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Woah Billy!
03:29
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Dark times ahead, dark times ahead
Woah Billy! Woah Billy!
I’ve got some doubts about myself, please tell me
What am I to do?
What am I to do?
Woah Billy! Woah Billy!
You seem so sure about yourself
What’s your secret?
Don’t you sit at home at night and wonder what it’s like to feel luck’s tender touch?
Sleep’s for the brave, sleep’s for the brave
Woah Billy! Woah Billy!
I feel my nights are drawing in
Please help me
Did you ever look away and find that you had strayed from paths once straight and true?
Woah Billy! Woah Billy!
I’m like a promise badly made, I’m empty
Woah Billy! Woah Billy!
I’m like a flower in the shade
Please...
Dark times ahead, and if I don’t do it now I’m dead
Woah Billy! Woah Billy!
I think my time is running out, I’m ticking
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White Russian Doll
02:25
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Taking all the things that you don’t want back
People will always attack what they fear most, believe me I know
Breaking like a wave across my back
I’ll shield you from the flack and the words they throw
Baby don’t go
I’ll always be there when you call, no pressure at all
White Russian Doll
Taking all the weight off the load you bear, oh don’t be scared
I’ll make it fine, just give me time
I’ll always be there when you call, no pressure at all
White Russian Doll, White Russian Doll
Love is an open door, inside is another room
Love is a Russian doll, inside is another you
Inside there is you, there is another side of you
Love is irrational, it doesn’t obey your rules
Love is a Russian doll, inside is another you
Inside there is you, inside there is you, inside there is you
There is another side of you
I’ll always be there when you call
I will always be there when you call
I will always be there when you call
I will always be there when you call, no pressure at all
White Russian Doll, no pressure at all
White Russian Doll, White Russian Doll
White Russian Doll, no pressure at all
White Russian Doll
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Up In Flames
02:55
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Fell asleep on your shoulder, and when I woke up
I was covered in questions
We had a fire that smouldered, but suffocated in a cloud of rejection
What happened when you said
‘I’ll never ignore you, you know I love you I’d do anything for you’?
What you gonna do when it all goes up in flames?
When your luck’s gone running and your dream’s gone sour and you’ve only got yourself to blame?
When it all goes up in flames?
Fell asleep in a corner and when I woke up I was covered in scratches
Without a fire I’m dormant, give me a lover and a packet of matches
What happened when you said ‘Hold on for me, Baby’?
It’s not the ending, it’s the waiting ‘round that scares me
What you gonna do when it all goes up in flames?
When your luck’s gone running and your dream’s gone sour and you’ve only got yourself to blame?
When it all goes up in flames, when it all goes up in
And when you think you’re on a hiding to nothing, hide it, hide it, don’t let anybody know
It’s a fool who lets their colours show
Broke me my heart, wrote me a letter, no one wrote back, no one, no, never
I was too young, I was too clever, now I’ve grown up but I know no better
What you gonna do when it all goes up in flames?
When your luck’s gone running and your dream’s gone sour and you’ve only got yourself to blame?
When it all goes up in
What you gonna do when it all goes up in flames?
When your luck’s gone running and your dream’s gone sour and your heart don’t feel the same?
