Does any1 know the lyrics to deacon blue - haunted?

Answer 1

www.lyrics.com

Answer 2

Have you tried doing a search on the internet or going onto the Deacon Blue website? How about looking on the CD case to see if the lyrics are there?

Answer 3

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Answer 4

boooooooooooooooooo copy and paste.....just google it man....

Answer 5

lyrics.com you will get them there

Answer 6

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Answer 7

All Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross Lyrics

Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
A Brighter Star Than You Will Shine Lyrics

Down on the flag stones
The accordians
And sweet trumpets rise
Rusty memories
Of sin and doubting
Mingle in around
The Queen Street
Traffic noise

Would that all the love in the world
Watch me through the night

You know the preacher
All he preaches is vanity
Maybe,At last,You`ll see
A brighter star than you will shine one day

Hymns and words and busy planets
Said the preacher have come and gone
Even your smile will one day die away
When your wealth and words are forgotten

Would that all the love in the world
Stay with me tonight

You know the preacher
All he preaches is vanity
Maybe,At last,You`ll see
A brighter star than you will shine one day



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Closing Time Lyrics

This is the way we walk
This is how we walk
At closing time
These are the songs we sing
These are our songs
At closing time
And in the clear
Of this sweet moonshine
We`ll walk back
To where we started
On our own again

This is my favourite time
Drink up now and move outside
It`s closing time
My most favourite lips
Are on the girls that I kissed
At closing time
And in the clear of dear sweet moonshine
We`ll walk back
To where we started
On our own again

When all the people are just
Shuffling home
When all the saddest things are
Said and done
And all the words are brighter
In the happy light of
Closing time

We took the shortcut home
Over the wood slat bridge
And stood and gazed and wished
Till all the clouds
Had vanished
Nothing could be missed
And only the river passed
And there at the back of eleven
In the late summer night
A leaf landed soft
Soft soft soft
And sorrowful
And your belly was warm
As the day was long
And night came upon us
So fast

Would you be poor
Not to be sure
That everything lasts for ever
Some things don`t get better
Till you`re on your own again

CHORUS


We took the shortcut home
Over the wood slat bridge
And stood and stared and wished
Till all the clouds
Had vanished
Nothing could be missed


And only the river passed
And there at the back of eleven
A leaf landed soft and sorrowful
And your belly was warm
And the day was long
And night came upon us


So fast
So fast
Came so fast
Came so fast
Came so fast
And all we said


Da da do do
All we said was
All we said was
Was da da do do
Was da da do do
Da da do do


And all we said
Do do
Do do
Do do



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Cover From The Sky Lyrics

I will love you when the morning is ascending
I will love you when the moon is riding high
I will love you when we only have pretending
When our home becomes a cover from the sky

Well my eyes have seen the dust and then the ashes
And the lowland and white sky of your home
And the rain that washed mascara from my lashes
And nothing gave us cover from the sky

When you`re gone I notice all your tiny touches
And it`s then that I see i`ts then that I know why
If the days become the walls you never wanted
Our years will give us cover from the sky
From the sky

Well we`ve been among the saints and the angels
And we don`t want to wait until we die
So we`ll stand among the ruins of our temples
And prey to god for cover from the sky



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Fellow Hoodlums Lyrics

On the night that
Maxton died
I fell over
The Clyde was full of old tyres
The wind nearly pulled my
Breeches off
And Ann Kelly
She kissed my mouth

Fellow hoodlums and
Engineers
The Union`s south
And we`re all here
I`m going up Buchanan Street
With a box of fireworks
And two bottles of
Tizer

On the last train from St. Enochs
I saw the graveyard
It looked like our old street
People were cheering
All the way from Hampden
With macaroons and
And scarves and rattles

CHORUS

Billy`s a butcher now
Always has been
And he picks his teeth
With old rusty meat hooks
And he sends his beef with the bike boys
Monday to Saturday
Partick to Cowcaddens

CHORUS



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Goodnight Jamsie Lyrics

You were a good man
Jamsie
Everone loves you
Now you`re gone
And the seagulls over
Where you lie
Sing your final song

I`m walking back
Away from here
To see where you belong
Here`s the church
And here`s the work
And here`s where shows were at the fair

Take me on your skirling waltzer
And scream the ghost train down
And buckle me to the chairy plane
As the big wheel goes round



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
I Will See You Tomorrow Lyrics

Outside the world
The wind is howling
Through the broken trees
And the moon is shining
As the river meets the sea

And I will see you tomorrow
Calm and bright in tender light
And my heart will be racing
Like your wakening eyes

Inside my room the curtain`s blowing
And our bed it lies unmade
But the morning will be broken
By the loving words you say


CHORUS


Though you`re far still your heart sounds loud beating time with me
Through the day the only grace I get is
I want to be you

In the world time were rushing
Like the cool evening breeze
But my soul is calm
And I will see you presently



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
James Joyce Soles Lyrics

Here`s the pictures
I promised to send
You see the airbase
Where we were sent
Now the winter
Has started to descend
Your loving son was sent here

I got your letter
From Boise Idaho
To James Joyce Soles
To James Joyce Soles
I went down at midnight
To the Holy Loch shore
And scattered the ashes
Of James Joyce Soles

He knew the reasons
Why we were here
He loved your parcels
And all your care
You`re so thoughtful
They`re so fair
I know my friend thought so
Was James Joyce Soles

He`s not just a soldier
He`s not just a friend
He`s been in the wars
In a foreign land
He`s been on the payphone
When itr was so cold
He was my comfort
Was James Joyce Soles
He was my comfort
In a country so old
He was my comfort
Was James Joyce Soles



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
One Day I'll Go Walking Lyrics

Water
Tiny at first then bigger
And it flowed right down
From the highest hill
And it grew and it joined
The battling burn
And it flowed right through
To where we are now

Standing
Beside a cool cool stream
It`s hard to imagine
The great and terrible river you`ll be
Bringing life or rest
Or wonder
Or high high tide
And in times like this
You bring me here

And when the wind is blowing quick time
For the waves to be dancing by
And the moon is watching over
The purple gloaming sky
I`ll go walking
Yeah
One day
I`ll go walking

Sometimes I come down here
And I don`t know why
It`s like a garden or a room
Or a dream that you
Keep on trying to find
It leaves you feeling that maybe
Maybe there`s a destination you`ve missed
And all along the way you hope the reason that you came was blessing
Hah
Some holy kiss

CHORUS

Let me ask you a question


Give me the
Just give me
Just give me five

Did you see the picture
Or did you read the book
I mean
Did you really go there
Or were you only took
I said
Were you believing
Or were you just shook
Well I went inside and I
It was dark and
Then I stood

I stared out long and fast
Till my eyes were hurting
And I saw the hands on the saviour
And all his bloody feet
And his hair and his clothes were all
Mattered and torn
Were they only dirty from the beating of the soldiers or just
Just from walking ?



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Day That Jackie Jumped The Jail Lyrics

The day that Jackie jumped the jail
There was a big explosion just as he got off the motorway
And thirty thousand fireworks took the piss out of Princes Street Gardens
So he drove up to the Budgie for a livener
See the smell of cabbages first thing in the morning

The sun will be up again
And you you will be loved again

After the sausages and cream of the barley
There was aframe or two to be had at the "Imperial" on Mitchell Street
Five years ago he`d buried her memory with a snooker cue on a daft wee student`s head
Still he remembered everything

The sun will be up again
And you you will be loved again
And the wind
And the rain
And the wind
And the rain
Falls around

As he walked down Hope Street he thought about the last time they`d been together
He`d been wearing a green parka and he`d bought her yellow stilettos
That squeezed her toes
He`d told her the whole story as she took him into the wee penn behind Sloan`s
And let him feel her all over
For the last time
Ten minutes later the meat wagon picked him up

The sun will be up again
And You,You will be loved again
You will be loved
And the wind
And the rain
Falls around
All over this town



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Wildness Lyrics

Oh the rush hour is over
And the night has been trying
To drive us and chase us away
But we`re lovely and drunk now
And our laugh dosen`t
Rattle or fray
And the friday folk
Are coming round
Let the wildness
Have its way

Oh sweet autumn
With your dark surprise
And your short days all smudged with gold
You covered up
Worn paths for us
So no story could be told
And sent the dark
Come tumbling down
So the wildness
Can`t grow cold
So the morning
Would never know

Of the wildness
Of the wildness
Driving me on again
Of the wildness
Of the wildness
Shaking me
Letting me know

There were two of us driving
We were six miles out
And a
Hundred miles to go
Still the morning lies waiting
And the light falls
On your travel map
I`m still here hoping
For the wildness
To relax
For the wildness
To go back

CHORUS


I went up to your house one night
I took 59 in the rain
And I saw your tiny face shine
So calm and so bright
And so gay
I called in
I called out
I couldn`t see any other name
I woke
One morning
With the wildness
Once again
With the wildness
Shining in


CHORUS



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Twist And Shout Lyrics

You`ve got a lot of
Tings to say about the
Big world and the
High skies so you
Walk a little in a
Long mile to be
Sure your eyes can see the
Right sights

I see a
Pale girl in a
Blue room with a
Pink dress and a
Wide smile I see a
Pale girl in a
Blue room with a
Pink dress and a
Wide smile

You`ve got a little
Way to go before you
Find the knowledge that you`re
Searching for so you`ll
Turn the big world
Upside down
To find the things that you
Never wanted

I see a
Pale girl in a
Blue room with a
Pink dress and a
Wide smile I need a
Pink smile on a
Dark night from the
Right girl to be
Sure it`s right

You`ve got three million things to get mad about
Another hundred things to get glad about
Junk food
The whole world over`s good as standing round
So baby twist and shout baby
Find out baby
Find out baby
Find out baby

So it`s April and the
Tings you say don`t
Seem as certain as on
Hogmanay when we
Kissed at midnight and a
Wee wee Bells had
Gave me courage for my
My heart to tell

I see a
Pale girl in a
Blue room with a
Pink dress and a
Wide smile I need a
Pink smile on a
Dark night from the
Right girl to be
Sure it`s right

CHORUS


Twist and shout
Come on come on baby



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Your Swaying Arms Lyrics

Send me back all the thing she ever wrote
Tell me secrets of her days when she was young
Show me nights when she laughed
So innocent
I`ll be happy
Waiting till they come

Love the people that she smiled upon
Walk with me in streets
Where she once stood
Say if it could be that we once passed like strangers
Long before the love we ever new

`Cause I`ve been longing
For a new world waiting
I`ve been hoping
To be sent
I`ve been picking up
All the love we squandered
Until you
Hold me in your swaying arms again

One day I can see us walking
Arm and arm in sheltered Kelvin way
Talking and tripping and teasing
And heading for the best part of the day

When your head
Falls softly on my pillow
No fear will make you cry or turn you grey
And we will wake
So early in the morning
Knowing you`ll never
Never
Never go away

CHORUS



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
A Is For Astronaut Lyrics

You don't have to be grateful
For all the world's ills
There's plenty of people
Never seen the white cliffs of Dover

So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything
So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything

Got caught in the headlights
Saying something special
There's never a moment
When the beat stops long enough to hear the message

So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything
So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything

We all get stuck and we don't know why
We think there's no place we can go to
We need to trip on to

So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything
So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything
So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Beautifully Still Lyrics

Send me down my future
From your wheel of fire
Let me only fly
On your wings of desire
What happened to that ride
On your chariot of gold
It had only lasted minutes
From the centuries you hold

What happened to the reign
The reign of love?
Where have all the angels gone
Now the sun's not up above?
You lie so beautifully still
I can't see you move

I want us to be closer
In fifty years or more
Getting young not older
Like we were here before
But your quarters are all sullied
Your alter boys asleep
Your priests have drunk the wine
You meant us all to keep

What happened to the reign
The reign of love?
Where have all the angels gone
Now the sun's not up above?
You lie so beautifully still
I can't see you move

What happened to the reign
The reign of love?
Where have all the angels gone
Now the sun's not up above?
You lie so beautifully still
I can't see you move
I'm not saying your dead
I just think you've changed
You lie so beautifully still
I can't see you move



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Even Higher Ground Lyrics

I could almost weep
If I could only take your hand
we're so close to sleep
And so far from deliverance
Once in every lifetime
Love comes down

Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Even higher ground
Would not make you fall
Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Would not make you fall

Oh you came tumbling in
Like a river to the valley
Which will not be rolling green again
It's washed everything away
Well it stretches out so beautifully
Shows the heavens up above

Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Even higher ground
Would not make you fall
Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall

I couldn't love you better
If I'd loved you all my life
You threw out all the questions
With one big breath - welcome to the world

Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Even higher ground
Would not make you fall
Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Every Time You Sleep Lyrics

I go to work
And I get in early
Lying to myself I need to be there
I pass the church
And all the hurly burly
Of all the people as they walk without a care
How I'd love to tell them of how I get so happy
Maybe now's not the time
But when's it going to be right?

I come awake
Every time you sleep
I slip away
But it gets so hard to leave
Watching you down deep
And all my troubles to keep
Every time you sleep

You walk to work
And I walk out with you
Lying to the people that we're together
You cross the street
To catch the waterloo train
And I slink back to walk the quiet way back home
How I'd love to sing about what gets me happy
Maybe now's the time
Maybe it's alright?

I come awake
Every time you sleep
I slip away
But it gets so hard to leave
Watching you down deep
And all my troubles to keep
Every time you sleep

I want to get on the telephone
I want to call everyone
I want to know what to say when you mean it

I come awake
Every time you sleep
I slip away
But it gets so hard to leave
Watching you down deep
And all my troubles to keep
Every time you sleep
Every time you sleep
Every time you sleep



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Homesick Lyrics

There's me and daddy out at Lunan Bay
Now looking dandy stepping out Saturday
I can still see the buses
Lined up to take the dancing home

That's me on the stairs suitcase in hand
Kidding on but knowing that one day he planned
To leave all that behind
And see what the big smoke's saying

These are just some photographs talking
Make it look easy
To imagine just walking
Back into someone's arms
And feeling
Homesick
Homesick
Homesick

Maybe you have a question too
You recognise a face in unfamiliar shoes
You don't see a man just someone broken down
Standing in front of you

This could be just a photograph talking
I make it look easy
To get up and start walking
Back out of these arms
And feeling
Homesick
Homesick
Homesick

I'm just
Homesick
Homesick
Homesick



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
I Am Born Lyrics

All the people in all the world
Will look for something that will keep it turning
Everyone's got to keep the will
Every boy every girl

I'm no different why the other day
I saw death like an ocean that could wash us away
The only comfort that I got was this
I once was unlovely and now I'm kissed

I am born
Aliver than the raging sea
Stranger than the strangest beasts
Than ever can be

After midnight and the night is black
You lie awake and the fear comes back
That your breath will stop
And this world will carry on

But I am born
Once there was nothing here
Not even the smell of fear
Nothing at all

Until you are born
Gasping out and in to open air
Taking hold of the atmosphere
And loving being born



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Now That You're Here Lyrics

Everything's got easier since you've been around
Everything's got easier since you've been around

If you're thinking of looking at setting me free
Be sure and tell me baby, so I can see
Cause you can charm the birds down from that old oak tree
Someday I know I'm scared it's gonna be me

These are just the sad times
Don't go thinking they're gonna last forever
These are just the bad times
Everything's got easier now that you're here

Are we awake or are we asleep?
Is there something, something you really need?
Your love, your love, your love is what makes me believe
It keeps raging so hard it brings me peace

These are just the sad times
Don't go thinking they're gonna last forever
These are just the bad times
Everything's got easier now that you're here

Everything's got easier since you've been around
Everything's got easier since you've been around
Everything's got easier since you've been around
Everything's got easier since you've been around

These are just the sad times
Don't imagine things just can't get better
These are just the bad times
Don't go thinking they're gonna last forever
These are just the bad times
Everything's got easier now
Everything's got easier now
Everything's got easier now
Everything's got easier now that you're here



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Out There Lyrics

I got something and I know it's true
Cause I know you're out there
We all want somebody like you
Cause we all know that you're out there

Animal boys and earthen girls
Are meeting out there
All the friends made in the world
Are waiting out there

I got lost and it all went black
But I saw the light and I got you back
We only love the way we do
Cause there's something out there

Under the stars when it's late at night
I know you're out there
Something knocking and it can't be right
Means we need you're out there
In the city there's a million prayers
Going to someone out there
I found love and it was burning bright
Cause I saw it out there

Beautiful stories you've never heard
Trust me baby you can lean on the wind
We only love the way we do
Cause there's someone out there

Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank
Digging it out there
Jimmy Rogers on the last train back
Sounds better out there

I got lost and it all went black
But I saw the light and I got you back
We only love the way we do
Cause there's something out there



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Rae Lyrics

I can't go with you
And I can't let you go
You can't be with me
So I won't let it show
I don't want you to know
So I'll just have to let you go

I'm going to love you so much better
You'll forget the error of my ways
I'm sending you the good I wished I'd given you
Oh how I miss you Rae
Some day you might well laugh at this
As memories of love all shift and time slips away

So don't cry honey
You can't see everything
But the wind still dries your tears
And the sun will keep you living
I just want you to see
My love's unseen but still keeps seeking

I'm going to love you so much better
You'll forget the error of my ways
I'm sending you the good I wished I'd given you
Oh how I miss you Rae
Some day you might well laugh at this
As memories of love all shift and time slips away

Oh Rae
Oh Rae



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Silverlake Lyrics

Forty men in a paper boat
No plan to hand just tearing a hole
To get the water out
Got together on a phone-in show
Oh how we love that talk radio
No one else say's it like that
Here we are now a-singing songs
We all know where it all went wrong
We're going to put it right
Oh yeah

One night up at silverlake
John the taxi and Willy the brake
Said all the things that needed said
We named and shamed
And stuck it out on the web
Sorted it at silverlake

Try some of these and turn down all the lights
You might find love unusually nice
More if you care for her
I went on the TV twice
Once for the money and once for advice
I tell it like it is
Come up and see us

One night up at silverlake
The place was jumping, people goin' ape
All the paper and the news
Was waiting for us to say
Let the oil trucks roll away
Won't forget us in a hurry
All the boys down at silverlake

One night up at silverlake
John the taxi and Willy the brake
Said all the things that needed said

One night up at silverlake
John the taxi and Willy the brake
Said all the things that needed said
We named and shamed
And stuck it out on the web
Sorted it at silverlake
One night up at silverlake
John the taxi and Willy the brake
Said all the things that needed said
We named and shamed
And stuck it out on the web
Sorted it at night at silverlake



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
This Train Will Take You Anywhere Lyrics

Down by the beach road
Crawling through the undergrowth
Stand by the railing
And look along
Put your ear to the ground
Listen for a while
Till all the tracks start
Humming and buzzing
Then the roar comes
And it's louder than the drums
Cause it's tons and tons and tons
Of steel going faster

Now maybe I'm on the bridge
And near the very edge
And I'm waiting for the train
To pass under
It's got fifteen carriages
Each one saying what it is
This is bigger than anything
That'll ever go past you
It drowns out what you say
And it blows the dust away
And it makes it's own way
We can't stop it

This train will take you anywhere
This train will take you anywhere
You want to go

I'm on the border
Berlin to Warsaw
I can't tell the things I saw
You'd see them anyway
It's the same where you go
Hanol to Bangalore
From Belize to Bogato
You can ride on
Get on at the platform
Keep your eyes on the land
And see the colours all change
And the world all open

This train will take you anywhere
And you can see anything
You can sleep or you can imagine
This train will take you anywhere
You want to go



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Ash Wednesday Lyrics

Where would I be,Would I be standing right here
We've had such a cruel death would we be as good as to remember a life
Would you never live the way that you did would your birth be enough
Was it just someones hard labour,A few days struggle then oblivion

And what about Peter that rock of a saint he'd never taken the hook
And kept on fishing and missing the catch but hitting the sea
And Margaret praying for the army and the souls like you and me

Lost somewhere out there in erternity,Wondering what it all means
Would it be the same,Just imagining
Not just holy water but an ocean
Not just touching but diving right in

Is this a curse it just makes things worse for the living
Struggling and burned and one calender month before giving
Giving up the ghost of Christmas past
Valentines post and easter mondays past

Could this dying be done,Would love be so concerned
Not just in starting but in ending
Not just in falling but decending, Decending



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Blue Horse Lyrics

Take me over again,That's alright on the waysSee me shine when I swim,Blue Horse
There's a mountain ahead,We can lie and get some rest
We'll brush the tail and we'll dress,Blue horse

We'll go home...Soon..We'll go home
We'll go home...Soon..We'll go home

Daddy the sunshines all gone,And its dark in the sky
Put me on top let me ride,Blue horse

We'll go home...Soon..We'll go home
We'll go home...Soon..We'll go home
We'll go home...Soon..We'll go home
We'll go home...Soon..We'll go home

Blue Horse.....Blue Horse.....Blue Horse.....Blue Horse



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Cresswell Street Lyrics

You take comfort from your window
you take refuge in the sky
you can't bare to see the ocean
falling, falling

If your
over there i'm over here
if your
over there i'm over here

Met you on the street on tuesday
stood like statues in the snow
pushed your head back it was melting in your eyes
there was a tear
I don't know

If your
over there i'm over here
looking
If your
over there i'm here
across the street
If your
over there i'm over here



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Earth A Little Lighter Lyrics

When you walk across the earth,Do the horses hear you first
And lift their heads as if concerned,That something has occurred

To this world.............To this world

You waved me from your car,You looked so changed I couldn't wave back
Life past in a blur,I never really knew you at all

Hmmm........................Hmmm........................Hmmm

Maybe I saw you that time,Because you burned a little brighter
On your way out of this world,To make the earth a little lighter.

To make...... the earth..... a little .....lighter

Shining ships on far off plains,That head for ports unnamed
Stand more chance of being tamed,Than a life finally unchanged

To make the earth a little lighter,To make the earth a little lighter



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Here's Singer Lyrics

Here's singer
here's singer
heres' singer give it out

Here's singer
heres singer
here's singer give out again

Given love
given life
given faith what would it be

He's bitter
he's bitter
thats why he's a star to you and me

He loved the last
I loved and lost
but he loved being in love the most

given it to keep
and time to sleep
and just maybe dream what would he be

He's ours
hes's ours
he's (?)

Those words
are dangerous
the kind of things you don't see

Given sight
and the ways of life
sometimes you see what can it be

A normal heart
could find it hard
not to forgive what it could be

Here' singer
Here's singer
Here's singer
Here's singer
Heres singer



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
I Love You Lyrics

She walked her down to the long,wet grass
Then she slipped out of her raincoat
She held her softly till the wind had passed
Then she put her down so slowly

Underneath a cotton white sky
The water splashed the blanket
Then she pulled her hands away
And let the river take what she'd carried

She whispered
I love you
I love you
I love you

She ran back up the road she'd always take
And then she stopped to catch her breath
There in the distance the traffic honked and roared
The evening sky was gold and red

She whispered
I love you
I love you
I love you



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
I'm Sure Buddy Would Know Lyrics

I'm sure Buddy would know
but I can't ask him
what picture you'd go to
given the choice of things
things not being as they are now
i'm sure Buddy would know
if I could phone him, up

Where is he now
where is he now
is he with you
with you
is he with you

I could find out so easily
I could find out so easily
I could find out so easily

I'm sure Buddy would know
I'm sure Buddy would know
I could find out so easily
so easily
so easily



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
My Only Tie Lyrics

Watching old friends
Do better things
Without any strings
Get you again

Hmmn...........Hmmn.........

People abroad
Say come make it yours
Do it to them
Before they do it to you
I'm not sure.....I'm not sure.....

