Badly Drawn Boy Album

Do you think it matters where you're born?
No, not really, it only matters
That you can be proud of where you came from.
I don't think I know who I am anymore

What about the world
What do you mean
Well if the world was a better place,
Some of these bad things wouldn't happen.
Yeah but there's good things all around,
You just have to look longer and harder
To see them sometimes.

Praise god
For the water
Our son, and our daughter
The sun is here, it will stay a while
Long enough to bring out a smile

The swimming pool is on order
We'll fill it with water
Then swim
To the other side
Full of life and filled with pride

Then you see it happen again
The world turned over
Wouldn't it be something to live
Your Life On Mars
Or at least demanding
Of some kind of masquerade

I never never ever believed
In things uncertain
Hanging round the corner
Just when do you start doing time
In the case of I, my, me and mine
October Nineteen sixty nine

Where were you in Seventy Six
The long hot summer
You wanna be a rebel
Then turn your hosepipes on
With two years to wait
For the sound of Jilted John

Virginia Wade was winning our hearts
She made us want to live
Vicious and his brothers
Were trying to set us free
But much more than this to you and me
This was the Silver Jubilee

We made something out of nothing
A sense of loathing and belonging

Some of us were gonna be rich
With the Iron Lady
Lennon's gone already
Let's post the boys to war
Oh mother, what're you worrying for
It's somewhere he's not been before

Then you see the Union Jack
And it means nothing
But somehow you know
That you will find your own way
It's a small reminder every day
That I was born in the U.K.

We figure out the past through photographs
They took while we were young
Even though there's no way out, we'll find one
We're the love-struck ones
The degrees of separation close in
Look who just walked in

A finger on the pulse is not enough
To show who's wrong from right
You know it's gonna be a long drive
Not an easy ride
The degrees of separation close in
Look who just walked in

Leave the lights on
If you're the last one alive
There's too many strangers on this long
Lonely drive
I'll be by your side
Believe me

Now, no-one knows the year
You're from the past
You look like you're alive
You know it's gonna be a long drive
Not an easy ride
The degrees of separation close in
Look who just walked in

I kept the photograph upon the dash
It helped me realise
That it didn't have to be a long drive
But an easy ride
The degrees of separation close in
We're alone again

Leave the lights on
If you're the last one alive

Start your fires
This is the overground - it's inside us
Welcome to the overground
You need reminding -
Remember this is your destiny

Think of what's in front of you now
Not of what's been left behind
Come on, saviour,
Save us now there is no time to rewind

Simple pleasures, to be found
If you reach the overground
Sunshine, rainfall, making love
You see a rainbow
The streets are changing now
Try other avenues
Make a new map of the world
Decide on where to go

Suddenly, we sense a new day
The feeling just comes over you
No false gods left for us to pray to
Darling, it's just me and you

Sunshine, rainfall
Make a rainbow
Please don't follow us
You mean so much to us
Start your fires
This is the overground
Sunshine, rainfall
You see a rainbow
Streets of fire
Try other avenues
It's inside us
Welcome to the overground

If we go our separate ways
The road will lead us back around
Even in a matter of days
We'll see you on the overground

I'll be happy to carry you
Even though I know I haven't got the strength to hold you
I need you more than ever before
If our journey's over
I hope that you will find someone who will love you more

Now not for the first time
What I want might not be mine
If you say you won't come along
Then I know I can't go it alone

This would be easier if you'd understand
Face the truth and realise that none of this was planned
The way we worry about such little things
Take a time to take the break
Darling spread your wings
I stole all the roses that make your crown
Now it's easier
To just put aside the things that face us now

Let's dance to the beat of the drum
Let's go out, where we don't know anyone
Cause it's you, I don't need anyone else
I got you, I don't need anyone else but you

Strange how something comes from nothing
I came around to your way
Of thinking about these things
Saw your face in a crowd
I knew that you were special
And it will change my world
If I could help you now

But nothing's gonna change your mind
And no one's gonna help you now
If nothing's gonna change your mind
Then no one's gonna help you find
Your place in this world
So strange we don't need a help you know

Let's dance to the beat of the drum
Let's go out, where we don't know anyone
Cause it's you, I don't need anyone else
I got you, I don't need anyone else but you

And no one could ask for more

But nothing's gonna change your mind
And no one's gonna help you now
If nothing's gonna change your mind
Then no one's gonna help you now, now, now...

I promise you will get old
I promised you everything
To protect you wherever you go
I'll give you this diamond ring

Just promise you will remember
A promise should last forever
Right up to the dying embers
Of a fire that burns so slow

It's a different day everyday
Don't want you to walk alone
But how long can we carry on?
When all of these things have gone

Just promise you will remember
A promise should last forever
It's the last of the dying embers
Of a fire that burns so slowly

It's a beautiful thing to do
Sometimes you just have to walk away
Remember I do love you
Have courage in what you say

Just promise you will remember
Promises last forever
Still left of the dying embers
The fire that burns so slowly

Sometimes you just have to walk away
Sometimes you just have to walk away
Wishing that today was yesterday
Yeah, sometimes you just have to walk away

