There’s time to live and time to die
When it’s time to meet the maker
There’s time to live but isn’t it strange
That as soon as you’re born you’re dying…
…and reborn again??
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection
Love is the law, pure perfection
I’m born again, yeah
Who said love was a losing game?
I’ve got light man, I feel no pain
Cause I’m born again, yeah
Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection
Send my credentials to the House of Detention
I got some friends inside
The face in the mirror won’t stop
The girl in the window won’t drop
A feast of friends “Alive!” she cried
Waitin’ for me outside!
I sat in the room with a view
The girl in the photograph knew
Can’t you see?
Why is she laughing at me?
I stumbled through the dark unaware
The face in the hall isn’t there
Tomorrow has gone
Where do the voices come from?
One love, one heart
Let’s get together and feel all right
Hear the children crying (One love)
Hear the children crying (One heart)
Sayin’, “Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right.”
Sayin’, “Let’s get together and feel all right.”
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
One Song
I have but one song
One song
Only for you
(You are the one) Who causes me pain
(You are the one) Who causes me grief
(You are the one) Who lied to me
It won’t be long, soon you will see
Ain’t that what you said?
Ain’t that what you said?
Ain’t that what you said?
Liar
Liar, liar
He’s a charmer, and he’ll charm her
With money and manners that I never learned
He’s a leader, and he’ll lead her
Across pretty bridges he’s planning to burn
He’s a talker, he’ll talk her
Right off of her feet, but he won’t talk for long
Cause he’s a doer, and he’ll do her
The way that I never
And damned if he won’t do her wrong
Can’t sleep alone at night
I just can’t seem to get it right
Damned if I do, I’m damned if I don’t
But love you
You don’t have to say you love me, just be close at hand.
You don’t have to stay forever, I will understand.
Believe me.
I can’t withhold secrets
I know where I’m going
Where the sun always shines
I know my son we’ve made it
It can’t escape my mind
I know my star, I know my star
Is the brightest star, the brightest star
Forever be in my arms
You’ve been as constant as a northern star
The brightest light that shines It’s been you, woman
Right down the line
[Nitpick: Polaris, aka the Northern Star, is only the 50th brightest star in the night sky. This lyric has always bugged me.]
[Ehh, poetic license. Here’s another one in a similar, astronomical, vein:]
I’m pining for the moon
And what if there were two
Side by side in orbit around the fairest sun?
The bright tide forever drawn
Could not describe nightswimming
Letting off steam I float in a dream
I can’t let go (can’t let go)
Follow my wishes, follow the fishes
Down below (down below)
I go swimming
At a swim pool party last long weekend
I found some real cool fun in the deep end
From the patio juke a bop beat wailed
I splashed to the beat and off I sailed
I did the swim
(Splash splash, she’s a mer-mermaid)
Keep off the patio
Keep off the path
The lawn may be green
But you better not be seen
Walkin’ through the gate that leads you down
Down to a pool fraught with danger
It’s a pool full of strangers
People are strange when you’re a stranger.
Faces look ugly when you’re alone.
Women seem wicked when you’re unwanted.
Streets are uneven when you’re down.
Down on the boulevard they take it hard
They look at life with such disregard
They say it can’t be won the way the game is run
But if you choose to stay you end up playing anyway
It’s okay…
Oh no, we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we’ll take it higher
Oh we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we’ll take it higher