Mike & The MECHANICS

You've got to hold on tonight
Do you think that it's easy trying to take me for a ride ?
Signs ... time that you recognised them
Doesn't work anymore, it's gone and you can't make it right

Please just read my lips, get the message now baby
I been tangled enough, don't get me caught up again
Time I've tost count of the times I've been had do you blame
But enough of this madness, no more to say it's been said

All this time I've been holding it together
If you walked a mile in my shoes you'd know what
I'd been going through
How many times can we go back?
Make the same mistakes, it's written alt over your face

You and I were a river flowing
Now the tide has turned and all of my tears have run dry
How come I am the one left standing?
Now I'm drowning inside all of my tears have run dry

Back right where I started again
But it's hard to forget, everything's so different then
I would have moved mountains if you'd asked me to
That's a lifetime ago. Vou've got to face up to the truth

Forgetting all of our mistakes
I just keep on falling right back in again

You and I were a river flowing
Now the tide has turned, all of my tears have run dry
How come I am the one left standing?
Now I'm drowning inside all of my tears have run dry

Turned my back and I don't regret it
One more time would be hell if I let it
Take my word for it don't forget it
Check my eyes cause my tears have run dry

You and I were a river flowing
Now the tide has turned, all of my tears have run dry
You and I were a river flowing
Now the tide has turned, all of my tears have run dry
How come I am the one left standing?
Now I'm drowning inside all of my tears have run dry

2. If I Were You

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If I were you
I wouldn't hurt the ones you love the way you do
I wouldn't make them cry

If I were you
I would learn to see the other point of view
You don't even try

Let's say that you were me
You'd do things differently
And cut out all the fear and lies

Then maybe you could see
The possibility
To compromise

If I were you
I would look at all the quarrelling we do
Cause that's no help at all

If I were you
I would give a little credit where it's due
That would be my call

Let's say that you were me
We'd do things differently
And cut out all the hurt and pain

Then maybe you could see
The possibility
To love again

If I had the choice
You would make yourself heard
Without raising your voice

In my master plan
You could get your way
Without raising your hand

I don't want to be the one getting it
wrong time after time
I no longer want to play games for
any reason or rhyme
Nobody's asking you to do something
you don't want to do

If I were you
I wouldn't hurt the ones you love the way you do
I wouldn't make them cry

If I were you
I would learn to see the other point of view
But you don't even try

If I were you

3. Perfect Child

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I want a perfect child
To live a perfect life in this world
And though my heart tells me this could never be
I see it all so perfectly

They say when we have children
It changes how we live
Changes our direction
From take to give

It changes our perspective
Of how the world should be
Our hopes and aspirations
Of what we want to see

I want a perfect child
To live a perfect life in this world
And though my heart tells me this could never
I see it all so perfectly

See her kind of pretty
See her neat and smart
See her like her mother
With a golden heart

See him tall and handsome
See he has resolve
Believe he's like his father
But without his father's faults

I want a perfect child
To live a perfect life in this world
And though my heart tells me this could never be
I see it all so perfectly

I know these dreams are fragile
Never work out as you planned
I pray that God will hold them
In the hollow of his hand

I want a perfect child
To live a perfect life in this world
And though my heart tells me this could never be
I see it all so perfectly

4. Rewired

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5. I Don't Want It All

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I been keeping it to myself
I been thinking about it all day long
I got nobody I can blame
They say what goes around surely comes around

I wouldn't dream of trying to complicate your life
You don't need to change anything you do

Because
I don't want it all
I just need some time a piece of love that I can hold onu
I don't want it all
I just need to feel something good is happening in my I

I read my paper and get depressed
No point in hanging around waiting for a call
I don't expect you to read my mind
This time I'm going to tell you exactly how I feel

I need the thought of stealing a moment with you
So I can just keep holding on

Because
I don't want it alt
I just need some time a piece of love that I can hold onto
I don't want it all
I just need to feel something good is happening in my life

Do you think you want to be free ?
I'll do anything to make you mine
I'll do anything

I don't want it alt
I just need some time a piece of love that I can hold onto
I don't want it alt
I just need to feel something good is happening in my life

I don't want it alt
I just need some time a piece of love that I can hold onto
I don't want it alt
I just need to feel something good is happening in my life

I been keeping it to myself
Thinking about it all day long
I just need some time
I don't want it atl
I just need to feel something good
I just need some time

I don't want it all
I just need some time a piece of love that I can hold onto
I don't want it all
I just need to feel something good is happening in my life

I don't want it all
I just need some time a piece of love that I can hold onto
I don't want it all
I just need to feel something good is happening in my life

I don't want it all
I just need some time a piece of love that I can hold onto
I don t want it all
I just need to feel something good is happening in my life

6. How Can I

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How can I tell you and sound like I mean what I say
You turned a tight on in me and it shines to this day
Once it was easy to open my heart up to you
Now you know the way that I'm feeling better than I do

Why can't I just say what I mean?
Words don't come easy to me

1 think you sometimes forget how I feet about you
You come alive every time that the message gets through

Why can't I just say what I mean ?
Words don't come easy to me

You and I we've got something going on
That I know you don't find every day
You and I we belong together
That's the way that I want it to stay

Sooner or later the penny will drop and you'll see
That I don't want anyone else and you only need me

Why can't I just say what I mean ?
Words don't come easy to me

You and I we've got something going on
That I know you don't find every day
You and I we belong together
That's the way that I want it to stay

How can I tell you and make you believe what I say ?

7. Falling

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She lied to me
I don't get it. I'm not letting it go. I can t get through anymore. Not this time

She cheated me
Of all my senses up against it this time
I can't fight anymore. Not this time

Falling. I'm falling
Sooner or later there will be nothing out there
All that I believe in
Spinning around me. It don't make no sense

And I'm
Falling. I'm falling
Sooner or later there will be nobody left
Calling. I'm calling
Somebody stop me falling off the edge of this life

What does it take?
Someone hear me. listen clearly I'm done
She broke my heart in her hand and was gone

Can I get through, tell me
I'm in freefall down
And I can't stop now it's not right
She turned my soul out and left me undone

Falling. I'm falling
Sooner or later there will be nothing out there
All that I believe in
Spinning around me. It don't make any sense now

Falling. I'm falling
Sooner or later there will be nobody left
Calling. I'm calling
Somebody stop me faffing in and out of this life

Falling. I'm falling
Sooner or later there will be nothing out there
All that I believe in
Spinning around me. It don't make any sense now

Failing. I'm falling
Sooner or later there wilt be nobody left now
Calling. I'm calling
Somebody stop me falling off the edge of this life

8. Somewhere Along The Line

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Somewhere along the line
We convince ourselves
Accept the ordinary

Refuse to read the signs
We just can't see
The extraordinary

Somewhere along the way
Dreams become a burden
I don't want to hear you say
That you're not certain of our love

Somewhere behind the sun
All the simple things
Appear as complicated

We substitute the fun
In a complex game
We call sophisticated

Somewhere along the way
Hopes turn to illusion
I don't want to hear you say
It's the conclusion of our love

Somewhere along the way
We lose imagination
It's new just to hear you say
In celebration of our love

Somewhere along the line
We convince ourselves
Somewhere along the line

Somewhere along the line
Somewhere along the line
Somewhere along the line
Somewhere along the line ... somewhere

9. Underscore

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