"Running Still" (2011)

• Hello Alone lyrics - Charlie Winston
• Speak To Me lyrics - Charlie Winston
• Happiness lyrics - Charlie Winston
• The Great Conversation lyrics - Charlie Winston
• She Went Quietly lyrics - Charlie Winston
• Unlike Me lyrics - Charlie Winston
• Until You're Satisfied lyrics - Charlie Winston
• Wild Ones lyrics - Charlie Winston
• Making Yourself So Lonely lyrics - Charlie Winston
• Rockin' In The Suburbs lyrics - Charlie Winston
• Summertime Here All Year lyrics - Charlie Winston
• Lift Me Gently lyrics - Charlie Winston

Hello Alone lyrics - Charlie Winston

Hello alone, it’s you and me again

How can we pretend we’ve never met

Hello alone, you might as well come in

We’ve been making beds for so long now

I never told you that I want you

I thought I had you out of my head

But every time she leaves me

Refusing to believe me

You’re always there

And even though I don’t invite you

And your presence is a pain

You always let me be just who I am 

Until I’m glad to bring back that refrain again

Hello alone, it’s you and me again

How can we pretend we’ve never met

Hello alone, you might as well come in

We’ve been shaking hands for too long now

I even tried to re-convince you

But it was just no use at all

'Cause every time I climbed inside your mind

I saw the mirror on the wall

But it’s no use to pose the question

When the answer’s never ’she’

And then I have to face up to the facts

With saxophones and old trombones

Carrying me home to say

Hello alone, it’s you and me again

How can we pretend we’ve never met

Hello alone, you might as well come in

We’ve been making beds for too long

Perhaps I’ll take a holiday

And get as far away as I can

But then I’d just be far away

And just as much a lonesome man

With his head in his hands

And chanting

Hello alone, it’s you and me again

How can we pretend we’ve never met

Hello alone, you might as well come in

We’ve been making beds for too long now

Oh oh, we’ve been making friends for so long now

Hey hey, we’ve been shaking hands for so long, so long now

Speak To Me lyrics - Charlie Winston

If there’s a lesson then I’m willing to learn it

If there’s a blessing then I’m willing to earn it

But I’m lost on a day like this and I need a little helping hand.

My kamikazi is coming to break up

Every plan I been trying to make up

I had a vision but I didn’t think to listen to the truths up against me now

So speak to me I’m in a city looking bleak to me

I need to breathe and find out what it means to be.

Speak to me I got a feeling there’s a freak in me 

That’s seeking me and everything is eating me.

Speak to me I couldn’t give a shit if what you leak

Is super weak, I gotta get your energy.

Speak to me, I could be capable of secrecy 

But lock and key is never gonna free me.

Woah, speak to me.

I sit around drinking coffee all day

Nothing to do and little to say

I get stuck into the thought of letting love in, 

Thinking I can understand myself

But then the whirlpool pulls me under

And it tears my mind asunder

I get to wishing that I could be a vanishing act

And slip away by stealth

So speak to me I’m in a city looking bleak to me

I need to breathe and find out what it means to be.

Speak to me I got a feeling there’s a freak in me 

That’s seeking me and everything is eating me.

Speak to me I couldn’t give a shit if what you leak

Is super weak, I gotta get your energy.

Speak to me, I could be capable of secrecy 

But lock and key is never gonna free me.

Woah, speak to me.

Speak to me

Speak to me

Speak to me I’m in a city looking bleak to me

I need to breathe and find out what it means to be.

Speak to me I got a feeling there’s a freak in me 

That’s seeking me and everything is eating me.

Speak to me I couldn’t give a shit if what you leak

Is super weak, I gotta get your energy.

Speak to me, I could be capable of secrecy 

But lock and key is never gonna free me.

Happiness lyrics - Charlie Winston

Where?

Where can I buy happiness?

Does anybody know?

Where can I buy happiness?

I was raised in the desert by an unknown tribe

Had no exposure to the world outside

‘Til I was captured, I was taken to this place

Where the faces are many and they race just like shooting stars!

I miss my home and I know that it’s gone

But I don’t know how to carry on

In this world where I don’t come from

I guess I’ll just do the same

Well I got a little money, now I hope I got change!

Where?

Where can I buy happiness?

Does anybody know?

Where can I buy happiness?

