Bread Retrospective

He's a good lad
A little bit shy so you'll try and have to understand
Such a good lad
And just for a while the guy'll need a helping hand
His word are hard to follow, but his heart has found a way
To show you the things that he never could say;

He's a good lad
A little bit wild but his style is really gentle and kind
He ain't so bad
Right to the end he's a friend, about the best you can find
And as you come to know him, and his needs are comin' through
You'll flash on the day i was talkin' to you.

And he needs somebody to love
Yes he needs somebody to be worthy of -
He's a good lad

And if you come to want him, like i know he wants you to
You'll see all the things i was sayin' are true

And he needs somebody to love
Yes he needs somebody to be worthy of -
He's a good lad.

Ann a-sleepin' on my bed
Hair a-tumblin'' round your head
You will always be apart of me
When i look in your eyes... it's my reflection i see

Ann i wonder how you knew
I needed someone just like you
Were you on a beam of guiding light
That came in my life... late that september night.

And though i try to hold back the years
I cannot hold the dawn
And so i try to hold back the tears
When love has grown up and gone...

Ann i'll love you 'till i die
And when you hear this lullabye
I'll be with you though we're far apart
And you'll be with me... right here inside my heart.

Baby i'm through runnin' it's true
I'd be a fool to try to escape you
Maybe i'm beat but oh what a sweet surrender

You keep your rights, i'll take your nights
No one can lose when we turn the lights out
Tastin' defeat, lovin' that sweet surrender

I'm givin' up myself to you but i didn't really lose at all
I gave the only love i've known and it never hurt me to fall

Now that it's done, so glad you won
I know our lives have only begun now
No more retreat, only my sweet surrender

Friends and lovers
Saying goodbye to each other
Their way
Your way
Gathered in garden and parting in doorways
And it's over
Anyway that's what the papers said.
And i wonder
What was going on inside your head
You were there
You were there
I'd like to ask
Did anybody touch you?
Come and go it went so fast
Did anybody touch you?
Friends and lovers
Turning away from the others
Your way
Their way
Closing their doors and then climbing their
Stairways
And it's over
Anyway that's what the people say and i wonder
Does it really have to be this way
You were there
You were there i'd like to ask
Did anybody touch you.
Come and go it went so fast
Did anybody touch you.
Come and go it went so fast
Did anybody touch you?
Or did you stand alone until the darkness came
Just one more room where everybody knew
Your name.
Friends and lovers
Ever apart from others
Endless hallways
Just say goodbye and it's over for always
And it's over
Didn't you believe me when i said and i wonder
What was going on inside your head
You were there
You were there i'd like to ask
Did anybody touch you?
Come and go it went so fast
Did anybody touch you?

Just like yesterday
You come upon my mind and take it away...
Just like at the time
The things we did made our hearts skip away
Down on my knees i prayed
Kind woman don't go astray
When it seems at times
I've got my mind and heart all straight away...
Just when you've become
A mem'ry of the past and fade away
I see your face and think of all
Of all that we had
With of the things that you brought me
Now was it so bad
... makes me wonder...
Just like yesterday
You come upon my mind and take it away.

I use the soap to wash the dirt off my face
I write with pencil so that i can erase
But what's to do when someone's taken my place with you, with you

I know to stop when the light turns to red
And when it rains i know to cover my head
But what's to do when i wished i were dead over you, over you, over you

Do do do do do etc.
Plannin' to write off tomorrow
Do do do do do etc
Hopin' to wash off the sorrow

I woke to find that my world was not there
It ceased to me when i found you did not care
And my ambition vanished into thin air along with you, with you

Now my emotions find it hard to let go
And as for me i'll find a new road to hoe
But maybe this time i will take it more slow than before, before
Than before

Hey have you ever tried,
Really reaching out for the other side?
I may be climbing on rainbows
But, baby here goes.

Dreams they're for those who sleep,
Life is for us to keep,
And if you're wond'ring
What this song is leading to

I want to make it with you
I really think that we can make it girl.

No, you don't know me well,
In ev'ry little thing only time will tell,
If you believe the things that i do.
And we'll see it through.

