Paul Weller Album

I took a trip down Boundary Lane, try an' find myself again
At least a part I left somewhere, buried under a hedgerow near
A lazy bridge on a hot afternoon, water glistens while it plays a tune
Cloudburst on a rainy day, wiping all my sleep away

Uh huh oh yeh! Uh huh oh yeh! Always there to confuse and fool ya!
Uh huh oh yeh! Uh huh oh yeh! Always there to confuse and fool ya!

And in my mind I saw the place, as each memory returned to trace
Dear reminders of who I am, the very roots upon which I stand
And there they were for all to see, my long-lost used to be's
And all the dreams I had to dream, were really something, not make-believe

Uh huh oh yeh! Uh huh oh yeh! Always there to confuse and fool ya!
Uh huh oh yeh! Uh huh oh yeh! Always there to confuse and fool ya!

A lazy tree by a wishing well, I wish now that I could tell
If all the dreams I used to dream, are really something or make-believe

Uh huh oh yeh! Uh huh oh yeh! Always there to confuse and fool ya!
Uh huh oh yeh! Uh huh oh yeh! Always there to confuse and fool ya!

I've heard them all talking, I guess you have too
Adding flickers to the flame
How I've treated you, yes I take the blame
But let me say - that they don't know, the fools don't know
They really don't know that I really didn't mean to hurt you
Oh darling, I didn't mean to hurt you
Please believe me when I say that I didn't mean to hurt you girl

Whatever they tell you, there's more I could say
Lending motion to the wheel
How you built me up when I was falling down, down
But who knows - you just might find, just might find
That I'm just your kind and I really didn't mean to hurt you

An tho' I was looking there for something
Some things have no meaning
While I was looking there for something
Everything had gone

And still as I looked, I lived
And still as I lived, I wondered

In a momentary lapse of my condition
That sent me tumbling down into a deep despair
Lost and dazed so I had no real recollection
Until the rain cleared the air

When you wake to find that everything has left you
And the clothes you wear belong to someone else
See your shadow chasing off towards the shoreline
Drifting into emptiness

There are bullrushes outside my window
And their leaves whisper words in the wind
Tomorrow I'll walk to the harbour
And catch the first boat that's coming in

Like a child too small to reach the front door handle
Or maybe just too scared to know what I would find
Now I feel I'm strong enough to take the slow ride
Now knowing when I will arrive

I do believe I'm going home
'Cos I don't call this place my home
I'm missing what I had, happy times and sad
More than I ever thought could be

Tell us if our future's far...

Only surface - Jus' skin deep
When words fly like angels around your feet
Need the something - feel real inside
Cling together - as together we ride

(Chorus)
Round and round and up and down
Here we go in this moment in time
Round and round and up and down
Here we go again -

Movin' up to collect our prizes
Sinkin' fast into life's surprises
Win today but lose tomorrow
Lending what we just can't borrow

Round and round! Up and down!

Round and round and up and down
Here we go again -

Time around us - time to live
Getting back everything we give
Freedoms truth is the only truth
To save the day and pave the route

Be the first one on your block
To know the time and own a clock
Whose hands point upwards to the stars
To tell us if our future's far

Round and round and up and down
Here we go in this moment in time
Round and round and up and down
Here we go again -

Round and round and up and down
Here we go in this moment in time
Round and round and up and down
Here we go again -

Tell us if our future's far...

Remember how started on a summer's night
Too drunk to care about what might
You turned my head to kiss your lips
Time stood still as my heart skipped a beat

And if I could I'd take your hand and lead you off back to the past
I know a trail, a secret mile, an' better to cry than never smile

The moonlight shining through your flowered curtains
I think we knew it was us for certain
And just the thing that we hoped for
Was building up into something more

Oh I've been searching, searching
Trying to find the words to say
Oh I've been searching, searching
Trying to get back to the love we made ... yesterday

Remember how we started on a summer's night
Too young to know about what might
And just as well as we might not have started on this course at all

Autumn blew its leaves at me,
Threatening winter as I walked.
Summer always goes so quick, Barely stopping like my thoughts.
Which dip and spin and change so fast
I have to wonder - Will I last.

Through the windows of the train,
I caught reflections of a paper cup,
Hanging small in a pale blue sky,
Never knowing which way's up.

