Baby, although I chose this lonely life
It seems it's strangling me now
All the wild men, big cigars, gigantic cars
They're all laughing at me now

Oh, I've been used, ooh-hoo
I've been taken for a fool, oh, what a fool
I broke all the rules, ooh, yeah
But I won't let the show go on

Baby, there's an enormous crowd of people
And they're all after my blood
I wish maybe they'd tear down the walls of this theater
And let me out, let me out

Oh, I've been so blind, yeah
I've wasted time, wasted, wasted oh, so much time
Walking on the wire, high wire, yeah
But I won't let the show go on

I've been so blind, oh, yes, I've been so blind
Wasted my time, wasted so much time
Walking on the wire, high wire, yeah
But I won't let the show go on

Baby, I wish you'd help me escape
And help me get away
Leave me outside my address
Far away from this masquerade

I've been so used, I've been so abused
I've been a fool, I broke all the rules
I've been so used, oh, and abused
But I won't let the show go
But I won't let the show
Oh, won't let the show go on

I get the same old dreams, same time every night
Fall to the ground and I wake up
So I get out of bed, put on my shoes, and in my head
Thoughts fly back to the break-up

These four walls are closing in
Look at the fix you've put me in

Since you been gone, since you been gone
I'm outta my head, can't take it
Could I be wrong, but since you been gone
You cast a spell, so break it
Ooh - whoa - ooh
Since you been gone

So in the night I stand beneath the backstreet light
I read the words that you sent to me
I can take the afternoon, the night-time comes around too soon
You can't know what you mean to me

Your poison letter, your telegram
Just goes to show you don't give a damn

Since you been gone, since you been gone
I'm outta my head, can't take it
Could I be wrong, but since you been gone
You cast a spell, so break it
Ooh - whoa - ooh
Since you been gone

If you will come back
Baby you know
You'll never do wrong

Huh

Since you been gone, since you been gone
I'm outta my head, can't take it
Could I be wrong, but since you been gone
You cast a spell, so break it
Ooh - whoa - ooh
Ever since, you been gone

Since you been gone, since you been gone
I'm outta my head, can't take it
Since you been gone, since you been gone

I get the same old dreams, same time every night
Fall to the ground and I wake up
So I get out of bed, put on my shoes, and in my head
Thoughts fly back to the break-up

These four walls are closing in
Look at the fix you've put me in

Since you been gone, since you been gone
I'm outta my head, can't take it
Could I be wrong, but since you been gone
You cast a spell, so break it
Ooh - whoa - ooh
Since you been gone

So in the night I stand beneath the backstreet light
I read the words that you sent to me
I can take the afternoon, the night-time comes around too soon
You can't know what you mean to me

Your poison letter, your telegram
Just goes to show you don't give a damn

Since you been gone, since you been gone
I'm outta my head, can't take it
Could I be wrong, but since you been gone
You cast a spell, so break it
Ooh - whoa - ooh
Since you been gone

If you will come back
Baby you know
You'll never do wrong

Huh

Since you been gone, since you been gone
I'm outta my head, can't take it
Could I be wrong, but since you been gone
You cast a spell, so break it
Ooh - whoa - ooh
Ever since, you been gone

Since you been gone, since you been gone
I'm outta my head, can't take it
Since you been gone, since you been gone

Baby, you've been going so crazy
Lately, nothing seems to be going right
Solo, why do you have to get so low
You're so, you've been waiting in the sun too long

R.:
But if you sing, sing
sing, sing, sing, sing
For the love you bring won't mean a thing
Unless you sing, sing, sing, sing

Colder, crying on your shoulder
Hold her, and tell her everythings gonna be fine
Surely, you've been going to early
Hurry, cause no one's gonna be stopped

R.

Baby, there's something going on today
But I say nothing, nothing, nothing
Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing

R.

Em Am7
Em
Am7
Em

R.:
G D Am
G
D Am
G

R.

Em Am7
Em
Am7 Em

R.

When the music goes around
Everybody's gonna go to town
But here is one thing you should know
Sing it high and sing it low
Oh, sing sing sing sing everybody start to sing like dee dee dee, bah bah bah dah
Now you're singin with a real good swing!

