*1. We Were Always Sweethearts
(Boz Scaggs)
We were always sweethearts
Different in our ways
Together we spent happy hours
And oh happy days
Laughing in the sunshine
And crying in the rain
Together we knew happy days
We never knew no pain... yeah
Cloudy day sunny sunshine
Happy days will never be the same
I was her man
And she my queen
Together we knew happy days honestly
Lying in the grass
And laying on our butts.. yeah yeah
We were always different
Different in our ways
Together we knew happy hours
And oh happy ways
Lying out together
And never mind the weather
Together we knew happy days
We never had it better.. yeah
Cloudy days sunny sunshine
Happy days will never be the same
No no no no no
Aaah.. get it
Oh times can be
So hard you'll see
Never never know in stormy weather
Times can be
So hard to be
Never never knowing we're together... yeah
Mmmm
We were always sweethearts
Different in our ways
Together we spent happy hours
And oh happy days
Laughing in the sunshine
And crying in the rain
Together we knew happy days
We never knew no pain.. yeah
Cloudy day's sunny sunshine
Happy days will never be the same
na na na na na na yeah...
na na na na na na yeah...
na na na na na na... yeah...
*2. Downright Women
(Boz Scaggs)
She bathes herself
In sweet perfume
She helps herself
To all the rouge she can muster
She's a flustered thing
Oh my my my my my my my
She's my baby
She's my baby yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
She wears her rouge
Like a summer day
She wears her perfume
Oh what a way yeah
She's a flustered thing
Oh my my my my my my my
And she's my baby
She's my baby yeah yeah yeah
She wears her rouge
Like a summer day yeah
She wears her perfume
But it all goes away yeah
I feel sorry
She could go so far
In her weird desire
She's got everything
And what's in-between
She's my baby
She's my baby yeah yeah yeah
Ooohhh...mmmmmmmm
*3. Painted Bells
(Boz Scaggs)
Winding down the Drury Lane
I fall with the evening rain
My thoughts with the water flow
Like steam rising off the road
Passers-by watch their step
To see that they don't get wet
And I'll just sit beneath this tree
Let the drops fall all over me
And watch the city lights flick on
The crowds collide just out of my reach
The taxi's lights flash up and down the street
I sit and watch the faces go by
I don't wonder where to or why
Cos it's me the rain my warm dark pain
Alone at ease and nowhere at all
My thoughts just drift on back to you
It seems you're here so it must be true
We never parted you never went away
So I order up another glass
Not to let the moment pass
Turning around in love with you
Oh I know you loved me too
And it's always been this way
Here sitting in my wet cafe
I catch a spark across the way
A string of tiny painted bells
Seem to have a tale to tell
A string of tiny painted bells
On someone that I once knew well
Is all that's left
The rest's not true
I smile I see it's really you
The rain will go
And you will too
And I order up another glass
Not to let the moment pass
Turning around in love with you
Oh it got too hard to do
And it's always been this way
Yes it's always been this way
*4. Alone Alone
(Written and sung by David Brown)
I found a friend who says he hasn't any fears
He has a brother who's been sailing here for years
But if I have this friend for long
He'll hear this sad confusing song
And look away from all he thinks he knows
And wonder where it goes
Turn his head and look away
Alone alone...
Turn his head and look away
Alone alone...
And I found a friend who says he's shedding no more tears
Got him a woman who will love him through the years
If I've ever known his dreams
Things are all the way they seem
He'll walk away from all his promises
And laugh about betrayal
Turn his head and look away
Alone alone...
Turn his head and look away
Alone alone...
And I found a friend who has not been here very long
He goes round and round and spins you out a song
He says his memory's to blame
When nothing ever sounds the same
Here "I'm going inside the words" he said
And crawl back out the hole
Turn his head and look away
Alone alone...
Turn his head and look away
Alone alone...
And I found a friend who says he cannot sleep at night
He lies awake and balls his fists to beat the fright
He says it's hard to get ahead
And things are better done than said
It's a lonesome situation here
Hard and long and gone
Turn his head and look away
Alone alone...
Turn his head and look away
Alone alone...
And I found some friends who turn their heads and look away
"Man what's wrong with you"
With all their reasons sounding good for things they say
If I have these friends for long
I'd get so lost inside this song
I'd get away from what I'm leaning on
Go on and on and on...
Turn my head and look away
Alone...
Turn my head and look away
Alone alone...
