Lost in a song (Paul Horan)   [Albums: Sweet Surprise, Retrospective, Collection]

Here I am lost in a song
Guess that I've known all along it's you
Trying to right what went wrong
This song goes on

This song goes on and on and on
You're still gone
Here I am back on my own
Wondering which way to go on from here
And all I can do is think about you

Time goes by slowly and I
Stare at the clouds drifting by
Time slips away but the memories stay
This song goes on

This song goes on and on and on, etc...

Here I am lost in a song
Guess that I've known all along it's you
Trying to right what went wrong
This song goes on

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How it goes  (Eric Andersen)   [Albums: Sweet Surprise, Collection]

New York City, February '64, I almost froze
In a 7th Avenue phone booth, a chill came from the coast
High upon his triumph, one James Dean never rode
His second taste of faithless love and fresh-blown off the road
Green off the streets of San Francisco
He was trying to make and keep his mark and
Trying to keep her too

So how it goes I don't know
Feelings froze and the book just closed
Too many tears and sorrows, we lost our hearts I suppose
Why after oh so many years
I don't mind the coldness, I can make it in the dark
If you were your own prisoner, you be your own guard
We really thought we had it made, we thought we were so smart
If it makes you feel any better babe, let's blame it on the stars
Lover, lover, lover let's blame it on the stars,
Lover, lover, lover tell me why it had to be so hard

Everybody seemed so hungry then on Ambition Avenue
Paranoia oozing in the air, it even filled our shoes
Survival rode a two-faced mount, the vibes were black and blue
They called it revoluton but murder seemed to rule
The lovers hid out in the Grove they didn't wanna know
About the war, us or them, the times are so confused
So go to him now if he's the one you crave
He's the one who sees through you, scars are blown away
You need his sensitivity, you need his truth, his grace
And there's nothing now, nothing now standing in his way

So how it goes I don't know
Feelings froze and the book just closed
Too many tears and sorrows, we lost our hearts I suppose
Why after oh so many years
How heavy must the changes be to get yourself across to me
I don't mind the coldness, I can make it in the dark
If you were your own prisoner, you be your own guard
We really thought we had it made, we thought we were so smart
If it makes you feel any better babe, let's blame it on the stars
Lover, lover, lover let's blame it on the stars
Lover, lover, lover tell me why it had to be so hard

Then it was off to California our hopes began to swell
With a child in the offing, things didn't go so well
Really felt like paradise, we fell beneath the spell
Like palm trees on a freeway, so paradoxical
In that other wasteland, Ahming for our own canal
Blue river couldn't hear me, shit I wouldn't take the call
So it was back to NYC where I crawled out of the well
To get the energy again to say just fuck 'em all

So how it goes I don't know
Feelings froze and the book just closed
Too many tears and sorrows, we lost our hearts I suppose
Why after oh so many years
I don't mind the coldness, I can see now in the dark
If you were your own prisoner, you be your own guard
We really thought we had it made, we thought we were so smart
The famous model lovers then, we really missed the mark
I wouldn't mind it half as much if I hadn't lost the part
Lover, lover, lover if I hadn't lost the part
Lover, lover, lover tell me why it had to be so hard

It was Max's Kansas City, after a show we hit the bar
How she longed for his reflection and I guess by now
You know she reflected him so well
And almost like perfected souls that never were apart
In that hotel room that night she took his song to heart
And just like wild horses, the lovers how they ran
Who'd ever guess that Christmas day it'd stop like it began
Sickness grabbed her by the spine, she fell out of his grip
Ophelia turned to Camille and hit the Texas dirt
Hamlet didn't stick around and did his worst Bogart
And quickly split to New Years Eve avoidng all questions
Went on to California and she to Switzerland

So how it goes I don't know, etc...

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Sweet surprise  (Eric Andersen)   [Albums: Sweet Surprise, Collection, So Much on My Mind]

Hey, you with the love-light in your eyes
Come and sit beside me in my fright
Tell me what you really need now
Tell me wnat you really see in mine

We ain't fooling anyone
But tonight that's alright
Don't waste your breath explaning it
Call it what you might
Don't call it anything
Just call it Sweet Surprise

Far out in the widerness
A lonely coyote howls
For every bleeding heart still left
With the strength to still hold out
For every quarter in the jukebox
Was a dime that told a lie
For every dead horse on the mesa
There's one that still survives, surviving strong

Hey, you with the love-light in your eyes, etc...

Way up on the border
Where the sun and sleet collide
There ain't no law or order
Just the proud survive
We ain't going anywhere
Tonight that's alright
Don't waste your breath explaning it
Call it what you might
Don't call it anything
Just call it Sweet Surprise

Hey, you with the love-light in your eyes, etc...

Somewhere there's a holy man
Sniffing in the wind
Somewhere on a dark road
Is a guitar shivering
On the hills a dawn is breaking
Behind evenings mournful cry
For every lonesome wasted heart
Swallowed in the night, swallowed

Hey, you with the love-light in your eyes, etc...

Call it anything you want to
Or just call it Sweet Surprise

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Down at the cantina  (Eric Andersen)   [Albums: Sweet Surprise, Retrospective, Collection]

Tonight the town is empty
Streets deserted, dark and lonely
Where the lights are warm and glowing
Love is lying arm in arm
While down at the cantina
Gypsy barmaids dream
Is he checking out a fortune?
Is he checking out bracletes and a charm?
And a charm?

Friends look at me and worry
'Cause times I get discouraged
My feelings get so blurry
I get so withdrawn inside
And at those times you feel I scare you
When I can't show my real care for you
Are the times I get scared too

I try too hard, a little too shy
Like a little boy when you look into my eyes
You've got other lovers, you know so do I
I won't say my arms are the answer to your life
Somehow this time it feels so right
And if yours are really empty now
Mine are empty too
So baby, come with me
Please stay in mine tonight

I'm not asking you to trust me, judge me, or protect me
Place yourself above me, get heavy, or criticize my life
This love is like electric wire
Memories mixed up with desire
Changes feel like ice and fire
Sometimes I think
They make us both get so jammed up inside

I try too hard, a little too shy, etc...

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San Diego serenade  (Tom Waits)   [Albums: Sweet Surprise, Retrospective, Collection]

I never saw the morning 'til I stayed up all night
I never saw the sunshine 'til you turned out the light
I never saw my hometown until I stayed away too long
I never heard the melody, until I needed a song.

I never saw the white line, 'til I was leaving you behind
I never knew I needed you 'til I was caught up in a bind
I never spoke 'I love you' 'til I cursed you in vain,
I never felt my heartstrings until I nearly went insane.

I never saw the east coast 'til I move to the west
I never saw the moonlight until it shone off your breast
I never saw your heart 'til someone tried to steal it away
I never saw your tears until they rolled down your face.

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Love will meet again  (Eric Andersen, Jennifer Condos)   [Albums: Sweet Surprise, Retrospective, Collection]

You ask me what I've been thinking
Well I think it's time to tell
I've been having these thoughts lately
They don't seem to be fitting in too well

I look into your eyes filled with sorrow
Making me wish I didn't feel this way
I've been thinking more of tomorrow
And I just had to let you know

There's a feeling that lies inside me
Questions my heart and my mind
Changes, all the changes around me
I will know when it's time

Love came to me like a stranger
Creating the warmth of a brand new friend
Time has no limitations
Love will meet again

You ask me what I've been thinking
Well I think it's time to tell
I've been having these thoughts lately
They don't seem to be fitting in too well

Time has no limitations
Love will meet again

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