Why can't you be real
You hide the way you feel
You can't manufacture me
Cause I like it naturally
Why can't you be true
Why can't you be you
Stop all your suffering
And do your natural thing
Do you think you're fooling anybody
Your mind is in some kind of control
Your soul isn't inside the body
Your body is inside the soul
Why can't you be cool
You're acting like a fool
You sold your soul for fame, fame, fame,
Me I like the natural game
Do you think you're fooling anybody
You are in some kind of control
I've seen you on the ledge pushed over the edge
Like it was some kind of goal
Never mind, never mind
I will be fine I will be fine
Never mind, never mind
I will be fine I will be fine
Never mind, never mind
I've got my old man's Delta '88
The windows cracked I'm on the interstate
Just a hundred miles to go on half a tank of gasoline
Lucky charms and Tic-Tacs and mom's amphetamines
A hundred miles to go to Kansas City
February makes me kinda crazy
A hundred miles to go to Kansas City
Will you still be callin' me your baby
I met a man in a diner outside of Hays
He said marriage brought him there
It was divorce that made him stay
I drove straight through to Junction City
I thought I'd call you in Topeka
But I didn't want the pity
A hundred miles to go to Kansas City
February makes me kinda crazy
A hundred miles to go to Kansas City
Will you still be callin' me your baby
Feels like I been thrown into the slammer
With the back end of a hammer
Drawn over my strings
Living became needing
My crying became bleeding
And now I am only dreaming
A hundred miles to go to Kansas City
February makes me kinda crazy
A hundred miles to go to Kansas City
Will you still be callin' me your baby
They say the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away
Well it was definitely gone when I woke up today
I walked up to the mirror to see
It's only me
I got out of the kitchen I couldn't stand the heat
Back into my skin and out on the street
Lookin' for a little salvation
It's only me
Baby you can just pretend
That maybe you can love again
But babe I know better
It's only me
And wherever you are tonight
The satisfaction you invite
Nobody knows better
It's only me
Well I went down to the revival
To give my soul a chance
And the DJ spoke to God
And the congregation danced
And I heard a sound and I turned around
It's only me
I found a little angel who had fallen from the sky
And I took that little angel and I taught her how to fly
When the night is done and the morning comes
It's only me
All you'll ever want
All you'll ever need
All you'll ever taste
All you'll ever bleed
Look deep inside you
There were stairs they were steep
I was falling falling deep
You were there you were small
There was screaming down the hall
I've been here sleeping all these years
There comes a time we all know
There's a place that we must go
Into the soul into the heart
Into the dark
There was fire there was death
There was lying on your breath
I turned away I would pretend
But the burning never ends
I've been here sleeping all these years
There was a wave over the house
There was fear choked in my mouth
You were there you left your mark
Everybody's got a hunger
No matter where they are
Everybody clings to their own fear
Everybody hides some scar
Precious pain
Empty and cold but it keeps me alive
I gave it my soul so that I could survive
Keeping me safe in these chains
Precious pain
Everybody's got a reason
To abandon their plan
How can I think of tomorrow
With my sorrow in hand
Precious pain
Empty and cold but it keeps me alive
I gave it my soul so that I could survive
Keeping me safe in these chains
Precious pain
Each road that I walk down
Reminds me of you
This whole town is haunted
There'll never be anything new
Precious pain
Empty and cold but it keeps me alive
I gave it my soul so that I could survive
Keeping me safe in these chains
No one conceals me like
No one reveals me like
My lover
No one can disconnect
No one can resurrect
Like my lover
My lover makes me weak
Gives me breath to speak
My lover takes me home
Cools the rolling stone
My lover's thorny kiss
The reason to exist
I wonder
No one can saturate
No one manipulates
Like my lover
The sensuality
It's immortality
My lover
My lover needs to seize
Bring me to my knees
Reads me like a prayer
Calls the spirit there
Secretly inspires
Strips me to desire
I wonder
No one can visualize
No one can make me rise
Like my lover
They dream of paradise
They'll never ever pay the price
I know you're home
You left your light on
You know I'm here
The night is thin
I know you're alone
I watched the car leave
Your lover is gone
Let me in
Open your back door
I just need to touch you once more
I want to come over
To hell with the consequence
You told me you loved me
That's all I believe
I want to come over
It's a need I can't explain
To see you again
I want to come over
I know your friend
You told her about me
She filled you with fear
Some kind of sin
How can you turn
Denying the fire
Lover I burn
Let me in
Open your back door
I just need to touch you once more
I want to come over
To hell with the consequence
You told me you loved me
That's all I believe
I want to come over
It's a need I can't explain
To see you again
I want to come over
I know you're confused
I know that you're shaken
You think we'll be lost
Once we begin
I know you're weak
I know that you want me
Lover don't speak
Let me in
I want to come over
To hell with the consequence
You told me you loved me
That's all I believe
I want to come over
It's a need I can't explain
To see you again
You can't take a trip
If you don't first say goodbye
You can't find a star
If you don't look up in the sky
You can't find a light
If you don't know where the dark ends
And you can't change the heroes and friends
You can't light a spark
If you don't first carry a flame
You can't take the weight
Of a single ounce of shame
You can't change the signal
Just the message that it sends
The message of the heroes and friends
You can't touch the screen
You can take the place of love
You can disappear in ether
When pushes come to shove
And you can walk the night
Into the dawn
And back again
Looking for the heroes and friends
You can ride the back roads
Of the hometowns of the world
You can collide on sidewalks
In a neon light of blur
You can rush the stages
And believe the words again
Looking for the heroes and friends
You can dedicate your life
To breaking down the walls
To ringing the alarm
Screaming down the halls
You can stand in judgment
Of the meaning in the air
Then we are all just heroes and friends
Oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh-ho
Oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh-ho
Oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh-ho
Oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh-ho
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
Oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh-ho
Looking for the heroes and friends
Oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh-ho
Oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh-ho
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
Why do we sacrifice our lives?
To what is left when it all ends
You say you don't feel like yourself
Does that mean you're somebody else
How would I know
Oh you say you just don't feel quite right today
Does that mean that you're slipping away
How would I know
You might believe there's a paradise
In the next hello
How would I know
If you don't tell me so
If you wanted to go
How would I know
You say you don't know what you're doing here
Does that mean you might disappear
How would I know
You might feel that there's something real
What went right
What went wrong
Doesn't really matter much
When it's gone
Was it too hard to try
Was it too hard to lie
Did you just grow tired of hello and goodbye
Was it the naked truth that made you run
Where do I go now
That I'm down to one
Sooner or later
We all end up walking alone
I'm down to one
My heart is a traitor
It led me down this road
Now it's done
I'm down to one
I want to know where I failed
I want to know where I sinned
Cause I don't want to ever feel this way again
Was the wanting too deep
Did it block your sun
Where do I go now
That I'm down to one
What am I supposed to think
What am I gonna say
What did I ever know
You woke me up at 3:00 a.m.
To tell me about the fire
You said that she was more than a friend
You were consumed by your desire
And so it goes
This too shall pass away
It cuts so strange
The only thing that stays the same
Is change
Your love was here but now it's gone
And your eyes no longer want me
And now I can't hold back the dawn
And the truth that seems to haunt me
And so it goes
This too shall pass away
It cuts so strange
The only thing that stays the same
Is change
The only thing
That stays the same
Is change
I'm not so sure where I have been
I don't know just where I'm going
Hard as I hold it in my hand
I can stop the wind from blowing
And so it goes
This too shall pass away
It cuts so strange
Roll me away
It cuts so strange
The only thing that stays the same
All we can really do
Is love one another
All we can really do
Is love one another
All we can really do
Is love one another (yeah)
All we can really do
All there is
Is atoms and space
Everything else is illusion
Good morning Monday
Take off your shoes
Because the jeans that I am posing
Are anything but blue
There were shadows, I remember shadows
All over me not long ago
Yes there were secrets and unlocked doors
There were mysteries of ages and oceans to explore
If I close my eyes if I close my eyes
I can feel it all over again
And I know if there was danger
I know if there was doubt
I know if I had to keep running like hell
Just looking for a way to get out
I know if I was kidnapped
And nobody had a clue
After last night that kind of delight
All I'd have to do is think of you
And you could save me
You could save me
If I needed it right now
If I needed it right now
Honey you could save me
You could save me
Darling you know how
You know how
Honey you could save me
You could save me
Right now right now right now
I don't need a number
I don't need a phone
I got wisdom on my hands
And its creeping into my bones
And its 1-2-3 see how easy it could be
When you're sworn to secrecy
And now there's roses and things to do
And the sheets are in the laundry
And my mind should be there too
Because I'm waiting, yes I'm waiting
To feel it all over again
If I thought that I was followed
If I thought that I was lost
If I thought that I had gambled
And couldn't pay the cost
If I thought that I was crazy
If I thought I'd come unscrewed
After that fire that kind of desire
All I'd have to do is think of you too
And you could save me
You could save me
If I needed it right now
If I needed it right now
Honey you could save me
You could save me
Darling you know how
Yes you know how
Honey you could save me
You could save me
Right now right now right now
And if I thought that I was followed
If I thought that I was lost
If I thought that I had gambled
And I couldn't pay the cost
If I thought that I was crazy
If I thought I'd come unscrewed
After that fire that kind of desire
All I'd have to do is think of you too
And you could save me
Oh you could save me
If I needed it right now
If I needed it right now
Honey you could save me
Yes you could save me
Darling you know how
Hey you know how
Honey you could save me
Ooh you could save me
Right now right now
Ohh you could save me
Ohh you could save me
Right now right now right now
The sky is too high to paint tonight
The wind is too strong to hold on to
I climb on your roof and call out your name
Somebody stole my silver shoes
Now the show must go on, and on and on and on
Will you still love me anyway
Will you still need me when you're victorious
Will you still want me when I've nothing to say
Will you still love me anyway
I am in the big top on the live wire
Under the gun, over the fire
I'd swim up so high, like a swan I would dive
Someone took my net, and buried me alive
And the crowd screams for more - Encore, Encore
Oh I, I need to know why
Doesn't love die
What becomes of life
When does it begin
And tell me how's it end
When your carved into my carved into my carved into my skin
I can hear somebody walking down this midnight street
So you came back to say goodbye
Thinking it would make it complete
If you lost your love for me
That's all I need to know
So turn around and go
But don't listen too close
For you will see no tears from these eyes As I go back to the start
I've got everything under control Everything but my heart
I refuse to let you believe
This is gonna tear me apart
But as you turn and walk away
So long whispers my heart
I have lived long enough
To know the pleasure and the pain
It's nothing new to find myself aching Standing in the pouring rain
I don't care if it's somebody else
I don't wanna hear those lines
Your love seems to be fine
So I'll take back mine
And you will see no tears from these eyes As I go back to the start
I've got everything under control Everything but my heart
And I refuse to let you believe
This is gonna tear me apart
But as you turn and walk away
So long whispers my heart
It seems so easy for you
To forget our long secret nights
I haven't yet
But you will believe I am surviving too
It's something I must do
I'll never let you feel what's true
You will see no tears from these eyes
As I go back to the start
I've got everything under control Everything but my heart
I refuse to let you believe
This is gonna tear me apart
But as you turn and walk away
So long whispers my heart
You think you got it all figured out and wrapped up
Driving in your little red car
You could drive all night around the city
But you won't get far
There's something there on the edge of your mirror
Something you've been hiding for years
If you take a chance if you just take a look
Maybe I can handle your fears
I'm tired of waking up shaking in the dark
Making up what you're gonna do
You can keep your pride you can keep your distance
I never wanted to get that from you
I've had enough of a tough situation
Driving me out of my mind
You can keep your pride and you can keep your distance
I'm only wasting my time
Give me one good reason I should keep it up
You've got so many to spare
You keep it hot but you keep it so we're driving
It just ain't fair
You've got the jam down fired up emotions
I've got the three alarm blues
I can't get to you and you won't come to me
What would you suggest that I do
I'm tired of waking up shaking in the dark
Making up what you're gonna do
You can keep your pride you can keep your distance
I never wanted to get that from you
I've had enough of a tough situation
Driving me out of my mind
You can keep your pride and you can keep your distance
I'm only wasting my time
Half passed three I haven't got a clue
I spent the whole night just burning for you
I'm tired of waking up shaking in the dark
Making up what you're gonna do
You can keep your pride you can keep your distance
I never wanted toget that from you
I've had enough of a tough situation
Driving me out of my mind
Oh you can keep your pride you can keep your distance
I'm only wasting my time
Oh baby
You can keep your pride you can keep your distance
I'm only wasting my time
I... I am watching you sleep
It's the promise you've made
One I find I can keep
Oh I...want to swallow the moon
Give a smile back to you
Light your way
Tell the Angels they'll just have to wait
'Cause I wanna stay here in this moment
Can I quietly slip into you
You and I can stay here in this moment
Let the world fade away,
I just want to stay with you
I... I am watching you breathe
I am pulled into you
As you smash into me
Oh I want to give you the stars
All that I can hold in my arms
Placing them where you lay
Tell the Angles they'll just have to wait
With my hand on your skin we can slowly begin, I am free
Now the heavens have less cause I've found the best and I won't let them take you away
Tell the angels they'll just have to wait...
I wanna stay here in this moment
Make the earth stand impossibly still
Disappear in your kiss, we'll never be missed
Let the world fade way, I just want to stay with you
I'm not much on mystery
Ah you gotta be careful what you dream
I thought this might pass with time
Yeah I thought I was satisfied
Honey let me tell you I got a thing about you
Let me tell you I got a thing about you
And no matter what you say
No matter what you do
I, I I got a thing about you
I, I I got a thing about you
Somewhere deep in the middle of the night
Oh lovers hold each other tight
They whisper in their ancient
Oh love they disappear
Well
Honey let me tell you I got a thing about you
Let me tell you I got a thing about you
And no matter what you say
No matter what you do
I, I I got a thing about you
I, I I got a thing about you
You hold some strange control over me
You know that it's so wild it hypnotizes me
Yeah
Honey let me tell you I got a thing about you
Let me tell you I got a thing about you
And no matter what you say
No matter what you do
I, I I got a thing about you
I, I I got a thing about you
I got a thing about you
Ah yes
Oh baby yes I do
Oh honey got a thing about you
Oh baby got a thing about you
I said ooh honey got a thing about you
Yeah I got a thing I got a thing about you
I said oh girl I got a thing about you
Yeah yeah I got a thing about you
Is it so hard to satisfy your senses
You found out to love me you have to climb some fences
Scratching and crawling along the floor to touch you
And just when it feels right you say you found someone else to hold you
Does she like i do?
(CHORUS)
Tell me does she love you like the way I love you?
Does she stimulate you, attract and captivate you?
Tell me does she miss you, existing just to kiss you like the way I do?
Tell me does she want you, infatuate and haunt you
Does she know just how to shock you, electrify and rock you
Does she inject you, seduce you and affect you like the way I do?
