Squeeze Album

The liberator of sin
The giver of delight
I took the drug
And went out like a light
I giggled on the bed
As I stared at the wall
I was the one who felt ever so small
I couldn't take it
I couldn't win with my thoughts
Forever playing chess
And keeping reports
On whatever I saw
And whatever moved
I was emperor for an hour
I had nothing else to do

The universe caved in
My legs fell away
I took the drug but you didn't say
That I would be you and you would be me
When I took the pill
That put me to sleep
I couldn't take it
I couldn't spin all the plates
Forever in a mind field of personal games
What could I do
I was Caesar of Rome
Thank God I woke up
To find you had come home

When you're down and you're lonely
Come to me I'll be your only
Always remember
I'll be by your side
Call me up daytime or night
I'll always listen every time
If you need me
Then please believe me, don't you cry

I'll show concern
And I'll keep my word
I won't stay away
Now and then when your heart's in pain
I'd like to say
Always remember
I'll be forever
By your side

Friends like this
Are hard to find
With time to talk
And to confide
If you need me
Please believe me
I'm by your side

The secrets kept as we lie in bed
I can't keep away
Now and then when your heart's in pain
I'd like to say
Always remember
I'll be forever
By your side

She left in the middle of the night with the kids
Wrapped in a blanket with a packet of crisps
Heading for her mother's on another estate
The kids looked up at the light and the rain
In the middle of the night
Such adventures made
For two little kids
Staying up late
It was rainy and windy
As winter was bleak
At four in the morning on King George Street

She couldn't get to sleep, where on earth had he gone?
The door opened wide and the light went on
He was drunk as a lord with a tyre marked hat
Falling in the hall on top of the cat
Singing viva espana
To a crying wife
He took a swing at the shade
On the light
They were knocking on the door
Dressed like refugees
In the pouring rain on King George Street

She won't have that behavior
In her house anymore
He's got to sober up or get kicked out of the door
Down on the corner, the kids at his feet
As Daddy comes home on King George Street
As Daddy comes home

They stood around the kettle and watched as it brewed
Sneezing into hankies hands all blue
The next evening he came around to the house
With a bunch of flowers; they locked him out
He peered through the window
Mouthed words in the air
Her lips to a cup
She saw him out there
The kids came running
But were they happy to see
Their Daddy back home on King George Street?
Their Daddy back home on King George Street.

She's been good to me
And her aim is plain,
With an open mind
And a tender way.
As she looks through boxes of secondhand clothes
She's a first class person as her best friend knows.
She's been good to me
Helped me not to lie,
Listens to my words
And the truth she finds.
As I fell in love with my very best freind
I didn't realise that our friendship would end.
I learnt how to pray
Every night,
To relieve the pain
Deep inside.

I was serious with a furrowed brow
I just fell in love what do I do now?
As I fell in love with my very best friend
I didn't realise that our friendship would end.

It didn't work for us the lesson I learnt
The fire was lit and I got burnt.
And I fell in love with my very best friend
I didn't realise that our friendship would end.

Did you ever read the words
That said love would end
I read them tonight
Mistakes I can't defend
I didn't stop to think
And I upset her
I've said goodnight tonight
The last time forever

I think of her tonight
She keeps me from my sleep
But what can I do
With all of these memories
I used to be so shy
And hide my temper
I've said goodnight tonight
The last time forever
It all went wrong when I grew jealous
I didn't realize my strength
Could take the life of one so precious
Together we were known as good friends

Did you ever read the words
That say I love you
I read them tonight
But what good can they do
I regret what I have done
It wasn't clever
I've said goodnight tonight
The last time forever

I'm faced with the facts
And a fist full of threats
I stand quite amused
At the end of my bed
I have no defense
For what I have said
As a handful of love
Whacks me right round the head
She's growling and stalking
And grabs from a pile
A book that she throws
And it's missed by a mile
I'm holding a pillow
And as naked as sin
I'm backed to a corner
With a wastepaper bin
Then up on a mattress
There's no place to go
I'm guilty, yes guilty
But there's no place like home

I rewind the hours
To see what went wrong
I plead for forgiveness
And I'm hit like a gong
It seems that I'm guilty
Of smiling too long
When recalling lovers
That now have long gone
I'm guilty, you're guilty
So let me be stoned
The past is not present
When there's no place like home

Off with the shoe
And whack round the head
Your ear rings like a phone
Some explanation might we patch and mend
A love that's lost control
Now there's no place like home

The saddest thing I've ever seen
Was a starving face on my TV screen
The desperate face that I saw
Had my disbelief hanging from my jaw
Our harvest could be shared around
Instead it's buried in the ground
The saddest thing I've ever seen
Was a football fan dying for his team
The toughest thing I have ever known
Was a soldier boy who never made it home
It's fiction live before our eyes
It leaves me cold and my heart cries

The greatest thing I've ever seen
Was a newborn child looking up at me
The greatest sound I've ever heard
Was a baby's cry in this wicked world
The innocence of that cry
Leaves me cold and my heart cries

It's a heartbreaking world if you want it to be
It's a heartbreaking world if you want it to be
It's a heartbreaking world if you want it to be
And you're the one that breaks it for me

Off to the airport to check in the bags
Proud of my suntan and good times I've had
Laying on beaches and writing out cards
Back to the humdrum and bashing out cars
Into the aircraft I look for my seat
A nervous tension builds inside me
Onto the runway I pretend I'm elsewhere
In minutes we're flying through the hot evening air
Down there toy town the twinkle of lights
The long white beaches of holiday time
Suddenly someone has pulled out a gun
His shout for attention has everyone stunned
Hands on our heads there's a new kind of fear
We're over the barrel with the hits of the year

Held up to ransom assured we'll be safe
The yellow ribbon comes out again
How many gods can there be in one sky
All so important and all so involved
Here on a trigger a disciple of fear
As we wait without knowing if we're hits of the year

I hit the bottle
I hit the high
Blue is my colour
Dark is my night
Now she has left me
I'm doing time
In this prison of a heart
Where I've fallen apart and cried
On to the table
Where she threw her ring
Slamming her goodbyes
She took everything
Now that the jack has
Beaten the king
In this opera of old soap
There has got to be some new hope
That I'll win

Break my heart
Snap my feelings
Break my heart
Walk out and see
There are more fish in the ocean
But somehow they're not for me

Caught with another
And reasons there are
She needs attention
When I'm at the bar
Now there's another
That's safe in her arms
And if that's not understood
Then I guess that you should
Break my heart

When daylight appears
Through a crack in the curtain
I'm laying in bed
Staring up at the skirting
I'm alone in my room
But someone is turning the key in the door
And I wake up to find
It's still daylight outside
There's a taste in my mouth
Like the thoughts in my mind
And I wake up to find
That I left on the light the world can take a jump
I'm feeling like a lump when daylight appears
Through a crack in my mind
I won't ever go drinking again
When daylight appears
It's the third time around
And I swear I won't drink
Ever again with that crowd
What on earth did I say
Did I let the side down I've been guilty before
And I wake up to see
The old wonderful me
All naked and wrinkled
From knots in the sheets
And I get up to see
My hair like a tree
The world can shut the door
Because I'm feeling so sore when daylight appears with my eyes full of sleep
I won't ever go drinking again

Aaaaah how my head's like an anvil
Aaaaah go the sparks as I angle
Aaaaah goes the spray from the shower
How could I smell like a flower
When I feel like weed in the rain
I won't ever go drinking again