Too Many Times
from Any Colour You Like by Black
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Original recording 1991 (Black)
This recording 2000 (Live at the Bassline)
Performed by Black
This recording 2000 (Live at the Bassline)
Performed by Black
lyrics
There've been too many times
When I never said what was on my mind
How was I to know you'd go so soon?
Your God would come to take you home
Leaving me stumbling over
These stupid lines on a shabby page
Daddy, sometimes I'm filled with rage -
I lost the only thing that was really mine
And Daddy, can you hear me?
Daddy, do I still make you laugh?
And I know just what you'd say
Is this really the time and place?
To say all of those things that we never said
There've been too many times
When my head was filled with stupid pride
I hope you're laughing now that all these words have been set aside
And Daddy, can you hear me?
Daddy, do I still make you laugh?
And I know just what you'd say
Is this really the time and place?
To say all of those things that we never said
It seems so long since I saw you
Yet it seems like yesterday
There's no need to make amends when we finish up as friends
Oh Daddy, can you hear me?
Daddy, do I still make you laugh?
There’ve been too many times...
When I never said what was on my mind
How was I to know you'd go so soon?
Your God would come to take you home
Leaving me stumbling over
These stupid lines on a shabby page
Daddy, sometimes I'm filled with rage -
I lost the only thing that was really mine
And Daddy, can you hear me?
Daddy, do I still make you laugh?
And I know just what you'd say
Is this really the time and place?
To say all of those things that we never said
There've been too many times
When my head was filled with stupid pride
I hope you're laughing now that all these words have been set aside
And Daddy, can you hear me?
Daddy, do I still make you laugh?
And I know just what you'd say
Is this really the time and place?
To say all of those things that we never said
It seems so long since I saw you
Yet it seems like yesterday
There's no need to make amends when we finish up as friends
Oh Daddy, can you hear me?
Daddy, do I still make you laugh?
There’ve been too many times...
credits
from Any Colour You Like,
released September 5, 2011
Music and Lyrics by Colin Vearncombe
Published by Hornall Brothers Music
Musicians
Colin Vearncombe
Concorde Nakabinde
Barry Van Zyl
Lady Black
Recorded at the Bassline, Johannesburg.
Produced and mixed by Colin Vearncombe and Martin Green.
Music and Lyrics by Colin Vearncombe
Published by Hornall Brothers Music
Musicians
Colin Vearncombe
Concorde Nakabinde
Barry Van Zyl
Lady Black
Recorded at the Bassline, Johannesburg.
Produced and mixed by Colin Vearncombe and Martin Green.
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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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