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MIAMI 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)
“ Descriptive lyrics:They held a concert out in Brooklyn, to watch the Island Bridges blow...They sent a carrier out from Norfolk and picked THE YANKEES up for free,,,They turned our power down and drove us underground but we went right on with the show...They said that Queens could stay, they blew the Bronx away and sank Manhatten out at sea...I watched the might skyline fall (How eerie that is now!) „
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SAY GOODBYE TO HOLLYWOOD
“ Meaningful lyrics: They got him sitting with his back to the door now he won't be my fast gun any more...Movin' on is a chance you take any time you try to stay together. Say a word out of line and find the friends that you had are gone forever!...So many faces in and out of my life, some will last, some will just be now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes, I'm afraid it's time for goobye again. „
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I'VE LOVED THESE DAYS
“ Meaningful, descriptive lyrics: Now we take out time so nonchalant and spend our nights so bon vivant. We dress our days in silken robes. The money comes, the money goes. We know it's all a passing phase...Hang our hopes on chandeliers. We're going wrong, we're gaining weight. We're sleeping long and far too late. And so it's time to change our ways, but I've loved these days. Now, as we indulge in things refined, we hide our hearts from harder times. A string of pearls,a foreign car...we can only go so far on caviar and cabrinet. We drown our doubts in dry champagne, and sooth our souls with fine cocaine. I don't know why I even care. We get so high and get nowhere. We'll have to change our jaded ways,,,So before we end and then begin we'll drink a toast to how it's been. A few more hours to be complete. A few more nights on satin sheets. A few more times that I can say I've loved these days „
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NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
“ Meaningful ,descriptive lyrics: Some people like to get away. Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood. But I'm taking a Greyhound on the Hudson River line. I'm in a New York state of mind. I've seen all the movie stars in their fancy cars and their limousines. Been high in the Rockies, under the evergreens...It was so easy living day by day, out of touch with the rhythym and blues. But now I need a little give and take. The New Tork Times, The Daily News. It comes down to reality and it's fine with me cause I've let it slide. Don't care if it's Chinatown or on Riverside. I don't have any reasons, I've left them all behind. „
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YOU CAN MAKE ME FREE
“ Tender, descriptive, romantic lyrics: You can make me free. You can make me smile. You can make me be like a little child. You can melt the ice that chills my body...You can make the lonely hours disappear...You can make me see, so open up my eyes. Don't you know my only real moments are the ones I spend with you...I can take to the skies, I can soar like a bird with it's heart full of song. Won't you color my eyes? I've been waiting so long...You can make it so much better if you would only try. And if I must wait a lonely lifetime...I will wait but you'll be what I'm dreaming of! „
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AN INNOCENT MAN
“ Tender, passionate, meaningful lyrics: Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by. Some people live with the fear of a touch and the anger of having been a fool. They will not listen to anyone so nobody tells them a lie. I know you're only protecting yourself. I know you're thinking of somebody else, someone who hurt you. But I'm not above making up for the love you've been denying you could ever feel. I'm not above doing anything to restore your faith if I can. Some people see through the eyes of the old before they ever got a look at the the young. I'm only willing to hear you cry because I am an innocent man. Some people say they will never believe another promise they hear in the dark because they only remember too well they heard somebody tell them before. Some people sleep all alone every night instead of taking a lover to bed. Some people find that it's easier to hate than to wait anymore. I know you don't want to hear what I say. I know you're going to keep turning away. But I've been there and if I can survive, I can keep you alive, I'm not above going through it again. I'm not above being cool for awhile, if you're cruel to me I'll understand. Some people run from a possible fight, some people figure they can never win. And although this is a fight I can lose the accused is an innocent man....Some people hope for a miracle drug, some people just accept the world as it is! „
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UNTIL THE NIGHT
“ Tender, meaningful, romantic lyrics: I never ask you where you go, after I leave you in the morning. We go our different ways to seperate situations. It's not that easy any more. Today I do what must be done. I give my time to total strangers. But now it feels as though the day goes on forever more than it ever did before...Until the night, I just might make it...Until the night, when I see you again. Now you're afraid that we have changed and I'm afraid we're getting older. So many broken hearts. So many lonely faces. So many lovers come and gone. I'll have my fears like every man. You'll have your tears like every woman. Today we'll be unsure, is this what we believe in? And wonder how can we go on?...When the sun goes down and the day is over, when the last of the light has gone. As they pour into the street, I will be getting closer. As the cars turn their headlights on, as they closin' it down I'm gonna open it up and while they're going to sleep, we'll just be starting to touch. I'm just beginning to feel, I'm just beginning to give, I'm just beginning to feel, I'm just beginning to live.. Before I leave you again. Before the light of the dawn. Before this evening can end. I have been waiting so long...I'll just keep holding on.... „
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SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT
“ Meaningful, descriptive lyrics: A bottle or red, a bottle of white, perhaps a bottle of rose instead. We'll get a table near the street in our old familiar place. You and I, face to face....Things are okay with me these days. Got a good job. Got a good office. I got a new wife, got a new life, and the family's fine. We lost touch long ago. You lost weight, I did not know you could ever look so nice after so much time. I remember those days hanging out at the village green. Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans. Drop a dime in the box play the song about New Orleans. Cold beer, hot lights, my sweet romantic teenage nights! Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadys and the king and the queen at the prom. Riding around with the car top down and the radio on, nobody looked any finer...We never knew we could want more than that out of life. Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know hot to survive. Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of '75 when they decided the marriage would be at the end of July. Everyone said they were crazy. Brenda you know you're much too lazy and Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life. But there we were waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye! They got an apartment with deep pile carpets and a couple of paintings from Sears. A big waterbed that they bought with the bread they had saved for a couple of years. They started to fight when the money got tight and they just didn't count on the tears...Rock and Roll! Well they lived for a while in a very nice style but it's all ways the same in the end. They got a divorce as a matter of course and they parted the closest of friends. then the king and the queen went back to the green, but you can never go back there again. Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the summer of '75. From the high to the low to the end of the show for the rest of their lives. They couldn't go back to the greasers. The best they could do is pick up their pieces. We always knew they would both find a way to get by. That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie. Can't tell you more cause I told you already. „
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EVERYBODY LOVES YOU NOW
“ Meaningfull,descriptivelyrics :Baby,all the lights are turned on you. Now you are in the center of the stage. Everything revolves on what you do. You are in your prime you've come of age and you can always have your way somehow. But everybody loves you now. You can walk away from your mistakes. You can turn your back on what you do. Just a little smile is all it takes. You can have your cake and eat it too! Loneliness will get to you somehow...They all want your white body...but...so do I. All the people want to know your name. Soon there will be lines outside your door. Feelings do not matter in your game...cause nothing's gonna touch you anymore...Close your eyes when you don't want to see. Stay at home when you don't want to go. Only speak to those who will agree...And close your mind when you don't want to know. You have lost your innocence somehow...You know that nothing lasts forever and it's all been done before...This is what you wanted, ain't you proud? Cause everybody loves you now! „
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CAPTAIN JACK
