Some Fantastic Place

(difford/tilbrook)

Your initials on the singles
That you chose to leave behind
Sit in my collection
They get played from time to time
Left to remind me of something i'd forgot
The images of loving before i lost the plot
What was love to us
Just sensation
What was love to us
The invitation
To sit on my bed stand by a tree
What were we feeling
What was love to us

The stagecoach would get held up
On a sunday afternoon
We're dozing by the tv
On a sofa with no room
No room to lay out flat with her there by my side
One eye on her movements one eye on rawhide

I just wasn't made for these times
Spun around my record deck
How green was my valley
How blue the eyes that wept
Looking back i don't think that i really cared
This was my first lesson with nothing to compare

(difford/tilbrook)

Swallow me say swallow me
Take me to your nest of china dolls
Call me up your closest friend
Join me in my neighbourhood patrol
Happy me say happy me
Chinese whispers bounce from ear to ear
The night is young i feel so old
See the stars above the night's so clear
I used to come home late and lie, lie, lie
She used to see through that but still i tried
I couldn't cover up the tracks i'd made
That's how it used to be but not today

Race around i race around
Focused on the here and now with you
Every smile's a valentine
What harm can a little loving do
Fall about then fall about
Drunk on love i can't stand on my feet
Before i try please take my hand
I've so many words left i should eat

Tickle me please tickle me
Laughter climbs the walls above our bed
This night we have is built on love
Help me so i do not lose the thread

Swallow me say swallow me
Happy me say happy me
Race around i race around
Fall about then fall about
Tickle me say tickle me
Love me do sing love me do

(difford/tilbrook)

As much as i love you
As much as i care
I just can't pretend that
The problem's not there
We know all the boundaries
From where we both stand
Our life has been happy
Without any plan
But now i feel sorrow
As friendship turns stale
Our love's still on track but
Without a third rail
The moon has come up now
The sun has gone down
A million or more times
Since you've been around
Our life still goes on but
It won't be the same
As when we're together
Love only knows pain
With words that are tender
Our love will prevail
But can our love go on
Without a third rail

White clouds appear like cotton wool
The wind bends trees to bow
As we farewell this love of ours
Like some old sacred cow
As sure as heaven's above us
And hell is down below
Without a third rail to drive us
We'll have no place to go

There's a lump in my throat
I'm choked as i say
Our love has reached twilight
Let's call it a day
We kiss on the platform
The doors slowly close
Like theatre curtains
Pulled after the show
We both know it's over
And somehow we've failed
Love's going in circles
Without a third rail

(wilkinson)

To be running so far away
To rely on the perfect stranger
True colours they suffer with age
One look at the storm and fly straight on in
To the rain and thunder
Fool lover swept under the tide
The storm was gathering around them
He cast her off and put to sea
Well, he'd found somebody new to steer him
Through his dream

She sailed him all around her coastline
Every inlet every bay
And though he knew it then
He was too afraid to say it

One day all alone he waited
The silence crept beneath his door
And as the room grew dark he knew
She's come no more

Drifting in the dead of night
Show me landfall give me light

Some fantastic place


(difford/tilbrook)

She gave to me her tenderness
Her friendship and her love
I see her face from time to time
There in the sky above
We grew up learning as we went
What a voyage our life could be
It took us through a wilderness
Into the calmest sea
Her smile could lift me from the pain
I often found within
She said some things i won't forget
She made a few bells ring
So simple her humility
Her beauty found in grace
Today she lives another life
In some fantastic place
She showed me how to raise a smile
Out of her bed of gloom
And in her garden sanctuary
A life began to bloom.
She visualised a world ahead
And planned how it would be
She left behind the strongest love
That lives eternally
I have the hope that when it's time
For me to come her way
That she'll be there to show me round
Whenever comes that day
Her love was life and happiness
And in her steps i trace
The way to live a better life
In some fantastic place