Tonic - Head On Straight

1. ROSES

If you want to be my best friend
Then show it
If you want to live inside me
Don`t blow it

I don`t want to stand in line
I don`t want to waste my time
I just want to be the one

I don`t want to be around
When you come down
I just wanted you to know
The roses always grow

If you want to hear I love you
Then say it
If you want to hear I need you
The prove it

I don`t want to stand in line
I don`t want to waste my time
I just want to be the one

I don`t want to be around
When you come down
I just wanted you to know
The roses always grow

Did you think it would last forever, baby
Did you think I would drag you under

I don`t want to be around
When you come down
I just wanted you to know
The roses always

I just want to be with you
Not alone
I just wanted you to know
The roses always grow


2. TAKE ME AS I AM

I never knew my father
I never knew his pain
Or that an empty home life
Would break him down again
So when I feel like running I have to look inside
I want to find the answer
I want to break my line

Fear falls down like rain
And it makes me whole again
Fear falls like rain

Take me as I am
I`m not broken
Pieces of my life are not tokens
I want to let you know that I`m still learning
How to love again and stop hurting

I want to roll my darkness into a million suns
I need to find forgiveness when all the pain is done
I want to hear I`m sorry, I want to let you go
I have to find my own life, I want to learn to grow

Fear falls down like rain
And it makes me whole again
Fear falls like rain

Take me as I am
I`m not broken
Pieces of my life are not tokens
I want to let you know that I`m still learning
How to love again and stop hurting

It makes me whole again

Take me as I am
I`m not broken
Pieces of my life are not tokens
I want to let you know that I`m still learning
How to love again and stop hurting


3. COUNT ON ME (SOMEBODY)

I need to be around you
I want to fall into your eyes
I love to feel you close to me
But there`s no peace of mind
I live to hear you laughing
I long to feel your hands fall down
Along the side of me
A change of life is hard to find
There`s no peace of mind


if you ever need somebody
If you ever need somebody to love you
If you ever need somebody
You can count on me


So kiss me for believing
Love me now for always knowing
When to let you go
A change of life is hard to find
There`s no peace of mind

If you ever need somebody
If you ever need somebody to love you
If you ever need somebody
You can count on me


There`s no peace of mind
Change is hard to find
Count on me

If you ever need, if you ever need
If you ever need, if you ever need
If you ever need somebody you can count on me

If you ever need somebody
If you ever need somebody to love you
If you ever need somebody
You can count on me


4. DO YOU KNOW

Underneath the weight
Of a heavy sky
I will grow my wings
I will learn to fly

Cause even though my heart is
Big enough to fly away
Underneath the confidence
I will never say I`m strong enough
To be alone

Do you know do you know
Do you know how it feels to be angry
Do you know how it feels to be hurt
When you live all your life for a moment
Just to prove that you know what it`s worth
Do you know

I will show no fear
I won`t hide my scars
I will learn to give
I will love what`s ours

Cause even though my heart is
Big enough to fly away
Underneath the confidence
I will never say I`m strong enough
To be alone

Do you know do you know
Do you know how it feels to be angry
Do you know how it feels to be hurt
When you live all your life for a moment
Just to prove that you know what it`s worth
Will you trust in a better tomorrow
If you learn to forgive everyday
All the times that you thought could be trusted
In the end they could all fall away

Cause even though my heart is
Big enough to fly away
I am strong enough to be
Alone, alone

Do you know how it feels to be angry
Do you know how it feels to be hurt
When you live all your life for a moment
Just to prove that you know what it`s worth
Will you trust
Will you learn
All the times that you thought you could be trusted
In the end they could all fall away


5. HEAD ON STRAIGHT

I don`t want be the one who hurts you
I don`t want to be the one who fails
I`m keeping my head on straight
So you can trust me again

I struggled all my life with empty moments
The shadow of a hole I`d never fill
Any happiness I had was empty
It wasn`t good enough, I wanted love

I`m keeping my head on straight
So you can trust me again
I`m keeping my head on straight
So you can trust me again

I don`t want to think of life without you
I don`t want to take a step alone
It scares me to think I almost lost you
Just let me know you`re fine, I`m on the line

I`m keeping my head on straight
So you can trust me again
I`m keeping my head on straight
So you can trust me again

I`m thinking of our whole life baby
Won`t you help me find a way
I`m thinking of our whole life baby
Won`t you help me find my way....

I don`t want to be the one who hurts you
I just want to know that you`re all right

I`m keeping my head on straight
So you can trust me again
I`m keeping my head on straight
So you can trust me again
You can trust me again
Trust me again


6. LIAR

I fell down on my head
Made me start to wonder
How I`d grown so mad
Knocked me from the shit that I was under

So take another shot boy
I`m open
Nobody knows a liar
You can never break me
I`m already broken
Nobody knows a liar like I do

Sugar my love, they have done you wrong
Held you down and kept you from creating
Everything that you do takes too long
So keep in my heart something precious
Never learn to be malicious

So take another shot boy
I`m open
Nobody knows a liar
You can never break me
I`m already broken
Nobody knows a liar like I do

So take another shot boy
I`m open
Nobody knows a liar
You can never break me
I`m already broken
Nobody knows a liar like I do



