Lyrics
She’s light upon her feet
And she’s easy on the eyes
I see you twirling like a parasail upon the shoulder of a woman in the light
I dream that someday we’ll be one
It’s all that I desire
Tied together like old tennis shoes upon a telephone wire
I took my flight into the air
When I’d grown tired of the ground
I’m soaring, but I’m caught inside your stare
And I ain’t ever looking down
What’s a boy this high to do?
On a skydive down with no parachute
I just keep on falling
I keep on falling
I keep on falling for you
You’re a little like the lighthouse
That guides my rebel sailboat home
But you’re a bit more like the moonlight
Pulling on the seaside and the saltwater and the foam
The night was made for sleeping
It’s the daylight that’s for dreaming
We’ll grow together like a garden
Stand like a weatherworn willow tree in its weeping
See how the years have blown right past us
And only now do my defenses fall to ashes
I’ll be leaving by tomorrow on an aero plane
With a heart too heavy to lift off the runway lane
Sister, please, don’t you leave me be
Cling to my memory like the sky does to the sea
I see how right now might not be the best time
You’re from the suburbs and I am from the west side
But you’re glowing like a neon sign in the dark
And I’ve been known to catch fire from just one spark
Sister, please, be kind to me
Be wary of the way that your eyes make me bleed
Sister, sister, I’m an honest man
Sister, sister, see my outstretched hand
Out of dust and mist I was made
It’s by trust in him I stand
Sister, sister it’s a crying shame
Sister, sister, on a runaway train
You must’ve missed her
She was gone as quick as she came
Sister, please, save a place for me
Set me down but don’t ever set me free
See how the rain comes every morning
How each dewdrop leaves each blade of grass as the sun comes up before me
Little white flowers dot the hillside down
Cover up the meadow in a wedding gown
Forever sounds a whole lot better when you’re around
Sister, sister, see the lengths I took
To press these petals in my leatherbound book
I may be mistaken but I’m glad to be mistook
Sister, please, could you forgive my heart
You’re not the one I need, you’re the one I want
You’re the one I want
You’re the one I
She brought something in me back to life
Singing out her melody that lovely summer night
I never needed any fine-tuned kinda loving
Still she hit every pitch without a strike
And I won’t paint myself in a perfect light
My rhythm and my words don’t always fit together right
I never needed nothing but to be somebody’s something
And you’re one I won’t forget without a fight
I won’t let you sing it alone
The song that you play on my heartstrings
I’ll eagerly hold out every note
Praying to God for a harmony
It’s something just like writing out a song
I don’t ever wonder if we’re right or if we’re wrong
Don’t need to see to trust in what you’d call my better judgement
I close my eyes to feel for what belongs
But don’t you hold back
You can pull till I snap
Playing your song on my heartstrings
Bend me and break me
Honey, you couldn’t shake me
Even when loving is the hardest thing
I won’t let you sing it alone
The song that you play on my heartstrings
I’ll eagerly hold out every note
Praying to God for a harmony
But don’t you hold back
You can pull till I snap
Playing your song on my heartstrings
Bend me and break me
Honey, you couldn’t shake me
Even when loving is the hardest thing
The hardest thing
My honey’s in Minnesota but the money’s in North Dakota
Got our dreams of a wedding ring up on the shelf
We work as hard as we’re able, baby but the bills on the table are piling up and
Lord knows they ain’t gonna pay themselves
Will we ever hear those wedding bells
Only time will tell
I’ll search and scour for that 25th hour in the day
I’m gonna find it someway
Lord, I’m grateful for these 24, but could ya spare a fella just one more
I’d hate to work my woman away
Well, the man works me so hard and I sent my baby a postcard
Said, “Honey, I’ll be back by April or May”
Tattered up, battered and bruised, I got nothing but a whole lotta loving to lose (lick)
I’m praying to God her patience won’t whittle away
I’ll search and scour for that 25th hour in the day
I’m gonna find it someway
Lord, I’m grateful for these 24, but could ya spare a fella just one more
I’d hate to work my woman away
Called her from a payphone, she said, “You don’t leave a woman like me alone,
If you know what’s good for you, you’ll be back by the morning light”
Punched out my timecard and I jumped on a railcar
And I hoboed it back to my baby through the night
I don’t care to make a dime
Unless it buys a little more time
