Stay Loose

If you've got a heartache of the kind that will not pass by,
even if you don't see the end of what lies around the bend,
Don't stay that way, it's all in a day, believe me.
Even the best of friends must part, even so, it grieves me.
Stay loose, don't fight it, let it take you all the way and
if it's wrong, you will right it, do not waste these hours away.

How many times have I told you, there are the tears I've shed.
Could it be that I need help, is it maybe I've come undone?
And one thing more, you know, it don't come easy.
Even the best of friends must part, even so, it grieves me.
Stay loose, don't fight it, let love take a holiday.
If it's wrong, you're gonna right it, do not waste these hours away.

Soon the storm will be over and the clouds will all pass by.
To be insane beyond belief is sometimes the best relief.
And one thing sure, love never did come easy.
Even the best of dreams must end, even so, it grieves me.
Stay loose, don't fight it, let it take you all the way and
If it's wrong, you will right it, do not waste these hours away.
Stay loose, don't fight it, let love take a holiday.
If it's wrong, you're gonna right it, do not waste these hours away.


Morning Glory

Pretty faces everywhere, a few hard cases stop and stare.
They've got charm, that is not right, pretty faces late at night.
Morning Glory, what's the story, will it ever end?
I've been all the way to Biscayne Bay and all the way back again, all the way back again.

I remember our old rendezvous, the key was kept inside a shoe.
Those moments will remain frozen in time, Morning Glory's on my mind.
What's the story, Morning Glory, will it ever end?
I've been all the way to Biscayne Bay and all the way back again, all the way back again.

It seems like only yesterday she married me and carried me away.
I found out what life was all about, Morning Glory threw me out.
Hey, Morning Glory, what's the story, will it ever end?
I've been all the way to Biscayne Bay and all the way back again.

Alimony, palimony puts a dent in me.
I've been all the way to Biscayne Bay for a dip in the shining sea, a dip in the shining sea.
Pretty faces everywhere, a few hard cases stop and stare.
Even when I know it ain't my day, a lot of good faces anyway.
Morning Glory, what's the story, what is it to be?
I've been all the way to Biscayne Bay for a dip in the shining sea, a dip in the shining sea.
What's the story, Morning Glory, will it ever end?
I've been all the way to Biscayne Bay and all the way back again, all the way back again.
Hey, Morning Glory, what's the story, will it ever end?
I've been all the way to Biscayne Bay and all the way back again.


East Of Midnight

Put me somewhere east of midnight, west of the turnpike,
anywhere I wander is where I'll take my rest.
As I lie down, toss some thoughts around, dreams I'm told will come true
if you believe in those who love you right now.
Sea of dreams, I long for you, forget about the others.
This is my hike, you can come if you like, to feel good, I would help you if I could.
But I am out here searching for the things that might have been.
I need no more reminders, not one love letter have I seen.
And that's a pretty good start, the ocean is where lovers meet again.
Sea of dreams, by all means, float me out of danger until then, forever, amen.

It's a long, long hike, we'll be leaving early, traveling light,
that's all right, Heaven will be ours tonight.
The road is paved with moonbeams, there are faces that I knew.
They all came back to haunt me, but that ain't fair to the folks like me and you,
it takes a bit of my heart.

Tonight I shall be watching from the shore, sea of dreams, from now on,
forget about all the others back where the line forms, destination, sea of storms.
By all means, ever onward, sea of dreams.
Put me somewhere east of midnight, along about daylight.
Anywhere I wander is where I'll take my rest.
If we could just lie down, toss some thoughts around.
It's a tough and a dirty long hike, you can come if you like.
If we could just lie down, toss some thoughts around.


A Lesson In Love

Nothing is for certain, that's what the showman said.
First you must open the curtain and stand 'em on their heads.
There can be no inhibitions, no prima donna ways
if you want to pass the audition and times is tough these days.

Remember when Mr. Barnum presented Jenny Lind,
they named a candy after her, a circus after him.
End of my story, the rest is history. She in all of her glory, he lived quietly.
He needed her, she needed him as sure as the sky above, in a way it was for them
a lesson in love, a lesson in love.

You look like the moonglow that follows me home
Always makes me turn around, won't leave me alone.
First to come are the midgets, a monkey and a kid
followed by those two one-armed jugglers, the ego and the id.
Songs of the season, apples of the sun, there is no rhyme or reason,
just a time for each and every one.

Hang on Mr. Barnum, hang on Jenny Lind,
we will meet you in streets of gold where eternity begins.
We will let it all hangout, go hand in glove.
Live was meant to live and learn a lesson in love, a lesson in love.


Anything For Love

In my life, in my time and in each line I've ever sung.
And in my life, was it my imagination or are you still the one who lingers on?
I'd do anything for you, you'd do anything for me, we'd do anything for love.
Oh, you'd use any means and I would try any scheme for love, we'd do anything for love.

Once or twice, in my loneliness I watched the world go by.
There was I, one too many miles beyond where, you might say,
some luck was due, after all, we could have touched the sky.
You had no alibi because we'd do anything for love.
Oh, I would try any means to have you in all my dreams because you'd do anything for love.

Not long ago, as I remember, once upon a dark and windy day,
when love looked like a dying ember before you came to call,
The beauty of it all, though I'd lost and yet.
Cause in my life, here in my mind in it now shines.
A guiding light, never again will I lose my way.
Oh, I would not tell a lie and you had no alibi because we'd do anything for love.
Oh, you'd use any means and I would try any scheme for love, simply anything for love.
Oh, I would do anything just about anything because,
we'd do anything for love, anything for love.


