The Collection

Wonderful Life

Here I go out to sea again
The sunshine fills my hair
And dreams hang in the air
Gulls in the sky and in my blue eyes
You know it feels unfair
There’s magic everywhere
Look at me standing
Here on my own again
Up straight in the sunshine

No need to run and hide
It’s a wonderful, wonderful life
No need to laugh or cry
It’s a wonderful, wonderful life

The sun’s in your eyes
The heat is in your hair
They seem to hate you
Because you’re there
And I need a friend, oh I need a friend
To make me happy
Not stand there on my own
Look at me standing here on my own again
Up straight in the sunshine
No need to run and hide
It’s a wonderful, wonderful life
No need to laugh or cry
It’s a wonderful, wonderful life

I need a friend, oh I need a friend
To make me happy, not so alone
Look at me here, here on my own again
Up straight in the sunshine

No need to run and hide
It’s a wonderful, wonderful life
No need to laugh or cry
It’s a wonderful, wonderful life

Paradise

I feel the weight of your heart
And I know a way it can change
I know the weight of your heart
I know a way we can rise

Just hold my hand and we can make it to paradise
Just slip inside and we can make it to paradise

Because, just like a forming rainbow
Just like the stars in the sky
Life should never feel small

We are losers now
It wouldn’t hurt to try
Oh wrap me up in passioned arms
And tell me, tell me you love

For I need to know if we’re to get to paradise
Just take my hand and we can make it to paradise
Because, just like a forming rainbow
Just like the stars in the sky
Life should never feel small

And we roll and dive and laugh and cry about it
Right out into paradise
Just like a forming rainbow
Just like the stars in the sky
Life should never feel small
Oh, never feel small
And we roll and dive and laugh and cry about it

The Big One

Do you remember
the way things used to be?
Our lives untainted by memory
And we laughed, and we cried, and we played, and we fought
And never stopped to think
Oh never stopped to think

That this could be
(This could be the Big One)
Explain just how we came to part
I never really wanted to

And now we flounder
in the wake of those days
we wish we’d never found out each other’s ways
And we laugh, and we flirt and we cry, and make love
Could it be the same?
How could it be the same?

Oh tell me how we came to part
I never really wanted to

Now You’re Gone

Well now, you wouldn’t stay
And there’s not much more that I can say
But your lips that I kissed
Will never go away
From my memory
They will remain with me

You were tied, now you’re gone
There was time, now it’s gone

Is this the best we can do?
Have we come as far as we intend to?
This was comedy, it is true
I was not innocent under you

Ah, my memories
they will remain with me

You were tied, now you’re gone
There was time, now it’s gone

All We Need is the Money

I make no promises
I make no guarantees
It makes no difference
When you’re all at sea

Try me for money
You can try me for days
I’ll be indifferent
When you’ve none you can’t pay

Say something good to me
Say it’s not always
You’ve got the power
Now give us the means
We can do it, we can do it
All we need is the money

You made your preference
You made your guarantee
And it made no difference
We’re still all at sea

Tell me it’s working now
You can tell me for day
I’ll be indifferent
There’s no justice this way

Say something good to me
Say it’s not always
You’ve got the power
Now give us the means
We can do it, we can do it
All we need is the money
You’ve got the power
Now give us the means

Let Me Watch You Make Love

Sometimes I wonder at this shame I hide
Pare away the man and find the worm inside
Your mind’s unclear and instinct is a lie
I hear what you say you’d do
And I wish it were true

How can he take you when you give yourself?
All the old lies just to bind yourself
Then you wrap yourself around me and
Whisper in my ear
‘where is your jealousy?’
all I feel is fear
I want to hear you, I want to see
Let me watch you make love
And imagine that it’s me

She’s My Best Friend

I run at things too fast, only give them half a chance
Say what you want, say what you will, but it’s true
I’m far too lazy, I do enough, but do nothing more
I like to drink, I like to play, do you too?

