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Lyrics

  1. Dreamer
  2. Stealin'
  3. One Day
  4. Sweet Freedom
  5. If I Had The Time
  6. Seven Stars
  7. Circus
  8. Pilgrim
  9. Sunshine

  1. Dreamer (Thain/Box)

    I've got a dollar deal hidden down in my shoe
    So listen friends, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do
    I'm gonna run up the road of mystery
    Hangin' by a thread to a fantasy
    A background black showing my face
    Buried in the image of an empty space

    I'm back on my feet
    Getting no sleep
    Makin' it all mine
    Give me a chance
    To follow the bands
    Waitin' for the sunshine

    Husslin' my will in a bar downtown
    If it don't work out
    I'll keep movin' around and around and around and around

    Till I'm back on my feet
    Getting no sleep
    Makin' it all mine
    Give me a chance
    To follow the bands
    Waitin' for a sun shine

    Dreamer Dreamer hangin' around
    Dreamer Dreamer trying to hitch a ride
    Dreamer Dreamer hangin' around
    Dreamer Dreamer when I turn my back you're by my side ooh

    Well I fought my way through the backstage door
    Staring at my goal till my eyes get sore
    And working my way through the little I say
    Caring no less just the light of the day
    A background black showing my face
    Buried in the image of an empty space

    I'm back on my feet
    Getting no sleep
    Makin' it all mine
    Give me a chance
    To follow the bands
    Waitin' for the sunshine yeah

    Just a Dreamer Dreamer hangin' a round
    Dreamer Dreamer trying to hitch a ride
    Dreamer Dreamer hangin' around
    Dreamer Dreamer when I turn my back you're by my side

    Dreamer Dreamer hangin' around
    Dreamer Dreamer trying to hitch a ride
    Dreamer Dreamer hangin' a round
    Dreamer Dreamer Dreamer Dreamer
    (repeat to fade)

  2. Stealin' (Hensley)

    Take me across the water 'cause I need some place to hide
    I done the rancher's daughter and I sure did hurt his pride aha

    Oo..ooo Ooooo Ah ah ah
    Oo..ooo Ooooo Ah ah ah

    Well there's a hundred miles of desert lies between his hide and mine
    I don't need no food and no water, Lord, 'cause I'm running out of time

    Fightin', killin', wine and women, gonna put me to my grave
    Runnin', hidin', losin', cryin', nothing left to save
    But my life

    Oo..ooo Ooooo Ah ah ah
    Oo..ooo Ooooo Ah ah ah

    Stood on a ridge and shunned religion thinking the world was mine
    I made my break and a big mistake stealin' when I should've been buyin'

    All that fightin', killin', wine and those women, gonna put me to an early grave
    Runnin', hidin', losin', cryin', nothing left to save
    But my life, life, life, life, life, life, life, life, life,

    So I stood on a ridge and shunned religion thinking the world was mine
    I made my break and a big mistake stealin' when I should've been buyin'
    I was stealin' when I should've been buyin'
    I was stealin' when I should've been buyin' yeah
    Stealin' when I should've been buyin'
    (repeat with adlib vocals)

  3. One Day (Hensley/Thain)

    One Day, One Day, One Day, One Day
    One Day, One Day

    Didn't I tell ya everything was gonna be all right
    I never doubted it was just a matter of time
    And though I've travelled across the desert of despair
    I knew I'd get there yeah one day

    How times have changed, I been a rea-rearranging everything
    But it can't change the love I felt when I get back home to you
    I am the same, it's just a game that I chose to play
    But remember I can lose as fast as I won one day

    I still remember the hole in the wall
    Where we all sat though you said we'd fall
    The dusty yard and the broken down barn
    Where you and me used to share a yarn
    But it's gone now

    But didn't I tell ya that everything was gonna be all right
    I never doubted it was just a matter of time
    And though I travelled across the desert of despair
    I knew I'd get there one day, one day
    I'd get there one day

  4. Sweet Freedom (Hensley)

    As you look around you, do you like what you see?
    Though it sometimes makes you lonely, do you like being free?
    And are you sure you'll be okay without my company?
    I just want you to be happy, even if it's not with me

    Sweet, sweet freedom
    Sweet, sweet, sweet
    Will the line between all this
    And my love ever meet
    Sweet, sweet freedom
    Sweet, sweet, sweet

    What I'm really tryin' to say is that I will be around
    Should you find that after all you can't get by with what you found
    Oh it wasn't just my heart you took and gently tossed into the sea
    Though it's hard to find the words I need
    I guess it was me - oh I guess it was me oh

    Sweet, sweet freedom
    Sweet, sweet, sweet
    Will the line between all this
    And my love ever meet
    Sweet, sweet freedom
    Sweet, sweet, sweet

    Sweet, sweet freedom
    Sweet, sweet, sweet
    Will the line between all this
    And my love ever gonna meet
    Sweet, sweet freedom
    Sweet, sweet, sweet

