Wishing I'm Strong
Say What You Say
Excited?
Comfort Clause
Be My Ghost
Scratching At Shadows
Cut Me
Be There
Morning Song
Promises & Half Truths
Called Your Name
Kiss Those Tears
Connected
Lift Me Up

WISHING I'M STRONG

In times of trouble we put on new clothes
and hide the shame from those we seek to hold
In a stranger's bed a stranger lies and happiness goes stale inside
but we try and try

Chorus:
Wish I could cry, wish I could lie
Wish I could bear to say goodbye
Wish we could touch, wish we could kiss
Wish the whole world was touched like this

In times of strain I forget to call
and I lose the heart and hope that I should own
Kissing loneliness when I should turn and holding on to a love I've spurned
but I hope and pray

Chorus
Chorus #2:
Wishing I'm gone, wishing I'm strong
Wishing your love would come along
Wishing I'm brave, wishing I'm saved
Hoping my promises won't fade

In moments of your madness I portray the ability to crush with what I say
but in lucid times I worry less when sex is only caused by stress
It's a mess, I confess

Chorus
Chorus #2

Wishing I'm strong
Wishing I'm strong

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SAY WHAT YOU SAY

Say what you saved for me - say it again
Now I'm on my knees
Take what you gave to me - give it again
You're the only friend I need
and in the morning you'll see
That love is not the poison they made out it to be

Chorus:
You want a lover but you don't care
You want a lover who can take you there
You want a lover who can hold you
Show you but never own you
Well I got something that you don't have
Got a heart to make your soul sad
I'll be the lover who will show you
Hold you
Oh, let me hold you

Say what you're saving for me - oh, say it again
You're the only voice I hear inside of me
(I need it)
Pray that our love will last these years
and then I'm in it again
Bearing down on you
With love to kiss the whole of you
You'll see...
That I don't hold a key for you
but I'll find it if you want me to

Chorus

Love me when I'm old
Love the heart so cold
Love me when your blue skies turn to gold
Love the way we are
Let me be your star
Let me feel all the love I felt before
Oh, let me

Say what you say, say what you say - say it again
Say what you say, say what you say - say it again

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Itching on a dream (Delighted)
Turn me on and bite it
Sickness, Emily, is kindest
Turn away and fight it

You know you're really a lonely girl
But you hide away and lose the day's surprises
You know we're living so far away
But a point's been reached where trust is breached - deny it

Chorus:
We don't cry now
The truth has opened up - let's get inside it
and light it
and a blue star
shining on your soul is lost - let's guide it
Excited?

While the cross is warm (Deprive it)
Bleed the water dry
Emily got wet (she won't buy it)
But her memory confessed

You know I'll never get older now
'cos there's time to learn that faith will burn
I'll buy it

Chorus

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COMFORT CLAUSE

Out on the streets we crawl
Open the door and pull your soul through
Now what we gonna do
Broken and sore and lost like before
But I was your only friend
Strung so high I could feel nothing
Now while my soul is poor
Kiss me goodbye before I rot the floor

Bridge:
I know why you can't be right
I know why you can't be wrong
I know why your heart is lonesome while your soul is strong
But I don't know where to go
and I don't know where to be
and I don't know how to tell you that you're killing me

Chorus:
We're the comfort clause - oh

Quit now and leave my side
Quietly before our souls collide
and still now my shaking head
Memories of lost love, past regrets
but out on the streets she calls
and I'm back inside right by her side
So take back the things I said
New feelings hide emotions better dead

Bridge

Now I turn my back - I see me

Chorus

Now I turn my back - I see me

Out on the streets we crawl
Open the door and pull your soul through

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Now the dust sucks the air I breathe
and all the words that I believed in just disappear like smoke
they stumble in my throat
Now the cuts that I suffered are bleeding
and your tongue is the kiss I believe in
Inbetween I'm hopeless in your presence
(I'm so weak)

Chorus:
And I know that you'll only be my ghost
Your love I cannot boast
It's a scheme that I worked on while asleep
Now my body's lost its heat

I got lost and you left me reeling
Now I'm out but I've lost my feeling
All the world's a junkie for your poison - breathe it in
When we touch it's your love I'm stealing
and the blood's just a fountain of meaning
All the blood's a token of what could be in my dreams

Chorus #2:
And I know that you'll only be my ghost
Your love I cannot boast
Now I know that what's yours is never mine
And my heart is wasting time

Chorus

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Give me one thing I can feel
Give me heart give me love you steal
I know it's wrong
Take my hands and take your time
Give me heartache I won't mind
This feels so true - I need you
It feels so true

Chorus:
I need you
For the moments that tear me apart
When I'm lonely and lost empty heart
When I'm scratching at shadows that spark
When I'm falling asleep in the dark (In the dark)

Tell this stranger I'm afraid
Of losing face in the games we play
So make me strong
Walking backwards in the rain
Tell my heart to call you back again
For the weeks that flew - I need you
So I feel a fool

Chorus

You should try to get me out of myself
and into your heart where the meaning starts
You should try and make an effort to smile
Before these moments fall and leave us reeling apart
I should try, I should try to withhold
the temptation to pursue you when I'm feeling alone
I could try, I could try to believe
That this feeling is pure and that your loving won't leave
I should try, I should try

Give me sunshine, give me rain
Give the kiss that relieves the pain
My heart is true - I've got a lot to prove

Chorus

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Stop - stop the rot
We can't, we can't, we can't - cut it up
We can't break the lock or cut the knot that ties us up
So stop - she just got up

