Mike Botts

I wanted love so very bad that
I could almost tasted it
And so I gave mine all to you
and hoped you would not wast it
I laid awake the whole night long
and wondered was I wrong
But when you woke and touched my face
I knew that I belonged

Belonging to someone I find is very necessary
The load is lighter on your mind
when someone helps to carry
And even though I'm strong enough
to make it on my own
I would not even care to try
to live my life alone


For if I lived my life alone
with no one to belong to
There'd be no one to pledge my heart
or sing my song of love to
My melodies would soon dry up
and the words would leave me too
It all would come to pass if I
could not belong to you

I wanted love so very bad that
I could almost taste it
And when I gave mine all to you
I knew you would not wast it

Everyone's thinkin' when he comes home
He'll be takin' you back from me
But nobody knows just how deep our love goes
And he'll never take you from me

Now I know that you never meant to cheat
And I never meant to steal
But you only forget when there's better yet
And I know that's how we both feel

It's a change of heart
Look out for some rain
When you change your heart
One man's loss is another man's gain

Everyone's sayin' when he comes home


He'll loosen my hold on you
But they just don't know that you're free to go
And love's my only hold over you

And I knew the night that your tears were fallin'
What you were goin' through
You knew it'd be hell but you had to tell him
Now it would be me and you

It's a change of heart
Worked out for the best
When you change your heart
Save yourself and forget all the rest

Now is the day
We're on our way
Leave all your cares behind
Set your spirit free
Just say goodbye
Take to the sky
We'll see what we can find
Come away with me

We can fly
Fly away
We will fly
Lookin' for a dream

See the stars above
And the earth below us spinning
Come with me my love
And we'll find
A new beginning

We can fly
(we will rise up and fly away)
Fly away


(spread your wings and we'll fly away)
We will fly
(we will rise up and fly away)
Lookin' for a dream

Stay by my side
And we will ride
Our silver charriot
To the promisand land
Don't be afraid
We'll have it made
With all the love we got
Take me by the hand

We can fly
(we will rise up and fly away)
Fly away
(spread our wings and we'll fly away)
We will fly
(we will rise up and fly away)
Lookin' for a dream
Lookin' for a dream
Lookin' for a dream

Hold tight
I wanna dance with you this whole night
I hope the music never slows up
I hope this place don't never close up

Hold tight
'cause you're the only one who feels right
Girl I know it's now or never
I wanna dance with you forever

So hold on tight - never let me go, baby
'cause I can feel the rhythm of your love
And when you get yourself in motion
Girl it's tearin' my emotions right in two


Hold tight
And we will dance into the moonlight
All the stars they will surround us
We will be so glad we found us

So hold on tight - never let me go, baby
'cause I can feel the rhythm of your love
And when you get yourself in motion
I get lovin' notions all for you - yes I do

Hold tight
And we will dance into the moonlight
I hope the music never slows up
I hope tomorrow never shows up

Baby if you only knew
Everything I need I get from you
I'll never let you out of sight
I need you through the day and night, baby
Always there to see me through
Darlin' don't you know I'm hooked on you

Habits I've had before
But never came back so much for more
I need your lovin' every day
I couldn't live without it, no way
And everybody knows it's true
Everybody knows I'm hooked on you

Well I've never been dependin'
And never thought I would
Oh but now I find that I don't mind,
The change is for the good
So don't be feelin' sorry,
For the freedom that I lost
'cause I found out what I'm missin',
And I'm glad to pay the cost

Now that I've tasted you
I know nobody else will ever do
I'm glad that I can say you're mine
I love ya 'cause your sugar's so fine
And no one else'll ever do
There's nothin' like bein' hooked on you

Always there to see me through
Baby that's why I'm hooked on you

Put your cards on the table
Gotta lay your money down
Show your heart if you're able
Gotta lay your money down

I've waited long enough
This time I'm gonna call your bluff
And see what you got
And what you been keepin' from me

Girl if you really mean it
Put your lovin' on the line
'cause if I've never seen it
How 'm I gonna know it's mine



Baby I'm through...
With nothin' but talk from you
Gotta lay your money down

All these moves you been makin'
Like a game of keep away
I've had all I'm a-takin'
It's catchin' up to you today

'cause baby I'm through...
With nothin' but talk from you
Gotta lay your money down

Lost all alone
I always thought that I could make it on my own
Since you left I hardly make it through the day
My tears get in the way
And I need you back to stay..
I wander through the night
And search the world to find
The words to make it right
All I want is just the way it used to be
With you here close to me
I`ve got to make you see...
That I`m lost without your love
Life without you isn`t worth the trouble of
I`m as helpless as a ship without a wheel
And touch without feel
I can`t believe it`s real
And somebody soon I`ll wake
And find my heart won`t have to break ...
I wander through the night
And search the world to find
The words to make it right
All I want is just the way it used to be
With you here close to me
I`ve got to make you see
That I`m lost without your love
Life without you isn`t worth the trouble of
I`m as helpless as a ship without a wheel
And touch without feel
I can`t believe it`s real
And somebody soon I`ll wake
And find my heart won`t have to break
* * instrumental break * *
Yes, I`m lost wihout your love
Life without you isn`t wotth the trouble of
All I want is just the way is used to be
I need you here with me
Oh, darlin` can`t you see...
If we had love before
We can have it back once more ..