My only tie...........My only tie...........My only tie
Is you,Only you,Only you
My only tie.............My only tie..............My only tie...
Is you,Only you,Only you



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
On The Line Lyrics

Oh the line goes on and on
Forty years
And far beyond
Oh the line that working line
Stretches from
Where the world began

Cause we were on the line
Yes we were on the line
And now we stand together
On the line

We stand on the line
So you'd better not cross that line
Cause we will not be broken
When we stand on the line



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Further North You Go Lyrics

See me see places
See me see news
See me see punters
See me see you

See Dundee nothing like it
See Paris its all trees
See Dundee nothing like it
See me i'll let you see

The further north you go
The rain comes harder down i'm told
The people seem so friendly there
They really seem so warm
If theres a river let me see
If theres a special place to be
I'd love to know the further north you go

See trains awfully long journey though
See me I love to think
See you where do you come from
Ahh well I like you just the same

The futher north you go
The buildings show and the trees don't show
The people seem to let you know they're only saying no
If theres a place for me its here
Its where I feel i'm really needed
Your really needed the further north you go



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Undeveloped Heart Lyrics

My friend David told me
The heart beats like a dream
Down there at the railway station
The Lights are turning green

That little black-robed Franciscan priest
Struts down to ???????????
Tips his hat at all the North Americans
And dreams the dream of the argonauts

We know the truth of the undeveloped heart
Poplars on the Seinne and Sunset Boulevard
The noise that can drive a love asunder
Sometimes your dreams can leave you under

We go climbing down myriad flights of stairs
Blowing off the heat and dust
Stetch our romantic souls
To cover the wunderlust

At midnight in some strange city
Black-burned and medieval
Shiver inside our paper thin raincoats
And the silence that knows no evil

We know the truth of the undeveloped heart
Poplars on the Seinne and Sunset Boulevard
The noise that can drive a love asunder
Sometimes your dreams can leave you under

The heart can be a lonely hunter



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
A Week In Politics (Is A Long Time) Lyrics

(Undiscovered Kingdom)

In a windy street in a bitter morning
a seagull flies into a fire of blazing sun
in the minutes after midnight
when humans let go
only cat and litter move without fear

Undiscovered Kingdom

Underneath an awful stern
above dark dock water
and anchor hangs wounded from a ragged body
in a seething pub at midday
a boy has lost his way
from a hundred empty faces
a hundred gazes glare

Undiscovered Kingdom

Sometimes I touch
sometimes I see
sometimes I feel
sometimes I really know

Undicovered kingdom

In an angry alley
the paints been left to run
from a daubed swastika on an abandoned VW
a cathedral door is opened
a woman wipes away a tear
sunlight streams in
as a priest puts out a brief candle

Undiscovered Kingdom



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Chairman Mao's Vacation Lyrics

They painted us up
and shouted us down
they wanted us to be
just a face in the crowd
and all the time they never saw
the people we are
in a world of fast cars

every time you pass
you try not to laugh at me
you don't want to love me out sympathy
I guess that you admire me
for my humility
in a world of fast cars

We don't hear the jokes
that eveyone else hears
when they walk behind us
on our holidays
we just don't fit into deckchairs
and take walks along the pier

Even the lonely people
deal us out
think I'll walk down town
and sit on a roundabout
and drivers will keep driving
cos' they're too polite to shout
"hey look at that fat boy"
in a world of fast cars



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Checkout Girls Lyrics

Stay with me now
I feel like you're slipping away
there's a song in the air
that no-one is singing today
there are places to go
but somehow I feel we should stay

And the checkout girls sing a a song for the world
that goes round and round
and the anthem of the keys in the tills
makes a soothing sound
and the eyes and the ears aren't on the sky~
they're on the ground

Talk to me now
there are words in your mind worth saying
there's a something happening over here
even though the actors might only be playing
life is the thing
that can't be lost by delaying

Live with me now
I'm ready to hear your crying
risen again like the phoenix the ashes defying
in the silence we know
there's something beyond the dying

And sometimes I'm ready to know
sometimes I'm willing to go
for someone its happening slow
didn't you know



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Don't Look Back Lyrics

Billy can you see the light?
can you feel the sun
waiting to shine on you?

Oh Billy here comes the night
here comes the walls
ready to fall on you

So don't look back thats all right
don't look back until the morning light
Don't look back to hear the noise
don't look back
until the madness turns to joy

Candy can you feel the pain?
can you feel the same love you had?

Oh candy you're running from the old
running to the new
let me run with you

I stand alone
it happened so long ago
the shape of a skull
it happened so long ago
beneath the cross
it happened so long ago
I saw my reflection



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Little India Lyrics

I could be king
you could be queen
I'd give you all the flowers
that are evergreen
but now ther are no flowers to be seen
in little India

Memory fades
time slips away
who saw it happen?
who has to pay?
no-one
in little India



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Love You Like A Son Lyrics

Early in the evening there's a sun in the sky
everybody's happy but there's a tear in your eye
the times I never wondered
the times I never knew
I'd live them all again
if I could live them all for you

And when the walls are broken
and when they're on your back
when its scapegoats that they're after
and they know you'll attack
just remember,boy in the silence of the night
something I never told you

I love you like a son

Later in the evening in the light of the moon
everyones found lovers ,its empty in the room
when polite conversation
goes screaming out the door
and understanding people
leave you lying on the floor

They ask me why
they ask me why
analyse it, analyse it
they ask me why
they ask me why
but don't tell
just don't say



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Some People Last Winter Lyrics

She looked so far away
when she stood at our door
she sat frightened and frozen
and covered her eyes

But when you hide
no-one knows you deep inside
but when you cry
we can love you like a child

She started to tell me
what I tried to ignore
she acted her nightmare
and I suddenly saw

Its so easy to cover
its so easy to smile
but some people last winter
we're really broken inside

In the covering darkness
he turned from taking his life
one night in a thousand
we never knew why

His jokes are the fortress
for the hollow heart
it lets him hear the anger
but he won't feel the good



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Something About Ireland Lyrics

Driving through the frocess in the snow
two lines of trees consent to let us go
it tells a story of long ago
another love that won't let go ....it told me

Something about Ireland
something I should know
something about Ireland
something makes me want to go

Standing in the suberbs at midnight
out of the warm of dim TV light
a cold shiver gripped on hearing the distant sound
these dangerous places can turn your head around
thet tell me ....

Families meet families mutter
backdrop radio news stutters
dead body in a dead-end street
men media on while widows meet

In sunlit morn crossing the red sea
two lights laugh from a hillside and beckon me
"mythical light of the ever present hope"
bidding farewell,letting me know, telling me



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Suprised By Joy Lyrics

There's a million reads that I'd not taken
till you caught me with my eyes closed
looking over my shoulder to see whats behind me
I didn't see the promised land

I fell back into your arms
(its hard when you don't know)
I was so suprised by the joy
(it was all that I could do)
to trust you with my life

As the road goes on the paths get steaper
a light begins to shine
though I pass by and miss the turning
you'd walk with me over the edge

On the road and bound for glory
but I'm a fool when I forget
I'm on the route where travellers seldom meet
its so easy to slip

And fall back into your arms
(its so easy when you know)
but I'm still suprised by the joy
(though it happens all the time)
anytime,anywhere
(when the wind is blowing cold)
when there's nothing left at all
(its all that I can do)
to trust him with your life



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Germans Are Out Today Lyrics

Its dark in the car
we're deep in the garden of england
its dark in the car
they're all asleep but you and me
there's time to talk
we're only on holiday
and I think you said this to me

The germans are out today
they won the war you know
I didn't look for salvation
but,boy I found it there
in and RAF bunkhouse
I borrowed a bible
the fellow who owned it
wanted it shared

Outside a locked door
in front of a dusty store
outside a locked door
we talked through the drunken singing in the rain
there's no time talk
not while we're standing here
but even now I thought I heard you say

Hey it don't last forever
hey were we there together
its so dark in this prism life
take back the years
hold back the tears
on all of these days
that might not have been there at all
AUGUST 1982



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Vision On Lyrics

Hold my hand in your hand
let my thoughts be your thought
I want to find the fire upon my face

To the centre to the heart
retreat ,retreat they said
within the core the voice replied

I will folow
I will follow
I will follow
Vision on

Mind games , war games
relationships and battleships
nothing else here but everybody else

You can live without the outside
but not without the insight
but never live without the voice within



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Cold Easter Lyrics

There`s gonna be trouble from the start
When you break somebody`s heart
You hope the damage does them good
Like it does you
You put a rock around my heart
And you know the killing part
Is sunday morning
When nothing rolled away

Cold
Easter
It rained on the parade
Cold
Easter
God everything`s the same

I took the car through where you`d been
I couldn`t see anything you`d seen
I thought riverside drive
Went on and on
And I got a chill right through my soul
When I found out the ride can`t go
Round forever and forever
Amen

Cold
Easter
It rained on the parade
Cold
Easter
God everything`s the same



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Good Evening Philadelphia Lyrics

Good evening
Philadelphia
I can`t believe what I just said
I got up again
Like a monkey
And I raged right through the set
We went outside
Into an autumn wind
Running scared from the crowd
Headed out for an all night cafe
Where the waitresses got off on singing loud

I`m just a small town noise
I`m just a
Small town noise
I`m just a small town noise
I`m just a
Small town noise

Easy does it
Washington D.C.
What a state you`re in
Looks like you`ve cracked
A hundred hallelujahs
Through
Fifty nights of sin
You get hungry for some leg over easy
Or packing someone`s pistol in the hood
It doesn`t mean
You`re not as ******* boring
As some dirty dark river that don`t move

I`m just the village voice
I`m just the
Village voice
I`m just the village voice
I`m just the
Village voice
I`m just the village voice
I found out that

I realise
I need you
More than you need me
I realise
I need you
More than you need me

Goodbye
Denver Colorado
Goodbye Portland Maine
So long
Baden Baden
So bad they named you once again
We`ll be breezing through the
Windy city
For the
Last time you`ll see
The only way the traffic`ll stop
Is if some angel flies down and touches me

I`m just the village voice
I`m just the
Village voice
I`m just the village voice
I`m just the
Village voice
I`m just the village voice
I found out that

I realise
I need you
More than you need me
I realise
I need you
More than you need me



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Icarus Lyrics

Take my wings and take my hands
Put a weight round
Where I stand
And bind these ropes around my feet
If they`re not tied
I can`t concede

To never chase around the stars
Always the shadow
Of where you are
Only I`m as silent
As the sun
And as faithful
When I come

And I`d join you in your dreams
And if nothing comes between
I`ll meet you out
Across the milky way

Let some light fall in this cell
Give me a pen so I can tell
Of transcendent radiance half seen
From today to what might be

But you might wake me when you come
And if all this joy is done
I`ll come riding out
Across the milky way

And I`d join you in your dreams
And if nothing comes between
I`ll meet you out
Across the milky way



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Jack Singer Lyrics

You come
Awake
And lie in a bed
Of fevered state
You rise
Again
And open a curtain
To find only night
Coming in

The dream
Comes back
Your up on the stage now
Slumped collapsed
Everything is blurred
The people come
They come at you all at once
The man at the front says all he wants is Jack Singer

I`m so sorry
For what I`ve done
Against all forecasts
I`ve been the one
Who turned the world round
And made it pass
Through hell`s own corner
God we made it at last

I`m here
Tonight
Up on the stage now
Doing my thing
And that`s all
The worst
Thing ever
Is to sing to the Gods
And discover nothing coming back
That`s all there is there



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Love Isn't Hard Its Strong Lyrics

Whatever I call you`s your name
You`ll get on with it just the same
Sometimes you`ll blame me
And think that love is hard

Your lover`ll break your heart
Make you make a brand new start
He`ll say that nothing`ll touch him
You`ll think that love is hard

It`s your birth
It`s your birth
It`s your birth
It`s your birth

Love isn`t hard it`s strong
True love will never be wrong
Whenever you know it
You`ll think that love is hard

When Icarus crashed from the sun
Some boatmen looking on
Saw only a golden
Bright beautiful dawn

It`s your life
It`s your life

It`s hard to watch you on your own
Getting up and growing old
Trying to remember
Love isn`t hard it`s strong

It`s your love
It`s your love

It`s your love
It`s your love



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Promise You Rain Lyrics

Please remember
Please remember you`ll know why
This is nowhere
This is nowhere then you die

We`ll maybe not like it
We`ll maybe not like it
When we die
We`ll maybe not like it
We`ll maybe not like it
When we die

So I could promise you rain
But it would only
Bring you down again

Here`s to you girl
To you and me into the
Bright blue yonder
We had it coming
A little bit of what you like
Will only haunt you

Your eyes will open
Your eyes will open to the light
You`ll maybe not like it
If what you like`s what made you blind

So I could promise you rain
But it would only
Bring you down again

There`s an old man
Used to pass this way so much
He seems to know it
It seems a shame that we`ve lost touch
It wouldn`t scare me
It wouldn`t scare me if he spoke
It wouldn`t scare me
It wouldn`t scare me if he spoke

So I could promise you rain
But it would only
Bring you down again
So I could promise you rain
But it would only
Bring you down again
But it would only
Bring you down again
But it would only
Bring you down again



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Radio On Lyrics

Under a dark storm coming
They found the car out in the lake
A crowd had gathered on the shoreline
Two tons of black on steel plate
They put some chains all around it
And a hoist up on the pier
Hung above the surface like a prize catch
Wriggling till the water disappeared

You`ve gotta have a reason to be
Gotta reason to be
Gotta reason to be

I`ve got my radio on
The wind is blowing
Everything is shining
In the winter sun
The winter sun

Down on the beach one July morning
Just as the dawn had hit the sand
Sun caught her heels and summer cotton
An extra rock out on the land
Kids dropped their nets and ran over
And saw the tears upon the skin
And how her gold and pearl earrings
Couldn`t stop the water coming in

You`ve gotta have a reason to be
Gotta reason to be
Gotta reason to be

I`ve got my radio on
The wind is blowing
Everything is shining
In the winter sun
I`ve got my radio on
The wind is blowing
Everything is shining
In the winter sun

Down on the beach one July morning
Just as the dawn had hit the sand
Sun caught her heels and summer cotton
An extra rock out on the land

An extra rock out on the land

An extra rock out on the land



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Rosie Gordon Lies So Still Lyrics

Don`t be afraid to let the rain come in
Don`t be frightened for your skin
The heart`s as open as it`s
Ever been

It doesn`t beat
Or break or cry
There`s only earth
And grass and sky

Now you stretch beneath the
Beating sun
Within the minute of all time
The grass and trees don`t for a
Second long

Pause to say
Hello goodbye
To where you live
Or when you die
They know nothing about your heart
They know nothing about your heart

Rosie Gordon lies so
Very still
Under the carpet
Of the earth
If this won`t wake you then
Nothing will

They cut your clothes
Round your blackened skin
You`d never know
Where life begins until you learn
They know nothing about your heart
They know nothing about your heart
They knew nothing about your heart

It doesn`t beat
Or break or cry
There`s only earth
And grass and sky
They know nothing about your heart
They know nothing about your heart
They know nothing about your heart



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Lovers Lyrics

The lovers baby
They walk through the earth
And nothing at all now
Is going to change what it`s worth
They`re lovers baby
And everyone knows
That only lovers girl
Follow where love goes

You can feed me darling
You can keep me even
But I don`t pretend that
It all means anything

Unless we`re lovers baby
Don`t come and go
We only sleep through the world
And the world doesn`t know
About lovers baby
We wait a long time
But once it all happens
It all comes right

There`s no evidence darling
There`s no steps in the sand
I couldn`t even place
A ring on your hand

But we were lovers baby
And we waited our time
Till the waters had rolled
And the clocks had chimed
We`re lovers baby
We wait a long time
We`re lovers baby
Love is on time

Love is on time
Love is on time
Love is on time



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Wake Up And Dream Lyrics

I need to wake up soon
So very soon
Into the light zone
Into the light
I`m falling forwards
And into sight
And running backwards
And falling down

They cheer they cheer

Under a piercing and
Blinding light
The crowd all gather
Singing
Right on right on
But there`s no dark corner
Only
Centre stage
The crowd gets restless
I begin to say

I don`t know if you know
I care I`m here
I`m only barely holding on
To something that is real
I`ll stand up to the noise and light
Until everything requires
I might be heard
Or else wake up
And dream
Dream
Dream

He`s so good looking
The traffic stops
He`s a politician
A heavenly cop
Words of healing
Fall from his lips
Lifting up the weak
Is in his gift

People say yeah
To the hall of office
And the foreign stage
Maybe at last
The world`s a
Better place
He`s brought down swiftly
By the
Hand of fate
The people weep
And the thought remains

When you fight for every breath
Do you stop to think about your friends or do you
Realise
That in that moment separating life and death
You want to take what you can get
And maybe
Only wake up
But not
Dream



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
What You Are Lyrics

You`re in a car
A pale blue car
Under some sky
Some northern sky
The radio`s on
Some music`s playing
Fingers are moving
And your lips are singing
I`m a fool
I`m a fool
For even thinking
That`s what you are


Still on the road
That`s where I see you
Stop at a lay by
And lightly sleeping
The music`s playing
So far away now
Your hands aren`t moving
So what are they saying
I`m a fool
I`m a fool
For even thinking
That`s what you are


You`re moving out now
And talking to strangers
They`re telling stories
Your eyes say it`s easy
They`re giving you reasons
To keep on going
Wheels keep on turning
Things keep on selling

And here`s your jacket
And here`s your cuff links
And here`s some letters
And a hundred worthless things
You kept them unhidden
Maybe hoped we`d find them
They lie unopened
For no one to own them

I`m a fool
I`m a fool
I`m a fool
I`m a fool
For even thinking
For even thinking
For even thinking
For even thinking
That`s what you are



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
When Sinners Fall Lyrics

You always saw the best in me
Even when you knew the worst in me
Always something I forgot to say
You took a while to say what others said
Even when I walked away

We all know
When sinners fall
So what`s the point
In a wind drowned call
I`m just a sinner
Falling out of your life again

You took a while to set me free
Especially knowing how happy I`d be
There`s always some who`ll only say
What a mess better leave him be
Let the devil take the rest and then we`ll see

We all know
When sinners fall
So what`s the point
In a wind drowned call
I`m just a sinner
Falling out of your life again

First you say wheels
You`re wanting them to carry you
Next you say leave
Find a place to hide away
Then you say blood
Soon enough we all do
Then you`ve had enough

We`d better tell the waiting ones
I only acted like they said I`d always done

It`s no surprise
This sinner fell
They`re only glad
`Cause they could always tell
He`s just a sinner
They`re only mad because I crashed
Into your arms again

Into your arms again



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Born In A Storm Lyrics

that hurricane day




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Chocolate Girl Lyrics

alan doesn't understand her
he only thinks in numbers
he only drinks in restaurants
where the girls are fully covered

and he can't trust his yearnings
and he doesn't like pretending
his tempers stretched so much by work
his heart needs gentle rending

he calls her the chocolate girl
'cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
she knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
and wrapped in bits of silver

alan doesn't understand this
he says he's only human
so he still lights up with old flames
as if to try and prove it

and he doesn't like emotion
he's not certain of their ardour
if pouting causes so much fun
then breaking hearts is harder

he calls her the chocolate girl
'cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
she knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
and wrapped in bits of silver

alan doesn't understand her
he thinks its getting harder
so he spends the night with old friends
underneath the covers

and he talks about the chocolate girl
and how he thinks she melts when he touches her
and that she knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
and wrapped in bits of silver

he calls her the chocolate girl
'cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
she knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
and wrapped in bits of silver



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Dignity Lyrics

there's a man i meet walks up our street




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now Lyrics

there's a shadow on his photograph




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Loaded Lyrics

you sing, you walk, you talk, you care about nothing




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Love's Great Fears Lyrics

(R.Ross, J.Prime)





Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Ragman Lyrics

offered her a roof




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Raintown Lyrics

it's a rain-dirt-town-job hurts, but it don't pay




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Very Thing Lyrics

one day all of us will work




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Town To Be Blamed Lyrics

close your eyes and go to sleep




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring) Lyrics

pale blue eyes




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Circus Lights Lyrics

you're tired and you say you're angry




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Fergus Sings The Blues Lyrics

fergus sings the blues




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Love And Regret Lyrics

cold dawn won't comfort you




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
One Hundred Things Lyrics

poorly - you're more than poorly jimmy




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Orphans Lyrics

i now describe my country




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Queen Of The New Year Lyrics

you're so young




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Real Gone Kid Lyrics

and i'd tear out the pages




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Sad Loved Girl Lyrics

he saw her trying on his old clothes




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Silhouette Lyrics

down in the streets they're walking and kissing




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The World Is Lit By Lightning Lyrics

so maybe you're standing




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
This Changing Light Lyrics

i wrote this once before




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Wages Day Lyrics

there we stood and there we left




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Your Constant Heart Lyrics

your constant heart beats like the road




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
All Over The World Lyrics

All over the world
The wild wild wind
Rips through the mighty words
We kept ourselves warm with
And all over this love
Has never been stronger
All Jericho`s walls
They gently fall

I`ve been waiting for a golden
Bright milleniun
Waking early for the Union bonds being broken
Then gone

All over the world
All over the world
All over theWorld
All over the world

I`ve been searching for a new new
Song of freedom
Where no flag of conquest
Is furled
No war words are spoken

All over the world
All over the world

I,I hear the sound
I,I Hear the sound

All over this land
People are waiting
To enter the world
Like a new born baby
All over the world

Where nothing`s been learned
The flags are changing
So let freedom unfurl
New flags need waving
Let freedom unfurl



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Bethlehems Gate Lyrics

There was a night
As purple as this
With a love so close
We longed to be missed
Summer `89
And everything stood
Sure and free and there
To be finished

I long to be there
As bright as the sky
At Bethlehem`s gate

September again
You come so quick
So sudden your strength
So strong your kiss
The world groans and strains
For the hope of a time
Like a prayer that
Is wished and willed
To exist

Like knocking so hard
And trying to get through
To Bethlehem`s gate

I`m chiding the heart
That the body will live
To question the power
And the gift of birth
To stand and grow and die
On the wasteland
That scorns the high temples
We build

And stand in the way
And darken the sky
At Bethlehem`s gate

Stand in the way
And darken the sky
At Bethlehem`s gate



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Cut Lip Lyrics

15 books in
Different covers
Winter comes in
Many colours

Kids toys broken glasses Elvis live in Vegas
He's still turning
All the worthless things
We're paying in

Pounds of sugar
Here it comes
Blankets from the
Social fund
Snooker balls and Spanish divers rocks full
Of cat hair
All the worthless things
For the warrants sake

Maybe you`ll be so kind and take the shirt right from my back
That`s got my kid I'd even smile for you
With my cut lip
With my cut lip
With my cut lip
With my cut lip

Talkin' away
My rent is due
Didn't get my
Last few

Playing on the sattellite dish
Finally nights to switch to
Blue filmsloon tunes
Purple moons
Every motherfucker
Will be on it soon

Maybe you`ll be so kind and take the shirt right from my back
That`s got my kid I'd even smile for you
With my cut lip
With my cut lip
With my cut lip
With my cut lip



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Fall So Freely Down Lyrics

Little baby don`t just slip away
Without fight or push or
Saying anything
This is all you really
Get to say
And the only thing you
Listen in to

There are people to see
There are places to go
There are things to believe in
To believe in

So you live in the magic water
And you tumble and kick and turn
While your beautiful hands and feet grow
So quiet is the life you beat with
Till you fall so freely down

You can`t just slip or fall or leave without talking
There`s no goodbye without walking
The roads we travel for good
The ways we exit for bad

There are places to go
There are jobs to be done
There are things to believe in
To believe in

So you live in the magic water
And you tumble and kick and turn
While your beautiful hands and feet grow
So quiet is the life you beat with
Till you fall so freely down
Till you fall so freely down

Kick kick down

So you live in the magic water
And you tumble and kick and turn
While your beautiful hands and feet grow
So quiet is the life you beat with
So quiet is the life you beat with
And you tumble and kick and turn



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Hang Your Head Lyrics

There`s no sleep inside
Their dreams are broke and inspired
All the times you try to
Scream

Houses dark indoors
And blinds are pulled and closed
Everything that needed
Change

And there`s nothing wise
Or twice as good as nice
You save it all inside while you

Hang your head
Hang your head

Underneath it all
Your smile your smile your smile is flawed
And the songs you sing are only
Spoken

The promise of this child
You crossed your palms with silver crowns and the
People swore he's only
Choken

There`s no promises
No light is ever shed
Between the living and dead

Hang your head
Hang your head

There`s no promises
No light is ever shed
Between the living and dead



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Last Night I Dreamed Of Henry Thomas Lyrics

Lily love that`s a
Beautiful name
Your precious gifts are not the same
Since they faded away

The song so distant
But it still rings true your
Beautiful hands were rudely used
To make things pay

Every minute of every day
You don`t get angry `bout what`s taken away
Is only real life
Every second of eternal light
Piercing through this sorrowful night
Will bring the sad heart
The cold heart
To love again

Last night I dreamed of
Henry Thomas in the
Delta light his rusty pipes
They drifted away

Standing in some
Dusty patch
It felt so close that I could almost catch
His breath on me

Every minute of every day
You don`t get angry `bout what`s been taken away
Is only real life
Every second of eternal light
Piercing through this sorrowful night
Will make the sad heart
The cold heart
To love again

Every minute of every day
You don`t get angry `bout what`s been taken away
Is only real life
Every second of eternal light
Piercing through this sorrowful night
Will make the sad heart
The cold heart
To love again

Last night I dreamed of
Henry Thomas and the blues



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Only Tender Love Lyrics

Way out there in the wilderness
Of love and pain
Under the gentle arches we rode
The silver streets
Couldn`t see a difference between gold or
Wooden cross
Could never see where we`re falling
Came in to love

Then hounded by love
Hounded by the very thing you dreamed up
Chased inside the walls you tried to breach
Sent crashing to your knees
Only tender love
Understood the need you need with
Understood the time it took
To take you where nothing ever was

Never was there once nothing
And everything once was
Not dead but still and ready to be born anew
Looking back now it all
Seems so clear
Like staring so long unseeing for someone to light inside a
Darkened room

Then try your tender love
Push you back till there`s nowhere left
Nowhere to feel nothing anymore
Nothing that will comfort you more
More than tender love
Understands the need you need with
Understand the time it takes to get home and have a love again

More than tender love
Understands the need you need with
Understand the time it takes
To get home and have a love

Then try your tender love
Push it till there`s nothing left
Nowhere to feel nothing anymore
Nothing that will comfort you more

