Julia Fordham Album

(Julia Fordham)

It is what it is what it is what it is what it is
And that would be that
And I give and I give and I give and I give and I give
And I want some back

Where do I sign?
Where do I go?
Did I miss a page?
I don't know

Sifting through the sand for sugar
Digging deep like a wise old Buddha
No more I really wish I shoulda
Sifting through the sand for sugar

It's the same old the same old the same old the same old the same old
The same old story
And I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know
I don't know what's come over me

Holding my breath
Staying afloat
Thought I had it made
But I don't

Sifting through the sand for sugar
Digging deep like a wise old Buddha
No more I really wish I woulda
Sifting through the sand for sugar

Slipping through my fingers
So sweet to hold
Sifting sifting sifting sifting
For grains of gold

Sugar
Gotta find me some gold

(Julia Fordham/Sebastian Haimer/Jeff Young)

Seems no matter how I try
My Jacob's ladder in the sky
Has all the fallen angels climbing down

Cross my heart and hope to live
Number one on my wish list
If the angels get here they'll come round

To stop me pushing this ice block up hill
From running flat out to stand still
I would give the shirt off my back
I'd gladly make a deal
With any of the angels to change how I feel

I would hand over my soul
I'd relinquish all control
To any of the angels climbing down

Not fourteen more years of this
Stranded in the wilderness
If the angels get here send them round

To stop me from pushing this ice block up hill
From running flat out to stand still
I would give the shirt off my back
I'd gladly make a deal
With any of the angels to change how I feel

It's not like I've stolen someone else's blessing
Love's still blind and maybe that's the lesson

Stop me from pushing this ice block up hill
From running flat out to stand still
Stop me from pushing this ice block up hill
From running flat out to stand still
I would give the shirt off my back
I'd gladly make a deal
With any of the angels to change how I feel

(Julia Fordham/David Ricketts)

Thanks for being soft and kind
For making me change my mind
About everyone and everything
Boxed in this corner of mine
You walked across my borderline
And reached the girl that used to be me

When I was brave
Fearless, alive and unsaved
When I was free
Of all these black lined boundaries

Avoiding any fire and smoke
Safety first is all she wrote
Barricading up the open doors
Headed for the comfort zone
And settled for a life alone
Looking back locked in the ivory tower

To when I'd jump in
Not wondering if I would sink or swim
When I would dare
To move an inch without a single care

Before I invented
Perfect me
Perfect me
Perfect me

Thanks for being sweet and strong
For making me feel I belong
To the land of the living

Like when I was brave
Fearless, alive and unsaved
When I was free
Of all these black lined boundaries

Before I invented
Perfect me
Perfect me

(Julia Fordham)

Let's do it let's do it let's jump
I've got a road map and a compass in the trunk
Let's do it let's do it let's drive
Leave it all behind

Let's do it let's do it let's fly
I've got two one way tickets to the cloudless sky
Let's do it let's do it let's glide
Wave it all goodbye

Let's do it let's do it let's jump in with both feet
Full throttle maximum heat
Let's jump jump jump

Let's do it let's do it let's run
I'll remember to forget my smoking gun
Let's do it let's do it let's ride
This big wave with the tide

Let's do it let's do it let's jump in with both feet
Full throttle maximum heat
Let's jump jump jump

I've got my parachute
I've got my combat boots
For when we hit the ground running
I've got my green grenade
To blow the blues away
'Cos you know they're going to be coming

Let's do it let's do it let's jump in with both feet
Full throttle maximum heat
Let's jump jump jump

(Julia Fordham)

Why can't I get it right?
Why can't I hold it together?
Why have I been up all night?
Why can't I settle down forever?