She's fallen from grace
Somewhere in space
The twilight has come and there is no tomorrow
And night after day
She's driftin' away
And time is run out for our lady of sorrow

Lady don't you cry
This time you'll stay high

Lately when I've seen her
She would smile as if to say
That the worst was over
And there'd soon be brighter days
But I'm wonderin', I'm wonderin'


She goes to the door
And ask just once more
She gives everything she could beg, steal or borrow
And each time is her last
But time moves too fast
And time has run out for our lady of sorrow

Lady don't you frown
This time you won't come down

Just today I watched them as
They carried her away
And I can only hope that she
Has found a brighter day
But I'm wonderin', I'm wonderin'
Had there been someone near to care what then?

She's a butterfly
But she flies too high
She won't speak the truth
She don't make excuses
She don't seem to care
But you want her anywhere
'Cause she's the only one

She don't make the scene
But that don't change a thing
You just plan and scheme
You insist on dreamin'
She won't play your game
But it's all the same
Now she's the only one

She knows too well that she's the only one
She doesn't care if you're the lonely one
You want to say it's over, but it's just begun
She's the only one

She knows too well that she's the only one
She doesn't care if you're the lonely one
It's not the way you planned it
But she's really got you on the run
Your one and only one

Empty nights - endless days
Sometimes love turns out that way
Yes I know - it went too fast
But you can't keep livin' your life in the past
Today's the first day of the rest of your life
It's up to you to make the best of your life
Open your eyes it's another day
She was there - she was gone
You don't know how you'll get along
I've been there - and I recall
Better that than never to have loved at all
Today's the first day of the rest of your life
You've got to go and make the best of your life
For every night there's another day
Yes you say you've been in love before
You've been around and you know the score
But when the tears fill your eyes
Then sometimes they can blind you
So my friend - you must know
Love will come - and love may go
But when it does don't despair
Every space has someone just meant to be there
Today's the first day of the rest of your life
I know you're gonna make the best of your life
Today's the first day of the rest of your life
Lift up your eyes, it's the rest of your life

Baby, I'm-a want you
Baby, I'm-a need you
You the only one I care enough to hurt about
Maybe I'm-a crazy
But I just can't live without...

Your lovin' and affection
Givin' me direction
Like a guiding light to help me through a darkest hour
Lately I'm a-prayin'
That you'll always be a-stayin' beside me

Used to be my life was just emotions passing by
Feeling all the while and never really knowing why...

Lately I'm a-prayin'
That you'll always be a-stayin' beside me.

Used to be my life was just emotions passing by
Then you came along and made me laugh
And made me cry...
You taught me why...

Baby, I'm-a want you
Baby, I'm-a need you

Oh, it took so long to find you, baby

Baby, I'm-a want you
Baby, I'm-a need you

Baby I'm-A Want You
Baby, I'm-a want you
Baby, I'm-a need you
You the only one I care enough to hurt about
Maybe I'm-a crazy
But I just can't live without...

Your lovin' and affection
Givin' me direction
Like a guiding light to help me through a darkest hour
Lately I'm a-prayin'
That you'll always be a-stayin' beside me

Used to be my life was just emotions passing by
Feeling all the while and never really knowing why...

Lately I'm a-prayin'
That you'll always be a-stayin' beside me.

Used to be my life was just emotions passing by
Then you came along and made me laugh
And made me cry...
You taught me why...

Baby, I'm-a want you
Baby, I'm-a need you

Oh, it took so long to find you, baby

Baby, I'm-a want you
Baby, I'm-a need you

Daughter - don't give your love to the first man you see.
Just bide your time so your heart will be free to find the one,
Girl you don't have to run.

Daughter - don't think that love has gone out of style,
Just some folks every once in a while don't understand
How this world was planned.

Now I know you're wondering how
You know when the real thing is comin' your way,
When you live for him and not you
You'll know that it's truly comin' to stay.

Daughter - I know it's hard to make yourself wait,
But when the right man comes it's never too late
So don't you cry ,
He'll be here by and by... and steal your heart away.

Daughter - don't give your love to the first man you see.
Just bide your time so your heart will be free to find the one,
Girl you don't have to run.

Daughter - don't think that love has gone out of style,
Just some folks every once in a while don't understand
How this world was planned.

Now I know you're wondering how
You know when the real thing is comin' your way,
When you live for him and not you
You'll know that it's truly comin' to stay.

Daughter - I know it's hard to make yourself wait,
But when the right man comes it's never too late
So don't you cry ,
He'll be here by and by... and steal your heart away.

I found her diary underneath a tree.
and started reading about me
The words she's written took me by surpise
you'd never read them in her eyes.
They said that she had found the love she waited for.
Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.

When she confronted with the writing there,
simply pretended not to care.
I passed it off as just in keeping with
her total disconcerting air
and though she tried to hide
the love that she denied,
wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.

And as I go through my life, I will give to her my wife
all the sweet things that I can find.

I found her diary underneath a tree.
and started reading about me.
The words began stick and tears to flow.
Her meaning now was clear to see.
The love she'd waited for was someone else not me
Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.

and as I go through my life, I will wish for her his wife
all the sweet things that she can find
all the sweet things they can find

I found her diary
underneath a tree.
and started reading about me
The words she's written
took me by surpise,
you'd never read them
in her eyes.
They said that she had found
the love she waited for.
Wouldn't you know it,
she wouldn't show it.

When she confronted
with the writing there,
simply pretended not to care.
I passed it off
as just in keeping with
her total disconcerting air
and though she tried to hide
the love that she denied,
wouldn't you know it,
she wouldn't show it.

And as I go through my life,
I will give to her my wife,
all the sweet things
that I can find.

