John WETTON

I never meant to be so bad to you
One thing I said that I would never do
A look from you and I would fall from grace
And that would wipe the smile right from my face

Do you remember when we used to dance
And incidents arose from circumstance?
One thing led to another
we were young
And we would scream together songs unsung

It was the heat of the moment
Telling me what our hearts meant
The heat of the moment
shone in your eyes

And now you find yourself in '82
The disco hotspots hold no charm for you
You can't concern yourself with bigger things
You catch the pearl and ride the dragon's wings

'Cause it's the heat of the moment,
Heat of the moment,
the heat of the moment
shone in your eyes

And when your looks have gone and you're alone
How many nights you sit beside the phone
What were the things you wanted for yourself
Teenage ambitions you remember well

It was the heat of the moment
Telling you what your heart meant
The heat of the moment shone in your eyes
The heat of the moment,
Heat of the moment, the heat of the moment
shone in your eyes

Heat of the moment
Heat of the moment
Heat of the moment

2. Don't Cry

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Hard Times you had before you
I knew when I first saw you
You girl you've always been mistreated,
cheated

So leave it all behind you
I took so long to find you
I know that we can last forever
ever and more, oh,

DON'T CRY NOW THAT I'VE
FOUND YOU
DON'T CRY TAKE A LOOK
AROUND YOU
DON'T CRY IT TOOK SO LONG TO
FIND YOU
DO WHAT YOU WANT, BUT LITTLE
DARLING PLEASE,
DON'T CRY

I knew I'd never doubt it
I was so sure about it
Don't think of all that's been before

I'll hear you when you're calling
I'll catch you when you're falling
Don't worry I will always be there
Like never before, oh

Chorus

3. Rendezvous 6:02

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It's 5 o'clock
Driving down Park Lane
As London leaves
For the weekend again
Through the dark city streets
In the clinging rain

I take my car
Towards the Thames
And Waterloo…

Rendezvous 6:02
Rendezvous 6:02

Was that a face I saw?
No, just a trick of light
It's getting clearer now
But moving out of sight
It's cold and late
and I can't miss that train

I turn around
Walk through the arch
Of Waterloo

I saw the same hooded face
He beckoned me from the gate
"Did you not know, my friend?
Ten years ago was the end
After the war
Waterloo was no more
But your ticket states
There is one train
It's leaving now
And there is a place
Remember my face
And Waterloo …"

4. Crime Of Passion

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And you must stand and face the tale to tell
Who would think that you would take the life of one you loved so well?
And no-one else could see your point of view
To one and one has always been the answer two, or so I'm told
How does it feel, knowing you're guilty?
How does it feel, to be all on your own?

With a crime of passion
A game of love and hate, but it's too late
There's no compassion
It's just a tug of war, that's lost before it's begun.
It's never won
It's a crime, it's a crime

And so you have to face the world alone
The life you took and tore apart without a care of your own
And so he gazes in your eyes so cold
The love you shared, when you were young
Could never heal the pain you hold
So how does it feel, knowing you're guilty?
How does it feel, to be all on your own, on your own?

With a crime of passion
A game of love and hate, but it's too late
There's no compassion
It's just a tug of war, that's lost before it's begun
It's never won

With something you held so dear
How could you throw it away ?
Your fatal emotions win the day…

How does it feel ?
How does it feel ?

5. Caught In The Crossfire

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It's a cold, dark and lonely night
When you know no way to turn
When you've gambled the two things you loved and lost
It's the hard and only way to learn

When I was young, I though I'd never change
But values rarely stay the same
Such a drag to go through all of this
To see my whole life rearranged

I was caught, caught in the crossfire
Between you and me and me and her
I was caught, caught in the crossfire
Between right and left and right and wrong

And experience is no comfort now
It's the world of the unknown
There's a road leading through the crowd
I'm the man, the man who walks alone

From the start, well I had to choose
It was for me along to decide
It was plain sailing at daybreak
By nightfall I was dragged beneath the tide

