HIGHWIRE

 

1. I don't wanna listen to you

Say tomorrow is the next stop

Some kind of promised land

Lock away your precious things

That you're too scared to drop

Don't hold them in your hand

They might jump into the sky

Step out and fly

Waving goodbye

 

Ch.1

Walking on a highwire, looking down

Dancing through the crossfire

Going underground

Winding up a fast ball

Sending a signal

Flying through the danger sign

For peace of mind

I can make it anyway tonight

I don't need to jump

But then I might

Tell me something I might want to know

Something I could die for

Or you can let me go

 

2. You can have what I don't want

The time to say where has the time gone

Hanging pictures on the wall

And waiting till they fall

Into the sky

Watch them fly

Waving goodbye

 

SOLO

Ch.2

I don't want you there to break my fall

I won't be the one who saves you

So don't call

Cos all of the lines came crashing down

On the middle ground

Picking up a live wire

Don't ask why

Living with a vampire - terrified

Calling after midnight - no reply

Running with my eyes closed

As I pass you by

Riding with the chain down

Over the edge

Sliding in the rain

Trying to make this bend

Reaching for the pain

Turn it up to ten

It must be something there's no cure for

I'll take it anyway

 

[Ch.1]

 

 

SHE CAME TO PLAY

 

1. She was a sweet confection

Had my tongue on the floor

She only turned from the mirror cos

She had a thousand ships to launch

She was a loaded device

But I told her "you're the best, I love the dress"

She blew a hole in my mind

Never saw my SOS - SOS

 

Ch: She came to play

Watching my heart drift away

I'm going under

She turns out to wave

Someone try to save me

Love run me through

It might run to you

 

2. She had a neat complexion

She had legs from here to Tokyo

Kinda makes you wonder how a Japanese boy's

Gonna use a set of painted toes

He should be stepping in time with you baby

You're the girl - all round the world

While you're tossing your hair

All the boys can toss and turn

 

Ch: She came to play

Watching my heart drift away

I'm going under

She turns out to wave

Someone try to save me

Love run me through

She could do it too

She might run to you

Break: (Float away)

[Here come the twiddly bits]

[Solo]

 

Ch: She came to play

Watching my heart drift away

I'm going under

She turns out to wave

Hold on to me baby

You can save the day

Don't hold me under

You can stop the pain

She came to play

Watching my heart drift away

I'm going under

She turns out to wave

She came to play

She just came to play

 

 

JUST A LITTLE WORD

 

I needed subtitles to hear what you were saying

I'm not a genius - I can't tell if you're playing

But I took a deep breath - I jumped off the deep end

I asked her if I could and she said well that depends

 

Now all I want to do [want to do]

Is try 'n communicate with you

All I want to do is

Have a little word with you

 

I need my sunglasses to look in your bright eyes

I bought a diamond but it's not the right size

I found the kitchen - I've seen what's cooking

I set my sights so high I find that I'm still looking

 

Now all I want to do [want to do]

Is try 'n communicate with you

All I want to do is

Have a little word with you

 

Break:

So I gave up the ghost

I didn't want it anyway

And what I miss the most

Is translating what she tried to say

 

 

 

SHOOT AN ARROW AT MY HEART

 

1. Two hearts on fire

Burning for a lifetime

One heart was mine

And one belonged to someone

And I've just found the one

Baby I'm a-want you

I really need you

Kick starting up my life

Everybody wants you

But they don't want you

More than I do tonight

So baby

 

Ch 1: Shoot an arrow at my heart

Baby watch my love

Come tumbling out now

I can't stop the flood

It just falls like rain

I love that pain now

Loving you can't be wrong

And your arrows can't hurt anyone

 

2. Cover me in champagne

Curl your lips around me

Baby we can aquaplane

The world can wait

While we're slip sliding away

Baby I'm a-want to

Turn you on to

Loving like an acrobat

Could never do

Everybody wants you

But all I want you to

Tell them is you got someone

Who wants you to

Ch: Shoot an arrow at my heart

Baby watch my love

Come tumbling out now

I can't stop the flood

It just falls like rain

I love that pain now

Loving you can't be wrong

And your arrows can't hurt anyone

 

Break: I had a vision in blue

The kind that switched

My mind to overload

Now the vision is true

And here's the part of it

You don't know

The vision was you

Now all I wanna do is

Touch and glow

 

Baby I'm a-want you

I really need you

Kick starting up my life

Everybody wants you

But they don't want you

More than I do tonight

So baby

 

Ch 1:

 

Ch 2: Shoot an arrow at my heart

Baby, I can guarantee my love now

You could hit me in the dark

I get hit cos you can't miss now

Loving is everything

Please take my love

It's got no strings

Shoot an arrow at my heart

[Shoot an arrow at my heart]

 

CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY

 

1. Dancing in the heat

Getting steamed up

Looking at a sexual athlete

Up the temperature

And hop, step, jump

Give me elevation, baby

If all you need is love

I'm a naked ape

It's my life and I do what I like

It's my mind it's alright

It's all snow white

 

Ch: You can't take that away now

You can't take the game away

You can't take what I can't give you anyway

No, you can't take that away

Take that away

 

2. Taking Fanny up the hill

Playing tick tack

Tow a little line down the middle -

Try and play a little (longer)

In the darkness

Covering up all the bad things

Coming up for air gives me the bends

It's my life and I do what I like

It's my mind it's alright

It's all snow white

Ch.2: But don't take that away

(Take that away)

It's only mine for just a day

Don't take that away

(Take that away)

It should be mine to give away

It could be the only game I play

It should be mine for just a day

 

No don't take that away now

You can't take the game away

You can't take what I can't give you anyway

Don't take that away, no don't you

Take it all away

 

It's only mine for just today

Don't take that away - it should be mine

To give away

Cos it's the only game I play

 

Don't take that away

(Take that away)

 

 

WALKING IN THE HAMPTONS

 

Hey tonight

We're going down to my town for suicide

What a nice line in shirts

To lie down and laugh in the dirt

Oh no no no

Jeff's got a deal on

He can't go

Hey hey, what do you say

We can have a lot of fun anyway

 

Ch.1 Get out the audience

I'm going to the Hamptons

Down to status symbol land

Nothing happens here

And nothing needs to happen here

Down in status symbol land

 

Oh no no no

Don't touch that lever please

My helicopter means the difference to me

I know you only meant to please

But lives can be lost in the squeeze

 

Yo ho

I can be the captain, it's my boat

Hey hey bucket and spade

Break up the ice

And shovel in the snow

 

Ch.2 Get me an ambulance

I'm walking in the Hamptons

I'm gonna fall down in the sand

Nothing happens here

And nothing needs to happen here

Cos this is status symbol land

 

Ch.3 Everybody take your lover's handles

Conga down to status symbol land

Everytime's a party time

I'll send a line back from the Hamptons

 

Walk - in the Hamptons

Snort - in the Hamptons

Jump - in the Hamptons

Dump - in the Hamptons

 

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