Just Getting By Del Amitri

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 see me walking and you're wondering why Well it's just

To Last A Lifetime Del Amitri

Roll down the window, let me hear the rain Let me hear her whispering, honey everything is OK Cos I've had enough bad news To last a lifetime Well I drove all night under a seasick sky And I made it by

Just Like A Man Del Amitri

I still don't believe it, how much we lied Last night you made it with him now I'm supposed to be dignified Just like a man Well I spend my night times drinking and you spend your days in bed And I guess

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I Was Here Del Amitri

buildings held their stomachs in Goodness and badness were hardly anything I wanted to love her but she was never in Though they were taking out tongues in the land of the gun Though the sweating was getting

Surface Of The Moon Del Amitri

streets of Jackson Heights to the dockside drudgery Everything's no a replica of what it used to be And since they tarted up the trenches and painted the bridges blue It seems less like a home to me than just

Kiss This Thing Goodbye Del Amitri

I've been waiting up by the window watching these cars go by And I tell myself that I'll go through the motions for the last time tonight. So come on babe, let's kiss this thing goodbye.

Kiss This Thing Goodbye Del Amitri

babe let's kiss this thing goodbye i sometimes feel when we're together baby everything has turned out wrong and i know you feel exactly the same way but still we carry on i've been waiting up by

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

Don't Come Home Too Soon Del Amitri

but you might prove them wrong, Even long shots make it So go then, out into history, And show them how easy it can be, You might not believe it yet but pretty soon you'll see, Even long shots make it, Just

Nothing Ever Happens Del Amitri

turn on a chat show And theyll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow Gentlemen time please, you know we cant serve anymore Now the traffic lights change to stop, when theres nothing to go And by

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.

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?

Drunk In A Band Del Amitri

Pat is the guy with a record shop and John sells fruit but wants to be a cop and Paul deals speed in a celtic top but I'm just a drunk in a band Joe does tele-sales and martial arts and Jim pushes patients

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

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

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

Make It Always Be Too Late Del Amitri

What I want is everything to clear So let the clocks be wrong Let the evening be longer let me drown in here What I want gets clouded by the sun I can't see beyond The petty things that living here

Hatful Of Rain Del Amitri

young it's frightening Life's been good to you But strike me down with bolts of lightning If I wasn't good to you too Throw me away, throw me away again 'cause I don't mind, I'm still satisfied With just

Hatful Of Rain (Live 1995) Del Amitri

so young it's frightening Life's been good to you But strike me down with bolts of lightning If I wasn't good to you too Throw me away, throw me away again 'cos I don't mind, I'm still satisfied With just

Sometimes I Just Have To Say Your Name Del Amitri

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 I might not make it through But honey sometimes I just

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

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

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

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 I ain't gonna cry just

Cruel Light Of Day Del Amitri

forgiveness Now I see it in the cruel light of day Tell him he's done me a kindness She was going to leave anyway But love is such sweet blindness 'Til you see it in the cruel light of day Last night was just

Food For Songs (Acoustic Ver.) Del Amitri

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 I ain't gonna cry just

The Verb To Do Del Amitri

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 be allotted, I'll take some too But someone just

Lucky Guy Del Amitri

Baby, hold it, just let me try For just one minute be this other guy Live his life With my home and my faithful wife And your pretty face to kiss some nights Ain't I a lucky guy, I get what I want Ain't

The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere Del Amitri

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 you nowhere Yeh baby the ones that you love lead you nowhere If you could just

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

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 you nowhere Yeh baby the ones that you love lead you nowhere If you could just

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

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 you nowhere Yeh baby the ones that you love lead you nowhere If you could just

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

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

Stone Cold Sober Del Amitri

the fun house Says they want out But we're taking our time 'cos we're in love with time Whole generations thinking of themselves As infidels and pop stars While the bomb loses patience We line up and just

High Times Del Amitri

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 High times, dig the new domain Living through high times, just

Cash And Prizes 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

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

Whiskey Remorse Del Amitri

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.

Keepers Del Amitri

be bleeding but you're not dying Though you are dying to go Stop teasing me I'm not seeing you leaving me Here is a party full of my friends And here is a cup being filled up to be drunk again We are just

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

It Might As Well Be You Del Amitri

see again And through the fog that love creates the night is filled with all the usual mistakes they say you're looking lonely babe, and they've been looking too And hey, they might well be for you And by

Through All That Nothing Del Amitri

, that i tried to find Every day and every night through all that nothing The hands of fate, couldn't have done it all As if the rain ever cared where it falls And there were times when i know that i Just

The Whole World Is Quiet Del Amitri

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