One Left Standing - 2004
The funky album opener, "One Left Standing", typified the Mechanics new direction from the off. Filled with slick beats and groovy rhythms, it's easily one of the most distinctive songs of the bands career.
Sadly it was only ever released for promotional use, as I believe a properly promoted single release could have done much for the albums success.
Track List
1: One Left Standing
2: One Left Standing (Radio Edit)
Lyrics
You've got to hold on tonight
Do you think that it's easy trying to take me for a ride?
Signs.... time that you recognised them
Doesn't work anymore, it's gone and you can't make it right
Please just read my lips, get the message now baby
I been tangled enough, don't get me caught up again
Time I've lost count of the times I've been had do you blame me
But enough of this madness, no more to say it's been said
All this time I've been holding it together
If you walked a mile in my shoes you'd know what
I'd been going through
How many times can we go back?
Make the same mistakes, it's written all over your face
You and I were a river flowing
Now the tide has turned and all of my tears have run dry
How come I am the one left standing?
Now I'm drowning inside
All of my tears have run dry
Back right where I started again
But it's hard to forget
Everything's so different then
I would have moved mountains
If you'd asked me to
That's a lifetime ago
You've got to face up to the truth
Forgetting all of our mistakes
I just keep on falling right back in again
You and I were a river flowing
Now the tide has turned
And all of my tears have run dry
How come I am the one left standing?
Now I'm drowning inside
All of my tears have run dry
Turned my back and I don't regret it
One more time would be hell if I let it
Take my word for it, don't forget it
Check my eyes cause my tears have run dry
You and I were a river flowing
Now the tide has turned
And all of me tears have run dry
How come I am the one left standing?
Now I'm drowning inside
All of my tears have run dry
Written by Paul Carrack/Mike Rutherford/Sharon Woolf
Published by Copyright Control/Michael Rutherford Limited/Hit & Run Music (Publishing) Limited/EMI Music Publishing Limited. /Sanctuary Music Publishing Limited.