One Golden Rule

There's a heart in the middle of somewhere tonight
Screaming for reasons or just a way out
I put the shirt off my back on a wager that says
There's one every night from my old school yard days
I hear you say one golden rule
One golden rule

There's been times I've been stood in the wind and the rain
Freezing and busted and tricked out of luck
And I cursed my teachers for all of their reading
What we needed most can't be found in them books
One golden rule

Now they teach you to swim but they don't speak of the danger
Tell you the truth but they never say why
Put you on ice that is thin and tell you it's winter
Without one golden rule the truth is a lie
One golden rule

One Sweet Tender Touch

Heartbeat, way down on Cove Street
Playing to lady luck, awaiting that tender touch
Fantasy is the trick of the dance you see
Hiding that need for love and wanting you close to me

Oh that one sweet and tender touch
That's what I'm missing and need so much
One sweet and tender touch

Bright light
Pretty colours that shine on all through the night
I don't need them, not half as much
As I'm wanting your tender touch
And loneliness makes the strongest heart a wilderness
That's wilder than you see, is wanting you close to me

For that one sweet and tender touch
That's what I'm missing and need so much
One sweet and tender touch

Only With You

I was down, nowhere bound
Needed love, any love
Something new, breezy and bashful but true
Changing my whole point of view
Suddenly someone, a midnight romancer
A Romeo dancer in blue
But only with you
Only with you

No more rain, no more chains
No more cold lonely sleepless nights
Laughing eyes, wider than midsummer skies
Crazy but don't ask me why
Suddenly someone, a midnight romancer
A Romeo dancer in blue
But only with you
Only with you

Once a Lone Star rider who danced in super cool
Now a Romeo, it's true
But only with you
Only with you

Out Of The Darkness

There's an empty street in an empty town
There's an old boutique selling ageing gowns
Some words on the walls that were written
By the light of the moon so bright

Can you hear me, can you her me tonight
Take me out of this darkness and in to the morning light

The rain that falls doesn't make me cry
And the wind that blows cannot hurt my eyes
But the things that I see when I turn on TV
Make me wanna lie down and die

Can you hear me, can you her me tonight
Take me out of this darkness and in to the morning light
Can you hear me
Take me out of this darkness and in to the morning light

Qualified

I got a beat up piece of paper - It's a message from a king
He says - I got to get you out of here
He say - I got to let you in
'Cos I've been down the darkest road there is - I've seen the other side
I got a licence to go - Straight through your pain
Ain't no big deal - 'Cos I'm qualified - Yeah I'm qualified

Qualified in fear and pain - I'm qualified in lies and shame
I'm qualified with a broken heart
You knock me down - I get back up again
'Cos' I'm qualified

I'm qualified - To get your love
I'm qualified - To know what you're thinking of
I'm qualified - in broken dreams
I can save you from where you've been
'Cos I'm qualified

I'm qualified to make you smile
I'm qualified to save your pain
Qualified to give a real good time
Qualified to make your sun shine

Que Sera

There's a feathered cloud in an open sky
And the pale-tailed moon goes sailing by
This old engine housing's streaked with rain
And we're pushing down on them chains again
Friend we're like the wind that blows
Like the sea we come and go

And I'm not trying to tell you
How I think that it should be
I know deep down inside
We are yearning to be free
And you're only gonna think of No 1
So what am I to say
No matter what you do
We're always hurting anyway
Forever our hearts will be
Always running for what we see
By the strings of this old guitar
I swear, Que sera

And you're rolling down old runway ten
And the present becomes the past and then
Rotating through the driving rain
And you're way above those clouds again
And I'm not trying to tell you
How I think that it should be
I know deep down inside
We are yearning to be free
And you're only gonna think of No 1
So what am I to say
No matter what you do
We're always hurting anyway

Forever our hearts will be
Always running for what we see
By the strings of this old guitar
I swear, Que sera

Raincoat a Rose

Rain, tears of joy, tears of pain

Is this really me

Standing here at the station

The card said I mustnt be late

Ive never been late

Ive never really had the chance

Years and years and not even wanting a second chance

look for a raincoat and a rose



I hope no one sees, theyll laugh I know

He was always like that, yes it always showed

Did I do something wrong to have to pay

In many more ways than one

Rainy day, what do I say

How simple its all become



Love is for fools and fools have no grace

Damn them while you can

Out here on the fence is such a lonely place

I wish I was foolish now

The greatest of pain is never really knowing

Maybe today Ill find out this way

The way that Im going

Reasons

Set my sails out on a sunny day
Pretty soon I was on my way
Though what for sure it was
I could not say

Two thousand reasons
Maybe more
Eight hundred chances on faraway shores
Searching for something
Searching for more
Deep down inside me burning
Reasons for the learning

Now you can pick up reasons so easily
Where you've been and where you've got to be
And when the truth don't show you'll always see
Lots of reasons

And pretty soon you've got a heavy load
Dragging those reasons down an endless road
I got to thinking and I got to see
So many reasons coming at me

The one that leaves you high and dry
He says you still owe him, there's a reason why
He'll leave you crying till the tears run dry
He's the one, always the one with all the reasons
So many reasons the come and they go
The reasons for them I'll never know
I've seen so many, they've come and they've gone
I've turned all mine in and I'm happy with one

So don't talk of friendship, do it to me
Make me an offer and make it for free
Don't give me reasons 'cos I wrote that song
I only want love now so I'll just take the one

Red

Put your hand in the paintbox and choose
Which one says the most about you
I would have to pick the deepest shade
The saddest shade of blue
But red is colour I'd choose
Red is colour I'd choose

I set my soul long ago and far away
Oh it's written down so deep it can never fade away
Though so many years have come and gone
Through my life one thing has stayed
An eternal light that shines clean through the grey

Red is colour I'd choose
Deepest red on a sky of deepest blue
It don't matter now if I should win
If I should win or lose
'cos red is colour I'd choose
If I waste my time away waiting just for you
I don't care what others say
'cos baby I just love, love what you do

Red is colour I'd choose
Deepest red on a sky of deepest blue
It don't matter now if I should win
If I should win or lose
'cos red is colour I'd choose

Red Shoes

I was born a beggar
With the garbage round my feet
The devil lived in every hole
And every corner of the street
When mistery is all there is
You got nothing to lose
So come on and buy me
Come and buy me some red red red shoes

Don't tell me what I do is wrong
Don't preach 'cos you don't know
'Cos I was left without a chance
Such a long time ago
And anything is better
Than being cut and bruised
So come and buy me some red red red shoes

Don't tell me what I do is wrong
Don't preach 'cos you don't know
'Cos I was left without a chance such a long time ago
And anything is better
Than being battered and bruised
So come on and buy me some red some red red shoes