Chris Rea

[fox69]

"Stone"

"Stone"


Tangled dream and endless highways
Bang the drum in a foreign land
Sometimes I wonder what I'm chasing
When all I need is the touch of your hand
I've got no fixed abode out of own
Babe it gets so cold
Without your love I'm just a stone
And we all laugh and the jokes get wilder
Staying up, staying out
Drinking till you fade away in to the morning
And the strangest cold eats deeper still
Without you sweet kiss I'm gone forever
Without your touch I've no control
Without your love I'm just a looser
Without your love I'm just a stone

 

[fox69]

"Stony Road"

"Stony Road"


This is the story
Oh this is the way
Gospel of reason
When the pain came to stay
The life of a loser
Who wins with a smile
The sinners redemption
In the tears of a child

Me & Katie
We go dancing down the stony road
See her laughing through the pain
Of such a heavy load
Me & Katie
We go dancing down the stony road

You're looking for sugar
To kill the grey
You're looking for the laughter
To take the pain away
God don't give nothing
No you got to steal your own smile
Learning to find it,
In the tears of the child

And me & Katie
We go dancing down the stony road
See her laughing through the pain
Of such a heavy load

Me & Katie
We go dancing down the stony road
Let's go dancing, let's go dancing
Dancing down that stony road

 

[fox69]

"Stop"

"Stop"


Gone too far
Gone too long
Messed it up completely
Till everything is wrong
Stop, start over, start again

Too many pieces
Too much to chew
How can you ever win
When you're so scared to loose
You better stop, start over, start again
Stop, start over, start again

Walk away
See what it looks like from here
If you stay you will only drown
If a mass of fear

You need to sleep
You need a break
You got to find out before it's to late
Stop, start again
You better stop, start over, start again

 

[fox69]

"Summer Love"

"Summer Love"


Once there was a summer love
Long ago and far away
The autumn whispers to the falling leaves
Summer love can't stay

This was their place, this was where
Just for one moment, without cares
Two lovers dreaming of how the world should be
Please bring back my summer love to me

Did you have to go, did I have to stay
Did you have to go, away
Now it's all gone, but who can forget
Summer love, sweet summer love

I see your shadow everywhere
I feel your smile though you're not there
A kiss for every star in the sky way above
You'll always be my one and only summer love

 

[fox69]

"Sun Is Hot"

"Sun Is Hot"


Sun is hot
Beatin' down
Got to get out
Got to get out of town
Find a place
Sandy blue
That's what I'm thinking
What I'm going to do
Cos sun is hot
Oh sun is hot

Sun is hot
To hot to work all day
I'm burning up
Got to get away
These workin' clothes
Are chokin' me
Deep in the blue blue shade
That's where I got to be
Cos sun is hot
yeah, yeah sun is hot
Oh sun is hot

Sun is hot
Hot sun burn my skin
Ain't no fancy air-conditioning
Oh it ain't so funny
when you can't sleep
I'm working so hard, so hard
Trying to keep the beat
Oh sun is hot, yeah
oh sun is hot
Oh that sun is sure hot
I got to get away

 

[fox69]

"Sweet Kiss"

"Sweet Kiss"


I lie awake, late at night
I just don't seem to sleep at all
Got so high, don't I know why
Said man I got that Moon-dog call
Stepping out into the street

Gonna dance till my legs fall off
Mister policeman say "what's wrong with you
Why you behaving this way?"
I said I'm hung on her sweet kiss

My mama told me that the day would come
So I don't need no alibi
The judge looked down with a pointed frown
And said "boy you got to explain why"
Out on the street, late at night
Dancing like a crazy fool
Laughing and singing, what's wrong with you?
Why you behaving this way?
I said I'm hung on her sweet kiss

And all the boys they're gonna laugh
And all the girls gonna talk in class
But I don't care, there's just no way
I'm gonna let this feeling fade away
I said I'm hung on her sweet kiss

 

[fox69]

"Sweet Love"

"Sweet Love"


Sometimes I realise
There's no asking why
It's just sweet love
Sometimes we think too much
All we need is that tender touch
Some sweet love
We been caught up in what surrounds us
Oh sweet love
Let your body flow
Sweet love
Let your troubles go
It's more than you think
That you'll ever know
And it's just sweet love
Come on try it
Oh sweet love
Sure can't buy it

There comes a point in time
When you got to cut that line
And try some sweet love
Why do you cry and bleed
When it's all you ever need
Is some sweet love
Cos we been caught up in what surrounds us
When all the while it's been here all around us
And it's sweet love
Let your body flow
Sweet love
Let your troubles go
It's more than you think that you'll ever know
And it's just sweet love
Come on try it
And you sure can't buy it

You got to give it out
If you want some back
Don't find out too late
You been on the right track
Let your troubles go
Come on try it
Sweet love
Cos you sure can't buy it

 

[fox69]

"Sweet Sunday"

"Sweet Sunday"


We get up early in the morning
Work our skin down to the bone
But whenever I hear that singing
I know that one day I’ll get home
Oh the rhythm that I’m feeling
Seems to say something good to me
Oh on Monday, through the weekday
But then Sunday sets us free

Oh Sunday, sweet Sunday
When I lay my body down
Oh Sunday,my only one day
With a new love that I found
Sit by the water and watch the big tree
In the cool breeze gently sway
Til the day that we get free,well
We’ll always love
Our sweet Sunday

Sweet Sunday

I go to church with my mother
I see the girl that I would love
Maybe one day she’ll turn and smile at me
This is what I ask the Lord above
Oh when a singing
When it’s over maybe I’ll take her
Back to her home
Talk and laugh 'til night comes calling
Then I’ll go back on my own

Sweet Sunday

I got no money to buy her new shoes
But Lord please listen what I say
Help me through this 'til I’m a free man
And get sweet Sunday every day

Sweet Sunday, sweet Sunday

 

[fox69]

"Talking 'bout New Orleans"

"Talking 'bout New Orleans"


How it all goes down
Sure ain't plain to see
Nobody knows for sure
How it all came to be
Oh, the laughin' faces
Behind a painted smile
Talk the talk of swing-bop
For the people dance its bastard child
Talking 'bout New Orleans
Nothing here is what it seems
Pass down a showbiz dream
Well we're talking 'bout New Orleans
Talking 'bout New Orleans
We've got to jump the way
They think we jump all day
We got to dance the dance, yeah
Just like the white man say
For sure we play the game
For sure we walk the line
We just taking what chances coming
Between the nickel and the dime, yeah
Talking 'bout New Orleans
Nothing's what it seems
Pass down the showbiz dream
Well I'm talking 'bout New Orleans

 

[fox69]

"Tamatave"

"Tamatave"


Je veux sentir le sable
Entre mes doigts de pieds
Tamatave ma petite rouquine
Elle la sait

Long grass dancing in the day
Blue sky palm trees gently sway
I come from a land down in sun
Sit on the beach and watch the waves run

I need the sand between my toes
Tamatave my red hair girl she knows

Tamatave je t'entends m'appeler
Tamatave je t'entends m'appeler
Tommasina I hear you calling me
Tamatave je t'entends m'appeler

I feel so strange on city streets
I got these big shoes on my feet
I come from a land down in sun
Sit on the beach and watch the waves run

Tamatave je ton ton mapelay
Tamatave je ton ton mapelay
Tommasina I hear you calling me
Tamatave je ton ton mapelay