Live It Up  1990

   

Live It Up

Don't need the look of a millionaire.
Takes more than money just to live it up.
Don't need designer on the things I wear.
Takes more than fashion just to live it up.
Don't need my home sitting in Bel Air.
Forty room apartment just to live it up.
Don't need Jacuzzis or midnight affairs.
Neighbors in the nude just to live it up.

But I need to live it up, I need to live it up.
I want to live it up, live it up.

Don't need connections for a ringside seat.
Takes more than power just to live it up.
Don't need the keys to the governor's suite.
Takes more than politics to live it up.
Don't like the tricks they play on Easy Street.
So don't do me favors just to live it up.
Don't need to mingle with the stars I meet.
Backstage passes just to live it up.
But I need to live it up, I need to live it up.
I want to live it up, live it up.

Just look around you, so many ways
that you can live it up.
It's all around you, so many ways
that you can live it up.
It's all around you all you gotta do is open up.

Don't need to drink `til we all fall down.
Takes more than liquor just to live it up.
Don't need no dealer pushing me around.
Takes more than chemicals to live it up.
Don't need a ticket to a gambling town.
21 don't get it just to live it up.
Why are we looking in the lost and found?
People try so hard just to live it up.
But I need to live it up. I need to live it up.
I want to live it up, I got to live it up.

If Anybody Had A Heart

If Anybody Had A Heart, Yours Would Never Be Broken.
If Anybody Had A Heart Like Mine.
In This World Of Right And Wrong, The Hardest Part Is Beginning.
And By The Time You Get Where You Belong, You're Either Losing Or Winning.
Well, I Don't Know How But People Seem To Know
When You Want Somebody Bad Enough.
Ah, Well I Want You Now And Wherever You Go
I'm Gonna Love You Till You've Had Enough.

If Anybody Had A Heart, Yours Would Never Be Broken.
If Anybody Had A Heart Like Mine.

Some People Treat You Like the Clothes You Wear.
They Only See What You Show Them.
Just Let Them Talk , Baby I Don't Care, They Don't Know Where We're Going.

But I Love You So Much And I Have For So Long.
How Could Anybody Doubt It?
Ah! Just One Little Touch And My Love Is So Strong.
Baby, How Can We Live Without It?

If Anybody Had A Heart, Yours Would Never Be Broken.
If Anybody Had A Heart Like Mine.

When You Love Somebody
You Might Stumble, You Might Fall.
If You Love Somebody Hard Enough,
You Might Just Get It All.

If Anybody Had A Heart, Yours Would Never Be Broken.
If Anybody Had A Heart Like Mine.
If Anybody Had A Heart, Yours Would Never Be Broken.
If Anybody Had A Heart Like Mine.
If Anybody Had A Heart, Yours Would Never Be Broken.
If Anybody Had A Heart Like Mine.
 

Tomboy

She's one of the guys, yeah and you can trust her.
Tell her anything.
She's so alive, she can shoot pool.
And she can really drive, she ain't afraid of nothin'
`Cept maybe boys with their minds on lovin'.

Tomboy, always with the wrong boy.
You need a strong boy, Tomboy, Tomboy.

I don't understand, she's never been close
To a lovin' man, she goes all a -quiver over these fools
That won't bother with her, she's so fine.
What can't I do with this love of mine?

Tomboy, always with the wrong boy.
You need a strong boy, Tomboy, Tomboy.

She's got a heart of gold, givin' you everything
Put herself on hold, thinks she can laugh enough
So you never see what she's coverin' up in her world.
There's thousands of friends and one lonely girl.

Tomboy, always with the wrong boy.
You need a strong boy, Tomboy, Tomboy.

Yours And Mine

I see a boy of fourteen, he's got a rifle in his hand.
He's dying to defend his desert land.
He's got an arm around his father, another arm around his gun.
Must the child in the father die so young?

There's a teenage girl in Belfast, playing in the street.
Her brother plays a different game and he's turning up the heat
On the soldiers around the corner and the powers overseas.
And who are they to ruin lives like these?

`Cos they're yours and they're mine, they're yours and mine.
`Cos they're yours and they're mine, yours and mine.

So you think that it's so easy just to let I pass you by
You watch T.V. and pretend it's all a lie.
But you know there is no Third World, it happens to us all.
There's just one world and the kids are the first to fall.

And they're yours and they're mine, they're yours and mine.
And they're yours an they're mine, yours and mine.