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Love³
02:09
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My darling come beside me, a sister needs a brother
I got love tattooed across one hand and more love on the other
Got a hundred weight of heartache and I’m chastened as a child can be
Don’t go giving your love, love, love to anyone else but me
While others sip in sunshine I sit inside and shudder, for I was born a maudlin soul from which I’ll not recover
Got a cloakroom full of hang ups hanging further than the eye can see
Don’t go giving your love, love, love to anyone else but me
Make up all my friendships and bathe them in denial
Some say I’m schizophrenic but I walk in single file
Beside myself with loneliness and craving for your company
Don’t go giving your love, love, love to anyone else but me
Now I should take you home, little darlin’, I can’t stand the tears
Uncertainty has riddled me with ennui and fear
I stagger through existence feeling permanently scared and I won’t last too long now if there ain’t no one who cares
Don’t give your love, love, love to anyone else but me
I’m not superstitious but I’ll curse you if you leave and if you find another you’re condemning me to misery
Don’t go giving your love, love, love to anyone else but me
Don’t go giving your love, love, love to anyone else but me
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Upon Hilly Fields
03:52
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Ride a blue eyed horse far away from home, far away from fear into the fields I go
I took the road less run, took a lover on a long, cold lonely night and now sorrow, sorrow wears me like a badge
But my heart was yours to steal, as long as the grass grows upon
Hilly Fields, where you took my arms and taught them how to feel
How I loved you
Put my faith in words, bet my life on harmony and when the bubble burst I felt the pain wash over me
See how the branches bow, a sad reflection of a love that weighed too much and toppled
Strangled by its wanderlust
But my heart was yours to steal, as long as the shadows upon
Hilly Fields, where you took my arms and taught them how to feel
How I loved you
Sunset and fields turn sepia, dusk settling deep in your arms, how could I come to any harm?
But my heart crushed beneath your heel, and scattered like ashes upon
Hilly Fields, where you took my heart, ain’t made of steel, it cracks when the sun falls upon
Hilly Fields, but if you asked me now if I would do it all again, how I’d love to
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A Coming Of Age
03:01
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Innocence fell at the first, oh to be young and naïve
Plans that were reckless at most, picked them apart at the seams
And my foolish pride said ‘I was made to love you, not to make up the numbers and wait’
Where’s the truth?
Truth? I thought a promise meant I would be honoured
Call it a coming of age, come too late
Steadfast and surefooted once, now I just cling to the floor
Footprints still warm to the touch, can’t feel my toes anymore
As you slept I leaped to hurried-up conclusions and ill-advised delusions of grace
Where’s the truth?
Truth? I thought with labour that luck was contagious
Call it a coming of age, come too late
Jealousy swallows you up, sadness will follow you down
Saccharine whispers of love ain’t no good to no one, no how
And where fools rush in, well I run hell for leather, too late to make it better, too late
That’s the truth, truth. I thought a friend meant someone to depend on
Call it a coming of age, come too late
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Warm Water
03:31
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Light is fading like a spark on the wet grass, sunlight on the sea took my love away from me
Warm water, warm water, suddenly nothing seems to be important
Clouds are drifting like a bad conversation, starlings move as one
Can it be undone?
We’ll see
Warm water, warm water
How can you turn to me and say ‘It’s over’?
They said it couldn’t happen to us but now the sky hangs heavy with the colour of rust
They said it couldn’t ever happen to us
Now all I want is some kind of peace and order
Warm water, warm water
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Every time I see your face, the sound of breaking news
The sound of breaking glass, breaking in my chest
And every time I hear your name, I lose a little heart, I shed a little tear, I die a little death
But over and over again I push it away down low
But there ain’t nothin’ like a shame to bring it all back home, to bring it all back home
And every time you cross my path and darken
My vicinity a sad malaise creeps into me like shadows on my lungs
Every time I hear those words the ghost of troubles past
Like seven deadly sins come knocking at my door
But over and over again I push it away down low, but there ain’t nothin’ like a shame,
There ain’t nothin’ like a shame, there ain’t nothin’ like a shame
To bring it all back home, to bring it all back home
I’m not an alley cat, I can’t see in pitch black, no
Stuck in a bad place, I can’t find my way back home
Whenever I am alone I hear you taunting me and I won’t rest again
