Key Lyrics
All lyrics by Alison Moyet except Tongue Tied (Moyet/ Glenister) and All Cried Out (Moyet/Swain/Jolley)
Where Hides Sleep
Where hides sleep
Is she watching me
Don’t desert me now
Where hides sleep
You’re tormenting me
Don’t forsake me now
Take hold of my soul and pull me into darkness
Come to me
Cover me over and stifle my anguish
Where hides sleep
She’s avoiding me
Don’t evade me now
Where hides sleep
Please don’t torture me
Don’t forsake me now
I open my lips to your warm ancient potion
Come to me
I would be still and devoid of emotion
For I would be slumber that I could be rest
Curl in warm embers of such peacefulness
Caressed by oblivion, swallowed by dreams
I want you to hold me, cover my eyes
From the cold distant daylight that holds no surprise
You could make me forget, make me believe
If you’d steal away loneliness by any means
By any means
Where hides sleep
Is she watching me
Don’t desert me now
Where hides sleep
You’re tormenting me
Don’t forsake me now
Where is she
Take hold of my soul and pull me into darkness
Come to me
Cover me over and stifle my anguish
Where is she
I open my lips to your warm ancient potion
Come to me
I would be still and devoid of emotion
Where hides sleep
She’s avoiding me
Don’t evade me now
Where hides sleep
Please don’t torture me
Don’t forsake me now
All Cried Out
You took your time to come back this time
The grass has grown under your feet
In your absence I changed my mind
And someone else is sitting in your seat
I know that I said there’d be no one else
I know that I said I’d be true
But baby, I burned Cupid’s arrow
And here’s the short and narrow
I’ve nothing left to offer you
All cried out
You took a whole lot of loving
For a handful of nothing
All cried out
It’s hard to give you something when you’re
Pushing and a-shoving me around
So, don’t look surprised
There was no disguise
You knew where I stood from the start, so
Stop!
Look around you
You’re right back where I found you
Take back your cold and empty heart
All cried out
You took a whole lot of loving
For a handful of nothing
All cried out
It’s hard to give you something when you’re
pushing and a-shoving
All cried out
You took a whole lot of loving
All cried out
It’s hard to give you something when you’re
Pushing and a-shoving me around, around, around
Around, around…
You go your way
I’ll go mine
I won’t stay around here
Don’t you waste my time
All cried out
You took a whole lot of loving
For a handful of nothing
All cried out
It’s hard to give you something when you’re
pushing and a-shoving
All cried out
You took a whole lot of loving
All cried out
It’s hard to give you something when you’re
Pushing and a-shoving me around, around, around
Around, around…
Such Small Ale
We should step out
From under this cloud
Take chance to meet daylight
Abandon the crowd
Let’s pack off the ghosts
So late to their beds
With a hand-tied of lavender
To gentle their rest
What have we here for tether?
Our own restraint
Which sprite are we appeasing with this
Long-recited litany of grievous shame?
Heathens brewing virtue from a
Reservoir of pain
With life for drink from brim to brink
Who’d choose to sink in
Such small ale?
We should step out
From under this shroud
Warming bones in the dapple light
With the choosing still ours
What is here to keep us
But our own restraint
Whose sins are we redeeming
With our much-beleaguered retinue of bleeding saints?
What heathen waits to rest by sleeping?
Hold your creeping tears to fill a pail
For pity’s sake
It’s such small ale
For what else is there to keep us
But our own restraint
What nature do we sweeten in our reservoir
Of bitter rain
This drowning game
Blow these seething years to fill a sail
With life for drink
From brim to brink
Who’d choose to sink in
Such small ale?
We won’t sink in
Such small ale.
All Signs of Life
The skyline is fading
Planets rearranging
For one man collecting his distance
His lungs are a bellow
Such a mechanical fellow
He’s breathing in circles
In circles
All signs of life
On the rolling hills
Like the curve of her hip dipping
Oh, he can see her face
So, he picks up his pace
Don’t hurry here
All the signs of life
His body’s a blister
Scowling, solitary mister
No tail wind to borrow
No rest tomorrow
His lungs are a bellow
Dress him in sunflower yellow
He’s breathing in circles
In circles in circles
All signs of life
And he spits his pain
And he sucks in the air like ether
And he breathes it again
Now his chest is a mine exploding
And the bitumen sticks
Like the catch in his throat
He’s going down
And he sleeps in the dust
On a blanket she laid out for him, here
All the signs of life
All the signs of life
All the signs of life
All the signs of life
Here
Can’t Say It Like I Mean It
It’s easier to forgive someone for being wrong
Than for being right
Isn’t it?
