Don't have to humble yourself to me
I ain't your judge or your king
Baby, you know I ain't no Queen of Sheba
We may not even have our dignity
This could be just a powerful thing
Baby we can choose you know we ain't no amoeba
Are you ready for the thing called love
Don't come from me and you
It comes from up above
I ain't no porcupine
Take off your kid gloves
Are you ready for the thing called love
I ain't some icon carved out of soap
Sent here to clean up your reputation
Baby, you know you ain't no Prince Charming
We can live in fear or act out of hope
For some kind of peaceful situation
Baby, how come the cry of love is so alarming
Are you ready for the thing called love
Don't come from me and you
It comes from up above
I ain't no porcupine
Take off your kid gloves
Are you ready for the thing called love
Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans
And glide off down the lake
Whether your sunglasses are off or on
You only see the world you make
Are you ready for the thing called love
Don't come from me and you
It comes from up above
I ain't no porcupine
Take off your kid gloves
Are you ready for it?
Are you ready for the thing called love
Don't come from me and you
It comes from up above
I ain't no porcupine
Take off your kid gloves
Are you ready for it?
Are you ready for love, baby?
Ooh yeah babe
Are you ready for love?

I wonder how many teardrops gonna fall tonight?
I wonder how many heartaches gonna a woman have in one life?
I lost a lover, lost my friend
I'm through with love, I just can't win
I'm a three time loser, three time loser
I wonder how many hours for true love I will have to wait
I wonder how many heartaches for true love I will have to wait
Lost love once, lost love twice
What kind of love is worth that price
Three time loser
One two three into into three
A three time loser
I wonder how many hours for true love I will have to wait
I wonder how many heartaches for true love I will have to wait
I lost a lover, lost my friend
I'm through with love and I just can't win
Three time loser babe
One two three into into three
Three time loser
Lost love once, lost it twice
What kind of love is worth that price
Three time loser babe, see I'm three time loser babe

Sittin' in front of your house,
Like rain in early dawn
Workin' on a Love Letter
Got my radio on.
Got my eye on your window pane
And I smoked a lot of cigarettes.
Mercy, Mercy but love is strange
And you haven't even kissed me yet.
Look comes to push,
Push comes to shove,
Shove comes to touch,
Touch will come to love.
Workin' on a Love Letter,
Listenin' to a love song,
I'm writing you a love letter, love letter,
Got my radio on... radio, radio
Hope you get the message baby.
I know that you're gonna let me in.
It's real in your neighborhood
And this is more than I'm gonna bend.
Look comes to push,
Push comes to shove,
Shove comes to touch,
Touch will come to love.
Why don't sit waitin'
Why don't behavin'
Love's waiting in the car,
In the car and rain now.
Workin' on a Love Letter,
Listenin' to a love song,
I'm writing you a love letter, love letter,
Got my radio on... radio, radio
Guitar Solo
Look comes to push,
Push comes to shove,
Shove comes to touch,
Touch will come to love.
Workin' on a Love Letter,
Listenin' to a love song,
I'm writing you a love letter, love letter,
Got my radio on... radio, radio

Three days of snow in a burnin' hell,
Bet you're wonderin' where I am,
Rang that number all night long,
Got no comfort on the telephone,
Went out and caught me a midnight flight,
Thought a little love would make it all alright,
But the landlord said you moved away and left me all of your bills to pay,
Look out baby I think you might have made your move too soon.
He left me with a Keno card, livin' in Vegas ain't too hard,
I ran it up to about 50 grand, counted it out and held it in my hand,
That kinda word will get around, and make a lost love come up found,
I hear ya knockin' baby at my door, but you don't live here no more,
Oh no, I think he made his move too soon.
I've been from Spain to Tokyo, from Africa to Ohio,
I never try to make the news, I'm just a man who sings those low down blues,
I'll take my lovin everywhere, I come back to know they still care,
One lover here, one love behind, one in my arms, one on my mind,
One thing baby never make a move too soon
Yeah baby, never make your move too soon,
Well you can count on this baby, we never make a move too soon
(Too soon)

