Stuart Staples

All the love
All the love inside me
Is on its way
Is on its way to find you
Don't try to hide
From my love for you

All the love
All the love inside me
Is on its way
Is on its way to find you
Like the tide
I will always return to you

And all the love
All the love inside you
Waits for me
In the dunes in the tall grass
You sit and smile
You are the only one
That could ever tease me

All the love
All the love inside you
Feels my steps
Getting closer to you
Down on the shore
You sing your love
To the stars
They're the guiding me back to you

All the love
All the love inside me
Feels your breath
Upon my back
And hears your song
That calls me home
If I could tell you
Of some of all the things I've seen

Of all the love
All the love inside them
Got locked away
For its own protection
For so long
It became just a memory

And all the love
All the love inside them
Twisted into hate

They have no choice
But so pass on their fear
Pass on their pain
They pour it down
Into the child
Into the man
Into the world
That grew to love
The gun that's in his hand

And all the love
All the love inside me
Felt like a drop
In a dirty ocean
I looked at the stars
Looked at my hands
And my fingertips
Trembled at the thought of touching you.

Boobar come back to me
I know you feel the pain that I feel

I've heard that a thousand times
It sings behind every door
And I go rushing into that room
To find nothing at all
I ran down into the street
And bathed in the city's noise
'Seems no matter where I go
I still hear that voice

She sang: Boobar
And all the ships came in
Before the storm began
She sang: Boobar, come back to me
I know you feel the pain, that I feel

I jumped on the nearest train
I travelled down to the shore
I screamed into the waves
But I still hear that voice
I picked up an old guitar
I tried to learn that song
It's been so many years now
Of 'where did all gone wrong?

I sang it in every town
You know, I tried my best
Some nights I almost made it shine
I've made a fool of it.
Was there a time we really sold ourselves out?
We wanted so much more
We wanted something else

I sang it in limousines
On the back of mules
It turned me into a king
It turned me into a fool

(2x)
Boobar come back to me
I know you feel the pain that I feel.

Why don't you come out
The guards have gone
They've forgotten their purpose
And shuffled along
So come feel the sun

Why don't you come out
The dogs lies sleeping
Their limbs, they twitch with the chase in their dreams
So come feel the sun

Why don't you come out
And exact your revenge
On the liars and wasters that called themselves friends
For to forgive is overrated
As they kneel at your feet
So come feel the sun

Why don't you come out
We all miss you
Your wife and babies
They just want to hold you
So come feel the sun
Touch your face
And make everything the same as it was.

Was there a time when love had failed you
And left you no place left to turn?
And was there a time when love had cradled you
And would catch you from any fall?

It's not so serious, not so serious
Not so serious, after all

And was there a wolf that escaped from your dream
And hid behind your bedroom door?
And was there a hand that reached out and pulled you near
And would catch you from any fall?

It's not so serious, not so serious
Not so serious, after all

Mother dear
The sky is falling
Through this night
I am crawling around
I need the sound of your heart.

Was that the flicker of a little girl?
(Some moments our story is meaningless.)
When you just want to feel safe, you just want to be loved
And you know there's no better place than this

Maybe I could prove myself wrong,
Maybe things fall together than pull apart

'Seen you when you were fourteen coming home from school
(It's so easy to be beautiful when you're young.)
I still see that light that is shining through those tired eyes
Could those eyes see what was coming then?

And we all want what we can't afford
And we all get what we deserve

Too many deaths and betrayals, too many lies
(Makes it hard to trust the moment you're in.)
Too many teardrops that you hold inside
(They were always gonna pour over me someday.)

Maybe I could prove myself wrong,
Held on to something I thought I never could
'Never carelessly mislaid
I always knew just where it was

Was that the flicker of a little girl?
(Some moments our story is meaningless.)

Needs must when the devil drives
He's been driving me all the way
He's got a hungry saw
He wants to tear it all up now

A gram of speed and a one-night stand
I left my baby in the devils hands
He's got an hungry saw
He wants to tear it all up now
He's got a hungry saw …

The first cut is the skin
The second is the muscle
There's a crack of the bone
And he's at your heart
There's a crack of the bone …
(And he's at your heart.)

