Released: February 8, 1988
Songwriter: Ben Watt Tracey Thorn
Producer: Ben Watt
[Verse 1]
Apron strings hanging empty
Crazy things my body tells me
I want someone to tie to my lonely apron strings
[Verse 2]
Apron strings waiting for you
Pretty things that I could call you
I want someone to tie to my lonely apron strings
[Bridge]
Your baby looks just like you when you were young
And he looks at me with eyes that shine
And I wish that he were mine
Then I go home to my
[Verse 3]
Apron strings, cold and lonely
For time brings thoughts that only
Will be quiet when someone clings to my apron strings
[Bridge]
And I'll be perfect in my own way
When you cry I will be there
I'll sing to you and comb your hair
All your troubles I will share
[Verse 4]
For apron strings can be used for other things
Than what they're meant for
And you'd be happy wrapped in my apron strings
You'd be happy wrapped in my apron strings
Apron strings hanging empty
Crazy things my body tells me
I want someone to tie to my lonely apron strings
[Verse 2]
Apron strings waiting for you
Pretty things that I could call you
I want someone to tie to my lonely apron strings
[Bridge]
Your baby looks just like you when you were young
And he looks at me with eyes that shine
And I wish that he were mine
Then I go home to my
[Verse 3]
Apron strings, cold and lonely
For time brings thoughts that only
Will be quiet when someone clings to my apron strings
[Bridge]
And I'll be perfect in my own way
When you cry I will be there
I'll sing to you and comb your hair
All your troubles I will share
[Verse 4]
For apron strings can be used for other things
Than what they're meant for
And you'd be happy wrapped in my apron strings
You'd be happy wrapped in my apron strings
Idlewild
- Oxford Street
- Lonesome for a Place I Know
- Hang Out the Flags
- Love Is Here Where I Live
- Living on Honeycomb
- These Early Days
- Dyed in the Grain
- Another Day, Another Dollar
- I Don’t Want to Talk About It (Instrumental)
- Shadow on a Harvest Moon
- Blue Moon Rose
- Goodbye Sunday
- I Always Was Your Girl
- Apron Strings
- No Place Like Home
- Tears All Over Town
- Home From Home
- The Night I Heard Caruso Sing
- I Don’t Want to Talk About It
- How About Me?
- 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)