    Sweet (so sweet) sweet (oh sweet, sweet, sweet) freedom
    Sweet (so sweet) sweet (so so) sweet
    Sweet (oh sweet) sweet (oh sweet, sweet, sweet) freedom
    Sweet (so sweet) sweet (so sweet so) sweet

  5. If I Had The Time (Hensley)

    If I had the time,
    To re-live my life
    I don't think I'd care,
    To change a thing
    As long as I find,
    Just a little peace of mind
    I can dream and laugh and sing

    I can have my fun,
    With the silver stars
    I can watch the sun,
    Fall in the sea
    And if it rains,
    I will smile just the same
    For the rain will make the flowers sing

    I know how it is to feel sad
    I know how it is when things go bad
    But I'm sure that I have found the way
    I'm happy here and here I'll stay whoa
    Here I'll stay

    If I had the time,
    To re-live my life
    I don't think I'd care,
    To change a thing
    As long as I find,
    Just a little peace of mind
    I can dream and laugh and I can sing

  6. Seven Stars (Hensley)

    Don't try to be anything else but what you are
    Don't try to do anything else but the things you do
    'Cause I had a dream about the seven stars
    And the seven good things that you are
    To me

    The very reason I'm livin' is just for lovin' you
    And the seasons are changin' makin' it all come true
    'Cause with the spring and the clearing skies
    Love's soft light will fill my eyes
    For you

    Who fills my head with these dreams
    As I'm leaving my mind
    Leaving my mind
    Seven new stars are born, seven lie waiting to die
    Seven new stars

    The very reason I'm livin' is just for lovin' you
    And the seasons are changin' makin' it all come true
    'Cause I had a dream about the seven stars
    And the seven good things that you are
    To me

    Who fills my head with these dreams
    As I'm leaving my mind
    Leaving my mind
    Seven new stars are born, seven lie waiting to die
    Seven new stars

    Who fills my head with these dreams
    As I'm leaving my mind
    Leaving my mind
    Seven new stars are born, seven lie waiting to die
    Seven new stars

    Who fills my head with these dreams
    As I'm leaving my mind
    Leaving my mind
    Seven new stars are born, seven lie waiting to die
    Seven new stars

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  7. Circus (Box/Kerslake/Thain)

    Walkin' around this concrete garden
    Viewing all in vain
    Thinking why a dream is driving everyone insane

    Then something will come and make you feel
    The master in control
    Still you're pickin' up and screwing anyone
    Who's gotta soul

    I've been here far too long to remember
    Sights and sounds from this town of clowns

    Makin' up, dressin' up and walkin' around
    Thinkin' that you're Greta Garbos
    I'm sorry my dears but we only sat down
    And laughed and laughed in sorrow
    But it was you that opened the door, and
    It's that we thank you for

    Walkin' around this concrete garden
    Viewing all in vain
    Thinking why a dream is driving everyone insane
    Everyone insane
    Everyone insane
    Everyone's insane

  8. Pilgrim (Byron/Hensley)

    Aaah aaah aaah aaah
    Aaah aaah aaah aaah

    A pilgrim at the grey of dawn
    Leaving in the mist of morning
    On his journey of goodness
    Heaven sent, God blessed

    Pilgrim laughing at the world
    Spreading joy at the touch of his hand
    Wiping out all the misery
    Making love and history

    Those of us who don't know war
    We shouldn't try to make it
    'Cause so many did and even more died
    Do you think you could take it

    'Cause Love lies waiting at our back door
    Such a beautiful matter of fact
    Life's like an apple with love as the core
    And I'll tell you 'bout that

    Just a man in my prime
    Love was there but I had no time
    I was cheered and adored
    And I thought fame was all the world
    Battles won and victory cheers
    Were the sounds I'd heard for years
    But the woman I really loved
    Was losing me to all this blood I only knew I had to win
    And build a world where I was king
    But leaders come and leaders go
    And that's the truth I came to know
    Love or war I could not choose
    And so both I had to lose

  9. Sunshine (Thain/Box)

    For many years I thought like a man
    Feeling his way through darkness
    This priceless treasure for which I've searched
    Appeared to me nothing more than a mirage in the sea

    But when the vision faded
    From this struggle and dream
    Suddenly my illusion was staring
    I now discovered was reality

    Sunshine, Sunshine, Sunshine, I've found you
    Even if you're only, even if you're only
    Even if you're only just in for a while
    Sunshine, Sunshine, Sunshine, I've found you
    Even if you're only destined for a while

    I devote most depressions
    And I write this with a smile
    As the picture book shows Stanley
    Standing at the source of the Nile

    But when the vision faded
    From this struggle and dream
    Suddenly my illusion was staring
    I now discovered was reality

    Sunshine, Sunshine, Sunshine, I've found you
    Even if you're only just in for a while
    Sunshine, Sunshine, Sunshine, I've found you
    Even if you're only destined for a while
    (repeat to end)

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