Ride the Wave
You took our masks
But we kept our hopes
We kept our music, too
You changed the rules
And aimed your guns
And told us what to do.
No, (No!) You cannot keep us down
No, (No!) You cannot keep us down
No, (No!) You cannot keep us down
Anymore.
Ride the wave
Take a stand
Reach for me
And take my hand
Love is gonna win this fight
We're gonna make it rock now
We're gonna make it roll
Let's ride the wave!
Your thoughts are red
But our hearts are blue
To this we hold the light.
You threw our rights
Into the fire
Now you're going to see us fight!
No, (No!) You cannot keep us down
No, (No!) You will not keep us down
No, (No!) You must not keep us down
Anymore.
Ride the wave
Take a stand
Reach for me
And take my hand
Love is gonna win this fight
We're gonna make it rock now
We're gonna make it rock
Let's ride the wave!
You call your lies the truth, you say your hate is love If that's the best you've got, then you've lost it with us!
Ride the wave Take a stand Reach for me And take my hand Love is gonna win this fight We're gonna make it rock now We're gonna make it roll Let's ride the wave!
Raindrop Soul
We took a blanket and an address, too
We found you in the rain
You reached out to us, we took you home
That's how you got your name.
Those little blue eyes touched my soul
You rubbed my cheek to make me whole
Years later, it's so hard to say goodbye.
Raindrop soul come lay down beside me
Close your eyes and let yourself drift into dreams
Share them with me.
Raindrop soul when you stare out the window
Can you see how far kitty dreams can fly?
When you say goodbye...
Raindrop soul how I love you so
Little boy how I miss you so
Maybe someday, you'll come back to me.
Raindrop raindrop soul
Raindrop raindrop soul
Raindrop raindrop soul
Raindrop raindrop soul.
Raindrop soul how I love you so
Little boy how I miss you so
Maybe someday, you'll come back to me.
Maybe someday, you'll come back to me.
You Can Feel It
When the night is long and cold
And we're dancing hard to rock and roll
And you look at me and we both can see
The strong reality that we both know.
Oh-Whoa-oh, you can feel it
Oh-Whoa-oh, baby, you can feel it.
Whatcha' doing over there
When your thoughts are flying through the air?
You should be with me
So pick up your feet
And let's find a place where we can meet.
Oh-Whoa-oh, you can feel it
Oh-Whoa-oh, baby, you can feel it.
Oh-Whoa-oh, you can feel it
Oh-Whoa-oh, baby, you can feel it
Do you ever dream, dream of this moment?
Where all the stars align?
Where you are dancing, dancing with a stranger,
And strangely, it feels fine?
And so the night comes to a close
And sweat is soaking through our clothes
With our pulses racing, racing at great speed,
Then I know it's you, it’s you I need
Oh-Whoa-oh, you can feel it
Oh-Whoa-oh, baby, you can feel it.
When the night is long and cold
And we're dancing hard to rock and roll
And you look at me and we both can see
The strong reality that we both know.
Oh-Whoa-oh, you can feel it
Oh-Whoa-oh, baby, you can feel it.
Oh-Whoa-oh, you can feel it
Oh-Whoa-oh, you can feel it.
Far From Home
You're a runaway flower child of the land
Skipping a tripping over patches of sand
Now you're running far, as far as you can
To get far from home, far from home.
Yeah, the vistas are endless and the highway is long
Your friends are loose and you're singing a song
The car is old but the spirit is strong
To get far from home, far from home.
Follow your heart and see what it is you can find
You might run out of money but I know you won't run out of time.
And when you drive into a strange new town
Do you see cold faces and do you see frowns?
Does it feel like you've got no friends around?
When you're far from home, far from home.
Follow your heart and see what it is you can find
You might run out of money but I know you won't run out of time.
So when they take advantage of you
Until your heart is breaking in two
Do you know what you're going to do?
'Cause you're far from home, far from home, far from home.
Sunny Sunday
Sunday, sunny Sunday
Lazy Sunday afternoon
Sunday, sunny Sunday
Playing a breezy summer tune.
Kick your shoes off for awhile
Lay back and listen to the trees
You can find a whole new outlook
‘Cause there’s so much to believe.