“ Descriptive, meaningful lyrics: Saturday night and you're still hanging around. You're tired of living in your one horse town. You'd like to find a little hole in the ground for a while. So you go to the village in your tie-dyed jeans and you stare at the junkies and the closet queens. It's like some pornographic magazine and you smile. But Captain Jack will get you high tonight and take you to your special island. Captain Jack will get you by tonight. Just a little push and you'll be smilin'. Your sisters gone out, she's on a date, and you just sit at home and masturbate. Your phone is gonna ring soon, but you just can't wait for that call! So you stand on the corner in your new English clothes and you look so polished from your hair down to your toes. But still your finger's gonna pick your nose after all. So you decide to take a holiday...but there ain't no place to go anyway. And what for? So you've got everything, but nothing's cool. They just found your father in the swimming pool, and you guess you won't be going back to school any more. So you play your albums and you smoke your pot. And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot. But still you're aching for the things you haven't got, what went wrong? And if you can't understand why your world is so dead and why you've got to keep in style and feed yor head. Well, you're 21 and still your mother makes your bed and that's too long! „
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JUST THE WAY YOU ARE
“ Tender, romantic lyrics: Don't go changing to try and please me you never let me down before. Don't imagine you're too familiar and I don't see you anymore. I would not leave you in times of trouble, we never could have come this far...You always have my unspoken passion although I might not seem to care...I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard...I said I love you and that's forever! „
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PIANO MAN
“ Descriptive lyrics: There's an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin, He says son can you play me a memory...And the waitress is practicing politics as the businessmen slowly get stoned, Yes, they're sharing a drink they call lonliness but it's better than drinking alone....And the piano it sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer and they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say man what are you doing here? „
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YOU LOOK SO GOOD TO ME
“ Romantic lyrics: Ahh, you look so good to me. With my eyes open wide, I can see...Feeling the glory from that smile upon your face, it's liftin' me high above my ordinary place. And I am so happy when I'm in your warm embrace...And who knows what your next move will be? „
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A MATTER OF TRUST
“ Meaningful ,descriptive lyrics: Some love is just a lie of the heart. The core remains of what began with a passionate start and they may not want it to end but it's really just a question of when. I've lived long enough to have learned the closer you get to the fire. the more you get burned...Now I know you're an emotional girl. It took a lot for you to not lose your faith in this world. But I can't offer you proof, but you're going to face a moment of truth. It's hard when you're always afraid,you just recover when another belief is betrayed. So break my heart if you must. It's a matter of trust. You can't go the distance with too much resistance. I know you have doubts but for God's sake don't shut me out. This time you got nothing to lose. You can take it, you can leave it, whatever you choose...I'll walk away a fool or a king. Some love is just a lie of the mind. It's make believe until it's only a matter of time. And some might have learned to adjust, but then it never was a matter of trust. I'm sure you're aware love we've both had our share of believing too long when the whole situation was wrong. Some love is just a lie of the soul. A constant battle for the ultimate state of control. After you've heard lie upon lie, there can hardly be a question of why? „
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GOT TO BEGIN AGAIN
“ Tender, meaningful lyrics: Well, so here I am at the end of the road. Where do I go from here? I always figured it would be like this, still nothing seems to be quite clear. All the words have been spoken and the prophecy fulfilled but I just can't decide where to go.... I've got to begin again though I don't know hot to start...and it's hard. Well, it's been quite a while since I lifted my head and I'm sure the light will hurt my eyes. I see the way that I been spendin' my days and reality has caught me by surprise. I was dreamin' of tomorrow so I sacrificed today and it sure was a grand waste of time. And despite all the truth that's been thrown in my face, I still can't get you out of my mind. „
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ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG
“ Meaningful lyrics: You Catholic girls start much too late...but sooner or later it comes down to fate, I might as well be the one Well they showed you a statue, told you to pray, built you a temple and locked you away but they never told you the price thay you pay for things that you might have done...You might have heard I run with a dangerous crowd, we ain't too pretty we ain't too proud, WE MIGHT BE LAUGHING A BIT TOO LOUD,BUT THAT NEVER HURT NO ONE.. Virginia they didn't give you quite enough information and they say there's a heaven for those who will wait, Some say it's better but I say it ain't I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, cause sinners are much more fun...You said your mother told you that all I could give you was a reputation, she never cared for me, but did she ever say a prayer for me? „
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MODERN WOMAN
“ Descriptive lyrics: with her high top sneakers of Italian desigh. With a long cool stare she aggravates the tension. Makes up her face while she makes up her mind. Now you're in trouble. Maybe she's an intellectual. What if she figures out you're not very smart? Or maybe she's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.. Boy, you've got to get it settled cause she's breaking your heart. Don't try to put on act. You can't do that to a modern woman. You're an old fashioned man,she understands the things you're doin'....She looks sleek and seems so professional. She's got a lot of confidence it's easy to see! You want to make a move but you feel so inferior cause under that exterior is someone who's free! She's got sytle, she's got her own money, so she's not another honey you can quickly disarm. She's got the eyes that make you realize she won't be hypnotized by your usual charm! You've got your plan of attack that won't attract the modern woman...Time goes by and you're sharing an apartment. She says she loves you but she doesn't know why...But times have changed, things are not the same...You overcame such a bad attitude. Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, and nowadays it's politics. And after 1986 what else could be new? You got to learn to rerlax and face the facts of modern woman! You got the casual hip that don't mean zip „
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PRELUDE/ANGRY YOUNG MAN
“ Meaningful lyrics: There's a place in the world for the angry young man. With his working class ties, and his radical plans. He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl, and he's allways at home with his back to the wall. And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost. And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on his cross. And he likes to be known as an angry young man! Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand. He's been stabbed in the back. He's been misunderstood. It's a comfort to know his intentions are good. And he sits in a room with a lock on the door with his maps and his medals laid out on the floor...I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight. I once believed in causes too. I had my pointless point of view and life went on no matter who was wrong or right...With his fist in the air and his head in the sand. And he's never been able to learn from mistakes so he can't understand why his heart always breaks. And his honor is pure and his courage as well and he's fair and he's true and he's boring as hell! And he'll go to the grave as an angry old man! „
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CLOSER TO THE BORDERLINE
“ Descriptive,meaningful,passionate lyrics: Blackout. Heat wave. .44 caliber homicide. The bums drop dead and the dogs go mad in packs on the west side. The young girl standing on a ledge looks like another suicide. She wants to hit those bricks 'cause the news at six gotta stick to a deadline. While the millionaires hide in Beekman Place. The bag ladies throw their bones in my face. I get attacked by a kid with stereo sound. I don't want to hear it, but he won't turn it down! Life is tough, but it's just enough to hold back the tears until it's closing time.. I survived, I'm still alive, but I'm getting closer to the borderline...A buck three eighty won't buy you much lately on the street these days. And when you can't get gas you know you can't drive fast anymore on the parkways. Rich man, poor man, either way, American! Shoved into the lost and found. The no nukes yell we're gonna all go to hell with the next big meltdown! I got remote control and a color tv. I don't change channels so they must change me! I got real close friends that are getting me high. They don't know how to talk and they ain't gonna try. I shouldn't bitch, I shouldn't cry. I'd start a revolution but I don't have time! I don't know why I'm still a nice guy...I thaught I'd sacrifice so many things. I thaught I'd throw them all away . I didn't think I needed anything. But you can't afford to squander what you're not prepared to pay. „
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THE ENTERTAINER
“ Meaningful lyrics: I am the entertainer and I know just where I stand. Another serenader and another long-haired band. Today I am your champion. I may have won your hearts. But I know the game. You will forget my name and I won't be here in another year if I don't stay on the charts. I am the entertainer and I've had to pay my price. The things I did not know at first, I learned by doing twice...But still they come to haunt me. Still they want their say. So I've learned to dance with a hand in my pants. And they rub my neck and I write 'em a check and they go their merry way...Been all around the world. I've played all kinds of palaces and laid all kinds of girls. I can't remember faces. I don't remember names...I've got to meet expenses. I've got to stay in line. Gotta get those fees to the agencies...You've heard my latest record. It's been on the radio. Ah, it took me years to write it. They were the best years of my life. It was a beautiful song but it ran too long. If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit-so they cut it down to 3:05...But if I go cold I won't get sold. I'll get put in the back in the discount rack like another can of beans. „
