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I've spent so many years
Trying to make it right;
Plan another future every night
All the hours I've wasted,
Thinking of words to use;
Believe me, before, I've aced it -
But now I'm going to lose...
And all I can say:
CHORUS:
You and I, we belong together.
Hey, you and I, we could breach
The highest obstacles.
Hey, you and I, we could be alright, so
Yeah! Why aren't we together now?
All of my hopes forlorn,
Think of the lonely nights
That I've borne;
Wishing it would all blow over,
Thinking aloud in the rain,
Wishing away an October
With every carbon-fibre in my brain...
And all I can say:
CHORUS
You're leaving for afar;
Curse that guiding star!
But, out in exile, wherever you are,
You will yearn to come back...
And perhaps, when you are passing,
You'll insist on dropping by,
Or else I'll write you love letters
and one day you will reply...
And you will say:
CHORUS x 2
Why aren't we together now?
REPEAT TWICE
So, why aren't we together now?
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2. |
If It Can Be
03:43
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Make the best of the moment,
Look today in the eyeball.
If the plan isn't cogent,
Shape anew to be viable.
Find a thrill, find a second,
Cast the gloom over yonder.
Better days than you'd reckoned;
Isn't that fine to ponder?
CHORUS I:
Take the silence
and turn it into sound.
If it can be,
Maybe it can be.
Set the mark, set the target;
Be determined to strike it.
Forge a place in the market,
Nothing else even like it!
CHORUS II:
Take the darkness,
and turn it into light.
If it can be,
Maybe it can be.
CHORUS I (x 2)
CHORUS II
CHORUS I
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3. |
Carelessly
05:03
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To overcome the fear,
The chance would never know to find me
Until you landed here,
Just as darkness came to bind me
As stormy waters
Of the mind were raging
A calmer void began to strip the air,
I'd never thought
That love was so engaging;
The happiness of which I've found my share
And now I want to be carelessly falling
I want to be carelessly falling.
A crazy thought arose,
As if a consequence of lifting
To stratospheric flows:
That maybe I was bound for drifting
And all without
A single chance of choosing,
I ended up with loving, free and fair.
Beyond the doubt
That love is so amusing
There's sky and space and sunlight everywhere
And now I want to be carelessly falling
And now I want to be carelessly falling
And it's the only feeling
I ever want to have;
Yes, it's the only feeling
I ever want to have.
I'll wake up,
I'll wake up and follow you.
Every day,
Every day I'll follow you.
I never thought
that love was so engaging
And now I want to fall without a care!
And now I want to be carelessly falling
I want to be carelessly falling.
And now I want to be carelessly falling
I want to be carelessly falling.
I want to be carelessly falling
(I want to be)
REPEAT TO END
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4. |
The Very Best
04:59
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I'm not the finest
figure of a man;
years have reduced me
to what I now am.
It seems not everything
has gone to plan;
fears and ambitions
caught in a log-jam.
But there are fair,
distant shores of long-ago,
when I stood proud,
in the years of youth...
CHORUS:
So, just look back
and you will see
the very best of me
and you will not believe
that it's true
perhaps if I just
hastened to regain
some of the glory
that I could once claim
No longer being
tethered by a chain
I'd give a new life
to an old name
But tell me how
do I really trace the past,
when I stood proud,
in the years of youth?
CHORUS
Though there are many
things I've yet to know,
No destinations
to where I can go...
But to those far,
sacred shores of long-ago,
when I stood proud,
in the years of youth...
REPEAT CHORUS TO END
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5. |
Of All People
05:20
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When you flashed your eyes my very way,
I was naturally intrigued.
I never knew what I would lose that day;
When I'm giving, how much can I concede?
Oh, I know you're no good for my soul,
Nor my mental health, indeed.
Even physically, you take your toll,
You hold me tighter, as I begin to bleed.
Now decision-making's hard to do,
Good advice I cannot heed.
I don't know what is and isn't true;
Now doubt's growing, you plant another seed.
Well, I think that I can still survive,
If I don't give in to greed;
Ironically, to stay alive,
Of all people, you're the one I need!
CHORUS:
You've got the pride and the passion,
You've got the pleasure and the pain.
You seem to go with the fashion;
I'd like to see you again
In the ritual of youthfulness,
We are in pursuit of speed.
But with you it would be fabulous;
Now come riding and I will be your steed.
As we drift along our existence,
I will only stop to plead
That, although you're off in the distance,
Of all people, you're the one I need!
CHORUS (x 2)
Whatever time can give me then,
I'm sure that you can give me now.
I don't care if you are killing me,
Of all people, I would show you how!
CHORUS
You've got the pride and the passion,
You've got the pleasure and the pain.
I could be your man of action;
Just let me see you again
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6. |
I Dream in Technicolour
06:12
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My dreams had never been unusual,
But that was hitherto the day we met
And then it all began.
I doubt that what I've now is mutual
And I am just a boy you will forget
And not to be your man.
If the first few nights were 8-millimetre,
It soon began to seem a lot like VHS.
Now I can think of nothing any sweeter
Than to turn these dreams to real-life success.
CHORUS:
I tend to think in circumstance;
Why can't we have a whirlwind romance?
I dream in Technicolour now,
I dream in Technicolour now.
I've got to turn it off somehow;
I dream in Technicolour now.
I don't know why my mind's so eager
To place you in an image from a screen,
Transferred into my head.
I know you're anything but meager,
But I don't know why I find myself so keen
When I lay in my bed.
Now the digital provides repitition,
I'll skip to any love-scene that I wish to choose.
When I start to see in high definition,
I'll fall asleep at night with nothing left to lose.
CHORUS
As the cinema expands into fiction,
I think I'll never want to be awake again.
My normal life will reach dereliction,
And I'll have nothing in this world left to defend.
CHORUS x 2
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7. |
BR Blue
03:19
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Picture an elusive scene:
The finest locomotives there have been!
Dressed initially in green;
Beloved long beyond that early sheen.
CHORUS:
Peaks across the Pennines,
Deltics on the East Coast Main Line,
Captured in the hue of BR Blue.
REPEAT
Westerns rolling to and fro;
The Hymeks and the Hoovers make a show.
Warships, sailing with the flow,
Complete these memories of long ago.
CHORUS x 2
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8. |
Hang Around
03:48
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It's a bit of a story;
It certainly is no lie.
Feel free to use it
When the rumour mill runs dry...
Oh a friend came 'round
And, as he studied my pad,
He said "How did you do
What you did with
The things you had?"
So, I answered then,
I was sure he would agree,
That something very
Apt and profound
Had occurred to me,
When I told myself
That I didn't have to stay
But I knew I'd end up
Back here, anyway,
So I searched my soul
And decided it was best
If I hang around.
It's a bit of a story,
I'm telling you, once again,
Bear with the telling
And I'll see it to the end...
Well, then you came in
And, as you studied my face,
You said "How can you love,
If your heart's in the wrong place?"
Then you told me, frankly,
You think that I am rude
But you'd leave if you were not
Accustomed to my attitude.
And you told yourself
That you didn't have to stay
But you knew you'd end up
Back here, anyway,
So, you searched your soul
And decided it was best
If you hang around.
It's a bit of a story
But here's the denouement:
(A twist is coming;
If you let me, I'll go on)
Well, an ex came 'round
And tried to lead me on;
She said "Do you remember
The feeling, now the feeling's gone?"
Well, that very night,
You held me close and said:
"Should I walk straight out the door
or just go to bed?"
So, I told you, girl,
That you didn't have to stay
But I knew you'd end up
Back here, anyway,
So, I searched my soul
And decided it was best
If you hang around.
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