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Album: Rites Of Passage Released: 1997 Total Time: 62:21 Roger Hodgson - Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards Andrew Hodgson - Drums, Vocals, Piano, Harmonica Mikail Graham - Guitar, Vocals Rich Stanmyre - Bass, Vocals Jeff Daniel - Keyboards, Vocals, Percussion John Helliwell - Saxophone, Percussion, Vocals (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12) Terry Riley - Tamboura, Vocal (8) Josh Newman - Cello (7) |
1 - Every Trick in the Book
2 - In Jeopardy
3 - Showdown
4 - Don't You Want to Get High?
5 - Take the Long Way Home
6 - Red Lake
7 - Melancholic
8 - Time Waits for No One
9 - No Colours
10 - The Logical Song
11 - Smelly Feat
12 - Give a Little Bit
Every Trick in the Book
Well every trick in the book That you want to play You'd better have a good answer To get your way 'Cause all the tricks that you pulled And all the people you fooled Well you you started something Well all the people that liked you Just went on home And when they could have stood by you You stood alone 'Cause all the people you fooled And all the people you took Well you started something And all the signs in your head Call out you're dead But all the preachers went home And left you alone And all the women that liked you You fooled around And when you got them inside you You turned them down 'Cause all the women you fooled And all the women you took Well you started something And all the lines in your head Call out you're dead And all the teachers went home And left you alone Monkeys to the left Monkeys feeling right at home Too many people Too many walking alone And though they say They don't like it You know they really don't mind If you started something But all the signs in your head Call out you're dead And all the teachers went home And left you alone
In Jeopardy
In jeopardy, in jeopardy, I feel I'm about to cry In jeopardy, in jeopardy, oh tell me the reason why In jeopardy, in jeopardy, I'm watching the feeling grow In jeopardy, in jeopardy, oh tell me I want to know In jeopardy, in jeopardy, the writing is on the wall In jeopardy, in jeopardy, I can't seem to sleep at all In jeopardy, in jeopardy, we utter a lonely cry In jeopardy, in jeopardy, who cares if we live or die Who's in your mind Who's in your conscience Part of the crime Part of the nonsense Do what we can Pray for tomorrow Living our lives Watching, waiting, feeling as much as we can In jeopardy, in jeopardy, so where is the golden age In jeopardy, in jeopardy, we're ready to turn the page In jeopardy, in jeopardy, it's getting so out of hand In jeopardy, in jeopardy, I wish I could understand Who's in your mind Who's in your conscience Part of the crime Part of the nonsense Do what we can Pray for tomorrow Living our lives Watching, waiting, feeling as much we can Who's in your mind Who's in your conscience Part of the crime Part of the nonsense Do what we can Sing for tomorrow Living our lives Watching, waiting, working, playing Singing, dancing, running as fast as we can
Showdown
Well there's crying in the kitchen And there's fighting on the street And there's cocaine in the schoolyard yet my heart don't miss a beat I can't let go - oh I can't let go And the preacher on the telly And he's handing me the phone Got an ulcer in his belly and a torment in his soul He can't let go, no he can't let go Everybody wants a contibution Telling me they've got the best solution No one wants the carousel to slowdown Seems to me we're heading for a showdown And there's poisen in the water And there's holes up in the sky And the children keep on asking "Is the planet going to die?" We must let go, we must let go Go to get fired - it's going to get hot We've got to take it higher Give it everything we got Oh - oh, you never know, oh way to go Everybody's talking revolution Politicians offer no solution No one seems to want to face the lowdown Seems to me we're heading for a showdown
Don't You Want to Get High?
When will you walk through my door? When will the clouds dissappear? When will the story unfold When will there be no more tears? But it's ok, you say Don't you want to get Don't you want to get high? Sing Lord knows, let go Don't you want to get Don't you want to get high? Smile though the world feels so cold Sing though there's no one to hear Dream so the story unfolds Laugh so there'll be no more fear 'Cause it's ok, you say Don't you want to get Don't you want to get high? Sing Lord knows, let go Don't you want to get don't you want to get high? 'Cause you're on your way You know I'll say today Hey - don't you want to get Don't you want to get high? Sing Lord there's a way Your love will save the day Hey - don't you want to get Don't you want to get high?
