Turn On Your Love - Labi Siffre

Mmm ... Is this a prison Or do you call it love? You will know for certain someday It'll never be tough enough When love is hidden It is below above And you know when you run away You turn your back on love Lonely days and lonely nights Will we ever get it right Don't be blinded by the light Turn your back on love no, no You're dying to prove That you are never wrong You're so right you'd rather be sad But you won't go along You built a wall, didn't ya 'Round what you're thinking of Never mind what anyone says You're turning your back on love Lonely days and lonely nights Will we ever get it right Don't be blinded by the light Turn, turn, turn Would you turn your back on love Aaah ... aaah ... Isn't it my life Tell me what else it is You can do whatever you want If you will take a risk When is it my love How will you handle it to wit There are two whenever we are If you can hear the kiss If you believe it Love is quite strong enough Be together honest and free No turning back on love Lonely days and lonely nights Will we ever get it right Don't be blinded by the light Turn your back on love Turn your back Turn your back on love ...

I don't know where I'm goin' But now that I am gone I hope the wind that's blowin' Helps me carry on Turn on your radio, baby Listen to my song Turn on your night light, baby, baby, I'm gone Turn on your radio I don't know how it happened But now that I am gone I hope I'll never hear it, baby Just in case I'm wrong Turn on your record player Listen to my song Turn on your night light, baby, baby I'm gone, really long gone I don't know where life's goin' But soon it will be gone I hope the wind that's blowin' Helps me carry on Turn on your radio, baby Baby, listen to my song Turn on the night light, baby, baby I'm gone, long gone Turn on your record player Turn on your record player Turn on your record player And listen to my song (Turn on your record player) everybody had a hard year And everybody had a good time (Turn on your record player) everybody had a wet dream And everybody saw the sunshine (Turn on your record player) everybody had a good year And everybody let their hair down (Turn on your record player) everybody put their socks up And everybody put their foot down (Turn on your record player) and listen, listen (Turn on your record player) (Turn on your radio, listen to my song)

Is your radio on can you hear what I'm saying To you girl, just you girl Everyone's listening, everyone's heard it But you girl, it's true girl I put this message for you in a song Now won't you please turn your radio on And let me persuade you to open your heart up to me The secret is out it's all over the world I want you, I need you And just tune your dial to the one who will love you And please you and tease you I can't tell you why I'm feeling this way You don't even know me but still I can say I know someday you will give all you love to me It's on the airwaves all thru the night I'm saying I love you at the speed of light Day and night Songbirds fly Are you sittin' alone in your bedroom at home Tonight girl it's all right girl Waiting for someone to give you his love It's right girl tonight girl I put this message for you in a song Now won't you please turn your radio on And let me persuade you to open your heart up to me It's on the airwaves all thru the night I'm saying I love you at the speed of light Day and night Songbirds fly

Ive fell apart I wanna rip my face off Fuck fuck... FUCK And all this shit is stupid I would end this shit if i could And with all this shit ill lose it Better tell me cool my jets and run AH ah a Its always hes TOO weird Hes TOO cool Hes NOT us :( Mmm Its always shes a tool She dont rule She wont budge I fell in love with you hugging u was a must Now itll never work always hurt thinking what Could it have been If it weren't shit Could it have been If it weren't shit (1 2 3 AYE) And all this shit is stupid I would end this shit if i could And with all this shit ill lose it Better tell me cool my jets and run

Black hole hips she looks like some sort of insect buzzing across the floor toward me I can't think. she's looking at me With those green eyes, shining on me like floodlights way in the back of New York city She said she'd take me down to Cocomo We went to Cocomo, indiana Where she told me her real name was Diana, at the gas station. Something about her reminds me of the united states Sprawling across the west and all the glory And imagination Highway 25 divides the great plains from the rocky mountains And colorado springs, coal-mining town Some lady wrote america the beautiful, Sitting on top of pike's peak up there Looking way, way down. way, way down And I don't know how it happened but here we are on the dance floor together, After all these years and I know her real name now I know who wrote america the beautiful And I hear a voice singing in my ear saying Don't turn your back on love No, don't turn your back on love, You idiot You fool Don't you do it And I mean i want to go over your house whenever you want me to come over to your house. But that's no reason To turn your back on love Heartbreak is my roommate now We live together,and we share the rent We have long conversations before we go to sleep in bed at night Ooh, long conversations And I can't lie, I'm on the street inside the street in new york city, Or in boston, or chicago. whatever city i happen to be in at the time. I'm on the same street. Mhm And heartbreak is my roommate Yes it's hard, of course it's hard. It's supposed to be hard. but i can still hear her voice it's calling, It's calling, calling, but it's whispering, Whispering in my ear saying Don't turn your back on love No, don't turn your back on love, My love. what am i supposed to do? say no? Something about her reminds me of the united states Sprawling across the west in all the glory. And imagination She spans the seas and the deserts and the forests and the mountains, She brings it all back together in one big lovely package Oh, baby, oh never turn my back on love Not while you're around to whisper in my ear After all these years, Diana Is that what is was? Don't forget me No, don't forget me. I can't forget you How could I ever forget you? Oh, don't forget me. Don't turn your back on love I won't turn my back on love. Can't forget you How could I forget you?

