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John Miles (born John Errington; 23 April 1949 – 5 December 2021) was a British rock music vocalist, guitarist, and keyboard player.

Playlist on YouTube of the tracks listed below

Song lyrics

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Whoa, you like to think that you're
immune to the stuff, oh, yeah.
It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough,
you know you're gonna have to face it,
you're addicted to love.
  • The lights are on, but you're not home.
    Your mind is not your own.
    Your heart sweats, your body shakes.
    Another kiss is what it takes.
    You can't eat, you can't sleep.
    There's no doubt you're in deep.
    Your throat is tight, you can't breathe.
    Another kiss is all you need.
    Whoa, you like to think that you're
    immune to the stuff, oh, yeah.
    It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough,
    you know you're gonna have to face it,
    you're addicted to love.
  • When I was young
    I never needed anyone
    and making love was just for fun.
    Those days are gone.
    All by myself,
    don't wanna be
    all by myself
    anymore.
    • "All by Myself" (1975 song by Eric Carmen, based on a work by Sergei Rachmaninoff.)
    • John Miles sings "All by Myself". Emily Bear on piano. (Night of the Proms - Germany, 2017, song on YouTube.)
  • I was blinded. Yes, I was blinded,
    and the tender touch that said so much doesn't need me now.
    I was blinded, how I was blinded.
    When I think about how far I've got to fall
    it won't help that I was blinded by it all.
    • "Blinded" (song)
    • John Miles Band, "Blinded" (song on YouTube)
So take these broken wings
and learn to fly again, learn to live so free
And when we hear the voices sing
the book of love will open up for us and let us in
  • So take these broken wings
    and learn to fly again, learn to live so free
    And when we hear the voices sing
    the book of love will open up for us and let us in
    Take these broken wings
    You got to learn to fly again, got to learn to live so free
    And when we hear the voices sing
    the book of love will open up and let us in
    Yeah, yeah
    • "Broken Wings" (song, 1985, by American pop rock band Mr. Mister)
    • John Miles sings "Broken Wings" (Night of the Proms - Belgium, 2005. On YouTube.)
It's easily said with your gun to my head,
no one wants to fight a fighter.
If this is a dream then I'll stay out of bed,
It's always dark before it gets lighter.
I'm not being used again.
No I won't be used again.
I said I won't be used again.
You can't keep a good man down.
  • It's easily said with your gun to my head,
    no one wants to fight a fighter.
    If this is a dream then I'll stay out of bed,
    It's always dark before it gets lighter.
    I'm not being used again.
    No I won't be used again.
    I said I won't be used again.
    You can't keep a good man down.
  • Hold on, it'll take a while.
    You can't always be so juvenile.
    Hold on while the love we had
    loses nothing, could be half as bad.
    Waiting for the right time.
    You never showed me one sign.
    Give me your lifeline,
    but don't you give me your sympathy.
  • Don't give up
    'cause you have friends
    Don't give up
    You're not the only one
    Don't give up
    No reason to be ashamed
    Don't give up
    You still have us
    Don't give up now
    We're proud of who you are
    Don't give up
    I know it's never, never been easy
    Don't give up
    'cause I believe there's a place
    There's a place where we belong
    • "Don't Give Up" (1986 song by Peter Gabriel, originally performed with Kate Bush.)
    • John Miles, Julia Van De Ketterij, sing "Don't Give Up" (Night of the Proms - Netherlands, 2019, song on YouTube.)
Sitting in your easy chair
looking at the wall,
thinking of the things that might've been.
And as you wish your life away
with dreams of mystic gold,
imagine all the things you could've seen,
imagine all the things you could've seen.
Looking out the window
staring at the rain,
Wonder if the sun will ever shine?
And if you only realised
that life won't pass you by,
the only thing that's passing is your time.
The only thing that's passing is your time.
Oh no!
Oh no! No!
  • Sitting in your easy chair
    looking at the wall,
    thinking of the things that might've been.
