You want commitment
Take a look into these eyes
They burn with a fire
Till the end of time
I would do anything
I’d beg, I’d steal, I’d die
To have you in these arms tonight

Baby I want you like the roses
Want the rain
You know I need you
Like a poet needs the pain
I would give anything
My blood my love my life
If you were in these arms tonight

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I’d hold you
I’d need you
I’d get down on my knees for you
And make everything all right
If you were in these arms
I’d love you
I’d please you
I’d tell you that I’d never leave you
And love you till the end of time
If you were in these arms tonight

We stared at the sun
And we made a promise
A promise this world would never blind us
These are our words
Our words were our songs
Our songs are our prayers
These prayers keep me strong
And I still I believe
If you were in these arms tonight

Chorus

Your clothes are still scattered
All over our room
The whole place still smells like
Your cheap perfume
Everything here reminds me of you
And there’s nothing that I wouldn’t do

And these were our words
They keep me strong baby

Chorus

Sitting here wasted and wounded at this old piano
Trying hard to capture the moment this morning I don’t know
‘Cause a bottle of vodka still lodged in my head
And some blond gave me nightmares
I think she’s still in my bed
As I dream about movies
They won’t make of me when I’m dead

With an ironclad fist I wake up and French kiss the morning
While some marching band keeps its own beat in my head
While we’re talking
About all of the things that I long to believe
About love and the truth and what you mean to me
And the truth is baby you’re all that I need

Chorus:
I want to lay you in a bed of roses
For tonight I sleep on a bed on nails
I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

Well I’m so far away
That each step that I take is on my way home
A king’s ransom in dimes I’d give each night
Just to see through this pay phone
Still I run out of time or it’s hard to get through
Till the bird on the wire flies me back to you
I’ll just close my eyes and whisper,
Baby blind love is true

Chorus

This hotel bar hangover whiskey’s gone dry
The barkeeper’s wig’s crooked
And she’s giving me the eye
I might have said yeah
But I laughed so hard I think I died

When you close your eyes
Know I’ll be thinking about you
While my mistress she calls me
To stand in her spotlight again
Tonight I won’t be alone
But you know that don’t mean I’m not lonely
I’ve got nothing to prove
For it’s you that I’d die to defend

Chorus

If I was your mother
Would you let me hold your hand
Would you say you were my baby
Would you always be my friend

If I was your mother
Could I teach you what’s right
Could I tell you stories
Maybe tuck you in
And kiss you sweet goodnight

Tell me what I’ve gotta do
To make my life mean more to you
I could get so close it’s true
If I was your mother

Would you always believe me
‘Cause I’d wake up in the middle
Of the night
Just to see if you need me

Tell me there’s no mother
To who you’re telling your secrets
And would you tell me
‘Bout all the boys you been
Bringing home to meet me

Tell me what I’ve gotta do
To make my life mean more to you
I could get so close it’s true
If I was yours

Mother, mother
If I was your
Mother, mother

When love is blood
You’re never on trial
Love don’t get deeper
Than a mother & child
Oh baby, I got to get that
Close to you

Tell me what I’ve gotta do
To make my life mean more to you
I could get so close it’s true
If I was yours

Tell me what I got to be
To make you a part of me
There’s no one else you’d ever need
If I was your

Mother, mother
If I was your mother
Mother, mother

Mother, mother
If I was your mother
Mother, mother

Across the border they turn
Water into wine
Some say it’s the devil’s blood
They’re squeezing from the vine
Some say it’s a savior
In these hard and desperate times
For me it helps me to forget
That we’re just born to die

I came here like so many did
To find the better life
To find my piece of easy street
To finally be alive
And I know nothing good comes easy
And all good things take some time
I made my bed I’ll lie in it
To die in it’s the crime

You can’t help but prosper
Where the streets are paved with gold
They say the oil wells ran deeper here
than anybody’s known
I packed up on my wife and kid
And left them back at home

Now there’s nothing in this pay dirt
The ghosts are all I know
Now the oil’s gone
The money’s gone
And the jobs are gone
Still we’re hangin’ on

Down in dry county
They’re swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash the sins from off our hand
Here in dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one’s getting out of here alive

