Playlist Curt Smith

curt smith - aeroplane

Shut down
Tangled up in your machinery
No sound
Just the faceless press of words and wheels
Surrounds me
Like molasses on my soles and eaves
Come out
Can anyone come out and play

All I want is an aeroplane
Rubber-banded with paper wings
All I want is to steal again
All I want is a wet dream, ice-cream
All I want is vanishing
All I want is God

Spit out
By an undeserving dumb and mad
Shipped down
With a pride of fagging earls and boys
Moved round
To a council flat in St. John's Wood
Come out
Can anyone come out and play

All I want is an aeroplane
Rubber-banded with paper wings
All I want is to steal again
All I want is a wet dream, ice-cream
All I want is vanishing
All I want is God

All I want is an aeroplane
Rubber-banded with paper wings
All I want is to steal again
All I want is a wet dream, ice-cream
All I want is vanishing
All I want is an afterglow
A forty-five on a gramophone
All I want is a thick skin, to grow into
Everything is vanishing
All I want is God

curt smith - beautiful to me

I was laying listening to the rain
By my side you were silent, sweetly sleeping
I thought 'how beautiful'-how very beautiful
You looked to me
Fast asleep while the rain fell down

Walking through a world that knows no shame
We're hanging on to a promise worth the keeping
And it's so beautiful so very beautiful
This world I see
Now that we are the two of us and

I don't need a reason
I don't have to explain
Since the change of the season
The world's not the same
And oh-
It's so beautiful to me
And if I hold up a mirror
To the smile on your face
I see hope for the future
Look around this old place
Well oh...
It's so beautiful to me

Feels like some divine protection
When you smile all my worries seem so far away
I feel so innocent, so-very innocent
When I'm with you
When I dream on these halcyon days

I don't need a reason
I don't have to explain
Since the change of the reason
The world's not the same
And oh-
It's so beautiful to me
If I hold up a mirror
To the smile on your face
I see hope for the future
Look around this old place
Well oh...
It's so beautiful to me

And when you dream you send a rainbow
A rainbow to my heart-
Across the miles of tears and trials
Together we will find a way

curt smith - calling out

Dear god
I'm doing the best i can
I'm doing the best i can
I'm doing the best i can
Spinning round
Falling down
World just keeps on turning
Chaos breeds
People's needs
When we should be learning
And i want something more
For you and me to dream on
Oh i've been looking for something to believe
So now it's time for letting go
I've got to let my feelings show
I own't be coming back
I'm calling out around the world, calling out

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Calling out around the world
I'm telling everyone i see
Time to take a chance again
And free the dream, the dream in me

Dear god
I'm doing the best i can
I'm doing the best i can

Love me now
Show me how
I forgot the feeling
Take me there
Anywhere
Hatred turns to healing
'cause i want something more
That i can put my faith in
Oh i've been looking for
Something to believe
And now it's time for letting go
I've got to let my feelings show
I won't be coming back
I'm calling out around the world, calling out

[chorus]

Dear god
I'm doing the best i can
I'm doing the best i can
I'm doing the best i can

[change]

I can feel the peace coming
The love coming
Feel the force of change humming
A change coming
I don't have to keep running
I got love...
I can feel the peace coming
The love coming
Feel the force of change humming
A change coming
I don't have to keep running
I got love...

I've got this vision in my mind
A prayer of peace i hope to find
I won't be coming back
I'm calling out around the world

[chorus]

Dear god
I'm doing the best i can
I'm doing the best i can

curt smith - come the revolution

We've got to tell the government
That freedom is God sent

Where's the inspiration
Living like we do
Can't tell the devils from the angels
Faithless believers all over town
Where's the voice of reason just like the others.
Living underground

Come the revolution
Gonna burn this palace down
Come the revolution
Gonna tear his kingdom down
Burn this palace down

Image of corruption
An outline of a life
Is he a devil or an angel
You say you're my brother, you just another clown
Where's the voice of reason, just like the others
Living underground

Come the revolution
Gonna burn this palace down
Come the revolution
Gonna tear his kingdom down
Burn this palace down

