RUNNING AFTER LOVE

Running after love is like
Running after someone else's train
It's taking off without me once again

Riding out my passions as they grow
Giving life to love I know will end
The part of me that aches longs for the pain
To take me once again

Taking it easy this time
Taking it easy in love
Well I'm taking it easy this time
Taking it easy in love

Chasing after love we're beggars
Rolling high and reaching for your own
Far from the heart and off the bone
And coming out alone

Running after love is like
Running after someone else's dream
It's taking off without me once again
Running after love is like
Running after love and missing trains
Running after love
Take me take me once again
Running after love
Running after love


HOLDIN' OUT

Holdin' out for a better way
Holdin' out that's the way I played it
And playing is no fun when you got to play alone
Oh love holdin' out holdin' out

Gather round the flying lady
Feather down to nothing better
Than weathering a storm
Off the ground and off the bone
And holdin' on
Holdin' on holdin' on

Cause I'm holdin' on
I'm still holdin' on
Yes I'm still holdin' on
Holdin' on

Telephone please don't ring for nothing
Call me home to a dream that lasts till morning
I never sleep alone without a light on
Come and turn it down
Oh love hold me down

Cause I'm holdin' on
I'm still holdin' on
Yes I'm still holdin' on
Holdin' on

Holdin' on
Holdin' on
Holdin' on
Holdin' on
Holdin' on


CYCLONE/CANDLES IN THE RAIN

I wait for the day to burn into night
And then I wait for dawn,
And I open my eyes when it gets bright
And I know I must be home.
I know I must be home,
God I gotta get home,

Hold tight cyclone
Found love in the music
But lost it in the overtones.
Sweat on the brow, blood on the lips
Love for the money, and gold at the fingertips,
At the fingertips.

Hold tight cyclone
A fool to continue but love keeps me holding on.
And it feels good real slow.
I love you to hurt me
But pain makes me let you go,
It makes me let you go.

Hold tight cyclone
Don't need no religion to look for the Kingdom Come
Gotta feel for the ground, reach for the sky,
Leap off the edge to see if you fall or fly
If you fall or fly.

We were so close, there was no room 
We bled inside each others wounds 
We all had caught the same disease 
And we all sang the songs of peace 
Some came to sing, some came to pray 
Some came to keep the dark away 

Lay down lay down, let it all down 
Let your white birds smile up at the 
Ones who stand and frown 
Lay down lay down, let it all down 
Let your white birds smile up at the 
Ones who stand and frown 
 
So raise the candles high 
Cause if you don't we could stay 
Black against the sky 
Oh oh raise them higher again 
And if you do we could stay dry against the rain 

Hold tight cyclone
Found love in the music
But lost it in the overtones.
Sweat on the brow, blood on the lips
Love for the money, and gold at the fingertips,
At the fingertips...
Lost in the overtones.


BEAUTIFUL SADNESS

Nobody's home tonight and I've left my key
Somehow this place we live never belonged to me
I should've made the big move
Cause our love is past
You tell me love is like that
Ah don't make me laugh

Just leave me my beautiful sadness
And don't make me laugh
Don't make me laugh
Just leave me my beautiful sadness
And don't make me laugh

Cause nothing less than what is true
Is all I need to know
Spare me lines about growing pains
And your freedom to come and to go
Cause I can't be in between
Your little more little more than past
Just leave me my beautiful sadness
And don't oh don't make me laugh

Please leave me my beautiful sadness
And don't make me laugh
Please leave me my beautiful sadness
And don't oh don't make me laugh
Don't make me laugh

Some folks make the most of their little cries
I shall love every minute when we say goodbye
Cause I can't be in between your little more
Little more than past
Just leave me my beautiful sadness
And don't don't make me laugh

Please leave me my beautiful sadness
And don't mm don't make me laugh
Don't make me laugh
Just leave me my beautiful sadness
And don't oh don't make me laugh

Please leave me my beautiful sadness
And don't don't don't make me laugh
Please leave me my beautiful sadness
And don't don't make me laugh


DO YOU BELIEVE

Do you believe it's morning I'm alive
But that's the last thing on my mind 
If our nighttime words mean goodbye 
Let our morning words be kind 
Didn't your eyes say you'd never change your mind 
Didn't my eyes say I do believe your eyes 
 
I lose vision once in awhile 
We all got grounded at the start 
But I still believe in magic 
It comes from seeing with the heart 
I do believe it
I do believe my eyes 
Do you believe it Do you believe your eyes
I do I do believe your eyes
I do Do you believe my eyes.