Take the Long Way Home
So you think you're a Romeo Playing a part in a picture show Take the long way home Take the long way home 'Cause you're the joke of the neighborhood Why should you care if you're feeling good Take the long way home Take the long way home But there are times that you feel you're part of the scenery All the greenery is comin' down, boy And then your wife seems to think you're part of the furniture Oh, it's peculiar, she used to be so nice When lonely days turn to lonely nights You take a trip to the city lights And take the long way home Take the long way home You never see what you want to see Forever playing to the gallery You take the long way home Take the long way home And when you're up on the stage, it's so unbelievable Unforgettable, how they adore you But then your wife seems to think you're losing your sanity Oh, calamity, is there no way out? Does it feel that you life's become a catastrophe? Oh, it has to be for you to grow, boy When you look through the years and see what you could have been Oh, what might have been If you'd had more time So, when the day comes to settle down Who's to blame if you're not around? You took the long way home You took the long way home...
Red Lake
Red Lake, hear my words Where the eagles cry And the spirits fly o'er sacred land Red lake, hear my prayers They're a feeble cry To an angry sky that bleeds for Man "So get up and shut up And don't let us use you Oh get up and shut up And let us abuse you" It's a crazy world And my spirit cries against the wind Can you send to me I've been this way before I've danced on distant shores I've watched the minds of men Go south - come back again I've walked a million miles I've seen my little child I've knocked on every door And still I'm wanting more - To be home To be home Yeah yeah to be home To be home yeah yeah to be home
Melancholic
Many thing I've asked for Are sitting next to me Lifeless as can be Always sound asleep Many times I drift away And somehow join their sleep And when I wake I find myslelf With noting left to be...
Time Waits for No One
Time waits for no one Old as the sun Lying here beside you Life's just begun Time stays for no one Old once was young Life's grand illusion Two hearts make one Time waits for no one Old as the sun Lying here beside you Life's just begun
No Colours
I saw you walking down the streeet I wondered if we'd ever meet You turned to look and then I turned away I wonder why it has to be that way Oh I wanna know your name Sometimes I wonder if everone's like me So many wishes - so many dreams I want to stop I want to talk with you I'm just not sure if you would want me to So many faces - so many lives Sometimes they touch me and I feel so shy They're all like mirrors that I'm looking through The more I see the more I thing of you Oh I wanna know your name I saw you walking down the streeet today I wondered if we'd ever meet I held my breath, I closed my eyes I stopped and listened as you passed me by I never saw your face, I never saw your colour I want to know you but I don't know how It's such a place of wonder Oh I wanna know your name
The Logical Song
When I was young it seemed That life was so wonderful A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical And all the birds in the trees Well they'd be singing so happily Joyfully, oh playfully watching me But then they sent me away To teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical And they showed me a world Where I could be so dependable Clinical, oh intellectual, cynical. There are times when all the world's asleep The questions run too deep For such a simple man Won't you please, Please tell me what we've learned I know it sounds absurd But please tell me who I am Oh watch what you say Or they'll be calling you a radical, A liberal, oh fanatical, criminal Oh won't you sign up your name We'd like to feel you're acceptable Respectable, presentable - a vegetable! But at night when all the world's asleep The questions run too deep For such a simple man Won't you please, Please tell me what we've learned I know it sounds absurd But please tell me who I am
Smelly Feat
You don't have to know what it is I know You don't have to wonder where it is I go I just want to find out what it is I fear You can take me or leave me Just tell me why it is we're all here Oh I just wanna know - can you tell me please? Don't you ever wonder why it is we're all here? Don't you ever listen to what we all fear I just wonder why, I just want to know what it is There's just got to be something more than what we think this all is Oh come on and tell me If you think you know why Oh come on tell me what it is If you think you know Oh come on and tell me I really want to know You don't have to wonder But I know you do You don't have to worry But you know you will There's got to be someting more Than what we can see Just tell me if you think you know The way to se us all free Oh come on and tell me What it's we all fear Oh come on and tell me I really wanna know Oh come on say You know I wanna hear Oh come on and tell me
Give a Little Bit
Give a little bit Give a little bit of your love to me Give a little bit I'll give a little bit of my love to you There's so much that we need to share Send a smile and show you care Gave a little bit I gave a little bit of my love to you So give a little bit Give a little bit of your time to me See man man with the lonely eyes Take his hand, you'll be surprised Give a little bit Give a little bit of your love to me I'll give a little bit Give a little bit of my life for you Now's the time that we need to share So find yourself, we're on our way back home Going home Don't you need, don't you need to feel at home? Oh yeah, we gotta sing
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