-------- Empty Sky (1969) -------- -------- (1) Empty Sky -------- I'm not a rat to be spat on, locked up in this room Those bars that look towards the sun At night look towards the moon Everyday the swallows play in the clouds of love Make me wish that I had wings, take me high above And I looked high, saw the empty sky If I could only, I could only fly I'd drift with them in endless space But no man flies from this place At night I lay upon my bench and stare towards the stars The cold night air comes creeping in and home seems, oh, so far If only I could swing upon those twinkling dots above I'd look down from the heavens upon the ones I love And I looked high, saw the empty sky If I could only, I could only fly I'd drift with them in endless space But no man flies from this place, fly! And I looked high, saw the empty sky If I could only, I could only fly I'd drift with them in endless space But no man flies from this place, yeah Hey, the lucky locket hangs around your precious neck Some luck I ever got with you and I wouldn't like to bet That sooner or later you'll own just one half of this land By shining your eyes on the wealth of every man, yeah And I looked high and saw the empty sky If I could only, I could only fly I'd drift with them in endless space But no man flies from this place Fly on Just send up my love, ain't seen nothing but tears Now I've got myself in this room for years I don't see no one, I never see anyone Anyone, ah yeah Oh Woo-hoo-hoo Woo-hoo-hoo Oh-ho-ho Woo, yeah I said get down with it, babe I want you to shh Right down now, right down now Ah Oh... get on now Get on up now -------- Empty Sky (1969) -------- -------- (2) Val-hala -------- The seadogs have all sailed their ships Into the docks of dawn While the sirens sit and comb their hair And twiddle with their thumbs Oh Thor above the mountain Look down upon your children This is their heaven where they're told To bring their galleons Seek you find your place with me Men of iron, men of steel Only the brave hear the hammers ring In the courts of the Queens, in the halls of the Kings You can come to Val-hala in your own time Come to Val-hala seek and you will find Val-hala Come to Val-hala in your own time Come to Val-hala seek and you will find Val-hala There's long boats in the harbor Which arrive there every hour With the souls of the heroes Whose blood lies on the flowers And this heaven is the home Of every man who loves his sword And he uses it for freedom To preach the word of Thor Seek you find your place with me Men of iron, men of steel Only the brave hear the hammers ring In the courts of the Queens, in the halls of the Kings You can come to Val-hala in your own time Come to Val-hala seek and you will find Val-hala Come to Val-hala in your own time Come to Val-hala seek and you will find Val-hala Val-hala Val-hala Val-hala -------- Empty Sky (1969) -------- -------- (3) Western Ford Gateway -------- It's hard to feel what's in your head Where the gas lamps grow And the garbage blows Around the paper stands And a baby cried And I saw a light And I wondered where And I wondered why There'd be a loss of life Down here tonight Down on Western Ford Gateway That's a place where the dead say That a man lives no more Than his fair share of days Down on Western Ford Gateway Down on Western Ford Gateway That's a place where the dead say That a man lives no more Than his fair share of days Down on Western Ford Gateway It flowed upon the cobbled floor For the bottle's dead And they're drunk again By the tavern door And a baby cried And I saw a light And I wondered where And I wondered why There'd be a loss of life Down here tonight Down on Western Ford Gateway That's a place where the dead say That a man lives no more Than his fair share of days Down on Western Ford Gateway Down on Western Ford Gateway That's a place where the dead say That a man lives no more Than his fair share of days Down on Western Ford Gateway -------- Empty Sky (1969) -------- -------- (4) Hymn 2000 -------- She chose the soft center And took it to bed with her mother And the ideal confusion Was just an illusion To gain further news of her brother And the comfort of mother Was just an appeal for protection For the cat from next door Was found later at four In surgical dissection And I don't want to be The son of any freak Who for a chocolate center Can take you off the street For soon they'll plough the desert And God knows where I'll be Collecting submarine numbers On the main street of the sea And I don't want to be The son of any freak Who for a chocolate center Can take you off the street For soon they'll plough the desert And God knows where I'll be Collecting submarine numbers On the main street of the sea The Vicar is thicker And I just can't see through to him For his cardinal sings A collection of hymns And a collection of coins is made after And who wrote the Bible Was it Judas or Pilate Well one cleans his hands While the other one hangs But still I continue to stand And I don't want to be The son of any freak Who for a chocolate center Can take you off the street For soon they'll plough the desert And God knows where I'll be Collecting submarine numbers On the main street of the sea And I don't want to be The son of any freak Who for a chocolate center Can take you off the street For soon they'll plough the desert And God knows where I'll be Collecting submarine numbers On the main street of the sea -------- Empty Sky (1969) -------- -------- (5) Lady What's Tomorrow -------- Look up little brother Can you see the clover No not over there A little bit left and over there Now look and see the lilac tree The lily pond, the skylark's song The open air but no one cares If branches live and die out there Remember when you were nine And I was ten We would run into the wood No we never will again And Lady, what's tomorrow What's tomorrow anyway If it's not the same as now It's the same as yesterday Yes Lady, what's tomorrow Will it be the same as now Will the farmer push the pen Will the writer pull the plough Look up little brother Can you see the clover Oh sorry but it's over Now there's concrete and no clover Remember when you were nine And I was ten We would run into the wood No we never will, we never will again And Lady, what's tomorrow What's tomorrow anyway If it's not the same as now It's the same as yesterday Yes Lady, what's tomorrow Will it be the same as now Will the farmer push the pen Will the writer pull the plough Oh Lady, what's tomorrow -------- Empty Sky (1969) -------- -------- (6) Sails -------- I viewed in my presence My hand on my forehead And sighting the liners Of mad merchant seamen In search of the living Or the spices of China Lucy walked gently Between the damp barrels And shut out my eyes With the width of her fingers Said she'd guessed the number Of bales in the back room While the seagulls were screaming Lucy was eating Then we hauled up our colours The way the mother had told us And together we just watched the sails While the seagulls were screaming Lucy was eating Then we hauled up our colours The way the mother had told us And together we just watched the sails Lucy I said In a passage of cotton kegs Can we hold hands I'm sure that it's warmer Then the gulls ate the crumbs Of Lucy's sandwich While the seagulls were screaming Lucy was eating Then we hauled up our colours The way the mother had told us And together we just watched the sails -------- Empty Sky (1969) -------- -------- (7) The Scaffold -------- In Orient where wise I was To please the way I live Come give the beggar chance at hand His life is on his lip Three score a thousand times Where once in Amazon Where Eldorado holds the key No keeper holds my hand Unchain the gate of solitude The ruler says you run Run hard unto the scaffold high Your chance to jump the gun Oh how high the scaffold grows The plant life of your widow In black lace curtains brought you near From out the plate glass window Oh how high the scaffold grows The plant life of your widow In black lace curtains brought you near From out the plate glass window The Minotaur with bloody hands Is enraged by the sun Caged he by the corpses Brought forth by the dawn In Orient is as I told The buckshee hangman swears For open crypts to silence Nylon knots to sway by prayer Unchain the gate of solitude The ruler says you run Run hard unto the scaffold high Your chance to jump the gun Oh how high the scaffold grows The plant life of your widow In black lace curtains brought you near From out the plate glass window Oh how high the scaffold grows The plant life of your widow In black lace curtains brought you near From out the plate glass window In Orient where wise I was To please the way I live Come give the beggar chance at hand His life is on his lip -------- Empty Sky (1969) -------- -------- (8) Skyline Pigeon -------- Turn me loose from your hands Let me fly to distant lands Over green fields, trees and mountains Flowers and forest fountains Home along the lanes of the skyway For this dark and lonely room Projects a shadow cast in gloom And my eyes are mirrors of the world outside Thinking of the way that the wind can turn the tide And these shadows turn from purple into grey For just a Skyline Pigeon Dreaming of the open Waiting for the day He can spread his wings Fly away again Fly away, skyline pigeon, fly Towards the dreams you've left so very far behind Fly away, skyline pigeon, fly Towards the dreams you've left so very far behind Just let me wake up in the morning to the smell of new mown hay To laugh and cry, to live and die in the brightness of my day I wanna hear the pealing bells of distant churches sing But most of all, please free me from this aching metal ring And open out this cage towards the sun For just a Skyline Pigeon Dreaming of the open Waiting for the day He can spread his wings And fly away again Fly away, skyline pigeon, fly Towards the things you've left so very far behind Fly away, skyline pigeon, fly Towards the things you've left so very, so very far behind -------- Empty Sky (1969) -------- -------- (9) Gulliver -------- Gulliver's gone to the final command of his master His watery eyes had washed all the hills with his laughter And the seasons can change all the light from the grey to the dim But the light in his eyes will see no more so bright As the sheep that he locked in the pen There's four feet of ground in front of the barn That's sun baked and rain soaked and part of the farm But now it lies empty so cold and so bare Gulliver's gone but his memory lies there By passing the doors of his life was a stage I remember And in later years he would cease to bare teeth to a stranger For sentiment touched him as cyclamen holds him And later men came from the town Who said clear the child this won't take a while And Gulliver's gone with the dawn -------- Empty Sky (1969) -------- -------- (10) Lady Samantha -------- When the shrill winds are screaming And the evening is still Lady Samantha glides over the hills In a long satin dress that she wears every day Her home is the hillside, her bed is the grave Lady Samantha glides like a tiger Over the hills with no one beside her No one comes near They all live in fear But Lady Samantha, she sheds only tears Lady Samantha glides like a tiger Over the hills with no one beside her No one comes near They all live in fear But Lady Samantha, she sheds only tears The tales that I told 'round the fire every night Are out of proportion and none of them right She is harmless and empty of anything bad For she once had something that most of you have Lady Samantha glides like a tiger Over the hills with no one beside her No one comes near They all live in fear But Lady Samantha, she sheds only tears Lady Samantha glides like a tiger Over the hills with no one beside her No one comes near They all live in fear But Lady Samantha, she sheds only tears She sheds only tears She sheds only tears -------- Empty Sky (1969) -------- -------- (11) All Across The Havens -------- The sister of sunlight Comes to my lonely life Bearing the crosses I hung I hung on my lonely wife And the anchor told me If I prayed by the river That the sweet sound of water Would always go with her All across the havens To the waterfall They told me I would meet her there Inside those icy walls But how on earth in this universe Can they forgive me of my pains? For all across the havens I must stumble, locked in chains Then the mother of mercy Showed me her stable And told me you would be safe Safe in her cradle And the waterfall opened And the water withdrew Leaving me standing On a road leading through All across the havens To the waterfall They told me that I would meet her there Inside those icy walls But how on earth in this universe Can they forgive me of my pains? For all across the havens I must stumble, locked in chains -------- Empty Sky (1969) -------- -------- (12) It's Me That You Need -------- Hey there Look in the mirror Are you afraid you might see me looking at you Waiting, waiting at windows Oh, it's me that you need Yes, it's me and I'm waiting for you But I remain silent Oh, I won't say a word I leave you to realise I'm the light in your world And it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me That you're needing It's me, yes it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me That you need Yes, it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me If you want to be living I'm the one who's forgiving Admit that it's me that you need Watching, watching the swallows fly It all means the same Just like them You can fly home again But don't, no don't forget yesterday Pride is an ugly word girl And you still know my name But I remain silent Oh, I won't say a word I leave you to realise I'm the light in your world And it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me That you're needing It's me, yes it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me That you need Yes, it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me If you want to be living I'm the one who's forgiving Admit that it's me that you need -------- Empty Sky (1969) -------- -------- (13) Just Like Strange Rain -------- I looked up from my glass into the sky There's no one in my comic book to buy Calendar swung on the wall held by a rusty nail Down came the strange rain and washed my thoughts away So stop in the sky and tell me why You're changing your colours before my eyes Yellow, blue, green and grey Settled on the window pane So stop in the sky and tell me why You're changing your colours before my eyes Yellow, blue, green and grey Settled on the window pane It made the rain that came seem strange Just like strange rain It made the rain that came seem strange Just like strange rain Still I sit beside the fire and watched as it fell Come in colours from above into my citadel My eyes are all embroidered with the rainbow you have made And now it seems as though it's just, just like strange rain So stop in the sky and tell me why You're changing your colours before my eyes Yellow, blue, green and grey Settled on the window pane So stop in the sky and tell me why You're changing your colours before my eyes Yellow, blue, green and grey Settled on the window pane It made the rain that came seem strange Just like strange rain It made the rain that came seem strange Just like strange rain So stop in the sky and tell me why You're changing your colours before my eyes Yellow, blue, green and grey Settled on the window pane So stop in the sky and tell me why You're changing your colours before my eyes Yellow, blue, green and grey Settled on the window pane It made the rain that came seem strange Just like strange rain It made the rain that came seem strange Just like strange rain Just like strange rain Just like strange rain Just like strange rain Just like strange rain Just like strange rain Just like strange rain Just like strange rain -------- Elton John (1970) -------- -------- (1) Your Song -------- ("Elton John" Version) It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside I'm not one of those who can easily hide I don't have much money, but, boy, if I did I'd buy a big house where we both could live If I was a sculptor, heh, but then again, no Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do My gift is my song, and this one's for you And you can tell everybody this is your song It may be quite simple, but now that it's done I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind that I put down in words How wonderful life is while you're in the world I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss Well, a few of the verses, well, they've got me quite cross But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song It's for people like you that keep it turned on So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do You see, I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen And you can tell everybody this is your song It may be quite simple, but now that it's done I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind that I put down in words How wonderful life is while you're in the world I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind that I put down in words How wonderful life is while you're in the world -------- Elton John (1970) -------- -------- (2) I Need You To Turn To -------- You're not a ship to carry my life You are nailed to my love in many lonely nights I've strayed from the cottages and found myself here For I need your love your love protects my fears And I wonder sometimes and I know I'm unkind But I need you to turn to when I act so blind And I need you to turn to when I lose control You're my guardian angel who keeps out the cold Did you paint your smile on, well, I said I knew That my reason for living was for loving you We're related in feeling but you're high above You're pure and you're gentle with the grace of a dove And I wonder sometimes and I know I'm unkind But I need you to turn to when I act so blind And I need you to turn to when I lose control You're my guardian angel who keeps out the cold -------- Elton John (1970) -------- -------- (3) Take Me To The Pilot -------- If you feel that it's real, I'm on trial And I'm here, yeah, in your prison Like a coin in your mint I am dented and I'm spent with high treason Through a glass eye, your throne Is the one danger zone Take me to the pilot for control Take me to the pilot of your soul Take me to the pilot Lead me through the chamber Take me to the pilot I am but a stranger Take me to the pilot Lead me through the chamber Take me to the pilot I am but a stranger Na na na, na na na Na na na, na-na-na na na Na na na, na na na Na na na, na-na-na na na Well, I know he's not old And I'm told, and I'm told he's a virgin Or he may be she What I'm told is never, never for certain Through a glass eye, your throne Is the one danger zone Take me to the pilot for control Take me to the pilot of your soul Yeah, yeah, take me to the pilot Lead me through the chamber Take me to the pilot I am but a stranger Take me to the pilot Lead me through the chamber Take me to the pilot I am but a stranger Na na na, na na na Na na na, na-na-na na na Na na na, na na na Na na na, na-na-na na na Through a glass eye, your throne Is the one danger zone Take me to the pilot for control Take me to the pilot of your soul Take me to the pilot Lead me through the chamber Take me to the pilot I am but a stranger Take me to the pilot Lead me through the chamber Take me to the pilot I am but a stranger Na na na, na na na Na na na, na-na-na na na Na na na, na na na Na na na, na-na-na na na (Na na na, na na na Na na na, na-na-na na na) Take me, take me, oh, oh (Na na na, na na na Na na na, na-na-na na na) Take me, take me, yeah, yeah (Na na na, na na na Na na na, na-na-na na na) Take me, take me, yeah, yeah, yeah (Na na na, na na na Na na na, na-na-na na na) Na na na, na na na Na na na, na-na-na na na -------- Elton John (1970) -------- -------- (4) No Shoe Strings On Louise -------- Lady love rides a big red Cadillac Buys the hoedown show salt and beans Goes to church to pray for Lucifer She milked the male population clean So ride in line, shake yourself by the hand Live your life inside a paper can But you'll never get to pick and choose She's bought you and sold you There ain't no shoe strings on Louise Come on down, come on down from the ladder Henry get your head, get your head out of them clouds What she wants is to go kissing on a swine herd You might as well kiss the boss man's cow So ride in line, shake yourself by the hand Live your life inside a paper can But you'll never get to pick and choose She's bought you and sold you There ain't no shoe strings on Louise Oh yeah All those city women want to make us poor men And this land's got the worse for the worrying Yeah, I got married at the early age of fourteen And I've been worrying about the way you'll be loving them Yeah, so ride in line, shake yourself by the hand Live your life inside a paper can But you'll never get to pick and choose She's bought you and sold you There ain't no shoe strings on Louise, oh, yeah There ain't no shoe strings on Louise, yeah, oh -------- Elton John (1970) -------- -------- (5) First Episode At Hienton -------- I was one as you were one And we were two so much in love forever I loved the white socks that you wore But you don't wear white socks no more, now you're a woman I joked about your turned-up nose And criticized your school girl clothes But would I then have paced these roads to love you For seasons come and seasons go Bring forth the rain the sun and snow Make Valerie a woman And Valerie is lonely No more to roam on the snow hills of Hienton Undecided with the guardians of the older generation A doormat was a sign of welcome In the winter months to come And in the summer laughing Through the castle ruins we'd run For the quadrangle sang to the sun And the grace of our feeling And the candle burned low as we talked of the future Underneath the ceiling There were tears in the sky And the clouds in your eyes, they were just cover For your thighs were the cushions Of my love and yours for each other The songs still are sung It was fun to be young But please don't be sad where ever you are I am who I am You are who you are Now Valerie's a woman Now Valerie's a woman Now Valerie's a woman -------- Elton John (1970) -------- -------- (6) Sixty Years On -------- Who'll walk me down to church when I'm sixty years of age When the ragged dog they gave me has been ten years in the grave And senorita play guitar, play it just for you My rosary has broken and my beads have all slipped through You've hung up your great coat and you've laid down your gun You know the war you fought in wasn't too much fun And the future you're giving me holds nothing for a gun I've no wish to be living sixty years on Yes I'll sit with you and talk let your eyes relive again I know my vintage prayers would be very much the same And Magdelena plays the organ, plays it just for you Your choral lamp that burns so low when you are passing through And the future you're giving me holds nothing for a gun I've no wish to be living sixty years on -------- Elton John (1970) -------- -------- (7) Border Song -------- Holy Moses, I have been removed I have seen the spectre, he has been here too Distant cousin from down the line Brand of people who ain't my kind Holy Moses, I have been removed Holy Moses, I have been deceived Now the wind has changed direction, and I'll have to leave Won't you please excuse my frankness But it's not my cup of tea Holy Moses, I have been deceived I'm going back to the border where my affairs My affairs ain't abused I can't take any more bad water Been poisoned from my head down to my shoes, oh Holy Moses, I have been deceived Holy Moses, let us live in peace Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease There's a man over there, what's his color? I don't care He's my brother, let us live in peace, oh He's my brother, let us live in peace, oh He's my brother, let us, let us live in peace -------- Elton John (1970) -------- -------- (8) The Greatest Discovery -------- Peering out of tiny eyes The grubby hands that gripped the rail Wiped the window clean of frost As the morning air laid on the latch A whistle awakened someone there Next door to the nursery just down the hall A strange new sound you never heard before A strange new sound that makes boys explore Tread neat so small those little feet Amid the morning his small heart beats So much excitement yesterday That must be rewarded, must be displayed Large hands lift him through the air Excited eyes contain him there The eyes of those he loves and knows But what's this extra bed just here His puzzled head tipped to one side Amazement swims in those bright green eyes Glancing down upon this thing That make strange sounds, strange sounds that sing In those silent happy seconds That surround the sound of this event A parent's smile is made in moments They have made for you a friend And all you ever learned from them Until you grew much older Did not compare with when they said This is your brand new brother This is your brand new brother This is your brand new brother -------- Elton John (1970) -------- -------- (9) The Cage -------- Have you ever lived in a cage Where you live to be whipped and be tamed? For I've never loved in a cage Or talked to a friend or just waved Ah-ah-ooh-ooh, ah-ah-ooh-ooh, oh, ah-ha Well, I walk while they talk about virtue Just raised on my back legs and snarled Watched you kiss your old daddy with passion And tell dirty jokes as he died Ah-ah-ooh-ooh, ah-ah-ooh-ooh, oh, ah-ha But I'm damned when I really care there For the cellar's the room in your lives Where you lace yourself with bad whiskey And close the cage doors on your life Ah-ah-ooh-ooh, ah-ah-ooh-ooh, oh, ah-ha Ah-ah-ooh-ooh, ah-ah-ooh-ooh, oh, ah-ha (Yeah, yeah, yeah) Well I pray while you bathe in bad water Sing songs that I learnt as a boy Then breaks all the bones in my body On the bars you can never destroy Ah-ah-ooh-ooh, ah-ah-ooh-ooh, oh, ah-ha Have you ever lived in a cage Where you live to be whipped and be tamed? For I've never loved in a cage Or talked to a friend or just waved Ah-ah-ooh-ooh, ah-ah-ooh-ooh, oh, ah-ha Ah-ah-ooh-ooh, ah-ah-ooh-ooh, oh, ah-ha Ah-ah-ah, oh-oh-oh, ah-ah-ah, oh-oh-oh Ah-ah-ah, oh-oh-oh, ah-ha Oh-ah-ah, oh-oh-oh, ah-ah-ah, oh-oh-oh Ah-ah-ah, oh-oh-oh, ah-ha -------- Elton John (1970) -------- -------- (10) The King Must Die -------- No man's a jester playing Shakespeare 'Round your throne room floor While the juggler's act is danced upon The crown that you once wore And sooner or later Everybody's kingdom must end And I'm so afraid your courtiers Cannot be called best friends Caesar's had your troubles Widows had to cry While mercenaries in cloisters sing And the king must die Some men are better staying sailors Take my word and go But tell the ostler that his name was The very first they chose And if my hands are stained forever And the altar should refuse me, yeah Would you let me in, would you let me in, would you let me in? Should I cry sanctuary? Caesar's had your troubles Widows had to cry While mercenaries in cloisters sing And the king must die, yeah! The king must die The king must die, oh, yeah No man's a jester playing Shakespeare 'Round your throne room floor While the juggler's act is danced upon The crown that you once wore The king is dead The king is dead The king is dead The king is dead Long live the king -------- Elton John (1970) -------- -------- (11) Bad Side Of The Moon -------- It seems as though I've lived my life On the bad side of the moon To stir your dregs in sickness still Without the rustic spoon Common people live with me Where the light has never shone And the hermits flock like a hummingbirds To speak in a foreign tongue I'm a light world away From the people who make me stay Sitting on the bad side of the moon I'm a light world away From the people who make me stay Sitting on the bad side of the moon Who is my life, who is my life, who is my life Who is my life, who is my life, who is my life There isn't no need for watchdogs here To justify our ways We live our life in manacles The main cause of our stay Exiled here from other worlds My sentence comes too soon Why should I be made to pay Sitting on the bad side of the moon I'm a light world away From the people who make me stay Sitting on the bad side of the moon I'm a light world away From the people who make me stay Sitting on the bad side of the moon Who is my life, who is my life, who is my life Who is my life, who is my life, who is my life Who is my life, who is my life, who is my life -------- Elton John (1970) -------- -------- (12) Grey Seal -------- Why's it never light on my lawn? Why does it rain and never say "Good day" to the newborn? On the big screen, they showed us a sun But not as bright in life as the real one It's never quite the same as the real one And tell me, grey seal How does it feel to be so wise? To see through eyes that only see what's real Tell me, grey seal I never learned why meteors were formed I only farmed in schools that were so worn and torn If anyone can cry, then so can I I read books and draw life from the eye All my life is drawings from the eye And tell me, grey seal How does it feel to be so wise? To see through eyes that only see what's real Tell me, grey seal Your mission bells were wrought by ancient men The roots were formed by twisted roots Your roots were twisted then I was reborn before all life could die The phoenix bird will leave this world to fly If the phoenix bird can fly, then so can I And tell me, grey seal How does it feel to be so wise? To see through eyes that only see what's real Tell me, grey seal -------- Elton John (1970) -------- -------- (13) Rock And Roll Madonna -------- If anyone should see me making it down the highway Breaking all the laws of the land Well, don't you try to stop me, I'm going her way And that's the way I'm sure she had it planned Well, that's my rock and roll Madonna She's always been a lady of the road Well, everybody wants her, and no one ever gets her Well, the freeway is the only way she knows Well, if she would only slow down for a short time I'd get to know her just before she leaves But she's got some fascination for that two-wheel combination And I swear it's gonna be the death of me Well, that's my rock and roll Madonna She's always been a lady of the road Well, everybody wants her, and no one ever gets her Well, the freeway is the only way she knows (Rock on, baby!) (Whoo! Yeah, yeah) Well, that's my rock and roll Madonna She's always been a lady of the road Well, everybody wants her, and no one ever gets her Well, the freeway is the only way she knows Let's get a little bit lower Let's get a little bit lower Oh, you're standing alright Single, baby? Ah, yeah, that's pretty good Now, is everybody gonna rock on with me? One more time I said, that's my rock and roll Madonna, aw, everybody She's always been a lady of the road Well, everybody wants her, but no one ever gets her Well, the freeway is the only way she knows, yeah -------- Tumbleweed Connection (1970) -------- -------- (1) Ballad Of A Well Known Gun -------- I pulled out my Stage Coach Times And I read the latest news I tapped my feet in dumb surprise And of course I saw they knew The Pinkertons pulled out my bags And asked me for my name I stuttered out my answer And I hung my head in shame Now they've found me At last, they've found me It's hard to run From a starving family Now they've found me Well, I won't run I'm tired of hearing There goes a well-known gun Now I've seen this chain gang Lord, I say let me see my priest I couldn't have faced your desert sand Old burning brown backed beast The poor house they hit me for my kin And claimed my crumbling walls Now I know how Reno felt When he ran from the law Now they've found me At last, they've found me It's hard to run From a starving family Now they've found me Well, I won't run I'm tired of hearing There goes a well-known gun Now they've found me Lord I say at last they've found me It's hard to run From a starving family Lord, I say now they've found me Well, I won't run I'm tired of hearing There goes a well-known gun Lord, I say, now they've found me At last they've found me It's hard to run From a starving family Now they've found me And I won't run I'm tired of hearing There goes a well-known gun -------- Tumbleweed Connection (1970) -------- -------- (2) Come Down In Time -------- In the quiet silent seconds I, I turned off the light switch And I, I came down to meet you in the half light the moon left While a, a cluster of night jars sang some songs out of tune A mantle of bright light shone down from a room "Come down in time," I still hear her say So clear in my ear like it was today "Come down in time" was the message she gave Come down in time and I'll meet you half way Well, I don't know if I should have heard her as yet But a, a true love like hers is a, a hard love to get And I, I've walked most all the way and I, I ain't heard her call And I, I'm getting to thinking if she's coming at all "Come down in time," I still hear her say So clear in my ear like it was today "Come down in time" was the message she gave Come down in time and I'll meet you half way There are women, women and some hold you tight While some leave you counting the stars in the night -------- Tumbleweed Connection (1970) -------- -------- (3) Country Comfort -------- Soon the pines will be falling everywhere Village children fight each other for a share And the 6:09 goes roaring past the creek Deacon Lee prepares his sermon for next week I saw grandma yesterday down at the store Well, she's really going fine for eighty-four Well, she asked me if sometime I'd fix her barn Poor old girl, she needs a hand to run the farm And it's good old country comfort in my bones Just the sweetest sound my ears have ever known Just an old-fashioned feeling fully-grown Country comforts in a truck that's going home Down at the well, they got a new machine The foreman says it cuts man-power by fifteen Yeah, but that ain't natural, yeah, well, so old Clay would say You see, he's a horse-drawn man until his dying day And it's good old country comfort in my bones Just the sweetest sound my ears have ever known Just an old-fashioned feeling fully-grown Country comforts in a truck that's going back home And it's good old country comfort in my bones Just the sweetest sound my ears have ever known Just an old-fashioned feeling fully-grown Country comforts in a truck that's going back home Now the old fat goose is flying across the sticks The hedgehogs done in clay between the bricks And the rocking chairs are creaking on the porch Across the valley moves the herdsman with his torch And it's good old country comfort in my bones It's the sweetest sound my ears have ever known Just an old-fashioned feeling fully-grown Country comforts in a truck that's going home Oh, country comforts in a truck that's going back home, yes, it is Country com-comforts in a truck that's going back home -------- Tumbleweed Connection (1970) -------- -------- (4) Son Of Your Father -------- "I'll catch the tram line in the morning With your leave," Van Bushell said He had further heard the cock crow As he stumbled out the shed Then blind Joseph came towards him With a shotgun in his arms He said, "You'll pay me twenty dollars Before you leave my farm" Van Bushell saw a hook Which replaced Joseph's hand He said, "Now calm you down, my brother Let's discuss this man to man" It's no good you getting angry We must try to act our age You're pursuing your convictions Like some hermit in a cage You're the son of your father You try a little bit harder Do for me as he would do for you With blood and water, bricks and mortar He built for you a home You're the son of your father So treat me as your own Well, slowly Joseph barely lowered the rifle And he emptied out the shells Van Bushell, he came towards him He shook his arm and wished him well He said, "Now, hey, blind man, that is fine But I sure can't waste my time So move aside and let me go my way I've got a train to ride" Well, Joseph turned around His grin was now a frown He said, "Let me just refresh your mind Your manners, boy, seem hard to find" You're the son of your father You try a little bit harder Do for me as he would do for you With blood and water, bricks and mortar He built for you a home You're the son of your father So treat me as your own Well there's two men lying dead as nails On an East Virginia farm For charity's an argument That only leads to harm So be careful when they're kind to you Don't you end up in the dirt Just remember what I'm saying to you And you likely won't get hurt You're the son of your father Oh, try a little bit harder You gotta do for me as he would do for you With blood and water, bricks and mortar He built for you a home You're the son of your father So treat me as your own You're the son of your father So treat me as your own You're the son of your father So treat me as your own, yeah -------- Tumbleweed Connection (1970) -------- -------- (5) My Father's Gun -------- From this day on I own my father's gun We dug his shallow grave beneath the sun I laid his broken body down below the southern land It wouldn't do to bury him where any Yankee stands I'll take my horse and I'll ride the Northern plain To wear the colour of the greys and join the fight again I will not rest until I know the cause is fought and won From this day on until I die I'll wear my father's gun I'd like to know where the riverboat sails tonight To New Orleans, well, that's just fine alright Because there's fighting there and the company needs men So slip us a rope and sail on 'round the bend As soon as this is over we'll go home To plant the seeds of justice in our bones To watch the children growing and see the women sewing There'll be laughter when the bells of freedom ring I'd like to know where the riverboat sails tonight To New Orleans, well, that's just fine alright Because there's fighting there and the company, it needs men Oh, I said, oh, I said, slip us a rope and sail on 'round the bend I'd like to know where the riverboat sails tonight To New Orleans, well, that's just fine alright Because there's fighting there and the company needs men Oh, I said, oh, I said, slip us a rope and sail on 'round the bend Oh I'd like to know where the riverboat, the riverboat sails tonight To New Orleans, well, that's just fine alright Because there's fighting there and the company needs men Oh, I said, oh, I said, slip us a rope and sail on 'round the bend I'd like to know where the riverboat, the riverboat The riverboat sails tonight To New Orleans, well, that's just fine, that's just fine alright Because there's fighting there and the company needs men Oh, slip us a rope and sail on 'round the bend I'd like to know where the riverboat sails tonight To New Orleans, well, that's just fine, that's just fine alright Because there's fighting there and the company needs men Oh, I said now, oh, I said, slip us a rope and sail on 'round the bend (The riverboat sails tonight) (That's just fine alright) Oh, slip us a rope Sail on 'round, sail on 'round, sail on 'round, sail on 'round (Sail) Sail on 'round the bend (The riverboat sails tonight) Oh, I said That's just fine alright -------- Tumbleweed Connection (1970) -------- -------- (6) Where To Now St. Peter? -------- I took myself a blue canoe And I floated like a leaf Dazzling, dancing Half enchanted In my Merlin sleep Crazy was the feeling Restless were my eyes Insane, they took the paddles My arms they paralyzed So where to now, St. Peter? If it's true, I'm in your hands I may not be a Christian But I've done all one man can I understand I'm on the road Where all that was is gone So where to now, St. Peter? Show me which road I'm on Which road I'm on It took a sweet young foreign gun This lazy life is short Something for nothing always ending With a bad report Dirty was the daybreak Sudden was the change In such a silent place as this Beyond the rifle range So where to now, St. Peter? If it's true, I'm in your hands I may not be a Christian But I've done all one man can I understand I'm on the road Where all that was is gone So where to now, St. Peter? Show me which road I'm on Which road I'm on I took myself a blue canoe -------- Tumbleweed Connection (1970) -------- -------- (7) Love Song -------- The words I have to say May well be simple but they're true Until you give your love There's nothing more that we can do Love is the opening door Love is what we came here for No one could offer you more Do you know what I mean? Have your eyes really seen? You say it's very hard To leave behind the life we knew But there's no other way And now it's really up to you Love is the key we must turn Truth is the flame we must burn Freedom the lesson we must learn You know what I mean Have your eyes really seen? Love is the opening door Love is what we came here for No one could offer you more Do you know what I mean? Have your eyes really seen? -------- Tumbleweed Connection (1970) -------- -------- (8) Amoreena -------- Lately, I've been thinking how much I miss my lady Amoreena's in a cornfield brightening the daybreak Living like a lusty flower, running through the grass for hours Rolling through the hay, oh, like a puppy, child And when it rains, the rain falls down Washing out the cattle town And she's far away somewhere in her eiderdown And she dreams of crystal streams Of days gone by when we would lean Laughing, fit to burst upon each other I can see you sitting eating apples in the evening The fruit juice, flowing slowly, slowly, slowly Down the bronze of your body Living like a lusty flower, running through the grass for hours Rolling through the hay, oh, like a puppy, child And when it rains, the rain falls down Washing out the cattle town And she's far away somewhere in her eiderdown And she dreams of crystal streams Of days gone by when we would lean Laughing, fit to burst upon each other Oh, if only I could nestle In the cradle of your cabin My arm's around your shoulder, whoa The window's wide and open While the swallow and the sycamore, whoa Are playing in the valley Oh, I miss you, Amoreena Like the king bee misses honey And when it rains, the rain falls down Washing out the cattle town And she's far away somewhere In her eiderdown And she dreams of crystal streams Of days gone by when we would lean Laughing, fit to burst upon each other And when it rains, the rain falls down Washing out the cattle town And she's far away somewhere In her eiderdown And she dreams of crystal streams Of days gone by when we would lean Laughing, fit to burst upon each other, oh Lately, I've been thinking, oh, how much I miss my lady Amoreena's in a cornfield, oh, brightening the daybreak Living like a lusty flower, running through the grass for hours Rolling through the hay, whoa, like a puppy, like a puppy, child, oh -------- Tumbleweed Connection (1970) -------- -------- (9) Talking Old Soldiers -------- Why hello, say, can I buy you another glass of beer? Well, thanks a lot, that's kind of you, it's nice to know you care These days there's so much going on No one seems to wanna know I may be just an old soldier to some But I know how it feels to grow old Yeah, that's right, you can see me here most every night You'll always see me staring at the walls and at the lights Funny, I remember, oh, it's years ago, I'd say I'd stand at that bar with my friends who've passed away And drink three times the beer that I can drink today Yes, I know how it feels to grow old I know what they're saying, son There goes old man Joe again Well, I may be mad at that I've seen enough To make a man go out his brains Well, do they know what it's like to have a graveyard as a friend 'Cause that's where they are, boy, all of them Don't seem likely I'll get friends like that again, yeah Well, it's time I moved off But it's been great just listening to you And I might even see ya next time I'm passing through You're right, there's so much going on No one seems to want to know So keep well, keep well old friend And have another drink on me Just ignore all the others You got your memories You got your memories -------- Tumbleweed Connection (1970) -------- -------- (10) Burn Down The Mission -------- You tell me there's an angel in your tree Did he say he'd come to call on me? For things are getting desperate in our home Living in the parish of the restless folks I know Everybody now, bring your family down to the riverside Look to the east to see where the fat stock hide Behind four walls of stone the rich man sleeps It's time we put the flame torch to their keep Burn down the mission If we're gonna stay alive Watch the black smoke fly to heaven See the red flame light the sky Burn down the mission Burn it down to stay alive It's our only chance of living Take all you need to live inside Deep in the woods the squirrels are out today My wife cried when they came to take me away But what more could I do just to keep her warm Than burn, burn, burn, burn, down the mission walls Now everybody, bring your family down to the riverside Look to the east to see where the fat stock hide Behind four walls of stone the rich man sleeps It's time we put the flame torch to their keep Burn down the mission, Lord If we're gonna stay alive Watch the black smoke fly to heaven See the red flame light the sky Burn down the mission, Lord If we're gonna stay alive It's our only chance of living Take all you need to live inside -------- Tumbleweed Connection (1970) -------- -------- (11) Into The Old Man's Shoes -------- I'm moving out of Tombstone, yeah, with the sun behind my back I'm tired of people talking of things that I lack Ever since a week ago, the day he passed away I've been taking too much notice of the things they've had to say And all they say is, "You ain't half the man he used to be He had strength and he worked his life to feed his family" So if that's the way it has to be, I'll say goodbye to you For I'm not that guy, or so it seems, to fill my old man's shoes Like I'm a wicked way of life, the kind that should be tamed They'd like to see me locked in jail and tied up in their chains Oh, it's hard and I can't see what they want me to do, Lord, Lord They seem to think I should step into the old man's shoes Like I'm a wicked way of life, the kind that should be tamed They'd like to see me locked in jail and tied up in their chains Oh, it's hard and I can't see what they want me to do, Lord, Lord They seem to think I should step into the old man's shoes Like I'm a wicked way of life, the kind that should be tamed They'd like to see me locked in jail and tied up in their chains Oh, it's hard and I cannot see what they want me to do, Lord, Lord They seem to think I should step into the old man's shoes Like I'm a wicked way of life, the kind that should be tamed Oh, they'd like to see me locked in jail and tied up in their chains Oh, it's hard and I cannot see what they want me to do, Lord, Lord They seem to think I should step into the old man's shoes Lord, I said Like I'm a wicked way of life, the kind that should be tamed -------- Friends (1971) -------- -------- (1) Friends -------- I hope the day will be a lighter highway For friends are found on every road Can you ever think of any better way For the lost and weary travellers to go Making friends for the world to see Let the people know you got what you need With a friend at hand you will see the light If your friends are there then everything's all right It seems to me a crime that we should age These fragile times should never slip us by A time you never can or shall erase As friends together watch their childhood fly Making friends for the world to see Let the people know you got what you need With a friend at hand you will see the light If your friends are there then everything's all right Making friends for the world to see Let the people know you got what you need With a friend at hand you will see the light If your friends are there then everything's all right -------- Friends (1971) -------- -------- (2) Honey Roll -------- Do you want to drive to ride mount on your pony Loosen up my tie to help me breathe Insisting that I pay my alimony Each and every day is the same old scene Come on do the roll, do the roll with me Come on do the roll, do the roll with me I said honey, I said honey I said honey, I said honey Come on do the honey roll with me Well, I want to say that I'm your mister funky Singing this song is taking up your time I did the donkey now I'm your funky monkey Sing it children, sing it on your mind -------- Friends (1971) -------- -------- (3) Seasons -------- For our world, the circle turns again Throughout the year we've seen the seasons change It's meant a lot to me to start anew Oh the winter's cold but I'm so warm with you Out there there's not a sound to be heard And the seasons seem to sleep upon their words As the waters freeze up with the summer's end Oh it's funny how young lovers start as friends Yes it's funny how young lovers start as friends -------- Friends (1971) -------- -------- (4) Can I Put You On -------- I work for the foundry for a penny and a half a day Like a blind street musician, I never see those who pay It's dirty work in Birmingham, better deal for a Sheffield man If he can rivet then his kids can buy Candy from the candy man And the van that comes around weekends Selling fancy city things Sold by the man with the trilby hat And the whiskers spread like wings You can hear him sing Oh, you can hear him sing Can I put you on? People, can I put you on? Tell you that I love you, people Sing a salesman's song and put you on And a second cousin works in the pits in Newcastle on Tyne And he don't care if it rains outside, there's coal dust on his mind It's dirty work in Manchester but the crew gets paid its gelt Bang on the bell on Friday You buys a little something for yourself And the van that comes around weekends selling fancy city things Sold by the man in the trilby hat and the whiskers spread like wings You can hear him sing Oh, you can hear him sing Can I put you on? People, can I put you on? Tell you that I love you, people Sing a salesman's song and put you on And the van that comes around weekends selling fancy city things Sold by the man in the trilby hat and the whiskers spread like wings You can hear him sing Oh, you can hear him sing Can I put you on? People, can I put you on? Tell you that I love you, people Sing a salesman's song and put you on (Oh, oh) (Oh, people, can I put you on?) (Oh, oh) (Oh, people, can I put you on?) (Oh, oh) (Oh, people, can I put you on?) (Oh, oh) (Oh, people, can I put you on?) (Oh, oh) (Oh, people, can I put you on?) (Oh, oh) (Oh, people, can I put you on?) (Oh, oh) (Oh, people, can I put you on?) (Oh, oh) (Oh, people, can I put you on?) (Oh, oh) (Oh, people, can I put you on?) (Oh, oh) (Oh, people, can I put you on?) (Oh, oh) (Oh, people, can I put you on?) -------- Friends (1971) -------- -------- (5) Michelle's Song -------- Cast a pebble on the water Watch the ripples gently spreading Tiny daughter of the Camargue We were meant to be together We were made for one another In a time it takes to grow up If only we were old enough Then they might leave us both alone So take my hand in your hand Say it's great to be alive No one's going to find us No matter how they try No one's going to find us It's wonderful so wild beneath the sky Sleeping in the open See the shadows softly moving Take a train towards the southlands Our time was never better We shall pass the sights of splendor On the door of a new life It had to happen soon I guess Whether it is wrong or it is right We learned to be so graceful Watching wild horses running And from those agile angels We knew the tide was turning For we watched as on the skyway The herons circled slowly While we mere mortals watched them fly Our sleepless eyes grew heavy -------- Friends (1971) -------- -------- (6) I Meant To Do My Work Today (A Day In The Country) -------- "I meant to do my work today The brown bird sang in the apple tree I know that's why And a butterfly flittered across the field And all the leaves were calling me And the buttercups nodded their smiling heads Greeting the bees who came to call And I asked the lizard the time of day..." And the wind went sighing over the land Tossing the grasses to and fro And a rainbow held out its shining hand So what could I do but laugh and go? -------- Madman Across The Water (1971) -------- -------- (1) Tiny Dancer -------- Blue-jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band Pretty-eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man Ballerina, you must've seen her dancing in the sand And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand Jesus freaks out in the street Handing tickets out for God Turning back, she just laughs The boulevard is not that bad Piano man, he makes his stand In the auditorium Looking on, she sings the songs The words she knows, the tune she hums But, oh, how it feels so real Lying here with no one near Only you and you can hear me When I say softly slowly Hold me closer, tiny dancer Count the headlights on the highway Lay me down in sheets of linen You had a busy day today Hold me closer, tiny dancer Count the headlights on the highway Lay me down in sheets of linen You had a busy day today Blue-jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band Pretty-eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man Ballerina, you must've seen her dancing in the sand And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand Oh, how it feels so real Lying here with no one near Only you and you can hear me When I say softly slowly Hold me closer, tiny dancer Count the headlights on the highway Lay me down in sheets of linen You had a busy day today Hold me closer, tiny dancer Count the headlights on the highway Lay me down in sheets of linen You had a busy day today Ooh -------- Madman Across The Water (1971) -------- -------- (2) Levon -------- Levon bears his war wound like a crown He calls his child "Jesus" 'Cause he likes the name And he sends him to the finest school in town Levon, Levon likes his money He makes a lot, they say Spends his days counting In a garage by the motorway He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day When the New York Times said, "God is dead And the War's begun" Alvin Tostig has a son today And he shall be Levon And he shall be a good man And he shall be Levon In tradition with the family plan And he shall be Levon And he shall be a good man He shall be Levon Levon sells cartoon balloons in town His family business thrives Jesus blows up balloons all day Sits on the porch swing, watching them fly And Jesus, he wants to go to Venus Leave Levon far behind Take a balloon and go sailing While Levon, Levon slowly dies He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day When the New York Times said, "God is dead And the War's begun" Alvin Tostig has a son today And he shall be Levon And he shall be a good man And he shall be Levon In tradition with the family plan Whoo! And he shall be Levon And he shall be a good man He shall be Levon And he shall be Levon And he shall be a good man And he shall be Levon In tradition with the family plan Whoo! And he shall be Levon And he shall be a good man He shall be Levon -------- Madman Across The Water (1971) -------- -------- (3) Razor Face -------- Has anybody here seen Razor Face? I heard he's back, looking for a place, to lay down Must be getting on Needs a man who's young to walk him around Needs a man who's young to walk him around Oh, it must be hard for the likes of you To get by in a world that you just can't see through And it looks so cold How does it feel to know you can't go home How does it feel to know you can't go home Come on, Razor Face, my old friend I'll meet you down by the truck stop inn With a bottle of booze in the back of my car You're a song on the lips of an aging star Razor Face, ooh! Amazing grace, protects you like a glove And I'll never learn the reason why I love your Razor Face Has anybody here seen Razor Face? I heard he's back, and looking for a place, to lay down Must be getting on Needs a man who's young to walk him around Needs a man who's young to walk him around Come on, Razor Face, my old friend I'll meet you down by the truck stop inn With a bottle of booze in the back of my car You're a song on the lips of an aging star Razor Face, ooh! Amazing grace, protects you like a glove And I'll never learn the reason why I love your Razor Face I love your Razor Face I love your Razor Face Ooh, I love Razor Face Love your Razor Face I did love your Razor Face I love your Razor Face -------- Madman Across The Water (1971) -------- -------- (4) Madman Across The Water -------- I can see very well There's a boat on the reef with a broken back And I can see it very well There's a joke and I know it very well It's one of those that I told you long ago Take my word, I'm a madman, don't you know Once a fool had a good part in the play If it's so would I still be here today? It's quite peculiar in a funny sort of way They think it's very funny everything I say Get a load of him, he's so insane You better get your coat, dear, it looks like rain We'll come again next Thursday afternoon The In-laws hope they'll see you very soon But is it in your conscience that you're after Another glimpse of the Madman across the Water I can see very well There's a boat on the reef with a broken back And I can see it very well There's a joke and I know it very well It's one of those that I told you long ago Take my word, I'm a madman, don't you know The ground's a long way down but I need more Is the nightmare black or are the windows painted? Will they come again next week, can my mind really take it? We'll come again next Thursday afternoon The in-laws hope they'll see you very soon But is it in your conscience that you're after Another glimpse of the Madman across the Water -------- Madman Across The Water (1971) -------- -------- (5) Indian Sunset -------- As I awoke this evening With the smell of wood smoke clinging Like a gentle cobweb hanging Upon a painted tepee Oh, I went to see my chieftain With my war lance and my woman For he told us that the yellow moon Would very soon be leaving This I can't believe I said I can't believe our warlord's dead Oh, he would not leave the chosen ones To the buzzards and the soldiers' guns Oh, great father of the Iroquois Ever since I was young I've read the writing of the smoke And breast-fed on the sound of drums I've learned to hurl the tomahawk And ride a painted pony wild To run the gauntlet of the Sioux To make a chieftain's daughter mine And now you ask that I should watch The red man's race be slowly crushed? What kind of words are these to hear From Yellow Dog, whom white man fears? I take only what is mine, Lord My pony, my squaw, and my child I can't stay to see you die Along with my tribe's pride I go to search for the yellow moon And the fathers of our sons Where the red sun sinks in the hills of gold And the healing waters run Trampling down the prairie rose Leaving hoof tracks in the sand Those who wish to follow me I welcome with my hands I heard from passing renegades Geronimo was dead He'd been laying down his weapons When they filled him full of lead Now there seems no reason why I should carry on In this land that once was my land I can't find a home It's lonely and it's quiet And the horse soldiers are coming And I think it's time I strung my bow And ceased my senseless running For soon I'll find the yellow moon Along with my loved ones Where the buffaloes graze in clover fields Without the sound of guns And the red sun sinks at last Into the hills of gold And peace to this young warrior Comes with a bullet hole -------- Madman Across The Water (1971) -------- -------- (6) Holiday Inn -------- Boston at last, and the plane's touching down Our hostess is handing the hot towels around From a terminal gate to a black limousine It's a ten-minute ride to the Holiday Inn Boredom's a pastime that one soon acquired Where you get to the stage where you're not even tired Kicking your heels 'til the time comes around To pick up your bags and head out of town Slow down, Joe, I'm a rock-and-roll man I've twiddled my thumbs in a dozen odd bands And you ain't seen nothing 'til you've been In a motel, baby, like the Holiday Inn Slow down, Joe, I'm a rock-and-roll man I've twiddled my thumbs in a dozen odd bands And you ain't seen nothing 'til you've been In a motel, baby, like the Holiday Inn Oh, I don't even know if it's Cleveland or Maine With the buildings as big and rooms just the same And the TV don't work and the French fries are cold And the room service closed about an hour ago -------- Madman Across The Water (1971) -------- -------- (7) Rotten Peaches -------- We've moved on six miles from where we were yesterday And yesterday is but a long long ways away So we'll camp out tonight beneath the bright starlight And forget rotten peaches and the places we've stayed I left from the dockland two years ago now Made my way over on the S.S. Marie And I've always had trouble wherever I've settled Rotten peaches are all that I see Rotten peaches, rotting in the sun Seems I've seen that devil fruit, since the world begun Mercy, I'm a criminal, Jesus, I'm the one Rotten peaches, rotting in the sun Rotten peaches, rotting in the sun Seems I've seen that devil fruit, since the world begun Mercy, I'm a criminal, Jesus, I'm the one Rotten peaches, rotting in the sun There ain't no green grass in the U.S. state prison There is no one to hold when you're sick for your wife And each day out you'll pick, you'll pick rotten peaches You'll pick rotten peaches for the rest of your life Oh, I've had me my fill of cocaine and pills For I lie in the light of the Lord And my home is ten thousand, ten thousand miles away And I guess I won't see it no more Rotten peaches, rotting in the sun Seems I've seen that devil fruit, since the world begun Mercy, I'm a criminal, Jesus, I'm the one Rotten peaches, rotting in the sun Rotten peaches, rotting in the sun Seems I've seen that devil fruit, since the world begun Mercy, I'm a criminal, Jesus, I'm the Jesus, I'm the one Rotten peaches, rotting in the sun -------- Madman Across The Water (1971) -------- -------- (8) All The Nasties -------- If it came to pass That they should ask What could I tell them? Would they criticize Behind my back Maybe I should let them Oh, if only then and only then They would understand They'd turn a full-blooded city boy Into a full-blooded city man If they could face it I could take it In their eyes Oh, I know I'd make it Their tiny minds And sacred cows, just fake it Oh, if only then and only then They would understand They'd turn a full-blooded city boy Into a full-blooded city man But I know the way They want me In the way they publicize If they could turn Their focus off To the image in their eyes Maybe it would help them Help them understand Maybe it would help them Help them understand Maybe it would help them Help them understand That a full-blooded city boy Is now a full-blooded city man Oh, my soul, oh, my soul, oh, my soul Oh, my soul, oh, my soul, oh, my soul Oh, my soul, oh, my soul, oh, my soul Oh, my soul, oh, my soul, oh, my soul Oh, my soul, oh, my soul, oh, my soul Oh, my soul, oh, my soul, oh, my soul Oh, my soul, oh, my soul, oh, my soul Oh, my soul, oh, my soul, oh, my soul Oh, my soul, oh, my soul, oh, my soul Oh, my soul, oh, my soul, oh, my soul -------- Madman Across The Water (1971) -------- -------- (9) Goodbye -------- And now that it's all over The birds can nest again I'll only snow when the sun comes out I'll shine only when it starts to rain And if you want a drink Just squeeze my hand And wine will flow into the land And feed my lambs For I am a mirror I can reflect the moon I will write songs for you I'll be your silver spoon I'm sorry I took your time I am the poem that doesn't rhyme Just turn back a page I'll waste away, I'll waste away I'll waste away, I'll waste away I'll waste away, I'll waste away -------- Honky Chateau (1972) -------- -------- (1) Honky Cat -------- When I look back, boy, I must have been green Bopping in the country, fishing in a stream Looking for an answer, trying to find a sign Until I saw your city lights, honey, I was blind They said, get back, honky cat Better get back to the woods But, I quit those days and my redneck ways And, oh, change is gonna do me good You better get back, honky cat Living in the city ain't where it's at It's like trying to find gold in a silver mine It's like trying to drink whisky, oh, from a bottle of wine Well, I read some books and I read some magazines About those high-class ladies down in New Orleans And all the fools back home, well, said I was a fool They said, oh, "Believe in the Lord" is the golden rule They said, get back, honky cat Better get back to the woods But I quit those days and my redneck ways And, ooh, oh, change is gonna do me good (Ooh, baby) They said, get back, honky cat Better get back to the woods Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways And, oh, oh, change is gonna do me good They said, stay at home, boy, you gotta tend the farm Living in the city, boy, is, is gonna break your heart But how can you stay when your heart says no Ha, how can you stop when your feet say go You better get back, honky cat Better get back to the woods Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways And, ooh, oh, the change is gonna do me good You better get back, honky cat Living in the city ain't where it's at It's like trying to find gold in a silver mine It's like trying to drink whisky, oh, from a bottle of wine Oh yeah, get back, honky cat Get back, honky cat, get back, whoo Get back, honky cat Get back, honky cat, get back, whoo Oh, get back, honky cat, get back Get back, honky cat, whoo Oh yeah, redneck ways and Whoo -------- Honky Chateau (1972) -------- -------- (2) Mellow -------- Cool grass blowing up the pass Don't you know I'm feeling mellow? Oh, I love your Roman nose The way you curl your toes, baby Make me feel so mellow It's the same old feeling I get when you're stealing Back into my bed again With the curtains closed Oh, and the window froze By the rhythm of the rain Ooh, you make me mellow Oh, you make me mellow Rocking smooth and slow Mellow's the feeling that we get Watching the coal fire glow Oh, you make me mellow Oh, I make you mellow Wrecking the sheets real fine Heaven knows what you sent me, Lord But God, this is a mellow time Going down to the stores in town Getting all the things we need Oh, don't forget the beer Oh, my little dear It helps to sow the mellow seed And it can't be bad, all the love I've had Coursing through my life Oh, down in the pass Where the wind blows fast And mellow, mellow's feeling right Oh, I make you mellow Oh, you make me mellow Rocking smooth and slow Mellow's the feeling that we get Watching the coal fire glow Oh, you make me mellow Oh, I make you mellow Wrecking the sheets real fine Heaven knows what you sent me, Lord But God, this is a mellow time Oh, you make me mellow Oh, you make me mellow Rocking smooth and slow Mellow's the feeling that we get Watching the coal fire glow Oh, you make me mellow Oh, I make you mellow Wrecking the sheets real fine Heaven knows what you sent me, Lord But God, this is a mellow time Oh! You make me mellow Oh! You make me mellow Rocking the sheets real fine Heaven knows what you sent me, Lord But God, this is a mellow time Oh, oh Oh, oh Wrecking the sheets real fine Heaven knows what you sent me, Lord But God, this is a mellow time -------- Honky Chateau (1972) -------- -------- (3) I Think I'm Going To Kill Myself -------- I'm getting bored Being part of mankind There's not a lot to do no more This race is a waste of time People rushing everywhere Swarming around like flies Think I'll buy a .44 Give 'em all a surprise I think I'm gonna kill myself Cause a little suicide Stick around for a couple of days What a scandal if I died Yeah, I'm gonna kill myself Get a little headline news I'd like to see what the papers say On the state of teenage blues A rift in my family I can't use the car I gotta be in by ten o'clock Who do they think they are? I'd make an exception If you wanna save my life Brigitte Bardot gotta come And see me every night I think I'm gonna kill myself Cause a little suicide Stick around for a couple of days What a scandal if I died Yeah, I'm gonna kill myself Get a little headline news I'd like to see what the papers say On the state of teenage blues On the state of teenage blues Kill myself Suicide What a scandal if I die Suicide Headline news On the state of teenage blues -------- Honky Chateau (1972) -------- -------- (4) Susie (Dramas) -------- I got frostbitten in the winter Ice skating on the river With my pretty little black-eyed girl She'd make your darn toes curl just to see her, yeah I got a fringe front on my buggy I got a frisky little colt in a hurry And a pretty little black-eyed Susie by by by my side Well, she sure knows how to use me Pretty little black-eyed Susie Playing hooky with my heart all the time Living with her funky family In a derelict old alley Down by the river where we share a little loving in the moonshine I'm an old hayseed harp player I'm the hit of the county fair With my pretty little black-eyed girl Living proof as she swirls, she's a dancer, yeah I got a fringe front on my buggy I got a frisky little colt in a hurry And a pretty little black-eyed Susie by by by my side Well, she sure knows how to use me Pretty little black-eyed Susie Playing hooky with my heart all the time Living with her funky family In a derelict old alley Down by the river where we share a little loving in the moonshine Well, she sure knows how to use me Pretty little black-eyed Susie Playing hooky with my heart all the time, oh Living with her funky family In a derelict old alley Down by the river where we share a little loving in the moonshine Well, she sure knows how to use me Pretty little black-eyed Susie Playing hooky with my heart all the time Living with her funky family In a derelict old alley Down by the river where we share a little loving in the moonshine -------- Honky Chateau (1972) -------- -------- (5) Rocket Man -------- She packed my bags last night, pre-flight Zero hour: 9:00 AM And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then I miss the Earth so much, I miss my wife It's lonely out in space On such a timeless flight And I think it's gonna be a long, long time 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh, no, no, no I'm a rocket man Rocket man! Burning out his fuse up here alone And I think it's gonna be a long, long time 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh, no, no, no I'm a rocket man Rocket man! Burning out his fuse up here alone Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids In fact, it's cold as hell And there's no one there to raise them if you did And all the science, I don't understand It's just my job five days a week A rocket man A rocket man And I think it's gonna be a long, long time 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh, no, no, no I'm a rocket man Rocket man! Burning out his fuse up here alone And I think it's gonna be a long, long time 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh, no, no, no I'm a rocket man Rocket man! Burning out his fuse up here alone And I think it's gonna be a long, long time And I think it's gonna be a long, long time And I think it's gonna be a long, long time And I think it's gonna be a long, long time And I think it's gonna be a long, long time And I think it's gonna be a long, long time And I think it's gonna be a long, long time And I think it's gonna be a long, long time And I think it's gonna be a long, long time -------- Honky Chateau (1972) -------- -------- (6) Salvation -------- I have to say, my friends This road goes a long, long way And if we're going to find the end We're going to need a helping hand I have to say, my friends We're looking for a light ahead In the distance, a candle burns Salvation keeps the hungry children fed It's gotta take a lot of salvation What we need are willing hands You must feel the sweat in your eyes You must understand salvation A chance to put the devil down Without the fear of hell Salvation spreads the gospel 'round And free you from yourself It's gotta take a lot of salvation What we need are willing hands You must feel the sweat in your eyes You must understand salvation I have to say, my friends This road goes a long, long way And if we're going to find the end We're going to need a helping hand I have to say, my friends We're looking for a light ahead In the distance, a candle burns Salvation keeps the hungry children fed It's gotta take a lot of salvation What we need are willing hands You must feel the sweat in your eyes You must understand salvation Oh, it's gotta take a lot of salvation What we need are willing hands You must feel the sweat in your eyes You must understand salvation -------- Honky Chateau (1972) -------- -------- (7) Slave -------- There's a river running sweat right through our land, through our land Driven by a man with a bullwhip in his hand, in his hand And I've taken just as much as I can stand, I can stand Oh, we've got to free our brothers from their shackles, yeah, if we can, if we can Most nights I have to watch my woman cry, oh, she cries Every day I watch the colonel smile, oh, he smiles His painted ladies riding in from town, in from town Oh, I swear one day I'm gonna burn the whorehouse to the ground, to the ground Slave, slave To fight the violence we must be brave Hold on strong to the love God gave Slave There's a rumor of a war that's yet to come, yet to come That may free our families, free our families and our sons, and our sons It may lay green lands to barren waste, all to waste, all to waste Oh, the price of release is a bitter blow to face, oh, to face Slave, slave To fight the violence we must be brave Hold on strong to the love God gave Slave Slave, oh, slave To fight the violence we must be brave Hold on strong to the love God gave Slave, slave To fight the violence we must be brave Hold on strong to the love God gave Slave -------- Honky Chateau (1972) -------- -------- (8) Amy -------- Tread on my face if you like, little lady Turn me inside out if you have to, baby But don't you cross me off your list Ooh, I am young and I ain't never been kissed Never been kissed by a lady called Amy You're far out, you're fab and insane A woman of the world, it's quite plain My dad told me Amy's your name Said he'd break my neck if I played your game But he can bust my head 'cause I, I love you all the same Amy, I know you don't have to show your affection 'Cause the big boys like you and to you, I'm an infection So if you don't want me around I think I'll run along and drown You can't want this bum in town, Amy Amy, I know you don't have to show your affection 'Cause the big boys like you and to you, I'm an infection So if you don't want me around I think I'll run along and drown You can't want this bum in town, Amy I'm beaten on the streets because I loves you I watch you go to work in the summer I don't whistle at you down the street I would if I could but I can't whistle, you see Amy, I may not be James Dean Amy, I may not be nineteen And I may still be in romper boots and jeans But ooh, Amy, you're the girl that wrecks my dreams Amy, I may not be James Dean Amy, I may not be nineteen And I may still be in romper boots and jeans But ooh, Amy, you're the girl that wrecks my dreams -------- Honky Chateau (1972) -------- -------- (9) Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters -------- And now I know "Spanish Harlem" are not just pretty words to say I thought I knew But now I know that rose trees never grow In New York City Until you've seen this trash can dream come true You stand at the edge while people run you through And I thank the Lord there's people out there like you I thank the Lord there's people out there like you While Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers Turn around and say "Good morning" to the night For unless they see the sky But they can't, and that is why They know not if it's dark outside or light This Broadway's got It's got a lot of songs to sing If I knew the tunes, I might join in I'd go my way alone I'd grow my own, my own seeds shall be sown in New York City Subway's no way for a good man to go down Rich man can ride, and the hobo, he can drown And I thank the Lord for the people I have found I thank the Lord for the people I have found While Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers Turn around and say "Good morning" to the night For unless they see the sky But they can't, and that is why They know not if it's dark outside or light And now I know "Spanish Harlem" are not just pretty words to say I thought I knew But now I know that rose trees never grow In New York City Subway's no way for a good man to go down Rich man can ride, and the hobo, he can drown And I thank the Lord for the people I have found I thank the Lord for the people I have found While Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers Turn around and say "Good morning" to the night For unless they see the sky But they can't, and that is why They know not if it's dark outside or light They know not if it's dark outside or light -------- Honky Chateau (1972) -------- -------- (10) Hercules -------- Ooh, I got a busted wing and a hornet sting Like an out-of-tune guitar Ooh, she got a Hercules on her side And Diana in her eyes Some men like the Chinese life Some men kneel and pray Ooh, well, I like women and I like wine And I've always liked it that way Always liked it that way (Doo-wop, shoo-wop) (Doo-wop, shoo-wop, shoo-wop, shoo-wop, ah) I can't dig it, the way she tease That old tough-man routine up her sleeves Livin' and a-lovin', kissin' and a-huggin' Livin' and a-lovin' with a cat named Hercules A cat named Hercules Oh, and it hurts like hell to see my girl messin' with a muscle boy No Superman gonna ruin my plans Playin' with my toys Rich man sweatin' in a sauna bath Poor boy scrubbin' in a tub Me, I stay gritty up to my ears Washin' in a bucket of mud Washin' in a bucket of mud (Doo-wop, shoo-wop) (Doo-wop, shoo-wop, shoo-wop, shoo-wop, ah) I can't dig it, the way she tease That old tough-man routine up her sleeves Livin' and a-lovin', kissin' and a-huggin' Livin' and a-lovin' with a cat named Hercules A cat named Hercules (Doo-wop, shoo-wop) (Doo-wop, shoo-wop, shoo-wop, shoo-wop, ah) But I can't dig it, the way she tease That old tough-man routine up her sleeves Livin' and a-lovin', kissin' and a-huggin' Livin' and a-lovin' with a cat named Hercules A cat named Hercules A cat named Hercules A cat named Hercules A cat named Hercules (Oh, yeah) (Yeah, yeah) -------- Don't Shoot Me (I'm Only The Piano Player) (1973) -------- -------- (1) Daniel -------- Daniel is travelin' tonight on a plane I can see the red taillights headin' for Spain Oh, and I can see Daniel wavin' goodbye God, it looks like Daniel Must be the clouds in my eyes They say Spain is pretty, though I've never been And Daniel says it's the best place he's ever seen Oh, and he should know, he's been there enough Lord, I miss Daniel Oh, I miss him so much Oh, Daniel, my brother, you are older than me Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal? Your eyes have died, but you see more than I Daniel, you're a star in the face of the sky Oh, Daniel, my brother, you are older than me Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal? Your eyes have died, but you see more than I Daniel, you're a star in the face of the sky Daniel is travelin' tonight on a plane I can see the red taillights headin' for Spain Oh, and I can see Daniel wavin' goodbye God, it looks like Daniel Must be the clouds in my eyes Oh God, it looks like Daniel Must be the clouds in my eyes -------- Don't Shoot Me (I'm Only The Piano Player) (1973) -------- -------- (2) Teacher I Need You -------- I was sitting in the classroom Trying to look intelligent In case the teacher looked at me She was long and she was lean, she's a middle-aged dream And that lady means the whole world to me It's a natural achievement Conquering my homework With her image pounding in my brain She's an inspiration for my graduation And she helps to keep the classroom sane Oh, teacher, I need you like a little child You got something in you to drive a schoolboy wild You give me education in the lovesick blues Help me get straight, come out and say Teacher I, teacher I, teacher I, teacher, I need you I have to write a letter, ooh Tell about my feelings Just to let her know the scene Focus my attention on some further education In connection with the birdies and the bees Oh, so I'm sitting in the classroom, woo! I'm looking like a zombie I'm waiting for the bell to ring I've got John Wayne stances, I've got Erroll Flynn advances And it doesn't mean a doggoned thing Oh, teacher, I need you like a little child You got something in you to drive a schoolboy wild You give me education in the lovesick blues Help me get straight come out and say Teacher I, teacher I, teacher I, teacher, I need you Oh teacher I need you like a little child You got something in you to drive a schoolboy wild You give me education in the lovesick blues Help me get straight come out and say Teacher I, teacher I, teacher I, teacher, I need you -------- Don't Shoot Me (I'm Only The Piano Player) (1973) -------- -------- (3) Elderberry Wine -------- There's a fly in the window A dog in the yard And a year since I saw you There's a trunk in the corner I keep all my letters My bills and demands I keep too Well I can't help thinking About the times You were a wife of mine You aimed to please me Cooked black-eyed peas-me Made elderberry wine Drunk all the time Feeling fine on elderberry wine Those were the days We'd lay in the haze Forget depressive times How can I ever get it together Without a wife in line To pick the crop and get me hot On elderberry wine? 