B-sides, collaborations and covers.
This is very much work in progress, bear with me while I put it all together. Thanks to the folks on the Tanita Tikaram mailing list for most of this info. All the lyrics here are based on people listening to the tracks and writing down what they hear. Lyrics in square brackets [] are uncertain.
As far as I can determine these are the songs recorded by Tanita but not released on any album:
For more information see my (partial) UK Discography.
I wanna be your friend Can I be your friend? I wanna be your friend Can I be your friend? I could go into your garden Serve you skin and bone I could do many manic things I wouldn't do alone And as my mother used to say Get out of the house and learn to play Join in the circle and meet someone Get out of the house I've a home to run A taste of honey A touch of warmth We'll learn to fend and find our favourite haunt We won't swap gossip We won't cause hate We'll take the morning to just contemplate Where will I be hiding six years from now? A job in the city? (Or a child's know-how) Know how to win favours quite unconsciously Will this be heroic, or the end of me? I wanna be your friend Can I be your friend? I wanna be your friend Can I be your friend? I could talk to all the portraits hanging in the hall But I wanna be your friend Or nothing at all
All I know is just one dead phrase All I know is just one dead phrase And it's eating my herat wasting my day You know I could feel unhappy Yes there are fireflies in the kitchen And my father yells for more Well I'm nearly almost honest And I'm nearly almost [steady?] And I'm nearly almost happy to be here And I'm glad I found my way I never touched you lover I never touched a friend I never want to see you till I sort things out again There are fireflies in the kitchen And my mother yells not now I want to say from the top of my head An honest way to live is an [honesty that's dead] Oh we are coming from an age Where no one should understand And you're coming toward me And I'm looking for another man I'm looking for another man Well Iam looking for another man Yes there are fireflies in the kitchen And my brother starts to snore Characters amazingly hard to see my face Characters amazingly hard to see my face Oh they are wishing for some two more two Some [gay ol' violin] But all I really want to say is that I have never sinned Yes there are fireflies in the kitchen And we all go out to [be/see?] How my heart aches How my heart aches How my heart aches
Oh let's make everybody smile today Yeah, let's make everybody smile today Oh yes, you could be classic, could be blue Sometimes it's easy to see through you Summer birdcage it's nice and tight But let me show you it's just lies, lies, lies Oh let's make everybody smile today Yeah, let's make everybody smile today Oh yes, a reason's given, I'm wiped out But it's really not something we talk about Amazing castles, it's just all in your mind Could stay together but takes time, time, time Well you can't change something solid It's a rare rather obvious fact It was written in an ancient text We're always looking back I could always pose the question I could always make you laugh I could always run rings round you But I'd make amends and give you half Oh let's make everybody smile today Yeah, let's make everybody smile today Oh yes, you check it out boys, it all sounds clear I'm not moving, I'm staying here But watch me walking right through that door That's the sum of it, I want more, more, more You don't have to talk to me You don't have to think like me To make me believe what you're saying You don't even have to wanna be And the things I'm doing now, I'm doing now for you Oh let's make everybody smile today Yeah, let's make everybody smile today Oh yes, you could be classic, could be blue Sometimes it's easy to see through you Amazing castles, it's just all in your mind Could stay together but takes time, time, time
Well [Lou is] alright hanging out in the wind He really just wanted to fly And I'm alright doing the same again You all understand I was shy And all the palm-readers have my natural resistance That was a bonus for you If I told you I loved you, yeh you know I was lying I was just trying one over you And all the paper elephants in the paper in the school They always used to make me laugh Now teacher said "you're learning" but I knew I was inside burning But these weren't tears for the craft And if you want to pretend you can help me any better You just got to let me fall Cos somewhere in a corner I know its alright I'm going to get over you all (Chorus) And I'm over you all Well God knows that's one to the competition Over you all Well God knows our lives take strange positions Well the angriest attitude don't fly so hot You play by the water and drink such a lot But I knew the reason to hang down my head It's better, I think, I just lie on the bed And sometimes it hurts but the hurting's not good It just makes you feel like a fool So somewhere along I can go [doing a throng] Any say I can do without you (chorus) Somewhere inside A laughter in here has died Won't you come out to play, I know you played before boy I know you played before Well I'm tingling to your talking 'till I'm mud in your hands You know [I] have no power so the statement's kind of grand You say "I can save the world, yes I can solve your mind" Baby don't you tell me [?] blind in my mind's eye (chorus)
