Julia Fordham Album

(written by Julia Fordham)

In my blood
You're in my bones
In a crowd
When I'm alone
There's nothing that I wouldn't do
I'd take a bullet for you
I'd walk a million miles
In anybody's shoes
Just to be with you
I'd cross the deepest ocean
I'd hold my breath
And I would swim against the tide
To be by your side
Love love love
Love love love
In my bed
On my phone
In my house
When I get home
That is where I want to find you

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The drug that's driving me
Picks me up and sets me free
There's nothing that I wouldn't do
Nothing that I wouldn't do

(written by Julia Fordham)

Can we move to Italy
I will take a boat and meet you there
Can we move to Italy
I will put fresh flowers in my hair
Can we move to Italy
I have been traveling
With my face pressed against
The windscreen of my dusty car
Trying to be where you are
Can we move to Italy
I will take a house and make it home
Can we move to Italy
We can dance in Venice
Kiss in Rome
Can we move to Italy
Meet me by the church up high on the hill
Please say you will
Way above the shore below
Down in portafino
I've got my ticket
And my purple rosary
I know my mission
I'm set for Italy
Italy
Watch the sun come up
The sun go down
Italy
Punch the air
Kiss the ground
Italy
Dance in Venice
Kiss in Rome
Italy
Take a little house
Make it home
Can we move to Italy
I will take a boat and meet you there
Can we move to italy
I will put fresh flowers in my hair
Can we move to Italy

(written by Julia Fordham)

I want to get lucky
I want to get laid
I want to lay down
In the bed that we made together
I want to get down with it
Want to get high
Want to stop life from just passing me by

I want to fly like a bird
I want to sing and be heard
I want a room with a view
I want to wake up with you
I want to believe and I want to have faith
I want to walk round
In a sweet state of grace
Forever

I want to be normal
I want to fit in
I want to fit perfectly inside my skin

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And in this world of plenty
Don't want to be
Running on empty
In these days of wonder
Don't want to be
Sliding under

I want to fly like a bird
I want to get lucky
I want to get laid
I want to lay down
In the bed that we made together
I want to get down with it
Want to get high
Want to stop life from just passing me by
I want to believe and I want to have faith
I want to walk round
In a sweet state of grace
Forever

I want to be normal
I want to fit in
I want to sit perfectly inside my skin

(featuring India.Arie)

No butterflies no butterfingers
No "ah me" that lingers
On and on when you are gone
No last dance from the lake swan
No string quartet playing in my head
No sweet Juliet
No thunder bolt from up above
Just good old plain old concrete love
Good old plain old concrete love
No jelly legs no trembling weak knees
No belly knots in me
I can eat and I can sleep
No twisted tongue that can't speak
No lunar walk no floating cloud talk
No ten out of ten to report
No thunderbolt from up above

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You snuck up on me
You waited patiently
You snuck up on me

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Won't you come
Won't you come over darling
Won't you come
'cuz I want some
Bring it on bring it on
Over

(Written by Julia Fordham & Gary Clark)

Yet another day slides into midnight
From your camp there's not a single word
Seemingly you have forgotten
I'm still your girl
People tell me I am strong
I might have to prove them wrong
As the cracks begin to show
I'm trying to find the strength to let you go
Missing man
Hope turned out to be a dangerous lesson
Faith a shallow river in disguise
Running through my patient spirit
Drowning my pride

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Missing man
Missing man
Do you miss me
Missing man
Missing man
Missing man
Do you miss me

(Written by Julia Fordham & Gary Clark)

I totally adored you
I would have stuck by you
Through thick and thin
I would have let you
Touch my pure and
Discerning skin
I almost fell in love with
The man you almost are
I almost stopped myself
From falling in too far
Can I just say
You have done a foolish thing
You walked away
From all the good
My solid love could bring
Now I hear you're hanging round
With some mousey girl
From some small town
Foolish thing
Foolish thing
Your friends warned me about you
They said you were more trouble
Than you're worth
They said you couldn't give me
All that I deserve

(Written by Julia Fordham & Gary Clark)

I'm like a butterfly
Pushing against the wind
You're like a magnet
Pulling me back in
No matter how I try
No matter what I do
I keep coming back to you
Mercy mercy please
You've got to release me
How this fatal twist of alchemy
Brings me to my knees

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Danger dangerous
What will become of us?
Strained addiction rushing over me
When will I break free?

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You're like a drug
I can't give up
I want you way too much
I keep on keep on keep on
Coming back to you

(Written by Julia Fordham & Gary Clark)

It's another you day
It's another you day
There you are
At the bus stop by the car
You're the music on my radio
And I can't turn you down
You're the driver on the ghost train
That's pulling me around
You are the traffic
You are everywhere
It's another you day
It's another you day
There you are
By the bandstand in the park
You're the star in every picture
And I'm so unrehearsed
I see you in the mirror
I see myself reversed
You are a vision
You are everywhere
It's another you day
It's another you day
There you are
In my bedroom in the dark
I still think about you
All the time
You're always on my mind
That's okay
It's just another you day
It's another you day
It's another you day
There you are
At the bus stop by the car
It's another you day
It's another you day
There you are
By the bandstand in the park
There you are
In my bedroom in the dark

(Written by Julia Fordham)

I've been down to the river
And seen the other side
I have cowered in the corner
Without a place to hide
I've been lost and forsaken
And sworn 'd not get through
But I must have done something right
To be here loving you
I must have done something right
To be here loving you
I have searched
For the whole truth
And seldom have I lied
I have been the silent witness
To all the tears've cried
There are things that I have done
I wish I could undo

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There were times when i had lost my
Will to carry on
I'm glad I found the strength to
So I could sing this song
There are things that I have done
I wish I could undo

(written by Julia Fordham & Larry Klein)

From the south side of Chicago
On woodland avenue
The youngest of eight children
With a voice that soared and soothed
Singing at the Lincoln center
The church a block away
Like a perfect angel
As the red sanders band played
She said baby
Can we just go some place warm
And stay there 'til the baby's born
I'll be your roadside angel
And walk with you through life
She was his roadside angel
He was her guiding light
They drove south from New York city
To Gainesville, Florida
And settled for two summers
There with Marc and Maya

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He loved her from the moment he saw her
At the top of the electric theatre stairs
Wrapped in his loving arms she lay
Listening to Stevie she flew away
She flew away

(featuring Joe Henry)
(written by Julia Fordham)

Allelu
Alleluia
I made it through
The day without you
Just a day
Another day
But I'm on my way
For a hushed sweet moment
Everything made sense
And all my misplaced judgements
Were awash with innocence
For a hushed sweet moment
It felt like time stood still
I only know I love you
And that I always will
By the shore
Near the harbor
A distant light
Shines on the water
Just a light
Oh distant light
Guide me through the night

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An Alleluia chorus
Rang out across the waves
I have not gone the distance
But I am on my way

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