For I can’t pretend I’ve courage to see it to the end ‘cause every time I see your face
You bring it all back home, you bring it all back home
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Seven-thirty and I got nothing left to give
My hope’s gone left with my joie de vivre and will to live a simple life, not for me
I don’t take nothin’ easy if I can do it the hard way
Oh we got a long hot summer to wince through, Baby
But it didn’t take long to convince you when you were only seventeen
And your heart would miss a beat for its country
And all day long you tell me that’s when trouble begins
That’s when trouble begins, but if that’s what you want
Then maybe I could prickle under your skin
Seven-forty and I got nothing left in me for small talk
Gossip or any kind of pleasantries and presently
When your heart comes crashing into me don’t say I didn’t warn you
Oh we got a long, hot summer to burn through, Baby
And if you had any sense you’d return to when you were only seventeen
And your heart would miss a beat for its country
And all day long you tell me that’s when trouble begins
That’s when trouble begins, but if that’s what you want
Then maybe I could prickle under your skin
Ooh we got a long, hot summer to list through, Baby
And I haven’t got the patience to miss you like we were only seventeen
When my heart would take a bullet for something
And all day long you tell me that’s when trouble begins, that’s when trouble begins
There’ll be plenty of teardrops you could soak up if you stay
I try to be faithful but you’re leading me astray and the trouble with me
Is that the trouble isn’t ever far away
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Southern Melancholy
02:37
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Consider me tamed
A life of disappointment and heartache sustains a southern melancholy like blood on the brain
A shadow on my soul that’s so hard to lose, so hard to lose
And when old eyes bruise,
Oh Baby, it’s you who stays fast as I am listing
My heart it sings true, but melodies go missing and sadness seeps through
A hand upon my shoulder that’s so hard to move, so hard to move
And when old wounds tear, oh Baby what’s there?
Where angels collide, in danger I dwell
Stay by my side, don’t leave me in peril
Who’ll be my guide when the sunlight fails?
Oh mercy, I’m tired, drunk on despair
Hope has expired, beyond repair
Who’ll save the night when the sunlight fails and darkness prevails?
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Our Heart
02:49
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Bones, ain’t no flesh on this wreck of a wish
No escape from my fate I exist but that’s it, without you, our heart
Visions of you burnt on the back of my eyes
I can’t use them I’m wretched and blind
Reminded about you, our heart
Fans of your beauty are hopeless and damned
In your arms I’m a ship upon land, helpless, breathless and blue, our heart
So I’ve made excuses it’s useless I know
But when you hold me and threat to let go
Well the pain’s almost too much too bear
Swept up in a wave of inertia
Don’t go! What have to return to but silence?
Empty, dreadful and true, our heart
Baby, seems that our wings were clipped from the start
Now resentment resides in my heart, forsaken without you, our heart
Stand! Let your actions define you
Your love was the dream I aspired to
It’s futile but you know I’m depending on you, our heart, our heart
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To pause is to falter, to waiver’s to fail
Adrift on the water with no wind in my sails
But I harbour desires to stay, so when rescue approaches I wave them away
Could be that I just don’t belong
Without you I’d perish, alone I can’t win
Without you I would probably do myself in
But I hold on through thick and through thin, but no matter how much force I still don’t fit in
Could be that I just don’t belong, could be that I just don’t belong
Anyone who ever loved me could tell you that it’s like falling for a child
Well, lo and behold, ha ha!
God loves a trier but it’s tiring aspiring for love
It’s enough, it’s enough to cling to the things that to lose would be a sin and without you
I’m nothing, I am nothing
And it’s clear to see that I just don’t belong anywhere but here
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If a tree falls when we’re in the forest and comes down upon us
Like hammer on nail, who will notice
Bat even an eyelid?
If you knew what I did, then why would you care?
If the banks burst while we’re by the river and I can’t deliver the things that I said,
If my heart fails and with it my promise, if we’re being honest, I’m better off dead
Life can never be all that you long for it to be, symmetry and time ain’t best friends
But I’m reluctant to admit that it’s over, I won’t quit
I’ll hang on ‘til the bitter end
If the land slides while we’re on the hillside my darling I can’t lie, I knew it would come
If there’s one thing that’s sure in this lifetime, you’ll get yours, and I mine
When it’s done, then it’s gone
When it’s over and done, then it’s gone, gone, gone
When it’s over and done, then it’s gone
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