As Soon As The Tide Comes In Del Amitri

the booze With your standard issue broken heart You step into your Saturday shoes And you might feel better if you slapped her face Or slipped some pills in his wine But instead some voice in your head

Lighten Up The Load Del Amitri

I've been waiting in this station, for what seems like a year Its midday now but I don't trust the clocks they have in here And maybe round the corner she'll be stepping off that bus And then I will remember

Crashing Down Del Amitri

But you'll be crying like a baby when it comes And you will try it anyway you can To find a place to run, 'cos it ain't no fun In party town, when loneliness comes crashing down And you'll be hurting in

The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere Del Amitri

Go and tell your mother, go and tell your friends You've been fooled again He appeared like magic and he left you on a late night train Yeh, some things never change Cos baby the ones that you love lead

The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere (Live At The Town & Country Club, London/ 1993) Del Amitri

Go and tell your mother, go and tell your friends You've been fooled again He appeared like magic and he left you on a late night train Yeh, some things never change Cos baby the ones that you love

The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere (Live At Leeds Town & Country Club/ 1997) Del Amitri

Go and tell your mother, go and tell your friends You've been fooled again He appeared like magic and he left you on a late night train Yeh, some things never change Cos baby the ones that you love lead

It Might As Well Be You Del Amitri

There is nobody here tonight, who doesn't dance to the same tune as I Looking for that special someone new, and hey babe it might as well be you And as I fumble through my change, the dance floor illuminates

I Won't Take The Blame Del Amitri

Daylight comes with such surprising speed Yesterday you talked of love and now you want to leave But don't expect me to stand in your way I am powerless to alter any action you might take And I won't take

Buttons On My Clothes Del Amitri

Buttons on My Clothes I've been drinking all through summer I guess I've had a laugh I've had every kind of fun I could have had Looking at my crowd tonight There's a sober kind of sparkle in their eyes

Life Is Full Del Amitri

People say you are a stand up guy You'd never hurt no one and you'd never try And you laugh and you cry And you do all the things that anybody does to show they are alive.

Surface Of The Moon Del Amitri

Snow in a soulless city covers up the cracks in the road As a wastrel buys her cigarettes and wipes her pretty nose Like a part-time Elvis imitator these streets I knew so well Have been pasted beyond

Baby, It's Me Del Amitri

Cause baby if you wanna find someone As big as a door that fits in your palm A wall of support as small as a gun Can't you see? Baby it's me Who's gonna miss you just cause you leave the room?

Cindy Incidentally Del Amitri

"Oh Cindy ain't you noticed That several of your friends have moved on And the street outside is just a little too quiet And your local papers run out of news I'm not persuading you or disengaging you

Never Enough Del Amitri

With two hundred people in suits all the same You walk off that last lonely train.

Sometimes I Just Have To Say Your Name Del Amitri

crazy for the days to get to you When I can hold you and kiss you and have you Instead of staring at some photo like a fool But as day turns to night there's this hopelessness to fight When I think that

Always The Last To Know (Single Mix) Del Amitri

So you're in love with someone else Someone who burns within your soul And it looks like I'm the last to know I hear you've never felt so alive So much desire beyond control And as usual I am the last

Always The Last To Know Del Amitri

So you're in love with someone else Someone who burns within your soul And it looks like I'm the last to know I hear you've never felt so alive So much desire beyond control And as usual I am the last

Crows In The Wheatfield Del Amitri

You hang around the square watching someone kick the boys in With a hand through your hair as if to comb out the poison Sing some stupid song about crows in the wheatfield It's been so long since you saw

I Was Here Del Amitri

She shouted to me under the juggernaut roar, "this is the bad life, what are we here for? " And wonderful world why are you full Of endless monotony and tiresome fools?

Always The Last To Know (Dave Bascombe Single Mix) Del Amitri

So you're in love with someone else Someone who burns within your soul And it looks like I am the last to know I hear you've never felt so alive So much desire beyond control And as usual I am the last

Whiskey Remorse Del Amitri

"There is a girl I used to know She had a hundred ways of hurting you, and so I packed my bags and left her as she watched some TV show, There is a girl I used to know.

Sleep Instead Of Teardrops Del Amitri

I’m just a dumb observer It’s so stupid what I said Like everyone else will do I’m gonna lie to you Tell you that life is cruel But someday you’re gonna wake up With sleep instead of teardrops in

Don't Come Home Too Soon Del Amitri

So long, go on and do your best, Let all friends have whiskey on it's breath, The world may not be shaking yet but you might prove them wrong, Even long shots make it So go then, out into history, And

Through All That Nothing Del Amitri

Honey, sometimes those big blue eyes Can make me fall out of bed in surprise In the bright morning sun, In the howling wind, in the shirt you sleep in, You're the one 'cos it's you, that i tried to find

Spit In The Rain Del Amitri

You can grin, but you can't hide All the emptiness inside Since she left You like Spit in the rain.

