(I'll) Take You Down

Lying on the eiderdown she feels her heartbeat
slowing down and listens to the rain
Over in the corner is the man her mother
warned her wouldn't bring her love but pain

In the early hour of morning as the has to realise
that a kiss upon the forehead means he'll never leave his wife

Waiting for a call she races down into the
hall but it's a voice she doesn't know
someone makes an offer says he knows
about her lover and it's over anyway

Staring out into the country
he begins to weakly pray
that some loyalty will safe him
then she telephones to say

"I'll take you down, I'll take you with me
If you should try to discard me from your life
I'll show you how love is forever
or till I say that you have paid for every day"

Get Out

On the staircase where they wrapped you body
I can sense a lonely soul
In the bedroom the heater humming
heard somebody whisper low

Can you feel me?
I don't want to listen anymore
Can you feel me?
Just remember we were never really crazy

Get out of my house I want you out
I know you can't believe it
Get out of my house I want you out
Pretend you can't believe that I
could have said those things now you are so alone
baby go where you should have gone
you cannot live again

Try to tease me with an ancient story
of a pure and driven love
so enacted on a broken mattress, all that you were dreaming of

what a liar
I know everything about you
what a liar
Just remember I was never all you needed

Star

You were inspired on the first day you saw her
you thought that she could make you someone

You took the pictures, all she did was stand there
smiling and clueless that's what you thought

The irony of innocense and profit was not wasted on her

Tell them how you made the star from the back seat of your car
to the heady stages of the fashion pages
used to call here every day but the line is now engaged
will you wait forever for that voice from heaven

Little by little they tried to take her from you
that's when you found out you were in love

you wouldn't hurt her, though you could make a million
for you have seen her closer than most

The beauty of her innocense could not survive and she should know it

Tell them how you made the star from the back seat of your car
to the heady stages of the fashion pages
You could take her back again to the dull insistent pain
where you've been for too long and you know you don't belong

She could have never come this far, NO

Second Time Around

Waiting to see you at Marble Arch in June
watching the traffic from my room

my independence has proved itself again
I'll let it slip an inch today

should I tell you of my loneliness and pain

How I came to love you, the second time around
without a touch without a sound
How I tried to hate you, because I bought it all
because I felt like there was nowhere else to fall

Finally with you, the time has come to start
another repossession of your hear

Taking you over will only take the night
it is impossible to fight

When I hear the doubt inside you voice I know

How I came you love you, the second time around
without a touch without a sound
How I tried to hate you, you know I never could
because I knew that I had never felt so good

Someone To Dream Of

Say you love me though I know
your head is full of people and adventure
I'll teach you to let go

Come inside and take my life
you know it's yours I won't resist a moment
why should I even try?

Half awake and half alive
at 2 a.m. I turned the television off
and rested at your side

Through the incidental days
I kept you here inside my heart reminding me
for when I lost my way

Someone to dream of, someone to dream of
when I was empty, shallow and small
someone to live for, someone to live for
you're gonna need it as much as I do
I'm so in love with you

and if you don't believe me you should try
to take another look inside my life
if you don't believe me all that I can do is prove it all to you

Under Starlight

In a room down by the water with no furniture at all
I decided this is over autumn 1984
I was never ever going back again
I refuse to be protected by something I haven't earned
would I ever have the nerve

I won't lie, this could be the worst thing
I have done in my whole life but
I must try, leave my to discover
I'm as strong as any other

Drinking champagne in the hotel with new people and new words
this is where it's gonna happen this where I will emerge
I was standed under starlight by the shore
when you turned to me and whispered in my ear
"there is no turning back from here"

I'm gonna give it up, I'm gonna give it up,
I'm gonna rip it up throw it away

A Miserable Boy

You were a miserable boy, before you saw your fate
in a man on the stage
In 85 beside you at the barricade we sang to every word
I knew you were imagining inhabiting that world

Don't be shy tonight, tell us about your life
say it til you really feel you believe it too
Don't be scared to cry, for we will only love you more
because we know that you are warm down deep inside

High and tired after the show
your mother picked us up
you could see it wrong
You knew that you would have to get away from here
define yourself again
the poverty the arrogance the desperation and the pain oh

Don't be shy tonight, tell us about your life
say it til you really fell you believe it too
Don't be scared to cry, for we will only love you more
because we know that you're the warmest man alive

How To Face It

Leaning on the viaduct, your bottle in my hand
huddled in your arms against the night

In our drunken glory we are perfectly in time
adorable until the morning light

Now I don't know how to face it
2 years later and I realise that what you said is true
You can play it to perfection
but if nobody is listening then you know you're bound to lose

Standing in the bedroom with some look upon your face
staring out into the falling snow

made an application though I never thought you'd go
come the new year I was here alone

when you tell me that you need a little time
are you trying to be kind, or is it the end of the line

Here In Heaven

Take me over, take me please
from the focus of the daylight
from the chaos of my mind

Make me happy, make me rise
I am hungry for the night time
I am driven to your life

who's the girl in the big red car laughing
as she tells us we have gone too far

I FOUND YOU TONIGHT, HERE IN HEAVEN
WE ARE BEAUTIFUL TONIGHT
I FOUND YOU TONIGHT, IN A LOVESONG
SINGING QUIETLY INSIDE

Hesitation, always near
with your voice I am awoken
with your touch I lose my fear

Liberate me with your kiss
all my life I have been waiting
I have searched alone for this

Though the heat of a thousand eyes closes in upon us,
stay with me tonight

Over Your Head

The telephone is ringing to itself, the television does not help
trying to forget her name

Dizzy as the world is rushing past and when you find your feat at last
it will never be the same

She was cold and she was cruel, she was beautiful and new

It's over your head, it's over in a moment
never to say what you meant to say
you think that it's you, you think that you're a no-one
back on the beat you look wonderful to me

lonely at the water's edge again taste the spray and kill the pain
I can feel the time is near

maybe if your confidence is low I could come around and show
you exactly how I feel

she was stupid she was wrong she was love but she is gone

So Cold

Saw you last night for the first time in years
dreamt you confronted me covered in tears

you asked what happened, I couldn't say why
we were in love and then somehow it died

why should I want to see you?
why should I want to know anything that you never showed?

And why does it feel so cold lying alone here
in the pictures above me I see your eyes accusing me now
no I never expected you now

Finished with love only 20 years old
Clenched and resentful you turned to the world

cheated by passion and poisoned by hope
I didn't stop you when you tried to go