The Perfect Lie

Sometimes it seems I’m only standing here
Waiting for the axe to fall 
And all the moments I have hungered for 
They are the chances I’ve ignored

I want
I get
I live 
The perfect lie
Your dreams
Are real
To me
The perfect lie

The world can show a cold and empty face
To the ones that see at all
But it just leaves me in this lonely place
Waiting for a voice to call

I want…

The Perfect Lie

Gravity

Why don’t you ever see me?
I have been waiting here for years
You only ever need me
When somebody else brings you to tears

And now you say you’re certain
That somewhere a heart will be for you
Your promises always broken
I burn from the words that fall from you

I wanna be free
Of your gravity
You pull me in
And I fall again
Oh let me be free
Of your gravity
It’s crushing me now
And I need to come back down

The years between made us strangers
The dust of my life you brushed away
Now I’m a forgotten memory
Always the moth but not the flame

I wanna be free…

Gravity

The Ghost of Love

I scream into the hurricane
At the Devil and the dead
As I wait for bitter circumstance 
To change my mind…again

The tears of shadows haunted me
With a history of shame
The mirror gives a thousand lies 
But the script remains unchanged

I’ve always been right by your side
But invisible to you

I hate the ghost of love
That you’ve been dreaming of
This fire that only burns for one of us
And even hope can’t help me
Hope can’t help me now

Why fight for what I never had?
The dream that never came
My name has vanished from your lips
There’s just one loser in this game

You changed the taste of love for me
But now I’m yesterday

I hate the ghost of love…

The Ghost of Love

Dragons

Tell me, just what reason did you have
To walk away from me
Now if I could, then I would, break your heart
Then you might see
But I can never reach you anyway
Tears me apart when I hear the things you say

Don’t tell me to forget you…you know I can’t. 

If you stood, where I’m standing now
Watching every lie
Then you might feel a difference
In the way we said goodbye

You surround yourself with them again
You took the time to bring the whole thing to an end

Don’t tell me that you’re sorry
Well I’m sorry too

Now sometimes I wish they could change my mind
The way they changed you
Are you afraid now, of what you might find?
If you took the time
To open your eyes

One day I’ll wake, without you there
And find the feeling gone
Without this knife that cuts my days
And brings the evening on 

Wild horses couldn’t stop me loving you
So how do you, ever expect a word to?

Don’t ask me for forgiveness
I’ve nothing left to give

Dragons

Friday Street

So much for your promises to me
Where were they when I woke up today?
Alone in my bed no words were spoken
To give me the message you won’t say

Is it all over now? 
You never listen to me
Too many dreams I have found shattered
Won’t you talk to me?

I thought it was just imagination 
Just too blind to see what’s going on
Don’t tell me about your situation
You knew what you were doing all along

Is it all over now….

Friday Street 
You cut me with each little thing that you do
Friday Street
It’s a city of ghosts in this life after you
Friday Street
I tried to believe that it’s not meant to be
Friday Street
But it was…it was!

So much for the tears you tried to show me
But time and again you took me in
No rules in the games you played to lose me
No lies in the games you stand to win

Is it all over now…

Friday Street…

Friday Street

Release Me

Most of my life I hid myself away
Hoping that someone would would try to reach me anyway 
Never a cry for you to catch me when I fall
There’s not a trace I was here at all

Now I’m face to face
With everything I never wanted, never had and never threw away
In this empty space of perfect words on borrowed time and memories of those long forgotten days 

Why don’t you release me
And let me fly away on broken wings
Release me
Cos something breaks inside of me, each time you look away


I don’t know why I ever closed my door
It’s been years since I knew what I’ve waited for
I threw away the song I never wrote for you
Your every heartbeat just a footstep passing through

Now we’re holding on to interrupted stories of the tears that passed in years that only ever turned to grey 
When I look at you I know that it is for the last time and I’m begging but your ghost won’t go away

Why don’t you release me…

Release Me

Imperfect Me

How do you, sleep at night
With all of these memories inside you? 
We sing the old, familiar song
All about why love has gone
I don’t know why, we both came to pull the trigger
And I’m only sorry, to find that your aim was quicker

And I can’t keep pretending
That we don’t see it ending
You’re perfect
For the imperfect me


