A Certain Trigger Lyrics

[Robin]

Signal And Sign
(D. Lloyd/P. Smith)

Well I've been waiting
here for hours
It's getting cold
position closed

New direction
new dawn
Consider this
my informal complaint

Hope you felt cheated at home with all your lies
How long has it taken for you to look fine
Don't waste your life
Just go outside

Well I've been waiting
to forget
How the pieces
just fell away
You left your hometown
where you grew up
I hadn't noticed how your accent had changed

Did these lonely hands rob your time
When was the signal divorced from the sign

Illumination
Accusation.

I'd like to meet her
But she won't see me

[Robin]

Apply Some Pressure
(D. Lloyd/P. Smith)

You know that I would love to see you next year
I hope that I am still alive next year
You magnify the way I think about myself
Before you came I rarely thought about myself

Behind your veil I found the body underneath
Inside your head were things I'd never thought about

What's my view? Well how am I supposed to know?
Write a review? Well, how objective can I be?

You know that I would love to see you in that dress
I hope that I will live to see you undress
The everyday is part of what consumes me
The hate I feel is part of what fuels me

I testify to having guilty feelings
I must confess, I'd like to be caught stealing

What's my view? Well, how am I supposed to know?
Write a review? Well, how objective can I be?

I like to wait to see how things turn out
If you Apply Some Pressure

What happens when you lose everything?
You just start again.
You start all over again.

I like to wait to see how things turn out
If you apply some pressure

You know that I would love to see you......
I hope that I am still alive.......................

[Robin]

Graffiti
(D. Lloyd/P. Smith)

That's enough
I can't take anymore
Right out of vision
Right out of hope
You work me up
Just to tear me down
What's on your conscience?
Nothing happens in my town
I'll do graffiti if you sing to me in French
What are we doing here if romance isn't dead?
Mind your mouth as you walk with me
Take care oooh oh as you cross the street

That's enough
I've had it up to here
I've lost my vision
I've lost my hope
You stirred me up
Just to hand me down
You've lost your conscience
Nothing happens in my town.
I'll do graffiti if you sing to me in French
What are we doing here if romance isn't dead?
Stay in line on the foreign trip
Waking up
I need a lift.

[Robin]

Postcard of a Painting
(D. Lloyd/P. Smith)

I'm losing more than I'll ever have.

Picture me with you- but
You couldn't do it
Everything I said was true- but
I couldn't prove it.

Your eyes are big when they're so close
Why can't we say goodbye in public?

I'll admit that there's a web- but
it wasn't me who spun it.
Now I've made my bed
But you wouldn't lie down in it.

I wrote my feelings down in a rush
I didn't even check the spelling
Enclosed a postcard of a painting

You are just another thing I've yet to fathom.

[Robin]

Going Missing
(D. Lloyd/P. Smith)

I sleep with my hands across my chest
And I dream of you with someone else
I feed my body with things that I don't need
Until I sink to the bottom
This can't go on
so I should just Regret It
And even though I led you on Forget It

Don't act like it came as a surprise
Don't believe me? Then look into these eyes
I still remember how you moved
And I taste your scent upon my lips
How it started, I will never know
But now I've reached my limit

Do you ever want to wear your body out
Until there's nothing left to take?
The rain began to push you away
Has midnight come too soon again?

I've got nothing in defence
I've got nothing left to lose
Don't listen to anything

[Robin]

I Want You To Stay
(L. Wooller/P. Smith)

I rewrite my life beneath moonlight.
Please hold me now til my breath runs out
There are many things that I am not
But there's one thing that I can't deny

A double-bluff You fed me lines
The shortest cut You're searching for
A mesh of tones surround your eyes
I wish I knew how It came to this

I always said you could rely on me
Now it seems that I was wrong
I want you to stay
I want you to stay with me

Nothing works 'round here
Where cranes collect the sky
I long for the neon signs of night
'Cause nothing works 'round here
You know the way I feel
Remember what we had

Why do you think I overtake
I speak to you And you don't say no
A camera runs Just to collect
I dread to think how it came to this

The lies we tell Are found on film
You start to push Your lips to mine
Outside my room You closed your eyes
And in the end It came to this

Nothing works 'round here
Where cranes collect the sky
I think of your face at night
Cause nothing works round here
You know the way I feel
Remember what we had
As time gets more compressed
You're always my reminder
A lifetime disappears, remember what we had
As time gets more compressed, You are always my...

[Robin]

Limassol
(A. Tiku/P. Smith)

Thinking clearly never came as easy as it did for you
Driving this route out of town I wish you were still around

In the dead of night I always wondered whether you were true
Someone better than myself...an offer you just can't turn down

A morning fight
A wasted night
You crept back to your room...

Run along back to your new man
LIMASSOL
Hold on, I couldn't trap you
Head for...new horizons
LIMASSOL

When it's all good, keep things close at hand

I could never bear to hear you struggling against the tide
Promises I couldn't keep
Couldn't admit I was in too deep


Saw the lights on in your window even though they said you'd gone
The darker nights have come again
Quicker than the year before

A morning fight
A wasted night
You slinked back to your room...


I think you'd better run along...
LIMASSOL
Hold on,
Head for...
LIMASSOL

And when it's all good you've got to
Keep things close at hand..

