Yeah
(Shotgun)
Peace!
Eh, yeah, eh
Aristocrats on a mountain climb
Makin' money, losin' time
Communism is just a word
But if the government turn over
It'll be the only word that's heard
CHORUS:
America, America
God shed His grace on thee
America, America
Keep the children free
Little sister make minimum wage
Livin' in a one-room jungle monkey cage
Can't get over, she's almost dead
She may not be in the black
But she happy she ain't in the red
CHORUS
Freedom ?Love ?Joy ?Peace
Jimmy Nothing never went 2 school
They made him pledge allegiance
He said it wasn't cool
Nothin' made Jimmy proud
Now Jimmy live on a mushroom cloud
CHORUS {x2}
Freedom ?Love ?Joy ?Peace
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! (Oh Lord, oh Lord)
And the bomb go
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
And the bomb go
Boom!
Some have said,done through history
If you last it's a mistery
But i guess they don't know,what they're talking about
From the mountains down to the sea
You've become such a habit with me
America,A-merher-ica
Well i come from,down around Tennesee
But the people in California
Are nice to me,A-merher-ica
It don't matter where i may roam
Tell you people that it's home sweet home
America,A-merher-ica
Chorus:
And my brothers are all black and white,yellow too
And the red man is right,to expect a little from you
Promise and then follow through,America
And the men,who fell on the planes
And lived,through hardship and pain
America,A-merher-ica
And the men who could not fight
In a war that didn't seem right
You let them come home,A-merher-ica
Chorus.
Well i come from,down around Tennesee
But the people in California
Are nice to me,A-merher-ica
It don't matter where i may roam
Tell you people that it's home sweet home
America,A-merher-ica
America,A-merher-ica
It's home sweet home,A-merher-ica
Far, We've been traveling far, Without a home, But not
without a star
Free, Only want to be free. We huddle close Hang on to a
dream
On the boats and on the planes, They're coming to
America. Never looking back again, They're coming to America.
Home, don't it seem so far away Oh, we're traveling light today In the eye of the storm, In the eye of the storm
Home, to a new and a shiny place. Make our bed, and we'll say our grace, Freedom's light burning warm, Freedom's light burning warm.
Everywhere around the world They're coming to America. Every time that flag's unfurled They're coming to America
Got a dream to take them there; They're coming to
America. Got a dream they've come to share, They're coming to America
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
Today, today, today, today, today
Yo, it's like waking up from a bad dream (Americaaa)
just to figure out you wasn't dreaming in the first place (Nooo...)
If all I saw was gangsters
Coming up as a youngster
Pussy and money the only language I clung to
Claim to, unrolled myself up to become one
Ain't ya happy I chose rap? I'm amongst the
Streets deceiving
Can't believe my achievements
Cultural strata
Persona's that of a non-needer
Because I don't need nada except for Prada beaver
For cold winters, tattoos got my summer's sleeveless
To my G's on the flee from the coppers (coppers)
Stiff bodies on freeze in funeral parlors (parlors)
From the slums I come up a phoenix
Caked up, tryin' to take what I'm eating
Came up a dismissive kid (kid)
You lucky if you allowed to witness this
Savvy mouth
While hardly a man's man
Who woulda knew the beach houses and wild parties
Jezebel's and Stella McCartney's?
For years, all that
How could I not be dead?
This old German
Said I was a thug with a knotty head
Looked at my Benz and called that a Nazi sled
With a face like he wonder where I got my bread
Probably all these stones he see
From my shows overseas
From crime to rhyme
My story is I'm from the home of the thieves
America (America), pay attention
Wake up (America)
This is not what you think it is
America (America), pay attention
Wake up (America)
This is not what you think it is
Blessed
The lord is a G, he gotta be
Who's the God of suckers and snitches?
The economy
Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe
Blew a death kiss to Fidel Castro
He'd want me to spit this
Only the strong survive
Nas bear witness
The hypocrisy is all I can see
White cop acquitted for murder
Black cop cop a plea
That type of shit make me stop and think
We in chronic need of a second look of the law books
And the whole race dichotomy
Too many rappers, athletes, and actors
But not enough niggas in NASA
Who give you the latest dances, trends, and fashion?
But when it comes to residuals, they look past us
Woven into the fabric, they can't stand us
Even in white tee's, blue jeans, and red bandannas
America (America) pay attention
Wake up (America)
This is not what you think it is
America (America)
Pay attention (America)
This is not what you think it is
America (America)
(This is not what you think it is)
Assassinations
Diplomatic relations
Killed indigenous people
Built a new nation
Involuntary labor
Took a knife split a woman naval
Took her premature baby
Let her man see you rape her
If I could travel to the 1700's
I'd push a wheelbarrow full of dynamite
Through your covenant
Love to sit in on the Senate
And tell the whole government
Y'all don't treat women fair
She read about herself in the bible
Believing she the reason sin is here
You played her, with an apron
Like, "Bring me my dinner, dear."
She the nigger here
Ain't we in the free world?
Death penalty in Texas kill young boys and girls
Barbarity, I'm in the double-R casualty
Bugging how I made it out the hood, dazzle me
How far we really from third world savagery
When the empire fall, imagine how crazy that'll be
America (America, America)
America (America)
(This is not what you think it is)
America (America ohhh)
This is not what you think it is
I'm in a car
And I'm over you
I'm a passenger
And I'm over you
I'm looking for
America
I'm looking for
You
I'm in a glasshouse
And I'm over you
I'm thin, far too thin
And I'm over you
I'm in a corner
And I'm over you
I'm old, far too old
And I'm over you
This is America
POD and Santana live in La Casa
Live and direct for you and yours
Yo America, America
Was it the way that she looked at me
She had caught my eye
She stole my heart she freed my mind
The way we loved it was magical
Truly wonderful
It was me and your so beautiful
And I know that you feel this too
Will our dreams come true
I believe in you
Show me the way to my better days
What's the price to pay
If I follow you
America, America
Will you come back to me baby please don't away don´t let me go
America, America
Can you get back to me baby don't run away I need you so
I trust in you still you walk away
You just ran away
I thought our love would never change
The way you move had me hypnotized
Now I realize
I fell again the same old lies
Plans you change the present rearranged
If we don't know the path the future we can't attain
So I maintain, dealt my hands so I deal with it
Know what is truth myself
anita
puerto rico
my heart's devotion
let it sink back in the ocean
always the hurricanes blowing
always the population growing
and the money owing
and the sunlight streaming
and the natives steaming
i like the island manhattan
smoke on your pipe
and put that in!
girls
i like to be in america
okay by me in america
everything free in america
bernardo
for a small fee in america
anita
buying on credit is so nice
bernardo
one look at us and they charge twice
rosalia
i have my own washing machine
indio
what will you have not to keep clean?
anita
skyscrapers bloom in america
rosalia
cadillacs zoom in america
teresita
industry boom in america
boys
twelve in a room in america
anita
lots of new housing with more space
bernardo
lots of doors slamming in our face
anita
i'll get a terrace apartment
bernardo
better get rid of your accent
anita
life can be bright in america
boys
if you can fight in america
girls
life is all right in america
boys
if you're a white in america
girls
here you are free and you have pride
boys
long as you stay on your own side
girls
free to be anything you choose
boys
free to wait tables and shine shoes
bernardo
everywhere grime in america
organized crime in america
terrible time in america
anita
you forget i'm in america
bernardo
i think i'll go back to san juan
anita
i know a boat you can get on
bernardo
everyone there will give big cheer!
anita
Let us be lovers
We'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes
And Mrs. Wagner's Pies
And walked on, walked on, walked on
To look for America
'Kathy,' I said as we boarded a Greyhound to Pittsburg,
'Michigan seems like a dream to me now'
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
All gone to look for America
All gone to look for America
Laughing on the bus
Playing games with the faces
She said the man in the Gabardine suit was a spy
I said, 'Be carefull his bow tie is really a camera.'
Kathy I'm lost I said
Although I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and I'm aching
And I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America
America, hot as hell, hysterical, cast your spell
The endless road, another night to bend your mind
White line fever, I think that state patrol car's still behind
America, cold as death, up to Canada, Crystal Meth
Another West Coast turnaround and back to start
Yakima Reservation, just another broken heart
America, liked it fine, Sinsemilla, Ripple Wine
Another Schoolgirl with her daddy's Pontiac
Another killer from the wrong side of the tracks
America, fast cars
America, the girls, the bars
America, don't make no fuss
Where do you live?Where do you eat?
Do you still live on Semaphore Street?
The children we were have grown into us
You in a car and me in a bus
How do you know you'll recognize me?
I'm not too clear, but I'm easy to see
Moving alone through the fossilized crowd
People in motion who feel so loud, yeah
I gave America your name and she taped it on the sea
I gave America your kiss and she blew it over me
What ya see
How do you know when you've gone too far?
Look in the mirror, that's where you are
People go by on their legs and their hands
Bury their heads in the evening sands
I gave America my blood and she drank it gratefully
I told America her weight and she said you'd wait for me
All of me
Someone like you impresses my head
Maybe it's true I'm not totally dead
This is goodbye, yeah, I've said it before
This time you're not gonna see me no more, well
I gave America her head and she fired it at me
I gave America her mouth and she turned it on to me
I gave America her heart and it's beating over me
Albuquerque will be there in the morning
Purple mountains will rise up from the floor
After that you can just lift up the curtain
And the whole world will be there at your door
Down the road you see the heat waves a waving
All the signs are telling you where to go
And for you, this is a bold invitation
It's all you need, you don't need any more
Those wheels are turning once again
Now the sun is rising out of the ocean
Diesel trucks are flying by on the shore
Yes that's your spirit inside you just waiting
It's time to move, now that much you must know
Step outside and take a breath of the morning (step outside the door)
And the wind will tell you which way to go
You are the needle on the compass for certain
The missing map has come back to your door
Those wheels are turning once again
Thunder in the canyon waking up the night (waking up the night)
Black crow with an indigo glow on the highway
Albuquerque will be there in the morning
Purple mountains will rise up from the floor
After that you can just lift up that curtain
And the whole world will be there at your door
Those wheels are turning once again
Thunder in the canyon waking up the night (waking up the night)
Black crow with an indigo glow on the highway
Barking in the canyon waking up the night
Black crow with an indigo glow on the highway
Those wheels are turning once again
Life today is frittered away
You've got to simplify
Each in our own way, we live for today
And never know why
To stand in the road
And feel the wind blow
Across the sands of time
'Cause that's the simple life
You know I'd like to make it mine
Take your cars and your bars
And trade 'em all in for a nice wood fire
At the end of the day I know you will say
You couldn't get much higher
To stand in the road
And feel the wind blow
Across the sands of time
'Cause that's the simple life
You know I'd like to make it mine
To stand in the road
And feel the wind blow
Across the sands of time
'Cause that's the simple life
You know I'd like to make it mine
You know I'd like to make it mine
You know I'd like to make it mine
Why do you laugh at me when you know I really care
You sometimes act as though I'm not even there
And yet if you did to me the things I do to you
I would surely say we're through
Don't you know that I love you
I was hoping you'd love me too
Don't you know that I love you
Love you
If I seem to you indifferent once or twice
It's because I was feelin' quite that way
And the time I hung up the phone and didn't speak again
Well, it's funny to look back then
Didn't I love you, love you
Didn't I love you all the time
Didn't you need me, need me
Wasn't it a long hard climb
Don't you know that I love you
I was hoping you'd love me too
Don't you know that I love you
Watership Down, gather around
There's a story to be told
It's for the young and for the old
You might hear them in the distance
If your ear's to the ground
Whisper it loud, carry the sound
Of the footsteps alone
When they're heading for home
Through the raining of the dangers
And the grayness of the dawn
I can feel there's better days
Well, they're comin', they're comin'
I can see them through the haze
So can you
Watership Down, gather around
There's a story to be told
It's for the young and for the old
You might hear them in the distance
If your ear's to the ground
I can feel there's better days
Well, they're comin', they're comin'
I can see them through the haze
So can you
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Watership Down, gather around
There's a story to be told
It's for the young and for the old
You might hear them in the distance
If your ear's to the ground
Whisper it loud, carry the sound
Of the footsteps alone
When they're heading for home
Through the raining of the dangers
And the grayness of the dawn
I can feel there's better days
Well, they're comin', they're comin'
I can see them through the haze
So can you
Chewing on a piece of grass
Walking down the road
Tell me, how long you gonna stay here, Joe?
Some people say this town don't look good in snow
You don't care, I know
Ventura Highway in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger than moonshine
You're gonna go I know
'Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair
And the days surround your daylight there
Seasons crying no despair
Alligator lizards in the air, in the air
Did di di di dit ...
Wishin' on a falling star
Waitin' for the early train
Sorry boy, but I've been hit by purple rain
Aw, come on, Joe, you can always
Change your name
Thanks a lot, son, just the same
Ventura Highway in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger than moonshine
You're gonna go I know
'Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair
And the days surround your daylight there
Seasons crying no despair
Alligator lizards in the air, in the air
Well, she said all along, I'm her one
A little fingernail polish, chewin' gum
Her round the world heart made of platinum, that's right
She looks like a China doll baby, especially in white
A tropicana flower in the candlelight
She turned into a pumpkin pie, sweet kiss at midnight
She moves, oh so fine
She's like a perfect valentine
She's not one to fall in love
She's too high on the stars above at night
She wants to be your red-hot mama, all alone
She dances with the boys on the telephone
She makes a lotta noise in the quiet zone at night
Yeah, you talk about a party at the beach, ain't that grand
She just took a raincheck with another man
Who lay on the deck of his catamaran some night
She moves, oh so fine
She's like a perfect valentine
She's not one to fall in love
She's too high on the stars above at night
Well, I can't tell you much, but what I know (what I know)
You can't take her with you when it's time to go
'Cause she knows where it's at with a Romeo, you'll see
She moves, oh so fine
She's like a perfect valentine
She's not one to fall in love
She's too high on the stars above at night
She moves
Just like a perfect valentine
She's not one to fall in love
Unconditional love
Unconditional fear
Unconditional support
In your time of need
Oo, it's unconditionally true
Oo, it's unconditionally me
Unconditionally you
It's a spiritual world
When the darkness comes
But you gotta hold your head up
Hold your head up high
Oo, you got to take a look around
Oo, and listen when you hear the sound
Unconditional love (love)
This is right, this I know
I found out, long time ago
Someday baby we'll get there I know, oh, oh
Unconditional love
Unconditional hope
Unconditional desire
To have it work out fine
Oo, it's unconditionally true
These things we're dreamin' of
Oo, it's unconditionally yours
Unconditional love (love)
Oo, it's unconditionally true
These things we're dreamin' of
Oo, it's unconditionally yours
Unconditional love (love)
Alright,
Say yea (yea) ...
Shake it up, baby (shake it up, baby)
Twist and shout (twist and shout)
C'mon c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, baby (come on baby)
Come on and work it on out (work it on out)
You know you're lookin' so good (look so good)
You know you look so fine (look so fine)
Come on and twist a little closer (twist a little closer)
And let me know that you're mine (know you're mine)
Well, shake it, shake it, shake it, baby (shake it up, baby)
Shake it, shake it, shake it, baby, now (shake it up, baby)
Shake it, shake it, shake it, baby (shake it up, baby)
Ah ...
Baby (shake it up, baby)
Twist and shout (twist and shout)
C'mon c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, baby, now (come on baby)
Come on and work it on out (work it on out)
You know you look so good (look so good)
You know you look so fine (look so fine)
Come on and twist a little closer (twist a little closer)
And let me know that you're mine (let me know you're mine)
Shake it, shake it, shake it, baby (shake it up, baby)
Well, shake it, shake it, shake it, baby (shake it up, baby)
Well, shake it, shake it, shake it, baby, now (shake it up, baby)
Everybody say yea (yea) ...
Well, shake it, shake it, baby (shake it up, baby)
Twist and shout (twist and shout)
C'mon c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, baby, now (come on baby)
Come on and work it on out (work it on out)
You know you work it on out (work it on out)
You know you look so good (look so good)
You know you got me going (got me going)
Just like I knew that you would (knew you would)
Shake it up, baby (shake it up, baby)
Well, shake it, shake it up, baby, now (shake it up, baby)
Shake it, shake it, shake it, baby (shake it up, baby)
Shake it, shake it, baby, now (shake it up, baby)
Stereo, we hear both sides, we sympathize
We live our lives in stereo
The left and the right, the dark and the light
We wrestle with the balance
We change our tone, we leave our phone
And tape record our absence in lovin' memory
Stereo, we're livin' it in stereo
We fix it so our love is high fidelity
Mix it so we never lose the melody
We try to equalize our lives in stereo
So on we go from side to side
As we divide a single life in stereo
The far and the wide, we override
The feedback from the others
The unkind phrase, we lock in phase
We're only really listening to the stereo
Stereo, we're livin' it in stereo
We tune it till we have a perfect parody
Commune with such a fine-cut, crystal clarity
It seems to symbolize our lives in stereo
Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Laa, laa, laa, laa, laa, laa)
Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Laa, laa, laa, laa, laa, laa)
(Laa, laa, laa, laa)
Stereo, stereo
We fix it so our love is high fidelity
Mix it so we never lose the melody
We try to equalize our lives in stereo
Stereo, stereo
We fix it so our love is high fidelity
Mix it so we never lose the melody
Here I am, there you are
Who would believe we could come this far
We're beneath this magic moon
The ocean plays it's own sweet tune
The summer breeze it whispers low
It tells us something we both know
Tonight is for dreamers
Tonight someone up there has seen us
How we feel for each other
There could be no other
So he sent these words from above
Tonight is for falling in love
Tonight there's magic in the air
Look around, it's everywhere
Hear the sand birds bill and coo
Actin' like they know it too
Hear the wind pass through the trees
Like it's tellin' everyone it sees
Tonight is for dreamers
Tonight someone up there has seen us
How we feel for each other
There could be no other
So he sent these words from above
Tonight is for falling in love
There can't have ever been such a night
I don't want it to end
With you in my arms girl I feel so high
Hell, I don't ever want to descend
Tonight is for dreamers
Tonight someone up there has seen us
How we feel for each other
There could be no other
So he sent these words from above
(I love you)
Tonight is for dreamers
Tonight someone up there has seen us
And I can't hold you enough
Tonight is for dreamers
Tonight someone up there has seen us
He sent these words from above
Think I'll write a different song
Got a feeling, it might take a long time
Singin' it over again, I can't recall just how it used to be
Voices across the sea
Will she come to me to keep me company
Won't know till the sun comes up again
Gotta take the good with the bad
Sometimes I wish I never had my say
Always goes that way or is it just the way I feel today?
Voices across the way
Will she come to me to keep me company
Won't know till the sun comes up again
Won't know till the sun comes up again
Won't know till the sun comes up again
Won't know till the sun comes up again
Won't know till the sun comes up again
These brown eyes of mine
They've been doin' some powerful cryin'
Thinkin' 'bout all those years
That always bring back the tears
Winter's come and gone
And I've been left alone
Now, I'm here home with you
(I'm here home with you)
I do all the things that you do
Then I stop and I look around
I never know, if my feet touch the ground
But oh, baby I know, you're right
Seems like a long, long time
Since I've held you in these arms of mine
Thinkin' 'bout all those years
(Thinkin' 'bout all those years)
That always bring back the tears
The winter's come and gone
And I've been left all alone
But, oh, baby I know, you're right
And now that you're far away
I think of your love
And I'm praying that you're still mine
These brown eyes of mine
They've been doin' some powerful cryin'
Thinkin' 'bout all those years
(Thinkin' 'bout all those years)
That always bring back the tears
Then I stop and I look around
I never know if my feet touch the ground
But oh, baby, I know, you're right
Baby, I know you're right
Twinkle twinkle Christmas star
And the way you're going
Up above the world so high
You're like a diamond glowing
We have traveled from the east
To the star we're going
Gold and frankincense and myrrh
On him we'll be bestowing
If the clouds should fill the sky
We'd surely find our way
Baby Jesus sleeping where he lay
He's the star, the star, the star
He's the star, the star, the star
Would you be a wise one too
And follow the star as we do
And he will surely guide your way
Through this life and the next he'll lead you
If the clouds should fill the sky
You'll surely find your way
With Jesus king of all that he surveys
He's the star, the star, the star
The star (the star), the star (the star), the star
He's the star (the star), the star (the star), the star (will you follow)
The star (the star), the star (the star), the star (will you follow)
He's the star (the star), the star (the star), the star (will you follow)
The star (the star), the star (the star), the star (will you follow)
When the last eagle flies over the last crumbling mountain
And the last lion roars at the last dusty fountain
In the shadow of the forest though she may be old and worn
They will stare unbelieving at the last unicorn
When the first breath of winter through the flowers is icing
And you look to the north and a pale moon is rising
And it seems like all is dying and would leave the world to mourn
In the distance hear the laughter of the last unicorn
I'm alive, I'm alive
When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning
And the future has passed without even a last desperate warning
Then look into the sky where through the clouds a path is torn
Look and see her how she sparkles, it's the last unicorn
Written by Russ Ballard and Dewey Bunnell
You must be lost in a faraway land
I searched forever your footprints in the sand
I feel you need me, I have to answer
That desperate call that I do not understand
A burning bridge, a lonely highway
Another dark night thinking alone
What could've happened, am I just dreaming
It doesn't matter but there's one thing that I know
If I could make it to the border
If I could make it to the coast
If I could make it to the border
I'd be in the arms of the girl I love the most
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Make it to the border
So on and on I keep on running
To make the border before the light
Just one more river, then I can make it
Again you'll be in my arms tonight
If I could make it to the border
If I could make it to the coast
If I could make it to the border
I'd be in the arms of the girl I love the most
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Make it to the border
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Make it to the border
If I could make it to the border
If I could make it to the coast
If I could make it to the border
I'd be in the arms of the girl I love the most
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Make it to the border
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Make it to the border
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Make it to the border
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Sometimes there are teardrops across your face
Sometimes there are rainbows in the same place
And I don't know which way to turn
Sometimes lovers don't act like they should
And sometimes lovers don't do all they could
Sometimes lovers hide in the cover
Of innocence and blame
I know sometimes we act just the same
Your heart's in the city, it wears me down
No love, no pity, in this town
And I don't know which way to turn
Sometimes lovers don't act like they should
And sometimes lovers don't do all they could
Sometimes lovers hide in the cover
Of innocence and blame
I know baby
Hold on tight to me mama
Tell me what went wrong
I'm alright I will lay beside you
Till the night is gone
Ah, oo ...
Sometimes lovers don't act like they should
And sometimes lovers don't do all they could
Sometimes lovers hide in the cover
Of innocence and blame
Sometimes lovers don't act like they should
Sometimes lovers don't do all they could
Sometimes lovers hide in the cover
I hear you knockin' but you can't come in
You wear your stockings like you think it's a sin
Don't try to tell me you ain't been where you been
'Cause I know that you've been messin' round with him
So slow down
(Bop shoo wop, you'd better slow down)
Come on down
(Bop shoo wop, you'd better slow down)
Oh down
(Bop shoo wop, you'd better slow down)
Before it gets too late
Before it gets too late
I met you dancin' at the high school gym
You rubbed against me my head started to spin
You turned around gave me a wink and a grin
And then you told me that you'd like to be friends
Don't slow down
(Bop shoo wop, you'd better slow down)
Don't slow down
(Bop shoo wop, you'd better slow down)
Don't slow down
(Bop shoo wop, you'd better slow down)
Don't slow down
Before it gets too late
Before it gets too late
Take it!
(Bop shoo wop, you'd better slow down)
On down
(Bop shoo wop, you'd better slow down)
On down
(Bop shoo wop, you'd better slow down)
Don't try to tell me
(Bop shoo wop, you'd better slow down)
You'll never sell me
(Bop shoo wop, you'd better slow down)
Before it gets too late
I said before it gets too late
You know before it gets too late
I was on a sleeper train
Bound for anywhere
And I was gazin' out the window
In a long stare
Watchin' the sage brush go by
And a pink and yellow sky
Thinkin' 'bout your eyes
Feelin' good to be alive
I was dreamin' of you
Feelin' lucky
I was dreamin' of you
Feelin' lucky
And I was watchin' the towns drift into view
Listenin' to my thoughts of you
And the rhythm of the wheels
And the shadows on the hills
Leavin' one more life behind
Never knowin' what I'd find
Such a distant great expanse
And the dust-devils, they dance
And I was dreamin' of you
Feelin' lucky
I was dreamin' of you
Feelin' lucky
Abandon everything that went before
Ahead now lies another open door
Abandon everything that went before
I was on a sleeper train
Bound for anywhere
And I was gazin' out the window
In a long stare
Watchin' the sage brush go by
And a pink and yellow sky
Thinkin' 'bout your eyes
Feelin' good to be alive
I was dreamin' of you
Feelin' lucky
I was dreamin' of you
Feelin' lucky
I was dreamin' of you
Feelin' lucky
I was dreamin' of you
Feelin' lucky
Do wop, do wop ...
You've got to give, you've got to live
You've got to show everyone that you know
Till you know she's beside you
Till you know she's beside you
You've got to shout all about
You've got to tell everyone that you know
Till you know she's beside you
Till you know she's beside you
'Cause I know just how it feels
To find that love is real, so real
You've got to shout all about
You've got to tell everyone that you know
Till you know she's beside you
Till you know she's beside you
'Cause I know just how it feels
To find that love is real, so real
You've got to give, you've got to live
You've got to show everyone that you know
Till you know she's beside you
Till you know she's beside you
Till you know she's beside you
Till you know she's beside you
Yesterday she stood here with me
I kissed her mouth, I had her in my hands
That kind of love, it could last forever
And together we made our plans
And then I woke up today
There on the table her letter lay
Tellin' me she's goin' away
Runaway, boy, have you seen a
Girl like an angel, runnin' in the night?
She's run away, boy, if you see her
I'm beggin' you to stop her on sight
If you see her tonight then stop her on sight
She's a runaway, a runaway
And why she'd leave? I still can't believe
That she would run away, run away
Run away, run away
She's a runaway
I walked the streets through the heart of the city
Go to the places where she might be
I see her friends they say it's a pity
I get the same thing from everyone that I see
I'll keep searchin' if it's gotta be
And when I find her I'll make her see
No other man could love her like me
Runaway, boy, have you seen a
Girl like an angel, runnin' in the night?
She's run away, boy, if you see her
I'm beggin' you to stop her on sight
If you see her tonight then stop her on sight
She's a runaway, a runaway
And why she'd leave? I still can't believe
That she would run away, run away
Run away, run away
She's a runaway
Run away, run away
If you see her tonight then stop her on sight
She's a runaway, a runaway
And why she'd leave? I still can't believe
That she would run away, run away
If you see her tonight then stop her on sight
She's a runaway, a runaway
And why she'd leave? I still can't believe
That she would run away, run away
Run away, run away
Every day I sit beside you
On the bus to Madison Avenue
Work in the big gray store
With the revolving doors
You don?t even know my name
I guess that I?m to blame
Don?t know the right things to say
So I pretend away
That I?m Rudolph Valentino
Pull up in my limousine
Oh, won?t you come in out of the rain
Things?ll never be the same
And then just like Greta Garbo
You stare like there?s no tomorrow
And you?ll know what I?m thinking of
Right before your eyes, I fall in love with you
Do, do, do
Today I?m done with games
(Today I?m done with games)
Gonna ask you for your name
Say I?ve been watching you
I even know what you do
Maybe today, I?ll tell you
(Maybe today, I?ll tell you)
I?ve found the nerve to sell you
On a guy like me
Who wishes that he could be
Your Rudolph Valentino
Pull up in my limousine
Oh, won?t you come in out of the rain
Things?ll never be the same
And then just like Greta Garbo
You stare like there?s no tomorrow
And you?ll know what I?m thinking of
Right before your eyes, I fall in love with you
Do, do, do
Right before your eyes, I fall in love with you
Right before my eyes, you?ll say you love me too
Rudolph Valentino
I pull up in my limousine
Oh, won?t you come in out of the rain
Things?ll never be the same
And then just like Greta Garbo
You stare like there?s no tomorrow
And you?ll know what I?m thinking of, ooh
Window frames a picture of winter time
Within my room
Sometimes then I laugh at the funny times
We had in school
Blowing leaves, broken dreams
Seventeen, dancing queen, dancing queen
I am asleep on a rainbow
Hiding from the wake of the tide
I am asleep on a rainbow
Hoping for the rest of the ride
Can you feel it moving inside of you?
Can you let it go?
The purple ghost of England in winter time
And who I used to know
Blowing leaves, broken dreams
Seventeen, dancing queen, dancing queen
I am asleep on a rainbow
Hiding from the wake of the tide
I am a sleep on a rainbow
Hoping for the rest of the ride
Blowing leaves, broken dreams
Seventeen, dancing queen, dancing queen
I am asleep on a rainbow
Hiding from the wake of the tide
I am asleep on a rainbow
Hoping for the rest of the ride
Blowing leaves, broken dreams
Seventeen, dancing queen, dancing queen
I am asleep on a rainbow
Hiding from the wake of the tide
I am asleep on a rainbow
Hoping for the rest of the ride
I am asleep on a rainbow
Hiding from the wake of the tide
I am asleep on a rainbow
I can't help thinkin' as those ships sail away
What sirens beckon and call
How long at sea this time how long between
The ports-of-call, ports-of-call
Under the bridge they move to far off lands
Maybe Australia or North African sands
Complete the mission, supply and demand
To ports-of-call, ports-of-call
And everyday as the sun is setting
Along the bay city lights appear
Snake charmers sway while the smoke is rising
Time is growing near
When they'll be casting off anchor as they sail away
Into the morning light
Rising and falling thru the blue and gray
To ports-of-call, ports-of-call
And everyday as the sun is setting
Along the bay city lights appear
Snake charmers sway while the smoke is rising
Time is growing near
And everyday as the sun is setting
Along the bay city lights appear
Snake charmers sway while the smoke is rising
Time is growing near
I'll take the chance this time to change my world (change my world)
And break those ties that bind (ties that bind)
Far from those people passing through my life
Like ports-of-call, ports-of-call
Under the bridge I'll move to far off lands (far off lands)
Maybe Australia or North African sands (North African sands)
Complete my mission, hope you understand
Ports-of-call, ports-of-call
Ports-of-call, ports-of-call
Some came down to hang out by the river
Others were waiting to find the night
We stood long just waiting for the picture
Looking at people to see what was right
Soon came the people
From over in the valley
Hundreds of them walking
Towards us in the rain
Then we turned around
And hid out in the alley
Met along the stones
Down Tomorrow Day Lane
Take away the road and no one will remember
How many journeys we hedged in the stone
Friends around will take away the wonder
Sharing a moment of being alone
Soon came the people
From over in the valley
Hundreds of them walking
Towards us in the rain
And we turned around
And hid out in the alley
Met along the stones
Down Tomorrow Day Lane
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ...
