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EXCELLENT YEARS
Orange glow on your face, skin so warm from the fire place. All alone, drinking wine. Touch for touch, you feel so fine.
Excellent years, the only ones we got. Our excellent years, you only get one shot.
Hour to hour, night turns to day. Remembering the first time you wanted to stay. Lying together, you still give me that look. Finding each other was all it took.
Excellent years, the only ones we got. Our excellent years, you only get one shot.
Never once thought we’d ever deny our feelings of devotion and desire. Silences shared speak a strong reply. Time in love is all we require.
Cold outside, but we’re keepin’ warm. Staying inside, just letting it storm. So much to cherish and celebrate. Thank you, angel, for making it great.
Excellent years, the only ones we got. Our excellent years, you only get one shot.
TRANCE RHYTHM
Seven veils to lift away. Tarot card in the bustier. Fortunes told pay-to-play. Took my chance with Mistress Tess.
And I fell in trance, trance rhythm. Trance, trance rhythm.
Held my eye, caught my mind. Made me the captivated kind. Cast a spell of love is blind. Charmed by chance with Mistress Tess.
And I fell in trance, trance rhythm. Trance, trance rhythm.
She gets in my system. So deeply bewitchin’. I’m in trance rhythm.
Sexy voice like honey clover. Gypsy hex that took me over. Wrappin ‘round me like a lover. Had no chance with Mistress Tess.
And I fell in trance, trance rhythm. Trance, trance rhythm.
LILY OF THE VALIUM
Woman chasing down dreams tried hard to make a deal. Broken down it seems on the big city wheel. There’ll be no podium for Lily of the Valium. No podium for Lily of the Valium.
Keeps her own company, she’ll never telephone. By herself you see so she’ll never be alone. It’s her asylum Lily of the Valium. Her asylum Lily of the Valium.
Greets the day anew, so many things to do, but voices in her head say better stay in bed. It’s her anthem Lily of the Valium. Her anthem Lily of the Valium.
One thing for sure, she learned a lesson first. Found an easy cure, life no longer has to hurt. Blossom on the stem Lily of the Valium. Lady of the millennium, Lily of the Valium. A walking requiem Lily of the Valium. Just a walking requiem Lily of the Valium.
ONE MORE DAY
What would you give for just one more day? What would you pay to live one more day? Past midnight in the half light at dawn. It’s a miracle, baby, if nothing goes wrong.
There goes the night - slipping away. Hold on tight for one more day. Here comes the light – slipping away. Hold on tight for one more day.
What would you say with just one more night? Who would you turn to, if only to make things right? On a ledge, pushed right to the brink. Step off the edge, you’ll be gone in a blink.
There goes the night - slipping away. Hold on tight for one more day. Here comes the light – slipping away. Hold on tight for one more day.
Never relinquish your claim. Never extinguish your flame.
There goes the night - slipping away. Hold on tight for one more day. Here comes the light – slipping away. Hold on tight for one more day.
LUCKY STARS
Lying in bed we had a passionate fight. She turned away, I turned off the light. Graceless words taking their toll. Careless of cost to body and soul.
So tonight we just count the hours. Come tomorrow use all of our powers. She’ll light the candles, I’ll bring home flowers we’ll keep counting our lucky stars.
Love isn’t a trade or a deal you clinch. You don’t get nothin’ if you don’t give an inch. We’ve been bruised trying to make a change. Can happen to you, too, it isn’t anything strange.
So tonight we just count the hours. Come tomorrow use all of our powers. She’ll light the candles, I’ll bring home flowers we’ll keep counting our lucky stars.
There are things you can’t handle, try all of your powers. Still she lights the candles, I bring home the flowers. People get lost, that’s just life making their way through struggle and strife. Don’t want a miracle or no lottery win. Just hoping that someday our ship comes in.
So tonight we just count the hours. Come tomorrow use all of our powers. She’ll light the candles, I’ll bring home flowers we’ll keep counting our lucky stars.
Gotta keep on counting… your lucky stars.
BARD AMONG THE BUMS
For a sonnet or a rhyme he asks a nickel or a dime. Helps keep him good and numb, he’s the Bard among the bums.
Takes a swig against the rain, helps him entertain. A whiskey or a rum, he’s the Bard among the bums. The Bard among the bums.
