Alison Moyet

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"(Meeting With My) Main Man"

"(Meeting With My) Main Man"


Well sugar sweetness
Move yourself
I gotta go I got a meet to make
Fine as it is back there
Back up your tin can
Pack off your sweet behind
Ain't got no time to fool around
Ain't no wet nurse to you child
Pick it up

Baby meeting with my main man
And I get a belly full of lovin'
Meeting with my main man

When I get through here gonna make my way
Up to the 22nd floor with a pile of money
I'll throw it all up for a hit on the back wall
If I want more you'll be the first to know
I'll call you later - much later

Just doing fine my dear up here
Look around "Where do we go" you say
Never could come where I wanna be
This is hard as hell and I don't want to take it easy
Come on now - shake me

 

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"A Guy Like You"

"A Guy Like You"


They're all looking at you now, pretty butterfly
Every colour of spring by the summer sky
And the way that you swing, like a metronome
Every body wants the number of your telephone
And you know it

Sweeter than 'I told you so'
Cooler than the place to go
Every station plays your record on the radio

How'm I gonna keep my eye on a guy like you
(How'm I gonna keep a guy like you)
How'm I gonna keep my eye on a guy like you
(How'm I gonna keep a guy like you)
How'm I gonna keep my eye on a guy like you

If their making a list, their gonna put you on
If your going to sit they'll make the table long
When you get up to dance their gonna clear the floor
They want to know if you'll move them like you did before
And you know it

Sweeter than 'I told you so'
Cooler than the place to go
Every body plays your music on the stereo

How'm I gonna keep my eye on a guy like you
(How'm I gonna keep a guy like you)
How'm I gonna keep my eye on a guy like you
(How'm I gonna keep a guy like you)
How'm I gonna keep my eye on a guy like you

What am I gonna do
With a guy like you
Wow... guy like you

How'm I gonna keep my eye on a guy like you
(How'm I gonna keep a guy like you)
How'm I gonna keep my eye on a guy like you
(How'm I gonna keep a guy like you)
How'm I gonna keep my eye on a guy like you

What am I gonna do...

 

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"A Place To Stay"

"A Place To Stay"


We never see the end begin
Only when it settles in
We didn't have so long to wait
But even now it's hard to take
Everyday you change your mind
But every way we turn you find
Another reason to be sure
Nothing's mending anymore

I'm gonna leave you now
Even when I don't know how
I'm ever gonna look away
From your precious face
You made the day begin
You were a breath of spring
Giving me everything
But a place to stay

The one I want is sitting here
Considering which way to steer
Now you say it's mine to choose
Which hand you would hate more to lose
Every day you change your mind
And every minute draw a different line
You leave me numb I let my feet decide
And they're moving like they think that I

I'm gonna leave you now
Even when I don't know how
I'm ever gonna look away
From your precious face
You were the morning light
You were the fireside
You make it almost like
A place to stay

 

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"Alfie"

"Alfie"


What’s it all about, Alfie?
Is it just for the moment we live?
What’s it all about when you sort it out, Alfie?

Are we meant to take more than we give
Or are we meant to be kind?
And if only fools are kind, Alfie,
Then I guess it’s wise to be cruel.

And if life belongs only to the strong, Alfie,
What will you lend on an old golden rule?
As sure as I believe there’s a heaven above, Alfie,
I know there’s something much more,
Something even non-believers can believe in.

I believe in love, Alfie.
Without true love we just exist, Alfie.
Until you find the love you’ve missed you’re nothing, Alfie.
When you walk let your heart lead the way
And you’ll find love any day, Alfie, Alfie.

 

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"All Cried Out"

"All Cried Out"


(Around around around around around
Around around around around around
Around around around around around
Around around around around around)

You took your time to come back this time
The grass has grown under your feet
In your absence I changed my mind
And someone else is sitting in your seat

I know that I said there'd be no one else
I know that I said I'd be true
But baby, I've burned out cupid's arrow
And here's the short and the narrow
I've nothing left to offer you

I'm all cried out
You took a whole lot of loving
For a handful of nothing
(All cried out)
It's hard to give you something
When you're pushing and a-shoving me around

So don't look surprised
There was no disguise
You knew where I stood from the start
So stop
Look around you
You're right back where I found you
Take back your cold and empty heart

(All cried out)
I'm all cried out
You took a whole lot of loving
For a handful of nothing
(All cried out)
It's hard to give you something
When you're pushing and a-shoving
(All cried out)
I'm all cried out
You took a whole lot of loving
(All cried out)
I'm all cried out
It's hard to give you something
When you're pushing and a-shoving me around