I’ll search and scour for that 25th hour in the day
I’m gonna find it someway
Lord, I’m grateful for these 24, but could ya spare a fella just one more
I’d hate to work my woman away
That little honey of mine, she make a man feel fine
I’m goin outta my mind, goin outta my mind
Come on railroad line take me home on time
She make a man feel fine, I’m goin outta my mind
I’ll search and scour for that 25th hour in the day
I’m gonna find it someway
Lord, I’m grateful for these 24, but could ya spare a fella just one more
I’d hate to work my woman away
Blondie and me
Dance down by the fishing docks
Sprayed by the sea
And warmed by the yellow sun
But you don’t ever complain
Of wasted time you spent waiting on me
To speak my mind and my heart
To set you high and apart and call your name
Adelaine
An island smile breaks across your face
And you won’t tell me where it’s from
You lay out all your little games
And you beat me at everyone
But I couldn’t cherish you more
You picked me off of the floor
Yeah, you covered me up in the earth
To find a flower be birthed after all the rain
Adelaine
Twilight will bring
Ferry boats and a grapefruit sky
We’ll lie down and sing each other our songs
With the universe shooting by
And I forget I’m on land
You dug me out of the sand
Yeah, you polished me up like a ring
Slip me onto your finger you can keep the name
Adelaine
I see the streetlights flickering on, the moon has taken flight
There’s a sweet smell of the summertime hanging in the night
But she only desires my heart under silvery twilight of the stars
Ooh
Ooh
For the daylight shines so coldly on my failures and my faults
My sweet eveningtime, she redeems me by her shadows at nightfall
Finally I’m free to start waltzing around in the dark
Ooh
So I dress up for the masquerade, and I dance the whole night through
In a soaring pride, I am hypnotized by her eyes of midnight blue
But before I can manage to speak, she vanishes as the light comes to the east
Ooh
Lily, you are really driving me on up the wall
I’ve fallen for your everything
Every word you whisper, every song you sing
Breathes a life into me like the dawn of spring
Still I toss and turn in my recurring dream
The one you’re centerstage in every single scene
And I just stand there acting like our love is a thing that can’t be
But I’ve fallen a victim to the waves of your sea
Like the pull of a hurricane, they take hold of me
And carry me out into a love so serene
And bury me down into the wonders unseen
I’m hidden under the water like a thing of the deep
But honey you couldn’t drown me, you’re the air that I breathe
Lily, you found my Achilles heel
You’ve stolen every breath that I had left to steal
Singing Hallelujah in the pouring rain
Like a Seraphim cursed to an earthly plain
I call your friend upstairs a friend of mine as well
But when your sunlight shone, my lonely shadow fell
Dancing somewhere down the line keeping heaven from hell
And I’m not an astronaut, I can’t see the stars
But I know the beauty under all that you are
Every smile is a flashing glimpse at your soul
Flickering fiercely like a flame in the cold
Carry me up into the heavens above
Shine me a light, Lily give me your love
Like a petal falling from a flowering tree
Like the honey in a humming hive of bees
You send a tear of joy on down my empty cheek
Down the skin I’m wishing that your lips would meet
I could stick my head out, I could risk my neck
I could work for years, and pay off all my debts
But I’ve got all the fortune I could dream of in only a Peck
And some can find the creator in the crystal clear streams
Or high in the mountains towering over the beach
In diamond deserts in a fireball blaze
Or deep in the forest on the darkest of days
And I guess that it’s lovely what he’s done with the place
But I’ve always found him in the lines of your face
The moon, the stars, the ocean breeze blowing
Through this tiki bar the night is sure going
Just as slow as I want it to
Soakin up what’s the last of this ocean front view
Then you walked in looking like a summer sunrise
Kissed your skin for a second we locked eyes
And Time stopped in it’s tracks
Sitting at this bar with my bags all packed
Then you rolled in like the rising tide
Pulling me close with your Ocean eyes
Margarita sipping, thinking I’ll take whatever she’s having
With a red sundress hanging off your shoulder
All I’m thinking bout right now is moving in closer
There’s a plane that I should be catching
But I’m here with heartbreak waiting to happen
I asked your name, you smiled and took me by the hand
We danced the night away barefoot in the sand
I’m diving deep into this lagoon
Where’s the fun in flying home so soon?
I faced the firelight, I don’t wanna lose you
This island life’s something I could get used to
Never had a second thought/ Now I’m having second thoughts
The heart wants what the heart wants
All cause…
You rolled in like the rising tide
Pulling me close with your Ocean eyes
Margarita sipping, thinking I’ll take whatever she’s having
With a red sundress hanging off your shoulder
All I’m thinking bout right now is moving in closer
We could be a matchmade up in heaven
I should know the way it ends but you’re keeping me guessing
What’s your name? I never did catch it
What you call a heartbreak waiting to happen?
When I awake I look up at the sky
To see if it’s turned blue
Silence always makes for a lonely ride
The quiet always makes me think of you
But that red morning sun, it only brings up the truth
My heart’s stuck on us, my head wonders what’s the use
It’s only a mark, only a cut
You’ve only wounded me, It’s only my blood
We’re only apart , We’re only all done
You’re only my everything, I’m only in love
I lay awake, listening to the whispering pines
From the shadows of my room
Where our love’s been buried by the sands of time
Like a treasure in a tomb
And I can’t get to sleep, I can’t find a peace of mind
Spare me the beating, don’t leave my heart behind
It’s only a mark, only a cut
You’ve only wounded me, It’s only my blood
We’re only apart , We’re only all done
You’re only my everything, I’m only in love
Wounded but it’s only a cut, Hurting but I’m only in love
Wounded but It’s only a cut, Hurting but I’m only in love
It’s only a mark, only a cut
You’ve only wounded me, It’s only my blood
We’re only apart , We’re only all done
You’re only my everything, I’m only in love
It’s only a mark so don’t be alarmed
I don’t mind the mess you made, It’s only my blood
No man is an island
So why am I washed up here on my own?
I mostly don’t mind it, but I just can’t stand the silence
Of another starlit night spent all alone
No man is an island
No matter how the mangos and coconuts grow
I’ll still be pining for what lies beyond the horizon
I’ll keep an eye out for your boat
No man is an island
This pile of brush could send a smoke signal back home
I wanna light it, but a part of me loves hiding
Deep within my solitary grove
I’m still surviving but darling I’d be lying
If I said I was content here all alone
No man is an island
Sea, how you surround this heart of stone
If you’d just come and find me, I could leave this place behind me
Then you and I could start the journey home
Lightning never strikes
Down upon the same man twice
But I’ve been hit by bolts from you a few too million many times
To blame it all on chance
Now I’ve seen the saviors hand
Guide me through the ocean blue into the safety of her sands
And I thought that people lied about the love you’re bound to find
About the angels in the air
About how souls come down in pairs
But then your light broke out
Over all my doubts
I felt all my fears take flight
Now I’m thinking that forever sounds alright
Well, my mind’s gone wild with dreams
The worlds gone beautiful and green
And I’ve been born again a better man as a testament of the woman you are to me
And I’ve tried to piece apart
The little things that led me to your heart
But I’ve thought it through, and found it true that loving you never had to be that hard
Cause I thought that people lied about the love you’re bound to find
About the angels in the air
About how souls come down in pairs
But then your light broke out
Over all my doubts
I felt all my fears take flight
Now I’m thinking that forever sounds alright
Cause I thought that people lied about the love you’re bound to find
About the angels in the air
About how souls come down in pairs
But then your light broke out
Over all my doubts
I felt all my fears take flight
Now I’m thinking that forever sounds alright
Now I’m thinking that forever sounds alright
These beat up shoes are all worn out from walkin in
My hands are growing still and soft with time
These circled conversations show no sign of stopping
I’m running out of rhythm on my last dime
There’s a lady standing lonely at the station
Waiting for this dead-end boy to find her
Singing out a siren invitation
You know I’d be a fool to deny her
I need a fire lit under my feet
I don’t wanna bottle my dreams anymore
I gotta find a way to set em all free
Lord only knows what I’m saving em for
There’s a light that’s peakin over the horizon
This locomotive’s gotta up and go but it keeps dragging on
I’ll never beat that sunlight to it’s rising
If it’s unrequited hopes I’m bankin on
I need a fire lit under my feet
I don’t wanna bottle my dreams anymore
I gotta find a way to set em all free
Lord only knows what I’m saving em for