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

Sleep Instead Of Teardrops Del Amitri

Cry Cry out your eyes forever It wont go away I 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’

Food For Songs Del Amitri

There's people hauling people Out from under their homes There's people hauling people Out through the groaning stones You can see me tonight, I'll be shell shocked and white in the cold light

Food For Songs (Acoustic Ver.) Del Amitri

There's people hauling people Out from under their homes There's people hauling people Out through the groaning stones You can see me tonight I'll be shell shocked and white in the cold light of dawn But

Make It Always Be Too Late Del Amitri

right before my eyes So set me up a drink Pull the shutters down on all those prying satellites 'Cos what I want is everything to be clear So if you stop your watch You might stop the morning's cruel

Here And Now Del Amitri

Hey, I'm with you Let me just get you a light And if we'd thought to listen We might have checked if the weather was right And I don't mind if you want to drive all day Hey, it's rainin' I should have

Cry To Be Found Del Amitri

Then open your heart and let it fall If you keep on hiding from me You're not gonna' live your life at all Cause if it's love that you want You've gotta' give me more than you've shown Because the sweet light

When I Want You Del Amitri

You sent greetings from Liverpool and I took the next train Passed by people putting flowers on graves and We got delayed When I arrived you had vanished like steam and left me in a diesel day So I walked

Won't Make It Better Del Amitri

So you say you are sick of love Got a mind to give the damn thing up Got a housefull of stuff your lovers left Gonna take a bus to the city dump with it So you want to throw away the old you But the old

Won't Make It Better (Album Ver.) Del Amitri

So you say you are sick of love Got a mind to give the damn thing up Got a housefull of stuff your lovers left Gonna take a bus to the city dump with it So you want to throw away the old you But the old

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

Baby, It's Me Del Amitri

Who's gonna call you up every single day? Who's gonna hold you high when stuff gets ugly?

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

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.

It Might As Well Be You Del Amitri

And through the fog that love creates the night is filled with all the usual mistakes they say you're looking lonely babe, and they've been looking too And hey, they might well be for you And by the light

Sometimes I Just Have To Say Your Name Del Amitri

With the sweet drip of every raindrop Time brings you closer to me And with each new sign at every train-stop Another hour without you is consigned to history And with each tick of my alarm clock I get

Always The Last To Know (Single Mix) Del Amitri

control And as usual I am the last to know The last to know how you're feeling The last to know where you are The last to know if you're happy now Or if he's treating you like I treated you Or if he's cruel

Always The Last To Know Del Amitri

control And as usual I am the last to know The last to know how you're feeling The last to know where you are The last to know if you're happy now Or if he's treating you like I treated you Or if he's cruel

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

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

The Last To Know Del Amitri

control and as usual I am the last to know The last to know how you're feeling The last to know where you are The last to know If you're happy Or if he treating you like I treated you Or if he's cruel

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

Crows In The Wheatfield Del Amitri

Making your way through an orangepeel orchard Tracing your day from disillusioned to debauched And spring passed quickly below the rotten elm tree You weren't kissed there you were pissed in the lavatory

High Times Del Amitri

Little snow white, she is sleeping 24 hours a day She's got a right to be lazy, flat out of reasons to breathe And it's cold baby, yes it's cold But everything is relative can't you see we're living in

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

control And as usual I am the last to know The last to know how you're feeling The last to know where you are The last to know if you're happy now Or if he's treating you like I treated you Or if he's cruel

Wash Her Away Del Amitri

Whatever this stuff is, I'm buying Whatever it does, I'll do it 'til I'm dying I can't wash her away It's getting under my skin I can't wash her away I can feel her closing in Hands like a carnival of

Kiss This Thing Goodbye Del Amitri

It seems like weeks since you looked at me baby without that look of distaste I don't know why your feelings are changing but I've seen it in your face All those times when our lips were kissing

Kiss This Thing Goodbye Del Amitri

it seems like weeks since you looked at me baby without that look of distaste i don't know why your feelings are changing but i've seen it in your face all those times when our lips were kissing

Driving With The Brakes On Del Amitri

I sit belted up tight, She sucks on a match light, glowing bronze, steering on. And I might be more of a man if I stopped this in it’s tracks And said, come on, let’s go home.

Nothing Ever Happens Del Amitri

dead And every third car is a cab And ignorant people sleep in their beds Like the doped white mice in the college lab Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all The needle returns to the start of

Last Cheap Shot At The Dream Del Amitri

staring at a sign A cheaper flight to paradise I am told I'll never find There are cameras on the rooftops, there are crazies on the green I will jump a plane to any place far enough away to get me out of

It's Never Too Late To Be Alone Del Amitri

yourself a lover You can find yourself a home You can want no other ever But it's never too late to be alone So everything is settled or so we do pretend >From a beautiful beginning babe to a muted kind of

Learn To Cry Del Amitri

figure out why As the drunks on the park benches are putting their blankets down I'm thinking boy, you'd better learn to cry Well I could go to sleep or else recourse to alcohol I could break up some of

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

Start With Me Del Amitri

With all the stuff they sell you night and day With all the trash they try to trick you with you lie to me Well I don't need it but I get it anyway With all the sadness and lunacy, With all the dispossessed

The First Rule Of Love Del Amitri

You'll get hooked, you'll get drugged She'll be your essence she'll be your blood And you'll want her so much but you'll never get enough And that's the first rule of love She'll smell so sweetly in the

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

Jesus Saves Del Amitri

that He can reach Jesus saves, He saves the useful, leaves the obsolete Jesus loves, He loves the underdog, he does Jesus loves downtrodden sinners just like us Jesus loves, He loves to hear the sound of

Surface Of The Moon Del Amitri

imitator these streets I knew so well Have been pasted beyond recognition with a temporary smell Now the midnight train eases out leaving everyone marooned And without her it might as well be the surface of

Move Away Jimmy Blue Del Amitri

A struck match faded like a nervous laugh Beyond the halo of a naked bulb Your low voice mingles with your other half's; Schoolfriends in second-hand clothes Eventually your world will shrink within

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

This Side Of The Morning Del Amitri

And the driver turned about and said finding what you want is like Trying to divide ice from snow So here I sit, rolling back to bed Knowing love is a hazard That I'd never guessed But from this side of

She's Passing This Way Del Amitri

She's passing this way And if you're looking for love, she'll give it away Yeah, we've all drunk from that cup You'll be hooked within minutes of tasting a drop 'Cause she is something, that is true

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

When You Were Young Del Amitri

your beauty and your soul Then softly sold you back what they stole So look into the mirror do you recognise someone Is it who you always hope you would become When you were young The disappointment of

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

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

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.

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

Scared To Live Del Amitri

"Walk into the lightning of a midnight bulletin Our brave new world sits smiling with egg on its chin And love gets so lazy, love gets so slow We stopped making love in the hours of daylight, too many