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[fox69]

"Poor Lady (Midnight Baby)"

"Poor Lady (Midnight Baby)"


I met a girl in L.A. and she seemed alright to me,
She said she'd give me loving and she said it would be free,
She told me she would call me or leave a message at the door,
And left me wondering what I was in for.

By the next time that I saw her I had clean forgot her name
And without her fancy make-up she just didn't look the same,
So I totally ignored her and she sadly turned away,
And through sympathy I told her she could stay.

Oh poor lady, midnight baby,
No one wants your love at all,
Oh poor lady, midnight baby,
Now you're heading for a fall,
And you really think your're something,
you know all the things to do
But poor lady, just a baby,
There's a hundred more like you.

Now for two weeks more she was at my door,
She would stay with me for days,
As a lover she was frightening in so many different ways,
But when it came to conversation she was totally absurd,
Oh she'd sit for hours and never say a word.

Oh poor lady, midnight baby,
No one wants your love at all,
Oh poor lady, midnight baby,
Now you're heading for a fall,
And you really think your're something,
you know all the things to do
But poor lady, just a baby,
There's a hundred more like you.

She spends her days in different ways, still trying to be hip,
And at night she'll find she'll lose her mind, at a club along the strip,
When her money goes she always knows she got something she can sell,
It's the one thing that she really can do well.

Oh poor lady, midnight baby,
No one wants your love at all,
Oh poor lady, midnight baby,
Now you're heading for a fall,
And you really think your're something,
you know all the things to do
But poor lady, just a baby,
There's a hundred more like you.

 

[fox69]

"Power Of Love"

"Power Of Love"


When you can't sleep nights and you wonder why,
Without a friend and you wanna die.
Situation desperation, all you want is sympathy,
And sympathy is all you'll get,
Enough - you ain't found nothing yet,
Till you found the power of love.

Your beauty ain't so hard to see,
Your looks can make a fool of me,
You say the things I want to hear,
And tell me it won't disappear,
But I won't know until I find if there is any truth behind,
What you call the power of love.

It takes you, it makes you and sometimes it breaks you,
It fills you and thrills you and sometimes it kills you,
But I've been looking so hard to find it,
I ain't giving it any more time,
There's nothing you can do about this,
You will never live without it,
This is the power of love.

 

[fox69]

"Relying On You"

"Relying On You"


How could I be so dumb trying to make it alone
I was crazy to think I'd be fine on my own
I've wasted my time
Now I've finally started to shine
With the help that you give me
I now realise I can see it in you face
I can read in your eyes
When I think of the things that I've wanted to say
And the things that I wished I could do
Now it's all just a part of my life since relying on you
I'd hoped for a time when I might get it right
And the best of my dreams would come true
Now I'm finally seeing the sense in relying on you
Relying on you
I'd never believed when you hand turned to me
With the two of us here what a strength there would be
You've proved it to me
Now it's easy to see
How we're stronger together than just on our own
And we'll never again try to go it alone
When I think of the things that I've wanted to say...
When I think of the things that I've wanted to say...

 

[fox69]

"Remember The Days"

"Remember The Days"


Remember the days I used to bring you roses
Remember the ways I used to hold you close to me
Now they're gone and I've lost my time
Never more will you be mines
Remember the days I used to send you flowers
Remember the calls that used to last for hours
Now they're gone so I take the fall
Get my chance to take it all
I, I really missed you
I, I need to kiss you
Please change your mind and find the time to call
I, I feel so hazy
You, you drive me crazy
Please change your mind and we can have it all
it wasn't so long ago you called me darling
I was your blue eyed boy,
you were my only toy
Now they're gone and I've lost my time
Never more will you be mine

 

[fox69]

"Respect"

"Respect"


I swear I'll answer no charges
Of theft or purgery
When through neglect you lose the one that you love
It's not easy to see
so,
You should have shown some respect
Should have made her feel like
she was something special
You should have shown some respect
What you deserve is what you get
What you deserve is what you get
No use in saying sorry
Not much that you can do now
No use in saying you'll be good to her
She don't think you know how
You should have shown some respect...

