always a queen always so fine always some joker standin in line to get a view and now he s hittin on you well let me hear you sing it baby sing the beautiful blues since you were a babe you ve been heaven sent just think of all the money these crazy men have spent on you i guess i m one of them too well let me hear you sing it baby sing the beautiful blues now there must be times when you get tired of being idolized it s got you searchin for a man who ain t that kinda guy where you gonna be when you get old you re gonna need somebody to have and to hold on to who really cares about you i do well let me hear you sing it baby sing the beautiful blues always a queen always so fine always some joker standin in line to get a view and now he s hittin on you well let me hear you sing it baby sing the beautiful blues i m gonna tell you since you were a babe you ve been heaven sent just think of all the money these crazy men have spent on you i guess i m one of them too well let me hear you sing it baby sing the beautiful blues now there must be times when you get tired of being idolized it s got you searchin for a man who ain t that kinda guy where you gonna be when you get old you re gonna need somebody to have and to hold on to who really cares about you well let me hear you sing it baby sing the beautiful let me hear you sing it baby sing the beautiful let me hear you sing it baby sing the beautiful blues

well hello little girl remember me and get those lips to say to me i ll let you know what they mean to me if you let me do it right i can t deny that red hot chemistry when i m lookin at you and you re lookin at me i ll prove to you what it means to me stay with me tonight well don t start playing them games with me your body s telling me everything you know what you do to me i wanna make you feel like a baby come on to my house i got the lights down low come on to my house and we can be alone you know you really don t wanna go home stay with me tonight yeah baby come stay with me if you re asking what i see if it s love you re sending me well stay with me tonight yeah well i been watching you all night long now the party s over everybody s gone it seems to me i can t be wrong there s only you and i well you don t have to spell it out for me you can say what you wanna say cause i ll believe but if i m right and you feel for me stay with me tonight well you made eyes for me alone the other guys have come and gone them fellows are gonna head for home well don t tell me baby i m really wrong well come on little girl it s time to go if you wanna say yes then don t say no cause i m on fire and i want you so stay with me tonight well honey come on baby stay with me did i see what i think i see well if it s love you re sending me then stay with me tonight well watch me well you made eyes for me alone the other guys have come and gone them fellows are gonna head for home well don t tell me baby i m really wrong well come on little girl it s time to go if you wanna say yes then don t say no cause i m on fire and i want you so stay with me tonight well honey come on baby stay with me cause if you re asking what i see well if it s love you re sending me then stay with me tonight well baby you re everything c mon your folks tell em anything say you re staying with them we re gonna say goodnight tonight stay with me tonight stay with me tonight well stay with me tonight

here we go again on a 747 looking at the clouds on the other side of heaven smoking and drinking never gonna stop reading magazines stop me looking at the clock wanna watch a movie can t sit still flying down to rio going to brazil watching all the road crew attacking little girls joined the mile high club going around the world all the booze is free airline going broke here comes the lady with another jack n coke wanna watch a movie can t sit still flying down to rio going to brazil steve clem hobbsy john crazy dil and pappy had to travel second class they ain t too fucking happy elevator music butter in my ears think we re gonna die just the pilot changing gear wanna watch a movie can t sit still flying down to rio going to brazil

every night it s the same i feel your heart turn cold as rain and know that you ll be gone again i hear the front door close you say you got to go downtown i guess there s someone else you ve found so why you re still coming round heaven only knows heaven only knows just why loving you should make me cry make me feel like i could die that s the way it goes heaven only ever sees how love s made a fool of me i guess that s how it s meant to be but heaven only knows i ve heard it said that talk is cheap but still your words they cut so deep lay me crying in my sleep and the pain just grows i don t know who s right or wrong but all we had is dead and gone so why you keep me hanging on heaven only knows heaven only knows just why loving you should make me cry make me feel like i could die that s the way it goes heaven only ever sees how love s made a fool of me i guess that s how it s meant to be but heaven only knows i m going to turn and walk away there s nothing left for me to say it wouldn t change things anyway oh i suppose the love i gave was always true i don t know what else to do and how i ll ever get over you heaven only knows heaven only knows just why loving you should make me cry make me feel like i could die that s the way it goes heaven only ever sees how love s made a fool of me i guess that s how it s meant to be but heaven only knows2

