Conflict of Emotions

Torch Song

The light in the crooner's life is an old torch song
Flaming up for his first loves -
Misty romancing and moonlighting dancing into dawn

"You are my sweet theme song
You linger when the spotlights fade
With my sweet theme song I've got it made

Just love me
Run to meet me when I come home
Take my feelings,
Show them a new day.
Make me say;
I will sing again
Jus tlike the brown eyes of autumn years
Singing to the yellow moon
‘The dawn is soon coming'
I will touch again
Dreams in the lonely glass at 4am
And walk onto the foggy street
The chance to meet a dream coming"


Belinda

There was no foolin'.
Stretched out her hand and led me,
Let her long hair fall soft on my cheek

She made it so clear
She would go with me one time
And dance for me a dance so sweet

It took all my love to show that girl the sun
It took all my love to show that girl the sun
Took all my strength just to watch her goin'
Like she was no one

Oh! Belinda I'm glad you closed your door

It could've been rough
If you'd seen me fallin'
All over your dancin' floor


It Takes My Breath Away Yet

I did not meet you soul to soul.
I felt the kiss and missed the words that you spoke.
Your skin so soft and warm on mine,
Sighing like the best was done and gone.
And the way that I was playing it was just one
night with you
Opened my eyes and you were smiling.
Oh darling I'm further and further and further
>From the way that I thought when we met.
Isn't it amazing to watch our love growing?
You know it takes my breath away yet.

Went lookin' in the city streets
And in the ways of the country
And all the time what I needed
Oh all the time just what I needed
Was lookiil' to find me
Lookin' to find me


Jane

Jane can't tell me if her hands
Are trembling with emotion
Of grief or fear or joy.

Jane looks down at her brown shoes.
She knows that the shine upon them
Should please someone like you.

Someone like you would like to take Jane off
To run on sands so white.
To buy her boat trips if you could
And watch her drink tea.

Jane can't tell me if her heart
Is racing with emotion
Of grief or fear or joy.


Maker of Islands

I do my job and its pleasing to me.
I'm getting so I can sail upon the roughest sea.
On the roughest sea I do alright.
But when my work is over and done
I get to being a lonely one,

I need someone to take the wheel at night.
And someone to navigate 'til light comes,
But most of all I need a maker of islands,
Rested in the golden sunlight where the seas are kind
She could make me islands for my peace of mind,

If I could only see her.
Look into her eyes.
Then I'd lie easy
I'd lie easy
I'd lie easy
In my soul.


Transiberian Express

A relationship was being ended.
She sent me a book - "Famous freezing cold railway journeys",
Instead of a hint, what I got was an intimate
knowledge of the Transiberian route!
Following up with, "Wheels across the Steppes"
I felt myself trundling through the crisp snow
and I could have introduced you to the
population of Urkutz station by "Chuffing into hostile terrain".

Oh how I knew, it, I could see there was a change.
It was written in your eyes. It was - oh written across your face
And when you told me I saw flashin' of a flag,
Heard the rollin' wheels beneath me.
I swear that I was movin'
There by your side but so far away
Mercury drops, there's nothing to say

chorus:
I can't hold this room still
Got the towns flashin' by
Got the faces at the stations
It's colder so much colder now
And I just can't stop this Transibeflan Express,
Transiberian Express.
And you bought it, you bought my ticket, ticket

Through the pine trees and they're whisperin' of blood
In the field of my vision I got samovars and overcoats
Into Kirov there's a pink stare of daybreak
Falling over the town.
Then I can hear your voice
"Only one thing more" and you tell me 'bout him
"Only one thing more" but the train is speeding

chorus:
Thirteen hundred miles from Moscow, snow is everywhere.

We could have been so warm together.
Instead you put me here
Will I be travelling on this line for evermore
Through forest, steppes and hills,
Through Perm and Omsk and Urkutz
And at my soul the loss of you.
Feeling at my core the grip of winter

chorus:


Squeeze The Minutes

My heart melts at the thought of two people
achingly in love - "Living apart for the life we're
going to build". - "Romance on the top of the
podium yet again and geography just scrapes bronze"!

That I feel strongly enough about it to write a
song is entirely due to overexposure, as a child,
to 'Family Favourites'.

Now we're livin' apart for the life we're gonna
build when the time is right.
But the time gets stretched in she Space that’s between us,
Squeeze the minutes
I wanna hear you whisperin' to me
I wanna kiss you in the night, in the night

chorus:
Squeeze the minutes
Chase the hands round
Anything to get you
Sooner than has to be here in my arms
Squeeze the minutes
Squeeze the minutes
Squeeze the minutes
I want you here in my arms

As you said it yourself in your note it wasn't
such a bad photograph of you
But if lookin' was all to the way you are then I
could keep my heart more
I wouldn't mind this livin' apart so
Maybe wouldn't think of it all the time

chorus:

Oh I threw it away the thought - "I wouldn't
wait, couldn't wait for one love".
I only think of the way you understand me and
I know that it's worthwhile
I only think of the way that you are
It's makin' me know what I want - oh what I want

chorus:


Winter in China

"The world moves on and leaves a tear".
"Warmth, dazzle are gone".
"It gives you conflict of emotions".
Dragged wailing into existence by the unnatural
and largely hopeless act of rendering Chinese
poetry into English, they ended up here!

Cold, cold as a crystal, the world moves on and leaves a tear
We both used to see the same thing when we closed our eyes in loving
I'd like to believe there's more wine in that glass
But a shiver in the night says
"Cut your losses
Cut your losses - oh run"

chorus:
Warmth, dazzle are gone
Gone from the sun as the year moves on
Warmth, dazzle are gone
Gone from the sun as the year moves on
Oh! dazzle, it's got no place in my life anymore
Loud in the deep night
The cold,
The cold cracks like a whip - like a whip

Idle dreams of the far away, they got you in the lead still.
I taste doubt on my lips now,
Don't know if you're stayin', goin'
Fresh paint on the landscape
I really don't know what to think
bout our love
Cold misty rain in tangled threads falls on me
chorus:

A dream can be all that’s free sometimes,
I know the feelin’ well.
A dream got a grip like winter,
Hold you back from all your dealings.
Set your eyes on a distance, pin a heart on your sleeve.
Give you conflict,
Give you a conflict of emotions
And you can’t break away

chorus:


Savage Moon

"To the white man nature was a wilderness infested with wild animals and savage people.
To us it was tame, earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery".
Chief Luther Standing Bear

"We saw the Great Spirit's work in almost everything; sun, moon, trees, wind and mountains.
Sometimes we approached him through those things. Was that so bad"?
Walking Buffalo

"The Sioux knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing things soon led to lack of respect for humans too".
Chief Luther Standing Bear


>From pastures of plenty, sailin’ in with the gold
"Free land for the taking" they said
And they told of the primitive red man.

chorus:
"Naked in the river he stands
His arms stretched out to the sky
He’s worshipping the spirits of the land
And his song to the moon
Is the savage wolf-cry
Great moon, hawk moon
Hoop moon, hawk moon
Hawk moon -stretch out your wings
In a hoop - circle of the people

These people feel kinship with the birds of the air.
With the trees, with the winds that blow,
In fact, they see kinship everywhere.

chorus:

"Sir it pains me to tell you that you hoped too
much for this land.
Wild barbarous country it is.
And it's alive with the beasts and the red am".
chorus:


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