Hello darkness my old friend
It's time to jerk those tears again
And he works that saw … so painlessly

Oh, those devils hands
Those devils hands … (oh no)
I feel them on my skin
And I love them so …
Those devils hands

(2x)
The first cut is the skin
The second is the muscle
There's a crack of the bone

And he's at your heart
There's a crack of the bone
And he's at your heart

And there's no need to 'phone home
'Cos your mother's out, with someone who ain't your dad

Those devils hands … (oh no)
Those devils hands …

On the other side of the world is an island
The shape of a woman
And I know this place
From there, there is no escape

Y'know she held me
Not too tight for she would break me
Not too loose for I would slip away
To the other side of the world
Y'know she held me
Like I could leave at any time
And I could breathe into the wire
And tell myself I'm free

When it turned under my feet
And buildings and the trees left with the wind
Left me standing
In a dirty city street, where I'm a stranger to everyone
And everyone is a stranger to me

If I could talk to you darlin'
I'd tell you all the things I could never say
Like I couldn't hear
For I love you through this wilderness
I'll love you through the shit
I loved you through the best times that there ever was
From the other side of the world.

When it turned under my feet
And buildings and the trees left with the wind
Left me standing
Now I'm shouting at satellites
Screaming down the wires
To find you

On the other side of the world is an island
The shape of a woman
And I know this place
I know this place.

The turns we took to get here
The turns we took to get here

The turns we took to get here
But the ending is it so near?
'Cause we set out so long ago …
I can't remember how or why we took that road
I can't remember how …

Sometimes I wonder about
(The turns we took to get here.)
And I wander backwards through my mind
(The turns we took to get here.)
Always that feckless youth,
Taking me down roads I never wanted to travel
Is that how I got here?

But our song is carried on the wind
And we chase so hard we fall
She sees me down upon my knees
And says 'Hey Charlie boy, it's time to come on home,
It's time to stop pretending.'

Somewhere in my house is a piece of paper
(The turns we took to get here.)
A story that brings us to this place
(The turns we took to get here.)
And I follow back down that line.
('Cause we set out so long ago …)
Always that boy, scared of his own shadow,
(The turns we took to get here.)
Always that boy,
(The turns we took to get here.)
Turning me off, turning me on

The turns we took to get here
The turns we took to get here
But the ending is it so near?
The turns we took to get here
Ohhh …
The turns we took to get here
…

Ah, those days, those days where did they go?
They shuffled through our doorways.
Are they here?

Ah, those days, those days they follow us home
and peer through our windows.
And they're here?

For all our hoping
they're here.

Ah, those nights, those nights they tiptoed by,
they crackle under our pillows
and they're here.

Then our yesterdays tomorrows,
then our yesterdays tomorrows,
then our yesterdays tomorrows,
they're here.

And still we try
to reach for what has gone behind,
but they're here.

The sun arrived, beat down until that life ran dry
and every moment burned with that fire
but they're here.

Then our yesterdays tomorrows,
then our yesterdays tomorrows,
then our yesterdays tomorrows,
they're here.

For all our hoping,
all our wondering,
they're here.

My my, it doesn't matter what you say

From the start, I hang off every word you say
Oh, tonight, are you trying to fall in love again?
Does it make it all right?
Are you trying to fall in love again?
Now, I'm a hard man gone soft
The lines were so clear then
How did I ever get by?
There was a time I hang off every word you say

Every breath you blew, I was running to inhale
Oh, tonight, are you trying to fall in love again?
Does it make it all right?
Are you trying to fall in love again?

My my, there will be other days

It comes and goes, you know it never stays
Oh, tonight, are you trying to fall in love again?
Oh, tonight, are you trying to fall in love again?
Does it make it all right?
Are you trying to fall in love again?

Does it make it all right?

