Countdown
Oh I was seventeen / when I heard the countdown start, it started slowly / and I thought it was my heart but then I realised / that this time it was for real there was no place to hide / I had / to go out and feel, but there was time to kill / and so I, I
walked my way around town I tried to love the world / oh but the world just got me down and so I looked for you / in every street of every town I wanted to see your face / I wanna / I wanna see you now / I wanna see you now / Oh and so it went / Oh so it
went for several years I couldn't stand it / No / oh it must be getting near now that / you just don't know / oh no you, you just don't understand how many people have seen you / in the arms of, of of some other man / I've got to meet you / and find you
/ and take you by the hand / oh my God / my God / you've got to understand / that I was seventeen / I didn't / I didn't know a thing at all / I've got no reason / I've got no reason at all / Oh no / The time / of my life / oh I think you came too soon / Y
eah you came too soon then / Oh and it could / it could be tonight / if I ever leave this room / (I never leave this room no) / Oh I wasted all my time on all those stupid things that only get me down / Get down, oh / Oh and the sky / is crying out tonigh
t / for me to leave this town / so I'm gonna leave this town / Goodbye / O.K. / Yeah you can leave me / oh you, you can go some other place / you can't forget it / Yeah / you know, you know that's O.K. / `cos, `cos I own this town / Yeah, yeah I brought i
t to its knees / Can you hear it crying? / Can you? / Can you hear it begging to me "Please?" / I know it's coming / so soon now / oh, oh it's on it's way / Oh no / oh no / oh I can hear them say / they say I can't survive / They say I, I'll never leave t
he ground / They say it's all a lie / and now / and now it's coming down / Oh baby now / Time / of my life / oh I think you came too soon / Yeah you came too soon now / Oh and it could / oh it could be tonight / if I ever leave this room / (I never leave
this room now) / Oh oh oh / I wasted all my time on all those stupid things that only get me down / Get down, oh / Oh and the sky / is crying out tonight / for me to leave this town / So I'm gonna go / gonna be there / I'm gonna go / Bub/bye / It's O.K. /
You don't have to care / Really / Oh, oh really, I swear / No, no you owe me nothing / You owe nothing to me / And if I messed it up baby / Then, that's all up to me / And if you go / then, then I won't follow, no, no / `cos so many times I've been, I've
been thinking maybe, oh maybe I should / No, I, I'm gonna stay / I, I'm gonna make my way / Oh, I'm gonna get on through babe / I'm gonna make it all some day / Oh, time / of my life / no I think you came too soon / You came too soon then / Oh and it cou
ld / it could be tonight / if I ever leave this room / (I never, I never leave this room, no) / Oh oh oh / I wasted all my time on all those stupid things that only get me down / Get down, oh / And the sky / is crying out tonight / for me to leave this to
wn / So I'll leave this town / the sky / is crying out tonight / for me to leave this town / yeah I'm gonna leave this town / Time / is crying out tonight / for me to leave this town / So I'm gonna go yeah / I'm gonna go / Yeah / Bub/bye / I'm gonna leave
this town / You're not gonna have me around / Oh / The sky and stars and God will never ever laugh / Me and stars and moon are falling down.