'Cause I don't know

Deep in the city where the lights are like a bad dream

There’s people selling trees and snow in every window

I heard a story of a man called Christ

And to celebrate his birthday everybody pays a high price

They must keep happiness behind closed doors

'Cause I can’t seem to find no happiness store

Is to raise a smile against the law?

'Cause they all look just how I feel

And if they got a little joy then

I’m happy to make a deal

Well I’ll beg and I’ll borrow but

I’m not gonna steal!

Where?

Where can I buy happiness?

Does anybody know?

Where can I buy happiness?

Where?

Where can I buy happiness?

Does anybody show me?

Where can I buy happiness?

'Cause I don't know

Can anybody tell me?

Where?

Where can I buy happiness?

Could anybody show me

Where can I buy happiness?

'Cause I don't know

The Great Conversation lyrics - Charlie Winston

Guten Abend, Herr Beethoven

With these words I’ve interwoven inspiration from Moonlight

Since you parted much has changed but your melodies remain

Like flamingos in full flight

Please forgive me and be assured I’m only using all your chords

To illustrate that nothing’s ever new

But it seems these days there’s very little left that people have to say

As they pay for emperor's new clothes

But I refuse to take my hat to an era near extinction

Without question or complaint

The dialogue is growing weak, some forgetting how to speak,

Or stand up and show restraint

They’re all sick with common sense

Riddled thick with complacence

Where there’s nothing left to push against

So, dear Ludwig, that is why I choose the great gig in the sky

Where there are greater minds beyond mine

And I’ll meet them all

Yes, I’ll meet you all

In the great conversation

Without time, without reason

I’ll meet you all

Yes, I’ll meet you all

In the great conversation

Where time has no place, no, no

Is it me, or has humanity turned slave to the convenience

Of this, so called, ‘Techno Age’?

I speak to you, Ludwig, because you represent a time so opposite,

When music filled the page

For example: this song here may be too much to please the ear

Because it’s wordy and demonstrative,

But my might is not to entertain the plight of human thought,

Though some may think I ought to

Well I’ll meet them all

Yes, I’ll meet you all

In the great conversation

Without time, without reason

I’ll meet you all

Yes, I’ll meet you all

In the great conversation

Where time has no place, no, no

Dare I say, as a landscape fades to grey

That a sword of Damocles hangs heavy overhead

Of all our voices great.

Well I’ll meet them all

Yes, I’ll meet you all

In the great conversation

Without time, without reason

I’ll meet you all

In the great conversation

Where time has no place, no, no

She Went Quietly lyrics - Charlie Winston

There’s really not so much to tell

She was 29, showing signs of doing well

For herself

She never spoke of feeling sad

Was, oh, so close with the family and friends 

She had around her

But she went quietly

She didn’t make a sound

She went quietly

With the wish not to be found

She went quietly

Without a word of where

Just a note that wrote

“Forgetting is easier”

Years have fallen since the day

She wrote the note and chose to float away

Into the ether

Someone said they saw her south

At the coast, on the river’s mouth

But only briefly

‘Cause she went quietly

She didn’t make a sound

She went quietly

With the wish not to be found

She went quietly

Without a word of where

Just a note that wrote

“Forgetting is easier”

But she went quietly

She didn’t make a sound

She went quietly

With the wish not to be found

She went quietly

Without a word of where

Just a note that wrote

“Forgetting is easier”

Out of the blue in the pouring rain

To my doorstep, old and cold, today she came

With her story

I asked her in but she declined

Had just one single thing to get off her mind

And that was sorry

Unlike Me lyrics - Charlie Winston

You don’t stop,

Day to day,

Up and down,

Picking up,

No one ever sees.

Memories take a toll,

Old wounds never go.

Look ‘n see

Find a way,

Anyway

Way to be

Safer in your skin

Try to

Stay cool,

Keep low,

Let go,

Nowhere left to run.

Breakdown,

Rain dogs,

Freak clouds,

No words.

Secretly,

You'll be

Your own worst

Enemy,

With no one left to blame.

You better find someone,

You better find someone,

You better find someone,

Unlike me

Happiness

Has a home,

Have a guess

Where it is,

Have you ever been

To see

Pain and

Pleasure

Together?

Some say

They play,

Take turns

Each day

To make sweat happiness.

Don’t start

Big heart,

Don’t cry

Little fly,

Buzzing around your heads.

In time

You’ll find

It's all

Behind you.

All said,

All done,

Who loves the sun

Shining ever more?

