songs.

a couple three songs that have been hitting the chords in me recently:

sade, i never thought i'd see the day


You shed a shadow on my life
Shed a shadow on a love
Took the shelter out of my life
Took the shelter of a lie
I couldn't see it in your restless eyes
The truth I was hiding
The truth you could not disguise

But I never thought I'd see the day
I knew I'd need a miracle to make you stay
I knew
I needed
A miracle
And I never thought I'd see the day

You put a shadow on a love
Took a shelter of a lie
Took the shelter out of my life

I wish you could shelter me
Shelter me now
I need a miracle
And I never thought I'd see the day


...

lisa stansfield, all around the world


I don't know where my baby is
But I'll find him, somewhere, somehow
I've got to let him know how much I care
I'll never give up looking for my baby

Chorus:
Been around the world, and I, I, I,
I can't find my baby
I don't know when, I don't know why,
Why he's gone away
And I don't know where he can be, my baby,
But I'm gonna find him.

We had a quarrel, and I let myself go,
I said so many things, things he didn't know
And I was oh, oh so bad
And I don't think he's coming back
He gave the reasons, the reasons he should go
And he said things, he hadn't said before
And he was oh, oh so mad
And I don't think he's coming back, coming back

I did too much lying, wasted too much time,
Now I'm here and crying, I, I, I,

Chorus

Oooooooh
So open-hearted, he never did me wrong
I was the one, the weakest one of all
And now I'm oh, oh so sad
And I don't think he's coming back, coming back

I did too much lying, wasted too much time,
Now I'm here and crying, I, I, I,

Chorus x2

I'm gonna find him
Find my baby

I did too much lying, wasted too much time,
Now I'm here and crying, I, I, I,

Chorus

Been around the world
Looking for my baby
Been around the world
And I'm gonna find him

...


dave matthews, grey street

Oh look at how she listens
She says nothing of what she thinks
She just goes stumbling through her memories
Staring out on to Grey Street

She thinks, ’Hey,
How did I come to this’
I dream myself a thousand times around the world,
But I can’t get out of this place’

There’s loneliness inside her
And she’d do anything to fill it in
And though it’s red blood bleeding from her now
It feels like cold blue ice in her heart
When all the colors mix together - to grey
And it breaks her heart

How she wishes it was different
She prays to God most every night
And though she's quite sure he doesn’t listen
There’s a tiny hope in her, he might

She says, ’I pray
But they fall on deaf ears,
Am I supposed to take it on myself’
To get out of this place’

There’s an emptiness inside her
And she’d do anything to fill it in
But all the colors mix together - to grey
And it breaks her heart

There’s a stranger speaks outside her door
Says take what you can from your dreams
Make them as real as anything
It’d take the work out of the courage

But she says, ’Please
There’s a crazy man that’s creeping outside my door,
I live on the corner of Grey Street and the end of the world’

There’s an emptiness inside her
And she’d do anything to fill it in
And though it’s red blood bleeding from her now
It’s more like cold blue ice in her heart
She feels like kicking out all the windows
And setting fire to this life
She could change everything about her using colors bold and bright
But all the colors mix together - to grey
And it breaks her heart
It breaks her heart
To grey

...

dave matthews, some devil

One last kiss one only
Then I'll let you go
Hard for you
I've fallen
But you can't break my fall
I'm broken don't break me
When I hit the ground

Some devil some angel
Has got me to the bones
You said always and forever
Now I believe you baby
You said always and forever
Is such a long and lonely time

Too drunk and still drinking
It's just the way I feel
It's alright
Is what you told me
Cause what we had was so beautiful
Feel heavy like floating
At the bottom of the sea

You said always and forever
Now I believe you baby
You said always and forever
Is such a long and lonely time

Some devil is stuck inside of me
I cannot set it free
I wish, I wish I was dead and you breathing
Just so that you could know
Some angel is stuck inside of me
But I cannot set you free

You said always and forever
Now I believe you baby
You said always and forever
Such a long and lonely time

Stuck inside of me


...

dave matthews, stay or leave

Maybe different but remember
Winters warm where you and i
Kissing whiskey by the fire
With the snow outside
And when the summer comes
In the river
Swims at midnight
Shiver cold
Touch the bottom
Starry night
With muddy toes

Stay or leave
I want you not to go
But you should
It was good as good goes
Stay or leave
I want you not to go
But you did

Wake up naked drinking coffee
Making plans to change the world
While the world is changing us
It was good good love
You used to laugh under the covers
Maybe not so often now
But the way I used to laugh with you
Was loud and hard

Stay or leave
I want you not to go
But you should
It was good as good goes
Stay or leave
I want you not to go
But you did

So what to do
With the rest of the day's afternoon hey
Isn't it strange how we change
Everything we did
Did I do all that i should

That I coulda done

Remember we used to dance
And everyone wanted to be
You and me
I want to be too
What day is this
Besides the day you left me
What day is this
Besides the day you went

So what to do
With the rest of the day's afternoon hey
Well isn't it strange how we change
Everything we did
Did I do all that I could

Remember we used to dance
And everyone wanted to be you and me
I want to be too
What day is this
Besides the day you went babe
What day is this