LET'S NOT PLAY THE GAMES

We said we'd never play the games
We saw the other people play
A power struggle or
A clash of wills maybe
Well tonight I think that I saw us
Doing things we said that we would not
Let's not make that mistake
Please before it's too late

CHORUS
Oh, Lisa let's not play the games, I need you oh so much
Right now the time is short for us and we must make the most
Of our time togther
There is no forever

I dreamed I saw a dying man
He gestured to me with his hand
I came close so that I could hear
The wisdom of his years

He said when we say we live and learn it's just another way
To say that somebody messed up and I did I know that
I only did my best and trusted good luck for the rest

And to live and learn is fine except we often find
That we have long since past our prime -
That we have run out of time

It's so easy to misconceive each other's actions as misdeeds
There's only right and wrong, there is no compromise
And that's the big mistake we make
We forget about the give and take
The winner takes it all
The loser can take a fall

CHORUS

CHORUS

ALONE IN A CROWD

BRIDGE
All alone in a crowd
Under a misty shroud
Like teardrops in my eye
But I never, never can cry

Help me please, help me out
What is it all about?
I need to know right now, right now

I am so confused I know
I need to laugh, I need to cry
I need to cry but I don't know how

CHORUS
Look at me, look about
All the people yell and shout
But they don't know why, don't try
To understand
Help me cry
I need to cry

I am lost, I am found
I am going round and round
But I never make a sound

Go away, no, come to me
Can't you see, Can't you please
See that I'm so lonely

CHORUS

BRIDGE

BUBBLEHEAD

There she is
There she goes
Weall see her but nobody knows
How you can be such a bubblehead
Without floating far far away
Away
Away

She walks by
Her head's in the sky
She giggles a little, then she says hello
Then she says "Don't you think I'll be
The prom queen this year you will see
You'll see
I'll be

CHORUS
La La La La La La
La La La La La La
La La La La La La La La

Then she wanders away
Nothing more to say
Till a jock/stud/dude saunters her way
Sayin' "Hey, Baby let's get it on"
In a second they are both gone

She's so happy and gay
Maybe one day
Someone will take a pin and stick it in
Then POP will go the bubblehead
And nothing will be there but air
Was there ever more?

CHORUS

CHORUS

LAY DOWN YOUR LIFE

You say you love me, then you do as I say
Otherwise you will lose me today
Lay down your life for me (she said)
Lay down your life for me

Yes, I love you
But I can't do as you say
I need you so much, but I can't do as you say
Lay down my life for you (I can't)
Lay down my life for you

CHORUS
The days will go slowly for quite a long time
But I will recover and I know I will know
I did the right thing
For if I hadn't
My life would have slowly been sucked away

If you could give half as much as you take
Then I could, but I wouldn't have to
Lay down my life for you (you wouldn't want me to)
Lay down my life for you

CHORUS

Lay down your life for me!
Lay down your life for me!
Lay down your life for me (Did you hear me?)
Lay down your life for me...

THE USER

He stands on the corner in an old beat up coat
He holds a cigarette but he doesn't even smoke

His vacant eyes stare, people pass all around
But he doesn't look - he just hangs his head down

The people who once knew him seem quite surprised
A good boy he was, just one of the guys
But he drifted away - they never knew why
Now he walks the street and desperate he cries

For a long shiny needle and a place all alone
Where noone can watch and noone can know

He needs what he gets but it gets him nowhere
As long as he's high, though, he seems not to care
He lives his whole life now for just one more fix
Oh what a shame 'cause he's just twenty-six!

And a long shiny needle and a place all alone
Where noone can watch and noone can know
Takes the place of all of his friends and family
They miss him so much and wonder where he could be

And the User he runs in the dark of the night
Hoping to find somewhere the meaning of life
And so he does what he does, but don't ask him why
Sometimes he knows, though, he flies oh so high!

(Thank God) For a long shiny needle and a place all alone
Where noone can watch and noone can know
Yes, a long shiny needle and a place all alone
Where noone can watch and know one can know

ALPINE LULLABY

Close your eyes and think of a place far, far away
It's gonna be all right - let me take you there

CHORUS
So let me sing you an Alpine Lullaby
Close your eyes, give a gentle sigh
Let me sing you that lullaby
And you can dream of that far land

Through the hazy mist the mountain rose and you were by my side
As we laid there on the slope you were my joy you were my pride
And I swore right then and there
That I'd never let you go
And to this day I've been forever true

So far away, so far away, oasis in our lives
No greed, no need to fight for life - no spies, no lies, no cries
Of foul or dirty play that are so common all around
The price we pay for this great modern world

CHORUS

Oh the days we spent there were so fine we thought they'd never end
But end they did and once again in this real world we have to fend
For the very hearts and souls that made that Alpine holiday
So special that I sing this song to you

CHORUS
CHORUS

PRIVATE HELL

Can't seem to be able to get to sleep tonight
I've got a lot of thoughts running through my mind tonight
Thinkin' 'bout way back when
And I'm not gonna pretend
That it doesn't hurt.

