Mike And The Mechanics

I didn't know when I was lucky Discontented feeling bad Filled with envy For possessions other people had I found my pride had always hurt me Fought the world to gain control Not realising I was sitting on a beach of gold Oh lord I'm a poor man With all the ri...

Pass the word, it's a call to arms Midnight man at your door Blackened faces run in the night Daybreak under the floor Bring my bow Fill my head with flame, and we must Let them know that the torch is lit again Crystalize the pain behind your eyes Are you rea...

There may be some things about me Things you don't want to hear For the rumours that precede me May be very true I fear They tell you I will deceive you I don't know how to care Though my intentions might be good There's another darker look beware When you w...

There's a time and a place For you to make your mark and show your face There's a place in time When you must step outside the line So understand what I mean There is a time and place for you to have your dream But here and now may not be The time and place f...

I said "go if you wanna go, Stay if you wanna stay" I didn't care if you hung around me I didn't care if you went away And I know you were never right I'll admit I was never wrong I could never make up my mind I made it up as I went along And though I treated...

I read all the philosophies The theory ideologies They leave me cold I sit around at tables talking long into the night and when we're walking home You take me by the hand You say you understand And this is all the light I need I know we've had our u...

And she pours herself another cup of coffee As she contemplates the stain across the wall and it's in between the cleaning and the washing That's when looking back's The hardest part of all And she always did her best to try and please him While he alwa...

Are you ready? To put your heart on the line To tell the world that you're mine To love me all of the time Wiser and older I thought it was over But I'm haunted again by you Stronger and deeper I'm still a believer No, I never got over you Over th...

These streets These streets have beats that linger These trigger fingers seldom caress The best sound Comes from nowhere In These streets We speak in conversations Caught up in invitations And yet The best sound comes from nowhere Out of nothing In...

Four o'clock in the morning waiting for the light it's another day dawning another day a better life. Walk out in the morning sun I'm always going to be with you Lay down when your day is done I'm always going to be with you. I don't blame you for crying no...

A freezing cold December brings a chill into my heart And fills me with an emptiness now we're so far apart Lost in my confusion now through everything I see Oh won't you come on back I need you here with me Chorus: Before Before Before the next heartache...

Hey, hey one fine day you're going away ooh what do you say, little girl. Yeah it's you I'm talkin' to tell me what right have you to leave me black and blue. You say nothing lasts forever no never, ever, ever but the goods you got oh God, you know it's hot,...

While you're defending yourself maybe you'd like to explain are you a king for a day is it some ancient campaign Warpaint your flag on your face Gather the troops on the line you never made a mistake There at the scene of the crime. Chorus: blood on your...

I was such a lucky man Before I turn the tables You were everything to me. Now I'm like a fallen angel Made a promise to myself I will love nobody else But I don't know what came over me No, I don't know what came over me I was such a fool All I ever...

I don't want to condescend I just want to be your friend I don't want to drive your car I just want to make a start with you I don't want to touch your lace I just want to touch your face but everytime I reach for you you say you don't want me to - you say do...

A single failure A little slip A misdemeanour A little trip Does this condemn me Lock me away? Before you turn the key I have one more thing to say To make amends Maybe be friends Chorus: Everybody gets a second chance The Circumstance to say I'm sorry I'd...

She lied to me I don't get it, I'm not letting it go I can't get through anymore, not this time She cheated me Of all my senses up against it this time I can't fight anymore, not this time Falling I'm falling Sooner or later there'll be nothing out th...

Do you remember how we used to say Nothing could ever stand in our way Well it's no use pretending things are still the same 'Cause we're no longer ahead of the game Well I've already gone through it all and it's true If you want to survive there's just one t...

Going, going home I hold a memory I can't let go Going, going home Going, going home You're long ago And far away But I can still remember you Going, going home I've got a memory that I can't let go And I know I won't be alone I'm goin' home The ones I love...

And through the grief and pain, I'm half insane I give an inch you take a mile You throw away the key, ignore my plea You cut me down without a trial (You keep me hanging by) hanging by a thread (You keep me hanging by) leaving me for dead (You keep me hanging...

