SET MY SOUL ON FIRE

Set my soul on fire
Take my spirit higher
Higher than I’ve ever been
Set my past in flames
Play your cool games
Put nothing in between

Set my life on fire
Take my spirit higher
Higher than I’ve ever been
Set my dreams in flames
Play your cool games
Put nothing in between

Set my mind on fire
Take my spirit high
Higher than I’ve ever been
Set my love in your heart
When we are apart
You know you are my Queen.

FEEL THE FORCE

I can’t control my feelings
Feelings over you
Can’t control the love I have
And you know its true
I lost control of my feelings
Guess I’ve got no choice
Can you feel the feelings
Can you feel the force

I can’t control the love
Love over you
Can’t control the love I have
And you know its true
I can’t control the love
Guess I’ve got no choice
Can you feel the feelings
Can you feel the force

I can’t control the power
Your power over me
Can’t control the love I have
And I know you love me
You can’t control the power
Guess you’ve got no choice
Can you feel the feelings
Can you feel the force.

RUN TO ME

Run to me
Whenever you are lonely
Run to me
Whenever you are blue
Run to me
Whenever things aren’t easy
Run to me
And see me run to you

Run to me
When your dreams lie shattered
Run to me
When you don’t know what is true
Run to me
When life leaves you battered
Run to me
And see me run to you

Run to me
When all hopes are broken
Run to me
When you don’t know what to do
Run to me
Whenever you need comfort
Run to me
And see me run to you

Run to me
Until you’re tired of running
Run to me
You know that I am true
Run to me
And I will see you coming
Run to me
And see me run to you.

I SEE THEM PASSING ME, WALKING HAND IN HAND

I see them passing me, walking hand in hand
Pretty girls with guys who aint too bright
But me, I’m like someone from another land
I know I’ll be on my own again tonight

What do they see in these guys without a care
Good looking girls never look at me twice
I don’t understand, but it just aint fair
To love a pretty girl would be so nice

At night I dream of the girls I’ve yet to mee
Those girls will look after me just fine
In dreams the girls fall at my feet
And all I do is choose the best as mine

But the next day all I do is stand and stare
I need a pretty girl to take me I her hand
Come and get me girls, I’d love to spare
Come and get me girls, help me make my stand.

FORGOTTEN DREAMS

As I walked out one summers morning
I saw a man I didn’t know
He spoke to me as if in warning
“You don’t know which way to go”

And so I walked and he told me
About the life I hadn’t seen
About the people gathered round me
People from forgotten dreams

And as he spoke I saw around me
A thousand people I had known
Some were living some were drying
Some had lived their lives alone

All their eyes were set upon me
All the hopes they’d ever known
And I knew in that moment
An inner peace I’d never known

All my worries all my heartaches
Look to me like grains of sand
Every day and every moment
I’d lived in the promised land.

GOTTA LEAVE THIS CITY

Gotta leave this city far behind us
Gotta get out now while we can
Gotta see the open road before us
Gotta leave the city while we can

Gotta leave it all for the simple life
Gotta make the break now while we can
Wanna lead a life I can be proud of
Want you to come and take my hand

And you know I need you to come with me
And you know I need to hold your hand
And you know I’m looking for the simple life
And you know we’re gonna travel this land

I don’t know where we are heading
And I don’t know just where to go
All I know is that when you are with me
I got just about all I need to know

And I know you will be with me
And I know with you I’ll be alright
And I know your love it frees me
And keeps me safe thru the darkest night.

TIME IN A TIN CAN

If I could trap time
In a tin can
If I could turn back time
I’d take away
The things I said
And you would still be mine

If I could change
All my tomorrows
And live in yesterday
I wouldn’t speak
The words I said
And you wouldn’t go away

If I could only
Wake tomorrow
And find you were still here
I wouldn’t cry
Love wouldn’t die
And my eyes would know no tears.

OOH EE BABY

I’d walked alone thru many nights
For years I’d walked alone
But your sweet kiss brought me round
Helped me find my way home
Baby, I’m at home with you
Wherever we may be
Baby, give me everything
Give yourself to me

Ooh ee baby
I was woken by your kiss
Ooh ee baby
I was born for nights like this

In the night when I call your name
You are close at hand
By my side thru good and bad
Help me make my stand
Always be there, never go
I can’t live without you
Always be there for
The love we have is true.

I’D RATHER BE DEAD THAN OLD

I don’t care what next year brings
I don’t care ‘bout them things
I don’t want to plan and plot
I’m just happy with what I’ve got
Keep your pensions, keep your rules
I aint like all you fools

I don’t care ‘bout the lies you told
I’d just rather be dead than old

What’d I want with big boys toys
Let me run with the boys
Don’t talk ‘bout my career
Why should you bend my ear
We just wanna enjoy ourselves
You can keep your old mans wealth

I don’t care ‘bout the lies you told
I’d just rather be dead than old

When you’re dead and in the ground
I’m the one who’ll play around
Your old world is course and cruel
I’m the one to break the rules
I know you never had no fun
But I do, and I’m young.

