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CATCH ME

Catch me when I'm falling down
Catch me when I'm falling down
Cast a rope before I drown
Catch me when I'm falling down

Hold me when I'm feeling low
Hold me when I'm feeling low
Give me somewhere else to go
Hold me when I'm feeling low

Guide me when I lose my way
Guide me when I lose my way
Help me find the strength to pray
Guide me when I lose my way

LET A LITTLE LOVE IN

Snakes and pits and giant balls
Can't do this on my own
Scaling your defensive walls
Just like Indiana Jones

From your burning welcome mat
I see you sitting there
Stroking your albino cat
In your electric rocking chair

You must enjoy the loneliness
You're finding more in something less
One of these days you're gonna wake
To find that you're alone, yeah
Let a little love in your life
Let a little love in your life
If you can't love yourself you won't be loving another
Let a little love in your…

Harpoon yielding submarines
Guard your aquatic realm
Can't believe what I just seen
Captain Nemo at the helm

Stand in your transparent cell
And plan your big release
Chianti's going down too well
Keep from the glass Clarisse

BELL-BOTTOMED HEART

Jaded eyes open on to your soul
S'like open skies staring out though the hole
Endless fields surrounded by bars
Your broken deals all stacked up in jars

And if you'd said I would have been there
Right from the start
And if you ask I'll help you reshape
Your bell-bottomed heart again

Fractured smile tells a story or four
It spits the bile at the shapes you abhor
The faded shirts that you used to wear
All wreak of dirt, so you're standing bare

And if you'd said I would have been there
Right from the start
And if you ask I'll help you reshape
Your bell-bottomed heart again

And if you feel the need to stop and bleed
I'll stand aside until you've died
Then pick you up and fill your cup
With another tide of suicide
And when your city of self-pity
That stinking mire that you desire
Should close its gate, you know I'll wait
And take you somewhere warm

Jaded soul, as seen from your eyes
An endless roll through barbed wire skies
But you're a man who's able to pray
So take these knives and throw them away

And if you'd said I would have been there
Right from the start
And if you ask I'll help you reshape
Your bell-bottomed heart again, again, again and again

BEAUTIFUL

Clearly I was very aggravated
Left out of the fold and thrown into the cold
Nothing could have been so unexpected
Everybody knows that nothing ever grows in the snow
And there you were
Standing by the Fjellro, I just got to tell you that

You're beautiful
As anything I've seen
Anyone I've met or anywhere I've been
You know you're beautiful as anything I know
Come with me and let it grow

Honestly it's no exaggeration
I never give the grade if the standard isn't made
There's no forethought in my instigation
When it comes to you a man's just got to do what he does
'Cos there you were
Now that I have met you I've just got to tell you that

You're beautiful
As anything I've seen
Anyone I've met or anywhere I've been
You know you're beautiful as anything I know
Come with me and let it grow

And in my efforts to charm
And my attempts to disarm
If there's something you don't like
I'll be a different man
And if our paths didn't cross
Can you imagine the loss?
If the weather had been finer
I'd have made different plans

And there you were
In the foyer of the Hyatt, I've just got to say that you are

Beautiful
As anything I've seen
Anyone I've met or anywhere I've been
You know you're beautiful as anything I know
Come with me and let it grow

Because you're beautiful
As anything I've seen
Anyone I've met or anywhere I've been
You know you're beautiful as anything I know
Come with me and let it grow

MEET ME HALF WAY

Long distance love affairs can be hard on the heart and hard on the car
I've blown a valve in each over you
Short-term relationships are encouraged to bloom when they're given the room
I've entertained a few
But it simply won't do

Meet me half way
By the boat on the river where we first met that day
Meet me half way
Between the bridge and the tree and we'll start again

High-flying aeroplanes are a financial drain that cut deep to the vein
If Paris kills me it's down to you
Low contact tests the will
When you're so far apart you've a wandering heart
I've strayed with one or two
But it simply won't do

Meet me half way
By the boat on the river where we first met that day
Meet me half way
Between the bridge and the tree and we'll start again

It's time to change
And re-engage my passions for you
I've turned the page and despite the range
I'm coming for you

Long-distance love affairs are hard to maintain when you're feeling the strain
And I've neglected you
But it simply won't do

Meet me half way
By the boat on the river where we first met that day
Meet me half way
Between the bridge and the tree and we'll start again

JESUS WOULD HAVE TO LOOK TWICE

Hope that I don't make a fool of myself
Maybe I already have
I'm trying to regain control of things
It's just an effect that she has

Hope she don't see me as laughable
Hope she don't think I'm a fool
But the only thing worse than being ridiculed
Is not being noticed at all

And all that I knew wasn't good enough
Even the keenest advice
Nothing prepared me for knowing her
Even Jesus would have to look twice as she walked by

Her hair is a Chardonnay waterfall
Her eyes are the sun in the night
Her words are the gospel I'm living to
If I am the wrong she's the right

My mind's full of unexplained images
My sight is a permanent blur
My words are an unfinished testament
To the one I refer to as her

And all that I knew wasn't good enough
Even the sharpest advice
Nothing prepared me for knowing her
Even Jesus would have to look twice as she walked by

