KT Tunstall Album

I slipped softly through your slim fingers
Feeling traces, I embrace this
Feeling of letting go.
Oh and there goes, there it goes...

So take me far away
And hold me close to your heart
Do me just this little favor
For I do, yes I do love you.
Yes I do love you.

This science, sets easy
So peacefully
Like the skin, like the skin upon your body
On your body, your body

So take me far away now
And hold me close to your heart
Do me just this little favor
For I do, yes I do love you.

Little universe between our backs...

This little universe between our backs
Is so beautiful, and colorful, I lean on that.

Walking around in the days
Out for days now
Talking it up as amazing,
A maze that I'm in.
Looking at the stars for the answers
But all that I found was silence and dirty ground

If only you could see me now
If only you could hear me out
If only it was only me now.

Listen just a little bit harder
The hearts tell the truth
Is it just a pistol on the edge
To keep you moving
You're looking like you're looking for something
And now, you're surrounded by silence, whoa.

If only you could see me now
If only you could hear me out
If only it was only me now.

Silence, silence, silence.
You're surrounded by
Silence, silence, silence.
You're surrounded by
Silence, silence, silence.
You're surrounded by
Silence, silence, silence.

If only you could see me now
If only you could hear me out
If only it was only me now.

If only you could see me now
If only you could hear me out
If only it was only me now.
If only it was only me now.
If only it was only me now.

White bird with a black tail
Half dark, and a face so pale
Do you know what your future holds?
Over your side of the road

White bird with a black tail
You look like an open sail
Made me look up from your shoes
To show me what you stand to lose.

White bird, white bird
With your face so pale
White bird, white bird
Where'd you get that tail?
White bird, white bird
With a black tail

White feathers dipped in tar
Hard to tell how old you are
Wondering how much you know
About all of us below

Half of you is heavenly,
Showing off your purity.
The rest of you is from the street
Like to laugh where they both meet

White bird, white bird
With your face so pale
White bird, white bird
Where'd you get that tail?
White bird, white bird
With your face so pale
White bird, white bird
With a black tail.

Locked inside your head
Do you realize the things you said
Never made sense?

We can sit here and laugh
But we don't know the half of it,
In your defense

We've been talking a while
And it seems to me each time you smile
Lights are coming on
But they don't burn too strong
And they won't stay for long
And then they're gone again

Funnyman, gotta try to be something wonderful
Funnyman, listening to the world turning on its sail
Turn it into a brand new universe
Funnyman could never be anything else.

Do you remember that night
When I had to play your angel
Saving your soul?
Even though you were holding on tight
A part of you was taken by the demons below

When no one to lose
Said you feel like a bruise
On a beautiful body.
And all the damage you do
Is so honest and true
I don't want to feel sorry for you

Funnyman, gotta try to be something wonderful
Funnyman, listening to the world turning on its sail
Turn it into a brand new universe
Funnyman could never be anything else.

Say you, to me
You’re a bird with an eye for anything shiny
Searching the land
For a hero of a man
You say i need
More than my fair share of attention
An’ I think you know
That you steal the show
Oh underneath
I felt the fire of a burning question
Tearing me apart
Right from the very start
An’ now I see
That it dont take a trip off the light to excite me
So strong
So long
You’ll see

Hold On to what you be good for lately
Hold on to what you know you’ve got
Hold on to what you be good for lately
Hold on cuz the world will turn if you’re ready or not

Simplicity
A heart of gold, an old head and young shoulders
Quiet and lovely
Become a part of me
And now I see
Oh a handfull of names and a thousand faces
One light
Burning fiercely

I was tired of January
Tired of June
I felt a change a comin’
Wooahh oh ohh tired of January
Tired of June
I felt a change a comin’
Wooahh oh ohh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh
I felt a change a comin’
I felt a change a comin’
‘felt a change a comin’ soooon woh oh ohhhh

Hold On to what you be good for lately
Hold on to what you know you’ve got
Hold on to what you be good for lately
Hold on cuz the world will turn if you’re ready or not
Wooahh oh ohh
Hold On to what you be good for lately
Hold on to what you know you’ve got
Hold on to what you be good for lately
Cuz the world will turn, if you’re ready or not
Oh yeah
Well the world will turn, if you’re ready or not
WOAH HOHHHH
Yes the world will turn if you’re ready or not!

Hopeless
Everybody says its just another decay of the soul
But I know I'm hopeless, thought about anything to take me
Away from this hole in the ground
I found it's hopeless clinging to a feeling
Like a fish on a line, so blinded by the lately
Hopeless, no more saying that there's no more time.

I've was trying far too hard
To be what I thought I should be
I was playing wild cards and
Seeing things that weren't in front of me
Like a little tiger, played far too long,
Until I was hurting myself, again and again

Because I'm hopeless.
Everybody says its just another decay of the soul
But I know I'm hopeless, thought about anything to take me
Away from this hole in the ground
I found it's hopeless clinging to a feeling
Like a fish on a line, so blinded by the lately
Hopeless, no more saying that there's no more time.
That there's no more time.

Well I'm just discovering I'm living in a different body
Caught a little insight into everything thats happening to me
Like a little spider, I'm climbing the insurmountable
But I'll never hold myself accountable, no.

