Pictures of Matchstick Men - Status Quo

When I look up to the skies I see your eyes a funny kind of yellow I rush home to bed I soak my head I see your face underneath my pillow I wake next morning tired still yawning See your face come peaking through my window Pictures of matchstick men and you Mirages of matchstick men and you All I ever see is them and you Windows echo your reflection When I look in their direction gone When will this haunting stop Your face it just wont leave me a-lone Pictures of matchstick men and you Mirages of matchstick men and you All I ever see is them and you You in the sky you with this guy you make men cry you lie You in the sky you with this guy you make men cry you lie Pictures of matchstick men, Pictures of matchstick...

I feel just like Picasso And you're my masterpiece I painted you a lifetime Now what's left are memories Oooh Sunlight's in the curtains Diamonds in the trees I gave you colors blue and gold As you lay upon the sheets Something so familiar drawn from this blank page Every line from my hand takes me back to what I can't erase No matter how I try, no matter what I do I'm still painting pictures of you I could almost smell your perfume In each brush stroke of the flowers I left you tea from China Waiting in your sacred tower Something so familiar drawn from this blank page Every line from my hand takes me back to what I can't erase No matter how I try, no matter what I do I'm still painting pictures of you If I should go crazy, if I would go blind I'd still fill the canvas from the pictures in my mind If that's the only way to make you mine It was something so familiar Drawn from this blank page Every line from my hand takes me back to what I can't erase No matter how I try, no matter what I do I'm still painting pictures, I'm always painting pictures Still painting pictures of you Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh...

It's so long since I sang songs to you I forget all the words I once knew I could look back But I can't waste the time Did it matter They sometimes didn't rhyme It's so long since I sang songs for you It's so long since you smile just for me Now your smile's just an old use to be Does it matter That I can take the time Would you rather I write you one more line Can my songs once again be for you Claudie made a fool out of me Made me find another place to be I've been living alone In a house that wasn't my home With Claudie is the place I want to be When I left did you think of me crying Did you care that I felt I was dying I pretended That I don't give a damn All along I've know what I really am I'm a fool little Claudie just for you Claudie made a fool out of me Made me find another place to be I've been living alone In a house that wasn't my home With Claudie is the place I want to be

Love it seems I just can't find Love it seems I just can't find Seems that I'm the one love The one love left behind I've searched it just won't come my way I've searched it just won't come my way It's love that I want now So what more can I say Women seem to pass me by Women seem to pass me by If I could find the reason I'd know the answer why Love it seems I just can't find Love it seems I just can't find Seems that I'm the one love The one love left behind

If you want to turn me onto Anything you really want to Turn me onto your love, your love If the nighttime is the right time Anytime of yours is my time We can find time for love, sweet love Come on, sweet Caroline You're my sweet Caroline You know I wanna take you I've really got to make you Come on, sweet Caroline Take my hand, together we can rock 'n' roll When I'm thinking of you sleeping I'm at home alone and weeping Are you keeping your love, sweet love? Do you still care when I'm not there? Do you really wish I was there? Can I come there for love, sweet love? Come on, sweet Caroline You're my sweet Caroline You know I wanna take you I've really got to make you Come on, sweet Caroline Take my hand, together we can rock 'n' roll If you want to turn me onto Anything you really want to Turn me onto your love, your love Come on, sweet Caroline You're my sweet Caroline You know I wanna take you I've really got to make you Come on, sweet Caroline Take my hand, together we can rock 'n' roll

I got an invitation from a girl I used to know back home It was an invitation asking me to telephone She said, it's getting lonely here And I've been gone for close a year I took the first flight out to meet the girl I used to know back home She met me off the flight, a million dollars in her long red gown With a man in a black hat just to drive us back to town Now the faces all look the same And all the places have the same old names But in a year you've changed just like the girl I used to know back home Yes, in a year you've changed just like the girl I used to know back home Maybe it's true that I go on and on and on Maybe it's true that I'm the lonely one alone What can I say to you, what can I say to you? Yes, in a year you've changed just like the girl I used to know back home It took another year before I started getting itchy toes And then I had to leave, but that's the way the story goes Well I reckon if she'd made me stay I'd never live to see another day I took the first flight out and left the girl I used to know back home Maybe it's true that I go on and on and on Maybe it's true that I'm the lonely one alone What can I say to you, what can I say to you? I took the first flight out and left the girl I used to know back home Back home, I left the girl back home I left the girl back home I left the girl back home

Railroad, she left me standing on the line Railroad, she's really leaving me this time Leaving on the midnight train Leaving, never gonna come back again I'm living alone, a place of my own A bed, a chair and one back door Something went wrong with the words to my song And now she ain't around no more Something she said as she lay on my bed Six or seven hours ago I guess I was wrong I really didn't think she would go Railroad, she left me standing on the line Railroad, she's really leaving me this time Leaving on the midnight train Leaving, never gonna come back again Her face was always smiling, guess she was always laughing at me I said her face was always smiling, guess she was always laughing at me If I'd realised I'd be less surprised to find That she was laughing at me