One summer afternoon You walked into heaven No one said a word About your t-shirt and your jeans No one asked to see Proof or confirmation You were meant to walk In a place you've never been All the sacred words All the regulations Holy aspirations...

Help me, help me understand I still find it hard to comprehend. Tell me, tell me who I am, The one who shares your life or just a friend. I can read your heart like an open book, But I can`t believe the things you do... Can`t believe the things you do....

Friend of mine Friend of mine Told me about a girl that I left behind Said she was living on her own And I said she needed to go home So I tried to find Tried to find But she's elusive at the best of times Best of times I tried to get inside her head...

How can I tell you And sound like I mean what I say? You turned a light on in me And it shines to this day Once it was easy To open my heart up to you Now you know the way That I'm feeling better than I do Why can't I just say what I mean? Words don...

Love will always hunt you down Now the chase is on around and around Love will always hunt you down I hope that we can make it I hope that one day you will come around Don't write me off Before we begin You act like love is a sin But even losers can w...

Shattered dreams worthless years Here am I encased inside a hollow shell Life began then was done Now I stare into a cold empty well The many sounds that meet our ears The sights our eyes behold Will open up our merging hearts And feed our empty souls...

Do you wanna dance Do really wanna Take another chance Are you strong enough To hold love in your hands Just to watch it fall away Do you wanna scream Falling in the fire Burning to extreme Count the pieces Of another broken dream Try to put it bac...

I been keeping it to myself I been thinking about it all day long I got nobody I can blame They say what goes around surely comes around I wouldn't dream of trying to complicate your life You don't need to change anything you do Because I don't want i...

I get the feeling, that I've been here before Saying all these things to you I get the feeling, that I fell through that door Comin' down with deja-vu There's no emotion, nothing at all You don't even know my name I get the notion that you don't recall So here...

No one can say You didn't want to fly You went your own way And weren't afraid to try Now you feel so alone When your dreams aren't always what they seem You give all you got Still get hurt Still get torn in two When the battle seems lost I'll be t...

If I were you I wouldn't hurt the ones you love the way you do I wouldn't make them cry If I were you I would learn to see the other point of view You don't even try Let's say that you were me We'd do things differently Cut out all the fear and lies...

Still waters always run so deep I've heard you cry in the night And talk in your sleep Why would you want to, Keep it all inside? Now you're alone, With nothing but your pride. If only you'd listened to me Cos I still want you now I don't want to be...

You always seek the problems At my door Its the prettiest problem I choose to ignore And love will always let you down And its ruthless You're in distress Why don't you come out and confess And did the ship already sink long time ago Did the anchor b...

I don't wanna live without living I don't wanna wear a disguise I don't wanna keep on pretending Just living a lie Every day the pressure is building Every night I'm howling at the moon Feeling like the wolves are just closing in What can I do? So let...

Supposin' we said it didn't happen Didn't happen at all Didn't happen at all Empty and gone There is nothing left within One penny in a tin Makes all the noise You don't understand Nothing stays the same Situations change And It's all different now I've made...

Every generation Blames the one before And all of their frustrations Come beating on your door I know that I'm a prisoner To all my Father held so dear I know that I'm a hostage To all his hopes and fears I just wish I could have told him in the living years...

Now everything is wrong How can I carry on? You broke a part of me I doubt if you can see And even now I'm hoping it wasn't all in vain 'Cause all that I have left is the pain There's got to be some love left over 'Cause I meant everything that I told...

You can't forgive And you won't forget We did something That we both regret mea culpa I held my breath while you Took your time To tell the world What's yours is mine mea culpa You don't need me You don't need anyone at all You've got what you desired You li...

Words of warning took me by surprise From a voice I hardly recognised Well my heart was beating faster And my blood ran hot and cold I was heading for disaster When suddenly I realised that I had lost control Loaded questions played upon my mind Allegations I...

There is nothing wrong with me there's nothing wrong with you maybe we're just blind to see each other's point of view. Nobody knows what we had. You could do much better, you could do much worse than me. I could have walked right out on you there was nothi...

It must be hard being an angel when the devil in your hears wion't set you free it must be hard being an angel when the world has let you down imperfection all around Hey look at me it must be hard it must be hard it must be hard. Nobody's perfec...

