Gemma Hayes

Driving so slow Streets are empty as we go Back over the canal We've all had a long day and we're going home We all got big tears in our sides And the city salt doesn't help But it sure cleans them out In little coffee shops And litte sidewalk cops...

Well i got myself a new day And i got myself a second chance So i headed to the bus stop And the sun, the sun was warm on my back I got myself a second chance I got myself a second chance Well i got myself a new day And i got myself a second chance S...

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, and then for ever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee! I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy; for no-one could resist my Nancy; for see her was to love her, Love b...

The time we lost, you’ve held your cross No tears did your eyes tell The time you lost, no matter what the cost Your strength it saw you through But time will heal what your heart conceals And this I know too well The road you’ve known that takes...

Talk, talk.. Empty sentiment I havent got the heart for disappointment Ten thousand reasons why i should get out The state you're in, i better get you home Car crash, running through my head I'm saying things that are best left unsaid Stop looking at me...

A lonely burden rests gently this is harder than I thought Your face is distant and paler now its funny how things work out But if I keep a constant speed and watch everything rush past me its the quickest way to leave it all behind only it never leave...

I'll be seeing you tomorrow I'll be seeing you again God knows we've said so little I'd go so far as to call you a friend But there's something in your ways That keeps me vying for a connection And I know you feel the same It's become a two-way addicti...

God bless the boy, with august in his eyes Pure as a gypsy is wild Sorrow, he knows nothing of No slight of hand or a devil's heart Child of the half lie Won't you stay by my side You're just a beautiful You're just a beautiful You're just a beautiful You're...

there's a place inside my heart got me living straight found a place that i can fight for got me living straight you were the only one that could calm me down come on over and calm me down you're bright so bright it cuts right though you're brightne...

Both of hangin on To drift wood passing The sun is been now gone The water is blooding freezing What were we thinking Why did we ever jump Gone like the winter Gone like my lover Gone is the aching Gone forever Car lights keep passing Were down...

I can't find love And there you go, you go I can't find love And there you go, you go Can't find love I can't find love, love, oh no I can't find, find love, find love Oh no no  

The morning has no sympathy, it just screams across the room Making light of everything and taking you Now I got a creature on my mind Go chase your dragon and I'll chase mine They say time is just one long straight line they cant deaden a girl while she...

So many crooked paths in my way It’s always the purest of hearts that get less straight I’m gonna find a way to catch that burning sun Then I'll leave you behind, my beautiful one And all my colours are changing And all my old colours have gone In the middle...

Oh good God what has he done Traded a heart for a bullet and a mind for a gun Said he needed a bat to clear the way Now he won't sit back so he starts to pray But oh, it ain't so I can still make you ... I, I'm on your side 

Good morning, what took you so long to receive our transmission now let it comfort you Don't forget the light never left Dont forget this aint the truth Dont forget yourself so soon I see the state you're in, felt too much and now you dont feel anythin...

watch you from the road I laugh when you cut the corners I know when things aint good at home You slam the doors and pull down the blinds You’re so easy on the eye And you ease my troubled mind You’re so easy on the eye I watch you from the road Late...

Evening Sun Why don't you stay Just a little longer, please My friends and I Well, our party's almost over Why don't you stay Just a little longer please 'Cause I need you bad I need you better I need you bad That I could kill I need you bad I ne...

in a grey subway station she came out of nowhere she said her name was rosanna, a great disco dancer all the pretty boys loved her no regrets this is what i see this is what i believe in. he mistook me for someone else he knew from his old school day...

And this I know His teeth as white as snow What a gas it was to see him Walk her every day Into a shady place With her lips she said She said Hey Paul, Hey Paul, Hey Paul, let's have a ball [3x] Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic A big big love...