후렴 반복

and as I go through my life,
I will wish for her his wife
all the sweet things
that she can find
all the sweet things
they can find

I told you before, don't you hear what I say?
I won't take it no more, no more makin' me stay
Down on my knees, you know I'm down on my knees, yeah
Yes, I've been down on my knees
But I'm through beggin' please
I won't get back on my knees

Nobody knows what your puttin me through
Nobody knows if it's worth it for you
Nobody sees, you got me down on my knees
Well I've been down on my knees
And I'm through beggin' please
Don't put me back on my knees

You know how I always loved you
Never placed myself above you

Don't let me go, if I wish that I could
Don't tell me no, if I wish that you would
Down on my knees, you know I'm down on my knees
Well I've been down on my knees
But I'm through beggin' please
Don't put me back on my knees

I told you before - don't you hear what i say
I won't take it no more - no more makin' me stay
Down on my knees - you know i'm down on my knees yeh
Yes i've been down on my knees
But i'm through beggin' please
I won't get back on my knees.
Nobody knows - what your puttin me through
Nobody knows - if it's worth it for you
Nobody sees - you got me down on my knees
Well i've been down on my knees
And i'm through beggin' please
Don't put me back on my knees.
You know how i always loved you
Never placed myself above you,
Don't let me go - if i wish that i could
Don't tell me no - if i wish that you would
Down on my knees - you know i'm down on my knees
Well i've been down on my knees
But i'm through beggin' please
Don't put me back on my knees.

I see her walking in the velvet moonlight
But then she hides behind the clock of midnight
And as I look to see her face
She disappears without a trace...

Sometimes I find myself in endless wandering
When I awaken in the misty morning
And I must look to find my way
As I await the end of day.
Dream Lady... Dream Lady...

And I await the end of day
Till nighttime comes again to stay
Dream lady... Dream Lady... Dream Lady...

I see her walking in the velvet moonlight
But then she hides behind the clock of midnight
And as I look to see her face
She disappears without a trace

Sometimes I find myself in endless wandering
When I awaken in the misty morning
And I must look to find my way
As I await the end of day
Dream Lady, Dream Lady

And I await the end of day
till nighttime comes again to stay
Dream lady...
Dream Lady...
Dream Lady

You sheltered me from harm
Kept me warm, Kept me warm
You gave my life to me
Set me free, Set me free
The finest years I ever knew,
We're all the years I had with you

And I will give everything I own,
I'll give my life, my heart, my home
I will give everything I own
Just to have you back again.

You taught me how to love,
What its all, all above
You never said too much
But still you showed the way
In my new, I'm watching you
Nobody else will ever know
The part of me that can't let go

I will give anything I own
I'll give up my life, my heart, my home
I will give everything I own
Just to have you back again

Is there someone you know
You're loving them so
But taking them all for-granted
You may lose them one day
Someone takes them away
And they don't hear the words you long to say

I would give anything I own,
I'll give up my life, my heart, my home,
I will give everthing I own
Just to have you back again
Just to touch you once again

You sheltered me from harm
kep me warm kept me warm
you gave my life to me

Set me free set me free
the finest years I ever knew
were all the years I had with you
I would give anything I own
give up my life my heart my home
I would give everything I won

Just to have you back again
you taught me how to love
what it's of what it's of
you never said too much but still you showed the way
and I knew from watching you
nobody else could never know

The part of me that can't let go
I would give anything I own
give me life my heart my home
I would give everhing I own
just to have you back again

Is there someone you know
you're loving them so
but taking them all for granted
you may lose them one day
someone takes them away
and they don't hear the words you longed to say

I would give anyting I own
give me my life my heart my home
I would give everything I own
just to have you back again
just to touch you once again

First time it's rained since I came to the city
Seemed like a good time to write
And even now as I look out my window
Rain clouds are chasing the light

The play games of magic in the night...

Lately I've stayed with the lady from Denver
She said to come by for awhile
Took me on down to her place by the river
Carried me off on her smile

We play games of magic all the while...

I hope this letter finds you well
I wrote to tell you 'bout my change of plans
I won't be home tomorrow night
I'll be alright I hope you'll understand

All of my life I've been looking for somethin'
But I guess you know me by now
Searching for secrets and being the eternal child
Playing games of magic all the while.

First time it's rained since I came to the city
Seemed like a good time to write
And even now as I look out my window
Rain clouds are chasing the light

The play games of magic in the night...

Lately I've stayed with the lady from Denver
She said to come by for awhile
Took me on down to her place by the river
Carried me off on her smile

We play games of magic all the while...

I hope this letter finds you well
I wrote to tell you 'bout my change of plans
I won't be home tomorrow night
I'll be alright I hope you'll understand

All of my life I've been looking for somethin'
But I guess you know me by now
Searching for secrets and being the eternal child
Playing games of magic all the while.

I don't love you
I just want you
If I don't have you never be the same
I don't love you, but girl you'd drive a man
Insane

I don't love you
But I need you
I don't even want to know your name
Every single minute you know is causing me
Great pain
I don't come from 'cross the RR tracks
I don't need no little body hangin' off my back
If you got plans for me
You'd better start singin' the blues.

I don't love you
I just want you
If I don't have you never be the same
I don't love you, but girl you'd drive a man
Insane

I don't love you
But I need you
I don't even want to know your name
Every single minute you know is causing me
Great pain
I don't come from 'cross the RR tracks
I don't need no little body hangin' off my back
If you got plans for me
You'd better start singin' the blues.

Just like yesterday
You come upon my mind and take it away...
Just like at the time
The things we did made our hearts skip away
Down on my knees I prayed
Kind woman don't go astray
When it seems at times
I've got my mind and heart all straight away...
Just when you've become
A mem'ry of the past and fade away
I see your face and think of all
Of all that we had
With of the things that you brought me
Now was it so bad
... Makes me wonder...
Just like yesterday
You come upon my mind and take it away.

