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Streetwise
03:22
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Streetwise, everybody lies
But the time still comes for the fall
Disguised to everybody’s eyes
You turn away from them all
Stop me if I’m wrong
But I think your heart must know
Streetwise, everybody lies
But the time still comes for the fall
Contrived to aggravate their lives
Two fingers up to them all
Stop me if I’m wrong
But I think your heart must know
Streetwise, everybody lies
But the time still comes for the fall
I twist your arm but it’s your heart I’m breaking
I say I love you when you know it’s not true
You say you love me so you’re sure you can take it
But no amount of love will stop me hurting you
Streetwise, everybody lies
But the time still comes for the fall
Disguised to everybody’s eyes
You turn away from them all
Stop me if I’m wrong
But I think your heart must know
Streetwise, everybody lies
But the time still comes for the fall
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2. |
Second Glance
03:54
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Here I am now living with the fact
That I still love you baby but I can’t get back
To how we were
How we were
Here I am now rolling up a smoke
Thinking how I loved you when it must have been a joke
But I don’t laugh
No I don’t laugh
Oh I must have been crazy thinking that I still love you
I wish that I could lose this feeling I still get for you
If only my situation changed I wish it would
To get you back again I’m sure I could
Here I am now with nothing on my mind
Thinking that I’m busy when my hands are full of time
And I don’t try
No I don’t try
I used to think that once I had a chance
But now I don’t get a second glance
Now it’s gone
Now it’s gone
Here I am now living with the fact
That I still love you baby but I can’t get back
To how we were
How we were
Oh I must have been crazy thinking that I still love you
I wish that I could lose this feeling I still get for you
If only my situation changed I wish it would
To get you back again I’m sure I could
Here I am now with nothing on my mind
Thinking that I’m busy when my hands are full of time
And I don’t try
No I don’t try
Here I am now living with the fact
That I still love you baby but I can’t get back
To how we were
How we were
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3. |
The Lessons I’ve Learnt
03:28
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I don’t believe that I can move myself
Until the things I dream about come true
Unconscious living don’t agree with me
Now I’ve got such a lot to lose
I always mess it up
Mess it up
I always mess it up
I always mess it up
Mess it up
I always mess it up
Everything was going fairly well
From day to day I’d grow closer to you
I’d drift along so aimlessly
Never thinking I’d get so used
I always mess it up
Mess it up
I always mess it up
I always mess it up
Mess it up
I always mess it up
You flew me up so I had further to fall
You screwed my confidence down to the floor
So now I’ll take what you’re teaching me
And put the lesson’s I’ve learnt to use
I never thought that I could move myself
Until the things I’d dreamed about came true
But now I’ll take what you’re teaching me
And put the lessons I’ve learnt to use
I always mess it up
Mess it up
I always mess it up
I always mess it up
Mess it up
I always mess it up
I always mess it up
Mess it up
I always mess it up
I always mess it up
Mess it up
I always mess it up
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4. |
I Don’t Want To Hear It
03:20
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I don’t want to hear it
What have I done to deserve this
You said that you’d write to confirm how you really feel
I don’t want to hear this
One letter in a month isn’t worth it
You say that you’ll stop but you don’t want to finish at all
I like to be straightforward
Everything simple in black and white
I like to be straightforward
Either it’s wrong or it’s right
I don’t want to hear it
What have I done to deserve this
I thought that I’d done all that you wanted me to do
I don’t want to hear this
How would I ever understand it
If you only ever talk about the pain that I put you through
I’ll never know what happened
One day you shout then the next you don’t
I’ll never know what happened
Either you will or you won’t
I don’t want to hear it
What have I done to deserve this
I really couldn’t care about the things you say about me
I don’t want to hear this
I’m sick of hearing about it
You know that I’m finished with you so why can’t you finish with me
Oh it’s only my heart you’re breaking
Don’t worry about the consequences
Oh it’s only my heart you’re taking for a ride
I like to be straightforward
Everything simple in black and white
I like to be straightforward
Either it’s wrong or it’s right
I don’t want to hear it
What have I done to deserve this
I really couldn’t care about the things you say about me
I don’t want to hear this
I’m sick of hearing about it
You know that I’m finished with you so why can’t you finish with me
You know that I’m finished with you so why can’t you finish with me
You know that I’m finished with you so why can’t you finish with me
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I don’t want to have to move this morning
Lying here cocooned with you
Having gone to sleep as lovers
I hate to wake up when the night is through
The alcoholic love and passion
The bottle sort where souls are lost
But the night just gets me sober
Enough to wake up and count the cost
I dreamt a lot about you last night
Intoxicated by the alcohol
I dreamt that I could learn to love you
But I was drunk and not in control
And so the woman of this moment
Becomes a shadow of my past
We’ve lain together until this morning
Now you’re quick to tell me that the night has passed
But still I don’t make my move
No I don’t make my move
Still I don’t make my move at all
And still I don’t make my move
No I don’t make my move
Still I don’t make my move at all
Now you hold this gun to my head
Bullet’s loaded and the triggered squeezed
Yesterday I was your lover
Today your feelings have changed for me
And so you turn and push me forward
Out of this warm security
I could stay like this forever
But now it’s morning and I’ve got to leave
But still I don’t make my move
No I don’t make my move
Still I don’t make my move at all
And still I don’t make my move
No I don’t make my move
Still I don’t make my move at all
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6. |
Vacancy Filled
02:48
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The things you say they follow me
The void has gone so quietly
The emptiness I felt before
Is filled by you so now I’m sure
And when I see the people in my past
We never thought that things could move so fast
And being with the friends I used to know
I find I’d rather be with you alone
The moves you made attracted me
Nothing false in what I see
I thought of love I’d known before
But now with you I need nothing more
And when I see the people in my past
