Tanita Tikaram

When she said my looks were stolen From the deepest night In a picture show I said: "No, no, no" Don't you know I need you so I wanna be all things to you I wanna be your pardon and Hallelujah I wanna be the melody Rushing through your memory I wanna see t...

It was a lonely summer where I have been your shelter following your footsteps will you be my first regret? Sorry if I'm foolish making myself secrets seems to come between us And we always leave them there, my child always leave them there... Who will love y...

Night is falling I think of you I'm walking home I think of you And as he calls me, yes I do I think of you How you doing? I think of you As we leave I think of you And I smile, I can't hide I think of you I don't know where your days are spent Y...

My babe lets the moonshine My babe likes to sail When you need a reason Baby's reason My babe wants a show stopper To come on board and dance When there's reason Any reason Baby's reason I can drive for miles and miles I can drive for miles and miles around My...

Now this isn't the party I would hold now, I'm trying to make it on my own I have opened my house but it's not like a home without you And I really don't want to feel that you're not here 'cause I would be Back in your arms, I would be Back in your arms I'd k...

You can't call hell A quiet town But you walked so shell-shocked Have you found a way to stand? Your head is high You have, oh, such curious hands Did they mantion? Special faces And your young mind And foreign places And I wonder Where you come from I know...

Blue moon, you saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own Blue moon, you knew just what I was there for You heard me saying a prayer for Someone I really could care for Blue moon, now I'm no longer alone Without a dream in my h...

They say you can't go back again Looking out at strangers trying to find a friend And hoping it will end this wandering No you can't go back And pray that people change Who let all the promises? Fall through our hands Little lies like sand until the e...

I saw from the cathedral You were watching me YesI saw from the cathedral What I should be So take my time And take my lies 'Cos all the others They wannatake my life And I watchwith an intentbasic Weli, it's the same for you You hold your hand And it's all...

I'm just a poor girl trying to be free Can you follow me I'm just a poor girl trying to be free I'm not made of rags and bone I want my soul and spirit flown And the glory that's a morning of our own Closer to the people Bring me closer to the people...

I have a picture It's taken with looks It wont tell a story But I'm glad I forgot everything that you say I choose the colours And reword the lines Now somebody's second heart Ain't the first of mine Consider the rain now Out in the cold Maybe I love you But...

And they can't take that away When you walked right up to me And I felt just like a storm cloud rising And the sweetest melody And the preacher he is wise To every sin that follows me But when I try to lead a righteous life I still struggle to believe Cool w...

One day to wonder what's bothering me - (You said it) I'm just the half of this - that just won't see - (Believe it) If I am wishing I am hoping as well (Sometimes I) I tell you clearly But it's hard to tell Someone will watch me with an eager eye - (But I'm...

Some people say it's not the best When it's the best that you can do Some people say it's not a test So what you trying to put me through Don't let the cold come through my window And steal this heart of mine Don't let it all come down together Not like the l...

This is something to thank your fortune for Although I got nothing & you got something See I'm not fit to be an open door Or the mat you wipe your feet upon Please someone Don't shake me up Many's the time I've thought of you Lying in my bed in the aftern...

I get blinded By every light Every new sensation Rushing over me Please don’t turn your back on me Please don’t turn your back on me I get lonesome In a crowd I am tiresome When I’m trying to shout out loud I am hungry For the touch of things An...

Put your arms around sometimes It feels so cold ‘cause it telling me things I already know Every street preacher was to waste my time As If I need lessons it hell live my live Put your arms around my heart is shacking Her body knows the trouble I see...

Elephant Ain't going home Ain't going home To be your friend Elephant Ain't going home To start a fire To be your friend Elephant Ain't going home Ain't going out To start a fight Elephant To start a fire To be your friend It isn't right Elephant Hate bein...

So far from home, is how life has been I let the blues creep inside me Oh, how they would hide me But sadness and loss I hope they can see Now that my heart's singing to you Where you are Everyday is new, everyday is you I hear your heart singing to me 'Caus...

If I - won't be - able To hold - a good - conversation If I - feel - big - and ballooning If I - turn up - today If I - can't be - appreciated I - won't be - 'preciated - at all And if I - look - red - and - confusing Well, I - am all - of the above 'Cos, I'...