Then hounded by love
Hounded by the very thing you dreamed up
Chased inside the walls you tried to breach
Sent crashing to your knees

Then only tender love
Understood the need you need with
Understood the time it took
To take you where nothing ever was



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Peace,Jobs And Freedom Lyrics

There comes a time in everybody`s dream
When the stage is lighted and the
Words appear
And in the blackness
That it seems
A tiny little realisation
Begins

And in my number
57 dream
I`m standing at the window
Of the world
And suddenly the
World begins to scream
We want the promise and the promise
Can be made

Who said the words
Who said the words
Peace and jobs
And Freedom

People say there`s nothing
When you die
Tell you stories that will
Make you sigh
And beat up all your senses
Until you
Cry cry cry
All I`m saying is the words
Writ up in the great big holy sky

Who said the words
Who said the words
Peace and jobs
And freedom
Who said the words
Who said the words
Peace and jobs
And freedom



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Will We Be Lovers Lyrics

All my worries
All my care
Is held in check
For you not there

Evening comes
And darkness falls
We sit round
And curtain out
The black night

There is a time
Away
From here

Seasons pass
So quickly come
And steal the days
Your work has done

They leave the fields
So bare and grey
I long to hold
You there and say
It won`t change

There is a time
Away
From here
There is a time
Away
From here

Will we be lovers
Or will we still be
Will we be lovers
Or will we still be

Will we be lovers
Or will we still be
Still be still be



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Your Town Lyrics

I wouldn`t want to be you
Mostly not even near you
When you`re gone they will curse you
And raise the tide against you

I no longer care now
For what you said was fair now
I just don't go there now
I just don't go

Maybe there`s a way not to make it hurt
To cover up the words like you covered up the dirt
Ever since you left
It just gets worse
Living out in your town

Now let`s say it like it is
I just don`t know where to begin
It`s a different way of living
It`s so strange to what we`ve been

First we speak for ourselves now
And people know who we are now
And they wake up and they live now
Yes they wake up and they live

Maybe there`s a way not to let it hurt
Tell it out in pictures
And songs and words
Do what we should not
To make it worse
Living out in your town



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
All I Want Lyrics

A cautious smile under the western sky
Would curl upwards like the wild sea
A special friend knowing all the ways of love
Would talk his way back inside a tiny second

Don't promise good intention
One in a thousand (maybe even me)
Don't know there are clouds in the sky
Sooner or later eveyone'll say the same thing
Baby , you already know

That all I want is to be with you

Call me over sooner
Call me right now
I'm standing underneath the blackest rolling sky
I don't know my way forward
I'm dizzy with the wind
Turning like a compass never true only spinning

All I want is to be with you

In the sad and lonely pines
Where no midday sun ever shines
As the clouds all float into thin air
Underneath the blackest sky somewhere
I hear the soul of man never dies
I hear that special will survive
Keeping time over the rolling roads
Staying with me as my thoughts all go
Chasing away in the green fields
Where every breath gives up and yields
To all I want



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Beautiful Stranger Lyrics

Seven lonely days in a fifty ton lorry
I know you made me what I am
And I fall to pieces
Johnny Cash in black singin'
Undertand your man from
St. Quentin crossing to Tarbert to Gigha

Oh lonesome me howled box car willie
Coming out of Tobermory to the sound
In the morning
Patsy Clines on the air say's I've loved and lost again
From now on all of my friends are gonna be strangers

So I fell in love with a beautiful stranger
It's just an arangement
I'll leave the first light of day
This one goes out
To my beautiful stranger
I slipped so quietly away

By the window where she stands
She counts the beads in her hand
And knows it wasn't God who planned to make
Honky tonk angels
She makes the bed all alone but a house
Without love is not a home plays on the radio

She says why can't he be you I hear
You've gone from Brown to blue
Since the holiday for two
But I don't need to know that right now
I love you so much it hurts he cursed
As his truck tyres lurched down the
Old dirt track road again

She fell in love with a beautiful stranger
There's no arangement
He leaves the first light of day
This one goes out to the beautiful stranger
Time slips so easily away
Time slips so easily away
Time slips so easily away



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Christmas And Glasgow Lyrics

He was lying in the half light
Of Christmas and Glasgow
Thinking and talking
Talking to St Enoch about
Christmas and Glasgow
Drinking and talking

And the sweet smell
Of the Kelvin Hall Circus
And the sweet smell lingered
Of her perfume and kisses

He needed to take one step
He was taking one step back

She knows the only danger
Of Christmas And Glasgow
Is you love too much
And she's thinking of years
At Christmas and Glasgow
When it meant too much

And walking in frost
Down in Cowcaddens
And the sweet smell
As they were lost in the garden

She needed to take one step
She was taking one step back

They could hear choirs, those heavenly choirs
Choirs of angels, those heavenly choirs

They needed to take one step
They were taking one step back



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Jesus Do Your Hands Still Feel The Rain Lyrics

Would the rain, the frozen rain
Be as cold upon your forehead
As the tears that plough your beaten face again
Would the rain

Could your hands, your grubby hands
Pull your coat around your shoulder
Steel yourself against the weather of the day
Could your hands

Here i stand
Just the same

Jesus do these hands still feel the rain

Here we go, winter long
Like sun bleeds down the valley
Or a black and oily river moves so slow
Here we go

Here i stand
Just the same

Jesus do these hands still feel the rain

Here i stand
Just the same

Jesus do your hands still feel the rain



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Love Hurts Lyrics

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars
Any heart not tough nor strong enough
To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
Love is like a cloud holds a lot of rain
Love hurts, ooh, ooh, love hurts

I'm young I know but even so
I know a thing or two I learnt from you
I really learnt a lot, really learnt a lot
Love is like a stove burns you when it's hot
Love hurts, mmm, mmm, love hurts

Some fools dream of happiness
Blissfulness, togetherness
Some fools fool themselves I guess
But they're not fooling me

I know it isn't true, know it isn't true
Love is just a lie made to make you blue
Love hurts, ooh, ooh, love hurts



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Plastic Shoes Lyrics

Plastic shoes
Empty in the hall
Well, I gathered the news
That you'd gone after all
Whats left is this:
And from what I can recall
Theres something I've missed
And I have seen it all

You caught me drawn in the
Bathroom mirror
And said I looked a little older
Walking along on a beach at dawn
With your head upon my shoulder

In your plastic shoes
Broken and used on me
And what have we been through?
Are you watching alone
The same film I'm tuned to?
Do you still cry
When the doctor gives her the news?

Theres a big black bag of belts and hats
You wore to other weddings
A broken chain and a picture frame
That once held us together
I put out these shoes that I helped you choose
And I bolted all the doors
So they won't walk back........

Those plastic shoes
Oh you looked so good
That was all you wore
When I really understood
Some things need summer weather
Others want the dark
Some things work well together
But still keep falling apart



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Walking Back Home Lyrics

The stars and satellites
Are quiet over the hills tonight
And the cats' eyes and white lines
Are heading out for miles
The frost on the embankment
Keeps my feet on the road
But the tunes and beers
Are walking us back home

And we stopped any travellers
And wished them good new year
And we sang and we drunk
And we quarrelled and we cheered
And we felt the earth below
And we knew how good it was
Just walking back home

La La La La......La La La La......La La La La......La La La La

I left them at the circle
As the sun began to rise
And we walked the last few hundred yards
Back to my own house
I pulled my coat still closer
'Cause now I'm on my own
I've struck out for the first time
And now I'm walking back home

Warbeck sang
La La La La......La La La La......La La La La......La La La La
The Stacy's sang
La La La La......La La La La......La La La La......La La La La
Linda sang
La La La La......La La La La......La La La La......La La La La



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
When You Are Young Lyrics

When you were young and your heart was free
I'd run and meet you and rush to see
Just over the wall where the clouds roll by
And age and chance and tears were far away

Oh if heaven wouldn't see
Light lovers so distantly
Then look today at this love so free
When you are young again

When you were young and your eyes are old
Then all your treasures my hand can stroke
And all your memories and your sorrows are loosed
And blown and left so your lips may be touched

Oh if heaven wouldn't see
Light lovers so distantly
Then look today at this love so free
When you are young again



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Angel And Mercedes Lyrics

I'm getting into space man
everything is going up
and no one is going
down where I'm going
And I'm getting better
at knowing what's outside looking in

Cause I
never saw what was coming round
and I
could never get my feet off of the ground

Gonna be a space man
I'm working on a space stand
talking on the radio
how I'm not coming back man
Bursting all the clouds now
looking how the world looks small

And I never saw how far there was to fall
and I am floating here far above it all

Cause Angel and Mercedes
took me where heaven is
Angel and Mercedes
took me where heaven is

I'm getting into space man
everything is going up
and no one is going
down where I'm going
I've been into losing
when I could have been
only choosing you

And I am far from the
world I used to know
And you can see me only
When I come out into view

Cause Angel and Mercedes
took me where heaven is
Angel and Mercedes
took me where heaven is



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Hippy Girl Lyrics

Hippy girl
Please don't change a thing
Change isn't everything
And dreaming is something - hippy girl

There's a curse in this world
That money brings
And a big idea
That fame is everything
You're far and away now
Richer than kings and queens
You know love
And you give everyone

Hippy girl
Please don't change a thing
Wear your hat girl and your friendship rings
Hippy girl
Blue-eyes-sallow-skin
You look ahead now
Not at fashions whims - hippy girl

You're from a different planet
That must be tough to leave
The planet of mercy
The planet of make-believe
One day I took you
To a castle so high
We got through the bridge
You said this is the happiest day
Of my life

Hippy girl please don't change a thing
Change isn't everything
And dreaming is something hippy girl

I'm away with your
I'm away in your
I'm away to your world

I'm away with your
I'm away in your
I'm away to your world

Hippy girl
Jump on into the pool
Don't let anyone tell you
You need rules
Hippy girl
I'll smoke your pipe
Of peace outside your tent
We'll watch the smoke rings go
Up in the wind - hippy girl
Up and into this wind - hippy girl



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
I Sing About You Lyrics

Walking on broken stones
And listening to a foreign radio
I never knew where you'd gone
I only knew where you're going

I sing about you
Cause nothing's the same without you
I know what the truth is
And what your excuse is

Are you getting on where you stay
The same blue sky every day
I never saw the time you chose
And still the wonder's growing

I sing about you
Cause nothing's the same without you
I know what your excuse is
Sometimes I wonder.., what the use is

I wonder

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Everyone's bleeding but me

Now I sing about you
Cause I lost the truth about you
All that surrounds me
Is everything...
I found when you were near me

I sing about you
cause nothing's the same without you
I know what the truth is
and what your excuse is
I know.., what it is about you
That still makes me never doubt you
There's no day without you
That wouldn't be better
sticking together

I know
You say
Everything will go away
I know
You say everything
Everything



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
London Comes Alive Lyrics

I was midnight walking
And daytime talking
You can see the best in me I know
I got distracted
You were broken hearted
But I still tried to follow where you'd go

And every time you wish me peace
Or take a joke with perfect ease
Or hear my doubts with sympathy
It's like London comes alive

We both know the river
Gets stronger and longer
And crossing it's the hardest thing to plan
You took us together
Sister and brother
And brought us safe ashore
where we now stand

And even if you'd one regret
It couldn't spoil the best thing yet
Some special days our eyes have met
And it's like when London cameo alive
It's such a surprise

Any time you want, just say
Phone me up and I'll he there
What you need to hear I'll say
Anything

Cause every time you wish me peace
Or take a joke with perfect ease
I know you're down on bended knee
Trying to make everything all right
Like when London comes alive



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Looking For My Own Lone Ranger Lyrics

I'm looking for my own lone ranger
Don't want to follow yours anymore
Don't want to be the lonely Tonto in the picture
Staring out across horizons like before

You've got to have your own lone ranger
Somebody riding out just for you
Cause the nights grow long and I'm not that strong
And I'm just too...

Miles away it was miles away
I last heard your voice out on the breeze
Now coyotes bark and the sky's so dark
And I need somebody rescuin' me

Somebody like my own lone ranger
To come riding out of nowhere just for me
Someone to take the reins and circle all the wagons
And start the fire for our cowboy jamboree

You've got to have your own lone ranger
Somebody watching out just for you
Till the stars go in and I can breathe again
And I can ride out on my own



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
My Girl Going To Town Lyrics

God of warm words
And good things
God of change
God of broken chains
And rusty rails in sidings

God of the saints
And nearly departed
Come down and love the living
Before they go
Tell us a joke...

My girl going to town
She dresses down
She still wears that tiny ring

My girl going to town
Takes the late train
Oh it won't rain, she says

God of good times
Dry, happy, sunshine days
God of sand castles
And holidays
In motor cars

That take you days here and there
How long till we get there?
Fast asleep after tears
That gently change the colour
Of your brown skin

My girl going to town
Spends the days on her own
Says the summer nights are warm

My girl going to town
Is it her I'm worried for?
Are you coming home



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Northern Soul Lyrics

When they come on television
To tell about their loss
And the camera finds them beaten up by grief
Do you wonder that they get up every morning
And sometimes don't believe?

When you see their eyes reminded
Of another day not shared
With a child who never turned to say goodbye
Are you comforted by somebody you love
Or do you keep it down inside

Can you feel?, Can you

From every breaking dawn
Through to midnights ghostly toll
I thank him for the life
In your northern soul
Every time you cry
And sulk back to the fold
Through your misty eyes
I see your northern soul

When it's down to just page seven
Even on a slow-news day
Do you pause before you turn over the page?
And although there is no photograph

No tears on television
Do you find yourself reminded of their eyes?
Can you feel?
Can you?

At every roadside shrine
Where faded flowers console
I shudder for the life
Inside your northern soul

Every night you sleep
I'll lie down on your pillow
And I feel each steady breath
From your northern soul

When every light's gone out
And my body's tired and old
You'll keep my spirit young
With your northern soul

God every way it breaks
I'm bound to make it so
To turn all fear to love
With your northern soul



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Nothing Cures That Lyrics

I had the dream once
Of all I would have been
If I'd been loved first
Just only might have been
I'd have been so generous
And so much less mean
About your chosen one
It might have been me

But

All the mail left in the hallway
All the photographs you never took
All the gifts you never wanted
Nothing cures that
All the ways you showed forgiving
All the times I'd wished'd been me
All this hero's love I've wasted
Nothing cures that

To the memory
Of love
I write this letter down
Remember me
You should see me
The way I see myself
There's so much there to love
You'd not know me....

But

All the games I've played around you
All the tiny tests I've set
All the secrets that I've shown too easily
Nothing cures that
All the songs for which I couldn't care less
All the nights I should have said no
All the the things I should have hidden
Nothing cures that,..

Is there a last one
One last night with all the sad songs
On repeat
Just the sad ones.



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Rodeo Boy Lyrics

Silver rails
And western tails
Can take you there
But they'll leave you cold
When loves grows old
Changing points
Will spin you west
And leave the darkest hours
That you know best
All gone

The rodeo boy
Is so much heat
And so much noise
Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh
The rodeo boy
Is so much heat
And so much noise
It's a different love
You can't get enough
Bigger than us
It's a long time curse
Can make you feel worse
Tonight

Well I'll come clean
Stepped off that bus
And threw my hat
Made me took
Just another cowboy
In the dust

The rodeo boy
Is so much heat
And so much noise
Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh
The rodeo boy
Is so much heat
And so much noise
It's a different love
You can't get enough
Bigger than us
It's a long time curse
Can make you feel worse
Follow the trail
Head out tonight
And break out the moonshine
Gonna make it right
Tonight



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Starring Love Lyrics

You take a man who's on his last life
A simple soul nobody knows him
What does it matter if he lives or dies

Or a woman who's lost everything
Her only son, hoped for, not living
Is there anybody listening?

This is the picture that should be starring love
Starring love, starring love
I get the story when it's starring love
Starring love, starring love

Did you see them on the way down
His eyes all gone her memory fading
Is there any kind of way back?

Do you know him with his face down
Do you seem him when he's coming and going?
Do you see him when he's out there?

This is the picture that should be starring love
Starring love, starring love
I get the story when it's starring love
Starring love, starring love

It breaks you up thinking about it
All the beatings and the taunts and noise and all the...
All the love going and given
It's all love

This is the picture that should be starring love
Starring love, starring love
I get the story when it's starring love
Starring love, starring love

This is the picture that should be starring love
Starring love, starring love
I get the story when it's starring love
Starring love, starring love

It's not the coming and the going
Of the thing that keeps you young most
Everyone knows it's going to cost
I'm going to call you up
And tell you how I'm feeling
Since we lost you you'll never know



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Way To Work Lyrics

I don't want to have to want you
Taunt you or haunt you
I don't want risk you
Just to kiss you then miss you

I don't want to have to leave you home
I don't want to spend the night alone

But I'll keep myself hanging on
The songs you played as the night went on
On the way to work

I don't want to have to wake you
Break you and not take you
I don't want to be the wrong man
The last man or your romance

I want to take you in the car
And all these streetlights
To be our stars

And all the songs on the radio
Could be playing just for you
On the way to work

Lowly men and working boys
Painted girls on buses
Full of heat and noise

Just to be like one of them
But we're so far gone it's not the same
Lets pretend just the same
That we're on the way to work
We're on the way to work

I want to be like one of them
I want to be like one of them



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
This Is The Life Lyrics

You're unchanging
I'm unchangeable
That's a difference
We have to recognise
Some folks never row
Their ways seem like paradise
But inside we all know
That this is the life

You're the greatest
Thing I've ever seen
You make my eyes bleed
And others turn to green
Make the road open
The future all gold
Make my world spin
When I open the door

This is the life
You'd better get used to
You know you don't choose it, but
This is the life
This is the life
Anything goes
Oh if anything goes
You can wave it away

This thing won't come back again
And take me round
And let me see
What was I thinking about
Cause now is the time
For you to see me
We can walk away, darling
Or we can say

This s the life
The best thing yet
You'd better not change
Cause this is the life
This is the life
Anything goes
Oh if everything goes
You can wave it away



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Threatening Rain Lyrics

I could be the lover you want me to be
I could be the queen of the Northern sea
Make you all the money you'd ever need
Drive you in car that could take you far

So that I could do without you
I could do without you

Tomorrow they say it's the end of the world
So go out and find some other girl
Who knows? These things can sometimes work
You might be surprised I don't feel hurt

Or that I could do without you
I could do without you

They say the sea is high
And the clouds are darkening the sky
I've been out today
All I found was threatening rain

So do we go out now and tell the folks
Or is it time for unfunny jokes
When you know love, you know the most
That what you had is long time lost

And I can do without you
I can do without you



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Almost Beautiful Lyrics

There is something almost right
There is something that really talks to me
There is something wrong but almost good
There is something that nearly terrifies

There is something more we can talk about
Maybe there is something we can change
If there are ways to go then let us
We don't want to live this always

Cry your heart
For something good you'd do it for
You try so hard
For something, almost beautiful

Far and distant from what you see is what is there
And that love there is something wonderful,wonderful
There's nowhere to go but here now
And nothing To find that isn't beautiful

And all that's lost you count as nought
To what is there so free so free
We don't wanna live this
This way are way no way no way no way I said

Cry your heart
For something good you'd do it for
You try so hard
For something almost beautiful.

Cry your heart
For something good you'd do it for
You try so hard
For something almost beautiful.






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Always Alone Lyrics

Always another time
Getting lost in a different dream
Star crossed and never scared to name it
He once was a roving man
Now he wears his wedding band
Never times to waste not being together

Maybe there's a million years
A thousand leagues of fallen tears still falling
We're always alone

She'll be your roving girl
Travel out and in your world
She'll bring you gifts you never thought to mention
Kind words and kisses sweet
High walls and windows deep
To keep safe but show there's nothing worth your missing

Maybe there's a veil of tears
Atapestry of leaden cares we'll share in
We're always alone

Maybe there's a veil of tears
Tapestry of leaden cares we'll share in
We're always alone
So good alone






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Are You There (With Another Girl) Lyrics

I hear the music coming out of the radio
Are you there with another girl
Instead of me
I hear your laughter and theres something I've got to know
Are you there with another girl
Instead of me

I'm standing on your doorstep and I don't know what to do
Should I ring your door bell or just walk away
My friends all say you were never true
(hiding in the shadows)

I see two silohouttes at the back of your window shield
Are you there with another girl
When I am gone
I can't believe you'd break the promises that you made
If your there with another girl I can't go on

I only know I love you I couldn't say why
so if theres another I don't want to know
if you should go I would surely die

Love requires faith I've got a lot of faith but

I hear the music coming out of your radio

I only know I love you I couldn't say why
So if theres another I don't want to know
If you should go I would surely die

You would never leave me hurt me or deceive me
I'm a fool to doubt you worry so about you
Love requires faith I've got a lot of faith but

I hear the music coming out of the radio

hmmn yeah, I hear the music , coming out of your radio
The sweet sweet music
And your there with another girl
I hear the music
I don't wanna know






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Back Here In Beanoland Lyrics

Every day they write the headlines
Talking diamonds talking steel
Don't talk things that, folk don't know
Talk about money and stuff thats real

Back here in beanoland the bubble is bursting
All things get busted, some things get builded
Old ladies write letters old men dream memories
Back here in beanoland all things are real

Everyday my neighbour drives
For the company from the south
Tells the stories of how things are there
Talks about their life talks about ours

Back here in beanoland the bubble is bursting
All things get busted, some things get builded
Old ladies write letters old men dream memories
Back here in beanoland all things are real

I've trying to find a reason
I've been trying to leave this house
Everyday they cross that great bridge
And watch those trains pull in and out

Those trains, those trains, those trains
Yeah, those trains, those trains

Back here in beanoland the bubble is bursting
All things get busted, some things get builded
Old ladies write letters old men dream memories
Back here in beanoland all things are real

All things are real






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Bound To Love Lyrics

There`s no direction
And no way through
There is no reason
To pay back what is through
You never owned intentions
Never knowed no way back
Never knowed no way back

But I know you`re only asking
And I know you might just care
You only ring my number
For the answer that`s not there
You know the cost of everything
And the value of nothing
The only thing that`s certain
Is you`re bound to love again

And he just came from Eden
Where the fruit was on the tree
And he passed me some and signalled
That the world was there to see
And it seemed so wide and opened
And it seemed to be so free
It seemed to be so free

Well you opened up the cage
And you let us fly away
You saw us as we carried
All the gifts that you now see
You know the cost of everything
But you value what you yearn
The only thing that`s certain
Is you`re bound to love again
Bound to love again
Bound to love again

Bound to love again
Bound to love again

You know the cost of everything
And the value of nothing
The only thing that`s certain
Is you`re bound to love again

I know you`re only asking
And I know you might just care
You only ring my number
For the answer that`s not there
You know the cost of everything
And the value of nothing
The only thing that`s certain
Is you`re bound to love again

You`re bound to love again
Bound to love again






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Deathwork Song Lyrics

Let's sing a song for all the workmen
Working on the carpark down by here
Wrecking through the tombstones and the granite
Cutting through the bone here
Sweeping all the dust here
Crunching all the dirt down
Lifting it up and putting it down

For once the sun beats down so warmly
As the earthmovers come on so strong
Move some hard old century closer
Move it from the earth
Put it on the truck
Drive the truck away
Lift it all up and put it all down

And now the site stands still and silent
As the men come circling around
To see the bag left in the ground here
Must have been a time ago
Can't have been that old
Must have been so lonely
So lift up and set it down

I can see my father in his place now
It's many years away from here
Lying back in sleep that's short and deep
I think he's a good man
I feel his good hands
They seemed so soft then
When they were setting us up and putting us down






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Disneyworld Lyrics

I think the whole world should look good
That's important to me
Everyone should look good
And when they die they should die with their boots on
And their hearts on fire

When I die they'll cry
I'll have candy and chocolate whirls
And party gowns framing bonny girls
Will carry me off to Disneyworld

I think the whole world should be funny
Thats important to me
If you can't be funny don't be ugly
When they speak they should speak with their hands firmly on their hearts

When I die they'll cry
I'll have candy and chocolate whirls
And party gowns framing bonny girls
Will carry me off to Disneyworld

I like to see people happy
Singing on the way to work
Children and animals happy
When they laugh they should laugh like us
Not like other creatures do

When I die they'll cry
I'll have candy and chocolate whirls
And party gowns framing bonny girls
Will carry me off to Disneyworld






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Don't Let The Teardrops Start Lyrics

Tomorrows a holiday and we will be high all day
Singing and playing shows and going as far as the country bus goes
And the bands will be swinging as high as the swing boat goes
And the trees will be swaying and the boats will be heading out to the sea

Hey don't let the teardrops start for all of the times you've had
Go now and rest your weary heart
Tomorrow is near

Cos' all the friends are departing the night skies are parting
Late drinkers are singing their way home and the tower bell is ringing over the ????
Seems like the country is smiling the good times returning
Don't let your eyes start clouding and your old songs start bringing you down again

Hey don't let the teardrops start for all of the times you've had
Go now and rest your weary heart
Tomorrow is near

Hey don't let the teardrops start for all of the times you've had
Go now and rest your weary heart
Tomorrow is near