    And as you wish your life away
    with dreams of mystic gold,
    imagine all the things you could've seen,
    imagine all the things you could've seen.
    Looking out the window
    staring at the rain,
    Wonder if the sun will ever shine?
    And if you only realised
    that life won't pass you by,
    the only thing that's passing is your time.
    The only thing that's passing is your time.
    Oh no!
    Oh no! No!
"It's not time to make a change.
Just relax, take it easy.
You're still young. That's your fault:
there's so much you have to know.
Find a girl, settle down,
if you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old but I'm happy.
I was once like you are now, and I know that it's not easy
to be calm when you've found something going on,
but take your time, think a lot,
think of everything you've got,
for you will still be here tomorrow but your dreams may not."
  • "It's not time to make a change.
    Just relax, take it easy.
    You're still young. That's your fault:
    there's so much you have to know.
    Find a girl, settle down,
    if you want you can marry.
    Look at me, I am old but I'm happy.
    I was once like you are now, and I know that it's not easy
    to be calm when you've found something going on,
    but take your time, think a lot,
    think of everything you've got,
    for you will still be here tomorrow but your dreams may not."
    • "Father and Son" (song, 1970, by Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens)
    • John Miles, Ronan Keating, sing "Father and Son" (Night of the Proms - Belgium, 2016. On YouTube.)
There's once in your life
if you're lucky enough to find it,
that special love, deep inside your soul,
opening your eyes to a bright new day,
leaving loneliness behind you.
No words could ever say, oh darling,
how precious you are to me.
Don't you see? Oh baby,
now that I found you, girl,
nothing's gonna take you away,
'cause, darling, I will love you for ever and ever.
  • There's once in your life
    if you're lucky enough to find it,
    that special love, deep inside your soul,
    opening your eyes to a bright new day,
    leaving loneliness behind you.
    No words could ever say, oh darling,
    how precious you are to me.
    Don't you see? Oh baby,
    now that I found you, girl,
    nothing's gonna take you away,
    'cause, darling, I will love you for ever and ever.
He really does shine
for the ladies with painted faces.
He spends his time being seen
in all the right places.
You only get to know him nearly,
there can't be anyone who knows him really.
He's doing so well
and there's no one to tell you but Glamour Boy.
  • He really does shine
    for the ladies with painted faces.
    He spends his time being seen
    in all the right places.
    You only get to know him nearly,
    there can't be anyone who knows him really.
    He's doing so well
    and there's no one to tell you but Glamour Boy.
Highfly, touch the sky,
Whatcha gonna do now the well's dry?
Good time, feeling fine.
Whatcha gonna do now there's no wine?
  • Highfly, touch the sky,
    Whatcha gonna do now the well's dry?
    Good time, feeling fine.
    Whatcha gonna do now there's no wine?
  • Could a feeling be so wrong?
    Why I left you for so long.
    Home. Though I miss you more each day
    there was nothing you could say,
    I had to go my way:
    show them I was older now
    and not some toy that they could play with.
    Tell me how everything I need today is?
    Lost, only traces on faces
    that won't remember me now.
    Yes I'm going back there somehow.
    Lost where my memory waits for me.
    Home is where I belong
    • "Home" (song)
    • John Miles, "Home" (song on YouTube)
  • Just another dead end kid.
    Can't believe the things I did.
    Lots of pretty ladies by my side.
    Take it all for Number One.
    Wasted days with no harm done.
    Always leave tomorrow open wide.
    You took me by surprise, now my empty eyes had to realise
    that my life wasn't the way I want to be.
    No, I'll never change my mind, couldn't be unkind,
    love is hard to find,
    and I know by now I should say more,
    but I have never been in love before.
  • I started working on an old song for Rosie.
    My mind was only halfway there.
    She came to my house and you know what she told me,
    slow dancin' in my easy chair...?
    I always knew one thing could lead to another,
    it didn't mean a thing, but now that it's over...?