Turn my head and look away
Alone alone
*5. Near You
(Boz Scaggs)
(I want to be near you)
I want to hear what you have to say
(As long as I'm near you)
Nothing will seem to pass away
Long as I'm near you
Longing to hear you
Long as I'm near you
(I want to believe you)
When you say the things you do
(And so I believe you)
You make it all appear so true
Glad that I found you
It's good to be around you
Good to be near you
When it comes to making time
Little girl you sure made mine
You made my day
You made my way to stay
(I want to be near you)
You're my all you're my everything
(As long as I'm near you)
There's a song in my heart to sing
The song of your laughter
Is all that I'm after
I want to be near you
Love is such a happy song
And when love comes along
It's good to be alive
It's good that you arrived on time
I want to be near you
I want to be near you
I want to be near you
As long as I'm near you
As long as I'm near you
As long as I'm near you
I want to believe you
I want to believe you
I want to believe
And so I believe you
And so I believe you
And so I believe
I want to believe you
I want to believe you
I want to believe
As long as I'm near you
As long as I'm near you
As long as I'm near
Oohhh
I want to believe you
*6. I Will Forever Sing (The Blues)
(R.P. St. John)
I never dreamed
I never dreamed before I started
That I'd chosen such a hard hard road to choose
Farewell sweet dreams
But now it seems
That I will forever sing the blues
Hey that I will forever sing the blues
Hey lookin back
It could have been predicted
Yes lookin back
It could easily have been foretold
Oh but we were blind
And who at that time
Who was worried 'bout the winter and cold mmmm
Who was worried 'bout the winter and the cold mmm
Well alright!
Well excuse me if you catch me feelin sorry
If my smile gets hidden behind last night's headlines
Well it's not good news
But I'll sing the blues
Life keeps getting harder all the time
Yes life keeps getting harder yeah all the time
Yes life keeps getting harder yeah all the time
All the time yeah
Whoah all the time
Yeah just keep on yeah
Just keep on yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
All the time... all the time
It just keeps on yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
All the time... whoah all the time
Whoah alright yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Alright yeah
*7. Moments
(Boz Scaggs)
Was it for a moments pleasure
That brought me to your door
Was it for your darkest treasure
Could I have loved you more
Did I take the time to tell you
I'd seen you once before
You were standing in my garden
And I was on the floor
You came around that evening
You came around that fall
My heart went out that evening
Never came back at all...Oh
And so I came to know you
As keeper of my heart
It saw me search and saw you
It showed me from the start
Time and again I've held you near me
I wonder if you've ever known
How I hold you near me
Is not exactly shown
I'm coming around to know you
I've come to find my place
And someone there to go to
It's come to be my fate
Like a fire holds its heat in
Like the winter holds its cold
Like a question holds its answer
That's the way you hold
I came around that evening
I came around that fall
My heart went out that evening
Never came back at all
Coming around to know you
I've come to find my place
*8. Hollywood Blues
(Boz Scaggs)
Rich girl she got her bag
Poor girls got one too
My girls happy just doing her thing
She's doing what she wanna do
You can be
Anyone you wanna be
So why you wanna be
Someone else
Rich girl looks like a movie star queen
Other girls don't have a care
Now my baby looks like a something too
She looks like she's sitting right there
You can be
Anyone you wanna be
So why you wanna be
Oh.. someone else
Ah tell me now
Everybody takes little hints sometimes
But know there's nothing there to lose
Make darn sure it's your own thing baby
you'll end up with two left shoes
You can be
Anyone you wanna be
Oh.. so why you wanna be
Yeah.. someone else
I wanna know
If you can be
Anyone you wanna be.. yeah
So why you got to be
Oh.. someone else
You can be.. Oh
Anyone you wanna be.. yeah
Why you got to be
Someone else
*9. We Been Away
(David Brown)
We grew tired of the water
We grew sleepy from the heat of the day
You broke your promises you said that we'd have fun
And all the rest you sent me here to stay
We been away
We been away
We been away yeah yeah
We been away
We're painted silly all red and black
She poured the whiskey down the sink
Caught our father cryin' now
We've chased him up the wall
It never even bothered us to think
We been away
We been away yeah
We been away yeah yeah
We been away
We been away
We been away
We been away yeah yeah
We been away
There's been hangin' in the kitchen
There's been talkin' 'bout things not to say
Goin' home now but that's no excuse
For anyone out there to want to stay
We been away
We been away
We been away yeah yeah
We been away
We been away
We been away
We been away yeah yeah
We been away |
