The Clarks Lyrics

Nothing But You lyrics - The Clarks

This song's not about California
I won't salute New York
No stars and there're no diamonds
Won't spend on what I can't afford

These words don't lead to water
Won't mention pills or pain
Or count my friends that died.....no
It's not about some search for fame

I went for something different
I made your dreams come true
This song is what you asked for
This song's 'bout nothing but you

Way too long
I'll sing the things I want to say to you
Way too long....it's true
It's 'bout nothing but you

This dog don't die in Nashville
And I won't lose my mind
No phone calls, there's no crying
Won't be crossing any lines

Magazine lyrics - The Clarks

I met a girl in Tennessee she wrote a song, it went to number one
Well we sat and had a drink, and she told me how it all had begun
One day she's singing in a coffee shop, shot up to the CMA's
Oh the world moves fast when you never know the time of day

When your face is pictured on the pages
When your name is out there on the scene
When your world is quickly rearranging
When your pictures are appearing on the pages of the magazines

She said, they started in a van, and then a bus, and then the planes would come
And they couldn't eat in restaurants, the bodyguards all had guns
Stars and stages, fame and all the love
Funny how life looks from above

Well a cold day came when the industry let her down
And all the handshakes and promises, buried without a sound
Friends she thought she had, like the wind were gone
She said I've got to admit it I loved it even though it's done

When your face is pictured on the pages
When your name is out there on the scene
When your world is quickly rearranging
Though your picture's disappearing from the pages of the magazines

Some Call It Destiny lyrics - The Clarks

You don't seem like a Monday morning girl to me
Tuesday got you on your knees
And nothing's gonna get you over that hump but maybe
Tell me what you need
Tell me what you like
Let me take you out tonight

Gonna be a Friday kind of love
Gonna be here every Sunday morning
You and me
Cause I got this crazy notion
Some call it destiny

Come ride that early morning train with me
We'll get down to the point you'll see
I got a lifetime full of goodnights waiting
Tell me what you need
Tell me what you like
Let me take you out tonight

I can't watch you walk away
No lonely Saturday alright alright
And I feel you coming on
And I know it won't be long, no it won't
We belong

Take Me lyrics - The Clarks

For all the thank yous that I should have spoken
But I never did
For all the comfort that I should have given
But I never did

Take me, shape me, mold me from this broken frame
Take me, shape me, I don't wanna lose this again

For all the mending and the doors that you opened
I know you had your fill and I thank you
You saw me falling and I should have noticed
Now I always will and I thank you

Take me, shape me, hold me to this burning flame
Take me, shape me, I don't wanna lose this again

Let your light shine on
Show me what side I'm on
Let your light shine on
Show me what side I'm on

So shine on
Don't wanna lose this again
So shine on
Lose this again

Broken Dove lyrics - The Clarks

I broke down the other day
Like when you died on that summer day
And all the sky was gray
And now my hope is gone
My love is singing an angel's song

Hold on be strong
It's hard while I'm gone
You're on your own but not for long
When the day comes I'm gonna take you

I fell down the other day
Going through your clothes trying to give them away
I thought that I could see the way
Cause all my dreams are there
In a box in a locket at the top of the stairs

Hold on be strong
It's hard while I'm gone
You're on your own but not for long
When the day comes I'm gonna take you home

A hundred shades of blue when they shine on you
Make you look like a picture in a book
And we carried love like a broken dove
In our hands God was laughing at our plans
And the water came and it carried us away
Through the hills through the valleys in the rain
And we went over the edge
And I heard you say that you got to hold on be strong
It's hard my love when I'm gone
You're on your own but not for long
When the day comes I'm gonna take you home

"Restless Days" (2009)

True Believer lyrics - The Clarks

She stepped in the light
Opening night
And delivered her lines

Life is nothing she sighed
Nothing without
The fire inside

She lives alone
And cries when she paints
Self-portraits seldom seen

She swore she loved me and I believed her
Then she lowered her eyes
There’s a real thin line between actor and deceiver
She knew how to play the true believer

On the edge of the night
She studied her lines
For the very last time

Life is nothing she cried
Nothing without
Someone by your side

She lived alone
And died on the stages
Of her broken dreams

She swore she loved me and I believed her
And then I saw that look in her eyes
There’s a fine black thread between deceived and deceiver
She once played the true believer

Inside lyrics - The Clarks

I don’t want to talk about the world today
Wars and revolutionaries fade away
I just want to know what kind of state you’re in
Did you kill your love did you lose your friend?

The middle of the nighttime what gets you through?
What pulls you back to daylight from the deep dark blue?

So tell me if your life has been a lonely ride
Did you take it on faith just to be denied?
Even if your broken heart’s a hundred miles wide
I just want to see what’s on the inside

I don’t want to read it in the news today
The ringing of a cell phone from a shallow grave
I just want to know how far and deep you’re in
Where’d you hide the bottle what’d you put it in?

The middle of the nighttime what gets you through?
What pulls you back to daylight from the deep dark blue?