I was caught, caught in the crossfire
Between you and me and me and her
I was caught, caught in the crossfire
About what was right and what it left for me
So everyday, keep searching, to find a way
And keep moving, to leave this place
Drown in sorrow, raise my glass
And maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow

6. Easy Money

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Your admirers on the street
Gotta hoot and stamp their feet
In the heat from your physique
As you twinkle by in moccasin sneakers

And I thought my heart would break
When you doubled up at the stake
With your fingers all a-shake
You could never tell a winner from a snake
but you always make money

Easy money

With your figure and your face
Strutting out at every race
Throw a glass around the place
Show the colour of your crimson suspenders

We would take the money home
Sit around the family throne
My old dog could chew his bone
For two weeks we could appease the Almighty

Easy money

Got no truck with the la-di-da
Keep my bread in an old fruit jar
Drive you out in a motor-car
Getting fat on your lucky star just making

Easy money

7. In The Dead Of Night

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Are you one of mine who can sleep with one eye open wide?
Agonizing psychotic solitary hours to decide
Reaching for the light at the slightest noise from the floor
Palms of hands perspire
(Now your hands perspire)
heart goes leaping at a knock from the door
In the dead of night
In the dead of night
Rich and powerful ascend complicated bends to be free
To indulge in what they will
(Indulge in what they will)
and jaded thrill or fanstasy
Shuttered windows that belie all stifled cries from within
(All the stifled cries from within)
And prying eyes are blind to proceedings of the kind that begin
In the dead of night
In the dead of night

8. Thirty Years

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Chasing rainbows for a lifetime
then left you girl (left to go)
Like shadows from the sun,
Run into traces
Of faces you thought you saw
But never seemed to mean much more
(But never seemed to me much more)
than echoes of a day gone by
(echoes of a day gone by)
When someone else would have to try
To light the stars
...... In your sky
(Your dark sky)

All the things you planned
Just sand castles washed away
On tidal waves of tears, fears overpowering
Your complex dreams just slither down drowning in rocky pools,
Or smashed and dashed
On peril's course, divorcing prematurely thoughts
(On peril's course, forcing prematurely)
Of lasting love
...... In your life

Sometime when you've time to spare
(Sometime we need time to spare)
Feeling of missed opportunity
Spare a tear and douse your bridge...
burning 30 years and on the ledge....
learning

All the things you planned (baby)
30 years in bed

9. Only Time Will Tell

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It's in your eyes
There's no disguising it
It really comes as no surprise
To find that you planned it all along

I see it now
Becomes so clear
Your insincerity
And me all starrey-eyed
To think that I would have know by now

Chorus:

Now, sure as the sun will cross the sky
This lie is over
Lost, like the tears that used to tide me over

{Only time will tell}
One thing is sure
That time will tell
{Only time will tell}
If you were wrong
The brightest ring around the moon
Will darken when I die

Chorus

{Repeat first verse}

{Repeat second verse}

Chorus

{Only time will tell}
You're on your own
Inside your room
{Only time will tell}
You're claiming victory
You were just using me
And there is no one you can use now

{Only time will tell}
One thing is sure
That time will tell ...

10. Hold Me Now

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Here ends another day
My emotions locked away
And my darkness is complete as the midnight sky
You steal my confidence
My smile is my defense
And I turn my face, so you won't see me cry

How can you be so cold, and so out of control?
As you pour salt into my deepest cut of all
My shattered heart, in pieces now
And I'm gazing at the fragments of my life

Hold me now, maybe just pretend I could be someone that you might have loved before
Hold me now, and let me believe in a kiss that means nothing to you…
'Cause it means the world to me

Lord above, you sanctify your love
And the barrier you built, forces you not to care
Break down that door, take my hand if nothing more
So when I'm falling, then I know that someone's there

I wondered a thousand times, if I could love again
But I will overcome, what I can comprehend