 

[fox69]

"Rock 'n Roll Rodeo"

"Rock 'n Roll Rodeo"


Like a Caribbean Sunset
your eyes they shine'
And from the first time we met
I swore you'd be mine
I saw you by the hotel bar
I saw you waiting there
you were cool as a cat
I could tell you were unaware
A thousand eyes upon you,
just waiting for the kill
It's all in the thrill of the chase
They're playing it still
Like a Rock'n'Roll Rodeo
it's part of the game
Like a Rock'n'Roll Rodeo
They're staking their claim
Like a Rock'n'Roll Rodeo
They'll never give in
Like a Rock'n'Roll Rodeo
They're all out to win
they're all out to win
I was waiting for the last song
waiting patiently
Planning tomake my move
when I saw you smile at me
Like a Caribbean Sunset,
your eyes they shine
and I'll never forget
'cos I knew you'd be mine
A thousand eyes upon you
just waiting for the kill
It's all in the thrill of the chase
We're playing it still
Like a Rock'n'Roll Rodeo...
It's all in the thrill of the chase
They're all out to win

 

[fox69]

"Rock 'n' Roll Woman"

"Rock 'n' Roll Woman"


She was out a looking dollars
And she couldn’t pay the dues
She’d given back her old cadillac
And she’d nothing left to loose.
So she crossed the dusty boarder
And her memory serves her well
And she worked the bar and plays guitar
At the Paradise Hotel
Paradise Hotel.
[Chorus:]
And than the word got round
About a kit in town
And she played guitar
And really lay it down
As it was something new
And everybody heard
And everybody came
To see the new sensation
And I know the name of the girl I knew
As she sings for you
Rock ‘n’ roll woman.
La, la, la……
Rock ‘n’ roll woman
La, la, la……
Rock ‘n’ roll woman.
She’s not the devils daughter
She can fill you with desire
Now you think she might like dynamite
She can set the place on fire.
Oh, she lives across the boarder
And she’s doing very well
And she works in the bar and plays guitar
At the Paradise Hotel
Paradise Hotel.
[Chorus:]
La, la, la…….
Rock ‘n’ roll woman
Rock ‘n’ roll woman

 

[fox69]

"Rose-A-Lee"

"Rose-A-Lee"


Rose-a-lee, aah Rose-a-lee
take these chains from my heart
and set me free
I was lost, now I'm found
Got my feet back on solid ground
I was lonesome like a fool
I did you wrong I broke the rule
Now I sure do regret
I was so foolish to be lead
Rose-a-lee, ohh rose-a-lee
Why do you hang this shame on me?
Rose-a-lee, ooh Rose-a-lee
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
Take me back ohh Rose-a-lee
Oh say that you've forgiven me
'cos I can't take it anymore
Let's go back to the way things used
to be before
Win or lose, I won't give in
Just say you'll take me back again
Rose-a-lee, ohh rose-a-lee...
Now I'm down on my knees
and I'm begging you please
Rose-a-lee, ohh rose-a-lee...
Rose-a-lee, ohh rose-a-lee...

 

[fox69]

"Run To Me"

"Run To Me"


Lonely night
Lonely lonely night
You wonder were your dreams are gone.
And if you find there's nothing in your mind
To help you carry on.

Write and read your only company
When you can't find a friend.
I'll kept holding on forever
'cause I'm living for the day
When you come back again
So darling.

Run to me and I'll pretend
A love like ours should never end -
And you should know I'll never let you down.
Whenever you're in trouble

You can run to me
Forget your prive

My broken heart I'll try to hide.
So if you need my love and sympathy -
You run to me.

Should it be you lose your destiny

It's no one there to comfort you.
And in the end find you need a friend
To tell your troubles to.

Is it right to sit here every night

Think how it used to be.
Live some days you should remember
And you wish you could come back -
Come running home to me
Oh darling.

Run to me and I'll pretend
...

You run to me
Run to me.

 

[fox69]

"Runaway Train"
(originally by Soul Asylum)

"Runaway Train"
(originally by Soul Asylum)



Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a blowtorch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning

So tired that I couldn't even sleep
So many secrets I couldn't keep
Promised myself I wouldn't weep
One more promise I couldn't keep

It seems no one can help me now
I'm in too deep there's no way out
This time I have really led myself astray

Runaway train, never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Can you help me remember how to smile?
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded?
Life's mystery seems so faded

I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am just a-drownin' in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train

And everything seems cut and dried
Day and night, earth and sky
Somehow I just don't believe it

Runaway train, never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughing at the rain
A little out of touch, a little insane
It's just easier than dealing with the pain

Runaway train, never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Runaway train, never coming back
Runaway train, tearing up the track
Runaway train, burning in my veins
I run away but it always seems the same