Boats Against The Current

(eric carmen)

She was just an average blue-eyed
Golden high school dream
An illusion nothing real could ever touch
Funny love seemed so much more intense
At seventeen
When i knew she'd never love me
Half as much

I recall the desperate vow i made
I must find a way somehow to win her heart
I've got to make her mine

Gonna run away
Till i prove that i'm a man
Gonna run away
Be the best i know i can
Got to run away
Got to find my space and time
And i cannot rest a day until i make her mine

Trades were made for promises
Of a timeless memory
And i knew but still refused to comprehend
The fantasy more glamorous
Then she could ever be
Was the course of least resistance
In the end

I recall the desperate vow i made
I must find a way somehow to win her heart
I've got to make her mine

Gonna run away
Till i prove that i'm a man
Gonna run away
Be the best i know i can
Got to run away
Got to find my space and time
And i cannot rest a day until i make her mine

Long ago an innocence
Lived deep within my soul
In a yesterday where love
And dreams remain
But disillusion clouds my eyes
And the winter takes it's toll
For the spring has gone
And will not come again

I recall the desperate vow i made
I must find a way somehow to win her heart
I've got to make her mine

Gonna run away
Till i prove that i'm a man
Gonna run away
Be the best i know i can
Got to run away
Got to find my space and time
And i cannot rest a day until i make her mine

Got to run away
Got to find my space and time
And i cannot rest a day until i make her mine

(eric carmen)

I know it's over
You know it's over
We're just goin' through the motions
But we're sailin' separate oceans world's apart
And you know it's breakin' my heart

I was a dreamer
You were a dreamer
But perfection is consuming
And it seems we're only human after all
And we've both been takin' the fall

But tomorrow
We'll run a little bit faster
Tomorrow
We're gonna find what we're after at last
Feelings that we left in the past
There's romance in the sunset
We're boats against the current to the end

Maybe we're older
Maybe we're colder
So we disregard solutions
While we cling to our illusions once again
And we keep rememberin' when

Seasons are changin'
Reasons are changin'
But the story isn't ending
So we find ourselves pretending one more day
While the years keep slippin' away

But tomorrow
We'll run a little bit faster
Tomorrow
We're gonna find what we're after at last
Feelings that we left in the past
There's romance in the sunset
We're boats against the current to the end

(eric carmen)

I set to sea on a ship called emptiness
Cast away on the island of loneliness
Lookin' for love
Ooh, and i was lookin' for love

(you know)
I didn't think she could hear my s.o.s.
But she appeared like an angel of tenderness
Sent from above
Oh, she was bringing me love

Oh, mama, she did it
Woh mama, she did it, yeah
Ooh, she did it
Woh mama, she did it, yeah

Looking back, making love was meaningless
Till she touched me with her warmth
And a gentleness i'd never known
Ooh, and she was guiding me home

(now i)
Now i see all the things in life i missed
Till she opened up my eyes to the limitless
Wonder of love
Oh, and now i'm ready for love

Oh, mama, she did it
Woh mama, she did it, yeah
Ooh, she did it
Woh mama, she did it, yeah

I never knew what love was about
Till she came and stole away my heart
Now i'm alive and i know it
And all i ever wanna do is show it
(oh yeah)

Oh, mama, she did it
Woh mama, she did it, yeah
Ooh, she did it
Woh mama, she did it, yeah

(eric carmen)

Lovers come and lovers go
But it's never twice the same
Happiness is hard to show
When you're numb to all the pain
And i've been floatin' 'round
Like an old newspaper
Blowin' down some windy street
Feeling so alone and incomplete

But there's nowhere to hide
Where the night can't find me
Where the light of the sun can't blind me
Like the light in a woman's eyes
There's nowhere to hide
From the dream that drives me
Like a fire burning deep inside me
Oh, i know she'll be there tonight

Can the future be foretold
In a faded photograph
Can a dream be bought and sold
Well, i guess i have to laugh
Sippin' on a scotch and soda
A shadow in the corner booth
So philosophic and drunk on grown-up truth

But there's nowhere to hide
Where the night can't find me
Where the light of the sun can't blind me
Like the light in a woman's eyes
There's nowhere to hide
From the dream that drives me
Like a fire burning deep inside me
Oh, i know she'll be there tonight

Half-forgotten fragments
Of a high school dance
In the dead white hours of winter
When we loved so hard
That we thought it would never end
Tryin' to remember
How it used to feel
When a kiss was something special
And i wonder now
Will it ever be again

But there's nowhere to hide
Where the night can't find me
Where the light of the sun can't blind me
Like the light in a woman's eyes
There's nowhere to hide
From the dream that drives me
Like a fire burning deep inside me
Oh, i know she'll be there tonight

Lovers come and lovers go
But it's never twice the same
Happiness is hard to show
When you're numb to all the pain
And i've been floatin' round
Like an old newspaper
Blowin' down some windy street
Feeling so alone and incomplete

But there's nowhere to hide
Where the night can't find me
Where the light of the sun can't blind me
Like the light in a woman's eyes
There's nowhere to hide
From the dream that drives me
Like a fire burning deep inside me
Oh, i know she'll be there tonight

Yes, i know she'll be there tonight