Nerina Pallot Album

Well it could have been a Sunday
Or it could have been the next day
Or it could have been any day at all
And it could have been a good day
Or a very very bad day
When you made your grand arrival, I can recall

But if I know you
You'll come sailing through the starlight in the blue
And if I know you
There'll be something that you do
Nobody else could contemplate, it's true
If I know you

Madonna's in the bathroom
Madonna's in the redroom
Holy Virgin Mary, come to my aid
I'm sinking while you're swimming
Losing while you're winning
Everything i've given, you give away

And if I know you
You'll come sailing through the starlight in the blue
And if I know you, you'll swim
You could never drown if someone pushed you in
And if I know you
There'll be something that you do
Nobody else could even contemplate, it's true
If I know you

Patience…

Been good, been bad, got worse, got better
I feel I know myself when I’m looking in the mirror
Been hurt, been loved – I’m scarred, I’m not bitter
I’m an angel with knowledge of a sinner
But what do I do and how should I be?
When I look at myself I can only be me

I need a little patience…

Been hard, been soft, been both, been neither
Above it all I am only a survivor
Been down, been low, got up, got higher
We are only human, all just liars
So I wait for the day when I open my eyes
And I look to myself but it’s no big surprise

I need a little patience…

Well I’m sitting here and sinking
And I’m on the 18th floor
And I’m thinking do I jump?
Or should I stay around for more?
I watch my friends get bigger and get better and get richer
But I’m not bitter
Time I ticking ticking ticking ticking ticking on
With a vengeance
I want it all
I want it all

I need a little patience

Guess it's true -
I only ever wanted to be with you.
And now I find I've lost my way to go...
I always mess it up
You should have known I'm not reliable.
And now, when I'm tired,
I can't get to sleep.
My thoughts won't desert me
And I cannot dream.
The colors have changed, only grey in my life
Now my sense of belonging has gone with my smile...

But I know someday soon
I will get home
And I know someday soon
I won't be alone
Yes I know someday soon
I will get home

Is this my life?
Is this the product of the years I've tried
So very hard yet I can't make a choice
And when I find the words,
I've lost my voice - I'm still a quiet one...
But you know my river
And it still runs deep
A hundred and thousand more secrets to keep...
I'm waiting for answers I know are inside
Now my teacher is here I can open my eyes...

But I know someday soon
I will get home
And I know someday soon
I won't be alone
Yes I know someday soon
I will get home

But you know my river
And it still runs deep
A hundred and thousand more secrets to keep...
I'm waiting for answers I know are inside
Now my teacher is here I can open my eyes...

and my confession would have you on the floor
if you new the truth
but thats the way they want you
everyone's a sucker for the haze of youth
we're all prairie children brought up on the lies of the past
so its no surprise then you will have to ask

(chorous)
watch out billie 'fore you go too fats
you say it couldn't hurt but then it couldn't last
you get fifteen minutes while they're watching you
you better hold your breath and hope your dreams come true
watch out girl you'll never be the same
if it's a cruel world you gotta play the game
you get fifteen minutes while they know your face
you'd better pray to god u win the human race

i'm like the weather, burning up to fire, burning up to ice
but i'm deathly certain the little
things we love shouldn't be denied
we get fed something, but we don't want it
we won't live our life with lies
you want your own heaven that you'll make better
you just want your own life -your own life

(chorous)

Love is the one thing to rely on
And as long as we all have today, we'll be okay.

Six o'clock, so you feed the kids
And you pack them off to school
Take a drive through your secret life
It's a mystery to you.
It's not the way you thought that it would be....

But love is the stuff that we depend on
As we make our daily bread
Love is the one thing to rely on
And as long as we all have today, we'll be okay.

I got my yearbook and I found my picture -
For a moment I pretend
I'm starting over and the road is open
Optimistic to the end.
But I do not want what I do not have
We all get what we need.
It's just a sadness and I can't explain it -
Oh the world just gets to me.
But every star above will show the way....

And love is the stuff that we depend on
As we make our daily bread
Love is the one thing to rely on
And as long as we all have today
We'll be okay
We'll be okay

I don't know where I go wrong -
Everything I do just takes so long.
I don't know what's up with me
I'm swinging from a branch of my family tree...
So give me some of yours then, if you think it might get better
If you're sure you've got the answer, you know I'm going to let you...

Oh, you know it, you're shining like the rainbow
And the birds and bees all know your name
I could be black, I could be blue, I could be anything for you
If you'd just shine your color like the rainbow.

I don't want your sympathy -
Just for you to worship me.
I just want to be adored, every day of every year.
So this is good, and this is bad, and I'm the only God you'll have...
Oh, do you dare to disagree?
So give me some of yours then, if you don't I'm gonna thieve it.
If you thought I was a good girl, you'd better not believe it.

