Up For A Bit

(source: Teenagefanclub messageboard Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject: Up for a bit with the pastels : Here's my attempts at the words to 'Up for a Bit'. Some of them are wrong. Some bits are missing. But it's the best I could do. Feel free to correct as you see fit. / Guest / Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 3:13 pm Post subject: 'Get Round Town' and 'Up for a Bit' are in particular need of additions/corrections.)

Ride
I was born in the middle of nowhere
And since that day I’ve been suffocating
Tell myself this dump trod on me
Anticipating and waiting and waiting
But oh I feel so lonely
Gonna make my way down to the bus station

Wanna ride
And everything’s in site
Just wanna ride
Wanna ride

I tell myself this dump’s trod on me
But still I keep on suffocating
It’s a desperate situation
I’ve wanted and wanted and wanted
Hoping and praying
But still I feel so lonely
Gonna make my way down to the bus station

Wanna ride
Everything’s in site
Just wanna ride
Wanna ride

I’m choking
My humour is gone
This trouble
Goes on forever
Sitting here
Desperate situation
Wait and smile
Wind and snow
Not got much time
They don’t like me
Don’t like them either
Desperate situation

Up for a bit
My sister’s lover was like no other
Boyfriend she had ever had
His name was Susan
It was what he was using
That’s what my sister said

She was distracted
But she’s easy attracted

She was detached
But now she’s attached

Address Book
You know I don’t mean half the things I say
‘Cos if I did I wouldn’t say them
So please don’t take me too literally
‘Cos I’m afraid I’ll only get encouraged

But then you look at me
And I know I’ve let myself down
And I’ll go down
To the cold, hard ground
Where there’s no one else around
When I’m down

There are no easy words
To explain the way our lives charade
And though we seem to be at each other’s throats
That isn’t really the case

We’re just beginning to find out
What everything’s about
But you’re only half way there
Which is more or less the same as me

But in a different world
One of these days I’m gonna look at my address book
And you won’t be there

You know I don’t mean half the things I say
So just ignore the half that you don’t like
You know I don’t mean half the things I say
So just ignore the half that you don’t like

I’m Alright With You
If you are feeling down
And want some reason to come around
You know it won’t be wrong
And you are upside down

If you begin at the end
Or halfway through or somewhere else
It makes some kind of sense
When you are my best friend

I’m alright with you

If you are inside outside
Some people might call you stupid
I don’t care what they said
When you are by my side
If you are back to front
And find your mind somewhat absent
You better hang on to what you got
It’s everything that I want

I’m alright with you

You know I’d cross the desert wastes for you
Watch the sun burn up the sky
You know I’d wait a thousand years for you
I love you ‘til there’s nothing left

Hitchin’ a Ride
Hey, hey, hey, are you going my way?
You look so dumb, I guess you just don’t know
It seems so easy, but you’re so slow
And three into two just don’t go

But all those things you hold so dear
They mean less than nothing to me
And we’ve been hanging around here
For a few thousand years
But I guess you’ll never learn

Name a vice and I’ll name your price
What am I bid for the space in my bed?
And did you hear what the stand girl said
To the boy with the big, fantastic head?

You think I don’t know these things
You think I don’t know what tomorrow brings
I’ll tell you something for nothing
Everything is next to nothing

Why is our lives entwined?
And what is it you want with mine?
Some things you stood by
The church of the swine
I don’t want to waste my time

Hey, hey, hey, now you’ve lost your way
Are you waiting around to see which way I’ll go?
I wish you’d go now or you know what
I wish you’d grow up or give up

But all those things you hold so dear
They mean less than nothing to me
And I’m convinced, if you listen to this
You’ll hitch another ride, yeah, yeah

Get ‘Round Town
Oh yeah you can get around town
In a bus
Get around town
In a train
Get around town
In a taxi
But you can’t get around in an aeroplane

Automatically Yours
I don’t wanna go halfway across the globe
To find things that I don’t wanna know
I can seek for a long time through all that stuff
To find something that I don’t really care about
There’s not much about

But when you smile
You make the world seem a home
And when you smile
How can a smile just say it all?

I don’t wanna be what I cannot see
And it feels alright; you’ll in my heart remain
I walked through the door and I picked up my soul
But the keys were stolen and the door won’t open
No, it’s just my luck

But when you smile
You make the world seem a home
And when you smile
I guess I’ll just stay at home

I can’t describe this feeling
It hammers my brain
I can’t deny this feeling
It drives me insane
Always the same

But when you smile
You make the world seem a home
And when you smile

Automatically yours
Yeah I’m yours

Baby Honey
If I wish upon a star
Take you just the way you are
And if I do something for you
It’s everything I do for you

If you’re feeling down and out
Oh I want to make it right
If the love you feel is true
Please let me share it with you

If you wish upon a star
Take me just the way I am
And if I do something for you
It’s everything I do for you

If I’m feeling uptight
I want you to make it right
If the love I feel is true
Then I want to be with you

There is magic in her fingertips
There is magic in the lips I kiss
There is magic in her beautiful eyes
Justify the tears I’ve cried

If I Could Tell You
Time says nothing but I told you so
And laughs at all the foolish things we say
If I could tell you I would let you know
I’d let you know

It never says that you could stay awhile
In a place where you feel at home
And when it comes to moving on again
You just smile

‘Til each ex-lover forgets your face
And the end has not justified the means
Nothing unexpected as you know
Just not so soon

And when it’s time for us to go
Who remembers what we lost on the way?
Our intentions left forever more
If I could tell you I would let you know
I’d let you know