Sandi Thom

For every lovers kiss For every child that laughs And every moment missed For every dream i've cast And every flower that blooms It keeps reminding me That your heart is just a beatbox For the song of your life And for every time I fell Every...

Oh how I love a heart that aches So drown me in despair Going down to the shadow Where the clock strikes 8 Follow me if you dare I don't know why I can't explain No matter how I try It's a losing game Take me to the cross I bear I will hang my head and cry Han...

Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell Jimmy Rogers on the Victoria up high Mama's dancin' with baby on her shoulder The sun is settin' like molasses in the sky The boy could sing, knew how to move, everything Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing for...

I'm just skimming stones against the lake While my dreams pass me by I've never known what to make of life But I guess I'm willing to try Sometimes it's better sometimes it's worse Sometimes it heals sometimes it hurts.... So hail to the morning wherev...

I needn't know I had to leave Before your love deadly crippled me Now half my heart can always be found Sleepin' in that old ghost town Baby you were my one regret Such a sad song I simply won't regret Coz it's written in the walls Now the walls went down All...

His love was like gold dust His desire took my lust He sent shivers down my spine His ghost echoes in my mind The one heart I thought I could trust His love was like Gold Dust His love was my oxygen He was my addiction He played such a beautiful game It used...

Your heart of stone treated me so bad I was the best thing that you ever had Your heart of stone treated me so mean Now you've lost the only love you've seen Your heart of stone won't bring me down I've packed my bags I'm leaving town Your heart of stone won'...

Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair, In 77 and 69 revolution was in the air, I was born too late to a world that doesn't care, Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair. When the head of state didn't play guitar, Not everybody dr...

There are six and a half billion souls I believe to be breathing you can love them you can leave them They're walking and talking up ad down all around this world There are six and a half billion dreams From london to new york, noew york to bejing Every man e...

Sometimes love comes Like a summers day Sweeps you off your feet Takes your breath away Like the morning sky Wants the sun to shine Love takes two of each and every kind But when it’s gone And the clods roll in When it’s gone and your lost within Well you say...

Some things are meant to be the way their gonna be you can't stop time or change history sometimes all you saw were the things you wanted to see if you were looking for the answer you would have to go to me now you've only got a moment boy to get it righ...

I sometimes see her down by the river The water dances on her skin and she can captivates you with her eyes But she will never let you in and in the dark she lingers Like a tear without a soul And oh what a lonely girl Trying to find her way I...

I knew a girl named Maggie McCall All her life she was ready to fall She was a hard lost shadow on the wall She said she had an ice cold heart But when it was young it was torn apart By a mean old son of a bitch Oh and how it changed her Lost forever 

I used to see a ballerina staring back at me A beauty queen a singing star was all I longed to be I’d dress up in my mother’s clothes and dance the days away When nothing was torn and tattered broken or frayed. I used to see an astronaut flying through...

I remember Sundays at the Harbour Bar Drinking cider wishing on a cheap guitar Playing songs from the sixties and the seventies Fleetwood Mac the Eagles and the Bee Gees And we would dazzle and dance under the moonlight Love up the bar and drink unti...

Would you lie would you lie lie lie in these lonely arms of mine I wanna try I will try try try for this love one more time Don't wanna lose you to the stars I wish I'd told you from the start Not to listen to my ungrateful heart. Baby give me one more chance...

[Chorus] Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair In 77 and 69 revolution was in the air I was born too late into a world that doesn't care Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair When the head of state didn't play guitar, Not every...

Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair In 77 and 69 revolution was in the air I was born too late to a world that doesn’t care Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair When the head of state didn’t play guitar, Not everybody d...

When I first set my eyes on you You were born in black and white Full of good intentions You never played me any hype You didn’t want to take my money You didn’t want to take my soul Just a little black box Built in the days of rock ’n’ roll. So...

I am a runaway train I am the thunder burning black Like a runaway train I’m flying of the tracks Now I’ve left you baby I ain’t never coming back So you tried and you tried ye But you can’t ever hold me down Well you tried and you tried baby To keep my feet...

