And I see forests and it's the 25th of December and my old man plays the piano for Christmas He plays the piano for Christmas And we're all there, all the aunt...

I'm getting too used to this way of life Fame is a baby, she rocks me at night Far from the cold and the brash city lights We purchase from sorrow a moment's re...

Why does he still go on like she's a baby Saying that's no kind of language for a lady? He knows she hates that word, that's why he said it He can be childish t...

What's it all about, alfie? Is it just for the moment we live? What's it all about when you sort it out, alfie? Are we meant to take more than we give Or are we...

Oh it's so funny to be seeing you after so long, girl And with the way you look I understand that you are not impressed But I heard you let that little friend o...

As a youth, each Sunday, Dawn went to Church and Paid her respects and not to mention was a virgin Kid pushed up, Dawn lettin' him Since he made her laugh and a...

Almost blue Almost doing things we used to do There`s a boy here and he`s almost you Almost all the things that your eyes once promised I see in his` too Now yo...

Show me something worse Than a child outside a church Begging with a cardboard box In a heartless town that hurts and mocks And on a chair anywhere I will sit d...

Your words stung me to the heart I hadn't even noticed how far we had drifted apart can I still count you as a friend or have I done to much now to ever make am...

Over dale and over hills I'll take you through the cotton mills To the ginnels where we played And where are friendships all were made Still they came and tore...

Apron strings hanging empty crazy things my body tells me i want someone to tie to my lonely apron strings apron strings waiting for you pretty things that i c...

Let him spend all his money on you Ease the guilt of the things he won't do For he believes there's no such thing as greed A yearly payment is all that you need...

Narrow streets breed narrow minds and Care for kin but not for kind It's a short hop to a long weekend When every move you apprehend You'll never find room to f...

You walked into my life The light was shinning brite You were the one I was looking for I looked deep into your eyes Just to see the moon light I thought I'd n...

I don't want excuses I don't want your smiles I don't want to feel like we're apart a thousand miles I don't want your attitude I don't want your things But I d...

Don't drag me down Just because you're down Just cuz you're blue Don't make me too And though you've found you need more then me Don't talk to me about being fr...

You don't know what's wrong, you only know it isn't right You don't remember for how long, but you wake in tears at night Big deal Big deal You spend four nigh...

don't talk to me in that familiar way when the keys are in my hand don't say that everything is here to stay and I must try to understand when I'm trying not to...

know I wasn't good - Maybe I was even bad - But I was way too young To know just what I had And if I let you down, Now I let you go, But I was so young And now ...

I have a friend and she comes from the high plains wise as the hills and fresh as the rains I have a friend and she taught me daring threw back the windows and ...

Lying in bed on a weekday night Listening to the title fight From a town the radio said was Atlantic City The branches brush the windows The hour is early eveni...

Leaving at dawn to beat the traffic, do you remember that too? Curled asleep on the back seat, do you remember that too? The soundless dark, the empty road, do...

It takes to make a home But only one to break it down Restless as the ocean roar You've finally left town Open up the bedroom door There's a prince without a cr...

your my sunrise, and my sunset, but when night falls, but the music, your my sunrise, and my sunset, but when night falls but the music, your my sunrise, (cas...

I have been in league with cruelty And charmless callous ways I have been betrayed into believing That those who never win should never play Nothing succeeds q...

Come Hell or high water You just do as you please, Waste your time when you oughta Be charming the birds from the trees A voice straight from heaven So you like...

Baby come home, I miss the sound of the door Your step on the stair's not there to wake me no more And every day's like Christmas Day without you It's cold and ...

Now and then Do you wash your hands of me again? Wish me anywhere but home Drunk and on the end of your phone From time to time Do you guess what's really on m...

Look at you now, you've disenchanted, can't believe how things can change Take a little out of life and things get strange And now you find the wishes you were ...

You say you're lonely Don't care anymore Emptiness abounds and love surrounds the hole besides your heart You're feeling so sad, And it's never been this badbe...

You say you're lonely Don't care anymore Emptiness abounds and love surrounds the hole besides your heart You're feeling so sad, And it's never been this bad.....

You will be a star And I will be so jealous when you are, But you'll always be a fool So I will catch you when the world is cruel And though dizzy heights are ...

Sorrow is a lonely road Where the rain like your tears Beats heavy on the roof above your head Tomorrow is a lovers' town That's been beaten down And the hands ...

Don't say one thing one day, then something else the next day I'm trying to keep up with you - it's hard enough when you speak clearly, but when you're confused...