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Faifley Lyrics

Faifley had a black cloud around it
There was nobody there and someone had stole the chimneys
Fifteen dogs ran up the street
Looking for the Hepatitis Hospital
And a cat with a bread poultice was singing shangalang backwards

The Sunday Mail says Woodys in Japan now
I'd made it through Partic, Whiteinch, Scotstoun and Yoker
I was here same as everyone
No more fags, no more Giro, No more Petrol






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Fourteen Years Lyrics

Fourteen years on a steam-pack sonny
trying to get the kit off my back
Pushing Shanghai to Liverpool sonny
Pissing in the wind and the flag

You're kipping out in the railway station
Now you've left the navy behind
You're hoping just to ride

Fourteen years of belligerence sonny
Working from Dakar to Belise
Fourteen years of Marine life, baby
Trying to keep a man of your knees

Your kipped out in a railway station
Now you've left the navy behind

You're hoping just to ride
hoping just to ride
hoping just to ride






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Freedom Train Lyrics

(Cover Version)

The freedom train is coming, can't you hear the whistle blowing
Its time get your ticket and get on board
Its time for all the people to take this freedom ride
Get it together and work for freedom side by side

I'm gonna ride on the freedom train
I ain't gonna live this way again
I'm gonna get on the freedom train
from this day on I'll be a free man (yes I will I'll be a free man)

Seem like the times are changing people
The trains waiting at the station
go on up to the mountain top and get on board
Were gonna ride on through the valley
Under the clear blue sky
Everybody's gonna stand up proud with their heads held high

I'm gonna ride on the freedom train
I ain't gonna live this way again
I'm gonna get on the freedom train
from this day on I'll be a free man (yes I will I'll be a free man)

Keep on moving, Cast your vote
Tell 'em where to get off ,Keep on Going
We're gonna see the mountains, Keep on going
Gotta get your ticket,The Freedom Train






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Gentle Teardrops Lyrics

There was ice and broken pavements on the hill tower
And the light was falling from the infirmary
And the last of the dogs was barking
At the steps from gentle teardrops and me

And I asked about her sister and her mother
And her uncle Tom serving on the sea
And her grampa's gammy leg that kept him in his bed
And kept out gentle teardrops and me

And its a long way to keep up conversation
When your broken up over fish 'n' chips and peas
And the grease is on your arm
Like a girl you've never worn
Walking home gentle teardrops and me

It's a cold cold night..Its a cold cold night
And I wont forget september is your birthday
And the prisons been paid up for fifteen weeks
And I'll send it through to ease
You can take it as you please
With love the gentle teardrops from me
With love the gentle teardrops ........from...me

yes we're rolling home...Ahh we're rolling home
With gentle teardrops...Ahh we're rolling home
With gentle teardrops






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Ghost Lyrics

I've been dancing round your grave
Cos' I'm always much to scared
Hope you've longed to say
I never liked the way you dressed
Or the cheap ways you impressed
It gets better now your dead

Thats O.K.
I'm not afraid
Not afraid what anyone says now

I can sit around all day
Don't need to hear you say
You'll regret it at my age
And I'm frozen on this stage
I'm blinded by the gaze
Waited for me to say

Its not O.K.
To be this scared
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I don't need your ghost
Coming back, coming back coming back

Just as the dark began to fall
I caught you singing in the hall
But for the beauty of it all






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Goin' Back Lyrics

(cover version)

I think I'm goin' back to the things I learned so well in my youth
I think I'm returning to those days when I was young enough to know the truth
Now there are no games to only pass the time
No more electric trains, no more trees to climb
But thinking young and growing older is no sin
And I can play the game of life to win

I can recall a time when I wasn't ashamed to reach out to a friend
Now I think I've got a lot more than just my toys to lend
Now there's more to do than watch my sailboat glide
But every day can be a magic carpet ride
A little bit of courage is all we lack
So catch me if you can, I'm goin' back

Now there's more to do than watch my sailboat glide
But every day can be a magic carpet ride
A little bit of courage is all we lack.
So catch me if you can, I'm goin' back






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Golden Bells Lyrics

Well the choirs were singing and the candles they were burning
And the lantern girls and alter boys were crossed and cleaned
And my baby and me watched the prayers go higher and higher
As we sadly, slowly, surely took our leave

We're crying now
We we're crying then
Hearing golden bells

So we walked the long mile from the chapel gates
And I felt her warm in my hand as the wind drew us faster
We had no names or flowers in the churchyard
No cards or pity just a childlike space in our hearts

We're crying now
We we're crying then
Hearing golden bells

Oh the light that shines on life
And the living that can tell
Oh the joy, when the gates we reach
And ring those golden bells






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Good Lyrics

Now everyone's singing
How baby's in black
She got Holy Rocker
Mad Dog he called Ronnie
Say here come old flat top
Come moving up slowly
And she got a smile
I can feel in my hip pocket

And I cry, I cry, I cry
Yes I sigh
Well it's a big big dream
But it's a good one

And she's beside me at the wheel
It seems so real
And the driving it's so tiring
And tank is less than zero
And my lips are chapped
What with the roof down flat
And my lips are aching
And My Veins Is Busting

And I cry, I cry, I cry
Yes I sigh
Well it's a big big drream
But it's a good one

And baby's got style
Like a missile silo
And she got speed
Like a Derby Racer
So you think I'm confused
In this wild hard mood?
No, no she leads me by the hand
Can't be bad






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Hear On The Wind Lyrics

The garden of eden
The ancient of days
The wild dreams that wake us
The life before death
The mocking red sun
The night that will come

In my darkness and solitude
Everything will come and i'll know it's true
I'll hear on the wind
I'll hear on the wind

I'll listen in silence
For the things to believe in
For the blue black night cat
And his prey that's a hiding
For the new born baby
Who's life will be struggle

In my life i've tried to keep
The turning world from touching me
But I hear on the wind
I hear on the wind

I hear on the wind such terrible things
About the earth that is savaged and scalded and changed
And where the splinter moon shines on the darkening sea
Where the southern sailors sail to be free
And I never did see I only believe
What I hear on the wind I hear on the wind






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Hey Craig Lyrics

Had a band once
Bass and drums
I sang and played piano
Craig played guitar
Always knew the tunes
had the records made tapes
kept dates
Never fell over once

Once when we were in the car
Listening back smiling
we felt surrounded by stars

Hey Craig do you still wear your guitar
hanging down about your knees
do you still throw up your window
to let out the old year

I remember once someone letting off fireworks
you out your window
wondering where the war was
bought a jacket scrolled
with Rock and Roll I never wore
you took it everywhere
moved your sister's stuff in a van
your mum drove us home again

Hey Craig the kids are growing up
you can be young again
Hey Craig let's say "the Shields is gallus"
one more time again
Hey Craig we'll stop the car now
and check the trees again
Hey Craig we'll do what we did badly
and do it bad again
bad again
and I'll come back again
bad again
and I'll come back again

put this on an old tape
Lush were still bleeding through
thought you'd understand that
It should have happened on this tape too

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Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
I'll Never Fall In Love Again Lyrics

What do you get when you fall in love
A girl with a pin to burst your bubble
Thats what you get for all your trouble
I'll never fall in love again

What do you get when you kiss a girl
You get enough germs to catch pneumonia
After you do she'll never phone you
I'll never fall in love again

Don't tell me what its all about
Cause I've been there and I'm glad I'm out
Out of those chains,those chains that bind you
That is why I'm here to remind you

What do you get when you fall in love
Nothing but pain, lies and sorrow
So for at least until tomorrow
I'll never fall in love again

What do you get when you fall in love
What do you get when you fall in love
I'll never fall in love
What do you get when you fall in love
I'll never fall in love
What do you get when you fall in love
I'll never fall in love
What do you get when you fall in love
I'll never fall in love






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
I've Been Making Such A Fool Lyrics

I've been making such a fool of me
Drinking more than the Irish sea
Even my old friends say I never should be
Talking on the last bus telling all the folks
Of things we did together all on our own

Talking on the last bus telling all the folks
Of things we did together all on our own

Such a fool of me
Such a fool of me
Such a fool of me






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
I Was Right And You Were Wrong Lyrics

I was right and you were wrong girl
Nothing lasts forever
Inside every one of us
There`s only so long

I believe the longest day girl
The lovely light of May girl
If asked if I could ever leave
I never saw a change

But I will
What I say
What I do

I was right and you were wrong girl
Nothing seems the same
I heard you on the radio
Your voice was so strange

But I will
What I say
What I do






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Indigo Sky Lyrics

We went as we know how
As far as the wind and the sky would allow
Waking from sleep
Alive to the noise we came

After the turn of the year
With only the sky as a silver seer
Of anything restively turning
And slowly beginning

Now even the weatherman's smiling
He never could see it this good
Why are we so afraid
That under the indigo sky
We'll sing and we'll drink and we'll cry

After the falling apart
After the noise and the guilt and the hurt
We woke from sleep
And saw that it wasn't a dream

Was it a trick of the light
That there in the spirit damned demon night
We lit a fire
And crowded all around it

Now even the weatherman's smiling
He never could see it this good
Why are we sore afraid
That under the indigo sky we lay down and we died

Under the indigo sky
We lay down and we died






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Into The Good Night Lyrics

Under the braw city night
And under the warm summer light
The evening begins
The day's been lightened with song
As glad as the winter is long
And so we begin

As far as the stars are from here
We'll travel together my dear
Wherever lovers may go
We'll step out into the good night

And into the farthest of hopes
And tied by the lightest of ropes
We'll sail away
And pulled by the sounds of the waves
And stories of heavenly places
We'll go on our way

As far as the stars are from here
We'll travel together my dear
Wherever lovers may go
We'll step out into the good night

I never even played you this song
Don't know that it might be wrong
You might never say
So let's do what lovers will do
Step out in the gathering rooms
And give love away

As far as the stars are from here
We'll travel together my dear
Wherever lovers may go
We'll step out into the good night






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
It's Not Funny Anymore Lyrics

(Cover version of a Husker Du song)

You can do what you want to do
You can say what you want to say
You can think what you think you want
It doesn't matter anyway

It's not funny anymore
It's not funny anymore

Play what you want to play
Hear what you want to hear
Don't worry about the result
Or the effect is has on your career
It's not funny any more
It's not funny anymore

Act like you want to act
Be what you want to be
Find out who you really are
And don't pay any attention to me

It's not funny any more
It's not funny any more
It's not funny anymore
It's not funny anymore






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Little Lincoln Lyrics

In this country dreams don't sleep
Hands stay open wide as the streets in your pocket
Under your shoes these golden roads
keep telling you

Find out fast, Find out hard, Your little Lincoln, Little Ford

Want to walk tall
As the buildings go mountain tops of Colorado
You're rolling faster than the big cars go
Big cars hit hard and knock you low

Find out fast, Find out hard, Your little Lincoln, Little Ford

Men talk loud
What they can ill afford little Lincoln yeah little Ford
The whole world sleeps and baby you drive
Taking the ocean in your stride never crosses your mind

That wheel keep turning lights keep falling
White walled tyres keep burning

Find out fast, Find out hard, Your little Lincoln, Little Ford
Find out fast, What the can ill afford,Little Lincoln, Little Ford
Find out fast, Find out hard, Your little Lincoln, Little Ford






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Long Window To Love Lyrics

You're taking down the signs
Now the time has come and the cleansing's coming
You're turning down the lights
In this cruel light symbols mean nothing

You're taking down the signs
Turning round your eyes
From dreams that seem so bright
Flying hope like kites
Hold loved ones tight
And turning to the light of that long window to love

And you forget about the years
About the planting and the dying and the growing
And you forget about your cares
But you remember that they've been forgotten
By the people sent to London

They're taking down your cares
Drinking off your tears
Gambling on your fears
For things that cost so dear
And won't be paid for years
Hoping you won't stare down that long window to love

They'd burgle all your sanity if it would let them hold you under
They'd knock on your door so hard the frame would crack under the strain
Its just the same ,just the same, Its just the same ,just the same

You're taking down the signs
Now the time has come and the cleansing's coming
You're turning down the lights
In this cruel light symbols mean nothing

You're taking down the signs
Turning round your eyes
From dreams that seem so bright
Flying hope like kites
Hold loved ones tight
And turning to the light of that long window to love






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Message To Michael Lyrics

Spread you wings for New Orleans
Kentucky bluebird fly away
And take a

Message to Michael, message to Michael
He sings each night in some cafe
In search to find wealth and fame
I hear Michael has gone and changed his name

Its a year since he was here
Kentucky bluebird , fly away
And take a

Message to Michael, message to Michael
Tell I miss him more each day
As his train pulled out down the track
Michael promised he'd soon be coming back

Oh tell how my heart just breaks into
Since he'd journyied far
And even though his dreams of fame fell through
To me he will always be a star

Spread you wings for New Orleans
Kentucky bluebird fly away
And take

Message to Michael , message to Michael
Ask him to start for home today
When you see him please let him know
Rich or poor I will always love him so

Fly away kentucky bluebird
Fly away kentucky bluebird, fly
Fly away kentucky bluebird
fly away kentucky bluebird
Fly away

Come on,come on,come on, home tonight
Take it, take it, home tonight
All the lights will be shining home tonight

Baby come home,baby come home






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Mexico Rain Lyrics

I have come five thousand miles and tried to find the ways to b e happy
Travelled through the setting sun I hear those blue lights come I come gladly
Jesus weeps does no-one sleep here anymore?

Just a dime and a half and I'm in oblivion
(oh I'll be sure)
Get it together in a room with a T.V. on
(the world gets better)
I'm on a terrace with a bet on the obvious
(it's gonna shine some more)
Then the thunder struck and the lightning flashed
(oh well that mexico rain)

Jenny's in the jail for telling tales for gold and silver pieces
And the whole world's reading braille like slow snails till the story turns stale and ceases
I'm not coming back down here anymore

Just a dime and a half and I'm in oblivion
(oh I'll be sure)
Get it together in a room with a T.V. on
(the world gets better)
I'm on a terrace with a bet on the obvious
(ithe sun is gonna shine)
Then the thunder struck and the lightning flashed
he put it all on a certain return
then lost a dollar fifty on mexico rain






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
My America Lyrics

Church bells go ringing for you and I
This bright sky is singing for you and I
All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye
All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye

Oh my America my new found land
Oh my America my new found land

Church bells go ringing and strangers cry
People keep bring their sad,sad smiles
Time wont even listen to why we had to lie
Time wont even listen to why we had to lie

Oh my America my new found land
Oh my America my new found land

Listen to the wave crash
Listen to the wave on the wide sound

She's far and she's wide and she's one small step away
She's far and she's wide and she's one small step away

Church bells keep ringing for you and I
We rush,we live,we laugh for some time night
These green fields and roads go rolling in your eye
These green fields and roads go back and back and back

Oh my America my new found land
Oh my America my new found land

Church bells go ringing for you and I
This bright sky is singing for you and I
All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye
All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye

Oh my America my new found land
Oh my America my new found land






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
My Friend Tonight Lyrics

The only one with a party dress
That could fall in blue waves upon the floor
And step the country waltz that I'd seen her dance
On her front lawn of her house all alone

She lies still beside me with the t.v. on
I see her mummy look so sad
Turn down the volume and watch worried women weep
And touch the ring on her frozen hand

But she's my friend tonight
She's my friend tonight

Now I watch the flames leap up into the sky
From a fire that swallows all her clothes
She's stretched across a floor that's never been her home
I'll take her with me when i go

But she's my friend tonight
She's my friend tonight

We're young again
Oh you never missed me this way...

But she's my friend tonight
She's my friend tonight






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Only Love Remains Lyrics

Everything gets broken
And pushed aside
Sympathy will be spoken
Even faith will die

I've got a thing about wheels
Everything returning
I've got a thing about wheels
I've got a thing about wheels

Love , Love , Love only love remains

Where we are standing
Is where they put 'em in the earth
All his beautiful faces
There's nothing of him left

I've got to walk through that earth
I've got to walk through that earth
I've got to live through that death
I've got to live through that death

Love , Love , Love only love remains
Love , Love , Love only love remains






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Pimp Talking Lyrics

There are words that will make you
Make you angry,happy all at once
All at once everything changes
Changes over the whole wide world

This is not the worst thing
Its not the only thing
Its not the real thing
Its just a pimp talking, its just a pimp talking

There are words as big as work
They will hook you then slap you some slap you some
Some people find better ways of making money
Money something that you get not make

This is not the worst thing
It's not the only thing
Its not the real thing
Its just a pimp talking, its just a pimp talking

This is not the worst thing
Its not the only thing
Its not the real thing
Its just a pimp talking, its just a pimp talking






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Proud To Be An Arab Lyrics

Walk the hill, slowly down
Get all of Saturday's news
From the back of the Grampian end
All Fife's kingdom is in view

The pitch it looks like Blackpool
Sound and light and tangerine
When Andy Dickson's treatment time comes
The Dens reserve game can be seen

And I'm Proud To Be An Arab
Proud of my home team
And I'm Proud To Be An Arab
Old times...and new

The half-time scores make a rusty rising
The crowd are glad of the news
Warmed by the Bovril and the scoreline
The Old Firm 1, Dundee 2

And I'm Proud To Be An Arab
Proud of my home team
Yes I'm Proud To Be An Arab
Old times...and new






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Ronnie Spector Lyrics

I take off my glasses and I pull on my shirt
I call up my friends on my long ,long list
I said I've got a reason just to get to the coast
I'll stand on the streets where all the books were wrote

I remember words
That ran around my head
And made no sense at all
And rained right off my tongue
Like mother, love and Ronnie Spector

I'm in an old Humber
That takes a long, long road
And remembering the smell
Of summer on the parcel shelf
And opening up the quarter light
And holding out a scythe
That levels out the landscape
As a car, car travels

I remember words
That ran around my head
and made no sense at all
And rained right off my tongue
Like mother, love and Ronnie Spector

If these things don't get me
Then walking in the rain will.






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Shake Some Action Lyrics

(Cover version)

I will find a way
To get to you some day.
Oh, but I, babe, I'm so afraid I'll fall, yeah.
Now can't you hear me call?

Shake some action's what I need
To let me bust out at full speed.
I'm sure that's all you need
To make it all right.

It's taken me so long
To get where I belong
Oh, but, oh, please don't send me back that way, yeah.
For I will make you pay.

Shake some action's what I need
To let me bust out at full speed.
I'm sure that's all you need
To make it all right.

If you don't dig what I say
Then I will go away.
And I won't come back this again. No.
'Cause I don't need a friend.

Shake some action's what I need
To let me bust out at full speed.
I'm sure that's all you need
To make it all right.
To make it all right






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Still In The Mood Lyrics

By the light of the waning moon
Under a blueblack sky
They talked the slow way home
Of years passed closely by
They caught only a casual look
From strangers with things to do
Only a loveless heart
Could feel anything less than sure

That they`re still in the mood
Still in the mood
After the time has passed
They were still in the mood

You`d take the chimes of midnight
To be the drum of your heart`s desire
And you`d change all you`re golden rings
For one time on the wheel of fire
So take off your shabby coat
Let all the leaves fall down
Leave this stuff till morning
And then come gently round

To be still in the mood
Still in the mood
When the sun has come up
We`ll be still in the mood

We`re still in the mood
Still in the mood
After the time has passed
We are still in the mood






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
S.H.A.R.O.N. Lyrics

The first thing Sharon I ever learned
Never trust a man with confiidence again
The next thing sharon I'd over heard
The fact he's seeing you again is no coincidence

Cos' Sharon he wants you
And I know he lied
When he says he wants you to be his bride
Therse no telling you Sharon cos' god knows I've tried
And what hurts me Sharon , You don't know why , You don't know why

S.H.A.R.O.N.
S.H.A.R.O.N.
Yeah its winter now but it was summer then

The next thing Sharon between you and me
Is for you to see and me to believe
Cos' somehow its harder when your far away
Knowing your happy in your own particular way

Cos' Sharon he wants you
And I know he lied
When he says he wants you to be his bride
Therse no telling you Sharon cos' god knows I've tried
And what hurts me Sharon , You don't know why , You don't know why

S.H.A.R.O.N.
S.H.A.R.O.N.
And its winter now but it was summer then

S.H.A.R.O.N.
S.H.A.R.O.N.
And Again , And Again , And Again , And Again

The last thing Sharon I ever wanted was leave you
Broken and permanently haunted
The last thing Sharon I ever wanted was leave you
Broken and permanently haunted

S.H.A.R.O.N.
The last thing Sharon I ever wanted was leave you
Broken and permanently haunted
Sharon
Lets go tonight






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Take Me To The Place Lyrics

For Oscar Marzaroli 1933 - 1988

Take me to the place where your heart hurts most
Lead me through the dark world gates down there
Where all the ghosts of sorrow and pain
And fear and despair stay hiding
And we'll walk right through to our own way, our own place

There's a beach that I walk so long and so broad
Oceans away miles longer than pain
In my glad dreams, I take you there, and it's easy
Because the work and the hours
And the pay are far behind our sure steps

My heart longs to be next to you
My heart want's to be there, be there with you
Where it's warm and tender and mercy flows like a river
And there you stand with your wide open hands
And say abide with me






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
That Brilliant Feeling Lyrics

I hope one day all the waters will clear
I want to see them rolled away
I hope one day all the stones and the secrets
I want to see them blown away, so get in love

Call me joy ,call me will ,call me anything
Call me hopeful
I've got that brilliant feeling

I hope one day all the lies and dust
I want to see them blown away
I hope one day I stand on these sands
I want to be there so get in love

Call me joy ,call me will ,call me anything
Call me hopeful
I've got that brilliant feeling

I hope one day they'll turn around all things
I hope one day they'll turn around all things
I hope one day they'll turn around all things
So get in love

Call me joy ,call me will ,call me anything
Call me hopeful
I've got that brilliant feeling

One bright morning
I'll fly away






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Friends Of Billy Bear Lyrics

Is there a wolf in the house
Or a scapegoat or a man who's never scared
Is there anyone that can show me a photograph
Is there a friend of Billy Bear

Because he's as tough as railings and built like a hill
His head's a gentle slope for the good to fall on
And all across the weekend he'll make you aware
That come Monday moring you're a friend of Billy Bear

Is there a woman indoors or a child in disguise
Or a dog that's not sized his boot soles
Is there a board that's never felt his terrible tread
Or a window never shook by Billy Bear

Is there a mother of a son not worried when he comes
Busrting through his clothes like a sunset
Or some poor forgotten burn whose life not overturned
By the freewheeling tow of Billy Bear

Is there a wolf in the house
Or a scapegoat or a man who's never scared
Is there anyone that can show me a photograph
Is there a friend of Billy Bear






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Look Of Love Lyrics

The look of love
Is in your eye
The look your smile can't disguise

The look of love
Is saying so much more
Than just words could ever say

And what my heart has heard
Well it , takes my breath away

I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you

You've got the look of love
Upon your face
The look that time can't erase

Your mine tonight
Could this be just the start of
So many nights like this
Lets take a lovers vow and then
Seal it with a kiss

I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you
You've got that look

I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you

Don't ever go
Don't ever go
Don't ever go
Don't ever go

Baby don't go
Baby don't go
Don't ever go
I love you

Baby please don't go






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The River Is Wide Lyrics

The river is wide
The river is wide
The river is as broad and white as satan's smile
The soul of man can never hide
The river is wide
The river is wide

The river is calm
The river is calm
The river's as safe as a babe asleep in a mamma's arms
The soul of man needs a soothing balm
The river is calm
The river is calm

The day is long
The day is long
The day's own light is faint and wan
I'm as weak as I am strong
The river is wide
The day is long






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Waves Of Sorrow Lyrics

There are waves and waves of sorrow still to come
And you'll watch and wait and lie beneath each one
When the last things gone and broken you'll never even know
But another place will open and you'll begin again

No sorrows like sorrow and pain
Just gifts of love baby
No sorrows like sorrow and pain
Just gifts of love baby

And in your waving sorrow and in your drowning pain
Caught in the seconds glimpse the will to love again
When the last things gone broken you'll never even know
But another place will open and you'll begin again

No sorrows like sorrow and pain
Just gifts of love baby
No sorrows like sorrow and pain
Just gifts of love baby

No sorrows like sorrow and pain
Just gifts of love

There are waves and waves of sorrow still to come
And you'll watch and wait and lie beneath each one
There are waves and waves of sorrow still to come






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
You Don't Understand (Unreleased) Lyrics

Here's a cry for every lie you tried but didn't know I saw
And a sigh for every poor man,and woman and child that you ignore
Here's some wounded sailors from fighting your war overseas
Good God almighty Its pulling me down on my knees

But if you don't know where you hurt
Where you wound and you bite and you burn
Then you don't understand

Now I'm the man who crumbled five years into your plan
And I'm dreaming of days when my hands and face were oily and blackened
Finnieston's howling ghost ships are all I can see
But now I shiver and shift and I'm worried
So I drift -'cause I know that I'm beaten

But if you think we don't know that you know
Each time we tumble under your blows
Then you don't understand