Well, you can't live your life in the past, I know that
But still the pain remains and from it's grip I can't escape
Holding me way back when
And I'm not gonna pretend

CHORUS
That I can forgive and forget and let it all go
And never hate again
I can't forgive and forget and let it all go
God I wish I could
If I could I would
Life would seem so easy
But it's not easy at all
When you're livin' in a private hell

Four years and nine months of my life you took away
Even in Iran it was only one year ninety days
The hell that they went through
The hell that I went through
(Don't you see) I can't forgive and forget and let it all go -
God I wish I could
If I could I would
Life would seem so easy
But it's not easy at all
When you're livin' in a private hell

Well now it's two-thirty in the morning and I'm tossing and I'm turning
A thousand painful pictures flash right before me
I try to look away
But the Goddamned images stay

CHORUS

CHORUS

MEMORIES WILL GET YOU NOWHERE

Once I thought
I knew what life was all about
Attaching meaningless ideals
I did not know
It was all a joke

I'm not mad
It's just that I have truly seen
Things I thought were so important
For what they are
Cruel illusions

CHORUS
So on through time and space we go
What's happened before it doesn't matter now
The present counts and nothing else
For memories will get you nowhere
For memories will get you nowhere

Now I go
Through this world day by day
Never wanting never needing
Things I know
Will just disappear

CHORUS

I've been hurt
I hope you can understand
You see a shooting star can not stop
It must go on - on no matter what

CHORUS

CHORUS

ALL NIGHT BLUES

Sittin' on the edge
I sit here almost dead
And I'm a rockin' and a shakin'
I'd like to sleep instead

The faces stare out blankly
Tryin' to comprehend
What the hell's he talkin' 'bout
My mind he's tryin' to bend

CHORUS
I got the all night blues and I think you know
Just exactly what I mean
And I bet you wish you didn't
But I got the all night blues and I will
Sit here just the same
A rockin' and a shakin'
My mind just tryin' to tame

I wish that he would stop
Or that I could make him drop
His words pierce right through my brain
They'll make me go insane

So as I sit here now
I shiver and I quake
I'm tryin' my goddamned hardest
Just to stay awake!

CHORUS

I got the all night blues and I will
Sit here all the same
A rockin' and a shakin'
My mind just tryin' to tame

K-TELISH CASTAWAYS

Warning: The following lyrics may represent a danger to finely tuned aesthetic sensibilities. Many sound better when sung, but not all. Some are simply bad.


IN FAIRYTALES

They say that it doesn't happen
They say that it's just a myth
It just does not exist
At least in 1986

Truelove may once have been
But now it's quite passe'
Cinderellas and princesses
Are best left for another day

CHORUS
In fairytales love never fails
In fairytales love never fails
To win out in the end
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh

And the critics will never find true love
Yourself you cannot deceive
A self-fulfilling prophecy
'Cause you can't find what you don't believe

REPEAT VERSES 1 & 3

So live your life a fairytale
It's up to you to make it true
In fairytales love never fails to win out in the end
In fairytales love never fails to win out in the end


HUNGRY CHILD

We call ourselves civilized
A progressive nation of the humanist kind
Yet we ignore the pain and the cries
Of a dying world of the human kind

Paying farmers not to grow crops
We fill all our groceries and all of our shops
Meanwhile elsewhere rivers run dry
It's not a myth that starving people can die

CHORUS
So we pass through this world, maybe one day
We will realize
That for all that we've done
The hungry child still cries
The hungry child still cries

It's really not a matter of money
We have the resources the ability
To produce enough food on our farms
But we would rather produce nuclear arms!

CHORUS
CHORUS

Come back - to me
I need you - so badly
And I miss you madly

Well, I know - it has to
Be this way - still I want you
And I want to hold you

CHORUS
And I'm sick of these damned love songs
There's nothing they can do
Syrup sentimentality
Won't bring me back to you



COME BACK
Come back - I tell you
Once again
Why do I - even bother
It's so obvious -
I need you and you need me. Together we were meant to be
We fit together so readily La da da da da da da dada
Come back -
I hate to be this way, I'd rather not beg today Oh Oh Oh!
So, come back!
Come back!
Baby, come back!

CHORUS

And I'm sick of these damned love songs
There's nothing they can do!
No, there's nothing that a song can do
To bring me back to you
No, there's nothing that a song can do
To bring me back to you


WHEELS OF PROGRESS

Well you know what it's all about
Talk about
Modern world of which you are so proud
But what have we become
Always on the run

Well this world is a messed up place
I know
That there must be a better way
Than blocking out the sun
Bad air for everyone

CHORUS
Wheels of progress keep us moving on
So what if all the trees have been cut down?
Look around! - and see

River flows and the green grass grows
Too caught up
In what we'd like to call humanity
And as we move along
We always sing the song

CHORUS
Look around! Look around! - and see
Just see
Just see


KEY TO LIFE

Everyone that I've been talking to
Wonders 'bout the key to life
Ponderous questions that can't be answered
When will we ever learn

That the key to life is not to look
For the key to life at all
Live, let live, just go with the flow
Take it easy. Stay cool. Stay calm

Too many uptight people
Worry their lives away (they say)
There's got to be more to this world!
(I say) What you see is what you get

Too many misled people
Wastin' away their lives
Lookin' for something that just isn't there -
Create so much confusion and despair

CHORUS
And the key to life is not to look for it
And the key to life is just to live your life
'Cause soon enough we'll all be dead anyhow

REPEAT FIRST TWO VERSES

CHORUS
CHORUS


RUNNING AWAY

Running away
Running away
It's so easy, so easy to run away

Drifting away
Drifting away
So many, so many people try to find a way

To hide in their own little world
To forget about the real world
Oh, but is that really so bad?
Tell me, is that really so bad?

