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When Day Is Done
Cummings/Joe Camilleri |
Somewhere a long time ago In the blue night You had a dream A love supreme And that dream, it gave you a fright An insight You need something you could come to me You could come to me Come to me You turn on your heel And you ran away from me Said, you knew, said you knew you'd get neurotic about it eventually Seeing someone Yeah I see you, I see you And if it's meant to be It's meant to be And after this Will you still see me It's not the arrival It's what happens on the journey When day is done, when the day is through I'm stuck, still stuck on you When the day is done, when the day is through I'm stuck, still stuck on you I was seeing this girl Trouble, what else is there? It's all trouble And we're laughing manically On the telephone Talking to her It was no trouble at all It was no trouble at all When day is done, when the day is through I'm stuck, still stuck on you When the day is done, when the day is through I'm stuck, still stuck on you It was winter And it was bitterly cold Some new kinda flu It was a precarious time for us but What I knew When day is done, when the day is through I'm stuck, still stuck on you When day is done, when day is through I'm stuck, still stuck on you
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A Life Is A Life
Cummings/Dean Richards |
Patti Labelle was singing, "going down makes me shiver" Sooner or later we're all going down to that river We'll meet our maker and he'll take care of all the details And when he wails I know what you need Someday we'll all be freed Well what are we going to say If it doesn't quite work out that way I know what you need Someday we'll all be freed Well what are we going to say If it doesn't quite work out that way A life is a life More or less A life is a life An SOS A life is a life More or less A life is a life An SOS You were dancin' to the SOS band's "just be good to me" Keep your feet on the ground and your hopes up high and mighty Life is just a waiting room, don't collapse like a pile of bricks Lighten up, kick against the pricks I know what you need Someday we'll all be freed Well what are we going to say If it doesn't quite work out that way I know what you need Someday we'll all be freed Well what are we going to say If it doesn't quite work out that way A life is a life More or less A life is a life An SOS A life is a life More or less A life is a life An SOS I know what you need Someday we'll all be freed Well what are we going to say If it doesn't quite work out that way I know what you need Someday we'll all be freed Well what are we going to say If it doesn't quite work out that way A life is a life More or less A life is a life An SOS A life is a life More or less A life is a life An SOS
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Screwed Up State Of Affairs
Cummings/Dean Richards |
I'm in no condition To discuss this condition that I find myself in It's just wishful thinking Oh my heart was sinking Sometimes I miss you a helluvva lot A screwed up state of affairs And no one even cares A screwed up state of affairs And no one even cares I'm well aware there's someone elsewhere and they're just like you We were talking in bed, when I think you said I met someone new I was trying to figure out where it all went wrong You said, hey but you're so headstrong You're way off groove You can't make a move Without screwing up That's what you're doing A screwed up state of affairs And no one even cares A screwed up state of affairs And no one even cares I'm well aware there's someone elsewhere and they're just like you We were talking in bed, when I think you said I met someone new Life can be so strange... You're wasting away Today clouds were low and grey A man alone is easy prey A screwed up state of affairs And no one even cares A screwed up state of affairs And no one even cares I'm well aware there's someone elsewhere and they're just like you We were talking in bed, when I think you said you met someone new A screwed up state of affairs And no one even cares A screwed up state of affairs And no one even cares
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Running Away
Cummings/Andrew Pendlebury |
It was the kind of a day that you wished you'd never got up Smell of rain in the air and it's about to erupt When there's too much coincidence And you more or less admit defeat You bump into an old flame on the street And you're both shuffling your feet Running away I wasn't even running away Just catching my breath Running away I wasn't even running away Just catching my breath Everything takes longer than you expect it to I'd been out walking, trying to get a hold of you Good morning blues, you're so punctual, come on in With skin like porcelain Balanced her coffee on her knee And told me all about her family Running away I wasn't even running away Just catching my breath Running away I wasn't even running away Just catching my breath Yeah, but still I get frightened and my shoulders feel tight And I can't get back to sleep in the middle of the night Walked you home, kissed you at your front gate Wrote your phone number on a scrap of paper, while I wait Then we talked about life, death and uncertainty And made a tentative date to see an American movie Running away I wasn't even running away Just catching my breath Running away I wasn't even running away Just catching my breath
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Your House Is Falling
Cummings/Andrew Pendlebury |