From the top you can see so far into the distance Look it's downhill all the way from here Getting there is quicker like going you just slide Shouldn't take mor...

Outside another yellow moon punched a hole in the nighttime, yes (I) climb through your window and down the street I'm shining like a new dime The downtown trai...

This time you went just a little too far Now I don't mind picking you up from some bar And I'm used to dealing with the ways of most men But I won't come and ge...

Oh loverboy To you I belong But maybe one day you'll wake And you'll find me gone But loverboy If you call me home I'll come driving I'll come driving fast as w...

If you ever feel the time to drop me a loving line maybe you should just think twice I don't wait around on your advice You tell me I can go this far, but no mo...

Darkness will trip,darkness will fall Get no sleep on Salisbury Street Mud on my shoes,sweat on my palms Get no sleep on Salisbury Street There is another time...

if I say I'll always stay by your side stupid things say some night can you tell me I am wrong till I cry tell me do you have the right if I say that seas could...

Everthing But The Girl - Facination Transcribed 21/07/98 by Mike Garoghan Please email corrections to Chords I won't try to stop you When you speak of the pas...

Well it's so easy to be witty in retrospect When you're out of door you pause a moment to reflect On all the crushing one-liners that you should have said But y...

I walk the city late at night Does everyone here do the same? I want to be the things I see, Give every face and place my name I cross the street, take a right,...

London, summer 2 I think I've changed a lot since then, Do you? Ideas that I'd held for years, emotional baggage, hopes and fears, Seen somehow in a different ...

You take the name of a man you hardly know and then you grow up and that name has to go married with kids and they don't want to know about the dreams you had l...

I've never been skating on a frozen river Joni and Jane make it sound so cool Sometimes I can get so down it seems Nothing much is gonna turn me around They co...

I wanted everything for a little while Why shouldn't I? I wanted to know what it was like But I pushed you too far I know And you started laying down the law Ti...

Gabriel, wherever you roam, You know the longest way round is the shortest way home Gabriel, wherever you go, You know the longest way round is the shortest way...

Still can't believe that you two are now just friends You've got no lover and he's free at weekends I know he said when you first met That you must always play ...

I never thought I'd grow up so fast so far To know yourself is to let yourself be loved And I want to be addicted, I want to be secure, I want to wake up after...

I don't wanna feel this way I don't wanna feel this way I don't wanna feel this way, Won't somebody take away this feeling I'm looking at an open sky, It's li...

Slowly runs the lazy river And in it I pitched all my dreams And all the things I ever wanted And watched them heading slowly downstream For I have learned that...

Born on the stage, Undersize and underage When she sang good, Momma said she could Sing the world away She made the shop girls cry They said, "That woman's lif...

Suburbia, 1 am You're walking home again Shopping bags and broken glass I hate going through the underpass I wish there was some other way around But you got be...

What I get from you I sometimes steal When I let belief invade what I should feel Still I do believe that men are fools And you don't always escape that rule Bu...

Oh, I wish you could be here To see the flowers, they only smell so sweet Since you've been gone, And all the day you left they bloom for hours To compensate me...

The working day was long And the road is grinding on And your body's winding down again The tribal fire's here And the circle speaks so near And the simple trut...

And who is this man standing at my door? Is he lying or is he true? Is this how I see you? Like a rolling pebble on the deepest ocean floor Life has rubbed me s...

I know you're down again and you see nothing but rain You put your friends through hell and that's why we get along so well You see, I always was your girl, it ...

I was alone thinking I was just fine I wasn't looking for anyone to be mine I thought love was just a fabrication A train that wouldn't stop at my station Home,...

What is it that I think I need? Is there love in me that wants to be freed? Or is it selfishness and ego We carry with us everywhere that we go? This feeling t...

I can tell by your eyes that you've probably been crying forever And the stars in the sky don't mean nothing to you, they're a mirror I don't wanna talk about ...

What is it that I think I need? Is there love in me that wants to be freed? Or is it selfishness and ego we carry with us everywhere that we go? This feeling t...

I can tell by your eyes that you've probably been crying forever And the stars in the sky don't mean nothing to you, they're only there I don't wanna talk abou...

You kissed my head as you stood in the door And then you said: "don't want to see you no more" All I could say as you walked out on me Was how I hoped you'd rem...

Oh and how he loved you (oh and how he loved you) Oh and you believed him (oh and you believed him) He said you both deserved better (you deserve better) And he...

