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Heaven's Gate
03:10
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You've lived your life for some world ahead
And saved your smiles for someone there instead
Well I wish I could be there to repeat what you said
When it all comes crashing down around your head
And you find yourself just as dead as me!
Yes, I'd like to meet you right outside Heaven's Gate
And be the one to tell you when it's all too late
That eternity will carry on fine without you and me
And it really wasn't worth the wait
Cos it must be the supreme irony
Although the chance may be remote
If you turn out to be right
You can look down and pity me
But when will I get my chance to gloat??
So keep living your life staring straight ahead
I'm really glad that you sleep well in your bed
With words of comfort in your head
You think the Almighty said...
well... it'll all make no difference....
when we're dead.
Cos it must be the supreme irony
Although the chance may be remote
If you turn out to be right
You can look down and pity me
But when will I get my chance to gloat??
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(I've Never Been) EVIL
04:18
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Well there's life in this old puppy yet
Though there's ore behind than left ahead
And there are things I've done and things I've said
That I'd be happy to forget.
But I'm not the kind to look behind
I'm not scared of what I'd find
I've just got too much right now on my mind
For nostalgia or regret
And I've never been evil.
Certainly selfish -
Sometimes it's hard to tell if I mean what I say.
And I can be thoughtless
And careless of wasting precious time
But on the list that's not the first -
It's really not the worst kind of crime.
Well I don't let truth or honesty
Get in the way of a good story
And I'll twist your words any way I please
If it gives me a better rhyme
And I turn a blind eye to obstacles
Until the situation's critical
I think mountains are more beautiful
To look up at than to climb
But I've never been evil.
I try to stay civil
But when I've had a skinful
I argue all the time.
And when my tongue gets wagging
I can give a pretty good slagging off...
But on the list that's not the first -
It's really not the worst kind of crime.
I'm not going to lie
I don't really try that hard to see
The situation from a different point of view.
But in this I'm not alone
My heart's hard, but it's not a stone
And I won't show fake concern
And for Heaven's sake - I won't take it from you!
Well I'm not the world's most loyal friend.
Too quick to give up and start again.
I've made promises I never meant
Just for an easy life.
And I don't always wash behind my ears
I've neglected building a career
And made fn of all those crocodile tears
I've faced from time to time.
But I've never been evil.
Though I've been sorely tempted
I've always prevented
The dark blocking out the light.
My faults and failings
They don't keep e awake at night
And on the list that's not the first -
It's really not the worst kind of crime.
Not the worst kind...
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Greg Hancock Exeter, UK
Singer/songwriter and guitarist based in Devon, England.
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