Paradise
Caught between the
Fire and the ice
No need to
Think twice
It's where I want
To be
Like a weather vane
Following the
wind, the sun
and rain
The ecstasy
and pain
and all that
comes between
Cause in the morning
summer breezes
will be coming
my way
Then in the evening
unbelieving
I'll be ready to say
That I am living
here in Paradise
Balancing the
darkness with
the light
Silencing the fight
Ahead is
all I see
Like a golden chain
Wrapped around the
laughter
and the pain
Silencing the blame
Let it all break free
Then in the morning
summer breezes
will be coming
my way
And in the evening
unbelieving
I'll be ready to say
That we're all
living here in
Paradise
And though the sun
will fade away
they say
there's so
much more to
fill a day
So be a
weather vane
following
the wind,
the sun,
and rain
The ecstasy
and pain
and all that
comes between
Cause in the morning
summer breezes
will be coming
your way
Then in the evening
unbelieving
You'll be
ready to say
That we're all
living here in
Paradise
in Paradise
Paradise
Living here in
Paradise
Between the
fire and the ice
In Paradise
between the
fire and the ice
in Paradise
In Paradise
In Paradise
In this bookcase full of stories
You find some of them are true
Tales of love and glory
Many lives of daring-do
There is mystery and adventure
They lie waiting there for you
So step inside and find the other you
Take the high road tomorrow
But the low road today
Reading other's sorrow
Might just be the only way
The father hears confession
While the mother's feeling blue
These characters do what you want them to
In these pages we consume
Lives in many colors lovers in full bloom
And through the ages words are born
Speaking to the senses lifting the forlorn
There's glamour and dementia
A message from the tomb
Staircase to the heavens
And secrets in the room
When you are riding on that dark horse
To the one that got away
There's no regrets and no dues left to pay
'Cause in these pages we consume
Lives in many colors lovers in full bloom
And through the ages words are born
Speaking to the senses lifting the forlorn
Drifting down the river of the make believe
We laugh and grieve
Hoping for an ending of our own design
Where all is fine
In these pages we consume
Lives in many colors lovers in full bloom
And through the ages words are born
Speaking to the senses lifting the forlorn
In these pages we consume
Lives in many colors lovers in full bloom
Spectators line the avenue
The players step out right on cue
And every night just seems the same
Nameless faces play their game
The midnight gamblers place their bets
The tight-rope walkers check their nets
Then comes the queen of broken hearts
This is the way it always starts
Finders find love for the evening
Keepers keep the love they've found
Losers lose and wind up weeping
But it's the only game in town
All hail the third string debutante
She tries to act so nonchalant
Chasing the prince of alibis
Into a smokescreen made of lies
Finders find love for the evening
Keepers keep the love they've found
Losers lose and wind up weeping
But it's the only game in town
My window looks down on the set
Each night the players strut and fret
So if you'd like to join the rest
Just choose the part that suits you best
Finders find love for the evening
Keepers keep the love they've found
Losers lose and wind up weeping
But it's the only game in town
Finders find love for the evening
Keepers keep the love they've found
Losers lose and wind up weeping
But it's the only game in town
Finders find love for the evening
Keepers keep the love they've found
I hear a car, I hope it's yours
I hear the phone, I hope it's you
It seems I spend most half my life waiting
For the things I'll never do
When you were here, in love with me
There was so much (so much, so much) I couldn't see
And I watched you home believing
That you would never leave
Now I can't stand to be without you
I'm burning for one more kiss
I dream every night about you
Sometimes I'm on target, sometimes I seem to miss you
Night after night I lie awake
Wond'ring how long it's gonna take
Till I hold you close beside me
And share the love we make
'Cause I can't stand to be without you
I can't take much more of this
I dream every night about you
Sometimes I'm on target, sometimes I seem to miss you
Ah, oh baby turn your heart around
Ah, (oo) baby turn your heart around
Di, di, di, di, di, di
Ah, (come back, da, da, da) baby turn your heart around (oh)
(Who'm I gonna run to) Di, di, di, di, di, di
Ah, (come back, da, da, da) let me turn your heart around (oh)
(Who'm I gonna run to) Di, di, di, di, di, di
Ah, (come back, da, da, da) baby turn your heart around (oh)
Hey, honey, won't you sit down
And stop here for a spell
Singin' the sweet old lullabies
To forget about your health
Don't think about tomorrow
It's a whole night's sleep away
Sure would be pleased to have you stay
And it's reach out old Virginia
Won't you rock him close to you
The poor boy's had a hotel so long
He don't know what to do
It's time to come on home
And put your feet up for a while
So much travlin' 'round tends to take away your smile
'Pears to me it's all a body can do to stay in tune
And you've been strainin' at those strings
From mornin' till noon
So come on down and hang around
It'll put you right real soon
'Cause nothing's changed
It's all the same
Reach out old Virginia
Won't you rock him close to you
The poor boy's had a hotel so long
He don't know what to do
It's time to come on home
And put your feet up for a while
So much travlin' 'round can take away your smile
Reach out old Virginia
Won't you rock him close to you
The poor boy's had a hotel so long
He don't know what to do
It's time to come on home
And put your feet up for a while
For the last time
I watched old man took bait his hook
And then throw his line
Pick up his wine
He's a friend of mine
Known him all my life and his wife
'Neath the swayin' pine and the clingin' vine
Just before he left
He said, "Now young man
Take good care, don't let the bugs bite
Please make sure to say a word at night
For all your brothers feeling blue, blue, blue, blue all the time"
So I stayed awhile
Took my tea alone, called it home
Like a playing child
Running wild
Heard a blue jay call
Said we got you now, hope you bow
To the old man's word, I'm sure you heard
Just before he left
He said, "Now young man
Take good care, don't let the bugs bite
Please make sure to say a word at night
For all your brothers feeling blue, blue, blue, blue, all the time"
Now young man
Take good care, don't let the bugs bite
Please make sure to say a word at night
For all your brothers feeling blue
Feeling blue
Feeling blue
Feeling blue
Feeling blue
Feeling blue
Feeling blue
Feeling blue
We are walking
We move mountains
We want you to want us
But what can we do
She sits alone as she sews
Pierce the grey valiant
I search for zero
Here lies what she wore
Guess I never had enough
Out with the blue book
Yes that I make up our minds
Now Sue it gets more and more, make up our minds
Now Sue it gets more and more, make up our minds
Now Sue it gets more and more
We are walking
We move mountains
We want you to want us
But what can we do
They sit in darkness as they sew
He who breaks the rules and there you are
Such a dark evening
Maker of what it ain't and is
May I ask no other guests
They are in belief that I lost their faith
The day that I arrived
Make up our minds
Now Sue it gets more and more, make up our minds
Now Sue it gets more and more, make up our minds
Now Sue it gets more and more, make up our minds
Now Sue it gets more and more
We were dancin' in the middle
We could hardly hold our heads up
I think we had too much to drink
I remember wondering what they'd think
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da
We were thinkin' 'bout the future
We were trying not to laugh
Then you made me cry instead
I remember wishing I was dead
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da
No fortune pays for wounds like these
It's been too long a time now please
Just say you will, we can call it a day
It's not as though we ain't sinned
It's just a game we all play
There was nothing to win
Well I'm coming home lady
I'm your homecoming man
Trying hard to stand the rain
Gettin' back on my feet again
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da
No fortune pays for wounds like these
It's been too long a time now please
Just say you will, we can call it a day
It's not as though we ain't sinned
It's just a game we all play
There was nothing to win
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da
No fortune pays for wounds like these
It's been too long a time now please
Just say you will, we can call it a day
It's not as though we ain't sinned
It's just a game we all play
There was nothing to win
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da
I've been in love, girl
So many times before
They'd love me and leave me
I thought I knew the score
I'd fall in love no more
I was walking in shadows then
My life a lonely road, I was walking to nowhere
With a heavy loaded heart
To laugh I played the part
(Do, do, do)
Then came that magic day
I saw you as you walked my way
Here she comes, my kinda woman
Here she comes, my kinda woman
Yeah, you're my kinda woman
And I can't help but tell you that you are
Yes, you know you are
Girl, you know you are
(Yes you are, you know you are, you know you are)
The longer together then, the more we fell in love
No makin' or breakin' up, now I know I found real love
And I can't get enough
(Ooh, I love you, I really love you)
So good to be winnin' now, I never thought I'd do
You got me spinnin', honey it's all down to you
You're there to see me through
(Ooh, I love you, I really love you, yes I love you)
(Do, do, do)
And from just one kiss
Who would believe that it would be like this
Here she comes, my kinda woman
Here she comes, my kinda woman
Yeah, you're my kinda woman
And I can't help but tell you that you are
Yes, you know you are
Girl, you know you are
(Yes you are, you know you are, you know you are)
My kinda woman, I know that this is really love
There'll be no breakin' up, oh no
Here she comes, my kinda woman
Here she comes, my kinda woman
Yeah, you're my kinda woman
And I can't help but tell you that you are
Yes, you know you are
Girl, you know you are
(Yes you are, you know you are)
Here in the dawn
As I walk through this dream
As I have done since ages now gone
Shall I read you the letter
They sent postmarked from somewhere out here
It's in Latin, I think, I don't know
Can you help me, my dear
Please, can you help me, my dear
Near to their bed (they never sleep)
They sit sipping their tea, watch the sea
Move the sand through their heads (sit in their chairs by the bay)
Did I show you the marks on the wall
Left by captains now dead (house out on the cove)
They fell fighting for peace in their lives
Or so it is said (still nobody seems to be here)
Please, can you help me, my dear
Please, can you help me, my dear
You can't miss it
A blue forest on a green sky
You must risk it
Don't ignore us if you want us to
If we want us to survive
Where will I be (can't you help me to find my way)
After watching them walking the pier
At the mouth of the sea (I've been lost for so long)
They're in love with the news
And don't show if they're living in fear (still nobody seems to be here)
They eat ice cream alone
Watch the waves at the end of the pier (ah, nobody seems to hear)
Please, can you help me, my dear
There was a time I knew
All that there was to know
No one could tell me then
I was wrong
I wasn't strong enough
To see where my weakness lay
The world that you hold so tight
Could slip away
And from moment to moment
Your life can change
There's a storm over the horizon
A sea no one can see
Somewhere around the bend
Right when you least expect
Someone can walk away
With no regret
Leaving an empty space
Breaking a sacred trust
All of your shiny dreams
Begin to rust
Yes from moment to moment your life can change
There's a storm over the horizon
The sea you cannot see
Yes from moment to moment
Promise me you'll never change
Promise me you'll stay the same
Promise me you'll never change
Yes from moment to moment your life can change
There's a storm over the horizon
A sea you'll never see
Yes from moment to moment your life can change
There's a light when the sun is rising
A day after today
Promise me you'll never change (promise me you'll never change)
Promise me you'll stay the same (the same)
Promise me you'll never change
Every moment is a shining light
Every moment is the darkest night
Every moment gotta get it right
Every single moment
Every moment is a shining light
Every moment is the darkest night
Every moment gotta get it right
Every moment is a shining light
Every moment is the darkest night
Every moment gotta get it right
Every single moment
Every moment is a shining light
Every moment is the darkest night
Every moment gotta get it right
Every single moment
I haven't seen forever
Don't even know her name
I call on dreams and other schemes
To try and win that game
Now that it's over, darling
Look into my eyes
Seein' your own reflection
Much to your surprise
We're seein' mirror to mirror
Face to face
We look but we cannot see
Mirror to mirror
Seems to trace
What happened to you and me
And though we tried in earnest
The distant silence yells
We call on wings and other things
To try and break that spell
Now that it's over, darling
Truth in the common cause
We stare at our own indifference
By seeing the other's flaws
We're seein' mirror to mirror
Face to face
We look but we cannot see
Mirror to mirror
Seems to trace
What happened to you and me
Oh, mirror to mirror, mirror to mirror
Mirror to mirror, what's come over me
As we look inside, there's nowhere to turn
There's nowhere to hide
Now that it's over, darling
Look into my eyes
Seein' your own reflection
Much to your surprise
We're seein' mirror to mirror
Face to face
We look but we cannot see
Mirror to mirror
Seems to trace
What happened to you and me
Oh, mirror to mirror, mirror to mirror
Mirror to mirror, what's come over me
Mirror to mirror, mirror to mirror
It's a lovely night, it's a lovely night
Well, the sky is clear and the stars are bright
It's a lovely night
I'll go lookin' for the fallin' rain
Keep on movin', keep on playin' that game
Well, let's go lookin' for the fallin' rain
It's a lovely night
(It's a lovely night)
It's a lovely night
(It's a lovely night)
Well, the sky is clear
And the stars, they are bright
It's a lovely night
(It's a lovely night)
I'll go lookin' for the fallin' rain
Keep on movin', keep on playin' that game
Let's go lookin' for the fallin' rain
On this lovely night, this lovely night
On this lovely night
On this lovely night, this lovely night
On this lovely night
Wo ho ho ho, this lovely night
Wo ho ho ho, this lovely night
Wo ho ho ho, this lovely night
When life was just empty rooms
For company I'd talk to the moon
I danced along to my own song
That no one could hear
When nights were silent and dark
I'd lie in shadows, stare at the stars
The quiet voice that lifted my heart
Was always so clear
It told me...
The chance for love comes without warning
So don't stop looking for it
Yeah love comes without warning
So be ready for love
I dreamed it thousands of times
I even felt your skin touchin' mine
Sometimes you were so clear in my mind
I knew you were here
It kept me...
Believin' love comes without warning
So don't stop looking for it
Yeah love comes without warning
So be ready for love
Yours are the eyes
I have spent my life lookin' for
If they're not telling lies
You were lookin' for me
I wanna tell everyone
Who's waitin' in the dark for the sun
Before your chance in life is gone
You'll be in the light
Remember...
The chance of love comes without warning
So don't stop looking for it
Yeah love (always comes) comes without warning
So be ready for love
Your chance for love comes without warning
So don't stop looking for it
Yeah love (always comes) comes without warning
So be ready for love
Your chance for love comes without warning
So don't stop looking for it
Yeah love (always comes) comes without warning
Look up, look down
Gotta find me a hole to hide my head in the ground
Look up, look down
Gettin' tired of my woman runnin' around
Everybody says give her a second chance
But that'll be the seventy-second time in advance
Look up, look down
Gotta get to the ground
Look up, look down
Watch the whole wide world spinnin' around
Look up, look down
Baby find my woman runnin' around
Everybody says give her a second chance
But that'll be the seventy-second time in advance
Look up, look down
Gotta get to the ground
Ra da da da da ....
Look up, look down
Gotta find me a hole to hide my head in the ground
Look up, look down
Gettin' tired of my woman runnin' around
Gettin' tired of my woman runnin' around
Gettin' tired of my woman runnin' around
You have one letter left to send
With no beginning and no end
You saw them in the park, the laughter in the dark
Oh no, how can you face him and pretend?
So now, you thank him carefully, oh no
'Cause that's the way he's going to be, oh no
I hope you find some reason to be free
There is no sunshine in your eyes
You make no sound and yet you cry
It's not the double cross, you feel the love you lost
Oh no, this letter has to say goodbye
So now, you thank him carefully, oh no
'Cause that's the way he's going to be, oh no
I hope you find some reason to be free
You saw them in the park, the laughter in the dark
Oh no, how can you face him and pretend?
So now, you thank him carefully, oh no
'Cause that's the way he's going to be, oh no
She came out of the blue and into my world
She came out of the blue and into my world
I went out of my head over you
She was a lady with a bluebird sleepin' in her chair
She was dreamin' 'bout a girlfriend and wishing she was there
She was a lady with a bluebird
Under the bridge I saw Mercury flow
Between me and you and a fine tooth comb
She came out of the blue and into my world
She was a lady with a bluebird sleepin' in her chair
She was dreamin' 'bout a girlfriend and wishing she was there
She was a lady with a bluebird
I close my eyes, I still see blue
I hear her voice, I'll wait for you
I still see blue
She came out of the blue and into my world
Oh, she came out of the blue and into my world
She was a lady with a bluebird sleepin' in her chair
She was dreamin' 'bout a girlfriend and wishing she was there
Just to think I had her in my hands
To think we made our plans
Somehow it feels just like a dream
For I played it so darn cool
Is there a bigger fool
To say I wanted to be free
'Cause now I know just what she meant to me
Jody, even the wind says your name, girl
When I think of you I'm aflame, girl, everytime
Jody, girl I've tried but I can't forget
The years when we lived together
I thought it would be forever
Jody, I'm beggin' now
Look around but there's no way out
What's it all about
And how that name goes round my head
I still see her face as she laid upon this bed
Jody, even the wind says your name, girl
When I think of you I'm aflame, girl, everytime
Jody, girl I've tried but I can't forget
The years when we lived together
I thought it would be forever
Jody, I'm beggin' now
Just say the word, I'll run to you
I'll be the man you want me to
How I'd miss you I never knew
Jody, even the wind says your name, girl
When I think of you I'm aflame, girl, everytime
Jody, girl I've tried but I can't forget
The years when we lived together
I thought it would be forever
Jody, I'm beggin' now
Even the wind says your name girl
When I think of you I'm aflame, girl
Jody, even the wind says your name, girl
Jet Boy Blue
You steal and you think that it's right
Like a thief in the night
Ah, oh yeah
I'll tell you it's true
You come around with your stories to tell
I don't hold no int'rest
But I let you go
I know you've fallen under his spell
Don't let him kill you
He'll only fill you with lies
You're a fool and you know it
Done your best not to show it
But it's all over
You're through
Jet Boy Blue
He'll only take you for a ride
Only cost you your pride
Jet Boy Blue
Stop, stop while you're still ahead
You've got a lot to learn
You're still so young
Listen to what your mama said
Try to tell you go to hell
You're just a kid
Don't take no advice, you never think twice
Close the door
Jump in, don't mention what you did
Stop, stop while you're still ahead
You've got a lot to learn
You're still so young
Listen to what your mama said
You're a fool and you know it
Done your best not to show it
But it's all over
You're through
Jet Boy Blue
He'll only take you for a ride
Only cost you your pride
Jet Boy Blue
Stop, stop while you're still ahead
You've got a lot to learn
You're still so young
Listen to what your mama said
Jet Boy Blue
You steal and you think that it's right
Like a thief in the night
Wo, Jet, Jet, Jet, Jet Boy Blue
Jet Boy Blue
Jet Boy Blue
Jet Boy Blue
Jet Boy Blue
Jet Boy Blue
Jet Boy Blue
The child breaks each moment of sadness for our sakes
Leaving, trying his best to believe then
Hoping this dream will come true
Sadness is only a face for you
I will try like the devil to bear your names
Anything for you
In only a moment your life can change
Still lake, rocking the boat, it's not too late
Leaving, trying your best to believe then
Hoping this dream will come true
Sadness is only a face for you
I will try like the devil to bear your names
Anything for you
In only a moment your life can change
You fell through the window and down on the floor
You found a direction, you hope will say more
With your life, it's taken every one in view
The people are pretty, the flowers are too
You don't get to heaven if they don't say you do
'Cause it's life and it's taken every one of you
And it's true
I'd like to take you but I don't think there's room for two
I'd like to take, I'd like to take you
I'd like to take, I'd like to take you
I'd like to take, I'd like to take you
I'd like to take, I'd like to take you
Inspector Mills I'd like to tell you 'bout a girl I saw
At a party just the other night in Beverly Hills
Inspector Mills I hope you find her and it don't take long
Watch my feelings for her growing strong in a war of wills
Inspector Mills
I can't attempt to point you in her direction
I didn't see her walking out of the door
If I had taken my time she'd be standing here still
Inspector Mills
I recall once in my life I felt this way before
But I let her go and closed the door, walk away
Inspector Mills I can't attempt to show the hurt in me
And just how much I need the company; search the valleys and the hills
You gotta find her Mr. Mills
I can't attempt to point you in her direction
I was blinded by the look in her eyes
If I had taken my time she'd be sitting here still
Inspector Mills
Oo, someday soon I might be in love with her
Inspector Mills I guess you've taken quite a look around
Guess I've heard the word from underground, she's gone for good
Inspector Mills is it any crime for a fool like me
Try to use your time 'cause I wanna see; you just send me the bill
Inspector Mills, Inspector Mills
I can't attempt to point you in her direction
I didn't see her walking out of the door
If I had taken my time she'd be lying here still
Inspector Mills, Inspector
I can't attempt to point you in her direction
I was blinded by the look in her eyes
We used to laugh, we used to cry
We used to bow our heads then, wonder why
And now you're gone, I guess I'll carry on
And make the best of what you've left to me
Left to me, left to me
I need you like the flower needs the rain
You know I need you, guess I'll start it all again
You know I need you like the winter needs the spring
You know I need you, I need you
And every day, I'd laugh the hours away
Just knowing you were thinking of me
And then it came that I was put to blame
For every story told about me
About me, about me
I need you like the flower needs the rain
You know I need you, guess I'll start it all again
You know I need you, I need you
I need you like the winter needs the spring
You know I need you, guess I'll start it all again
You know I need you, I need you
I need you like the flower needs the rain
You know I need you, guess I'll start it all again
You know I need you, I need you
I need you like the winter needs the spring
You know I need you, guess I'll start it all again
I walk along the road and past your door
Then I remember things you said
I know in time we could've been so much more
But if you wanna come back home, go right ahead
But I don't believe in miracles
I don't believe in miracles
But I thought you might show your face
Or have the grace to tell me where you are
I believe I was your game, your ball (your ball)
If you tossed me up then I would fall
And so you've won again, ah, you win them all
But I believe I'd run to you, if you should call
But I don't believe in miracles (don't believe in miracles)
I don't believe in miracles (don't believe in miracles)
But I thought you might show your face
Or have the grace to tell me where you are (tell me where you are)
I believe that somewhere there's someone
Who's gonna light the way when things go wrong
The bullet that shot me down came from your gun
The words that turned me round were from your song
But I don't believe in miracles (don't believe in miracles)
I don't believe in miracles (don't believe in miracles)
But I thought you might show your face
Or have the grace to tell me where you are (tell me where you are)
But I don't believe in miracles (don't believe in miracles)
I don't believe in miracles (don't believe in miracles)
But I thought you might show your face
Sailin' down the coast of Mexico
With a person I loved since long ago
Into a place nobody wants to go
Into a hurricane
Whoa, hurricane
Some'll be taken
Some'll remain
Heard people screamin' and the sky was torn
I looked around and the faces were so forlorn
No relief, only scorn
In a hurricane
In a hurricane
Some'll be taken
Some'll remain
Hurricane's just another name
For the torment in a man's soul
His mind is gone and he starts to lose control
In a hurricane
Oh, the hurricane
Some'll be taken
Some'll remain
How long will the wind blow?
How long will the wind blow?
Everybody talks and nobody really knows
How long will the wind blow?
How long will the wind blow?
Nobody knows
How long will the wind blow?
How long will the wind blow?
Everybody talks, nobody really knows
How long will the wind blow?
How long must this go on
How long must this go on
I've been walking through my fields of green
I've seen flowers, uh huh, that you've never seen
Blue skies and birds flying high, in the desert
Gee wiz, uh huh, yea, me oh my
I said, how long must this go on
How long must this go on
How long must this go on
Down in this hot town
At some old cafe tonight
You hear the dogs bay
At the green neon light
It's one hundred degrees
But the heat is free
In this hot town
This hot town tonight
And that there candle
Only adds to the heat
As you sit in your t-shirt
Trying to eat
You watch the waitress, you watch the clock on the wall
And the flies in the window climb up just to fall
In this hot town (hot town, hot town)
This hot town tonight (hot town, hot, hot)
Down in this hot town
Don't know no person to call
And this here cafe
Don't serve no beer at all
Out on the sidewalk
It's cooling down for your feet (cooling down, cooling down for your feet)
But the women are still sweaty and sweet (still sweaty, sweaty and sweet)
So you watch the waitress, you watch the clock on the wall
And the flies in the window climb up just to fall
In this hot town (hot town, hot town)
This hot town tonight (hot town, hot, hot)
It's one hundred degrees
But the heat is free
In this hot town (hot town, hot town)
This hot town tonight (hot town, hot, hot)
It's one hundred degrees (oh yeah)
In this hot town (hot town, hot town)
This hot town tonight (hot town, hot, hot)
(Hot town, hot town)
There's a clock timing the world as it turns
There's a man marking the candle as it burns
Keeping track of every minute that remains
Still we hope somehow
It's gonna be alright
It's gonna turn out fine
There's a light shining beyond the southern cross
Burning bright for everyone of us who's lost
More than faith more than a reason to go on
Rise on up knowing
You're gonna win the fight
It's gonna turn out fine
You gotta hope it'll be alright
Come on and hope it'll turn out fine
Yeah, hope it'll be alright, please
When the night turns to the deepest shade of black
At that point there is no reason to turn back
High above angels are falling from the sky
Lift your heart knowing
It's gonna be alright
It's gonna turn out fine
You gotta hope it'll be alright
Come on and hope it'll turn out fine
Yeah, hope it'll be alright, please
You gotta hope, ya gonna win the fight
Come on 'n hope with all your might
Yeah hope it's gonna be alright, please
Millions of people alone in the dark
Awaiting a moment of hope
Please
You gotta hope (Whenever times get tough) it'll be alright
Come on and hope (And when the road is rough) it'll turn out fine
Yeah, hope (Just when you've had enough) it'll be alright, please
You gotta hope (Whenever times get tough) you're gonna win the fight
Come on and hope (And when the road is rough) with all your might
Yeah, hope (Just when you've had enough) it's gonna be alright, please
You gotta hope (Whenever times get tough) it'll be alright
Come on and hope (And when the road is rough) it'll turn out fine
Yeah, hope (Just when you've had enough) it'll be alright, please
Now I'm high in the city
Feel the evening air
The crowds in the city
Compete for a share
It's all so busy, a complete affair
Down here...
As I walk through marble
Finding my way out to daylight
One drinking orange vodka
Someone inside here
Will give us a ride dear
I know a place where we both can go
To set our hearts on fire
I know the city's the only show
Can I take you for a ride
I can make you satisfied
All 'n all it's worth your while
Change that frown back to a smile
Tonight
Do or die in the misty city
All night long
A nightclub in the middle
Tappin' time to my song
Catch hell for leavin'
They are always wrong
Down here...
As I walk through marble
Finding my way in the night-light
Two people sit and argue
Someone inside here
Will give them a ride clear
I know a place where we both can go
To set our hearts on fire
I know the city's the only show
Can I take you for a ride
I can make you satisfied
All 'n all it's worth your while
Change that frown back to a smile
You, can I make it known?
I'd like to take you home
You been away so long
I'd like to see you
When I saw you at the local hop
I tried to take you but you made me stop
Then I saw that you were dancing with a rent-a-cop
Whoa
The minute you pulled me through
You thought that then you knew
If not today, I'd find a way
To get to you
Just a little of nothin'
That's all you had the time to give
Just a little of nothin'
Ain't gonna make it worthwhile for me
If you'd only have listened
You'd have heard every word I said
Just a little of nothin'
Ain't gonna make it worthwhile for me
Just a little of nothin'
(Just a little of nothin')
Just a little of nothin'
(Just a little of nothin')
Just a little of nothin'
(Just a little of nothin')
Just a little of nothin'
(Just a little of nothin')
Newton-under-Rose berry topping
And it's cold and it's wet
And you feel like you're part of all time
Living in the gap between the echoes
Feeling it hot and feeling it cold
As long as there are fish in the sea
Have a cup of tea
Oh, as long as there are fish in the sea
Have a cup of tea
'Cause you are running from the ring of the golden bell
Like a bat out of hell
You are running from the ring of the golden bell
Like a bat out of hell
You are running from the ring of the golden bell
Like a bat out of hell
You are running from the ring of the golden bell
Like a bat out of hell
There's a lady across the hall
She's telling me, it's all right, all right
I'm tryin' to give her my all
She's sayin', "I'm uptight"
Hell of a way to spend an afternoon
Saw a movie tonight
Got frightened and broke down, broke down
Got a call in the night, my old lady just hit town
Take her away, she's tryin' to turn me round
I'm nowhere to be found
I can't unread the pages I've already read
And I can't feed these ages left in my head
Bells ring in in my ear
Voices I hear
Whispering daily to me
Love in your fire
High on a wire
When I know you're near me
God, I'm glad to see you
I thought you'd left me far away
I wouldn't give much to be you
But I want you to know I feel this way
All over the world
Flags are being unfurled
Waving before the dawning
I'm watching the show
The last one to know
Which way that things are going
God, I'm glad to know you
I thought you'd left me far away
I wouldn't give much to be you
But I want you to know I feel this way
Cars fighting their way
Out of L.A.
On a Sunday morning
I'm watching the show
The last one to know
Which way that things are going
God, I'm glad to see you
I thought you'd left me far away
I wouldn't give much to be you
But I want you to know I feel this way
I look inside at the scarlet room
Places to hide in the dusty gloom
A noisy clock and a silver spoon
A china cup on the mantlepiece
Gathering dust as it did in the east
And just outside lies the garden of peace
Oh, tell me is this really true
Can it be, peace has come to me and you
Tell me over, over and over
Tell me is this really happening
Inside this world it's beautiful
Peace in this garden has come true
A mirror pond reflects the dawn
Over the banks, 'cross the emerald lawn
A breeze has come and I'm carried along
So follow the path through the knowing trees
And each time you laugh, it is love you release
That love will come back in the garden of peace
So, tell me is this really true
Can it be, peace has come to me and you
Tell me over, over and over
Tell me is this really happening
Inside this world it's beautiful
Peace in the garden has come true
Oh, tell me is this really true
Can it be, peace has come to me and you
Tell me over, over and over
Tell me is this really happening
Inside this world it's beautiful
I've seen the Ides of March
And I've seen the fall of Rome
I've seen all kinds of stuff
But I never see my home
If my life-line is
These million miles of track
One thing I know by now
There is no turning back
From a moving train
From a moving train
From a moving train
From a moving train
If every venture was
A path to no avail
I'd still be rolling down
This never ending trail
If we had a destination
In our sights
We would be helpless as
We passed it in the night
From a moving train (hear the engine running)
From a moving train (you can get on board)
From a moving train (hear the motor humming)
From a moving train (see, you've gotta see the light)
And if by chance you find a woman
That you might love along the way
You better hold her tight
Tell her everything's alright
Or she might jump along the way
From a moving train (hear the engine running)
From a moving train (you can get on board)
From a moving train (hear the motor humming)
From a moving train (see, you've gotta see the light)
From a moving train (hear the engine running)
From a moving train (you can get on board)
From a moving train (hear the motor humming)
You let me follow you around
It helped your status in the town
Well I didn't know your name
There's no truth in what you claim
So I think you better stop this foolin' 'round
I think it's called a lesson learned
When one so close suddenly turns
Leaves you standing on your own
Got no place to call your home
So I think you better stop this foolin' 'round
Now it's my time to make amends
Hope my message don't offend
And I hope this doesn't drive you round the bend
Leaves you standing on your own
Got no place to call your home
So I think you better stop this foolin' 'round
Yes, I think you better stop this foolin' 'round
Yes, I think you better stop this foolin' 'round
Written by dewey bunnell and bill mumy, ©1984
Found on perspective.