High in the air
Without a care
The world below seems to be a little bare

Of love and laughter, compassion and care
Maybe it wouldn't be if we were all there
And the cycle it continues on
It continues on and on and on...

Twenty-one Jews in temple killed in Instanbul
A killer stalks the street while thirty-eight watch to see
A child prodigy dies 'cause we're too busily
Making money off her
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

And so many, so many people try to find a way
Yes, so many, so many people try to find a way
To hide in their own little world
To forget about the real world
Oh, but is that really so bad?
Tell me, is that really so bad?
And the cycle it continues on
It continues on and on and on

EVERY SINGLE DAY

I see you flash before my eyes
Every single day
Then I reach to touch you but you're not there
Every single day
Yes, every single day
Missing not one
Yes, every single day
And nowhere to run

We walked and talked and we laughed a lot
Every single day
We walked and talked and we laughed a lot
Every single day
But now it's all over
I don't know what to do
I feel so alone now
That I'm not with you

We were so happy or so I thought
Every single day
And I used to say to her
Every single day
Whoever said love hurts
I pity them
Yes, whoever said love hurts
I pity them

BRIDGE
La la la la la la la la la la la, etc.

We were so happy or so I thought
But she left me one day
I cried and cried till I couldn't cry
Every single day
Whoever said love hurts
I am with them
Yes, whoever says love hurt
Now I am with them



TO KILL ANOTHER MAN

I can never hold you near
Without the memory of his face
His eyes behind those dark sunglasses
A sad smile just a trace

CHORUS
To kill another man
You do not need a knife
Your actions and your words
Can just as easily take his life

He stood there before me
What he wanted I could not see
Then he reached his hand into his bookbag
A teddy bear he handed me

"There is nothing I can do
So to her this bear please give
I can never see her ever again
I have no more reason to live."

CHORUS

In a moment he was gone
I blankly sat upon my bed
I knew why he'd never see her ever again
I knew that he'd be dead

CHORUS
CHORUS


SINGIN' SONGS TO THE WALLS

I sit here all alone in my room on the bed
And I don't know what to do, I just know that I love you
So I sit here all alone in my room on the bed
Singin' songs to the walls
The walls that I know

CHORUS
And I wish that you could see
What our love was meant to be
'Cause I don't know how to tell you how I feel

So when I sit here all alone in my room on the bed
I think of what to do, how to tell you I love you
But I don't know what to say, so I sit here all alone
Singin' songs to the walls, the walls that I know

CHORUS

All alone in the dark in my room on the bed
I sing this song to you and every word of it is true
But you're not here to hear it so I sit here all alone
Singin' songs to the walls, the walls that I know

CHORUS

So I sit here all alone
And I am singin' songs to the walls
Hopin' that the walls will somehow tell you
What they know


SHOOTING STAR
In the darkness and the calm
We stood outside and watched above
And then that sight we saw
I remember it so well
From heaven it fell

CHORUS
(Oh and I'm talkin' 'bout)
That shooting star
I say it looked so far
Up in the sky, it was up so high
Together we stared and together we shared
I remember that night
It felt so right

It was special and we felt so close
The magic of that shooting star
It brought us all together
Oh we were so amazed
When through the night it blazed

BRIDGE
That golden glttering object
Embodied all our dreams
Our visions and our goals
As through the mind they stream

CHORUS

And only time can truly tell us
If that night was a beginning
The night an angel got it's wings
Or just a fairytale
A feeling soon to sail

BRIDGE 2
For ten tears or even sooner
The friendships may have passed
Still the magic of that night
Will forever last

CHORUS

CHORUS

#01 DREAMS COME TRUE - 1985

They all told me that I couldn't
But I never gave up
And I never let down
And through my trials and hardships
I kept my feet on the ground

So you really just can't forget your dreams
Else you are your biggest foe
"Cause you will never know
If what you're doing is real
You will have nothing to show

CHORUS
'Cause day after day we go on
Pursuing our dreams
And I know it must seem
A bit funny
But dreams come true
You know they do
Yes, dreams come true
You know they do

Now let me just say this to you friend
You've got to give it a shot
You've got to care a whole lot
And then your dreams just might come-
True believe it or not

CHORUS

And never let one tell you differently
'Cause you'll find all around
That cynics abound
But if you look real close you'll see that they're all
The ones afraid to take a fall
They'd rather stoop down
Than dare to stand tall

CHORUS