Songwriter

Tightrope

Goodnight Maestro (instrumental)

Songwriter
(Parts 1 and 2)

Country Girl

One Lonely Room

Lay It On Me

Stage Door

Raised On Love

Doin' Time

Nostradamus

Marie

Learning The Game

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Tightrope

Yes I used to walk the highwire every night,
Yes I used to walk the tightrope
But you need a head for heights,
I walked the straight and narrow rope,
My head was spinning round,
I worked without a safety net
But it was such a long way down.

Oh you might have seen us
If we came to your town,
This game's made for heroes
And clowns.
Not thinking about tomorrow,
Living for today,
I left a note saying
I'm going away.

I used to walk the highwire every night,
Oh I used to walk the tightrope
But it got too tight.
I walked the straight and narrow line,
My head was spinning round,
I worked without a safety net
But it was such a long way down.

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Songwriter

Part 1

Thousands of people
Dream songs every night
And these worn-out chords 
Go on working for me
Still you keep on asking me
"Where is the Eden that we've dreamed of,
So many times we've been denied"
But we can say we're in love,
Oh yes. Oh yes.

Now thousands of people
Dream songs every night
But these worn-out chords 
Go on working for me
But still you keep on asking me
"Where is the Eden that we've dreamed of,
So many times we've been denied"
But we can say we're in love,
Oh yes. Oh yes.
 

Part 2

It's just a songwriter.

[Wake up]

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Country Girl

No deposit
No return, 
'Cos I knew I had
Knew I had to learn
So I fell in love
With a country girl.
And now I'm running away from the city lights,
Gonna get out of the smog,
Goin' down in the countryside,
I might even get me a job.
I'm moving out of this neighbourhood,
Doin' a daylight flit,
Rockin' and rollin' down the country lanes
'Cos Mother Nature told me to quit,
Oh yeah oh yeah.

I fell in  love
On a cool, clear nioght
Where the grass was green
And the moon was bright
And you wouldn't believe,
But I swear I was there
And we tasted the dew
On the clean night air.

No deposit
No return, 
'Cos I knew I had
Knew I had to learn
So I fell in love
With a country girl.
I'm running away from the city lights,
Gonna get out of the smog,
Goin' down in the countryside,
I might even get me a job.
I'm moving out of this neighbourhood,
If I have to walk through the wall,
Rockin' and rollin' down the country lanes
Getting away from it all.

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One Lonely Room

One lonely room,
Nobody there.
Nobody sits
In one lonely chair.
I know the feeling
For the first time in my life.
Oh, I should
I should have known
Better.
Oh, I should,
I should have known,
I should have known better.

One lonely room,
[No] Footsteps on the floor,
Nobody needs
To answer the door.
I know the feeling
For the first time in my life.
Oh, I should
I should have known,
I should have known better.
Oh, I should.
I should have known
Better.

You took the wind right off my sails.
You took my train right off the rails.
You left a car that had no wheels.
You left some shoes that had no heels.
You took the wind off my sails.
You took my train right off the rails.

One lonely room,
Nobody there.
Nobody sits
In one lonely chair.
I know the feeling
For the first time in my life.
Oh, I should
Oh yes, I should have known
I should have known better.
Oh, I should,
I should have known,
Better.

You took the wind off my sails.
You took my train right off the rails.
You left a car that had no wheels.
You left some shoes that had no heels.
You took the wind right off my sails.
You took my train right off the rails.

You took the wind right off my sails.
You took my train right off the rails.
You left a car that had no wheels.
You left some shoes that had no heels.
You took the wind right off my sails.
You took my train right off the rails.

Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh.

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Lay It On Me

And if you need me on a Friday night,
I'll stay the whole weekend and try,
We'll solve your problem if it takes all night,
I'll even sing a lullaby.
I'll keep you safe and warm and free from harm,
It's understood. 
Oh darling, 
I'm whatever you want me to be.

[Middle 8]

Oh darling, 
Take your worries and lay them on me. 

