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Romance
Over and over
Like crimson and clover
Got that California dreamin’ vibe
Ventura style
Surfer boy smile
If you give me a ticket to ride
I’ll bring some romance into your life
I’ll make you feel real good inside
Ba ba ba da ba
Eight miles high
Touching the sky
Getting better all the time
Chapel bells chime
At Sunset and Vine
If you’ll be my baby tonight
I’ll bring some romance into your life
I’ll make you feel real good inside
Ba ba ba da ba
(bridge:)
Sugar sugar in the dawn
You keep me hanging on
Honey honey in the night
Feeling alright, feeling alright
Romance into your life
I’ll make you feel real good inside
Ba ba ba da ba
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2. |
After Stephen Foster
05:10
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After Stephen Foster
They say that all the world’s a stage
Each passing act a golden age
When morning brings the rising sun
We turn another page
The weary ones they moan and sigh
Build towers to their gods up in the sky
They wait for those elusive days
When hard times come no more.........
Now comes the time of industry
Unfurl the flag of destiny
Our footsteps echo history
Of ancient troubadours
Our fathers laid the iron rails
Our brothers on the battlefields fell
Our mothers tended fading fires
And bid those men farewell
On victory's forgotten shore
Lay treasure lost forevermore
But in our hand we hold the key
The angels open door
I soared into the darkest clouds
Dove deep into the stormy seas
But every time I turned my back
The world turned back to me
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Much About Me
Oooh ba da da da, oooh ba da da da
You’re pulling me close
While you’re cutting me loose
You’re kissing my throat
While you’re tying the noose
You expect me to stay
Just where you want me to be
You don’t know much about me
You don’t know much about me
Oooh ba da da da, oooh ba da da da
You walk with your ego
And talk with your id
Describing how you
Were a tormented kid
With your x-ray vision
There’s things that you don’t see
You don’t know much about me
You don’t know much about me
Oooh ba da da da, oooh ba da da da
Oooh ba da da da, oooh ba da da da
You say I’m a habit
You’re trying to break
Each habit forsaken
Another one waits
You wave the white flag
But you’ll never be free
You don’t know much about me
You don’t know much about me
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Sometimes It Just Gets This Way
I stand on the edge
I have nothing else to do
I know I’ve got the strength
To pull myself through
Do you know what it’s like
And does it happen to you too
When you keep yourself hidden
Every thought is forbidden
All the books have been written
But nobody reads
Sometimes it just gets this way
I got a couple things
They’re messing me around
One’s a little up and one’s a little down
Got these sophisticated hang ups
chasing me out of town
I ain’t looking for action
Like some kind of split fraction
It’s a half and half attraction
It’s wearing me down
Sometimes it just gets this way
Well I’m gone gone gone
But I’m coming back strong
I’m either right or I’m wrong
I guess we’ll see
Sometimes it just gets this way
Well I’m gone gone gone
But I’m coming back strong
I’m crashing and I’m burning
But I’m ok
Sometimes it just gets this way
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5. |
Vista
03:49
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Vista
Take away night vision
Take away dreams
Take away a thousand miles
Go to extremes
Climb through your bolted window
Slip down your hall
You give away half a chance
I’m taking it all
Alleluia – don’t make a sound
Alleluia – burning it down
Smoke curls along the drapes
Whispers your name
You tell me I’m crazy
For playing this game
Fire on the cellar stair
Fire in the wall
Take away “Forgive me”
Take away recall.
Alleluia – don’t make a sound
Alleluia – burning it down
(Bridge)
Oooooh – falling
Oooooh – calling to you
Falling to the floor
Open the door
Alleluia – don’t make a sound
Alleluia – burning it down
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Another Wait and See Night
I listen to the radio
I listen to the rain on the window
I listen to everybody you know
But never to you
Turn out the light, another wait and see night
I’m wound up too tight, another wait and see night
I’m waiting at the bus stop (bus stop)
Though it’s clear that I’m not going anywhere
I’m only here to eavesdrop
And listen for you
Turn out the light, another wait and see night
I’m wound up too tight, another wait and see night
I wish I could show you
All the ways that I really do know you
I wish I could tell you
But you’d think that I’m just trying to sell you
I’m walking down Main Street
Passing by the midnight store fronts
Every footstep is a heartbeat
Longing for you
Turn out the light on another wait and see night
I’m wound up too tight, another wait and see night
I’m wound up too tight, another wait and see night
Turn out the light, another wait and see night.
