Very (1993)

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Very (1993)

  1. Can You Forgive Her?
  2. I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing
  3. Liberation
  4. A Different Point Of View
  5. Dreaming Of The Queen
  6. Yesterday, When I Was Mad
  7. The Theatre
  8. One And One Make Five
  9. To Speak Is A Sin
10. Young Offender
11. One In A Million
12. Go West
13. Postscript

CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? (Tennant/Lowe)

Another night with open eyes
Too late to sleep, too soon to rise
You're short of breath, is it a heart attack?
Hot and feverish you face the fact

     You're in love, and it feels like shame
     Because she's gone and made a fool of you in public again
     You're in love, and it feels like pain
     Because you know there's too much truth in everything she claims

          So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
          If she wants you to?
          Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
          What she demands of you?

You drift into the strangest dreams
Of youthful follies and changing teams
Admit you're wrong, oh, no, not yet
Then you wake up and remember that you can't forget

     She's made you some kind of laughing stock
     Because you dance to disco, and you don't like rock
     She'd make fun of you, and even in bed
     Said she was gonna go and get herself a real man instead

          So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
          If she begs you to?
          Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
          What she demands of you?
          Or do you want revenge?
          But that's childish, so childish!
          (But that's childish, so childish!)

Remember when you were more easily led
Behind the cricket pavillion and the bicycle shed
Trembling as your dreams came true
You looked right into those blue eyes and knew

     It was love, and now you can't pretend
     You've forgotten all the promises of that first friend
     It's bad enough, she knows how you feel
     But she's not prepared to share you with the memory

          So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
          If she begs you to?
          Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
          What she demands of you?
          Ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
          If she begs you to?
          And ask yourself: Can you even deliver
          What she demands of you?
          Or do you want revenge?
          But that's childish, so childish!

I WOULDN'T NORMALLY DO THIS KIND OF THING (Tennant/Lowe)

Ask me why,
I say it's most unusual
How can I even try to explain
     Why today I feel like dancing
     Singing like lovers sing
     When I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing?
     I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing

Ask me when, (ta ra ra ra)
I say it started when I met you (ta ra ra ra ra ra)
And ever since then I knew that the past couldn't last
     For right now, I think I'm running
     A race that I know I'm gonna win
     And I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
     I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing

If people say I'm crazy, I tell 'em that it's true
Let them watch with amazement
Say it won't last beyond breakfast
It's a phase he's going through
Denigrate or speculate on what I'm going through
Because it isn't the sort of thing I would normally do

Ask me what, (ta ra ra ra)
I say I think it's good for you (ta ra ra ra ra)
Believe it or not, I know where it's all leading to
     I feel like taking all my clothes off
     Dancing to the Rite of Spring
     And I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
     I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
     I wouldn't normally do this kind of -
     This kind of thing

LIBERATION (Tennant/Lowe)

Take my hand,
I've changed my mind again
Really, I believed it true
That all who fell in love were foolish
But I was wrong,
I've learned that lesson well
All the way back home at midnight
You were sleeping on my shoulder

     Take my hand,
     Don't think of obligations
     Now, right now,
     Your love is liberation

To free in me
The trust, I never dared
I always thought the risk too great
But suddenly, I don't hesitate, so

     Take my hand,
     Don't think of complications
     Now, right now,
     Your love is liberation
     Liberation

Ta ra ra ra ra ra
Ta ra ra ra ra ra

The night, the stars
Our light shone through the dark
All the way back home at midnight
You were sleeping on my shoulder

     Take my hand,
     Don't think of hesitation
     Now, right now,
     Your love is liberation
     Liberation

Ta ra ra ra ra ra

Back home at midnight
All the way back home at midnight

A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW (Tennant/Lowe)

When I'm sitting so close to you
There's only one thing that I wanna do
But I know what you're likely to say
That I'm going about it the wrong way

We can't agree about anything
Where to go or even where we've been
And I know what you're likely to do
Say that I've never cared about you

     And all I wanted to say was that I love you
     But you tell me now you don't believe it's true
     You got a different, a different
     A different point of view
     You got a different
     Point of view

You don't believe a single word I say
If I'd say black was white, you'd say it was grey
But in spite of being treated this way
I still dream of you all night and day

Just this once
Just say yes
Please

You've got a clever way of haunting me
I'm never scared, but you're still daunting me
'Cause I know what you're likely to say
And I know that you'll get your own way

     You got a different, a different
     A different point of view
     You got a different
     Point of view

DREAMING OF THE QUEEN (Tennant/Lowe)

Dreaming of the Queen
Visiting for tea
You and her and I
And Lady Di

The Queen said: "I'm aghast
Love never seems to last
However hard you try"
And Di replied

     That there are no more lovers left alive
     No one has survived
     So there are no more lovers left alive
     And that's why love has died
     Yes, it's true
     Look, it's happened to me and you

Then carriages arrived
We stood and said goodbye
Diana dried her eyes
And looked surprised

For I was in the nude
The old Queen disapproved
But people laughed and asked
For autographs

     And there were no more lovers left alive
     No one had survived
     So there were no more lovers left alive
     And that's why love had died
     Yes, it's true
     Look, it's happened to me and you

I woke up in a sweat
Desolate

     For there were no more lovers left alive
     No one had survived
     So there were no more lovers left alive
     And that's why love had died
     Yes, it's true
     Look, it's happened to me and you

YESTERDAY, WHEN I WAS MAD (Tennant/Lowe)

Darling, you were wonderful, you really were quite good
I enjoyed it, though, of course, no one understood
A word of what was going on, they didn't have a clue
They couldn't understand your sense of humour like I do

You're much too kind
I smiled with murder on my mind

     Yesterday, when I was mad
     And quite prepared to give up everything
     Admitting, I don't believe
     In anyone's sincerity, and that's what's really got to me

You have a certain quality, which really is unique
Expressionless, such irony, although your voice is weak
It doesn't really matter 'cause the music is so loud
Of course it's all on tape, but no one will find out

You hated me too
But not as much as I hated you

     Yesterday, when I was mad
     And quite prepared to give up everything
     Admitting, I don't believe
     In anyone's sincerity, and that's what's really got to me

Then, when I was lonely
I thought again
And changed my mind

Then we posed for pictures with the competition winners
And argued about the hotel rooms, and where to go for dinner
And someone said: "It's fabulous you're still around today,
You've both made such a little go a very long way"

     Yesterday, when I was mad
     And quite prepared to give up everything
     Admitting, I don't believe
     In anyone's sincerity, and that's what's really got to me

Then, when I was lonely
I thought again
And changed my mind

THE THEATRE (Tennant/Lowe)

(Yeah)
(Yeah)
(Tu ru tu tu tu tu)
(Yeah)
(Tu ru tu tu tu tu)
(Yeah)
(Yeah)

It's another world here
The streets are gleaming
I was even dreaming
That they're paved with gold

Seventeen, at half past ten
All the crowds are surging past
An electric display

There's another world here
Below shop windows
Upon the pavement
Where you wave goodbye

Boys and girls
Come to roost
From Northern parts
And Scottish towns
Will we catch your eye?

     While you pretend not to notice
     All the years we've been here
     We're the bums you step over
     As you leave the Theatre
     (Yeah)

It's another world here
Somebody is singing (Yeah)
I was only wishing
For a bit of cash

From a patron of the arts
Or at least the phantom of the opera
Will I catch your eye?

     While you pretend not to notice
     (Tu ru tu tu tu tu Tu ru tu tu tu tu Tu ru tu tu tu tu)
     All the years we've been here
     We're the bums you step over
     (Tu ru tu tu tu tu Tu ru tu tu tu tu Tu ru tu tu tu tu)
     As you leave the Theatre
     (Yeah)
     (Yeah)

(Ha ha ha ha...)
(Everybody)
(Everybody)

ONE AND ONE MAKE FIVE (Tennant/Lowe)
-
Have you heard the news?
Everybody's asking who
Is that man you've been seen with
And why I'm never out with you

     Please, tell me that you love me
     Sort out this confusion
     Say our love is still alive
     For people must be jumping
     To the wrong conclusion
     That one and one make five

What I need right now
Is to hear you say they got it wrong
That he's just a new friend
A perfectly innocent one

     So, tell me that you love me
     Sort out this confusion
     Say our love is still alive
     For people must be jumping
     To the wrong conclusion
     That one and one make five
     People are assuming
     'Cause it's so confusing
     That one and one make five

If one and one make two (make two)
     (Here we go Here we go Here we go Here we go
Don't need to worry about you
     (Here we go Here we go Here we go Here we go
But here, where gossip and rumor thrive
Here we go Here we go Here we go Here we go)
One and one add up to three, four or five
     (Here we go Here we go Here we go Here we go

One and one and one and one and one make five
(One and one make five)

Let's stay in tonight
Maybe disconnect the phone
The correct arithmetic
Just two of us at home

     Oh, tell me that you love me
     Sort out this confusion
     Say our love is still alive
          (One and one make five)
     For people must be jumping
     To the wrong conclusion
     That one and one make five
          (One and one make five)

     Tell me that you love me
     Sort out this confusion
     Say our love is still alive

TO SPEAK IS A SIN (Tennant/Lowe)