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away, ooh
I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time

I left my home in Georgia
Headed for the Frisco Bay
'Cause I've had nothing to live for
Look like nothing's gonna come my way

So, I'm just gon' sit on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away, ooh
I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time

Looks like nothing's gonna change
Everything still remains the same
I can't do what ten people tell me to do
So I guess I'll remain the same, listen

Sittin' here resting my bones
And this loneliness won't leave me alone, listen
Two thousand miles I roam
Just to make this dock my home, now

I'm just gon' sit at the dock of a bay
Watching the tide roll away, ooh
Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time

(Sitting, sitting, sitting on the dock of the bay)
(I'm just a-sitting now)
(Sitting, sitting on the dock of the bay)
(I'm just a-sitting now)

I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watching the tides roll away
Sittin' on the dock of the bay, wasting time

Sittin in the morning sun
I`ll be sittin' when the evening comes
Watching the ships roll in
And I'll be watchin' roll away again

I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watching the tides roll away
Sittin' on the dock of the bay, watching time

(Sitting, sitting, sitting on the dock of the bay)
(I'm just a-sitting now)
(Sitting, sitting on the dock of the bay)
(I'm just a-sitting now)

I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watching the tides roll away
Sittin' on the dock of the bay, wasting time

Left my home in Georgia
Headed for the Frisco Bay
I've got nothing to live for
Look like nothings gonna come my way

I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watching the tides roll away
Sittin' on the dock of the bay, wasting time

I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watching the tides roll away
Sittin' on the dock of the bay, wasting time

Staple Singers

Sittin' in the morning sun
I'll be sittin' when the evening come
Watching ships roll in
And I'll watch 'em roll away again

Lord, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away
Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wasting time

I left my home in Georgia
Headed for the Frisco bay
I have nothing to live for
Looks like nothings gonna come my way

So I'm gonna sit on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away, ooh Lord
Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wasting time, oh

Look like nothings gonna change
Every, everything still remains the same
I can't do what ten people tell me to do
So I guess I'll remain the same, yeah

Sittin' here resting my bones
This loneliness won't leave me alone, no
Two thousand miles I roam
Just to make this dock my home

Now, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away, yeah
Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wasting time, oh yeah

Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wasting time, time, time, oh
Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wasting time, time, time

Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wasting time, time, time
Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wasting time, time, time, oh

Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wasting time, time, time

Rockapella

Sittin' in the mornin' sun
And I'll be sittin' when the evenin' down
Watchin' the ships roll in
Then I watch 'em roll away again

Sittin' on dock of the bay
Watchin' the tide, roll away
Sittin' on dock of the bay wastin' time

I left my home in Georgia
I headed for the Frisco Bay
Now I got nothin' left to live for
Looks like nothings gonna come my way
No, no, no, no

Sittin' ...

Well, looks like nothing's gonna change
Everything remains the same
I can't do what ten people tell me to do
So I guess I'll remain the same

Sittin' here restin' my bones
This loneliness won't leave me alone
Two thousand miles, I roam
Just call this dock my home
No, no, no

Sittin' ...

Wastin' time (4)

Otis Redding

Sittin' in the morning sun
I'll be sittin' when the evening comes
Watching the ships roll in
Then I watch 'em roll away again, yeah

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away, ooh
I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time

I left my home in Georgia
Headed for the Frisco Bay
'Cause I've had nothing to live for
Look like nothing's gonna come my way

So, I'm just gon' sit on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away, ooh
I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time

Looks like nothing's gonna change
Everything still remains the same
I can't do what ten people tell me to do
So I guess I'll remain the same, listen

Sittin' here resting my bones
And this loneliness won't leave me alone, listen
Two thousand miles I roam
Just to make this dock my home, now

I'm just gon' sit at the dock of a bay
Watching the tide roll away, ooh
Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
And the straw boss said "Well, a-bless my soul"

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain
Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in the canebrake* by an ol' mama lion
Cain't no-a high-toned woman make me walk the line

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

If you see me comin', better step aside
A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died
One fist of iron, the other of steel
If the right one don't a-get you, then the left one will

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

The sun is sleeping quietly
Once upon a century
Wistful oceans calm and red
Ardent caresses laid to rest

For my dreams I hold my life
For wishes I behold my night
The truth at the end of time
Losing faith makes a crime

I wish for this nighttime
To last for a lifetime
The darkness around me
Shores of a solar sea
Oh how I wish to go down with the sun
Sleeping Weeping With you

Sorrow has a human heart
From my god it will depart
I'd sail before a thousand moons
Never finding where to go

Two hundred twenty-two days of light
Will be desired by a night
A moment for the poet's play
Until there's nothing left to say

I wish ... With you
x 2

They ask me how I knew
My true love was true
I of course reply
Something deep inside
Cannot be denied

They said some day you'll find
All who love are blind
When your heart's on fire
You must realise
Smoke gets in your eyes

So I chaffed them
And I gayly laughed
To think they could doubt
To think they could doubt my love

But today
My love has flown away
I am without my love

Now laughing friends deride
Tears I cannot hide
So I smile and say
When a lovely flame dies
Smoke gets in your eyes

But today ... my love

And now laughing ... in your eyes

asked

replied

you don't realize

So I chaffed

To think they would doubt my love

Yet today

Sittin' in the classroom thinkin' it's a drag
Listening to the teacher rap-just ain't my bag
When two bells ring you know it's my cue
Gonna meet the boys on floor number 2

R.:
Smokin' in the boys room (2)
Teacher don't you fill me up with your rules
Everybody knows that smokin' ain't allowed in school

Checkin' out the halls makin sure the coast is clear
Lookin' in the stalls-nah, there ain't nobody here
My buddies Sixx, Mick & Tom
To get caught would surely be the death of us all

R.

