i tell you how i feel
but you don't care
i say tell me the truth
but you don't dare
you say love is a hell
you cannot bear
and i say gimme mine back
and then go there for all i care
i got my feet on the ground
and i don't go to sleep to dream
you've got your head in the clouds
and you're not at all what you seem
this mind, this body and this voice
cannot be stifled by your deviant ways
so don't forget what i told you
don't come around, i got my own hell to raise
i have never been so insulted
in all my life
i could swallow the seas
to wash down all this pride
first you run like a fool
just to be at my side
and now you run like a fool
but you just run to hide and i can't abide
i got my feet on the ground
and i don't go to sleep to dream
you've got your head in the clouds
and you're not at all what you seem
this mind, this body and this voice
cannot be stifled by your deviant ways
so don't forget what i told you
don't come around, i got my own hell to raise
don't make it a big deal
don't be so sensitive
we're not playing a game anymore
you don't have to be so defensive
don't you plead me your case
don't bother to explain
don't even show me your face
'cause it's a crying shame
just go back to the rock
from under which you came
take the sorrow you gave
and all the stakes you claim
and don't forget the blame
i got my feet on the ground
and i don't go to sleep to dream
you've got your head in the clouds
and you're not at all what you seem
this mind, this body and this voice
cannot be stifled by your deviant ways
so don't forget what i told you
don't come around, i got my own hell to raise
i got my feet on the ground
and i don't go to sleep to dream
you've got your head in the clouds
and you're not at all what you seem
this mind, this body and this voice
cannot be stifled by your deviant ways
so don't forget what i told you
don't come around, i got my own hell to raise
days like this
i don't know what to do with myself
all day and all night
i wander the halls
along the walls and under my breath
i say to myself
i need fuel to take flight
and there's too much going on
but it's calm under the waves
in the blue of my oblivion
under the waves
in the blue of my oblivion
is that why they call me
a sullen girl, sullen girl
they don't know i used to sail
the deep and tranquil sea
but he washed me shore
and he took my pearl
and left an empty shell of me
and there's too much going on
but it's calm under the waves
in the blue of my oblivion
under the waves
in the blue of my oblivion
under the waves
in the blue of my oblivion
it's calm under the waves
in the blue of my oblivion
once my lover, now my friend
what a cruel thing to pretend
what a cunning way to condescend
once my lover, and now my friend
oh, you creep up like the clouds
and you set my soul at ease
then you let your love abound
and you bring me to my knees
oh, it's evil babe
the way you let your grace enrapture me
when well you know i'd be insane
to ever let that dirty game recapture me
you made me a shadowboxer, baby
i wanna be ready for what you do
i been swinging all around me
'cause i don't know when you're gonna
make your move
oh, your gaze is dangerous
and you fill your space so sweet
if i let you get too close
you'll set your spell on me
so darlin' i just wanna say
just in case i don't come through
i was onto every play
i just wanted you
oh it's so evil, my love
the way you've no reverence to my concern
so i'll be sure to stay weary of you, love
to save the pain of once my flame
and twice my burn
you made me a shadowboxer, baby
i wanna be ready for what you do
i been swinging all around me
'cause i don't know when you're gonna
make your move
yeah i'm a shadowboxer baby,
i wanna be ready for what you do
and i been swinging all around me
'cause i don't know when you're gonna
make your move
i've been a bad, bad girl
i've been careless
with a delicate man
and it's a sad, sad world
when a girl will break a boy
just because she can
don't you tell me to deny it
i've done wrong
and i want to suffer for my sins
i've come to you
'cause i need guidance to be true
and i just don't know where i can begin
what i need is a good defense
'cause i'm feeling like a criminal
and i need to be redeemed
to the one i've sinned against
because he's all i ever knew of love
heaven help me for the way i am
save me from these evil deeds
before i get them done
i know tomorrow brings
the consequence at hand
but i keep living this day
like the next will never come
oh help me
but don't tell me to deny it
i've got to cleanse myself
of all these lies
'til i'm good enough for him
i've got a lot to lose
and i'm bettin' high
so i'm begging you
before it ends
just tell me where to begin
what i need is a good defense
'cause i'm feeling like a criminal
and i need to be redeemed
to the one i've sinned against
because he's all i ever knew of love
let me know the way
before there's hell to pay
give me room to lay the law
and let me go
i've got to make a play
to make my lover stay
so what would an angel say
the devil wants to know
what i need is a good defense
'cause i'm feeling like a criminal
and i need to be redeemed
to the one i've sinned against
because he's all i ever knew of love
what i need is a good defense
'cause i'm feeling like a criminal
and i need to be redeemed
to the one i've sinned against
because he's all i ever knew of love
you moved like honey in my dream last night
yeah, some old fires were burning
you came near to me and you endeared to me
but you couldn't quite discern me
does that scare you ? i'll let you run away
but your heart will not oblige you
you'll remember me like a melody
yeah, i'll haunt the world inside you
and my big secret, gonna win you over
slow like honey, heavy with mood
i'll let you see me, i'll covet your regard
i'll invade your demeanor
and you'll yield to me like a scent in the breeze
and you'll wonder what it is about me
it's my big secret, keeping you coming
slow like honey, heavy with mood
though dreams can be deceiving
like faces are to hearts
they serve for sweet relieving
when fantasy and reality lie too far apart
so i stretch myself across like a bridge
and i pull you to the edge
and stand there waiting
trying to attain
the end to satisfy the story
shall i release you?
