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NEW YORK LOVER

It's the land of the free, so feel free to kiss me
It's the land of opportunity, so take this opportunity to kiss me
And I will be here when you want me
I will be here when you need me
I will be here for you

Hey Mary, please don't settle on another
Hey Mary, won't you be my New York lover?

It's the land of the proud, and I'm so proud being next to you
It's the land of the rich, and I feel rich being next to you
And I will be here when you want me
I will be here when you need me
I will be here for you

Hey Mary, please don't settle on another
Hey Mary, won't you be my New York lover?

When I get home, why would my feelings change?

And I will be here when you want me
I will be here when you need me
I will be here for you

Hey Mary, please don't settle on another
Hey Mary, won't you be my New York lover?

When I get home, why would my feelings change?

WE DIDN'T HAVE TIME

I wanna know what keeps you awake at night
And I wanna know the things that you think are wrong and you think are right
I wanna know your favourite record
I wanna know what makes you smile

We didn't have time to do the things I wanted to do
We didn't have time for me to get to know you

I wanna know the movies that mde you cry
I wanna know the moments that bring you down or that get you high
I wanna know your favourite perfume
I wanna know whose clothes you wear

We didn't have time to do the things I wanted to do
We didn't have time for me to get to know you
We didn't have the time to do the things I wanted to do
We didn't have time for me to get to know you

Now I love what I see
But what's underneath
I've got to find what's behind this beautiful smile

I wanna know what makes you feel like a woman
I wanna know the places and things that make you feel alive
I wanna know your favourite moment
I wanna know if I was there

We didn't have time to do the things I wanted to do
We didn't have time for me to get to know you
We didn't have the time to do the things I wanted to do
We didn't have time for me to get to know you, know you

IF YOU COULD FLY

Everybody knows the complication grows
When there's something you just can't be
And everybody knows the bitter wind that blows
When your passions don't come for free
But if you could fly

Everybody knows the consternation flows
When there's something you just can't reach
Everybody knows the feeling of the lows
When there's something you can't breach
But if you could fly

If you could fly would you?
Take to the sky would you?
Open your wings and go where you want to be
If you could fly would you?
Take to the sky would you?
Open your wings and go where you want to be

Everybody knows the inhibition shows
When you finally have to yield
Everybody knows how wasted are the throws
When your destiny is sealed

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Everybody knows the expectation grows
When you're aiming for the top
Everybody knows the sadness of a close
When you didn't want to stop

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FLYING WITH THE WIND

I'm a whole days drive from home
But where is home anyway?
It might as well be here
'Cos here is where I am today
Never planned my life like this
But even so, I can't resist
Throwing everything and flying with the wind

An old man once said to me
"Never push your dreams away
Let your passions be
The first thing that you see each day"
Tried my best to remove these chains
Of selfish needs and personal gains
I've tried everything, yes I have
Now I'm flying with the wind

Lost my dignity long ago
In everybody else's eyes
I've still got my self-belief
And a need to reach that prize

It's getting harder to carry on each day
I feel like I'm being forced away
So I'm leaving everything
And I'm flying with the wind
Oh yeah, I'm flying with the wind
Yes I am, I'm flying with the wind

HOME AGAIN

I'm a thorn in my very own side
Got this misery wish that I can't shake off though I've tried
So I walk in the pouring rain
Guess the drops will hide all the tears I've cried in pain

You can say I've done this on my own
Maybe I deserve to be alone
I can tell you nothing's ever gonna be the same
Until I'm home again

So I drift through the night
I may smile at you now but I'll be crying when I get out of sight
I may sing as I go
But a song don't have to be a happy song, Lord don't you know?

You can say I've done this on my own
Maybe I deserve to be alone
I can tell you nothing's ever gonna be the same
Until I'm home again, 'til I'm home again

So I crawl where once I'd have flown
I can cast me feet in concrete all on my own
I don't ask for your sympathy
I can wallow in my own demise quite capably

You can say I've done this on my own
Maybe I deserve to be alone
I can tell you nothing's ever gonna be the same
Until I'm home again, 'til I'm home again

ELASTOPLAST

If I cry, if I tremble
Would you open up your arms and comfort me?
If I fall, if I stumble
Would you stoop to pick me up and carry me?

