It was a lonely summer where I have been your shelter following your footsteps will you be my first regret? Sorry if I'm foolish making myself secrets seems to ...

Night is falling I think of you I'm walking home I think of you And as he calls me, yes I do I think of you How you doing? I think of you As we live I think of ...

My babe lets the moonshine My babe likes to sail When you need a reason Baby's reason My babe wants a show stopper To come on board and dance When there's reaso...

Now this isn't the party I would hold now, I'm trying to make it on my own I have opened my house but it's not like a home without you And I really don't want t...

You can't call hell A quiet town But you walked so shell-shocked Have you found a way to stand? Your head is high You have, oh, such curious hands Did they man...

Blue moon, you saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own Blue moon, you knew just what I was there for You heard me saying a pr...

I saw you from the cathdral You were watching me And I saw from the cathedral What I should be So take my lies And take my time 'Cos all the others want to tak...

I have a picture It's taken with looks It wont tell a story But I'm glad I forgot everything that you say I choose the colours And reword the lines Now somebody...

One day to wonder what's bothering me - (You said it) I'm just the half of this - that just won't see - (Believe it) If I am wishing I am hoping as well (Someti...

Elephant Ain't going home Ain't going home To be your friend Elephant Ain't going home To start a fire To be your friend Elephant Ain't going home Ain't going...

If I - won't be - able To hold - a good - conversation If I - feel - big - and ballooning If I - turn up - today If I - can't be - appreciated I - won't be - '...

I got a scent on you I got something here to show (It's) somebody's slice of life I had it tailor made, I had it soaken, shaken and shown around the world And f...

GOOD TRADITION Tanita Tikaram There's a good tradition of love and hate standing by the fireside There's a good tradition of love and hate standing by the fire...

Criss-cross laces You have the centre You have the cinnamon In the centre You shouldn't be alone You shouldn't just pick up yourself And shine yourself And make...

When the voice says You should not stumble, You should not frighten Or feel so ashamed, 'Cos all the chores are light And all the psalms are wiped When you sma...

Find yourself To the end I could love you And my friend Will not stay To the end Have you lost your Like we do Can we say Hmm Have you lost your way ? YeahMmm ...

Some say the world goes crazy It's summertime I say I'm feeling lazy Hammocks in mind And I can't change a thing So I won't stay around If you can still feel s...

Baby, there'll be time Time alone - this tired old body Time alone - and tired old body Will be healed Baby, they'll be blessed Just a walk away Just a walk awa...

We don't talk about our better selves As it is - I survive and survive so well Yes, y'know it, hovering on the edge of life Is so exciting Baby, you can take m...

Beat up English In a beat up town And I'm beat up black and blue Oh, I do not have the energy And I'm beat up street And I'm beat up tight And we've been so dra...

You don't want to do too much staring at the evening sun Maybe you cannot stand up but you have become one I just want to see her smile maybe she will never hur...

When we were young and you pretended You were almost bothered as me Does it make you sad? Almost sorry as me? When we were young and you pretended That the worl...

I wore a watch today it didn't tell me the time I saw your face today I knew you'd see through mine Does it help a lot? to see I'm on the spot never understood ...

Share our coffee share my thoughts I could wait for years I don't know if you're an angel or I'm just feeling weird I like this picture but I don't want to work...

Now - you can't tell me - well, That you know too much Well, that you know too much to let go Now, I can't watch you Be an Easy vision Well an Easy vision Lord...

When we were young and you pretended You were almost bothered as me Does it make you sad? Almost sorry as me? When we were young and you pretended That the worl...

Johnny was a peculiar guy Brough up on love and the reasons why but the reasons why ought not to be said and so I'm left hands held to my head I love you I lov...

What I didn't know back then Was that I might be crying It's such a simple sentiment To steal the show And what I didn't know back then Is that I might be losin...

Tell Ma, she's a stonebreaker Tell her there are no takers For a heart like this will always be Chaste at first, then left for me And though your pallor shows i...

When the phone calls - I blew it I'm going home - I blew it You know, so, well where I'm going So long - leave me alone The times change - I don't believe that...

Don't take me back I just hate that When you tell me lies I just can't help To work it through this time Oh, I believe in really nothing new That I'd be true fo...

What do you do for fun? what do you do when you want fun days? I could be just anyone I'm happy to smile and mad on mondays The world is a better place now ever...

Well, he said it like he meant it But he did not really care So I sat upon the Eve's embraces I was never there - No, I was never really fabled I was never real...

You pace the pool and talk about it I read my book and think about it You've walked on water As I'm turning the page You say, "what's the intrigue here In readi...

Give me a reason For leaving the party I'll leave by the entrance The same way I came I'm not Here to enjoy you, I'm Here to endure you I'm leaving the party Th...

Oh let's make everybody smile today Yeah, let's make everybody smile today Oh yes, you could be classic, could be blue Sometimes it's easy to see through you Su...

Thinking back, could I feel much older? and my stance couldn't feel much colder Can they tell what I'm getting over now? in the park I've seen you walking And i...

As always I stop to speak Some girls like to say their piece As always I turn to you Don't understand what you're doing And Light up this town Grow weary and ba...

Love don't need no tyranny Love to bring you down When I'm older and forgiven All forgiveness - must be living Love don't need no tyranny Want to bring me down ...