Each time I call you I feel my heart beat
I want to be there walkin' up your street
It doesn't matter how far I travel
Crossin' the ocean, the golden gravel
I'm fallin' off the world
I'm callin' you (do you believe)
I'm fallin' off the world
I'm callin' you
Tomorrow's headline, read all about it
They caught the big one and I don't doubt it
Across the country they're paintin' stories
About our failures, about our glories
I'm fallin' off the world
I'm callin' you (do you believe)
I'm fallin' off the world
I'm callin' you
All of those screams of each other must share in the fight
Nobody knows where their clear spirit goes in the night
Out of the country it seems so easy
To keep believin' our dream of fiji
Your image lingers, a faded picture
Your past erased by untold elixir
I'm fallin' off the world
I'm callin' you (do you believe)
I'm fallin' off the world
I'm callin' you
All of those screams of each other must share in the fight
Nobody knows where their clear spirit goes in the night
I'm fallin' off the world
I'm callin' you (do you believe)
The waves come in
Crash on the shoreline
Salty water, don't you know
It's yours, yours and mine
So grab your girl
And don't go wastin' time
Let's go down to the water tonight
White capped clouds
Dance in the sunlight
Purple fishes watch
And show you some of their delight
The weather's fine
And everything's all right
So let's go down to the water tonight
Let's go down to the water tonight
Come on down, come on down
(Down, down, down, down)
Come on down, down to the water
(Down)
Come on down, come on down
(Down, down, down, down)
Come on down, down to the water
(Down)
Down to the water
Island music
Sways with a palm tree
Friends of mine lay back
And talk of times that weren't so free
So let's have fun
And that means you and me
And let's go down to the water tonight
Let's go down to the water tonight
Down, down, down to the water
Down, down, down to the water
Down, down, down to the water
(Come on down, come on down)
Down, down, down to the water
(Come on down, come on down)
Down, down, down to the water
(Come on down, come on down)
Down, down, down to the water
(Come on down, come on down)
Down, down, down to the water
Starlight falling through your hair
Sometimes I wonder if you know I'm there
Awake in the morning a smile on your face
The same old feeling that I just can't place
And you say don't cry, baby
You know I'll always be the one who cares
Don't cry, baby
Come closer let me wipe away your tears
A man came in with a violin
He played for me like I've never been
Courted before and forevermore
As the bow touched the strings
He made the whole world sing
Don't cry, baby (Baby, don't you cry)
You know there'll always be someone who cares
Don't cry, baby (Baby, don't you cry)
Come closer let me wipe away your tears
I know I've been wrong
You've had to be strong
I guess I belong to you, my baby (Baby, don't you cry)
You know I'll always be the one who cares
Don't cry baby (Baby, don't you cry)
Come closer let me wipe away your tears
The sound of your voice singing songs in the night
Have taken me far away and mystified
The songs of the lovers brought tears to my eyes
There's a little girl out lyin' on her own
She's got a broken heart
She's not the kind to take you down for long
She knows and plays it smart
(Ah--) And if she's comin' she's showed no mark
She's heard no whistle blowin' from the dark
She feels like leavin' and she don't know why
Without no bridges she's trapped, so I sigh
Don't cross the river if you can't swim the tide
Don't try denyin' livin' on the other side
All your life
You were on your own
If you want you can ride my train
And soon forget the reason that you're leaving
You'll lose yourself and then sometime
Maybe even save yourself some grievin'
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Don't cross the river if you can't swim the tide
Don't try denyin' livin' on the other side
Don't cross the river if you can't swim the tide
Don't try denyin' livin' on the other side
Don't cross the river if you can't swim the tide
Don't cross the river if you can't swim the tide
I drive to the coastline
Looking for visual pleasures to catch my eye
The sun turns around hits me on the shoulder
I fly away
Due to the situation this morning
All in the world's OK
I head down Sunset north to Santa Barbara
We sail away
I could live in the walls of a prison
Where the warm summer winds would never blow
Then again, think of what I'd be missing (as to the other side)
And how some do it I'll never know, I'll never know
I must have spent a lifetime as a sailor
Sailin' the ocean blue
But every single waterway leads to you
To you
I could live in the walls of a prison
Where the warm summer winds would never blow
Then again, think of what I'd be missing (as to the other side)
And how some do it I'll never know, I'll never know
I'm headin' out over an ocean of blue
The trailin' wake far behind
Won't turn me down
And it won't turn me around
I could live in the walls of a prison
Where the warm summer winds would never blow
Then again, think of what I'd be missing (as to the other side)
Lately, it hasn't been easy
I've been wanderin' all night
Searchin', tryin' to find an answer
Why I'm in this situation
I've been sailing close to the wind
Trying to keep my head above water
Close to the wind, without you
I've been sailing close to the wind
Everyday it just gets harder
But you're all I need to survive
For so long it felt like
I was walking on the water
I found the hard part
Is waking without you in the morning
I've been sailing close to the wind
The weight of the world's on my shoulders (everyday now)
Close to the wind, without you
I've been sailing close to the wind
The loneliness it's neverending (yes I'm falling)
Open your heart, come aboard
And if we're back together
I know our love will be everlasting
I still believe that there's a chance
For us to have a happy ending
Peace will reign on earth
LIfe for all it's worth, oh yeah
I pray every single morning
That this time we will be much stronger
I've been sailing close to the wind
Help me try to find a shelter (to protect you)
Close to the wind without you
I've been sailing close to the wind
But inside it's safe and warm now (we're together)
Don't be afraid of the storm
I've been sailing close, close to the wind (been sailing in)
(Close to the wind) Don't be afraid of the storm
I've been sailing close, close to the wind (been sailing in)
The boy cried out
Gaily on the ground
At the joy
Of something he had found
Aw, come on children, get your heads back together
Aw, come on children, get your heads back together
Aw, come on children, get your heads back together
The days are getting warmer now
The nights are getting shorter now
And you know we can make it 'cause you know we're alive
But we don't have to take it, any way we'll survive
If I were you
I'd throw it far away
But if you were me
You'd tell me I should stay
Aw, come on children, get your heads back together
Aw, come on children, get your heads back together
Aw, come on children, get your heads back together again
Again, again and again and again
Again, and again and again
Well, I'm drivin' onward
Through the pourin' rain
There's a ticket waitin'
I gotta catch that train
The yellow racin' dreamboat
On California air
Single engine cowboy
Out in county fair
So, oh baby, hurry here to me
Oh baby, come see me
Oh baby, let the hours flee
Oh baby, come see
The silver clouds in August
Lover's names on trees
Imagine running water
You wadin' in knee deep
So, oh baby, hurry here to me
Oh baby, come see me
Oh baby, let the hours flee
Oh baby, come see
There's a world waitin'
Just for you to unfold
How are you to know
If you don't see, if you don't see
Those yellow racin' dreamboats
On California air
There's a ticket waitin'
I guess I'll catch you there
I guess I'll catch you there
So, oh baby, hurry here to me
Oh baby, come see me
Oh baby, let the hours flee
Oh baby, come see
(If you don't come) Oh baby, hurry here to me
Oh baby, come see me
(If you don't come) Oh baby, let the hours flee
Oh baby, come see
(If you don't come) Oh baby, hurry here to me
Oh baby, come see me
(If you don't come) Oh baby, let the hours flee
Oh baby, come see
When you feel down and you've nobody to turn to
When you feel you're about to give up
The sun goes down and darkness surrounds you
And it's runnin' dry in your lovin' cup
Cast the spirit, cast it out
If it's in your body, then let it out
Put out the fire, let it cool down
If it's in your tears, then let it drown
Oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo
Oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo
You can't ignore the feeling inside you
In your mind you're without a friend
The spirit is there, it's in every doorway
You say to yourself, will it ever end
Cast the spirit, cast it out
If it's in your body, then let it out
Put out the fire, let it cool down
If it's in your tears, then let it drown
Oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo
Oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo
When you feel down and have nobody to turn to
You say to yourself, why can't it be
The sun goes down and darkness surrounds you
You feel you want to be free
Cast the spirit, cast it out
If it's in your body, then let it out
Put out the fire, let it cool down
If it's in your tears, then let it drown
Oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo
Oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo
Cast the spirit
Cast the spirit
Is just a choice
But I never learned enough
To listen to the voice that told me..
Always love... Hate will get you every time
Always love... Don't wait till the finish line
Slow demands come 'round
Squeeze the air and keep the rest out
It helps to write it down
Even when you then cross it out
Always love... Hate will get you every time
Always love... Even when you are defied
Self-directed lies
I want to know what it'd be like to
Aim so high above
Any card that you get dealt you...
Always love..
I've been held back by something
Yeah, you said to me quietly on the stairs,
I've been held back by something
Yeah, you said to me quietly on the stairs
You said...
Hey, you good ones
Hey, you good ones
To make a mountain of your life
Is just a choice
But I never learned enough
To listen to the voice that told me
Always love... hate will get you every time
Always love... hate will get you:
I've been held back by something
Yeah, you said to me quietly on the stairs,
I've been held back by something
Yeah, you said to me quietly on the stairs
You said . . .
Hey, you good ones
Hey, you good ones
Hey, you good ones
I look to the east when the day is done
And think of it all
All the thoughts that I've seen of satin seams
And tide pool dreams
I look to the sun (as the day is dawning)
I carry my dreams (from a moment before)
I try to recall (but I find myself yawning)
I guess they are gone but there's more so I head out the door
And all around listen and you can hear the sound
On cloudy days seems like I always feel this way
First break in the day if the time is right, nobody minds
I stroll down the lane take a breath of air and drift on a dream
I look to the sun (as the day is warming)
Consider the things (that have happened before)
I feel like I'm one (with the wind on the hillside)
I feel like I'm one with the river that runs by my door
All around listen and you can hear the sound
On cloudy days seems like I always feel this way
All around listen and you can hear the sound
On cloudy days seems like I always feel this way
I look to the sun (as the day is dawning)
I carry my dreams (from a moment before)
I feel like I'm one (with the wind on the hillside)
I feel like I'm one with the river that runs by my door
All around listen and you can hear the sound
On cloudy days seems like I always feel this way
All around listen and you can hear the sound
On cloudy days seems like I always feel this way
All around listen and you can hear the sound
A Christmas to remember lay ahead
Don't forget to mail the packages and the cards there in the hall
Remember last year's tree was just too small
It's time again to pull out all the ornaments, the train
The kitchen towels with Santa, the lights and candy cane
Inside each box of treasure from the Christmas that's gone by
And each one will remind us how they fly
Please remember (please remember)
Please remember (please remember)
All the Christmases gone by
Please remember (please remember)
Please remember (please remember)
All those Christmases gone by
The Christmas to remember lay ahead
Should we put out all the reindeer or just Rudolph standing tall
It was you who had to have him at the mall
It's time again to pull out all the ornaments, the train
The kitchen towels with Santa, the lights and candy cane
Inside each box of treasure from the Christmas that's gone by
And each one will remind us how they fly
Please remember (please remember)
Please remember (please remember)
All the Christmases gone by
Please remember (please remember)
All those Christmases gone by
Oh please remember (please remember)
Please remember (please remember)
All the Christmases gone by
Please remember (please remember)
Please remember (please remember)
All the Christmases gone by
Please remember (please remember)
All those Christmases gone by
Oh please remember (please remember)
Please remember (please remember)
All the Christmases gone by
Please remember (please remember)
Please remember (please remember)
We're afraid, she's gonna let you down
Take your money and drop you to the ground
Wouldn't want to see you messed around
After all the love you think you've found
She's gonna let you down
Doesn't matter what we say
Love's the stubbornest game to play
Given time you might see it our way
And we'll be sorry, boy, until that day
She's gonna break away
Remember all the times you helped us through
Now here's our chance to do the same for you
Guess the thing to do is wait around
Lend a hand when you are on the ground
She's gonna let you down
She's gonna let you down
Midnight rolling in, sunlight
Reaching out for your return
As you were running
Through the tunnel of life
And soon you'll dance around
The fire of fright tonight
When you're standing on the corner
And the sun is getting hot
Does this day begin
To worry you a lot
You are, what you are
Too far, golden star, a ruby light
As you were running
Through the tunnel of life
And soon you'll dance around
The fire of fright tonight
When you're standing on the corner
And the sun is getting hot
Does the day begin
I'm only half a man
When I'm not by your side
I try to make a plan
And I don't try to hide
So come on over closer to me
And everything will be just like it should be
Why don't you help me
Please don't stand on your pride
I feel so empty
Why don't you let me inside
So come on over closer to me
And everything will be just like it should be
You (you, you, you)
Set my soul on fire
You (you, you, you)
Fill me with desire
When ever I'm near you
I'm only half a man
When I'm not by your side
I try to make a plan
And I don't try to hide
So come on over closer to me
Eyes
Holdin' back the tears
That they've held for years
How can I tell you?
I don't want to make you cry
Why should I even try?
Why should I even try?
Days
Where'd you go so fast
Fin'lly lost at last
How can I tell you?
I don't want to let you down
Why should I even try?
Why should I even try?
How can I tell you?
I don't want to let you down
Why should I even try?
Orange and yellow and purple and green
The lights of the city at night set the scene
Stumble through the bars of forget me not lane
Sparkle through the glitter but don't show the pain
In Hollywood, underneath a golden palm tree
Hollywood, come to the party the drinks are on me for free
Heartbeats echo through a cavern of love
Come to the tavern I'll meet you up above
Soaring through the heavens, what a fabulous ride
But everybody's heading for the same place to hide
In Hollywood, underneath a golden palm tree
Hollywood, come to the party the drinks are on me for free
The drinks on me for free, the drinks on me for free
I came home yesterday
To the love that I left behind
It seems I've been far away, yeah
But I know that the berry's ripe on the vine
And I know that the grapes will soon turn to wine
Yes, I know I'll be there just in time to love you
I guess I just ran away
(I just ran away)
Tried to see what I could not find
(What I could not find)
It's been a one act play, yeah
But I know that the berry's ripe on the vine
And I know that the grapes will soon turn to wine
And I know I'll be there just in time to love you
I've been wasting time
(Wasting time)
With this old heart of mine
(This old heart of mine)
Working it overtime, ah, ah, ah, ah
Just another blue day
Like the ones that I left behind
I know it's easy to say, yeah
But I know that the berry's ripe on the vine
And I know that the grapes will soon turn to wine
Yes, I know I'll be there just in time to love you
Oh, and I know that the berry's ripe on the vine
And I know that the grapes will soon turn to wine
Yes, I know I'll be there just in time to love you
Love you on the vine, oh, on the vine
Love you on the vine, oh, on the vine
I love you on the vine, oh, on the vine, ah
In the sea the fish have learned to fly
On a moonlit night on wings of silver
As the enchanted stars sail serenely by
Do they know where do unicorns go?
Where winged horses fly?
Narwhals lost at sea and never seen again
Go, go and ask the magpie
Where do unicorns go?
In the trees the birds have learned to speak
Gaily colored they keep their secrets
In a parade of clouds playing hide and seek
Do they know where do unicorns go?
Where winged horses fly?
Narwhals lost at sea and never seen again
Does myth and mystery lie
Horizon rising up to meet the purple dawn
Dust demon screaming, bring an eagle to lead me on
For in my heart I carry such a heavy load
Here I am on Man's road, walking Man's road, walking Man's road
I'm hungry, weary, but I cannot lay me down
The rain comes, dreary, but there's no shelter I have found
It will be a long time till I find my abode
Here I am on Man's road, walking Man's road
Moon rising, disguising lonely streets in gay displays
The stars fade, the night shade falls and makes the world afraid
It waits in silence for the sky to explode
Here I am on Man's road, walking Man's road, walking Man's road
Got you by my side
I'll never be lonely
Got you by my side
I'll never be afraid
Never be lonely anymore
Turn away the fools from my door
Always wanna be your one and only
Never be lonely
Spent a lot of time
Waitin' to find you
Spent a lot of time
All on my own
Could've gone a thousand different ways
Watching my nights turn to days
Always wanna be your one and only
Never be lonely
Here in the middle of now or never
Finally found where I belong
I could go on like this forever
Looking at you, looking at you
Wasn't I the one
Love never came to
Wasn't I the one
So misunderstood
All because my heart wasn't sure
Never felt a love like this before
Always wanna be your one and only
Never be lonely
Here in the middle of now or never
Finally found where I belong
I could go on like this forever
Looking at you, looking at you
Got me by your side
Never be lonely
Got me by your side
Never be afraid
And I will not let you down
Keeping both feet on the ground
Always wanna be your one and only
Never be lonely
Never be lonely
Never be lonely
Never be lonely
Never be lonely
Honey, I wish you were here
To brighten my lonely nights
How long I've waited
To hold you in my arms again
Honey, you know I'm so scared
Scared that you might not come back
One day without you
Is one day too long for me
Wish you could see
The love in the heart of me
Honey, I really miss you
Honey, I need to kiss you
Honey, I wanna hold you
Honey, have I told you
I really need you now
I really need you now
Honey, you know you think like me
Now I pray every day
I'll do anything
If there's a chance you'll stay
Your perfume is still in my room
Your pillow it's left where you lay
Your picture is standing
Inside the frame I made
It seems so sad
To lose the love we had
Honey, I really miss you
Honey, I need to kiss you
Honey, I wanna hold you
Honey, have I told you
I really need you now
I really need you now
Honey, I've waited for only one line
To let me know how you are
I need to be with you
I'd run to your side, however near or far
Girl, I need you
Honey, honey
Honey, honey
Honey, I really miss you
Honey, I need to kiss you
Honey, don't you know it
Honey, don't I show it
I really need you now
I really need you now
I really need you now
I really need you now
I really need you now
Here we are again, two lovers lost in a maze
So many roads we could go down
So many ways we could go wrong
You think we should part
Both go our own separate ways
Oh, girl, why can't we work it out?
Can't you hear what my heart says?
Don't let me be lonely
Don't let me be lonely tonight
That wouldn't be right
Now that I need you more than ever
Here we are tonight
Both starring in the same play
But I'm the one who plays the fool
I've only one line to say
Don't let me be lonely
Don't let me be lonely tonight
That wouldn't be right
Now that I need you more than ever
Girl, what will I be if you walk away from me?
How can I make you stay?
Don't let me be lonely
Don't let me be lonely tonight
That wouldn't be right
One morning when the mist came down
I woke up early and I looked around
My baby slept, the sky was blue
I started walkin' thinkin' only of you
Up the hill and down the road
Past the people that I barely know
Round the bend to the run-off wash
I found a feather that a quail had lost
Where are you goin' now my friend
Where are you goin' now
Are you going to see them on the mountain now
Goin' to see them trees
Goin' to watch the circles take a bow
Goin' to help agree
To be
Today
Some people like to play out loud
I like them always, they're a laughing crowd
To catch the wind then come slidin' down
You reach the bottom fallin' upside down
Touch a hand and see the world turnin' circles
Brushin' every curl back again
To those sunset walks
I stayed up all night long
Drinkin' and thinkin' 'bout you
Is there anything left at all
Is there anything that I can do
'Cause I don't know what to say anymore
I don't know how to even the score with you, with you
Starin' hard at that big front door
Is it time now to find my shoes
It ain't the loss of love no more
I'm just tryin' hard to live with you
'Cause I don't know what to say anymore
And I don't know how to even the score with you, with you
With you, with you
'Cause I don't know what to say anymore
And I don't know how to even the score with you, oh, with you
Is love a question, who's weak, who's strong
I can't see it, where's a compromise
It's so confusin' where this thing has gone
It's gotta stop, you've gotta realize
'Cause I don't know what to say anymore
And I don't know how to even the score with you, oh, with you
Yes, with you, oh, with you
'Cause I don't know what to say anymore
And I don't know how to even the score with you, oh, with you
Yes, with you, oh, with you
I don't know what to say anymore
And I don't know how to even the score with you, oh, with you
When the day breaks
Something begins
When your heart aches
Do you give in?
I heard that you were lonely
One careful look shows you're lonely
All night you'll fight
With your mind, with your mind
After lights out, don't make a sound
Apple blossoms, come fallin' down
Black and white sun shining brightly
Shelter your eyes, hold on tightly
All night you'll fight
With your mind, with your mind
Love thy neighbor
You will understand
Coffee flavor, yours or any brand
I heard that you were lonely
Nothing is real when you're lonely
All night you'll fight
How 'bout a tear for the year of 1960
I watched the fins of the Cadillac fall
I remember Dad explained about the Berlin Wall
How 'bout a tear for the torment and the trouble
That was brewing in the Asian way
I wore a smile like the faces that surround L.A.
In the city of the lost and found
It's hard to get a break
Hard to stop from getting turned around
And make the same mistakes
My reputation's on the line
The final day of '59
But like the sun, just watch me shine
Today
How 'bout a cheer for the piano virtuoso
I practiced 61 minutes a day
I could never reach the keys
But it was all OK
How 'bout a cheer for the humour in my brother
That could brighten up the darkest nights
It's just another sign of love
Whenever we would fight
It's all the same twenty years ago
As it is right now
Like a tour at the closing show
When I take my bow
My reputation's on the line
At the start of '79
But like the sun, just watch me shine
Today
I've played this part so many times
Since the end of '59
But like the sun, just watch me shine
I remember sidewalk laughter down New Orleans, LA
A hot wet night at the fight with you
Had to push through the crowds and talk
Very loud it's true
But you were on my mind that day
You were on my mind each day
You were on my mind that day and forever
Had a drink, stop to think we had a few
Afterwards we went down to the dance side of town for the view
You went blushing inside and you pinched me to see
If I knew
But you were on my mind that day
You were on my mind each day
You were on my mind that day and forever, and forever
We were lovers then and forever
There was nothing that we couldn't do
A hot wet night at the fight with you
Times like that weekend remain in my heart crystal clear
Walking along to the song you have helped me to hear
Yes you were on my mind that day
You were on my mind each day
I can hear somebody knockin'
On my bedroom door
I find it rather shockin'
It's my best friend's girl
(Oo) Imagine my surprise
There's a hungry look in her eyes
See how the love goes
Anybody here know how the love goes
She said, I'm feelin' kinda lonely
And only you will do
Would you like to get to know me
Like I wanna know you
(Oo) No tellin' what a man will do
Face to face with a woman like you
See how the love goes
Anybody here know how the love goes
Oh yea, see how the love goes
I can hear her calling (calling)
But no one understands her (no one understands)
Beggin' me to let her in
And she's waiting for my answer
Should I open up the door
And let trouble walk in
Should I resist her even more
Or tell her, come on in
(Oo) No tellin' what a man will do
Face to face with a woman like you
See how the love goes
Anybody here know how the love goes
Oh yea, see how the love goes
Anybody here know how the love goes
Oh yea, see how the love goes
Into each life, a little sunlight wants to shine
Let me tell you, a fortune like that once was mine
She was a special girl
She meant the world to me
I gave her everything
When I found her, I'd been looking everywhere
When I lost her, I was lost beyond despair
She was a special girl
She meant the world to me
I gave her everything
Dreams are hard to take
(Dreams are hard to take)
Could it be I loved her too much?
A special girl
A special girl
She was a special girl
She was a special girl
She meant the world to me
I gave her everything
Bottom line is, she was fine in every way
And it's not with hesitation that I say
She was a special girl
She meant the world to me
And I gave her everything
Dreams they come and go
(Dreams they come and go)
But thoughts of her are like a floor show
A special girl
A special girl
She was a special girl
She was a special girl
She meant the world to me
Walking down 5th Avenue
I saw him walking there with you
People see and people talk
Word travels fast round my block
Might just save you the price of writing
I could save you an hour or two
Walking down 5th Avenue
Walking down 5th Avenue
Don't know what to ask of you
My mind is gettin' so confused
Even when I really try
Keeps sounding like I'm saying goodbye
Somewhere deep in my heart I'm hurtin'
'Cause I keep on remembering you
Walking down 5th Avenue
Walking down 5th Avenue
Such a long way to go
How many times must I look up and say
What kind of fool am I
But I can't turn my back on the times that we shared
No matter how I try
Walking down 5th Avenue
Can't seem to shake the thought of you
Even in the dark of night
Your memories of shining light
Though I'm tryin' to change direction
I pray what I saw ain't true
Walking down 5th Avenue
Walking down 5th Avenue
Such a long way to go
I was out last night having a ball
And comin' home, I wasn't thinkin' nothin' at all
And there on the sidewalk what did I see
A little glass slipper starin' back at me
Cinderella (Cinderella)
Well I'm not superstitious but I'm smarter than I seem
And I knew it was love, if you know what I mean
When I saw that slipper it occurred to me
The shoe fit her and she fit me
Cinderella (Cinderella)
Cinderella (Cinderella)
When I find her it will be
A fairy tale for her and me
I will never let her go
Cinderella
Now the other girls hold no fascination for me
I just think of her wherever she may be
I will search my whole life through
'Cause no one else will ever do
Cinderella (Cinderella)
Cinderella (Cinderella)
When I find her it will be
A fairy tale for her and me
I will never let her go
She will give my heart a home
Until that day I'll be alone
With just a slipper and a dream
Cinderella (Cinderella)
Cinderella (Cinderella)
Oo (Cinderella)
It's late at night, I'm all alone
I call you up, hear your voice on the phone
Say that you're mine, tell me it's true
Say that my love, is still right for you
'Cause I can't fall asleep to a lullaby
And I miss you so much I don't wanna cry, you are why
I love you, oo-oo-oo, you don't know
Here I am, part of the crowd
Need you so bad, I'm dreamin' out loud
Say that you're mine, tell me it's true
Say that my love, is still right for you
'Cause I can't fall asleep to a lullaby
And I miss you so much I don't wanna cry, you are why
I love you, oo-oo-oo, you don't know
It's late at night, and I'm all alone
So I call you up, to hear your voice on the phone
Sayin' your mine, sayin' it's true
Please say my love, is still right for you
'Cause I can't fall asleep to a lullaby
And I miss you so much I don't wanna cry, you are why
Hold me close
You turn nighttime into day
And you're the most
Brightest star that lights my way
So come home to me now
'Cause it won't matter anyhow
I've got this feeling that today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day
Turn me out
Turn me out on this fine day
'Cause all about
All the people like to play
So come home to me now
'Cause it won't matter anyhow
I've got this feeling that today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day
I've got this feeling that today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day
Hold me close
You turn nighttime into day
And you're the most
Brightest star that lights my way
So come home to me now
'Cause it won't matter anyhow
I've got this feeling that today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day
I've got this feeling that today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day
Nobody can tell me I didn't try anything
I didn't know what to do to get over you
I tried magic and potions but I could not shake you loose
From my dreams, strange as it seems
It's like you never left at all
I guess I just can't forget you
It's like you never left at all
Somethin' inside me just won't let you go
Took a vacation for a month, maybe more
Made some new friends in places I've never been
But recuperation hasn't even yet begun
I'm still reachin' over for you when the morning comes
It's like you never left at all
I guess I just can't forget you
It's like you never left at all
Somethin' inside me just won't let you go
You're only illusion but you're standin' in my way
And you've got your life, it's a new life
But mine can't seem to change
It's like you never left at all
I guess I just can't forget you
It's like you never left at all
Somethin' inside me just won't let you go
Somethin' inside me just won't let you go
Written by Gerry Beckley, ©1998
Found on Human Nature.
[Overwhelming World]
Overwhelming world tied up in a knot
Anything you ask is everything I've got
I can't let go
It's all you need
It's all I know
Tiny little girl wakens in the night
Was it just a dream, will she be alright
It's hard to say
There's so much more
Beyond her door
Hidden in the heart buried in the soul
Everybody's wondering if where they are going, they're going alone
Carried on the wind
Up above the stars alone
A spark from a fire ignited a long time ago
[Come Back]
Every single moment
Every waking hour
I can see your beauty
Like an open flower
Just like a flower
Won't you come back, come back to me
Won't you come back, come back to me
There with your head in your hands
I sware that you don't understand
That you and I were meant to be
I can feel you breathing
As you lay beside me
Nothing but a memory
That you can't deny me
You can't deny me
Every single moment
Every waking hour
I can feel your beauty
Like an open flower
Just like a flower
Won't you come back, come back to me
Won't you come back, come back to me
[Barstow]
Barstow, Barstow
Meet you in the morning
Barstow, Barstow
As the day is dawning
Sunrise out on the freeway in the morning
Meeting you as the day is dawning
Counting the minutes to go
Barstow (Barstow), Barstow
Showcase of the southland
Barstow (Barstow), Barstow
Living hand to mouth and
Somewhere on the horizon in the distance
Seeing you there with no resistance
Counting the seconds to go
Sunrise out on the freeway in the morning
Meeting you as the day is dawning
Counting the seconds to go
Lala Salama
To the Masai Mara
And asante sana
Kichwa Tembo
I'm going Oloololo
Back to the world where I'm from
Soon I'll be flying solo
On a heading that follows the sun
Oloololo, Oloololo, 'loololo
'Cause I've been down from Nairobi
Southeast of Kisumu
To the waiting savanna
Like a place that I once knew
And the river was flowing
While the crocodile baked in the sun
With the elephant knowing
That a change had already begun
Oloololo, Oloololo, 'loololo
Oloololo, Oloololo
(Lala Salama) Oloololo (To the Masai Mara)
Just like a person from another world
My eyes can see inside you, little girl
I see things that you don't want to see
I see things you're trying to hide from me
I'm just trying to make you understand
All the ways you can affect this man
From the moment that you came in touch
With the power there to burn so much
You've got hidden talent (yeah)
I bet you're gonna find some hidden talent, oh
You know your past is what's been bugging you
If you're ready girl ... do what you gotta do
Look for your life between the lines
Bad directions and poor designs
You've got hidden talent (hidden talent, yeah)
I bet you're gonna find some hidden talent, oh
Hidden talent (hidden talent, yeah)
Check it out you ... got it, hidden talent, oh
With the advantage of perspective I
See there's more to you than meets the eye
But now the time must come to spread your wings and fly
Yeah (hidden talent) yeah
Hidden talent (hidden talent, yeah)
I bet you're gonna find some hidden talent, oh
Hidden talent (hidden talent, yeah)
Check it out ... you got it, hidden talent, oh
Hidden talent (hidden talent, yeah)
Affair without warning
Hidden talent, mmm (mmm)
Hidden talent (hidden talent, yeah)
I bet you're gonna find some hidden talent, oh
In the greenhouse
Among the flowers
You would linger, linger there for hours
That's where I saw your face
Your body dressed in lace
Your secret hiding place
In the greenhouse
What were you thinking
Was this the jungle?
