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A Certain Shade of Restless

from Open the Skylights by Tom Houston

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A Certain shade of restless

I am a certain shade of restless
Cracking jokes, while feeling kind of glum
I like a special type of sweetness
That leaves a bitter taste on my tongue

So when you say you want a coffee fudge cup
You want it quick you don’t care how
I’m thinking ‘I’ve only got one box of chocolates
And it’s too late to change the wrappers now’

I used to believe in happy endings
Good times rolling round, rolling round the bend
But now things seem so complicated
I just can’t shrug and pretend

When I see you feeling guilty
And I see the shame on your brow
I’m thinking ‘I’ve only got one box of chocolates
And it’s too late to change the wrappers now’

I want to lie low
I want to reach up high
I want to climb so deep inside that I can see the world smile

I want to lie low
I want to reach up high
I want to climb so deep inside that I can hear the world cry

I am a certain shade of restless
It makes me a hard man, a hard man to please
I like the dark and I like the sparkle
What holds me back can also set me free

So when you say you want a coffee fudge cup
And you want the taste to linger on your tongue
I open up my only box of chocolates
And take off the wrappers one by one
And take off the wrappers one by one

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from Open the Skylights, released January 16, 2013

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Tom Houston releases his sixth studio Album in October 2023.
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Tom lives in Central Scotland and was songwriter of note on BBC Scotland's Iain Anderson's show in 2017.

He is also a regular on Tom Robinson's BBC Introducing Mixtape

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