1. _ True Companion
Baby i've been searching like everybody else
Can't say nothing different about myself
Sometimes i'm an angel
And sometimes i'm cruel
And when it comes to love
I'm just another fool
Yes, i'll climb a mountain
I'm gonna swim the sea
There ain't no act of god girl
Could keep you safe from me
My arms are reaching out
Out across this canyon
I'm asking you to be my true companion
True companion
True companion
So don't you dare and try to walk away
I've got my heart set on our wedding day
I've got this vision of a girl in white
Made my decision that it's you allright
And when i take your hand
I'll watch my heart set sail
I'll take my trembling fingers
And i'll lift up your veil
Then i'll take you home
And with wild abandon
Make love to you just like a true companion
You are my true companion
I got a true companion
True companion
When the years have done irreparable harm
I can see us walking slowly arm in arm
Just like the couple on the corner do
'cause girl i will always be in love with you
And when i look in your eyes
I'll still see that spark
Until the shadows fall
Until the room grows dark
Then when i leave this earth
I'll be with the angels standin'
I'll be out there waiting for my true companion
Just for my true companion
True companion
True companion
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2. _ Strangers In A Car
There's a stranger in a car
Driving down your street
Acts like he knows who you are
Slaps his hand on the empty seat and says
"are you gonna get in
Or are you gonna stay out?"
Just a stranger in a car
Might be the one they told you about
Well you never were one for cautiousness
You open the door
He gives you a tender kiss
And you can't even hear them no more --
All the voices of choices
Now only one road remains
And strangers in a car
Two hearts
Two souls
Tonight
Two lanes
You don't know where you're goin'
You don't know what you're doin'
Hell it might be the highway to heaven
And it might be the road to ruin
But this is a song
For strangers in a car
Baby maybe that's all
We really are
Strangers in a car
(driving down your street)
Just strangers in a car
(driving down your street)
Strangers in a car
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3. _ Silver Thunderbird
Watched it coming up winslow
Down south park boulevard
Yeah it was looking good from tail to hood
Great big fins and painted steel
Man it looked just like the batmobile
With my old man behind the wheel
Well you could hardly even see him
In all of that chrome
The man with the plan and the pocket comb
But every night it carried him home
And i could hear him sayin'...
Don't gimme no buick
Son you must take my word
If there's a god in heaven
He's got a silver thunderbird
You can keep your eldorados
And the foreign car's absurd
Me i wanna go down
In a silver thunderbird
He got up every morning
While i was still asleep
But i remember the sound of him shuffling around
Then right before the crack of dawn
I heard him turn the motor on
But when i got up they were gone
Down the road in the rain and snow
The man and his machine would go
Oh the secrets that old car would know
Sometimes i hear him sayin'...
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4. _ Walking In Memphis
Put on my blue suede shoes
And i boarded the plane
Touched down in the land of the delta blues
In the middle of the pouring rain
W.c. handy -- won't you look down over me
Yeah i got a first class ticket
But i'm as blue as a boy can be
Then i'm walking in memphis
Walking with my feet ten feet off of beale
Walking in memphis
But do i really feel the way i feel
Saw the ghost of elvis
On union avenue
Followed him up to the gates of graceland
Then i watched him walk right through
Now security they did not see him
They just hovered 'round his tomb
But there's a pretty little thing
Waiting for the king
Down in the jungle room
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They've got catfish on the table
They've got gospel in the air
And reverend green be glad to see you
When you haven't got a prayer
But boy you've got a prayer in memphis
Now muriel plays piano
Every friday at the hollywood
And they brought me down to see her
And they asked me if i would --
Do a little number
And i sang with all my might
And she said --
"tell me are you a christian child?"
And i said "ma'am i am tonight"
(chorus)
Put on my blue suede shoes
And i boarded the plane
Touched down in the land of the delta blues
In the middle of the pouring rain
Touched down in the land of the delta blues
In the middle of the pouring rain
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5. _ Perfect Love
Down by the boathouse at shaker lake
When there wasn't nothing but love to make,
They were two young lovers wishing on the stars above.
Well, they carved their initials in an old birch tree
With a heart and an arrow and a 'sixty-three.
You had to be blind not to see... it was a perfect love.
It was a perfect love. ooh, yeah, yeah.
Well, they worked one summer together at the '64 world's fair.
They met robert kennedy there.
Well, that was... right before the fall.
And they saved up a little bit of money for his career,
And they talked about the future underneath the giant sphere.
And all around them, the little voices were singing
It's a small world after all. yes it is, small world after all.
And it was... perfect love.
It was a perfect love. ooh, yeah, yeah.
(under the moon and stars above it was a perfect love)
Now they were dizzy from dancing on rockaway beach.
They came to rockaway.
Yeah, and everything they dreamed of was still within reach;
Dreaming... dreaming as the years roll by,
Like they always do.
Well, they had their share of hard times, too.
But whatever they were, they never let it get them down.
Now, they just go walking down a country lane;
See the leaves changing in the misty rain.
And only one thing remains the same, woah. ooh, yeah, yeah.
Just a perfect love ooh, yeah, yeah.