Its goodbye tonight ,I'm catching the ten o'clock train
Its leaving central station and pulling out of this wind and this terminal rain

So its bye bye, Glasgow
Bye bye baby goodbye
Ooh be lah , we na na
There's only so long you can try


All Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross Lyrics

Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
A Brighter Star Than You Will Shine Lyrics

Down on the flag stones
The accordians
And sweet trumpets rise
Rusty memories
Of sin and doubting
Mingle in around
The Queen Street
Traffic noise

Would that all the love in the world
Watch me through the night

You know the preacher
All he preaches is vanity
Maybe,At last,You`ll see
A brighter star than you will shine one day

Hymns and words and busy planets
Said the preacher have come and gone
Even your smile will one day die away
When your wealth and words are forgotten

Would that all the love in the world
Stay with me tonight

You know the preacher
All he preaches is vanity
Maybe,At last,You`ll see
A brighter star than you will shine one day



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Closing Time Lyrics

This is the way we walk
This is how we walk
At closing time
These are the songs we sing
These are our songs
At closing time
And in the clear
Of this sweet moonshine
We`ll walk back
To where we started
On our own again

This is my favourite time
Drink up now and move outside
It`s closing time
My most favourite lips
Are on the girls that I kissed
At closing time
And in the clear of dear sweet moonshine
We`ll walk back
To where we started
On our own again

When all the people are just
Shuffling home
When all the saddest things are
Said and done
And all the words are brighter
In the happy light of
Closing time

We took the shortcut home
Over the wood slat bridge
And stood and gazed and wished
Till all the clouds
Had vanished
Nothing could be missed
And only the river passed
And there at the back of eleven
In the late summer night
A leaf landed soft
Soft soft soft
And sorrowful
And your belly was warm
As the day was long
And night came upon us
So fast

Would you be poor
Not to be sure
That everything lasts for ever
Some things don`t get better
Till you`re on your own again

CHORUS


We took the shortcut home
Over the wood slat bridge
And stood and stared and wished
Till all the clouds
Had vanished
Nothing could be missed


And only the river passed
And there at the back of eleven
A leaf landed soft and sorrowful
And your belly was warm
And the day was long
And night came upon us


So fast
So fast
Came so fast
Came so fast
Came so fast
And all we said


Da da do do
All we said was
All we said was
Was da da do do
Was da da do do
Da da do do


And all we said
Do do
Do do
Do do



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Cover From The Sky Lyrics

I will love you when the morning is ascending
I will love you when the moon is riding high
I will love you when we only have pretending
When our home becomes a cover from the sky

Well my eyes have seen the dust and then the ashes
And the lowland and white sky of your home
And the rain that washed mascara from my lashes
And nothing gave us cover from the sky

When you`re gone I notice all your tiny touches
And it`s then that I see i`ts then that I know why
If the days become the walls you never wanted
Our years will give us cover from the sky
From the sky

Well we`ve been among the saints and the angels
And we don`t want to wait until we die
So we`ll stand among the ruins of our temples
And prey to god for cover from the sky



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Fellow Hoodlums Lyrics

On the night that
Maxton died
I fell over
The Clyde was full of old tyres
The wind nearly pulled my
Breeches off
And Ann Kelly
She kissed my mouth

Fellow hoodlums and
Engineers
The Union`s south
And we`re all here
I`m going up Buchanan Street
With a box of fireworks
And two bottles of
Tizer

On the last train from St. Enochs
I saw the graveyard
It looked like our old street
People were cheering
All the way from Hampden
With macaroons and
And scarves and rattles

CHORUS

Billy`s a butcher now
Always has been
And he picks his teeth
With old rusty meat hooks
And he sends his beef with the bike boys
Monday to Saturday
Partick to Cowcaddens

CHORUS



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Goodnight Jamsie Lyrics

You were a good man
Jamsie
Everone loves you
Now you`re gone
And the seagulls over
Where you lie
Sing your final song

I`m walking back
Away from here
To see where you belong
Here`s the church
And here`s the work
And here`s where shows were at the fair

Take me on your skirling waltzer
And scream the ghost train down
And buckle me to the chairy plane
As the big wheel goes round



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
I Will See You Tomorrow Lyrics

Outside the world
The wind is howling
Through the broken trees
And the moon is shining
As the river meets the sea

And I will see you tomorrow
Calm and bright in tender light
And my heart will be racing
Like your wakening eyes

Inside my room the curtain`s blowing
And our bed it lies unmade
But the morning will be broken
By the loving words you say


CHORUS


Though you`re far still your heart sounds loud beating time with me
Through the day the only grace I get is
I want to be you

In the world time were rushing
Like the cool evening breeze
But my soul is calm
And I will see you presently



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
James Joyce Soles Lyrics

Here`s the pictures
I promised to send
You see the airbase
Where we were sent
Now the winter
Has started to descend
Your loving son was sent here

I got your letter
From Boise Idaho
To James Joyce Soles
To James Joyce Soles
I went down at midnight
To the Holy Loch shore
And scattered the ashes
Of James Joyce Soles

He knew the reasons
Why we were here
He loved your parcels
And all your care
You`re so thoughtful
They`re so fair
I know my friend thought so
Was James Joyce Soles

He`s not just a soldier
He`s not just a friend
He`s been in the wars
In a foreign land
He`s been on the payphone
When itr was so cold
He was my comfort
Was James Joyce Soles
He was my comfort
In a country so old
He was my comfort
Was James Joyce Soles



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
One Day I'll Go Walking Lyrics

Water
Tiny at first then bigger
And it flowed right down
From the highest hill
And it grew and it joined
The battling burn
And it flowed right through
To where we are now

Standing
Beside a cool cool stream
It`s hard to imagine
The great and terrible river you`ll be
Bringing life or rest
Or wonder
Or high high tide
And in times like this
You bring me here

And when the wind is blowing quick time
For the waves to be dancing by
And the moon is watching over
The purple gloaming sky
I`ll go walking
Yeah
One day
I`ll go walking

Sometimes I come down here
And I don`t know why
It`s like a garden or a room
Or a dream that you
Keep on trying to find
It leaves you feeling that maybe
Maybe there`s a destination you`ve missed
And all along the way you hope the reason that you came was blessing
Hah
Some holy kiss

CHORUS

Let me ask you a question


Give me the
Just give me
Just give me five

Did you see the picture
Or did you read the book
I mean
Did you really go there
Or were you only took
I said
Were you believing
Or were you just shook
Well I went inside and I
It was dark and
Then I stood

I stared out long and fast
Till my eyes were hurting
And I saw the hands on the saviour
And all his bloody feet
And his hair and his clothes were all
Mattered and torn
Were they only dirty from the beating of the soldiers or just
Just from walking ?



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Day That Jackie Jumped The Jail Lyrics

The day that Jackie jumped the jail
There was a big explosion just as he got off the motorway
And thirty thousand fireworks took the piss out of Princes Street Gardens
So he drove up to the Budgie for a livener
See the smell of cabbages first thing in the morning

The sun will be up again
And you you will be loved again

After the sausages and cream of the barley
There was aframe or two to be had at the "Imperial" on Mitchell Street
Five years ago he`d buried her memory with a snooker cue on a daft wee student`s head
Still he remembered everything

The sun will be up again
And you you will be loved again
And the wind
And the rain
And the wind
And the rain
Falls around

As he walked down Hope Street he thought about the last time they`d been together
He`d been wearing a green parka and he`d bought her yellow stilettos
That squeezed her toes
He`d told her the whole story as she took him into the wee penn behind Sloan`s
And let him feel her all over
For the last time
Ten minutes later the meat wagon picked him up

The sun will be up again
And You,You will be loved again
You will be loved
And the wind
And the rain
Falls around
All over this town



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Wildness Lyrics

Oh the rush hour is over
And the night has been trying
To drive us and chase us away
But we`re lovely and drunk now
And our laugh dosen`t
Rattle or fray
And the friday folk
Are coming round
Let the wildness
Have its way

Oh sweet autumn
With your dark surprise
And your short days all smudged with gold
You covered up
Worn paths for us
So no story could be told
And sent the dark
Come tumbling down
So the wildness
Can`t grow cold
So the morning
Would never know

Of the wildness
Of the wildness
Driving me on again
Of the wildness
Of the wildness
Shaking me
Letting me know

There were two of us driving
We were six miles out
And a
Hundred miles to go
Still the morning lies waiting
And the light falls
On your travel map
I`m still here hoping
For the wildness
To relax
For the wildness
To go back

CHORUS


I went up to your house one night
I took 59 in the rain
And I saw your tiny face shine
So calm and so bright
And so gay
I called in
I called out
I couldn`t see any other name
I woke
One morning
With the wildness
Once again
With the wildness
Shining in


CHORUS



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Twist And Shout Lyrics

You`ve got a lot of
Tings to say about the
Big world and the
High skies so you
Walk a little in a
Long mile to be
Sure your eyes can see the
Right sights

I see a
Pale girl in a
Blue room with a
Pink dress and a
Wide smile I see a
Pale girl in a
Blue room with a
Pink dress and a
Wide smile

You`ve got a little
Way to go before you
Find the knowledge that you`re
Searching for so you`ll
Turn the big world
Upside down
To find the things that you
Never wanted

I see a
Pale girl in a
Blue room with a
Pink dress and a
Wide smile I need a
Pink smile on a
Dark night from the
Right girl to be
Sure it`s right

You`ve got three million things to get mad about
Another hundred things to get glad about
Junk food
The whole world over`s good as standing round
So baby twist and shout baby
Find out baby
Find out baby
Find out baby

So it`s April and the
Tings you say don`t
Seem as certain as on
Hogmanay when we
Kissed at midnight and a
Wee wee Bells had
Gave me courage for my
My heart to tell

I see a
Pale girl in a
Blue room with a
Pink dress and a
Wide smile I need a
Pink smile on a
Dark night from the
Right girl to be
Sure it`s right

CHORUS


Twist and shout
Come on come on baby



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Your Swaying Arms Lyrics

Send me back all the thing she ever wrote
Tell me secrets of her days when she was young
Show me nights when she laughed
So innocent
I`ll be happy
Waiting till they come

Love the people that she smiled upon
Walk with me in streets
Where she once stood
Say if it could be that we once passed like strangers
Long before the love we ever new

`Cause I`ve been longing
For a new world waiting
I`ve been hoping
To be sent
I`ve been picking up
All the love we squandered
Until you
Hold me in your swaying arms again

One day I can see us walking
Arm and arm in sheltered Kelvin way
Talking and tripping and teasing
And heading for the best part of the day

When your head
Falls softly on my pillow
No fear will make you cry or turn you grey
And we will wake
So early in the morning
Knowing you`ll never
Never
Never go away

CHORUS



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
A Is For Astronaut Lyrics

You don't have to be grateful
For all the world's ills
There's plenty of people
Never seen the white cliffs of Dover

So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything
So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything

Got caught in the headlights
Saying something special
There's never a moment
When the beat stops long enough to hear the message

So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything
So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything

We all get stuck and we don't know why
We think there's no place we can go to
We need to trip on to

So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything
So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything
So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Beautifully Still Lyrics

Send me down my future
From your wheel of fire
Let me only fly
On your wings of desire
What happened to that ride
On your chariot of gold
It had only lasted minutes
From the centuries you hold

What happened to the reign
The reign of love?
Where have all the angels gone
Now the sun's not up above?
You lie so beautifully still
I can't see you move

I want us to be closer
In fifty years or more
Getting young not older
Like we were here before
But your quarters are all sullied
Your alter boys asleep
Your priests have drunk the wine
You meant us all to keep

What happened to the reign
The reign of love?
Where have all the angels gone
Now the sun's not up above?
You lie so beautifully still
I can't see you move

What happened to the reign
The reign of love?
Where have all the angels gone
Now the sun's not up above?
You lie so beautifully still
I can't see you move
I'm not saying your dead
I just think you've changed
You lie so beautifully still
I can't see you move



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Even Higher Ground Lyrics

I could almost weep
If I could only take your hand
we're so close to sleep
And so far from deliverance
Once in every lifetime
Love comes down

Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Even higher ground
Would not make you fall
Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Would not make you fall

Oh you came tumbling in
Like a river to the valley
Which will not be rolling green again
It's washed everything away
Well it stretches out so beautifully
Shows the heavens up above

Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Even higher ground
Would not make you fall
Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall

I couldn't love you better
If I'd loved you all my life
You threw out all the questions
With one big breath - welcome to the world

Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Even higher ground
Would not make you fall
Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Every Time You Sleep Lyrics

I go to work
And I get in early
Lying to myself I need to be there
I pass the church
And all the hurly burly
Of all the people as they walk without a care
How I'd love to tell them of how I get so happy
Maybe now's not the time
But when's it going to be right?

I come awake
Every time you sleep
I slip away
But it gets so hard to leave
Watching you down deep
And all my troubles to keep
Every time you sleep

You walk to work
And I walk out with you
Lying to the people that we're together
You cross the street
To catch the waterloo train
And I slink back to walk the quiet way back home
How I'd love to sing about what gets me happy
Maybe now's the time
Maybe it's alright?

I come awake
Every time you sleep
I slip away
But it gets so hard to leave
Watching you down deep
And all my troubles to keep
Every time you sleep

I want to get on the telephone
I want to call everyone
I want to know what to say when you mean it

I come awake
Every time you sleep
I slip away
But it gets so hard to leave
Watching you down deep
And all my troubles to keep
Every time you sleep
Every time you sleep
Every time you sleep



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Homesick Lyrics

There's me and daddy out at Lunan Bay
Now looking dandy stepping out Saturday
I can still see the buses
Lined up to take the dancing home

That's me on the stairs suitcase in hand
Kidding on but knowing that one day he planned
To leave all that behind
And see what the big smoke's saying

These are just some photographs talking
Make it look easy
To imagine just walking
Back into someone's arms
And feeling
Homesick
Homesick
Homesick

Maybe you have a question too
You recognise a face in unfamiliar shoes
You don't see a man just someone broken down
Standing in front of you

This could be just a photograph talking
I make it look easy
To get up and start walking
Back out of these arms
And feeling
Homesick
Homesick
Homesick

I'm just
Homesick
Homesick
Homesick



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
I Am Born Lyrics

All the people in all the world
Will look for something that will keep it turning
Everyone's got to keep the will
Every boy every girl

I'm no different why the other day
I saw death like an ocean that could wash us away
The only comfort that I got was this
I once was unlovely and now I'm kissed

I am born
Aliver than the raging sea
Stranger than the strangest beasts
Than ever can be

After midnight and the night is black
You lie awake and the fear comes back
That your breath will stop
And this world will carry on

But I am born
Once there was nothing here
Not even the smell of fear
Nothing at all

Until you are born
Gasping out and in to open air
Taking hold of the atmosphere
And loving being born



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Now That You're Here Lyrics

Everything's got easier since you've been around
Everything's got easier since you've been around

If you're thinking of looking at setting me free
Be sure and tell me baby, so I can see
Cause you can charm the birds down from that old oak tree
Someday I know I'm scared it's gonna be me

These are just the sad times
Don't go thinking they're gonna last forever
These are just the bad times
Everything's got easier now that you're here

Are we awake or are we asleep?
Is there something, something you really need?
Your love, your love, your love is what makes me believe
It keeps raging so hard it brings me peace

These are just the sad times
Don't go thinking they're gonna last forever
These are just the bad times
Everything's got easier now that you're here

Everything's got easier since you've been around
Everything's got easier since you've been around
Everything's got easier since you've been around
Everything's got easier since you've been around

These are just the sad times
Don't imagine things just can't get better
These are just the bad times
Don't go thinking they're gonna last forever
These are just the bad times
Everything's got easier now
Everything's got easier now
Everything's got easier now
Everything's got easier now that you're here



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Out There Lyrics

I got something and I know it's true
Cause I know you're out there
We all want somebody like you
Cause we all know that you're out there

Animal boys and earthen girls
Are meeting out there
All the friends made in the world
Are waiting out there

I got lost and it all went black
But I saw the light and I got you back
We only love the way we do
Cause there's something out there

Under the stars when it's late at night
I know you're out there
Something knocking and it can't be right
Means we need you're out there
In the city there's a million prayers
Going to someone out there
I found love and it was burning bright
Cause I saw it out there

Beautiful stories you've never heard
Trust me baby you can lean on the wind
We only love the way we do
Cause there's someone out there

Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank
Digging it out there
Jimmy Rogers on the last train back
Sounds better out there

I got lost and it all went black
But I saw the light and I got you back
We only love the way we do
Cause there's something out there



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Rae Lyrics

I can't go with you
And I can't let you go
You can't be with me
So I won't let it show
I don't want you to know
So I'll just have to let you go

I'm going to love you so much better
You'll forget the error of my ways
I'm sending you the good I wished I'd given you
Oh how I miss you Rae
Some day you might well laugh at this
As memories of love all shift and time slips away

So don't cry honey
You can't see everything
But the wind still dries your tears
And the sun will keep you living
I just want you to see
My love's unseen but still keeps seeking

I'm going to love you so much better
You'll forget the error of my ways
I'm sending you the good I wished I'd given you
Oh how I miss you Rae
Some day you might well laugh at this
As memories of love all shift and time slips away

Oh Rae
Oh Rae



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Silverlake Lyrics

Forty men in a paper boat
No plan to hand just tearing a hole
To get the water out
Got together on a phone-in show
Oh how we love that talk radio
No one else say's it like that
Here we are now a-singing songs
We all know where it all went wrong
We're going to put it right
Oh yeah

One night up at silverlake
John the taxi and Willy the brake
Said all the things that needed said
We named and shamed
And stuck it out on the web
Sorted it at silverlake

Try some of these and turn down all the lights
You might find love unusually nice
More if you care for her
I went on the TV twice
Once for the money and once for advice
I tell it like it is
Come up and see us

One night up at silverlake
The place was jumping, people goin' ape
All the paper and the news
Was waiting for us to say
Let the oil trucks roll away
Won't forget us in a hurry
All the boys down at silverlake

One night up at silverlake
John the taxi and Willy the brake
Said all the things that needed said

One night up at silverlake
John the taxi and Willy the brake
Said all the things that needed said
We named and shamed
And stuck it out on the web
Sorted it at silverlake
One night up at silverlake
John the taxi and Willy the brake
Said all the things that needed said
We named and shamed
And stuck it out on the web
Sorted it at night at silverlake



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
This Train Will Take You Anywhere Lyrics

Down by the beach road
Crawling through the undergrowth
Stand by the railing
And look along
Put your ear to the ground
Listen for a while
Till all the tracks start
Humming and buzzing
Then the roar comes
And it's louder than the drums
Cause it's tons and tons and tons
Of steel going faster

Now maybe I'm on the bridge
And near the very edge
And I'm waiting for the train
To pass under
It's got fifteen carriages
Each one saying what it is
This is bigger than anything
That'll ever go past you
It drowns out what you say
And it blows the dust away
And it makes it's own way
We can't stop it

This train will take you anywhere
This train will take you anywhere
You want to go

I'm on the border
Berlin to Warsaw
I can't tell the things I saw
You'd see them anyway
It's the same where you go
Hanol to Bangalore
From Belize to Bogato
You can ride on
Get on at the platform
Keep your eyes on the land
And see the colours all change
And the world all open

This train will take you anywhere
And you can see anything
You can sleep or you can imagine
This train will take you anywhere
You want to go



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Ash Wednesday Lyrics

Where would I be,Would I be standing right here
We've had such a cruel death would we be as good as to remember a life
Would you never live the way that you did would your birth be enough
Was it just someones hard labour,A few days struggle then oblivion

And what about Peter that rock of a saint he'd never taken the hook
And kept on fishing and missing the catch but hitting the sea
And Margaret praying for the army and the souls like you and me

Lost somewhere out there in erternity,Wondering what it all means
Would it be the same,Just imagining
Not just holy water but an ocean
Not just touching but diving right in

Is this a curse it just makes things worse for the living
Struggling and burned and one calender month before giving
Giving up the ghost of Christmas past
Valentines post and easter mondays past

Could this dying be done,Would love be so concerned
Not just in starting but in ending
Not just in falling but decending, Decending



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Blue Horse Lyrics

Take me over again,That's alright on the waysSee me shine when I swim,Blue Horse
There's a mountain ahead,We can lie and get some rest
We'll brush the tail and we'll dress,Blue horse

We'll go home...Soon..We'll go home
We'll go home...Soon..We'll go home

Daddy the sunshines all gone,And its dark in the sky
Put me on top let me ride,Blue horse

We'll go home...Soon..We'll go home
We'll go home...Soon..We'll go home
We'll go home...Soon..We'll go home
We'll go home...Soon..We'll go home

Blue Horse.....Blue Horse.....Blue Horse.....Blue Horse



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Cresswell Street Lyrics

You take comfort from your window
you take refuge in the sky
you can't bare to see the ocean
falling, falling

If your
over there i'm over here
if your
over there i'm over here

Met you on the street on tuesday
stood like statues in the snow
pushed your head back it was melting in your eyes
there was a tear
I don't know

If your
over there i'm over here
looking
If your
over there i'm here
across the street
If your
over there i'm over here



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Earth A Little Lighter Lyrics

When you walk across the earth,Do the horses hear you first
And lift their heads as if concerned,That something has occurred

To this world.............To this world

You waved me from your car,You looked so changed I couldn't wave back
Life past in a blur,I never really knew you at all

Hmmm........................Hmmm........................Hmmm

Maybe I saw you that time,Because you burned a little brighter
On your way out of this world,To make the earth a little lighter.

To make...... the earth..... a little .....lighter

Shining ships on far off plains,That head for ports unnamed
Stand more chance of being tamed,Than a life finally unchanged

To make the earth a little lighter,To make the earth a little lighter



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Here's Singer Lyrics

Here's singer
here's singer
heres' singer give it out

Here's singer
heres singer
here's singer give out again

Given love
given life
given faith what would it be

He's bitter
he's bitter
thats why he's a star to you and me

He loved the last
I loved and lost
but he loved being in love the most

given it to keep
and time to sleep
and just maybe dream what would he be

He's ours
hes's ours
he's (?)

Those words
are dangerous
the kind of things you don't see

Given sight
and the ways of life
sometimes you see what can it be

A normal heart
could find it hard
not to forgive what it could be

Here' singer
Here's singer
Here's singer
Here's singer
Heres singer



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
I Love You Lyrics

She walked her down to the long,wet grass
Then she slipped out of her raincoat
She held her softly till the wind had passed
Then she put her down so slowly

Underneath a cotton white sky
The water splashed the blanket
Then she pulled her hands away
And let the river take what she'd carried

She whispered
I love you
I love you
I love you

She ran back up the road she'd always take
And then she stopped to catch her breath
There in the distance the traffic honked and roared
The evening sky was gold and red

She whispered
I love you
I love you
I love you



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
I'm Sure Buddy Would Know Lyrics

I'm sure Buddy would know
but I can't ask him
what picture you'd go to
given the choice of things
things not being as they are now
i'm sure Buddy would know
if I could phone him, up

Where is he now
where is he now
is he with you
with you
is he with you

I could find out so easily
I could find out so easily
I could find out so easily

I'm sure Buddy would know
I'm sure Buddy would know
I could find out so easily
so easily
so easily



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
My Only Tie Lyrics

Watching old friends
Do better things
Without any strings
Get you again

Hmmn...........Hmmn.........

People abroad
Say come make it yours
Do it to them
Before they do it to you
I'm not sure.....I'm not sure.....

