River

I went out walking the other day
Seen a little girl crying along the way
She'd been hurt so bad said she'd never love again
Someday your crying girl will end
And you'll find once again

Two hearts are better than one
Two hearts girl get the job done
Two hearts are better than one

Once i spent my time playing tough guy scenes
But i was living in a world of childish dreams
Someday these childish dreams must end
To become a man and grow up to dream again
Now i believe in the end

Two hearts are better than one...

Sometimes it might seem like it was planned
For you to roam empty hearted through this land
Though the world turns you hard and cold
There's one thing mister that i know
That's if you think your heart is stone
And that you're rough enough to whip this world alone
Alone buddy there ain't no peace of mind
That's why i'll keep searching till i find my special one

Two hearts are better than one...

Got a wife and kids in baltimore jack
I went out for a ride and i never went back
Like a river that don't know where it's flowing
I took a wrong turn and i just kept going

Everybody's got a hungry heart
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybody's got a hungry heart

I met her in a kingstown bar
We fell in love i knew it had to end
We took what we had and we ripped it apart
Now here i am down in kingstone again

Everybody's got a hungry heart...

Everybody needs a place to rest
Everybody wants to have a home
Don't make no difference what nobody says
Ain't nobody like to be alone

Everybody's got a hungry heart...

Well now you say you've found another man who does things to you that i can't
And that no matter what i do it's all over now between me and you girl
But i can't believe what you say
No i can't believe what you say
'cause baby

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I don't wanna fade away
Oh i don't wanna fade away
Tell me what can i do what can i say
Cause darlin' i don't wanna fade away

Well now you say that you've made up your mind it's been such a long,
Long time since it's been good with us
And that somewhere back along the line you lost your love and i lost your trust
Now rooms that once were so bright are filled with the coming night, darlin'

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You say it's not easy for you
And that you've been so lonely
While other girls go out doing what they want to do
You say that you miss the nights when we'd go out dancing
The days when you and i walked as two
Well girl i miss them too
Oh i swear that i do
Oh girl

Now baby i don't wanna be just another useless memory holding you tight
Or just some other ghost out on the street to whom you stop and politely speak when you pass on by vanishing into the night
Left to vanish into the night
No baby

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I got a 007 watch and it's a one and only
It's got a i-spy beeper that tells me when you're lonely
I got a batmobile so i can reach ya' in a fast shake
When your world's in crisis of an impendin' heartbreak

Now don't you call james bond or secret agent man
Cause they can't do it, like i can
I'm a rocker, baby, i'm a rocker - every day
I'm a rocker, baby, i'm a rocker

If you're hanging from a cliff or you're tied to the tracks, girl
Columbo split and you can't find kojak
True love is broken and your tears are fallin' faster
You're sufferin' from a pain in your heart
Or some other natural disaster

Now i don't care what kind of shape you're in
If they put up a roadblock, i'll parachute in
I'm a rocker, baby, i'm a rocker - i'm in love
I'm a rocker, baby, i'm a rocker - every day
I'm a rocker, baby, i'm a rocker - with you

So you fell for some jerk who was tall, dark and handsome
Then he kidnapped your heart and now he's holdin' it for ransom
Well, like a mission impossible i'm gonna go and get it back
You know i would'a taken better care of it, baby, than that

Sometimes i get so hot girl, well, i can't talk
But when i'm with you i cool off , and i walk
I'm a rocker, baby, i'm a rocker, and i talk
I'm a rocker, baby, i'm a rocker, every day
I'm a rocker, baby, i'm a rocker, every day

Your mamma's yappin' in the back seat
Tell her to push over and move them big feet
Every monday morning i gotta drive her down to the unemployment agency
Well this morning i ain't fighting tell her i give up
Tell her she wins if she'll just shut up
But it's the last time that she's gonna be ridin' with me

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You can tell her there's a hot sun beatin' on the blacktop
She keeps talkin' she'll be walkin' that last block
She can take a subway back to the ghetto tonight
Well i got some beer and the highway's free
And i got you, and baby you've got me.
Hey, hey, hey whataya say sherry darlin'

Now there's girls melting on the beach
And they're so fine but so far out of reach
Cause i'm stuck in traffic down here on 53rd street
Now sherry my love for you is real
But i didn't count on this package deal
And baby this car just aint big enough for her and me

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So you can tell her there's a hot sun beatin' on the blacktop
She keeps talkin' she'll be walkin' that last block
She can take a subway back to the ghetto tonight
Well i got some beer and the highway's free
And i got you, and baby you've got me.
Hey, hey, hey whataya say sherry darlin'

Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain
Let the brokenhearted love again
Sherry we can run with our arms open before the tide
To all the girls down at sacred heart
And all you operators back in the park
Say hey, hey, hey whataya say sherry darlin'
Hey, hey, hey, whataya say sherry darlin'

Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on
I wanna ramrod with you honey, till half-past dawn
Let your hair down sugar and pick up this beat
Come on and meet me tonight down on bluebird street
I've been working all week, i'm up to my neck in hock
Come saturday night i let my ramrod rock

She's a hot stepping hemi with a four on the floor
She's a roadrunner engine in a '32 ford
Late at night when i'm dead on the line
I swear i think of your pretty face when i let her unwind
Well look over yonder see them city lights
Come on little dolly 'n' go ramroddin' tonight

Come on, come on, come on little baby
Come on, come on let's shake it tonight
Come on, come, come on little sugar
Dance with your daddy and we'll go ramroddin' tonight

Hey, little dolly won't you say you will
Meet me tonight up on top of the hill
Well just a few miles cross the county line
There's a cute little chapel nestled down in the pines
Say you'll be mine little girl i'll put my foot to the floor
Give me the word now sugar, we'll go ramroddin' forever more

Do you still say your prayers little darlin' do you go to bed at night
Prayin' that tomorrow, everything will be alright
But tommorow's fall in number in number one by one
You wake up and you're dying you don't even know what from

Well they shot you point blank you been shot in the back
Baby point blank you been fooled this time little girl that's a fact
Right between the eyes baby, point blank right between the pretty lies that
They tell
Little girl you fell

You grew up where young girls they grow up fast
You took what you were handed and left behind what was asked
But what they asked baby wasn't right you didn't have to live that life,
I was gonna be your romeo you were gonna be my juliet
These days you don't wait on romeo's you wait on that welfare check and on all the pretty things that you can't ever have and on all the promises

That always end up point blank, shot between the eyes
Point blank like little white lies you tell to ease the pain
You're walkin' in the sights, girl of point blank
And it's one false move and baby the lights go out

Once i dreamed we were together again baby you and me
Back home in those old clubs the way we used to be
We were standin' at the bar it was hard to hear
The band was playin' loud and you were shoutin' somethin' in my ear
You pulled my jacket off and as the drummer counted four
You grabbed my hand and pulled me out on the floor
You just stood there and held me, then you started dancin' slow
And as i pulled you tighter i swore i'd never let you go

Well i saw you last night down on the avenue
Your face was in the shadows but i knew that it was you
You were standin' in the doorway out of the rain
You didn't answer when i called out your name
You just turned, and then you looked away like just another stranger waitin' to get blown away

Point blank, right between the eyes
Point blank, right between the pretty lies you fell
Point blank, shot right through the heart

Yea point blank, you've been twisted up till you've become just another part of it
Point blank, you're walkin' in the sights
Point blank, livin' one false move just one false move away
Point blank, they caught you in their sights
Point blank, did you forget how to love, girl, did you forget how to fight.
Point blank they must have shot you in the head
Cause point blank, bang bang baby you're dead.

You been hurt and you're all cried out you say
You walk down the street pushin' people outta your way
You packed your bags and all alone you wanna ride,
You don't want nothin', don't need no one by your side
You're walkin' tough baby, but you're walkin' blind

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The ties that bind
Now you can't break the ties that bind

Cheap romance, it's all just a crutch
You don't want nothin' that anybody can touch
You're so afraid of being somebody's fool
Not walkin' tough baby, not walkin' cool
You walk cool, but darlin', can you walk the line
And face the ties that bind
The ties that bind
Now you can't break the ties that bind

I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes i would darlin',
Than know the emptiness your heart must hide,
Yes i would darlin', yes i would darlin',
Yes i would baby

You sit and wonder just who's gonna stop the rain
Who'll ease the sadness, who's gonna quiet the pain
It's a long dark highway and a thin white line
Connecting baby, your heart to mine
We're runnin' now but darlin' we will stand in time
To face the ties that bind
The ties that bind
Now you can't break the ties that bind
You can't forsake the ties that bind

You make up your mind, you choose the chance you take
You ride to where the highway ends and the desert breaks
Out on to an open road you ride until the day
You learn to sleep at night with the price you pay

Now with their hands held high, they reached out for the open skies
And in one last breath they built the roads they'd ride to their death
Driving on through the night, unable to break away
From the restless pull of the price you pay

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Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay
Now you can't walk away from the price you pay

Now they'd come so far and they'd waited so long
Just to end up caught in a dream where everything goes wrong
Where the dark of night holds back the light of day
And you've gotta stand and fight for the price you pay

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Little girl down on the strand
With that pretty little baby in your hands
Do you remember the story of the promised land
How he crossed the desert sands
And could not enter the chosen land
On the banks of the river he stayed
To face the price you pay

So let the games start, you better run you little wild heart
You can run through all the nights and all the days
But just across the county line, a stranger passing through put up a sign
That counts the men fallen away to the price you pay,
And girl before the end of the day,
I'm gonna tear it down and throw it away