A couple of old songs I’ve found lying around while spring-cleaning my garage… Too precious to get rid of them.
When I look at you
Oh, I don’t know what’s real
Once in a while
And you make me laughAnd I’ll see you tomorrow
And it won’t be long
Once in a while
Then you take me down
Then you walk awayWhen you say ‘I do’
Oh, I don’t believe you
I can’t forget it
NoWhen you sleep tomorrow
And it won’t be long
Once in a while
When you make me smile
When you turn your long blond hairWhen I look at you
Oh, I don’t know what’s real
Once in a while
And you make me laughAnd I’ll sleep tomorrow
And it won’t be long
Once in a while
Then you take me down
When you walk awayWriter(s): Kevin Shields
Album: When You Sleep (Single)
Released: 2010
It’s my direction
It’s my proposal
It’s so hard
It’s leading me astrayMy obsession
It’s my creation
You’ll understand
It’s not important nowAll I need is
Co-ordination
I can’t imagine
My destination
My intention
Ask my opinion
But no excuse
My feelings still remainMy feelings still remain
Writer(s): Martin Handsley Cooper / Paul David Humphreys
Album: Architecture & Morality
Released: 1981
Early morning by the harbour
the clouds above form one sheep-like spray
Early morning by the harbour
Where you are
Where you now are
You have nothing to live up to
You have nothing to live down
Emma’s house is empty
so why do I call it Emma’s house?Five to six that’s what the time is
the cold cuts through my shirt of cotton made
Five to six that’s what the time is
Where you are
Where you now are
You have nothing to live up to
You have nothing to live down
Emma’s house is empty
so why do I call it Emma’s house?Where you are
Where you now are
You have nothing to live up to
You have nothing to live down
Emma’s house is empty
so why do I call it Emma’s house?Writer(s): Michael Hiscock
Album: Where’d You Learn to Kiss That Way?
Released: 1998
Round and round up and down
Through the streets of your town
Everyday I make my way
Through the streets of your townDon’t the sun look good today?
But the rain on its way
Watch the butcher shine his knives
And this town is full of battered wives.Round and round up and down
Through the streets of your town
Everyday I make my way
Through the streets of your townI ride your river under the bridge
I take your boat out to the reach
‘Cause I love that engine roar
But I still don’t know what I’m here forRound and round up and down
Through the streets of your town
Everyday I make my way
Through the streets of your townThey shut it down
They closed it down
They shut it down
They pulled it downRound and round up and down
Through the streets of your town
Everyday I make my way
Through the streets of your townWriter(s): Robert Derwent Garth Forster / Grant William Mclennan
Album: 16 Lovers Lane
Released: 1988
Another time, time after time
You make me feel so helpless I
Never tried to change your mind
I keep it to myself it’sSometimes I’ve got to tell you
Is it this time I’ll tell you?
We’ve got to go to places
Somewhere I don’t mind it’s specialAnd now you find as time goes by
You’re left with nothing meaning much
The meaning I will have to try
To take your mind to placesI wish that I could help you
But you seem less than helpless
I always tried to tell you
Someday that it’d seem so specialTime after time what’s on your mind
You make me feel so helpless I
You never tried what’s on your mind
You make me feel so helpless I
I feel so helpless IYou’re left alone with something
And I hope for you it’s one thing
That something you and yours can
Hold and hold as something specialAnd now you find as time goes by
You’re left with nothing meaning much
The meaning I will have to try
What’s on your mind so helpless I
I feel so helpless IFeel so helpless I, feel so helpless I
Feel so helplessWriter(s): Bob Mould
Album: Copper Blue
Released: 1992
From the mountain tops down to the sunny street
A different drum is playing a different kind of beat
It’s like a mystery that never ends
I see you crying and I want to kill your friendsI hear your footsteps in the street
It won’t be long before we meet
It’s obvious
Just count me in and count me out and
I’ll be waiting for the shout
ObliviousMet Mo and she’s okay, said no one really changed
Got different badges but they wear them just the same
Down by the ballroom I recognized
That flaming fountain in those kindered caring eyes.I hear your footsteps in the street
It won’t be long before we meet
It’s obvious
Just count me in and count me out and
I’ll be waiting for the shout
ObliviousI hope it haunts me ’til I’m hopeless
I hope it hits you when you go
And sometimes on the edge of sleeping
It rises up to let me know it’s not so deep
I’m not so slowThey’re calling all the shots