7. ON YOUR FEET AGAIN

I`ll pick you up beneath the stars
When you slowly fade Beneath the blue skies above
We`ll all look the same

You just need something
To get you on your feet again

You picked a life that you can`t trust
And it makes you mad
And all along you wonder why
You just feel sad

If you feel like love
Can get you on your feet again
You just need something
To get you on your feet again

Did they give you more than your life could keep
Does it speak to you when you fall asleep
Can you walk away from all that you know
Could you hide the strength
Would you let it show

If you feel like love
Can get you on your feet again
You just need something
To get you on your feet again

I`ll pick you up beneath the stars
When you slowly fade
Beneath the blue skies above
We`ll all look the same


8. COME REST YOUR HEAD

Trust, I know, is not such a dirty word
Trust is something that I have barely heard
Honesty is not so far away
Empty words are all you`ll have to say

We all go on
Just let me go on

Come rest your head
Come stay with me a while
You`d be better off here
Come stay with me a while

Truth, you`ll find, is the only way to live
Long for when you can learn to forgive

We all go on
Just let me go on

Come rest your head
Come stay with me a while
You`d be better off here
Come stay with me a while


Trust I know is not such a dirty word
Something that I have barely heard
Honesty is not so far away
Empty words are all you have to say


We all go on
Just let me go on

Come rest your head
Come stay with me a while
You`d be better off here
Come stay with me a while

Come rest your head


9. RING AROUND HER FINGER

She wears a ring around her finger
Shiny platinum diamond stone
Somewhere my love is hurting
She`s alone again tonight

Maybe we promised way to early
Maybe we won`t survive the road
Because back home it`s way to early
to call her on the phone

so give me love
give me fascination
give me strength that I can save my relationship

I`ve been alone before
I don`t want to be alone again
I see my life through that door
I`m gonna open up and let it in
God let me in, god let me in

So we dream about tomorrow
And we struggle for today
But somewhere we`ll find the answer
To the price we`ll have to pay

so give me love
give me fascination
give me strength that I can save my relationship

I`ve been alone before
I don`t want to be alone again
I see my life through that door
I`m gonna open up and let it in
God let me in, god let me in

There was a time that I could not believe
It`s so simple just to love and leave
It was in the end that I found my way again

so give me love
give me fascination

I`ve been alone before
I don`t want to be alone again
I see my life through that door
I`m gonna open up and let it in
God let me in, god let me in


10. BELIEVE ME

Love, I hope you won`t be late
You know, how much I hate to wait
Believe, my heart is in your hands
And our life is like a song

When you sing along
Baby let it go
Believe me, believe me
I would wait forever and more
For that open door
Believe me, believe me


Life, is more than we can know
Faith, is something we can show
I would love, I would lie
I would give, I would die
Cause our life is like a song

When you sing along
Baby let it go
Believe me, believe me
I would wait forever and more
For that open door
Believe me, believe me


Sometimes we draw the line
And people remain where they don`t belong
It so easy to say what you need
Sometimes it just goes away

When you sing along
Baby let it go
Believe me, believe me
I would wait forever and more
For that open door
Believe me, believe me


It so easy to say what you need
Sometimes it just goes away


11. IRISH

I said to me da, I said to me da, I said to me da
I`m not fit for soldier
I said to me da, I said to me da, I said to me da
I`m not fit for soldier
I said to me da, I said to me da, I said to me da
I`m not fit for soldier
I said to me da, I said to me da, I said to me da
I`m not fit for soldier

For the king he say, the king say
For now you fight or I`ll take your land away
For the king he say, the king say
For now you fight or I`ll take your land away

So over the seas, over the seas
To kill a man that I have never seen
Over the seas.....

I won`t die for England
Not for England

I said to me ma, said to me ma, said to me ma
I sail away now
I said to me ma, said to me ma, said to me ma
I sail away now

Over the seas, over the seas
Far away from my Ireland
Over the seas, over the seas
Far and away from miles of green

For the king he say, the king say
For now you fight or I`ll take your children
For the king he say, the king say
For now you fight or I`ll take your children

So they send me away, send me away
To kill a man that I have never seen
They send me away, send me away.....

I won`t die for England
Not for England

Far away from my homeland
Many miles, many miles I would roam
Far from my home
Far from my home....

Far and away.....
I won`t die for England
Not for England


12. LET ME GO

Home, home is like an open road
Where you will always find
Whatever you`ve been looking for
And grace, always in a hollow place
I will never change and I will always stay my way

People scatter, when loves the matter
I won`t let it show

Let me go
Let me go away again
Let me change my direction
I can`t take that rejection again
Let me go, let me go
I`ll find my own

Way, I never thought I`d change my ways
It was an angry thought
That made me turn the other way
And I, I wanna be like that again
When I know there`s hope
And hope will always find a friend

People scatter, when loves the matter
I won`t let it show

Let me go
Let me go away again
Let me change my direction
I won`t take that rejection
Let me go, let me go
I`ll find my own way home

Let me go
Let me go away again
Let me change my direction
I won`t take that rejection
Let me go, let me go
I`ll find my own way home