'Round a tree in the summer A fire in the fall Flat out when they couldn't stand The bottle went 'round Like a woman down south Passed on from hand to hand Well I can't help thinking About the times You were a wife of mine You aimed to please me Cooked black-eyed peas-me Made elderberry wine Drunk all the time Feeling fine on elderberry wine Those were the days We'd lay in the haze Forget depressive times How can I ever get it together Without a wife in line To pick the crop and get me hot On elderberry wine? Drunk all the time Feeling fine on elderberry wine Those were the days We'd lay in the haze Forget depressive times How can I ever get it together Without a wife in line To pick the crop and get me hot On elderberry wine? Elderberry wine Elderberry wine Elderberry wine Elderberry wine Elderberry wine -------- Don't Shoot Me (I'm Only The Piano Player) (1973) -------- -------- (4) Blues For Baby And Me -------- Your old man got mad when I told him we were leaving He cursed and he raged and he swore at the ceiling He called you his child, said honey get wise to his game He'll get you in trouble I know it, those bums are all the same There's a greyhound outside in the lane, it's waiting for us So tell him goodbye, we got to go west on that bus And it's all over now Don't you worry no more Going to go west to the sea The greyhound is swaying And the radio is playing Some blues for baby and me And the highway looks like it never did Lord it looks so sweet and so free And I can't forget that trip to the west Singing blues for baby and me Saw your hands trembling, your eyes opened in surprise It's ninety in the shade babe, and there ain't a cloud in the sky I called you my child, said honey now this is our game There's two of us to play it and I'm happy to be home again There's a greyhound outside in the lane, it's waiting for us So tell him goodbye, we got to go west on that bus -------- Don't Shoot Me (I'm Only The Piano Player) (1973) -------- -------- (5) Midnight Creeper -------- Walk a mile in my tennis shoes Tina Turner gave me the highway blues But I don't love nobody but you honey I'm a true rat for the things I done Second cousin to a son of a gun I'm going to wipe out your mama if she puts me on honey 'Cause I'm a midnight creeper Ain't gonna lose no sleep over you When there's a nightmare I'm there Tempting you to blow a fuse Well there's no more sleeping When I'm midnight creeping over you Watch out honey, watch out honey Watch the things you do Long haired ladies well they look so fine Locked in my cellar full of cheap red wine But, I don't think those ladies they really mind honey I still don't know why you hate me so A little bit of fun never stopped no show Well I, I just wanna loosen up my soul honey 'Cause I'm a midnight creeper Ain't gonna lose no sleep over you When there's a nightmare I'm there Tempting you to blow a fuse Well there's no more sleeping When I'm midnight creeping over you Watch out honey, watch out honey Watch the things you do Watch out honey, watch out honey Watch the things you do -------- Don't Shoot Me (I'm Only The Piano Player) (1973) -------- -------- (6) Have Mercy On The Criminal -------- Have you heard the dogs at night Somewhere on the hill Chasing some poor criminal And I guess they're out to kill Oh there must be shackles on his feet And mother in his eyes Stumbling through the devil-dark With the hound pack in full cry Have mercy on the criminal Who is running from the law Are you blind to the winds of change? Don't you hear him any more? Praying, "Lord, you gotta help me I am never gonna sin again Just take these chains from around my legs Sweet Jesus, I'll be your friend." Now have you ever seen the white teeth gleam While you lie on a cold damp ground You're taking in the face of a rifle butt While the wardens hold you down And you've never seen a friend in years Oh, it turns your heart to stone You jump the walls and the dogs run free And the grave's gonna be your home Oh, have mercy on the criminal Who is running from the law Are you blind to the winds of change? Don't you hear him any more? Praying, "Lord, you gotta help me I am never gonna sin again Just take these chains from around my legs Ooh, sweet Jesus, I'll be your friend." Oh, have mercy on the criminal Who is running from the law Are you blind to the winds of change? Don't you hear him any more? Praying, "Lord, you gotta help me I am never gonna sin again Just take these chains from around my legs Sweet Jesus, I'll be your friend." -------- Don't Shoot Me (I'm Only The Piano Player) (1973) -------- -------- (7) I'm Going To Be A Teenage Idol -------- Well, there's slim times when my words won't rhyme And the hills I face are a long hard climb I just sit cross-legged with my old guitar Ooh, it kinda makes me feel like a rock'n'roll star Well it makes me laugh, Lord, it makes me cry And I think, for once, let me just get high Let me get electric, put a silk suit on Turn my old guitar into a Tommy gun And root-toot-shoot myself to fame Every kid alive gonna know my name An overnight phenomen like there's never been A motivated supersonic king of the scene I'll be a teenage idol, just give me a break I'm gonna be a teenage idol, no matter how long it takes You can't imagine what it means to me I'm going to grab myself a place in history A teenage idol That's what I'm gonna be (Oh yeah) Well, life is short, and the world is rough And if you're going to boogie, boy, you got to be tough Nobody knows if I'm dead or alive I just drink myself to sleep each night And so I pray to the teenage god of rock If I make it big, let me stay on top You gotta cut me loose from this one room dive Put me on the ladder, keep this boy alive And root-toot-shoot myself to fame Every kid alive gonna know my name An overnight phenomen like there's never been A motivated supersonic king of the scene I'll be a teenage idol, just give me a break I'm gonna be a teenage idol, no matter how long it takes You can't imagine what it means to me I'm going to grab myself a place in history A teenage idol (ha, yeah, ooh) That's what I'm gonna be -------- Don't Shoot Me (I'm Only The Piano Player) (1973) -------- -------- (8) Texan Love Song -------- I heard from a friend you'd been messing around With a cute little thing I'd been dating uptown Well I don't know if I like that idea much Well you'd better stay clear I might start acting rough You out of town guys sure think you're real keen Think all of us boys here are homespun and green But that's wrong my friend so get this through your head We're tough and we're Texan with necks good and red So it's Ki yi yippie yi yi You long hairs are sure gonna die Our American home was clean 'til you came And kids still respected the president's name And the eagle still flew in the sky Hearts filled with national pride Then you came along with your drug-crazy songs Goddammit you're all gonna die How dare you sit there and drink all our beer Oh it's made for us workers who sweat spit and swear The minds of our daughters are poisoned by you With your communistic politics and them negro blues Well I'm gonna quit talking and take action now Run all of you fairies clean out of this town Oh I'm dog tired of watching you mess up our lives Spending the summertime naturally high So it's Ki yi yippie yi yi You long hairs are sure gonna die Our American home was clean 'til you came And kids still respected the president's name And the eagle still flew in the sky Hearts filled with national pride Then you came along with your drug-crazy songs Goddammit you're all gonna die Goddammit you're all gonna die Oh Lord Goddammit you're all gonna die Listen now -------- Don't Shoot Me (I'm Only The Piano Player) (1973) -------- -------- (9) Crocodile Rock -------- I remember when rock was young Me and Susie had so much fun Holding hands and skimming stones Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own But the biggest kick I ever got Was doing a thing called the Crocodile Rock While the other kids were rocking 'round the clock We were hopping and bopping to the Crocodile Rock Well, Crocodile Rocking is something shocking When your feet just can't keep still I never knew me a better time, and I guess I never will Oh, lawdy mama, those Friday nights When Susie wore her dresses tight And the Crocodile Rocking was out of sight Laa, la-la-la-la-laa La-la-la-la-laa La-la-la-la-laa But the years went by and the rock just died Susie went and left us for some foreign guy Long nights crying by the record machine Dreaming of my Chevy and my old blue jeans But they'll never kill the thrills we've got Burning up to the Crocodile Rock Learning fast as the weeks went past We really thought the Crocodile Rock would last Well, Crocodile Rocking is something shocking When your feet just can't keep still I never knew me a better time, and I guess I never will Oh, lawdy mama, those Friday nights When Susie wore her dresses tight And the Crocodile Rocking was out of sight Laa, la-la-la-la-laa La-la-la-la-laa La-la-la-la-laa I remember when rock was young Me and Susie had so much fun Holding hands and skimming stones Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own But the biggest kick I ever got Was doing a thing called the Crocodile Rock While the other kids were rocking 'round the clock We were hopping and bopping to the Crocodile Rock Well, Crocodile Rocking is something shocking When your feet just can't keep still I never knew me a better time, and I guess I never will Oh, lawdy mama, those Friday nights When Susie wore her dresses tight And the Crocodile Rocking was out of sight Laa, la-la-la-la-laa La-la-la-la-laa La-la-la-la-laa Laa, la-la-la-la-laa La-la-la-la-laa La-la-la-la-laa Laa, la-la-la-la-laa La-la-la-la-laa La-la-la-la-laa -------- Don't Shoot Me (I'm Only The Piano Player) (1973) -------- -------- (10) High Flying Bird -------- You wore a little cross of gold around your neck I saw it as you flew between my reason Like a raven in the night time when you left I wear a chain upon my wrist that bears no name You touched it and you wore it And you kept it in your pillow all the same My high-flying bird has flown from out my arms I thought myself her keeper She thought I meant her harm She thought I was the archer A weather man of words But I could never shoot down My high-flying bird The white walls of your dressing room are stained in scarlet red You bled upon the cold stone like a young man In the foreign field of death Wouldn't it be wonderful is all I heard you say You never closed your eyes at night and learned to love daylight Instead you moved away My high-flying bird has flown from out my arms I thought myself her keeper She thought I meant her harm She thought I was the archer A weather man of words But I could never shoot down My high-flying bird has flown from out my arms I thought myself her keeper She thought I meant her harm She thought I was the archer A weather man of words But I could never shoot down My high-flying bird My high-flying, high-flying bird My high-flying, high-flying bird My high-flying, high-flying bird My high-flying, high-flying bird -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (1) Love Lies Bleeding -------- The roses in the window box have tilted to one side Everything about this house was born to grow and die Oh, it doesn't seem a year ago to this very day You said, "I'm sorry, honey, if I don't change the pace I can't face another day" And love lies bleedin' in my hands Oh, it kills me to think of you with another man I was playin' rock and roll, and you were just a fan But my guitar couldn't hold you, so I split the band Love lies bleedin' in my hands I wonder if those changes have left a scar on you Like all the burnin' hoops of fire that you and I passed through You're a bluebird on a telegraph line, I hope you're happy now Well, if the wind of change comes down your way, girl You'll make it back somehow And love lies bleedin' in my hands Oh, it kills me to think of you with another man I was playin' rock and roll, and you were just a fan But my guitar couldn't hold you, so I split the band Love lies bleedin' in my hands And love lies bleedin' in my hands Oh, it kills me to think of you with another man I was playin' rock and roll, and you were just a fan But my guitar couldn't hold you, so I split the band Love lies bleedin' in my hands Oh! Oh! Oh, oh, oh, oh Love lies bleedin' in my hands Ooh-hoo! Ooh-hoo! Ooh-hoo! Ooh-hoo! Ooh-hoo! Ooh-hoo! Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (2) Candle In The Wind -------- Goodbye, Norma Jeane Though I never knew you at all You had the grace to hold yourself While those around you crawled They crawled out of the woodwork And they whispered into your brain They set you on the treadmill And they made you change your name And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind Never knowing who to cling to When the rain set in And I would've liked to know you But I was just a kid Your candle burned out long before Your legend ever did Loneliness was tough The toughest role you ever played Hollywood created a superstar And pain was the price you paid Even when you died Oh, the press still hounded you All the papers had to say Was that Marilyn was found in the nude And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind Never knowing who to cling to When the rain set in And I would've liked to know you But I was just a kid Your candle burned out long before Your legend ever did Goodbye, Norma Jeane Though I never knew you at all You had the grace to hold yourself While those around you crawled Goodbye, Norma Jeane From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual More than just our Marilyn Monroe And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind Never knowing who to cling to When the rain set in And I would've liked to know you But I was just a kid Your candle burned out long before Your legend ever did Your candle burned out long before Your legend ever did -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (3) Bennie And The Jets -------- Hey, kids, shake it loose together The spotlight's hitting something That's been known to change the weather We'll kill the fatted calf tonight So stick around You're gonna hear electric music Solid walls of sound Say, Candy and Ronnie. Have you seen them yet? Ooh, but they're so spaced out B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets Oh, but they're weird and they're wonderful Oh, Bennie. She's really keen She's got electric boots, a mohair suit You know I read it in a magazine, oh B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets Hey, kids, plug into the faithless Maybe they're blinded But Bennie makes them ageless We shall survive, let us take ourselves along Where we fight our parents out in the streets To find who's right and who's wrong Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet? Ooh, but they're so spaced out B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets Oh, but they're weird and they're wonderful Oh, Bennie. She's really keen She's got electric boots, a mohair suit You know I read it in a magazine B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets Oh, Candy and Ronnie. Have you seen them yet? Ooh, but they're so spaced out B-B-B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets Oh, but they're weird and they're wonderful Oh, Bennie. She's really keen She's got electric boots, a mohair suit You know I read it in a magazine B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets Bennie, Bennie and the Jets Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets, the Jets, the Jets Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (4) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road -------- When are you gonna come down? When are you going to land? I should have stayed on the farm I should have listened to my old man You know you can't hold me forever I didn't sign up with you I'm not a present for your friends to open This boy's too young to be singing the blues Ah, ah-ah, ah-ah Ah-ah-ah, ah So goodbye yellow brick road Where the dogs of society howl You can't plant me in your penthouse I'm going back to my plough Back to the howling old owl in the woods Hunting the horny-back toad Oh, I've finally decided my future lies Beyond the yellow brick road Ah, ah-ah, ah-ah Ah-ah-ah, ah What do you think you'll do, then? I bet they'll shoot down the plane It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics To set you on your feet again Maybe you'll get a replacement There's plenty like me to be found Mongrels who ain't got a penny Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground Ah, ah-ah, ah-ah Ah-ah-ah, ah So goodbye yellow brick road Where the dogs of society howl You can't plant me in your penthouse I'm going back to my plough Back to the howling old owl in the woods Hunting the horny-back toad Oh, I've finally decided my future lies Beyond the yellow brick road Ah, ah-ah, ah-ah Ah-ah-ah, ah -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (5) This Song Has No Title -------- Tune me in to the wild side of life I'm an innocent young child, sharp as a knife Take me to the garrets where the artists have died Show me the courtrooms where the judges have lied Let me drink deeply from the water and the wine Light colored candles in dark dreary mines Look in the mirror and stare at myself And wonder if that's really me on the shelf And each day I learn just a little bit more I don't know why but I do know what for If we're all going somewhere, let's get there soon Oh, this song's got no title, just words and a tune Take me down alleys where the murders are done In a vast high powered rocket to the core of the sun Want to read books in the studies of men Born on the breeze and die on the wind If I was an artist who paints with his eyes I'd study my subject and silently cry Cry for the darkness to come down on me For confusion to carry on turning the wheel And each day I learn just a little bit more I don't know why but I do know what for If we're all going somewhere, let's get there soon Oh, this song's got no title, just words and a tune -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (6) Grey Seal -------- Why's it never light on my lawn? Why does it rain and never say "Good day" to the newborn? On the big screen, they showed us a sun But not as bright in life as the real one It's never quite the same as the real one And tell me, grey seal How does it feel to be so wise? To see through eyes that only see what's real Tell me, grey seal I never learned why meteors were formed I only farmed in schools that were so worn and torn If anyone can cry, then so can I I read books and draw life from the eye All my life is drawings from the eye And tell me, grey seal How does it feel to be so wise? To see through eyes that only see what's real Tell me, grey seal Your mission bells were wrought by ancient men The roots were formed by twisted roots Your roots were twisted then I was reborn before all life could die The phoenix bird will leave this world to fly If the phoenix bird can fly, then so can I And tell me, grey seal How does it feel to be so wise? To see through eyes that only see what's real Tell me, grey seal -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (7) Jamaica Jerk Off -------- When she gets up in the morning It's enough to wake the dead Oh she turning on the radio And dancing on my head It's no good living in the sun Playing guitar all day Boogalooing with my friends In that erotic way Come on, Jamaica In Jamaica all day Dancing with your darling Do Jamaica jerk-off that way Come on, Jamaica Everybody say We're all happy in Jamaica Do Jamaica jerk-off that way Let the ladies and the gentlemen Be as rude as they like On the beaches, oh in the jungle Where the people feel alright So do it in Jamaica Got plenty for you and me Honky-tonking with my baby In that deep blue sea Come on, Jamaica In Jamaica all day Dancing with your darling Do Jamaica jerk-off that way Come on, Jamaica Everybody say We're all happy in Jamaica Do Jamaica jerk-off that way Come on, Jamaica In Jamaica all day Dancing with your darling Do Jamaica jerk-off that way Come on, Jamaica Everybody say We're all happy in Jamaica Do Jamaica jerk-off that way -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (8) I've Seen That Movie Too -------- I can see by your eyes you must be lying When you think I don't have a clue Baby, you're crazy If you think that you can fool me Because I've seen that movie too The one where the players are acting surprised Saying love's just a four letter word Between forcing smiles, with the knives in their eyes Well, their actions become so absurd So keep your auditions for somebody Who hasn't got so much to lose 'Cause you can tell by the lines I'm reciting That I've seen that movie too So keep your auditions for somebody Who hasn't got so much to lose 'Cause you can tell by the lines I'm reciting I've seen that movie too It's a habit I have, I don't get pushed around Stop twinkling your star like you do I'm not the blueprint for all of your B-films Because I've seen that movie too The one where the players are acting surprised Saying love's just a four letter word Between forcing smiles, oh, with the knives in their eyes Oh, their actions become so absurd So keep your auditions for somebody Who hasn't got so much to lose 'Cause you can tell by the lines I'm reciting That I've seen that movie too So keep your auditions for somebody Who hasn't got so much to lose 'Cause you can tell by the lines I'm reciting I've seen that movie too So keep your auditions for somebody Who hasn't got so much to lose 'Cause you can tell by the lines I'm reciting I've seen that movie too So keep your auditions for somebody Who hasn't got so much to lose 'Cause you can tell by the lines I'm reciting I've seen that movie too -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (9) Sweet Painted Lady -------- I'm back on dry land once again Opportunity awaits me like a rat in the drain We're all hunting honey with money to burn Just a short time to show you the tricks that we've learned If the boys all behave themselves here Well, there's pretty young ladies and beer in the rear You won't need a gutter to sleep in tonight Oh, the prices I charge here will see you alright So she lays down beside me again My sweet painted lady, the one with no name Many have used her and many still do There's a place in the world for a woman like you Oh, sweet painted lady Seems it's always been the same Getting paid for being laid Guess that's the name of the game Oh, sweet painted lady Seems it's always been the same Getting paid for being laid Guess that's the name of the game Forget us, we'll have gone very soon Just forget we ever slept in your rooms And we'll leave the smell of the sea in your beds Where love's just a job and nothing is said So as she lays down beside me again My sweet painted lady, the one with no name Many have used her and many still do There's a place in the world for a woman like you Oh, sweet painted lady Seems it's always been the same Getting paid for being laid Guess that's the name of the game Oh, sweet painted lady Seems it's always been the same Getting paid for being laid Guess that's the name of the game -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (10) The Ballad Of Danny Bailey -------- Some punk with a shotgun killed young Danny Bailey In cold blood, in the lobby of a downtown motel Killed him in anger, a force he couldn't handle Helped pull the trigger that cut short his life And there's not many knew him the way that we did Sure enough he was a wild one, but then aren't most hungry kids? Now it's all over, Danny Bailey And the harvest is in Dillinger's dead, oh I guess the cops won again Now it's all over, Danny Bailey And the harvest is in We're running short of heroes back up here in the hills Without Danny Bailey, we're gonna have to break up our stills So mark his grave well 'cause Kentucky loved him Born and raised a proper, I guess life just bugged him And he found faith in danger, a lifestyle he lived by A running gun youngster in a sad restless age Now it's all over, Danny Bailey And the harvest is in Dillinger's dead I guess the cops won again Now it's all over, Danny Bailey And the harvest is in -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (11) Dirty Little Girl -------- I've seen a lot of women who haven't had much luck I've seen you looking like you've been run down by a truck That ain't nice to say sometimes I guess I'm really hard But I'm gonna put buckshot in your pants if you step into my yard When I watch the police come by and move you on Well, I sometimes wonder what's beneath the mess you've become Well, you may have been a pioneer in the trade of women's wear But all you got was a mop-up job washing other people's stairs I should tell (I should tell) I should tell (I should tell) I should tell (I should tell) Oh! (oh!) I'm gonna tell the world you're a dirty little girl Someone grab that bitch by the ears Rub her down, scrub her back, and turn her inside out 'Cause I bet she, I bet she I bet she, oh, I bet she hasn't had a bath in a year Here's my own belief about all the dirty girls That you have to clean the oyster to find the pearl And like rags that belong to you I belong to myself So don't show up around here 'til your social worker's helped I should tell (I should tell) I should tell (I should tell) I should tell (I should tell) Oh! (oh!) I'm gonna tell the world you're a dirty little girl Someone grab that bitch by the ears Rub her down, scrub her back, and turn her inside out 'Cause I bet she, oh, I bet she, let me tell you now I bet she, oh, I bet she hasn't had a bath in a year Oh ho Ah ho! 'Cause I bet she, oh, I bet she I bet she, oh, I bet she hasn't had a bath in a year Dirty little girl (girl) Oh ho (oh ho) Dirty little girl (girl) Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty little girl (girl) Dirty, dirty, dirty little girl (girl) Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty little girl (girl) Girl, girl, girl, dirty, dirty little girl (girl) Oh, oh, dirty, dirty little girl (girl) Girl, girl, girl, dirty, dirty little girl -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (12) All The Girls Love Alice -------- Raised to be a lady by the golden rule Alice was the spawn of a public school With a double barrel name in the back of her brain And a simple case of mummy-doesn't-love-me blues Reality it seems was just a dream She couldn't get it on with the boys on the scene But what do you expect from a chick who's just sixteen And hey, hey, hey (hey, hey, hey) You know what I mean All the young girls love Alice Tender young Alice, they say Come over and see me Come over and please me Alice, it's my turn today All the young girls love Alice Tender young Alice they say If I give you my number Will you promise to call me? Wait 'til my husband's away Poor little darling with a chip out of her heart It's like acting in a movie when you got the wrong part Getting your kicks in another girl's bed And it was only last Tuesday Oh, they found you in the subway dead And who could you call your friends down in SoHo One or two middle-aged dykes in a go-go But what do you expect from a 16-year-old yo-yo? And hey, hey, hey (hey, hey, hey) Oh, don't you know? All the young girls love Alice Tender young Alice, they say Come over and see me Come over and please me Alice, it's my turn today All the young girls love Alice Tender young Alice, they'd say If I give you my number Will you promise to call me? Wait 'til my husband's away -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (13) Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock N Roll) -------- I could really get off being in your shoes I used to be stone sold on rhythm and blues A heard of a place at the back of town Where you really kick the shit when the sun goes down I really got buzzed when your sister said "Throw away them records 'cause the blues is dead Let me take you, honey, where the scene's on fire" And tonight I learned for certain that the blues expired Oh, your sister can't twist but she can rock and roll She out-bucks the broncos in the rodeo-do She's only sixteen but it's plain to see She can pull the wool over little old me Your sister can't twist but she can rock and roll Your sister can't twist but she got more soul than me Somebody help me because the bug bit me Now I'm in heaven with the aching feet But I'll be back tonight where the music plays And your sister rocks all my blues away I really got buzzed when your sister said "Throw away them records 'cause the blues is dead Let me take you, honey, where the scene's on fire" And tonight I learned for certain that the blues expired Oh, your sister can't twist but she can rock and roll She out-bucks the broncos in the rodeo-do She's only sixteen but it's plain to see She can pull the wool over little old me Your sister can't twist but she can rock and roll Your sister can't twist but she got more soul than me Oh, your sister can't surf but she can rock and roll She out-bucks the broncos in the rodeo-do She's only sixteen but it's plain to see She can pull the wool over little old me Your sister can't twist but she can rock and roll Your sister can't twist but she got more soul than me Oh, your sister can't twist but she can rock and roll She out-bucks the broncos in the rodeo-do She's only sixteen but it's plain to see She can pull the wool over little old me Your sister can't twist but she can rock and roll Your sister can't twist but she got more soul than me -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (14) Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting -------- It's getting late, have you seen my mates? Ma, tell me when the boys get here It's seven o'clock and I wanna rock Wanna get a belly full of beer My old man's drunker than a barrel full of monkeys And my old lady, she don't care My sister looks cute in her braces and boots A handful of grease in her hair Oh, don't give us none of your aggravation We had it with your discipline Oh, Saturday night's alright for fighting Get a little action in Get about as oiled as a diesel train Gonna set this dance alight 'Cause Saturday night's the night I like Saturday night's alright, alright, alright, ooh Well, they're packed pretty tight in here tonight I'm looking for a dolly who'll see me right I may use a little muscle to get what I need I may sink a little drink and shout out, "She's with me!" A couple of the sounds that I really like Are the sounds of a switchblade and a motorbike I'm a juvenile product of the working class Whose best friend floats in the bottom of a glass Oh, don't give us none of your aggravation We had it with your discipline Saturday night's alright for fighting Get a little action in Get about as oiled as a diesel train Gonna set this dance alight 'Cause Saturday night's the night I like Saturday night's alright, alright, alright, ooh Oh, don't give us none of your aggravation We had it with your discipline 'Cause Saturday night's alright for fighting Get a little action in Get about as oiled as a diesel train Gonna set this dance alight 'Cause Saturday night's the night I like Saturday night's alright, alright, alright, ooh Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday night's alright Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday night's alright Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday night's alright, whoo -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (15) Roy Rogers -------- Sometimes you dream, sometimes it seems There's nothing there at all You just seem older than yesterday And you're waiting for tomorrow to call You draw to the curtains and one thing's for certain You're cozy in your little room The carpet's all paid for, God bless the TV Let's go shoot a hole in the moon Oh, and Roy Rogers is riding tonight Returning to our silver screens Comic book characters never grow old Evergreen heroes whose stories were told Oh, the great sequin cowboy who sings of the plains Of roundups and rustlers and home on the range Turn on the TV, shut out the lights Roy Rogers is riding tonight Nine o'clock mornings, five o'clock evenings I'd liven the pace if I could Oh, I'd rather have a ham in my sandwich than cheese But complaining wouldn't do any good Lay back in my armchair, close eyes and think clear I can hear hoof-beats ahead Roy and Trigger have just hit the hilltop While the wife and the kids are in bed Oh, and Roy Rogers is riding tonight Returning to our silver screens Comic book characters never grow old Evergreen heroes whose stories were told Oh, the great sequin cowboy who sings of the plains Of roundups and rustlers and home on the range Turn on the TV, shut out the lights Roy Rogers is riding tonight -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (16) Social Disease -------- My bulldog is barking in the backyard Enough to raise a dead man from his grave And I can't concentrate on what I'm doing Disturbance going to crucify my days And the days they get longer and longer And the nighttime is a time of little use For I just get ugly and older I get juiced on Mateus and just hang loose And I get bombed for breakfast in the morning I get bombed for dinnertime and tea I dress in rags, smell a lot, and have a real good time I'm a genuine example of a social disease My landlady lives in a caravan Well, that is when she isn't in my arms And it seems I pay the rent in human kindness But my liquor also helps to grease her palms And the ladies are all getting wrinkles And they're falling apart at the seams Well, I just get high on tequila And see visions of vineyards in my dreams And I get bombed for breakfast in the morning I get bombed for dinnertime and tea I dress in rags, smell a lot, and have a real good time I'm a genuine example of a social disease And the ladies are all getting wrinkles And they're falling apart at the seams Well, I just get high on tequila And see visions of vineyards in my dreams And I get bombed for breakfast in the morning I get bombed for dinnertime and tea I dress in rags, smell a lot, and I have a heart of gold I'm a genuine example of a social disease I'm a genuine example of a social disease -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (17) Harmony -------- Hello, baby, hello Haven't seen your face for a while Have you quit doing time for me Or are you still the same spoiled child? Hello, I said hello Is this the only place you thought to go Am I the only man you ever had Or am I just the last surviving friend That you know? Harmony and me, we're pretty good company Looking for an island in our boat upon the sea Harmony, gee, I really love you and I wanna love you forever And dream of never, never, never leaving harmony Hello, baby, hello Open up your heart and let your feelings flow You're not unlucky knowing me Keeping the speed real slow In any case I set my own pace by stealing the show Say hello, hello Ah! Harmony and me, we're pretty good company Looking for an island in our boat upon the sea Harmony, gee, I really love you and I want to love you forever And dream of never, never, never leaving harmony Never leaving harmony Harmony Harmony Harmony Harmony Harmony Harmony Harmony Ah-ah! -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (18) Whenever You're Ready (We'll Go Steady Again) -------- I lived in a tenement six floors above I lent you my records and I lent you my love But you left me on the weekend without a by-your-leave That's a dirty and a low-down trick My folks all think you're mean But I don't mind, that's kind of nifty You always set those break-ups in the movies And just like a light honey you put me out Now I'm gonna do my best To get you back in the nest you came from You can erase me if you want to Turn your back in other men But whenever you're ready Honey, we'll go steady again It's nasty without you in my little room I miss you like crazy, please come back soon I was joking with those things I said I couldn't have been thinking If you don't come back I think I'll crack just like my old ceiling You can erase me if you want to Turn your back on other men But whenever you're ready Honey, we'll go steady again You can erase me if you want to Turn your back on other men But whenever you're ready Honey, we'll go steady again Honey, we'll go steady again -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (19) Jack Rabbit -------- Go jack-rabbit running through the wood You had a good night and you feel real loose Heard they got you going 'round the goose creek shed Trying to fill your belly full of buckshot lead Go jack-rabbit get the cabbage patch Farmer left the back porch door on the latch Heard you coming and he got his gun You better go jack-rabbit better start to run Go jack-rabbit running through the woods You had a good night and you feel real loose Gunfire breaking up the peaceful night Jack-rabbit lying in the cold daylight Go jack-rabbit running through the wood You had a good night and you feel real loose Heard they got you going 'round the goose creek shed Trying to fill your belly full of buckshot lead Go jack-rabbit get the cabbage patch Farmer left the back porch door on the latch Heard you coming and he got his gun You better go jack-rabbit better start to run Go jack-rabbit running through the woods You had a good night and you feel real loose Gunfire breaking up the peaceful night Jack-rabbit lying in the cold daylight -------- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) -------- -------- (20) Screw You (Young Man's Blues) -------- When I was a boy I had a lot of fun I lived by the sea, I was a fisherman's son My mother she was a fisherman's wife She was scrubbing floors most of her life They said screw you I ain't got nothing to lose I could paper a matchbox With the money I use Screw you I ain't got nothing to lose I could paper a matchbox With the money I use At the school I attended I got into fights I was beaten in an alley on a cold winter night The teachers cared less for the blood in our veins They got most of their thrills out of using a cane They said screw you Oh you bloody young fools I could get more sense Out of the back end of a mule Screw you Oh you bloody young fools I could get more sense Out of the back end of a mule So you see there's men who get paid for being slaves And men who get paid for being free And there's men behind bars who pray for the light And men in the suburbs who pray for the night And they're all trying to climb to the top of the mine And all of them say most of the way Screw you I worked in the mill from seven 'til nine Tears in my eyes nearly drove me half-blind Trying to make wages that weren't even there Taking hell from a foreman with the build of a bear He said screw you This is all you'll ever do It's the only existence For someone like you Screw you This is all you'll ever do It's the only existence For someone like you Screw you Screw you -------- Caribou (1974) -------- -------- (1) The Bitch Is Back -------- I was justified when I was five Raising Cain, I spit in your eye Times are changing, now the poor get fat But the fever's gonna catch you when the bitch gets back (oh) Eat meat on Friday, that's alright I even like steak on a Saturday night I can bitch the best at your social do's I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue, ooh I'm a bitch, I'm a bitch, oh, the bitch is back Stone-cold sober, as a matter of fact I can bitch, I can bitch 'cause I'm better than you It's the way that I move, the things that I do, oh I entertain by picking brains Sell my soul by dropping names I don't like those, my God, what's that? Oh, it's full of nasty habits when the bitch gets back (oh) I'm a bitch, I'm a bitch, oh, the bitch is back Stone-cold sober, as a matter of fact I can bitch, I can bitch 'cause I'm better than you It's the way that I move, the things that I do, oh (Oh) I'm a bitch, I'm a bitch, oh, the bitch is back Stone-cold sober, as a matter of fact I can bitch, I can bitch 'cause I'm better than you It's the way that I move, the things that I do, oh Bitch, bitch, bitch is back Bitch, bitch, bitch is back Bitch, bitch, bitch is back Bitch, bitch, bitch is back Bitch, bitch, bitch is back Bitch, bitch, bitch is back Bitch, bitch, bitch is back Bitch, bitch, bitch is back -------- Caribou (1974) -------- -------- (2) Pinky -------- I don't want to wake you But I'd like to tell you that I love you That the candlelight fell like a crescent Upon your feather pillow For there's more ways than one And the ways of the world are a blessing For when Pinky's dreaming She owes the world nothing And her silence keeps us guessing Pinky's as perfect as the Fourth of July Quilted and timeless, seldom denied The trial and the error of my master plan Now she rolls like the dice in a poor gambler's hands You don't want to tell me But somehow you've guessed that I know Oh when dawn came this morning You discovered a feeling that burned like a flame in your soul For there's toast and honey And there's breakfast in bed on a tray Oh it's ten below zero And we're about to abandon our plans for the day -------- Caribou (1974) -------- -------- (3) Grimsby -------- As I lay dreaming in my bed Across the great divide I thought I heard the trawler boats Returning on the tide And in this vision of my home The shingle beach did ring I saw the lights along the pier That made my senses sing Oh oh Grimsby, a thousand delights Couldn't match the sweet sights Of my Grimsby Oh England you're fair But there's none to compare with my Grimsby Through nights of mad youth I have loved every sluice in your harbor And in your wild sands from boyhood to man Strangers have found themselves fathers Take me back you rustic town I miss your magic charm Just to smell your candy floss Or drink in the Skinners Arms No Cordon Bleu can match the beauty Of your pies and peas I want to ride your fairground Take air along the quay -------- Caribou (1974) -------- -------- (4) Dixie Lily -------- Showboat coming up the river See her lanterns flicker in the gentle breeze I can hear the crickets singing in the evening Old Dixie Lily moving past the cypress trees My little boat she rocks easy I've been catching catfish in the creek all day Oh and I've never seen ladies like those on the big boats Must be fancy breeding lets you live that way Dixie Lily, chugging like a grand old lady Paddles hitting home in the noonday sun Ploughing through the water with your whistles blowing Down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run Papa says that I'm a dreamer Says them skeetas bit me one too many times Oh but I never get lonesome living on the river Watching old Lily leave the world behind Dixie Lily, chugging like a grand old lady Paddles hitting home in the noonday sun Ploughing through the water with your whistles blowing Down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run Dixie Lily, chugging like a grand old lady Paddles hitting home in the noonday sun Ploughing through the water with your whistles blowing Down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run -------- Caribou (1974) -------- -------- (5) Solar Prestige A Gammon -------- Oh ma cameo molesting Kee pa a poorer for tea Solar prestige a gammon Lantern or turbert paw kwee Solar prestige a gammon Kool kar kyrie kay salmon Hair ring molasses abounding Common lap kitch sardin a poor floundin Cod ee say oo pay a loto My zeta prestige toupay a floored Ray indee pako a gammon Solar prestige a pako can nord Solar prestige a gammon Kool kar kyrie kay salmon Har ring molassis abounding Common lap kitch sardin a poor floundin Solar prestige a gammon Kool kar kyrie kay salmon Har ring molassis abounding Common lap kitch sardin a poor floundin -------- Caribou (1974) -------- -------- (6) You're So Static -------- I've a constant ache in the morning light It's on account of the night before Some Park Lane lady in a shady bar Took a fancy to the watch I wore But I can still remember how she laughed at me As I spun around and hit the bed She said thank you honey, forget about the money This pretty watch'll do instead City living woman, you're so static Matching your men with a hook and eye If you're gonna spend the summer in New York City Them women oh oh oh they're gonna slice your pie Said you're so static, baby I've had it Rolling in a yellow cab Downtown hustlers trying to pull some muscle If they catch you, oh oh oh it could turn out bad It's a show me what you want, I'll show you what I've got I can show you a real good time She's a friend indeed of a friend in need But you'll be sorry when she leaves you crying City living woman, you're so static Matching your men with a hook and eye If you're gonna spend the summer in New York City Them women oh oh oh they're gonna slice your pie -------- Caribou (1974) -------- -------- (7) I've Seen The Saucers -------- Tune in, wouldn't it be something Rumours spreading into panic I've seen movements in the clearing Someone sent you something satanic I have to leave you, radar's calling Outside somebody landed Crazy wavelengths leave you helpless Oh don't forget me I'm so stranded I wouldn't fool you but I've seen the saucers So many times I'm almost in tune Watching them flying in formation Thinking how I could be so immune I've seen them I've been there with them I can tell you all you want to know Something touched me and I was only sleeping Wouldn't you, wouldn't you like to go Stars climbing into their planets Systems won, controlled from birth Empty living on this highway Can you see me mother earth It's so endless whirling onwards Wonder what's cooking at home tonight Maybe if I promise not to say a word They can get me back before the morning light I wouldn't fool you but I've seen the saucers So many times I'm almost in tune Watching them flying in formation Thinking how I could be so immune I've seen them I've been there with them I can tell you all you want to know Something touched me and I was only sleeping Wouldn't you, wouldn't you like to go -------- Caribou (1974) -------- -------- (8) Stinker -------- Say what you will but I'm a stinker I come crawling up out of my hole Dirt in my toes, dirt up my nose I'm a perfect curse to pest control Seeds and weeds and muddy meals Crawling around the earth Down in the ground where the sun don't pound I hibernate in English turf Better believe it, I'm a stinker Burning vermin stink Watch me get as high as a heat wave honey Tell me what your hound dogs think Set in my styles with a beady eye I got connections with the underground Call me a common rodent boy Sitting here safe and sound Better believe it, I'm a stinker Burning vermin stink Watch me get as high as a heat wave honey Tell me what your hound dogs think Some mole hill mother sauntered by Acting like the ace of spades Don't give that cutey no reason to shoot me When I'm living on the eggs she laid Better believe it, I'm a stinker Burning vermin stink Watch me get as high as a heat wave honey Tell me what your hound dogs think -------- Caribou (1974) -------- -------- (9) Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me -------- I can't light no more of your darkness All my pictures seem to fade to black and white I'm growing tired, and time stands still before me Frozen here on the ladder of my life Too late to save myself from falling I took a chance and changed your way of life But you misread my meaning when I met you Closed the door and left me blinded by the light Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing everything is like the sun going down on me I can't find, oh, the right romantic line But see me once and see the way I feel Don't discard me just because you think I mean you harm But these cuts I have, oh, they need love to help them heal Don't let the sun go down on me (Don't let the sun) Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free (Don't let the sun) But losing everything is like the sun going down on me Don't let the sun go down on me (Don't let the sun) Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free, yeah (Don't let the sun) But losing everything is like the sun going down on me -------- Caribou (1974) -------- -------- (10) Ticking -------- "An extremely quiet child" they called you in your school reports So what was it that brought the squad car screaming up your drive To notify your parents of the manner in which you died At St. Patrick's every Sunday, Father Fletcher heard your sins But blood stained a young hand that never held a gun And his parents never thought of him as their troubled son "Now you'll never get to Heaven" Mama said Remember Mama said Ticking, ticking "Grow up straight and true blue Run along to bed" Hear it, hear it, ticking, ticking They had you holed up in a downtown bar screaming for a priest Some gook said "His brain's just snapped" then someone called the police You'd knifed a Negro waiter who had tried to calm you down Oh you'd pulled a gun and told them all to lay still on the ground Promising to hurt no one, providing they were still A young man tried to make a break, with tear-filled eyes you killed That gun butt felt so smooth and warm cradled in your palm Oh your childhood cried out in your head "they mean to do you harm" "Don't ever ride on the devil's knee" Mama said Remember mama said Ticking, ticking "Pay your penance well, my child Fear where angels tread" Hear it, hear it, ticking, ticking Within an hour the news had reached the media machine A male Caucasian with a gun had gone berserk in Queens The area had been sealed off, the kids sent home from school Fourteen people lying dead in a bar they called the Kicking Mule Oh they pleaded to your sanity for the sake of those inside But they pumped you full of rifle shells as you stepped out the door Oh you danced in death like a marionette on the vengeance of the law "You've slept too long in silence" Mama said Remember Mama said Ticking, ticking Hear it, hear it, ticking, ticking -------- Caribou (1974) -------- -------- (11) Pinball Wizard -------- (originally by The Who from "Tommy" soundtrack) Ever since I was a young boy, I played the silver ball From SoHo down to Brighton, I must've played them all But I ain't seen nothin' like him in any amusement hall That deaf, dumb, and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball He stands like a statue, becomes part of the machine Feeling all the bumpers, always playing clean He plays by intuition, the digit counters fall That deaf, dumb, and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball He's a pinball wizard, there has to be a twist A pinball wizard's got such a supple wrist (How do you think he does it?) I don't know (What makes him so good?) Well, he ain't got no distractions, can't hear no buzzes and bells Don't see lights a-flashin', he plays by sense of smell Always has a replay, never tilts at all That deaf, dumb, and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball He can't beat me now, I've always been the champ I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hand (Oh, can't explain) (Oh, can't explain) (Oh, can't explain) (Oh, can't explain) Even on my usual table, he can beat the best His disciples lead him in, and he just does the rest He's got crazy flipper fingers, I've never seen him fall That deaf, dumb, and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball He's a pinball wizard, there has to be a twist A pinball wizard's got such a supple wrist He's a pinball wizard, he scores a trillion more A pinball wizard, the world's new pinball lord He's scoring more, he's scoring more I thought I was the Bally table king But I just handed my pinball crown to him To him, to him -------- Caribou (1974) -------- -------- (12) Sick City -------- Ooh she said, "The crowd just loved you My name's Angel and I'm sixteen I really love your band and your funny accent Sure would like a cruise in your limousine." Then she said, "How about a rubdown? You're so cute and I'm so mean The way you hold your guitar really gets me I can show you tricks that you ain't never seen." Sick City, nobody to love you Oh but sometimes I can taste you when I'm feeling weak Sick City, isn't it a pity That you can't float above it when the bottom leaks Oh, Sick City "Hey man, how's about a handout All you dudes just loaded down Just a little sugar man, makes me sweeter I like to sit at home and watch the world go 'round." Stage door monkey's on my back Begging me to save his life Can't he understand we're not a healing show We're just here to play some music for the kids tonight Sick City, nobody to love you Oh but sometimes I can taste you when I'm feeling weak Sick City, isn't it a pity That you can't float above it when the bottom leaks Oh, Sick City Stage door monkey's on my back Begging me to save his life Can't he understand we're not a healing show We're just here to play some music for the kids tonight Sick City, nobody to love you Oh but sometimes I can taste you when I'm feeling weak Sick City, isn't it a pity That you can't float above it when the bottom leaks Oh oh, Sick City Sick City Sick City Sick City (Sick City) Sick City (Sick City) Sick City Sick City (Sick City) Sick City (Sick City) Sick, Sick City (ah) Sick City (Sick City) Sick City (Sick City) Sick, Sick City (ah) Sick City (Sick City) Sick City (Sick City) Sick, Sick City (ah) Sick City (Sick City) Sick City (Sick City) Sick, Sick City (ah) -------- Caribou (1974) -------- -------- (13) Cold Highway -------- Your life stepped lightly out our hands When no one's looking out you understand Your world was a wheel but the cog ceased to turn The bottom fell out and our fingers got burned And there's a cold, cold highway that the wind whistles down Where the corners turn blind like the graveyard ground Oh your black icy stare once cut down my friend In the deepest dark winter when the world seemed to end Every new version of the way of life Leaves you reckless and searching for stars in the night But whose kid are you when they finally decide The lifestyle you led and the way that you died And there's a cold, cold highway that the wind whistles down Where the corners turn blind like the graveyard ground Oh your black icy stare once cut down my friend In the deepest dark winter when the world seemed to end But they're oh so simple, they're still trying to tell The difference for you between heaven and hell To glorify something, your legends are found But all they bought you was a hole in the ground Years rolling by just like a dream (ooh) I'm partly human and I'm partly machine They've lost you and fate put your name on a stone (ahh) Perhaps now my friend they might leave you alone (ahh) And there's a cold, cold highway that the wind whistles down Where the corners turn blind like the graveyard ground Oh your black icy stare once cut down my friend In the deepest dark winter when the world seemed to end -------- Caribou (1974) -------- -------- (14) Step Into Christmas -------- Welcome to my Christmas song I'd like to thank you for the year So I'm sendin' you this Christmas card To say, "It's nice to have you here" I'd like to sing about all the things Your eyes and mind can see So hop aboard the turntable Oh, step into Christmas with me, yeah Step into Christmas, let's join together We can watch the snow fall forever and ever Eat, drink and be merry, come along with me Step into Christmas, the admission's free Take care in all you do next year And keep smilin' through the days If we can help to entertain you Oh, we will find the ways So merry Christmas, one and all There's no place I'd rather be Than askin' you if you'd oblige Steppin' into Christmas with me Step into Christmas, let's join together We can watch the snow fall forever and ever Eat, drink and be merry, come along with me Step into Christmas, the admission's free, oh Welcome to my Christmas song I'd like to thank you for the year So I'm sendin' you this Christmas card To say, "It's nice to have you here" I'd like to sing about all the things Your eyes and mind can see So hop aboard the turntable Oh, step into Christmas with me, yeah Step into Christmas, let's join together We can watch the snow fall forever and ever Eat, drink and be merry, come along with me Step into Christmas, the admission's free Step into Christmas, let's join together We can watch the snow fall forever and ever Eat, drink and be merry, come along with me Step into Christmas, the admission's free Step into Christmas, let's join together We can watch the snow fall forever and ever Eat, drink and be merry, come along with me Step into Christmas, the admission's free, oh (Step, step into Christmas) (Ah, forever and ever) (Yeah, come along with me) (Ah) Oh (Step, step into Christmas) (Ah, forever and ever) (Yeah, come along with me) (Ah) -------- Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) -------- -------- (1) Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy -------- Captain Fantastic raised and regimented, hardly a hero Just someone his mother might know Very clearly a case for corn flakes and classics "Two teas both with sugar please", in the back of an alley While little Dirt Cowboys turned brown in their saddles Sweet chocolate biscuits and red rosy apples in summer For it's hay make and "Hey mom Do the papers say anything good? Are there chances in life for little Dirt Cowboys? Should I make my way out of my home in the woods?" Brown Dirt Cowboy, still green and growing City slick Captain Fantastic the feedback, the honey the hive could be holding For there's weak winged young sparrows that starve in the winter Broken young children on the wheels of the winners And the '68 summer festival wallflowers are thinning For cheap easy meals are hardly a home on the range Too hot for the band with a desperate desire for change We've thrown in the towel too many times Out for the count and when we're down Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy From the end of the world to your town And all this talk of Jesus coming back to see us Hmm, couldn't fool us For we were spinning out our lines walking on the wire Hand in hand went music and the rhyme The Captain and the Kid stepping in the ring From here on sonny sonny sonny, it's a long and lonely climb For cheap easy meals are hardly a home on the range Too hot for the band with a desperate desire for change We've thrown in the towel too many times Out for the count and when we're down Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy From the end of the world to your town For cheap easy meals are hardly a home on the range Too hot for the band with a desperate desire for change We've thrown in the towel too many times Out for the count and when we're down Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy From the end of the world to your town We've thrown in the towel too many times Out for the count and when we're down Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy From the end of the world to your town -------- Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) -------- -------- (2) Tower Of Babel -------- Snow, cement And ivory young towers Someone called us Babylon Those hungry hunters tracking down the hours But where were all your shoulders when we cried? Were the darlings on the sideline Dreaming up such cherished lies To whisper in your ear before you die? It's party time for the guys in the tower of Babel Sodom meet Gomorrah, Cain meet Abel Have a ball y'all See the letches crawl with the call girls under the table Watch them dig their graves 'Cause Jesus don't save the guys In the tower of Babel Watch them dig their graves 'Cause Jesus don't save the guys In the tower of Babel, no, no, no Junk, angel This closet's always stacked The dealers in the basement Filling your prescription for a brand new heart attack But where were all your shoulders when we cried? Were the doctors in attendance Saying how they felt so sick inside Or was it just the scalpel blade that lied? It's party time for the guys in the tower of Babel Sodom meet Gomorrah, Cain meet Abel Have a ball y'all See the letches crawl with the call girls under the table Watch them dig their graves 'Cause Jesus don't save the guys In the tower of Babel Watch them dig their graves 'Cause Jesus don't save the guys In the tower of Babel, no, no, no It's party time for the guys in the tower of Babel Sodom meet Gomorrah, Cain meet Abel Have a ball y'all See the letches crawl with the call girls under the table Watch them dig their graves 'Cause Jesus don't save the guys In the tower of Babel Watch them dig their graves 'Cause Jesus don't save the guys In the tower of Babel, no, no, no -------- Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) -------- -------- (3) Bitter Fingers -------- I'm going on the circuit I'm doing all the clubs And I really need a song, boys To stir those workers up And get their wives to sing it with me Just like in the pubs When I worked the good old pubs in Stepney Oh, could you knock a line or two Together for a friend? Sentimental, tear-inducing With a happy end And we need a tune to open Our season at Southend Can you help us? It's hard to write a song with bitter fingers So much to prove, so few to tell you why Those old die-hards in Denmark Street start laughing At the keyboard player's hollow haunted eyes It seems to me a change is really needed I'm sick of tra-la-las and la-de-das (la-de-da...) No more long days hacking hunks of garbage Bitter fingers never swung on swinging stars, swinging stars I like the warm blue flame The hazy heat it brings It loosens up the muscles And forces you to sing You know it's just another hit and run From the tin pan alley twins And there's a chance that one day You might write a standard, lads So churn them out quick and fast And we'll still pat your backs 'Cause we need what we can get To launch another dozen acts Are you working? It's hard to write a song with bitter fingers So much to prove, so few to tell you why Those old die-hards in Denmark Street start laughing At the keyboard player's hollow haunted eyes It seems to me a change is really needed I'm sick of tra-la-las and la-de-das (la-de-da...) No more long days hacking hunks of garbage Bitter fingers never swung on swinging stars, swinging stars It's hard to write a song with bitter fingers So much to prove, so few to tell you why Those old die-hards in Denmark Street start laughing At the keyboard player's hollow haunted eyes It seems to me a change is really needed I'm sick of tra-la-las and la-de-das (la-de-da...) No more long days hacking hunks of garbage Bitter fingers never swung on swinging stars, swinging stars (La-de-da...) Swinging stars, swinging stars It's hard to write a song with bitter fingers So much to prove, so few to tell you why Those old die-hards in Denmark- -------- Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) -------- -------- (4) Tell Me When The Whistle Blows -------- There's a dusty old gutter he's lying in now Mm, he's blind and he's old And there's a bottle that rolls down the road Me, I'm young and I'm so wild And I still feel the need Of your apron strings once in a while For there's taxi cabs a-hooting But I can't be foot-loose forever My suitcase it's a cheap one My darling, she's a dear one My head's feeling light as a feather Take my ears and tell me when the whistle blows Wake me up and tell me when the whistle blows Long lost and lonely boy You're just a black sheep going home I want to feel your wheels of steel Underneath my itching heels Take my money Tell me when the whistle blows Part of me asked the young man for the time With a cool vacant stare Of undue concern, he said nine It's not so bad but I really do love the land And rather all this than those diamante lovers In Hyde Park holding hands Blowing heat through my fingers Trying to kill off this cold Will the street kids remember? Can I still shoot a fast cue? Has this country kid still got his soul? Take my ears and tell me when the whistle blows Wake me up and tell me when the whistle blows Long lost and lonely boy You're just a black sheep going home I want to feel your wheels of steel Underneath my itching heels Take my money Tell me when the whistle blows Take my money Tell me when the whistle blows -------- Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) -------- -------- (5) Someone Saved My Life Tonight -------- When I think of those East End lights, muggy nights The curtains drawn in the little room downstairs Prima donna, lord, you really shoulda been there Sittin' like a princess perched in her electric chair And it's one more beer, and I don't hear you anymore We've all gone crazy lately My friend's out there, rollin' 'round the basement floor (Ooh) And someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear (sugar bear) You almost had your hooks in me, didn't you, dear? You nearly had me roped and tied Altar-bound, hypnotized, sweet freedom whispered in my ear You're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly Fly away, high away, bye-bye (Ooh) I never realized the passin' hours of evening showers A slip noose hangin' in my darkest dreams I'm strangled by your haunted social scene Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen It's four o'clock in the morning, damn it! Listen to me good I'm sleepin' with myself tonight Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive (Oh!) Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear (Sugar bear, sugar bear) You almost had your hooks in me, didn't you, dear? You nearly had me roped and tied Altar-bound, hypnotized, sweet freedom whispered in my ear You're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly Fly away, high away, bye-bye (Ooh) And I would've walked head-on into the deep end of the river Clingin' to your stocks and bonds Payin' your H.P. demands forever They're comin' in the mornin' with a truck to take me home Someone saved my life tonight Someone saved my life tonight Someone saved my life tonight Someone saved my life tonight Someone saved my life tonight So save your strength, and run the field you play alone Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear (Sugar bear, sugar bear, sugar bear) You almost had your hooks in me, didn't you, dear? You nearly had me roped and tied Altar-bound, hypnotized, sweet freedom whispered in my ear You're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly Fly away, high away, bye-bye Someone saved, someone saved, someone saved my life tonight (Someone saved my life tonight) Someone saved, someone saved, someone saved my life tonight (Someone saved my life tonight) Someone saved, someone saved, someone saved my life tonight (Someone saved my life tonight) Someone saved, someone saved, someone saved my life tonight (Someone saved my life tonight) Someone saved, someone saved, someone saved my life tonight (Someone saved my life tonight) Someone saved, someone saved, someone saved my life tonight (Someone saved my life tonight) Someone saved, someone saved, someone saved my life tonight (Someone saved my life tonight) -------- Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) -------- -------- (6) (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket -------- I can hound you if I need to Sip your brandy from a crystal shoe In the corner In the corner While the others climb reaching dizzy heights The world's in front of me in black and white I'm on the bottom line I'm on the bottom line I'd have a cardiac if I had such luck Ooh! Lucky losers, lucky losers landing on skid row Landing on skid row While the Diamond Jims and the Kings road pimps Breath heavy in their brand new clothes I'm on the bottom line I'm on the bottom line And I gotta get a meal ticket To survive, you need a meal ticket To stay alive, you need a meal ticket Feel no pain, no pain, no regret, no regret When the line's been signed, you're someone else Do yourself a favor, the meal ticket does the rest Shake a hand if you have to Trust in us and we will love you anyway, anyway Don't leave us stranded in the jungle With fifty percent that's hard to handle Ain't that so? Ain't that so? And I gotta get a meal ticket To survive, you need a meal ticket To stay alive, you need a meal ticket Feel no pain, no pain No regret, no regret When the line's been signed, you're someone else Do yourself a favor, the meal ticket does the rest Meal ticket (Gotta get a meal ticket) And I gotta get a meal ticket To survive, you need a meal ticket To stay alive, you need a meal ticket Feel no pain, no pain No regret, no regret When the line's been signed, you're someone else Do yourself a favor, the meal ticket does the rest Meal ticket Meal ticket Meal ticket Meal ticket Meal ticket -------- Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) -------- -------- (7) Better Off Dead -------- There was a face on a hoarding that someone had drawn on And just enough time for the night to pass by without warning Away in the distance there's a blue flashing light Someone's in trouble somewhere tonight As the flickering neon stands ready to fuse The wind blows away all of yesterday's news Well, they've locked up their daughters And they battened the hatches They always could find us but they never could catch us Through the grease-streaked windows of an all-night cafe We watched the arrested get taken away And that cigarette haze has ecology beat As the whores and the drunks filed in from the street 'Cause the steam's in the boiler, the coal's in the fire If you ask how I am then I'll just say "inspired" If the thorn of a rose is the thorn in your side Then you're better off dead if you haven't yet died Ooh (Ooh) Ooh Ooh (La, la, la) Ooh (la, la, la) Ah Ah La-la-la-la-la 'Cause the steam's in the boiler, the coal's in the fire If you ask how I am then I'll just say inspired If the thorn of a rose is the thorn in your side Then you're better off dead if you haven't yet died Better off dead Better off dead Better off dead Better off dead Better off dead Better off dead Better off dead Better off dead -------- Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) -------- -------- (8) Writing -------- Is there anything left? Maybe steak and eggs Waking up to washing up Making up your bed Lazy days My razor blade Could use a better edge It's enough to make you laugh Relax in a nice cool bath Inspiration for navigation Of our new found craft I know you And you know me It's always half and half And we were, oh, oh, so, you know Not the kind to dawdle Will the things we wrote today Sound as good tomorrow? We will still be writing In approaching years Stifling yawns on Sundays As the weekends disappear We could stretch our legs if we'd half a mind But don't disturb us if you hear us trying To instigate the structure of another line or two 'Cause writing's lighting up And I like life enough To see it through And we were, oh, oh, so, you know Not the kind to dawdle Will the things we wrote today Sound as good tomorrow? We will still be writing In approaching years Stifling yawns on Sundays As the weekends disappear We could stretch our legs if we'd half a mind But don't disturb us if you hear us trying To instigate the structure of another line or two 'Cause writing's lighting up And I like life enough To see it through 'Cause writing's lighting up And I like life enough To see it through -------- Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) -------- -------- (9) We All Fall In Love Sometimes -------- Wise men say It looks like rain today It crackled on the speakers And trickled down the sleepy subway trains For heavy eyes could hardly hold us Aching legs that often told us It's all worth it We all fall in love sometimes The full moon's bright And starlight filled the evening We wrote it and I played it Something happened It's so strange this feeling Naive notions that were childish Simple tunes that tried to hide it But when it comes We all fall in love sometimes Did we, didn't we, should we, couldn't we? I'm not sure 'cause sometimes we're so blind Struggling through the day When even your best friend says: "Don't you find We all fall in love sometimes?" And only passing time Could kill the boredom we acquired Running with the losers for a while But our Empty Sky was filled with laughter Just before the flood Painting worried faces with a smile Wise men say It looks like rain today It crackled on the speakers And trickled down the sleepy subway trains For heavy eyes could hardly hold us Aching legs that often told us It's all worth it We all fall in love sometimes Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh! Oh-oh We all fall in love sometimes -------- Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) -------- -------- (10) Curtains -------- I used to know this old scarecrow He was my song My joy and sorrow Cast alone between the furrows Of a field no longer sown by anyone I held a dandelion That said the time had come To leave upon the wind Not to return When summer burned the earth again Oh Oh Cultivate the freshest flower This garden ever grew Beneath these branches I once wrote such childish words for you But that's okay There's treasure children always seek to find And just like us You must have had A once upon a time Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh... (lovely, lovely, ay-oh, lovely, lovely, ay-oh) Oh... (lovely, lovely, ay-oh, lovely, lovely, ay-oh) Oh... (lovely, lovely, ay-oh, lovely, lovely, ay-oh) Oh... (lovely, lovely, ay-oh, lovely, lovely, ay-oh) Oh... (lovely, lovely, ay-oh, lovely, lovely, ay-oh) Oh... (lovely, lovely, ay-oh, lovely, lovely, ay-oh) Oh... (lovely, lovely, ay-oh, lovely, lovely, ay-oh) Oh... (lovely, lovely, ay-oh, lovely, lovely, ay-oh) -------- Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) -------- -------- (11) Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds -------- (originally by The Beatles) Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly A girl with kaleidoscope eyes Cellophane flowers of yellow and green Towering over your head Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes And she's gone Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Ohh Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers That grow so incredibly high Newspaper taxis appear on the shore Waiting to take you away Climb in the back with your head in the clouds And you're gone Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Ohh Newspaper taxis appear on the shore Waitin' to take you away Climb in the back with your head in the clouds And you're gone Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Ohh Picture yourself on a train in a station With plasticine porters with looking glass ties Suddenly, someone is there at the turnstile The girl with kaleidoscope eyes Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Ohh Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Oh, Lucy) Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Oh, Lucy) Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Oh, Lucy) Ohh Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Lucy, oh, Lucy) Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Lucy, oh, Lucy) Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Lucy, oh, Lucy) Ohh Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Lucy, oh, Lucy) Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Lucy, oh, Lucy) Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Lucy, oh, Lucy) Ohh Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Lucy, oh, Lucy) Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Lucy, oh, Lucy) Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Lucy, oh, Lucy) Ohh -------- Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) -------- -------- (12) One Day (At A Time) -------- You are my weakness You are my friend Nothing I have in the world Makes better sense 'Cause I'm the fish and you're the sea When we're together Or when we're apart There's never a space in-between The beat of our hearts 'Cause I'm the apple and you're the tree One day at a time Is all we do One day at a time Is good for you, you, you (wooh) You are my woman I am your man Nothing else matters at all Now I understand That I'm the door and you're the key And every morning I wake in your smile Feeling your breath on my face And the love in your eyes 'Cause you're the honey and I am the bee One day at a time Is all we do One day at a time Is good for you, you, you One day at a time Is all we do One day at a time Is good for you, you, you (wooh) -------- Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) -------- -------- (13) House Of Cards -------- I hear tell some playboy has kidnapped your heart With his plane and his plans for games after dark Just a pain in his pocket, and the price of a room Where the second hand sheets smell of stale perfume If there's sharks in the water, don't swim where it's deep For the taste of success can be bitter and sweet It could be alright that I act like a child But you'll be the loser when the jokers run wild You're just playing the game, but the stakes are too high What will you do when the chips start to fly When the deck's stacked against you, and the living gets hard Oh it's four walls of madness in this house of cards Common you call me, but I know there's time In a handful of diamonds, a heart's hard to find And your house of cards starts weighing you down Your nights become restless when the clubs start to pound -------- Rock Of The Westies (1975) -------- -------- (1) Medley (Yell Help, Wednesday Night, Ugly) -------- Yell help, too many cooks and a