True Colours

Stuck inside my harvard box
Behind the door the bauhaus locked
I'm wrestling with a new ideal
I'm working out the way i feel
I just came back from cultureburg
Where i tried to learn the painted word
People there were so convinced
It's kept me thinking ever since

Crazy, but true
I want to believe like you

"come with me", the teacher said
"no side-to-side, look straight ahead
'cause if you want true confidence
You'd best forget your common sense.
Go find yourself a point of view
And if you need some help to choose
Just dance the dance named after me
If you believe then you will see"

Crazy, but true
Now i believe in you

There was a time
When we could make head nor tail of the story
Now it's sublime
And we're not afraid anymore
'cause we're all

True believers

Solo.

So tell me it's true
I want to believe in you
Crazy, but true
I want to believe in you

Blind faith makes such strange demands
Sometimes a think i'll never understand
Answers on a postcard, please
I'd like to know what you believe

True believers ...

Are you
A true believer

(i wanna believe in you)

My hero ...

On baker street
The limousine stood blacker than the darkest thing
In the rain
Deep in the back
His life was ending
Still they would not let him be
Where is he?

His music ran through the streets of the city
Straight to the heart with each song
The path he chose was a road to freedom
And i kept following on
My hero ...

I heard the news
All my emotions shattered into empty blue
Where are you
The radio like distant thunder raging black rock symphonies
Storm heart tears

His music runs through the heart of the city
His sound is heard in each song
You never found where his road was leading
The hope you gave lingers on
My hero ...

The brightest stars explode into a thousand moons

(solo)

His music runs through the heart of the city
The sound he made is too strong
His name remains part of my emotions
The memories linger on

My hero ...

Tell - me something
Why do i always find it hard just to get along
Try my best - for nothing
Every little thing i do is wrong

Feel it in my brain
Driving me insane
Round and round
The same old tune

"daddy's on the phone
You know you're not alone
Turn that down
And clean up your room."

Sons and daughters
(don't fall in)
In hot water
Sons and daughters
(they don't do)
What they oughta

Tell (tell) you something
Music is the key to set me free
To the beat (on the street) i'm jumping
Forgetting all the things they said 'bout me

Here it comes again
Chugging like a train
Round and round
An impeccable groove

I know it's getting late
But i won't histate
Can't slow down
Got to do what i do

Sons and daughters
(always in)
In hot water

Wasting time
Is a crime in their eyes
But i'm still young
So much time to decide - what to do ...

(i don't need confirmation
For my boyhood extrapolation
Though i'm not sure of my direction
I have the groove for my protection)

Here it comes again
Chugging like a train
Round and round
An impeccable groove

I know it's getting late
But i won't hesitate
Can't slow down
Got to do what i do

Sons and daughters
(don't fall in)
In hot water
(when they fall by the way)
Sons and daughters
(they don't do)
What they oughta

Tell me something
Where you staying tonight
Your folks
Have waited up for you
Now they've locked the door
And turned off the light.

In your hands there's a photograph
You look up, she begins to laugh
So cold as she walks away
And you know that it's time to pay
You're caught in a web you spun yourself
Face to face with your failure this very day
You call out her name you can't help yourself
But you need love like you need a - kick in the head

You worked hard for the things you own
Fancy cars and a country home
Gave it all for a glittering prize
To be a face people recognise
On the walls of your home there are works of art
But you stare at the picture - on the floor
The face of a man with an aching heart
It's no fun to be famous anymore

(you said )
This is a sad day
And i would gladly give it all away
In exchange
For a floating life

Shed your tears for a shallow dream
Let your cry be a primal scream
A song through the mists of time
A serenade to your concubine
You were wrong to believe she could set you free
You're trapped by the trappings - of success
And you know the she'll never let you be
'til the world knows the secrets - you confessed

(you said)
I see her cruel face
My heart is nothing but an empty space
And on this sad day
I would gladly give it all away
In exchange
For a floating life

Neither asleep nor awake
Losing control you start to shake
As the day begins to break

They're gonna shoot you down in flames
When that girl starts naming names
There's nowhere to hide from your shame

So sad i had to go
(kouyate)

A total stranger came between us

Until it's safe no-one will know
(kouyate)
There is a secret between us

We must keep it to ourselves
(kouyate)
All the love we shared between us

We can't tell nobody else
(kouyate)
There is a secret between us

1
Staring hard at my tv
But that blue flicker doesn't comfort me
It hurts so much
The memory of her tender touch
In my dreams i call

A man-of-war on glory road
A native girl whose tale was never told
Now we must live a lie
To point blank accusations i
Have denied it all

I live for the day
I live for the hour
When i'm free to speak your name
And reveal to the world - our secret

2
Underneath that bowl of stars
She lay me down to heal my battlescars
She taught me love
The one thing i knew nothing of
And she made me see

I had to leave that scattered place
I kept the secret to avoid disgrace
But there will come a time
When i return to make her mine
In a world so free

I live for this day
I live for this hour
When i'm in your arms again, yeah
And we both yield to love's power

(bridge)

Be patient now we can't resist
The racing storm of prejudice

Hate ... has ... silenced ... love ...

We took the village by surprise
No time to see the strangers hate filled eyes
For this sad consequence
They had no defense
In the midst off all that pain
I heard her call
"kouyate is my name
Love conquers all"

Solo

I live for this day
I live for this hour
When i'm in your arms again
And we both yield to love's power

So sad i had to go
(kouyate)
With so much love to share between us

Until it's safe no-one will know
(kouyate)
There is a secret between us