You know it's alright Just to take me home To your serious house, with your serious tones You're a serious man, with a serious smile But the summer is hot and I...

I'd never call this an unpleasant situation I'd never teach you how to lie But sometimes I have been walking num And I must catch myself before I cry Before I c...

Well, our dog beats in his own heart Our dog was from the start Not much use in the rain Not much use in the sun Put it outside and let the paint run Put it out...

[From] your skin forest And whatever you talk about There are always other people to drown you out [???] I come charging No change,no change at all There is a ...

You give More than me And you live like Men and women In the shade More than me Yes, you hide like Men and women Men and women Jealous, born And young at heart ...

Brother - won't you, walk you town? Don't you ever wanna stray? See, I've been seeing someone in this town And they don't wanna stay Mud in any water - see you...

And I Go dancing for a little Have never felt so little Fear the stars in their eyes You feel them lie So close You never dare to breathe You never dare the sta...

Where everybody was Where everbody go? Well, I'm so sorry boy I don't really know Oh, how did you do today? Well, I'm telling you this much I might seem like a ...

Nobody heard him, the dead man But still he lay moaning I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning Old man, he always loved looking An...

Well I might be politic Or I might just grab your hand I'm not selfish with my story I just want something, understand Oh, this world is not for grieving It's n...

Oh, you can't say nothing to the pouring rain And you can't say nothing till there's hope Again - (Say) - oh my baby - you must never change For we're only the ...

I'm Just out I'm Just out Of my bed And if I Need some money I will go Get some money And if I'm I'm just out I'm just out On the town And if I need some money...

Today is my birthday I stay outside the hall Inside sit the butterflies For the butterfly ball All the boys are graded now They come in their white socks, flat...

PREYED UPON Tanita Tikaram When your life has all been token And your stance is akin to broken hearts You've grown weary --- I'm not weary I can take your part...

One, two, three, four In a little country [that sold it's soul] You know there's no beauty In being so cold and down With a little contact and let go You know ...

SIGHING INNOCENTS Tanita Tikaram Give me a stand A standing ovation, baby Give me a road Which I can teil You don't know nothing About my sad face, baby So don...

If I ever wanna be someone These words undone an evil spell in me If I ever need to tell someone This one's who's waiting So patiently Good enough When nothing ...

I'm happy to be here I'm happy to be with you For where in a lifetime Do we do the things we really want to Now old friends they watch lovers They wonder where ...

Often Too often closed With a little beauty And the right supposing Suppose I meet you And make you feel There is no real reason Why I be real for you For you -...

Your sun Doesn't make it easy for me Way I breathed before Now I don't breathe - no more freely And I like To catch the shoulder where you cry My business - A m...

Often Too often closed With a little beauty And the right supposing Suppose I meet you And make you feel There is no real reason Why I be real for you For you -...

Your sun Doesn't make it easy for me Way I breathed before Now I don't breathe - no more freely And I like To catch the shoulder where you cry My business - A m...

I can tell by the look on your face That this is not the time or the place To ask you why - or to even try Just one look and I feel so alone Took so long to rea...

The woman smiles, the cafe feels like home to you And as she glances through the magazine you feel somehow, she's seen you, too All my life I thought you said ...

i must have left my house at eight because I always do my train, i'm certain left the station just when it was due i must have read the morningpaper, going into...

We're not talking I'm not talking sensibly enough You know the soul of a man is many coloured Soul of a man one to another Wants you another day I'm not wishin...

I'm gonna build a strange City overcome Mad as any And anyone Who wants to wish upon me I will take a city And it will take the rain Anybody who sees this face ...

I swear I wasn't cat-napping To edge into your life I didn't notice no sad thing (It's a sundance) To the strange strains that you entice Now you may walk into ...

Can you Tell me? Can you see it? My eyes dreamt it My eyes sent it a thousand pieces 'Course I love it It makes me cold Amongst the ashes Drinking the rainbow C...

It's a long day For me and my world It's a long day To be your girl It's been a hard times Spent missing so much But still I love you To wish this, To wishes I...

I'm not there If ever I was there I'm sure I was never so bold If ever I spoke so - I'm sure it's trouble Not my trouble I'm not so sure if I control this laugh...

All God's children need travelling shoes Drive your problems from here All good people read good books Now your conscience is clear I hear you talk girl Now you...

VALENTINE HEART Tanita Tikaram If I was a Londoner, rich with complaint Would you take me back to your house Which is sainted with lust and the listless shade ...

We almost got it together And I'll be your favourite thing Stand by the river with hard-luck eyes And I'll just be open and sing I was only trying to surprise I...

Oh, my When you are not all together And you feel your face is a fiery place For many tears Who looks upon a picture and really feels a thrill Oh, not me Who lo...

You've a beautiful body And a wonderful mind These are things I've been stumbling towards And I think you've been kind towards me There are wonderful moments Th...

WORLD OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW Tanita Tikaram Everyone has said that I might go 'Cos my red suitcase and my Ray-Bans Weren't quite so I'd bear the heavy wind and ra...

The first time you stole flowers from the grave Then, the second time, you shaved your head, you had been saved By the very friendly, Jesus man And all he said,...

Young thing - saw it And calls his brother And brother's angry You make the whole world cry You can't tell me I rid my secret You can't own me You make the whol...