Can I survive all the implications
Even if I tried could you be less than an addiction
Don't you think I know there's so many others
Who would beg, steal and lie, fight, kill and die
Just to hold you hold you like I do
(CHORUS)
Nobody loves you like the way I do
Nobody wants you like the way I do
Nobody needs you like the way I do
Nobody aches nobody aches just to hold you like the way I do
(CHORUS)
Before you turn out the lights
And slip into the bed
Before you turn me on
Slip into my head
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you need
Tell me what's your sanity
That's important to me
That's important to me
I can see it in your soul
Your first or your second guess
You don't have to talk sweet
Honey you don't have to confess
I don't want you to cry
I don't want you to bleed
I just wanna know your sanity
That's important to me
Oh, it's not important to know
Who you're seeing where you go
How you spend your hard-earned money
I ain't into addiction
I don't want total control
Just tell me what you think you need
Tell me what you think you need
Now you can handle the body
You can possess the soul
But when it comes to the mind
Some places I'll never go
But if we keep it connected
I know if we try, we'll keep it alive
That's important to me
That's important to me
So talk to me baby
It's important to me
Yeah, yeah, talk to me baby
Talk, talk to me baby
It's important to me
Out on the ocean where the gold dusk turns to blue
I let go of my heart and all my dreams of you
I drown all the memories of crazy days and nights
Clinging to the shoreline holding on with all my might
I swore I wouldn't envy all the lovers who've got a hand to hold
And I'll stand with all the others now
The dreams are bought and sold
Where are you now as this day comes to an end
Are you somewhere in the city
Can I find you there again
Where the sidewalk's hard and pretty and the neon plays all night
And the junkman sings his pity and the poets love the fight
Somewhere in the city somewhere in the city
Are you somewhere in the city tonight
What could I give you when you only wanted more
Where can I go now to be like I was before
Sometimes it's so hard living out this life
Taking all the chances with the sharp edge of the knife
Did you find what you were after
Is your spirit flying free
Did you take your precious chains off
Did you leave your heart with me
Where are you now as the twilight turns to black
Are you somewhere in the city
Have your footsteps led you back
Where the sidewalk's hard and pretty and the neon plays all night
And the junkman sings his pity and the poets love the fight
Somewhere in the city somewhere in the city
Are you somewhere in the city tonight
Oh if I close my eyes you and I are back in the night
Underneath the street light moon drinking every drop of June
Satisfied
Love was like a fire burning in your eyes
It took one spark to ignite it
Carelessness to let it die
So I go back to the ocean and I'll pick up all my dreams
I'll gather up my heart and all my memories
Cause tonight I feel it all around me deep down in my soul
Like this darkness it surrounds me and it never lets me go
So I'll put on my coat and I'll turn off all these lights
I'll go down into the city and I'll wait for you tonight
Where the sidewalk's hard and pretty and the neon plays all night
And the junkman sings his pity and the poets love the fight
Somewhere in the city somewhere in the city
Are you somewhere in the city tonight
Are you somewhere in the city tonight
Are you somewhere in the city tonight
SOURCE: Chicago 1989 / Bottom Line New York 1989
When I look at you, and all I can see
Is the shadow of your life
You see the stage is a mirror: you can see me
But I can't see past its light
Lovers have tried to reach down inside
I only said that they were wrong
But when all I've got left, is me and my pride
I realize you can't buy love with a song
So somebody take me out of the night
Show me what life is made of
Won't somebody reach inside of my heart
I think that I'm ready to love
I think that I'm ready to love
Feels like I'm ready to love
Well a lesson that's learned too late is a crime
I can't stand the pain of what could have been
Oh it's such a shame there's noone to blame
Ch:But/BL:Yet noone knows what I have seen
What do you see when you look at me
Do I really seem so far away
But the song will go on
And you will applaud
And when you look at me I'll just keep singing
Somebody take me out of the night
Show me what life is made of
Oh somebody reach inside of my heart
I think that I'm ready to love
I think that I'm ready to love
Feels like I'm ready to love
Oh show me what life's made of
Somebody please reach inside of my heart
I think that I'm ready to love
I think that I'm ready to love
Feels like I'm ready
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Someone said girl be careful of what you do
You've only got one heart and it wouldn't be good for you
To tear it all apart
Just like a snake bite you entered my veins
Traveled my body and flowed to my brain
Now I'm slowly dying dying for your touch
I'm cold and I'm shaking
I need you too much
Yes, I need you too much
Tonight put me out of my misery
Tonight drive me out of my mind
Tonight put me out of my misery
Tonight make it cruel to be kind
Drive me out of my out of my mind
So now I wait
A message on your door
The ringing of your phone
Lying on the floor
Breathing all alone
Just like a movie the hours go by
Dragging me under the day turns to night
Now fantasy's raging and I need to score
I'm hooked on you and I keep begging for more
Yes, I'm begging for more
Tonight put me out of my misery
Tonight drive me out of my mind
Tonight put me out of my misery
Tonight make it cruel to be kind
Drive me out of my out of my mind
Oh oh oh yeah
Someone said girl be careful of what you do
You've only got one heart and it wouldn't be good for you
To tear it all apart
No oh so
Tonight put me out of my misery
Tonight drive me out of my mind
Tonight put me out of my misery
Tonight baby make it cruel to be kind
Yeah put me out of my misery
Baby drive me out of my out of my mind
In dead of night I picture all the reasons to quit
But my mind's worn out the alternatives won't fit
So I try to justify
Feeling like a domino
No matter where I lie
I'm sleeping on a volcano
So I go to the place where I know you'll be tonight and it makes it alright
And I hear that song when I see you again
It goes la da la la da da da da
And you're moving just right dancing with your best friend
Singing la da la la da da da da
You look good
You look so fine
And if I don't touch you soon
I'm gonna go out of my mind
Out of out of my mind
Out of my mind
So I've rehearsed the scene
I've lived it now a thousand times
I see you walking my way and I forget my lines
Oh but I dream of your love
And I can taste your kiss
And I try to forget the fact you don't even know that I exist
So I go to the place where I know you'll be tonight and it makes it alright
And I hear that song when I see you again
It goes la da la da da da da
And you're moving just right dancing with your best friend
Singing la da la da da da da da
You look good
Oh you look so fine
And if I don't touch you soon
I'm gonna go out of my mind
Out of out of my mind
Out of my mind baby
No peace no sleep my senses just torment me blind
I could be good tonight if you were so inclined
Take me baby let me hold you and let me love you out of my mind
So I go to the place where I know you're gonna be tonight and it makes it alright
And I hear that song when I see you again
It goes la da la da da da da da
And you're moving just right dancing with your best friend
Singing la da la da da da da da
Oh you look good
Oh baby you look so fine
Darling if I don't touch you soon
I'm gonna go out of my mind
Out of out of my mind
Out of my mind
Baby I'm gonna go right out of my mind
La da da la da da da
Out of my mind baby
Out of out of my mind
Out of my mind
It was cold so cold
And one hour later the window was closed
And the talk all of the talk was gone
It was late so late
And one hour later we unlocked the gate
And the wine all of the wine was gone
And it would not matter if I knew you for only a day
And it would not matter if I did not know even your name
One hour later it would be the same
One hour later it would be the same
One hour later it would be the same
One hour later
It was blue, silver and blue
And one hour later the TV was through
And the tones all of the tones were high
And we tried oh we tried
And one hour later we rested our eyes
And the smoke all of the smoke was high
And it would not matter if I knew you for only a day
And it would not matter if I did not know even your name
One hour later it would be the same
One hour later it would be the same
One hour later it would be the same
One hour later
Now its bright so bright
And one hour later I think that I might
Try and open my eyes again
Then you move slowly you move
And one hour later I wonder if you
Will try and open your eyes again
And it will not matter if you have better things today
And it will not matter if you feel like you're wanting to stay
One hour later, one hour later one hour later it will be the same
One hour later it will be the same
One hour later it will be the same
One hour later it will be the same
One hour later
The night is as deep as the sea
And my heart is disobeying me
Raging thoughts all soothed beneath your hand
Looking in your eyes I think I understand
Let's take it now for we both know too well
That love's no guarantee
Will it stay or go no way to tell
But tonight is ours and tonight is all we need
For now love's no guarantee
The thunder I hear must be my own
Rushing through my head I should have known
I will take and give it back to you
And your paradise can be mine for a moment too
Let's take it now for we both know too well
That love's no guarantee
Will it stay or go no way to tell
For tonight is ours and tonight is all we need
For now love's no guarantee
No promises no tears to shed
Nothing to break these precious hours
Leaving a trace I'll not erase
This tender love was ours
Let's take it now for we both know too well
That love's no guarantee
Will it stay or go no way to tell, no
For tonight is ours and tonight is all we need
For now love's no guarantee
Oh love's no guarantee
Will it stay or go no way to tell
Oh no no
For tonight is ours and tonight is all we need
For now love's no guarantee
Morning creeps into the window
Its golden fingers touch the sheets where we lay
Morning wraps its arms around me
And whispers in my ear it was all yesterday
Morning you're lying here beside me
But somehow now the night feels
So many years away
And it's morning it's morning it's morning
This moment the end of all beginnings
We just go on with living and be what we are
Memory lingers deep inside me
I must believe you loved me
If just for an hour
Longing to be the one you dream of
But someone else has touched that place in your heart
And it's morning it's morning it's morning
Love love is so unfair
Its eyes are a lie and its heart doesn't care
If it's left out in the rain
It's me that feels the pain
Morning there's no one left to save me
And all all you ever gave me
Was the need to write a song
And it's morning it's morning it's morning
Outside the door she is waiting
Dressed in her jacket and jeans
Smoky tired eyes innocent air
All the young boys stopping to stare
Believing they stand a chance
They caught a glance
Sunday at noon opening soon
All the young boys
All the young boys
They want to know
They want to know
Juliet where's your Romeo
Where oh where is your Romeo
Tell me Juliet where's your Romeo
Tell us tell us dear for we all want to know
Where do you come from dear lady
Where are you going from here
Could the street be your life
Are you somebody's wife
Do you punch in the time
And are you hooked on the line
Pretending you'll never lose
Catching the cruise
Friday at one
The night's begun
Oh mother and father
Mother and father
They want to know
They want to know
Juliet, where's your Romeo
Where oh where is your Romeo
Tell me Juliet where's your Romeo
Tell us tell us dear for we all want to know
All the young boys
All the young boys
They want to know
They want to know
Juliet where's your Romeo
Where oh where is your Romeo
Tell me Juliet, where's your Romeo
Tell us tell us dear for we all want to know
Do you mind if I call you lover tonight
I know you said we had to cool down
Until you made up your mind
Could it be so bad if your friends know
You let me in through your back door
I knew it would be like this
I told you so
Did you know that I saw you walking downtown
I knew it was you because your eyes never left the ground
Did you know that I can't sleep
I can't think baby I can't eat
I knew it would be like this
I told you so
I can feel it getting under your skin
No use fighting baby let me in
I can feel it coming on
It's getting kinda strong
And there's nowhere to run
I told you so
And it'll never feel right
In the middle of the night
Unless I'm holding you tight
I told you so
You can't stop this world from spinning around
You can't stop what goes up from coming back down
You can't stop burning in the fire
Now you can't stop our lethal desire
It's the truth
I told you so
So come on baby come on
It goes so easy
And nights are getting so cold
It's starting to freeze me
I can tell by the sound of your voice
You're getting pretty close to making your choice
I knew it would be like this
I told you so
I feel it getting under your skin
No use fighting honey let me in
Can't you feel it coming on?
It's getting kinda strong
And there's nowhere to run
I told you so
Oh it will never feel right
In the middle of the night
Unless I'm holding you tight
I told you so
I know you feel like you've taken your two hands
And you've torn out your heart
But I said it would be just like this babe
Right from the start
Ohh
Do you mind if I call you lover tonight
I know you said we had to cool down
Until you made up your mind
Oh don't you feel it coming on?
Oh it's getting kinda strong
And there's nowhere to run
I told you so
Oh babe and it'll never feel right
In the middle of the night
Unless I'm holding you tight
I told you so
I told you so
I told you so
I told you so
from Boys On the Side soundtrack
Past the devil's own temptation
Beyond where angels sleep
To the holy invocation
Of a neon city street
I feel your hand
I hold you
Through your eyes I see
My love, wherever I go
I take you with me
Down the road of my desires
To the oceans of my peace
Through the fueling of my fires
Until my yearnings cease
I hear your voice
I know you
In your arms I sleep
My love, wherever I go
I take you with me
Even though I've fed my hunger
Even though I've named my fear
I'll never understand it
How the journey led me here
But I have made a promise
That I intend to keep
My love, wherever you go
I take you with me
There's something I think I should tell you
I mean I was just passing by
I really think you mistake me
For someone who could tell you why
I always walk straight and narrow
I never wanna hurt no one
This feels like someone else's party
And mama told me not to come
So if you don't mind
Hey I really must be going now
I really can't stay
I really gotta be going now
Hey hey hey
I really must be going now
I can't hear my intuition
Through all this pounding in my brain
I bought and paid my tuition
That's supposed to keep me sane
So if you don't mind
Hey I really must be going now
I really can't stay
I really must be going now
Hey hey hey
I really gotta be going now
I must be going now
I gotta be going now
I must be going now
Yeah
What's this in your eyes
Why do you look this way at me
No it's not such surprise
I could have told you she would leave you crying
Like you left me
So now you come and say
That you just want to talk and so
Just let me get it straight
It's over now and I don't really want to know
I don't want to know
I, I don't want to hear it
I don't want to know
Who's been touching you
Who's been letting go
I don't want to hear it
I don't want to know
Who's been touching you
I don't want to know
I can't stand the words you say
Talking of lovers who have come
When in darkness I have laid
And I long to feel your body breathing love to me
Keep waking up alone
You think that I'm so strong
You think that you can come and go
Baby you couldn't be more wrong
You can't see how I burn
I really need to know
But I don't want to know
I, I don't want to hear it
I don't want to know
Who's been touching you
Who's been letting go
I don't want to hear it
I don't want to know
Who's been touching you
I don't want to know
I, I don't want to hear it
I don't want to know
Who's been touching you
Who's been letting go
I don't want to hear it
I don't want to know
Who's been touching you
I don't want to know
I, I don't want to hear it
I don't want to know
Who's been touching you
I, I don't want to hear it
I don't want to know
Who's been touching you
Who's been letting go
I don't want to hear it
I don't want to know
Who's been touching you
I don't want to know
It could be I was abandoned a product of neglect
Of this morbid fascination with drowning self respect
But its no common drama
That drives me to your door
It was impeccable performance
And I'm demanding an encore
I keep ignoring the distant early warning
I could be in danger
I'm loving a stranger
I could be in danger
I'm loving a stranger
I'm loving you
It takes such concentration to keep you off my mind
But if you get a cancellation just give me the sign
And I'll drive beyond the limit
I'll be running the red lights
And I'll knock before I enter
Just to be polite
I keep ignoring the distant early warning
I could be in danger
I'm loving a stranger
I could be in danger
I'm loving a stranger
Oh I'm loving you
Oh let me emphasize if I compromise
Let you terrorize then apologize
I could be in danger
Tonight I'll dream of water crashing on my head
Waves of aggravation and passions underfed
And in the morning I'll have coffee
To try to stimulate the time
I'll draw arrows by your name
While the dark lines run through mine
I keep ignoring the distant early warning
I could be in danger
I'm loving a stranger
I could be in danger
I'm loving a stranger
I'm loving you
And I could be in danger
Loving you
I'm loving a stranger
Oh I'm loving you
And I could be in danger
I'm loving a stranger
You give her your kiss and your attention
And she gives your her cold cold shoulder
Good times are few too few to mention
Still your plans are just to hold her
And I don't understand your wanting her
When she'll never appreciate
It's such a compliment you hunting her
I guess this situation must be my fate
Cause I've been downtown up against the wall
And I'm watching you walk around up against the wall
And the weatherman told me soon is gonna fall
Hearts and all up against the wall
You penciled in her name and number
That should make it easier to forget
She doesn't call and then you wonder
If your eraser leaves no regret
But can she look you in the eye
When she finally lets you in
Satisfaction is a white lie
You can't quit and I can't win
Cause I've been downtown up against the wall
Watching you walk around up against the wall
And the weatherman told me soon is gonna fall
Hearts and all up against the wall
It's my heart and it's your heart and nevermind her heart
Raining down continually
Miles and miles of walls in this city
Won't you come closer come closer to me
And I don't understand you wanting her
When she'll never appreciate
Oh it's such a compliment you hunting her
I guess this situation must be my fate
Cause I've been downtown up against the wall
Watching you walk around up against the wall
And the weatherman told me soon is gonna fall
Hearts and all
Up against the wall
It's gonna be my heart your heart
Hearts and all
I am all out of excuses
And I'm all out of time
And if I if I don't get to moving
I'll be out of my mind
I left someone behind me
There's no turning back
I know someday they'll find me
But now I'm not leaving any tracks
Cause I'm one step ahead of my past
Two steps behind my dream
I'm looking for something that'll last
But until I find it until I find it
I'll keep on riding in my getaway machine
I am nobody's soldier
And I'm nobody's stone
And I'll be damned if I'm anybody's ticket
No hardly I'd rather do it alone
So if you wake to find me gone
Don't bother wondering why
I've got to be moving on
I've got to find my piece of the sky
Cause I'm one step ahead of my past
Two steps behind my dream
I'm looking for something that'll last
But until I find it until I find it
I'll keep on riding in my getaway machine
Oh getaway yeah
Way yeah
You took your coat off and stood in the rain
You were always crazy like that
I watched from my window
Always felt I was outside looking in on you
You were always the mysterious one
With dark eyes and careless hair
You were fashionably sensitive
But too cool to care
Then you stood in my doorway
With nothing to say
Besides some comment on the weather
Well in case you failed to notice
In case you failed to see
This is my heart bleeding before you
This is me down on my knees
These foolish games are tearing me apart
You thoughtless words are breaking my heart
You're breaking my heart
You were always brilliant in the morning
Smoking your cigarettes talking over coffee
You philosophies on art Baroque moved you
You loved Mozart and you'd speak of your loved ones
As I clumsily strummed my guitar
You'd teach me of honest things
Things that were daring
Things that were clean
Things that knew what an honest dollar did mean
So I hid my soiled hands behind my back
Somewhere along the line
I must've gone off track with you
Excuse me think I've mistaken you for somebody else
Somebody who gave a damn
Somebody more like myself
These foolish games are tearing me apart
You thoughtless words are breaking my heart
You're breaking my heart
You took off your coat
And stood in the rain
You were always crazy like that
Hey crawl out of that box now
Come on don't stop
Climb a little higher till you hear the limb pop
Grab onto that knife with the palm of your hand
And when you hear the brakes squeal
Don't jerk just stand
Yeah yeah
Don't be a hero
Don't do it to be tough
Throw back your head
Do it for the rush baby
Do it for the rush now
Hey come on come on rush baby
Do it for the rush now
Stand in the rain
Cause lightning always strikes twice
Walk in the dark
And lay your skin on the ice
Do what they do, not what they say
Cover your tracks while you're running away
Yeah yeah
Now don't be a hero
Don't do it to be tough
Throw back your head
And do it for the rush baby
Do it for the rush now
Hey come on come on rush baby
Just do it for the rush now
Yeah
Don't be a hero
Don't do it to be tough
Throw back your head
And do it for the rush baby
Do it for the rush now
Ah come on rush baby
Ah come on rush now
Ah yeah yeah yeah
Ahh yeah yeah yeah
Rush baby rush baby yeah
Come on rush baby yeah
Yeah yeah
Ah come on come on come on
Yeah do it for the rush now
Yeah do it for the rush baby
Yeah yeah yeah baby yeah
Do it for the rush baby
That's all that's all
Do it for
Don't do it to be do it to be
Oh yeah
Do it for the rush now
Melissa Etheridge, das "All American Girl" (dieser Ausdruck stammt von
ihrer vierten Platte "Yes I Am"), gehört nicht gerade zu den Erfolglosen
der Branche. Sie hat die Kleinigkeit von 25 Millionen Alben verkauft, unzählige
Auszeichnungen bekommen (darunter zwei der begehrten Grammies) sowie Livekonzerte
vor Millionen begeisterter Fans gegeben. Schon im zarten Alter von 8 Jahren begann
die kleine Melissa Gitarre zu spielen, mit 11 Jahren schrieb sie ihre ersten Songs
und nur zwei Jahre später stand sie schon vor einem Live-Publikum. Nach einigen
weiteren Liveauftritten spielte sie einen Gig im Long Beach Club und wurde sozusagen
"vom Fleck weg" von Island Records unter Vertrag genommen. Das Ergebnis
waren fünf herausragende Alben in Folge. Das fing mit ihrer ersten Platte
"Melissa Etheridge" an (1988). Die hatte Melissa schnell mal in vier Tagen
aufgenommen, darauf die bekannten Hits wie "Bring Me Some Water" und
"Like The Way I Do", die sich zu Melissas Markenzeichen entwickelten.
