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Nicky Holland Lyrics
Nicky Holland
Tongue Tied And Twisted
Try my best to not look in your eyes
You could read me open as a blatent lie
I'm walking tall but falling off my shoes
Following the ghosts of our love
Circling the room
You're standing in the spotlight
Here I'm tap dancing in the wings
See my face blush, my heartbeat rush
Oh god this chance I've got to risk it
Tongue tied and twisted
I,I,I,I tongue tied and twisted
Everyone must see through my disguise
I hear them whisper, shooting holes through all my alibis
Its taken me so long to let you go
Heaven help me now but I'm afraid to lose control
Maybe it's more than madness
This night might be our final call
I search your face, my saving grace
This is my chance I've got to risk it
Tongue tied and twisted
I,I,I,I, tongue tied and twisted
La,la,la.....
Maybe it's more than madness
This night might be our final call
I search your face, my saving grace
There's some things time just can't erase
Oh god this chance I've got to risk it....
Colouring Blue
There's a picture in my head
I think I'll paint it blue
Put it in an envelope and send it
Send it off to you
And there's an arrow through my heart
It's making me see red
Put it on the mantlepiece my darling
So I will not forget
I will not forget
We were in the pink last summer
Everything rosy and new
But here in the heart of winter now
I'm colouring blue all over you
I'm colouring you, blue
So we chose our tree of love
But I was quite naive
Carving out our names on firm foundations
But it was not evergreen
It's gonna take a long time to forget you
Something's gotta change my mood
If only I could spell it out in black and white letters
But I can't write yesterday's news
I can't change yesterday's news
no, no, no, no, no......
We were in the pink........
(These lyrics are "in the pink" also. :-) JW)
Face Of The Moon
You never know
All the secrets that he's keeping
He never shows
Anything he's feeling
The bold, black night holds her arms
Open wide
When you're staring at the face of the moon
If you should go
To the big city street with a promise in your pocket
Guard your soul
Watch your feet, miss a beat, you're scared
And you can't stop it
The night never lasts,
Cuts your ties with the past
But the memory of the face of the moon
Above the rooftops far away, across the open sky
I'm sending out these messages to you
Satillites that work all night
Make the memory come alive
If only I knew why we do
These crazy things we do
You never know
All the secrets that he's keeping
He never shows
Anything he's feeling
The bold, black night
Holds her arms open wide
When you're staring at the face of the moon
And not a single star moves
And all I do is think of you
When I'm staring at the face of the moon....
Independance Days
Pull back the curtains from my window
Just to wake the summer day
He's still asleep, I keep these moments
To myself
As the morning's beginning to break
Like a young girl dancing
On the edge of waterIn the silence picture a woman growing closer
To living her life by the rules she makes
There's a world to awaken
Nothing stands in the way
There's a door that is open
To my independance days
In my eyes there's a reason
For the prices we've paid
Sign my own declaration
And find independance days
I take a walk down to the corner
All these thoughts still in my head
I see a lady with a suitcase in her hand
a drunk swearing blind at the dead
One day wake up, I've become a stranger
It's been a long and crazy year
Shed my skin, I've turned another chapter
I'm moving on, now the road is clear
There's a world to awaken
Nothing stands in the way
There's a door that is open
To my independance days
In my eyes there's a reason
For the prices we've paid
Sign my own declaration
And find independance days....
Running around again
Of all the things that I could do
I fall in love with you
What makes matters worse
We don't know how to make it work
Oooo, you're running around again
There you go
Oooo,you're running around again
I wonder what we do this for
I just can't take it anymore
We go up and down again
As you walk out I'm coming in babe
Ooo.....You're running around again....
But in my heart
I know it's true
The funny things I do for you
and I can't imagine
What we're trying to prove
So I put on my bravest face
But everything looks out of place
I can't reach you on the phone
There's always something going on..
Ooooo,you're running around again...
I stare at the photograph
Remember your smile and laugh
It was so good...it was so easy then
Are you happy to come and go
Are you better off on your own?
