Once I Was Lonely - Gregory Isaacs

I don't remember When I was young I don't recall the day When I first saw the sun But what I am certain What is enough is just to remember That once, once I was loved I still surrender The troubles I know No use pretending All the troubles ain't my own But what I am certain What is enough is just to remember That once, once I was loved After the years gone by What amounts to the years in a life What have we come to When we reach our final days If we can surrender And that is enough Just to remember that once Once we were loved Once we were beautiful Once we were loved If we can surrender And that is enough Just to remember that once Once we were loved

He is clean, but not too clean His breath fresh, but not too fresh These are the results of a shower without soap And just one pellet of gum He carefully returns his second phone to his refuge beneath the front room floor Gently flattens the rug on top And strips down to his underwear He finds his wallet Filled with the credit cards he hasn't used And lays it on the kitchen counter in its familiar place To be found in the morning by a curious consort Like fiends, we rise from the tomb of love It's the curse of fools to be secure We are sportsmen, we are conquerors The day is disease and night the cure He never uses names That's too dangerous He calls them baby and sweet cheeks and hot stuff and darling And he's a master of the feigned surprise A doyen of deception Sometimes he wonders if he could have been on the telly He really is that good Like fiends, we rise from the tomb of love It's the curse of fools to be secure We are sportsmen, we are conquerors The day is disease and night the cure He knows the quiet floorboards Knows exactly where to tread Even in this state, his muscle has memory He's a tiptoeing Travolta, a minging Michael Jackson Lighting up the timbers underfoot And as he silently approaches the bedroom door He wonders, as always If maybe he's getting too old for this But, as always, he concludes "Well, Mick Jagger does it And he's older than me"

There's only one way to fall behind, abuse my love a thousand times And I've been learning a thing or two, like when to refuse a point of view I drain the river dry, And I once was an honest guys, But now I've told a lie I've told a lie I've never been one to condecend, but i'll be here until the end The worst part of a love that's lost, both you and I must pay the cost I drain the river dry, And I once was an honest guys, But now I've told a lie Maybe I'll be, Much better off than before And I've heard both things of what you say, like yes and no and maybe someday I've thought about it once or twice, but now I've payed the highest price I drain the river dry, And I can't look you in the eye Cuz I once was an honest guys, But now I've told a lie Maybe I'll be, Much better off knowing that all I see Is just a stepping stone And I might be on my own (Maybe I'll be, Much better off than before)

What a lala... According to the fills The Philistines surround my hills Got to make a run They're behind me with a gun But there's one thing I've got to say For what I don't know now, know now, know now That's why I've got to go According to the fills My feet are my only wheels Still I've got to live Although I'm the fugitive Yes there's one thing I've got to say For what I don't know now, know now, know now That's why I've got to go Yes I've got to go According to the fills The Philistines surround my hills (Lord) I've got to make a run for it They're behind me with a gun Got to let you know, For what I don't know now, know now, know now That's why I've got to go Let them know 'Bout to, 'bout to leave