So you say you got the muse it’s a gift you better nurse. Where go the poets we refuse with their stranger kind of verse?
A line of Shakespeare or of Yeats, don’t matter where it’s from For any passerby he waits, he’s the Bard among the bums. The Bard among the bums.
So you say you got the muse it’s a gift you better nurse. Where go the poets we refuse with their stranger kind of verse?
He had a woman once and a family, too. But that’s another story, child, they’ve disappeared from view. In a way he’s like you or me, when the wind is at our backs. We dream of possibility, while falling through the cracks.
For a sonnet or a rhyme, he asks a nickel or a dime. Helps keep him good and numb, he’s the Bard among the bums. A whiskey or a rum he’s the Bard among the bums. The Bard among the bums.
DISTANT DRUMMING
You see me I feel you do, you see me play it cool. You want some wisdom, go find yourself a fool.
Tell yourself a lot of lies, life can get a little numbing. Nothing wipes off a disguise like the sound of distant drumming.
I see you trapped, I watch you fight in a struggle to be free. You find out that love comes with a busted guarantee.
You didn’t hear the call. You didn’t see it coming. Had you listened at all you’d have heard the distant drumming.
Some feet can walk forever, and never find no rhythm. Some hearts can’t get a beat, no matter what you give them. Some tears fall down like rain at the sound of thunder. And a dream can disappear if you push it under.
So hold me and I’ll hold you in a strong embrace. It’s all we need to do when the world gets out of place.
It should come as no surprise when you finally see it coming. Nothing cuts you down to size like the sound of distant drumming.
Tell yourself a lot of lies, life can get a little numbing. Nothing wipes off a disguise like the sound of distant drumming.
THE CIRCLE
For so long I was aimless just wandering around. It took you to claim me from the lost and found. So darling, I do promise to hold you from all harm and warm you in the circle, the circle of my arms.
Times when I have faltered you have picked me up. And when the well went dry you filled a loving cup. So darling, I do promise to hold you from all harm and warm you in the circle, the circle of my arms.
If today I founder and barely keep afloat. Come the night I capsize you’ll be my rescue boat. So darling, I do promise to hold you from all harm and warm you in the circle, the circle of my arms.
24.7.365
Crazy in the head, lazy in bed. Go take that fall, don’t care at all, let there be no doubt, you wanna check out. I don’t need that jive, I won’t take that dive.
I’m outta here… On overdrive. 24.7.365 this is goodbye.
Lousy at life, you slipped with the knife. Let there be no doubt, you wanna check out. I don’t care at all, go take that fall. I don’t need that jive, won’t take that dive.
I’m outta here… On overdrive. 24.7.365 this is goodbye.
Don’t try to come out of that hole you hide in. From under your black sun it’s all original sin.
I’m outta here… On overdrive. 24.7.365 this is goodbye.
RESTLESS LIFE
I get lost sometimes in the wild unknown. Though I know you won’t let me wander too far. You point the way and I’m less alone. You’re my True North, you’re my pole star.
It’s a restless life and I’m bound to roam. By your lights I’m gonna guide me home. Coming home to you, my love, then I’m gone again on a restless life.
When I gotta break away I spin my compass. Set my course and make a home-in-motion. Yeah, I’m hungry for a taste of the tempest. Still you’re my beacon on a stormy ocean.
It’s a restless life and I’m bound to roam. By your lights I’m gonna guide me home. Coming home to you, my love, then I’m gone again on a restless life.
Why go over there, why go anywhere? Maybe you dug a rut or did you hear the call. The call of the wild is a dangerous thing it’ll summon your soul like a bird on the wing.
It’s a restless life and I’m bound to roam. By your lights I’m gonna guide me home. Coming home to you, my love, then I’m gone again on a restless life.
The wind is no wilder… than this restless life I’m living. It’s a restless life.
THE HEART IS LONG
We were making love today not quite believing, a little bit deceiving. Told a couple of lies, but hey, we’re under revision, got to make a decision.
Cause the heart is long, long in receiving. The words are wrong – did you feel something leaving? The heart is long, long in receiving.
We were faking love today. What’s that old tune about a Liar’s Moon? Can you feel us slip away? We both know it’s time to let it go.
Cause the heart is long, long in receiving. The words are wrong – did you feel something leaving? The heart is long, long in receiving.