Think it over
Cause it's not over
I believe
But in my heart I know it's true
When I'm so far away from you
And I can't imagine
What we're trying to prove
If we only knew....
Meet me on the Stairs
All that goes on behind closed doors
Private lives and underworlds
Borderlines built by partition walls
Fourteen families fill each floor
You could meet me on the stairs
Hear thier splintered conversations
Shadows and remnants resounding along
The corridors
Block after block
Street after street
Building to building thier eyes never meet
Each life repeated
Layer upon layer
All comings and goings
All changes will pass by the stairs
On the stairs
Block after block
Street after street
Building to building thier eyes never meet
Each life repeated
Layer upon layer
All comings and goings
All changes the future
All good news will pass by the stairs
Meet me on the stairs....
Just don't know what to do with myself
Don't know just what to do with myself
I'm so used to doing everything with you
Planning everything for two
And now that we're through
I just don't know what to do with my time
Going to a movie only makes me sad
Parties make me feel as bad
When I'm not with you
I just don't know what else to do
Like a summer rose
It needs the sun and rain
I need your sweet love to ease all the pain
I just don't know what to do with myself
Baby if your new love ever turns you down
Come back I will be around
Just waiting for you
I don't know what else to do
I don't know just what to do with myself
Baby if your new love ever turns you down
Come on back I will be around
Just waiting for you
I'm still so crazy for you
No No No No
I'm still so crazy for you
No No No
Sense and Sensuality
Paperchase
The words upon the page
Put the sky into a rage
Till it washed them all away
a waste of paper
Now fragments of the truth
Swirl above my rainy roof
What my letterbox would call
A waste of paper
West wind, with your wide mouth
blow the pieces through the trees
North wind with your cold breath
Freeze my heart
As I gather round
A faster pace
I won't go on
Another paper chase
I'll trail behind untill you tell me face to face
As all of your excuses litter up the place
The trees that must have died
As you buried me alive
In a tomb of empty talk
A waste of paper
And all the lakes of ink
It took to tell me that you think
A marriage document is just a waste of paper
East wind, with your kind face
Stop the mail train blow it back
West wind will you whistle
Herd the scraps....
Into the bin,where they belong
I won't go on
Another paper chase
I'll trail behind untill you tell me face to face
As all of your excuses litter up the place....
Another paper, another paper, another paper chase.....
Nobody's Girl
Everybody tells me my time is coming
You know that I''ve been hearing that line for years
I'm taken for a fool couse I believe in something
It may be cold outside
but don't you know it's burning in here
I'm not about to sell my soul to the highest bid, no
But I'm not above working for the man
I'm gonna get by
I've been down around every lonely corner
So don't tell me it's a man's world
I've been lost, been found
I'm every woman's daughter
And I'm nobody's girl
I guess that I could use a little understanding
But understanding people don't pay my bills
Sometimes I think it's hard to keep from going under
They say the forecast is snow, guess I'd better button my coat
But everywhere I go I see so many smiling faces
You people got troubles just like me
wer'e gonna get by
now that I'm miles away
Nothing really matters, really
Miles away
I leave myself behind
How can I prove myself,
If I don't choose myself
But when I lose myself I find....I'm gonna get by!
Falling Water
On a boat, or a river, or a stream
And the sky is bursting colour
In your eyes I could see for miles
The water rising
It's almost overflowing
And one by one
As the waves roll on
And the swelling sky
Holds the force of life within me
Round and round
As the waves fall down
I am tossed and turned
By the weight of falling water
Washing over me...
Far away, there's a picture perfect shoreline
Our words are swallowed up
We shout above the roar
I'm barely keeping up with Mother Nature
Making waves inside me
Will I ever be the way I was before....
I can feel your heartbeat...
I can feel your heartbeat
inside of me....
You're a part of me...
Broken Dream
Every day I spend my time
Drinking wine
Feeling fine
Waiting here to find the sign
That I can understand
Yes I am
In the days between the hours
Ivory Towers
Boody flowers
Push thier heads into the air
I don't care if I ever know
There I go
Don't push your love to far
Your wounds won't leave a scar
Right now is where you are
In a broken dream
Did someone bow thier head?
