Gilbert O'Sullivan

[fox69]

"Have It"

"Have It"


If you want my love
If you really do
If you want my love
If you really do
Have it have it
I want you to

And if you want my soul
If it's really true
Have it have it
Please do

No need to swear
How much you care
If you just couldn't care less
I hate when saying what we mean
When what we mean is the opposite
Don't ask me why if it weren't for my
Lack of confidence I would grow
Your are not the first girl in my life
But the first to let my feelings show

And if you want my love
If you really do
Have it have it
I want you to
Please do

No need to swear
How much you care
If you just couldn't care less
I hate when saying what we mean
When what we mean are opposites
Don't ask me why if I weren't so shy
I don't think I'd hesi - hesitate
Your are not the first girl in my life
But the first to make me feel this way

And if you want my love
If you really do
Have it have it have it have it
If you want my love
Baby have it
Please do

 

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"Having Said That"

"Having Said That"


I think love is just a load of crap
But having said that
If you'd love me the way that I love you
I'd take it all back

I don't give a dam about you now
And I'm not being sour
There's plenty more of you where I come from
On the hour
Every hour

And I don't suppose you'd consider
Accompanying me out to dinner
Found this really cute little French place
The food they tell me is Greek
I'll understand please forgive me
What's his name is it Dave
Does he take you everywhere
I'll bet
He's lousy in bed
Not like me

Oh I think women are completely daft
But having said that
How many of them do you ever hear
Get a heart attack
And having said that

Don't come running after me again
I'm not your friend
Liked you once about a week ago
But that was then
Never again

Of all the women I've loved
You're the first to make blood boil
All the others they would of course
Make it bleed
I don't know how to thank you enough
Can't stand the sight of blood
You see

You mean nothing to me anymore
So now you know
I had been thinking that for quite some time
I'd let you go
So now you know

And don't think that I don't men this
Whatever we had between us
Is to the best of my knowledge
Now a thing of the past
But then again if you came up
With nothing on but your make-up
Possibilities are
Out if the kindness of my heart
I might
For tonight
Let you in

 

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"Heavens Above"

"Heavens Above"


Twenty five years I've been on this earth
Not forgetting those months before my birth
Months during which if my mother had said I don't want this baby
Then I'd be dead

Job I'm in is a steady one
I deliver up parcels weighing a ton
I could do better but I know I won't
Still with money in the bank and a car
Of my own
I'm off on the weekend
Looking for a new friend
Out to make love
Heavens above oh Lord

Don't bother me if the sun don't shine
It's urine falling remember not mine
Girlfriend's ran off with another guy
It could have been worse well it could have
Been a lie

I don't like anything to do with drugs
Sure they give you a kick but then so do thugs
I work as hard as I can each day
But when Friday arrives and I get my pay
I'm off on the weekend looking for a new friend
Out to make love
Heavens above oh Lord
I'm off on the weekend looking for a new friend
Dying to make love
Heavens above oh Lord

Sometimes of an evening instead of sleeping
Sometimes of an evening entirely in keeping
I'll watch the paint dry all over Sharon Stone

Now Monday mornings the only time in
The week when I wish that I could lie-in
Then comes Thursday and what do you know
Only one more day and away I'll go
I'm off on the weekend looking for a new friend
Out to make love
Heavens above oh Lord
I'm off on the weekend looking for a new friend
Dying to make love
Heavens above oh Lord

Keep on working that mojo
Drink your whisky a go go
I should say that it's coco
But it hasn't the bite
Tell your papa I don't care
Nothing wrong with your red hair
If he thinks that it's unfair
Then of course
He'd be right
He'd be right

 

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"Hello, It's Goodbye"

"Hello, It's Goodbye"


Take off your coat pull up a chair
Sit next to me not over there
How about a drink what would you like
Would a scotch on the rocks be alright
Then as the lights invariably dim
I gently touch your thigh
And before you know it, Hello it's goodbye.
You tell me that you're not that type
And I'm not saying that you're not right
All that I'm asking is a chance
To do more with you than just holding hands
This is the story of my life
Every chance I get to try
Before you know it, Hello it's goodbye.

Now I'm not saying that I'm upset
But for all the pleasure that I can get
I might just as well go join a monastery
(just as well join a monastery)

I'm not saying that I'm upset
But for all the pleasure that I've been getting
I might just as well go join a monastery
(just as well join a monastery).

Sometimes I think I'm up against
Something that doesn't make much sense
Like when I'm with a girl like you
I'd do everything a man should do
Then when I feel the time is right
I say no need to be shy
And before you know it Hello it's goodbye.

 

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"Help Is On The Way"

"Help Is On The Way"


So you want to love me
But you don't know why
You've got a problem up ahead
That's in sight
Love to meet your uncle
Only as I was saying
I have a relative myself the same type
Call yourself a man
I said, why not if it's true
I said, you call yourself a taxi and fly
And like a bird she flew out
of the window
Leaving me a box of milk tray
A note upon it to say
If nothing's alright it's okay
'Cos help is on the way.
Sorry to disturb you
At this awful hour
But I was wondering
If you have the time
Supposed to meet a woman here
At half past eight
And now you're telling me
It's already nine
Man you should have seen it
As the boat overturned
There was a cry out
From a hand or a leg
And like a stone she went
Down to the bottom
Leaving us above in dismay
Despite the captain who'd say
If nothing's alright it's okay
'Cos help is on the way.

