Chris Rea

[fox69]

"Coming Off The Ropes"

"Coming Off The Ropes"


I'm coming off the ropes
(he's going down)
He thinks I'm beat
I'm coming off the ropes yea
This ain't no retreat
He thinks I'm going down
For sure my head is spinning round
When I straighten up
But I'm going to knock him off his feet!
(Wow suckerpunch!)

I'm coming off the ropes
(he's going down)
Yes I'm coming off the ropes

I'm coming off the ropes
He made me angry now
I only need to straighten up
I'm going to show him how
I can hear someone count to ten
Seems like a lifetime,
But I'll tell you when
I know I'm safe down here
So till then, must have been
a lucky swing
Two years ago,
I would have not let him in

I'm coming off the ropes
(he's going down)

 

[fox69]

"Cool Cool Blue"

"Cool Cool Blue"


Cool cool blue
Take it easy
Cool cool blue
Take it easy

Born a fighter
With a broken heart
So many time you try
You try to make a brand new start
So many tears go by
Before you realise
Well chasing too high

Will only make you cry
You got to be cool cool blue
Take it easy
You got to be cool cool blue
Take it easy

I met an angel one time
Showed me another way
She had a different kind of thinking
So I listened what she say
She say you always fighting to break free
You always crashing around
It’s your own crazy dream of freedom
That’s what keeps you chained and bound
Why don’t you be cool cool blue
Take it easy
Cool cool blue
Take it easy

Sometimes it ain’t worth what you gotta do
Sometimes it ain’t worth what
you gotta put yourself through
Take it easy
Take it easy

You got to be cool cool blue
Take it easy

 

[fox69]

"Crack That Mould"

"Crack That Mould"


You got to break the back of the mould you were made in
Crack the shell, that's how it's got to be
Nothing for certain, ain't no way of knowing
Only believe in things that you see

Flow with the river, run with the tide
Mix with your brother, 'cos he's right by your side
Crack that mould

Little pretty chicken you can't stay in there forever
Now there ain't no such thing as only one kind of weather
You got to bend, learn, take the rough with the smooth
Understand everything
Crack that mould

Now there ain't no such thing as only one kind of weather

Pick up them shoes, go running down that road
You know that precondition is such a heavy load
You got to live love, put down that written word
Crack that mould

Now there ain't no such thing as only one kind of weather

 

[fox69]

"Cry For Home"

"Cry For Home"


I was born on the river road, I swear that’s all I know
I was free with no heavy load, choose any way I go
I was free with my head up high, a prince in
my land of home
But the devil’s come and take me out, chain me to my
broken bones
Come on
Cry
Come on cry for home

My princess she was taken too
But I don’t know where she go
My princess she was taken too
But I don’t know where she go
Now I’m beat up with a broken soul
I can’t choose nothin’ no more
Come on, cry
Come on, cry, cry, cry for home …

Now I’m the captain of your bullwhip
Now, don’t you try to cross me …
See how this leather’s shining
Now you forget about being free ...
You’re going to end up one more black slave
Left out on the open sea
Come on cry for home
Cry for home

Don’t know where I’m going to, chains on my bleeding bones
Don’t know where I’m going to, chains on my bleeding bones
I hear my love in the stinking dark
I hear her scream and moan
Captain said it’s just one more black slave
Who cries for home

Yeah, cry for home, come on and cry for home

 

[fox69]

"Curse Of The Traveller"

"Curse Of The Traveller"


On the restless road to nowhere
There's no certain peace it seems
Desire to keep on moving
till the river of dreams
Is it just because someone told you
Is it just because you found
Old freedom feels uneasy when duty is around

When allegiance asks the questions
Old freedom twists and turns
And chokes on codes of honour
On the sword of no return

And it's the curse of the traveller
The curse of the traveller
Got a hold of me
And it won't let you be

And in sleepless nights
You'll call her name
And feel loneliness cold to the bone
And when the daylight breaks
This old tired heart aches
To be such a long way, such a long way from home

