Something Better (Live) - Marianne Faithfull

It's been a couple years I've been on my own Now I know that I'm not alone You've given me a reason to carry on, to carry on, eah, yeah Yeah, everything is different now-a-days I lost a few ones along the way I had to learn to trust it'll be okay, it'll be okay Every moment I was sure I wouldn't make it through I was safe because of you I don't know how, but you take all my pain And you turn it into something better Ooh, something better There's not a tear that you let go to waste No, you turn it into something better Ooh, something better You say you never leave and you really don't A kind of love that I've never known You took over my heart and you made a home You made a home And all the broken pieces within You put them together again And with you a new story begins, begins I don't know how, but you take all my pain And you turn it into something better Ooh, something better There's not a tear that you let go to waste No, you turn it into something better Ooh, something better Ha, ha, ha, ha, haa ah, something better Ha-a, ha, ha, ha, ah ah, something better Something in the way you move I never understood That it all works for my good (yeah) Every moment I was sure I wouldn't make it through I was safe because of you I don't know how, but you take all my pain And you turn it into something better Ooh, something better There's not a tear that you let go to waste No, you turn it into something better Ooh, something better Ha, ha, ha, ha, haa ah, something better Ha-a, ha, ha, ha, ah ah, something better Ha, ha-a, ha-a, ha-a, haa ha, something better Ha-a, ha-a, ha-a, ha-a, ah ah, something better-uh ah

Don't you like the way, I move when you see me? Don't you like the things that I say? Don't you like the way, I seem to enjoy it? When you shout things but I don't care Something's happening and it's happening right now You're too blind to see it Something's happening and it's happening right now Ain't got time to wait I said something better change I said something better change I said something better change I said something better change Don't you like the way, I dance? Does it bug you? Don't you like the cut of my clothes? Don't you like the way, I seem to enjoy it? Stick my fingers right up your nose Something's happening and it's happening right now You're too blind to see it Something's happening and it's happening right now Ain't got time to wait I said something better change I said something better change I said something better change I said something better change I said something better change I said something better change I said something better change I said something better change I said something better change I said something better change I said something better change I said something better change I said something better change Change, change, change

Name something better Something better than the stars I'd like to hold it in my arms I think I see it in your eyes Cut your rivers into mud And give it all you got There's someone in the room They look like you a lot It's so hard not to stare I wish I saw you there The fear is off the charts I'm begging you to start Name something better Something better than the stars I'd like to hold it in my arms I think I see it in your eyes Call me over Call me overwhelmed Help me be your love I can be your friend Caught the shadows in the light An audience on ice They wait for you and me The ocean and the tree Let's look up at the stars I like you where you are No you don't need to lead I'll be here when you start Name something better Something better than the stars I'd like to hold it in my arms I think I see it in your eyes Name something better Something better than the stars I'd like to hold it in my arms I think I see it in your eyes

Yesterdays, yesterdays, Days I knew as happy sweet sequestered days Olden days, golden days, Days of mad romance and love Then gay youth was mine Truth was mine Joyous free and flaming life Then truth was mine Sad am I, glad am I, For today I'm dreaming of Yesterdays Yesterdays, yesterdays, Days I knew as happy sweet sequestered days Golden days, olden days, Days of mad romance and love Then gay youth was mine Truth was mine Joyous free and flaming life Then truth was mine Sad am I, glad am I, For today I'm dreaming of Yesterdays

In my solitude you haunt me With memories of days gone by In my solitude you taunt me With memories that never die I sit in my chair And filled with despair There's no one could be so sad With gloom everywhere, I sit and I stare I know that I'll soon go mad In my solitude, I'm afraid Dear Lord above Send back my love I sit in my chair And filled with despair There's no one could be so sad With gloom everywhere, I sit and I stare I know that I'll soon go mad In my solitude, I'm afraid Dear Lord above Send me back my love

It is safe to sleep alone In a place no one knows And to seek life under stones In a place water flows. It is best to find in sleep The missing pieces that you lost Best that you refuse to weep Ash to ash, dust to dust. It is strange to sleep alone In a place no one knows Strange to shelter under stones In a place water flows. It is safe to walk with me Where you can read the sky and stars, Safe to walk upon the sea In my sleep we can go far. It is safe to sleep alone In a place no one knows And to shelter under stones In a place water flows. It is strange to sleep alone In a place no one goes, Strange to seek life under stones. In my sleep no one knows.