In the blessed name of Jesus
I heard a preacher say
That we are God’s children
And He’d be back someday
And I hoped that he knew
Something as he drank his cup of wine
I didn’t have too good of a feeling
As I head out to the night

I cursed the sky to open
I begged the clouds for rain
I prayed to God for water
For this burning in my veins
It was like my soul’s on fire
And I had to watch the flames
All my dreams went up in ashes
And my future blew away

Now the oil’s gone
And the money’s gone
And the jobs are gone
Still we’re hangin’ on

Down in dry county
They’re swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash the sins from off our hand
Here in dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one’s getting out of here alive

Men spend their whole lives
Waiting praying for their big reward
But it seems sometimes
The payoff leaves you feeling
Like a dirty whore
If I could choose the way I’ll die
Make it by the gun or knife
‘Cause the other way there’s too much pain
Night after night after night

Down in dry county
They’re swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash the sins from off our hand
Here in dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one’s getting out of here alive

Call it social commentary
Call it just what me eyes see
Seems that there’s more pretty women
Than there are fish in the sea
…Woman in love

You see there’s girls who like your money
Girls who like your car
Girls who like to sip champagne
And feed on caviar
…Woman in love

Send me some silk stockings
Smooth talking lipstick and curls
I want a woman, more than a girl
Need some lip locking, cool walking
Diamonds and pearls
I’ll wrap ‘em all up
And give them the world

Chorus:
You know there ain’t no woman
Like a woman in love
Ain’t nothing
She can’t rise above
She can part the water
When the seas get rough
But there ain’t no woman
Like a woman in love

If lust is just a dirty dog
I’ve been scratching with the fleas
I’ve been waking up your neighbors
Barking up your tree
I went down to the shopping mall
To get it off my mind
But it’s like sleeping with the enemy
If you’re not deaf and blind

I tried to run
But it was too late for me
I tried to hide
Since the day Adam met Eve
Till I turned on the television
And I looked up on the screen
I saw a hundred pretty girls
Sing this song on MTV

Send me some silk stockings
Smooth talking lipstick and curls
I want a woman more than a girl
Need some lip locking, cool walking
Diamonds and pearls
I’ll wrap ‘em all up
And give them the world

Chorus

There ain’t no secret
To a woman in love

You think that you can
Live without ‘em
But you’re asking too much
You see I’ve slept with romance
And danced with lust
But there ain’t no woman
Like a woman in love
Oh, yeah

I’ve traveled all around the world
Across the seven seas
Got everything I wanted
There’s just one thing I need
It hasn’t changed forever
Fathers tell your sons
That there ain’t nothing like
A thing called love

You know there ain’t no woman
Like a woman in love
Ain’t nothing she can’t rise above
She can part the water
When the seas get rough
There ain’t no woman
Like a woman in love
There ain’t secret
To woman in love
You think that you can
Live without ‘em
But you’re asking too much
You see I’ve slept with romance
And danced with lust
But there ain’t no woman
Like a woman in love
Oh, yeah

I see you looking over your shoulder
Tell me who do you think’s out there
You’re reaching for your four leaf clover
But baby there ain’t no luck down there
I swear that there’s no heart in this city
It’s here the slogan reads
“Do your time” everybody’s doing
their sentence
It’s just there ain’t nobody here
Who knows just what’s the crime
I watched my father live a lie here
I’d rather die than fade away
I read the rules
And yeah I know them
Still you ain’t ever gonna
Make me play the game of
Fear
Fear
Fear
Fear

Running with the rats
Through the city
Makes you feel like you’re
A partner in crime
Girl once you won’t stop to watch
That little girl did

Hey baby won’t you stop and hear me
Just being here we’re
breathing heart attacks
We can run and chase
The setting sun we can run
And we won’t ever look back

Take my hand I know we’ll make it
I’ll let nothing slow us down
I know you want to curse
This place but there’s only
One thing that’s stopping us now

Fear fear fear
Of a new thing
Fear fear fear
Of the brass ring

You ain’t one for taking chances
You work and live and breathe that 9 to 5
Still that’s what you call living
That’s surviving to me

And surviving is living to die in
Fear

The last time I saw her
Was the night she said good-bye
She said that love’s a stranger
And it’s sure to pass you by
As she packed up her belongings
She wouldn’t look me in the eye
But I could see a tear roll off her face
As we both tried so hard
Not to cry she said

