one breath away from mother oceania your nimble feet make prints in my sands you have done good for yourselves since you left my wet embrace and crawled ashore every boy is a snake is a lily every pearl is a lynx is a girl sweet like harmony made into flesh you dance by my side children sublime you show me continents i see islands you count the centuries i blink my eyes hawks and sparrows race in my waters stingrays are floating across the sky little ones my sons and my daughters your sweat is salty i am why i am why i am why your sweat is salty i am why i am why i am why i am why24

lately i find myself out gazing at stars hearing guitars like someone in love sometimes the things i do astound me mostly whenever you re around me lately i seem to walk as though i have wings bump into things like someone in love each time i look at you i m limp as a glove and feeling like someone in love sometimes the things i do astound me mostly whenever you re around me lately i seem to walk as though i have wings bump into things like someone in love each time i look at you i m limp as a glove and feeling like someone in love like someone in love like someone in love2

i can not live peacefully without you for even a moment i miss you terribly when you re away he s away this ain t right i m alone i m taking an aeroplane across the world to follow my heart how come out of all the people in the world only one can make me complete one word one word on the phone makes me happy one touch but one touch directly makes me ecstatic he s away this ain t right i m alone i m taking an aeroplane across the world to follow my heart23

i live by the ocean and during the night i dive into it down to the bottom underneath all currents and drop my anchor and this is where i m staying this is my home i live by the ocean and during the night i dive into it down to the bottom underneath all currents and drop my anchor and this is where i m staying this is my home23

come on wail wail cotton tail benny webster come on and blow for me that s cotton tail come on wail wail cotton tail benny webster come on and blow for me that s cotton tail

i hate to see that evening sun go down i hate to see that evening sun go down because the woman i m loving she has left this town i m feeling tomorrow just like i feel today if i m feeling tomorrow just like i feel today i m going to pack my bags and make a getaway st louis woman without your diamond ring if you didn t have good looks you wouldn t mean a thing if it was not for powder and your super hair without the man who loves you you wouldn t get nowhere nowhere i got the st louis blues blue as i can be i got the st louis blues blue as i can be you know i love you but you don t care for me i got the st louis blues blue as i can be i got the st louis blues blue as i can be you know i love you but you don t care for me i got the st louis blues blue as i can be

my love is like footsteps in the snow baby i ll follow you everywhere you go baby the palest light has come to wake you but you will never realize that i inspire the dreams that guide you baby i follow the winds that bring the cold baby i ll light a fire in your soul baby the lightest touch of feathers falling my love may be invisible but i inspire the dreams that guide you baby you re half a world away but in my mind i whisper every single word you say and before you sleep at night you pray to me your lucky star your singing satellite your singing satellite your satellite your singing satellite you re half a world away i m stealing time from my own life all the hours that god sends i m flying high on my red eye and winding down the window my future is a valentine stolen in the perfect crime and i know i m living out of line but with a blazing smile i ll die you re half a world away but in my mind i whisper every single word you say and before you sleep at night you pray to me your lucky star your singing satellite you re half a world away but in my mind i whisper every single word you say and before you sleep at night you pray to me your lucky star your singing satellite you re half a world away but in my mind i whisper every single word you say and before you sleep at night you pray to me your lucky star your singing satellite

oh my man i love him so he ll never know all my life is just despair but i don t care when he takes me in his arms the world is bright alright what s the difference if i say i ll go away when i know i ll come back on my knees someday for whatever my man is i am his forever more it cost me a lot but that s one thing that i ve got it s my man cold and wet tired you bet but all that i soon forget with my man he s not much for looks and no hero out of books he s my man two or three girls has he that he likes as well as me but i love him oh my man i love him so he ll never know all my life is just despair but i don t care when he takes me in his arms the world is bright alright what s the difference if i say i ll go away when i know i ll come back on my knees someday for whatever my man is i am his forever more

i can not resist your call i can not resist your call take my hand take my hand yeah take my hand follow me follow me yeah let s go to the sand to the sand the purest sand into the sea into the sea yeah let s go out beyond the water s edge far out past the coral ledge underneath the diamond dancing lights chase the world from far below silence sleeping indigo drifting out into the endless night i can not resist your call i can not resist your call take my hand take my hand yeah take my hand follow me follow me yeah let s go to the sand to the sand the purest sand into the sea into the sea yeah let s go leaving reason far behind nothing here is cruel or kind only your desire to set me free let us lie here all alone worn away like river stone let us be the sirens of the sea i can not resist your call