bird in the bush, yell help Yell help, if your mirror busts and your cat gets cussed, yell help 'Cause down the road you find someone else who's looking Down the road you find another sweet lady cooking So I gotta yell help Yell help, some shelter from the storm like the travel agent warned Yell help, if you can help your superstitions they gonna keep you warm 'Cause down the road you find someone else who's looking Down the road you seen another sweet lady cooking So I gotta yell help I wish tonight wasn't Wednesday night I wish it wasn't the thirteenth of July, yell help And you're looking at the guy whose eyes can't deny That he wishes he were somewhere else tonight That he wishes he were somewhere else tonight Well I met this woman down in New Orleans Lord she built just like a dream Even wore stockings that had seams And she was ugly Now hell I don't mind women of her kind I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly She built like a steamroller Just the kind to mow you over anytime Hey the moment might arrive On bourbon street Well the ugliest woman you'll ever meet But she's mine all mine and she's ugly So I better yell help Yell help! -------- Rock Of The Westies (1975) -------- -------- (2) Dan Dare (Pilot Of The Future) -------- Can you tell me how old Dan might've done it If he'd been here now, holy cow My stars might've been read on the planet Mars 'Cause I don't have foresight to see If we'll still be together in the twenty-first In the twenty-first century, oh no He's our flyin' ace, Pilot of the Future In an endless space, holy cow My eyes never saw a rocket that was quite that size 'Cause I don't have the energy To be cat and mouse for the champions For the champions of destiny, oh no So long, Captain Dan I fail to see what motivates your hands Goodbye, restless night You know I love Dan Dare, but I couldn't make his flight So long, so long, yeah Dan Dare doesn't know it He doesn't know it, he doesn't know it But I like the Mekon Oh, so long, Captain Dan I fail to see what motivates your hands Goodbye, restless night You know I love Dan Dare, but I couldn't make his flight So long, so long Dan Dare doesn't know it He doesn't know it, he doesn't know it But I like the Mekon Dan Dare doesn't know it He doesn't know it, he doesn't know it But I like the Mekon Dan Dare doesn't know it Doesn't know it, doesn't know it But I like the Mekon Dan Dare doesn't know it, know it Doesn't know it, know it, doesn't know it, know it, doesn't know it But I like the Mekon (Dan Dare doesn't know it, know it, doesn't know it, know it) (Doesn't know it, know it, doesn't know it) (Dan Dare doesn't know it, know it, doesn't know it, know it) (Doesn't know it, know it, doesn't know it) -------- Rock Of The Westies (1975) -------- -------- (3) Island Girl -------- I see your teeth flash, Jamaican honey, so sweet Down where Lexington cross 47th street Oh, she's a big girl, she's standin' six-foot-three Turnin' tricks for the dudes in the big city Island girl What you wantin' with your white man's world? Island girl Black boy want you in his island world He want to take you from your racket boss He want to save you, but the cause is lost Island girl, island girl, island girl Tell me what you wantin' with your white man's world Well, she's black as coal, but she burn like a fire And she wrap herself around you like a well-worn tire You feel her nail scratch your back just like a rake Oh, he one more gone, he one more John who make the mistake Island girl What you wantin' with your white man's world? Island girl Black boy want you in his island world He want to take you from your racket boss He want to save you, but the cause is lost Island girl, island girl, island girl Tell me what you wantin' with your white man's world Island girl What you wantin' with your white man's world? Island girl Black boy want you in his island world He want to take you from your racket boss He want to save you, but the cause is lost Island girl, island girl, island girl Tell me what you wantin' with your white man Tell me what you wantin' with your white man Tell me what you wantin' with your white man -------- Rock Of The Westies (1975) -------- -------- (4) Grow Some Funk Of Your Own -------- Yeah I looked at my watch and it said a quarter to five The headlines screamed that I was still alive I couldn't understand it, I thought I died last night Oh, I dreamed I'd been in a border town In a little cantina that the boys had found I was desperate to dance just to dig the local sounds When along came a senorita She looked so good that I had to meet her I was ready to approach her with my English charm When her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm Oh, he was so macho And he said grow some funk of your own, amigo Grow some funk of your own We no like to with the gringo fight But there might be a death in Mexico tonight If you can't grow some funk of your own, amigo Grow some funk of your own Take my advice, take the next flight And grow your funk, grow your funk at home I mean, the situation was ridiculous Well, I looked for support from the rest of my friends For their vanishing trick they get ten out of ten I knelt to pray just to see if He would comprehend Oh, I dreamed I'd been in a border town In a little cantina that the boys had found I was desperate to dance just to dig the local sounds When along came a senorita She looked so good that I had to meet her I was ready to approach her with my English charm When her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm Oh, and it hurt so much And he said grow some funk of your own, amigo Grow some funk of your own We no like to with the gringo fight But there might be a death in Mexico tonight If you can't grow some funk of your own, amigo Grow some funk of your own Take my advice, take the next flight And grow your funk, grow your funk at home I mean, the situation was ridiculous Ya know, I think I really like I'll grow some funk Yea, I'll grow some funk of my own Oh, I'll grow some funk I'll grow some funk of my own I'll grow some funk Of my own Of my own Of my own Of my own I'll grow some funk I'll grow some funk -------- Rock Of The Westies (1975) -------- -------- (5) I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford) -------- Like a corn in a field I cut you down I threw the last punch too hard After years of going steady, well I thought that it was time To throw in my hand for a new set of cards And I can't take you dancing out on the weekend I figured we'd painted too much of this town And I tried not to look as I walked to my wagon And I knew then I had lost what should have been found I knew then I had lost what should have been found And I feel like a bullet in the gun of Robert Ford I'm low as a paid assassin is You know I'm cold as a hired sword I'm so ashamed can't we patch it up You know I can't think straight no more You make me feel like a bullet honey in the gun of Robert Ford Like a child when his toy's been stepped on That's how it all seemed to me I burst the bubble that both of us lived in And I'm damned if I'll ever get rid of this guilt that I feel And if looks could kill then I'd be a dead man Your friends and mine don't call no more Hell, I thought it was best but now I feel branded Breaking up's sometimes like breaking the law Breaking up's sometimes like breaking the law And I feel like a bullet in the gun of Robert Ford I'm low as a paid assassin is You know I'm cold as a hired sword I'm so ashamed can't we patch it up You know I can't think straight no more You make me feel like a bullet honey in the gun of Robert Ford And I feel like a bullet in the gun of Robert Ford I'm low as a paid assassin is You know I'm cold as a hired sword I'm so ashamed can't we patch it up You know I can't think straight no more You make me feel like a bullet honey in the gun of Robert Ford -------- Rock Of The Westies (1975) -------- -------- (6) Street Kids -------- They must've had the whole thing planned There must have been a hundred If we make a stand I think we'll be outnumbered If I'd had the chance Then I could understand Why I'm a juvenile delinquent In an east end gang And if you think you've seen gasoline Burning in my eyes Don't be alarmed, and tell yourself It's good to be, it's good to be alive It's just another street kid on your tail Running on the wrong side of the rails With my boot lace tie and my hand-me-downs You know I run the toughest bunch this side of town Those street kids making news just being around I've been bottled and been brained Squealers can't be trusted Ooh, if we fight tonight You can bet we'll all be busted I'd like to break away From the rut I'm in But beggars can't be choosers Yeah, and I was born to sin And if you think you've seen gasoline Burning in my eyes Don't be alarmed, and tell yourself It's good to be, it's good to be alive It's just another street kid on your tail Running on the wrong side of the rails With my boot lace tie and my hand-me-downs You know I run the toughest bunch this side of town Those street kids making news just being around Let's hear it for the street kids Making news just being around Let's hear it for the street kids Making news just being around Let's hear it for the street kids And if you think you've seen gasoline Burning in my eyes Don't be alarmed, and tell yourself It's good to be, it's good to be alive Just another street kid making news just being around Just another street kid Just another street kid Just another street kid making news just being around Just another street kid Just another street kid Just another street kid making news just being around Street kid Street kid Making news just being around Street kid Street kid Street kid Making news just being around Street kid Street kid Street kid Making news just being around Just another street kid Just another street kid Just another street kid making news just being around Making news just being around -------- Rock Of The Westies (1975) -------- -------- (7) Hard Luck Story -------- Sometimes I think I'm going crazy Staring at the same four walls Waiting for the working day to end Then I get home so wasted, worn out I curse at you and tell you How I've done the work of ten to fifteen men How I've struggled for my money Sweated blood to get us by, yeah Well I'm tired of it honey Think I'm gonna have to leave here for a while All you hear are hard luck stories And the ways I look at life And the way I think the world treats me And the way that I treat my wife I never seem to look at you And see that somewhere underneath A pair of tired eyes are crying out Well you know I work hard all day long Let me kiss you once with meaning Just to kill this nagging doubt Well you don't deny I do you proud And you expect me to be tired You say there's no future in our lives While I persist I'm putting out the fire All you hear are hard luck stories Just a few well chosen words 'Cause you're still the woman of a working man You've got the heart of a working girl All you hear are hard luck stories And the ways I look at life And the way I think the world treats me And the way that I treat my wife All you hear are hard luck stories And the ways I look at life And the way I think the world treats me And the way that I treat my wife -------- Rock Of The Westies (1975) -------- -------- (8) Feed Me -------- Don't close the shades I'm scared of the darkness I'm cold as a razor blade Inches from madness Don't let me sleep here They're all trying to kill me I've seen the walls moving They've all heard me screaming, screaming Feed me Feed my needs and then just leave me Let me go back where you found me 'Cause I miss my basement The sweet smell of new paint The warmth and the comforts of home So feed me Give me my treatment and free me My arms are so hungry so feed me The room's so distorted And filled with mad shadows I feel like a carcass White like a marrow bone It all seems so long ago I remember them laughing I heard the ambulance scream I saw the red light flashing, flashing Feed me Feed my needs and then just leave me Let me go back where you found me 'Cause I miss my basement The sweet smell of new paint The warmth and the comforts of home So feed me Give me my treatment and free me My arms are so hungry so feed me Feed me -------- Rock Of The Westies (1975) -------- -------- (9) Billy Bones And The White Bird -------- Take the wheel I hear the timbers creaking Take the wheel I think this ship is sinking Jamaica seems so far and I've been thinking Old Billy Bones has gone to sea and quit his dockside drinking Check it out, check it out, check it out And when I'm dead who'll fly the White Bird home I'm not the ancient mariner your children know And the sea's the field these old jack tars have sown 'Cause Billy Bones just wants to know who'll fly the White Bird home Oh your majesty, your majesty I heard the bosun cry Old Billy Bones has washed ashore Upon a foreign tide Check it out, check it out, check it out Check it out, check it out, check it out Oh your majesty, your majesty I heard the bosun cry Old Billy Bones has washed ashore Upon a foreign tide Check it out, check it out, check it out Check it out, check it out, check it out Check it out, check it out, check it out Check it out, check it out, check it out -------- Rock Of The Westies (1975) -------- -------- (10) Planes -------- Oh Jessie I'd like to be One of those men upon the screen With an elegant lady and a cafe in Paris Serving Pernot and Kalua with cream You can see it I know All the doors have been closed in my face And the drinks at the Casbah Run a mile or more from this place And oh Jessie won't you look at the planes Tell me, oh Jessie, is it true what they say That there's a capital G in the name of the game And the runway's a home for my silver-grey planes And won't you look at the planes Riding down the skyway Jessie ain't those wings just fine Don't it make you want to fly someday Why friend am I so still Tied to my job with time to kill Do I still bear the traces of old Don Quixote Tilting giants on imaginary hills And oh Jessie won't you look at the planes Tell me, oh Jessie, is it true what they say That there's a capital G in the name of the game And the runway's a home for my silver-grey planes -------- Rock Of The Westies (1975) -------- -------- (11) Sugar On The Floor -------- You're a stranger to me Then you give me your life I toss it to one side Still you're sweeter to me When we lie on the shore It's warm where you are But my lips just don't burn I feel so insecure When you try to be kind Could I ask for more Looking at you now I know you only want to find me Still I need a reason to leave the past behind me Behind me There ain't no easy way To learn how to fly I hope that I can kill When I turn around you're there Should I ask for more I feel like sugar on the floor I feel like sugar on the floor -------- Blue Moves (1976) -------- -------- (1) Tonight -------- Tonight, do we have to fight again? Tonight, I just wanna go to sleep Turn out the light, but you wanna carry grudges Oh, nine times outta ten, I see the storm approaching Long before the rain starts falling Tonight, does it have to be the old thing? Tonight, oh, it's late, too late To chase the rainbow that you're after I'd like to find a compromise, ooh, and place it in your hands My eyes are blind, my ears can't hear Oh, and I cannot find the time Tonight, just let the curtains close in silence Tonight, why not approach with less defiance? The man who'd love to see you smile Who'd love to see you smile tonight Tonight, just let the curtains close in silence Tonight, why not approach with less defiance? The man who'd love to see you smile The man who'd love to see you smile The man who'd love to see you smile tonight -------- Blue Moves (1976) -------- -------- (2) One Horse Town -------- Saw a Cadillac for the first time yesterday I'd always seen horses, buggies, bales of hay 'Cause progress here don't move with modern times There's nothing to steal So there's not a great deal of crime It sure is hell living in a one horse town There's half a mile of Alabama mud bed ground Nothing much doing of an afternoon Unless you're sitting in a rocking chair just picking a tune And they ain't too well acquainted with the stars and stripes But if you want to hear Susanna then they'll pick all night They'll pick all night 'Cause it's no dice living in a one horse town Laid back, as my old coon hound And I just can't wait to get out of this one horse town There's nothing to steal 'cause there's simply nothing much around Sure is hell living in this one horse town There's half a mile of Alabama mud bed ground And I just can't wait to get out of this one horse town There's nothing to steal 'cause there's nothing much around -------- Blue Moves (1976) -------- -------- (3) Chameleon -------- The last I heard of you You were somewhere on a cruise in Mediterranean So imagine my surprise To see you very much alive in the English rain again And I can still recall wet afternoons When we were small and simply childish But you've created your own ghost And the need you have is more than most to hide it Oh, chameleon, you're stealing your way back into my eyes Beyond a shadow of a doubt, you're a devil, you're a devil in disguise Do you really change me or am I going crazy? Chameleon, chameleon, chameleon, you're free again, my child I remember still those lazy summer days We'd kill out hunting danger And we were alien to all outsiders We had no desire to talk to strangers And I can still recall wet afternoons When we were small and simply childish But you've created your own ghost And the need you have is more than most to hide it Oh, chameleon, you're stealing your way back into my eyes Beyond a shadow of a doubt, you're a devil, you're a devil in disguise Do you really change me or am I going crazy? Chameleon, chameleon, chameleon, you're free again, my child Chameleon Chameleon Chameleon Chameleon Chameleon Chameleon Chameleon Chameleon Chameleon -------- Blue Moves (1976) -------- -------- (4) Boogie Pilgrim -------- Crime in the streets I read about it everyday in the papers And justice needs and justice wants But just in times, yes, too late here Oh, feels like I wasn't born there (Feels like I wasn't born there) I feel just like a Boogie Pilgrim, oh, huh, yeah Boogie Pilgrim, hustled to get it, to get it together Down on the jive talk, down on the weather Boogie Pilgrim, oh, brother I never felt better No, I never felt better Low life's complete When you've lived that way out on the sidewalk (Walking on the sidewalk everyday) Oh, I got the speed, baby, you got the need, ah,uh But the need in me needs nothing (But you know that I need nothing) But I know that you all want something Oh, just like Boogie Pilgrim, Boogie Pilgrim Boogie Pilgrim, hustled to get it, to get it together Down on the jive talk, down on the weather Boogie Pilgrim, oh, brother I never felt better Yeah, I know I'm better (Don't you know that I never felt better) No, I'm never, never, never felt better (Don't you know that I never felt better) Don't you know that I never felt better Don't you know that I never felt better Don't you know that I never felt better Don't you know that I never felt better Boogie, Boogie, Boogie Pilgrim, yeah Oh, lord I never felt better, yeah (Don't you know that I never felt better) Ooh hoo, ooh hoo, ooh hoo Boogie Pilgrim, hustled to get it, to get it together Down on the jive talk, down on the weather Boogie Pilgrim, oh, brother I never felt better Yeah (You know that I never felt better) Boogie Pilgrim [16x] -------- Blue Moves (1976) -------- -------- (5) Cage The Song Bird -------- Sober in the morning light Things look so much different To how they looked last night A pale face pressed to an unmade bed Like flags of many nations flying high above her head The cellophane still on the flowers The telegram still in her hand As whispers circulate all day Their back-stage baby princess passed away And you can cage the songbird But you can't make her sing And you can trap the free bird But you'll have to clip her wings 'Cause she'll soar like a hawk when she flies But she'll dive like an eagle when she dies Promises of no more lies Fell flat upon an empty stage Before the audience arrived A return in time to the cheaper seats She never knew what lay beneath Just a dated handbill they found between the sheets Let down before the final curtain A shallow heart that left her cold She left in rouge upon the mirror A circled kiss to the faithful fans who'd miss her And you can cage the songbird But you can't make her sing And you can trap the free bird But you'll have to clip her wings 'Cause she'll soar like a hawk when she flies But she'll dive like an eagle when she dies -------- Blue Moves (1976) -------- -------- (6) Crazy Water -------- On a bench, on the beach Just before the sun had gone I tried to reach you Plain faced and falling fast You looked so vacant like an empty shell Whose life had passed upon the ocean Before light shook the sky Down by the docks I saw The masts unfolding Don't turn away, please understand It's a life and a living And a way to keep the wolves away From hungry hands, from hungry hands Crazy water Takes my fishing boat on Monday morning Dangerous dreaming If we all believe in the things you believe you're seeing Oh we'd never drop our nets in the crazy water, crazy water Tangled lives, lonely wives Shoreline widows pray For the souls of missing whalers Endless nights on an endless sea Where nothing lives between us Just the breakers on the ocean Separating you and me Separating you and me Crazy water Takes my fishing boat on Monday morning Dangerous dreaming If we all believe in the things you believe you're seeing Oh we'd never drop our nets in the crazy water, crazy water Crazy water Takes my fishing boat on Monday morning Dangerous dreaming If we all believe in the things you believe you're seeing Oh we'd never drop our nets in the crazy water, crazy water Crazy water Crazy water Crazy water Crazy water Crazy water Crazy water Crazy water Crazy water In the crazy, crazy water In the crazy, crazy, crazy water Crazy, crazy, crazy water Crazy, crazy, crazy water -------- Blue Moves (1976) -------- -------- (7) Shoulder Holster -------- Now, it was just like Frankie and Johnny And it was just like Stagger Lee Dolly Summers was a simple girl From a mid-west family With a stucco home and her own Mustang And a charge account at sears She had everything that a girl could want To live happy for the rest of her years But the thing that she wanted most of all Was the thing that she had lost To the arms of a downtown black jack hustler By the name of Candy floss They'd slipped town on a late night train Heading for the west Dolly slipped behind the wheel of her mustang With a piece between her breast She put a pistol in her shoulder holster She took her car up from Santa Fe Yesterday morning she was washing dishes Now she's hunting down a runaway Don't judge a man by a misdemeanor You may be sorry when his light goes out Don't put that pistol in your shoulder holster You can never, never tell if the Law's about If it seemed just like a movie Or a night of bad TV They should have had a picture of Dolly's face As she drove across the country With daggers drawn for her fallen man An venom in her heart It was nearly dawn when she caught them up Making out in a picnic park But the thing that shook her rigid As she fumbled for her gun Was the state of the man that she'd married once And thought of as the only one And as she looked back on the chances That she'd passed up at home Well, she quietly dumped pistol in a ditch And she headed home alone She put a pistol in her shoulder holster She took her car up from Santa Fe Yesterday morning she was washing dishes Now she's hunting down a runaway Don't judge a man by a misdemeanor You may be sorry when his light goes out Don't put that pistol in your shoulder holster You can never, never tell if the Law's about You can never, never tell if the Law's about You can never, never tell if the Law's about You can never, never tell if the Law's about You can never, never tell if the Law's about You can never, never tell if the Law's about You can never, never tell if the Law's about You can never, never tell if the Law's about You can never, never tell if the Law's about -------- Blue Moves (1976) -------- -------- (8) Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word -------- What have I gotta do to make you love me? What have I gotta do to make you care? What do I do when lightning strikes me? And I wake to find that you're not there What do I do to make you want me? What have I gotta do to be heard? What do I say when it's all over? And sorry seems to be the hardest word It's sad, (so sad) so sad It's a sad, sad situation And it's getting more and more absurd It's sad, (so sad) so sad Why can't we talk it over? Oh, it seems to me That sorry seems to be the hardest word It's sad, (so sad) so sad It's a sad, sad situation And it's getting more and more absurd It's sad, (so sad) so sad Why can't we talk it over? Oh, it seems to me That sorry seems to be the hardest word What do I do to make you love me? Oh, what have I gotta do to be heard? What do I do when lightning strikes me? What have I gotta do? What have I gotta do? Ooh, and sorry seems to be the hardest word -------- Blue Moves (1976) -------- -------- (9) Between Seventeen And Twenty -------- I wonder who's sleeping in your sheets tonight Whose head rests upon the bed Could it be a close friend I knew so well Who seems to be so close to you instead Close to you instead I'm blue tonight, I'm red when I'm mad I'm green when I'm jealous, yellow when I'm sad I guess I cannot have everything So much has flown between the years When I was twenty and you were seventeen So out of choice I chose rock and roll But it pushed me to the limit everyday It turned me into a gypsy, kept me away from home From there on, there seemed no use for you For you to stay And if I shower around 3 AM It's just to wash away The trace of a love unwanted Oh in the times I went astray The times I went astray So out of choice I chose rock and roll But it pushed me to the limit everyday It turned me into a gypsy, kept me away from home From there on, there seemed no use for you For you to stay I'm blue tonight, I'm red when I'm mad I'm green when I'm jealous, yellow when I'm sad I guess I cannot have everything So much has flown between the years When I was twenty and you were seventeen Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh So much has flown between the years When I was twenty and you were seventeen When I was twenty and you were seventeen When I was twenty and you were seventeen When I was twenty and you were seventeen When I was twenty and you were seventeen When I was twenty and you were seventeen -------- Blue Moves (1976) -------- -------- (10) The Wide-Eyed And Laughing -------- Are you still in control of the boat that you row Or do you still cling to me when it's sinking I never condemned you, I only consoled you When candlelight made me a King For the wide-eyed and laughing Passed like a season Erasing a passion to sin For no one knew better than the tea leaves and the tarots That the wide-eyed and laughing Were just one step ahead of the wind And the hearts that you played on the porch swing for me Was a song that I'd heard in the past For I had an audience somewhere inside you That applauded whenever you laughed For the wide-eyed and laughing Passed like a season Erasing a passion to sin For no one knew better than the tea leaves and the tarots That the wide-eyed and laughing Were just one step ahead of the wind Gone is a word that I now rarely use Though sometime in the course of a day I go racing back like a man possessed By the wide-eyed and laughing daughters of some different age -------- Blue Moves (1976) -------- -------- (11) Someone's Final Song -------- He died when the house was empty When the maid had gone He put a pen to paper for one final song He wrote, "Oh, babe, it's the only way I know it's wrong but I can't stand To go on living To go on living Living life this way" "And I don't know what the time is Or what the next line is Or how you're gonna take the news But if I had my life again I wouldn't change a thing I'd let nobody, I'd let nobody Stand inside my shoes" "Oh Something's gotten hold of me This home is not the home it used to be I've gathered dust Like the dying flowers And I've drunk myself sober After hours and hours" "Oh Something's gotten hold of me This home is not the home it used to be (It's not the same) I've gathered dust Like the dying flowers (oooh) And I've drunk myself sober (oooooh) After hours and hours" "Oooooooh After hours and hours" -------- Blue Moves (1976) -------- -------- (12) Where's The Shoorah? -------- Shoorah Shoorah She grows, she's grown like pampas Tall in the wind, she's simple and spiteful She's all girl, woman and mother She's had my children and she's been my lover No no no no, no no, she don't like to fight it Once you've been bitten, you get excited Ma-ma-ma-ma-mama, she really likes her She comes for coffee, and my mama asked me So where's the shoorah she sang? You know I hear it again, my friend Where's the shoorah, she came upon it Waiting to sing her back Because she likes to sing about Where's the shoorah she sang? Over and over and over Where's the shoorah she sang? Shoorah Shoorah Shoorah She grows, she's grown like pampas Tall in the wind, she's simple and spiteful She's all girl, woman and mother She's had my children and she's been my lover No no no no, no no, she don't like to fight it Once you've been bitten, you get excited Ma-ma-ma-ma-mama, she really likes her She comes for coffee, and my mama asked me So where's the shoorah she sang? You know I hear it again, my friend Where's the shoorah, she came upon it Waiting to sing her back Because she likes to sing about Where's the shoorah she sang? Over and over and over Where's the shoorah she sang? Oh, shoorah Shoorah -------- Blue Moves (1976) -------- -------- (13) If There's A God In Heaven (What's He Waiting For) -------- Torn from their families Mothers go hungry To feed their children But children go hungry There's so many big men They're out making millions When poverty's profits Just blame the children If there's a God in heaven What's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children Then he must see the war But it seems to me That he leads his lambs To the slaughter house And not the promised land Dying for causes They don't understand We've been taking their futures Right out of their hands They need the handouts To hold back the tears There's so many crying But so few that hear If there's a God in heaven What's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children Then he must see the war But it seems to me That he leads his lambs To the slaughter house And not the promised land If there's a God in heaven What's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children Then he must see the war But it seems to me That he leads his lambs To the slaughter house And not the promised land If there's a God in heaven Well, what's he waiting for? If there's a God in heaven What's he waiting for? If there's a God in heaven What's he waiting for? If there's a God in heaven What's he waiting for? If there's a God in heaven What's he waiting for? -------- Blue Moves (1976) -------- -------- (14) Idol -------- Oh, he was a light star Tripping on a high wire Bulldog stubborn Born uneven A classless creature A man for all seasons But don't bet them They can't take him to the very bottom Because they made him And they'll waste him And I don't believe That I want to watch them Because the fifties shifted out of gear He was an idol then Now he's an idol here But his face has changed He's not the same no more And I have to say That I like the way his music sounded before He was tight-assed Walking on broken glass Highly prized In the wallet size The number one crush In a schoolgirl's eyes But don't pretend that it won't end In the depth of your despair You went from lame suits Right down to tennis shoes To peanuts From the lion's share Alright Because the fifties shifted out of gear He was an idol then Now he's an idol here But his face has changed He's not the same no more And I have to say That I like the way his music sounded before -------- Blue Moves (1976) -------- -------- (15) Bite Your Lip (Get Up And Dance) -------- She slid down to the city limits Monkey time in fifteen minutes Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance Don't let me down Please stick around Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance Strobe light on the funky feet Soul children in the disco heat Top dog, top cat Move that muscle and shake that fat Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance Strobe light on the funky feet Soul children in the disco heat Top dog, top cat Move that muscle and shake that fat Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance Chicago, L.A Every place, every way Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance Illinois, Santa Fe Do do do do do do do what I say Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance -------- A Single Man (1978) -------- -------- (1) Shine On Through -------- Oh my love I have cursed the stars above That lead my heart to you But as hard as I try Still my love will not die And the stars still shine on through And the stars still shine on through Oh my dear Now this ship's too hard to steer The tide has turned, turned on you I have been through the lies That I've seen in your eyes But the truth still shines on through But the truth it still shines, shines on through So shine, shine on through the days we have to fill Though we took our love so daringly And gave it up uncaringly There are feelings left not even we can kill Oh my friend So at last we reach the end The lights go down on cue I have wasted my time But it tasted oh so fine That my love still shines, shines on through And my love still shines, shines on you -------- A Single Man (1978) -------- -------- (2) Return To Paradise -------- It's paradise here where the sun meets the sea There's nothing to fear and so much to be But soon I must go, say goodbye to it all That homeland of mine is beginning to call Goodbye doesn't mean this has to be the end Fading dreams grow cold as ice And I got a feeling we will meet again When we return to paradise The wind in our hair and the sun in our eyes There's no need for tears and no time for lies So reach out your hand and I'll reach out my heart Remember me while we are apart I'm heading homeward Leaving sunshine and heading for rain But we'll return to paradise again -------- A Single Man (1978) -------- -------- (3) I Don't Care -------- I got feet sticking out of my shoes I got heat more than I can use I got love, I got all I need I got soles that are wearing thin I got holes where the rain gets in I got you and that's enough for me I don't care, I don't care I don't care, I don't care I don't care, I don't care I don't care, long as I got your love Clothes that are falling apart I got a car that refuses to start I got love, I do the best I can I got bills piling up in the hall I got paint peeling off the wall I got you, I'm a happy man -------- A Single Man (1978) -------- -------- (4) Big Dipper -------- Now I saw you talking to a cute little slip of a sailor And it looked at first like the whole thing would end as a failure He had a thing about a quarter to four And he just couldn't handle any more He's got his own big dipper so he won't be needing your big dipper He's got his own big dipper and he won't be needing yours So you filled him up with all kinds of stuff to relax him And you took him down to the fairground after some action And by around about a quarter to six You found a different way to get your kicks Up on the real big dipper where you tried an few new tricks Big dipper Up on a great big dipper did you learn a few new licks He hadn't been too keen at the start Now he seems to have a change of heart He's got his own big dipper Only now he's not so sure, big dipper He's got his own big dipper But there's always room for more Everybody's got a song to sing Everybody's got to do their thing, big dipper, big dipper And at around about a quarter to ten You got up and did it all again He's got his own big dipper and now he knows just what it's for Big dipper He's got his own big dipper but he's got his eye on yours Another ride, another tune Another crazy afternoon Another reason for squeezing your big dipper -------- A Single Man (1978) -------- -------- (5) It Ain't Gonna Be Easy -------- It ain't gonna be easy from now on You've been messing around while I've been gone But sometimes telling the truth can be unkind Folks who suffer guilt can be so blind It ain't gonna be easy I can tell Just how empty I'm feeling you know damn well I'm telling you it ain't gonna be easy from the start Look out honey you're playing with my heart It ain't gonna be easy that's for sure Changing things back the way they were before Once you've lifted the lid on such pain It ain't easy to put it back again It ain't gonna be easy to forget You've been seeing a man that I ain't met I'm telling you that it ain't gonna be easy from the start Look out baby, you're playing with my heart It ain't gonna be so easy this time 'round Turning back the clock on what's gone down Oh there comes a time when you need to make a stand You gotta play your cards or fold a losing hand And it ain't gonna be easy that's no lie But if you're willing to try it so am I It ain't gonna be so easy from the start You better look out darling, you're playing with my heart It ain't gonna be easy It ain't gonna be easy It ain't gonna be easy that's no lie But if you're willing willing to try it so am I It ain't gonna be so easy from the start Oh, you better look out darling, you're playing with my heart With my heart With my heart, yeah It ain't gonna be easy It ain't gonna be easy It ain't gonna be so easy from the start, oh It ain't gonna be so easy from the start It ain't gonna be It ain't gonna be easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy It ain't gonna be so easy from the start It ain't gonna be so easy from the start It ain't gonna be so easy from the start You got my heart It ain't gonna be so easy from the start It ain't gonna be so easy easy from the start It ain't gonna be so easy from the start, yeah You got my heart, yeah But it ain't gonna be so easy from the start It ain't gonna be so easy easy from the start It ain't gonna be so easy -------- A Single Man (1978) -------- -------- (6) Part Time Love -------- Part-time love is bringin' me down 'Cause I just can't get it started with you, my love Did I hear you sayin' that I'm too hard-hearted Wipe those stars from your eyes And you'll get quite a surprise Because you'll see everybody's got a part-time love You've been seen runnin' around There's not much I don't a-hear of, and a-still, you try Tellin' me all the things I must stay clear of Don't tell me what to do When you been doin' it too Because you, me and everybody's got a part-time love Fallin', I'm fallin', can't get free Baby, if you keep on stallin' Oh, how can I make you see That you, me and everybody needs a part-time love Part-time love I seem to be pullin' in the wrong direction with you, my love Whatever I do, you raise the same objection Now, I've got someone at home But she's got a love of her own Because you, me and everybody got a part-time love I'm waitin', I'm waitin' all the time And it's gettin' so frustratin' Love, well it ain't no crime Because you, me and everybody needs a part-time love No, you, me and everybody's got a part-time love No, you and me and everybody needs a part-time love You, me, everybody got a part-time love -------- A Single Man (1978) -------- -------- (7) Georgia -------- When it's springtime down in Georgia It's winter time up in Maine You can go from snow to sunshine If you board a southbound train You get used to taking orders But it's sometimes kind of rough I got everything that a man could need But it still ain't quite enough Taking about oh Georgia take me to your Southlands I sometimes feel my life is rolling on Oh Georgia lead me through your heartlands I need to see them one more time before I'm gone When it's nighttime down in Georgia It's daytime in L.A Where they never seem to do much But they sure got lots to say The times are changing down in Georgia Though not always for the best Give me thirty five good acres lord And let progress take the rest Talking about oh Georgia take me to your Southlands I sometimes feel that life is rolling on Oh Georgia lead me through your heartlands I need to see them one more time before they're gone Oh Georgia take me to your Southlands I sometimes feel that life has passed me by Oh Georgia lead me through your heartlands I need to see them one more time before I die Oh Georgia take me to your Southlands I sometimes feel that life has passed me by Oh Georgia lead me through your heartlands I need to see them one more time before I die -------- A Single Man (1978) -------- -------- (8) Shooting Star -------- I'm still in love with you oh shooting star And when I start to wonder where you are There you are, there you are, shooting star You may have seen me at the early show I sat and watched you from the second row Oh you were mine long ago way back when Even then we both knew you'd go far oh shooting star And with the spotlight shining in your eyes It's sometimes hard to find your way But maybe some night you might Think of me, shooting star And when that moment comes at last And you remember who you are Here I'll be, shooting star, shooting star Here I'll be, shooting star, shooting star, shooting star -------- A Single Man (1978) -------- -------- (9) Madness -------- The fuse is set and checked once more Then left beside a back street door And in the cold grey light Someone sees a shadow run through the night and out of sight They hide inside a smoke filled room To hear at last the blast of doom And so the deed is done They listen to the final countdown begun, three, two, one Madness, it's a kind of madness That turns good men bad And we're helpless caught up in the madness Of a world gone mad The roar of fire rings out on high And flames light up the black night sky A child screams out in fear A hopeless cry for help but no one is near enough to hear As walls collapse and timbers flare The smell of death hangs in the air When help at last arrives They try to fight the flame but nothing survives of all those lives And it's madness, every time a victim dies There is madness, burning in a blind man's eyes And it's madness, hidden in the hate and pain There is madness, burning in a wild man's brain And it's madness, every time the bullets start There is madness, burning in a poor man's heart And it's madness, something that we can't control There is madness, burning in a madman's soul Madness -------- A Single Man (1978) -------- -------- (10) Song For Guy -------- Life Life isn't everything Life isn't everything Life isn't everything Life Life isn't everything Life isn't everything Life isn't everything Life Life isn't everything Life isn't everything Life isn't everything Life -------- A Single Man (1978) -------- -------- (11) Ego -------- Take a look at me now and take a taste of the money I'm not in it for the bread I'm in it for the gravy, honey Step on the thin ice lightly And check out the show twice nightly 'Cause I'm on the stage tonight And if the price is right I will amaze before the light I crave the light Blinding white I need the light tonight Take a look at me now and take a look at my billing I'm not in it as an extra, I'm in it for the killing Inflate my ego gently, tell them heaven sent me 'Cause I'm so expressive and I'm so obsessed with my ego My ego and its message Oh inform the press, invite the guests I need the press tonight Do you remember acting out your youth A Romeo resplendent on an orange case Do you remember how I would recite And how I'd blow my lines and hide my face Well maybe it was childish, foolish, before schoolish Immaturish, lose your coolish But I had to grow and prove my ego Take a look at me now and take a taste of the money I'm not in it for the bread I'm in it for the gravy, honey Inflate my ego gently, tell them heaven sent me Oh 'cause I'm so expressive and I'm so obsessed with my ego My ego and its message Oh inform the press, invite the guests I need the press tonight Do you remember acting out your youth A Romeo resplendent on an orange case Do you remember how I would recite And how I'd blow my lines and hide my face Well maybe it was childish, foolish, before schoolish Immaturish, lose your coolish Childish (childish), foolish (foolish), before schoolish Immaturish, lose your coolish But I, I had to grow to prove my ego -------- A Single Man (1978) -------- -------- (12) Flintstone Boy -------- Please don't talk about the flintstone boy He's alright with me Please don't talk about the flintstone boy He's alright with me Please don't worry about the flintstone boy He got trouble but he ain't got joy Please don't talk about the flintstone boy Please don't talk about the flintstone boy Don't you worry, he's alright with me, oh yeah, oh yeah Please don't worry about the flintstone boy He's alright with me Please don't worry about the flintstone boy He's alright with me Please don't talk about the flintstone boy He got trouble and he ain't got joy Please don't worry about the flintstone boy Please don't worry about the flintstone boy Don't you worry, he's alright with me, oh yeah, oh yeah Well Joey had a lover but he had to run for cover When someone told a lie Jo Jo his lover, he'd been cheating on him Shouldn't he know why Joey had a lover but he had to run for cover When someone let him down Jo Jo his lover, he'd been cheating on him He'd been messing around -------- A Single Man (1978) -------- -------- (13) I Cry At Night -------- This house that I live in has no reason This house that I sleep in has no purpose It has a bed and a few old chairs Three flights up, two flights of stairs But it has no reason Then someone shot through the tyre swing The dogs barked and bayed in the winter and spring And the ivy that hung now sadly clings To a dying season And I cry at night when the lights go out And the green eyes fuse and the full moon shouts From road maps and red lines to lipstick lies And when the lights go out it's tough to survive This man holds a hand that shows a tremble This man that I live in bears his faults He has a heart and a well worn soul Ten years a slave to Rock And Roll But he has to tremble For the yellow grass on the sun burnt lawn Sleeps in her seeds from the sunset to dawn And just like your love that's come and gone It goes on breathing -------- A Single Man (1978) -------- -------- (14) Lovesick -------- I've been blown away like a printed page That reads "you're lovesick" Headline news had me so abused But I was lovesick You never tried although I sacrificed My weaknesses for you I could have understood, I could have read your looks I should have known better too I've been holding out but it's time to shout You know I'm lovesick A helping hand for a dying man Who says he's lovesick I can't explain why I'll never change This sickness deep inside I've been doctored down, I've had the nurse around -------- A Single Man (1978) -------- -------- (15) Strangers -------- Two people caught on a string A high-wire act above the center ring While the audience is wondering If we'll make it back Two people up on a wire Overhead and under fire While the audience enquire If it's just a knack Strangers, after all, we find we're strangers After all this time We've made the long and the lonely climb And now we've reached the part Where we find we're strangers We were strangers from the start Two people caught in the tide On the edge of love and pride And both afraid to approach the side And fall again Two people playing the part But which is life and which is art And isn't it a little late -------- Victim Of Love (1979) -------- -------- (1) Johnny B. Goode -------- Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans Way back up in the woods among the evergreens There stood an log cabin made of earth and wood Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode Who never learned to read or write so well But he could play a guitar just like ringing a bell Go go Go Johnny go go go Go Johnny go go go Go Johnny go go go Go Johnny go go go Go go Johnny B. Goode He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack Sat beneath the tree by the railroad track An engineer could see him sitting in the shade Strumming with the rhythm that the drivers made The People passing by, they would stop and say Oh my, how that little country boy could play His mother told him, someday you will be a man You will be the leader of a big old band Many people coming from miles around To hear you play your music when the sun goes down And maybe someday your name will be in lights Saying Johnny B. Goode tonight -------- Victim Of Love (1979) -------- -------- (2) Warm Love In A Cold World -------- City boy, city girl Arm in arm in our city world A lot of love, a lot of hope Hope our love don't go up in smoke I feel so good, yeah I feel so fine I know I'm yours and I know you're mine Feeling good, yeah I'm feeling fine Now you're mine, now you're mine, now you're mine Warm love in a cold world Warm love in a cold world Hope we're gonna make it Hope we're gonna make it Warm love in a cold world Warm love in a cold world Girl we gotta make it Girl we gotta make it Warm love in a cold world Sure we're gonna make it Sure we're gonna make it Sure we're gonna make it We're gonna make it Never knew, but thanks to you I'm finding out just what love can do You picked me up, I've come alive I'm seeing life in another light Feel so good, yeah I feel so fine I know I'm yours and I know you're mine Feeling good, yeah I'm feeling fine Now you're mine, now you're mine, now you're mine Warm love in a cold world Warm love in a cold world Hope we're gonna make it Hope we're gonna make it Warm love in a cold world Warm love in a cold world Girl we gotta make it Girl we gotta make it Warm love in a cold world Sure we're gonna make it Sure we're gonna make it Sure we're gonna make it We're gonna make it Warm love in a cold world Warm love in a cold world Hope we're gonna make it Hope we're gonna make it Warm love in a cold world Warm love in a cold world Girl we gotta make it Girl we gotta make it Warm love in a cold world Sure we're gonna make it Sure we're gonna make it Sure we're gonna make it We're gonna make it -------- Victim Of Love (1979) -------- -------- (3) Born Bad -------- You've been crying And there ain't no use denying It was me Who put you through this misery And I'd like to say I'm sorry But I can't, no I can't Nothing's gonna change me Baby, that's the way I am I was born bad Always been the same, yes I was born bad Never gonna change 'cause I was born bad Only me to blame 'cause I was born bad Yes I was born bad Always been my habit, I was born bad Just can't seem to help it, I was born bad Always gonna happen, I was born bad 'Cause I was born bad I mistreat you And you know I always cheat you But that's me And that's the it's always been And I'd like to say I'm sorry But I can't, no I can't Nothing's gonna change me Baby, that's the way I am -------- Victim Of Love (1979) -------- -------- (4) Thunder In The Night -------- Ain't no loving tonight My woman says she ain't my woman I sure put up a fight To keep it right I used a whole lot of pride to get her I used a whole pack of lies and begged her She just threw me the key And said she's free Thunder in the night Thunder in the night again Thunder in the night again Thunder in the night Thunder in the night again Thunder in the night again Frightening lightning hit me again It's burning much deeper this time I got them storm clouds hanging right over my head And it's gonna rain harder this time Thunder, thunder Thunder, thunder Out here searching the streets I gotta find my woman and tell her I never wanted to cheat But she cheated me I never knew just how much I loved her I never knew 'til I went and lost her Now it's all too late She's gone away Thunder in the night Thunder in the night again Thunder in the night again Thunder in the night Thunder in the night again Thunder in the night again Thunder in the night Thunder in the night again Thunder in the night again Thunder in the night Thunder in the night again Thunder in the night again Frightening lightning hit me again It's burning much deeper this time I got them storm clouds hanging right over my head And it's gonna rain harder this time Thunder, thunder Thunder, thunder Thunder, thunder Thunder, thunder -------- Victim Of Love (1979) -------- -------- (5) Spotlight -------- Night life, hot spot light I've gotta make them dance tonight Night life, hot spot light I really want to shine tonight Night life, hot spot light I gotta steal a heart tonight Night life, hot spot light I'll show them how to dance tonight I know that the competition's heavy I know that these guys are cool But I'll show this kid is more than ready I sure got something to prove Right now I'm just another guy I don't mean nothing to them but when they see me dance When they see me dance Night life, hot spot light I've gotta make them dance tonight Night life, hot spot light I really want to shine tonight Night life, hot spot light I gotta steal a heart tonight Night life, hot spot light I'll show them how to dance tonight Right now the music's moving higher I feel them stepping up the beat These shoes will set the floor on fire Everybody on your feet You thought that you'd seen the best Well I can tell you, forget the rest When you see me dance When you see me dance Night life, hot spot light I've gotta make them dance tonight Night life, hot spot light I really want to shine tonight Night life, hot spot light I gotta steal a heart tonight Night life, hot spot light I'll show them how to dance tonight -------- Victim Of Love (1979) -------- -------- (6) Street Boogie -------- Street guys, walking, dancing Sidewalk, music, hot thing They got their boxes tuned into their favorite show As they truck on down the road Is that the radio Yes that's the radio Let it go, let it go, let it go Street boogie got a hold on me Street boogie gonna set me free Street boogie keep a hold on me It's alright, it's alright, it's alright with me Street boogie, it's the city beat Street boogie, on the boogie street Street boogie, yeah and that's for me Street boogie, street boogie, street boogie, street boogie Traffic, skater, rolling Sharing, music, sure thing He got his shoulder holster turned a way up loud As he wheels his way around Is that the radio Yes that's the radio Catch the sound, catch the sound, catch the sound Street boogie got a hold on me Street boogie going to set me free Street boogie keep a hold on me It's alright, it's alright, it's alright with me Street boogie, it's the city beat Street boogie, on the boogie street Street boogie, yeah and that's for me Boogie, street boogie Boogie, street boogie Boogie, street boogie Boogie, street boogie Street boogie got a hold on me Street boogie going to set me free Street boogie keep a hold on me It's alright, it's alright, it's alright with me Street boogie, it's the city beat Street boogie, on the boogie street Street boogie, yeah and that's for me Street boogie Street boogie got a hold on me Street boogie going to set me free Street boogie keep a hold on me It's alright, it's alright, it's alright with me Street boogie, it's the city beat Street boogie, on the boogie street Street boogie, yeah and that's for me Street boogie -------- Victim Of Love (1979) -------- -------- (7) Victim Of Love -------- You said you'd never fake it You swore we'd always make it last And it sounded so real And I fell into your love trap Blind, yes, I was the perfect fool I believed every word And it never occurred to me Is this a game? Are you just playing? Will I be losing you? Oh, am I a victim of love, victim of love? Did you take me for a ride? Victim of love, victim of love Then I hope you're satisfied Victim of love, victim of love Were you only using me? Victim of love, victim of love What a fool you made of me My friends warned me about ya I laughed, how could I doubt your love? Then I saw you with him And my world crumbled around me I felt life slip away from me There's a void inside me Where my heart used to be So now, this was a game You were just playing And now I'm losing you Oh, I'm a victim of love, victim of love Well, you took me for a ride Victim of love, victim of love Well, I hope you're satisfied Victim of love, victim of love You were only using me Victim of love, victim of love What a fool you made of me Oh, am I a victim of love, victim of love? Did you take me for a ride? Victim of love, victim of love Then I hope you're satisfied Victim of love, victim of love Were you only using me? Victim of love, victim of love What a fool you made of me So now, this was a game You were just playing And now I'm losing you Oh, am I a victim of love, victim of love? Did you take me for a ride? Victim of love, victim of love Then I hope you're satisfied Victim of love, victim of love Were you only using me? Victim of love, victim of love Did you take me for a ride? Victim of love, victim of love Then I hope you're satisfied Victim of love, victim of love Were you only using me? Victim of love, victim of love Did you take me for a ride? Victim of love, victim of love Then I hope you're satisfied -------- 21 At 33 (1980) -------- -------- (1) Chasing The Crown -------- I built a wall in China, I sank an ocean liner I've wrecked homes, I've burned thrones, chasing the crown I've put thorns in your feet, I spread plague in the streets I've sprung traps, confused maps, chasing the crown Chasing the crown 'til he bites the apple I was licking my lips 'til the sun come down I'm chasing the crown, crown, I'm chasing the crown I'm taking a turn in the right direction By leaving his soul in the lost and found I'm chasing the crown, I'm chasing the crown I saw the tea float in Boston, I saw the live wire shock 'em I made them float, I made them drown, chasing them 'round I laid the desert sands, I froze the polar caps Well, they'd dry out, and I'd shout "Hey, I'm chasing the crown" Chasing the crown 'til he bites the apple I was licking my lips when the sun come down I'm chasing the crown, crown, I'm chasing the crown I'm taking a turn in the right direction By leaving his soul in the lost and found I'm chasing the crown, I'm chasing the crown (Hey) (Hey) I'm chasing the crown 'til he bites the apple I was licking my lips 'til the sun come down I'm chasing the crown, crown, I'm chasing the crown I'm taking a turn in the right direction By leaving his soul in the lost and found I'm chasing the crown, I'm chasing the crown I built a wall in China, I sank an ocean liner I've wrecked homes, I've burned thrones, chasing the crown I've put thorns in your feet, I spread plague in the streets I've sprung traps, I've confused maps, chasing the crown I saw the tea float in Boston, I saw the live wire shock 'em Made them float, made them drown, chasing them 'round I built a wall, I built a wall in China I'm chasing the crown -------- 22 At 33 (1980) -------- -------- (1) Little Jeannie -------- Oh, little Jeannie You got so much love, little Jeannie And you take it where it strikes And give it to the likes of me Oh, little Jeannie You got so much love, little Jeannie So I see you when I can You make me all a man can be And I want you to be my acrobat I want you to be my lover Oh, there were others who would treat you cruel And oh, Jeannie, you were always someone's fool Little Jeannie You got so much time, little Jeannie Though you've grown beyond your years You still retain the fears of youth Oh, little Jeannie You got so much time, little Jeannie But you're burnin' it up so fast Searchin' for some lasting truth And I want you to be my acrobat I want you to be my lover Oh, there were others who would treat you cruel But oh, Jeannie, I will always be your fool And I want you to be my acrobat I want you to be my lover Oh, there were others, and I've known quite a few But oh, Jeannie, I'm still in love with you You stepped into my life from a bad dream Makin' the life that I had seem suddenly shiny and new Oh, Jeannie, (Oh, Jeannie) I'm so in love with you You stepped into my life from a bad dream Makin' the life that I had seem suddenly shiny and new Oh, Jeannie, (Oh, Jeannie) I'm so in love with you You stepped into my life from a bad dream Makin' the life that I had seem suddenly shiny and new Oh, Jeannie, (Oh, Jeannie) I'm so in love with you You stepped into my life from a bad dream Makin' the life that I had seem suddenly shiny and new Oh, Jeannie, (Oh, Jeannie) I'm so in love, I'm so in love You stepped into my life from a bad dream Makin' the life that I had seem suddenly shiny and new Oh, Jeannie, (Oh, Jeannie) I'm so in love, I'm so in love -------- 23 At 33 (1980) -------- -------- (1) Sartorial Eloquence -------- You've a certain sartorial eloquence And a style that's almost of your own You've got the knack of being so laid-back It's like talking to the great Unknown You've got a self-sufficient swept-back hairdo Pretty certain that you've got it made Oh your life-style shows in the clothes you chose Sitting pretty in the masquerade Sing it Don't you wanna play this game no more Don't you wanna play no more Don't you wanna play this game no more Don't you wanna play no more You remain the only main contender Though you never, you never meant to lose at all Down at the mouth yet unsurrounded Adamant before the fall Though when you go you know I might be lonesome But I'll keep it under close control Go and get your kicks and babe let's call it quits I believe I'm feeling indisposed Don't you wanna play this game no more When you go you know I might be lonesome But I'll keep it under close control Go and get your kicks and babe let's call it quits I believe I'm feeling indisposed Sing it Don't you wanna play this game no more Don't you wanna play no more Don't you wanna play this game no more Don't you wanna play no more Don't you want to play this game Don't you want to play this game When you go you know I might be lonesome But I'll keep it under close control Go and get your kicks and babe, let's call that quits I believe I'm feeling indisposed, sing it Sing it Don't you wanna play this game no more Don't you wanna play no more Don't you wanna play this game no more Don't you wanna play no more Sing it Don't you wanna play this game no more Don't you wanna play no more Don't you wanna play this game no more Don't you wanna play no more Don't you want to play no more Don't you want to play no more -------- 24 At 33 (1980) -------- -------- (1) Two Rooms At The End Of The World -------- Through a mutual agreement, we got that aching feeling To look up one another one more time Tracking down the zip codes Sealing down those envelopes Lack of communication on the telephone line But don't judge us by distance Or the difference between us Try to look at it with an open mind For where there is one room, you'll always find another Two rooms at the end of the world Well we've both ridden the wagon bit the tail off the dragon Borne our swords like steel knights on the highway Washing down the dirt roads Hosing off our dirty clothes Coming to terms with the times that we couldn't but we tried Where there is one room, you'll always find another Two rooms at the end of the world Door to door they would whisper, will they ever get together Their rooms are different temperatures I'm told There's a change in their thinking And their habits seem uneven But together the two of them were mining gold But where there is one room, you'll always find another Two rooms at the end of the world But where there is one room, you'll always find another Two rooms at the end of the world Two rooms at the end of the world Two rooms at the end of the world Two rooms at the end of the world -------- 25 At 33 (1980) -------- -------- (1) White Lady White Powder -------- Dust settles on a thin cloud Sends a fog drifting to a worn out crowd I've had my face in a mirror for twenty four hours Staring at a line of white powder High-priced madness pays the tab I've scraped too much of nothing from your plastic bag I'm a catatonic son of a bitch who's had A touch too much of white powder And she's a habit I can't handle For a reason I can't say I'm in love with a wild white lady She's as sweet as the stories say White powder, white lady You're one and the same Come on down to my house won't you And hit this boy again White powder (White powder) White lady (White lady) You're one and the same Come on down to my house, won't you? And hit this boy again Shock waves to a tired brain Sends that hungry lady to my door again She's my shelter from the storm when I feel the rain Entertaining white powder I feel I'm dry-docked and tongue-tied Heaven sends a stretcher for the kids to ride I might just escape while the others might die Riding on a high of white powder And she's a habit I can't handle For a reason I can't say I'm in love with a wild white lady She's as sweet as the stories say White powder, white lady You're one and the same Come on down to my house won't you And hit this boy again I feel I'm dry-docked and tongue-tied Heaven sends a stretcher for the kids to ride I might just escape while the others might die Riding on a high of white powder And she's a habit I can't handle For a reason I can't say I'm in love with a wild white lady She's as sweet as the stories say White powder, white lady You're one and the same Come on down to my house won't you And hit this boy again White powder White lady (White lady) Hit this boy again White powder White lady (White lady) Hit this boy again White powder White lady (White lady) Hit this boy again -------- 26 At 33 (1980) -------- -------- (1) Dear God -------- Dear God, are you there Can you hear me, do you care Dear God, here are we Less than perfect, far from free Oh we take what we get and we don't take no more But we sometimes forget what it was you created us for Dear God, now's the time If you're listening, show some sign Dear God, hear me plead Don't desert us in our need Dear God, lend a hand Is this really what you planned Dear God, in you we trust Though we've failed you, don't fail us Oh we take what we get but we can't take much more Do you sometimes forget what it was you created us for, dear God I hope and pray you'll lead us to a brighter day Out of the darkness and light up our way, dear God I hope and pray you'll lead us to a better way Love is the answer so light up our way, dear God Light up our way dear God, dear God Love is the answer so light up our way, dear God -------- 27 At 33 (1980) -------- -------- (1) Never Gonna Fall In Love Again -------- Never meant to be so friendly Never made the room look nice Never heed a word of warning Never take my own advice I got a brand-new problem Pretty and she's 5 foot 10 I been in love three times this week I'm just about to fall again I don't want to fall in love Never gonna fall in love, again I don't want to fall in love Never gonna fall in love I'm never gonna fall in love, again Never meant to be so sexist It's so hard to overcome Trying hard to fight the feeling Lechery can be such fun 'Cause everywhere there's lots of foxes And every cat I meet's a tom I wish she didn't make me rabid I wish she wouldn't turn me on 'Cause everywhere there's lots of foxes And every cat I meet's a tom I wish she didn't make me rabid I wish she wouldn't turn me on I don't want to fall in love Never gonna fall in love, again I don't want to fall in love Never gonna fall in love I'm never gonna fall in love, again 'Cause everywhere there's lots of foxes And every cat I meet's a tom I wish she didn't make me rabid I wish she wouldn't turn me on I don't want to fall in love Never gonna fall in love, again I don't want to fall in love Never gonna fall in love I'm never gonna fall in love, again I don't want to fall in love Never gonna fall in love, again I don't want to fall in love Never gonna fall in love I'm never gonna fall in love, again -------- 28 At 33 (1980) -------- -------- (1) Take Me Back -------- If you want my loving take me back If you miss my touch little girl take me back When the dreams you lean on are beginning to crack Open up your heart little girl and take me back If you want my loving then take me back If you're on your own little girl take me back When the nights grow longer turning blacker than black Open up your heart little girl and take me back Playing a part you're well prepared for, there you stand With all I ever cared for in your hand I'm waiting all the time For some kind of sign from you And I'll go on and on this way Waiting for the day When I will hear you say You'll take me back Playing a part you're well prepared for, there you stand With all I ever cared for in your hand I'm waiting all the time For some kind of sign from you And I'll go on and on this way Waiting for the day When I will hear you say You'll take me back If you want my loving well take me back If you're feeling down little girl Then you'll take me back When you look around you for the love that you lack Open up your heart little girl You got my heart little girl Make a start little girl And say you'll take me back Take me back -------- 29 At 33 (1980) -------- -------- (1) Give Me The Love -------- You've been crying, and I'm crazy about you I've been lying, and hanging you up, because I'm deep on the inside, but flash on the outside I am the thunder, and you are my lightning Give me the love, baby, give me the key to your heart Give me the love, baby, give me the key to your heart Give me the love, give me the key to your heart Months of watching, and hours of hoping That you'd want me, when you see me again For I am an eagle, but my wings are all tied up You got the power to fly me again You've been trying to build walls all around you But you're lying, because I've already been through And I've seen you trying to capture that feeling But you're chasing what you've never believed in Months of watching And hours of hoping That you'd want me When you see me again For I am an eagle But my wings are all tied up You got the power To fly me again So, give me the love, baby Give me the key to your heart Give me the love, baby Give me the key to your heart Give me the love Give me the key to your heart So, give me the love, baby Give me the key to your heart Give me the love, baby Give me the key to your heart Give me the love Give me the key to your heart You've been trying To build walls all around you But you're lying Because I've already been through And I've seen you trying To capture that feeling But you're chasing What you've never believed in So, give me the love, baby Give me the key to your heart Give me the love, baby Give me the key to your heart Give me the love Give me the key to your heart So, give me the love, baby Give me the key to your heart Give me the love, baby Give me the key to your heart Give me the love Give me the key to your heart Tell me you love me Tell me you need me So, give me the love, baby Give me the key to your heart Give me the love, baby Give me the key to your heart Give me the love Give me the key to your heart So, give me the love, baby Give me the key to your heart Give me the love, baby Give me the key to your heart Give me the love Give me the key to your heart -------- The Fox (1981) -------- -------- (1) Breaking Down Barriers -------- I recall how it used to be In my younger days I built a wall all around my heart To keep the pain away I built it tall and I built it wide I left no room for doubt Your love still found its way inside And couldn't get back out I'm breaking down the barriers Making up my mind I'm breaking down the barriers of time I'm taking down the barriers And loving what I find I'm breaking down the barriers that lie Between your love and mine I guess you know you were not the first You may not be the last But you have shown me a better way And now I'm learning fast You gotta go where the feeling flows I take it while it's hot You gotta give if you wanna get And I want all you got -------- The Fox (1981) -------- -------- (2) Heart In The Right Place -------- I've got a good by-line, they all know my name The queen of the sly line, I feed on your fame But I got my heart in the right place, it's all in the game If you're doing fine boy, you got my vote But step out of line boy and I'll go for your throat 'Cause I got my heart in the right place, so give me a quote I'll ask you some questions, I'll tell you some lies You'll open your heart like a friend I'll make up some answers you won't recognise The you I create with my pen But my heart's in the right place now and again My heart's in the right place, know what I mean My heart's in the right place on page seventeen I'll ask you some questions, I'll tell you some lies You don't understand, but you will I'll make up some answers, cut you down to size Then I move in for the kill But my heart's in the right place My heart's in the right place My heart's in the right place, it's part of the skill Heart's in the right place I'm gonna destroy you and your reputation Don't count for nothing with me 'Cause I'm an old bitch you see and my heart's in the right place Don't you agree Heart's in the right place, just wait and see Heart's in the right place, don't you agree -------- The Fox (1981) -------- -------- (3) Just Like Belgium -------- Remember Belgium and the Brussels Museum Where we piled on the front steps like stray cavaliers Our code of living meant little to others The few francs we saved bought some cheap souvenirs But the red lights where the cat fights make it just like Belgium See us face down on the floor of another cheap barroom Streetwalkers sweet talk you out of your spare change And your sweet madame makes it seem just like Belgium Just like a hustler when they look attractive It's nothing more than a slap on the back The price tag of being just a little bit different The first rule to learn is to keep your own distance But the red lights where the cat fights make it just like Belgium See us face down on the floor of another cheap barroom Streetwalkers sweet talk you out of your spare change And your sweet madame makes it seem just like Belgium Just like Belgium But the red lights where the cat fights make it just like Belgium See us face down on the floor of another cheap barroom Streetwalkers sweet talk you out of your spare change And your sweet madame makes it seem just like Belgium Just like Belgium Oh, it's just like Belgium Oh, it's just like Belgium Isn't that just like Belgium Oh, it's just like Belgium Isn't that just like Belgium -------- The Fox (1981) -------- -------- (4) Nobody Wins -------- They must have loved each other once But that was many years ago And by the time I came along Things were already going wrong I felt the pain in their pretense The side they tried hard not to show But through the simple eyes of youth It wasn't hard to see the truth And in the end nobody wins When love begins to fall apart And it's the innocent who pay When broken dreams get in the way The game begins, the game nobody wins They must have loved each other once Before the magic slipped away And as their life became a lie What love remained began to die I used to hide beneath the sheets I prayed that time would find a way But with the passing of the years I watched as laughter turned to tears And in the end nobody wins When love begins to fall apart And it's the innocent who pay When broken dreams get in the way The game begins, the game nobody wins We used to love each other once With all the passion we possessed But people change as time goes by Some feelings grow while others die But if we learn from what we see And face the truth while we still can Then though the passion may be gone Some kind of love can still live on And in the end nobody wins When love begins to fall apart And it's the innocent who pay When broken dreams get in the way The game begins, the game nobody wins Nobody wins, nobody wins La-la-la-la, la-la, la-la And it's the innocent who pay When broken dreams get in the way The game begins, the game nobody wins (Nobody wins) Nobody wins (Nobody wins) Nobody wins (Nobody wins) Nobody wins (Nobody wins) Nobody wins (Nobody wins) Nobody wins -------- The Fox (1981) -------- -------- (5) Fascist Faces -------- I read about how you're slow with the truth Like any old Aesop's Fable But when you're turtlesque, I'm a hare's breath Into payment under the table But some journalist got his mug shot kit And his briefcase on his lap But I'm tired of being linked with the K.G.B And all that political crap 'Cause I've seen your fascist faces On the cover of the national papers Staring out in black and white From the tall gray walls on the other side When I see your fascist faces Then I know I've had enough Trying to trace it or erase it Is it foolproof or a bluff If the boy had been blessed he'd have been arrested On a charge of wearing red shoes But if your pants are blue you got nothing to lose It'll make you a patriot through and through 'Cause I've seen your fascist faces On the cover of the national papers Staring out in black and white From the tall gray walls on the other side When I see your fascist faces Then I know I've had enough Trying to trace it or erase it Is it foolproof or a bluff 'Cause I've seen your fascist faces On the cover of the national papers Staring out in black and white From the tall gray walls on the other side When I see your fascist faces Then I know I've had enough Trying to trace it or erase it Is it foolproof or a bluff When I see your fascist faces -------- The Fox (1981) -------- -------- (6) Chloe -------- How come you're so understanding When I tell you all my lies? And pretending to believe them See through all my alibis And I need you more than ever And I want you 'til the end Chloe How you handle what you live through I can never hope to learn Taking all the pain I give you Loving blindly in return And I need you more than ever I will always be your friend Chloe, Chloe Chloe, what you gonna do about me? Chloe, what you gonna do? What you gonna do about me? You're the lifeline that I cling to When I feel like giving in When the dreams that I rely on Start to wear a little thin Then I need you more than ever And I want you 'til the end, Chloe, mm Chloe Chloe, what you gonna do 'bout me? Chloe, what you gonna do? What you gonna do about me? And I need you more than ever And I want you 'til the end, Chloe, mm Chloe Chloe, what you gonna do 'bout me? Chloe, what you gonna do? What you gonna do 'bout me? What you gonna do 'bout me? -------- The Fox (1981) -------- -------- (7) Heels Of The Wind -------- Just like a broken marriage, when two people just don't care Like when the cupboard is empty or there's no food in the Frigidaire I'm a page from the end of the story No closer to my hope and glory Just a kick away from the heels of the wind How come it gets so disturbing, when two ships pass in the storm Who knows how high the crow flies, who knows where this refugee was born I'm a page from the end of the story No closer to my hope and glory Just a kick away from the heels of the wind And just for the sake of all these reasons Rains wash out the fires within Fires that help to keep you moving Just a kick away from the heels of the wind You don't deserve that treatment, I can't pretend I was that nice I'm no E ticket ride to Disneyland, I'm no cushy first class flight I'm a day behind your restless wings You, you rather have the wealth of kings Me, I'd rather be on the heels of the wind And just for the sake of all these reasons Rains wash out the fires within The fires that help to keep you moving Just a kick away from the heels of the wind Just a kick away from the heels of the wind And just for the sake of all these reasons Rains wash out the fires within Fires that help to keep you moving Just a kick away from the heels of the wind Just a kick away from the heels of the wind Just a kick away from the heels of the wind Just a kick away from the heels of the wind Well mama, just a kick away, just a kick away Just a kick away from the heels of the wind -------- The Fox (1981) -------- -------- (8) Elton's Song -------- Staring all alone And your grace and style Cut me to the bone With your razor blade smile I watched you playing pool It's all around the school that I love you I love your gypsy hair And dark brown eyes Always unprepared For your pointed replies Cynical and lean I lie awake and dream about you If you only knew What I'm going through Time and again I get ashamed To say your name It's hard to grin and bear When you're standing there My lips are dry I catch your eye and look away Sitting in my room I've got it bad Crying for the moon They think I'm mad They say it isn't real But I know what I feel and I love you If you only knew what I'm going through Time and again I get ashamed to say your name It's hard to grin and bear when you're standing there My lips are dry, I catch your eye and look away Sitting in my room, I've got it bad Crying for the moon, they think I'm mad But I would give my life for a single night beside you -------- The Fox (1981) -------- -------- (9) The Fox -------- Being wiry and thinking loudly About the things sent to make you move You can't help it, there's no one in the world Knows you just, just the way you do So we keep darting through the holes As the hunter and the fox Run the gauntlet's savage road Winter's heavy and partly cloudy And the snowfall leaves the tracks that catch a few Bit if you're wiley, you will leave them lying Snared up in the traps that they set for you And it's an evergreen affair As temptation taunts the fox Into the hunter's waiting lair And for mile after mile you'll never see me tire You'll never see me slow down, for a while 'Cause I am the fox, like it or not I'm always gonna be there running over the rock Yes I am the fox, a fascinating cross Of sharp as a whip and tough as an ox Yes I am the fox It may sound crazy but it's often lonely And the restless heart should be captured once in a while Then you can use them, and you often fool them Into believing whatever you desire So I'll keep moving through the night The hunter and the hunted On their designated flights And for mile after mile you'll never see me tire You'll never see me slow down, for a while 'Cause I am the fox, like it or not I'm always gonna be there running over the rock Yes I am the fox, a fascinating cross Of sharp as a whip and tough as an ox Yes I am the fox So we keep darting through the holes As the hunter and the fox Run the gauntlet's savage road So I'll keep moving through the night The hunter and the hunted On their designated flights The designated flights -------- Jump Up! (1982) -------- -------- (1) Dear John -------- I got home today, took a look around Trying to find that girl of mine, she could not be found All her things were gone, she just left a note It don't take no mastermind to figure what she wrote She said, "Dear John, I'm moving on By this time I'm going to be long gone Dear John, c'est la vie, dear John So long, you've seen the last of me" I don't want her back, I won't even try This time isn't just au revoir, this time it's goodbye We could not go on, living like we were I was just about to write a 'Dear John' note to her I was going to say, "Dear John, I'm moving on By this time I'm going to be long gone Dear John, c'est la vie, dear John So long, you've seen the last of me" She said, "Dear John, I'm moving on By this time I'm going to be long gone Dear John, c'est la vie, dear John So long, you've seen the last of me" Dear John, I'm moving on, by this time I'm going to Be long gone, dear John, c'est la vie, dear John, so long Dear John, I'm moving on, by this time I'm going to Be long gone, dear John, c'est la vie, dear John, so long Dear John, I'm moving on, by this time I'm going to Be long gone, dear John, c'est la vie, dear John, so long Dear John, I'm moving on, by this time I'm going to Be long gone, dear John, c'est la vie, dear John, so long -------- Jump Up! (1982) -------- -------- (2) Spiteful Child -------- I don't want to worry you none but I got the hurt on the run I just cut out the poison that was in me so long Watching you tear out my heart only gave me the last laugh Watching you tear out your hair is gonna be the best part Oh I've been shaken down by a spiteful child I've slapped a worried frown on that evil smile I've been taken down by a spiteful child I've turned the tables 'round and it drives you wild Oh you spiteful child You'd better be ready to run, now I've got you under the gun I put my money on vengeance before this race had begun Breaking the spirit in me only added to your conceit Playing you at your own game is going to make it complete Oh I've been shaken down by a spiteful child Turn the tables 'round and it drives you wild Oh you spiteful child I don't want to worry you none but I got the hurt on the run I just cut out the poison that was in me so long Watching you tear out my heart only gave me the last laugh Watching you tear out your hair is gonna be the best part Spiteful -------- Jump Up! (1982) -------- -------- (3) Ball And Chain -------- I got a ball and chain hanging around my heart You were the one to blame for tearing my world apart I got a heart so true, you got a heart of ice A little more love from you, it could have been paradise I got a ball and chain hanging around my heart And if it's all the same maybe we should part And I'm singing do do do I'm singing do do do You had to tie me down inside a cage of doubt I'm sick of being kicked around so this is where I get out I got a ball and chain hanging around my heart And if it's all the same maybe we should part And I'm singing do do do I'm singing do do do Oh oui baby you tried to hold me but you were slowly Driving me insane Oh oui baby I got a ball and chain hanging around my heart You were the one to blame for tearing my world apart I got a heart so true, you got a heart of ice A little more love from you, it could have been paradise I couldn't take your pain, you couldn't take my love So I'm gonna quit this game 'cause baby I've had enough I got a ball and chain hanging around my heart And if it's all the same maybe we should part And I'm singing do do do I'm singing do do do I got a ball and chain hanging around my heart I got a ball and chain hanging around my heart I got a ball and chain hanging around my heart I got a ball and chain hanging around my heart And I'm singing do do do I'm singing do do do -------- Jump Up! (1982) -------- -------- (4) Legal Boys -------- Your accountant called this morning There was springtime in his heart He couldn't wait to tell me How he'd pulled our lives apart And the letter from your lawyer Lies unopened on the tray I may get around to reading it later today Walking 'round the lonely rooms I see everything the same But suddenly it matters What was purchased in my name Whether this or that was paid for Belongs to me or you Can the seven years together be divided by two It says something for the legal boys But nothing much for us That all we had together Is so quickly ended thus The legal boys have won again And you and I have lost They can't tell us how it happened But they'll let us know the cost Oh they'll let us know the cost, oh yeah There's a lot I'd like to tell you But I can't get past your guards I do not speak their language And they hold all the cards I would rather call you darling Than defendant in the case But lovers left here long ago And clients took their place It says something for the legal boys But nothing much for us That all we had together Is so quickly ended thus The legal boys have won again And you and I have lost They can't tell us how it happened But they'll let us know the cost Oh they'll let us know the cost, oh yeah -------- Jump Up! (1982) -------- -------- (5) I Am Your Robot -------- I've been beaming aboard her for a light year From a strange craft She's got a subtle touch on the silver key To a clockwork heart I am your robot, I am your robot I am your robot man I am your robot, I am your robot I am your robot man You went and flipped the switch and turned me positive When I was negative I've been stumbling around like a metal man On the graveyard shift I am your robot, I am your robot I am your robot man I am your robot, I am your robot I am your robot man I am your robot, I am your robot I am your robot man I am your robot, I am your robot I am your robot man I am your robot and I'm programmed to love you My serial number is 44357 I am your robot -------- Jump Up! (1982) -------- -------- (6) Blue Eyes -------- Blue eyes Baby's got blue eyes Like a deep, blue sea On a blue, blue day Blue eyes Baby's got blue eyes When the mornin' comes I'll be far away And I say Blue eyes, holdin' back the tears Holdin' back the pain Baby's got blue eyes And she's alone again Blue eyes Baby's got blue eyes Like a clear, blue sky Watchin' over me Blue eyes Ooh, I love blue eyes When I'm by her side Where I long to be I will see Blue eyes, laughin' in the sun Laughin' in the rain Baby's got blue eyes And I am home, and I am home again Blue eyes, laughin' in the sun Laughin' in the rain Baby's got blue eyes And I am home again -------- Jump Up! (1982) -------- -------- (7) Empty Garden (Hey, Hey Johnny) -------- What happened here as the New York sunset disappeared? I found an empty garden among the flagstones there Who lived here? He must have been a gardener that cared a lot Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop Now it all looks strange It's funny how one insect can damage so much grain And what's it for? This little empty garden by the brownstone door And in the cracks along the sidewalk, nothin' grows no more Who lived here? He must have been a gardener that cared a lot Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop And we are so amazed, we're crippled and we're dazed A gardener like that one, no one can replace And I've been knockin', but no one answers And I've been knockin' most of the day Oh, and I've been callin', "oh, hey, hey, Johnny Can't you come out to play?" And through their tears Some say he farmed his best in younger years But he'd have said that roots grow stronger, if only he could hear Who lived there? He must have been a gardener that cared a lot Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop Now we pray for rain, and with every drop that falls We hear, we hear your name And I've been knockin', but no one answers And I've been knockin' most of the day Oh, and I've been callin', "Oh, hey, hey, Johnny Can't you come out to play?" And I've been knockin', but no one answers And I've been knockin' most of the day Oh, and I've been callin', "Oh, hey, hey, Johnny Can't you come out? Can you come out to play?" Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden? Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden? Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden? Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden? Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden? Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden? -------- Jump Up! (1982) -------- -------- (8) Princess -------- Haven't you heard what's new There is a rumour Going around that suddenly I've found you Better believe it's true I got a feeling This is for real and nobody else will do You are my princess You make me smile You make my life seem worthwhile You are my princess You are the one You make the sun shine on me You're one fine lady You're my princess You're my princess Haven't you heard them say I was a prisoner Buried alive now suddenly I've been freed But love is the sweetest way Oh I was lonely And now you're the only lover that I'll ever need -------- Jump Up! (1982) -------- -------- (9) Where Have All The Good Times Gone? -------- See the changes here on every street As time goes marching to a different beat Moving on into the restless age As the kids today find their feet (Long enough to hold on) Young enough to chase our dreams We were captured by romantic things Touched by love until it made us cry How our hearts could fly without wings Oh won't somebody tell me Tell me where have all the good times gone Say that you remember Remember all those good old Four Tops songs Won't somebody tell me Where have all the good times gone Stolen moments in the smoky room Monday mornings that would come too soon Crazy summers that would never end When the time was spent loving you (Yeah we had a good time) Some things never seem to last Ain't it funny how we missed the past Love has changed but the clock still turns While the flame still burns for you Oh won't somebody tell me Tell me where have all the good times gone Say that you remember Remember all those good old Four Tops songs Won't somebody tell me Where have all the good times gone They've gone away Gone they've gone away Gone they've gone away They've gone away It's hard enough to lose the game And sad to see it played again What makes you happy for a while Is gonna make you smile through the rain Oh won't somebody tell me Tell me where have all the good times gone Say that you remember Remember all those good old Four Tops songs Won't somebody tell me Where have all the good times gone They've gone away Gone they've gone away Gone they've gone away They've gone away Won't you please tell me where have all the good times gone -------- Jump Up! (1982) -------- -------- (10) All Quiet On The Western Front -------- All quiet on the Western Front, nobody saw A youth asleep in the foreign soil, planted by the war Feel the pulse of human blood pouring forth See the stems of Europe bend under force All quiet All quiet All quiet on the Western Front So tired of this garden's grief, nobody cares Old kin kiss the small white cross, their only souvenir See the Prussian offense fly, weren't we grand To place the feel of cold sharp steel in their hands All quiet All quiet All quiet on the Western Front It's gone all quiet on the Western Front, male angels sigh Ghosts float in a flooded trench as Germany dies Fever reaps the flowers of France, fair-haired boys String the harps to Victory's voice, joyous noise All quiet All quiet All quiet on the Western Front All quiet All quiet All quiet on the Western Front -------- Too Low For Zero (1983) -------- -------- (1) Cold As Christmas (In The Middle Of The Year) -------- We still sit at separate tables And we sleep at different times And the warm wind in the palm trees Hasn't helped to change our minds It was the lure of the tropics That I thought might heal the scars Of a love burned out by silence In a marriage minus heart And I call the kids on the telephone Say there's something wrong out here It's July but it's cold as Christmas In the middle of the year The temperature's up to ninety five But there's a winter look in your mother's eyes And to melt the tears there's a heat wave here So how come it's cold as Christmas in the middle of the year I dreamed of love in a better climate And for what it's really worth I put faith in the star we followed To this Caribbean surf But there's an icy fringe on everything And I cannot find the lines Where's the beauty in the beast we made Why the frost in the summertime And I call the kids on the telephone Say there's something wrong out here It's July but it's cold as Christmas In the middle of the year The temperature's up to ninety five But there's a winter look in your mother's eyes And to melt the tears there's a heat wave here So how come it's cold as Christmas in the middle of the year? The temperature's up to ninety five But there's a winter look in your mother's eyes And to melt the tears there's a heat wave here So how come it's cold as Christmas in the middle of the year? (Ooh!) Cold as Christmas in the middle of the year Cold as Christmas in the middle of the year Cold as Christmas in the middle of the year Cold as Christmas in the middle of the year Cold as Christmas! (Cold as Christmas in the middle of the year) Cold as Christmas in the middle of the year -------- Too Low For Zero (1983) -------- -------- (2) I'm Still Standing -------- You could never know what it's like Your blood like winter freezes just like ice And there's a cold lonely light that shines from you You'll wind up like the wreck you hide behind that mask you use And did you think this fool could never win? Well, look at me, I'm a-coming back again I got a taste of love in a simple way And if you need to know while I'm still standing you just fade away Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did? Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid And I'm still standing after all this time Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah Once I never could've hoped to win You're starting down the road leaving me again The threats you made were meant to cut me down And if our love was just a circus you'd be a clown by now You know I'm still standing better than I ever did Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid I'm still standing after all this time Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah Don't you know that I'm still standing better than I ever did? Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid And I'm still standing after all this time Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah -------- Too Low For Zero (1983) -------- -------- (3) Too Low For Zero -------- Six o'clock alarm I get the wake up call Let that sucker jingle-jangle Ring right off the wall I'm too low for zero I'm too tired to work Tied one on with a friend last night And wound up losing my shirt I'm too low for zero I'm on a losing streak I got myself in a bad patch lately I can't seem to get much sleep I'm too low for zero I wind up counting sheep Nothing seems to make much sense It's all just Greek to me You know I'm too low, too low, too low for zero You know I'm too low, too low, too low for zero Cutting out cups of coffee Switching off the late night news Putting the cat out two hours early It isn't any use I'm too low for zero Insomnia attacks Watching flies with my eyes till sunrise It's daylight when I hit the sack I'm too low for zero I'm on a losing streak I got myself in a bad patch lately I can't seem to get much sleep I'm too low for zero I wind up counting sheep Nothing seems to make much sense It's all just Greek to me You know I'm too low, too low, too low for zero You know I'm too low, too low, too low for zero I'm too low for zero I'm on a losing streak I got myself in a bad patch lately I can't seem to get much sleep I'm too low for zero I wind up counting sheep Nothing seems to make much sense It's all just Greek to me You know I'm too low, too low, too low for zero You know I'm too low, too low, too low for zero For zero, for zero, for zero I'm too low for zero I'm too low for zero I'm too low for zero I'm too low for zero I'm too low for zero I'm too low for zero -------- Too Low For Zero (1983) -------- -------- (4) Religion -------- Well he could almost taste the money But he was sitting in a den of thieves Looking for the great awakening Trying to find a way to leave But that's when he got religion And the light went on inside He said somebody up there likes me Now he's working for the holy guide He got drunk but he don't remember That he'd been drinking in a bar downtown When he thought he heard a choir of angels Singing in the Tiki Lounge And that's when he got religion From no salesman on TV Just a tap on the shoulder in the parking lot He still drinks but he does believe Religion Oh, you do the best you can We all make the same mistakes We're gonna wind up with the man Religion, oh you do the best you can We all make the same mistakes We're gonna wind up with the man Well, she was silent as he paid her But the thanks she got was next to none And as her car pulled out of the motel She felt the presence of someone And that's when she got religion In the front of a compact Ford Just a gentle voice on the stereo (stereo) Now she's a working girl who loves the lord Religion Oh, you do the best you can We all make the same mistakes We're gonna wind up with the man Religion Oh, you do the best you can We all make the same mistakes We're gonna wind up with the man And that's when she got religion In the front of a compact Ford Just a gentle voice on the stereo (stereo) Now she's a working girl who loves the lord Religion Oh, you do the best you can We all make the same mistakes We're gonna wind up with the man Religion Mm-hm-hm We all make the same mistakes We're gonna wind up with the man (Ooh) -------- Too Low For Zero (1983) -------- -------- (5) I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues -------- Don't wish it away Don't look at it like it's forever Between you and me I could honestly say That things can only get better And while I'm away Dust out the demons inside And it won't be long before you and me run To the place in our hearts where we hide And I guess that's why they call it the blues Time on my hands could be time spent with you Laughing like children, living like lovers Rolling like thunder under the covers And I guess that's why they call it the blues Just stare into space Picture my face in your hands Live for each second without hesitation And never forget I'm your man Wait on me girl Cry in the night if it helps But more than ever I simply love you More than I love life itself And I guess that's why they call it the blues Time on my hands could be time spent with you Laughing like children, living like lovers Rolling like thunder under the covers And I guess that's why they call it the blues Wait on me girl Cry in the night if it helps But more than ever I simply love you More than I love life itself And I guess that's why they call it the blues Time on my hands could be time spent with you Laughing like children, living like lovers Rolling like thunder under the covers And I guess that's why they call it the blues And I guess that's why they call it the blues Laughing like children, living like lovers And I guess that's why they call it the blues Laughing like children, living like lovers And I guess that's why they call it the blues And I guess that's why they call it the blues -------- Too Low For Zero (1983) -------- -------- (6) Crystal -------- We're caught up in a web, you and I Since Crystal came between us The knots of friendship seem to be untied And it hurts me most to cheat and that's no lie She can swing us both forever In the long run she's the one who must decide And if she leaves me handle her with care Don't hurt little Crystal And if she calls you long distance just be there Oh Crystal The world is your oyster, you're a pearl But he's a jewel and my friend I'm sure that in the end, Crystal you'll be his little girl Oh Crystal You're stronger than me but I'm sure That the fight would fall to no one The cold hard truth is stronger than us all And it breaks my heart to see us go this far We're just captives in our separate cells And without her there's no peace behind these bars And if she leaves me handle her with care Don't hurt little Crystal And if she calls you long distance just be there Oh Crystal The world is your oyster, you're a pearl But he's a jewel and my friend I'm sure that in the end, Crystal you'll be his little girl Oh Crystal Oh Crystal Oh Crystal Oh Crystal Oh Crystal -------- Too Low For Zero (1983) -------- -------- (7) Kiss The Bride -------- Well, she looked a peach in the dress she made When she was still her mama's little girl And when she walked down the aisle, everybody smiled At her innocence and curls And when the preacher said, "Is there anyone here Got a reason why they shouldn't wed?" I shoulda stuck up my hand I shoulda got up to stand And this is what I should have said I wanna kiss the bride, yeah! I wanna kiss the bride, yeah! Long before she met him, she was mine, mine, mine Don't say, "I do", say, "bye, bye, bye" And lemme kiss the bride, yeah! I wanna kiss the bride, yeah! Underneath her veil, I could see a tear Tricklin' down her pretty face And when he slipped on the ring, I knew everything Would never be the same again But if the groom woulda known, he'd have had a fit About his wife and the things we did And what I planned to say Yeah, on her weddin' day Well, I thought it, but I kept it hid I wanna kiss the bride, yeah! I wanna kiss the bride, yeah! Long before she met him, she was mine, mine, mine Don't say, "I do", say, "bye, bye, bye" And lemme kiss the bride, yeah! I wanna kiss the bride, yeah! Oh, I wanna kiss the bride, yeah! I wanna kiss the bride, yeah! Long before she met him, she was mine, mine, mine Don't say, "I do", say, "bye, bye, bye" And lemme kiss the bride, yeah! I wanna kiss the bride, yeah! I wanna kiss the bride, yeah! I wanna kiss the bride, yeah! I wanna kiss the bride, yeah! -------- Too Low For Zero (1983) -------- -------- (8) Whipping Boy -------- You're cruel, you do You do, you do me wrong You hurt me, you flirt with Any old face that comes along But I won't be your whipping boy No I won't be your whipping boy Break me like a little toy Run me till my feet are sore But I won't be your whipping boy You're wild, you're sly What you done to me I was thirty, I look like fifty But I feel like sixty three But I won't be your whipping boy No I won't be your whipping boy Break me like a little toy Run me till my feet are sore But I won't be your whipping boy It's this illegal kind of loving That keeps my motor running From the start to the finish line It's a trashy kind of me that likes to believe That I'm still trying, I'm still trying I'm still trying, yes I'm trying You're dirty, but you're worth it But you're way, you're way too young I could do time if they found out Look out, San Quentin here I come But I won't be your whipping boy No I won't be your whipping boy Break me like a little toy Run me till my feet are sore But I won't be your whipping boy I won't be your whipping boy -------- Too Low For Zero (1983) -------- -------- (9) Saint -------- You don't pass your time in limbo Or hang out with the crowd Sitting on the stoop like a little girl Who took the wrong road into town But you got that short cut way about you And no one's gonna stare you down You cook much better on a lower flame You burn much better when the sun goes down And heaven can wait But you ought to be a saint I got your very best intentions Helping me along And if I ever fail to mention You were an overnight sensation Well take it from me My baby's a saint My baby's a saint I believe you were a new arrival On the fast train passing through And you traded in your luck for survival To sweeten up the witch's brew You had a better way of working magic A little mystery in your eyes Instead of rolling over you remained the same You took the whole world by surprise And heaven can wait But you ought to be a saint I got your very best intentions Helping me along And if I ever fail to mention You were an overnight sensation Well take it from me My baby's a saint My baby's a saint -------- Too Low For Zero (1983) -------- -------- (10) One More Arrow -------- He said I want to grow up And look like Robert Mitchum And I hope that when I'm gone There'll be some say that I miss him He must have been romantic He must have sensed adventure And I feel the steel of his strong will In the frame around his picture And he's one more arrow flying through the air One more arrow landing in a shady spot somewhere Where the days and nights blend into one And he can always feel the sun Through the soft brown earth that holds him Forever always young He could have been a boxer But the fight game seemed so dirty We argued once he knocked me down And he cried when he thought he'd hurt me Strictly from the old school He was quiet about his pain And if one in ten could be that brave I would never hate again And he's one more arrow flying through the air One more arrow landing in a shady spot somewhere Where the days and nights blend into one And he can always feel the sun Through the soft brown earth that holds him Forever always young One more arrow One more arrow One more arrow Forever always young -------- Too Low For Zero (1983) -------- -------- (11) Dreamboat -------- Steamboat waiting by the waterside Sunlight shining on the morning tide Got my ticket in my hand Got some celebrating planned Can't remember when I felt so fine I've been waiting such a long long time Just to hear those engines hum Look out dreamboat here I come And I say dream on dreamboat, let my love light ride Steam on steamboat to the other side All aboard, make it fast Thank the lord, I'm coming home at last If you love me like you did before Be there waiting on the distant shore When my steamboat comes inside Then I know we'll be alright And I say dream on dreamboat, let your love light ride Steam on steamboat to the other side Turn the crank, change the gear Raise the flag and let's get out of here Feels so good to know that soon I'll see You've been saving all your love for me For honey if there's any doubt Just be sure I don't find out And I say dream on dreamboat, let my love light ride Steam on steamboat to the other side Cast the line, check the fuse Save some time, this ain't no pleasure cruise Tell the captain not to take too long Keep that big wheel turning fast and strong Fires are burning down below Come on steamboat don't be slow And I say dream on dreamboat, let my love light ride Steam on steamboat to the other side Wind the springs, set the course Pull some strings before I turn to force Dream on dreamboat, let my love light ride Steam on steamboat to the other side Ring the bell, sound the horn Move like hell, I'm heading back where I was born And I say dream on dreamboat, let my love light ride Steam on steamboat to the other side All aboard and make it fast Thank the lord, I'm coming home at last And I say dream on dreamboat, let your love light ride Steam on steamboat to the other side Turn the crank, change the gear Raise the flag and let's get out of here Dream on dreamboat, let my love light ride Steam on steamboat to the other side Cast the line, check the fuse Save some time, this ain't no pleasure cruise You're my dreamboat, yes you are And I say dream on dreamboat, let my love light ride Steam on steamboat to the other side Ring the bell, sound the horn Move like hell, I'm heading back where I was born You're my dreamboat, yes you are -------- Too Low For Zero (1983) -------- -------- (12) The Retreat -------- They laid beneath the pine trees with their caps over their eyes They were drunk with home and mama as they brushed away the flies In an instant before the sunrise they had gunned the rebels down As their flags were torn at half mast in the ruins of the town There were white sails on the water for the crippled on the beach There was a lack of ammunition so the cause was incomplete When the bugle blew at breakfast and they knew their ships were in Signs of grand assurance were carried on the wind Take it home, take it low, take responsibilities Came the message from the front For the captains, captains quarters must retreat Pack the compass, pack the tents, take the bunks They just chalked it down in history but they kept their uniforms They put their medals on the sideboards and they went back to their farms For it was just a mere reminder that they stood beside the best That God had saved the chosen few and the devil took the rest On the plains above the rock face where the sculptured eagles swoop There's a haunted yell for action among the spectres of his troops It was silent on the coastline as the crazy angels danced With the sound of retreating footfall from his military camp -------- Breaking Hearts (1984) -------- -------- (1) Restless -------- It's a hot summer night in the blackboard jungle Crime sits heavy on the city shoulder Can't get no work, I can't get a job I just sit and play my radio in the parking lot Well they're breaking down doors in foreign countries Everybody thinks somebody's hiding something There's talk on the street and the nation is worried But you can't talk back when you're dead, when you're dead and buried And everybody's restless Everybody's scared Everybody's looking for something that just ain't there Everybody's restless Everybody's scared, they think we're all in danger Everyone's taking cover from someone else's anger The walls have ears, Big Brother's watching They tell us that we're poisoned from everything that we're touching Well we could be children from the way we're acting We feed ourselves lies and then we scream for action We just breed and we lose our nerve And there's bombs going off in every corner of the world And everybody's restless Everybody's scared Everybody's looking for something that just ain't there Everybody's restless -------- Breaking Hearts (1984) -------- -------- (2) Slow Down Georgie (She's Poison) -------- Hey there, Georgie, got a couple of things to say One you're my friend, and two it's hurting me Seeing you act this way But my hands are tied and I can only try to talk you out of a fall 'Cause the reputation of the woman you're dating's About as nasty as the Berlin wall Slow down, Georgie, she's poison Oh, man you've got to watch yourself She's gonna get in your head, she's gonna crawl in your bed You're just a stepping stone for someone else Slow down, Georgie, she's poison She's just another divorcee An undercover lover of a hundred Other little fish in the sea Oh, oh, oh, oh You better cut her loose before she gets her hooks in you If you gave her the world, and it was covered in pearls She'd only ask for the moon She's got you hypnotised, with her big brown eyes And a body that could stop a clock But if you think your face ain't gonna be replaced Georgie, boy you're in for a shock Slow down, Georgie, she's poison Oh, man you've got to watch yourself She's gonna get in your head, she's gonna crawl in your bed You're just a stepping stone for someone else Slow down, Georgie, she's poison She's just another divorcee An undercover lover of a hundred Other little fish in the sea Oh, oh, oh, oh Well it ain't my job to rain on your parade But if the chips were down, you'd do the same for me It's always been that way She's got you paralysed with a pack of lies About honour and the single girl And if you buy that line you must be out of your mind You must be living in another world Slow down, Georgie, she's poison Oh, man you've got to watch yourself She's gonna get in your head, she's gonna crawl in your bed You're just a stepping stone for someone else Slow down, Georgie, she's poison She's just another divorcee An undercover lover of a hundred Other little fish in the sea Oh, oh, oh, oh -------- Breaking Hearts (1984) -------- -------- (3) Who Wears These Shoes? -------- There's a light on in your window There's a shadow on the street Two silhouettes tell me it's over The shadow knows that shadow's me I won't crawl I caused you trouble Well that's the last thing I'll ever do But before I leave your life completely Tell me who wears these shoes, darling Lord knows the days just get longer The nights grow cold with you on my mind And I feel like an old jukebox Playing the same song all the time If these crazy dreams don't kill me It's more than I can take from you Not knowing where or when I'll see you Not knowing darling who wears these shoes My friends all say don't go to pieces I say that's fine but if I lose I want to know who's in my foot steps I want to know who wears these shoes My friends all think I must be crazy I see the facts but if it's true I want to know who's in my footsteps I want to know who wears these shoes, darling Oh, and it's a chilling feeling When I can't see him What do I do When I face the two of you Oh, and it's a chilling feeling When I can't see him What do I do What do I do My friends all say don't go to pieces I say that's fine but if I lose I want to know who's in my foot steps I want to know who wears these shoes My friends all think I must be crazy I see the facts but if it's true I want to know who's in my footsteps I want to know who wears these shoes, darling Darling, come on no I've got nothing to do I want to know I want to know who wears my shoes Come on no I've got nothing to do I want to know I want to know who wears my shoes I got to blue whether it's true I got to blue whether it's true I want to know Nothing to do I want to know I want to know Who wears these shoes I got to blue Whether it's true I got to blue Whether it's true I want to know Nothing to do I want to know I want to know Who wears these shoes I got to blue Whether it's true I got to blue Whether it's true I want to know Nothing to do I want to know I want to know Who wears these shoes I got to blue Whether it's true I got to blue Whether it's true I want to know Nothing to do I want to know I want to know Who wears these shoes I got to blue -------- Breaking Hearts (1984) -------- -------- (4) Breaking Hearts (Ain't What It Used To Be) -------- They used to say that boys are tough as nails In every way he keeps his heart as guarded as a jail Now things have changed, I feel so old Like any girl could drag my heart across the coals I was always there in the thick of things I always had the heart of every woman on a string The danger zone shone from my eyes It seemed like every inch I gained became a mile It's not the night reaching in and touching me It's just that breaking hearts ain't what it used to be It seems that time has killed that cruel streak in me And breaking hearts ain't what it used to be It's not the light shining in and catching me It's just that breaking hearts ain't what it used to be But time has come and cast a spell on me And breaking hearts ain't what it used to be And now I know what lonely means I used to give so little and gain everything The darkest part of every day Is the shadow of another girl as she turns and walks away Can't say I blame them all for being hurt After all I treated each and every one like dirt Who wants a heart that's never home I face the facts and lock myself into a life alone It's not the night reaching in and touching me It's just that breaking hearts ain't what it used to be It seems that time has killed that cruel streak in me And breaking hearts ain't what it used to be It's not the light shining in and catching me It's just that breaking hearts ain't what it used to be But time has come and cast a spell on me And breaking hearts ain't what it used to be -------- Breaking Hearts (1984) -------- -------- (5) Li'L Frigerator -------- She looked so easy 'cause she looked so young With a geisha smile made in Taiwan She got cherry bombs inside her eyes And the luck of the Irish on her side Don't let her tell you that she loves your mind She's got her price, she can turn on a dime Those crocodile tears ain't tears of pain Look a little closer, that's acid rain And I don't know Why little frigerator you're so cold Go little frigerator go Get away from my soul Little frigerator you're so cold She's calculated with the kiss of death Got a digital mind and expensive breath She's an empty shell, you're a piece of meat Just another statistic on her readout sheet And I don't know Why little frigerator you're so cold Go little frigerator go Get away from my soul Little frigerator you're so cold And I don't know Why little frigerator you're so cold Go little frigerator go Get away from my soul Little frigerator you're so cold -------- Breaking Hearts (1984) -------- -------- (6) Passengers -------- Deny the passenger, who want to get on Deny the passenger, who want to get on Deny the passenger, who want to get on Want to get on He want to get on Want to get on He want to get on To make a chain of fools You need a matching pair One hypocritical fool And a crowd that's never there There's anger in the silence There's wheels upon the jail A black train built of bones On a copper rail Deny the passenger, who want to get on Deny the passenger, who want to get on Deny the passenger, who want to get on Want to get on He want to get on Want to get on He want to get on Company conductor You need the salt of tears Falling on a ticket That no one's used in years Non-commercial native It's tattooed in your veins You're living in a blood bank And riding on this train Deny the passenger, who want to get on Deny the passenger, who want to get on Deny the passenger, who want to get on Want to get on He want to get on Want to get on He want to get on The spirit's free, but you always find Passengers stand and wait in line Someone in front and someone else behind But passengers always wait in line -------- Breaking Hearts (1984) -------- -------- (7) In Neon -------- Lipstick and lashes, the traces of stardom Lit up on a billboard so everyone sees them in neon Behind the counter she stares out the window Up at the billboard that's like a reminder in neon She hates how she feels but she hangs like a mirror Maybe a stranger could walk in and see her in neon For two cents of danger she'd trust anybody She'd smoke like a gun if it meant she might wind up In neon the dreams in the light of a promise that dies A shimmering city, a glimmer of hope and a lie In neon the name's gone there's no reason why anymore Trust them and wind up alone behind a locked door In neon, in neon Pictures and patterns, the touches of glamour Cut into a fashion that flashes above them in neon A hot cup of coffee held in her fingers A perfect complexion that lingers above her in neon In neon She hates how she feels but she hangs like a mirror Maybe a stranger could walk in and see her in neon For two cents of danger she'd trust anybody She'd smoke like a gun if it meant she might wind up In neon, in neon -------- Breaking Hearts (1984) -------- -------- (8) Burning Buildings -------- It used to be a sweet sensation No price too high for love Now I pay for this bitter taste And the price is not enough Such cruel sport for your kicks Such hard knocks on my heart How long before the pain ends Tell me where living starts And lovers leap off burning buildings Waking up on a sky high wire Desperation leaves us clinging On the edge of a house on fire Lovers leap off burning buildings Live our life on borrowed time Every flame that ever moved you Touched your lips but never mine Lovers leap off burning buildings No room for conversation Cold stares and angry words Fall in pieces from our faces We read "do not disturb" Some lovers just go hungry Others beg for just a bite You use me under pressure To whet your appetite And lovers leap off burning buildings Waking up on a sky high wire Desperation leaves us clinging On the edge of a house on fire Lovers leap off burning buildings Live our life on borrowed time Every flame that ever moved you Touched your lips but never mine Lovers leap off burning buildings And lovers leap off burning buildings Waking up on a sky high wire Desperation leaves us clinging On the edge of a house on fire Lovers leap off burning buildings Live our life on borrowed time Every flame that ever moved you Touched your lips but never mine Lovers leap off burning buildings -------- Breaking Hearts (1984) -------- -------- (9) Did He Shoot Her? -------- Sling your hook in with him baby He's a real sharp-shooter now If he's out there hiding in the tall grass Tell him I said he was a coward This ain't any old western honey It's the twentieth century now But if he thinks he's some kind of tough cowboy And he's hurt her then I want to know how Did he shoot her with his compromise Like a heart attack he can paralyse Or did he hang her in a noose On the telephone line Did he shoot her with a 45 Did he leave his mark right between her eyes Oh did he shoot that girl That used to be mine Tell him I'm ready any time he chooses The pay-off for the things, for the things he's done He ain't messing with no two-bit bandit Armed with a couple of guns If he wants to see it as a two reel movie He's living in the head of someone else But better take him down and dust him honey I want to hear the truth for myself Did he shoot her with his compromise Like a heart attack he can paralyse Or did he hang her in a noose On the telephone line Did he shoot her with a 45 Did he leave his mark right between her eyes Oh did he shoot that girl That used to be mine Did he shoot her Did he shoot her -------- Breaking Hearts (1984) -------- -------- (10) Sad Songs (Say So Much) -------- Guess there are times when we all need to share a little pain And ironin' out the rough spots Is the hardest part when memories remain And it's times like these when we all need to hear the radio 'Cause from the lips of some old singer We can share the troubles we already know Turn 'em on, turn 'em on Turn on those sad songs When all hope is gone (ah...) Why don't you tune in and turn them on? They reach into your room, oh Just feel their gentle touch (gentle touch) When all hope is gone (ooh) Sad songs say so much If someone else is sufferin' enough, oh, to write it down When every single word makes sense Then it's easier to have those songs around The kick inside is in the line that finally gets to you And it feels so good to hurt so bad And suffer just enough to sing the blues So turn 'em on, turn 'em on Turn on those sad songs When all hope is gone (ah...) Why don't you tune in and turn them on? They reach into your room, oh Just feel their gentle touch (gentle touch) When all hope is gone (ooh...) You know sad songs say so much Sad songs, they say Sad songs, they say Sad songs, they say (ah...) Sad songs, they say so much So turn 'em on (turn 'em on), oh, turn 'em on (turn 'em on) Turn on those sad songs (sad songs) When all hope is gone (ah...) Why don't you tune in and turn them on? They reach into your room, oh Just feel their gentle touch (gentle touch) When all hope is gone (ooh...) You know sad songs say so much When all hope is gone You know sad songs say so much (ooh, la, la-la, ooh, la, la-la) When every little bit of hope is gone Sad songs say so much (ooh, la, la-la, ooh, la, la-la) When every little bit of hope is gone Sad songs say so much (ooh, la, la-la, ooh, la, la-la) When all hope is gone Sad songs say so much (ooh, la, la-la, ooh, la, la-la) When every little bit of hope is gone Sad songs say so much (ooh, la, la-la, ooh, la, la-la) When everything you do is goin' wrong Sad songs say so much (ooh, la, la-la, ooh, la, la-la) -------- Ice On Fire (1985) -------- -------- (1) This Town -------- It's closing time the boys are all together at the bar Staring in their glasses Looks like another layoff at the yard Yesterday I heard union hall come down They hit it with a wrecking ball And they try but nothing changes in this town Cap in hand stood in line Your family ties are the chains that bind The endless wheel goes 'round and 'round Chances are you'll never leave this town Oh oh no Like a river now the empty streets are flooded out with rain It's falling on the playground While the kids get wet playing the same old games Locked away so many things remind them of war They tap the pavement with their canes The good old days ain't so good no more Cap in hand stood in line Your family ties are the chains that bind The endless wheel goes 'round and 'round Chances are you'll never leave this town Oh oh no Cap in hand stood in line Your family ties are the chains that bind The endless wheel goes 'round and 'round Chances are you'll never leave this town Oh oh no Cap in hand stood in line Your family ties are the chains that bind The endless wheel goes 'round and 'round Chances are you'll never leave this town Oh oh no Cap in hand stood in line Your family ties are the chains that bind The endless wheel goes 'round and 'round Chances are you'll never leave this town Oh oh no -------- Ice On Fire (1985) -------- -------- (2) Cry To Heaven -------- I found a black beret on the street today It was lying in the gutter all torn There's a white flag flying on a tall building But the kids just watch the storm Their dirty faces pressed on the windows Shattered glass before their eyes There's a mad dog barking in a burned out subway Where the sniper sleeps at night No birthday songs to sing again Just bricks and stones to give them Wrap them up in your father's flags And let them cry to heaven No birthday songs to sing again Just bricks and stones to give them Wrap them up in your father's flags And let them cry to heaven There are many graves by a cold lake As the beds were when your babies are born And your rag doll sits with a permanent grin But the kids just watch the storm I saw a black cat tease a white mouse Until he killed it with his claws Seems a lot of countries do the same thing Before they go to war No birthday songs to sing again Just bricks and stones to give them Wrap them up in your father's flags And let them cry to heaven No birthday songs to sing again Just bricks and stones to give them Wrap them up in your father's flags And let them cry to heaven Let them cry to Heaven Let them cry to Heaven Let them cry to Heaven -------- Ice On Fire (1985) -------- -------- (3) Soul Glove -------- You say today was not so easy Pressure tends to get the best of you Well don't let them break your spirit Keep the faith and you will come on through And I'll head home for the weekend You're tired and you know I'll understand Just be waiting on the front steps baby when I get there And take a giant step into my hands And slip into my soul glove Pull it on we got a tight fit Never take it off And baby if the seam's rough And honey if the skin's soft You and me we go together Oh like a soul glove Look at me don't you believe me Cheating hangs a noose around your neck To shave in someone else's mirror Is one desire I haven't dreamed of yet But I'll head home for the weekend You're tired and you know I'll understand Just be waiting on the front steps baby when I get there And take a giant step into my hands And slip into my soul glove Pull it on we got a tight fit Never take it off And baby if the seam's rough And honey if the skin's soft You and me we go together Oh like a soul glove And slip into my soul glove Pull it on we got a tight fit Never take it off And baby if the seam's rough And honey if the skin's soft You and me we go together Oh like a soul glove -------- Ice On Fire (1985) -------- -------- (4) Nikita -------- Hey Nikita, is it cold In your little corner of the world? You could roll around the globe And never find a warmer soul to know Oh, I saw you by the wall Ten of your tin soldiers in a row With eyes that looked like ice on fire The human heart, a captive in the snow Oh, Nikita, you will never know Anythin' about my home I'll never know how good it feels to hold you Nikita, I need you so Oh, Nikita, is the other side Of any given line in time Countin' ten tin soldiers in a row Oh no, Nikita, you'll never know Do you ever dream of me? And do you ever see the letters that I write? When you look up through the wire Nikita, do you count the stars at night? And if there comes a time Guns and gates no longer hold you in And if you're free to make a choice Just look towards the west and find a friend Oh, Nikita, you will never know Anythin' about my home I'll never know how good it feels to hold you Nikita, I need you so Oh, Nikita, is the other side Of any given line in time Countin' ten tin soldiers in a row Oh no, Nikita, you'll never know Oh, Nikita, you will never know Never know anythin' about my home I'll never know how good it feels to hold you Nikita, I need you so Oh, Nikita, is the other side Of any given line in time Countin' ten tin soldiers in a row Oh no, Nikita, you'll never know (Nikita) Countin' ten tin soldiers in a row (Nikita) Countin' ten tin soldiers in a row (Nikita) Countin' ten tin soldiers in a row -------- Ice On Fire (1985) -------- -------- (5) Too Young -------- Your mother's eyes look straight through me Whenever we meet Your father swears it'll never be As long as he breathes And how many times have they told you That you're too young How, how I've ached to hold you But you're too young If we don't buy what's right or wrong Then we are sinners We were never two to tag along But we were always winners And how many people have told you That you're too young And how many jealous hands would love to hold you 'Cause you're too young Well, you're too young to love me And I'm too old for you At least that's what they tell us It's in their book of rules That you're too young, too young, baby You're too young We could try it for a while But they'd get us in the long run They say that you're too young Baby, you're too young Baby Your mother's eyes look straight through me Whenever we meet Oh, whenever we meet Your father swears it'll never be Never be As long as he breathes And how many times have they told you That you're too young How, how I've ached to hold you But you're too young Well, you're too young to love me And I'm too old for you At least that's what they tell us You know that it's in their book of rules That you're too young, too young, baby You're too young Oh, we could try it for a while But they'd get us in the end They say that you're too young, baby, you're too young Oh, they would get us in the end 'Cause they say that you're too young, baby, you're too young Baby, baby, oh, you're too you 'Cause they say that you're too young, baby, you're too young Baby, baby, oh, you're too you They say that you're too young, baby, you're too young Baby, baby, oh, you're too you They say that you're too young, baby, you're too young -------- Ice On Fire (1985) -------- -------- (6) Wrap Her Up -------- There are ladies, illegal X's Mona Lisa's, well connected They may be shady, English roses Blue blooded, turned up noses Money talks, see what it catches Postage paid, no strings attached She's a honey, she's a tramp Roaring twenties, molls and vamps Wrap her up, I'll take her home with me Wrap her up, she is all I need Wrap her up, I only get one chance Beasts and beauties, but they all can dance Wrap her up, I'll take her home with me Wrap her up, she is all I need Wrap her up Give her to me, wrap her up Is she foreign, legs eleven Italian girls, take me to heaven You pretty babies, from Paris, France Crazy horses, love to dance Wrap her up, I'll take her home with me Wrap her up, she is all I need Wrap her up, I only get one chance Beasts and beauties, but they all can dance Wrap her up, I'll take her home with me Wrap her up, she is all I need Wrap her up Give her to me, wrap her up Wrap her up, I'll take her home with me Wrap her up, she is all I need Wrap her up, I only get one chance Beasts and beauties, but they all can dance Wrap her up, I'll take her home with me Wrap her up, she is all I need Wrap her up Give her to me, wrap her up Marlene Dietrich Marilyn Monroe Brigitte Bardot Doris Day Billie Jean Samantha Fox Joan Collins Kiki Dee Katharine Hepburn Vivian Leigh Grace Jones Priscilla Presley Vanessa Williams Doris Franfeld Nancy Reagan Rita Hayworth Petula Clark Julie Andrews Superwoman Annie Lennox Mata Hari CCC Shirley Temple Tallulah Bankhead Linda Lovelace Little Eva Natassia Kinski Princess Caroline of Monaco Miss Pat Verness Elsie Tanner Wrap her up Wrap her up Wrap her up -------- Ice On Fire (1985) -------- -------- (7) Satellite -------- Well you come on like a comet, ideas in your head Starving for affection, waiting to be fed Crazy like a full moon, eyes open wide Taking in everything you need to stay alive Who leads who, who knows where If you leave me now will I see you again I'm telling you love bites Like a satellite Going round and round It's something, something you can't fight Oh in the daylight And even in the dark night I want you to surround me Surround me like a satellite Oh you move like a shadow of your own design Do you want to trap me in between the lines I don't walk on water if you think I can If you want a miracle call up a Superman Who leads who, who knows where If you leave me now will I see you again I'm telling you love bites Like a satellite Going round and round It's something, something you can't fight Oh in the daylight And even in the dark night I want you to surround me Surround me like a satellite Are we there Is this love Is this a space race That we're both part of I'm telling you love bites Like a satellite Going round and round It's something, something you can't fight Oh in the daylight And even in the dark night I want you to surround me Surround me like a satellite -------- Ice On Fire (1985) -------- -------- (8) Tell Me What The Papers Say -------- I spy headlines, newsprint tells lies Tell me what the papers say Save lives don't drive, everybody's got to die someday At least that's what the papers say Coal mines closed down Nobody's working underground today More jails, peace for sale Japanese still killing whales Teen dreams On two inch screens Lipstick boys all look like queens Least that's what the papers say I spy headlines, newsprint tells lies Tell me what the papers say Save lives don't drive, everybody's got to die someday Least that's what the papers say Dope and pills, guns kill Death just buys cheap thrills Coal mines, closed down Nobody's working underground today Teen dreams, on two inch screens Lipstick boys all look like queens Least that's what the papers say Dope and pills, guns kill Death just buys cheap thrills Coal mines, closed down Nobody's working underground today Teen dreams, on two inch screens Lipstick boys all look like queens Least that's what the papers say -------- Ice On Fire (1985) -------- -------- (9) Candy By The Pound -------- Well I'm keeping off the streets since you came to town Since you claimed my heart from the lost and found I have said goodbye to my fooling around Now you and me babe we got candy by the pound You and me babe we got candy by the pound Well I never knew it could feel so good Be the king of the hill in my neighbourhood Rain on my roof what a sweet sound Oh with you underneath it's like candy by the pound With you underneath it's like candy by the pound You can tell everybody that this girl of mine Is sweeter than the grapes hanging from the vine Love like wine honey drinking till I drown Keep it coming baby like candy by the pound Oh no what's come over me If I am dreaming then let me sleep Oh wow I'm heaven bound Love is getting sweeter than candy by the pound Now I'm ducking in the alley of common sense Hiding from the claws of my old girlfriend She's screaming murder beating my door down While I'm right behind it I'm eating candy by the pound I'm right behind it eating I'm candy by the pound You can tell everybody that this girl of mine Is sweeter than the grapes hanging from the vine Love like wine honey drinking till I drown Keep it coming baby like candy by the pound Oh no what's come over me If I am dreaming then let me sleep Oh good God, I'm heaven bound Love is getting sweeter than candy by the pound Love is getting sweeter than candy by the pound Your love is sweeter, it's so much sweeter It's sweeter than candy by the pound Your love is sweeter, it's so much sweeter It's sweeter than candy by the pound Love is so much sweeter, baby Love is so much sweeter, baby Love is so much sweeter, baby Sweeter baby Love is so much sweeter, baby Sweeter than candy by the pound Sweeter than candy by the pound Sweeter than candy by the pound Sweeter than candy by the pound Sweeter than candy by the pound -------- Ice On Fire (1985) -------- -------- (10) Shoot Down The Moon -------- Oh no I don't want it You can take it all I'll put my money where my mouth is Put your suitcase in the hall Oh you robbed me blind Of what little hope remained You put a gun to my head A bullet through my brain You can't shoot down the moon Some things never change We can build a bridge between us But the empty space remains You can't shoot down the moon Some things never change We can build a bridge between us But the empty space remains Just as long as you're around We live on borrowed time I'll put my money where my mouth is You're guilty at the scene of the crime I never say more than I need The mystery runs deep The dangers buried below The secrets that you keep You can't shoot down the moon Some things never change We can build a bridge between us But the empty space remains You can't shoot down the moon Some things never change We can build a bridge between us But the empty space remains You can't shoot down the moon Oh, some things never change We can build a bridge between us But the empty space remains You can't shoot down the moon Some things never change We can build a bridge between us But the empty space remains You can't shoot down the moon -------- Ice On Fire (1985) -------- -------- (11) Act Of War -------- This ain't no battle honey, this ain't no fight How come you take it so hard when I stay out all night If I take a drink, is that against the law And if I have a good time, do you call that an act of war Well you better believe it boy, this house is your home I didn't build it up for you to live here on my own And if you think it's easy to forget about me You'd better think twice, you'd better believe it's an act of war We're living on the front line you and me Fighting on this battleground of misery Oh go ahead bring on your artillery And we'll make this an act of war Give it all you've got 'cause I'm all dug in Keep the punches coming I can take them on the chin Winner takes all, let the best man win And we call it an act of war Well I'm a man of convenience I work a long hard day After twelve long hours ain't I got the right to play If living together is getting in the way Then I call that an act of war Well if that's your game then honey two can play I'm going on the town tonight and have some fun my way Ain't no way baby this girl's gonna stay I call it, I call it an act of war We're living on the front line you and me Fighting on this battleground of misery Oh go ahead bring on your artillery And we'll make this an act of war Give it all you've got 'cause I'm all dug in Keep the punches coming I can take them on the chin Winner takes all, let the best man win And we call it an act of war Well I'm a man of convenience I work a long hard day After twelve long hours ain't I got the right to play If living together is getting in the way Then I call that an act of war And it looks like time ain't been on our side If we could turn the clock back We might survive this act of war We're living on the front line you and me Fighting on this battleground of misery Oh go ahead bring on your artillery And we'll make this an act of war Give it all you've got 'cause I'm all dug in Keep the punches coming I can take them on the chin Winner takes all, let the best man win And we call it an act of war Well I'm a man of convenience I work a long hard day After twelve long hours ain't I got the right to play If living together is getting in the way Then I call that an act of war It's an act of war An act of war An act of war It's an act of war Call it an act of war Act of war Call it an act of war Call it an act of war It's an act of war Get your girlfriend Get your husband I call it an act of war An act of war, yeah -------- Leather Jackets (1986) -------- -------- (1) Leather Jackets -------- Do you pray to someone new When you're locked up in the rock Is the golden age dead and gone Are the hands stuck on the clock Can you talk to Buddy's bones When you spin a forty five The king ain't dead, he's just asleep Somewhere in the after life And look at them boys in leather jackets Second skin, not fade away Danger girls love leather jackets Play back to back, and that'll be the day Leather jackets, that'll be the day We all need to smell the heat You know that things go better with chrome Is Memphis real or just a song Three thousand miles from home Be a cool jerk, don't work When fashion makes you change Keep the faith, don't waste Another nickel on another name And idolise twisted cars Like taxi cabs and spiders Eternity's just down the road They're looking for more riders -------- Leather Jackets (1986) -------- -------- (2) Hoop Of Fire -------- You say that all you want are the simple things Long walks on lonely beaches, guitars with nylon strings But underneath you'd rather leap through a hoop of fire You shy away from lips that want, that want to kiss you Tongue-tied on formal evenings, wealth don't impress you But if you ask me you like the heat in a hoop of fire And it's hard to read just how you feel or what your dreams desire Your pulse that races when I'm close reads like a hoop of fire Your pulse that races when I'm close reads like a hoop of fire No late nights making love in secret places You feel pressure all around you, mistrust in strangers faces But don't pretend you wouldn't spend some time in a hoop of fire And it's hard to read just how you feel or what your dreams desire Your pulse that races when I'm close reads like a hoop of fire Your pulse that races when I'm close reads like a hoop of fire And it's hard to read just how you feel or what your dreams desire Your pulse that races when I'm close reads like a hoop of fire Your pulse that races when I'm close reads like a hoop of fire But don't pretend you wouldn't spend some time in a hoop of fire -------- Leather Jackets (1986) -------- -------- (3) Don't Trust That Woman -------- She's a real ball-buster, don't trust her She's in a most peculiar phase You can rear end her oh it'll send her She wants you, she'll have you her own way Don't untie her, don't defy her 'Cause she'll bring you down to your knees You can beat her but don't mistreat her Oh don't believe that woman please Don't trust that woman Don't trust that woman boys 'Cause she'll burn you Turn you into little toys Don't trust that woman Don't trust that woman boys 'Cause she'll hurt you And turn you into little toys Don't trust that woman boys She's a man-eater, oh don't you cheat her She'll cut you just to watch you bleed A woman half crazy, oh then again lazy With an appetite to feed She's a liar oh you can't buy her 'Cause she'll bring you down to your knees Don't untie her, don't defy her Oh don't believe that woman please Mean sister, tongue-twister She takes it easy but she makes it hard Soul sister, two-fister She takes it easy but she makes it hard -------- Leather Jackets (1986) -------- -------- (4) Go It Alone -------- It's so hard to say goodbye When there's nothing left to give When this house is just a hill of bones Where you and I once lived If we put it back together By the skin of our teeth You'd still pull it all apart Bit by bit, piece by piece And I'll go it alone Call this house my home Build it up again with someone new Build it brick by brick Till I find a girl that fits This home's a whole lot better without you There's no passion alive When you count your phony schemes And the cars you drive to buy your friends They don't ever come back clean If the cards on the table Always turn up spades The cards that always cheat the hearts The spades you play just dug my grave -------- Leather Jackets (1986) -------- -------- (5) Gypsy Heart -------- You win again, you gypsy heart I count the days that we're apart I sleep alone when you're away No sense in saying I wish you'd stay It's all the same, you never change You come and go just like the rain I pray each day that you are gone This time it won't be so long Your gypsy heart will never find Any arms as warm as mine And gypsy when we meet again I'll play my part And wrap you up inside my arms Oh you gypsy heart Your gypsy heart can always call When your back's against the wall And darling then I'll just pretend Right from the start You never left me on my own oh you gypsy heart I pray each day that you are gone This time oh it won't be so long -------- Leather Jackets (1986) -------- -------- (6) Slow Rivers -------- The weather man he looks confused Shakes his fist at the sky like you used to do But you don't remember things like that do you The balance was uneven but I'm breaking through Slow rivers run cold Shallow waters never sank so low I thought I'd drown and you'd never know You're a slow river and you run so cold The winter here don't believe in God The bitter wind just bites through me like a wild dog I still see your eyes tonight like headlights through the fog But one foot in your door oh that's all I ever got Chances are you'll reappear Swim my way in a flood of tears No place to hide your conscience so You're a sinking ship with no place to go -------- Leather Jackets (1986) -------- -------- (7) Heartache All Over The World -------- Well I'm running away From this house on the hill There's a devil inside Sitting on the windowsill And it's a wild Friday night And I'm all on my own I knocked on every door in town There ain't one little girl that's home And everybody's got a date And the ones that ain't are tired What the hell do you do on a weekend, honey When your heart's on fire And you can go from Tokyo to Rome Looking for a girl But it looks to me like the weekend means Heartache all over the world Girls, girls, girls Have pity on me Oh, it looks to me like the weekend means Heartache, heartache all over the world He's got lipstick on his collar She's got fishnets on her legs I'm at home and I've got nothing Just a cold and aching head There must be something dirty Just blame it on the magazines Don't read that trash, it'll drive you crazy 'Cause the cops invade your dreams And everybody's got a date And the ones that ain't are tired What the hell do you do on a weekend, honey When your heart's on fire And you can go from Tokyo to Rome Looking for a girl But it looks to me like the weekend means Heartache all over the world Girls, girls, girls Have pity on me Oh, it looks to me like the weekend means There's heartache, heartache all over the world (Girls, girls, girls) (Tokyo to Rome) Oh, oh And you can go from Tokyo to Rome Looking for a girl But it seems to me like the weekend means Heartache all over the world Girls, girls, girls Have pity on me Oh, it seems to me like the weekend means Heartache, heartache all over the (Girls, girls, girls) (Heartache, heartache, heartache all over the world) (Girls, girls, girls) (Heartache, heartache, heartache all over the world) (Girls, girls, girls) (Heartache, heartache, heartache all over the world) (Girls, girls, girls) (Heartache, heartache, heartache all over the world) (Girls, girls, girls) (Heartache, heartache, heartache all over the world) (Girls, girls, girls) (Heartache, heartache, heartache all over the world) -------- Leather Jackets (1986) -------- -------- (8) Angeline -------- Well I'm work shy, I'm wild-eyed So shut that door when the baby cries And keep me well fed, give me warm bread Lay my body on a feather bed And spoil me, Angeline Get to work when the whistle screams, Angeline Maybe someday, some way Somewhere in the future there's more pay Give me more cash, bring me sour mash Peel me a grape and fetch my stash And bite me, Angeline Let me use you like a sex machine, Angeline You've got to swing that hammer, punch that card Angeline, I love you when you work so hard Swing that hammer (that hammer) and sew my jeans Angeline just loves it when I treat her mean (Ooooo-ooooooo Oooo) Angeline (Oooo) Well I talk tough, I act rough Lay still honey I can't get enough And keep your nose clean, let me be On your knees when you speak to me And trust me Angeline And talk real dirty, and I'll make you scream, Angeline You've got to swing that (that) hammer (hammer) and punch that card Angeline, I love you when you work so hard Swing that hammer (that hammer) and sew my jeans Angeline just loves it when I treat her mean (Ooooo-ooooooo Oooo) You've got to swing that hammer, punch that card Angeline, I love you when you work so hard Swing that hammer (that hammer) and sew my jeans Angeline just loves it when I treat her mean (Ooooo-ooooooo Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oooo Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh) Angeline just loves it when I treat her mean (Ooooo-ooooooo) Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh (Angeline) Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh (Angeline) Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh (Treat her mean) Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh (Angeline) Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh (Treat her mean) Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh (Angeline) Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh (Treat her mean) Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh -------- Leather Jackets (1986) -------- -------- (9) Memory Of Love -------- Here am I, standing by To see if you still love me Why conceal, you still feel The need to push and shove me Take love for better, take love for worse But never ever take love for granted Make love and promise it will always be More than just a memory of Love will grow, it comes and goes Emotions can deceive you Well this I vow, here and now My love will never never never leave you Take love for better, take love for worse But never ever take love for granted Make love and promise it will always be Ours for all eternity Make love and promise it will always be More than just a memory of Promise it will always be More than just a memory of love -------- Leather Jackets (1986) -------- -------- (10) Paris -------- Nobody left in the airport lounge They cleaned the ashtrays TV's just wound down I've got to wait till morning I've got to last the night I've only got one book To see me through my flight But when I get to Paris We'll paint all our portraits In brush-strokes of yellow And christen the canvas The left bank is crying For colour to crown it Like the roof of a palace We'll drink in the amber When I get to Paris You were the best of Montmartre Street life You signed the tablecloth Art has its price It's so hard to hold on To the ghost of your breed It takes ambition To call the colours you need I've got to wait till morning I've got to last the night I've only got one book To see me through the flight -------- Leather Jackets (1986) -------- -------- (11) I Fall Apart -------- Without you I no longer swim upstream Where are you when I try to fill the spaces in between The red letter days and all the pain And while I remain shipwrecked everything has changed And I fall apart With this threat of indecision Hanging in my heart This house can get so lonely When the day grows dark And it seems to be the night time When I fall apart Can't you tell the shadows no longer comfort me I don't feel the need to cling to anyone I see This fool's suffered gladly each and every day I don't wish to reconsider, I wish they'd stay away I've no care to count the stares that pity me I'll wash your hurt away just you wait and see For every rose you give her I'll give her three But in the meantime I'll just wish that she was me -------- Reg Strikes Back (1988) -------- -------- (1) Town Of Plenty -------- I'll say it again this is not my city I don't belong looking for a town of plenty There weren't these thieves We had some thing in common Goals to achieve We had some thing in common In a town of plenty Can't you see it, this is not my writing I only asked if this was a town of plenty There were many archives We had no media Only art survived there Yeah we had no media In a town of plenty And laid across the airstrip Were the passports and the luggage All that once remained Of a rugged individual And laid across the airstrip Were the passports and the luggage I came looking for a town of plenty I'll say it again, this is not my city I only asked if this was a town of plenty There were many archives We had no media Only art survived there Yeah we had no media In a town of plenty And laid across the airstrip Were the passports and the luggage All that once remained Of a rugged individual And laid across the airstrip Were the passports and the luggage I came looking for a town of plenty -------- Reg Strikes Back (1988) -------- -------- (2) A Word In Spanish -------- I don't know why I just know I do I just can't explain In this language that I use Something leaves me speechless Each time that you approach Each time you glide right through me As if I was a ghost If I only could tell you If you only would listen I've got a line or two to use on you I've got a romance we could christen And there's a word in Spanish I don't understand But I heard it in a film one time spoken by the leading man He said it with devotion, he sounded so sincere And the words he spoke in Spanish brought the female lead to tears A word in Spanish, a word in Spanish If you can't comprehend Read it in my eyes If you don't understand it's love In a thin disguise And what it takes to move you Each time that you resist Is more than just a pretty face To prove that I exist If I only could tell you If you only would listen I've got a line or two to use on you I've got a romance we could christen And there's a word in Spanish I don't understand But I heard it in a film one time spoken by the leading man He said it with devotion, he sounded so sincere And the words he spoke in Spanish brought the female lead to tears A word in Spanish, a word in Spanish When manners make no difference And my gifts all lay undone I trade my accent in on chance And fall back on a foreign tongue And there's a word in Spanish I don't understand But I heard it in a film one time spoken by the leading man He said it with devotion, he sounded so sincere And the words he spoke in Spanish brought the female lead to tears A word in Spanish, a word in Spanish And there's a word in Spanish I don't understand But I heard it in a film one time spoken by the leading man He said it with devotion, he sounded so sincere And the words he spoke in Spanish brought the female lead to tears A word in Spanish, a word in Spanish -------- Reg Strikes Back (1988) -------- -------- (3) Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters Part Two -------- I used to think that New York City Fell from grace with God And innocence abroad Waged a war for the underdog When the snow falls And Central Park looks like a Christmas card I just looked beyond the bagman And the madness that makes this city hard I heard a basketball Somewhere out beyond a chain link fence Inner city prisoners Argue for the right of self-defense But there's a fast break And every work of art wakes something in the soul Just focus on the brush strokes And the bouquets that the dancers hold Spanish Harlem still sounds good to me Yeah Mona Lisa's getting older Standing in the shadow of Miss Liberty While I walk along the west side Down through Little Italy Searching for the city That took away the kid in me Spanish Harlem still sounds good to me Yeah Mona Lisa's getting older Standing in the shadow of Miss Liberty While I walk along the west side Down through Little Italy Searching for the city That took away the kid in me Spanish Harlem still sounds good to me Yeah Mona Lisa's getting older Standing in the shadow of Miss Liberty While I walk along the west side Down through Little Italy Searching for the city That took away the kid in me -------- Reg Strikes Back (1988) -------- -------- (4) I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That -------- I've always said that one's enough to love Now I hear you're braggin' one is not enough Well, somethin' tells