Sunday, sunny Sunday
Free and playful as a child
Hugging with gentle feelings
Running through a field, young and wild.
Have you ever heard the sunshine
Ask you to come and play awhile?
That’s what happens when I’m with you
I can see it in your smile.
Children play tag in the field
Grandpa joins in their fun
Together, friends are walking hand-in-hand
A quiet moment for someone.
Sunday, sunny Sunday
The wind and the sunshine always knew
I’m so glad I found you
And I’ll see you real soon.
On this afternoon, on this afternoon,
On this afternoon.
If the World Ends
Do you remember watching birds in flight over a summer field
The sun was warm, and we walked on trails hand in hand
We felt the gentle breezes cool our skin, we were without a care
How I wish we could bring back those days again.
But now the leaves have died, the sun is hot, we are on our own
We tried to point to the signs but no one is watching
The earth is scorched and the oceans rise, and the fires burn
If the world ends where will we ever love again.
Our garden is dying
It needs all of our loving care.
If we are going to write more songs of love
Can you tell me if
The world ends where will we ever love again.
And now we're hermits in a city where they all pretend
Nothing's wrong, life rolls on as we pollute the air
If we are going to try to mend the earth, we must cooperate
Will you care, we must try to learn to share again.
Our garden is dying
It needs all of our loving care.
If we are going to write more songs of love
Can you tell me if
The world ends where will we ever love again.
The world ends
Where will we ever love again.
The world ends
Where will we ever love
Again, ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah
The world ends
Where will we ever love again.
Just Another Weekend
Out on the street
People rush or they greet
There is paper upon the sidewalk
I'm lookin' out the window and the world's looking back at me.
There's groceries to get
And laundry to do
I'll wander inside a bookstore
It's just another weekend, just another weekend for me.
I want to go where the lovers go
I want to do what they do
I don't want to live my life alone
Oh, when will my dreams come true?
Don't need a list, I'll find what I need
I stroll through a maze of aisles
A couple holding hands
Oh, when will that happen to me? Ah-ah, ah-ah
Wait at the checkstand
Gaze at the time
And hurry to send a package
It's just another weekend, just another weekend for me.
I want to go where the lovers go
I want to do what they do
Walk through the trees over scattered leaves
Oh, when will my dreams come true?
I want to go where the lovers go
I want to do what they do
I don't want to live my life alone
Oh, when will my dreams come true?
The moon is a crescent
I'll drive to the dance
Inside of an old school building
Love is for sale
The cashier hands a ticket to me, ah-ah, ah
Those eyes that I see
Are looking at me
Or is it just wishful thinking
It's just another weekend, just another weekend for me
Just another weekend for me, just another weekend for me.
Lazy Summer
Hear the wind blow through the trees
Feel the heat rush through my sleeves
Sage and lilac fill the breeze
Not a soul in front of me.
Me, I pedal quietly
Follow rows of willow trees
Something distant calls to me
A meadow and some scattered leaves.
I don't mind if I do waste
An hour or two
Laying like a cat out in the sun
There's nobody that I owe
Nobody who can tell me
Toe the line
It's time to come home.
Dream of laughter on the grass
Hidden love beneath the trees
Hours drift like cirrus clouds
Lazy summer come to me.
I don't mind if I do waste
An hour or two
Laying like a cat out in the sun
There's nobody that I owe
Nobody who can tell me
Toe the line
It's time to come home.
Hear the wind blow through the trees
Feel the heat rush through my sleeves
Sage and lilac fill the breeze
Lazy summer come to me.
Studly Do-Right
Well, everyone knows that you’re a stud
You’re sexy, you’re cool, you’re number one
So take a bow and drink some beer
‘Cause everyone knows that’s why you’re here
Oh, you’re in the limelight, Studly Do-Right.
Well, drink a pitcher and drink some more
Ten gallons later you’re on the floor
Well, if you do something, you do it right
You don’t learn something overnight
Well, no one can hold it in like Studly Do-Right!
Well, you can’t recall what you said last night with all that anti-freeze in your stomach,
You’re gonna wake up one fine morning with a great big hangover from it,
So take some aspirin and eat some bread,
Drink some beer, are you well fed?
