Holmes, Rupert Filmography

• Where the Truth Lies (2005)
• Remember WENN (1996)
• Remember WENN (1996)
• No Small Affair (1984)
• No Small Affair (1984)
• A Tribute to the Jukebox Award Winners (1980)
• The Christmas Raccoons (1980)
• Death Play (1976)
• Memories Within Miss Aggie (1974)
• AWOL (1972)
• The Animals (1970)

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Annabella - Rupert Holmes
• Singles - Rupert Holmes
• Nearsighted - Rupert Holmes
• I Don't Need You - Rupert Holmes
• Him - Rupert Holmes
• The People That You Never Get To Love - Rupert Holmes
• Terminal - Rupert Holmes
• Speechless - Rupert Holmes
• Partners In Crime - Rupert Holmes
• Morning Man - Rupert Holmes
• Let's Get Crazy Tonight - Rupert Holmes
• Less Is More - Rupert Holmes
• In You I Trust - Rupert Holmes
• Get Outta Yourself - Rupert Holmes
• Escape The Pina Colada Song - Rupert Holmes

ANNABELLA
Rupert Holmes
I just want to wake your heart
but you go to sleep
and you break my heart:
Annabella ...
where will you be,
who do you see,
when you dream at night?
Could it be the other guy
who had more than me
and was less than shy?
Annabella ...
You tease me all day
Please, may I say
that we're on tonight
In the morning
things are working out fine
Come the evening
you refuse to be mine
but you stay
and you say
[TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: the following line is unclear & may be
incorrect]
That I hope to find some love
But each girl I find
will remind me of
Annabella ...
In the morning
you say "Wait til tonight"
Come the evening
you say "Now just ain't right":
No surprise ...
But I'm wise
I won't take another day
or another night
or another way
Annabella ...
REPEAT 6x, WITH FADE STARTING AT 4th REPEAT:
Annabella ...
[Background Female Vocals:
La La La La, La La La La, La La La La Lah]
transcribed by dh

SINGLES
Rupert Holmes
Singles,
you & I are singles
Strangers
trying to stay warm in the snow
Maybe
we will wake as strangers
or maybe we will find
we have somewhere to go.
Couples
all start out as singles
Lovers
like to walk alone now & then
Even
married folks act single
if they should feel the need
to find themselves again
REFRAIN x2: Singles,
all my loves were singles,
Like the dollar bills that slip away
before you even know
Music,
pourin' out on singles,
finds a home
on someone's stereo
And like a stack of singles
We'll survive as singles
Trying
hard to match one shoe with one glove
Lovers,
'cause we share the same dreams
Dreams of what the world
can't have too many of
Like singles
doubled up with love
transcribed by dh

If you take these glasses from my face
Think that you would find
I'm undeniably, certifiably just a shade of blind
I don't envy those of you
With 20/20 vision
Who've seen the world for all its worth
With crystal clear precision
There's more to see than can be seen or said than what
is heard
The day is brighter, softer, lighter
When it's slighted blurred
Nearsighted, it's another lovely day
Nearsighted, so I stumble on my way
I don't just a friend or lover
By a first or second look
Nor a book just by its cover
No, I can't even see the book
Nearsighted, loving life is such a breeze
Nearsighted, cause I see just what I please
And it pleases me to see you
I won't change my point of view
Nearsighted, Nearsighted
Nearsighted, all I need to see is you.
Though I'm slightly out of focus
I can see my dreams come true
Clear sighted, I'm nearsighted

I don't need you
I don't need you half as much
As you need me
And I thank my lucky stars
That you have freed me
'Cause I'm losing weight at last
Losing weight and losing sleep
And losing my mind fast
I don't need you
I don't miss you in the way
I expected
I have time to clean the sink
And feel neglected
Will I call you up? I won't
I forgot your number 6364831
And I don't need you
I don't need you like my life depended on it
You're gone, you're gone, you're gone
It only affects me in the hours
When I need you, I need you
But I don't want you
I do crosswords
And I'm weaving a basket
And I'd never take you back
Unless you ask it
I don't need you
I don't need you like my life depended on it
You're gone, you're gone, you're gone
It only affects me in the hours
When I need you, I need you
But I don't love you
I don't love you like
With whom you are living
Only twenty times as much
And all's forgiven
If you'd come by today
So that I can have you near forever while I say
That I don't need you, I don't need you
I don't need you
I don't need you
I don't need you
I don't need you
I don't need you
Need you
Need you