We've been around forever
Look at us now together
Ordering drinks at the bar

Saying hello to menfriends
Smiling across a friend's friends
Ordering drinks at the bar

     To speak is a sin
     You look first, then stare
     And once in a while
     A smile, if you dare

(Ta da da da da aah Ta da da da da)

We'll stand around forever
Regardless of time or weather
Ordering drinks at the bar

Looking for love, and getting
Nothing that's worth regretting
But wondering why we travel so far

     To speak is a sin
     You look first, then stare
     And once in a while
     A smile, if you dare

     To speak is a sin
     You'd better beware (aah)
     But once in a while
     A smile, if you dare (aah)

(Aah, Aah, Aah)

     To speak is a sin
     You look first, then stare
     And once in a while
     A smile, if you dare

     To speak is a sin
     You'd better beware (aah)
     And once in a while
     A smile, if you dare (oooh)

(Aaah Aaah Oooh)

(Aaah)

YOUNG OFFENDER (Tennant/Lowe)

You may be broke now, and you may be bored
Call you delinquent or leave you ignored
You'll get what you want

Drive to distraction, crash on the way
Watch your reaction, wait 'till you say
You'll get what you want
It hurts if you can't

     Young offender, what's your defense?
     You're younger than me, obviously
     Young offender, why the pretense?
     You don't agree, I know, I know

I'll do what you want if you want me enough
I'll put down my book and start falling in love
Or isn't that done?

How graceful your movements, how bitter your scorn
I've been a teenager since before you were born
And I'm younger than some
I've only begun

Young offender, what's your defense?
You're younger than me, obviously

When I get in your way, or open your eyes?
Who will give whom the bigger surprise?

Is there fire in your eyes, or the glow of machines?
Watch how your fingers thumb over the keys
So sure what you do
I haven't a clue

     Young offender, what's your defense?
     You're younger than me, obviously
     Young offender, how you resent
     The lovers you need, it hurts when they bleed
     Young offender, why the pretense?
     You don't agree, I know, I know

ONE IN A MILLION (Tennant/Lowe)

Why
This uncertainty?
It's not clear to me
Would you rather be independent?
Have I lost your love?
Have you had enough?
Do you feel too much resentment?
How can I make you see
When you disagree
That you just can't leave?

     One in a million men
     Could change the way you feel
     One in a million men
     Baby it's up to me

I
Won't stand in your way
I can make you stay
Though, of course, I feel rejected
You're a part of me
You're the family
I can't bear to leave

     One in a million men
     Could change the way you feel
     One in a million men
     Baby it's up to me

Feel
Free
To leave
If you think you're trapped, but
Please
Believe
I'll always want you back

     One in a million men
     Could change the way you feel
     One in a million men
     Baby it's up to me

     One in a million men
     Could change the way you feel
     One in a million men
     Baby it's up to me
One in a million men
     Could change the way you feel
     One in a million men
     Baby it's up to me

     One in a million men
     Could change the way you feel
     One in a million men
     Baby it's up to me

GO WEST (Morali/Belelo/Willis/Tennant/Lowe)

Come on, come on, come on, come on

(Together) We will go our way
(Together) We will leave someday
(Together) Your hand in my hands
(Together) We will make our plans

(Together) We will fly so high
(Together) Tell all our friends goodbye
(Together) We will start life new
(Together) This is what we'll do

     (Go West) Life is peaceful there
     (Go West) In the open air
     (Go West) Where the skies are blue
     (Go West) This is what we're gonna do

(Go West, this is what we're gonna do, Go West)

(Together) We will love the beach
(Together) We will learn and teach
(Together) Change our pace of life
(Together) We will work and strive

(I love you) I know you love me
(I want you) How could I disagree?
(So that's why) I make no protest
(When you say) You will do the rest

     (Go West) Life is peaceful there
     (Go West) In the open air
     (Go West) Baby you and me
     (Go West) This is our destiny (Aah)

     (Go West) Sun in wintertime
     (Go West) We will do just fine
     (Go West) Where the skies are blue
     (Go West, this is what we're gonna do)

There where the air is free
We'll be (We'll be) what we want to be (Aah aah aah aah)
Now if we make a stand (Aah)
We'll find (We'll find) our promised land (Aah)

(I know that) There are many ways
(To live there) In the sun or shade
(Together) We will find a place
(To settle) Where there's so much space

(Without rush) And the pace back east
(The hustling) Rustling just to feed
(I know I'm) Ready to leave too
(So that's what) We are gonna do

POSTSCRIPT (Tennant/Lowe)

I believe in ecstasy
The times we've had, you and me

Friends we've met along the way
Partied every night and day

And I know we'll meet again