Michael Franks

ved in a painting by Renoir
Dined late in those
sidewalk cafes
But lately I seem to be
more inclined
For a walk in the rain

I danced to Grappelli
and Django
Saw candlelight
through beaujolais
But lately I seem to be
more inclined
For a walk in the rain

We laughed at the weather
Out walking without umbrellas
How well I remember
Your face when
we walked in the rain

You know I was crazy about you
Some sadness
caused me to unwind
Maybe I will meet you
If fate is kind
On a walk in the rain

We laughed at the weather
Out walking without umbrellas
How well I remember
Your face when
we walked in the rain

We laughed at the weather
Out walking without umbrellas
How well I remember
Your face when
we walked in the rain

In your abandoned garden, sunlight still prevails:
The jasmine climbs the trellis fragrantly, the
jacaranda ultravioletly sways.
The blossom. each of them by your hand planted,
Will, even if I tell them of your sudden
Disappearance from us,
Not believe the tale.

Though the samba has ended, I know in the sound
Of your voice, your piano, your flute, you are found,
And the music within you continues to flow
Sadly, lost Antonio.

You were my inspiration, my hero, my friend;
On the highway of time will I meet you again?
If the heart ever heals, does the scar always show
For the lost Antonio?
For the lost Antonio?

In your abandoned garden, beauty is unchanged:
The hummingbird still hovers for the scent the
frangipane so seductively displays.
Camellias, each of them by your hand planted,
The sadness of your sudden disappearance still
unknown to them,
Await the kiss of rain.

Though the samba has ended, I know in the sound
Of your voice, your piano, your flute, you are found,
And the music within you continues to flow
Sadly, lost Antonio.

You were my inspiration, my hero, my friend;
On the highway of time will I meet you again?
If the heart ever heals, does the scar always show
For the lost Antonio?
For the lost Antonio?

The night I met you
We were tryin' to define
What "hip" meant
How could I forget you
You were shakin' all that fine
Equipment?

Listen you, 's' been a week or two
And still you got me waiting
Anticipating
Little fawn did you lead me on
Because you really want it
Or just to flaunt it
What you tryin' to do?
You can't shift this thing
From high down into low
It's a shame just a game
And i'm blamin' you
'Cause now I'm all dressed up and I got
Nowhere to go

You're so bitter sweet
The sign says, "All that you can eat"
But I still ain't seen it
And I've heard it said
That a lady dressed in red
Don't really mean it

Listen you, 's' been a week or two
And still you got me waiting
Anticipating
Little fawn did you lead me on
Because you really want it
Or just to flaunt it
What you tryin' to do?
You can't shift this thing
From high down into low
It's a shame just a game
And i'm blamin' you
'Cause now I'm all dressed up and I got
Nowhere to go

What you tryin' to do?
You can't shift this thing
From high down into low
It's a shame just a game
And i'm blamin' you
'Cause now I'm all dressed up and I got
Nowhere to go

What you tryin' to do?
You can't shift this thing
From high down into low
It's a shame just a game
And i'm blamin' you
'Cause now I'm all dressed up and I got
Nowhere to go

What you tryin' to do?
You can't shift this thing
From high down into low
It's a shame just a game
And i'm blamin' you
'Cause now I'm all dressed up and I got
Nowhere to go

When I saw you on the beach I self-destructed
My well constructed
Counterpoint of cool.
In that instant I imagined us together
Hardly ever
Resting to refuel.
For forever you are all I need

More than ever you are all I need.

Every kiss perpetuates like mass-production
Sweet seduction
Haunts me like perfume.
Everytime we touch I feel a deeper meaning
Hearts convening
Palpitate in tune.
For forever you are all I need
More than ever you are all I need.

Here with you beside me I agree
No mater where we are is perfect ecstasy
Our bodies speak some language too
Intense for us to comprehend
But when they do
I only know
You're all I need.

