This Twilight Garden — B-side to High 7”/12”/CD singles

I lift my lips from kissing you
To kiss the sky
Cloud soft and blue
And slow the sun melts down
Into your golden words for me

I lift my hands from touching you
To touch the wind that whispers through
This twilight garden
Turns into a world
Where dreams are real

No one will ever take your place
I am lost in you
No one will ever take your place
So in love with you

I lift my eyes from watching you
To watch the star rise shine onto
Your dreaming face and dreaming smile
You’re dreaming worlds for me

No one will ever take your place
I am lost in you
No one will ever take your place
So in love with you

I lift my lips from kissing you
And kiss the sky wide deepest blue
And slow the moon swims up
Into your golden words for me

No one will ever take your place
I am lost in you
No one will ever take your place
So in love with you
No one will ever take your place
I am lost in you
No one will ever take your place
So in love with you

Play — B-side to High 12”/CD singles

Day after day
I let you down
Promise you to change
Then change my mind
And every time I promise you
It will all be fine
It won’t be like this next time

The days you wait
Turn into years
Always wait
Helpless tears
Hopeless nights
And all the fears
It will always be like this

You give me everything you have
Hoping it will someday be enough
To melt my heart
To make me fall in love
Day after day
I let you down
Promise you to change it all
Then change my mind
And every time I promise you
Soon be fine
It won’t be like this next time

But tonight we play, I think
The final act
I push too hard
And you crack
Walk away
Don’t look back
This time you’ve really gone

You give me everything you have
Knowing it can never be enough
My heart’s too old
Too hard
Too cold
For your love

Halo — B-side to Friday I’m in Love 7”/12”/CD singles. Background vocals by Caroline Crawley.

I never felt like this with anyone before
You only have to smile and I’m dizzy
You make the world go round
A thousand times an hour
Just touch my head
And send me spinning

I never felt like this with anyone before
You show me colours and I’m crying
You hold my eyes in yours
And open up the world
I can’t believe all this
(Can’t believe all this)

I want to keep this feeling
Deep inside of me
I want you always in my heart
You are everything
You are everything

I never felt like this with anyone before
You fill my head all full of rainbows
And all the rainbows end
Is every step you take
Just to be with you forever

I want to keep this feeling
Deep inside of me
I want you always in my heart
You are everything
You are everything
You are everything

Scared as You — B-side to Friday I’m in Love 12”/CD singles

You know those things I said
All those things that made you cry
I didn’t really mean that stuff
I didn’t really mean that stuff
All I ever really mean
When I scream and shout the way I do
Is I don’t know
I really don’t
I’m just the same as you
Just the same as you

You know those things I said
All those things that made you
Run away from me
I didn’t mean a word
I didn’t really mean I don’t believe
All I ever really mean
When I rant and rave the way I do
Is I’m scared
Yeah, I’m just as scared as you

And sometimes it’s so hard
Not to just throw it all away
Sometimes it’s so hard
Not to just throw it all away

Like all those things I said
All those things that made you cry
I didn’t really mean that stuff
I didn’t really mean to say goodbye
Didn’t really mean to say goodbye

You know those things I said
All those things that made you
Run away from me
I didn’t mean a word
I didn’t really mean I don’t believe

All I ever really mean
When I scream and shout the way I do
Is I’m scared
Yeah
I’m just as scared as you

And sometimes it’s so hard
Not to just throw it all away
Sometimes it’s so hard
Not to just throw it all away
Sometimes it’s so hard
Not to just throw it all away
Sometimes it’s so hard
Not to just throw it all away
Throw it all away

Just throw it all away

The Big Hand — B-side to A Letter to Elise 7”/12”/CD singles

The big hand makes all of your favourite things
Like all your dreams go small
And all your friends run away
Until your memories fail
And the words don’t fit
But the way the big hand smiles
You just won’t care about it

The big hand makes all of your favourite things
Like all your days run out
And all your hopes disappear
And your smiles just stop
And your eyes go dead
And the shadows start to crawl
In the back of your head

But when the big hand speaks
It’s like fireworks and heaven
So you listen
Don’t think
And wish for nothing at all
And when the big hand sings
It’s like fireworks and friends

Leaving alone I’m not
Leaving alone
Leaving alone I’ll never
Leave alone again

So when the big hand holds up all your favourite things
And with a touch like glass
Starts to squeeze
You don’t ask
“Why me?”
You just slip to the floor
Just slip to your knees

But when the big hand speaks
It’s like fireworks and heaven
So you listen
Don’t think
And wish for nothing at all
And when the big hand sings
It’s like fireworks and friends

Leaving alone I’m not
Leaving alone
Never leaving alone
Leaving alone I’m not
Leaving alone
Leaving alone
I’m not leaving alone again

A Foolish Arrangement — B-side to A Letter to Elise 12”/CD singles

Christabel strips
And slips like a dream
Breaking ice with arms that gleam with pain
Disdain…
She throws her head
And glides against the stream
Throwing me her bravest smile
Defiant
Glittering
Shivering guile
“Catching a cold is quick this time
But fish?…
Fish may take a while…”

Christabel dips and slips from me
And hand pushed deep inside is suddenly free
Triumphant
Reluctantly
Struggling six legs held up for me to see
“Don’t be so scared
It’s nothing new
It’s the same old game
Only fun with two… ”
But fast and over and over
“I can’t play this game with you”

Everything she tries to tell me
Leaves me open mouthed and still
Foolishly arrange tomorrow
The way I always will

Christabel trips
And grips my hand
But never to be saved…
For a second I understand
and I fall with her…
“I’ll never leave you
Love you
See you change into the man I want
But it’s not for long this thing
It’s not for long… ”

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