Singles

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

Version one

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 fat guys 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

Don't get me wrong
If i'm looking kind of dazzled
I see neon lights
Whenever you walk by

Don't get me wrong
If you say "hello" and i take a ride
Upon a sea where the mystic moon
Is playing havoc with the tide
Don't get me wrong

Don't get me wrong
If i'm acting so distracted
I'm thinking about the fireworks
That go off when you smile

Don't get me wrong
If i split like light refracted
I'm only off to wander
Across a moonlit mile

Once in awhile
Two people meet
Seemingly for no reason
They just pass on the street
Suddenly thunder, showers everywhere
Who can explain the thunder and rain
But there's something in the air

Don't get me wrong
If i come and go like fashion
I might be great tomorrow
But hopeless yesterday

Don't get me wrong
If i fall in the 'mode of passion'
It might be unbelievable
But let's not say "so long"
It might just be fantastic
Don't get me wrong

I want you to love me
That's all i want from you
I want you to love me
One day

I know i'm a peasant
Dressed as a princess
But that doesn't mean you have
To take my clothes away

If i could show you
Some happiness
Then i would feel
Like a real princess
That to me would be success
My baby

I seen you dancin'
A natural beauty
You make this dive
Seem sublime
You really get
To the heart of the music
You're the poetry of time

If there's a method
To writing a song
How come i'm getting it wrong
You write the beautiful songs
Baby

C'mon, c'mon, c'mon baby
Take my hand
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon show me
To the love land

Can this really happen
In this day and age
Suddenly
To just turn the page
Like walking on stage
My baby

Way up in the sky
Over the city, over tokyo
Silver light, summer moon
You'll be over somebody's winter this afternoon
While the dolphins swim in the sea
You're going grey, my baby
Still the war is waging endlessly
Day after day, day after day


Way up in the sky
Over the city and lake erie
You remember the flats, you were there
Out every night mr moonlight


Round and round and round we go
Just like yesterday


Way up in the sky
Over the city where you sleep tonight
The light outside your window blinks
"hotel, hotel, hotel"
Open the blind and dream in a moonbeam


When the war's finally over
We'll meet again
And pick up where we left off

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)

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

When i look up from my pillow
I dream you are there with me
Though you are far away
I know you'll always be near to me


I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you're there with me
I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you're there with me


I look around me
And feel you are ever so close to me
Each tear that flows from my eye
Brings back memories of you to me


I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you're there with me
I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you're there with me


I was wrong, i will cry
I will love you till the day i die
You were all, you alone and no one else
You were meant for me


When morning comes again
I have the loneliness you left me
Each day drags by
Until finally my time descends on me


I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you're there with me
I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you're there with me

Such a drag to want something sometime
One thing leads to another i know
Was a time wanted you for mine
Nobody knew
You arrived like a day
And passed like a cloud
I made a wish, i said it out loud
Out loud in a crowd
Everybody heard
'twas the talk of the town


It's not my place to know what you feel
I'd like to know but why should i?
Who were you then, who are you now?
Common labourer by night, by day highbrow
Back in my room i wonder, then i
Sit on the bed, look at the sky
Up in the sky
Clouds rearrange
Like the talk of the town


Maybe tomorrow, maybe someday
Maybe tomorrow, maybe someday
You've changed your place in this world
You've changed your place in this world


Oh but it's hard to live by the rules
I never could and still never do
The rules and such never bothered you
You call the shots and they follow
I watch you still from a distance then go
Back to my room, you never know
I want you, i want you but now
Who's the talk of the town?