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Nothing Can Bring You Down (Until Tomorrow)
Written March 1991
Appears on Only My Hairdresser Knows For Sure
Available as an mp3

She left in the morning without warning
Her eyes were filled with sorrow
She packed everything she could carry
Said she'd get the rest sometime tomorrow.

  (ooh... time to carry on)
  (ooh... time to carry on)

He waited for the night to come, the way it always does
With the light going out in the town
And then he resolved, though nothing was really solved
That nothing would bring him down.

You sit there watching the sun turn into night
All you see is problems blocking out the light
You want to lie down, you don't even want to fight
But nothing can bring you down.

Take a deep breath, somehow you'll find a way
Don't let the darkness block all the light of day now
You can work it out for come as it may
Nothing can bring you down

Chorus:
Nothing, no nothing, can make you lie down
Nothing, no nothing, can bring you down

Now life can be hard when it feels like you're living all by yourself
So you bundle your emotions and stick them all up on a shelf
Can't figure out what's wrong, so you stopped asking for help
But still nothing can bring you down.

Yeah, dealing with the world sometimes seems like love in vain
Like the light at the end of the tunnel
  always seems like another train
You want to give it up and flush it all down the drain
But still nothing can bring you down

Chorus:

Nothing... is easy.
Nothing... it's crazy.

With suitcase in hand, she went out the door
  like she didn't have nothing to say
And he knew from the look in her eye
  that she'd be going back to stay
But he stared at the door in disbelief
  her words still in his head
Then slowly, he turned away from the door
  and he crawled back into bed.
And he lay there as the sun turned into shadow
  (return to shadow)
But he knew his emotions could wait until tomorrow
  (can you wait until tomorrow?)
  (can you wait until tomorrow?)

He'd been living with her now
  for what seemed like over half of his life
But it never felt real enough
  for him to ask her to be his wife
And sometimes when he was with her
  he still felt so alone
But he never knew how to tell her
  and that scared him to the bone
So he lay there as the sun turned to shadow
  (return to shadow)
And he knew that he wouldn't get up again until tomorrow.

(Solo)

Take a deep breath, somehow you'll find a way
  (She had... nothing left to say)
Don't let the darkness block all the light of day now
  (She was... going back to stay)
You can work it out for come as it may
  (She's gone...)
Nothing can bring you down
  (...wait until tomorrow)
Nothing can bring you down
  (But now... wait until tomorrow)
Nothing can bring you down
  (But now... wait until tomorrow)
Nothing can bring you down
  (For now... just lie down)

©1991 James (Gary) Geniesse

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