John Miles Quotes (1949-2021)

“Highfly, touch the sky,
Whatcha gonna do now the well's dry?
Good time, feeling fine.
Whatcha gonna do now there's no wine?”

“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.”

“Another night over.
The new day begins.
Remembering the dreams
that you left your love in,
and you wonder,
can you face another day,
one more day without love?”

“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”

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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)”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“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.”