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TURN AROUND
“ Tender, meaningful, romantic lyrics: Oh sweet lady, runnin' like a stream. You don't look back because you know you're hands are clean. You make believe the past was just a dream...Turn around...And I will sing for you a song. I don't know where you been but you've been gone too long. Oh Elisa you must begin again. And all the roads that you have walked are comin' to an end. I was your lover but I thaught I was your friend. I loved you, but I thaught I was your friend...Maybe you will find a little time to think of me. Won't you please remember what I tried so hard to be. Yeah, remember what I tried so hard to be. „
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ROSALINDA'S EYES
“ Meaningful, descriptive, tender lyrics: I play nights in the spanish part of town. I've got music in my hands. Work is hard to find but that don't get me down. Rosalinda understands. Crazy latin dancing solo down in Herald Square. Oh, Havana I've been searching for you everywhere. And though I'll never be there, I know what I would see there, I can always find my Cuban skies in Rosalinda's eyes.. When she smiles she gives everything to me. When she's all alone, she cries. And I'd do anything to take away her tears because they're Rosalinda's eyes. Senorita don't be lonely. I will soon be there...I've got a chance to make it. It's time for me to take it. I'll return before the fire dies in Rosalinda's eyes. All alone in a puerto rican band. union wages, wedding clothes. Hardly anyone has seen how good I am but Rosalinda says she knows! „
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HALF A MILE AWAY
“ Descriptive, meaningful lyrics: Little Geo is a friend of mine. We get sdome money and we buy a cheap wine. Sit on the corner and have a holiday. Hide the bottle when the cop goes by. Talk about woman and lie, lie, lie. Oh, my other world is just a half a mile away. Wait for mama to turn out the lights. Crawl on the roof and then I hit the night. I should be sleeping but tonight I just can't stay. I've given everybody so much time now I need a moment that's mine!...Angelina save a place for me. I've been livin' someone else's life and now I've got to be free...I try to keep the family satisfied but there's gotta be more to life than just try, try, try! „
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SHE'S GOT A WAY
“ Tender lyrics: but there doesn't have to be a reason anyway. She's oot a smile that heals me...I don't know why it is but it lifts me up when we are walking anywhere. She comes to me when I'm feeling down, inspires me... „
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THE RIVER OF DREAMS
“ Descriptive, meaningful lyrics: In the middle of the night I go walking in my sleep. From the mountains of faith to the river so deep. I must be looking for something. something sacred I lost...I've been searching for something taken out of my soul, something I'd never lose, something somebody stole. I don't know why I go walking at night...I hope it doesn't take the rest of my life until I finally find what I've been looking for...through the jungle of doubt...I know I'm searching for something, something so undefined that it can only be seen by the eyes of the blind...I'm not sure about a life after this. God knows I've never been a spiritual man...We all end in the oceann. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along by the river of dreams! „
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TOMORROW IS TODAY
“ Tender, meaningful lyrics: I've been living for the moment but I just can't have my way. And I'm afraid to go to sleep 'cause tomorrow is today. People tell me life is sweeter but I don't hear what they say. Nothing comes to change my life...I don't care to know the hour,'cause it's passing any way. I don't have to see tomorrow 'cause I saw it yesterday...And what's the use of allways dreaming...Still I'm waiting for the morning but it feels so far away. And you don't need the love I'm giving...Made my bed now I'm gonna lie in it. If you don't come, I'm sure gonna die in it. Too late. Too much given. I've seen a lot of life and I'm damn sick of livin' it. I keep hopin' that you will pass my way. And some day if you're dreams are leavin' you, I'll still believe in you...although my hands still play. „
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NO MAN'S LAND
“ Meaningful lyrics: I've seen those big machines come rolling through the quiet pines. Blue suits and bankers with their Volvos and their valentines. Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise. Raise up a multiplex and we will make a sacrifice. Now we're gonna get the big business. Now we're gonna get the real thing. Everybody's all excited about it. Who remembers when it all began? Out here in no man's land. Before they passed the master plan...Low supply and high demand, here in no man's land. There ain't much work out here in our consumer power base. No major industry. Just miles and miles of parking space. This morning's paper says our neighbor's in a cocaine bust. Lots more to read about. Lolita and suburban lust. Now we're gonna get the whole story. Now we're gonna be in prime time....We've just begun to understand...I see these children with their boredom and their vacant stares. God help us if we're to blame for their unanswered prayers. They roll the sidewalks up at night. The place goes underground. Thanks to the condo kings there's cable now in Zombietown. Now we're gonna get the closed circuit. Now we're gonna get the sports franchise. Now we're gonna get the major attractions...before the whole world was in our hands. „
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EVERYBODY HAS A DREAM
“ Meaningful, romantic lyrics: While in these days of quiet desperation as I wander through the world in which I live I search everywhere for some new inspiration but it's more than cold reality can give. If I need a cause for celebration or a comfort I can use to easy my mind, I rely on my imagination and I dream about imaginary times. And I know everybody has a dream...and this is my dream, my own. Just to be with you at home and to be all alone with you. If I believe in all the words I'm saying...than all I have are these games that I've been playing to keep my hopes from crumbling away. So let me lie. Let me go on sleeping....And all the fantasies that I will be keeping will make the empty hours easier, easier to stand. „
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LEAVE A TENDER MOMENT ALONE
“ Tendar lyrics: Even though I'm in love, sometimes I get so afraid, I'll say something so wrong...I know the moment isn't right to tell the girl a comical line, to keep the conversation light, I guess I'm just frightened out of my mind...But it's not only me breaking down when the tension is high. Just when I'm in a serious mood, she is suddenly quiet and shy...I know the moment isn't right to hold my emotions inside...I've run out of places to hide. „
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SHE'S ALWAYS A WOMAN
“ Passionate, descriptive lyrics: She can kill with a smile she can wound with her eyes, She can ruin your faith with her casual lies and she only reveals what she wants you to see...And she takes what you give her as long as it's free. Yeah she steals like a thief but she's always a woman to me...and she never gives out, and she never gives in, she just changes her mind...She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding but she'll bring out the best and the worst you can be. „
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ALL ABOUT SOUL
“ Tender, meaningful lyrics: And so far she hasn't run though I swear she's had her moments. She still believes in miracles while others cry in vain. It's all about soul. It's all about faith and a deeper devotion...cause so many things getting out of control should drive her away...She turns to me sometimes and she asks me what I'm dreaming and I realize I must have gone a million miles away...This life isn't fair, it's gonna get dark, it's gonna get cold. You gotta get tough but that ain't enough...There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness. There are many who have fallen. There are some who still survive...Who's standing now and who's standing tomorrow. „
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BABY GRAND
“ with RAY CHARLES! Tender, meaningful lyrics: Late at night when it's dark and cold, I reach out for someone to hold. When I'm blue. When I'm lonely. She somes through,she's the only one who can. My baby grand is all I need. in my time, I've wandered everywhere around this world. She would always be there. Any day, any hour. All it takes is the power in my hands. This baby grand's been good to me. I've had friends but they slipped away. I've had fame but it doesn't stay. I've made fortunes. I spent them fast enough. As for woman, they don't last with just one man...They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said that melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these, played in minor keys, keep those memories holding on. I've come far from the life I've strayed in. I've got scars from the dives I've played in...Every dreary one night stand. „
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I DON'T WANT TO BE ALONE