    I took a chance. I thought you'd never discover...,
    Oh why, I'll never know. Now you say you're letting me go.
    I'll never do it again, that's the last time.
    Don't shake your head. Say that you believe me?
    I'll never do it again. Oh what a fool I am.
    Don't walk away, let me tell you something...
  • I need your love, I need your love.
    I need your love, I need your love.
    Sometimes I feel lost and I don't know what you believe.
    My wires get crossed, and I wonder how you could leave.
    But one thing I know, I just can't go on living from day to day,
    Won't you listen to me when I say,
    I need your love?
If you try to find a reason,
happiness could ease your mind;
what you're looking for is sometimes what you came from
and it's been there all the time.
But if old enough could be bold enough
when you're losing the show,
and if young enough was strong enough to know,
of all the things that I might do
I will never try to write this song for you.
And it's not called Angel.
  • Once a close friend, now a stranger.
    Where the wind blows, you'll survive.
    You won't ever have to leave before midnight,
    one more fool go stay the night.
    If you try to find a reason,
    happiness could ease your mind;
    what you're looking for is sometimes what you came from
    and it's been there all the time.
    But if old enough could be bold enough
    when you're losing the show,
    and if young enough was strong enough to know,
    of all the things that I might do
    I will never try to write this song for you.
    And it's not called Angel.
It's not over, no, it's not over yet.
Yeah, we'll put all this pain behind us,
recover and start again, come on.
It's not over, no, it's not over yet.
Sweet forgiving rain, wash away my shame,
let the clouds roll by
and reveal a brighter day.
  • It's not over, no, it's not over yet.
    Yeah, we'll put all this pain behind us,
    recover and start again, come on.
    It's not over, no, it's not over yet.
    Sweet forgiving rain, wash away my shame,
    let the clouds roll by
    and reveal a brighter day. Yeah.
  • Lady of my life,
    won't you comfort me tonight,
    when the troubles of the world are on my shoulders?
    Lady, make it right,
    please don't fuss or fight,
    I need some peace now I'm a little older.
    Lady, lady, lady, lady of my life,
    lady, lady, lady, lady of my life,
    stay with me tonight.
Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why
you had to hide away for so long (so long)
Where did we go wrong?
  • Sun is shinin' in the sky
    There ain't a cloud in sight
    It's stopped rainin', everybody's in the play
    and don't you know
    it's a beautiful new day. Hey hey hey!
    Runnin' down the avenue, see how the sun shines brightly
    in the city, on the streets where once was pity
    Mr. Blue Sky is living here today, hey hey hey.
    Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why
    you had to hide away for so long (so long)
    Where did we go wrong?
    • "Mr. Blue Sky" (song, 1977, by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO))
    • John Miles sings "Mr. Blue Sky" (Night of the Proms - Netherlands, 2001. On YouTube.)
Music was my first love
And it will be my last
Music of the future
And music of the past
To live without my music
would be impossible to do
In this world of troubles
my music pulls me through

~ "Music"(song on YouTube)
Nice Man Jack,
you should see him when the children play!
Nice Man Jack,
he's the one to take their tears away.
Nice Man Jack, so very warm and kind.
It's a pity there aren't more like him.
  • Nice Man Jack,
    you should see him when the children play!
    Nice Man Jack,
    he's the one to take their tears away.
    Nice Man Jack, so very warm and kind.
    It's a pity there aren't more like him.
    Nice Man Jack -
    and he's always there to lend a hand.
    Nice Man Jack,
    such a well-respected gentleman.
    Nice Man Jack, so charming in his way.
    It's a pity there aren't more like him.
    It's a pity there aren't more like him.
    It's a pity there aren't more like him.
  • No hard feelings, no tears, no pain.
    No hard feelings, no fears remain.
    I could see you slowly drifting away
    like a vision into the wall
    but I've got no hard feelings,
    I've got no feelings at all.
    No hard feelings, no cold goodbyes.
    No hard feelings, too old and wise.
