Wish

Cold, cold streets

Every time I go away
I say a prayer I find the strength to stay
Just strong enough to clear my mind
Just long enough to keep you mine

For I need another day to find another way to hold on
Just another day to find another way to hold on

For I might never find my way
Through the cold cold streets
That lead me to the heat girl
I might never find the strength
To try to make it sweet
Take me your heat girl

Now you told me our love was real
And you'd take a chance on what you feel
But you don't believe what your own eyes see
But I would look if it was up to me

For I need another day to find another way to hold on
Just another day to find another way to hold on

Hold on
Hold on to the one you need
Don't let her slip away
Hold on
Hold on to the one you love
And tell her every day

Now at last my lesson's learned
And I've heard your cries
Until my eyes have burned
So thank you girl, I'll always be
Yours in love eternally

(F.S. Sharkey / D. Kortchmar / D. Lasley)

More love

I don't wanna talk about it
I don't even wanna hear his second name
Cause I don't give a damn about it
It's none of my affair who's stepping out with you these days

Well I'm sure his heart is willing and he's tall and lean and strong
But a pretty face can only hold your interest for so long
When there's more love
For you in my heart
Than his will ever hold

I don't understand this baby
Is there some kind of lesson I'm supposed to learn from this?
You know that I love you baby
But do I have to wear your name tattooed across my wrist?

Well I'm sure he gives you everything his wallet will allow
And his words are poems of passion or what passes for it now
But there's more love
For you in my heart
Than his will ever hold

Oh I tried to lose you baby
I beat my head against the post
But I wake up in a cold sweat
And I swear I see your ghost
If I thought he'd make you happy
I'd let you go at my expense
But from what I've seen
What I've heard
I ain't all that convinced
Oh I'm sure you mean the world to him
And he's all things to you
But from what I've seen
What I've heard I doubt it
For there is more love
For you in my heart
Than his will ever hold

(Benmont Trench)

Full confession

This is no time for turning corners
I can't hide it no more
I want to make a full confession
Never felt this way before
You were always on the side lines
In a second feature show
But that was from some different nightmare
How was I to know

Full confession
I wanna make a
Full confession

Well I guess I always knew it
Somewhere deep inside of me
There would come along a stranger
Who just wouldn't let me be
I used to stand around for hours
Pretending I was strong
But then you called the hand I dealt you
You showed me right from wrong

Full confession
I wanna make a
Full confession
Gonna make a
Full confession
Of our love

Well I have sinned against tomorrow
Every time I said goodbye
Then I said I didn't need you
That was just a lie
Now I'm feeling so much better
You always said I would
Now I've made my full confession
Man it felt so good

(F.S. Sharkey / D. Kortchmar / T. Daly)

Please don't believe in me

Please don't believe in me
I'll only let you down
Time was the hunt was on
You'd run me right into the ground
Now I'm feeling so confused
Now I hold the winning hand
But I wish that I could lose

For a plan without a purpose
Car without a wheel
Plane without a pilot
That's how I feel

Please don't believe in me
I don't know what you feel
When we first kissed I held you close
I only know it seemed so real
And all the land marks changed around me
I wish I could begin again
And I wouldn't start from here

For a plan without a purpose
Car without a wheel
Plane without a pilot
That's how I feel

Please don't believe in me
And don't you trust my love
We messed around with too much passion
Sometimes too much is not enough
The path I'm travelling seems so crazy
I listen out for clear directions
But only hear the bridges burn

(F.S. Sharkey / D. Stewart / T. Daly)

Out of my system

Well I'm here waiting for the call you said you'd make to me
Put me on the edge of my life while you been having fun I can see
Well baby come or go stop standing in the door
And don't leave me hanging this way

I've got to get you
Out of my system or into my life
I've got to get you
Out of my system or into my life
This is the moment of truth
I leave it up to you
But don't leave me hanging this way

Hate to put you on the spot
But am I waisting precious time?
I understand you're still recovering from a heart that's lost all feeling
I don't wanna wonder any longer what you've got to say
But I just got to know either way

