Goodbye To The Island

(k. reid/ g. brooker)
Producers for bonnie: hugh murphy/ ronnie scott/ steve wolfe

We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels cross the floor
I was feeling kind of seasick
The crowd called out for more
The room was hummin' harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray, so

* (oh) it was later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
(it) turned a whiter shade of pale

She said there is no reason
And the truth is plain to see
As i wander through my playing cards
I could not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leavin' for the coast
And although my eyes were open
They might just as well have been closed

*repeat 2 times
Turned a whiter shade of pale

(ronnie scott/ steve wolfe)
Producer for bonnie: hugh murphy

**we danced on the ceiling
We danced on the wall
It gave me the feeling
That i wasn't there at all

We danced on the moonlight
We danced on the stars
Too early the daylight
Came liftin' the mask

*oh i don't wanna let it end
I don't wanna say goodbye
I don't wanna let the only thing
We ever had expire
Won't you take me through the night
To that far and distant light

Won't you take me back to paradise again

***you took me to heaven
(oh) you took me from hell
We danced on the ceiling
Together we fell

*repeat
Won't you take me back to paradise again

**repeat
***repeat
*repeat

'cause we danced on the ceiling
And we danced on the wall
It gave me the reeling

** * * 'i don't wanna let it end i don't wanna say goodbye
I don't wanna let the only thing
We ever had expire
We danced on the ceiling
We danced on the wall

****repeat and fade

(ronnie scott/ steve wolfe)
Producers for bonnie: hugh murphy/ ronnie scott/ steve wolfe

You asked me to come
And so here i am
Has everything gone
According to plan
Don't know what to play
But something still burns
As soon as we touch again
That feeling returns
A little confused
But better by far
To be lovers again
'cause that's what we are, it's like

*i'm (just) sitting on the edge of the ocean
Walking a very fine line
Laying my cards on the table
Got to be honest this time
I'm just sitting on the edge of the ocean
Telling it all to the sea
Baby, you know that i love you
But i want you to know that i'm me

I knew him before
Before i met you
He was my first love
So what could i do
I've opened my heart
Now you know it all
You want me to stay
You've only to call, it's like

*repeat

(chris rea)
Producers for bonnie: hugh murphy/ ronnie scott/ steve wolfe

The street lights start to come on
I know that it's time
Stop what you're doin'
Meet those drinkin' friends of mine
First guy that called me on the telephone
Said get on down but i'm stayin' at home

Now i believe in love
I believe that it's true
That i'm defenseless
When i'm lookin' at you
Sleepy eyes on an angel's face
Don't worry, baby
No one's gonna take your place

*the closer you get the better you look
Throw me a line
The closer you get the more that i see
We'll sure have a good time
Now i know what you're thinkin'
How do i feel
Well there's no rules in my book
Said the closer you get
Oh the better you took

Keepin' one foot on the showroom
One on the side
I've had some close ones
But i'm doin' all right
There's gold on his fingers
It don't mean a thing
He'll do his best
To hear this sweet lady sing
I've got the time if you got the place
We've got the know how
If you got the space
We've got the power, we've got no shame
Come over, baby
Sure do wanna light your flame, you know

* repeat

(w. warren/ a. carter/ f. worth)
Producers for bonnie: hugh murphy/ ronnie scott/ steve wolfe

Well you wouldn't read my letters
If i wrote you
You urged me not to call you on the phone
There's something i've been waiting
For to tell you
So i wrote it in the words of this song

You never knew there were honky tonk angels
Or you might have known
I'd never make a wife
You walked out on the only one
Who ever loved you
So i went on back to the wild side of life

Now the climate of all the good life
Oh has led me
To the places where the wine
And the liquor flow
I tried to be your one and only angel
But i'm not that kind of angel heaven knows
No no no no

I cried so hard
The day you went and left me
'cause the things you said
They cut me like a knife
What you wanted was another kind of angel
And you sent me back to the wild side or life, no

Well i'm just some trussed up honky tonk angel
And i might have known
I'd never make a wife
Well you left the only one
Who ever loved you
And i'm back here on the wild side of life

I'm only a honky tonk angel
And i might have known i'd never make a wife
You walked out on the only one
Who ever loved you
And you left me here
On the wild side of life