I went to bed at sunrise 
Now I'll sleep the whole day through 
My eyes will open to the darkness 
And in the darkness will be you 
And in the darkness my only light is you 
And in the darkness the light is in your eyes 
I do I do believe your eyes
I do Do you believe my eyes.

I do believe your eyes I do believe
Do you believe my eyes I do I do


NICKEL SONG
(with refrain from "Music! Music! Music!")

Put another nickel in
In the nickelodeon
All I ever want from you is music
I'll do anything for you
Anything you want me to
All I ever all I ever wanted was music

Well you know that I'm not a gambler
But I'm being gambled on
They put in a nickel and I sing a little song
Well I don't mind that they're lucky
But it seems like they always win
And gambling is illegal in the state of mind I'm in

And if I had a nickel for each time that I've been put on
I would be their nickel man and I'd sing a nickel song
You know they're only putting in a nickel
And they want a dollar song
They're only putting in a nickel
And they want a dollar song
I'll do anything for you, anything you want me to
All I ever, all I ever wanted was music

Well you know I don't know so many things 
But I know what's been going on 
We're only putting in a little 
To get rid of a lot that's wrong 
And if we had a nickel for each time that 
We've been put on
We'd all be their nickel man 
And we'd sing a nickel song 

We're only puttin' in a little
To get rid of a lot that's wrong
Only putting in a nickel and they want
A dollar song
You know they're only putting in a nickel
And they want a dollar song
You know they're only putting in a nickel
And they want a dollar song


ANY GUY

I was bored 
I would not compromise wanted more 
So I looked in your eyes 
But it could have been any guy 
It could have been any guys eyes 
But your eyes were there
And they started to stare 
But don't think that I care 
 
Now you, you got the feeling you're great 
Cause we shared a few looks 
And I made one mistake 
But it could have been anyone 
I was looking for that kind of fun 
And you were right there
In love all is fair 
But don't think that I care 
 
Now you, you got a new friend I know 
So I'm packing my things and I'm going to go 
Please don't make a scene don't cry 
You can't stop me if you try 
I love being free
It's the best way to be 
Is she as pretty as me


LOOK WHAT THEY DONE TO MY SONG

Look what they done to my song ma 
Look what they done to my song ma
It was the only thing that I could do half right 
And it's turning out all wrong ma 
Look what they done to my song 
 
Look what they done to my brain ma 
Look at what they done to my brain 
Well they picked it like a chicken bone 
And I think I'm half insane ma 
Look what they done to my song 

Oh I wish I could find a good book
To live in 
Oh I wish I could find a good book 
Well if I could find a real good book 
I'd never have to come out and look at 
What they done to my song 

Ils ont change ma chanson, ma 
Ils ont change ma chanson, ma
C'est la seule chose que je peux faire 
Et ce n'est pas bon, ma. 
Ils ont change ma chanson. 
 
Maybe it'll all be all right ma 
Maybe it'll all be OK
Well if the people are buying tears 
Then I'm gonna be rich someday ma 
Look what they done to my song 
 
Look what they done to my song, ma 
Ma Ma look look what they done to my song 
You know they tied it up in a plastic bag 
And they turned it upside down ma 
Ma Ma look at what they done
Won't you look at what they done
Look what they done to my song.


I BELIEVE (SECRET OF DARKNESS)

There's no thought left unstored
There's no evil like the fear of harm
And though good gets kicked around
A little falls on everyone
I believe when it's said and done that
A little falls on everyone
Where's the hand I can hold
Where's the fire when I'm feeling cold
There's no warmth like the sun
And a little shines on everyone

I believe I believe and I have heard the story
About a man and the people called him saviour
He told the truth but he never told the secret
I believe in the Secret of Darkness
In the power and the glory
I believe in life everlasting I believe I do

There's a path there's a plan
There's a soul for man to travel in
And when that travellin's done
The soul he loved will lvive again
I believe when his life does end that the love he gave
Will live again.
I believe when it's said and done
A little falls on everyone

