White Lies

Could I sit alone and ask about my future? When you replied I'd just turn away I've been searching through my books to try and find some truth Perhaps disguise is a mysterious way? And if I made a promise Could I stay by your side? Would you guarantee my safet...

I was waiting in the back-seat of the car, When I knew i'd given up Down one of the back-streets by the park,So sick of the taste of blood I'm gonna write your girl a letter,It'll make everything better Screaming down the phone-line to your mum,She said hone...

I wish no harm to come of you Split bottles in shopping aisles Cold rain in front of you On the inside I wish no hurt to cover you Magazine pictures of city-life Wax smiles, vanilla cream, The good eyes Make it an emergency, I'll be your ma...

All this trying to breathe Is making me nervous No I can't uncurl my toes Is that part of your service? O-oh You've hung up your four degrees I hope they're making this worth it 'Cos I've had the fear a week And I've been trying to shirk it, o-oh He...

Slow I'm gonna settle down slow Down to the hum of electric life and soul Faith In my hand to trade But for the word and The light of a bitter saint And you can get me work? But I can't work for free I've got a room downtown With a bed and a big TV...

You took the tunnel route home, you've never taken that way with me before. Did you feel the need for change? Apologies on your fingernails, love flickered in the city of lights, Like intermittent radio waves I don't need your tears I don't want your love I j...

can't think straight, I've been thinking in love triangles, and vicious circles, is it the same as before? And I said I could never lie to you, but you know I always do, is it the same as before? And misery is like a hearse, cause you know where you'...

I'm going to miss the way I missed you. But I'm okay if you're okay. I've been lonely when I'm with you. But now I'm lonely all the same. If you need to find yourself in the arms of someone else I wish you on your way but my love I've never been too g...

I felt loved last night for the first time in a long time It feels like coming home to stay Like falling in the sea when it's too hot in the sun But made things so much worse today I know you said you'll miss me But I know that you won't Because time is like...

I'm sick of all the noise From the storm in here I need a little quiet To get things clear, but Tell me something true Or a lie I know And show me that you're there And I'm not alone now So if the right words Feel like the wrong kind to say I'll kee...

I love the feeling when we lift off watching the world so small below i love the dreaming when i think of the safety in the clouds out my window i wonder what keeps us so high up could there be a love beneth these wings if we suddenly fall should i screa...

You look from the roof to the smoke on good nights Tall dreams at the beck of the stars seem alright Your heart aglow 'Cause you know, you know It was all raised up for your life For your eyes You live in the quiet that was sewn for good wives Four kid...

Nothing more to say And nothing more to do The city is heating up And all the kids are leaving school Trying to keep my cool I know you're trying to keep yours, too But summer makes the fool Of every heart it wishes to And I need you more and more As...

You said your, your mind was changing I wasn't listening up here in my daydream My love is unchanging I've just got problems that need rearranging I don't want to feel it all, but know what fuels it I don't want to feel it all, but don't wanna lose it I...

If you tell me to jump then I'll die In my dreams I'm there I always hoped that I'd learn how to fly In my dreams I'm there You can tie my hands to the walls But you can't tie my dreams to this place I might fall like a rock from your heart But you won...

Home is where you feel least away Where the ache of loneliness stays Just as dormant as a good dog Away is when you feel less at home Like a pebble violently thrown By the hand of a sick child It's like the night is all on your time I'm nearly going o...

The light still in our eyes We're leaving this old fairground behind It's a dream that's growing cold The circus never dies The act forever haunts these skies I know we cannot stay Farewell to the fairground These rides aren't working anymore Goodbye to this...

On the cusp of vessel 18 A look of terror in our eyes The moonlight licked the face of danger Innocence made us like soldiers Untouchable and golden The quilt of darkness dotted with our teardrops I know you're sad I'm leaving So this may hurt a little But gi...

Too late He knows you're all back-to-front Your bottom lip shaking Your happines quakes as it's torn apart Sunday late When you go and get your stuff "What's yours is mine" That unpractical line Back to bite your arm No, don't leave him anything No...

Roll on out the grand parade Send up all the fire and wings The butcher here to gut the day And spill out the sudden king All the bravest boys, waiting for the world end I never knew you all that well Your rifle came before your name Our mothers share...

Darling, we're starting, she said We go live in a heartbeat Waiting for something in my car A little hope out of nothing And through the hum on the line She said "I was a first time caller But a long-time listener I've been waiting a while to tal...

Where do you go Whenever it gets serious? Your reasons are old I'm overcome with weariness I heard you're in Mexico But move around, never settle long You took two years in Tokyo An insincere attempt to grow So tell me, how can we still be friends Wh...

