Sleight Of Heart

Week Off

 

we're having a week off, we're having a rest

listen to the way we cough it's for the best

the party's over, it's been a long, long night

when we get sober you'll see i'm right

 

now we can get on with our lives

step to the beat and get back in line

dont need to travel dont need to fly

like you said 2 more chances to die

 

I'll write a good song just give me more time

it’s easy hating yourself its hard making it ryme

gonna to sit on top of a hill for a day

play guitar, folk my troubles away

 

im going to kill the idiot in me

chase the bastard down, demand that he leaves

all you nice breathing people alone

I just want to wake up or sleep and go home

I'm scared of the time I sweat at the phone

the Fleetwood Mac polyphonic softens the blow

at times like these i know that i am

the happiest person the luckiest man

but since the day I wrote this song

i'll just pick up my feet and drag wearily on

 

I’m going to stop soon coz I’m tired, tired and full, full of sorrow,

Tired at the thought that if I sleep

It only brings a new tomorrow

 

 

Blue Plastic Bags

 

The whole world’s going home with blue plastic bags

Six bottles of Stella, Jacob’s Creek and twenty fags

And you know there is no shame

Because we’re all doing the same

 

Staying in is the new going out

No one’s even coming round

We’ll have toyfights in the hall

 

You’re all going home with self-help books

Hidden behind Heat because you’re worried about the looks

And you know there is no shame

Because we’re all doing the same

 

Staring in is the new shouting out

We’re just trying to find out

If there’s any truth at all

 

The whole world’s listening to downbeat shite

We over-did the good times

Now we can’t sleep at night

And you know there is no shame

Because we’re all feeling the same

 

Sing along with the sad songs

Sing along sing along

Sing along with the sad songs

 

 

Total Belief

so I'm just sitting here, waiting to evolve, the world's in my orbit, shit's waiting to kick off, afraid to go to sleep, so I think of women running, never leave you alone again, as that's stopped being funny,  I just want to laugh, see smiles cross faces, see the clever people have a chat and unite all us races, this bird around my neck that remains through my changes, twittering triumphantly to remind me of my total belief in the depth of my unworthiness.

 

When things go right they're rubbish coz I'm too far from the flame, recently I've been thinking about taking pills again, so I can see more slowly the slow dusty detail, my most cringing whim becomes a beautiful grail. And I'm a yes I hate it I hate everything I make, and this is shit and that is shit and being shit is great, I can't even cook a meal without falling into stress, it only takes some pasta to remind me of my total belief in the depth of my unworthiness.

 

you're so pretty, all dressed in your Night, my eyes flip to the prison on the wall, it's still a quarter-past-shite, someone tell me it'll be ok, using the power of the phone, or gimme shoes to step in coz I don't have my own. Unrelenting unconfidence and a badge that states "mess", a lack of bike and gentle sleep remind me of my total belief in the depth of my unworthiness.

 

I woke late today, with a puzzle in mind, I found myself waiting for the destruction of mankind, it's nothing bad you know, and not out of spite, an innocent wee hope that wants to put out the lights,

it lets out a beg before I fire up the telly, I need to feel and care again and put a stop to continuity. I know you're with me, I know you've felt the same,  I know this coz I've never,  had an original thought in my brain,

 

unrelenting unconfidence, and a badge that states "mess", a lack of bike and gentle sleep remind me of my total belief in the depth,

of my unworthiness.

 

 

Follow Robin Down

If you’re sad, feeling low

And you’ve got nowhere to go

you make mistakes

and you never learn

Now you’ve got nowhere to turn

 

Don’t be scared, I have a plan

I know a place, I know the man

Cowboy boots and back catalogue

White Russians and a monologue

Put him on, turn it up, and rip him off

A hired guitar and no fixed abode

A howl and a suspended chord

A broken heart, a swinging door, the open road

 

When you’re lost follow Robin down

To the darkness where he hangs around

You can hear him sing his songs

Of how he bounced off woman

Where it all went wrong

Screaming at the dreamers, holding up a light

In the darkness

 

If you’re ever stuck

In the middle of the night

You can’t get out

You don’t believe in light

well there is hope

like there is hell

It’s like going home

It’s like getting well

 

 

Love Comes In Waves

Love, love, love comes in waves

I want you to love me as much as I love you

And you do

Then you don’t

Then you do

Then you don’t

Then you do…..

 

Love, love, love comes in waves

I want you to love me as much as I love you

And you do

Then you don’t

Then you do

Then you don’t

 

Love is a battlefield

Love is a car with a cracked window shield

Love is raining in Glasgow

Love is a lie

 

Love is for TV and movie stars

Love is for songs played on slow guitars

Love is for boyracers and their cars

Love is a lie I’m a liar

Love is a lie you’re a liar

Love is a why did you lie to me?

 

I don’t know how I’ll get over you

I’ve got my bag of tricks but I don’t think they’ll work

It seems I’ve changed and I can’t hide

There’s nowhere to hide

 

I’m never going to give you up

I’m just going to keep lifting you up

Higher than the sky going up and up

Faster than why would you give up on me

Faster than how could you give up on me

Faster than why did you give up on me

 

Love, love, love comes in waves

I want you to love me as much as I love you

But you don’t

 

 

Hey You

hey you with the dark brown hair

what you doing sitting there

do you care about me?

will you wait without me

 

I'll be back from being away

when I get back I'm going to stay

when I come home I'm going to pay every day

with my time

you'll be rich and I'll be more

I'll come charging down your door

screaming stay with me and dont ever leave

coz without you my time is slow, low and grey

and I am poor just like I was before

you came to me and we agreed that things are going to change

in our lives for the better

in the kitchen before Assella got up for work and kicked us out

in to our lives together

and this works so you should know

that I'll never change my mind

give me time and you will see

I'll show you what you mean to me

so dont ever leave

and I'll never leave and you never leave

 

hey you in the last verse

dont be scared of the universe

you should know it is wrong and you are right

you come here and I'll hold you tight