Kite lyrics

(Anna McGarrigle/Philip Tatartcheff)

Moi, j'me promene sur Ste Cath'rine
J'profite d'la chaleur du metro
J'ne regarde pas dans les vitrines
Quand il fait trente en d'ssous d'zero

Y'a longtemps qu'on fait d'la politique
Vingt ans de guerre contre les moustiques

Je ne me sens pas intripide
Quand il fait fret j'fais pas du ski
J'ai pas d'motel aux laurentides

(Kirsty MacColl)

He said, 'Baby don't go'
So she sat down again
And they said they'd be friends
Her mother said
She'd told her so
She'd made her own bed
Now she'd have to lie in it, and the

Time goes
Summertime slow
And the world stops turning
And they're dancing in limbo, limbo, limbo

Took my pills today
But I don't feel better
In a funny sort of way

(Raymond D. Davies)

Thank you for the days
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me
I'm thinking of the days
I won't forget a single day believe me

I bless the light
I bless the light that lights on you believe me
And though you're gone
You're with me every single day believe me

Days I'll remember all my life
Days when you can't see wrong from right
You took my life

(Kirsty MacColl)

Some boys with warm beds and cold, cold hearts
Can make you feel nothing at all
They'll never remember and they'll never mind
If you're counting the cracks in the wall
They're quick and they're greedy
They never feel guilty
They don't know the meaning of hurt
The boots just go back on
The socks that had stayed on
The next time they see you
They treat you like dirt

(Kirsty MacColl)

Seven times in seven days
I've sat and wished my life away
I know the greyness comes and goes
But the sun don't shine
And the snow don't snow
There's Suzy-Ann with her tits and curls
Where mediocrity excels
For those vicious boys and their boring girls
You know it makes me sick but it's a bozo's world

Then there's always the cash

(Kirsty MacColl)

I thought of you when they closed down the school
And the hospital too
Did they think that you were better?
They were wrong
You had so many friends
They all left you in the end
'Cause they couldn't stand the patter

And I'll see you baby when the clans rise again
Women and children united by a struggle
Going down
You've got to walk into the water

(Kirsty MacColl/Pete Glenister)
It wouldn't take a long time
To explain what lies between us
And it wouldn't take a genius
To work out what the scene is
It might just take a pilot
To give you a natural high
But you're sending off those bottletops
For your 'free piece of mind!'
And are you just waving or drowning?
It's so hard to tell when you're so far away

(Kirsty MacColl)

Chaque journee dans la foret de mimosas
Dans le parking tous les amoureux
Ecoutez bien dans la foret de mimosas
L'air deborde de cris de coeur

Elle ne pensait pas quand ils sont rencontres
Qu'elle commencait la une danse tres dangereuse
Elle a cru qu'ca s'rait bon pour un coeur sensible
D'avoir un reve un amour pas facile

Il a concocte tout seul son idee

'Mother's ruin'
She said to herself
'I'm just screwing my own mental health'
But Fridays and Saturdays
She walks down those alleyways
A latter day lady of the lamp

How you doing?
You ain't from round here
Won't you come in?
I'm really not scared-
'Cause Fridays and Saturdays
I still do it anyways
And anything is better than out there

Now don't wake me up again

(Kirsty MacColl)

I must have been driving all day
But I'm getting no further away
All these towns look the same
And the rain is falling in my eyes
Take me away
See all my friends for a day
It's strange but it's true
I'm no longer hurting without you

I'm no victim to pity and cry for
And you're not someone I'd lay down and die for

(Kirsty MacColl/Johnny Marr)

I want to tell you something
It's not a secret or anything
You're not alone in being alone
At the end of a perfect day
And if you leave all your dependents
Then they will gain their independence
Don't make a martyr of yourself
It's just the end of a perfect day
And it's never how it seems
The rain may fall on the best laid schemes

(Kirsty MacColl/Pete Glenister)

Another time, another day
Another baby on the way
A dreamboy for your nightmare nights
Who never shouts and never fights
Happy with your 2.2
What else is there for you to do
But turn and wet the baby's head
And pray he will be happier than you or me?
That's how it's meant to be
It's called a lifetime
At first you never notice

(Kirsty MacColl/Pete Glenister)

She was a party girl, stayed up til the small hours
Now she's embarrassing and everybody laughs
At the girl with the face that could drive her baby wild
Now wasn't she the child with everything?

You should have seen her with her head held high
Now what do pretty girls do?
She used to be the apple of his eye
Now what do pretty girls do?

(kirsty maccoll/johnny marr)

Will you start my dreams
Or will you end my schemes
Or will you let me go down, so low?

You and me baby, well we got no friends
Except for you and me baby
This is journey’s end
And I try to hang on to all those precious smiles
But I’m tired of walking and it must be miles

Every time I took you hand
I felt so moved
Did you feel it too?

(Morrissey/Marr)

If you're wondering why
All the love that you long for eludes you
And people are rude and cruel to you
I'll tell you why
I'll tell you why
I'll tell you why
I'll tell you why
But you wouldn't believe me

You just haven't earned it yet baby
You just haven't earned it son
You just haven't earned it yet baby
You must suffer and cry for a longer time