Top Songs By Paul Heaton
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Paul Heaton
Vocals
Zoë Johnston
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Paul Heaton
Composer
Martin Slattery
Composer
Scott Shields
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Martin Slattery
Producer
Scott Shields
Producer
Richard Flack
Additional Producer
Lyrics
Poems
Don't sit by river
Aren't there to be picked up by poets who pass
To find them on bank
And I'm
Not built to deliver
When stepping stone love in need
Of a bridge or a plank
Youth
The stream so much wider
Thought you could slow down the flow
If you drank and you drank
Middle age
Still unable to find her
The words on the stone that you skimmed
So heavy it sank
The ripple
Hesitation creates
The unposted poem with message
So clear yet so blank
Love will come
Not to he who just waits
For mouthing from bank side seems safer
Than living in tank
Thoughts
We understand were preserved
Rotted and quickly moved on
To a less cluttered bed
Rust
Somethoughts never deserved
But treated no different to ones
You kept in your head
Couldn't master me a classical piece
My brain's well
Popular but not fighting for seats
Pays the rent but never the lease
Never been classed as a work of art
Unlikely with the slowest of starts
Good progress if he ever took part
School days where you lived by your heart
Where you lived by your heart
And those strong and we will survive
And do so at the expense of fiction and art
Dissolve and notice to see
As time is the evidence that we even took part
Poems,don't sit by river
Writer(s): Scott Shields, Paul David Heaton
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