Let It Ride

These are just the simple facts I will relate to you.
Though they are not connected, each and every one is true.
If they seem a bit untidy, well, unraveling them is fun.
I will not stand corrected, I have not harmed anyone.
I just let it ride, ride, let it ride. Leave on the evening tide, just let it ride.

When I listen to my heart, I sometimes fail to find
one sane and simple answer on the bright side of my mind.
Even when I'm sleeping, I can't seem to unwind, I just let it ride.

I knew a man from Windsor who went to Detroit every night.
And stateside of the tunnel, customs agents gave him flight.
He threw his stash in the river and his bedroll on the ground
and when they finally got there, a sleeping man was all that they found.
He just let it ride, ride, let it ride. Leave on the evening tide, just let it ride.

Hear the steeple bell ring out above my lobster pots.
I might be out here fishing, man, but that ain't where it stops.
The mouths I feed are many and they all say thanks a lot, they just let it ride.

One day when I'm old and gray and consider what's gone by,
I always will be proud of every tear I've ever cried
and all of the old jokes we told around the candle light
to all those tender damsels who had helped us through the night.
They just let it ride, ride, let it ride. Leave on the evening tide, just let it ride.

I'm gonna let it ride, here's to the girls of London and the ones from Montreal.
We never will forget them, we still fantasize them all.
I knew one in St. Louis on a Missouri afternoon.
I met one up in Shanghai and another in Rangoon.
I just let it ride, ride, let it ride. Leave on the evening tide, just let it ride.
Ride, ride, ride, I'm gonna let it ride. Leaving on the evening tide, just let it ride.


Ecstasy Made Easy

I can always try to forget, somehow, what's a part of the past.
Have a little laughter if you please, I won't even mind if it takes awhile.
I've got time on my hands, I feel another chapter in the breeze.
Somebody touched my heart string, somebody made my heart sing,
somebody stole my heart away, nobody's saying their sorry.
It's a mighty sweet music, you can dance all night.
Put some wood on the fire right now, ecstasy made easy.

Ecstasy I ask you, are you a name or just another patron with a smile?
Let me analyze you, are you a flame or just the dying embers of a kiss run wild?
Somebody touched my heart string, somebody made my heart sing,
somebody stole my heart away, nobody's saying their sorry.
It's a mighty sweet music, take a chance they say.
Put some fire on the old iron stove, ecstasy made easy, made easy.

I hope I never lose what belongs to me by the right of my birth at midnight, sailing out of Perth.
Getting under way we turned her westward bound on that southern sea,
to see what ecstasy was worth.


You Just Gotta Be

If I satisfy you, if you satisfy me, once the course has been set,
gonna need all the help I can get but
You just gotta be you, and I just gotta be me, I can't classify you, you can't pacify me.
We can't make it at all, you won't even take my calls.
I just want to be loved and you just gotta be free.
I'll smile and tell it to the world, you just gotta be.

Pardon me for saying what a price you've been paying.
What more can I say, you might feel different some day.
If it matter to you, it still matters to me,
you'll find me by the bayou thinking wicked thoughts of you.
I just want to be strong, you just gotta be wrong. I can't clarify you, you can't verify me.
I can't make it by stealth, you won't even share the wealth so
you just gotta be you and I just gotta be me.
And I will tell that to the world, you just gotta be.

With a gratified mind, I'll be on the highway just as soon as I can.
Where there's a will, there's a way so until then I just want to be me, and you just gotta be.


A Passing Ship

A passing ship, I have found the open ocean.
Give me no lip, the waves roll by as I pass on  a sunlit sea on the first day of April.
How fresh the wind, will you miss me when I'm gone?
How many words, how many songs still unwritten?
How many ships of the line have come and gone in the good old days?
May they never be forgotten, they had heavy wind or they had no wind at all.

A passing ship, it is midnight on the ocean. Had a real long trip, I have been at sea all winter.
When my ship came in, I was giving up the ghost.
I think I should be leaving those passing ships alone.
When the sea runs high, the sea runs wild and I'm unsteady and I think of you.
In the warmth of your home and family when love is true,
there is no truer occupation and may this gale blow us to the ones we love.
Another day, another ocean, give me no lip.
But stand aside as I pass on a sunlit sea
On the last day of October, how fresh the wind.
Will you miss me from now on, I guess I should be leaving passing ships alone.


I'll Tag Along

You've got time enough for two of us, what is mine I will share.
We've got things that we can do without most anytime, anywhere.
Every little daydream that appears in all we do gives us some problems of our own.
If you turn back to that page again and you can't win, if you ask me I'll tag along.

Paper matches in the afternoon, cups of tea and all of that Zen.
I think it's time we took a walk outside, it seems there is no oxygen.
This time tomorrow we might all be packed and gone, I believe it's best we carry on.
Smoke rings rising till they disappear in the sky above, if you ask me I'll tag along.

Each and every bad dream will be hammered into dust when we get back where we belong.
If you ever turn that page again and you need a friend, if you ask me I'll tag along.
This time tomorrow we might all be packed and gone, I believe it's best we carry on.
Smoke rings rising till they disappear in the sky above, if you ask me I'll tag along.
East Of Midnight