Discography

A Live One

Bell, Book and Candle [lyrics]
Sweet On The Vine [lyrics]
Joke [lyrics]
Wings On My Heels [lyrics]
Murder In The Dark [lyrics]
Graceland [lyrics]
Please Don't Ask Me To Dance [lyrics]
The Border [lyrics]
Patience Of Angels [lyrics]
World's End [lyrics]
The Birds Are Leaving [lyrics]
Lucky Penny [lyrics]
Soul [lyrics]
Paper Planes [lyrics]

Mastered by Steve Fenton at SRT
Transferred by Chris Thorpe at Serendipity
Recorded by Patrick Cleasby.
Written by Hewerdine except:
Hewerdine / Shepherd (6)
Hewerdine / Gregson (10)
Hewerdine / Reader (12)
Henderson / Hewerdine / Reader / Dodds (13)
Hewerdine / Eriksen (14)

Musicians:
Boo Hewerdine: vocals, guitar

Notes:
Professionally-mastered digital desk recording, recorded live solo at The Ram Folk Club, Claygate, 21st September 2001.

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Lyrics

Bell, Book and Candle

(Hewerdine)

The blue around a morning moon
The colour of your eyes
I remember holding you
A fall through summer skies
You're everything that I've become
In every word I say
I need a bell, book and candle
To keep your ghost away

White horses on a troubled sea
Your smile will flash through time
Up ahead a blackbird's wing
Your hair will come to mind
Every night I see your face
When I have to pray
I need a bell, book and candle
To keep your ghost away

Keep your ghost away
Keep your ghost away
I need a bell, book and candle
To keep your ghost away

Just before the thunder roars
I sense you next to me
And as I move through nature
I know where you will be
So I must keep myself apart
And here is where I'll stay
With a bell, book and candle
To keep your ghost away

Sweet on the Vine

(Hewerdine)

It would be good to see you again
Go back to the places we both knew then
Each of us are prisoners of time
The memory stays sweet on the vine
Once in a while I hear word of you
Where you are now, things you might do
I'm never sure if the years can be kind
The memory stays sweet on the vine

Sweet on the vine
Sweet on the vine
Let the memory stay
Sweet on the vine
Sweet on the vine
Let the memory stay
Sweet on the vine

What's in our nature that makes us want more?
Long for the taste that we knew before
I couldn't say, but sometimes you find
The sweeter the fruit, the sourer the wine

Sweet on the vine
Sweet on the vine
Let the memory stay
Sweet on the vine
Sweet on the vine
Let the memory stay
Sweet on the vine

It would be good to see you again
Go back to the places we both knew then
There can be love in leaving behind
Where the memory stays
Sweet on the vine

Joke

(Hewerdine)

D'you hear the one about
The one you're now without?
Did it make you smile?
D'you hear the one about
The one you filled with doubt?
Was it worth your while?

While you kick her life around
Deserving to be underground
What is this?
Explain
Joke
Is it some kind of joke?
Joke
I'm laughing
I'm laughing
I'm laughing

D'you hear the one about
The one who fell from space?
One minute in the stars
Next minute on their face?
She says, "I don't know what to be
And does she look younger than me?"
What is this?
Explain
Joke
Is it some kind of joke?
Joke
I'm laughing
I'm laughing
I'm laughing
I'm laughing

For a fumble and something to do one night
You kick a life around
Oh...
For a tumble with someone you know at sight
D'you hear the one about
The one you're now without?

She says, "I don't know what to be
And does she look younger than me?
And does my make-up look all right?
Can you tell that I've been up all night?"

What is this?
Explain
Joke
Is it some kind of joke?
Joke
I'm laughing
I'm laughing

And what is this?
Explain
Joke
Is it some kind of joke?
Joke
I'm laughing
I'm laughing
I'm laughing
I'm laughing
I'm laughing

Wings On My Heels

(Hewerdine)

I never was too good at dancing
Somewhere I'd step out of line
But I knew that I had
Wings on my heels
When they played in three-quarter time

The pride of the north-end would swagger
The blades from the south-side would shine
But I swear those boys
Would hold on for dear life
When they played in three-quarter time

One by one
They pulled down those mirrored halls
One by one
The winters came forgetting names

I never learned how to sweet talk
Those are the words I can't find
But I had a tongue of pure silver
When they played in three-quarter time

One by one
They pulled down those mirrored halls
One by one
The winters came forgetting names

Now money might slip through my fingers
And there won't be much to call mine
But I'll know that I had
Wings on my heels
When they played in three-quarter time

Murder in the Dark

(Hewerdine)

And I know a game
Two of us can play
And there are no rules
You'd break them anyway
When I reach for you
And you turn away
That's murder in the dark

Did you turn out the light
So I can't see your eyes?
If I can't read your lips
Did you think that you could hide?
When you don't tell the truth
Without ever telling lies
That's murder in the dark

I know I never will again
I know, I know, I know
But the sun will rise
Sun will fall
Heaven spin and fool us all

I thought there'd be a change
I really should have known
Right before the dawn
All the party favours gone
It's a funny thing
But you can play alone
Murder in the dark

Graceland

(Hewerdine / Shepherd)

Would I give you money?
I don't know
the free-est things in life are best
and so, put me to the test
now...

And when I die
will you build the Taj Mahal?
wear black every day of your life?
I doubt it

You will never see Graceland...
All my wanting, all my waiting, all my working
all my wickedness
for all my yearning, inside I'm shutting down

You will never see Graceland...

So what am I doing
without you?
Love at second sight would see me through
but not this time

You will never see Graceland...

All my wanting, all my waiting, all my working
all my wickedness
for all my yearning, all my yearning, all my yearning

You will never see Graceland...

