Peter Kingsbery

Not without reason have I been wrong
Just a few tough demands
On a personal friend I could lean on
Desperate and selfish, I know that I was
We drank all our fill
But I’d swear there was poison in my cup
Of your good intentions what has become?

I thought you were on my side
Must you add the weight?
You said it would he even
When splitting up the stakes
I thought you were on my side
Were we not the rage?
Down the center line, what’s yours is yours and mine
Just like always

Hurting for freedom, hell-bent for lust
It’s an unlikely thing that I’d be bumping in
To someone I could trust
I’m far from resigning, though I’m faint from exhaust
Just because I’m on edge
Do I have to let somebody come push me off?
Is it the belonging, or something you’ve lost?

(Repeat Chorus)

©1985 Edwin Ellis Music and Nurk Twins Music (BMI)
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What’s the matter with the way we look?
Surely it’s not the end
I’ve only meant to make my motions clear
You worry too much if it’s understood
Should we be seen as friends?
Seems like a real good beginning right here

‘Cause when your heart is weak
I’m gonna pick the lock on it
My fingertips won’t fail me
No matter what you do

The love you cannot see yet
Is about to witness a dawning
And you can twist and turn
But you won’t get loose

Better forget getting rid of me
I don’t see how you can
You put me off and I will hunt you down…again
I’m mighty patient when I have to be
You have given me that
Still I look forward to the day you let me in

(Repeat Chorus)

I’m gonna prove myself worthy
No more just hanging on
Without a prayer of a chance
I’m gonna come without warning
When your defenses are down and you’re in a desperate need
Oh I bet you then, you’ll welcome me…
Your ol’companion

(Repeat Chorus)

©1984 Edwin Ellis Music and Nurk Twins Music (BMI)
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Only a fool’s unwise
I don’t know why I should be so surprised
God knows what we’ve done
Much better to be late than too soon
You know you never get much running room
And just when you’re having fun
Someone comes along

Just when you’re having fun

Just as my life goes according to plan
And I thought I had love in the palm of my hand

Because I have no tears
This whole thing must be your idea
Don’t make me confess
I know my limits well
So long ago they were shot to hell
Just let me rest with you
That’s all I want to do

Just when you’re having fun

Just as my intentions have become worthwhile
And I’ve taken the steps to be walked down the aisle

Just as I stand tall from out of my seat
And the ground has come up firmly under my feet

Just when you’re having fun

©1984 Edwin Ellis Music and Nurk Twins Music (BMI)
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If I laid down my love
To come to your defense
Would you worry for me
With a pain in your chest?
Could I rely on your faith to be strong
To pick me back up and to push me along?

You’ll be there in my hour of need
You won’t turn me away
Help me out of the life I lead
Remember the promise you made?
Remember the promise you made?

If I gave you my soul
For a piece of your mind
Would you carry me with you
To the far edge of time?
Could you understand if you found me untrue
Would we become one, or divided in two

Please tell me

(Repeat Chorus)

Could I rely on your faith to be strong
To pick me back up and to push me along?

Please tell me

(Repeat Chorus)

©1984 Edwin Ellis Music and Nurk Twins Music (BMI)
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I want to lay down, but I got no home
Is there a better place?
Cast into the open, with nowhere else to go
I feel right now that I could rest my bones
Or should I stay awake?
Tired of going in circles, trying to stay alive

Because it keeps on working
Don’t make it right

I’ll try anything, that could somehow free me from
The ball and chain
If I can hold out, for I’ve nowhere else to run
Or person to blame
I may be weary
But I’m on my feet again

I had a love that I could call my own
But I had no choice
Who’s afraid of nothing, must be clinging to the vine

Because it keeps on working
Don’t make it right

I raise my head high, and make a toast to the fallen saints
Bless their souls
It’s been a long ride, we’ve all endured some aches and pains
Heaven knows
Could have been easier
But misery loves me so

Cast into the open with nowhere else to go
Tired of going in circles, trying to stay alive

