Tanita Tikaram - We Almost Got It Together

We almost got it together
And I'll be your favourite thing
Oh, stand by the river with hard-luck eyes
And I'll just be open and sing

And if I was telling you a story
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
Oh, they like to greet us with smiles
Oh, 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 wanna be
But you want to carry on

But you need to take
What you have to take
But I'd 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 wanna be
But you want to carry on

But you need to take
What you have to take
But I'd 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
'Cause you write the best in me

And everybody was swinging
Oh, swooning to the heart in me
Oh, they were sure that I'd be burning
Yes, so their tart swerve to here might be

And 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'd still be here when you're gone