24/7 round and round I go
Sliding from heaven
To the flames below

Monday I'm at square one
Tuesday what have I done
Wednesday I'm alright Jack
Thursday I want you back
Friday I'm out with my friends
Saturday I'm on the up again

Then it's downhill Sunday
Downhill Sunday

Flap flip flopping about
In the luke warm murky water
Sulky fat fish pouty pout
Out of synch and out of order

52 weekends 52 to go
Sliding from heaven
To the flames below

Monday I'm at square one
Tuesday what have I done
Wednesday I'm alright Jack
Thursday I want you back
Friday I'm out with my friends
Saturday I'm on the up again

Then it's downhill Sunday
Downhill Sunday

Buckle up here comes another big 180
Racing through every degree

(Julia Fordham)

I want to stroke your lovely fingers
I want to kiss your golden skin
I'd like to get to know you
I'd love you to let me in

Catch the Northern lights in Winter
See the Spanish steps in May
Walking on the water
Making my making my day

No I won't let the baddies get you
I will make it all better
Lover of mine
So divine

Never doubt and never falter
Never waver never stray
Walking on the water
Making my making my day

No I won't let the baddies get you
I will make it all better
Lover of mine
So divine

Interlocked intertwined
Lover of mine so divine
Ticker tape parade
Making day

No I won't let the baddies get you
I will make it all better
Lover of mine
So divine
Lover of mine
So divine
Walking on the water

(Julia Fordham)

An invisible umbilical cord
Ties me to you
Like a magical infallible cable

Stretching over mountains
Across the sea
Every star lights the path to you from me
Under deserts
Through the barren plains
Connecting you to me again

An emotional devotional bond
Binds me to you
An electrical undetectable current

Charging over mountains
Across the sea
Every star lights the path to you from me
Under deserts
Through the barren planes
Connecting you to me again

No matter where you are
No matter no matter how far

Over mountains
Across the sea
Every star lights the path to you from me
Under deserts
Through the barren planes
Connecting you to me again
Connecting
Connecting
You to me again

(Julia Fordham/Gary Clark)

Welcome to my movie
I have cast myself as fabulous and lonely
Roll the reel to the end
Will the good guy come back for the girl again?

And I get no points for being right
And you lose ten
For giving up the flight

But that's life
That's life that's life
My script says we belong together
Forever

I demand a re-write
Cut the scene out
Where I'm crying in the half light
And you shoot bullets through me
Make it more like pretty woman meets misery

But that's life
That's life that's life
My script says we belong together
Forever

Up close in slow motion
He steals his devotion
Away from her
She falls from frame to frame
Calling out his name
The picture blurs

I get no points for being right
And you lose ten
For giving up the fight

But that's life
That's life that's life
My script says we belong together

(Julia Fordham/Kipper)

Thanks for loving me
For coming on like family
For showing up when I was down
When all the walls came crashing down

Thanks for saying I'd
Be safe here til I die
For showing up with open arms
An open mind so open

I tell my heart to see reason but it won't
My mouth still says I love you
But I don't

I'm sorry but ......
I'm sorry
I'm sorry but ......
I'm sorry

How the years fly by
It's Christmas then fourth of July
It all becomes a travelogue a jumble of occasions

I tell my heart to see reason but it won't
My mouth still says I love you
But I don't

I'm sorry but ......
I'm sorry
I'm sorry but ......
I'm sorry

I had been clinging to that which changes
Caught in a never ending long long chain of delusion

I'm sorry but ......
I'm sorry
I'm sorry but ......

(Julia Fordham)

My rose tinted glasses are incredible
Blinding me to the inevitable
Coloring my judgment like a jumbo pack of pens
Like the ones you buy for birthday's
For children of your friends

My inner guide was screaming look out beware
I silenced Miss Righteous with one stony glare
Figuring what would she know anyway
Yet thanks to her I'm standing her
Defiantly today

I was clearly guilty
Of only being able to see
The good you did for me

My white flag was flying in the wind
Though you had no heard for surrendering
On we marched regardless for reason's still unknown
Sometimes the wrong thing
Seems so much better than being alone

I was clearly guilty
Of only being able to see
The good you did for me

Is this a good time to mention
Some where contemplating
An earthly intervention
We're all blessed with 20/20 hindsight
You're just another thing
I didn't quite get it right

I was clearly guilty
Of only being able to see