Songwriter: Jim Capaldi
Producer: Steve Winwood
[Verse 1]
Sometimes I feel like I'm fading away
You're looking at me, I've got nothing to say
Don't make me angry with the games that you play
Either light up or leave me alone
[Verse 2]
Walk in my room, you lie on my bed
Open your mouth, shoot someone dead
All of a sudden you're inside my head
Either light up or leave me alone
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Verse 3]
Spending my bread like it grew on a tree
You're trying to tell me 'bout the birds and the bees
The skirt that you're wearing is way past your knees
Either light up or leave me alone
[Verse 4]
You're up all night preaching your mind
Come home in the morning with your latest find
I'm gonna have to lay it to you straight on the line
Either light up or leave me alone
[Instrumental Outro]
Sometimes I feel like I'm fading away
You're looking at me, I've got nothing to say
Don't make me angry with the games that you play
Either light up or leave me alone
[Verse 2]
Walk in my room, you lie on my bed
Open your mouth, shoot someone dead
All of a sudden you're inside my head
Either light up or leave me alone
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Verse 3]
Spending my bread like it grew on a tree
You're trying to tell me 'bout the birds and the bees
The skirt that you're wearing is way past your knees
Either light up or leave me alone
[Verse 4]
You're up all night preaching your mind
Come home in the morning with your latest find
I'm gonna have to lay it to you straight on the line
Either light up or leave me alone
[Instrumental Outro]
more tracks from the album
Gold
- John Barleycorn (Must Die)
- Freedom Rider
- No Face, No Name, No Number
- Light Up or Leave Me Alone
- Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory
- Medicated Goo
- Shanghai Noodle Factory
- Dealer
- Paper Sun
- Gimme Some Lovin’ (Live)
- Empty Pages
- Glad
- Walking in the Wind
- (Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired
- Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring
- The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
- Dear Mr. Fantasy
- Forty Thousand Headmen
- Rainmaker
- Dream Gerrard
- When the Eagle Flies
- Smiling Phases
- Something New
- Coloured Rain
- Heaven Is in Your Mind
- Pearly Queen
- Rock & Roll Stew
From the albums
- The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971)
- On the Road (1973)
- The Ice Storm: Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack (1997)
- Gold (2005)
Traffic popular songs
- Dear Mr. Fantasy
- John Barleycorn (Must Die)
- The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
- Sittin’ Here Thinkin’ of My Love
- This Train Won’t Stop
- Every Mother’s Son
- Nowhere Is Their Freedom
- State of Grace
- Smiling Phases
- Here Comes a Man
- Something New
- Coloured Rain
- Stranger to Himself
- No Time to Live
- Heaven Is in Your Mind
- Pearly Queen
- Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring
- (Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired
- Withering Tree
- Every Night, Every Day
- Hidden Treasure
- Walking in the Wind
- Freedom Rider
- Berkshire Poppies