I felt the good earth, I felt the good earth rumble
That's where I saw your face
Your body dressed in lace
Your secret hiding place
In the greenhouse
That's where I saw your face
Your body dressed in lace
Your secret hiding place
In the greenhouse
You were smiling
The heat was rising
The blood-red roses hypnotizing
In the greenhouse
You were waiting
And the perfume was suffocating
That's where I saw your face
Your body dressed in lace
Your secret hiding place
The moon begins to rise upon my fallen eyes
I'm taken back to firelight
A drunken dreamer's plan to stay just as I am
Amidst the dancing paradise
A case of beer, a smile, a motorcycle child
I feel the glow surround me
And you, and you, and you, and you, and you
Orange funnels and snowy tunnels
Summer troubles, books in bundles
Orange funnels and snowy tunnels
And you, and you, and you, and you, and you
Come save me
From things I shouldn't do
I need you
Every word is true
No answer
At numbers I have dialed
I hear the call of the wild
Nights are forever
The days linger on
Standing in silence
Time lasts so long
Through all my efforts
I act like a child
Hearin' the call of the wild
Come save me
From things I shouldn't know
I'm wearin'
Someone else's clothes
I needed
Singing like a child
I hear the call of the wild
Casting my mind back
Some things don't seem right
An image of angels
Appears in the night
As I awoke
I could swear that they smiled
Hearin' the call of the wild
Come save me
From things I shouldn't do
I need you
Every word is true
No answer
At numbers I have dialed
I hear the call of the wild
I hear the call of the wild
Now, hear the call of the wild
Come save me
From things I shouldn't do
I need you
Every word is true
No answer
At numbers I have dialed
I hear the call of the wild
I hear the call of the wild
Through the darkness I see you again
Watch my temperature rise
Can't believe my eyes, don't tell me
I've had way too much tonight
Drank the potion stronger than me
Got me all confused
Why you so amused, don't tell me
You've had way too much tonight
Please don't tell me no
God, I miss you so
One thing you should know
God, I love you so, oh
Had way too much tonight
I'm a mad dog at times like these
Don't know where to turn
Ain't the time to learn my lesson
I've had way too much tonight
Ain't the time to learn my lesson
I've had way too much to, really too much to
I've had way too much tonight, alright
I've had way too much to, really too much to
Heaven may be an answer
If you're lookin' for Eden in the sky
On your waters I see a strange reflection
Rumor has it I'll see you when I die
Everyone I meet is from California
There's dancin' in the streets in California
In California you watch the shadow dancer
Floating gently, gently on the sea
In California you're such a strange romancer
Come and see me when the world has set you free
Everyone I meet is from California
There's dancin' in the streets in California
Everyone I meet is from California
There's dancin' in the streets in California
There's just no way to say how much I love you
You never make me cry and that's just fine
I've only got my fear to burn above me
You know we all get scared from time to time
Love me with your head and heart
Love me from the place it starts
Love me with your head and heart
Love me like a child
There's just no way to play the things I'm feelin'
No way to tell you all the things you mean
Every day I only feel like stealin'
Away to where I know I can be free
Love me with your head and heart
Love me from the place it starts
Love me with your head and heart
Love me when I'm wild
Layin' down the ways to say I need you
Scared of lookin' tall and feelin' small
Runnin' through the days I have beside you
Scared of bein' wrong and that's it all
Love me with your head and heart
Love me from the place it starts
Love me with your head and heart
Love me like a child
Love me with your head and heart
Love me from the place it starts
Love me with your head and heart
I've been down to the water
I've been on top of the world
Somebody should come and see me
Somebody should give me the word
'Cause I don't know how many more
I don't know how many more
I don't know how many more to see
Sometimes the free thoughts clash
Sometimes I see through the grass
Sometimes the light begins to dim
Somebody should come and be me
Somebody should come and free me
'Cause I don't know how many more
I don't know how many more
I don't know how many more to see
Oh darlin', darlin', I always wanna see you
Oh darlin', darlin', I always wanna see you
I cannot learn much more life
I cannot see much more
Somebody should stop the new sight
Somebody should close the door
'Cause I don't know how many more
I don't know how many more
I don't know how many more to see
Wrapped in a blanket, lyin' in the snow
Feelin' like the men felt a long time ago
Goin' to find me a home
Goin' to build it with my hands
Can't you see there's food to be grown
[Instrumental]
Mary, have you seen better days?
And will you find different ways?
And does he really mean that much to your heart?
Carry, all of the weight you can, find another man
And lead him directly there to the source
You've got to chart his course
'Cause it is only in your heart
This thing that makes you want to
Start it all again
(La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la)
Wake up from an elusive dream
You've got to change the scene
It's getting so hard to see to the end
Break down, all of the walls you can
You need a helping hand
I'm sure there's someone there just for you
He's trying to make it, too
'Cause it is only in your heart
This thing that makes you want to
Start it all again
(La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la)
Only in your heart
This thing that makes you want to
Start it all again
(La, la, la, la)
You can't disregard your friends
But life gets so hard when you reach the end
Mary, have you seen better days?
(Mary, have you seen better days?)
Mary, have you seen better days?
(Mary, have you seen better days?)
Mary, have you seen better days?
(Mary, have you seen better days?)
Mary, have you seen better days?
This is for all the lonely people
Thinking that life has passed them by
Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup
And ride that highway in the sky
This is for all the single people
Thinking that love has left them dry
Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup
You never know until you try
Well, I'm on my way
Yes, I'm back to stay
Well, I'm on my way back home (Hit it)
This is for all the lonely people
Thinking that life has passed them by
Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup
And never take you down or never give you up
Written by Dewey Bunnell, ©1976
Found on Hideaway.
(Instrumental)
Written by dewey bunnell, ©1976
Found on hideaway.
Somebody told me that the time was right
To keep on ridin' and to hang on tight
I heard the cry of a dog in the night
But nobody told me it would be all right
Don't let it get you down
But nobody make a sound
Don't let it get you down
We took a ride down a hill that night
The man was crazy but he wouldn't fight
With bullets in his back and money in a sack
We robbed a bank and we never looked back
Don't let it get you down
But nobody make a sound
Don't let it get you down
We took the bank, kept on runnin', but never too slow
The ride was fun and you know we went to mexico
But the action that felt all right
Still haunts me in the night
We took the bank, kept on runnin', but never too slow
The ride was fun and you know we went to mexico
But the action that felt all right
Still haunts me in the night, alright
Don't let it get you down
'cause nobody made a sound
Don't let it get you down
They'll be lucky if we're ever found
Don't let it get you down (don't let it get you down)
Don't let it get you down (don't let it get you down)
Don't let it get you down (don't let it get you down)
Alone, sitting here on my own
There's no place I'd rather be
Or so it seems
Home, miles away from home
And there's no place I'd rather be
Can't you see?
You hold your life in your hands
And no one takes from a man
Who gives the best that he can
To make someone understand
I've flown miles away from home
And there's no place I'd rather be
Can't you see?
You hold your life in your hands
And no one takes from a man
Who gives the best that he can
To make someone understand
Home, miles away from home
And there's no place I'd rather be
Can't you see
Can't you see, can't you see
Can't you see, can't you see
Can't you see, can't you see
Don't wait for me at the willow tree
Love will be waiting for you
The wind through the leaves plays a symphony
Harmony, rhapsody too
Don't bend with the wind
Love must not end but begin
Don't bend with the wind
Your love must not end but begin
When the deep blue night is running close on your track
And you can feel the green monkey crawlin' across your back
Don't take me so real that you forget how to feel
Don't let the threat of the dagger turn your heart into steel
Smell the perfume of the silent dream
Fly the ocean, read a story to me
Speak the wisdom of a redwood tree
Speak to me
So you think that star cluster shining bright in the sky
Will speak the fate of your evening, tell the truth to your lie
Don't let the features you read control the tickets you buy
Soon as you learn that you live, you're just beginning to die
Smell the perfume of the silent dream
Fly the ocean, read a story to me
Speak the wisdom of a redwood tree
Speak to me
Smell the perfume of the silent dream
Fly the ocean, read a story to me
Speak the wisdom of a redwood tree
Goodbye, Mrs. Sorrow
Hope you're feelin' better tomorrow night
Don't put up a fight
It'll do you no good
Hello, Uncle Freedom
I've seen them down on their knees for you
Nothing they wouldn't do
To have you along
I got too many problems
They just don't understand
They think their every wish is my command
Oh, no, Sister Susie
You're in a win or lose affair
Wish I could be there
To help you along
Oh, yes, Brother Michael
We all have every faith in you
And everything you do
All the way round
I got too many problems
They just don't understand
They think their every wish is my command
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Clarice lay down your mind, it's there just hard to find
Follow me as we wind our way, away
Behind an open door there lies a million more
Follow me as we wind our way, away
Time is coming soon I'll find you (Time is coming soon I'll find you)
Time is coming soon I'll find you (Time is coming soon I'll find you)
Time is coming soon, time is coming soon
Behind an open door there lies a million more
Follow me as we wind our way, away
Time is coming soon I'll find you (Time is coming soon I'll find you)
Time is coming soon I'll find you (Time is coming soon I'll find you)
Please believe in me
Though my love is hard to see
Now she's gone (She's gone, she's gone, she's gone)
I'll remain (She's gone, she's gone, she's gone)
But these tears (She's gone, she's gone, she's gone)
I can't contain (She's gone, she's gone)
So can I count on you to be my light to guide me
Right through the night beside me
Is it all right to count on you
Smile away these blues
I don't care if I'm accused
Now she's gone (She's gone, she's gone, she's gone)
I don't mind (She's gone, she's gone, she's gone)
But, I got a feelin' (She's gone, she's gone, she's gone)
It's all designed (She's gone, she's gone)
To make me call on you to be my light to guide me
Right through the night beside me
The monster exposed himself from underground
Burning his face as he ran through the town
Hoping the patrons just don't hear a sound
Heart, court and harmony just ain't the same
My black and their green playing some games
I've got all these pictures I just need the frames
These are the things that you'll never do
Feeding the wife on the phone
And there you are, all on your own
Red and blue, I want to like a hole in the head
It slopes in the middle and is stopping them dead
I'd like to help them; I've already said
These are the things that you'll never do
Running away from your home
And there you are, all on your own
Sarah, please
Where is the love you said you'd save for me?
Am I a fool to think that something's strange?
I think you've changed
Golly, dad
She was the best thing that I ever had
Torn and battered now, due for repair
But she's not there
What does it matter and who really cares?
With no one to turn to when she's not there
Ah, but it's all right, I'll get by
Miles apart
Left here standing with a broken heart
Call me names but I'll refuse to cry
Don't ask my why
What does it matter and who really cares?
With no one to turn to when she's not there
Someone told me you got to be free
Someone told me to stand in the rear
Keep on searchin' for kings in the street
Keep on cryin' for something that's clear
You are one more posse to pass in the night
One more con to conceal
One more tiger to paint on a stripe
One more player to deal
Political poachers push plump packages
Past pacified places
Concerned citizens cry crude conduct
'Cause captain command
Don't do dreams, do dreary drivel drive
Doctor, daddy divine
Prize shipment tonight, tomorrow tame tempers
To touch tender time
You are one more posse to pass in the night
One more con to conceal
One more tiger to paint on a stripe
One more player to deal
You are one more posse to pass in the night
One more con to conceal
One more tiger to paint on a stripe
One more player to deal
It takes one more moment of time in your life
One more light to reveal
One more place in the sun to turn ripe
One more kingdom to feel
You are one more posse to pass in the night
One more con to conceal
One more tiger to paint on a stripe
One more player to deal
It takes one more moment of time in your life
The day we lost our voice with little choice, I can't explain
An act of agony
And someone told me too that it's true when you call aloud
It's only destiny
Or is it mystery
But then we came around and sang our song and acted proud
And posed for memory
We made a cry to the underground
Are you there
I looked and saw that they were still around
But do you care
I drank a little bit, so underlit to see it now
The show was never seen
And all the time I lost is never lost
It's only thumbing through eternity
We made a cry to the underground
Are you there
I looked and saw that they were still around
But do you care
Who are you going to see
What are you going to be
You made a cry to the underground
Are you there
I looked and saw that they were still around
But do you care
Are you there (Are you there)
Are you there (Are you there)
Are you there (Are you there)
Are you there (Are you there)
Are you there (Are you there)
God of the sun
Don't make me wait till the morning comes
Light in the sky
Look me in the eye, eye, eye, eye
Don't, keep me waiting around
Too much longer now
Don't, don't keep me waiting around, around, around, around
When I called you from my river of darkness
An echo was all that came back
Saw you wave goodbye
Down the railroad track
Sometimes when you're out and all alone
And you can't find your way back
Wonder if you'll ever make it home
God of the sun
I'll be around till the day's begun
One sight of your ray
Takes the night away, away, away, away
Oh, but when I walk through that door
Take my hat and my coat off waiting for you to call
I tell you not right now, lady, I got work on my mind
And I'll talk to you soon
Always remember
When I called you from my river of darkness
An echo was all that came back
I saw you wave goodbye
Down the railroad track
Sometimes when you're out and all alone
And you can't find your way back
Wonder if we'll ever make it home
Flyin' me back to Memphis
Gotta find my Daisy Jane
Well the summer's gone
And I hope she's feelin' the same
Well I left her just to roam the city
Thinkin' it would ease the pain
I'm a crazy man
And I'm playin' my crazy game, game
Does she really love me?
I think she does
Like the stars above me, I know because
When the sky is bright
Everything's alright
Flyin' me back to Memphis
Honey keep the oven warm
All the clouds are clearin'
And I think we're over the storm
Well I've been pickin' it up around me
Daisy I think I'm sane
Well I'm awful glad
And I guess you're really to blame, blame
Do you really love me?
I hope you do
Like the stars above me, how I love you
When it's cold at night
Everything's all right
Does she really love me?
I think she does
Like the stars above me, I know because
When the sky is bright
Hey, daddy just lost his pay
What did he do it for
It never made it through our door
He drank the whole week away
And what can a family say
There must be a better way
Now mama don't start to cry
Let's give him another try
Pick up the telephone
Tell him you want him home
To sit and watch the evening's pass
And readin' the leaves of grass
I'm caught in a closing door
It's pinning me to the floor
Now mama don't start to cry
Let's give him another try
I'm caught in a closing door
It's pinning me to the floor
Now mama don't start to cry
Let's give him another try
When we're old and gray
And the things we say
Are the things we really mean
So why cause a scene
When things ain't what they seem
'Cause the end result's the same
Now what can a family say
There must be a better way
Now mama don't start to cry
Muskrat, muskrat candlelight
Doin' the town and doin' it right
In the evenin'
It's pretty pleasin'
Muskrat Susie, Muskrat Sam
Do the jitterbug out in muskrat land
And they shimmy
And Sammy's so skinny
And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed
Singin' and jingin' the jango
Floatin' like the heavens above
It looks like muskrat love
Nibbling on bacon, chewin' on cheese
Sammy says to Susie "Honey, would you please be my missus?"
And she say yes
With her kisses
And now he's ticklin' her fancy
Rubbin' her toes
Muzzle to muzzle, now anything goes
As they wriggle, and Sue starts to giggle
And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed
Singin' and jingin' the jango
Floatin' like the heavens above
It looks like muskrat love
Some can see it's poetry
Come as you are in your broken car
The company
Carousel is wishing well
As a wonder night that spoke delight
To the company
Can you hear the summer calling you
Can you hear him call you now
Can you hear the summer calling you
Can you hear him call you now
Broken dream, just a token scheme
Silver man with a telegram
For the company
Scalding blue, come talk to you
Search the cave for the grave
Of the company
Can you hear the summer calling you
Can you hear him call you now
Can you hear the summer calling you
Can you hear him call you now
Can you hear the summer calling you
Can you hear him call you now
Can you hear the summer calling you
Can you hear him call you now
Can you hear the summer calling you
Can you hear him call you now
Can you hear the summer calling you
Thank the morning for bringing you
Hope you never turn your head and run
Thank the sun for shining too
Hope the darkness never comes again
What it does to me
Isn't good to see
You say that fortune brought you sailin' 'cross the sea
I don't believe you, I don't see how it's true
I think my dreamin' brought you here
If I wake tomorrow will you still be near?
Once a miser, twice a son
Three's the devil, four's a lot of fun
Fun for living one and all
Start a battle, who's the first to fall?
Hope it isn't me
Have to wait and see
You say that fortune brought you sailin' 'cross the sea
I don't believe you, I don't see how it's true
I think my dreamin' brought you here
If I wake tomorrow will you still be near?
I am thinkin' 'bout the days we led ourselves astray
In more than many ways
Here, within the time we've spent wonderin' what we meant
(Here)
By livin' all those years
(Here)
By livin' all those years
We are here with nothing to do today
It's something we can't explain
And tomorrow, where will we be tomorrow?
What will we see today?
I am thinkin' 'bout the days we led ourselves astray
In more than many ways
Here, within the time we've spent wonderin' what we meant
(Here)
By livin' all those years
(Here)
By livin' all those years
(Here)
By livin' all those years
(Here)
By livin' all those years
(Here)
By livin' all those years
Ah, get behind me Satan
Quit ravishing the land
Does it take the children
To make you understand?
Ah, all across the nation
People don't understand
Does it take the children
To make a better land?
Then, get behind me Satan
Quit ravishing the land
Does it take the children
To make you understand?
Does it take the children
Living on the riverside taking it all in my stride
Living on the riverside, I'm taking life like a big long ride
You stay on your side and I'll stay on mine
You take what you want and I'll take the sunshine
I said, "The world don't owe me no living"
I said, "The world don't owe me no living"
I said, "The world don't owe me no living"
Whenever it's a rainy day
I pack my troubles up in my room
I chase all the clouds away
I get myself back to the womb
But I know that you're gonna cry
Tears are runnin' from your eyes
The piece of my life you take
Is one that so often breaks
Whenever you are miles away
I think of you the way you are
Your shining lips, your auburn hair
And then it don't seem quite so far
Well, I know that you're gonna cry
Tears are runnin' from your eyes
The piece of my life you take
Is one that so often breaks
Well, I know that you're gonna cry
Tears are runnin' from your eyes
The piece of my life you take
Well, I had me a pigeon
By the name of Fred
But I done shot him
In the head
Had me a railroad
Down on the ridge
But I done blowed up
The bridge
Had me a dog
He was my best friend
But to him
I done put an end
Had me a farm
Sittin' pretty on the hill
But if you look
You'll see it ain't there still
I don't know why I done it
Honest, it ain't like me
But I ain't sad now I done it
One night, one in a million
Twilight, lastin' us through tomorrow
Nothing can come between us
That's what I wanna do
Today, there will be no competition
I think today might be
A one in a million for me
I've seen the sun drop below my roof line
I really think it might
Be a one in a million delight
All of my dreams go with you tonight
We'll walk down the roads of our impatience
And if one has to fall
He won't be too proud to call
Some doors I've closed just to reopen
And then sometimes I find
Everything wrong's turned to right
All of my dreams go with you tonight
One night, one in a million
Twilight, lastin' us through tomorrow
Nothing can come between us
I'll survive you, I will survive you
Well, it's too late, I know, to change the way we go
From this day on I want to stay on
Now that I've started learning
And the tides started turning
Well, it's here I want to stay
I'll let the moon announce my arrival
To every eye that cares to see
Just working on the art of survival
Where do we go from here, where do we go from here
I'm alive here, I can survive dear
Though the weather might change
From the wind to the rain
Well, my heart remains the same
I'll let the moon announce my arrival
To every eye that cares to see
Just working on the art of survival
Where do we go from here, where do we go from here
Looked out on a sea of trouble
And I tried to stall for awhile
It's so hard to answer every question
And it's hard to protect your heart anymore
I'll let the moon announce my arrival (I am alive)
To every eye that cares to see
Just working on the art of survival (but I wonder)
Where do we go from here
I'll let the moon announce my arrival (I am alive)
To every eye that cares to see
Just working on the art of survival (but I wonder)
Where do we go from here
I'll let the moon announce my arrival (I am alive)
To every eye that cares to see
Just working on the art of survival (but I wonder)
Wherever I go it's coming back to me
Whoever I've known they sent it back to me
I know the night will be all right
As long as your love keeps coming
Right back to me, right back to me
For all to see that our love is true
I put on a show, it's very clear to me
And when I am low I feel you're near to me
I know the night will be all right
As long as your love keeps coming
Right back to me, right back to me
For all to see that our love is true
I recall some years ago, when I truly was alone
Now at last all that is past
Now I'm never on my own.
I know my light will be shining bright
As long as your love keeps coming
Right back to me, right back to me
They tried to catch us dancin' on the line
They say we took it way too far this time
They gave us no breaks here
But we made our own I swear
I do, I do believe in you
After all that we've been through
I do, I do believe in you
And everything that we do
We used to run with the dangerous crowd
Where the flame was hot, burnin' out
We knew we'd have to give
It hit us where we lived
I do, I do believe in you
(I do believe in you)
After all that we've been through together
You took away my darkest nights
(Nights)
No one else could see the light
Runnin' blind day after day
Some things never wanna change, oh, oh
We knew we'd have to give
It hit us where we lived
I do, I do believe in you
(I do believe in you)
After all we've been through
You took away my darkest nights
(Nights)
No one else could see the light
I do, I do believe in you
(I do believe in you)
After all we've been through
You took away my darkest nights
(Nights)
Who's that knockin' on my door this mornin'
Can't they see I'm dead
There ain't nothin' left to do this mornin'
'Cept to make it to my bed
I was out till all hours
Raisin' Cain once again
I don't care about the hours
Only how much did I spend
'Cause I got a hangover
I won't make it through the day
I got a hangover
So just leave me where I lay
I started slow after sundown
I tiptoed right up till ten
Then after while I went downtown
It was the beginning of my end
Now I got a hangover
I won't make it through the day
I got a hangover
So just leave me where I lay
Oh, how am I gonna stake my claim on the future
When I cannot lift my head
Oh, I ain't nothin' but a drunken loser
And my liver's overfed
'Cause I got a hangover
I won't make it through the day
'Cause I got a hangover
So just leave me where I lay
Now I got a hangover
I won't make it through the day
'Cause I got a hangover
So just leave me where I lay
How'd you ever get so cool
Your mother must have kept you out of school
You never learned the golden rule
You think you've got a reputation
You had a smile on your face too soon
Too bad you never learned the tune
Without me, who loves you now
You had a smile on your face too soon
Too bad you never learned the tune
Without me, who loves you now
Go to who loves you now
And tell 'em you're sorry
Don't need eyes to see you
No one else can tell you how
We were so close to you
There was not anything we wouldn't do
For you
Nobody loves you now
Nobody loves you now
Nobody loves you now
Sittin' by the fireside with a book in your hand
Two lazy dogs sittin' watchin' your man
Three roses were bought with you in mind
Three roses were bought with you in mind
I've gotta stop and see what I'm on about
Stop and feel what I want I've gotta
Stop and see what I'm on about
Stop and feel what I want with you
Walkin' through a wonderland, I got you by the hand
Every move we made, just as if it were planned
Three roses were bought with you in mind
Three roses were bought with you in mind
I've gotta stop and see what I'm on about
Stop and feel what I want I've gotta
Stop and see what I'm on about
When the whistle blows
And the goodbye hugs are over
Then the train pulls out of the station and rolls towards the dawn
With that old suitcase in hand and a surefire plan gone over
This time it will work it can't go wrong
Cause I've got all of our dreams mixed up with my schemes
Rollin' around in my mind
I know the sun's gonna shine
Shine on me this time
In a week or two
I'll be writing to you with good news
And I can just see your smile as you read about all that I've done
Cause I've got all of our plans right here in my hands
And things are gonna work out just fine
Cause I know the sun's gonna shine
Shine on me this time
I've seen confusion in your eyes
I've seen uncertainty and fear
Keep on lookin' for tomorrow
Soon it will be here
This time, it's gonna be this time
This time, it's gotta be this time
This time, this time (it's never never)
This time, this time (the day is coming)
This time, this time (it's never never)
There was a time I walked the earth
As if I knew my way
It seems the more I got around
The less I had to say
I built a world of tumbling dice
Upon a field of sand
And now the more I try to give
The more that you demand
So we wait, then discard, house of cards
I took a pane of broken glass
And made a diamond ring
For every single blade of grass
Mm, of thee I sing
Why we wait, hesitate, I don't know
Don't tell me 'bout your world coming apart
Should have known about you girl, right from the start
So we wait, to discard, house of cards
I'm walking down a lonely road
To the edge of town
If you try and change my mind
I won't turn around
Tell me why I should try once again
I was falling for some time
Passing others, as they'd climb
In a moment very clear
You seemed to beckon, come here dear
Emma, sure as the sun's shining on you
I can tell I'm in your spell
Emma you're the one, oh
If they ever change your mind
Try to leave it all behind
If there ever comes a time
You go your way, and I'll go mine
Emma, sure as the moon circles over
Heaven knows, that's how it goes
Emma you're the one, oh
I can tell I'm in your spell
Emma, you're the one, oh
Snow is falling
Evening calling
On knees, a calling friends
Can't you see
Doesn't help to be
The end
Strolling through lost times with you
What were we thinking of
Could it be they jumped the queue
In the winter of our love
Baby, we should've known
Where we were going
Should've known
Where we were going
We're in the sea of destiny
In the winter of our love
Do you know we're alone out here
What am I thinkin' of
Did this come to the time of year
Called the winter of our love
Baby, we should've known
Where we were going
We should've known
Where we were going
We're in the sea of destiny
In the winter of our love
Oh, I needed you so
Everyday I sit beside you
On the bus to Madison Avenue
You work in the big gray store
With the revolving doors
You don't even know my name
I guess that I'm to blame
Don't know the right things to say
So I pretend away that I'm
CHORUS:
Rudolph Valentino
Pull up in my limousine
Oh, won't you come in out of the rain
Things will never be the same
And then just like Greta Garbo
You'll stare like there's no tomorrow
And you'll know what I'm thinking of
And right before your eyes I fall in love with you
Today I'm done with games
Gonna ask you for your name
Say I've been watching you
I even know what you do
Maybe today I'll tell you
Have found the nerve to sell you
On a guy like me
Who wishes that he could be your
CHORUS
And right before my eyes
You'll say you love me too
Time to make a change, time to rearrange
Sooner or later it's somethin' you've gotta do
Baby it's up to you, what are you gonna do?
Lately it's up to you, who's gonna help you through?
Every now and then, trying to pretend
I don't wanna see you sorry but that ain't true
Baby it's up to you, what are you gonna do?
Lately it's up to you, who's gonna see you through?
Every now and then, trying to pretend
I don't wanna see you sorry but that ain't true
Baby it's up to you, what are you gonna do?
Lately it's up to you, what are you gonna do?
Baby it's up to you, baby it's up to you
Baby it's up to you
Baby it's up to you, baby it's up to you
Amber cascades all over today
Then we walk on a crooked catwalk
Only to be delayed
Bubbles of blue burst into two
Eaten up by the incoming tide
Of the new
Then we call to the man who walks on the water
We talk of a plan to stop all the slaughter in view
It's in view
Granite charades are played in the rain
Till we fall through a sand castle window
To avoid the pain
Summer canoe paddles up to you
'Cause it's time for another beer run
Or something that's equally true
Then we call to the man who walks on the water
We talk of a plan to stop all the slaughter in view
Then we call to the man who walks on the water
We talk of a plan to stop all the slaughter in view
When the winds blow cold
Am I left alone
To remember times gone by
Was it all in vain
Did the faces change
And I never questioned why
Now the answer's clear
I need you here, 'cause
Everything I'll ever want
Everything I'll ever need
Is in you girl
Everything I'll ever want
Everything I'll ever need
Is in you
You are my love today
My life tomorrow
My very soul
And I've searched over the mountains
All through the shadows
Under the water, too
All to find
Just to find that
Everything I'll ever want
Everything I'll ever need
Is in you girl
Everything I'll ever want
Everything I'll ever need
Is in you
Now the answer's clear
I need you here, 'cause
Everything I'll ever want
Everything I'll ever need
Is in you girl
Everything I'll ever want
Everything I'll ever need
Is in you
Everything I'll ever want
Everything I'll ever need
Is in you girl
Everything I'll ever want
Everything I'll ever need
Is in you
Everything I'll ever want
Everything I'll ever need
Is in you girl
Everything I'll ever want
Everything I'll ever need
Fascination with the light in your hair
A celebration, nothing else can compare
An invitation to share my life with you
Stepping forward, reaching out for your hand
Hear the music of the sea on the sand
Like a vision rising out of the blue
Looking like a
Young moon in the heavens
Mother to the stars
Young moon guide us tonight
Elevation to a place high above
The combination, you and me and our love
Determination to spend my life with you
Looking at you face to face with my world
A quiet beauty not like just any girl
Moving slowly from the dark into view
Looking like a
Young moon in the heavens
Mother to the stars
Young moon guide us tonight
We are here in this moment
Shining twice as bright
We are here for you to see
Bright lights, long shadows
Tonight, we can handle
All of the doubts we may hold inside
It is a new day, things are different now
We've got each other
We'll keep looking for that young moon
We are here in this moment
Shining twice as bright
We are here for all to see
Young moon in the heavens
Mother to the stars
Young moon guide us tonight
We are here in this moment
There's a bright light that's shinin' in your face
You can't even see me at all
Oh, you look like an angel out of place
At this downtown devil's bar
Do you wanna dance girl
You said no thanks
And I watched you drift away
Well, you had your chance
You could've been the one
Tonight you could've been the only one
For the rest of my life
I'll be dreamin' of you when this dance is done
Knowin' you could've been the one
If I come back here I might see you again
And maybe you'd say yes
But it's a losin' game I'm tryin' to win
And I can only guess
Do you have somebody watchin'
Who watches you
As you let down your hair
By the light of the moon
You could've been the one
Tonight you could've been the only one
For the rest of my life
I'll be dreamin' of you when this dance is done
Knowin' you could've been the one
Knowin' you could've been the one
Where do you go when the night ends
Are you just a dream that fades into gray
Visions of you will not leave me alone
Why did you have to turn away
You could've been the one
Tonight you could've been the only one
For the rest of my life
I'll be dreamin' of you when this dance is done
Knowin' you could've been the one
Tonight you could've been the only one
For the rest of my life
I'll be dreamin' of you when this dance is done
Knowin' you could've been the one
Tonight you could've been the only one
For the rest of my life
Sometimes when I'm down on my luck, feelin' dizzy
My mind reels back to those days in the city
When early in the morning take a trip, it's so pretty
I could never understand why it wasn't so grand
I got a hankerin' for a wind wave
I got it through and through
I got a hankerin' for somethin' home made
It's got to be brand new
Early in the morning when the sun comes up
I'm gonna grab a fishin' pole and a sleepin' bag roll
Head out for the land of the dumb but the pretty
I won't stay long but you never know
I got a hankerin' for a wind wave
I got it through and through
I got a hankerin' for somethin' home made
It's got to be brand new
I got a hankerin' for a wind wave
I got it through and through
I got a hankerin' for somethin' home made
It's got to be brand new
Sometimes when I'm down on my luck, feelin' dizzy
My mind reels back to those days in the city
Sometimes when I'm down on my luck, feelin' dizzy
My mind reels back to those days in the city
Sometimes when I'm down on my luck, feelin' dizzy
I remember so long ago wondering
Could we stay this way forever
On this carousel turning and laughing
We just wanted to be together
And so we did it
We left on our own merry way
Into this world alone
In the sand at the sea we lay gazing
At the stars up above in the heavens
There was nothing to keep us from playing
We just wanted to be together
Why did we do it
We left on our own merry way
Into this world alone
Little did we know
Where we were going then
And when things got cold
Trying not to pretend
Ooo...
And still we did it
We left on our own merry way
Into this world alone
How were we to know
Things were so simple then
Somehow we lost hope
Falling to earth again
Then came that cold winter's day
When we ended it forever
After everything we used to say
There was nothing to keep us together
And so we did it
Each left on our own merry way
I spend the night in a chair thinking she'll be there
But she never comes
And I wake up and wipe the sleep from my eyes
And I rise to face another day
Without her
Without her, I can't go on
Without her, I can't go on
Without her, I can't go on
It's just no good anymore when you walk through the door
To an empty room
You go inside and set a table for one, it's no fun
When you have to spend a day
Without her, do do do...
Without her, do do do...
We burst the pretty balloon took us to the moon
It's such a beautiful thing
But it's ended now
And it sounds like a lie
I said I'd rather die than live without her
Without her
Love is a beautiful thing when it knows how to swing
And it moves like a clock
But the hands on the clock tell the lovers to part
And it's breaking my heart
To have to spend a day without her, do do do...
Can't go on without her
Without her, I can't go on
Without her, I can't go on
Without her, I can't go on
We burst the pretty balloon took us to the moon
It's such a beautiful thing
But it's ended now
And it sounds like a lie
I said I'd rather die than live without her
Without her
Without her, do do do...
It's so wrong without her
Can't go on
I spend the night in a chair thinking she'll be there
But she never comes
And I wake up and wipe the sleep from my eyes
And I rise to face another day
Without her, do do do...
