Getting Started

Baby baby, am I the one you been searching for
If I am, I can give you so much more.
And I'm only getting started
Just only getting started.
To show you what you mean to me.

Baby baby, I'm so glad you came into my life
If I could I wouldn't change my mind
Cos we're only getting started
Only getting started
To show each other how we feel

Times can get hard, but we've got to keep a lid on
Don't let our emotions come to the boil
Cos we are a team
Yes we are a team
And we need each other to get through

You are so pretty, you are beautiful
My eyes are beholden to you and you are alone
Yes I like your face
You're pretty beautiful face
And I want to look at it the rest of my days

Tell me tell me what is on your mind
I've got this feeling I want you for all my life
And I'm only getting started
We're just getting started
To show you what you mean to me

Sky At Night

The sky at night

Looks like it will never see the day.

The long night ahead of it

Looks like it will never end

Scary to be amongst it

Scary to see it so.

The sky is dark above us.

But blue when the light shows

Rain falling downwards

Every direction it can

Can I muster the courage

To get out of it in one piece

No end in sight

When will it end

Do we have to ride it out

Ride out the scary night

Could be in a tent

Could be on our knees

Changing a tyre in the hard shoulder

While my shoulder gives out one me

Need one to cry on

I cannot find the strength

As the rain falls harder and harder

Soaked through, home is a thought

At the end of the road

A road that flashes behind me

As my speed knows no limit

Scary is the night

Lights and sights all around

The sky looks like it might fall

What will today have in store?

23:05

Kissing as if no-one is watching
having your picture taken by a stranger
Walking in a straight line
straight to you
while you bump into anything that moves.
Wiping water away from your eyes
is it sweat or sun tan lotion melting
Riding the Bakerloo or Central
at Tottenham Court Road
on a Monday night
just like any other night to some
to those who take this step everyday
to the drunk who sleeps on the step
you step over

Dancing with your iPod to the sound
while you tip toe avoiding the lines
every step could be your last
every step could be your first
The first for the rest of your life
the life that doesnt have a course
My course is following the red line
on a Monday night

Its 23:05
55 minutes to tomorrow
55 left of today
Can you still make a first impression
or should you put it to bed
Gonna go to sleep tomorrow
and wake up in the same day
No drawing board
to go back to
I know what must be done
just like any Tuesday morning
but for now its still Monday night.

The Going

Take me as you come
Cos I took you as you was
I'll take you as I come
Cos that's the difference between us.

Even when you go
I'll still hold you close
Take you in my arms
And through the night i'll hold you tight

Even when you're gone
I'll still take you home
Even when the going gets tough.

Take it in your stride
For all your life
And the going will always stay just right.

Postscript

I'll be leaving never coming back
Changing my direction get on a new track
So take a look before I leave
cos I know I'm never coming back.

You hang around too long
and I'm getting bored of the road we were taking.
You'd never said the right things
so spent most of the night embarassing me
So don't expect a note or a call in a few weeks time
this is my goodbye for the last time.

You never treated me right,
you threw me around like a rag doll.
You would talk in your sleep and dream about other girls
You never kept your promises
but I'll keep mine.

I never want to see you again.
Goodbye

Maxwell Street

Nothing's bitter everything's sweet
Let's take a ride down Maxwell Street.

Take it slow so everybody sees us
The speed limit is 20 with speed bumps
Milk bottles lay vacant by the front door
Laying waiting for the milk float.

The grass is cut and the spring is in bloom
The hayfever makes you sneeze through the roof.
And the sky even though it turns it black
Give it a few minutes for the blue to come back.

Put the car into gear, head down
as the sun shines off of our wet hair
Stop every now and then outside a girl's door
give her a wink so she wants the whole show.

Bands play in their garage
loud enough to be heard
Pass the word around
there's a party going on downtown.
Everyone's invited it's a family affair
just long enough because we care.

But the lonely are the nights
when the street lights are turned on
Its a calling card from democracy
to turn the TV on.
But that won't happen s long as we're here
we're tired of waiting for the coast to be clear.
We've got each other
an equal heartbeat lets take a long drive
down on Maxwell Street.

Time Waits

Time waits for no man
But I wait for it.
No-one knows my plans,
It's a secret.
I am growing tired
Ready for bed.

So take me and lay me,
Let me be
Careless and single
I need a drink
So take me and lay me,
Let me be

My back is aching
I need a rest
My room is tidy
I feel like a mess
My head is full
and my soul is empty

But if you take me as I am
I would happily lie down
If you lay me
by your side.
I'll feel nothing when I touch down.
Just take me and lay me
Let me be.
Careless and single,
attending AA
So lay me and leave me
I'm not worth it.

Blossoms

The blossoms bloom upon the pine
Look out my window at a quarter past five
And I see things that I've never seen before
a flat tyre on a new four by four.
The rain beats down upon the pavement below,
its falling faster harder upon the window.
Almost suddenly the clouds they clear
and the sun appears oh how so rare.
It reminds me of a smile I knew
that disappeared away from view.
And all at once the stress has gone,
it feels wonderful to see the sun
and I feel happy.