If deep within the dark was distance A-swimming with the emptiness of ears a-listening A-humming with the hiss of tiny things existing Aglow in oceanic nights through which we're drifting Then you'd know it was all right Babe you'd know it's all right If deep within the night were numbers A-counting down the seconds til you'd wake from slumber The minutes till the Earth released you from its umbra And all you ever had to do was wake and wonder Then for sure it is all right Child you know it's all right No honey don't get uptight I brought the light of language Illuminating all the secrets strange and nameless Exhuming all the stories buried in the ages So we could have a map to lead us through the changes And you'd know it was all right Babe you'd know it's all right If deep within the sky was silence The ticking of a clock that's counting seconds timeless The echo of a thought that's drifting mute and mindless A-spinning through the darkness as if to remind us That for sure it is all right Babe you'd know it's all right Now it's time to bid you good night If deep within the dark was distance A-swimming with the emptiness of ears a-listening A-humming with the hiss of tiny things existing Aglow in oceanic nights through which we're drifting Then you'd know it was all right

Hey lover Well I had a nice time Now tell me what would you think about me making you mine I know I'm just one of the fishies aswim in your sea But hey you can't get the fruit without shaking the tree So get to know me Check my birthstone and sign And when it all shakes out well I think you will find You'll say Uh-huh All right okay fine And any other way to say uh-huh that comes to mind Uh-huh uh-huh All right okay fine Cause baby don't you know it's just a matter of time Before you're mine Hey lover I'm a spiritual man I rock the third eye, the ankh, and the two-thumbed hand I got a jobby It ain't nothing profound Sit at the workstation move the information around But on the weekends you can find me on the astral plane And if you wanna meet me there all you gotta do is say Uh-huh uh-huh All right okay fine And any other way to say uh-huh that comes to mind Uh-huh uh-huh All right okay fine Cause baby don't you know it's just a matter of time Before you're mine Yeah baby don't you know it's just a little more time Hey lover I don't know about you A poppy song don't groove me like it used to do It takes a little more nature get that natural high It takes a whole lotta loving nothing else is worth my time I need a little more of you and a lot less of me So take your time and think about it baby If you agree just say Uh huh

I'm not normally the type of guy To make a fool of myself but when I see you walk by I think maybe I should give me foolish side a little freer reign I get a minute of relief once the moment has passed And then I spend the next week wishing I had made it last And thinking 'bout the things I'd do different if it happened again I try to still the beat of my heart Because I don't quite know just where to start well One thing I never lacked was something to say These words just rattle my bones I'd rather speak to you in the purest of tones well Let me strike up a chord and I'll take you away I'm not normally the type of gent To think back on what I said and wonder if it was what I meant But lately the possibility's been filling my head Sometimes I'm about to lose my patience And come right on out and make a declaration But I stop and I think of all the things better left unsaid Because now I try to quiet my chattering mind And maybe listen to the whispers from the base of my spine well The only place my thoughts ever got was in the way These words just rattle my bones I'd rather speak to you in the purest of tones well Let me strike up a chord and I'll take you away I'm cool, cool to the touch But if you ask me what it's gotten me I'd say not much at all No, not at all I'm safe, I'm always right But what good does it do me When I sleep through the night alone Feeling like my chances are gone I'm not normally the type of boy To make a fool of myself you know I try to act coy Indiscretion in my facial expressions just isn't my style But every time when I see you walk by I think about what it would be like if I were at your side And when it happens I can't help but smile Because now I try to still the beat of my heart Because I don't quite know just where to start well One thing I never lacked was something to say These words just rattle my bones I'd rather speak to you in the purest of tones well Let me strike up a chord and I'll take you away Let me strike up a chord and I'll take you away Let me strike up a chord and I'll take you away Let me strike up a chord and I'll take you away Let me strike up a chord and I'll take you away

