Everything But The Girl

And I see forests and it's the 25th of December And my old man plays the piano for Christmas He plays the piano for Christmas And we're all there, all the aunties and uncles And the angels on the top of the tree Up there on the top of the tree And I ne...

I'm getting too used to this way of life Fame is a baby, she rocks me at night Far from the cold and the brash city lights We purchase from sorrow a moment's respite And each time you smile I know I would follow you a country mile For all that I'm chasing is...

Why does he still go on like she's a baby Sayin' that's no kind of language for a lady? He knows she hates that word, that's why he said it He can be childish too and she won't forget it "Don't tell me I don't understand" He said, "I know I don't understand I...

Oh it's so funny to be seeing you after so long, girl. And with the way you look I understand That you are not impressed. But I heard you let that little friend of mine Take off your party dress. I'm not going to get too sentimental Like those other sticky val...

Almost blue, almost doing things we used to do There's a boy here and he's almost you Almost all the things that your eyes once promised I see in his too, now your eyes are red from crying Almost blue, flirting with this disaster became me It named me as...

Show me something worse Than a child outside a church Begging with a cardboard box In a heartless town that hurts and mocks And on a chair anywhere I will sit down and cry And close my eyes Against the Christmas windows Here in Christmas town A young girl res...

Your words stung me to the heart I hadn't even noticed how far we had drifted apart Can I still count you as a friend Or have I done to much now to ever make amends 'Cause I once needed just an open mind Well, that's no reason why I now should Leave yo...

Over dale and over hills I'll take you through the cotton mills To the ginnels where we played And where are friendships all were made Still they came and tore them down And now we live in Anytown They came and tore it down And now this place could be Anytown...

Apron strings Hanging empty crazy things My body tells me I want someone to tie to my Apron strings Apron strings Waiting for you pretty things That I could call you I want someone to tie to my Lonely apron strings. Your baby looks just like you wh...

Let him spend all his money on you Ease the guilt of the things he won't do For he believes there's no such thing as greed A yearly payment is all that you need In poverty may your goodness prevail While your vaulting ambitions fail A rick man sticks in heave...

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

I don't want excuses I don't want your smiles I don't want to feel like we're apart a thousand miles I don't want your attitude I don't want your things But I don't want a phone that never rings I want your love and I want it now I want your love and I want it...

Don't drag me down just because you're down Just 'cause you're blue don't make me too And though you've found, you need more then me Don't talk to me about being free That's freedom without love Magic without love Magic without love Hear me say, "Bett...

You don't know what's wrong, you only know it isn't right. You don't remember for how long, but you wake in tears at night. Big deal. Big deal. You spend four nights a week now looking for your inner child. What you gonna say when you find him? Suppose you do...

Don't talk to me in that familiar way When the keys are in my hand Don't say that everything is here to stay And I must try to understand When I'm trying not to look into your eyes Trying not to listen to your lies Trying just to keep hold of myself Oh but it'...

Know I wasn't good - Maybe I was even bad - But I was way too young To know just what I had. And if I let you down, Now I let you go, But I was so young And now it's all gone. I'm the one to blame. You must never think I wish that you had stayed. Look at wher...

Blue moon rose I have a friend and she comes from the high plains Wise as the hills and fresh as the rains I have a friend and she taught me daring Threw back the windows and let the air in For all she knows Bless my blue moon rose I have a friend and we ta...

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

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

It takes to make a home But only one to break it down Restless as the ocean roar You've finally left town Open up the bedroom door There's a prince without a crown You could not care less And that was the first sign But now you guess That you've been too care...

Come Hell or high water You just do as you please, Waste your time when you oughta Be charming the birds from the trees. A voice straight from heaven So you like to believe And who cares if its only Your poor self you deceive. You look in the mirror and what...

Baby come home, I miss the sound of the door Your step on the stair's not there to wake me no more And every day's like Christmas Day without you It's cold and there's nothing to do And it's mighty quiet here now that you're gone I've been behaving myself for...

Um cantinho, um violao Esse amor, uma cancao Pra fazer feliz ja que se ama Muita calma pra pensar E ter tempo pra sonhar Da janela ve-se o Corcovado O Redentor, que lindo Quero a vida sempre assim Com voce perto de mim Ate o apagar da velha chama E eu, que...