Don't take me back I just hate that When you tell me lies I just can't help To work it through this time Oh, I believe In really nothing new And I be true for you And you'd be true to me And we would always know When the feeling is gone When the feeling is gon...

All I know is just one dead phrase All I know is just one dead phrase And it's eating my herat wasting my day You know I could feel unhappy Yes there are fireflies in the kitchen And my father yells for more Well I'm nearly almost honest And I'm nearly almos...

[One, (two), one, two (three), one, two, three] Just five feet away, yes I was I'm not lying, I'm just crying out your name Just five feet away, yes I was I'm not lying, I'm just crying out your name I just do not understand you No I do not understand No I d...

Let me tell you that since I’ve been pleading This lonely girl I’ve been cheated Since you opened up that door Since you left the food on my table Let me tell you the best I’ve been doing Is running through these streets at night For trouble brewing...

I got a scent on you. I got something here to show (It's) somebody's slice of life I had it tailor made, I had it soaken, shaken and shown around the world And for all these things you tell me, well I can't quite believe You are still there and trying to be so...

Thought I'd call you up To make you see what's true But nothing seems quite right It's like I'm lying back at you If that's the way it goes To cut you like it does For nothing tastes more bitter Than the fever that you lost Do you think that...

I wanna be your friend Can I be your friend? I wanna be your friend Can I be your friend? I could go into your garden Serve you skin and bone I could do many manic things I wouldn't do alone And as my mother used to say Get out of the house and learn to play...

When I was in love I thought it was enough Hiding on the Glass Love Train When we were … Gentle as a river Hiding on the Glass Love Train Hey, hey, hey You can’t stop this wheels emotions You can’t stop this wheels train When you were a shadow Foll...

There's a good tradition of love and hate staying by the fireside There's a good tradition of love and hate staying by the fireside And though the rain may fall - your father's calling you You still feel safe inside And though your ma's too proud - your b...

I've got to give you up I've got to swear you off I'm missing my people I'm hanging the sign With too much forgiveness, baby But I hear your voice And it sweetens mine I've got to cool my head You should have heard the sound There so many rumours They're chas...

I was warned I was warned about you I see your form The gris gris tail and the snake bayou The sun shine & the sun don’t shine Wild woman What kind of woman are you? You shape like fire To taste the dew on my fingertips My heart stings from lov...

Criss-cross laces You have the centre You have the cinnamon In the centre You shouldn't be alone You should just pick up yourself And shine yourself And make yourself fit a bran new maybe in the side streets You been walking I have been walking too So, you kno...

When the voice says You should not stumble, You should not frighten Or feel so ashamed, 'Cos all the chores are light And all the psalms are wiped When you smash it Make it easy When you want to Stand alone My friends are praying For a good soft reason For a...

Find yourself To the end I could love you And my friend Will not stay To the end Have you lost your Like we do Can we say Hmm Have you lost your way ? Yeah...Mmm... Did you see Anyone Have theirselves Having fun I do agree I do agree You sometimes see yourse...

Some say the world goes crazy It's summertime I say I'm feeling lazy Hammocks in mind And I can't change a thing So I won't stay around If you can still feel so hot Why don't you feel for me? If you can feel so much Why don't you let it out And let me be alon...

Baby, there'll be time Time alone - this tired old body Time alone - and tired old body Will be healed Baby, they'll be blessed Just a walk away Just a walk away, baby Heal you, heal you My oh my, my oh my My oh my, my oh my Baby, there'll be me Standing in...

When the heart has been in winter And the soul is under lock and key The chemistry of all emotion Oh, Lord it's the chemistry Takes a little while but I'll know when I'm feeling it Takes a little while but I'll know when I'm feeling it When the sky has found...

Love is heavy pressure When you know it's very special And you get around Cause you get around And you can't sleep at night And you feel you're under water And you hear the sound of you passing by When you hold me I'm travelling, move slowly I'm travelling,...

We don't talk about our better selves As it is - I survive and survive so well Yes, y'know it, hovering on the edge of life Is so exciting Baby, you can take me home Because dinner is Dinner served alone Now, who wants hot pork sandwiches? Wrapped in foil Cor...