It's Monday mornin' and she's back on the train It's the same old empty faces again and again It's Friday evenin' and the week is done She used to just live for the moment Go out and have fun But she's not out of love She's not out of hope and dreamin...

As the night comes down Darkness slowly descends I am lost and alone again Now that you've gone As the shadows fall There's no place to hide From the pain I feel inside Now that you've gone Every thought of you, every memory Is a ghost that is hauting me Now...

Oh no I don't know what to say When you won't even look at me Let go... Let go I tried But I never believed That you sleep with the enemy I closed my eyes Now every time I see your face I wonder where we both would be If we could only leave the pas...

You've got to hold on tonight Do you think that it's easy trying to take me for a ride? Signs.... time that you recognised them Doesn't work anymore, it's gone and you can't make it right Please just read my lips, get the message now baby I been tangled...

On a lonely planet There's chaos and there's high And everybody's looking For someone who is gonna share their life When times are feeling empty You advertise your heart One in seven billion All of us just tryna play a part You can go searching to fin...

Looking back over my shoulder I can see that look in your eye I never dreamed it could be over I never wanted to say goodbye Looking back over my shoulder With an aching deep in my heart I wish that we were starting over Oh instead of drifting so far a...

Another day has passed me by And there's an island in the sun To see me through Another day in paradise But there's no reason, there's no rhyme Without you Here comes the night (night) Here comes the dreaming of you Breathing your love in me Here comes the ni...

I want a perfect child To live a perfect life in this world And though my heart tells me this could never be I see it all so perfectly They say when we have children It changes how we live Changes our direction From take to give It changes our perspe...

I'd like my life to be simple I need my life to be straight I'd like to see my existence Going great going great Going great great great I want my life to be easy Need my life to be pure I want to see my success is Guaranteed that's for sure That's for sure s...

He's a poor boy in his pocket he's a poor boy in his shoes. he's done his time he's stood in line that boy has paid his dues. He ain't looking for a handout he's just looking for a start he don't hate anyone he don't carry a gun you can tell that kid is smart...

It seems that I've Fallen to the ground It seems like I'm whole again What can they do I've learnt to take it If only I knew then The world is turning night and day So love let it shine away Reach out and touch the sun Reach out and feel again You'...

You say you want a revolution, well you know We all wanna change the world You tell me that it's evolution, well you know We all wanna change the world When you talk about destruction Don't you know that you can count me out Don't you know it's gonna be, alr...

Traveled south to wash my sins away But the devil laughed as he turned and sealed my fate Oh let go of my soul, I never feel, I'm never on my own Someone right behind haunts me to the bone All I want is something that I know I can believe in again All I...

Now the tears are falling But not again Do not fear the darkness It has to end If we hold together Be as one I know finally We'll see the sun I'm not try'na save the world Only wanna make us better 'Cause we all want to feel that our lives have a...

A single failure A little slip A misdemeanour A little trip Does this condemn me Lock me away? Before you turn the key I have one more thing to say To make amends Maybe be friends (chorus) Everybody gets a second chance The Circumstance to say I'm sorry I'd l...

I believe in Jesus his father's only son I do believe he sees us with the loaded gun. I believe in the magic Of the Mujahedin I still believe in Daniel Ortega the sun in Omega, the Lord of the Rings I believe in most everything. I believe, I believe I have...

Take the children and yourself And hide out in the cellar By now the fighting will be close at hand Don't believe the church and state And everything they tell you Believe in me, I'm with the high command Can you hear me, can you hear me running? Can you hear...

Last night I shook hands with the devil In a dream that I can never lose He laughed when he saw me cryin' At the pictures on the evening news He said it's not really a dilemma You're just a little out of touch Don't think of the situation Cos it'll make you th...

There's a silver moon Shining in the room Where we sleep like spoons together Lying in the dark I can feel your heart And it beats with mine forever Coming from the street You can feel the heat As the city sleeps In the silence And the perfect light Of a summ...

Somewhere along the line We convince ourselves Accept the ordinary Refuse to read the signs We just can't see The extraordinary Somewhere along the way Dreams become a burden I don't want to hear you say That you're not certain of our love Somewhe...