“ Descriptive lyrics: She said she'd meet me in the bar at the Plaza Hotel. "wear a jacket and tie." "What's the occasion?" She just smiled and she wouldn't say why. So here I am standing, waiting in the lobby, sweating bullets in this stupid old suit. And when she sees me she busts out laughing,"You're a sad sight honey but you look so cute" And I don't want to be alone anymore. I was checking you out, I was just making sure...And I want you tonight although you hurt me before. It didn't matter that I felt like a fool 'cause I forgot when she walked through the door...It's so confusing choosing sides in the heat of the moment just to see if it's real. It's so erotic having you tell me how it should feel. But I'm avoiding all the hard cold facts that I've got to face...But don't you know that it's wrong...being caught in the wink of an eye. I can't be sure we'll get along but I'm willing to try. „
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THE BALLAD OF BILLY THE KID
“ Meaningful lyrics: From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand and his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time. East and West of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado. In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surporise. And the word spread...Well, he never traveled heavy. Yes. he always rode alone. And he soon put many older guns to shame. And he never had a sweetheart and he never had a home. But the cowboy and the rancher knew his name. Well he robbed his way from Utah to Oklahoma. And the law just could not seem to track him down! And it served his legend well for the folks they'd love to tell 'bout when Billy the Kid came to town! Well one cold day a posse captured Billy and the judge said, "String I'm up for what he did" And the cowboys and their kin like the sea came pouring in to watch the hangin' of Billy the Kid..He finally found a home underneath the boothill that bears his name. From a town known as Oyster Bay, Long Island rode a boy with a six pack in his hand... „
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THIS IS THE TIME
“ Tender, romantic lyrics: I haven't shown you everting a man can do...This is the time to remeber cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold into cause we won't although we'll want to. This is the time, but time is going to change. You've given me the best of you but now I need the rest of you. Did you know that before you came into my life, some kind of miracle that I survived. We lived through a lifetime and the aftermath...I know we've got to move somehow, but I don't want to lose you now. Sometimes it's so easy to let a day slip on by without even seeing each other at all. But this is the time you'll turn back to and so will I and those will be days you can never recall! „
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GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME
“ Meaningful lyrics: i don't believe in first impressions. For just this once I hope that looks don't deceive. I aint got time for true confessions. I've got to make the move right now, got to meet that girl somehow. I've gotta get it right the first time that's the main thing. I can't afford to let it pass. You get it right the next time that's not the same thing. Gonna have to make the first time last. I'm not much good at conversation. I never was too smooth at comin' on real strong.. If all it takes is inspiration then I might have just what it takes if I don't make no bad mistakes...I might find the courage, yeah, I might get up the nerve. But if my timing aint just right what purpose would that serve?...I don't know hot to say those first few words. If I want to put myself in touch, the first few moments mean so much. I suppose it's now or never, before that woman walks right out of my life...I've got to give it one good try. „
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VIENNA
“ Meaningful, descriptive lyrics: Slow down you crazy child. You're so ambitious for a juvenile. But then if you're so smart tell me why are you still so afraid? Where's the fire? What's the hurry about? You better cool it off before you burn it out. You've got so much to do and only so many hours in a day. But you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old. You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through...Slow down you're doing fine. You can't be everything you want to be before your time, although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight...Too bad but it's the life you lead. You're so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need. Though you can see when your wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right, you're right!. You got your passion, you got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize, Vienna waits for you....Take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while. It's all right, you can afford to lose a day or two. „
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SLEEPING WITH THE TELEVISION ON
“ Meaningful, descriptive lyrics: I've been watching you waltz all night Diane. Nobody's found a way behind your defenses. They never notice the zap gun in your hand until you're pointing it and stunning their senses...All night long you'll shoot 'em down because you're waiting for somebody good to come on...You say you're looking for someone solid here. You can't be bothered with those just for the night boys. Tonight unless you take some kind of chances dear, tomorrow morning you'll wake up with the white noise...You're only standing there 'cause somebody once did somebody wrong. Your eyes are saying talk to me...but your attitude is "Don't waste my time>"...But you won't hear a word 'cause it just might be the same old line. This isn't easy for me to say Diane. I know you don't need anyone's protection. I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more a fool who's not afraid of rejection...I'll just be standing here 'cause I know I don't have the guts to come on. „
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MOVING OUT (ANTHONY'S SONG)
“ Descriptive lyrics: And if he can't drive with a broken back,at least he can polish the fenders. And it seems such a waste of time, if that's what it's all about good luck movin' up cause i'm movin' out...You can pay Uncle Sam withj the overtime, is that all you get for your money „
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THE STRANGER
“ Descriptive, meaningful lyrics: Well we all have a face that we hide away forever and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone. Some are satin, some are steel. Some are silk and some our leather. Tehy're the faces of the stranger but we love to try them on. Well, we all fall in love but we disregard the danger. Though we share so many secrets, there are some we never tell. Why were you so surprised that you never saw the stranger? Did you ever let your lover see the stranger in yourself? Don't be afraid to try again. Everone goes south, every now and then. You've done it, why can't somrone else? You should know by now. you've been there yourself. Once I used to believe I was such a great romancer. Then I came home to a woman that I could not recognize. When I pressed her for a reason, she refused to even answer. It was then I felt the stranger kick me right between the eyes...You may never understand how the stranger is inspired. But he isn't always evil and he is not always wrong. Though you drown in good intentions, you will never quench the fire. You'll give in to your desire. „
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SUMMER HIGHLAND FALLS
“ Descriptive, meaningful lyrics: They say that these are not the best of times but they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lover's eyes. I can only stand apart and sympathize. For we're allways what our situations hand us. It's either sadness or euphoria. So we'll argue and we'll compromise and realize that nothing's ever changed. For all our mutual experience our seperate conclusions are the same. Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity. our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness...How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies. Perhaps we don't fulfill each other's fantasies. And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives with our respective similarities... „
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AND SO IT GOES
“ Tenderr, descriptive, meaningful romantic lyrics: In every heart there is a room. A sanctuary safe and strong to hide all the wounds from lovers past until a new one comes along. I spoke to you in cautious tones. You answered me with no pretense. And still I feel I said too much. My silence is my self defense. And every time I've held a rose it seems I only felt the thorns. And so it goes...And so will you soon I suppose. But if my silence made you leave, then that would be my worst mistake. So I will share this room with you and you can have this heart to break. And this is why my eyes are closed. It's just as well for all I've seen...And you're the only one who knows. So I would choose to be with you. That's if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions, too „
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SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE
“ Descriptive, meaningful lyrics: Well it's a rainy night in Paris and I'm sitting by the Seine. It's a pleasure to be soaking in the European rain. Now my belly's full of fancy food and wine. But in the morning there'll be hell to pay somewhere along the line...Sweet Virginia cigareete burning in my hand. Well, you used to be a friend of mine...And I know you're gonna get me...I know it's just a matter of time. When the fun falls through and the rent comes due...You know I love my woman and I would not let her down. And I did my share of lovin' when I udes to get around...But you pay for satisfaction somewhere along the line. Well, you pay for your satisfaction somewhere along the line. Hey, it's good to be a young man and to live the way you please. Yes, a young man is the king of every kingdom that he sees. There's an old and feeble man not far behind...It surely will catch up to him. „
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STILETTO
