Альбом 'Til Tuesday

Verse 1:
I guess you gave as good as you got
I guess this love is dead at last
But I paid such a lot
the price you pay for living under glass

Chorus:
So don't just kiss me goodbye
that's not what I need
Don't just kiss me goodbye
Don't watch me bleed

Verse 2:
You tried to keep me in my place
Said it was love that kept me there
How could you lie right to my face?
And smile at me - and sound so sincere

Chorus:
So don't just kiss me goodbye
that's not what I need
Don't just kiss me goodbye
Don't watch me bleed

Chorus:
So don't just kiss me goodbye
that's not what I need
Don't just kiss me goodbye
Don't watch me bleed

Don't just kiss me, kiss me, kiss me
that's not what I need
Don't just kiss me goodbye
Don't watch me bleed

Verse 1:
Remember this, given us
by someone's set of parents
I don't recall, I admit
I don't know just who's to blame
for relics of our history...

To tell the truth, it wasn't bad
we had to have a reason
and lack of love wasn't it
We both know we had a past
but present must contain
a future where both of us can fit

Chorus:
So long and sorry, darling
I was counting to forever
and never even got to ten
So long and sorry, darling
when we found a rip in heaven
we should have just ascended then

Verse 2:
It's funny how you just assume
you're going to work it out
or give it at least a try
but optimistic feelings can't be
passed from hand to hand
you handle them they tend to die

Chorus:
So long and sorry, darling
I was counting to forever
and never even got to ten
So long and sorry, darling
when we found a rip in heaven
we should have just ascended then

Bridge:
Well, better than if I just go away
preserving the fiction of
indifference now
replacing love

Chorus:
So long and sorry, darling
I was counting to forever
and never even got to ten
So long and sorry, darling
when we found a rip in heaven
we should have just ascended then

we should have just ascended then
we should have just ascended then

Verse 1:
Why must I take it so hard
there's no light in the tunnel
or dog in the yard
It's my fault for wanting too much
going deeper than most
getting harder to touch

Chorus:
I've known days when I'd
wake up and say,
`The world can get along just fine.'
So why must I take it so hard this time.

Verse 2:
Why must I take it so hard
other people get by
with either bourbon or God.
But my world became this one boy
it's the way that I'm made
do you think I enjoy it?

Chorus:
I've known days when I'd
wake up and say,
`Just live and let it all go by...'
So why must I take it so hard this time.

I've known days when I'd
wake up and say,
Be careful of the love you find

Be careful of the love you find.
Oh, be careful.

So far- 
or should I take it just a little farther
So good-
and if I think about it, it gets better
I could get used to this
I could get used to this
I could get used to
feeling the way that I do
So long-
or should I stay just a little longer
So much
for keeping it a secret
I could get used to this
I could get used to this
I could get used to
feeling the way that I do
Oh, all the times I told myself
I could never fall in love
Love is just too difficult
Oh, too bad
I'm only talking to myself about it
So sad-
I guess I'm going to have to live without
I could get used to this
I could get used to this
I could get used to
feeling the way that I do
I know, I know, I know how it goes
Baby, will I get the chance?
I could get used to
feeling the way that I do.

Verse 1
I was winding my clock
which was waking us up
in the morning, we were laughing
away like fools

Verse 2
I was saying my prayers
he was combing his hair
in a country that began with a
'J' for Jules

Chorus
You know I'll miss you
and thus it begins
but I'll release you
and thus it continues
Someday we'll be happy again

Verse 3
Oh, the rain never comes
count my blessings on my thumbs
and the dogs just want to sleep in the
sun all day

Chours
You know I'll miss you
and thus it begins
but I'll release you
and thus it continues
Someday we'll be happy again

Bridge
There's no way a country like that could die
Told me that they drift away
But that's a lie

Verse 4
Well, I just bought a car
but it stays in the yard
and the country that began with a 'J'
now ends in my heart

Chorus
You know I'll miss you
and thus it begins
but I'll release you
and thus it continues
Someday we'll be happy again

Someday we'll be happy again
Someday we'll be happy again.
(oooo)
(oooo)
(oooo)
(oh)

Verse: 1
We've known her ever since she was a kid
she was the kind of girl who repeats her mistakes
Her parents never minded what she did
She was a fallen angel with dirt on her face
But past a certain point she stayed behind
the two of us could never read her mind
the million ways she had of killing time

Chorus:
So we just gave up
yeah we just gave up
'cause sometimes, you know
there's limits to love

Verse 2:
We'd get impatient with her now and then
oh, she'd smile and say, `now you're not being nice.'
I guess her definition of a friend
was someone long on love, and short on advice
We gave her money but the money's bad
She took the dollars and just tore them in half
We got so angry, we just had to laugh