Beat up English In a beat up town And I'm beat up black and blue Oh, I do not have the energy And I'm beat up street And I'm beat up tight And we've been so drawn together, each other I do not have the energy And wisdom Trip over again Wisdom Trip over again...

You don't want to do too much staring at the evening sun Maybe you cannot stand up but you have become one I just want to see her smile maybe she will never hurt And all that I have yearned to touch, well, I have made worse Is she all you need? ah, you fools...

When we were young and you pretended You were almost bothered as me Does it make you sad? Almost sorry as me? When we were young and you pretended That the world was ours - how we see Does it make you sad? And make you sorry? Almost sorry as me I grant you Ti...

I wore a watch today it didn't tell me the time I saw your face today I knew you'd see through mine Does it help a lot? to see I'm on the spot never understood But I knew you yea I knew you But I knew you yea I knew you I heard your voice today turn into wha...

Share our coffee share my thoughts I could wait for years I don't know if you're an angel or I'm just feeling weird I like this picture but I don't want to work to hard and I ask you for a number You say "hey, baby if I'm an angel maybe you should take my card...

Now - you can't tell me - well, That you know too much Well, that you know too much to let go Now, I can't watch you Be an Easy vision Well an Easy vision Lord I love the heaven's solo I love the heaven so I love the heaven know by now That there is a place t...

Johnny was a peculiar guy Brough up on love and the reasons why but the reasons why ought not to be said and so I'm left hands held to my head I love you I love you I love you It's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful thing It's a beautiful, beautiful t...

What didn't know back then Was that I might be crying It is such a simple sentiment To steal the show And what I didn't know back then Is that I might be losing you And still I wouldn't know And now I suck up to the pale moonlight Like it's gonna lead me home...

Keep sun in, some faces Keep warm inside I'll take it, I'll make it The days you pride yourself on He won't be eager-making Or make some peace with you Well, I saw it I know it's true It should be Some day [now | one] When I ride high I try to - be near you S...

Tell Ma, she's a stonebreaker Tell her there are no takers For a heart like this will always be Chaste at first, then left for me And though your pallor shows instinct And all our lives are worth That stint you did with that man of mine But lady-luck, her need...

When the phone calls - I blew it I'm going home - I blew it You know, so, well where I'm going So long - leave me alone The times change - I don't believe that The times change I'm deceived by the hum Makes all days go circling round me You were always doing...

What do you do for fun? what do you do when you want fun days? I could be just anyone I'm happy to smile and mad on mondays The world is a better place now every time I see your face If I ever ever get through to you if I ever ever get through to you If I eve...

If the world should want for love I'll be ready to believe And the dreams it's tired of I'll be there to disagree Every star that dares to stray Ever spinning on the world... Love... Burn... Burn... You stay with me If the time that we have spent Really me...

I worry about the future We had such a beautiful past Rememeber when I heard your laughter? Didn't you promise it will always last? There's no one to feel your sleeplessness There's no one to steal your heart Just give me your hand past midnight And we'll kee...

Well, he said it like he meant it But he did not really care So I sat upon the Eve's embraces I was never there - No, I was never really fabled I was never really lost I was cunning through that habit of mine Y'see all the words were lost Yes, all the words we...

You pace the pool and talk about it I read my book and think about it You've walked on water as I'm turning the page You say, "What's the intrigue here... in reading when the sky is clear?" You are in the sun and I am always in the shade (chorus) It's too lat...

Will you say those things? That make me smile Leave them rushing their morning We're safe inside 'Cause you're close to me And the world's outside It's another dream Where we can hear them calling And you know what I need And it's alright 'Cause you make me...

Give me a reason For leaving the party I'll leave by the entrance The same way I came I'm not Here to enjoy you, I'm Here to endure you I'm leaving the party The same way I came It's so fine Stormin' across the sea It's alright What the drunk is explaining to...

Oh let's make everybody smile today Yeah, let's make everybody smile today Oh yes, you could be classic, could be blue Sometimes it's easy to see through you Summer birdcage it's nice and tight But let me show you it's just lies, lies, lies Oh let's make ever...

Thinking back, could I feel much older? and my stance couldn't feel much colder Can they tell what I'm getting over now? in the park I've seen you walking And in my dreams I've heard you talking can they tell what I'm getting over now? 'Cos you light up the wo...