“ Descriptive, meaningful lyrics: She cuts you once. She suts you twice, but still you believe. The wound is so fresh you can taste the blood but you don't have strength to leave. You've been bought. You've been sold. You've been locked outside the door but you stand there pleadin' with your insides bleedin' 'cause you deep down want some more! When she says she wants forgiveness it's such a clever masquerade. She's so good with her stiletto you dont even see the blade...She cuts you hard. She cuts you deep. She's got so much skill. She's so fascinating that you're still there waiting when she comes back for the kill. You've been slashed in the face. You've been left there to bleed. You want to run away but you know you're gonna stay 'casuse she gives you what you need. Then she says she needs affection while she searches for the vein. She's so good with her stiletto you don't really mind the pain...She cuts you out. She cuts you down. She carves up your life. But you won't do nothing as she keeps on cutting 'cause you know you love the knife. „
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YOU MAY BE RIGHT
“ Descriptive lyrics: Friday night I crashed you party...I was only having fun, wasn't hurting anyone. and we all enjoyed the weekend for a.change...but it just may be a lunatic you're looking for...Remember how I found you there, alone in your electric chair I told you dirty jokes until you smiled...I said take me as I am , cause you might enjoy some madness for awhile! „
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“ Tender, descriptive lyrics: Sitting here in Avalon looking at the pouring rain. Summertime has come and gone and everybody's home again. Closing down for the season, I found the last of the souvenirs. I can still taste the wedding cake and it's sweet after all these years. These are the last words I have to say. That's why this took so long to write. There will be other words some other day, bvut that's the story of my life...Apples in the early Fall...They swept away all the streamers after the Labor Day parade. Nothing left for a dreamer now, only one final serenade...With all those other songs I'll have to play, but that's the story of my life...Hang the sheets on the chandeliers. It slows down but it never stops. Ain't it sweet after all these years...It's always hard to say goodbye. „
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WHY JUDY WHY
“ Tender, meaningful lyrics: Of all the people in the world that I know, you're the best place to go...I never asked for much before, not before. Things are changed. I need more. Tell my why, Judy, why? I never thaught that she would say...godbye. But she did and now I wanna die...Oh, what a scene. It's wrong for her to hang me up this way. Oh, where have you been? Cause it's so hard to make it through the day. A man my age is very young, so I'm told. Why do I feel so old?...There's no tomorrow cause my dream did not last. So I live in the past. „
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STOP IN NEVADA
“ Meaningful lyrics: He always found it hard to take her. She wouldn't listen to advice: And though he never tried to make her, she often thaught it woiuld be nice. And now she's headin' out to California. It's been a long time comin' but she's feeling like a woman tonight. and she's left a little letter said she's gonna make a stop in Nevada. Goodbye...She tried for years to be a good wife, It never quite got off the ground. And all those stories of the good life convinced her not to hang around...And she doesn't know what's comin' but she's sure of what she's leaving behind...And though she finds it hard to leave him,she knows it would be worse to stay. He wouldn't understand the reasons that make a woman run away! „
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PRESSURE
“ Meaningful, descriptive lyrics: But you will come to a place where the only thing you feel are loaded guns in your face and you'll have to deal with pressure! You used to call me paranoid but even you cannot avoid...you turned the tap dance into your crusade now here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice, You have no scars on your face and you cannot handle...All grown up and no place to go, Psych 1 psych 2 what do you know? All your life is channel 13, Sesame Street, what does it mean? Don't ask for help you're all alone, you'll have to answer to your own...I'm sure you'll have some cosmic rationale but here you are in the ninth two men out and three men on no where to look but inside where we all respond to...All your life is Time magazine, I read it too, what does it mean? „
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KEEPING THE FAITH
“ Descriptive, meaninfgul lyrics: If it seems like I've been lost in let's remember. If you think I'm feeling older and missing my younger days...Then you should have known me much better, 'cause my past is something that never got in my way. Oh, no. Still I would not be here now if I never had the hunger. And I'm not ashamed to say the wild boys were my friends...'Cause I never felt the desire 'til their music set me on fire. And then I was saved...We wore matador boots, only Flagg Brothers had them with the Cuban heel. Iridescen socks with the same color shirt and a tight pair of chinos. Oh, I put on my shark skin jacket, you know, the kind with the velvet collar. And ditty-bop shades...I took a fresh pack of Luckies and a mint called Sen-sen. My old man's Trojans and his Old Spice after shave. Oh, I combed my hair in a pompadour and like the rest of the Romeos wore a permanent wave. Yeah, we were keeping the faith...You can get just so much from the good thing. You can linger too long in your dreams. Say goodbye to the "Oldies but Goodies" 'Cause the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. Learned stickball as a formal education. Lost a lot of fights but it taught me how to lose OK...I heard about sex but not enough. I found you could dance and still look tough anyway. Oh, yes I did! I found out a man aint just being macho. Ate an awful lot of late night drive-in food. Drank a lot of take-home pay! I thaught I was the Duke of Earl when I made it with a red haired girl in the Chevrolet...Now I told you my reasons for the whole revival. Now I'm going outside to have an ice cold beer in the shade. Oh. I'm going to listen to my 45s. Aint it wonderful to be alive when the rock and roll plays...When the memory stays. „
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WORSE COMES TO WORST
“ Meaningful, descriptive lyrics: Today I'm livin' like a rich man's son. Tomorrow morning I could be a bum. It doesn't matter which direction though, I know a woman in New Mexico. Worse comes to worst. I'll get along. I don't know how but sometimes I can be strong...And if I don't have a car I'll hitch. I got a thumb and she's a son of a bitch...Fun ain't easy if it ain't free. Too many people got a hold on me. „
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HONESTY
“ Tender, romantic lyrics: If you search for tenderness. it isn't hard to find, you can have the love you need to live, but if you look for truthfulness you might just as well be blind, it always seems to be so hard to give...I can always find someone to say they sympathize if I wear my heart out on my sleeve...I can find a lover, I can find a friend, I can have security until the bitter end...When I'm deep inside of me don't be too concerned I won't ask for nothing while I'm gone. „
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TELL HER ABOUT IT
“ Passionate lyrics: Listen boy I don't want to see you let a good thing slip away, You know I don't like watching anybody make the same mistakes I made, she's a real nice girl and she's always there for you, but a nice girl wouln't tell you what you should do...You don't want somebody telling you the way to stay in someone's soul. You're a big boy now and you'll never let her go but that's just the kind of thing she ought to know. Tell her about it, tell her everything you feel...let her know how much she means...give her every reason to accept that you're for real. When you love someone you're always insecure...Will that be a consolation when she's gone?...It's good information from a man who's made mistakes! „
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FOR THE LONGEST TIME
“ Tender, romantic lyrics: If you said goodbye to me tonight there would still be music left to write. What else could I do? I' m so inspired by you. That hasn't happened for the longest time. Once I thaught my innocence was gone. Now I know that happiness goes on...I'm that voice you're hearing in the hall. And the greatest miracle of all is how I need you. And how you needed me too...Maybe this won't last very long. But you feel so right. And I could be wrong.. Maybe I've been hoping too hard but I've gone this far and it's more than I hoped for. Who knows how much further we'll go on. Maybe I'll be sorry when you're gone. I'll take my chances. I forgot how nice romance is. I haven't been there for the longest time. I had second thaughts at the start. I said to myself, hold on to your heart. Now I know the woman that you are...and it's more than I hoped for. I don't care what consequence it brings. I have been a fool for lesser things. I want you so bad...I intend to hold you for the longest time. „
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IT'S STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME
“ Meaningful lyrics: You can't dress trashy til you spend a lot of money Hot funk, cool punk, even if it's old junk, It's still rock and roll to me. It doesn't matter what they say in the papers cause it's always been the same old scene, there's a new band in town but you can't get the sound from a story in a magazine aimed at your average teen! Next phase, new wave, dance craze...you get more mileage from a cheap par of sneakers. „
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LOS ANGELENOS
“ Descriptive, meaningful lyrics: Los Angelinos, all come from somewhere, to live in sunshine. Their funky exile. Midwestern ladies, high-heeled and faded. Drivin' sleek new sports cars with their New York cowboys. Hiding up in the mountains. Laying low in the canyons. Going nowhere on the streets with their spanish names. Making love with the natives in their Hollywood places. Making up for all the time gone by...'Cuz it's all so easy to become acquainted. Electric babies, blue jeaned and jaded. Such hot sweet schoolgirls. So educated. Tanning out in the beaches with their Mexican reefers. No one ever has to feel like a refugee. Going into garages for exotic massages...It's so familiar. Their foreign faces. „