i m fine from within just better without this noose around my neck is counting me out whenever i run my beautiful sin is calling outside and it s that that reminds me of you now our every last effort tried so far has been denied it s easy to cry for love far harder to try there goes my guiding light farewell my guiding light i fought my way in but can t find a way out of this weightless regret surrounding me now and whenever i run some beautiful sin is calling outside and it s that that reminds me of you now our every last effort tried so far has been denied it s easy to cry for love far harder to try there goes my guiding light farewell my guiding light

they ll gain the world but lose their souls they ll gain the world but lose their souls don t believe politicians and thieves they want our people on their bended knees pirates and robbers liars and thieves you come like the wolf but dressed like the sheep if you go to lagos what you find vampires if you go to kinshasa what you find vampires if you go to darfur what you find vampires if you go to malabo what you find vampires lies and theft guns and debt life and death imf when the bank man comes to your door better know you ll always be poor bank loans and policies they can t make our people free you live on the blood of my people everyone knows you ve come to steal you come like the thieves in the night the whole world is ready to fight if you go to lagos what you find vampires if you go to kinshasa what you find vampires if you go to darfur what you find vampires if you go to malabo what you find vampires lies and theft guns and debt life and death imf they gained a war but lose their soul they gained a war but lose their souls you live on the blood of my people everyone knows you ve come to steal you come like the thieves in the night the whole world is ready to fight if you go to lagos what you find vampires if you go to kinshasa what you find vampires if you go to darfur what you find vampires if you go to malabo what you find vampires lies and theft guns and debt life and death imf

sunset sunset it s sunset it s sunset you went and left happy you re all alone you turned and walked away about this time of day it was always sunset sunset i didn t want you to see me cry so i turned my head to hide the tears in my eyes when evening shadows fall that s when i miss you most of all sunset i didn t want you to see me cry so i turned my head to hide the tears in my eyes when evening shadows fall that s when i miss you most of all and oh it s sunset oh sunset

it s hot here at night lonely black and quiet on a hot summer night don t be afraid of the world we made on a hot summer night cause when a long legged lovely walks by yeah you can see the look in her eye then you know that it s hot in the city hot in the city tonight tonight hot in the city hot in the city tonight tonight for all the dreams and schemes people are as they seem on a hot summer night don t be no fun don t forget you re young on a hot summer night a sometime someone you re not don t wait to see what you ve got cause you know that you re hot in the city hot in the city tonight tonight hot in the city hot in the city tonight tonight we ll walk until my feet drop i m a train when i m hateful yeah lay right down now and ride until your head breaks i m a walkin til my brain pops i will move with the beat now i m a chain round an a bomb i m a ribbon in the heat now new york hot in the city hot in the city tonight tonight hot in the city hot in the city tonight tonight hot in the city hot in the city tonight tonight hot in the city hot in the city tonight tonight

frankie laine he was singing jezebel i pinned an iron cross to my lapel i walked up to the tallest and the blondest girl i said look you don t know me now but very soon you will so won t you let me see i said won t you let me see i said won t you let me see your naked body just dance me to the dark side of the gym chances are i will let you do most anything i know you re hungry i can hear it in your voice and there are many parts of me to touch you have your choice ah but no you cannot see she said no you cannot see she said no you cannot see my naked body so we re dancing close the band is playing stardust the balloons and paper streamers they re floating down on us she says you ve got a minute left to fall in love in solemn moments such as this i have put my trust and all my faith to see i said all my faith to see i said all my faith to see her naked body naked body all my faith