It’s so hard to breathe, with all of this regret inside me
All I’ll ever be, is living my life as one more ‘could have been’
I know it’s my fault, that it’s been years since we felt something real
I close my eyes, at these crossroads of the roads untaken 

And I can’t keep pretending…

The times we had
Just whispered away
Now there’s only echoes of the years

And I can’t keep pretending…

Imperfect Me

Stop The World 

I can still see you
Dancing by the pool
Your honey eyes shining in the sun, yeah
I can still feel you
On my fingertips
Still taste your perfume on my lips

If I could stop the world
And stay right here
Then baby, you know I would


I can still hear you 
Whispering my name
We made the promise that we never kept, no
One last “I love you”
Your uncertain smile
An ocean of years but I’ll never forget

If I could stop the world
And hold you here
I’d never let you go

Our time ran out
From the moment that we met
But I never knew
Until it was you that I can’t forget

If I could stop the world
And turn back time
Perhaps you’d still be mine

If I could stop the world

If I could stop the world

Stop the World

The Dark Heart (Within us all)

I am the blood in the water
I am the monkey’s paw
I am the face in the darkness
The shadow at the door

I am the prayer you don’t want answered
The final breath you take alone
I am the voice that whispers secrets
I am the pulse of the dark heart within us all

I am fear of falling
I am the broken wing
I’m the faithless promise
I am the nameless thing

I am the lie that hangs above you
The bitter truth that you’re alone
I am the bullet in the chamber
I am the pulse of the dark heart within us all


Self destruct

Self destruct

The Dark Heart

The Day I Let You Go

It should have been raining
The day I let you go
The sun kept on shining
As I watched you walk away

I should have been crying
The day you said goodbye
But I kept on smiling 
So you can’t see my pain


Now every night regret, sings me to sleep
And every word I should have said 
Is my secret to keep


I should have been begging
Oh baby please don’t go
Oh what was I thinking?
Now I’m the broken one I know

And every night regret….

The day I let you go
How could I ever know
The future that I threw away
The day I let you go
The colour left my life and I
Curse the day I let you go

And now I live my life
In the space you left behind
The words I never said
Are the ghosts that haunt my mind. 

The day I let you go…

The Day I Let You Go

Like The First Time

I hold you and we dance for one last time
But It’s been so long since we heard the music
We remember our steps like yesterday
Then I have to watch
You turn and walk away

Now all I want is just the chance to hold you 
Like the first time
It breaks my heart to know your faith in me has gone
And now our love walks through these empty rooms just like a shadow 
We turn the last page but just can’t seem to move on

I think of all the times I made you laugh
Until I made you cry
And how we watched it die then
When we said forever in the rain
I didn’t mean the pain
That turned us into strangers

Now all I want…

Now every memory
Just brings me back here once again
Now why can’t I say goodbye

Now all I want…

Like The First Time


The Tin Man


I think that I've been holding on
Far too tightly
To this thing we know 
Has come and gone
I know... I'll never hear your voice again
But this taste of your perfume
Still lingers on

And if you had your time again
You wouldn't waste it on someone like me

Now I wish I was The Tin Man
And I wouldn't have a heart to break
I'd go on as if this didn't matter
But inside I know it does

Now the pages of my life
Will tell a different story
And the days that follow
Have turned to grey
It seems this photograph
Is all that's left to remind me
That all these memories
Know when I'm alone

Even though our song has ended
You will always be my eternity

I wish I was The Tin Man
And I wouldn't have a heart to break
I'd go on as if this didn't matter
But inside I know it does

Why can't I be the Tin Man?
It's really not that much to ask 
Then this world would be the same to me, without you
And I could live again at last. 

At last....

"It's empty, the Tinsmith forgot to give me a heart"

The Tin Man

My Only Wish (Home for Christmas) 

Tell me a secret

What are you wishing for this year? 

I'll tell you baby

All that I want, is you right here 

With me


The mistletoe's waiting


I don't need presents, under my tree

I don't need singers, carolling me

I don't need snow 

I don't need decorations baby


I won't go to parties 

I'd rather stay home 

A room full of people

I'll still feel alone 

Oh babe, without you, it's not like Christmas at all


Please come home for Christmas

You're my only wish

All I need is, you with me on Christmas Eve

So please come home to me


Bright lights in the city

Turn dark without you 

I won't hang my stocking

There needs to be two


I'll wish this year away

Until you're back here to stay


Please come home for Christmas....