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I never wanted the stars
I never shot for the moon
I like them right where they are
All I wanted was you
So baby just turn away
Because I can’t face the truth
All I’m trying to say is
All I wanted was you

I tried so hard to remember
Where when how why love went away
I tried to drown myself in pity
But your memory kept calling your name

I bought you fancy cars and diamond rings
Baby all the things that money brings
And the servants to paint the skies blue
And I worked so hard seven days a week
And built a fortress for your heart to keep
If I could I’d wrap these words up for you

Chorus

I may have built for you a dream house
But never thought you were alone
I filled the party up with company
But never made our house a home
All I got is my guitar these chords and the truth
All I got is my guitar … but all I want is you

First time I heard the music
I thought it was my own
I could feel it in my heartbeat
I could feel it in my bones
My momma thinks I’m crazy
My dad says I’m insane
I got this boogie woogie fever
That’s burning in my veins

They tried to take me to a doctor
But it’s too late for me
Then they took me to a preacher
That they saw on their TV
Who said that for a small donation
My lost soul would be saved
I said I don’t think so preacher
I’ll come back another day

All I want, is to be a Rolling Stone
They don’t understand what we all know

Chorus:
It feels so good that it ought to be illegal
I got my vaccination from a phonograph needle
I’ll never grow up and I’ll never grow old
Blame it on the love of rock & roll

My teachers didn’t like me
They always tried to put me down
‘Cause I wore my hair too long
I played my music way too loud

Every little boy wants to learn to play guitar
So he can pick up all the chicks
And be a rock-n-roll star

They said it won’t last, but they misunderstood
If people think it’s bad then I’ll be bad for good

Chorus

Blame it on the love, blame it on the love
Dad don’t understand what the little girls know
Blame it on the love of rock-n-roll

All I wanted, all I ever needed
My guitar gave to me
Every song I’ve sung blame it on love

Every war I’ve won blame it on love
Everything I’ve done blame it on love
Blame it on the love of rock-n-roll

Chorus

Blame it on the love, blame it on the love
Dad don’t understand
what the little girls know
Blame it on the love of rock-n-roll

You been robbed
You been used
You been crucified and
You been abused
You been sacrificed and
Now you’re confused
Ain’t it the truth

You got a hole in your head
And a cold empty spot
In your big brass bed
When you’re mad at the world and
You feel like you’re losing control
All you need to get by is
A little bit o soul

When you’ve lost in the flood
And you feel like you been
Kicked through the mud
You know they still
Haven’t found the drug
To pick us up

Feeling down, misunderstood
You know these times
They ain’t looking so good
When you’re mad at the world and
You feel like you’re losing control
What we all need to get by is
A little o soul

Whoa oh
Little bit of soul
What we all need
To survive
Is just
A little bit o soul

Everyone’s complaining
Nothing but frustration
The king has pissed in
Your pot of gold
It ain’t entertaining spending
So much time in the hole
Send down
A little bit o soul

When you’re mad at the world
And you feel like
You’re losing control
What we all need
To get by is just
A little bit o soul

Whoa oh little bit o soul
Whoa oh little bit o soul
Whoa oh little bit o soul

If you’re ready, I’m willing and able
Help me lay my cards out on the table
You’re mine and I’m yours for the taking
Right now the rules we made are meant for breaking

What you get ain’t always what you see
But satisfaction’s guaranteed
They say what you give is always what you need
So if you want me to lay my hands on you

Lay your hands on me, lay your hands on me, lay your hands on me
Lay your hands on me, lay your hands on me, lay your hands on me

Lay your hands on me

I’m a fighter, I’m a poet, I’m a preacher
I’ve been to school and baby, I’ve been the teacher
If you show me how to get up off the ground
I can show you how to fly and never ever come back down

Everything you want is what I need
Satisfaction’s guaranteed
But the ride don’t never ever come for free
If you want me to lay my hands on you

Lay your hands on me, lay your hands on me, lay your hands on me
Lay your hands on me, lay your hands on me, lay your hands on me

Lay your hands on me

Solo

Don’t you know I only aim to please
If you want me to lay my hands on you

Lay your hands on me