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Album: Supertramp Released: 1970 Total Time: 47:50 Richard Davies - Organ, Piano, Electric Piano, Harmonica, Vocals Roger Hodgson - Bass, Flageolet, Acoustic Guitar, Cello, Vocals Richard Palmer - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Balalaika, Vocals Bob Millar - Percussion, Harmonica |
1 - Surely
2 - It's A Long Road
3 - Aubade
4 - Words Unspoken
5 - Maybe I'm A Beggar
6 - Home Again
7 - Nothing To Show
8 - Shadow Song
9 - Try Again
10 - Surely
Only if I lied could I love you Nothing of our lives could we share Only could we try to get by on a sigh Just because, just this once, I was there
Well the road I see before me Threatens pain at every bend, yeah Well my needs are mine, I understand And hope to calling friends Well, good company, it may comfort me But I don't want love to distract my heart from the way Now your love it gave me sorrow And a broken heart to mend, yeah So I took me to this lonely road My sweet hopes, to defend Oh and why pretend, I won't look back Even though the love of a happy man waits before Well, the winter wind blows chilly And the road is dark and gray So take pity on a wanderer should you pass me on the way Oh, I'm left alone without a home Makes a man ask why he travels on When hope is gone It's a long road It's a long road It's a long road It's a long road
Morning at last Every night is a fight till you're waking Dreams dancing past Through the silence of sleep Dawn is breaking I wake and watch them till then And I am not like other birds of prey And I am not like other birds of prey Oh, night is long, you won't needing me For a dressed up time I am there to see That fear holds no sway Soft is my plan And my eyes kill the lies that felt happy Life is my right And in sleep's little bed I'll protect you So, hear, let my presence dismay That I am not like other birds of prey That I am not like other birds of prey When hopes are young and your cares are few Then I'm sure above keeping truth in you And my name is love
Why sing a lonely song? The whole world knows that love goes wrong Why loose a heart that isn't broken? It isn't broken, it can't be broken Life's just a show for free Come along and watch with me The only sins are words unspoken Words unspoken, never spoken Sweet things come and go Give me shame, I'll give you wow To live for love isn't so easy It isn't easy, it won't be easy! How all good men try Look around and wonder why Can they shape this world to please me Can they please me, should they please me? I follow but maybe you'll correct me I wish you'd never met me For I am your gentle man I follow and while you watch and wonder I call my world a sundown And show you who I am Send me a gentle dream Of love so strange it's never seen And proof how such a love can happen It can happen, make it happen Fine things tumble down Fade away without a sound But hope must never end or slacken Never slacken, never slacken I follow but maybe you'll correct me I wish you'd never met me I am your gentle man I follow and while you watch and wonder I call my world a sundown And show you who I am
I ain't got too much money, I ain't got too much sense Long ago I had a dream but that's no recompense My father was a blind man, my brother was a fool My mother told me "God is love" But hatred makes the rules Teach me to fly So I shan't drag my feet in the sand Give me the sky I would take the whole world in my hand World, don't you tell me I cannot last forever Before you know I'll come and go And make you if I can Maybe I'm a beggar, just check your sympathy They throw away their gentle love And keep their pain for me Can we be free, in a world where to love is to own? Well when will we see, that a man must face life all alone? Maybe I'm a beggar, just check your sympathy They throw away their gentle love and keep their pain for me Teach me to fly So I shan't drag my feet in the sand Give me the sky I would take the whole world in my hand Can we be free, in a world where to love is to own? Well when will we see, that a man must face life all alone?
Many is the time that a dream has gone wrong When you're with me Many is the time when the blame went to you Please forgive me But the truth is my friend That the world isn't quite as I thought it to be Oh no, I wish I were back home again Oh no, I wish I were back home again Oh no, I wish I were back home again La la la , I wish I were back home again
Nothing to show beyond the fear I had Body so warm within this perfumed bed Sleeping alone, the shadow of a man He will entice you too, and if he can Nothing to show for love that's never been Nothing to show for love that's never been Nothing to show for love that's never been Nothing is handed, power is changing fast Many the empty hopes his lips caress Sorry to say his days are spent in vain Chasing a dream of doom of nights in pain Nothing to show for love that's never been Nothing to show for love that's never been Nothing to show for love that's never been Shadowy nights of memories of the grave Gentle my love and sweetness sometimes sick Keep up his time while his crimes are known Only a fool can see he's sold his love Nothing to show for love that's never been Nothing to show for love that's never been Nothing to show for love that's never been Nothing to show for love that's never been Nothing to show for love that's never been Nothing to show for love that's never been
Did your shadow ever speak to you? And did he say that something's wrong? Only a figure on a lamplit wall Never realized he cared at all Did he stop you going on? Guess my shadow spoke to me tonight And made me throw my dreams away Told a story of a twisted man Who was playing with some foolish plan 'Bout a girl who had flown away Sometimes shadows are near I see things very clear, my life unwinds Somewhere I'll make my stand Look around at yesterday And change my mind Now your shadow isn't always there In the light of cloudy days Or in circles where you hide from view All the dust that ever bothered you And where people loose your name
Later that evening, only a feeling But it was there in the air that we share in the twilight Humming a sad song, where was our day gone But in the dark was a spark, a remark I remember "Try again", she replied to some story I told "Try again", yes I will if I can Oh, all I need is somebody to hold Learning a feeling, seeking a meaning Finding a way, should she stay, how to say let's imagine Maybe I'll go wrong, an evening that last long But in the night all the light must be right for this moment "Try again", she replied to some story I told "Try again", yes I will if I can Oh, all I need is somebody to hold "Try again", she replied to some story I told "Try again", yes I will if I can Oh, all I need is somebody to hold "Try again", she replied to some story I told "Try again", yes I will if I can Oh, all I need is somebody to hold
Surely there's a way I could please you Only in your past lie the tears Surely there's a day you can say went your way Some illusion you can keep through the years Only if I lied could I love you Nothing of our lives could we share Only could we try to get by on a sigh Just because, just this once, I was there
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