If we knew what we know now
would it be the same
the colours seeping through the window pane
blue turquoise and gold
each thrill so easy to hold
endless summers at the south coast
and if you saw me now
my first love if you saw me now
what would you say
what would you say
my first love
Sunrise we stepped out
into the morning light
walked the harbour
till our legs grew tired
fell onto the sand
breathless your hands in mine
We lay for hours side by side
watching the swelling tide
and the kites soaring across the sky
and if you saw me now
my first love if you saw me now
what would you say
what would you say
my first love
Now the colours faded beige
I cant remember your face
cannot remember how to feel that way
and if you saw me now
my first love if you saw me now
what would you say
what would you say
my first love
Where do we go now at the tail end of the evening
The pavement shimmies a cold and silver morning
Slips through the sky
Like an unwanted feeling
We’re undecided and the last bus is leaving
Where do we go where do we go
The morning after
Where do we go the song fades slow
Can’t face its over
Till we remember everything we said and did but
Where do we go
The bottles empty and the punch lines are spoken
Our eyes grow weary and the uptake is slowing
Broken polystyrene cups and wine spilt on the bathroom floor
We’re gazing up at the ceiling it’s a long long way from here to the front door
Where do we go where do we go
The morning after
Where do we go the song fades slow
Cant face its over
Till we remember everything we said and did well
Where do we go
We’re rising cant look each other
In the eyes and
What’s the big surprise it
Always ends like this
Where do we go it’s the morning after
I want to die it’s the morning after
Where do we go where do we go
The morning after
Where do we go the song fades slow
Cant face its over
Till we remember everything we said and did well
Where do we go
A little whisper little devilish grin
And I read and I read your every little sin
A little black book a little white lie
They all add up to something
gonna catch you before you die
I know its coming yeah I know its coming
What you gonna do when its coming staright for you
Your tail a swinging your claws a clinging
Soon you’ll be scrambling
Yeah yeah
A little bite a little bruise how you like to leave
Little pieces of you
A little hole under the ground
Where you stuff yourself full
Come out to prowl
I know its coming yeah I know its coming
What you gonna do when its coming straight for you
Your tail a swinging your claws a clinging
Soon you’ll be scrambling
Yeah yeah
Sneaking in the dark
Slinking through the light
The dogs are on your back
Closing in tight
The moon is howling
the ropes are pulling
Soon you’ll be scrambling
Yeah yeah
I know its coming yeah I know its coming
What you gonna do when its coming straight for you
Your tail a swinging your claws a clinging
Soon you’ll be scrambling
Yeah yeah
Come on come on over here and tell me how it is
You look just like somebody
I could listen to for a hundred years
Young and old you’re both gentle and bold
With the heart of a poet and a wiseman’s soul
And if you find me
Show me just how good it feels to come home
Tonight
there’s something in the air tells me
You’re close by
Tonight
Not a star in the sky
But there’s a glint in my eye
There’s a well in my throat the waters rising
Tonight
Come on come on over here and show me what it is
Just one word with that look in your eyes
And you’re gonna move me to tears
Underneath piece by piece
Through skin memory and time
And if you find me please remind me
I don’t need to look too far
Tonight
there’s something in the air tells me
You’re close by
Tonight
Not a star in the sky
But there’s a glint in my eye
There’s a well in my throat the waters rising
Tonight
Tonight
there’s something in the air tells me
You’re close by
Tonight
Not a star in the sky
But there’s a glint in my eye
There’s a well in my throat the waters rising
There’s a song on my lips
Got my heart in my fists
And I’m holding my breath until morning
Tonight
Give give give a little
Take take take a little
No its not gonna show
Just like spots on the pavement
When it drizzles
Don’t always add up to a rainfall
Slowly moving forward
Creeping crawling forward
Whose gonna whose gonna whose gonna see
Its coming from your blindspot out of nowhere
All of a sudden
Its all there is
It’s the little things
The smallest things
They wait their turn till you’re not looking
Out for the little things
The smallest things
They weigh you down till you’re not moving
So watch watch watch your back
And don’t forget about that
That little niggling feeling
Cause chances are its trying to
trying to tell you something
And if you ignore it
It wont just go away
Slowly moving forward
Creeping crawling forward
That’s how it that’s how it
Moves down into
Your heart holds it heavy
Just like a growing baby it gets bigger by the day
It’s the little things
The smallest things
They wait their turn till you’re not looking
Out for the little things
The smallest things
They weigh you down till you’re not moving
Slowly moving forward
Creeping crawling forward
Whose gonna whose gonna whose gonna see
Its coming from your blindspot out of nowhere
All of a sudden
Its all there is
It’s the little things
The smallest things
They wait their turn till you’re not looking
Out for the little things
The smallest things
They weigh you down till you’re not moving
We’ve got that small paddle boat in the yard
growing old and you’ve got
You’ve got a hammer a nail and a mighty fine
Flag to sail high
Out on the sea we will drift far away
from all this junk in our yards in our heads
We’ll lay it to rest
Out on the sea we will row row this boat towards the sun
Till we cross the horizon
We got this big yellow ball
