Wake Up!

Thru' all the hurt and the pain
I don't regret a single day
My friends are not the ones who
Tell me who my friends should be
But don't be afraid, you know you make me happy
Remember that

I've found myself in ladbroke grove
Things kept within i should resolve
If i could reach backwards
I wouldn't change a thing
And listen joel, it won't be easy, it's never easy
Remember this

Don't go with the flow
Try follow your own path

All i want is harmony
Like some outmoded sixties throwback
I don't feel no destiny you make your own luck
If you want it now
I don't regret a single day

Once you get hit so often
You become numb to everything
You find out that you are on your own

Now she wants to grow up 'cos she can't get about
The words in her head can't seem to get out

She gets all her facts from the latest smash hits
She can't seem to buy any clothes that fit
The books that she reads
Aren't the ones from the school
She dreams of the day she can leave

Here she comes now
It's lulu, she'd dancing close to the flame
It's lulu, you better remember her name
It's lulu, sing your song
Sing your song, your song, again

There's a tear on her cheek when she's talkin' on the phone
When she has to tell her friends that she's gotta stay home

Her parents both hate her
They don't want her to grow up
The pain in her head makes her want to throw up
The ones who understand are the posters on the wall
She finds her favourite tape and puts it on
Here she comes now

It thinks it's right when it knows it's wrong
It's been like this right from day one
It don't need anyone to be its guide
But it needs someone on its side

And i know that i can't make up my mind
I can feel it there's two of me inside, twinside

Make way for the end of frustration
Make may for the united front
One thought for a new situation

When it gets so it cannot walk
Can't stand up or even talk
Like a secret you cannot hide
It feels it kicking deep inside

And i know that i can't make up my mind
I can feel it there's two of me inside, twinside

Make way for the end of frustration
Make may for the united front
One thought for a new situation

When it feels ready to explode
It just sits quiet without a word
When the right thinks it knows best
The left will go for something else

Where are you going with your suit of armour on
And your back turned to the sun
And your lips tightly sealed

What is this poison that you carry like a curse
I'm your lover not your nurse
But i will wash it away
Wash it away
Don't stay here for me

It's easy to hide behind a smile, behind an ugly grace
It's easy to talk behind the back, it's harder to the face
It's easy to drink than to think, it's all so easy then
It's easy to shy away from life, it's hard to be the man

Oh come on listen to me, i can't complain i got it easy
I've everything i thought i always wanted
Even though i'm keeping busy
There's something more that still escapes me
I had it then, but now it's gone away

It's not that i am different
It's not that you have changed
This place has done its damage, it's so hard to explain
The sky it bends my back, my crooked shape remains
The gravity's much stronger and nothing here has ever changed

And it looks like another rainy day
Sittin' here lonely by my window, waitin'
For you to come home

I never wanted anything but you alone
But i miss the place that i love,
It's not good enough by phone
This does not feel like home my friends are far away
I get up in the morning and i wait for you all day

But you think it's alright
And they think it's alright
So i guess it's alright too

But i can't stand this place,
I've tried so hard believe me to settle here
Just to have you near, whisper in my ear

That it's gonna be alright
And you're gonna be alright
So i can be alright too