The Whole World Is Quiet Del Amitri

UK CDS "Always The Last To Know" 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

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

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

Sometimes I Just Have To Say Your Name Del Amitri

With the sweet drip of every raindrop Time brings you closer to me And with each new sign at every train-stop Another hour without you is consigned to history And with each tick of my alarm clock I get

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

Start With Me Del Amitri

With all the stuff they sell you night and day With all the trash they try to trick you with you lie to me Well I don't need it but I get it anyway With all the sadness and lunacy, With all the dispossessed

Sleep Instead Of Teardrops Del Amitri

Cry Cry out your eyes forever It wont go away I I’m just a dumb observer It’s so stupid what I said Like everyone else will do I’m gonna lie to you Tell you that life is cruel But someday you’

Scared To Live Del Amitri

"Walk into the lightning of a midnight bulletin Our brave new world 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

Roll To Me Del Amitri

1-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 to me Roll to me Look into your heart pretty baby Is it aching

No Family Man Del Amitri

Well, I talk like a boy to my baby sometimes And you talk like a baby when your boy is crying You made something to love but I love what I am No family man So don't tell me you've got something better

Never Enough Del Amitri

With two hundred people in suits all the same You walk off that last lonely train.

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

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 it's up to us to choose the

I Was Here Del Amitri

She shouted to me under the juggernaut roar, "this is the bad life, what are we here for? " And wonderful world why are you full Of endless monotony and tiresome fools?

Stone Cold Sober Del Amitri

Everybody in 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

Last Cheap Shot At The Dream Del Amitri

I can't look into the future, but I can't cheat the past I will wipe away my memory, I will find freedom at last I will walk away from everything that I used to want so bad I can't look into the future

Sticks And Stones, Girl Del Amitri

arrive like a locust swarm You devastated me and now when you leave the room My heart, head, hands and all forms Go from red hot blood to bone dry and lukewarm You're the sticks and stones, girl You're

Surface Of The Moon Del Amitri

recognition with a temporary smell Now the midnight train eases out leaving everyone marooned And without her it might as well be the surface of the moon >From the well-swept streets of Jackson Heights

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

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

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

This Side Of The Morning Del Amitri

And said, just guess where to go And the driver turned about and said finding what you want is like Trying to divide ice from snow So here I sit, rolling back to bed Knowing love is a hazard That I'd

Move Away Jimmy Blue Del Amitri

A struck match faded like a nervous laugh Beyond the halo of a naked bulb Your low voice mingles with your other half's; Schoolfriends in second-hand clothes Eventually your world will shrink within

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.

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

Life Is Full Del Amitri

People say you are a stand up guy You'd never hurt no one and you'd never try And you laugh and you cry And you do all the things that anybody does to show they are alive.

Hammering Heart Del Amitri

Her heart speaks to me; says the room the room the room Beneath her dress, and I suppose that it beats for me Like a hammering moon pulling tides through her chest Suppose she says that she owes me All

When You Were Young Del Amitri

Look at the fool you have been They drained the pool while you drowned in the dream They bought your beauty and your soul Then softly sold you back what they stole So look into the mirror do you recognise

Some Other Sucker's Parade Del Amitri

I must've had a million damn unlucky days But there ain't no cloud that a bottle can't chase away I've done my deal of living, ran from place to place But when the roof comes in I don't wanna take it straight

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

I must've had a million damn unlucky days But there ain't no cloud that a bottle can't chase away I've done my deal of living, ran from place to place But when the roof comes in I don't wanna take it straight

Breaking Bread Del Amitri

All day long, sweeping up the dead pigeons from the pavement After the long dim dawn He remembered how she pulled him from disaster into laughter.

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

Crashing Down Del Amitri

Well it might not be so important to you now When the night is young and everyone's around And the music flows Through your doped up Disney mind.

She's Passing This Way Del Amitri

She's 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

Spit In The Rain Del Amitri

You can grin, but you can't hide All the emptiness inside Since she left You like Spit in the rain.

Former Owner Del Amitri

And no, I'm not untying The reins around her neck that she feels And I won't try to prise out of her the truth anymore When she lies about the things that she sees Because the former owner always keeps

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

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

Just Getting By Del Amitri

Look at me, I'm the one who got away, the one who could've shone I tried 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

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 is

One More Last Hurrah Del Amitri

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 up And figure out that fading out's The

Lighten Up The Load Del Amitri

I've been waiting in this station, for what seems like a year Its midday now but I don't trust the clocks they have in here And maybe round the corner she'll be stepping off that bus And then I will remember

Mother Nature's Writing Del Amitri

Open up your eyes, Everything is crying out this could be your time She fell out of the sky, Must every star been working on Heavenly designs A crooked line of lightning, a silent movie moon Mother nature's

Behind The Fool Del Amitri

Don't tell her that you want her Don't ask her to be yours Don't tell her she is everything Or she might see the fool behind the frown And then the heart behind the fool Don't tell her that you need her

Being Somebody Else Del Amitri

How are you going to pass the time of day In your beautiful empty shell, When you've shaken the hand of so many sinceroes You feel like a fake yourself How do you choose between you and me When we both

It Might As Well Be You Del Amitri

There is nobody here tonight, who doesn't dance to the same tune as I Looking for that special someone new, and hey babe it might as well be you And as I fumble through my change, the dance floor illuminates

Keepers Del Amitri

" You may 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

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