 Genius Lyrics
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Hue and Cry – Labour of Love
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You said, you recall about seven years ago now / You said, that you we're so tough / And I loved it, oh / Loved you for putting me down in a totally new way / Down with, the bad
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Hue and Cry – Remote
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I am dead on the end of your wire / Till you twist and pull it / The tension is all that we'll ever have / May as well use it / The lifeline is cold and abstract / It's thin and
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Hue and Cry – Truth
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I'll fill your ears with noises / The things you want to know / I turn your head with wondrous tales / And make the world your show / I'll grab you from the inside / And turn you
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Hue and Cry – I Refuse
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Hey there little girl / We know you're not really a little girl / But in this man's world / You'll always be just a little girl / Sweet Madonna / Nothing but a home and a family
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Hue and Cry – Fireball
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Baby don't take cash / Baby don't take credit / Baby takes it out / Gets ninety-odd pounds of flesh / And she puts it to work / Pixel-perfect / When she's in my hand / Catch her in
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Hue and Cry – The Last Stop
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Get out of your bed, don't wanna be late / It's your big chance for your big escape / You hear that old bell, it's ringing for you / A change gonna come and it's well overdue / So
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Marker Starling – Hue and Cry
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I may not show it but my soul's in pain / You may not know it but I'll never be the same / Too much too soon but knowledge came a little late / Draw back too far and hesitation is
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Hue and Cry – Just Say You Love Me
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Just say you love me, you don't have to mean it / You don't have to make a show of what isn't there / Just say you love me, mere words for my favour / Little lies be my saviour, my
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Hue and Cry – My Salt Heart
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I make you sweat to know the taste of me / Ain't nothing sweet about the way that I feel / I'm necessary for you like a chemical / I am the bitterness that you know ever so well
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Hue and Cry – Goodbye to Me
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[Intro] / 'Scuse me, could I have a cream bagel and cheese, please? / I mean, a bagel with cream and cheese, please / You know what I mean, don't you? / Ugh, New York, huh? / [
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Hue and Cry – Twisted Heart
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Sometimes we never stop talking / Sometimes we never start / I see a door I start walking / I'm better alone than apart / That's what my twisted heart tells me / It tells me how to
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Hue and Cry – Strength To Strength
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Boy walking in the light, but the torch is in his hand / Keeping all the love inside, nothing gonna mess his master plan / Words to make it happen, then he's gonna be happy / Like
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Hue and Cry – Dollar William
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Ah, Dollar William / He's got dirt on his shirt and he's out of his mind / In a panic attack, going deaf, dumb and blind / Got a little dictator with the boss on his back, now, now
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Hue and Cry – Peaceful Face
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The wind makes a noise in the leaves / And the calm on your face I want to believe / Through troubles contort and constrain / Yet I know you'll return to peace once again / Like a
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Hue and Cry – Widescreen
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I sit at your feet / I ask you not to hurt me / I'm lying in your softness / You can wrap me around / Open up your systems / Let me in your networks / I will follow, I will follow
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Hue and Cry – Ordinary Angel
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I got the card, delivers the goods / Fills me with happiness / It's joy for a while 'till the first of the month / Then I'm chasing my tail again / I want a life that's bigger than
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Hue and Cry – Long Term Lovers of Pain
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The letters that he wrote to her were shallow and regrettable / His motorcycle injuries won't make him unforgettable / He's like a firework display that's been doused in her rain
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Hue and Cry – Remember Me
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The sun is violently shining / The romance chemical, declining / All it takes is some spending money / To fumble around under cold light / Then you stumble around until daylight
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Hue and Cry – The Only Thing (More Powerful Than the Boss)
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I sweet-talk the system this morning / Caressing the keys like a lover / 'Cause you see, I've uncovered the secret / The truth is as plain as can be / Interfacing with Jane in
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Hue and Cry – The Man With The Child In His Eyes
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You hear him, before You go to sleep / And focus on the day that's been / You realize he's there / When You turn the light off and turn over / Nobody knows about the man / They
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Hue and Cry – Three Foot Blasts of Fire
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Well it's five-oh-five / And baby I'm just alive / Because the way they drive / It's terrifying / Mama hurts my head / Wishes I was dead / Lying in her bed / Cursing and crying
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Hue and Cry – Under Neon
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A light is falling on schoolkid lovers / Cold and blue as their eyes and hands / He'll remember - but she will imagine / That moonshine fell on a handsome man / He's underneath the
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Hue and Cry – Mother Glasgow
