David Gatest

[Asmina]

"Sweet Surrender"

"Sweet Surrender"


Baby I'm through
Running, it's true
I'd be a fool to try to escape you
And maybe I'm beat
But, oh, what a sweet surrender

You keep your rights
I'll take your nights
No one can lose when we turn the lights out
Tasting defeat
Loving that sweet surrender

I'm giving up myself to you
But I didn't really lose at all
I gained the only love I've known
And it never hurt me to fall

Now that it's done
So glad you won
I know our lives have only begun
No more retreat
Only my sweet surrender

Mmm, babe, I may be beat
But, oh, what a sweet surrender
Surrender
And you, sweet thing in my life
I surrender to you

 

[Asmina]

"Goodbye Girl"


"Goodbye Girl"

All your life you've waited
For love to come and stay
And now that I have found you
You must not slip away

I know it's hard believing
The words you've heard before
But darlin' you must trust them
Just once more

'Cause baby, goodbye doesn't mean forever
Let me tell you goodbye doesn't mean we'll never be together again
If you wake up and I'm not there, I won't be long away
'Cause the things you do, my goodbye girl, will bring me back to you

I know you've been taken
Afraid to hurt again
You fight the love you feel for me
Instead of giving in

But I can wait forever
A-helping you to see
That I was meant for you
And you for me

So remember goodbye doesn't mean forever
Let me tell you goodbye doesn't mean we'll never be together again
Though we may be so far apart you still will have my heart
So forget your past, my goodbye girl
'Cause now you're home at last

 

[Asmina]

"Never Let Her Go"

"Never Let Her Go"


Everybody needs a someone
waitin' to be there when things are a-lookin' down
So if you feel a little lonely
Go out, find your one and only
Somewhere out there
Someone will care for you and then,
never let her go
never let her go

You may wonder how you know love
when the moment comes that you've been a-dreamin' of
Well true love takes a little longer
Your heart beats a little stronger
You'll know it's real
inside you'll feel you're home at last
Then, never let her go
Never let her go

So if you feel a little lonely
go out, find your one and only
Open your heart
Give love a start and watch it grow
And never let her go
Never let her go
Never let her go
Never let her go

 

[Asmina]

"Diary"

"Diary"


I found her diary underneath a tree
And started reading about me
The words she'd written took me by surprise
You'd never read them in her eyes
They said that she had found
the love she'd waited for
Wouldn't you know it
She wouldn't show it

When she confronted with the writing there
Simply pretended not to care
I passed it off as just in keeping with
Her total disconcerting air
And though she tried to hide
the love that she denied
Wouldn't you know it
She wouldn't show it

And as I go through my life
I will give to her my wife
all the sweet things I can find

I found her diary underneath a tree
And started reading about me
The words began to stick and tears to flow
Her meaning now was clear to see
The love she'd waited for
was someone else not me
Wouldn't you know it
She wouldn't show it

And as I go through my life
I will wish for her his wife
All the sweet things she can find
All the sweet things they can find

 

[Asmina]

"The Guitar Man"

"The Guitar Man"


Who draws the crowd and plays so loud, baby?
It's the guitar man
Who's gonna steal the show, you know, baby?
It's the guitar man

He can make you love
He can make you cry
He will bring you down
Then he'll get you high

Somethin' keeps him goin'
Miles and miles a day
To find another place to play

Night after night who treats you right, baby
It's the guitar man
Who's on the radio, you go listen
To the guitar man

Then he comes to town
And you see his face
And you think you might
Like to take his place

Somethin' keeps him driftin'
Miles and miles away
Searchin' for the songs to play

Then you listen to the music and you like to sing along
You want to get the meaning out of each and every song
Then you find yourself a message and some words to call your own
And take them home

He can make you love
He can get you high
He will bring you down
Then he'll make you cry

Somethin' keeps him movin'
But no-one seems to know
What it is that makes him go

Then the lights begin to flicker and the sound is getting dim
The voice begins to falter and the crowds are getting thin
But he never seems to notice he's just got to find another place to play

Anyway
Got to play
Anyway
Got to play

 

[Asmina]

"Mirror"

"Mirror"


Little girl in the mirror looking back... lost in wonder...
Will I be pretty when I'm grown
When my teddy bears and toys give way
to going to school and boys
Will I have one of my own...

Will he be strong
True and faithful, right all wrong and will…
Will he take me where the grown-ups always go
Mirror, mirror tell me if you know.

Young girl in the mirror
Wedding day… lost in satin
You watch your life go flashing through
Will it be life a storybook rhyme
One last look and the preacher says it’s time
Time to say I do…

Will he be strong
True and faithful, right all wrong and if…
If I have doubts, will he say it isn’t so?
Mirror, mirror tell me if you know.

Little girl in the mirror
Looking back… lost in wonder
She feels her mommie’s gentle touch
I know what you’re thinking girl and…
I can’t guarantee a perfect world
But I promise you this much…

He will be strong
True and faithful, right all wrong and if…
If he will be, like your daddy’s been to me
You won’t need that mirror, girl you’ll see.

 

[Asmina]

"Mystery Of Love"

"Mystery Of Love"


The city gates at twilight
And a red ship sinking
Behind winter's grey wall
Ice in the wind
But a fire in the embers
of my heart
As darkness falls
In a candlelit room
Where your eyes are laughing
Smoking in the red chair
And nothing in the world
'cept the beating of my heart
Against the nerves of the air

And I know there's a light
At the end of the tunnel
Cos I taste it on your lips
And I feel a weight
That can bear me double
You lift it with your fingertips
So often it happens
That words prove useless
In the face of how it feels
So it is as the mystery of love
keeps growing
The more my heart reveals

Temptations endless whispers
Try to keep it in perspective
So much to distract
Walking on a wire
While your juggling desire
It's all part of this balancing act
And it gets hard to know
Just what you believe
As the argument rages on
But for all of the talk
Its only true to say
That if you have no hope
There is none

A tangle of tongues
Flesh flowers and thistles
of conscience, spittle and skin
We can't change the past
So we'll raise this cup to our lips
And drink it all in
And meantime back in civilization
The rain is cold as steel
But the mystery of love
It just keep growing
The more my heart reveals

As sure as the rose
The bright day blooms
As surely still it fades
And the night kindles stars
On empty winds
And ghosts along the collonades
And slow but sure
the sands are falling
As the bridge burns
beneath the wheel
And the mystery of love
It just keeps growing
The more my heart reveals
The more my heart reveals