Annie Lennox
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Walking On Broken Glass
You were the sweetest thing that I ever knew
But I don't
care for sugar honey if I can't have you
Since you've abandoned me
My
whole life has crashed
Won't you pick the pieces up
'cause it feels just
like I'm walking on broken glass
Walking on walking on broken glass
The sun's still shining in the big blue sky
But it don't
mean nothing to me
Oh let the rain come down
Let the wind blow through me
I'm living in an empty room
With all the windows smashed
And I've got so
little left to lose
That it feels just like I'm walking on broken glass
Walking on walking on broken glass
And if you're trying to cut me down
You know that I might
bleed
Cause if you're trying to cut me down
I know that you'll succeed
And if you want to hurt me
There's nothing left to fear
Cause if you want
to hurt me
You're doing really well my dear
Now everyone of us was made to suffer
Everyone of us was
made to weep
But we've been hurting one another
And now the pain has cut
too deep...
So take me from the wreckage
Save me from the blast
Lift me
up and take me back
Don't let me keep on walking...
Walking on broken
glass
Walking on walking on broken glass
Cold
Come to me
Do and be done with me
(Cold cold cold)
Don't I exist for you
Don't I still live for you
(Cold cold cold)
Everything I possess
Given with tenderness
Wrapped in a ribbon of glass
Time it may take us but God only knows
How I've paid for those things in the
past
Dying is easy it's living that scares me to death
I could
be so content hearing the sound of your breath
Cold is the colour of crystal
the snowlight
That falls from the heavenly skies
Catch me and let me dive
under
For I want to swim in the pools of your eyes
I want to be with you baby
Slip me inside of your heart
Don't I belong to you baby
Don't you know that nothing can tear us apart
Come on now come on now come on now
Telling you that
I loved you right
from the start...
But the more I want you the less I get
Ain't that just
the way things are...
Winter has frozen us
Let love take hold of us
(Cold cold
cold)
Now we are shivering
Blue ice is glittering
(Cold cold cold)
Cold is the colour of crystal the snowlight
That falls from
the heavenly skies
Catch me and let me dive under
For I want to swim in
the pools of your eyes
Little Bird
I look up to the little bird
That glides across the sky
He sings the clearest melody
It makes me want to cry
It makes me want to
sit right down
and cry cry cry
I walk along the city streets
So dark
with rage and fear
And I...
I wish that I could be that bird
And fly
away from here
I wish I had the wings to fly away from here
But my my I feel so low
My my where do I go ?
My my what
do I know ?
My my we reap what we sow
They always said that you knew best
But this little bird's fallen out of that nest now
I've got a feeling that it
might have been blessed
So I've just got to put these wings to test
For I am just a troubled soul
Who's weighted...
Weighted
to the ground
Give me the strength to carry on
Till I can lay this burden
down
Give me the strength to lay this burden down down down yeah
Give me
the strength to lay it down
But my my I feel so low
My my where do I go ?
My my what
do I know ?
My my we reap what we sow
They always said that you knew best
But this little bird's fallen out of that nest now
I've got a feeling that it
might have been blessed
So I've just got to put these wings to test
Primitive
Sweetheart
The sun has set
All red and primitive above
our heads
Blood stained on an ageless sky
Wipe your tears and let the salt
stains dry
Let them all run dry
All run dry...
Sweetheart
Take me to bed
That's where all our prayers
are said
Whispered silent in the night
That's how all our dreams take
flight
Let them all go by
All go by...
For time will catch us in both hands
To blow away like
grains of sand
Ashes to ashes rust to dust
This is what becomes of us
Sweetheart
Send me to sleep
Pray to God our hopes to
keep
Take our fears and make us strong
Lead us to where we belong
And
let it all go by
All go by...
Why
How many times do I have to try to tell you
That I'm sorry
for the things I've done
But when I start to try to tell you
That's when
you have to tell me
Hey... this kind of trouble's only just begun
I tell
myself too many times
Why don't you ever learn to keep your big mouth shut
That's why it hurts so bad to hear the words
That keep on falling from your
mouth
Falling from your mouth
Falling from your mouth
Tell me...
Why
Why
I may be mad
I may be blind
I may be viciously unkind
But I can still read what you're thinking
And I've heard is said too many
times
That you'd be better off
Besides...