As always I stop to speak Some girls like to say their piece As always I turn to you Don't understand what you're doing And Light up this town Grow weary and back down It's such an amazing sight To be found - Little sister leaving town Says the poet "I won't...

Love don't need no tyranny Love to bring you down When I'm older and forgiven All forgiveness - must be living Love don't need no tyranny Want to bring me down When I'm older and forgiven All is easy - all forgiven Can't be forced to stop this living -...

Love don't need no tyranny Love to bring you down When I'm older and forgiven All forgiveness - must be living Love don't need no tyranny Want to bring me down When I'm older and forgiven All is easy - all forgiven Can't be forced to stop this living - now An...

Do you feel Love is just a word to say sometimes Do you feel Love is just a word to say sometimes Do you feel Love is just a word to say sometimes Do you feel Love is just a word to say We are so far from knowing I feel so far All my life I've been running Fr...

You know it's alright Just to take me home To your serious house, with your serious tones You're a serious man, with a serious smile But the summer is hot and I might surprise you In a very short while we'll have left them behind With their faces quite pained...

I'd never call this an unpleasant situation I'd never teach you how to lie But sometimes I have been walking numb And I must catch myself before I cry Before I cry I never call anything ugly I never call anything strange and alone I never want to, take things...

If I could make the day Adjust to where I've been That's holding you close Like a new beginning If I can say the words That make you come to me I'd talk endlessly I'd talk endlessly If I can make the sun Shine on everything we do By hoping that you...

Well, our dog beats in his own heart Our dog was from the start Not much use in the rain Not much use in the sun Put it outside and let the paint run Put it outside and let the paint run Well, our mean day was not heaven sent Couldn't stay, couldn't raise the...

[From] your skin forest And whatever you talk about There are always other people to drown you out [???] I come charging No change,no change at all There is a finger tip And the shadows on the wall And the best of your rest of your friends [???] anybody care...

You give More than me And you live like Men and women In the shade More than me Yes, you hide like Men and women Men and women Jealous, born And young at heart And these walls like Men and women Men and women Yeah - yeah Yeah - yeah And chance alone Are gift...

Brother - won't you, walk you town? Don't you ever wanna stray? See, I've been seeing someone in this town And they don't wanna stay Mud in any water - see you See you laugh and sing Everbody will be happy Everbody will bring Mud in any water - bring me Neve...

If I could fly To find out where my place is Find out where my place is Above the skies I long to be in flight I would hide The tired river’s eyes The lonely mountain cries out to the sea To lift the sorrow from the world to lift the sorrow from the...

My love It's just not the same no more The game before was real to me My love You talk of so many things I'll never seen I guess I've seen it all Who knows How I could fall so far All I know is your love Is tearing in my heart My love Always not the same no...

And I Go dancing for a little Have never felt so little Fear the stars in their eyes You feel them lie So close You never dare to breathe You never dare the stars In their eyes Their eyes Am I? Supposed to even say Suppose I even say I see they're lovers eyes...

Where everybody was Where everbody go? Well, I'm so sorry boy I don't really know Oh, how did you do today? Well, I'm telling you this much I might seem like a paying girl But I've never had enough Never known No - I'm never really known I ain't never shown T...

Night is a bird that you hold in your hands Night is a bird that you hold in your hands Take a stand man And do what you do Does my love mean nothing to you? Hey band man It’s all up to you ‘Cause you know when you dance You are doing the best you ca...

Nobody heard him, the dead man But still he lay moaning I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning Old man, he always loved looking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him His heart gave way, they said Oh no, no it was t...

Well I might be politic Or I might just grab your hand I'm not selfish with my story I just want something, understand Oh, this world is not for grieving It's not grieving for my cry And I hate this growl inside And you better believe it when I tell you That i...

Orchids Nothing seems to please you any more Hanging high my hat outside the door Leaving in a rush 'cause I can't take it any more Seems so Seems so many fine things on our side How I would smile but I can't hide myself When I'm innocent It's not innocent of...

Does the heart keep beating? Is this body mine? Do the roads keep leading here? Just want to find out why Oh Lord I keep on running For there is so much to learn And all I ask of experience Is that my love will return Does a woman scare you? Are you scared t...