I've got to get you
Out of my system or into my life
I've got to get you
Out of my system or into my life
This is the moment of truth
I leave it up to you
But I've just got to know today

I don't wanna wonder any longer
What you've got to say
But I just got to know either way

(S. Valentine / E. Chacon)

Strangest girl in paradise

Listen for those golden days
With precious time
Unrepentant ways
Life's too cheap here in Angel Town
What I've found still they come

But baby bought new shoes today
With silver tips that light her way
Strangest girl in paradise
And coming here to face the glare
Is not the answer to her prayer
Strangest girl in paradise
For I don't know what I can do
There's just no way to pull her through
Strangest girl in paradise

Still the come sights on the crown
Pretty people fumbling round
The flesh is sleek the mind is young
Look around still they come

Reaching for those golden days
Lonely people with desperate ways

(F.S. Sharkey / D. Kortchmar)

Let me be

One of these days I'm going to get up early
Organise my life again one more time
Never looked cause I can never see the point of it
Now I realise that was just unkind
My heart talks back, says you've misplaced love
My heart attacks and it won't let up
My heart talks back says enough's enough

Why don't you set me free now
Can you just let me be now
Why don't you set me free now
Can you just let me be now

One of these days I'm going to get up early
Start to think it through again one last time
Not that I cared so much, I just needed a reason
To criticise someone when it's all in the mind
My heart talks back, says you've misplaced love
My heart attacks and it won't let up
My heart talks back says enough's enough

Set me free from all this anger and bitterness
You can't disguise so many lies
Set me free from all this anger and bitterness
Don't confuse vanity with pride

(F.S. Sharkey / M. Goldenberg)

Blue days

Some days I get out of bed
Start a little fire inside my head and think for you
For nothing's changed in all these years
Except for the colour of my tears
My hopes still grew
That somewhere there would be a place
Full of blue days
That somewhere there would be a heart
Full of blue days

For I can never understand
The pain you cause with your sweet hand
I will never understand
The hate you spread across this land
Everybody's looking for blue days

Send to thee the prophecy
Of fiery land and foamy sea
Begin again but never let the wind
Explain all those things we have to gain
Start again
For somewhere there will be a place
Full of blue days
For somewhere there would be a heart
Full of blue days

All these guests with stormy minds
How come they seem to be so blind
I can't explain
Why don't they see that as they fall
They're making prisoners of us all

For I can never understand
The pain you cause with your sweet hand
I will never understand
The hate you spread across this land
Nothing happens to our souls
I'ts just our thoughts and hearts grow old
We will not forsake these blue skies for the grey skies
Of another land

(F.S. Sharkey / D. Kortchmar / W. Wachtel)

If this is love

When I was a young man
I guess you could say
I would hopefully smile at the start of each day
No girl was a stranger
Who'd sit by my side
But then I found the secret
That you cannot hide
Over and over
This story I tell
Caught by surprise
Sent right to hell
For love is a gamble but this is no bet
The more you give the less you get

This is love
This is love
This is love
I don't want no part of it
Get to the heart of it

The more I tried to find you
The more you got lost
I knew that I must have you
No matter the cost
But all this is over
I've thrown off those chains
You're looking at a man
Who's pulled in those reins
Over and over
I tried not to ring
But each time I called
I heard just one thing
Love is a gamble but this is no bet
The more you give the less you get

(F.S. Sharkey / M. Lee / T. Daly)

Safe to touch

I would follow you forever
As long as we can be together
But I can't let the child
Escape the man in your hands
Don't let me cry

But noone can ever come close to you
Too safe to touch
But noone can ever really reach for you
Too safe to touch
Too safe to touch

You let me down harder than easy
At a moment's notice
Can't find no blame in this dimming flame
No way out of my burning shame

I will follow you forever
Wondering if we'll be together
A part of my soul in your control
Surrender

(F.S. Sharkey / S. Jordan / Charley Drayton / Sara Lee)