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JAMES
“ Meaningful lyrics: James, we were always friends from our childhood days. Then we made our plans and we had to go our seperate ways. I went on the road. You pursued an education...Do you like your life? Can you find release? And will you ever change? Will you ever write your masterpiece? Are you still in school? Living up to expectations?...You were so relied upon...Look at what a job you've done, carrying the weight of family pride...You've been well behaved. You've been working hard. But will you always stay someone else's dream of who you are? Do what's good for you or you're not good for anybody...How you gonna know for sure? Everything was so well organized...Now everything is so secure and everybody else is satisfied...When will you write your masterpiece? „
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EASY MONEY
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CHRISTIE LEE
“ Descriptive, meaningful lyrics: She was a nice peice of music, she had a rrhythym all her own...it took a while for him to notice, it took a while for him to see, he was never in control here...They say that Joe became a wino, they say he always drinks alone, they say he stumbles like a blind man...The only time you hit the high notes is when you play for Christie Lee „
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ALL MY LIFE
“ Tender romantic lyrics: All my life I've searched this whole world through...to find someone like you. Years drifted by, but it was always on my mind...I've hurt the ones who cared one by one, no loving heart was spared. I've been a wild and restless man...For as long as I could, my intentions were good...but I know very well there's a long road to hell that's been paved with intentions like mine. All my life I've paid for my mistakes. After a while, the strongest spirit breaks. I've had heartache and pain that cut me deeper than a knife...Now and then I missed the love I lost. „
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SHAMELESS
“ Passionate lyrics: Well I'm shameless when it comes to loving you. I'd do anything you want me to, I'd do anything at all. And I'm standing here for all the world to see. There ain't very much left of me that has very far to fall. You know I'm not a man who's ever been insecure about the world I've been living in. I don't break easy, I have my pride...You see in all my life I've never found what I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down. I could walk away from anyone I ever knew but I can't walk away from you. I have never let anything have this much control over me...You know it should be easy for a man who's strong to say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong,,,but I've never been in love like this! „
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LIGHT AS THE BREEZE
“ Passionate, tender lyrics: You can drink or you can nurse it, it don't matter how you worship...and like a blessing come from heaven, for something like a second, I was healed and my heart was at ease. Oh baby I waited so long for your kiss. For something to happen, something like this. And you're weak and you're harmless...and I'm sick or pretending! „
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TO MAKE YOU FEEL MY LOVE
“ Tender romantic lyrics: When the rain is blowing in your face and the whole world is on your case, I could offer you a warm embrace, to make you feel my love. When the evening shadows and the stars appear and there is no one there to dry your tears, I could hold you for a million years...I know you haven't made your mind up yet but I would never do you wrong. I've known it from the moment that we met, no doubt in my mind where you belong.. „
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HEY GIRL
“ Tender, romantic lyrics: Hey girl, I want you to know, I'm gonna miss you so much if you go...something deep inside of me is going to die...What's gonna happen to me when you're gone? How will I live? How can I go on?....Then beg you to stay! „
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AIN'T NO CRIME
“ Meaningful lyrics: You got to open your eyes in the morning, nine o'clocl comin' without any warning...Well now you tell me you love somebody and you'll love 'em forever, you may love 'em forever but you won't like 'em all of the time. Well not you tell me you need somebody for the rest of your life, you might have somebody but you won't want 'em every day! „
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THE DOWNEASTER 'ALEXA'
“ Meaningful lyrics: I'm on the downeaster "Alexa" and I'm cruising through Block Island Sound. I have charted a course to the Vineyards but tonight I'm Nantucket bound. We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday. Left this morning from the bell in Gardener's Bay. Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home. Too proud to leave, I worked my fingers to the bone....I go where the ocean is deep. There are giants out there in the canyons and a good captain can't fall asleep. I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes. I know there's fish out there, but where God only knows. They say these waters aren't what they used to be but I've got people back on land who count on me...They tell me I can't sell no stripers and there's no luck in swordfishing here. I was a bayman like my father was before. Can't make a living as a bayman any more. There ain't much f*ture for a man who works the sea but there ain't no island left for Islanders like me! „
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52ND STREET
“ Romantic lyrics: They say it takes a lot to keep a love alive. In every heart there pumps a different beat. But if we shift the rhythm into overdrive, we could generate a lot of heat! „
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YOU'RE MY HOME
“ Romantic, tender lyrics: When you look into my eyes and see the crazy gypsy in my soul, it always comes as a surprise. When I feel my withered roots begin to grow. Well, I never had a place that I could call my very own but that's all right my love 'cause you're my home. When you touch my weary head...I'll never be a stranger and I'll never be alone. Wherever we're together, that's my home...If I travel all my life and I never get to stop and settle down. Long as I have you by my side...You're my castle...and my instant pleasure dome. I need you in my house 'cause you're my home. „
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YOU'RE ONLY HUMAN (SECOND WIND)
“ Meaningful lyrics: You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good. You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood...It's all right. Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human. You're allowed to make your share of mistakes, You better believe there will be times in your life when you'll be feeling like a stumbling fool. So take it from me, you'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school...Sooner or later you'll get your second wind. It's not always easy to be living in this world of pain. You're gonna be crashing into stone walls again and again...Though you feel your heart break...You're goinna have to deal with heartache. Just like a boxer in a title fight you got to walk in that ring all alone. You're not the only one who's made mistakes but they're the only things that you can truly call your own...You've been keeping to yourself these days cause you're thinking everything's gone wrong. Sometimes you just want to lay down and die...You probably don't want to hear advice from someone else...We're only human, we're supposed to make mistakes.,,but I survived all those long lonely days when it seemed I didn't have a friend. „
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THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA
“ Meaningful lyrics: Advice is cheap, you can take it from me. It's yours to keep, 'cause oppinions are free. Nobody knows about the trouble I've seen. Nobody's perfect mister, nobody's clean. It costs to much and takes to long to find out too late . Some words are not heard 'til after they're spoken. Your role was protective. Your soul was too defective. Some people just don't have a veart to be broken. We could have gone all the way to the Great Wall of China. If you'd only had a little more faith in mw. In lieu of diamonds, gold and platinum reminders will still shine bright. All the king's men and all the king's horses can't put you together the way you used to be....You take a piece of whatever you touch. Too many pieces means you're touching too much! You never win if you can't play it straight. You only beat me if you get me to hate! It must be lonely to think that you have only somebody else's life to live if they let you. I ain't too selective but it don't take no detective to find out how fast your friends will forget you...This was not your calling, just look how far you've fallen! I heard your story, man, you've got to be joking! Keep things in perspective. this is my objective. Why tear this heart out if it's only broken. „
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ALLENTOWN
“ Meaningful lyrics: Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line...but the restlessness was handed down...For the promises our teachers gave; if we worked hard, if we behaved. So the graduations hang on the walls but they never really helped us at all. No, they never taught us what was real...Every child had a pretty good shot to get at least as far as their old man got but something happened on the way to that place, they threw an American flag in our face...And it's hard to keep a good man down but i won't be getting up today! „
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GOODNIGHT SAIGON
“ Meaningful, descriptive lyrics: We left as inmates, from an asylum. And we were sharp, as sharp as knives, and we were so gung ho to lay down our lives. we came in spastic, like tameless horses. We left in plastic, as numbered corpses. And we learned fast to travel light. Our arms were heavy but our bellies were tight...Remember Charlie, remember Baker they left their childhood on every acre „
