When I told you, what you don't know, won't hurt you now so don't make the same mistake.
Then you let it. But I don't have no sympathy now 'cos you don't ever think and then it's up to...

Me to pick the pieces that you left on the floor and you know I got no money but somehow you seem sure. Don't you think it hurts me to find out you've been learning about the little things don't let something like that get you down.

Well I don't know what you're trying to prove but please don't go leaving me this soon. Well I'm staying until you return. And you keep me waitin' and waitin' and waitin' and waitin' for you.

Don't fall into... deep with yourself, 'cos you know it won't help you got to got to keep your distance. Then you let it and I don't have no sympathy now 'cos you don't ever think and then it's up to...

Me to pick the pieces that you left on the floor and you know I got no money but somehow you seem sure. Don't you think it hurts me to find out you've been learning about the little things don't let something like that get you down.

Well I don't know what you're trying to prove but please don't go leaving me this soon. Well I'm staying until you return. And you keep me waitin' and waitin' for you.

Well I just don't know what you're trying to prove so please don't go leave me this soon. Well I'm staying until you return. And you keep me waitin' and waitin' and waitin' and waitin' and waitin' for you.



Waitin' for You

Your eyes sink to the back of your head, taking in all what I just said. A solution is a word to express what we all need to save me from what becomes when you settle for the sake and you can't find a way, but you just wanna get out, but you stick to what you know and you never want to let it go. 

I don't know where to run, I don't know where to hide, but if you want me to leave, then I better just go 'cos I don't really mind.

Are you ready for this? 'Cos I don't want you to miss it. Are you ready on call? Are you ready for this? Only once you're gonna feel it, oh baby, lose control. 

The scent of you is on me 'cos I put my shirt on that you wore last week. So that's what I love about you. Well some of it's fake, but mostly it's true. So why do you settle for the sake when you can't find a way? But you just wanna get out, but you stick to what you know and you never want to let it go. 

I don't know where to run, I don't know where to hide, but if you want me to leave, then I better just go 'cos I don't really mind.

Are you ready for this? 'Cos I don't want you to miss it. Are you ready on call? Are you ready for this? Only once you're gonna feel it, oh baby, lose control. 

I don't mind when you take your time with me, I don't mind when you... I don't mind when you take your time with me, I don't mind when you...

Are you ready for this? 'Cos I don't want you to miss it. Are you ready on call? Are you ready for this? Only once you're gonna feel it, oh baby, lose control. 

Are you ready? Don't want you to miss it. Are you ready on call? (Ooooh, yeah)
Are you ready? Only once you're gonna feel it, now baby, lose control.

Are You Ready?

I don't ever listen baby, ‘cos you've got an evil tongue
Cock and load the abuse
But it won't last long keeps your head strong
Complicate by makin’ stories, live life the way you want
Well do you think you'll miss me hunny? you can't say and you won't say so be sure

If I take control
Just step into position
When we feel resolved
Then I will show submission

Well I can see that you’re no substitute, so come on tell me now what you’ve got to lose?
I can see that you're no substitute, so come on tell me now what you’ve got to prove?

It's so reminiscent, takes me back to what’s gone before
With our history you'd think I'd be cut some, I was sure
From my recollection, I was always under the thumb
To say that it would be fair but now the attraction that I once felt has long gone

If I take control
Just step into position
When we feel resolved
Then I will show submission

Well I can see that you’re no substitute, so come on tell me now what you’ve got to lose?
I can see that you're no substitute, so come on tell me now what you’ve got to prove?

I don't want you to leave but if you take off now that's fine

Well I can see that you’re no substitute, so come on tell me now what you’ve got to lose?
I can see that you're no substitute, so come on tell me now what you’ve got to prove?

I can feel it so 
Just believe me well 
I can feel it ohhhhh

Substitute

I woke up and something hit me took me off my track
Well it’s been two years now and just today I’ve got to get that back

You wanted me
But that was when I didn’t want you
But then I fell for you 
And it took too much time to see

There’s always something in the way
But as long as I remind myself just why I need it
I am all to blame
But you can’t take all this time to make yourself believe it

Calmness speaks, it’s just the way I always approach you
My cold feet has potentially just fucked my cue

You wanted me
But that was when I didn’t want you
But then I fell for you 
And it took too much time to see

There’s always something in the way
But as long as I remind myself just why I need it
I am all to blame
But you can’t take all this time to make yourself believe it

Always something in the way
Always something in the way
Always something in the way
There wasn’t once but I left it late

You wanted me
But that was when I didn’t want you
But then I fell for you 
And it took too much time to see

There’s always something in the way
But as long as I remind myself just why I need it
I am all to blame
But you can’t take all this time to make yourself believe it

Always something in the way
I am always gone to blame

Oooooooooooo
Ooooooooooooooooooo
Oooooooooooo
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Always Something