Above the clouds, what's to be found,
I have to wonder - Will I be around.
As my anger shouts - At my own self doubt,
So a madness creeps - Into my dreams
When you're scared of living - But afraid to die
I get scared of giving - And I must find the faith to beat it

I must be me that's rushing by,
Time just lingers on the wind.
Bristlin' through my open fears,
I wonder what it's going to bring.

Above the clouds, what's to be found,
I have to wonder - Will I be around
Run and hide, run and hide
I catch the sail at evening's tide.

I'll meet'cha on a bus at dawn, an open top one if it's warm
And if the flowers are in bloom, I'll lose myself to you

I'll be whistling down a street, you'll hear our footsteps start to meet
Then the craziness begins
An' like chalk and cheese, yeh we'll shoot the breeze
Yeh, headed up west in an open top deck
Oh trying to remember just what for

Then we'll talk for hours and hours about nothing much at all
With your long hair falling down, falling down, in curl after curl

And I too shy to ask what I really want to do
Racked with my own self doubt, I stumble and fall
Like a fool in love, my mind in the air
Heaven knows where, yeh, heading up west in an open top deck
Trying to remember just what for

Into the mists of time and space
Where we have no say over date and place
Don't get embarrassed if it happens a lot,
That you don't know how you started or where you're gonna stop
And if at times it seems insane - all the tears in searching;
Turning all your joy to pain - in pursuit of learning;
Buy a dream and hideaway - can't escape the sorrow;
Your mojo will have no effect - as we head into tomorrow

Round and round like a twisted wheel
Spinning in attempt to find the feel
Find the path that will help us find
A feeling of control over lives and minds

And if at times it seems insane - all the tears in searching;
Turning all your joy to pain - in pursuit of learning;
Buy a dream and hideaway - can't escape the sorrow;
Your mojo will have no effect - as we head

Into the stars and always up
Drinking from a broken cup
Whose golden gleam is fading fast
Praying that it has not passed
Into tomorrow

The sunny sand we ran along, every day began upon
The summer's kiss of love and adventure
And every dune that we fell into left a mark upon us too
Etched forever as a moment we'd remember, oh and we'd remember

The empty woods where we played, every hour of every day
The holidays went on forever
And in the woods was a soldier's tomb, the ghost of which looked over you
And God was there amongst the trees, we felt his whisper as the summer's breeze
And every night and every day I learned to love it in a special way
As I remember, what it's like to walk amongst butterflies

Come on in, admission's free
I won't refuse those who wanna see

Bring your loved ones, those you hold dear
Bring them all, there's no restrictions here

But don't look for blame as an easy escape
There's nothing on show that isn't your shame
So come on in, it's a small price to pay
And I won't refuse those who've lost their way

Unfit to live in, just about fit to burst
Like the banks of a swollen river, as bitterness does its worst
Working on your feelings, eating you all up
You have to shed that shit to move on, let love carry you on up

(It's just) bitterness rising, taking you off
Bitterness rising, you gotta shake those feelings off

Unfair to give in and never change its course
If you have the choice before you, you must take it with a force
Or the past will take you, keep you from the truth
As bitterness rises from the ashes of your youth

(It's just) bitterness rising, taking you off
Bitterness rising, you gotta shake those feelings off

Moments in time, finding the space, to be what'cha wanna be
The things you never got, life you never had
The dreams that you once dreamed
Waiting your time, finding the space, to be what'cha wanna be
Well just be!

Or the past will take you, keep you from the truth
As bitterness rises from the ashes of your youth
(It's just) bitterness rising, taking you off
Bitterness rising, you gotta shake those feelings off

Life's complexities trouble your rise
As you attempt to ascend into the high
Is there nowhere else left to run
But to the Kosmos - men gaze - to look for heaven

Flying high - never come down
Flying high - don't know how to come down

Take a ride into the soon
Be the first one on the moon
Take a slide, come back to earth
It's to the Kosmos - men dare - to look for something

Flying high - never come down
Flying high - don't know how to come down

No time to spare - Destiny is here
No time to lose - better if we choose
Less time to share - people stop and stare
To look for hope above the clouds - to look for heaven

A world away, a million light years
That's how far destruction seems
Now our dreams are sad, slow creatures
Dying to know - who am I? What am I? Where am I to go?