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THROUGH THE LONG NIGHT
“ Tender, poetic lyrics: The warm tears, the bad dreams, the soft trembling shoulders. The old fears but I'm here through the long night with you...What has it cost you? I almost lost you, a long long time ago...All your past sins are since past. You should be sleeping...No, I didn't start it, you're broken hearted from a long long time ago...The way you hold me is all that I need to know. „
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WEEKEND SONG
“ Descriptive, meaningful lyrics: This back-breakin' bone-shakin', belly-achin', hard working, two more hours to go. Yes, it's keeping me alive doin' nine to five and I ain't got nothin' to show. Pretty soon I'll be leavin' with the wages I'm receivin' but I know it's gonna be all right. Come on babe and take me away we got some money to spend tonight...Find a way to burn it as quickly as I earn it...Seven long years for the same corporation and I ain't got nothin' to show...I don't want to stand here and sound accusin',. Everybody does their share of losin'. If I'm gonna lose it I might as well be doin' it right! „
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DON'T ASK ME WHY
“ Meaningful, descriptive lyrics: All your life you had to stand in line still you're standing on your feet...You can say the human heart is only make believe...Fool them all but I can telll, you're no stranger to the street. „
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ROOT BEER RAG
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SOUVENIR
“ Tender, descriptive, meaningful lyrics: A picture postcard. A folded stub. A program of the play. File away your photographs of your holiday. And your momentos will turn to dust, but that's the price you pay. For every year's a souvenir that slowly fades away. „
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SHADES OF GREY
“ Meaningful, descriptive lyrics: Some things were perfectly clear, seen with the vision of youth. No doubts and nothing to fear. I claimed the corner on truth. These days it's harder to say I know what I'm fighting for. My faith is falling away. I'm not that sure anymore. Shades of grey wherever I go. The more I find out, the less that I know. Black and white is how it should be. But shades of grey are the colors I see...These days the edges are blurred. I'm old and...I hear the other man's words. I'm not that sure anymore...Now, with the wisdom of years I try to reason things out. And the only people I fear are those who never have doubt. Save us all from arrogant men and all the causes they're for. I won't be righteous again...There are no rainbows shining on me. „
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THE LAST OF THE BIG TIME SPENDERS
“ Meaningful, tender lyrics: Well if money makes a rich man, then I might never make the grade. I'll be a small time operator if I just get the landlord paid. But if time is an indication of the wealth I never knew. Then I'm the last of the big time spenders 'cause I'll be spending time on you. It takes time to appreciate. Lord knows that you can learn to hate it. I believe 'cause I've been there too. When it gets down to desperation, you make the best of the situation...It's been so long since we got together. In between it seems to take forever. But I'm a dreamer, I'll be there soon. It takes time to appreciate all of those that you can learn to hate...You can call me the great pretender and in a way it might be true. „
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ALL YOU WANNA DO IS DANCE
“ Meaningful lyrics: You don't get turned on by the radio...You got nothing to play on your stereo. Why don't THE BEATLES get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?...I think you are lost in the '70's...you don't understand what they're saying. You've given it every chance...You wish you were back in the gool old days when tomatoes were cheaper. And you never heard the words of your favorite song through a three inch speaker. And you never messed around with dangerous drugs, you were all getting sick on beer. And you didn't get any unless you went steady and made out for a year! Well, you can hide away honey in your rock and roll dreams. You can stand by your blue suede shoes. But the party is over and I'm getting tired of waiting for you...Where are the oldies they used to play? Oh baby, you want to crawl back into yesterday. You don't want to deal with your f*ture, you don't want to make any plans. Oh baby, all you wanna do is dance. „
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BIG SHOT
“ Meaningful, passionate lyrics: You went uptown riding in your limosine with your fine Park Avenue clothes, you had the Dom Perignon in your hand and the spoon up your nose. And when you wake up in the morning with your head on fire and your eyes too bloody to see go on and cry in your coffee, but don't come bitchin' to me...You had to have the last word last night, you know what everything's about. You had to have a white hot spotlight...And they were all impressed with your Halston dress and the people that you knew at Elaine's and the story of your latest success, you kept em so entertained. But now you just don't remember all the things you said and you're not sure that you want to know. I'll give you one hint honey, you sure did put on a show...Well it's no big sin stickin' two cents in if you know when to leave it alone, but you went over the line you couldn't see it was time to go home. „
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I GO TO EXTREMES
“ Descriptive lyrics: Call me a joker, call me a fool. Right at this moment I'm totally cool. Clear as a crystal, sharp as a knife. I feel like I'm in the prime of my life. Some times it feels like I'm going too fast. I don't know how long this feeling will last. Maybe it's only tonight! Darling I don't know why I go to extremes. Too high or too low, there ain't no in betweens. And if I stand or I fall, it's all or nothing at all...Maybe I'm headed over the hill. Maybe I've set myself up for the kill. Tell me how much do you think you can take until the heart in you is starting to break. Sometimes it feels like it will...You can be sure when I'm gone I won't be out there too long...Out of the darkness, into the light. Leaving the scene of the crime. Either I'm wrong or I'm perfectly right every time. Some times I lie awake night after night, coming apart at the seams. Eager to please, ready to fight „
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A ROOM OF OUR OWN
“ Descriptive lyrics: You've got diamonds and I've got spades. You've got pills and I've got razor blades. You've got yoga honey. I've got beer. You got overpriced and I got weird, but it's all right...You've got love darlin'. I've got sex. You've got cash mama and I've got checks...You've got the day shift. I've got nights. We go wrong at times, but we've got rights. You've got TV shows „
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LULLABY (GOODNIGHT MY ANGEL)
“ Tender lyrics: Goodnight my angel time to close your eyes. And save these questions for another day. I think I know what you've been asking me. I think you know what I've been trying to say. I promised I would never leave you. And you should allways know. Wherever you may go, no matter where you are, I never will be far away...And still so many things I want to say. Remember all the songs you sang for me when we went sailing on an emerald bay. And like a boat out on the ocean I'm rocking you to sleep. The water's dark and deep inside this ancient heart. You'll always be a part of me...Now it's time to dream. And dream how wonderful your life will be. Someday your child may cry and if you sing this lullabye then in your heart there will allways be a part of me. Someday we'll all be gone but lullabyes go on and on. They never die. That's how you and I will be. „
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THE NIGHT IS STILL YOUNG
“ Tender, meaningful lyrics: I'm young enough to still see the passionate boy that I used to be, but I'm old enough to say I got a good look at the other side. I know we gotta work real hard maybe for the rest of our lives...I wanna keep making love to you while the night is still young ...I can see a time coming when I'm gonna throw my suitcase out...I wanna try and make the world brand new...And I may lose the battle but you're giving me the will to try „
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CARELESS TALK
“ Tender, meaningful lyrics: Careless talk that's what you heard about me. Jealous talk that's what I heard about you. Everybody's telling lies, I don't even know why. Why can't people find something better to do...They say you've been putting me down, in the shadows, on the phone...Telling you I'm doing wrong. Jealous talk follows wherever you go. I'm aware of what you heard, every terrible word. Everybody's making believe that they know all of the intimate things that we ever might have said in the heat of a passionate moment. In a conversation shared for the ears of nobody else. There are some things they will never hear. There are secrets I'll never tell. „
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ZANZIBAR
“ Meaningful lyrics: I've got the old man's car, I've got a jazz guitar...Rose he knows he's such a credit to the game but the Yankees grab the headlines every time. Melodrama's so much fun in black and white for everyone to see! „
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WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE
“ Meaningful lyrics: The lists themselves paint a picture of our lifetimes. „
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MY LIFE
“ Meaningful lyrics: Got a call from an old friend we used to be real close, said he couldn't go on the American way. Closed the shop, sold the house bought a ticket to the west coast, now he gives them a stand up routine in L.A. I don't need you to worry for me cause I'm all right...I never said you had to offer me a second chance...I never said I was a victim of circumstance. I still belong, don't get me wrong and you can speak your mind but not on my time! They will tell you you can't sleep alone in a strange place. Then they'll tell you you can't sleep with somebody else. But sooner or later you sleep in your own space, either way it's okay you wake up with yourself!...Go ahead with you own life, leave me alone! „