Outlines, deadlines, anything for headlines
We get no respect 'cause we're all on the breadline
I know what it's like to be a survivor
You feed on greed when soul is my provider
Come the revolution, the final decider.
See how it feels when you're the outsider

Symptoms of survival, emotions underground
But come the revolution
Gonna burn this palace down
Come the revolution
Gonna tear his kingdom down
Come the revolution
You're gonna hear us shout
Put faith in evolution
And a solution will be found

If you take away my rights, prepare for the fight
We gotta tell the government that freedom is God sent
Don't need no rifles when we have disciples

A peaceful revolution will bring the solution
So raise your hands there's hope for this land

curt smith - coming out

Never mind the starting gun cover's up the curtain's drawn
standing in the outline
pin the medal to the floor the hero to the open door
skin is only outside
don't cut me down don't bring me round don't break my fall
I'm coming out today
don't take me back don't change at all
I'm coming out today

cut into decision day we move ahead in different ways
standing in the outline
we move the arrow to the cross the building to the butcher block
skin is only outside I don't mind
don't cut me down don't bring me round don't break my fall
I'm coming out today
don't take me back don't change at all
I'm coming out today

everybody's gone again falling out and falling into
his father's on his knees again reaching out for reason and truth
don't cut me down don't bring me round don't break my fall
I'm coming out today
don't take me back don't change at all
I'm coming out today

curt smith - cover us

I offered you the contents
and a view with sky
there's a first time for everything
and a car outside

cover us you
cover us
cover us
you cover us

where does this go
is it over the mantel
this is so believable
and there's a first time for everything
but it's cold outside

cover us you
cover us
cover us you
cover us

curt smith - deal

it came without a warning
the first time i knew was the last time i saw you
you left one morning
i can't sleep at night
it's so hard at times to know what's right

i don't know what to do
i've never been this way
i've got to push on through
and try to find a way

you gotta deal with it baby
straight to the heart cos you're on your own
deal with it baby
so where is the love, now you're all alone

now you say you got someone
well that's news to me
but i guess it's meant to be
and if there's any trouble
don't come crying
my mind's made up
i'm full of all your lying

i know you don't know what to do
you've never been this way
take it from the one who knows
and try to make you stay

you gotta deal with it baby
straight to the heart cos you're on your own
deal with it baby
so where is the love, now you're all alone
deal with it baby
straight to the heart cos you're on your own
deal with it baby
so where is the love, now you're all alone

deal with it baby
straight to the heart cos you're on your own
deal with it baby
so where is the love, now you're all alone
deal with it baby
straight to the heart cos you're on your own
deal with it baby
so where is the love, now you're all alone
deal with it baby
straight to the heart cos you're on your own
deal with it baby
so where is the love?

curt smith - everybody wants to rule the world

Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you
Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world

It's my own design
It's my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the most
Of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do I'll be right behind you

So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world

I can't stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the world
Say that you'll never never never never need it
One headline why believe it?
Everybody wants to rule the world

All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts for ever
Everybody wants to rule the world

curt smith - greatest divide

keeps a careful house
in his carefree heart filled minefield
keeps a careful tongue
is his care filled headstrong
I feel like I'm backing down
I'm riding shotgun into

the greatest divide
the hardest act to follow
with nowhere to hide
she's cutting me down the middle

try to make it stop
try to break it into pieces
try to shake it off
I'm broken in completely
I'm taken down
I'm riding shotgun into

the greatest divide
the hardest act to follow
with nowhere to hide
she's cutting me down the middle

curt smith - halfway pleased

you're bathed and crowned
I'm bruised and torn
you're tied and cleaned
I'm shorn again
how will you raise or fall or will we try
I'm halfway pleased to meet you

you're still and cool below the fray
I'm stemmed and mapped
you're cut away
how will we raise or fall or will we try
I'm halfway pleased to meet you
I'm halfway pleased to meet you
you're shrunk and left I'm staid and grown
you're boxed and down
I stand alone
how will we raise or fall or will we try
I'm halfway pleased to meet you
I'm halfway pleased to meet you
I'm halfway pleased to meet you

curt smith - how does it feel?