The spirit is fragile And climbs up on the roof Who said love was foolproof The ceiling is leaking We're not speaking We were the closest of friends And when the darkest night descends She threw her hands up in despair I ran mine through my hair I asked her for a cab fare Enough is enough Folks have a certain way of doing stuff She said you don't care one bit, don't care what you forfeit She'd been hurt, I should have been more alert I was digging a ditch with this train of thought We were both distraught We needed support Then she said Your house is falling, falling apart Your house is falling, falling apart I was connecting the unconnectable Unscrewing the unscruitable The M.O. is so familiar It's beautiful Grateful kiss It's weariness And the rain keeps falling all over the town Well I tell ya, it's not the coffee that keeps me from sleep Drops me in the deep It gave me quite a start, when she said Your house is falling, falling apart Your house is falling, falling apart Your house is falling, falling apart Your house is falling, falling apart Your house is falling, falling apart (oh tumbling down) Your house is falling, falling apart (falling apart) Your house is falling, falling apart Your house is falling, falling apart (ad lib and fade)
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Melancholy Hour
Cummings/Shane O'Mara |
Slumped against the bar, chewing the fat with a friend The door opened and shut and then opened and shut again Disappointment, pride's about to take a fall Beams from the car lights made patterns on the walls "Don't be mad at me", my friend broke down and did confess That he was having a liaison with our favourite waitress I was dumbfounded, obviously I was in distress Jane is her name and Jane is wearing a Picasso print dress This is the melancholy, melancholy hour This is the melancholy, melancholy hour Well rain was still falling, hey look what the cat's dragged in It was Jane and she was soaked to the skin I said Jane tell me, why him? She said, it was my night off, it doesn't mean anything Well I said if on that same wet night it had been me Jane said it wouldn't have happened, you were too melancholy You're talking to stay awake, tell me Jane is anything wrong She said, don't ever use this against me in some dumb song This is the melancholy, melancholy hour This is the melancholy, melancholy hour Don't fall asleep behind the wheel of your car on your way home tonight Watch the clouds baby, not the building sites Don't fall asleep behind the wheel of your car on your way home tonight Watch the clouds in the sky, not the building sites Anyone may fall from grace into the arms of temptation Don't you be harsh on me, someday you might be in the same situation Happily that's how this story ends Jane and I are still friends Slumped against the bar, still chewing the fat with the same friends The door opens and shuts, opens and shuts again Disappointment, pride's about to take a fall Beams from the car lights made patterns on the wall This is the melancholy, melancholy hour This is the melancholy, melancholy hour This is the melancholy, melancholy hour This is the melancholy, melancholy hour
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Silent As The Grave
Cummings |
Your heart beating flames my confusion As beauty blunders into my room This improbable world can be an impossible pain Some miracles gonna have to happen soon The day disappears and it seems like There's nothing I can say or do I thought well I'll change and you'll change, it'll even out And then you said, now I don't even like you As silent as the grave As silent as the grave Foolish heart, you upset me so You don't really believe that do you, heaven be praised, no And so our quarrel continued from room to room Yeah well nobody wants to be the last to go You've got eyes baby, what's the story, can't you see You might have to take a dive for your dreams eventually Even if we mess up that good thing we once had Cheerful, fearful, happy or sad As silent as the grave As silent as the grave As silent as the grave As silent as the grave You've got eyes baby, what's the story, can't you see You might have to take a dive for your dreams eventually Even if we mess up that good thing that we once had Cheerful, fearful, happy or sad As silent as the grave As silent as the grave As silent as the grave As silent as the grave
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When Love Comes Back To Haunt You
Cummings/Colin Talbot/Shane O'Mara |
When love comes back to haunt you You drink too much, you think too much and fall For the memory of it all It was nothing at all And it does you no good to pretend that the past Has a ghost of a chance to return again Though I tell myself over and over that love can never end When love comes back to haunt you It whispers the pain you thought had gone Had been waiting like a thief all along When love comes back to haunt you It whispers the pain you thought had gone Had been waiting like a thief all along When love comes back to haunt you All the magic disappears from your sky And you know that you're going to keep on living But you want to die What we must have had was a haunting melody To cast such a spell on us And we danced such a pretty dance That we were quite delirious When love comes back to haunt you It whispers the pain you thought had gone Had been waiting like a thief all along When love comes back to haunt you It whispers the pain you thought had gone Had been waiting like a thief all along When love comes back to haunt you You don't need to draw a diagram You don't need to paint a picture Or talk on the telephone ad nauseam When love comes back to haunt you It whispers the pain you thought had gone Had been waiting like a thief all along When love comes back to haunt you It whispers the pain you thought had gone Had been waiting like a thief all along
