New Wave Space Age Love Songs

(The Church cover)

Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty
Sound of their breath fades with the lights
I think about the loveless fascination
Under the Milky Way tonight
Lower the curtain down on Memphis
Lower the curtain down alright
I got no time for private consultation
Under the Milky Way tonight

Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find

And it's something quite peculiar
Something shimmering and white
Leads you here despite your destination
Under the Milky Way tonight

Something in you caused me to
Take a new tact with you
You were going through something
I had just about scraped through
Why do you think I let you get away
With the things you say to me?

Could it be I like you?
It's so shameful of me
I like you

No one I ever knew
Or have spoken to resembles you
This is good or bad
All depending on my general mood
Why do you think I let you get away
With all the things you say to me?

Could it be I like you?
It's so shameful of me
I like you

Magistrates who spend their lives
Hiding their mistakes
They look at you and I
And envy makes them cry
Envy makes them cry

Forces of containment
They shove their fat faces into mine
You and I just smile
Because we're thinking the same lines
Why do you think I let you get away
With all the things you say to me?

Could it be I like you?
It's so shameful of me
I like you

You're not right in the head
And nor am I and this is why
You're not right in the head
And nor am I and this is why

This is why I like you, I like you, I like you

We're talking away
I don't know what I'm to say
I'll say it anyway
Today's another day to find you
Shying away
I'll be coming for your love, okay?

Take on me (take on me)
Take me on (take on me)
I'll be gone
In a day or two

So needless to say
Of odds and ends
But I'll be stumbling away
Slowly learning that life is okay
Say after me
It's no better to be safe than sorry

Oh, things that you say
Is it a life or just to play my worries away
You're all the things I've got to remember
You're shying away
I'll be coming for you anyway

Take on me (take on me)
Take me on (take on me)
I'll be gone
In a day

I lay down to rest my head
My soul to keep the night I dread
It's no dream
Slumber comes as darkness falls
And shadows dance across my walls
It's no dream

Well I never sleep alone
(Wake up don't sleep)
My dreams become so real to me
(Wake up don't sleep)
While the night is young

Catch me I'm falling
Down again
I know it's a dream but
Just the same

There's a face before my eyes
Are closed but I can recognize
The danger there
Slumber comes and darkness falls
And shadows dance across my walls
It's no dream

Well I never sleep alone
My dreams become so real to me
I wake up, don't sleep
While the night is young

Catch me I'm falling
Down again
I know it's a dream but
Just the same

I saw your eyes
And you made me smile
For a little while
I was falling in love

I saw your eyes
And you touched my mind
And though it took a while
I was falling in love

I saw your eyes
And you made me cry
And for a little while
I was falling in love

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am home again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am whole again

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am young again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am fun again

However far away
I will always love you
However long I stay
I will always love you
Whatever words I say
I will always love you

(Fly me to the moon)

Whenever I'm alone
With you
You make me feel like I am free again
Whenever I'm alone
With you
You make me feel like I am clean again

However far away
I will always love you
However long I stay
I will always love you
Whatever words I say
I will always love you

I will always love you

A lovestruck Romeo
Sings the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
Finds the streetlight
Steps out of the shade
Says something like
You and me, babe, how about it?

Juliet says
Hey it's Romeo
You nearly gimme a heart attack
He's underneath the window
She's singing
Hey la my boyfriend's back
You shoudn't come around here singing up at people like that
Anyway what you gonna do about it?

Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start
And I bet when you exploded in my heart
And I forget I forget the movie song
When you gonna realize
It was just that the time was wrong?

Come up on different streets
They both were streets of shame
Both dirty, both mean
Yes, and the dream was just the same
And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?

Well you can fall for chains of silver
You can fall for chains of gold
You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
You promised me everything
You promised me thick and thin
Now you just say
Oh, Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him

Juliet, when we made love you used to cry
You said, I love you like the stars above
I'll love you till I die
There's a place for us
You know the movie song
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong?

