Jimmy Nail

I didn't believe all the things That I'd heard about you I couldn't believe all the things That I'd heard were true And then you took me for a ride I started on my downward slide You wouldn't believe all the measures That I've been through I should've...

She says "It's not you - it's me I need a little time, a little space a place to find myself again you know?" Oh yes, I know a goodbye when I hear it She smiles but her heart's already out there Walking down the street (Chorus) She says "I don't want...

I had to wait so long I had to take my time before love knocked upon my door I had to be a man I had to take a stand 'cause I couldn't take no more I was cold I was lonely 'til you gave me the sign soon as you did I felt the bright sunshine I was a decei...

watching you begin your going I can still remember how it was with you and then you go and throw it at me sleeping with a guy I called my friend some friend big shot, I could've won nothing stopping me shoot for the moon big shot, I should've done I...

There's a saying that I read Saying fools was easy led Saying all the boys are strong And all the girls just tag along Well I don't know if all that's true All I know is I've found you So show me the difference if you can Between a woman and a man I...

Walking on cobbled stones, little bits of skin and bone Jumping on a tram car for a ride I can remember then, I was a just a boy of ten Hanging around the old Quayside. Now all the capstans and the cargo boats And Stevedores are gone To where all the old...

The devil walks behind you Sneakin' ever ready to steal your world away No matter what you mean to He'll have you saying things you really should not say It's not that I'm a bad man Had my good intentions just like all the rest But when he gets behind y...

Blue roses will blossom in the snow Before I ever let you go Blue roses will grow up to the sky Before I ever make you cry Blue roses You need more reassurance Than a frightened orphan child That I'm always gonna want you That I'll always be beguiled...

what do you do when it hurts when the kids call you names ? nobody wants to know you they won't let you join in all their games and what will you do when the man in the moon goes away ? and leaves your little world in darkness hiding from the night ti...

it was a kind of town, edge of the universe nothin' happened there to ever make the news lived a little boy and a girl next door had opinions and independent views they dreamed of nights and big city lights it helped to kill each dreary day and all the t...

when I was born as I recall the preacher didn't hold out any hope at all he looked at me all pink and skin thought he'd better dip me in the bath again I scuffed my shins on bigger things people throwin' rocks at the angel's wings but through it all I s...

Yippi ay yeah Love's a silver bullet that blows your world apart I wanna be remembered as an outlaw, honey The boy who stole your heart I wanna be the guy who wares the white hat and rides across the plain I'm gonna be your enigmatic stranger, honey Y...

Wine, beer and spirits all the time Though I have you still she's always on my mind The rain falls down, I'm soaking through I'm an old man inside a young man's suit My crocodile shoes are crying too For they know how much love I have for you Crocodile...

here he come again that man in the mask telling me I have to go home telling me I have to go home again pointing with his finger and waving that lamp telling me I have to go home telling me I have to go home again I don't wanna go home don't wanna go...

The first time I saw you I realised at once You were an angel in torment How could I desert you I vowed in that moment Nothing in this world Or any other would ever threaten or hurt you Dragons rage outside your door But I’m on my way to save you Demon...

when the world is dark, when the lights go down when the demons walk, when they're all around there's a light that comes from a place on high there's a light that comes that the angels shine and it shines for you, and it shines for me and it shlnes for al...

hey momma don't you cry for me I'm gonna shake all the apples off of all the trees oh yeah, but I'm coming home hey baby don't you weep tonight when I see them apples hangin' gonna take a bite oh yeah, but I'm coming home hey daddy don't you worry now...

if I could turn back the hands of time if I could turn back the clock I wouldn't be in the place I'm in I wouldn't be in the dock where's your friends when you need them most probably hidin' under a rock if I could undo the things I did if I could turn...

I believed all the things you said so I laid my weary head and as the dawn began the day all we had was swept away because I believed and you believed that the world was yours you were waiting fr applause but the people ll said no and as you came, s...

one day at a time that's how I live my life today one glimpse at the sun and I was blinded by the light what a price I was to pay each morning I rise and I pray to God above that one day I will return to the world I left behind to the people that I l...

when the night is cold and my arms want something to hold, I think of you when the rain falling I hear you calling to me, I think of you I think of you every minute, I lie awake each lonely night I think of you yeah that day you walked away, and out of...

Since youv'e been gone I've lived my life In dreams of used to be And I wonder if I'll ever love again? I don't know I'm gonna lock my heart today And throw away the key And I wonder if I'll ever love again? I wonder if I will ever love this way again...

girl I sing this song for you for the miseries I've put you through for the moods I can't explain for the sunny days I've spoiled with rain please forgive me if you can girl you know that I'm a troubled man girl you know that I'm a troubled man child...

you wake up in a dlfferent bed forgotten every word you said do you recognise the person next to you ? you're sneeking down the backroom stairs braving all Ihe public stares what's a living legend supposed to do ? I've been told that you're looking old...