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Carrying A Torch For You (For Years)
Cummings/Shane O'Mara |
Maybe I was sick, only I, I didn't know it Maybe it was a trick Of the night Something inexplicit You think that nothing's going to change the way ya feel You're in a state of blessed grace And now my aching heart Is gonna have to turn about face It's the law of desire, fate knocked at my door So I let her in My friend said he was surprised it hadn't happened before And how it's fascinating Trouble can't always be seen Till it's right on top of you Till it hands you the old switcheroo Carrying a torch for you Carrying a torch for you Carrying a torch for you, for years It's a most sweet, brief moment of grief I'm curious to see your look of disbelief I get scared and I know that But try not to feel disappointed in me This unreliable heart Is sometimes not as strong as it should be Carrying a torch for you Carrying a torch for you Carrying a torch for you, for years You think that nothing's going to change the way ya feel You're in a state of blessed grace And now my aching heart Is gonna have to turn about face Carrying a torch for you Carrying a torch for you Carrying a torch for you, for years
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Come On, Come On
Cummings/Andrew Pendlebury - an instrumental version of this song titled "Crime of Time" appears on Andrew Pendlebury's "Don't Hold Back That Feeling" album |
The car was moving Swaying across the white lines Fires lit across the flatlands Smoke hung at tree level A world stretched out flat Like cinemascope Disorder, disruption, darkness Light and hope Out here the stars really shine Almost caress your skin Here at the river's edge In search of a direction People like us go forward Almost timid at heart Strange magic of the highway Impatient to depart Come on, come on Come on, come on Come on, come on A calmness A yearning Seems like we're always too late New moon shimmering Reluctantly We arrived at dawn The rising sun a ball of fire I'll drive she said Just as soon as we fix this flat tyre Come on, come on Come on, come on Come on, come on Come on, come on
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Here Is Where The Sky Is Blue
Cummings/Andrew Pendlebury - from CD release of A New Kind Of Blue |
Clenching my fists, thanking you for the advice The air was clear and cold, have a happy and virtuous life Stars and flowers, whatever riches you possess You're a whole lot of trouble bundled up in a little black dress Here is where the heart is hard to subdue Here is where the sky is blue Standing here thinking of you with some affection Running down the alley, keep your heart alert Whatcha gonna do when the worst comes to happen You know who to turn to when they dish that dirt Here is where the heart is hard to subdue Here is where the sky is blue Here is where the sky is blue Here is always brave and true Impossible to subdue Here is where the sky is blue You look good today with your hair all messed up It's a wonderful terrible pain to be in love All uncertainties and doubts, swoops and darts You upset this limp lump that I call my heart Here is where the heart is hard to subdue Here is where the sky is blue Here is where the sky is blue Here is always brave and true Impossible to subdue Here is where the sky is blue
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Keep On Asking Me/Questions
Cummings/Andrew Pendlebury - from CD release of A New Kind Of Blue |
Sunshine and simplicity From now on, I tell you that's how it's going to be Someone's always ready to do a deal If you were me then you'd know how I feel When you... Keep on asking me all those questions That I don't know the answers to Keep on asking me all those questions That I don't know the answers to It never hurts to do Somebody a favour or two Love me tenderly When we first met you were just twenty Spent the afternoon in your room Going over the lost years You say a person stumbles into your life and hey they just disappear So don't... Keep on asking me all those questions That I don't know the answers to Keep on asking me all those questions That I don't know the answers to I'm foolish, tired, ridiculous and all the rest But your unaffected beauty it leaves me deeply impressed Her lips are just finely shaped things And then she says, hey people, they're just things without wings So don't you... Keep on asking me all those questions That I don't know the answers to Keep on asking me all those questions That I don't know the answers to
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The Last Thing
Cummings/Dean Richards - from CD release of A New Kind Of Blue |
Whoever's in charge out there Show some interest, a little care Don't say it don't happen It happens all the time Hope, health and strength of mind No matter what drugs or medications Whatever residue Love's easy to misconstrue But hard to subdue The last thing I'm supposed to do Isn't it enough I'm doing this for you? The last thing I'm supposed to do Isn't it enough I'm doing this for you? I don't know if it's wrong or right I thought you all sweetness and light Beyond temptation lies my narcissus Oh you are so suspicious Times I think I can Times I think I can't Your power to enchant I want more An encore A feeling you can't ignore The last thing I'm supposed to do Isn't it enough I'm doing this for you? The last thing I'm supposed to do Isn't it enough I'm doing this for you?