We never thought that things could move so fast
And being with the friends I used to know
I find I’d rather be with you alone
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7. |
Eye To Eye
03:40
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No one ever on my side
No one ever on my side would treat me like this
No one ever on my side
No one ever on my side would treat me like this
It’s in perspective whenever eyes meet eyes
Just seeing eye to eye
Just seeing eye to eye
It’s uncorrectable whenever things start to slide
No one ever on my side
No one ever on my side would treat me like this
No one ever on my side
No one ever on my side would treat me like this
Interrogated whenever eyes meet eyes
Just seeing eye to eye
Just seeing eye to eye
I’m not respected however hard I try
It was a new beginning
Nothing ever meant so much
It was a new beginning
If I could get lucky when it came to love
If I could get lucky
Who do you think you are
Burning me down in flames and fire
No one ever on my side
No one ever on my side would treat me like this
No one ever on my side
No one ever on my side would treat me like this
It’s in perspective whenever eyes meet eyes
Just seeing eye to eye
Just seeing eye to eye
It’s uncorrectable whenever things start to slide
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8. |
Couldn’t Be Anyone Else
03:36
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Baby I’m amazed at the way you held your head up high
After you’d taken such a fall
And maybe I’m surprised at the way that you’ve come back for more
And still they find you standing tall
It couldn’t be anyone else
It couldn’t be anyone else
It couldn’t be anyone else but you
Baby I’m amazed that you’ve picked yourself up off the floor
No longer feeling quite as small
And maybe I’m surprised that you still have any will to fight
Coming through the latest brawl
It couldn’t be anyone else
It couldn’t be anyone else
It couldn’t be anyone else but you
It couldn’t be anyone else
It couldn’t be anyone else
It couldn’t be anyone else but you
Baby I’m amazed at the way you held your head up high
After you’d taken such a fall
And maybe I’m surprised at the way that you’ve come back for more
And still they find you standing tall
It couldn’t be anyone else
It couldn’t be anyone else
It couldn’t be anyone else but you
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I’m tired of you kissing me with your mind
It’s your body I really need
I’m tired of you loving me from your heart
It’s not your love I really need
Don’t overestimate me
By thinking my love for you will last
Don’t over complicate this
By letting it all go to your heart
I’m tired of you kissing me with your mind
It’s your body I really need
I’m tired of you crying if we should part
It’s not your tears I really need
Don’t act emotionally
And think that I’ll change my point of view
Stop trying to impress me
Be sure that I’ll still walk out on you
Don’t act emotionally
And think that I’ll change my point of view
Stop trying to impress me
Be sure that I’ll still walk out on you
I’m tired of you kissing me with your mind
It’s your body I really need
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10. |
Silent And Ashamed
02:22
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Silent and ashamed we are
To let our feelings show
They’re gonna laugh to see you cry
But you’d be foolish if your eyes stayed dry
You think you hide the way you feel
But you don’t want to seem a fool
Snivel into handkerchiefs
When your lover’s set to leave
What’s the point of love if you can’t cry
What’s the point of love if you can’t cry
What’s the point of love
What’s the point of love
What’s the point of love oh no
What’s the point of love
Silent and ashamed we are
To let our feelings show
Always have too much restraint
And later on it’ll cause you pain
You try to say goodbye’s so well
All tight lipped and watery eyed
Would it really be such a shame
If you could feel love by showing pain
What’s the point of love if you can’t cry
What’s the point of love if you can’t cry
What’s the point of love
What’s the point of love
What’s the point of love oh no
What’s the point of love
What’s the point of love if you can’t cry
What’s the point of love if you can’t cry
What’s the point of love if you can’t cry
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11. |
Walk Out
02:52
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Walk out, see what I can do without you now
We’ll see your worries start to show
Walk out, see what I can do without you now
It wasn’t me who chose this way to go
Free myself from your side
The tears that you’ll cry, you cry for yourself
Free myself from your plans
Through the fingers of your hands I will slip from this cell
Walk out, see what I can do without you now
We’ll see your worries start to show
Walk out, see what I can do without you now
It wasn’t me who chose this way to go
I never really thought that I would have the sort of luck
The sort of power to forget what I once knew of you
Never really wasted time in thinking on for hours and hours
Never really wasted time until I met you
Free myself from your side
The tears that you’ll cry, you cry for yourself
Free myself from your plans
Through the fingers of your hands I will slip from this cell
Walk out, see what I can do without you now
We’ll see your worries start to show
Walk out, see what I can do without you now
It wasn’t me who chose this way to go
It wasn’t me who chose this way to go
It wasn’t me who chose this way to go
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12. |
Never Wanted To Change
02:44
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I know I couldn’t be all you want
I could never be so strong
Not to worry myself
That you would fall for someone else
And I know that there’s no truth that would hold
To say I’ll love you ‘till we’re old
And to hurry through those days
Slowly wish this love away
I never wanted to change at all
Now I know what it’s like to fly and be free
Without your love worrying me
But I’m sorry for my games
They leave me shattered and ashamed
I never wanted to change
Oh my sweet darling
You have left me when I least expected it
You must have thought me stronger than I am
Oh my sweet baby
All of my innocent replies just mean nothing in your eyes
Now I know what it’s like to fly and be free
Without your love worrying me
But I’m sorry for my games
They leave me shattered and ashamed
I never wanted to change at all
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Jimmy Lee Morris Holsworthy, UK
An eclectic writer and singer of songs, Jimmy Lee Morris has been weaving songs into hearts of those happy to listen for 40 years. Songs have been sung from folk clubs to festivals, around the UK & Europe. Played in blues band Mojo Filter & rock 'n' roll band The Collaborators. In the 80’s was lead singer for synth band À La Tienne & at turn of millennium was half of the folk duo The Hat Band. ... more
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