Though the good gets kicked around
A little falls on everyone
I do I believe when it's said and done
A little falls on everyone
Though the good gets kicked around
A little falls on everyone
I believe
A little falls on everyone


POET

I am not a poet living in the poem 
I am not a singer But I am in the song 
And I have got a story that I cannot write down 
And I'm with you but I'll always be alone 
Always be alone
 
Every note's an answer
Every word's a sign 
Every man's a dancer
Following his own time 
I found a tearful language
That translates what I am 
And I cried out loud but you didn't understand 
I cried so hard I may never try again 
I may never try again
I may never I may never try. 

Cleansing in the water
Heal me in the light 
Mend you ageless daughter I've been awake all night 
And if your sands are shifting
I need to know what I forgot 
I don't want much but I need an awful lot 
I cried so hard I may never try again
I may never cry, I may never cry
I may never try again 
I may never try never cry
Never try again
Yeah... yeah........


SAVE ME

Hey you in the distance
You smiled from my past
Here's a song I wrote for you
And all I'm left to do is feel when I sing it

She speaks in stacatto
And she writes without rhyme
I keep leaving love about
And keeping myself out - all that's left is to feel it
And I feel all the time
Save me, save me

Take the lady out walking
With a bottle of wine
We'll kiss a little in the glow
Of the drinking if it snows
She won't freeze and shatter
Let her down with the dawning
Let her break like she will
Cause there's nothing you can do
I'm the kind that makes it through
Just to crumble and shatter
But she's just being silly
So what does it matter

Save me, save me, save me, save me

Take my dreams on vacation
To a room with a view
Out the window all I see
Is a space inside of me that
Could be filled with you

Love lost in the difference
Of opinions you're gone
And I'm home again with pride
And a little love inside
And a lot more alone
And a lot more alone

All my doorways are open
On to days without form
And I cover up the night
And the warmth of loving light
And the yet to be born

I'm closing the distance
With love in the far, far away


TOGETHER ALONE

We'll grow old
We'll take care of each other 
I'll be sister, mother and lover 
We'll be friends during changes of
Weather lets be together on our own 
Let's be together alone 
 
We're believers we've been hurt by
Believing, needing people
We know looking's not seeing 
I see needs that might be answered
By forever together on our own 
Let's be together alone 

I keep on asking is it want or is it need
That keeps me needing you forever
If we could make it
So it wasn't push and lean we
Would never be alone

We'll learn living like the words of
A good song we'll learn timing
Balance and rhythm we'll make it
Music I'm tired of singing on my own 
Let's be together alone 


RUBY TUESDAY

She would never say where she came from 
Yesterday don't matter 'cause it's gone 
While the sun is bright or in the darkest night 
No one knows. She comes then she goes 
 
Oh, goodbye Ruby Tuesday 
Who could hang a name on you 
And when you change with every new day 
Still I'm gonna miss you 
 
Don't ask her why she leaves to be so free 
She's gonna tell you it's the only way to be 
She just can't be chained to a life
Where nothing's gained 
And nothing's lost but such a cost 
 
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday 
Who's gonna hang a name on you 
And when you change with every new day 
Still I'm gonna miss you 

Oh there's no time to love
I heard her say 
You gotta catch your dreams
Before they slip away 
Dying all the time 
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind 
Is life unkind

Oh, goodbye Ruby Tuesday 
Who's gonna hang a name on you 
And when you change with every new day 
Still I'm gonna miss you 
Who's gonna hang a littlename on you 
And when you change with every new day 
Still I'm gonna miss you.