And how your angry tears will fall when all your plans
Don’t suit the one you made them for
It comes to this
It’s easier forgetting how you got to shore
When every cloud that blows your way is
Something else
To blame me for
Say it like you feel it
You can’t say it like you feel it any more
Say it like I mean it
I can’t say it like I mean it any more
I can’t say it any more
Hold it up to the light it looks like love
It’s what the mirror says
You name it so
But you cut your pretty shapes as paper flakes
From careful sheets
They blow away not made to keep
What if alteration makes a little lie?
When what you paint instead is easier on the eye
Than what you hide
Say it like you feel it
You don’t say it like you feel it any more
Say it like I mean it
I can’t say it like I mean it any more
Not any more
There are people who you think
You’re gonna love forever
Oh, when you should know better
You should know better
Some people only see you
As a move they’re making
Another step they’re taking
A bet they’re staking
There are people who you think
You’re gonna love forever
You’re gonna stay together
You should know better
Some people don’t forgive you
What you give up freely
Or that you found it easy
They want to own completely
I can’t say it like I mean it any more
Fire
Behold the city rocks
And what you really want
Won’t stay with you
Oh, how the shifting light
Once clean, precise
Conspires now to play with you
Dust falls on everyone
Our innocence with time all rearranged
Two hearts beat on
Dismayed to find their rhythm so estranged, oh
I’m on fire
I’m on fire
I’m on fire with you
Today I walk familiar lanes
‘Neath stone and spire where nothing’s changed
But space and time
And if you tread your step the same
Choose this hour, this day
Feel your hand for mine
Ours was a cruel exchange
Staying whole or being me and you
Forget, or find a way
To cut a hole that only we pass through
I’m on fire
I’m on fire
I’m on fire with you
Dust falls on everyone
Our innocence with time all rearranged
Two hearts beat on
Dismayed to find their rhythm so estranged, oh
I’m on fire
I’m on fire
I’m on fire with you
Filigree
I fell into a cinema
Watching pictures in a dream
Shifting the fidget into still
Nine other people took their leave
No humping bones
All filigree
Grace and nature mimicry
All but took me to my knees
You jump too soon
And miss all this
Now something beautiful happens
All there is
These beautiful minutes we wait on
We wait on
It moved as slow as slow can be
Half-eaten words of earth and sea
I didn’t feel it touching me
You jump too soon
And miss all this
Now something beautiful happens
All there is
These beautiful minutes we wait on
We wait on
I fell into a cinema
I didn’t know where else to be
Sitting out a trip or three
I thought I wanted frippery
That girl five seats down and me
Concave and blinking at the scene
Rolling credits on the screen
You jump too soon
And miss all this
Now something beautiful happens
All there is
These beautiful minutes we wait on
We wait on
We wait on
The Impervious Me
You may ask the mirror
Show me perfect hair
That the room entire might welcome you
Then
When laying out your raiment
What am I to wear?
Slipping on the thread
That wears you
Hung like fallen scarves on a street wall
For returning hands to find
Stripped by magazines in the yearning
Of waiting rooms for authors to your time
The days will fly like pink confetti
Your fists unfurled
But if you land the blow
Everybody gets hurt
You learn the lines by rote
Not knowing which words to keep
They switch them while you sleep
So, rouse yourself to brief
The Impervious Me
You may sift for summer
Such horizons there
Throw a wheel and
Trust it turns for you
Then go and ask your mirror
What of me to share
Am I in the place I left you?
