Stephen Duffy - They Called Him Tintin (2003) by Stephen Duffy (보컬) on maniadb.com

Baby, let me make you a statue
To stand outside the council house
To stand as a reminder of what you are
And what you want to be

I want to live with you
Want to sleep with you
In a house, in a peaceful world
They want to take you
They want to break you
Don't let them make you unhappy

You are the icing on the cake
The party on the street
The love you cannot fake
The truth you cannot cheat

You were left on the doorstep
Of the Social Security
You were hoping for a future as someone
Not just a leisure refugee

I always saw you as a fighter and a winner
Not content to only write your name
Their right way is the wrong way for what you are
And what you were born to be

Born to be young and free
To be young and wise
Not to listen to all their lies
Don't let them make you
Don't let them break you
Don't let them make you unhappy

Here we come waltzing home
By the moon so bright
By the sea, by the harbour wall
They want to take you
They want to break you
Shape you and make you unhappy

In my young life I have received
Callers as though they were Christmas Eve.
Disappointed and I don't know why?
She gave me laughter and hope
And a sock in the eye.
(A love like this is sealed with a kiss)

In my young life and I know something now.
I've never tried to create a wow.
Wows are few frustration more common.
Now I can feel it in my soul,
That's why I gave the come on.

Kiss me with your mouth.
Your love is better than wine.
But wine is all I have.
Will your love ever be mine?

Faces fall before my feet.
Like blood onto a clean white sheet.
When I grow old I won't forget
To innocence my only debt.

Wow I feel so fresh today.
Barefoot in the snow to make love in the hay.
The stars are bright in the abyss,
Now I can feel you in my arms
I explode inside your kiss.

You screw up your face when he kisses you
And when you make love it's not love for you
And when you cry he swears you're not the same
Where is the girl he would have died for?

Perhaps the girl has kissed the boy
And never will

Unkiss that kiss, she never could
Untouch that touch, she never would
Unkiss that kiss, she never could
Untouch that touch

She said she'd only meet him once
But then her dreams could not allow
Her to forget how much she had forgot
And he became her forget-me-not

Winter approached and only his kiss
Could warm her

I went to St. Christopher's Place
But it reminded me of you
Remainder: our night on French bed linen
Oh, but don't expect me to...

In the summer and her pinafore
She thought she'd love for evermore
How soon things sour
Past the bewitching hour
She finds herself in winter deep inside her coat
The past is just an anecdote
She can't forget for it's her alphabet of time

Will there be a war
Will she die or will she no
And find the pain of youth still shows?
Like Mary Tyler-Moore
She stares across the yawning tide
Out of love and terrified

In the Sunday colour magazine
She reads a line and then she dreams
Of what she'll do
When she leaves you again
She knows that home
Was once a wild unknown
As always her own chaperone
Catch the bus from wilderness or to

Will there be a war
And will she die or will she no
And find the pain of youth still shows?
Like Mary Tyler-Moore
She stares across the yawning tide
Out of love and terrified

Hold on tight

Will there be a war
And will she die or will she no
And find the pain of youth still shows?
Like Mary Tyler-Moore
She stares across the yawning tide
Out of love and terrified

Hold on tight
Catch that bus
Fares please
Ding ding ding

I wonder who's coming out today
To play in sheltered shopping centres
Sitting around the stagnant fountain
Counting pennies eating peanuts
Brown paper, babies and check out girls
In uniform and furniture boys
Who we used to know don't say hello
But that's okay that's okay

'Cause when the sun comes down
And you come home
We'll have two weeks all alone
Before you have to go back to school
Which ruins everything.

Wednesday Jones is growing up
And if she goes I'll never catch her
On the petrol station forecourt
All thumbs and old suede jacket
Catch the bus back to the house
The front room's ours and we can stay there
Stared out the window for an hour
Until I too went away went away

'Cause when the sun comes down
And we're apart
Another one must claim my heart
And Wednesday Jones and I won't be
Each others lover

You, you've got a funny way of saying hello
And a pocketful of undisclosed dreams
You paved my way to helpless nerves
And no one gets inside your jeans

Now don't mention the blur
At the merest hint of her

I love you, you don't know
How much I love you
And how that crush is a blow
You don't care about me
And how I care about you

Once before the world became serene
The hands of love pushed me away
But soon you will reject that scene
For acts of love and passion plays

