Gold

Lyrics: Jack Murphy/Linda Eder

I started out the way most do
Running on imagination
Out into a world that I was sure I knew
Add a dose of reality
And a little desperation
I became a stranger in a stranger land

Wherever I go, whatever I see
I still can feel the child carry me
High on an ocean of innocence
'Cause somewhere between
The truth and the dream
There is a moment in time
When you can touch what you left behind

Across the water
Across the water
Across the water
On a little higher ground

And so it goes with everyone
We're not really all that different
The older that we get
It seems the less we know
We mortals all immortalize
After we apologize for
All the things we should have said
Or could have done

Wherever I go, whatever I see
I still can feel the child carry me
High on an ocean of innocence
'Cause somewhere between
The truth and the dream
There is a moment in time
When you can touch what you left behind Across the water
Across the water
Across the water
On a little higher ground

The way we were the dreams we had
Don't ever really die
They watch us from a distance
As we wave good-bye
But now and then a backward glance
Reminds us that there's still a chance
So we fill our sails and travel on
Across the water

Every day in every life
Is open to interpretation
Thinkin' about what might have been
Is a waste of time
I don't need to analyze
All my little contradictions
As long as I can find my way
Back home again

Across the water
Across the water
Across the water
On a little higher ground

Lyrics: Jack Murphy

As we turn our lives
Down this complicated road
If you need a hand to hold
I promise you
I will be your friend
Through whatever life may send
And I know that you will be there too

If I should lose my way
Along this road we share
Please bring me home, come-what-may
If I should lose my way

When the wild wind blows
And the rain begins to fall
I will find you through it all
And comfort you
But as we move on
Should you turn and find me gone
Then just rest awhile, I'll be along If I should lose my way
Along this road we share
Please wait for me, come-what-may
If I should lose my way

Day after day,
Never let the sun go down
'Till love is found once more

If I should lose my way
Along this road we share
Please look for me, come-what-may
If I should lose my way

Please look for me...
If I should lose my way

Lyrics: Robin Lerner

On Las Cuevas Boulevard
There she works her fingers hard
Playing castanets and swaying
To a steel drum in the dark
She wears flowers in her hair
Sings calypso in the square
People calling out the windows
To the gypsy girl down there

All day long
She waits for
Him to come
And night to fall

She goes
Underneath the colored lights
Where the carnival is flashing bright
The boulevard, just heating up
Her gypsy heart

There he waits beneath the stars
On Las Cuevas Boulevard
She falls into her lover's arms
Sweet gypsy heart

Like a satellite they spin
Her gold scarf against his skin
Her toes tapping on the table
Like she's dancing just for him

Red maracas in his hand
He lifts her up then back again
Turning 'round and 'round in circles
To the rhythm of the band Just until
The sun comes up
Just until
She's had enough

She goes
Underneath the colored lights
Where the carnival is flashing bright
The boulevard, just heating up
Her gypsy heart

There he waits beneath the stars
On Las Cuevas Boulevard
She falls into her lover's arms
Sweet gypsy heart

All day long
She waits for
Him to come
And night to fall

She goes
Underneath the colored lights
Where the carnival is flashing bright
The boulevard, just heating up
Her gypsy heart

She goes
Underneath the colored lights
Where the carnival is flashing bright
The boulevard, just heating up
Her gypsy heart

Lyrics: George Harrison

Here comes the sun
Doo da doo doo
Here comes the sun
And I say
It's alright

Little darling,
It's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling,
It seems like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun
Doo da doo doo
Here comes the sun
And I say
It's alright

Little darling,
The smiles returning to their faces
Little darling,
It seems like years since it's been here Here comes the sun
Doo da doo doo
Here comes the sun
And I say
It's alright

Sun,sun, sun here it comes
Sun,sun, sun here it comes

Little darling,
I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling,
It seems like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun
Doo da doo doo
Here comes the sun
And I say
It's alright

Here comes the sun
Doo da doo doo
Here comes the sun
And I say
It's alright

Lyrics: John Hurley/Ronnie Wilkins

Jimmy Ray was a preacher's son
When his daddy would visit he'd come along
When they gathered 'round the parlor talkin'
Cousin Jimmy would take me walkin'
Out through the backyard we'd go walkin'
And then he'd look into my eyes
Lord knows to my surprise

The only one who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me
Was the son of a preacher man

Yes he was, he was, ooh...

Being good isn't always easy
No matter how hard I try
When he started sweet talkin' to me
He'd come 'n tell me ev'rything is alright
kiss and tell me ev'rything is alright
And "can I sneak away again tonight The only one who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me
Was the son of a preacher man

Yes he was, he was, ooh...

How well I remember
The look that was in his eyes
Stealin' kisses from me on the sly
Takin' time to make time
Tellin' me that he's all mine
Learnin' from each other's knowin'
And lookin' to see
How much we've grown

And the only one who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me
Was the son of a preacher man

Lyrics: Jack Murphy

Just when I'm sure that I've got it all down
Something jumps up and spins me around
Sometimes it's the light from my little boy's eyes
Takin' me by surprise

I've been to the city and I've been to the zoo
Learned all about monkey-see, monkey-do
Somewhere between the false and the true
We all compromise

But you and I broke every rule
That they ever made
Don't ask why? Love is a chance that you take
And like leaves in the wind
At the mercy of whither we blow
How little we know

I have seen the northern lights on a winter's day
Up in Minnesota people like it that way
So much in nature I don't understand
It's a mystery not a plan

Lookin' for answers
Is going nowhere fast
Everything's forever
But nothing seems to last
Come tomorrow, today will be the past
Like waves upon the sand You and I broke every rule
That they ever made
Don't ask why?
Love is a chance that you take
And like leaves in the wind
At the mercy of whither we blow
How little we know

And in the end what matters most
Is how the heart will rise
And see us through the dramas
'Til we realize
How little we know

You and I broke every rule
That they ever made
Don't ask why?
Love is a chance that you take
And like leaves in the wind
At the mercy of whither we blow
How little we know

Lyrics: Jack Murphy

There's something in your eyes
I should have seen
Something there that doesn't quite belong
And there's something in the way
You touch my hand
I feel the tenderness but something's wrong

How could I have been so blind
I thought this love would never die
Now baby try...

To break it to me gently, let me down easy
I don't think I can take
Much more than that tonight
So let me catch my breath before you start
Then break it to me gently
Even if it gently breaks my heart

You caught me by surprise
I'm unprepared
Tell me, what am I supposed to do
I can't find any words
I just know I'm scared
I never thought of me without you

And I don't want a reason why
But if you have to say good-bye
Then baby try...
To break it to me gently,
Let me down easy
I don't think I can take
Much more than that tonight
So let me catch my breath
Before you start
Then break it to me gently
Even if it gently breaks my heart

Tell me lies,
Tell me there's still time for us
Oh can we try to find a little time for us
A little time before you...

Break it to me gently, let me down easy
I don't think I can take
Much more than that tonight
So let me catch my tears
Before you start
Then break it to me gently
Even if it gently breaks my heart