Until I knew her I never knew what a woman can do
did what she want, what she will, is it true?
She holds her own, she holds mine too, we do a merry dance
Do what we want, do what we will, do you too?

I brush her hair, and it crackles with the static
I never meant to kiss her, it was purely automatic
She’s my angel, she’s my Betty Blue
She’s my best friend
She’s my best friend

Her fingers drumming time, drumming time,
drumming on my beating heart
I got it good, I’ve got it bad – it’s true

You never know just what the blues are like
until you take a taste of the sweet life
I found an angel, a reason to smile
A best friend

She’s gone, she’s out of sight, she’s my love me tender,
my P.G. fright, my lady day in the dead of night
I found an angel, a reason to smile
a best friend
My best friend
She’s my best friend

Sweetest Smile

I think my heart must be made of clay
Cause everyone said it would be broken some day
And now I’ve come to that fateful day
So I sit on the floor with my head in my hands
And don’t tell me how to make it pay
I write a new song every day
I just wish I was made of wood
I might not feel pain even if I should
Even if I should

The sweetest smile that ever did
Melt the pats in the butter dish
And if you could have believed in me
I swear to God I’d have made damn sure
Our hearts were warm, and glad with wine
I’d keep the doors locked all the time
I just wish I was made of wood
You might not seem glad, even if you should
Even if you should, if you should

I think my heart must be made of clay
Cause everyone said it would be broken some day
Seems that I have come to that fateful day
So I sit on the floor with my head in my hands
With my head in my hands
Even if I should, if I should

Finder

Baby, once more I won’t ask again
Don’t tell me I should count to ten
Think freely, I won’t attempt to curb your speech
It sounds like something out of reach

It’s crazy, when I think of how I feel so free
Maybe there is something wrong with me
Could be!

Finder, I never seem to know when I will find her
I am the
Finder, and that’s fine by me
That’s fine by me

Bingo! You’ve said it, you “don’t care to play”
Just srag on through another day
Maybe it’s time you learnt to play the fool
Break some of your silly rules
And someday, when you think you can’t do anymore
I’ll be lying here to break your fall
So small

Finder, I never seem to know when I will find her
I am the
Finder, and that’s fine by me
That’s fine by me

It’s Not Over Yet

You should see my world
How it crumbled inside
You should see my world
from the inside

Walls can have ears
But what about you
It’s not over
It’s not over yet

Oh, I’ll hold you in my arms
I’ll hold you in my heart
I’m holding out for love

But the truth of it is
I was never so brave
As to speak my own mind
to misbehave

Mouths can tell lies
and they often do
It’s not over yet
It’s not over yet

Oh, I’ll hold you in my arms
I’ll hold you in my heart
I’m holding out for love

But what if it’s true
What if it’s true
What if it’s true
What if it’s true

You should see my world
How it crumbled inside
You should see my world
from the inside

Oh say it’s a good one
I so rarely do
It’s not over
It’s not over yet

Hey, I Was Right You Were Wrong!

Hey, hey what you say just might be true
But I still can’t take a chance on you if it’s true
Oh if it’s true
We’ve had our problems just trying to make the whole thing last
You thought that we might break if we drove too fast
Oh it is true
Just like I used to do

I was right, you were wrong
Who’s picking holes in who?
You were always a silly child
I was right, you were wrong
Oh look at you
You were always a silly child

Hey, hey what you say just might be true
Then there’ll be nothing left of me and you when I’m through
if it’s true
You are my target, I plan to make this last a while
I could sit and watch you suffer with a smile
Just like I used to do

I was right, you were wrong
Who’s picking holes in who?
You were always a silly child
I was right, you were wrong
Oh look at you
You were always a silly child

Ravel In The Rain

Now it’s complete
Ravel is in the rain
Standing in my dream street
I’d like to meet Ravel in New Orleans
Hold out my hand to his
I was warned, now I’m old
Still searching for what I’m told
is gone, is God, is not