Chorus:
but we still gave up
yeah we still gave up
'cause sometimes, you know
there's limits to love

Verse 3:
She'll get in trouble but she will scrape through
oh, she's the kind of girl who can always find help
I'd say she's stupid, but it'd be untrue
oh, you've got to be smart if you're fooling yourself
We tried to love her, but our love unwound (so our love was weak)
We talked about her when she wasn't around (so our talk was cheap)
and still we felt that we were letting her down

Chorus:
'cause we just gave up
yeah we just gave up
'cause sometimes, you know
there's limits to love

Sometimes you know
there's limits to love

So what if it's breaking my heart at the root
Something that could happen to anyone, I suppose
Never any comfort to get from the truth
from knowing the part of this person that no one knows
So we just cry
with hopelessness
We're making such a mess

It's long gone, buddy, now - run and go after it
It's long gone, buddy, now - run and go after it

It's not that I'm frightened of being alone
It's just that I know what a burden this grief can be
Everything happens for something, I know
Can't understand for the moment what this could mean
That love is gone
That love is blind
That love is so unkind

It's long gone, buddy, now - run and go after it
It's long gone, buddy, now - run and go after it

Nobody wants to be happier more than me
Nobody wants to be happier more than I do
but happiness
I must confess
I don't have

It's long gone, buddy, now - run and go after it
It's long gone, buddy, now - run and go after it

Verse 1:
Shall we agree that just this once
I'm gonna change my life
until it's just as tiny or
important as you like
and in time, we won't even recall that we spoke
Words that turned out to be as big as smoke
like smoke, disappears in the air
there's always something smouldering somewhere 

Chorus:
I know it don't make a difference to you
but oh, it sure made a difference to me
You'll see me off in the distance, I hope
at the other end
at the other end of the telescope

Verse 2:
There was a time not long ago
I dreamt that the world was flat
and all the colours bled away
and that was that
And in time, I could only believe in one thing
the sky was just phosphourus stars hung on strings
and you swore that they'd always be mine
when you can pull them down anytime

Chorus:
I know it don't make a difference to you
but oh, it sure made a difference to me
You'll see me off in the distance, I hope
at the other end
at the other end of the telescope

Bridge:
There, there baby now, don't say a word
lie down baby, your vision is blurred
Your head is so sore from all of that thinking 
I don't want to hurt you now
but I think you're shrinking (I think you're skrinking)

Verse 3:
You're half-naked ambition and
you're half out of your wits
and though your wristwatch always works
your necktie never fits
Now its so hard to pick the receiver up
and when I call, I never noticed you could be so small
the answer was under your nose
but the question never arose

I know it don't make a difference to you
but oh, it sure made a difference to me
When you find me here at the end of my rope
when the head and heart of it finally elope
You can see us off in the distance, I hope
at the other end
at the other end of the telescope

Verse 1:
One night in Iowa, he and I in a borrowed car
went driving in the summer, promises in every star
out in the distance I could hear some people laughing
I felt my heart beat back a weekend's worth of sadness

Verse 2:
There was a farmhouse that had long since been deserted
we stopped and carved our hearts into the wooden surface
we thought just for an instant we could see the future
we thought for once we knew what really was important

Chorus:
Coming up close
everything sounds like welcome home
Come home and oh, by the way
don't you know that I could make
a dream that's barely half-awake come true
I wanted to say
but anything I could have said
I felt somehow that you already knew

Verse 3:
We got back in the car and listened to a Dylan tape
we drove around the fields until it started getting late
and I went back to my hotel room on the highway
and he just got back in his car and drove away

Chorus:
Coming up close
everything sounds like welcome home
Come home and oh, by the way
don't you know that I could make
a dream that's barely half-awake come true
I wanted to say - but anything I could have said
I felt somehow that you already knew

Coming up close
everything sounds like welcome home
Come home

Coming up close
everything sounds like welcome home
Come home Come on home

Verse 1:
He made me feel so second-best
I never should have let him do it
but when he makes his pretty mess
somehow you just fall into it

Chorus:
Have mercy on him
the love that I gave him is gone
Have mercy on him
the love that I saved for him is gone

Verse 2:
He wasn't just another touch
he was something I created
and though I loved him much too much
I never thought my love was wasted

Chorus:
Have mercy on him
the love that I gave him is gone
Have mercy on him
the love that I saved for him is gone

Verse 3:
How do you know who you should blame?
You spend your love, or you conserve it
It's hard to hear him curse my name
at least I know I don't deserve it

Chorus:
Have mercy on him
the love that I gave him is gone
Have mercy on him
the love that I saved for him is gone

The love that I saved for him is gone