Did someone break the bread?
Good people are in bed
Before nine o'clock
On the pad before my eyes
Paper cries, telling lies
Like the promises you gave, from the grave
Of a broken heart
Hmmm
Every day I spend my time
Drinking wine
Felling fine
Waiting here to find the sign
That I can understand
Yes I am
Don't push your love to far
Your wounds won't even leave a scar
Right now is where you are
In a broken dream
And don't you forget what I said!!!!!!
She didn't write this song, but she could have. Doesn't this end it with a bang?
Now you've read the lyrics, LISTEN to them!
Return to Main Deck
I think I'll paint it blue
Put it in an envelope and send it
Send it off to you
And there's an arrow through my heart
It's making me see red
Put it on the mantlepiece my darling
So I will not forget
I will not forget
We were in the pink last summer
Everything rosy and new
But here in the heart of winter now
I'm colouring blue all over you
I'm colouring you, blue
So we chose our tree of love
But I was quite naive
Carving out our names on firm foundations
But it was not evergreen
It's gonna take a long time to forget you
Something's gotta change my mood
If only I could spell it out in black and white letters
But I can't write yesterday's news
I can't change yesterday's news
no, no, no, no, no......
We were in the pink........
(These lyrics are "in the pink" also. :-) JW)
Face Of The Moon
You never know
All the secrets that he's keeping
He never shows
Anything he's feeling
The bold, black night holds her arms
Open wide
When you're staring at the face of the moon
If you should go
To the big city street with a promise in your pocket
Guard your soul
Watch your feet, miss a beat, you're scared
And you can't stop it
The night never lasts,
Cuts your ties with the past
But the memory of the face of the moon
Above the rooftops far away, across the open sky
I'm sending out these messages to you
Satillites that work all night
Make the memory come alive
If only I knew why we do
These crazy things we do
You never know
All the secrets that he's keeping
He never shows
Anything he's feeling
The bold, black night
Holds her arms open wide
When you're staring at the face of the moon
And not a single star moves
And all I do is think of you
When I'm staring at the face of the moon....
Independance Days
Pull back the curtains from my window
Just to wake the summer day
He's still asleep, I keep these moments
To myself
As the morning's beginning to break
Like a young girl dancing
On the edge of waterIn the silence picture a woman growing closer
To living her life by the rules she makes
There's a world to awaken
Nothing stands in the way
There's a door that is open
To my independance days
In my eyes there's a reason
For the prices we've paid
Sign my own declaration
And find independance days
I take a walk down to the corner
All these thoughts still in my head
I see a lady with a suitcase in her hand
a drunk swearing blind at the dead
One day wake up, I've become a stranger
It's been a long and crazy year
Shed my skin, I've turned another chapter
I'm moving on, now the road is clear
There's a world to awaken
Nothing stands in the way
There's a door that is open
To my independance days
In my eyes there's a reason
For the prices we've paid
Sign my own declaration
And find independance days....
To living her life by the rules she makes
There's a world to awaken
Nothing stands in the way
There's a door that is open
To my independance days
In my eyes there's a reason
For the prices we've paid
Sign my own declaration
And find independance days
I take a walk down to the corner
All these thoughts still in my head
I see a lady with a suitcase in her hand
a drunk swearing blind at the dead
One day wake up, I've become a stranger
It's been a long and crazy year
Shed my skin, I've turned another chapter
I'm moving on, now the road is clear
There's a world to awaken
Nothing stands in the way
There's a door that is open
To my independance days
In my eyes there's a reason
For the prices we've paid
Sign my own declaration
And find independance days....
Running around again
Of all the things that I could do
I fall in love with you
What makes matters worse
We don't know how to make it work
Oooo, you're running around again
There you go
Oooo,you're running around again
I wonder what we do this for
I just can't take it anymore
We go up and down again
As you walk out I'm coming in babe
Ooo.....You're running around again....
But in my heart
I know it's true
The funny things I do for you
and I can't imagine
What we're trying to prove
So I put on my bravest face
But everything looks out of place
I can't reach you on the phone
There's always something going on..