Let's improvise
A perfect world without the lies

With your wristful of chains
And your fistful of change
I hope that you get through
Now you think your dandy pose
Goes with my basement clothes
What made you change your view?
Maybe it's my loving tongue
The ecstasy from which we swung
(I'm your lover in a world of dreams)

You remind me of
Julie Christie in 'Billy Liar'
You, your milky youth
Wide eyed devotion and pure desire

You are open to all of my suggestions
But you are better for none of my pretensions

They get their way most times
But you'll get your way this time
You cannot stay in this hole
You'll get away this time

Warm with wayward hope
Your kisses breathless, your love divine
You left drama school
For shop floor restless, not by design

You are tired of provincial boutique Sundays
You want the mythical New York and Champs Elysee

Never try to profit
With fortune you can stop it
I'm afraid you will succeed
To find what capitals are cleaner
The grass is so much greener
Please don't ever go to seed

The terraces of the 70's
Are only filled with rain
The corner shops and B-roads
Were flattened by the main
Our old estate's still standing
And shaken by each truck
But the house where we first made love
Went down to let the tarmac up

Headstrong

The wallpaper curled and dirtied
The curtain rail pulled off
The first time you cried and scratched my back
I heard your old Dad cough
And after on our elbows
We watched the traffic crawl
Underneath the orange lights
And across your bedroom wall

Headstrong and cocksure

I pick my friends like scabs
And none of them heal
And when my finger stabs
None of them feel
Now the nightclubs are shut for you
You must be 24 at least
But I'll still come in spirit
First love won't rest in peace

Headstrong and cocksure

Those were our horizons
Our holiday for two
Just beyond the cooling towers
Our panoramic view
I don't remember leaving you
We both were in a state
There always are a lot of girls
Looking for a candidate who's...

Headstrong and cocksure

Let us consider all the complications
Every reason I can't be with you
I want to document each reservation
The have nots that we must undo

We're not suited, not stupid, not the loving kind
Much too busy to have the time
But it's your kisses I live for
Love's not a half time score
Take love but take it from me

Love is driving me insane
Love is driving me insane

When the wind howls through the railway sidings
And the night has nowhere else to go
It seems a sorry way to solve a problem
A drama but never a show

Play acting and banking on forgetting you
Small town lovers or Newcastle blue
Your excuses amuses
The someone who loses
So make love but make it with me

(Love me madly, I don't care
I don't want you in my hair)

You instate fury
With my denied and my unrequited...

In my young life I have received
Callers as though they were Christmas Eve.
Disappointed and I don't know why?
She gave me laughter and hope
And a sock in the eye.
(A love like this is sealed with a kiss)

In my young life and I know something now.
I've never tried to create a wow.
Wows are few frustration more common.
Now I can feel it in my soul,
That's why I gave the come on.

Kiss me with your mouth.
Your love is better than wine.
But wine is all I have.
Will your love ever be mine?

Faces fall before my feet.
Like blood onto a clean white sheet.
When I grow old I won't forget
To innocence my only debt.

Wow I feel so fresh today.
Barefoot in the snow to make love in the hay.
The stars are bright in the abyss,
Now I can feel you in my arms
I explode inside your kiss.

I'm lying to myself
But I don't know if I'm prepared to listen
The answer is skin deep
Where can I find a simpler complexion?

Maybe I can, maybe I can't
Maybe a baby or maybe a plant
I could buy a gun, a new pair of shoes
I'll make you unhappy
So don't make me choose
Between the devil I know, the devil I don't
A lover who loves me and a lover who won't
Accept that I'm so confused
About love and love I have refused

I'll get a lot of ink out of our affair
I'll get a lot of ink out of our affair
It's over the kitchen sink with flowers in our hair
But, baby, I don't care

I want what I can't have
But if by chance I get it I don't want it
I want to hold your hand
But holding hands holds more demands than answers

Give me a kiss, give me a break
Give me a miss 'cause I won't stay awake
Beyond the flattery dash
Caught in a crush
A moment of pash before the pregnant hush
Is it two hearts or three? Shaken or stirred?
Give me an answer or give me the bird
Oh won't you tell me about the loves in your life?
You're nobody's fool and nobody's wife

You, you execute love's pas de deux
But you think you're just par for the course
And your kisses have no strings attached
And your love is always left on the latch
You're such a sweet thing
Not a catch phrase or a dance craze
But the nature of my success
Seems to make your tears jingles for singles