Oh, you know it, you're shining like the rainbow
And the birds and bees all know your name
I could be black, I could be blue, I could be anything for you
If you'd just shine your color like the rainbow.
I will be pink, I will be blue, I will be everything for you
If you'd just shine your color like the rainbow...

Oh..you'd make me burn for you boy, why should I burn?
Why should I burn for you boy, why should I burn?
I'm just a girl, I'm just a girl...
I'm just a girl, I'm just a girl!

Oh, you know it, you're shining like the rainbow
And the birds and bees all know your name
I could be black, I could be blue, I could be anything for you
If you'd just shine your color like the rainbow.
I will be pink, I will be blue, I will be everything for you
If you'd just shine your color like the rainbow...
If you'd just shine your color like the rainbow...
If you'd just shine your color like the rainbow...

Brother won’t you look at the sky
There’s something burning so bright
And what it is I can’t see
But I think it’s coming at me

Did you get here in a rocket
And journey through space
Did your mother never scold you
Oh when she looked at your face
Do you know where you came from
Because you look out of place
In a town where only the rain comes down
You fell down to earth

Like an alien, like an alien, like an alien

Funny because I feel quite at ease
I think you come here in peace
We’re universal in smiles
You know they see it for miles

Did you get here in a rocket
And journey through space
Did your mother never scold you
Oh when she looked at your face
Do you know where you came from
Because you look out of place
In a town where only the rain comes down
You fell down to earth

Like an alien, like an alien, like an alien

Oh good Lord above, I'm immune to the love of a good man
I go for the suckers, the mean motherf***ers I can't resist.
If I should get bitten. As long as he's smitten I understand
That pain comes with pleasure, such bittersweet treasure cannot be missed.

So how can you help me now?
I can't help myself....

I go on and jump, give it a try
Checking the parachute, see if it flies.
Oh if I should break my neck I never bruise....
I go on and just, give it a try
Don't call the ambulance, I'm still alive
And if I should break my neck I'll make the news.

The Friday night ritual of pulling habitual non-entities.
The lawyers, the bankers, the next morning thank you's and "call you soon..."
These public school faces, I thought time erases one's misery
Oh no, it comes back to haunt you, old photos will taunt of your big mistake

So how can you save me now?
I can't save myself....

I go on and jump, give it a try
Checking the parachute, see if it flies.
Oh if I should break my neck I never bruise....
I go on and jump, give it a try
Don't call the ambulance, I'm still alive
And if I should break my neck I'll make the news.

I go on and jump, give it a try
Checking the parachute, see if it flies.
Oh if I should break my neck I never bruise....
I go on and jump, give it a try
Don't call the ambulance, I'm still alive
And if I should break my neck I'll make the news.
I go on and jump, give it a try
Don't call the ambulance, I'm still alive
And if I should break my neck I'll make the news.

Very good sir, getting better
Could be amazing if you’d try
Such a sweet boy, very Catholic
Eyes so beautifully wide

But I’m just a bloodhound really
Hunting with the pack – I do it well
I only chase to pass the time
I have been desperately wondering
If you want me lately
I only need to see a sign
C’mon and show me now…

Very good sir, getting better
But you won’t look me in the eye
Do I scare you? If I dared you
Would you like to come inside?

Here on the one hand
The gentle way of happiness
You only want to drag it down
Coke in your bathroom cabinet
Scary is you night time habit
I want to wipe away your frown

Oh yeah, I do…

Very good sir, yes it’s better
Since you looked me in the eye
Such a sweet boy, very Catholic
Eyes so beautifully wide

So why must you fight?
Why not just live and let the world go by everyday…
And what makes you right? How much you earn?
Don’t you know your cash won’t buy what love will buy

Very good sir, yes it’s better
Since you looked me in the eye
Such a sweet boy, very Catholic
Eyes so beautifully wide

Dear Frustrated Superstar, your mother's waiting in the car
To whisk you off to your new premiere
And all the friends who knew your name
Are waiting, wondering what became
Of the girl that they once knew but never loved
They never loved.

So every city tells the lie
Of beggars, tramps and butterflies
Of all these things, then what am I?
A princess in a threadbare gown,
A gaudy, painted circus clown?
A child who lost her key and can't get home?

All the things I never was -
A traitor in the Western Wars
A girl who did it just because.
Do or die, or don't at all

Prepare to suffer for your call
Some things have to hurt or they're not true.

They can't be true
When you die, you'll wonder, "was that it?"
Will you think of how you'd wished you lived?
Well, you're here now
Yes you're here now.
So I only want to be up there
With a hundred others, I don't care
'Cause I'm here now
Yes I'm here now.