I saw a friend that I once knew at a funeral He took the time out to be seen His eyes kept glancing to the hour hand On the gold watch That he'd been given by a magaze He didn't cry when the priest gave a sermon Just pulled up the woollen collar on his f...

So if you go And leave recklessly "We" can only be me "We" can only be me That’s something I Through the turns of my life Never wanted to be Never wanted to be But if you stay Just a bolt in the bow Then you’ll never know Then you’ll neve...

Too late for a favour This bruising hung a shade all over my head And over my heart There's no road back to the start You said I'm in danger It's so foolish to let a stranger into my head Into my heart All lust gets in trough a scar And you should you...

"From the place that I stand to the land that is openly free Watching rivers run black by the trees that are vacant to greed" Gotta give it up Gotta get a second chance Gotta give it up Gotta get a second chance and the joke's just started Gotta give i...

To the heat of a foreign sun, Warm my love safe in your arms. And the choirs of the air and sea, Spend your lungs to sail her home to me. I saw her blue eyes candied in the headlight - she's got a new style, I saw her white smile digging in the goldmin...

Heaven wait Is your light always on? Through the ashen wake I'll swim with the saved to your door Heaven wait Are you but a bruise on the sky? A moral ache? A reason to live or to die? So wait for me Wait for me Take this weight up from me Heaven...

I go out, right out For a heart in a heartless town I'd come unwind And this love, my love Isn't odd as I though it was Am I no one, without someone to need me Hold back your love, you know that I had my doubts Wanna see what I feel without Every fee...

You were writhing on the floor like a moth in molasses Whoever taught you to move your body like that? Goose pimples just vanished like some out of date acid Whoever taught you to scream like that? Maybe someday I could move like you Well I'm not looking for...

Found my way Under your world Tried to change I tried to unfurl How I miss that stingwhen the phone won't ring And I wish I'd bruise when it's me, not you I miss that burnas I lose my turn When the morning clears, I feel that you're not here Oh, I me...

I'm not a woman I'm not a man I am something that you'll never understand I'll never beat u I'll never lie And if you're evil I'll forgive u by and by 'Cuz U - I would die 4 u Darling if u want me 2 U - I would die 4 u I'm not your lover I'm not yo...

She stares into the mirror Youth fading with the sun The hollows in her face,like wishing wells Scarlet as a paper-cut and jewelled as the orion She'd never worn the jewellery as a girl She says 'the only thing I've ever found That's greater than it always so...

I overthink on my thinking Thinking this way for you I overdream every dream, my love When I dream about you I don't know what to feel anymore Feeling all this for you I don't know what it means anymore If you mean that much to me No one plans for an...

You hold the dice and I wait for your roll It's not the first time that I'm losing control With reddened eyes I blink out the days I wait for your reply, am I still worth a save? Where's your message for me Jo? Time's not with me, don't you know Call me...

Iron, the man, who's always on the watch Ever-listening, a god The host in a rut Dead in the hand before the wave has struck The driftwood of love: a table for one So kick me, come on Kick me, come on I gotta nail the job So kick me, come on Kick me,...

I'm not love in you, way I wanted to. What I had to do, had to run from you I'm in love with you, but the vibe is wrong And that haunted me, all the way home So ya never know, never, never know Never know enough, till it's over love Till we lose control, syste...

I tried to live without you Although I find it hard to do I thought of yesterday How sweet the love we shared And I just can't forget you 'Cause first love never dies Now I'm alone without you Don't know what I'm gonna do You've been a part of me I'm lost wit...

Sometimes I have to wake up But it's all a little painful All the street noise This city's make up Too heavy for me to shake off Is it morning in LA? I need to talk to my friend Or maybe night time in Shanghai Tell them what I'm feeling They a...

The city stays high, all night Lit up and shivering Like a pinball table of fireflies An echo of home, on the edge of life Shot through the veins of an angel I'm a devil in exile But if you have forgotten Your precious mother tongue What do you think...

I really tried to be good But goodness, won't come easy to me You're too good in your own ways In others, you're evil like me When they call my name, I'm the first to smile I put a few feet wrong on the moral pile When I break the rank, I'm the first to...

You talked me to sleep last night I hadn't felt that sad in years Your eyes like glass mistakes They moved me close to tears You speak those favourite fables which I'm yet to live And casually confirm my fears That I've got nothing to give I wish I cou...

After the red ants, the black-out comes peace and quiet Those little footprints fleshed out calm in my mind I lay like a compass, digits accusing the sunrise Raindrops abseil the window and flinch through the hurt cries I feel this great pressure coming down...