Over by the window
there's a pack of cigarettes
Not my brand, you understand
sometimes the girl forgets
She forgets to hide them
I know who left those smokes behind
She'll say "oh, he's just a friend"
And I'll say "oh, I'm not blind to..."
(chorus)
Him, him, him
What's she gonna do about him?
She's gonna have to do without him
Or do without
Me, me, me
No one gets to get it for free
It's me or it's him
Don't know what he looks like
Don't know who he is
Don't know why she thought
that I would say what's mine is his
I don't want to own her
but I can't let her have it both ways
Three is one to many of us
She leaves with me, or says with
(chorus)
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh....
If she wants to she can have him
Just exactly how we once were
It's goodbye to you and I
back to her and I without

You're browsing through a second hand bookstore
And you see her in non-fiction V through Y
She looks up from World War II
And then you catch her, catching, you catching her eye
And you quickly turn away your wishful stare
And take a sudden interest in your shoes
If you only had the courage but you don't
She turns and leaves and you both lose
And you think about
The people that you never get to love
It's not as if you even have the chance
So many worth a second life
But rarely do you get a second glance
Until fate cuts in on your dance
And you'll see her on a train that you've just missed
At a bus stop where your bus will never stop
Or in a passing Buick
When you've been pulled over by a traffic cop
Or you'll share an elevator, just you two
And you'll rise in total silence to the floor
Like the fool you are, you get off
And she leaves your life behind a closing door
And you think about
The people that you never get to love
The poem you intended to begin
The saddest words that anyone has ever said are
'Lord, what might have been'
But no one said you get to win
Still you're never gonna miss what you don't know
And you don't know who you'll meet at half past three
It could be a total stranger
Who looks something just exactly much like me
One of the people that you never get to love
One of the people that you never get to love

I've come back this mornin' to where I first came alive
Here within this terminal where the buses arrive
I was a commuter on the 804
Work for a computer on the 19th floor and...
You came down the aisle of the bus and you sat by my
side
Shoulder up to shoulder we shared that 9 o'clock ride
Oh, my heart was screamin' as you left your seat
Followin' your movements I was at your feet and...
Oh, down into the terminal both of us smiled
So we entered the terminal just as you smiled
"Won't you leave out work for today?" you ask of me
then
So I phoned-in-sick on the way to the home of a friend
We were all alone from 10 A.M. till 3
Really thought the fire had gone out of me but...
You awoke the sleep of my life from gray into red
Made the weary wonder of Wall Street rise from the dead
Could have held up budding my entire life
But I had to get home to the kids and the wife and...
So I left for the terminal where I began
Baby, no, I wouldn't have left if I'd been half a man
So here I am this morning where love had asked for the
dance
Here within this terminal where I passed on a chance
Lord, I'll never find her though I've truly tried
Probably she's found another bus to ride and...
I am now about to begin the last of my days
I'm within what others would call a terminal phase
I myself can only say it's livin' dead
Ridin' to the office with a song in my head that
goes...
La da da...
And you know it grows
La da da...
Oh, la da da...

I can make a speech
When the mood comes to me, yes it's true
But oh pretty darlin'
I am speechless when it comes to you
Speechless when you reach for my hand
I am so speechless and I can't understand how you love me
But as long as you keep sayin' that you love me
There is nothin' I can say
Except I am speechless at the sound of your voice
I am so speechless and since I have no choice
I keep smilin' like a cat whose caught a bird
And just keep smilin'
If I dare to say a word, you'd find me mindless
And I don't really mind, love is blindness
And my mind is resigned to the kindness you keep pourin' on me
Can it be? Can it be? Can it be all for me?
I don't have a hope
If you don't dream of me, this is true
'Cause oh pretty darlin'
I am hopeless when I dream of you
Speechless and the heart never lies
I am so speechless so I speak with my eyes
I am just smilin' 'cause I've seen [Incomprehensible]
Oh, are you smilin' at my face within the darkness
When I am breathless and I come up for air
It's so endless that it gives me a scare
It's so timeless that I never touch ground
Why should I? Why should I? Why should I make a sound
I can sing your song
I can sigh in the night, this is true
But oh pretty darlin'

