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You never say
I love you
You have to add
Always

And if I cry
You wipe the tears away
You say you'll be here darling

All dressed up and we got somewhere to go
Were all dressed up in our Sunday clothes
Me 'n' my baby, See us walkin' down the road
Were goin' to the hop
Down at the hall you'll find us danci-in'

I'm dancin' right across the floor, Me 'n' my baby
See the people, hear them shout for me

Ah, oh oh

I've been up
I've been down
I've been every which way round
I was lost in a sea of self pity

I fooled myself

So many ladies love you with the innocence of a child
A child who believes in God
You keep 'em in luxury
But it's a luxury in the dark

You walk around with a smile upon your face
But there's something that you don't know
You're luck's run out

All you want for everyone is a better life, a better life
All you want from love is the best love, the best love
And all you want from me is what I have to give
Just being who you are means a better life, a better life
Some people sit in their Ivory tower
With the Midas touch, the Midas youch
A kind word has more healing power
It's precious, more precious

Can't get your attention
No matter how I try
This fascination
Infatuation
I got to have it
Now I know you got it
Can I get next to you yeah

Newspaper clippings
All over your bedroom floor
And there's pictures of you since you were a girl
Since you were a girl of four
You're a child star
They ordained you
You're a child star
At that time that was right

You came into town
With your big ideas
You'll find out
That life just ain't that

Way here
There's such a lot of
Big fish in the sea

I see your message on the whiteboard
I got your telephone call
When you decide on your choices
Think of the consequences
Think of the consequences
(I know, I know, a little bit of me, a little bit of you in the blame game)
I know you're testing all the boundaries
I see your crocodile tears

What was so special
We were exact
So much together
We were like that
You'd send chills down my spine
Or burn me up
With your desire

Oh the feeling
When you're reeling
You step lightly thinking you're number one
Down to zero with a word
Leaving
For another one
Now you walk with your feet back on the ground
Down to the ground

I'm right on target, my aim is straight
So you're in love, I say what of it?
Things can change, there's always changes
I want to try some rearranging, I say
Drop the pilot, try my balloon
Drop the monkey, smell my perfume
Drop the mahout, I'm the Easy Rider
Don't use your army to fight a losing battle

Let me sail to the depths of your soul
Let me anchor as near as I can be to your shore
I'm coming into dry land
Been a long time at sea
And the season of loving
Has long awaited me

Tides and waves have kept me

Watch the rain gently fall
Like the tears running down my face

Watch the rain gently fall
Like the tears running down my face

Sometimes it feel like the sky' is violence
Sometimes it feels like nobody hears

It's been so long
Since I've seen you
My old friend

I remember your eyes
How they would shine
Those crazy times
When you and I

To the floor, stop the beat
Punch out a guy and a guy is beat
Hey dreams song, I'm bigger than you
Hey dreams song, I'm bigger than you

Frustration find a fellow wrapped up his tail
Frustration find a fellow running back and forth
Frustration find a fellow rams his body of a man

This is a glorious madness
This is madness of the heart
You got me whirling on a moonlit planet
The shape of a blue marble
My friends say my behavior's frenzied
Will this madness stop?
Yes, this feels like being possessed
And my mind is blown with this crazy love

Oh my
I was looking for the sunshine
For the bright side
To those gloomy clouds of steely gray

It all rests on this
How do I see things now
In my average day

You're right for
And I'm a fool if I try to leave
I can't get enough of you baby
Can you get enough of me
Hey yea
Good times

You give me good time baby

He's a tom cat, a stallion
After a lusty mare
She kicks and bolts
With love big eyes
He just hangs on in there

He wants her, and it's simple man
He wants her, cause she's his kind

Caught this bit of news
From unexpected quarters
You in your close-knit family
Who says what you should be after
Don't you know what you should be after
Unless you consult the head of the table
The head of the table
He's stern and strong

Some people want to see my blood gush out
And others want to watch while I cry
I heard somebody say once I was way too black
And someone answers she's not black enough for me

