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  1. Tracks
  2. Del Amitri
  3. Change Everything
  4. Sometimes I Just Have to Say Your Name

TRACK

Del Amitri

Sometimes I Just Have to Say Your Name

Release date: 9th June 1992

From Change Everything
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About This Track

"Sometimes I Just Have to Say Your Name" is a track by Del Amitri, from the album Change Everything, released 9th June 1992. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Del Amitri

Del Amitri

Lyrics

Sometimes I Just Have to Say Your Name

With the sweet drip of every raindrop

Time brings you closer to me

And with each new sign at every train-stop

Another hour without you is consigned to history

And with each tick of my alarm clock

I get crazy for the days to get to you

When I can hold you and kiss you have you

Instead of staring at some photo like a fool

But as day turns to night there's this hopelessness to fight

When I think that I might not make it through

But honey, sometimes I just have to say your name

To hear it hanging in the air, to know it sounds the same

And sometimes when I'm blue, I know just what to do

To keep the blues at bay you know I only have to say your name

So this morning I picked up a paper

In the useless descent of the rain

While partners in heartbreak the whole world over

Lie and cheat just the same

And the headlines proclaim everything has changed

Love can't save you now

As each little motion of my wristwatch

Holds up my faith somehow

But as day turns to night there's this hopelessness to fight

When I think that I might not make it through

But honey, sometimes I just have to say your name

To hear it hanging in the air, to know it sounds the same

And sometimes when I'm blue, I know just what to do

To keep the blues at bay you know I only have to say your name

When I've used up all my patience

When your letters have been read twenty times through

I can drink all the wine in this place of mine

But it ain't no replacement

It ain't no replacement for you

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Track details

From Change Everything

1992
Album
Change Everything
Change Everything
Del Amitri
Release year
1992
  1. —Behind the Fool
  2. —As Soon As the Tide Comes In
  3. —I Won’t Take the Blame
  4. —Sometimes I Just Have to Say Your Name
  5. —The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere
  6. —To Last a Lifetime
  7. —The First Rule of Love
  8. —Surface of the Moon

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