I can't do the talk like the talk on the TV
And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be
I can't do everything but I'd do anything for you
I can't do anything except be in love with you

And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be
All I do is keep the beat and the bad company
All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme
Juliet, I'd do the stars with you any time

And a lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
Finds a convenient streetlight
Steps out of the shade
Says something like
You and me, babe, how about it?

This is why events unnerve me
They find it all, a different story
Notice whom for wheels are turning
Turn again and turn towards this time
All she ask's the strength to hold me
Then again the same old story
Word will travel, oh so quickly
Travel first and lean towards this time

I'll break them down, no mercy shown
Heaven knows, it's got to be this time

Watching her, these things she said
The times she cried
Too frail to wake this time

I'll break them down, no mercy shown
Heaven knows, it's got to be this time

Avenues all lined with trees
Picture me and then you start watching
Watching forever, forever
Watching love grow, forever
Letting me know, forever

Let the right one in
Let the old dreams die
Let the wrong ones go
They cannot
They cannot
They cannot do what you want them to

Let the right one in
Let the old dreams die
Let the wrong ones go
They do not
They do not
They do not see what you want them to

Let the right one in
Let the old things fade
Put the tricks and schemes (for good) away

I will advise
Until my mouth dries
I will advise you to...

Let the right one slip in
Slippin', slip in

And when at last it does
I'd say you were within your rights to bite
The right one and say, "What kept you so long?"
What kept you so long?

Well they say that now's the time to start
And blessed are the young at heart
She's just here to look the part
In the fruit of all this labor land
On Friday nights and football stands
Been fumbled by so many hands

I've been looking for untangled love
But it's hard to get a handle on
I always hoped I'd see the light
Break the bad luck in my life
Untangled love, yeah
I can see it in your eyes
Untangled love

It's been 21 years since I left home
I'm still looking for a place to call my own
I see the silver lining shining like polished chrome

Untangled love, yeah
I can see it in your eyes
Untangled love, true
Blue Skies
And if a landslide tumbles down today
I'm on your side
And if a twister sweeps it all away
I'm on your side

Stay close, my love
This ain't right
Look out, trouble
We've had enough
Been looking for untangled love
But it's hard to get a handle on
It took a lot of faith, it took a lot of lies
But I finally came to realize

Untangled love
I can see it in your eyes
Untangled love
You keep me by surprise
Untangled love, yeah
I can see it in your eyes

Untangled love
I can see it in your eyes
Untangled love
You took me by surprise
Untangled love
It took me by suprise

Love
I get so lost sometimes
Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart
When I want to run away
I drive off in my car
But whichever way I go
I come back to the place you are

All my instincts, they return
And the grand façade, so soon will burn
Without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside

In your eyes
The light, the heat
(In your eyes) I am complete
(In your eyes) I see the doorway
(In your eyes) To a thousand churches
(In your eyes) The resolution
(In your eyes) Of all the fruitless searches
(In your eyes) Oh, I see the light and the heat
Oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
The heat I see in your eyes

Love, I don't like to see so much pain
So much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away
I get so tired of working so hard for our survival
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive

And all my instincts, they return
And the grand façade, so soon will burn
Without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside

I want to dance
Clock strikes upon the hour
And the sun begins to fade
Still enough time to figure out
How to chase my blues away
I've done alright up till now
It's the light of day that shows me how
And when the night falls
Loneliness calls

Oh, I want to dance with somebody
I want to feel the heat with somebody
Yeah, I want to dance with somebody
With somebody who loves me

I've been in love and lost my senses
Spinning through the town
Sooner or later the fever ends
And I wind up feeling down
I need a man who'll take a chance
On a love that burns hot enough to last
So when the night falls
My lonely heart calls

Oh, I want to dance with somebody
I want to feel the heat with somebody
Yeah, I want to dance with somebody
With somebody who loves me
Oh, I want to dance with somebody
I want to feel the heat
Yeah, I want to dance with somebody
With somebody who loves me