Just like yesterday
You come upon my mind and take it away
And just like at the time
The things we did made our hearts skip away

Down on my knees I prayed
Kind woman don't go astray

When it seems at times
I've got my mind and heart all straight away
And just when you've become
A mem'ry of the past and fade away

I see your face and think of all
Of all that we had
With of the things that you brought me
Now was it so bad
Makes me wonder

Just like yesterday
You come upon my mind and take it away

Freedom - keep walkin'
Keep on your toesand don't stop talkin' 'bout
Freedom - get goin'
Lots to be learned and lots to be knowin' 'bout
People - gotta reach 'em
Sit 'em right down and then you gotta teach 'em 'bout
Freedom - gotta win it
Gotta put yourself smack dab in it

Hey tomorrow
Now don't you go away
'Cause freedom
Just might come your way

Freedom - keep tryin'
People stay alive and people keep dyin' for
Freedom - so don't lose it
Ya gotta understand ya just can't abuse it
Freedom - get movin'
Never gonna stop till everybody's groovin' on
Love for - one another
Callin' some friend and callin' some brother

Hey tomorrow
You're not so far away
Mother freedom
we'll know you well someday

Freedom - keep walkin'
Keep on your toesand don't stop talkin' 'bout
Freedom - get goin'
Lots to be learned and lots to be knowin' 'bout
People - gotta reach 'em
Sit 'em right down and then you gotta teach 'em 'bout
Freedom - gotta win it
Gotta put yourself smack dab in it

Hey tomorrow
Now don't you go away
'Cause freedom
Just might come your way

Freedom - keep tryin'
People stay alive and people keep dyin' for
Freedom - so don't lose it
Ya gotta understand ya just can't abuse it
Freedom - get movin'
Never gonna stop till everybody's groovin' on
Love for - one another
Callin' some friend and callin' some brother

Hey tomorrow
You're not so far away
Mother freedom
we'll know you well someday

You know that lately people ask what I'm
Doin' sittin' home alone all by myself
They know I'm used to bein' out and about and they
Don't know just what's become of myself
They say the swinger can't swing it no more
But they don't know what I'm hidin' behind my door
Because you know I know I've never known nobody
Nobody like you... Nobody to do what you do
And when you're leavin' poor me all alone
You got me sittin' here sufferin' by my telephone
I been left... I been right
And when I'm wrong I know you're gonna make me
See the light
Because you know I know I've never known nobody
Nobody like you... Nobody like you.
White other people dancin' romancin' and chancin'
Their lives every saturday night
Watchin' TV drinkin' tea her and me
And maybe even have us a fight
'Cause an argument can be outta sight
When you love to argue and you know how to fight
I don't care about soul
I don't even care about no rock and roll
You know I don't care about nothin'
Nobody... Nobody but you.

You know that lately people ask what I'm
Doin' sittin' home alone all by myself
They know I'm used to bein' out and about and they
Don't know just what's become of myself
They say the swinger can't swing it no more
But they don't know what I'm hidin' behind my door
Because you know I know I've never known nobody
Nobody like you... Nobody to do what you do
And when you're leavin' poor me all alone
You got me sittin' here sufferin' by my telephone
I been left... I been right
And when I'm wrong I know you're gonna make me
See the light
Because you know I know I've never known nobody
Nobody like you... Nobody like you.
White other people dancin' romancin' and chancin'
Their lives every saturday night
Watchin' TV drinkin' tea her and me
And maybe even have us a fight
'Cause an argument can be outta sight
When you love to argue and you know how to fight
I don't care about soul
I don't even care about no rock and roll
You know I don't care about nothin'
Nobody... Nobody but you.

Sure gets funny thinkin' 'bout money
Makin' my daily bread,
The more you make, the more they take
You never seem to get ahead,
You break your backs just to pay your tax
Then you don't like the way that it's spent,
Somewhere back we jumped the track
This isn't what the governmeant...

Bet my now I've made a hundred thou
But I ain't saved a dime,
The IRS came out best
They got my money every time,

It caØn't be fair when the millionaire
Never has to give them a cent,
Sad to say we've lost the way
This isn't what the governmeant ...

Then the war , don't know what for
Somebody said it had to be fought,
I'se sposed to go but I said no
'Cause I'se afraid I might get shot,
but here I am on my hands and knees
scrubbin' in my dungarees
I got burned but I finally learned
This isn't what the governmeant

Sure gets funny thinkin' 'bout money
Makin' my daily bread,
The more you make, the more they take
You never seem to get ahead,
You break your backs just to pay your tax
Then you don't like the way that it's spent,
Somewhere back we jumped the track
This isn't what the governmeant...

Bet my now I've made a hundred thou
But I ain't saved a dime,
The IRS came out best
They got my money every time,

It cain't be fair when the millionaire
Never has to give them a cent,
Sad to say we've lost the way
This isn't what the governmeant ...