And this sky blue can of paint
You got some string some paper and paintbrush
To draw it in the sky the sun will hang by a string
Out on the sea we will drift far away
from all this junk in our yards in our heads
We’ll lay it to rest
Out on the sea we will row row this boat towards the sun
Till we cross the horizon
Across that fine fine line
On the other side side side
Maybe we’ll find a happy ending
Maybe you’ll find me singing and humming
That old sailor’s song it goes
Out on the sea we will drift far away
from all this junk in our yards in our heads
We’ll lay it to rest
Out on the sea we will row row this boat towards the sun
Till we cross the horizon
Oh honey
When you walk through the door
That’s when I know every time
And you can do it every day
Just like it’s the first time
My short memory delights me
like a goldfish I can swim round
and round in your love and not notice
Just like it’s the first time
We kiss times a thousand more to come
And I can’t wait for each and every one
With your hands on my shoulders I can do it all over and over
Over and over again and again
Oh honey
With all the money I got I would not exchange your love
For nothing weighs up to your smile
And all the furrows in your frown
Can’t help but love every part of you sunny side up or down
We kiss times a thousand more to come
And I can’t wait for each and every one
With your hands on my shoulders I can do it all over and over
Over and over again and again
I am just a cleaning girl don’t have much to prove
I go about my business I ain’t got nothing to lose
I’m just another nameless face and uniform
I’m just a prostitute my body’s just my tool
No need to feel sorry I actually love what I do
I give em exactly what they came here for
Another nameless face and uniform
I am just your fantasy
your concubine your side affair
when you’ve had enough I’ll happily move on
cause I don’t really care I’d like to stay
a nameless face and uniform
I am just a bum I’m here come rain or come sun
This is just my corner my street where I belong
Cause I like my rags and I get paid to do nothing
Cept wear my nameless face and uniform
I am just a madwoman the one in your kids ghost stories
Every time they see me they gasp turn pale then run
Cause I’m a living horror story inside a nameless face and uniform
I am just your fantasy
your concubine your side affair
when you’ve had enough I’ll happily move on
cause I don’t really care I’d like to stay
a nameless face and uniform
I am a baby tossed in water
Am the not so holy daughter
I know where I’ve been but I
Don’t want to know about it
I got a ghost under my feet
Dragging me round by its crooked teeth
I know what I’ve seen but I don’t want to talk about it
No more no more
No more no more
No more no more no more
A wandering
A wandering
No more a wandering
I am a lost I am a looking back to the place I keep forgetting
How to feel I don’t know how to when I’ve gone missing
I am the cat out of the bag
The fish out of sea god I got it bad
I don’t know where I am going but I don’t want to go there
No more no more
No more no more
No more nor more no more
A wandering
Its 3 o clock I drive through shadows on the street
I know that this is not where I’m supposed to be
I want to step outside and jump on all the scattered leaves
I want to dance I feel the music rush through me
I want to run in circles make myself fall dizzy
feel the world turn upside down
I want the madness of this moment to grip me
And leave me changed I don’t care how
I don’t care how
Its 3 o clock no one to witness what I see
A pact between the moon
The street lamps the night and me
And the old birch trees watch over me
They’ve seen lifetimes passing
Lives coming and going
I want to run in circles make myself fall dizzy
feel the world turn upside down
I want the madness of this moment to grip me
And leave me changed I don’t care how
I don’t care how
Its 3 o clock and I should be in bed asleep
But I don’t want to close my eyes to this beauty
It fills me up I’m full and soon it will spill over
And then I’ll drown inside no longer skin and bones
Your hand on my knee and
We’re listening to Gershwin
I watch your eyes as you speak
And I’m feeling so certain
The most comfortable silence
when I’m around you
Don’t need to say a word
to know that I have found you
This kind of intimacy
I’ve grown to like it honey
This kind of intimacy
It tells me how much I like it
When you’re this close to me
The sound of your voice
And the nickname you gave me
The scent of your skin
And the secrets I told you
the strange and silly things you do
only endear me
the things we laugh about
that no one else finds funny
This kind of intimacy
I’ve grown to like it honey
This kind of intimacy
It tells me how much I like it
When you’re this close to me
And when we’re together
can sit through any kind of weather
we chirp like birds of a feather
it don’t get any better than
This kind of intimacy
I’ve grown to like it honey
This kind of intimacy
It tells me how much I like it
When you’re this close to me
You asked me slowly what it is I want
I know its on the tip of my tongue
But there are no words there are no words
I lost em somewhere trying to be heard
Silent we grow winter into spring
Birds build their homes
Butterflies lose their wings
And silent desire thaws into yearning
No words for that kind of feeling
So don’t you ask me
Too much to say for words
Seasons have moved through me
Cannot find words
Dust has settled under the bed
There’s a stain on the carpet and hair that’s been shed
But there are no words there are no words
These kinds of things are seen and not heard
I got a scar and the wound says it all
You’ve travelled miles
But no words to say it all
So don’t you ask me
Too much to say for words
Seasons have moved through me
Cannot find words