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7. |
Where We Belong
03:30
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8. |
Haley
03:41
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Haley
You came to see me today
I met you down the street
Rising from the subway
To hear what you have to say
I’ll take a pass
When you wear that mask
I know those tears
You wear them like a crown of thorns
And this love won’t be reborn
Haley, I wanted you, you haunted me
Haley, let me be
Holding on and holding on and on to nothing
Going on and going on and going nowhere
I walk home alone down the cold streets today
And nothing’s gonna get in my way but you
The spider’s web of you
It clings to me
I turn from my door holding the key
In the shadows I see
Your ghost on the stairway
I guess there’s no running away
Haley, I wanted you, you haunted me
Haley, set me free
Going on and going on and going nowhere
Holding on and holding on and on…
(bridge:)
You’re always talking but your voice it never makes a sound
You pull yourself up on the levy just to watch me drown
Why can’t you see that once you’ve lost yourself you’ll never be found
Haley, I wanted you, you haunted me
Haley, let me be
Holding on and holding on and on to nothing
Going on and going on and going nowhere
Haley
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9. |
Time For The Show
03:01
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Time for the Show
Speed of sound – up and down
Satellite – bringing the day into night
The day into night
Let’s go, it’s time for the show
Whoa oh, ready and steady you know
It’s time for the show
Never late in my Mustang 8
Crash the gate – here we go
Na na na na na na na na na na
It’s time for the show
Rendezvous – quarter to two
Carousel – laughing and ringing the bell
Ringing the bell
Romeo – touch and go
Jump seat – hand on the radio
It’s time for the show
Never late in my Mustang 8
Crash the gate – here we go
Na na na na na na na na na na
It’s time for the show
(Bridge:)
Later on, Texaco station
Come on along be my inspiration, my galaxy
Rocket to the stars you and me
Speed of sound – up and down
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10. |
Aeroplane Baby
04:50
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Aeroplane Baby
Aeroplane Baby
Never touching down
Passing lane lady
Break the barrier of sound
Not just saying maybe
She’s constellation bound
Aeroplane Baby
Never coming down
Tangerine temptress
Pull me in slow
Vagabond Venus
Bring the undertow
Pretty hand-me-down dress
Falling to the ground
Aeroplane Baby
Never coming down
You wanted wings, you wanted to fly
You wanted wings, you wanted to fly
You wanted wings, you wanted to fly
You wanted wings, you wanted to fly
Orbiting the dark star
Hypnotic atmosphere
I’m longing for re-entry
But Baby has no fear
Gravity releases
The second time around
Aeroplane Baby
Never coming down
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11. |
Guitar Star
03:04
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Guitar Star
You got an ego about five times too big for you
You’re hanging out in all the record stores
You got your mirrored shades
A refugee from Hollywood
Ah Guitar Star, you’re so out of touch
With your throwback trip
You’ve really lost your grip
You know you’re much too much
All my friends from the past
Think I grew up to be a big H Bomb
And you know what (What?)
I’m gonna blow ‘em up, up, up
Ah Guitar Star, it’s all Chuck Berry riffs
What are ya – fifteen? Sixteen?
You’ll always be like this
You’re playing it down and laying it down
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Breaking it down and shaking it down
On and on and on and on and on …..
Ah – Guitar Star
I think it’s extremely delightful
You got to shoot up to get up onstage
I read your book
A heart attack on every page
Ah Guitar Star – you really got it made
In this world that you love
Is the world that you hate
It’s the life that you’re living today
What?!
You’re a Guitar Star….
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12. |
Clever And Astute
03:46
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Hummingbird Syndicate Boston, Massachusetts
Jon Macey and Lynn Shipley are a songwriting team creating lyrical and melodic tunes for the ages. Hummingbird Syndicate is
a collection of their musical friends.
Metronome Magazine:
"With lush
vocal harmonies, vibrant fretboard forms
and pop-steady rhythms, Hummingbird
Syndicate proves to be one of the finest
band of pop architects on the scene today."
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