    "And what happened to forever?", they say,
    "A lifetime seems so small."
    But I've got no hard feelings,
    I've got no feelings at all.
In our times of trouble
we only had ourselves.
Nobody else knows,
no one there to save us,
we had to save ourselves.
Yeah.
When the storms came through,
they found me and you
back to back together.
When the sun would shine
it was yours and mine,
yours and mine forever.
  • In our times of trouble
    we only had ourselves.
    Nobody else knows,
    no one there to save us,
    we had to save ourselves.
    Yeah.
    When the storms came through,
    they found me and you
    back to back together.
    When the sun would shine
    it was yours and mine,
    yours and mine forever.
    • "Oh How the Years Go By" (song. Written by Will Jennings, Simon Climie.)
    • John Miles, "Oh How the Years Go By" (song on YouTube)
  • Maybe I'm wrong, living high and chancing.
    I feel an ice cold look in your eye cut me down with glances.
    We both said "No", but we can't let go, and I'm feeling like we try to hide.
    I know I've waited so long. Now that yesterday's gone
    you need me there by your side.
    Just once in your life
    show me that you know how to make it right.
    For once in your life
    take a look around you and hold on tight.
    • "Once in Your Life" (song. Written by Will Jennings, Simon Climie.)
    • John Miles, "Once in Your Life" (song on YouTube)
Take a look at the blind man
wishing every day he could see.
He lives his life in darkness.
Be grateful, you and me.
Take a look at yourself now,
standing with your back to the wall.
Pride will get you nowhere fast,
we're waiting for the fall.
  • Take a look at the blind man
    wishing every day he could see.
    He lives his life in darkness.
    Be grateful, you and me.
    Take a look at yourself now,
    standing with your back to the wall.
    Pride will get you nowhere fast,
    we're waiting for the fall.
    • "Overture" (song)
    • John Miles, "Overture" (song on YouTube)
  • One more day and he'll be dreamin'.
    Let the night time roll away.
    He'll do great things tomorrow
    (so much to do today).
    Another mountain he'll be climbin'
    to a valley down below.
    There's sunshine all around him
    where the peaceful waters flow.
Plain Jane, chasing rainbows, building castles in the sky.
Plain Jane, chasing rainbows, make the end before you die.
Not for you a poor man's son,
your dreams of fortune have begun,
and once you're off the ground you have to fly.
  • Plain Jane, chasing rainbows, building castles in the sky.
    Plain Jane, chasing rainbows, make the end before you die.
    Not for you a poor man's son,
    your dreams of fortune have begun,
    and once you're off the ground you have to fly.
    • "Plain Jane" (song)
    • John Miles, "Plain Jane" (song on YouTube)
Pull the damn thing down,
we're gonna build a highway,
and either side we'll beautify,
with concrete reaching to the sky.
Pull the damn thing down.
  • Pull the damn thing down,
    we're gonna build a highway,
    and either side we'll beautify,
    with concrete reaching to the sky.
    Pull the damn thing down.
    Soon you won't remember,
    as all the people turn their backs
    on cobbled stones and chimney stacks.
    Pull the damn thing down!
Days may come and days may go.
Funny how the children grow so fast.
Nothing can last.
Always try, and try we will.
Nothing ever standing still for long.
Is it all wrong?
Time: tell me where you've flown.
Wind, where have you blown?
Taking us along,
and changing as you go
everything we know,
like the rivers flow.
What have we to show?
Ready to spread your wings and fly away.
  • Days may come and days may go.
    Funny how the children grow so fast.
    Nothing can last.
    Always try, and try we will.
    Nothing ever standing still for long.
    Is it all wrong?
    Time: tell me where you've flown.
    Wind, where have you blown?
    Taking us along,
    and changing as you go
    everything we know,
    like the rivers flow.
    What have we to show?
    Ready to spread your wings and fly away.
  • Not for me all the things you must do
    I am glad now that I can see through.
