Why ya wanna do me like ya do, like ya do
Why ya wanna do me like ya do
I never done nothin' to you
Why ya wanna do me like ya do, like ya do, brother
Why ya wanna
I'll ride around your country,
I'll ride around your town
Don't tell me where your going 'cause
Anywhere you're going, buddy I'm bound
Don't talk about your passion
Don't talk about your pain
Don't talk about my station
It doesn't really help the situation
Why ya wanna do me like ya do, like ya do
Why ya wanna do me like ya do
I never done nothin' to you
Why ya wanna do me like ya do, like ya do, brother
Why ya wanna
I'll ride around your city,
I'll ride around your street
Don't tell me where your headed 'cause
Anywhere your headed, buddy, I'll meet
Don't talk about your passion
Don't talk about your pride
Don't talk about my station
It doesn't really help the situation
Why ya wanna do me like ya do, like ya do
Why ya wanna do me like ya do
I never done nothin' to you
Why ya wanna do me like ya do, like ya do, brother
Why ya wanna do me like ya do
Yea
solo
I'll ride around your city
I'll ride around your town
Don't tell me where your headed, 'cause
Anywhere your headed buddy, I'm bound
Don't talk about your passion
Don't talk about your pain
Don't talk about my station
It doesn't really help the situation
Sometimes it feels like everyone is against you
Sometimes it seems that world just doesn't care
But what you gotta do is you have to get up
You have to find your heart
You have to find your soul
You have to find those strengths inside you
That make you take on the day
That make you take on the world
That makes you appreciate what goes on around
That makes you glad, to be, ALIVE!!!!!
Why ya wanna do me like ya do, like ya do
Why ya wanna do me like ya do
I never done nothin' to you
Why ya wanna do me like ya do, like ya do, brother
Why ya wanna do me like ya do
Why ya wanna do me like ya do, like ya do
Why ya wanna do me like ya do
I never done nothin' to you
Why ya wanna do me like ya do, like ya do, brother
Why ya wanna do me like ya do
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I reach for your arms but I only get smiles
This has been happenind a little while
I say how I feel but you only get riled
Accusing me of being a child
Remember the laughter the night that we met
You passed me a look that I cannot forget
You dared me to leave but I haven't gone yet
We're giving both as good as we get
You call me honey and I call you baby
You say I'm dumb and I say you're crazy
My memory's clear but the details are hazy
The words come out all wrong
Are we lovers or are we friends
And can we ever be both again
There's a feeling here that never ever ends
I would give my life to live again
Your eyes flitter fast as you cast the first stone
Something 'bout hating being all alone
I try not to hear when your anger is thrown
Or any kind of hurting is shown
I clear my throat when you say you miss me
I drink your lips as you slowly kiss me
Your eyes grow wide but your smile gets misty
I don't know what to do
Are we lovers or are we friends
And can we ever be both again
There's a feeling here that never ever ends
I would give my life to live again
Has anybody seen the one you love
Where is he now
Has anybody seen the one I need
Where is she now
I never saw us parted
You never saw us parted
solo
I watch the wind make the water shimmy
I search for something I feel within me
I go for breath but there isn't any
You took it all away
Are we lovers or are we friends
And can we ever be both again
There's a feeling here that never ever ends
I would give my life
I would give my life
I would give my life to live again
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When I woke up I heard a voice
And I froze in my bed
When I woke up I was divorced
How did you get back into my head
No no no no, it was the radio
You're gone and I don't even think of you my little blue one
I was sleeping and had a dream
I was writing to you
It was creepy my dreamy dream
You read my letter remembered I loved you
No no no no, you don't love me anymore
You're gone and I don't even think of you my little blue one
I don't even think of you reading your paper each morning
I don't even think of you sipping your coffee and yawning
I don't even think of your hands pulling hair back from off your pretty face
I don't even think of you walking away
As I'm walking around this empty place
I remember and try to forget
With a bottle of wine
I remember and try to forget
That the ring you're not wearing is mine
No no no no, you don't wear it anymore
You're gone and I don't even think of you my little blue one
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Willie do and Willie don't
Willie will and Willie won't
Willie takes his time when he plays the drums
Ace's high and Jack's a queen
Zigaboo and Willie Green
Sweatin' on Napoleon for a measly sum
But at night when curtains draw around the world
In this time when sweat and sin begin to swirl
Don't they know there ain't no dance without the Duke of Earl
So let's have a hand
For the Drummer Man
Willie turns the meters on
Feel the groove that's come and gone
Willie knows the deal he's gonna do gets done
Willie leads the cavalcade
LIFE IS MORE THAN GETTING PAID
Try to find a way to make a living having fun
But at night when curtains draw around the world
In this time when sweat and sin begin to swirl
Don't they know the grind and rhythm makes your lover twirl
So let's have a hand
For the Drummer Man
Percussion Solo
Willie tears those drums apart
With every ounce of beating heart
Making people move until they're on their knees
Willie knows he's doing good
Lucky Dog's in Hollywood
Keeping rhythm where pretty girls ask please
But at night when curtains 'round the world are drawn
When we lock our innocence away 'till dawn
Don't they know he'll lay his hands upon a sleepy world
So let's have a hand
For the Drummer Man
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I came out the darkness from the valley of my heart
You took me for a ride and lit me up inside
And healed my broken heart
You've got me believin' that the world would soon be mine
You've got me believin' that for me you'd walk the line
Turn me on, Turn me on
Turn me on and on and on and on again
If the job is yours to save me then the cross is mine to bear
And I'm glad that you have found me for the love that we both share
You've got me believin' that world is in our hands
You've got me believin' that for me you'd make a stand
Turn me on, Turn me on
Turn me on and on and on and on again
I'll wait like an ocean that melts with the setting sun
I'll wait for the break of day, cause I'll wait for the love you give away
Solo
Now the midnight moon is calling and the stars come out to play
Your the light of my salvation, don't let me slip away
You've got me believin' in a better kind of love
You've got me, got me, got me
Turn me on, Turn me on
Turn me on and on and on and on again
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St. Louis, Hot Summer
Got the sudden urge to call my number
I feel it, another scene is coming down, down, down
She answers, She's cryin'
Says she's tired of all the hurt and tryin'
I feel it, I can see it coming down, down, down
Whatcha Gonna Do about your lover
Whatcha Gonna Do about your friend
What's it gonna take to find another
Another one to break your heart again
Rough landing, late nighttime
See my hand against the New York skyline
Woke up in, Oklahoma goin' down, down, down
Where am I? Where is she?