Why can't you see this boat
is sinking
(this boat is sinking this boat is sinking)
Let's go down to
the water's edge
And we can cast away those doubts
Some things are better
left unsaid
But they still turn me inside out
Turning inside out turning
inside out
Tell me...
Why
Tell me...
Why
This is the book I never read
These are the words I never
said
This is the path I'll never tread
These are the dreams I'll dream
instead
This is the joy that's seldom spread
These are the tears...
The
tears we shed
This is the fear
This is the dread
These are the contents
of my head
And these are the years that we have spent
And this is what
they represent
And this is how I feel
Do you know how I feel ?
'cause i
don't think you know how I feel
I don't think you know what I feel
I don't
think you know what I feel
You don't know what I feel
Precious
Precious little angel
Take a look at what you've done
Well I thought my time was over
But it's only just begun
Precious little
angel
You're my own sweet turtle dove
Won't you stay with us for ever
In a bundle full of love
I was lost until you came
Precious little angel
Won't you spread your light on me
I was locked up in the darkness
Now you've come to set me free
I was
covered up with sadness
I was drowned in my own tears
I've been cynical
and twisted
I've been bitter all these years
I was lost until you came
I was lost until you came
And wouldn't I run a thousand miles
To be with you
And
wouldn't I run a thousand miles
To be with you
Precious little angel
Tell me how can it be true
That
such a gift from heaven
Has been sent for me and you
Precious little angel
Don't you worry don't you cry
When this bad old world has crumbled
I'll be
standing at your side
I was lost until you came
Take Me To The River
I don't know why I love you like I do
All the changes you
put me through
Take my money, my cigarettes
I haven't seen the worst of
it yet
I wanna know, can you tell me
I'd really like to stay
Take me to the river
Drop me in the water
Take me to
the river
Dip me in the water
Wash me down, wash me down
Wash me
down, wash me down
I don't know why you treat me so bad
Think of all the
things that we could have had
Love is an ocean
And I can't forget my
sweet sixteen I'll never fret
I wanna know, can you tell me
I'd really
like to stay
Take me to the river
Drop me in the water
Take me to
the river
Dip me in the water
Love me, squeeze me
Love me, tease me
Till I can't,
till I can't
Till I can't, till I can't
I don't know why I love you like I do
All the trouble you
put me through
Sixteen candles blowin' on the wall
And here I am the
bigg'st fool of all
I wanna know, can you tell me
I'd really like to
stay
Take me to the river
Drop me in the water - come on, come
on, come on yea...
Dip me in the water
Drop me in the river - come on,
come on...
Dip me in the water
Drop me in the river
Push me in the
water...
Honestly
The beauty that you gave
Has turned upon itself
And all
the things you said
Evaporated
Evaporated ...
Was I blind
Deaf and
dumb
To the words slipped from yur tongue?
Honestly ... honestly ... honestly
Alone in my bed
The
things that you said
Go round in my head ... still
It seems to be true
That nothin' I do
Can influence you ...
I tried and tried again
(Don't you know I tried and tried
again
to make you listen to me
But everything I said it always seemed to
go right through you)
To make you notice me
(I turned myself into a person
that I didn't like
But please believe me when I say I know it wasn't right)
But talking to myself
(I never thought that things would
get to be so
complicated
I never thought that you and me would end up o frustrated)
Won't catch you attention I see ...
(You'd think that something had to come
from all those good intentions
But in the end I needed something more than
intervention)
Was I mad?
Was I ... mad?
Foolish me
Foolish ... me
To succumb so easily
To suc...cumb
Easi...ly
So easily
So easily
Honestly... honestly... honestly...
(Alone in my bed
The
things that you said
Go round in my head ... still
It seems to be true
That nothin' I do
Can influence you... still)
Fools like me get so easily taken
And fools like me can be
so mistaken
Honestly... Honestly... Honestly
The promise that you gave
(Don't you know the promise that
you
gave just turned it's back upon me
I stopped believing but you
couldn't take the whole thing from me)
Has turned it's back
(I never
thought I'd have to pay the price to set you free)
And all you represented
Was just my projection you see...
(You know I never thought I'd ever
live
a day without you
And that's the reason why
it makes me sad to think about
you
and you know I never thought
I'd make it if you wasn't there
And
now I'm tryin' to eject myself
from this despair)
People come
People go...
Never say I "told you so"
Honestly
Everything I know you said
Goin' round inside my head
Never thought I'd see the day
Always got a price to pay
Nothin' that I ever do
Ever seems to get to you
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