She's under-age and she's underweight
And she's one month hooked and she's two months late.
She comes from Wyoming and he named her Desiree.
She hit New York like a farm-fresh egg
Hits a frying pan. She's too proud to beg
So she works on the sidewalk; he administrates her pay.
She calls him Swagger 'cause of his hat.
He adpoted her in three seconds flat
By the bus station doorway where he found her half-
alive.
He is her family, and in return,
He beats up on her and takes all she can earn
And she needs him so badly, losing him she'd never
survive.
Him and her,
Me and you,
We do it to each other whatever we do.
Hand in hand,
Arm in arm,
It's always been the two of us doin' us harm.
It's the same deal every time:
We're all of us partners in crime.
She is a buyer for Bloomingdale's,
He's division head of commercial sales.
They met at the office - odds we one to one they'd
meet.
Work is the great aphrodisiac,
It's that nine-to-five gets 'em in the sack:
Afernoons at the office, evenings at the health
retreat.
And all day long he just balls her out
Bout some shipment due on the air freight route,
But when they leave the office, guess who gets the
upper hand?
She's into power, he's into pain,
And beneath her heel, he will long remain
And he needs her so badly, loves it when she takes
command
Him and her,
Me and you,
We do it to each other whatever we do.
Hand in hand,
Arm in arm,
It's always been the two of us doin' us harm.
It's the same deal every time:
We're all of us partners in crime.
If there's a heaven, if there's a hell,
It's made up of those who we love so well,
And we make hell or heaven as we do when we're alive.
Two people meet and they fix their deal
And they get what they deserve and they want they way
they feel
And we need love so badly, losing it we'd never
survive.
Him and her,
Me and you,
We do it to each other whatever we do.
Hand in hand,
Arm in arm,
It's always been the two of us doin' us harm.
It's the same deal every time:

I arise to the 5 AM skies
Left over from yesterday
With a moan I reach out for the phone
It's her says, she's on her way
And fifteen minutes later
I hear the elevator
I gave her my apartment key
So she eases in and lies with me
Pay my way with a nine to five day
She's working a midnight grind
Dressed in white by the dawn's eerie light
She reaches my cobwebbed mind
She brews us up some coffee
And pulls the covers off me
I grab her wrist and pull her near
And the night begins to clear
Morning man, doesn't take much to wake me
Just you shake your morning man
I've been dreaming of how you'll wake me
Since this endless night began
So curl up with your early riser
In my eyes you see the plan
You'll catch up on your sleep this evening
And I'll be your morning man
Eight at night in the last of the light
I wander back home again
Time is cheap 'cause I know she's asleep
And out for the count 'til ten
And when she's finally wakin'
I'll fix some eggs and bacon
She'll say, "Goodnight, I'm late again"
I'll say, "Goodnight, I'll wait"
Morning man, doesn't take much to wake me
Just you shake your morning man
I've been dreaming of how you'll wake me
Since this endless night began
So curl up with your early riser
In my eyes you see the plan
You'll catch up on your sleep this evening

Life can be too much you see
We all need insanity
You're off the hook when you're off the wall
You got to say, the hell with them all
C'mon let's get crazy tonight
No time to worry if we're wrong or we're right
Caught up with people we've never met
Ooh, Sunday morning we'll forgive and forget
Before the dawn begins to shine it's hazy blue light
Let's get crazy tonight
Let's get crazy tonight
There's a part of town you've missed
Where the rules just don't exist
Give no mind and give no name
No one knows whose taking the blame
C'mon let's get crazy tonight
No time to worry if we're wrong or we're right
Caught up with people we've never met
Ooh, Sunday morning we'll forgive and forget
Before the dawn begins to shine it's hazy blue light
Let's get crazy tonight
Let's get crazy tonight
Let's get crazy tonight
No time to worry if we're wrong or we're right
Caught up with people we've never met
Ooh, Sunday morning we'll forgive and forget
Before the dawn begins to shine it's hazy blue light
Let's get crazy tonight
No time to worry if we're wrong or we're right
Let's get crazy tonight
No time to worry if we're wrong or we're right
Let's get crazy tonight
No time to worry if we're wrong or we're right
Let's get crazy tonight

The more I learn, the less I know
The more I earn, the more I owe
The more I search for somethin' new
The more I come right back to you
I'll always need your love I guess
I've looked for more but more is less
You take me in, you take me slow
You let me be, you let me know
That less is more, less is more
Hold me tight and everything is right
Just like before
Oh, take it easy
Love is more, love is more
Love is more than all the empty dreams
Outside your door
Make it easy
The more you buy, the less you've sold
The more you try, the more you fold
The more you read, the less you see
The more you need, the less you're free
Do what you do, you do it best
Don't run the race with all the rest
You set the pace so easily
With all the moves you make on me
Less is more, less is more
Hold me tight and everything is right
Just like before
Oh, take it easy
Love is more, love is more
Love is more than all the empty dreams
Outside your door
Make it easy
And more and more I must confess
I find I'm needing less and less
Why take the climb, why take the fall?
When more is here and less is all
Love is here, love is there
Love is found with both feet on the ground
That you share
Take it easy
Less is more, less is more
Less is more than everything combined
That's gone before