Anywhere I go is where she won't be
I fight it, but I can see me going down, down, down
Whatcha Gonna Do about your lover
Whatcha Gonna Do about your friend
What's it gonna take to find another
Another one to break your heart again
I have seen this for a long time comin'
I have seen this for a little while
In the way that she would never kiss me
In the way that she would never ever smile
Solo
She must have, been jokin'
To think our friendship would remain unbroken
I can't take it, I can see me goin' down, down, down
goin' down, down, down
I'm goin' down, down, down, down, down
Whatcha Gonna Do about your lover
Whatcha Gonna Do about your friend
What's it gonna take to find another
Another one to break your heart again
Whatcha Gonna Do without your lover
Whatcha Gonna Do without your friend
Whatcha Gonna Do?
Whatcha Gonna Do?
Ahhhhhhh
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Once I had it all
I held your heart and soul between my fingers
Now I've learned to crawl
Its something that I swore I'd never do
If I say nothing, you say nothing
Gold will turn to rust
'Cause if I say nothing
Then there's only one of us
I tried to say your name
It only seems to end my conversation
Let's not play this game
'Cause neither one of us has the strength
If you show nothing, I show nothing
Friendship turns to dust
'Cause if you show nothing
Then there's only one of us
Then there's only one of us
You say you never tried
If seeing is believing, baby can you see me now
And I say I never lied
Baby does it look like I'm laughin'
I wish I'd never seen your smile
You say I never cried
Solo
If you show nothing, I show nothing
Friendship turns to dust
'Cause if you show nothing
Then there's only one of us
If I say nothing, you say nothing
No one learns to trust
'Cause if I say nothing
Then there's only one of us
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Once upon a long ago she saw his golden face
She'd cover his eyes and cover his mouth
And teach that man his place
She sees him, she knows that he'll wallow in disgrace
Everyone is Waiting
Once upon a memory he saw his second chance
He'd show her how to kill his soul
Through crucified romance
He sees her, he knows that he'll writhe inside her pants
Everyone is Waiting
Slam your door and burn my bed
And forget every word or deed
I never did or said
I want to be alone
I want to be alone
Solo
Miles and miles from anywhere
Between the next betwixed
They found themselves inside a hell
They broke but would not fix
They see it, they know that they'll never make it stick
Everyone is Waiting
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Call her Kathy call her someone's wife
She's got two beautiful kids in the middle of a good life
Say the world she loves came crashing down
She whispered up at the sky as she lay on the ground
Tiny people with tiny problems on a tiny planet
In a great wide open
Tiny people with tiny problems on a tiny planet
In a great wide open world
Call him Eddie call him someone's friend
He has his common sense, but no sense of direction
Says he's reached himself a half-way point
He stops a moment to think and then he lights up a joint
Tiny people with tiny problems on a tiny planet
In a great wide open
Tiny people with tiny problems on a tiny planet
In a great wide open world
Up above you when you're feeling blue
Do the stars in the heavens look confused to you
If you go into a desert night
It can make you feel alive, alive
Solo
Call it living call it in and out
Let's say it's taking a breath and maybe having just a few doubts
Having questions having answers too
Don't matter nearly as much as having someone to love
Whoa-o-whoa-o-whoa-o
Tiny people with tiny problems on a tiny planet
In a great wide open
Tiny people with tiny problems on a tiny planet
In a great wide open world
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1,2,3,4
I've seen you look in my eyes
Heard you swear it's the truth
But your eyes and words
Don't say a thing about you
Between the sweetness of lies
Is the silence of trust
And I can hardly hear
Above the both of us
Praise be the man, who believes all he can
With his head in his hands And a heart that's been broken in two
I wanna believe in you
I'd like to open my mouth
But I see that I'm bent
On a conversational accident
Praise be the man, who believes all he can
With his head in his hands And a heart that's been broken in two
I wanna believe in you
I get my finger on the panic button and I'm wating anxiously
I want to know if who you're looking at baby
Is the woman that I think I see
Tonight I drink from the cup
That you've put to my lips
And in the morning see
If I am poisoned or kissed
I've seen you look in my eyes
Heard you swear it's the truth
But your eyes and words
Don't say a thing about you
Praise be the man, who believes all he can
With his head in his hands And a heart that's been broken in two
I wanna believe in you
I wanna believe in you
I wanna believe in you
So Badly
