From the recording The Bluff
This song was originally written in 1988, over 2 nights, whilst travelling on a Top Deck Tour of Russia - the bus had an old acoustic guitar on it and it all just flowed.
The song's music was revised quite extensively in 2018, with the current Indie Rock style introduced to what was originally a heavy rock/power ballad style.
Lyrics
SECRETS LIKE JEWELS
Verse 1
Secrets like jewels, buried in the sand
Hidden but known to but a few;
Memories of doves fly into the wind
Changed, yet more exposed than before;
So now we’ve shared these things we treasure
We’re bound on that beach forever;
As sands pass through the hourglass
Our day of reckoning draws near.
Chorus
No matter how hard you try
You can not always hide (those)
Thoughts and feelings you’ve concealed away;
No matter how hard you try
You will carry ‘till you die
But don’t ever give them all away.
Verse 2
Alike in so many ways, the winds of fate have blown our way
Looks of heat and moments of fire;
We must try to escape, this prison that we have made
We know the key but are reluctant to go and find;
Don’t ever give it away
Cos you may want it someday;
Time goes on
And the winds still blowing (yeah…..)
Chorus
No matter how hard you try
You can not always hide (those)
Thoughts and feelings you’ve concealed away;
No matter how hard you try
You will carry ‘till you die
But don’t ever give them all away.
Outro
Don’t ever give them all away (yeah)
Don’t ever give them all away;
No don’t ever give them all away (yeah)
Don’t ever give them all away (no, no, no, no)
Don’t ever give them all away – babe listen to me.