I don't trust no magazine
I don't trust the price of gasoline
And when you say I must
I simply say, "Ooo, in you I trust."
Seeing is believing you
When I see your eyes, I'm receiving you.
And when my faith goes bust
I touch you and, ooo, it's you I trust.
In you I trust
In you I must
I do, I trust in you
When all is done, you are my one true blue
Everyone needs one sure thing
Someone
Someone who'll step in the ring.
I don't trust the Sunday "Times"
Or these dollar bills that turn into dimes
When paper turns to dust
I still will say, "Ooo, in you I trust."
Politician's promises
Have made all of us doubting Thomas'
And as we all adjust our confidence
Still in you I trust.
In you I trust
In you I must
I trust you more each day.
You seem to mean exactly what you say.
Friend and lover, lovely friend
Someone
Who I'll trust until the end.
So it's true, I do believe
That you really have nothing up your sleeve.
It feels so good to just love someone
I do, in you I trust.
In you I trust
In you I must
I do, I trust in you
When all is done, you are my one true blue
Everyone needs one sure thing
Someone

Life has a billion problems
Try as you might to solve them
You won't resolve them all tonight. Relax, it's not
your fault.
You're such a fancy dancer.
Problems are what you make them.
You've got to take them with a glass of wine and a
grain of salt.
you gotta
Get Outta Yourself
Get Outta Yourself
Get Outta Yourself
And get into someone.
Let yourself loose
Let yourself be
Let yourself see
Outside of yourself
Don't hide in yourself
Get outta yourself
And get into me.
Start lookin' out the window
Stop lookin' in the mirror
Thing'll look clearer if you give your brain the whole
night off.
You're not a desert island.
Sure not a Rob'nson Crusoe
I'm into you so if you lose your mind you'll find right
you gotta
Get Outta Yourself
Get Outta Yourself
Get Outta Yourself
And get into someone.
Let yourself loose
Let yourself be
Let yourself see
That side o' yourself
That pride in yourself
And get into me.
Get Outta Yourself
Get Outta Yourself
Get Outta Yourself
Get Outta Yourself
Up is the new direction.
Love is the new sensation.
More contemplation and you'll find you don't know how
to walk.
you gotta
Get Outta Yourself
Get Outta Yourself
Get Outta Yourself
And get into someone.
Let yourself loose
Let yourself be
Let yourself see
Outside of yourself
Don't hide in yourself
Get outta yourself

I was tired of my lady
We'd been together too long
Like a worn-out recording
of a favorite song
So while she lay there sleeping
I read the paper in bed
And in the personal columns
There was this letter I read:
"If you like Pina Coladas
and getting caught in the rain,
If you're not into yoga
If you have half a brain,
If you like making love at midnight
In the dunes of the Cape,
Then I'm the love that you've looked for
Write to me and escape"
I didn't think about my lady
I know I sound kind of mean
But me and my old lady
Have fallen into the same old dull routine
So I wrote to the paper
Took out a personal ad
And though I'm nobody's poet
I thought it wasn't half-bad:
"Yes I like Pina Coladas
and getting caught in the rain,
I'm not much into health food,
I am into champagne
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon
and cut through all this red-tape
at a bar called O'Malley's
where we'll plan our escape"
So I waited with high hopes
And she walked into the place
I knew her smile in an instant
I knew the curve of her face
It was my own lovely lady
And she said, "Oh, it's you"
Then we laughed for a moment
And I said "I never knew"
That you like Pina Coladas
Getting caught in the rain
And the feel of the ocean
And the taste of champagne
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes of the Cape
You're the lady I've looked for

Famous quotes by Rupert Holmes:

"The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV."

"To my knowledge, there's never been a duo of a brash American and a polite Brit and it's kind of an interesting dynamic for a comedy team, ... I think Colin and Kevin could always fall back on that if they have to."

"He read it in a ring binder, ... He said he thought the setting was fascinating, but he also liked the co-dependencies of the characters."

"Kevin was very nice at the Q&A; after the movie. He told the audience to go and get the book,"

"Where the Truth Lies"

"Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize."

"Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death."

"I'd been a cult singer-songwriter generally well-regarded by some of the better vocalists and journalists of the seventies. Suddenly, a mass audience perceived me as a troubadour who'd dedicated his life to extolling the virtues of pineapple-based beverages."

"I grew up watching Burns and Allen on TV. They did some amazing things on the TV show, they did surreal things. Gracie would be conspiring with her neighbor Blanche to put something over on George."

"For me, the most memorable adventures are still the perils that we face daily in life and love, from the mundane to the meaningful. Where the comedy is often at our own expense, but where the drama, even if painful, reminds us that we are living and feeling here in the real time, with the ever-recurring possibility that this latest chapter will end with new understanding, hope and perhaps even happiness."

"In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career."

"I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the characters are living in real time and I've got to keep up with them. It's a miracle they even give me a royalty."

"I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations."

"I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything."