The Lightning Seeds Album

You can't ignore or hide away
Can't escape from the things that line our way
Take it, leave it, or break it
Anyway, you can't get back to yesterday

All I want, all I want to do
You better listen from now on
Stop what's going on, stop what's going wrong
You better listen from now on

Confidence, coincidence, call it a sin
It's just like people say
Tomorrow's here so open up you're eyes
Never hesitate

It makes me want to give you everything
Pick you up and take you home again
Hold you tight and think that now is then
All I want to do

All I want to do
Is make you listen from now on
Cardboard men are strong, but paper can be torn
Oh, you better listen from now on

Bound in a nutshell
Lost in our weary eyes
We're tumbledown people
Leading our tumbledon lives
But a breath of life
Could make our engines roar

We're far from power, north of desire
High and dry, hoping you'll send us
From your mouth instead of lies
A kiss of life, for sleeping giants

Broken, bound, and battered
Freezing on picket lines
A colder frost can shatter
And chain us for all our lives
But a breath of life
Can make our engines roar

We're far from power, north of desire
Tired and bound by all those lies
As step by step, open tired eyes
A kiss of life, for sleeping giants

They spin our world from cruel to kind
And make our futures a downward slide
The strong get strong, and still want more
But day by day giants thaw

Tomorrow must be calling with a open door
There's no-one left to start our revolution anymore
We need some flames to burn down every door

We're far from power, north of desire
High and dry, hoping you'll send us
From your mouth instead of lies
A kiss of life, for sleeping giants
We're far from power, north of desire
Tired and bound by all those lies
As step by step, open tired eyes
A kiss of life, for sleeping giants

Night time slows,
raindrops splash rainbows
perhaps someone you know,
could sparkle and shine
as daydreams slide to colour from shadow
picture the moonglow, that dazzles my eyes
and i love you...

just lying smiling in the dark,
shooting stars around my heart
dreams come bouncing in your head
pure and simple every time
now you're crying in your sleep,
i wish you'd never learnt to weep
don't sell the dreams you should be keeping
pure and simple every time

dream of sights, of sleigh rides in seasons
where feelings not reasons,
can make you decide
as leaves pur down, splash
autumn on gardens
as colder nights harden, their moonlit delights,
and i love you...

just lying smiling in the dark
shooting stars around your heart
dreams come bouncing in your head
pure and simple every time
now you're crying in your sleep,
i wish you'd never learnt to weep
don't sell the dreams you should be keeping,
pure and simple every time
look at me with starry eyes
push me up to starry skies
there's stardust in my head
pure and simple every time
frsh and deep as oceans new,
shiver at the sight of you
i'll sing a softer tune
pure and simple over you...

if lvoes the truth then look no lies
and let me swim around your eyes
i've found a place i'll never leave,
shut my mouth and just believe
love is the truth i realise
not a stream of pretty lies,
to use us up and waste our time...

He is coming down
With some kind of cold
She's running around
He's feeling old, he needs the rest
But she wants more
And then he blows like a hurricane
And tears pour out and fall like rain

But she'll keep holding on
'Cos it's all that she wants
And she's dreaming sweet dreams tonight
And with a smile that says
For him she's heaven sent
She's dreaming sweet dreams tonight

Like a wagonwheel, that's how you make me feel
You spin me round, you think I'm just your clown

She is going down
Down to the other side of town
With open eyes that see the truth
But can't see more
'Cos he might blow like a hurricane (like a hurricane)
Then tears pour out and fall like rain

Oh, you, you, you've got your hooks in me
But oh, I never want for you to set me free
Just keep a hold on me

Down here at the bottom
When you're staring at the top
There's a head full of ideas
But I'm only flesh and blood

On an aiderdown of glory
And a pillow of desire
I'm drifting on an ocean
As the waves wash through my mind

Something haunts us, kicks the stars from our skies
Blows the lights out with a whisper and sighs
If you're down down I'm down down

Well I was nearly me and you were nearly you
The nearly man was nothing, he was never any use
Beaten down by generations, of generations beaten down
There's nothing I can promise that my conscience will allow

I never meant to make you cry
A fool I was, I never meant to say goodbye
Can't you feel the pressure drop?
Can't you feel the pressure's off?
Heaven's here in front of me
I can't breath and I can't see
Baby, I never realized.....