Shining ever more

You better find someone,

You better find someone,

You better find someone,

Unlike me

You better find someone,

You better find someone,

You better find someone,

Unlike me

Until You're Satisfied lyrics - Charlie Winston

I want your touch

Want it too much

Give it to me, oh,

Can’t you see

You got the keys

To my release

Please don’t you go

Don’t go and leave me alone, no.

Because I want your skin

To let me in

Let me undo you like a deed

I've gotta feed on your every move

Get to feel

Get to feel

Get to feel you

Until you’re satisfied

Only way to do it

Really nothing to it, no, no.

Until you’re satisfied

All about the rhythm

Knowing you’ve been given the time

Ah ah, come a little closer

Ah ah, come a

You might say I’m just one more man 

Without a sense of romance 

These fancy follies just take me over

But think it over.

Tell me

Why would you judge

What kind of love

You and I might steal,

Read the signs

Your hand’s in mine

Now I’ve got you for real

In my pocket

So I’m locking us up

Until you’re satisfied

Only way to do it

Really nothing to it, no, no.

Until you’re satisfied

All about the rhythm

Knowing you’ve been given the time

You might say I’m just one more man 

Without a sense of romance 

These fancy follies just take me over

But think it over.

Now I’ve got you

I don’t want to let you go, no,

I know, I’ve got to let it show

Just how much I love you so,

And now I’m gonna let you know

Until you’re satisfied

Only way to do it

Really nothing to it, no, no.

Until you’re satisfied

All about the rhythm

Knowing you’ve been given the time

Ah ah, come a little closer

Ah ah, come a little closer

Ah ah, come a little closer

Ah ah, come a little closer

Ah ah, come a little closer

Ah ah, come a little closer

Ah ah, come a little closer

Come a..., come a...

Ah ah, come a little closer

Ah ah, come a little closer

Wild Ones lyrics - Charlie Winston

Gimme the keys to your abandon

Take it away, this safe place to stand on.

Tell me you don’t have a reason.

Tell me you got no one to be pleasing.

Gimme the space to be playful.

Gimme the time to take what we came for

Gimme the keys to your wasteland

Climb on your caterpillar, dig your head from the sand

I didn’t know you could do that

I didn’t know you were suited to something else

We jump like a jack in the box

Take off your shoes, take off your socks

'Cause maybe we can live like the wild ones

Rip out the guts of the monsters

Maybe we can live like the wild ones

Hey! Maybe we can live like the wild ones

Rip off the heads of the monsters

Maybe we can live like the wild ones

Don’t let the sun set without us

Soon they’ll forget so climb onto your rooftops

Shout until they shine the lights on 

Our faces are ageless our faces are golden

We’re not another number, numb as the other,

We’re a discovery to be discovered

So maybe we can live like the wild ones

Rip out the guts of the monsters

Maybe we can live like the wild ones

So maybe we can live like the wild ones

Rip off the heads of the monsters

Maybe we can live like the wild ones

And if the thought police come knocking on our door

You can tell them that I don’t live here anymore

There is a law but it’s all unsaid

Keeps you on your feet like the walking dead

You better watch what you get fed

These days, hey, hey, you better get away!

'Cause maybe we can live like the wild ones

Rip out the heads of the monsters

Maybe we can live like the wild ones

Hey! Maybe we can live like the wild ones

Rip off the heads of the monsters

Maybe we can live like the wild ones

Maybe we can live like the wild ones

Maybe we can live like the wild ones

Maybe we can live like the wild ones

Maybe we can live like the wild ones

Making Yourself So Lonely lyrics - Charlie Winston

On the phone you spoke

Picking bones with my friends and lovers

You said, ‘I think you’re living in a bubble, darling’

So, I thought it through and thought 

That maybe you could be on to something

After all, we all have our little blind spots, don't we?

So I looked, I took a good look around me, darling

And we stepped, we took a good step away from familiar humdrum

Such unforgettable and truly magical times

Stop! There I go again, like a fool, trying to paint the perfect picture

It’s easy to romanticise when you’re in the distance, darling

But it wasn’t easy was it, I mean, you never really seemed truly happy

There I was, drunk in love and drowning on a daydream, daily

As you stripped, you stripped me away like paint work, darling

And you picked, you picked me apart and left me in a million pieces

No need to sympathise, but try to realise this:

You’re making yourself so lonely, darling

It’s making me feel so lonesome to know

Stop making yourself so lonely, darling, please.