I keep on wishing

To have you in my arms again

Until then

It can't be Christmas


Please come home for Christmas...



My Only Wish

The Other Side of the Story

Well I knew long before you ever said the words
That this was over
Our race was run

I know you think they're only
Little white lies
But they're just your way
To keep me blind

So, I'm the other side of the story, now
And you're forgiven but not forgotten
Oh I'd do anything to feel your touch again
For the first time
And the last time

Now you look right through me as if I'm just someone
From yesterday
A life away

These words that spill between us
Throwing stones in anger that you know
Cut twice as deep

So, I'm the other side of the story...

The Other Side of The Story

If Now Was Then

If now was then 
When you were the one
Would the hours still come and go so fast
Like our days in the sun?

I try to find someone who's more like you
It's how I wish my life away

And in the days that follow
Alone with my regret
I look into my darkness and find that 
I have not gone on at all
In the days since our goodbye

This rusted knife inside my heart
Keeps me weighted down for years
Now this distance that's between us
Means I'll never have the chance to tell you
Baby that I'm sorry, I'm sorry

So, I try to find someone...

Now I watch it all unravel
Always tearing at the seams
And I'm digging through the embers 
Of a fire of long forgotten dreams
With the ghost of yesterday

If I'm asking for forgiveness
No one hears my prayers but me
Now you're gone but I'm forgotten
And I know I'm just another chapter 
In the story of your life

I try to find someone who's more like you
It's how I wish my life away

The words I never said, still haunt these rooms
Where I keep dancing with the ghost of you








If Now Was Then

Not With Me...

It's been so long, since I've realised
Your world will keep on turning fine without me
And my name, is long gone from your lips

Though I try, I don't know why
I still think about you every moment
And these songs that I write 
I know I'll never sing for you

And you have no reason
To ever want to think of me again
And somewhere else you live your life
But not with me
No not with me

Now these walls
That I built 
Seem higher now than they did yesterday 
Et ta voix, oh j'oublie
Mais je ne veux jamias oublier! 

Now you have your reason
To think I never cared for you at all
Now life goes on, the way it does
But not with me
No not with me....

Now you have no reason
To ever dream about what used to be 
The music plays
And still you dance
But not with me
No not with me

Now I have no reason 
To ever think my sun could shine again 
These memories you've left behind
They're still with me
Oh still with me

Not With Me...

Ice

It ended in the usual way
Saying goodbye on a winters day
Eye to eye, you tear our worlds apart
There's one tear, there's just one broken heart

I got closer, so they say 
I loved you through your darkest days
Oh you took more than you will ever know
The hole in my life, it begins to grow

You are ice 
You are calculating 
You are ice
Judging situations
Don't you know you're cold as ice?
And this time girl, we'd better think twice

Leaving here without a trace
A story that ran out of days
Hand in hand, we sing our last goodbye
There is nothing left for me to try

Walk away, the steps you take
Something in me starts to break
I call to you but there's no words at all
Burning memories I start to fall

You are ice....


You are ice....

Broken Glass

Why does it always feel
Like something darker walks beside me
And I can't learn to love 
The broken soul inside me

And I don't know which way to go
When every path just leads back here
And every time I try to speak 
I just feel weaker

Baby

Everybody holds their heart like broken glass
In a world of stone
Smoke and mirrors, wasted dreams
And same old same old lies

We need someone to love...

The voice inside me screaming 
I must be careful what I wish for
When love becomes a shadow
And we don't use those words no more

And still we fear each road we choose 
The things we gain, the things we lose
Now what flowed once the same within us
Is the blood we spill between us

Everybody holds their heart.....

This man in the mirror 
Is someone that I don't recognise 
You say that you've changed 
But your goodbye is still the same, same, same

Everybody holds their heart...



Broken Glass

Hold Me Now

Is it easy now, for you

To turn your face away

And I can see in your eyes

You don't hear a word I say


And when the love stops 

And it's all over

Do you, tell me, do you

Expect me to walk away, to walk away? 


Just a year has gone

It seemed to pass me by

Now I hear so many things

That make me want to die


And when the rain comes

In this silence

Do you, baby, do you

Want me to cry alone 

And lie alone?


