I feel like I meant something you always say you need more time
Well I'll stay right here and I'll wait for good until I find a love worth mine
Someday you've got it coming it hurts me when I read the signs
So loud and clear that I'll make you glad if I'm leaving first and crying
All you good good people listen to me
You're just about done with the way that you feel
When nothing rings home enough to dig your heels in
You don't have to leave me to see what I mean
All you good good people listen to me

And all I wanna do is find my name upon the line
Before I have to lose this I want time

All you good good people listen to me
You're just about done with the way that you feel
Nothing rings home enough to dig your heels in
You don't have to leave me to see what I mean
Lose all your fears
They are keeping you down
You won't have to fake it while I'm around
All you good good people listen to me

Listen to me..
Listen to me..


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  • +3
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    Best Embrace song IMHO
    NJJon March 28, 2006   Link
  • +2
    General Comment
    I disagree. This song is more Tears for Fears than it is Verve. The Verve meander around a bit more and do not have as concise melodies (and this is coming from a huge fan of the Verve). Eitherway... No other band could match the grandiose bombasity of this one... I remember the video, it was almost RIDICULOUS in how grandiose it was. It goes like this: The singer is on death row for, what we are lead to believe, a crime he did not commit. People are holding up candles and signs. The Governor doesn't pardon the execution, and then the singer is executed in the electric chair... BUT!!... as soon as they fry him, a BABY IS BORN!! It's so cheesy and over-the-top... but it works with the song and how BIG it is.
    bradleybon June 02, 2005   Link
  • +1
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    So Verve, so good. This is the ultimate song. It builds and builds.
    _turkishon November 12, 2004   Link
  • +1
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    I'd disagree with both of you personally, in the early years was compared regularly to Oasis - with the gigantic buzz they created. I would however agree with the symbolisation of the video being on the electric chair (that incidentally is only the American release). As a sufferer of Asperger's Syndrome, not to mention a teenager I have always confided in it very well. People make the assumption that nearly all of McNamara's lyrics refer to the end of a relationship, but I argue that this in particular is much deeper than that. The lyric 'All You Good Good People - listen to me', as well as 'I will make you glad if I am leaving first and crying' strongly suggests to me that it is possibly about feeling opressed as a child. At the school I was at I felt as if classmates and teachers tried to be better than me a lot of the time and it made me feel rather inadequate. A feeling a lot of people would share. Incidentally also, it was the song I was about to sing at karaoke before I was barred from my local in Bristol for swearing. And the song really struck me then - feeling as if it was my fault when I knew it wasn't. That's what the song boils down to, methinks. Shaun
    Shaunuson October 04, 2005   Link
  • +1
    General Comment
    This song is what Oasis's third album should have sounded like.
    cioranon April 27, 2014   Link
  • 0
    General Comment
    This song is amazing. Why Embrace did not get the success level of The Verve or Oasis is a 1990's mystery. They were prodigiously talented musically, and what is obvious from this song they wrote intelligent meaningful songs. If u kick back and really listen to it, you are listening to an orchestra , not a band. They could actually play instruments well . I believe they were music students from the country. I lived in London when this song crept, not crashed onto the music scene. Embrace never got the recognition they well deserved. I always found the lyric all you good good people very public spirited. I liked them cause they weren't arrogant like Blur or Oasis. And agree they were like The Verve.
    shlepon November 15, 2017   Link
  • 0
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    Great band - epic song Some could say not great LIVE though
    PineapplePrinceon March 22, 2021   Link

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