# John Miles

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

## Song lyrics

Playlist on YouTube of the tracks listed below
* 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)
* 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 Me Your Sympathy" (song)
** John Miles, "Don't Give Me Your Sympathy" (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!
** "Everybody Wants Some More" (song)
** John Miles, "Everybody Wants Some More" (song on YouTube)
* 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.
** "Glamour Boy" (song)
** John Miles, "Glamour Boy" (song on YouTube)
* 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" (song)
** John Miles, "Highfly" (song on YouTube)
* 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 Have Never Been in Love Before" (song)
** John Miles, "I Have Never Been in Love Before" (song on YouTube)
* 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'll Never Do It Again" (song)
** John Miles, "I'll Never Do It Again" (song on YouTube)
* 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?
** "I Need Your Love" (song)
** John Miles Band, "I Need Your Love" (song on YouTube)
* 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.
** "It's Not Over Yet" (song)
** John Miles, "It's Not Over Yet" (song on YouTube)
* 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.
** "Lady Of My Life" (song)
** John Miles, "Lady Of My Life" (song 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)
** John Miles, "Music" (song on YouTube. Live, 2001.)
** John Miles, "Music" (Another live performance. On YouTube.)
** John Miles, "Music" - Flashmob performance (Landau. On YouTube.)
** John Miles, "Music" (A 1976 performance. On YouTube)
** (+ Cover version by Sylver (featuring John Miles Senior) on YouTube)
* 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.
** "No Hard Feelings" (song)
** John Miles, "No Hard Feelings" (song on YouTube)
* 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)
* 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?
** "One More Day Without Love" (song)
** John Miles, "One More Day Without Love" (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.
** "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.
** "Peaceful Waters" (song)
** John Miles, "Peaceful Waters" (song on YouTube)
* 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.
** "Ready to Spread Your Wings" (song)
** John Miles, "Ready to Spread Your Wings" (song on YouTube)
* 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.
** "Rebel" (song)
** John Miles, "Rebel" (song on YouTube)
* 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.
** "Remember Yesterday" (song)
** John Miles, "Remember Yesterday" (song on YouTube. 5' 21")
** John Miles, "Remember Yesterday" (TopPop performance, 1976. On YouTube. 3' 06")
* 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.
** "Song for You" (song)
** John Miles, "Song for You" (song on YouTube)
* 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?
** "Stranger in the city" (song)
** John Miles, "Stranger in the city" (song on YouTube.)
** John Miles, "Stranger in the city" (longer version on YouTube: Pilooski edit.)
* 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" (song)
** John Miles, "The Right to Sing" (song on YouTube)
** John Miles, "The Right to Sing" (performance video on YouTube)
* 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.
** "We All Fall Down" (song)
** John Miles, "We All Fall Down" (song on YouTube)
* 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.
** "What Goes Around" (song)
** John Miles, "What Goes Around" (song on YouTube)
* 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" (song)
** John Miles, "When You Lose Someone So Young" (song on YouTube)
* 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 Have It All" (song)
** John Miles, "You Have It All" (1976 performance. On YouTube)

## External links

On YouTube:
* John Miles singing "Now That the Magic Has Gone". Stuttgart, 1993.
* A tribute video. 26 Years of The Night of the Proms (62 minutes. Adverts intervene.)
* 6 December 2021. A tribute video to John Miles, with images.