Oh, you can't say nothing to the pouring rain And you can't say nothing till there's hope Again - (Say) - oh my baby - you must never change For we're only the ones we love And I've stood stolen by the pauper's heart Yes, I've stood stolen where the aching sta...

I'm Just out I'm Just out Of my bed And if I Need some money I will go Get some money And if I'm I'm just out I'm just out On the town And if I need some money I will go get some money And I I'm just down I'm just down On my luck And if I Need another I will...

Well [Lou is] alright hanging out in the wind He really just wanted to fly And I'm alright doing the same again You all understand I was shy And all the palm-readers have my natural resistance That was a bonus for you If I told you I loved you, yeh you know I...

You've got me going, for all your lies You've got me going, the hoop is wide I keep believing, and what have I gained? I'll play you forever So play me again You've got me running all over town You've got me running, so deep am I bound To talk of love is onl...

Today is my birthday I stay outside the hall Inside sit the butterflies For the butterfly ball All the boys are graded now They come in their white socks, flat tops And somehow they find a placr All the boys are winning now They play all the tricks with smile...

When your life has all been token And your stance is akin to broken hearts You've grown weary - I'm not weary I can take your part It's eye-open time, sailor When they want you to pretend You were inside that playground You may be old - but not so old That I...

Old pirates yes they rob I Sold I to the merchant ships Minutes after they took I From the bottomless pit But my hand was made strong By the hand of the almighty We forward in this generation Triumphantly All I ever had, is songs of freedom Won't you help to s...

One, two, three, four In a little country [that sold it's soul] You know there's no beauty In being so cold and down With a little contact and let go You know there's no beauty In being told no, no (Chorus) I can't afford To break my heart To being down on y...

I never heard about you All that I know is rock n' roll I never tried to hide you All that I know is letting go When everything starts without you I know that you're always running slow I never heard about you All that I know is rock n' roll All that I know...

Why did you fall for an innocent? An innocent like me? Why did you fall for an innocent? An innocent like me? I know nothing will ever be 'Cos like, we don't give nothing away (Chorus) Call what you [crib] boy But it's, it's not what you need I know it's, it...

If we could talk all night I could tell you what I need It's a stationary place Where I'm moving endlessly If we could talk all night I could really turn you loos There's a blemish in the sky That I'm always falling through IT'S THE SCIENCE THAT KILLS...

Give me a stand A standing ovation, baby Give me a road Which I can tail You don't know nothing, baby So don't pretend Or you might pay Cost It's costing me nothing, baby I might feel some shame But I don't care And if you won't mind Just moving t...

If I ever wanna be someone These words undone an evil spell in me If I ever need to tell someone This one's who's waiting So patiently Good enough When nothing means enough It's just time-sweeping Some time-beaten Some time with me If I ever need to hide awa...

Maybe I'm wrong To want so much I feel those kisses falling Oh, it's never enough Maybe it's a fool Who turns to dust Never knowing how to hold on to Fearing who they love Fearing how they love Just tell me that it's something new A place to lose myself and...

If I ever wanna be someone These words undone an evil spell in me If I ever need to tell someone This one's who's waiting So patiently Good enough When nothing means enough It's just time-sweeping Some time-beaten Some time with me If I ever need t...

I'm happy to be here I'm happy to be with you For where in a lifetime Do we do the things we really want to Now old friends they watch lovers They wonder where we're going to They know each look from the other and they accuse you, accuse you It's on and on an...

Often Too often closed With a little beauty And the right supposing Suppose I meet you And make you feel There is no real reason Why I be real for you For you - it's just - a - A dozen dreamers This is the way I will it Sometimes - I'm sometimes I'm just, just...

Your sun Doesn't make it easy for me Way I breathed before Now I don't breathe - no more freely And I like To catch the shoulder where you cry My business - A message in the sky If it's a long time coming Just carry, carry somebody else's blame If it's a long...

Amazing -You don't have much to say Amazing -You don't have much to say I know your kind all too well The weather will storm Will you swear by me? Would you swear by me? Innocence - That changes nothing - I'm sure That changes something - Aside - Would you go...

