Please don't think I'm cold I'm just shy It takes me longer to get involved than I'd like It's not my style to blunder in Yeah, I admit that means I sometimes miss things: But I want to be next to you when you wake up I want to be close to you as we grow up I want to be next to you when you wake up I'm ready to give the rest of my life Over to mornings of simple bliss cast in your eyes Even when you fall asleep I could stay up all night just watching you breathe 'Cause I want to be next to you when you wake up I want to be close to you as we grow up I want to be next to you when you wake up And glad that I'm here.

Start as you mean to go on this year Start as you mean to go on this year Start taking charge of your life, and getting things done instead of sitting round here Start as you mean to go on this year I am resolved in this one I am resolved in this one Start as you mean to go on this year Start as you mean to go on this year Leave your ex-lovers behind, they mean nothing now - that needs to be clear Start as you mean to go on this year I am resolved in this one I am resolved in this one

We've written you a note I'm not surprised You haven't taken any of your precious time To read the crimes We've accused you of You look good from afar, so it's a shame You’re playing footsie underneath the counterpane But it's no game When you kick our legs from beneath us But the top of the tree doesn't seem too bright As the lightning charges above So scurry on down to a safer height If you know what's good Be understood You won't slip that far You're in the Bull and Bear, oh animal Consorting with the vultures you consider friends It just depends - what d'you think you are? You're reading out the scores as they come flooding in You say it's not your fault that we've all lost again But I contend It doesn't look like that from here But the ladder laid flat over melting ice Isn't gonna hold your weight for long Your knack of not listening to our advice Should worry you Oh hurry fool We'll not save your arse If you want this life of comforts then you've got to earn it I know it's not right to both want your cake And burn at the stake Everyone else who deserves it So choose another sport And pick the teams Keep leaving all us weaklings to run laps around The playground While you win the cup single-handed But a ladder laid flat over melting ice Isn't gonna hold your weight for long The crack that you hear from beneath your thighs Should worry you Oh hurry fool The water you once sailed through Is gonna pull you under soon I hope you sink fast.

Your voice on the tape I don't sleep these days Bending railways can't bring your face Smile if you want to Don't be afraid I won't hurt you We said we're mates.

Caught in an easterly There's no escape but for crocuses west of a tree Petals are shivering Cowering, quivering Fragile in yellow and green This cold snap is making the news It's too dangerous travelling through This cold snap is making the news The snowfall keeps me from you Blizzards are forecast, there's no escape We just hunker down lonesome in bed But blanketwarm's nothing We hanker for comfort in breath, and in skin, and in hair This cold snap is making the news It's too dangerous travelling through This cold snap is making the news The snowfall keeps me from you Morning brings magic A brilliance of white rouses us from our beds at the dawn The absence of traffic Replaced by the sight of sledges and scarves before long This cold snap is making the news It's too dangerous travelling through This cold snap is making the news The snowfall keeps me from you This cold snap is making the news Feel the snow seep through your shoes This cold snap is making the news The snowfall keeps me from you.

Hannah, don’t leave me alone Tell your sister I need her so For without her everything is black She’s become an itch I cannot scratch Helen, your house feels like home Tell your daughter what she must know For although she’ll never love me back She’s become the itch that can’t be scratched...

So, you’d bet your life on blind infatuation? Well then - so, I guess, would I But how can you maintain this cold façade? It must be really hard to keep up this pretence That you’re just friends It pains you So he challenged you to meet his ‘better half’ What did you do? D’you play it cool while inside every synapse faltered? Gruesome, thinking of those two Somehow you made it through as best you could But even floundering I’d say you handled it OK As well you should Take a leaf out of my book If you don’t confess you’ll end up getting hurt He’s not using you but please don’t do this to yourself Find someone else I’m here to hug you if you fear that love has passed you by Well it hasn’t quite.

Her bedroom in whispered hush She begs a contact Shudders inside, open-mouthed The arch of her back Pale pink sunhat Pin badge of a cat The elastic on your beads has snapped The elastic on your beads has snapped Pale pink sunhat Pin badge of a cat The elastic on your beads has snapped The elastic on your beads has snapped “Slide your badly-laddered tights into your handbag You’ve still got those carpet burns I’m sorry about that” Frayed pink sunhat Pin badge of a cat The elastic on your beads has snapped The elastic on your beads has snapped Pale pink sunhat Pin badge of a cat The elastic on your beads has snapped The elastic on your beads has snapped...

Every weekend I visit my friends Or they visit me, it often depends On where we all are Or who’s got a car I’ll travel by train It isn’t that far And we drink And we dance And we live And we laugh But when Monday comes I’m still living a life for one And sometimes a girl will visit my world She might like my songs She could inspire one I’ll doubtless fall fast As times from my past Conspire to prove It probably won’t last And we’ll have a nice time She might come back to mine But when dawn arrives I'll have nobody by my side Oh when Monday comes I’m still living a life for one.

Falling water still surprises You're not yet used to liquid eyes Lean in closer, almost silent I've not got much breath tonight I've not got much breath tonight Was I ever less invited To be the focus of your smile? Even though it seems unlikely I've not used up all my lives I'm not used up, not yet: You don't know what you're doing Not yet... So we never quite ignited Now I couldn't melt you if I tried Can't you see you still entwine me? Reconsider Rethink: You don't know what you're doing Not yet... Falling water still surprises.

European service stations are much better than ours But why should that concern me when I’m still 12 hours away from you? This flat Belgian landscape, it goes on for miles There’s no point in direction It just all looks alike I’m too tattered and tired But you keep me alive, you do For now I’m stuck in my seat as I write “I just want to be the most beautiful piece of your life” We pull into Brussels Grey concrete in view Wait 30 minutes I’m thinking of blue skies over Austrian tramlines Beautiful winter night-times suit your sleepy eyes But you keep me alive You do For now I’m stuck in my seat as I write “I just want to be the most beautiful piece of your life” A high-rise apartment, you’re waking alone I’ll see you this morning Oh please take me home I’m too tattered and tired But you…