Del Amitri: Lyrics5

written by Currie

Published by Polygram Music Publishing Ltd.

Maybe I don't understand it
Maybe I was never meant to know
I heard he had the whole world in his hands now
But everything is still out of control

Maybe it's his way of explaining
Maybe he's just showing me the way
He gave the gift of love when I was lonely
Then he went and took that gift away

Now all the true believers say
That she'll come back again
But no one ever shows me the proof
And when you hear the thunder
Growing louder than the rain
They'll tell you it's an angel on the roof

Maybe I'm not meant to question
How it is that this has come to be
The dream that I built at his suggestion
Has completely failed as far as I can see

Now all the true believers say
That she'll come back again
But no one ever shows me the proof
And when you hear the thunder
Growing louder than the rain
They'll tell you it's an angel on the roof

And signs say call on Jesus,
Save yourself from sin
But right now I'd rather have a hangover
Than have to talk to him

Maybe I don't know the answer
Maybe now someday I shall be saved
But since he took her from this bed and blessed her
I see nothing but a mattress and a grave

Now all the true believers say
That she'll come back again
But no one ever shows me the proof
And when you hear the thunder
Growing louder than the rain
They'll tell you it's an angel on the roof
They'll tell you it's an angel on the roof

Learn To Cry

written by Currie

Published by Polygram Music Publishing Ltd.

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 better learn to cry

Well I could go to sleep or else recourse to alcohol
I could break up some of this room or just go outside
I could turn up some old hit so loud I can't hear it anymore
Sayin' boy, you'd better learn to cry
Boy, you'd better learn to cry

Girlfriends and wives punctuate your silence somehow
In darkened rooms in flickering black and white
She says all the actors in this movie
Are probably dead by now
You're thinkin' boy, you'd better learn to cry
Boy, you'd better learn to cry

A familiar face with a loving smile greets you every day
And failure seeps a little deeper through your life
Yeah sure you gave some girl your heart,
But you never used it anyway
Sayin' boy, you better learn to cry
Boy, you'd better learn to cry

Learn To Cry

written by Currie

Published by Polygram Music Publishing Ltd.

You'd better learn to try, to forget those little things arguments that she starts

The Whole World Is Quiet

written by Currie

Published by Polygram Music Publishing Ltd.

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 Brown with his big baseball glove
Finds it hard to keep the blush upon his face
When only an uncle knows the secret of
The stolen drops of pearl on your pillowcase
The whole world is quiet

Look who's got a present for sweet little you
You'd better button up about it or he'll cry
Someone's in the kitchen mixing biscuits in a bowl
You can hear it if you lie completely quiet
Just like Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse
The whole world is quiet

Whiskey Remorse

written by Currie

Published by Polygram Music Publishing Ltd.

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

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

There is a bar I used to know
I still sometimes drop by when I have no place else to go
It's where the kings of comedy compare their tattered souls
There is a bar I used to know

So buy me one more drink before you go
Or lend me a twenty and I'll get drunk on my own
You always find some company, come in to used the phone
Someone who can't stand to see a friend go home alone

There is a joke I used to tell
Some guy who gets three wishes ends up wasting them to hell
And in the end in misery he tells the joke himself

There is a guy I used to know
He once had everything that any man could hold
And now he sits here drinking with a tale that always goes
There is a girl I used to know

Lighten Up The Load

written by Currie

Published by Polygram Music Publishing Ltd.

I've been waiting in this station for what seems like a year
It's midday now but I don't trust the clocks they have in here
And maybe 'round the corner you'll be stepping off that bus
And then I will remember what it feels like to be us

And now the fog is creeping 'round the factories and farms
I hope to hell you'll make it to assail me with your charms
'Cause all I want to do now Babe is hold you in my arms
So put your bags beside me Baby right here in the road
Put 'em down and lighten up the load
Put 'em down and lighten up the load

I wonder how you'll look at me after all this time
I wonder how much things have rearranged within your mind
'Cause I'll be so relieved
To see you stepping off that bus
Cos then I will remember what it fells like to be us

Will you stand here smiling
With your hands upon your hips
Wearing the same lipstick I last tasted on your lips
'Cause I just want you right now Baby at my fingertips
So put your bags beside me Baby right here in the road
Put 'em down and lighten up the load
Put 'em down and lighten up the load

If what you're carrying is as heavy as my heart
You'll need a weeks recovery here within my arms
So put your bags beside me Baby right here in the road
Put 'em down and lighten up the load

So as I'm waiting in this station
Feeling famished and afraid
The 8:15 from London comes in 8 minutes delayed
And as I'm searching for your features
I'm rehearsing what I'll say
"Put your bags beside me Baby right here in the road
Put 'em down and lighten up the load
Put 'em down and lighten up the load"

The Heart Is A Bad Design

written by Currie

Published by Polygram Music Publishing Ltd.