when you try your best but you don t succeed when you get what you want but not what you need when you feel so tired but you can t sleep stuck in reversewhen the tears come streaming down your face when you lose something you can t replace when you love someone but it goes to waste could it be worse lights will guide you home and ignite your bones i will try to fix youhigh up above or down below when you re too in love to let it go but if you never try you ll never know just what you re worthlights will guide you home and ignite your bones and i will try to fix youtears stream down your face when you lose something you cannot replace tears stream down your face and itears stream down your face i promise you i will learn from my mistakes tears stream down your face and ilights will guide you home and ignite your bones and i will try to fix you

since that clock s first tick a dark hue and fear driven it s only real till it ends as the stars fall on our head call the wind the thief for stealing their prayerslook at us shake the sky pulling the whites from my eyes and as the hands are spinning they re waving you goodbye test for more is what we re striving for as we sleep we walkcan t awake can t awake the ones who live this life cause people are the same only habits change but your starry eyes oh they don t tell me a thinglook at us shake the sky pulling the whites from my eyes and as the hands are spinning they re waving you goodbye a test for more is what we re striving for as we sleep we walki swear i felt you crawling under my skin i swear oh i swear towers won t fit our view forget the man in the mountains follows you he follows youbut your starry eyes no they don t mean a thingas we sleep we walk as we sleep we walk as we sleep we walk as we sleep we walk

lullaby of birdland that s what i always hear when you sigh never in my wordland could there be ways to reveal in a phrase how i feel have you ever heard two turtle doves bill and coo when they love that s the kind of magic music we make with our lips when we kiss and there s a weepy old willow he really knows how to cry that s how i d cry in my pillow if you should tell me farewell and goodbye lullaby of birdland whisper low kiss me sweet and we ll go flyin high in birdland high in the sky up above all because we re in love

every now an then on my home i stop at a spot where the wild flowers grow an i pick a few cause she don t tell me to i go out with my boys all right but most of the time i call it a night before they do cause she don t tell me to sunday mornin i m in church an my butt an my back an necktie hurt but i m in the pew she don t tell me to any other woman i know would have tried to control me and it would be over plannin on my goin on my own way attitude all of that stubbornness melts away when i wake with her head on my shoulder an i know i ve got to love her until my life is through cause she don t tell me to well i got demons and i ve got pride but when i m wrong i apologise like she s mine to lose cause she don t tell me to well i got dreams in this heart of mine but nothin that i wouldn t lay aside if she asked me to cause she don t tell me to an she don t even know that she keeps lookin for the next right thing to do cause she don t tell me to yeah yeah any other woman i know would have tried to control me and it would be over plannin on my goin on my own way attitude and all of that stubbornness melts away when i wake with her head on my shoulder an i know i ve got to love her until my life is through what else can i do what else can i do whoa i love her cause she don t tell me to she don t tell me to every now an then on my home i stop at a spot where the wild flowers grow an i pick a few yes i do

feeling now feeling down this feeling wouldn t leave me alone then i came the one that said hey dread fly natty dread and smile want you to smile get it to together right now get things together right now soulful town roots people said i see that you re having fun rockin to the roots man rocker oh island in the sun oh oh want you get it together get this together right now get this together right now help the children help them right oh lord help them decide cast away that evil spell throw some water in the well well well well well c mon and smile get things together right now get it together right now dry your tears have no fears fly natty dread fly natty dread help help help us tonight cast away that evil spell throw some water in the well feeling now feeling down this feeling wouldn t leave me alone then it came the one that said hey dread fly natty dread dry your tears have no fears fly natty dread in jamaica