I can hear the ocean pushing at the bay if I close my eyes then maybe it'll go away everywhere there's sunlight and children play for time thought I heard a sign then I realised it was mine the sky's a perfect blue again but if you look it's hard to tell if i...

hit to the head and straight away dead lost so much to give every reason to live lost you’d climbed your mountain and you thought it was sorted lost while above men are stranded lost in space who’ll shine the light? get to lead the way? lost we...

love is real, real is love love is feeling, feeling love love is wanting, to be loved love is touch, touch is love love is reaching, reaching love love is asking, to be loved love is you, you and me love is knowing, we can be love is free, free is l...

there's no gentle way to break somebody's heart to say - it's over - it's time for us to part angel dry your eyes soon you're gonna see I was wrong for you this wasn't meant to be love may do the cruellest things may bruise those angel wings but angel l...

nights are long since you went away I think about you all thru the day my buddy, my buddy, no buddy quite so true miss your voice, the touch of your hand just long to know that you understand my buddy, my buddy, ooh your buddy misses you I miss you...

(Che:) Now Eva Peron had every disadvantage You need if you're gonna succeed No money, no cash No father, no bright lights There was nowhere she'd been At the age of fifteen As this tango singer found out Agustin Magaldi Who has the distinction of be...

buy brown besoms buy them when they're new buy broom bessoms better never grew once upon a time we had a lead to follow well respected men used to show the way folks would follow on 'cause they believed the promise well respected men would never betray...

There's a feeling coming over Getting bigger Growing stronger every day You can't turn your face or hide Your head But it's not gonna go away With a little bit of caring We can get it back to where it Used to be But if we take and if we take Then tak...

wish I could find the words to say to change your mind and make you stay I've loved you so very long but I know that's not the way to stop you walking out that door if you don't love me anymore lord if I could there's no price I wouldn't pay I go to be...

I don't want to be the answer, girl I don't want to be a dancer on your dreams I don't want to shield you from yourself but you know it's sometimes harder than it seems in a wicked world there's light somewhere I care reach out your little hand to me...

and when the shouting's over where do you go? Nd when you're a wounder soldier who wants to know? And when ther's just no getting through to you pull back the clouds and take a glimpse of the sky when love comes down it's just like learning to fly...

my arms are just as strong as his arms but my arms had to let you go you walked straight into his arms hadn't I the right? hadn't I the right to know? my heart is really such a big heart with big love and room enough to grow so my heart was summarily ri...

Can you hear it in your streets ? talk so cheap like tumbledown empty words and dirty deeds words so deep we all could drown promise of a world so fine a picture-postcard pepperdine and all you have to do is sign upon that dotted line take the word o...

There's a moment in the mornings when the birds refuse to sing When the wind blows in it's cargo and the eyes begin to sting And you can't see these Elysian Fields for the bodies on the ground So you grope the dead for souvenirs that are lying all around...

on a day like today I could blow my cares away not a sign of a cloud to make me blue but then you said goodbye, took the sun out of my sky when you told me that you and me were through catch a falling star, fall down from above put it where you are, wrap...

time for supper now day's been hard and I'm so tired I feel like eating now smell Ihe kitchen now hear the maid whistle a tune my thoughts are fleeting now still I dream of it of that happy day when I can say I've fallen in love and it haunts me so...

what do you do when it hurts when the kids call you names ? nobody wants to know you and they won't let you join in all their games and what will you do when the man in the moon goes away ? and leaves your little world in darkness hiding from the nightm...

time was when I was a different boy innocent of life until you came around the boy turned bad time was I never ever dared to touch not they've got my fingerprints all over town the boy turned bad coul have been the boy who gave them hell could have bee...

since you've been gone, I've cried a river for you but I'm just wastin' time, and wastin' water, too I'm hanging out these nights, in these twilight worlds with all the late-night news, and the weather-girls no-one here but me, so I sit and cheer, watchin...

I had friends against the war By things they did so well yesterday They lived their lives without fortune or thrill With nothing very much to say Always standing in the same old lines Moving sideways to the march of time CHORUS What might have been Wh...

I broke my world in pieces yesterday I woke to find my angel gone away/astray I was loud and I was strong I was proud but I was wrong didn't realise the price I'd have to pay long ago when sharing things was new I did the things I thought a man should d...

hey wicked world I'm down on everything that makes you turn forbidden pearl I hate you with a pain that makes me burn oh wicked thing I curse you but I need the feel you give destroy my world but feed me with the juice that makes me live I want, I...