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After The Storm
1994 |
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I cannot remember feeling
Quite so self assured it must have
Been back in my teens
I was such a basket case when
I was young it's obviously
Something that I dreamed
I have always been a most
Reclusive kind of guy
When love's around I usually
run and hide
But don't you go believin' I was
Ever that confused, I was
Really only waiting for you
I cannot escape the over-
whelming feeling destiny has
Taken us in hand
And nothing that we do is gonna
Change the way this love affair is
Never gonna end
And I know it's hard getting used to the idea
That your lover wants to be your best friend
With a showing of affection and a
Measure of romance, this is
Really only waiting for you
I've been living by myself I do not
Want for someone else at least that's
What I like to say
It was working til the other day I
Met you and I fell in love from
Twenty yards away
I've got one last truly great
Love left in my life
And my heart is tellin' me
it might be you
So forget your disappointments, I'll
Forget about my past, I was
Really only waiting for you
Really only waiting for you
And what do you suppose
that we can do
Anything whatever that you
Want to last forever
Really only waiting for you |
Life is uncertain
Life is unknown
Life is a shot in the dark
Life is a curtain
Always unfolding
Life is an ember and a spark
Don't be a fool
Stay around for a long time
Try and find a dream
Time avoids no one
Time is unkind
Time is a cut to the bone
Time to take care of
Time to unwind
Time is a gift not a loan
Don't be a fool
Stay around for a long time
Try and find a dream
People are endless
People are strangers
People are taken to be friends
People are nervous
Always in danger
People are bound to make amends
Don't be a fool
Stay around for a long time
Try and find a dream |
I rode my bike to town today
Wobbling down the path
I knew the kids would see me
I love it when they laugh
And I wish I were a camera
And I could slice time like a knife
Seeing stories in the faces
And crystallizing life
Wish I were a camera
I wish it all the time
It gives my eyes a reason
It gives my life a rhyme
I'd be a lens that could see souls
A shutter that never shuts
I'd have film that lasts forever
And I would live in huts
In the jungles of South America
Like my father before the war
I'd find out where we came from
And what this life is for
And I wish I were a camera
I wish it all the time
It gives my eyes a reason
It gives my life a rhyme
And I wish I were a camera
I wish it all the time
It gives my eyes a reason
It gives my life a rhyme
I would climb right off this planet
On the clearest night of all
And photograph the future
When it finally comes to call
I would save up all these images
These instants in a box
And when I am old and lonely
They could cover up the clocks
And I wish I were a camera
I wish it all the time
It gives my eyes a reason
It gives my life a rhyme
I wish that I could shoot at night
And leave without a trace
And catch my lover's sleeping smile
By the starlight on her face
But I think mostly that l'd see children
'Cause they haven't learned to hide
And they watch me on my bicycle
And laugh with me as I ride |
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Like a whisper on the wind
Sometimes the wind
don't want to hear about it
Like a sailboat on the sea
Sometimes the ocean
just don't care about it
There are many, many feelings
That can tear your soul apart
But the pressure of unequal love is hard
'Cause the price you have to pay
Is that the pain won't go away
Unequal love
Did you ever stay too long
With a lover who was over you
You had the feeling it was wrong
But you loved so hard
There's nothing you could do
There are many, many heartaches
When you're up against the wall
And all the love you give
Won't come back at all
And no matter what you do
It really hurts to know the truth
Love is unequal sometimes
When you have a change of heart
'Cause you've found
that you can trust somebody
They'll tear the arrow from your heart
It's you they'll love
It's not just anybody
There are many, many reasons
Not to play the game at all
But in the meantime
you are bound to fall
'Cause your wounds are gonna heal
You're gonna learn just how to deal
With unequal love
Unequal love
Unequal love |
What does it take to getcha
To admit it?
How much light
Till it shines on you, yeah?
How much did she betcha
You couldn't get it?
What does it signify
When it lands on you?
They will tell you you're a loser
They'll stone you in the street
Makes you kinda wonder
'bout the people you meet, yeah
There's a telegram they send ya
To tell you that you won
And that now your life is gonna
Suddenly be fun
It's a piece of empty paper
It's a piece of empty pie
It's a vision of illusion
It will surely pass you by
And I don't know what to tell ya
I haven't got a clue
I don't know why people
do the things that they do no
What does it take to getcha
As confused as me?
And how much information
Is gonna finally set you free?
What does it take to getcha
To admit it?
How much light
Shines on you?
How much light
Is gonna shine on you?
