A Man Needs a Maid - Tindersticks

My life is changing in so many ways I don't know who to trust anymore There's a shadow running through my days Like a beggar going from door to door I was thinking that maybe I'd get a maid Find a place nearby for her to stay Just someone to keep my house clean Fix my meals and go away A maid A man needs a maid A maid It's hard to make that change When life and love turns strange And old To give a love, you gotta live a love To live a love, you gotta be part of When will I see you again? A while ago somewhere I don't know when I was watching a movie with a friend I fell in love with the actress She was playing a part that I could understand A maid A man needs a maid A maid When will I see you again?

Well, I sat down on the pooper Thinkin' through and through Sippin' on some whiskey, yeah With a real fat chew Well, them winds they are a blowing wild While I take this poo And every man needs a chew Driving down them prairie lands Flat as can be Why did my pappy leave me solo? Well, that don't matter no more 'Cause every man needs a chew Well, I sat down on the pooper Thinkin' through and through Sippin' on some whiskey, yeah With a real fat chew Well, them winds they are blowing wild While I take this poo And every man needs a chew Well, I sat down on the pooper Thinkin' through and through Sippin' on some whiskey, yeah With a real fat chew Well, them winds they are blowing wild While I take this poo And every man needs a chew

Half past twelve and I'm watching the late show In my flat, all alone How I hate to spend the evening on my own Autumn winds, blowing outside the window As I look around the room And it makes me so depressed to see the gloom There's not a soul out there No one to hear my prayer Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight Take me through the darkness to the break of the day Movie stars, find the end of the rainbow With a fortune to win, it's so different from the world I'm living in Tired of TV, I open the window and I gaze into the night But there's nothing there to see, no one in sight There's not a soul out there No one to hear my prayer Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight Take me through the darkness to the break of the day Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight There's not a soul out there No one to hear my prayer Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight Take me through the darkness to the break of the day Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight Take me through the darkness to the break of the day

(Stuart; carla; both) There are places I don't remember There are times and days, they mean nothing to me I've been looking through some of them old pictures They don't serve to jog my memory I'm not waking in the morning, staring at the walls these days I'm not getting out the boxes, spread all over the floor I've been looking through some of them old pictures Those faces they mean nothing to me no more Chorus: I travel light You travel light Everything I've done You say you can justify, mmm you travel light I can't pick them out, I can't put them in these sad old bags Some things you have to lose along the way Times are hard, I'll only pick them out, wish I was going back Times are good, you'll be glad you ran away (Chorus) Do you remember, how much you loved me? You say you have no room in that thick old head Well it comes with the hurt and the guilt, and the memories If I had to take them with me I would never get from my bed There's a crack in the roof where the rain pours through That's the place you always decide to sit Yeah I know I'm there for hours, the water running down (my) (your)face Do you really think you keep it all that well hid? No but I travel light You don't travel light Everything I've done It's just a lie, you don't travel light I'm travelling light No you don't travel light I'm travelling light No, no, you don't travel light I'm travelling light You don't travel light