A Different Man « Peter Kingsbery

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1. Do A Dance

It’s a real life story that never was
Tomorrow’s scandal for true love
And how one man learns to rise above
The ball and chain
It’s either a bust or the big chance
A struggle for wealth and romance
So tired of trying to understand
This dirty game
I see my arms start to open
I feel my heart want to hold them
I know that I’ll never be the same

I want a kiss
I want to do a dance
I want to live
I want to lay down and raise up
And feel like I can start again

No satisfaction guarantee
It’s just the way things turn out to be
No sentimental nights left to haunt me
In my sleep
I believe in making the action
Just a little more sex and distraction
And I can live the everlasting
Fantasy
Only now can love make a difference
Crying out as I stop to listen
Never quite believing all that I see

2. A Different Man

That was the beginning
An almost perfect match
That would never come apart
I was a dreamer
A poet from the past
But every word came from my heart
I might have been precious
I might have been tough
I could have been meaner then
Or just a little rough
But I would have died for you
And that was a different man

Forever and ever
All ahead full
Of these days I have no regrets
So wild and abandoned
Deep under your spell
Of these hours are none second-best
I might have been freer then
I could be a fool
Maybe I was younger
And had nothing to lose
I might have cried easier
That was a different man

I’ve still got my humour
I still can make you laugh
You won’t see me sinking low
I’m looking for no one
Though I’m good at looking back
Back to places I’ll never go
It might have been winter
It could have been spring
Maybe I was thinner then
Times could have been lean
And I might have needed you
That was a different man

3. What You Are

You’re drunk on wine
Your face is flush
You’re burning up with fever
Just to be touched
To feel like a goddess
Of pleasure and pain
When flesh meets flesh
We are all the same

What you are
What you are is just
A little girl
What you need
Is someone to lean on
What you feel
What you feel is nothing
Of this world
A star to dream on

You’re much too bold
You’re much too wise
You’re missing this warm mouth
Kissing your thighs
A thousand emotions
All black and white
By the tip of a tongue
You lose the fight

What you are
What you are is just
A little girl
What you need
Is someone to lean on
What you fear
What you fear is nothing
Of this world
A star to dream on

You turn on the heat
The hotter it gets
Gets harder to breathe
You want to be wanted

4. Hélène

There is a church bell
That rings on the hour
Filling the streets
Stopping the world awhile
Loud is the laughter
From in the schoolyard
Prickling my ears
Telling me time’s passing by

Hélène, comfort me, Hélène, I am falling

There is a name
I’ve replaced with my own
It’s taken me years
Now it’s dark and unknown
Though I scoff at the things
That I said long ago
I knew what I’d find
C’est toi mon bouchon, mon bouchon

Hélène, comfort me, Hélène, I am falling

Try as you may
This is not my real home
And I miss how the sun
Comes up late in the morning
For all that I want
There is really not much you can do

Outside the harbor
The wind-surfers ride
Working their sails
As navy ships lag behind
Off to a country
With waves full of grain
A boyhood of mine
And a dream that
Will always remain

Hélène, comfort me, Hélène, I am falling

5. Five Fingers

Five fingers and one touch
Start the fire that I miss so much
A hard laugh and a cool smile
Frightened eyes like a runaway child

She’s the darling of your dreams
That disappears without a trace
And such a pretty young thing

A good kid The precious kind
Daddy’s baby Is doing fine

A split lip from a fist fight
She paints her face for a saturday night
White bracelets and black hose
Stepping out like a real Jackie-O

Not a man that’s on the make
It’s gonna be a slow burn
Got a habit got to break

6. Love In Motion

Lovers in the springtime
Romance for a day
That flowers like a poppy seed
Never dying from slow decay
A promise that’s a promise
Nothing more nothing less
A fountain of high reality
In a house of happiness

Love in motion Fantasy Sweet devotion
I will believe If you believe

The teasing of a virgin
The giving of consent
The trials of joy and innocence
That so quickly came and went
A fad for generations
A husband and his wife
The flight of a male hummingbird
That will take his mate for life

Chorus

Things I thought I’d never see
I start to dream about
We travel through eternity
So don’t lie to me
I know too much
There’s never been an easy way out