(under the moon and stars above it was a perfect love)
Repeat and fade
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6. _ Walk On Water
Let's go down to the sound tonight
Tide is low and we can walk on water
Reel me in under that starry light
Just like the fisherman's daughter
Baby when the bands and the barkers go home
They say that venus she rises
From out of the foam
She dances on air and laughs at the moon
And watches young lovers in fiery dunes
So are you willing to wait for the miracle
Willing to wait it through
Are you willing to wait for the miracle
Or don't you believe they're true?
There's an old man sitting by the side of the pier
He's got his cross and his camera
And his bottle of beer
He just sits all day and all through the night
Praying for a vision or a heavenly light
'cause he's willing to wait for the miracle
Willing to wait it through
He's willing to wait for the miracle
What else is he gonna do?
What else is he gonna do?
Now me i don't need no heavenly sign
'cause i got the water and the wine
So baby please let your lovelight shine
'cause we're all gonna meet our maker
Sometime
That's why i'm willing to wait for the miracles
I'm willing to wait them through
I'm willing to wait for the miracles
But i just can't wait -- for you
Just can't wait for you
Let's go down to the sound tonight
And walk on water
Walk on water
Walk on water
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7. _ Miles Away
My friends will ask me how i'm doin'
But i just can't lie to 'em
Not feeling fine today
I saw my dreams they were a
Ship on the ocean now it
Looks like they're miles away
Miles away
Hey, hey -- they're miles away
I know there's always something
We have to go through
That has some deeper meaning but
Right now i just can't say
I know there's gonna be a lesson somewhere
I'm gonna think a lot about it later
But right now i'm miles away
Miles away
Hey hey i'm miles away
Hey hey hey i'm miles away
I'm a million miles away
Where i don't have to think at all
Don't have to listen to you whisper
Your little secrets in the hall
Yeah i'd really love to talk about it
But i think i hear my mama calling me...
Miles away
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8. _ 29 Ways
I got 29 ways to make it to my baby's door
I got 29 ways to make it to my baby's door
And if she needs me bad
I can find about two or three more
I got one through the basement
Two down the hall
And when the going gets tough
I got a hole in the wall
(chorus)
I can come through the chimney like santa claus
Go through the window and that ain't all
A lot of good ways i don't want you to know
I even got a hole in the bedroom floor
(chorus)
I got a way through the closet behind her clothes
A way through the attic that no one knows
A master key that fits every lock
A hidden door behind the grandfather clock
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9. _ Ghost Train
Everybody talks about some fateful day
And i guess that this was mine
I may be here to tell some kind of story
But i think it's gonna take a little time
(that's all right)
See i'm rockin' in a cradle
Down the hall somewhere and i am--
Lost inside a dream
Maybe i am falling
Maybe i am flying
But i know if i am crying she is
Holding me
And then the sky broke up
And then the rain came down
And it washed away everything on the ground
Wash it away
Wash it away
Wash it away
Now baby's got that bottle
Filled up with lightning and rain
He keeps calling out for someone
But she's riding on a train
Riding on the ghost train
And she keeps on riding
She's gonna keep on riding
Mama keep on riding
Keep on riding
Some trains they leave in the moming
Some leave in the afternoon
Some trains they leave here
Right on time
And some they just leave too soon
Way too soon
But i'm gonna keep on...
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10. _ Dig Down Deep
Baby let's go below the surface
See what we can find
There's no reason to be nervous
'cause it happens all the time
I don't want to go up to the mountain
I don't need to go down to the sea
Gonna sit right here 'till we unravel
The mystery
While the lights of the city
Are shining below
Gonna hold onto you girl
And never let go
While everyone else is just walking around
In their sleep
Baby let's dig down
Dig down deep
I wanna dig down deep
And i don't wanna wait until tomorrow
'cause the fortune said that "the time is now"
It's time to find out what we're doing
What we're doing anyhow
Let's go out in the moonlight
And walk for awhile
Maybe stay up all night and we could
Talk for awhile
Kick off your shoes
'cause you've got nothing to lose
But your sleep
Baby let's dig down
Dig down deep
I wanna dig down deep
It's an open invitation
So baby don't you cry
It's a life long celebration
And i think we're right on time
It's a feeling in your heart
And a lump in the throat
It's a strange and lovely ride
Wanna dig down deep inside
While the lights of the city
Are shining below
Gonna hold onto you girl
And never let go
While everyone else is just walking around
In their sleep
Baby let's dig down
Dig down deep
I wanna dig down deep
Could you dig down deep
I wanna dig down deep
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11. _ Saving The Best For Last
Got into a cab in new york city
Was an oriental man behind the wheel
Started talking about heaven
Like it was real
Said "they got mansions in heaven
Yeah the angels are building one for me right now
And i know...
They're saving the best for last
Look around this town
And tell me that it ain't so
They're saving the best for last
Don't ask me how i know
'cause it must be
Saving the best for last for me
You can go a hundred miles a second
Don't have to drive no lousy cab
Got everything you want and more man
And the king picks up the tab
You walk around on streets of gold all day
And you never have to listen
To what these customers say and i know...
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I remember when i was a child
Lost in the streets of chinatown
My mother had a vision and i was found
(saving the best for last for me)
Oh-oh -- saving the best for last
And when i finally take this journey
I'm gonna wave goodbye to earth
Gonna throw this meter in the ocean
And prove what i was worth
And i don't care who tries to flag me down
They're gonna have to find another ride uptown
And i know
They're saving the best for last..."
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