Lyrics-Martyn Bates

<Love Smashed On A Rock>

I'd Better Mean It All Now
all those words, they lied, they cursed;
i'd better mean it all now...
after all I've done,
and all that's gone
i'd better mean it all now

all that summer I offered you
i offered it you in vain
and for every summers dark day
i rue
my promise stands empty
for shame.

when your sorrow cried
when that day passed by
nobody knew like you...
when that summer died
when we were denied
nobody knew like you...

i'd better mean it all now

and they came to nothing,
my promises
were words never made in good faith...
but for all of the bluffing I ever did
i am left twice as sour an aftertaste.

all those words they lied
they cursed.
and i'd better mean it all now.

Since I Can't Have You
you never were an angel
i never knew you all
i never knew the all of you
and i was never sure...
i was hung on your fixed smile
that i would never read
hung on you all the while
you were cutting into me...

i swore never i'd better fight you
it is not the way i am
but since I can't have you
i have to change my plan
since I can't have you...

i want to make you wonder
why you never took the chance
why you had to spite me
and curse upon my hands,
i want to make you long for
everything you passed
everything you trampled
and every single thing you smashed.

since i can't have you...

You're So Secret
it's a wild night and it's quiet
while you hold the reins and hide it
do you need that?
tho you know you long to say it
but you will not spill and say it
and defeat that...
for it's something that has frightened n
and has buried you and uptightened you
left you weakened...
and with every word i utter
you don't answer with another
you can't speak it...

i'm alone now
and you're so secret.

tho you tell me all about you
you say nothing to betray you
you so secret...
and you know i would unburden
and unlock your every word
you just can't speak it...
there is something in your dark eye
that is showing something waiting
just to free it...

and with everything i give you
and with all i am
to save you
i can't believe this...

i'm alone now
and you're so secret...

This Is What I Said To Love
my oh my
it's a long,, long way
from those early days
of such sweet, sweet taste;
how is it we've come astray?
for we wanted much
that we thought was ours;

ours by right
ours alone to clutch
were we so wrong
to stake that claim?

this is what i say to love;
oh do you rule in this world?
this world's not your world...
this is what i say to love;
how can you rule in this world?
this world's not your world
this world would throw you away...

i swore by you
i was sure i was right
and that all we were
was worth the fight
what was i fighting against?
it's this silent doubt
that eats my words
and blots you out
and kills my nerve
and i am fighting you again

Dark's Chorus
slow now;
hear the breaking, tearing sound that wakes
and shakes the day we were making;
hear it fall to waste...

for you are all the answers
and you are all the blame
showing in shallow glances
that cut in deep as we can name.

after all has been taken
will we rise up then?
will the bonds be broken
shall you curse again?
and all we ever with
to get
is something better
than regret
and all our fight is
just to get
something more,
than what we've left;
something better
than regret.

Love Smashed On A Rock
you make me laugh with your love
your empty head is breaking up
floundering to anywhere
steering devil-may-care
aimless navigation
pulled into some whirlpool
wrecked on every word you said
did you mean them anyway?
i have to ask...

love smashed on a rock.

this ship is stranded
stranded, left abandoned
you're inside...
and you love the debris
with all your life...

stagnant in some dead spray
wrapped in tattered sails
punctured into pieces
fingers in the compass
drowned for every word you said
did you mean it anyway?
i have to ask...

love smashed on a rock.

We Won't Begin To Belong
yes i can see tho you've come so far
you surely will run foul of your aim
yes i can see you will fall so hard
oh so far away...

and, yes i can see it will come to this
you'll bring yourself to your worst fears
yes i can see it will turn amiss
on some sorry day.

we won't begin to belong
if you cannot trust;
not while you are so frightened n'
while you fear this love...
we won't begin to belong
till the day you change your way.

you seem so sure that you stand to lose
living all life like some game
with odds that are stacked up to fall on you
as your hopes start to raise

so you watch yourself
check yourself
where you can stay safe
but you keep yourself lonely
this way...
and you hurt yourself worse
by being afraid
that all love's
a charade

we won't begin to belong
till the day you change your way.

Azure Flag
oh how i have waited
oh it felt forever so
waiting breath abated
for the chance in passing
that was never known...
how i looked to tomorrow
watching out just for to go
waiting when i'd follow
waiting for the time
i could never have known.

will you share this hour
now that it has come to pass
will you share this hour
now that it is here at last
come on, share this hour
in this hour that is mine
will you share this hour?
you are the reason why.

who would guess
that quiet cutting day would pass away
with you coming bringing everything you do
i could never have known
for i was watching wildly
looking for some other thing
something not so mildly subtle
and so gentle
i could never have known...

will you share this hour;
now that it has come to pass
will you share this hour
now that it is here at last
come on, share this hour
in this hour that is mine
will you share this hour?
you are the reason why...

She's On A Pedestal
shut the door to
gently as you go
for i don't know where i stand
don't be amused
by any phrase i choose
to try to use
to understand you
teach me please
the way i should be
to slow down;
teach me a way
to simply gauge
to know you now
now you are
moving away...

close the door to
quietly as you leave
for suddenly i'm listening hard
a dusty answer
swimming around me
that's come to name
things ill starred
ill starred
a frozen heart
too far
and high flown...
never known
to slow you down
now you are
moving away.

You're The Spell(I Can't Break)
i was born of love
and i trust it
everytime
and i've never known
how to leave its world
behind
so i was your fool,
for you knew me
to be blind
you knew
i would fall
to your design
you knew
how easily
i'd hypnotise

you're the spell
that must break
you're the spell
i can't shake
and you spell
my mistake
i was bewitched
by your ardour
you're the spell
i can't break

you're the spell

there are many prayers
that i'd whisper
like a truth
but i do not dare
for i'd longed to be
with you
i let myself be
snared
as a willing victim
who knew
i knew
so very well
just who you were
i knew
you'd mesmerise me
n' leave me there

you're the spell

I Don't Know How It Will Be
she will forget this loneliness
she will forget these ashes

I will regret the fire
the fire we left that all the salt now washes

and I don't know how it will be
it may be that I can only lose
for how can the light break through for me
ah how can it
I am the blues

I was the sea beautiful
beautiful to you
like some life saving ship
for some tempest that calmed for you then
when
beautiful to me
you held the waves back like some goddess

and I don't know how it will be
ah if I could only drown me in you
for
how can this tide calm for me
how can it
for I am the blues and I will regret
and
ah I will regret the fire




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