Offenheit zahlt sich aus, dachte sich Melissa 1992 und bekannte sich öffentlich zu
ihrer Homosexualität. Und selbst im ach so prüden Amerika kam diese Ehrlichkeit kam
bei ihren Fans gut an. Im Gegenteil, 1993 veröffentlichte Melissa das Album
"Yes I Am" und schaffte damit endlich den richtig großen Durchbruch. Als
Belohnung gabs dann noch den Grammy als "Female Rock Vocalist Of The Year"
für den Song "Ain't It Heavy" aus dem Album "Never Enough"
(1992). Nach vier weltweit erfolgreichen Alben erschien im September 1995 "Your
Little Secret". Damit sollte es dann erst einmal genug sein, denn, man glaubt es
kaum: Melissa wurde Mutter zweier Kinder und zog sich für drei Jahre aus dem Geschäft
zurück.1999 hat sie wieder zugeschlagen - das Album "Breakdown" hat sie
zusammen mit ihrem Co-Produzenten und Langzeit-Tour-Gitarristen John Shanks auf die
Beine gestellt. Ähnlich wie "Yes I Am" krallt sich die Platte an der
Spitze der Charts fest, und wenn sie den Song "Enough Of Me" aus ihrem
neuen Album nicht zu wörtlich nimmt, dann werden wir ihre rauchige Stimme noch ein
paar Male zu hören bekommen.Wie zum Beipsiel auf ihrem 2001er Output Skin. Unter dem
Eindruck der Trennung von ihrer langjährigen Freundin entstand ein für ihre
Verhältnisse eher ruhiges Album2001 Skin1999 Breakdown1995 Your
Little Secret1993 Yes I Am1992 Never Enough1989 Brave And
Crazy1988 Melissa Etheridge
The rope that's wrapped around me
Is cutting through my skin
And the doubts that have surrounded me
Are finding their way in
I keep it close to me
Like a holy man prays
In my desperate hour
It's better that way
So I'll come by and see you again
I'll be such a very good friend
Have mercy on my soul
I will never let you know
Where my mind has been
Angels never came down
There's no one here they want to hang around
But if they knew
If they knew you at all
Then one by one the angels
Angels would fall
I've crept into your temple
I have slept upon your pew
I've dreamed of the divinity
Inside and out of you
I want it more than truth
I can taste it on my breath
I would give my life just for a little death
So I'll come by and see you again
I'll be just a very good friend
I will not look upon your face
I will not touch upon your grace
Your ecclesiastic skin
I'll come by and see you again
I'll have to be a very good friend
If I whisper they will know
I'll just turn around and go
I met an angel on the street this morning
Maybe it was late last night
You see I haven't been to sleep
There's music in my feet
And I haven't stopped to think about it twice
Oh yeah
Well you wouldn't recognize her this angel
Oh for she's not the celestial type
She had no pair of wings
I don't even think she sings
And the words that she spoke were no heavenly hype
Somehow she knew that I'd been thinking about you
Somehow she knew the city held no light
Somehow she knew that I just needed a reason
To tell you the things that I feel in the night
Oh let it show
If you love them then let them know
Oh let it show
If you love them then let them know
Well that was all that she said she had for me
All that she'd been sent down to say
So she straightened up her rags
And she walked off with her bags
Back into her city jail
Away oh yeah
So this is how I've come to you this morning
To tell you of a secret in my heart
I'll bring it to your feet
I'll dance it in the street
You know I love you
I love you I love you
Oh Oh
Somehow she knew that I'd been thinking about you
Somehow she knew the city held no light
Somehow she knew that I just needed a reason
To tell you the things that I feel in the night
Oh let it show
If you love them then let them know
Oh let it show
If you love them then let them know
Oh let it show
I met an angel yeah
So let it show
My friends they're so worried
Oh they say girl there's something definitely wrong
It ain't natural to go from one to another
Lover to lover moving along
They don't know
It takes 10 of their kisses to make 1 of yours
10 times baby oh they feel a lot like you
When they kiss me and they touch me say they want me
Yeah they feel a lot like you
When they hold me and they tell me that they love me
Baby they feel a lot like you
When they kiss me and they touch me say they want me
Yeah they don't know
It takes 10 of their kisses to make 1 of yours
10 times baby oh they feel a lot like you
I guess I could say I don't know right from wrong
When the truth is that I just don't care
Since you left me I've got to get back to that feeling
Somehow somewhere
A little bit here and a little bit there
Well it helps to take away this emptiness that burns deep inside
Oh I think if I gather enough pieces
I can put together some kind of pride
I don't know
It takes 10 of their kisses to make 1 of yours
10 times baby oh they feel a lot like you
When they kiss me and they touch me say they want me
Yeah they feel a lot like you
When they hold me and they tell me that they love me
Baby they feel a lot like you
When they kiss me and they touch me say they want me
Yeah they don't know
It takes 10 of their kisses to make 1 of yours
10 times baby oh they feel a lot like you
They don't know
It takes 10 of their kisses to make 1 of yours
10 times baby oh they feel a lot like you
When they kiss me and they touch me say they want me
Yeah they feel a lot like you
When they hold me and they tell me that they love me
Baby they feel a lot like you
When they kiss me and they touch me say they want me
Yeah they don't know
It takes 10 of their kisses to make 1 of yours
10 times baby oh they feel a lot like you
Sometimes if I close my eyes
If I close my eyes baby
They feel a lot like you
Take off my shield
Carry my sword
I won't need it anymore
Find me a sky
Give me my wings
Frozen and broken but free
Tell them I'm all right
I'm coming home
Tell them I'm all right
I am alone
This war is over
I'm coming home
Take off my shame
Bury it low
I won't need it anymore
Find me the sun
Give me it whole
Melt all the chains in my soul
Tell them I'm all right
I'm coming home
Tell them I'm all right
I am alone
This war is over
I'm coming home
Take off my pain
Carry me slow
I won't fight here anymore
Tell them I'm all right
I'm coming home
Tell them I'm all right
I am alone
This war is over
I'm coming home
A shot in the dark I woke up to find
You had broke all the rules
And you changed your mind
Didn't I love you good
Didn't I love you right
Then tell me where are you going
Dressed to kill tonight
Oh this one's gonna hurt like hell
Answer my prayer and answer the phone
Think twice about it honey
Turn around and come on home
Lover stop lover don't
Lover stop
Lover lover please
It's the same old tune
I have sung before
It's the same old game
It's just a different score
If there was just one thing
I could call my own
It would be your love
That's sinking like a stone
Oh this one's gonna hurt like hell
And they hold you like I want to
And they give you what I want to
And they take it like I want to
And they make it and they break it
Why must you reject me
I don't want to talk about it
I've done enough I think
I don't want to spend more money
Don't want another drink
I would scratch out all the images
If I had the chance
Don't ask me what I'm thinking
Can't you see I only want to dance
Dance without sleeping
Dance without fear
Dance without senses no message I hear
Dance without sleeping
Dance till I'm numb
Dance till I think I can overcome
Walking on the edge of rage and understanding
Between the black and the white
This child is so angry
Alone here tonight
Alarming desperation
Leads me to believe
With all my shields and protection
It's only me I deceive
Dance without sleeping
Dance without fear
Dance without senses no message I hear
Dance without sleeping
Dance till I'm numb
Dance till I think I can overcome
The eyes on a magazine
The voice on the radio
The kiss on the movie screen
This is the story I know
Fathers hold on and they never go
Mothers hold on and they never go
Lovers hold on and they never go
Lovers they come and they never go
Dance without sleeping
Dance without fear
Dance without senses no message I hear
Dance without sleeping
Dance till I'm numb
I got a chrome-plated heart
I got wings on these fingers trying to tear it apart
I got angels crying from up above
And they got rust in their eyes
They got rust on their love
But I have learned to leave no stone unturned
And keep the wall against my back
And the love is real as the day is long
And the night is black
As black as night
I got a two dollar stare
Midas in my touch and Delilah in my hair
I got bad intentions on the soles of my shoes
With this red hot fever and these chromium blues
And I will feel another lovers wheel
And drive for miles and not look back
And the love is real as the day is long
And the night is black
As black as night
On my chrome-plated heart
Wings on these fingers trying to tear it apart
I got angels crying from up above
And they got rust in their eyes
They got rust on their love
And the only way I know where the train will go
Is when I'm sleeping on the tracks
And the love is real as the day is long
And the night is black
As black as night
And the night is black
It's so hard to listen to these trains
Outside my window here it comes again
And it's calling me begging me
Follow me down the track
And it moans so dark and low
Baby ain't comin' back
I refuse to believe
It could happen to me and you
It's lonesome and it's hard and it's true
I got this whiskey to take care of my lips
I got these long cool steel strings
At my fingertips
I ain't got nothing to soothe my aching soul
Except this screeching and screaming iron
To tell me where I ought to go
I refuse to believe
It could happen to me and you
It's lonesome and it's hard and it's true
And I hear the train sigh
And idle down below
Why your love is so sweet and wild
Is something I'll never know
It sounds like crying
It sounds like letting go
Breathing and lying
Sinking and dying slow
And I watch from my window
Touching the cold glass sky
As the train rolls down the track
I say goodbye
I believe if I look hard enough
I will see
That there can be enough
I believe I can think clear enough
To conceive
A place where there's enough
If not now, when
If not today then
What about tomorrow
What happens tomorrow
I believe a woman can work hard and succeed
And we could be content
To believe that she could be in charge
Of the free
And be the president
If not now, when
If not today then
What happens tomorrow
What happens tomorrow
If you become the change
You want to see you change
What happens tomorrow
What happens tomorrow
I believe that we are waking up from the spell
That those that profit from the fear
Cast so well
And good people of the earth now can tell
There is no us and them
If not now, when
If not today then
What happens tomorrow
What happens tomorrow
All is love
All is choice
Everyone and every voice
All of life that you see
All are possibilities
As above so below
To wed the sense into the soul
This is truth I believe
I believe I believe
Truth is of the people
By the people
In a room full of silver shadows
A customary kiss goodnight
And it slips through your tightened shoulders
It reaches your heart and dies
And the sadness is bound to kill me
But I'm too far away to care
And I'd just like to know if you will
Oh could I even get there
Back to the touch and go
When not a soul could know
When your lovin' was slow
We lived every night for the touch and go
Now there's no one in the night to blame you
No one in your glasses of wine
I never won I only tamed you
Foolishly I called you mine
And your pacing in your cage every morning
And you rattle your chains every night
And you stare past the bars never knowing
With nothing left to put up a fight
Then we would touch and go
When not a soul could know
Oh your lovin' was slow
And we lived every night for the touch
Oh I remember
The touch and go
When not a soul could know
Oh your lovin' was slow
We lived every night for the touch and go
Are you still breathing
Tonight the scent is in the city
Tonight it's on the radio
Tonight I'll leave the key beside the door
Tonight I'm gonna touch and go
Some people try to keep something alive
After it's gone, After it dies
They try all kinds of things
Like taking off rings
Swapping up keys
Seeing who swings
I'm happy to say that you and I've got no problem
Baby, I just wanted you to know
I don't wanna have a threesome
I don't wanna sleep with nobody else
I don't wanna be a swinger
I'd rather keep you all to myself
Now, sometimes at night
after the kids are in bed
I'm changing the channels
And you're surfing the web
I stumble onto that show
With all of those ladies
You know with those things
Acting all crazy
I don't know how they manage
To do all that damage
We barely find enough time to kiss
I've got enough spice
In this family life
I don't need an affair with a friend
I don't wanna have a threesome
Ever again
So I'll get away
If you can slip away too
I'll meet you at three
Alright, I'll meet you at two
We know just where to go
We know just what to do
It's perfect that way
Just me and you
I've got enough spice
in this family life
I don't need an affair with a friend
I don't wanna have a threesome
I don't wanna have a threesome
I don't wanna have a threesome
Bravely you let go of my hand
I can't speak yet you understand
Where I go now I go alone
This path I walk these days of stone
And the angels are calling
I must go away
Wait for me here
Silently stay
And don't ask me why
Only believe
This is not good bye
All of my strength all my desire
Still cannot melt this breath of fire
I go to meet some kind of test
Bury the truth that scars my chest
And the angels are calling and calling
I must go away
Wait for me here
Silently stay
And don't ask me why
Only believe
This is not good bye
I gathered all my courage
I shaved off all my fear
With this banner on my shoulder
I hold your essence near
Come on baby let's get out of this town
I got a full tank of gas with the top rolled down
There's a chill in my bones
I don't want to be left alone
So baby you can sleep while I drive
I'll pack my bag and load up my guitar
In my pocket I'll carry my harp
I got some money I saved
Enough to get underway
And baby you can sleep while I drive
We'll go thorough Tucson up to Santa Fe
And Barbara in Nashville says we're welcome to stay
I'll buy you glasses in Texas a hat from New Orleans
And in the morning you can tell me your dreams
You know I've seen it before
This mist that covers your eyes
You've been looking for something
That's not in your life
My intentions are true
Won't you take me with you
And baby you can sleep while I drive
Oh is it other arms you want to
Hold you the stranger
The lover you're free
Can't you get that with me
Come on baby let's get out of this town
I got a full tank of gas with the top rolled down
If you won't take me with you
I'll go before night is through
I hear your questions
I see your face
Your life before you
Is full of grace
What can I tell you
To let you know
Your angel's eyes
Will watch you grow
Come listen close
And I'll try to let you know
It's all I know
There is no magic
There are no secrets
We all begin this race at the start
But I have come this far
With a truth of the heart
Deep down inside
I think we're all the same
Try not to judge someone
And never shame
I do believe that people are good
They just want hope and respect
And to be understood
Sometimes it hard sometimes it's strange
But the truth of the heart is people can change
Yes there is danger and there are shadows
And there is fear inside the dark
It has powered countries and borne religion
Fear can never rule the heart
My father's burden
My mother's rain
My own desire
My sister's pain
All souls have traveled along this road
I saw you with your new friends
You wear them so well
Broken shoes and loose ends
Gee you look swell
Me I'm drinking my coffee
And I'm smoking cigarettes
I'm a deputy of habit
I just can't forget
I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car
I'm only lonely after dark
I'm only lonely when I watch my tv
I'm only lonely occasionally
I saw you with your envoy
A consenting adult
Technique in moderation
But vogue to the cult
Me I've got my strangers
To exile in the night
I'm guess I'm just addicted
To the pain of delight
I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car
I'm only lonely after dark
I'm only lonely when I watch my tv
I'm only lonely occasionally
Occasionally
Jamie I'm alone down on the kitchen floor
Come on meet me on La Brea just this side of fourth
Hey don't stop and listen to what your roommate's say
They never really liked me that much anyway
They whisper and warn ya and tell ya
That something's not right
Jamie just tell me you won't listen tonight
I would buy the writing
If the walls were cheap
I'd try to steal you heaven
If Gods would sleep
I might be your salvation
I might just set you free
But everyone keeps talking
Like there's something you don't see
But they don't know m
Jamie come and see me down in this little bar
They want to hear me play my songs
And beat up my guitar
How don't stop and listen to what they say behind your back
They're staving and just making up for everything they lack
They whisper and warn ya and tell ya that you're nothing new
Okay maybe I've had me a stranger or two
I know you haven't really heard from me in ten thousand years
Everyone keeps saying how I build you up just to disappear
But they're not here
Jamie I'm alone down on the kitchen floor
Come on meet me on La Brea like we done before
Hey don't stop and think about what everybody say
They never really liked me that much anyway
(Joan Armatrading)
I'm not the sort of person
Who falls in and quickly out of love
But to you I gave my affection
Right from the start
I have a lover who loves me
How could I break such a heart
Yet still you get my attention
CHORUS:
Why do you come here
When you know I've got troubles enough
Why do you call me
When you know I can't answer the phone
You make me lie when I don't want to
And you make someone else some kind of an unknowing fool
And you make me stay when I should not
Are you so strong or is all the weakness in me
Why do you come here
And pretend to be just passing by
But I mean to see you
And I mean to hold you
Tightly
Feeling guilty worried
Waking from tormented sleep
Oh this old love has me bound
But the new love cuts deep
If I choose now I'll lose out
Oh one of you has to fall
And I need you and you
CHORUS
And he looks at me in wonder
And he looks at me in fear
Wrestling with his anger
His pride and stony tears
To place me in his life
Will be hard and slow
Does he want it need it
I might never know
The boy feels strange
Oh the boy has changed
Looking from my tower
I can see his fortress strong
Surrounded by his army
Where do I belong
Does he ever find the answers
In the cars as they go by
Does he ever want to ask me why
The boy feels strange
Oh the boy has changed
And he's seen with all the women
Who think that he's a god
And he blesses whom he pleases
Holding fast to the facade
I want to reach out and believe him
Through his miles and miles of pain
But lately when I touch him
The boy feel strange
And he speaks to me of business
When I ask him how he's been
Keeps me at a distance
Never getting under the skin
Can he make a new beginning
Does he even want to try
Or will he only let it die
The boy feels strange
Showers of your crimson blood
Seep into a nation calling up a flood
Of narrow minds who legislate
Thinly veiled intolerance
Bigotry and hate
But they tortured and burned you
They beat you and they tied you
They left you cold and breathing
For love they crucified you
I can't forget hard as I try
This silhouette against the sky
Scarecrow crying
Waiting to die wondering why
Scarecrow trying
Angels will hold carry your soul away
This was our brother
This was our son
This shepherd young and mild
This unassuming one
We all gasp this can't happen here
We're all much too civilized
Where can these monsters hide
But they are knocking on our front door
They're rocking in our cradles
They're preaching in our churches
And eating at our tables
I search my soul
My heart and in my mind
To try and find forgiveness
This is someone child
With pain unreconciled
Filled up with father's hate
Mother's neglect
I can forgive But I will not forget
Scarecrow crying
Waiting to die wondering why
Scarecrow trying
The sign says do not enter
No trespassing allowed
With visions of redemption
I walk against the crowd
The sun is white with envy
Confusion on the ground
Breathing soft and holy
Temptation's only sound
A demon's day in madness kissed
I swear I never had it like this
Forbidden yet I cannot resist
Shocked in silent trances
Our eyes search just to know
What makes flesh and body hunger
For another burning soul
Conscience quiet pleading
In the corner of my eye
But seeing is believing
All consequences fly
A demon's day in madness kissed
I swear I never had it like this
Forbidden yet I cannot resist
With fever I persist
The rages of your kiss
My reckless heart in fist
And I cannot resist
A demon's day in madness kissed
I swear I never had it like this
I've an image in my pocket
Of some dark demon
That temptation brought to life
And it chokes all of my breath out
I'm scratching and screaming'
'Til morning comes to night
Place your hand
My body will decide
Place your hand
My anger will subside
There are fragments of possessions
Shards of past relations
Splintering my skin
A fear so black and hollow
It can suffocate creation
And refuse to let you in
Place your hand
My body will decide
Place your hand
My anger will subside
And they speak to me like prophets in my dreams
Speak to me like prophets in my dreams
Shouting like prophets in my dreams
Sometimes I think it's easy
Too easy for the living
To receive the promised land
Can flesh provide the answer
The reaction for sensation
Justify your hand
Place your hand
My body will decide
Place your hand
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends
Worked hard all my lifetime; no help from my friends
So-oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a color t.v.
'Dailing for Dollars' is trying to find me
I'll wait for delivery, each day until three
So Lord, won't you buy me a color t.v.
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town
I'm counting on you Lord, please don't let me down
Prove that you love me, and buy the next round
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town
Everybody!
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends
Worked hard all my lifetime; no help from my friends
So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends
Worked hard all my lifetime; no help from my friends
So-oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a color t.v.
'Dailing for Dollars' is trying to find me
I'll wait for delivery, each day until three
So Lord, won't you buy me a color t.v.
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town
I'm counting on you Lord, please don't let me down
Prove that you love me, and buy the next round
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town
Everybody!
