Chapter and Verse
from The Given by Colin Vearncombe
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I saw you standing by the 101
holding out your sign
Saying if you want me you'll be mine
Even when I'm gone you'll still hear my lonely song
and you'll want me back
I stared in the rear view mirror and slowed
Pulled on over to the side of the road
Here you come humming walking up to me
a smile on your face that I can't read
and then laying across the hood of your car
You look lonely as a star
Try living as a box-car gypsy
Try sleeping in the dirt
Wake thinking that you can't stand up straight
Spend a lifetime thinking you're cursed
Try living with the low rent crazies
Dealing with the worst
And then you're dancing for the dust bowl hobos
Start drinking somebody gets hurt
You write the prayer book
Chapter and Verse
And I start blinking as we drive towards the sun
Looking at your face
And wondering what you've done that brought you to this place
And what's inside that I can't see would make me want you back
Back hair hanging don to your waist
Not a single line on an ancient face
A look in her eyes I could fall right through
and she asks me:
'What and why do you?
You're not sitting in a car - that's not who you are"
And then she slapped my face
holding out your sign
Saying if you want me you'll be mine
Even when I'm gone you'll still hear my lonely song
and you'll want me back
I stared in the rear view mirror and slowed
Pulled on over to the side of the road
Here you come humming walking up to me
a smile on your face that I can't read
and then laying across the hood of your car
You look lonely as a star
Try living as a box-car gypsy
Try sleeping in the dirt
Wake thinking that you can't stand up straight
Spend a lifetime thinking you're cursed
Try living with the low rent crazies
Dealing with the worst
And then you're dancing for the dust bowl hobos
Start drinking somebody gets hurt
You write the prayer book
Chapter and Verse
And I start blinking as we drive towards the sun
Looking at your face
And wondering what you've done that brought you to this place
And what's inside that I can't see would make me want you back
Back hair hanging don to your waist
Not a single line on an ancient face
A look in her eyes I could fall right through
and she asks me:
'What and why do you?
You're not sitting in a car - that's not who you are"
And then she slapped my face
credits
from The Given,
released July 4, 2009
Written by Colin Vearncombe and William Topley
Published by Hornall Brothers Music and Copyright Control
Written by Colin Vearncombe and William Topley
Published by Hornall Brothers Music and Copyright Control
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Black
Colin Vearncombe, otherwise known as Black, was born in Liverpool on 26 May 1962.
He had three top-
ten records across Europe and sold over two million albums before leaving the mainstream and going independent. He released a string of albums as Black and under his own name on his own label; Nero Schwarz.
He died in a motor accident in January 2016. His legacy lives on in the Love, Colin project.
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