'Cause I'm hopeless.
Everybody says I'm hopeless
But I got a bit of hopelessness
Oh and you can never bring me down
Even though I've got some silent ground
Oh because I love it so
And I think you should know

Because I'm hopeless.
Everybody says its just another decay of the soul
But I know I'm hopeless, thought about anything to take me
Away from this hole in the ground
I found it's hopeless clinging to a feeling
Like a fish on a line, so blinded by the lately
Hopeless, hopeless, hopeless
No more saying that there's no more time.

Show me what it is you've done
Pull the covers off in front of everyone
So you want us all to see
What you created for yourself in spite of me

You can try to tie me down
You can try to string me up
But you have no luck now
Please don't ever let me down again
It shouldn't be allowed
Please don't ever make me frown again
You have shown me how
Please don't try to be my friend again
Because I don't want you, I don't want you now
I don't want you now

So now you learned to make your bed
Forbid for me to
Truth is I could have pulled you home
But you already advertised that I had slashed the tires
Of your one man show

You can try to tie me down
You can try to stitch me up
But you have no luck now
Please don't ever let me down again
It shouldn't be allowed
Please don't ever make me frown again
You have shown me how
Please don't try to be my friend again
Because I don't want you, I don't want you now
I don't want you now

I know, what you know...
Two fears that I could have posed...

You can try to tie me down
You can try to string me up
But you have no luck now
Please don't ever let me down again
It shouldn't be allowed
Please don't ever make me frown again
You have shown me how
Please don't try to be my friend again
Because I don't want you, I don't want you now
I don't want you now

See the look on my face
From staying too long in one place
But every time I try to leave
I find I keep on stalling
Feel like a big old stone
Standing by a strength of my own
But every time the morning breaks
I know I'm closer to falling

I'm all out of love, all out of faith
I would give everything just for a taste
Everything's here, all out of place
Losing my memory, saving my face
Saving my face, saving my face
Saving my face.

Listening to what you say
Even though I look the toher way
You could neve rundertsnad the feeling
Of what I'm leaving

I'm all out of love, all out of faith
I would give everything just for a taste
Everything's here, all out of place
Losing my memory, saving my face
Saving my face...

Whoa, ooh...

Leave it all to me
I will do the right thing
Baby I'll be everything I need
Leave it all to me
I will do the right thing
Baby I'll be everything I need
Leave it all to me
I will do the right thing
Do the right thing

I'm all out of love, all out of faith
I would give everything just for a taste
Everything's here, all out of place
Losing my memory, I'm losing the best of me.

I'm all out of love, all out of faith
I would give everything just for a taste
Everything's here, all out of place
Losing my memory, saving my face
Saving my face...

Whoa, ooh...

I need a mirror
In the eyes of a man.
I need no protection
From my bullet-proof plan.

I've got a ticket
For all that I lack.
You might think that I'm always gone
But I know that I'm coming back.

Sit at my table
Sip from my bowl.
Feel like I know you now
And I will do until I get old.

You might not see me
But trust that I'll stay.
But there's no sense in traveling
If we've already been that way.

Night is a matter
Hidden in grass
Bite like a light
Depends on the ways
To see how long it lasts

But you know better
You stand your ground
Might just stain a little
But she knows you're sticking around

The beauty of uncertainty...

Ooh...
Ahh, ooh...

I think it's time to put myself away
Seek out a little silence
Close the doors and sit a while
Walk a little

And as I put my words away
The flow slows
See this pen in a stream
Picking it up is easy.

Follow the shape of it.
Jump in.
Swallow it whole.
Jump in.

Even though I know my around
Possibly there's something that I found
Holding on for finding solid ground
Someday soon.
Someday soon.

I'll turn myself into the grass
And I'll grow
Take this space above my head
And live a little, little.

Gonna wear my feathered headress
Like an indian chief.
Gonna stretch out both my arms
I'm gonna test the temperature.

Follow the taste of it.
Jump in.
Swallow it whole.
Jump in.

Even though I know my around (even though)
Possibly there's something that I found (possibly I, possibly I)
Holding on for finding solid ground (ohh..)
Even though I know my around (even though)
Possibly there's something newI found (possibly I, possibly I)
Holding on for finding solid ground (ohh..)
Someday soon.
Someday soon.

Maybe walk a little
Someday soon.

Well this stone that I have swallowed
Isn't going down so well
And this road that I have followed
Is leading me to Hell

And you said it didn't matter
But I think you're a liar
Is this one of your talents
That stokes the very fire that burns you
Each time you try to live

And the earth will turn below you
The pressure is building
And something has to give
Oh something has to give

And when I build you a steeple
You say it's incomplete
'Cause you need the whole cathedral
To satisfy the need

And you're like a paper aeroplane
That never seems to land
Flying blind through anything
Straight into the hand that chokes you
Each time you try to live

And the earth will turn below you
The pressure is building
And something has to give
Oh something has to give

Well you're like a paper aeroplane
That never seems to land
Flying blind through anything
Straight into the hand

Well you're like a paper aeroplane
That never seems to land
Flying blind through anything
Straight into the hand that chokes you
Each time you try to live

And the earth will turn below you
The pressure is building
The pressure is building
The fire that burns you
Each time you try to live

And the earth will turn below you
The pressure is building
And something has to give
Something has to give
Something has to give
Something has to give
Something has to give
Give