Alice Smith

The time has come
For me to start packing in
I'm folding the shores of my life
Into valises
I can't stand
This desert heat no more
I'm going away
I'm going away

I waited too long
To catch your signal
I counted the numbers, the letters, the days
Something tells me you're
You're not coming
I've got to go away
I'm going away

Now I'm writing you a letter
And I'm making it long
Now I'm breathing and I'm bleeding
And the pages are torn
Now I'm writing you to tell you
I may go missing and lost
The sand covers my face
The sand covers my face (covers my face)
The sand covers my face (covers my face)
(covers my face)

My mama said
"Life is for living
If you ain't happy, honey
Go out and reinvent yourself"
The desert is good
The desert is dark
I've got to go away
Said I'm going away

Now I'm writing you a letter
And I'm making it long
Now I'm breathing and I'm bleeding
And the pages are torn
Yeah, I'm writing you to tell you
I may go missing and lost
The sand covers my face
The sand covers my face (covers my face)
The sand covers my face (covers my face)
The sand

I must express the way it feels to ride all day
without a care, conversation and a coffee
I wanna talk about the good things in my life
I wanna try to be alright
I can care about the way love makes me feel
I can care about the good things that are real
I don't wanna have to think about the ways that I'm so bad
I don't wanna have to think about the things that make me sad
Do I
Do I
there are things that make me smile every day
the jokes we play, the funny things we say
there is nothing like the joy they can see in my eyes
when i think about the man in my life
I can care about the way he makes me feel
I can care because his love makes me feel real
I don't wanna have to think about the ways that we'll be bad
I don't wanna think about the days that we'll be sad
Do I
Do I
Do I

(Well I don't wanna have to think about it)

When I wake up in the morning time
I like to see you sleeping by my side
I think about the nights we had before
Wanna give you this and more
Let you know I truly adore you

Being with you, loving you this way is so sweet
The way you kiss me, you're making my knees go weak
We could be forever happy, through rain or whatever
Never gonna take the fantasy away from you

I need to be everything you see in your dreams
It seems to me you'll never find another lover good as I, to give you all that you need
And I'll be there to love you each and every night and all through the day

There was a time that I didn't have you around
Back in them days my heart never made a sound
Now it's beating like my head's in the clouds
Never doubt that I'ma always be down to hang around you

You're making me feel so good inside
The way I feel when you love me makes me wanna cry
All these truffle of the things you do, make my love dream come true
Moving me to tell you that I love you

I need to be everything you see in your dreams
It seems to me you'll never find another lover good as I, to give you all that you need
And I'll be there to love you each and every night and all through the day

Full speed ahead, rock-n-roll is dead
The girls and boys from the mickey mouse club
Clocked it the head
T.V. makes people so tired
Bored as a bird on a wire
I check the pulse and I light a match
And then I set the tele on, I set the tele on fire

Tell me what's the deal
Tell me what's the deal
Cuz it really seems to me
Bona fide is a whole deal
Fake is the new real

Take a bite out of crime
Long as it's not on your dime
If honesty will put you in jail
You know that we're living in phony times
You say you wanna get turned on

You take a moment and kick yourself
And then you drop yourself, you drop yourself a bomb

Tell me what's the deal
Tell me what's the deal
Cuz it really seems to me
Bona fide is a whole deal
Fake is the new real

When I walk down the streets at night
All the brothas they just stop and sigh
They say hey baby what you doing tonight
Why don't you get down in my car and ride

We can go to the movie show
We can do anything you want
Anything but don't you pass me by
Maybe I'll stop maybe it's worth a try

But if we start the ball to rolling
Will it stop or keep going to the point
I don't know when I'm gon stop

I said ain't another lady quite like me
Why don't you try why don't you taste and see
We ain't gotta tell another soul
Maybe it's better if nobody knows

Like the boys in the undercover
We can be each other's secret lover
Keep the secret between you and I
Maybe I'll stop maybe it's worth a try

But if we start the ball to rolling
Will it stop or keep going to the point
I don't know when I'm gon stop

You know that I feel love
You know that I'd give love every single day of my own design
The more that I try to the harder to get through every single day of my own design, of my own design just to make you my love in the end
It's what's on the inside that keeps me from outside every single day of my own design
It's not that I lose faith; but what if it's too late? Every single day just to make you mine and to keep you mine and I know we'll find love in the end
Love in the end
So I'm lost and accept it
Is it something my heart did? Every single day just to make you mine and to keep you mine, I know we will find love in the end

He's got the smile, swimming grace across his face
And it's been a while since I saw him last, he left so fast
And I'd like to try to share a kiss or two with you
And I'd love to touch you , so many things that we can do

So if you do feel the way that I feel about you
Come on and share this crush with me
Oh Baby, this love endeavor don't have to last forever
Come on and share whatever you want with me

