Come Hell Or High Water - Barry Adamson

And me?

I got a bug to squash

This tale’s been told a thousand times

So I think that I should’ve known better

Than to supplicate a girl on pedestal shoes

No pants and a real tight sweater

I’m laughin' too but it’s from

My embarrassment that I tremble

When she saw that I was just

A hopeless imitation of the man that I most resemble

And the chords ring so familiar

To a man who’s heard it all before

And the melody will forever linger

Like perfume in a hardware store

It ain’t that I seek loneliness

I just downright fail to understand

How a customary girl on pedestal shoes

Can all but destroy one man

I wished I’d licked her to the ground

But I swallowed my tongue instead

Watched her from the shadows with a hideous frozen grin

While she carved her name in my head

And some folks talk around the way

Sayin' «B you’ve really got it made»

But I crawl round my room from night 'til day

Wondering if your star will ever fade

And I’ll be here come hell or high water

(Love you like you were my daughter

Buy you new shoes cos I oughta)

And only sometimes will my thoughts turn blue

Like the skies and every word is you

Now west of bloody sixteenth street

Are the remains of a man who was broken

By the rapture of a girl on pedestal shoes

And man I tell you that girl wasn’t jokin'

I’ve killed my mind a thousand times

Now my thoughts stay firmly in the present

But there’s a kinda ugly breach like an ocean in my soul

Keeps on naggin' me so incessant

And the silence is louder than a H bomb

That explodes when I close my eyes

Sending shock waves to the town you’re from

In the hope that you’ll stir and come alive

And I’ll be here come hell or high water

(Love you like you were my daughter

Buy you new shoes cos I oughta)

And only sometimes will my thoughts turn blue

Like the skies and every word is you

Like the skies and every word is you

Like the skies and every word is you

Like the skies and every word is you