Release Date: 1982
Duration: 35:39
Label: Rhino/Bearsville
Catalog Number: RNCD 70876
I've been watching how you dance Watching how you smile Watching how you carry yourself around in a crowd And watching what you say You've got something that's a secret to the average eye You've been saving something nobody's seen until now In a hideaway I'm not trying to invade your privacy There are things you have a right to hide But it's oh so cold Standing on the outside Will you take me to your secret hideaway I won't tell nobody where I'm going Won't you tell me that we're leaving right away For the heart of your hideaway Everybody's looking for a heaven on earth A slice of paradise where nobody gets hurt Someone to put the pieces back together again When your daydreams die Are you trying to get a message through the air to me? Get me on your wavelength and tell me which way to go To your hideaway I can't stand another second in this tinker-toy world Give me your direction Don't make me wait anymore It seems so far away You can trust me with your secret fantasy You will never know until you've tried But it's oh so cold Standing on the outside I've been trying to get a message Through the air to you Get on my wavelength And I'll tell you which way to go To my hideaway I will show you to my secret hideaway We will tell nobody where we're going
I can feel, I can tell I can feel, I can tell, I can see Something is changing To me change is no stranger I don't run, I don't hide I don't run, I don't hide, I don't fight What fate arranges I don't think about danger If it was meant for me I'd know just where to go But if I can take it slow Then I might be in control In the back of my head In the back of my head there is doubt There is suspicion With my new fascination I don't know what it is I don't know what it is, you might say It's intuition It's a true indication I should trust myself I should beware of this But it's like a stranger's kiss And somehow I can't resist I can feel my will slip away From a strange influenza I can feel my mind slip away Under your influenza I can feel my heart slip away Under your influenza There's a part of my heart There's a part of my heart that cries out Please go no further I just can't take the pressure So I try to resist So I try to resist and my heart Tells me don't bother That this pain is a pleasure If I were someone else I wouldn't disagree But it's always hard to see When something's controlling me
I've done some bad things This I know If I can't change things Tell me so It does no good to break your toe on the wall I know you're angry That's all right I said I don't care Well, I lied But I don't care who wins the fight after all As long as you don't hurt yourself Don't hurt yourself It's bad enough Don't hurt yourself I wouldn't want to see you make Trouble for yourself over My mistake That's all I'm asking so Don't hurt yourself Don't hurt yourself I don't want to see you hurt Hurt a single second for me You burn your bridges When you're cross There's nothing left when You cool off You can't go back so Now you're lost like a rolling stone It seems like trouble So you hide You keep it bottled up inside 'Til its too late and You end up crying alone And there you go
Your ship is sinking in a swirling sea The water's rising up around your knees Let's pop the question Is it time to leave? You say maybe You're at the bottom of an avalanche A swift departure is your only chance You say it doesn't make a difference 'cause There goes your baybay There goes your baybay There goes your baybay You never thought you'd see her Walking away There goes your baybay There goes your baybay There goes your baybay You never thought that it would Affect you this way The Market's crashing and the bulls and bears Are falling out of windows everywhere You've got it covered and you just don't care Yeah, it's crazy You made some clever moves in real estate It's caviar upon a golden plate Until you're throttled by the hand of fate There goes your baybay You know I've seen it happen all the time You get too far above the bottom line One day you're sure that everything is fine Then the next day you see I stand behind every word I said It takes a special thing to make her stay And I was convinced that I had found a way Now I can't believe it's happened to me 'Cause there goes my baybay
I am a little tin soldier That wants to jump into your fire You, are a look in your eye A dream passing by in the sky But I don't understand And all I need is treat me like a man 'Cause I ain't no child Take me like I am I got the love that belongs to you Do anything that you want me to Sing any song that you want me to Sing to you I don't need no aggravation Listen, I just got to make you I just got to make you I just got to make you understand All I need is your whispered hello Smiles melting the snow with one word Your eyes, they are deeper than time Say love that won't die without words So now I've lost my way I need help to show me things to say So give me your love Before I fade away I just want some reaction Something to give me satisfaction [...] to be with you 'Cause I love you
I am the Emperor of the Highway I wield the Universal Will One might chance to overlook on my Divineness Unless I'm sitting in the Imperial Poupe de Ville I am the Emperor of the Highway Strapped with foolish mortals such as these I need never indicate my intentions I can stop and go and turn just as I please For I am the Emperor of the Highway Hold! Methinks that thou hast driven too far I am the Royal Prince of Foreign Sports Cars Better that I should drive a wheelchair or jog Than to be blown off by a Regal Road Hog I am the Emperor of the Highway (Where did you ever get that gas sucking pig of a car?) This time my friend, you are outclassed (Any real man would drive a stick shift) For my uncle is the Duke of the State Police (Cut me off again and I will punch your lights out) And he will place his Royal Boot upon your Ass (This is my exit, we shall meet another day) Don't forget who's Emperor of the Highway For I am the Emperor of the Highway!
I don't want to work I want to bang on the drum all day I don't want to play I just want to bang on the drum all day Ever since I was a tiny boy I don't want no candy I don't need no toy I took a stick and an old coffee can I bang on that thing 'til I got Blisters on my hand because When I get older they think I'm a fool The teacher told me I should stay after school She caught me pounding on the desk with my hands But my licks was so hot I made the teacher wanna dance And that's why Listen to this Every day when I get home from work I feel so frustrated The boss is a jerk And I get my sticks and go out to the shed And I pound on that drum like it was the boss's head Because I can bang that drum Hey, you wanna take a bang at it? I can do this all day
I'm bleeding I don't think I can go on I'm dying My last breath has come and gone Pity the man Searching in the sky Looking for a sign from above And he never caught a glimpse of What he's worthy of Don't sit and wait For the world on a plate It's not a stroke of luck or chance Just draw a bead on that sucker And drive I'm falling I don't know what's up or down I'm spinning I can't turn my life around Pity the man Waiting for a clue Can't tell what to do with himself Ends up as a fool who Lives for someone else Don't sit and cry While the world passes by Stop tagging after the other guy Just get a line on that mother And drive
We can't turn back the clock But we can chant for love Let's cut the idle talk so we can Chant for love We always have the time to quarrel About such problems as money and war Let's put it off until tomorrow Who needs another dose of sorrow? It don't necessitate an act of faith To chant for love What alibi is strong enough to wait To chant for love Though we don't hold the reigns of power Somebody else seems to be in control We mustn't waste another hour We'll get directly to the soul If we can Chant For a world united Chant For a world that's dying for love The Hare Krishna plays a drum and bell When he chants for love The tribal priest is afraid of hell So he chants for love I am not pushing some religion Don't get me wrong, I never mess with such things Just be true to your own vision This is your personal decision The Dervish spins to a "Hu Hu Hu" When he chants for love Nobody knows what the angels do When they chant for love You're at the bottom of the ladder Someone may try to tell you where you should start But the words, they never matter If you can feel it in your heart Then you can Why don't you chant? You can chant Chant, chant, chant ...
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