He's every mother's son and she raised him for something
Better than a bullet.
He's every mother's son and she raised him for something
Better than a bullet.
He's every mother's son and she raised him
for something
Better than a bullet.
He's every mother's son, his life's hanging from a trigger
and I won't pull it.
`Cos they're yours and they're mine, they're yours and mine.
`Cos they're yours and they're mine, yours and mine.

(Got To Keep) Open

Well it's high time you realize
that I must live my life as it surrounds me
I can give you all the room you need to be yourself as I am
in the same key
We can live our lives together, yes, and still remain
ourselves if we believe
And I believe, oh, oh darlin'.

Got to keep and open heart, got to keep an open mind.
Got to keep workin' hard or you get left behind
Got to keep lovin', got to keep givin'.
Got to let nothin' get in the way of livin'.
Gotta keep open.

I've given you my heart, I give my soul
I give you everything I have
Yes, and just as there's a special part of you
that's yours alone
To keep, I'm glad there is so much we can do together
And I believe, oh, oh darlin'.

Got to keep and open heart, got to keep an open mind.
Got to keep workin' hard or you get left behind
Got to keep lovin', got to keep givin'.
Got to let nothin' get in the way of livin'.
Gotta keep open.

I was looking for love, I was losing my mind.
I was searching for someone to care.
I was fighting my feelings to turn and to run.
And I looked in your heart.
And I saw there was somebody there.

So I'm sitting on the river in your city
and I'm writing out these words
And I hope that you will listen to my song
`cos it is mine and now it's yours
I'm the master of my fate and the captain of my soul
and I believe
yes, I believe, oh, oh darlin'.

Got to keep and open heart, got to keep an open mind.
Got to keep workin' hard or you get left behind
Got to keep lovin', got to keep givin'.
Got to let nothin' get in the way of livin'.
Gotta keep open.

Straight Line

Looking around it's plain to see
So many people trying to be
Just what they want and who's to say.
They'll never get there someday.
Walk in a straight line.
Walking in a straight line.
Hard times, walking in a straight line.

Always wanting to find your way
True to yourself you've got to stay
Trying so hard, it's not easy I know
Never give up but if you have got to go.
Walk in a straight line.
Walking in a straight line.
Hard times, walking in a straight line.

One day at a time is in your mind.
You know that it can come true.
So reach for your dreams and as crazy as it seems
Believing is all you can do, oh!

Who's to say if I'm right or wrong.
I know that I've just got to be strong.
Maybe I'll never see that day.
Still I'll fight for it anyway.
Walk in a straight line.
Walking in a straight line.
Hard times, walking in a straight line.

House Of Broken Dreams

Living in a house of broken dreams,
Where shadows throw shadows on the wall,
And memories are mountains to climb
Knowing everyone can fall.

And here where the cobwebs count the hours.
Since we let the laughter clear the air,
Painfully trying to touch
Knowing that we used to care.

Separate houses, separate hearts,
It's hard to face the feelings tearing us apart.
And in this house of broken dreams love lies.

Can we keep our castles in the air
While we're keeping both feet on the ground?
`Cos if your heart can touch another heart
Love can turn it all around.

Get rid of those empty glances and empty sighs
Or tears of longing will fill your eyes.
In this house of broken dreams love hides.

Arrows

Arrows turned inward are good for the soul.
I have a thing about arrows and diamonds and coal.
Pressure turning carbon to jewels.

Slowly they aim at my iron mark, flaming,
healing arrows.
They beat at my heart, angels turning metal to tools.

I don't care what you think has got you down
You can turn it around, I don't care what you think.
Turn it around, turn it around, turn it around.

The times that I knew I could never get through
That's when I grew up the most, and alone sounds so sad
But alone I found the best friend I had
I don't care what you think has got you down
You can turn it around, I don't care what you think.
Turn it around, turn it around, turn it around.

Arrows turned inward are good for the soul,
Piercing through every callus, they always get through
My target is a heart no-one fools.

After The Dolphin

At the Dolphin the beer flowed like wine.
And people were drinking.
Over there, there were lives on the line,
But not at the Dolphin

Across the ocean the world was at war
And bullets were flying.
In the air there's plane headed for
The heart of the Dolphin.
It's after the Dolphin.

They were laughing and drinking and carrying on
and then in the blink of an eye they were gone, gone, gone.
So was the Dolphin, so was the Dolphin, gone was the Dolphin.

What will become of us all? Who know the story?
Will we witness the final fall of the hope and the glory?
Blinded by honor they fought eye to eye
Now men without faces rain fire from the sky.
When you kill from a distance is anyone to blame?
And the armies of warfare will never be the same again.
After the Dolphin, after the Dolphin, after the Dolphin.