Me in Mind - Tanita Tikaram

Well, our dog beats in his own heart

Our dog was from the start

Not much use in the rain

Not much use in the sun

Put it outside and let the paint run

Put it outside and let the paint run

Well, our mean day was not heaven sent

Couldn’t stay, couldn’t raise the rent

Couldn’t stay-a-little — let us be

Couldn’t stay — so we set it free

Hey

Supposing

I meet you

We waste some time

Supposing, I let you

You still be in mind, mind, mind, mind

Enter — kisses not able

Not able to turn some tricks

Not able to give me favours

Not even when I’m thick with it

And my heart wasn’t a stranger

But it sure made no sense to me

Made no sense to any flavour that came

Sown in so cautiously

Hey

Hearts still

Yearn to

Make the sign

Watching

You send me in mind, mimd, mind, mind

Well, our old stairs are all the same

The same weather, the same wood stain

You can beep from the left

You can beep from the right

Put it outside and let them turn wide

Put it outside and let them turn wide

Well, no respect, no leniency

Was not ever so well spooked in me

Was not evil so it hangs OK

This is the world in which we play

This is the world in which we play

Hey

Harder

Sane, spent and all awake

Their eyes

Shame me —

With their mistakes

And mine, mine, mine, mine