The honesty I offer you
Is as naked as your fear of loving me

Hold me now, let it never end
Hold me like you've never done before
Hold me now, we don't have to pretend
Smash the chains and throw them to the floor
Hold me now, and let me believe that a kiss is the way it should be…
'Cause it means the world to me

It means the world to me

11. Starless

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Sundown dazzling day
Gold through my eyes
But my eyes turned within
Only see
Starless and bible black

Ice blue silver sky
Fades into grey
To a grey hope that oh years to be
Starless and bible black

Old friend charity
Cruel twisted smile
And the smile signals emptiness
For me
Starless and bible black

12. Book Of Saturday

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If I only could deceive you
Forgetting the game
Every time I try to leave you
You laugh just the same

'Cause my wheels never touch the road
And the jumble of lies we told
Just returns to my back to weigh me down...

We lay cards upon the table
The backs of our hands
And I swear I like your people
The boys in the band

Reminiscences gone astray
Coming back to enjoy the fray
In a tangle of night and daylight sounds...

All completeness in the morning
Asleep on your side
I'll be waking up the crewmen
Banana-boat ride

She responds like a limousine
Brought alive on the silent screen
To the shuddering breath of yesterday...

There's the succour of the needy
Incredible scenes
I'll believe you in the future
Your life and death dreams

As the cavalry of despair
Takes a stand in the lady's hair
For the favour of making sweet sixteen...

You make my life and times
A book of bluesy Saturdays
And I have to chose ...

13. Battle Lines

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And now I stand, forsaking pride
The time has come to turn the tide
I've drawn the line, I've built my wall
And I won't let one more dream fall

All days of innocence, I surrendered long ago

Where's the wind that takes me higher
The had that offers peace
The heart that still gives shelter…

I wanna go back to find
The innocent days that I left behind
I still believe they're holding ground
Behind the battle lines
If it takes a million miles over land and sea
Gonna swim in the rivers of purity
I know they still run free
Behind the battle lines

One more mountain I must climb
I've scaled so many in my time
And if the sun goes down on me
The light of truth will help me see

All days of innocence, I surrendered long ago

Where's the voice that speaks of mercy
The eyes that are not blind
The love that's never ending…

A vision of eternity
Oh, Lord! Never take the dream from me
Here I am, standing at the edge of destiny…

14. Open Your Eyes

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What on earth are you doing here, in the
western world?
Another situation, yeah you're a different girl
You have lived your life dreaming you were
someone else
Succeeding's believing in yourself

OPEN YOUR EYES
And see the world that stands before you now
OPEN YOUR EYES
And see the world that stands in front of you

You have spent your days trying for
something new
You have looked at magazine girls, wishing
that they were you
Do you see in photographs an angel that once
was you?
Does she tell you stories that are true?

OPEN YOUR EYES
And see the world that stands before you now
OPEN YOUR EYES
And see the world that stands in front of you

If I could stand with you right now and speak
my mind
I would tell you no lies
I would shoot straight between the eyes

You have stared a thousand times, right into
the lens
Have you ever thought just once, does it all
make sense?
Your beauty is eternal so don't just pretend
Got to wake up girl, or it's the end ...

15. The Smile Has Left Your Eyes

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I saw you standing hand in hand
And now you come to me, the solitary man
And I know what made us live
Such ordinary lives
The where to go the who to see
No one could sympathize
THE SMILE HAS LEFT YOUR EYES
THE SMILE HAS LEFT YOUR EYES

And I've become a rolling stone
I don't know where to go or what to call my own
But I can see that black horizon looming
ever close to view
It's over now it's not my fault
See how this feels for you
THE SMILE HAS LEFT YOUR EYES
Now there's no one to sympathize
Now it's too late, you realized
Now that no one can sympathize, now that
THE SMILE HAS LEFT YOUR EYES

1st Verse

2nd Chorus

But I never thought I'd see you
Standing there with him
So don't come crying back to me ...

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