Talk Talk:
Natural History - The Very Best Of (lyrics)
(1990)

Cover me with shades of disbelief
Can happiness be someone's else's dream
Numbers call to spell my name
Move about as values change
Catch me if you can
But don't delay

Today, today
It's a dream away

Governed by the title on the wall
Commit me to a life within a fool
Happiness can often bleed
Beggars lay among the sheep
Let me take the choice
The sermon pleads

Today today
It's a dream away

Visions in my cell begin to breed
Was everything a fact of what I'd read
Excuse me while I spell my name
Boat and ship could sound the same
Catch me if you can
But don't delay

Today today
It's a dream away

Belle Malissima

Today today
It's a dream away

Well did I tell you before
When I was up
Anxiety was bringing me down
I'm tired of listening to you
Talking in rhymes
Twisting round to make me think
You're straight down the line

All you do to me is talk talk

If every sign that I see is complete
Then I'm a fool in your game
And all you want to do
Is tell me your lies
Won't show the other side
You're just wasting my time

All you do to me is talk talk

When every choice that I make is yours
Keep telling me what's right and what's wrong
Don't you ever stop to think about me
I'm not that blind to see
That you've been cheating on me

You're laughing at me when I'm up
Crying for me when I'm down
Laughing at me when I'm up
Crying for me

All you do to me is talk talk

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Such a shame to believe in escape
'A life on every face'
And that's a change
'Till I'm finally left with an eight
Tell me to relax, I just stare
Maybe I don't know if I should change
A feeling that we share

It's a shame
Number me with rage
It's a shame
Number me in haste
Such a shame
This eagerness to change

It's a shame

The dice decide my fate
And that's a shame
In these trembling hands my faith
Tells me to react, 'I don't care'
Maybe it's unkind that I should change
A feeling that we share

It's a shame
Number me with rage
It's a shame
Number me in haste
Such a shame
This eagerness to change

It's a shame

Tell me to relax, I just stare
Maybe I don't know if I should change
A feeling that we share

It's a shame
Number me with rage
It's a shame
Number me in haste
It's a shame
Write it across my name
It's a shame
Number me in haste
This eagerness to change

Such a shame

Another sigh with no regret
More coins inside her hands
One time to own respect
Now mercenary she stands

I'm no boy
Stealing pennies from the poor
Break it down
Can't you see she's dumb

The dum dum girl

Another hand upon her hair
Time probably erased distaste
And so she's left
Where guilt is out of place

I'm no boy
Stealing pennies from the poor
Break it down
Can't you see she's dumb

The dum dum girl

Funny how I find myself
In love with you
If I could buy my reasoning
I'd pay to lose
One half won't do

I've asked myself how much do you
Commit yourself

It's my life
Don't you forget
It's my life
It never ends

Funny how I blind myself
I never knew
If I was sometimes played upon
Afraid to lose

I'd tell myself what good you do
Convince myself

It's my life
Don't you forget
It's my life
It never ends

I'd ask myself how much do you
Commit yourself

It's my life
Don't you forget
Caught in the crowd
It never ends

From the place that I stand to the land that is openly free
Watching rivers run black by the trees that are vacant to greed

Give it up
Or tell me why I'm so wrong
Where does love come from
If you've sold your reasoning out

How can I learn if I don't understand what I see
If I'm giving this mess
Take a walk through a nightmare so real

Give it up
Or tell me why I'm so wrong

Where does luck come from
When you've never been without

Better parted
I see people crying
Truth gets harder
There's no sense in lying

Help me find a way from this maze
I can't help myself

When I see tenderness before you left
That even breaking up was never meant
But only angels look before they tread

Better parted
I see people hiding
Speech gets harder
There's no sense in writing

Help me find a way from this maze
I'm living in another world to you
And I can't help myself

Did I see tenderness where you saw hell
Did I see angels in the hand I held
God only knows what kind of tale you'd tell

Baby, life's what you make it
Can't escape it
Baby, yesterday's favourite
Don't you hate it

Baby, life's what you make it
Don't backdate it
Baby, Don't try to shade it
Beauty is naked

Baby, life's what you make it
Celebrate it
Anticipate it
Yesterday's faded
Nothing can change it
Life's what you make it

Makes you feel much older
Sublime the blind parade

It wrecks me how they justify their acts of war
They assemble, they pray
Take good care of what the priests say
'After death it's so much fun'
Little sheep don't let your feet stray

Happiness is easy
Joy be written on the earth
And the sky above
Jesus star that shines so bright
Gather us in love

Guilt upon their shoulders
How well the cause evades
Infecting your religions, claiming pacts
It's easy to shoulder the blame

Happiness is easy

Try to teach my children
To recognise excuse before it acts
>From love & conviction to pray

Happiness is easy

Hear it in my spirit
I've seen heroin for myself
On the street so young laying wasted
Enough ain't it enough
Crippled world
I just can't bring myself to see it starting

Tell me how I fear it
I buy prejudice for my health
Is it worth so much when you taste it
Enough there ain't enough hidden hurt
A time to sell yourself
A time for passing

Spirit

How long

Whispered spoken
In time
Rivers oceans

That ain't me babe
I'm just content to relax
Than drown within myself

Of mind
Sheltered broken
Denied gifted stolen
That ain't me babe
Ain't got a bed of excuse for myself