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In the Second City of the Empire / Mother Glasgow watches all her weans / Trying hard to feed her little starlings / Unconsciously she clips their little wings / Mother Glasgow's
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Hue and Cry – Stars Crash Down
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We bring down the night sky / Right into our laps / And we share it all around / Just like fine comrades / Yes we're all in this together / Hanging from this rock / And the only
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Hue and Cry – Where We Wish to Remain
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That's where I wanna be / Right here, right here / Ain't gonna go no place / He was a problem / We usually tried to figure him out / But we more than often left him / Circled
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Hue and Cry – She Makes a Sound
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Eternal afternoons lying there and listening / We're making plans for someone else to come / So how much freedom we got left? / Just enough to grab a coffee in the square
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Hue and Cry – Sweet Invisibility
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The wind is howling hard outside / It cleaves us silently apart / Your permanence it reassures / My insecurity it starts / I'd worry for the whole damn thing / If I was slashed
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Hue and Cry – Violently (Your Words Hit Me)
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Completely untouchable, I knew no surprises / Wrapped in a cold world of my own devising / But I heard you smashing and swinging hard outside / Saw your sweet face and I nearly
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Hue and Cry – Shadow Of A Man
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Haunts my every step / Behind me where I stand / I'm a stranger to myself / A mere shadow of a man / I'm blinking in the torchlight / Holding fingers to my eyes / Another midnight
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Hue and Cry – Perfect Life
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She sells the house and she leaves it / So quick she couldn't believe it / And though her tears are falling few / She thinks she's losing her mind too / Now the place she had a
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Hue and Cry – Shipbuilding
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Is it worth it? / A new winter coat and shoes for the wife / And a bicycle on the boy's birthday / It's just a rumour that was spread around town / By the women and children / Soon
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Hue and Cry – Plan B
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Maybe we'll build us a palace like the man proposed / Maybe the markets will tremble favourably / Surely they got back to us while we were indisposed / In any case, babe, we're
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Hue and Cry – Cynical
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I ask nothing from you / I never believe the truth / That's my my principle / Just call me cynical / No disappointments at all / No expectations to fall / Love is inimical / When
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Hue and Cry – Finally
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Kids making lots of noise / Grown men into little boys / Strange furniture in the room / Please let this be over soon / Yet when we all leave / Just what do we leave? / Finally
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Hue and Cry – I'll Be There for You
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Chemical night, funeral day / Then it's Monday, fit and able / Gotta be seen to be on the scene / Every sucker takes that payroll / Put a big smile on your body's face / And they'
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Hue and Cry – Crazy In Love
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I look and stare so deep in your eyes / I touch on you more and more every time / When you leave I'm beggin' you not to go / Call your name two, three times in a row / Such a funny
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Hue and Cry – How Do You Repair a Heart?
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How do you unbreak a window? / How do you repair a heart? / If all it took was just some nails and wood / Then I would set to work to rectify your hurt / 'Cause every stupid man
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Hue and Cry – Looking for Linda
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I was not looking for Linda, but Linda found me / Hiding away on the slow train home / 'Is this one for Paisley? Oh you've got to help me' / (She used to work there a long time ago
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Hue and Cry – Vera Drives
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Hey, ooh, ooh / Ooh, ooh / Three generations of girls leave their coffees to cool / Refusing all their forgiveness to shiny-trousered fools / Now Vera is making an effort, but she'
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Hue and Cry – Late in the Day
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[Verse 1] / Suburban fog and headlamp lights / I hope they'll hide me until dawn / [Chorus] / Late in the day, that's when I realized / Late in the day, that these rooms wouldn't
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Hue and Cry – Do Nothing
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Do nothing till you hear from me / Pay no attention to what's said / Why people tear the seam of anyone's dreams / Is way over my head / Do nothing till you hear from me / At least
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Hue and Cry – He Said She Said
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"What's too far", he said, "Where you are", she said / There are worlds between us still / "Do you share?", he said, "Do you care?", she said / These negotiations kill / "I imagine
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Hue and Cry – Family of Eyes
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Sit and watch her make her way / Nuns on the train look harder than dockers / Taking it on the chin for years / American sailors tumble and rough it / Imperial voices, defensive
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Hue and Cry – Remembrance and Gold
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Black cars driving through the drizzle / Look out the window / I see the world washing away / Mum smiles for her own survival / My father's cigarette glows and flakes into the air
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Hue and Cry – Guy on the Wall
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I hear you won't try a thing until you know it / Making moves on sweethearts and I bet you blow it / She's got the might and the wherewithal / To break your backbone boy / Party
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