Sunday 8pm

Dido:
My love has gone
His boots no longer by my door
He left at dawn and as i slept, i felt him go
[loop of erik satie, as in pet shop boys' jack the lad]

Maxi jazz:
New york, new york, temperature's droppin'
The band's out shoppin', not stoppin' 'til ears pop
Cops protect shops, lots of yellow cabs and bellhops
And it never stops
I'm waitin' to do an interview, so much to tell you
Today i feel close enough to smell you
Additional dates they were plannin' just fell through
Florida's out
We fly september 22 to heathrow,
But there's not really long to go
Tonight will be a brilliant show
Lettin' you know i miss you
More than four hits the floor at a party
Send my love to everybody
Please, send my love to everybody
(everybody everybody everybody...)
Send my love to everybody
(everybody everybody everybody...)

Honey, i'm writin' from d.c., feelin' queasy
Stayin' healthy on the road isn't easy
The tm recommends an antigen
One of them could resist again
I miss you like a lock in the door
What's more, i go to sleep with my walkman
'cause half the crew snored
Don't mean to be a bore, everybody's been great,
But there's fifteen of us in a bus state-to-state
So i stay up late with a tape, or meditate
My bed is travellin' at fifty-five m.p.h.
When we make it to la, i'll still be miles away
It's not my best day
I'm a get some rest, god bless

Dido:
My love has gone
(wo wo)
My love has gone
(has has has ...)
(wo wo)

Maxi jazz:
We just stopped a diner so i'm takin' time to write a few lines
I'm fine, sunshine, the bus driver's
Reclinin' by the grass as the trucks pass
Gleamin' with the flash of sunlight from the glass on the windscreen
As for us, there's too much to relate
We've done five gigs, yet we're only in our third state
America's big, you'd love how they pile up your plate
Only place in the world even i can gain weight
Our next date is wilmington, delaware
Open air, there's a rumor melle mel'll be there
Anyway, all my love, god bless, i'm yawning
I really miss watching you get dressed in the morning

Dido:
My love has gone
(wo wo)
My love has gone
(wo wo)
My love has gone
No earthly ships will ever
Bring him home

You know that i'm foolish, playing king for a day
I hang with my people whenever i can.
You say that i'm scruffy, misguided and blue,
Like a fly on a string.
There's a web that surrounds you, but i will
Find a way in.
Yeah, in your hour of need i'll be there, yes i will.
Yeah, in your hour of need i'll be there, yes i will.

You lay a place at your table, let me sleep in your bed
Yeah you hurt and confused me, but your my queen for a
Day

I know i'm foolish, harsh and unfair
'cause in my hour of need, i know you've always been
There

And in your hour of need i'll be there, yes i will
In your hour of need i'll be there, yes i will
I'll be there, yes i will
In you hour of need i'll be there, yes i will (3x)

I'm on lonely street, i'm on the wrong track.
Only one thing left, somebody bring my family back.
I'm on lonely street, i'm on the wrong track.
Only one thing left, somebody bring my family back.

Somebody bring my family back... (10x)
I'm on lonely street, i'm on the wrong track.
Only one thing left, somebody bring my family back.
I'm on lonely street, i'm on the wrong track.
Only one thing left, somebody bring my family back.

Stay a while (2x)

I didn't know you'd be here, and i wasn't meant to come.
I'd be sitting watching tv if there was anything decent on.
If i made some coffee, would you sit and talk some more?
I know words are usually pointless, when you used them all before.
The way you smile fills the room --
Stay awhile. kick off your shoes. don't go. please stay. --
It always happened this way.

Why go? when you can stay awhile,
When you could stay with me, tonight.
Why go? when you can stay awhile,
When you could stay with me, tonight.
Don't go..

I didn't know you'd be here, and i wasn't meant to come.
If i'd missed the taxi or found nothing good to wear.
But for some uncertain reason, some strange and uncertain reason,
This is how it all, it all began.
The way you smile fills the room --
Stay awhile. what's there to lose? --
The way you laugh, when i say, don't go. please stay.

Why go? when you can stay awhile,
When you could stay with me, tonight.
Why go? when you can stay awhile,
When you could stay with me, tonight.
Why go? when you can stay awhile,
When you could stay with me, tonight.
Tonight...

This is my church
This is where i heal my hurt
It's a natural grace
Of watching young life shape
It's in minor keys
Solutions and remedies
Enemies becoming friends
When bitterness ends
This is my church (3x)

This is my church
This is where i heal my hurt
It's in the world i become
Content in the hum
Between voice and drum
It's in change
The poetic justice of cause and effect
Respect, love, compassion
This is my church
This is where i heal my hurt
For tonight
God is a dj (3x)
This is my church (3x)

The long way home....
Now i'm in the flow (11x)
The long way home.... (4x)

I've been in places by chance, never intended to go.
And so ended my youth, i once depended on proof,
Now i'm in the flow.
There are things i know beyond knowing.
Seems growing.
I lift ya of the earth, mundane and glum, out the
Solar system, way past the sun. till my
Kingdom come.

I guided sleeping rough on the streets in the rain.
I guided learning to share my people's pain.
I guided making flowers of broken hearts of stone.
I guided 'cause i always took the long way home...

Maxi jazz in background: ...wish he was a man

Pauline:
Oh i wish i could be touched by the hem of his garment

Maxi jazz in background: ...in a dream...

Pauline:
To be proud has never been so mean, so hard, so strange, so cruel
Oh i wish i could be touched by the hem of his garment

Mmmmm, i've come a long way (5x)
Touch the hem of his garment

Dagger should be the tool of a clump.
I'm a fool, you see

Maxi jazz in background: it's not...

