Big Log

My love is in league with the freeway
Its passion will ride, as the cities fly by
And the tail-lights dissolve, in the coming of night
And the questions in thousands take flight
My love is a-miles in the waiting
The eyes that just stare, and the glance at the clock
And the secret that burns, and the pain that grows dark
And it's you once again
Leading me on - leading me down the road
Driving beyond - driving me down the road

My love is exceedingly vivid
Red-eyed and fevered with the hum of the miles
Distance and longing, my thoughts do provide
Should I rest for a while at the side
Your love is cradled in knowing
Eyes in the mirror, still expecting they'll come
Sensing too well when the journey is done
There is no turning back - no
There is no turning back - on the run

My love is in league with the freeway
Oh the freeway, and the coming of night-time
My love is in league with the freeway

Burning Down One Side

Slipped through the window by the back door
Caught short in transit with my love
Jumped up, fell back, cut off from romance,
How could I fall without a shove
Tip-toed like thunder on my feelings
You rock me gently with your sighs
My knees are weak - my head is reeling
Consumed by the fire in your eyes
Stepped in and shattered my defences,
Just playing hookey with my heart
Slipped through the window by the back door
And took the keys to my poor heart, yes my poor heart

Try as I might - try as I may
Yes I'll try anything to make you stay
Cause I need your love - yes I need your love --
I'm looking high - I'm looking low,
Can't find where did my baby go
Gotta find out why she ran away
I don't know where did my baby stay
Try as I might - try as I may
Yes I'll try anything to make you stay

Fire down the Boulevard d'Amour
Shoot through the neon in the night
Hot foot through alleys - check the doorways
Try that old parking lot on Ninth
There's three-course kissing in the same place
But that don't help me out no more
I've been away so long and dreaming
Little girl ain't I seen you before

Moonlight In Samosa

Time and again I see you walking down the street
Over and over, just like before
Once in a while you stop and say hello to me
Just like you used to do before
Time and again, it's like we were in love and then
Over and over - nobody keeping score
Once in a while I think you notice when I smile
That love still lingers in my eyes

It can't go wrong, it can't go wrong
It lingers on, it lingers on

Day after day I turn it over in my mind
Dream after dream it's hard to tell you how I find
Out of the blue I'm suddenly so close to you
Despite the years that I've been gone
Will you stop - will you wait a minute - please remember
Can you stop - can you just give me one minute to explain
I will not cause a fuss, I will not rock the boat - believe me darling
Oh what is, what was, it's all the same

Slow Dancer

Slow dancer - no answers
For you new moves to see
Fast talker in dark corners
For you new words to hear
Sly glances - half chances
For you the eye that sees

When the sun slips from the day and the coolness brings relief
There's no torment 'neath the stars in the stillness of the night
When the swirling has to cease behind the safety of the veil

In high places - darkened faces
So indifferent in days to be
Lost races - no losers
Only winners return to see
New order - can't be altered
When the eyes refuse to see

When the sun slips from the day [etc - repeated]

Soft spoken - never could be broken
Waiting the dawn light with me
Slow burning - school of learning
Don't hasten it down on me
Hearts leaping - hopes been reaching
To the heights, to the heights - these signs to see

Oh baby -- in the darkness, in the darkness --

Wreckless Love

Now red is urgent - green's a letter
And the score shows just another spin off
Orange jolts, and brown is old
Grey is weary - don't touch gold

In the fireworks, away from the heat
Behind closed doors, away from the street
No-one is listening, at least that's what you think
There's a slow fuse burning, much faster than you think

Like the new look, all that matters
Through the lettuce swamp - back in the shadows
Purple speaks why - yellow no
Silver is wood, and don't touch gold

Dance through the coloured razzamatazz
Spinning along - desert effect
Wreckless love is creeping on you
Now watch out, reckless
'Cause wreckless love will drive you crazy
Will wear your mind out
Creeps up on you when you don't know
It will find out
Wreckless love, wreckless love
Wreckless love, wreckless love

Race with my heart to the top of a kiss
Drive my desire but take care not to risk
Breaking my heart, for it's all that I own
All I command - in these times I'm alone

Other arms that held me so tight
Slip through my mind with you in the night
Feelin' reckless, feelin' reckless - wreckless love

Dance On My Own

There's a girl lives on my block
There's a girl lives on my block
There's a girl lives on my block
She's drivin' me mad, she's drivin' me mad, she's drivin' me

And I don't know what to do
No, I don't know what to do
I don't know what to do
'Cause I want her so bad, yes I want her so bad, yes I want her so

[Oh-oh-oh-oh] I'm happy dancin'
I'm dancin', I dance on my own --

Gonna dance until I drop
I'm gonna dance until I drop
Gonna move until I stop
Gonna twist and shout, go spin it round, gonna do it once more

[Oh-oh-oh-oh] I'm happy dancin'
I'm dancin', I dance on my own --

And I don't care if I die
I don't care if I die, no
And I don't care if I die
Oh, gonna have my fun, gonna do it again, gonna do it once more

[Oh-oh-oh-oh] I'm happy dancin'
I'm dancin', I dance on my own --

Big Love

I hear a far-away voice on the telephone line
Tell me what to think to tell it apart
Said how about 4,000 miles, and 21 years
Do you think that's enough for a start?

I'm up to fifteen thousand and holding
Pass the time just smiling at you
But this seat belt is kind of exposing
Putting pressure on my big love for you
My big love for you, my big love for you - my big, my big --
My big love for you, my big love for you - my big, my big --

Will the hostess think I'm exploding?
Must have finally got this bird off the ground
Girl, oh girl, if my tank's overloading
She's weighted and she loves to go down
She loves to go down, she loves to go down - she loves, she loves --
She loves to go down, she loves to go down - she loves, she loves --

When I fly your friendly skies how I love the big surprise
I will fill your cup with fire - just give me your free air miles

When I fly her friendly skies [etc repeated]

I take myself down the aisle to the bathroom
Are you sure that there's room here for two
She says: "fifteen thousand and hold him"
As we talk about my big love for you
Yes we talk about my big, we talk about my big
We talk about my big love for you

How I love your friendly skies
I will fill your cup with fire (my big, my big, my big)
When I fly her friendly skies how I love her big surprise
I will fill your cup with fire (she loves, she loves, she loves)
Hello baby, I just love to fly, fly, fly
I been five days - I've been saving up all of my free air miles
I got nylon stockings - I got chocolate bars
I got a nervous criminal in a new Lincoln car
One time I saw Las Vegas
(She loves, my big, she loves)
I stopped in a motel - I slept in the same room as Jimmy Page
They just finished remodelling it from the '75 tour
I got my free air miles
(She loves, she loves, my big)
When I fly her friendly skies how I love her big surprise
I will fill your cup with fire (she loves, my big, she loves)
Free air miles - big love
Free air miles - big love --

"Pledge Pin"

   
Watch them go 'cause one by one they rise to fall
Hearts in tow, it's just a game - she's only having fun
She laughs and turns away surprised
She mocks it all the same
Tonight's the loss tomorrow's gain and in the end it's so

Stand in line as one by one they march in time
In the wings I stand and watch these foolish things go by
Just preparing for the play aloof she moves
The confidante, with practiced step
The merry dance she executes her role

As the cavalcade begins to thin, do you stop and look around
Free to choose but not to win - you're just too late
Your show is at an end - now you're the victim of your game
Through your fingers watch them slip
Familiar rules just hit and miss for the one who never shows

"Slow Dancer"

   
Slow dancer - no answers
For you new moves to see
Fast talker in dark corners
For you new words to hear
Sly glances - half chances
For you the eye that sees

When the sun slips from the day and the coolness brings relief
There's no torment 'neath the stars in the stillness of the night
When the swirling has to cease behind the safety of the veil

In high places - darkened faces
So indifferent in days to be
Lost races - no losers
Only winners return to see
New order - can't be altered
When the eyes refuse to see

When the sun slips from the day [etc - repeated]

Soft spoken - never could be broken
Waiting the dawn light with me
Slow burning - school of learning
Don't hasten it down on me
Hearts leaping - hopes been reaching
To the heights, to the heights - these signs to see

Oh baby -- in the darkness, in the darkness --

 "Worse Than Detroit"

Operator, give me Central, Central
Help me try to get my baby on the line
Information, hear me calling, calling
Find that number, give it to me one more time
It's been so long since I saw her
Anything I'd give to hear the little girl of mine
Whatever it takes, got to make it, make it
Please connect me now before I lose my mind
Because I don't know, no I don't know what I'm gonna do
No I don't know, no I don't know what I'm gonna do

Tastes so good, sweet as honey, honey
All she carries is impossible to use
It's built for speed man, watch her coming, coming
Moves so fast in someone else's shoes
Looks so fine lord, watch them running
Anything she wants you feel obliged to do
Keep your hands in your pockets
She can shift more gold than the king of Peru
But I don't know, no I don't know what I'm gonna do
No I don't know, no I don't know what I'm gonna do

Man drinks whisky, drive him crazy in time
Woman sits and cries as day will follow day
Man need lovin', keep him happy sometime
Woman gets some when the honeydripper's on his way
But I don't know, no I don't know what I'm gonna do
But I don't know, but I don't know --
No I don't know, no I don't know, no I don't know
She can do it, she can do it, she can do it babe
She's sweet as honey, sweet as honey, sweet as honey --