Can't go on without her
There's no song without her
It's all wrong without her
Can't go on
Love is falling on me
Time will tell how much you mean to me
Can't stop looking in your eyes
Count the stars hiding up in the sky
Look who loves you when you're feelin' down
Just like you're the only one around
Look who loves you when you're feelin' down
Somewhere peace will be found
Past the clouds or somewhere near the ground
Who knows, who really cares?
Take your time as we both climb the stairs
Who cares if I live or die
Somebody's always asking why
Who loves you when you're feelin' down?
Who's gonna trust you now, boy?
Who's gonna trust you now, boy?
Who's gonna trust you now, boy?
Who's gonna trust you now, boy?
Look who loves you when you're feelin' down
Just like you're the only one around
Who loves you when you're feelin' down
Just like you're the only one around
Look who loves you when you're feelin' down
Just like you're only one around
Look who loves you when you're feelin' down
I hear you in my sleep
I've fallen in too deep
Sometimes it's hard to keep
Secrets, secrets
It's like a breath of air
I feel it everywhere
And still I can't declare
Secrets, secrets
Gotta keep whispering on the phone at night
Gotta keep whispering, gotta get it right
Gotta keep whispering 'til the morning light
Secrets, secrets
I need you by my side
Can't say I haven't tried
Sometimes it's hard to hide
Secrets, secrets
Gotta keep whispering on the phone at night
Gotta keep whispering, gotta get it right
Gotta keep whispering 'til the morning light
Secrets, secrets
Gotta keep whispering on the phone at night
Gotta keep whispering, gotta get it right
Gotta keep whispering 'til the morning light
Secrets, secrets
Secrets, secrets
Gotta keep whispering on the phone at night
Gotta keep whispering, gotta get it right
Gotta keep whispering 'til the morning light
Secrets, secrets
Gotta keep whispering on the phone at night
Gotta keep whispering, gotta get it right
Gotta keep whispering 'til the morning light
Secrets, secrets
Gotta keep whispering on the phone at night
Gotta keep whispering, gotta get it right
You can take your time
I'll be takin' mine
We don't have to hurry
Let the world go by
Tonight it's you and I
Feelin' others slowly
And though a simple touch
Can mean so much
Says all you need to know
We got all night
We got from sundown to sunrise
So don't let go, just hold me, baby
We got all night
Let's make it last forever
Take it nice and slow
We got all night
It's so good to know
You don't have to go
Stay until tomorrow
Lying side by side
Feel the senses slide
Let your feelings follow
'Cause tonight is ours
And through the hours
Love goes on and on
We got all night
We got from sundown to sunrise
So don't let go, just hold me, baby
We got all night
Let's make it last forever
Take it nice and slow
We got all night
Feels like we waited a lifetime to be alone tonight
So make it hard to forget you
'Cause we don't know when we can do it again
We got all night
We got from sundown to sunrise
So don't let go, just hold me, baby
We got all night
Let's make it last forever
Take it nice and slow
All night
All night
We got all night
We got from sundown to sunrise
So don't let go, just hold me, baby
We got all night
Let's make it last forever
Take it nice and slow
We got all night
We got from sundown to sunrise
So don't let go, just hold me, baby
We got all night
Let's make it last forever
Take it nice and slow
We got all night
We got from sundown to sunrise
So don't let go, just hold me, baby
We got all night
Let's make it last forever
From this day on, I'll watch the setting sun
As if it might be my last
And as I view the changing color hue
I see the long shadows pass
Van Go Gan, Van Go Gan
Get a a grip, if you can
Van Go Gan, Van Go Gan
Watch it slip through your hands
And through these eyes, all the starry skies
In my mind will explode
As I lie in my bed at night
I see my lifeline erode
Van Go Gan, Van Go Gan
Grab ahold, if you can
Van Go Gan, Van Go Gan
Something I understand
So much waiting, sentimental memories
Hesitating, maybe I'm just a wanna be
Van Go Gan, Van Go Gan
Get a grip if you can
Van Go Gan, Van Go Gan
Watch it slip through your hands
Van Go Gan, Van Go Gan
Walking 'round the room singing Stormy Weather
At Fifty Seven Mount Pleasant Street
Well it's the same room but everything's different
You can fight the sleep but not the dream
Things ain't cookin' in my kitchen
Strange affliction wash over me
Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire
Couldn't conquer the blue sky
Well there's a small boat made of china
It's going nowhere on the mantlepiece
Well do I lie like a loungeroom lizard
Or do I sing like a bird released
Everywhere you go you always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go you always take the weather
Everywhere you go you always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go you always take the weather, the weather with you
Everywhere you go you always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go you always take the weather
Everywhere you go you always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go you always take the weather
Take the weather, the weather with you
Everywhere you go you always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go you always take the weather
Everywhere you go you always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go you always take the weather
I was a child in the '60s
So unsure of my direction
I would follow where my friends and family would lead
I was strengthened
When I first heard the music
Sparked by inspiration
I was scarred by the pain
Of constant departures
I was wounded severely
At an early age
But my hopes hung high
On the thought of the future
I was happy to watch
The time go by
Eye to eye
Watching the time go by
Watching the time go by
Day for night
Watching the time go by
And then the world changed
There was hope in the distance
Til it raced up around us
And proceeded to shine
Like the moonlight
Full of reckless abandon
We would reach for the stars
'Cause there was room at the top
And food on the table
We were doing quite well
At such an early stage
There was no need to stop
Nor were we able
And no one could see
The time go by
Eye to eye
Watching the time go by
Watching the time go by
Day for night
Watching the time go by
There are moments I regret more than the rest
There are days I can't recall at all
Looking back now, there's not much that I would change
I am happy to watch
The time go by
Eye to eye
Watching the time go by
Watching the time go by
Eye to eye
Watching the time go by
Watching the time go by
Day for night
Watching the time go by
Watching the time go by
Why, oh why
Touched by a butterfly on my way home
Flying who knows where
Walking down that dusty road
Without a care
The sun was shining up in the country
And bells were ringing downtown
Clouds were moving slow and lazy
While I was kicking around
And feeling out the town and the country
Feeling out the town and the country
Up on the hill I got a better look
I watched the river run brown (watched the river run brown)
And then I heard those songbirds singing
The country sound
When I got home I sat in my kitchen
And turned the television on (turned the TV on)
The news wasn't good so I didn't listen
I started clicking around
Thinking of the town and the country
I was thinking of the town and the country
Thinking of the town and the country
In the morning everything will be the same
Open up your world (watch the children play)
In the sun or rain
Thinking of the town and the country
A thinking of the town and the country
Time goes on
People burning candles
Will I ever see you tomorrow
When will I ever be home from across the sea
When will I ever be free
When will it ever be, oh Lord, just you and me
When will I ever be free
Life goes on
People turning handles
Making sure I'll be here tomorrow
When will I ever be home from across the sea
When will I ever be free
When will it ever be, oh Lord, just you and me
When will I ever be free
When will I ever be home from across the sea
When will I ever be free
When will it ever be, oh Lord, just you and me
When will I ever be free
When will I ever be home from across the sea
When will I ever be free
When will I ever be home from across the sea
When will I ever be free
When will I ever be home from across the sea
To each his own it's plain to see
To walk alone you have to be
It's all for you and all for me
You'll see
I'm gonna miss you, yes, I will
No matter who you are, I'll love you still
For my life is my conscience, the seeds I sow
I just wanted to let you know
Familiar faces that I've seen
Turnin' red and turnin' green
They just got caught with writing on their sleeve
I guess I'll leave
I'm gonna miss you, yes, I will
No matter who you are, I'll love you still
Will you cancel my papers and lock the door
'Cause I ain't gonna be 'round no more?
Will I make it through the summer
Breaking ties with the old and new?
Losing one just gains another
There is nothing I can do
I'm gonna miss you, yes, I will
No matter who you are I'll love you still
For my life is my conscience, the seeds I sow
And I just wanted to let you know
I'm gonna miss you, yes, I will
No matter who you are, I'll love you still
Will you cancel my papers and lock the door
'Cause I ain't gonna be 'round no more
I'm gonna miss you, yes, I will
No matter who you are I'll love you still
For my life is my conscience, the seeds I sow
Sometimes late when things are real
And people share the gift of gab between themselves
Some are quick to take the bait
And catch the perfect prize that waits among the shells
But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn't, didn't already have
And Cause never was the reason for the evening
Or the tropic of Sir Galahad.
So please believe in me
When I say I'm spinning round, round, round, round
Smoke glass stain bright color
Image going down, down, down, down
Soap suds green like bubbles
Oh, Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn't, didn't already have
And Cause never was the reason for the evening
Or the tropic of Sir Galahad
So please believe in me
When I say I'm spinning round, round, round, round
Smoke glass stain bright color
Image going down, down, down, down
Soap suds green like bubbles
No, Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn't, didn't already have
And Cause never was the reason for the evening
Or the tropic of Sir Galahad
When the rain comes down in the summer time
The leaves start dripping when the sun starts to shine
Oh, ain't it a shame
Oh, I mean about the rain
When I'm alone in my bed alright
I can hear the rain fight the night
Oh, ain't it a shame
Oh, I mean about the rain
Rain, ain't it a shame
Nobody likes it when the rain starts to spill
I never did and I never will
We're feedin' the world but we can't feed ourselves
They tell us don't plant now but there's nothing on the shelves
If someone is watchin' down from above
What in the world is he thinkin' of
Daisy I think we must sell the farm
And you know I don't wanna cause alarm
The times are a changin', the money is gone
Where do we go from here, where do we go from here
If someone is watchin' down from above
What in the world is he thinkin' of
Daisy I think we must sell the farm
And you know I don't wanna cause you harm
The times are a changin', the money is gone
Where do we go from here, where do we go from here
Golden rings and hair tied with ribbon
Early spring when winter's forgiven
Laughing past pleasures warm by the fire
Come inside
Silver vase, take a drink flower petal
Whistling songs like steam from the kettle
Carry silence like driftwood that rides
On the tide, on the tide, on the tide
Tall treasures, large as Alaska
There forever, never put out to pasture
Then the night will fall
Bringing peace to all
Darkness there together
Soft light bells and tea, draw the curtain
China cups, some shatter for certain
Laughin past pleasures warm by the fire
Come inside
Tall treasures, large as Alaska
There forever, never put out to pasture
Red river runs here beside us
Sunrise sunset
Can't sleep can't forget
Thought I heard your footsteps
Coming home to me
Love comes, love grows
Sure as the wind blows
Like the single red rose
You will have your day
Now is the moment to come to your senses
Tear down the walls and set fire to the fences
Run away, run away
L.A. earthquake
Midnight ground shake
Somewhere in the heartache
There is hope you'll see
Now is the moment and now is forever
Now is the time it will all come together
Run, you gotta run
Once it was only a question of giving
Now we're destroying the life that we're living
Run, you gotta run
Run away, run away
You gotta run away, run away
Sunrise sunset
Can't sleep can't forget
Thought I heard your footsteps
I've had time to write a book
About the way you act and look
But I haven't got a paragraph
Words are always getting in my way
Anyway, I love you
That's all I have to tell you
That's all I've got to say
And now, I'd like to make a speech
About the love that touches each
But stumbling, I would make you laugh
I feel as though my tongue were made of clay
Anyway, I love you
That's all I have to tell you
I'm not a man of poetry
Music isn't one with me
It runs from me
It runs from me
And I tried to write a symphony
Once when I was searching
But I lost the melody
Somewhere out of reach
I only finished half, far away
And finish I suppose I never may
In a place I could not find
Anyway, I love you or heart obey
That's all I have to tell you
Now that I'm a woman
That's all I've got to say
Now I know the way
That's all I've got to say
Now I know the way
Someday woman, someday will come
Someday woman, we'll get along
Well it's easy to say I'm right
And so easy to see I'm wrong
Someday woman, we'll get along
Someday woman, we'll understand
Someday woman, I'll be your man
Well it's easy to say I'm right
And so easy to see I'm wrong
Someday woman, we'll get along
Someday our hearts will come together
We'll live this dream forever
We'll see all we've been through
Someday for me and you
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I keep hopin' someday soon will come for me
I keep lookin' there's too much to see
Someday woman, way down the line
Someday woman, we'll turn out fine
Well it's easy to say I'm right
And so easy to see I'm wrong
Someday woman, we'll get along
Someday (someday) our hearts will come together (will come together girl)
We'll live this dream forever (someday we will)
We'll see all we've been through (you know it's true)
Someday for me and you
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Well I tried to make it Sunday
But I got so damn depressed
That I set my sights on Monday
And I got myself undressed
I ain't ready for the altar
But I do agree there's times
When a woman sure
Can be a friend of mine
Well, I keep on thinkin' 'bout you
Sister golden hair surprise
And I just can't live without you
Can't you see it in my eyes?
I been one poor correspondent
And I been too, too hard to find
But it doesn't mean
You ain't been on my mind
Will you meet me in the middle
Will you meet me in the air?
Will you love me just a little
Just enough to show you care?
Well I tried to fake it
I don't mind sayin'
I just can't make it
Well, I keep on thinkin' 'bout you
Sister golden hair surprise
And I just can't live without you
Can't you see it in my eyes?
Now I been one poor correspondent
And I been too, too hard to find
But it doesn't mean
You ain't been on my mind
Will you meet me in the middle
Will you meet me in the air?
Will you love me just a little
Just enough to show you care?
Well I tried to fake it
I don't mind sayin'
Life today is frittered away
You've got to simplify
Each in our own way we live for today
And never know why
To stand in the road
And feel the wind blow
Across the sands of time
'Cause that's the simple life
You know I'd like to make it mine
Take your cars and your bars
And trade 'em all in for a nice wood fire
At the end of the day I know you will say
You couldn't get much higher
To stand in the road
And feel the wind blow
Across the sands of time
'Cause that's the simple life
You know I'd like to make it mine
To stand in the road
And feel the wind blow
Across the sands of time
'Cause that's the simple life
You know I'd like to make it mine
You know I'd like to make it mine
It's a long, long way from here to there
Silent shadows over the dateline
We both stare at the same blue moon
Under the sheltering sky
Some say love is the rarest word
Some say truth's just a point of contention
I know we have a love never mentioned
Under the sheltering sky
Will we wake from an endless dream
Will our worlds come tumbling around us
I can hear a silent scream
Crying in the night
Am I fading in your eyes
Is my memory clear as the day we met
For now we must both remain
Under the sheltering sky
Ain't it foggy outside?
All the planes have been grounded
Ain't the fire inside?
Let's all go stand around it
Funny, I've been there and you've been here
And we ain't had no time to drink that beer
'Cause I understand you've been running from the man
That goes by the name of the Sandman
He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye
Of a hurricane that's abandoned
Ain't the years gone by fast?
I suppose you have missed them
Oh, I almost forgot to ask
Did you hear of my enlistment?
Funny, I've been there and you've been here
And we ain't had no time to drink that beer
'Cause I understand you've been running from the man
That goes by the name of the Sandman
He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye
Of a hurricane that's abandoned
I understand you've been running from the man
That goes by the name of the Sandman
He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye
Of a hurricane that's abandoned
I understand you've been running from the man
That goes by the name of the Sandman
He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye
Of a hurricane that's abandoned
I understand you've been running from the man
That goes by the name of the Sandman
He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye
Life could be a dream
If I could take you up in paradise up above
If you would tell me I'm the only one that you love
Life could be a dream sweetheart
Hello, hello again
Sh boom I'm hoping we'll meet again
Oh life could be a dream
If only all my precious plans would come true
If you would let me spend my whole life loving you
Life could be a dream sweetheart
Now, every time I look at you
Something is on my mind
If you'd do what I want you to
Baby, we'd be so fine
Oh life could be a dream
If I could take you up in paradise up above
If you would tell me I'm the only one that you love
Life could be a dream sweetheart
Sh boom, sh boom, ya da da da ... da da da
Sh boom, sh boom, ya da da da ... da da da
Sh boom, sh boom, ya da da da ... da da da
Sh boom
Sh boom, sh boom, ya da da da ... da da da
Sh boom, sh boom, ya da da da ... da da da
Sh boom, sh boom, ya da da da ... da da da
Sh boom
Now, every time I look at you
Something is on my mind
If you'd do what I want you to
Baby, we'd be so fine
Oh life could be a dream
If I could take you up in paradise up above
If you would tell me I'm the only one that you love
Life could be a dream sweetheart
Hello, hello again
Sh boom I'm hoping we'll meet again
Life could be a dream
Life could be a dream sweetheart
Life could be a dream
If only all my precious plans would come true
If you would let me spend my whole life loving you
Life could be a dream sweetheart
First came the winter
And then came the morning
Bright coral branches that pass you again
Down from the meadow and onto the seashore
Came the vast checkerboard kingdom of men
Sun radiates gold infrarays
Time to prepare for the fall
Harvest the corn, watch for the storm
Soon we will hear winter call
Ice on the pond, won't stay too long
Too thin to walk it today
Ice on the pond, something went wrong
Frost must be lost on the way
Evening is falling
The tree is a silhouette
As seen by the teddy bear
Watching his den
Spring came so quickly
That I did not see her
Just turn around
And she's coming again
Wind chimes along, rising at dawn
Seasons in circles too match
Each comes along, singing his song
There you are crying grown up tears
But they're coming from your childhood fears
I know you're only a kid at heart
In this world of compromise
Come over here and dry your eyes
Sometimes everything falls apart, I know
When you're only a kid at heart
From a childhood memory (my heart)
To a place we'll never see
Look what we've done
Once you were safe and warm
Now life's an endless storm
Always waking you in the dark
Now you're built of faith and fear
Trying to make it through the year
It's hard to figure out a place to start, I know
When you're only a kid at heart
From a childhood memory (you know my heart)
To a place we'll never see
Look what you've done
In the time it takes
Through each mistake
See what you've become
I know you're only a kid at heart
(I know you're only a kid at heart)
I know you're only a kid at heart
Started out as a bedtime story
Turned into a fight for glory
Sometimes it's hard to make your mark
When you're only a kid at heart
Hard to tell
Where the stories end
And nighttime dreams begin
When you're only a kid at heart
(I know you're only a kid at heart)
One day's duning, Tuesday's dreams
The ever changing world
Interfering sights unseen
The never ending swirl
You are to me the only one
Go out and have your fun
Don't be surprised if the message you find
Changes all the things you do
Someone's drawing a lightning streak
Over my poor head
Someone else's floorboards creak
We might as well be dead
This is to me the only way
I guess you've had your say
Don't be confused if the wording you choose
Changes all the things you say
Written by jimmy webb, ©1982
Found on the last unicorn soundtrack.
Once, I can't remember
I was, long ago, someone strange
I was innocent and wise
And full of pain
Now that I'm a woman
Everything is strange
Once, when I was searching
Somewhere out of reach
Far away
In a place I could not find
Or heart obey
Now that I'm a woman
Everything is changed
Everything is changed
Give me all your money, any time I ask
Desperate situation, rally to the task
Playing God, shine in all his glory
Playing God
Warm you till you can sleep at night
Somewhere in your memory
Lies the dormant seed
Pacify your guilt now, and satisfy my greed
Playing God, climb the golden ladder
Playing God
Warm you up so you'll sleep at night
Between the ether and the opium lies the land of no regret
Of what we are and what we might become
Are we walking on the water yet?
Playing God, shine in all his glory
Playing God, warm you up so you'll sleep at night
Playing God, climb the golden ladder
Playing God
Playing God, shine in all his glory
Playing God, warm you up so you'll sleep at night
I never found the time
To see things quite through
I never found the time
To give them to you
If living don't come easy
Don't stop your own voice
'Cause the worst part of living
Is havin' no choice
Tell me a story
Tell it with your eyes
I'm gonna stop believin'
If I hear another lie
Drink some cold water
Your mouth's getting dry
If I only had the time
To see things right through
I'd give up all my treasures
And send them to you
Then livin' would seem easy
No lights and no noise
It is just me and my lady
And the echo of her voice
Tell me a story
Tell it with your eyes
I'm gonna stop believin'
If I hear another lie
Drink some cold water
Your mouth's getting dry
I never found the time
To see into my lady
And memories don't die
But with time become hazy
I never found the time
To see into my lady
And memories don't die
But with time become hazy
I never found the time
To see into my lady
And memories don't die
But with time become hazy
I never found the time
I always thought that I wanted a long, new, shiny Cadillac
That a real man wears five hundred dollar suits upon his back
I always thought that I needed a big, old house with a million dollar view
But baby, since we fell in love, all I needed is you
Waking up (waking up) to my American dream
She's a long haired, blue eyed, country girl
She's better than a fantasy
Waking up (waking up) to my American dream
And I would not trade the whole wide world
For what she means to me
She's pretty as the moonlight on the gulf of Mexico
And her heart is pure and true as any California gold
I put her on a pedastel like Lady Liberty
Know there is no finer girl from sea to shining sea
I'm waking up (waking up) to my American dream
She's a long haired, blue eyed, country girl
She's better than a fantasy
Waking up (waking up) to my American dream
And I would not trade the whole wide world
For what she means to me
Waking up (waking up) to my American dream
She's a real live, blue eyed, country girl
The best thing I've ever seen
And I would not trade the whole wide world
For what she means to me
I'm waking up (waking up) to my American dream
Another evening, the rain falling down
It's been a long time, since you've come around
A little laughter, and we had it all
It's so misleading, the things you recall
Turning the pages
We open the cages
Now I know that
Nothing's so far away as yesterday, wo, oh
Nothing's so far away
Take a look at the person inside
You realize there is nothing to hide
I remember the things that we said
So very simple the lives that we led
Turning the pages
We open the cages
Now I know that
Nothing's so far away as yesterday, wo, oh
Nothing's so far away
I recall how it used to be
And I can feel it, feel it surrounding me
Turning the pages
We open the cages
Now I know that
Nothing's so far away as yesterday, wo, oh
Nothing's so far away
I recall how it used to be
And I can feel it, feel it surrounding me
Oh, nothing's so far away as yesterday, wo, oh
Nothing's so far away as yesterday, wo, oh
Nothing's so far away as yesterday, wo, oh
Written by randy goodrum, ©1984
Found on perspective.
Nobody can tell me I didn't try anything
I didn't know what to do to get over you
I tried magic and potions but I could not shake you loose
From my dreams, strange as it seems
It's like you never left at all
I guess I just can't forget you
It's like you never left at all
Somethin' inside me just won't let you go
Took a vacation for a month, maybe more
Made some new friends in places I've never been
But recuperation hasn't even yet begun
I'm still reachin' over for you when the morning comes
It's like you never left at all
I guess I just can't forget you
It's like you never left at all
Somethin' inside me just won't let you go
You're only illusion but you're standin' in my way
And you've got your life, it's a new life
But mine can't seem to change
It's like you never left at all
I guess I just can't forget you
It's like you never left at all
Somethin' inside me just won't let you go
Somethin' inside me just won't let you go
Sometimes when you're there all alone
Someone will call you at home
You don't want to but pick up the phone
Might be your love
Might be your heart
Someone to hold you
All alone in the dark
Someone who you thought would belong
Came passing, moved right along
You don't know why but something went wrong
Might be your love
Might be your heart
Someone to hold you
All alone in the dark
Someone to hold you, someone to hold
Someone to hold you, someone to hold
Some girl who you watched at her desk
Came dancing on with her dress
And she looked up and wouldn't you guess
She might be your love
Might be your heart
Someone to hold you
All alone in the dark
Might be your love (might be your love)
Might be your heart (might be your heart)
Someone to hold you
All alone in the dark
(Someone to hold you)
Might be your love (Someone to hold)
Might be your heart (Someone to hold you)
Might be your love (Someone to hold)
Might be your love (might be your love)
Might be your heart (might be your heart)
Someone to hold you
All alone in the dark
Might be your love (might be your love)
Might be your heart (might be your heart)
Someone to hold you
All alone in the dark
Might be your love (might be your love)
Might be your heart (might be your heart)
Someone to hold you
First she says kings
Then he says aces
It gets pretty hard for a lady to tell
The hearts from the faces
Don't be afraid, I know I will bring you home
Don't be afraid, I know I will bring you home
To me, to me, me
I want to carry you across a threshold of fireflies
And violet stones, all alone
Volcanic silver clouds fill pools and canyons around us
All around
But molten love
Cooled by your kisses
Take me down, take me down
So don't be afraid, I know I will bring you home
Don't be afraid, I know I will bring you home
To me, me, to me, me
Molten love
Cooled by your kisses
Take me down, take me down
Yes, molten love
Cooled by your kisses
Take me down, take me down
So don't be afraid, I know I will bring you home
No, don't be afraid, I know I will bring you home
Oh, don't be afraid, I know I will bring you home
Don't be afraid, I know I will bring you home
Railroad smoke sifting through the strong southern sky
I always knew that one day I'd see you die
Said the man at the junction
To the boy in conjunction
With the murder of a man
With the murder of a man
Railroad smoke sifting through the strong southern sky
I always knew that one day I'd see you die
Said the man at the junction
To the boy in conjunction
With the murder of a man
With the murder of a man
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na ...
With the murder of a man
Like you said, you'd never get used to it
But it's lost that old surprise
Time comes and goes so quiet now
Leaves emptiness behind our eyes
Oh, darling, if I could spare us
From an hour of the pain
Like you said, you'd never get used to it
But love's worn out again
Winter's here, bring the blankets out
To cover up the cold
I'm dreamin' of the good night's sleep
Like I used to know in days of old
You told me you felt all alone
But you did not tell me when
Like you said, you'd never get used to it
But love's worn out again
Love's worn out again, darling
It's moved around the bend, darling
There's no telling when
We'll feel it again
Oh, maybe I can't see what's plainly in my view
Oh, I wish I was a better man, maybe it's just you
But there's something goin' on here
Like a wound that will not mend
Like you said, you'd never get used to it
But love's worn out again
Love's worn out again, darling
It's moved around the bend, darling
There's no telling when
We'll feel it again
Love's worn out again, darling
It's moved around the bend, darling
There's no telling when
We'll feel it again
Love's worn out again, darling
It's moved around the bend, darling
There's no telling when
Oh, I wish that I could find the reason why
Living isn't really giving
Oh, I wish that I could find the reason why
Living isn't really giving
But I don't care how long it takes
For the days to get nice
'Cause me and my friends, you know we're ready
And willing to pay the price
Oh, la la la ....
Way deep down inside
I know I'm on a free ride
But when the green light turns to red
Who is living, who is dead
They've taken out the river
And they've put in a cement road
It's made the going a whole lot lighter
But made a much heavier load
I don't know how long I can go on like this
Don't know how long I can go on like this
Don't know how long I can go on like this
I see the light switch on the wall
With no legs I'm still tall
We might not make it at all
I can see the river and the little place where I would swim
Where did it all begin
I wish I knew
Oh, I wish that I could find the reason why
Living isn't really giving
Isn't really giving
There will be no more confusion
There will be no more ball and chain
I will cease with the illusions
And I will ask of you the same
When you love someone
It's gonna take some time
Come on and save me, save me
Pull me from deep water
Give the kiss of life
Now is the moment treasured
Breathe the kiss of life
Into the words we speak, into the words we speak
And coming across the meadow
Like a slow moving train
Long determination
Will forever remain
When you love someone
It's gonna take some time
Come on and save me, save me
Pull me from deep water
Give the kiss of life
Now is the moment treasured
Breathe the kiss of life
Into the words we speak, into the words we speak
Give the kiss, give the kiss of life
Give the kiss, give the kiss of life
(Rose? Rose? I don't know if I have the right number but I have some bad news to tell you.)
One full circle, round, round, round
One more calendar coming down
Late editions scandalize
Every headline full of lies
Houses in white
Oh how they take me back
There was a time
When I lived inside
But now I think twice
I walk quickly by houses in white
Once I saw it all so clear
Miles and miles away from here
The bridge of trust was burned back there
And we all have ashes in our hair
Houses in white
Oh how they take me back
There was a time
When I lived inside
But now I think twice
I walk quickly by houses in white
Pilot, pilot, fly me home
And let me sleep with clouds below
'Cause mixed emotions, they overflow
And now's the time to be alone
Houses in white
Oh how they take me back
There was a time
When I lived inside
But now I think twice
I walk quickly by houses in white
Houses in white
Oh how they take me back
There was a time
When I lived inside
But now I think twice
I watch you walking down a city street
I see you almost every day
I wonder what it is you are looking for
You seem to search, never find
Your face reflected in a window pane
A beauty in a picture frame
If only I could see inside your heart
And find the answer you're looking for
Like a dancer on the stage
You speak with each and every step
Of a woman who is searching for a better way
If I had the strength I'd help you
Only I'm the same as you
We are the last, last two to dance
From the moment I first saw you
Moving through the crowd
It was just as if a spotlight had followed you
If I could get a little closer
Then I wouldn't miss my cue
We'd be the last, last two to dance
I feel the movement of a symphony
As you glide across the floor
If only I could see inside your heart
And be the answer you're looking for
Like a dancer on the stage
You speak with each and every step
Of a woman who is searching for a better way
If I had the strength I'd help you
Only I'm the same as you
We are the last, last two to dance
We are the last, last two to dance, oh
If I had the strength I'd help you
Only I'm the same as you
We are the last, last two to dance
I wonder how long you'll keep walking by
Hey, Jesus hey it's me
Now I've gone international
And become very rational
As you decree
Hey, Jesus it's our day
Now I can bring them home to you
Though I may loose out on a few
Who care to stray
We'll make them see international
We'll make them be international
Like you and me
Hey, Jesus it's OK
Now we have common interests
And we can help along the rest
To be like we
We'll make them see internationl
We'll make them be international
Like you and me
We'll make them see internationl
We'll make them be international
Like you and me
Hey, Jesus you'll agree
They're going downhill very fast
And it don't look as though they'll last
Till judgement day
We'll make them see internationl
We'll make them be international
Like you and me
International, international, international, international
The sand, feel the waves between your toes
Can you feel the way the old wind blows
From one to another
Here to discover
Indian summer
Indian summer
Honeysuckle vines outside the door
Dandelion wine and so much more
We can discover
Into each other
Indian summer
Indian summer
Indian summer
Indian summer
Night fall, fireflies light up the lawn
Pink skies mirrored on the sea at dawn
From one to another
Here to discover
Indian summer
Indian summer
Indian summer
James Holladay was a working man
He made his living on the land
But living alone was too much to stand
So Jim found a woman to understand
Two years passed living in joy
When out of the blue came a baby boy
Just to keep up the family name
Mister Holladay said we'll call him little James
So you better run, run, run, run (Jim you gotta get away)
Jim, you gotta get away
You better better run, run, run, run (Jim you gotta get away)
Jim, you gotta get away
You better better run, run, run, run (Jim you gotta get away)
Jim, you gotta get away (Jim you gotta get away)
Little James became a working man
He followed his pa right across the land
At the end of the day when his work was done
He'd sit and watch the setting southern sun
Nineteen years had come and gone
Little Jimmy had grown up big and strong
He didn't know that his time had come
When they handed him a shiny black gun
So his pa said, run, run, run, run, run, run (Jim you gotta get away)
Jim, you gotta getaway
So you better run, run, run, run, run, run, run (Jim you gotta get away)
Jim, you gotta get away
So you better run, run, run, run, run (Jim you gotta get away)
Jim, you gotta get away (Jim you gotta get away)
Run, run, run, run, run, run (Jim you gotta get away)
Jim, you gotta getaway
You better better run, run, run, run, run, run (Jim you gotta get away)
Jim, you gotta get away
You better better run, run, run, run, run, run (Jim you gotta get away)
Jim, you gotta get away
All you brothers and sisters
Lookin' for a better way
Why don't you all go to the country
Hitch a ride from the city
Get away for the day
The summertime is gonna take you
People playing music won't forsake you
But when it's hot
You gotta go all the way
All you dancers and twisters
Lookin' for a place to play
Why don't you all go to the country
People in the city
Get away for the day
I don't know how I'm gonna do it
But someone else will push me to it
But when it's hot
You gotta go all the way
The summertime is gonna take you
People playing music won't forsake you
I don't know how I'm gonna do it
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
America
Hark the herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!