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STREETLIFE SERENADER
“ Poetic lyrics: Streetlife serenader, never sang on stages, needs no orchestration. Melody comes easy. Midnight masquerader...New world celebrator...Have such understanding, how the words are spoken „
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WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR
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THAT'S NOT HER STYLE
“ Descriptive lyrics: Some people think that she's one of those mink-coated ladies. They say she wakes up at one. Makes the paparazi run til dawn. She wines and dines...after she sips margaritas on the White House lawn. That's not her style. I can tell you that aint my woman. It's just not her style. I can tell you because I'm her man. The papers say she was seen in LA with a stranger. She found a perfect body with a Maserati right outside. And that she charted a Lear when she heard her career was in danger. And gave the pilot something extra for a perfect ride...It's not that she's never done something crazy, done something wild. It's just that she's better at doing whatever suits her style...I've read where it's said that she sleeps in a bed made of satin. She's had her face done in every place you can try...And says she's thirty when she's really pushing forty-five! „
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A MINOR VARIATION
“ Meaningful lyrics: Some days I have to give right in to the blues.Despite how I try to keep fightin, it's a sure shot I'm going to lose. And I'll tell you why you think I'm crazy. It's such a sad composition. But can you blame me for what's been causing my bad disposition. Aint nothing new with my blue situation. And nothing's fine, it's just a minor variation! When troubles want to find me, I aint hard to find. They know where I am! Like a hungry pack of wolves when it's feeding time, they tear up a man! And it's a strange thing. 'Cause now it don't really matter. More of the same thing! Don't even hurt. It's all a part of the pattern, but still in all it's a small consulation. I just define it as a minor variation. Aint no way to fight 'em darling. Aint no way arounbd 'em...Nowhere to hide and believe me I've tried to shake 'em. I'm getting to the point where I don't feel the pain and I've had enough. I'm ready for the next time it hits me again, cause I've gotten tough! It doesn't faze me and now I've made my decision. I may be crazy. It's not as though I don't know that condition Until I'm through with this blue situation, pass me the wine...Aint nobody's business baby...Aint nobody's problem. No way to win when you've already been forgotten!...cause now it don't really matter. „
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RUNNING ON ICE
“ Meaningful, descriptive lyrics: There's a lot of tension in this town. I know it's building up inside of me. I've got all the symptoms and side affects...I could never understand why the urban attitude is so superior...Sometimes I feel as though I'm running on ice. Paying the price too long...Where did my life go wrong?...But I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk that modern man accumulates. I'm a statistic in a system...I'm slipping and sliding 'cause I'm running on ice...As fast as I can climb. A new disaster every time I turn around. As soon as I get one fire put out, there's another building burning down! They say this highway's going my way but I don't know where it's taking me. It's a...rat race. It's breaking me. I get no traction 'cause I'm running on ice. It's taking me twice as long! I get a bad reaction 'cause...You've got to run! „
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MONEY OR LOVE
“ Meaningful, passionate lyrics: Money or love which one are you doing it for? Everybody has to make that choice sometime...Something is wrong. I can tell the feeling is gone Do you still remember when we started long ago? Wasn't it love that kept us driving in a rented car? Who could've known that endless road would ever have come this far. Money or love. It's your decision where to draw the line. Everybody has a soul they can control or compromise. When did you start putting a price upon the pain in your heart? When did I become the reason for the sadness in your eyes? You could've asked me any time, I would've told you why. Maybe I might have changed your mind but now it's too late to try. Goodbye! Every night I ask myself could I have been closer to you when you needed someone else. Could a friend who really knew you try, help you decide. Money or love. Tell me what you gonna do with your life? Everybody needs a passion or they cash in while they can...You've got to touch the fire to make your stand! „
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SOMETIMES A FANTASY
“ Descriptive lyrics: I didn't want to do it but I got too lonely. I had to call you up in the middle of the night. I know it's awful hard to try to make love long distance. But I really needed stimulation, though it was only my imagination. It's just a fantasy. It's not the real thing...But sometimes a fantasy is all you need! When am I gonna take control? Get a hold of my emotions? Why does it only seem to hit me in the middle of the night? You told me there's a number I can always dial for assistance. I don't want to deal with outside action. Only you can give me satisfaction!...Sure it would be better if I had you here to hold me. Be better baby, but believe me it's the next best thing...I'm sure there's many times you've wanted me to hear your secrets. Don't be afraid to say the words that move me, anytime you want to say them to me. „
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WHEN IN ROME
“ Descriptive, meaningful lyrics: Well I see you in the morning putting on your pretty clothes...Like they do in all those fashion shows...Well, it's all right if you're tired when your day is done. You can see when you look at me you're not the only one. It's a cold cruel world for a working girl but you can't let them see you cry. It's a fact of life now, a man and wife work full time to just get by. And when we're home all it's gonna be is me and you. But when in Rome, do as the Romans do! I've done some strange things I never thought I'd do before. But if the strain brings happiness more or less. Then I don't mind masquerading with all those other fools. I don't mind the games I'm playing because I've learned the rules. And when times are tough, I've got just enough...More and more I get hungry for all the ways you keep me satisfied...Push those buttons and answer that phone. Coffee in the morning and martinis at night. Everybody's working up a big appetite! „
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GETTING CLOSER
“ Meaningful descriptive lyrics: I went searchin for the truth, but in my innocence I found all the con men and their acrobats who stomped me in the ground.. If I count up their percentages I know they're getting rich. But they haven't taken everything. Those paybacks are a bitch! Though I've lost quite a lot, I am still in control. They can keep what they've got but they can't have my soul! And if I don't have this all worked out, still I'm getting closer...I still have far to go, no doubt...What was ripped off by professionals is not all that it seems. While I must live up to contracts, I did not give up my dreams If I see it as experience, it hasn't gone to waste. Lately all the missing pieces have been falling into place. And if I could ge back and start over somehow, I would not change that much!. Knowing what I know now. Though there have been sins I will regret...I don't have all the answers yet...I'm a mark for every shyster from Topanga to Berlin and I should have learned to kick them out as soon as they crawled in! So to every bank in Switzerland that stores my stolen youth. I'm all right becuase despite the laws you cannot hide the truth! And although you will say I am still too naive. Well, I have not lost faith in the things I believe. „
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NOCTURNE
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CODE OF SILENCE
“ with Cyndi Lauper Meaningful lyrics: Everbody's got a million questions. Everybody wants to know the score, what you went through. It's something you should be over. Now everybody wants to hear the secrets that you never told a soul before. And it's not that strange because it wouldn't change what happened anyhow. But you swore to yourself a long time ago there were some things that people never needed to know. Guess there's one that you keep, that you bury so deep no one can tear it out...You're never going to lose the anger. You just deal with it in a different way. And you can't talk about it. And isn't that a kind of madness? To be living by a code of silence when you've really got a lot to say? You don't want to lose a friendship. There's nothing that you have to hide. And a little dirt couldn't hurt no one anyway. And you still have a rage inside you that you carry with a certain pride in the only part of the broken heart that you could ever save.. But you've been through it once. You know how it ends. You don't see the point of going through it again. And this aint the place. And this aint the time. And neither's any other day. So you don't talk about it...I know you well enough to tell you've got your reasons. That's not the kind of code you're inclined to break. Some things unknown are better left alone forever! And if a vow is what it takes, haven't you paid for your mistakes? After the moment passes and the impulse disappears, you can still hold back becuase you don't crack very easily. It's a time honored resolution because the danger is always near. It's with you now but that aint how it was supposed to be! And it's hard to believe after all these years it still gives you pain and it still brings tears. And you feel like a fool because it's part of your rules. You've got a memory but you can't talk about it! „
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