    They say that I'm crazy, I'm out of my mind,
    searching for something I'll never find.
    Don't call me a loser,
    call me a rebel.
    No one said I must run in this race.
    Always right, putting me in my place.
    I know it's not easy: believe in yourself,
    you won't find the answer in somebody else.
    Don't call me a loser,
    Call me a rebel.
    Call me a rebel.
Misty silence of the early morning.
All around another day is dawning.
Goodbyes ain't easy,
so no-one sees me when I go.
Only time is gonna last forever.
Just remember what we had together.
I must be leavin'
and I can't even let it show.
I am on my way,
Remember Yesterday.
  • Misty silence of the early morning.
    All around another day is dawning.
    Goodbyes ain't easy,
    so no-one sees me when I go.
    Only time is gonna last forever.
    Just remember what we had together.
    I must be leavin'
    and I can't even let it show.
    I am on my way,
    Remember Yesterday.
  • You're on your own, back on the street,
    out in the cold you feel the heat.
    One way ticket to nowhere at your feet.
    Take what you need, a word to the wise:
    only the weak need alibis.
    Stakes are too high, zero again,
    no second chances at the end.
    Run, tell me where you're gonna run to?
    Run, oh, oh, oh where you gonna run to?
    Where you gonna run?
    • "Run" (song)
    • John Miles Band, "Run" (song on YouTube)
  • People always rushing round,
    makin' time to fuss and to worry.
    Get your feet back on the ground,
    it's no good to live in a hurry.
    Take it easy on your mind,
    no one wants to get behind.
    Think about it, you will find
    time is on your side, slow down.
    (Can't slow down)
    • "Slow Down" (song)
    • John Miles, "Slow Down" (song on YouTube)
This is my song for you.
Thoughts of winter, dreams of sunshine.
Nothing that I can do
changes how I feel in my mind.
This is my song for you.
Times I hope you will remember.
Things that were meant for two,
here in my heart, here in my song for you.
  • This is my song for you.
    Thoughts of winter, dreams of sunshine.
    Nothing that I can do
    changes how I feel in my mind.
    This is my song for you.
    Times I hope you will remember.
    Things that were meant for two,
    here in my heart, here in my song for you.
  • You can have the world
    if the world is what you need.
    Just take me round in circles,
    I'll follow where you lead.
    Go anywhere,
    if it's where you wanna go.
    It used to be for something,
    but lately I don't know.
    "Take me far away",
    all the people say.
    You're the price I pay.
    Blame me.
    Leave you far behind.
    Search until I find.
    I could lose my mind.
    Shame me.
    Tame me.
And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
then the piper will lead us to reason

Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
there's still time to change the road you're on.
  • And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
    then the piper will lead us to reason
    and a new day will dawn for those who stand long
    and the forests will echo with laughter.
    Oh-oh-oh-oh-whoa
    Ooh, really makes me wonder
    If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now
    It's just a spring clean for the May Queen.
    Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
    there's still time to change the road you're on.
Buildings tower round me like they're waiting for the kill.
For days I haven't eaten and I really do feel ill.
If I cry for help, would you hear my call?
If I stumble now, would you let me fall?
Won't you give me a hand,
try to understand
that I'm a stranger in the city?
  • Buildings tower round me like they're waiting for the kill.
    For days I haven't eaten and I really do feel ill.
    If I cry for help, would you hear my call?
    If I stumble now, would you let me fall?
    Won't you give me a hand,
    try to understand
    that I'm a stranger in the city?
    Stuck inside these streets it's like a human traffic jam.
    People walk right over me, now they don't give a damn.
    If I ask for death, would you give me a gun?
    If I took your hand, would you turn and run?
    Won't you pity me, just try to see
    that I'm a stranger in the city?
The right to sing, the right to play.
The right to do the things I feel in my own way.
And if you took it all and asked me to pretend,
you'd be breaking a heart that won't mend.
The right to win, the right to lose.
The right to fall in love with anyone I choose.
