Learning To Crawl

Show me the meaning of the word
Show me the meaning of the word
'cause i've heard so much about it
They say you can't live without it


Welcome to the human race
With its wars, disease and brutality
You with your innocence and grace
Restore some pride and dignity
To a world in decline


Welcome to a special place
In a heart of stone that's cold and grey
You with your angel face
Keep the despair at bay
Send it away, and


Show me the meaning of the word
Show me the meaning of the word
'cause i've heard so much about it
I don't want to live without it
I don't want to live without it
Oh, i want love, i want love, i want love


Welcome here from outer space
The milky way still in your eyes
You found yourself a hopeless case
One seeking perfection on earth
That's some kind of rebirth, so


Show me the meaning of the word
Show me the meaning of the word
'cause i've heard so much about it
Don't make me live without it
Don't make me live without it
Oh, love, i want love, i want love, i want love

I been crying like a woman
Because i'm mad, mad, mad like a man
If you'd been in the s.s. in '43
You'd've been kicked out for cruelty


I hurt you
'cause you hurt me
So i hurt you
'cause you hurt me


I been wondering about your dependency
Your idea of defiance is a modern day mystery
Arms and chest are cold
When your back is on fire
And the only time you come clean
Is when you're talking to your buyer


I hurt you
'cause you hurt me
So i hurt you
'cause you hurt me


Forget our philosophies
That we admired when we were young
And our popular points of view
They can't mean much or nothing
Or something or anything
'cause we can't say "i love you"


I hurt you
'cause you hurt me
So i hurt you
'cause you hurt me


Happy birthday, darling and thank you for the schooling
Your correction mistress warned me and she wasn't fooling
Never trust a user with your television overnight
When the show he wants to video is "dallas" on a tuesday night
Don't try to paint your masterpiece under artificial light

It's a thin line between love and hate
It's a thin line between love and hate


It's five o'clock in the morning
And you're just getting in
You knock on the front door
And a voice sweet and low says
"who is it?"
She opens up the door and lets you in
Never once asks where have you been
She says "are you hungry?
Did you eat yet?
Let me hang up your coat
Pass me your hat"
All the time she's smiling
Never once raises her voice
It's five o'clock in the morning
You don't give it a second thought


It's a thin line between love and hate
(repeat)


The sweetest woman in the world
Could be the meanest woman in the world
If you make her that way
You keep hurting her
She'll keep being quiet
She might be holding something inside
That'll really, really hurt you one day


I see her in the hospital
Bandaged from foot to head
In a state of shock
Just that much from being dead
You couldn't believe the girl
Would do something like this, ha
You didn't think the girl had the nerve
But here you are
I guess action speaks louder than words


It's a thin line between love and hate
(repeat)

He's gone 2000 miles
It's very far
The snow is falling down
Gets colder day by day
I miss you


The children will sing
He'll be back at christmastime


In these frozen and silent nights
Sometimes in a dream you appear
Outside under the purple sky
Diamonds in the snow sparkle
Our hearts were singing
It felt like christmastime


2000 miles
Is very far through the snow
I'll think of you
Wherever you go


He's gone 2000 miles
It's very far
The snow is falling down
Gets colder day by day
I miss you


I can hear people singing
It must be christmastime
I hear people singing
It must be christmastime

I found a picture of you, oh oh oh oh
What hijacked my world that night
To a place in the past
We've been cast out of? oh oh oh oh
Now we're back in the fight
We're back on the train
Oh, back on the chain gang


A circumstance beyond our control, oh oh oh oh
The phone, the tv and the news of the world
Got in the house like a pigeon from hell, oh oh oh oh
Threw sand in our eyes and descended like flies
Put us back on the train
Oh, back on the chain gang


The powers that be
That force us to live like we do
Bring me to my knees
When i see what they've done to you
But i'll die as i stand here today
Knowing that deep in my heart
They'll fall to ruin one day
For making us part


I found a picture of you, oh oh oh oh
Those were the happiest days of my life
Like a break in the battle was your part, oh oh oh oh
In the wretched life of a lonely heart
Now we're back on the train
Oh, back on the chain gang

Middle of the road

Version two

The middle of the road is trying to find me
I'm standing in the middle of life with my plans behind me
Well i got a smile for everyone i meet
As long as you don't try dragging my bay
Or dropping the bomb on my street


Now come on baby
Get in the road
Oh come on now
In the middle of the road, yeah


In the middle of the road you see the darndest things
Like fakirs driving 'round in jeeps through the city
Wearing big diamond rings and silk suits
Past corrugated tin shacks full up with kids
Oh man i don't mean a hampstead nursery
When you own a big chunk of the bloody third world
The babies just come with the scenery


Oh come on baby
Get in the road
Oh come on now
In the middle of the road, yeah


One...two...three...four...


The middle of the road is no private cul-de-sac
I can't get from the cab to the curb
Without some little jerk on my back
Don't harass me, can't you tell
I'm going home, i'm tired as hell
I'm not the cat i used to be
I got a kid, i'm thirty-three


Baby, get in the road
Come on now
In the middle of the road
Yeah