You're trying to fall in love again

Don't bring that stuff to bed
I've gotta fall with a clear head
Don't tell me of those mirrors
I'll show you what you want to see
Pay no mind to those voices
I'll show you what you want to hear

Of course, it doesn't matter what you see
You're beautiful to me
It doesn't matter what they say
I want you anyway

So we live in the city Come over here
No, leave on the light
Beautiful things get run down
There's no more to say To let you know it's alright
There's a fine door that you open
There's no door
There's no option
You knew this from the start
You made a fist around your heart
I don't need to know
But she must want to show me
It's just for yourself
I can't forgive you anything
It doesn't matter what you see
You're beautiful to me
It doesn't matter what they say
I want you anyway

Don't bring that stuff to bed I'll touch you here
Gotta fall with a clear head Does it make you cry?
Don't bring that stuff to bed Don't hide those tears
Gotta fall with a clear head You know they're alright

So, you wish I was your man, and I'd understand
So, you wish I was your man, and I'd understand
Not a surface thing, we could meet down inside
Not a surface thing, we could meet way down inside
You've got a smile that never reaches your eyes
You want to try to do something right
So, take me home tonight
Turn out the light
You're just alone in the dark
So, you wish I was your man, in my consciousness you ran
In my eyes, you swam -- nothing's too much trouble for you
So, you wish I was your man, and I'd understand
So, you wish I was your man, and I'd understand you
You've got a smile that never reaches your eyes
You want to try to do something right
So, take me home tonight
Turn out the light
You're just alone in the dark

You've been lying in bed for a week now
Wondering how long it'll take
You haven't spoken or looked at her in all that time
For that was the easiest line you could break

She's been going round her business as usual
Always with that melancholic smile
But you were too busy looking into your affairs
To see those tiny tears in her eyes

Chorus:
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don’t let them pour all over me

How can you hurt someone so much
you're supposed to care for
Someone you said you'd always be there for
But when that water breaks
you know you're gonna cry, cry
When those tears start rolling you'll be back

Chorus
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don't let them pour all over me

You've been thinking about the time,
you've been dreading it
But now it seems that moment has arrived
She's at the edge of the bed, she gets in
But it's hard to turn the opposite way tonight

Chorus

Don't let them pour all over me

You've been lying in bed for a week now
Wondering how long it'll take
You haven't spoken or looked at her in all that time
For that was the easiest line you could break

She's been going round her business as usual
Always with that melancholic smile
But you were too busy looking into your affairs
To see those tiny tears in her eyes

Chorus:
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don’t let them pour all over me

How can you hurt someone so much
you're supposed to care for
Someone you said you'd always be there for
But when that water breaks
you know you're gonna cry, cry
When those tears start rolling you'll be back

Chorus
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up a sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don't let them pour all over me

You've been thinking about the time,
you've been dreading it
But now it seems that moment has arrived
She's at the edge of the bed, she gets in
But it's hard to turn the opposite way tonight

Chorus

Don't let them pour all over me

Two hours twenty minutes
To one, five past
Now it's laying somewhere out there in the ground
And I've lost you
I was cheated

It was something belonged only to me
And now it's gone through my own stupidity
And I lost you
I was cheated
Two whole years spent earning your love
Now it's hanging around in the clouds
Well I've lost you
I was cheated

I'm cheated by my own vanity
Whispering rumours, bullying me
Well I spent it
It wasn't worth it

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And for those who are not so beautiful as her
Not giving excuses, but oh...
When it's originally tossed away
It can easily be reclaimed by her
By her

All those years spent building myself up
Trying to stop my staring
And start taking two steps instead of one
But they're so gone now

Feeling relatively good

I pretend to understand
When those eyes hung on mine
But you know, you get it wrong in the end
I pretend to know what it's about
You choose explanations to soothe myself
But you know, you got it wrong and it's the end

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Now I only laugh with people
Who have no reason to care
Feeling good about things that don't mean nothing

I get caught by what you mean
Hey I could love you when you're ever here
But you know, you got it wrong and it's the end
You know what I say, see what I do
There's a part of me still hiding from you
I miss you, there I said it again

You know what I say, see what I do
There's a part of me still hiding from you
I miss you, there I said it again