I Want You
Hey, / you can look, you can look just like anyone else / if that's what you want to do. / I, / I could laugh, I could laugh in your face if I want / oh, but I'm not going to. / ([backing vocals:] ba ba ba ba) / When we met last week on Saturday, / ([back
ing vocals:] ba ba ba ba) / I couldn't make a sentence, / I couldn't even say / what I meant to say: / that I want you / (it doesn't hurt to say I want you), I need you / (I never thought I'd say I need you), I'll keep you, / oh yes I'll keep you and I'll
throw myself away, away, away, / and I'll break you / because I lose myself inside you, I'll make you / fit in the space that I provide you, I'll take you, / oh yes, I'll take you just to push you far away, away, away. / Yes, / yes, you're all, yes you'r
e all that I ever desire, / still I'll kill you in the end. / When, / when it seems, when it seems that it's getting too soft, / when you lapse into a friend, / ([backing vocals:] ba ba ba ba) / There's someone just behind the door / ([backing vocals:] ba
ba ba ba) / so don't betray your feelings, / no don't talk anymore, / never dare to say / that I want you / (it doesn't hurt to say I want you), I need you / (I never thought I'd say I need you), I'll keep you, / oh yes I'll keep you and I'll throw mysel
f away, away, away, / and I'll break you / because I lose myself inside you, I'll make you / fit in the space that I provide you, I'll take you, / oh yes, I'll take you just to push you far away, away, away. / Now, / now we come, now we come to the end of
it all, / see it squirming, almost dead. / No, / you can't leave, you can't leave it to die here in pain. / You've got to stamp upon it's head. / ([backing vocals:] ba ba ba ba) / I'll go out and you'll stay home / ([backing vocals:] ba ba ba ba) / facin
g up to living, / living on your own, / and I'll curse my pride, / curse my pride, / curse my stupid pride / because I want you / (it doesn't hurt to say I want you), I need you / (I never thought I'd say I need you), I'll keep you, / oh yes I'll keep you
and I'll throw myself away, away, away, / and I'll break you / because I lose myself inside you, I'll make you / fit in the space that I provide you, I'll take you, / oh yes, I'll take you just to push you far away, away, away.
Being Followed Home
I'm being followed home, / I'm being followed home, / I don't know what for, / I don't know by whom. / The smell of your dress, / a face in the rain, / the pavement shines wet / in focus again. / Oh... / oh... / oh... / oh. / In a dead seaside town / I tr
ied to change my mind / for a well/balanced view / that was not mine to find. / Heaven knows, all your / stars are on show, they last a lifetime, / and your hands leave their / marks in the sand, they last for ever, / for ever. / It's clear to me: / you f
it so perfectly / in a dimly lit room / just inside of the sea. / His twisted face / tells me to leave this place. / You know somewhere, / but I shouldn't go there, I shouldn't go there. / Heaven knows, all your / stars are on show, they last a lifetime,
/ and your hands leave their / marks in the sand, they last for ever. / They've followed me home / the one with the dog/breath in the tattoo bar says something in a language that I don't understand. The street stinks of piss and dead fish. Jump a garden w
all, landing on the slimy grass, air roaring in my lungs. Hear him swear as he stumbles and falls behind me. Down another cobbled street, footsteps bouncing off the walls. Which way? A bottle smashes. The glint of a blade in the moonlight. Someone laughs,
the corners turned... and it's too late. The first blow falls... then nothing. / I awoke on the beach sometime later / to a grey and sunless sky. / Your voice still slithers in my head, / I can't remember what you said. / I get to my feet, my body aches.
/ I make for the town for no/one's sake. / My mind is a blur, I feel so weak, / I see your reflection in the street. / "It's what you deserve, it's what you need. / Just like those stupid books you read." / I look to the sky, I see your face, / collapse
in the road I hear you say / I shouldn't go there, I shouldn't go there! / My wound's healing now / and your imprint fades, / now just a pale scar / for five vanished days. / Your voice is so weak, / your face is unclear, / your body a legend from a forgo
tten year. / I've been followed home. / I've been followed home. / I've been followed home. / I've been followed home.
Don't You Know?
There's not much time for talking, / all your friends are / going to walk away. / If there was time for talking / all too soon you'd be / lost for things to say. / Don't you know she could break you, / every bone that's inside of you? / Then again she mig
ht make you / everything that you want her to, / and if you could walk away, / where would you go / anyway? / And if you've still got the chance, I know you know / you'll stay, / stay. / I don't need your excuses; / are you tired of / trying to stay on to
p? / so just lie back and enjoy it / and save your tears for / when the kissing stops / (oh, you know it's got to stop.) / Don't you know she could break you, / every bone that's inside of you? / Then again she might make you / everything that you want he
r to, / and if you could walk away, / where would you go / anyway? / And if you've still got the chance, I know you know / you'll stay, / stay. / Oh, you'll stay, / oh, you'll stay. / Don't you know she could break you, / every bone that's inside of you?