must i release you?
as i rise to meet my glory
but my big secret
gonna hover over your life
gonna keep you reaching
when i'm gone like yesterday
when i'm high like heaven
when i'm strong like music
'cause i'm slow like honey, and heavy with mood
i lie in an early bed thinking late thoughts
waiting for the black to replace my blue
i do not struggle in your web
because it was my aim to get caught
but daddy longlegs
i feel that i'm finally growing weary
of waiting to be consumed by you
give me the first taste
let it begin
heaven cannot wait forever
darling just start the chase
i'll let you win
but you must make the endeavor
oh, your love give me a heart contusion
adagio breezes fill my skin with sudden red
your hungry flirt borders intrusion
and i'm building memories
on things we have not said
full is not heavy as empty
not nearly my love
not nearly my love, not nearly
give me the first taste
let it begin
heaven cannot wait forever
darling, just start the chase
i'll let you win
but you must make the endeavor
the first taste
let it begin, heaven cannot wait forever
start the chase, i'll let you win
but you must make the endeavor
you'll never see the courage i know
its colors' richness
won't appear within your view
i'll never glow the way that you glow
your presence dominates
the judgements made on you
but as the scenery grows
i see in different lights
the shades and shadows
undulate in my perception
my feelings swell and stretch
i see from greater heights
i understand what i am still
too proud to mention, to you
you'll say you understand
but you don't understand
you'll say you'll never give up
seeing eye to eye
but never is a promise
and you can't afford to lie
you'll never touch
these things that i hold
the skin of my emotions
lies beneath my own
you'll never feel
the heat of this soul
my fever burns me deeper
than i've ever shown to you
you'll say "don't fear your dreams"
it's easier than it seems
you'll say you'd never let me
fall from hopes so high
but never is a promise
and you can't afford to lie
you'll never live this life that i live
i'll never live the life
that wakes me in the night
you'll never hear the message i give
you'll say it looks as though
i might give up this fight
but as the scenery grows
i see in different lights
the shades and shadows
undulate in my perception
my feelings swell and stretch
i see from greater heights
i realize what i am now
too smart to mention, to you
you'll say you understand
you'll never understand
i'll say i'll never wake up
knowing how or why
i don't know what to believe in
you don't know who i am
you'll say i need appeasing
when i start to cry
but never is a promise
and i'll never need a lie
darling, give me
your absence tonight
take the shade from the canvas
and leave me the white
let me sink in the silence
that echoes inside
and don't bother leaving
the light on
'cause i suddenly feel
like a different person
from the roots of my soul
come a gentle coercion
and i ran my hand
o'er a strange inversion
a vacancy that just did not belong
the child is gone
honey, help me out of this mess
i'm a stranger to myself
but don't reach for me
i'm too far away
i don't wanna talk
'cause there's nothing left to say
so my darling give me
your absence tonight
take all of your sympathy
and leave it outside
'cause there's no kind of loving
that can make this alright
i'm trying to find a place i belong
and i suddenly feel
like a different person
from the roots of my soul
come a gentle coercion
and i ran my hand
o'er a strange inversion
a vacancy that just did not belong
the child is gone
the child is gone
pale september
i wore the time like a dress that year
the autumn days swung soft around me
like cotton on my skin
but as the embers of the summer
lost their breath and disappeared
my heart went cold and only
hollow rhythms resounded from within
but then he rose
brilliant as the moon in full
and sank in the burrows of my keep
and all my armour falling down
in a pile at my feet
and my winter giving way to warm
as i'm singing him to sleep
he goes along just as a water lily
gentle on the surface
of his thoughts his body floats
unweighed down by passion or intensity
yet unaware of the depth
upon which he coasts
and he finds a home in me
for what misfortune sows
he knows my touch will reap
and all my armour falling down
in a pile at my feet
and my winter giving way to warm
as i'm singing him to sleep
all my armour falling down
in a pile at my feet
and my winter giving way to warm
as i'm singing him to sleep
all my armour falling down
in a pile at my feet
and my winter giving way to warm
as i'm singing him to sleep
won't do no good to hold no seance
what's gone is gone
and you can't bring it back around
won't do no good to hold no searchlight
you can't illuminate
what time has anchored down
won't do no good to sing no love song
no sound could simulate
the presence of a man
won't do no good asking no questions
your divination
should acquaint you with the plan
my feel for you, boy
is decaying in front of me
like the carrion of a murdered prey
and all i want is to save you, honey
or the strength to walk away
won't do no good to go no distance
the space between us
is as boundless as the dark
won't do no good to throw no fist, babe
you can't intimidate me
back into your arms
my feel for you, boy
is decaying in front of me
like the carrion of a murdered prey
and all i want is to save you, honey
or the strength to walk away
my feel for you boy
is decaying in front of me
like the carrion of a murdered prey
and all i want is to save you, honey
or the strength to walk away
oh my feel for you boy
is decaying right in front of me
like the carrion of a, a murdered prey
and all i want is to save you, honey
or the strength to walk away
