-->One Lonely Night
You and your baby had some words today
Till not another word was left to say
I see that grin boy
Maybe you think you'll win boy
Until the sun goes down and once again boy
One lonely night
One lonely night
That's all it takes to completely break you
They say it's darkest right before the dawn
But oh those dakest hours can be so long
You're feelin strong boy
Tellin yourself she's wrong boy
But how much longer can this night go on boy
One lonely night
One lonely night
That's all it takes to completely break you
Oh she's such a ggod find
Have you gone and lost your mind
You should know she's one of a kind
REO Speedwagon
-->Gemini
watching waiting rising falling
listening calling Drifting
touching feeling seeing believing
Hoping sending leaving
I couldn't say why you and I are Gemini
If I tried to write a Million words a day
I see your shadow coming closer
Then watch you drifting away
watching Waiting rising falling
listening calling drifting
touching feeling seeing believing
hoping Sending leaving
I couldn't say why you and I are Gemini
We are travelling a million worlds away
I see you Shadow coming closer
Then watch you drifting away
The Alan Parsons Project
-->Silence and I
If I cried out loud over sorrows I've Known
And the secrets I've heard
It would ease my mind someone sharing the load
But I won't breathe a word
We're Two of a kind Silence and I
We need a chance to talk things over
Two of a kind Silence and I
We'll find a way to work it out
While the children laughed I was always afraid
Of the Smile of the clown
So I close my eyes till I can't see the light
And I hide from the sound
We're Two of a kind Silence and I
We need a chance to talk things over
Two of a kind Silence and I
We'll find a way to work it out
I can hear the cry of the leaf on a tree
As it Falls to the ground
I can hear the call of an Echoing voice
And there's no one around
We're Two of a kind Silence and I...
The Alan Parsons Project
-->The Sound of Silence
Hello, Darkness, my old friend.
I've come to talk with you again.
Because a vision slowly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping.
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains, within the sounds of silence.
Through restless dreams I walk along
Narrow streets of cobblestones.
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turn my collar to the cold and damp.
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sounds of silence.
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking.
People hearing without listening.
People writing songs that voices never share.
And no one dared disturb the sounds of silence.
Fools, said I, you do not know.
Silence, like a cancer, grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you.
Take my arm so that I might reach you.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said,"The words of the Prophets are written on the subway
walls
And tenement halls, and whispers in the sounds of silence"
Simon and Garfunkel
"The Sounds of Silence"
-->Comfortably Numb
Hello,
Is there anybody in there
Just smile if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home
Come on, now,
I hear you're feeling, down
I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again
Relax
I'll need some information, first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts
There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only comming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what your saying
When I was a child, I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again,
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become, comfortably numb -
O.K.
Just a little pin prick
There'll be no more aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
But you'll feel a little sick
Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go
There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only comming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what your saying
When I was a child,
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
And I have become
Comfortably numb -
Pink Floyd
THE WALL
-->Overkill
I can't get to sleep
I think about the implications
Of diving in too deep
And possibly the complications
Especially at night
I worry over situations
I know will be alright
Perhaps it's just my imagination
Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat, shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away
Alone between the sheets
Only brings exasperation
It's time to walk the streets
Smell the desperation
At least there's pretty lights
And though there's little variation
It nullifies the night
From overkill
Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat, shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away
I can't get to sleep
I think about the implications
Of diving in too deep
And possibly the complications
Especially at night
I worry over situations
I know will be alright
Perhaps it's just my imagination
Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat, shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away
Men at Work
CARGO
-->Grand Designs
A to B -
Different degrees...
So much style without substance
So much stuff without style
It's hard to recognize the real thing
When it comes along once in a while
Like a rare and precious metal
Beneath a ton of rock
It takes some time and trouble
To separate from the stock
You sometimes have to listen
To a lot of useless talk
Shapes and forms
Against the norms -
Against the run of the mill
Swimming against the stream
Life in two dimensions
Is a mass production scheme
So much poison in power
The principles get left out
So much mind on the matter
The spirit get's forgotten about
Like a righteous inspiration
Overlooked in haste
Like a teardrop in the ocean
A diamond in the rough
Some world-views are spacious -
Some are merely spaced
Against the run of the mill
Static as it seems
We break the surface tension
With our wild kenetic dreams
Curves and lines -
Of grand designs...
