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Nothing I Wanna Buy

Just another guy
Waking up to another bad trade off
Between the sheets and a better life
What kinda fool am I
Trying to guess what I'm so afraid of
When I've got me on my side
My true love story's turning into a fable
I think I might skip the end
Turn my head and that table

Hey you, little boy blue
Were you trying to break my heart now?
[Yeah yeah yeah yeah]
Oh, you, wanna touch and go
For a little ride
Think you've got everything
Well I just can't see anything
That I'd ever ever ever wanna buy

Just another day
Just another day paid off
My investment's doing fine
Now I've stripped away
Everything I thought I was made of
I've got something inside
Don't need pretending when I sit at the table
I've got my happy ending
Just me and my fable

Oh - no doubt about it
Oh - I can live without it
Oh - don't need an answer
Cos there isn't any question in my mind

Hey you, little boy blue
Here's a little head start now
Oh, look at them go for a little ride
Said you've got everything
But you're just some bad medicine
I'm not taking
Just to keep me alive

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I'm Screaming

I look at strangers
Strangers look at me
And I look back and wonder
What's in them
But not in me
I'm in danger
And you said that you knew me
So I opened up
But could you see inside of me?
Or hear my prayer
Or touch me there
Or clean the window to my heart?

I'm bleeding - somebody heal me
I'm screaming - somebody hear me out
Hear me out, hear me out

People smiling
I wonder if they'd smile
If someone took away their love
And all their love had died?
I was blinded
Staring at a smile
That tried to kill me
But leave me alive
Without a prayer
No one to touch me there
Or clean the window to my heart

I'm bleeding - somebody heal me
I'm screaming - somebody hear me out
Hear me out, hear me out
Break: People around me
No one takes my hand
My thoughts surround me
My only friends
The party's going on
But it's all inside my head

I'm bleeding - somebody heal me
I'm screaming - I'm screaming
Out, screaming out
Screaming

I'm screaming - someone believe me
I'm screaming - somebody lead me out
Lead me out, lead me out

I'm bleeding - somebody heal me
I'm screaming - somebody hear me out
Hear me out, hear me out

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Take What You Want

We left the silence on
While we sat upon
The fence we built around our hearts
Aiming scatter guns
Speaking sticks and stones
Ammunition over and out now

If it's over and done, I'll pack my things
Raking over the coals is not my thing
If we're gonna throw stones
Here comes the first one, catch my ring

Take what you want
Don't wanna bitch about it
Take what you need
I can live without it
Take what you want
Take everything
Take what you need
It don't mean anything to me

We put the sirens on
All the lines were down
No signal baby, dead and gone
You were the only one
Now its said and done
You'll never even hear this song, no
Got a chemical reaction
Slowing down
Two hearts on fire going out
You feel named when I'm not around
Well you're naked now

Take what you want
Don't wanna bitch about it
Take what you need
I can live without it
Take what you want
Take everything
Take what you need
It don't mean anything to me

You'll run through the jungle faster
Without me
And be happy ever after
Take it
Please take it
Oh take it

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Ten Years On

Ten years and counting all the days
But I could never count the ways
That I love you
If I could I'd multiply them
By the lucky stars that guide us through
Where eagles fly
We fly higher still
The words I write
They won't ever do
But I'm trying still
To tell you that

All I am is you
These ten years on it's true
We're just everything you promised me
And I promised you

I had a life, but life was black and white
And different shades of grey were all I knew
My sound and vision gone
Until you came and turned them on
With colours and your tune
Two hearts on fire
Burning for a lifetime
And I sing higher than
I could ever do
Without you [cos]

All I am is you
These ten years on it's true
We're just everything you promised me
And I promised you

Do you remember Lovers In Life?
Not a dream on that magical night
Hearts can be broken
But we kept the moment
That never slipped out of our sight

Solo/Ch

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Every Time I Look at you Now

