Bread Retrospective

He's a good lad
A little bit shy so you'll try and have to understand
Such a good lad
And just for a while the guy'll need a helping hand
His word are hard to follow, but his heart has found a way
To show you the things that he never could say;

He's a good lad
A little bit wild but his style is really gentle and kind
He ain't so bad
Right to the end he's a friend, about the best you can find
And as you come to know him, and his needs are comin' through
You'll flash on the day i was talkin' to you.

And he needs somebody to love
Yes he needs somebody to be worthy of -
He's a good lad

And if you come to want him, like i know he wants you to
You'll see all the things i was sayin' are true

And he needs somebody to love
Yes he needs somebody to be worthy of -
He's a good lad.

I found her diary underneath a tree.
And started reading about me
The words she's written took me by surpise
You'd never read them in her eyes.
They said that she had found the love she waited for.
Won't you know it, she wouldn't show it.

When she confronted with the writing there,
Simply pretended not to care.
I passed it off as just in keeping with
Her total disconcerting air
And though she tried to hide
The love that she denied,
Won't you know it, she wouldn't show it.

And as i go through my life, i will give to her my wife
All the sweet things i can find.

I found her diary underneath a tree.
And started reading about me.
The words began to stick and tears to flow.
Her meaning now was clear to see.
The love she'd waited for was someone else not me
Won't you know it, she wouldn't show it.

And as i go through my life, i will wish for her his wife
All the sweet things she can find
All the sweet things they can find

Baby i'm through runnin' it's true
I'd be a fool to try to escape you
Maybe i'm beat but oh what a sweet surrender

You keep your rights, i'll take your nights
No one can lose when we turn the lights out
Tastin' defeat, lovin' that sweet surrender

I'm givin' up myself to you but i didn't really lose at all
I gave the only love i've known and it never hurt me to fall

Now that it's done, so glad you won
I know our lives have only begun now
No more retreat, only my sweet surrender

Friends and lovers
Saying goodbye to each other
Their way
Your way
Gathered in garden and parting in doorways
And it's over
Anyway that's what the papers said.
And i wonder
What was going on inside your head
You were there
You were there
I'd like to ask
Did anybody touch you?
Come and go it went so fast
Did anybody touch you?
Friends and lovers
Turning away from the others
Your way
Their way
Closing their doors and then climbing their
Stairways
And it's over
Anyway that's what the people say and i wonder
Does it really have to be this way
You were there
You were there i'd like to ask
Did anybody touch you.
Come and go it went so fast
Did anybody touch you.
Come and go it went so fast
Did anybody touch you?
Or did you stand alone until the darkness came
Just one more room where everybody knew
Your name.
Friends and lovers
Ever apart from others
Endless hallways
Just say goodbye and it's over for always
And it's over
Didn't you believe me when i said and i wonder
What was going on inside your head
You were there
You were there i'd like to ask
Did anybody touch you?
Come and go it went so fast
Did anybody touch you?

Just like yesterday
You come upon my mind and take it away...
Just like at the time
The things we did made our hearts skip away
Down on my knees i prayed
Kind woman don't go astray
When it seems at times
I've got my mind and heart all straight away...
Just when you've become
A mem'ry of the past and fade away
I see your face and think of all
Of all that we had
With of the things that you brought me
Now was it so bad
... makes me wonder...
Just like yesterday
You come upon my mind and take it away.

I use the soap to wash the dirt off my face
I write with pencil so that i can erase
But what's to do when someone's taken my place with you, with you

I know to stop when the light turns to red
And when it rains i know to cover my head
But what's to do when i wished i were dead over you, over you, over you

Do do do do do etc.
Plannin' to write off tomorrow
Do do do do do etc
Hopin' to wash off the sorrow

I woke to find that my world was not there
It ceased to me when i found you did not care
And my ambition vanished into thin air along with you, with you

Now my emotions find it hard to let go
And as for me i'll find a new road to hoe
But maybe this time i will take it more slow than before, before
Than before

Hey have you ever tried,
Really reaching out for the other side?
I may be climbing on rainbows
But, baby here goes.

