Album: Sweets from a Stranger (1982)

Charted: 51

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• There's a stain on my notebook
  Where your coffee cup was
  And there's ash in the pages
  Now I've got myself lost
  
  I was writing to tell you
  That my feelings tonight
  Are a stain on my notebook
  That rings your goodbye
  
  With the way that you left me
  I can hardly contain
  The hurt and the anger
  And the joy of the pain
  
  Now knowing I am single
  They'll be fire in my eyes
  And a stain on my notebook
  For a new love tonight
  
  From the lips without passion
  To the lips with a kiss
  There's nothing of your love
  That I'll ever miss
  
  The stain on my notebook
  Remain all that's left
  Of the memory of late nights
  And coffee in bed
  
  Now she's gone
  And I'm back on the beat
  A stain on my notebook
  Says nothing to me
  
  Now she's gone
  And I'm out with a friend
  With lips full of passion
  And coffee in bed Writer/s: CHRISTOPHER DIFFORD, GLENN TILBROOK
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

• Squeeze Fan from NyI saw Squeeze a few weeks ago, and this was the closing encore. The tempo was much faster than the recording, and included band introductions and a solo from each. Brought the house down.
• Anthony from New York, NyWell reading some of what's written in the "songfacts" section I think Glenn Tilbrook is being a tad bit harsh on himself. It's a good song that's sung perfectly for the type of song that it is. Its easy to see this is a song about a rocky & difficult relationship that had ended & the singer expresses the pain & remorse of said relationship. Most of us have been there sad to say. Again this song is well written & perfectly sung & paced IMO anyway. Nothing to be ashamed of where you have to come out & say that you "cant stand to hear it" any longer but if that's how the man feels about it, I have to respect it, even though I feel differently than he does about it. Good song.

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