Instrumental Interlude

Poets say that love gives meaning to existence
We, for instance,
Prove that point of view.
I'm convinced our souls have searched
A thousand lifetimes
To find the right time
Enter me and you.
For forever you are all I need
More than ever you are all I need

For forever you are all I need
For forever you are all I need
For forever you are all I need
For forever you are all I need

Antonio lives life's fervor
Antonio plays for truth
Antonio says our friendship
Is a hundred proof
The vulture that circles Rio
hangs in this LA sky
The blankets they
give the Indians
only make them die
But sing the song
forgotten for so long
And let the music flow
like light into the rainbow
We know the dance
we have We still have a chance
to break these chains And flow
like light into the rainbow

But sing the song
forgotten for so long
And let the music flow
like light into the rainbow
We know the dance
we have We still have a chance
to break these chains And flow
like light into the rainbow
Antonio loves the desert
Antonio plays for rain
Antonio knows that pleasure
is the child of pain
And Lost in La Califusa
When most of my hope was gone
Antonio's samba led me
to the Amazon
But sing the song
forgotten for so long
And let the music flow
like light into the rainbow
We know the dance
we have We still have a chance
to break these chains And flow
like light into the rainbow

Antonio lives life's fervor
Antonio plays for truth
Antonio says our friendship
Is a hundred proof
The vulture that circles Rio
hangs in this LA sky
The blankets they
give the Indians
only make them die
But sing the song
forgotten for so long
And let the music flow
like light into the rainbow
We know the dance
we have We still have a chance
to break these chains And flow
like light into the rainbow

But sing the song
forgotten for so long
And let the music flow
like light into the rainbow
We know the dance
we have We still have a chance
to break these chains And flow
like light into the rainbow
Antonio loves the desert
Antonio plays for rain
Antonio knows that pleasure
is the child of pain
And Lost in La Califusa
When most of my hope was gone
Antonio's samba led me
to the Amazon
But sing the song
forgotten for so long
And let the music flow
like light into the rainbow
We know the dance
we have We still have a chance
to break these chains And flow
like light into the rainbow

Antonio lives life's fervor
Antonio plays for truth
Antonio says our friendship
Is a hundred proof
The vulture that circles Rio
hangs in this LA sky
The blankets they
give the Indians
only make them die
But sing the song
forgotten for so long
And let the music flow
like light into the rainbow
We know the dance
we have We still have a chance
to break these chains And flow
like light into the rainbow

But sing the song
forgotten for so long
And let the music flow
like light into the rainbow
We know the dance
we have We still have a chance
to break these chains And flow
like light into the rainbow
Antonio loves the desert
Antonio plays for rain
Antonio knows that pleasure
is the child of pain
And Lost in La Califusa
When most of my hope was gone
Antonio's samba led me
to the Amazon
But sing the song
forgotten for so long
And let the music flow
like light into the rainbow
We know the dance
we have We still have a chance
to break these chains And flow
like light into the rainbow

Ev'ryone sings, "Home of the brave and land of the free"
You've had twenty wins and one save, now you're up against me
How can I keep control of my nerves?
The way you wind-up when you
Throw me those curves?
I hear him yell, "strike", and it's a good call
It's so hard to keep my eyes on the ball
(chorus)
On the baseball
Love is just like baseball
All it is is baseball
Love is just like baseball
You have played with me like a pawn
For most of the night
How'd you get your uniform on
So perflectly tight?
You struck me out twice
I singled but died
Then you made me pop up
By sneakin' inside
I'm gonna change that sneer to respect
Make your eyes open wide
When you feel me connect to the baseball
Here I am behind in the ninth
The count's 3 and 2
End the game like Beethoven's NINTH
Is what I must do
So now that we're here
Alone in the dark
I'm gonna send this
Right out of the park
If I was you I'd leave it alone
'Cause I'm tearin' round third
Slidin' toward home

You appear on the horizon far away
My desire to be there with you stirs the wind and fills the sense
In the bay I drop the anchor down swim ashore
On the beach the coconut palms, orchids, planchoniana and you

Your silent eyes convince me I'm your own
We're safe inside this agile blue lagoon

I want to know you bird of paradise
I want to show you of the love that I feel
I need to touch you bird of paradise
I need your touch to make this fantasy real

On the sea a storm is raging far away
And the ship like so many toys fear the wind and fight the waves
In your arms it's a forgotten dream, nothing more
Here the sky is perfectly clear, evening star the moonlight and you

Your silent eyes convince me I'm your own
We're safe inside this agile blue lagoon

I want to know you bird of paradise
I want to show you of the love that I feel
I need to touch you bird of paradise
I need your touch to make this fantasy real