Life can be short or long,
Love can be right or wrong,
And if i choose the one
I'd like to help me through,

I'd like to make it with you
I really think that we can make it girl.

Baby you know that
Dreams they're for those who sleep,
Life is for us to keep
And if i choose the one
I'd like to help me through,

I'd like to make it with you
I really think that we can make it girl.

Baby if you only knew
Everything i need i get from you
I'll never let you out of sight
I need you through the day and night, baby
Always there to see me through
Darlin' don't you know i'm hooked on you

Habits i've had before
But never came back so much for more
I need your lovin' every day
I couldn't live without it, no way
And everybody knows it's true
Everybody knows i'm hooked on you

Well i've never been dependin'
And never thought i would
Oh but now i find that i don't mind,
The change is for the good
So don't be feelin' sorry,
For the freedom that i lost
'cause i found out what i'm missin',
And i'm glad to pay the cost

Now that i've tasted you
I know nobody else will ever do
I'm glad that i can say you're mine
I love ya 'cause your sugar's so fine
And no one else'll ever do
There's nothin' like bein' hooked on you

Always there to see me through
Baby that's why i'm hooked on you

Freedom - keep walkin'
Keep on your toesand don't stop talkin' 'bout
Freedom - get goin'
Lots to be learned and lots to be knowin' 'bout
People - gotta reach 'em
Sit 'em right down and then you gotta teach 'em 'bout
Freedom - gotta win it
Gotta put yourself smack dab in it

Hey tomorrow
Now don't you go away
'cause freedom
Just might come your way

Freedom - keep tryin'
People stay alive and people keep dyin' for
Freedom - so don't lose it
Ya gotta understand ya just can't abuse it
Freedom - get movin'
Never gonna stop till everybody's groovin' on
Love for - one another
Callin' some friend and callin' some brother

Hey tomorrow
You're not so far away
Mother freedom
We'll know you well someday

I look into my morning mirror
And it reveals some things to me that i had not been able to see
I saw someone that i'm not sure i want to be
An empty lonely face was starin' back at me

All and all, i would have to say
It's been a rather dismal day

The afternoon was slow in coming
I drug myself outside the people that i knew would be there
And though they walked along pretending not to care
I knew behind my back they'd point and laugh and stare

Chorus

And now the evening shadow's falling
I guess it's best i lay my hopes to rest for noone's calling my name
I sit and wait behind a door that's never knocked on
I live in silence like my phone that's never talked on

Chorus

Always look so good on the outside
When you get to believin' it's true,
Then you know that you're on your way
People tug on your shirt, say you're lucky
You've got ev'rything you want, but you don't
Yet you dare not say
Go downtown people runnin' around
They climb slowly draggin' you downtown,
Horns make a dent in your mind
Plush rooms make a blindin' your eye to see,
Blindin' me. light, lovely light,
Won't ya' shine in my window
Love, precious love won't ya' fill ev'ry room,
Been too long on the road.
Maybe cynics veins are my life blood
Maybe bitin' the hand that i feed so i'll try
Try to understand what it is that devours your freedom,
Makes you drop what you used to hold in your heart.
All the things you planned
Go upstairs with a someone who says she cares,
Like the devil she does,
What comes ever into your mind?
Then gone, leavin' you with the coldest room,
Oldest gloom. warm, won't you be,
Please be there in my winter.
Love, precious love won't ya' come full circle,
Been too long on the road.
How can i do this to myself?
Have i taken leave of my senses?
What kind of changes make a man
Want to tear down all his fences
Whoa, i'd like to know. home ever home,
How could i ever doubt you
Love, precious love, how could i live without you?
Been too long on the road.

Lost and all alone
I always thought that i could make it on my own
Since you left i hardly make it through the day
My tears get in the way
And i need you back to stay

I wander through the night
And search the world to find
The words to make it right
All i want is just the way it used to be
With you here close to me
I've got to make you see

That i'm lost without your love
Life without you isn't worth the trouble of
I'm as helpless as a ship without a wheel
A touch without a feel
I can't believe it's real...

