Alison Moyet Album

Turn the light out
Suddenly your eyes are tired
Rest on the heel of your hand
Wait for the feeling to subside
And he stirs
And even now you want him
Even in a room this blue
Here with these words in your mouth
And that's still good enough for you
It's what you do

If all that we make here is sorrow
And all that we get we just borrow
I'll still buy
So can we try
One more time.

Nobody made us
No one dragged us kicking here
If easy was on the cards
Then someone made it disappear
And he smiles
And even now you hate him
Only now he wants you to
The liberties you take
For what he won't be giving you
That's what you do

If all that we make here is sorrow
And all that we get we just borrow
I'll still but
So can we try
One more time

He turns the light on
Sits down where he watches you
Tells you he couldn't sleep
He has something to share with you
That's what we do

If all that we make here is sorrow
And all that we get we just borrow
I'll still buy
So can we try
One more Time

Anytime at all
I would change my life for you
Happiness settles where you are

Anytime at all
I would choose to stay with you
Togetherness is not so far
I love you so

That is why, and it's why
I'm ready to sustain
The pleasure and the pain
Oh and all the crazy turns
With you my love

Anything you need
If it raised a smile in you
I want to bring it to your door

Everything I need
In the sleepy sighing
Of somebody here who needs me more
I love you so

That is why, and it's why
I'm ready to sustain
The pleasure and the pain
Oh and all the crazy turns
With you my love

Anytime at all
To stop those lonely tears that fall
and how they made you feel so small
If not me, who you gonna call?

And that is why, it's why
its why, its why, it's why
I'm ready to sustain
the pleasure and the pain
Oh and all the crazy turns
With you my love

That is why, that is why
I'm ready to sustain
the pleasure and the pain
Oh and all the crazy turns
With you my love

Anytime at all
I would change my life for you
Happiness settles where you are

It's my song
And I sing for the man in the wings
Is it strange
When we never have shared anything

I don't ache for some tender exchange
In the dark - that will pass
But the purest refrain
Will haunt us again
And he has that with me
When I've nothing to bring
I sing for the man in the wings

We won't speak
He won't ask me to follow him home
And his name
If I ever did know it, is gone

Back to back
I can hear his pulse racing with mine
Both in time
I'll be waiting for him
Before I begin each line
And he won't mind
That I've nothing to bring
When I sing for the man in the wings

And they tell me he walks alone
It is said that he is stone
Without knowing the shape of him
I am certain they are wrong
We meet in a different place
Me, the man and the song

I don't long
For some fleeting exchange in the dark
That will pass
But the purest refrain
Will haunt us again
And he has that with me
When we've nothing to bring
I sing for the man in the wings

It's easier to forgive someone for
being wrong
Than for being right, isn't it?
And how your angry tears will fall when
all your plans
Don't suit the one you made them for
It comes to this.
It's easier forgetting how you got to shore
When every cloud that blows your way
Is something else to blame me for

Say it like you feel it
You can't say it like you feel it anymore
Say it like I mean it
I can't say it like I mean it anymore

Hold it up to the light, it looks like love
It's what the mirror says
You name it so
But you cut your pretty shapes as
paper flakes
From careful sheets
They blow away
Not made to keep
What if alteration makes a little lie?
When what you paint instead is easier
on the eye
Than what you hide

Say it like you feel it
You don't say it like you feel it anymore
Say it like I mean it
I can't say it like I mean it anymore
Not anymore

There are people who you think you're
gonna love forever
Oh when you should know better
You should know better
Some people only see you
As a move they're making
Another step they're taking
A bet they're staking
There are people who you think
You're gonna love forever
You're gonna stay together
You should know better
Some people don't forgive you
What you give up freely
or that you found it easy
They want to own completely.
There are people who you think you're
gonna love forever
Oh when you should know better
You should know better...
(I can't say it like I mean it anymore)

You're asking the wrong question
To the wrong person
And it's hurting you to listen
I wanna be truthful
But you gotta be certain
This is what you mean

Ah Henry, would you look at me
You cannot have it all and I will not make it easy
Henry, I'm not grateful for small mercies
No matter how light the purse is
All the things you need don't mean a thing to me -
It's not the air I breathe
It's not the thing Henry

Am I taking the wrong meaning
In concluding
That the error is of your choosing?
You've got to be simple
If you think that you're moving
More than the ire in me

Ah Henry, would you look at me
You cannot have it all and I will not make it easy
Henry, I'm not grateful for small mercies
No matter how light the purse is
All the things you need don't mean a thing to me -
It's not the air I breathe
It's not the thing Henry

All the things you need don't mean a thing to me -
It's not the air I breathe
It's not the thing Henry...

