I Should Have Been There To Inspire You Lyrics - Paul Weller

Nothing I'd say or I could do 

Could move the mountains from your view 

Nothing I see or I could show 

There's only darkness now I know 

I should have been there to inspire you 

Not paint your world a cold, cold blue 

I should have been there to inspire you 

I could have told you truthful too 

I believed in you, told you truthful too 

I should have been there 

Within your reach 

This is not self pity, yeah 

Of which I speak 

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I never took time to see how you'd grown 

I never took the care it takes to know 

Never took the time to see what you'd found 

(Never took the time to see what you'd found) 

Oh, had the time to bring you down 

I should have been there to inspire you 

Not paint your world a cold, cold blue 

I should have been there to inspire you 

I could have told you truthful too 

I believed in you, told you truthful too 

I could have been there 

I could have been there 

More than all this I do not know 

Only that love is here to show 

Someone a world to be themselves 

A place to fall when all else fails 

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Friends harsh words cut deep and sore 

But believe me mine will hurt me more 

In those moments before I sleep 

When I am truly alone to see 

I should have been there to inspire you 

Not paint your world a cold, cold blue 

I should have been there to inspire you 

I could have told you truthful too 

I should have been there to inspire you 

Not paint your world a cold, cold blue 

I should have been there to inspire you 

I could have told you truthful too 

I believed in you, told you truthful too 

Ohh, I believed in you, yeah 

(Told you truthful too) 

Yeah, I believed in you 

(Told you truthful too)