People are talkin', talkin' 'bout people
I hear them whisper, you won't believe it
They think we're lovers kept under covers
I just ignore it, but they keep saying
We laugh just a little too loud
We stand just a little too close
We stare just a little too long
Maybe they're seeing something we don't, darlin'
Let's give them something to talk about
Let's give them something to talk about
Let's give them something to talk about
How about love?
I feel so foolish, I never noticed
You'd act so nervous
Could you be falling for me?
It took a rumor to make me wonder
Now I'm convinced I'm going under
Thinking 'bout you every day
Dreaming 'bout you every night
Hoping that you feel the same way
Now that we know it, let's really show it, darlin'
Let's give them something to talk about
A little mystery to figure out
Let's give them something to talk about
How about love, love, love, love?
Let's give them something to talk about, baby
A little mystery to figure out
Let's give them something to talk about
How about love, love, love, love?
How about love, love, love, love?
How about love, love, love, love?

Broken heart, bloodshot stare
Signs of a fool who cared too much
Now she's gone and he can't remember how
To live without her touch
Hopin' to die but surely livin' to tell
When it comes to matters of the heart
There is nothing a fool won't get used to
After all the whisky and the wisdom
He could swallow, he thought
It was time to start lovin' again
So he found someone
Afraid his heart would follow the heat
He could hardly do more than pretend
Though she knew in her heart
That his love was alive
When it comes to matters of the heart
There is nothing a fool won't get used to
Now of all the things love teaches
All the ways that it opens our eyes
None more profound than the lesson he learned
The day she walked out of his life
Well when the road gets too narrow
It's then he remembers her smile
And he sees these words forming on her lips
Across a river of tears he once cried
When it comes to matters of the heart
There is nothing, you won't get used to
Ooh nothing a fool won't get used to
Hey baby

In the shadow of your father
Sweet brown eyes of the one I love
I can't wait another minute baby
To do the things that we never done
Everybody gets hungry sometimes
Your love is like a kettle on
In the shadow of your father
Guess I get a little sad sometimes
Shake a little for me baby
Take me to the water when my well runs dry
Shake a little for me baby
Just a little now
Just a little now
Everybody gets lonely sometimes
Guess a stranger is a friend in need
In the shadow of this New York skyline
All these stories looking down on me
Everybody feels the water rising
Could go on to her enjoy the ride
Ah when you're dancing for me now baby
I don't feel so small against the tide
Shake a little for me baby
Take me to the water when my well runs dry
Shake a little for me baby
Shake a little for me baby
Take me to the water when my cup runs dry
Shake a little for me baby
Just a little now
Just a little now
Just a little now

Hey!
Shut up
Don't lie to me
You say I'm blind, but I've got eyes to see

Hey, mister, how do you do?
Oh, pardon me, I thought I knew you

Would you stand back, baby, 'cause I want to get a better look
The big man who couldn't handle the little bit of love you took

Hey, hey, have a heart
Hey, have a heart
If you don't love me, why don't you let me go?

Have a heart, please
Oh, don't you have a heart?
Little by little you fade while I fall apart
Oh, oh

Oh, darling, I love you so
I told you yes, and then you told me no
Baby, how can you say
You should be free and I should pay and pay

And you talk and talk about you and what you need
But sooner or later your love is gonna make me bleed

Hey, hey, have a heart
Hey, have a heart
If you don't love me, why don't you let me go?

Have a heart, please
Oh, don't you have a heart?
Little by little you fade while I fall apart
Oh, oh

Talk on, talk on, but love is what you need
And sooner or later that love is gonna make you bleed

Hey, hey, have a heart
Hey, have a heart
If you don't love me, why don't you let me go?