And you long for the harbourlights
But you'll never be free
Of the craving for refuge
And the call of the sea
Always wanting to sell up
But always needing to buy
So till the road leads to somewhere
And that river runs dry

It's the curse of the traveller
Ain't gonna let you be
The curse of the traveller
And it sure got a hold of me

 

[fox69]

"Dance All Night Long"

"Dance All Night Long"


Oh Lord, oh Lord
Sometimes I feel like crying
Oh but I have a good time sometimes

Oh Lord can you hear me crying
Oh sometimes you got to have a good time
Gonna dance all night
Dance all night

Al night long
Oh Lord you've got to hear me
have a good time sometimes

Life is so hard, so hard, so hard
Can you hear me crying
Sometimes you've got to have a good time
Sometimes you've got to make the sunshine

All night long
Get me woman
Be glad for me baby
And I'll be glad for you

I got a silver dollar
Got to have some fun sometime
I'm gonna dance all night long

 

[fox69]

"Dance With Me All Night Long"

"Dance With Me All Night Long"


Come on dance with me baby
Dance me all night long
Yeah dance with me baby
Dance me all night long
Dance with baby
Till my blues have gone

When I move, I feel better
My soul cries out to the beat
It sends a message to my broken heart
It sends a message to my feet

Dance with me baby
Dance me all night long

I got to dance to stop my heart from breaking
I got to dance to save my soul
I got to dance to stop my legs from shaking
Standing still makes my blood run cold

Gimme a high-kick baby
'cos you got to have a good time
Moving to the beat
Make you feel so fine
No point in being low down
Standing in the cold
Come one, dance with me baby
Don't you know, you ain't never to old

I got to dance to stop my heart from breaking
I got to dance to save my soul
I got to dance to stop my legs from shaking
Standing still makes my blood run cold

 

[fox69]

"Dance! (Don't Think)"

"Dance! (Don't Think)"


Sometimes I think I go insane
So what's a boy supposed to do
Working just to pay my way
But baby when the day is through
Just wanna have a good time
Hey! I've got my shoe, shoes shined
I'm gonna dance, dance, dance

Walking down the city street
They don't like the kind of stuff I play
But feel that bass beneath your feet
Man don't take my only life away
Just wanna have a good time
Hey! I've got my shoe, shoes shined
I'm gonna dance, dance, dance
I'm scared when I wake up sometimes it gets so fast
I want it high and higher but it never lasts
And all I have starts Friday night with my first drink
Don't tell me, don't say anything, don't wanna think
Just wanna dance

 

[fox69]

"Dancing Girls"

"Dancing Girls"


It's all become a fantasy
She sits and reads about Tiffany's
I moan all day about the state of the world
And the sun beats down

Her book if full of pastel shades
Filigree Femmes in lusts of jade
While all around the bullets flew
And the sun beats down

Oh heavy heart, as deep as the endless sea
A thought for every fish, why don't you let them be
Your book's so frivol, but I'm tired of mine
Show me some

Make me laugh and make me sing
Dancing girls
Make me laugh and make me sing
Dancing girls

So many years but nothing's changed
We curse the fire but we still feed it's flames
My cards repeating the same sad song
Why don't you put them down?
Tonight is young, as young as she needs to be
There's room for love, as much as there needs to be
Show me a drink, show me a smile
Show me some

Make me laugh and make me sing
Dancing girls
Make me laugh and make me sing
Dancing girls

 

[fox69]

"Dancing My Blues Away"

"Dancing My Blues Away"


When I was a young boy
I hear my Mama cry
She say my poor little darling
He got tears in his eyes
I say don't worry Mama
I will get there one day
Till then I'm just dancing my blues away

She said your Papa's gone crazy
'Cos he don't understand
I say Mama I can't change it
'Cos it's just the way am
Yeah I was born in the north wind
In a sky of freezing grey
That's why I'm dancing my blues away

Now the years have gone by
But there's still a burning flame
You and me together
I know it's still the same

Now I got tears by the truck-load
I got a thousand broken hearts
But you'll always find me ready
To make a brand new start
'Cos I found a secret
So the devil he can't stay
I keep on dancing my blues away