why oh why can't i be strong
time after time it always goes wrong
how can i tell what is real
how does it feel
hold me
hold me

i, oh i, i feel afraid
not so i, i reach out and pray
how can i tell what is real
how does it feel to be sure
so sure
hold me

i, oh i, i feel desire
for one time in life i want to go higher
how can i tell what is real
how does it feel to be sure
so sure
hold me

why oh why
time after time
why oh why can't i be strong
time after time it always goes wrong

how can i tell what is real
how does it feel to be sure
so sure

curt smith - i will be there

Holding rightly on to something you believe
It's getting harder when we practice to deceive
But you know when night falls

I will be there
I will be there
I will be there to hold and guide you
Dark is the night that hides the light from your eyes
I will be there to hold and guide you

Come the morning life is keeping you in chains
But don't you be afraid to call out my name
I come to you in the blue rain
Let the tears fall

I will be there
I will be there
I will be there to hold and guide you
Dark is the night that hides the light from your eyes
I will be there to stand beside you

Now I can see the shadows over you
Thunder rolls but the light breaks through
And there are times in my life
I know that love is true
And I need you know

I will be there
I will be there
I will be there to stand beside you
I won't let another night steal the light from your eyes
I will be there
I will be there
I will be there to hold and guide you
When the dream inside you cries just lift up your eyes
I will be there...

curt smith - no one knows your name

Somewhere, sometime I became a part of you
And then in time, in time it seems like I got to heart of you
And inside my mind I could entertain
Almost anything you could throw at me
But does it feel like no one knows your name?

Somewhere, sometime you believe there's a price we pay
For anger in mind, in time it will always come back your way
And nothing ever changes, no

It feels like no one knows your name
It feels like no one knows your name

Out of the doorway, into the darkness
I walk slowly out of danger
Nothing ever changes
Down in the basement, I store the memories
Of a childhood spent alone
Nothing ever changes, no

Sometimes it feels that I can't get enough of you
It takes a long time to make this work
I know for sure my mind stays bright with you
It takes a long time to make this work
And nothing ever changes

It feels like no one knows your name
It feels like nothing ever changed

curt smith - rain

Here I am I've got to make it through
Another day with confusion all around me
I'm striking out. I've got to find a way
It feels like I'm starting out on my own
If I could find something to believe in
Something new, a love without a reason
It seems like when the lightning strikes
I need you in my life

I didn't ask for rain
Didn't ask for sun
Didn't ask to be the only lonely one
When you believe in faith
There's no need to be brave
Never on your own
'Cause faith is what it's all about

If I could deal with any situation
Another day of losing and frustration
Then I could say there's one thing that is real
It's something like a love inside
And I need this high to move on with life

I didn't ask for rain
Didn't ask for sun
Didn't ask to be the only lonely one
When you believe in faith
There's no need to be brave
Never on your own
'Cause faith is what it's all about

Time after time I can feel a need to believe
I want to feel love, time after time
Time after time I believe in my mind

curt smith - reach out

So many things you said last night
In your attempt to be forthright
How certain things are meant to be
If it's of benefit to me

This moments really celestine
You said "I'm not sure what that means"
But kept this to myself
Lest I intrude on your sincerity

And you said
Go reach out and find yourself
Go reach out and find yourself

I fail to understand these pearls
Of abject generosity
They're all that they appear to be
A conscience sold for precious words

The meat of your philosophy
Of TV talk show homily
Was heaven is within us all
I couldn't help but think your heaven must be very small

So I said
Go reach out and find yourself
Go reach out and find yourself

God could I use a drink or a cigarette
Since you're refusing to think
Guess we'd better get high
It's been a while
Thanks for being so frank I gotta go
You wear your candor and rank
Like a new trophy bride
It's back in style

I felt your need to share some more
I felt the pressure knock my door
Thank god for wood and all it's strength
The power to keep you at arms length

So I said

Go reach out and find yourself
Go reach out and find yourself

Go reach out and find yourself
Go reach out and fuck yourself