And when it's my mistake and everything goes wrong
I would write what I feel in a song.
  • The right to sing, the right to play.
    The right to do the things I feel in my own way.
    And if you took it all and asked me to pretend,
    you'd be breaking a heart that won't mend.
    The right to win, the right to lose.
    The right to fall in love with anyone I choose.
    And when it's my mistake and everything goes wrong
    I would write what I feel in a song.
Time is for ever, and no one can say
time shows, love goes
Only the fears as you go through the years
till the last sand of time blows away.
Till last sand of time blows away.
  • Locked up with freedom you don't want at all,
    in crowds there is no-one to turn to.
    Down, when you're high, is a long way to fall,
    and all the mistakes you won't learn through.
    Time is for ever, and no one can say
    time shows, love goes
    Only the fears as you go through the years
    till the last sand of time blows away.
    Till last sand of time blows away.
    • "Time" (song)
    • John Miles, "Time" (song on YouTube)
Now I'm saying:
Turn yourself loose
Destiny calling
Turn yourself loose
You can't wait for a better day
Turn yourself loose
Go without any warning
Turn yourself loose
You can fly away
  • Why wait to give yourself a chance tomorrow?
    Let the feelin' grow
    You don't need someone else for you to follow
    Anywhere you go
    Leavin' your shell
    You'll never turn around!
    You know so well
    What always tied you down
    Is it for love, or is it only a game you're playing?
    Now I'm saying:
    Turn yourself loose
    Destiny calling
    Turn yourself loose
    You can't wait for a better day
    Turn yourself loose
    Go without any warning
    Turn yourself loose
    You can fly away
Over and over
over and over
we will discover
we will discover
that we all fall down.
Yes, we all fall down.
Yes, we all fall down.
Yes, we all fall down.
  • Over and over
    over and over
    we will discover
    we will discover
    that we all fall down.
    Yes, we all fall down.
    Yes, we all fall down.
    Yes, we all fall down.
  • I never saw what was coming down.
    (What goes around, comes around.)
    My heart just shattered in pieces on the ground.
    (What goes around, comes around.)
    Twist an old cliché
    till the words ring true.
    What you do to someone,
    it can happen to you.
    Cause we're all links
    in this human chain,
    just the cause and effect
    of so much passion and pain.
When you lose someone so young,
how do you start again?
You can't run and hide from the world outside
and you lock yourself in, wonder where to begin:
it multiplies the pain.
When you lose someone so young,
how do you start again?
As time goes by and tears run dry
and hope appears in place of fears
it takes away the pain.
  • When you lose someone so young,
    how do you start again?
    You can't run and hide from the world outside
    and you lock yourself in, wonder where to begin:
    it multiplies the pain.
    When you lose someone so young,
    how do you start again?
    As time goes by and tears run dry
    and hope appears in place of fears
    it takes away the pain.
You're the voice, try and understand it
Make a noise and make it clear
Oh, whoa
We're not gonna sit in silence
We're not gonna live with fear
Oh, whoa
Ooh, we're all someone's daughter
We're all someone's son
How long can we look at each other
Down the barrel of a gun?
You're the voice, try and understand it
Make a noise and make it clear
Oh, whoa
We're not gonna sit in silence
We're not gonna live with fear
Oh, whoa
  • As it was in the beginning
    it will be until the end.
    Your money buys you people
    but it will not buy you friends.
    Your life is an illusion
    so live it day by day.
    Just draw your own conclusion
    It's gonna happen anyway
  • You're the voice, try and understand it
    Make a noise and make it clear
    Oh, whoa
    We're not gonna sit in silence
    We're not gonna live with fear
    Oh, whoa
    Ooh, we're all someone's daughter
    We're all someone's son
    How long can we look at each other
    Down the barrel of a gun?
    You're the voice, try and understand it
    Make a noise and make it clear
    Oh, whoa
    We're not gonna sit in silence
    We're not gonna live with fear
    Oh, whoa
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