Don’t try to leave
I’ve tried so many times
The street is named desire
I was warned, now I’m old
Still searching for what I’m told
is gone, is God, is not

Everything’s Coming Up Roses

You don’t believe me, I can tell it by your eyes
There’s a kind of magic, to be had from your lies
I used to say that today
Is like tomorrow
Don’t sell it short for truth

I should have known should have known should have known how
I should have known I should have known by now

You don’t understand it, I can tell it by your smile
There’s a kind of freedom, to be had from your lies
I always said that today
Is like tomorrow
Don’t sell it short for truth

I should have known should have known should have known now
I should have known I should have known by now

But everything’s coming up roses, coming up roses, coming up roses
But now everything’s coming up roses, coming up roses

You Don’t Always Do What’s Best for You

You tender-eyes me with those baby browns
’til I can’t get around
The fact that I still love you
and I’m not supposed to

This is supposed to be over
I’m not supposed to care

I wanted not to
But you don’t always do what’s best for you

Was your first name “lover”,
was your second “nomore”.
What the hell were we lovers for
Just to end up this way?

Now I feel that I can’t go forward
and I can’t go back

I wanted not to
But you don’t always do what’s best for you

I curl up inside when I remember
all the times I was weak
and the drinks seem to fly by like all passing years
Buying dear and selling cheap

You tried to make me so jealous
I resented your point of view

I wanted not to
But you don’t always do what’s best for you

You’re a Big Girl Now

You’re a big girl now
With a big girl’s needs
And a big girl’s dreams and promises
Why don’t you accept yourself?
Accept your desires
Meet your needs
Deny your problems

And don’t cry, cry, don’t cry you’re a big girl now

It’s so hard to be humble
When you know you’re worth more
To live and learn
Is all we can hope for
An attraction of pasts
Like the blindness of the summer sun
But what will you do
On when the rain comes through?

And don’t cry, cry, don’t cry you’re a big girl now

Here it Comes Again

Here we are, between the towers of love and devotion
Why can’t we seem to be what we want to be?
Always placing obstacles in our path, in our way
I try to ride the chill in me
But here it comes again

Here we are, and here we’ll stay, wrapped up in an ocean
A veil of tears, imagined fears and God knows why
Whatever I try to do, it goes in right and comes out wrong
I try to wrap the chill in me
But here it comes again

Whatever I try to do, it goes in right and comes out wrong
I try to wrap the chill in me
But here it comes again

I Just Grew Tired

So many problems
So many problems so many hanging faces
So many ways to say
Oh I’ll never see another day with you in it
So listen while you can
The first time that you ever have

I can count your saving graces on two fingers
Love them, sit on them
You told me that you’re not afraid to die
and dying’s easy, life that’s hard
Listen while you can
The first time that you ever have
So listen while you can
The first time that you ever have
Life’s not easy, but it’s all you have

I just grew tired
Grew tired
Grew tired
of it

So I can count on you
Don’t ever, never, never
never let it slip away
And dying’s easy?
I think I’ll try it out today!

Just Making Memories

Seeing you, I know why I’d come so far
And I thanked the stars for leading me to you
Your fairy tale prince, I’m trying so hard
To make like an orchard in my own back yard
Oh the rain dribbles down me in my beatitude
My collar and shirt, down legs to battered shoes
Life is a breeze!

I’m just making memories, good times or bad
I’m just making memories, you’re the best that I’ve had
And I’m still living my teenage angst
On the printed page and in other ways
So if I seem cruel, it’s only the fool in me
That wants to try and see if you’ll cry
Oh the rain dribbles down me in my beatitude
My collar and shirt, down legs to battered shoes
Life is a breeze!

I’m just making memories, good times or bad
I’m just making memories, you’re the best that I’ve had
No need to ask why I’m mischief and joy
I’m still the tall boy who just wouldn’t crawl
I’m just making memories, good times or bad
I’m just making memories, you’re the best that I’ve had