Below are the lyrics to the Talk About The Weather LP as published in 1985

 

 

Talk About The Weather
Hand On Heart
Feel A Piece
Hollow Eyes
This Today
Strange Dream
Happy

 


Talk About The Weather (Reed)
Talk About The Weather LP

well you keep coming up to me
you keep saying that it's up to me
you ain't nothing but a true embrace
you ain't nothing but a hidden face
and you're looking fair enough to me
you just see what you want to see
i want to know if you really care
i want to take you way down there
and stand in the rain and get you wet
you say you love me but not quite yet
i want to go out there to an open space
those tears to cry and show your face
oh I'm so soaked to the skin
yeah I'm so soaked to the skin
you want to talk about the weather

saturation is a point
there's nothing left you know
nowhere left for me to hide
nothing left but still alive
to face it all and here today
there's nothing left in you and me
and I can't show you this inside
if all you want to do is hide
i want to take you out and get you wet
you say you love me but not quite yet
i want to go out there to a sheltered place
those tears to cry and show your face
oh I'm so soaked to the skin
yeah I'm so soaked to the skin
you want to talk about the weather

sheltered from tomorrow
as though it may never come
you hide behind a wall of stone
and then you fell you're not alone
so face it all it's here today
you love me in your sheltered way
and I can't hold you in my hands
and talk about these hidden charms
i want to take them...
you want to talk about the weather
oh I'm so soaked to the skin
yeah I'm so soaked to the skin
you want to talk about the weather

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Hand on Heart (Reed)
Talk About The Weather LP

so tell me what I pay for the price of freedom
no healthy survival in rooms unattached
just trying to touch you, but never to hold you
in this burning confusion, with hands made of clay

you've got your hand on my heart
you've got your hand on my heart
you've got your hand on my heart
you've got your hand on my heart

in this prison of nowhere, you've played my emotions
you've stretched my condition, my head is all fire
with gates made of iron, like a lamb to the slaughter
emotional torture is a game you enjoy

you've got your hand on my heart
you've got your hand on my heart
you've got your hand on my heart
you've got your hand on my heart

the importance of nothing, your own bleak conclusion
illusions an answer, but never the healer
and crippled in silence, the stretch of a lifetime
the power to hold me, your pleasure to gain
it's a dicey situation I have found myself in
it's a dicey situation I have found myself in

you've got your hand on my heart
you've got your hand on my heart
you've got your hand on my heart
you've got your hand on my heart

on my heart

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Feel A Piece (Reed)
Talk About The Weather LP / hollow eyes 7" + 12"

seeing is believing, I have seen these things before
hold a conversation, pick yourself up off the floor
destination nowhere, but the truth is close at hand
all the feelings of a lifetime, but I never knew your name

i need something
just someone to hold onto
yes something
feel a piece of me now

hidden in the floorboards, there's a secret to be told
if I knew where I could find you wrap you up and take you home
and if I had a secret I would hold you in my arms
i would have you, I would take you, and we could fly away

i need something
just someone to hold onto
yes something
feel a piece of me now

value of your virtue is the price I have to pay
with a lengthy explanation, I could never understand
just what is inside you, finds the doorway to my soul
the flesh is weak, the spirit strong, so take me now, so take me now

something
just someone to hold onto
yes something
feel a piece of me now

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Hollow Eyes (Reed)
Talk About The Weather LP/ hollow eyes 7" + 12"

i've seen that look I know those eyes
i think this is a thin disguise
alone at last, but no surprise
i'd seen it in those hollow eyes

you should have seen them
you should have seen them
you should have seen them
you should have seen them

an empty room an empty space
but you can't really hide your face
I've seen that look of hate inside
I've seen it in those hollow eyes

you should have seen them
you should have seen them
you should have seen them
you should have seen them

this is the place where I have seen
you hide behind your sunken dreams
i had this feeling deep inside
you hid behind those hollow eyes

you should have seen them
you should have seen them
you should have seen them
you should have seen them

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This Today (Reed)

Talk About The Weather LP

they have made a new condition
rule your life with indecision
never bite the hand that feeds you
sit and wait while he deceives you

oh who gave us this today
will see tomorrow fade away

they have made a new invention
to smash the roots of our intention
guide us through these new conditions
put an end to all ambition

who gave us this today
will see tomorrow fade away...

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Sometimes (Reed)
Talk About The Weather LP

sometimes I could just
sometimes I could just
sometimes I can see you in motion
sometimes I can look straight through you
sometimes you stand beside me and
sometimes you are solo
sometimes I can see you in motion
sometimes I can look straight through you
sometimes you are so empty and
sometimes you are so cold
sometimes I can see you in motion
sometimes I can look straight through you

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Strange Dream (Reed)
Talk About The Weather LP

it was a strange dream
he stood and stared
those shining faces
those darkened eyes
and alone he ran
alone he ran

it was a strange dream
he stood and stared
those shining faces
those darkened eyes
and alone he ran
alone he ran

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Happy (Reed)
Talk About The Weather LP / take it all 7"

have you been above the ocean
have you been below the sky
you know there are a thousand notions
and yet you ask the reason why

i'm happy, happy, happy, yes i'm happy

you always ask the same questions
you always tell the same lies
you're looking for a reason
and yet I see no surprise

that i'm happy, happy, happy, i'm happy

have you been above the ocean
have you been below the sky
you know there are a thousand notions
and yet you ask the reason why

i'm happy, happy, happy, yeah i'm happy

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