| 1 - Wonderboy
Ever wonder why you’re here today
Clever boy you’ll find the words to say
Wonderboy, wonderboy
Wonderboy, how did you get this way?
Ever wonder how you got so far
Never knowing ever where you are
Wonderboy, wonderboy
Wonderboy, how did life get so hard?
Life is hard like a precious diamond
Maybe you got a lump of coal
A true heart, just try to find one
Go down deep, go down deep
Find what’s shining in your soul
Ever wonder why things move so fast
Sever now the present from the past
Wonderboy, wonderboy
Wonderboy, how long do dreams last?
Wonderboy, wonderboy
Wonderboy, how long do dreams last?
2 - What You Leave Behind
Well she thumbed all the way to Topanga Canyon
Well, on the edge of the world is where she is standing
She put her cigarette out in the dirt
Wondered if there is any place left in the world
Where there is peace, love and understanding
She came all this way alone to find
It’s not what you take with you
It’s what you leave behind
Well, he came all the way from a place called Yuma
We wants to surf in the ocean at a beach called Zuma
He saw her sitting in the sand and it looked like home
And he said, now honey are you all alone?
She looked and smiled and said what’s it to ya
Gonna travel down the road where there ain’t no signs
It’s not what you take with you
It’s what you leave behind
Oh baby I hurt all over
Thought maybe I could use you shoulder
I’m trying not to loose my mind.
It’s not what you take with you
It’s what you leave behind.
They’re gonna stay right here where the sun is a setting
Yeah tomorrow’s a gift, but no one knows what you’re getting
They’ll do their best just to stay together
And pray the other don’t change like the weather
And if it all goes to hell, well, they’ll soon be forgetting
A little bit farther on down the line
It ain’t what you take with you
It’s what you leave behind
3- Here Today-
All alone I look at her picture
How was I to know how much I’d miss her
I always knew she’d have to leave someday
You and I, we talk to each other
Lucky you, you look like your mother
Tomorrow always seems so far away
But tomorrow is here today
Remember when the sun shined brighter
You hold my hand and squeeze a little tighter
With just one look, you knew that you’d get your way
Pull up your coat, the winds getting colder
On and on, who dreamed we’d get older
Don’t wait to say the words that you should say
Because tomorrow is here today
One day without warning
You’ll wake up to find
The memories you’re storing
Are all that you leave behind
All alone I look at her picture
How was I to know how much I’d miss her
I always knew she had to leave someday
You and I, we talk to each other
Lucky you, you look like your mother
Tomorrow always seems so far away
But tomorrow is here today
4 - Hasn’t Anybody Ever Told You
Hasn’t anybody ever told you
Not to laugh when someone cries
Hasn’t anybody ever told you
That’s not the way you say good bye
To someone who’s done everything under the sun for you
You don’t turn around and break their heart in two
When their love is true.
Hasn’t anybody ever told you
Hasn’t anybody ever told you
You may pass this way again
Hasn’t anybody ever told you
Life is lonely without a friend
To hold on to when things get hard, you try a work it through
You don’t run away and find somebody new
That’s not what you do
Hasn’t anybody ever told you
I’m guessing that you missed that lesson
Now it is long overdue
For your information, you’re gonna get your education
When you are all alone, then what will you do?
Hasn’t anybody ever told you
5- Strongest Man In The World
Love should be
Uncomplicated and free
But it’s not
You should be happy with me
And everything that you got
But you’re not
They say that love and pain
Are part of the same song
And whatever doesn’t kill you
Will one day make you strong
Well, if that is true
I should be thanking you
Now, down upon my knees
For every time you lied
And every time I cried
Now I could be Hercules
With every tear, my strength just grows
To look at me, now you would never know
But it’s a fact, you’re looking at
The strongest man in the world
Yeah, I am the strongest man in the world
Well, no mortal man
Can ever understand
What I bear
Love can make a man
Stronger than Samson with all his hair
It’s all there
Now I am lucky every day to be alive
I heard it said somewhere before
Only the strong survive
Well if that is true
Then I should be thanking you
Now down upon my knees
For every time you lied
Every time I cried
I should be Hercules
Well, with every tear, my strength just grows
To look at me, well you would never know
It’s sad but true, but because of you
I’m the strongest man in the world
6 - You’re My Thing
Lotta people walking around these streets
Lotta people hoping one day to meet
Someone to fill that space inside
Someone to know when they are satisfied
There is a world here, one day you will see
You are my world here, no one else for me
Give me tomorrow, no matter what it brings
I’ll tell you right now, honey you’re my thing
Everybody’s trying now to get by
Everybody’s got their own way to get high
Some need a drug to block out the pain
Your love is the blood running through my veins
There is a world here, one day you will see
You are my world, no one else for me
Give me tomorrow no matter what it brings
I’ll tell you right now, honey, you’re my thing
And you know that I believe
That love is all you need
To make it through another day
And pass it on, along your way
Lotta people walking around the streets
Lotta people hoping one day to meet
Someone to fill that space inside
Someone to know when they are satisfied
There is a world here one day you will see
You are my world here, no one else for me
Give me tomorrow, no matter what it brings
I’ll tell you right now, honey you’re my thing
7 - Diamonds In Your Mind
Open your eyes, look at the clock
Watch the sunrise, put on your socks
Wake up the kids then kiss the wife
Put down the lid, this is your life
Hold on, remember this picture it’s just
Like gold you don’t find in a mine
Slow down, love is a whisper
And these memories, will gleam and shine
Like diamonds in your mind
Like diamonds in your mind
You’re on the run, you’re late for work
Your day is done, but what’s it worth
Without love, for someone else
Without love, inside your self?