Now and then Do you wash your hands of me again? Wish me anywhere but home Drunk and on the end of your phone From time to time Do you guess what's really on my mind? Guess that "How you keeping now?" Means "Where are you sleeping now" But of course it's not...

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

You will be a star And I will be so jealous when you are, But you'll always be a fool So I will catch you when the world is cruel And though dizzy heights are on your mind Oh honey please don't leave me behind You think it's so easy But listen, oh they once...

Sorrow is a lonely road Where the rain like your tears Beats heavy on the roof above your head Tomorrow is a lovers' town That's been beaten down And the hands of winter holds the life we've led Instead of drowning in despair For I find small comfort in a bot...

From the top you can see so far into the distance Look, it's downhill all the way from here And getting there is quicker, let go and you just slide Shouldn't take more then a year I could almost like you Now it's nearly over Now you've shown some weakne...

Outside another yellow moon Punched a hole in the nighttime, yes (I) climb through your window and down the street I'm shining like a new dime The downtown trains are full with all of those Brooklyn girls They try so hard to break out of their little worlds Y...

Oh loverboy To you I belong But maybe one day you'll wake And you'll find me gone But loverboy If you call me home I'll come driving I'll come driving fast as wheels can turn Oh loverboy I know you too well And all of my lonely secrets To you I tell THe highes...

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

Darkness will trip,darkness will fall Get no sleep on Salisbury Street Mud on my shoes,sweat on my palms Get no sleep on Salisbury Street There is another time it could have been different Know if it were you'd be there Over the Pennines and out of the statio...

If I say I'll always stay by your side Stupid things say some night Can you tell me I am wrong till I cry Tell me do you have the right If I say that seas could never sweep me Overboard and far away Do you still say you wouldn't try to keep me If I lost the wi...

I won't try to stop you When you speak of the past Doubt is over now And I can join in when you laugh Facination makes us ask for more Than we'd like to know I needn't explain I think you know Reaassure me when my hearts Not bold enough to bear her name If yo...

Feel alright, feel alright Feel alright, feel alright Feel alright, feel alright Feel alright, feel alright 

Well it's so easy to be witty in retrospect When you're out of door you pause a moment to reflect On all the crushing one-liners that you should have said But you always were reduced to angry words instead Fighting talk on the stairs Is enough to show who nev...

I walk the city late at night. Does everyone here do the same? I want to be the things I see, Give every face and place my name. I cross the street, take a right, Pick up the pace, pass a fight. Did I grow up just to stay home? I'm not immune - I love this tun...

London, summer I think I've changed a lot since then, Do you? Ideas that I'd held for years, emotional baggage, hopes and fears, Seen somehow in a different light, not as wrong , but not as right as they Seemed before. Was I different then? Have I changed? And...

You take the name of a man you hardly know And then you grow up and that name has to go Married with kids and they don't want to know About the dreams you had let go You're still waiting for a knight in shining armour To steal you against your will And while...

Joni and Jane make it sound so cool Sometimes I can get so down it seems Nothing much is gonna turn me around They could freeze the brook outside my home But it's only small, not like the Hudson Where I'd be clean away, the only one Down through winter trees,...

Still can't believe that you two are now just friends You've got no lover and he's free at weekends I know he said when you first met That you must always play the hand you get But you're two years on a losing streak Get back together Get back together It's s...

I never thought I'd grow up so fast so far. To know yourself is to let yourself be loved. And I want to be addicted, I want to be secure, I want to wake up after the night before, But do you ever get me? Do you ever get me? I'll press your hand against my f...

I don't wanna feel this way... I don't wanna feel this way... I don't wanna feel this way, Won't somebody take away this feeling. I'm looking at an open sky, It's like my roof has got no ceiling. It's wrong to feel this way, I know it's wrong, I know it's b...

Slowly runs the lazy river And in it I pitched all my dreams And all the things I ever wanted And watched them heading slowly downstream For I have learned that such things fade Like photographs and family holidays And every Monday is Goodbye Sunday I guess y...

