Natural Avenue

Introduction To Children Of Rock 'n' Roll

Natural Avenue

Summer Breeze

Carry Me

Who Could Change

Broken Dreams, Hard Road

Piece Of My Heart

Rainbow

Say You Love Me

Children Of Rock 'n' Roll

Street Café

Threw it All Away

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Introduction To Children Of Rock 'n' Roll

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Natural Avenue

Drifting on life and
Nobody missing you,
Look for a while and  see
What Skid Row can do,
Tom Fool fell for a
Back Street point of view.

All my life I've tried,
Oh, how I've tried.
Suddenly I'm there,
There's a feeling in the air,
I can feel it.
I can feel it.
I can feel it.
All my life I've tried,
Oh, how I've tried.
Suddenly I'm there,
There's a feeling in the air
Here on Natural Avenue.

Living on air you take
From the Earth for free,
Money you make to pay
For this liberty,
Tenement dreams are
Missing reality.

Walking the line that
Takes you between your eyes,
Showing a place where
Nobody has to hide,
I'm walking the line down
Natural Avenue.

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Summer Breeze

How hard I try,
I'll not understand why
'Cause there's nobody here,
Nobody here but me.
How hard I see,
I'll not understand me
'Cause there's nobody here
Nobody here I see.

Summer breeze
Whisper softly through the trees,
Make my cares slip away,
My thoughts drift away from view.
Summer song
Make my day,
Make it long,
Help this world walk on by
On its Natural Avenue.

Would you like to tell me
All the secrets that you know?
Would you like to tell me?
If you're asking
I want to tell you
Everything I know.

How hard I try,
I'll not understand why
'Cause there's nobody here,
Only my love for you...

Summer breeze,
Summer song.

Summer breeze,
Summer song

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Carry Me

Carry me,
Carry me.

Show me your island of a thousand names
Washed by the tide of time gone by.
High on your mountain we can share the view.
There for a short while,
In the corner of an eye,
Is a dream passing by
In my night sky.
Fly away.
Fly away.

Carry me,
Carry me.

Would you believe me,
Would you believe me when I tell you?
Would you believe me,
Would you believe me when I tell you
All the dreams you found are mine?

Carry me.
Still is the new day as the dawn unfolds,
Gone is the white horse that carried us home.
Lost to the morning all your deepest fears,
Watched over safely
By the words of a prayer
And the love that we share
Fly away.
Fly away.

Carry me -
Carry me -

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Who Could Change

Nothing I can say
Will make this feeling go.
Nothing I will say,
No word, no thought will show
Take it away
From me.

Who could know,
Begin to show
The love before my eyes?
Who could dream,
Know what it means
Of love the way you do?

Somewhere in this
Crazy dream
That we call life,
Someone who can give
You time and rest from strife,
Take it away
From me.

Who could change
Or re-arrange
The love I have for you?
Who could feel
The way I feel,
The way you make me do?

Who would know
Or even show
Their dream before my eyes?
Who would try
So hard they cry
And never say a word?

Who can see
The way you see?
I'm down upon my knees.
Who can hide
The hurt inside
In love, that's part of you?

Who has thought
Of no-one else,
No love, no dream denied?
Who has made my life complete,
That reason that I live?
You. You. You.

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Broken Dreams, Hard Road

Wish I could write of the love
I have known
In my lifetime...
Wish I could find just one word,
One small line
When I'm down.

The world has gone and changed its face.
The world has gone and changed its place.
While we were dreaming for the human race.

I know, I've been down this road many times
Many ways,
In my lifetime
And somehow the path that you've walked
In your life
Has led to me.

Your love has gone and changed my world,
Your love has changed the world I see.
While I was waiting you came to me.

I looked everywhere,
Thought that I would find you
Through the night,
Shadows dancing in the moonlight,
Broken dreams,
Hard road.

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Piece Of My Heart

'Cause you're the one that went and stole a piece of my heart.

High on our hillside we both shared the view
Talking of people we thought we knew,
How could that dream fade away
And fall on the ground where we lay?

'Cause you're the one that went and stole a piece of my heart.

Oh well,
You must be
Twenty three by now,
Married
With kids of your own. 
And the little boy
Is three:
Does he look like me?
It's a long way from freedom,
It's a long way from home.