Peace on earth and mercy mild
God and sinners reconciled"
Joyful, all ye nations rise
Join the triumph of the skies
With angelic host proclaim:
"Christ is born in Bethlehem"
Hark! The herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!"
Christ by highest heav'n adored
Christ the everlasting Lord!
Late in time behold Him come
To the Earth from Heaven's Door
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see
Hail the incarnate Deity
Pleased as man with man to dwell
Jesus, our Emmanuel
Hark! The herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!"
Hail the heav'n-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Son of Righteousness!
Light and life to all He brings
Rise with healing in His wings
Joyful, all ye nations rise
Join the triumph of the skies
With angelic host proclaim:
"Christ is born in Bethlehem"
Hark! The herald angels sing
In this world of lost horizons
Where your dreams burn fast
But your nights go slower
Ever find that you're compromising
All your hopes and fears
Just to get to know her
So you take a walk down the goodbye highway
The hello goodbye way
It's a long long road
Ever take a stroll down the goodbye highway
The some other time way
Try to ease your load
She was never one for social graces
And hangin' out with the midnight faces
Wore me out
I guess the thoughts of the nights alone
Or the time waiting for the telephone
Removed the doubt
So we took a ride down the goodbye highway
The hello goodbye way
It's the longest road
Soon you're fighting over the yours or my way
The do or die way's
The only way you know
So you stand up for the things that you're losing
Out on but it's all so confusing
You hold on but it slips right through your hands
Guess it's so long with a change of direction
Goodbye gotta make my connection
Solo, as you head on out the door, forever more
So you take a walk down the goodbye highway
The hello goodbye way
It's a one way road
Ever find yourself down the goodbye highway
The some other time way
Watchin' a stretch of road
Miles of light explode
Driftin' off a thing
I'd never done before
Watchin' the crowd roll in
Out go the lights, it begins
A feelin' in my bones
I never felt before
People always told me
That bars are dark and lonely
And talk is often cheap
And filled with air
Sure sometimes they thrill me
But nothin' could ever chill me
Like the way they make
The time just disappear
Feelin' you here again
Hot on my skin again
Feelin' good, a thing
I'd never known before
What does it mean to feel
Millions of dreams come real?
A feelin' in my soul
I'd never felt before
And you, you always told me
No matter how long it holds me
If it falls apart
Or makes us millionaires
You'll be right here forever
We'll go through this thing together
And on Heaven's golden shore
Drove through the valley on my way to the sea
I was lookin' for the answer to what's botherin' me
Sat there all day and I stared at the blue
There's no denyin' I was thinkin' of you
Hell's on fire, heaven's freezin'
And I love you baby without good reason
I walked to the corner, watch the world go by
Hands in my pockets and my head in the sky
What does it matter now that everything is fine
When I can't eat, sleep, or even walk a straight line
Hell's on fire, heaven's freezin'
And I love you baby without good reason
Hell's on fire, heaven's freezin'
And I love you baby without good reason
But it's hard, you make it hard, ah
When I first met you I was barely alive
Had no direction baby you had the drive
We headed out on the wild open road
Till we broke down from the weight of the load
Hell's on fire, heaven's freezin'
And I love you baby without good reason
Hell's on fire, heaven's freezin'
And I love you baby without good reason
I drove through the valley on my way to the sea
And I was lookin' for the answer to what's botherin' me
Sat there all day and I stared at the blue, wow
There's no denyin' I was thinkin' of you, but
Hell's on fire, heaven's freezin'
And I love you baby without good reason
Hell's on fire, heaven's freezin'
Coming in from London from over the pole
Flying in a big airliner
Chicken flying everywhere around the plane
Could we ever feel much finer
Coming into Los Angeles
Bringing in a couple of keys
Don't touch my bags if you please
Mister Customs man, man
There's a guy with a ticket to Mexico
Could he ever look much stranger
Walking in the hall with his things and all
Smiling, said he was the Lone Ranger
Coming into Los Angeles,
Bringing in a couple of keys
Don't touch my bags if you please
Mister Customs man, man
Hip woman walking on a moving floor
Tripping on the escalator
There's a man in the line, and she's blowing his mind
Thinking that he's already made her
Coming into Los Angeles,
Bringing in a couple of keys
Don't touch my bags if you please
Mister Customs man, man
Coming into Los Angeles,
Bringing in a couple of keys
Don't touch my bags if you please
Mister Customs man, man
Coming into Los Angeles,
Bringing in a couple of keys
Don't touch my bags if you please
Secret calls long after hours
Suspicions rise, why does she whisper
Someone's hiding something
What's going on
She smiles and finds an excuse to go out
Meets him somewhere on the edge of town
For one more night of real love
How can it be wrong
'Cause when they turn out the lights
In their rented room tonight
Two lovers won't be lonely anymore
When it's a desperate love, risk is high
Cheating hearts making alibis
In the shadows someone is waiting
Waiting for their lover to come tonight
A cheater's conscience has no pride
To spend the night with another man's wife
Lie to his best friend and never think twice
He knows where to find what he longs to have
And do anything 'cause he wants her that bad
Love has many faces, faces to hide
'Cause when they turn out the lights
In their rented room tonight
Two lovers won't be lonely anymore
When it's a desperate love, risk is high
Cheating hearts making alibis
In the shadows someone is waiting
Waiting for their lover to come tonight
When it's a desperate love, risk is high
Cheating hearts making alibis
In the shadows someone is waiting
Waiting for their lover to come tonight
When it's a desperate love (desperate love), risk is high
Cheating hearts making alibis
In the shadows someone is waiting
Waiting for their lover to come tonight
When it's a desperate love (desperate love), risk is high
Cheating hearts making alibis
In the shadows someone is waiting
I took a walk around the yard
Dug the flowers til it got too hard
I smoked my first pack of cigarettes today
And I watched the children play
And then I went down, down to Lucy's old Cafe
Put a half a case away
I took a sleeping pill and tried to watch TV
But you know baby the leading lady looked too much like you for the likes of me
And I woke up crying in my sleep
I was talking to your pillow
And I reached out to touch your hand
And knocked the phone off the nightstand
And the operator said, "May I help you please?"
No thanks baby there's nothing you can really do for me
I just had a bad dream, that's all that's wrong with me
I just had a bad dream
Went out to loosen up the car
Some how I wound up at the rainbow bar
I had a scotch and soda on the run
But I didn't get too far
And then I ran down, down some friends I used to know
Dragged them out to see the show
I drew myself a bath and I tried to read your book
But you know baby this time it just didn't seem quite worth the time it took
And I woke up crying in my sleep
I was talking to your pillow
And I reached out to touch your hand
And knocked the phone off the nightstand
And the operator said, "May I help you please?"
No thanks baby there's nothing you can really do for me
I just had a bad dream, that's all that's wrong with me
I just had a bad dream, that's all that's wrong with me
Crying in my sleep
Crying in my sleep (I woke up crying)
Crying in my sleep (Crying trying to find her)
Crying in my sleep (I woke up crying)
Crying in my sleep (Crying trying to find her)
Heaven may be an answer
If you're lookin' for Eden in the sky
On your waters I see a strange reflection
Rumor has it, I'll see you when I die
Everyone, I meet is from California
There's dancin' in the streets in California
In California you watch the shadow dancer
Floating gently, gently on the sea
In California you're such a strange romancer
Come and see me when the world has set you free
Everyone, I meet is from California
There's dancin' in the streets in California
Everyone, I meet is from California
All the leaves are brown
And the sky is gray
I went for a walk
On a winter's day
I'd be safe and warm
If I was in L.A.
California dreamin'
On such a winter's day
I stopped into a church
(Stopped into a church)
I passed along the way
(Passed along the way)
You know, I got down on my knees
(Got down on my knees)
And I pretend to pray
(I pretend to pray)
Oh, the preacher likes the cold
(Preacher likes the cold)
He knows I'm gonna stay
(Knows I'm gonna stay)
Oh, California dreamin'
(California dreamin')
On such a winter's day
All the leaves are brown
(The leaves are brown)
And the sky is gray
(And the sky is gray)
I went for a walk
(I went for a walk)
On a winter's day
(On a winter's day)
If I didn't tell her
(If I didn't tell her)
I could leave today
(I could leave today)
Oh, California dreamin'
(California dreamin')
On such a winter's day
(California dreamin')
On such a winter's day
(California dreamin')
On such a winter's day
(California dreamin')
Sat here thinking about my heart
All of the places it came apart
There's just one thing that I need to know
Why am I always chasing the rainbow
Get it get it get it get it get it get it get it uh huh
I ran through the meadow looking for a dream
Truth is never like what it seems
I guess there's always so far to go
Why am I always chasing the rainbow
Get it get it chasing the rainbow
Get it get it chasing the rainbow
Get it get it chasing the rainbow
Get it get it get it uh huh
Where is the light
Where is the love
Where are the dreams that I once had
Frittered away
Gone in the time it takes to get from there to here
Get it get it get it
Get it get it get it uh huh
Get it get it get it chasing the rainbow
Why am I always chasing the rainbow
I'd draw you a picture cause it just might help
To point out the place where we went so wrong
The only color I'd use is blue
Why am I always chasing the rainbow
Get it get it chasing the rainbow
Get it get it get it uh huh
Get it get it chasing the rainbow
Why am I always chasing the rainbow
Get it get it chasing the rainbow
Get it get it chasing the rainbow
Get it get it chasing the rainbow
Why am I always chasing the rainbow
Get it get it chasing the rainbow
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On the first part of the journey
I was looking at all the life
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
And the sky with no clouds
The heat was hot and the ground was dry
But the air was full of sound
I?ve been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
?Cause there ain?t no one for to give you no pain
La la la la la
La la la la la
La la la la la
La la la la la
After two days in the desert sun
My skin began to turn red
After three days in the desert fun
I was looking at a river bed
And the story it told of a river that flowed
Made me sad to think it was dead
You see I?ve been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
?Cause there ain?t no one for to give you no pain
La la la la la
La la la la la
La la la la la
La la la la la
After nine days I let the horse run free
?Cause the desert had turned to sea
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The ocean is a desert with it?s life underground
And a perfect disguise above
Under the cities lies a heart made of ground
But the humans will give no love
You see I?ve been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
?Cause there ain?t no one for to give you no pain
La la la la la
La la la la la
La la la la la
La la la la la
All my life, without a doubt I give you
All my life, now and forever till the
Day I die, you and I will share
All the things this changing world can offer
So I sing, I'd be happy just to
Stay this way, spend each day, with you
There was a time, that I just thought
That I would lose my mind
You came along and then the sun did shine
We started on our way
I do recall that every moment spent
Was wasted time but then I chose to lay it on the line
I put the past away
I put the past away
I put the past away
All my life, I will carry you through
All my life, between each hour of the passing days
I will stay with you
There was a time, that I just thought
That I would lose my mind
You came along and then the sun did shine
We started on our way
I do recall that every moment spent
Was wasted time then I chose to lay it on the line
I want this all my life
I want this all my life
I want this all my life
I want this all my life
I want this all my life
I rise to see you in the morning
I feel your warmth so true
The light inside of me
Is there for all to see
But all I think about is you
I see your face in every doorway
That I have wandered through
The light inside of me
Is there for all to see
But all I think about is you
Baby even in the hardest times
Lately even in the darkest nights
I know
Baby even in the hardest times
Lately even in the darkest nights
I know
I rise to see you in the morning
I feel your warmth so true
The light inside of me
Is there for all to see
But all I think about is you
Caroline is falling in and out of love
Try'n' to get those things that she's been thinkin' of
She can't be what she wants to be
Though she never really tries
She's a liar
She's a liar
But I might try her tonight
And if things go right
Caroline is calling everyone in town
First she calls them friends and then she puts them down
She can't be what she wants to be
Though she never really tries
She's a liar
She's a liar
But I might try her tonight
And if things go right
She can't be what she wants to be
Though she never really tries
She's a liar
She's a liar
But I might try her tonight
And if things go right
Wo, she's a liar (She's a liar)
She's a liar (She's a liar)
She's a liar (She's a liar)
She's a liar (She's a liar)
Oh, hold me tight
Won't you be my woman tonight?
Oh, hold me tight
Won't you be my woman tonight?
I get the shivers up and down my spine
The only time I'm happy's when I know she's mine
So hold me, hold me tight
Treat me right
Won't you be my woman tonight?
So treat me right
Won't you be my woman tonight?
First I see you
And then you let me go
The only time I touch you's when you don't wanna know
So hold me, hold me tight, all right.
Hold me tight
Hold me tight
Won't you be my woman tonight
Hold me tight
Won't you be my woman tonight
I get the shivers up and down my spine
The only time I'm happy's when I know she's mine
So, hold me, hold me tight
Boy, please don't throw away your life
All the joy, please don't end it with a knife
'Cause you know there's hope for you
I was alone like the silence in the night
I had no home no one close to hold me tight
But you know there's hope for you, for you
Everywhere I look I see your face
Every step I take seems out of place
You got to be a man to run the race
I'm not a hopeless man
How can you say I am?
I was alone like the silence in the night
I had no home no one close to hold me tight
But you know there's hope for you, for you
Everywhere I look I see your face
Every step I take seems out of place
You got to be a man to run the race
I'm not a hopeless man
One more song about movin' along the highway
Feel the fantasy in the air
Filled the room with flowers from Norway
Sensed her majesty in the air
Made a sign 'bove your doorway to show I care
I've been waiting every morning
Just to help you find your way
I've been standing on your corner
Don't go away
One more song about movin' along the highway
Feel the fantasy in the air
I've been waiting every morning
Just to help you find your way
I've been waiting every morning
Help me make it through the day
I've been waiting every morning
Just to help you find your way
I've been waiting every morning
Help me make it through the day
I've been waiting every morning
Just to help you find your way
I don't understand it 'cause you won't say yes
But you don't say no
Sayin' no we shouldn't you keep holdin' out
But you don't let go
I'm givin' up on trying
To sell you things that you ain't buying
It's your move
(Your move)
I played all of mine
Time, is running out
Make your move
(Your move)
Or we can't go on
Till, you understand
It's all in your hands
It's your move
You're giving me the business with that old come on
But you don't come across
You get me so excited don't you know you're such a tease
When I think you're gettin' hot, you're not
So what's the problem, what's wrong
This kiss and miss you know it can't go on
It's your move
(Your move)
I played all of mine
Time, is running out
Make your move
(Your move)
Or we can't go on
Till, you understand
It's all in your hands
It's your move
(Know it can't go on)
Go on
I'm givin' up on trying now it's your move
Girl, if you ain't buyin' now it's your move
I gave it all I got now it's your move
I thought you were hot but you're not so it's your move
Your move, your move
It's your move
(Your move)
I played all of mine
Time is running out
Make your move
Or we can't go on
Till you understand
It's all in your hands
It's your move
It's your move
(Your move, ah)
I played all of mine
Time is running out
Make your move
Or we can't go on
Till you understand
It's all in your hands
It's your move
It's your move
(Your move)
Wednesday morning was the last time we talked
I guess she figured it was better if she walked
It could've been me just the same
There's no winner in this game
Oh, Wednesday morning was the last time we talked
Wednesday evening was the first time she cried
It could've turned out different if I'd lied
Something deep within us all
Sees the writing on the wall
Oh, Wednesday evening we didn't talk at all
I've been waiting every evening
Wondering what I'm gonna say
Sometimes life can be deceiving
Wednesday won't go away
It could've been me just the same
There's no winner in this game
Oh, Wednesday evening and nothing is the same
(Oh) I've been waiting every evening
Wondering what I'm gonna say
Sometimes life can be deceiving
Wednesday won't go away
Wednesday morning, yeah
Sometimes life can be deceiving
Wednesday won't go away
I've been waiting every evening
Wondering what I'm gonna say
Sometimes life can be deceiving
Wednesday won't go away, yeah
Wednesday morning, yeah
Sometimes life can be deceiving
Wednesday won't go away
Written by Russ Ballard
I never believed in things that I couldn't see
I said if I can't feel it then how can it be
No, no magic could happen to me
And then I saw you
I couldn't believe it, you took my heart
I couldn't retrieve it, said to myself
What's it all about
Now I know there can be no doubt
You can do magic
You can have anything that you desire
Magic, and you know
You're the one who can put out the fire
You know darn well
When you cast your spell you will get your way
When you hypnotize with your eyes
A heart of stone can turn to clay
Doo, doo, doo ...
And when the rain is beatin' upon the window pane
And when the night it gets so cold, when I can't sleep
Again you come to me
I hold you tight, the rain disappears
Who would believe it
With a word you dry my tears
You can do magic
You can have anything that you desire
Magic, and you know
You're the one who can put out the fire
You know darn well
When you cast your spell you will get your way
When you hypnotize with your eyes
A heart of stone can turn to clay
Doo, doo, doo ...
And If I wanted to
I could never be free
I never believed it was true
But now it's so clear to me
You can do magic
You can have anything that you desire
Magic, and you know
You're the one who can put out the fire
You know darn well
When you cast your spell you will get your way
When you hypnotize with your eyes
A heart of stone can turn to clay
Doo, doo, doo ...
You're the one who can put out the fire
You're the one who can put out the fire
You're the one who can put out the fire ...
By Manfredi Monfreda
Rainbows over the world of light
People rushing to the holy site
Sidewalks sizzle in a summer night
Of love
Not a soul in sight
In my dream tonight
It's gonna be alright
World of light
From the southern skies
To the children's eyes
Through an endless night
This world of light
Rainbows over the world of light
People rushing to the holy site
Sidewalks sizzle in a summer night
Of love
Come on baby hold me tight
Everything's gonna be alright
I can't wait for the morning light
To come
It's like the silver sand
Flowing through my hand
Running out of time
This world of mine
Rainbows over the world of light
People rushing to the holy site
Sidewalks sizzle in a summer night
Of love
Come on baby hold me tight
Everything's gonna be alright
I can't wait for the morning light
To come
Come on let it rain
Come on let it rain
Rainbows over the world of light
People rushing to the holy site
Sidewalks sizzle in a summer night
Of love
Come on baby hold me tight
Everything's gonna be alright
I can't wait for the morning light
To come
Come on let it rain
Come on let it rain
Come on let it rain
Let it rain
Let it rain
Let it rain
Let it rain
You know you can succeed
Now the leaves are blowin'
Down the avenue
And the bells are ringing
The love that I found in you
All around the city
Before the winter snow
The sidewalks are so busy
But I wouldn't even know
'Cause all the people in the whole wide world (whole wide world)
Don't mean nothin' if you ain't got your girl (got your girl)
All the people seem so far away
'Cause I only want you to stay
With me, with me
The summer was unending
I had to see it through
No use in my pretending
I love everything you do
All the people in the whole wide world (whole wide world)
Don't mean nothin' if you ain't got your girl (got your girl)
All the people seem so far away
'Cause I only want you to stay
With me, with me
Dragonflies dipped on the swimming pool
By July I had to keep my cool
(You were shining) You were shining like a living jewel
Inside I knew
Time stood still with you
And all the people in the whole wide world (whole wide world)
Don't mean nothin' if you ain't got your girl (got your girl)
All the people seem so far away
'Cause I only want you to stay
With me, with me
With me, with me
(Great hits of the sixties)
Look the lady's got a photograph
Silver framed and velvet backed
Well, she took it quite a while ago
Funny that she never let me know
What does it matter to me
If it doesn't show
I just don't know
It's only just a memory
Just a little history
Oh, oh, oh
And now she's wearing satin shoes
Gilded hair to pay the dues
I guess that I should tip my hat
I wonder if she'd think of looking back
What does it matter to me
If it doesn't show
I just don't know
It's only just a memory
Just a little history
Oh, oh
In the parking lot late at night
Paper straws never worked out right
I knew I wanted to
But didn't know why
So I just said "Hi"
On Monday morning, oceanrain was falling
On Tuesday morning, many friends are calling
Wednesday alone, staying at home
Thursday, oh I wait for you
And Friday it's only one day
The weekend is coming soon
America - oh it's Saturday night
America - laser beams, and lights
America - people feel alright
America - let the party begin
America - oh it's like a dream
America - let's have some fun tonight
On Monday morning, my heart feels like fire
On Tuesday evening, I can feel desire
Wednesday I'm down, spinning around
Thursday love is in my eyes
On Friday, it's only one day
To my paradise
";Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together";
";I've got some real estate here in my bag";
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pie
And walked off to look for America
";Kathy,"; I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
";Michigan seems like a dream to me now";
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've come to look for America
I've come to look for America
Laughing on the bus
Playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said ";Be careful his bowtie is really a camera";
";Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my raincoat";
";We smoked the last one an hour ago";
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
";Kathy, I'm lost,"; I said, though I knew she was sleeping
";I'm empty and aching and I don't know why";
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America
All come look for America
My country 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died!
Land of the Pilgrim's pride!
From ev'ry mountainside,
Let freedom ring!
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love.
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees,
Sweet freedom's song.
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
Our fathers' God to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing.
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King!
Our glorious land today,
'Neath education's sway,
Soars upward still.
Its halls of learning fair,
Whose bounties all may share,
Behold them ev'rywhere,
On vale and hill!
Thy safeguard, liberty,
The school shall ever be
Our nation's pride!
No tyrant hand shall smite,
While with encircling might
All there are taught the Right
New York City late at night
On the Seventh Avenue
I walk around and think about
The good and the bad you do
The strongest man here will survive
And the weakest he may fall
But even though I think you are
The greatest of them all
'Cause I believe in America
Dreams come true in America
Sing it with the band
We believe in America
Dreams come true in America
Sing it with the band
You walk around in Central Park
On a brandnew summerday
But don't you be there late at night
'Cause they take your things away
Where you can see the moviestars
And actors in a play
It's all about to happen there
On a normal American day
'Cause I believe in America
Dreams come true in America
Sing it with the band
We believe in America
Dreams come true in America
Sing it with the band
You walk around in Central Park
On a brandnew summerday
But don't you be there late at night
'Cause they take your things away
Where you can see the moviestars
And actors in a play
It's all about to happen there
On a normal American day
'Cause I believe in America
Dreams come true in America
Sing it with the band
We believe in America
Dreams come true in America
My daddy told me about the old glory days
But I made up my mind about daddy's ways
We followed king to Atlanta and got the slaves all free
And the ladies come out from behind the fans of gentry
America, America
How you've broken free
America, America
Was your destiny
I was at daddy's bedside the night that he went
He whispered real sad, "The south won't rise again"
They've all gone to Chicago to lose the slow accent
Leaving me behind wondering where we went
America, America
Are you losing your mind?
America, America
Walkin' 2 the corner of Main Street, USA
Look at the good people, hear what they gotta say-uh-huh
All right
See a sexy girl with her long black hair
See a preacher man sporting Abercrombie wear-uh-huh
All right
Walk into a corner store
A man says, "This is what I'm fighting for"
We are living in America
We're giving in America
We're tripping in America
Everywhere I go, seems like Bush is on TV
We shed blood in the name of liberty-uh-huh
All right
The circus tents are dead, but the sideshow is doing well
The Osbournes and Anna Nicole are too freaky 2 tell-uh-huh
All right
Take the bad with the good
I wanna change it, but I wouldn't leave it if I could
We are trying in America
We're spying in America
Getting high in America
We are laughing in America
We're crying in America
We're dying in America
We are trucking in America
We are f**king in America
We are lucky in America
We are breaking ground in America
Just another town in America
We are breaking down in America
Take the bad with the good
I wanna change it, but I wouldn't leave it if I could
We are trying in America
We're spying in America
We're getting high in America
We are getting tan in America
We love Spam in America
Polanski's banned from America
10 million served in America
Have u heard in America?
We're crying in America
We're laughing in America
Cercherò mi sono sempre detta cercherò
troverai mi hanno sempre detto troverai
per oggi sto con me mi basto
nessuno mi vede
e allora accarezzo la mia solitudine
ed ognuno ha il suo corpo a cui sa cosa chiedere
chiedere chiedere chiedere
Fammi sognare lei si morde la bocca e si sente l'America
Fammi volare lui allunga la mano e si tocca l'America
Fammi l'amore forte sempre più forte come fosse l'America
Fammi l'amore forte sempre più forte ed io sono l'America
cercherai mi hanno sempre detto cercherai
e troverò ora che ti accarezzo troverò
ma quanta fantasia ci vuole per sentirsi in due
quando ognuno è da sempre nella sua solitudine
e regala il suo corpo ma non sa cosa chiedere chiedere chiedere chiedere
Fammi volare lei le mai sui fianchi come fosse l'America
Fammi sognare lui che scende e che sale e si sente l'America
Fammi l'Amore lei che pensa ad un altro e si inventa l'America
Fammi l'amore forte sempre più forte ed io sono l'America
I'm in a room filled with holographic images
Path is limitless, death? well that's ridiculous
I'm a live forever cause a legend never die
See the world assemble but complex in the design
I spent some time just thinkin'
Where did that get me?
High, more drinkin'
Now my head empty
So can it last a couple minutes more?
Pain a funny thing when you can't figure out the source
Bear witness while I'm checking bitches off my hit list
Try and understand the fuckin' message I encrypted
Ancient, halucinatin' visions of utopia
Until I figure out that the perfect world's a lonely one
Never hold my tongue, vocal is a loaded gun
And I'm a shoot somebody in the face if they're too slow to run
Mac Miller I'm the only one
But I'm the coldest one, this is pandemonium
My middle finger up with a cup
And a dutch spliff, hand on my nuts
While I'm wild and out in public
Welcome to America
Motherfucker, welcome to America [x2]
Still in a room filled with holographic images
Crushing information into powder then I'm sniffin' it
Directly to my head, never sleep or use my bed
Iller than the future death of you ingestin' sudafed
Might head to Budapest just to get a Gucci vest
Hop into a jet, get some rest to diffuse the stress
See this is what I do the best
Nothing that you got except the bullet gettin' through my chest
Save hard, a brave heart, a warrior
I take caution, stay far from coroners
I heard some corny words said about my using dope
Talkin' all that shit sounds exactly like a groupie hoe
Most dope, got you hooked, yellin' Ruffio
First you lose you mind then you lose your soul
So what you talkin' about? thinkin' you're out of options
American border, pipper but formal, above and beyond, Medal of Honor
My middle finger up with a cup
And a dutch spliff, hand on my nuts
While I'm wild and out, public
Welcome to America
Motherfucker, welcome to America [x2]
Yo chick live in Pittsburg? bet I steal her,
Shout out my wigga Mac Miller
Comin' up in a world full of killers
I'll be shaded up at the villa,
With a girl that know what the deal is,
Yea they know I come from the illest
City on a map, we don't know how to act
Realest young rap, go getters in America
Bad chick get tossed around like the merry go
CV and Mac meezy takin' off on PJ's
We the future so every night is a new day
Sittin' in the studio, chain on and my hat low
Young visionaries and we sellin' out the rap show
I can trigger the wave in my sleep
Name paved, I feel like I am engraved on the beat
Wake up, shower, get paid and repeat
Spit one flow and got made on the streets
Welcome to the land where you never stay for free
Swag worth a mill, drop cast for the deal, Veggies
My middle finger up with a cup
And a dutch spliff, hand on my nuts
While I'm wild and out, public
Welcome to America
"Continous"
"Yeah, youknowhatI'msayin?"
"Wu-Tang"
"Aiyyo aiyyo, come on yo yo yo I'ma shoot over here"
"On that AIDS thing"
"YouknowhatI'msayin? I'm gonna just slide in the studio quick"
"Yo, yo"
"And get this done"
When you're sexually frustrated, plus waiting for a long time
You both had strong minds
Combined with feelings, she seems appealing
for each other, discreet lover, no longer keeps brothers
Smothered under deep covers
Erotic programs, Moet and slow jams
Enough to make you hold hands
And plus you a bold man
You fall in a manhole, where the forbidden tree grow
And bullshit ego, of fly negro
Whole garden sour, polluted with a dead flower
Months later, he's layin on a respirator
Depending on a generator, to keep his heart moving
And start losing sight in his right eye
In weeks he might die
Yeah, uh-huh
I know this dope-fiend cat, word up, his name is Javier
Part-time shooter sharing needles in the stairs
Wise guys disguised as a fly guy
you gettin high right? Weeded up with red shit in your right eye
Youse a menace, your brain cells finished
Begging forgiveness, calling that up top shit syphillis
You know what you was gettin into
Try to guess on what I've been through
Fuck shorty raw then she scared you
AIDS kills, word up respect this, yo
Coming from the Wu, it's real
AIDS kills, word up respect this, yo
Coming from my crew, it's real
My nigga Chuck, he loved to fuck
Everything exotic bitches down to ugly ducks
Like Nancy, who liked the fancy tickles
so he put popsicles on her nipples to make her sex passion
triple quadriple, until she bust
Overcome with passion, big ass want lust upon him
But nigga he forsake to grab the condom
Fuck it, he said AIDS, was government made
to keep niggaz afraid so they won't get laid no babies be made
And the black population will decrease within a decade
German warfare product against the dark shade
AIDS kills, word up respect this, yo
Coming from my crew, it's real
AIDS kills, word up respect this, yo
Coming from the Wu, it's real
Caught by the gravitation earth rotation
Six in the sex is deep, when you can't see clear
through the sheer brassiere, toke back
Smoking a spliff, sippin cognac, God
you know my two love songs, Bobby Womack tracks
Got her fat ass layin flat on her back
Yo, as she lay, she wore a silk gray neglige
Alehze pours, the radio play, Marvin Gaye
What's Going On? As she screams Sexual Healing
Couldn't fight the feeling her legs hit the ceiling
Hittin all positions dipped in for quick love
She's professional she does this shit in strip clubs
Flied in June until she Acquired Immune Deficiency
Now misery is the Syndrome
Oh shit, God that's wild
Damn, that's some cherry flavor shit going on though kid
For real, knowhatI'msayin?
What about the exotic type
Caskets is waitin for brothers
Word up slide on the joints baby
Before you go to sex take protection
Word up
AIDS kills, word up respect this
America Is Dying Slowly (4x)
Yeah, word yo, sliding up in this store right here
I ain't even playing that man, for real
Dig it
Respect how I'm living kid
Here forever, word up
Lubricated joints, ribbed joints is bangin
But they still playing the hotel door man
Word, you know how that be though, you know how that be
Yo, just gettin to be too old
Chick over there lookin like Sonny and Cher
Over there
Yeah
America Is Dying Slowly
Surely
America Is Dying Slowly
America Is Dying Slowly
remember that! Syndrome, be the resident
America Is Dying Slowly
Wu-Tang, Syndrome, be the resident
Noodles, Bobby Steels, Lou Diamonds, Killer Priest
Rolly Rollie Fingers, Johnathan Blaze, Maximillion
Prodigal Sons, Anthony Starks, Hellrazor
Prodigal Son, and in the place, Sixty Second
Sunz of Man, Gambinos, forever...
