Joan Armatrading Album

When the morning comes
Like shifting sands
In a desert storm
Like a raging fire
Heats up the big sky baby
Your love is pure and strong
Chained to your heart I surrender
Here's where I belong

And If I get emotional and I'm restless
You're like a soothing ray of light
Bring to me to my senses in a heart beat darling
Hold me tender in the night

Tell me what miracles are made of
Like the sweet soft morning dew
How can I ever show you baby
How can I prove it all to you

That I'm a woman in love
I'm a woman in love
I'm a woman in love
I'm a woman in love

I get so mixed up and tongue tied
I can hardly say my name
Bring to me to my senses in a heart beat darling
Hold me tender in the night

Cos I'm a woman in love
I'm a woman in love
I'm a woman in love
I'm a woman in love

Never thought this would
Never thought this would
Never thought this would happen to me

Never thought this would
Never thought this would
Never thought this would happen to me

I'm a woman in love
I'm a woman in love
I'm a woman in love
I'm a woman in love

Blue hat
Checked shirt
Pimple on your cheek
Ears like handle bars
Teeth yellow
Like the sun
Gravelled voice like a beaten path
But baby when you sing the blues
I'd take off all my clothes for you
Baby when you sing the blues
I'd take off all my clothes for you

Wake up
Every day
Turn my face
To feel the morning breeze
At night
When we meet
You're brighter than a constellation of stars
Baby when you sing the blues
I'd take all my clothes off for you
Baby when you sing the blues
I'd take all my clothes off for you

Got a feeling that my cares gonna walk away
Got a feeling that my cares gonna walk away
Got a feeling that my cares gonna walk away
As long as baby don't leave
I'm happy every day

Got a feeling that my cares gonna walk away
Got a feeling that my cares gonna walk away
Got a feeling that my cares gonna walk away
As long as baby don't leave
I'm happy every day

Blue hat
Checked shirt
Pimple on your cheek
Ears like handle bars
Teeth yellow
Like the sun
Gravelled voice like a beaten path
But baby when you sing the blues
I'd take off all my clothes for you
Baby when you sing the blues
I'd take off all my clothes for you

Got a feeling that my cares gonna walk away
Got a feeling that my cares gonna walk away
Got a feeling that my cares gonna walk away
As long as baby don't leave
I'm happy every day

My baby likes this music good and loud
With words coming straight from the heart
Man, woman or child can tell this story
Just as long as it's a soulful start
All the better to make you glad
That your life has taken a different path
At the same time wondering
How you can get on a train
To this town

My baby don't like rock and roll
Not hip hop or pop
My baby's just into the blues
My baby's just into the blues
My baby's just into the blues
My baby's just into the blues

God bless the blues
God bless the blues
Hey yeah
Are you are manish boy
Just like the might mud
Blues are here to make you glad
That your life has taken a different path
At the same time wondering
How you can get on a train
To this town

My baby don't like rock and roll
Not hip hop or pop
My baby's just into the blues
My baby's just into the blues
My baby's just into the blues
My baby's just into the blues

My baby don't like rock and roll
Not hip hop or pop
Dance might be real cool
And country's just for fools
Baroque is just for the old
For the tired and the restless souls
Lost in the darkness
Lost in the darkness

My baby's just into the blues
My baby's just into the blues
My baby's just into the blues
My baby's just into the blues

I see you looking at me
I know we're from different sides of town
You've never travelled
And I've been all around
Hey
Let me take your hand
Hey hey yeah
From where I stand
You're in need of a friend
So let the good times roll
Let the good times roll

I see something in you
I see it - how come they don't
You're a good person
And they'll come around
Hey let me take your hand
Hey hey yeah yeah
I can see you change
You're in need of a friend
So let the good times roll
Let the good times roll
Let the good times roll
Let the good times roll

Everybody says
Don't hang around with Liza
She's from the wrong side of town
The part where folks live on welfare
The part where you find needles on the ground
It's the side where the kids hang out in gangs
And wear the hoodies
And the masks
To hide their face
If you make friends with a girl like that
Well it's a big disgrace

Everybody say
This that
This that
This that
This that

Hey Liza
I'd like a friend like you
Hey Liza
I think you're kind of cute
Hey Liza
I'm gonna make up my own mind
I'm gonna make up my own mind

I see you looking at me
I know we're from different sides of town
You've never travelled
And I've been all around
Hey Liza
Let me take your hand
Hey hey yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
From where I stand
You're in need of a friend
So let the good times roll
Let the good times roll
Let the good times roll
Let the good times roll

They're singing secular songs in the churches
And there's not a of word of God
It's all Schubert and Beethoven
Oh and lots of French love songs
So let's go down on Sunday morning
To hear that Jacob sermon read
Everybody dressed in their finest church apparel, baby
Listening to the preacher eulogies

Then we'll pray
Pray
Pray
Yeah we'll pray
Our souls will rise upon that day
Pray
Pray
Pray
Pray
We change to better ways

They're telling stories about love's passion
All about ménage à trois
Hear those heart felt Lieder
Coming from that deep bass voice
And whilst some sleep though this music
Others weep for all the pain
As they sing secular songs in the churches, baby
It's time to kneel
Let's kneel and pray

Yeah we'll pray
Pray
Pray
Pray
Our souls will rise upon that day
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Pray
We change to better ways

Yeah we'll pray
Pray
Pray
Pray
Pray
Pray
Pray
We change to better ways

My baby's gone
My baby's gone away
My baby's gone
My baby's gone away

Come back, baby
Come back
Come back, baby
Come back

My baby's gone
My baby's gone away
My baby's gone
My baby's gone away

Come back, baby
Come back
Come back, baby
Come back

Don't you know
I can't live without you
Don't you know
I can't live without you

My baby's gone
And who is it that you know
Where did you go
And who is it that you know

Come back, baby
Come back
Come back, baby
Come back

Don't you know I love everything about you
And I forgive everything that you do
From your head down to your toes
And your little button nose
You got a way about you
I love the rhythm in your soul
And there's rhythm in blues
Hey yeah

Come back, baby
Come back
Come back, baby
Come back

Don't you know
I can't live without you
Don't you know
I can't live without you
Come back, baby
Come back

Come back, baby
Come back
Come back, baby
Come back

Please sit down
Tell me what you got to say
Now there's a difference between truth and lies
I can check
I've got your DNA
Now look me right between the eyes
Tell me when I saw you
And your new lady friend
What were you talking about
When you laughed
And your two cheeks met
What were you talking about

Let us talk
In the morning, babe
I've got your DNA and the lie detect
How I thought I could change you, babe
All those flies buzzing round your head

Look at me
There's nothing new over there
You've seen that stereo a thousand times
Lift your head
And lift my spirits up
Because you know
I'm dying deep inside
Don't you care about me
Are you looking for freedom
Is that what you're thinking about
Do you wanna hold me in your arms and kiss
Cos that's what I'm thinking about

Let us talk
In the morning, babe
I've got your DNA and the lie detect
How I thought I could change your ways
All those flies buzzing round your head

You got a brand new way of loving
Keeping the lights turned on
You keep a comb in your pocket
And your shinny shiny shoes
Yeah don't touch the ground these days
What's going on
Yeah you think I'm stupid cos I don't complain
Better sit your self down start talking fast
And if the lying don't kill you
The truth just might make you fade away
Fade away
Fade away

Those little imperfections
Are what I love about you
The scar on your arms
In the shape of a heart
Baby blue eyes
And the smile of an angel
Melt the snow from any mountain
And make a madman sane
He won't ever complain

In the everglades
In the backyard lit by fairy lights
With garlands let us walk
By the water's edge let's dance
Let's dance, let's dance, let's dance, let's dance
You lead, I'll follow
And if I stumble
Catch me
Before I fall

I know where we've come from
I know the road we've travelled to get here
We've seen some tragedies along the way
When folks want to exchange places
Just walk a few steps in these shoes
Sometimes they hurt cost they're too tight
It ain't always easy being me
It ain't always easy being me

Those little imperfections
Are what I love about you
The scar on your arms
In the shape of a heart
Baby blue eyes
And the smile of an angel
Melt the snow from any mountain
And make a madman sane
He won't ever complain

Deep down I love you, baby
Deep down, deep down, way down
Way down I love you, baby
Way down, deep down, deep deep down
Deep down, deep down
Deep down, deep deep down
Deep down I love you, baby, way down
Way down I know I love you, baby, way down
Way way way down, way down, deep down
Deep deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down, deep down I love you, baby
Way down, way down, way down, way down

Deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down I love you, baby, way down
Way down, way down
Way down
I love you, baby
Yeah I love you, baby, way down
Deep down
Deep down I know I love you, baby
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Down down down down down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep deep deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep deep down I love you, baby
Deep down
Deep down I love you, baby
Deep down
Deep down, deep deep down
Way down, way down
Way down, deep down
Deep deep deep

Deep down
Deep down I love you, baby
Deep down
Deep down I love you, baby
Deep down
Deep down deep down
Deep down deep down
Baby, deep down I love you, baby, deep down
Deep down I love you, baby
Deep down
Deep down
Yeah

Deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down I love you, baby
Deep down
Deep down I love you, baby
Deep down

Deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Down down down down down down deep
Down deep down deep
Deep deep deep deep

Down deep deep down, baby, down deep
Deep low
Low
Low
Low
Low down, low down
Low down, low down, baby, low down
Low down, baby, low down
Deep deep deep deep

Deep down I love you, baby, deep down
Deep down I love you, baby, deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep deep deep
Deep down
Deep down

Deep down
Deep deep deep deep down, deep down
I love you, baby, deep down
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah

Deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down I love you, baby, deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down, baby, I love you deep down
Deep down I know I love you, baby, deep down
Deep down, deep down

There ain't a girl alive who likes to look in the mirror like you do
There ain't a girl alive who likes to look in the mirror like you do
There ain't a girl alive who likes to look in the mirror like you do
There ain't a girl alive who likes to look in the mirror like you do

Yeah you love your reflection
Looking back at you
With your long blond hair
And your leggie legs

Yeah you like to go the shopping mall
They got mirrors wall to wall
You like to be on the centre stage
You can see adulation on a thousand faces

It gets your motor running wild
Any object that shines
It's a great opportunity
To look yourself in your big beautiful eyes

There ain't a girl alive who likes to look in the mirror like you do
There ain't a girl alive who likes to look in the mirror like you do
There ain't a girl alive who likes to look in the mirror like you do
There ain't a girl alive who likes to look in the mirror like you do

Wanna see the juices flow
Just stand you next to a mirror
Any polished metal
Can't pass up the chance
To see the image that you love the most

You like to go the shopping mall
They got mirrors wall to wall
You like to be on the centre stage
You can see adulation on a thousand faces

There ain't a girl alive who likes to look in the mirror like you do
There ain't a girl alive who likes to look in the mirror like you do
There ain't a girl alive who likes to look in the mirror like you do
There ain't a girl alive who likes to look in the mirror like you do

Watch the rain gently fall
Like the tears running down my face
Watch the rain gently fall
Like the tears running down my face

Sometimes it feel like the sky' is violence
Sometimes it feels like nobody hears
Sometimes it fells like I'm on an empty highway
And I'm on a road to nowhere
I'm on a road to nowhere

As I watch the street lights flicker
Like the dying embers of your affection
As I watch the street lights flicker
Like the dying embers of your affection

Sometimes it feels like we never kissed
I've got no interest in the push and pull of the tides
Who cares if the world stops spinning
Cos I'm a lonely number
Yeah I'm a lonely number

As I lay me down to sleep
All the little birds and the bees
That would sing to all the lovers
They just pass me by
Yeah yeah yeah

Even in my dreams
Vivid colours turn to a grey scale
Even in my dreams
Vivid colours turn to a grey scale

And I turn to you and I ask
How can I make things better
And you say
You say it's gone
It's gone, it's gone, it's over
And I stand outside in just my underwear
And I watch the gentle rain fall
Yeah watch the gentle rain fall
Yeah I watch the gentle rain fall down

I was born on an Island
St. Kitts
In a little biddy town
Had a mama and a papa
Four brothers and a sister

Mama papa told us
Play hard
Fight fair
Live life
And love the Lord
I said love the Lord
Said love the Lord

Their choice was
The United Kingdom
Living in Birmingham
When they wanted to spread their wings
And fly away

Seven people in one room
No heat
One wage
And bills to pay
I said bills to pay
Gotta pay those bills

Now when you're walking on heaven's floor
Talking in the ear of God
What you gonna say to the man
When he asks you what you've done

Can you say you did your very best
With what you had
Like my mama and my papa

I know two people who served up love
And a whole lot more
They made us hold our sides with laughter all night long
Oh they made us laugh
Until we cried
Till we begged them stop
Or we'll split our sides

Now when you're walking on heaven's floor
Talking in the ear of God
What you gonna say to the man
When he asks you what you've done

Can you say you did your very best
With what you had
Like my mama and my papa

Smell of a man
Smell of musk
The noise of the train
From morning till dusk
The up escalator broken down
The clothes on my back
Look like they were taken out of the laundry basket
To weary to wash
To weary to wash

Now there's hordes of people
Pushing and shoving
Sizzling noises coming out of their ears
Hold on to the strap
Or hold on to a stranger
Hope that stranger's day has not been too hard

Aggression builds up
When the going is slow
And you're packed like sardines
Something's gotta blow

Something's gotta blow
When you work so hard
And the sweat pours down on you
Something's gotta blow
When your pay don't match
The work you slave
And the pain you get

Something's gotta blow
Please stand on the right
So I can pass on the left
Cos Something's gotta blow
Something's gotta blow
Something's gotta blow

Dodging the fare
Ain't worth the crime
Think of your loved ones
Whilst you're doing your time
Being met at the station
No better thrill
Than that 4x4 cruiser
Coming over the hill
Bringing love and relief
From the noise and the heat
From the suicide jumpers
From that head nodding sleep

From the smell of burgers
And the rustling of sweets
Someone lend me your phone
So I can say which train to meet
Let me say which train to meet

Something's gotta blow
When you work so hard
And the sweat pours down on you
Something's gotta blow
When your pay don't match
The work you slave
And the pain you get

Something's gotta blow
Please stand on the right
So I can pass on the left
Cos something's gotta blow
Something's gotta blow