Level 42

It’s Over

I won’t be here when you come home
I’m sorry if you don’t understand, forgive me if you can
But I can see another road
And I ain’t coming back

Don’t look for me around this town
‘Cause I will be so far away, you’ll never find me anywhere
And I won’t take no souvenirs
No perfumed picture promises
Because it’s over
And I ain’t coming back

You gave me everything
And now I’m breaking your heart
You know that I don’t mean
To tear your world apart

I would never leave
If I thought you couldn’t stand the pain
A letter in the hall is written on the wall
A letter with no words of love at all
Because it’s over (because it’s over)
And I ain’t coming back

And as I close the door
I know I’m breaking your heart
I should have loved you more
Instead I’ve torn your world apart

And as I walk into the lonely afternoon
I feel sad enough, I feel bad enough
And all the times when you are lonely where you are
Please don’t hate me then
I just could not pretend, oh no

Feel the tears
I can feel the tears
Running through the years
Feel, feel the tears
I can feel the tears
Running through the years

Tears, feel the tears
I can feel the tears
Running through the years
Tears, feel the tears
I can feel the tears
Running through the years

Tears

Lessons in Love

I’m not proud, I was wrong and the truth is hard to take
I felt sure we had enough but our love went overboard
Lifeboat lies lost at sea I’ve been trying to reach your shore
Waves of doubt keep drowning me

All the dreams that we were building
We never fulfilled them
Could be better, should be better
For lessons in love
For restless eyes, egos burn and the mold is hard to break
Now we’ve waded in too deep and love is overboard
Heavy hearts token words all the hopes I ever had

Fade like footprints in the sand
All the homes that we were building
We never lived in
Could be better, should be better
Lessons in love

If we lose the time before us
The future will ignore us
We should use it, we could use it, yeah
Lessons in love
Lost without love
Lessons in love
When will you ever learn
Lessons in love
When there’s nowhere left to turn
Lessons in love
Don’t let your spirit burn
Lessons in love
I’ll wait ‘till you return
All the dreams that we were building
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
We never lived them
We could lose it, we should use it
(Lessons in love)
Lessons in love
All the homes that we were building
We never lived in
Could be better
(Could be better)
Should be better
(Yeah, yeah)
Lessons in love
If we lose the time before us
The future will ignore us
We should use it, we could use it
(Good God)
Lessons in love

Running in the Family

Our dad would send us to our room
He’d be the voice of doom
He said that we would thank him later
All day he was solid as a rock
But by eight o’clock
We’d be crumbling

One night
My brother Joe and me
Climbed down the family tree
That grew outside our bedroom window
We ran though we knew it couldn’t last
Running from the past
From things that we were born to be

Looking back it’s so bizarre
It runs in the family
All the things we are
On the back seat of the car
With Joseph and Emily
We only see so far
And we all have our daddy’s eyes
Looking back it’s so bizarre

Dad rang the officer in charge
A man so large
He barely fit his circumstances
He said two kids out on the street
Were picked up on the beat
And in the station
So there’s me
With Emily and Joe
Daddy driving home
All heading in the same direction
He knew no matter what the breaks
We’d make the same mistakes

Couldn’t take his eyes of Joe and me
Looking back it’s so bizarre
It runs in the family
All the things we are
On the backseat of the car
With Joseph and Emily
We only see so far

And we all have our daddy’s eyes
Looking back it’s so bizarre
It runs in the family
All the things we are
Looking back it’s so bizarre
Like a dream within a dream
We’re all somewhere in between
Like a drummer plays his drum
Like a father like a son
And your gonna have to face the music

Hey hey
We keep it running in the family
Hey hey
We keep it coming in the family
Hey hey
We keep it running in the family
Hey hey
We keep it coming in the family

Looking back it’s so bizarre
It runs in the family
All the things we are
On the backseat of the car
With Joseph and Emily
We only see so far
‘Cause we all have our daddy’s eyes

Take me back into your arms
It’s no longer a mystery
There’s no cause for alarm
Could have never come this far
With no sense of history
It always leaves a scar

And we all have our daddy’s eyes
Looking back it’s so bizarre
Running in the family
Running in the family
And we all have our daddy’s eyes
Looking back it’s so bizarre hey