I bite my tongue and it bites me back
I bought a house and the neighbors moved
I had a dog but it was stolen

Why here
Why now
Why so early
Why you getting down on me
You know you're a
Beautiful person
But just now
You bother me

My baby says to me
Come over here
And talk with me

I go and I sit down
We talk about the
Joy we've found

Late
At night
I feel so lonely
Here's a body next to mine but I'm feeling cold

And baby in the morning light
When I look in some stranger's eyes
It's then I know that the need in me

I'm Lucky
I'm Lucky
I can walk under ladders
Yes I'm so lucky
That I'm as lucky as me

Struck it rich
Dirty rich

These are the times
Tears fill the back of your eyes
These are the times
The birds migrate
Across the skies

These are the times
What hope you had you forget

In your eyes
I can see
Something
Something

So sure
In those eyes
As bright as the stars

My baby likes this music good and loud
With words coming straight from the heart
Man woman or child can tell this story
Just as long as it's a soulful start
All the better to make you glad
That your life has taken a different path
At the same time wondering
How you can get on a train

I was very sad last night
You came by
I was so glad though sadness covered
The smile I kept for you
I was waiting for the cloud to pass over
Then I could show my love

You could have made me laugh if you'd stayed

To save her from the beast
To save her from herself
And all the troubles
She imagines
In the world
Oh Jesse

You can do magic

Are you for or against us
We are trying to get somewhere
Looking around for a helping hand

We're doing our best to keep it steady
But it's falling down around us
Blows keep coming fast and strong

Took my baby walking
We went down to the sea
You know we talked of loving
And you talked of love to me
We sat down under a bus shelter
And talked of other things
But bit by bit by bit it came 'round again
How much in love are we

Let's sit down
Let's have a nice long talk about us
You start

Let's go out
Let's walk down the street
We'll fool around
Walking on the curb

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. oh
I never wanted anybody else to like
To like, to like like you
Well, I never wanted anybody else for love
The way that I love you
I never wanted anybody else to like
To like, to like like you

I am not in love
But I'm open to persuasion
East or West
Where's the best
For romancing

With a friend
I can smile

It may rain tomorrow
But tonight is all that's on my mind
My baby's here
In my arms
You know we've got it bad
Cos tonight we've got the love virus

We've both come down with the love bug

Anybody looking on
They can see
I'm not so good
People in the know

They can see that I miss you
In the night
With no one to hear me cry

I never thought love knew distance
I heard once smitten
It was wave goodbye
To the clubs and the dance on the tables shaking
Bad boy turned to a life of good

Passing round your number to a bunch of strangers
Girls in heels and their lips so red

Ma-Me-O-Beach
The kind of place that I like to be
Running on the sand
Or just lying in my baby's arms
I said running on the sand
Or just lying in my baby's arms

I can't swim

I sit here by myself
And you know I love it
You know I don't want someone
To come pay a visit

I want to be by myself
I came in this world alone
Me myself I

You hear me cry out, won't you save me
You smile to my face, yet still deprave me
I need proof
You're a mean old man all right

In this semi-mad world, it's best not to think
Roll in your boat and you're bound to sink
You laugh with your mouth but your eyes don't blink

There's a lot of things you should hold dear
Keep in your heart
Never let go
Never let go
Never let go
Pride and dignity
A sense of self
Hold on

I see you looking at me
I know we're from different sides of town
You've never traveled
And I've been all around
Hey
Let me take your hand
Hey hey yeah
From where I stand

Have you met my family
Wouldn't take long to know them well
Though they number from one to a million
In this house we all dwell

Say hello to Jo, she's a goddess
And to Paul, he is a saint
And Adam, he's from the forest

I only see
The side of you you want to show
How do I know
How much to let my feelings go

'Cause every night
I have the same good dream
You making love

I want to be just where you are
I want to take you so far away with me

I want to be your only one
I want to be the one you run to when you're down

I want to be the one you love
I want to be the only one you want around

Slow to be angered, quick to forgive
No jealous state am I in
Some people get satisfaction from being
And bringing down, but you know