She’s saving all her money trying to get ahead All the luck in the world wont keep the baby fed And the boss is on her back and it's getting her down She’s waiting for the one she loves to come around He’s building for the future while everybody sleeps...

I wake up to the dawn i'm a stranger in my bed With one eye on the circle sun I raise my weary head I pick up my bags and bones and take one square step to the door And with another twist of fate i'm heading of to foreign shores And the daylight turns...

Well they took all of my money They changed all of my songs Now everybody’s asking What could be wrong? Cause I’m smiling I wont show no concern Cause when the cold wind comes calling I’ll be waiting for the tide to turn Well they promised me fame and fortune...

When the twilight fades away, Stars light up a secret place. Here in the silence all the night, Wither of hope runs through the night. There's a clock of the heart that's got perfect timing, The tree of youth lets your children go climbing. We are soul mining...

There’s an empty seat on the train today that makes its way up to the town There a letter found on an office desk that’s finally handed round It says Julian Sidebottom William Smyth has finally come to his senses He’s tired of commuting tired of computin...

A simple scent of summer stole my heart for the last dance the smell of two-stroke petrol from a moterbike we used to have those playing fields of cut grass you know high school left me kind of blue now with every sweet summer breeze i'll be thinking of you...

Some of us are reaching for stardust Some of us are digging for gold But it won't mean a lot on a mountaintop When the wind reaches out for your soul Some of us stand in the spotlight Waiting for a round of applause When the people go home you're left a...

Help me get my feet back to solid ground Cos were walking to the devil's beat And it's trying to bring us down. Well the devil's get us rolling a 6-sided dice And it's burning up the olis and melting down the ice And the bank tills are ringing to th...

Walter the war hero he's there from opening till time, time, time there's mary the house wife whose slumped at the bar drinking wine, wine, wine they get kylie on wednesday the stones on a friday bow to the beatles on a saturday night he's dilan on monday, bow...

Born to entertain us back in 1925 So beautiful and strong enough to bring their dreams alive Always thought it would last forever And be the greatest thing they'd ever seen With a heart like Judy Garland And a the soul of Jimmy Dean And while the world was gr...

Street lights ablaze and the air is so dry There’s a cat in my bucket smoke covers the sky And the sound of the traffic keeps me from my dreams Like one million soldiers just shuffled their feet The heat of the night is one that I can’t escape So I l...

Baby I'm sure you know I didn't wanna walk home alone Baby I'd play some records But you've ruined every one I own And if I could only rest my head for a while and not dream of you A bittersweet moment of solitude now you made me miss you The sadness is t...

This ol' world's got a hold on me All I feel is this anxiety Gotta keep on moving out of this place The only thing that stops me is when I see your face This ol' world's gone crazy mad Nursing the broken hearts too many feeling sad There's just too much to th...

Deep down I feel a darkness I cannot explain Why do I feel so lost and lonely? Im so ashamed Am i losing control? I cant cope anymore Maybe a stronger woman can But i've got to pull through, All i want is for you to be proud of who i am. And lord, d...

Roller skates and bumblebees holding hands and grazing knees dressing up and falling down paul and mike are coming round Being good to stay up late forget to shut the garden gate built a house up in a tree been making plans since I was three Time cat...

Take me on a journey & be there till the end It wont be an uphill struggle, on you I can depend You'll promise me a dream home with roses round the door you'll cover me in diamonds, there's nothing I want more You'll be strong & you'll turn me on...

Caught in the gridlock nose to tail across all lanes Smog nearly chocking me as the car horns go insane Patiently waiting to get their old jobs backs Carrying the human race proudly on their backs How easily forgotten, How easily we're led How hard the...

Just before I tell you standing in the rain I would have loved you like no other babe But a poet needs his pain And sometimes life can be so cruel It will pick you up and drop you down again So if you try to love me darling please refrain I'm still s...