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends
Worked hard all my lifetime; no help from my friends
So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz
What's this little lie
They keep on telling me
It's just another high
They keep on selling me
I was only five
They fed me so much jive
They said just have a ball Just be a Barbie doll
They churned and burned me out
Until they turned me out
Over and over again
Mama I'm strange
The thoughts and the wants are the locks
On the back of my brain
I'm descending pretending I'm blending
I'm going insane
And they want me to change
Mama I'm strange
I'm on a shaky wall
I'm tripping down the hall
And all the king's men can't
Can't sew me up again
I've got a leaky head
Don't know the full extent
I'm drowning in my bed
I'm just an accident
They chewed and blew me out
Until they threw me out
Over and over again
If I could tranquilize
I might just vaporize
They couldn't supervise
They couldn't criticize
I have no evidence
I have no reverence
It makes no difference
I have no innocence
Hey you watching as this light bleeds all over me
Shadows rise and fall listen as I call is this reality
I will be with you tonight
and tomorrow be 1,000 miles away
I will be with you tonight
I will be with you as long as you say stay
One little piece of my soul
One little piece of my whole life
I give to you
Take it now
I'm with you
I'm not with my lover
It's not for another broken heart
It's for you
Not just for some shattered dream I once knew
It's for you
It's for you
Hey you looking through a mirror to a cage
I'll take you away this miracle you pray for on the stage
I will be with you tonight
I will be with you 1,000 miles away
I will never leave
Inside of you a piece of me will stay
One little piece of my soul
One little piece of my whole life
I give to you
Take it now
I'm with you
I'm not with my lover
It's not for another broken heart
It's for you
Not just for some shattered dream I once knew
It's for you
It's for you
Come closer now
I'm with you
I'm not with my lover
It's not for another broken heart
It's for you
Not just for some shattered dream I once knew
It's for you
Hello
Yes that's what I said
Guess I thought that I was dead
So I just called you from my bed
To say hello
See I've got this funny notion
life is only just an ocean
I've been drowning in emotion
Now I'm swimming back to shore
And I'd like to talk to you
If you want to
You can call I'll be around
If you want to
You can write this number down
If you want to
If you want to
Leave a message at the tone
If you want to
You can call me here at home
If you want to
I'll be alone
So now I've called
So it's been a couple days, ok seven this I know that I've been moving kinda slow
So I called
Oh it must be so appaling if you think that I've been stalling
This is me now I am calling
And I'm better than before
And I'd like to talk to you
Don't you wanna know, don't you wanna be
Someone who takes a chance on a fool like me
Staring at the door, starin' down the hall
Waiting my whole life just for you to call
Hello
Yes that's what I said
I'm not breathing I'm not dead
Waiting here now in my bed
And I'd like to talk to you
If you want to
You can call I'll be around
If you want to
You can write this number down
If you want to
If you want to
Let your fingers do the walk
If you want to
I've got hours I can talk
If you want to
If you want to
Leave a message at the tone
If you want to
You can call me here at home
If you want to
I can see your darkened eyes
Across the room turn into lies and laughter
And asking for my name again
Then introduced as just a friend
Well it was no fantasy the passion burned
You touched me the evening turned to midnight
I can't forget the naked trust
One quenchless night of shaking lust and fire
I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
Since that night I'm not the same
Desire breeds an ugly stain inside me
Satisfaction never comes
It's always dark and yet I still run
Even when I close my eyes
You torture me with shameless sighs seduction
Walking in a chilling sweat
Pounding heart inside my chest I'm screaming
I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
With your heart in your fist
You laugh at my situation
Tell me is it blood you want
Then take me strip me cut me see I'm bleeding
I want you
I want you
I want you
Take, take a look at the sky
Sometimes your heaven seems so far away
Take, take a look under here
Where deprivation turns into decay
I've stood under this rain
Felt it seep into my brain
I've shut my eyes and crawled around this mud
I'm scared of growin' old
I shiver when I'm cold
Don't you think I bleed the same blood
I, I could've been you
You could've been me
One small change that shapes your destiny
If you want the proof
Cut me and you'll see
I could've been you
You could've been me
Wait, wait before you turn off
Maybe there's a chance we can relate
Wait everybody turns on
Why deny a fact that's so innate
It's not so easy anymore
The way you used to keep score
Not so black and white the color of your sin
Take a walk inside my shoes
A path I didn't choose
Spend the night inside of my skin
I, I could've been you
You could've been me
One small change that shapes your destiny
If you want the proof ¦
Cut me and you'll see
I could've been you
You could've been me
Change is turning into fear
Fear is melting into hate
With hate you justify your crime
A crime compassion can erase
Erase erase
Touch, touch what I feel
And know I believe everything I say
So go, go if you must
Remember one thing as you walk away
I, I could've been you
You could've been me
One small change that shapes your destiny
If you want the proof
Cut me and you'll see
I could've been you
You could've been me
I washed the dishes poured out the old wine
Called a new friend for the second time
It's not bad this brand new life
It's clean and it's sharp like a brand new knife
I pull up the covers and curl up tight
Turn down the sound turn off the light
Close my eyes and I quietly whisper
Goodnight
You're not here you're not even there
Out of my heart out of my hair
I can't roll away with this missing piece
You could only ever want what I could never ever be
How can I be okay if I'm pulling away
All the things that held together my life
All I want tonight is to touch you and kiss you
But I only wish you
You can try, I don't care
Forcing circles into squares
You can spend precious time
Marching in your perfect line
But I don't hear that drum
I'm looking for something else
And if you don't like what you see
You don't have to look at me
If you don't like what I say
You can turn the other way
If you don't like what you see
Then don't look at me
Add it up, count me out
I'm taking a different route
I did not mean to offend
Before I broke I chose to mend
So I'll be on my way
I have nothing left to say
But if you don't like what you see
You don't have to look at me
If you don't like what I say
You can turn the other way
If you don't like what you see
Then don't look at me
Don't look at me
Don't look at me
Oh if you don't like what you see
You don't have to look at me
Hmmm
If you don't, if you don't, if you don't, if you don't like what you see
Then you don't have to look at me
You don't have to look at me
If you don't like, if you don't like, if you don't like
Then you don't have to look at me
I played the fool today
I just dream of vanishing into the crowd
Longing for home again
Home, is a feeling I buried in you
I'm alright, I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
And I can't ask for things to be still again
No I can't ask if I could walk through the world in your eyes
Longing for home again
Home, is a feeling I buried in you
I'm alright, I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
I'm alright, I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
My window through which nothing hides
And everything sees
I'm counting the signs and cursing the miles in between
Home
Home, is a feeling I buried in you, that I buried in you
I'm alright, I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
I'm alright, I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe, when I breathe
Yeah, it only hurts when I breathe, when I breathe
They say that they don't know me
Never saw my face
And if they've never been there
Can they be sure there's such a place
They think if they don't answer
The world will pass them by
But there's a fire in their kitchen
And the water's three feet high and risin'
My beloved
The only one I see standing up for me
Someone's shouting at me
You're all going to hell
Must not be too far away
Sometimes I can never tell
My shoes are still as empty
A mile they never walked
Send in their donation
And they never have to talk again
My beloved
The only one I see standing up for me
My beloved
Close my eyes heal my pride
I just want to show them who I am
I just want to show them what I can do
There's not much use to curse the damned
And there's power in nothing to lose
Someone's spitin' blood
Face down in the dirt
Someone's thinking about a gun
To try and stop the hurt
Someone drew conclusions
On the wall of destiny
Someone's getting louder
And that someone would be me
You think if you don't answer
The world will pass you by
But there's a fire in your kitchen
We were all wounded in some domestic war
I found you to settle my score
You looked like father
You felt like mother
My mind told my heart
There is no other
And I gave you my soul
And every ounce of control
I gave you my skin
And my original sin
I gave you my pride and my side
oh my pride
Ain't that enough
I turned your dreams into lightning
Ain't that enough
I held the world back for you
Ain't that enough
I loved you past the point of dying
Ain't that enough of me for you
I was so sure one and one gave you one
My noisy love is coming undone
Now you leave like father
Disappointed like mother
And I know in my heart
There is no other
And I gave you my soul
And every ounce of control
And I gave you my shame
And my eternal flame
And I gave you my need and my seed Oh my need
Why can't you hold on
Well I've been looking
Looking for an answer
Somebody promised me one
And I've been waiting
Waiting for the chance
Well somebody said it would come
Wake me up when we hit 2001
I've been talking
Talking to the maker
Of the compromise
They said she's fine
Call the undertaker
You shouldn't look surprised
Wake me up when we hit 2001
It's barely alive with a story at five
So turn your video on
We live in these years dark age of fear
Meet me in 2001
I saw my sister
Saw the ones who twist her
A social suicide
If looks could kill
Each and every cheap thrill
Could be a homicide
Wake me up when we hit 2001
It's barely alive with a story at five
So turn your video on
We live in these years dark age of fear
Meet me in 2001
I've searching
Searching for a reason
To either fight or fly
Either way patriot or treason
It's gonna be one long hard ride
It's so hard to listen to these trains
Outside my window here it comes again
And it's calling me begging me
Follow me down the track
And it moans so dark and low
Baby ain't comin' back
I refuse to believe
It could happen to me and you
It's lonesome and it's hard and it's true
It got this whiskey to take care of my lips
I got these long cool steel strings
At my fingertips
I ain't got nothing to soothe my aching soul
Except this screeching and screaming iron
To tell me where I ought to go
I refuse to believe
It could happen to me and you
It's lonesome and it's hard and it's true
I hear the train sigh
And idle down below
Why your love is so sweet and while
Is something I'll never know
It sounds like crying
It sounds like letting go
Breathing and lying
Sinking and dying slow
And I watch from my window
Touching the cold glass sky
As the train rolls down the track
I say goodbye
I played the fool today
I just dream of vanishing into the crowd
Longing for home again
Home, is a feeling I buried in you
I'm alright, I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
And I can't ask for things to be still again
No I can't ask if I could walk through the world in your eyes
Longing for home again
Home, is a feeling I buried in you
I'm alright, I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
I'm alright, I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
My window through which nothing hides
And everything sees
I'm counting the signs and cursing the miles in between
Home
Home, is a feeling I buried in you, that I buried in you
I'm alright, I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
I'm alright, I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe, when I breathe
Yeah, it only hurts when I breathe, when I breathe
Oh,it only hurts when I breathe
Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell
Jimmy Rogers on the Victrola up high
Mama's dancin' with baby on her shoulder
The sun is settin' like molasses in the sky
The boy could sing, knew how to move, everything
Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing for
Chorus:Black velvet and that little boy's smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring ya to your knees
Black velvet if you please
Up in Memphis the music's like a heatwave
White lightening, bound to drive you wild
Mama's baby's in the heart of every school girl'
Love me tender' leaves 'em cryin' in the aisle
The way he moved, it was a sin, so sweet and true
Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing forchorus
Every word of every song that he sang was for you
In a flash he was gone, it happened so soon, what could you do?
(Solo)chorus repeats 2x
If you please, if you please, if you please
I know what you're thinking baby
I used to be just like you
You move when she's not looking baby
One sugar ain't enough for you
You, you're taking out your loans
You're burying your bones
Before your cover's blown
You better take it home
I like the way you look
I know you like me
But one and one and one
Baby makes three
Stop playing those eyes
If you want me to keep
Your little secret
Tell it softly to me baby
You never meant no one no harm
Your wonderland's a mirror baby
It's swiftly fading like your charm
You, you're stepping out of line
You're spilling all the wine
Leave it on the vine
I can't give you mine
I like the way you look
I know you like me
But one and one and one
Baby makes three
Stop playing those eyes
If you want me to keep
Your little secret
I could I won't
I can't I don't
You make it hard
Talk down my guard
My senses soaked
My ego's choked
I will not lie
In these days and these hours of fury
When the darkness and answers are thin
Lovers come and check out in a hurry
Shallow and hollow again
Come lay your body beside me
To dream to sleep with the lamb
To the question your eyes seem to send
Am I your passion your promise your end
I say I am
Yes I am
Your passion your promise your end
Yes I am
Barring divine intervention
There is nothing between you and I
And if I carelessly forgot to mention
Your body your power can sanctify
Come feed your hunger your thirst
Lay it down the beast will die
You can question my heart once again
Am I your passion your promise your end
I say I am
Yes I am
Your passion your promise your end
Yes I am
I will stand firm in the tempest
I will ride destinys' trail
To believe when the truth comes up empty
To hold and respect without fail
Come and be one in the motion
A desire they cannot comprehend
Never to question again
For I am your passion your promise your end
Well I was a slick midwestern gal
On a long hard road into southern cal
Didn't find any crime fillin' up all my time
I had the devil in my bones and an angel on my mind
and I drank up all the movies and I searched for happy endings
I turned love inside out till I was perfectly pretending
still I believed it could be true
that when you find the one
There's no question in the silence
All is said and done when you find the one
when you find the one
Yeah you could say that I was crazy I was that kinda girl
I had to open up a lot of oysters before I found myself a pearl
I had to kiss a lot of frogs to find my grass was green enough
had to be face down in the gutter to see what is and isn't love
Then I woke from all the dreaming to your taste and to your laughter
I cried till I was dry and now live my ever after
I believe I always knew
When you find the one
There's no question in the silence
All is said and done when you find the one
When you find the one
And when you make the choice to believe in your existence
with hello you will know when you find the one
I believe it could be true
yes I believe I always knew
and I believe it could be true
and believe i always knew
when you find the one
There's no question in the silence
All is said and done when you find the one
And when you make the choice to believe in your existence
with hello you will know when you find the one
I am levitating somewhere down the road
With a price on my head and the shadow of a black crow
He's been on my tail for close to three days
Just a little souvenir of my wicked ways
I would rather die fast than to ever live slow
Father forgive me what my mother don't know
The scratch marks on my soul
From the shadow of a black crow
I've got a box of reds and a bottle of the blues
Comes a time in your life honey you've gotta choose
My belly's on fire from the acid of the truth
All the untold lies of my misspent youth
I would rather die fast than to ever live slow
Father forgive me what my mother don't know
The scratch marks on my soul
From the shadow of a black crow
It's pretty when you're young just a pity when you're old, yeah
Am I running away or am I closer to home
The lines and the signs and the miles go by
No one ever bothered to even ask me why
So I am disappearing into this road
With a six pack of sorrow and the shadow of a black crow
I would rather die fast than to ever live slow
Father forgive me what my mother don't know
The scratch marks on my soul
Just outside my window I hear the late September dogs
And I understand their warning I understand their song
Since you left I feel the change in the air
And night after night I'm searching for mercy everywhere
So I wake in the street and I call out your name
I shout to the sky please
Come on let it rain
Let it rain down on me
Let the rain touch my hands
Let the rain set me free
Let it rain down on me
Silence is the steel that pierces and cuts me to the bone
In dreams the hand that touches you is mine and mine alone
Cruel is the light is the morning shining down on me
Hours with the Devil to understand just what you need
So I wake in the street and I call out your name
Shout to the sky come on
Come on let it rain
Let it rain down on me
Let the rain fill my eyes
Let the rain set me free
Let it rain down on me
Just inside the distance I hear the late September dogs
And so I beg for sleep the child who walked before she crawled
Damn my soul that remembers and clutches to this pain
The spear in your side is me
Come on let it rain
Let it rain down on me
Let the rain touch my hands
Let the rain set me free
A suffering soul on the way to the Kingdom of Heaven
Held up a sign that says "God hates America"
A child has been lost
A mother is shocked and is grieving
And turning away, turning away
He said there is a love that is so hideous and destructive
We must drive it from Earth to save all of our children
He must know it well
In the night it's the hell that he speaks of
It keeps him awake, keeps him awake
My God is love
My God is peace
My God loves you
My God loves me
A suffering soul on the way to the Kingdom of Heaven
Prayed in the dark, "Death to the infidel"
He strapped all his desperate pain and his faith to his body
And blew them away, blew them away
A suffering soul on the way to the Kingdom of Heaven
Shouts on the news, "They are the godless ones"
The anger inside and the fear that it hides
never leave her
When the cameras are gone, when the cameras move on
Oh, people, c'mon? tell me where is your Kingdom of Heaven?
Where is your faith?
Where do you put your fear?
Do you have a price for truth and a price for believing?
And heaven is here, heaven is here
My God is love
My God is peace
My God is you
Don't be afraid
Close your eyes
Lay it all down
Don't you cry
Can't you see I'm going
Where I can see the sun rise
I've been talking to my angel
And he said that it's alright
I've always had to run
I don't know just why
Desire slowly smoking
Under the midwest sky
There's something waiting out there
That says I've got to try
I've been talking to my angel
And he said that it's alright
This town thinks I'm crazy
They just think I'm strange
Sometimes they want to own me
Sometimes they wish I'd change
But I can feel the thunder
Underneath my feet
I sold my soul for freedom
It's lonely but it's sweet
Don't be afraid
Close your eyes
Lay it all down
Don't you cry
Can't you see I'm going
Where I can see the sun rise
I've been talking to my angel
There's a liar in your bed
And there's a shotgun to your head
You can't breathe but you can smoke
You can't cry but you can joke about it
You can drink yourself to chills
You can hide your little pills
As your life slowly explodes
You can believe nobody knows about it
Do you think that you're the only one
Who's losing their minds
Keeping it together
Is everyone's favorite pastime
Everybody's had some really, really bad
Some this has got to be the end
I would really like to try for you
Sit around and cry for you
Muster up some sympathy
Well that's too much to ask of me
You try so hard to be discreet
With all your secrets in the sheets
As you solemnly refuse
The very spark that lights your fuse
Do you think that you're the only one
Who can be unkind
Tearing at each other's flesh
Is everyone's favorite pastime
Everybody's had some really, really bad
Some this has got to be the end
I would really like to try for you
Sit around and cry for you
Muster up some sympathy
Well that's too much to ask of me
Have some have some sympathy now
Have some sympathy now
Everybody's had some really, really bad
Some this has got to be the end
I would really like to try for you
Sit around and cry for you
Muster up some sympathy
So you closed your eyes in the morning
You said you want to start smoking again
You said you had that dream last night
Of the stranger in your room
You said you want to start making new friends
Well I'd found some peace
You want release
You must be stronger than me
I don't know how you can take it
Invest your heart and then you break it
I don't know how you can set it free
You must be stronger than me
Set it up but it's not perfect
Tear it down cause it's not worth it
If someone else can light your mystery
They must be stronger than me
So I closed my eyes at midnight
Cinderella must go home
But the map was burned
And I've taken a wrong turn
And I found myself alone
I'm tired of this war
I don't want to fight no more
You must be stronger than me
So it's too late then
You could have told me when
Living died and passion lied
Now you're a refugee
Well if it's what you need
Run away from the truth you see
I ain't asking you to keep no secrets
My reputation already shot
I ain't asking you to commit treason
Just tell me if you like it or not
Like it or not baby that's they way I want it to be
Don't give your heart and soul
My love is only skin deep
I'll give you my time and money
I'll give you somewhere to sleep
But don't ask me for my heart and soul
My love is only skin deep
My love is only skin deep
My love is only skin deep
I ain't looking for no blue-eyed lover
That's what stole my baby away
I can see your eyes are darker than midnight
And that's the time that I want to play
I want to play baby that's they way I want it to be
Don't give me your heart and soul
My love is only skin deep
I'll give you my time and money
I'll give you somewhere to sleep
But don't ask me for my heart and soul
My love is only skin deep
My love is only skin deep
My love is only skin deep
I'll give you my time and money
I'll give you somewhere to sleep
But don't ask me for my heart and soul
My love is only skin deep
My love is only skin deep
Why did you steal the matches
From the one room motel
Once they gave you answers
Now they give you hell
They will never understand
They wonder where did they go wrong
How could you be so selfish
Why can't you get along
And as you pray in your darkness
For wings to set you free
You are bound to your silent legacy
You've seen it in the movies
And you've heard it on the street
Craving the affection
Your blood is full of heat
They don't listen to your reasons
As original as sin
Deny all that you feel
And they will bring you home again
And as you pray in your darkness
For wings to set you free
You are bound to your silent legacy
Your body is alive
But no one told you what you'd feel
The empty aching hours
Trying to conceal
The natural progression
Is the coming of your age
But they cover it with shame
And turn it into rage
And as you pray in your darkness
For wings to set you free
You are bound to your silent legacy
You are digging for the answers
Until your fingers bleed
To satisfy the hunger
To satiate the need
They feed you on the guilt
To keep you humble keep you low
Some man and myth they made up
A thousand years ago
And as you pray in your darkness
For wings to set you free
You are bound to your silent legacy
Mothers tell your children
Be quick you must be strong
Life is full of wonder
Love is never wrong
Remember how they taught you
How much of it was fear
Refuse to hand it down
The legacy stops here
I wonder what you're doing
In the night out there
Is a sad summer breath tangled in your hair
Can you hear the lonely engines
Screaming through the town
There's no where to run
When the darkness comes down
Is there a song inside of you
That you tried to forget
Like your fake ID and your mom's cigarettes
Does it take you back
Is the vision intense
You and me in Shriner's Park
Trying to make some sense
You were just seventeen
But your laughter was mild
You liked my dreams you thought I was wild
Is there a rhythm in your step now
That reminds you of a dance
Do you push it all away
Cause you never took the chance
You'd sneak out your window
When I'd come for you
I'd be waiting in the street light on 8th Avenue
You'd slip into my car
We'd drive down past the fence
You and me in Shriner's Park
Trying to make some sense