When does the show start? When does it all get moving? I feel something in the air I don't know what I'm doing Though the shapes are familiar In the shadows of quiet rooms I don't feel like I'm really there Wait for me I'll be there soon For now, just...

I pressed my ear to your chest and heard something personal A whisper that knew my name Is this how your heart treats all strangers, With love and affection? Then I feel cold and empty I've got a sense of urgency I've gotta make this happen No stone unturned...

Hold tight for heartbreak, alcohol and loneliness Right time to get away,where I'm going, I couldn't care I'm bored and I'm afraid of falling like rain for you So tired, I'm picking skin just cos its something to do Poor girls and sad boys, dull roads to...

Counting down the days But the rain won't leave my room It's so heavy today It promised to get away But somehow it never do And I know it won't change Trying to clear my head I don't wanna clear my love for you And see it falling that way Don't know...

I wake up lonely with love at my side I wake up lonely and I don’t know why I meet the morning on his way back home It seems he never really works for long But here In my heart an endless hole No words sooth the night You ring, I’m running home All th...

So tall, erase those worried eyes Lay your trouble out beside me and sit And so I'll sympathise Leave it feeding there inside me Oh take it out on me I'm in love with the feeling Oh take it out on me Maybe hooked on the healing Oh take it out on me I...

Hang me up on your wall, above the coal fire Keep your promises, keep your promises Hang me up on your wall You're such a cold liar, do what your father says What your father says I still remember your voice, it turns my blood cold The kids are fast asleep, k...

What if I were to disobey, give you back the power? Would I be punished like a child? And left on my own Would you think me ungrateful, and send me away? If I couldn't make you happy As empty handed leaving,as I was when I came Tiptoeing through the rubble, a...

"Don't lay a finger" I said but he held her with five Kissed the crest of her lips And put his hand on her thigh "One million in a week or the girl's gonne go" "I'd kill you in a second" He laughed "Yeah I know" I won eight hundred thousand on a game show But...

I think that people come and fade away like waves crashing against the coastal boat We have to throw ourselves into the blue and pray that we can keep our heads afloat Because I've walked along beaches writing 'Save Our Souls' in the sand And when the sea mee...

There goes our love again; Forgive my heart, forgive my heart. There goes our love again; Elate my heart and take the time that's burning at the back of my mind Cause I'm broken and blind and holding up the jaw of desire. But there goes our love again....

You turn to me, I say "What's there to talk about?" Over fifteen years we’ve talked about it all I've learned to be as alone as together means Because we bring me down and I drive you up the wall If you've got the mind to leave Then pick a topic to talk...

He said to lose my life or lose my love, That's the nightmare I've been running from. So let me hold you in my arms a while, I was always careless as a child. And there's a part of me that still believes, My soul will soar above the trees. But a desperat...

i love the quite of the night time when the sun is drowning in the deathly sea i can feel my heart beating as i speed from then sense of time catching up with me the sky set out like a pathway but who decides which road we take as people drift into a dre...

Call Tokyo, call New York It's just same but different, love Call Jupiter, call Lyon Find a right, and find a wrong Go breathe it out, walk your walk Come back when you're ready to talk But heart ringing, take the call Our life is in print to play Fli...

My love Changes with the weather And my heart's Red imitation leather I'd give the world But the world is never enough For a girl With it all I guess I'm just tricky to love And it could be tricky to love My love A rush of every season But vagu...

The market-place has nothing to sell Left alone its awnings shiver Wind whilstles through the wood Fish teeth snapping in a river Peaks puncture the sky Like a child's icy toes Dipped in a stream That a few of us know And the clouds just a ripple? A shock from...

Just give me a second darling to clear my head Just put down those scissors baby on the single bed The sand in the hour glass is running low I came through thunder the cold wind the rain and the snow To find you awake by your windowsill A sight for sore e...

Rain keeps coming down On our unhappy town Grey it's bleak parade Little drops of heaven's shade Rain keeps coming down On children in their paper crowns Daylight torn away Litter for the night to raid Feeling low My eyes long to glow My limbs turn...

Is there someone here keeping score? Am I the only one needing more? All the colour has drained away All the light and the goodness is overcome By hunger leaving us undone You know I'd run Anywhere I set upon So tell me, where do I go? Tell me, where...

I heard an angels voice, singing in quiet prayer It seemed to pull my heart, slowly straight up the stairs I spent that night awake, though you lay fast asleep, I saw a teardrop fall, gently down your cheek You still love him but she does too, she'll tak...