1.Action Speaks Faster
(difford／tilbrook)
Action speaks faster
Faster than words
Pull her towards you
Let love be heard
And when we kissed there was a room that had been emptied
You said so much without a word i'd been tempted
Love's not for sale there's not a price
Who could have rented
Who lives here now come out and be found where i have nested
My eyelashes swam up through the tears
The moments that passed took two or three years
And when we talked there was rain and no attraction
Hand to my head, eyes to the ground, no reaction
Our love was home, now it's a fort that's held up to ransom
What of us now, now there's no laughs, where is the action
2.Love's Crashing Waves
(difford／tilbrook)
Malicious gossip will never profit
When hearsay is its foundation
There are subscribers whose appetizers
Are pieces of conversation
Concocted rumours by out of tuners
Are the must in lovers' concerto
As long as we know at the piano
We're serving meat with our potato
Love's crashing waves upon the rocks
Is seen by some, by you it's not
But you won't drown, love is your town
When love is found for all to want
Unfounded scandal i cannot handle when it's been so diluted
With careful wording love can be burning
And the fire unconstituted
So my prescription is my addiction
When love is social surrounding
To show your colours to all those others
Who think that your love is drowning
3.Picking Up The Pieces
(difford／tilbrook)
Words escape me now i'm in prison
Sentenced to a life of tears
Now she hates me, that's her decision
Waiting for the smoke to clear
So i can see the damage of the fire
That raged through our love
So i can see the damage i can try
And salvage our love
I'm picking up the pieces
Maybe they'll fit some day
Love recalls me back from darkness
It whispers to an eager ear
She ignores me, why so heartless
Waiting for the smoke to clear
So she can see the damage of the fire
That raged through our love
So she can see the damage she can try
And salvage our love
Picking up the pieces
And putting them down again
There's never a match for a burning desire
To fall in love
And put out the fire that's been burning
Picking up the pieces
And putting them down again
Picking up the pieces
Maybe they'll fit someday
4.On My Mind Tonight
(difford／tilbrook)
The moths at the window
They can see the light
The crickets crick in the dark
My pen runs out of ink
As i start to write
The feelings that are in my heart
This headache won't subside
I've got you on my mind tonight
The silence of the telephone
Doesn't bother me
But i wish that it would ring
I'm confined to quarters
I'm in solitary
I'm the man who would be king
The small hand's on the five
I've got you on my mind tonight
The loneliness for loving you
Is some price to pay
But are my pockets deep enough
The chorus of the morning
Keeps me awake
So busy with the thoughts of love
As i slowly close my eyes
I've got you on my mind tonight
Just as i go off to sleep
A car pulls up, i hear a beep
Good night
5.Man For All Seasons
(difford／tilbrook)
Now the woman wears the trousers
Now my shirts remain uncreased
Now the shoe is on the other foot
Maybe i can feel released
All the pleasure of pleasing you
All the powers of needing you
Now i'm no longer keeping you
So now she's working at the office
And i don't have a job at all
She keeps me in cigarettes
Once a bat now a ball
All the dinners are burning dear
All the while i'm learning dear
Now i'm no longer earning dear
A man for all seasons
Not now i'm feeling so tired
I've got so much upon my plate
Not now was the distant cry
As the latch fell on the gate
A man for all seasons
Now the house is like a garage
Parts of me about the room
I'm building up another me
One that takes a nap at noon
All the parties are thrown for you
All the people are known by you
Now i'm building this home for you
6.Hope Fell Down
(difford／tilbrook)
You're banging your drum
You blow your own trumpet
Your ship came in
And your fanfare sunk it
The tide has turned, our love's gone forever
I stand on the shore
As it floats down the river
I had such hopes
I had such visions planned
The frames were shot
But now our future's canned
I had my hopes so high
They fell right down
I'm banging my head
You watch without malice
(you watch with no interest at all)
I bet all your friends
Compare this to dallas§
(i might as well talk to a brick wall)
So under the arm i feel the cold shoulder
So i'll once again
Have to play the wild rover
Do i need all this pressure
Do i bury my temper
7.Wagon Train
(difford／tilbrook)
There's smoke in the hills
And prints on the path
The moon dangles down on the hyena's laugh
And there are riders with guns by their sides
The wagon train's full of women and hides
The men drink and smoke to help pass the time
Men have their thoughts and plans to decide
And the dust brings the thirst to the mouths open wide
The wagon train leaves the hills
As the gold hits the fever
The wagon train tips the scales
Wagon train you can keep her
There's gold in them hills
It's treasure to claim
A ghost in the hillside calls out my name
In the wind a roar as the tumbleweed tumbles
The rocks cast a shadow where the horses have stumbled
And we light up a flame as the sky above rumbles
Like the bellies that feast on a meal that is humble
And the rain slashing down as i shave off my stubble
There's arrows that fly
As guns start to shoot
There's mud in your eye and stones in your boot
With wagons on fire and women left screaming
Some left for dead and others left bleeding
There's nothing left now and nothing worth keeping
The treasure was trapped and sprung when in sleeping
Not even the wind from the rocks is left breathing
8.You Can't Hurt The Girl
(difford／tilbrook)
You can't hurt the girl with ignoring her presence
She stands behind you as you do your impressions
Of jack the lad with your friends at the local
And when she wants you she's surprised and hopeful
You can't hurt the girl, her word's always sharper
An answer, a look can normally cast her
As evil and cunning with love there to conquer
She with her wand can wave it and wander
You can't hurt the girl
Nor could i
Her heart's been broken too many times
You can't hurt the girl
You can't hurt the girl
And not cry
You can't hurt the girl, her heart has been broken
She cried for a week, the wound remains open
Her heart turned to oak, she wept like the willow
You can't hurt the girl
Without tears on her pillow
9.Tears For Attention
(difford／tilbrook)
Tears for attention, heard all through the night
What is it you want from me, the last seconds of the fight
Kisses of corruption, tempt the spider from his web
Caught between the white sheets that have fallen from your bed
Heart for inspection, check the beat against the pain
The fight that came to break us up puts us back together again
Twitches of excitement give away my secret thoughts
Love was a book at bedtime, now that book has learned to talk
I get tears for attention
Kisses of corruption
With you
When i'm with you
Tears for attention dry upon a smiling face
Apologies and promises bring love back together again
Kisses of affection, lips that touch without a trace
The idea of conception puts the smile back on my face
I get tears for attention
Kisses of affection
And i do when i'm with you
10.The Apple Tree
(difford／tilbrook)
Power station by the river
Grinding slowly to a stop
Clock still ticking on the mantle
Flames still flicker on the log
Coffee brewing in the kitchen
Where the door is open wide
Glass upon a hoovered carpet
Eyes are glowing in the night
It's the silence you can see
Hearing shadows behind me
All the buildings standing empty
All the trains are standing still
Cars are scattered by the roadside
There's no top upon the hill
Nails have scratched upon the outside
Of the empty chapel door
But i don't think that the father
Wants to live there anymore
There's no bone for you to pick
No more wax around the wick
Shot the arrow from the circle
At the apple on the tree
From a garden that was eden
Strange the fruit it bears for me
And the wind will spread the fire
And the rain will ever fall
If no one reads the writing
That's been written on the wall
Underneath the apple tree
There's a ghost who waits for me
The apple tree shakes its arms
Its fruit falls
Its fruits are tasting strange
The apple tree is shaking
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