My only tie...........My only tie...........My only tie
Is you,Only you,Only you
My only tie.............My only tie..............My only tie...
Is you,Only you,Only you



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
On The Line Lyrics

Oh the line goes on and on
Forty years
And far beyond
Oh the line that working line
Stretches from
Where the world began

Cause we were on the line
Yes we were on the line
And now we stand together
On the line

We stand on the line
So you'd better not cross that line
Cause we will not be broken
When we stand on the line



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Further North You Go Lyrics

See me see places
See me see news
See me see punters
See me see you

See Dundee nothing like it
See Paris its all trees
See Dundee nothing like it
See me i'll let you see

The further north you go
The rain comes harder down i'm told
The people seem so friendly there
They really seem so warm
If theres a river let me see
If theres a special place to be
I'd love to know the further north you go

See trains awfully long journey though
See me I love to think
See you where do you come from
Ahh well I like you just the same

The futher north you go
The buildings show and the trees don't show
The people seem to let you know they're only saying no
If theres a place for me its here
Its where I feel i'm really needed
Your really needed the further north you go



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Undeveloped Heart Lyrics

My friend David told me
The heart beats like a dream
Down there at the railway station
The Lights are turning green

That little black-robed Franciscan priest
Struts down to ???????????
Tips his hat at all the North Americans
And dreams the dream of the argonauts

We know the truth of the undeveloped heart
Poplars on the Seinne and Sunset Boulevard
The noise that can drive a love asunder
Sometimes your dreams can leave you under

We go climbing down myriad flights of stairs
Blowing off the heat and dust
Stetch our romantic souls
To cover the wunderlust

At midnight in some strange city
Black-burned and medieval
Shiver inside our paper thin raincoats
And the silence that knows no evil

We know the truth of the undeveloped heart
Poplars on the Seinne and Sunset Boulevard
The noise that can drive a love asunder
Sometimes your dreams can leave you under

The heart can be a lonely hunter



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
A Week In Politics (Is A Long Time) Lyrics

(Undiscovered Kingdom)

In a windy street in a bitter morning
a seagull flies into a fire of blazing sun
in the minutes after midnight
when humans let go
only cat and litter move without fear

Undiscovered Kingdom

Underneath an awful stern
above dark dock water
and anchor hangs wounded from a ragged body
in a seething pub at midday
a boy has lost his way
from a hundred empty faces
a hundred gazes glare

Undiscovered Kingdom

Sometimes I touch
sometimes I see
sometimes I feel
sometimes I really know

Undicovered kingdom

In an angry alley
the paints been left to run
from a daubed swastika on an abandoned VW
a cathedral door is opened
a woman wipes away a tear
sunlight streams in
as a priest puts out a brief candle

Undiscovered Kingdom



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Chairman Mao's Vacation Lyrics

They painted us up
and shouted us down
they wanted us to be
just a face in the crowd
and all the time they never saw
the people we are
in a world of fast cars

every time you pass
you try not to laugh at me
you don't want to love me out sympathy
I guess that you admire me
for my humility
in a world of fast cars

We don't hear the jokes
that eveyone else hears
when they walk behind us
on our holidays
we just don't fit into deckchairs
and take walks along the pier

Even the lonely people
deal us out
think I'll walk down town
and sit on a roundabout
and drivers will keep driving
cos' they're too polite to shout
"hey look at that fat boy"
in a world of fast cars



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Checkout Girls Lyrics

Stay with me now
I feel like you're slipping away
there's a song in the air
that no-one is singing today
there are places to go
but somehow I feel we should stay

And the checkout girls sing a a song for the world
that goes round and round
and the anthem of the keys in the tills
makes a soothing sound
and the eyes and the ears aren't on the sky~
they're on the ground

Talk to me now
there are words in your mind worth saying
there's a something happening over here
even though the actors might only be playing
life is the thing
that can't be lost by delaying

Live with me now
I'm ready to hear your crying
risen again like the phoenix the ashes defying
in the silence we know
there's something beyond the dying

And sometimes I'm ready to know
sometimes I'm willing to go
for someone its happening slow
didn't you know



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Don't Look Back Lyrics

Billy can you see the light?
can you feel the sun
waiting to shine on you?

Oh Billy here comes the night
here comes the walls
ready to fall on you

So don't look back thats all right
don't look back until the morning light
Don't look back to hear the noise
don't look back
until the madness turns to joy

Candy can you feel the pain?
can you feel the same love you had?

Oh candy you're running from the old
running to the new
let me run with you

I stand alone
it happened so long ago
the shape of a skull
it happened so long ago
beneath the cross
it happened so long ago
I saw my reflection



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Little India Lyrics

I could be king
you could be queen
I'd give you all the flowers
that are evergreen
but now ther are no flowers to be seen
in little India

Memory fades
time slips away
who saw it happen?
who has to pay?
no-one
in little India



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Love You Like A Son Lyrics

Early in the evening there's a sun in the sky
everybody's happy but there's a tear in your eye
the times I never wondered
the times I never knew
I'd live them all again
if I could live them all for you

And when the walls are broken
and when they're on your back
when its scapegoats that they're after
and they know you'll attack
just remember,boy in the silence of the night
something I never told you

I love you like a son

Later in the evening in the light of the moon
everyones found lovers ,its empty in the room
when polite conversation
goes screaming out the door
and understanding people
leave you lying on the floor

They ask me why
they ask me why
analyse it, analyse it
they ask me why
they ask me why
but don't tell
just don't say



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Some People Last Winter Lyrics

She looked so far away
when she stood at our door
she sat frightened and frozen
and covered her eyes

But when you hide
no-one knows you deep inside
but when you cry
we can love you like a child

She started to tell me
what I tried to ignore
she acted her nightmare
and I suddenly saw

Its so easy to cover
its so easy to smile
but some people last winter
we're really broken inside

In the covering darkness
he turned from taking his life
one night in a thousand
we never knew why

His jokes are the fortress
for the hollow heart
it lets him hear the anger
but he won't feel the good



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Something About Ireland Lyrics

Driving through the frocess in the snow
two lines of trees consent to let us go
it tells a story of long ago
another love that won't let go ....it told me

Something about Ireland
something I should know
something about Ireland
something makes me want to go

Standing in the suberbs at midnight
out of the warm of dim TV light
a cold shiver gripped on hearing the distant sound
these dangerous places can turn your head around
thet tell me ....

Families meet families mutter
backdrop radio news stutters
dead body in a dead-end street
men media on while widows meet

In sunlit morn crossing the red sea
two lights laugh from a hillside and beckon me
"mythical light of the ever present hope"
bidding farewell,letting me know, telling me



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Suprised By Joy Lyrics

There's a million reads that I'd not taken
till you caught me with my eyes closed
looking over my shoulder to see whats behind me
I didn't see the promised land

I fell back into your arms
(its hard when you don't know)
I was so suprised by the joy
(it was all that I could do)
to trust you with my life

As the road goes on the paths get steaper
a light begins to shine
though I pass by and miss the turning
you'd walk with me over the edge

On the road and bound for glory
but I'm a fool when I forget
I'm on the route where travellers seldom meet
its so easy to slip

And fall back into your arms
(its so easy when you know)
but I'm still suprised by the joy
(though it happens all the time)
anytime,anywhere
(when the wind is blowing cold)
when there's nothing left at all
(its all that I can do)
to trust him with your life



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Germans Are Out Today Lyrics

Its dark in the car
we're deep in the garden of england
its dark in the car
they're all asleep but you and me
there's time to talk
we're only on holiday
and I think you said this to me

The germans are out today
they won the war you know
I didn't look for salvation
but,boy I found it there
in and RAF bunkhouse
I borrowed a bible
the fellow who owned it
wanted it shared

Outside a locked door
in front of a dusty store
outside a locked door
we talked through the drunken singing in the rain
there's no time talk
not while we're standing here
but even now I thought I heard you say

Hey it don't last forever
hey were we there together
its so dark in this prism life
take back the years
hold back the tears
on all of these days
that might not have been there at all
AUGUST 1982



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Vision On Lyrics

Hold my hand in your hand
let my thoughts be your thought
I want to find the fire upon my face

To the centre to the heart
retreat ,retreat they said
within the core the voice replied

I will folow
I will follow
I will follow
Vision on

Mind games , war games
relationships and battleships
nothing else here but everybody else

You can live without the outside
but not without the insight
but never live without the voice within



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Cold Easter Lyrics

There`s gonna be trouble from the start
When you break somebody`s heart
You hope the damage does them good
Like it does you
You put a rock around my heart
And you know the killing part
Is sunday morning
When nothing rolled away

Cold
Easter
It rained on the parade
Cold
Easter
God everything`s the same

I took the car through where you`d been
I couldn`t see anything you`d seen
I thought riverside drive
Went on and on
And I got a chill right through my soul
When I found out the ride can`t go
Round forever and forever
Amen

Cold
Easter
It rained on the parade
Cold
Easter
God everything`s the same



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Good Evening Philadelphia Lyrics

Good evening
Philadelphia
I can`t believe what I just said
I got up again
Like a monkey
And I raged right through the set
We went outside
Into an autumn wind
Running scared from the crowd
Headed out for an all night cafe
Where the waitresses got off on singing loud

I`m just a small town noise
I`m just a
Small town noise
I`m just a small town noise
I`m just a
Small town noise

Easy does it
Washington D.C.
What a state you`re in
Looks like you`ve cracked
A hundred hallelujahs
Through
Fifty nights of sin
You get hungry for some leg over easy
Or packing someone`s pistol in the hood
It doesn`t mean
You`re not as ******* boring
As some dirty dark river that don`t move

I`m just the village voice
I`m just the
Village voice
I`m just the village voice
I`m just the
Village voice
I`m just the village voice
I found out that

I realise
I need you
More than you need me
I realise
I need you
More than you need me

Goodbye
Denver Colorado
Goodbye Portland Maine
So long
Baden Baden
So bad they named you once again
We`ll be breezing through the
Windy city
For the
Last time you`ll see
The only way the traffic`ll stop
Is if some angel flies down and touches me

I`m just the village voice
I`m just the
Village voice
I`m just the village voice
I`m just the
Village voice
I`m just the village voice
I found out that

I realise
I need you
More than you need me
I realise
I need you
More than you need me



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Icarus Lyrics

Take my wings and take my hands
Put a weight round
Where I stand
And bind these ropes around my feet
If they`re not tied
I can`t concede

To never chase around the stars
Always the shadow
Of where you are
Only I`m as silent
As the sun
And as faithful
When I come

And I`d join you in your dreams
And if nothing comes between
I`ll meet you out
Across the milky way

Let some light fall in this cell
Give me a pen so I can tell
Of transcendent radiance half seen
From today to what might be

But you might wake me when you come
And if all this joy is done
I`ll come riding out
Across the milky way

And I`d join you in your dreams
And if nothing comes between
I`ll meet you out
Across the milky way



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Jack Singer Lyrics

You come
Awake
And lie in a bed
Of fevered state
You rise
Again
And open a curtain
To find only night
Coming in

The dream
Comes back
Your up on the stage now
Slumped collapsed
Everything is blurred
The people come
They come at you all at once
The man at the front says all he wants is Jack Singer

I`m so sorry
For what I`ve done
Against all forecasts
I`ve been the one
Who turned the world round
And made it pass
Through hell`s own corner
God we made it at last

I`m here
Tonight
Up on the stage now
Doing my thing
And that`s all
The worst
Thing ever
Is to sing to the Gods
And discover nothing coming back
That`s all there is there



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Love Isn't Hard Its Strong Lyrics

Whatever I call you`s your name
You`ll get on with it just the same
Sometimes you`ll blame me
And think that love is hard

Your lover`ll break your heart
Make you make a brand new start
He`ll say that nothing`ll touch him
You`ll think that love is hard

It`s your birth
It`s your birth
It`s your birth
It`s your birth

Love isn`t hard it`s strong
True love will never be wrong
Whenever you know it
You`ll think that love is hard

When Icarus crashed from the sun
Some boatmen looking on
Saw only a golden
Bright beautiful dawn

It`s your life
It`s your life

It`s hard to watch you on your own
Getting up and growing old
Trying to remember
Love isn`t hard it`s strong

It`s your love
It`s your love

It`s your love
It`s your love



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Promise You Rain Lyrics

Please remember
Please remember you`ll know why
This is nowhere
This is nowhere then you die

We`ll maybe not like it
We`ll maybe not like it
When we die
We`ll maybe not like it
We`ll maybe not like it
When we die

So I could promise you rain
But it would only
Bring you down again

Here`s to you girl
To you and me into the
Bright blue yonder
We had it coming
A little bit of what you like
Will only haunt you

Your eyes will open
Your eyes will open to the light
You`ll maybe not like it
If what you like`s what made you blind

So I could promise you rain
But it would only
Bring you down again

There`s an old man
Used to pass this way so much
He seems to know it
It seems a shame that we`ve lost touch
It wouldn`t scare me
It wouldn`t scare me if he spoke
It wouldn`t scare me
It wouldn`t scare me if he spoke

So I could promise you rain
But it would only
Bring you down again
So I could promise you rain
But it would only
Bring you down again
But it would only
Bring you down again
But it would only
Bring you down again



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Radio On Lyrics

Under a dark storm coming
They found the car out in the lake
A crowd had gathered on the shoreline
Two tons of black on steel plate
They put some chains all around it
And a hoist up on the pier
Hung above the surface like a prize catch
Wriggling till the water disappeared

You`ve gotta have a reason to be
Gotta reason to be
Gotta reason to be

I`ve got my radio on
The wind is blowing
Everything is shining
In the winter sun
The winter sun

Down on the beach one July morning
Just as the dawn had hit the sand
Sun caught her heels and summer cotton
An extra rock out on the land
Kids dropped their nets and ran over
And saw the tears upon the skin
And how her gold and pearl earrings
Couldn`t stop the water coming in

You`ve gotta have a reason to be
Gotta reason to be
Gotta reason to be

I`ve got my radio on
The wind is blowing
Everything is shining
In the winter sun
I`ve got my radio on
The wind is blowing
Everything is shining
In the winter sun

Down on the beach one July morning
Just as the dawn had hit the sand
Sun caught her heels and summer cotton
An extra rock out on the land

An extra rock out on the land

An extra rock out on the land



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Rosie Gordon Lies So Still Lyrics

Don`t be afraid to let the rain come in
Don`t be frightened for your skin
The heart`s as open as it`s
Ever been

It doesn`t beat
Or break or cry
There`s only earth
And grass and sky

Now you stretch beneath the
Beating sun
Within the minute of all time
The grass and trees don`t for a
Second long

Pause to say
Hello goodbye
To where you live
Or when you die
They know nothing about your heart
They know nothing about your heart

Rosie Gordon lies so
Very still
Under the carpet
Of the earth
If this won`t wake you then
Nothing will

They cut your clothes
Round your blackened skin
You`d never know
Where life begins until you learn
They know nothing about your heart
They know nothing about your heart
They knew nothing about your heart

It doesn`t beat
Or break or cry
There`s only earth
And grass and sky
They know nothing about your heart
They know nothing about your heart
They know nothing about your heart



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Lovers Lyrics

The lovers baby
They walk through the earth
And nothing at all now
Is going to change what it`s worth
They`re lovers baby
And everyone knows
That only lovers girl
Follow where love goes

You can feed me darling
You can keep me even
But I don`t pretend that
It all means anything

Unless we`re lovers baby
Don`t come and go
We only sleep through the world
And the world doesn`t know
About lovers baby
We wait a long time
But once it all happens
It all comes right

There`s no evidence darling
There`s no steps in the sand
I couldn`t even place
A ring on your hand

But we were lovers baby
And we waited our time
Till the waters had rolled
And the clocks had chimed
We`re lovers baby
We wait a long time
We`re lovers baby
Love is on time

Love is on time
Love is on time
Love is on time



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Wake Up And Dream Lyrics

I need to wake up soon
So very soon
Into the light zone
Into the light
I`m falling forwards
And into sight
And running backwards
And falling down

They cheer they cheer

Under a piercing and
Blinding light
The crowd all gather
Singing
Right on right on
But there`s no dark corner
Only
Centre stage
The crowd gets restless
I begin to say

I don`t know if you know
I care I`m here
I`m only barely holding on
To something that is real
I`ll stand up to the noise and light
Until everything requires
I might be heard
Or else wake up
And dream
Dream
Dream

He`s so good looking
The traffic stops
He`s a politician
A heavenly cop
Words of healing
Fall from his lips
Lifting up the weak
Is in his gift

People say yeah
To the hall of office
And the foreign stage
Maybe at last
The world`s a
Better place
He`s brought down swiftly
By the
Hand of fate
The people weep
And the thought remains

When you fight for every breath
Do you stop to think about your friends or do you
Realise
That in that moment separating life and death
You want to take what you can get
And maybe
Only wake up
But not
Dream



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
What You Are Lyrics

You`re in a car
A pale blue car
Under some sky
Some northern sky
The radio`s on
Some music`s playing
Fingers are moving
And your lips are singing
I`m a fool
I`m a fool
For even thinking
That`s what you are


Still on the road
That`s where I see you
Stop at a lay by
And lightly sleeping
The music`s playing
So far away now
Your hands aren`t moving
So what are they saying
I`m a fool
I`m a fool
For even thinking
That`s what you are


You`re moving out now
And talking to strangers
They`re telling stories
Your eyes say it`s easy
They`re giving you reasons
To keep on going
Wheels keep on turning
Things keep on selling

And here`s your jacket
And here`s your cuff links
And here`s some letters
And a hundred worthless things
You kept them unhidden
Maybe hoped we`d find them
They lie unopened
For no one to own them

I`m a fool
I`m a fool
I`m a fool
I`m a fool
For even thinking
For even thinking
For even thinking
For even thinking
That`s what you are



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
When Sinners Fall Lyrics

You always saw the best in me
Even when you knew the worst in me
Always something I forgot to say
You took a while to say what others said
Even when I walked away

We all know
When sinners fall
So what`s the point
In a wind drowned call
I`m just a sinner
Falling out of your life again

You took a while to set me free
Especially knowing how happy I`d be
There`s always some who`ll only say
What a mess better leave him be
Let the devil take the rest and then we`ll see

We all know
When sinners fall
So what`s the point
In a wind drowned call
I`m just a sinner
Falling out of your life again

First you say wheels
You`re wanting them to carry you
Next you say leave
Find a place to hide away
Then you say blood
Soon enough we all do
Then you`ve had enough

We`d better tell the waiting ones
I only acted like they said I`d always done

It`s no surprise
This sinner fell
They`re only glad
`Cause they could always tell
He`s just a sinner
They`re only mad because I crashed
Into your arms again

Into your arms again



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Born In A Storm Lyrics

that hurricane day




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Chocolate Girl Lyrics

alan doesn't understand her
he only thinks in numbers
he only drinks in restaurants
where the girls are fully covered

and he can't trust his yearnings
and he doesn't like pretending
his tempers stretched so much by work
his heart needs gentle rending

he calls her the chocolate girl
'cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
she knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
and wrapped in bits of silver

alan doesn't understand this
he says he's only human
so he still lights up with old flames
as if to try and prove it

and he doesn't like emotion
he's not certain of their ardour
if pouting causes so much fun
then breaking hearts is harder

he calls her the chocolate girl
'cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
she knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
and wrapped in bits of silver

alan doesn't understand her
he thinks its getting harder
so he spends the night with old friends
underneath the covers

and he talks about the chocolate girl
and how he thinks she melts when he touches her
and that she knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
and wrapped in bits of silver

he calls her the chocolate girl
'cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
she knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
and wrapped in bits of silver



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Dignity Lyrics

there's a man i meet walks up our street




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now Lyrics

there's a shadow on his photograph




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Loaded Lyrics

you sing, you walk, you talk, you care about nothing




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Love's Great Fears Lyrics

(R.Ross, J.Prime)





Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Ragman Lyrics

offered her a roof




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Raintown Lyrics

it's a rain-dirt-town-job hurts, but it don't pay




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Very Thing Lyrics

one day all of us will work




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Town To Be Blamed Lyrics

close your eyes and go to sleep




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring) Lyrics

pale blue eyes




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Circus Lights Lyrics

you're tired and you say you're angry




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Fergus Sings The Blues Lyrics

fergus sings the blues




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Love And Regret Lyrics

cold dawn won't comfort you




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
One Hundred Things Lyrics

poorly - you're more than poorly jimmy




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Orphans Lyrics

i now describe my country




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Queen Of The New Year Lyrics

you're so young




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Real Gone Kid Lyrics

and i'd tear out the pages




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Sad Loved Girl Lyrics

he saw her trying on his old clothes




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Silhouette Lyrics

down in the streets they're walking and kissing




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The World Is Lit By Lightning Lyrics

so maybe you're standing




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
This Changing Light Lyrics

i wrote this once before




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Wages Day Lyrics

there we stood and there we left




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Your Constant Heart Lyrics

your constant heart beats like the road




Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
All Over The World Lyrics

All over the world
The wild wild wind
Rips through the mighty words
We kept ourselves warm with
And all over this love
Has never been stronger
All Jericho`s walls
They gently fall

I`ve been waiting for a golden
Bright milleniun
Waking early for the Union bonds being broken
Then gone

All over the world
All over the world
All over theWorld
All over the world

I`ve been searching for a new new
Song of freedom
Where no flag of conquest
Is furled
No war words are spoken

All over the world
All over the world

I,I hear the sound
I,I Hear the sound

All over this land
People are waiting
To enter the world
Like a new born baby
All over the world

Where nothing`s been learned
The flags are changing
So let freedom unfurl
New flags need waving
Let freedom unfurl



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Bethlehems Gate Lyrics

There was a night
As purple as this
With a love so close
We longed to be missed
Summer `89
And everything stood
Sure and free and there
To be finished

I long to be there
As bright as the sky
At Bethlehem`s gate

September again
You come so quick
So sudden your strength
So strong your kiss
The world groans and strains
For the hope of a time
Like a prayer that
Is wished and willed
To exist

Like knocking so hard
And trying to get through
To Bethlehem`s gate

I`m chiding the heart
That the body will live
To question the power
And the gift of birth
To stand and grow and die
On the wasteland
That scorns the high temples
We build

And stand in the way
And darken the sky
At Bethlehem`s gate

Stand in the way
And darken the sky
At Bethlehem`s gate



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Cut Lip Lyrics

15 books in
Different covers
Winter comes in
Many colours

Kids toys broken glasses Elvis live in Vegas
He's still turning
All the worthless things
We're paying in

Pounds of sugar
Here it comes
Blankets from the
Social fund
Snooker balls and Spanish divers rocks full
Of cat hair
All the worthless things
For the warrants sake

Maybe you`ll be so kind and take the shirt right from my back
That`s got my kid I'd even smile for you
With my cut lip
With my cut lip
With my cut lip
With my cut lip

Talkin' away
My rent is due
Didn't get my
Last few

Playing on the sattellite dish
Finally nights to switch to
Blue filmsloon tunes
Purple moons
Every motherfucker
Will be on it soon

Maybe you`ll be so kind and take the shirt right from my back
That`s got my kid I'd even smile for you
With my cut lip
With my cut lip
With my cut lip
With my cut lip



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Fall So Freely Down Lyrics

Little baby don`t just slip away
Without fight or push or
Saying anything
This is all you really
Get to say
And the only thing you
Listen in to

There are people to see
There are places to go
There are things to believe in
To believe in

So you live in the magic water
And you tumble and kick and turn
While your beautiful hands and feet grow
So quiet is the life you beat with
Till you fall so freely down

You can`t just slip or fall or leave without talking
There`s no goodbye without walking
The roads we travel for good
The ways we exit for bad

There are places to go
There are jobs to be done
There are things to believe in
To believe in

So you live in the magic water
And you tumble and kick and turn
While your beautiful hands and feet grow
So quiet is the life you beat with
Till you fall so freely down
Till you fall so freely down

Kick kick down

So you live in the magic water
And you tumble and kick and turn
While your beautiful hands and feet grow
So quiet is the life you beat with
So quiet is the life you beat with
And you tumble and kick and turn



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Hang Your Head Lyrics

There`s no sleep inside
Their dreams are broke and inspired
All the times you try to
Scream

Houses dark indoors
And blinds are pulled and closed
Everything that needed
Change

And there`s nothing wise
Or twice as good as nice
You save it all inside while you

Hang your head
Hang your head

Underneath it all
Your smile your smile your smile is flawed
And the songs you sing are only
Spoken

The promise of this child
You crossed your palms with silver crowns and the
People swore he's only
Choken

There`s no promises
No light is ever shed
Between the living and dead

Hang your head
Hang your head

There`s no promises
No light is ever shed
Between the living and dead



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Last Night I Dreamed Of Henry Thomas Lyrics

Lily love that`s a
Beautiful name
Your precious gifts are not the same
Since they faded away

The song so distant
But it still rings true your
Beautiful hands were rudely used
To make things pay

Every minute of every day
You don`t get angry `bout what`s taken away
Is only real life
Every second of eternal light
Piercing through this sorrowful night
Will bring the sad heart
The cold heart
To love again

Last night I dreamed of
Henry Thomas in the
Delta light his rusty pipes
They drifted away

Standing in some
Dusty patch
It felt so close that I could almost catch
His breath on me

Every minute of every day
You don`t get angry `bout what`s been taken away
Is only real life
Every second of eternal light
Piercing through this sorrowful night
Will make the sad heart
The cold heart
To love again

Every minute of every day
You don`t get angry `bout what`s been taken away
Is only real life
Every second of eternal light
Piercing through this sorrowful night
Will make the sad heart
The cold heart
To love again

Last night I dreamed of
Henry Thomas and the blues



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Only Tender Love Lyrics

Way out there in the wilderness
Of love and pain
Under the gentle arches we rode
The silver streets
Couldn`t see a difference between gold or
Wooden cross
Could never see where we`re falling
Came in to love

Then hounded by love
Hounded by the very thing you dreamed up
Chased inside the walls you tried to breach
Sent crashing to your knees
Only tender love
Understood the need you need with
Understood the time it took
To take you where nothing ever was

Never was there once nothing
And everything once was
Not dead but still and ready to be born anew
Looking back now it all
Seems so clear
Like staring so long unseeing for someone to light inside a
Darkened room

Then try your tender love
Push you back till there`s nowhere left
Nowhere to feel nothing anymore
Nothing that will comfort you more
More than tender love
Understands the need you need with
Understand the time it takes to get home and have a love again

More than tender love
Understands the need you need with
Understand the time it takes
To get home and have a love

Then try your tender love
Push it till there`s nothing left
Nowhere to feel nothing anymore
Nothing that will comfort you more

Then hounded by love
Hounded by the very thing you dreamed up
Chased inside the walls you tried to breach
Sent crashing to your knees

Then only tender love
Understood the need you need with
Understood the time it took
To take you where nothing ever was