So tell me if your life has been a lonely ride
Did you take it on faith just to be denied?
And even if your broken heart’s a hundred miles wide
I just want to see what’s on the inside

I guess we won’t be talkin’ ’bout the past today
Fingerprints and memories they fade away
I think I can tell what kind of place you’re in
Underneath the bruises and the dirty skin

The middle of the nighttime what gets you through?
What pulls you back to daylight from the deep dark blue

So tell me if your life has been a lonely ride
Did you take it on faith just to be denied?
And even if your broken heart’s a hundred miles wide
I just want to see what’s on the inside

Trampoline lyrics - The Clarks

It was never your face on the pictures I never had
There was never your place or mine, words I never said
Did he leave you hanging?
Did you make a real big scene?

I was never your lover and I’m not your trampoline

It was never your name on the postcards I never send
It was never our lives in a song that I never penned
Did you say I’ll show him
Who gets caught in between?

I was never your lover and I’m not your trampoline
Never your lover and I’m not your trampoline

You never place a call to a number you never had
There’ll never be a time we can say split it all in half
Did he bring you down?
Did he make you scream?

I was never your lover and I’m not your trampoline
Never your lover and I’m not your trampoline
Oh, I’m never your lover and I’m not your trampoline

Midnight Rose lyrics - The Clarks

They park the old coal cars on the inside track
Leave them there for awhile
And in the spring coriander grows
I walk the railroad ties to a secret place
Wait it out by the fire
And in the moonlit sky she glows

She’s pulling into town
But she’s leaving soon heading into the night
Whistle blows everybody knows
She’s on the move again
She’s climbing high I think I’m gonna try
To catch a ride on the Midnight Rose

They junk the rusting cars in the salvage yard
Leave them there for awhile
And in the summer the river slows
I drive the old dirt road to a secret place
Sleep it off through the night
But in the morning the blood still shows

They put the broken men on the edge of town
Leave them there for awhile
And in the winter a cold wind blows
I dig the last few feet the secret place
Leaving here tonight
And in the morning they’ll all know

She’s pulling into town
But she’s leaving soon heading into the night
Whistle blows everybody knows
She’s on the move again
She’s climbing high I think I’m gonna try
To catch a ride on the Midnight Rose
Catch a ride on the Midnight Rose

Soul And Skin lyrics - The Clarks

I just read your letter
That bled from your pen
Lest I forget I’ve been let go

I’m a long gone player
In this theatre of the absurd
We sang the score and kept the sour notes

It was a kick in the shins
To drag me through it again
You ripped a fault line into my soul and skin

If you get this message
I figured it out
You locked the door but won’t let it close

Just tossed your letter
In a ball on the floor
Next to the pissed in cat box on the dirty oak

It was a kick in the shins
To drag me through it again
You ripped a fault line into my soul and skin

It was a kick in the shins
To drag me through it again
You twist heel in the ground
To push me further down
You ripped a fault line into my soul and skin

Sunshine lyrics - The Clarks

I stand on a bridge on the west side of town
I watch them put up and I watch them knock down
The river below is frozen in time
Nothing left of the five and the dime
I couldn’t see it I was in the sunshine

Sit in a bar north end of the street
I get around on my bike and my feet
Grey sky above is frozen in time
Nothing left of the reason or rhyme
I couldn’t see it I was in the sunshine

I’m carrying time right out the door
Walked out on love gave up on the store
Guess I had a good life wish I’d known at the time
I couldn’t see it I was in the sunshine

I wake up alone I wake up the same
A little regret and some debt in my name
Pictures of you frozen in time
Nothing left of the love that was mine
I couldn’t see it I was in the sunshine

I’m carrying time right out the door
Walked out on love gave up on the store
Guess I had a good life wish I’d known at the time
I couldn’t see it I was in the sunshine

Come 'Round Here lyrics - The Clarks

Sherrie don’t come ‘round here, don’t come ‘round here no more
Sherrie don’t come ‘round here, don’t come ‘round here no more
Hooked up with a bad man at a good time
Said she ran into a door
Left her by a thread on a life line
And that’s the reason why she don’t come ‘round here no more

Huey don’t come ‘round here, don’t come ‘round here no more
Huey don’t come ‘round here, don’t come ‘round here no more
Heard he had a drink with some old friends
Turned into three then four
Kept on going straight around ‘round that old bend
That’s the reason why he don’t come ‘round here no more

It’s just a mix up it’s not your time
Do you want a second try?
It’s just prediction then fate collides
Not sure if I’m surprised

John don’t come round here, don’t come ‘round here no more
John he don’t come round here, don’t come ‘round here no more
Checked in a casino with a girlfriend
Did a line then did some more
Thought his heart could keep up like a young man
That’s the reason why he don’t come ‘round here no more

Restless Days lyrics - The Clarks

Sin and salvation walk hand in hand
Right past the jury to the promised land
And I’ve been in prison baby most of my days
Must be these reckless ways

God and creation roll side by side
They wave to the jury and the gates open wide
And I’ve been hard and ancient like dinosaur bones
Hiding under these stones

Restless days
Feel like I’m falling away
Restless nights
When you’re holding me tight
Restless world
I thank God for my girl
Restless days

My salvation runs hot and cold
I plead to the jury I know I borrowed I know I stole
And I’ve been trying your honor in so many ways
Must be these restless
I guess it’s these restless
I know it’s these restless days
Restless days