Hold on, remember this picture it’s just
Like gold you don’t find in a mine.
Slow down, love is a whisper
And these memories, will gleam and shine
Like diamonds in your mind
Like diamonds in your mind
Sometimes it is hard to see the light
But our lucky stars gonna shine tonight
We’ll make it through, just wait and see
Cuz I got you, and you got me
Hold on, remember this picture it’s just
Like gold you don’t find in a mine
Slow down, love is a whisper
And these memories, will gleam and shine
Like diamonds in your mind
Like diamonds in your mind
8 - Kiss the Ground
Two weeks from tomorrow
I know where I’ll be
Getting on that plane to go across the sea
A couple tons of metal and some gasoline
It’s got me kind of nervous, if you know what I mean
Now, I’m not ready, my hands are sweaty
Don’t want to leave the ground
My courage faded, want to be sedated
Did you hear that sound?
So look beneath us, oh sweet Jesus
Man, we’re really high
Oh Father Holy, please let’s go slowly
Cuz I don’t want to die
Let this big bird fly
Let this big bird fly
Way up in the sky up above the clouds
Hear the angels singing and my head is bowed.
Closer now, my God, I am to thee
For now it is just as close as I want to be
Don’t want to got to heaven - 747
Hey are all the doors locked?
30, 000 feet dear, need some more beer
Wait, make it a scotch
So look beneath us, oh sweet Jesus
Man, we’re really high
Oh Father Holy, please let’s go slowly
Cuz I don’t want to die
Let this big bird fly
Let this big bird fly
Let me tell you what
There is something worrying me
It’s called gravity.
Gonna kiss the ground
When I get down
9 - Lower
Here we are, cold winter night
Nice and warm by the fire side bright
But you’re not happy, and I know why
Your expectations are a little too high
You want it all, you want it now
Crawl to the top, but you don’t know how
Yeah, I used to be just like you
But I figured out, well, what do to
And... happiness, if you want to know her
I’ll tell you what to do
Just make your standards lower
Make ’em a little lower.
Now everybody has a cross to bear
The grass is always greener, baby, over there
I gotta tell you honey, now what I found
No matter where you go, one day the grass turns brown
You wanted love, you just got liked
You wanted Pierre, but you got Mike
Life’s not fair, that’s the rub
You’re disappointed, well join the club
And happiness lies around the corner
If you look at the stars, then aim a little lower
Yes I had a dream or two, to love my own
Yeah, not every dream comes true,
But you are never alone
Now I got happiness that’s
It made to order
If you can’t find it with my heart
Hey, look a little lower
Baby, go a little lower.
Now here is a word
Grade on a curve
Go lower
and lower
yeah, lower.
10- Hippie On The Inside
Now I may look kinda straight to you
Old enough to be your daddy too
Well, dressed up in this monkey suit
But what you see, it’s not me
You’d never guess who I used to be
Honey, you would be surprised
I may look this way outside
But I’m a hippie on the inside
Now way, down deep here underneath
I still believe in love and peace
And let your light shine before you leave the show
You never know, where do old hippies go?
Honey, you would be surprised
I may work this 9-5
But I’m a hippie on the inside
Today, I might not look very hip.
But in my mind, I’m on a psychedelic trip.
So when you’re walking down the street
Before you judge everyone you meet
The picture may not be complete
What you’ve seen may be a dream
Well, is life only what it seems?