Strung like silver chimes in a doorway
For a passing breeze to sound
Loosed like falling leaves out of reason
Seasoned to be motif for the ground
The days will fly like pink confetti
Your fists unfurled
And if you land a blow
Everybody gets hurt
You learn your lines and note
By measure which words you’ll need
You gift them when you sleep
So, steel yourself and greet the
Impervious me
Imperviously
The days will fly like pink confetti
Your fists unfurled
And if you land the blow
Everybody gets hurt
You learn your lines by rote
Not knowing which words to keep
They switch them while you sleep
So, steel yourself to meet…
More
It’s the stain on the moon
It’s your idiot name
It’s the noise in the noise
The gift of the game
It’s the fruit that we bear
The peach that I bore
It’s you and it’s me and
It should have been more
It’s the choice that I made
And the maid that you chose
It’s the slip in the slide
From fingers to toes
It’s the song of out there
The pull of the door
It’s you and it’s me and
It should have been more
It’s only hours
Only days
Sat in Libra’s Bowl
Where it’s all
It’s all
It’s all
It’s all balancing
It’s the black in the grate
The smoke in the sink
It’s the ether that you and I
Opted to drink
It’s the tooth that was chipped
On the first ever kiss
It’s you and it’s me
And that’s what it is
What if I could say now, what if I could say
Everything I meant now
Everything
It’s only hours
Only days
Sat in Libra’s Bowl
Where it’s all
It’s all
It’s all
It’s all balancing
Is This Love?
In a fleeting moment of a restless day
Driven to distraction
I was captured by the game
I have often wondered why I ever wanted to
Leave these scattered hours behind me
And speed myself to you
I choose never to forget
I want our lips to kiss
Our limbs to entwine
Let our bodies be twisted
Never our minds
Is this love?
Is this love?
Is this love?
Is this love?
Set to work idle hands
Shake these thoughts
Had I planned them they never would be teasing me
As viciously as these
I would not have believed you had I never seen
Now you and I are intimately pictured in my dreams
I would not forsake you or fall tumbling away
And if I live in wonderland
I’m better off this way
I choose never to forget
I want our lips to kiss
Our limbs to entwine
Let our bodies be twisted
Never our minds
Is this love?
Is this love?
Is this love?
Is this love?
Set to work idle hands
Shake these thoughts
Had I planned them they never would be teasing me
As viciously as these
Is this love?
Is this love?
Is this love?
Is this love?
Tongue Tied
There’s a train in that bell
Be still
I won’t hear it if you can
We could let it go
Stay here
Make the most of what we have
Sweet lie I’ll buy
Anything from you
We try
Tongue tied
Anything will do
On a simple whim
No sense
We’re all innocence and beer
Find a plastic cup
And fall in
No one’s ever going to hear
Sweet lie I’ll buy
Anything from you
We try
Tongue tied
Anything will do
Don’t ask me why
A seeing ‘I’
Gives precedence to fools
Tongue tied
Anything will do
There’s a train in that bell
There is flight in the sky
Close your eyes
Don’t go higher than I am
Did we mean it all?
Well don’t mind
We’ll just use the words we can
Sweet lie I’ll buy
Anything from you
We try
Tongue tied
Anything will do
We try tongue tied
Anything will do
My Right Arm
Don’t be afraid of the dark my love
What would old Hobbs do with this pure heart
Where shadows inch like rising damp
Their seaweed fingers will us all to be wakeful
What a night for naming stars and parking cars
Sink into our cloud of down and sleep with me
Angel. Angel
Hold your head up high
In no way
Let God’s kingdom pass you by
There’s an open door and the lights are on
And all the goings on, the shouting mouths have gone
Though why should I care anyway
I’ll see your sweet face every day
And that’s everything
A prayer that I may never find you there
Folded up in an empty room
Too tired to laugh at a vaulting moon
Angel. Angel
Hold your head up high
In no way
Let God’s kingdom pass you by
Angel. Angel
Hold your head up high
In no way
Let God’s kingdom pass you by
In no way
Let God’s kingdom
Pass you by
So Am I
Our room across is a mile wide
She comes and look now how you are the fireside
I’m watching
She’s waiting
To show you
The pearls in her Betsey Clark eyes
She sighs the whistling winds you sail in
She cries and you are alive
She’s saying she’s sorry and
Oh. So am I
So am I
For ninety-seven days
That should have been an hour
I know it’s all you can do when she’s so very near
Praise be
The King of the settee and his Guinevere
I’ll get up and go out and no doubt
You’re giving it all to her
Oh. So am I
So am I
The ninety-seven days
The fifteen blessed hours
And it’s easy
As it goes so am I
How an hour of ninety days will soon run out of time
The weight of the world has
The head in your hands
The gifter re-giving again
You’re sorry and sick and you know
So am I
So am I
That ninety-seven days and fifteen sodding hours came to nothing
Taken in?