Suburbia, 1 am You're walking home again Shopping bags and broken glass I hate going through the underpass I wish there was some other way around But you got beaten up by the playground And it's no use You'll have to go through Suburban shopping centre Pedestr...

I know you're down again and you see nothing but rain. You put your friends Through hell and that's why we get along so well. You see, I always was your Girl, it always will be you and me against the world. We know the years can give romance to the street w...

What is it that I think I need? Is there love in me that wants to be freed? Or is it selfishness and ego We carry with us everywhere that we go? This feeling that life's incomplete - do you feel that too? Do you want what I want? And if I should start to cry...

I can tell by your eyes that you've prob'bly been cryin' forever, And the stars in the sky don't mean nothin' to you, they're a mirror. I don't wanna talk about it, how you broke my heart. If I stay here just a little bit longer, If I stay here, won't you list...

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

Oh and how he loved you (oh and how he loved you) Oh and you believed him (oh and you believed him) He said you both deserved better (you deserve better) And he would make it a real thing (make it a real thing) And on a clear day You can see the sea from your...

Don't show your tears, boy They'll laugh you out the house. Got to be a man now Anything less is just not allowed But don't keep it quiet, girl Don't rest until they come 'round To your way of thinking Soon enough they will And all this talk of love When tha...

Of course I feel betrayed That's the way it goes, everyone knows Trying to make you love me again Crying at your door just to hold you once more Darling, I know it's so hard to let a love go It's not easy letting love go It's so hard to let a love go...

Little Hitler, don't come 'round here again With your renegade politics, redder-than-thou-disdain Thought we were on the same side But with a fistful of nails and your knives from the Clyde You're a little Hitler now And you'll grow up heaven knows how Littl...

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

My three guardian angles say Each time you smile that way Dangers lies that way No-one will believe me For that sort of thing's beneath me But I keep repeating three words It won't last, it won't last I've been here before it will pass Don't say I'm mercinar...

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

London in the low tide of the night And not a taxi cab in sight. Anesthetized I start the journey home. I've been living months alone. I've been avoiding things - the phone rings, I use the answerphone. Inside out in the daytime, Outside in in the night time....

How much of yourself do you give away After someone's left your life in disarray? It still hurts But it won't show Because I'm too proud So you're never ever gonna know. I'm on the dark side of the street, Not the light side of the street. It's packed at 2am...

Me and Bobby D don't get along that easily. You told the world, "Be free, love life". Tell me, is it true you beat your wife? You see, me and Bobby D don't get along that easily. You told the world, "Skip rules fave fun". Knocked her from here to kingdom come?...

Meet me in the morning I'll have the motor running Down icy lanes, under a glass blue sky This is living This is living I haven't come to be a stranger I haven't come to break your home I haven't come to harm your children I've come to be your love Don't le...

Blown in winds of mischance He would stay but that's not his way What escape for her she swims in the dark In too deep but still waves - "I'm okay And I don't need his name, thank you Mine fits me nicely and mine will do" Unsteady footsteps can't walk alone y...

You never knew the teenage me And you wouldn't believe The things you didn't see some pretty some ugly And the lovely mirrorball reflected back them all Every triumph every fight under disco light Come on girl it's alright Come on girl it's alright now Come o...

I step off the train I'm walking down your street again And past your door, but you don't live there anymore It's years since you've been there Now you've disappeared somewhere, like outer space You've found some better place And I miss you, like the de...

Great mistakes are made when love gets lonely Far from home. Beds are empty, nights are long, and You miss him bad when you're on your own. That's How I let my fate begin, threw back the sheets, let Someone in, and thought that love would understand, But nothi...

I'll let a train be my feet if it's too far to walk to you If the train don't go there I'll get a jet or a bus I'm gonna find you You're mine and I know I'll find you My head is my only house Until I find you I'll walk the meadow plains Water deserts by my e...

Stone the crows if you've done it again, If I've told you once, told you a thousand times. Sometimes I am so convinced we're casting pearl amongst the swine. Don't ever let me hear you say this is the life we folks must lead. We shun the limelight, shun the g...