Honey, you may be surprised
You won’t see my freak flag fly
But I’m a hippie on the inside
Yeah, I’m a hippie on the inside
11- Satisfied
She lived alone is a one room flat downtown
Came in on a Greyhound bus, about year ago now
She had to leave the place that she called home
She had to breathe and get out on her own
And find
Any place in this world where she could be satisfied
She got her a job as a waitress on the pier
When she makes enough money, like a ghost she’ll disappear
She stares out the window and then she starts to dream
Wonder when the wind blows does she ever think about me
Sometime,
Bet if she did she’d never be satisfied
Well, if you look through this world
For that big shiny pearl
You are in for a big surprise.
You’ll never be satisfied.
I tell you one day the rain is gonna come
Now what ya gonna do when there’s no place left to run
Gonna stand on a rock and try to find higher ground
There’s only one place that peace is ever found
Inside
And when you find love, you’re gonna be satisfied
Yeah, when you find love, you’re gonna be satisfied
12- Tell Me Something
Well living in the suburbs where the air is clean
Your life is a movie you’ve already seen
You started at the top, but now you’re going down real slow
Well, yeah, I’m scared to stop
Well, tell me something I don’t know
You don’t know how you got here, just don’t understand
Driving down to Starbucks in your minivan
Oh, baby, oh...
Where did all the good times go?
Yeah, time is running out
Well, tell me something I don’t know
Well you made your bed, you got to lie in it
You gotta change your head just to make it fit
In a square world baby, you know that it’s true
How you look the world just depends on your view
Now everybody’s running, and trying to beat the clock
Now that big chair in your front room is the only thing that rocks
Yesterday’s a dream that somehow seems so long ago
If you know what life means
Tell me something I don’t know
13- Bacon ’N’ Eggs
Now I’ve always done everything I could
To live as long as I can
Eating my low fat yoghurt with my whole wheat bran
Now you go and tell me.
You’re gonna leave me for someone else
After all this time I wasted
Taking such good care of myself
I wish you would have told me long ago
That you would be going away
I would not have been eating oatmeal
When I could have had bacon and eggs.
I took every vitamin there was
Lord from A to Zinc
Now with my Adonis-like body
I sit here alone and think
About every time I just said no
To every sin and vice
I hope you are going down below
And all they serve there is brown rice
So listen here everybody
One day we’re all going away
So don’t waste your time on oatmeal
When you can have bacon and eggs
Would you rather have bacon and eggs?
I think I’m gonna have bacon and eggs
14-Sorry As I Can Be
You know I’ve done a lot of things
I’m not so proud - remembering
Though it seems so long ago
Gotta say out loud what you should know
I know it’s too late for apologies
But from the deepest part of me
I’m sorry as I can be
Sorry as I can be
Now if I could, I’d change the past
But it’s too late now, yeah, to go back
You gotta find forgiveness everyday
And know somehow, it’s meant to be this way
I know it is too late for apologies.
But from the deepest part of me
I’m sorry as I can be
Sorry as I can be
You know we won’t be here much longer
We’re just wind blowing through the trees
Now I regret I wasn’t stronger
All I can say, all I can say
I’m sorry as I can be
Sorry as I can be
15 - Me
One day I’m outta here
Where I am going, now, it ain’t clear
I’m mostly did the best I could
I’ll find out soon if it did any good
Lots of things that I will miss
In this world where we exist
The earth and sky, the deep blue sea
But most of all
I’ll miss me
Hamburger and some salty fries
Fried chicken and some pecan pie
A nap with you in the afternoon
The stars at night shinning in our room
Lots of things that I will miss
In this world where we exist
A summers day, the ocean breeze
But most of all
I’ll miss me
We have no way of knowing
What’s coming after this
Now, is there a second showing
Or just a farewell kiss
Now Ray Charles singing ’Crying Time’
A cigarette and some red, red wine
A good book when you’re all alone
My family sleeping there safe at home
Lots of things that I will miss
In this world where we now exist
My birthday party a Christmas tree
But most of all
I’ll miss me
16- The End Of the Day
Your love is all I’ll ever need
To rise above this world
No gravity can hold me down
In your love I’ve found
The only way
So I will not be afraid
I watch the sky, and as
The sunset fades your light I see
As you wait for me.
The end of the day
Wait ’til tomorrow
You will see, you will see
I have faith in the ’morrow
As long as you’re with me
So hold on, ’til this journey ends
Our love is strong
We won’t brake or bend
And in god we trust
We know love waits for us
The end of day
17- Goodnight
There’s the world we see and we know
There is more to be than we show here
Now no fear today
Put your hand in mine and just breathe
No one knows the time that we leave here
Now we’re far away
Life is a dream that floats on by
A song that we sing, a lullaby
Tonight, sleep tight, goodnight
Goodnight.
Go back to the past, feel so small
Weight is gone at last and we fall down.
Now we have found our way
Life is a dream that floats on by
A song that we sing, a lullaby
Tonight, sleep tight, goodnight.
Goodnight.
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