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

Just Before You Leave (Album Ver.) Del Amitri

Does your appetite for novelty still burn And do you pick a fight just to feel the heat of his concern Do you still misbehave, then beg for his reprieve And do you love to feel his needy hands pulling

Just Before You Leave Del Amitri

And do you pick a fight just to feel the heat of his concern? Do you still misbehave, then beg for his reprieve? And do you love to feel his needy hands pulling at your sleeve?

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

Tell Her This Del Amitri

Tell her not to go I ain't holding on no more Tell her something in my mind freezes up from time to time Tell her not to cry I just got scared that's all Tell her I'll be by her side, all she has to do

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’

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

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

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.

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

When You Were Young Del Amitri

Look at the fool you have been They drained the pool while you drowned in the dream They bought your beauty and your soul Then softly sold you back what they stole So look into the mirror do you recognise

It's Never Too Late To Be Alone Del Amitri

Summer here is over in a million different ways You look like a dream sometimes, but I don't dream these days Yesterday the snow fell, by four o'clock it thawed And last night making love to you, well

Last Cheap Shot At The Dream Del Amitri

I can't look into the future, but I can't cheat the past I will wipe away my memory, I will find freedom at last I will walk away from everything that I used to want so bad I can't look into the future

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Lighten Up The Load Del Amitri

what it feels like to be us And now the fog is creeping round the factories and farms I hope to hell you make it to assail me with your charms Cause all I want to do now babe is hold you in my arms So

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

Just Like A Man Del Amitri

it's up to us to choose the methods by which we forget And just like a man he holds you gently And just like a man he strokes your hair And just like a man I still pretend that I'm Immune to the whole

One Thing Left To Do Del Amitri

So long, hope you dreams come true Now I've gone i know you're gonna bloom And did you want me to say I'd die for you What you wanted I couldn't give I guess I needed it to live And did you want me to

As Soon As The Tide Comes In Del Amitri

You'd better get some sleep for a change Before tomorrow brings you down By three o'clock they'll both be sitting on that plane Hopelessly honeymoon bound And I hope no one asks you to kiss this bride

Wash Her Away Del Amitri

Eyes like a slash across her face Lips I'd kill a man to taste 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

The Last To Know Del Amitri

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 I'll be the last to

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

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 I'll be the last to know We

Always The Last To Know (Single Mix) Del Amitri

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 I'll be the last to know We spent

Always The Last To Know Del Amitri

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 I'll be the last to know We spent

This Side Of The Morning Del Amitri

And said, just guess where to go 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

Roll To Me Del Amitri

1-Look around your world pretty baby Is it everything you hoped it'd be The wrong guy, the wrong situation The right time to roll to me Roll to me Look into your heart pretty baby Is it aching

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

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

Long Journey Home Del Amitri

"By the time you get to hear this I'll be long gone down the road Without a toothbrush or a suitcase in a world I didn't know By the time you get through college, by the time you learn to drive I'll be

Driving With The Brakes On Del Amitri

to moonn6pence from shootingstar Driving through the long night Trying to figure who’s right and who’s wrong Now the kid has gone.

Medicine Del Amitri

everywhere Add another letter to your name Burn everything you ever used to wear Get yourself another lover that looks the same But sometimes it's the medicine itself that makes the pain Well, you can

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

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

Roll To Me (Album Ver.) Del Amitri

Look around your world, pretty baby Is it everything you hoped it'd be The wrong guy the wrong situation The right time to roll with me Look into your heart, pretty baby Is it achin' with some nameless

Keepers Del Amitri

I have overloved you and overseen you And now you're refusing the gifts that I bring you My hands have been clasping my hot head and asking "if she submits to me, will she be my property?

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

Surface Of The Moon Del Amitri

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 the moon >From the well-swept streets of Jackson Heights

Whiskey Remorse Del Amitri

There is a town I used to love It once contained most everything I ever dared dream of. My baby in the basement as the traffic trolled above, There is a town I used to love.

Behind The Fool Del Amitri

Don't tell her that you want her Don't ask her to be yours Don't tell her she is everything Or she might see the fool behind the frown And then the heart behind the fool Don't tell her that you need her

Never Enough Del Amitri

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

Nothing Ever Happens Del Amitri

to stop, when theres nothing to go And by five oclock everythings 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

Former Owner Del Amitri

There's no bubbles to burst No bursting out crying nor dying of thirst She's utterly tied to somebody else And it seems he got there first.

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