Pauline:
Why should such violence, such pain hang between you and me
When love should be a queen on her throne looking after her own
I wish i could be touched by the hem of his garment
Two chairs, this table, one leg, in this house
Seriously, i think we could be,
Feel we could be, touched by the hem of his garment

Pauline / chorus:
Mmmmm, i've come a long way (5x)
Touch the hem of his garment

Dido:
Oh, darling, i miss you.
An boy has it hard
The thought of you leavin'
Is breakin' my heart

Maxi jazz:
New york, new york, temperature's droppin'
The band's out shoppin', not stoppin' 'til ears pop
Cops protect shops, lots of yellow cabs and bellhops
And it never stops
I'm waitin' to do an interview, so much to tell you
Today i feel close enough to smell you
Additional dates they were plannin' just fell through
Florida's out
We fly september 22 to heathrow, but there's not really long to go
Tonight will be a brilliant show
Lettin' you know i miss you
More than four hits the floor at a party
Send my love to everybody

Dido:
Oh, darling, i miss you
An boy has it hard
The thought of you leavin'
Is breakin' my heart

Maxi jazz:
Honey, i'm writin' from d.c., feelin' queasy
Stayin' healthy on the road isn't easy
The tm. recommends an antigen
One of them could resist taking a piss
I miss you like a lock in the door
What's more, i go to sleep with my walkman 'cause half the crew snored
Don't mean to be a bore, everybody's been great,
But there's fifteen of us in a bus state-to-state
So i stay up late with a tape, or meditate
My bed is travellin' at fifty-five m.p.h.
When we make it to la, i'll still be miles away
It's not my best day

Dido:
Oh, darling, i miss you
Maxi jazz:
God bless
Dido:
An boy has it hard.
The thought of you leavin'
Is breakin' my heart.
If these walls can hold you,
My house will be down.
If these walls can hold you,
My house will be down.
Oh, darling, i miss you,
My house will be down.
Oh, darling, we urge you
My house will be down.
Oh, darling, i miss you...

I'm sittin' at a coffee table, unable to see straight
Watchin' parallel lines unwind and undulate
Behind the rain-streaked windowpane, the scene's bleak
Another train leavin' home,
Conceding defeat with a low moan
Hangin' in a sky, made of stone
Everybody's leavin' home, i called my man jerome
To come meet me in the twilight zone
Leave your mobile phone at home and come alone
I bought him coffee and a snack,
Settled back, started speakin'
He was tweakin' with the peak of his cap
While i'm seekin' to discover what it takes to stay sober
Not cover my mistakes,
Try to maybe make sense of the evidence
It's over, she's gone for good
Why should i lie, singin' a killer's lullaby
Identified by the dying ring of her goodbye
The last thing you hear before your life disappear

Now it just gets worse, like my stomach 'll burst,
Feel like i've been cursed.
With seven centuries of bitter memories
And inadequacies, previous he's and she's
I'm movin' round this old house for the last time
Scene of my past crimes, been here for lifetimes
Hearin' the chimes of the old clock that used to mock
You got eternity for takin' stock,
This place is like a padlock
You look shocked.
Trust me, nothing ever moves but the dust,
There's just us and i'm here to torment and tease
And that's how it was for centuries
Me and my memories, till you brought the keys
Took the couple of saturdays
I moved in runnin' from tragedies and boozing
Seven hundred years since i came here
You appear, same hair, same quizzical stare
I couldn't get near,
And the sheer frustration was more than i could bear
I was really cursed, thought i'd been through the worst part
That was just the first part, just the start
Every night i'd be sitting with dread, breaking my heart
In case the man she'd been chasin' gets to first base
And i just can't escape, i'm in bad shape
You making love to someone else is more than i can take
And so i make all the movement i can to no avail
Scream and yell, sinkin' deeper into my personal hell

I'm getting heated, i'm sorry, have another coffee
I needed to release my sparrow chest from just a piece of this pressure
Unless an escape route is found,
I'm going down underground
Into lifetimes of pain, it's absurd
The heaviest chain is contained is the sound of one word
So i'm referred back to hell, huh
Just as well, i hate needles an' get twinges at the thought
Of syringes

J (as in jerome), i'm going insane with shame
I dream and watch her makin' love over and over again
With what i call a farmer's swain
Unintelligent, pea-brained retard who's dick is always hard
Oh god, of course i'm jealous, fellows,
Oversexed flexing his pec's
Jesus, what's he going make her do next?
I'm mad vex, the way she gently scratches his chest
You used to do that to me back in 1253
Pity me, while you lie with your lover
I stare and suffer in despair while you ruffle his hair
Unaware of who else is there
I move quick, i want to try my trick one last time
You know it's possible to vaguely define my outline
When dust move in the sunshine
So i'm tryin' to change, vibrate myself to near-human pitch
Which reminds me how i used to come unstitched
And switch 'round the house in a blind rage
It took years and an ocean of tears to find the key to this
Cage
And write another stage into a new age,
It's difficult to gauge
But i know that i'll see you again, on that you may depend
I just don't know how or when
Sleep on, my lost love on gone

Jerome took me home under steel skies
Knowing i'm prone to dramatize but unknown for telling lies
And what i verbalize he can see behind my eyes
The why oh why's that identify killer lullabies
And he surmised
No surprise couldn't hear that
Closed my eyes as he steered that old black bm home again
Not knowing how and not knowing when.