The cars may contain friends of yours En route to places where I may have been before And the lights that shine through the cracks in blinds The thoughts that pine for you from behind closed doors They could be strays or they could be mine ‘Cause instead of sleeping on the weekend I’ve been going out and keeping score Of all the people who are going out as you are coming in All the evenings that are ending, all the nights yet to begin The many ways that we could fall in love or maybe just be friends Right then or never All the ladies, all the gentlemen, the girls and all the boys All the eye contact and phone calls, all the thoughts not given voice So many ways that we could fall in love it was as if we had the choice Right then or never That night our shadows were chasing fast Swimming laps in pools of light cast by the streetlamps as we strolled on past Silent a while, then audibly you smiled Between your teeth were all the questions you could ask The things I’d say, if I might or if I may Heavy with the weight of every coming day Through which this love could last All the people who are going out as you are coming in All the evenings that are ending, all the nights yet to begin The many ways that we could fall in love or maybe just be friends Right then or never All the ladies, all the gentlemen, the girls and all the boys All the eye contact and phone calls, all the thoughts not given voice And when I told you that I loved you it wasn’t as if I had the choice Right then or never Well our eyes introduced our minds And then our thoughts said how do you do And they came back and told our bodies That they ought to come along too At first our hearts were slow to follow But pretty soon they got the clue And in due time our souls intertwined And then everybody knew ‘Cause we’d read love poems and sonnets Even limericks and haiku Written romance novels, mash notes, Xs, Os, and I heart Us We sang a lot of stupid love songs But then we thought, “What if they were true? Well, I never” Yeah all the kittens and the tomcats All the cougars and the coots All the peacocks flaunting plumage With the chicks in hot pursuit Well, they all took to the dance floor When Pan tootled on his flute And in the prevailing state of nature All kinds of romance could take root All the sopranos sang a sha-na-na-na The baritones sang shoo-be-doo Some of the babes resembled Bardot A lotta the dudes looked like Depardieu A lotta drama and a little comedy And the middle, just me and you Now and forever I’ve been trying to work it out in advance Running round town just to catch your glance A little science and a little bit of circumstance No I don’t, no I don’t want to leave nothing to chance I’ve been patient, I’ve been lying in wait Counting down the hours and blocking off dates I’ve been waking up early, I’ve been staying out late No I don’t, no I don’t want to leave nothing to fate

When I… I was feeling sad and maudlin Thinking only of my problems Looking anywhere for help Then I thought it might somehow console me If I had someone to hold me If I wasn't by myself Because it sounded so sweet that it couldn't be wrong When they repeated it in poems and in old pop songs Well they told me that love would make the world go round I wish it would've stopped turning on the night when I found it 'cause now It's the morning after and I still feel down And that's why I believe Love… love don't make it better When it's hard to hold together When it's all falling apart No love… love don't make it easy When your troubles are increasing It only opens up your heart And if… if I only have one regret It's that I always kept it secret The only thing that I ever meant to say 'Cause I told you often that I love you And that I'm always thinking of you But in spite of it all I'm still afraid You know it sounded so wrong but it had to be right 'Cause they played it on the radio night after night They told me love would lift me up when I'm feeling down What if disaster strikes and you're nowhere to be found at all And it's a long long way for me to fall So I believe Love… love don't make it better When it's hard to hold together When it's all falling apart No love… love don't make it easy When your troubles are increasing It only opens up your heart Love… love don't make it better When it's hard to hold together When it's all falling apart No love… won't chase away the woes that hound you When they're crowding in around you It only opens up your heart

If I had a hundred years And I'd neither fortune, fame, nor love nor money Just time to ponder why we're here Well in the end I'd still be wondering Cause fortune favors just the wise And the wise they favor wondering over knowing So I kept my eyes trained on the skies It's how I knew where I was going And I sang la da da da di di di da di If I had a hundred lives And I'd twice todays and three times the tomorrows I'd have ample time to cry To ease my mind and weep away my sorrows 'Cause fortune favors just the brave And the brave they favor fortune over failure So though the times were dark and grave I always wore my bright regalia And I sang la da da da di di di da di If I had a hundred lives Through failure famine, blight, and nasty weather I don't think that I would mind As long as you and I lived them together 'Cause fortune favors those in love And the lovers favor living over dying So we spent our lives saying hello And left only a lonely moment to say goodbye in And I sang la da da da di di di da di