Sometimes I think what's the point of loving anyone
In the end, each time you finish a fight
Its just the start of a new one again
You put all the pain to the back of your mind
Move up close, pray it works out fine
That's when you know the heart is a bad design

Some try to go it alone but nobody wants to do that
Each time you make up your mind
Your heart beats it's own way back
And though it doesn't matter that love is blind
You guide it into trouble everything turns out just fine
That's how you know the heart is a bad design

You know it can't keep secrets
It only harbours regrets
You find things lying deep in your heart
Even bad jokes, slips, forgets

Sometimes I think I've done wrong
But nobody ever did right
Each time some girl comes along
Its head over heels overnight
You put all the pain to the back of your mind
Dive in deep and hope it works out fine
That's how you know the heart is a bad design
That's how you know the heart is a bad design
That's how you know the heart is a bad design

Don't Cry No Tears

written by Young

Don't cry no tears around me
Don't cry no tears around me
'Cause when all the water's gone
The feeling lingers on
Yeah true love, it ain't too hard to see
So don't cry no tears around me

Well I wonder who's with her tonight
And I wonder who's holding her tight
'Cause there is nothing I can say
To make him go away
Yeah true love, it ain't too hard to see
So don't cry no tears around me

'Cause when all the water's is gone
The feeling lingers on
Yeah true love, it ain't too hard to see
So don't cry no tears around me
Don't cry no tears around me

'Cause there's nothing I can say
To make him go away
Yeah true love, it ain't too hard to see
So don't cry no tears around me
Don't cry no tears around me

Bye Bye Pride

written by Foster/McLennan

The white moon appears like a hole in the sky
The mangroves grow quiet
In the breezy delapama
A teenage rasputin takes the sting from a gin
"When a woman learns to walk she's not dependent anymore"
A line from a letter, May 24
And out on the bay the current is strong
A boat can go lost

But I didn't know someone could be so lonesome
Didn't know a heart could be tied up and held for ransom

So take your shoes and go outside
Stride over stride
Walk to that tide
'Cause the door is open wide

Turned the fan off and went for a walk
By the lights down on Cheedle Street
The birds in the trees
Open their wings and he goes home again
He dreams resistance, they talk commitment
Things change over long distance
Took the shirt from his back and the eyes from his head
And left him for dead

But I didn't know someone could be so lonesome
Didn't know a heart could be tied up and held for ransom

So take your shoes and go outside
Stride over stride
Walk to that tide
Because the door is open wide

They took pride
They took your pride
They took pride
They took your pride
But I didn't know someone could be so lonesome
Didn't know a heart could be tied up and held for ransom

So take your shoes and go outside
Stride over stride
Walk to that tide
Because the door is always open wide
Bye bye pride
'Cause the door is always open wide

Cindy Incidentally

written by Stewart/Wood/McLagean

Oh Cindy, ain't you noticed
several of your friends have moved on
And the street outside is just a little too quiet
And your local paper's run out of news
I'm not persuading you or disengaging you
But Cindy, you and me got to move

Can you refuse, no time to lose
We'll hit the high road early in morning
Don't be late, don't hesitate
The streets can pass just as fast as lightning

Oh Cindy, incidentally, baby I ain't puttin' you on

Can you refuse, no time to loose
We'll hit the high road early in morning
Don't be late, don't hesitate
The streets can pass just as fast as lightning

Oh Cindy, don't you worry
'Cause between us we can make it through
There ain't nothing, no no nothing,
In the world I can do without you

So Cindy, get your coat on
Leave your rent with the gent up in the penthouse
Turn your music so loud
Let's attract a big crowd
And drink a round till the town says goodbye

Long Journey Home

written by Currie

Published by Polygram Music Publishing Ltd.

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 picking thought the garbage of my life

By the time you get adjusted
To your objectionable role
I'll be deleted, deselected
From that very long street you know
When you've lost your sense of direction
Aand burned every happiness you know
I'll have made my last connection
On the long journey home

By the time you get to hear this
You'll be completely alone
Counting down the hours to your destination
On your long journey home

The Verb To Do

written by Currie

Published by Polygram Music Publishing Ltd.

If you or I don't say it who's going to
We can dance around it or dance for truth
We sit here conjugating every variation through
The verb to do

Now I don't want to hang it all on you
If blame must be allotted, I'll take some too
But someone just say "Damn it,
I need to be tonight with you"
The verb to do

If I don't seem to want it, if it won't show through
It's only because it has me paralysed for want of loving you

So if you and I don't make it, well who's going to
Why can't we just state it bold as blue
Look out over this city the first word their taught to use
Is the verb to do

Kestrel Road

written by Harvie

Published by Polygram Music Publishing Ltd.

(Instrumental)