Just you and me [Incomprehensible] of dreams
The bare necessities of love
My bird of paradise, I realize
But you were sent here from above
You're my bird of paradise
My bird of paradise

Just you and me [Incomprehensible] of dreams
The bare necessities of love
My bird of paradise, I realize
But you were sent here from above
You're my bird of paradise
My bird of paradise

(for P.Y.)
Here I am: "Hometown Boy Makes Good"
Writes one critic.
All my childhood I lived
By the blue Pacific.
Anytime that reality
Makes me heartsick
I come here just to stare
At the blue Pacific
Sea. And barefoot on the beach
I watch for you on the horizon.
That's where you promised you would be.
I've seen your face before in my imagination.
One day my eyes will learn to see.
Here by the blue Pacific where
The diamond water shimmers in the sun.
By the blue Pacific where
The gull still glides and waves divide
The silence just like time.
Understandably happy to be specific
When I'm snorkeled and finned
In the blue Pacific.
I admire the damselfish
Feel terrific
As I float on the face
Of the blue Pasific.

Well, after all the tears and laughter
You and I've been through
How can you ask me what love is?
Love is a chain, just a chain reaction

Once you break it, you can't fake it
Once you wind it up, you can't unwind it
Once you lose it or misuse it
You can hunt forever and never find it

You come home broken
Like your soul is black and blue
And then you ask me what love is
Love is a chain, just a chain reaction

Once you break it, you can't fake it
Once you wind it up, you can't unwind it
Once you lose it or misuse it
You can hunt forever and never find it

Get some love in your groove
Just get hip to forgive
Are you tryin' to prove
That you can take more than give?

What good is your song
If it ain't in my key?
Loneliness makes you strong
Only love makes you free

Get some love in your groove
Just get hip to forgive
Are you tryin' to prove
That you can take more than give?

What good is your song
If it ain't in my key?
Loneliness makes you strong
Only love makes you free

Well, after all the tears and laughter
You and I've been through
How can you ask me what love is?
Love is a chain, just a chain reaction

Once you break it, you can't fake it
Once you wind it up, you can't unwind it
Once you lose it or misuse it
You can hunt forever and never find it

You come home broken
Like your soul is black and blue
And then you ask me what love is
Love is a chain, just a chain reaction

Once you break it, you can't fake it
Once you wind it up, you can't unwind it
Once you lose it or misuse it
You can hunt forever and never find it

Love is a chain
Love is a chain
Love is a chain
...

On the flight home to you
Sure hope I don't miss my connection
Nevertheless, if I do
It's only a matter of time
Until my arrival chez nous
I'm heading in the right direction
No turbulence-the sky is blue
It's only a matter of time.When I come home
With my arms around you
I'll surround you
Unplug the phone
And roll down the blinds
When I come home
We'll work on our sunburns
As the world turns
Mangoes for breakfast
Me and you
Definitely chez nous.It won't take long
An hour or two
Until we're alone
Chez nous
Wear a sarong
I can undo
As soon as we're home
Chez nous.Gardenias and jasmine in bloom
The rhythm of rain in the palm trees
A synchronized swim under moon-
Light only a matter of time
On the flight home to you
Sure hope I don't miss my connection
Nevertheless, if I do
It's only a matter of time.

April is not the cruellest month
If I may disagree
With the eloquent gloom
Of the poet of doom
All winter long the greenshoots hiding
Inder ice and snow
While they wait for the sun
While they wait to become

I can feel it coming to life
Can't you feel it coming to life?
Now for real it's coming to life
Like a symphony
What we missed is coming to life
Slowly-kissed it's coming to life
All we wished for's coming to life
Like a symphony

You and love's forest hibernating
Counting all the wounds
In you heart's history
Like the rings of a tree
Me always voted the least likely
To believe in spring
I was Cool with Reverb
'Til love threw me that curve

Now I feel love coming to life
Can't you feel love coming to life?
Must be Real Love coming to life
Like a symphony
What we missed is coming to life
Slowly-kissed it's coming to life
All we wished for's coming to life
Like a symphony