(Around around around around around
Around around around around around)

(You go your way)
You go your way
(I'll go mine)
I'll go mine
(I won't stay around here)
I wont stay around here
Don't you waste my time
(Waste my time)

(All cried out)
You took a whole lot of loving
For a handful of nothing
(All cried out)
It's hard to give you something
When you're pushing and a-shoving
(All cried out)
I'm all cried out
You took a whole lot of loving
(All cried out)
I'm all cried out
It's hard to give you something
When you're pushing and a-shoving me around

(Around around around around around
Around around around around around
Around around around around around
Around around around around around)

You go your way
I'll go mine
I won't stay around here
Don't you waste my time

(All cried out
All cried out)
You took a whole lot of loving
For a handful of nothing
(All cried out
All cried out)
You took a whole lot of loving
(Around around around around around)
(All cried out)
You took a whole lot of loving
For a handful of nothing
(Around around around around around)
(All cried out)
It's hard to give you something
When you're pushing and a-shoving
(All cried out
All cried out)
You took a whole lot of loving
(All cried out).

 

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"All Signs Of Life"

"All Signs Of Life"


The skyline is fading
Planets rearranging
For one man collecting his distance
His lungs are a bellow
Such a mechanical fellow
He's breathing in circles
(All signs of life)

On the rolling hills
Like the curve of a hip dipping
Oh, he can see her face
So he picks up his pace
Don't hurry here

All signs of life
All signs of life, here

His bodys a blister
Scowling, solitary mister
No tail wind to borrow
No rest tomorrow
His lungs are a bellow
Dress him in sunflower yellow
He's breathing in circles

And he spits his pain
And he sucks in the air like ether
And he breathes it again
Now his chest is a mine exploding
And the bitumen sticks
Like the catch in his throat
He's going down
And he sleeps in the dust
On a blanket she laid out for him, here

 

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"Almost Blue"
(originally by Elvis Costello & The Attractions)

"Almost Blue"
(originally by Elvis Costello & The Attractions)



Almost blue
Almost doing things we used to do
There's a boy here and he's almost you
Almost all the things that your eyes once promised
I see in his, too
Now your eyes are red from crying

Almost blue
Flirting with this disaster became me
It named me as the fool who only aimed to be

Almost blue
It's almost touching, it will almost do
There's a part of me that's always true
Always
Not all good things come to an end, now it is only a chosen few
I've seen such an unhappy couple

Almost me
Almost you
Almost blue

 

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"And I Know"

"And I Know"


She told me today I'm in your way
She says your heading somewhere
You've a long way to go
Even more than she knows
She thinks you're half the way there
You've learnt nothing much at all
No doubt you told her that you stayed with me through pity
Honorable you
Oh go away
Make it easy on yourself
Tell them I let you down
I'm not the girl you met oh no
And if I smile just a little
Forgive me but I've read that book as well
And I know. You know

Oh now I'm so intrigued
Your life's such a read
It must be torture for you
Unlike one such as me
You know all that I need is to pick up after you
You don't understand at all
You move amongst us like some alien higher being
Skimming no plane but yours

So go away
Make it easy on yourself
Tell them I'm off my head
I keep you from yourself
And I can't help but smile a little
Remembering all you choose to forget
And I know

You know that I still feel the world revolving miles beneath my feet
You and I were hapless space cadets
Mirrored when we meet
When I was coming down you let me fall alone
Now I think that you've been up too long

You've learnt nothing much at all
You move amongst us like some alien higher being
Seeing no pain but yours

Oh go away
Make it easy on yourself
Tell them I let you down
I'm not the girl you met oh no
And if I smile just a little
Forgive me but I've read that book as well
And I know. You know

 

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"Another Living Day"

"Another Living Day"


Ours was the best September
Of blue and gold it was
Of aching nights
And sleep-all days
I made my way to meet you
By then the air had changed
And you had seen me everywhere and they sparkled
And shined like new
Like you said I used to
Another magic day is lost on you
And all the love falls through your fingers
Another living day is lost and gone on you

One night you took me driving
You coloured everyone in shades that I'd never seen
You said someone had left you
You'd tried your very best
(What silver clouded eyes see)
Saying stay when leaving me
When I'm all that you need
Another magic day is lost on you
And all the love falls through your fingers
Another living day is lost and gone on you

If you could feel it now
Warmer than magenta skies
My spirits burning just like the blazing cheeks on the face
Of a young child
And it's wild

Another magic day is lost on you
(What a day another living day)