Could you be that certain girl?
To Elastoplast my world?
Would you use your love repairing all the holes?
Would you doctor all the pain?
Give me shelter from the rain?
Would you be the one to mend my sorry soul?

If I slip, if I falter
Would you be the one to even out the road?
If I fail under pressure
Would you use your strength to help me with the load?

Could you be that certain girl?
To Elastoplast my world?
Would you use your love repairing all the holes?
Could you doctor all the pain?
Give me shelter from the rain?
Would you be the one to mend my sorry soul?

If I cry, if I tremble
Would you be the one to help me through the night?

STUCK

I wasn't looking for her
She wasn't looking for me
But we fell together and stuck
She told me how it could be
I said I had to agree
Then we fell together and stuck

And the time was right for both of us
So we blew our doubts away
And the signs were bright and dangerous
But I couldn't go without her anyway

I saw her flying hair
The pleasantness in her stare
And we fell together and stuck
I had a lot to lose
But it wasn't hard to choose
Then we fell together and stuck

And the time was right for both of us
So we blew our doubts away
And the signs were bright and dangerous
But I couldn't go without her anyway

Normally I won't taste forbidden fruit
Strawberry's the only food that I will take today

And the time was right for both of us
So we blew our doubts away
And the signs were bright and dangerous
But I couldn't go without her anyway

I wasn't looking for her
She wasn't looking for me
But we fell together and stuck

DO THE RIGHT THING

Had some time to think it through
Took an in flight movie to make me see that I was missing you
Been OK, but nothing's fine
Took a sign on Sullivan Street for me to see that I was out of line
And I could say sorry 'til I'm blue in the face

I will try to do the right thing
I will try to do what's good for you
I will try to do the right thing
But I've already done wrong my dear
I've already done wrong

Had some space to clear my mind
Took a stranger's passing words to make me realise that I was blind
Stupid is as stupid does
Took a line from a one-minute novel just to show me what a fool I was
And I could say sorry 'til I'm blue in the face

I will try to do the right thing
I will try to do what's good for you
I will try to do the right thing
But I've already done wrong, so wrong
I've already done wrong, my love

I've already done wrong, but it's been so long
If I did it all again I would choose us

I will try to do the right thing
I will try to do what's good for you
I will try to do the right thing
But I've already done wrong my love
I've already done wrong, so wrong
I've already done wrong my love
I've already done wrong

QUEEN OF MY HEART

Liberty called me from when I was four
So I finally made the flight
Well it took thirty years and a bundle of fears
But I boarded the plane last night
In every square mile I behaved like a child
And tried nearly every vice
I said hey rock and roll you're a beautiful soul
You're the queen of my heart

Slept in the park on the edge of the dark
With Darcy and Boston Jill
We held off the night with a Cuban delight
And a magical yellow pill
Woke all alone in the dew and the cold
Sometimes I wonder why
But I said hey rock and roll you're a beautiful soul
You're the queen of my heart

Well now I've punished my body, I've wasted my mind
You know I really don't give a damn
I know where I'm going, I know where I've been
But I don't know where I am

At JFK got a five hour delay
So I sat at the bar all night
Was the red-eye from NY in no time I found that
I drank 'til I lost my sight
Long Island passed like a dream in my mind
By Paris I felt like hell
I said hey rock and roll you're a beautiful soul
You're the queen of my heart
Yes I said hey rock and roll you're a beautiful soul
You're the queen of my heart, oh yes you are
The queen of my heart

DR. BOOGIE

The sirens were a wailing on the night I came to town
The Yankees were a sailing, they shot the Rangers down
The yellow cabs were tailing, the air was full of sound
And I thought of you