Have a heart, please
Oh, don't you have a heart?
Little by little you fade while I fall apart
But don't you run away, baby

Hey, hey, have a heart

Hey, hey, have a heart

Hey, hey, have a heart

These men that I've been seeing, baby
Got their soul up on a shelf
You know they could never love me
When they can't even love themselves
But I need someone to love me
Someone to really understand
Who won't put himself above me
Who just loves me like a man
I never seen such losers darlin'
Even though I try
To find a man who could take me home
'Stead of taking me for a ride
And I need someone to love me
I know you can
Believe me when I tell you
You can love me like a man
They all want me to rock them
Like my back ain't got no bone
I want a man to rock me
Like my backbone was his own
And darlin', I know you can
Believe me when I tell you
You can love me like a man
I come home sad and lonely
Feel like I wanna cry
I want a man to hold me
Not some fool to ask me why
And I need someone to love me
And darlin', I know you can
Don't you put yourself above me
You just love me like a man

When you get home baby
Write me a few of your lines
When you get home little baby
Write me a few of your lines
That'll be consolation
Lord Honey oh my worried mind
Left my baby
Standin' in the backdoor cryin'
Well I left my little baby
Standing in the backdoor cryin'
I never felt so sorry
Lord Honey till he said goodbye
Kokomo me baby
Kokomo me right
Kokomo your mama,
She'll be back tomorrow night
I'd like to cry in your arms tonight
Baby don't you wanna go?
Right on to Lemon Light City
Sweet home Kokomo
Go on down to the river baby
Goin' to sit down on the ground
Well I'm goin' down to the river baby
Goin' to sit down on the ground
And let the way of the water
Lord Honey wash my troubles down
Kokomo me baby
Kokomo me right
Kokomo your mama,
She'll be back tomorrow night
I gotta cry with you baby
Baby don't you wanna go?
Right on to Lemon Light City
Sweet home Kokomo

Well they all said Louise was not half bad
It was written on the walls and window shades
And how she'd act the little girl
A deceiver, don't believe her that's her trade
Sometimes a bottle of perfume,
Flowers and maybe some lace
Men brought Louise ten cent trinkets
Their intentions were easily traced
Yes and everybody knew at times she cried
But women like Louise they get by
Well everybody thought it kind of sad
When they found Louise in her room
They'd always put her down below their kind
Still some cried when she died this afternoon
Louise rode home on the mail train
Somewhere to the south I heard it said
Too bad it ended so ugly,
Too bad she had to go this way
Ah but the wind is blowing cold tonight
So good night Louise, good night

This old house is falling down around my ears
I'm drowning in a river of my tears
When all my will is gone you hold me sway
I need you at the dimming of the day
You pulled me like the moon
Pulls on the tide
You know just where I keep my better side
What days have come to keep us far apart
A broken promise or a broken heart
Now all the bonny birds have wheeled away
I need you at the dimming of the day
Come the night you're only what I want
Come the night you could be my confidant
I see you the street and in company
Why don't you come and ease your mind with me
I'm living for the night we steal away
I need you at the dimming of the day
I need you at the dimming of the day...

Let me tell you 'bout a friend of mine
He's a short order cook
Long on speed, short on spice
He reads his customers like a book
He's seen this, and he's done that
Now he's makin' fried eggs an art
But there's one thing he can't fix no how
There's a longing in his heart
He's tried for years to work it out
At the grill and at his home
Well he talks to his friends, talks to himself
He talks the chicken right off the bone
Talks to his woman and she understands
You know they're always eye to eye
She runs the join, They live out back
Small House under a Big sky
Well even the stars at night agree
The sky is falling apart
She knows cause she can feel it too
There's a longing in her heart
A longing in her heart
Longing in her heart
Well now you and me, we're just like them
We never wanted to be alone,
So we made a pact, sealed with desire
For a happier house and home
Only to find it doens't untie
The know where feelings die
There's a longing deep inside our hearts
And no one to tell us why
Our friends aren't looking for anything new
They wouldn't know where to look
Well her, she like running the joint
And he likes being a cook
Together they're doing very well
They're might glad they could
But there's a fire burning towards them now
Coming from a distant wood
And eve the stars at night agree
That the sky is falling apart
We know 'cause we can feel it too
There's a longing in our hearts