7. Real Blood Anger

The hour is upon you
Your pride is possessed
You just were not thinking
To have made such a mess
It’s hardly worth saying
When words are so cheap
Cheaper than dirt

See what you’ll be missing
See what you’ve brought on
So kind to your prisoner
Just like mother and son
One kiss for the memory
With mouths open wide
And no one gets hurt

Real blood anger

Are you ever so
Yeah you’re ever so
Holy divine you can
Walk on the water
Well it’s no attitude
This I’m telling you

Real blood anger

I’ll hang with the guilty
I know where to stand
You’ve really done nothing
And I lie when I can
All I want is your blessing
But the ditch is too deep
And getting deeper

Real blood anger

8. How Can I Be Sure?

How can I be sure
In a world that’s constantly changing
How can I be sure
Where I stand with you?

How can I be sure
When everyone is out for the taking
How can I be sure
Where I stand with you?

How can I be what you want me to be
How can I try, how can I learn
How can I know that you’ll be good to me
How can I really be sure?

How do I know
Maybe you’re trying to use me
Flying too high can confuse me
Touch me but don’t take me down

Whenever I, whenever I am away from you
My alibi is telling people I don’t care for you
Maybe I’m just hanging around
With my head up
Upside down, it’s a pity
There’s no one as lovely as you

How can I be sure
In a world that’s constantly changing
How can I be sure
Where I stand with you?

How’s the weather
Whether or not we’re together
Together we’ll see it much better
I love you, I love you forever
You know where I can be found…

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9. The Hand That Feeds

I’ve been looking for reasons
To wage these petty wars
This fighting in my head
Hurts too much to ignore
I keep looking skyward
Pray some good will come
As far as I can see
We’re not the guilty ones

Father where’s the hand that feeds me
Where has gone my youth?
Tell me where this life will lead me to
Father where’s the hand that feeds me?

All the love between us
Is all we’ve ever had
Bring your body to bed
Help me make it last
So much is determined
Way before you’re born
Nothing seems to count
For too much any more

I believe my heart is beating
In my throat
It’s the same old fright
That’s so familiar
I’m not looking back
To find a savior for my soul
But I’d sure like an answer

10. Makes No Sense At All

Nothing’s for sure
Or accident proof
You never get hurt
Till it happens to you
Happens so fast
Just thrown at your feet
A kink in your plans
To walk in your sleep

Makes no sense at all
How do I see?
Makes no sense at all

Lying in bed
The midnight shift
Just back from the dead
What more could I wish
Where does it stop
The words grow faint
The body runs hot
The mind goes blank

Chorus

Tomorrow’s light
Just trickling in
I look at my life
And how simple it’s been
Till somebody comes
Not a second too late
To shatter your love
With a burst of hate

Chorus

11. The Sublime

Like an x-rated movie
I never quite understood
An afternoon’s pleasure
That really might do me good
A bad streak for days gone by
When youth was ours to waste
Love doesn’t last
You can’t trade one for another
Don’t let it get past this time

Early in the morning the sweetness
Late one night the sublime
How can I take you there?

Make me an offer
And I’ll never leave the nest
Such a fine looking mother
Hold me close to your breast
One man is not enough
When every day’s the same
Cocked and pulled back
And ever so right on the trigger
With only one track in mind

Chorus

How can I take you, how can I break you,
How can I make you cry?
I’ll take you there, we’ll walk on thin air,
But, can you teach me how to fly?

12. Caesar

I got plans, I’ll find money
For nothing can stop me now
It’s my chance in a million
My creation will live somehow
Time spent is life wasted
There’s better things to do
I’ll drop dead in good graces
After all you’ve put me through

Rage on little Ceasar
Rage on…

I pretend but nothing changes
So I fight till I get my way
I got friends in high places
And I long to be with them someday
A strong willed sole survivor
That’s what I am
I can move no faster
If I chased you to
The promised land

Chorus

Go ahead, I’ll see you later
It’s not that I have not tried
I don’t beg it’s not my nature
But I’ll give you some good advice
The all time big loser
I used to be
So old man move over
And we’ll build a city
By the sea

Chorus

Peter Kingsbery

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