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About : Lyrics

Welcome to the lyrics page. Here you'll find lyrics to all of Melissa's original songs featured on "No More Mondays". For covered tracks, song credits are listed.

1. Shhh (Intro)

"Black Coffee"
Sonny Burke & Paul Francis Webster
Published by Warner Chappell

Arrangement: Melissa Forbes

2. Black Coffee/Brown Sugar

"Black Coffee"
Sonny Burke & Paul Francis Webster
Published by Warner Chappell

"Brown Sugar"
Michael D'Angelo Archer & Ali Shaheed Jones-Muhammad
Published by Polygram & BMG

Arrangement: Melissa Forbes

3. Broken Wings (for Chet)

Music & Lyrics: Melissa Forbes

The face of an angel
Your toothless smile
Holding a secret
Yet all the while
You share it, a little by a little
Note by note, phrase by phrase
The spun gold of your melodies
The sadness of your ways

You're holding out, you're holding in
You can't go home again
You've got broken wings

Citizen of the world yet a nation of one
You shun, you scorn, you love, you lie, you cheat
You feel defeat at the hands of "them"
But of course you are your own worst enemy
No truce, no surrender
You tender to your every desire while inspiring
Slavish devotion to the notions
Of truth and beauty

You're holding out, you're holding in
You can't go home again
You've got broken wings

© Kitten Kong Records 2005

4. Don't Stop Til You Get Enough

"Don't Stop Til You Get Enough"
Michael Jackson
Published by Warner Chappell

Arrangement: Melissa Forbes and James Feagai

5. Thinking You Over

Music & Lyrics: Melissa Forbes

It's an awkward situation
There's some unfinished business in the air
It's not that I don't like your invitation
But I'm taking my time
Gonna get it right

Maybe I'm a weak impersonation
Of the person I wanted to be
If you could just excuse the obfuscation
Give me time to reveal me
But please don't give up

So I'm thinking you over and over again
Don't know the story, but I know how it ends
I'm thinking you over and over again
I'm delaying the bliss

Too many times, like a fool rushin in
Used my best lines before the show begins
No map, no sign
But a grand design
I know where I'm going with this
You're my ticket to happiness

So I roll the thought of you around in my mouth
Taste the salt of you and suck your sweetness out
Savour each moment
Every morsel, every drop
For I don't want this feast to end
You will sustain me

So I'm thinking you over and over again
Don't know the story, but I know how it ends
I'm thinking you over and over again
I'm delaying the bliss

© Kitten Kong Records 2005

6. The Weekday Sun

Music: Melissa Forbes
Lyrics: Jim Forbes

A weak sun glances down
On a grey and huddled bunch
Of pigeons pecking pebbles
And the suited picking lunch

Yellow cabs wait patiently
As their drivers smoke and chew
On roll-your-owns and damp kebabs
Washed down with sugared brew

Suddenly their rest concludes –
The booze and business set
Must off to midday cabarets
Of deals and duck and debt

And a weak sun glances down
But we don't notice it

Across their crimson cuts of beef
The talk is all “win-win”
Business plans and béarnaise sauce
Drip from flopping chins

Meantime the keen and ordered
In brand-name packs go jog
While chrome and credit hash joints
Greet the steak and merlot mob

Down by the marbled waterside
Where stevedores once moved
Waxed waifs and chicks from the typing pool
text and argue over Who

And a weak sun glances down
But we don't notice it

Some creep into the chapels
In this ordinary town
To water green their failing souls
Places long gone brown
And lonely in this sacred still
They pray that time might find
A way to satisfy itself
Without the clock’s constant wind

For soon the hands will turn around
To 2:00PM once more, as
The borrowed void of lunch hour
Returns through office doors

And a weak sun glances down
And a weak sun glances down
And a weak sun glances down
Don't fail to notice it

© Kitten Kong Records 2005

7. Rising Up?

Music: Melissa Forbes
Lyrics: Jim Forbes

Three tall walls of chrome
The fourth's a sliding door
30 little buttons
And to stare at one grey floor

In we all do shuffle with our
Faces glum and grim
Punching in our levels
So the magic may begin

Clunk whir lurch
Each holds tight their lunch
Morning paper, coffee
What a bright and vibrant bunch

There's the girl from serven
Sagging chin and sallow brow
Off gets a bloke at ten
Doesn't know his fly is down

Someone's back from holidays
Her pal's about to go,
"What happened on the week-end?"
"Nothin' much, don't really know."

