Fish - Cliché

I've got a reputation of being a man with a gift of words
A romantic poetic type or so they say
But I find it hard to express the way I feel about you
Without getting involved with the old clichés.

In the old clichés, it's an old cliché.

This song begun so many times but never in a way
That you won't consider to be an old cliché.
I want to say that I need you, I miss you when you're away.
And how it seemed like fate - oh here we go - the same old clichés.

It's the same old clichés.

It's not that I'm embarrassed or shy, well, you know me too well
But I want to make this song special in a way that you can tell.
That it's solely for you and for nobody else
For my best friend, my lover, when I need help - cliché - cliché ?

Everything I want to say to you is wrapped up in an old cliché

I'd waited so long to find you, I'd been through the heartbreak and the pain,
But of course you already know that cos you've been through the same.
That's why I'm trying to say with my deepest sincerity
That's why I'm finding it comes down to the basic simplicities
The best way is with an old cliché
It's simply the best way is with an old cliché
Always the best way is with an old cliché
I'll leave it to the best way, it's an old cliché
I love you.

Lyrics : Derek William Dick (Fish)
Music : Mickey Simmonds/Hal Lindes, arranged by Dick & Simmonds
Lead Vocals: Fish
Drums: Mark Brzezicki
Bass: John Giblin
Keyboards: Mickey Simmonds
Guitars: Frank Usher
Percussion: Luis Jardim
Backing Vocals: Carol Kenyon, Tessa Niles

From the album : Vigil in the Wilderness of Mirrors (1991)
Illustration by Mark Wilkinson from a Concept by Fish.

Official Fish Website

Comments

[Seb]

@ Caro_carito. Oui, heureusement qu'on les a ; ça aide en cas de panne d'inspiration... ou quand, de toute façon, il n'y a rien de plus à dire, comme dans le cas du "cliché" dont il est question ici.

[caro_carito]

And how it seemed like fate - oh here we go - the same old clichés

C'est rassurant les vieux clichés. Au propre et au figuré...