Pleasant things are still gonna happen
If you're fun or wear a frown
So go on with your plan

People to the left of me
People to the right
I wanna be alone
But it just gets worse all the time

Can't make it work
People all around me
In love, in pain

Can you feel
How close we are
Can you tell
That this is real
Make up your mind
Cos any way you want it baby
Hey
You got it

It's a physical pain
My head just aches
I'm feeling raw
I feel crucified
I don't feel great

I'm gonna lick my wounds
Hide my crying eyes

All this time I have followed the rules
And I've lived the perfect life
Alright
By somebody else's standards
All this time I did not feel too bad
But I was not what you call happy
Not really
I was searching for something

Come to me baby
Stay by my side
Don't try to fake it
With little white lies

I want you to be always by my side
The burden of proof is for you to deny
I found you out

He's from Ohio
Lives with his mother
He loves the woman
Who loves his brother

What can he do now
As she walks across the floor
Here comes his brother

Cuddle in the morning
Kissing late at night
That's what I wanna do
With my little baby
All right

See me take that love
And hold it tight

I don't know what you're thinking
Should I stay or say goodbye
You blow smoke on the ceiling
You don't wanna look into my eyes
You've got somebody who loves you
But now I wanna see you fan the fire
Wrap the sheets around you
With me hugged up inside

If I'm feeling down
If I'm ever low
I just think of you
And the songs

Filled with lots of meaning
With everything I need
Spiritually healing

Everyone trying to be somebody
Everybody trying to be someone
Trying to be at the A list party
But most times on the sidelines waving
Look at me look at me
Here I am
Here I am here I am
Can't you see me

I'm gonna step out of emotion
Break events that bring me down
I'm so uncertain
But it's my fault
For letting you distract me
There's trouble now
I'm on the edge
Steppin' Out

I'm not the sort of person who falls in and quickly out of love
But to you I gave my affection right from the start
I have a lover who loves me, how could I break such a heart
Yet still you get my attention

Why do you come here when you know I've got troubles enough
Why do you call me when you know I can't answer the phone
Make me lie and I don't want to

Think about me
Think about me
Think about me
Think about me
I got no room to pay my bills
I got no room to plan my meals
Think about you like the latest craze
I walk a million miles to hear you say

I wanna be with you all the time
Every day
Every night
You're my deja vu

It's sounds obsessive
But I think it's fine
When you're gone all I do is to think of you

I've seen it in your eyes
And I've heard it in your voice
The way you speak my name
Tells me there's no doubt
That the dream that I held on for
Will be everlasting

You know poverty

Visionary mountains
Above and afar
Like answers to questions
On life
Love
And the longing to survive

Truth all distorted

Eight o'clock I wake up
You didn't come to bed
I go downstairs
Try to keep my head together

At ten thirty
Look at my watch
I wonder darling

I want to beat off your advances
But know that you are winning
Water for your thirst
Your fuel
To burn
Let me be
Your night potion
Your one

Met him on a Monday
And he said he loved me so
Walked me to my door
Before I knew it to my living room

I thought there was no need for worry
When he took me in his arms
Drank some whisky

You always say
When I just messed up
Did bad
Done wrong
Gone too far
Caused such pain
Such shame
I'm illegal

I'm trying to set
Your heart on fire
I want to be
Your one desire
Cause when you kisses me
Make me feel so nice inside
Make me feel so good
I want to tell the world

It's down to words I use
It's up to what I say
If you'll stay

Run my fingers down the page
Lost for words
What to say

I've been steady
I've been sweet
Said you loved me
And I believed
It's time
To make up my own mind
I picked the wrong guy
I picked the wrong guy

I say black
You say white
You do anything to be the one that's right
Go to extremes
Got to win
Still you're not happy
Just see the state you're in

I read your letter yesterday
If fell between the covers and my bare skin
It fell between my crying
And my longing for you

I loved this one too long
This one much too much
Sometimes I gave just enough of myself