Start With Me Del Amitri

With all the stuff they sell you night and day With all the trash they try to trick you with you lie to me Well I don't need it but I get it anyway With all the sadness and lunacy, With all the dispossessed

Roll To Me (Album Ver.) Del Amitri

Look around your world, pretty baby Is it everything you hoped it'd be The wrong guy the wrong situation The right time to roll with me Look into your heart, pretty baby Is it achin' with some nameless

Hammering Heart Del Amitri

I suppose love lives in a dustbin behind the garden wall You have to grovel on the ground and be pretty disgusting To find it at all And I suppose that it grows on you Standing there with no clothes on

The First Rule Of Love Del Amitri

smell so sweetly in the morning She'll make you feel so good inside And you'll want her so much you'll give everything else up And that's the first rule of love You'll grow comfortable together You'll start

It Might As Well Be You Del Amitri

hey, babe, it might as well be you It might as well be you that I wake up to tomorrow And it might as well be you that tonight whispers my name And it might as well be you that I cling to, that I laugh with

Sticks And Stones, Girl Del Amitri

when I can and that's about all I am this man and though I turn the tape To a happier song, my face can't find a smile Because it's been looking too long You arrive like a locust swarm You devastated me

Being Somebody Else Del Amitri

How are you going to pass the time of day In your beautiful empty shell, When you've shaken the hand of so many sinceroes You feel like a fake yourself How do you choose between you and me When we both

Hatful Of Rain Del Amitri

Love hearts on an old stone building Have no relevance now Sherry bottles in a bus-stop litter bin Remind me of you somehow You look so young it's frightening Life's been good to you But strike me down

Hatful Of Rain (Live 1995) Del Amitri

Lovehearts on an old stone building Have no relevance now Sherry bottles in a bus stop litter bin Remind me of you somehow You look so young it's frightening Life's been good to you But strike me down

Nothing Ever Happens Del Amitri

everythings dead And every third car is a cab And ignorant people sleep in their beds Like the doped white mice in the college lab Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all The needle returns to the start

Baby, It's Me Del Amitri

Baby it's me Who's gonna miss you just cause you leave the room? Who's gonna kiss your brow when your dreaming haunts you?

Not Where It's At Del Amitri

With some girls it don't matter who you hang with With some girls it don't matter how you talk And some girls they are easy to be yourself with But the one girl that I want, ain't easy to please with what

Make It Always Be Too Late Del Amitri

What I want is everything to clear So let the clocks be wrong Let the evening be longer let me drown in here What I want gets clouded by the sun I can't see beyond The petty things that living here

I Won't Take The Blame Del Amitri

Daylight comes with such surprising speed Yesterday you talked of love and now you want to leave But don't expect me to stand in your way I am powerless to alter any action you might take And I won't take

Just Getting By Del Amitri

Look at me, I'm the one who got away, the one who could've shone I tried to do my best, but I guess your best don't last for long Look at me, standing with my tattered pride of toothless little lions

No Family Man Del Amitri

Well, I talk like a boy to my baby sometimes And you talk like a baby when your boy is crying You made something to love but I love what I am No family man So don't tell me you've got something better

Roll To Me Del Amitri

1-Look around your world pretty baby Is it everything you hoped it'd be The wrong guy, the wrong situation The right time to roll to me Roll to me Look into your heart pretty baby Is it aching

Always The Last To Know (Dave Bascombe Single Mix) Del Amitri

So you're in love with someone else Someone who burns within your soul And it looks like I am the last to know I hear you've never felt so alive So much desire beyond control And as usual I am the last

Last Cheap Shot At The Dream Del Amitri

am staring at a sign A cheaper flight to paradise I am told I'll never find There are cameras on the rooftops, there are crazies on the green I will jump a plane to any place far enough away to get me

What I Think She Sees Del Amitri

I've been in this place many times before With my baby's things among my shoes and strings and clothes But just because I'm here Don't mean I can't run out that door Ain't that what those running shoes

What I Think She Sees (Album Ver.) Del Amitri

I've been in this place many times before With my baby's things among my shoes and strings and clothes But just because I'm here Don't mean I can't run out that door Ain't that what those running shoes

Lighten Up The Load Del Amitri

maybe round the corner she'll be stepping off that bus And then I will remember what it feels like to be us And now the fog is creeping round the factories and farms I hope to hell you make it to assail me

Always The Last To Know (Single Mix) Del Amitri

So you're in love with someone else Someone who burns within your soul And it looks like I'm the last to know I hear you've never felt so alive So much desire beyond control And as usual I am the last

Always The Last To Know Del Amitri

So you're in love with someone else Someone who burns within your soul And it looks like I'm the last to know I hear you've never felt so alive So much desire beyond control And as usual I am the last

Be My Downfall Del Amitri

The bus is pulling out and I guess I'd better go Before I make a grave mistake and let my feelings show And twenty miles away she waits alone for me But when I try to picture her you're the one I see And

Funny Way To Win Del Amitri

So you want me to play the bleeding role Just so he can know how I needed you. Well that's okay with me, it's a part I think I know God knows he won't need to suspend belief.