I'm looking for a foot-sized gap in the door
May this dreaming continue until I can lay this matter to rest

The clock moves so slow that it's painful to me
As Saturday loses it's light
Do I ponder her conscious or otherwise
Think I might stop up all night

And all that I knew wasn't good enough
Even the greatest advice
Nothing prepared me for knowing her
Even Jesus would have to look twice as she walked by
Even the wisest advice
Nothing prepared me for knowing her
Even Jesus would have to look twice as she walked by

ROAD MOVIE

I've got that pistol I bought from Harper's Bazaar
And the guy down the road's got a really fast car
If we stole it at dusk we could steal half a day
Hit the border by three, we could be well away
And we could be famous like Bonnie and Clyde
Just living for the ride

Let's do a road movie
We can borrow a car
And we'll drive to the coast if we can make it that far
Why don't we do a road movie?
With the law on our tail
And the sun in our eyes and the wind in our sail
I wanna do a road movie with you

I've got the whisky I saved and I've got plenty of Yen
And I think I'll give up not smoking again
And that sweet little dress that you took from your mom
We can be a day clear before she knows that it's gone
We could be bandits like Butch and the Kid
Not caring what we did

Let's do a road movie
We could borrow a car
And we'll drive to the coast if we can make it that far
Why don't we do a road movie?
With the law on our tail
And the sun in our eyes and the wind in our sail
I wanna do a road movie with you

And with fifty miles to go to the edge of Mexico
I can't wait to see those smiling Senoritas

I've got this burning desire to rob a liqueur shop
And we can kill the man if he don't give us the lot
And we can lock up a cop in the trunk of his car
And we can burn ourselves out like a shooting star
And we could be lovers like Frankie and John
Running until we're gone

ONLY GOT MYSELF TO BLAME

Frightened of the falling leaves
There's a second to make a wish before they hit the floor
After that I'm not really sure but it's probably not good
Waiting for the morning breeze
It should blow away the cobwebs left by yesterday
After that I couldn't care as long as it gets better, better, yeah

So I'll make my excuses
Clear my name
And if nothing ever happens
I've only got myself to blame

Take the time to look me up
If you're ever passing nowhere I would think I'm in
And it's not the home I choose but it's relatively free
Frightened of what I've become
The face is still familiar but he's not the same
In spite of that I shouldn't care as long as I am better, better, yeah So I'll make my excuses
Clear my name
And if nothing ever happens
I've only got myself to blame

Trying to get what I deserve
It's not that I'm ungrateful but I want the world
And I feel that I can take it now 'cos everything is better, better, yeah

So I'll make my excuses
Clear my name
And if nothing ever happens
I've only got myself to blame

So I'll make my excuses
Clear my name
And if nothing ever happens…

I'LL TAKE MANHATTAN

"A beer is cheaper than a smile to me." said Jonny as we lost another night
"This was the garden tavern last time I came," I said "they changed the name I don't know why
Hey Curt fill 'em again, I could used to this Long Island iced tea
It makes me feel lost and found, it makes me feel constrained and free"
"So what's your problem?"
"Life" he said, "there's more to being than going home
"So let's stay and change the world," I said, "or at the very least let's change our own"
"There's a place on 32nd where they can record you sing
Gonen T. Ron's the man - he runs the whole damn thing
He's coloured many a voice with his experience and sight
We'll be the next big thing, we're gonna do it over night"

We've found ourselves in shackles but we're supposed to be free
Yeah, gonna throw them all off and be what we should be
Meet me on Brooklyn Bridge tomorrow about three
I'll take Manhattan you follow me

"Hey but first we've got to find a little inspiration
What better place? This is where they all come
Let's retrace some famous steps and give it a spin of our own
We could find out how many cars there are on the New Jersey Turnpike
Well if it's good enough for 'Rhymin' Simon' it's good enough for our like
But for now we'll stick on this twenty-four square mile
This is where all the action is so this is where you and me'll stay for a while"

"Well I've got a five-year plan but I reckon we can do it in two
I wanna be a matinee idol, I guess it's razor ads for you
So let's lock ourselves in the Chelsea Hotel, immerse our selves in the faded hues
That moved so many wordsmiths, so many old and new
Then we'll get a drinking problem, perhaps we already have
It just costs too darn much for a pair of English boys
It's cheaper in the liqueur stores on ninth
Let's get enough provisions to last a dozen nights
I'll go get the 'Stoli' you can get the Lucky Strikes"

BAD NEWS & GASOLINE

Hell, you were following me
When I was on the run
You were standing right there
Then I turned to face the sun

Where did you go girl?
I thought the deal was done
This is just bad, bad news and gasoline
That's when I realised she was gone

Christ, thought we was understood
It seemed, seemed like it was fun
But if you're not standing back with me
By the time I count to one

Where did you go girl?
I thought the deal was done
This is just bad, bad news and gasoline
That's when I realised she was gone

Oh Jesus girl, what were you thinking?
Seemed the fighting was won
Baby I was on your side
Now my fingers on the gun

Where did you go girl?
I thought the deal was done
This is just bad, bad news and gasoline
That's when I realised
That's when I realised, yeah
That's when I realised she was gone