By day
He's a grease monkey it's true
A slave
Fix your transmission like new
Change oil
Rotate your tires of course
He toils
Under the Flying Red Horse
And at six he rolls
Down his sleeves
Turns his collar up
When the boss man leaves
Close up the shop
Puts away his tools
Gives the last car keys
To the gas pump fools
Then he's home at last
No more goodwrench scene
And he scrubs his hands
Till they're surgeon clean
Takes a long hot shower
Some cologne and then
The change is complete
He's himself again
At night he's Doctor Sax
He's Mister Tenor Virtuoso
He plays to rhythm tracks on tape
No one like Doctor Sax
Not even Trane or Bird could blow so
The girls have heart attacks, they say
(He'll put it all on wax one day)
Some day
He will live just in his mind
Some way
Leave all his misery behind
His horn
He will blow breaking the curse
Reborn
Under the Flying Red Horse

Every time I asked you to be truthful you lied
And when I lost my temper you cried
Crocodile tears and spoke double talk
It's the same old alibis and stories again
I redeye there to meet you and then
All you ever give me is double talk

You think that love means cope
Your life is like some daytime soap
Where all the dialogue is just double talk
Well I've got news for you
This little drama's through
'Cause I can't take no more of your double talk
Your double talk

You're so jive - sometimes I think your brain was mislaid
You've broken every promise you made
You ought to see a doctor for double talk

Never mind 'bout all the times we started again
I had the idea there to meet you and then
All you ever give me is double talk

Your brand of kindness smarts
You call me when I'm on the charts
But all you ever give me is double talk
Well I've got news for you
This little drama's through
'Cause I can't take no more of your double talk
Your double talk

Musical Interlude

It may come as quite a shock
But I'm hip to your double talk
All you ever give me is double talk
Each time you lie your profile grows-
It looks just like Pinocchio's
And I can't take no more of your double talk

It may come as quite a shock
But I'm hip to your double talk
All you ever give me is double talk
Each time you lie your profile grows-
It looks just like Pinocchio's
And I can't take no more of your double talk

Whenever I explore the land of Yin
I always take one on the chin
And now this lioness has almost made me tame
I can't pronounce her name
But eggplant is her game
The lady sticks to me like white on rice
She never cooks the same way twice-
Maybe it's the mushrooms
Maybe the tomatoes
I can't reveal her name
But eggplant is her game
When my baby cooks her eggplant
She don't read no book
And she's got a Gioconda
Kind of dirty look
And my baby cooks her eggplant
About 19 different ways
But sometimes I just have it raw
With mayonnaise
Maybe it's the way she grates her cheese
Or just the freckles on her knees
Maybe it's the scallions
Maybe she's Italian
I can't reveal her name
But eggplant is her game.

Whenever I explore the land of Yin
I always take one on the chin
And now this lioness has almost made me tame
I can't pronounce her name
But eggplant is her game
The lady sticks to me like white on rice
She never cooks the same way twice-
Maybe it's the mushrooms
Maybe the tomatoes
I can't reveal her name
But eggplant is her game
When my baby cooks her eggplant
She don't read no book
And she's got a Gioconda
Kind of dirty look
And my baby cooks her eggplant
About 19 different ways
But sometimes I just have it raw
With mayonnaise
Maybe it's the way she grates her cheese
Or just the freckles on her knees
Maybe it's the scallions
Maybe she's Italian
I can't reveal her name
But eggplant is her game.

Whenever I explore the land of Yin
I always take one on the chin
And now this lioness has almost made me tame
I can't pronounce her name
But eggplant is her game
The lady sticks to me like white on rice
She never cooks the same way twice-
Maybe it's the mushrooms
Maybe the tomatoes
I can't reveal her name
But eggplant is her game
When my baby cooks her eggplant
She don't read no book
And she's got a Gioconda
Kind of dirty look
And my baby cooks her eggplant
About 19 different ways
But sometimes I just have it raw
With mayonnaise
Maybe it's the way she grates her cheese
Or just the freckles on her knees
Maybe it's the scallions
Maybe she's Italian
I can't reveal her name
But eggplant is her game.

Me again, you again
Robin's egg blue again,
Eagerly notice the crocuses,
Suddenly, Spring arrives,
In the sky bluebird reconnaissance,
Phoebes dip straw in the mud-
Winter's done, hallelujah!
All the clouds ungather
And the sun shines through.

