Still

Are you ready for the rest of your life
Does your comforter provide
Are you ready to remain evermore in your world of ice
All your feelings all locked inside

Are you a woman or just a mannequin
Does your heart beat like the rest
Do you ever feel like joining in with the human race
Or are you happier outside?

But now you're gone you've broke the spell
I've got no memories just a photograph
I've got the best there is of you
You're just a devil with a pretty angel face

You've made your choice and that's ok
It never would have worked out anyway
I've got the best there is of you
You're just a devil with a pretty angel face

Will you be ready in your later life
When your looks are on the wane
And you're thinking of the ones and the scores
That you left behind
As they come to haunt your mind
And when the twilight moment comes at last
And you have to face that nobody's there to care

But now you're gone you've broke the spell
I've got no memories just a photograph
I've got the best there is of you
You're just a devil with a pretty angel face

You've made your choice and that's ok
It never would have worked out anyway
I've got the best there is of you
You're just a devil with a pretty angel face

Pretty angel face...

He's not the only one
To think that things are going wrong
And all around is only second best.
Time was when all was fair
And we built solid castles in the air
He said that back to back in time's the way to go

Better in my day
I hear everybody say
But then they'll still be saying it tomorrow

It's so hard to take it
When your time is over
Yes it's hard to take it
When you try to remember

Better in my day, in my way, can't you see
Better in my way, here to-day, don't you see

I remember well he said,
When great men led the way instead
Of manicure and media-hugging style
But i don't know what to do
From now on we'll always lose
He said that back to back in time's the way to go

Better in my day
I hear everybody say
But then they'll still be saying it tomorrow

It's so hard to take it
When your time is over
Yes it's hard to take it
When you try to remember

Better in my day, in my way, can't you see
Better in my way, here to-day, don't you see

He's not the only one
To think that things are going wrong
And all around is only second best
But i don't know what to do
From now on we'll always lose
He said that back to back in time's the way to go

The only way to go
Try to remember
Oh better in my day, better in my way...

The door is opening there's a glimmer of light
Keep on pushing it will give tonight
And i don't care if it takes me long
It really doesn't matter if its right or wrong

The fires are burning and its warm inside my soul
As we wander down the road
The gift is mine tonight

Don't care if the mood won't last
And i don't care if it goes slow or fast
The stage is set, the timing's right
Let me lead you to the light
A chance is all there's ever gonna be
It's here let's take a hold
The gift is mine tonight - tonight

The magic look is in your eye
The power to move and satisfy
And the promise that you bring to me
Lifts me up and sets me free.

I've thought of how it could be in the future everyday
I've thought of all the good things in the past
Everyday, everynight.
I shouted at the sky but the sky was deaf
I looked into the ashes but the heat had all left
I never dreamed that it could be this way again

The magic look is in your eye
The power to move and satisfy
And the promise that you bring to me
Lifts me up and sets me free.

And i don't care if the cost is great
Stop and think about it, it's too late
The sails are set, the tide has turned
Time to go explore the world
The winds are blowing but its warm inside my soul
As we turn and leave the shore
The gift is mine tonight

The magic look is in your eye
The power to move and satisfy
And the promise that you bring to me
Lifts me up and sets me free.

The magic look is in your eye
The power to move and satisfy
And the promise that you bring to me
Lifts me up and sets me free...

She dreams china white behind her eyes of china blue
Her future wrapped in velvet and her memories wrapped in warm cotton
Wool

And the coffee grounds
Are burying the hours that she killed
In another murder of a day

Her patience starts to crumble
Like a rock that turns to sand
And time breaks down to seconds
When you're waiting, waiting on a man, waiting on a man

She's checking out the doorway while she's checking out the guy
Whose drunk imagination is climbing up the ladder of her silk clad thigh

And the cigarettes
Are burning up the hours that she killed
In another murder of a day

Her patience starts to crumble
Like a rock that turns to sand
And time breaks down to seconds
When you're waiting, waiting on a man, waiting on a man, waiting on a
Man

It seems so long since yesterday
The time goes by so slow
When you're waiting on a man, waiting on a man to show

She shivers in a cold sweat that she's trying to ignore,
As she wraps her shaking fingers round the loose change by the phone,
She needs him more than she'll admit and more than others need to know,
She hopes the knots that tie her stomach are only butterflies,
The time goes by so slow
When you're waiting on a man, waiting on a man to show.

She prays that no one pays attention
As she punches out the call,
As she fumbles with the number
That the panic still doesn't show,
She prays the lights stay green all night
She prays the traffic doesn't slow,
And that the knots that tie her stomach are only butterflies,

Only butterflies, fly by every day
While you're waiting on a man, waiting on a man to show

There he stands behind the door,
She reaches for her coat to go,
And she wanders away in a dream
She wanders away to a dream

She threads her way home through the neon washed alleyways
She flirts with the shadows and skirts round the victims
Of a night that'll sleep through the day
That casts out its refugees and throws out its debris,

She turns the key in a lock to a fairytale world
That she guards with her ghosts of faithful familiars
Who attend to her shrine in the patchwork cathedral
Observing the ritual with silent compassion and prayers

On the candlelit edges of a tightening circle
She arranges the photographs faded and yellowing
The memories left of her friends and her family
Respectfully turned to the wall

She turns up the sound on a second hand radio
And drowns out the noise of the world that she lives in
Her conscience her witness her life is her courtroom
And the man she left waiting is waiting to murder a day

It's been fun but the time has come
To bring down the final curtain move along
Time to face what you know in your heart
That the world keeps on turning you've lost your part
It is never ending
Take a look if you're not sure at the millions gone before

It's been hard when the going is rough
Or you're many thousand miles away from home
To believe that it's all worthwhile
That it makes the slightest difference in the end
And it gets harder

Will you stay until you're pushed
Or will the day dawn when you're on your own
You look around
There's only empty rows of chairs
Where once your fairweather friends
Hung on every word that you said

Its been fun but the moment is near
To write down the final chapter turn the page
To be free from the power and the lure
That has pushed from behind and led you on
It is never ending
Take a look if you're not sure at the millions gone before

It's been fun but the time has come
To bring down the final curtain move along
Time to face what you know in your heart
That the world keeps on turning you've lost your part

It's been hard when the going is rough
Or you're many thousand miles away from home
To believe that it's all worthwhile
That it makes the slightest difference in the end