i ve been workin on the long neck bottle watchin all these people have the time of their lives maybe crazy passin all these ladies for the girl in the red dress catchin my eye ive been sittin here watchin you with a guy that won t remember your name it won t be the first time a good thing passed me by baby will you take my hand if i ask you we can take it as slow or as fast as you want tonight you might find some love in the shot of the dark clock keeps tickin and i m still thinking of ways that i could get close to you two left feet and my hands are shakin as i try and cut my way through the room your cowgirl boots look to damn heavy for a guy like me to sweep you up off your feet two more drinks and i may just have to try baby will you take my hand if i ask you we can take it as slow or as fast as you want tonight you might just find some love i ve been workin on the long neck bottle watchin all these people have the time of their lives ive been sittin here watchin you with a guy that won t remember your name it won t be the first time a good thing passed me by your cowgirl boots look to damn heavy for a guy like me to sweep you up off your feet two more drinks and i may just have to try baby will you take my hand if i ask you we can take it as slow or as fast as you want you might find some love in the shot of the dark yea a shot in the dark yea a shot in the dark

mister sandman bring me a dream make him the cutest that i ve ever seen give him two lips like roses and clover then tell him that his lonesome nights are over sandman i m so alone don t have nobody to call my own please turn on your magic beam mister sandman bring me a dream mister sandman bring me a dream make him the cutest that i ve ever seen give him the word that i m not a rover and that his lonesome nights are over sandman i m so alone don t have nobody to call my own please turn on your magic beam mister sandman bring me a dream mister sandman bring us a dream give him a pair of eyes with a come hither gleam give him a lonely heart like pagliacci and lots of wavy hair like liberace mister sandman someone to hold would be so peachy before we re too old so please turn on your magic beam mister sandman bring us please please please mister sandman bring us a dream

and when i go away i know my heart can stay with my love it s understood it s in the hands of my love and my love does it good wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo my love does it good and when the cupboard s bare i ll still find something there with my love it s understood it s everywhere with my love and my love does it good wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo my love does it good oh oh i love oh oh my love only my love holds the other key to me oh oh my love oh oh my love only my love does it good to me wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo my love does it good don t ever ask me why i never say goodbye to my love it s understood it s everywhere with my love and my love does it good woah wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo my love does it good oh oh i love oh oh my love only my love does it good to me wo wo wo wo wo oh wo oh wo4

she said it was just a figment of speech and i said you mean figure and she said no figment because she could never imagine it happening but it did when we first met i played the shy boy when she spoke to me for the first time my nose began to bleed she guessed the rest the next day we went on a bus ride to the ferry and when nobody came to collect our fares well i knew then this was something special i couldn t stop thinking about her and every time i switched on the radio there was somebody else singing a song about the two of us it was just like being on a fast ride at the fun fair the sort you want to get off because its scary and then as soon as you re off you want get straight back on again but all love is strange and you have to learn to take the crunchy with the smooth i suppose she began going out with mr potato head it was when i saw her in he car park with his coat around her shoulders that i realized i went home and thought about the two of them together until the bathwater went cold around me i thought about her eyes and the curve of her breasts and about the point where their bodies met i confronted her about it i said i m the most illegible bachelor in town and she said yeah that s why i can never understand any of those silly letters you send me and then one day it happened she cut her hair and i stopped loving her

is there a place that we can go to teach the children not to grow where lovers don t remember where they met and heartbreak is easy to forget is there no love to speak of is there no love to speak of i m looking for a place lookin for a place i gotta find a new place to call home i m looking for a place lookin for a place i gotta find a new place to call home there has to be a closer country where love can live near me i ve got to find it because right now i m not seeing clearly there s someone knocking on my door no one lives here anymore there s someone knocking on my door no one lives here anymore don t i know you you ve got to believe me we met yesterday don t i know you i don t believe her this bar is closing don t i know you i don t live here anymore don t i know you i ve got to get out i ve got to get out i don t live here anymore is there no love to speak of is there no love to speak of i m looking for a place lookin for a place i gotta find a new place to call home i m looking for a place lookin for a place i gotta find a new place to call home is there a place that we can go to teach the children not to grow where lovers can t even remember where they met and heartbreak is so easy to forget there has to be a closer country where love can live near me well i ve got to find it because right now i m not seeing clearly there s someone knocking on my door no one lives here anymore there s someone knocking on my door no one lives here anymore 1