All I ever wanted was our love to be true
More than just enough to get me by
I want a love to see me through
I don't need another well-spent night,
Another clever sideways glance
I wanna look my baby in the eye
And know there's nothing left to chance
Well if you're tired of being lonely, beat up and confused
Darling, there's only one thing you can do:
Come to me
Don't be the one who's waiting
Come to me
Babe, I got what you need
Wont you come to me
There won't be no hesitating, babe
I know what you mean to me
I'm gonna hold out for no one
Ain't gonna settle for less
'Cause the kind of love I'm looking for, baby,
You can't fake, you can't finesse
I ain't looking for the kind of man, baby,
Who can't stand a little shaky ground
Who'll give me fire and tenderness
And has got the guts to stick around
Well if you're tired of being lonely, beat up and confused,
Darling, there's only one thing you can-
I got what you want, baby
Oh, and I got what you need
Well if you're tired of being lonely, beat up and confused,
Darling there is only one thing you can do:
Come to me
Be the one who's waiting
Come to me
Ooh, I got what you need
Come to me
There won't be no hesititing, babe
Won't you come to me
I got what you want now, baby
I got what you need
Won't you come
Won't you bring it on home to me
Won't you come
Won't you come on baby, bring it on home to me
Won't you come to me
Bring all of your sweet love home
Won't you come to me

Rainy night, I'm all alone
Sittin here waiting for your voice on the phone
Fever turns
To cold, cold sweat thinkin about things we ain't done yet
Tell me now
I gotta know, do you feel the same?
Do you just light up at the mention of my name?
Don't worry baby, it ain't nothin new
That's just love sneakin up on you
And if your whole work is shakin, feel like I do
That's just love sneakin up on you
Hey heyyy yea
Nowhere on earth for your heart to hide
Once love comes sneakin up on your blind side
You might as well
Try to stop the rain
Stand in the track of a runaway train
Just can't fight it when a thing is meant to be yea
Come on let's finish what you started with me
Yeeaahhh
Don't worry baby, it ain't nothin new
That's just love sneakin up on you
And if your whole work is shakin, feel like I do
That's just love sneakin up on you
Heeey yea
Don't worry baby, it ain't nothin new
That's just love sneakin up on you
And if your whole work is shakin, feel like I do
That's just love sneakin up on you

Watch out, you might get what you're after
Cool baby, you're strange but not a stranger
I'm an ordinary girl
And I'm burnin' down the house
Hold tight, wait till this party's over
Hold tight, well we're gonna be in for some nasty weather
There has got to be a way
And we're burnin' down the house
Here's your ticket, pack your bags, it's time for goin' overboard
Transportation is here
Close enough but we're not too far, bet you're wonderin' where you are
Fight fire with fire
Burning down the house
All wet, and you might need a raincoat
Shake down, my dreams are walkin' in broad daylight
365 degrees
And we're burnin' down the house
My house, out of the ordinary
That's right, I don't want to really hurt nobody
Some things sure sweep me off my feet
And we're burnin' down the house

Turn down the lights
Turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me
Tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don't patronize
Don't patronize me
'Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
'Cause I can't make you love me, if you don't
I'll close my eyes, then I won't see
The love you don't feel when you're holding me
Morning will come and I'll do what's right
Just give me till then to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight
'Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
'Cause I can't make you love me, if you don't

Sometimes I miss that feelin' of fallin'
Fallin' on over the ledge
You know I miss that feelin' of fallin'
Fallin' on over the ledge
And when my mind it gets to worryin'
And I just can't get no rest, oh baby oh
That's when I call you up instead
After midnight baby
Sittin' here all alone
I tried to call your number baby
But you weren't at home
I've been a good girl baby
I'm through with all that mess
But the way I'm feeling right now, darlin'
You know it scares me half to death
That I miss that feelin' of
Fallin' on over the ledge
The summer night in Texas, baby
It's too hot and wet to sleep
I heard you pull up in the distance
You're comin' to give me relief
We went screamin' down the highway, baby
So much faster than we should
You pulled me over in the moonlight, darlin'
Man, I still can feel that hood
And I miss that feelin'
Oh, I wanna fall on over the ledge
When that rain start fallin', I wanna call baby
I wanna take a real good look at that ledge
It ain't something you get over
You might think you made it through
You can turn your head and walk away, baby
But it never takes its eyes off of you and
It'll push your foot right through the floor board, baby
Make you cut them streamers down and back
You waste what's precious and you can't afford, baby
It runs your life right off the track
It'll keep you boilin' in that poison
Only the truly twisted know so well
You don't need drugs to show you heaven, baby
'Cause there's plenty clean in hell
I'd miss that feelin' of fallin'
Oh, on over the ledge
Yeah, the blues start callin'
[Incomprehensible]
Break it down
baby
Oh baby I'm gonna crawl
Crawl into your arm now
Into your arm now

