Nina Simone - Where Can I Go Without You

I went to London town to clear up my mind
Then on to Paris for the fun I could find
I found I couldn’t leave my memories behind
Where can I go without you

Tried seeing Singapore that wouldn’t do
So I went Vienna but I found you THERE too
Even in Switzerland your memory came through
Where can I go without you

So I wanted to travel and I wanted romance
So I just took off and chased my rainbow across the sea
But it’s all over I’m tired of faces and QUAINT old places
Baby if you won’t be there with me

Back on the boat again farewell to France
So long West Germany it hasn’t got a chance
I’ll trade the sides I’ve seen for one loving glance
Where can I go without you

Florence and The Machine - Spectrum 

When we first came here, 
We were cold and we were clear, 
With no colours on our skin, 
We were light and paper-thin. 

And when we first came here, 
We were cold and we were clear, 
With no colours on our skin, 
‘Till you let the spectrum in. 

Say my name, 
And every colour illuminates, 
We are shining, 
And we’ll never be afraid again. 

And when we come for you, 
We’ll be dressed up all in blue, 
With the ocean in our arms, 
Kissing eyes and kissing palms. 

And when it’s time to pray, 
We’ll be dressed up all in grey, 
With metal on our tongues, 
And silver in our lungs. 

Fools Gold - Lhasa De Sela

You told me that you’d stay with me
And shelter me forever
That was a hard promise to keep
I can’t blame you for the bad weather

After all that has been said and done
I won’t ask you where you’re going
Don’t keep in touch, I don’t miss you much
Except sometimes early in the morning

Now use your silver tongue once more
There’s one thing that I’d like to know
Did you ever believe the lies that you told?
Did you earn the fool’s gold that you gave me?

I forgive you wanting to be free
I realize you long to wander
And I sympathize with your roving eyes
I just can’t forgive your bad manners

Now use your silver tongue once more
There’s one thing that I’d like to know
Did you ever believe the lies that you told?
Did you earn the fool’s gold that you gave me?
Did you ever believe the lies that you told?
Did you earn the fool’s gold that you gave me?

Gladys Knight & The Pips – Didn’t You Know (You’d Have To Cry Sometime)

Now look at yourself
Yeah, you’re all hung up
On somebody else
And in your eyes
I see all the signs
Of the misery
That you laid on me

Baby, baby, didn’t you know
You’d have to cry sometime
Oh, didn’t you know
Didn’t you know
You’d have to hurt sometime
Didn’t you know
You’d have to lose your pride
Didn’t anybody tell you
Love had another side

Oh, you used to be so proud
Now your head’s a little lower
And you walk a little slower
And you don’t talk so loud

The Magnetic Fields - You Must Be Out Of Your Mind

If you think you can leave the past behind 
You must be out of your mind 
If you think you can simply press rewind 
You must be out of your mind, son 
You must be out of your mind 

You want what you’ve turned off turned on 
You call it sunset, now it’s dawn 
You can’t go ‘round just saying stuff 
Because it’s pretty 
And I no longer drink enough 
To think you’re witty 

Leonard Cohen - Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
yes, many loved before us, I know that we are not new,
in city and in forest they smiled like me and you,
but now it’s come to distances and both of us must try,
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that’s no way to say goodbye.

I’m not looking for another as I wander in my time,
walk me to the corner, our steps will always rhyme
you know my love goes with you as your love stays with me,
it’s just the way it changes, like the shoreline and the sea,
but let’s not talk of love or chains and things we can’t untie,
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that’s no way to say goodbye.

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
yes many loved before us, I know that we are not new,
in city and in forest they smiled like me and you,
but let’s not talk of love or chains and things we can’t untie,
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that’s no way to say goodbye.

Little Scream - Heron and The Fox

Stranded in a snowstorm in a town that you forgot 
I take advantage of a warm car and I reassess my lot
So many years I have given up and now my youth seems shot 
I take my place among the truckers and I show ‘em what I’ve got.

I told the stripper at the bar that the shots we got were magic, 
‘make a wish and they’ll come true’… 
as she smiled her golden tooth glinted in the light, 
and I wonder what she wished for. I just wished for you.

They say everything is possible… but I know that it’s not true.
Especially not when it comes to you

Dreamy colors gold and red, dreamy colors run right through
Oh, Caroline as my witness, I never meant to cause you pain… 
and sweet sweet forgiveness; you can go back, but it’s never the same.

Oh I don’t know who I am and I don’t know what I’ll be 
feels like I’m strounded in an ocean of grave uncertainty 
wish I could conjure up the shoots and ladders to bring me back 
to the place before I ran away and found… I’d lost my track.

Oh that magic curtained canyon where lovers dreams can lie 
is like a drive in movie screen that is pressed against the sky. 
All those pictures float there happy just for a little while 
before they’re swallowed up in the vastness of… the open night.

Dreamy colors gold and red, dreamy colors run right through
Oh, Caroline as my witness, I never meant to cause you pain… 
and sweet sweet forgiveness; you can go back, but it’s never the same.

Oh I’ll give you all the colors that are left here in my box, 
if you would draw a picture into which we could both drop. 
And you would be the heron and I would be the fox, 
and you would fly above me

La Roux - Finally My Saviour (Gold Edition) 

Lykke Li - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow

Juston Stens and The Get Real Gang - Falling

Labi Siffre - I Don’t Know What’s Happened To The Kids Today

I don’t know what’s happened to the kids today
We were different from the kids today
in every way
We didn’t have none of this crazy music
We didn’t have none of these crazy clothes
We didn’t have guys getting high on the doorstop
We didn’t have none of those no, no

I don’t care for these long haired guys
They need a good bath
They got shifty eyes
They’re either sleeping in the park
Begging in the street
Or they’re speeding ‘round town in a Lotus Elite
(were’d they get the money from anyway?)

I can’t say that I fought for kids like you in the war
I fought for kids like the kids I thought you’d be
That’s who I was fighting for
Put you all in the army, that’s what I’d do
Short back and sides, make men of you

Willi’s my boy, he’s been good up till now
But last night he said “I’m gonna make it
on my own somehow
Going off with my friends on the road a while
Get away from you, you can drop dead, that’s
what you can do!”

I would have thought that after fifty-five years
A body could expect some kind of respect
from the kids today
I don’t know what’s happened to the kids today