Unlock and drop cheap shots are so easy
We chop it up 'cos bleeding's beneath me
Untie the knot, give up and rest easy
I'm on the slide - your body's beneath me

Chorus:
You can't crush me
You better cut me
You can't crush me

Blood on your tongue
You can't stop the clot the breaks the dead-lock
Get up
So rough - it's a shock
They're gonna cut you up and cause a fuss so good luck

Cut up the lock, sweet sex dies so quickly
We're on the climb and bleeding so sweetly
Untie the knot - your love is beneath me
I'm on the slide surrendered completely

Chorus

Cut me

Stop the rot, stop the rot

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I love myself but I hate my life
and I don't wanna be here when I die
I kiss your ass when you wave goodbye
and all the world's a junkie for that lie

Bridge:
Sympathy is wrong
Sympathy is gone
Empathy is everything you wanted done
Kiss me one last time
Spine me one more line
Follow me until I come to read that sign

Chorus:
I'll be there if you call me
I'll be there if you need me
I'll be there
I'll be there
(Repeat)

I feel ashamed now my blood will drain
but I'm aching for your touch so call my name
If love is here then I'll stay this year
but after that I'm gone - don't you fear

I stop and cry while my skin goes dry
as the love I have instead starts to die
It's a cause I hate but one of fate
It's useless and it's endless - but it's too late

Bridge
Chorus

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She's the morning song
Singing of all that's gone wrong
She's the leyline - so lost again
And I'm in love again
Full of hope, I'm full of hope
Singing another song but I hope it won't go wrong

Chorus:
You hope that the sun is wrong
You can tell that everything has gone
You know that tomorrow you'll long
To be home again

Here's another low
Just sink one more before you go
Here's an arm full of holes
There's a desperation
There's a key to all we know
It means a lot to you but it's too far to go

Chorus

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Shake it off and you're gone
Shake that shake 'cos you're wrong
They set you up just to feed on
You got so hot you had to needle

They want love that gets you high
They want answers from the sky
They want promises and half truths from their hearts
They want hate to cause no pain
Kill the heartland, kill the rain
They want emptiness that makes you feel secure
They want to hurt more

Kill that bug that's begun
Kill the weak, kill the young
Those streets are bare - there's no one really there
Just microscopic heads to beat on

Now I'm losing heart each day
'cos the sickness you betray
Holds the key to every other string I play
I need sex that's given pure
I need answers for the cure
I need everything that I don't wanna get
but I'm gonna get it too

and so are you
we're gonna get it too, get it too, get it too
we're gonna get it too

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Got lost and I called your name...

Every single kiss is unafraid
Caresses in the morning feeling brave
Every minute with you I get wild
For every touch I miss I feel deprived
I always thought that love would be the key
From selfishness, self pity, misery
and now I'm looking out I'm awful scared
The next time round I hope that I'm prepared

Chorus:
Got lost and I called your name
Head first and I feel ashamed
Drowned love for a heart decayin'
When you went away
Kiss start when I'm flailing around you
Bail out 'cos I'm bleeding without you
Burn out for a heart that fades
When you go away

Temperature decreasing as I save
Light years from my life by feeling brave
Caught between two razors - eyes are pale
Friction at the core to mask betrayal
Where we're heading now there's no-one there
Just arms stretched out to scrape the shield I wear
but I'm tearing at my skin to let you in
but you come home drunk and won't say where you've been

Chorus

Without this, without this, without this

Chorus

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Screaming down the wave band and crawling to your door
I fall into the quicksand to wake up on the shore
My heart becomes a flashlight where others come to hide
and negotiate the dark night where lovers come to die
Now I cry when my promises run dry

Chorus:
I know what you made for me
I know what you said you said it all
I know what you gave to me
Remember - I'm not strong enough
and I know what you've braved for me
You've seen me lost, you've seen me fall apart
So I know what I'll save for you
I'll hide the blue and kiss those tears away

Clawing back the dead light I wake up in your arms
Frozen in the bedroom - I need your guiding light
but each new day brings heartache I'll never get it right
So, I lose myself in your eyes and swim against the tide
Now I hide when my promises run dry

Chorus

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Hey boys, hey girls you love yourselves
It's a funny world that tests your nerves 'till the rain sets in

We're still kissing
Love's gone missing
Shut my heart right down - I won't hear a sound

Chorus:
Collected, connected
Our hearts are still protected
Are my calls collected?
Connected, connected
Selected, respected
My touch is still rejected
but are my calls connected?
Forget it

I'm moaning, you're droning "let's get off"
It's a funny place for sucking face now the rain's set in

I just blew it
You walked straight through it
but I shut my feeling's down and now we'll lose the town

Chorus
Chorus

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LIFT ME UP

Is my tongue too weak
Is my soul asleep
Is your boat sailing out of reach
or am I left stranded on a beach

I used to think you had me down

She cut me loose - untied
She touched my face - I lied
and now I'm hopeless, falling at her feet
I get distracted and my heart skips a beat

Now I know she has me down

Chorus:
Are you crawling up as we're falling down
'cos I don't see the trust ever breaking down
Am I on a boat sailing to your shore
or am I just sinking inside to feel you more
I know that you could cut me down
I know that you could lift me up

Is my sickness awake
Is my love away
My body turns to rust when I'm alone
My soul just fades away when you're not home

Now I know that I'm not alone

Chorus

So, lift me up

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All songs written by Joel Derby
© OVERGROWN MUSIC 2000/2001