I can tell by the look on your face That this is not the time or the place To ask you why - or to even try Just one look and I feel so alone Took so long to realize I was wrong And that's why I'm leaving here I always knew that there'd be changes You sometime...

The woman smiles, the cafe feels like home to you And as she glances through the magazine you feel somehow, she's seen you, too All my life I thought you said All my life I heard you say It'll be all right (All my life) If you stay for all my life, for all my...

I must have left my house at eight because I always do My train, I'm certain left the station just when it was due I must have read the morningpaper, going into town and having gotten through the editorial no doubt I must have frowned I must have made m...

Gotta go the lonely day when rhythm ends all weariness gotta hold you in my arms the feeling brings such happiness for you are more, so much more than you will ever know I am the word and I’ll never let you go Gotta move and get on down I take my pla...

We're not talking I'm not talking sensibly enough You know the soul of a man is many coloured Soul of a man one to another Wants you another day I'm not wishing on a star Talk The soul of a man is many coloured Soul of a man wants you another Another day Fro...

Every time I hear the sound of People dancing close together Where the moonlight finds the crowd And when you know there's No place better I love the way you move There's a boy who throws his head back To the rhythm when he's dancing And I can see th...

A scene so simple As if you're carried along I've seen - Some strange things and He says: "I'm used to winning" Hearts abound "I'm used to striking bands" The sound I'm used to turning every leading Story in me Believe this story in me The scene's A young man...

I'm gonna build a strange City overcome Mad as any And anyone Who wants to wish upon me I will take a city And it will take the rain Anybody who sees this face Will have to blink at this Strange heart This stranger Everbody's angel and Everbody's friend Every...

I swear I wasn't cat-napping To edge into your life I didn't notice no sad thing (It's a sundance) To the strange strains that you entice Now you may walk into an ocean view (Exciting) It's like you have understood And I was just talking at you Talking at you...

Can you Tell me? Can you see it? My eyes dreamt it My eyes sent it a thousand pieces 'Course I love it It makes me cold Amongst the ashes Drinking the rainbow Can you tell me? How to turn? The very feelings, the very feelingd That make me burn The very music...

It's a long day For me and my world It's a long day To be your girl It's been a hard times Spent missing so much But still I love you To wish this, To wishes It takes some caring To have enough It takes some pleasing To keep us crossed And growing harder To k...

I'm not there If ever I was there I'm sure I was never so bold If ever I spoke so - I'm sure it's trouble Not my trouble I'm not so sure if I control this laughter Everything herafter Everything is bound to be trouble Yeah, not my trouble Trouble No, not my t...

All God's children need travelling shoes Drive your problems from here All good people read good books Now your conscience is clear I hear you talk girl Now your conscience is clear In the morning when I wipe my brow Wipe the miles away I like to thin...

If I was a Londoner, rich with complaint Would you take me back to your house Which is sainted with lust and the listless shade If I could have held you once more with that light It's nothing to you, but it keeps me alive Like a Valentine's Day, it's a Valenti...

We almost got it together And I'll be your favourite thing Stand by the river with hard-luck eyes And I'll just be open and sing I was only trying to surprise I wish I was like the frog-princess And I'd never tell you lies And down by the soil of the hard-life...

Oh, my When you are not all together And you feel your face is a fiery place For many tears Who looks upon a picture and really feels a thrill Oh, not me Who looks into their past and feels they could leave And you'd think by looking at his soul That it reall...

You've a beautiful body and a wonderful mind These are things I've been stumbling towards And I think you've been kind towards me There are wonderful moments The gifts I've received And the knowledge is hurting But I guess it comes back to the things that you...

Well, Everyone has said that I might go 'Cos my red suitcase and my Ray Bans weren't quite so I'd bear the heavy wind and rain that falls I'll never come back again 'Cos you know how I laugh when winter shows her hand With that picture framed, is the saddest t...

The first time you stole flowers from the grave Then, the second time, you shaved your head, you had been saved By the very friendly, Jesus man And all he said, "Well, I'm your brother, man" In the winter time you - you wore patch-work hard-me-downs In the su...

Young thing - saw it And calls his brother And brother's angry You make the whole world cry You can't tell me I rid my secret You can't own me You make the whole world cry Young thing downing And it maybe hurting And it maybe the best day you ever had And I'v...