I can remember the words that you say,
Seemed like forever was taken away,
When time made its own point of view
On the promise two young people knew

'Cause you're the one that went and stole a piece of my heart.

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Rainbow

Make my life the morning,
A promise for today.
Break my heart or let me in,
But do it, right away.

If I have to lose you for a while,
If I have to lose your loving smile,
If I have to lose your loving ways,
If I have,
Make my life worthwhile.

Make my life a rainbow,
Paint it every day.
Make my heart forever sing,
Do it, right away.

Make my life a lifetime,
Never walk away,
Like the wind upon the sand
Can't blow it all away.

If I have to lose you for a while,
If I have to lose your loving smile,
If I have to lose your loving ways,
If I have,
Make my life worthwhile.

Make my life a rainbow,
Turn your face away
Look upon the setting sun and
Rainbow fade away. 

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Say You Love Me

I wouldn't need these eyes,
I wouldn't need to see,
I wouldn't need to hear your voice
Say you love me.

If I could stay here for a while,
If I could hang on to your smile,
If I could turn your loving ways
Upon my lonely days...

I wouldn't need these eyes,
I wouldn't need to see,
I wouldn't need to hear your voice
Say you love me.

I tried so hard to find
The reason you came my way
And now I can't believe my eyes:
Are you here to stay?

If all the world came falling down
And lay in pieces on the ground
With only darkness from above,
If I could touch your love...

I wouldn't need these eyes,
I wouldn't need to see,
I wouldn't need to hear your voice
Say you love me.

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Children Of Rock 'n' Roll

And I think to myself
Wonderful way
My world revolves just a different way
And I think for a while
Reflecting a smile.
If changes are coming
I gotta say

You have to know 
Where you're going
Before you say “Goodbye”.
You have to know
What you're asking
Before you ask “why?”.

Love
Children of rock 'n' roll
Love
Raised on rock 'n' roll.

I remember all the words of 
Love that we sang out of tune,
Waving goodbye to a generation
As we danced
By the light of the moon.
I remember oh so clear
How the world
Looked from Blueberry Hill,
When you sang all the songs
On a six-string guitar
And made you a rock 'n' roll star.

You have to know 
Where you're going
Before you say “Goodbye”.
You have to know
What you're asking
Before you ask “why?”.

Children of rock 'n' roll
Raised on rock 'n' roll.
We played Elysian Park
Until the night was dark,
Children of rock 'n' roll.
We travelled eight miles high,
We never saw the sky,
Children of rock 'n' roll.
We had a beautiful day
When an island gave way to the 
Children of rock 'n' roll.
And in the garden of dreams
We found out what it means
To be the
Children of rock 'n' roll,
Raised on rock 'n' roll.

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Street Café

I said “Hello girl 
Would you walk with me?
I got nowhere to go 
And I'd much rather be 
Taking a chance that you had more 
Than a fancy way about you”.

So tell me girl, 
Where will it end, rescue me.
The music you send 
I'll play in the end, rescue me. 

The way you smiled was like a rising sun, 
You set a burning inside from which I should have run 
But you walked by 
And I was lonely and need someone to talk to. 

You blew my mind just like a neutron bomb, 
You left a shell outside where I could never come from. 
Now you walk by, 
You say you're lonely and need someone to talk to 

So tell me girl, 
Where will it end, rescue me. 
'Cause the music you send 
I'll play in the end, rescue me. 

I should respect your point of view 
But what can I say when I'm in love with you, 
When nothing makes sense. 
I'm gonna take one more chance that you can love too. 

So tell me girl, 
When will it end, rescue me.
'Cause the music you send 
I'll play in the end, rescue me 

The music played from the street café.
Rescue me 
Rescue me 

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Threw It All Away

And when I touch you, you send a shiver to my mind 
And when my eyes close, I see you all the time.
All I'm certain of, all I can say 
I gave you all the love I had.
You've thrown it all away 

Lover [Lover] 
Can you hear me calling? [Hear me calling]
Lover [Lover] 
Can you hear me calling you? [Hear me calling, calling you]
What can I say? 
What can I do?

[Taken everything you've had 
And thrown it all away]