Did you feel like you were crazy
When they sent you far away
Did no one have the answers
When you hung your head to pray
You could not let yourself dream
Never dare believe
You could ever be more
Than you were born to be
Do you lock up your house
Like you locked up your past
If I were to call
Could you free me at last
Could you slip into my car
Could we drive down past the fence
You and me in Shriner's Park
I've been silent for much too long
Now I'm telling everybody what's been going on
It's time to shout now it's time to scream
It's time to wake up from this bad dream
I'm gonna shout till the devil gets on his knees
Shout till the angels say pretty please
Shout till I feel it runnin' through my veins
Shout till everybody thinks I'm insane
I'm gonna shout now, oh
I'm gonna shout now, oh
I wanna wake up
I've been broken and I've been bruised
I've been lied to and I've been used
It's time for dignity it's time for pride
It's time to get out what's been brewing on the inside
I'm gonna shout till the devil gets on his knees
Shout till the angels say pretty please
Shout till I feel it runnin' through my veins
Shout till everybody thinks I'm insane
I'm gonna shout now, oh
I'm gonna shout now, oh
I wanna wake up
I'm gonna shout till the devil gets on his knees
Shout till my angels say pretty pretty please
Shout till I feel it runnin' through my veins
Shout till everybody thinks that I'm insane
I'm gonna shout now, oh
I'm gonna shout now, oh
Smooth as cream
She's every young boy's dream
She's like a hot roller coaster
On a video screen
She's off the hook, take a look
Let your imagination cook
She don't play by the rules
She don't go by the book
All the boys wanna know
If she's got something to hide
All the girls are relieved
She's working for the other side
She's a sinner, a saint
She'll run it cool and hot
She's a secret agent
You can believe it or not
Killer eyes and homicidal sighs
You can't resist it to be twisted
In her suicidal thighs
Confessional lips, professional fingertips
It's a deception to perfection
Her exceptional hips
All the boys wanna know
If she's got something to hide
All the girls are relieved
She's working for the other side
She's a sinner, a saint
She'll run it cool and hot
She's a secret agent
You can believe it or not
Her disguise is specialized
And her code is confidential
It's her modus operandi
She's a threat, makes you sweat
As she drags her cigarette, man
What you see ain't always what you get
She'll make a grown man cry
She'll make a woman try
She'll make you wanna believe
And she will leave you high and dry
You got nowhere to run
Got her phasers on stun
With her toys like the boys
She is second to none
Everybody wants to know
If she's got something to hide
All the girls are relieved
She's working for the other side
She's a sinner, a saint
She'll run it cool and hot
She's a secret agent
You can believe it or not
She's a secret agent
Believe it or not
It's been so long since I've touched
So long since I wanted
Then you made me laugh
And my heart opened
I want you to find me charming and wise
I just want you to find me
Somewhere here inside
I barely know you
We've been sort of friends
So what if I called you and called you again
What would I tell you
Where would I begin
Please forgive me
If I don't know what to do
It's an old fire
This familiar desire
But my skin is painfully new
There's a light in my window
It shines all night long
In the morning my coffee
Is sweet but it's strong
I carefully reach out from behind these walls
I'll take a deep breath and give you a call
Hello how are you
Not much at all
Lost in this hole
That has ripped through my soul
I unlock this secret inside
What should I think
I've had too much to drink
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Didn't I make you feel like you were the only one, yeah
I said didn't I give you nearly everything that a woman possibly can
Honey you know that I did
Well each time I tell myself that I, I think I've had enough
Oh, I am gonna show you baby, a woman can be tough
I want you to come on, come on, come on, come on
And take it, take another little piece of my heart now, baby
Break it, break another little bit of my heart now, darling
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Have a, have another little piece of my heart now, baby
You know you got it, if it makes you feel good, ooh yes it does, yeah
You're out on the street lookin' good
And honey deep down in your heart, child, you know that it ain't right
You never, never, never, never, never hear me when I cry out at night
And honey I, I cry all the time
And each time I tell myself that I, I can stand the pain
You take me in your arms, and I'm singing once again
I want you to come on, come on, come on, come on
And take it, take another little piece of my heart now, baby
Break it, break another little bit of my heart now darling
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Have a, have another little piece of my heart now baby
You know you got it, if it makes you feel good
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Come on, come on, come on, come on
And take it, take another little piece of my heart now, baby
Break it, break another little bit of my heart now darling, yeah
Have a, have another little piece of my heart now, baby
You know you got it, wow
Take it, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Break it, take another little piece of my heart now, darling, yeah
You got to have a, have another little piece of my heart now, baby
How come there's so many people willing to suffer
So they get up and suffer every day
They think they were put on this Earth to suffer
And, by God, they're going to suffer
Until they suffer their lives away
How come so many are willing to say
There is no sense
There is no plan
Yet they will not believe
The ancient mysteries
Passed down through time into their hands
If my choice is despair or wonder
On the line between truth and belief
Do I just let the tide take me under
Or do I let the fascination come on and rain all over me
Open your mind
'Cause you have been blind
Imagine the answers
Or questions will be all you find
Open your mind
The grooves in my life were unforgiving
Over the years I laid them down night after night
Work-eat-sleep
Work-eat-sleep
Work-eat-sleep
Work-eat-sleep
Work-eat-sleep
Work-eat-sleep
Suffocating my delight
I was dragged into the light
Into the stillness
Into the white hot flame of my deepest fears
And when I came crashing through
Humbled and true
I was better than I've been in years
If my choice is end or beginning
In my perception between death and life
I'll keep on with this message I'm sending
We may not know how or when,
But don't you wanna know why
Open your mind
'Cause you have been blind
When I was a child
I dreamed like a child of wonder
With my back in the grass
My eyes to the sky to see
I believed in the stars
I knew they cast a spell that I was under
With my fingers in the dirt
I was part of the earth
Every living thing was part of me
But it's gone, it's gone
It's gone, it's gone, gone
I can't feel it
I can't feel it
Must've found a way out my back door
Must've run away out my back door
Because it's gone, gone, gone
Then I fell in love
Love gave me a shot of pure desire
There was nothing else like this
This unimagined bliss this ecstasy
Deep inside the night
I believed I saw the light ignite a fire
And it burned into the dark
It burned deep inside my heart
I thought it would burn eternally
But it's gone, it's gone
It's gone, it's gone, gone
I can't feel it
I can't feel it
Must've found a way out my back door
Must've run away out my back door
Because it's gone, gone, gone
So I run into the street
And I'm shouting into the phone
Asking everyone I meet
I say have you seen it on my doorstep
Did you see it in my car
Have you seen it in the alley
Was it on the back of some guitar
Is it sleeping in the hallway
Does it cry all night alone
Is it selling itself for money
Well I have lived ten years plus ten
And ten and ten again
I have seen too much to pretend
And then you wanted to come in
I have survived all of the lies
They made me wise
The locks and walls and the peace it buys
Still when I look into your eyes
It's a surprise when you say
It's gonna be alright
It's gonna be okay
Just hold on tight
let it all go away
What do you want from me
Mercy, mercy baby
What do you want from me
well I plead Mercy, mercy baby
I do not know what this all means
It's been awhile
Since I've been stylin' in
Just my jacket and my jeans
It hurts to walk
It hurts to talk
It hurts to think about it
Shout about it
Could I be sure without a doubt
That you could never live without
It's gonna be alright
It's gonna be okay
Just hold on tight
let it all go away
Mercy baby
What do you want from me
Mercy, mercy, mercy baby
What do you want from me
It's gonna be alright
It's gonna be okay
Just hold on tight
let it all go away
I want to fall in you
Crawl in you
Surrender
All in you now
Could I be sure in you
Pure in you
Finding the cure in you
Now I plead
Have mercy on me
Now I am kneeling at the altar
In the temple of your eyes
And I am asking for a miracle
I have been too long paralyzed when you say
Get up
Stand up
Climb the rope of hope
and open up again
All the peace you say is promised me
seems too much to comprehend
It's gonna be alright
It's gonna be okay
Just hold on tight
let it all go away
Mercy baby
What do you want from me
Mercy, mercy baby
what Can this girl believe
It's gonna be alright
It's gonna be okay
Honey just hold on tight
And I'll make it all go away
Hold on
It's gonna be alright
Mercy darling
Mercy
Meet me in the back
Don't make me wait too long
I could change my mind
And tell you that it's wrong
So meet me in the back
Where the light don't shine
First show me yours
Maybe I'll show you mine
My hands are shaking
My heart is beating fast
Is love worth making
When it can never last
Meet me in the back
Don't make me wait too long
I could change my mind
And tell you that it's wrong
So meet me in the back
Where the light don't shine
First show me yours
Maybe I'll show you mine
I'm gonna give directions
I'm gonna take it slow
But if I don't get protection
I will just say no
Meet me in the back
Don't make me wait too long
I could change my mind
And tell you that it's wrong
So meet me in the back
Where the light don't shine
First show me yours
Maybe I'll show you mine
I can hear the music
Pounding through the walls
And to the beat of dancing
I will give you all
Meet me in the back
Don't make me wait too long
I could change my mind
And tell you that it's wrong
So meet me in the back
Where the light don't shine
First show me yours
Is it so hard to satisfy your senses
You found out to love me
You have to climb some fences
Scratching and crawling along the floor to touch you
And just when it feels right
You say you found someone to hold you
Does she like I do?
Baby, tell me does she love you
Like the way I love you?
Does she stimulate you
Attract and captivate you?
Tell me does she miss you
Existing just to kiss you
Like the way I do?
Tell me does she want you
Infatuate and haunt you?
Does she know just how to shock you
Electrify and rock you?
Does she inject you
Seduce you and affect you?
Like the way I do, like the way I do
Can I survive all
The implications even if I tried?
Could you be less than an addiction?
Don't you think I know there's so many others
Who would beg, steal and lie, fight, kill and die
Just to hold you, hold you like I do
Baby, tell me does she love you
Like the way I love you?
Does she stimulate you
Attract and captivate you?
Tell me does she miss you
Existing just to kiss you
Like the way I do?
Tell me does she want you
Infatuate and haunt you?
Does she know just how to shock you
Electrify and rock you?
Does she inject you
Seduce you and affect you
Like the way I do?
Nobody loves you
Like the way I do
Nobody wants you
Like the way I do
Nobody needs you
Like the way I do
Nobody aches, nobody aches
Just to hold you
Like the way I do
No, no, no
Tell me does she love you
Like the way I love you?
Does she stimulate you
Attract and captivate you?
Baby, baby, tell me does she miss you
Existing just to kiss you
Like the way I do?
Now, tell me does she want you
Infatuate and haunt you?
Does she know just how to shock you
Electrify and rock you?
Does she inject you
Seduce you and affect you, baby
Like the way I do?
When I think of how you know me
No doubts, no thinking twice
When your smile can be so soothing
A familiar paradise
When there's no one else
That makes me whole
I have never needing more, I get this feeling
That I've loved you before
Were we lovers in an army
Marching all for Rome?
Side by side in battle
Did we bravely leave our home?
Did I hold you in my arms
As you were taking your last breath?
Did I shout to all the Gods
That I would love you beyond death?
[Incomprehensible] , I swear I've loved you before
Did we hide in the dark ages
From a vengeful God above?
Were our names too unfamiliar
To ever speak of love?
Did I cling to every moment with you
In every parting glance?
An accidental touch
Did we ever take the chance?
[Incomprehensible], I know I've loved you before
Have I wandered through the desert?
Have I looked and learned all the stars?
Have I rode the days and nights
On rails to get back where you are?
And every time I foundered
It's your eyes I know for sure
When I think of how you know me
No doubts, no thinking twice
When your smile can be so soothing
A familiar paradise
When there's no one else
That makes me whole
I never wanting more, I get this feeling
I know, I've loved you before
I know, I've loved you before
I have climbed the highest mountain
I have sailed across the sea
I have wrestled with my demons
And woke up with only me
I have been around the block
Three times maybe four
And I think I deserve just a little more
In front of total strangers won't you kiss me
Flowers for no reason but you miss me
Oh I want to be in love
You're standing on the doorstep in the rain
Cause you couldn't wait to see me once again
Oh I want to be in love
I have made some big mistakes
And I've paid a heavy price
I found a little peace between will and sacrifice
I have watched as all my dreams
Went walking out the door
And I think I deserve just a little more
I'm looking for a heart of gold
I'm looking for a hand to hold
A happy end
Strong and kind
Somewhere to rest my troubled mind
In front of total strangers won't you kiss me
Flowers for no reason but you miss me
Oh I want to be in love
On Tuesday light the candles bring me wine
Wednesday morning I won't get to work on time
Oh I want to be in love
Surprise me as I'm stepping off the plane
Take my hand as they play our song again
It's been years since they told her about it
The darkness her body possessed
And the scars are still there in the mirror
Everyday that she gets herself dressed
Though the pain is miles and miles behind her
And the fear is now a docile beast
If you ask her why she is still running
She'll tell you it makes her complete
I run for hope
I run to feel
I run for the truth
For all that is real
I run for your mother your sister your wife
I run for you and me my friend I run for life
It's a blur since they told me about it
How the darkness had taken its toll
And they cut into my skin and they cut into my body
But they will never get a piece of my soul
And now I'm still learning the lesson
To waken when I hear the call
And if you ask me why I am still running
I'll tell you I run for us all
I run for hope
I run to feel
I run for the truth
For all that is real
I run for your mother your sister your wife
I run for you and me my friend I run for life
And someday if they tell you about it
If the darkness knocks on your door
Remember her remember me
We will be running as we have before
Running for answers
I know that you're trembling
Despite your disguise
Your world is on fire I can see it in your eyes
Those spirits are hungry oh they feast on your fear
They're howling and screaming I can feel them so near
I will stay right here
I can wait, I won't change
I won't fade from the dark and strange
Feel the moon get to know the stars
I know it's not easy honey
It can seem so hard when your demons have found you
Oh they drag you through hell
Don't pay your attention to the stories they tell
Don't get me wrong now honey, I know it's severe
Just give me a smile now baby let me whisper in your ear
I will stay right here
I can wait, I won't change
I won't fade from the dark and strange
Feel the moon get to know the stars
I know it's not easy honey
You will find what you are looking for
And this work is never done
There are no judgments only open doors
The choice is yours
You can't get it wrong, no.
I can wait oh yeah.
I will stay right here
I can wait, I won't change
I won't fade from the dark and strange
Feel the moon get to know the stars
I know it's not easy honey
Oh but I can wait, I can wait.
I grew up in silence
From silence I became my history
They fed me fear and violence
They hooked me up to this reality
Now I'm not cursing anyone
They only did what they had done to them
But if you want to know where I am now
Then just breathe in and let it out
When you are at the end of your rope
Come find me
Holding on to your last string of hope
Come find me
Open up your eyes
I'll show you what your worth
Don't you know it's you and me
In this heaven on earth
When I laid down my burden
The one where I had something I should prove
Then I found my power
The one where I'm the mountain I could move
So if you want to know where I am now
Then just breathe in and let it out
When you are at the end of your rope
Come find me
Holding on to your last string of hope
Come find me
Open up your eyes
I'll show you what your worth
Don't you know it's you and me
In this heaven on earth
Don't you know that you are golden
Don't you know that you are pure delight baby
It doesn't matter what they painted on you
You can wash it all away tonight
When you are at the end of your rope
Come find me
Holding on to your last string of hope
Come find me
Open up your eyes
I'll show you what your worth
Don't you know it's you and me
We keep thinking life is what it's not
We keep building this impossible facade
Why do we keep trying to turn people into gods
When God is in the people
Windshields kissed with snow on this endless interstate
Over the fields we go laughing all the way
We sing love, love, love it's glorious
Friends and family near, no more judgments, no more fear
All is calm, all is bright, everyone will hold this light
And sing love, love, love it's glorious
Sleep in heavenly, in heavenly
Sleep in heavenly, in heavenly
Believe in heavenly, in heavenly peace
I have heard the angels sweetly singing o'er the plain
And I've heard the mountains echoing their sweet refrain
They sing love, love, love, love, love it's glorious
Love, love, love it's glorious
Love, love, love it's glorious
Sleep in heavenly, in heavenly
Sleep in heavenly, in heavenly
You tried to hold us down
You tried to hold us back
You tried to make us wrong
You tried to make us crack
You wanted to see us cry
You wanted to see us leave
You didn't count on the tide
You didn't count on the pride
You didn't count on me
I am a giant
And you will not make me fall
And you will not make me crawl
I am a giant
And I'm not alone
Winds of change have blown
And walls come tumbling down
And I learned from my mistakes
Pick myself up of the floor
I have learned just what it takes
Now I am stronger than before
And we are standing side by side
We are determined now to win
We come too far
And we've got the scares
And we are never going back into the shadows again
I am a giant
And you will not make me fall
And you will not make me crawl
I am a giant
And I'm not alone
Winds of change have blown
Funny how it turns out
that everything can change
What I feel right now is not the same as yesterday
There's more than I imagined
deep inside my heart
Emotions that I never knew
and this is just the start
So many things i've been missing
not watching but
that was all in the past
Now I realize
there's so much more to learn
I'm ready for the world
not scared of letting go
Now I realize
there's so much more to feel
and my heart knows it's real
The part of me so long forgotten is calling
and this feels like home, home, home
it feels just like home (it feels just like home)
Right from the start been friends forever
Somehow we're ment to be together
I feel like you've shown me how to find my way home (Find my way home)
Now I realize
there's so much more to learn
I'm ready for the world
not scared of letting go
Now I realize
there's so much more to feel
and my heart knows it's real
The part of me so long forgotten is calling
and this feels like home, home, home
When I woke up I was 17
You kissed my lips in a bad bad dream
Showed me things aren't what they appear to be
Called me angel and set me free
You gave me life in the cold cold dark
But you ran away in the mornings spark
Made me think that reality
Is not where I want to be
I am what I am and
I am what I am afraid of
Oh what am I afraid of
I need a fearless love
Don't need to fear the end
If you can't hold me now
You will never hold me again
I want to live my life
Pursuing all my happiness
I want a fearless love
I won't settle for anything less
I've walked my path had worlds collide
I lost my way and I fooled my pride
This lover's ache wouldn't feel so strange
If I could only change
But I am what I am and
I am what I am afraid of
So what am I afraid of
I need a fearless love
Don't need to fear the end
If you can't hold me now
You will never hold me again
I want to live my life
Pursuing all my happiness
I want a fearless love
I won't settle for anything less
Now I'm not here to lay the blame
I understand when you hold a flame
Heads will shake heads will turn
We were all wounded in some domestic war
I found you to settle my score
You looked like father
You felt like mother
My mind told my heart
There is no other
And I gave you my soul
And every ounce of control
I gave you my skin
And my original sin
I gave you my pride and my side
oh my pride
Ain't that enough
I turned your dreams into lightning
Ain't that enough
I held the world back for you
Ain't that enough
I loved you past the point of dying
Ain't that enough of me for you
I was so sure one and one gave you one
My noisy love is coming undone
Now you leave like father
Disappointed like mother
And I know in my heart
There is no other
And I gave you my soul
And every ounce of control
And I gave you my shame
And my eternal flame
And I gave you my need and my seed Oh my need
Did you think I was leaving
My ticket was just one way
The angels I believed in
Were gonna carry me away
Did you think that I would simply
Give them my last breath
Well honey you've got me wrong
I'd never leave you for death
It's gonna take more than that to get rid of me
It's gonna take more than that to make me fade
They'll have to tie me up and drag me away
They'll have to shut my mouth and drag me away
There is no one I serve
I am not here to please
I will not be a hostage
To my own dis-ease
Oh Come on come on
Come on out and hold me
Out into the great sunlight
No power on earth can stop us
We'll both become one tonight
I have never been more sure of anything
I have never been more sure of what I am
They'll have to tie me up and drag me away
They'll have to shut my mouth and drag me away
There's no dark that can overcome a flame
There's no force that can drag me away
They could bring an army
Ten thousand men or more
Their mass weapons of destruction
Won't even up the score
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on baby
They'll have to drag me away
Come on, come on, come on baby
They'll have to drag me away
They'll have to drag me away
They'll have to drag me away
They'll have to tie me up and drag me away
They'''ll have to shut my mouth and drag me away
There's no dark that can overcome a flame
There's no force that can drag me away
No force that can overcome a flame
Well, I picked out a tree
And I tied it to the car
There's a wreath up on our door
Eight tiny reindeer in the yard
I drove under the downtown lights
Red an' green and blue
The silver neon snowflakes
Only made me think of you
It's Christmas all around me
You're in someone else's land
So I'm sending out my only wish
Hey Santa, tell the man
Hey mister, send my baby home
This December I don't wanna be all alone
Oh, Christmas in America, I need you in my arms
Far away from harm, send my baby home
I hear someone singin' 'Jingle Bells'
No wait that's 'Deck the halls'
While the teenagers with candy canes
Ramble through the malls
The girls are down at Ruby's
Trying to find some Christmas cheer
There's not much to do but drink too much
When everyday is unclear
So here I am on Christmas eve
This silent holy night
And I reach up to the stars for you
I pray that you're alright
Hey mister, send my baby home
This December I don't wanna be all alone
Oh, Christmas in America I need you in my arms
Far away from harm, mister, send my baby home
What happened to the peace on Earth
All that goodwill toward men?
Oh come on all ye faithful
It's time to think again
Hey mister, send my baby home
This December I don't want to be all alone
Oh, come on, come on, come on
Hey mister, send my baby home
This December I don't want to be all alone
Send my baby home, send my baby home
Send my baby home, send my baby home
Come on, send my baby home, send my baby home
Send my baby home, send my baby home
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah oh, come on, come on
Yeah yeah oh oh oh, yeah yeah yeah, oh oh oh oh oh oh
Send my baby home, send my baby home
Come on send my baby home, send my baby home
Raised up on mid-western dreams
Only a few shall get
What everyone shall need
I took my family's burden
Strapped it to my chest
A few hundred bucks,
And a kiss for luck
And I pointed my dreams west
To California
Come rescue me
California
I am almost free
I kept on driving to the setting sun
Galaxies of angels
Welcome everyone
I took my heart out of its box
Attached it to my sleeve
Well, I will be here every night
Because that's what I believe
In California
Come rescue me
California
I am almost free
I will find my love
I will know my peace
I will seek my truth
I am almost free
I am almost free...
