I have my books And my poetry to protect me I am shielded in my armor Hiding in my room safe within my womb I touch no one and no one touches me I am a rock I am an island
I'm the dandy highway man who you're too scared to mention I spend my cash on looking flash and gaining your attention The devil take your stereo and your record collection The way you look you'll qualify for next year's old age pension. Stand and deliver, your money or your life...
As I watch you move, across the moonlit room There's so much tenderness in your loving Tomorrow I must leave, the dawn shows no reprieve God give me strength when I am leaving....
So raise your hands to heaven and pray That we'll be back to get her some day
Let's pretend that it's the real thing And stay together all night long And when I really get to know you We'll open up the doors and climb into the dawn Confess your passion, your secret fear Prepare to meet the challenge of the new frontier
When they poured across the border I was cautioned to surrender This I could not do I took my gun and vanished. I have changed my name so often I've lost my wife and children But I have many friends And some of them are with me An old woman gave us shelter Kept us hidden in the garret Then the soldiers came She died without a whisper There were three of us this morning I'm the only one this evening But I must go on The frontiers are my prison
Yesterday, when it seemed so cool When I walked you home, kissed goodnight I said it's love, you said alright It's funny how I could never cry Until tonight, as you pass by Hand and hand with another guy You're dressed to kill and guess who's dying Dance away the heartache Dance away the tears Dance away
There she goes with her nose in the air. Funny how love can be. Wonder why she pretends I'm not there. Funny how love can be, girl. Funny how love can be.
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord And I've been waiting for this moment, for all of my life, oh lord Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord, oh lord
Never went around with anything Ive had a hometown life And I have never learnt to swing Not much of a life I haven’t seen much Ive been. true to my wife and it’s just been too much .
Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder You'd been to the station to meet every train And you came home without Lili Marlene
And you treated my woman to a flake of your life And when she came back she was nobody's wife.
The distant echo Of faraway voices boarding faraway trains To take them home to The ones that they love and who love them forever The glazed, dirty steps that repeat my own and reflect my thoughts Cold and uninviting, partially naked Except for toffee wrappers and this morning's paper Mr.Jones got run down Headlines of death and sorrow, they tell of tomorrow Madmen on the rampage And I'm down in the tube station at midnight
And now it's midnight it's raining outside And I'm soaking wet, still looking for that man of mine And I ain't found him yet Well all of this rain can wash away my tears But nothing can replace all of those wasted years In all of this I tell you I have learnt Playing with fire gets you burnt And I'm still burning
Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain Telling me just what a fool I've been I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain And let me be alone again
You had me several years ago when I was still quite naive Well you said that we made such a pretty pair and that you would never leave But you gave away the things you loved And one of them was me I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee clouds in my coffee and You're so vain
I pictured a rainbow You held it in your hand I had flashes You saw the plan I wandered out in the world for years While you just stayed in your room I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon The whole of the moon
Loving you Isn't the right thing to do, How can I ever change things That I feel? If I could baby I'd give you my world, How can I When you won't take it from me?
My world is empty without you babe My world is empty without you babe And as I go my way alone I find it hard for me to carry on I need your strength I need your tender touch I need the love, my dear I miss so much