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

What I Think She Sees (Album Ver.) Del Amitri

I've been in this place many times before With my baby's things among my shoes and strings and clothes But just because I'm here Don't mean I can't run out that door Ain't that what those running shoes

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?

Cash And Prizes (Album Ver.) Del Amitri

got cash and prizes, but I don't know who I am I've got buildings, I've got planes That light the skyline with my name I am everywhere but here A colossus on the index, but touch the cancel key and I just

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

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

Some Other Sucker's Parade (Album Ver.) Del Amitri

name But it ain't no sin to drink when you're suffering Patience, they say, is a saintly virtue But hell, why should I wait 'til the clouds go rain on some other sucker's parade When every heavy sky just

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

Out Falls The Past (Album Ver.) Del Amitri

You hold the key to whether we will ever last I know I can't forever hide behind this mask 'Cause everytime I fall in love, out falls the past You'll hear my reputation anywhere you ask They'll say I'm

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

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

Food For Songs Del Amitri

of dawn But I ain't gonna cry just to give some guy Food for songs People going hungry, Stand like a sackfull of bones, People going hungry, feeding a billion homes So I put my dead child

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?

Nothing Ever Happens Del Amitri

For security guards to patrol And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink While the married ones turn on a chat show And theyll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow Gentlemen time please, you

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 leave

Move Away Jimmy Blue Del Amitri

So move away Jimmy Blue Before your small, small town turns around and swallows you A drunk mother was the cue For the legendary things that you do Behind a carnival tent with mud on your face

Ceasefire Del Amitri

I feel down and degraded Like I felt when you and me began to tire And we stopped long ago But I thought it was just ceasefire.

What I Think She Sees Del Amitri

I've been in this place many times before With my baby's things among my shoes and strings and clothes But just because I'm here Don't mean I can't run out that door Ain't that what those running shoes

One More Last Hurrah Del Amitri

One more last hurrah One more fearless stand At some nightclub bar One more last hurrah Gonna kiss our friends And then crash our cars Crash our cars One more last hurrah Before we knuckle down and button

This Side Of The Morning Del Amitri

perfect, and that's something that I'm sure she'll know 'cos trying to tell her lies from the truth at times Is like trying to divide ice from snow When I knew it was over, I jumped into a taxi And said, just

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

Make It Always Be Too Late Del Amitri

So get lost with me, let the whole world wait Make it always be too late What I want is right before my eyes So set me up a drink Pull the shutters down on all those prying satellites 'Cos what I

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

Just Getting By Del Amitri

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 We try to make a difference, do something no one else had tried But if you

Funny Way To Win Del Amitri

So you want me to play the bleeding role Just so he can know how I needed you. Well that's okay with me, it's a part I think I know God knows he won't need to suspend belief.

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

Don't Come Home Too Soon Del Amitri

So long, go on and do your best, Let all friends have whiskey on it's breath, The world may not be shaking yet but you might prove them wrong, Even long shots make it So go then, out into history, And

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

She's Passing This Way Del Amitri

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 But just

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

Scared To Live Del Amitri

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 moons ago But now that we've given all we have to give Maybe we're just

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

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

Sometimes I Just Have To Say Your Name Del Amitri

crazy for the days to get to you When I can hold you and kiss you and have you Instead of staring at some photo like a fool But as day turns to night there's this hopelessness to fight When I think that

Wash Her Away Del Amitri

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 queens Hair like a heart attack of dreams A voice so soft you

I Was Here Del Amitri

" And wonderful world why are you full Of endless monotony and tiresome fools? These people that surrounded me were damaged and done And we were as compatible as swimming pools and slums.

The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere Del Amitri

Go and tell your mother, go and tell your friends You've been fooled again He appeared like magic and he left you on a late night train Yeh, some things never change Cos baby the ones that you love lead

The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere (Live At The Town & Country Club, London/ 1993) Del Amitri

Go and tell your mother, go and tell your friends You've been fooled again He appeared like magic and he left you on a late night train Yeh, some things never change Cos baby the ones that you love

The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere (Live At Leeds Town & Country Club/ 1997) Del Amitri

Go and tell your mother, go and tell your friends You've been fooled again He appeared like magic and he left you on a late night train Yeh, some things never change Cos baby the ones that you love lead

Whiskey Remorse Del Amitri

"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.

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

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

Sticks And Stones, Girl Del Amitri

Here I am, hardly breathing in at all I cough when I can and that's about all I am this man and though I turn the tape To a happier song, my face can't find a smile Because it's been looking too long You

Keepers Del Amitri

We are just starting luxurious lives To be drunkards and diddymen Making gulf wars and battered wives.

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

Jesus Saves Del Amitri

hungry, saves the weak Jesus saves, saves every soul 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

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

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