me you're not satisfied You got plans to make me one of four or five I guess this kind of thing's just in your blood But you won't catch me carvin' up my love I ain't no puzzle piece that needs to fit If it takes more than me, let's a-call it quits 'Cause I don't wanna go on with you like that Don't wanna be a feather in your cap I just wanna tell you, honey, I ain't mad But I don't wanna go on with you like that Oh-oh-oh Whoa-oh Whoa-oh Oh yeah It gets so hard sometimes to understand This vicious circle's gettin' outta hand Don't need an extra eye to see That the fire spreads a-faster in a breeze And I don't wanna go on with you like that Don't wanna be a feather in your cap I just wanna tell you, honey, I ain't mad But I don't wanna go on with you like that No, I don't wanna go on with you like that One more set of boots on your welcome mat You'll just a-have to quit 'em if you want me back 'Cause I don't wanna go on with you like that Oh-oh-oh Whoa-oh Whoa-oh Oh yeah Oh, if you wanna spread it around, sister, that's just fine But I don't want no second hand a-feedin' me lines If you wanna hold someone in the middle of the night Call out the guards, turn out the light And I don't wanna go on with you like that Don't wanna be a feather in your cap I just wanna tell you, honey, I ain't mad But I don't wanna go on with you like that No, I don't wanna go on with you like that One more set of boots on your welcome mat You'll just have to quit 'em if you want me back No, I don't wanna go on with you like that Oh-oh-oh Whoa-oh Whoa-oh Oh yeah Oh-oh-oh Whoa-oh Whoa-oh Oh yeah I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna Go on with you like that Oh yeah Takin' me back -------- Reg Strikes Back (1988) -------- -------- (5) Japanese Hands -------- Outside I can hear the fireworks Beyond the paper walls Where the symbols painted black and white Run together when the rain falls And the wind chimes across Kyoto Each time the earth moves Was it the quake that shook me Or was it something to do with you And the hot wind heats the bamboo blinds And your almond eyes always shine Sitting cool behind your painted fan All the secrets of the east Conceal the beauty and the beast For tender is the man in her Japanese hands Flesh on silk looks different Than on a cotton sheet back home Where no one wears their hair like yours Beneath those oriental combs And with your thirsty fingers Running up and down my spine You forget the western woman When you're sleeping on Kyoto time And the hot wind heats the bamboo blinds And your almond eyes always shine Sitting cool behind your painted fan All the secrets of the east Conceal the beauty and the beast For tender is the man in her Japanese hands And the sky explodes And the moon grows cold To the distant sound of drums And the sky explodes And the moon grows cold As the dragons on the mainland Wait to heat the sun And the hot wind heats the bamboo blinds And your almond eyes always shine Sitting cool behind your painted fan All the secrets of the east Conceal the beauty and the beast For tender is the man in her Japanese hands And the hot wind heats the bamboo blinds And your almond eyes always shine Sitting cool behind your painted fan All the secrets of the east Conceal the beauty and the beast For tender is the man in her Japanese hands -------- Reg Strikes Back (1988) -------- -------- (6) Goodbye Marlon Brando -------- Say goodbye to loneliness, say goodbye to Marlon Brando Say goodbye to latitudes and the confusion that surrounds you Say goodbye to misery, say goodbye to the morning news Say goodbye to prime time and the fools that choose to view Say goodbye to Wendy, say goodbye to Rhonda Say goodbye to the Beach Boys from the Palisades to Kona Say goodbye to Glasnost, say goodbye to Malathion Say goodbye to the clowns in congress and the belt around Orion Say goodbye to the tabloids, say goodbye to diet soda Say goodbye to new age music from the Capa to the Coda Say goodbye to gridlock, goodbye to Dolly's chest Goodbye to the ozone layer if there's any of it left Don't it make you wanna crawl back to the womb Find a sanitarium rent yourself a room This overload is edging me further out to sea I need to put some distance between overkill and me, me Say goodbye to Jackie Collins, say goodbye to illiterate fools Goodbye to evangelists and geeks with power tools Goodbye to statuettes, say goodbye to lists Say goodbye to articles on who the senator kissed Say goodbye to hair styles, goodbye to heaven's gate Goodbye to Rocky Five, Six, Seven and Eight Don't it make you wanna crawl back to the womb Find a sanitarium rent yourself a room This overload is edging me further out to sea I need to put some distance between overkill and me Me, yeah! Don't it wanna make you crawl back to the womb Find a sanitarium rent yourself a room This overload is edging me further out to sea I need to put some distance between overkill and me Overkill and me -------- Reg Strikes Back (1988) -------- -------- (7) The Camera Never Lies -------- Hey, there I see you tempt the night I see you take a bite You can tell me you were home But the camera never lies You walk out in disguise To pull the wool over my eyes You play me for a fool To believe your alibis And you can count on being safe as houses Underestimate my eyes But you can't argue with the image The camera never lies There's no distance put between us Safe enough for you to hide I'm watching all of your secrets The camera never lies I recommend first prize For acting so surprised For acting like you love me The camera never lies I'll take my wounded pride I'll take it on the chin Your profile fills the frame How good you look on film And you can count on being safe as houses Underestimate my eyes But you can't argue with the image The camera never lies There's no distance put between us Safe enough for you to hide I'm watching all of your secrets The camera never lies Smoke screens and sweet deceiving Replace the face of trust The shutter falls each time you meet him (Ooh) A negative becomes my plus (Aah) And you can count on being safe as houses Underestimate my eyes But you can't argue with the image The camera never lies There's no distance put between us Safe enough for you to hide I'm watching all of your secrets The camera never lies I'm watching all of your secrets The camera never lies I'm watching all of your secrets The camera never lies I'm watching all of your secrets Oh! The camera never lies -------- Reg Strikes Back (1988) -------- -------- (8) Heavy Traffic -------- Shakey wake up thirsty from a night in the bar And snake hips Joe is Mr. Cool Out on the boulevard The pimp from the Jack of Diamonds Just got another Jane Doe She just got off the last bus from Montecedo Sailor boys find trouble in the alien state It's one on one from Las Palmas to the Golden Gate Fly boys on the corner waiting for a ride For twenty bucks he'll pull the cork on the man inside 'Cause we're rolling in heavy traffic Judy's in the jump seat and Jody's in the bucket Billy likes to drive and Jackie's just high And Cindy thinks we're all gonna commit suicide 'Cause we're rolling in heavy traffic Yeah we're rolling in heavy traffic Mack he's got his Marlboros tucked up in his sleeve He's shacked up in his basement making P.C.P He used to shake the French fries Down on 12th and Maine And now he stays up nights on apple juice and cocaine 'Cause we're rolling in heavy traffic Judy's in the jump seat and Jody's in the bucket Billy likes to drive and Jackie's just high And Cindy thinks we're all gonna commit suicide 'Cause we're rolling in heavy traffic Yeah we're rolling in heavy traffic 'Cause we're rolling in heavy traffic Judy's in the jump seat and Jody's in the bucket Billy likes to drive and Jackie's just high And Cindy thinks we're all gonna commit suicide 'Cause we're rolling in heavy traffic Yeah we're rolling in heavy traffic -------- Reg Strikes Back (1988) -------- -------- (9) Poor Cow -------- There's another one due in three month's time She'll have to paint the spare room blue She'll work a little overtime And hope it all works out for Frank and her If she can keep him home nights Away from those factory girls And the gas bills come and the money burns And Frank just keeps complaining How little they both earn And mother drops by Mondays Just to nag about the world Then she stays to nag at Dallas 'Cause she hates those Texas girls Poor cow You'll get your dumb man You'll see your whole life coming at you In the back of his hand Poor cow It's a monkey see town You'll walk down the aisle In the hand me down gown Of some poor cow And the gas bills come and the money burns And Frank just keeps complaining How little they both earn And mother drops by Mondays Just to nag about the world Then she stays to nag at Dallas 'Cause she hates those Texas girls Poor cow You'll get your dumb man You'll see your whole life coming at you In the back of his hand Poor cow It's a monkey see town You'll walk down the aisle In the hand me down gown Of some poor cow Oh them rich bitch girls Ain't like our lass Got no spine for labour Like us working class Us gamey lot Still got our pride We got our health It's just the truth that's died Poor cow You'll get your dumb man You'll see your whole life coming at you In the back of his hand Poor cow It's a monkey see town You'll walk down the aisle In the hand me down gown Of some poor cow Poor cow You'll get your dumb man You'll see your whole life coming at you In the back of his hand Poor cow It's a monkey see town You'll walk down the aisle In the hand me down gown Of some poor cow -------- Reg Strikes Back (1988) -------- -------- (10) Since God Invented Girls -------- The mother of invention made it good for me Tighter in the rear Longer in the seam Kicked out yards of leather Wrapped around her waist Trimmed it to perfection And left a little space Yeah they got competition now All across the world But there ain't been no looking back Since God invented girls Now I know what Brian Wilson meant Every time I step outside I see what Heaven sent There may be seven wonders Created for this world But one is all we need Since God invented girls Higher on the heel, paler than pure cream Leaner on the sidewalk Cutting through the steam After claws and feathers He took skin and bone Shaped it like an hourglass And made the angels moan Oh here's a little heat boys To straighten out them curls Now there ain't been no angels round Since God invented girls Now I know what Brian Wilson meant Every time I step outside I see what Heaven sent There may be seven wonders Created for this world But one is all we need Since God invented girls Now I know what Brian Wilson meant Every time I step outside I see what Heaven sent There may be seven wonders Created for this world But one is all we need Since God invented girls -------- Reg Strikes Back (1988) -------- -------- (11) Rope Around A Fool -------- I don't make the rules around here A tear starts at the edge It takes two hands to rip it It takes a lot more than either one of us has said But I come from indecision A place you ain't never been Living in the state of confusion On a map that runs like the veins under your skin We got Miss Communication kicking out the stool We got mass determination making up the rules But saving us is something that we can't do And it's easier sometimes to throw a rope around a fool And love is just another means By which we hang ourselves It takes two to execute One to leave with innocence and one to leave with guilt But I just see no reality Just shades drawn on remorse We've whipped this beast beyond the limit Staggered out of breath along this course It's easier to lose a rope around a fool Easier sometimes to throw a rope around a fool A ring of your indifference thrown anywhere you choose Easier sometimes to throw a rope around a fool -------- Sleeping With The Past (1989) -------- -------- (1) Durban Deep -------- I won't see you 'til Christmas I breathe coal dust, I get blisters But the foreman he don't worry He say work, boy, there's no hurry Don't that big red sun Look a lot like fire When you come out of the ground After 48 hours Going down down down down down Going down in Durban deep Going down down down down down There's no mercy in my sleep I just hear that drill and hammer I feel the killing heat Going two miles down to the heart Of Durban deep I was born on amen corner I pound rock face, I get lonely But my family, they go hungry Sill the boss man he call us lazy Don't the old blue heaven Look a lot like your eyes When you're blinded by the brightness Of the Transvaal sky Going down down down down down Going down in Durban deep Going down down down down down There's no mercy in my sleep I just hear that drill and hammer I feel the killing heat Going two miles down to the heart Of Durban deep Going down down down down down Going down in Durban deep Going down down down down down There's no mercy in my sleep I just hear that drill and hammer I feel the killing heat Going two miles down to the heart Of Durban deep -------- Sleeping With The Past (1989) -------- -------- (2) Healing Hands -------- I never dreamed I could cry so hard That ain't like a man I could fly like a bird some days Had a place where I could land I could have sworn we were all locked in Ain't that what you said? I never knew it could hurt so bad When the power of love is dead But giving into the nighttime Ain't no cure for the pain You gotta wade into the water You gotta learn to live again And reach out for her healing hands Reach out for her healing hands There's a light, where the darkness ends Touch me now and let me see again Rock me now in your gentle healing hands I never knew love like poison That burned like a fire All I ever wanted was a reason To drown in your eyes I never knew sleep so restless Empty arms so cold That's not the way it's supposed to be It ain't the spell that I was sold But giving into the nighttime Ain't no cure for the pain You got to wade into the water You got to learn to live again And reach out for her healing hands Reach out for her healing hands There's a light, where the darkness ends Touch me now and let me see again Rock me now in your gentle healing hands But giving into the nighttime Ain't no cure for the pain You got to wade into the water You got to learn to live again And reach out for her healing hands Reach out for her healing hands There's a light, where the darkness ends Touch me now and let me see again Rock me now in your gentle healing hands (And reach out for her healing hands) Reach out for her healing hands There's a light, where the darkness ends Touch me now and let me see again Rock me now in your gentle healing hands Rock me now (come on, come on, come on) And reach out for her healing hands Reach out for her healing hands There's a light, where the darkness ends Touch me now and let me see again Rock me now in your gentle healing hands Rock me now -------- Sleeping With The Past (1989) -------- -------- (3) Whispers -------- Look at me twice with wildcat eyes Promise me everything except a blue night Shudder like ice in cut crystal glass Melt in embraces of crazy eyed past And whisper, whisper, whispering whispers Tantamount to a lie with lingering breath Walking fingers run, hungry scratches left Dull chimes ringing like an empty voice A distant smile framed, her lips are soft and moist With whispers, whispers, whispering whispers And whisper in a rhythm your lies Keep comfort for others Hurt me with the night Whisper like cold winds close to the bone Save heaven for lovers, leave me alone With your whispers, whispers, whispering whispers With whispers, whispers, whispering whispers -------- Sleeping With The Past (1989) -------- -------- (4) Club At The End Of The Street -------- When the shades are drawn And the light of the moon is banned And the stars up above Walk the heavens hand in hand There's a shady place At the end of the working day Where young lovers go And this hot little trio plays That's where we meet That's where we meet Me and you rendezvous In the club at the end of the street Ooh, where we meet Ooh, where we meet Me and you rendezvous In the club at the end of the street From the alleyways Where the catwalks gently sway You hear the sound of Otis And the voice of Marvin Gaye In this smoky room There's a jukebox plays all night And we can dance real close Beneath the pulse of a neon light That's where we meet That's where we meet Me and you rendezvous In the club at the end of the street Ooh, where we meet Ooh, where we meet Me and you rendezvous In the club at the end of the street There's a downtown smell of cooking From the flame on an open grill There's a sax and a big bass pumping Lord, have mercy Ooh, you can't sit still Oh, you can't sit still Oh, that's where we meet That's where we meet Me and you, rendezvous In the club at the end of the street Ooh, where we meet Hooh! Where we meet Mean and you, rendezvous In the club at the end of the street Oh, oh, yeah! You can't sit still Where we meet In the club at the end of the street You can't sit still Where we meet In the club at the end of the street Can't sit still Where we meet At the club at the end of the street Where we meet Where we meet At the club at the end of the street Oh! You can't sit still -------- Sleeping With The Past (1989) -------- -------- (5) Sleeping With The Past -------- Like a thief he's come, like a thief he's gone He's stolen your tears one by one You're proud to love him, it's a foolish sign You're a broken heart at the scene of the crime And the night drags on, and the fever burns Come to your senses, everybody learns You sleep in sweet fire lost and blue You're an empty doll in the power of a fool Don't go sleeping with the past Don't go praying he'll come back Take a deep breath and deny You could love a man like that Don't go sleeping with the past Don't go waking with a dream There's no tenderness that's left In the cracks you step between If it looks like rain, if it makes no sound It's an echo of pain on common ground Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact Passion's a monkey you can't keep off your back Don't go sleeping with the past Don't go praying he'll come back Take a deep breath and deny You could love a man like that Don't go sleeping with the past Don't go waking with a dream There's no tenderness that's left In the cracks you step between But he takes love and he turns it cold He's just an iceman honey, ain't got no heart of gold But he sees you and he runs from you Come on and shake this shadow that you're clinging to And he'll hurt you And he'll run from you Come on and shake this shadow that you're clinging to Don't go sleeping with the past Don't go praying he'll come back Take a deep breath and deny You could love a man like that Don't go sleeping with the past Don't go waking with a dream There's no tenderness that's left In the cracks you step between -------- Sleeping With The Past (1989) -------- -------- (6) Stone's Throw From Hurtin' -------- Help me information Get emotion on the line This war that's raging in my heart's Getting harder all the time Our painted smiles are cracking Our worried friends just frown We got a runaway train on an empty track That's trying to run us down And I'm a stone's throw from hurtin' Everything we put together Knee deep in learning about burning this bridge forever I'm a stone's throw, a stone's throw A stone's throw from hurtin' And I know it's never gonna get no better Crippled conversation hangs inside this house Our voices just get ugly When our love gets all talked out Your goodnight kiss ain't hungry Our touches don't connect We're just a couple of kids with a broken toy That our idle fingers wrecked Some things get broken When stones get thrown Some things get better When you leave what you love And you let what you love alone Some things get broken When stones get thrown Some things get better when you leave what you love And let what you love alone -------- Sleeping With The Past (1989) -------- -------- (7) Sacrifice -------- It's a human sign When things go wrong When the scent of her lingers And temptations strong Into the boundary Of each married man Sweet deceit comes a callin' And negativity lands Cold, cold heart Hard done by you Some things looking better baby Just passin' through And it's no sacrifice Just a simple word It's two hearts living In two separate worlds But it's no sacrifice No sacrifice It's no sacrifice at all Mutual misunderstanding After the fact Sensitivity builds a prison In the final act We lose direction No stone unturned No tears to damn you When jealousy burns Cold, cold heart Hard done by you Some things looking better, baby Just passin' through And it's no sacrifice Just a simple word It's two hearts living In two separate worlds But, it's no sacrifice No sacrifice It's no sacrifice, at all Cold, cold heart Hard done by you Some things looking better, baby Just passin' through And it's no sacrifice Just a simple word It's two hearts living In two separate worlds But, it's no sacrifice No sacrifice It's no sacrifice, at all No sacrifice, at all No sacrifice, at all No sacrifice, at all No sacrifice, at all -------- Sleeping With The Past (1989) -------- -------- (8) I Never Knew Her Name -------- Well, she swept through the church Like a sweet Sunday prayer While the choir sang "Son of Heaven" And the groom just walked on air I was killing time with Jesus When the wedding bells began And I saw the most beautiful woman Getting married to a handsome man She walked like a mystery And she passed like summer rain And she said "I do" like an angel But I never knew her name Oh, the congregation gathered But in darkness I remained In love with the bride of a handsome man But I never knew her name In the shadow of the holy Oh, I heard my tell-tale heart Whisper words that never reached her As her vows were made at last Oh, the preacher with his blessing Pronounced them man and wife And I saw the most beautiful woman Make a promise to be kept for life She walked like a mystery And she passed like summer rain And she said I do like an angel But I never knew her name Oh, the congregation gathered But in darkness I remained In love with the bride of a handsome man But I never knew her name (Ooh-ah!) She walked like a mystery And she passed like summer rain And she said I do like an angel But I never knew her name Oh, the congregation gathered But in darkness I remained In love with the bride of a handsome man But I never knew her name Like a mystery Like summer rain And she said I do like an angel But I never knew her name Oh, the congregation gathered But in darkness I remained In love with the bride of a handsome man Oh! I'm in love with the bride of a handsome man But I never knew her name (Ooh!) Never knew her name (Ooh!) Never knew her name (Ooh!) I never knew her name (Ooh!) -------- Sleeping With The Past (1989) -------- -------- (9) Amazes Me -------- You're a cool little one My dark southern breeze Sweeps through my fingers And it amazes me Dixie shadowland Your envy shelters me Lay down your burden Mystery of ebony And it amazes me Oh it amazes me Maybe the heat babe could be this tune It amazes me It amazes me What drives me crazy is that big fat yellow moon Look up that pale light Well she's waking the trees I'm drifting in your hoodoo And it amazes me That magnolia state Got a hold on me I got no blues to preach Just Mississippi company Ain't no magic potion No gri-gri on her side She's bound to my salvation Sweet little mama Take me down by the river tonight And it amazes me -------- Sleeping With The Past (1989) -------- -------- (10) Blue Avenue -------- I gotta quit this habit It's like some drug for you You've been my sweet sweet addict I've been your little white boy blue You've got the same obsession We ain't no cat and mouse You linger on my lips like confession You laid the traps in this house And it's no use each way we lose You and me at the crossroads of Blue Avenue Hit and run hearts collide here True love passes through Looks like we've got a wreck babe Up on Blue Avenue Up on Blue Avenue Blue Avenue Two hearts get entangled Dirty minds they go to town Everyone's got an angle Little lies get spread around Let them say what they want You and me we already knew Takes more than hocus pocus babe To save you from Blue Avenue -------- Sleeping With The Past (1989) -------- -------- (11) Dancing In The End Zone -------- Have you ever had a good time turn bad When the leaves turn brown And the shattered glass just splinters It's days like this that you can't resist A long tall drink And a big yellow sun in the winter And you can go dancing You can go dancing You can go dancing Dancing in the end zone Did you ever pray you could stay away Company excluded From the curse of the family circle In a big round room on the edge of the moon There's a shooting star In a race for the final hurdle No need to worry, no need to worry No need to worry when you dance alone You already made it, you already made it When you're dancing in the end zone -------- Sleeping With The Past (1989) -------- -------- (12) Love Is A Cannibal -------- We follow the dog who follows the cat We swallow the chain if they don't fight back We come and go, just getting by We got a flag on the moon, we got a hole in the sky And each man kills the things he loves It's an edible romance we all dream of And love eats love, eats love Love is a cannibal Woman is a criminal She have the hunger But man is the animal And love eats love, eats love Love is a cannibal We live in the woods but we hate the trees We kill off the jungle but we save the leaves The family face is painted grey -------- The Complete Thom Bell Sessions (1989) -------- -------- (1) Nice And Slow -------- We can spend the night right So honey, turn out the lights And do it nice and slow Do it nice and slow You can work on a charm And tell the man in your arms To do it nice and slow Do it nice and slow Lying here in a way that I have always wanted Close to you in a scene that I have always haunted Time and time again we defended a right to cling to Our love shy goodbyes for broken hearts could cry You can do it, you can do it slow You can do it slow, slow, slow You can do it slow, slow Do it nice and slow You can turn on the heat To keep a man on the streets When you do it nice and slow I like it when you do it nice and slow You can work on a spell And weave your magic so well When you do it nice and slow Come on and do it nice and slow Lying here in a way that I have always wanted Close to you in a scene that I have always haunted Time and time again we defended a right to cling to Our love shy goodbyes for broken hearts could cry You can do it, you can do it slow You can do it slow (You can do it) Slow (You can do it) Slow You can do it slow (You can do it) Slow (You can do it slow) Do it nice and slow You can do it, you can do it I know You can do it nice and slow You can do it, you can do it (Slow) You can do it nice and slow (You can do it) Slow (You can do it slow) I like it when you do it slow (You can do it) Slow (You can do it slow) Come on and do it Do it nice and slow (You can do it) Slow (You can do it slow) Do it nice and slow (You can do it) Slow (You can do it) Slow Do it nice and slow (You can do it) Slow (You can do it slow) Come on and do it nice and slow -------- The Complete Thom Bell Sessions (1989) -------- -------- (2) Country Love Song -------- Suzie walks her dog But it didn't solve all the mysteries Hangin' with the guys, makin' with the eyes Playin' hard to please Oh, oh Oh, oh, oh Back in '63, she was made for me We were havin' fun It wasn't long before I could not ignore She's about hangin' out Campus queen dreams shattered years ago And I'm the one who knows It's the same country love song Different words, a different melody It's the same country love song Oh, oh Oh, oh, oh Mama said to me John you got to be honest to yourself Keepin' up the pace, losin' in the race Further on the shelf Oh, oh Oh, oh, oh I want to write a country love song Tell them nothing's wrong Suzie did my heart Oh, yeah There is nothing more It's all been said before C'est la vie, mon cherie Lady Luck, me and sexy so-and-so And I'm the one who knows It's the same country love song Different words, a different melody It's the same country love song Oh, oh Oh, oh, oh It's the same country love song Different words, a different melody It's the same country love song Oh, oh It's the same country love song Different words, a different melody It's the same country love song Oh, oh It's the same country love song Different words, a different melody It's the same country love song Oh, oh It's the same country love song Different words, a different melody It's the same country love song Oh, oh It's the same country love song Different words, a different melody It's the same country love song -------- The Complete Thom Bell Sessions (1989) -------- -------- (3) Shine On Through -------- Oh my love I have cursed the stars above That lead my heart to you But as hard as I try Still my love will not die And the stars still shine on through And the stars still shine on through Oh my dear Now this ship's too hard to steer The tide has turned, turned on you I have been through the lies That I've seen in your eyes But the truth still shines on through But the truth it still shines, shines on through So shine, shine on through the days we have to fill Though we took our love so daringly And gave it up uncaringly There are feelings left not even we can kill Oh my friend So at last we reach the end The lights go down on cue I have wasted my time But it tasted oh so fine That my love still shines, shines on through And my love still shines, shines on you -------- The Complete Thom Bell Sessions (1989) -------- -------- (4) Mama Can't Buy You Love -------- Baby, so they give you anything Darling, all the joy money can bring Baby, do they bring you happiness Darling, you're no different from the rest Can't you see that it's love you really need? Take my hand and I'll show you what a love could be Before it's too late Mama don't want you Daddy don't want you Give it up, baby, baby Mama can't buy you love Mama don't want you Daddy don't need you Give it up, baby, baby Mama can't buy you love Baby, fancy friends showing you a smile Darling, rich relations for a while Baby, I can only give you love Darling, this old heart should be enough All I need is a chance to make you mine Let me in, oh, I'll change the way you feel inside Before it's too late Mama don't want you Daddy don't want you Give it up, baby, baby Mama can't buy you love Mama don't want you Daddy don't need you Give it up, baby, baby Mama can't buy you love Mama don't want you Daddy don't want you Give it up, baby, baby Mama can't buy you love Mama don't want you Daddy don't need you Give it up, baby, baby Mama can't buy you love Mama don't want you Daddy don't want you Give it up, baby, baby Mama can't buy you love Mama don't want you Daddy don't need you Give it up, baby, baby Mama can't buy you love Mama don't want you Daddy don't want you Give it up, baby, baby Mama can't buy you love Mama don't want you Daddy don't need you Give it up, baby, baby Mama can't buy you love -------- The Complete Thom Bell Sessions (1989) -------- -------- (5) Are You Ready For Love -------- Catch a star if you can Wish for something special Let it be me, my love is free Sing a song to yourself Think of someone listening One melody, you're all for me I'll write a symphony just for you and me If you let me love you I'll paint a masterpiece just for you to see If you let me love you, let me love you Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Are you ready, are you ready for love? (Ooh-ooh, ooh-oh, baby) You're the one, like the sun Shine your love around me, ooh-ooh You'll always be the one for me Say the word, I'll be there Loving you forever Don't let me go, just say it's so We'll hear the music ring from the mountain tops To the valley below us We'll serenade the world with a lullaby So the angels will know us Angels will know us Are you ready? Are you ready for love? Baby! Yes, I am, are you? Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready for love? Ooh Yes, I am, are you? Are you ready? Tell me Are you ready for love? Yeah, yeah Love (Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, baby) I feel just like I'm on the moon right here I wanna say, ooh, oh, Lord, yeah Tell me, baby, are you ready? (Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, baby) Ah, baby Are you ready, are you ready for love? Hey, yeah! Yes, I am, are you? Are you ready? Give it to me Are you ready for love? I wanna hold you Yes, I am, yes, I am, yes, I am, yes, I am Are you ready, are you ready for love? Hey, girl Yes, I am, are you? Come on, Elton Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yeah Yes, I am, are you? Hey Are you ready, are you ready for love? Give all your love to me Yes, I am, are you? Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yeah Yes, I am, are you? Come on Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yes, I am, yes, I am, yes, I am, yes, I am Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Let your love light shine Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Give it to me, give it to me Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Waiting all my life Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Waiting all my life Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Yeah, ooh Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Are you ready? Yes, I'm ready for love Yes, I am, are you? Are you ready, are you ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Are you ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Are you, are you, are ready for love? Yes, I am, are you? Feel this song Are you ready for love? Feel the love, woman Yes, I am, are you? Oh, yeah Are you ready, are you ready for love? Oh, Lord Are you ready, are you ready for love? If you can feel it Yes, I am, are you? I'm coming for your love Are you ready, are you ready for love? Oh, Lord Yes, I am, are you? Oh, oh Are you ready, are you ready for love? Feels good Yes, I am, are you? Are you ready, are you ready for love? -------- The Complete Thom Bell Sessions (1989) -------- -------- (6) Three Way Love Affair -------- Loving you was easy Your love captured my heart You were always pleasing Till you tore us apart Said you needed both of us How could you be so unkind Then you traded love for lust But sooner or later I'm gonna get you Look out girl 'cause I'm gonna fix you I'm gonna shake it up This time I'm gonna break it up There won't be any making up I'm shaking this three-way love affair I'm gonna shake it up This time I'm gonna break it up There won't be any making up I'm shaking this three-way love affair Sneaking out on Sunday You thought I didn't know Well early morning Monday Once more you didn't show Alibis and selfish lies Oh, I've had my fill of them all You can dry your crying eyes I know you're faking, there's no mistaking Look out girl your heart might be breaking I'm gonna shake it up This time I'm gonna break it up There won't be any making up I'm shaking this three-way love affair I'm gonna shake it up This time I'm gonna break it up There won't be any making up I'm shaking this three-way love affair I'm gonna shake it up This time I'm gonna break it up There won't be any making up I'm shaking this three-way love affair I'm gonna shake it up This time I'm gonna break it up There won't be any making up I'm shaking this three-way love affair I'm gonna shake it up This time I'm gonna break it up There won't be any making up I'm shaking this three-way love affair I'm gonna shake it up This time I'm gonna break it up There won't be any making up I'm shaking this three-way love affair -------- The One (1992) -------- -------- (1) Simple Life -------- There's a breakdown on the runway And the timeless flights are gone I'm a year ahead of myself these days And I'm locomotive strong My city spread like cannon fire In a yellow nervous state I can't cut the ties that bind me To horoscopes and fate And I won't break and I won't bend But someday soon we'll sail away To innocence and the bitter end And I won't break and I won't bend And with the last breath we ever take We're gonna get back to the simple life again When we break out of this blindfold I'm gonna take you from this place Until we're free from this ball and chain I'm still hard behind the eight My city beats like hammered steel On a shallow cruel rock If we could walk proud after midnight We'd never have to stop And I won't break and I won't bend But someday soon we'll sail away To innocence and the bitter end And I won't break and I won't bend And with the last breath we ever take We're gonna get back to the simple life again And I won't break and I won't bend But someday soon we'll sail away To innocence and the bitter end And I won't break and I won't bend And with the last breath we ever take We're gonna get back to the simple life again And I won't break and I won't bend But someday soon we'll sail away To innocence and the bitter end And I won't break and I won't bend And with the last breath we ever take We're gonna get back to the simple life again And I won't break and I won't bend But someday soon we'll sail away To innocence and the bitter end And I won't break and I won't bend And with the last breath we ever take We're gonna get back to the simple life again -------- The One (1992) -------- -------- (2) The One -------- I saw you dancin' out the ocean Runnin' fast along the sand A spirit born of earth and water Fire flyin' from your hands In the instant that you love someone In the second that the hammer hits Reality runs up your spine And the pieces finally fit And all I ever needed was the one Like freedom fields, where wild horses run When stars collide like you and I No shadows block the sun You're all I've ever needed Baby, you're the one There are caravans we follow Drunken nights in dark hotels When chances breathe between the silence Where sex and love no longer gel, oh For each man, in his time, is Cain Until he walks along the beach And sees his future in the water A long, lost heart within his reach And all I ever needed was the one Like freedom fields, where wild horses run When stars collide like you and I No shadows block the sun You're all I've ever needed Ooh, baby, you're the one And all I ever needed was the one Like freedom fields, where wild horses run When stars collide like you and I No shadows block the sun Oh, you're all I ever needed Ooh, baby, you're the one All I ever needed was the one Like freedom fields, where wild horses run When stars collide like you and I No shadows block the sun Oh, you're all I ever needed Ooh, baby, you're the one -------- The One (1992) -------- -------- (3) Sweat It Out -------- No ceiling on hard living Peace keepers keep on breathing Can't deny eye for eye It's open season Dictate to my reason She devils ruling Britain Hey girl stick it in your purse Call it treason Band aids on dead doorways No heroes in the Bat Cave Don't give me Tears For Fears Give me tears of rage Fires burn with black smoke Oil slicks put us on the ropes Man it's hard to handle When the bank's broke Don't kow-tow, don't bow down Loosen up, get the lead out Backs up let them shout Backs up sweat it out When your back's up, sweat it out Backs up, sweat it out Hope froze in the cold weather No ice on a greasy river Liberty and John Doe Stand and Shiver War waits when the lines form The baby sitter in a uniform Knocking down your door For your rice and corn Don't kow-tow, don't bow down Loosen up, get the lead out Backs up let them shout Backs up sweat it out When your back's up, sweat it out Backs up, sweat it out Don't kow-tow, don't bow down Loosen up, get the lead out Backs up let them shout Backs up sweat it out When your back's up, sweat it out Backs up, sweat it out -------- The One (1992) -------- -------- (4) Runaway Train -------- There's a hungry road I can only hope's Gonna eat me up inside There's a drifting spirit coming clean In the eye of a lifelong fire Tell Monday I'll be around next week I'm running ahead of my days In the shotgun chance that scattered us I've seen the error of my ways Well we've wrapped ourselves in golden crowns Like sun gods spitting rain Found a way home written on this map Like red dye in my veins In the hardest times that come around The fear of losing grows I've lost and seen the world shut down It's a darkness no one knows And I've poured out the pleasure and dealt with the pain Standing in a station waiting in the rain I'm starting to feel a little muscle again But love is lost like a runaway train Oh I'm out of control and out of my hands I'm tearing like a demon through no man's land Trying to get a grip on my life again Nothing hits harder than a runaway train And I've poured out the pleasure and dealt with the pain Standing in a station waiting in the rain I'm starting to feel a little muscle again But love is lost like a runaway train Oh I'm out of control and out of my hands I'm tearing like a demon through no man's land Trying to get a grip on my life again Nothing hits harder than a runaway train And I've poured out the pleasure and dealt with the pain Standing in a station waiting in the rain I'm starting to feel a little muscle again But love is lost like a runaway train Oh I'm out of control and out of my hands I'm tearing like a demon through no man's land Trying to get a grip on my life again Nothing hits harder than a runaway train -------- The One (1992) -------- -------- (5) Whitewash County -------- Tonight it's hot down here I can almost smell the rain And I can almost taste the fear Behind your name Fans turning on the ceiling I feel sticky as a chili dog White boys howling in the evening On that hollow log Tall tales down the river Say we aim to bury the truth But the right hand just delivered The devil in a suit And he talks big in Whitewash County Talks sweet as sugar cane Got a past that's filled with lightning Got a future filled with rain Bug buzzing in an empty glass Fiddle scratching some lazy tune We're just some place that history passed New dust, new broom And it's a high hot buttered moon He's got a shiny new wax face Swears the South's gonna rise again soon All over the place Tall tales down the river Say we aim to bury the truth But the right hand just delivered The devil in a suit And he talks big in Whitewash County Talks sweet as sugar cane Got a past that's filled with lightning Got a future filled with rain Rain down on Whitewash County Smell the air coming up the line Well you've changed your face so often But you never change your mind -------- The One (1992) -------- -------- (6) The North -------- Have you seen the North That cold grey place Don't want its shadow anymore On my face A man grows bitter We're a bitter race Some of us never get to see A better place In the Northern Skies There was a steel cloud It used to follow me around But I don't see it now There's a farm in the rain And a little farmhouse There were a young man's eyes Looking south The North was my mother But I no longer need her You trade your roots and your dust For a face in the river And a driven rain that washes you To a different shore There's a North in us all But my North can't hold me anymore The North was my mother But I no longer need her You trade your roots and your dust For a face in the river And a driven rain that washes you To a different shore There's a North in us all But my North can't hold me anymore And a driven rain that washes you To a different shore There's a North in us all But my North can't hold me anymore -------- The One (1992) -------- -------- (7) When A Woman Doesn't Want You -------- She may be lost She may be out of bounds All her tenderness and charms could be something A man like me has never found But in her woman's way She's still a little girl The things that she wants, the things that she needs Oh well the choice is hers 'Cause you can't take a woman When she doesn't want you And you can't be a man If you're blind to reason Man might be strong But true love is stronger You gotta play it straight When a woman doesn't want you Her voice invites Her eyes say more than words But her needs and complications Can tear away the memory of last night's girl And if you're weak Yeah we're all weak sometime The best things can wait The best times they come Oh when strength is kind 'Cause you can't take a woman When she doesn't want you And you can't be a man If you're blind to reason Man might be strong But true love is stronger You gotta play it straight When a woman doesn't want you And if you can't read her Leave her alone And if you don't know by now She's not someone's prize And you can't take her home 'Cause you can't take a woman When she doesn't want you And you can't be a man If you're blind to reason Man might be strong But true love is stronger You gotta play it straight When a woman doesn't want you -------- The One (1992) -------- -------- (8) Emily -------- The church bells ring out morning glory When summer bends to the winter's rage Emily walks through the cemetery Passed a dog in an unmarked grave The old girl hobbles, nylons sagging Talks to her sisters in the ground I saw a lie in the mirror this morning I heard a prophesy all around And Emily they come and go The shadows and the distant sounds But Emily don't be afraid When the weight of angels weighs you down Emily prays to a faded hero In a little frame clutched to her gown Hears the voice of promise in his memory Tonight's the night they let the ladder down In a cage sits a gold canary By a wicker chair and a rosewood loom As a soul ascends aboard the evening Canary sings to an empty room And Emily they come and go The shadows and the distant sounds But Emily don't be afraid When the weight of angels weighs you down And Emily they come and go The shadows and the distant sounds But Emily don't be afraid When the weight of angels weighs you down -------- The One (1992) -------- -------- (9) On Dark Street -------- I'm staring down a mile of disappearing track Is this the best that we could do I'm leaning through the rain but you ain't looking back What did I ever have to prove 'Cause it feels like electricity hitting an open field When am I ever gonna to learn Married life's two people trying to grab the wheel Oh and we must have got lost Living on Dark Street Looking for an exit Sleeping on the concrete You can't see it with your eyes You can't find it with your feet All I know is that we're lost baby And we're living on Dark Street All the layoffs and the pay cuts cripple me inside I pay the price for living everyday Trying to keep us all together along with a little pride What'll it take to make you stay But I've dreamed about an island And all I got's a bucket of sand I'd give my eyes to give you all your dreams Now I get to see my family slipping through my hands Oh and we must have got lost Living on Dark Street Looking for an exit Sleeping on the concrete You can't see it with your eyes You can't find it with your feet All I know is that we're lost baby And we're living on Dark Street -------- The One (1992) -------- -------- (10) Understanding Women -------- Rolling over trying to sleep And understanding women Thinking of you out there somewhere Looking for a new beginning Just let me be the final word In the book we haven't written I won't be another page In understanding women I could drive to Mexico On understanding women Throw myself against the waves And answer up to heaven How come her heart's so stubborn And what's so wrong with giving Ask the big sky talking About understanding women And I'm not just anyone who ever stood outside your door And I'm not any man you've ever known before Don't judge this picture by the frame Every man is not the same Some men reach beyond the pain Of understanding women Just let me be the final word In the book we haven't written I won't be another page In understanding women -------- The One (1992) -------- -------- (11) The Last Song -------- Yesterday you came to lift me up As light as straw and brittle as a bird Today I weigh less than a shadow on the wall Just one more whisper of a voice unheard Tomorrow leave the windows open As fear grows please hold me in your arms Won't you help me if you can to shake this anger I need your gentle hands to keep me calm 'Cause I never thought I'd lose I only thought I'd win I never dreamed I'd feel This fire beneath my skin I can't believe you love me I never thought you'd come I guess I misjudged love Between a father and his son Things we never said come together The hidden truth no longer haunting me Tonight we touched on the things that were never spoken That kind of understanding sets me free 'Cause I never thought I'd lose I only thought I'd win I never dreamed I'd feel This fire beneath my skin I can't believe you love me I never thought you'd come I guess I misjudged love Between a father and his son -------- The One (1992) -------- -------- (12) Suit Of Wolves -------- Looking back in anger On this dirty little town It stained your dress carved up my face Put a wedge between our state of grace Somethings so young and pretty Should never be released We place our bets we take our pick They wind up in the belly of the beast And when you can't get what you want You take anything you can So I wear this suit of wolves at night I slip it on how come it feels so right I get a hungry man When I can't get what I want I take anything I can I wear a suit of wolves Just across from Friday The weekend circus rolls I cross my heart turn on the charm I say my prayers between two hungry arms There's a string of dangerous flowers All around my bed There's some want rings and some just want And those who'd like to see me dead -------- The One (1992) -------- -------- (13) Fat Boys And Ugly Girls -------- Fat boys cry when ugly girls sing About the way the world would be if they were thin And ugly girls turn their heads when fat boys laugh About the handsome kid next door who broke their heart Who broke their heart Broke their heart And fat boys lie when ugly girls ask About the size an apple pie looks through a magnifying glass And ugly girls dream at night when fat boys sleep About the way the mirrors lie when beauty's only skin deep Beauty's only skin deep Skin deep But it's the fat boy's world for an ugly girl And ugly girls love that fat boy joy Who needs the worries of a perfect world Hear the early birds make that spring time come When a fat boy falls in love with an ugly girl When a fat boy falls in love with an ugly girl Fat boys dance when ugly girls shout That a waltz is not the dance for the boy who's stout And ugly girls dream at night when fat boys sleep About the way the mirrors lie when beauty's only skin deep Beauty's only skin deep Skin deep Fat boys and ugly girls -------- Duets (1993) -------- -------- (1) Teardrops -------- [Elton John (k.d. lang):] Whenever I hear good-byes Reminds me baby of you I break down and cry Next time I'll be true, yeah (Feels as if we lost romance) Reminds me baby of you (I took a crazy chance) The next time I'll be true, I'll be true, I'll be true [Elton John:] Footsteps on the dance floor Remind me baby of you Teardrops in my eyes Next time I'll be true, yeah Whispers in the back room She cries on every tune, every tune, every tune [Elton John (k.d. lang):] And the music don't feel like it did when I felt it with you Nothing that I do or feel ever feels like I felt it with you (When I'm dancing round) Remind me baby of you I really let you down Next time I'll be true, I'll be true [Elton John:] Footsteps on the dance floor Remind me baby of you Teardrops in my eyes Next time I'll be true, yeah Whispers in the back room She cries on every tune, every tune [Elton John and k.d. lang:] And the music don't feel like it did when I felt it with you Nothing that I do or feel ever feels like I felt it with you And the music don't feel like it did when I felt it with you Nothing that I do or feel ever feels like I felt it with you Hurting deep inside, she cries on every tune I break down and cry, she cries on every tune, every tune, every tune Footsteps on the dance floor remind me baby of you Teardrops in my eyes, next time I'll be true yeah Whispers in the powder room, she cries on every tune, every tune, every tune And the music don't feel like it did (no, no) when I felt it with you (no, no) Nothing that I do or feel ever feels (never feels) like I felt it with you (no, no) And the music don't feel like it did (no, no) when I felt it with you Nothing that I do or feel ever feels like I felt it with you (whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa) Feels as if we lost romance I took a crazy chance Lovers holding hand Remind me baby of you Next time, I'll be true (fade) -------- Duets (1993) -------- -------- (2) When I Think About Love (I Think About You) -------- [Prince Be (Elton John):] Holding all the pictures that my life's drawn I never find I'm missing love (Never find, never find) Remembering all parades that had been rained on But never cloudy leaving love (Leaving love, yeah) [Prince Be (Elton John):] Ask me what it is that makes it special (Why it's so real to me?) [Elton & Prince Be] It's knowing who keeps their place in my heart It's knowing how is it I can feel you It's knowing never will I change my mind When I think about love, I think about you When I think about love, I think about you [Elton John and Prince Be:] Too many times I've turned my emotions on and off (On and off) Without realizing what it does (Oh) Know what's moved me and kept me going this far (Oh) But I never questioned what it was [Prince Be (Elton John):] Ask me what it is that makes it special (Why it's so real to me?) [Elton & Prince Be:] It's knowing who keeps their place in my heart It's knowing how is it I can feel you It's knowing never will I change my mind When I think about love, I think about you When I think about love, I think about you [Prince Be (Elton John):] Ask me what it is that makes it special (Why it's so real to me?) [Elton & Prince Be:] It's knowing who keeps their place in my heart It's knowing how is it I can feel you It's knowing never will I change my mind When I think about love, I think about you When I think about love, I think about you When I think about love, I think about you When I think about love, I think about you When I think about love, I think about you When I think about love, I think about you -------- Duets (1993) -------- -------- (3) The Power -------- I have sold myself through and through I have walked in the darkness too Felt a red sun, the living proof Washed my hands in the honest truth I have carried this weight time after time I have bettered the dumb and the blind I've seen dignity fail and colors run Seen justice denied by the voice of a gun And we walk, yes we walk And we walk with the power every day Never letting the light slip away Reaching out, reaching in Touching truth and touching skin Never letting the light slip away And we walk with the power every day If my faith is a fire then burn baby burn We've held fire long enough to learn Heat beneath hope is a healing light Kept alive by the flames of night Walk tall in the power day after day Never, never, never lose sight of the way See the dawn come and the dusk hang See the power rise from an open hand And we walk, yes we walk And we walk with the power every day Never letting the light slip away Reaching out, reaching in Touching truth and touching skin Never letting the light slip away And we walk with the power every day Walk with the power Walk with the power Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah we walk, yeah we walk Yes we walk with the power every day Never letting the light slip away Reaching out, reaching in Touching truth and touching skin Never letting the light slip away And we walk with the power every day -------- Duets (1993) -------- -------- (4) Shakey Ground -------- Lady luck and four leaf clovers Won't ease this hurt I feel all over My life was one special occasion 'Til your leaving dampened the situation Well well well Standing on shakey ground Ever since you put me down Standing on shakey ground Ever since you put me down My car got repossessed this morning Harder times I haven't seen in years Girl you better throw me a life preserver 'Cause I'm about to drown in my own tears Well well well Standing on shakey ground Ever since you put me down Standing on shakey ground Ever since you put me down Well well well Standing on shakey ground Ever since you put me down Standing on shakey ground Ever since you put me down Standing on shakey ground Ever since you put me down Well well well Standing on shakey ground Shaking, shakey ground Standing, standing Standing on shakey ground -------- Duets (1993) -------- -------- (5) True Love -------- Suntanned, windblown Honeymooners at last alone Feeling far above par Oh, how lucky we are While I give to you and you give to me True love, true love So on and on it will always be True love, true love For you and I have a guardian angel On high, with nothing to do But to give to you as you give to me Love forever, true Love forever, true For you and I have a guardian angel On high, with nothing to do But to give to you as you give to me Love forever, true Love forever, true Give me more true love Oh yeah True love, true love Gotta give me your true love Oh yeah True love, true love For you and I have a guardian angel On high, with nothing to do But to give to you as you give to me Love forever, true Love forever, true Love forever, true love -------- Duets (1993) -------- -------- (6) If You Were Me -------- If you were me And I was you If you had to play my part out What would you do Two crazy stories Two different views If you were me And I was you If you were me And I was you What kind of crazy things Would I have to do Who likes to party Who stays at home If you were me And I was you Never like strangers Though never the same Two circus sideshows That laughed in the rain You stayed with the full moon You searched for the stars Thank God in His heaven Here we both are If you were me and I was you If you had to play my part out What would you do? Two crazy stories Two different views If you were me If you were me If you were me and I was you If you were me and I was you If you were me and I was you -------- Duets (1993) -------- -------- (7) A Woman's Needs -------- Where have you been are you still on my side Is that love or regret that I see in your eyes How many years have we played out this game Every time we come close the answer's always the same I guess some souls get restless under the skin There's a shortage by half of marrying men You know that I love you but I love to be free So tell me what do you want, yeah from a gypsy like me I need a ring on my finger, champagne on ice One man to show me the best part of life Is that what you want Yeah, that's what I need A home and a family makes sense for us A solid foundation built out of trust Do you think you can find that with someone like me Two arms to hold you, one place to be Are just some of the things that a woman needs I've been shortchanged and cheated so many times But you're all that I've wanted for all of my life I've searched for the reasons, known how I've felt But what can I give you when I can't trust myself I need a ring on my finger, champagne on ice One man to show me the best part of life Is that what you want Yeah, that's what I need A home and a family makes sense for us A solid foundation built out of trust Do you think you can find that with someone like me Two arms to hold you, one place to be Are just some of the things that a woman needs Two arms to hold you, one place to be Are just some of the things that a woman needs Two arms to hold you, one place to be Are just some of the things that a woman needs Two arms to hold you, one place to be Are just some of the things that a woman needs -------- Duets (1993) -------- -------- (8) Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me -------- [George Michael:] I can't light no more of your darkness All my pictures seem to fade to black and white I'm growin' tired, and time stands still before me Frozen here on the ladder of my life It's much too late to save myself from fallin' I took a chance and changed your way of life But you misread my meanin' when I met you Closed the door and left me blinded by the light Don't let the sun go down on me, yeah Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free, oh But losin' everything is like the sun goin' down on me Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Elton John [Elton John (George Michael) & {Both}:] I can't find, oh, the right romantic line But see me once and see the way I feel {Don't discard me} (Baby, no) Just because you think I mean you harm (Just because you think I mean you harm, no) But these cuts I have (Cuts I have) They need love (They need love, they need love) To help them heal, oh {Don't let the sun go down on me} Although I search myself, {it's always someone else I see} I'd just allow a {fragment of your life} to wander free, (oh) 'Cause losin' everything is like the {sun goin' down on me} Don't let the sun go down on me (Although I search myself, it's always someone else that I see, yeah) (I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free, baby, oh) 'Cause losin' everything is like the {sun goin' down on me} [George Michael:] Mr. Elton John -------- Duets (1993) -------- -------- (9) Old Friend -------- I want to be good, I want to be strong But I treated him bad, I've done him wrong I've taken his money, I'm given him hell And he takes it all 'cause he knows me well We can say what we mean and mean what we say We don't like to mess around But we're there to hold each other up When we're falling down Just like an old friend Putting me on my feet again Giving me back my pride then Letting me go Just like an old friend Putting me in my place again Giving me back my hope then Letting me know that he's an old friend I don't suffer no fools, I testify But he must be one for being by my side I've broken his heart, I've shaken his tree But still he doesn't want anything from a fool like me We won't talk for a year or two Maybe when we do, we won't say much Even so we know that out of mind Is never out of touch Just like an old friend Putting me on my feet again Giving me back my pride then Letting me go We're having a man-to-man Don't want to get sentimental But both of us understand We'll never have to say goodbye, just see you later Just like an old friend Putting me on my feet again Giving me back my pride then Letting me go Just like an old friend Putting me in my place again Giving me back my hope then Letting me know Just like an old friend Putting me on my feet again Giving me back my pride then Letting me go Just like an old friend Putting me in my place again Giving me back my hope then Letting me know that he's an old friend -------- Duets (1993) -------- -------- (10) Go On And On -------- On and On On and On She broke my heart, he hurt me too That's something that only unworthy souls do They said goodbye, we say hello An introduction for a perfect love to grow Let's stop thinking about the past And start thinking about the future So that love can go on and on Let's stop thinking about the past And start thinking about the future So that love can go on and on She said she'd stay, he said that too So sad when you find out your love has found a new She made me cry, he made me weep But life has love in store for us that's ooh so sweet On and On (love keeps going on) On and On (they've got the whole of life) On and On (love keeps going on) On and It's time to say goodbye to crying eyes and broken dreams And get back to the joy that to each other we will bring That starts from summer love to last through autumn, winter, spring Our hearts will sing forever, love -------- Duets (1993) -------- -------- (11) Don't Go Breaking My Heart -------- (with RuPaul) [Elton John (RuPaul):] Don't go breaking my heart (I couldn't if I tried) Honey if I get restless (Baby you're not that kind) Don't go breaking my heart (You take the weight off me) Honey when you knock on my door (I gave you my key) Oooh-hoo Nobody knows it When I was down (I was your clown) Oooh-hoo Nobody knows it Right from the start (I gave you my heart) I gave you my heart So don't go breaking my heart (I won't go breaking your heart) Don't go breaking my heart And nobody told us Because nobody showed us And now it's up to us babe (Oooh, I think we can make it) So don't misunderstand me (You put the light in my life) Oh you put the sparks to the flame (I've got your heart in my sights) Oooh-hoo Nobody knows it When I was down (I was your clown) Oooh-hoo Nobody knows it Right from the start (I gave you my heart) I gave you my heart So don't go breaking my heart (I won't go breaking your heart) Don't go breaking my heart Oooh-hoo Nobody knows it When I was down (I was your clown) Right from the start (I gave you my heart) I gave you my heart Oooh, I gave you my heart So don't go breaking my heart (I won't go breaking your heart) Don't go breaking my heart (I won't go breaking your heart) Don't go breaking my heart (I won't go breaking your heart) Don't go breaking my heart (I won't go breaking your heart) Don't go breaking my heart (I won't go breaking your heart) -------- Duets (1993) -------- -------- (12) Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing -------- Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby Ain't nothing like the real thing Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby Ain't nothing like the real thing I got your picture hanging on my wall But it can't seem to come to me When I call your name I realized it's just a picture in a frame I read your letters but you're not here They don't move me, they don't groove me Like when I hear Your sweet voice whispering in my ear I play my games of fantasy I pretend I don't see reality I need the shelter of your arms to comfort me I got some memories to look back on Though they help me when you're gone I'm well aware Nothing can take the place of you being there No other sound is quite the same as your name No touch can do half as much To make me feel better Let's stay together I'm so So glad we got the real thing, baby So glad we got the real thing Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby Ain't nothing like the real thing -------- Duets (1993) -------- -------- (13) I'm Your Puppet -------- Pull the string and I'll wink at you, I'm your puppet I'll do funny things if you want me to, I'm your puppet I'll be yours to have and to hold Darling you've got full control of your puppet Pull another string and I'll kiss your lips, I'm your puppet Snap your finger and I'll turn you some flips, I'm your puppet Your every wish is my command All you gotta do is wiggle your little hand I'm your puppet, I'm your puppet I'm just a toy, just a funny boy That makes you laugh when you're blue I'll be wonderful, do just what I'm told I'll do anything for you I'm your puppet, I'm your puppet Pull them little strings and I'll sing you a song, I'm your puppet Make me do right or make me do wrong, I'm your puppet Treat me good and I'll do anything I'm just a puppet an you hold my string, I'm your puppet Yeah, I'm your puppet Walking, talking, living, loving puppet I'm hanging on a string girl, I'll do anything now I'm a walking, talking, living, loving puppet, and I love you I'm a smiling happy face when you want me to Even make you happy when you're feeling blue -------- Duets (1993) -------- -------- (14) Love Letters -------- Love letters straight from your heart Keep us so near while apart I'm not alone in the night When I can have all the love you write I memorize every line And I kiss the name that you sign And, darling, then I read again right from the start Love letters straight from your heart I memorize every line And I kiss the name that you sign And, darling, then I read again right from the start Love letters straight from your heart And, darling, then I read again right from the start Love letters straight from your heart -------- Duets (1993) -------- -------- (15) Born To Lose -------- Born to lose I've lived my life in vain Every dream has only brought me pain All my life I've always been so blue Born to lose And now I'm losing you Born to lose Oh it seems so hard to bear When I wake and find that you're not there Ooh you've grown tired and now you say we're through I'm born to lose And now I'm losing you Born to lose I've lived my life in vain Every dream has only brought me pain All my life I've always been so blue Born to lose And now I'm losing you Born to lose And now I'm losing you Now I'm losing you -------- Duets (1993) -------- -------- (16) Duets For One -------- Look at you, could I have been so foolish and so green A face that smiled at every passing scene Look at you, you're lost behind the web of woven time When each emotion pinball in your mind Look at me, I'm happy now I see your face and smile I was the judge and jury at your trial Look at me, you know the road ahead will twist and turn Now I have the time to stand and learn But you and I have come so far With a shaken faith From the pain of a broken heart Toward feeling great Feel like life has just begun No more singing duets for one I hold your picture here beside the bed You had a party raging in your head Look at me, I look at you with vacancy and hurt And here today all I can do is learn Look at me, I'm happy now I see your face and smile I was the judge and jury at your trial Look at me, you know the road ahead will twist and turn Now I have the time to stand and learn I have this picture of me looking at you Looking at me And I would like to say Goodbye sweet memory -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (1) My Baby Loves Lovin' -------- My baby loves loving, my baby loves loving She's got what it takes, and she knows how to use it My baby loves loving, my baby loves loving She's got what it takes, and she knows how to use it I was lonely once in this great big world Just a nowhere man without a girl 'Till that lucky day when she came my way And she smiled at me as if to say My baby loves loving, my baby loves loving She's got what it takes, and she knows how to use it My baby loves loving, my baby loves loving She's got what it takes, and she knows how to use it She's the only one, makes me feel so good Can't believe my love so I knock on wood All my silent fears seem to fly away And she smiled at me as if to say Your baby loves loving, my baby loves loving She's got what it takes for me No more lonely nights just waiting for the telephone to ring No more lonely days, my baby's taking care of everything I'm telling you people My baby loves loving, my baby loves loving She's got what it takes, and she knows how to use it My baby loves loving, my baby loves loving She's got what it takes, and she knows how to use it She's the only one, makes me feel so good Can't believe my love so I knock on wood All my silent fears seem to fly away And she looked at me as if to say My baby loves loving, my baby loves loving She's got what it takes, and she knows how to use it My baby loves loving, my baby loves loving She's got what it takes, and she knows how to use it My baby loves loving, my baby loves loving She's got what it takes, and she knows how to use it My baby loves loving, my baby loves loving She's got what it takes, and she knows how to use it -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (2) Cottonfields -------- When I was a little bitty baby My Momma done rocked me in the cradle In them old cotton fields back home It was back in Louisiana Just about a mile from Texarkana In them old cotton fields back home Let me tell you now well I got me in a mess I caught a nail in my tire doing lickety splits I had to walk a long long way to town When I was a little bitty baby My Momma done rocked me in the cradle In them old cotton fields back home It was back in Louisiana Just about a mile from Texarkana In them old cotton fields back home Came along a nice old man Well he had a hammer Wait a minute mister, can you get me some direction I'm gonna wanna be right off for home Oh let them cotton balls get rotten I got you baby, who needs cotton In them old cotton fields back home Well it sure feels good to breathe the air back home You should have seen their faces when they seen how I'd grown In them old cotton fields back home -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (3) Lady D'Arbanville -------- My Lady D'Arbanville Why do you sleep so still? I'll wake you tomorrow And you will be my pill, yes, you will be my pill My Lady D'Arbanville Why do you grieve me so? But your heart seems so silent Why do you breathe so low, why do you breathe so low? My Lady D'Arbanville Why do you sleep so still I'll wake you tomorrow And you will be my pill, yes you will be my pill My Lady D'Arbanville You look so cold tonight Your legs feel like winter Your skin has turned to white, your skin has turned to white My Lady D'Arbanville Why do you sleep so still I'll wake you tomorrow And you will be my pill, yes you will be my pill My Lady D'Arbanville Why do you grieve me so But your heart seems so silent Why do you breathe so low, why do you breathe so low? I love you, my lady Though in your grave you lie I'll always be with you This rose will never die, this rose will never die -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (4) Natural Sinner -------- Sometimes I feel too old to work Too young to die But I'll drink wine and whisky I'll keep smoking 'til I die I wear a suit of sadness Made by experience For I believe that in the end Time will heal what men can't mend I'm a natural sinner Born a sinner's son Evil's been my motto Distrust everyone I'm a natural sinner Born a sinner's son Evil's been my motto Distrust everyone Big men with small minds Now, they're not hard to find Now they ain't got no good side It plain greed that covers up what's inside Now ride the confusion Withhold your trust Struck with your own hand When, you think the cause is just I'm a natural sinner Born a sinner's son Evil's been my motto Distrust everyone I'm a natural sinner Born a sinner's son Evil's been my motto Distrust everyone I'm a natural sinner Born a sinner's son Evil's been my motto Distrust everyone I'm a natural sinner Born a sinner's son Evil's been my motto Distrust everyone I'm a natural sinner Born a sinner's son Evil's been my motto Distrust everyone I'm a natural sinner Born a sinner's son Evil's been my motto Distrust everyone I'm a natural sinner Born a sinner's son Evil's been my motto Distrust everyone I'm a natural sinner Born a sinner's son Evil's been my motto Distrust everyone I'm a natural sinner Born a sinner's son Evil's been my motto Distrust everyone I'm a natural sinner Born a sinner's son Evil's been my motto Distrust everyone -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (5) United We Stand -------- There's nowhere in the world that I would rather be Than with you my love And there's nothing in the world that I would rather see Than your smile my love For united we stand Divided we fall And if our backs should ever be against the wall We'll be together, together, you and I For united we stand Divided we fall And if our backs should ever be against the wall We'll be together, together, you and I And if the world about you falls apart my love Then I'll still be here And if the going gets too hard along the way Just you call, I'll hear For united we stand Divided we fall And if our backs should ever be against the wall We'll be together, together, you and I For united we stand Divided we fall And if our backs should ever be against the wall We'll be together, together, you and I For united we stand Divided we fall And if our backs should ever be against the wall We'll be together, together, you and I -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (6) Spirit In The Sky -------- When I die and they lay me to rest Gonna go to the place that's best When they lay me down to die Going on up to the Spirit in the sky Going on up to the Spirit in the sky (Spirit in the sky) That's where I'm gonna go when I die (When I die) When I die and they lay me to rest I'm gonna go to the place that's the best Prepare yourself, you know it's a must Gotta have a friend named Jesus So you know that when you die It's gonna recommend you to the Spirit in the sky (Spirit in the sky) Going on up to the Spirit in the sky That's where you're gonna go when you die (When you die) When I die and they lay me to rest I'm gonna go to the place that's the best Never been a sinner, I've never sinned I've got a friend named Jesus So you know that when I die It's gonna set me up with the Spirit in the sky Oh set me up with the spirit in the sky That's where I'm gonna go when I die When I die and they lay me to rest Gonna go to the place that's the best I'm gonna go to the place that's the best -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (7) Travellin' Band -------- 737 coming out of the sky Won't you take me down To Memphis on a midnight ride? I want to move, yeah Playing in a travelling band, yeah Well, I'm flying across the land Trying to get a hand Playing in a travelling band Take me to the hotel Baggage gone, oh well Come on, come on Won't you get me to the room? I want to move, yeah Playing in a travelling band, yeah Well, I'm flying across the land Trying to get a hand Playing in a travelling band Listen to the radio Talking about the last show Someone got excited Had to call the state militia I want to move, yeah Playing in a travelling band, yeah Well, I'm flying across the land Trying to get a hand Playing in a travelling band Here we come again on a Saturday night With your fussing and your fighting Won't you get me to the right I want to move, yeah Playing in a travelling band, yeah Well, I'm flying across the land Trying to get a hand Playing in a travelling band Well, I'm playing in a travelling band Playing in a travelling band Playing in a travelling band Well, I'm playing in a travelling band Well, I'm flying across the land Trying to get a hand Playing in a travelling band -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (8) I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top -------- And every time I get to thinking Every thought of you I want to shout aloud Then I think about the love I have inside me How you brought what's inside out Now love's made it to the outside I want to tell the world of everything I've found Somehow your love released a spring wound up inside me You turned my living upside down And I can't tell the bottom from the top Am I standing on my head or on my heels Is it cloudy, is it bright Is it day or is it night Am I wrong or am I right And is it real Tell me where you learned the magic The spell you used the day you made me fall Maybe now I know that love is no illusion I'm upside down but ten feet tall And I can't tell the bottom from the top Am I standing on my head or on my heels Is it cloudy, is it bright Is it day or is it night Am I wrong or am I right And is it real On and on I've drifted with the tide I didn't know that love could move me so You fed my life with love and much more besides And you showed me which way to go And I can't tell the bottom from the top Am I standing on my head or on my heels Is it cloudy, is it bright Is it day or is it night Am I wrong or am I right And is it real And I can't tell the bottom from the top Am I standing on my head or on my heels Is it cloudy, is it bright Is it day or is it night Am I wrong or am I right And is it real -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (9) Good Morning Freedom -------- Good morning world, it's a brand new day I'm packing my bags and I'm going away I'm moving my legs and my city tired bones I gotta get away from the busy man's phones Gotta make a move where the living is wild and free If you want to get happy then people come along with me A fee fa fou fafafafa fouu Run along boy, set a place for me I'm getting so tired of the company I'm getting haughty looks from the big white man I gotta get away just as fast as I can Gotta make a move where the living is wild and free If you want to get happy then people come along with me A fee fa fou fafafafa fouu Good morning freedom Gotta break away Gotta break away Gotta break away Good morning freedom It's another day It's another day It's another day Good morning freedom A fee fa fou fafafafa fouu All over the world it's the same old game A city tired living is the game to play Loving thy neighbour is the real live thing There's only one way to get the people to sing Gotta make a move where the living is wild and free If you want to get happy then people come along with me A fee fa fou fafafafa fouu -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (10) Young Gifted And Black -------- Young, gifted and black Oh, what a lovely precious dream To be young, gifted and black Open your heart to what I mean In the whole world you know There's a million boys and girls Who are young, gifted and black And that's a fact Young, gifted and black We must begin to tell our young There's a world waiting for you This is a quest that's just begun When you feel really low Yeah, there's a great truth you should know When you're young, gifted and black Your soul's intact Young, gifted and black How I long to know the truth There are times when I look back And I am haunted by my youth? Oh but my joy of today Is that we can all be proud to say? To be young, gifted and black Is where it's at -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (11) In The Summertime -------- In the summertime when the weather is high You can stretch right up and touch the sky When the weather's fine You got women, you got women on your mind Have a drink, have a draft Go out and see what you can find If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel Speed along the lane, do a ton or a ton and twenty-five When the sun goes down, you can make it Make it good and then they buy We're not grey people, we're not dirty we're not mean We love everybody, but we do as we please When the weather's fine, we go fishing or go swimming in the sea We're always happy, life's for living, yeah that's our philosophy Sing along with us, de de de-de-dee Da da da-da-da, yeah we're hap-happy Da da da-da-da-da-da da da-da da Da da da-da-da-da-da da da-da da When the winter's here, yeah it's party time Bring you bottle, wear your bright clothes 'cause it will soon be summer time And we'll sing again, we'll go driving or maybe we'll settle down down If she's rich, if she's nice, bring your friends and we'll all go into town -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (12) Up Around The Bend -------- There's a place up ahead and I'm going Just as fast as my feet can fly Come away, come away if you're going Leave the sinking ships behind Come on to rise and win We're going up around the bend Bring a song and a smile for the banjo Better get while the getting's good Hitch a ride to the end of the highway Where the neon's prime to wood Come on to rise and win We're going up around the bend You can ponder perpetual motion It's your mind on a crystal day Always time for a good conversation There's an ear for what you say Come on to rise and win We're going up around the bend Catch a ride to the end of the highway And we'll meet by the big red tree There's a place up ahead and I'm going Come along, come along with me Come on to rise and win We're going up around the bend -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (13) Snake In The Grass -------- Beautiful morning, ahh Down by the river, ahh Without a warning, ahh Who'd ever guess you'd come across a snake in the grass Every day now, ahh You take a walk here, ahh What do you say now, ahh If you should meet an evil-minded snake in the grass Stop and watch where you're putting your feet, my sweet I don't want to do anything bad But you make me mad and I might bite your face, bite neck, bite arms, bite bite 'Cause I'm, oh, a snake in the grass, oh A snake in the grass Looking around you, ahh You never see me, ahh You'll get a surprise, ahh Should you get entangled with a snake in the grass Under my thick skin, ahh I can be lonely, ahh Please can I come in, ahh And end my sad existence as a snake in the grass Under my thick skin, ahh I can be lonely, ahh Please can I come in, ahh And end my sad existence as a snake in the grass Stop and watch where you're putting your feet, my sweet I don't want to do anything bad But you make me mad and I might bite your face, bite neck, bite arms, bite bite 'Cause I'm, oh, a snake in the grass, oh A snake in the grass -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (14) Neanderthal Man -------- I'm a neanderthal man You're a neanderthal girl Let's make neanderthal love In this neanderthal world I'm a neanderthal man You're a neanderthal girl Let's make neanderthal love In this neanderthal world I'm a neanderthal man You're a neanderthal girl Let's make neanderthal love In this neanderthal world I'm a neanderthal man You're a neanderthal girl Let's make neanderthal love In this neanderthal world -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (15) She Sold Me Magic -------- Maybe, you're always maybe Maybe, maybe I love you My thanks jaunty for the lower time Maybe, you're always maybe Maybe, maybe I love you But I keep follow something other side She sold me magic She sold me magic And all the believer things I needed every day She sold me magic She sold me magic And all the believer things I needed every day Maybe, you're always maybe, maybe, maybe I love you My thanks jaunty for the lower time Maybe, you're always maybe, maybe, maybe I love you But I keep follow something other side She sold me magic She sold me magic And all the believer things I needed every day She sold me magic She sold me magic And all the believer things I needed every day She said I'm in my better life time She said my soul is matching her a sign She turn mine in all about she loves me strong Will you love me love? She push me all again your love Will you love me love? She push me all again your love Maybe, you're always maybe, maybe, maybe I love you My thanks jaunty for the lower time Maybe, you're always maybe, maybe, maybe I love you But I keep follow something other side -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (16) Come And Get It -------- If you want it, here it is, come and get it Make your mind up fast If you want it anytime, I can give it But you better hurry 'cause it may not last Did I hear you say that there must be a catch Will you walk away from a fool and his money If you want it here it is, come and get it But you better hurry 'cause it's going fast If you want it, here it is, come and get it Make your mind up fast If you want it anytime, I can give it But you better hurry 'cause it may not last Did I hear you say that there must be a catch Will you walk away from a fool and his money, sonny If you want it here it is, come and get it But you better hurry 'cause it's going fast You better hurry 'cause it's going fast Fool and his money, sonny If you want it here it is, come and get it But you better hurry 'cause it's going fast You better hurry 'cause it's going fast You better hurry 'cause it's going fast -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (17) Love Of The Common People -------- Living on free food tickets Water in the milk from the hole in the roof Where the rain came through What can we do Tears from your little sister Crying 'cause she doesn't have a dress without a patch for the party to go Oh but you know she'll get by 'Cause she's living in the love of the common people Smiles from the heart of the family man Daddy's gonna buy her a dream to cling to Momma's gonna love her just as much as she can And she can It's a good thing you don't have bus fare It would fall through the hole in your pocket And you'll lose it in the snow on the ground Out walking your dog to find a job Trying to keep your hands warm But the hole in your shoe lets the snow come through And it chills you to the bone You better go home where it's warm You can live in the love of the common people Smiles from the heart of the family man Daddy's gonna buy her a dream to cling to Momma's gonna love her just as much as she can And she can Living on dreams ain't easy But the closer the knit the tighter the fit And the chills stay away You can take them in stride, for family pride You know that faith in your foundation And with a whole lot of love and a warm conversation And a __ prayer making you strong Where you belong Where you can live in the love of the common people Smiles from the heart of the family man Daddy's gonna buy her a dream to cling to Momma's gonna love her just as much as she can And she can -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (18) Signed, Sealed, Delivered -------- Like a fool I went and stayed too long Now I'm wondering if your love's still strong Oo, baby, here I am, signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours! Then that time I went and said goodbye Now I'm back and not ashamed to cry Oo, baby, here I am, signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours! Here I am baby Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours (You got my future in your hands) Here I am baby Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours (You got my future in your hands) I've done a lot of foolish things That I really didn't mean, didn't I? Seen a lot of things in this old world When I touch them, they mean nothing, girl Oo, baby, here I am, signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours! Oowee baby, you set my soul on fire That's why I know you're my heart's only desire Here I am baby Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours (You got my future in your hands) Here I am baby Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours (You got my future in your hands) -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (19) It's All In The Game -------- Many a tear has to fall But it's all in the game All in the wonderful game That we know has love You have words with him And your future's looking kind of dim But these things Your heart can rise above Once in a while he won't call Oh but it's all in the game Soon he'll be there at your side With a sweet "OK" And he'll kiss your lips And caress your waiting fingertips And your heart will fly away Come on sing it now Do-do-do-do-do do doo, oh yeah And he'll kiss your lips And caress your waiting fingertips And your heart will fly away -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (20) Yellow River -------- So long, boy you can take my place I've got my papers, I've got my pay So pack my bags and I'll be on my way To Yellow River Put my gun down, the war is won Fill my glass high, the time has come I'm going back to the place that I love Yellow River Yellow River Yellow River is in my mind and in my eyes Yellow River Yellow River is in my blood, it's the place I love Got no time for explanations Got no time to lose Tomorrow night you'll find me sleeping underneath the moon At Yellow River Cannon fire lingers in my mind I'm so glad that I'm still alive And I've been gone for such a long time From Yellow River I remember the nights were cool I can still see the water pool And I remember the girl that I knew From Yellow River Yellow River Yellow River is in my mind and in my eyes Yellow River Yellow River is in my blood, it's the place I love Got no time for explanations Got no time to lose Tomorrow night you'll find me sleeping underneath the moon At Yellow River Yellow River Yellow River is in my mind and in my eyes Yellow River Yellow River is in my blood, it's the place I love -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (21) Sweet Honesty -------- Talk of making love Take your time To bluff your way to stay Let me use your eyes Please don't amuse with words that cut me down to size With your lovely mind Never taking time To treat a man so kind You remain to me a vision of sweet honesty Sweet honesty Sweet honesty Sweet honesty Do I need to say That I'm wiser with surprise for borrowing your eyes Morning sets the scene The more you stay the more you go away from me it seems With your lovely mind Never taking time To treat a man so kind You remain to me a vision of sweet honesty Sweet honesty Sweet honesty Sweet honesty Sweet honesty Sweet honesty -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (22) Day Is Done -------- When the day is done Down to Earth then sinks the sun Along with everything that was lost and won When the day is done When the day is done Hope so much your race will be all run Then you find you jumped the gun Have to go back where you begun When the day is done When the night is cold Some get by but some get old Just to show life's not made of gold When the night is cold When the bird has flown Got no one to call your own Got no place to call your home Now the bird has flown When the game's been fought Newspaper blowing across the court Lost much sooner than you would have thought Now the game's been fought When the party's through Seems so very sad for you Didn't do the things you meant to do Now there's no time to to start anew Now the party's through When the day is done Down to Earth then sinks the sun Along with everything that was lost and won When the day is done Day is done When the day is done -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (23) Way To Blue -------- Don't you have a word to show what may be done Have you never heard a way to find the sun Tell me all that you may know Show me what you have to show Won't you come and say If you know the way to blue Have you seen the land living by the breeze Can you understand a light among the trees Tell me all that you may know Show me what you have to show Tell us all today IF you know the way to blue Look though time and find your rhyme Tell us what you find We will wait at your gate Hoping like the blind Can you now recall all that you have known Will you never fall when the light has flown Tell me all that you may know Show me what you have to show Won't you come and say If you know the way to blue -------- Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop (1994) -------- -------- (24) Time Has Told Me -------- Time has told me You're a rare rare find A troubled cure For a troubled mind And time has told me Not to ask for more Someday our ocean Will find its shore So I'll leave the ways that are making me be What I really don't want to be Leave the ways that are making me love What I really don't want to love Time has told me You came with the dawn A soul with no footprint A rose with no thorn Your tears they tell me There's really no way Of ending your troubles With things you can say And time will tell you To stay by my side To keep on trying 'Til there's no more to hide So leave the ways that are making you be What you really don't want to be Leave the ways that are making you love What you really don't want to love Time has told me You're a rare rare find A troubled cure For a troubled mind And time has told me Not to ask for more For some day our ocean Will find its shore -------- Made In England (1995) -------- -------- (1) Believe -------- I believe in love, it's all we got Love has no boundaries, costs nothing to touch War makes money, cancer sleeps Curled up in my father and that means something to me Churches and dictators, politics and papers Everything crumbles sooner or later But love, I believe in love I believe in love, it's all we got Love has no boundaries, no borders to cross Love is simple, hate breeds Those who think difference is the child of disease Father and son make love and guns Families together kill someone Without love, I believe in love Without love I wouldn't believe In anything that lives and breathes Without love I'd have no anger I wouldn't believe in the right to stand here Without love I wouldn't believe I couldn't believe in you And I wouldn't believe in me Without love I believe in love I believe in love I believe in love -------- Made In England (1995) -------- -------- (2) Made In England -------- I was made in England Out of Cadillac muscle I had a quit-me father I had a love-me mother I had Little Richard And that black piano Oh, that sweet Georgia Peach And the boy from Tupelo Woh oh oh oh, I was made in England Woh oh oh oh, I was made in England I was made in England Out of Cadillac muscle Face down on a playground Crying, 'God, send me a brother' Not a bloody nose For rock 'n' roll Give me that sweet Georgian Peach And the boy from Tupelo Woh oh oh oh, I was made in England Woh oh oh oh, I was made in England Yeah! I was made in England Like a blue Cortina But a Yankee summer Had a way about her You had a scent for scandal Well here's my middle finger I had forty years of pain And nothing to cling to Woh oh oh oh, I was made in England Woh oh oh oh, I was made in England If you're made in England You're built to last You can still say 'homo' And everybody laughs But the joke's on you You never read the song They all think they know But they've all got it wrong Woh oh oh oh, I was made in England Woh oh oh oh, I was made in England (sing it!) Woh oh oh oh, I was made in England Woh oh oh oh, I was made in England Yeah! I Was Made In England! I Was Made In England! I Was Made In England! Yeah, yeah! Yeah, oh Oh I was made in England Whoa, rock on, boy, yeah Hey -------- Made In England (1995) -------- -------- (3) House -------- This is my house This is where I live That is the winter Those are the trees I can hear them breathe This is my bed This is where I sleep That was the dark Those are my dreams They belong to me This is my floor This is where I lie This is a square room That was a bright light These are not my eyes What is my soul Where is my tired heart That is the question Where is the answer Inside my house And I sit by the window And I wish I was rain I want to fall from the sky I want to get wet all over again 'Cause this my house It belongs to me Inside my head It's all that's left This is my house This is my bed This is where I sleep That was the dark Those are my dreams They belong to me This is my house -------- Made In England (1995) -------- -------- (4) Cold -------- You don't love him any more He threw your rag doll out the door I keep my distance I held my breath Love always ends up Hanging by a thread Love hurts so much Love leaves a scar "I don't love you" is like a stake Being driven through your heart But I don't care I came back for you Love is cruel, but I don't care I wanted you And I'm cold Cold Cold You said, "Don't cry to me" He said, "I'm a dead man if you leave" I have no feelings, I have no heart Love always cuts out The warm and tender part Love hurts so much Love cuts so deep It's a hot sweat and a cold shake Like drowning in your sleep But I don't care I came back for you Love is cruel, but I don't care I wanted you And I'm cold Cold Cold Love hurts so much Love leaves a scar "I don't love you" is like a stake Being driven through your heart I don't care I came back for you I don't care I came back for you Love is cruel But I don't care I wanted you And I'm cold Cold Cold I'm cold Cold So cold Cold Ohh I'm cold Honey, I'm cold So cold I'm so cold Cold Ohh I'm cold I'm so cold Cold Ohh I'm so cold Cold I'm cold Cold -------- Made In England (1995) -------- -------- (5) Pain -------- What's your name? My name is pain Where do you live? I live anyplace Where were you born? In the state of fear How old are you? Nineteen hundred and ninety-four years What's your plan? My plan is pain When will you leave? I'll never go away How will you breathe? You'll give me life How will you see? Sitting in the temple right between your eyes My name is pain, you belong to me You're all I wanted, I'm all you'll ever be From the beginning in a world without end I am the air, I am pain Pain is love, pain is pure Pain is sickness, pain is the cure Pain is death, pain is religion Pain is life, pain is television Pain walks, pain crawls Pain is peace, pain is war Where were you born? In the state of fear How old are you? Nineteen hundred and ninety-four years My name is pain, you belong to me You're all I wanted, I'm all you'll ever be From the beginning in a world without end I am the air, I am pain My name is pain You belong to me You're all I wanted I'm all you'll ever be From the beginning In a world without end I am the air I am pain From the beginning In a world without end I am the air I am pain I am pain I am pain I am pain I am pain -------- Made In England (1995) -------- -------- (6) Belfast -------- Deep inside my soul fights a war I can't explain, I can't cross over any more All I see are dirty faces Rain and wire, and common sense in pieces But I try to see through Irish eyes Belfast Look outside, summer's lost and gone It's a long walk on a street of right and wrong In every inch of sadness Rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness But I never saw a braver place Belfast And it's sad when they sing, and hollow ears listen Of smoking black roses, on the streets of Belfast And so say your lovers from under the flowers Every foot of this world needs an inch of Belfast Who's to say on whom heaven smiles Our different ways we try hard to recognise No more enchanted evenings The pubs are closed and all the ghosts are leaving But you'll never let them shut you down Belfast And it's sad when they sing, and hollow ears listen Of smoking black roses, on the streets of Belfast And so say your lovers from under the flowers Every foot of this world needs an inch of Belfast The enemy is not at home A jealous green streaks down this faulty diamond No bloody boots or crucifix Can ever hope to split this emerald island But I never saw a braver face Belfast -------- Made In England (1995) -------- -------- (7) Latitude -------- Grey London morning Wet London streets Rain on the window Wind in the trees It's my time to write It's your time to call There's something about distance That gets to us all Dark clouds above me Little people below All walk with a purpose With someplace to go It's my place to paint My own selfish scene On this cold lonely canvas It's just the weather and me And latitude Fold back the morning and bring on the night There's an alien moon That hangs between darkness and light Latitude Between me and you You're a straight line of distance A cold stretch of black across blue Latitude Cracks in the sidewalks Dogs on the run An old poster reading Window frames capture Moments in time But latitude captures The heart and the mind And latitude Fold back the morning and bring on the night There's an alien moon That hangs between darkness and light Latitude Between me and you You're a straight line of distance A cold stretch of black across blue Latitude And latitude Fold back the morning and bring on the night There's an alien moon That hangs between darkness and light Latitude Between me and you You're a straight line of distance A cold stretch of black across blue Latitude Latitude Latitude Latitude -------- Made In England (1995) -------- -------- (8) Please -------- We've been crippled in love Short changed, hung out to dry We've chalked on the walls A slogan or two about life Stood dazed in the doorway The king and queen of clowns We've been flipped like a coin Both of us landing face-down So please, please Let me grow old with you After everything we've been through What's left to prove So please, please, please, oh please Let me grow old with you We've been living with sorrow Been up, down and all around We've buried our feelings A little too deep in the ground Stood dazed in the doorway The king and queen of clowns We've been flipped like a coin Both of us landing face-down So please, please Let me grow old with you After everything we've been through What's left to prove So please, please, please, oh please Let me grow old with you But tied to the same track The two of us look back At oncoming trains ahead How many more times Can we lay on the line Watching our love hang by a thread So please, please Let me grow old with you After everything we've been through What's left to prove So please, please, please, oh please Let me grow old with you So please, please Let me grow old with you After everything we've been through What's left to prove So please, please, please, oh please Let me grow old with you -------- Made In England (1995) -------- -------- (9) Man -------- Man stands in all his glory Sitting at the crossroads of the same old story Man got his make-up, wears it like a mask Hides inside a child, lives inside a glass Man breathes his own deceit Man worships his own defeat Oh I'm a man I know what it feels like I'm a man working on the living part of life You see through me I understand Don't lose hope If you can Have a little faith in man Shakespeare's men got all the lines Modern man lives back in time Man got bravado in his big steel hands Runs with the wolf, sleeps with the lamb Man falls, cuts and bleeds Man stumbles on his own belief Oh I'm a man I know what it feels like I'm a man working on the living part of life You see through me I understand Don't lose hope If you can Have a little faith in man He's the hoax Behind the thrill The poison arrow The bitter pill Hard to swallow Hard to kill Hard to understand He's the light Behind the hill The broken promise The iron will Hard to kill Hard to understand Oh I'm a man I know what it feels like I'm a man working on the living part of life You see through me I understand Don't lose hope If you can Have a little faith in man Oh I'm a man I know what it feels like I'm a man working on the living part of life You see through me I understand Don't lose hope If you can Have a little faith in man Have a little faith in man -------- Made In England (1995) -------- -------- (10) Lies -------- Some lie about who they love Some lie about the truth Some lie to save their lives Some lie about their youth Some lie about age and beauty The conquest of sex Most lie about the night before A woman lies for a party dress I've lied for a stolen moment I've lied for one more clue I've lied about most everything But I never lied to you And we lie, lie, lie On a streetcar named desire Oh we lie, lie, lie For that sweet bird of youth I could be great like Tennessee Williams If I could only hear something That sounds like the truth Some lie in the face of death Some lie about their fame Some kneel and lie to God Some lie about their name Some lie in words and speeches With every living breath The young lie with their guitars The old lie for a little respect I've lied to lie with danger I've lied for a drug or two I've lied about most everything But I never lied to you And we lie, lie, lie On a streetcar named desire Oh we lie, lie, lie For that sweet bird of youth I could be great like Tennessee Williams If I could only hear something That sounds like the truth I've lied for a stolen moment I've lied for one more clue I've lied about most everything But I never lied to you And we lie, lie, lie On a streetcar named desire Oh we lie, lie, lie For that sweet bird of youth I could be great like Tennessee Williams If I could only hear something That sounds like the truth -------- Made In England (1995) -------- -------- (11) Blessed -------- Hey you, you're a child in my head You haven't walked yet Your first words have yet to be said But I swear you'll be blessed I know you're still just a dream Your eyes might be green Or the bluest that I've ever seen Anyway you'll be blessed And you, you'll be blessed You'll have the best I promise you that I'll pick a star from the sky Pull your name from a hat I promise you that, promise you that, promise you that You'll be blessed I need you before I'm too old To have and to hold To walk with you and watch you grow And know that you're blessed And you, you'll be blessed You'll have the best I promise you that I'll pick a star from the sky Pull your name from a hat I promise you that, promise you that, promise you that You'll be blessed And you, you'll be blessed You'll have the best I promise you that I'll pick a star from the sky Pull your name from a hat I promise you that, promise you that, promise you that You'll be blessed (Promise you that, promise you that, promise you that) You'll be blessed (Promise you that, promise you that, promise you that) You'll be blessed You'll be blessed -------- The Big Picture (1997) -------- -------- (1) Long Way From Happiness -------- I guess you're okay You seem to feel better these days I've known you for so long I've seen your brightness go from blue to grey You know that's true You can shake your head but I can prove I've seen things through your eyes You think you win but in the end you lose And there's no second guess We take no second bets Chances are we're a long way from happiness Don't cover up the road to love With words that can't express The truth implies you're high and dry And you're a long way from happiness I'm one step behind Looking out for you all the time I'll put my faith in you And steer you clear of love that leaves you blind And there's no second guess We take no second bets Chances are we're a long way from happiness Don't cover up the road to love With words that can't express The truth implies you're high and dry And you're a long way from happiness And there's no second guess We take no second bets Chances are we're a long way from happiness Don't cover up the road to love With words that can't express The truth implies you're high and dry And you're a long way from happiness -------- The Big Picture (1997) -------- -------- (2) Live Like Horses -------- I can't control this flesh and blood That's wrapped around my bones It moves beneath me, like a river Into the great unknown I stepped onto the moving stairs Before I could tie my shoes Pried a harp out the fingers of a renegade Who lived and died the blues And his promise made was never clear It just carved itself in me All I saw was frost inside my head On the night he said to me Someday, we'll live like horses Free rein from your old, iron fences There's more ways than one to regain your senses Break out the stalls, and we'll live like horses We're the victims of the heartbreak That kept us short of breath Trapped above these bloodless streets Without a safety net I stood in line to join the trial One more customer of fate Claimed a spoke in the wheel of a wagon train On the road to the golden gate On the flat, dry desert, I jumped ship It just made sense to me I've spent too long in the belly of the beast And now, I shall be free Someday, we'll live like horses Free rein from your old, iron fences There's more ways than one to regain your senses Break out the stalls, and we'll live like horses someday Free rein from your old, iron fences There's more ways than one to regain your senses Break out the stalls, and we'll live like horses -------- The Big Picture (1997) -------- -------- (3) The End Will Come -------- And when we start we say forever We say we care, we need, we feel You read the movement of our eyes But in our hearts we still believe The end will come, before we know The silent rule of love applies We light the fuse and let it burn out We just accept that love must die And so they say "The end will come for us" And so the world slows down to let us off Just hang it up and let it go, accept it if I must (Aaa) But I don't believe, I don't believe, that the end will come for us (Aaa) No I won't believe the end will come for us The end will come like sudden rain The end is never what it seems We sink the ship before we sail We just accept what failure means And so they say "The end will come for us" And so the world slows down to let us off Just hang it up and let it go, accept it if I must (Aaa) But I don't believe, I don't believe, that the end will come for us (Aaa) No I won't believe the end will come for us And so they say, "The end will come for us" And so the world slows down to let us off Just hang it up and let it go, accept it if I must (Aaa) But I don't believe, I don't believe, that the end will come for us (Aaa) Just hang it up and let it go, accept it if I must (Aaa) But I don't believe, I don't believe, that the end will come for us (Aaa) No I won't believe the end will come for us -------- The Big Picture (1997) -------- -------- (4) If The River Can Bend -------- Oh, oh Oh, oh Oh, oh Oh, oh I don't know what to say I don't know where the light shines It's a gray dawn rising on a green hill And there's so much behind us I don't know where we go I sure feel there's something out there There's a great awakening and a new morning And your spirit's pounding loud and clear If the river can bend I'll find you waiting Home at last from the wild sea All the twists and turns We've made together All the boats you rocked, with your harmony If the river can bend (Ooh, ooh, ooh) If the river can bend (Ooh) If the river can bend (Ooh, ooh, ooh) Ha, if the river can bend Come and embrace the struggle But win or lose we live here Build a new beginning on an old rock Breathe deep of the sweet fresh air If the river can bend I'll find you waiting Home at last from the wild sea All the twists and turns We've made together All the boats you rocked, with your harmony If the river can bend (Ooh, ooh, ooh) If the river can bend (Ooh) If the river can bend (Ooh, ooh, ooh) Ha, if the river can bend If the river can bend I'll find you waiting Home at last from the wild sea All the twists and turns We've made together All the boats you rocked, with your harmony If the river can bend I'll find you waiting Home at last from the wild sea All the twists and turns We've made together All the boats you rocked, with your harmony If the river can bend (Ooh, ooh, ooh) If the river can bend (Ooh) If the river can bend (Ooh, ooh, ooh) Ha, if the river can bend Yeah, yeah If the river can bend Yeah, yeah If the river can bend (Ooh, ooh, ooh) If the river can bend (Ooh) If the river can bend (Ooh, ooh, ooh) Ha, if the river can bend Yeah, yeah If the river can bend Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah If the river can bend Yeah, yeah If the river can bend (Ooh, ooh, ooh) If the river can bend (Ooh) If the river can bend (Ooh, ooh, ooh) Ha, if the river can bend If the river can bend (Ooh, ooh, ooh) If the river can bend (Ooh) If the river can bend (Ooh, ooh, ooh) Ha, if the river can bend -------- The Big Picture (1997) -------- -------- (5) Love's Got A Lot To Answer For -------- Pull my coat around me Feel the cold wind haunt me Streets are empty just like me The murmur of an echo Seems to come from every window Is loneliness the same as being free? I guess I must have been dreaming To think that I believed in you at all Now I just can't fight it As the shadow of the night begins to fall Love's got a lot to answer for Oh, I just can't sleep with this feeling anymore Let the cold night air cool the heat Of two hearts gone to war For no matter who wins in the end Love's got a lot to answer for All I need is darkness The best of all protection Freedom's like the stars in the sky Alone and cold and burning Each one keeps its distance If only we were stars, you and I I guess I must have been dreaming To think that I believed in you at all Now I just can't fight it As the shadow of the night begins to fall Love's got a lot to answer for Oh, I just can't sleep with this feeling anymore Let the cold night air cool the heat Of two hearts gone to war For no matter who wins in the end Love's got a lot to answer for Love's got a lot to answer for Oh, I just can't sleep with this feeling anymore Let the cold night air cool the heat Of two hearts gone to war For no matter who wins in the end Love's got a lot to answer for -------- The Big Picture (1997) -------- -------- (6) Something About The Way You Look Tonight -------- There was a time I was everything and nothin' all in one When you found me, I was feelin' like a cloud across the sun Well, I need to tell ya how you light up every second of the day But in the moonlight, you just shine like a beacon on the bay And I can't explain But it's somethin' about the way you look tonight Takes my breath away It's that feelin' I get about you deep inside And I can't describe But it's something about the way you look tonight Takes my breath away The way you look tonight With a smile, you pull the deepest secrets from my heart In all honesty, I'm speechless, and I don't know where to start And I can't explain But it's somethin' about the way you look tonight Takes my breath away It's that feelin' I get about you deep inside And I can't describe But it's something about the way you look tonight Takes my breath away The way you look tonight And I can't explain But it's somethin' about the way you look tonight Oh, takes my breath away It's that feelin' I get about you deep inside And I can't describe But it's something about the way you look tonight Takes my breath away The way you look tonight The way you look tonight The way you look tonight The way you look tonight The way you look tonight The way you look tonight The way you look tonight The way you look tonight The way you look tonight (The way you look) Way you look tonight The way you look tonight -------- The Big Picture (1997) -------- -------- (7) The Big Picture -------- On and on The story of our lives goes on and on The path of time The sunsets up ahead roll along In your eyes The option of a warm embrace implies You're my friend Happy endings keep our love alive And tell me do I fit in the big picture Do I have a shot at the big part 'Cause I've been up all night looking at the big picture I've got some good lines for my big star Wanna be your main man in the big picture What a deal To get a part like this Day to day The shifting wind just blows us on our way Here and there Our pockets full of things to say Oh my love I proudly represent you in this world Little satellite Brightest star tonight, oh my love And tell me do I fit in the big picture Do I have a shot at the big part 'Cause I've been up all night looking at the big picture I've got some good lines for my big star Hope I got a future in the big picture At the last embrace From the first kiss And tell me do I fit in the big picture Do I have a shot at the big part 'Cause I've been up all night looking at the big picture I've got some good lines for my big star -------- The Big Picture (1997) -------- -------- (8) Recover Your Soul -------- Baby you're missing something in the air I got a name but it don't matter What's going on? It's cold in here You have a life but it's torn and tattered Maybe you're losing pieces of your heart You have a world but it stopped turning You lose the day and gain the dark Love was a fire but it stopped burning Spare your heart, save your soul Don't drag your love across the coals Find your feet and your fortune can be told Release, relax, let go And hey now let's recover your soul Lazy old sunset sinking like a tear Alone at night in a losing battle That perfect world is never clear You have to fight for the things that matter Spare your heart, save your soul Don't drag your love across the coals Find your feet and your fortune can be told Release, relax, let go And hey now let's recover your soul Spare your heart, save your soul Don't drag your love across the coals Find your feet and your fortune can be told Release, relax, let go And hey now let's recover your soul Hey now let's recover Hey now let's recover your soul And hey now let's recover your soul -------- The Big Picture (1997) -------- -------- (9) January -------- Must have been the right month Must have been a good time Must have counted every cloud in the sky that night Every single glass of wine Must have learned some home truths Sitting in that cool grass Must have counted every blade in that emerald field Every shooting star that passed Should have had a talk with God Sitting in the great unknown Watching all the lovers in the world get together Sitting in Heaven all alone And we were love's knot after summer Tied together in the dead of winter Wrapped up with spring fever in the air Bound together in the autumn Every month means a little something But January is the month that cares Must have kissed you 'til I hurt you Must have been a wild night Must have rolled in the ashes at the break of day Rag dolls in the morning light Must have found a secret place Hiding in our own world Must have counted every smile on your sweet, sweet lips Every single sound we heard Should have had a talk with God Sitting in the great unknown Watching all the lovers in the world get together Sitting in Heaven all alone And we were love's knot after summer Tied together in the dead of winter Wrapped up with spring fever in the air Bound together in the autumn Every month means a little something But January is the month that cares -------- The Big Picture (1997) -------- -------- (10) I Can't Steer My Heart Clear Of You -------- Take me for granted, I think that I could stand it After all these rough seas Left me reckless and abandoned Say the spirits willing, chance a new beginning Break down the cold front Give me peace and understanding And you wait, and you wonder Will she still beat the drum and bring the thunder? Will she still be the star and see me through? 'Cause I can't steer my heart clear of you No I can't steer my heart clear of you It's the way it's been, ever since you sailed Out of a storm and into view And should I drift away, the compass holds the clue You control the weather And I can't steer my heart clear of you Make me your penance, show me your innocence Everything is history From the aching to the pleasure We enjoy the torture, the slow pain that it taught us Everything gets twisted Let me burn or bring me water And you wait, and you wonder Will she still beat the drum and bring the thunder Will she still be the star to see me through 'Cause I can't steer my heart clear of you No I can't steer my heart clear of you It's the way it's been, ever since you sailed Out of a storm and into view And should I drift away, the compass holds the clue You control the weather And I can't steer my heart clear of you You control the weather, and I can't steer my heart clear of you -------- The Big Picture (1997) -------- -------- (11) Wicked Dreams -------- It's written clear, across the room In silent words the blind could understand I came here to relax and find A sleep that soaks me up Like surf and sand And you appear as I descend A soft outline all poised and a feather-light I come into the darkness now To conjure up a dream And close my eyes And don't disturb me if you dare And join me if you have the nerve I'll show you where the best of me has been Behind my eyes I'll wait for you Imagine just what we could do Come join me in my wicked dream Don't send me back to real life The daily grind just leaves me feeling numb Leave me in my wicked dream Where pressure cracks and beauty Comes undone And don't disturb me if you dare And join me if you have the nerve I'll show you where the best of me has been Behind my eyes I'll wait for you Imagine just what we could do Come join me in my wicked dream So don't disturb me if you dare And join me if you have the nerve I'll show you where the best of me has been Behind my eyes I'll wait for you Imagine just what we could do Come join me in my wicked Come and join me in my wicked Come and join me in my wicked dream -------- Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2000) -------- -------- (1) Every Story Is A Love Story -------- [Amneris:] Every story, tale or memoir Every saga or romance Whether true or fabricated Whether planned or happenstance Whether sweeping through the ages Casting centuries aside Or a hurried brief recital Just a thirty-minute ride Whether bright or melancholy Rough and ready, finely spun Whether with a thousand players Or a lonely cast of one Every story, new or ancient Bagatelle or work of art All are tales of human failing All are tales of love at heart This is the story of a love that flourished in a time of hate Of lovers no tyranny could separate Love set into motion on the Nile's shore Destiny ignited by an act of war Egypt saw the mighty river As its very heart and soul Source of life for all her people That only Egypt could control Destruction of her southern neighbor justified Nubia exploited, left with little more than pride Oh... -------- Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2000) -------- -------- (2) Fortune Favors The Brave -------- [Soldiers:] Oh, oh, oh Fortune favors the brave Oh, oh Fortune favors the brave [Radames:] We have swept to glory Egypt's mastery expands From the Nile's northern delta To the dry, dry southern sands The more we find, the more we see The more we come to learn The more that we explore The more we shall return [Soldiers:] Oh, oh, oh Fortune favors the brave [Radames:] It's all worked out, my road is clear The lines of latitude extend Way beyond my wildest dreams Toward some great triumphant end We seized the day We turned the tide We touched the stars We mocked the grave We moved into uncharted lands [Radames/Soldiers:] Fortune favors the brave [Radames:] The more we find, the more we see The more we come to learn The more that we explore The more we shall return Nothing is an accident We are free to have it all We are what we want to be It's in ourselves to rise or fall This is easy to believe When distant places call to me It's harder from the palace yard Fortune favors the free... [Soldiers:] Oh, oh, oh [Radames:] Fortune favors the young... [Soldiers:] Oh, oh, oh [Radames:] Fortune favors the brave! -------- Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2000) -------- -------- (3) The Past Is Another Land -------- You know nothing about me, and care even less How could you understand our emptiness? You plundered our wisdom, our knowledge, our wealth In bleeding us dry, you long for our spirit But that, you will never possess The past is now another land Far beyond my reach Invaded by insidious Foreign bodies, foreign speech But the timeless joys of childhood Lie broken on the beach The present is an empty space Between the good and the bad A moment leading nowhere Too pointless to be sad But time enough to lay to waste Every certainty I had The future is a barren world From which I can't return Both thoughtless and material It's a wretched spoil, it's not my concern Shining like an evil sun as my childhood treasures burn Shining like an evil sun as my childhood treasures burn -------- Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2000) -------- -------- (4) Another Pyramid -------- [Zoser:] While you've been away cavorting Matters here have moved apace Now I need you home supporting All the plans I've put in place First of all this means your wedding You'll recall your future bride For the way that pharaoh's heading Time's no longer on our side According to the hawk god, Horus Our most regal invalid Is not that much longer for us Build another pyramid! There are many who'll be tearful As our leader fades away But our architects are cheerful And each dog must have its day If our country is to flourish Then my son must take the lead Be our inspiration, nourish All our hopes our dreams our creed Soon our monarch will have filled a Tomb just like his fathers did Summon Egypt's greatest builders Re: another pyramid [Ministers:] Build it, build it Another pyramid [Zoser:] There will be a time for mourning But for now put plans on hold [Ministers:] Hold [Zoser:] For I give the nation warning That before the corpse is cold [Ministers:] Cold [Zoser:] We'll extend fair Egypt's power Egypt's glory strength and style We shall have our finest hour Far beyond the mighty Nile He must have a vault that's grand by Any standards, floor to lid Put five thousand slaves on stand by Build another pyramid! [Ministers:] Build it, build it Build it, build it Build it, build it Build it Build it, build it Build it [Zoser:] He must have a vault that's grand by Any standards, floor to lid Put five thousand slaves on stand by Build another pyramid! -------- Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2000) -------- -------- (5) How I Know You -------- [Mereb:] I grew up in your hometown, at least began to grow I hadn't got to my first shave before the body blow Egyptians in the courtyard, my family in chains You witnessed our abduction, which possibly explains How I know you How I know you Before that fateful morning, my family enjoyed A privileged existence, for my father was employed As advisor to the king, no less, which surely rings a bell For as you are his daughter, you probably can tell How I know you Yes, I know you [Aida:] You know too much, and what you say is better left unknown And now I'm just a slave like you, our lives our not our own [Mereb:] I never have abandoned, and nor I think could you That spark of hope for freedom no terror can subdue [Aida:] My only hope is silence, you've never seen my face [Mereb:] No, you remain a princess in any time or place [Aida:] You don't know me [Mereb:] Yes, I know you [Aida:] You don't know me [Mereb:] How I know you How I know you -------- Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2000) -------- -------- (6) My Strongest Suit -------- [Amneris:] In life, one has to face a huge assortment Of nauseating fads and good advice There's health, and fitness, diet, and deportment And other pointless forms of sacrifice Conversation? Wit? I am a doubter Manners? Charm? They're no way to impress So forget the inner me, observe the outer I am what I wear and how I dress Oh, now I believe in lookin' Like my time on earth is cookin' Whether polka dotted, striped or even checked With some glamour guaranteeing Every fiber on of my being Is displayed to quite remarkable effect From your cradle via trousseau To your deathbed you're on view, so Never compromise, accept no substitute I would rather wear a barrel Than conservative apparel For my dress has always been... my strongest suit (Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere) Staying in or hitting town-wards From the top and working downwards I ensure that every stitch is stitched in time (Is stitched in time) Whether wig or hat or turban Whether clad boudoir or urban Not to strut your stuff outrageously is a crime (It's such a crime) And the few who are invited (Overwear) To my wardrobe are delighted (Underwear) As they wander through my things (Anytime) To find en route (We're wandering through your things) That in negligee or formal (Negligee) I am anything but normal (Anything but normal) And dress has always been my strongest suit (Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere) (Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere) I am what I wear (Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere) I said anytime... (Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere) Anywhere So bring me all my finest (Finest) Most audacious, my divinest (Divinest) Most revealing, most expensive and to boot (Most revealing, most expensive) (Most arresting) Most arresting (Most heartstopping) Most heartstopping Most free-flowing (Overwear) Most eye-popping (Underwear) Most arresting (Anytime) Most heartstopping, yeah (Anywhere) Dress has always been my strongest suit! (I am what I wear) My strongest suit (I am what I wear) You know that I am what I wear (I am what I wear) Dress has always been my strongest suit! So bring me all my finest (My finest) Most audacious, my divinest (Divinest) Most revealing, most expensive and to boot (Most revealing, most expensive) Most arresting, most heartstopping Most free-flowing, most eye-popping Dress has always been my strongest suit! (I am what I wear) My strongest suit (I am what I wear) You know that I am what I wear Dress has always been my strongest My strongest, my strongest My strongest, my strongest My strongest suit! -------- Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2000) -------- -------- (7) Enchantment Passing Through -------- [Radames:] To sail away to half discovered places To see the secrets so few eyes have seen To see moments of enchantment on our faces The moments when we smile and those in between [Aida:] If I could leave this place then I'd be sailing To corners of my land where there would be Sweet southern winds of liberty prevailing The beauty so majestic and so free [Radames:] I will take you sailing, south You can be my guide There'd be no ties of time and space to bind me [Aida:] And no horizon I could not pursue [Radames:] I'd leave the world's misfortunes far behind me [Aida:] I'd put my faith and trusting in something new [Both:] But why should I tell you this [Aida:] A stranger I just met [Radames:] A woman whom I hardly know at all and should forget [Both:] A journey we can only dream of Enchantment passing through And how is it I say these things So easily to you [Radames:] I'll never take you sailing! I might never leave Egypt again! [Aida:] You talk as though you've been enslaved! If you don't like your fate, change it! You are your own master, there are no shackles on you! So don't expect any pity or understanding from this humble palace slave! [Radames:] And why did I tell her this? A stranger I've just met A woman who I hardly know at all and will forget Anonymous and gone tomorrow Enchantment passing through And all I've done is tell her things She already knew She knew... she knew... -------- Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2000) -------- -------- (8) Dance Of The Robe -------- [Aida:] It's knowing what they want of me that scares me It's knowing, having followed, I must lead It's knowing that each person there compares me To those in my past whom I now succeed But how can whatever I do for them now be enough? Be enough [Nubians:] Aida! Aida! All we ask of you Is a lifetime of service, wisdom, courage To ask more would be selfish, but nothing less will do Aida! Aida! [Nehebka:] Your robe should be golden, your robe should be perfect Instead of this ragged concoction of thread But may you be moved by its desperate beauty To give us new life, for we'd rather be dead Then live in the squalor and shame of the slave To the dance! [Nubians:] Aida! Aida! All we ask of you Is a lifetime of service, wisdom, courage To ask more would be selfish, but nothing less will do Aida! Aida! Aida...! Aida! Aida! Aida! Aida! Aida! [Aida:] I know expectations are wild and almost Beyond my fulfillment, but they won't hear A word of a doubt or see signs of a weakness My nigh-on-impossible duty is clear And if I can rekindle our ancestors' dreams, it's enough It's enough [Nubians:] Aida! Aida! Aida! Aida! Aida! Aida! [Aida:] It's enough! [Nubians:] Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah... -------- Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2000) -------- -------- (9) Not Me -------- [Radames:] I once knew all the answers I stood on certain ground A picture of true happiness A confidence so effortless No brighter could be found [Mereb:] Oh no [Radames:] I never asked the questions That trouble me today I knew all was to know Love worn lightly, put on show My conquests on display [Mereb:] I can't believe he's changing [Radames:] And who'd have thought that confidence could die? [Mereb:] Oh no [Radames:] Not me, not me [Mereb:] Not me, not me [Radames:] That all I took for granted was a lie [Mereb:] Oh no [Radames:] Not me, not me [Mereb:] Not me, no not me [Radames:] And who'd have guessed I'd throw my world away To be with someone I'm afraid will say Not me, not me [Mereb:] This can never be He's in love But he's not the only one Who'll be changed [Amneris:] Why hasn't Radames come to see me again? We're to be married in three days, and yet... Aida, I must make things right with him! [Aida:] I shall not envy lovers But long for what they share [Amneris:] An empty room is merciless Don't be surprised if I confess I need some comfort [Aida, Amneris:] And who'd have thought a love could be so good? Not me, not me And show me things I never understood Not me, not me And who'd have guessed he'd throw his world away To be with someone 'til his dying day? Not me, not me [Radames:] And who'd have Thought a love Could be so good? [Amneris/Aida:] And who'd have Thought a love Could be so good? [Mereb:] No good [Radames:] Not me Not me [Amneris/Aida:] Not me Not me [Mereb:] Not me Not me [Radames:] My secrets and My passions Understood [Amneris/Aida:] His secrets and His passions Understood [Mereb:] No good [Radames:] Not me Not me [Amneris/Aida:] Not me Not me [Mereb:] Not me Not me [Radames:] And who'd have Guessed I'd throw My world away To be with someone 'Til my dying day? [Amneris/Aida:] And who'd have Guessed he'd throw His world away To be with someone 'Til his dying day? [Radames:] Not me Not me [Amneris/Aida:] Not me Not me [Mereb:] This can Never be [Radames:] Not me Oh, not me -------- Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2000) -------- -------- (10) Elaborate Lives -------- [Radames:] We all lead such elaborate lives Wild ambitions in our sights How an affair of the heart survives Days apart and hurried nights Seems quite unbelievable to me I don't want to live like that Seems quite unbelievable to me I don't want to love like that I just want our time to be Slower and gentler, wiser, free We all live in extravagant times Playing games we can't all win Unintended emotional crimes Take some out, take others in I'm so tired of all we're going through I don't want to live like that I'm so tired of all we're going through I don't want to love like that I just want to be with you Now and forever, peaceful, true This may not be the moment To tell you face to face But I could wait forever For the perfect time and place [Aida and Radames:] We all lead such elaborate lives We don't know whose words are true Strangers, lovers, husbands, wives Hard to know who's loving who [Aida:] Too many choices tear us apart I don't want to live like that [Radames:] Too many choices tear us apart I don't want to love like that I just want to touch your heart May this confession be the start -------- Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2000) -------- -------- (11) The Gods Love Nubia -------- [Aida:] Take me in my dreams recurring Cheerful as a childhood dance Into one more taste of freedom One more longing backward glance In the sway of somber music I shall never, never understand Let me slip into the sweeter Chorus of that other land The gods love Nubia The beautiful, the golden The radiant, the fertile The gentle and the blessed The pain of Nubia Is only for the moment The desolate the suffering The plundered, the oppressed [Nehebka:] The gods love Nubia Their glorious creation Its songs roll sweetly Across the harvest plain [Aida, Nehebka:] The tears of Nubia A passing aberration They wash into the river And are never cried again [Nehebka, Aida, Mereb, Nubian Women:] The gods love Nubia We have to keep believing The scattered and divided We are still its heart The fall of Nubia Ephemeral and fleeting The spirit always burning Though the flesh is torn apart [All:] Take me in my dreams recurring Cheerful as a childhood dance Into one more taste of freedom One more longing backward glance The gods love Nubia The beautiful, the golden The radiant, the fertile The gentle and the blessed The pain of Nubia Is only for the moment The desolate the suffering The plundered, the oppressed The gods love Nubia We have to keep believing Though scattered and divided We are still it's heart The fall of Nubia Ephemeral and fleeting The spirit always burning Though the flesh is torn apart My spirit will keep on burning Though the flesh is torn [Aida:] - Apart [All:] Take me in my dreams recurring One more longing backward glance -------- Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2000) -------- -------- (12) A Step Too Far -------- [Amneris:] It's so strange he doesn't show me More affection that he needs Almost formal, too respectful Never takes romantic leads There are times when I imagine I'm not always on his mind He's not thinking what I'm thinking Always half a step behind Always half a step behind Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh [Radames:] I'm in every kind of trouble Can't you tell? Just look at me Half ecstatic, half dejected All in all I'm all at sea Easy terms I thought I wanted Fill me now with chilling dread You could never know the chaos Of a life turned on its head Of a life turned on its head Oh, oh, oh, oh [Radames, Amneris:] Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh [Aida:] I am certain that I love him But a love can be misplaced Have I compromised my people? In my passion and my haste? I could be his life companion Anywhere but where we are Am I leader? Am I traitor? Did I take a step too far? Did I take a step too far? [Amneris:] It's so strange he doesn't show me More affection that he needs Almost formal, too respectful Never takes romantic leads There are times when I imagine I'm not always on his mind He's not thinking what I'm thinking Always half a step behind Always half a step behind [Radames:] I'm in every kind of trouble Can't you tell? Just look at me Half ecstatic, half dejected All in all I'm all at sea Easy terms I thought I wanted Fill me now with chilling dread You could never know the chaos Of a life turned on it's head Of a life turned on it's head [Aida:] I am certain that I love him But a love can be misplaced Have I compromised my people? In my passion and my haste? I could be his life companion Anywhere but where we are Am I leader? Am I traitor? Did I take a step too far? Did I take a step too far? Oh, oh, oh, oh [Aida, Radames:] Oh, oh, oh, oh [All:] Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Did I take a step too far? -------- Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2000) -------- -------- (13) Easy As Life -------- [Aida:] This is the moment when The gods expect me to beg for help But I won't even try I want nothing in the world But myself to protect me And I won't lie down, roll over, and die All I have to do is forget how much I love him All I have to do is put my longing to one side Tell myself that love's an ever-changing situation Passion would have cooled and all the magic Would have died It's easy, it's easy All I have to do is to pretend I never knew him On those very rare occasions when he steals into my heart Better to have lost him when the ties were barely binding Better the contempt of the familiar cannot start It's easy, it's easy Until I think about him as he was when I last touched him And how he would have been, were I to be with him today Those very rare occasions don't let up, they keep on coming All I've ever wanted and I'm throwing it away It's easy, it's easy as life But then I see the faces of a worn, defeated people A father and a nation who won't let a coward run Is this how the gods reward the faithful through the ages? Forcing us to move and they're the hardest things we've done They're easy, so easy And though I'll think about him 'Til the earth draws in around me And though I choose to leave him for another kind of love This is no denial, no betrayal, but redemption Redeemed in my own eyes and in the pantheon above It's easy, it's easy as life It's easy as life It's easy as life! -------- Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2000) -------- -------- (14) Like Father, Like Son -------- [Zoser:] Don't come on so cocksure boy You can't escape your genes No point in feeling pure boy Your background intervenes Listen good and listen straight You're not the master of your fate To this you must be reconciled You'll always be your father's child At times acclaimed, at times reviled You'll wind up doing just what I've done Like father, like son [Radames:] Don't assume your vices Get handed down the line That a parent's blood suffices To condemn the child's design I've done wrong, I can't deny But at least I know that I Shouldn't blame that on my stock This may come as quite a shock I'm no chip off any block I wouldn't wish those words on anyone Like father, like son [Zoser:] Son you're nervous, take my hand All is settled, all is planned You've got the world at your command I don't think you understand [Radames:] I appreciate too well The squalor at which you excel It isn't very hard to tell Evil's a distinctive smell [Radames storms off, leaving Zoser horrified] [Zoser:] He's lost all sense of reason, and why? Some foreign slut Not only is that treason Some doors are slamming shut Just like me he's found that flesh Can excite but will enmesh Once we rid him of this blight Once that harlot's out of sight Then I think he'll see the light He won't walk back to daddy He will run Like father, like son [Zoser, Ministers:] Like father, like son Like father, like son Like father, like [Zoser:] Son -------- Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2000) -------- -------- (15) Radames' Letter -------- [Radames:] I'm sorry for everything I said And for anything, I forgot to say, too When things get so complicated I stumble, at best, muddle through I wish that our lives could be simple I don't want the world, only you I wish I could tell you this face to face But there's never the time, never the place So this letter will have to do I love you -------- Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2000) -------- -------- (16) Written In The Stars -------- [Aida:] I am here to tell you we can never meet again Simple, really, isn't it? A word or two, and then A lifetime of not knowing where or how or why or when You think of me or speak of me or wonder what befell The someone you once loved so long ago so well [Radames:] Never wonder what I'll feel as living shuffles by You don't have to ask me and I need not reply Every moment of my life from now until I die I will think or dream of you and fail to understand How a perfect love can be confounded out of hand Is it written in the stars Are we paying for some crime Is that all that we are good for Just a stretch of mortal time Is this God's experiment In which we have no say In which we're given paradise But only for a day [Aida:] Marry the princess, Radames You can help my people, this could be our chance to do something important! Don't you see? Nothing can be altered, oh, there is nothing to decide No escape, no change of heart, no anyplace to hide [Radames:] You are all I'll ever want, but this I am denied Sometimes in my darkest thoughts, I wish I'd never learned [Both:] What it is to be in love and have that love returned [Aida:] Is it written in the stars Are we paying for some crime Is that all that we are good for Just a stretch of mortal time [Both:] Is this God's experiment Oh, in which we have no say In which we're given paradise But only for a day Is it written in the stars Are we paying for some crime Is that all that we are good for Just a stretch of mortal time Is this God's experiment In which we have no say (In which we have no say) In which we're given paradise (Given paradise) But only for a day -------- Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2000) -------- -------- (17) I Know The Truth -------- [Amneris:] How have I come to this? How did I slip and fall? How did I throw half a lifetime away Without any thought at all? This should've been my time It's over, it never began I closed my eyes to so much for so long And I no longer can I try to blame it on fortune Some kind of shift in the stars But I know the truth and it haunts me It's flown just a little too far I know the truth and it mocks me I know the truth and it shocks me It's flown just a little too far Why do I want him still? Why when there's nothing there? How to go on with the rest of my life To pretend I don't care This should've been my time It's over, it never began I closed my eyes to so much for so long And I no longer can I try to blame it on fortune Some kind of twist in my fate But I know the truth and it haunts me I learned it a little too late I know the truth and it mocks me I know the truth and it shocks me I learned it a little too late Too late -------- The Road To El Dorado (2000) -------- -------- (1) El Dorado -------- (from "The Road To El Dorado" soundtrack) Our glorious city Was build by the divinities by gods Who saw fit to bestow The gift of a paradise Peaceful and harmonious upon Us mere mortals below And made El Dorado The magnificent and golden One thousand years ago El Dorado, El Dorado, El Dorado But all this was granted For only one millennium I know my legacy is to fulfill My promise to all my people Who have trusted me, the gods Will approve of us still Preserve El Dorado The magnificent and golden And I believe they will El Dorado, El Dorado, El Dorado El Dorado, El Dorado, El Dorado The mountains so high and waters deep Are her disguise Her secrets are safe from foreign hands And eyes forever Preserve El Dorado The magnificent and golden And I believe they will El Dorado, El Dorado, El Dorado El Dorado, El Dorado, El Dorado El Dorado, El Dorado, El Dorado El Dorado, El Dorado, El Dorado -------- The Road To El Dorado (2000) -------- -------- (2) Someday Out Of The Blue -------- (from "The Road To El Dorado" soundtrack) Someday out of the blue In a crowded street Or a deserted square I'll turn and I'll see you As if our love were new Someday we can start again someday soon Here comes the night Here come the memories Lost in your arms Down in the foreign fields Not so long ago Seems like eternity Those sweet afternoons Still capture me Someday out of the blue In a crowded street Or a deserted square I'll turn and I'll see you As if our love were new Someday we can start again someday soon I still believe I still put faith in us We had it all And watched it slip away Where are we now Not where we want to be Those hot afternoons Still follow me Someday out of the blue Maybe years from now Or tomorrow night I'll turn and I'll see you As if we always knew Someday we would live again someday soon I still believe I still put faith in us I still believe I still put faith in us I still believe I still put faith in us Here comes the night Here come the memories Lost in your arms Down in the foreign fields Not so long ago Seems like eternity Those sweet afternoons Still capture me Someday out of the blue Maybe years from now Or tomorrow night I'll turn and I'll see you As if we always knew Someday we would live again someday soon Someday out of the blue In a crowded street Or a deserted square I'll turn and I'll see you As if our love were new Someday we can start again someday soon I still believe I still put faith in us I still believe I still put faith in us I still believe I still put faith in us I still believe I still put faith in us I still believe I still put faith in us I still believe I still put faith in us -------- The Road To El Dorado (2000) -------- -------- (3) Without Question -------- (feat. Don Henley & Timothy B. Schmit) (from "The Road To El Dorado" soundtrack) The more I learn, the more I see The less the world impassions me The hungry heart, the roving eye Have come to rest, do not apply The frantic chase, the crazy ride The thrill has gone, I step aside And I'd believe in anything were it not for you Showing me by just existing only this is true I love you, I love you without question, I love you The more I want the more I steal The more I hold the less is real All worldly things I follow blind In hope not faith was paid in kind The line is drawn, the change is made I come to you, I'm not afraid And I'd believe in anything were it not for you Showing me by just existing only this is true I love you, I love you without question, I love you I'd believe in anything were it not for you Showing me by just existing only this is true I love you, I love you without question, I love you -------- The Road To El Dorado (2000) -------- -------- (4) Friends Never Say Goodbye -------- (feat. Backstreet Boys) (from "The Road To El Dorado" soundtrack) There isn't much I haven't shared With you along the road And through it all there'd always be Tomorrow's episode Suddenly that isn't true There's another avenue Beckoning, the great divide Ask no questions, take no side Who's to say who's right or wrong Whose course is braver run Still we are, have always been, will ever be as one What is done hath been done for the best Though the mist in my eyes might suggest Just a little confusion about what I'll lose But if I started over I know I would choose The same joy the same sadness each step of the way That fought me and taught me that friends never say Never say goodbye Never say goodbye Never say goodbye Never say goodbye Suddenly that isn't true There's another avenue Beckoning, the great divide I would choose The same joy, the same sadness, each step of the way That fought me and taught me that friends never say Never say goodbye Never say goodbye Never say goodbye Never say goodbye -------- The Road To El Dorado (2000) -------- -------- (5) The Trail We Blaze -------- (from "The Road To El Dorado" soundtrack) Look out new world here we come Brave, intrepid and then some Pioneers of maximum Audacity whose resumes Show that we are just the team To live where others merely dream Building up a head of steam On the trail we blaze Changing legend into fact We shall ride into history Turning myth into truth We shall surely gaze On the sweet unfolding Of an antique mystery All will be revealed On the trail we blaze Paradise is close at hand Shangri-la the promised land Seventh heaven on demand Quite unusual nowadays Virgin vistas, undefiled Minds and bodies running wild In the man behold the child On the trail we blaze Changing legend into fact We shall ride into history Turning myth into truth We shall surely gaze On the sweet unfolding Of an antique mystery All will be revealed On the trail we blaze The trail we blaze Is a road uncharted Through terra incognita to a golden shrine No place for the traveler To be faint-hearted We are part of the sumptuous grand design Shangri-la the promised land Seventh heaven on demand Quite unusual nowadays Virgin vistas, undefiled Minds and bodies running wild In the man before the child On the trail we blaze Changing legend into fact We shall ride into history Turning myth into truth We shall surely gaze on the sweet unfolding Of an antique mystery All will be revealed On the trail we blaze On the trail we blaze -------- The Road To El Dorado (2000) -------- -------- (6) Sixteenth Century Man -------- (from "The Road To El Dorado" soundtrack) Oh it's great to see our homeland Breathe the Iberian atmosphere Just because we are Hispanic Doesn't mean we're oceanic Quite frankly we've had water up to here We've made waves to last a lifetime We've been saturated, almost drowned We are Spanish not Caribbean We are human, not amphibian We'll seek our fortunes on Spain's solid ground There's no future in the new world Only fools believe the tales Of the gold of El Dorado Only suckers set their sails We have seen the way the tide is turning We see what no sailor can We are in the ball, discerning We're antediluvian Sixteenth century man Two very fine examples of Sixteenth, sixteenth century man There are women who are lining Every avenue in every port Now at last we'll get to grips with Things they never equip ships with We have sailed into our last resort There's no goldmine in the new world It's a trick to get recruits On the boat to El Dorado We're returning to our roots We're going back to land locked ladies Cortez never let them board All in all the point we've made is We don't want to go abroad Two very fine examples of Sixteenth century man Two terra firma samples of Sixteenth, sixteenth century man -------- The Road To El Dorado (2000) -------- -------- (7) The Panic In Me -------- (from "The Road To El Dorado" soundtrack) Often these days And always these nights I find I'm afraid Of the turbulent heights No matter how crazily No matter how far The moments of tenderness Are those where you are For when you are laughing Like silver, like rain You cool me, you soothe me And love me again For a few perfect hours The world lets me be You know how to calm down Oh oh The panic in me The panic in me The panic in me The panic in me Once in a while I slip back to my past Where I long to remain But the dream does not last In the trials of the present No matter how low You bring me such peace And you won't let me go For when you are laughing Like silver, like rain You cool me, you soothe me And love me again For a few perfect hours The world lets me be You know how to break down Oh oh The panic in me The panic in me The panic in me The panic in me In the trials of the present No matter how low You bring me such peace And you won't let me go Oh don't let me go For when you are laughing Like silver, like rain You cool me, you soothe me And you love me again For a few perfect hours The world lets me be You know how to break down Oh oh, oh oh The panic in me The panic in me The panic in me The panic in me The panic in me -------- The Road To El Dorado (2000) -------- -------- (8) It's Tough To Be A God -------- (duet with Randy Newman) (from "The Road To El Dorado" soundtrack) [Elton John:] I hardly think I'm qualified To come across all sanctified I just don't cut it with the cherubim The town's already on its knees Being worshipped is a breeze I barely know the words to any hymn [Randy Newman:] Listen, if we don't comply With the locals' wishes I Can see us being sacrificed or stuffed Let's be gods, the perks are great El Dorado on a plate Local feeling should not be rebuffed [Elton John:] It's tough to be a god Tread where mortals have not trod Be deified when really you're a sham [Elton John & Randy Newman:] Be an object of devotion Be the subject of psalms It's a terrifying notion All those prayers and those salaams Any normal man would bridle If he's forced to be an idol And a normal man's exactly what I am [Elton John:] All the same, it's pretty clear The scoundrels don't keep much up here They must have zillions under lock and key But gods can force them to unleash Enough to make us nouveau riche Beyond our wildest dreams, so follow me! [Randy Newman:] Can't you see I won't relax If religious maniacs Tell me I'm all-powerful and sublime How can I be their belief When I'm lying through my teeth? Why don't we just say, "some other time"? [Elton John:] It's tough to be a god But if you get the people's nod Count your blessings, keep them sweet is my advice [Elton John & Randy Newman:] Be nirvana, be salvation Be all things to all men Butter up your congregation Every Sunday score a ten The alternative is dire Simply frying pan to fire So sign on two new gods for paradise, paradise -------- The Road To El Dorado (2000) -------- -------- (9) Trust Me -------- (from "The Road To El Dorado" soundtrack) Looking back it makes me shiver Don't be scared to kick the past Selling lovers down the river Nothing built for speed will last overnight All those years of desolation Pretty boys and damage done Not the way to find salvation Looking after number one Trust me Try rolling with the flow Trust me I've been there don't you know I'm giving you a chance, so take it I got all you want, you'll make it Standing there in front of me, you're naked You can't hide a thing, you've got no choice Trust me Too many years your heart has wandered Scared to make a final move Too many nights those boys have squandered You got nothing left to