Because it keeps on working
Don’t make it right

Lots of understanding, no one gets enough
Who’s afraid of nothing, must be clinging to the vine

Because it keeps on working
Don’t make it right

©1984 Edwin Ellis Music and Nurk Twins Music (BMI)
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It’s not pretty, though it never is
But nothing that’s too hard to bear
Pay no attention to the dark circles
They have always been there
Don’t mistake me to be broken down
Just because I’m on my knees
I can withstand most anything
I was born with teeth
Born with teeth

Out the womb into an ugly world I’ve been thrown
Welcome to the race
Up on two legs before it tumbles on me
I’m not looking for a kind word to keep me going
It’s so much better off this way
To be born with teeth

After all that I’ve seen taken place
Very little has affect
I’ve been treated like I should have been
At least that’s what my mind says

I’ll be around when everyone has been satisfied or overcome
It’s possible even my happiness will be stumbled on

(Repeat Chorus)

I can got along
I get along without too much advice
Ahh, but if it weren’t so hard to make things right
It’s gonna be whatever fate will bring
I’ve managed to look good so far
But there’s no use pretending

(Repeat Chorus)

©1985 Edwin Ellis Music and Nurk Twins Music (BMI)
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I’m afraid that this is all new to me
We barely struck the tip of the ice
The world is full of missed opportunities
Ask yourself what you feel inside

The trouble with you is the trouble with me
Both of us thinking we’re on our own
If love’s just a dream of what together can be
Well maybe
Once we might have known
Once we might have known

Seems somehow that we still could save our love
Lately I’ve been asking why
I know the odds are not in favor of
But we hardly gave it a try

The trouble with you is the trouble with me
We like to keep movin’ from home to home
The fact that I had you, and we could have been happy
Once we might have known
Once we might have known

I’m afraid that this is all new to me
Seems somehow that we still could save our love
There’s just a few good things you don’t know about me yet
There’s just a lew good things you don’t know about me girl
Like the fact that we could have been happy now
Just talking to each other like we used to do
Is this not a golden opportunity we might be losin’?
I said lately, said lately
We keep movin’, movin’, home to home, home to home, home to…
I keep asking why?

The trouble with you is the trouble with me
Each leaving places that we’ve outgrown
If all that you’ve taken seems like nothing you need
Baby
Once we might have known
Once we might have known

©1985 Edwin Ellis Music and Nurk Twins Music (BMI)
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I see you got a lot on your mind
Maybe something that could change your whole life
It’s not for me or anyone else
To remind you what you oughta know well

It’s gonna break up or break me down
I know I can’t hang on much longer now
Just me out walkin’ in my shoes
I’m gonna take it on, or turn it loose

Only one person can say
There’s not a thing in my way
Hope it all works out O.K.

How can I tell you
Of the hours that I keep reliving?
Any way I can help you
You know I’d always be more than willing

Have you noticed I’m still here?
I’ve got no real place to hide anywhere

I’m not ashamed if it seems too hard
But how can I tell if I’ve been right so far?

Only one person can say
There’s not a thing in my way

How can I tell you
Of the hours that I keep reliving?
Any way I can help you
You know I’d always be more than willing

How to repay you
For all the emptiness you keep filling
If I were the one that you came to
You know I’ll always be more than willing

©1984 Edwin Ellis Music and Nurk Twins Music (BMI)
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My once faultless hero
Afraid of my shadow
I don’t know why
I don’t know why

The hope of the hopeless
A gun to the temple
Don’t make me cry
Don’t make me cry

A little innocence always seems to go ‘long the way
A little innocence always seems to go ‘long the way

The best of the brave ones
Cut down in the battle
I’ve seen too much
I’ve seen too much

I’ve heard enough
I’ve heard enough

A little innocence always seems to go ‘long the way
A little innocence always seems to go ‘long the way

‘Long the way

©1984 Edwin Ellis Music and Nurk Twins Music, Charles Koppelman Music, Martin Bandier Music and Jonathan Three Music (BMI)
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