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Apron Strings (Watt, Thorn) Idlewild Tracey Thorn - vocals, Ben Watt - guitar & vocals Album: Everything But The Girl (1988) Wea, Ltd. Sire Records, 25721-21 Apron strings hanging...Read Full Lyrics

All the mistakes I made I made because I didn't know myself very well And by this stage I feel like I really shouldn't know myself I'm forced into a sponsored silence Where I'm onl...Read Full Lyrics

It's always 3am in your world So I'm drinking this as if I hadn't slept Telling stories which tell their stories themselves You didn't even hear them I thought to somewhere else As...Read Full Lyrics

I kick stones, kick stones, kick stones, through windows I've kicked stones, which somehow got home But I'm not proud, that I'm a broken window But I'm not proud, that I can't loo...Read Full Lyrics

Since your breathing, is it all that a space can fill? So just by looking in, I'll be looking still You find and follow stories well You're naked except for a newspaper, the headli...Read Full Lyrics

It's all the little things Descending in the hope for what tomorrow brings Depending what you wear and what you choose to sing But slumped forward on bars, seeing circles in sta...Read Full Lyrics

Cos I'm the only one who knows everyone barbecue lungs None of you know what I'm thinking Who on earth would believe a word you say? You're disturbed in a strange fascinated way Yo...Read Full Lyrics

I'll meet you outside the city halls, I'll be standing on the step of the hall, And we wait until I find you. You said "Be there or be square and meet me outside the Hall". Well h...Read Full Lyrics

I watch you stumble through the morning I watch you stumble home at night Silhouetted by a sun without sunlight I've watched you walk straight through an evening When you're laden ...Read Full Lyrics

You won't let me change, You don't let me change, Tell me I can grow up, And age will forget that I'm old, You won't let me change, You don't let me change, The story is already t...Read Full Lyrics