And someday soon i'll wake
And find my heart won't have to break

Yes i'm lost without your love
Life without you isn't worth the trouble of
All i want is just the way it used to be
I need you here with me
Oh darlin' can't you see...
If we had love before
We can have it back once more

Truckin' down the highway
Get outta my way
Always in a hurry
Always in between
That's where you can find me
Truckin' down the highway
Sittin' in the cab of
A ten ton machine

Gettin' pretty tired of stoppin'
In old run down cafes
Some day i'm gonna find me a woman
Rich enough to pay my way

Gonna make some inroads
Drivin' home a payload
Truckin' down the highway
Like you never seen

Gettin' pretty tired of lookin'
In truck stop cabarets
Some day i'm gonna find me a woman
Rich enough to pay my way

Then you're gonna find me
Truckin' down the highway
Sittin' in the back of
A long limousine

Who draws the crowd and plays so loud,
Baby it's the guitar man.
Who's gonna steal the show, you know
Baby it's the guitar man,

He can make you love, he can make you cry
He will bring you down, then he'll get you high
Somethin' keeps him goin', miles and miles a day
To find another place to play.

Night after night who treats you right,
Baby it's the guitar man
Who's on the radio, you go listen
To the guitar man

Then he comes to town, and you see his face,
And you think you might like to take his place
Somethin' keeps him driftin' miles and miles away
Searchin' for the songs to play.

Then you listen to the music and you like to sing along,
You want to get the meaning out of each and ev'ry song
Then you find yourself a message and some words to call your own
And take them home.

He can make you love, he can get you high
He will bring you down, then he'll make you cry
Somethin' keeps him movin', but no one seems to know
What it is that makes him go.

Then the lights begin to flicker and the sound is getting dim
The voice begins to falter and the crowds are getting thin
But he never seems to notice he's just got to find
Another place to play,
Anyway got to play, anyway got to play.

Watchin' you move across the floor
You're fire up my mind can't take it no more
You're a fancy dancer
Makin' me blind so i can't see
You're a fancy dancer
And you ain't no good for me
You know you're comin' on strong
You're my favorite misery

You captured my soul - imprisoned my heart
You know you control whatever you start
You're fancy dancer
And it ain't too hard to see
You're fancy dancer
And you'll make a fool of me
I know it won't be for long
Until you dance a new song
But just for tonight won't you dance your dance for me

I'm not the first and i won't be the last
Don't want your future - just make the night last
C'mon fancy dancer
Make me blind so i can't see
You're a fancy dancer
And you ain't no good for me
Yeh, we both knew from the start
You'd try do dance with my heart
But just for tonight won't you dance your dance for me

And aubrey was her name,
A not so very ordinary girl or name.
But who's to blame?
For a love that wouldn't bloom
For the hearts that never played in tune.
Like a lovely melody that everyone can sing,
Take away the words that rhyme it doesn't mean a thing.

And aubrey was her name.
We triped the light and danced together to the moon,
But where was june.
No it never came around.
If it did it never made a sound,
Maybe i was absent or was listening to fast,
Catching all the words, but then the meaning going past,

But god i miss the girl,
And i'd go a thousand times around the world just to be
Closer to her than to me.

And aubrey was her name,
I never knew her, but i loved her just the same,
I loved her name.
Wish that i had found the way
And the reasons that would make her stay.
I have learned to lead a life apart from all the rest.
If i can't have the one i want, i'll do without the best.

But how i miss the girl
And i'd go a million times around the world just to say
She had been mine for a day.

love, look at the two of us
Strangers in many ways
We've got a lifetime to share
So much to say
And as we go
From day to day
I'll feel you close to me
But time alone will tell
Let's take a lifetime to say,
"i knew you well"
For only time will tell us so
And love may grow
For all we know

Love, look at the two of us
Strangers in many ways
Let's take a lifetime to say
"i knew you well"
For only time will tell us so
And love may grow
For all we know.

part-time love
I need somebody who's consistent
With me
Someone already there when i need
Company
'cause when l'm feeling low
I don't want to have to go out
Looking
For a part-time kind of love

And when the dreams and rainbows
Start to disappear
Don't want somebody up and running
Out here
'cause when you stop and start
Baby it's just too hard upon
My heart
That part-time kind of love

And i can't take you darling living here
Wait and see
I want somebody who's committed
Now to me
Somewhere, someday you'll have
To take a chance
So if you like the music baby
Get up and dance

And if we grow together daring to dream
I know we'll find our shares of
Peaches and cream
And when the juices flow
I don't want no no no excuses
Just want your full time love
For me
Just want your full time love
For me.

