well, all my life is such a mess
i wonder how i've come to this
what i would say if i could guess
is that i'm blue, 'cause i'm not with you

i've waited all my whole life long
for someone like you to come along
all i got from us is this song
about the blues, 'cause i'm not with you

blue is no longer my favourite colour
boo is no longer my favourite band
i think today
i'll take a step away
and lose the hues from my light blues
down to my deep indigo
blue is no longer my favourite colour

so do i let it get to me
or do i simply let it be
i want to not wonder what could be
if i went with my heart's content

and now my problem is my timing
black clouds inhabit my silver lining
stand at the slot, i put my dime in
am i doomed to be forever blue?

anywhere there's sunshine
you'll find me
and anywhere it rains at the right time
you'll find me
and anywhere there's silence
and everywhere there's song

anywhere near mothers and babies
you'll find me, they're good company
and anywhere 'mongst the leaves and the lovers
you'll find me, naturally
and anywhere near the smile of a neighbour
and everywhere in a home of love

'cause i like these things
and i don't need to prove anything
if it means that i need to be
cynical, cool and feelingless

i'm all for love
i'm all for you girl
i'm all for all the good
the two of us can do girl

i'm all for time
time with you girl
and i'm a fool, just a man
but i'm a fool for you and baby i'm your man.

baby i've gone and gotten me another
'cause i've been in need of a new lover.
'cause you hurt me without even knowing:
when you love me you love me without ever showing

and so my mind's made up, got to go
to where the four winds' lead let me blow
and i've been running out of time
to find the love that's meant to be mine

baby i've gone and gotten a little bitter
and i refuse, i no longer want to be smitten
got so shy from the times that i've been bitten
try as i might i can never be right or fit in

so i'll be searching, yes i'll be searching

machine, my shape
i'm a robobotical ape
my rock, my core
my come on on back for more
my functions well
my signs the good tale tell
my beat, my pulse
electricgalactical waltz

my think, my thought
my sold and all my bought
marooned my boat
my stuck without an ore
your tease, your ties
you're steered by others' eyes
your boat capsized
in the oceans i have cried

so who's this 'i'?
is it i or is it we as well?
can the skin keep in not only bone
but soul as well?

your need for me
my need just yours to be
we've failed, we're free
but it hasn't made us happy
you're you, and you
means all the others too
i'm me and me means:
chris chameleon, that's who!

can't get enough
of what there's more to get of
all that satisfies
is what you keep when you die
can't get enough
of what there's more to get of
all you can't get bored with
is what you're born with

you left with what the boys call
a bad blow below the belt
and brother it hurts like hell
it hurts like dagger stabs to the heart now

were not the words that hurt most
were not the punches in the gut but
that i did not expect it -
this forked tongue treachery

and now i have you pinned down
you're on your own and i surround
i'm going to...

let my love shine on you!

tempted to let the beast loose
unleash the vengeance
i had planned for you
the nasty equal opposite

you deserve for what you wanted
my demise and i bet you did
not think i'd survive 
i'd come out here alive

but here i am
you're on your back and here i stand
i'm going to...

let my love shine on you!

 it's not that i'm a better man
i don't think i am
or that i am a purer soul
i haven't filled the hole
it's because i understand the wheel turns
and so while i have my turn on top
i'm going to...

let my love shine on you

spent some time in contemplation
evaluating my situation
the way in which i'm not to blame
for my sorrow and my anger and my shame

i won't give up on love

my fault is not your lack of care
or the feelings that you hold for spare
my fault is not your emotional reservations
or your culturally induced emancipation

i won't give up on love

give me the girl, that's
 a little more real
and a lover
unafraid to feel
give me the girl
with the heart of gold
who likes to be held
and loves to hold

       it's a world with not a lot of love in it
and what you want's not what you always get
i pray the angels fire a little dart
and burn the blackness from your little heart

i won't give up on love
so don't you give up on love girl

scorch me in the morning with your kisses
burn my eyes dry by noon
deliver me in ashes
to the night

tuck me into the big black box
shove me into the deep black box

and maybe someday i'll
find my love

months of rain i've come again to my garden
as i recall i left so all of a sudden
i've seen scenes and scenery
i've passed through them and now they pass through me.
but i have come home to the change
yes i have come home to ...

the change is in the neighbours, change is in the floor
and in your mosaics and our so much more
oceans and emotions and
what seethes beneath and has come over me,
have passed like landscapes beneath the plane
home to ...

it's not that i don't love you
it's not that i don't want to be  with you
it's 'cause i know...
this is one of the reasons i decided to go it alone baby.

such a pretty thing
swaying as i sing
putting out and in
output and input pumping
say you're free to cling.

lashes of her eyes
waving hi-goodbyes
though hearts do never lie
hearts do get told lots of lies
by lashes and their eyes

oooh, when my wish comes true
it will be that you and me
can do all that lovers do
so let me be your loving fool

the trick is in the hips
in the licking of the lips
tricks that twist the wrists
wrists of my will to resist
surrender is bliss

when you softly whisper me
that you want me hardly
what's that supposed to mean?
do you want me or not me
'cause i can either be!

i'd leave my nothing and my all
to be there for you when you call
and if you've wondered what's this noise
it's loving's universal voice
calling me, calling you...

how come, when all my life is light
there is a dark little part here in my heart?
how come, while i my life design
there always is a little piece missing in me?

so i walk, walk this winding road
it's getting steep i believe my lord watches over me
yes i walk, walk this winding road i walk it tall
'cause i walk it like my mama told me

in case i don't make
make it back safe
if i should
not return to you
this i do want you to know:

i have never cared for anyone
and i've never loved anybody
not 'til i loved you
if this be the only good
that i should ever do
your love has saved me.

not my mother
not my father
not my sister 
and i don't have a brother

all my secrets
all my castles
all my one
and i don't have another

is it true that i didn't ever give you
nothing?

if i've taken
what's not offered
i've mistaken
and so i have suffered

all i've given
is unforced living
now i'm singing
for the deaf and the dead