Somebody who, somebody who
Somebody who loves me
Somebody who, somebody who
To hold me in his arms
I need a man who'll take the chance
On a love that burns hot enough to last
So when the night falls
My lonely heart calls

Don't you wanna dance
Say you wanna dance

(by request)

Very superstitious
Writing's on the wall
Very superstitious
Ladder's about to fall
Thirteen month old baby
Broke the looking glass
Seven years of bad luck
The good things in your past

Very superstitious
Wash your face and hands
Rid me of the problem
Do all that you can
Keep me in a daydream
Keep me going strong
You don't wanna save me
Sad is my song

Very superstitious
Nothing more to say
Very superstitious
The devil's on his way
Thirteen month old baby
Broke the looking glass
Seven years of bad luck
Good things in your past

When you believe in things
That you don't understand
Then you suffer
Superstition ain't the way
No, no, no

In a little while
Surely you'll be mine
In a little while I'll be there
In a little while
This hurt will hurt no more
I'll be home, love

When the night takes a deep breath
And the daylight has no air
If I crawl, if I come crawling home
Will you be there?

In a little while
I won't be blown by every breeze
Friday night running to Sunday on my knees
That girl, that girl she's mine
Well I've known her since
Since she was

A little girl with Spanish eyes
When I saw her in a pram they pushed her by
Oh, my how you've grown
Well it's been, it's been
A little while

Slow down my beating heart
Man dreams one day to fly
A man takes a rocket ship into the skies
He lives on a star that's dying in the night
And follows in the trail, the scatter of light
Turn it on, turn it on, turn me on

Slow down my beating heart
Slowly, slowly, love

(by request)

1, 2, 3, 4!

Well, she was just 17
You know what I mean
And the way she looked
Was way beyond compare
So how could I dance with another
When I saw her standing there?

Well, she looked at me
And I, I could see
That before too long
I'd fall in love with her
She wouldn't dance with another
When I saw her standing there

Well, my heart went "boom"
When I crossed that room
And I held her hand in mine

Oh, we danced through the night
And we held each other tight
And before too long
I fell in love with her
Now, I'll never dance with another
Since I saw her standing there

When I'm with you baby
I go out of my head
And I just can't get enough
And I just can't get enough
All the things you do to me
And everything you said
I just can't get enough
I just can't get enough

We slip and slide as we fall in love
And I just can't seem to get enough of

We walk together
We're walking down the streets
And I just can't get enough
And I just can't get enough
Every time I think of you
I know we have to meet
And I just can't get enough
And I just can't get enough

It's getting hotter
It's a burning love
And I just can't seem to get enough of

And when it rains
You're shining down for me
And I just can't get enough
And I just can't get enough
Just like a rainbow
You know you set me free
And I just can't get enough
And I just can't get enough

You're like an angel
And you give me your love
And I just can't seem to get enough of

Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream, she said
The one that makes me laugh, she said
Threw her arms around my neck
Show me how you do it and I'll promise you
I'll promise that I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you

Spinning on that dizzy edge
Kissed her face and kissed her head
Dreamed of all the different ways I had to make her glow
Why are you so far away, she said
Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you?
That I'm in love with you

You, soft and only
You, lost and lonely
You, strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream

Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone, alone, alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved and drowned her deep inside of me

You, soft and only
You, lost and lonely
You, just like heaven

I've nothing much to offer
There's nothing much to take
I'm an absolute beginner
When I'm absolutely sane
As long as we're together
The rest can go to hell
I absolutely love you
But we're absolute beginners
With eyes completely open
But nervous all the same

If our love song
Could fly over mountains
Could laugh at the ocean
Just like the films
There's no reason
To feel all the hard times
To lay down the hard lines
It's absolutely true

Nothing much could happen
Nothing we can't shake
Oh, we're absolute beginners
With nothing much at stake
As long as you're still smiling
There's nothing more I need
I absolutely love you
But we're absolute beginners
But if my love is your love
We're certain to succeed

