Alison Moyet Album

It wont be clean and easy
There's more to carry than a case or two
I come with a history that I wont forget in a life with you
This man's been true to me and I didn't come by him easy
Shame shame crying shame
Losing more than a family name
Don't let your footsteps falter
You're gonna get wet if you dip in the water
Be sure what you take me for and I wont ever want for more
Don't let your footsteps fail me
You're gonna get sunk if you slip on the way
When I say the time is right
Go walk this mother out of sight

I didn't plan to meet you now here I am on a roundabout
See the road where I lived my life
If I go with you there's no turning back
I'm tired and I aint proud but I want you more than I ever have
Tell me baby, did you think about it?

It wont be young and pretty
Look around you, you know it
Aint nothing new for me I don't get fooled so easy
What's good aint gonna be fine six months on down the line
Shame shame crying shame
Losing more than a family name

Have you found it, did you find what you're looking for
You know you change your mind and it's a waste of time
And heaven only knows you'll be on your own

One of these days
I'm waiting on a day
When nobody comes to trample my meadow
Biding my time
There's gonna be a time
Might take a while
But changes are coming
And it wont be long
When everything you said
Won't sit around and pile up with the traffic in my head
And when I wake up
I wont see you on the bathroom floor
In the tangle of clothes we left lying there
It wont be long

One of these nights
With company I find
I wont be inclined to leave before sunrise
When my eyes, my mouth, my hands, my head
Don't tell me that nobody else will do

And it wont be long
When everything you said
Won't sit around and pile up with the traffic in my head
And when I wake up
I wont see you on the bedroom floor
In the tangle of rope we left lying there
It wont be long
It wont be long
'Till it's all gone

And it wont be long
When everything you said
Won't sit around and pile up with the traffic in my head
And when I wake up
I wont see you by the bedroom door
In the wallpaper stained by the cup that I threw at your head
It wont be long

Whose sticky hands are these?
And what is this empty place
I could be happily lost but for your face
Here stands an empty house
That used to be full of life
Now it's home for no one and his wife
It's a hovel and
Who can take your place?
I can't face another day
And who will shelter me?
It's cold in here
Cover me

Under these fingertips a strange body rolls and dips
I close my eyes and you're here again
Later as day descends
I'll shout from my window
To anyone listening. "I'm loosing"

Who can take your place?
I can't face another day
And who will shelter me?
It's cold in here
Cover me

Oh in a plague of hateful questioning
Tap dancing every syllable from ear to ear
I hear the din of lovers jousting
When I'm hiding with my head to the wall

Who will shelter me?
It's cold in here

Baby loose that frying pan
You don't live to feed that man
Nothing's gained through self-denial
'Cos you weren't born to be servile
Don't you know you've gotta
Rise - Think about what you do now
Where do you belong
Are you somebody's niggababe
Or does the fight go on

Do you think the hurting is gonna go away
If you leave uprising for another day

Hey Mister! Better teach your child to run
From all you name as just harmless fun
Do you show respect everywhere you go
Do you teach the young man how to treat your own

Don't you know you've gotta
Rise - Think about what you do now
How do you behave
Would you leave your children
What you see today

Freedom to the children of the world

Think about what you do now
Everything you see
Life aint living in a magazine
Life aint living

Sister! Why do you trade it in
For a diamond chip and a rabbit skin
His big red car is a mote too fast
And it wasn't built for the ride to last

Freedom to the slave of the slave
[And you know you are]

I can't begin to tell you how it feels
It's a clear blue sky
Out here my heart so full it's fit to burst
Just counting the hours
Home, such a long way gone
How to share a day
Here's my only way
Send myself to you
Wishing you were here

I can't begin to tell you where I've been
It's a world behind
And if we are to find our heaven here
We just have to look harder
Now I can see you
I never could before
Now I wand nothing more
When I close my eyes
Wishing you were here

Home such a long way gone
How to share a day
Here's my only way
When I close my eyes
Wishing you were here

I can't begin to tell you how it feels

Well now everyone says you've got a heart of gold
Huh! Yeah it's one of those things being brought and sold
Now it's back on the market I've been told
Hoodoo, you
Well I rue the day I ever saw your face
[Thank you God for the day I saw his face]
Even more the day I opened up my place
You can go and park your car in space
Hoodoo you. Hoodoo
Who do? Who do you Hoodoo too?

Save it for your mother
Save it for the judge
Save it for your brother who can never ever get enough
Share it with your neighbours
Share it with your friends
Hand it out if you're ever in doubt
But here is where your credit ends
Who do? Who do you Hoodoo too?