So, looking back now it’s funny how

I really had the blinkers on me

Like a firework, free falling, ’til I hit the concrete floor

Where my friends picked me back up and held me, darling

It was them and the family who really got me back to hear the music

I hope you got the same and cut out your love games, 'cause

You’re making yourself so lonely, darling

It’s making me feel so lonesome to know

Stop making yourself so lonely, darling, please.

You’re making yourself so lonely, darling

It’s making me feel so lonesome to know

Stop making yourself so lonely, darling, please.

Yes, it’s obvious, well I shouldn’t really need to say this, but,

The truth is that I miss you.

Rockin' In The Suburbs lyrics - Charlie Winston

You gotta, you gotta, you gotta

You gotta open up your mind to another side.

Another place where the faces smile.

Gimme a line for words are birds they’re flying away.

Sometimes, when I got too much to say.

My heart is a pumping, like a rabbit with a foot that’s a thumping.

Ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh

Ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh

Well I get a little sick of distractions

Growing up in a world of attractions

This is it, this is what I want to do now.

Just a singing and a playing this a tune somehow,

Somewhere, there’s a pair of eardrums.

And they shiver to the rhythm of a tom. tom.

Ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh

Ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh

If you can’t switch off but you wanna get off well let’s go 

(Rockin' in the suburbs).

If you wanna rock, rock, don’t stop 'til the cows come home 

(Rockin' in the suburbs).

Everybody’s got a party in their body, it’s a one man show 

(Rockin' in the suburbs)

Wow!

Ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh

Ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh

Now I feel that the weight is a lifting.

There’s a feeling shifting.

And the sun is a shining high in the sky like nylon,

There’s a file on everybody wearing the same skin.

Needing the same thing it’s amazing and it’s happening.

Ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh

Ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh

And I’m told that the tables are turning

There’s a people a learning, the curiosity is burning.

If it hurts you can say that you heard it.

So ‘Mum’ is the word. I’m a little bird with a big secret.

Can I trust you to keep it, please?

Ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh

Ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh

If you can’t switch off but you wanna get off well let’s go 

(Rockin' in the suburbs).

If you wanna rock, rock, don’t stop 'til the cows come home 

(Rockin' in the suburbs).

Everybody’s got a party in their body, it’s a one man show 

(Rockin' in the suburbs)

Wow!

There’s a time, there’s a place, there’s a season.

There’s a reason for leaving the beliefs you believe in.

When you’re freezing the feeling.

And you’re frozen to the bone.

So, give it away like a chilli pepper told you.

Give it up before the f*cker controls you.

Ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh

Ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahh

If you can’t switch off but you wanna get off well let’s go 

(Rockin' in the suburbs).

If you wanna rock, rock, don’t stop 'til the cows come home 

(Rockin' in the suburbs).

Everybody’s got a party in their body, it’s a one man show 

(Rockin' in the suburbs).

If you can’t switch off but you wanna get off well let’s go 

(Rockin' in the suburbs).

Wow!

Summertime Here All Year lyrics - Charlie Winston

It’s too hot and we’re ready to burn

It takes a big mistake before a lesson is learned.

It’s too late to turn back the time.

The weatherman has fallen through a hole in the sky.

And he’s long gone, yes, he’s long gone, 

And there’s no way that he’s coming back.

We’re too slow, beaten by the heat

You need a real reason to get onto your feet.

It’s too long since we've watered the flowers.

And every year we’re hoping for some April showers.

But they won’t come, no they won’t come 

And I’m done with us digging holes

Because it’s summertime here all year long round.

And the rain won’t pour anymore.

We’ve gotta move.

(To a land where the grass is growing, 

To a land where the grass is)

Because it’s summertime here all year long round.

And the rain won’t pour anymore.

We’ve gotta move.

The seven seas are beginning to merge

They’ve swallowed up the cities 

Now they’re starting to purge.

Sun sets on an ocean of trash.

A world of functionality reducing to ash.

And it’s all gone, yes it’s all gone

The world that we used to know

Because it’s summertime here all year long round.

And the rain won’t pour anymore.

We’ve gotta move.

(To a land where the grass is growing, 

To a land where the grass is)

Because it’s summertime here all year long round.

And the rain won’t pour anymore.

We’ve gotta move.

We’ve gotta move.

Gotta move.

(To a land where the grass is growing, 

To a land where the grass is)

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