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I've been living by the side of the road watching people as they come and go.
I learned the lessons...now I'm sure.
This cold hard world...it needs a heart like yours.
I know about sorrow, I've had my share...I know it can save your life when someone cares.
I know the price you pay for closing that door but
This cold, hard world it needs a heart like yours.
This cold, hard world
Don't care, don't cry if you live or die.
But a heart like yours
I believe it shines in the endless sky.
Sometimes you think you know where you've been
But no one understand the shape you're in.
You need connection, you need a cure
This cold, hard world it needs a heart like yours.
It's a cold, hard world.
It don't care, it don't cry if you live or die.
But a heart like yours,
I believe it shines in the endless sky,
For all the people who've been beaten down,
All the lost souls living underground.
Friends and loved ones who ain't here no more
This cold hard world could use a heart like yours.
This cold, hard world it needs a heart like yours.
This cold, hard world it needs a heart like yours.
This cold, hard world it needs a heart like yours.
A heart like yours -
It's a cold hard world...it needs a heart like yours.
Copyright 2000 SkyTranz Publishing
Dreams About You
It's been over some time.
We thought we wouldn't mind going our own way.
It wasn't working out right -
all we did was fight night and day.
You had no time for me, I had no time for you.
There was no time for being in love.
I remember it all
I had to call and tell you what I been thinking of.
I'm having dreams about you baby even though I know it's wrong.
They come and get me when I'm sleeping -
They last all night long.
I dream you wrap yourself around me
Tell me you'll never let me go.
I'm having dreams about you baby.
I just thought that you should know.
I see you once in a while, you take the time to smile then you pass on by.
I do the same thing too whenever I see you but don't ask me why.
I only know that I'm fine 'til you enter my mind in the heat, in the heat of the night.
Then I lose control, in my soul with you it felt so right.
I'm having dreams about you baby even though I know it's wrong.
They come and get me when I'm sleeping -
They last all night long.
I dream you wrap yourself around me
Tell me you'll never let me go.
I'm having dreams about you baby.
I just thought that you should know.
Dreams about you baby even though I know it's wrong.
They come and get me when I'm sleeping -
all night long.
I dream you wrap yourself around me
Tell me you'll never let me go.
I'm having dreams about you baby.
I just thought that you should know.
Dreams about you, baby.
Dreams about you, baby.
Copyright 2000 SkyTranz Publishing
A Man in Love
You got your plans and baby I got mine.
Why you wastin night talking to me at closing time.
That ring on my hand doens't slow down your plan.
I got just one heart
I don't play that part.
There's plenty of guys willing to take my place.
They all need place with memories we can't erase.
You can't put a price on those things you don't get twice.
I got just one soul,
She's got full control.
I'm a man in love.
I'm a man in love.
There's nothing you can do
You'll never get thru.
I'm a man in love.
I take the cards I'm dealt, I play my hand.
I know when to raise, I know when to stand.
I play the hand that wins.
She's where my life begins.
I got just one world,
I got just one girl.
I'm a man in love.
I'm a man in love.
There's nothing you can do
You'll never get thru
I'm a man in love.
I'm a man in love.
I'm a man in love.
There's nothing you can do
I gotta be true
I'm a man in love.
ay ay ay ay ay ay
A man in love
ay ay ay ay ay ay
I'm a man in love
Mid-Life Mambo
I'm gonna jump on the midnight train
Go back and live my life again.
For everything I did wrong before
Gotta do it again, yeah, do it some more.
So come on darlin' you're the one for me
I need a full-grown woman with a history.
We made it this far doing what we do
But now we're both looking for something new.
Everybody wants a chance to change their tune.
Don't tell me my day is coming
Just tell me it's coming soon.
Got the pedal to the metal but the car don't go
Dancing the mid-life mambo.
Your mind say yes, but your body say no
Welcome to the mid-life mambo.
Mambo, mambo - do the mid-life mambo.
Mambo, mambo - do the mid-life mambo.
There was a time when it was black and white
I could work all day and still dance all night.
Grab a good time as it flew by
Shake it off the next morning by 9:05.
I punched my ticket
Yes, I jumped my bail.
Don't worry 'bout nothin, mister
That check is in the mail.