Put me to work the school book store
Check-out counter and I got bored
Teacher was lookin' for me all around
Two hours later you know where I was found

R. x 2

One more time

R.

Close your door
He's on the loose
Mmm, here he comes
No hope for you

Ooh
Snake charmer
He'll harm ya

Say hey, mystery man what's your plan
I've got to tell the world to beware, you don't care
He'll hypnotise and tell you lies
He's hiding at the top of the stairs

Close your door
He's on the loose
I see him coming out
There's no hope for you

Ooh
Snake charmer
Snake charmer
Look out

Hey fancy face, got no place
Living from a hole in the ground
Old sparkle eyes, he never cries
One step ahead of the hounds

Close your door
He's on his way
He's coming out of the shadows now, now
No hope for you

Ooh
Snake charmer
Snake charmer
Now listen here

Hey hollow eyes, got no ties
Oh shiny boots, play your strings and flutes
Mystery man, what's your plan?
Strange face got no place

Snake charmer
He'll harm her

Oh sparkle eyes, got no ties
Ooh shiny boots
Close your door
He's on the loose
Snake charmer

My mystery man, what's your plan
I've got to tell the world to beware, you don't care
He'll hypnotize and tell you lies
He's hiding at the top of the stairs

I have often told you stories about the way
I lived the life of a drifter waiting for the day
When I'd take your hand and sing you songs
And may be you would say
Come lay with me and love me
And I would surely stay

But I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill going round
Guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune

Many times I've been a traveller
I looked for something new
In days of old when nights were cold
I wandered without you
Those days I thought my eyes
Had seen you standing near
Though blindness is confusing
It shows that you're not here

Now I feel ... of fortune

Yes, I can hear the sound
Of a windmill going round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune

In the lonely night
I wake up to find
Someone else's boy
Always on my mind
But he doesn't know
How much I really love him so

Though it isn't right
When I dream like this
I long to hold him tight
And to taste his kiss
And then I wake to find
He's someone else's boy
Not mine

Whenever I see them together
It breaks my poor heart in two
I know that I should forget him
'Cause he's her guy
But what can I do?

How I hope and pray
To the Lord above
To send me down a boy
One that I can love
Who'll be mine alone
And not someone else's boy

I know I stand in line
Until you think you have the time
To spend an evening with me

And if we go someplace to dance
I know that there's a chance
You won't be leaving with me

And afterwards we drop into a quiet little place
And have a drink or two
And then I go and spoil it all
By saying something stupid like ''"I love you"''

I can see it in your eyes
That you still despise the same old lines
You heard the night before

And though it's just a line to you
For me it's true
It never seemed so right before

I practice everyday
To find some clever lines to say
To make the meaning come true

But then I think I'll wait
Until the evening gets late
And I'm alone with you

The time is right
Your perfume fills my head
The stars get red and oh, the night's so blue
And then I go and spoil it all
By saying something stupid like ''"I love you"''
x 2

"I love you" (3)

And sometimes when we touch the honesty's too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you 'til I die, 'til we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides

Romance and all it's strategy leaves me battling with my pride
But through the insecurity some tenderness survives
I'm just another writer still trapped within my truth
A hesitant prize fighter still trapped within my youth

And sometimes ... subsides

At times I'd like to break you and drive you to your knees
At times I'd like to break through and hold you endlessly

At times I understand you and I know how hard you've tried
I've watched while love commands you, I've watched love pass you by
At times I think we're drifters still searching for a friend
A brother or a sister, but then the passion flares again

And sometimes ... subsides, subsides, oh

Go on with your song, bird -- you can't go wrong bird
You will go on and on, bird, like you did before
Though your wings are broken the sky is so wide open
And the wind is waiting for you like an open door

Though you go so far away, your voice will still be heard so well
You'll never really ever know how beautiful you are
When the moon is on the rise I'll try to make my songbird fly
I wonder if he ever will -- and if he really did, how far

Go on with your song, bird ... an open door

Though you go so far away, your voice will ... and if he really did, how far

Go on with your song, bird -- you can't go wrong bird
You will go on and on, bird, through the open door

