CHORUS
Lonely is the night when I’m not with you
Lonely is the night ain’t no light shining through
Till you’re in my arms till you’re here by my side
Lonely am I

Never thought that I that I would need you
Never thought that I that I’d be missing you
Gotta get you back
I just got to find a way now
To let you know to let you know to let you know
That I’m so lost without you
And now this world it just ain’t right

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I can make it through the day
I can fake it okay
I just smile and pretend
And I tell myself I’ll be alright

But lonely is the night
Lonely is the night

On my wall the colours of the maps are running
>From Africa the winds they talk of changes coming
The torches flare up in the night
The hand that sets the farms alight
Has spread the word to those who’re waiting on the border.

In the village where I grew up
Nothing seems the same
But still you never see the change from day to day
And no-one notices the customs slip away…

Laate last night the rain was knocking at my window
I moved across the darkened room and in the lampglow
I thought I saw down in the street
The spirit of the century
Telling us that we’re all standing on the border.

In the islands where I grew up
Nothing seems the same
It’s just the patterns that remain,
An empty shell
But there’s a strangeness in the air you feel too well…

The fishing boats go out across the evening water
Smugglng guns and arms across the Spanish border
The wind whips up the waves so loud
The ghost moon sails among the clouds
And turrns the rifles into silver on the border.

He climbs up through the darkness
No weapon but his surprise
The greatest thief in the high Sahara
Enters the room where a sleeping princess lies

All your money, your pretty necklace
This is my work on such a night
There’s a storm coming over the mountain
I’ll be gone long before the morning

After the rain has fallen
After the tears have washed your eyes
You find that I’ve take nothing, that
Love can’t replace in the blink of an eye

He was as gentle as the night wind
As no lover had been before
And the rings she wore for her bride groom
Slipped from her fingers and fell to the floor

Take me with you, take me with you
Before my lonely life is set
I’ve been promised to another
To a man I’ve never even met

After the rain has fallen
After the tears have washed your eyes
You’ll find that I’ve take nothing, that
Love can’t replace in the blink of an eye
After the thunder’s spoken, and
After the lightning bolt’s been hurled
After the dream is broken, there’ll
Still be love in the world

She said take me to another life
Take me for a pirate’s wife
Take me where the wind blows
Take me where the red wine flows
Take me to the danger
Take me to the life of crime
Take me to the stars
Take me to the moon while we still have time

After the rain has fallen
After the tears have washed your eyes
You’ll find that I’ve taken nothing, that
Love can’t replace in the blink of an eye

After the thunder’s spoken, and
After the lightning bolt’s been hurled
After the dream is broken, there’ll
Still be love in the world
Still be love in the world

A thousand years, a thousand more,
A thousand times a million doors to eternity
I may have lived a thousand lives, a thousand times
An endless turning stairway climbs
To a tower of souls
If it takes another thousand years, a thousand wars,
The towers rise to numberless floors in space
I could shed another million tears, a million breaths,
A million names but only one truth to face

A million roads, a million fears
A million suns, ten million years of uncertainty
I could speak a million lies, a million songs,
A million rights, a million wrongs in this balance of time
But if there was a single truth, a single light
A single thought, a singular touch of grace
Then following this single point , this single flame,
The single haunted memory of your face

I still love you
I still want you
A thousand times the mysteries unfold themselves
Like galaxies in my head

I may be numberless, I may be innocent
I may know many things, I may be ignorant
Or I could ride with kings and conquer many lands
Or win this world at cards and let it slip my hands
I could be cannon food, destroyed a thousand times
Reborn as fortune’s child to judge another’s crimes
Or wear this pilgrim’s cloak, or be a common thief
I’ve kept this single faith, I have but one belief

I still love you
I still want you
A thousand times the mysteries unfold themselves
Like galaxies in my head
On and on the mysteries unwind themselves
Eternities still unsaid
‘Til you love me

When Im feeling blue, all I have to do
Is take a look at you, then Im not so blue
When youre close to me, I can feel your heart beat
I can hear you breathing near my ear
Wouldnt you agree, baby you and me got a groovy kind of love

Anytime you want to you can turn me onto
Anything you want to, anytime at all
When I kiss your lips, ooh I start to shiver
Cant control the quivering inside
Wouldnt you agree, baby you and me got a groovy kind of love, oh

When Im feeling blue, all I have to do
Is take a look at you, then Im not so blue
When Im in your arms, nothing seems to matter
My whole world could shatter, I dont care
Wouldnt you agree, baby you and me got a groovy kind of love
We got a groovy kind of love
We got a groovy kind of love, oh
We got a groovy kind of love

SPOKEN: I know this is the same road I took the day I left home,
but it sure looks different now. And I guess I look
different too, cause time changes everything. I wonder what
they’ll say, when they see their boy looking this bad.

Oh I wonder what they’ll say when I get home
Can’t remember when I ate
It’s just thumb and walk and wait
And I’m still 500 miles away from home
If my luck had been just right
I’d be with them all tonight
But I’m 500 miles away from home
Away from home away from home
Oh I’m still 500 miles away from home

Now I see you’re just somebody
Who wastes all my time
And money
What a lie
You and I

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What about your
Your ten thousand promises
That you gave to me
Your ten thousand promises
That you promised me

Once I could handle the truth
When the truth was you and I
Time after time all the promises
Turned out to be all lies

Now I see I’m just somebody
Who wasted my time and money
What a lie (what a lie)
You and I (you and I)

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You say I’ll take you back
But I close the door
Cuz I don’t want
Ten thousand more

Ten thousand promises yeah
Ten thousand promises you gave to me

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Once we were lovers
Just lovers we were
Oh, you and I
What a lie

This shit right here is 4 U
All your faces I can see
You all think it’s up, not me
I’m about to break, this is my fate
Am I still damned to a life,
of misery and hate?
You will never know
What it did 4 U
What you are
Got me through
I’ve done 4 U
I could have, never lived
If it wasn’t, 4 U

I’m standing in your line
I do… hope you have the time
I do… pick a number too (to or two)
I do… keep a date with you