For All These Years - Tanita Tikaram

FOR ALL THESE YEARS

Tanita Tikaram

I got a scent on you, I got something here to show

It’s somebody’s slice of life

I had it tailor made, I had it soaken, shaken and shown around the world

And for all these things you tell me, well

I can’t quite believe

You are still there and I’m still trying to be somebody

Always on the upkeep, always trying to reach the rest of us We don’t have anything to say, nothing to give

Well, life it blows away

I have another chance, I may have two lives

But my both lives will be brief lives

And then, you all will wonder why

I was nearly 16 years old

You were only 17, life isn’t so complicated

But then life isn’t supposed to be For all these years

For all these years

Could somebody tell them

To hurry on, hurry on down

Would somebody tell them to hurry on, hurry on down

Every censor, everybody loses their way

I have a wealth of material, I have a well of people to share with you

Every lover

Well they all tell us Yes, I have his wife in the background

But I have more than this, I have more than this

And if Mr. Chaste, he has a past

Give it to me

I was nearly 16 years old

You were only 17, life isn’t so complicated

But then life isn’t supposed to be For all these years

For all these years