North lyrics

You Left Me In The Dark See how the elements obey? Eyes are blue Skies are grey Nothing I do can make you stay I'm glad it will rain today You left me standing alone Although I thought that we could not be parted But if I'd only known That this would be the last loving remark You left me in the dark Then I awoke to my dismay I thought we'd make it all the way Allowing myself one more cliché The last hurrah, the first bouquet You left me standing alone although I thought that we could not be parted But if I'd only known That this would be the last loving remark You left me in the dark Someone Took The Words Away Poor head Can hardly move my lips for speaking I said So, what is this thing I cannot explain? I'd blame all the things I feel but can't quite place Perhaps they're written on my face Someone took the words away Why don't you speak up and say what you mean? Summon my powers of conversation I talk to myself, I'm fine When you're around, Then I decline the invitation It's strange to finally find myself so tongue-tied A change has come over me I'm powerless to express Every thing I know but cannot speak And if I try my voice will break Someone took the words away Someone took the words away When Did I Stop Dreaming? You appeared when I was lost in reverie If this is not a dream, it's my mistake And now I lie in wait for dawn to break I'm fairly sure I'm wide awake Pardon me, if I seem distant and strange Just tell me when did I stop dreaming? Let me get this straight Did I hallucinate? This fine and helpless feeling Tell me when did I stop dreaming? Let me know if you can help me explain I didn't recognise the danger But people will talk Was I just sleepwalking? Footprints left on the ceiling Tell me when did I stop dreaming? Then why should you care? This is my nightmare Was this one dream too deep? Now if I could only sleep Answer me, if you see the end in sight I'm just a soul who's lost in limbo Neither bad or good I'd spare you now if I could One more teardrop Then I'll wake up Tell me when did I stop dreaming? You Turned To Me You turned to me And all at once I knew I was betrayed My eyes met yours just down the darkened path Where both of us had strayed Nothing good can come out of this I know it may not be But just then you turned to me And I thought for a moment Like the fool that I've become I might be the one To turn these lights back on Just as I began to say It's never worth the price you pay I was going there anyway You turned to me And all at once I knew that you had seen How I was lost in something quite like love When all I did was dream Now as evening becomes the dawn I wonder where you'll be And just why you turned to me Fallen All the leaves are turning yellow, red and brown Soon they'll be scattered as they tumble down Although they may be swept up so invitingly I never did what I was told I trampled though the amber and the burnished gold But now I clearly see how cruel the young can be You can convince yourself of anything If you wish both hard and long And I believed that life was wonderful Right up to the moment when love went wrong I gaze up at the tree-tops and laugh I need somebody to shake me loose I want to know what happens next 'Til I don't care at all There I go Beginning to fall When It Sings All the words you say to me Have music in them All the sorrows and the joys like magnetism And a selfish boy looks through a prism And says what is But never asks what isn't But a voice contains many precious things It laughs And then it sings And all the lies that we can tell To our foolish selves Maybe this is the love song that I refused to Write her when I loved her like I used to And I fear my heart may spin and fracture Like tears of stone falling from a statue But a voice contains all that's true and false Then cries for someone else And for some honest tenderness So I must confess All the words you say to me Have music in them All the sorrows and the joys like magnetism And a selfish boy looks through a prism And says what is But never asks what isn't Still These few lines I'll devote To a marvelous girl covered up in my coat Pull it up to your chin I'll hold you until the day will begin Still Lying in the shadows this new flame will cast Upon everything we carry from the past You were made of every love and each regret Up until the day we met There are no words that I'm afraid to hear Unless they are "Goodbye, my dear" Still I was moving very fast But in one place Now you speak my name and set my pulse to race Sometimes words may tumble out but can't eclipse The feeling when you press your fingers to my lips I want to kiss you in a rush And whisper things to make you blush And you say, "Darling, hush Hush" Still, still Let Me Tell You About Her I wasn't very indiscreet and yet That is a notion that I might as well forget Friends look at me these days with fond surprise But when I start to speak they roll their eyes Let me tell you about her Hush now, I've said too much There's something indescribable I can't quite catch Let me tell you about her The way that she makes me feel Then draw a curtain on this scene I shan't reveal Some things are too personal Too intimate to spill And gentlemen don't speak of them And this one never will I wasn't very conversational Accept to say that, "You're sensational" Friends now regard me with indulgent smiles But when I start to speak they run for miles Let me tell you about her Hush now, I've said too much There's something indescribable I can't quite catch Let me tell you about her The way that she makes me feel Then draw a curtain on this scene I shan't reveal Can You Be True? Can you be true? Can this possibly be real? I knew quite suddenly Do you sense how I feel? I long to hear you whisper my name 'Til you tell me "My Darling, you may be my man." There will be days when you must go from my sight There may be nights when clouds deny us starlight Only time will tell us I hope that it speaks gently if it isn't meant to be Then again By then we might not be listening so attentively I will be there If the days bring torments and trials To close the distances only measured in miles I long to hold you all through the night And to tell you "My Darling, you make everything seem right" And then I'll hear you calling in my name And I'll answer "My Darling, I may be your man" When Green Eyes Turn Blue Every single time It becomes too much There's nothing I can say Or I can touch But the glory is, as it comes passing through, I know I will be there When green eyes turn blue It's the same for me Time appears to teach There is nothing quite beyond our reach Wits may sharpen up Their cuts and clever flays Let them squander all of them You brighten up my darkest gaze And as a consequence I can see out of the gloom That I gathered about myself That I thought would flatter me What the hell was the matter with me Every single time I approached despair I thought of your name and you were there I won't burden you As promises will do But I know I will be there When green eyes turn blue. I'm In The Mood Again Hail to the taxis They go where I go Farewell the newspapers that know more than I know Flung under a street-lamp still burning at dawn I'm in the mood again I walk the damp streets rather than slumber Along past the fine windows of shameless and plunder But none of their riches could ever compare I'm in the mood again I don't know what's come over me But it's nothing that I'm doing wrong You took the breath right out of me Now you'll find it in the early hours In a lover's song I lay my head down on fine linens and satin Away from the mad-hatters who live in Manhattan The Empire State Building illuminating the sky I'm in the mood, I'm in the mood, I'm in the mood again.

<<  When I Was Cruel The Delivery Man  >> North studio album by Elvis Costello Released September 11, 2003 Recorded April-May 2003, Nola Studios and/or Avatar Studios, New York Producer Elvis Costello & Kevin Killen Label Deutsche Grammophon

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