Don't say the words 

That you don't feel no more

When I need you 

To hold me now

You say my name

Like I'm a stranger now

As we stand here

Alone, but eye to eye


In a moments fury

A memory will fade

And what we risk, for security

Is just the price we pay


Don't say the words...





Hold Me Now

Love is a Prison

It took the storm to feel the poison in my veins
This fear of falling kept me down
And it took a lightning strike for me to see the dark
What you called love has left it’s mark

So why, when we are together
Do I believe the same old lies?

How did I ever get here?
How did I ever come to be
This thing that even frightens me?

It took a shattered mirror
For me to finally break the spell
You had cast so easily

You say I can't live without you
Baby, but I 
I've always been alone

Girl, your love is a prison
And I can't find the key
I live my life
Caught in these chains
That only I can see

Well I've been waiting for someone 
To open up that door 
But each step I take
It only breaks
My heart a little more

And now I'm burning in the darkness
Reaching for something I know that isn't there! 

Girl, your love is a prison...




Love is a Prison

She...

She's the answer to a prayer 
I never made
The one who pulled me from the wreck 
of yesterday

And try as I may
It's easy to take this all for granted sometimes
When things fall apart
She's always the eye of the storm

She's the colours 
In this world 
I never saw

And when we're apart
I know in my heart
That I am not alone anymore
And she is the one that I'll finally call my home

She...she is this blue world to me
The reason I breathe
The wind in the trees
The sunlight on the sea

That's she...

And if I wondered
What my world would be without her
There's just no me
Without she

She...she is this blue world...


She...she's the star that guides me home
The promise of sun
And when my life's done
The last name that I'll breathe 

That's she...



She...

Not My Story to Tell

Ive been waiting for someone baby
To lift me up
And I keep hoping for something better
But its never enough 

I cant wait til tomorrow 
For what you promised yesterday
Just give me time to perfect the lie
That I know won't make you stay

I'm on the inside 
And I'm looking out
At a world that don't want me anymore 
This invisible life
That I made for myself
Oh it means you & I
Is not my story to tell

I can't live in this prison baby
Chained by history
And I can't wait for the rain to fall
To cry the tears you won't see 

You only promise illusion 
When you tell me nothings changed 
I dont need my hand in the flame
To know I've been burned again

I'm on the inside..

If I am free
Then so are you
It seems your heart
Was only passing through

I'm on the inside...





Not My Story to Tell

My Great Fall


How can it be, you're walking away from me

Leaving me with all these games you've played

Though I can't make you stay


My heart is still so grateful

For my great fall

For you... for you

And this city

Feels so empty

Without you


When all that you left 

Is this house full of silent rooms

That your ghost keeps on walking through 

And just won't let me sleep


How can I still be grateful....


I still feel you here with me

Your memory knocking on the walls

Why won't you let me breathe.....?


Baby I'm so grateful....



My Great Fall

The Love Drug

You used to tell me that love 
Was one more thing you dont need
But now it's got you running around
It brings us all to our knees

And after just one touch, you'll never be the same again
It's the addiction we all need

Give me the Love Drug 
Give me the Love Drug

Although you try to pretend
It doesn't matter to you
Oh, it's written all over your face
It's got its claws into you

Now you've tasted what turns life into a hurricane
Its bitter sweetness fills your veins

Give me the Love Drug...





The Love Drug

Ghosts


How many times 

Must I stand in the rain?

You took away the sun

And put me back again


Now we're just embers in the dark

You're the Phoenix 

And I am just the ashes


These days all that's left

Is someone else's story 

Why do I play these games

That I lost long ago?


If you're gone, just go for good 

Well I can live with that 

But I cant stand these echoes 


Take these ghosts away from me

You can leave me lonely 

At least it sets me free

Pull your twisted knife from me

I'd rather die alone 

Than live life on my knees 


This unfinished lie

You used to 'set me free'

The silence is unchanged 

Just hope still blinding me


Now I can still taste your goodbye

Dont say you're sorry

But be careful what you wish for...


Take these ghosts away from me...



Ghosts

HAUNTED


The memory of you walks through walls
And knocks on my door at night 
You're the voice in the dark
The shadow I see when I turn out my light 

I know I'm haunted by our past
(I raised it from the dead)
To come and lie with me again

I've been waiting in the dark
For love's ghost to come to me
My incantations, the sacrifices I've made
Why won't you appear?