If our love song
Could fly over mountains
Could sail over heartache
Just like the films
If there's reason
To feel all the hard times
To lay down the hard lines
It's absolutely true

(by request)

Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit lonely
And you're never coming 'round
Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit tired
Of listening to the sound of my tears
Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by
Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit terrified
And then I see the look in your eyes

Turn around, bright eyes
Every now and then I fall apart
Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit restless
And I dream of something wild
Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit helpless
And I'm lying like a child in your arms
Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit angry
And I know I've got to get out and cry
Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit terrified
But then I see the look in your eyes

Turn around, bright eyes
Every now and then I fall apart

And I need you now tonight
And I need you more than ever
And if you only hold me tight
We'll be holding on forever
And we'll only be making it right
'Cos we'll never be wrong

Together we can take it to the end of the line
Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time
I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark
We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
I really need you tonight
Forever's going to start tonight

Once upon a time I was falling in love
Now I'm only falling apart
There's nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart

(Leonard Cohen cover)

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
And dance me to the end of love
Please dance me to the end of love

Oh, let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
And dance me to the end of love
Please dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now
Dance me on and on
And dance me very tenderly
Dance me very long
We're both of us
Beneath our love and both of us above
And dance me to the end of love
Won't you dance me
To the end of love

(by request)

I would take the stars out of the sky for you
Stop the rain from falling if you asked me to
I'd do anything for you
Your wish is my command

I could move a mountain when your hand is in my hand
Words cannot express how much you mean to me
There must be some other way to make you see
If it takes my heart and soul
You know I'd pay the price
Everything that I possess I'd gladly sacrifice

Oh, you to me are everything
The sweetest song that I could sing
Oh baby, oh baby
To you I guess I'm just a clown
Who picks you up each time you're down
Oh baby, oh baby
You give me just a taste of love
To build my hopes upon
You know you got the power girl
To keep me holding on
So now you've got the best of me
Come on and take the rest of me
Oh baby

Though you're close to me
We seem so far apart
Maybe given time you'll have a change of heart
If it takes forever
Girl, then I'm prepared to wait
The day you give your love to me won't be a day too late

I was walking down a one way street
Just a looking for someone to meet
One woman who was looking for a man
Now I'm hoping that the feeling is right
And I'm wondering if you'll stay for the night
So I'm coming, I don't want to be lonely baby please tell me
I want to love you all over

Do you believe in love
Do you believe it's true
Do you believe in love
Oh, you're making me believe it too

Now the feeling is beginning to grow
And the meaning is something you only know
If you believe it
Take my hand and I'll take your heart
Come on
Now I wonder where does true love begin
I'm going under so I'm letting you in
My woman, I don't want to be lonely baby please tell me
I want to love you all over

Do you believe in love
Do you believe it's true
Oh, you're making me believe it too

I used to have you in a photograph
I'm so glad it's changed
But now I've got you and it's gonna last
Do you believe in love

I'm so glad
You're making me believe it too
I believe in love too

Little sister, don't you worry about a thing today
Take the heat from the sun
Little sister, I know that everything is not okay
But you're like honey on my tongue

True love never can be rent
But only true love can keep beauty innocent

I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
No, I could never take a chance
'Cos I could never understand
The mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman

You can run from love
And if it's really love it will find you
Catch you by the heel
But you can't be numb for love
The only pain is to feel nothing at all
How can I hurt when I'm holding you?

I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
And you're the one, there's no one else
It makes me want to lose myself
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman

Brown-eyed girl across the street
On Rue Saint Divine
I thought this is the one for me
But she was already mine
You were already mine

Little sister
I've been sleeping in the street again
Like a stray dog
Little sister
I've been trying to feel complete again
But you're gone and so is God

The soul needs beauty for a soulmate
When the soul wants
The soul waits

I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
Forever, faith and sex and fear
And all the things that keep us here
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman