NO SON OF MINE (GENESIS)
Well, the key to my survival
was never in much doubt,
the question was how I could keep sane
trying to find a way out.
Things were never easy for me,
peace of mind was hard to find,
and I needed a place where I could hide,
somewhere I could call Ŧmineŧ...
I didnīt think much about it
till it started happening all the time.
Soon I was living with the fear everyday
of what might happen at night.
I couldnīt stand to hear the crying of my mother
and I remember when I swore
that that would be the last theyīd see of me,
and I never went home again.
They say time is a healer
and now my wounds are not the same.
I rang the bell with my heart in my mouth,
I had to hear what heīd say.
He sat me down to talk to me,
he looked me straight in the eyes.
He said Ŧyou are no son of mine.
You walked out, you left us behindŧ...
Oh! his words, how they hurt me.
Iīll never forget it and as the time,
it went by I lived to regret it...
but where should I go? and what should I do?
I came here for you...
Well, the years, they passed slowly.
I thought about him everyday,
what would I do if we passed on the street?
Would I keep running away?
In and out of hiding places
soon Iīd have to face the facts,
weīd have to sit down and talk it over
and that would mean going back...
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JESUS HE KNOWS ME (GENESIS)
Do you see the face on the TV screen
coming at you every Sunday?
Do you see the face on the billboard?
That man is me.
On the cover of a magazine
thereīs no question why Iīm smiling,
you buy a piece of paradise, you buy a piece of me...
Iīll get you everything you wanted,
Iīll get you everything you need,
you donīt need to believe in hereafter, just believe in me.
īCos Jesus He knows me, and He knows Iīm right...
Iīve been talking to Jesus all my life...
...and Heīs been telling me everything is alright...
I believe in the family with my everloving wife beside me,
but she donīt know about my girlfriend
or the man I met last night.
Do you believe in God? īcos thatīs what Iīm selling,
and if you wanna go to Heaven, Iīll see you right.
You wonīt even have to leave your house
or get out of your chair.
You wonīt even have to touch that dial,
īcos Iīm everywhere.
...and Heīs been telling me everything is gonna be alright...
Wonīt find me practising what Iīm preaching,
wonīt find me making no sacrifice,
but I can get you a pocketful of miracles
if you promise to be good, try to be nice.
God will take good care of you,
just do as I say, donīt do as I do...
Iīm counting my blessings, Iīve found true happiness
īcos Iīm getting richer day by day...
You can find me in the phone book,
just call my toll-free number.
You can do it anyway you want, just do it right away.
Thereīll be no doubt in your mind,
youīll believe everything Iīm saying,
if you wanna get closer to Him
get on your knees and start praying...
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DRIVING THE LAST SPIKE (GENESIS)
Leaving my family behind me,
not knowing what lay ahead,
waving goodbye as I left them in tears,
remembering all weīd said.
I looked to the sky, I offered my prayers,
I asked Him for guidance and stregth.
But the simple beliefs of a simple man
layinī His hands and on my head...
I gave everything that they wanted,
but still they wanted more.
We sweat and we toiled, good men lost their lives,
I donīt thing they knew what for.
I sold them my heart, I sold them my soul,
I gave everything I had,
but they couldnīt break my spirit,
my dignity fought back, fight back...
Can you hear me? Can you see?
Donīt you hear me? Donīt you see?
We worked in gangs for all we were worth,
the young boys pulling the wagons,
we were digging the tunnel, shifting the earth,
it was then that it happened.
No one knew how the cracks appeared
but as it fell they all disappeared.
Stone fell like rain...
Can you hear me? Can you see?
Donīt you hear me? Can you breathe?...
The smoke cleared, the dust it settled,
noone knew how many had died.
All around there were broken men,
theyīd said it was safe, theyīd lied...
You could hear the cries, you could smell the fear
but good fortune that day was mine...
And it occurred to me that the heart of a good man,
it seems, is hard to find...
We worked, how we worked like the devil for our pay,
through the wind, through the snow
and through the rain...
Blasting and cutting through Godsī country
like a knife, sweat stinging my eyes,
there has to be a better life...
Oh! But I can hear my childrenīs cry,
I can see the tears in their eyes...
Memories of those Iīve left behind
still ringing in my ears...
Will I ever go back again?
Will I ever see her face again?
Oh! Iīll never forget that night
as they waved goodbye to their fathers...
We came from the North
and we came from the South
with picks and with spades,
and a new kind of order showing
no fear of what lies up ahead...
Theyīll never see the likes of us again...
Driving the last spike,
lifting and laying the track,
with blistering hands,
the sun burning your back...
We follow the rail, we slept under the stars
digging in darkness and living with danger,
showing no fear of what lies up ahead...
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SINCE I LOST YOU (GENESIS)
It seems in a moment your whole world can shatter,
like morning dreams they just disappear,
like dust in your hands falling to the floor,
oh! how can life ever be the same?...
īCos my heart is broken in pieces since youīve been gone...
Itīs all too easy to take so much for granted,
oh! But itīs so hard to find the words to say,
like a castle in the sand the water takes away...
īCos my heart is broken in pieces since I lost you...
Oh! now youīll never see, now youīll never know
all the things I planned for you, things for you and me...
Oh! I held your hand so tightly that I couldnīt let it go...
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FADING LIGHTS (GENESIS)
Another time it must have been so different,
oh! if only we could do it all again,
but now itīs just another fading memory,
out of focus though the outline still remains...
Far away, away, fading distant lights
leaving us all behind, lost in a changing world,
and you know that these are the days of our lives, remember...
Like the story that we wish was never ending.
We know sometime we must reach the final page,
still we carry on, just pretending
that thereīll always be one more day to go...
Another chance hello, another goodbye,
and so many things weīll never see again,
days of life that seemed so unimportant,
they seem to matter and to count much later on...
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DREAMING WHILE YOU SLEEP (GENESIS)
In and out of darkness, in and out of sleep,
trying to keep my hands upon the wheel.
Never saw the corner in the driving rain.
I never saw her step into the street...
Dreaming while you sleep... memories to keep...
I can never understand, what went thru my mind.
I didnīt stop to see what I had done...
I had to keep on driving deep into the night,
the miles between would somehow put it right.
All my life you lie silently there,
all my life in a world so unfair,
all my life and only Iīll know why
and it will live inside of me,
I will never be free,
all my life trapped in her memory,
all my life till the day that you open your eyes,
please, open your eyes.
Heard it on the radio, saw it on TV,
but could I take my secret to the grave?
If I had another chance, would I do the same?
would I still deny that it was me?...
are you dreaming while you sleep?...
All my life Iīll be hauted by,
all my life just one moment in time,
all my life until the day I die,
and it will live inside of me...
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LIVING FOREVER (GENESIS)
Iīm feeling so confused today,
it seems to me theyīve changed the rules again.
īCos in my life Iīm trying hard
to do it all so I can remain healthy and sane.
Iīll live forever, always one more tomorrow,
living forever, always one more tomorrow...
I heard it on the radio,
too much of what they said wasnīt so,
and now weīve got to do those things
that they thought before were so wrong,
to be healthy and strong...
I know we donīt need you, I know we donīt believe you,
you donīt really have the answers.
You think you know better, you think it really matters,
you just want to rule over everybodyīs lives.
But I think Iīll change my life today,
gone are the times of taking care,
and I really donīt need a reason why,
īcos all I need is all in a day, survive in a way,
or just till tomorrow...
thereīs always one more tomorrow...
living forever, do you really want to live forever?...
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TELL ME WHY (GENESIS)
Mothers crying in the street,
chidren dying at their feet,
tell me why, tell me why...
People starving everywhere,
thereīs too much food but no one to spare...
Can you see that shaft of sunlight?
Can you see it in my eyes?
I can feel the fine thatīs burning,
anger and hope so deep,
so deep within my heart,
burning before my eyes, for some itīs too late,
it seems thereīs noone listening...
People sleeping in the street,
no roof above, no food to eat...
See the questions in their eyes,
listen to their childrenīs cries...
tell me why, please, tell me why...
If thereīs a God, is He watching?
Can He give a ray of hope?
So much pain and so much sorrow,
tell me what does He see
when He looks at you, when He looks at me?
What would He say?
Who could think it still could happen,
even in this time and place?
Politicians, they may save themselves,
oh! but they wonīt save their face,
just hope against hope, itīs not too late...
You say thereīs nothing you can do,
is one rule for them and one for you?
Tell me why, just tell me why...
Listen...
Hurry for me... they cry...
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HOLD ON MY HEART (GENESIS)
Hold on my heart, just hold on to that feeling.
We both know weīve been here before,
we both know what can happen...
Hold on my heart, īcos Iīm looking over your shoulder,
uh! please, donīt rush in this time,
donīt show her how you feel...
Hold on my heart, throw me a life-line,
Iīll keep a place for you somewhere deep inside...
So hold on my heart, please, tell her to be patient,
īcos there has never been a time
that I wanted something more...
If I can recall this feeling,
and I know thereīs a chance,
oh! I will be there... be there for you...
Whenever you want me to, whenever you call...
oh! I will be there, yes I will be there...
Hold on my heart, donīt let her see you crying,
no matter where I go sheīll always be with me...
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I CANīT DANCE (GENESIS)
Hot sun beating down,
burning my feet just walking around...
Hot sun making me sweat,
īgators getting close, hasnīt got me yet?
I canīt dance, I canīt talk...
The only thing about me is the way I walk...
I canīt dance, I canīt sing...
Iīm just standing here selling everything...
Blue jeans sitting on the beach,
her dogīs talking to me, but sheīs out of reach...
Sheīs got a body under that shirt,
but all she wants to do is rub my face in the dirt...
... and checking everything is in place,
you never know whoīs looking on...
Young punk spilling beer on my shoes,
fat guyīs talking to me, trying to steal my blues...
Thick smoke, see her smiling through.
I never thought so much could happen just shooting pool...
... a perfect body with a perfect face...
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NEVER A TIME (GENESIS)
There is never a time to say,
īcause it seems to me weīve lost our way.
So we carry on down the road,
and we live our lives haunted by
all the things we say and do,
keep on missing when Iīm alone with you.
No, there is never a time to change,
we donīt get a chance to rearrange...
Itīs a long, long, long way to go,
just to find out something we both know...
Canīt you see whatīs going on?
Itīs so sad that a love so strong has gone...
All I know is what itīs true...
All I ask is for you to just look around and see,
you live your life locked in a dream
where nothing is real and not what it seems...
We canīt go on another day just being afraid to say...
Itīs a long, long, long way to fall,
when we both know we had it all...
Well, you know itīs the time to say,
īcause weīre all played out,
weīve lost our way...
Oh!, Iīd hoped that you would be so understanding
and by now youīd see, but oh! no, so sad,
thatīs the way that it goes,
I know, Iīm gonna tell you right now...
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WAY OF THE WORLD (GENESIS)
If you take the tears from crying eyes,
will the hurt just disappear?
Put a weapon in the hands of a frightened man,
will he show no fear?
So we stand and we watch
while the city lights go out one by one.
Mother Nature sits on the other side with a loaded gun.
Why is there blue sky? Why is there red sky?
Nowīs the time to ask the reason...
Should the blue sky meet the red sky?
Should the rules have to change at all?
We all know, whatever they say, time is on our side.
Do this world has been here before
just going round and round?
We all agree as far as we can see...
itīs just the way of the world,
thatīs how itīs meant to be...
Thereīs right and thereīs wrong,
thereīs weak and thereīs strong...
Take the motions from a spinning wheel
and watch it stop.
Take the danger out of a naked flame,
and what have you got?
If you take the anger out of a broken heart
you feel no pain...
Could you swear if you had that second chance
you wouldnīt do it again?...
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