Blind lyrics

when the world, it shows me up
my clothes, they show me up
I never knew this before
my finest hour that I've ever known
was finding a pound on the Underground
when my words came stumbling out
and then I went tumbling out
[I never believed/I've never been here] before
and the finest hour that I've ever known
was finding a pound on the Underground
and I keep hoping you are the same as me

burning questions
we are told they've gone out
time you learned your lesson
we all know that
tell me boys are you out there?
the flesh is weak & the mind slow
by now, you could say there's a problem
and it rained down on me
and it seemed to get into me
it poured down over me

I'm wet through but I still want more
peace love now what?
don't go telling me you've had them

dig down to the earth here outside
lose my mind here any day now
don't be sad, we're only half way there
o no, that's what I call home
you remember the hills we slithered down
"I'm not going anywhere"
you lied

hell on my own
hell here on my own
and don't go imagining that time is medicine
mark those days & swallow your pills

picture myself as a thin white child
back to the day I was born on
they slapped me into line as it crossed my mind
I've felt better
I've felt worse
this is my life and it's all very well but never again

as they say "we've been robbed"
and don't you know that this time

love, just love yourself like no one else
love, it's enough

I feel fine...
don't wake me up yet
o the young & the old they get everything
& it's my turn
I'm here, I'm someone to know
I'm calling the tune but

I'm losing the words
laughingly I take the fevered applause
of the people by the riverside
I'm walking, walking on water
God knows why
I'm losing the words
I am a man
well nearly
celebrate life, be good to yourself

live your life, have your say
read your stars, day by day
if I could have anything in the world for free
I wouldn't share it with anyone else but me
oh, live your life, go your way
and I said oh, no
live your life, stake your claim
wash your clothes, change your name
ooh, and I said oh, no, no
if I could have anything in the world for free
I wouldn't share it with anyone else but me

you know, and I've been wondering
you know, all the way home
whether the world will see
I'm a better man than [others/ever I was] by far
and you know, I've had it so good
[even I'm/even how/hey but I'm] [lonesome/loathsome]
it's not quite my style
[awaken/her walk-in] vanity
wasted my time inside
oh, you see me in a cardigan
in a dress, dress, dress that I've been sitting on

here dive below
here I go
we're on the shore
down by the sea
here I go
water under's cool
we're the life and souol
here on the shore
we're going to be
here I go
it's all my sea
all my blue

I vow that it's goodbye and God bless
why did we have to assume we're exactly the same?
o no, talking about yourself

I vow that it's goodbye to the old ways
those stories were a good read
they were dumb as well
I could never be seen
falling down on my knees crawling
o no, talk about a sell

o as the heavens shudder baby
I belong to you

(From the B side of the "can't be sure" single, by the Sundays.)
Note: [Unsure sections/alternate guesses] are written in brackets.
don't tell your mother
----------------------
don't tell your mother about
where you go when the lights are down
and don't tell your mother how
you're up to no good, nowhere to be found
well, it's time to learn not to work so hard
or not at all

few true cares have I
as the world turns round
I was blind but now I'm still blind
too few cares have I
as the world turns sour
I was blind but now I'm still blind
I liked you for 24 hours
in your house

and when the time has come to live again
I shall
and I liked you for 24 hours in your house
and now the time has come to live again
I shall

I liked you but that was before

Childhood living is easy to do
The things you wanted I bought them for you
Graceless lady, you know who I am,
You know I can't let you slide through my hands

Wild Horses, Couldn't drag me away,
Wild horses, Couldn't drag me away...

I watched you suffer a dull, aching pain
Now you decided just to show me the same
No sweeping exits or offstage lines,