Yeah, everyone knows that you’re a stud
You dress so cool, you’re number one
And every hair is in its place
Looks so good on your plastic face
Well, you’re right on time, Studly Do-Right!
Well, everyone knows that you’re a stud
You’re sexy, you’re cool, you’re number one
And everybody loves you here
‘Cause you’re the one who buys all the beer!
Well, you’re in the limelight
Oh, you’re in the limelight
Yes, you’re in the limelight,
Studly Do-Right!
Equal!
Equal!
That's all I wanted to be
Like the sun and sea
Like the sun and sea,
Ah, ah, ah,
That's all I want to be
Like the sun and sea
Like the sun and sea.
Ah, ah, ah, ah.
I see you fit into the scheme of things
The quest for power, the fight to seize.
Now tell me, do you walk in harmony
Or do you rule over all you see?
Yeah.
What does it take so you can be the best
To get the most love and respect
Is there room for me to chase my dreams
To find my joy, to just be free.
Equal!
That's all I want to be
Like the sun and sea
Like the sun and sea,
Ah, ah, ah,
That's all I want to be
Like the sun and sea
Like the sun and sea.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
It's not too much to ask to feel alive
And not be kicked or cast aside
To be part of life just as myself
Instead of trying to be something else.
Equal!
That's all I want to be
Like the sun and sea
Like the sun and sea,
Ah, ah, ah,
That's all I want to be
Like the sun and sea
Like the sun and sea.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
We Didn't Have Time Enough
On a misty cold November day
These phone booths are so cold
Please answer me
.
But I hardly know what I can say
Always seems to go that way
Can you hear me?
We didn’t have time enough
That helpless feeling came too soon
We didn’t have time enough to know.
Don’t tell me
I don’t want to know why
That feeling went away
It went so quickly.
And the things we said melted away
Like the snow in early May
Gone forever, oh no.
We didn’t have time enough
That helpless feeling came too soon
We didn’t have time enough to know.
God knows it’s hard enough to protect yourself
If you easily give yourself away.
There’s something deep and special inside of me
And I gave it to you but you threw me away.
Does it matter who brought it on?
I just don’t know where to start
To pick myself up.
All I know is the empty pain I feel
In the morning it’s just to real, just too real.
We didn’t have time enough
That helpless feeling came too soon.
We didn’t have time enough to know.
We didn’t have time enough
That helpless feeling came too soon.
Down East in a Harbor Town
Down east in a harbor town
In a morning fog
A lobsterman waits for the sun
With his faithful dog.
Seagulls gather on a rock
And talk about the day
I can hear the bells of a bouy
Across the bay.
Took a boat to the island
A place that I once knew
Just thought I could find an old friend or two
Just an old friend or two.
Just came here from L.A.
Where the world’s in a race
And maybe I’ll go back again
After this gentle pace.
The girl that I knew here
She was my best friend
I wonder if she’s still around
You know I’d love to see her again.
She said “If you come back,
Please look for me here,
Share just one tear?”
Just one tear.
Warm breezes down by the cove
Danced through her brown hair
But the pines and the beaches
Look empty now
Without her there.
Found the house where her folks live
I knocked on the door
I can hear the clatter of tired boots
On the wooden floor.
They are like the ocean
Calm but full of fear
The gentle hand of God
Keeps them near, keeps them near.
So I stayed for dinner
In the warmth of the cottage heat
His wife brought out blueberry pie
But I just couldn’t eat.
In the soul of his weathered face
He’s an old salty type
I asked him where can Joan be
And he said through his pipe.
He said, “She went to L.A.
Just a couple of months ago,
Why she’d ever go there
I don’t know.”
He said, “She went to L.A.
Just a couple of months ago,
Why she’d ever go there
I don’t know.”
“I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know.”
She Has a Way
She has a way
And I don’t know what to say
She has a way
Got me singin’ feelin’ thinkin’ dreamin’
I’m in love and I’m believin’
Everything is going to be okay
I don’t know how she does it but
You know, you know, you know
She has a way.