I am almost free
I am almost free
I am almost free
In California
I am almost free
In California
I am almost free
(Rescue me)
California
How could I stay?
How could I breathe?
There had to be more for me
Promises gone
Plastic and stone
I'm doin' fine all alone
So you're havin' a breakdown
So you're losin' the fight
So you're havin' a breakdown
And I'm drivin' and cryin'
Unraveled and flyin'
I'm comin' to your breakdown tonight
I cannot run
And I cannot hide
It came with me locked inside
The bough will break
Cradle will fall
It only takes one call
So you're havin' a breakdown
So you're losin' the fight
So you're havin' a breakdown
And I'm drivin' and cryin'
Unraveled and flyin'
I'm comin' to your breakdown tonight
Oooh aah
Ohh huh huh
So you're havin' a breakdown
So you're losin' the fight
Oh, so you're havin' a breakdown
And you need me tonight
Ohh oh, I found my place in this downtown
Salt air and yellow street lights
Aah yes
So you're havin' a breakdown
And I'm drivin' and cryin'
Unraveled and flyin'
I'm comin' to you're breakdown tonight
First time I saw you
Back in 1982
An LA bar
I've come so far
In my Kansas dancing shoes
I'm just a singer
And I'm looking for a song
Do you want to sing along?
Two greyhounds later
And I'm feeling alright
I've got to have you
And it must be tonight
Come on back to my place
Well, it's really just a room
But I'll be making some money soon
Goodbye and thank you
Oh, my number, yeah- please phone
Two or three weekends
On the 405 alone
You say come on and stay
And when you sing down at the bar
It will not be so far
And I tried to do my best
I never meant to hurt no-one
I was waiting for my break
That I knew one day would come
And I'd plug in my guitar
And I'd look out across the room
And I'd dig into my heart
And I'd try to sing the truth
And I know I did my best
I never meant to hurt no-one
As I recall
Back in 1982
I never said goodbye or why
I just left a note for you
Then one night I saw you
Across the road,
Across the dark
A shameful spear into my heart
Your look was haunting
An unexpected pain
I am so sorry
For the unexpected rain
The sadness that you kissed
The fresh scars on your wrist
I can't make it go away
Good night ladies
Good night
I'm gonna leave you now,
Good night ladies
Good night
I'm gonna leave you now.
Sometimes I know that it's never enough
Survival is fine but satisfaction is rough
I try with an angel tonight
Spread these wings and I'm on for the ride
Cruise these streets where my innocence hides
There's some things you can't deny
What is it about this human condition
I need some kind of promise
Some kind of submission tonight
Heavy
Ain't it heavy
Ain't the night heavy
I'm feelin' kinda loose I'm feelin' kinda mean
I've been feeling kinda wild since I turned seventeen
Or is it madness
Tell me where can a woman find any kind of peace
When does the fury and the agony cease
How long have I got to say please
There's a hole in my jeans I only wanted to fade
I've been ripping out seams
Somebody else made tonight
Heavy
Ain't it heavy
I am a fallen angel
I am a sacred heart
I am awake and I am alive
Some say that I've won
Some say I survived
An angel vigilante others might proclaim
But as I breathe I will not be a pawn, a piece in anyone's game
I am a fallen angel
I am a sacred heart
I am invincible and I am divine
Yeah, I could be a beauty with a little bit of shine
Maybe the patron saint of rage with black market eyes
Well, I've looked into the face of fear
I know what I'm doing here
Watch me fly
A coward or a monster
A puppet or a slave
I make my own choice
And I will never, I will not, I will never behave
When did I begin the soldier's journey
When did I begin the fight
Fighting to believe what they had told me
Fighting to believe the lie
That I had to serve somebody
I never had to serve somebody
I am a sacred heart, I am a fallen angel
I am a sacred heart, I am a savage fire
Deep inside, deep inside the icy, the icy dark
I am a sacred heart, a sacred heart
The lies upon your lips
The anger in your hair
Nuclear fingertips
Annihilating stare
It seems wherever you go you can't help but to explode
And your demon's screaming out of control
Say good-bye to the enemy
Go find another master
Say good-bye to the best of me and
Call it a disaster
Call it a disaster
Call it a catastrophe
Your intention is clear
It's set to self-destruct
You and your genocidal fear
Me and my dumb luck
Parasitical fascination
With hysteric insinuation
Honestly it scorches my soul
Say good-bye to the enemy
Go find another master
Say good-bye to the best of me and
Call it a disaster
Call it a disaster
Call it a catastrophe
Move on move on
There's nothing here for you to see
Move on move on
I'm just another casualty
Say goodbye to the rest of me
You couldn't kill me faster
Say good-bye to the enemy
Go find another master
Say good-bye to the best of me and
Call it a disaster
Call it a disaster
Well I've been, been thinking
There's something I'm not talking about
The whispers have found me
Inside the shadows of my doubts
I get the feeling that everything I'm doing now
I'm doing wrong and everybody's known all along
So take me away
Way back to that 4th street feeling now
When everything I had I could fit into my Chevrolet
Well I've been I've been aching
To slip an eight track on again
Eyes closed and head back
The sweet smell of summer sin
I get the feeling that everything I'm doing now
I'm just doing wrong and everybody's known all along
So take me away
Way back to that 4th street feeling now
When everything I had could fit into my Chevrolet
It was perfect and strange
Living life with that 4th street feeling now
Who am I to think I could just run away
I could just run away,
Baby, I could just run away.
But everybody's known all along
So take me away
Way back to that 4th street feeling now
When everything I had I could fit into my Chevrolet
It was perfect and strange
Living life with that 4th street feeling now
Who am I to think I could just run away
Who am I to think I could ever run away
Who am I to think I could just run away
You tell me not to call you up
Cause it ties you down
Don't tell your friends
You've been hangin' round
You must be crazy for me
You say you'll see me once or twice
Every week or two
There's more important things
That you've got to do
You must be crazy for me
Cause when I kissed you last night
In my own backyard
You ran so fast
And you fought so hard
You must be crazy for me
You must be crazy for me
You don't like my hair
You don't like my car
You don't like my friends
You met at the bar
You must be crazy for me
I see you shake you head
And you roll your eyes
Your firm remark
To remove my thigh
You must be crazy for me
Cause when I kissed you last night
In my own backyard
You ran so fast
And you fought so hard
You must be crazy for me
You must be crazy for me
Do not expect you to wait
Do not expect you to phone
Do not expect anything
When I catch you alone
You must be crazy for me
Cause when I kissed you last night
In my own backyard
You ran so fast
And you fought so hard
You must be crazy for me
Lying in a city night
A million fingers tingling my skin
Out thee in the sea tonight
I thought I saw you clutching your sin
You rolled me over long ago
And told me you were strong enough to go
You needed more than this lover's dream
You need the steel and the concrete beams in your life
In your life
We laughed and drank in the jukebox light
And we tore the rug in that downtown dive
Every Saturday night
For fifty cents we'd dance all night long
And each new tune we said that's our song
Oh it felt so right
Well ecstasy ain't free
But compromise is chance
I remember how
You used to love to dance
They told me you have found your love
You moved in locked up and put out your blues
Well all God's children got to grow up
And play house make vows to hang up their shoes
Do you sit and talk over coffee cups
Do headline mornings satisfy and fill you up
I kept your eyes and your cigarette kiss
You couldn't keep the lies the adrenalin bliss in your life
In your life
We laughed and drank in the jukebox light
And we tore the rug in that downtown dive
Every Saturday night
For fifty cents we'd dance all night long
And each new tune we said that's our song
Oh it felt so right
Well ecstasy ain't free
But compromise is chance
I remember how
You used to love to dance
I'm gonna go out tonight
I'm gonna drive up to the hill
I'm gonna dive on into those city lights
And I'm gonna dance, dance
Dance till I get my fill
We laughed and drank in the jukebox light
And we tore the rug in that downtown dive
Every Saturday night
For fifty cents we'd dance all night long
And each new tune we said that's our song
Oh it felt so right
Well ecstasy ain't free
But compromise is chance
I remember how
Dreaming from the bottom of the well
We're curled up in the corner of our cell
Freedom is just a story that we tell
I say give me liberty or give me hell
I know life is just a song
If I can get the world to sing along
Brothers and sisters
We are the ones, we are the ones, we are the ones
The ones that we're waiting for
We are the ones, we are the ones, we are the ones
The ones that we're waiting for
There are differences we cannot hide
Yet we are all one spirit deep inside
Finding out our past has been denied
Now we can tell our story, start to question why
Climbing out from under fear
We'll know what we're doing here
Brothers and sisters
We are the ones, we are the ones, we are the ones
The ones that we're waiting for
We are the ones, we are the ones, we are the ones
The ones that we're waiting for
We are the ones, we are the ones, we are the ones
The ones that we're waiting for
We are the ones, we are the ones, we are the ones
The ones that we're waiting for
Who built this pyramid a hundred years ago?
'Cause we're trapped inside a grid
While they feeds us what we need to know
The scientists keep telling me
That we are all what we agree
So I agree to let you be
Anyone you want to be
We are the ones, we are the ones, we are the ones
The ones that we're waiting for
We are the ones, we are the ones, we are the ones
The ones that we're waiting for
We are the ones, we are the ones, we are the ones
The ones that we're waiting for
We are the ones, we are the ones, we are the ones
Hey, every stranger you see is a part of you
Teaching we are the ones
Every stranger you see is a part of you
Teaching we are the ones
We are all there is, we are the all that is
And we can get through this, we are the ones
Oh, we are all there is, we are the all that is
And we can get through this, we are the ones
The ones we're waiting for
We are the ones, we are the ones
I feel you, you feel me
I feel you, you feel me
We are the ones, we are the ones, we are the ones
The ones that we're waiting for
We are the ones, we are the ones, we are the ones
The ones that we're waiting for
We are the ones, we are the ones, we are the ones
The ones that we're waiting for
We are the ones, we are the ones, we are the ones
The ones that we're waiting for
I feel you, you feel me
I feel you, you feel me
I feel you, you feel me
That's a good question
Why am I standing out here alone
I guess I don't know enough to come in from the rain
I was watching your window
From here below
I think I just might stay here all day
Cause I gotta do something
If I can't love you
I don't want to love you
If I can't hold you
I don't want to be thinking of you
And if you don't want me
I don't want to want you
And if you won't see me
I don't know what to do
But oh keep watching you
Until I see right through
Oh I keep watching you
You could throw me down a cigarette
I smoked my last one quite a while ago
No, I gave it to the man that swore he had no need
You know sometimes if I listen real close
I can hear the dark side of the moon
And there's always yesterday's Times if I care to read
And I gotta do something
If I can't love you
I don't want to love you
If I can't hold you
I don't want to be thinking of you
And if you don't want me
I don't want to want you
And if you won't see me
I don't know what to do
But oh keep watching you
Until I see right through
Oh I keep watching you
Sure I'm alright
No I'm not very cold
Every now and then I can feel the subway heat
So go on inside
I'll leave you alone
Anyway Bogart's on in the window down the street
And I gotta do something
If I can't love you
I don't want to love you
If I can't hold you
I don't want to be thinking of you
And if you don't want me
I don't want to want you
And if you won't see me
I don't know what to do
But oh keep watching you
Until I see right through
What did you want
How could I guess
You wanted more
I gave you less
A miracle is all I need
A bush to burn
A stone to bleed
Walking on water
Water to wine
Love lasts forever
Wish you were mine
What did I take
That took away
Desire's spark
A lover's blaze
Stone cold skin
A bitter breeze
10:03 on a Tuesday morning
in the fall of an American dream
a man is doing what he knows is right
on flight 93
Loved his mom and he loved his dad
loved his home and he loved his man
but on that bloody Tuesday morning
he died and American
[chorus]
Now you cannot change this
You can't erase this
You can't pretend this is not the truth
Even though he could not marry
Or teach your children in our schools
Because who he wants to love
Is breaking your God's rules
He stood up on a Tuesday Morning
In the terror he was brave
And he made his choice and without a doubt
A hundred lives he must have saved
[chorus]
And the things you might take for granted
Your inalienable rights
Some might choose to deny him
Even though he gave his life
Can you live with yourself in the land of the free
And make him less of a hero than the other three
Well it might begin to change ya
In a field in Pennsylvania
[chorus]
Stand up America
Hear the bell now as it tolls
Wake up America
It's Tuesday Morning
Let's roll
Take off my shield
Carry my sword
I won't need it anymore
Find me a sky
Give me my wings
Frozen and broken but free
Tell them I'm all right
I'm coming home
Tell them I'm all right
I am alone
This war is over
I'm coming home
Take off my shame
Bury it low
I won't need it anymore
Find me the sun
Give me it whole
Melt all the chains in my soul
Tell them I'm all right
I'm coming home
Tell them I'm all right
I am alone
This war is over
I'm coming home
Take off my pain
Carry me slow
I won't fight here anymore
Tell them I'm all right
I'm coming home
Tell them I'm all right
I am alone
This war is over
She's got her sweet children
She's got her house, she's got some land
Her earthly possessions
She's got a ring upon her hand
She tried to be a good girl
She tried to make everything right
She tried to kill the voices
That haunt her each and every night
She looks up to heaven
And wonders why love is so cruel
She loves him, won't hurt him
Can't stop the wanting of you, oh
She married in high school
Oldest was well upon her way
But that wild night, Chicago
It left a mark she can't erase
A phase you'll just get over
That's what her friends have always said
You dip your toes in water
She's in way over her head
She looks up to heaven
And wonders why love is so cruel
She loves him, won't hurt him
Can't stop the wanting of you, oh
Keeping her desire paralyzed
She catches in the corner of her eyes
Tank top, smooth skin, soft lips, tan thighs
How the hell's this ache ever gonna die?
We make our choices
Doing what we think is good
We deny our own dreams
'Cause we think we've been told we should
We think we've been told we should
She looks up to heaven
And wonders why love is so cruel
She loves him, won't hurt him
Can't stop the wanting of you
She looks up to heaven
And wonders why love is so cruel
She loves him, won't hurt him
Can't stop the wanting of you
Oh, oh, oh, oh
She can't stop, she can't stop the wanting of you
Oh, oh, oh, oh
We do our best
We stay in step
As time goes marching by
But there's something wrong
We don't start living
Until we almost die
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
And the universe listened
Well, I was born
A silver thorn
On a mid-west rose
I found out fast
Love is last
And it comes and goes
I made a deal
Hearts to steal
They will know my name
I'll pay the price
Any price
Just give me the fame
A perfect song
My love wrong
So I ache the dark
A hero's close
The story goes on
But I hate the part
I chose to fall
Destroy it all
But I will rise again
I believe in love
Please send me love
And I will try again
Remove the dark
Heal my heart
Make my body whole
I found my angels
Found my spirit
Guess I found my soul
Teach me how
Show me now
This light has taken me
I'm not ashamed
Help me explain
I was high and dry like the Kansas sky
If I ached for any more I knew I'd surely die
Night after night trying to get out of my skin
Day after lonely day
You'd send me back again
I have stood inside this prison
I have touched its stony walls
I know before you try to run
You gotta learn to crawl
I tried to leave it all behind me
I drove all night just to drive all day
But the walls of this prison still surround me
And I can't break away
I held you so close I thought my soul would break
But you were just a ghost
The holiest mistake
I will not be a judge or the one to set you free
I'll just keep on drivin'
And time's a friend to me
I have stood inside this prison
I have touched its stony walls
I know before you try to run
You gotta learn to crawl
I tried to leave it all behind me
I drove all night I drove all day
But the walls of this prison still surround me
And I can't break away
The sentence has been read everything is done
I wish I could say goodbye to you
Wish I could hold the sun
My eyes are dull and burnt
And they lie to me sometimes
Cause I thought I saw you cryin'
I have stood inside this prison
I have touched its stony walls
I know before you try to run
You gotta learn to crawl
I tried to leave it all behind me
In my dreams somehow I got away
But the walls of this prison still surround me
I came here to let you know
The letting go
Has taken place
I have held the winter's son
Become one
Set my pace
Isn't that what we wanted all along
Freedom like a stone
But I can say goodbye
Now that the passion's died
Still it comes so slow
The letting go
Piece by piece I take apart
This complicated heart
And I hope to find
Something I can prove is real
I can feel is truth
I can say is mine
That's all I ever wanted to be
The closer that I got
The further I could see
But when lovers change
And the night feels strange
We choose our road
The letting go
I came here to let you know
The letting go
You've never been to the moon
But don't you want to go
Under the sea in the volcano
You've never looked into my eyes
But don't you want to know
What the dark and the wild
And the different know
Come dance with me now
We'll dance without a care
I'm as free as a fire
And change is in the air
There are some things in my life
I'll never understand
But they become the force
That makes me who I am
Don't you worry about the kids
The kids are all right
Mama's rollin' in the back yard
Filled with love and light
'Cause you live and you learn
And you learn to hold on
And time will make it heal
And time will make it gone
Come with me now
Come with me now
It's time to try
Sometimes I feel like an innocent one
To deserve this fate what I have I ever done
I know that I made all the rules
But time can even change the hopeless ways of fools
I love you tonight like I did yesterday
I won't think of tomorrow or the price I pay
I drink from the well my soul is dry
I never know why
All I want is for your love to be all mine
But the angels won't have it
All I want is just a little peace of mind
But the angels won't have it
I thought I had a piece of my soul left to sell
I guess it's just as well
'Cause the angels won't have it
Who's looking after this see-through heart
Someone up there isn't doing their part
Oh Cupid you foolish boy
You should take better aim with your brand new toy
I love you tonight like I did yesterday
I don't think of tomorrow or the price I pay
I drink from the well my soul is dry
I never know why
All I want is for your love to be all mine
But the angels won't have it
All I want is just a little peace of mind
But the angels won't have it
I thought I had a piece of my soul left to sell
I guess it's just as well
'Cause the angels won't have it
So if I die before I wake
The innocent one whose heart could never break
Lift me up take me out of this bed
Watching the angels shake their heads
Don't feel sorry for me baby honey don't you cry
You can sell all of my clothes you will forget me by and by
I'll be riding that train I'll be singing that song
But I won't be gone for long
'Cause the angels won't have it
All I want is for your love to be all mine
But the angels won't have it
All I want is just a little peace of mind
But the angels won't have it
I thought I had a piece of my soul left to sell
I guess it's just as well
Morning's hard coffee's cold
Pretending that the days mean more than getting old
Stale headlines other drenched in pride
Marching to their drum with fear standing beside
But if I close my eyes and throw back my head
I can see his face and I hear the words he said
And my memories ache and my senses burn
Did he dream too late will we ever learn
I, I want to testify
My love still lives and breathes
And my soul is screaming why
The thoughts won't let me sleep
Don't let hearts break
And don't let children cry
Before it gets too late
I want to testify
I take what's said as my daily dread
I turn the page and I turn my head
I pick I choose on the evening news
Cause by cause they fight and one by one they lose
Must I live my days in these concrete ways
Will the fire break through this smokey haze
And I swear tonight I'm gonna find that place
It's not the love that dies but the understanding ways
I, I want to testify
My love still lives and breathes
And my soul is screaming why
The thoughts won't let me sleep
Don't let hearts break
And don't let children cry
Before it gets too late
I want to testify
Rip through the wire that screens in my window
Throw open the shade that covers my mind
I'm going to touch I've got to believe
The bell tolls for me
I, I want to testify
My love still lives and breathes
And my soul is screaming why
The thoughts won't let me sleep
Don't let hearts break
And don't let children cry
Before it gets too late
After your laughter like thunder
After your skin like coffee and cream
After it takes our bodies into the night
After we've come to the extreme
I want to lay down on your shoulder
Just inside your arm
I want to listen to your heart beat
And your breathing on and on
I want to lay down on your shoulder
Surrender to your peace
And go to sleep
And when we've gone a million miles
Made true our dreams with sweat and bone
After we've built it up with our bare hands
Made strong a place we can call home
And when the light in my eye is fading
When running water becomes too deep
Finally angels turn my fire to dust
And when my soul's no longer mine to keep
I want to lay down on your shoulder
Just inside your arm
I want to listen to your heartbeat
And your breathing on and on
I want to lay down on your shoulder
Surrender to the peace
Go on and close your eyes go on imagine me there
She's got similar features with longer hair
And if that's what it takes to get you through
Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you
You never had to wait for nothing in your life
I guess wanting me must have been a steel blue knife
And when night after night the scent of passion would linger
You had to have the jewels wrapped around your finger
Now you keep running down the road in your midnight state of mind
Curiosity kills if you can't read the signs
Go on and close your eyes go on imagine me there
She's got similar features with longer hair
And if that's what it takes to get you through
Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you
Dancing with the wall made you bitter and sweet
There ain't much you can do when they just lay it at your feet
But you could tell by the song I wanted to be the one
Did you listen again when the damage was done
Now the paint's still wet in your do-it-by-number dream
Are you gonna tell me how it felt, will you tell me what it means
Go on and close your eyes go on imagine me there
She's got similar features with longer hair
And if that's what it takes to get you through
Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you
Was it want with no desire
Was it smoke with no fire
Did I say it doesn't rip me apart I lied
I'm sorry dear my hands are tied
Go on and close your eyes go on imagine me there
She's got similar features with longer hair
And if that's what it takes to get you through
Don't try to call
There are some bridges that burn
Beyond recognition beyond repair
Don't say you've changed
There are some forces that turn
Beyond recollection beyond my stare
When I feel the cold in the dark
I know you're there
Long ago I was a woman in pain
A woman in need
I ran to you
Long ago I did not understand
You were making me bleed
I ran to you
When I feel the cold in the dark
I know what you do
I will crawl through my past
Over stones blood and glass
In the ruins
Reaching under the fence
As I try to make sense
In the ruins
I know your heart has held its own fear
It's perfectly clear
What they did to you
In my heart it's the screaming I hear
I won't let them come near
Since my love knew you
When I feel the cold in the dark
I remember you
I will crawl through my past
Over stones blood and glass
In the ruins
Reaching under the fence
As I try to make sense
In the ruins
Night after night
I am carving it out
I will carry it down to the waterside
Night after night
I am hearing the sound
Of wings that come beating
I will not hide
When I feel the cold in the dark
I will know why
I will crawl through my past
Over stones blood and glass
In the ruins
Reaching under the fence
As I try to make sense
In the ruins
But if I am to heal
I must first learn to feel
In the ruins
It's so hard to listen to these trains
Outside my window here it comes again
And it's calling me begging me
Follow me down the track
And it moans so dark and low
Baby ain't comin' back
I refuse to believe
It could happen to me and you
It's lonesome and it's hard and it's true
It got this whiskey to take care of my lips
I got these long cool steel strings
At my fingertips
I ain't got nothing to soothe my aching soul
Except this screeching and screaming iron
To tell me where I ought to go
I refuse to believe
It could happen to me and you
It's lonesome and it's hard and it's true
I hear the train sigh
And idle down below
Why your love is so sweet and while
Is something I'll never know
It sounds like crying
It sounds like letting go
Breathing and lying
Sinking and dying slow
And I watch from my window
Touching the cold glass sky
As the train rolls down the track
I think I'm ready to try my hand at love again
Because in my darkest hour
In my darkest hour, baby
I could always call you friend
And it feels like you believe me
When you hug me and you squeeze me
And when I blush you tease me
When you tell me you're gonna please me
Come on baby rock and roll me
Take me in your arms and hold me
I want to be your one and only
Baby rock and roll me
All night long
Forgive me baby if I'm a little nervous now
I never had a first time with such a familiar touch
It's been a long, long, long, long, long time
And I've needed this so much
And it feels like you believe me
When you hug me and you squeeze me
And when I blush you tease me
When you tell me you're gonna please me
Come on baby rock and roll me
Take me in your arms and hold me
I want to be your one and only
Baby rock and roll me
All night long
Ah you know me well so there are no games to play
Grab hold of me honey pull me down
And I will not run away
I think I'm ready,
I think I'm ready
And it feels like you believe me
When you hug me and you squeeze me
And when I blush you tease me
When you tell me you're gonna please me
Come on baby rock and roll me
Take me in your arms and hold me
I want to be your one and only
Baby rock and roll me
We got somethin', we both know it, we don't talk too much about it
Ain't no real big secret, all the same, somehow we get around it
Listen, it don't really matter to me baby
You believe what you want to believe, you see
You don't have to live like a refugee
(Don't have to live like a refugee)
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some
Tell me why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon
Honey, it don't make no difference to me baby
Everybody has to fight to be free, you see
You don't have to live like a refugee
(Don't have to live like a refugee)
No baby you don't have to live like a refugee
(Don't have to live like a refugee)
Baby we ain't the first
I'm sure a lot of other lovers been cursed
Right now it seems real to you, but it's
One of those things you gotta feel to be true
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some
Who knows maybe you were kidnapped tied up,
Taken away and held for ransom
Honey, it don't make no difference to me baby
Baby, everybody has to fight to be free, you see
You don't have to live like a refugee
(Don't have to live like a refugee)
No baby you don't have to live like a refugee
It takes me so long to understand sometimes
Why it's so hard to understand sometimes
It takes me two or three times sometimes
To, to try to get it right sometimes, to get it right
I've got some coins in my pocket
And I've got a colored TV
It's gotten so complicated now
What does it mean to be free?
