The Life Of Chris Gaines

The very air that surrounds her
A breath you can't live without
Can't think straight since you found her
What's this creature about

You persue her in mazes
Always one step behind
You'd change the world for her graces
But she keeps changing her mind

It's just the way of the girl, just the way of the girl
It's just the way of the girl, just the way of the girl

Some made it for money
Some made it for love
Some made it for romance
My baby's all the above

It's just the way of the girl, just the way of the girl
(just the way it is, can't help it)
It's just the way of the girl, just the way of the girl

(repeat twice)

Maybe it's the movies, maybe it's the books
Maybe it's the government and all the other crooks
Maybe it's the drugs, maybe it's the parents
Maybe it's the gangs, or the colors that we're wearin'
Maybe it's the high schools, maybe it's the teachers
Tattoos, pipe bombs underneath the bleachers
Maybe it's the music, maybe it's the crack
Maybe it's the bible, or could it be the lack

Come on people, now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another, right now...right now

Okay, maybe it's the papers, maybe it's the family
Maybe it's the internet, radio, tv
Maybe it's the president, maybe it's the last one
Maybe it's the one before that
Maybe it's the athletes, maybe it's the dads
Maybe it's the sports fans, agents, fads
Maybe it's the homeless, aliens, immigrants
Maybe it's life, don't tell me that it's imminent

Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now
You gotta love one another

Maybe it's the fallout, maybe it's the ozone
Maybe it's the chemicals, the radiation, cell phones
Maybe it's the magazines, maybe it the next page
Lotteries, fast food, bad news, road rage
Maybe it the unions, big business
Maybe it's the kkk and the skinheads
Maybe it's the daughters, maybe it's the sons
Maybe it's the brothers of the mothers or the guns

Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

(you know, if we don't talk about it
It ain't gonna get better)

We gotta love one another

(so, whadda say, let's talk)

Maybe it's the parks, maybe it's the sex
Maybe it's the talk shows, maybe it's a reflex
Maybe it's the taxes, maybe it's the system
Judges, lawyers, prisons
Maybe it's the catholics, maybe it's the protestants
Maybe it's the addicts, and the hippies and communists
Maybe it's a fashion, maybe it's a trend
Maybe it's the future... maybe it's the end

One light blinking off and on
Blood of life in this town is gone
Lost all its pieces but the pawn
Tomorrow stopped coming with the dawn

In my dreams, i've seen
Things that only seem to happen on the silver screen
When it's over there's no walking out
Cuz i've been all they talk about
Cuz what ain't goin' down
On main street

I went too early with a friend of mine
Just to see what it was all about
Hit the freeway and it blew my mind,
I had to find a way of gettin' out
She said, they say, hey you gotta live a little
In my mind, i'd find lost ain't living,
Even there in the middle of main street

Yeah....

Never did the things i though i would
Woulda left just didn't know i could
If things don't work like they should
It ain't for better but it's for good

Cuz in my dreams i've seen
Things that only seem to happen on the silver screen
When it's over there's no walking out
Cuz i've been all they talk about
Cuz what ain't goin' down
In my dreams i've seen
Things that only seem to happen on the silver screen
When it's over there's no walking out
Cuz i've been all they talk about
Cuz what ain't goin' down
On main street

They married on a fancy yacht out on the water
He knew she was young enough to be his daughter
There always questions in the heart of millionaires
Would she make heartfelt promises if the money was not there

And he said, do you love me, baby, do you want me to hold
Or are you just digging for gold
Do you care enough to give me your heart and soul
Or are you just digging for gold

She ran his weary heart through the ringer
And she wore him like the diamond ring around her finger
Well, his advances and affections, she managed to avoid
But, she got the lap of luxury and he got paranoid

And he said, do you love me, baby, do you want me to hold
Or are you just digging for gold
Do you care enough to give me your heart and soul
Or are you just digging for gold, digging for gold

Big house, limousines,
Fine wines, fine cuisines,
Vale and vegas twice a year,
Trips to paris on the leer

Black tuesday when that wall of wealth came crashing down
Bad news day when that little queen had to give back her crown
And he said, hey babe, we can live on love cuz love is worth much more
But he barely got his feelings out, she was half way to the door
And she never even heard him cry

Do you love me, baby, do you want me to hold
Or are you just digging for gold
Do you care enough to give me your heart and soul
Or are you just digging for gold

I say black, you say white
I say day, you call it a night
What's wrong with this scene
What does this mean

You set me up, shoot me down
I'm wounded on this battleground
It's time, for sure, for ending this war
Cuz my heart can't take anymore

Sendin' up, sendin' up, sendin' up a white flag
Love won't have a chance if all we do is just fight about it
Sendin' up, sendin up, sendin' up a white flag
Damn these circumstance
Love is headed for a fall
So before we lose it all, oh baby
I'm sendin' up a white flag

Place no blame, what's the use
Lay these weapons down and call a truce
Can't we (can't we) work it out (work it out)
Cuz i love you baby, ain't no doubt
Isn't that what love's about

Sendin' up, sendin' up, sendin' up a white flag
Love won't have a chance if all we do is fight about it
Sendin' up, sendin' up, sendin' up a white flag
Damn these circumstance
Love is headed for a fall
So before we lose it all, oh baby
I'm sendin' up a white flag

(repeat)
I'm sendin' up a white flag

Performed by "crush"

You don't have to cry when i say good-bye, good-bye
You know i'll be coming back real soon
And when i do, you know
It will be such a sweet hello

Rising like the sun above the sky line, sky line
Love is brighter than ever before
And that should be understood
When is said i do you knew i would

Some things can be good forever
My love tells me so
Two hearts can be one together
My love tells me so

Let me lay your head upon my pillow, baby
Whisper what you need to me, my dear (my dear)
Don't worry, close your eyes
Morning will find me by your side

Some things can be good forever
My love tells me so
Two hearts can be one together
My love tells me so

(whispered)
Give me a chance and i'll sing for you
I have a song for you
To be with you is a dream
I dream of you

Some things can be good forever
My love tells me so

T's only natural with time
Details can somehow slip your mind
Something so sweet, though incomplete
You fill the spaces in-between

It never will be that way again
Maybe it wasn't way back when
But to my heart and soul
This is the way the story has to be told

That's the way (that's the way) i remember it
I remember it that way
From the day i was living there
I remember it that way

Some of our stories fade as we grow older
Some get sweeter every time they're told
That's the way (that's the way) i remember you that way

Guess now if the truth were known
Among diamonds they were stones
To say would be fair, girl, nothing compares
To when i called you all my own

So darling don't ever you think twice
Those were the best days of my life
When i held you there
And i'll tell this story this way, time and again

That's the way (that's the way) i remember it
I remember it that way
From the day i was living there
I remember it that way