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

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.

Driving With The Brakes On Del Amitri

I sit belted up tight, She sucks on a match light, glowing bronze, steering on. And I might be more of a man if I stopped this in it’s tracks And said, come on, let’s go home.

Hammering Heart Del Amitri

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, And I suppose because there's beautiful girls in this

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?

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

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

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

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

Buttons On My Clothes Del Amitri

through summer I guess I've had a laugh I've had every kind of fun I could have had Looking at my crowd tonight There's a sober kind of sparkle in their eyes That I don't like 'Cause everybody knows she

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

Keepers Del Amitri

I have overloved you and overseen you And now you're refusing the gifts that I bring you My hands have been clasping my hot head and asking "if she submits to me, will she be my property?

Learn To Cry Del Amitri

figure out why As the drunks on the park benches are putting their blankets down I'm thinking boy, you'd better learn to cry Well I could go to sleep or else recourse to alcohol I could break up some of this

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

Kiss This Thing Goodbye Del Amitri

So come on 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.

Kiss This Thing Goodbye Del Amitri

seen it in your face all those times when our lips were kissing our tongues were telling lies and all those signs that i've been missing were right there in your eyes so come on babe let's kiss this

This Side Of The Morning Del Amitri

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 never guessed But from this

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

Not Where It's At Del Amitri

please with what I've got With some girls it don't matter where you're aiming With some girls it don't matter how you act And some girls they don't care what car you came in But the one girl that I want, she

Sleep Instead Of Teardrops Del Amitri

else will do I’m gonna lie to you Tell you that life is cruel But someday you’re gonna wake up With sleep instead of teardrops in your eyes An so Nobody lives forever The crassest of clichés

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

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.

Funny Way To Win Del Amitri

I know it's just a game and losing you's How it just begins...ain't that a funny way to win So I run around dragging people down Holding my broken heart like a cheap cartoon Just so he can see it's a sucker

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.

Don't Come Home Too Soon Del Amitri

might prove them wrong, Even long shots make it Just don't come home too soon, Just don't come home too soon, I don't care what people say (just don't come home too soon) We're gonna laugh it all the way

To Last A Lifetime Del Amitri

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 mid-afternoon And I hope she's home so she

Cindy Incidentally Del Amitri

just a little too quiet And your local papers run out of news I'm not persuading you or disengaging you But Cindy you and me we got to move Can you refuse, no time to lose We'll hit the high road early this

The First Rule Of Love Del Amitri

you'll want her so much you'll give everything else up And that's the first rule of love You'll grow comfortable together You'll start to fit like hand and glove And then you'll start to hate the men she

Scared To Live Del Amitri

Why can't I wake up to this life? How can you have no faith in this your own home town? Can't you practice a little discretion, play the whole thing down?

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

Never Enough Del Amitri

On the half finished buildings only seagulls remain As you try to think back to the root of this pain And life ain't worth living without a little love But a little love is never enough So some folks are

Sometimes I Just Have To Say Your Name Del Amitri

And with each tick of my alarm clock I get 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

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

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

Stone Cold Sober Del Amitri

the half-light Of threats and bribes In a hopeless porn parade We get the dog's life, tidbits train us What to wear, what not to say When you're footloose but you just feel limbless Life gets in the way

Crashing Down Del Amitri

you'll be crying like a baby when it comes And you will try it anyway you can To find a place to run, 'cos it ain't no fun In party town, when loneliness comes crashing down And you'll be hurting in a way

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

One Thing Left To Do Del Amitri

who I belonged to And so long to everything Now there's only one thing left to do, I guess I want to prove that I'd die for you I don't think of you, like I used to do, I can't figure who, I'm writing this

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

The Verb To Do Del Amitri

want it, if it won't show through It's only because it has me paralysed for want of loving you So if you and I don't make it, well who's going to Why can't we just state it bold as blue Look out over this

No Family Man Del Amitri

something better than me Don't say that it's a great mystery It's just making love what you want it to be, That's why I am no family man And that is why all that I have in the world Is an ocean of time with this

Crows In The Wheatfield Del Amitri

Making your way through an orangepeel orchard Tracing your day from disillusioned to debauched And spring passed quickly below the rotten elm tree You weren't kissed there you were pissed in the lavatory

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

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 be patient, pretty soon you would forget his name And face this

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

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 be patient, pretty soon you would forget his name And face this

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

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 be patient, pretty soon you would forget his name And face this

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

Out Falls The Past 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

Just Like A Man Del Amitri

cry, I wanna tell you I was wrong Yeh I wanna die, I wanna cry but it's too late So I soldier on just like a man I don't believe it, you were easy to leave but now I do my best to relieve it the only way