The clock is striking the midnight hour
Why can't you possess me...again?
I'm a prisoner inside this tower
Of all of these regrets, you left me with.

Every morning I curse the sunrise
For keeping you away
I live in shadows, casting spells
Hiding from the day

This love's a seance, the table set for one
I need your ghost to whisper my name 
Or I just cant go on

I need to be haunted
I have to feel something more than this
I need to be haunted
Cos your ghost, is all that's here with me

I need to be haunted...


Haunted

(Now We Are) Rust

I'm tired of waiting
How long have I been waiting here?
To hear the sound of your wings
Leaving me

My soul has been breaking
Even though we've been taking time
When I know that your smile
Brightens someone else's day

And I feel
The weight of this life on me
And I feel
The price was too much to pay... This time

Now we are rust
Now we are dust
Now we are lost

I'm telling myself that
Maybe I can turn this page?
Now forever is over
In these silent days

This distance between us
The road that I had to take
Made tomorrow a stranger
And us yesterday

And now I'm
Watching our bridges burn
That we built
On rivers of wasted years

Now we are rust...

(Now We Are) Rust

Merry Christmas (Wherever You Are)

Merry Christmas, my love
Wherever you are
Whoever you're with
I still miss you

It's been a year now
Since I saw your footprints in the snow 
Leaving me
On the coldest Christmas Eve 
So tonight my only wish
Is to see you walk back in
But I know there's no miracle for me
Tonight

So wherever you are 
I hope you're happier
Whoever you're with 
I hope he's kinder than I was

I wish that I could 
See you one last time to say goodbye
And that I'm sorry
For the man I never was
Now, as the snow falls
I'm all alone on the darkest days of the year
And I know that there's only me to blame
Again

So wherever you are 
I hope you're happier
And whoever you're with
I'm sure he's better than I was

And if I cross your mind
You know I'm thinking of you too 
Baby I miss you...

So wherever you are 
I hope you're happier
And whoever you're with
I hope he loves you like I do

Merry Christmas, my love 
Wherever you are
Whoever you're with 
I still miss you 


Merry Christmas (Wherever you are)

Life: Without You

Now It seems I’m back to what I knew before you
I’ll never be that me again
I guess I’ll love you so much longer than I knew you
But life is simple in the rain

I’m here
You’re there
But we’re nowhere
This time I can’t make you feel this any longer

So this is life without you?
A dream that never came true?
The wasted promise of the life we never had
So these are days without your touch?
Where did this distance come from?
Now we’re both drowning, just in different oceans

I lie in darkness with my eyes wide open
As if I think that I can see
And this love becomes the poison in my veins 
And the man in the mirror curses me

I’m here…

So this is life without you…

Life: Without You

Do What You Came To Do...

No more broken hearted
We’re back to where we started once again
You play the victim well 
In this fantasy that you sell the world 
My friend 

Do what you came to do
Say what you came to say
You’re nobody’s happy ending anyway
Break what you came to break
Take what you came to take
Sharpen the words you use to hurt me

Why let me heal when you
Can open the wound again and again, my love?
Trust is a foreign land
I never know where I stand with you, my love

Do what you came to do…



Do What You Came To Do...

Unashamedly 80’s pop, from a band that were there first time around!

Formed in the early 80's by school friends Jon Williams and Simon Baker, originally under the name 'Teknicolor', before becoming 'This Blue World' in the late 80's, taking the name from one of their songs. 

The band had various line ups over the years with the core members always remaining Simon and Jon. 

Sadly, despite a keen following and a cache of hooky earworm songs, fame eluded them and, as so often happens, life and responsibilities overtook their attempts to break into the commercial market. 

However, the hunger never went away and the intervening years have given a lifetime of experience and emotions that have now provided the foundation for new tracks and a revisiting and rejuvenation of some of the older standards. 

This Blue World are back

Blending pop, rock and ballads with orchestration and drama,  the songs are chronicles of the heart, mind and emotions with every one a secret story. 

The Albums:

Jamäis Vu 

The Silence

Force Majeure 

© All words and music - Jon Williams

(No AI or Autotune is used in any of our music...if you can't make it, don't fake it!)

This Blue World

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