DEATH ROW BLUES

Well, here I am on Death Row
Loneliest man on earth
Do you wanna hear the truth now
Hear the truth for what its worth

A whole long time ago
I killed the love of my life
Oh yes Sir, I killed her
Killed the girl who was my wife

My wife she was a good girl
Before she chased the dream
She still looked like a good girl
But she was not what she seemed

I’d leave the house in the morning
She’d follow me thru the door
But what I never guessed
Was my girl became a whore

I came home too early
Caught her with another man
I killed him with my knife
Guess you can understand

Now they’re waiting for me
Priest is standing by the door
Another fifteen minutes and
I won’t be here no more

So listen to me people
Before you go and take a wife
Just you understand
You might just lose your life.

THE TOUCH OF YOUR HAND

The touch of your hand
The smell of your cheek
The breath on your lips
Oh I’m so weak
The sojourn of days
The lonely dark nights
Now you’re away
Nothing goes right

And all night long I hear your voce
I hear it everywhere
I know that I have no choice
And you are not there

The setting of sunset
Upon your head
I have no regrets
Of times spent in your bed
But now I’m so cold
And you’re far away
How can I be bold
Throughout the day

And all night long I hear your voice
I hear it everywhere
I know that I have no choice
And you are not there

The length of your leg
The softness of thigh
The quiver of lips
The gleam in the eye
The husky low voice
I hear in my mind
Now mocks me because
You are not mine.

HOT NIGHTS AND SUMMER DREAMS

Hot nights, heading to the drive in my
dad’s old car
your head resting on my
shoulder frightened of goin’ too far
I used to be so easy to fall in love, or that’s
How it seemed
Golden days and happy times, they live on
In my dreams

In my dreams, it seemed those days would
never end
my love, I never saw it coming, you turned
into a friend
What happened to those days of sunshine,
hopes and dreams
whatever happened to our dreams, what
happened to our dreams

And now they seem so far away those
summers in the sun
On winter nights I think of you and what we
should have done
And once again I live those nights but it’s all
so far away
And you, you live on in my dreams but only
in my dreams.

AND THE WORLD CAN CHANGE

It’s been six long months since you left me
And now she’s walking towards me in the rain
I never thought I’d see her when I set out
And now I’ve got to try to hide the pain
I can see she too is shocked to see me
And neither of us knows just what to do
And so we smile and gently hug each other
But I think I say “I’m still in love with you”

And the world can change just in a heartbeat
And without love it can all go wrong
Since she left I’ve done a lot of thinking
It started to go wrong when she had gone

I know I see her standing here before me
And I can’t think of anything to say
And it looks like she can’t think of nothing either
And so we stand but can’t walk away
And I get to thinking does she miss me
But I aint brave enough to ask her to her face
And so we stand smiling and all awkward
Wishing we were both in another place

But tonight I’ll dream of her and her only
And tonight I’ll curse my coward heart
Am I to spend my nights lost and lonely
Because she and I have gone and grown apart
I pray to God for the strength to tell her
That the best days of my life were by her side
And since she’d gone I pretend it’s all normal
But deep inside I just wanna hide.

I WANNA GO BACK TO TEXAS

It’s lonely out here on the plains
With a thousand cattle to drive
But I sure need this job
Just to keep my hopes alive
I’ve been two long months in the sadde
On my way to Wichita
But ev’ry night I spend out here
I miss my girl some more

And I wanna go back to Texas
To the girl I left at home
And at nights I just lie awake
I just don’t wanna be alone

At night around the campfire
I know I’m just a fool
Who never learned to read or write
When Nancy, she teaches school
But she says that she loves me
And she’ll wait for my return
And when I think about her
My eyes just sort of burn

And I wanna go back to Texas
To the girl I left at home
And at nights I just lie awake
I just don’t wanna be alone

How many fences have I crossed
On my way to Witchita
My saddle starts to hurt me
And my face is burned raw
But I gotta keep on riding
Just so I can get my pay
And ride back home to Texas
And be a hero for a day

And I wanna go back to Texas
To the girl I left at home
And at nights I just lie awake
I just don’t wanna be alone.

A HARVEST MOON AND A BUCKET FULL OF DREAMS

It all seems so long ago
When I first saw your face
A twinklin’ eye, a little smile
And your collar trimmed with lace

Then it was just you and me and the moonbeams
A harvest moon, you and a bucket full of dreams

And we went to live in a trailer
And things got mighty rough
And you and me we had to learn
To take the bad times with the tough
But we never lost sight of love
Though we played out real sad scenes
A harvest moon, you and a bucket full of dreams

Then it was just you and me and the moonbeams
A harvest moon, you and a bucket full of dreams

And now girl we showed ‘em
We were better than them all
And our kids grown big and strong
And we never did take the fall
And we always saw that love
Was stronger than it seems
For us two little people
A harvest moon, you and a bucket full of dreams.

YOU LIVE ON

Lookin’ thru some stuff of years
In your old tin trunk
I found a book I thought was mine
I opened it only to find inside
You’d kept our old letters from the past
And I read and I read
Remembered all the happy times
Happy times when dreams came true
And I thought and I thought
Of all the things you’d given me
But most of all you gave me love

I don’t know what I was looking for
When I looked in that old trunk
May be there was something I thought I’d lost
May be I was looking for you

Of a life with you better than I hoped we’d have
Better than all that came again
‘Cos with you in my life
Was better than I ever dreamt of
And all ended in pain

All thru the nights
I just call your name
Always it’s you
Always feel the pain
Since you died
I can never settle
Since you left me
Alone
And so it goes
And so it goes
Going here
And going there
Going ev’rywhere without you
No one hears my prayer
And no one knows but you
But here
In my heart
You live on
You live on.