I got a letter
It came as a note
It said, I'm sorry
I haven't spoke
It was written out in Braille
So I knew that it felt good
Right from the start

I tried to reach you
but you weren't at home
I left a message
Right after the tone
It said, sorry I'm not in
If you'd care to call again
I'll get back to you - back to you.

So you want to love me
But you don't know why
You've got a bee up in your bonnet
That's fine
Nothing like a buzz going around
Your head
To clear the cobwebs from the state
Of your mind
Well, you won't believe this
But believe me
It's true
I had this woman
In the palm of my hand
When like a madman
She leapt out the window
Leaving me a box of milk tray
A note upon it to say,
If nothing's alright it's okay
'Cos help is on the way.

 

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"Hold On To What You Got"

"Hold On To What You Got"


I've been over and I've been under
Been through all kinds of hell
Trouble was not only my middle name
It was my first as well
Through the years all I've encountered
I've lust one thing to say
Hold on to what you got
And don't let it slip away

I've been taken for far more rides
To places I've never been,
Stabbed so many times in the back
I so longer feel a thing
Ask me what all this has taught me
And I'll tell you what I'll say
Hold on...
Save it for a rainy day
And keep a watchful eye on anyone that tells you lies
See that it's true
You get what your entitled to

I was brought up same as you were
No different and no worse
You could be sure my mother would hit me
If I tampered with her purse

All my life has been a lesson
The most important to date
Hold on to what you got
And don't let it slip away.

 

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"Houdini Said"

"Houdini Said"


Doctor in love who is above
All others close to you
Is it the Queen is it obscene
Tell me I want you to
Oh I've often wondered what it is that incites
So many young people to take part in those riots
Whereby all men in blue are the targets to destroy
Lady be good I wish you would
Meanwhile exclusively
Have I the right to print in spite
Of what your views would be
Concerning those matters of the utmost degree
The point being the question and the question being he
Who laughs first has a thirst to laugh longest
Has he?
Over there (over where)
Over there (over where)
On the wall (what wall)
The one in the hall (oh the hall)
I can see (we can see)
Well you could have fooled me

Some take the attitude that life is a drag
They say and I quote "Man it just isn't our bag"
But if that's where it's at why the hell don't they go
Houdini said to get out of bed
Was the hardest thing he could do
Yet when he's tied strait-jacket plied
He's out at the count of two
It seems elementary my dear Watson I know
But think what would happen if for instance this show
That we're in should begin not one hour but
Two late
Over there (over where)
Over there (over where)
On the wall (what wall)
The one in the hall (oh the hall)
I can see (we can see)
Well you could have fooled me

 

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"How I Say That I Love You"

"How I Say That I Love You"


You know I love you what more can I say
Although the words themselves are not my way
For me a kiss that lasts a minute or two
Is how I say that I love you

The tea and toast I bring us up in bed
The pleasure I get when you stroke my head
That I can be there when you use the loo
Is how I say that I love you

And in the end what have we got
If not ourselves then not a lot

My friends they meet a girl and right away
The words I love you are all they can say
That I send flowers with the words guess who
Is how I say that I love you
If meningitis can so easily kill
Surely there are flaws
We're spending millions modifying our food
Could that not be a cause

You know I love you in a special way
Although the words themselves I rarely say
For me it's more than just the things we do
Is how I say that I love you

I found this photo from a few years back
Taken out in Spain
Your hair was longer
But apart from that
You look just the same

You know I love you in my own sweet way
Although the words themselves I rarely say
That I wear most of what you tell me to
Is how I say that I love you
Is how I say that I love you

 

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"I Can Give You"

"I Can Give You"


There are diamonds in this world for a lady
If I had the money you'd never had enough
You don't have to understand me
When I tell you
There is only one thing I can give you
Love
He may ask to take you with him every day
And then give you presents
You've only ever dreamed of
Though I'd take you walking with me anyway
There is only one thing I can give you
Love
What's important to me
Is not the good times we'll have
But the bad times that end up so badly
For you
And so you see
What I want Is not the earth to move
What on earth it prove
But a love that will make me
A love that will take me for good
And I don't know why soldiers shoot to kill
And I don't know why at ease I get so ill
And I don't give a damn unless of course I do
So if you want to go with him just remember
What I say to you in spite of how I feel
Though he'll give you things
You've only ever dreamed of
There is only one thing I can give you
Love

 

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"I Don't Care"

"I Don't Care"


You tell me you love and then you don't love me
Well I don't care
You say that you need me and you deceive me
Well I don't care maybe you're everything I'll ever need
Maybe I'll hate myself after you leave
But now I swear I don't care
You say that you want to and then you don't want to
Well I don't care
You think that its heaven but only till seven
Well I don't care
After a year in which I would have leapt
Off a mountain to save you from death
Now I swear I don't care
You're putting it about that got me sussed
You can do what ever you want to plus I would never leave you and that's the truth
But only if the never in it's removed
You tell me its over until it ain't over
Well I don't care
You stay on the phone make it into your home
Well I don't care
Yesterday you were the key to my life
Yesterday if you had gone I'd have died
But now I swear I don't care
Even if you treated me with contempt
I would as a patient get back my strength
Even if you wanted to the knot I would say the best shot
You tell me you love me and then you don't love me
Well I don't care
You're putting me down when I'm out on the town
Well I don't care
Go to your shrink let him help you decide
Don't look at me with that look in your eye
Cos now I swear
Now I declare
Now beware I don't care