Anouk Album

You ask me what is on my mind
you notice there's a change
there's something different
different in the way I look at you today
you see I have been alone for so long baby
now I cannot explain
I must be completely out of my mind
to ever take the change
I ain't got no trouble still I worry
that I might have to lose you
see i've been alone for so long baby

(chorus)

now I cannot explain, I've been alone for so long
I took the chance to lose you
no I must be insane, I've been alone for so long
I'm not gonna lose you

I never ever really tried
I never had the strength
but now I got you, I got you by my side
I'm gonna make this work
you see I've been alone for so long baby

(chorus)

All the things I've done when I was alone I can't understand myself
it's amazing, you amaze me
but my life begins with the songs I sing and the love you bring to me

Now I believe that what I used to think was a lie
Is really alive
Now I can see there's only one place to reach
Only one thing to preach and that's the highest
It's the strangest thing that I can feel so much
There is no reason, there is no logic to feelings
'Cause when love is the dealer I'm addicted
So fascinated, I can't stop this constant craving
You're contagious
It's the strangest thing that I can feel so much
For someone, somehow (2x)

(chorus)

And I cannot hide, even if I'd try
You mean everything to me
Any fool can see, what you've done to me
You mean everything to me
And when you're not here, I just cry
And when you're not here, I could die

The best is still to come dear
The best is still to come for us (2x)

It's the strangest thing that I can feel so much
For someone, somehow (2x)

They say that sometimes
you've got to pick up arms and fight
for what you believe is right
some say
that's just not the way
you will only make things worse

so I close my eyes and turn my head away
and I hope it'll be all right
fall into a restless sleep
while so many innocent die
that's why I sing

(chorus)
hail to all of us
hail to all of us down here (2x)

maybe someday soon
when we've tought things over
we'll know what to do
but probably
there's a much bigger chance, you see
that it will all be gone

so I close my eyes and turn my head away
and just hope it'll be all right
fall into a restless sleep
while so many others die
that's why I sing

(chorus 2x)

New York City, London, Jericho
Jerusalem, Sydney, anywhere you wanna go
Capetown, to the moon and back again

Did you ever wake up in the morning
with a freight-train running trough your head
an empty whiskey bottle by your pillow
and a burnend out unfinished cigarette
the night went up in smoke
life is but a joke man
but I see nobody laughing
did you ever live a day,
like the next day would never come
blood's dripping on the floor, but who cares
who needs you anyway
you're a stranger to yourself
and this ain't no joke, man
but I can't stop laughing

(chorus)
greedy, angry people make me
run around in circles backwards
down the lonely road that keeps me
run around in circles

how I want to try again
excuse me can you lead me
I just want to try again

Graduated fool, that is what I am
for every time I failed you
you're so beautiful, I just turned and walked away
I jingle with words, tangle my tongue
stammering stutters
so I wrote you this song, to finally tell you
what you've know all along, I love you
believe in me, believe me

it was true devotion, now these mixed emotions
oh, I did it again
I want you to forgive me, when the pain has faded
we'll be laughing again
believe in me

graduated fool, i'm better than I am
for that is what you made me
please, hold back your tears
I didn't deserve you anyway
believe in me, I still care for you, believe me
just believe in me. believe me

when I kiss you face again, all these mixed emotions
of pleasure and pain
I want you to forgive me, when the pain has faded
we'll be laughing again

believe in me, you're so beautiful, believe me

Lately I've been feeling down
I don't get around much anymore
so I just spend my time alone
waiting for the phone to ring
I keep thinking of you
I miss the language that we speak
when we don't even talk
and everytime I see you smile
you make it all worthwhile
I keep thinking of you

(chorus)
I never loved someone like this before
keep staring at your picture while I try to
work my way around you
but nothing any good
'cause I keep thinking of you

you never told me I would feel
lonely without you
you're not supposed to make me cry
you said: don't you worry I am yours
and in a while you were gonna call me
well it's been six hours now
I keep thinking of you

I've got time to think about
the things you think about when
you've got time to spare
wonder why we're here
I wonder when or where it might go wrong
I wonder why I went along with you
why I forgot to think
forgot to think it through now

I wonder why I
I wonder why

(chorus)
you go on pushing yourself
you keep on fooling yourself
you don't know why, you don't know
you don't know how, you just don't know
you keep on, I keep on fooling myself

there's a time and place for everything
a time to act, a time to dream
there's time to wait
but no time to waste, no

I wonder why I
I wonder why

I am looking for answers to questions never posed
I haven't god a clue, I'm living like a ghost
Can't seem to read the signs
I'm swimming in the sand, I'm searching
I hold on to my reasons, I'll hold on to my dreams
It's all good and bad advice 'cause you have choose
One friend says (to) go ahead, another one says don't
I'm searching

Whatever I try I can't find it
Wherever I roam it's all gone

No you can't find it, first you gotta to lose it

Looking for an angle to change my point of view
Waiting for somebody, someone to relate to
Hoping for forgiveness, living for love
I'm searching

Yearning for a teacher, to show us what to do
Learning from failure, is all that I can do
Working on solutions, a fiction of truth

Here, if it's any consolation, take mine
no, no need for explanations, it's alright
with me it would only be redundant, see
if you only try to keep it all inside
I lay me down with your decision
blow your mind, don't hesitate
this devil takes your pain away
take mine
but now that I have finally found you
I'm gonna take it one step at a time
let's try keep this good thing going
you tell a joke, I nearly die
we have to laugh until we cry
take mine, please take mine

my margarita chum, that's what you are
I'm laughing my ass off when you sing
everybody's happy now
the Luna-queens become the lunatics
while Janis Joplin tells her friend
he's just a one-night stand

I hear you retching in my bathroom, but I don't mind
no, I'll clean it up tomorrow, just sit down
again you choke me when you grumble
you and me we're so much like RG
and now I'll show you how to tango
I think it's time for us to say
that this has been a prefect day and retire, please retire

my margarita chum that's what you are
I'm laughing my ass of when you sing
everybody's happy now
a v.i.p is what you are to me

You tell me that you need to spend sometime alone
you tell me that you think it's best if i'd go home now
I get my coat from off the floor, I'm out the door
walking home alone, my love has left
(chorus)
my head, my heart all torn apart
my minds exploding
crying my eyes out over you

it must be hard for you to believe that I might love you
just try to understand I just want you to want me too
you made me fall in love again, you angel
how you take my breath away, I live for you

(chorus)

it must be hard for you to believe that I might love you anyway
just try to understand I just wanted you to want me too

(chorus)

It's good to see you after all this time
it's good to know that you are doing fine
but I can't help but notice in a bar on Friday night
there is something you should tell me
but your driver waits outside
[chorus]
you're moving on, you're going to a bigger world
you're moving on, you're ready for the universe
it's meaningless to me
'cause you're not here to see
the bigger side of me

I swear I saw a tear roll down your face
bet there's a lot of smoke in bars these days
all I notice is the light that shines upon you from aside
getting jealous of the coffee in the cup you hold so tight

chorus

you're moving on to God knows where
send me a postcard when you're there
will I remember?
what will I say
"the weather is nice today" ?