Only love is real
Everything is love
Everything you feel
That's what your world is made of
And when I take a good look around I see
My thoughts are coming back to me so look around
We are in charge of our own dreams
We have more power than it seems so look around
Come on, now, show me who you're loving, yeah
Then show me just who you hate
Then I can show you all your angels, yeah
That guard your heaven's gate
Only love is real
Everything is love
Everything you feel
That's what your world is made of, yeah
Only love is real
Everything is love
Everything you feel
That's what your world is made of, yeah
That's what your world is made of
That's what your world is made of
Only love, everything, everything you feel
That's what your world
That's what your world is made of
I know a place
Down past an old shack
On a road that goes to nowhere
Ain't nobody coming back
We can go there tonight
We can talk until dawn
Or maybe something else
I'll leave the radio on
There's no one to hear
You might as well scream
They never woke up
From the American dream
And they don't understand
What they don't see
And they look through you
And they look past me
Oh, you and I dancing slow
And we got nowhere to go
Past the Wal-Mart and the prison
Down by the old V.A.
Just my jeans and my t-shirt
And my blue Chevrolet
It's Saturday night
Feels like everything's wrong
I've got some strawberry wine
I wanna get you alone
Down by the muddy water
Of the mighty Mo
In an old abandoned box car
Will I ever know
Dance with me forever
This moment is divine
I'm so close to heaven
This hell is not mine
Hello, hello this is Romeo
Calling from a jackpot telephone
Shame, shame but I love your name
And the way you make the buffalo roam
Oh fly, fly I guess this is goodbye
Oh you packed up your heart
And you left no souvenirs
But if you want me you can call me
In the night you know where I'll be
Broken lover you can touch me
In the dark the innocent can't see
You lock it up now hide the key
It would mean surrender to let me see
Oh brave, brave soldier keep it under cover
You fell alone like no other lover
Burn the pictures break the records
Run far away to a northern town
Sell your fear and leave me standing here
With no souvenirs
Once, twice I thought it might be nice
To come into your kitchen and play
Cool, cool just a crazy fool
I never saw it any other way
Oh wait, wait I guess I'm just too late
Oh you made up your mind
Love shouldn't be so hard
But if you want me you can call me
In the night you know where I'll be
Broken lover you can touch me
In the dark the innocent can't see
You lock it up now hide the key
It would mean surrender to let me see
Oh brave, brave soldier keep it under cover
You fell alone like no other lover
Burn the pictures break the records
Run far away to a northern town
Sell your fear and leave me standing here
With no souvenirs
No shirts, no shoes
No jackets, no blues
You car's for sale
You forward your mail
You're growing your hair
You don't want to know where
I'm calling you from
Or how come
But if you want me you can call me
In the night you know where I'll be
Broken lover you can touch me
In the dark the innocent can't see
You lock it up now hide the key
It would mean surrender to let me see
Oh brave, brave soldier keep it under cover
You fell alone like no other lover
Burn the pictures break the records
Run far away to a northern town
Sell your fear and leave me standing here
They don't much care for you
No they don't like your kind
The way you look walk
Or the way you talk
The way you always speak your mind
But you want to be my friend
You're not anything like them
You can show me things I've never seen
You say ooo child what a waste if we never took a taste
Of everything we find in between
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Ooo you make me nervous
Ooo you make me want to run away and hide
Ooo you make me nervous
When you look at me I just can't lie
Ooo you make me nervous tonight
Feels so wrong and feels so right feels like insanity
I keep acting strange hoping that I'll change
Waking in a sweat from a burning dream
And then look at all my friends I keep on pleasing them
Caught up in the chaos of their minds
Ooo child the fear I have
Keeps me bound and keeps me gagged
Keeps me pushing harder all the time
Ooo you make me nervous
Ooo you make me want to run away and hide
Ooo you make me nervous
When you look at me I just can't lie
I want to shovel all the blame
I want to shoot out all the lights
I want to call you names and start a fight
Because you make me nervous tonight
Heart pounds hands wet mouth dry
I shake I scream I cry
No eat no sleep all night
I build my lonely cell with secrets I can't tell
Frozen in my fright
Ooo you make me nervous tonight
You make me nervous
You make me nervous
You make me nervous
Miss California what did I do wrong
It seems I've loved you
For just a little too long
You've gone and left me
For some preacher's way
Now you act like you never knew me
And you can't hear a word I say
Miss California did I get in your way
Did the neighbors warn you
What would happen some day
Like a love like mine
Was never good anyway
They said think about your reputation now
Before you get carried away
Don't you know what's good for me can be good for you
Don't you know what's good for me can be good for you
Don't you know what is good for you
Can be good for me too
Don't you know what's good for me can be good for you
Miss California was I a little too proud
I'm standing in the street now
And I'm screaming out loud
You try to shove me in your closet
With your skulls and your bones
I can be who I am you see
If I want to do it all alone
Yeah yeah yeah
Don't you know what's good for me can be good for you
Don't you know what is good for you
Can be good for me too
Don't you know what's good for me can be good for you
Your sweet seduction led me far from home
Your self-destruction gives me sticks and stones
Your propositions make me feel so cold
When the hand that's trying to hold me down
Is the one I'm trying to hold
I know the hand that's trying to hold me down
Is the one I'm trying to hold
I said the hand that's trying to force me back
Is the one that won't let me go
Miss California
Yeah yeah yeah
Miss California
Yeah yeah yeah
Miss California
Yeah yeah yeah
Miss California
Yeah yeah yeah
Ah huh
Yeah
I'm sending out a message to myself
So that when I hear it on the radio
I will know that I am fine,
I will know that I am loved.
I warned myself of the blackness in my chest
The razors in my heart would never rest
It's funny how you find just what you seek
Love is what you get when love is what you speak
I'm sending out a message to myself
So that when I hear it on the radio
I will know that I am fine,
I will know that I am loved.
I made every choice along the way
Each day I spent in hell I chose to stay
It's funny what you fear can make you weak
Truth is what you get when truth is what you speak
I'm sending out a message to myself
So that when I hear it on the radio
I will know that I am fine,
I will know that I am loved.
So if you are listening I am just passing through
You can take some for yourself 'cause it works that way too
Sha la la la la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la la la
I will know that I am fine,
I will know that I am loved.
I'm sending out a message to myself
So that when I hear it on the radio
I will know that I am fine,
I will know that I am loved.
I'm sending out a message to myself
So that when I hear it on the radio
I will know that I am fine,
Keep your eyes down, keep your head lowered
Keep to your self dear, do not tell a soul
You know it's wrong what they've been sayin'
And you knew all along that I would have to go
Find a place where light shines on my reflection
A place where I can stand upon my own
Not down on my knees, until then, please
Meet me in the dark, meet me in the shadows
Past the old graveyard, down Eisenhower road
Meet me where the storms blow out on their own, dear
Meet me in the dark, never let me go
I know everyone has their unspoken fear
It eats away their senses and their humanity
They carry all their secrets every night down to the river
And they try so hard to drown them, they won't do that to me
'Cause I'm workin' hard savin' all my money
And the tips in this jar will buy a brand new set of wings
For my mercury, until then, please
Meet me in the dark, meet me in the shadows
Past the old graveyard, on Eisenhower road
Meet me where the storms blow out on their own, dear
Meet me in the dark and never let me go
I could never hide this little light of mine
If God made a mistake then I should die before I wake
Maybe it's my fate to swim against this tide, swallowing my pride
Keep your eyes down, say that you don't know me
For I could not survive if they took you away
Meet me in the dark, meet me in the shadows
Past the old graveyard, down Eisenhower road
Meet me where the storms blow out on their own, dear
All the people in your home town
And you were just teen
Said that you were pretty
Like in the magazine
And so you left your home town
To try out for the part
Of everybody's pretty little angel
With a pretty little heart
You studied hard
The map of the stars
All because you wanted
Yeah, you really wanted
Every night you wanted to be
One of the little angels
That flies between the stars
One of the little angels
With a pretty little car
So you eat a little less
And you smoke a little more
Waiting in the lines
For them to open up the doors
For all the little angels
So you got yourself an agent
You made a little deal
They got you on the TV
Everyone agreed you had the charm and the appeal
So you bought yourself a house in the Hollywood Hills
You bought yourself a tan
You fixed your nose and hair
Learned how not to care
Got a pretty little man
You landed hard
On the map of the stars
Now everybody wants you
Oh, they really want you
Every night they want you to be
So you eat a little less
And you drink a little more
Waiting in your room
For them to open up the door
For all the little angels
Now you drink a little more
Your family's talking to the press
And the movie didn't score
So you eat a little less
Just a little bit less
Well the people on the street now
They're getting kind of mean
They read about your break up
In the magazine
And somewhere in your hometown
A girl tries out her best
Maybe she'll go far
She wants to be a star
So she eats a little less
All the little angels
I want to see how lucky Lucky can be
I saw you through my blind intoxication
My shock induced insane self medication
You looked at me and smiled
Said get ready to get wild
Sugar you just need a brief vacation
I want to see how lucky Lucky can be
I want to ride with my Angel and live shockingly
I want to drive to the edge and into the sea
I want to see how lucky Lucky can be
I was dried up I was starving I was mangled
I looked like hell twisted up and tangled
You whispered in my ear
The ghosts are gone it's clear
For too long you've been tied up you've been strangled
I don't want to ride on the shotgun side
Don't want to be a quaint observer on this super sonic ride
Double down split the aces to the races
'Tis the season of change
The seasons are the contrast
Heed a life and how it's done
It's time to let go of all our past
And let go of what's to come
Write down your excuses
And turn them into dust
And plant the seeds of change
Water it with trust
And light a light tonight, we light a light
We light a light tonight, we light a light
Now about this time is ending and everyone is here
We light a light, a light this year
'Tis the season of change
What do we have, what do we have not?
What do we need that isn't here?
This mindless, numb, consuming
Is driven by a subtle fear
It's time we stopped believing
That there will not be enough
I know they said it on the TV
So turn it off, break the chains
Step outside and feel the love
And light a light tonight, we light a light
We light a light tonight, we light a light
Now about this time is ending, everyone is here
We light a light, a light this year
'Tis the season of change
Ooh change, we shall change
We must change
Heaven is inside, it's all around not just above
Choose only love
Heaven is inside, it's all around not just above
Choose only love
Choose only love
Choose only love
Choose only love
Choose only love
And light a light tonight, we light a light
Light a light tonight, we light a light
We light a light
Light a light tonight, we light a light
We light a light tonight, we light a light
Am I the snake inside your garden
The sugar in your tea
The knock upon your back door
The twist that turns your key
Am I the sweat you feel on your head
The shadow on your face
The tune inside your head that put you here in the first place
Well I don't want to be
I don't want to be
I don't want to be your sweet temptation
I don't want to be your new sensation
It's just a delicate distraction
With just a hint of satisfaction
Look me in the eye and let me know
If you can't love me that let me go
Let me go
Let me go
Do you try to stay suspended
In your deepest fantasy
After night has ended
The scent of mystery
The power of suggestion
Tangles up your soul
A neutral state between love and hate
Is bound to take its toll
Well I don't think you know
I don't think you know
I don't think you know about the screaming
You don't understand the meaning
You could trade it in for laughter
To keep your happy ever after
Look me in the eye and let me know
If you can't love me then let me go
Let me go
Let me go
Baby in your ivory tower
Do you sleep tight dream fight
Baby does it wet your appetite
Maybe in your darkest hour
Am I the keeper of your beast
Well I don't want to be
I don't want to be
So let me go
Baby what you doin' tonight?