Keep it safe!
Ol Dirt Schultz, word up baby
Protect yourself!
Loyalty, I gave my loyalty
I gave my heart and my soul.
My heart and soul and all I could give
For a reason to live.
Fidelity, always fidelity
Putting everything I was aside
And I tried to be the best in their eyes.
How could they do this
How could they do this
How could they do this to me?
Suffering, the pain and suffering.
Being separate again, separate again
From what I hold dear.
And the shame of the tears
Disappeared, the honors disappeared.
With the betrayal of trust my body and being.
They washed their hands of me
Once and for all.
How could they do this
How could they do this
How could they do this to me?
This statistic wont lay down
Take a number or stand in line
This statistic wants to hear
That they're guilty about their crimes.
This statistic wont lay down
Take a number or stand in line
This statistic wants to hear
That they're guilty about their crimes.
Esto es América , Latinoamérica
bajo tus pies la tierra...
Despeño las almas, y
de las entrañas
nació la voz que clama
por toda la sangre y el sudor
que vimos derramar
por la libertad
que es condicional
Que es lo que van a hacer
A que van a llegar
La paciencia no es eterna
Con el pueblo no se juega
Queremos ser libres,
como animales
Tomemos todo
lo que prometieron
y que jamás cumplieron
La miseria oprime y la ambición
corrompe mas y mas
Devuélvenos ya
nuestra dignidad
Que es lo que va a hacer
A que van a llegar
La paciencia no es eterna
Con el pueblo no se juega
Id el ruido de rotas cadenas
Las palabras y los discursos
nada pudieron cambiar
el tiempo perdido
ya no volverán
"Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together."
"I've got some real estate here in my bag."
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
And we walked off to look for America.
"Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've come to look for America."
Laughing on the bus;
Playing games with the faces;
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy;
I said "Be careful his bowtie is really a camera."
"Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat."
"We smoked the last one an hour ago."
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field.
"Kathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping.
"I'm empty and aching and I don't know why."
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike:
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America
All come to look for America
You brought us the a-bomb in so many ways
Endorsed by God and The Book
So God loves a war monger?
Hey Mr. Blix: forget Iraq and the time it took
'Cause I know just where to look
"Could we have a vote please?"
They came with a song - America
They wouldn't stay long - America
We are America
God bless America
God bless America and Capitol Hill
'Cause no one else will
So now you are scared
The Arabs will kill for their god
Like you do for yours?
Protect your obesity with your life man
Hey - Angry God or Diet Coke?
Who cares it's all a joke
"Heil homo pecuniae"
Saving us yet another time
Earning a buck on every dime
Sick of America
Sick of America
Sick of America and Capitol Hill
Moving in for the next kill
Did you say "I love you"?
A simpler democracy
Where every flaw and failure is called a "Right"
A new form of freedom
Based on your income, your color, creed
And your choice of gun
But it provides great fun
"Dr. Phil or Oprah?"
"Letterman or Leno?"
"Idol or Big Brother?"
(we'll be back after this short break)
It could have been good America
It could have been great America
Land of the brave and free
Welcoming you and me
But this Brave New World is not as new anymore
Each day a new store
Each year a new war
While chosen whites rule the poor
...in America
Oh, America
Don't you walk out on me?
Just wait a second now
Please hear me now
Oh... I'll do my best to love you
Oh yes I will
I know you're out there
C'mon
Raise your voices
Don't let them ruin your reputation
Don't let them wreck your constitution
Not out of fear
Not out of greed
But you had a good run America
Your day in the sun America
Hello British Empire
Hello Roman Empire
Hello Soviet
There is a new kid in town
Joining the gone down
Finding what you found
Treading your worn - worn down ground
Rise to your former glory
Be brave and warm
Oh America
If I say I love you
If I say I love you
If I say I love you
You were lost and got lucky,
came upon the shore,
found you were conquering America,
Spoke of peace,
Waged a war,
while you were conquering America.
There was land to take, and people to kill
While you were conquering America.
You saved yourself, and did God's will,
While you were conquering America.
The ghost of Columbus haunts this world,
You're still conquering America.
The meek won't survive, inherit the earth,
Cause you're still conquering America
hmmmm
Found bodies to serve, submit and degrade,
while you were conquering America.
Made of soldiers and junkies, prisoners and slaves,
while you were conquering America.
America, America, America
Your hands are at my throat,
my back's against the wall,
cause you're still conquering America.
We are Sick, and tired, hungry and poor,
cause you're still conquering America.
America, America, America,
You bomb the very ground,
you feed your own babies,
you're still conquering America
Your sons and your daughters,
May never sing your praises,
while you were conquering America.
America, America, America
Unseal your eyes,
see the distant shore,
while you were conquering America,
Take your rockets to the moon,
Try to find a new world,
And you're still conquering America.
America, America, America
The ghost of Columbus, haunts this world,
You're still conquering America,
You're still conquering America,
You're still conquering America
Long ago - across the sea
German heart - that was me
took plane - came to see
Young at heart - twenty three
Got a chance - took it on
Wrote a song - called "Get it on"
Got a band - loud and proud
Wrote a smash - just don't know how
America - inside my heart
This song's for you - with all my love
Took a break - times have changed
Letting go - re-arrange
Strong belief - riding on
Here we are - KINGDOM COME
I don't care - where you're from
far, we've been traveling far without a home but not without a star free, only wanna be free we huddle close, hang on to a dream on the boats and on the planes they're coming to america never looking back again they're coming to america home, don't it seem so far away oh we're traveling light today in the eye of the storm in the eye of the storm home, to a new and a shiny place make our bed and we'll say our grace freedom's light burning warm freedom's light burning warm everywhere around the world they're coming to america every time that flag's unfurled they're coming to america got a dream to take 'em there they're coming to america got a dream they've come to share they're coming to america they're coming to america
today [x4] (today) my country 'tis of thee (today) sweet land of liberty (today) of thee i sing (today) of thee i sing, yeah
America where are you now?
Don't you care about your sons and daughters?
Don't you know we need you now
We can't fight alone against the monster
Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies
And we walked off to look for America
Cathy I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America
Laughing on the bus playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera
Toss me a cigaret I think there's one in the raincoat
We smoked the last one an hour ago
So I looked at the scenary she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
Cathy I'm lost I said though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies
And walked off to look for America
Cathy, I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
And it took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America
Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera
Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat
We smoked the last one an hour ago
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
Cathy, I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and I'm aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all gone to look for America
All gone to look for America
All gone to look for America
America. Hey, I'm ashamed of it
America. Hey, I'm ashamed of it
America. Hey, I'm ashamed of it
America. Hey, I'm ashamed
America. Hey, I'm ashamed of it
America. Hey, I'm ashamed of it
America. Hey, I'm ashamed of it
America. Hey, I'm ashamed
America you're too young to die.
England you're too old to cry.
He's got the whole world in his hand.
India, you're too hurt to try.
India, you shake beneath the blackened sky.
We've got the whole world in our hands.
Everybody come on,
It's time to sing a new song.
Everybody come on,
It's time to say we belong.
Africa, you're too young to die.
I look at you and hear the angels cry.
The hour glass is running out of sand.
Where can a man go, if he's fallen to his his knees?
How can a mother free her children from disease?
Where can a river run if it cannot clean itself?
Where can a man go from the curses of his wealth?
I can survive the rat race honey
Time is money and money is honey, honey
My megabucks your symmetrical beauty
Together we can serve the nation - yeah!
The quality of life filled us all with pride
America
And as I watched I just cried and cried
How I love America
I will buy you rich perfumes
And we will eat the finest foods
A mansion in New England
A silver dollar for every child
Where everybody has got their price
They'll sustain our way of life
You and I will fly to Rio
I'll make you feel like a millionaire
I can survive the rat race honey
Time is money and money is honey, honey
My megabucks your symmetrical beauty
Together we can serve the nation - yeah!
The quality of life filled us all with pride
America
And as I watched I just cried and cried
How I love America
West is best and might is right
And with our allies - fight the good fight
A first class, five star enterprise
Now everybody's got to compromise
My moral code's on overload
Liberty still takes its toll
Take a look at the losers wasting in the bars
Where they cut their losses!
I can survive the rat race honey
Time is money, and money is honey, honey
My megabucks your symmetrical beauty
Together we can serve the nation - yeah!
The quality of life filled us all with pride
America
And as I watched I just cried and cried
How I love America
There were fireworks in the Gulf
There was champagne at home - How I love America
But showbiz and Hollywood still shouted out - America
'Posed to be...
Land of the free
I don't see how
Count me in
America
America
Ha-ha-ha
America (America)
Sweet land of liberty y'all
I'm doing this one for the struggle
And every bad doin' brotha
Sista, daddy and mother
Who livin' in the gutter
You want
Better cars
And a better heart
Another start
Yo' own yard
And a place to park
You wanna
Trust 'em ??
And a better li' (life)
A bigger crib
And a home cooked meal
Every single night
He'll feel with you
Goin' through
But I coulda warned you
When its time to be a man
Do all you can
See other lands
And don't be livin' for the other man
Take time out and settle in
Be the better man
And close ? watch your friends
And then
You'll understand
A lil' better then
But on the other hand
You so god damn stubboran
And you be
Startin' shit
And ever since you made president
We ain't even seen you since
You need to (You need to)
Fill our schools
Rebuild our church and homes
Stop killin' my own kind
And leave my Earth alone
And stop tappin' my phone
And searchin' my brone
And keep your personal feelings home
When you bandin' my chrome
Do it for the
Weak and the strong
And to each his own
We do it for the main goal
So when all the heat is gone
This game wasn't told to me (Told to me)
It was sold to me (Sold to me)
And we are never free (No!)
No way
Not in America (Not America)
Not America (Not in America uh-uh)
Our country 'tis of thee ('tis of thee)
Land of Liberty (Liberty)
But that'll never be (Never Be - NO!)
No way
Not in America (uh-uh Not in this America)
Not in America (No)
You only got 2 bucks and give less than a fuck -- then you a nigga
Got a nice home and a Lexus truck -- you a nigga
World champions and you M.V.P -- you a nigga
4 degrees and a Ph.D -- still a nigga
You use your platinum card you need four ID's -- then you's a nigga
If your skin is brown just like me -- then you a nigga
Got a promotion and a FAT ass raise -- you still a nigga
You from the islands and your peoples wasn't slaves -- you a nigga
No matter how much your ass get paid -- you still a nigga
Shot by the cops at a traffic stop -- cause you a nigga
That's why I hold toast too
I sell bi-coastal
International
They inter-catching you with satellites in deep space
Now...Who invented niggaz in the first place?
And said America is the original birthplace?
Who gettin' 10 - 20 - Life on they first case?
My niggaz
I'm doin' this one for the
Kids in the streets
Who ain't missed a beat
Do it for the
Deaf and the blind
And those who don't eat meat
Do it for all the
Children of the corn
And the unborn
Do it for the speedy trials
And all the lies you done sworn
How you gon' keep the man
Old Mr. Crooked ass preachin' man
When your whole congregation drivin' a brand new Benz
And writing brand new sins
Lyin' on a million men
Every where around the world
They're coming to America
Every time the flag's unfurled
They're coming to America
Got a dream and take them there
They're coming to America
Got a dream they've come to share
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
They're coming, to America
They're coming to America
(Today)
My country tis of thee
(Today)
Sweet land of liberty
(Today)
Of thee I see
(Today)
Of thee I see, today
(Today)
We've been traveling far
(Today)
Without a voice
(Today)
But not without a star
Let us be lovers
We'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate
Here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes
And Mrs. Wagner's pies
And walked off
To look for America
Kathy,
I said
As we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me nowIt took me four daysTo hitchhike from SaginawI've come to look for America.
Laughing on the bus
Playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit
Was a spy
I said
Be careful,His bow tie is really a camera.
Toss me a cigaretteI think there's one in my raincoat.
We smoked the last oneAn hour ago.
So I looked at the scenery
She read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
Kathy, I'm lost,
I said
Though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching andI don't know why.
Counting the cars
On the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come
To look for America
AII come to look for America
Between the years of 1861-1865,
over 620,000 Americans died from gunshot,
disease or sickness
in the bloodiest battles of our nations history -
the Civil War.
Through the instrument of prejudice,
fear and hate,
a different battle rages on to this day.
But in Christ, we are all one people -
united in our commitment to God and each other -
because it is He who First loved us...
Let your glory fly
Let your glory fly
Let your glory fly
If my people will humbly pray
Turn from sin and their wicked ways
And I will hear them and heal their land
And show my glory and power again, yeah
Lift your eyes up
Look to the sky
The Lord is coming
Coming to America
Can you feel the fire?
Can you see the wind?
It's blowing through
Coming to America again
Go and tell them the blind will see
The lame will walk and the slave is free
Shout the news that the lost are saved
In the name of Jesus, the dead are raised
Lift your eyes up
Look to the sky
The Lord is coming
Coming to America
Can you feel the fire?
Can you see the wind?
It's blowing through
Coming to America again
Can you see it coming?
Let your glory fly
Let your glory fly
Let your glory fly
Lift your eyes up
Look to the sky
The Lord is coming
Coming to America
Can you feel the fire?
Can you see the wind?
It's blowing through
Coming to America, yeah
Lift your eyes up
Look to the sky
The Lord is coming
Coming to America
Can you feel the fire?
Can you see the wind?
It's blowing through
It's coming to America again, yeah yeah
Can you see it coming?
Can you see it coming?
From West L.A. to New York City
cleaning dishes in the wallstreet hype
miss liberty and golden gate so pretty
and Uncle Sam is cleaning stars and stripes
We're all stickin' together
in the fields where we don't belong
but we gonna win now or never so proud
fightin' the streets for a trashcan-dinner
America, the promised land
forever free and never dying
America, a dream comes true
a helping hand needs no denying
From New Orleans to "old" Milwaukee
streets still not clean from colored men
the heartland of your heart is where your heart is
can you afford to pay for not to die?
We all have to face it forever
we all have to dance with wolves
can't you dig it, white nigger?
America
Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
And we walked off to look for America
Kathy, I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America
Laughing on the bus
Playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said Be careful his bowtie is really a camera
Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat
We smoked the last one an hour ago
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
Kathy, I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all gone to look for America
All gone to look for America
All gone to look for America
Die Story ist jene,
Das weiß doch Jedermann
Das liegt doch auf der Hand
Es war mit Bock und Roll Musik
Nicht immer leicht in diesem Land
Was in mir sitzt ist weiß gespritzt
(Weinschorle, Gespritzter)
Das ist mir völlig klar,
Obgleich ich Whiskey zech
Seitdem in USA ich war
Dort hört man ¡°Falco You Are Wonderful¡±
Ich hab es langsam satt
Wenn ihr meine records
Trotzdem kaufen w¨¹det,
W¨¹rde es mich nicht stören
Das typische an mir
Ich bin untypisch ganz und gar
Einmal hoch und einmal tief
Einmal ausgeflippt, dann wieder straight
Ihr werdet mich nehmen m¨¹ssen wie ich bin
Ich sag es lieber gleich
Zeigt mir den nächsten schlanken Fuß
Und ich bin voll dabei
America wenn ihr mir glauben
Wie man euch vermissen kann
Im ¡°Spiegel¡± stand es: Wien ist ¡°in¡±
Und wenn der es nicht weiß wer dann?
Auch wenn Mr. Smith ¡®ne Glatze hat
Wir verkaufen ihm ¡®nen Kamm
Der Herr war dick
Das Girl war slick
So denn er lallend fragt
¡°What¡¯s your name?¡±
I¡¯ nehm¡¯ zweitausend ¡°Öschis¡±
Keusch das Madel sagt
Ihr werdet und nehmen m¨¹ssen wie wir sind
Wir sagen es lieber gleich
Zeigt uns den nächsten Präsidenten
Und wir sind voll dabei
Oder auch nicht
Dialog zwischen einen Touristen und einem W¨¹rstchenhändler:
Tourist: ¡°I would like to have that wonderful Wiener Schnitzel¡±
W¨¹rstchenhändler: (Sich an seine Frau wendend) ¡°Gib ihm doch mal 100 g Wurst in Brötchen¡±
Tourist: (schmatzend zu beiden) ¡°Yeah, that¡¯s really great¡±
W¨¹rstchenhändler:(sich seiner Sache sicher) ¡°Aber das ist doch klar, Der Herr, das macht hundert. Nein nicht Dollars sondern Schilling(Öschis). Wir wollen es ja nicht ¨¹bertreiben.¡±
America...
La la la
La la
[Intro: Bigg Rocc]
[Samle of Police Sireens]
Attention all Units, be on a look out
John Doe, black male, 16 and certified
Been on last seein' dippin' through Compton
Then he was seein' dippin' through Watts
We sent this mothafucker match head to L.A.
Don't shoot at this mothafucker, he'll shoot back
[Verse 1: MC Ren]
I'm that nigga that you've been warned about
When Villain talkin' nigga shut your mouth
I spit it with the best of them
Mothafucker and then shit it on the rest of them
Villain the great, I'm a throw a fuckin' twist nigga up in the game
John Doe that's my mothafuckin' name
I'm still that nigga for life, I still got wise
Poor black in America crappin' the dice
Lookin' for a better way homey fiendin' to make it
[Bigg Rocc:] The pen' s look good, nigga day to take it
They say generation X
But these little white horney-Ass-Bitches is fiendin' for sex
All my homies nigga smokin' the bud
If we ain't asleep, we're smokin' the bud
Feds is tryin' to catch a nigga say somethin' on the phone
So my black ass won't never come home...
[Chorus:]
[MC Ren:] mothafuckers livin' good in America
[Chip Dirty:] nigga mothafuckers poor in America
[MC Ren:] They say you can't smoke bud in the America
[Bigg Rocc:] we puff a big bud in the America
[MC Ren:] They say everybody is free in the America
[Bigg Rocc:] fool niggaz still slaves in the America
[MC Ren:] Is it that fucked up in America
[Bigg Rocc:] Ain't no love for the niggaz in America
[Verse 2: Bigg Rocc]
We hittin' corners in the U.S.
Smokin' bud, drive-bys with Gorilla thugs
Layin' niggaz like wads, wicked slubs
Spot you like light bob, infront of you niggaz at the club
Show you how bitch they was
I'll pull my shit they scatter like bugs
Forgot who done fuck you up, John Doe nigga bout to bubble a tub
Niggaz better squash that grudge
Before you be layin' on the side of your dubs
Have your homies cryin' sayin' damn nigga what
Gotta them thinkin' they the next nigga outta lock
Better keep your ass in the cut
When you beef with John Doe your ass just stuck
Keep peace with John Doe and I won't bury you
In this mothafuckin' harder side of America...
[Chorus: with variations]
[MC Ren:] mothafuckers livin' good in America
[Chip Dirty:] nigga mothafuckers poor in America
[MC Ren:] they say you can't smoke bud in the America
[Bigg Rocc:] we puff a big bud in the America
[MC Ren:] They say everybody is free in the America
[Bigg Rocc:] fool niggaz still slaves in the America
[MC Ren:] Is it that fucked up in America
[Bigg Rocc:] Ain't no love for the niggaz in America
[Verse 3: Chip Dirty]
I gives the fuck, I get done my business
Get in this, leave no witness
Convected, when I spit this before I committed the crime
But spit it or I'm a, spit it or not
They be tryin' to give a nigga some time, not 211
Can't you picture Chip Dirty straight droppin' the dime
While they fuckin' with mines
Tryin' to cut the nigga a deal
Bitch I won't snitch, so feel, that you can keep your bill
Just where my cell at
Homey I locked down and blocked down from the homies
When I touched down, get a creep down with the top down with the homies
Almost with the rag top 10, paint and switches
Oh yeah some Gold D's
Go sounds for the bitches, so I can floss on
Three wheel motion, and hit switches
Get up all way thang to bang and hit snitches
Nigga virgin American dream is what I'm sellin' you
Shit, we duz what want in America...
[Chorus:]
[MC Ren:] mothafuckers livin' good in America
[Chip Dirty:] nigga mothafuckers poor in America
[MC Ren:] they say you can't smoke bud in the America
[Bigg Rocc:] we puff a big bud in the America
[MC Ren:] they say everybody is free in the America
[Bigg Rocc:] fool niggaz still slaves in the America
[MC Ren:] Is it that fucked up in America
Lucy came to the timberline
Climbed up on to Rainier and
Looked out over Washington
Swore she could see the apple trees
And she said "ooo ooo oh I never wanna leave
Ooo ooo this place
Ooo ooo yes I always wanna be
Right here"
Peter came to the city and
Climbed up into Liberty and
Looked out over Manhattan
He swore he could see the beauty there
And he said " ooo ooo oh I never wanna leave
Ooo ooo this place
Ooo ooo yes I always wanna be
Right here"
Find a place
To call home
Any place
To call home
Right here
And so I came in the dead of night
Climbed up into the satellite and
Looked out over America
I swear I could see the buffalo
Ooo ooo oh and I never wanna leave
Ooo ooo this place
Ooo ooo yes I always wanna be
gabar yaroo subhaano
maro shabeelo hirato
maro qafiifa huwato
maga'aaga ii sheeg
magaeygu waa sharaf
sharaf haaji weeyan
aqalada hariirta
dhina baan ka jooga
alla ya u sheega
tinta u shanleeya
nahoy zamzamey
sabaah nuurey
adoo kin kin iyo
kaluun badaneey
adoo hajka jira
xasuus badaneey
sahiibtaa asho ashaq baa dilay
ugu dambeyntiina
aniyo geeluba
wa u banaanbahnay
(chorus)
wanagii orodnee
nabad barinee
I'm so bored of education
I'm so bored of you
It's such a frustration situation
And I don't know what to do
I really wish they'd let me be
To work things out my way
America's been good to me
But I laugh when people say
All the kids salute the flag
Uncle Sam wants you
Come on boys, let's hear it for the
Red, white and blue
I'm so bored of television
TV dinner on a TV tray
Join the Pepsi generation
That's the American way
Fight for your country
Fight for survival
Fight for the fear of war
Sometimes I wonder
Who makes the rules
And I wonder who
They're making them for
All the kids salute the flag
Uncle Sam wants you
Come on boys, let's hear it for the
Are you thinking what I'm thinking
Every little moment
Every special word
Has so much meaning that I'm feeling you're completing my world
But I've tried to say this so long
But the words don't come when you love someone
It's just too hard to say
How do I say, say
Say this to you
How do I prove my love
(How can I prove my love)
How do I say this to you
How do I prove my love
How do I say, say
Oooh yeah
Oh Beautiful
Forstatous sky's
Forever waits of grace
For purple mountain
Magesty
For ever mult and grain
America
America
God shed his grace on me
In crown I heard, with brotherhood
From sea to shining (America) sea
America (America)
America (America)
For beautiful
For hero's proved
He liberates
He strives
Who morn themself
A country loved
In mercy more than life
America (America)
America (America)
God shed (God shed)his grace (his grace) on me
Yeah
In crown I heard with brotherhood
From sea (from sea) to shining sea (to shining sea)
America (America)
America (America)
God shed (God shed) his grace (his grace) on me (on me)
In crown I heard with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea
Yeah
America (America)
America (America)
America (America)
And crown (and crown)
With brotherhood (with brotherhood)
From sea to shining sea (From sea to shining sea)
America the beautiful
From sea to shining sea
Is this just an illusion
That i made inside my head to get me by
20 years in debt
20 years in the government
20 years can never get me by
Then I feel you close
Feel you close like you wanted me to
Feel you close like you wanted me to
Believe in you, ooh
Rise to the top of the world
America
America don't you cry
Lift me up
Give me strength to press on
Rise to the top of the world
America
America don't you cry
Lift me up
Give me strength to press on
From farmers in he fields
To the tallest of the towers that fall and rise
1-7-7-6
The names upon the list
For all the ones that gave until they died
Don't you hold back
I can see in you in your mind and your mind will set you free
And I feel you close
Feel you close like you wanted me to
Feel you close like you wanted me to
Believe in you, ooh
Rise to the top of the world
America
America don't you cry
Lift me up
Give me strength to press on
Rise to the top of the world
America
America don't you cry
Lift me up
Give me strength to press on
We came like babies
From our home across the sea to see America
An' the people opened up their arms
To welcome us to America
We came like children
From a far and distant land to see America
And the golden sun of freedom
Filtered down to us in America
And the people stood and stared
Loved us more than we had dared to, in America
Super highways here and there
Pretty womens everywhere
Brady Bunch an' Smokey Bear
Buildings reachin' to the sky
Afro-sheen and apple pie
PTA an' FBI
Jumbo jet begins to rise
A joyful nation waves its bye-byes
Each religion, race and creed
Gets exactly what they need
God bless Johnny Appleseed
América , América
Única, Única
Tierra de indios !!!
Fuera de aquí
No venderemos, cederemos ni daremos.
mi cabeza, tu cabeza, mi dolor
Fuera de aquí
What a drag it is
The shape i'm in
Well I go out somewhere
Razorlight Then I come home again
I light a cigarette
'Cause I can't get no sleep
America Theres nothing on the TV nothing on the radio
That means that much to me
Songtexte
All my life
Watching America
All my life
There's panic in America
Songtext Oh Oh Oh, Oh
There's trouble in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
Lyrics
Yesterday was easy
Happiness came and went
I got the movie script
Lyric But I don't know what it meant
I light a cigarette
Liedertexte 'Cause I can't get no sleep
Theres nothing on the TV nothing on the radio
Liedertext That means that much to me
Theres nothing on the TV nothing on the radio
Alle That I can believe in
All my life
Watching America
All my life
Razorlight There's panic in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
There's trouble in America
America Oh Oh Oh, Oh
There's panic in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
Songtexte
Yesterday was easy
Yes I got the news
When you get it straight, but stand up you just can't lose
Songtext Give you my confidence, all my faith in life
Dont stand me up
Lyrics Don't let me down
I need you tonight
To hold me, say you'll be here
Lyric To hold me, say you'll be here
To hold me, say you'll be here
Liedertexte To hold..
All my life
Watching America
All my life
There's panic in America
Liedertext Oh Oh Oh, Oh
She's just in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
Alle
Tell me how does it feel
Tell me how does it feel
Razorlight Tell me how does it feel
Tell me how does it feel
Vamos!
América tierra vendida, explotada y herida,
América con corrupción, malos trabajos,
explotación, educación, racista, clasista,
hay muchos blancos eligistas
América con dictadores, asesinos
traficantes, mal nacidos
América mi tierra en pie de guerra
América con genocidios
por colonos no bienvenidos
América con Colón igual
muerte destrucción
América con héroes aunque el gobierno los niegue
América con mucha gente inconciente
América con muy pocos inteligentes (Vamos!)
América con deforestación
que es igual a la guerra, muerte destrucción
Coro:
América América esto es América
América América esto es América
cuando Dios hizo el edén pensó en América
cuando Dios hizo el edén pensó en América
América América esto es América
América América esto es América
cuando Dios hizo el edén pensó en América
cuando Dios hizo el edén pensó en América
América tierra de sabor
rimas salchis amador amor
mi tierra y cultura yo Lengua Dura
dura mi gente morena, pelo negro
yo te respeto te amo
América India JAH te bendiga
mi América Pacha Mama esta es mi cama
recuerda que el Perú es igual que tú
u ayu bu umbudú guarito explotador
mamá la pinga por favor
Coro...
Dedico esto para tí
porque soy de aquí
con todo el corazón
soy tu caparazón acción
que pocos toman
porque mucho alcohol toman
recuerda que eso a los mapuches hundió
la falsa religión también la muerte apoyó
yo hablo de Historia y Geografía de tierra
y aunque a los maricas les duela
como un dolor de muelas
América suelo y tierra, sudor y escuela
Coro...
Piensa América,
sueña América,
vive América
viva América!!!
(como un inmenso jardín esto es América)
Tiro de Gracia desde el culo del mundo
Sentimientos, sentimientos
going down the U.S.A
land of dope and take away
stars and stripes, bros and bikes
gonna have you one by one
fear the day when we come´
cause we are loyal to none
big america gonna catch up with you
great american, gonna have lots of fun
if it's detroit or L.A
if it's all the same when we get to play
catch the plane that flies to fame
we've got tons of noise to give away
heavy metal warheads is what we'll launch
cause atomics are made for a crazy bunch
big america gonna catch up with you
great american, gonna have lots of fun
big america gonna catch up with you
great american, gonna have lots of fun
wanna know how it feels
getting fucked in yellow on wheels
a yellow cab is what i mean
kind of hot and very obscene
we've got no virtues
only dreams
i'm gonna eat bacon and beans
big america gonna catch up with you
great american, gonna have lots of fun
drinking jack daniels
in a big black limousine
turning the show
into one big halloween
heavy metal's breaking through
i'm gonna play it, now how about you
big america gonna catch up with you
By Dave Fenton
Why don't you get out of here
I never needed you anyway
Why don't you just disappear
I'm tired of driving down your logical motorway
You can stay if you don't ask no questions
You can stay if you don't tell no lies
You can stay if you don't read my feature
You can stay if you don't read my mind
Wanna do something new
I Wanna go to America
Go to America
Go to America
But I wanna stay with you
But I wanna take you too baby
Baby, baby, baby
For the moment I'm alive
Everybody trying to steal my insanity
God knows how I can survive
Just hiding out in this occupied territory
You can stay if you don't ask no questions
You can stay if you don't tell no lies
You can stay if you don't read my feature
You can stay if you don't read my mind
Wanna do something new
I Wanna go to America
Go to America
Go to America
But I wanna stay with you
But I wanna take you too baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby
I wanna go to America
Go to America
Go to America
But I wanna stay with you
But I wanna take you too baby
Staring out at the old man,
Watching the trains go by,
Well he lives his life on promises,
But I'm afraid the promise is all he's got,
You know life's too short to never take,
But if you stand aside it'll pass you by,
Chorus
He's from some place they call America,
But he's nothing more than a dead man walking around,
He's from some pace they call America,
Yeah America,
Ever since he was a boy,
He had dreams,
Dreams the size of God and he was,
Making plans,
Building buildings,
He was gonna have the world in his pocket,
The Brooklyn bridge in his hands,
he looks outside his window,
And see's his past,
Comin' down,
On him,
For the rest of his life he will us kicking him down,
Too old to start again my friend,
Chorus
He's from some place they call America,
But he's nothing more than a dead man walking around,
He's from some pace they call America,
Yeah America,
Takin' me down,
Takin' the old man down,
Takin' me down,
Taking many lives over, over America,
Chorus
He's from some place they call America,
But he's nothing more than a dead man walking around,
He's from some pace they call America,
[Warcloud:]
The maid was in the garden, hangin' out the clothes
While I crept up and shot her dead in the nose
Message in a bottle, violent as our records spin
One stranded couple terrorized by backwoods men
A young man home from reform school, now a burglar
Since sixth graders suspect their principal is a murderer
A man investigates the death of his twin brother
Three kids search for their missin' parents and cover
A nightclub owner, schemes against mobsters
Four congressmen turn out to be impostors
Five teens try to track down the jewel thief
One little boy, knocked out another's teeth
Successful script writer becomes a heroin addict
A surgeon and his ex-wife slaughtered by a mechanic
A barroom boss and they lost, threw it to the hospital
A little girl found a fly inside a popsicle
Two bored Indians become bank robbers
A cop searchin' for the killers of his father
A rapper's lifestyle of sex, drugs and booze
A highway man, swindles a drunker's booth
A homeless in a dumpster, and finds a new pair of shoes
An injured jazz musician, dead on the news
A housewife entangled in lies and domestic abuse
A dirty politician tries to rub out his opponents
The outside man fought another man in the rain
A business woman had to smooth for the correct spelling of her name
A skinhead who lead a fierce biker gang
Involved in white slavery and Mr. Avery was never neighborly, romancin', a jackpot
He killed his wife and drove to Vegas wit her head in a hat box
[Chorus x4: Warcloud]
One candy apple, two white chocolates, three blueberries
[Warcloud:]
She had rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
She would have music wherever she goes
Seven ladybugs on a honeydew, for crummy you
Mystic rhymes straight from candy house wit a gummy roof
I got a Tommy gun that shoots eggs, and I'll put it down
Pop you on the shoulder wit a large revolver and laugh
Warcloud's warpath is a conquer that ever last
Like tea cakes and crumpets, shiny, right turk gold trumpets
Gold's in the compass, pilotin' and airship
One sea of clouds, they drop an axe on you now
Shadow on the barn wall, float a newspaper boat
Juice bars and fudge sticks, roller coasters and ferris wheels
[Chorus x4]
[Warcloud:]
There was a young lady, my wife, who disrespect
And the first day I met her she had a ribbon around her neck
And she wore that ribbon for years and hear the flutes
When I asked her to remove it, she'd always have excuse
One stormy night, while we were in bed
I snatched the ribbon off and off rolled her head
I laughed my self to sleep, the room spun around like a record
As America is right as America is wrong
As America is weak so America is strong
Ain't nobody perfect At least up until now
But now it's the time for the one mind In this time of darkness
America we need the light
The part that you wrote it on we got to make it right
America, America
We need the light We want the light
We need you If the beauty is still the same
Take me to the beautiful lands
Are you feeding hungry babys
Have you forgotten them, hey old lady
Most people that are living here
Have forgotten they got to be restored the pride, justice andlove
Grabbing us from above America, America
We need the light We want the light
We need you Oh As America is true as America is false
As America may slave so America may abolish
Ain't nobody perfect Let'em all about themselves
But now the time for the perfect mind
A merry day, your beauty can last forever
Open up your eyes we gotta get better
You're two hundred years old today
Come such a long long way
That few words that you wrote correspond with the words you spoke
Get up to what you suppose to say
What America has to say America, America
We need the light We want the light
We need you America is peace As America is power
As America makes peace as America makes war
Ain't nobody perfect, at all until now
And now it's the time for the perfect mind, the perfect mind
We need the light We want some light
We need you As America is brave as America is free
As America is home I see no reason to leave
Ain't nobody perfect Let all about themselves
And now it's the time for the one perfect mind
We need the light We want some light
We need you We need the light We want some light
We need you America, America We want some light
We need the light We need you
You're two hundred years old today
And you've gone such a long long way
We need the light We want some light
We need you America, America, America America,
America, America America, America
They wanna see blood
They wanna see hate
Like a needle in your veins
Like a sickness with no name
In a world that's insane
What's America to blame?
