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Split Enz Lyrics


Second Thoughts Album

1. Late Last Night
2. Walking Down a Road
3. Titus
4. Lovey Dovey
5. Sweet Dreams
6. Stranger Than Fiction
7. Time For a Change
8. Matinee Idyll (129)
9. The Woman Who Loves You

Late Last Night (Philip Judd) (4:04)
 
I saw you standing there at the bar
Your eyes were glazed with passion
A look of afar - A secret smile
I blew a few kisses
Said my name is Lyle
 
That love in her eyes (love in her eyes)
Heart to heart (heart to heart)
A tender goodbye (a tender goodbye)
Nothing could ever keep us apart
As you sipped your tequila
I knew I had to steal ya
Read like a book
Surprise that you took your time
Dig that rhyme
 
Gone, love took offence at the things I said
Good advice would be to go to bed
Rest my head, yeah
Catch 40 winks
While I dream about the things she said
 
Late last night, ooh yeah, late last night
She told me someone taught me everything I need to know, yeah
Last last night, late last night
She took my trembling hands and led me under the velvet sky
Rolling on the hill top playing Jack and Jill
Suddenly (suddenly) all was still, she was gone
 
She seemed so aloof
That's ninety per cent proof, with a lump in my throat
I grabbed my coat and ran, cornered again!
So I'll live for the moment and I'll take it as an omen
Gotta weakness for de women and de wine
 
Late last night, ooh yeah, late last night
She told me someone taught me everything I need to know, yeah
Late last night, ooh yeah, late last night
She told me someone taught me everything I need to know, yeah
Last last night, late late late late last night
She told me everything I know, know know...

 

Lovey Dovey (P. Judd, T. Finn) (3:08)
 
My house is sliding into the sea
Skies are grey, since you've been away
The chickens aren't laying eggs no more
It can only mean you left me for sure
 
But I still think of you when I'm alone
Oh how can I ever repay you for what you do to me
And I still think of you when I'm alone
Oh how could I ever repay you for what your, doing to me
 
La do dah la do dah dah
 
My trees are all turning brown
The sun won't shine, now you're no longer mine
The rats are crawlin' up me back
It can only mean you're never coming back
 
But I still think of you when I'm alone
Oh how could I ever repay you for what you doing to me
But I still think of you when I'm alone
Oh how could I ever repay you for what you doing to me
 
La do dah la do dah la do dah (wow)
 
My b-bed is leaning to one side
You know I can't sleep now that I've lost my pride
The flies are swarming in like bees
I even have to share my clothes with fleas
 
But I still think of you when I'm alone
Oh how could I ever repay you for what you doing to me
And I still think of you when I'm alone
Oh how could I ever repay you for what you doing to me
Right Now!
wop-de-doo... ahh.
La do dah la do dah dah la do dah
dah di la dah
dah di la dah

 

Sweet Dreams (Philip Judd) (5:07)
 
Cunning as a con-man, shrewd as a liar
I went weak in the knees, the first time I saw you
 
Deep inside, day to day ritual
Oh give it a try
Do what you will, look out now!
 
But I've seen it all before
It's nothing new to me
A living legend, like 15 million other, angels
 
Try as I do, I can never get through
I only got as far, as the back seat of my car
It's all very well to cry now
Yes it's all very well to lie now 
 
Now I'm wasting my time, clutching at straws (yeah)
You know damn well, what's mine is yours
Rich man or poor, duchess or whore
I haven't got time for, either or
 
I can't get over it
Thank God the storms passed over
I'll settle down I guess
Sweet dreams every once in a while
Sweet dreams every once in a while
 
Matovani, Martini and money
I fell for your etiquette
The first time we ever met
You really socked it to me
With your finger snap rhythm
Look out now, break-up
 
You've got it all figured out
Ten to one I lose
Drop your lovers noose and swing me
 
Cruelly deprived, I don't know how you've survived
Romantic theories of the pixies and fairies
Looking in retrospect seldom wrong but never correct
Emotions are aired like carpets out to dry
 
I can't get over it
Thank God the storms passed over
I'll settle down I guess
Sweet dreams every once in a while
Sweet dreams every once in a while
Sweet dreams, sweet dreams, sweet dreams every once in a while
 
Well you wouldn't know me from a bar of soap
A part of the furniture, an ornament, a rocking chair
It's all very well to cry now 
weet dreams every once in a while

 

Matinee Idyll (129) (P. Judd, T. Finn) (2:57)
 
Hiding in the wings forever
We'll take the stage, cos it's now or never
And the whole thing reeks of cheap striptease
The matinee idylls they all fall to their knees
 
It's not all first nights at all
There's nothing more dull than a curtain call 'get on with it'
 
Playing Romeo, you make your debut, ha!
Rose red cheeks but your face is all blue
It's not all bouquets & white crayons
They're going to laugh when you look down
I'm going to ask you if you want to be a chorus boy
You can mime the tragedy while we all sing along
 
It's not all first nights at all
There's nothing more dull than a curtain call 'jolly good show everyone'

 

The Woman Who Loves You (P. Judd, T. Finn) (6:53)
 
Don't stand a chance
Without romance
Keep the graveside warm for me
Ever since you shot through
I've crooned for you
 
Because the woman who loves you
Is the woman, you need, need to hold
But the woman, who loved me
Well she's dead - wow ohoh!
 
Without her charm
Arm in arm, lovers lane would be just a memory
Because the woman who loved me
Well she's dead
 
Well I wanted to buy her a diamond ring
And I wanted to buy her the kitchen sink
You know I wanted to buy her everything
See how she wobbles from side to side
See how she wobbles my lovely bride
 
Meet me wife, she's true to life, I love her
Yes I do, pushing daisies six feet down beneath her
Now me hair is falling out
And there's not much room to doubt
Life has left me cold
Ninety five and getting old
That's half the story told
 
Because the woman who loves you
Is the woman, the woman you need, need to hold
But the woman, the woman, who loves me,
well she's dead, dead, yeah yeah...
 
(*spoon solo*)
 
Oh how we danced, and when she glanced
Then I, I knew she cared for me
Ever since you've been gone, it's been so very long
Because the woman who loves you Is the woman you need, need to hold
But the woman, the woman who loved me
Well she's dead, dead to the world
She's dead to the world, yeah!

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