Well now look at all the candles on your wall
Set a little flame to one and all
Burn them out it's fine to fall
Hoodoo, you
And now don't I just know what you're coming for
[The sweetest thing without a d-dou-doubt]
Aint just for banging on my door
[She don't know what its all a-b-bou-bout]
Well I aint hungry anymore
Hoodoo you. Hoodoo. Who do? Who do you Hoodoo too?

Save it for your mother
Save it for the judge
Save it for your brother who can never ever get enough
Share it with your neighbours
Share it with your friends
Hand it out if you're ever in doubt
But here is where your credit ends
Who do? Who do you Hoodoo too?

Well sugar sweetness
Move yourself
I gotta go I got a meet to make
Fine as it is back there
Back up your tin can
Pack off your sweet behind
Aint got no time to fool around
Aint no wet nurse to you child
Pick it up

Baby meeting with my main man
And I get a belly full of lovin'
Meeting with my main man

When I get through here gonna make my way
Up to the 22nd floor with a pile of money
I'll throw it all up for a hit on the back wall
If I want more you'll be the first to know
I'll call you later - much later

Just doing fine my dear up here
Look around "Where do we go" you say
Never could come where I wanna be
This is hard as hell and I don't want to take it easy
Come on now - shake me

Have no faith
Believe me, don't believe in me
I'm gonna let you down
You make it so very easy
He's waiting for me
That's the way I ever want it to be
It's always been the same
Yes it has, do you see. Wanna be where I belong

I belong
What am I supposed to do?
If he were there I wouldn't be with you
And you know the time is wrong
I'm going home back where I belong

You cant loose what you don't have
Making waves wont keep mine from me
I was lonely and there you were
Don't think he's hiding in the backroom
He knows with a wave of his hand
[On my way] you'll be out and I
[On my way] I'll be on my way
[On my way] back where I belong

I belong
If he were there I wouldn't be with you
And you know that it's all I have
I'm telling you baby I can't stop now

He's waiting for me
I gotta go 'cos
I feel his hand
Reminds me how aint no use in having any other man

Don't be afraid of the dark my love
What would old Hobbs do with this pure heart
Where shadows inch like rising damp
Their seaweed fingers will us all to be wakeful
What a night for naming stars and parking cars
Sink into our cloud of down and sleep with me
Angel, angel - hold your head up high
In no way let God's kingdom pass you by

There's an open door and the lights are on
And all the goings on, the shouting mouths are gone
Thought why should I care anyway
I'll see your sweet face everyday
And that's everything
A prayer that I may never find you there
Folded up in an empty room
Too tired to laugh at a vaulting moon

Angel, angel - hold your head up high
In no way let God's kingdom pass you by

I saw a face, grey as the cold December
A face I know, not the one that I remember
I wanted to hide but I cant run out on you forever
[Milky eyes like opal stones
Staring through a stained glass window
It's never too late to change your mind
Looking through a stained glass window]
It's never too late

I know a man, couldn't change the peace that stands between us
But these open hands are empty bowls to fill
[Come for the one who pays the most
You don't get thanks for loyalty]
And all your friends, they've gone and sold you down the river
They've got your phone book now
[Once your life was a fiery feast
Now it's just a burning ember]

It's never too late
We'll get it back together
It's never too late
Release me from this sorrow

Will you never learn, love knows no bounds
Beggar or a king, it will bring you down
Fool may I be, cant give up the ghost that haunts me

I saw a face, grey as a cold December

It's never too late

Is your heart so heavy
That it weighs you down
So all you have is time
Don't turn away
We have both seen darker days
And there's always a light that shines

[Do you feel like] all your hopes are a long way gone
[Does it seem like] every road only takes you down
[Do they shut you out]
Don't be afraid of what they say
Throw back your head and cry

When you need somebody, find me there
When you're feeling empty I'll be there - find me

When you're feeling weary with no peace of mind
And the tone of your voice is hollow
You're home to stranger that won't belong
And there's no-one else to follow

[Do you feel like] nowhere, oh no, there's no better way
[Does it seem like] nobody hears a word you say
[And they shut you out]
And where does it say that a man aint a right
To throw back his head and cry

You don't need to tell me 'cos I know
I know how you feel [you're miles away]
You don't need to show me [nobody listens to a word you say]
We can shut them out
Where does it say that a man aint a right
To throw back his head and cry

When you need somebody find me there
I'll be right beside you
When you're feeling empty I'll be there
Can you hear me? I'll be singing