Behold the city rocks
And what you really want
Won't stay with you

Oh how the shifting light
Once clean, precise
Conspires now to play with you

Dust falls on everyone
Our innocence with time all rearranged
Two hearts beat on
Dismayed to find their rhythm so
estranged, oh

I'm on fire
I'm on fire
I'm on fire with you

Today I walk familiar lanes
'neath stone and spire where
nothings changed
But space and time

And if you tread your step the same
choose this hour, this day
Feel your hand for mine

Ours was a cruel exchange
Staying whole or being me and you
Forget, or find a way
To cut a hole that only we pass through

I'm on fire
I'm on fire
I'm on fire with you

Dust falls on everyone
Our innocence with time all rearranged
Two hearts beat on
Dismayed to find their rhythm so
estranged, oh

I'm on fire
I'm on fire
I'm on fire with you

Liar, lie you lie,
Time and again, and why?
No want will make it true.
The only road to clip my heel,
Is spinning like a wheel
And we are crashing over
The sharpest corner ever turned.

Cry, you cry, you cry,
There's no good in goodbye
When you can't wish me well.
The only smile that lights your face,
Is raised from my disgrace,
There is no getting over
The sharpest corner ever turned.

So, no.
No love me, love me, love.
Hollow, Hollow
And no.
No take me, take me in.
Hollow, Hollow.

Forgive, forgive, forgive
I know the way you live,
The shadow that you throw
Dream the dream the dreamer dreams
Who never goes to sea
Who's never sailing over
The sharpest corner ever turned.

So no,
No love me, love me, love.
Hollow, Hollow
And no.
No take me, take me in.
Hollow, Hollow.

Perpetual light
Eternal rest
Grant unto her
Her soul be blessed
And her faithful heart
With all pain, depart

Lighter than air
Safer in your arms
Borne on the breeze
Welcome in your arms
World without end

Be there no doubt
Be there no fear
Within your love
Our one glad heart
Offered up to you
Our precious soul for you

How sweet the refrain
Safer in your arms
Hold us again
Welcome in your arms
World without end

May we remain
Ever in your guard
-- Home again
Safely in your arms
World without end

Does no one here have any place to go?
Can there be time for such reclining
In your social to and fro
Have you no paramour
No dogs to walk
No early morning shift
That calls you like a whore and
begs you make it swift?
Does no one here have anything to show?
For every hour you devour
In pursuit of letting go
Where is your suckling brood?
Your easy mood
'Kick up the fire and let the
flames break loose'

Home, go home
Your dreams are yours alone'
all buffered nail and whittled heel
like clothes and skin the dance floor peels

Home, go home
The Masquerade is done
from here on in, tomorrow's canned
in each dear disappointed hand

Does no one here have anything to say?
Would it be treasonous to reason with
a heart so young and gay
It is the perfect frock, exquisite locks
and nothing comes to rain on your parade

Home, Go home
Your dreams are yours alone
What care i for your cobbled life
Your talent turn, your status wife
Go Home, Go Home, to valance,
flock and drone
Your lovers writhe like eels inside
Your neighbour's sheets - squealing
Bleating Haste - quick turn
The pyro lives to burn
The pelmet catches, batten hatches
all is gone that no-one snatches

Home, go home and govern you
your own
Make your love and keep it warm
It won't be precious very long
GO HOME

Gone, simple days
Single ways to run
Tripping over the rubble of new roads begun
And I'd follow you then, like a dog at your heel
Wishing only to borrow the freedoms you'd steal

I turned back as the crowd enveloped you
Scarlet finery
Oh just look at you now
Oh, just look at you now.

How is the truth so distracted,
When love sports its favours like medals
And takes well enough,
You gave to me selflessly, sinew and bone
Grown bigger than you who yet carries me home

Hair still black, and your back is steel
With your every word tasted
Oh, just look at you now
Oh, just look at you now.

I used to dance to the drum in your chest
My feet on your feet, my head at your breast
You gave me a tune and I carry it still
And i promise my darling,
That I ever will.

I turned back as the crowd enveloped you
Scarlet finery
Oh just look at you now
Oh, just look at you now
and I can't look at you now.