prove I'm giving you a chance, so take it I got all you want, you'll make it Standing there in front of me, butt naked You can't hide a thing, you've got no choice Trust Me Trust Me Trust Me Trust Me Trust Me -------- The Road To El Dorado (2000) -------- -------- (10) My Heart Dances -------- (from "The Road To El Dorado" soundtrack) I see you in the distance and I see us as we are So nearly so contented but a careless word too far I see you in confusion for a once enchanted boy My heart dances, oh oh, but not for joy I longed to love you better but I swear I don't know how You could have been my future but I had to have it now The things we love completely we are fated to destroy My heart dances, oh oh, but not for joy It's easy to be certain that another's heart will fall Much harder to be certain of your own It moves you, and inspires you then it drives you to the wall And leaves you so excited but alone My heart dances, oh oh My heart dances, oh oh My heart dances, oh oh, but not for joy But not for joy But not for joy But not for joy -------- The Road To El Dorado (2000) -------- -------- (11) Queen Of Cities (El Dorado II) -------- (theme from El Dorado) (from "The Road To El Dorado" soundtrack) El Dorado, queen of cities Paradise so wisely hid Overshadows Barcelona Aragon, Castle, Madrid Where on Earth can match your riches Match your people fine and free Why return to old world values This is how the Earth should be El Dorado, El Dorado, El Dorado, El Dorado El Dorado, El Dorado, El Dorado, El Dorado El Dorado, queen of cities Overflowing with excess Every turn exotic, lavish Precious wonders numberless Lead me now into temptation Surely you would not deny One who's come so far to find you All your blessings save goodbye El Dorado, El Dorado, El Dorado, El Dorado El Dorado, (she could be the death of me) El Dorado, El Dorado, El Dorado El Dorado, golden prison Sheer perfection, sheer despair How can one who knows such splendour Feel the answer lies elsewhere All I know is I must leave her Or she'll be the death of me Put my trust in poorer places Let the queen of cities be El Dorado, (must leave her) El Dorado (queen of cities) El Dorado, (sheer perfection) El Dorado El Dorado, (or she'll be the death of me) El Dorado El Dorado, (queen of cities) El Dorado (Must leave her) El Dorado, (queen of cities) El Dorado, (sheer perfection) El Dorado El Dorado, (or she'll be the death of me) El Dorado El Dorado, (queen of cities) El Dorado -------- The Road To El Dorado (2000) -------- -------- (12) Perfect Love -------- (from "The Road To El Dorado" soundtrack) Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Oh, the perfect love Happiness comes when most unexpected When nothing and no one seems true So many promises broken But I feel certain of you Certain as night and day You keep my ambitions alive Though you don't have to stay If you go I can never survive The perfect love Will probably never exist But you are as close as it gets and I won't resist The perfect love Has never proven to be But you are as close as it gets when you're close to me Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Oh, the perfect love Out on our own in a furious world We chase any dream, any star Nothing can harm us, we are immortal Innocent fools that we are Then our defences fall And sometimes our confidence dies But I won't mind at all I see my dreams coming true in your eyes The perfect love Will probably never exist But you are as close as it gets and I won't resist The perfect love Has never proven to be But you are as close as it gets when you're close to me Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Oh yeah, yeah, yeah The perfect love The perfect love Will probably never exist But you are as close as it gets and I won't resist The perfect love Has never proven to be But you are as close as it gets when you're close to me Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Oh yeah, yeah, yeah The perfect love Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Oh yeah, yeah, yeah The perfect love -------- The Road To El Dorado (2000) -------- -------- (13) Hey Armadillo -------- (from "The Road To El Dorado" soundtrack) Hey armadillo what you doing in the garden Slumbering and spherical, you're always hanging around Leather on the outside but a delicate interior Very like a lot of human beings I have found Hey armadillo I can't tell which way you're facing Maybe that's a good thing, maybe you don't even know No one's gonna bother you if they can't find your front end There again I guess you find your love life rather slow In the armadillo circle In that armour-plated set The philosophy is simple What you see ain't what you get In the armadillo culture In that well-protected creed A solid hide to hide in Is the only thing you need Hey armadillo Hey armadillo what you doing in the desert Is a life of burrowing the answer to it all What I would give to leave my problems six feet underground And always be the perfect shape to be, and have, a ball In the armadillo circle In that armour-plated set The philosophy is simple What you see ain't what you get In the armadillo culture In that well-protected creed A solid hide to hide in Is the only thing you need Hey armadillo Hey armadillo Hey armadillo Hey armadillo Hey armadillo Hey armadillo -------- Songs From The West Coast (2001) -------- -------- (1) The Emperor's New Clothes -------- We bet on our lives and we bet on the horses In that upstairs apartment On Orlando and 4th And the rent was due and the rent man was knocking Like a Chinese proverb We were always searching Nightlife's a no-win but nobody noticed How we killed off the bottles Looking good on the surface The dog days barked and the house cat got old We were Bonnie and Clyde In the emperor's new clothes And the tears never came They just stayed in our eyes We refused to admit that we wore this disguise Every inch of us growing Like Pinocchio's nose As we walked around in the emperor's new clothes We flew by our wits and by the seat of our pants In the state of illusion In the nation of chance And the repo was hauling the wreck we'd been driving As the dashboard Madonna Smiled back at us kindly We cheated the system never batting an eyelid Seeing only the good Through the holes in our shoes And our halos were rusty but we wore them proudly We were two little gods In the emperor's new clothes And the tears never came They just stayed in our eyes We refused to admit that we wore this disguise Every inch of us growing Like Pinocchio's nose As we walked around in the emperor's new clothes We were Bonnie and Clyde In the emperor's new clothes And the tears never came They just stayed in our eyes We refused to admit that we wore this disguise Every inch of us growing Like Pinocchio's nose As we walked around in the emperor's new clothes Emperor's new clothes Emperor's new clothes -------- Songs From The West Coast (2001) -------- -------- (2) Dark Diamond -------- Oh, I'm a dark diamond I've turned hard and cold Once was a jewel with fire in my soul There's two sides of a mirror One I couldn't break through Stayed trapped on the inside, wound up losing you Tell me how does it work How do you make things fit Spent all my life trying to get it right I've put it together and it falls apart I thought to myself I might understand But when the wall's built And the heart hardens You get a dark diamond Dark diamond Oh, I'm a dark diamond But you're something else You read me more than I read myself The one star I could count on Only comet I could trust You burnt through my life to the true meaning of love Tell me how does it work How do you make things fit Spent all my life trying to get it right I've put it together and it falls apart I thought to myself I might understand But when the wall's built And the heart hardens You get a dark diamond Dark diamond Tell me how does it work How do you make things fit Spent all my life trying to get it right I've put it together and it falls apart I thought to myself I might understand But when the wall's built And the heart hardens You get a dark diamond Dark diamond -------- Songs From The West Coast (2001) -------- -------- (3) Look Ma No Hands -------- I'll take a rainy day To make a champagne shower Poach some horn and tusk To build an ivory tower Been to Philadelphia The day it was closed I walked to New Orleans Down a Louisiana road The skeletons they hung from the bushes and the trees But not a skull among 'em said boo to me In a time of wine and cheap cigars I'm on top of the world Top of the world Ma Look Ma no hands Look Ma ain't life grand I'm a super power, I'm a handyman Didn't I turn out, didn't I turn out to be Everything you wanted Ma Ain't you proud of me It takes a silver tongue To have the Midas touch Not your alchemist Making gold from rust Been down in Roswell When the Martians came I sailed to Mandeville Across Lake Pontchartrain Look Ma no hands Look Ma ain't life grand I'm a super power, I'm a handyman Didn't I turn out, didn't I turn out to be Everything you wanted Ma Ain't you proud of me The skeletons they hung from the bushes and the trees But not a skull among 'em said boo to me In a time of wine and cheap cigars I'm on top of the world Top of the world Ma Look Ma no hands Look Ma ain't life grand I'm a super power, I'm a handyman Didn't I turn out, didn't I turn out to be Everything you wanted Ma Ain't you proud of me Didn't I turn out, didn't I turn out to be Everything you wanted Ma Aren't you proud of me -------- Songs From The West Coast (2001) -------- -------- (4) American Triangle -------- Seen him playing in his backyard Young boy just starting out So much history in this landscape So much confusion, so much doubt Been there drinking on that front porch Angry kids, mean and dumb Looks like a painting, that blue skyline God hates fags where we come from 'Western skies' don't make it right 'Home of the brave' don't make no sense I've seen a scarecrow wrapped in wire Left to die on a high ridge fence It's a cold, cold wind It's a cold, cold wind It's a cold wind blowing, Wyoming See two coyotes run down a deer Hate what we don't understand You pioneers give us your children But it's your blood that stains their hands Somewhere that road forks up ahead To ignorance and innocence Three lives drift on different winds Two lives ruined, one life spent 'Western skies' don't make it right 'Home of the brave' don't make no sense I've seen a scarecrow wrapped in wire Left to die on a high ridge fence It's a cold, cold wind It's a cold, cold wind It's a cold wind blowing, Wyoming Somewhere that road forks up ahead To ignorance and innocence Three lives drift on different winds Two lives ruined, one life spent 'Western skies' don't make it right 'Home of the brave' don't make no sense I've seen a scarecrow wrapped in wire Left to die on a high ridge fence It's a cold, cold wind It's a cold, cold wind It's a cold wind blowing, Wyoming It's a cold, cold wind It's a cold, cold wind It's a cold wind blowing, Wyoming -------- Songs From The West Coast (2001) -------- -------- (5) Original Sin -------- Oh, it's carnival night And they're stringing the lights around you Hanging paper angels Painting little devils on the roof Oh the furnace wind Is a flickering of wings about your face In a cloud of incense Yea, it smells like Heaven in this place I can't eat, can't sleep Still I hunger for you when you look at me That face, those eyes All the sinful pleasures deep inside Tell me how, you know now, the ways and means of getting in Underneath my skin Oh you were always my original sin And tell me why, I shudder inside, every time we begin This dangerous game Oh you were always my original sin A dream will fly The moment that you open up your eyes A dream is just a riddle Ghosts from every corner of your life Up in the balcony All the Romeo's are bleeding for your hand Blowing theater kisses Reciting lines they don't understand I can't eat, can't sleep Still I hunger for you when you look at me That face, those eyes All the sinful pleasures deep inside Tell me how, you know now, the ways and means of getting in Underneath my skin Oh you were always my original sin And tell me why, I shudder inside, every time we begin This dangerous game Oh you were always my original sin I can't eat, can't sleep Still I hunger for you when you look at me That face, those eyes All the sinful pleasures deep inside -------- Songs From The West Coast (2001) -------- -------- (6) Birds -------- There's some things I don't have now Some things I don't talk about These things are between myself and I In my thick skull the joker hides There's consequences I'm scared to taste Cold hard truths I can't face These days are different than the past Reflections change in the looking glass And everywhere I look there's something to learn A sliver of truth from every bridge we burn A hatful of quarters and a naked song Don't answer the question of where we belong How come birds Don't fall from the sky when they die? How come birds Always look for a quiet place to hide These words Can't explain what I feel inside? Like birds I need a quiet place to hide These independent moves I make This confidence I try to fake You can hear the beating of my heart But not a feather falling in the dark And everything I hear never makes any sense Another old prophet perched on the fence A cupful of pencils and a self help guru Don't answer the question of what I am to you How come birds Don't fall from the sky when they die? How come birds Always look for a quiet place to hide These words Can't explain what I feel inside? Like birds I need a quiet place to hide How come birds Don't fall from the sky when they die? How come birds Always look for a quiet place to hide These words Can't explain what I feel inside? Like birds I need a quiet place to hide -------- Songs From The West Coast (2001) -------- -------- (7) I Want Love -------- I want love, but it's impossible A man like me, so irresponsible A man like me is dead in places Other men feel liberated I can't love, shot full of holes Don't feel nothing, I just feel cold Don't feel nothing, just old scars Toughening up around my heart But I want love, just a different kind I want love, won't break me down Won't brick me up, won't fence me in I want a love, that don't mean a thing That's the love I want, I want love I want love on my own terms After everything I've ever learned Me, I carry too much baggage Oh man I've seen so much traffic But I want love, just a different kind I want love, won't break me down Won't brick me up, won't fence me in I want a love, that don't mean a thing That's the love I want, I want love So bring it on, I've been bruised Don't give me love that's clean and smooth I'm ready for the rougher stuff No sweet romance, I've had enough A man like me is dead in places Other men feel liberated But I want love, just a different kind I want love, won't break me down Won't brick me up, won't fence me in I want a love, that don't mean a thing That's the love I want, I want love I want love, just a different kind I want love, won't break me down Won't brick me up, won't fence me in I want a love, that don't mean a thing That's the love I want, I want love -------- Songs From The West Coast (2001) -------- -------- (8) The Wasteland -------- Some days I think it's all a dream The things I've done, the places that I've been This life of mine seemed surreal at times Wasted days and nights in someone else's mind Could it be I'm not for real? I've slapped my face to check out how I feel There's hostages to prove it's true Who lives behind the mask was never proved Come on Robert Johnson Though we're worlds apart You and I know what it's like With the devil in our heart You sold your soul at the crossroads Kept a little of mine on hand I'm wading out this muddy water Been stranded in the Wasteland Rattling chains all around my bed Ghosts can laugh but they're already dead I'm not dying and I'm far from gone The blues man spent his candle but his pain lives on Come on Robert Johnson Though we're worlds apart You and I know what it's like With the devil in our heart You sold your soul at the crossroads Kept a little of mine on hand I'm wading out this muddy water Been stranded in the Wasteland Come on Robert Johnson Though we're worlds apart You and I know what it's like With the devil in our heart You sold your soul at the crossroads Kept a little of mine on hand I'm wading out this muddy water Been stranded in the Wasteland Come on Robert Johnson Though we're worlds apart You and I know what it's like With the devil in our heart You sold your soul at the crossroads Kept a little of mine on hand I'm wading out this muddy water Been stranded in the Wasteland -------- Songs From The West Coast (2001) -------- -------- (9) Ballad Of The Boy In The Red Shoes -------- I'm stoned in the twilight Screaming on the inside Give me your water, help me survive Going to miss the sunlight When I lose my eyesight Give me my red shoes, I want to dance They search for an answer But that old man wouldn't listen Back then I was handsome Back then he was ignorant And shave off the years now, it's all inside my head The boy in the red shoes is dancing by my bed Put them in a box somewhere, put them in a drawer Take my red shoes, I can't wear them anymore Had garlands in the wings back then All the pretty little things back then Calling out my name, oh what fame brings After curtain calls and bows I can't see the front row now Hand me my red shoes just one more time They pushed aside our presence They refused to go the distance Back then I was Sigmund Back then he wouldn't listen And shave off the years now, it's all inside my head The boy in the red shoes is dancing by my bed Put them in a box somewhere, put them in a drawer Take my red shoes, I can't wear them anymore They pushed aside our presence They refused to go the distance Back then I was Sigmund Back then he wouldn't listen And shave off the years now, it's all inside my head The boy in the red shoes is dancing by my bed Put them in a box somewhere, put them in a drawer Take my red shoes, I can't wear them anymore Put them in a box somewhere, put them in a drawer Take my red shoes, I can't wear them anymore I can't wear them anymore I can't wear them anymore -------- Songs From The West Coast (2001) -------- -------- (10) Love Her Like Me -------- You can take her Make her change her name You and your old money Dance around the flame But you can never, never love her like me You can charm her Calm her when she's wild Show a little comfort Play with her inner child But you can never, never love her like me So I just close my eyes and steal her away when you sleep Sneak her in my dreams every single day of the week You may have her in real world but if you could only see How we rock this room in the twilight zone And you can never, never love her like me You can warm her Charm her with your style I know you convinced her She's the love of your life And no, you'll never, never love her like me You can bless her Keep her conscience clean You can undress her Go all the places I've been But you'll never, never love her like me So I just close my eyes and steal her away when you sleep Sneak her in my dreams every single day of the week You may have her in real world but if you could only see How we rock this room in the twilight zone And you can never, never love her like me -------- Songs From The West Coast (2001) -------- -------- (11) Mansfield -------- It's a case I guess of paradise lost Ten years back on the hands of the clock In that little house on Mansfield On your old block Sometimes the magic of the past is all we've got Just you and me at a crossroads then Ain't it funny how we were old friends Accidentally thrown together Did we intend To be the romantic novel you never want to end And it's the contact of the eye that meets across a crowded room And how I kind of wound up the lyrics to your tune You said, 'Funny but it feels like I've known you all my life And how it might feel to kiss you on the mouth tonight In between the Star of David and the California moon The Santa Ana winds blew warm into your room We were crazy, wild and running Blind to the change to come In that little house on Mansfield We'd wake at the break of dawn In an Indian summer gone In the candlelight I can recall Your naked shadow looking ten feet tall Like a wild pony dancing Along the wall Off balance I found love the only place to fall And it's the contact of the eye that meets across a crowded room And how I kind of wound up the lyrics to your tune You said, 'Funny but it feels like I've known you all my life And how it might feel to kiss you on the mouth tonight In between the Star of David and the California moon The Santa Ana winds blew warm into your room We were crazy, wild and running Blind to the change to come In that little house on Mansfield We'd wake at the break of dawn In an Indian summer gone We'd wake at the break of dawn In an Indian summer gone -------- Songs From The West Coast (2001) -------- -------- (12) This Train Don't Stop There Anymore -------- You may not believe it But I don't believe in miracles anymore And when I think about it I don't believe I ever did for sure All the things I've said in songs All the purple prose you bought from me Reality's just black and white The sentimental things I'd write Never meant that much to me I used to be the main express All steam and whistles headin' west Pickin' up my pain from door to door Ridin' on the storyline, furnace burnin' overtime But this train don't stop This train don't stop This train don't stop there anymore You don't need to hear it But I'm dried up and sick to death of love And if you need to know it I never really understood that stuff All the stars and bleeding hearts All the tears that welled up in my eyes Never meant a thing to me Read 'em, as they say, and weep I never felt enough to cry I used to be the main express All steam and whistles headin' west Pickin' up my pain from door to door Ridin' on the storyline, furnace burnin' overtime But this train don't stop This train don't stop This train don't stop there anymore When I say that I don't care It really means my engine's breakin' down The chisel chips my heart again The granite cracks beneath my skin I crumble into pieces on the ground I used to be the main express All steam and whistles headin' west Pickin' up my pain from door to door Ridin' on the storyline, furnace burnin' overtime But this train don't stop This train don't stop This train don't stop there anymore But this train don't stop This train don't stop This train don't stop there anymore Oh yeah -------- Songs From The West Coast (2001) -------- -------- (13) The North Star -------- You can't always count on the prayers in your sleep But this cold light's still killing me If I pay the ransom Well can they guarantee To split the chains, slip the knots I don't know if they'll ever set you free I just can't rely on all these twisted signs Too many bright lights turn you blind The history of the blues Seems to swim in your eyes Pick yourself up, throw your head back Take a long, long look into the sky Are you out there, are you listening Am I'm coming across to you Is the North Star still shining In the sky outside your room You can listen but they're lying Don't let them tell you What you've always known It's the North Star that's the big one And it's always gonna lead you home Can't always agree on all my dumb ideas I'm still looking for a way out of here You can value what you want But you pay for change There's full moons, cold lifeless nights And tumbled stars spell out your name Are you out there, are you listening Am I'm coming across to you Is the North Star still shining In the sky outside your room You can listen but they're lying Don't let them tell you What you've always known It's the North Star that's the big one And it's always gonna lead you home Close your eyes, take a ride Think of every time that you Missed your opp Click your heels, see how it feels Something so childish Sometimes seems so real Are you out there, are you listening Am I'm coming across to you Is the North Star still shining In the sky outside your room You can listen but they're lying Don't let them tell you What you've always known It's the North Star that's the big one And it's always gonna lead you home It's the North Star that's the big one And it's always gonna lead you home It's the North Star that's the big one And it's always gonna lead you home -------- Peachtree Road (2004) -------- -------- (1) Weight Of The World -------- I'm weary and I'm staying up late And the rain hits my roof so hard You know I'm no longer thirty These days I'm happy to play One or two hands of cards I hate flies in the kitchen buzzing Disturbing the peace I've found Fortune and fame is so fleeting These days I'm happy to say I'm amazed that I'm still around And the weight of the world is off my back When we fell, we got up And crawled out the cracks Excuse me if I take some comfort in that Happy today, happy to play With the weight of the world off of my back Humidity hangs like a curtain Oh, it fogs up my glasses sometimes You know I've still got my eyesight These days I'm happy to see A sunset instead of a line And the weight of the world is off my back When we fell, we got up And crawled out the cracks Excuse me if I take some comfort in that Happy today, happy to play With the weight of the world off of my back There's a long list of names That I don't recall Even though my memory's good The rain washed away The lemons and weeds When the weight of the world weighed more than it should I hate flies in the kitchen buzzing Disturbing the peace I've found Fortune and fame is so fleeting These days I'm happy to say I'm amazed that I'm still around And the weight of the world is off my back When we fell, we got up And crawled out the cracks Excuse me if I take some comfort in that Happy today, happy to play With the weight of the world off of my back Happy today, happy to play With the weight of the world off of my back -------- Peachtree Road (2004) -------- -------- (2) Porch Swing In Tupelo -------- There's a porch swing in Tupelo In the shade of the south Where the sweet honey drips off that old hush-yo'-mouth It's a slow road on down That old Natchez Trace Through Alabama cotton fields to a state of grace It's a crisp golden Autumn On the Tennessee line Rolling down to Mississippi like you headed back in time Town's closed on Sunday Everybody's in church It's empty as the moon this place here on earth And this place don't change Some places move slow I'm just rocking myself on this porch swing in Tupelo I got nothing to do 'cept hang in the breeze Ghosts of the old south are all around me Yea swing high, yea swing low Here on this porch swing in Tupelo His mama must have loved him That truck drivin' boy With the grease monkey look and the rock 'n roll voice Well I was just thinkin' 'bout him 'Cause I guess he sat here Singing all praise to God through poverty's tears And this place don't change Some places move slow I'm just rocking myself on this porch swing in Tupelo I got nothing to do 'cept hang in the breeze Ghosts of the old south are all around me Yea swing high, yea swing low Here on this porch swing in Tupelo And this place don't change Some places move slow I'm just rocking' myself on this porch swing in Tupelo I got nothing to do 'cept hang in the breeze Ghosts of the old south are all around me Yea swing high, yea swing low Here on this porch swing in Tupelo And this place don't change Some places move slow I'm just rocking' myself on this porch swing in Tupelo I got nothing to do but hang in the breeze The ghosts of the old south all around me Yea swing high, yea swing low On this porch swing in Tupelo Here on this porch swing in Tupelo Here on this porch swing in Tupelo -------- Peachtree Road (2004) -------- -------- (3) Answer In The Sky -------- Well, they say that it's a fact If you watch the sky at night And if you stare into the darkness You might see celestial light And if your heart is empty And there's no hope inside There's a chance you'll find An answer in the sky Well, they say that it's a shame If you have nothing to believe And if you can't hold on to something You might as well die where you sleep You don't need a prayer And there's no price to ask why Sometimes you'll find An answer in the sky And it's all so much bigger than it seems And it all overwhelms us now and then And I'm banking on a chance that we believe That good can still control the hearts of men Sometimes you'll find An answer in the sky And it's all so much bigger than it seems And it all overwhelms us now and then And I'm banking on a chance that we believe That good can still control the hearts of men This life's a long old road We shouldn't have to walk alone But if you find the right companion You won't feel so worn out when you've grown All life is precious And every day's a prize And sometimes you'll find An answer in the sky All life is precious And every day's a prize And sometimes you'll find An answer in the sky And sometimes you'll find An answer in the sky And sometimes you'll find An answer in the sky -------- Peachtree Road (2004) -------- -------- (4) Turn The Lights Out When You Leave -------- Your bags out on the bed Your closet's all cleared out You say you're goin' to Jacksonville 'Cause our love's all worn out You're searching in my eyes To try and find a tear But the well of my forgiveness Has dried up with the years You might still look pretty In that lacey little dress But I think you've got your signals crossed If you think that I'm a mess I ain't gonna die, I ain't gonna cry I won't wear my heart out on my sleeve You can take the car, but you won't break my heart Oh and darlin' turn the lights out when you leave I ain't gonna shake, I ain't gonna break I ain't gonna fall down on my knees So if everything's been said I'm heading back to bed Oh and darlin' turn the lights out when you leave It's like a prime time movie You play the part so well You do believe you're Heaven sent And livin' here is hell I hear it's hot in Florida And it's raining here tonight But the sun's gonna shine tomorrow And I'm gonna do alright You might still look pretty In that lacey little dress But I think you've got your signals crossed If you think that I'm a mess I ain't gonna die, I ain't gonna cry I won't wear my heart out on my sleeve You can take the car, but you won't break my heart Oh, and darlin' turn the lights out when you leave I ain't gonna shake, I ain't gonna break I ain't gonna fall down on my knees So if everything's been said I'm heading back to bed Oh and darlin' turn the lights out when you leave You might still look pretty In that lacey little dress But I think you've got your signals crossed If you think that I'm a mess I ain't gonna die, I ain't gonna cry I won't wear my heart out on my sleeve You can take the car, but you won't break my heart And darlin' turn the lights out when you leave I ain't gonna shake, I ain't gonna break I ain't gonna fall down on my knees So if everything's been said I'm heading back to bed Oh and darlin' turn the lights out when you leave So if everything's been said I'm heading back to bed Oh and darlin' turn the lights out when you leave -------- Peachtree Road (2004) -------- -------- (5) My Elusive Drug -------- I'm not the same as I used to be All the things you've heard seem hard to believe Haven't always been good, never really been bad Most times I've been happy, yea sometimes I've been sad Sure I've made mistakes, haven't we all I've been loose as a cannon and dumb as a wall Haven't always been sober in counting my ducks And if I look back now I've had my share of luck But the change didn't come over night I've been searching for you all my life All the habits that I couldn't handle I've swept them under the rug In exchange for the sweetest addiction You, my elusive drug I'm going to stay now, I really like it here I may paint your picture, and I might grow a beard There were times I was crazy couldn't handle my life Don't think you'd have liked me not at any old price But the change didn't come over night I've been searching for you all my life All the habits that I couldn't handle I've swept them under the rug In exchange for the sweetest addiction You, my elusive drug And I've taken the pills I got burnt out and chilled by the cold But I've no regrets and that being said You know cheap thrills can get pretty old Yeah, yeah, oh yeah But the change didn't come over night I've been searching for you all my life All the habits that I couldn't handle I've swept them under the rug In exchange for the sweetest addiction You, my elusive drug In exchange for the sweetest addiction You, my elusive drug -------- Peachtree Road (2004) -------- -------- (6) They Call Her The Cat -------- She threw back that shiny hair Like the mane on a Delta queen Gonna spend my last dime on a telephone call 'Cause she's the wildest thing I've ever seen She was just plain mister once Got herself fixed up real good Just a little boy lost in the land of the free A wiggle and a walk away from womanhood Now they call her the cat And that's a stone fact They took a little of this She got a little of that Now Billy got a kitty He got something to scratch So they call her, yeah they call her the cat She just does that double act She got Babs and Joan down pat She got hips like Mick, she's a rolling stone Never seen a woman shake like that She was just plain mister once Got herself fixed up real good Just a little boy lost in the land of the free A wiggle and a walk away from womanhood Now they call her the cat And that's a stone fact They took a little of this She got a little of that Now Billy got a kitty He got something to scratch So they call her, yeah they call her the cat She's so fine that the water line Don't separate hot and cold She got stitched up bitchy by an old M.D. Now she's headed out to Hollywood or so I'm told Now they call her the cat And that's a stone fact They took a little of this She got a little of that Now Billy got a kitty He got something to scratch So they call her, yeah they call her the cat And that's a stone fact They took a little of this She got a little of that Now Billy got a kitty He got something to scratch So they call her, yeah they call her the cat -------- Peachtree Road (2004) -------- -------- (7) Freaks In Love -------- Me and you we're not that pretty Me and you could use a lift I'm out here on the corner crying I got ribbons but I got no gift Me and you we're all we've got Me and you could be our curse We've got bleeding hearts and flowers You got strings but you got no purse We're just freaks in love, saints above shine on our sweet life Happy is the union of fools and freaks alike And fearless are the idiots among the hawks and doves We're on the outside looking in a couple of freaks in love There's a wonder in this weakness It's so beautiful sometimes Across the universe we're lightning In the race we're a step behind Me and you we're not for everyone Me and you we're damaged goods We're antique and unacceptable And just misunderstood We're just freaks in love, saints above shine on our sweet life Happy is the union of fools and freaks alike And fearless are the idiots among the hawks and doves We're on the outside looking in a couple of freaks in love We're just freaks in love, saints above shine on our sweet life Happy is the union of fools and freaks alike And fearless are the idiots among the hawks and doves We're on the outside looking in a couple of freaks in love We're just freaks in love, saints above shine on our sweet life Happy is the union of fools and freaks alike And fearless are the idiots among the hawks and doves We're on the outside looking in a couple of freaks in love We're on the outside looking in a couple of freaks in love -------- Peachtree Road (2004) -------- -------- (8) All That I'm Allowed (I'm Thankful) -------- Breaking down never seems to be that hard Falling short is always in the cards I'm on the road, sunrise is at my back Lost it all somewhere between the cracks I always hoped that I'd do better That I'd come out on top for once We all get what we deliver Then there are the lucky ones And I've got all that I'm allowed It'll do for me, I'm thankful now The walls get higher every day The barriers get in the way But I see hope in every cloud And I'm thankful, thankful I'm thankful, so thankful I'm thankful, I've got all that I'm allowed Leaving town gets to feel just like a job My desire never winds up on top I can say now I didn't want the moon It's out of reach somewhere beyond this room I always hoped that I'd do better That I'd come out on top for once We all get what we're delivered Then there are the lucky ones And I've got all that I'm allowed It'll do for me, I'm thankful now The walls get higher every day The barriers get in the way But I see hope in every cloud And I'm thankful, thankful I'm thankful, so thankful I'm thankful, I've got all that I'm allowed I always try to make things clear Then I watched as progress starts I only hope I'm standing here When heaven finally comes to call -------- Peachtree Road (2004) -------- -------- (9) I Stop And I Breathe -------- We are still all right We took it on the chin But in the thirteenth hour No one ever wins But we're strong enough Like traffic all tied up And when the static clears The radios still buzz And I stop and I breathe 'Cause you wanted me And I wanted you so bad And I stop and I breathe 'Cause I still believe No one really knows what it is that we have Like blood in a vein We chased this one down And in the darkest long night We turned it all around And it was coal-dusted snow That covered the fields But the corn it still grew And the injury healed And I stop and I breathe 'Cause you wanted me And I wanted you so bad And I stop and I breathe 'Cause I still believe No one really knows what it is that we have And I stop and I breathe 'Cause you wanted me And I wanted you so bad And I stop and I breathe 'Cause I still believe No one really knows what it is that we have -------- Peachtree Road (2004) -------- -------- (10) Too Many Tears -------- Did you see the first man on the moon? Have you seen the first light of day? When there wasn't someone stuck inside Something like the moon Something like a star that's lost its way Did you go to Dallas on that day? Have you been to where they broke a dream? Where there really isn't room for doubt? Somehow we got lost And the truth is buried somewhere in-between And everyone, everywhere Take time and dry your eyes 'Cause too many tears, too many tears Have been cried Just look into that beautiful blue That beautiful blue, blue sky And know too many tears, too many tears Have been cried The mystery of why they had to leave I'm only one of thousands saying why Why a balcony in Memphis Tennessee Seems trapped in time Just an angry finger pointing at the sky Would you wait to stand inside his shoes? And is the best all you have to give The barefoot man lived a simple life I guess he knew Some things die so other things might live So everyone, everywhere Take time and dry your eyes 'Cause too many tears, too many tears Have been cried Just look into that beautiful blue That beautiful blue, blue sky And know too many tears, too many tears Have been cried Oh come on everyone, everywhere Take time and dry your eyes 'Cause too many tears, too many tears Have been cried Just look into that beautiful blue That beautiful blue, blue sky And know too many tears, too many tears Have been cried -------- Peachtree Road (2004) -------- -------- (11) It's Getting Dark In Here -------- It's getting dark in here Don't want to leave Shadow's falling And I believe Winds picking up Things so unclear I'm afraid of my shadow And it's getting dark in here I'm scared of strangers On the street World's so ugly I can't breathe Moon's so spooky I'm close to tears I've lost it all And it's getting dark in here And the wait isn't worth what I'm getting Sometimes I feel I'm on fire I've been handed a curse and a blessing My life's been stripped down to the wire And I'm trying to get back and hold on Find someone somewhere who cares But the sun's always setting on my life And it's sure getting dark in here Don't talk about angels Or how I'll be saved I'm no coward But I'm not that brave Rags are blowing Rain's getting near I'm done with running And it's getting dark in here And the wait isn't worth what I'm getting Sometimes I feel I'm on fire I've been handed a curse and a blessing My life's been stripped down to the wire And I'm trying to get back and hold on Find someone somewhere who cares But the sun's always setting on my life And it's sure getting dark in here And the wait isn't worth what I'm getting Sometimes I feel I'm on fire I've been handed a curse and a blessing My life's been stripped down to the wire And I'm trying to get back and hold on Find someone somewhere who cares But the sun's always setting on my life And it's sure getting dark in here Yeah, the sun's always setting on my life And it's sure getting dark in here -------- Peachtree Road (2004) -------- -------- (12) I Can't Keep This From You -------- I can't keep this from you I've held it in so long It's time to tell the truth Keeping it from you is wrong I can't keep this from you It's so simple I'm afraid When I tell you how I feel You'll just laugh and call me crazy And I can't keep This love a secret And I don't want To go on longing I just want a chance for me to prove My love and I can't keep this from you I can't keep this from you It's hard to breathe in here I just seem to act the fool Every time I feel you near I can't keep this from you No matter what you say Anything is better now Than going through my life this way And I can't keep This love a secret And I don't want To go on longing I just want a chance for me to prove My love and I can't keep this from you And I love every move you make Can't you hear every heart you break? And don't you know when I hear your name? Just the sound of it shoots me down in flames And I can't keep This love a secret And I don't want To go on longing I just want a chance for me to prove My love and I can't keep this from you I can't keep This love a secret And I don't want To go on longing I just want a chance for me to prove My love and I can't keep this from you I just want a chance for me to prove My love and I can't keep this from you Oh no I just can't keep this from you -------- Peachtree Road (2004) -------- -------- (13) The Letter -------- Dear Billy I must seem a distant memory Which is probably a good thing And it will have been a long, long time And I will have missed you growing And I'll have missed you crying And I'll have missed you laugh Missed your stamping and your shouting I have missed telling you off But please, Billy, know that I was always there I was with you through everything And please, Billy, know that I will always be Proud to have known you Proud that you were mine Proud in everything And you must promise me this, Billy In everything you do Always be yourself, Billy And you always will be true Love you forever Love you forever Mam -------- Peachtree Road (2004) -------- -------- (14) Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher -------- Can you hear it in the distance? Can you... sense it far away? Is it old Rudolph the Reindeer? Is it Santa on his sleigh? It's heading up to Easington It's coming down the Tyne Oh! It's bloody Maggie Thatcher And Michael Heseltine! So Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher May God's love be with you We all sing together in one breath Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher We all celebrate today Cos it's one day closer to your death They've come to raid your stockings And to steal your Christmas pud But don't be too downhearted It's all for your own good The economic infrastructure Must be swept away To make way for business parks and lower rates of pay, so Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher May God's love be with you We all sing together in one breath Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher We all celebrate today Cos it's one day closer to your death And they've brought their fascist bootboys And they've brought the boys in blue And the whole Trade Union Congress Will be at the party too And they'll all hold hands together All standing in a line Cos they're privatising Santa This merry Christmas time, so Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher May God's love be with you We all sing together in one breath Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher We all celebrate today Cos it's one day closer to your death Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher May God's love be with you We all sing together in one breath Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher We all celebrate today Cos it's one day closer to your death Oh my darling, oh my darling Oh my darling Heseltine You're a tosser, you're a wanker And you're just a Tory Swine -------- Peachtree Road (2004) -------- -------- (15) Electricity -------- I can't really explain it I haven't got the words It's a feeling that you can't control I suppose it's like forgetting Losing who you are And at the same time, something makes you whole It's like that there's a music Playing in your ear And I'm listening, and I'm listening And then I disappear And then I feel a change Like a fire deep inside Something bursting me wide open Impossible to hide And suddenly I'm flying Flying like a bird Like electricity Electricity Sparks inside of me And I'm free, I'm free It's a bit like being angry It's a bit like being scared Confused and all mixed up and mad as hell It's like when you've been crying And you're empty and you're full I don't know what it is, it's hard to tell It's like that there's some music Playing in your ear But the music is impossible Impossible to hear But then I feel it move me Like a burning deep inside Something bursting me wide open Impossible to hide And suddenly I'm flying Flying like a bird Like electricity Electricity Sparks inside of me And I'm free, I'm free Electricity Sparks inside of me And I'm free, I'm free Oh, I'm free -------- The Captain And The Kid (2006) -------- -------- (1) Postcards From Richard Nixon -------- We heard Richard Nixon say, "Welcome to the USA" The common sense I sometimes lack Has opened up a seismic crack We've fallen in and I can't pull back And I guess we'll have to stay In open arms we put our trust they put us on a big red bus Twin spirits soaking up a dream Fuel to feed the press machine After years that were long and lean We're finally on our way And Richard Nixon's on his knees he's sent so many overseas He'd like to know if you and me could help him in some way A little camouflage and glue to mask the evil that men do A small diversion caused by two Pale kids come to play And we heard Richard Nixon say, "Welcome to the USA" Neither of us understood the way things ticked in Hollywood We just loaded in and grabbed the bat With little room to swing a cat And pretty soon we were "Where it's at" Or so the papers say And all around us suntanned teens, beauty like we'd never seen Our heroes led us by the hand Through Brian Wilson's promised land Where Disney's God and he commands Both mice and men to stay And Richard Nixon's on his knees he's sent so many overseas He'd like to know if you and me could help him in some way A little camouflage and glue to mask the evil that men do A small diversion caused by two Pale kids come to play And we heard Richard Nixon say, "Welcome to the USA" In a bright red Porsche on Sunset I saw Steve McQueen I guess he's just about the coolest guy I've ever seen And for you and me that speeding car is how it's going to be I see no brakes just open road and lots of gasoline Oh, We heard Richard Nixon say, "Welcome to the USA" The common sense I sometimes lack Has opened up a seismic crack We've fallen in and I can't pull back Pale kids come to play And we heard Richard Nixon say, "I've gotta go but you can stay" Pale kids come to play And we heard Richard Nixon say, "I've gotta go but you can stay" -------- The Captain And The Kid (2006) -------- -------- (2) Just Like Noah's Ark -------- It's just like Noah's Ark There's two of every kind Pretty girls and boys in drag Walking a fine thin line Shaking hands and bussing cheeks Licking their lips like they could eat Me alive in a couple of weeks Yea just like Noah's Ark Italiano promotion men Chomping a big cigar Slapping backs and making cracks About the fags in the bar Radio boss dipping his nose in a little white packet You put it out son and we'll all back it Yea it's just like Noah's Ark And the waves are crashing round us But we're ready for the flood And we don't need a sign like an olive branch In the beak of a snow white dove We're not as dumb as we might look You can't keep us in the dark With me and you it's two by two just like Noah's Ark These four walls have seen The cockettes and the casters From San Francisco to Ohio I've seen beauty and disaster Cocky young roosters and little chicks Flashing smiles, shaking them hips Trying to hook it up for the late night shift Here in Noah's Ark And the waves are crashing round us But we're ready for the flood And we don't need a sign like an olive branch In the beak of a snow white dove We're not as dumb as we might look You can't keep us in the dark With me and you it's two by two just like Noah's Ark And we wrote it as we saw it from the centre of the stage All access to the liars who claim they wrote a page But for every tiny dancer there's a dog that's had its day The truth is never quite the same as what the papers say And the waves are crashing round us But we're ready for the flood And we don't need a sign like an olive branch In the beak of a snow white dove We're not as dumb as we might look You can't keep us in the dark With me and you it's two by two just like Noah's Ark -------- The Captain And The Kid (2006) -------- -------- (3) Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way (NYC) -------- I remember it like it was yesterday Snow in the park and skaters on the ice Long black cars standing side-by-side Loading up the boys at night Turned up our collars to the chill of the wind Caught an innocent smile from a taxi at the lights Not something you'd see on a New York street It's such an uncommon sight But I wouldn't have it any other way This city's got a thing about it, don't try to understand it New York City I'd really like to stay New York City I wouldn't have you I wouldn't have you any other way Oh the subway rumbled underneath Italian lights where Joey Gallo died And the man on the door down at 54's Letting only the pretty inside I'd wake with a stranger under the covers Late in the day and longing for the night Just like the snowfall there's so many bodies But somehow it feels so right But I wouldn't have it any other way This city's got a thing about it, don't try to understand it New York City I'd really like to stay New York City I wouldn't have you I wouldn't have you any other way And I can feel the magic And read a million lips And no matter what might happen They'll never sink this ship But I wouldn't have it any other way This city's got a thing about it, don't try to understand it New York City I'd really like to stay New York City I wouldn't have you I wouldn't have you any other way -------- The Captain And The Kid (2006) -------- -------- (4) Tinderbox -------- Nostradamus said, "I predict That the world will end at half past six" What he didn't say was exactly when Was he listening to the radio? Was he listening to the government? Well he got us spooked anyway We'd been running hot up until today But a wind of change blew across our sails We were coasting on a winning streak We were kings until the power failed We've been living in a tinderbox And two sparks can set the whole thing off Rubbing up together around the clock Lately we've been getting more roll than rock You and me together in a tinderbox (tinderbox) Two sparks can set the whole thing off Rubbing up together around the clock Lately we've been getting more roll than rock You and me together in a tinderbox Godzilla came in disguise Tore the building down right before our eyes Kept the needle out of the red balloon Was he worried we might go too far Maybe wind up rhyming moon and June The sun descends down in Mexico While a fancy car back on Saville Row Shows the price of fame leads to overkill Things are gonna have to change Some holes along the road get filled We've been living in a tinderbox And two sparks can set the whole thing off Rubbing up together around the clock Lately we've been getting more roll than rock You and me together in a tinderbox (tinderbox) Two sparks can set the whole thing off Rubbing up together around the clock Lately we've been getting more roll than rock You and me together in a tinderbox Pressure's gonna cook us if we don't unlock it Gun's going off if we don't uncock it We've gotta climb out of the other one's pocket Or we're gonna burn, out on this beautiful rocket We've been living in a tinderbox And two sparks can set the whole thing off Rubbing up together around the clock Lately we've been getting more roll than rock You and me together in a tinderbox (tinderbox) Two sparks can set the whole thing off Rubbing up together around the clock Lately we've been getting more roll than rock You and me together in a tinderbox -------- The Captain And The Kid (2006) -------- -------- (5) And The House Fell Down -------- The sun is up and the shades are all pulled down I'm more paranoid with every little sound Like the leaf blower blowing the leaves around And a siren wailing on the other side of town Oh the TVs on and the colors really hurt my head If I could think straight I'd wish I was dead Or curled up naked in my lover's bed Instead I'm hanging over Hell suspended by a single thread And I don't recall who said it at this time That your enemies grow strong on what you leave behind I built it up and the wolf he came around He huffed and puffed and the house fell down With a rolled up note I'm hovering on that line Three days on a diet of cocaine and wine And a little weed just to level me sometime I put the clock in the drawer 'cause I've cancelled out the time And I don't recall who said it at this time That your enemies grow strong on what you leave behind I built it up and the wolf he came around He huffed and puffed and the house fell down So don't knock on my door, don't try to call I'm holed up in this room talking to the wall When you're high as this you think you know it all When you're this deep in there's no place else to fall And I don't recall who said it at this time That your enemies grow strong on what you leave behind I built it up and the wolf he came around He huffed and puffed and the house fell down And still that saying gets inside my mind That your enemies grow strong on what you leave behind I built it up and the wolf he came around He huffed and puffed and the house fell down -------- The Captain And The Kid (2006) -------- -------- (6) Blues Never Fade Away -------- He wasn't famous but I sure did love him I've got his picture in a little frame He lost his life to a big disease before it even had a name But there's so many more and I've lost count The hows and whys aren't important now All that matters is they came around And brightened up our lives She was twenty one with her life ahead You don't need to know her name She breathed her last on the cold stone floor of a Hollywood arcade But fate's right hand isn't always just Puts a lot of pressure on your faith and trust She was just a little girl ain't that enough To rage against the day And how did we get so lucky? Targets on the rifle range Who makes the call and who gets to choose? Who gets to win and who gets to lose? It's like a rolling dice in the belly of the blues And blues never fade away Hey hey the colors run when the rain falls But blues never fade away He shone so bright with a lust for life Like the Sun King that he was His passions hung upon his walls and were printed onto cloth And for reasons I never understood About the choices made between the bad and good I've tried to figure out but The pain never goes away And how did we get so lucky? Targets on the rifle range Who makes the call and who gets to choose? Who gets to win and who gets to lose? It's like a rolling dice in the belly of the blues And blues never fade away Hey hey the colors run when the rain falls But blues never fade away And there's marble markers and little white crosses Along the beaten path And I've spread their ashes on the wind And I miss John Lennon's laugh And how did we get so lucky? Targets on the rifle range Who makes the call and who gets to choose? Who gets to win and who gets to lose? It's like a rolling dice in the belly of the blues And blues never fade away Hey hey the colors run when the rain falls But blues never fade away -------- The Captain And The Kid (2006) -------- -------- (7) The Bridge -------- I've seen the bridge and the bridge is long And they built it high and they built it strong Strong enough to hold the weight of time Long enough to leave some of us behind And every one of us has to face that day Do you cross the bridge or do you fade away And every one of us that ever came to play Has to cross the bridge or fade away Standing on the bridge looking at the waves Seen so many jump, never seen one saved On a distant beach your song can die On a bitter wind, on a cruel tide And every one of us has to face that day Do you cross the bridge or do you fade away And every one of us that ever came to play Has to cross the bridge or fade away And the bridge it shines Oh cold hard iron Saying come and risk it all Or die trying And every one of us has to face that day Do you cross the bridge or do you fade away And every one of us that ever came to play Has to cross the bridge or fade away -------- The Captain And The Kid (2006) -------- -------- (8) I Must Have Lost It On The Wind -------- I'm no longer counting I'm not keeping score I could say my list of lovers doesn't matter anymore But some are always in my heart And some I'm not so sure Either way they all left their mark And for some I found a cure From one you learn something Another you learn, nothing And there's one who might teach you everything But before I learned to listen And if indeed someone said it Then I guess I must have lost it on the wind Back when I was younger each one was a prize Love just came along and hit you right between the eyes And one was just a trophy catch And one was like a curse Some would want to bleed you dry Some might quench your thirst From one you learn something Another you learn, nothing And there's one who might teach you everything But before I learned to listen And if indeed someone said it Then I guess I must have lost it on the wind In cold water I went fishing in warm seas I cast a line And swore the heart I was reeling in was perfect at the time You couldn't tell me I was wrong, you couldn't tell me anything And if you did then I guess I must have lost it on the wind -------- The Captain And The Kid (2006) -------- -------- (9) Old '67 -------- Hey how about this A little conversation tonight Thinking aloud how we struggled to find Our place in the dizzy heights Don't often do this We never really get the chance Nearly froze to death on Oxford Street Now we're sitting in the South of France Talking through the evening It's good to shoot the breeze Just you and me on a balcony And cicadas singing in the trees Old '67 what a time it was What a time of innocence, what a time we've lost Raise a glass and have a laugh, have a laugh or two Here's to old '67 and an older me and you Sentimental twilight Conversing on those virgin days Laughing about how the two of us sound Like a Tennessee Williams play Honest, it's amazing That we can get together at all For in between the saddle and the grand piano We can read the writing on the wall Talking through the evening Sitting here side by side Just you and me on a balcony It's a little bit funny this feeling inside Old '67 what a time it was What a time of innocence, what a time we've lost Raise a glass and have a laugh, have a laugh or two Here's to old '67 and an older me and you -------- The Captain And The Kid (2006) -------- -------- (10) The Captain And The Kid -------- I've been out here on this road some Can't help feeling I've been showin' my friends around I've seen it growin' from next to nothin' Into a giant, eatin' up your town Called up the tea leaves and the tarots Asked the gypsy what she sees in the palm of our hands, oh yeah She saw a mountain and wild deer runnin' A crazy kid becoming a better man But we stuck around for the fireworks Waitin' to explode Shaped our futures, you a tumbleweed And me on a yellow brick road Pleasin' the people some of the time For better or for worse An urban soul in a fine, silk suit And a heart out west in a Wrangler shirt And you can't go back And if you try, it fails Lookin' up ahead I see a rusty nail A sign hangin' from it Sayin', "Truth for sale" And that's what we did No lies at all, just one more tale About the captain and the kid We've been missin', at times, in action Can't imagine what he said he might do for you, oh yeah The devil got to come to the party sometimes But he never got to wear our shoes Oh, we've conjured up what we created Way back then, when I was standin' up in six-inch heels Now you're ridin' off into the sunset And I'm still spinnin' like a Catherine wheel But we stuck around for the battle Waitin' for a plan To turn you into the brown dirt cowboy And me into a rocket man It pleases the people some of the time Diggin' into our roots But I got a brand new pair of shoes And you're on a horse in old cowboy boots And you can't go back And if you try, it fails Lookin' up ahead I see a rusty nail A sign hangin' from it Sayin', "Truth for sale" And that's what we did No lies at all, just one more tale About the captain and the kid No, you can't go back And if you try, it fails Lookin' up ahead I see a rusty nail A sign hangin' from it Sayin', "Truth for sale" And that's what we did No lies at all, just one more tale About the captain and the kid -------- The Union (2010) -------- -------- (1) If It Wasn't For Bad -------- (with Leon Russell) I knew from the first night I met you Something just wasn't quite right Loving like an innocent stranger But something was just out of sight How could I know that you had used me Fill out some plan of your own I could have known you'd abused me Leave me here hurt and alone If it wasn't for you I'd be happy If it wasn't for lies you'd be true I know that you could be just like you should If it wasn't for bad you'd be good I only sung what I wanted to sing You were a dream in my mind I never know how you never could be It didn't take long for me to find I guess that it's mine for foresee Only what I wanted to see I couldn't know you would be A player just acting for me If it wasn't for you I'd be happy If it wasn't for lies you'd be true I know you could be just like you should If it wasn't for bad you'd be good I knew from the first night I met you Something just wasn't quite right Loving like an innocent stranger But something was just out of sight If it wasn't for you I'd be happy If it wasn't for lies you'd be true I know you could be just like it should If it wasn't for bad you'd be good If it wasn't for bad you'd be good -------- The Union (2010) -------- -------- (2) Eight Hundred Dollar Shoes -------- (with Leon Russell) You had your grand illusion and wrestled with your fate The winter of your discontent came twenty years too late If it was love and I was there I've forgotten where it lives We both stepped off a frozen rock onto a burning bridge You came like an invasion all bells and whistles blowing Reaping the rewards of the fable you'd been sowing I saw you cross the landing and descending marble stairs Like Caesar crossed the Rubicon you seemed to walk on air And yeah I've seen your movie And I read it in your book The truth just flew off every page Your songs have all the hooks You're seven wonders rolled in one You shifted gears to cruise Oh you came to town in headlines And eight-hundred-dollar shoes Oh the bellboys are crying and money's changing hands Your cloak and dagger legacy's gone home to no man's land The marquee lights are flickering your poster's fading fast Your being here just melts away like ice cubes in a glass And yeah I've seen your movie And I read it in your book The truth just flew off every page Your songs have all the hooks You're seven wonders rolled in one You shifted gears to cruise Oh you came to town in headlines And eight-hundred-dollar shoes Oh you came to town in headlines And eight-hundred-dollar shoes -------- The Union (2010) -------- -------- (3) Hey Ahab -------- (with Leon Russell) It's a constant struggle getting up that hill There's a change of guard every day When you're clinging onto a driftwood boat You pray a great white whale might come your way No freeway traffic in the frozen North Just a chain link fence full of birds And when the harpoon's loaded in the cannon bay You'll be rolling through the pages lost for words Hey Ahab can you tell me where I can catch a ride out of here Hey Ahab hoist that sail You gotta stand up straight When you ride that whale In a crumbling city we were trapped for days With a broken sun above the clouds Caught like Jonah forty fathams down And a sign on the wall saying, "Hope Allowed" All the cryptic symbols carved on bone A far cry from a tattooed rose And when the boys in the rigging catch the wind We'll all weigh anchor and it's westward ho Hey Ahab can you tell me where I can catch a ride out of here Hey Ahab hoist that sail You gotta stand up straight When you ride that whale Hey Ahab can you tell me where I can catch a ride out of here Hey Ahab hoist that sail You gotta stand up straight When you ride that whale -------- The Union (2010) -------- -------- (4) Gone To Shiloh -------- (with Leon Russell) Luther left at first light Friday morning Little Dan and Becky wave good-bye They're gonna have to share the wait together Idle hands will see a good fire slowly die Gone to Shiloh for the Union Shoulder to shoulder, side by side Gone to Shiloh, hope springs eternal When flags and bullets start to fly April's come and the air smells fresh with rain They watched his shadow fade around the bend He's headed for a different kind of thunder And the stunned surprise in the eyes of dying men Gone to Shiloh for the Union Shoulder to shoulder, side by side Gone to Shiloh, time passes slowly When flags and bullets start to fly The old black rooster sang in death down that dirt road His steps in bold, his man of fancy free I pray we see him alive and well in the forehead In that Godforsaken place in Tennessee Gone to Shiloh for the Union Shoulder to shoulder, side by side Gone to Shiloh, men stand united When flags and bullets start to fly After all this, if we should prevail Heaven help the South When Sherman comes their way -------- The Union (2010) -------- -------- (5) Hearts Have Turned To Stone -------- (with Leon Russell) I'm out here in the darkness I hear the howling wind Sometimes I sit and wonder Will I ever see love again Looking for an answer Not an easy thing to find Out here in the wilderness With questions on my mind Now the sun is rising higher in the sky The morning light is crawling From the darkness of the night The raindrops keep on falling There is no light of day The sadness deep inside me Doesn't seem to go away And there's no way out, no road home I'm lost in doubt and I'm all alone The time has come When love is done Hearts have finally turned to stone No more bright tomorrow, only sad today My heart is filled with sorrow The pain won't go away Try to keep from crying All night long and through the day Lost and all alone Hearts have finally turned to stone No more bright tomorrow, only sad today My heart is filled with sorrow The pain won't go away Just try to keep from crying All night long and through the day Lost and all alone Hearts have finally turned to stone -------- The Union (2010) -------- -------- (6) Jimmie Rodgers' Dream -------- (with Leon Russell) I'm looking at a funeral wagon rolling down A two-lane highway winding past a desert town A big blue canvas painted by the Master's hand The shifting clouds above and endless miles of sand In that mirror maybe that's what's left of me Wheezing like a freight train hauling sixty tons of steel Air 'em out's the best release and get some rest Carrie don't wait up for me the brakeman's going West In this room all alone I dream of you In this drawer I found someone I never knew Now I pop a top and stay up late with Gideon And fall asleep to visions of Meridian I've seen dusty beaten delta boys cutting heads A black face carney showman scare a song to death In my short life I've seen as much as most men need Now I'm just looking for some cleaner air to breathe In this room all alone I dream of you In this drawer I found someone I never knew Now I pop a top and stay up late with Gideon And fall asleep to visions of Meridian Far away, far away So many years, so many days All along this broken land I've seen a lover's empty arms And hunger's empty hand In this room all alone I dream of you In this drawer I found someone I never knew -------- The Union (2010) -------- -------- (7) There's No Tomorrow -------- (with Leon Russell) There's no time for waiting No future to see Inside the next moment Nothing might be The answer is not certain No time to decide Is this the last curtain? There's no place to hide There's no tomorrow There's no tomorrow There's no tomorrow There's only today We all know the story We've heard it before We end up no question Outside of death's door There's no easy answer To the question at hand So easy to ask And not understand There's no tomorrow There's no tomorrow There's no tomorrow There's only today There's no tomorrow There's no tomorrow There's no tomorrow There's only today There's only today -------- The Union (2010) -------- -------- (8) Monkey Suit -------- (with Leon Russell) If you're looking for the glory You think that you might find In a bullet-riddled stolen car On a back road in the pines If it's round just like a medal On a tired old man of war Or hidden like that Burma Star In my dad's bottom drawer Look at you in your monkey suit Driving south, nothing left to prove You come back here in your cowboy boots Dressed to kill in your monkey suit Every pose you strike, every frame they shoot Shows you dressed to kill in your monkey suit Build your ladder to the moon Beat on that sacred drum Trample on the hands of those That cling to every rung Every seed you crush beneath Like stone ground in a mill You never drew a decent breath But you're just dressed to kill Look at you in your monkey suit Driving south, nothing left to prove You come back here in your cowboy boots Dressed to kill in your monkey suit Every pose you strike, every frame they shoot Shows you dressed to kill in your monkey suit Look at you in your monkey suit Driving south, nothing left to prove You come back here in your cowboy boots Dressed to kill in your monkey suit Every pose you strike, every frame they shoot Shows you dressed to kill in your monkey suit -------- The Union (2010) -------- -------- (9) The Best Part Of The Day -------- (with Leon Russell) I hear you singing, "I Shall Be Released" Like a chainsaw running through a masterpiece But that's all right, that's OK Grab the bottle and slide my way You dreamt of a devil down below Sprinkled cayenne pepper in your sugar bowl But he's a fool and he's a thief Got silly little horns and pointed teeth Roll back the covers and raise the shades We don't want to miss out on the best part of the day You're my best friend you shared my crazy ways Now we don't want to miss out on the best part of the day There's a canyon where an echo hangs Like the ancient bells of Notre Dame It's beyond the hills out of sight Thought I heard 'em ringing all last night Hear the mating call of the morning dove Like Romeo angels in the roof above Rains will come sweet and clean Let the tears of God keep the mountains green Roll back the covers and raise the shades We don't want to miss out on the best part of the day You're my best friend you shared my crazy ways Now we don't want to miss out on the best part of the day One big sun coming up Old moon going down Thunder breaking in the east I'm gonna love you 'til it comes around Roll back the covers and raise the shades We don't want to miss out on the best part of the day You're my best friend you shared my crazy ways Now we don't want to miss out on the best part of the day You're my best friend you shared my crazy ways Now we don't want to miss out on the best part of the day -------- The Union (2010) -------- -------- (10) A Dream Come True -------- (with Leon Russell) I can hear your heart Pounding in my ear Now I feel the sound And the time is near I feel the taste Of all the things you do Now the time has come I know you're a dream come true You make me so complete With the things you do And the music's sweet You make me feel brand new I hear the sound Songs start coming through Somehow I know That you're a dream come true It takes my breath When it sounds that way Seems like you Chase the clouds away And I feel so good Each and every day And life is good Each and every way Now I feel the beat Of the dancing drums And now I know we're Gonna have some fun Now the time stands still And the blues are through And now I know What I'm gonna do Now I feel the beat Of the dancing drums And now I know we're Gonna have some fun Now the time stands still And all the blues are through Now I know What I'm gonna do It takes my breath When it sounds that way Seems like you Chase the clouds away And I feel so good Each and every day And life is good Each and every way -------- The Union (2010) -------- -------- (11) I Should Have Sent Roses -------- (with Leon Russell) Are you standing outside? Looking up at the sky Cursing a wandering star Well if I were you I'd throw rocks at the moon I'd say damn you wherever you are I don't know where to start This cage 'round my heart Locked up what I'd meant to say Or I felt all along the way Just wondering how come I couldn't take your breath away 'Cause I never sent roses I never did enough I didn't know how to love you Though I loved you so much When I should've sent roses When you crossed my mind No other reason Than the fact you were mine I should've sent roses Looking back on my life Oh, if fate should decide I could do it all over again I'd build no more walls I'd stay true and recall The fragrance of you on the wind You'll get better than me Someone who can see Right from the start Given all that you need I'll slip away Knowing I'm half the man I could be 'Cause I never sent roses I never did enough I didn't know how to love you Though I loved you so much And I should have sent roses When you crossed my mind For no other reason Than the fact you were mine I should've sent roses Yeah should've sent roses -------- The Union (2010) -------- -------- (12) When Love Is Dying -------- (with Leon Russell) They say we bruise too easily I don't know if it's that way for me I've seen 'em come, I've seen 'em go I've seen everyone I know Fall in and out of love It's just the way it goes Word is out, silence seems so loud There's no light above or below me now I've seen it grow, I've seen it live I've seen everything I give Falling out my hands, no matter who I'm with And nobody ever tells you When love is dying, when love is dying It just gets a little colder And we stop trying, we stop trying, yeah we stop trying Oh when love is dying There's a pain you never can explain Cuts so deep time and time again I felt it then, I feel it now But nobody told me how To fight a world of hurt Somebody help me now And nobody ever tells you When love is dying, when love is dying It just gets a little colder And we stop trying, we stop trying, yeah we stop trying Oh when love is dying There's a pain you never can explain But love never gets to show you And I never got to know you No we never stood a chance When love was dying No and love never makes it easy And I never got that feeling No we never stood a chance When love was dying And nobody ever tells you When love is dying, when love is dying It just gets a little colder And we stop trying, we stop trying, yeah we stop trying Oh when love is dying There's a pain you never can explain -------- The Union (2010) -------- -------- (13) My Kind Of Hell -------- (with Leon Russell) Your hot coffee and my black tea I don't know about that Oh guess we choose to disagree But I like your pork-pie hat Well your sister always came between us Claiming she was best But she hitched a ride to a diplomat She moved to Bucharest While we just sat around an 'round Like a dolpha in a bed I can't say I ever liked you much But you're my kind of hell Oh can't say I ever liked you much But you're my kind of hell Battle ins field and New York streets Were watching from a bridge But what the thief an you said made no sense To even stole them anyway Oh a living cheap in an old hotel Eating rice and beans Staying up late taking a bottle each With a couple of Times Square queens We just turned the heat up On the stories we could tell I can't say I ever liked you much But you're my kind of hell Oh can't say I ever liked you much But you're my kind of hell Now I'm sunbathing in the sun Was always on my mind But you tanned from the inside out Drinking coco butter wine While you sold your past life Baptist fire was making plans to leave But you trapped me that ball his bell? On another new years eve So I give it up for what it's worth Crawling to your shell I can't say I ever liked you much But you're my kind of hell Oh can't say I ever liked you much But you're my kind of hell -------- The Union (2010) -------- -------- (14) Mandalay Again -------- (with Leon Russell) Rules and regulations, And real estate are things I've left behind Fights are always leaving Silver wings unfolding on a dime But I won't forget to tell you If I could only reconnect the line I never really knew you, but come back I'd like to find the time Drugs and consequences And Ferris wheels just took us up and down Fights were always brewing Two perfect understudies for a clown If I could piece it all together Or maybe find you through a friend Last I heard it was St. Louis But I wish that it was Mandalay again Come back I'd like to find the time Plant a seed and raise a little Cain Come back we'll throw a rope around the moon And pretend that we're in Mandalay again Fuel and information Are Siamese twins who poison everything Lies that left us drowning Rumor that burned like gasoline I could have read you like a book Instead I acted dumb and blind I was younger then and foolish Come back I'd like to find the time Come back I'd like to find the time Plant a seed and raise a little Cain Come back we'll throw a rope around the moon And pretend that we're in Mandalay again It it wasn't in the afterglow of wine Or the chatter of some European girl I'd have understood that after all these years There were those who chose to separate our worlds Separate our worlds Come back I'd like to find the time Plant a seed and raise a little Cain Come back we'll throw a rope around the moon And pretend that we're in Mandalay again And pretend that we're in Mandalay again We'll pretend that we're in Mandalay again -------- The Union (2010) -------- -------- (15) Never Too Old (To Hold Somebody) -------- (with Leon Russell) Don't