He came when I wanted one to call all mine
And to my eye, he's one of such a lovely kind
I could spend my time trying to sort out your feelings
But it's not my style anymore so tell me darling

Do you feel the way that I feel about you
Come on and share this crush with me
Oh Baby, this love endeavor don't have to last forever
Come on and share whatever you want with me

Don't want to mislead you, let me tell you
Don't wanna take you over, just come over
Tell me or just show me that you want me
Love me if it's only for a week

There's no time to waste for you and I
No time for fruitless lies
The sun goes by, so does the chance to try
Say yes or say good-bye

So if you do feel the way that I feel about you
Come on and share this crush with me
Oh Baby this love endeavor don't have to last forever
Come on and share whatever you want with me

Would love to touch you, kiss you, and caress you
Come on and share this rush with me
Oh Baby, this love endeavor don't have to last forever
Come on and share whatever you want with me

La la la?

Well it struck me just this morning,
I haven't got a single thing to do.
And you know that got me thinking,
Even though I never thank it through.
Uh huh, make it real.
Uh huh.

Gimme some new religion,
Something that I can feel.
Gimme some new tomorrow,
Bring it on and make it real.
I'm drowning in sweet forgiveness,
Come on baby turn my life, yeah.

Well the times they are a changin',
So ring the bell and let the people know.
And I need a new direction,
To get me to the place I need to come.

Gimme some new religion,
Something that I can feel.
Gimme some new tomorrow,
Bring it on and make it real.
I'm drowning in sweet forgiveness,
Come on baby turn my life, yeah.

Maybe I'll go tomorrow,
Maybe I'll leave today.
The easiest pain to follow,
Is going out on my way.
Honey yeah, please forgive me,
Everything will be okay.

Gimme some new religion,
Something that I can feel.
Gimme some new tomorrow,
Bring it on and make it real.
I'm drowning in sweet forgiveness,
Come on baby and turn my life yeah.
Yeah, yeah

The morning after the only laughter
Echoes from the night before
I'm feeling broken, words already spoken
Lay crumpled, and hurt on the floor

Except for those that I should not have said
Guarded secrets locked inside my head
Oh, what did I tell
Precious gems entrusted to me
Those were struggling to be free
Uncontrolled from my mouth they fell

Oh, secrets, some mine, some his, some hers, secrets

The truth's so easy, 'cause i'm so lazy
It comes so naturally
Oops, I told him just where you've been
Perhaps I should not have told him

Please in future don't burden me
With your lies and your secrecy
I deal with my own
Because from my mouth they fell
I have trouble keeping things on the DL
When they're not seeds that I've sown

Oh, secrets, some mine, some his, some hers, secrets
Oh, secrets, some mine, some his, some hers

Thought I'd keep it underneath my hat
But temptation won me over just like that
Thank you not for the extra guilt I got
When you said what you said
I'm just a child, wild and free
I need the time to take care of me
Take the time to care for number one so

Please in future don't burden me
With your lies and your secrecy
I deal with my own
Because from my mouth they fell
I have trouble keeping things on the DL
When they're the seeds that I've sown

Oh, secrets, some mine, some his, some hers, secrets
Oh, secrets, some mine, some his, some hers

I woke up in NYC
With a bunch of anxiety
Rent's due in a couple of weeks
Yo, I had this really fucked up dream and
I just let it slip away
Thinking about all the bills I got to pay
I think I'll hock my trinity
And buy it back on a better day

Spent ten days in Woodstock taking it easy
So would you please excuse me
'Cause I'm feeling quite sad and I'm happy again
Because I spent ten days in Woodstock taking it easy
Feeling mellow like a cello
Go ahead part the seas and say hello to the fishes for me

Wow, man, what a sunny day
I can't wait to get out and play
Walk down those city streets
Laughing at all those city creeps and
I got a lot to organ-iz-ize
Got a lot of thinking to do
Another day the sun'll be out
Another day the sky will be blue

Spent ten days in Woodstock taking it easy
So would you please excuse me
'Cause I'm feeling quite sad and I'm happy again
Because I spent ten days in Woodstock taking it easy
Feeling mellow like a cello
Go ahead part the seas and say hello to the fishes for me

All the crazy fish say'

Spent ten days in Woodstock taking it easy
So would you please excuse me
'Cause I'm feeling quite sad and I'm happy again
Because I spent ten days in Woodstock taking it easy
Feeling mellow like a cello
Go ahead part the seas and say hello to the fishes
Spent ten days in Woodstock taking it easy
Would you please excuse me
'Cause I'm feeling quite sad and I'm happy again
Because I spent ten days in Woodstock taking it easy
I'm feeling mellow like a cello
Go ahead part the seas and say hello to the fishes for me