She has a way
And it’s going to be another sunny day
Gonna buy a bottle of Cianti
Drive on down a desert highway
Find a grove of trees in case it rains
We’ll camp out on the sand because
You know, you know, you know
She has a way.
She's got the eyes that so attract me
Got the mind that understands me, yeah
Oh, I love the way we work together
Make the world a whole lot better
If she wants me, then I'm going to stay.
Stay Here Now
Would you like to spend the hours beside me
I will if you will stay here now
Let the days go into years together
I will if you will stay here now
No, no, no, I cannot take another day
With you a thousand miles away
When you come back let me hear you say
That you will stay here now.
Spending hours on the phone to hear you
It wraps me like a blanket now
A glass of wine, a book, a soft light
If you could be beside me now
No, no, no, I cannot take another day
With you a thousand miles away
When you come back let me hear you say
That you will stay here now.
I’ve been staring out the window
Sunlight sweeps across the floor
I don’t have very much to show you
But together we can find much more
So much more.
If you would spend the hours beside me
I will if you will stay here now
Let the days go into years forever
I will if you will stay here now
No, no, no, I cannot take another day
With you a thousand miles away
When you come back let me hear you say
That you will stay here now.
Rainflakes
In that season between seasons
No longer in the fall
It really isn’t winter
It’s not anything at all
There’s always a little rainfall
There’s always a little snow
Rainflakes swirling
In a gray sky over all.
And I’ll never see tomorrow
Just like I see today
Nothing’s really clear when you’re away
Rainflakes. (Snow and rain.)
In that season between seasons
When the weather makes no sense
Just a cloud of indecision
And a loss of confidence
I guess it won’t seem normal
As far as I can see
No, it just won’t seem normal
Until you’re back with me.
And I’ll never see tomorrow, Just like I see today
Nothing’s really clear when you’re away
Rainflakes. (Snow and rain.)
The Most of Nothing
When I was young
I went back to the city
To see what I could see
I saw the shops, the movies, and the beaches
And people on the streets
And when I came back home
A question stood in front of me
Is there a place where I can play and sing
I looked around to find something to believe in
Looking with all the most, the most of nothing.
So what is true, so tell me where’s the ticket
What book shows everything
If on the road, well, is there such a map
That can show your destiny
‘Cause love is far away, as far as the horizon
You’ll have to find a place to play and sing
I might find peace, I’m always compromising
Make do with all the most, the most of nothing.
Where are you from
Do you have all the answers
How did you find me here
Are you still lost, or are you still a seeker
Then come along with me
And we’ll go far away, as far as the horizon
And we can find a place to play and sing
And we may find that nothing is everything
Find love with all the most, the most of nothing.
You're the Hole in My Doughnut if You Leave
You're the beer in my mug
You're the gravy on my biscuit
You're the flower that attracts the honeybee
You're the gas in my tractor
You're the hay in my barn
You'll be the hole in my doughnut if you leave
You'll be the hole in my doughnut
The hole in my doughnut
The hole in my doughnut if you leave
You're the beer in my mug
You're the hay my barn
You'll be the hole in my doughnut if you leave
Now these here words are lucid
But this here song is stupid
But that's the kind of song we like to sing
It may be kind of shorty
And it won't make the top forty
You're the hole in my doughnut if you leave
You're the hole in my doughnut
The hole in my doughnut
The hole in my doughnut if you leave
You're the beer in my mug
You're the hay my barn
You'll be the hole in my doughnut if you leave
He Doesn't Know
So, you’re the one I have heard about
I know you from her photographs
She would talk about how well you danced
And the summer nights
And the arguments.
You don’t know me
That’s how I want it to be
I won’t let you see
That I had known her, too.
Well, maybe, it was circumstance
I never should have taken the chance
In a faraway town, she was passing through
We fought and cried
And the summer ensued.
You don’t know me
I’ll keep it that way
I’ll never let you see
That I had known her, too.
You don’t know me
I’ll keep it that way
I’ll never let you see
That I had known her, too.
So I’ll turn around, don’t you follow me
I don’t have any notes for you to see.
You don’t know me
I’ll keep it that way
I’ll never let you see
That I had known her, too.