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Peace,Jobs And Freedom Lyrics

There comes a time in everybody`s dream
When the stage is lighted and the
Words appear
And in the blackness
That it seems
A tiny little realisation
Begins

And in my number
57 dream
I`m standing at the window
Of the world
And suddenly the
World begins to scream
We want the promise and the promise
Can be made

Who said the words
Who said the words
Peace and jobs
And Freedom

People say there`s nothing
When you die
Tell you stories that will
Make you sigh
And beat up all your senses
Until you
Cry cry cry
All I`m saying is the words
Writ up in the great big holy sky

Who said the words
Who said the words
Peace and jobs
And freedom
Who said the words
Who said the words
Peace and jobs
And freedom



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Will We Be Lovers Lyrics

All my worries
All my care
Is held in check
For you not there

Evening comes
And darkness falls
We sit round
And curtain out
The black night

There is a time
Away
From here

Seasons pass
So quickly come
And steal the days
Your work has done

They leave the fields
So bare and grey
I long to hold
You there and say
It won`t change

There is a time
Away
From here
There is a time
Away
From here

Will we be lovers
Or will we still be
Will we be lovers
Or will we still be

Will we be lovers
Or will we still be
Still be still be



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Your Town Lyrics

I wouldn`t want to be you
Mostly not even near you
When you`re gone they will curse you
And raise the tide against you

I no longer care now
For what you said was fair now
I just don't go there now
I just don't go

Maybe there`s a way not to make it hurt
To cover up the words like you covered up the dirt
Ever since you left
It just gets worse
Living out in your town

Now let`s say it like it is
I just don`t know where to begin
It`s a different way of living
It`s so strange to what we`ve been

First we speak for ourselves now
And people know who we are now
And they wake up and they live now
Yes they wake up and they live

Maybe there`s a way not to let it hurt
Tell it out in pictures
And songs and words
Do what we should not
To make it worse
Living out in your town



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
All I Want Lyrics

A cautious smile under the western sky
Would curl upwards like the wild sea
A special friend knowing all the ways of love
Would talk his way back inside a tiny second

Don't promise good intention
One in a thousand (maybe even me)
Don't know there are clouds in the sky
Sooner or later eveyone'll say the same thing
Baby , you already know

That all I want is to be with you

Call me over sooner
Call me right now
I'm standing underneath the blackest rolling sky
I don't know my way forward
I'm dizzy with the wind
Turning like a compass never true only spinning

All I want is to be with you

In the sad and lonely pines
Where no midday sun ever shines
As the clouds all float into thin air
Underneath the blackest sky somewhere
I hear the soul of man never dies
I hear that special will survive
Keeping time over the rolling roads
Staying with me as my thoughts all go
Chasing away in the green fields
Where every breath gives up and yields
To all I want



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Beautiful Stranger Lyrics

Seven lonely days in a fifty ton lorry
I know you made me what I am
And I fall to pieces
Johnny Cash in black singin'
Undertand your man from
St. Quentin crossing to Tarbert to Gigha

Oh lonesome me howled box car willie
Coming out of Tobermory to the sound
In the morning
Patsy Clines on the air say's I've loved and lost again
From now on all of my friends are gonna be strangers

So I fell in love with a beautiful stranger
It's just an arangement
I'll leave the first light of day
This one goes out
To my beautiful stranger
I slipped so quietly away

By the window where she stands
She counts the beads in her hand
And knows it wasn't God who planned to make
Honky tonk angels
She makes the bed all alone but a house
Without love is not a home plays on the radio

She says why can't he be you I hear
You've gone from Brown to blue
Since the holiday for two
But I don't need to know that right now
I love you so much it hurts he cursed
As his truck tyres lurched down the
Old dirt track road again

She fell in love with a beautiful stranger
There's no arangement
He leaves the first light of day
This one goes out to the beautiful stranger
Time slips so easily away
Time slips so easily away
Time slips so easily away



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Christmas And Glasgow Lyrics

He was lying in the half light
Of Christmas and Glasgow
Thinking and talking
Talking to St Enoch about
Christmas and Glasgow
Drinking and talking

And the sweet smell
Of the Kelvin Hall Circus
And the sweet smell lingered
Of her perfume and kisses

He needed to take one step
He was taking one step back

She knows the only danger
Of Christmas And Glasgow
Is you love too much
And she's thinking of years
At Christmas and Glasgow
When it meant too much

And walking in frost
Down in Cowcaddens
And the sweet smell
As they were lost in the garden

She needed to take one step
She was taking one step back

They could hear choirs, those heavenly choirs
Choirs of angels, those heavenly choirs

They needed to take one step
They were taking one step back



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Jesus Do Your Hands Still Feel The Rain Lyrics

Would the rain, the frozen rain
Be as cold upon your forehead
As the tears that plough your beaten face again
Would the rain

Could your hands, your grubby hands
Pull your coat around your shoulder
Steel yourself against the weather of the day
Could your hands

Here i stand
Just the same

Jesus do these hands still feel the rain

Here we go, winter long
Like sun bleeds down the valley
Or a black and oily river moves so slow
Here we go

Here i stand
Just the same

Jesus do these hands still feel the rain

Here i stand
Just the same

Jesus do your hands still feel the rain



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Love Hurts Lyrics

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars
Any heart not tough nor strong enough
To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
Love is like a cloud holds a lot of rain
Love hurts, ooh, ooh, love hurts

I'm young I know but even so
I know a thing or two I learnt from you
I really learnt a lot, really learnt a lot
Love is like a stove burns you when it's hot
Love hurts, mmm, mmm, love hurts

Some fools dream of happiness
Blissfulness, togetherness
Some fools fool themselves I guess
But they're not fooling me

I know it isn't true, know it isn't true
Love is just a lie made to make you blue
Love hurts, ooh, ooh, love hurts



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Plastic Shoes Lyrics

Plastic shoes
Empty in the hall
Well, I gathered the news
That you'd gone after all
Whats left is this:
And from what I can recall
Theres something I've missed
And I have seen it all

You caught me drawn in the
Bathroom mirror
And said I looked a little older
Walking along on a beach at dawn
With your head upon my shoulder

In your plastic shoes
Broken and used on me
And what have we been through?
Are you watching alone
The same film I'm tuned to?
Do you still cry
When the doctor gives her the news?

Theres a big black bag of belts and hats
You wore to other weddings
A broken chain and a picture frame
That once held us together
I put out these shoes that I helped you choose
And I bolted all the doors
So they won't walk back........

Those plastic shoes
Oh you looked so good
That was all you wore
When I really understood
Some things need summer weather
Others want the dark
Some things work well together
But still keep falling apart



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Walking Back Home Lyrics

The stars and satellites
Are quiet over the hills tonight
And the cats' eyes and white lines
Are heading out for miles
The frost on the embankment
Keeps my feet on the road
But the tunes and beers
Are walking us back home

And we stopped any travellers
And wished them good new year
And we sang and we drunk
And we quarrelled and we cheered
And we felt the earth below
And we knew how good it was
Just walking back home

La La La La......La La La La......La La La La......La La La La

I left them at the circle
As the sun began to rise
And we walked the last few hundred yards
Back to my own house
I pulled my coat still closer
'Cause now I'm on my own
I've struck out for the first time
And now I'm walking back home

Warbeck sang
La La La La......La La La La......La La La La......La La La La
The Stacy's sang
La La La La......La La La La......La La La La......La La La La
Linda sang
La La La La......La La La La......La La La La......La La La La



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
When You Are Young Lyrics

When you were young and your heart was free
I'd run and meet you and rush to see
Just over the wall where the clouds roll by
And age and chance and tears were far away

Oh if heaven wouldn't see
Light lovers so distantly
Then look today at this love so free
When you are young again

When you were young and your eyes are old
Then all your treasures my hand can stroke
And all your memories and your sorrows are loosed
And blown and left so your lips may be touched

Oh if heaven wouldn't see
Light lovers so distantly
Then look today at this love so free
When you are young again



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Angel And Mercedes Lyrics

I'm getting into space man
everything is going up
and no one is going
down where I'm going
And I'm getting better
at knowing what's outside looking in

Cause I
never saw what was coming round
and I
could never get my feet off of the ground

Gonna be a space man
I'm working on a space stand
talking on the radio
how I'm not coming back man
Bursting all the clouds now
looking how the world looks small

And I never saw how far there was to fall
and I am floating here far above it all

Cause Angel and Mercedes
took me where heaven is
Angel and Mercedes
took me where heaven is

I'm getting into space man
everything is going up
and no one is going
down where I'm going
I've been into losing
when I could have been
only choosing you

And I am far from the
world I used to know
And you can see me only
When I come out into view

Cause Angel and Mercedes
took me where heaven is
Angel and Mercedes
took me where heaven is



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Hippy Girl Lyrics

Hippy girl
Please don't change a thing
Change isn't everything
And dreaming is something - hippy girl

There's a curse in this world
That money brings
And a big idea
That fame is everything
You're far and away now
Richer than kings and queens
You know love
And you give everyone

Hippy girl
Please don't change a thing
Wear your hat girl and your friendship rings
Hippy girl
Blue-eyes-sallow-skin
You look ahead now
Not at fashions whims - hippy girl

You're from a different planet
That must be tough to leave
The planet of mercy
The planet of make-believe
One day I took you
To a castle so high
We got through the bridge
You said this is the happiest day
Of my life

Hippy girl please don't change a thing
Change isn't everything
And dreaming is something hippy girl

I'm away with your
I'm away in your
I'm away to your world

I'm away with your
I'm away in your
I'm away to your world

Hippy girl
Jump on into the pool
Don't let anyone tell you
You need rules
Hippy girl
I'll smoke your pipe
Of peace outside your tent
We'll watch the smoke rings go
Up in the wind - hippy girl
Up and into this wind - hippy girl



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
I Sing About You Lyrics

Walking on broken stones
And listening to a foreign radio
I never knew where you'd gone
I only knew where you're going

I sing about you
Cause nothing's the same without you
I know what the truth is
And what your excuse is

Are you getting on where you stay
The same blue sky every day
I never saw the time you chose
And still the wonder's growing

I sing about you
Cause nothing's the same without you
I know what your excuse is
Sometimes I wonder.., what the use is

I wonder

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Everyone's bleeding but me

Now I sing about you
Cause I lost the truth about you
All that surrounds me
Is everything...
I found when you were near me

I sing about you
cause nothing's the same without you
I know what the truth is
and what your excuse is
I know.., what it is about you
That still makes me never doubt you
There's no day without you
That wouldn't be better
sticking together

I know
You say
Everything will go away
I know
You say everything
Everything



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
London Comes Alive Lyrics

I was midnight walking
And daytime talking
You can see the best in me I know
I got distracted
You were broken hearted
But I still tried to follow where you'd go

And every time you wish me peace
Or take a joke with perfect ease
Or hear my doubts with sympathy
It's like London comes alive

We both know the river
Gets stronger and longer
And crossing it's the hardest thing to plan
You took us together
Sister and brother
And brought us safe ashore
where we now stand

And even if you'd one regret
It couldn't spoil the best thing yet
Some special days our eyes have met
And it's like when London cameo alive
It's such a surprise

Any time you want, just say
Phone me up and I'll he there
What you need to hear I'll say
Anything

Cause every time you wish me peace
Or take a joke with perfect ease
I know you're down on bended knee
Trying to make everything all right
Like when London comes alive



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Looking For My Own Lone Ranger Lyrics

I'm looking for my own lone ranger
Don't want to follow yours anymore
Don't want to be the lonely Tonto in the picture
Staring out across horizons like before

You've got to have your own lone ranger
Somebody riding out just for you
Cause the nights grow long and I'm not that strong
And I'm just too...

Miles away it was miles away
I last heard your voice out on the breeze
Now coyotes bark and the sky's so dark
And I need somebody rescuin' me

Somebody like my own lone ranger
To come riding out of nowhere just for me
Someone to take the reins and circle all the wagons
And start the fire for our cowboy jamboree

You've got to have your own lone ranger
Somebody watching out just for you
Till the stars go in and I can breathe again
And I can ride out on my own



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
My Girl Going To Town Lyrics

God of warm words
And good things
God of change
God of broken chains
And rusty rails in sidings

God of the saints
And nearly departed
Come down and love the living
Before they go
Tell us a joke...

My girl going to town
She dresses down
She still wears that tiny ring

My girl going to town
Takes the late train
Oh it won't rain, she says

God of good times
Dry, happy, sunshine days
God of sand castles
And holidays
In motor cars

That take you days here and there
How long till we get there?
Fast asleep after tears
That gently change the colour
Of your brown skin

My girl going to town
Spends the days on her own
Says the summer nights are warm

My girl going to town
Is it her I'm worried for?
Are you coming home



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Northern Soul Lyrics

When they come on television
To tell about their loss
And the camera finds them beaten up by grief
Do you wonder that they get up every morning
And sometimes don't believe?

When you see their eyes reminded
Of another day not shared
With a child who never turned to say goodbye
Are you comforted by somebody you love
Or do you keep it down inside

Can you feel?, Can you

From every breaking dawn
Through to midnights ghostly toll
I thank him for the life
In your northern soul
Every time you cry
And sulk back to the fold
Through your misty eyes
I see your northern soul

When it's down to just page seven
Even on a slow-news day
Do you pause before you turn over the page?
And although there is no photograph

No tears on television
Do you find yourself reminded of their eyes?
Can you feel?
Can you?

At every roadside shrine
Where faded flowers console
I shudder for the life
Inside your northern soul

Every night you sleep
I'll lie down on your pillow
And I feel each steady breath
From your northern soul

When every light's gone out
And my body's tired and old
You'll keep my spirit young
With your northern soul

God every way it breaks
I'm bound to make it so
To turn all fear to love
With your northern soul



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Nothing Cures That Lyrics

I had the dream once
Of all I would have been
If I'd been loved first
Just only might have been
I'd have been so generous
And so much less mean
About your chosen one
It might have been me

But

All the mail left in the hallway
All the photographs you never took
All the gifts you never wanted
Nothing cures that
All the ways you showed forgiving
All the times I'd wished'd been me
All this hero's love I've wasted
Nothing cures that

To the memory
Of love
I write this letter down
Remember me
You should see me
The way I see myself
There's so much there to love
You'd not know me....

But

All the games I've played around you
All the tiny tests I've set
All the secrets that I've shown too easily
Nothing cures that
All the songs for which I couldn't care less
All the nights I should have said no
All the the things I should have hidden
Nothing cures that,..

Is there a last one
One last night with all the sad songs
On repeat
Just the sad ones.



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Rodeo Boy Lyrics

Silver rails
And western tails
Can take you there
But they'll leave you cold
When loves grows old
Changing points
Will spin you west
And leave the darkest hours
That you know best
All gone

The rodeo boy
Is so much heat
And so much noise
Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh
The rodeo boy
Is so much heat
And so much noise
It's a different love
You can't get enough
Bigger than us
It's a long time curse
Can make you feel worse
Tonight

Well I'll come clean
Stepped off that bus
And threw my hat
Made me took
Just another cowboy
In the dust

The rodeo boy
Is so much heat
And so much noise
Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh
The rodeo boy
Is so much heat
And so much noise
It's a different love
You can't get enough
Bigger than us
It's a long time curse
Can make you feel worse
Follow the trail
Head out tonight
And break out the moonshine
Gonna make it right
Tonight



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Starring Love Lyrics

You take a man who's on his last life
A simple soul nobody knows him
What does it matter if he lives or dies

Or a woman who's lost everything
Her only son, hoped for, not living
Is there anybody listening?

This is the picture that should be starring love
Starring love, starring love
I get the story when it's starring love
Starring love, starring love

Did you see them on the way down
His eyes all gone her memory fading
Is there any kind of way back?

Do you know him with his face down
Do you seem him when he's coming and going?
Do you see him when he's out there?

This is the picture that should be starring love
Starring love, starring love
I get the story when it's starring love
Starring love, starring love

It breaks you up thinking about it
All the beatings and the taunts and noise and all the...
All the love going and given
It's all love

This is the picture that should be starring love
Starring love, starring love
I get the story when it's starring love
Starring love, starring love

This is the picture that should be starring love
Starring love, starring love
I get the story when it's starring love
Starring love, starring love

It's not the coming and the going
Of the thing that keeps you young most
Everyone knows it's going to cost
I'm going to call you up
And tell you how I'm feeling
Since we lost you you'll never know



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Way To Work Lyrics

I don't want to have to want you
Taunt you or haunt you
I don't want risk you
Just to kiss you then miss you

I don't want to have to leave you home
I don't want to spend the night alone

But I'll keep myself hanging on
The songs you played as the night went on
On the way to work

I don't want to have to wake you
Break you and not take you
I don't want to be the wrong man
The last man or your romance

I want to take you in the car
And all these streetlights
To be our stars

And all the songs on the radio
Could be playing just for you
On the way to work

Lowly men and working boys
Painted girls on buses
Full of heat and noise

Just to be like one of them
But we're so far gone it's not the same
Lets pretend just the same
That we're on the way to work
We're on the way to work

I want to be like one of them
I want to be like one of them



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
This Is The Life Lyrics

You're unchanging
I'm unchangeable
That's a difference
We have to recognise
Some folks never row
Their ways seem like paradise
But inside we all know
That this is the life

You're the greatest
Thing I've ever seen
You make my eyes bleed
And others turn to green
Make the road open
The future all gold
Make my world spin
When I open the door

This is the life
You'd better get used to
You know you don't choose it, but
This is the life
This is the life
Anything goes
Oh if anything goes
You can wave it away

This thing won't come back again
And take me round
And let me see
What was I thinking about
Cause now is the time
For you to see me
We can walk away, darling
Or we can say

This s the life
The best thing yet
You'd better not change
Cause this is the life
This is the life
Anything goes
Oh if everything goes
You can wave it away



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Threatening Rain Lyrics

I could be the lover you want me to be
I could be the queen of the Northern sea
Make you all the money you'd ever need
Drive you in car that could take you far

So that I could do without you
I could do without you

Tomorrow they say it's the end of the world
So go out and find some other girl
Who knows? These things can sometimes work
You might be surprised I don't feel hurt

Or that I could do without you
I could do without you

They say the sea is high
And the clouds are darkening the sky
I've been out today
All I found was threatening rain

So do we go out now and tell the folks
Or is it time for unfunny jokes
When you know love, you know the most
That what you had is long time lost

And I can do without you
I can do without you



Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Almost Beautiful Lyrics

There is something almost right
There is something that really talks to me
There is something wrong but almost good
There is something that nearly terrifies

There is something more we can talk about
Maybe there is something we can change
If there are ways to go then let us
We don't want to live this always

Cry your heart
For something good you'd do it for
You try so hard
For something, almost beautiful

Far and distant from what you see is what is there
And that love there is something wonderful,wonderful
There's nowhere to go but here now
And nothing To find that isn't beautiful

And all that's lost you count as nought
To what is there so free so free
We don't wanna live this
This way are way no way no way no way I said

Cry your heart
For something good you'd do it for
You try so hard
For something almost beautiful.

Cry your heart
For something good you'd do it for
You try so hard
For something almost beautiful.






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Always Alone Lyrics

Always another time
Getting lost in a different dream
Star crossed and never scared to name it
He once was a roving man
Now he wears his wedding band
Never times to waste not being together

Maybe there's a million years
A thousand leagues of fallen tears still falling
We're always alone

She'll be your roving girl
Travel out and in your world
She'll bring you gifts you never thought to mention
Kind words and kisses sweet
High walls and windows deep
To keep safe but show there's nothing worth your missing

Maybe there's a veil of tears
Atapestry of leaden cares we'll share in
We're always alone

Maybe there's a veil of tears
Tapestry of leaden cares we'll share in
We're always alone
So good alone






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Are You There (With Another Girl) Lyrics

I hear the music coming out of the radio
Are you there with another girl
Instead of me
I hear your laughter and theres something I've got to know
Are you there with another girl
Instead of me

I'm standing on your doorstep and I don't know what to do
Should I ring your door bell or just walk away
My friends all say you were never true
(hiding in the shadows)

I see two silohouttes at the back of your window shield
Are you there with another girl
When I am gone
I can't believe you'd break the promises that you made
If your there with another girl I can't go on

I only know I love you I couldn't say why
so if theres another I don't want to know
if you should go I would surely die

Love requires faith I've got a lot of faith but

I hear the music coming out of your radio

I only know I love you I couldn't say why
So if theres another I don't want to know
If you should go I would surely die

You would never leave me hurt me or deceive me
I'm a fool to doubt you worry so about you
Love requires faith I've got a lot of faith but

I hear the music coming out of the radio

hmmn yeah, I hear the music , coming out of your radio
The sweet sweet music
And your there with another girl
I hear the music
I don't wanna know






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Back Here In Beanoland Lyrics

Every day they write the headlines
Talking diamonds talking steel
Don't talk things that, folk don't know
Talk about money and stuff thats real

Back here in beanoland the bubble is bursting
All things get busted, some things get builded
Old ladies write letters old men dream memories
Back here in beanoland all things are real

Everyday my neighbour drives
For the company from the south
Tells the stories of how things are there
Talks about their life talks about ours

Back here in beanoland the bubble is bursting
All things get busted, some things get builded
Old ladies write letters old men dream memories
Back here in beanoland all things are real

I've trying to find a reason
I've been trying to leave this house
Everyday they cross that great bridge
And watch those trains pull in and out

Those trains, those trains, those trains
Yeah, those trains, those trains

Back here in beanoland the bubble is bursting
All things get busted, some things get builded
Old ladies write letters old men dream memories
Back here in beanoland all things are real

All things are real






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Bound To Love Lyrics

There`s no direction
And no way through
There is no reason
To pay back what is through
You never owned intentions
Never knowed no way back
Never knowed no way back

But I know you`re only asking
And I know you might just care
You only ring my number
For the answer that`s not there
You know the cost of everything
And the value of nothing
The only thing that`s certain
Is you`re bound to love again

And he just came from Eden
Where the fruit was on the tree
And he passed me some and signalled
That the world was there to see
And it seemed so wide and opened
And it seemed to be so free
It seemed to be so free

Well you opened up the cage
And you let us fly away
You saw us as we carried
All the gifts that you now see
You know the cost of everything
But you value what you yearn
The only thing that`s certain
Is you`re bound to love again
Bound to love again
Bound to love again

Bound to love again
Bound to love again

You know the cost of everything
And the value of nothing
The only thing that`s certain
Is you`re bound to love again

I know you`re only asking
And I know you might just care
You only ring my number
For the answer that`s not there
You know the cost of everything
And the value of nothing
The only thing that`s certain
Is you`re bound to love again

You`re bound to love again
Bound to love again






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Deathwork Song Lyrics

Let's sing a song for all the workmen
Working on the carpark down by here
Wrecking through the tombstones and the granite
Cutting through the bone here
Sweeping all the dust here
Crunching all the dirt down
Lifting it up and putting it down

For once the sun beats down so warmly
As the earthmovers come on so strong
Move some hard old century closer
Move it from the earth
Put it on the truck
Drive the truck away
Lift it all up and put it all down

And now the site stands still and silent
As the men come circling around
To see the bag left in the ground here
Must have been a time ago
Can't have been that old
Must have been so lonely
So lift up and set it down

I can see my father in his place now
It's many years away from here
Lying back in sleep that's short and deep
I think he's a good man
I feel his good hands
They seemed so soft then
When they were setting us up and putting us down






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Disneyworld Lyrics

I think the whole world should look good
That's important to me
Everyone should look good
And when they die they should die with their boots on
And their hearts on fire

When I die they'll cry
I'll have candy and chocolate whirls
And party gowns framing bonny girls
Will carry me off to Disneyworld

I think the whole world should be funny
Thats important to me
If you can't be funny don't be ugly
When they speak they should speak with their hands firmly on their hearts

When I die they'll cry
I'll have candy and chocolate whirls
And party gowns framing bonny girls
Will carry me off to Disneyworld

I like to see people happy
Singing on the way to work
Children and animals happy
When they laugh they should laugh like us
Not like other creatures do

When I die they'll cry
I'll have candy and chocolate whirls
And party gowns framing bonny girls
Will carry me off to Disneyworld






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Don't Let The Teardrops Start Lyrics

Tomorrows a holiday and we will be high all day
Singing and playing shows and going as far as the country bus goes
And the bands will be swinging as high as the swing boat goes
And the trees will be swaying and the boats will be heading out to the sea

Hey don't let the teardrops start for all of the times you've had
Go now and rest your weary heart
Tomorrow is near

Cos' all the friends are departing the night skies are parting
Late drinkers are singing their way home and the tower bell is ringing over the ????
Seems like the country is smiling the good times returning
Don't let your eyes start clouding and your old songs start bringing you down again

Hey don't let the teardrops start for all of the times you've had
Go now and rest your weary heart
Tomorrow is near

Hey don't let the teardrops start for all of the times you've had
Go now and rest your weary heart
Tomorrow is near






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Faifley Lyrics

Faifley had a black cloud around it
There was nobody there and someone had stole the chimneys
Fifteen dogs ran up the street
Looking for the Hepatitis Hospital
And a cat with a bread poultice was singing shangalang backwards