I get a yearning when the sun goes down
To hold your body close to mine.
I get a feeling to come round your house
And light the fire and drink some wine.
I'll keep you safe and warm and free from harm,
It's understood. 
Oh darling, 
Take your worries and lay them on me. 
Oh-oh baby, 
I'm whatever you want me to be. 
Oh darling, 
Get your loving and lay it on me.

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Stage Door

The last time that we saw you
And we heard those curtain calls.
We held hands and we loved you
And we shouted for more.
Your Mama misses you so
And your Papa wants you to know
That babe,
We want you to have your say,
We don't want to stand in your way.

But call us and say 
When you're passing this way,
And let us still know that you care,
Clean sheets on the bed in your room
And a place at the table and in our hearts.

Places please. On stage. On stage, love, please!
Coming!
Somebody left a letter for you at the stage door.
I haven't got time now, I've got to go. I'll read it after the show, OK?
Have a nice one!
Thank you!

Every night is a first night for someone,
Someone's making their debut,
On starry eyes the curtain will rise.

But call us and say 
When you're passing this way,
And let us still know that you care,
Clean sheets on the bed in your room
And a place at the table and in our hearts.

Such a long way we have travelled 
Just to see your name in lights;
We're writing you this letter
'Cos we're with you tonight.
Your Mama misses you so
And your Papa wants you to know
That babe,
We want you to have your say,
We don't want to stand in your way.

Every night is a first night for someone,
Someone's making their debut,
On starry eyes the curtain will rise.
Every night is a first night for someone,
Someone's bring the house down.
We want you to know 
You're stealing the show.

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Raised On Love

Seems like Venus was around my sign,
She must have been there
In that house of mine,
And when she tells me
That I'm on the right track,
When she tells me
There's no looking back,
'Cos I was raised on love,
Yes I was raised on love,
And I thank Heaven above
For being raised on love..

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Doin’ Time

Oh Prince of Peace
We need you now,
Give us a sign
To show us how.

Locked in her room the lover mourns her betrayer,
Seems every love possesses treachery too
But how can love be cruel?
Ain't it a shame,
He took the blame.

Seems this old world
Has lost its way
On such a torn
And troubled day.
Locked in her room the lover mourns her betrayer,
Surely not love possesses treachery too
But how can love,
Oh how can love,
Oh how can love be cruel?
Ain't it a shame,
He took the blame.

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Nostradamus

The faces of the children
In the artist's loving hands
Are all returning
Into sand.
The waters of the oceans
Like the rivers running dry,
It brings a tear to your eye.
Don't let Terra die. 

Do you ever get the feeling
That it's all coming true
And it's all being recognised by you?
Do you ever get the feeling
Nostradamus tolds us true
And it's all being witnessed now by you?

The waters of the oceans
Like the rivers running dry,
It brings a tear to your eye.
The faces of the children
In the artist's loving hands
Are all returning
Into sand
And slipped right through our hands.

Do you ever get the feeling?

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Marie

We were waiting for the sunrise
Marie, Marie.
We were standing in the moon's eyes,
Right or wrong,
Weak or strong.
And when I tell you that I'll always be around
I'll be around
And when I tell you that it's true love we've found
It's what we've found.
The bad times and the good,
Worries and the fights,
A man needs a lover that can see him through the night.

We were waiting for the sunrise
Marie and me.
We were standing in the moon's eyes,
Right or wrong,
Weak or strong,
Yeah. 

Marie and me.
Right or wrong,
Weak or strong,
Marie.

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Learning The  Game

Learning the game,
Learning the game.

When she says that you're the only one she'll ever love
Then you find that you are not the one she's thinking of,
Feeling so sad and you're all alone and blue,
That's when you're learning the game.

Hearts that are broken
In love that's untrue,
These go with learning the game.
When you love her
And she doesn't love you,
You're only learning the game.

When she says that you're the only one she'll ever love
Then you find that you are not the one she's thinking of,
Feeling so sad and you're all alone and blue,
That's when you're learning the game.

That's when you're learning the game.