The way things used to be
Well not any more
Close your eyes,
Open up your door

Well I'm not tired
I'm coming alive
Put your make-up on,
Let's go out tonight

These things don't matter now
We can leave it all behind
That's all depending on
If you're free to free your mind
The crucifix still hung up by the door
But Jesus doesn't come here anymore
Those memories still hanging on the wall
The people there don't look like us at all
Don't need reminding of
The way things used to be

I'll race you to the top
Then we'll walk back down again
Look to the future now
Where you going,
Where've you been?
The Universe is smaller than you think
So many years spent blind
And then you blink
I promise you an end to the suffering
If you could be my queen
I'll be your king
Don't need reminding of
The way things used to be

Take this chance to rest your tired eyes
Come with me, we'll move to better skies
If where we go, don't make a difference
Just turn around
And we'll come back again
Don't need reminding of
The way things used to be

All the songs have been sung
You're too old and then you're too young
Did you leave your mark on the world?
One as deep as true love
Let's sing, Josanna

All the stories are told
You're too young and then you're too old
Did you leave a mark on the world?
One that lasts as long as true love
Take me with you now

To be strung as high as this
Making love without a kiss
And someone you saw again
Back to haunt you there and then
Please take all my love

Evolution is real
Secrets we have never revealed
Did you leave your mark, was it real?
Or as deep as the love we both feel

To be strung as high as this
Making love without a kiss
Like a gift you didn't keep
And it leaves a mark so deep

There's a million things to miss
Like the chance to take that kiss
Where you go you'll be someone
With one kiss your life is swung

What you gonna do when you walk away
Walk behind me it's alright
I'm OK
Then what will you do if I walk away
Walk beside me it's alright
We're OK
Where you gonna go
Don't surrender
Hold me tight
Don't let go

Sit and wait for the day
Where your life might change
And that day never comes
This is rule number one
All the changes must come from you
Is the second rule
Take a long way round
See the sights, hear sounds
Where you'll go, nobody knows

Been this way
Since the day
I was born
Far away
And the walk
In the rain
Makes you feel
Young again

I assumed
You would be my strength
Oh, how wrong I was
That's the wrong way round
How you need me now
The carrousel keeps turning still

This one cried, this one smiled
But we all felt alive
Like a walk in the rain
Made us feel young again
With the crowd singing "all right now"
As the rain came down
It's a long way home
But we're not alone
Life's carrousel keeps turning still

Life keeps turning around, and around
We keep learning from things we have found
Overground

What a fool
To believe
I could help
You to breathe
Getting cold
In the rain
Makes us feel
Young again

If you go
Take a long way round
You'll be lost then found
It's a long way home
But you're not alone
The carrousel bring you back again

Winter comes
We don't have a choice
As we grow
We will find a voice
She looks over her shoulder
The swimming pool freezes over
We'll skate to the other side
Full of life
Still filled with pride

Woke up to some bad news today
For a while my eyes stayed closed
Didn't want to face what I had to face
Sometimes the truth can cut you just like the cold
And I feel cold, I feel old

But it could be so good
If I only could
Walk you home tonight
Walk you tonight

Sometimes I feel there's no difference
Between living and dreaming
Today for some reason I feel like there is
Sun is shining, leaves are falling down
Nobody seems to care
That you're not there
You're not there

It could be so good
If I only could
Walk you home tonight
Walk you tonight

Feel like I know what crying is
Oh I know what dying is
Feel I know what crying is
Oh I know what dying is

Sun is shining
Leaves are falling down

Oh, sweet morning
Is your head not right?
Did you hear my warning?
This is the time of times
And your head feels like your body
Your mind is close behind
There's a teardrop on your shoulder
Says this is the time of times
It's the time of times again

This is the time of times

It's the time of times again

Oh, sweet morning
And your head's not right
Did you heed my warning?
This is the time of times
And your head feels like your body
Your mind is close behind
There's a teardrop on your shoulder
Says this is the time of times
It's the time of times again

The time of times

Yeah, this is the time of times.

As we lay here tonight
Please forgive me girl if I say the future's not bright
But please take my hand we'll have one last dance
In the place where we first met eyes

Holy City Zoo
I recall the name of the place where I first saw you
With your eyes so kind and your smile so bright
I just wanted to take you home

Where you go I wanna go
What you do I wanna do
I'll be your Troy Donnahue
If you'll be my Sandra Dee

It's a trivial pursuit
But I know if I fall on my heart
I'll be with you
But please understand I am just a man
And I need you to take me home

We're together now
Wanna change my shoes
So I feel like you somehow
Need to breathe your breathe
And caress your dress
I'll be with you for quite some time

I'll take you where you wanna go
Tell me where I wanna know
I will just go with the flow
As long as I'm there with you

Are the kids ok
Didn't find the time to give you a call today
But my heart's with yours
I'm keepin' score of the things that I have done wrong

Another funeral
All the people I know
Are beginning to fade away
And I have to say that at least today
It's beginning to get me down

To this day I'm lovin' you
We know what we wanna do
I am your Troy Donnahue
And you are my Sandra Dee

Now I know you well
I still love you adore you
I need you more than then
With your eyes still kind
And your smile still bright
I still want to take you home

And I will do all that I can
You're my woman I'm your man
(I'm your woman, you're my man)
And if we still don't have a plan
We'll listen to Thunder Road