Got the pedal to the metal but the car don't go
Dancing the mid-life mambo.
Your mind say yes, but the body say no
Welcome to the mid-life mambo.
Mambo, mambo - do the mid-life mambo.
Mambo, mambo - do the mid-life mambo.
Wop bob a loo bop big back beat
I saw Elvis walking down the street.
He came over and we shook hands
Left the blinkers on all the way to Graceland.
Mind say yes, the body say no
Dancing to the mid-life mambo.
Whoa, where did the days go?
Welcome to the mid-life mambo.
Mambo, mambo - do the midlife mambo.
Mambo, mambo - do the midlife mambo.
Mambo, mambo - do the midlife mambo.
Mambo, mambo - do the midlife mambo.
Mambo, mambo.
Mambo, mambo.
Mambo, mambo.
Work
I wake up in the morning and I punch the clock
No matter what I do it just don't stop
Everybody moving to the workday beat
They go with the flow, drive in their sleep
Somebody goes home when I come in
When I go home somebody else comes in
Nine to five, eight to four
Working overtime everybody needs more
Gotta work all day, work all night
Money don't seem to work out right
Work until it make no sense
Work until you become the past tense
Work until you become the past tense
Work until you become the past tense
I got this job cuz it pays the rent
I got a repossessed car that's one big dent
My life's making me a nervous wreck
Yeah, my boss keeps breathing right down my neck
They get a lotta giving for the rate they pay
But as soon as you get it you gotta give it away
Social security, income tax
Make up the forms, don't mess with the facts, jack
work all day, work all night
money don't seem to work out right
Work until it make no sense
Work until you become the past tense
Work until you become the past tense
Work until you become the past tense
Two weeks vacation don't make it for me
Two days a week, or sometimes you get three
I want to live like they do on TV
I know the good life was put there for you and me
Was put there for you and me
Wake up in the morning and you punch the clock
No matter what you do it just don't stop
Everybody moving to the workday beat
Everybody waiting for the end of the week
You gonna work all day, work all night
Money don't seem to work out right
Work until it make no sense
Work until you become the past tense
Work until you become the past tense
Work until you become the past tense
Work
Work
Work
Work
I guess the game hasn't ended yet.
Over my head is the TV set
they're watchin it on.
I'm singing some old song.
Stale conversation over empty beer.
Maybe it's just that I've been around here
a little too long.
I've got that feeling strong.
Midnight in Nowhere
Could be a million towns.
Midnight in Nowhere
and I'm closin' it down.
Can't tell the future, can't remember my past.
Right now it's day after day
And it seems to last all night.
Someday we'll get this right.
Add up the hours times a thousand bars.
Add up the hours when I'm in my car
driving home with the stars.
It's half my lifetime so far.
Midnight in Nowhere
Could be a million towns.
Midnight in Nowhere
and I'm closin' it down.
Go thru the motions
make no mistake.
It's just a simple case of give and take.
No one gets involved.
Hey there's no problem solved.
Lonesome moon shine my way home.
I'm tired of spending all this time alone.
Wanna see my darlin' tonight,
Yeah, she'll make my soul shine bright.
Midnight in Nowhere
Could be a million towns.
Midnight in Nowhere
and I'm closing it down.
Midnight in Nowhere
Could be a million towns.
Midnight in Nowhere
and I'm closing it down.
Midnight in Nowhere.
Midnight in Nowhere.
She Don't Love Him
She used to just hold her breath when he walked by.
She used to think about what to wear to catch his eye.
They used to laugh all day, smile all night
Long as they were together, everything was allright.
Now she don't love him anymore.
When they first started out their love was strong
And they just knew good things would happen before too long.
But their rainbow didn't have a pot of gold
She could feel their heat turning to something so cold.
Now she don't love him anymore.
Ooooh, she don't love him anymore
It breaks her heart but she knows it's true.
Ooooh, she don't love him anymore
They don't talk about it, but he feels it too.
She don't love him…
She don't love him…
Mmmm, she don't love him anymore.
She don't talk about it with her friends
They just wouldn't understand.
They tell her lifetime love can never end
She just can't let it slip thru her hands.
So she takes a little time at the end of the day.