bus stop bus stop are you ready to do the bus stop bus stop bus stop form a line to the front form a line to the back are you ready to do the bus stop four to the front then four to the back four to the front then four to the back two to the front and two to the back front back left back bus stop bus stop people are you ready to do the bus stop bus stop bus stop are you ready to do the bus stop four to the front then four to the back four to the front then four to the back two to the front and two to the back front back left back bus stop bus stop people are you ready to do the bus stop bus stop bus stop are you ready to do the bus stop yeah don t stop keep the groove don t stop don t stop don t stop don t stop don t stop i ll tell you when

the more i see you the more i want you somehow this feeling just grows and grows with every sigh i become more mad about you more lost without you and so it goes can you imagine how much i love you the more i see you as years go by i know the only one for me can only be you and you and you my arms won t free you and my heart won t try na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na can you imagine how much i love you the more i see you as years go by i know the only one for me can only be you my arms won t free you and my heart won t try na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na can you imagine how much i love you the more i see you as years go by i know the only one for me can only be you my arms won t free you and my heart won t try my heart won t try my heart won t try my heart won t try

keeping my eyes on the road i see you keeping my hands on the wheel i hold you 99 miles from l a i kiss you i miss you please be there passing the white sandy beach we re sailing turning the radio on we re dancing 99 miles from l a i want you i need you please be there the windshield is covered with rain i m cryin pressing my foot on the gas i m flyin counting the telephone poles i phone you reading the signs on the road i write you 99 miles from l a we re laughing we re loving please be there counting the telephone poles i phone you reading the signs on the road i write you 99 miles from l a we re laughing we re loving please be there

this is my legacy this is my life i know exactly how i want it to be don t you dare ever tread on me i live and learn and try my best to not repeat my mistakes there s no stones for my sins which i built a castle with but i wonder will i be remembered for the good i ve done or will my name be stained forever i stand as living proof that if you always believe and never give up your dreams that anything is possible don t be afraid to face the world don t you try to flee you can t just run away never listen to those who don t believe in you but i wonder will i be remembered for the good i ve done or will my name be stained forever i wonder will i be remembered or will my name be stained forever promise me you ll fight until there s nothing left promise to me that you ll never give up promise to me that you ll never surrender promise to me that you ll never give up promise to me that you ll never surrender but i wonder will i be remembered for the good i ve done or will my name be stained forever i wonder will i be remembered or will my name be stained forever

you like to live a life scared to take a fall still you go out every night getting drunk and getting high trying to risk it all you show everything you got never close your eyes and its hard to sleep alone when youll never have home in a house of lies and still you try where you gonna run when your river runs dry reach out your hands baby kiss that sky who you gonna call when it gets rough try it all alone but youre never gonna be enough you try to see the light take a chance again baby it aint no secret that all the promises you keep aint worth remembering oh them demons in your head writeem in your songs and its sure is all healthy when you put the pen to paper get to right your wrongs but its the same old song where you gonna run when your river runs dry reach out your hands baby kiss that sky who you gonna call when it gets rough try it all alone but youre never gonna be enough yeah where you gonna run when your river runs dry reach out your hands baby kiss that sky who you gonna call when it gets rough try it on your own but youre never gonna be enough enough

i got this lighter in my hand a little gasoline so please just let me in now your door seems soaking wet well i ve lost everything so i never will regret when i burn this old house down wrapped in an embrace your bodies will be found and i ll be running free no one will blame me cuz i won t make a sound when i burn this old house down i got this pistol in my hand and all the lights were off so i just let myself in and now i m waiting for your last walk through that door it s hard to say goodbye but i won t be jealous anymore when i burn this old house down wrapped in an embrace your bodies will be found and i ll be running free no one will blame me cuz i won t make a sound when i burn this old house down i know i ll miss you and the lies that stormed your heart go and strike a match and watch your whole world fall apart