wrapped in a polythene tucked away safe in my mind a little goodbye maybe or just a passing smile the birds fly away to the sky still searching for home a bunch o paper flowers or a little child left all alone can somebody hear me i m screaming from so far away morning who ll calm you the evening s eclipsed again well does life get any better more yesterday than today how i thought the sun would shine tommorow but it rained they justified the cause for which daddy might give up his life it s been so long so long a time but still i miss daddy at night the ache is long gone but the never keeps staring at me the waters in the seas are high and all the sand castles have drowned well does life get any better more yesterday than today how i thought the sun would shine tommorow but it rained

i ve lost my balance i fell from the trapeze this act isn t easy i ve been underwater this storm has been raging these nights i m not sleeping my dreams are now strangers to me and i need you now there s too many miles on my bones i can t carry the weight of the world no not on my own your eyes are like lightning your voice is like water this place is a desert i ve been walking in circles i m screaming for answers i might fall into pieces or maybe i m finally breaking through and i need you now there s too many miles on my bones i can t carry the weight of the world no not on my own no more running no more hiding no more hurting no more crying no more trouble no more sighing no more falling no more striving no more heartache no more fighting no more fears only flying no more running no more hiding no more hurting no more crying no more trouble no more sighing no more falling no more striving no more heartache no more fighting no more fears only flying no more running no more hiding no more hurting no more crying only flying no more trouble no more sighing no more falling no more striving only flying no more heartache no more fighting no more fears only flying only flying3

pour the petrol can around this caravan and watch the flames take all you own there s a girl who understands like the back of her two hands she s all you need to know cause you search for years but you lose everything you find there s braille for the deaf and a signpost for the blind there s heaven for the cruel but the devil waits for the kind and you follow the blackbird home through the early winter snow your footprints track you through the grass and you ache just to smell her clothes and her cooking down on the stove you see her face in everyone you pass cause you search for years but you lose everything you find there s braille for the deaf and a signpost for the blind there s heaven for the cruel but the devil waits for the kind and you walk down to her window press your face against the glass only to find that she is happy in his arms cause you search for years but you lose everything you find there s braille for the deaf and a signpost for the blind there s heaven for the cruel but the devil waits for the kind2

hold back my heart you re on you re on and i wanna give up you re on you re on i ve been faithful watching you grow back into yourself i wanna know why i just wanna to know why oh oh oh let me see your other life take me to the other side you know what to do get over you solving my enigma my enigma my enigma just let me in i can t feel your heartbeat i can t bring your soul to life i wanna know why i just wanna know why you know what to do get over you you are my enigma give me just one clue cause when you keep it in i can t give up i can t begin solving my enigma my enigma

we were kind of feral wicked little machines captains and cavalries forming empires in the shade of the trees without hesitation kings of the forest town holding the ocean down we were half this heavy and twice this loud so turn up the noise dress to the nines running with the boys your hand in mine singing every song loving every line til the night is gone just like the old times just like the old times was what you made it we had our friends around all the images and sounds superimposed into all the backgrounds use to be clumsy lost in a thousands ways captivated by a craze those were hands down my favorite days so turn up the noise dress to the nines running with the boys your hand in mine singing every song loving every line til the night is gone just like the old times just like the old times just like the old times suspicion wasn t in our heads it was only underneath the beds beds saline eyes didn t have to hide they were always open way too wide way too wide so turn up the noise dress to the nines running with the boys your hand in mine singing every song loving every line til the night is gone just like the old times just like the old times just like the old times just like the old times just like the old times just like the old times just like the old times just like the old times10

stay with me for just one more day i have to make a move to somewhere miles away the only hope we ve got is just to smile and pray another lesson learnt another page is turned give in to your desire say goodbye or play with fire play with fire you ll get burned another lesson learnt another page is turned it s time i have to fly and then you say those precious words stay with me stay with me stay with me stay with me for just one more day stay with me stay with me stay with me stay with me for just one more day you make me lose my focus and the time of day just one minute in your arms the night it flies away i ve fallen for you you ve fallen for me stay with me stay with me for just one more day i ve fallen for you you ve fallen for me stay with me stay with me for just one more day i think loving you could be so easy oh i think loving you could be so easy i rate that heavenly girl she s a keeper should be taking her home make it deeper take that leisurely stroll by the beach then i ve gotta leave country now apply visa i m gonna bottle our love take a litre see you in a couple of weeks we re like a couple of freaks in ibiza even if we re sat on the sofa you just won me over 2