I'll go anywhere that you want to go
jump into my car go down to that bar
pretend I'm someone that you don't know
I'll ask you if you would like to dance
Slip myself up close to your thighs
You can buy me a drink, we'll make everyone think
That love is so damned perfect tonight
Oh kiss me, kiss me, kiss everything away
oh honey now kiss me, kiss me, kiss me.
come out and play
A woman can go crazy I know, working all day in and day out
come on, we'll let off some steam, create a scene
Nothing like a good scream and shout
Oh kiss me, kiss me, kiss everything away
oh honey now kiss me, kiss me,
kiss me - come out and play
Your kiss is like medicine - a prescription to exstacy
and your mind is my playground - look at what I've found
lying next to me
aahhh
Baby what you doin' tonight? I'll be anyone you want me to be
just a girl in a bar, your personal super star
I just want ya, I want ya, I want ya, I want you to
kiss me, kiss me, kiss everything away
oh honey now kiss me, kiss me, kiss me.
come out and play
kiss me, kiss me, kiss me.
come out and play
come out and play
You brought me to trust you brought me to tears
In one tender touch the pain disappears
I have been to the sword seen it come seen it die
As we enter the dark I beseech you to try
In prophecy all good things must end
So take care my love my friend
Keep it precious
Keep it precious
This yielding is fine this promise rare
One day at a time we've agreed to dare
Holding you tight with wide open arms
I'm letting you go no stranger to harm
Go on ride your way do not break or bend
Just take care my love my friend
Keep it precious
Keep it precious
And the wonder let the wonder never cease
And the madness of the pleasure and ecstasy
Danger believing me
Wounding and healing me please
Keep it precious
I believe in your eyes I believe in your fate
I believe we can fly on the wings we create
A voice from behind calls up anger and fear
We can silence that scream it's simple and clear
Nothing must die only if failed to mend
So take care my love my friend
Lay down baby let me coax your fire
Stay here baby you’re walking on a wire
Close your eyes surrender inhibition
Free your mind of any superstition
Isn’t it just what you asked for
Right here right here in front of you
It must be just what you asked for
What you need is just a little change
I can help help you to rearrange
I know honey just how to inspire
I have everything that you might require
Isn’t it just what you asked for
Right here right here in front of you
It must be just what you asked for
Lay down baby let me coax your fire
Stay down baby you’re preaching to the choir
Isn’t it just what you asked for
Right here right here in front of you
If you hear a voice
In the middle of the night
Saying it’ll be alright
It will be me
If you feel a hand
Guiding you along
When the path seems wrong
It will be me
There is no mountain
That I can’t climb
For you I’d swim thru
The rivers of time
As you go you’re way
And I go mine
A light will shine
And it will be me
If there is a key
That goes to you’re heart
A special part
It will be me
If you need a friend
Call out to the wind
To hold you again
It will be me
Oh, how the world
Seems so unfair
Creating a love
That cannot be shared
As you go you’re way
And I go mine
A light will shine
And it will be me
I still have a laughter
There’s a place for two
Here you’re tears of laughter
I’ll be there for you
In the sun and the moon
In the land and the sea
Will come around you
It will be me
There is no mountain
That I can’t climb
For you I’d swim through
The rivers of time
As you go you’re way
And I go mine
A light will shine
And it will be me
She came to this world on a cold night
Papa turned his head and said
I don't believe she's mine
Single mama raised her in a place
Where you can look but never touch
'Cause we don't have enough
Don't let your hopes get high
'Cause girls like you can't fly
Oh, the long nights in the small room
With the big dreams, oh Indiana
You're only dying here
And they don't understand
Yeah, it's a tough road but you start slow
And before you know it you're not alone
Looking for a place called home anywhere
Oh Indiana
She tended bar in New York City
Indiana
People turned their heads and said
Baby, you sure look fine
They put her on TV and then they told her
You're gonna be a star, you can go so far
Let your hopes get high
'Cause girls like you can fly
And the long nights in the small room
With the big dreams, oh Indiana
You're only dying here
And they don't understand
Yeah, tough road but you start slow
And before you know it, you're not alone
Looking for a place called home anywhere
Oh Indiana
Those big dreams are flying machines
And they'll take you where ever you want to go
Oh, and sometimes you find that what's real is inside
You don't have to go away to find your way home
Oh, Indiana
She turned around and she stopped running
She saw that fame was never
The answer to her prayers
She found that answer in her children
When she takes them to a place
Where they can have so much
She lets their hopes get high
'Cause anyone, anyone can fly
And the, the long nights in the small room
With the big dreams, oh Indiana
You're only dying here
And they don't understand
Yeah, it's a tough road but you start slow
And before you know it, you're not alone
Looking for a place called home anywhere
Oh Indiana
A mother was grieving her loss
Her soldier the ultimate cost
She went to the man
Who's been told that he's a king
Waited outside of his compound
To ask him a few things
She said
"For what noble cause did my son have to die
Where are their weapons
Why did you have to lie"
Imagine that
A lieutenant in the army
In his heart and his soul he believes
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
Now he's standing on trial
For he will not behave as they wish
He said
"I believe the constitution
To defend it and uphold
I will not fight your war for profit
No sir I will not go"
Imagine that
A scientist and his machine
The smallest of life he has seen
Inside matter inside atoms
As far as you can go
He saw the strings of life that vibrate
With the universal flow
He said
"I have seen the spirit
And all its creation
It's in each and every thought
And all our intentions"
If I wanted to I could do anything right
I could dance with the devil on a
Saturday night
If I wanted to I could turn matches to gold
I could smoke drink swear and I would never
grow old
I wouldn't have to be in love with you
If I only wanted to
If I only wanted to
If I wanted to I could run fast as a train
Be as sharp as a needle that's twisting your brain
If I wanted to I could turn mountains to sand
Have political leaders in the palm of my hand
I wouldn't have to be in love with you
If I only wanted to
If I only wanted to
I could leave tonight
And I would be all right
Stop holding on
If I wanted to
If I only wanted to
If I wanted to I could be as patient as death
Fix this hole in my heart leaking into my flesh
If I wanted to I could turn sparks into ice
There'd never be another woman who could make you
think twice
I wouldn't have to be in love with you
If I only wanted to
Please baby can't you see
My mind's a burnin' hell
I got razors a rippin' and tearin' and strippin'
My heart apart as well
Tonight you told me
That you ache for something new
And some other woman is lookin' like something
That might be good for you
Go on and hold her till the screaming is gone
Go on believe her when she tells you
Nothing's wrong
But I'm the only one
Who'll walk across the fire for you
I'm the only one
Who'll drown in my desire for you
It's only fear that makes you run
The demons that you're hiding from
When all your promises are gone
I'm the only one
Please baby can't you see
I'm trying to explain
I've been here before and I'm locking the door
And I'm not going back again
Her eyes and arms and skin won't make
It go away
You'll wake up tomorrow and wrestle the sorrow
That holds you down today
Go on and hold her till the screaming is gone
Go on believe her when she tells you
Nothing's wrong
But I'm the only one
Who'll walk across the fire for you
I'm the only one
Who'll drown in my desire for you
It's only fear that makes you run
The demons that you're hiding from
When all your promises are gone
So you walked with me for a while
Bared your naked soul
And you told me of your plan
How you would never let them know
In the morning of the night
You cried a long lost child
And I tried on I tried to hold you
But you were young
And you were wild
But I, I will never be the same
Oh I, I will never be the same
Caught in your eyes
Lost in your name
I will never be the same
Secrets of your life
I never wanted for myself
But you guarded them like a lie
Placed up on the highest shelf
In the morning of the night
When I woke to find you gone
I knew your distant devil
Must be draggin' you along
But I, I will never be the same
Oh I, I will never be the same
Caught in your eyes
Lost in your name
I will never be the same
And you swore that you were bound for glory
And for wanting you had no shame
But I loved you
And then I lost you
And I will never be the same
But I, I will never be the same
Oh I, I will never be the same
Caught in your eyes
Lost in your name
I'll buy you mangos baby
Your favorite fruit
I'll shave everything baby
I'll press my suit
I'll find that song by Perry Como you like to sing
I'll eat your TV dinners
And wear you cigar ring
Do you think that I can persuade
Don't make me fade because
I really like you baby
I want to see you baby
I really like you baby
I want to be you baby
I'll gladly make you
My first tattoo
You and me forever
In red and black and blue
I'll let you drive my car
I'll even paint my eyes
Forget about all my friends
And tell outrageous lies
Do you think I can persuade
Don't make me fade because
I really like you baby
I want to see you baby
I really like you baby
Have I been sleeping?
I've been so still, afraid of crumbling
Have I been careless?
Dismissing all the distant rumblings
Take me where I am supposed to be
To comprehend the things that I can't see
'Cause I need to move, I need to wake up
I need to change, I need to shake up
I need to speak out, something's got to break up
I've been asleep and I need to wake up now
And as a child I danced like it was 1999
And my dreams were wild
The promise of this new world would be mine
Now I am throwing off the carelessness of youth
To listen to an inconvenient truth
That I need to move, I need to wake up
I need to change, I need to shake up
I need to speak out, something's got to break up
I've been asleep and I need to wake up now
I am not an island
I am not alone
I am my intentions
Trapped here in this flesh and bone
And I need to move, I need to wake up
I need to change, I need to shake up
I need to speak out, something's got to break up
I've been asleep and I need to wake up now
I want to change, I need to shake up
I need to speak out, oh, something's got to break up
Take, take a look at the sky
Sometimes your heaven seems so far away
Take, take a look under here
Where deprivation turns into decay
I've stood under this rain
Felt it seep into my brain
I've shut my eyes and crawled around this mud
I'm scared of growin' old
I shiver when I'm cold
Don't you think I bleed the same blood
I, I could've been you
You could've been me
One small change that shapes your destiny
If you want the proof
Cut me and you'll see
I could've been you
You could've been me
Wait, wait before you turn off
Maybe there's a chance we can relate
Wait everybody turns on
Why deny a fact that's so innate
It's not so easy anymore
They way you used to keep score
Not so black and white the color of your sin
Take a walk inside my shoes
A path I didn't choose
Spend the night inside of my skin
I, I could've been you
You could've been me
One small change that shapes your destiny
If you want the proof
Cut me and you'll see
I could've been you
You could've been me
Change is turning into fear
Fear is melting into hate
With hate you justify your crime
A crime compassion can erase
Erase erase
Touch, touch what I feel
And know I believe everything I say
So go, go if you must
Remember one thing as you walk away
I, I could've been you
You could've been me
One small change that shapes your destiny
If you want the proof
Cut me and you'll see
I could've been you
Ain't it crazy
For a moment there
This felt just like dying
But now I see that something inside
Is coming alive
Ain't it crazy
No use running from a revolution
I just surrender to this evolution
Heal me lift me
Take me to the other side
Amazing grace
Has touched my face
And the sweet sound doesn't lie
Ain't it crazy
For a moment there
I just gave up trying
But now I see
You can let the light in
You can begin again
Ain't it crazy
I lay me down in this sweet perfection
I am a witness to my resurrection
Heal me lift me
Take me to the waterside
Drop me in let me swim
Let everyone know
I'll be coming home again
Make no mistake
I'm wide-awake
Ain't it crazy
Heal me lift me
Take me to the other side
I'll take what I've earned
These lessons I've learned
I'm ready for the ride
Heal me lift me
Take me and my soul will fly
My battered heart will make a new start
Let everyone know
I'll be coming home again
Heal me lift me
Take me to the waterside
Drop me in
Come on and watch me swim
Let everyone know
My soul crashed into my body
Falling into consciousness
That’s when my mind became this illusion
Taking it step after step
I looked into mother’s eyes
I said tell me what I should believe
She drew me a room with a light
Said just turn it off when you leave
Slow, slow, this river is slow
We’re all out here on our own
Row, row, gently we row
One day we'll find our way home
Step after step
They draw me a town
They draw me a fear avenue
They draw me a God
They draw me some money
Hiding the truth far from you
I asked the cool fire light
Tell me what I should believe
They gave a song and they gave a dance
Said sleep now your pain will relieved
Slow, slow this river is slow
We’re all out here on our own
Row, row, gently we row
One day we’ll find our way home
I stumbled across, I begged to know why
I’ve been shamed
I’ve chosen to lie
All of this darkness, I have searched for a light
To come and find you
And when I found me
I wrapped my arms around my own daughter
She fell into her place and time
There is a mind, creates her illusion
I won’t complicate her with mine
She looked into her mother’s eyes
She said tell me what I should believe
And I drew her a door, and I drew her a key
And I said when you are ready, you come and find me
And we walk out of here
Tomorrow will be a new day
Slow, slow this river is slow
You are never out here on your own
Row, row, gently we row
And together we’ll find our way home
Slow, slow this river is slow
Life is not what it seems
Row, row, gently we row
I had a dream late last night
The water was running low
And my fields were on fire, burning my sky
My body was moving slow
And when I awoke I tasted the sweat of desire in my mouth
And I realized my heart had abducted my mind
And they were last seen headed south
Now I can't sleep I'm so wired
And I find myself screaming out
Don't you need don't you want
Can't you taste it when you're alone
Don't you cry don't you feel
Sometimes I wonder if you are real
Don't you bleed
Don't you need
There's no quenching the thirst there's no relief
For the hungry at heart
And as far as you're concerned I'm just a thief
Entertaining in the dark
But it's you that holds the cards
Now that the joker is wild
Don't you want to lay it down
And feel your skin against the ground
Don't you want to ride the storm
And then sleep inside the calm
Don't you want to get that high
Don't you want to be satisfied
Well if you don't want it from me
Don't you need
I had a dream late last night
The water was running low
And my fields were on fire burning my sky
How was I to know
That I burn every night in my dreams
And only morning can set me free
Don't you need don't you want
Can't you taste it when you're alone
Don't you cry don't you feel
Sometimes I wonder if you are real
Don't you bleed
If you ask me I will say I'm fine
All pink like birthday girls and valentines
And then the stillness of the night reminds
That I don't like to be alone
My thoughts are race cars running 'round my head
They burst into flames and they crash into my bed
Until I fall into a dream instead
Where all my lovers turn to stone
And all I want is company
Someone to understand this misery
Send a reflection of myself to me
'Cause everybody needs some company
These times I'm living in just make no sense
Sometimes my face gets pushed against the fence
I want to scream out in my self-defense
But I don't want to be alone
And all I want is company
Someone to understand this misery
Send a reflection of myself to me
'Cause everybody needs some company
What is truth and what is fear
Will I find it under here
I know they're selling me a lie
But I'm first in line to buy
First in line to try
I find some sanity on the written page
Where life is worth more than a living wage
They say the battle's over now it's time to change
And I won't ever be alone
And all I want is company
Someone to understand this misery
Send a reflection of myself to me
'Cause everybody needs some company
I need some company
Come to my window
Crawl inside, wait by the light
of the moon
Come to my window
I'll be home soon
I would dial the numbers
Just to listen to your breath
I would stand inside my hell
And hold the hand of death
You don't know how far I'd go
To ease this precious ache
You don't know how much I'd give
Or how much I can take
Just to reach you
Just to reach you
Just to reach you
Come to my window
Crawl inside, wait by the light
of the moon
Come to my window
I'll be home soon
Keeping my eyes open
I cannot afford to sleep
Giving away promises
I know that I can't keep
Nothing fills the blackness
That has seeped into my chest
I need you in my blood
I am forsaking all the rest
Just to reach you
Just to reach you
Oh to reach you
Come to my window
Crawl inside, wait by the light
of the moon
Come to my window
I'll be home soon
I don't care what they think
I don't care what they say
What do they know about this
love anyway
Come to my window
Crawl inside, wait by the light
of the moon
Come to my window
Well you got some tips and you learned some licks
you wanna try and teach this old dog some new tricks, huh?
well you told your friends you'd have a little bit of fun
you wanna walk on up now one, huh?
you asked me if I'd like to dine - do you have enough courage
have you had enough wine, sunshine?
keep your head up
don't you sweat in the spotlight
you're coming out tonight
yeah, you're coming out tonight
take a good hard look at this big star view
don't be bitin' off more than you're ever gonna chew, yeah
you can break the rules when you play in the dark
but every wild fire comes from a little bitty spark, yeah
does your mama know who you're hangin' around
a souped up punk in a rock and roll gown, uh, small town
keep your head up
don't you sweat in the spotlight
you're coming out tonight
come on out tonight
come on out tonight
come on out tonight
come on out tonight
(are you ready for your big premiere
people will think your acting sort of queer)
Hey, well come over here
Tell your friends that you won't be home
you got a tiger by the tail and a tiger on the phone, yeah
You're lookin' sharp you got the right location
everybody's ready for the next sensation, your reputation
keep your head up
don't you sweat in the spotlight
keep your head up
don't you sweat in the spotlight
keep your head up
don't you sweat in the spotlight
you're coming out tonight
come on out tonight
come on out tonight
come on out tonight
And so you meet me
Down at the bar
7th and Cherry
That's where we are
And I promise not to take you down too far
Beetle takes a dollar
Benz will make a drink
Two will see you holler
No one wants to think
And it's que sera sera in black and pink
And so we dance
And my feet get lazy
All the stiffs here
They know I'm crazy for you
And so we dance
And the beat gets lost
And this jealous fool
Will pay the cost for you
On Cherry Avenue
Is this a crime
Or just a clever scheme
I want to make you mine
All your roads are green
And I promise not to show you what I've seen
Now it's closing time
Benz wipes down the bar
Beetle kills the lights
Tonight I feel so weak
But all in love is fair
I turn the other cheek
And I feel the slap and the sting of the foul night air
And I know you're only human
And I haven't got talking room
But tonight while I'm making excuses
Some other woman is making love to you
Somebody bring me some water
Can't you see I'm burning alive
Can't you see my baby's got another lover
I don't know how I'm gonna survive
Somebody bring me some water
Can't you see it's out of control
Baby's got my heart and my baby's got my mind
But tonight the sweet Devil's got my soul
When will this aching pass
When will this night be through
I want to hear the breaking glass
I only feel the steel of the red hot truth
And I'd do anything to get it out of my mind
I need some insanity that temporary kind
Tell me how will I ever be the same
When I know that woman is whispering your name
Somebody bring me some water
Can't you see I'm burning alive
Can't you see my baby's got another lover
I don't know how I'm gonna survive
Somebody bring me some water
Can't you see it's out of control
Baby's got my heart and my baby's got my mind
But tonight the sweet Devil's got my soul
Oh, the Devil's got my soul
Somebody bring me some water
Can't you see I'm burning alive
Can't you see my baby's got another lover
I don't know how I'm gonna survive
Somebody bring me some water
Can't you see it's out of control
Baby's got my heart and my baby's got my mind
If I could have my way
I'd be sleeping in the alley
On a couch with a friend and a bottle of gin
If I could have my way
I'd be runnin' with the circus
I would be taming all the lions
There'd be no denying I was brave and crazy
If I could have my way
I wouldn't be dreaming, scheming, screaming
Oooh, what am I gonna do
About you
I wishes were horses
This beggar would ride
I'd have my cake and eat it
With a little on the side
I'd never want for money
I'd never want for friends
I wouldn't have to make excuses for the shape that I'm in
Shaking and crazy
Before I saw your eyes
I was in control of my soul on the whole
Oooh, what am I gonna do
About you
Cool as a rule
I wouldn't play nobody's fool
But I keep on talking
Made in the shade
I had a perfect cue to fade
But I keep on walking
If I could have my way
I'd check out right now
I'd say out to lunch honey thanks a bunch
It wouldn't work out anyhow
But this desire's too much
It's rented out my brain
It's showing previews of your body
Driving me insane
And that's crazy
So all that I can do
Is to beg, plead, won't you tell me please
What am I gonna do
It's 1:25 a.m. I think I've seen that look somewhere before
1:25 a.m. I thought that you were headed for the door
Then something touched my skin
I won't ask you to leave here any more
Was it the talk or the drink or the dance that led to this
Was I so naive presuming the innocence
Well it's 1:54 and it's such an unusual kiss
Come on come on come on
Over and over
Come on come on come on
We all wanted this
Come on come on come on
Over and over
It's such an unusual kiss
The smell the taste the touch is so brand new
The thrill of the eyes that capture this forbidden view
It's 2:45 and you'll have some explaining to do
It's 3:17 a.m. please let me into your eyes
It's 4:23 and I try to hold on as you rise
I'll give you all that I have if that's what you want me to try
Come on come on come on
Over and over
Come on come on come on
We all wanted this
Come on come on come on
Over and over
It's such an unusual kiss
It's 5:26 a.m. I've got nothing left that I can say
5:26 a.m. black and white has melted into grey
My baby draws the shades as the taxi pulls away
Come on come on come on
Over and over
Come on come on come on
We all wanted this
Come on come on come on
Over and over
I want to find me a car
With only one headlight
A straight six Ford
On a good luck night
I want to roll down the windows
And teach you to fly
I want to give you a thrill
The kind you can't buy
I want to lose all your demons and go
I want to tear off your chains 'cause I know
All the way to heaven is heaven
Caught between the spirit and the dust
All the way to heaven is heaven
Deep inside of us
I want to find me a bar
With a blue light on
Dollar shot specials
A bartender named Dawn
Painting the town
Selling the farm
You can pierce your nose
And I'll tattoo my arm
I want to lose all your demons and go
I want to tear off your chains 'cause I know
All the way to heaven is heaven
Caught between the spirit and the dust
All the way to heaven is heaven
Deep inside of us
I want to find me a carnival
Outside of town
A tilt-a-whirl set up
With a merry-go-round
Cotton candy fingers
And a snow cone mouth
I want to roll you in sawdust
Till they run us both out
All the way to heaven
She wakes up in the morning
With a pain in her jet black head
A decaf coffee in her hand
And a Marlboro red
She drives down to the office
In her Japanese car
With the radio blasting
She dreams of taking it too far
But today she'll pay the bills
She won't think about the thrills
That pass away
She's an all American girl
An all American girl
And she will live and die in this man's world
An all American girl
Her eyes are black as leather
And her hair is killer red
How could she keep the baby
When she can barely keep her head
She don't owe nobody nothing
And she ain't on the street
But these drinks are getting heavy
And these lips are getting weak
She don't understand
Why she can't climb out of the sand
And break away
She's an all American girl
An all American girl
And she will live and die in this man's world
An all American girl
Her lover never came home
And it's half past three
Today her best friend told her
He's HIV
Something's gotta give somewhere
Forcing circles into squares
She keeps pushing on
She's an all American girl
An all American girl
And she will live and die in this man's world
It's a simple love
That holds us together
It's a simple truth
That sets us free
There's a place we're bound
And they call it forever
It's a simple love
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