I shed a little tear for you on 72nd west
A quarter of a Century I believe you're still the best
I sat down in the park side to take a little rest
And I thought I saw you

Doctor Boogie we meet at last
I've been searching for you for the past
Twenty one years or so, but I'm here at last
Doctor Boogie

Dakota looks so different they ripped the sidewalk up
The fella on the corner said they've finally had enough
Of the sicko's and the losers who want to take a chunk
Of you home with them

So I head back to my board on Seventh Avenue
The people that I've met here, everybody knew
From Marble Hill to State Street
They've all been touched by you
As I have too

Doctor Boogie we meet at last
I've been searching for you for the past
Twenty one years or so, but I'm here at last
Doctor Boogie, Doctor Boogie

The streets were very quiet on the night I flew away
I turned to face the city, wave goodbye to Hudson Bay
The believers and the cynics, don't matter what they say
You never went away

Doctor Boogie we meet at last
I've been searching for you for the past
Twenty one years or so, but I'm here at last
Doctor Boogie

SAM

I was only with you last week
You were doing so good
Charming and irrepressible
Like you always were
I was only saying yesterday to someone you never met
How you were everything I thought
Then a little more

Sam, Sam what have they done to you?
Can you heal the scars from what has been?
Can you heal the scars?
Sam, Sam what have they done to you?
Will it be the same when we next meet?
Will it be the same when we next meet?

I was only thinking the other day
How well you'd got along
Since that kid with the incendiary tried to rip out your heart
You have always been from the start
Someone to open up your home
But you let the wrong ones in
Now they tried to take your soul

Sam, Sam what have they done to you?
Do you feel like Patrick now?
And can you heal the scars?
Sam, Sam what have they done to you?
Will it be the same when we next meet?
Will you be the same when we next meet?
Will you be the same?

PROMISE

Why would you think
I meant every word that I said
Just cos I said
Doesn't mean I have to mean it
Oaths can return
And kick you in the righteousness
So I'm never gonna make another promise for as long as I live

Why would I say
Anything to go and change my
Mind the next day
It's not my style to move the goalposts
And anyway
You hear what you want to hear
So I'm never gonna make another promise for as long as I live

I'm on the outside and I'm looking in
How can I help you when I can't get in

So I cry in my beer
I hate to be misunderstood
And we were so near
I can't help think that I should not
Even be here
Silence can't be thrown at me
So I'm never gonna make another promise for as long as I live

So I cry in my drink
And wonder what I have to do
Just cos I do it
Doesn't mean I mean it too
I'm always right
Except for when you say I'm not
So I'm never gonna make another promise for as long as I live
So I'm never gonna make another promise for as long as I live

THANK YOU

Thank you for the time you gave me
Thank you for the time we had
I can see us getting much closer
'Cos you fit like a glove
I see us being together
Maybe falling in love

It's a big town in a big world
I'm a big boy and you're a beautiful girl
But I never really thought I'd see you quite so many miles from home
I faced up to the fact some time ago that I was here on my own, on my own

Thank you for the time you gave me
Thank you for the time we had
I can see us getting much closer
'Cos you fit like a glove
I see us being together
Maybe falling in love

I'm a loner in a lonely place
Then you walked in with your beautiful face
And your stylish knitwear, let down hair and penchant for Italiano
But no sooner had I kissed you than you're flying off to San Fransisco, to Frisco

Thank you for the time you gave me
Thank you for the time we had
I can see us getting much closer
'Cos you fit like a glove
I see us being together
Maybe falling in love

And thankyou for the words you lent me
And the hotdog we shared down in Washington Square

So I'm still here for a few days
Are you returning with your beautiful ways?
If so we'll meet tonight at seven at the Waldorf Astoria
I'll be the one with pink carnation, Levi trousers, dans luminaire, luminaire

Thank you for the time you gave me
Thank you for the time we had
I can see us getting much closer
'Cos you fit like a glove
I see us being together
Maybe falling in love
Thank you for the time you gave me
Thank you for the time we had