Rio Lyrics

RIO

Wow! Moving on the floor now babe you're a bird of paradise Cherry ice cream smile I suppose it's very nice With a step to your left and a flick to the right You catch that mirror way out west You know you're something special and you look like you're the best Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand Just like that river twisting through a dusty land And when she shines she really shows you all she can Oh Rio Rio dance across the Rio Grande I've seen you on the beach, and I've seen you on TV Two of a billion stars, it means so much to me - Like a birthday or a pretty view But then I'm sure that you know it's just for you Hey now (wow) look at that. Did he nearly run you down? At the end of the drive, the lawmen arrive you make me feel alive alive alive I'll take my chance, 'cause luck is on my side I tell you something I know what you're thinking I tell you something I know what you're thinking Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand Just like that river twisting through a dusty land And when she shines she really shows you all she can Oh Rio Rio dance across the Rio Grande Her name is Rio she don't need to understand I might find her if I'm looking like I can Oh Rio Rio hear them shout across the land From mountains in the North down to the Rio Grande.

MY OWN WAY

I saw you at the air race yesterday April showers get out of my way Fear of flying no not me I've never bothered what you say Someone's kid just lives for today It ain't your problem anyway. Cos I've got my own way I can find my own way Cos I've got my own way No.1 public figure what a pain Just puts another rattle in your brain Take another green but it's not the same Now you're on the Sand lane everyday Dancing with the bulls in any old way Running like a fox to keep up with me I'm on 45th between 6th and Broadway 7UP between 6th and Broadway.

LONELY IN YOUR NIGHTMARE

Even on the darkest night when empty promise means empty hand And soldiers coming home like shadows turning red When the lights of hope are fading quickly then look to me I'll be your homing angel I'll be in your head. Because you're lonely in your nightmare le me in and there's heat beneath your winter let me in I see the delta traces living lonely out on the limb And a passing glimmer warm beneath your skin Please tread gently on the ground when all around you earth turns to fire. Only to get a second chance when danger's on the wind. Because you're lonely in your nightmare let me in. Because there's heat beneath your winter let me in and it's silent on your stone field let me in Must be lucky weather when you find the kind of wind that you need C'mon show me all the light and shade that made your name I know you've got it in your head I've seen that look before You've built your refuge turns you captive all the same. Because you're lonely in your nightmare let me in and it's barren in your garden let me in Because there's heat beneath your winter let me in Because it's silent in your stone field let me in and you're lonely in your nightmare let me in Because there's heat beneath your winter let me in.

HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF

Darken the city night is a wire Steam in the subway earth is afire Do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo Woman you want me give me a sign And catch my breathing even closer behind Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo In touch with the ground I'm on the hunt I'm after you Smell like I sound I'm lost in a crowd And I'm hungry like the wolf. Straddle the line in discord and rhyme I'm on the hunt I'm after you Mouth is alive with juices like wine And I'm hungry like the wolf. Stalked in the forest too close to hide I'll be upon you by the moonlight side Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo High blood Drumming on your skin it's so tight You feel my heart I'm just a moment behind Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo In touch with the ground I'm on the hunt I'm after you Scent and sound. I'm lost and I'm found And I'm hungry like the wolf Strut on a line it's discord and rhyme I howl and I whine I'm after you Mouth is alive all running inside And I'm hungry like the wolf Hungry like the wolf Hungry like the wolf Hungry like the wolf. Burning the ground I break from the crowd I'm on the hunt I'm after you I smell like I sound. I'm lost and I'm found And I'm hungry like the wolf. Strut on a line it's discord and rhyme I'm on the hunt I'm after you Mouth is alive with juices like wine And I'm hungry like the wolf.

 

HOLD BACK THE RAIN

We're miles away from nowhere And the wind doesn't have a name So call it what you want to call it Still blows down the lane People tell me, I haven't changed at all But I don't feel the same And I bet you've had that feeling too You just can't laugh all the time And if the fires burn out there's only fire to blame No time for worry cause we're on the roam again The clouds all scatter and we ride the outside lane Not on your own so help me please hold back the rain So what if the words ain't rhyming Did you think that it's just a game I probably didn't even say that right And I really don't give a damn Okay go off and wander I'm guilty just the same Sometimes you're needed badly So please come back again.