KID WHAT CHANGED YOUR MOOD YOU'VE GONE ALL SAD SO I FEEL SAD TOO I THINK I KNOW SOME THINGS WE NEVER OUTGROW YOU THINK IT'S WRONG I CAN TELL YOU DO HOW CAN I EX...

Laugh You Out The House Words and music by Tracey Thorn Don't show your tears boy they'll laugh you out the house Got to be a man now, anything less is just no...

Of course I feel betrayed, but that's the way it goes, everyone knows Trying to make you love me again, crying at your door ust to hold you once more Darling I ...

Little Hitler, don't come 'round here again With your renegade politics, redder-than-thou-disdain Thought we were on the same side But with a fistful of nails a...

Living on honeycom Outside the fair still rages Young men the wrath of ages in their heads Fight for the comfort of their beds And inside here we lie alone Liv...

So here we are in Italy With a sun hat and a dictionary The air is warm, the sky is bright, Your arms are brown you're sleeping well at night So why does Englan...

I was alone thinking I was just fine, I wasn't looking for anyone to be mine I thought that love was just a fabrication, A train that wouldn't stop at my statio...

My three guardian angles say Each time you smile that way Dangers lies that way No-one will believe me For that sort of thing's beneath me But I keep repeating ...

Love, love is strange Many people take it for a game Once you've had it you're in an awful fix 'Cause after you've had it you never wanna quit A lot of people, ...

London in the low tide of the night And not a taxi cab in sight Anesthetized I start the journey home I've been living months alone I've been avoiding things - ...

How much of yourself do you give away After someone's left your life in disarray? It still hurts But it won't show Because I'm too proud So you're never ever go...

Me and Bobby D don't get along that easily You told the world, "Be free, love life" Tell me, is it true you beat your wife? You see, me and Bobby D don't get al...

Meet me in the morning I'll have the motor running Down icy lanes, under a glass blue sky This is living This is living I haven't come to be a stranger I haven'...

Mine (Tracey Thorn) Blown in winds of mischance he would stay but that's not his way What escape for her she swims in the dark In too deep but still waves - "I...

You never knew the teenage me and you wouldn't believe the things you didn't see, some pretty, some ugly And the lovely mirrorball reflected back them all -ever...

I step off the train I'm walking down your street again And pass your door But you don't live there anymore It's years since you've been there Now you've disapp...

Great mistakes are made when love gets lonely Far from home Beds are empty, nights are long, and You miss him bad when you're on your own That's How I let my ...

I'll let a train be my feet if it's too far to walk to you If the train don't go there I'll get a jet or a bus I'm gonna find you You're mine and I know I'll fi...

Stone the crows if you've done it again, if I've told you once, told you a thousand times Sometimes I am so convinced we're casting pearl amongst the swine Don...

Never Could Have Been Worse Words and music by Ben Watt Each day she love you more but you couldn't care less, You left me open mouthed and I couldn't eat a th...

You watch the phone Like it was the TV If you're all alone, Well whose fault can that be? Your keys, your bag, your car - They're where they always are And the...

When I look into your eyes I can see a love restrained But darlin' when I hold you Don't you know I feel the same 'Cause nothin' lasts forever And we both know...

Not for the first time I look back on all those years Not for the last time names will ring in my ear When there was just a gang of us Storming the town by trai...

A summer evening; I walk past the window, Baby's crying; Someone's cooking dinner; There's laughter on the TV Someone's learning the violin How at home, it heal...

When I was ten I thought my brother was God - he'd lie in bed and turn out the light with a fishing rod I learned the names of all his football team, aid I stil...

Well I hate to have to tell you this But there are pigeons in the attic room Where you left me spent and gasping that afternoon Ans where the floorboards left t...

You always loved the sad songs, like you loved it when I lost, so I don't tell you when I'm happy because it only makes you cross And I thought as I was leavin...

This girl I know needs some shelter But she don't believe anyone can help her She's doing so much harm doing so much damage But you don't want to get involved Y...

Conspired again your protest in vain that you'll never feel that way again Despair and desire are both hard to sustain you'll never sink this low again Bitter ...

I still haven't got over it even now I want to spend huge amounts of time on my own I don't want to cause any serious damage I want to make sure that I can mana...

There's a Belfast girl I loved and lost On the rolling hills around my home Now she stays home nights behind locked doors Since a plastic bullet stopped him And...

Let me tell you about this torch I carry It's not much of a career And it won't make my fortune I fear But it stays alight and won't be buried It's brighter yea...

Hush your mouth now honey mine Have you been waiting all this time To so loudly disagree Kick the feet from under me Did you come here to shoot me down Bury my ...