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I wanna send this song out to my little honeypeach
We have a conversation almost every night
In a motel room across a telephone line
I want to hold you and I wish that I could
We got lucky tonight cause our connection was good
I count the white lines, I count the pot holes
You're riding shotgun in my soul
Shotgun in my soul
do you save the teardrops I'm causing to fall
To drown me with when you've collected them all
Dry your eyes girl I'm coming home soon
I'm gonna kiss you from the kitchen all the way to the bedroom
We'll count the til I'm on the road and
You're riding shotgun in my soul
Shotgun in my soul
I really wanted to be there
Knowing your in bed sleeping alone
And yes I know that it's not fair
To hav to say I love you on the phone
Solo
So the tires hiss and the highway it winds
And the hours fell like forever in time
Don't be mad I'm going fast as I can
And I won't see a thing til I can see you again
I felt like half til you made me whole and
You're riding shotgun in my soul
Shotgun in my soul
Shotgun in my soul, shotgun
Shotgun in my soul, shotgun
I said Shotgun in my soul, shotgun
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Mardi Gras lights up the city
Winter rain is coming down
Never seen anyone look as lovely as you do right now
Hear the marching band behind us
See the bright lights up ahead
There's no where in the world I know I'd rather be right instead
'Cause I'm crazy 'bout ya
Crazy 'bout ya, crazy 'bout the way you do
Crazy 'bout ya, crazy 'bout ya
If you're stealing the world then steal me too
If you're stealing my heart then steal me too
Lord I wish I'd been a painter
Draping colors from the sky
Bathing your shoulders in iridescence
Wrapped around your sigh
How I long to hear your laughter
How I long to see you smile
Painting your soul in the everafter
For a little while
'Cause I'm crazy 'bout ya
Crazy 'bout ya, crazy 'bout the way you do
Crazy 'bout ya, crazy 'bout ya
If you're stealing the world then steal me too
If you're stealing my heart then steal me too
What does the mask you're wearing mean to me
It's funny that what you pretend to be
Is real to me
Drops of rain cascading gently
Splashing off your laughing eyes
People may come and go
But the truly great moments survive
'Cause I am crazy 'bout ya
Crazy 'bout ya, crazy 'bout the way you do
Crazy 'bout ya, crazy 'bout ya
If you're stealing the world then steal me too
If you're stealing my heart then steal me too
If you're looking for love there's no other...
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I'm walking down this road
In my hand I hold a gun
I'm 34 years old
I've got no place to run
I'm just about out of floors that I can sleep on
I'm just about out of friends to see me thru
I'm just about out of my mind but I keep on
I'm just about, out of my way back to you
I walk these empty streets
Of this dirty drunken town
And the earth beneath my feet
Thats where I will lie down
I'm just about out of floors that I can sleep on
I'm just about out of friends to see me thru
I'm just about out of my mind but I keep on
I'm just about, out of my way back to you
Don't treat me like I'm a criminal
Don't act like I'm a bad dream
Don't act like I'm a stranger
I know I've been a fool
Solo
Now I'm nearly to your door
Will you let me in
Or will you laugh and say
Or here we go again
I'm just about out of floors that I can sleep on
I'm just about out of friends to see me thru
I'm just about out of my mind but I keep on
I'm just about, out of my way back to you
I'm just about out of floors that I can sleep on
I'm just about out of friends to see me thru
I'm just about out of my mind but I keep on
I'm just about, out of my way back to you
Out of my way back to you
Out of my way back to you
Out of my way back to you
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Did you get what you wanted
When you told me goodbye
Did you get what you thought you needed
To make a grown man cry
Now there's a hungry look inside your eyes
And there's a shiver I've felt between your thighs
I've been good and kind, sweet and nice
For way to long
I'm gonna be bad
And it's gonna feel good
I'm gonna do everything your mother said we never should
I'm gonna be bad
And I wanna do wrong
You're gonna be every broken heart
Inside my every song
Was it really as easy
As you made it seem
I never heard you raise your voice
And I never heard me scream
But when you tuck yourself in bed at night
And read a book alone by candlelight
Do you wonder what I just might be getting into.
I'm gonna be bad
And it's gonna feel good
I'm gonna do everything your mother said we never should
I'm gonna be bad
And I wanna be cruel
I'm gonna try everything they taught me down in
Catholic School
'Cause if you want to see the brand new me
Then just look at the brand new you
I'm gonna be bad
Everytime I think about you
Everytime I think about you
Everytime I think about you
I'm gonna be bad
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