Go on with your song, bird -- you can't go wrong my bird
You will go on and on, bird, like you did before

Like you did before

What do I do to make you want me
What have I got to do to be heard
What do I say when it's all over
And sorry seems to be the hardest word

It's sad, so sad
It's a sad, sad situation
And it's getting more and more absurd
It's sad, so sad
Why can't we talk it over
Oh it seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word

What do I do to make you love me
What have I got to do to be heard
What do I do when lightning strikes me
What have I got to do (2)
When sorry seems to be the hardest word

I can't make it if you leave me
I'm sorry, Suzanne, believe me, I was wrong
And I knew I was all along
Forgive me

I still love you more than ever
I'm sorry, Suzanne, for ever hurting you
You know I never wanted to
I'm truly sorry, Suzanne

I could never ever justify
All the tears I made you cry
But I do regret it, my Suzanne
You gotta believe me

I was lookin' 'round for someone new
What a foolish thing to do
All the time I knew it
Heaven knows what made me do it, girl

I can't make it if you leave me
I'm sorry, Suzanne, believe me, I was wrong
And I knew I was all along, all along

I'm truly sorry, Suzanne

If you would only take me back again
Things would be so different then
What I wouldn't give for
One more chance to live for you, Suzanne

I can't make it if you leave me
I'm sorry, Suzanne, believe me, I was wrong
And I knew I was all along
Forgive me

I still love you more than ever
I'm sorry, Suzanne, for ever hurting you
You know I never wanted to
I'm truly sorry, Suzanne

Remember how you used to feel, dear
You said nothing could change your mind
It breaks my heart to see us part
So sad to watch good love go bad

Is it any wonder that I feel so blue ue, ue
When I know for certain that I'm losing you-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou

Remember how you used to feel, dear
You said nothing could change your mind
It breaks my heart to see us part
So sad to watch good love go bad

So sad to watch good love go bad (2)

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools" said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they mad,
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence

Blue Spanish eyes
Teardrops are falling from your Spanish eyes
Please, please don't cry
This is just adios and not goodbye
Soon I'll return
Bringing you all the love your heart can hold
Please say "si, si"
Say you and your Spanish eyes will wait for me

Blue Spanish eyes
Prettiest eyes in all of Mexico
True Spanish eyes
Please smile for me once more before I go
Soon I'll return
Bringing you all the love your heart can hold
Please say "si, si"
Say you and your Spanish eyes will wait for me (2)

1. Speak softly, Love and hold me warm against your heart
I feel your words, the tender trembling moments start
We're in a world, our very own
Sharing a love that only few have ever known

R.: Wine-colored days warmed by the sun
Deep velvet nights when we are one

2) Speak softly, Love so no one hears us but the sky
The vows of love we make will live until we die
My life is yours and all becau-au-se
You came into my world with love so softly love

<Play>

R.

3) Speak softly, Love so no one hears us but the sky
The vows of love we make will live until we die
My life is yours and all because you came into my world
With love, so softly, Love

- La la la,
La la la la la la la la (3)

You better come home Speedy Gonzales,
Away from tannery row
Stop all of your drinking
With that floosie named Flo!

Come on home to your adobe
And slap some mud on the wall!
The roof is leaking like a strainer
There's loads of roaches in the hall

- La la la la...

Speedy Gonzales,
Why don't you come home?
Speedy Gonzales,
How come you leave me all alone?

- He, Rosita, I have to go shopping downtown for my mother,
she needs some Tortillias and Chilli Pepper!

- La la la la...

Your doggie's gonna have a puppy,
And we're running out of Coke
No enchiladas in the icebox,
And the television's broke

I saw some lipstick on your sweatshirt,
I smell some perfume in your ear
Well, if you're gonna keep on messin',
Don't bring your business back a-here

- La la la la...

Mmm, Speedy Gonzales (Speedy Gonzales),
Why don't you come home?
Speedy Gonzales (Speedy Gonzales),
How come you leave me all alone?

- He, Rosita, come quick!
Down at the cantina, they're giving green stamps with Tequila!

- La la la la...

And you feel so alive
You could stand up and take this all night
They love you but you're in love with the spotlight
You're the spotlight kid

Jokers and women they hang 'round your door
They're all part of the scene
Just like a junkie you've got to have more
It's a pleasure machine

And you fly every night
But the dressing room mirror don't lie
They love you but you're in love with the spotlight
You're the spotlight kid

<solo>

Your audience died, faded away
Leaving you on the stage
It's been so many years since that first matinee
It seems like an age

Encore one more time
For the ghosts of the past in your mind
They love you but you're in love with the spotlight
You're the spotlight kid
You're living in a dream
You're the spotlight kid
You're in love with the spotlight