Ooooo,you're running around again...
I stare at the photograph
Remember your smile and laugh
It was so good...it was so easy then
Are you happy to come and go
Are you better off on your own?
Think it over
Cause it's not over
I believe
But in my heart I know it's true
When I'm so far away from you
And I can't imagine
What we're trying to prove
If we only knew....
Meet me on the Stairs
All that goes on behind closed doors
Private lives and underworlds
Borderlines built by partition walls
Fourteen families fill each floor
You could meet me on the stairs
Hear thier splintered conversations
Shadows and remnants resounding along
The corridors
Block after block
Street after street
Building to building thier eyes never meet
Each life repeated
Layer upon layer
All comings and goings
All changes will pass by the stairs
On the stairs
Block after block
Street after street
Building to building thier eyes never meet
Each life repeated
Layer upon layer
All comings and goings
All changes the future
All good news will pass by the stairs
Meet me on the stairs....
Just don't know what to do with myself
Don't know just what to do with myself
I'm so used to doing everything with you
Planning everything for two
And now that we're through
I just don't know what to do with my time
Going to a movie only makes me sad
Parties make me feel as bad
When I'm not with you
I just don't know what else to do
Like a summer rose
It needs the sun and rain
I need your sweet love to ease all the pain
I just don't know what to do with myself
Baby if your new love ever turns you down
Come back I will be around
Just waiting for you
I don't know what else to do
I don't know just what to do with myself
Baby if your new love ever turns you down
Come on back I will be around
Just waiting for you
I'm still so crazy for you
No No No No
I'm still so crazy for you
No No No
Sense and Sensuality
Paperchase
The words upon the page
Put the sky into a rage
Till it washed them all away
a waste of paper
Now fragments of the truth
Swirl above my rainy roof
What my letterbox would call
A waste of paper
West wind, with your wide mouth
blow the pieces through the trees
North wind with your cold breath
Freeze my heart
As I gather round
A faster pace
I won't go on
Another paper chase
I'll trail behind untill you tell me face to face
As all of your excuses litter up the place
The trees that must have died
As you buried me alive
In a tomb of empty talk
A waste of paper
And all the lakes of ink
It took to tell me that you think
A marriage document is just a waste of paper
East wind, with your kind face
Stop the mail train blow it back
West wind will you whistle
Herd the scraps....
Into the bin,where they belong
I won't go on
Another paper chase
I'll trail behind untill you tell me face to face
As all of your excuses litter up the place....
Another paper, another paper, another paper chase.....
Nobody's Girl
Everybody tells me my time is coming
You know that I''ve been hearing that line for years
I'm taken for a fool couse I believe in something
It may be cold outside
but don't you know it's burning in here
I'm not about to sell my soul to the highest bid, no
But I'm not above working for the man
I'm gonna get by
I've been down around every lonely corner
So don't tell me it's a man's world
I've been lost, been found
I'm every woman's daughter
And I'm nobody's girl
I guess that I could use a little understanding
But understanding people don't pay my bills
Sometimes I think it's hard to keep from going under
They say the forecast is snow, guess I'd better button my coat
But everywhere I go I see so many smiling faces
You people got troubles just like me
wer'e gonna get by
now that I'm miles away
Nothing really matters, really
Miles away
I leave myself behind
How can I prove myself,
If I don't choose myself
But when I lose myself I find....I'm gonna get by!
Falling Water
On a boat, or a river, or a stream
And the sky is bursting colour
In your eyes I could see for miles
The water rising
It's almost overflowing
And one by one
As the waves roll on
And the swelling sky
Holds the force of life within me
Round and round
As the waves fall down
I am tossed and turned
By the weight of falling water
Washing over me...
Far away, there's a picture perfect shoreline
Our words are swallowed up
We shout above the roar
I'm barely keeping up with Mother Nature
Making waves inside me
Will I ever be the way I was before....
I can feel your heartbeat...
I can feel your heartbeat
inside of me....
You're a part of me...