Swallowtailchrysalis
Hides in the hyacinth.
Never flowed this endlessly
Unless you include solitude's end
On that day eighteen Aprils ago
When we met, I recall how
All the clouds ungathered
And the sun shined through.

I recall how
All the clouds ungathered
And the sun shined through

And the sun shined through

There isn't any part of me she does not know
We've been together about a thousand years or so
Still almost instantly my love begins to show
Every time she whispers

It makes no difference if I'm upon my luck
When she invites me in my gloom becomes unstuck
I feel the barriers around me deconstruct
Every time she whispers.

Tensions dissolve when we touch
In her arms the world is erased when it's too much
All of my deep blue disappears
As soon as I hear her whisper

Passion evolves when we touch
In her arms I measure success counting how much
Music she composes in sighs
And how many times she whispers my name.

Love is the weakness that we need to make us strong
How can a hundred million Frenchmen all be wrong?
And I'm completely at the mercy of her song
Every time she whispers.

I've been waiting to meet you
I know you're out there somewhere
Are you waiting to meet me too?
Every morning I start out
Maybe today
Every night turn my heart out
Maybe tomorrow
When I wander in dreamtime
I feel you come closer
Tell me is it the same with you?
You stand on a cliff overlooking the ocean
Below on the beach
I am caught in slow motion

And there we're face to face
Together again for the first time
Face to face
You're the one I can love for a lifetime
Face to face
I can see that it might take a while
Face to face
To escape from the curve of your smile

All alone in a desert
I follow some footprints
Only hoping they lead to you
Always slightly behind you
Just out of frame
In a hurry to find you
Before the dream ends
There's confusion and hardship
But it never matters
'Cause I'm doing it all for you
And I know as I search these wide open spaces
You wait under a palm tree
At the oasis

Cancel loneliness
Capture happiness
Let that heartache and pain go
Love feels awful good
Like I knew it would
All superlatives true
Never better now
It's forever now
Finally over the rainbow
I was blind I see
Fate was kind to me
When it cast me with you

Hourglass, remember how
I said I'd miss you?
I confess I lied:
Hourglass, I couldn't live without you
If I tried, which I
Do not intend to ever try
My Hourglass, your sensual geography
I live just to explore
Your present, past, and future incarnations
I adore
The more
We love the more I know we loved before
Luck of such magnitude fills me with gratitude;
Some Navigator Divine tied us together in time
Love measures Infinity minute by minute
Why, Hourglass, do you suppose my arms surround you
So existentially?
Hourglass, I know the sand that flows through you
Is me
I see
The sand that flows through you is me.

If it's true from the start
That the names of those we love
Are written in our hearts
And we'll search 'til we find
In this jungle of Confusion
Something that reminds us
How we love each other
Then I think I've found the clue
Because I certain I remember you

Through my window I see
How the seasons change like notes
Within some harmony
But the love in our eyes
Is an endless summer
Is a joy that magnifies
Each time we touch each other
And it feels like Deja Vu
As my heart reveals
How I remember you

Day after day I'm amazed
How our love intensifies
In every way it resembles forever
Abandons us never

Like the sunlight that shines
Like the fragrance of the rose
No single word defines
We are tuned to the sound
That displays creation
That our lives revolve around
And searching for each other
From a million hearts we choose
You remember me and I remember you

A chorus of sparrows in summer
Is how I remember you
The fire of maples in autumn
Is how I remember you
The Silence of snowfall in winter
Is how I remember you

Winter's hard to rhyme
We're prisoners in some icy pantomime
Just waiting for the wind to change his mind
And sing us green
April starts to whisper to the trees
I hoe and you plant the trees
Canterbury Bells begin to ring
The sparrows are stealing string
Hollycocks and foxglove to the knee
Now life's a major key
We've got mud between our toes
This is how the garden grows
Midnight in July
We see the season spread across the sky
We wake up to a nosy dragonfly
Against the screen
You just love to bite me where it shows
You kiss me
Then hide my clothes
Running through the sprinklers nearly raw
We've just disproved Newton's law
How can I break even with the weeds
In love so beyond my needs
Blossoms on you Mama's rose
This is how the garden grows

