Cerys Matthews Album

Boy, you take me by surprise again
you take me by the hand and then
lead me down the streets of new york

on a willful afternoon
when i thought love could choose
i heard your song playing on the radio

i'm somewhere i don't want to be
the city's moving over me
but i think i'm going to stay
Please dont be alarmed
i'm at the start of something

i walked up the grand to our hotel
and bought a round of perfect tens
and imagined you were there
and you, you became the man who explained
if this wasn't love how could it have been anything else?

I'm somehwere I don't want to be
The city's moving over me
But I think I'm going to stay
Please don't be alarmed
I'm at the start of something

I want to ask you everything
I want to ask you everything

We stayed
and smoked another cigarette
And if smoke lingers I wont forget
I try to say I'm sorry

An you, you're with more than I could ever be
But I looked up and you had disappeared
And left ya crying to the rain

I'm somewhere I don't want to be
The city's moving over me
Yet I think I'm gong to stay
Please don't be alone
I'm at the start of something

I want to ask you everything

Midday sun and my world's begun
To come up roses
I got a ringside ticket playing
Domino with a friend of mine
Sitting getting old
In the shade
Of the same old tree
I've got change in my pocket
A bird in my hand
It's singing for dinner
And I understand
Wake me gently in the morning
Take me easy in the afternoon
Im whiling away the hours
I'm good for nothing
Nothing's good enough for me
I'm going nowhere
There's nowhere that i'd rather be
Than sitting getting old
In the shade of the same old tree
I got change in my pocket
A bird in my hand and
It's singing for dinner
And I understand
Wake me gently in the morning
Take me easy in the afternoon
I'm whiling away the hours
Humdrum becomes routine
I open my mouth and feel
New words on my tongue
They're already warm like honey
Wake me gently in the morning
Take me easy in the afternoon
I'm whiling away the hours

By the great Missouri pacific line
There goes the last train out of town
The sun beat down
And there was nothing left to see
I turned my shadow back around
Back in a town where i'll defend you
When they sleep
And if we're running out of oxygen
Running out of fuel to burn
Drifting's an easy flight
You said you'd stay all night
And now you're saying that
The lights are growing dim
Up in this town we're living in
Sunday sun delirium
I know there's something strange going
What made you so pretty
What made you so fine
Wjat made you dig so deep
In this fool heart of mine
I didn't notice you
Til' I looked down the line
And if we're running out of oxygen
Running out of fuel to burn
Drifting's an easy flight
You said you'd stay all night
And now you're saying that
The lights are growing dim
Up in this town we're living in
Sunday sun delirium I know
There's something strange going down
And if we're running out of oxygen
Running out of fuel to burn
Driftings an easy flight
You said you' stay all night
And now you're saying that
The lights are growing dim
Up in this town we're living in
Sunday sun delirium
I know there's something strange
And now you're saying
That the lights are growing dim
Up in this town we're living in
Sunday sun delirium
You said you'd stay all night
And if you're saying
Out of oxygen
Out of fuel to burn
Sunday
You said you'd stay all night
Ok

I took a ride on your fingertips
Heaven had with the thrill of it
and in your eyes
For a moment
It's like we never said goodbye
We took a walk for the hell of it
And we talked
Through the thick of it
And in your eyes
For a moment
It's like we never said goodbye
But something went wrong
You never came home
And time takes so long
What are these tears we're crying
'Cause I remember the open roads
Met at the corner where no-one goes
And no-one mattered at all
I remember the driving rain
Soaked to the skin
These were perfect days
And I remember it all
Friends is such a horrid word
I sat at home
With the things I learned
You didn't phone
And in a different world
We'd have never said goodbye
Where are we going
With feeling alone
We'll never know
What are these tears we're crying
'Cause I remember the open roads
Met at the corner where no-one goes
And no-one mattered at all
I remember the driving rain
Soaked to the skin
These were perfect days
And I remember it all
And as for then and as for now
As for who and as for how
There's just one thing i can't forget
How beautiful
How beautiful you are

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Hold on to dreams
And to memories
They're the only things
That really exist
And in your eyes
I remember
That we never said
Never said
Goodbye

this endless rain
makes it hard to decide if i should go
or if i should stay
these clouds, do they grow to fill the skyline
or are they made to measure out the grey

it's raining in the garden, it's rainging in the fields
it's raining in the forest, and as far as i can see

this endless rain
makes it hard to decide if it's a gloomy day
or if there's something on my mind.

it's raining in the garden, it's raining in the fields
it's raining in the forest and as far as i can see
it rains on my defenses, throwing shadows on the wall
i get soaked to the bone, will it make me halfway grow
will i ever be ready?

