I hate the arsehole I become
Everytime I'm with you
You know you've got me on the run
But let me make it clear to you
It's taken two fools such as we
To make love deaf, dumb and blind
Now you're upset 'cos I can't read your mind love
You're upset 'cos I can't read your mind
I hate the arsehole I become
Everytime I'm with you
I get the feeling looking in your eyes
That somehow I should forgive you
I know that I'm guilty but I don't know what I've done
You're not about to let me join in the fun are you
You're not about to let me join in the fun
I hate the arsehole I become
Everytime I'm with you
I hate the way you try to give me back
All the things I give to you
I know when I leave the room
They say what's up with him
But love is not a game you play to win girl
Love is not a game you play to win
If that face of yours could only talk
The stories it could tell
The chase is always better than the kill, love
The chase is always better than the kill
Little Time Bomb
One's of them off her food
And the other's off his head
And both of them are off down the boozer
To drink a toast
To the one that he hates most
And she says there are no winner, only losers
Well if there are no winners
Then what is this he thinks
As he watches her complete a lap of honour
And he sits in the stands
With his head in his hands
And he thinks of all the things
He'd like to bring down upon her
Revenge will bring cold comfort in this darkest hour
As the jukebox says 'It's All Over Now'
And he stands and he screams
What have I done wrong
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb
In public he's such a man
He's punching at the walls with his bare ad bloody hands
He's screaming and shouting and acting crazy
But at home he sits alone and he cries like a baby
Oh he holds your letters but he can't read them
As he fights this loneliness that you call freedom
You said this would happen and you were not wrong
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb
Must I paint you a picture
It's bad timeing and me
We find a lot of things out this way
And there's you
A little black cloud in a dress
The temptation
To take the precious things we have a part
To see how they work
Must be resisted for they never fit together again
If this is rain let it fall on me and drown me
If these are tears let them fall
Must I paint you a picture
About the way that I feel
You know that my love for you is strong girl
You know that my love for you is real
It took a short walk and a talk
To change the rules of engagement
While you searched frantically for reverse
And then claiming
That virtue never tested is no virtue at all
And so I lost my ignorance
And now the bells across the river chime out your name
I look across to them again (chorus)
All your friends sais come down
It will never fly
And on that imperfect day
We threw it all away
Crisis after crisis, with such intensity
This would never happen if we lived by the sea
Most important decisions in life
Are made between two people in bed
I found that at my own expense
And when I see you
You juts turn around and walk away like we never met
Oh we used to be so brave
I dreamt the wolrd stopped turning as we climbed the hill
I dreamt impossible dreams that we were lovers still (chorus)
Ontario, Quebec and me
You don't need my Christmas card,
You already have my heart.
This has been an holiday romance,
Try from the very start.
For we know how to spend the time,
Who cares about the weather.
We'll dance in the town 'till the sun goes down,
And push our bed together.
From the land of the midnight sunglasses,
To the mountain of the moon.
You could never stay in bed too long,
I'll never come back too soon.
(chorus)
You know how a fool I am,
With my short attention span.
Flying in the really season too,
Nothing could keep me away from you.
BREAK (same chords than a verse)
I stood before the judge that day
As he refused my bail
And I knew that I would spend my time
Awaiting trial in jail
I said there is no justice
As they led me out of the door
And the judge said, "This isn't a court of justice son
This is a court of law".
They first sent me to Windsor
And then to Stoke on Trent
In a holding cell in Liverpool
Three days and nights I spent
My solicitor can't find me
And my family don't know
I keep telling them that I'm innocent
They (just) say, "Come on son, in you go."