/ Then again she might make you / everything that you want her to, / and if you could walk away, / where would you go / anyway? / And if you've still got the chance, I know you know / you'll stay, / stay. / Oh, you'll stay, / oh, you'll stay. / Oh, you'll
stay, / oh, you'll stay, / oh, you'll stay, / oh, you'll stay, / oh, you'll stay.
Countdown (Extended Version)
Oh I was seventeen / when I heard the countdown start, it started slowly / and I thought it was my heart but then I realised / that this time it was for real there was no place to hide / I had / to go out and feel, but there was time to kill / and so I, I
walked my way around town I tried to love the world / oh but the world just got me down and so I looked for you / in every street of every town I wanted to see your face / I wanna / I wanna see you now / I wanna see you now / Oh and so it went / Oh so it
went for several years I couldn't stand it / No / oh it must be getting near now that / you just don't know / oh no you, you just don't understand how many people have seen you / in the arms of, of of some other man / I've got to meet you / and find you
/ and take you by the hand / oh my God / my God / you've got to understand / that I was seventeen / I didn't / I didn't know a thing at all / I've got no reason / I've got no reason at all / Oh no / The time / of my life / oh I think you came too soon / Y
eah you came too soon then / Oh and it could / it could be tonight / if I ever leave this room / (I never leave this room no) / Oh I wasted all my time on all those stupid things that only get me down / Get down, oh / Oh and the sky / is crying out tonigh
t / for me to leave this town / so I'm gonna leave this town / Goodbye / O.K. / Yeah you can leave me / oh you, you can go some other place / you can't forget it / Yeah / you know, you know that's O.K. / `cos, `cos I own this town / Yeah, yeah I brought i
t to its knees / Can you hear it crying? / Can you? / Can you hear it begging to me "Please?" / I know it's coming / so soon now / oh, oh it's on it's way / Oh no / oh no / oh I can hear them say / they say I can't survive / They say I, I'll never leave t
he ground / They say it's all a lie / and now / and now it's coming down / Oh baby now / Time / of my life / oh I think you came too soon / Yeah you came too soon now / Oh and it could / oh it could be tonight / if I ever leave this room / (I never leave
this room now) / Oh oh oh / I wasted all my time on all those stupid things that only get me down / Get down, oh / Oh and the sky / is crying out tonight / for me to leave this town / So I'm gonna go / gonna be there / I'm gonna go / Bub/bye / It's O.K. /
You don't have to care / Really / Oh, oh really, I swear / No, no you owe me nothing / You owe nothing to me / And if I messed it up baby / Then, that's all up to me / And if you go / then, then I won't follow, no, no / `cos so many times I've been, I've
been thinking maybe, oh maybe I should / No, I, I'm gonna stay / I, I'm gonna make my way / Oh, I'm gonna get on through babe / I'm gonna make it all some day / Oh, time / of my life / no I think you came too soon / You came too soon then / Oh and it cou
ld / it could be tonight / if I ever leave this room / (I never, I never leave this room, no) / Oh oh oh / I wasted all my time on all those stupid things that only get me down / Get down, oh / And the sky / is crying out tonight / for me to leave this to
wn / So I'll leave this town / the sky / is crying out tonight / for me to leave this town / yeah I'm gonna leave this town / Time / is crying out tonight / for me to leave this town / So I'm gonna go yeah / I'm gonna go / Yeah / Bub/bye / I'm gonna leave
this town / You're not gonna have me around / Oh / The sky and stars and God will never ever laugh / Me and stars and moon are falling down.