Titanic Days

(kirsty maccoll/david ruffy)

Behind a burning bush he's waiting
Like a sleepless night
So silent and so strong
I know that i must push push push
Until the morning light
Don't make me wait too long

Till i open my eyes
Open the door
Take a walk outside
And feel the sun
Fall on my skin
It's time to get up
But not time to give in
I just woke up

With eyes as cold as ice cream
Floating in a frozen lake
I have to set the spark
And stroke the fire within him
Oh i have to see him smile
To have a happy heart

I opened my eyes
Walked outside and i realised
That what i saw was there before
But i opened my eyes
When i opened the door
I just woke up

One day i just woke up
I opened my eyes
Opened the door took a walk outside
And what i saw was there before
But i opened my eyes when i opened the door
I just woke up

Oh let me open my eyes
Open the door and look up to the skies
And leave the shore
And let my hand trail in the cool water
Float downstream, say goodbye to
That dream--i just woke up

I opened my eyes
I walked outside and i realised
That what i saw was there before
But i opened my mind when i
Opened the door--i just woke up

(kirsty maccoll)

I've been the token woman all my life
The token daughter and the token wife
Now i collected tokens one by one
'til i've saved enough to buy a gun
Now you can't get even but you can get mad
And it's not funny no and it's not sad
It's just a feeling that i've always had
Oh look out world i'm about to be bad

I want a brief encounter in a stolen car
A hand on my buttock in a spanish bar
I want to meet the man who wants to go too far
For a token of my affection
I want to taste excitement
Smell the danger
Get swept off my feet by the perfect stranger
I want to try something that i've never had
Oh look out world i'm about to be bad

I've been an awful woman all my life
A dreadful daughter and a hopeless wife
And i've had my eye on that carving knife
Oh you've been lucky so far
I'm not crazy no i'm just mad
I don't want to be sorry
No i want to be glad
It's just a feeling inside that i have always had
So look out world i'm about to be bad

(kirsty maccoll/mark e. nevin)

I want to shake up this world
And not to feel so useless
And i long to wake up happy
And not to feel so hopeless
I want arms that never held me
To pull me to my senses
And wrap themselves around me
Oh, please let it come true
There's only one thing for me
Darling, darling, darling
You know it's you.

I want someone up here beside me
To wake up in heaven with all my worries behind me
That's what i'd love to do
There is something i have seen
A vision in my dreams
Who only comes it seems to tell me
What i already knew
There's only one thing that can save me now
And baby you know it's you

Ah -- d'you ever see just what i see?
My whole life just flashed in front of me
All my fears, all my mistakes
The heart that sings before it breaks
Oh i want arms that never held me
To wrap themselves around me
And not to let me down too gently
I need something to look forward to
There's only one thing that will do
And you know darling you know it's you

(kirsty maccoll/mark e. nevin)

Your name froze on the winter air
An empty bench in soho square
Forgotten now i turn away
Just save me for a rainy day
But don't be sorry
I don't want to hear it baby

My feet froze in the winter chill
I knew i'd probably get ill
But i was praying we could fill
An empty bench and still
You're so sorry
But i don't want your pity baby

It's all yours now please don't tease
The pigeons shiver in the naked trees
And i'll do anything but
Please don't hurt me
Just kiss me quick
'cos it's my birthday
And i feel so small
I don't know why
But no i'm not too old to cry

An empty bench in soho square
If you'd have come you'd have found me there
But you never did 'cos you don't care
And i'm so sorry baby
I don't mind loneliness too much
But when i met you i was touched
And that was good enough for me
But do we always have to be sorry
Why can't we just be happy baby?

One day you'll be waiting there
No empty bench in soho square
And we'll dance around like we don't care
And i'll be much too old to cry
And you'll kiss me quick in case i die
Before my birthday

One day you'll be waving there
No empty bench in soho square
No i don't know the reason why
I'll love you till the day i die
But one day you'll be waiting there
Come summertime in soho square
And i'll be painting stars up in the sky
Before i get too old to cry
Before my birthday
I hope i see those pigeons fly
Before my birthday
In soho square on my birthday

(kirsty maccoll/mark e. nevin)

I think i just recalled a time
It was not the moon and not the wine
And though you said you were a friend of mine
I never felt that way inclined
Oh the days were hot and the nights were long
I must have sung a million songs
But all the words just came out wrong
On the last day of summer

I tried to walk the line
Hoped everything would turn out fine
But i think i fell in love that time
On the last day
And then the rain came down and
Sparkled the signs of the underground
And the darkness fell all over town
On the last day

I think i dropped my guard that time
I was flesh and blood and grit and slime
And i think i may have lost my mind
On the last day of summer
I think i fell in love back there
It was tooth and nail it was bones and hair
And you'll never never know how much i cared
On the last day of summer

And though i think i fell that time
It was not the only fault of mine
But all i wanted was a sign
On the last day
I think you broke my heart that day
And nothing i could do or say
Could make the coldness go away
On the last day

The winter changes everything
And the raindrops freeze
On the signs of the underground
I wonder will you think of me
When you look up and see
There's a full moon over london town

I think i was away the day
When you said you were too smart to play
And you'd only beat me anyway
It's funny how i would have stayed
And you said you were a friend of mine
But that's not what i had in mind
I think i fell in love that time
On the last day of summer

I tried to walk the line
Hoped everything would turn out fine
But i lost the reasons and the rhymes
On the last day
And then the rain came down
And sparkled the signs of the underground
And the darkness fell all over town
On the last day

(kirsty maccoll/mark e. nevin)

The last of england's spoiled brats
Grand order of the gutter rats
A big fish in a public house
You're never going to learn to shut your mouth
A silly pseudo lager lout
With nothing much to shout about
Spent hours looking in the mirror
Trying to perfect the perfect pout

Now take the spotlight
And pause for your applause
Well my oh my you're such a big boy
On a saturday night
You try but there is always something
Something not right inside
There's always someone
Somebody else to take
The power and the glory
All for themselves

With you i suffered heaven knows
Although we never came to blows
It's just as well 'cos i can tell
I would have wiped the floor with you
You don't like 'them' you don't like 'us'
You make me laugh but seriously
I look at you what do i see?
A clapped out nazi with a blunderbuss

So take the spotlight
And pause for your applause
Well my oh my you're such a big boy
On a saturday night
You try but there is always something
Something not right inside
There's always someone
Somebody else to take
The power and the glory
All for themselves

So take the stage and
Let's have a great big hand now
My oh my you're such a big boy
On a saturday night
That's when you really know they love you
When somebody else will feed your face
And kiss your arse
And wonder where the time flew past
Oh yes my darling's such a
Big boy on a saturday night