Why did you fall for an innocent? An innocent like me? Why did you fall for an innocent? An innocent like me? I know nothing will ever be 'Cos like, we don't give nothing away (Chorus) Call what you [crib] boy But it's, it's not what you need I know it's, it's not what you need From a girl like me Oh, and I wish that you could come in boy And make me smile like rose on wood It would be nice to take A fortune from your flesh And make it good Make it really good Why do the sonnets stake my heart? I'm sworn to kiss and tell I'm sworn to take the rose Outta your hands and mould My lies around you Not being fickle Or breaking this song I made the sweetest thing you ever see But I want to shake the world And leave them standing Not a queue for frivolity (Chorus) Wasted my time Like [oil/all] rich sons Like [oil/all] rich sons should do Like [oil/all] rich sons Oh, the hours are all gone The hours are all gone There's nothing wrong with a picture palace A thousand knives have been drawn in But I'm a dreamer with iron intent And for pure cosmetics I could not care (Chorus)
One, two, three, four In a little country [that sold it's soul] You know there's no beauty In being so cold and down With a little contact and let go You know there's no beauty In being told no, no (Chorus) I can't afford To break my heart To being down on you I can't afford To act so smart While looking round for you I can't afford To take a warning voice And keeping that voice well locked And hoping the world won't [shock] to me Rock me 'til I can not see ya Oh, Rock me 'til I stop With a little time to get wise You know there's no beauty When there's no surprising you With a little [leather] Just to turn you on You know there's no beauty When you're hiding from nothing (Chorus) Is your wonderful showery days Sunny days roll into one Is you wonderful, wonderful showery days Sunny days, roll into one Making my words as one Making my words as one to another In the little [colour] of this little town You know there's no beauty In stealing the soul from us With a little worry that you bearing down You know there's no beauty In staying around for us (Chorus)
[From] your skin forest And whatever you talk about There are always other people to drown you out [???] I come charging No change,no change at all There is a finger tip And the shadows on the wall And the best of your rest of your friends [???] anybody care to disappear Me, you & Lucifer Me, you & Lucifer I keep a little book But I have little to write And little time to think aloud and discuss with you But I hope my views are good And I hope my life stays bright like this 'Cause all the time I've been thinkin' Me, you & Lucifer All the time I've been thinkin' of you Me, you & Lucifer Oh, a vision The depths of my very heart Oh! You're cheating me You're tearing me apart And that's a fact You're tearing me apart Yeah, that's a fact All above my mind I am light conversation To tell you and make them see And ain't nothing I gonna get from you There are ain't nothing you can get from Ain't nothing you can get from Me, you & Lucifer Me, you & Lucifer You, me & Lucifer Me, you & Lucifer
[One, (two), one, two (three), one, two, three] Just five feet away, yes I was I'm not lying, I'm just crying out your name Just five feet away, yes I was I'm not lying, I'm just crying out your name I just do not understand you No I do not understand No I do not understand you I just do not understand Just five feet away I could tell you That I've been telling the same old lies (lines?) Just five feet away I could send you But I can't send you - these are trying times Trying times - yeah I tell you they are trying times Just five feet away my hands turn blue I can't tell if its really you Just five feet away my hands go numb Just to tell you how the time has come The time will ruin me The time will ruin me oh....
Nobody heard him, the dead man But still he lay moaning I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning Old man, he always loved looking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him His heart gave way, they said Oh no, no it was too cold always And still the dead one lay moaning And I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowningThis track was commissioned by the BBC for their Texts in Time: The Picture in the Poem series. The original poem was by Stevie Smith.
Find yourself To the end I could love you And my friend Will not stay To the end Have you lost your Like we do Can we say Hmm Have you lost your way ? Yeah...Mmm... Did you see Anyone Have theirselves Having fun I do agree I do agree You sometimes see yourself And you don't feel free Have you lost your way ? Have you lost your way ? Same as me Same as me Yeah...Mmm...This track is thirteen minutes long and mostly instrumental, these lyrics start about seven minutes in.