This is my song And no one can take it away It's been so long But now you're here Here to stay And I wonder If you know what it means To find your dreams come true This is my song And no one can make it a lie It's been so long Since someone Could make me cry And I wonder If you know what it means To laugh as tears go by I may not always sing in tune And sometimes you don't hear me But you don't have to be near me To know that I'm singing This is my song And nothing Can make it die It's been so long And it's stronger I know why And I wonder If you really Really know That as long As I live I will sing my song for you I may not always sing in tune And sometimes you don't hear me But you don't have to be near me To know that I'm singing This is my song And nothing can make it die It's been so long And it's stronger I know why And I wonder If you really Really know That as long As I live I will sing my song That as long As I live I will sing my song That as long As I live I will sing my song for you

I got the blues but I don't mind All I have to do is get to you And then I feel just fine I'm on a downer, but not all the way When I'm feelin' low you do your thing just so And then I feel OK You're so good, the way you give You so good, you're the best there is I got the blues, got it oh so bad When I think of me It's hard to be a person quite so sad You got the answer, and it makes me glad When I'm feelin' small, you gimme rock 'n roll And then I feel laid back You're so good, the way you give So good, you're the best there is Just a lonely soul Slowly dyin' I was smilin' hard But I was lyin' Then you sailed along With your sweet dream When you stole my heart I was livid Mornin' come, sun don't shine I'll get by without you I was lost, but now I'm found Tell me love it was you Mornin' come, sun don't shine I'll get by without you I was lost, but now I'm found Tell me love it was you Just a lonely soul (Mornin' come, sun don't shine) Slowly dyin' (I'll get by without you) I was smilin' hard (I was lost, but now I'm found) But I was lyin' (Tell me love it was you) Then you sailed along (Mornin' come, sun don't shine) With your sweet dream (I'll get by without you) When you stole my heart (I was lost, but now I'm found) I was livid (Tell me love it was you)

Life can be funny Sometimes a shame Making the same mistakes again and again It isn't easy being a man For a woman it's harder Try it in the Sudan And when you're winning and when you've won You turn around ... your problems just begun And when you're losing and when you've lost You turn around ... it wasn't worth the cost How did we make it... It's a mystery We're getting better... That's news to me Are we defeated... Huh! Defeated like hell We may be losers... But we'll never tell Nothin's Gonna Change But we don't give in Nothin's Gonna Change Take it on the chin Nothin's Gonna Change Keep that silly grin Nothin's Gonna Change The only way to win World wars are over One and two Others are raging still just like brand new The Big Band is with us It's here to stay Unless the Martians come to take it away My TV dinner shows a starving face The kicked a man to death outside my place We strangle nature We murder the trees Forgetting we need the trees to breathe

Sitting in the back seat of my car With my arms around my guitar And the rain falls from the roof of the world Nothing around just the trees and the ground There's a bird in a tree singing a song just for me, just for me Ah, Da da da La da da, Da da da La da da, Da da da Da da, Da da da, Da da da La da da, Da da da La da da, Da da da Da da, Da da da I've been down for oh so long It seemed like my soul was dead and gone But it's alright - I'm back in the fight I thought my day would never come Maybe it won't but I'll have fun And I'll hold tight 'cause that way it might La da da, Da da da, Da da da La da da, Da da da La da da, Da da da Da da, Da da da Oh I know I'll be down again with my old friend This friendship never ends The blues is always the same, the blues is always the same Well I don't know just where I am I'm a nowhere man I'm a Desperate Dan But I'll find out - maybe if I shout Give me your hand I'll give you my mind It's a fair exchange if your deaf, dumb and blind And we're sold out well that's what it's all about La da da, Da da da, Da da da La da da, Da da da La da da, Da da da Da da, Da da da, Da da da La da da, Da da da La da da, Da da da Da da, Da da da Ah-ahh

It's nice to hear your voice again I've waited all day long Even wrote a song for you It's strange, the way you make me feel With just a word or two I'd like to do the same for you It's nice to hear you say hello And "how are things with you - I love you" But very soon it's time to go An office job to do While I'm here writing songs for you Strange how a phonecall can change your day Take you away Away from the feeling of being alone Bless the telephone It's nice, the way you say my name Not very fast or slow, just soft and low The same as when you tell me how you feel I feel the same way too I'm very much in love with you