Each day she love you more But you couldn't care less You left me open mouthed And I couldn't eat a thing, oh Dark glasses hide An eye thickened with pain She said she fell downstairs But I've seen the size of your fists. Oh, could have been better Never cou...

You watch the phone Like it was the TV If you're all alone Well, whose fault can that be Your keys, your bag, the car They're where they always are And the light goes down And all the lights.. come on And they call to me Oh come on come on And you don't make...

Not for the first time I look back On all those years Not for the last time names will ring In my ear When there was just a gang of us Storming the town by train and bus A moment of thought this heart sends To old friends Not for the first time I look back On...

A summer evening; I walk past the window, Baby's crying; Someone's cooking dinner; There's laughter on the TV Someone's learning the violin. How at home, it heals At times like this, I feel that... [Chorus:] I would like to live like anybody else In one place...

When I was ten I thought my brother was God - He'd lie in bed and turn out the light with a fishing rod. I learned the names of all his football team, Aid I Still remembered them when I was nineteen. Strange the things deal that I remember still Shouts f...

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

This girl I know needs some shelter She don't believe anyone can help her She's Doing so much harm, doing so much damage But you don't want to get involved You Tell her she can manage And you can't change the way she feels But you could Put your arms around h...

Conspired again your protest in vain that you'll never feel that way again. Despair and desire are both hard to sustain you'll never sink this low again. Bitter as children we are now too much of the time. What god would punish such sweet children For such a...

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

There's a Belfast girl I loved and lost On the rolling hills around my home Now she stays home nights behind locked doors Since a plastic bullet stopped him And he don't come no more There's a Belfast boy was loved and lost On the crowded streets of his own h...

Let me tell you about this torch I carry It's not much of a career And it won't make my fortune I fear But it stays alight and won't be buried It's brighter year-by-year And someday it will surely disappear When it does I'll know I've laid to rest The ghost o...

Hush your mouth now honey mine Have you been waiting all this time To so loudly disagree Kick the feet from under me Did you come here to shoot me down Bury my on my own home ground Hold your tongue now mother mine For you've held it all this time And now's n...

I called you from the hotel phone I haven't dialled this code before I'm sleeping later and waking later I'm eating less and thinking more And how am I without you? Am I more myself or less myself? I feel younger, louder Like I don't always connect Lik...

There's a brown shirt swapped for a thin blue tie There's a black truth swapped for a thin blue lie There's a slim man sporting a clean cut dream There's a slim man courting a wide extreme There's a fly-blown flag in a dry-bone town There will be no ships bec...

Married in black, divorced in white Though daddy tried to teach her wrong from right It's hard to resist on a wintry night When you're out of mind, when you're out of sight This you shouldn't And this you should Oh, but Sugar Finney never could be good I've g...

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

All this short summer night long I've been waiting for you Just to give me a sign that you feel this way too There are people on the streets for the weekend But I don't hear them There are others I could meet for the weekend But I don't see them Talk to me...

Don't be unkind, for once be untrue - Can't pretend I care for her, only you Just be on time, spare me your shame, For once don't mention her name. Now I cannot claim angel's wings, But mention her name and I'll wreck everything I saw things not meant for my...

This temperamental side, The one you say that you can't hide. D' you ever see yourself - The way it looks to someone else? This temperamental trick, The one you say you can't predict. You're like an empty cup. Forgive me if I don't wait up. I don't get where y...

And still he lies awake at night Restless while every silence screams And still she sleep turned to the wall He fears the onslaught of his dream Touches her back but she doesn't stir Then round her hand his finger close Feeling the ring that cost more than th...

Spending time with him again Intending to put things back when they were alright Just when we reach dry land why must it all get out of hand Again tonight drinking till my tongue got loose And thinking that the way it used to be was wrong Staying till the even...

The future of the future will still contain the past Time goes slow and time goes fast I can feel you looking back at me To see how I'm done What is it inside you that makes you want to be my god Well it's so bright tonight It's so bright tonight It's so brig...

I dreamed about you again last night. You never have the same face twice, But I always know it's you, And you're always looking better than you really do. Than you really do. And I walk around the whole next day Feeling like I've still got something to say. B...

I know you'd rather talk instead about the Things inside your head, but everything, everything, That I overheard, tells me you just don't have the Words. Cause you never learned to speak the language Of life, and here you are a grown man who can't talk To his...

The highlands and the lowlands are the routes my father knows, The holidays at Oban and the towns around Montrose, But even as he sleeps, they're loading bombs into the hills, And the waters in the lochs can run deep, but never still. I've thought of having c...

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

Something has come between me and the world that knew What I thought wild last is falling apart in the face of something new How can I explain that I had no choice The sound of the waves fills her ears and drowns out my voice And I'm just too far away for her...

You're only two and the whole wild world revolves around you, And nothing happened yet that you might ever wish to forget. It doesn't stay that way, if I could I'd make stay that way. And this you will recall in after years, Though you may weary of this vale o...

Do you want to get on in this cowering country now? Do you want to get on Or would you be happy just to get by? The small thoughts of a small town girl Grew up and wanted to change the world Will heaven echo back my plea Or cast it as a curse on me. Do you wa...

Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick, And think of you Caught up in circles confusion Is nothing new Flashback warm nights Almost left behind Suitcases of memories, Time after Sometimes you picture me I'm walking too far ahead You're calling to me, I can't h...

Well it's Saturday night You're all dressed up in blue I've been watchin' you a while Maybe you're watchin' me too So somebody ran out Left someone's heart in a mess Well if you're ready for love Honey I'm tougher than the rest Some girls want a handsome Dan...

Wherever you go I will follow you Cuz I was wrong Wherever you go I will follow you Cuz I was wrong Wherever you go I will follow you Cuz I was wrong Wherever you go I will follow you Cuz I was wrong I wanted everything for a little while, Why shouldn't I? I...

Who would be born into a mans's man's man's world? But what do children care For grown ups' despair A house can hold both boy and girl But every mother's son grows up And daughters imitate And the burden of careworn world Is his to bear Hers to wait As the o...

Don't say one thing one day, Then something else the next day. I'm trying to keep up with you - it's hard enough when you speak clearly, But when you're confused, It's like a goods train running through these rooms. And I'm reading more into your words than y...

Now we're in twin cities Where the Mississippi rises and then falls One is Minneapolis And the other no less famous is St. Paul's There are stray dogs on the highway And the local farmers moan about lack of rain When the winds blew last winter I swear England...

Well it's not for me to say, But I can't see what you see in him anyway. But such righteousness in me Is not a nice thing to display, And who am I for cristsakes anyway To judge a life this way When my own's in disarray? I watch Saturday kids' TV With the so...

Frances keep your mouth shut dear We don't want the neighbors 'round With their ugly little schemes That make the pretty world go 'round And there's a place in it for every one of us I'll keep the home fires burning Only don't make a fuss And if you're not im...

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

I met your boyfriend on St. Martin's Lane And he said, "Fancy running into you again". We talked a minute or so, then he turned to go, And I walked into the crowd again. And the morning was a different place, In every passerby I saw your face. Love leaves a l...

Out amongst the walking wounded, every face on every bus Is you and me and him and her and nothing can replace the us I knew Nothing can replace the us I knew And no, I'm never gonna let you go And no, I'm never gonna let you go And now I know I had a ch...

If you loose your faith, babe, you can have mine, And if you're lost I'm right behind, Cause we walk the same line. Now I don't have to tell you How slow the night can go, I know you've watched for the light. And I bet you could tell me How slowly four follo...

We are not true We are not pure We are not right O but still I'll steal to you at night Too selfish by half Too ugly by far But when your songs have been sung, come to me Rumours are rife And winter blows cold Reminds me of such wretched times And yet all the...

I wanted everything for a little while, why shouldn't I? I wanted to know what it was like But I pushed you too far, and you started laying down the law till I didn't love you anymore Now you can pull a little bit There's a little give and take And lo...

When the light fades on a long bad day, I sometimes weaken. Then I turn to see you've been waiting for me, I know I'm not beaten. 'Cause you lift me up, you do. Coming home sometimes I catch the headlines. It's been raining since saturday night. And the trai...