Boo Radleys--Wake Up

WAKE UP BOO!

Summer's gone, days spent with the grass and sun
I don't mind, to pretend I do seems really dumb
I rise as the morning comes
Crawling through the blinds
I shouldn't be up at this time
But I can't sleep with you there by my side

Wake up it's a beautiful morning
Feel the sun shining for your eyes
Wake up it's so beautiful
For what could be the very last time

Twenty-five I don't recall a time I felt this alive
So WAKE UP BOO!
There's so many things for us to do
It's early so take your time
Don't let me rush you please
I know I was up all night, I can do anything
anything, anything

But you can't blame me 
Not for the death of summer
No you can't blame me
Not for the death of summer
But you're gonna say what you wanna say
You have to put the death in everything


FAIRFAX SCENE

It's easy to hide behind a smile, behind an ugly grace
It's easy to talk behind the back, it's harder to the face
It's easier to drink than to think, it's all so easy then
It's easy to shy away from life, it's hard to be the man

Oh come on listen to me, I can't complain I got it easy
I've everything I thought I always wanted
Even though I'm keeping busy
there's something more that still escapes me
I had it then, but now it's gone away


IT'S LULU

Now she wants to grow up cos she can't get about
the words in her head can't seem to get out

She gets all her facts from the latest Smash Hits
She can't seem to buy any clothes that fit
The books that she reads
aren't the ones from the school
She dreams of the day she can leave

Here she comes now
It's Lulu, she's dancing close to the flame
It's Lulu, you better remember her name

There's a tear on her cheek as she's talkin' on the phone
When she has to tell her friends that she's gotta stay home

Her parents both hate her
They don't want her to grow up
The pain in her head makes her wanna throw up
The ones who understand are the posters on the wall
She finds her favourite tape and puts it on
Here she comes now...


JOEL

Thru all the hurt and the pain
I don't regret a single day
My friends are not the ones who
Tell me who my friends should be
But don't be afraid, you know you make me happy
Remember that

I've found myself in Ladbroke Grove
Things kept within I should resolve
If I could reach backwards
I wouldn't change a thing
And listen, Joel, it won't be easy, it's never easy
Remember this

Don't go with the flow
Try follow your own path

All I want is harmony
Like some outmoded sixties throwback
I don't feel no destiny you make your own luck
If you want it now
I don't regret a single day

Once you get hit so often
You become numb to everything
You find out that you are on your own


FIND THE ANSWER WITHIN

I was sitting with the band
A drink in each hand
There wasn't much to say
He asked for my name
Said he was glad he came
He wished that he could stay

I said the only thing I've got more of is time
This isn't what you think, and it's not what I thought it would be
You've got a lonely face, do you want my place
Where there are all the answers
Do you wanna join the race, can you keep the pace
Or stay and take your chances?

I was sleeping on my couch
I was really out
I didn't hear you leave
They asked me for some words
To clear up all their hurts
They wished that they weren't them
The world is at your feet
Try and make something happen


REACHING OUT FROM HERE

It's not that I am different
It's not that you have changed
This place has done its damage, it's so hard to explain
The sky it bends my back, my crooked shape remains
The gravity's much stronger and nothing here has ever changed

And it looks like another rainy day
Sittin' here lonely by my window, waitin'
For you to come home

I never wanted anything but you alone
But I miss the place that I love
It's not good enough by phone
This does not feel like home my friends are far away
I get up in the morning and I wait for you all day

But you think it's alright
And they think it's alright
So I guess it's alright too

But I can't stand this place
I've tried so hard believe me to settle here
Just to have you near, whisper in my ear

That it's gonna be alright
And you're gonna be alright
So I can be alright too


MARTIN, DOOM!  IT'S SEVEN O'CLOCK

Get out of bed
Don't forget what it was you said

Hey boy I hear you callin' 
But it's too early morning

The world is waitin' just for you
I know, I know it is
The world is waitin' just for you

Get out of bed
Don't forget what it was you said

Oh my, I must be dreamin'
My arms and legs are screamin'

The world is waitin' just for you
I know but not today
The world is waitin' just for you

The day that you've been waiting for
You might as well, you've nothing left to lose
I know that it's still dark outside
Get out of bed, boy where's your pride?

And I know what you want
To take my life have me serve you
But I might as well go
Cos you need me more than I do


STUCK ON AMBER

Dead in the water, nothing left
Except the stench of what has gone before
Make some coffee, drink it down
And fix upon the pattern on the wall

I stare at my face
I know every trace

And I make it hard to get along with me

Bills and heartburn, pills and soaps
And flicking through the books that you've read before
Tears come easy, words come hard
But there really isn't much to say no more

I stare at my face
I know every trace

And I make it hard to get along with me


CHARLES BUKOWSKI IS DEAD

You'll never touch the magic if you don't reach out far enough


4 AM CONVERSATION

Where are you going with your suit of armor on
And your back turned to the sun
And your lid tightly sealed

What is this poison that you will carry like a curse?
I'm your lover not your nurse
But I will wash it away
Wash it away
Don't stay here for me


TWINSIDE

It thinks it's right when it knows it's wrong
It's been like this right from day one
It don't need anyone to be its guide
But it needs someone on its side

And I know that I can't make up my mind
I can feel it there's two of me inside, twinside

Make way for the end of frustration
Make way for the united front
One thought for a new situation

When it gets so it cannot walk
Can't stand up or even talk
Like a secret you cannot hide
It feels it kicking deep inside

And I know that I can't make up my mind
I can feel it, there's two of me inside, twinside

Make way for the end of frustration
Make way for the united front
One thought for a new situation

When it feels ready to explode
It just sits quiet without a word
When the right thinks it knows best
The left will go for something else


WILDER

Could I get much colder
To live somewhere else
In my head and in my heart
Is it too much to forgive

And if I were much wiser
Maybe I would realize
That it's not where you are
It's who you're with

But maybe it's brighter down there
Maybe it's wilder
Maybe it's brighter down there
Maybe it's wilder

You have seen the worst of me
For that I'm truly sorry
It's not you it's this place
And not knowing where to turn

Maybe I would be sorry
but I need to find out
I know you don't understand
I can't blame you for that

But maybe it's brighter down there
Maybe it's wilder
Maybe it's brighter down there
Maybe it's wilder