Papers, books, philosophy
An envelopes eternity
I count each passing minute, hour, day.....
Wonder how I smile so well,
Wonder how they never tell
There's really no one living here at all.

So here a line from God's own song
To comfort you when things go wrong
My children never visit anymore.
Go searching in my sky at night
They must be there to set alight
Their mothers aching heart is so unsure
I'm so unsure....

When you die, you'll wonder, "was that it?"
Will you think of how you'd wished you lived?
Well, you're here now
Yes you're here now.
So I only want to be up there
With a hundred others, I don't care
'Cause I'm here now
Yes I'm here now.

Dear Frustrated Superstar, I really hope you get that far
If not, I hope you live
I hope you live.

Tinkerbelle, my winged friend, I think we got it wrong.
No fairy tale or happy ending, just prehistoric songs.
A crystal in my baby's eyes, I want what I can't love
So now I've learnt how to despise, I think I've learnt enough.....

If blood is blood, then blood will flow -
That's all it does, that's all it knows
But I've one question, I want something,
I want more.
So flesh is flesh, an urgent fire
It drags you down, this cheap desire.

We all want something, maybe beauty,

Maybe more......

Absolution, constitution, leave it all behind
Take off your shirt, your worried face, and let me lose your mind.
I thought that I might change the world, but all I changed was me..
So now I sleep most days and think of where this all might lead.

Oh blood is blood, and blood will flow -
That's all it does, that's all it knows
But I've one question, I want something,
I want more.
So flesh is flesh, an urgent fire
It drags you down, this cheap desire
We all want something, maybe beauty,
Maybe more......

Blood will rain a little,
Down each mountainside -
Every cloud will bring you......
Here.

Oh blood is blood, and blood will flow -
That's all it does, that's all it knows
But I've one question, I want something,
I want more.
So flesh is flesh, an urgent fire
(So flesh is flesh, and it twists the soul)
It drags you down, this cheap desire
(Like a tourniquet, like a begging bowl)
We all want something, maybe beauty,
(Like some long forbidden treasure in the dirt....)
Maybe more......
Oh blood is blood, and blood will flow -

(Blood is Blood, and it's on our hands)
That's all it does, that's all it knows
(That's the price of grace for the common man)
But I've one question, I want something,
(For that one good hour you pay with all your life)
I want more.
I want more

God is good, I never understood
All the darkness in his soul.
And God made man, the only way he can,
But for a heart he left a hole..

And it's killing you
And it's killing me too
Are we failing the truth?

I'm betting on desire, I'm betting on deceit
I'm betting on a moment when everything is sweet
I'm betting on disaster in every living hour.
Would you burn your fingers if you touched God?
Will he let you in if you have or not?

Once my friend, I loved you as a child
Kissed your face before I slept.
Be in my head, and with me when I sleep
In the bloodied tears he wept.

And it's killing you
And it's killing me too
Are we failing the truth?

I'm betting on indifference, I'm betting on belief
I'm thinking of a beauty where everything's complete
I'm betting on a laughter, a very distant star....
Would you burn your fingers if you touched God?
Will he let you in if you have or not?

And it's killing you
And it's killing me too
Are we failing the truth in everything we do?
Are we failing the truth?

I'm betting on desire, I'm betting on deceit
I'm betting on a moment where everything is sweet
I'm thinking of the beauty I love with all my heart.....
Would you burn your fingers if you touched God?
Will he let you in if you have or not?
Will he let you in?

Thousands, no millions of hours
We've been skirting around this whole subject
Like children stuck in a museum.
And I'm dry now.
My mouth will not speak, I'm weary and weak
And I only wanted to see you again.

If that's unfair, just let me know,
Just write it down, and then I'll go.

But you skate around my human skin
An apple where your throat begins
Just say....
Just tell the stars to give a sign,
Put it in a bottle.....
Say you're mine.

And it's better, better than music,
Better than words to be with you
But better that we're apart.
Can't you feel it?
It's taken me over, left me for dead like Ophelia.
Who knew a prince and survived?

And so I ask in every line
That I might learn of your design

Because you skate around my human skin
Your name is where my heart begins
Just say....
Just tell the stars to give a sign,
Put it in a bottle...
Say you're mine.

Because you skate around my human skin
Your name is where my heart begins
Just say....
Just tell the stars to give a sign,
Put it in a bottle...
Say you're mine.

Venus loved Daphne and so did Apollo
So why can't I make myself like a tree?
Why must I burn daily and nightly
When nobody's running - well not after me.
Must I wait, must I pray.
For something good to come my way?

Oh Daphne was stupid! Oh, how could she do it?
How could she turn a prince from her door?
'Cause if you came calling, boy I'd let you in
But you don't come calling, not anymore.
So I wait, and I grow old
When I'm dead, then you'll know.
Do you know?
You know.