We Almost Got It Together - Tanita Tikaram

We almost got it together

And I’ll be your favourite thing

Stand by the river with hard-luck eyes

And I’ll just be open and sing

I was only trying to surprise

I wish I was like the frog-princess

And I’d never tell you lies

And down by the soil of the hard-life

They like to greet us with smiles

They like to tell us their good hostess

Had travelled a million miles

But you’d like it written closer

Yes, you’d like it written pure

If I told you this —

Would you miss my kiss?

No — you’d come right back for more

Oh, I’d like to be What I want to be But you want to carry on But you need to take

What you have to take

But I’ll still be here when you’re gone

And there’s a light by your window

And I’d like to capture you by there

And I’d like to hold you for all to see

But they don’t really care

And if I said you’re no peccadillo

Yes, I said you’re a major thing

Would you stand by me?

At the corner dock

And say, yes, this girl is the swing!

Oh, I’d like to be What I want to be But you want to carry on But you need to take

What you have to take

But I’ll still be here when you’re gone

And I’d like another cue

That’s why I strain to see

And I’d like the best in you

'Cos you write the best in me They were sure that I’d be burning

Yes —

So their tart swerve to here might be But if I said you’re gold, inside,

Yes and if you were true to me Would you hang around with that creepy smile

And crawl home back to me Oh, I’d like to be What I want to be But you want to carry on But you need to take

What you have to take

But I’ll still be here when you’re gone