Broken Dream
Every day I spend my time
Drinking wine
Feeling fine
Waiting here to find the sign
That I can understand
Yes I am
In the days between the hours
Ivory Towers
Boody flowers
Push thier heads into the air
I don't care if I ever know
There I go
Don't push your love to far
Your wounds won't leave a scar
Right now is where you are
In a broken dream
Did someone bow thier head?
Did someone break the bread?
Good people are in bed
Before nine o'clock
On the pad before my eyes
Paper cries, telling lies
Like the promises you gave, from the grave
Of a broken heart
Hmmm
Every day I spend my time
Drinking wine
Felling fine
Waiting here to find the sign
That I can understand
Yes I am
Don't push your love to far
Your wounds won't even leave a scar
Right now is where you are
In a broken dream
And don't you forget what I said!!!!!!
She didn't write this song, but she could have. Doesn't this end it with a bang?
Now you've read the lyrics, LISTEN to them!
Return to Main Deck
Put the sky into a rage
Till it washed them all away
a waste of paper
Now fragments of the truth
Swirl above my rainy roof
What my letterbox would call
A waste of paper
West wind, with your wide mouth
blow the pieces through the trees
North wind with your cold breath
Freeze my heart
As I gather round
A faster pace
I won't go on
Another paper chase
I'll trail behind untill you tell me face to face
As all of your excuses litter up the place
The trees that must have died
As you buried me alive
In a tomb of empty talk
A waste of paper
And all the lakes of ink
It took to tell me that you think
A marriage document is just a waste of paper
East wind, with your kind face
Stop the mail train blow it back
West wind will you whistle
Herd the scraps....
Into the bin,where they belong
I won't go on
Another paper chase
I'll trail behind untill you tell me face to face
As all of your excuses litter up the place....
Another paper, another paper, another paper chase.....
You know that I''ve been hearing that line for years
I'm taken for a fool couse I believe in something
It may be cold outside
but don't you know it's burning in here
I'm not about to sell my soul to the highest bid, no
But I'm not above working for the man
I'm gonna get by
I've been down around every lonely corner
So don't tell me it's a man's world
I've been lost, been found
I'm every woman's daughter
And I'm nobody's girl
I guess that I could use a little understanding
But understanding people don't pay my bills
Sometimes I think it's hard to keep from going under
They say the forecast is snow, guess I'd better button my coat
But everywhere I go I see so many smiling faces
You people got troubles just like me
wer'e gonna get by
now that I'm miles away
Nothing really matters, really
Miles away
I leave myself behind
How can I prove myself,
If I don't choose myself
But when I lose myself I find....I'm gonna get by!
And the sky is bursting colour
In your eyes I could see for miles
The water rising
It's almost overflowing
And one by one
As the waves roll on
And the swelling sky
Holds the force of life within me
Round and round
As the waves fall down
I am tossed and turned
By the weight of falling water
Washing over me...
Far away, there's a picture perfect shoreline
Our words are swallowed up
We shout above the roar
I'm barely keeping up with Mother Nature
Making waves inside me
Will I ever be the way I was before....
I can feel your heartbeat...
I can feel your heartbeat
inside of me....
You're a part of me...
Drinking wine
Feeling fine
Waiting here to find the sign
That I can understand
Yes I am
In the days between the hours
Ivory Towers
Boody flowers
Push thier heads into the air
I don't care if I ever know
There I go
Don't push your love to far
Your wounds won't leave a scar
Right now is where you are
In a broken dream
Did someone bow thier head?
Did someone break the bread?
Good people are in bed
Before nine o'clock
On the pad before my eyes
Paper cries, telling lies
Like the promises you gave, from the grave
Of a broken heart
Hmmm
Every day I spend my time
Drinking wine
Felling fine
Waiting here to find the sign
That I can understand
Yes I am
Don't push your love to far
Your wounds won't even leave a scar
Right now is where you are
In a broken dream
And don't you forget what I said!!!!!!
She didn't write this song, but she could have. Doesn't this end it with a bang?
Now you've read the lyrics, LISTEN to them!
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