Please Don't Ask Me To Dance

(Hewerdine)

Please don't ask me to dance
Please don't ask me to dance
Skin remembers what the heart forgets
I might do something that I will regret

How can you smile at me now
After all the ugly words you used?
Don't you remember anything we said?
Tonight I'm younger and it's going to my head
No I don't want a second chance
Please don't ask me to dance

Skin remembers what the heart forgets
And I might do something that I will regret

Why don't you leave me alone?
Why don't you bother someone else?
What do I care if you've got no one to hold?
What does it matter if the night is getting old?
Oh God if I feel your hand
Please don't ask me to dance

The Border

(Hewerdine)

Standing on the border now
Standing on the border now
Just don't know which way to go
Standing on the border now
I'll tell you about the angel game
Tell you about the angel game
You'll find one of them is lying
Tell you about the angel game
Know I'm riding for a fall
Know I'm riding for a fall
Either way I'm going to lose
Know I'm riding for a fall
I'm standing on the border now
Standing on the border now
Just don't know which way to go
Standing on the border now
Standing on the border now

Patience Of Angels

(Hewerdine)

From the top of the bus
She thought she saw him wave
She saw Tuesdays and forgetfulness
And a little money saved
Does she know - I don't know
But from here I can tell

It would try the patience of angels
It would try the patience of angels

And you know somthing's wrong
When the morning hurts your eyes
And the baby won't stop crying
You'll be waiting 'til you die
Would I be any good
And if I was would I find

It would try the patience of angels
It would try the patience of angels

There's a door in a wall
In a house in a street
In a town where no-one knows her name
She's the patience of angels

Does she know, I don't know
But from here I can tell

There's a door in a wall
In a house in a street
In a town where no-one knows her name
There's a door in a wall
In a house in a street
In a town where no-one knows her name
There's a door in a wall
In a house in a street
In a town where no-one knows her name
There's a door in a wall
In a house in a street
In a town where no-one knows her name

She's the patience of angels
The patience of angels

It would try the patience of angels
It would try the patience of angels
Angels

World's End

(Hewerdine / Gregson)

Do you ever get the feeling that you're living someone else's life?
And all the time you thought that you were happy and didn't think twice
The winter that we spent together got so cold I thought we'd die
And the dress you wore at Easter that made me cry

I'll meet you at the world's end
Two saints walking arm in arm
I'll meet you at the world's end
Two saints walking arm in arm
Young again

The smoke from burning bridges has been stinging in our eyes for years
So all the time we never knew there is no better place

I'll meet you at the world's end
Two saints walking arm in arm
I'll meet you at the world's end
Two saints walking arm in arm
Young again

And so we share a secret place
I never knew it meant that much to you
A place where we begin and end
See, I never knew
See, I never knew

I'll meet you at the world's end
(I'll meet you at the world's end)
Two saints walking arm in arm
(Two saints walking arm in arm)
I'll meet you at the world's end
Two saints walking arm in arm
Young again

Do you ever get the feeling that you're living someone else's life?

The Birds Are Leaving

(Hewerdine)

Spinning further from the sun
Here's October in our lungs
Come outside up in the sky
The birds are leaving

Clouds of instinct fill the air
And whatever brought us here
Come next year will bring again
The birds are leaving

Tell me that a lover's touch
Is more than nature planting seeds
Or what am I to believe?

South of here the winter's kinder
So they leave to find fair weather
And how high our spirits rise
On their returning

Tell me that a lover's touch
Is more than nature passing genes
Or what am I to believe?

Heaven knows why you're not happy
And heaven knows why I can't make you
Look outside up in the sky
The birds are leaving

Lucky Penny

(Hewerdine / Reader)

I found a lucky penny
I thought my luck would change
Easy times and carefree days
Would be mine again

When I saw it shining
Down in the dirt
I bent down and picked it up
Held it 'til it hurt

Said I hope you're a lucky one
Hope you're a lucky one
I pray you're a lucky one
I hope you're a lucky one

I keep it with me all the time
Ever near at hand
When the world is closing in
You take what you can

Oh I hope you're a lucky one
I hope you're a lucky one
I pray you're a lucky one
I hope you're a lucky one

I found a lucky penny
My superstitions failed
Who am I fooling?
Good fortune's not for sale

Oh I hope you're a lucky one
I hope you're a lucky one
I pray you're a lucky one
I hope you're a lucky one

Soul

(Hewerdine / Reader / Henderson / Dodds)

I felt her soul move through me
I was safe and sound
Branches on the window
Could not hurt me now
And when the night came
With childhood fears
Her soul moved through me
They disappeared

I felt her soul move through me
As I stepped from the train
Here to find a new life
To begin again
The spring had brought me
Winter kept me here
Her soul moved through me
Time disappeared

I felt her soul move through me
Somewhere in the sky
Too late I landed
To say goodbye
She gave me laughter
And I paid in tears
Her soul moved through me
I disappeared
I disappeared

She gave me laughter
And I paid in tears
Her soul moved through me
I disappeared
I disappeared
I disappeared

Paper Planes

(Hewerdine / Eriksen)

And so the year begins
A time for changing things
There are embers in the air
I will take the time
To sort yours from mine
Some things you can't share

Like you said
When nothing else remains
Love letters become paper planes

Now I can't understand
Words I hold in my hand
They won't make sense today
Can't hold them here inside
I'll throw the windows wide
And watch them sail away

Like you said
When nothing else remains
Love letters become paper planes

Take one now and fold it over
Let the corners meet together
Walk into the morning air
Flick your hand, it's gone forever

And watch them sail away

Like you said
When nothing else remains
Love letters become paper planes
Like you said
When nothing else remains
Love letters become paper planes