Then the war , don't know what for
Somebody said it had to be fought,
I'se sposed to go but I said no
'Cause I'se afraid I might get shot,
but here I am on my hands and knees
scrubbin' in my dungarees
I got burned but I finally learned
This isn't what the governmeant

And aubrey
was her name
A not so very
ordinary
Girl or name
but who's to blame
For a love
that wouldn'tbloom
For the hearts that
never played in tune
Like a lovely melody
that everyone can sing
Take away the words
that rhyme it
Doesn't mean athing

and aubrey
Was her name
we tripped the light
And danced together
to the moon
But
where was june
No it never
came around
If it did it never
made asound
Maybe I was absent or
was listening to fast
Catching
all the words
But then themeaning
going past

But god
I miss the girl
And I'd go
a thousand times
Around the world
just to be
Closer to her
than to me

And aubrey
was her name
I never knew her
but I loved her
Just the same
I loved her name
Wish that I
had found the way
And the reasons that
would make her stay
I have learned
to lead alife
Apart from
all the rest
I can't
have the one
I want I 'll do
without the best

But how
I miss the girl
And I'd go
a million times
Around the world
just to say
She had been mine
for a day-

Should've kept on goin'
But the hurt was showing when she looked at me that way
I had to stay
I knew I had to get to know her name

The town was weary
She was to marry someone planned years ago
Her eyes said no
I knew I had to get to know her name

And when I got her all alone
She told me through the tears
That she didn't really love him
But he'd waited for so many years

She said she couldn't break his heart
She'd rather live with hers
And though I told her she should leave with me
She just could not believe with me

Should've kept on goin'
Better that than knowin' that he made her his wife
He took her life
You know I didn't even know her name
You know I didn't even know her name

Everytime I look into you it tears me up inside
Got a hunger for ya, woman, that just can't be denied
Don't tell me no, ain't my kind of answer
Don't tell me no, won't accept that answer

Makin' lots of money, honey, ain't what I call success
And I won't have what I need until you tell me yes
Don't tell me no - ain't my kind of answer
Don't tell me no - ain't no kind of answer

That's how much I want you
Like a good brew, like a fine wine
You improve with time and I want you, I love you
That's how much I need ya
You're a part of me, my philosophy, my reality
And I want you, that's how much I love you

Realize alibis ain't too wise
And they just won't cut this time
You're gonna give this boy a chance
'Cause he's apt to blow your mind
Don't tell me no, ain't my kind of answer
Don't tell me no, won't accept that answer

Watchin' you move across the floor
You're fire up my mind, can't take it no more
You're a fancy dancer
Makin' me blind so I can't see
You're a fancy dancer
And you ain't no good for me
You know you're comin' on strong
You're my favorite misery

You captured my soul, imprisoned my heart
You know you control whatever you start
You're fancy dancer
And it ain't too hard to see
You're fancy dancer
And you'll make a fool of me
I know it won't be for long
Until you dance a new song
But just for tonight won't you dance your dance for me

I'm not the first and I won't be the last
Don't want your future, just make the night last
C'mon fancy dancer
Make me blind so I can't see
You're a fancy dancer
And you ain't no good for me
Yeah, we both knew from the start
You'd try to dance with my heart
But just for tonight won't you dance your dance for me

Who draws the crowd and plays so loud,
Baby it's the guitar man.
Who's gonna steal the show, you know
Baby it's the guitar man,

He can make you love, he can make you cry
He will bring you down, then he'll get you high
Somethin' keeps him goin', miles and miles a day
To find another place to play.

Night after night who treats you right,
Baby it's the guitar man
Who's on the radio, you go listen
To the guitar man

Then he comes to town, and you see his face,
And you think you might like to take his place
Somethin' keeps him driftin' miles and miles away
Searchin' for the songs to play.

Then you listen to the music and you like to sing along,
You want to get the meaning out of each and ev'ry song
Then you find yourself a message and some words to call your own
And take them home.

He can make you love, he can get you high
He will bring you down, then he'll make you cry
Somethin' keeps him movin', but no one seems to know
What it is that makes him go.

Then the lights begin to flicker and the sound is getting dim
The voice begins to falter and the crowds are getting thin
But he never seems to notice he's just got to find
Another place to play,
Anyway got to play, anyway Got to play

You know I've got to leave here
If I can pull myself up to the door
You see I've tried my best to stay here
But I can't see you anymore

There's something I've just gotta tell you
There's something keeps bringing me down, you know
There's one thing more I've just gotta ask you once again now, baby
Won't you please let me go?

If I'm to meet my master
If I'm to rule my fate
You know it couldn't come any faster, babe
But see I know it's not too late

Time has not been good for us
No time has not been kind
We've done all that we could for us
More time won't change my mind

And when my life is over
And I'm walking out in the rain
Let me lie down in the clover
And look up to the sun again

It's not that I did not love you
But something kept bringing me down, you know
There's something that I've just gotta tell you once again now, baby
Let me go,
let me go...
let me go,
let me go...
let me go,
let me go...

You say you're down and out
And need some help to get you through each day
Well, here's a thought or two
I've used and like to pass them on your way
I found them lying there
The answers that you say you're looking for
Make what you will of them
And you can change the way it was before

You got to make it by yourself
You know you got to make it by yourself
I'll be your friend and I'll lend a helping hand
But you got to try and help yourself before I can

I hear you talk of all the happiness
And emptiness you've known
Well, let me reassure you
Never were you really all alone
They say in quiet desperation many people cannot see
They cannot see the simple truth
That's not the way it has to be

You got to find it for yourself
God helps the man who helps himself, amen
I am your friend and I'll lend a helping hand
But you gotta try and help yourself before I can

We got to help each other (each other)
You got to help your brother when you can
When you can


Now don't you think that I was preachin'
I'm just reachin' out for you
'Cause that's the only way
That I know how to get the message through
Then you in turn and got to learn and teach it
To somebody who
Who felt the happiness and emptiness the same as you

Used to be my pleasure
When I'd wake up in the morning
Just to open my eyes and see you
Just to find you were lying there
But mornings now they seem to be an everyday affair
I'm just a picture in the memory of your mind

All I ever wanted
Every dream that I've ever cherished
Was to share in a kind of magic
That only lovers ever share
All you ever offered me
Was the moment then and there
I'm just a picture in your mind