I fly solo
The Number One's my logo
Birth of the Cool's my theme song
For me the whole love scene's wrong
I surrender
Take me prisoner right away
I'm content with you inside
I surrender
Learned my lesson the hard way:
"You can run but you can't hide"
Love is not to be denied
My heart beats slow
I kept it incognito
It's only fools who feel love
I don't believe in real love

No one here
Venus and Mars
And a skyful of stars
It's been a slo-mo year
A few stolen kisses
And several near misses
I wait (wish my mission was clearer)
For the cherub's arrow
Hesitate (one last look in the mirror)
My lappels are narrow
Down the stairs and hit the street
The bravado's just pretend though
And the chic spot where we met
Is called Innuendo
You and I
Birds of a feather
We ought to know better
We're cool and shy
Love is outrageous
But highly contagious
We wait (while our salads are dressing)
For the cherub's arrow
You look great (cappuccino compressing)
To Ravel's Bolero
It would surely be a shame
If the evening had to end though
We're both masters of the game
Known as Innouendo
If you believe in love
Prepare for stormy weather
Guess I should heed my own advice
I can't believe that love
Would bring us back together
'Cause lighting never strikes the same place twice
Candlelight
And saying "I've missed you"
Confuses the issue
This summer night
The cabdriver chuckles
We smell honeysuckle
Too late (guess the poison got stronger)
It's the cherub's arrow
We can't wait (to make love any longer)
Guess it's now or never
And this happiness we feel
As we move to the crescendo
Makes the dialogue all real
Not just innuendo
No more innuendo

No one here
Venus and Mars
And a skyful of stars
It's been a slo-mo year
A few stolen kisses
And several near misses
I wait (wish my mission was clearer)
For the cherub's arrow
Hesitate (one last look in the mirror)
My lappels are narrow
Down the stairs and hit the street
The bravado's just pretend though
And the chic spot where we met
Is called Innuendo
You and I
Birds of a feather
We ought to know better
We're cool and shy
Love is outrageous
But highly contagious
We wait (while our salads are dressing)
For the cherub's arrow
You look great (cappuccino compressing)
To Ravel's Bolero
It would surely be a shame
If the evening had to end though
We're both masters of the game
Known as Innouendo
If you believe in love
Prepare for stormy weather
Guess I should heed my own advice
I can't believe that love
Would bring us back together
'Cause lighting never strikes the same place twice
Candlelight
And saying "I've missed you"
Confuses the issue
This summer night
The cabdriver chuckles
We smell honeysuckle
Too late (guess the poison got stronger)
It's the cherub's arrow
We can't wait (to make love any longer)
Guess it's now or never
And this happiness we feel
As we move to the crescendo
Makes the dialogue all real
Not just innuendo
No more innuendo

Remember, when your kite hits the ground
And your smile turns upside down
It's only going on inside you
Whenever the libretto won't do
And all the notes become too blue
Remember there's a song inside youCara mia, if you're ever lost at sea
Just call on me
You always have my love to guide you
When you give more than you're gettin'
When the tempest starts to threaten
You always have my love to hide you
You always have my love inside youWhenever you are feeling some curse
And you get locked into reserve
Then just send up a flare and i'll find you
Or anytime your engine won't start
From running ona brocken heart
Remember that the past is behind youCara mia, if you're ever lost at sea
Just call on me
You always have my love to guide you
When you give more than you're gettin'
When the tempest starts to threaten
You always have my love to hide you
You always have my love inside you

Remember, when your kite hits the ground
And your smile turns upside down
It's only going on inside you
Whenever the libretto won't do
And all the notes become too blue
Remember there's a song inside youCara mia, if you're ever lost at sea
Just call on me
You always have my love to guide you
When you give more than you're gettin'
When the tempest starts to threaten
You always have my love to hide you
You always have my love inside youWhenever you are feeling some curse
And you get locked into reserve
Then just send up a flare and i'll find you
Or anytime your engine won't start
From running ona brocken heart
Remember that the past is behind youCara mia, if you're ever lost at sea
Just call on me
You always have my love to guide you
When you give more than you're gettin'
When the tempest starts to threaten
You always have my love to hide you
You always have my love inside you