How much light
Shines on you? |
There are things that I forgot to say
As you rushed out of the door
And they're all coming back
To haunt me like before
There are things I wish
I would have said
Before I lost you from my life
As my thoughts are coming back
They cut me like a knife
I can't deal with it
I can't bear to feel this way
I can't deal with it,
I can 't fill these empty days
I can't deal with it
I can't bear to feel this way
I can't deal with it
I can't fill these empty days
Oh, I wish I could have told you
The words to make you stay
'Cause it will take a million years
To fill these empty days
These empty days
These empty days
These empty days |
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There are places I remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends
I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all
But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
And I know I'll never ever
lose affection
For people and things
that went before
And I know I'll often stop
and think about them
In my life
I've loved you more
In my life
I've loved you more |
Bag lady's complainin
To the cop on the beat
She says she's got nowhere to go
She got nothin' to eat
Cop says, "Lady, have you
considered a life of crime? You know you can eat real good when you're
doin' time"
And she has got no galleria
She's got no mall
All she's got is the street to lean on
And the gutter when she falls
Do you see them gang bangers?
They gonna have a fight
They gonna knock somebody's teeth out
Maybe put out somebody's lights
We're gonna have to bust them
Put 'em all away in jail
You know, it's the nineteenth time this month
Ain't gonna be no bail
And they got no galleria
They got no mall
All they got is the street to lean on
And the gutter when they fall
Fat lady with the wig on
She's down here buyin' antiques
She says, "Can't you control these kids?
They're actin' like a bunch of freaks."
And the kids are givin' her the finger
They re talkin 'bout takin' her purse
The street keeps gettin' hotter
The traffic keeps gettin' worse
And they got no galleria
They got no mall
All they got is the street to lean on
And the gutter when they fall
Do you see that politician?
Don't he look sincere
You know he will promise you anything
As long as he's down here
He's gonna go home to the valley
To his house and lawn
And we will still be here
When he is gone
And we got no galleria
We got no mall
All we got is the street to lean on
And the gutter when we fall
All we got is the street to lean on
And the gutter. |
Have you been watchin' the bad boyz
Hangin' around the schoolyard?
Has anyone tried to figure out
How it is they got so
Bitter and hard
Does anyone have the faintest idea
How we gonna explain life to them
So far
They can't hang out on the street
They can't hang out with the boyz
Unless they're packin' heat
And ready to make some noise
Like the bad boyz
Have you been watchin' the hatred
Growing every day
Have you been watchin' the races
On each other's case
And all suspicious?
Somebody's always
In your face
It's almost like bein' raped
You're so defenceless
Can't hang out on the street
Can't hang out with the boyz
Unless you're packin' heat
Ready to make some noise
Like the bad boyz
Hope you get there in time
Lose 'em all down the line
Way down yonder on the plantation
Today it's called the 'hood and everyone's restless
They feel deserted and abandoned
They do the best they can
But life is ruthless
If ya never did care about your neighbor
Cuz their frightening behavior
Get through to ya
Don't ya see they can't hang out on the street
They can't hang out with the boyz
Unless they're packin' heat
Ready to make some noise
They're the bad boyz
Don't ya see they can't hang out on the street
They can't hang out with the boyz
Unless they're packin' heat
Ready to make some noise
They're the bad boyz |
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After the clouds disappear
After the rainbow has gone
I'm left with a song in my ear
The melody is lingering on
How come I have to explain
Music is worth all the pain
After the rain washes down
After all the fog burns away
Will I see the sun coming 'round?
Closer and closer each day
How come I have to explain
People are worth all the pain
I just want to see the love in your eyes
After the storm has passed you and gone
When you're dreaming of how it can be
It doesn't work to pretend
Let me tell you what happened to me
Just to get to the end
I needed a friend
After the rainbow had gone
It's so sad, losing a friend
But the memories are lingering on
How come I have to explain
Children are worth all the pain
I just want to see the love in your eyes
After the storm has passed you and gone
I just want to see the love in your eyes
After the storm has passed you and gone
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Have you seen Panama
Where I first fell in love
It will forever be
An emerald necklace
Set between the seas
Beside a crystal stream
In the mountains of Chiriqui
I saw a girl astride a horse
She waved at me
I was fifteen
I was not a child
I was not yet a man
I was trying very hard
To understand
Indifferent to the dangers of
Living in a foreign land
Was I falling in love or
Under the spell Of Panama?
Went riding off alone
Much further than I should have gone
I wandered deep into the dark
Now which way gets me home
Then suddenly there she was
All covered with leaves and dust
I couldn't believe It but she followed me
Now both of us were lost
I was not a child
I was not yet a man
I was trying very hard
To understand
Indifferent to the dangers of
Living in a foreign land
Was I falling in love or
Under the spell Of Panama?
The clouds began to rumble
We found a dry piece of jungle
I don't remember If It rained
But I remember making love
So clearly I recall
The magic of Panama
And surely never will it let me go
Yo Soy Panameno
I was not a child
I was not yet a man
I was trying very hard
To understand
Indifferent to the dangers of
Living in a foreign land
Was I falling in love or
Under the spell Of Panama? |
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