abandon life Don't step away Don't give up that tune That you never could play If you're folding your tent And the gas pipes groan If every bone rattles Through nights all alone Well you're tougher than leather No old burlap sack Not some hard scrabble weeds Growing up through the cracks Don't you know, you're never too old You're never too old to hold somebody Don't you know, you're never too old You're never too old to hold somebody You're never too old to hold somebody Don't think you've gone out Don't flicker and fade If you're gonna get lemons Then do what they say The wind makes you weary It knocks you around Logs on the fire Beats sun shining down But you're harder than nails No skinny old tack You're still sharp as a razor And I like you like that Don't you know, you're never too old You're never too old to hold somebody Don't you know, you're never too old You're never too old to hold somebody You're never too old to hold somebody I could bet on a horse But I'm betting on you You still got what it takes You got nothing, nothing to prove Don't you know, you're never too old You're never too old to hold somebody Don't you know, you're never too old You're never too old to hold somebody You're never too old to hold somebody -------- The Union (2010) -------- -------- (16) In The Hands Of Angels -------- (with Leon Russell) Well I could have been sick I could have died I could have given up And not tried To make it to tomorrow Like a broken-hearted lover But there was a brand new start And suddenly I was taken New and faraway places And the music I was shaken It was a whole new race When I woke on that first day There was nothing I could say I was in the hands of angels Johnny and the governor Came and brought me to my senses They made me feel just like a king Made me lose all my bad defenses And they knew all the places I needed to go All of the people I needed to know They knew who I needed And who needed me And who would come help me And who would just let me be I was in the hands of angels Until this very day Inside the hands of angels What more can I say When you're in the hands of angels Life is oh so sweet And you feel the love Down deep inside Even out there on the street In the hands of angels -------- The Diving Board (2013) -------- -------- (1) Oceans Away -------- I hung out with the old folks In the hope that I'd get wise I was trying to bridge the gap Between the great divide Hung on every recollection In the theater of their eyes Picking up on this and that In the few that still survived Call 'em up, n' dust 'em off, let 'em shine The ones who hold onto the the ones They had to leave behind Those that flew and those that fell The ones that had to stay Beneath a little wooden cross oceans away They bend like trees in winter These shuffling old grey lions Those snow-white stars still gather Like the belt around Orion Just to touch the faded lightning Of their powerful design Of a generation gathering For maybe the last time Call 'em up, n' dust 'em off, let 'em shine The ones who hold onto the the ones They had to leave behind Those that flew and those that fell The ones that had to stay Beneath a little wooden cross oceans away Oceans away Where the green grass sways And the cool wind blows Across the shadow of their graves. Shoulder to shoulder back in the day Sleeping bones to rest in earth, oceans away Oceans away Call 'em up, n' dust 'em off, let 'em shine The ones who hold onto the the ones They had to leave behind Those that flew and those that fell The ones that had to stay Beneath a little wooden cross oceans away -------- The Diving Board (2013) -------- -------- (2) Oscar Wilde Gets Out -------- Freedom for the scapegoat leaving Reading Jail Rheumy eyes just pierced his heart like crucifixion nails Shaking fists and razors gleamed, you never stood a chance When the ink ran red on Fleet Street You turned your eyes to France Humbled far from Dublin, chased across the waves Your biting wit still sharp enough To slice through every page Destitute and beaten by the system of the crown The bitter pill you swallowed Tasted sweeter going down And looking back on the great indifference Looking back at the limestone walls Thinking how beauty deceives you Knowing how love fools us all A golden boy in velveteen landed in New York The past was so seductive When they paid to hear you talk Baccarat and champagne flutes Tobacco from Virginia Long before the lords and law Branded Oscar Wilde a sinner And looking back on the cold bleak winter Looking back on those long dark days Felt like the head of John the Baptist In the arms of Salome Don't turn around it's a white gull screaming Don't cry out loud you never know who's listening You've seen it all the exiled Unforgiven From the stately homes of England to her prisons And looking back at the hardened lifers Looking back on the wretched poor Thinking maybe they were my saviors Strange to think I'll miss them all Strange to think I'll miss them all And looking back on the great indifference Looking back at the limestone walls Thinking how beauty deceives you Knowing how love fools us all -------- The Diving Board (2013) -------- -------- (3) A Town Called Jubilee -------- Lily pulled a horseshoe from a pile of junk Said "I'm gonna keep this good luck Piece of iron inside my truck" The boy just whispered "OK" And grabbed his old black dog As we piled on in and cut out through That late November fog Dull as a plough share rusting in the yard Old Cotton grinned and waved goodbye While the auctioneers all played cards On every other Sunday I'd walk down to Moe's and back Eat a t-bone steak, watch a picture show For a dollar and a half Come on little sister get up off my knee Gonna settle down someday In a town called Jubilee Come on brother Jake Break on out and a break free Gonna set things right and set up a house In a town called Jubilee That fog came out of nowhere Short of what I can tell Hand to hand we passed that bucket Up and down from the well Used to be what folks would say Down around these parts if it was me I'd have hopped that west-bound stage Come on little sister get up off my knee Gonna settle down someday In a town called Jubilee Come on brother Jake Break on out and a break free Gonna set things right and set up a house In a town called Jubilee One less hallelujah A little less sympathy Lily and Jake, the old black dog A pinewood box, a rocking horse All gone to Jubilee Come on little sister get up off my knee Gonna settle down someday In a town called Jubilee Come on brother Jake Break on out and a break free Gonna set things right and set up a house In a town called Jubilee -------- The Diving Board (2013) -------- -------- (4) The Ballad Of Blind Tom -------- But that kid he don't care none His black hands resting on the keys Hoppin' like a big old frog And hissin' like a train Entertaining royalty All points east, west and in-between General he's a fine old man Treat him like his own Just throw old Blind Tom a bone From the times of King Cotton May we present to you All you Jim Crow monkeys From Harlan County down to Tuscaloo Play me anything you like I'll play it back to you Be careful what you call me though Some things cut clear on through I may be an idiot I may be a savant I didn't choose this life for me But it's something that I want Cocks that old big head aside Grunts a word or two Keeps 'em guessin' every night Is he really gonna make it through Faint hearts with their fans out Starched collars and cigars He weren't no use for slavin' Play me anything you like I'll play it back to you Be careful what you call me though Some things cut clear on through I may be an idiot I may be a savant I didn't choose this life for me But it's something that I want Play me anything you like I'll play it back to you Be careful what you call me though Some things cut clear on through I may be an idiot I may be a savant I didn't choose this life for me But it's something that I want -------- The Diving Board (2013) -------- -------- (5) My Quicksand -------- I put my life on hold and took you home Good sense shot down I placed you on a throne Where was the wheel that kept me on the road The force of nature preventing overload So don't you know I've been dressed to kill If you got the tools be careful what you build When the arrow's in the bull's eye every time It's hard assuming that the archer's blind My quicksand Let me introduce you To my final stand I went to Paris once I thought I had a plan I woke up with an accent I wound up in quicksand My quicksand I was full of foreign notions at the start There was never once When I was off my guard For any ghost of every poet in the ground There's one like me To buy the guys a round My quicksand Let me introduce you To my final stand I went to Paris once I thought I had a plan I woke up with an accent I wound up in quicksand My quicksand I'm going down You and me together going down It's not what I'd been told about this town That when you least expect it you can drown In quicksand My quicksand My quicksand Let me introduce you To my final stand I went to Paris once I thought I had a plan I woke up with an accent I wound up in quicksand My quicksand My quicksand My quicksand -------- The Diving Board (2013) -------- -------- (6) Can't Stay Alone Tonight -------- I blew the dust out of the corners Threw some dead wood on the fire Tuned the radio to silence Watched the evening sun expire Should have called you up this morning But I'm such a fool at times I still search my shaving mirror Looking for your face with mine And I can't stay alone tonight Can't let another day go by Why is it always this way? Time never seems to really fly And time is never really on my side And I can't stay alone tonight Things have to change and they might But I can't stay alone tonight Chalk up one more crazy notion Imagination running wild But if I needed confirmation I would have gone that extra mile You're the last chance on the highway I'm that open stretch of road You're the diner in my rear-view A cup of coffee getting cold And I can't stay alone tonight Can't let another day go by Why is it always this way? Time never seems to really fly And time is never really on my side And I can't stay alone tonight Things have to change and they might But I can't stay alone tonight Bruised in this cold war of words We've come undone two loose ends alone Possessed by that curse you've endured The spell that I cast couldn't make you come home And I can't stay alone tonight Can't let another day go by Why is it always this way? Time never seems to really fly And time is never really on my side And I can't stay alone tonight Things have to change and they might But I can't stay alone tonight Things have to change and they might But I can't stay alone tonight -------- The Diving Board (2013) -------- -------- (7) Voyeur -------- I'm looking, I'm looking back I'm trying to imagine this and that The simple mathematics making up the map Insurance of protection from immediate collapse I'm watching, I'm watching you A voyeur from a different point of view The solitary eyes that I've been looking through Committed to connecting the old ways to the new And I see things Through a curtain blowing back against the rain Through the crack in a door that heaves with pain And through every gap that gives away Some secret in the dark I'll come away with something To keep you in my heart I'm searching, I'm setting out To prove without a shadow of a doubt The age-old contradiction that's hovering about A whisper in the darkness Holds more truth than a shout I'm waiting, I'm waiting for Telltale footsteps on the bedroom floor A broken hearted lover simply looking for Relief that's temporary from her dirty little war And I see things From the ceilings of a hundred hotel rooms From a satellite that's bouncing off the moon And from every telescope That's focused in on someplace dark I'll come away with something to keep you in my heart Yes I see things From the highest branch that looks directly in Through a hawk's eyes gliding silent on the wind And in every secret rendezvous where illicit lovers park I'll come away with something to keep you in my heart Voyeur Voyeur Voyeur -------- The Diving Board (2013) -------- -------- (8) Home Again -------- I'm counting on a memory to get me out of here I'm waiting for the fog around this spooky little town to clear All this time I've spent being someone else's friend Just one more time, for old time's sake I'd like to go back home again The world had seven wonders once upon a time It's sure enough the favored nations aided their decline And all around me I've seen times like it was back when But like back then, I'd say amen if I could get back home again If I could go back home, if I could go back home If I'd never left, I'd never have known We all dream of leaving, but wind up in the end Spending all our time trying to get back home again Could have been a jailbreak and the spotlight hitting me Or was I just some nightclub singer, back in 1963 In the old part of Valencia, on the coast of Spain Never tiring once of hearing songs about going home again If I could go back home, if I could go back home If I'd never left, I'd never have known We all dream of leaving, but wind up in the end Spending all our time trying to get back home again If I could go back home, if I could go back home If I'd never left, I'd never have known We all dream of leaving, but wind up in the end Spending all our time trying to get back home again -------- The Diving Board (2013) -------- -------- (9) Take This Dirty Water -------- Spare the rod don't spare the fool If you take the breaks you're given You get to make the rules Take a chance and make it fast If you break some bones on landing You know you're built to last Fight the tide and find the shore If the gift horse isn't smiling Just learn to ride some more Common sense is a rule of thumb If the suckers throw a red flag Blow 'em all to Kingdom Come And take this dirty water Running like a river In and out of everything We helped to put together Take this dirty water Help to keep it clean Get back to the wellspring Purify the stream Search out days that never end If it's only for the chance To feel just like a child again Tell a lie that speaks the truth If the heart becomes a prisoner Your soul will turn you loose And take this dirty water Running like a river In and out of everything We helped to put together Take this dirty water Help to keep it clean Get back to the wellspring Purify the stream And take this dirty water Running like a river In and out of everything We helped to put together Take this dirty water Help to keep it clean Get back to the wellspring Purify the stream -------- The Diving Board (2013) -------- -------- (10) The New Fever Waltz -------- Forgotten scars remind us of Too much war, too little love Beneath the fault-line truth to burn Within the page so much to learn Wounded birds look to us Who can heal? Who to trust Bring down the giants old and new Strike up the band and waltz on through I was shaking with a fever When the last good horse went down We were just a couple dancing Where a thousand kings were crowned Shaking with a fever Before the white flag flew And the ballroom opened up to us And the dancers danced on through Love in ruins, torn apart Victims of the careless heart Skating on the cold grey ice Before the flood toward the light Muddy boots to shiny shoes Headlines screaming out the news From dirt and damp to hardwood floors Beyond the burned out broken walls I was shaking with a fever When the last good horse went down We were just a couple dancing Where a thousand kings were crowned Shaking with a fever Before the white flag flew And the ballroom opened up to us And the dancers danced on through I was shaking with a fever When the last good horse went down We were just a couple dancing Where a thousand kings were crowned Shaking with a fever Before the white flag flew And the ballroom opened up to us And the dancers danced on through And the dancers danced on through -------- The Diving Board (2013) -------- -------- (11) Mexican Vacation (Kids In The Candlelight) -------- I carried you in my arms Through the hotel to our room The night was filled with music Those old historic tunes Songs of revolution Filled our hearts and fed our souls As the fireworks exploded Like those cannons long ago See the kids in the candlelight Spirits on the mend Every golden child tonight Just changes on the wind See the kids in the candlelight See 'em shining bright Innocence beyond the fight See the kids in the candlelight Five hundred wooden saints below The color's cracked and dry You said their stories should be told Did they suffer when they died? Give us your tradition Give us hope and send us home We'll be the cracked bells tolling The voice of dust and bones See the kids in the candlelight Spirits on the mend Every golden child tonight Just changes on the wind See the kids in the candlelight See 'em shining bright Innocence beyond the fight See the kids in the candlelight The pillow that you dream on Lies rolled up on the floor You tossed it at the TV screen At the drug lord and his war Thinking of the courtyard Forced a tear from your eye The white shirts in the moonlight The warm forgiving smiles See the kids in the candlelight Spirits on the mend Every golden child tonight Just changes on the wind See the kids in the candlelight See 'em shining bright Innocence beyond the fight See the kids in the candlelight Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah -------- The Diving Board (2013) -------- -------- (12) The Diving Board -------- Took a high dive arcing out wide Into the crowd Out to the sound of their wild applause But you've heard it before And you've seen it all From up there on the diving board You'd free fall into the ether Above the people Out on a limb fragile and adored But who below knows that You're still a mystery Way up on the diving board Sink or swim I can't recall Who said that to me? When I was sixteen And full of the world and its noise But you beat the drum You fell in love with it all The planets alight Those dizzy heights And the view from the diving board Took the grand prize you and your eyes Butterfly light Escaping the reach Of their fangs and their claws Such a pale little thing In your lily-white skin High up on the diving board Sink or swim I can't recall Who said that to me? When I was sixteen And full of the world and its noise But you beat the drum You fell in love with it all The planets alight Those dizzy heights And the view from the diving board Sink or swim I can't recall Who said that to me? When I was sixteen And full of the world and its noise But you beat the drum You fell in love with it all The planets alight Those dizzy heights And the view from the diving board And the view from the diving board -------- The Diving Board (2013) -------- -------- (13) Candlelit Bedroom -------- The sound of one heart breaking, the sound of someone waking To the cold hard truth before the sun goes down If I could ever catch you a little bit of that I'd wrap it up and bury it in the deep dark ground On the ledge with one last chance to beg To the deepest root of the oldest tree If we could only bottle a little bit of rain Wrung out from the history in its ancient leaves All we need is a candlelit bedroom All you ever wanted was a state of grace Every waking moment you believe that Love will always lead you to a better place The never ending stories of the victor and the spoils The treasure and the lesson to be learned If I could ever wrap up a little piece of this I'd strike a match and watch the contents burn All we need is a candlelit bedroom All you ever wanted was a state of grace Every waking moment you believe that Love will always lead you to a better place All we need is a candlelit bedroom All you ever wanted was a state of grace Every waking moment you believe that Love will always lead you to a better place Love will always lead to a candlelit bedroom Only if you want it bad enough Every waking moment you believe that You must have a little faith in the light of love Every waking moment you believe that You must have a little faith in the light of love -------- The Diving Board (2013) -------- -------- (14) Gauguin Gone Hollywood -------- He talks a lot but never talks to anyone at all He shakes his fists at busses and old posters on the walls He knows someone who knew something about J.F.K But his friends are just the shadows in the halls and alleyways The rumbling frozen pipes whisper secrets in the night In the coffee grounds, his fingers sketch a portrait of his wife She knew the legal eagle when his wings swept through the stars Before he shut the furnace down and sealed away his heart It's Gauguin gone Hollywood again A sleeping giant inside a rabbit's skin Tahitian doors beyond the painted veil Another simple mind adrift Like Gauguin going Hollywood again The day lacks color, days are duller than a butter knife Rusty water running through hands out of touch with life A man of independent means, he'd have us all believe A soul who throws his wings away before he goes to sleep It's Gauguin gone Hollywood again A sleeping giant inside a rabbit's skin Tahitian doors beyond the painted veil Another simple mind adrift Like Gauguin going Hollywood again The day lacks color, days are duller than a butter knife Rusty water running through hands out of touch with life A man of independent means, he'd have us all believe A soul who throws his wings away before he goes to sleep If only for a moment, the dead weight were alive An invitation for the flame to shine a light inside Illuminating darkness, giving him release Then someday in his trash can we'll find a masterpiece It's Gauguin gone Hollywood again A sleeping giant inside a rabbit's skin Tahitian doors beyond the painted veil Another simple mind adrift Like Gauguin going Hollywood again The day lacks color, days are duller than a butter knife Rusty water running through hands out of touch with life A man of independent means, he'd have us all believe A soul who throws his wings away before he goes to sleep Like Gauguin going Hollywood again -------- Wonderful Crazy Night (2016) -------- -------- (1) Wonderful Crazy Night -------- Ice cubes on the back of your neck Warm wind blowing through the parking lot A radio humming in every car And it feel like the clocks have stopped Calypso moon just cast its spell We grabbed that magic just because We remember and never forget What a wonderful crazy night that was Some things you don't forget Some things just take a hold A wonderful crazy night like that Takes you back won't let you go Some day if you ask him all about the key to love I'll say that wonderful night What a wonderful crazy night it was Loose clothes and a cool, cool drink A greasy breeze from the chicken stand Heart's on fire just one last time A wishbone snapping in every hand Some things you don't forget Some things just take a hold A wonderful crazy night like that Takes you back won't let you go Some day if you ask him all about the key to love I'd say that wonderful night What a wonderful crazy night it was We found the place to feel it We knew where we were at Started the path, felt out our future Don't everybody need a night like that Ice cubes on the back of your neck Warm wind blowing through the parking lot We remember and never forget What a wonderful crazy night that was Some things you don't forget Some things just take a hold A wonderful crazy night like that Takes you back won't let you go Some day if you ask him all about the key to love I'd say that wonderful night What a wonderful crazy night it was -------- Wonderful Crazy Night (2016) -------- -------- (2) In The Name Of You -------- Got a penny in my pocket And a dollar in my hand But I'll drop it in your tin cup 'Cause you were a one-man band If I could make a million On some TV show On the roulette wheel In a great big casino I'd go ahead and do it But only if I knew I could go ahead and claim it In the name of you Whatever worth I'd choose Whatever tricks I'd use I would find a way to claim it In the name of you I got my favorite hat With that snakeskin band When you need a little shake I've put it in your hands To the bottom of the ocean I would surely dive To find the oldest oyster With the biggest pearl inside I'd go ahead and do it But only if I knew I could go ahead and claim it In the name of you Whatever worth I'd choose Whatever tricks I'd use I would find a way to claim it In the name of you I'd claim a country I'd claim a tune All the undiscovered territory Out there beyond the moon I'd go ahead and do it But only if I knew I could go ahead and claim it In the name of you Whatever worth I'd choose Whatever tricks I'd use I would find a way to claim it In the name of you I'd go ahead and do it But only if I knew I could go ahead and claim it In the name of you Whatever worth I'd choose Whatever tricks I'd use I would find a way to claim it In the name of you In the name of you In the name of you In the name of you In the name of you In the name of you Oh yeah Oh yeah -------- Wonderful Crazy Night (2016) -------- -------- (3) Claw Hammer -------- You're holding back You're hard to read You're a 21st century kind You're lighting fast Built for speed A tight lipped modern mind An architect Of grand romance You're a mystery of disguise You're holed up in your house Just waiting for the fire You're buttoned down All sown up You're an ontological soul Cold hard truth Only proof What we already know You're gonna need a claw hammer Oh my Lord To bust on through And break down your walls Loosen your lips Slacken that jaw It's gonna take a claw hammer Oh my Lord Look at us fools Being used We're totally dumb, surprised Waiting for you to share with us The myth behind the lies Come on out Throw us a bone We want to know your intentions Are you fake For goodness sake Or the Mother of Invention You're buttoned down All sown up You're an ontological soul Cold hard truth Only proof What we already know You're gonna need a claw hammer Oh my Lord To bust on through And break down your walls Loosen your lips Slacken that jaw It's gonna take a claw hammer Oh my Lord You're gonna need a claw hammer Oh my Lord To bust on through And break down your walls Loosen your lips Slacken that jaw It's gonna take a claw hammer Oh my Lord It's gonna take a claw hammer Oh my Lord It's gonna take a claw hammer Oh my Lord -------- Wonderful Crazy Night (2016) -------- -------- (4) Blue Wonderful -------- Every breath is a prayer of some kind I breathe in, I breathe out, I just breathe And you're so well, blue wonderful Blue wonderful to me Like swimming in your eyes I dive in, I dive deep, I just swim I lose myself in you, blue wonderful Blue wonderful again Don't you know where you go? I will follow In your footsteps I find my own feet Addicted like I am to the blues Kind of blue of all the blues I need Yesterday did someone else's song In sixty-five summertime, don't let go Long before you came, blue wonderful The blue wonderful I know Ain't just something I just left behind In the past, far away, used to be But your presence, my blue wonderful Blue wonderful to me Go where you want, when you want to Just don't let the wind tear you free Stick around the light that brings you home Don't ever hang around with the breeze Don't you know where you go? I will follow In your footsteps I find my own feet Addicted like I am to the blues Kind of blue of all the blues I need Every breath is a prayer of some kind I breathe in, I breathe out, I just breathe And you're so well, blue wonderful Blue wonderful to me Like swimming in your eyes I dive in, I dive deep, I just swim I lose myself in you, blue wonderful Blue wonderful again I lose myself in you, blue wonderful Blue wonderful Blue wonderful Blue wonderful Blue wonderful, again -------- Wonderful Crazy Night (2016) -------- -------- (5) I've Got 2 Wings -------- I am the elder Utah Smith I've got two wings to fly They may be made of paper They may never reach the sky But I believe in mercy I believe that man is good And if they want two wings like me There's a chance they could I am the elder Utah Smith I was born in Cedar Grove That's in Louisiana On a dirt-poor stretch of road I found the calling early Gave birth to righteous words And in a tent around the South I took my sonic church I was a light for the living And I spoke of peace and love With two wings and my old Gibson I bought blessings from above I was here and I was gone Just a heartbeat from the past But I went from paper wings To the real thing at last I am the elder Utah Smith I take all as they are I was the first man of the cloth To blacken a guitar Love was my redeemer I felt it from the start The Holy Ghost was channeled Through the sound of my guitar I was a light for the living And I spoke of peace and love With two wings and my old Gibson I bought blessings from above I was here and I was gone Just a heartbeat from the past But I went from paper wings To the real thing at last Been a long time in the ground Unmarked is my grave But I reside elsewhere these days Thanks to souls I've saved I traveled far, I traveled wide Three quarts for the Lord Till one day he called me home To claim his great reward I was a light for the living And I spoke of peace and love With two wings and my old Gibson I bought blessings from above I was here and I was gone Just a heartbeat from the past But I went from paper wings To the real thing at last I was a light for the living And I spoke of peace and love With two wings and my old Gibson I bought blessings from above I was here and I was gone Just a heartbeat from the past But I went from paper wings To the real thing at last -------- Wonderful Crazy Night (2016) -------- -------- (6) A Good Heart -------- Don't shy away from coming in Closer still my darling friend Don't slip, don't trip on life I bear the moon Inside your eyes Don't be afraid of all my years What you see or what you hear It's all yours and yours alone Yours for the taking, so take it home Oh it's a good heart To be a part of Just a soulful warm and tender love The kind of love you never knew Oh it's a good heart from me to you Oh sure it's cracked a time or two But him and me, we pulled on through I've seen 'em come, I've seen 'em go Some went through fast Some went real slow So take a chance, and take your time Reading my face between the lines I love real good, and I love you My heart and me That's what we do Oh it's a good heart To be a part of Just a soulful warm and tender love The kind of love you never knew Oh it's a good heart from me to you Oh it's a good heart To be a part of Just a soulful warm and tender love The kind of love you never knew Oh it's a good heart from me to you -------- Wonderful Crazy Night (2016) -------- -------- (7) Looking Up -------- I've figured out where I went wrong The script not followed then was awfully long Too much pluck, too little of The acting right, not acting up I've worn the world upon my back Would someone else but me pick up the slack? Just because I could say It's my life, do things my way Now I'm looking up more than I look down The view's a whole lot better second time around Too much of me was hidden in the shadows I looked up and felt my feet lift off the ground Color a lot with a broader stroke The laughter comes as easy as the jokes Nowadays, I'm thinking 'bout Time is wasted looking back Now I'm looking up more than I look down The view's a whole lot better second time around Too much of me was hidden in the shadows I looked up and felt my feet lift off the ground You drop a bucket in a well It's dark and deep down there Crank the handle, bring it up The water, crystal clear I'm looking up more than I look down The view's a whole lot better second time around Too much of me was hidden in the shadows I looked up and felt my feet lift off the ground Looking up more than I look down The view's a whole lot better second time around Too much of me was hidden in the shadows I looked up and felt my feet lift off the ground Looking up, looking up Looking up, looking up -------- Wonderful Crazy Night (2016) -------- -------- (8) Guilty Pleasure -------- Hand it over reach across the line Let's talk about it, tell me one more time What is it you want, what you think you'll find Inside of this old heart of mine Come on out, 'cause you want to play The rain went east, come to roll away Here you went to choose and you're gonna stay So I knew that's the price I pay Can't you tell the deal's been done Won't you let me love you I don't see no smoking gun I'm not up here to judge you What do you see when you look at me Tailor made to measure Am I the lover you'd like my love Or just some guilty pleasure I roamed around looking for a clue Searched the world it's what I used to do Where I went, what I went though A bit too hard to find a way to you I can't move so never really could Sing a song that you understood It's what you do when you think you should Surrender like you knew you always would Can't you tell the deal's been done Won't you let me love you I don't see no smoking gun I'm not up here to judge you What do you see when you look at me Tailor made to measure Am I the lover you'd like my love Or just some guilty pleasure Hold out, distilling down What's it going to be Never tell in a million years No, you can't get enough of me Can't you tell the deal's been done Won't you let me love you I don't see no smoking gun I'm not up here to judge you What do you see when you look at me Tailor made to measure Am I the lover you'd like my love Or just some guilty pleasure Am I the lover you'd like my love Or just some guilty pleasure -------- Wonderful Crazy Night (2016) -------- -------- (9) Tambourine -------- It feels like I'm flying When I see your face I'm charged with a power Of amazing grace I flip the switch signal On the permanent dream Like the palm of my hand On a tambourine Dumb rocks filling up My poor head Did you just say What I thought you said First cat back here gets the cream And bounce a little river Of my tambourine Smack in the middle Toss it in the air I don't care You can play me everywhere Roll and rattle When I'm out of steam You got my head ringing like a tambourine A curve ball coming That I didn't see A flash flood washing Out a dried up creek A went in muddy But I came out clean Like a Baptist banging On a tambourine Smack in the middle Toss it in the air I don't care You can play me everywhere Roll and rattle When I'm out of steam You got my head ringing like a tambourine You're a spinning-round gypsy in the moonlight Cymbals flashing in the firelight I'm free-falling into a dream My hidden heart banging Like the tambourine Smack in the middle Toss it in the air I don't care You can play me everywhere Roll and rattle When I'm out of steam You got my head ringing like a tambourine Roll and rattle When I'm out of steam You got my head ringing like a tambourine -------- Wonderful Crazy Night (2016) -------- -------- (10) The Open Chord -------- You gotta think about it You gotta make a wish and count to ten There's just a sense of wonder I feel a new direction looking down the lens Jump started the action Heard a song in my head and wrote it down It came out of nowhere Felt a new sensation driving you through town You're an open chord I wanna play all day A new broom sweeping up the scenes I no longer play Cleaning out the corners Clipping off the horns That the Devil used to make me wear all day You're an open chord I'm gonna play all day You're gonna see some changes Gotta pinch myself just to believe Everybody's hiding something But I can tell you've got some magic up your sleeve Some deep protection When a feeling follows you around I always need the silence Or the lightning you bring like a new good sound You're an open chord I wanna play all day A new broom sweeping up the scenes I no longer play Cleaning out the corners Clipping off the horns That the Devil used to make me wear all day You're an open chord I'm gonna play all day Sat around and waited for a spark And it brightened up the night Before I get much older I want the pleasure of seeing you up in lights I could then beside you Hand over my heart and say a prayer Love's not for quitters It's a satisfaction Knowing that you're there You're an open chord I wanna play all day A new broom sweeping up the scenes I no longer play Cleaning out the corners Clipping off the horns That the Devil used to make me wear all day You're an open chord I'm gonna play all day Cleaning out the corners Clipping off the horns That the Devil used to make me wear all day You're an open chord I'm gonna play all day You're an open chord I'm gonna play all day -------- Wonderful Crazy Night (2016) -------- -------- (11) Free And Easy -------- I've got a strong-willed someone to love me Here off a highway hidden away Don't need to shout it We're living here quietly Away from the folks Who just sleep all day I lived the fast life, taking some chances On my high horse everyone rode All around were too many monkeys Asleep at the wheel And running the show But I'm free now, free and easy Freedom's a breeze, freedom's the tide Rolling over and over And I want to be where you are tonight Where you are tonight All of my street sense stayed in the city I caved in and wandered into your heart When least expected out of the heavens The moonlight descended into the dark But I'm free now, free and easy Freedom's a breeze, freedom's the tide I'm rolling over and over And I want to be where you are tonight Where you are tonight 'Cause you blew the dust off a watch with no hands Set back the clock and gave me your time I'm living better now I'm free and easy Free of the past I've left behind Well I'm free now, free and easy Freedom's a breeze Freedom's the tide Rolling over and over And I want to be where you are tonight Where you are tonight (Because I'm) I'm free now, free and easy Freedom's a breeze Freedom's the tide Rolling over and over And I want to be where you are tonight Where you are tonight Where you are tonight -------- Wonderful Crazy Night (2016) -------- -------- (12) England And America -------- Had some good times jumping ship And showing up on shore Just pocket change to get us by A little bit of grease to help us slide Give us a nickel and take your mark To squeeze under the door Caught some big ones Reeled em in And hung em out to dry From little fish to bigger things A welcome push An empty swing Given the chance we'd stop to sing And watch the world go by And I tried to take my time To get back up, hold on and climb Into the arms, you'll always find me In England and America (England and America) It seems good to hold, to not let go The safety net still hangs real low And if I fall it's good to know There's England and America Showed our roots from time to time And used it to ignite Our wilder side to get up through To push and pull, and come unglued Mixture of red white and blue That run right through our lives And I tried to take my time To get back up, hold on and climb Into the arms, you'll always find me In England and America (England and America) It seems good to hold, to not let go The safety net still hangs real low And if I fall it's good to know There's England and America And I tried to take my time To get back up, hold on and climb Into the arms, you'll always find me In England and America (England and America) It seems good to hold, to not let go The safety net still hangs real low And if I fall it's good to know There's England and America England and America England and America -------- Wonderful Crazy Night (2016) -------- -------- (13) Children's Song -------- Here I am for what it's worth Another well-worn page But you're all ears so listen up Hear what I've got to say Painting colors bold and bright Don't fade into the grey Live every second like it counts Go ahead and seize the day Pick up what you want to play And play it really loud Break some rules if just to prove Your head's not in the clouds When you wake up write down your dreams Fill your heart and your mind But don't grow too fast or close the door On once upon a time Don't let another think for you Or tell you what to learn Turn away and start a blaze Be the light that burns Pick up others when they fall And be a rock for them Lean into the wind sometimes And never break or bend Love's a rough and rocky road Better watch your step But play your cards and guard your heart You'll wind up with the best When you wake up write down your dreams Fill your heart and your mind But don't grow too fast or close the door On once upon a time Never locked, it's always there You'll never need a key Come on in and be a kid You can always ask for me Always ask for me When you wake up write down your dreams Fill your heart and your mind But don't grow too fast or close the door On once upon a time -------- Wonderful Crazy Night (2016) -------- -------- (14) No Monsters -------- I dreamt in color for the first time Finding someone I could trust You felt like melting into honey After years of seeing love begin to rust Picked up the phone and found your voice Warming up my point of view You asked if I recall your name And with a smile I said oh I remember you I made mistakes that I regret now I don't deny our rocky start But I was damaged and adrift then Afraid I'd break your pure and perfect heart No monsters anymore They're all behind me now You were standing in the airport I still remember how After all these years Thinking back I'm sure I knew right then and there There'd be no monsters anymore You were the one so sure I'd love you So I just needed breathing space And it still haunts me after years now I could have lost it all without your trust and faith I've lived a lifetime in a short while Each time I thought I'd got it right I went stumbling through those minefields Tired and worn out by the constant fights I made mistakes that I regret now I don't deny our rocky start But I was damaged and adrift then Afraid I'd break your pure and perfect heart No monsters anymore They're all behind me now You were standing in the airport I still remember how After all these years Thinking back I'm sure I knew right then and there There'd be no monsters anymore No monsters anymore They're all behind me now You were standing in the airport I still remember how After all these years Thinking back I'm sure I knew right then and there There'd be no monsters anymore -------- Regimental Sgt. Zippo (2021) -------- -------- (1) When I Was Tealby Abbey -------- I'm very low but not too dim I can still see the faces of you and him I remember well how it used to be You remember too obviously Remember when, remember when I was Tealby Abbey then It was not so long ago maybe a hundred years or so When I was Tealby Abbey That's a long long time ago When I was Tealby Abbey That's a long long time ago When the clock stopped and the rocks dropped And the gravel started giving away I can still recall when we were small But oh what a fateful day In younger times, children climb Up and down your walls And a curse on the day the fates will say -------- Regimental Sgt. Zippo (2021) -------- -------- (2) And The Clock Goes Around -------- I came down here just to waste some time To get a little rest and to ease my mind I didn't calculate it when I walked in the door I only thought I'd stay for a minute or more First I saw the lights on the ceiling dim The stale perfume yeah, and the beer canteens My first impression was to get outside But then I saw you crying, crying by the fireside The pendulum swings Going to and fro And the clock goes round Says it's time to go And the clock goes round And the hours fly past Slow down pendulum you're moving much too fast Now it's gone kind of quiet but I seem to see That the only people here in the room are you and me But I don't mind girl, girl that's all right As long as you're gonna be with me, gonna be with me all night -------- Regimental Sgt. Zippo (2021) -------- -------- (3) Sitting Doing Nothing -------- I'm just sitting doing nothing Wondering where I should go People tell me I'm just lazy Weather or not it's true I don't know So I'm just sitting doing nothing Wondering where I should go Many people that I've encountered Say they wish that they were free And I know that secretly All those people would really like to be me So even though they tell me I'm idle Why should I do what they say For they're in the same place all the time But I'm only there for a day So I'm just sitting doing nothing -------- Regimental Sgt. Zippo (2021) -------- -------- (4) Turn To Me -------- Turn to me, turn to me when you're lonely Brush them aside, gather your pride Baby turn to me Turn to me, turn to me when you're lonely Brush them aside, gather your pride Baby turn to me Don't listen to the people Who spread lies about your name I know it hurts But baby I've had it too I've learned to live with their abuse I've learned to live with those who choose To disregard my emptiness and lose me Your laughter has died in the heat of the night The people they pretend that company is bright But brighter you'll wait by the phone that has died Don't bury your hopes, there's nothing that's left for you to confide in But you seem to be happy just for now to go on Try to see through them baby, can't you see what is wrong You're hurting yourself more that you'll ever know -------- Regimental Sgt. Zippo (2021) -------- -------- (5) Angel Tree -------- The angel tree has grown so high And its roots are planted deep Never climb that willow 'Cause its trunk is awful steep Yeah the trunk is awful steep Seven miles south of the city Way on a windy hill The whistling branches of the angel tree Are calm at the evening still Magical [?] As the leaves are [?] And strange things happen to people Who go on to the windy hill [?] down here Had gone up to there And rested underneath her bough They slept long, what is wrong They never woke up again -------- Regimental Sgt. Zippo (2021) -------- -------- (6) Regimental Sgt. Zippo -------- Regimental Sergeant Zippo There's a picture in the nursery Of a well know soldier man And he wants to be like father When he grows up if he can His eyes survey the floorboards With his soldiers around him But, fear not for the future You will climb the highest mountain So, Regimental Sergeant Zippo Stand up to attention will you (Regimental Sergeant Zippo) Hear the bugle sound in the morning call up rising (Regimental Sergeant Zippo) So, you're cardboard castle is standing You're the one who is commanding Watch them march along the landing down the stairs He's just a small boy in a small boys world And small boys do strange things He likes to see the matchsticks fly And hear the cannons ring For his eiderdown, his battlefield And in his dreams his fights are real Until the field is won, aim fire the guns So, Regimental Sergeant Zippo Stand up to attention will you (Regimental Sergeant Zippo) Hear the bugle sound in the morning call up rising (Regimental Sergeant Zippo) So, you're cardboard castle is standing You're the one who is commanding Watch them march along the landing down the stairs Watch them march along the landing down the stairs Aah So, Regimental Sergeant Zippo Stand up to attention will you (Regimental Sergeant Zippo) Hear the bugle sound in the morning call up rising (Regimental Sergeant Zippo) So, Regimental Sergeant Zippo Stand up to attention will you (Regimental Sergeant Zippo) Hear the bugle sound in the morning call up rising -------- Regimental Sgt. Zippo (2021) -------- -------- (7) A Dandelion Dies In The Wind -------- See my eyes and I see my arms The seagulls say you've gone It was just a game of let's pretend And I whistle to the waves that lend me tears Purple clouds, golden rain Yesterday has gone And a dandelion dies in the wind If you're quick enough to rise With the sleep still in your eyes You'll see the shadow of the sun above my mind I know that only you can help me now Purple clouds, golden rain Yesterday has gone And a dandelion dies in the wind But a dandelion sighs And it tries to tell the wind That crying's not a bad thing Worrying is a sin If they sent a cloud from heaven I would ride into the skies To escape all of my troubles And to cast away your lies Purple rains have turn to gold The clouds of yesterday And a dandelion dies in the wind I see my eyes and I see my arms The seagulls say you've gone It was just a game of let's pretend And I whistle to the waves that lend me tears Purple clouds, golden rain Yesterday has gone And a dandelion dies in the wind -------- Regimental Sgt. Zippo (2021) -------- -------- (8) You'll Be Sorry To See Me Go -------- I said from the start that you'd be mine But now it just seems I'm just wasting your time If only you knew the hurt I've been through You'll be sorry to see me go You'll be sorry to see me go I've always done the best that I could To make you happy like I should If only you knew what I've heard about you You'll be sorry to see me go You'll be sorry to see me go I could have been mistreated if I'd been bad But people tell me I'm the best that you've had So there's something I want you to know I think you'll be sorry to see me go You'll be sorry to see me go You said from the start that you'd be mine But now it just seems I'm just wasting your time If only you knew the hurt I've been through You'll be sorry to see me go -------- Regimental Sgt. Zippo (2021) -------- -------- (9) Nina -------- I ain't got the strength to lift my fingers 'Cause you have robbed this love from me Nina I don't mind, that's the way it's gotta be 'Cause Nina you're my woman now Just as long as it takes I will heal the mistakes I've made in the past And our love's gonna last, oh it's gonna last, it's gonna last forever 'Cause Nina you're my woman now He may have told you that this love won't last But just allow me one more chance To prove to you that I love you More than any man can do Oh Nina I love you Believe this one baby Believe me, I'm no liar Just light the fuse inside of me And set my soul on fire 'Cause Nina you're my woman now Just let the two of us together Forget these long gone times All I need is an answer Oh Nina, Nina change your mind 'Cause Nina you're, you're my woman now 'Cause Nina you're, you're my woman now -------- Regimental Sgt. Zippo (2021) -------- -------- (10) Tartan Coloured Lady -------- Get the fuck outside This is the news One, two, three, four The grass in Ashfield Park is dying Where everybody dreams of deeds of crime And the tartan coloured lady walks Behind the water colours of my mind And the tartan coloured lady she's mine People speak of willow trees in autumn And my clove-key doesn't fit her anymore And the tartan coloured Lady that I wanted Talked of this place, an hour or so before And the tartan coloured lady lost her dog So if your crystal window isn't broken And they've taken all the dustbins from your door Take yourself the tartan coloured lady And smell the grass in Ashfield Park once more See the trees in Ashfield Park once more So I guess I'll read the comic books you've left me And play marbles on the floor And if the tartan coloured lady calls me Just tell her I won't be home 'til four Oh just tell her, I won't be home no more So if your crystal window isn't broken And they've taken all the dustbins from your door Take yourself the tartan coloured lady And smell the grass in Ashfield Park once more See the trees in Ashfield Park once more -------- Regimental Sgt. Zippo (2021) -------- -------- (11) Hourglass -------- I'm just sitting counting all the cobwebs And wondering just when you'll come along You said that you'd be here an hour ago But an hour ago is hours ago from then No, and I don't know what to do I'm drawing crazy patterns on my shoe And the sand in the hourglass slips on by Light another cigarette, watch the burning glow Catching spiders in my hand, and then I let them go Imagine pictures on the wall, watch the insects where they crawl They don't care about you and I've nothing to do No, and I don't know what to do I'm drawing crazy patterns on my shoe And the sand in the hourglass slips on by Maybe the bus didn't get there on time Maybe the train doesn't run on that line for some reason And she might not come Because she doesn't want to see you again No no no, that can't be true And I've got nothing to do No, and I don't know what to do I'm drawing crazy patterns on my shoe And the sand in the hourglass slips on by -------- Regimental Sgt. Zippo (2021) -------- -------- (12) Watching The Planes Go By -------- Look up in the sky There's a speck that's flying by Red lights and I don't know why Seems that I spend most of my time Watching the planes go by The windows open, the curtains blow 'Round my room where the lights are low I stand in darkness and watch the stars Wondering just how far you are from me I'm out here You're somewhere Somewhere out there Too far from me And I want it to be Like it was when the summer was here Instead of just sitting here Watching the planes go by The street lamp look lonely I wonder, I wonder if it feels like me With no one to love him And no one to talk to When she's out there moving Without thinking 'bout me Come back, baby, come back Let me pray that one day That those planes in the sky Will be bringing you back home to me Back to me Oh, I feed you back home with me -------- The Lockdown Sessions (2021) -------- -------- (1) Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) -------- (Oh) (You're my cold heart) (Oh) [Elton John:] It's a human sign When things go wrong When the scent of her lingers And temptation's strong Cold, cold heart Hard done by you (Oh) Some things lookin' better, baby Just passin' through (No, no, no, no, no) [Dua Lipa:] And I think it's gonna be a long, long time 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh no, no, no And this is what I should have said Well, I thought it, but I kept it hid [Elton John:] Cold, cold heart Hard done by you (Oh) Some things lookin' better, baby Just passin' through (No, no, no, no, no) [Dua Lipa:] And I think it's gonna be a long, long time 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh no, no, no (No, no, no, no, no) And this is what I should have said Well, I thought it, but I kept it hid [Elton John:] Cold, cold heart (Oh) Hard done by you Some things lookin' better, baby (Oh) Just passin' through (No, no, no, no, no) [Dua Lipa:] And I think it's gonna be a long, long time 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh no, no, no (No, no, no, no, no) And this is what I should have said (And I think it's gonna be a long, long time) ('Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find) Well, I thought it, but I kept it hid (I'm not the man they think I am at home) (Oh, no, no, no) (No, no, no, no, no) Shoorah (Oh) Shoorah Shoorah (Oh) Shoorah (No, no, no, no, no) -------- The Lockdown Sessions (2021) -------- -------- (2) Always Love You -------- [Elton John:] I will always love you Even when I say I don't I will always see you Even when my eyes are closed Uncertain of a lot of things But with you, I've always known I will always love you I will always love you I will always love you Even if you let me go [Young Thug:] Cryin' about somebody, tell her Somebody come pass an umbrella Fucked this bitch inside the 'tella I had to take the call, past the tele' I bought you Gucci, baby, Mais' Margiela You can get a new one, but he won't be better Straight to the top and don't need no propeller Oh, I've been all outside with the fellas Take me back, I can put you in control if you take me back Goodfella, roll in a new Maybach She been fuckin' me good and I'm hooked like crack Make sure you ballin', don't worry 'bout nothin' You keep on goin' forward and never look back You bring me luck just like 7-Eleven And just for that, I'ma give you some racks, let you splurge Mama, what's the word? All I do is flirt, just do it like a verb Takin' off your skirt, this the night I make you squirt Pull up to the tele', watch me murk you with no dirt Bet you never leave [Elton John (Young Thug) {Nicki Minaj}:] I will always love you Even when I say I don't (Even when I say I don't) I will always see you Even when my eyes are closed Uncertain of a lot of things But with you, I've always known (I've always known) I will always love you (Always) I will always love you (Love you) I will always love you (Love you) Even if you let me go {Even if you let me go, ooh} [Nicki Minaj:] I never thought you would end up as the enemy I always thought you'd be right here, still defending me I feel so bad for you, lost your identity Made your decision, there's a penalty It's so hard for me to understand (It's so hard for me to understand) I guess the universe had different plans (I guess the universe had different plans) I put my love, I put my love in your hands In your hands But that was so you You had to leave, I had to go too I could always tell that you had no clue You never understood what I had to go through But then, I guess somewhere deep inside, we both knew So the memories is what I'll toast to 'Cause in the past life when everything felt right You used to know me (And I got to know you) Once upon a time when we rolled out But now, baby, oh, no, you sold out [Elton John (Young Thug):] I will always love you Even when I say I don't (Even when I say I don't) I will always see you Even when my eyes are closed Uncertain of a lot of things But with you, I've always known (I've always known) I will always love you (Always) I will always love you (Love you) I will always love you (Love you) I will always love you (Love you) I will always love you (Love you) I will always love you (Love you) Even if you let me go [Nicki Minaj:] Sir Elton John Young Thug, Barbie (Even if you let me go) -------- The Lockdown Sessions (2021) -------- -------- (3) Learn To Fly -------- [Surfaces:] All the broken people, put your hands up high If you lift them up you might just touch the sky All the lonely people, put your hands up high If you loosen up you might just learn to fly All the highs and the lows and the way it all goes You can't let them keep you down If you're lost, if you're broke, if you're stuck on a road You can turn it all around 'Cause we gotta trust in love Something that can't be touched A feeling to lift us up All in the name of love All the broken people, put your hands up high If you lift them up you might just touch the sky All the lonely people, put your hands up high If you loosen up you might just learn to fly Learn to fly Learn to fly Learn to fly Learn to fly [Elton John:] Sometimes it gets difficult When everything's the same You toss and turn Push and pull You don't know who to blame But there is always something to hold on to in your life Just keep that head up, don't you worry It will be alright [Surfaces:] All the broken people, put your hands up high If you lift them up you might just touch the sky All the lonely people, put your hands up high If you loosen up you might just learn to fly All the broken people, put your hands up high If you lift them up you might just touch the sky All the lonely people, put your hands up high If you loosen up you might just learn to fly Learn to fly Learn to fly Learn to fly -------- The Lockdown Sessions (2021) -------- -------- (4) After All -------- [Charlie Puth:] I lie awake and realize That you're better than my dreams Thought I found love so many times 'Til you showed me what it means Oh, oh, nothing compares to you Oh no, baby They were just doing it wrong I gave up on love until you made me believe in it after all After all, mmm [Elton John:] If you never fell out of the sky I don't know what I would do I wouldn't trade one thousand lives For the one I have with you Oh, oh, nothing compares to you Oh no, baby They were just doing it wrong I gave up on love until you made me believe in it after all After all, oh, ah [Charlie Puth:] Baby, after all, oh-oh-woah It's not the same, not the same, not the same, oh [Elton John (Charlie Puth) {Both}:] Oh, oh, nothing compares to you Oh no, baby They were just doing it wrong (Doing it wrong) {I gave up on love until you made me believe in it after all} (After all) After {all, oh} Oh, oh, nothing compares to you Oh no, baby (Oh no, baby) They were just doin' it wrong (Doin' it wrong) {I gave up on love until you made me believe in it after all} (After all) After {all, oh} -------- The Lockdown Sessions (2021) -------- -------- (5) Chosen Family (Remix) -------- Where do I belong? Tell me your story and I'll tell you mine I'm all ears, take your time, we've got all night Show me the rivers crossed, the mountains scaled Show me who made you walk all the way here Ooh Settle down, put your bags down Ooh You're alright now We don't need to be related to relate We don't need to share genes or a surname You are, you are My chosen, chosen family So what if we don't look the same? We been going through the same thing, yeah You are, you are My chosen, chosen family Hand me a pen and I'll rewrite the pain When you're ready, we'll turn the page together Open a bottle, it's time we celebrate Who you were, who you are We're one and the same, yeah We don't need to be related to relate We don't need to share genes or a surname You are, you are My chosen, chosen family So what if we don't look the same? We been going through the same thing, yeah You are, you are My chosen, chosen family I chose you You chose me I chose Chosen family I chose you You chose me We're alright now We don't need to be related to relate We don't need to share genes or a surname You are, you are My chosen, chosen family So what if we don't look the same? We been going through the same pain, yeah You are, you are My chosen, chosen family We don't need to be related to relate We don't need to share genes or a surname You are, you are My chosen, chosen family So what if we don't look the same? We been going through the same pain, yeah (Same pain) You are, you are My chosen, chosen family We don't need to be related to relate We don't need to share genes or a surname You are, you are My chosen, chosen family So what if we don't look the same? We been going through the same pain, yeah You are, you are My chosen, chosen family -------- The Lockdown Sessions (2021) -------- -------- (6) The Pink Phantom -------- (feat. Elton John & 6LACK) You've more or less forgotten me this summer I can't hide my disappointment I was on my way in the Phantom V The one you gave away Try to tell you that I love you but I'm choked up You forgot and that makes me feel like no one (Summer nights) Were you even really there? Did you ever really feel? Wait, I got so many examples of all of the good times we had Long summer nights (Summer nights) Held you a long time, put your name in my rhyme Refresh your memory of where you wanna be The Phantom's on the way, she's comin' down the street I tried to get to Atlanta On a peach blossom highway I'm tryin' to put these puzzles out of mind In a sky made of diamonds Where the world fell silent I'll be waiting for you on the other side Summer lights (Everyday, everyday) Sometimes (Ride where the summer goes) Summer nights Every night Summer nights I tried to say I love you But you didn't listen (Summer nights) I tried to give you everything you might need (Summer nights) In a sky made of diamonds And where the world is flawless I'll be waiting for you on the other side Of summer lights, summer lights Hold it in for a long time Summer lights, seems to me I'm in a dream Behind these summer lights The Phantom is coming You forgot and that makes me feel like no one She's crossing over the line Wait, I got so many examples of all of the good times we had Seems to me I'm in a dream (Long summer nights, I loved you a long time (Put your name in my rhyme, refresh your memory) Behind these summer lights (Of where you wanna be, the Phantom's on the way) (She's comin' down the street) Sometimes -------- The Lockdown Sessions (2021) -------- -------- (7) It's A Sin -------- (originally by Pet Shop Boys) [Olly Alexander:] When I look back upon my life It's always with a sense of shame I've always been the one to blame For everything I long to do No matter when or where or who Has one thing in common, too It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin It's a sin Everything I've ever done Everything I ever do Every place I've ever been Everywhere I'm going to It's a sin [Elton John:] At school, they taught me how to be So pure in thought and word and deed They didn't quite succeed For everything I long to do No matter when or where or who Has one thing in common, too [Elton John & Olly Alexander (Olly Alexander) {Elton John}:] It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin It's a sin (Everything I've ever done) (Everything I ever do) {Every place I've ever been} {Everywhere I'm going to} It's a sin [Olly Alexander (Elton John):] Father, forgive me I tried not to do it Turned over a new leaf Then tore right through it (Whatever you taught me) (I didn't believe it) (Father, you fought me) ('Cause I didn't care) And I still don't understand Still don't understand, yeah [Elton John (Olly Alexander):] So I look back upon my life Forever with a sense of shame I've always been the one to blame (For everything I long to do) (No matter when or where or who) (Has one thing in common, too) [Elton John & Olly Alexander (Olly Alexander):] It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin It's a sin Everything I've ever done (I've ever done) Everything I ever do (I ever do) Every place I've ever been Everywhere I'm going to It's a sin It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin It's a sin Everything I've ever done Everything I ever do Every place I've ever been Everywhere I'm going to It's a sin -------- The Lockdown Sessions (2021) -------- -------- (8) Nothing Else Matters -------- (feat. watt, Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Trujillo, Chad Smith) (originally by Metallica) So close, no matter how far Couldn't be much more from the heart Forever trusting who we are And nothing else matters Never opened myself this way Life is ours, we live it our way All these words I don't just say And nothing else matters Trust I seek and I find in you Everyday, for us, something new Open mind for a different view And nothing else matters Never cared for what they do Never cared for what they know But I know So close, no matter how far It couldn't be much more from the heart Forever trusting who we are And nothing else matters Never cared for what they do Never cared for what they know But I know I never opened myself this way Life is ours, we live it our way All these words I don't just say And nothing else matters Trust I seek and I find in you Everyday, for us, something new Open mind for a different view And nothing else matters Never cared for what they say Never cared for games they play Never cared for what they do Never cared for what they know And I know, yeah-yeah! So close, no matter how far Couldn't be much more from the heart Forever trusting who we are No, nothing else matters -------- The Lockdown Sessions (2021) -------- -------- (9) Orbit -------- I'm flying in your orbit, honey I'm flying in your orbit, honey How did I get here? Can't loosen your grip I'm shackled in heaven Mm, what a crazy trip Faster than lighting Straight to the heart I gotta have ya Come as you are I'm flying in your orbit, honey I'm flying in your orbit, honey I'm flying in your orbit, honey I'm flying in your orbit, honey And I hope I never come down, down, down, down Some kind of fusion My heart and your heart Romantic illusion Lighting up sparks It's more than beauty It's more than life itself Never been lonely It's you and no one else I'm flying in your orbit, honey I'm flying in your orbit, honey I'm flying in your orbit, honey I'm flying in your orbit, honey And I hope I never come down, down, down Down, down, down I'm flying in your orbit, honey I'm flying in your orbit, honey I'm flying in your orbit, honey I'm flying in your orbit, honey I'm flying in your orbit, honey I'm flying in your orbit, honey I'm flying in your orbit, honey I'm flying in your orbit, honey -------- The Lockdown Sessions (2021) -------- -------- (10) Simple Things -------- [Elton John:] As an old man, I'm a young man 'Cause I've not been old for long And before these trembling waters settle I'll have flown the pond So I don't mean to be morbid Or a bit too on the nose But I'd like to share a few things That I've learned along the road [Elton John & Brandi Carlile:] What you'll find chasing dreams Is the finish line recedes And a riddle stays a riddle Oh, the humor's bittersweet [Elton John & Brandi Carlile (Elton John):] All nature does is dance So when you dance, you're in accord Look no further than the feeling That it gives you for reward (Reward reward) Reward (Reward reward) Simple things Hard to learn Fire is hot Burn, burn, burn Simple truth Hard to see Not what you want But what you need What you need (Mm-mm) [Brandi Carlile:] I've been a sleepwalker, a cheap talker A sly grin, a discreet offer I've held steady for a gaze I've led a lover through a maze I've thrown bottles at the wall When someone forgot to call I've done all the things a wild heart will do I will do [Elton John (Elton John & Brandi Carlile):] What you'll find chasing dreams Is the finish line recedes (And the riddle stays a riddle) (Oh, the humor's bittersweet) [Elton John & Brandi Carlile (Elton John):] All nature does is dance So when you dance, you're in accord Look no further than the feeling That it gives you for reward (Reward reward) Reward (Reward reward) [Elton John & Brandi Carlile:] Simple things Hard to learn Fire is hot Burn, burn, burn Simple truth Hard to see Not what you want But what you need Simple things Hard to learn Fire is hot Burn, burn, burn Simple truth Hard to see Not what you want But what you need Mm-mm -------- The Lockdown Sessions (2021) -------- -------- (11) Beauty In The Bones -------- [Jimmie Allen:] There was a time when I was feeling incomplete Lost in the shadow of the person I could be Chasing perfection in every direction, so focused on the end I didn't see the journey and take in every step Every long road Song that I half-wrote Brought me to where I am Every root turns into branches Every question leads to answers Even if the seed ain't fully grown There's beauty in the bones Just a drop can start a riptide Just a word can change a whole life Even if this story ain't been wrote There's beauty in the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones [Elton John:] There was a light inside the darkness I could sense And when I found it, that's when beauty all began Calm in the chaos, I'm not afraid of learning things my heart don't know 'Cause every new beginning starts with hope Every long road Song that I half-wrote Brought me where I am [Jimmie Allen & Elton John:] Every root turns into branches Every question leads to answers Even if the seed ain't fully grown There's beauty in the bones Just a drop can start a riptide Just a word can change a whole life Even if this story ain't been wrote There's beauty in the bones [Elton John:] In the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones There's beauty in the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones There's beauty in the bones [Jimmie Allen (Elton John):] Like a half-drawn masterpiece (Like a half-played symphony) There's a beauty in imperfect (In the journey and where it all leads to) [Jimmie Allen & Elton John (Jimmie Allen):] Every root turns into branches Every question leads to answers Even if the seed ain't fully grown There's beauty in the bones (There's beauty in the bones) Just a drop can start a riptide Just a word can change a whole life Even if this story ain't been wrote There's beauty in the bones [Elton John:] In the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones In the bones There's beauty in the bones [Elton John (Jimmie Allen):] Beauty in the bones (Beauty in the bones) Beauty in the bones (There's beauty in the bones) -------- The Lockdown Sessions (2021) -------- -------- (12) ONE OF ME -------- (feat. Elton John) I like this, I don't like that Do this here, don't you do that Say you one of me, say you one of me, yeah, yeah Say you one of me, say you one of me, yeah, yeah I like this, I don't like that Do this here, don't you do that Say you one of me, say you one of me, yeah, yeah Say you one of me, say you one of me, yeah, yeah Say you one of me Say you need the validation Tell me that you think you won't top your last creation Word on the block is you fell off and I'm just sayin' If it ain't Old Town Road, Lil Nas, you ain't playin' Nigga just stick to what you best at I suggest make another one like this, ha yeah Oh, I know it hurt your soul to know it was only luck, huh If you drop a song nigga, we won't give a fuck, no I like this, I don't like that Do this here, don't you do that Say you one of me, say you one of me, yeah, yeah Say you one of me, say you one of me, yeah, yeah I like this, I don't like that Do this here, don't you do that Say you one of me, say you one of me, yeah, yeah Say you one of me, say you one of me, yeah, yeah You's a meme, you's a joke, been a gimmick from the go All the things that you do just to get your face to show Oh, you think you big shit, big pimpin'? Let me know Ain't the next big thing, you the next thing to go Now, can you prove yourself? Everybody waitin' I'm just being real, it's 'cause somebody hatin' I don't see you lastin' long, and that's just me being honest Even if your album okay, it's flopping, that's a promise, oh I like this, I don't like that Do this here, don't you do that Say you one of me, say you one of me, yeah, yeah Say you one of me, say you one of me, yeah, yeah I like this, I don't like that Do this here, don't you do that Say you one of me, say you one of me, yeah, yeah Say you one of me, say you one of me, yeah, yeah -------- The Lockdown Sessions (2021) -------- -------- (13) E-Ticket -------- [Eddie Vedder:] Riding beside me silver light lightning Time quickly disappears Born out of fireworks, still looking skyward As darkness reappears [Eddie Vedder & Elton John:] You gotta figure it's an e-ticket ride Why else stand in line? We take a ride in our e-ticket minds Tell me yours, I'll tell you mine, tell you mine E-ticket ride [Elton John:] In between moments, questions and quotients Solved, yet still not clear Looking for answers, we make up new dances Ain't that enough, if that's all there is? [Eddie Vedder & Elton John:] You gotta figure it's an e-ticket ride Yeah, why else stand in line? We take a ride in our e-ticket minds Tell me yours, I'll tell you mine, tell you mine E-ticket ride I've no need to pledge my faith To nothin' but time and tide And I can see the universe As the universe sees me, yeah [Elton John:] Oh, yeah Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah [Eddie Vedder & Elton John:] You gotta figure it's an e-ticket ride Why else stand in line? We take a ride in our e-ticket minds Tell me yours, I'll tell you mine Oh, you gotta figure it's an e-ticket ride Why else stand in line? We take a ride in our e-ticket minds Tell me yours, I'll tell you mine, tell you mine E-ticket ride [Eddie Vedder & Elton John:] Oh, oh, oh E-ticket ride Oh, oh, oh E-ticket ride Oh yeah E-ticket ride Oh yeah E-ticket ride -------- The Lockdown Sessions (2021) -------- -------- (14) Finish Line -------- [Elton John:] You, oh, you Are still a beauty to behold You been my muse Every story that I've told Oh, take me back some years To when we were young without a fear All along, you have been the song that I wanna hear I been down the darkest alleys Been to the bottom where the angels cry Thought it had all been all for nothin' Until I saw you at the finish line [Stevie Wonder:] Forgive me for the ways I've let ya down Won't you give me another chance to make you proud? Oh, flash forward twenty years Forever keep me young and my conscience clear All along, you have been the song that I wanna hear, ooh yeah, ah [Elton John (Stevie Wonder) {Both}:] I've been {down the darkest alleys} Been to the {bottom} where the angels cry (Where the angels cry) Thought it had {all been all for nothin'} Until I {saw you at the finish line} [Stevie Wonder & Elton John (Elton John) {Stevie Wonder}:] {Yeah, yeah} Yes, I been down the darkest alleys Been to the bottom where the angels cry (Angels cry) Thought it had all been all for nothin' Until I saw you at the finish line (At the finish line) Oh, I been down the darkest alleys {Been to the bottom watching life go by} (Watching life go by) Thought it had all been all for nothin' {Until I saw you} at the finish line (At the finish line, yeah, oh, woah) [Choir & Elton John:] I've been down the darkest alleys (Down to the bottom) Been to the bottom where the angels cry Thought it had all been all for nothin' Until I saw you (Saw you) at the finish line -------- The Lockdown Sessions (2021) -------- -------- (15) Stolen Car -------- [Elton John (Stevie Nicks):] We broke the rules together I'm guilty for the crime (You call me up at 3 AM) (To kill me one more time) We're dancing in slow motion The house is set on fire (We hurt the ones we love the most) (Tempted by desire) [Elton John & Stevie Nicks:] Smoke rings, tattoos, warning signs Sink your teeth in, babe, be mine [Elton John & Stevie Nicks (Elton John) {Stevie Nicks}:] Our love was like a stolen car Racing down the freeway Drinking for a new day Wasted in an old dive bar Nobody knew our names Damn, those were the good days Oh, we knew that it wouldn't last But we did it to remember Our love was like a stolen car (Pulled over on the freeway) {'Cause it was never ours} [Elton John (Elton John & Stevie Nicks):] The night knows every secret The morning never tells (I'm not ready to leave yet) But you need somebody else You kiss me on the forehead As distance fills the room (Like holding on to water) (You're always gone too soon) [Elton John & Stevie Nicks:] Smoke rings, tattoos, warning signs Sink your teeth in, babe, be mine [Elton John & Stevie Nicks (Elton John) {Stevie Nicks}:] Our love was like a stolen car Racing down the freeway Drinking for a new day Wasted in an old dive bar Nobody knew our names Damn, those were the good days We knew that it wouldn't last But we did it to remember Our love was like a stolen car (Pulled over on the freeway) {'Cause it was never ours} [Elton John, (Stevie Nicks):] Our love was like a stolen car (Racing down the freeway) [Elton John & Stevie Nicks:] Drinking for a new day Wasted in an old dive bar Nobody knew our names Damn, those were the good days Well, we knew that it wouldn't last But we did it to remember Our love was like a stolen car Our love was like a stolen car Our love was like a stolen car Our love was like a stolen car, yeah, yeah Pulled over on the freeway 'Cause it was never ours Pulled over on the freeway 'Cause it was never ours [Elton John (Stevie Nicks):] It was never ours (It was never ours) -------- The Lockdown Sessions (2021) -------- -------- (16) I'm Not Gonna Miss You -------- [Glen Campbell:] I'm still here, but yet I'm gone I don't play guitar or sing my songs They never defined who I am The man that loves you 'til the end [Glen Campbell:] You're the last person I will love You're the last face I will recall And best of all I'm not gonna miss you Not gonna miss you [Elton John:] I'm never gonna hold you like I did Or say "I love you" to the kids You're never gonna see it in my eyes It's not gonna hurt me when you cry I'm never gonna know what you go through All the things I say or do All the hurt and all the pain One thing selfishly remains [Glen Campbell & Elton John (Glen Campbell):] I'm not gonna miss you (I'm not gonna miss you)