The Innocents

a little respect


I try to discover
A little something to make me sweeter
Oh baby refrain from breaking my heart
I'm so in love with you
I'll be forever blue
That you give me no reason
Why you're making me work so hard

That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no

Soul, i hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to me

And if i should falter
Would you open your arms out to me
We can make love not war
And live at peace in our hearts
I'm so in love with you
I'll be forever blue
What religion or reason
Could drive a man to forsake his lover

Don't you tell me no
Don't you tell me no
Don't you tell me no
Don't you tell me no

Soul, i hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to me

I'm so in love with you
I'll be forever blue
That you give me no reason
You know you're making me work so hard

That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no

Soul, i hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to me

Soul, i hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to me

What do you do with yourself
When you see the storm clouds rising
Feeling alone with yourself
As the sun fades away

The memories come to and fro
The trouble is they never want to go
They come never go

It's just your imagination rolling over the past
It can change your mind completely
It's just my imagination running wild and too fats
But i know it won't defeat me

Look into the eyes of medusa
And she'll turn your world to stone
She'll tear at your eyes and seduce you
And your soul will be gone

The messages and hidden dreams
Of former lives and lovers never seen
A love never seen

It's just your imagination rolling over the past
It can change your mind completely
It's just my imagination running wild and too fats
But i know it won't defeat me

What do you do with yourself when your lost on some horizon
Taking a hold of yourself
When you know the timing's wrong

The memories come to and fro
The trouble is they never want to go
They come never go

It's just your imagination rolling over the past
It can change your mind completely
It's just my imagination running wild and too fats
But i know it won't defeat me

I can't believe what is happening to me
My head is spinning
The flowers and the trees are encapsulating me
And i go spinning

He was the baby of the class you know
He really didn't know that one and one was two
Two and two were four
He was the baby of the class you know
He really didn't know that, really didn't know that
Oh what a poor soul

Oooh, do we not set sail on the ship of fools
Oooh, why is love so precious and so cruel?

I close my eyes and i try to imagine
What you're dreaming
Why can't you see what you're doing to me
My world is spinning

He was the baby of the class you know
He really didn't know that one and one was two
Two and two were four
He was the baby of the class you know
You were so young and so uncertain
Suffer little children
Oh what a poor soul

Oooh, do we not set sail on the ship of fools
Oooh, why is love so precious and so cruel?

He was the baby of the class you know
He really didn't know that one and one was two
Two and two were four
He was the baby of the class you know
You were so young and so uncertain
Suffer little children
Oh what a poor soul

Oooh, do we not set sail on the ship of fools
Oooh, why is love so precious and so cruel?

Oooh, do we not set sail on the ship of fools
Oooh, why is love so precious and so cruel?

Hey little wise man
You got the sweetest notion
Ooh the sweetest thing
Just once in a lifetime
You need a helping hand
Ooh a caring hand

You keep it wrapped up inside
It's like a lethal potion
Gonna find it soul destroying

Woah, don't take it any further now baby
Woah, won't lead you anywhere
Woah, it's pushing and a hurting you baby
Woah, i'll say a little prayer

No other wise man
Could take the hurt like you do
Ooh the pain like you
Putting on a brave face
But it gets to you somehow
Ooh gets through somehow

You hold your head in your hands
And the weight of the world on your shoulders
Come and pour your heart out to me

Woah, don't take it any further now baby
Woah, won't lead you anywhere
Woah, it's pushing and a hurting you baby
Woah, i'll say a little prayer

You keep it wrapped up inside
It's like a lethal potion
Gonna find it soul destroying

Woah, don't take it any further now baby
Woah, won't lead you anywhere
Woah, it's pushing and a hurting you baby
Woah, i'll say a little prayer

Everybody's intent on killing someone
The streets are closed and there's a kid on the run
The bullets scream out from gun to gun
Everybody's intent on being someone

The cold and darkness of a criminal dawn
Wrapped in blankets gotta keep ourselves warm
A child in the arms of a teenage mum
Who will be there, who will be the next victim
Of the criminal dawn?

Old friends meet on the edge of town
Sharing conversation, hoping things will soon get better
While the children meet, got the world at their feet
Not knowing what's around the corner
Are we living for an uncertain future?

Down on the corner sits a broken man
Lives by the bottle, swears "never again"
Lost his money on the dogs and gin
Now he looks for his supper in a garbage can

The kids hang around by the old schoolground
Right by the river where the body was found
Throwing stones on hallowed ground
Who will be there, who will be the next victim
Of the criminal dawn?

Old friends meet on the edge of town
Sharing conversation, hoping things will soon get better
While the children meet, got the world at their feet
Not knowing what's around the corner
Are we living for an uncertain future?

In the cold and darkness of a criminal dawn
Wrapped in blankets gotta keep ourselves warm
A child in the arms of a teenage mum
Who will be there, who will be the last victim
Of the criminal dawn?

Old friends meet on the edge of town
Sharing conversation, hoping things will soon get better
While the children meet, got the world at their feet
Not knowing what's around the corner
Are we living for an uncertain future?

When i was a little girl
I had a rag doll
The only doll i ever owned
Now i love you just the way
I loved that rag doll
But only now my love has grown

And it gets stronger in every way
And it gets deeper, love it stays
And it gets higher until our day

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And, do i love you my oh my
Yeah, river deep, mountain high (ya, ya, ya)
If i lost you would i cry
Oh i love you baby, baby, baby, baby

When you were a young boy
Did you have a puppy
That always followed you around
Well i'm gonna be as faithful as that puppy
No i'll never let you down

Cause it goes on and on like a river flows
It gets bigger baby heaven knows
It gets sweeter baby as it grows

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I had a rag doll
The only doll i ever owned
Now i love you just the way
I loved that rag doll
But only now my love has grown

And it gets stronger in every way
And it gets deeper, love it stays
And it gets higher until our day

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I love you baby like a flower loves the spring
I love you baby like a robin loves to sing
I love you baby like a schoolboy loves his bag
I love you baby river deep, mountain high

Ah river deep
Ah river deep
Ah river deep
Ah river deep

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I'd like to be a child again
So many things to do
Playground noise, and coloured toys
And everything brand new

I'd like to be a pirate ship
In search of hidden gold
On ocean waves that swim away
And sail around the world

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Where, where were you
When i needed you most
When i needed a friend
Where, where were you
When i needed you most
When i needed a friend

I'd like to be a soldier
A general i would be
In battle and in glory
With ten thousand men to lead

I could be most anything
There is so much to see
I'd live a different story
If you were next to me

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I could be most anything
There is so much to see
I'd live a different story
If you were next to me

Where, where

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