Don't take me back I just hate that When you tell me lies I just can't help To work it through this time Oh, I believe In really nothing new And I be true for you And you'd be true to me And we would always know When the feeling is gone When the feeling is gone When the feeling is gone When the feeling Now we have not all day To work ourselves Into that hate You know it now I don't have the mind To win that back I lost myself And I can't take that Look at my face And touch my skin Look at my face And touch my skin Can't you see who's changing? Now don't scare me Don't hurt me And don't be 'pseud' You know you're so cruel When you look at me In this tiny way And there's nothing I can do And there's nothing I can say When the feeling is gone When the feeling is gone When the feeling is gone When the feeling
I worry about the future We had such a beautiful past Rememeber when I heard your laughter? Didn't you promise it will always last? There's no one to feel your sleeplessness There's no one to steal your heart Just give me your hand past midnight And we'll keep on falling apart (yeah) Falling apart In your time You might need somebody In your time You might need someone Before now Now the music's changing Oh for now We can wait for you We can wait for you The closer you get to believing The more that you got nothing to say So maybe our senses are cheating us But I still see a better day As the sunlight hits the morning Where are the clouds to share your pain? Now all is held in the memory I bet you're glad you came Bet you're glad you came
Does the heart keep beating? Is this body mine? Do the roads keep leading here? Just want to find out why Oh Lord I keep on running For there is so much to learn And all I ask of experience Is that my love will return Does a woman scare you? Are you scared to thrill? When I feel his eyes upon me I just want to know it's real Oh Lord I keep on burning Nothing stays the same I've been fool for experience Well we share the dream again There's only one boy in this crowd There's only one boy in this world There's only one boy in this crowd There's only one boy in the world
Keep sun in, some faces Keep warm inside I'll take it, I'll make it The days you pride yourself on He won't be eager-making Or make some peace with you Well, I saw it I know it's true It should be Some day [now | one] When I ride high I try to - be near you Say at least I tried I keep on checking solo And be early and so (Hey) your lesson My lesson, too It should be And can't see Where you never will go It should be and can be But I never will know No, I never will Keep grinning Hard laughing That helps to soothe I witnessed, I been there The same as you I can't be always angry It makes this Stance seem pale Hey, your lesson My lesson, too [It | I] should be and can't see Where you never will go It should be and can be But I never know No, I never will Oh (oh), these dancers Makes the time turn night Heaven help the romancer You never got it You never get it right I send this, it's easy When you can't keep I cross - a stone river Say least I need There will be some receiving There will be some for me (Hey) your love lost It burns in me [It | I] should be And can't see Where you never will go It should be and can be But I never will know [It | I] should be And can't see Where you never will go It should be and can be But I never will know No, I never will
Blue moon, you saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own Blue moon, you knew just what I was there for You heard me saying a prayer for Someone I really could care for Blue moon, now I'm no longer alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own Without a love of my own Without a love of my own Without a love of my own
I'm the singer of the song I write the melodies, but I don't know right from wrong I just sing the song. Life and love and hate and pain are part of my recipe, but they sometimes sound the same, still tell me what's new? I'm looking up to you, I know who you are, you can't fool me, I know you know without you there is no me. I will leave these in your hands and feel so sure that you'll have an inside plan, you've done it before. I'm looking up to you, I know who you are, you can't fool me, I know without you there is no me. I'll pretend to play the game the long way down, if it causes you no pain when I wear the crown. I'm looking up to you, I know who you are, you can't fool me, I know you know without you there is no me. I'm looking up to you I know who you are, I'm looking up to you I know who you are...
Old pirates yes they rob I Sold I to the merchant ships Minutes after they took I From the bottomless pit But my hand was made strong By the hand of the almighty We forward in this generation Triumphantly All I ever had, is songs of freedom Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom Cause all I ever had, redemption songs Redemption songs Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds Have no fear for atomic energy Cause none of them can stop the time How long shall they kill our prophets While we stand aside and look Some say it's just a part of it We've got to fullfill the book Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom Cause all I ever had, redemption songs Redemption songs, redemption songs Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but oursekves can free our minds Have no fear for atomic energy Cause none of them can stop the time How long shall they kill our prophets While we stand aside and look Yes some say it's just a part of it We've got to fullfill the book Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom Cause all I ever had, redemption songs All I ever had, redemption songs These songs of freedom, songs of freedom
I can tell by the look on your face That this is not the time or the place To ask you why - or to even try Just one look and I feel so alone Took so long to realize I was wrong And that's why I'm leaving here I always knew that there'd be changes You sometimes win, sometimes lose I never thought I would lose so much tho' Now what am I to do I can tell by the look on your face That this is not the time or the place To ask you why - or to even try Just one look and I feel so alone Took so long to realise I was wrong - and that's why I'm leaving here - and that's why I'm leaving here - and that's why I'm leaving here
You pace the pool and talk about it I read my book and think about it You've walked on water as I'm turning the page You say, "What's the intrigue here... in reading when the sky is clear?" You are in the sun and I am always in the shade (chorus) It's too late to leave you you know that I will never leave you It's too late to know you you don't like to be known You would never hold me I don't like to be held I will always love you in spite of myself I can feel the weather changing The leaves are tired and turned with anger They fall around us like a veil of golden tears You have never needed me and I'm not good at being needed This season will be leaving us but we will still be here (repeat chorus) Do you miss me when I'm far away? Do you save me for your rainy days? Is my picture on the mantle... or is it in the fire? It's odd the way the years fly by They leave us standing side by side You have been my mystery And I've been your desire (repeat chorus)
Don't take me back I just hate that When you tell me lies I just can't help to work it through this time oh, i believe in really nothing new that i'd be true for you and you'd be true to me and we would always know when the feeling is gone when the feeling is gone when the feeling is gone when the feeling now we have not all day To work ourselves into that hate you know it now, i don't have the mind to win at that i lost myself and i can't take that look at my face touch my skin look at my face touch my skin can't you see who's changing? and now don't scare me and now don't hurt me and don't be 'pseud' 'cos you know you're so cruel when you look at me in this tiny way and there's nothing I can do And there's nothing I can say when the feeling is gone when the feeling is gone when the feeling is gone when the feeling