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Darling
darling
see your face in front of me
like a falling star
like a place where I ain't been
I ain't praying
for a God I don't believe
hurting like a child
and no-one has the care of me
the less I feel
seems I'm hearing people speak like I am dreaming still
and I don't know how much of that is real
time I see a future in that mirror here
and that is why it hurts to leave and
darling
see your face in front of me
like a falling star
like a place where I ain't been
I ain't praying
for a God I don't believe
hurting like a child
and no-one has the care of me
been a whole year
and still the tears start to form, and fall like rain
a strange pattern, nothing yet is clear
to go on like this ...
come closer now, I promise that I feel no fear and
darling
see your face in front of me
like a falling star
like a place where I ain't been
I ain't praying
for a God I don't believe
hurting like a child
and no-one has the care of me
(c) 2005
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Darling
Lover of a Gentle Kind
lay down beside me
my arms are still empty
I know if I speak you won't love me no more
and I don't have no fortune
and I don't have no pity
but love I seen plenty these chances before
come back to haunt me
come back to hold me
I know if I speak you won't love me the same
and I don't have no answers
and I don't know no better
but I want to be here just as I am
and I'll be a lover of a gentle kind
and I'll count all your sorrows, and I'll speak all in rhymes
and don't come so close, because the troubles are mine
yes I'll be a lover of a gentle kind
love me, leave me, I still feel you near me
take back your kindness
I don't want your pity
and I won't have no-one come to tear down my castles
but honey, don't you love me
come back to love me
and I'll be a lover of a gentle kind
and I'll count all your sorrows, and I'll speak all in rhymes
and don't let me close, because the troubles, they are mine
yes I'll be a lover of a gentle kind
(c) 2006
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Lover of a Gentle Kind
One Day We'll Meet Halfway
One day we'll meet halfway
Halfway from here
And I pray I'll be brave
And safe from fear
One day we'll meet halfway
Halfway from here
And I pray I'll be brave
And free from fear
And if that means playing the fool for a while
And if that means letting go
And if that means hurting you again
And if that means being alone
I pray we'll meet halfway
Halfway from here
And one day I'll be brave
And free from fear
And it won't mean playing the fool at all
And it won't mean letting go
And it won't mean hurting you again
And it won't mean being alone
One day we'll meet halfway
Halfway from here
And I pray I'll be brave
And safe from fear
(c) 2003
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One Day We'll Meet Halfway
13
Well he was trouble from the start, a man in despair
talk a lot like a liar but he don't play fair
and the girl had an eye for some trouble of her own
as he was fishing for a reason to visit her at home
because she walked like a sinner and she didn't think twice
or apologise at all, just so new,
he couldn't figure out the girl, found her slow going
so he spun a lot of fast talk and stuck it in her throat
She found him 12 years early and four years late
like a begger in a church
be better to forget him, sure,
but she hadn't had a lot to do with a man like him before
and she was fair for a fall, stuck out half a mile
and the town seemed jealous, least half of the time
couldn't figure him at all, had to go on guessing
and she wore a piece of his heart underneath her dress
and she was all of 13, and a little was enough,
but you can't tell nothing to a girl in love
had a shirt off his back and holes in her shoes
seen the best ten countries and he hadn't been to two
and he was so superstitious, hitting for a win
like a wolf, like a fisherman, he reeled her in
and as the summer came fast, and passed slow,
like a fool, she went to tell him the truth
and she was sore for a while, had a stutter when she spoke
and the ghost of a smile, and a curse in her eye
like a gypsy queen, calling off the chase
while he wrote his guilt on her pretty little face
(c) 2005-2006
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Love Can't Be Cheated
Come to my bed and I'll lie at your feet
I know that you think that I lie and I cheat
I'm helpless before you my dear I adore you
And love can't be cheated, my girl, my girl
Love can't be cheated, my girl.
I sit here and think of the day that I met you
I don't have your picture I'm trying to forget you
I'm counting the seasons with all of your reasons
But love can't be cheated, my girl, my girl
Love can't be cheated, my girl.
I'm saying I'm wrong and I swear that I'm sorry
I'll pay for my sins if you'll say that you want me
I don't mean to lie but a man has to try
And love can't be cheated, my girl, my girl
Love can't be cheated, my girl.
Is it 5 o'clock yet I ain't feeling too bright
Is there anyone close if I lay down and die
I wrote you a letter it won't make things better
But love can't be cheated, my girl, my girl
Love can't be cheated, my girl.
You say you don't cheat and you say you don't steal
You put up a wall so you don't have to feel
I'll dig my own grave the day that you leave
'cause love can't be cheated, my girl, my girl
Love can't be cheated, my girl.
'cause love can't be cheated, my girl, my girl
Love can't be cheated, my girl.
'cause love can't be cheated, my girl, my girl
Love can't be cheated, my girl.
(c) 2005
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Love Can't Be Cheated
Black Pearls
on the eve of winter morning
snow-fall in white
and the tears like crystal gathering
in her eye
in a castle overlooking
built all of pearls
and the people in the city street
watching her
black pearls she wore for mourning
and a lace veil
and a ruby red upon her breast
red as the sun
on the eve of winter morning
snow-fall in white
and the tears like crystal gathering
light up the sky
(c) 2005