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!)

Not My Story to Tell

This Blue World

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