It's a hard business
It's a hard business to make it on your own
Don't judge me papa
If I can't handle the things in my head
It's a hard business
It's a hard business walking on the edge
I've got nothing, no one in my life
So how can I lose again?
Got my feet in muddy water
But I'm gonna find that road again
So I'll be taking care of business
Cause I know what I'm looking for
If been workin every hour god gives to man
But I still see the same closed door
I got nothing but trouble in my life
But I feel I got a lot to give
Every day I build a new world
But I've had no one to build it with
So I've been looking for a woman to share my
hopes
But I know I ain't a patch on you
And I've been thinking a woman's god's gift to
man
Are you thinkin the same way too?
So don't leave me mama
Don't make me go on alone
Cause it's a hard business
It's a hard business to make it on your own
Ooh
So don't leave me papa
And my believe in myself is gone
Cause it's a hard business
Such a hard business
(tell me) It's a hard business
Being on my own
She's a lover, she's a fighter she's a red hot
bit
You take her as you find her and you never can
quit
She's a pretty little lady called china belle
She's a little bit of heaven and a whole lotta
hell
She got a bad reputation but you won't say no,
You gonna need her sweet lovin when you go go
go
She got a diamond on her finger you can see it
glisten
She got pretty conversation, don't talk just
listen
She could be flat bed fakin' but you never can
tell
Got the body of an angel but you know darn well
She's a pretty little lady called china belle
She's a little bit of heaven and a whole lotta
hell
I was standing at the station on the Neck of Siam
Met a guy from Abu Dhabi said 'you know who I
am'
They call me hard nosed Harry who you can never
get hooked
But I fell in love with trouble after just one
look
She gives you dirty lovin honey make you feel
real swell
But if you say you wanna stay she ain't that
kinda girl
I said you're talking bout a lady that I know
darn well.
She's a pretty little lady called china belle
She's a little bit of heaven and a whole lotta
hell
She'll take up Nee-How walking to a Chinese Ball
You'll be singing and a-dancing underneath the
Great Wall
But when your strollin' in the rain through Tianannmen
Square
You turen around and look for China and she ain't
nowhere
She's a dangerous habit, she's a red hot hit
You can get a better rabbit but she just can't
quit
She's a pretty little lady
She's a pretty little lady
She's a pretty little lady called china belle
She's a little bit of heaven and a whole lotta
hell
She's a pretty little lady called china belle
She's a little bit of heaven and a whole lotta
hell
Take me to china
Take me away
She's a pretty little lady called china belle
She's a little bit of heaven and a whole lotta
hell hell hell...
She's a pretty little lady called China Belle
She's a Little Bit o' Heaven and a Whole Lotta Hell
Take me to China
Take me away
She's a pretty little lady called China Belle
She's a Little Bit o' Heaven and a Whole Lotta Hell Hell Hell....
And now I miss you in so many ways
You know I miss you for so many lonely days
Why don't we try again
In the dark there's a desert flower
It blooms when no one sees
Our love was stronger than history
Our love will never cease to be
How can I live with you as a memory
You hold the best part of me
And now I miss you in so many ways
You know I miss you for so many lonely days
Why don't we try again
No use of me waiting by the telephone
You're gone, you ain't gonna ring
And now I miss you in so many ways
You know I miss you for so many lonely lonely
days and nights
I know you miss me for so many lonely days
Why don't we try again
Why don't we try again
Why don't we try again.
I'm on my way through
Where I'm going to
You wouldn't believe
But I'll make it - I'm thinking of telling you
I'm on a roll
Gonna have it all
It's gonna be fine so fine, baby all the time
I'm in control (on my way up)
I'm mighty bold (I'm telling myself)
I'm looking good (I'm totally sussed)
I'm quitting the neighbourhood
On my way up (yes I am)
(On my way up) Gonna get right with them
Got all of my life left for living
Nobody gonna tell me no
Nobody gonna stop me so
Everybody gonna see me grow
Nobody gonna hold me down
Gotta get to be better place
Gotta wake up and see your face
Gotta hold on
Move on
Go through that wall
It's my life or it's nothing
Our life or it's nothing at all
I'm on my way up, yeah
Better come with me, lets go
I'm on my way (on my way up)
Yeah, gonna get it right (I'm telling myself)
Oh I'm telling myself (I'm totally sussed)
Gonna make it this time around
On my way up
(On my way up) gotta get that rhythm baby
(On my way up) gonna start that rhythm baby
(On my way up)
Got all of my sights set on heaven
Ain't no stopping me now...
Power, fight, death
Come play with me
Hahahahaha
I'm waiting
I'll play their fantasy and I'll live their pain
My heart and soul locked up in a cold steel brain
A strange creature's crawling and it's calling out my name
I don't want to, I don't need to, but I must fight again
(Let me out)
(Set me free)
Calling out for the cyborg - Gonna rub you out
Time is up for the cyborg, you'll never get out
Ah! You're nothing but a cyborg
Cyborg
Cyborg, it's your time
I'll make it back there baby, just you watch me try
(one more try, one more try)
We'll fly again into the deep blue sky
I feel a hunger baby, cyborg feels no shame
Lord I have to, Lord I need to win this wicked game
Come step to me
Calling out for the cyborg, gonna rub you out
Time is up for the cyborg, he'll never get out
Time is up for the cyborg, gonna put your light out
Ah! You're nothing but a cyborg, you'll never get out
I'm gonna erase your file.