When you pray for a change to a God with no face
They wanna see blood
They wanna see hate
Like a fucking AK
It's going up in flames
In a world that's insane
What's America to blame?
When you pray for change to a God with no face
You can't tell me what to say
'Cuz I got one religion
And I've got one decision
It's a big fuck you
I keep spitting in your face
Every month and every day
Every time you hear my name
My middle fingers up too
You think I own you
But I ain't got no room for these hoes
' Cuz they're no good
I ain't living by your rules
Your getting old dude
Full of liquor you're blowing
And you wanna be noticed
But you're dying so lonely
So when they point the finger
You flip one back
And say fuck that
FUCK THAT
So when they point the finger
We'll flip one back
And say fuck that
FUCK THAT
They wanna see blood
They wanna see hate
Like a needle in your veins
Like a sickness with no name
In a world that's insane
What's America to blame?
When you pray for a change to a God with no face
They wanna see blood
They wanna see hate
Like a fucking AK
It's going up in flames
In a world that's insane
What's America to blame?
When you pray for a change to a God with no face
Eenie meenie minie moe
Each one is gonna know
That you're time is coming soon
'Cuz there ain't enough room
In the world for us two
Yeah I hate to break the news
But Ima break it in this musical
To let the world know who
Who you've been using
Who you're abusing
In the suits you've been fooling
But you know that you're useless
So he's been acting so ruthless
Deep inside your just ruined
'Cuz I keep on moving
To show you the truth bitch
So when they point the finger
You flip one back
And say fuck that
FUCK THAT
So when they point the finger
We'll flip one back
And say fuck that
FUCK THAT
They wanna see blood
They wanna see hate
Like a needle in your veins
Like a sickness with no name
In a world that's insane
What's America to blame?
When you pray for a change to a God with no face
They wanna see blood
They wanna see hate
Like a fucking AK
It's going up in flames
In a world that's insane
What's America to blame?
When you pray for a change to a God with no face
WHY CAN'T YOU DIE?!
MOTHERFUCKER JUST DIE!?
NO MORE GOODBYES?!
MOTHERFUCKER JUST DIE!?
They wanna see blood
They wanna see hate
Like a needle in your veins
Like a sickness with no name
So when they point the finger
You flip one back
And say fuck that
FUCK THAT
They wanna see your blood
They wanna see your hate
Like a fucking AK
It's going up in flames
So when they point the finger
We flip one back
And say fuck that
All of a sudden
It's America your loving
More people, More Taxes
More Babies in the Oven
It's a country full of carnivores
In a world full of Bombing Whores
The Land of Milk and Honey
Has become the wife I must divorce
Missiles Implement they force
Now we happy with the Pres.
I bet you from now on everybody
Will do just what he says
People on the street they beg
Dying looking or a job
The Powers in the People so the
People should go start a mob
Aint nobody got to rob
There's enough for Everyperson
Cursing, moving toward what we want
And then we Thirstin'
For the Freedom if you can't
Join 'em beat em supercede em
Move ahead of them
And then you grab they hand
And try to lead em
I don't Need em what I Need
Is a Country just for me, where they go to plant they seed,
And your Reap it and Recieve
Fuck the Greed, Fuck the Money,
Fuck the cash, Listen Dummy
You'll be gone by the Summy, everyday
Getting Sunny
Narcoleptic-Prophylactic's sold to us
By Dirty Tactics
Now they selling us our water
Tainted in those
Cancer Plastics and I spit this like the Masters
USA is a Disaster
Faster, Cuz they Gaining, Bastard, Blast it,
Now they shooting cuz it's Drastic
I could rhyme about America
I seen the States
And took a leak in everyone
The potential is Great
Be awake Stop Wilin' out and
Pulling out the Heaters
If you want a real Change
We must Evaporate the Leaders
Cuz they see through like Aleda's
Trying to beat us
But they can't
With they Faces on they Stamps
And they Paces all in Trance
America the Beautiful, America the Bold,
Americans are Starving, Americans are cold
Got a Vision of America
That really doesn't fit
If you want it to Change
Then we Have to Commit
Politician Counterfit, Politician Led Astray
Politician take a Shit
On America Today
Yesterday came and went
It's today that's Imperative
And why is it the Presidency
That's always Inherited
It's Evident that man, will be treated Equally
(We are now in control of your airwaves and Frequencies)
Fuck the Indecencies
Chop em down to Reese's Piece
Bombing People Recently
Welcome to the Beast Disease
Welcome to the Melting Pot
Welcome to the Hell the Hot
Welcome to the other side
Welcome will your come inside
Don't Deny
Americas not for the Meek
There's people Dying in the Street
Every day of the Week
Put the Pen to the Pad
And the Pad to your Ear
It's a Shame it is Sad Getting Bad Over Here
And they Taking all the Money out the 401k's
And making marriage legal between two gays
Living in the last Days
Fugas' they stay Plotting
If it was still up to them
Then Blacks would pick Cotton
They the Parker Brothers
With Monopolies they own the Banks
And it's time for us to Grow into Big
Like Tom Hanks
You in like Shawshank
Attack the Left Bank
It's Time for Left Flank
And Rise like Dense Stank yo,
Lyrically I vomit you comet to catatonic, puff on it like Hydroponics, No
Comment we have In Common
I'm a Hundred and Ten Percent
I been Sent
And they Burning the American Flag there's no sense
And shit is so tense
I think we need an Evolution
And notice how I Stay away from the word Revolution
Cus' it's Televised they watching us
Binoculars and Following
And hit us with another Jagged Pill
They made for Swallowing
They Wallowing like Pork Swine
They Greasier than Pork Rinds
I feed em even More Rhymes
They speed to Heed the Po Nine
Yall need this in the Oh Nine
Let's Represent Democracy
Oh, I see the girls and I think about 'em
Oh, I see world and I think about it
I've been living my life and it's changing the way that I see things
Got a God in my life and it's changing the way that I see things
Well that's wrong
And that's right
A good man
Stop a fight
And a bad man
Well that's right
And that's wrong
Found the truth
In a song
And a good man
I said
Away We Go
Away We Go, America!
Away We Go
Hey there Amigo, America!
I said
Away We Go
Away We Go, America!
Away We Go
Hey there Amigo, America!
Hey, this is Big Darryl with swagger radio here to bring you
your off the top weather report.
The weather today is real good
Yeah, alright
And for this wicked weekend the weather looks awesome
Yeah!
Well that's wrong
And that's right
A good man
Stop a fight
And a bad man
Well that's right
And that's wrong
Found the truth
In a song
And a good man
I said
Away We Go
Away We Go, America!
Away We Go
Hey there Amigo, America!
I said
Away We Go
Away We Go, America!
Away We Go
I can hear them talking
From a million miles
They talk like cowboys
And I close my eyes
And slip into a dream
I wish that I could see
(Chorus)
America, America, America
I don't like my voice
And my clothes don't fit
And my gun belt hangs
On my skinny hips
And all I want to do
Is to be like you
(Chorus)
This town's in trouble
But up there somewhere
Heroes are returning
Safely to the earth
And falling back into
I come from a far to see her
Every body in the wolrd wants to meet her
I fly thousands of miles to take a picture
So beautiful and magical I dream t of her ever since I was a little boy
So I came to I fnd her
She is my special girl
Nothing else like her
I search around the world
I wanna make her mine
I think of her all the time
Shell never leave me [x2]
[Chorus:]
Her name is america
Shes my lady
I plege to protect her heart
Oh so amazing
Her name is america
Shes is my baby
I promise to love her
Only god above her
Shes america
Na na na -
And I want her
Shes america
Na na na -
And I love her
Fight to keep her
Battle anyone if they try to steal her
Pick my arm up and put my fists down
Shes my number 1 that only want I want to stay by her side
So I came to I fnd her
Shes my special girl
Nothing else like her
I search around the world
I wanna make her mine
I think of her all the time
She'll never leave me [x2]
[Chorus:]
Her name is america
Shes my lady
I plege to protect her heart
Oh so amazing
Her name is america
Shes is my baby
I promise to love her
Only god above her
Shes america
Na na na -
And I want her
Shes america
Na na na -
And I love her
[Pitbul:]
America baby
Oh hold on baby
Oh wussup baby
Oh go ahead baby
Maybe we can jump off in car
Drop top and look at the 50 stars
Dress [?] red white blue
Hips like oo
I was like OO
Baby go ahh
Maybe later on we can hit my spot
Right?
Shes [?] and her girlfriend jina goin back n forth like they was selena
This goes out to my american crew
Number 1 could never been 2
[?] we if you see we still in the league
Her name is america
Shes my lady
I plege to protect her heart
Also amazing
Her name is america
Shes is my baby
I promise to love her
Shes america
Na na na
And I want her
Shes america
Na na na
And I love her
ROSALIA:
Puerto Rico...
You lovely island ...
Island of tropical breezes
Always the pineapples growing,
Always the coffee blossoms blowing...
ANITA (mockingly):
Puerto Rico:
You ugly island...
Island of tropic diseases.
Always the hurricanes blowing,
Always the population growing...
And the money owing,
And the babies crying,
And the bullets flying.
I like the island Manhattan -
Smoke on your pipe and put that in!
OTHERS (except Rosalia):
I like to be in America!
Okay by me in America!
Everything free in America
For a small fee in America
ROSALIA:
I like the city of San Juan
ANITA:
I know a boat you can get on.
ROSALIA:
Hundreds of flowers in full bloom.
ANITA:
Hundreds of people in each room!
ALL (except Rosalia):
Automobile in America,
Chromium steel in America,
Wire-spoke wheel in America,
Very big deal in America!
ROSALIA:
I'll drive a Buick through San Juan.
ANITA:
If there's a road you can drive on!
ROSALIA:
I'll give my cousins a free ride
ANITA:
How can you get all of them inside?
ALL (except Rosalia):
Immigrant goes to America,
Many hellos in America,
Nobody knows in America,
Puerto Rico's in America!
(The girls dance around Rosalia.)
ROSALIA:
I'll bring a TV to San Juan.
ANITA:
If there's a current to turn on!
ROSALIA:
I'll give them new washing machine.
ANITA:
What have they got there to keep clean?
ALL (except Rosalia):
I like the shores of America!
Comfort is yours in America!
Knobs on the doors in America,
Wall-to-wall floors in America!
(They dance)
ROSALIA:
When I will go back to San Juan -
ANITA:
When you will shut up and get gone!
ROSALIA:
Ev'ryone there will give big cheer!
ANITA:
Ev'ryone there will have moved here!
(More dancing).
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956.
I can't stand my own mind.
America when will we end the human war?
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb
I don't feel good don't bother me.
I won't write my poem till I'm in my right mind.
America when will you be angelic?
When will you take off your clothes?
When will you look at yourself through the grave?
When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?
America why are your libraries full of tears?
America when will you send your eggs to India?
I'm sick of your insane demands.
When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?
America after all it is you and I who are perfect not the next world.
Your machinery is too much for me.
You made me want to be a saint.
There must be some other way to settle this argument.
Burroughs is in Tangiers I don't think he'll come back it's sinister.
Are you being sinister or is this some form of practical joke?
I'm trying to come to the point.
I refuse to give up my obsession.
America stop pushing I know what I'm doing.
America the plum blossoms are falling.
I haven't read the newspapers for months, everyday somebody goes on trial for
murder.
America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies.
America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.
I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet.
When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never get laid.
My mind is made up there's going to be trouble.
You should have seen me reading Marx.
My psychoanalyst thinks I'm perfectly right.
I won't say the Lord's Prayer.
I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations.
America I still haven't told you what you did to Uncle Max after he came over
from Russia.
I'm addressing you.
Are you going to let our emotional life be run by Time Magazine?
I'm obsessed by Time Magazine.
I read it every week.
Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore.
I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.
It's always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie
producers are serious. Everybody's serious but me.
It occurs to me that I am America.
I am talking to myself again.
Asia is rising against me.
I haven't got a chinaman's chance.
I'd better consider my national resources.
My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of genitals
an unpublishable private literature that goes 1400 miles and hour and
twentyfivethousand mental institutions.
I say nothing about my prisons nor the millions of underpriviliged who live in
my flowerpots under the light of five hundred suns.
I have abolished the whorehouses of France, Tangiers is the next to go.
My ambition is to be President despite the fact that I'm a Catholic.
America how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
I will continue like Henry Ford my strophes are as individual as his
automobiles more so they're all different sexes
America I will sell you strophes $2500 apiece $500 down on your old strophe
America free Tom Mooney
America save the Spanish Loyalists
America Sacco & Vanzetti must not die
America I am the Scottsboro boys.
America when I was seven momma took me to Communist Cell meetings they
sold us garbanzos a handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickel and the
speeches were free everybody was angelic and sentimental about the
workers it was all so sincere you have no idea what a good thing the party
was in 1935 Scott Nearing was a grand old man a real mensch Mother
Bloor made me cry I once saw Israel Amter plain. Everybody must have
been a spy.
America you don're really want to go to war.
America it's them bad Russians.
Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians.
The Russia wants to eat us alive. The Russia's power mad. She wants to take
our cars from out our garages.
Her wants to grab Chicago. Her needs a Red Reader's Digest. her wants our
auto plants in Siberia. Him big bureaucracy running our filling stations.
That no good. Ugh. Him makes Indians learn read. Him need big black niggers.
Hah. Her make us all work sixteen hours a day. Help.
America this is quite serious.
America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.
America is this correct?
I'd better get right down to the job.
It's true I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts
factories, I'm nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.
ROSALIA:
Puerto Rico...
You lovely island ...
Island of tropical breezes
Always the pineapples growing,
Always the coffee blossoms blowing...
ANITA (mockingly):
Puerto Rico:
You ugly island...
Island of tropic diseases.
Always the hurricanes blowing,
Always the population growing...
And the money owing,
And the babies crying,
And the bullets flying.
I like the island Manhattan -
Smoke on your pipe and put that in!
OTHERS (except Rosalia):
I like to be in America!
Okay by me in America!
Everything free in America
For a small fee in America
ROSALIA:
I like the city of San Juan
ANITA:
I know a boat you can get on.
ROSALIA:
Hundreds of flowers in full bloom.
ANITA:
Hundreds of people in each room!
ALL (except Rosalia):
Automobile in America,
Chromium steel in America,
Wire-spoke wheel in America,
Very big deal in America!
ROSALIA:
I'll drive a Buick through San Juan.
ANITA:
If there's a road you can drive on!
ROSALIA:
I'll give my cousins a free ride
ANITA:
How can you get all of them inside?
ALL (except Rosalia):
Immigrant goes to America,
Many hellos in America,
Nobody knows in America,
Puerto Rico's in America!
(The girls dance around Rosalia.)
ROSALIA:
I'll bring a TV to San Juan.
ANITA:
If there's a current to turn on!
ROSALIA:
I'll give them new washing machine.
ANITA:
What have they got there to keep clean?
ALL (except Rosalia):
I like the shores of America!
Comfort is yours in America!
Knobs on the doors in America,
Wall-to-wall floors in America!
(They dance)
ROSALIA:
When I will go back to San Juan -
ANITA:
When you will shut up and get gone!
ROSALIA:
Ev'ryone there will give big cheer!
ANITA:
Ev'ryone there will have moved here!
(More dancing).
Welcome to America,
Where no one ever sleeps at night
Suburban life, where girls lose their appetites,
How did we get to here?
I don't know, but you are not alone,
There's so much more,
Than what you're waiting for
Hey, it's alright to let it go
It's not too late to come back home
Life it cruel and cold sometimes,
But please don't give up tonight
Your wounds can heal in time,
The scars can be left behind
How did we get to here?
In a wold full of maybes,
Where everything's changing
And everyone's going in different directions
Where everyone's crazy,
I'm just trying to break free
But the road just get's harder
Oh, say, can you see
by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed
at the twilight's last gleaming
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched were so
gallantly streaming
America, America
America
America, America
America
And the rockets' red glare
the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night
that our flag was still there
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free
and the home of the brave
America, America
America
America, America
America
America, America
America
America, America
America
America, America
America
America, America
ooohhh
What a drag it is
The shape i'm in
Well I go out somewhere
Then I come home again
I light a cigarette
'Cause I can't get no sleep
Theres nothing on the TV nothing on the radio
That means that much to me
All my life
Watching America
All my life
There's panic in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
There's trouble in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
Yesterday was easy
Happiness came and went
I got the movie script
But I don't know what it meant
I light a cigarette
'Cause I can't get no sleep
Theres nothing on the TV nothing on the radio
That means that much to me
Theres nothing on the TV nothing on the radio
That I can believe in
All my life
Watching America
All my life
There's panic in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
There's trouble in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
There's panic in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
Yesterday was easy
Yes I got the news
When you get it straight, but stand up you just can't lose
Give you my confidence, all my faith in life
Dont stand me up
Don't let me down oh
I need you tonight
To hold me, say you'll be here
To hold me, say you'll be here
To hold me, say you'll be here
To hold..
All my life
Watching America
All my life
There's panic in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
Distrust in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
Tell me how does it feel
Tell me how does it feel
Tell me how does it feel
This little England, it's dingy and it's mean
I've flirted with her mewling gods and petty jelousies
These edited-reader rebels with their simulated causes
Their weak-chinned snarls and red guitars I disregard them all
When they pin me to the wall I'll say:
I'm with America
With godless America, I'll stand and I'll fall
Though it cuts me to my soul that
It must be America
It must be America
Or nothing at all.
The Popstars who write operas and make fatuous remarks
The theory-quoting upstarts who snort fair-trade coke in parks
I find myself a loner and I find myself bereft
I find myself agreeing with Bill O'Reilly more than the left.
When they pin me to the wall I'll say:
I'm with America
With godless America, I'll stand and I'll fall
Though it cuts me to my soul that
It must be America
It must be America
Or nothing at all.
Get into the mood for worldwide confrontation
Wise up to the words of Haig delivered through Reagan
Exposing a commie campaign for world domination
Let's have some more mass extermination
Genocide down at the Sumpul river
Children of eight can go and get raped
Why don't you get a bayonet -
mince up a peasant or two?
Remember remember America's right behind you!
At all costs we've got to stop the Reds
Who wants to hear about 1000 peasants lying dead
Remember the 50s and Mr. MacCarthy
Let's have a witch hunt and nuclear party
Reagan on TV - what a nice kind of guy
He appears on the news without collar and tie
He could press the button and he would survive
He could rule the world cos he's got God on his side
America the beautiful land of the free home of the brave.
I'm so proud of what we've done and for all those lives we gave,
they weren't thrown away.
So don't, dont you forget those lives that we gave away.
This is the wild west, yeah
All this sex, pain, tears, joy – the universal
language, this is music - are you tuning in?
Are you tuning in?
I’m sharper than a Leica lens, I have real grace, no
money to spend
Spend, spend, spend, spend, spend spend, spend
I’ve been around the world I know there’s music, the
united gnosis - oh gnosis, hypnosis
Oh in Tokyo, oh in London town - the same pain, same
joy, same sound
Oh in London town - the same pain, same joy, same sound
America, America, I’m looking for you everywhere,
(where are you?) – the same pain, same joy, same sound
America, America, I’m looking for you everywhere,
(where are you?) – the same pain, same joy, same sound
For all the men who ever died trying to keep my soul
alive
For all the sisters, all the saints who freed me from
my chains
Music, music - now use it
Oh in Tokyo, oh, in London town - the same pain, same
joy, same sound
Oh in London town -the same pain, same joy, same sound
America, America, I’m looking for you everywhere,
(where are you?) the same pain, same joy, same sound
America, America, I’m looking for you everywhere,
(where are you?) the same pain, same joy, same sound
America, America, I’m looking for you everywhere,
(where are you?) the same pain, same joy, same sound
America, America, I’m looking for you everywhere,
(where are you?) the same pain, same joy, same sound
America, America, I’m looking for you everywhere,
(where are you?) the same pain, same joy, same sound
America, America, I’m looking for you everywhere,
(where are you?) the same pain, same joy, same sound
America, America, I’m looking for you everywhere,
(where are you?) the same pain, same joy, same sound
America, America, I’m looking for you everywhere,
(where are you?) the same pain, same joy, same sound
America, America, I’m looking for you everywhere,
(where are you?) the same pain, same joy, same sound
America, America, I’m looking for you everywhere,
Why don't you get out of here
I never needed you anyway
Why don't you just disappear
I'm tired of driving down your logical motorway
You could stay if you don't ask no questions
You could stay if you don't tell no lies
Say You don't read my feature
You could stay if you don't read my mind
Wanna do something new
I Wanna go to America
Go to America
Go to America
But I wanna stay with you
But I wanna take you too baby
Baby, baby, baby
For a moment I'm alive
Everybody tries to steal my time
(I tell you)
God knows how I can survive
Just hiding out in this occupied territory
You could stay if you don't ask no questions
You could stay if you don't tell no lies
Say you don't read my feature
You could stay if you don't read my mind
Wanna do something new
I Wanna go to America
Go to America
Go to America
But I wanna stay with you
But I wanna take you too baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby
I wanna go to America
Go to America
Go to America
But I wanna stay with you
But I wanna take you too baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby
Well I never was a fan of the way you move.
It's a little to slick, it's a little to smooth.
Talking circles like a needle through a locked groove that's your spin.
And I never much cared for your state of affairs
how the most gotta pay 'cause the few won't share.
Open eyes and despise is the cross I bear, as witness to your sins.
America dreams and I wake up screaming.
America lies and I think you know.
America schemes making deals with demons.
America dies and I told you so.
Well I never was a fan of the way you move.
It's a little to slick it's a little to smooth.
Talking circles through a locked groove that's you trick.
And I never put trust in the greed and the lust
and the way you don't bleed when the factories bust like a knife to the throat
it cuts me to the quick
America dreams and I wake up screaming.
America lies and I think you know.
America schemes making deals with demons.
We're not gonna do it in the bedroom
We're not gonna do it in here
We're not gonna do it in the bathroom
We're not gonna do it in here
We're not gonna do it in the living room
We wanna make it cool
Perhaps we're gonna do it in the backroom
But there is one rule
We're not gonna do it in the backyard
We're not gonna do it in here
We're not gonna do it on the record
We're not gonna do it in here
We're not gonna do it in the suburbs
We wanna make it cool
Perhaps we're gonna do it by downtown
But there is one rule!
We're not gonna do it in America
We're not gonna do it in the USA
We're not gonna do it in America
We're not gonna do it in the USA
We're not gonna do it in nature
We're not gonna do it on the stage
We're not gonna do it in the dressing room
We're not gonna do it in a costume
We're not gonna do it for the swing man
We're not gonna do it for the kingdom
Perhaps we're gonna do it for an evidence
Perhaps we're gonna do it for the presidents
We're not gonna do it in America (x5)
We're not gonna do it in the USA
We're not gonna do it in America
We're not gonna do it in America
We're not gonna do it in America
We're not gonna do it in the USA
(x3)
We're not gonna do it in America
We're not gonna do it in America
We're not gonna do it ..
We're not gonna do it ..
We're not gonna do it in the USA
I'm in a room filled with holographic images
Path is limitless, death? well that's ridiculous
I'm a live forever cause a legend never die
See the world assemble but complex in the design
I spent some time just thinkin'
Where did that get me?
High, more drinkin'
Now my head empty
So can it last a couple minutes more?
Pain a funny thing when you can't figure out the source
Bear witness while I'm checking bitches off my hit list
Try and understand the fuckin' message I encrypted
Ancient, halucinatin' visions of utopia
Until I figure out that the perfect world's a lonely one
Never hold my tongue, vocal is a loaded gun
And I'm a shoot somebody in the face if they're too slow to run
Mac Miller I'm the only one
But I'm the coldest one, this is pandemonium
My middle finger up with a cup
And a dutch spliff, hand on my nuts
While I'm wild and out in public
Welcome to America
Motherfucker, welcome to America [x2]
Still in a room filled with holographic images
Crushing information into powder then I'm sniffin' it
Directly to my head, never sleep or use my bed
Iller than the future death of you ingestin' sudafed
Might head to Budapest just to get a Gucci vest
Hop into a jet, get some rest to diffuse the stress
See this is what I do the best
Nothing that you got except the bullet gettin' through my chest
Save hard, a brave heart, a warrior
I take caution, stay far from coroners
I heard some corny words said about my using dope
Talkin' all that shit sounds exactly like a groupie hoe
Most dope, got you hooked, yellin' Ruffio
First you lose you mind then you lose your soul
So what you talkin' about? thinkin' you're out of options
American border, pipper but formal, above and beyond, Medal of Honor
My middle finger up with a cup
And a dutch spliff, hand on my nuts
While I'm wild and out, public
Welcome to America
Motherfucker, welcome to America [x2]
Yo chick live in Pittsburg? bet I steal her,
Shout out my wigga Mac Miller
Comin' up in a world full of killers
I'll be shaded up at the villa,
With a girl that know what the deal is,
Yea they know I come from the illest
City on a map, we don't know how to act
Realest young rap, go getters in America
Bad chick get tossed around like the merry go
CV and Mac meezy takin' off on PJ's
We the future so every night is a new day
Sittin' in the studio, chain on and my hat low
Young visionaries and we sellin' out the rap show
I can trigger the wave in my sleep
Name paved, I feel like I am engraved on the beat
Wake up, shower, get paid and repeat
Spit one flow and got made on the streets
Welcome to the land where you never stay for free
Swag worth a mill, drop cast for the deal, Veggies
My middle finger up with a cup
And a dutch spliff, hand on my nuts
While I'm wild and out, public
Welcome to America
America!
America!
America, fuck yeah!
Comin' again to save the mother fuckin' day yeah!
America, fuck yeah!
Freedom is the only way yeah!
Terrorists your game is through, 'cause now you have to answer to...
America, fuck yeah!
So lick my butt and suck on my balls!
America, fuck yeah!
Whatcha gonna do when we come for you now?
It's the dream that we all share
It's the hope for tomorrow! Fuck yeah.
Mcdonalds, fuck yeah!
Wal-mart, fuck yeah!
The Gap, fuck yeah!
Baseball, fuck yeah!
The NFL, fuck yeah!
Rock and roll, fuck yeah!
The internet, fuck yeah!
Slavery, fuck yeah!
Fuck yeah!
Starbucks, fuck yeah!
Disney world, fuck yeah!
Porno, fuck yeah!
Valium, fuck yeah!
Reeboks, fuck yeah!;
ake tits, fuck yeah!
Sushi, fuck yeah!
Taco bell, fuck yeah!
Rodeos, fuck yeah!
Bed bath and beyond, fuck yeah? (fuck yeah?)
Liberty, fuck yeah!
Wax lips, fuck yeah!
The Alamo, fuck yeah!
Bandaids, fuck yeah!
Las Vegas, fuck yeah!
Christmas, fuck yeah!
Immigrants, fuck yeah!
Pop-eye, fuck yeah!
Democrats, fuck yeah!
Republicans, fuck yeah?
Sportsmanship, fuck yeah?
Take these lines and blow away
Live your lives do what they say
I don't like the things you do
All the things you put me through
(bridge)
After everything is said and done
Will that be enough?
(Chorus)
Here we go
Love it or leave it alone
When the world is spinning on a dime
Hurry up and waste my time
Here we go, here we go, here we go
Take away this foolish pride
Cuts me up so deep inside
I can't believe you've come this far
I don't believe in who you are
(bridge)
After every game is played and won
It's still not enough
(chorus)
So this is life in America
I'm so disappointed
This is life in America today
This Is Not America - The Song
Words and music by David Bowie and Pat Metheny.
This is not America, sha la la la la
A little piece of you
The little peace in me
Will die [This is not a miracle]
For this is not America
Blossom fails to bloom
This season
Promise not to stare
Too long [This is not America]
For this is not the miracle
There was a time
A storm that blew so pure
For this could be the biggest sky
And I could have
The faintest idea
[For this is not America, sha la la la la, sha la la la la, sha la la la la
This is not america, no, this is not, sha la la la la]
Snowman melting
From the inside
Falcon spirals
To the ground [This could be the biggest sky]
So bloody red
Tomorrow's clouds
A little piece of you
The little piece in me
Will die [This could be a miracle]
For this is not America
There was a time
A wind that blew so young
For this could be the biggest sky
And I could have the faintest idea
[For this is not America, sha la la la la, sha la la la la, sha la la la la
This is not america, no, this is not, sha la la la
This is not america, no, this is not
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