Low, gotta low, gotta low feeling Bring it on a slow, bring it on a slow burning Your love is so hard to please Your love is so hard to leave This is so hard to do Everybody wants to take a look at you, my baby This is so hard to do Everybody wants t...

turn in half light softly silence surrounds us uncertainty always drives you from me but it is you that i want for it is you that i know calm me down sickness can feel twisted and full of beauty the sweetest knife will draw out a bitter ending for us but it...

I used to want the morning You and me Just hanging around But I can't shake this feeling off Can't shake this dead-weight off of my back It's a troubled place we stay But we just play it out You givetoo much away It leaves you cold, oh, oh Got no p...

My dirty joy, my laden back My will to live is under attack I have the days when it comes easy My blue eyed boy got show and tell I need your laugh to make me well No light is coming through my window Gotta meet you face to face Convince you that i’m n...

There's just no way to say how much I love you, You never made me cry And that's just fine. Only got my fear, To put above you; You know we all get scared from time to time. Love me with your head and heart; Love me from the place it starts. Love me f...

I will welcome any stranger For strangeness is a welcome guest And i will make a bed for him to rest We will arise there after Fall around the place in drunken laughter And never look back again Years of merry dancing Weighed heavy on our chest No mo...

This stupid mess brings out your eyes And all those beautiful cities inside I’ve never seen a firefly but I picture it in my mind Distant and uneasy, will return to me eventually Holy Places, for you and I We need the Holy Place Where there’s fireflies Somet...

Guarded by the darkness, waiting side by side we tag along at the back of crowd You and I full of sorrow, full of light This is Home your face is home no takes like home Home Wait for me golden memories, cos I have too few help pull me up cos Im ha...

A horse, a horse My kingdom for a horse Rattling on magnetic fields Yes, I did use up The last box of sparklers Before they went bad Got wet or decayed Homecoming queen, homecoming queen Teeth what were sharp Are ground down and done My crooked sp...

Help is not needed for my back trouble You drag out of me some messed up colours Yeah I own all of my own voices I own all of my own voices It doesn’t matter who you are, this is it There’s a simple life the moment you decide Raggy bones meet a butche...

I wanna stay Out all night With you Yeah you make my world all right No sun was up Today we didn't mind Too busy making the rain shine And there goes Everything And I don't care Yeah there goes Everything And I just don't care As long as you'...

A slow walk Will do you good Try and take it all in You said You'll hold me down Show me how to turn this mess around You can cry No one is looking at you You can cry, cry Can't stay Out of luck Have trouble trying to wake myself That's alright...

Kept all the little things you wrote take them with me where I go Keeps the darkness from the door Makes me happy Now I'm in over my head I'm in over my head Over you Stand, let the winter warm your skin It leaves you when you least expect This is w...

Did I watch you wash away your life And polish up the forks and knifes And left the kitchen crystal clear Did you put me in my resting place Beside the cups there was no place for fear There's someone calling for me Just see a new talk Don't listen to...

I hope this letter finds you well everyone here misses you so The trees are bare and the swallows have flown The yard is covered in snow Your dogs are acting crazy, we cant figure out why and me? Well I'm thinking of you... all the time all of the time...

Caught up in a little town Wasted dream, both devout Just to see how hard he can make me cry Man, we do it to ourselves Caught up in what we don’t say Pretending that we love living straight Just to see how hard i can make you cry Man, we do it to ours...

Three years and miles of sea Somehow I carry you with me You're in every face I see But the city brings sweet relief Until you find me I might as well be lost in Hollywood or London town Than be lost in you, you I might as well be lost in Oslo or Tokyo, Seoul...

How comes your sister's in drag? Wearin' all the clothes that she had Well I see her up late I think she put on some weight Like a man How come that boy's Gemma Hayes background : Not like me? What colour me does he see? Well they say that...

T'was on one bright March morning I bid New Orleans adieu And I took the rode to Jackson town, me fortune to renew I cursed all foreign money, no credit could I gain Which filled me heart with longin' for the Lakes of Pontchartain. I stepped on board of a rai...

In the shade of every moment I bled Such a sorrow was to be expected I let a good thing go I let a good thing go Now every feeling it kicks me to the bone And takes me under to a place that I have known There goes my quiet life I used to keep me warm...

I said listen girl I like If you ask me babe real nice I just might tell you the truth 'Cause you give me love and I like it And charming as you like me Listen girl you and I could too Oh yeah and all of the cold kids looking for joy Dreaming of playg...

Lay me down in the daylight moments Follow you around to your place And I'll just sit here and watch you Making waves, making waves And there is no sea at all I don't know how you do it So full to your belly with sand I could just sit here forever an...

People sigh, why The strangest situations had me crying these days Holding back, why Mama,whats that song You tried to teach me 'Bout a place in summertime Where living was easy Well,let's all go there I'll lock the house and we'll get the hell out of h...

My friend Christian, he lives for this Being washed out, just to be thrown back in again Just to see how hard he'll hit the ground And he'll, he'll find something to laugh about He'll find something to laugh about If it aint the joke it's the lack of It...

My God Hope you're on call 'Cause I maybe in danger of crashing before I get to fall Let's cry boy While neighbours have their backs turned I'm having trouble believing anything you say Keep the car running outside You go and make up your mind You're...

When I hear the sound of laughing It takes me back to forever Where the sunset sleeps across the fields Awoken by my dreams racing With such a long goodbye You knew it would make you cry The twilight comes to quieten our hearts My good friends we were...

I gave you all the love I got I gave you more than I could give I gave you life I gave you all that I have inside And you took my heart You took my heart I keep crying I keep dying for you There's nothing like you and I baby This is no ordinary love No ordi...

Let it break You'll feel better You're always near But gone forever I don't hear you Anymore There's too much noise Noise No, I can't hear you In this noise Far away You don't need it Day by day But you don't mean it I don't want to hear yo...

Can’t sit with you, talk for a while You know you make me feel life You know you make me wanna try harder Can’t tell you ‘bout the kick inside How the stupid mess brings out your eyes And all those cities inside And how, nothing can make me cry A land...

November Has taken its toll And if I know better There's more to come And the ocean is waitin' at our backdoor You know we could leave But we know in our hearts There's so much more We will find a way To make it through these days And we...

oliver you kicked a hole through my heart and left me with a whistling sound as the wind blows through with duct tape and an old bin bag i covered it up and put back on my sweater so i looked the same but i'm a little different now i might look the same...

The subtle shift inside, a battle's won, the inside killed the outside and Im sorry, if I let you think, better of me but you were holding on too tight Maybe we'll fall, maybe we'll fly it's out of our hands, its out of our hands this time The night's c...

Over and over We tried to make it We played all the right games We took too much for granted Please don't stray, so far from me Please don't stray, so far from me Again Over and over We made too many plans When it came to reality We forgot how to land Pleas...

Late at night the air is beaten black I’m lying with your head on my stomach This is my favourite time This is my favourite time I watch you sleep so quiet and so deep Our legs are knotted and wrapped around the sheets You sleep on your left side Always stay...

Picking them up Those pieces I've dropped The love that I stopped Gonna find some rest I lied to my friends I showed him I could Even told him I would But then, I gave in Picking them up Those pieces I've dropped The love that I stopped Gonna find...

Cold heart, beautiful And places You pull me in Couldn’t care, wasted You’ve pulled me in Wait, i’ll wait, oh can’t wait with me Couldn’t care, wasted You’ve pulled me in Cold heart, beautiful You’ll pull me in  

Water came and saw me Holding back Holding back for someone Water came and saw me Holding on Holding on for someone What you see is the life I had Now I'm left here with my past Watching time as it passes slow Just to see the reasons why They must h...

When I think of heaven deliver me in a black-winged bird I think of flying down into a sea of pens and feathers And all other instruments of faith and sex and God in the belly of a black-winged bird. Don't try to feed me I've been here before And I dese...

Well I got myself a new day And I got myself a second chance So I headed to the bus stop And the sun, the sun was warm on my back Today I ran for miles Just to see what I was made of Today I ran for all that was mine Well I got myself a song inside...

Bhuel fuair me la nua dom fhein Is fuair me dom an dara seans sin Is lean me liom go staf an bhus Bhi an ghrian, bhi an ghrian te ar mo dhroim Inniu rith me go crich Go chfeicfinn go fior ce me fhein Inniu rith me do gash i mo chroi Bhuel ta an t-amhran seo...

It's a wave from a car, as it exits the driveway it's that silent awkward motion, the goodbye that you didnt say It's that sad song on the line,that cuts right through your ribcage and gets stuck inside as the wheels kick dust in your view, you know the lon...

The blacker my heart The deeper i feel The cheaper the real The closer you are to me Afraid i'll forget you Afraid i might try to When nothing moves quite Like you to me But there's something in my way There's something in my way There's something...

He's getting married on the wednesday But h was buried on the monday And his girlfriend is due in three weeks And she's my cousin Her mother went off the rails And started praying that this child Would have straight teeth My car got broken into Don't...

Summers in Doubt, that's where we are So I go to your house, that's where I feel strong We're gonna make it anyway, it's just a given And while from the daylight, that's where we are We've given up on the quiet fight, so scared this noise is shaping us...

Tear in my side, I feel it all Tear in my side, I feel it all What it's like to be alive and then shot down Tear in my side, I feel it all Tear in my side, I feel it all I feel it, I feel it, all I feel it, I feel it, all I feel it, I feel it, all I feel it...

I've been out walking I don't do too much talking These days, these days. These days I seem to think a lot About the things that I forgot to do And all the times I had the chance to I had a lover It's so hard to risk another These days, these days Now if I se...

My tired eyes are like lonely stars trying to find a little order in the chaos So I take a bus ride in the afternoon you all look so happy, and me, I'm barely hanging on This is what you do to me (2x) Drag myself out on to the floor trying to fi...

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 hea...

Brightest eyes i know God speed you Palest skin i throw Myself in Count me as your friend You don't scare me Man you got to know I'll be here tomorrow Drive your sister's car To my house Confusion an skin Much later Brightest eyes i've known God's favourite...

Two steps closer, than i had in mind, But i am good at the cold shoulder I lost myself, trying to catch the sun I gave you everything, left myself with none Well, i'm living straight now you're not on my mind My sweet addiction, always at the side Stop chas...

Caught up in the undertow Takes me from what i never had Back to what i’ll know Down, hold me, drag me down, hold me Now i’m left undercover Only half way there Man you left me undercover A gypsy out of nowhere Undiscovered, i was left for dead Man you left...

Five hours from now You'll be sleeping I'll be lying awake wondering Did we make the right decision? What a day What a day we had What a day What a day we had Brian and I decided This year we'll make ourselves believe in everything I don't know about you but...

Nowhere man And the whiskey girl Nowhere man And the whiskey girl They loaded up for A weekend in the underworld I'd take you down Honey if I could I'd take you down Honey if I could We'd find a place In the sunshine We'd be feeling good Don't you know That...

When I was a young boy My mama said to me There's only one girl in the world for you And she probably lives in Tahiti I'd go the whole wide world I'd go the whole wide world Just to find her Or maybe she's in the Bahamas Where the Caribbean sea is blue Weepi...

The world is on fire and no one can save me but you It's strange what desire will make foolish people do I'll never dream that I'd meet somebody like you I'll never dream that I'd lose somebody like you No I don't want to fall in love (this girl is only...

Slow walk will do you good Try and take it all in You said you'll hold me down Show me how to turn this mess around You can cry No one is looking at you You can cry, cry Can't stay out of luck Have trouble trying to wake myself That's alright, I caught mysel...