Dreams they're for those who sleep,
Life is for us to keep,
And if you're wond'ring
What this song is leading to

I want to make it with you
I really think that we can make it girl.

No, you don't know me well,
In ev'ry little thing only time will tell,
If you believe the things that i do.
And we'll see it through.

Life can be short or long,
Love can be right or wrong,
And if i choose the one
I'd like to help me through,

I'd like to make it with you
I really think that we can make it girl.

Baby you know that
Dreams they're for those who sleep,
Life is for us to keep
And if i choose the one
I'd like to help me through,

I'd like to make it with you
I really think that we can make it girl.

I look into my morning mirror
And it reveals some things to me that i had not been able to see
I saw someone that i'm not sure i want to be
An empty lonely face was starin' back at me

All and all, i would have to say
It's been a rather dismal day

The afternoon was slow in coming
I drug myself outside the people that i knew would be there
And though they walked along pretending not to care
I knew behind my back they'd point and laugh and stare

Chorus

And now the evening shadow's falling
I guess it's best i lay my hopes to rest for noone's calling my name
I sit and wait behind a door that's never knocked on
I live in silence like my phone that's never talked on

Chorus

I could i could keep you company could

I could i could keep you so happy can

I can i can i make you feel really fine

We could we could we make love this time

We could we could we make love so fine

You're old enough to know from where we

Come and where we go.

And what we're here for

What do you fear for

It's hard enough to hear the though in mind

That now you're there

And then you're gone

Let's get in

(repeat first verse)

You're never really tried let yourself be satisfied

Now don't deny it

Until you try it

You're played the game so long

You think that life goes on and on

You better use it

Before you lose it.

All your life you've waited for love to come and stay
And now that i have found you, you must not slip away
I know it's hard believin' the words you've heard before
But darlin' you must trust them just once more... 'cause baby
Goodbye doesn't mean forever
Let me tell you goodbye doesn't mean
We'll never be together again
If you wake up and i'm not there, i won't be long away
'cause the things you do my goodbye girl
Will bring me back toyou.

I know you've been taken, afraid to hurt again
You fight the love you feel for me instead of givin' in
But i can wait forever, a-helpin' you to see
That i was meant for you and you for me
...so remember

Goodbye doesn't mean forever
Let me tell you goodbye doesn't mean
We'll never be together again
Though we may be so far apart you still will have my heart
So forget your past my goodbye girl
'cause now you're home at last.

Lost and all alone
I always thought that i could make it on my own
Since you left i hardly make it through the day
My tears get in the way
And i need you back to stay

I wander through the night
And search the world to find
The words to make it right
All i want is just the way it used to be
With you here close to me
I've got to make you see

That i'm lost without your love
Life without you isn't worth the trouble of
I'm as helpless as a ship without a wheel
A touch without a feel
I can't believe it's real...

And someday soon i'll wake
And find my heart won't have to break

Yes i'm lost without your love
Life without you isn't worth the trouble of
All i want is just the way it used to be
I need you here with me
Oh darlin' can't you see...
If we had love before
We can have it back once more

Always look so good on the outside
When you get to believin' it's true,
Then you know that you're on your way
People tug on your shirt, say you're lucky
You've got ev'rything you want, but you don't
Yet you dare not say
Go downtown people runnin' around
They climb slowly draggin' you downtown,
Horns make a dent in your mind
Plush rooms make a blindin' your eye to see,
Blindin' me. light, lovely light,
Won't ya' shine in my window
Love, precious love won't ya' fill ev'ry room,
Been too long on the road.
Maybe cynics veins are my life blood
Maybe bitin' the hand that i feed so i'll try
Try to understand what it is that devours your freedom,
Makes you drop what you used to hold in your heart.
All the things you planned
Go upstairs with a someone who says she cares,
Like the devil she does,
What comes ever into your mind?
Then gone, leavin' you with the coldest room,
Oldest gloom. warm, won't you be,
Please be there in my winter.
Love, precious love won't ya' come full circle,
Been too long on the road.
How can i do this to myself?
Have i taken leave of my senses?
What kind of changes make a man
Want to tear down all his fences
Whoa, i'd like to know. home ever home,
How could i ever doubt you
Love, precious love, how could i live without you?
Been too long on the road.