Rush
POWER WINDOWS
-->Gemini Dream -
Long time, no see
Short time, for you and me
So fine, so good
We're on the road
Like you knew we would
First night, so long
A state of mind
What can go wrong
We're here, the time is right
To rock 'n' roll
Right through the night
Make it work out
Make it work
Make it work out
Make it work out
For each other tonight
Stage fright, candle light
You can't let go
Tonight's the night
Came back, for you
Glad to see
That you came too
Turned round, to see
Where we've been
And what we believe
In life, love
Take a chance
See it through
You'll be glad
That you came too
There's a place, a Gemini dream
There's no escaping from the love we have seen
So come with me, turn night to day
You gonna wake up
You know you gonna wake up in a Gemini dream
Long time, no see
The lights go up
For you and me
We're here
The time is right
To rock 'n' roll
Right through the night
Living it
Believing it
Wanting it
Make it work out
Make it work
Make it work out
Make it work out
For each other tonight
Long time, no see
Short time, for you and me
So fine, so far, so good
We're on the road like you knew we would
The Moody Blues
LONG DISTANCE VOYAGER
-->Painted Smile
I can sing
I can dance
Just give me a chance
To do my turn for you
There's a chance I'll slip
But with stiff upper lip
I'll sing a song for you
Laughter is free
But it's so hard to be a jester
All the time
And no one's believing,
I'm the same when I'm bleeding
And I hurt all the time deep inside
I've shed a tear for the lying
While everyday trying to
Paint this smile for you
Backflips, cartwheelings,
Somersault feelings
What is there left to do
Laughter is free
But it's so hard for me,
A jester all the time
No one's believeing
I'm the same when I'm bleeding
And I hurt all the time deep inside
Roll up, roll up
Enjoy the show
Pick me up, wind me up, put me down
You'll see me go
And this painted smile
May miss for a while
Then come back and steal your show
I sing, I dance
Give me a chance to do my turn for you
Backflips, cartwheelings,
Somersault feelings
What is there left to do
Laughter is free
But it's so hard for me,
A jester all the time
No one's believeing
I'm the same when I'm bleeding
And I hurt all the time deep inside
Laughter is free
But it's so hard to be a jester
All the time
No one's believing
I'm the same when I'm bleeding
And I hurt all the time deep inside
The Moody Blues
LONG DISTANCE VOYAGER
-->Reflective Smile
'Your painted smile hides you still
While you search yourself within
Yesterday and tomorrow's found
Fused as one upon solid ground
As all around the milling crowd
Confuse themselves with raging sounds
And thier love's forgetfulness, abounds
So be thankful for your greasepaint, clown
If loneliness wears the crown
of the VETERAN COSMIC ROCKER'
The Moody Blues
LONG DISTANCE VOYAGER
-->Veteran Cosmic Rocker
The lights go down
The stage is set
The man in the wings breaks out in sweat
A backstage joker spiked his coke
While the dressing room was full of smoke
A crowd of fools got him high
He's afraid he's gonna die
He's the apple of thier eye
He steps into the remaining light
The crowd goes wild
He's outa sight
Arms held high in the sign of peace
His manager signed the one night lease
The house is full, getting high
He's afraid he's gonna die
He's the apple of thier eye
(he struts, he strolls),
(his love is rock 'n' roll)
He's the VETERAN COSMIC ROCKER
He steps into the remaining light
The crowd goes wild
He's outa sight
Arms held high in the sign of peace
His manager signed the one night lease
The house is full, getting high
He's afraid he's gonna die
He's the apple of thier eye
(he struts, he strolls),
(his life is rock 'n' roll)
He's the VETERAN COSMIC ROCKER
He's afraid that he will die
The Moody Blues
LONG DISTANCE VOYAGER
-->Distant Early Warning
An ill wind is arising
Across the cities of the plain
There's no swimming in the heavy water
No singing in the acid rain
Red Alert
Red Alert
It's so hard to stay together
Passing through revolving doors
We need someone to talk to
And someone to sweep the floors -
Incomplete
Incomplete
The world weighs on my shoulders
But what am I to do?
You sometimes drive me crazy -
But I worry about you
I know it makes no difference
To what you're going through
But I see the tip of the iceberg -
And I worry about you....
Cruising under your radar
Watching from satellites
Take a page from the red book -
Keep them in your sights
Red Alert
Red Alert
Lefts and rights of passage
Black and whites of youth
Who can face the knowledge
That the truth is not the truth?
Obsolete
Absolute
Absalom
Absalom
Rush
GRACE UNDER PRESSURE
-->The Body Electric
One humanoid escapee
An android on the run
Seeking freedom beneath
A lonely desert sun
Trying to change it's program
Trying to change the mode -
Crack the code
Images conflicting
Into data overload
1-0-0-1-0-0-1
S.O.S.
1-0-0-1-0-0-1
In distress
1-0-0-1-0-0
Memory banks unloading
Bytes break into bits
Unit one's in trouble
And it's scared out of it's wits
Guidance systems break down
A struggle to exist -
To resist -
A pulse of dying power
In a clenching plastic fist...
It replays each of the days
A hundred years of routines
Bows it's head and prays
To the mother of all machines...
Rush
GRACE UNDER PRESSURE
-->The Enemy Within
part one of Fear
Things crawl in the darkness
That imagination spins
Needles at your nerve ends
Crawl like spiders on your skin
Pounding in your temples
And a surge of adrenalin
Every muscle tense -
To fence
The enemy within...
I'm not giving in
To security under pressure
I'm not missing out
On the promise of adventure
I'm not giving up
On impausible dreams -
Experience to extremes -
Experience to extremes
Suspicious looking stranger
Flashing you a dangerous grin
Shadows across your window -
Was it only trees in the wind?
Every breath a static charge -
A tongue that tastes like tin
Steely-eyed outside -
To hide
The enemy within...
Rush
GRACE UNDER PRESSURE
-->Demolition Man
Tied to the tracks
And the trains just comming
Strapped to the wing
With the engine running
You say that this wasn't in your plan
Don't mess around with the Demolition Man
CHORUS
I'm a walking nightmare
An arsenal of doom
I kill conversation as I walk into the room
I'm a three line whip
I'm the kind of thing they ban
I'm a walking disaster boy.
Tied to a chair
And the bomb is ticking
This situation of not of your picking
You say this wasn't in your plan
Don't mess around with the Demolition Man.
CHORUS
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA
NOTE: Yes, I know this was originally written by Sting, and
sung by the police, but Manfred Mann does the song
soooooooo much better than the Police ever did! <
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