But there's a man on the loose, baby
He's all bad
He'll tan your hide and give you
What you never had
They call him the Guvnor
(God bless the Guvnor)
He's trained to kill
(God bless the Guvnor)
Make way make way for the Guvnor
(Make way for the Guvnor)
Give yourself a thrill, come on
Look at the dude!
He's got the world, he got it made
He got attitude
He got a fist like a switchblade
Everyone in the city
Gotta play his game
I don't wanna be a wannabe
I wanna be it
Wanna be the Guvnor
(God bless the Guvnor)
He's politically incorrect
(God bless the Guvnor)
Give way give way to the Guvnor
(Make way for the Guvnor)
You gotta show some respect
Don't bother looking for a way to catch his ass
This man is cookin' with a red hot kind of gas
He'll play the hits, electrifying
Tear you to bits, leave you crying crying crying
Get ready for the showdown
(Don't lose your head)
If licks could kill we'd all be long gone dead
On account of the Guvnor
(God bless the Guvnor, God bless the Guvnor)
God bless the Guvnor
(God bless the Guvnor, God bless the Guvnor)
Make way make way for the Guvnor
Let's see some respect now...
Each of us learns while we're sleeping
Sleeping we know
Waking a ghost
Passionate dream of heaven
Hold you close again
Only the Queen of heaven
Watches us grow, hearing his cry
Wanting and searching and losing our way
In the mire
In the wilderness
Wilderness child, you've got to hold on
Wilderness child, you've got to find your way home
Wilderness child, you've got to be strong
Wilderness wilderness wilderness child
Wilderness child
Let me see you
Stand in the light
Make me whole again
And if you can then show me
Approach me if you dare
Love is an open secret
Healing and hiding and wondering and weeping
Waiting for someone to find and open the door
In the wilderness
In the wilderness
In the wilderness
In the wilderness
In the wilderness.
Well I used to walk you home, baby, after school
Carry your books home too
And now you've got your boyfriend down the street
Baby what you trying to do
Slow down
Baby now you're moving way too fast, yeah
You gotta give me a little love
Gimme a little loving, oooh
If you want our love to last
Well you know that I love you - tell the world I do
Come on pretty baby why can't it all be true
I need your loving baby oh so bad
The best little woman that a man ever had
Slow down
Baby now you're moving way too fast
You gotta give me a little love
Gimme a little loving, brrrrr
If you want our love to last
Jamie
Well you know that I love you coz of what I do
Come on pretty baby why can't it all be true
I need your loving baby oh so bad
The best little woman that a man ever had
Slow down
Baby now you're moving way too fast, yeah
You gotta give me a little love
Gimme a little loving, ow
If you want our love to last.
There you were under the tree of song
Sleeping so peacefully
In your hand a flower played
Waiting there for me
I have never laid eyes on you
Not before this timeless day
But you walk and you once smiled my name
And you stole my heart away
Stole my heart away, little girl, yeah
Alright
Gold and rose, the colour of the dream I had
Not too long ago
Misty blue and lilac too
Never to grow old
Gold and rose, the colour of the dream I had
Misty blue and lilac too
Gold and rose, the colour of the dream I had
Misty blue and lilac too
Gold and rose, Gold and rose, Gold and rose
It's only a dream
I'd love to tell somebody about this dream
The sky was filled with a thousand stars
While the sun kissed the mountains blue
And eleven moons played across the rainbow
For me and you
Gold and rose, gold and rose
The colour of the velvet wall that surrounds us.
Forgot my six-string razor and I hit the sky
Halfway to Memphis before I realised
Hey, I rang the information, my axe was cold
They said "she rides the train down to Oriole"
Well it's a mighty long way down the dusty trail
And the sun burns hot on the cold steel rail
And I look like a bum and I crawl like a snail
All the way from Memphis
I got to Oriole, you know, it took a month
And there was my guitar, electric junk
Some dude said "rock'n'rollers, you're all the same
Man that's your instrument" I felt so ashamed
Now it's a mighty long way down rock'n'roll
Through the Bradford Cities and the Orioles
And you look like a star but you're still on the dole
All the way from Memphis
"Of course we weren't always superstars
There was a time when we were just ordinary commoners just like you"
Thank you Mr Hoople
Well it's a mighty long way down rock'n'roll
From the Liverpool docks to the Hollywood Bowl
And you climb up the mountains and you fall down the holes
All the way from Memphis
Well it's a mighty long way down rock'n'roll
And your name gets hot and your heart grows cold
And you've got to stay a young man, you can never get old
All the way from Memphis
Well it's a mighty long way down rock'n'roll
Through the Bradford Cities and the Orioles
And you look like a star but you're still on parole
All the way from Memphis
All the way from Memphis
All the way from Memphis (all the way from Memphis)
All the way from Memphis
Thank you and goodnight.
In a different place
Way across time and space
A door is open wide
Drawn to a different light
Maybe we'll step inside
In another world
We can show we care
You can be sure I'm waiting there
In another world
Oooh yeah
When the dies were cast
They laid a crazy path
We follow to our graves
But I know in a different world
We journey a different way
So we live
But life isn't what it seems
We're only living in our dreams
In another world
You can believe I'll meet you here
In another world