I used to want you, oh how badly did I want you
I could not stand the hunger
I used to stay awake at night and think of nothing but you
And when I would awake to find you lying there beside me
It made me so damn happy
I couldn't satisfy my craziness for you

Now the spell is broken
And my dreams they've all turned to ashes
But I still have a love for living
By loving you I've only just begun
Love is never easy when it's given just by one
I'm just a picture in your mind

I used to want you, oh how badly did I want you
I could not stand the hunger
I used to lie awake at night and think of nothing but you
And when I would awake to find you lying there beside me
It made me so damn happy, babe
I couldn't satisfy my craziness for you

Found a few more answers
And I'm ready for tomorrow
But I still have to stop and wonder
If I've learned anything from what we've done
Love is never easy when it's given just by one
I'm just a picture in your mind
Picture in your mind

Baby I'm through runnin' it's true
I'd be a fool to try to escape you
Maybe I'm beat but oh what a sweet surrender

You keep your rights, I'll take your nights
No one can lose when we turn the lights out
Tastin' defeat, lovin' that sweet surrender

I'm givin' up myself to you but I didn't really lose at all
I gave the only love I've known and it never hurt me to fall

Now that it's done, so glad you won
I know our lives have only begun now
No more retreat, only my sweet surrender

Voodoo woman made a doll of me
And ever since then I been in misery
She said I did her pretty little daughter bad
And ever since then she's been driving me mad

Let me go, let me go, Tecolote
Set me free, let me be, Tecolote

Drums keep beatin' in my head all night
Poltergeists knockin' on my left and right
Pain and a fever running 103
Just because her daughter wants to marry me

Rather die, rather die than get married
Let me go, tell her no, tell her no

(Solo)

You heard my story and you now know why
A strange old woman makes a grown man cry
And next time a pretty pretty turns your head
You better take a look at her mother instead

Let me go, let me go, Tecolote
Let me be, set me free, let me free

Welcome to the music - welcome to the Guitar man
Know you're gonna love it - gonna do the best we can
And to help us along - think we're gonna need us a band

Lately we been playin' - travelin' in the jets and cars
Smilin' at the people - lookin'at the rock and roll stars
I tell you Carnegie Hall's better than those honky tonk bars

Well if it's true what music can do
To soothe the savage beast like they say
Well just relax and lie on your backs
'Cause beastly is the way we play

Now we're through talkin' - gonna speak another day
Love to play it funky - love to hear the symphony
And to star us along - Larry's gonna play it in "C"
Don't touch that dial - won't you come and stay for awhile.

In this day and age where changes happen twice as fast,
Sometimes I get to wonderin' if anything will last.
People changin'partners like they change their underwear,
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but darlin' I still care.

And I'm yours for life.
Come and be my lifetime.
Come and take the love I have for only one.
Yes I'm yours for life.
Come and share my lifetime
Share the world until our day is done.

From the time that I first saw your face I loved you where you stood,
In you eyes a kindliness told me you were good.
If the world could share your heart there'd never be a war,
And darling if I tried and tried I could not love you more.

And I'm yours for life.
Come and be my lifetime.
Come and take the love I have for only one.
Yes I'm yours for life.
Come and share my lifetime
Share the world until our day is done.

Sometimes I pray that you will always be the way you always are,
Are to me.
'Cause if I lost you to the winds of change then I would cease to be.

And I'm yours for life.
Come and be my lifetime.
Come and take the love I have for only one.
Yes I'm yours for life.
Come and share my lifetime
Share the world until our day is done.

Be kind to me
Be kind to me
Be kind to me
Oh baby and I'll show you the way

Kindness is a virtue
Come on now babe
It won't hurt you to be
A victim of kindness
No more hesitations
We don't need no
Explanations this time
We'll leave them behind us

While you play the martyr
You know you just
make it harder for us
To love one another
So much indecision
That don't mean you
Got religion I think
You're gonna discover

Be kind to me

Hear - the knock at the door and you know who is there,
you tell yourself you don't care.
Try - you try to pretend you'll just send him away,
you know it won't end that way
Your heart doesn't stand a chance, your eyes let him know
And your pride doesn't means a thing - you lost it for him years ago;

Hear - the voice at the door and it makes you afraid,
afraid but you don't know how.
Try - you try to remind him the promise he made,
he doesn't remember now
The tears welling up inside, are drowning your dreams
And your chance for another chance, keep leaving with him so it seems

Time - the friend that would bring him around,
Is turning on you and it's bringing you down.

Love - you tell him you love him and want him to change,
he says that he'll really try,
Hear - how often you hear as he's closing the door.
And softly you say goodbye...
Come again
Come again

He's a good lad
A little bit shy so you'll try and have to understand
Such a good lad
And just for a while the guy'll need a helping hand
His word are hard to follow, but his heart has found a way
To show you the things that he never could say;

He's a good lad
A little bit wild but his style is really gentle and kind
He ain't so bad
Right to the end he's a friend, about the best you can find
And as you come to know him, and his needs are comin' through
You'll flash on the day I was talkin' to you.

And he needs somebody to love
Yes he needs somebody to be worthy of -
He's a good lad

And if you come to want him, like I know he wants you to
You'll see all the things I was sayin' are true

And he needs somebody to love
Yes he needs somebody to be worthy of -
He's a good lad.

