SIMON FOWLER Lead / backing Vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica STEVE CRADOCK Electric / acoustic guitars, vocals, auto harp, percussion, piano and mandolin OSCAR HARRISON Drums, backing vocals, percussion and bass guitar ANDY BENNETT Electric / acoustic guitar DAN SEALEY Bass / electric guitar and lead vocals
I TOLD YOU SO Oh when she talks everyone listens She casts a spell she's a magician She says she's a saint but i just don't know Oh i told you so She walks in a line and everyone follows A promise so fine but just for tomorrow She says that's ok but i just don't know Oh i told you so Yes i told you, i told you, I told you, i told you so... When she gets home and nobody follows Alone in her shell she dreams of tomorrow She says she's ok but i just don't know Oh i told you so, oh i told you so, Oh i told you so, oh i told you so.
ON THE LEYLINE, WAITING We invent new words Just, so that we can use them There's shadows hanging over me now It's on the leyline waiting When the magic comes And the shit subsides Then you're on your way And our ship sets sail To the harbour cries To the crossroads where You make it sound so right But for the kiss i'm missing You're right it's hot and cold now And that becomes our distance When the magic comes And the shit subsides Then you're on your way And our ship sets sails To the harbour cries On a leyline where If i could find it in a shop You know i'd have to buy it Some people buy a church But moribund will find them
FOR DANCERS ONLY Bus stop stretching out before All along the High Street wall 'Til your eyes can't see no more Early evening in sunlight Turns the world to shine so bright Like a blind man given sight Like a million neon lights This old town won't let me go It's got my feet it's in my soul There is no going back it's just forward now The silver screen it sees my gaze I try to look beyond the haze I could forgive it everything is true Just take me with you too Out upon the empty floor The lone dancer spinning on Throwing caution to the wall There's a sign behind the door Says for dancers only sure And the lone dancer she knows She can never be lonely This old town tells you to stay Then you know you ain't getting away There is no going back it's just forward now These haunted halls play melodies So sweet and tender on life's breeze I could forgive it everything is true Just take me with you too
MAN IN THE MIDDLE I let go of myself so i feel bad All i do is wait so i feel sad My mind slips away and i'm wondering how It all came to this, can i go now I'm the man in the middle D'you know how that feels The one in the middle you know And i don't really love you I've been here before I've been in the middle you see I don't have to go, so i stay home Wondering why i'm feeling so bad Don't you think that you, you could be strong 'Cos i'm not something to share And i'm on my own (Oh yes i am)
I JUST GOT OVER YOU Mrs Jones she rides again Mr Jones he knows Mrs Jones she rides so many Pulling at their clothes Looking down her nose Hey, I just got over you The world's a bigger place A better place than you And hey, I've just found my head Ahead in a bigger space Ahead in a better place She knows she rides she'll miss you If she rides it fast She marked our card but she'll miss you You hope you'll always last Then you mark it fast my friend Make your own way out Your strategy is so hard to see But your intentions in doubt
GO TO SEA When you're twenty one and North of the border the chance is The military man will come and offer a hand and advances Go to sea boy Go to sea boy Go to sea boy With the shipyards sunk-on the Clyde Go to the sea the junk life is dangerous With a pocket of woes in this perishing hole it's so obvious Then you'll sail away and we'll teach you a trade That's for life It's only killing but there's nobody willing So we're asking on the Clyde When you're 21 and north of the border the chance is You'll sail away to a life in the dirt then advances
YOU'LL NEVER FIND ME That's the train on which I'll ride I will look for a different sky And you'll never find me down so low again That's the plane on which I'll fly I will wake in a different time And you'll never find me down so low again I'm looking for someone to lift me up I'm looking for someone to fill my cup And you'll never find me down so low again If I try I might see All the things that I can be And you'll never find me down so low again For all the angels for all the world This is my truth so you've been told And you'll never find me down so low again And you'll never find me down so low again
THESE DAYS I’M TIRED These days I find I'm picking up all of it These days I'm tired and low And you don't care what you find You're messing up all of it These days you're tired Then you forget the time to be Free you walk in the line Then you forget the time to be Free you walk in the light's on These days you find you're picking up all of it These days you're tired and low And you don't care what you find You're losing all touch of it These days you're tired
DON'T GET ME I'll check my hair, and get my shoes See my face, it's nothing new There's no-one here when there's no-one there So much you go far but no-one cares Don't get me high don't get me fooled Don't get me wrong on nights with you The locks are cold when there's no-one there I'd make them a bit stronger but we don't care Ba ba ba ba etc You still don't care but if you had to choose Something so small could break this in two People like to say people get stronger Just before they fall out of their heads Breaking up can make things seem much longer Tell you what you give is what you get Ba ba ba ba etc And what you need is what we share When we go home and it's just not there Ba ba ba ba etc
LONELIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD Breaking up inside her make-up case She's knows it's been a desperate day Making pointless phone calls to someone Who's never there; they don't answer anyway 'Cos only the loneliest girl in the whole-wide world World could feel that way And only the loneliest girl in the whole-wide world Makes her escape and fades away Writing countless letters to her God She knows He's there night and day Better than the friends that change and bend Then ain't there; then they run away Please make something happen Make it happen just for Jane Make it happen in the sunshine Make it happen even in the pouring rain
MR BROWN Mr Brown, you promised us the earth So you can't let us down So for what it's worth Mr Brown It's just the last one there Said he didn't think it very fair It's up to you to turn it round So come on Mr Brown, Mr Brown Mr Brown, come on, come on Mr Brown etc... And when the whole world's screaming, scheming, cheating Mr Brown won't care He won't be lying, stealing, dealing, deceiving Mr Brown's most fair But now he's not there Because it's you who wears the crown But one day and it won't be fair They will come and cut you down, Mr Brown And we all know it's true There's no-one who could follow you There's no-one who can touch you
TWO LOVERS Like a good boy when I got home from school I did my work for you Just a boy with my head in the clouds And I make it all come true And I got two lovers Jumping in and out of my bed One hates the other And the other wished the other was dead Like a good boy I served my soul And I kept my peace with the world I got the sense when the time was sent Then I got my turn Two la la lovers Two la la la lovers I'm coming home When I was a boy at school I did my work when I got home Took the chance when I saw you Now I'm like a Rolling Stone Two la la lovers Two la la la lovers
DAYLIGHT Daylight wake me and it awakes me with you All of the faces and all of the places are you Getting home and feeling glad Feeling love and love is mad So daylight wakes me So daylight wakes me Daylight wake me now I'm ready to come All of the faces and all of the places are done Getting home and feeling high Feeling love and love is life So daylight wakes me So daylight wakes me
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