As the days and the nights roll on
I've prayed for this moment since the day I was born
Nut, oh god, baby I never realized
the joy 'till the joy was gone

I know I'm wrong, I know I was so blind
But worst of all, I saw the tears, I saw you cry
Can't you feel the pressure drop?
Can't you see the pressure's off?
Heaven's here in front of me
I can't breath and I can't speak
Baby I never realized.....

And you can build walls to surround you
But I'll tear down this world 'till I've found you
You're the treasure, believe me, I need you
Come home.....

As the days and the nights roll on
I've prayed for this moment since the day I was born
Nut, oh god, baby I never realized
the joy 'till the joy was gone
And as time rolls on
I've been fighting since the day I was born
But, oh god, baby I never realized
The joy 'til the joy was gone
Hold on, hold on, hold on

Gone but not forgotten
Never mind how we spent our time
The hours were never lost on you
A mystery is what you are to me
Hold me tight for a million years
Your blood's in mine, it's like holy wine
Lost inside those big brown eyes
Your lips touch mine and my eyes go blind

Reaching out
Skin touch skin
Reaching out
My ups came down to the love explosion
A mission of sin
Reaching out
My ups came down to the love explosion

A smile for the moments
That made me hold my breath, made me tell myself
The hours were never lost on you
A mystery is what you are to me

Hold tight, all night
And don't let go
My head's light, my hands are tied
I won't let go
Tonight, crystal lights surround me
Like stars that pour in a waterfall
As love comes down

I found rainbows, where you go I go
I'm stuck on you, I'm stuck like glue
From kisses to blows, in our eyes it shows

Pleasure meets paradise
And it won't let go
So nice, butterflies
Don't let go
Tonight, no thunder clouds in my skies
In silver chains, the summer rain comes pouring down

Here it comes, here it comes again (here it comes)
I remember now, and then
It's like a long-lost friend, here it comes again

It's alright, I know I'm right
Don't let go
Hold your breath, and don't forget
Don't let go

Just give me more than I could ever wish for
Give me more than I could ever hope to take
in one day, OK
There's always someone who can make me shiver
There's always someone who can melt the feel of ice
On my spine, in the night

Can't control
Control the flame
But who the hell'd want to calm this fever
Can't control
Control desire
But who the hell'd want to stop it now

I hear the thunder and my mind can't reason
Going under as it dances on my spine
Hold me tight, hold me tight
There must be someone who could kill this fever
But now and then I feel this fever rise and rise
Burning bright in the night

Night and day the heat is on
Fever burns
Something strange is going on
And it makes me burn and burn

The honey taste still hangs on my tongue
There's so many things to tell you
But now you're gone, now you're gone

The price of the words I could never say
Was the tears washed the loved away
Please, please, come back to me
The price as the smiles and the kisses fade
Was the hopes and the memories stayed
Please, please come back to me

As I search to find the reasons to bring you home
The only words I can find to tell you are 'I was wrong'

The price of the words I could never say
Was the tears washed the loved away
Please, please, come back to me
The price as the smiles and the kisses fade
Was the hopes and the memories stayed
Please, please come back to me

Maybe today, or maybe tomorrow
I'll have to beg you to stay
I'll be your candle
I'll show you the way
If I could find the words to bring you back to me

The storms of life will pass away
As I walk beside my holy-of-holies
The northern lights that held my gaze
Were heaven in those helish days
And once, I longed to taste them all

God help them
When they find out
That's what life is all about

The words have died upon our lips
The winds have blown disaster upon us
All my life I've braved these thorns
And weathered out the blackest storms
But once, I long to taste them all

God help them
When they find out
That's what life is all about
And god help us
When we find out
That's what love is all about

Since that day, you're all I've prayed for
We're bought and paid for
But it's cost us both more.....