The Lyrics Project

[Tommy BOO]

OK, I got this idea when listening to 'We Won The War?' by Eggman. I wanted to know the lyrics but couldn't find them anywhere, so I thought that someone else could probably help me. Then I realised that I don't know the lyrics for most of the Boo Radleys b-sides (the album lyrics are easy to find of course) and Bravecaptain songs either, that's why I started this thread.
I hope that this won't be the only post in this thread, I really would like to know the lyrics. Maybe one day we'll have a decent Boo Radleys / Brave Captain / Eggman lyrics database somewhere... Wouldn't that be ace?


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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC

[Tommy BOO]

I'll start with this one. Hopefully I've heard it right and the lyrics are correct.

PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND ME AND TELL ME EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE OK
(a bonus track from the US and Australian version of "Kingsize")

Hold me now
I never felt so low
I'm so tired and I can hardly breathe

Where are you now
I miss you every day
I only have to play that song to feel

[CHORUS:]
I can only be who I am
I find it hard to talk
To the ones I love
Sometimes I feel that I might explode
And I can't keep a hold from
Day to day


Can you say
That everything's okay
There will be better days than this I know

Yes I am sure
That I can take much more
It's just today I can barely move

[CHORUS again]


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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC

[Hew]

Janus

I won't go through this again
Can't you see? Can't you see?
That I have met someone else
No you don't know her
No you don't know him
No you don't know them
No you don't know me
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Martin O'Neill's Claret And Blue Army

[Kris]

Pu Your Arms Around Me...... makes me cry everytime I hear it. It's truly beautiful
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"fashioned by the blade of a world that doesn't care,
feeling so removed, drifting thru stealing air then...
pause and think about it, try to move and shift the pain, but it's there you feel it kicking and you scream and feel alive."

[Tommy BOO]

(I Wanna Be) Touchdown Jesus


i wanna be touchdown jesus
electric wireless done nothing for me
switch me on it's my turn this time
i'm gonna get my dreams
i will inject the screams of the crowd... maybe not

wait for me oh dalai lama
i wanna sing from the mountain side
reach those notes like neil sedaka
i wanna see inside
i wanna stop the tide but i can't... i can't

hold me tight and then release me
when will i know which one i want
while young love must wait till eighteen
a blow for those who pray
they'll see some sense some day it's not right... it's not right


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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC

[Tommy BOO]

OK, these are on the sleeves of the Wake Up Boo singles, but I post them here anyway... (my goodness, it will take a while to type them all)
some of the lyrics in the sleeves aren't even correct actually, so hopefully i've got them right now.

Blues For George Michael

when i woke up mind was made up hair was stuck out to the sky
sleep made my arm sleep like the big sleep that was stuck inside my eye
you are the one, brave but foolish, here are my shoes.

i'd put the world to rights in time, i would, i would, i would.

hey! george michael, you don't know me but i know you very well
they cannot take that away from you that i'd be here if you fell.
you are the one, though you won't care, here is my heart.

they'll be dead and gone in time, not you, not you, not you.

rid my body of these pressures put my mind to rest.
suck these noises from my head please leave the best to last.
cloak me in a silent movie take away my crown.
take a brush and sweep away the shadows that have grown.
all around my ears, all around my eyes
naked as i crawl to bed as the new day appears.

i've drunk the stuff down.
i feel better i feel stronger.


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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC

[Tommy BOO]

Friendship Song

i will be here if you want me
i'll be here if you don't
i will do the things that you do
i'll do them when you want
i have met so many people
i don't remember one
no-one treats as bad as you do
but no one loves me more.

[we have been through so much together
it feels like forever] x 2

you're so undeniably unreliable, from one day to the next
you can make me wanna kill you, at least i'll break your legs
but you make me laugh so hard that tears roll down my face
the things you say are unbelievable and sometimes so's your taste.

[we have been through so much together
it feels like forever] x 2

but i know that you're hurting now
yes i know that you're hurting now

i've given everything i had
and now i'm feeling drained
so i write this song for you
so something will remain

open your eyes and spread your hands and utilise your ears
catch its heart and find that thought and try to stop the years.


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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC

[Tommy BOO]

... And Tomorrow The World

though the past is made
experience saved
that will fill your body and mind.
every minute counts
chances abound
that to waste is nothing but crime.

so what if it escapes me
least i'll have tried for something
i've not been wasting my time.
so come big prize embrace me
i'll welcome you for certain
i'll make sure you are all mine
all mine
all mine

[oh i didn't know that, didn't know you were hurtin'
killin' your feet because they are always on the ground.] x 2

[onwards and upwards
forwards not backwards] x 11


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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC