I Want You Now
Losing My Mind
If There Was Love
So Sorry, I Said
Don't Drop Bombs
Twist In My Sobriety
Rent
Love Pains
Tonight Is Forever
I Can't Say Goodnight
When the sun goes down
I open up my window for hours and I watch
Every passing stranger
Every early shadow, I wonder if it's you
Always I'm dreaming and recklessly scheming
How to get you back in my life
I want you now
And I'm prepared to take chances
I've told you how
I won't take no for an answer
Every empty evening
The sailors sit downstairs, drinking 'til they fight
Shout and raucous laughter
Sounds of breaking glass shatter through the night
The men from the circus are juggling with knives
The acrobats fall just like you
I want you now
And I'm prepared to take chances
I've told you how
I won't take no for an answer
I won't take no for an answer
Now you're miles away
'Cross the sea, out of reach, unheard
I've cried to you for help
But the wind blows away all my words
You sat there once beside me
Where the actors play, you kissed me every night
When you left you promised
You'd soon be back to stay and it would be alright
Now I'm abandoned, my letters unanswered
Got to get you back in my life
I want you now (I want you now)
And I'm prepared to take chances
I've told you how (I've told you how)
I won't take no for an answer
I want you now (I want you now)
And I'm prepared to take chances
I've told you how (I've told you how)
I won't take no for an answer
The sun comes up - I think about you
The coffee cup - I think about you
I want you so, it's like I'm losing my mind
The morning ends - I think about you
I talk to friends and think about you
And do they know it's like I'm losing my mind?
All afternoon doing every little chore
The thought of you stays bright
Sometimes I stand in the middle of the floor
Not going left - not going right
I dim the lights and think about you
Spend sleepless nights to think about you
You said you loved me, or were you just being kind?
Or am I losing
Losing my mind?
All afternoon doing every little chore
The thought of you stays bright
Sometimes I stand in the middle of the floor
Not going left - not going right
I dim the lights and think about you
Spend sleepless nights to think about you
You said you loved me
Or were you just being kind?
Or am I losing my mind?
Or am I losing my mind?
You said you loved me
Or were you just being kind?
Or am I losing my mind?
Or were you just being kind?
Or am I losing my mind?
Losing my mind?
Losing my mind?
Losing my mind?
Losing my mind?
Losing my mind?
Men of affairs, women with power
Satellites talking, to clatter our lives
Banks of predictions, policies made
Prophecies broken, violence deranged (deranged, deranged)
And if there was love, would that be enough?
And if there was love, would that be enough?
Pollsters and planners, incredibly sad
Indelibly inking, their names across our lives
Individual freedom, intrinsically curbed
Inspiration nil, slavery ten
And if there was love, would that be enough?
And if there was love, would that be enough?
And if there was love, would that be enough?
And if there was love, would that be enough?
I've been working for a long time
Scattering smiles
Must I swallow my pride?
There's a hole in the sky, as distant and vast
As our moral vacuum, and growing as fast
And if there was love, would that be enough?
And if there was love, would that be enough?
And if there was love, would that be enough?
And if there was love, would that be enough?
"They that have power to hurt and will do none
That do not do the thing they most do show
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone
Unmoved, cold and to temptation slow;
They rightly do inherit Heaven's graces
And husband nature's riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces
Others but stewards of their excellence
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet
Though to itself it only live and die
But if that flower with base infection meet
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds"
[W. Shakespeare, Sonet 94]
If this is a ghetto, I'm in it with you
If it's just a prison, I'm locked in it too
I tried to leave you, but after all that we had said
I went to pieces when I should have shouted and screamed
Instead
So sorry, I said
Your powers of persuasion, those quizzical eyes
Have tired and tied me with innocent guile
I would have walked out and after all the tears we shed
I should have stalked out, gone and painted the town bright red
But instead
So sorry, I said
How tough it gets, don't talk to me about it!
To pay off your debts, I worked on overtime
And you say you never believed in luck
If you need a reason, consider me mad
An old retainer, loyal and sad
I bought my freedom, but after all that we had shared
I couldn't leave you think of the skins I'd have to shed
Instead
So sorry, I said
So sorry, I said
So sorry, I said
You come back home, with a secret smile
A knowing look and another lie
To blow my cool and wreck my life
You're too corrupted and totally destructive
When you've erupted, you're totally destructive
(Don't drop bombs)
I'd rather not have to hear about
Your other girls on your expense account
I know you carry on, behind my back
With your secretary, you'll have a heart attack
You're too corrupted and totally destructive
When you've erupted, you're totally destructive
(Don't drop bombs)
(Baby!)
Don't drop bombs, baby, don't drop bombs
Don't drop bombs, baby, don't drop bombs
Just stay calm, baby, no more bombs
Life with you is all ups and downs
And when you're up, you're off downtown
I've had enough!
(Baby!)
Don't tell me about your lack of restrictions
Guilty records and previous convictions
Or I shall start playing rough
(Baby!)
You're too corrupted and totally destructive
When you've erupted, you're totally destructive
(Don't drop...)
Don't drop bombs, baby, don't drop bombs
Just stay calm, baby, no more bombs
Don't drop bombs, baby, don't drop bombs
Just stay calm baby, no more bombs
(It's Liza with a Z, not Lisa with a S
'cause Lisa with a S goes S, not Z, huh
It's Liza with a Z, not Lisa with a S
'cause Lisa with a S goes S, not Z, huh)
All God's children needs travelling shoes
Drive your problems from here
All good people read good books
Now your conscience is clear (hi hi hi hi hi)
Now your conscience is clear
In the morning, when I wipe my brow
Wipe the miles away
I like to think that I can be so willed
And never do what you say (hi hi hi hi hi)
And never do what you say
Look, my eyes are just holograms
Look, your love has drawn red from my hands
In my hands you know you'll never be
More than twist in my sobriety
(Twist)
(Twist)
We just poked a little empty pie
For the fun that people had at night
Late at night don't need hostility
The timid smile, and pause to free
I don't care about their different thoughts (aah aah aah)
Different thoughts are good for me (ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh)
Up in arms and chaste and whole
All God's children took their toll
Look, my eyes are just holograms
Look, your love has drawn red from my hands
In my hands you know you'll never be
More than twist in my sobriety
(Twist)
(Twist)
Half the people read the papers
Read them good and well (oh yeah)
Pretty people, nervous people
People have got to sell (oh yeah)
News you have to sell (oh yeah)
Look, my eyes are just holograms
Look, your love has drawn red from my hands
In my hands you know you'll never be
More than twist in my sobriety
Look, my eyes are just holograms
Look, your love has drawn red from my hands
In my hands you know you'll never be
More than twist in my sobriety
(Oh yeah)
(It's Liza with a Z, not Lisa with a S
'cause Lisa with a S goes S, not Z, huh)
(Twist)
(Oh yeah)
(It's Liza with a Z, not Lisa with a S
'cause Lisa with a S goes S, not Z, huh)
You dress me up, I'm your puppet
You buy me things, and I love it
You bring me food, and I need it
You give me love, and I feel it
And look at the two of us in sympathy
With everything we see
I never want anything, it's easy
You buy whatever I need
But look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
You phone me in the evening on hearsay
You bought me caviar
You took me to a restaurant off Broadway
To tell me who you are
We never-ever argue, we never calculate
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
Oh, I love you, you pay my rent
And look at the two of us in sympathy
And sometimes ecstasy
Words mean so little, and money less
When you're lying next to me
Look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
Oh, I love you, you pay my rent
You pay my rent
(Love pains)
(Love pains)
(Love pains)
(Love pains)
Midnight
I watch you as you are sleeping
You don't know I'm leaving
My bags are packed to go
Oh, no, no, no
It hurts me
Hurts me so to leave you
Leave you for some one who
I hardly even know
But time has come to say goodbye
To spread my wings and fly
To feed the need I feel inside
But I keep feeling these love pains
Hurting me through and through
Caught between a love or two
Oh, will I ever be free from these love pains?
(Love pains)
(Love pains)
Can't help
Can't help but remember
The love we had, so tender
A world so safe and sound
Oh, no, no, no
His kiss, temptation so inviting
A feeling so exciting
Has turned me upside down
And though, I know I could be wrong
This feeling's much too strong
I've got to be where I belong
But I keep feeling these love pains
Hurting me through and through
Caught between a love or two
Oh, will I ever be free from these love pains?
Tearing me more apart
'Cause I don't wanna break your heart
Oh, will I ever be free from these love pains?
(Love pains)
(Love pains)
Love pains
Hurting me through and through
Caught between a love or two
Oh, will I ever be free from these
love pains?
Tearing me more apart
'Cause I don't wanna break your heart
Oh, will I ever be free from these love pains?
Hurting me through and through
Caught between a love or two
Oh, will I ever be free of these love pains?
Tearing me more apart
'Cause I don't wanna break your heart
I may be wrong, I may be right
Money's short, time is tight
Don't even think about those bills
Don't pay the price, we never will
We're out again another night
We'll never have enough
It could be like this forever
If we fall in love
Tonight is forever
Tell me now you don't disagree
Tonight is forever
Open the door, you hold the key
I may be wrong, I may be right
So don't depend, I could lie
I haven't got a job to pay
But I could stay in bed all day
Then out again, another night
I'll never have enough
It will be like this forever
If we fall in love
Tonight is forever
Tell me now you don't disagree
Tonight is forever
Open the door, you hold the key
Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight
Tonight is the first night
We don't need any more when we dance
I won't think of the future tonight
Tonight is forever
Tell me now you don't disagree
Tonight is forever
Open the door, you hold the key
I may be wrong, I may be right
But I don't give up any night
You could say conventional
And I would claim intentional
We're out again another night
We never have enough
It will be like this forever
When we fall in love
Tonight is forever
Tell me now you don't disagree
Tonight is forever
Open the door, you hold the key
Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight
Tonight
Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight
Tonight
Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight
Tonight is forever
I don't know whether
I'll love you much longer
I don't know whether
Whether I can
But feeling like this on a hot summer's night
I'm cold and I'm tired and I've tried to
But I can't say goodnight
And I don't know whether
I need you so badly
I don't know if ever
If ever I did
But feeling like this on a hot summer's night
The wind in our eyes, and I'm crying
'Cause I can't say goodnight
I can't say goodnight
I can't say goodnight
And I can't help thinking
What we tried to prove
Though we may be sinking
At least we saw it all through
And I don't know whether
I'll love you much longer
I don't know whether
Whether I can
But feeling like this on a hot summer's night
I need you beside me, believe me
'Cause I can't say goodnight
I can't say goodnight
I can't say goodnight
Can't say goodnight
I can't say
Goodnight