Steve Winwood - Nine Lives (2008) by Steve Winwood (보컬) on maniadb.com

Black night down heavy on my weary brow
Light shining in the pouring rain
Can see somehow cold comfort in the broken trees
But I won't let it bring me to my knees
I'm not flying, but I'm not drowning now

Keep driving, don't matter if the highway's lost
Keep running, never turn your head
Count the cost ghost waiting where the roads all cross
Big deal waiting when you get to meet the boss
Clouds are breaking, I'm not drowning now
Drowning now...

Flying, but I'm not drowning now...

Sad old man smiling with a shameful grin
He thinks that we never can lose
Never beat the dealer when he cuts the pack
First back to front, then deal front to back
Now I'm flying, I'm not drowning now...

On a brave new morning, smiling at the sky
Every shadow of the past whispers goodbye
There is hope, if you can see
I give it all to you, you give it all to me
Every winter has the sun within its heart
And everything we think we knew we can forget
Maybe far but not apart
I know it's getting better and it will be better yet

So fly
Cause I know what you're feeling
When it turns out that way
And that emotion is healing
And we can fly...

Climbed a mountain, just to see the other side
We start with nothing, cause there's nothing left to hide
I believe in every new day
I'll never be that man who threw it all away
In the valley there's a river running through
Wherever it may take me, I will follow you
There's an answer to all the rain
It's when I turn around and hear you say my name

So fly...
And we can fly...
Oh what you're healing...
Cause there is nothing but clouds in your way
As we face the day...

So the time has come but I will say a prayer
As the day break, I know I will meet you there
By the shoreline ever-changing
I give my word to you, you gave your word to me
So the morning has a song to feed my soul
It was divided, but with you it feels whole
There's a life only we know
And there's a secret place where only we can go

So fly...
And we can fly...

Heaven is calling, waking me from my sleep
Cross the ocean for the ghost of a chance to be free
Over the rainbow, follow the rolling sea
Find an answer to the dream of the man I can be

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Set my sail by a star
Into the world of raging sea, left my home
Oh goodbye my love, your tears break my heart
But we'll meet again on a new horizon
In a paradise for you and for me

Summer is coming, warm the winter skies
Yellow sun to dry the rain that's clouding my eyes
Over the ocean, chasing lonely moon
Heaven knows if my true fate will come find me soon
Storm all around us, blacken the icy sea
Save my soul if my good angel's there waiting for me
Hurricane rising, thank the god I know
Feel my destiny to find my own El Dorado

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Looking for new worlds, haunting me in my sleep
Lost one good friend to the sword and one more to the deep
Over the sunrise, blood on flaming sea
Crossed the ocean for the ghost of a chance to be free

When waves crash by my sleepy pillow
I'm dreaming love will surely follow
See weeping shadows on my balcony
But there's more than I can see

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We're all looking
Sometimes we find
We're all waiting
To see a sign
But we're searching
Deep in our own minds
We're all looking
Sometimes we're blind

When life is much too beautiful to bear
I still feel pain of it in there
And as I walk across the endless sky
There's nothing good about goodbye
And everything that brings me down to earth
Is just another day to pray
To while the day and wonder what it's worth
There's nothing left that we can say

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Hot desert wind
Burning sand
But this land it is my land
Wait by the well
Rain don't come
River's dry
Pray for my son

I'm just one, one more poor hungry man
Yes, I'm just one more poor hungry man

Sun in the sky
Hurts my eye
Mouth all dry
May God help me
Wait by the road
Man don't come
Rice all gone

For thirty miles
I'm just one, one more poor hungry man
I'm just one, one more poor hungry man
Yes, I'm just one more poor hungry man
I'm just one, one more poor hungry man

Shout at the truck
Passing by
No reply
Dust in my mouth
Somebody soon
Find me here
Drowning here
In baby's tears
Love in the world
Hear me soon
Save us all
And save my child
Birds in the skies
Flying low
Baby no
His tears all dry

It's hot down on the borderline,
Running guns, he's just killing time
He keeps his back against the wall
Never trust your friends in crime

He's the quiet kind
Doesn't need a plan
You can't read his mind
He's a secret man, talking 'bout the man

You drink Mojitos with the boys
Smile as if you know what they know
You show them all your pretty toys
Make a deal, don't make a show

He's the ace of spies with a golden hand
You can't read his eyes
Cause he's a secret man
He's the quiet kind
Doesn't need a plan
Can't read his mind at all
He's a secret man, talking 'bout the man

Tell you no secrets,
I tell you no lies...

Well, the world's no perfect place
We're only doing what we can do
When the night comes over me
Open my eyes up to a brighter sky

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And the light shines above every nation
But at times we do forget about them
Like my brother who is falling down
But at times we do forget about him

Well truth is an empty word
Spoken in vain, yeah, like we all do
Blind hate the modern way
But every life has a beautiful name

[Chorus]

No regrets can save us
And only our hearts have any answer
Oh, it's you...

[Chorus]

Time to break out now
Out of the prison of our own mind
There's a rhyme where there's a reason
Everyone's dreaming of the same dream

There'll be times at sunrise when my heart speaks your name
For you left with no warning but there's no one left to blame
All those days full of golden sun when you walked by my side
And everything that you gave to me can never be denied

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And sometimes the other shore is so far away
And that darker river's edge is too far away
And across the waterline is far away

On a new tomorrow cooling breeze shows a star
There can be so much sorrow, when you've traveled from afar
But there's nothing that can harm you when the night's closing in
In the bright lit heavens above us, you know we'll meet there again

[Chorus]

In the rush of our breathing there is always passing time
There is always somebody leaving, someone's always left behind
But something endures in the morning's blue light, I have you and you have me
And it'll be alright when the skies all clear, 'cause we're all born to be free

The other shore is so far way
And that darker river's edge is too far away
And across the waterline it's so far away
And sometimes the other shore is so far away
And across the river's edge is far away