Keep believing you soon will earn your turn to flash in the pan
It's deceiving' cause nothing kills like this metropolis can
Everywhere there's blind ambition
Dog eat dog and screw you
You do unto others and they do unto you
Everyday you fight taxicabs and traffic, permanent frowns
Lay awake at night wondering if you hear burglary sounds
Think it's time to make my exit
Kiss all this goodbye and
Catch the next flight south connecting to my island life
Look at me I'm a refugee from the island life
I belong where the shade is palm and the mango's ripe
I'll do all my swinging in some hammock by a turquoise sea
For free
Guess it must be clear I do not belong in this cityscape
I am not from here and I do intend to make my escape
Take me back to waterfalls in volcanic canyons
Where coconuts and orchids are my sole companions
Look at me I'm a refugee from the island life
I belong where the shade is palm and the mango's ripe
How inviting it would make always killing time if you
Came too
Can't you see we're just refugees from the island life
We belong where the shade is palm and the mango's ripe
We'll do all our swinging in some hammock by a turquoise sea
For free

Here we are again
That fatal combination
I guess it's opposite attraction
It's gone too far again
This crazy conversation
It's like a nuclear reaction
Lady your lip service has no rival
Don't you know deception is uncouth?
Didn't you read somewhere in the Bible
Not to bend the truth?
If you think your lip service will amaze me
You're utterly confused - that much is clear
'Cause baby your lip service doesn't faze me
It's so insincere
It's only lip service
It's nothin' but lip service
There you are again
Unable to conceal it
That hourglass configuration
It's gone too far again
Believe me, I can feel it
I can't resist that old temptation
Lady your lip service can be vicious
Don't you know deception is uncouth?
However your lips look so delicious
While they bend the truth
Give me some lip service, just attack me
I know I have asked you to be real
But sometimes your lip service is exactly
What I want to feel
Tired of of truces
Eloquence is useless
Eighty-six it
'Cause all this talk won't fix it

Books are stacked on my table, I've got books filling my shelves
Day and night I've been trying to unravel myself
But I've been looking for answers that don't seem to wanna be had
And people don't live too long when they're feeling this bad

So I don't wanna know about nothin'
Unless it's something I can see or touch
'cause I've been living on the inside too much
I miss those Labor Day picnics like the ones that we used to have
Where no one's worrying about nothing, no one's feeling bad
I wanna roll down the hillside, lay dizzy in the cool green grass
And jump around like a frog in a gunny sack

And I don't wanna know about nothin'
Unless it's something I can see or touch
'cause I've been living on the inside a little too much

My friend has got some babies and she loves them with all of her might
They run around all day, they keep her up at night
But she can kiss those faces and she's the one who gets to see them smile
I'm thinking maybe that'd beat this by a pretty long mile

And I don't wanna know about nothin'
Unless it's something I can see or touch
'cause I've been living on the inside a little too much

Books are stacked on my table, I've got books filling my shelves
Day and night I've been trying to unravel myself
But I've been looking for answers that don't seem to wanna be had
And people don't live too long when they're feeling this bad

So I don't wanna know about nothin'
Unless it's something I can see or touch
'cause I've been living on the inside too much
I miss those Labor Day picnics like the ones that we used to have
Where no one's worrying about nothing, no one's feeling bad
I wanna roll down the hillside, lay dizzy in the cool green grass
And jump around like a frog in a gunny sack

And I don't wanna know about nothin'
Unless it's something I can see or touch
'cause I've been living on the inside a little too much

My friend has got some babies and she loves them with all of her might
They run around all day, they keep her up at night
But she can kiss those faces and she's the one who gets to see them smile
I'm thinking maybe that'd beat this by a pretty long mile

And I don't wanna know about nothin'
Unless it's something I can see or touch
'cause I've been living on the inside a little too much

Books are stacked on my table, I've got books filling my shelves
Day and night I've been trying to unravel myself
But I've been looking for answers that don't seem to wanna be had
And people don't live too long when they're feeling this bad

So I don't wanna know about nothin'
Unless it's something I can see or touch
'cause I've been living on the inside too much
I miss those Labor Day picnics like the ones that we used to have
Where no one's worrying about nothing, no one's feeling bad
I wanna roll down the hillside, lay dizzy in the cool green grass
And jump around like a frog in a gunny sack

And I don't wanna know about nothin'
Unless it's something I can see or touch
'cause I've been living on the inside a little too much