The Sunday Mail says Woodys in Japan now
I'd made it through Partic, Whiteinch, Scotstoun and Yoker
I was here same as everyone
No more fags, no more Giro, No more Petrol






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Fourteen Years Lyrics

Fourteen years on a steam-pack sonny
trying to get the kit off my back
Pushing Shanghai to Liverpool sonny
Pissing in the wind and the flag

You're kipping out in the railway station
Now you've left the navy behind
You're hoping just to ride

Fourteen years of belligerence sonny
Working from Dakar to Belise
Fourteen years of Marine life, baby
Trying to keep a man of your knees

Your kipped out in a railway station
Now you've left the navy behind

You're hoping just to ride
hoping just to ride
hoping just to ride






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Freedom Train Lyrics

(Cover Version)

The freedom train is coming, can't you hear the whistle blowing
Its time get your ticket and get on board
Its time for all the people to take this freedom ride
Get it together and work for freedom side by side

I'm gonna ride on the freedom train
I ain't gonna live this way again
I'm gonna get on the freedom train
from this day on I'll be a free man (yes I will I'll be a free man)

Seem like the times are changing people
The trains waiting at the station
go on up to the mountain top and get on board
Were gonna ride on through the valley
Under the clear blue sky
Everybody's gonna stand up proud with their heads held high

I'm gonna ride on the freedom train
I ain't gonna live this way again
I'm gonna get on the freedom train
from this day on I'll be a free man (yes I will I'll be a free man)

Keep on moving, Cast your vote
Tell 'em where to get off ,Keep on Going
We're gonna see the mountains, Keep on going
Gotta get your ticket,The Freedom Train






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Gentle Teardrops Lyrics

There was ice and broken pavements on the hill tower
And the light was falling from the infirmary
And the last of the dogs was barking
At the steps from gentle teardrops and me

And I asked about her sister and her mother
And her uncle Tom serving on the sea
And her grampa's gammy leg that kept him in his bed
And kept out gentle teardrops and me

And its a long way to keep up conversation
When your broken up over fish 'n' chips and peas
And the grease is on your arm
Like a girl you've never worn
Walking home gentle teardrops and me

It's a cold cold night..Its a cold cold night
And I wont forget september is your birthday
And the prisons been paid up for fifteen weeks
And I'll send it through to ease
You can take it as you please
With love the gentle teardrops from me
With love the gentle teardrops ........from...me

yes we're rolling home...Ahh we're rolling home
With gentle teardrops...Ahh we're rolling home
With gentle teardrops






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Ghost Lyrics

I've been dancing round your grave
Cos' I'm always much to scared
Hope you've longed to say
I never liked the way you dressed
Or the cheap ways you impressed
It gets better now your dead

Thats O.K.
I'm not afraid
Not afraid what anyone says now

I can sit around all day
Don't need to hear you say
You'll regret it at my age
And I'm frozen on this stage
I'm blinded by the gaze
Waited for me to say

Its not O.K.
To be this scared
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I don't need your ghost
Coming back, coming back coming back

Just as the dark began to fall
I caught you singing in the hall
But for the beauty of it all






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Goin' Back Lyrics

(cover version)

I think I'm goin' back to the things I learned so well in my youth
I think I'm returning to those days when I was young enough to know the truth
Now there are no games to only pass the time
No more electric trains, no more trees to climb
But thinking young and growing older is no sin
And I can play the game of life to win

I can recall a time when I wasn't ashamed to reach out to a friend
Now I think I've got a lot more than just my toys to lend
Now there's more to do than watch my sailboat glide
But every day can be a magic carpet ride
A little bit of courage is all we lack
So catch me if you can, I'm goin' back

Now there's more to do than watch my sailboat glide
But every day can be a magic carpet ride
A little bit of courage is all we lack.
So catch me if you can, I'm goin' back






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Golden Bells Lyrics

Well the choirs were singing and the candles they were burning
And the lantern girls and alter boys were crossed and cleaned
And my baby and me watched the prayers go higher and higher
As we sadly, slowly, surely took our leave

We're crying now
We we're crying then
Hearing golden bells

So we walked the long mile from the chapel gates
And I felt her warm in my hand as the wind drew us faster
We had no names or flowers in the churchyard
No cards or pity just a childlike space in our hearts

We're crying now
We we're crying then
Hearing golden bells

Oh the light that shines on life
And the living that can tell
Oh the joy, when the gates we reach
And ring those golden bells






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Good Lyrics

Now everyone's singing
How baby's in black
She got Holy Rocker
Mad Dog he called Ronnie
Say here come old flat top
Come moving up slowly
And she got a smile
I can feel in my hip pocket

And I cry, I cry, I cry
Yes I sigh
Well it's a big big dream
But it's a good one

And she's beside me at the wheel
It seems so real
And the driving it's so tiring
And tank is less than zero
And my lips are chapped
What with the roof down flat
And my lips are aching
And My Veins Is Busting

And I cry, I cry, I cry
Yes I sigh
Well it's a big big drream
But it's a good one

And baby's got style
Like a missile silo
And she got speed
Like a Derby Racer
So you think I'm confused
In this wild hard mood?
No, no she leads me by the hand
Can't be bad






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Hear On The Wind Lyrics

The garden of eden
The ancient of days
The wild dreams that wake us
The life before death
The mocking red sun
The night that will come

In my darkness and solitude
Everything will come and i'll know it's true
I'll hear on the wind
I'll hear on the wind

I'll listen in silence
For the things to believe in
For the blue black night cat
And his prey that's a hiding
For the new born baby
Who's life will be struggle

In my life i've tried to keep
The turning world from touching me
But I hear on the wind
I hear on the wind

I hear on the wind such terrible things
About the earth that is savaged and scalded and changed
And where the splinter moon shines on the darkening sea
Where the southern sailors sail to be free
And I never did see I only believe
What I hear on the wind I hear on the wind






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Hey Craig Lyrics

Had a band once
Bass and drums
I sang and played piano
Craig played guitar
Always knew the tunes
had the records made tapes
kept dates
Never fell over once

Once when we were in the car
Listening back smiling
we felt surrounded by stars

Hey Craig do you still wear your guitar
hanging down about your knees
do you still throw up your window
to let out the old year

I remember once someone letting off fireworks
you out your window
wondering where the war was
bought a jacket scrolled
with Rock and Roll I never wore
you took it everywhere
moved your sister's stuff in a van
your mum drove us home again

Hey Craig the kids are growing up
you can be young again
Hey Craig let's say "the Shields is gallus"
one more time again
Hey Craig we'll stop the car now
and check the trees again
Hey Craig we'll do what we did badly
and do it bad again
bad again
and I'll come back again
bad again
and I'll come back again

put this on an old tape
Lush were still bleeding through
thought you'd understand that
It should have happened on this tape too

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Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
I'll Never Fall In Love Again Lyrics

What do you get when you fall in love
A girl with a pin to burst your bubble
Thats what you get for all your trouble
I'll never fall in love again

What do you get when you kiss a girl
You get enough germs to catch pneumonia
After you do she'll never phone you
I'll never fall in love again

Don't tell me what its all about
Cause I've been there and I'm glad I'm out
Out of those chains,those chains that bind you
That is why I'm here to remind you

What do you get when you fall in love
Nothing but pain, lies and sorrow
So for at least until tomorrow
I'll never fall in love again

What do you get when you fall in love
What do you get when you fall in love
I'll never fall in love
What do you get when you fall in love
I'll never fall in love
What do you get when you fall in love
I'll never fall in love
What do you get when you fall in love
I'll never fall in love






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
I've Been Making Such A Fool Lyrics

I've been making such a fool of me
Drinking more than the Irish sea
Even my old friends say I never should be
Talking on the last bus telling all the folks
Of things we did together all on our own

Talking on the last bus telling all the folks
Of things we did together all on our own

Such a fool of me
Such a fool of me
Such a fool of me






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
I Was Right And You Were Wrong Lyrics

I was right and you were wrong girl
Nothing lasts forever
Inside every one of us
There`s only so long

I believe the longest day girl
The lovely light of May girl
If asked if I could ever leave
I never saw a change

But I will
What I say
What I do

I was right and you were wrong girl
Nothing seems the same
I heard you on the radio
Your voice was so strange

But I will
What I say
What I do






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Indigo Sky Lyrics

We went as we know how
As far as the wind and the sky would allow
Waking from sleep
Alive to the noise we came

After the turn of the year
With only the sky as a silver seer
Of anything restively turning
And slowly beginning

Now even the weatherman's smiling
He never could see it this good
Why are we so afraid
That under the indigo sky
We'll sing and we'll drink and we'll cry

After the falling apart
After the noise and the guilt and the hurt
We woke from sleep
And saw that it wasn't a dream

Was it a trick of the light
That there in the spirit damned demon night
We lit a fire
And crowded all around it

Now even the weatherman's smiling
He never could see it this good
Why are we sore afraid
That under the indigo sky we lay down and we died

Under the indigo sky
We lay down and we died






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Into The Good Night Lyrics

Under the braw city night
And under the warm summer light
The evening begins
The day's been lightened with song
As glad as the winter is long
And so we begin

As far as the stars are from here
We'll travel together my dear
Wherever lovers may go
We'll step out into the good night

And into the farthest of hopes
And tied by the lightest of ropes
We'll sail away
And pulled by the sounds of the waves
And stories of heavenly places
We'll go on our way

As far as the stars are from here
We'll travel together my dear
Wherever lovers may go
We'll step out into the good night

I never even played you this song
Don't know that it might be wrong
You might never say
So let's do what lovers will do
Step out in the gathering rooms
And give love away

As far as the stars are from here
We'll travel together my dear
Wherever lovers may go
We'll step out into the good night






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
It's Not Funny Anymore Lyrics

(Cover version of a Husker Du song)

You can do what you want to do
You can say what you want to say
You can think what you think you want
It doesn't matter anyway

It's not funny anymore
It's not funny anymore

Play what you want to play
Hear what you want to hear
Don't worry about the result
Or the effect is has on your career
It's not funny any more
It's not funny anymore

Act like you want to act
Be what you want to be
Find out who you really are
And don't pay any attention to me

It's not funny any more
It's not funny any more
It's not funny anymore
It's not funny anymore






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Little Lincoln Lyrics

In this country dreams don't sleep
Hands stay open wide as the streets in your pocket
Under your shoes these golden roads
keep telling you

Find out fast, Find out hard, Your little Lincoln, Little Ford

Want to walk tall
As the buildings go mountain tops of Colorado
You're rolling faster than the big cars go
Big cars hit hard and knock you low

Find out fast, Find out hard, Your little Lincoln, Little Ford

Men talk loud
What they can ill afford little Lincoln yeah little Ford
The whole world sleeps and baby you drive
Taking the ocean in your stride never crosses your mind

That wheel keep turning lights keep falling
White walled tyres keep burning

Find out fast, Find out hard, Your little Lincoln, Little Ford
Find out fast, What the can ill afford,Little Lincoln, Little Ford
Find out fast, Find out hard, Your little Lincoln, Little Ford






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Long Window To Love Lyrics

You're taking down the signs
Now the time has come and the cleansing's coming
You're turning down the lights
In this cruel light symbols mean nothing

You're taking down the signs
Turning round your eyes
From dreams that seem so bright
Flying hope like kites
Hold loved ones tight
And turning to the light of that long window to love

And you forget about the years
About the planting and the dying and the growing
And you forget about your cares
But you remember that they've been forgotten
By the people sent to London

They're taking down your cares
Drinking off your tears
Gambling on your fears
For things that cost so dear
And won't be paid for years
Hoping you won't stare down that long window to love

They'd burgle all your sanity if it would let them hold you under
They'd knock on your door so hard the frame would crack under the strain
Its just the same ,just the same, Its just the same ,just the same

You're taking down the signs
Now the time has come and the cleansing's coming
You're turning down the lights
In this cruel light symbols mean nothing

You're taking down the signs
Turning round your eyes
From dreams that seem so bright
Flying hope like kites
Hold loved ones tight
And turning to the light of that long window to love






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Message To Michael Lyrics

Spread you wings for New Orleans
Kentucky bluebird fly away
And take a

Message to Michael, message to Michael
He sings each night in some cafe
In search to find wealth and fame
I hear Michael has gone and changed his name

Its a year since he was here
Kentucky bluebird , fly away
And take a

Message to Michael, message to Michael
Tell I miss him more each day
As his train pulled out down the track
Michael promised he'd soon be coming back

Oh tell how my heart just breaks into
Since he'd journyied far
And even though his dreams of fame fell through
To me he will always be a star

Spread you wings for New Orleans
Kentucky bluebird fly away
And take

Message to Michael , message to Michael
Ask him to start for home today
When you see him please let him know
Rich or poor I will always love him so

Fly away kentucky bluebird
Fly away kentucky bluebird, fly
Fly away kentucky bluebird
fly away kentucky bluebird
Fly away

Come on,come on,come on, home tonight
Take it, take it, home tonight
All the lights will be shining home tonight

Baby come home,baby come home






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Mexico Rain Lyrics

I have come five thousand miles and tried to find the ways to b e happy
Travelled through the setting sun I hear those blue lights come I come gladly
Jesus weeps does no-one sleep here anymore?

Just a dime and a half and I'm in oblivion
(oh I'll be sure)
Get it together in a room with a T.V. on
(the world gets better)
I'm on a terrace with a bet on the obvious
(it's gonna shine some more)
Then the thunder struck and the lightning flashed
(oh well that mexico rain)

Jenny's in the jail for telling tales for gold and silver pieces
And the whole world's reading braille like slow snails till the story turns stale and ceases
I'm not coming back down here anymore

Just a dime and a half and I'm in oblivion
(oh I'll be sure)
Get it together in a room with a T.V. on
(the world gets better)
I'm on a terrace with a bet on the obvious
(ithe sun is gonna shine)
Then the thunder struck and the lightning flashed
he put it all on a certain return
then lost a dollar fifty on mexico rain






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
My America Lyrics

Church bells go ringing for you and I
This bright sky is singing for you and I
All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye
All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye

Oh my America my new found land
Oh my America my new found land

Church bells go ringing and strangers cry
People keep bring their sad,sad smiles
Time wont even listen to why we had to lie
Time wont even listen to why we had to lie

Oh my America my new found land
Oh my America my new found land

Listen to the wave crash
Listen to the wave on the wide sound

She's far and she's wide and she's one small step away
She's far and she's wide and she's one small step away

Church bells keep ringing for you and I
We rush,we live,we laugh for some time night
These green fields and roads go rolling in your eye
These green fields and roads go back and back and back

Oh my America my new found land
Oh my America my new found land

Church bells go ringing for you and I
This bright sky is singing for you and I
All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye
All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye

Oh my America my new found land
Oh my America my new found land






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
My Friend Tonight Lyrics

The only one with a party dress
That could fall in blue waves upon the floor
And step the country waltz that I'd seen her dance
On her front lawn of her house all alone

She lies still beside me with the t.v. on
I see her mummy look so sad
Turn down the volume and watch worried women weep
And touch the ring on her frozen hand

But she's my friend tonight
She's my friend tonight

Now I watch the flames leap up into the sky
From a fire that swallows all her clothes
She's stretched across a floor that's never been her home
I'll take her with me when i go

But she's my friend tonight
She's my friend tonight

We're young again
Oh you never missed me this way...

But she's my friend tonight
She's my friend tonight






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Only Love Remains Lyrics

Everything gets broken
And pushed aside
Sympathy will be spoken
Even faith will die

I've got a thing about wheels
Everything returning
I've got a thing about wheels
I've got a thing about wheels

Love , Love , Love only love remains

Where we are standing
Is where they put 'em in the earth
All his beautiful faces
There's nothing of him left

I've got to walk through that earth
I've got to walk through that earth
I've got to live through that death
I've got to live through that death

Love , Love , Love only love remains
Love , Love , Love only love remains






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Pimp Talking Lyrics

There are words that will make you
Make you angry,happy all at once
All at once everything changes
Changes over the whole wide world

This is not the worst thing
Its not the only thing
Its not the real thing
Its just a pimp talking, its just a pimp talking

There are words as big as work
They will hook you then slap you some slap you some
Some people find better ways of making money
Money something that you get not make

This is not the worst thing
It's not the only thing
Its not the real thing
Its just a pimp talking, its just a pimp talking

This is not the worst thing
Its not the only thing
Its not the real thing
Its just a pimp talking, its just a pimp talking






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Proud To Be An Arab Lyrics

Walk the hill, slowly down
Get all of Saturday's news
From the back of the Grampian end
All Fife's kingdom is in view

The pitch it looks like Blackpool
Sound and light and tangerine
When Andy Dickson's treatment time comes
The Dens reserve game can be seen

And I'm Proud To Be An Arab
Proud of my home team
And I'm Proud To Be An Arab
Old times...and new

The half-time scores make a rusty rising
The crowd are glad of the news
Warmed by the Bovril and the scoreline
The Old Firm 1, Dundee 2

And I'm Proud To Be An Arab
Proud of my home team
Yes I'm Proud To Be An Arab
Old times...and new






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Ronnie Spector Lyrics

I take off my glasses and I pull on my shirt
I call up my friends on my long ,long list
I said I've got a reason just to get to the coast
I'll stand on the streets where all the books were wrote

I remember words
That ran around my head
And made no sense at all
And rained right off my tongue
Like mother, love and Ronnie Spector

I'm in an old Humber
That takes a long, long road
And remembering the smell
Of summer on the parcel shelf
And opening up the quarter light
And holding out a scythe
That levels out the landscape
As a car, car travels

I remember words
That ran around my head
and made no sense at all
And rained right off my tongue
Like mother, love and Ronnie Spector

If these things don't get me
Then walking in the rain will.






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Shake Some Action Lyrics

(Cover version)

I will find a way
To get to you some day.
Oh, but I, babe, I'm so afraid I'll fall, yeah.
Now can't you hear me call?

Shake some action's what I need
To let me bust out at full speed.
I'm sure that's all you need
To make it all right.

It's taken me so long
To get where I belong
Oh, but, oh, please don't send me back that way, yeah.
For I will make you pay.

Shake some action's what I need
To let me bust out at full speed.
I'm sure that's all you need
To make it all right.

If you don't dig what I say
Then I will go away.
And I won't come back this again. No.
'Cause I don't need a friend.

Shake some action's what I need
To let me bust out at full speed.
I'm sure that's all you need
To make it all right.
To make it all right






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Still In The Mood Lyrics

By the light of the waning moon
Under a blueblack sky
They talked the slow way home
Of years passed closely by
They caught only a casual look
From strangers with things to do
Only a loveless heart
Could feel anything less than sure

That they`re still in the mood
Still in the mood
After the time has passed
They were still in the mood

You`d take the chimes of midnight
To be the drum of your heart`s desire
And you`d change all you`re golden rings
For one time on the wheel of fire
So take off your shabby coat
Let all the leaves fall down
Leave this stuff till morning
And then come gently round

To be still in the mood
Still in the mood
When the sun has come up
We`ll be still in the mood

We`re still in the mood
Still in the mood
After the time has passed
We are still in the mood






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
S.H.A.R.O.N. Lyrics

The first thing Sharon I ever learned
Never trust a man with confiidence again
The next thing sharon I'd over heard
The fact he's seeing you again is no coincidence

Cos' Sharon he wants you
And I know he lied
When he says he wants you to be his bride
Therse no telling you Sharon cos' god knows I've tried
And what hurts me Sharon , You don't know why , You don't know why

S.H.A.R.O.N.
S.H.A.R.O.N.
Yeah its winter now but it was summer then

The next thing Sharon between you and me
Is for you to see and me to believe
Cos' somehow its harder when your far away
Knowing your happy in your own particular way

Cos' Sharon he wants you
And I know he lied
When he says he wants you to be his bride
Therse no telling you Sharon cos' god knows I've tried
And what hurts me Sharon , You don't know why , You don't know why

S.H.A.R.O.N.
S.H.A.R.O.N.
And its winter now but it was summer then

S.H.A.R.O.N.
S.H.A.R.O.N.
And Again , And Again , And Again , And Again

The last thing Sharon I ever wanted was leave you
Broken and permanently haunted
The last thing Sharon I ever wanted was leave you
Broken and permanently haunted

S.H.A.R.O.N.
The last thing Sharon I ever wanted was leave you
Broken and permanently haunted
Sharon
Lets go tonight






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Take Me To The Place Lyrics

For Oscar Marzaroli 1933 - 1988

Take me to the place where your heart hurts most
Lead me through the dark world gates down there
Where all the ghosts of sorrow and pain
And fear and despair stay hiding
And we'll walk right through to our own way, our own place

There's a beach that I walk so long and so broad
Oceans away miles longer than pain
In my glad dreams, I take you there, and it's easy
Because the work and the hours
And the pay are far behind our sure steps

My heart longs to be next to you
My heart want's to be there, be there with you
Where it's warm and tender and mercy flows like a river
And there you stand with your wide open hands
And say abide with me






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
That Brilliant Feeling Lyrics

I hope one day all the waters will clear
I want to see them rolled away
I hope one day all the stones and the secrets
I want to see them blown away, so get in love

Call me joy ,call me will ,call me anything
Call me hopeful
I've got that brilliant feeling

I hope one day all the lies and dust
I want to see them blown away
I hope one day I stand on these sands
I want to be there so get in love

Call me joy ,call me will ,call me anything
Call me hopeful
I've got that brilliant feeling

I hope one day they'll turn around all things
I hope one day they'll turn around all things
I hope one day they'll turn around all things
So get in love

Call me joy ,call me will ,call me anything
Call me hopeful
I've got that brilliant feeling

One bright morning
I'll fly away






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Friends Of Billy Bear Lyrics

Is there a wolf in the house
Or a scapegoat or a man who's never scared
Is there anyone that can show me a photograph
Is there a friend of Billy Bear

Because he's as tough as railings and built like a hill
His head's a gentle slope for the good to fall on
And all across the weekend he'll make you aware
That come Monday moring you're a friend of Billy Bear

Is there a woman indoors or a child in disguise
Or a dog that's not sized his boot soles
Is there a board that's never felt his terrible tread
Or a window never shook by Billy Bear

Is there a mother of a son not worried when he comes
Busrting through his clothes like a sunset
Or some poor forgotten burn whose life not overturned
By the freewheeling tow of Billy Bear

Is there a wolf in the house
Or a scapegoat or a man who's never scared
Is there anyone that can show me a photograph
Is there a friend of Billy Bear






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The Look Of Love Lyrics

The look of love
Is in your eye
The look your smile can't disguise

The look of love
Is saying so much more
Than just words could ever say

And what my heart has heard
Well it , takes my breath away

I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you

You've got the look of love
Upon your face
The look that time can't erase

Your mine tonight
Could this be just the start of
So many nights like this
Lets take a lovers vow and then
Seal it with a kiss

I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you
You've got that look

I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you

Don't ever go
Don't ever go
Don't ever go
Don't ever go

Baby don't go
Baby don't go
Don't ever go
I love you

Baby please don't go






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
The River Is Wide Lyrics

The river is wide
The river is wide
The river is as broad and white as satan's smile
The soul of man can never hide
The river is wide
The river is wide

The river is calm
The river is calm
The river's as safe as a babe asleep in a mamma's arms
The soul of man needs a soothing balm
The river is calm
The river is calm

The day is long
The day is long
The day's own light is faint and wan
I'm as weak as I am strong
The river is wide
The day is long






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
Waves Of Sorrow Lyrics

There are waves and waves of sorrow still to come
And you'll watch and wait and lie beneath each one
When the last things gone and broken you'll never even know
But another place will open and you'll begin again

No sorrows like sorrow and pain
Just gifts of love baby
No sorrows like sorrow and pain
Just gifts of love baby

And in your waving sorrow and in your drowning pain
Caught in the seconds glimpse the will to love again
When the last things gone broken you'll never even know
But another place will open and you'll begin again

No sorrows like sorrow and pain
Just gifts of love baby
No sorrows like sorrow and pain
Just gifts of love baby

No sorrows like sorrow and pain
Just gifts of love

There are waves and waves of sorrow still to come
And you'll watch and wait and lie beneath each one
There are waves and waves of sorrow still to come






Deacon Blue and Ricky Ross -
You Don't Understand (Unreleased) Lyrics

Here's a cry for every lie you tried but didn't know I saw
And a sigh for every poor man,and woman and child that you ignore
Here's some wounded sailors from fighting your war overseas
Good God almighty Its pulling me down on my knees

But if you don't know where you hurt
Where you wound and you bite and you burn
Then you don't understand

Now I'm the man who crumbled five years into your plan
And I'm dreaming of days when my hands and face were oily and blackened
Finnieston's howling ghost ships are all I can see
But now I shiver and shift and I'm worried
So I drift -'cause I know that I'm beaten

But if you think we don't know that you know
Each time we tumble under your blows
Then you don't understand

Its goodbye tonight ,I'm catching the ten o'clock train
Its leaving central station and pulling out of this wind and this terminal rain

So its bye bye, Glasgow
Bye bye baby goodbye
Ooh be lah , we na na
There's only so long you can try








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