Guaranteed
Album - 1991 - Debaser id 68400

Don't play this game with me
you know you came to be my world
when times were bad enough
seems I was good enough
you run out my door
you come back, and beg for more and more
just like the times before
you'll always be

Guaranteed a place inside my heart
I would never forget a single thing
always be a martyr to your heart
then you'll never regret a single thing

You think I just don't care (just don't care)
the fact is, I could not bear (could not bear)
to lose this kind of loving touch (I love your touch)
would you be bothered much?
you had so much planned (so much planned)
so take time to understand (understand)
my reasons for pulling you back to me (back to me)
you'll always be

Guaranteed a place inside my heart
I would never forget a single thing
always be a martyr to your heart
then you'll never regret a single thing

You hide so many years
(hide away)
you cried so many tears
(cried away your tears)
you think I just don't realise
(now I realise)
one thing I've come to know
(if you stay)
this pain will surely go
(all the way with me)
so soon before your very eyes

Guaranteed a place inside my heart
I would never forget a single thing
always be a martyr to your heart
then you'll never regret a single thing

Guaranteed a place inside my heart
I would never forget a single thing
always be a martyr to your heart
then you'll never regret a single thing

Guaranteed . . .

Sometimes the looks I get
from people that I've never met
it's cruel
poor hard done by you
sometimes I hear remarks
like he's a snake out in the grass
it's cruel
poor hard done by you

Well I beat around the bush a lot
don't let my feelings show
'cause if I did I'd surely hit the roof
maybe if you'd listened
you'd've known something was missing
what I say surely is the truth

Well I've been working on this overtime
you might think that I don't care
but if you look inside this heart of mine
you'll still be there

Some lovers won't admit
that all the pieces just won't fit
it's cruel
poor hard done by you
so tell me that I'm blind
to let my heart go rule my mind
it's cruel
poor hard done by you

Well I've been working on this overtime
you might think that I don't care
but if you look inside this heart of mine
you'll still be there

I've been working on this overtime
what's been done I can't repair
but if you look inside this heart of mine
you'll still be there

My wanderlust betrayed your trust
don't want forgiving
all things must change, it ain't so strange
life's for the living

(baby baby please)

I've been working on this overtime
you might think that I don't care
but if you look inside this heart of mine
you'll still be there

I've been working on this overtime
what's been done I can't repair
but if you look inside this heart of mine
you'll still be there

I've been working on this overtime
you might think that I don't care
but if you look inside this heart of mine
you'll still be there

poor hard done by you

Well a thing was said to me
time's your enemy
it may heal a wound, but it won't hide a scar
and the only thing to do
is to yourself be true
'cause a head that's in the clouds won't see the stars

When I was young I never walked away
I'd nail my colours to the wall
though black and white soon turned to shades of grey
there is one thing that I really know for sure

Nobody's gonna set me up
nobody's gonna set me up

There's a bitterness in you
'cause all you ever do
is to drag your spirit screaming to the floor
but you gotta make your luck
before your time is up
and they take you in your box out through the door

But I'm not saying I don't care at all
I'd rescue you before you drown
but if behind my back they start to talk
I'm a tougher kind of man this time around

Nobody's gonna set me up
nobody's gonna set me up

When you look back and see what you have done
well was it really that much fun
to laugh and kick the fallen ones

Gonna grow another skin
this one's getting thin
I've been bitten twice but never lost my nerve
well you gotta hide the hurt
when people dish the dirt
'cause if you don't try nothing that's what you deserve

There are people with their eyes of green
smiling when you take a fall
maybe a friend or someone never seen
but even with my back against the wall

Nobody's gonna set me up
nobody's gonna set me up

People said to me
time's your enemy
it may heal a wound, but it won't hide a scar

Nobody's gonna set me up
nobody's gonna set me up

And the only thing to do
is to yourself be true
'cause a head that's in the clouds won't see the stars

Even now I see him walking home at sundown
he's whistling rock of ages with his lunchbox at his side
I still recall the smell of smoke and ashes on his jacket
and that factory dust was on his shoes the afternoon he died

I swore I'd never heed that factory whistle
in a banker's cage I signed a loan against my future sins
all the neighbours shook my hand
and wished me well upon my leaving
though my father was a poor man he owned a wealth of friends

So take these boots that shine like Judas silver
and all these sad reflections on lost untravelled roads
while the rain falls on a field of bones and roses
give me back my father's shoes and let me walk in those

My stroke was good, the deals fell fast end easy
I hired the sweat of honest men and took the lion's share
my wardrobe filled with shirts of silk
and boots of tender leather
and I walked in them the halls of power
but found no comfort there

So take these boots that shine like Judas silver
and all these sad reflections on lost untravelled roads
while the rain falls on a field of bones and roses
give me back my father's shoes and let me walk in those

Lady lay these boots upon the fire
'cause lady now I swear I'll never wear this pair again
I meant to stand up straight and tall
it never was that easy
now these soles are stained from walking on the dreams
of better men

So take these boots that shine like Judas silver
and all these sad reflections on lost untravelled roads
while the rain falls on a field of bones and roses
give me back my father's shoes and let me walk in those