BUCKLE DOWN

There's a hole in my pocket
And some mending to be done
And the well's out of water
Praise the rain and curse the sun
Curse the rain in the flood as I go swimming downtown
But there's work to be done so buckle down

Buckle down everybody, Everybody buckle down
Buckle down everybody, buckle down
There's a time to be lazy and a time to hang around
But there's work to be done so buckle down

Oh my boats run aground and the crew is drunk below
And I blew out my sail and now I'm waiting for a tow
Gonna whistle up the wind and then
I'll buy the crew a round
But there's work to be done so buckle down

Buckle down everybody, 
Bucka, bucka, buckle down
Buckle down everybody, buckle down
There's a time to be lazy and a time to hang around
But there's work to be done so buckle down

If you need a little money go get some
If your car's out of gas and it just won't run
There's a time to be lazy and a time to hang around
But there's work to be done so buckle down

If your clothes are getting shabby go get some
If you're getting kind of flabby you better run
There's a time to be lazy and a time to hang around
But there's work to be done so buckle down

There's a time to be lazy and a time to hang around
But there's work to be done so... buckle down


MIRANDA

Do you have some problems
Would you like someone to solve them
Would you like someone to share in your misery
Well I don't know the answer
But I know a flamingo dancer
Who will dance for you if you will dance for me

Her name's Miranda
She's a Rudolph Valentino fan
And she doesn't claim to understand
She bakes brownies for the boys in the band

And every Sunday morning
When the sermon lines are forming
And Saturday night is a memory that I gave
She's busy in the pantry
Far away from Elmer Gantry
Who is busy baking souls that he may save
Everybody's soul but Miranda's

At the bar we're gin & scotchin
While the F.B.I. is watching
And they're tape recording every other word
The Bartender is bleeding
Pardon me I was just leaving
As another cleaver voice repeats absurd absurd
And everybody's talking but Miranda

Her name's Miranda
She's a Rudolph Valentino fan
And she doesn't claim to understand
She bakes brownies for the boys in the band
Her name's Miranda
She's a Rudolph Valentino fan
And she doesn't claim to understand
She bakes brownies for the boys in the band


BRAND NEW KEY

I rode my bicycle past your window last night 
I roller skated to your door at daylight 
Sometimes I think that you're avoiding me 
I'm OK alone but you got something I need 
 
I got a brand new pair of roller skates 
You got a brand new key 
I think that we should get together and
Try them out you see
I've been looking around a while 
You got something for me 
I got a brand new pair of rollerskates 
You got a brand new key 

I asked your mother if you were at home 
She said yes but you weren't alone 
Sometimes I think that you're avoiding me 
I'm OK alone but you got something I need 
 I ride my bike I rollerskate don't drive no care 
Don't go too fast but I go pretty far 
For somebody who don't drive 
I've been all around the world 
Some people say I've done all right for a girl 
 
Oh yeah yeah
Oh yeah yeah yeah
Oh yeah yeah yeah
Oh yeah yeah yeah 


GROUNDHOG DAY

I've grown fat I've grown a beard
I've grown alone seems no one comes to stay
In my loneliness
Sometimes love and sometimes none
I'm out of luck but I'm not done
Today is Groundhog Day

Take me to a party take me to a room
Where there ain't no corner for me to run into

I think I'm gonna have to touch everyone
In the place
A game of hearts playing face to face
How long a line to a space
Where I look at mine.

It's Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day
It's Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day

I've grown fat I've grown a beard 
I've grown alone
Must be years I hear them say
It's Groundhog Day
Sometime love Sometimes none
I'm out of luck but I'm not done
It's Groundhog Day
It's Groundhog Day!


FRIENDS & COMPANY

Too much singing for my living tonight
Do a song for friends and company
Too much is the matter with the giving in spite
Here's one for the giving and the other's for free.

The straw that broke the camel's back
Has blown upon my window sill
I may look beaten but I don't look back
When you break my heart you feed my will.

This should be an instrumental
But it seems I've made up words
Though they have a way of getting in the way
It's a way of being heard

Too much time for resting easy
Not enough to sleep all night
And the shooting star I take for dreaming
Wakes me down the doctor's right.
Is the doctor ever right?

Oh, God I need to swallow you whole again
Got to mend the old soul again.
All I need is some inner peace.
Oh, God I need to wallow you whole again
Gotta mend the old soul again.
All I need is some inner peace,
A little inner peace.

Give the soul a way to fly
Soothe the eyes of memory
Let's give it all for an answer why
If you reach the heaven the spirit's on me.

Too much singing for my living tonight
I'll do a song for friends and company.
Too much is the matter with the giving on spite.
Here's one for the giving, and the other for free.

Oh, God I need to swallow you whole again,
Got to mend the old soul again.
All I need is a little bit of inner peace.