Stone Cold Sober Del Amitri

Everybody in the fun house Says they want out But we're taking our time 'cos we're in love with time Whole generations thinking of themselves As infidels and pop stars While the bomb loses patience We

To Last A Lifetime Del Amitri

Roll down the window, let me hear the rain Let me hear her whispering, honey everything is OK Cos I've had enough bad news To last a lifetime Well I drove all night under a seasick sky And I made it by

Hammering Heart Del Amitri

I suppose love lives in a dustbin behind the garden wall You have to grovel on the ground and be pretty disgusting To find it at all And I suppose that it grows on you Standing there with no clothes on

Learn To Cry Del Amitri

It's twelve o'clock, the TV's on and I'm just sittin' around I'm restless and blue, but I can't figure out why As the drunks on the park benches are putting their blankets down I'm thinking boy, you'd

Ceasefire Del Amitri

Good luck and lost love's knife Cut a path leading through my life I weave through the gusts of change As a kite might through the sky.

Be My Downfall Del Amitri

The bus is pulling out and I guess I'd better go Before I make a grave mistake and let my feelings show And twenty miles away she waits alone for me But when I try to picture her you're the one I see And

Cash And Prizes (Album Ver.) Del Amitri

I've got cash and prizes more than a man could dream I've got a hundred houses, some that I've never seen I've got walls of paintings high as the Hoover Dam I've got cash and prizes, but I don't know who

Breaking Bread Del Amitri

All day long, sweeping up the dead pigeons from the pavement After the long dim dawn He remembered how she pulled him from disaster into laughter.

Cash And Prizes Del Amitri

I've got cash and prizes more than a man could dream I've got a hundred houses, some that I've never seen I've got walls of paintings high as the Hoover Dam I've got cash and prizes but I don't know who

Cruel Light Of Day Del Amitri

Someone's opening up for business The morning rings the same old way But someone should've taught me forgiveness Now I see it in the cruel light of day Tell him he's done me a kindness She was going to

Former Owner Del Amitri

She's locked up inside herself And I can't get anything free So won't somebody tell me please Why the former owner always keeps the keys.

The Last To Know Del Amitri

So you're in love with someone else Someone who burns with in your soul And it looks like I am the last to know I hear you've never felt so alive So much desire beyond control and as usual I am

The Verb To Do Del Amitri

If you or I don't say it who's going to We can dance around it or dance for the truth We sit here conjugating every variation through Of the verb to do Now I don't want to hang it all on you If blame must

Some Other Sucker's Parade Del Amitri

I must've had a million damn unlucky days But there ain't no cloud that a bottle can't chase away I've done my deal of living, ran from place to place But when the roof comes in I don't wanna take it straight

Some Other Sucker's Parade (Album Ver.) Del Amitri

I must've had a million damn unlucky days But there ain't no cloud that a bottle can't chase away I've done my deal of living, ran from place to place But when the roof comes in I don't wanna take it straight

Just Getting By Del Amitri

Look at me, I'm the one who got away, the one who could've shone I tried to do my best, but I guess your best don't last for long Look at me, standing with my tattered pride of toothless little lions

Hatful Of Rain Del Amitri

Love hearts on an old stone building Have no relevance now Sherry bottles in a bus-stop litter bin Remind me of you somehow You look so young it's frightening Life's been good to you But strike me down

Hatful Of Rain (Live 1995) Del Amitri

Lovehearts on an old stone building Have no relevance now Sherry bottles in a bus stop litter bin Remind me of you somehow You look so young it's frightening Life's been good to you But strike me down

Tide Junip

Along the quiet, narrow streets Canals are still in high tide Whatever needs to be will be When there is nothing left to hide Whatever remains will set you free A crater left as a divide All of the memories

Being Somebody Else Del Amitri

How are you going to pass the time of day In your beautiful empty shell, When you've shaken the hand of so many sinceroes You feel like a fake yourself How do you choose between you and me When we both

Drunk In A Band Del Amitri

Pat is the guy with a record shop and John sells fruit but wants to be a cop and Paul deals speed in a celtic top but I'm just a drunk in a band Joe does tele-sales and martial arts and Jim pushes patients

Out Falls The Past (Album Ver.) Del Amitri

You hold the key to whether we will ever last I know I can't forever hide behind this mask 'Cause everytime I fall in love, out falls the past You'll hear my reputation anywhere you ask They'll say I'm

Out Falls The Past Del Amitri

You hold the key to whether we will ever last I know I can't forever hide behind this mask 'Cause everytime I fall in love, out falls the past You'll hear my reputation anywhere you ask They'll say

The Whole World Is Quiet Del Amitri

UK CDS "Always The Last To Know" Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse seem stuck for what to say Even the presence of Jesus in this house couldn't chase those demons away The whole world is quiet And Charlie

Mother Nature's Writing Del Amitri

Open up your eyes, Everything is crying out this could be your time She fell out of the sky, Must every star been working on Heavenly designs A crooked line of lightning, a silent movie moon Mother nature's