So was I
She’s going
Going
Gone
And you know that’s fine.
And so am I
My Best Day
He said
‘I’m not dead but don’t wake me ever
‘Cos I may have to think this through
She says she’s changed her mind
And I didn’t try to put her right
Though I’ve every reason to’
‘Well, I don’t know, she wouldn’t say
Exactly when she intends to
Mince her Light-Fantastic my way
And make my very best day’
Let me tell you the way it will always be
He’ll see it all, but he won’t see me
And didn’t I give him every sign
That his best days are leaving me behind
Later
‘If it’s her you can say I’ve gone away
I get nowhere peachy keen
You tell her next week and maybe
Find out where they’re going
So, I know where I should be’
‘She’s got a nerve and that’s okay
But I want to hear when she’s finally got something decent to say
Could be my very best day’
Let me tell you the way it will always be
He’ll see it all, but he won’t see me
And didn’t I give him every sign
That his best days are leaving me behind
What exactly do you want me to say?
No, I don’t feel good for you
And you can get that girl out of my face
I don’t enjoy her like you do
And this is the way it will always be
He’ll see it all, but he won’t see me
And how do I show him diamond skies
When all he has are best days in his eyes
My Best Day
World Without End
Perpetual light
Eternal rest
Grant unto her
Her soul be blessed
And her faithful heart
With all pain depart
Lighter than air
Safer in your arms
Borne on the breeze
Welcome in your arms
World without end
Be there no doubt
Be there no fear
Within your love
Our one glad heart
Offered up to you
Our precious soul for you
How sweet the refrain
Safer in your arms
Hold us again
Welcome in your arms
World without end
May we remain
Ever in your guard
Home again
Safely in your arms
World without end
This House
Whose sticky hands are these?
And what is this empty place?
I could be happily lost
But for your face
Here stands an empty house
That used to be full of life
Now it’s home for no one
And his wife
It’s a hovel, and
Who can take your place?
I can’t face another day
And who will shelter me?
It’s cold in here
Cover me
Under these fingertips
A strange body rolls and dips
I close my eyes
And you’re here again
Later as day descends
I’ll shout from my window
To anyone listening
I’m losing
Who can take your place?
I can’t face another day
And who will shelter me?
It’s cold in here
Cover me
Oh, in a plague of hateful questioning
Tap dancing every syllable from ear to ear
I hear the din of lovers jousting
When I’m hiding with my head to the wall
So, who will shelter me?
It’s cold in here
Love Resurrection
We all need a love
Just a little divine
What can I do to make light of this dull, dull day?
What switch can I pull to illuminate the way?
Show me one direction
I will not question again
For a warm injection
Is all I need to calm the pain.
We all need a love
Love resurrection, just a little divine intervention
We all need a love
Love resurrection,
Just a little divine intervention
What seed must I sow to replenish this barren land
Teach me to harvest, I want you to grow in my hand
Let’s be optimistic, let’s say that we won’t toil in vain
If we pull together, we’ll never fall apart again
We all need a love
Love resurrection, just a little divine intervention
We all need a love
Love resurrection,
Just a little divine
We need a love
Love resurrection, just a little divine intervention
Resurrection
We need a love
Just a little divine intervention
Show me one direction
I will not question again, no, no
For a warm injection
Is all I need to calm the pain
We all need a love
Love resurrection, just a little divine intervention
We all need a love
Love resurrection,
Just a little divine
We need a love
Resurrection
We need a love
Just a little divine
We need a love, love, love
Resurrection
We need a love resurrection
Just a little divine
We all need a love
Love resurrection, just a little divine intervention
We all need a love
We need a love resurrection,
Just a little divine intervention
You Don’t Have to Go
Look at your face
It’s like looking at mine
This was our room
When we used to know
How to share ourselves in silence
You don’t have to go
You don’t have to go
Feeling your hands
Almost like mine
This was our space
When we used to mind
That we knew ourselves in silence
You don’t have to go
You don’t have to go
All we gave away is never coming back
All the love we made is anything but that
And I feel, it’s everything I know
You don’t have to go
You don’t have to go
Look at your eyes
Looking at mine
These were our words
When we used to know
How to share ourselves in silence
You don’t have to go
You don’t have to go
All we gave away is never coming back
All the love we made is anything but that
And I feel, it’s everything I know
You don’t have to go
You don’t have to go
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