Keep It (2000 Digital Remaster)-Dexys Midnight Runners

[00:01.36]Written by Kevin Archer & Geoffrey Blythe [00:02.88] [00:21.47]The world lives in your front room [00:23.82]You're sitting happy in gloom [00:28.58]Fate worries you, you will not give her room [00:31.76]You give credit for might, inspiration and sight [00:38.50]But you miss the point [00:39.87]You won't join the fight [00:41.81]You think to use is to lose so your clinging, pulling pleading [00:48.97]Try and keep it safe [00:52.78]Keep it cozy but it feels so out of place [00:57.65]You're feeling a loss but youre not fit to make it [01:03.12]You offered so much but youre frightened to take it [01:10.24] [01:19.34]It never was really proved, never was understood [01:26.04]But there really is no virtue in the good [01:30.12]The shoutings so loud that they'd do better to mime [01:36.29]You're deafened and you cannot hear the rhyme [01:40.23]But secrets in whispers pull you, try to tempt you [01:46.44]Try and keep it safe [01:50.12]Keep it cozy but it feels so out of place [01:55.12]You're feeling a loss but youre not fit to make it [02:00.19]You offered so much but youre frightened to take it [02:08.78] [02:16.81]You beg for help and advice, how to handle your life [02:23.46]But you dare not move, you cannot pay the price [02:26.91]Chances slip, you just chatter, flatter, to forget what matters [02:33.83]Spout your lines, read all your books [02:36.18]You hear the sounds, miss all the hooks [02:38.34]Your best is what you least understand [02:43.08]You hate the graft, won't join the race [02:45.10]You're scared to scar your pretty face [02:47.81]Safe now cause your head is in the sand [02:53.56] [03:27.52]Keep it X n [03:37.32] [03:47.14]