The Blue Nile Album

She lives in a house in London
She lives in a house in town
And waiting to greet the children
She sits around in her dressing gown

Are these the days
Are these the days
Are these the days

He drives through the morning traffic
Sideways and up and down
Says the girls are so tragic
In every provincial town

Are these the days
Are these the days
Are these the days
Of our lives

Are these the days
Are these the days
Are these the days
Of our lives

Are these the bells?
That chimed and ring
The wedding days
The children sing
Please do not throw confetti
Please do not throw confetti
On the ground

Living in every city
Amongst somebody else’s clothes
Christmas trees without angels
Wiping my bloody nose

Are these the days
Are these the days
Are these the days
Of our lives

Are these the days
Are these the days
Are these the days
Of our lives

An ordinary miracle
Is all we really need
An ordinary miracle

I have walked
A thousand miles
I have worked
As fast as I can
And I have raised
A precious child
To be a man

But I would never
Turn my back
On your love

And I have gone
Up and down
Yeah I have wandered
From place to place
And I have raised my weary hand
To my face

But I would never
Turn my back
On your love

Is there anybody there who knows me?
Is there any body there who knows now?
That I will be home soon

And I would never
Turn my back
On your love

When the sun is going down
And there are colours
Against the sky
I have seen my home town
In your eyes

But I would never
Turn my back
Yeah I have learned
To face the fact
No I would never
Turn my back
On your love

Hey yeah yeah
Hey yeah yeah

I would never
Turn my back

I feel exactly like a matchstick in relation to you
Thin and broken.
And nothing I can seem
There's Nothing I can seem to do
Make you switch the TV off
To Make you switch the TV off
And look up
Oh look up
Look up

Sail away
Sailing away from me also
I count your sticks and all your toys
You're laughing in the background noise
We won't give up
I'm going to give you something else
That's some kind of broken words

Children swing, to and fro
Do you ever wonder, where did the summer go?
Counting The TV's and counting the stars
It's so unfunny I don't know where you are any more
I don't know where you are any more

Sail away
Sail on back to me envy
I count your sticks and all your toys
Your laughter in the background noise
Please don't give up
I am gonna promise you something else
Some kind of broken loves

Yeah Yeah
Broken loves
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah etc

Sail away
Sail on back to me and then (yeah yeah)
I'll keep your sticks and all your toys
I'll keep you in the background noise
Yeah we don't give up
And I am gonna find you something else
Like some kind of broken loves

Broken loves

Because of Toledo
I got so worried and stayed clean
The pick ups in the wild prairies
The shadows dancing in between
Girl leans on the jukebox
In a pair of old blue jeans
Says I live here but I don't really live anywhere

Because of Toledo
Tuesday it's raining
And I'm pulling on my shoes
I guess I quit believing in
The early morning news
There's a boy orders coffee
And he settles down to think
How the women that you love sometimes
Are the water that you drink
Then another faded waitress dressed in pink

Cries for Toledo

The lipstick and the cocaine traces
One face in a thousand faces
I stumble through so many places
Cause of Toledo

Yeah
Yeah yeah
(oh)Yeah
Yeah yeah

Because of Toledo
The highway looks so thin
I see another motel sign
Think of pulling in
Write your name upon the mirror there
The only secret that I know
But I guess that I'd be only chasing rainbows
Back to Toledo

Oh yeah alright
I know now
Everything stops here
You don't love me
I am a street that you live on
People walking towards me
Yeah a girl on a bus stop
Reading postcards from nowhere
It feels like a movie

She saw the world and she wanted it all
What can I tell you?
She saw the world and she wanted it all

Gangsters in traffic surround you
And up on the rooftops
Yeh she's waving
It doesn't seem to matter anymore

She saw the world and she wanted it all
She saw the world and she wanted it all

Letters and numbers surround you
And out on the corner
A policemen is sending flowers
It feels like a movie

She saw the world and she wanted it all
And what can I tell you
She saw the world and she wanted it all
What can I tell you?
She saw the world like a silver ball
What can I tell you?
She saw the world and she wanted it all

She wanted it all
Yeah

Stop bringing me down stop bringing me
Stop bringing me down stop bringing me
Stop bringing me down stop bringing me
Stop bringing me down stop bringing me
What can I tell you?

I don't wanna wake ya
When ya sleeping so quiet
The motorcycle going by outside
Are we the same?
Caught at the lights
Why are we going home with our lies?

In the bowling alleys
In the easy living
Something good got lost along the way

We could be high
We could be higher
We could be high
Yeah yeah
I wanna make you understand
We could be high

Look at the morning people
Going to work and fading away
Look at the morning people
Going to work and fading away
Why don't we stop the traffic?
Why don't we stop the traffic?
Look at the morning people
Going to work each day

We could be high
We could be high
Yeah yeah yeah
We could be high
Yeah yeah
We could be high
Yeah yeah yeah

In the bowling alleys in the morning papers
Something good got lost along the way
We could be high
Yeah yeah yeah

High
Yeah yeah yeah
We could be high
Yeah yeah
We could be high
Yeah yeah yeah
I wanna make you understand
We could be high

Let me be your soul boy
Let me be your soul
There's been no-one like you
Trusted and true
For so long

And I just wanna be loved by you
And when I'm really loved by you
I'll be your soul boy

Let me be your soul boy
Let me be the one
There's been no-one like you
Trusted and true
For so long

And I just wanna be loved by you
And when I'm really loved by you
I'll be your soul boy

Take me as I am girl ( ???? you)
And hold me while you can (can you see me)
There's not a woman in the world (can you
Can love me better than you do (???? you)
Take me as I am
Like a soul boy

Soul Boy

I don't wanna be with no-one else
I don't wanna kiss no-one else
I wanna be your soul boy

No more fighting and no more leaving
It aint exciting and I quit believing
I'm a soul boy

Yeah
Soul boy
Yeah
I'm a soul boy

I woke up good this morning
And nothing in my way
I woke up good this morning
Darling let's say yeah

I woke up good this morning
The world is right outside
Yes start out feeling lucky
Gonna catch a ride

I don't wanna be
Everybody else
When are we gonna be ourselves

You know the flags ??????
Sleeping in the rain
You wanna try and see in this time
Maybe we could start again

I don't wanna be
With everybody else
So when we gonna be ourselves

I know you're in love with me now
Sometimes the goodness don't last
yeah yeah

You know I woke up good this morning
Gonna change this time
The sergeants in their marching bands
Walking out in the broken lines

I don't wanna be with everybody else
When are we gonna be ourselves
I don't wanna be with everybody else
When are we gonna be ourselves

I woke up good this morning

Stand in the light
So I can see
The morning makes it bad
Sun beating low
Soon you will know
If love is the way
Soon you will go
Your own way
Yeah yeah

Stay close to me
Stay close to me
Stay close to me
Stay close to me

Blowing down the street
To see you one more time
Is the world still at your feet?
And you let somebody love you
One day you'll feel
The way I feel
Soon you'll go
Your own way
Hey

Stay close to me
Stay close to me
Yeah yeah yeah
Stay close to me
Hey yeah
Stay close to me
Yeah yeah yeah

Stay close to me yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Stay close to me
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
We gonna live free
Yeah
Stay close to me

The cowboys in the railway station
I gave up on news
The common hall at 3am
Said how'd it go
Yeah how'd it go today?
One day you'll know
In days
The sun down is calling home
Your waking up
The radio

Stay close to me
Yeah yeh
Stay close to me
Hey yeah
Stay close
Stay close to me
Stay close
Stay close
Stay close to me
Stay close to me
Stay close to me
Stay close to me
Stay close to me
Stay close