Stolen Moments

You look just like mona lisa, baby
Have you got something up your sleeve?
You got your arms folded and your legs propped up
Oh, i must say, you're looking relieved

Was there some tension eased up on us, baby?
Like two plates shifting on a fault?
They sold van gogh's sunflowers the other day
Some guy stuck 40 million in a bank vault!

Chorus:
One kiss and we're on our own
One kiss it can mean so much
One kiss and we're almost home
One kiss that's the final touch

They shot that galileo off to jupiter
We'll have some pictures in about six years
Gonna stomp anything the voyager sent back
Cause galileo dreamed it, it's here

Now ralph kramden never sent alice to the moon
But you know he wanted to
But having a good friend like norton to ease the pressure
Can really work wonders on a fella's point of view

Chorus

Oh it's bringing me to my knees
They lost all those kinescopes
All of those memories
Doing the cool jerk together

Let's outlive our usefulness, baby
Let's stay in our own skin too long
Till we're so wrinkled all the hatchlings just laugh at us
As they crack out of their eggshells at the break of dawn

We'll say "oh are y'all just getting home
From a long night of self abuse?"
Well me and the missus we were just getting
The coffee pot to perk
Yeah, it's a dirty job but ya know
We're still living it and loving it
You kids let us know when you're finished with your artwork

Chorus twice

Darling if you've been a hurting
I don't care what it is
I wanna help for certain, but it takes more than a kiss
All this love and affection
I'm feeling for you now
Send it back in my direction, girl
I can show you how

My love is coming on strong
And you know, you've been gone away too long

Bring back, bring back your lovin' to me
Bring back, bring back your lovin' to me

All that words that passed between us
Spoken in haste
Could have gone back and forth to venus
For all the time we waste
Staying angry at each other
Sometimes just for anger's sake
I don't want no other lover
I got too much here at stake

Our love is worth fighting for
And you know it, even as you close that door

Chorus:
Bring back, bring back your lovin' to me
Bright it right back here baby
Bring back, bring back your lovin' to me
I want you sweet lovin' right now

Every night i sit and watch for you, baby
I pray to god you haven't found somebody else
But i could never care, like i care for you
When i hurt you girl, well i just can't stand myself

They say pride will be our downfall
Girl i've swallowed mine
I'm begging you, baby, come back
And i will tow the line
To the top of the eiffel tower
To the bottom of the sea
If it means just one more hour
Your love will shine on me

Our love is worth fighting for
And you know it, even as you close that door

Chorus

You were dreaming on a park bench
'bout a broad highway somewhere
When the music from the carillon
Seemed to hurl your heart out there
Past the scientific darkness
Past the fireflies that float
To an angel bending down
To wrap you in her warmest coat

Chorus:
And you ask, "what am i not doing?"
She says "your voice cannot command.
In time, you will move mountains,
And it will come through your hands."

Still you argue for an option
Still you angle for your case
Like you wouldn't know a burning bush
If it blew up in your face
Yeah, we scheme about the future
And we dream about the past
When just a simple reaching out
Might build a bridge that lasts

Chorus

So whatever your hands find to do
You must do with all your heart
There are thoughts enough
To blow men's minds and tear great worlds apart

There's a healing touch to find you
On that broad highway somewhere
To lift you high
As music flying
Through the angel's hair.

Don't ask what you are not doing
Because your voice cannot command
In time we will move mountains
And it will come through your hands

I used to drink a lot in those days you see
Ya, that's the way the wind blows
These days the only bar i ever see
Has got lettuce and tomatoes

I get pumped up in the back of my mind
Start thinking those days were the best of times
But i never look forward to looking back
Now i see a little daylight coming through the cracks

Don't you know we're living in stolen moments
You steal enough it feels like we're stopping time
These days are gold we're living in stolen moments
Just grab a hold

Well some guy told you that you couldn't dance
And you been carrying that forever
I'm the kinda fella needs a, a second chance
C'mon baby let's boo-ga-loo together

I see you over there just clinging to the wall
Cause they told you like ivy, you were born to crawl
But you kept looking up, girl, and i know why
Cause you knew some day you were gonna touch the sky

Baby, you know we're living in stolen moments
You steal enough it feels like we're stopping time
These days are gold we're living in stolen moments
Just grab a hold and feel your way
These days are yours and mine

Well, i couldn't dream this life i'm livin'
Somehow we just survived and every waste of time forgiven

Now i'm out in the backyard leaning on a tree
And i have no way of knowing
Can't lean too hard that's my philosophy
Man that tree is growing

Maybe i'll never grow up to be straight and tall
But you can lean on me, baby, i won't fall
Maybe in the deal i can learn to bend
Learn to listen like that tree, baby
Like a good friend

Well don't you know we're living in stolen moments
You steal enough it feels like we're stopping time
These days are gold we're living in stolen moments
Just grab hold and feel these days are yours and mine

Don't ya know we're living in stolen moments
You steal enough it feels like we're stopping time
These days are gold we're living in stolen moments
Just grab hold and feel your way
These days are yours and mine

Get a load of that guy
With the dew rag on
And the cowboy tie
Man that cat is gone

Form memphis to nashville
Then way out west
Put that hollywood party
To the acid test

Got a little bungalow
In the valley somewhere
Took a gig playing bass
With sonny and cher
He took it on his chin
And never got it off his chest
He wouldn't be caught dead wearing that vest

Not rock back billy
Rock back billy

He came to make a stew
With that swamp guitar
He kept it lonesome and blue
Yeah, in the trunk of his car

But no one gave him a long shot
Though he never did doubt
What it was not
Or what it was all about

He got all tangled up with liquor and drugs
Trying to make a racket
Like those english mugs

Till he couldn't get arrested
And he couldn't see straight
He couldn't even shine shoes
In that golden state

Not rock back billy
Come on rock back billy

When you see him on the street
Well, he's no spring chicken
But ask him how he makes ends meet
He'll tell you, "i'm still pickin'"

Aw, rock it, billy, rock it

Yeah they counted him down
When they dropped that beat
But that red hot sound
They could not defeat

It started coming back from boston
From east l.a.
Down in austin, texas
And up new york way

And as long as there's a kid
In a room somewhere
With a beat up guitar
And some funny looking hair
Well, it might be billy's kid
You don't know
And all i've got to say is
Go, cat, go

Come on rock back billy
Come on rock back billy
Rock back billy

Well my daddy he stood at the foot of the stairs
He was calling to me at the time
And i knew even then, i could die for the thoughts
That i kept in the back of my mind

But i dared not to speak
How i felt for my dad
Cause there were no words to define
The ball of confusion, of feelings and stuff
That i kept in the back of my mind

So i took to the highway
And i kept to myself
Just a lookin' and hopin' to find
Some solutions, some answers, someway to exist
All this stuff in the back of my mind

So i took me a job
And i took me a wife
And i took me a bottle of wine
And it did not take long, 'til all i had left
Was this junk in the back of my mind

Well the end of the tunnel
It never came up
'til i came to the end of the line
And i saw that the light i'd been hoping to see
Was just a spark in the back of my mind

And the cold wind that blew
Through the hole in my heart
Made a fire for the very first time
From some branches of trust
And a kindling of faith
And that spark in the back of my mind

Drivin' like rain, or a runaway train
Flyin' blind, shot from the dark in the back of my mind