Daughter - don't give your love to the first man you see.
Just bide your time so your heart will be free to find the one,
Girl you don't have to run.

Daughter - don't think that love has gone out of style,
Just some folks every once in a while don't understand
How this world was planned.

Now i know you're wondering how
You know when the real thing is comin' your way,
When you live for him and not you
You'll know that it's truly comin' to stay.

Daughter - i know it's hard to make yourself wait,
But when the right man comes it's never too late
So don't you cry ,
He'll be here by and by... and steal your heart away.

You have taken the heart of me
And left just a part of me,
And look, look, look what you've done.
Well, you took all the best of me,
So come get the rest of me,
And look back, finish what you've begun.

There is some one you ought to meet;
It's me, mister incomplete.
Look, at what i've become.
For it's due to the lack of you
That i'm now only half of two.
Look back, finish what you've begun.

Come and sit by my side
Where there's nothing to hide.
You will try to decide what you needed;
But from where i stand today,
I can't think of the way
Or the words that i might say
That will change your mind and make you stay.
Oh, no, not for all the times i've pleaded.

Look, look, look what you've done.
You have taken the best of me,
So come get the rest of me,
And look back; finish what you've begun.
I'll be done.

Watchin' you move across the floor
You're fire up my mind can't take it no more
You're a fancy dancer
Makin' me blind so i can't see
You're a fancy dancer
And you ain't no good for me
You know you're comin' on strong
You're my favorite misery

You captured my soul - imprisoned my heart
You know you control whatever you start
You're fancy dancer
And it ain't too hard to see
You're fancy dancer
And you'll make a fool of me
I know it won't be for long
Until you dance a new song
But just for tonight won't you dance your dance for me

I'm not the first and i won't be the last
Don't want your future - just make the night last
C'mon fancy dancer
Make me blind so i can't see
You're a fancy dancer
And you ain't no good for me
Yeh, we both knew from the start
You'd try do dance with my heart
But just for tonight won't you dance your dance for me

I know the times the times are hard to bear
It's hard to find someone to really care
But before i went down and out
Here's what i used to think about, think about:

London bridge is always fallin' down,
But there it stood within the heart of town
Reminding everyone of life behind and life to come

The changes taking place are everywhere
The centuries past have nothing to compare
Where they stand, where they trip and fall
Watch the writing on the wall, on the wall

London bridge is fallin' down at last,
And so another memory of the past
Has fell beneath the blade, but soon the dead may be repaid

I know things just can't evolve for all eternity
The thoughts will leave, will never die, and now so you can see

London bridge is finally fallin' down,
It packed it up and shipped it outta town
And though the horror's gone, the memory will linger on
London bridge is finally fallin' down,
It used to stand within the heart of town
Reminding everyone of life behind and life to come
London bridge is finally fallin' down.....

In this day and age where changes happen twice as fast
Sometimes i get wonderin' if anything will last
People changin' partners like they change their underwear
Maybe i'm old-fashioned but darlin' i still care.

Chorus
And i'm yours for life
Come and be my lifetime
Come and take the love i have for only one
Yes i'm yours for life
Come and share my lifetime
Share the world until our day is done.