They call and say they phoned
They’ll call us lonely when we’re really just alone
And like a funny film, it’s kinda cute
They bought the bullets and there’s no one left to shoot.I hear your footsteps in the street
It won’t be long before we meet
It’s obvious
Just count me in and count me out and
I’ll be waiting for the shout
Oblivious…Writer(s): Roddy Frame
Album: High Land, Hard Rain
Released: 1983
She summered every winter
Through a calendar from paradise
A cheap dressed up temp-job
And a tan by cold florescent light‘Anticipation’ playing from the radio
It mocks her life
‘I was here’, she scribbled in a restroom
To prove she was aliveAll the working girls are fine
All the working girls are fine
All the working girls
All the working girls
All the working girls are fineShe summered every winter
Through a calendar from paradise
I was here she scribbled in a restroom
To prove she was aliveAll the working girls are fine
All the working girls are fine
All the working girls
All the working girls
All the working girls are fineSunlight shines
Contemplating suicide or a graduate degree
I said how’s it going with her
I feel sullen
I feel sullen
I feel seventeenWriter(s): Pernice
Album: The World Won’t End
Released: 2001
It doesn’t pay to try
All the smart boys know why
It doesn’t mean I didn’t try
I just never know why
Feel so cold and all alone
‘Cause, baby, you’re not at home
And when I’m home
Big deal, I’m still aloneFeel so restless, I am
Beat my head against a pole
Try to knock some sense
Down in my bones
And even though they don’t show
The scars aren’t so old
And when they go
They let you knowYou can’t put your arms around a memory
You can’t put your arms around a memory
You can’t put your arms around a memory
Don’t try, don’t tryYou’re just a bastard kid
And you got no name
‘Cause you’re living with me
We’re one and the sameAnd even though they don’t show
They scars aren’t so old
And when they go
They let you knowYou can’t put your arms around a memory
You can’t put your arms around a memory
You can’t put your arms around a memory
Don’t try, don’t tryYou can’t put your arms around a memory
You can’t put your arms around a memory
You can’t put your arms around a memory
Don’t try, don’t tryWriter(s): John Genzale
Album: So Alone
Released: 1978
Outside my house is a cactus plant
They call the century tree
Only once in a hundred years
It flowers gracefully
And you never know when it will bloomHey, do you want to come out
And play the game
It’s never too late
Hey, do you want to come out
And play the game
It’s never too lateClementine Hunter was fifty-four before she picked up her paintings?
Old Uncle Taylor was eighty-one when he rode his bike
Across the plains of China Uh huh
And the sun was shining on that day
Just like todayHey, do you want to come out
And play the game
It’s never too late
Hey, do you want to come out
And play the game
It’s never too lateDidn’t know how to tell her for over thirty years
Kept locked up inside himself
No one saw the tears
Then she went away
And he woke up that day
So he went back to college at the age of sixty-three
Graduated with honors with an agriculture degree
And he joined up the Peace Corps at the age of sixty-nine
And he rode the grand rapids at the age of eighty-five
Now he brings roses to his sweetheart
She lives most anywhere
He sees someone suffering
He knows that despair
He offers them a rose
And some quiet prose
About dancing in a shimmering ballroom
‘Cause you never know when they will bloomWriter(s): Victoria Ann Williams
Album: Loose
Released: 1994
I try to discover
A little something to make me sweeter
Oh baby refrain from breaking my heart
I’m so in love with you
I’ll be forever blue
That you give me no reason
Why you’re making me work so hardThat you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me noSoul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to meAnd if I should falter
Would you open your arms out to me
We can make love not war
And live at peace with our hearts
I’m so in love with you
I’ll be forever blue
What religion or reason
Could drive a man to forsake his loverDon’t you tell me no
Don’t you tell me no
Don’t you tell me no
Don’t you tell me noSoul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to meI’m so in love with you
I’ll be forever blue
That you give me no reason
You know you’re making me work so hardThat you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me noSoul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to meSoul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to meWriter(s): Andrew Bell / Andy Bell / Vince Clarke
Album: A Little Respect
Released: 2017
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