I don't know what's wrong with me
I've been foolish as a fool can be
Baby, I can't sleep at night
And I lost my appetite
Went to the doctor but he don't know
It's getting to where it ain't funny no more
Tell me baby what am I gonna do
I believe I'm in love with you
I believe I'm in love with you
Tell me baby that you love me, too
I can't fight it, baby I decided
I'm in love with you
I guess this time I realize
For you baby, I got eyes
Come on baby and give me a chance
All I need is your romance
You know what I've been tryin' to find
Baby baby you're just my kind
I'm tellin' you baby, I'll be true
I believe I'm in love with you
I believe I'm in love with you
Tell me baby that you love me, too
I can't fight, baby I decided
I'm in love with you

You need a man that'll treat you like the woman you are
Those little boys are just fooling around with your heart
Whatcha gonna do now that you're all alone?
You need a rock not a rollin' stone
Yeah so when a boy
just ain't enough
You need a man made of stronger stuff
Get ready
Rock steady all night long
Rock steady till the light of dawn
Slow and easy tried and true
Rock steady
Just me and you
You need somebody who will help you with your heavy load
Well I've been there baby
Lord give me a rock and roll
Well I can bend but I won't break
cause you ain't got what I can take
So when you're tired of those little girls
you want a woman that'll rock your world
Get ready
Rock steady all night long
Rock steady till the light of dawn
Slow and easy tried and true
Rock steady
Just me and you
Amateurs and dilettantes
They can't give you what you really want
When all the other have been untrue
I'll give you something you can hold on to
Rock steady all night long
Rock steady till the light of dawn
Slow and easy tried and true
Rock steady
Just me and you

Baby stands before an open window
Looking so far away
He can almost feel southern winds blow
Gently touching his restless day
He turns from his window to me
Sad smile, his apology
Sad eyes reaching to the door
Daylight loses to another evening
And still he spares me the words 'Goodbye'
Sits alone beside me, fighting his feelings
Struggles to speak but in the end can only cry
Suddenly it's so hard to find
The sound of the words
To speak his troubled mind
So I'm offering ease to him as if to be kind
There's a train every day leading either way
There's a world you know, there's a way to go
You'll soon be gone, it's just as well
This is my opening farewell
A child's drawing's left there on the table
And a woman's silk is lying on the floor
I would keep them here if I were able
To lock you safe behind it's open door
Suddenly it's so clear to me
That I'd ask you to see
What you may never see
Now my kind words find their way back to me
There's a train every day leaving either way
There's world you know, got a way to go
I'll soon be gone, it's just as well
This is my opening farewell, this is my opening farewell

Baby stands before an open window
Looking so far away
He can almost feel southern winds blow
Gently touching his restless day
He turns from his window to me
Sad smile, his apology
Sad eyes reaching to the door
Daylight loses to another evening
And still he spares me the words 'Goodbye'
Sits alone beside me, fighting his feelings
Struggles to speak but in the end can only cry
Suddenly it's so hard to find
The sound of the words
To speak his troubled mind
So I'm offering ease to him as if to be kind
There's a train every day leading either way
There's a world you know, there's a way to go
You'll soon be gone, it's just as well
This is my opening farewell
A child's drawing's left there on the table
And a woman's silk is lying on the floor
I would keep them here if I were able
To lock you safe behind it's open door
Suddenly it's so clear to me
That I'd ask you to see
What you may never see
Now my kind words find their way back to me
There's a train every day leaving either way
There's world you know, got a way to go
I'll soon be gone, it's just as well
This is my opening farewell, this is my opening farewell