My friend has got some babies and she loves them with all of her might
They run around all day, they keep her up at night
But she can kiss those faces and she's the one who gets to see them smile
I'm thinking maybe that'd beat this by a pretty long mile

And I don't wanna know about nothin'
Unless it's something I can see or touch
'cause I've been living on the inside a little too much

Some sprint to snatch the prize in
My goal's the far horizon
I guess I'm obsessed
With that long slow distance.
The fleet of feet won't please you
All speed, they love and leave you
Not me, as you see
I love long slow distance.
Listen, my pulse beats strong and steady
My pace won't stall when I hit the wall
Others fall by the wayside, heat-exhausted
But I'm no coward I'm solar-powered
As long as I know that you'll be there with me
Face to face when I break the tape
For the kiss when we cross the finish line.
Some play the tempo given
I hear a different rhythm
Do you hear it too?
For the long slow distance.
My stride is smooth and easy
Your touch can always lead me
Off-route in pursuit
Of some long slow distance.

So empty like sky
Without any sun
Lotus Blossom, don't cry
You and I were meant to be one
And though we're apart
It won't be for long
I come to you
In my songSo happy we two
Like sparrows in spring
Lotus Blossom, it's true
Me and you like bow upon string
I live for the day
My journey will end
So I can touch you againAnd in my dream
You are always there with me
A Tahitian fantasy...
But then the film just breaks
And I wake...Lotus Blossom!So empty like sky
Without any sun
Lotus Blossom, don't cry
You and I were meant to be one
And though we're apart
It won't be for long
I come to you
In my song

So empty like sky
Without any sun
Lotus Blossom, don't cry
You and I were meant to be one
And though we're apart
It won't be for long
I come to you
In my songSo happy we two
Like sparrows in spring
Lotus Blossom, it's true
Me and you like bow upon string
I live for the day
My journey will end
So I can touch you againAnd in my dream
You are always there with me
A Tahitian fantasy...
But then the film just breaks
And I wake...Lotus Blossom!So empty like sky
Without any sun
Lotus Blossom, don't cry
You and I were meant to be one
And though we're apart
It won't be for long
I come to you
In my song

Same old song
Always blue
Can't help thinking
Of me and you
All the love before
Our goodbyes were spoken
On the storm
We were tossed
Tragically
Till our love was lost
Drifting miles apart
Both our hearts were broken
Now when I meet you
Out on the street you
Still got the moves to
Haunt me
We're face to face now
The past is erased now
I'll be yours if you really
Want me
We keep tryin' but we can't forget
The thrill we feel from our Love Duet
Listen Baby, it ain't over yet
We got one more chorus of our Love Duet
You love me
I love you
That we can do
To complete the song
Of our life together?
On our own
We have grown
But freedom means
That you're all alone
And you spend your time
Being cool and clever

Love has locked us up, peaches,
Locked inside this zoo,
Your bananas get thrown at me
And mine get thrown at you.
Ev'ry night we fuss and fight
Like me and you know who,
I guess love is always just:

Love is monkey see and monkey do, (that's all it is, peaches)
Love is monkey see and monkey do, (would I lie to you?)
Love is monkey see and monkey do, (that's all it is, peaches)
Love is monkey see and monkey do.

Do you want my love, peaches?
Do you want my rage?
Or do you merely like to see me shake my cage?
Your papayas get thrown at me
And mine get thrown at you,
I guess love is always just:

Love is monkey see and monkey do, (that's all it is, peaches)
Love is monkey see and monkey do, (would I lie to you?)
Love is monkey see and monkey do, (that's all it is, peaches)
Love is monkey see and monkey do.

You won't let me near you, peaches,
But one day you will.
Gonna jump up and stumble and eat all the jungle
Until I've had my fill.
Then you'll know the truth, peaches,
One and one ain't two,
One and one is one and love is:

Love is monkey see and monkey do, (that's all it is, peaches)
Love is monkey see and monkey do,
Would I lie to you? (would I lie to you, baby?)
Love is monkey see and monkey do, (that's all it is, peaches)
Love is monkey see and monkey do. (love is, love is)

Love is monkey see and monkey do, (that's all it is, peaches)
Love is monkey see and monkey do,
Would I lie to you? (would i lie to you, baby?)
Love is monkey see and monkey do, (that's all it is, peaches)
Love is monkey see and monkey do