Titanic Days lyrics

(Kirsty MacColl)

Love's dreaming
Love's sleeping
And when it wakes again who knows
The company it's keeping
I am dreaming
I am falling
And just before I hit the ground I hear you calling

There's an angel
Floating round my house
Floating round my house
There's an angel
Floating round this house

Still dreaming
I am flying
And far above my room
I thought I heard you crying

(Kirsty MacColl)

I've been the token woman all my life
The token daughter and the token wife
Now I collected tokens one by one
'Til I've saved enough to buy a gun
Now you can't get even but you can get mad
And it's not funny no and it's not sad
It's just a feeling that I've always had
Oh Look out world I'm about to be bad

I want a brief encounter in a stolen car

(Kirsty MacColl/Mark E. Nevin)

The last of England's spoiled brats
Grand order of the gutter rats
A big fish in a public house
You're never going to learn to shut your mouth
A silly pseudo lager lout
With nothing much to shout about
Spent hours looking in the mirror
Trying to perfect the perfect pout

Now take the spotlight
And pause for your applause

(Kirsty MacColl/Johnny Marr)

He blew into town like a paper sack
In a stolen car with a shotgun in the back he said
She can't run now, she can't hide
I'm gonna get her back for her lies lies lies

He taught her how to pout
And he taught her how to tease
And he taught her how to beg
When she fell down to her knees he said
Your face is different
But you're really all the same

(Kirsty MacColl/Mark E. Nevin)

I had a dream
You walked away
You couldn't hear what I wanted to say
I had a dream
I was alone
Nowhere was mine
No one was home

Sunshine don't you wake me
Darkness come and take me
You light my life darling
You light the night
Darling don't go

I closed my eyes
You came to me
I was in love
I held a dream
Fragile and brief

(Kirsty MacColl/David Ruffy)

Behind a burning bush he's waiting
Like a sleepless night
So silent and so strong
I know that I must push push push
Until the morning light
Don't make me wait too long

Till I open my eyes
Open the door
Take a walk outside
And feel the sun
Fall on my skin
It's time to get up
But not time to give in
I just woke up

(Kirsty MacColl/Mark E. Nevin)

I think I just recalled a time
It was not the moon and not the wine
And though you said you were a friend of mine
I never felt that way inclined
Oh the days were hot and the nights were long
I must have sung a million songs
But all the words just came out wrong
On the last day of summer

I tried to walk the line

(Kirsty MacColl/Mark E. Nevin)

Your name froze on the winter air
An empty bench in Soho Square
Forgotten now I turn away
Just save me for a rainy day
But don't be sorry
I don't want to hear it baby

My feet froze in the winter chill
I knew I'd probably get ill
But I was praying we could fill
An empty bench and still
You're so sorry
But I don't want your pity baby

(Kirsty MacColl/Mark E. Nevin)

I just know
Though I can't see
But I can feel his hands all over me
His hot breath on me
I can't resist
His rope, my wrists
I never knew there might be days like this

Dream on he says
Dream on he says
Will I be saved
From these Titanic days

A violent frenzy
In a none too cheap hotel
He says it's hazy
But I remember it so well
His arms, his face

(Kirsty MacColl/Mark E. Nevin)

I watch you lie asleep
Watch you breathing
And as you fall and rise
Like the tears in my eyes
I know you'll be leaving

I've earned all the pain
I suppose it was worth it
I'd do it again but I just couldn't face it
And if I see you again
You won't be the person I knew
I look to the future and see
A thousand setting suns

(Kirsty MacColl/Mark E. Nevin)

I want to shake up this world
And not to feel so useless
And I long to wake up happy
And not to feel so hopeless
I want arms that never held me
To pull me to my senses
And wrap themselves around me
Oh, please let it come true
There's only one thing for me
Darling, darling, darling
You know it's you.

I want someone up here beside me