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Is this a prison
Or do you call it love?
You will know for certain some day
It'll never be tough enough
When love is hidden
It is below/above
And you know when you run away
You turn your back on love
Chorus
Lonely days and lonely nights
Will we ever get it right
Don't be blinded by the light
Turn your back on love
No, no
You're dying to prove
That you are never wrong
You're so right, you'd rather be sad
But you won't go along
You built a wall didn't ya
'Round what you're thinking of
Never mind what anyone says
You're turning your back on love
Chorus
Lonely days and lonely nights
Will we ever get it right
Don't be blinded by the light
Turn turn turn
Would you turn your back on love
Isn't it my life
Tell me what else it is
You can do whatever you want
If you will take a risk
When is it my love
How will you handle it
To wit:
There are two whenever we are
If you can hear the kiss
If you believe it
Love is quite strong enough
Be together, honest and free
No turning back on love
Chorus
Lonely days and lonely nights
Will we ever get it right
Don't be blinded by the light
Turn your back on love
Turn your back
Turn your back on love
(Don't turn your back)... |
Look around me
I can see my life before me
Running rings around the way
It used to be
I am older now
I have more than what I wanted
But I wish that I had started
Long before I did
Chorus
And there's so much time to make up
Everywhere you turn
Time we have wasted on the way
So much water moving
Underneath the bridge
Let the water come and carry us away
Oh when you were young
Did you question all the answers
Did you envy all the dancers
Who had all the nerve
Look round you know
You must go for what you wanted
Look at all my friends who did and got what they deserved
Chorus
And there's so much time to make up
Everywhere you turn
Time we have wasted on the way
So much water moving
Underneath the bridge
Let the water come and carry us away
And there's so much love to make up
Everywhere you turn
Love we have wasted on the way
So much water moving
Underneath the bridge
Let the water come and carry us away
Let the water come and carry us away |
Got out of town on a boat
Goin' to Southern islands.
Sailing a reach
Before a followin' sea.
She was makin' for the trades
On the outside,
And the downhill run
To Papeete.
Off the wind on this heading
Lie the Marquesas.
We got eighty feet of the waterline.
Nicely making way.
In a noisy bar in Avalon
I tried to call you.
But on a midnight watch I realized
Why twice you ran away.
Chorus
Think about how many times
I have fallen
Spirits are using me
larger voices callin'.
What heaven brought you and me
Cannot be forgotten.
I have been around the world,
Lookin' for that woman/girl,
Who knows love can endure.
And you know it will.
And you know it will.
When you see the Southern Cross
For the first time
You understand now
Why you came this way
'Cause the truth you might be runnin' from
Is so small.
But it's as big as the promise
The promise of a comin' day.
So I'm sailing for tomorrow
My dreams are a dyin'.
And my love is an anchor tied to you
Tied with a silver chain.
I have my ship
And all her flags are a flyin'
She is all that I have left
And music is her name.
Chorus
Think about how many times
I have fallen
Spirits are using me
larger voices callin'.
What heaven brought you and me
Cannot be forgotten.
I have been around the world,
Lookin' for that woma/girl,
Who knows love can endure.
And you know it will.
And you know it will.
So we cheated and we lied
And we tested
And we never failed to fail
It was the easiest thing to do.
You will survive being bested.
Somebody fine
Will come along
Make me forget about loving you.
At the Southern Cross. |
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Into the darkness
Soon you'll be sinking
What are you doing?
What can you be thinking
All of your friends
Have been trying to warn you
That some of your demons
Are trying to drag you
Chorus
Away
Into the darkness
Into the darkness
Away
All of your life
You've been making your payments
Alone on the phone with
Your business arrangements
No wonder no-one
Could get near you
You're screaming too loud
No one can hear you
I see you coming
To the end of the day
And was it worth it?
No one can say
I see your face
It is ghostly pale
Into the sunset
We are watching you sail
Temperature's rising
Over the rainbow
What are you hiding?
Afraid of your shadow
We have been trying
Trying to find you
There's no use denying
Our love is behind you
Chorus
Stay
Out of the darkness
Out of the darkness
Stay |
Waking
Stream of consciousness
On a sleeping
Street of dream
Thoughts
Like scattered leaves
Slowed in midfall
Into the streams
Chorus
Of fast
Running rivers
Of choice and chance
And time stops here
And it seems as if time
Stops here on the delta
While they dance
While they dance
I love the child
Who steers this riverboat
But lately he's crazy
For the deep
And the river seems dreamlike
In the daytime
And someone keeps thinking
In my sleep
Chorus
Of fast
Running rivers
Of choice and chance
And time stops here
And it seems as if time
Stops here on the delta
While they dance
While they dance . . . (repeated) |
In the time it takes to count
I'll be back and asking you
Is there more
Yes it is
All about your loving
I am yours
I can't get enough of your love
Since I met you
Might be all about I like
The things you say
I don't really care (do you?)
Either way
Yeah
Feeling very strong about you
I don't want to live
Without your love
Since I met you
I met you
I became a stronger man
Trying too hard
To prove too much before
If you're trying to relax
Don't ask questions
That will surely tax
You later on
You'll have your answer
Best of all you never worry
But always care
All you need to know is that
I am there
Yes I am
Don't know why you ever chose me
Heaven knows
We certainly have loved enough
Since I met you
Since I met you
Since I met you . . . (repeated) |
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If anyone wants to know
Where to find me
I'll be right here
In the warmth of your arms
'Cause you
You're the one I can trust in
You've never done me any harm
I'm putting all my troubles
Behind me
I don't feel the same
When I am away from your smile
'Cause you
You're the one that can calm me down
Whenever I get wild
Chorus (twice)
Fooling myself
About how to exist
All by myself
There was much I had missed
You came and showed me
What happiness is
If anyone wants to know
Where my heart is
Tell everyone
That's it's wrapped around yours
'Cause you
You're the one I can turn to
You opened up the door |
When you know there's someone
You can talk to
And she's waiting by the door
When you get home
With her hand she'll caress
Away your worries
You are alive
I hope you know
That you're alive
When you're waiting for her standing
By the doorway
And your heart is laughing as
She turns the key
Here it comes again, always
The same feeling
You are alive
And so is she
Chorus
Do you know
What life would be without her?
Do you know
What loneliness can be?
You'll die by yourself
Only with someone else-why?
When it's all a game and
There is no pleasure
And you're just like all the rest
Cannot see
And you're feeling like there's
No more point in searching
Are you alive?
How could it be
Are you alive?
I'd like to see
If you're alive. |
There are windows on the water
Lighting up the silver strand
Shining on the sea
Shining on the sea
And the ocean's just a player
On an old piano
Who repeats one melody
Who repeats one melody
Chorus
I belong on the shore
Hustlin' nickels and dimes
'Cause it ain't long
Before it's gone
You might as well have a good time
Well the elbows of his jacket
Are blue and shiny
He's drunk and gone to seed
Drunk and gone to seed
And he mumbles as he plays
The only song he knows
It's the only song he knows
It's the only song he needs
Chorus
I belong on the shore
Hustlin' nickels and dimes
'Cause it ain't long
Before it's gone
You might as well have a good time
All his restless music
Don't mean a damn thing to me
The shallow or the deep
Said, the shallow or the deep
So if you're free this evening
We'll go out together
And party 'til we sleep
Party 'til we sleep
Chorus
I belong on the shore
Hustlin' nickels and dimes
'Cause it ain't long
Before it's gone
You might as well have a good time. |