I was picked up on suspicion of something I haven't done
Here I sit in 'F' wing waiting for my trial to come
It's a cruel unusual punishment that society demands
Innocent till proven guilty, rotting on remand
I ended up in this jail
Built in 18-82
When one man to one prison cell
Was a Victorian value
Now three of us are squeezed in here
And you can't escape the smell
Of that bucket in the corner
And we eat in here as well
They let me out of this cage
To slop that bucket out
To get my food and bring it back
And if I'm lucky, get a shower
Apart from one hours exercise
I'm locked in here all day
You don't turn criminals into citizens
By treating them this way
Is the prize of law and order the stench of Wormwood Scrubs
With judges quick to sentence sending more down from above
It's a cruel unusual punishment that society demands
She's got a new spell
(Capo 5e fret)
What is that sound
Where is it coming from
All around
What are you running from
Something you don't understand
Something you cannot command
That's how I know
She's got a new spell
Yes, that's how I know
That she's got a new spell
What's going down
Who's moved this room from round me
Where has it gone
I fear this night will drown me
So I lie awake all night
'Cos I can't sleep with something I can't fight
The laws of gravity are very, very strict
And you're just bending them for your won benefit
The laws of gravity are very, very strict
And you're just bending them for your won benefit
One minute she says
She's gone to get the cat in
The next thing I know
She's mumbling in Latin
She cut the starts out of the sky
And baked them in a pie
That's how I know
She's got a new spell
Yes, that's how I know
That she's got a new spell
She stole the scene and the scenery
The script and the machinery
That's how I know
She's got a new spell
Yes, that's how I know
That she's got a new spell
Sin City
This old town 's filled with sin
It'll swallow you in
If you got some money to burn
Take it home right away
You've got three years to pay
The city is waiting his turn
(chorus)
This old earthquake 's gonna leave me in the poor house
It seems like this old town 's insane
On the thirty-first floor, a gold plated door
Won't keep out the lord's burning rain
The scientist say, it will all wash away
But we don't, believe anymore
So we got our recruit
And a green mohair suit
So please show your I.D. at the door
(chorus)
A friend came around, tried to clean up this town
His ideas made some people mad
But he thrusted his crowd, so he spoke right out loud
And they lost the best friend they had
(chorus)
My friend said she could see no way ahead
And I was probably better off without you
She said to face up to the fact that you weren't coming back
And she could make me happy like you used to
But I'm sorry to say I turned her away
Knowing everything she said was true
And that's the price I pay for loving you the way that I do
There's something inside that hurts my foolish pride
To visit the places we used to go together
Not a day goes by that I don't sit and wonder why
Your feelings for me didn't last forever
Girl I love you so much that sometimes it's such
I'd walk a mile with a stone in my shoe
And that's that price I pay for loving you the way that I do (2x)
So keep that phone out of my way for the things I must say
Are empty if you don't believe they're true
And that's that price I pay for loving you the way that I do
That's the price I pay for loving you the way that I do
I love you so much that baby it's such
I'd walk a mile with a stone in my shoe
tell but I'm sitting here in the dark with my 12-string, which is no fun
You said you loved me and it broke my heart
I was always your prisoner right from the start
B&D) strings.
Sometimes when you lose your way to me
The clocks go forward the clocks go back
Yet here I sit as if I were the only one
(main riff)
I long to let our love run free
Yet here I am a victim of geography
(main riff)
She said kiss me or would you rather
Live in a land where the soap won't lather
(main riff)
Some day boy you'll reap what you've down
You'll catch a cold and you'll be on your own
And you will see that what's wrong with me
Is wrong with everyone that
You want to play your little games on
Poetry and flowers pretty words and threats
You've gone to the dogs again and I'm not placing bets
On you coming home tonight anything but blind
If you take me for granted then you must expect to find
Surprise, surprise
Valentine's Day is over, it's over
Valentine's Day is over
If you want to talk about it well you know where the phone is
Don't come round reminding me again how brittle bone is
God didn't make you angel the Devil made you a man
That brutality and the economy are related now I understand
When will you realize that as above so below there is no love
Valentine's Day is over, it's over
Valentine's Day is over
For the girl with hour glass figure
Time runs out very fast
We used to want the same things
But that's all in the past
And lately it seems that as it all gets tougher
Your ideal of justice just becomes rougher and rougher
Valentine's Day is over, it's over
Valentine's Day is over
Thank you for the things you bought me thank you for the card
Thank you for the things you taught me when you hit me hard
That love between two people must be based on understanding
Until that's true you'll find your things
All stacked out on the landing surprise, surprise
Valentine's Day is over, it's over
Valentine's Day is over, it's o-ver, it's o-ver, it's o-ver
Waiting For the Great Leap Forwards