'Our Sweet Ambush'
All lyrics by Melia & Nerida Naughton
2007 Copyright owned by Scarlett Affection
because of you
there's a weakness in my spine
and my hands begin to sweat
i can't find words to define
the feelings that I get
there's a pain inside my chest
and my knees won't hold me still
and my head is throbbing hard
and it's all because of you
but i'm living in a dream
and it hurts to know it's all unreal
it's all just a fantasy
'cos you don't know about me
and i try to shut you out
and i want to just let go
it's too hard to walk away
if only you could know
be silent
when you play i sing and dance
your eyes avoid watching me
i'm not fading like a star
don't push me
flowers grow high but thorns pierce flesh
in your mind I'm here to smother you
it's my hand my heart's inside
it's calling
do not feed me to your spite
because I'm not your cliche pretty face
i'm not fading like a star
be silent
i held the door to wait for you
there's nothing there you are so empty
a hollow void why should i care
i'm learning
be silent don't say a word
your approval i know it sounds absurd
that i don't need you that time has gone
in the mirror i am someone
be silent for me
scandinavian bitch waitress
and the scandinavian bitch waitress made
such a mess 'cos she didn't like the music
and the man in the overalls is wiping
milk off his face again
and i wonder why you ran
and i wonder why
you never come you always go with flow
cruise control you're so dark and mellow
one sugar won't make you sweet you've got
your hand on my arse it's your delivery
and i wonder why you ran
and i wonder why
and i wonder why you ran
it's all coming apart
i still love the chaos
it's all coming apart
it's all coming apart
denouement
here the earth rolls on
and the good times are on rewind
in my top draw that's where i'm saving them
and i feel too young
for this thunder in my belly
we let this happen
how's my heart you might ask well i gave
it to a complete stranger
someone i never thought you could be
how's my heart you might ask well i ran
aground ran into danger
so i threw it out to sea
and the days are long
and the nights roll on after
but still sleep eludes me
i never fall apart
'cos i never fit together
all the possibilities
and i won't forget when i was with you
we were a nation of two
but i don't want to be
a simple solution
just dismissed so casually
some of us have, but are not able
some of us are able, but do not have
and the earth rolls on
and the earth rolls on
there's me, there's you
a nation of two
the great divide
we slip and slide
and the earth rolls on
and the earth rolls on
and then we're gone
coaster boy
how do i take what you said to me
it's not that simple it's not that easy
why do you think that i'd fall for you
like i'm easy 'cos it's easy when you're drunk
i'm taking it slowly don't ask me
and it goes to my head
how do you know what i could mean to you
please don't assume you can look at me
you hold my gaze for a little too long
you're good, well rehearsed but i'm moving on
it's just a coaster with a number when all
said and done
am i feeling privileged now you've come
lamb shanks and a bottle of red
and it goes to my head
buckets
rain comes down comes down in buckets
and it's raining cats and dogs
and my stockings are a mess and my
feet are mud
come inside he says your teeth are chattering
words spill out spill out like a river to the
ocean gushing out in torrents
and the best tongues in the house are silenced
and all eyes are on me
blame it on the blues my clothes are never dry
the 6 o'clock news i shield my eyes
i'm gobsmacked and bemused and the
weather girl
keeps talking about rain
feel
in kindness it's touching
in madness it's gentle
in shadows you're looming 10 foot tall
in silence it's gracious
in favour it's simple
in hallways your voice is edged and raw
line i'm stalling
time i'm pulling
i feel
in temper it's haunting
intention is lucid
in memory your eyes are at the floor
just sometimes i want to talk to you
but you're the other side, another time
and it's inconvenient for you
just some times
falling stars
let me sail my river
help me to deliver
to touch my dreams before i go
watch out for stormy weather
don't cast me off forever
don't take the wind out of my sails
tell me what really lies ahead
do falling stars know what i've said
join me on my horizon
find me when i'm needed
'cos there is something we both know
freedom is my reflection
help me find direction
to touch my dreams before i go
red eye 10
only now when you pin up your safe
collage of old girlfriends
and maybe feel that poignant bitter
sweetness begin
keeping the negatives under lock and key
in the wrist deep reaches of a drawer
so nobody can see that you might think of me
it's my heart that i can't seem to camouflage
convincingly i wanted you to indulge
and savour me
belated letters with apology
compliments in packages tied up with
strings of poetry
why did you never tell me?
i can't grasp the irony
'cos you make me feel like i feel too
much for you
pull apart, this is my favourite envelope
it makes me sad like the strained
photograph i pushed away
to the wrist deep reaches of a drawer
so nobody can say hey
finally the fragments of this heady dream
are dissolving and i can hold your
poetry in one hand
and maybe now you'll recognise
romantic
we don't speak for weeks
it's a little thing called animosity
then i get this text message
an invitation to your party
and i know i've said some really terrible things
but you know i meant only two
thirds of them
soft spot for you i'm reminiscing
it's only my heart that i am risking again
you're so romantic you're so divine
can't believe you once were mine
you're so fantastic maybe i miss it
but maybe i'm fine
we don't speak for months
it's a little thing called distancing myself
i hear you've got this new girlfriend
and it seems everything's just perfect
and i know i've said some really terrible things
but you know i've meant only half of them
soft spot for you i'm reminiscing
it's only my heart that i am risking again
we don't speak for years
i hear you've got a mortgage and twins now
we pass each other in the street
maybe that's all there is now
and i know i've said some really terrible things
but you know i've meant maybe none of them
soft spot for you i'm reminiscing
it's only my heart that i am risking again