Sorry I acted like a child
When you said I was closer
Than you could describe
And that I wanted so much of you
That I was so close
You felt that I was living inside
Now I'm in a place
I'm caught in a space
Where dreams don't come true
Still trying to read
Lines I fell between

Every time I look at you now
It still feels like the first time
Every time I close my eyes
I still dream
A dream of sunlight
Every time I look at my life
I believe in the next time
Sometime

Sorry I, I'm only flesh and blood
Wish I could rise above the water
That's making us drown
Inside of feeling I'm part of the scenery
Painted by numbers
That we have forgotten now
People tell me it's better to love
And to lose
Than never to love at all
But if that love is lost
I think they could be wrong

I've heard enough
It's not good enough
Holding you only in the arms of my heart
I'm tired of listening
Love's not a mystery
The end is just another start

Solo

Every time I look at you now
It still feels like the first time
Every time I close my eyes
I still dream
A dream of sunlight
Every time I look at my life
I believe in the next time
Sometime

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Never Coming Out

I'm trying to cross the river somehow
But if I walked on water
Would you ask if I could fly around
If I was top of the pile
Would you tell me I'd get caught up
If I didn't climb a little higher?
And you're surprised
When I put rings around my eyes
And get my hair coloured blue
You say you understand
But there's a better chance
Of finding rocking horse poo
That's why I'm telling you

I guess I'm gonna stay in bed
My pillow wrapped around my head
I'm never coming out - NO!
Look but you won't find
Cos I've locked me in my mind
And I've kissed you goodnight
No I'm never coming out

I met a boy without a roof on his car
But you said he was just
A tosser in a Jaguar
Now tell me who was taking who for a ride
You got a driver but it won't go
More than two hundred yards
So if I'm riding with the wind in my hair
It's only so I can feel it
And if I hide inside my rock and roll head
It's cos you never believe it - so
Ch: I guess I'm gonna stay in bed
My pillow wrapped around my head
I'm never coming out - NO!
Look but you won't find
Cos I've locked me in my mind
And I've kissed you goodnight
No I'm never coming out

My oh my
How sad am I
Oh - he wouldn't stay
I think I'll run away?

Solo

I guess I'm gonna stay in bed
My pillow wrapped around my head
I'm never coming out - NO!
Look but you won't find
Cos I've locked me in my mind
And I've kissed you goodnight
No I'm never coming out
Never coming out now - no
Never coming out...

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Over You

I cried alone at night
Cried so many tears
I made my clothes shrink at least one size
And left alone I tried
To make you disappear
But I could only put you in disguise
Ooh - falling for you
Was such a disgrace
That I ever let you have my number
Take your pretty face
Far enough away to mend my blunder
I won't let you take me under
I'll get over you - over you

I used to see your face in every pretty thing
I saw inside a fashion magazine
But now I sit and wonder
How I very nearly had a
Narrower than narrow escape
Ooh - I'm just passing through
A smile on my face
I don't need to stretch to see tomorrow
Finding my space
Where I don't need to beg, to fee me
You're outside my head, believe me
Cos I'm over you - over you

solo

How does it feel
When you look in my direction
A little unreal?
Now you're a total disconnection

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Kiss By Kiss

Spend a lot of time walking on my own
Kicking up sand on an empty coast
Waiting for the sun to light the day
Waiting for someone to light my way
To take my breath away [from me]
While I say

Kiss by kiss by kiss
I fall in love with you baby [love you baby]
Kiss by kiss by kiss
You start to drive me crazy [drive me crazy]
Kiss by kiss by kiss you take me
All the way to heaven baby
Please - take me

Did the sun fall from the sky
Did my imagination fly
When you walked from the waves into my eyes
When I touched you
And you touched me with your mind
The whole world came alive - now I sing

Kiss by kiss by kiss
I fell in love with you baby [love you baby]
Kiss by kiss by kiss
You started driving me crazy [drive me crazy]
Kiss by kiss by kiss you take me
All the way to heaven baby
Please - take me

Floating somewhere, floating by
Between the ocean and the sky
And though I might get lost at sea
I know love's my company
And I've got everything
If I've got you and me

solo

Kiss by kiss by kiss
I love you just a little more than I can say
Kiss by kiss by kiss
My loving gets a little stronger every day
Kiss by kiss by kiss you take me all the way to heaven baby
Kiss by kiss by kiss by kiss by kiss by kiss...

