Storm Front

Safe at harbor, everything is easy
Off to starboard, daylight comes up fast
Now i'm restless for the open water
Red flags are flying from the coast guard mast
They told me to stay, i heard all the information
I motored away and steered straight ahead
Though the weatherman said

Chorus
There's a storm front coming (mood indigo)
White water running and the pressure is low
Storm front coming (mood indigo)
Small craft warning on the radio

I've been sailing a long time on this ocean
Man gets lonesome, all those years at sea
I've got a woman, my life should be easy
Most men hunger for the life i lead
The morning was gray, but i had the motivation
I drifted away and ran into more
Heavy weather off shore

Chorus

We've got a low pressure system and a northeast breeze
We've got a falling barometer and rising seas
We've got the cumulonimbus and a possible gale
We've got a force nine blowing on the beaufort scale

I'm still restless for the open water
Though she gives me everything i need
She asked me to stay, but i'd done my navigation
I drove her away, but i should have known
To stay tied up at home

Chorus

Well i see you in the morning
Putting on your pretty clothes
And i watch you do your make-up
Like they do in all those fashion shows
Then you turn to me so that i can see
If you put yourself together right
Then you go away and you're gone all day
But i know you're coming home tonight
And when you're home, darling all you've got to be is you
But when in rome, do as the romans do

Well it's alright if you're tired when your day is done
You can see when you look at me, you're not the only one
It's a cold, cruel world for a working girl
But you can't let them see you cry
It's a fact of life, now man and wife
Work full time to just get by
And when we're home all it's gonna be is me and you
But when in rome, do as the romans do

I've done some strange things i never thought i'd do before
But if the strain brings happiness, more or less...
More or less...

Then i don't mind masquerading with all those other fools
I don't mind the games i'm playing,
Because i've learned the rules
And when times are tough, i've got just enough
If you're standing right by my side
Darling more and more i get hungry for
All the ways you keep me satisfied
On our own there ain't nothing that we can't get thru
But when in rome, do as the romans do

Then i don't mind masquerading with all those other fools
I don't mind the games i'm playing,
Because i've learned the rules
It doesn't matter when we're home, all alone
All we've got to be is me and you
On our own there ain't nothing that we can't get thru
But when in rome, do as the romans do

Swing that hammer and break that stone
Push those buttons and answer that phone
Coffee in the morning and martinis at night
Everybody's working up a big appetite
Do as the romans do...

There you go, slipping away into a state of grace
I know the look that comes across your face
It's so familiar to me
Here i am, trying to keep you in my line of sight
I'm never certain that you read me right
Sometimes you don't want to see me

Here we are, both of us know we're in love
But that isn't always enough
I never could rise above it all, down i fall

But darling there you go, slipping away into a state of grace
Granted, this world is not a perfect place
Still it's the world that i'm in
Here i am talking while you don't hear a word i say
Knowing you're watching me from far away
Somewhere that i've never been

Don't you see, you lived a different life than me
It doesn't mean you have to be afraid of how
We're not the same, don't leave me now

But darling there you go, slipping away

How can i get you to stay where you are
Keep you from going too far
Holding you here is so hard to do...i'm losing you

And darling there you go, slipping away into a state of grace
Drifting away into your sacred place
Someplace that i've never been
There you go, slipping away, slipping away into a state of grace
There you go, slipping away into a state of grace
There you go...drifting away...

Well i'm shameless when it comes to loving you
I'd do anything you want me to
I'd do anything at all

And i'm standing here for all the world to see
There ain't that much left of me
That has very far to fall

You know i'm not a man who has ever been
Insecure about the world i've been living in
I don't break easy, i have my pride
But if you need to be satisfied

I'm shameless, baby i don't have a prayer
Anytime i see you standing there
I go down upon my knees

And i'm changing, i swore i'd never compromise
But you convinced me otherwise
I'll do anything you please

You see in all my life i've never found
What i couldn't resist, what i couldn't turn down
I could walk away from anyone i ever knew
But i can't walk away from you

I have never let anything have this much control over me
Cause i worked too hard to call my life my own
Yes i made myself a world and it worked so perfectly
But it's your world now, i can't refuse
I never had so much to lose
I'm shameless...shameless

You know it should be easy for a man who's strong
To say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong
I've never lost anything i ever missed
But i've never been in love like this...

It's out of my hands

I'm shameless, i don't have the power now
But i don't want it anyhow
So i've got to let it go

I'm shameless, shameless as a man can be
You can make a total fool of me
I just wanted you to know

I am shameless
Shameless
Shameless...

Call me a joker, call me a fool
Right at this moment i'm totally cool
Clear as a crystal, sharp as a knife
I feel like i'm in the prime of my life
Sometimes it feels like i'm going too fast
I don't know how long this feeling will last
Maybe it's only tonight

Chorus
Darling i don't know why i go to extremes
Too high or too low there ain't no in-betweens
And if i stand or i fall
It's all or nothing at all
Darling i don't know why i go to extremes

Sometimes i'm tired, sometimes i'm shot
Sometimes i don't know how much more i've got
Maybe i'm headed over the hill
Maybe i've set myself up for the kill
Tell me how much do you think you can take
Until the heart in you is starting to break?
Sometimes it feels like it will

Chorus

Out of the darkness, into the light
Leaving the scene of the crime
Either i'm wrong or i'm perfectly right every time
Sometimes i lie awake, night after night
Coming apart at the seams
Eager to please, ready to fight
Why do i go to extremes?

Chorus

No i don't know why i go to extremes
Too high or too low
There ain't no in-betweens
You can be sure when i'm gone
I won't be out there too long
Darling i don't know why i go to extremes