Songwriter: Ben Watt Tracey Thorn
Producer: Mike Hedges Everything But The Girl
[Verse 1]
Now and then
Do you wash your hands of me again?
Wish me anywhere but home
Drunk and on the end of your phone
[Verse 2]
From time to time
Do you guess what's really on my mind?
Guess that "How you keeping now?"
Means "Where are you sleeping now"
[Chorus]
But of course it's not polite
To ask you where you spent last night
And if I did you might
Reply that I have no right
And anyway I'm fine
Glad that you're no longer mine
If I should tell a lie
I'll cross my heart and hope to die
[Verse 3]
You'd be appalled
If you knew what I was doing when you called
Yes, I can see I'm blundering
Always end up wondering
[Chorus]
Will it ever be alright
To ask you where you spent last night?
And can it be polite
The way we never write
Of course I don't have the time
And anyway I'm fine
If I should tell a lie
I'll cross my heart and hope to die
[Instrumental]
[Chorus]
Oh, I know it's not polite
To ask you where you spent last night
And if I did you might
Reply that I have no right
And anyway I'm fine
Now you're no longer mine
If I should tell a lie
I'll cross my heart and hope to die
I hope we never die
I hope we never die
I hope we never die
[Outro]
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Now and then
Do you wash your hands of me again?
Wish me anywhere but home
Drunk and on the end of your phone
[Verse 2]
From time to time
Do you guess what's really on my mind?
Guess that "How you keeping now?"
Means "Where are you sleeping now"
[Chorus]
But of course it's not polite
To ask you where you spent last night
And if I did you might
Reply that I have no right
And anyway I'm fine
Glad that you're no longer mine
If I should tell a lie
I'll cross my heart and hope to die
[Verse 3]
You'd be appalled
If you knew what I was doing when you called
Yes, I can see I'm blundering
Always end up wondering
[Chorus]
Will it ever be alright
To ask you where you spent last night?
And can it be polite
The way we never write
Of course I don't have the time
And anyway I'm fine
If I should tell a lie
I'll cross my heart and hope to die
[Instrumental]
[Chorus]
Oh, I know it's not polite
To ask you where you spent last night
And if I did you might
Reply that I have no right
And anyway I'm fine
Now you're no longer mine
If I should tell a lie
I'll cross my heart and hope to die
I hope we never die
I hope we never die
I hope we never die
[Outro]
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Cross my heart
Baby, the Stars Shine Bright
- Almost Blue
- Come On Home (Extended Mix)
- Come On Home (Acoustic)
- Alfie
- Sugar Finney
- Where’s The Playground Susie?
- Cross My Heart
- Careless
- Draining the Bar
- Little Hitler
- A Country Mile
- Come Hell or High Water
- Don’t Let the Teardrops Rust Your Shining Heart
- Come On Home
- Fighting Talk
- Don’t Leave Me Behind
- I Fall to Pieces
- Baby, the Stars Shine Bright (1986)
- Like the Deserts Miss the Rain (2002)
- Missing
- Night and Day
- Wrong
- Five Fathoms
- Rollercoaster
- Mirrorball
- Single
- Walking Wounded
- Tender Blue
- Downhill Racer (Kenny Dope Mix)
- British Summertime
- The Heart Remains a Child
- Lullaby of Clubland (Matty Heilbronn Soulflower instrumental)
- Letting Love Go
- Charmless Callous Ways
- Fighting Talk
- The Spice of Life
- The Dustbowl
- Disenchanted
- Never Could Have Been Worse
- Love Is Strange
- Walking Wounded (Spring Heel Jack Hard vocal mix)
- Ugly Little Dreams
- Temperamental (Da Deepah Dub)