Come go with me my little lover We’ll pack our rucksacks and we’ll go live off the land We’ll dwell among the greenery like we never knew machinery And we’ll forage and we’ll gather all we can And if they really want to reach us If they have to call and tell us all the news They’ll have to send us smoke signs ‘cause we’ll never own a phone line Or a carrier pigeon winging through the blue ‘Cause when we’re in this city Feeling listless and forlorn We think of walking through the ancient woods Where wonder is the norm So let’s leave behind these modern times That are getting old and worn And fly away away away away Deep in the forest strewn with moonbeams In the boughs and branches where we make our beds I’ll be your lover like you’ve never known another Give you a chest on which to rest your weary head Come go with me my little lover We’ll start a family and we’ll pack the caravan Live our lives among the foliage til the day we die of old age Two ghosts walking through the forest hand in hand ‘Cause when we’re in this city Feeling listless and forlorn We think of walking through the ancient woods Where wonder is the norm So let’s leave behind these modern times That are getting old and worn And fly away away away away

I lose my cool when twilight falls And I see how fast the world is turning The buildings bend to the sirens' call Feels like the city itself is breaking free And I don't know where it's taking me But when the sun goes down it's a natural panic A little bit frightening, a little romantic! The empty streets and the flickering beat Of your heart (And I could see it) The skyline looms and we just can't stay in We head out for a drink and for a little parlaying 'Cause every day we feel a little more alive If we die just a little each and every night I don't know Who you are I've only seen You in the dark How my heart trembles every night When I hear the city murmuring A breath of steam, a blur of sound A tremor speeding through the underground As all the subways head downtown But when the sun goes down it's a natural panic A little bit frightening, a little romantic! The empty streets And the tom-toms deep in my blood (Could you feel them?) In the dark things look sharp and stylized The heaviest of lids couldn't hide my wild eyes 'Cause every day I feel a little more alive If I die just a little each and every night I don't know Who you are I've only seen You in the dark And I don't know Where else you've been When you are not Here in my dreams

Well I woke up early and I went to bed late And I spent the long hours in between contemplating my fate Philosophically Birth, death, epiphany, depression, romance I tried to sing about it all but everybody just wanted to dance Oh baby sock it to me Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, I heard them say: If it isn’t our business then it better be pleasure ‘Cause we ain’t got a lot of time and we got a lot of places to be Don’t you know this nightlife won’t last forever? Uh-uh-uh And when the sun comes up in the morning tell me where will we be? Where will we be? The melody’s sweet, the rhythm is pounding But it’s hard to get down when We got so much to say Normally you couldn’t keep me from dancing But there’s a lot of heavy shit happening In the modern day I was living out a lease in the city by the bay It was a beautiful place but nobody could afford to stay It was a real estate dream We were busy making deals, stacking stories on the buildings While the schools shut down and they carted all the children away What a depressing scene Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, I heard them say: If it doesn’t get us in the groove we’re gonna keep moving Cause we ain’t got a lot of time and we’ve got a lot of places to be We don’t want to dance to it if it hasn’t been proven, uh-uh-uh And the clock is ticking on our years of living easy and free Then where will we be? The melody’s sweet, the rhythm is pounding But it’s hard to get down when We got so much to say Normally you couldn’t keep me from dancing But there’s a lot of heavy shit happening In the U.S.A. In the modern day In Californ-I-A Looking out on a dancefloor with nobody there Sing a simple song like a primitive prayer Sing a simple song til the chorus is true A little hail fellow, well met, how do you do Sunrise, sunset, phase of the moon Pass a little time with a peppy little tune Sing a simple song til the meaning is clear Make a little love, spread a little good cheer Anything to keep the time from passing you by There’s so much living to do that we don’t really have the time to die