She starts to cry for the good times that faded away.
And she tries to remember that deep inside he's still the man she fell in love with and she can't hide it.
She still loves him…
Yeah, she still loves him …
She still loves him like before.
mmmmmm
Money, Honey
My baby told me she was packing it up.
She said there's no living, there's just living on love.
She said I know you got a story to tell me
But that don't change the fact that I ain't gettin enough of that
Money, honey..that's what she said.
Mean green running thru her head.
Said money, honey, understood.
Everybody would baby, if they could.
Ain't no secret it's a natural fact.
Things been baking since the dawn of time.
Let me tell you after one bite of the apple
Eve was needing something more than Adam could offer.
It was Money, honey, the bottom line
You got your sins I got mine.
Money, honey, understood
Everybody would baby, if they could.
I'll save my nickels and I'll save my dimes but it never adds up to much.
I take my problem to my congressman he just asked me, as he held out his hand
Can you spare a few bucks?
I'm down on my luck.
I'm on the night train heading for the big bang, one of these mornings gonna lay myself down.
Open my arms, let the spirit lift me up.
I'm so tired of being beaten down.
'Bout Money
Getting my kicks.
There ain't nothing that money can't fix.
Money, that's what it's all about it.
It rolls in baby, it goes out.
Money. Want a piece of that pie.
Wanna stack it 'til it reaches the sky.
I said, Money, understood.
Everybody would baby, if they could.
Money honey, yeah.
Alright.
Strong Woman
I was shootin' some pool keeping cool at the local cafe.
Then my buddy came in, bought a round so I decided to stay.
And then he pulled me off to the side.
He told me he just lost his young bride.
Yeah, she was long gone driving to Peru with a stripper named Ray.
Well, we talked for a while
and he smiled at the girl on my right.
And then he hit on the waitress that brought us a couple of Lites.
I said hey buddy now just stay away.
These young girls gonna kill you some day.
you'll be long gone, lover, and
I'm only working day and night
You need a strong woman with a heart of gold.
With the kind of love that can rock your soul.
At the end of another hard day
she'll put a smile on your face and it stays all night, yeah.
Strong woman with a heart of gold.
Somehow I found my way home, turned the key and I stumbled inside.
And then I found myself thinking 'bout my buddy and his pretty young bride.
And then I thought about you and me -
How lucky can one man be?
We been a long time loving, getting stronger every day and night.
Strong woman with a heart of gold.
You got the kind of love that can rock my soul.
At the end of another hard day
You put a smile on my face and it stays all night, yeah.
Strong woman with a heart of gold.
Strong woman with a heart of gold.
You got the kind of love that can rock my soul.
At the end of another hard day
You put a smile on my face and it stays all night, yeah.
Strong woman with a heart of gold.
strong woman with a heart of gold.
strong woman with a heart of gold.
strong woman with a heart of gold.
strong woman with a heart of gold.
Copyright 2000 SkyTranz Publishing
Towards the Light
3 am, werewolf country,
Upstate route 89.
Nothing on the radio I ain't heard a hundred times.
I know I'm headed somewhere but I'm getting no place at all.
If I could find a phone, I'd make a call.
You don't need a map to no man's land.
People break your back
With a wave of the hand.
Driving on down, do what I can tonight.
I'm ready for anything.
This old motor she's a-running tight.
I'm gonna ride this thing all night.
I'm gonna move on towards the light.
Five lanes wide
Bumper to bumper
South on the 405.
Full tank of gas, gettin nowhere fast.
Man, all I wanna do is ride.
Everything's on schedule
But I got too much time on my hands.
I can't help but feel I'm a sqeaky wheel in a well-oiled master plan
Don't need a map to no man's land.
They can break your back with the wave of the hand.
Driving on down, do what I can tonight.
I'm ready for anything.
This old motor, she's runnin tight.
Gonna ride this thing all night
Gonna move on towards the light.
I'm ready for anything.
This old motor she's runnin tight.
Gonna ride this thing all night
Gonna move on
Ready for anything.
This old motor she's runnin tight.
Yeah, I know I'm gonna be alright
I'm gonna move on
Gonna move on
Gonna move on towards the light.
Gotta move on.