Feargal Sharkey

A good heart

I hear a lot of stories
I suppose they could be true
All about love
And what it can do to you
High is the risk of striking out
The risk of getting hurt
And still, I have so much to learn

I know, 'cause I think about it all the time
I know that real love is quite a vice

And a good heart these days is hard to find (a good heart)
True love, the lasting kind
A good heart these days is hard to find
So please be gentle with this heart of mine

My expectations may be high
I blame it on my youth
Soon enough I learned the painful truth
I'll face it like a fighter
Then boast of how I've grown
Anything is better than being alone

Well I know, 'cause I learn a little every day
I know, 'cause I listen when the experts say

As I reflect on all my childhood dreams
My ideas of love weren't as foolish as they seemed
If I don't start looking now, I'll be left behind
And a good heart these days, it's hard to find

I know, it's a dream I'm willing to defend
I know it will all be worth it in the end

(Maria McKee)

You little thief

You little thief
You let me love you
You saw me stumbling
You watched me fall
You left me broken
Shattered and bleeding
But there's no hard feelings
There no feelings at all

You little thief
You little savage
You little beauty
You little whore
You've taken everything
I had to believe in
Now there's nothing
To believe in at all

So tell me how does it feel
To make a grown man wanna die
Does it make you uneasy
Does it every cross your mind

You little dream
You little nightmare
You little nothing
You little girl

You took the stars
Out of my nightsky
Put out the lights
At the edge of my world

Cause babe when I needed you
You watched me stumble
You watched me fall

(Benmont Trench)

Ghost train

Take the ghost train away from freedom
One minute you're there and the next you're not
The game's called surprise
Guess the change has come
And the worst part about it is you don't know what you've done

Ghost train
Ghost train
You get a one way ticket on a ghost train

It leaves no time to ponder
No time to change your shoes
It's a fast paced game that you're certain to lose
When you hear that whistle blowing
Just stop what you're doing
You gotta get that train on the road to ruin

Ghost train
Ghost train
You get a one way ticket on a ghost train

The compartment is so tiny
There's only room for one
The conductor is so huge that he blocks out the sun
You can reach for the cord but don't try to pull it
The windows are one way so you can't see through it

(D.A. Stewart / F.S. Sharkey / T. Daly)

Ashes and diamonds

Yeh yeh
Wrap yourself around me now
Hold me close
Just like a little girl
In her daddy's arms

Hold me, hold me
She's got all those things that I need
(She's got all those things he ever wanted)
Ashes and diamonds
(He ever wanted)
Ashes and diamonds
(He ever wanted)

Yeh yeh
I wonder as you cling to me
And hold me close
Is it here you wanna be
Or in your daddy's arms?

(D.A. Stewart / F.S. Sharkey)

Made to measure

Made to measure
So I thought I payed out for something I never got
Nothing delivered was as I specified
My tailor lied
Custom made, just for me
Every detail planned, so elegantly
What the mirror revealed made me weep
Nothing fit I felt so cheap
Made to measure
Read the ad
I repent in leisure
Barely clad
I woke up this morning
Too late to find
I been duped
I been blind
Yes I been cheated
Not once but twice
Yeh

(C. Hynde)

Someone to somebody

I have no use in waking
Sleep walking is all I do
I was no-one to nobody
'Til the day that I met you
What good were all my dreams
But endless fantasy?
Just a heart that had no laughter
'Til the day you came to me
Then I looked into your eyes
I knew that love had come to me
So I held out my hand as I opened my heart and said
Darling please

I wanna be
Someone to somebody
And that someone is you
Don't you wanna be
Someone to somebody
Then be my someone too

Oh what good was all my freedom
With my heart tied up in chains
Though I claimed free expression
There was no way to explain
That I was filled with feelings
No-one to show them to
What I hadn't known was that all along
I had saved my love for you
Now my days are so much warmer
And my nights no longer cold
'Cause you looked at me
And you held my hand and said
Darling I wanna be

(G. Gooden / M. Torrence / T. Gordy / D. Kane)

Don't leave it to nature

He's the man who's gonna do her right
Turn new pages
What can she see with the naked eye?
Nothing changes
That if he could he would have been so fine
As it is the're strangers
It wasn't htis that he had in mind
Being a lonesome ranger

Keep stepping outta line now
Get up, get out
Don't leave it to nature
Oh no
A step in the light now
Get up, get out
Don't leave it to nature
Oh no

There's a girl she's gonna take him first
In easy stages
And every time he thinks he could be worse
It grows more contagious
This is a plan of your own contriving
It's a plan to see what you're going through
Couldn't stop your bridges burning
But don't you worry 'cause you're still learning

So when he says he's gonna do you right turn new pages
'Cause it isn't this that you had in mind being a lonesome ranger

(A. Moore / F.S. Sharkey)

Love and hate

Love and hate
Love and hate
Why should he wait for hours
While she is making up her mind
Standing in the corridor
Fingers in my pockets waiting for the man to come
Standing in the corridor
Fingers in my pockets waiting to go down
Waiting to go down

Love and hate
Love and hate
He feels just like a fool
While she is making up her mind

Yes love and hate
Love and hate
There's one he knows who'll be waiting in line
While she is making up her mind

(D.A. Stewart / F.S. Sharkey / T. Daly)

Bitter man

He gave everything
His heart, his dreaming
She just spat it back at him
This time she's leaving
This time she's leaving
She walks out and closes the door
I wonder in the corner
Catches fall, stairs echo
This time she's leaving
Yes this time she's leaving
Each new day he tries again
Tries to smile but, oh the pain
Wonders if he'll go insane
'Cause he's a bitter man
No-one really liked him
No-one really can
That's the way he likes it
That he understands
'Cause he's a bitter man

(D.A. Stewart / F.S. Sharkey / T. Daly)

It's all over now

Well baby used to stay out all night long
She made me cry she done me wrong
She held my eyes wide open that's no lie
But the tables are turning, now it's her turn to cry

'Cause I used to love her
But it's all over now
'Cause I used to love her
But it's all over now

Well she used to run around with every man in town
Spent all my money on her happy schemes
She put me out it was a pity how I cried
Tables are turning, now it's her turn to cry

I used to wake up in the morning get my breakfast in bed
When I've gotten worried she could ease my aching head
But now she's here and there with every man in town
Still trying to take me for the same old clown

(B. Womack / S. Womack)