Driving With The Brakes On Del Amitri

When you’re driving with the brakes on When you’re swimming with your boots on, It’s hard to say you love someone And it’s hard to say you don’t Trying to keep the mood right, trying to steer the

Lucky Guy Del Amitri

Baby, hold it, just let me try For just one minute be this other guy Live his life With my home and my faithful wife And your pretty face to kiss some nights Ain't I a lucky guy, I get what I want Ain't

The Last To Know Del Amitri

So you're in love with someone else Someone who burns with in your soul And it looks like I am the last to know I hear you've never felt so alive So much desire beyond control and as usual I am

Cash And Prizes (Album Ver.) Del Amitri

some that I've never seen I've got walls of paintings high as the Hoover Dam I've got cash and prizes, but I don't know who I am I've got a thousand people act on my every word Point at the sky above me

Cindy Incidentally Del Amitri

noticed That several of your friends have moved on And the street outside is just a little too quiet And your local papers run out of news I'm not persuading you or disengaging you But Cindy you and me

Just Before You Leave (Album Ver.) Del Amitri

needy hands pulling at your sleeve Don't you always fall in love again just before you leave Do you still storm away, do you slap him just to see Is he hits you back or backs away or panics, just like me

Just Before You Leave Del Amitri

Do you still storm away, do you slap him just to see is he hits you back or backs away or panics, just like me? Don't you always fall in love again just before you leave?

Cash And Prizes Del Amitri

some that I've never seen I've got walls of paintings high as the Hoover Dam I've got cash and prizes but I don't know who I am I've got a thousand people act on my every word Point at the sky above me

I Was Here Del Amitri

She shouted to me under the juggernaut roar, "this is the bad life, what are we here for? " And wonderful world why are you full Of endless monotony and tiresome fools?

Sometimes I Just Have To Say Your Name Del Amitri

With the sweet drip of every raindrop Time brings you closer to me And with each new sign at every train-stop Another hour without you is consigned to history And with each tick of my alarm clock I get

The Verb To Do Del Amitri

sit here conjugating every variation through Of the verb to do Now I don't want to hang it all on you If blame must be allotted, I'll take some too But someone just say "Damn it, I need to be tonight with

Whiskey Remorse Del Amitri

So buy me one more drink before you go, Or lend me a twenty and I'll get drunk on my own. You always find some company come in to use the phone, Someone who can't stand to see a friend go home alone.

Surface Of The Moon Del Amitri

soulless city covers up the cracks in the road As a wastrel buys her cigarettes and wipes her pretty nose Like a part-time Elvis imitator these streets I knew so well Have been pasted beyond recognition with

Here And Now Del Amitri

Hey, I'm with you Let me just get you a light And if we'd thought to listen We might have checked if the weather was right And I don't mind if you want to drive all day Hey, it's rainin' I should have

Sleep Instead Of Teardrops Del Amitri

eyes forever It wont go away I I’m just a dumb observer It’s so stupid what I said Like everyone else will do I’m gonna lie to you Tell you that life is cruel But someday you’re gonna wake up With

Move Away Jimmy Blue Del Amitri

A struck match faded like a nervous laugh Beyond the halo of a naked bulb Your low voice mingles with your other half's; Schoolfriends in second-hand clothes Eventually your world will shrink within

Buttons On My Clothes Del Amitri

I've paid Looks cheap today 'Cause everybody knows she ain't coming back The buttons on my clothes are as plain to see as that I took a chemical vacation in my head But now I'm back here at the station with

Won't Make It Better Del Amitri

So you say you are sick of love Got a mind to give the damn thing up Got a housefull of stuff your lovers left Gonna take a bus to the city dump with it So you want to throw away the old you But the old

Won't Make It Better (Album Ver.) Del Amitri

So you say you are sick of love Got a mind to give the damn thing up Got a housefull of stuff your lovers left Gonna take a bus to the city dump with it So you want to throw away the old you But the old

Drunk In A Band Del Amitri

Pat is the guy with a record shop and John sells fruit but wants to be a cop and Paul deals speed in a celtic top but I'm just a drunk in a band Joe does tele-sales and martial arts and Jim pushes patients

Spit In The Rain Del Amitri

Without doubt, it is true Without her, there's only you But with a little luck, With a little time, You'll pull through...

High Times Del Amitri

my spiritual plane Little snow white, she was hungry Told to go out and graft for it At the end of the rainbow she was mind blown To be staring at a crock of shit And it's hard baby, yes it's hard But with

Cry To Be Found Del Amitri

If you think your mind is ready Then open your heart and let it fall If you keep on hiding from me You're not gonna' live your life at all Cause if it's love that you want You've gotta' give me more than

Wash Her Away Del Amitri

can't wash her away It's getting under my skin I can't wash her away I can feel her closing in Hands like a carnival of queens Hair like a heart attack of dreams A voice so soft you could cut it with