I say again
You didn't hear me once again
So I'll have to say again

I knew you when
You didn't crawl behind your wall
Can you hear my voice at all
Must I have to say it again

I'm filling up the room with all the words I've said
Hoping that one or two will make it through
And get inside your head

I say again
You didn't hear me once again
So I'll have to say again

If a picture paints a thousand words
then why can't I paint you
The words will never show
the you i've come to know
If a face could launch a thousand ships
then where am I to go
There's no one home but you
you're all that's left me to
And when my love for life is running dry
you come and pour yourself on me

If a man could be two place at one time
I'd be with you
Tomorrow and today beside you all the way
If the world should stop revolving spining slowly down to die
I'd spend the end with you
and when the world was through
Then one by one the stars would all go out
Then you and I would simply fly away

There's a reason for the life that you live
And there's pleasin' that I know you can give
And I been crayin' the love you been sayin'
So baby won't you give it to me

You're tellin' me no - no - no
You don't want to let your love go
I'm tellin' you yes - yes - yes
You really oughta be gettin' some happiness

I made a motion and it's out on the floor
And it's a notion that I'd love to explore
'Cause I been tastin' the love you been wastin'
So baby won't you give it to me...

You're a lady
And I'm here in the palm of your hand
Such a lady
How much more do you think I can stand?

Take away the moment
That began the lonely night
Take it away
And you'll be back in my life
'Cause I need you back in my life
Take me back to the time
When I could live in your light
If that's the only way to live in your love
Take me back
If that's the way for me to live in your love
Take me back

If I must cling to someone
Then you must be the someone
On my own, on my way
Lookin' back to the day
Back to the day when I could live in your love
Take me back
I got to find a way to live in your love
Take me back

No one has heard
No one has seem her
Nobody else
Carin' but me
She was a child
She was a woman
When she was here - She was my lady

Never before
Was I dependin'
Then she came on
Filled in my life
She kept me on
My best behavior
She was my lord - She was my savior

She became my sanctuary
Some place I could lay me down
She would always help to carry
All the things that weigh me down

Nobody knew
How much I loved her
Not even her
Not even me
She was my queen
She was my lover
When she was here
There was no other

Take comfort where you find it
whatever gets you through
Take comfort don't be blind to it
You must do what's a right for you

Every one at times must run for cover
Don't you know you really can't be blamed
For in this you're just like any other
There's no need, no need to feel ashamed

Take comfort where you see it
Whatever makes it right
Take comfort when you need it
To help you through the night

By the way we live in our confusion
And the way that we misspend our youth
By the time we're stripped of our illusions
We may find illusions are the truth

Too much sorrow
Too much pain
Too many reasons
No to go back again
Leavin' without her
Is too much to bear
But when we're together
Too much nothin' to share
But too much love
I've never seen
Too much love
I don't know what it means

Not enough caring
Too many lies
Sooner or later
One too many goodbyes
I got no reason
For hangin' around
And all my possessions
Start to weighin' me down
But too much love
I've never known
Too much love
I need some of my own

Truckin' down the highway
Get outta my way
Always in a hurry
Always in between
That's where you can find me
Truckin' down the highway
Sittin' in the cab of
A ten ton machine

Gettin' pretty tired of stoppin'
In old run down cafes
Some day I'm gonna find me a woman
Rich enough to pay my way

Gonna make some inroads
Drivin' home a payload
Truckin' down the highway
Like you never seen

Gettin' pretty tired of lookin'
In truck stop cabarets
Some day I'm gonna find me a woman
Rich enough to pay my way

Then you're gonna find me
Truckin' down the highway
Sittin' in the back of
A long limousine

You could be the answer to my lonely dream
It's my only dream
Dream it every night
It's about a girl who makes the waters still
Takes my troubled mind
And makes it all seem right...

Oh what a change, what a change that would be
I can feel it comin' over me,
Maybe it's strange, strange to say
But I can't remember how
How it used to be.

You could be the answer or another dream
Just another dream
How will I know
I'm afraid to wake up now and face the day
Comes the light of day
She'll have to go or stay...

Oh what a change, what a change that would be
Just to wake and find you still here,
'Cause every time, time before
When I open up my eyes
You always disappear.

We could sit and hope that you'll be seen
We could talk about the world and in between,
And when the morning light was through
Then I could see if it was really you.

Always look so good on the outside
When you get to believin' it's true, then you know
that you're on your way
People tug on your shirt, say you're lucky
You've got ev'rything you want, but you don't
Yet you dare not say

Go downtown people runnin' around
They climb slowly draggin' you downtown,
Horns make a dent in your mind
Plush rooms make a blindin' your eye to see, blindin' me.
Light, lovely light,
Won't ya' shine in my window
Love, precious love won't ya' fill ev'ry room,
Been too long on the road.

Maybe cynics veins are my life blood
Maybe bitin' the hand that I feed so I'll try
Try to understand what it is that devours your freedom,
Makes you drop what you used to hold in your head.
All the things you planned

Go upstairs with a someone who says she cares,
Like the devil she does,
what comes ever into your mind
Then gone, leavin' you with the coldest room, oldest gloom.

Warm, won't you be,
Please be there in my winter.
Love, precious love won't ya' come full circle,
Been too long on the road

How can I do this to myself?
Have I taken leave of my senses?
What kind of changes make a man
want to tear down all his fences
Whoa, I'd like to know

Home, ever home,
How could I ever doubt you
Love, precious love, how could I live without you?
Been too long on the road.

I'd like to take you home girl, and make you mine.
I'd get you all alone girl, and take my time.

Think how you feel in your heart when you climb to the top of,
Of a big roller coaster ride.
You're gettin' high on desire worth waitin'
On the other side.

I'd like to treat you nice girl, and treat you mean.
I'd get you on your own girl, and fill your dreams.

Think how you feel in your heart when you get to the fall,
Of a big roller coaster ride.
That's how it is and the way that it would be
If you come with me.