Time that i first saw your face i loved you where you stood
In your eyes a kindness - told me you were good
And if the world could share your heart there'd never be a war
And darlin' if i tried and tried i could not love you more

Chorus

Sometime i pray that you will always be the way you always
Are to me
'cause if i lost you to the winds of change then i would cease to be.

part-time love
I need somebody who's consistent
With me
Someone already there when i need
Company
'cause when l'm feeling low
I don't want to have to go out
Looking
For a part-time kind of love

And when the dreams and rainbows
Start to disappear
Don't want somebody up and running
Out here
'cause when you stop and start
Baby it's just too hard upon
My heart
That part-time kind of love

And i can't take you darling living here
Wait and see
I want somebody who's committed
Now to me
Somewhere, someday you'll have
To take a chance
So if you like the music baby
Get up and dance

And if we grow together daring to dream
I know we'll find our shares of
Peaches and cream
And when the juices flow
I don't want no no no excuses
Just want your full time love
For me
Just want your full time love
For me.

You sheltered me from harm.
Kept me warm, kept me warm
You gave my life to me
Set me free, set me free
The finest years i ever knew
Were all the years i had with you

I would give anything i own,
Give up me life, my heart, my home.
I would give everything i own,
Just to have you back again.

You taught me how to love,
What its of, what its of.
You never said too much,
But still you showed the way,
And i knew from watching you.
Nobody else could ever know
The part of me that can't let go.

I would give anything i own,
Give up me life, my heart, my home.
I would give everything i own
Just to have you back again.

Is there someone you know,
You're loving them so,
But taking them all for granted.
You may lose them one day,
Someone takes them away,
And they don't hear the words you long to say

I would give anything i own,
Give up me life, my heart, my home.
I would give everything i own
Just to have you back again.

i need, baby i need your love right now
And i want, baby i wanna show you how
C'mon, you know that we've waited long enough
And now it's time
Time to be lovers.

I tried, tried to be only one with you
And it's hard but baby it's worth it all for you
And it hurts, makin' me wait for you this way,
I can't go on.
So c'mon and...

Chorus:
Take me now, take my love
Make come true the feelings i've been dreamin' of
Take me now, take me fast
You can trust in me,
Our love will ever last.

I know we haven't known each other long
But still something so right just can't be wrong
Besides, it ought to be up to
Me and you.

When it's time, time for each other.
I live, live for the day we're made as one
Look back, back over all the things we've done
But now, baby i need your love right now,
I can't go on.
So c'mon and...

Chorus:
Take me now, take my love
Make come true the feelings i've been dreamin' of
Take me now, take me fast
You can trust in me,
Our love will ever last.

Take me now, take my love
Make come true the feelings i've been dreamin' of
Take me now, take me fast
You can trust in me,
Our love will ever last.

Too much sorrow
Too much pain
Too many reasons
No to go back again
Leavin' without her
Is too much to bear
But when we're together
Too much nothin' to share
But too much love
I've never seen
Too much love
I don't know what it means

Not enough caring
Too many lies
Sooner or later
One too many goodbyes
I got no reason
For hangin' around
And all my possessions
Start to weighin' me down
But too much love
I've never known
Too much love
I need some of my own

I told you before - don't you hear what i say
I won't take it no more - no more makin' me stay
Down on my knees - you know i'm down on my knees yeh
Yes i've been down on my knees
But i'm through beggin' please
I won't get back on my knees.

Nobody knows - what your puttin me through
Nobody knows - if it's worth it for you
Nobody sees - you got me down on my knees
Well i've been down on my knees
And i'm through beggin' please
Don't put me back on my knees.

You know how i always loved you
Never placed myself above you,

Don't let me go - if i wish that i could
Don't tell me no - if i wish that you would
Down on my knees - you know i'm down on my knees
Well i've been down on my knees
But i'm through beggin' please
Don't put me back on my knees.

She's a butterfly
But she flies too high
She won't speak the truth
She don't make excuses
She don't seem to care
But you want her anywhere
'cause she's the only one

She don't make the scene
But that don't chnge a thing
You just plan and scheme
You insist on dreamin'
She won't play your game
But it's all the same
Now she's the only one

She knows too well that she's the only one
She doesn't care if you're the lonely one
You want to say it's over, but it's just begun
She's the only one

She knows too well that she's the only one
She doesn't care if you're the lonely one
It's not the way you planned it
But she's really got you on the run
Your one and only one