NEW RELIGION

A dialogue between the ego and the alter ego I've been now sauntering out and down a path sometime. Come on, it takes me nowhere which I knew Faces everywhere pulling grins and signs in things Telling me not there man its no go. Don't go there boy I need a reason I can't think without one now Too much learning got to show Call it treason Maybe catch her don't know how Too many things too much to know Bring my timing in, seagulls gather on the wind. Lady screaming, lady leave me out 'cause sometimes people stare Coming down, electric chair And steaming crowds they gather and shout Don't know why this evil bothers me Take another chance boy carry the fight You can take him if you're fast. So why is he trying to follow me? Didn't I say if you're holdin' on You'd be laughing at the last How many reasons do they need? I get along fine with them friends of mine But you have to make a choice I might just believe this time You're singing out of tune, but the beat's in time And its us who make the noise I'm talking for free. I can't stop[ myself, it's a new religion I've something to see. I can't help myself, it's a new religion Okay my reasoning might be clouded by the sun. But someone sees the departmental lie You know this peacetime jabbling fist in stabbing knife Only get one look before you die Don't know why this evil follows me Gotta take pay the saints' n' sinners In regulations hats' n' scarves' n' things So why does he try to bother me? Walking in formation down the lane They carry their cross make a church bell ring How many reasons do they need? Army majors pull a mean cool truth There lying in a swimming pool I might just be right this time Searching for the undeniable truth That a man is just a fool I'm talking for free. I can't stop myself, it's a new religion I've something to see, I can't help myself, it's a new religion.

LAST CHANCE ON THE STAIRWAY

I don't remember quite how I met you wasn't long ago Just get a picture of sun in your eyes. The waves in your hair Maybe it's something said in a movie or you could've said last night Just took me out on a limb And I don't really know what I'm doing here And sometimes I'm caught in a landslide My beats so in time can you look at me I'm out of reach I'll talk if it feels right So nervous to say tell me can't you see If you want I fall out forever I can't say no more... bebe dance with me And please don't say leave it till later I've had my last chance on the stairway. Funny it's just like a scene out of Voltaire twisting out of sight 'Cause when all the curtains are pulled back We'll turn and see the circles we traced Ain't no game... when you're playing with fire It doesn't seem right that we fight So the party runs on all night Wonder why... what makes me rise so high Maybe it's something they put in your perfume Or the look in your eyes It could be the atmosphere sinking I don't know what you're thinking Don't even know what you're drinking But it keeps this heaven alive.

SAVE A PRAYER (TILL THE MORNING AFTER)

You saw me standing by the wall corner of a main street And the lights are flashing on your window sill All alone ain't much fun so you're looking for the thrill and you know just what it takes and where to go. Don't save a prayer for me now Save it till the morning after No don't say a prayer for me now Save it till the morning after Feel the breeze deep on the inside look you down into the well If you can you'll see the world in all his fire Take a chance (Like all dreamers can't find another way) You don't have to dream it all, just live a day. Don't say a prayer for me now Save it till the morning after No don't say a prayer for me now Save it till the morning after Save it till the morning after. Ave it till the morning after Pretty looking road I try to hold the rising floods that fill my skin Don't ask me why I'll keep my promise I'll melt the ice And you wanted to dance so I asked you to dance but fear is in your soul Some people call it a one night stand but we can call it paradise Don't say a prayer for me now Save it till the morning after No don't say a prayer for me now Save it till the morning after Save it till the morning after Save it till the morning after Save it till the morning after Save it till the morning after Save a prayer till the morning after.

 

THE CHAUFFEUR

Out on the tar plains, the glides are moving All looking for a new place to drive You sit beside me so newly charming Sweating dew drops glisten fleshing your side The sun slips down bedding heavy blind The front of your dress all shadowy lined And the droning engine throbs in time With your beating heart. Sing blue silver Way down the lane away living for another day The aphids swarm up in the drifting haze Swim seagull in the empty sky on towards that western isle My envied lady holds you fast in her gaze And watching lovers part, I feel you smiling What glass splinters lie so deep in your mind To tear out from your eyes, with a word to stiffen brooding lies But I'll only watch you leave me further behind.

LIKE AN ANGEL (B-SIDE ON MY OWN WAY)

Oohh, Do-do do-do-do Da da da da da Things that you used to say now take on different meanings you realise Can't be to careful about the lines. Come on you know you're not so young you cannot hide behind disguise Listen to your own desire. Eyes like an angel - so wise, don't lie You never felt like this before. Fly like an angel - so high this time, You send your senses streaming free. Places you used to go when you were young look different in the dark, Don't you worry it's O.K. And maybe I can help you find your way tonight I think you will agree Summer reason's run away. Eyes like an angel - so wise, don't lie You never felt like this before Fly like an angel - so high this time You've got your senses streaming free Oh I hear your heart beating even faster now than mine Now you know just what I mean. So take your place among those twilight gleaming rivers that you read
Give me reasons to believe Eyes like an angel - so wise don't lie You never feel like this again
Fly like an angel - so high this time You send my senses streaming free Like an angel... da da da-da
Like an angel... da da daa