[Robin]

The Coast Is Always Changing
(D. Lloyd/P. Smith)

I've met so many people who look the same,
Most were forgotten but you still remain.
Most of the time, I don't care,
But London's so far away when you're there.
And so it saddens me to say,
I'm only happy when I move away.

I am young and I am lost
Every sentence has its cost
I am young and I am lost
You react to my riposte...

We look out upon the sea
The coast is always changing
I'll bring my camera out to sea
This coast is always changing...

Age makes no difference 'til you open your mouth
Use your time just to work things out
I know that you can't understand,
When I tell you that this wasn't planned
And though it saddens me to say,
I'm only happy when I move away.

I am young and I am lost...

We look out upon the sea
The coast is always changing
We'll take the train out to the sea
My pulse is always racing
As we look out upon the sea
My heart is always changing

It won't be long before you've gone
I can't imagine leaving...

And though it saddens me to say..
I'm only happy when I move away
And though it saddens me to stay
I'm still waiting for that day.... ... .

[Robin]

The Night I Lost My Head
(P. Smith)

1 in a million
2 is a crowd
3 is company
4's not allowed

I spent all night trying
To remember your address

Drawing lines around your body
Making marks on the mucky floor

5 little fingers
6 digit fix
My lucky 7
8 steps to my hips

I spent all night trying
To remember your address

Drawing lines around your body
Making marks on the mucky floor

Why did we have to meet
On the night I lost my head?

Why did we have to meet on the night I lost my head?

You found me indiscreet...
You found me in the street....

On the night I lost my head.

[Robin]

Once, A Glimpse
(D. Lloyd/P. Smith)

Cut away Hard to find
I don't remember why I started speaking
Fast-track operation
Slow exertion Over ridden

Unseen Tough to catch
I can't remember why I started drinking
One-track mind each and every time
Smooth insertion Country living

Engage And then entrust
I can't remember when I started hurting
Another streetlight going down
The night reveals itself to you

Slipping under Sliding down
All I need is a certain trigger
The path you take will never make you happy
All I need is a certain spur

Once a glimpse was all I needed
I can't remember why I have to give you back
I just remember that I kept all of your souvenirs
Salvaged traces of a love I never had

Enforced and then enabled
I don't remember why I started breathing
Tied up Turn him loose
Slow desertion kept me hidden

That's that No escaping
I can't remember why I started thinking
Wrapped up Cutting back
Their inertia left you driven

Just a glimpse was all I needed...

I wish that I could say I don't need you anymore
I heard every word you said and that is all
x2

I don't think you're gonna get that early night.

[Robin]

Now I'm All Over The Shop
(D. Lloyd/P. Smith)

If you're gonna talk about the things I need
Then you're gonna have to find out what they are
You remind me of a time when I was boring
I recall a time when you could slip your noose
I washed my hands of you
My feet won't hit the ground
I often ask myself
When am I gonna learn?

I know you'll be content
In the right line of employment
CHORUS...
I never held you You never hold me
It's happening all over again
I tried to tempt you You say I'm deluded
When will this foolishness cease?
I attempted to snare you with old
fashioned manners
But patience was never my thing.
When I said you were special You know that I meant it
Now I'm all over the shop.

Every time I see you I start choking
I prefer to keep my eyes wide open
Ballerina poses get you nowhere
Patience is a virtue when you're near me
I washed my hands of you
My feet won't hit the ground
I frequently ask myself
When will I ever learn?
CHORUS...

I know that you'll be fine. In the right line
I know that you'll be fine, now that you're not mine

If you carry on like this you'll never make it

[Robin]

Acrobat
(L. Wooller/P. Smith)

You've got to catch an early plane
And it's no surprise I'm standing still.
Another minute more is all I need
And I'll never have enough.
This room gets so cold in the winter
What will it take to heat this house?
I just want to feel comfortable...
When there's only the two of us on my bed..
My foot nearly brushes your leg
I can't draw it away; I can't push it forward
It lies stranded. It belongs to someone else.
We knew each other once
This can't be what you want but...
You didn't have to demolish me.

I don't remember losing sight of your needs.

I am not an acrobat...
I cannot perform these tricks for you.
Losing all my balance, falling from a wire meant for you.

The sky is often used as a metaphor
And I suppose that's because it's so big and expansive.
When a long strand of cloud sits
just above the horizon
leaving a strip of clear blue beneath it,
it really becomes the panorama.
Turning your head three hundred and sixty degrees,
The same line follows you round
if the land is sufficiently flat.
Really, nothing can be compared to it.

I don't remember losing sight of your needs.

I am not an acrobat...

[Robin]

Kiss You Better
(P. Smith)

I know the night has reached that stage again
Where I never want to see my home,
I know that you'll provide the brains
But who'll provide the brawn?
And if it comes down to me and him
You know I'd kiss you better...
I kept the message that you sent me

Bear with me
If you're scared
My beliefs
Kept me bound

It's time that we compiled a list
Of places where we shouldn't go
Now is not the time to lose your voice
Everyone should have a choice
And if you should ever fall
I'd kiss you better
I keep the letters that you send me...

Close your eyes
If you're scared
Your beliefs
Will make you drown

Are you so scared that you're just gonna let it happen?