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Human Wasteland

Situation out
Out of control
I'm losing my legs
While I'm still learning to crawl
You're walking away
While I raise my hands
You thought I was waving
I was drowning instead
Up on the roof
As the waters rise
Growing food and watching it die
And leave me
Hopelessly devoted to the world I see

He breaks, she bends
It's all pretend
And in the end
It's all a waste
Human waste
A human wasteland

People in my house
They live for themselves
Shouting out, taking from my shelf
I break my balls
With the words I said
They can hear
Wish they could listen instead
Up in my room
I close my eyes
Whistling a tune
To keep me alive
And leave me
Hopelessly devoted to the world I see

We make amends
She fakes again
We all join hands
And round the bends
Of human waste
Human waste
Human wasteland

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I Don't Know Why

1. Our love is broken, the lines are down
Words all spoken, the fire's out
My heart's stopped weeping, but your heart is crying so loud

Ch:
I don't know why you can't take it like a man
Although I tried, I can't get you to understand
It's killing you, but you'll see
There's more to life than me
Though you feel you can't go on
I don't know why

2. Keep my picture you held from the start
Keep hold of the memories now we're apart
Hold me forever and ever alone in the arms of your heart

Ch:
I don't know why you can't take it like a man
Although I tried, I can't get you to understand
It's killing you, but you'll see
There's more to life than me
Though you feel you can't go on
I don't know why

Break:
Believe me, you're killing me
How long did you think I could last
Believe me, you're giving me
A future that's only a part of the past

[You're killing me!]

Ch: I don't know why you can't take it like a man
Although I tried, I can't get you to understand

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The Price I'd Pay

So we've got the time
We've got the space
But I can't help feeling
This is a bad place
I see the road
We should have been going down
I wish I could follow it now

It's a long long way to fly
When you're falling from such a high
It's not the end of the world
But I see it from here
Watching the tears
Drip through the hole in my heart

I'm dreaming of somewhere
Yesterday left behind
Seems like it's somewhere
We can reach from the inside
Take what I say - take my breath away
Take all the music I'll ever play
Take what's for granted anyway
Take everything - it's the price I'd pay

For each beginning
There must be an end
Sometimes we break
When we meant to bend
I'm living with my mistakes
But losing you
Can't be the one that I make

If we let it wither - if we let it die
Who'd tell the story
Of you and I?
So let's talk a while but not too loud
Telling us how
To live in the here and the now

I'm dreaming of somerewhere
Yesterday left behind
Seems like it's somewhere
We can reach from the inside
Take what I say
Take my breath away
All the music I'll ever play
Take it all - it's the price I'd pay

Solo

I'm dreaming of somewhere
Yesterday left behind
Seems like it's somewhere
We can reach from the inside
Take what I say - take my breath away
All the music I'll ever play
Take what's for granted anyway
Take it all - take what is here today
Take everything - it's the price I'd pay

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Lover's Cross

I guess it was bound to happen
Just a matter of time
Now I've come to my decision
And it's one of the painful kind
Now it seems that you wanted a martyr
Just a regular guy wouldn't do
But lady I can't hang upon no lover's cross for you

I really gotta hand it to you
I know you really tried
But I need you to understand now
That so did I
And you were trying to make me your martyr
And that's one thing I just couldn't do
Cos baby I can't hang upon no lover's cross for you

Tables are meant for turning
And people can change
But all our bridges are burning
Cos we just can't be on the same page
Still I hope that you find what you're looking for
Someone to be what I'm not
He'd have to be a special man
Or an angel of god
Cos I was never much of a martyr before
And I ain't about to start something new
Baby I can't hang upon no lover's cross for you
No, I can't hang upon no lover's cross for you