Open your eyes Tell me what's on your mind Don't try to hide Baby what's wrong You never lie But you don't know what to say Now I look in your eyes I can see it's all gone Chorus: Stop Baby You don't understand and I said Stop Baby You don't know what you...

I'm a man, don't you forget it, I'm not a little kid Understand, you might regret it, treating me the way you did Hey old man, shut your mouth and listen, this here's the new regime I command, you could go missin', you could be off the scene (I'm not here to...

Taken in, taken in again Wrapped around the finger of some fair-weather friend Caught up in the promises, left out in the end No pride, taken for a ride You say I'm the only one when I look in your eyes I want to believe you but you know how to lie And if you...

Are there days when you're feeling Days when you're feeling down? And you're looking for hope but How can that be found? Are there nights when you're falling Nights when you're falling fast? Can you take a hold of my hand Let go of the past? Can I take...

It was an unbelievable night She was an unremarkable girl You may not call it poetry But it changed my world It was an unforgettable dawn She was an indisputable fact Even if I could have I might not have it back It's an unexceptional day She's an u...

I read the words today The words you'd never say, not ever to my face Just a simple page That I found by mistake, now nothing will be the same, oh no Don't know why I never saw it in your eyes All this time you were a master of disguise It was just a si...

Every generation Blames the one before And all of their frustrations Come beating on your door I know that I’m a prisoner To all my father held so dear I know that I’m a hostage To all his hopes and fears I just wish I could have told him in t...

And the road gets brighter And the load gets lighter And it's so much better Better every step we take together Ooh look where we've come Looking back who'd of thought We could do what we've done We still got So much to carry So far to go (Still got) So much...

All my family, all my friends They won't take me back again It's not hard to understand Why they finally washed their hands Try to save me Oh don't betray me Try to save me Give back what you gave me Try to save me I know I'm crazy but Try to save m...

I don't know if I can find a way To help myself I'm going to start again Wanna take the the dreams we had before And try it again Wasting life on a fantasy I don't know why I ran away Oh what I'm trying to say... I wanna be the best that I can be Can you fi...

Just a minor indiscretion No need to apologise I don't want this to become an obsession But I just can't believe my eyes Evidence in my possession Points a finger straight at you Every day I'm closer to a confession If only I can face the truth Every mistake...

When I get over you I'll be who I want to be I'll sleep where I want to sleep And laugh at your memory When I get over you I'm not gonna need a friend I'm not gonna tell the truth I'll never do that again You'll never see me cry You're gonna see something ne...

Whenever I stop and think about it There's still a question in the back of my mind Whenever I go, whatever I do You know it's with me everyday Whatever you say you need to understand I never want to know that feeling again No matter how hard I try to for...

Take a look around you I really think you should At all the things you've broken Just because you could Think of all the people You know who they are Ya took them all for granted And gave them only scars And I wonder When you are here beside me And...

Now the world is getting older There's a few things to be said Do you believe the things they told you Do you believe the things you've read There's a rumour on the corner But it's always been denied Cause they don't want you any wiser You're just toei...

I met a man back in the future He was high then he was low You know his one consideration Should he come or should he go I met a girl she wants to give me The gift of living just for today Ignore the past ignore the future You're only going to wish your life...

Time from the man, who will live while he can, on his own Pass by the dream, it's movie you've seen once before Tears in the rain, as you wave at the plane As it climbs through the clouds, to the sun You are the one, oh, you are the one You make it all w...

You could be the rock I could be the rollercoaster I don't know how to stop Even when the party's over You could be the light Even when there's no light shining It'll be alright I don't have to keep on hiding When you climb this wall You're not afra...

You don't know what love is baby, someday you may You don't know the hurt you cause And all the thoughtless things you say You don't know, you don't know You don't know what trust is maybe, someday you find Someone is obsessed by you Remember to be kind, the...

I don't like you but I love you, Seems that I'm always thinking of you. Oh, you treat me badly I love you madly; You really got a hold on me, You really got a hold on me, baby. I love you and all I want you to do is just hold me, Hold me, hold me, hold m...