'cos its you at my door rattling my senses,
are you looking for a place to call your own?
well, it may be a dream come true
spending so much time with you
but it all seems to hinge upon the weather..

it's raining in the garden, it's raining in the fields
it's raining in the forest and as far as i can see
it rains on my defenses it's raining down on me
i get soaked to the bone will it make me fully grown
will i ever be ready?

let the lights turn green
and let the roads be clear
and let nobody be in the way

daylight traffic moves so slow
going to finally let you go
dogwoods bloom by the river

come hell or high water
you'll be there where i ought to
now i always want to be there
when you work the whole thing through

you ask me to decide
like there's a choice that matters
like writing letters everyday
broke at last, you're eyes won't fail
walking out on the wrong day
going to love you anyway

come hell or high water
you'll be there where i ought to
now i always want to be there
when you come out the other side

everything i thought we knew
someone's old is our new
hits me like a hurricane

blue eyed mornings don't come cheap
talk too much, too easily
but there's always more to say

I came to see you in the morning sunshine
Salt water dripping from your hair
Ten-thousand leagues of love and sheer devotion
That bubbled under breathes for air

I’d like to see you crawling from the shadows
I’d like to see you colouring the air
The darkest hour comes before the sunrise
The darkest hour comes before the sun

Command a son and thou shalt have refusal
You sold the honey to buy coal
And ever squirrel shares a pearl of wisdom
Higher the tree the greater the fall

I’d like to see you crawling from the shadows
I’d like to see you colouring the air
The darkest hour comes before the sunrise
The darkest hour comes before the sun

Babababababa

I’d like to see you crawling from the shadows
I’d like to see you colouring the air
The darkest hour comes before the sunrise
The darkest hour comes before the sun

lost and troubled minds
they can never bring sunshine
they only bring daylight
a romance out of time
if i try to save your life
could you please try and save mine

put your hand in mine
i believe in you
your body and your mind
don't apologise
don't let it end too soon
no honeymoon, more lies

the sense in everything has gone away
i miss you every second of the day
and for a while i thought i heard you sing
and took the blame for everything we did

don't you remember what i told you?
you take a tiny little seed
you plant it in the garden and it's so fragile
but if you get a ray of sunshine
and a tiny bit of rain comes
a lot of tender loving care
it grows stronge like our love

What kind of man
Is this kind who can
Make me love him still
If you take my heart
Don't break it
It's been broken once before
If you hop on my road
Don't ask where it goes
I've not known
Since the day that we parted
Since the earth stopped moving
The river lost it's flow
The willow below won't agree with me
The fella all grown
More and more i love him still
What kind of man
Is this kind who can
Make m love him still

Ruby it fills the skies
Your sudden lip on mine
I give in easily and don't ask why
I couldn't sleep that night
I wandered down by the railway track
I 'aint never coming back
Put your arms around my neck
You're a dirty little insect
Make a bed upon the shore
You're too bad to ignore
And whatever you're here for
Im not leaving
I've got no place to
I said i'm not from here
You said that much is clear
You left the door wide open for me
From all your taking over
I couldn't help but follow you down
You led me down by the water
Put your arms around my neck
You're a dirty little insect
Make a bed upon the shore
I've seen your type before
Bad to the bone
And we don't know which way
The boat will turn
There can be no stumble
If you've got no place to fall
I had a dream
Put your arms around my neck
You're a dirty little inesct
Make a bed upon the shore
You're too bad to ignore
Put your arms around my neck
You're a dirty little inesct
Make a bed upon the shore
You're too bad to ignore
And whatever you're here for
I'm not leaving
I've got no place to go

dyro gan i ni elen
oriau maith y bum yn gweithio
llefydd pell y bum yn crwydro
dros fynydd a dol

cana fan o fawl i ni
tan ddaw'r wawr i'n tynnu yn ol at y tir
cana gan o fawl i ni
tan ddaw'r nos i derfyn a'r heulwen fry

ag wrth blygiad y bedol
ceir cyfeiriad i'r carlamu
trown ein ceffylau tuag adref
cawn gysgod a than