Gradually they empty out
It's my floor on the dial
"Sorry, oops, excuse me please"
Be careful not to smile

Repeat this twice again today
At lunch and then at 5
Trudge off home, watch "Millionaire"
Ain't it grand to be alive?

Rising up
On the way down
Rising up
On the way
Rising up
On the way down...down...
Comb-overs and cufflinks
A man scratched his seat
Secretaries munching gum
While staring at their feet

Hands dug deep in pockets
As we contemplate the day
Busy, bored or bludging
Just as long as we get paid!

Rising up
On the way down
Rising up
On the way
Rising up
On the way down...down...

© Kitten Kong Records 2005

8. Shadows of Love (Love for Sale)

Music & Lyrics: Melissa Forbes

Standing in the shadows
You want to be seen, yet invisible
Need someone to love you
No-one's been willing to pay that price
Sell yourself for bargain rates
But your stocks are low
Market forces you to tender living in the
Shadows of love

Hangin' on the corner
Where do you go when the sun sinks down?
I know I'll never know you
You and I've been dealt different hands
I've learned to look the other way
So I can't see your pain
Life for rent, spirits spent, living in the
Shadows of love

Having you on my mind is not enough
Feeding fear and guilt is all it does
If I could talk to you and know the truth
Not what I perceive of you
Then would you truly be
Emerging from the shadows of love

Give a bit more just a little bit more
Give a little more of yourself tonight
Sell a slice more just a little slice more
Sell a little slice more of yourself tonight
You and I, side by side, but were miles apart
Bought and sold
Lives untold living in the
Shadows of love

© Kitten Kong Records 2005

9. You're My Alter Ego/Nothing Else Matters

"You're My Alter Ego"
James Williams & Pamela Baskin-Watson
Published by EMI Music

"Nothing Else Matters"
James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich
Published by Polygram

Arrangement: Melissa Forbes

10. Still

Music: Melissa Forbes
Lyrics: Jim & Melissa Forbes

The stillness of the night
A blanket that surrounds us
The sun on the other side
Though absent, warms us too
Trees' whispering leaves
Bestow a shimmered blessing
Behold the stars on high
Their centre me and you

I was not expecting you
The kindness in your eyes for me
Though I was not expecting you
I will hold you and love you, still

In the after glow of night
Birds sing a soft-light chorus
The sun opens his eyes
To cast the early morning light
Remembering I dreamed of you
Before I knew your name
In this place and time
The stillness I longed for is you

I was not expecting you
The kindness in your eyes for me
Though I was not expecting you
I will hold you and love you, still

Running rushing
Chasing choring
Nails and hair another
Boring
Dating dodging
Swearing sweating
True love seems
Beyond the getting
Grasping hoping
Hanging
Why oh why's the
Phone not ringing
Wringing weeping
Waiting
Please dear Lord just
Stop this aching
Longing for you
Still

I was not expecting you
The love that lived in you for me
Though I was not expecting you
I will hold you and love you, still

© Kitten Kong Records 2005

11. Blackheart Blues

Music & Lyrics: Melissa Forbes

I'm feeling so bad
And Lord it feels so good
Just wallowin' low
Down the dark alleys of my neighbourhood
Don't tell me to perk
Don't tell me to spark
I'm loving every minute of this dark heart
Ooh baby
I got them black heart blues

You say I'll emerge
My demons all purged
You say I can change
All I need is the urge
You want me to smile
I've got bile in my throat
Right now I'm hell and I'm takin' off my coat
Ooh baby
I got them black heart blues

It's morning once more
And guess what? I've had a change of heart
It's no longer blue
But pumping red and ready to fire
Fog is lifting
Sands are shifting
Peace is flowing over me
Oooh baby
Think I'm shaking those black heart blues

© Kitten Kong Records 2005

12. As I Sing

Music & Lyrics: Melissa Forbes

Don't waste another day
Don't wish your life away
Don't wait for happiness to find you
Don't waste another week
Don't turn the other cheek
Don't let their views get to you

I want the stars to show me the way it's gonna be
I'm flying with birds on wing as I sing…as I sing

I was so far away
I searched for a better place
And this journey led me to you
Our lives at a frantic pace
We yearn for a better way
Somewhere in us lies the truth

I want the stars to show me the way it's gonna be
I'm flying with birds on wing as I sing…as I sing

Thank you for seeing me
Thank you for setting free
Thank you for just being you
It's time for us to fly
Limitless is the sky
How wonderful that you and I came true

I want the stars to show me the way it's gonna be
I'm flying with birds on wing as I sing…as I sing

© Kitten Kong Records 2005