Take me anyway you want me
'cause i need your love to see me through
You can make me anyway you want me
That's all that i can offer you
I have tried so hard to please you
But i just can't seem to reach you

Tried, tried a little kindness
Every night and day like i knew i should
But you can take me, yes and you can leave me
But i always stayed, and you knew i would
Come on, come on closer now
I will get to you somehow

Come on, come on closer now
I will get to you somehow
But you got to show me how
Please, please baby, please
Please, baby show me the way to your heart

You got to take me anyway you want me
Or take me just, just the way i am
Take me, or you can make me

You sheltered me from harm.
Kept me warm, kept me warm
You gave my life to me
Set me free, set me free
The finest years i ever knew
Were all the years i had with you

I would give anything i own,
Give up me life, my heart, my home.
I would give everything i own,
Just to have you back again.

You taught me how to love,
What its of, what its of.
You never said too much,
But still you showed the way,
And i knew from watching you.
Nobody else could ever know
The part of me that can't let go.

I would give anything i own,
Give up me life, my heart, my home.
I would give everything i own
Just to have you back again.

Is there someone you know,
You're loving them so,
But taking them all for granted.
You may lose them one day,
Someone takes them away,
And they don't hear the words you long to say

I would give anything i own,
Give up me life, my heart, my home.
I would give everything i own
Just to have you back again.

Too much sorrow
Too much pain
Too many reasons
No to go back again
Leavin' without her
Is too much to bear
But when we're together
Too much nothin' to share
But too much love
I've never seen
Too much love
I don't know what it means

Not enough caring
Too many lies
Sooner or later
One too many goodbyes
I got no reason
For hangin' around
And all my possessions
Start to weighin' me down
But too much love
I've never known
Too much love
I need some of my own

I'm driftin' down the street
Asking of all i meet
Don't you know me from somewhere
Hazel eyes and curly hair
Have you seen me anywhere
Look at me
I'm blending into the wall
And i wonder if i'm really here at all

Time goes by
So do i
But no one blinks an eye
Mirrors aren't reflecting me
Laws aren't protecting
And no one's expecting me
On the edge
I feel like i'm going to fall
And i wonder if i'll never land at well

Loneliness comes and stays
Torturing nights and days
People stare but cannot speak
Hearts are strong
But tongues are weak
Maybe all our minds are meek
Look at me
I'm fading into the floor
And wonder if i'm living anymore.

I told you before - don't you hear what i say
I won't take it no more - no more makin' me stay
Down on my knees - you know i'm down on my knees yeh
Yes i've been down on my knees
But i'm through beggin' please
I won't get back on my knees.

Nobody knows - what your puttin me through
Nobody knows - if it's worth it for you
Nobody sees - you got me down on my knees
Well i've been down on my knees
And i'm through beggin' please
Don't put me back on my knees.

You know how i always loved you
Never placed myself above you,

Don't let me go - if i wish that i could
Don't tell me no - if i wish that you would
Down on my knees - you know i'm down on my knees
Well i've been down on my knees
But i'm through beggin' please
Don't put me back on my knees.

She's a butterfly
But she flies too high
She won't speak the truth
She don't make excuses
She don't seem to care
But you want her anywhere
'cause she's the only one

She don't make the scene
But that don't chnge a thing
You just plan and scheme
You insist on dreamin'
She won't play your game
But it's all the same
Now she's the only one

She knows too well that she's the only one
She doesn't care if you're the lonely one
You want to say it's over, but it's just begun
She's the only one

She knows too well that she's the only one
She doesn't care if you're the lonely one
It's not the way you planned it
But she's really got you on the run
Your one and only one