station and Lip-read with the sound turned down It was Pro-Celeb mouth-to-mouth resuscitation With Esther Rantzen Playing the one who's drowned In a room next door a couple is fighting But isn't that just one of love's charms When mo...