Blue satin pillow,
Black satin silhou-


Ette on the window
Shade of the night.

Soft light a glowin'
Sweet night a goin'
Out like the candle's
Flickerin' light

You know by now it's your love that I'm after
And I don' want no alibi.
There's just no need to take no for an answer,
Yes is in your eyes.

(fading ...)
I'd like to take you home girl, and make you mine.
I'd get you all alone girl, and take my time.

I'd like to treat you nice girl, and treat you mean.

Call on, call on me.
When you can't find a feeling inside,
And You think that there's no place to hide,
You're gonna see call on me.

Call on, call on me.
When you find that you need to be found,
And you start to come looking around
You'll come to me call on me.

If you find that it's drivin' you sad,
Well, too bad that you ain't got no sense of direction.
If you think that I'm a-leading you on, well you're wrong,
And it's time that we made some connection, come on call on me.

If you find that it's drivin' you sad,
Well, too bad that you ain't got no sense of direction.
If you think that I'm a-leading you on, well you're wrong,
And it's time for a mid-course correction, come on call on me.
Won't you call; won't you call on me?

We're, we're comin' apart again
We're goin' back, back to the start again.
Don't, don't talk about right or wrong;
We closed our eyes, and our time was gone.

Time, time is life, and life is time.
I'm takin' yours, and you are takin' mine

Don't, don't take it too hard my friend,
Cause I, I take it to heart my friend.
There's, there's something in time again


That heals all of the pain that's been.

Time , time is life and one must choose;
You've taken more out of me than you'll ever hope to use.

Time n' time again, I've told you so.
You've taken more from me,
And it's time for me to go.

Easy love, she's just a part of the day.
Easy love, she comes to give it away.
Easy to find her; any line will bind her.
What was her name. easy to quit her
No, she won't be bitter; ali in the game


Easy love, she's got a present for you
Easy love, got nothin' better to do
Yesterday's lovers slide beneath the covers.
Why do they hide? what does it matter?
Love and idle chatter all for the ride.

Here I am children
Go where I go
Don't ask why children
Know that I know

He say I am that I am
I am has sent me to you


He is I am that I am
And he says what I must do

Follow me children
Don't cry no more
You will be free children
That's what I'm for

Day breaks around me;
I've lost another night's iife.
Now it's as clear as it can be;
I want you with me.
Echoes surround me;
Shadows of things that once were.
They seem to say it so easy.
I want you with me, want you with me,
Want you with me, and i need you by my side.
I need you with me; my heart is pinnin' for you,
Soon i'll be back and then you'll see,
With you i want me.
I want and need you by my side

Here in the afterglow of what we've done, what remains
Here in the after show of what we've seen
Is it strange to be falling away now
Or would you say we should have known
It would end this way and both of us turn to dust

We went deeper deeper in debt to games and lies
We got over our head and never realized
When, how or why?
But now as I sit reflecting on your face in my hand
Now I can see your picture helps retrace
all the steps we took, places we went to,
thoughts that we tried, tripping along
on a love we never understood with no guide

Many things were taken for granted all along
Firm foundations never were planted all went wrong
Down, we fell down and broke in a million pieces
We couldn't put it all together
We couldn't put it all together again

You have taken the heart of me
And left just a part of me
And look, look, look what you've done
Well, you took all the best of me
So come get the rest of me
And look back, finish what you've begun
Be done

There is someone you ought to meet
It's me, Mister Incomplete
Look at what I've become
For it's due to the lack of you
That I'm now only half of two
Look, I said back, finish what you've begun
Be done

Come and sit by my side
Where there's nothing to hide
And we'll try to decide
What you've needed
But from where I stand today
I can't think of a way
Or the words that I might say
That could change your mind and make you stay
Oh no, not for all the times I've pleaded

Look (look), look (look), look what you've done
You have taken the best of me
So come get the rest of me
Look back, finish what you've begun
Oh, be done
Oh, be done
Oh, be done

Hey have you ever tried,
Really reaching out for the other side?
I maybe climbing on rainbows
But, baby here goes.
Dreams there for those who sleep,
Life is for us to keep,
And if you're wond'ring
What this song is leading to
I want to make it with you
I really think that we can make it girl.
No, you don't know me well,
'N' ev'ry little thing only time will tell,
But you believe the things that I do.
And we'll see it through.
Life can be short or long,
Love can be right or wrong,
And if I chose the one
I'd like to help me through,
I'd like to make it with you
I really think that we can make it girl.
Baby you know that
Dreams they're for those who sleep,
Life is for us to keep
And if I chose the one
I'd like to help me through,
I'd like to make it with you
I really think that we can make it girl.

So as you go to find yourself,
Don't look too hard,
You may pass yourself by,
Reaching too high,
Wanting the other side of life.
And as you go to take your place,
Don't go too fast,
Just pretend there's no end,
Make yourself last
Till the other side of iife.
One day you'll find
Your restless searching at an end,
You'll think the world has changed
But it's just you my friend.
So as you go to please your heart.
Please take your time,
Someone's waiting there too,
Waiting for you
On the other side of life.
She's waiting for you
On the other side of life.

Oh, my love, why do you keep me waiting?
What, my love, are you contemplating?
Time goes by still you never bat an eye,
Tell me why, my love, do you have to stay far away?
Late at night while I lay asleepin',
Pale moonlight through my window weepin',
I see you in a color fantasy, cover me
Why, my love, do you have to fade away,
Have to fade away? Why my love, won't you tell me
Why, my love, do you keep me waiting? Why, my love,
Are you hesitating? Time goes by, are you waiting
For another day? Tell me why you think
Time will never fade away?