It's a long way for you
But you don't need me to tell you
Soon the tide will part and I will run through
Oooooo my heart is killing
'Cos you only fulfill me 

You've done almost nothing
But I guess that makes you something
Don't hide the fact that you smile alone
Oooooo my heart is killing
'Cos you only fulfill me
Oooooo my heart is killing
'Cos you only fulfill me

Please just come around, it's the only way to know
I'll do whatever I can do to get you on your own

I'm going all the way to Los Angeles, so understand
I won't give up 'cos I don't feel I can
Oooooo my heart is killing
'Cos you only fulfill me
Oooooo my heart is killing
'Cos you only fulfill me


Please just come around 'cos it's the only way to know
I'll do whatever I can do to get you on your own
Please just come around 'cos it's the only way to know
You're the Mona Lisa that I treasure and I hold

Oooooo my heart is killing
'Cos you only fulfill me
Oooooo my heart is killing
'Cos you only fulfill me

Please just come around 'cos it's the only way to know
I'll do whatever I can do to get you on your own
Please just come around 'cos it's the only way to know
You're the Mona Lisa that I treasure and I hold

It's a long way for you 
But you don't need me to tell you
Soon the tide will part and I will run through

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Mona Lisa (Acoustic)

Morning, it's only me.  Can I wake you? 
'Cos I couldn't sleep. I know usually 
I'm dead to the world, this feeling's burning, 
It wants to come alive.

So we take off and shake off the blues
And it's these times that you realise were fools
You get on it from start to the end 
Let's not pretend that you're gunna come out alright.

I can't help the way I feel
I just need this in my life again
(and again, and again, and again) x2

Sunshine, that's what we hoped 
But in Hamburg, it was worse than home 
Yeah, but fuck it, it cost forty quid and
I won't lose a wink we'll be in the pit tonight.

You want nine lives, 'cos that's what you need 
Or a coffee to counter the sleep that your lacking, 
For better a word, I'm feeling worse 
Than a train wreck home tonight. 

I can't help the way I feel
I just need this in my life again
(and again, and again, and again) x2

Well I'm losing touch trying to keep things up with the team. 
Well I'm losing touch and it's spiralling, spiralling, spiralling down. 
It gets to the point where I don't know what I'm doing anymore.

I can't help the way I feel
I just need this in my life again
(and again, and again, and again) x2

We don't wanna write a love song about it. 
We don't wanna write a love song about you, about you. x2

We don't wanna write a love song. x3

Hamburg

I don't know where to begin
I know the end but the start isn't reaching me
you sat me down and you tried to explain
now in my head I see it ever so clearly
but oh, he's not the one and you're still together

Chorus
I can see that you believe in something
I've learnt to fly so I'm gunna catch it.
Naturally it wasn't what we wanted so I learnt to fly 
and now we can reach it.

Break loose take the shackles from me
I hold the thought and it keeps me from sinking deep
into a place where I know we've all been
it's only you that denies any feelings 
but oh, your life will implode if you stay together

Repeat Chorus 

Once I pull you round
Then we'll bloom out of the ground
once I pull you round
don't you wish you turned to me in the first place 
were not together

Chorus

Together?

Billy Bibby & The Wry Smiles are a four-piece band from North Wales/North West UK comprised of Billy Bibby/lead vocals, guitar; Thomas Hill/lead guitar; Matt Thomas/bass, vocals; and Ailis Mackay/drums. Since playing their first full band gig in November of 2015, it's been non-stop with close to 100 gigs and festivals in 40+ UK cities, combined with the release of a début EP and three follow-up singles. Hard work is paying off in the form a growing, grassroots fan base, as well as music industry recognition via two grant wins from Horizons/BBC Launchpad and Arts Council of Wales to further fuel new music development, touring, and promotion. 

Billy Bibby & The Wry Smiles have caught the attention of numerous tastemakers including Adam Walton of BBC Introducing, Clint Boon, Phil Clifton, and Jo Good of Radio X, Tim Cocker of Virgin Radio UK, Jim Gellatly of Amazing Radio, NME, BBC Radio Wales, and over 100 radio and media outlets in the UK and abroad. 

Manchester legend Clint Boon describes the band's music as "that classic sort of British songwriting with a strong nod to Americana" naming Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen as points of reference and predicting "a massive future". The band's influences remain diverse and ever-changing, both classic and cutting edge, with new songs constantly being added to the live repertoire. Come to a gig and experience the band at their very best!

Although the band formed recently, reviewers consistently remark that the group chemistry and level of musicianship are such that they play like a veteran ensemble. Bibby has clearly surrounded himself with talent. Experience also plays a key role considering Bibby's history as a UK Platinum Certified recording artist with Catfish and the Bottlemen, bringing to bear seven years of gigging and songcraft to every show and in every heartfelt song he's written.

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