1.
The First Lights Of Day
2. As I Wanted To Be Seen
3. Oh, Music
4. Foggy
Nights, Glassy Lights
5. Three Old Fishermen
6. Sweet Georgia Woman
7.
Love Is An Idea
8. Love Is All You've Got In Life
9. Grab It Before It's
Gone
THE FIRST LIGHTS OF DAY So, as the nighttime slips
away
Don't you know I'll see you comin'
In the first lights of day
Time passes quickly, passes me by
I can only sit and wonder why Memories,
memories
They taste sweet on a morning breeze
Tell me about all those
youthful dreameries
You did decree So, as the nighttime slips away
Don't you know I'll see you comin'
In the first lights of day Won't you
come on, won't you come on
Whoa! Yeah! Come on one more time So, sing
it sing it
Sing what it is you want to say
Don't you know I'll see you
comin'
In the first lights of day AS I WANTED TO BE SEEN I've
had a few drinks from the cocktail tray
And I've warmed up to the scene quite
a bit
What was stale and superficial a little while ago
Now flickers like
the cigarette I just lit "Don't love me for my eyes," she says quickly
After skating across the room to indulge me
She could sense the compliment
I was about to give
She said, "Everyone loves my eyes so much that I can hardly
see" I said, "I can't deny your pretty eyes my dear
And I love your golden
skin and your honest voice
But you'll get nothin' from a shifty, young drunk
like me
Except good company, hopefully company of your choice" She giggled
and she puckered up her lips
And she offered a precocious little smile
She said, "I've got my white car parked out front by all the rest
Why don't
we take it for a ride in a while?"
I said, "Baby you've got beautiful style"
So many can be so disappointing in these parts
Not this girl with the
golden skin
And the lips and the eyes and the soul I follow that radiant,
yellow dress
Hand in hand out to the balcony
Where we look down at the
jazz band playin'
And the party dancin' in all its glory OH, MUSIC
Oh, music lets me know I'm not alone
Casting great diversions
Oh,
music makes it clear for a moment It's gonna be clear
Making sense of
tinted distances
Explaining all coincidences
Casting light upon a lovely
scene Country noise
Liftin' up the spirits of music from below
Country
noise
Harkens back to Jericho Drawing great music as they go
A monument
in a grain of sand
Praying for a spark
Slipping through the bottom of
my hand Growing old
Parcel out age as we go
Tripping after everything
we know
Like monuments in sand It's amazing
Disappearing like a daydream
Falling off into some sunset
It's gonna bathe me
A moonlight glow
Gonna save me
It's disappearing
Out on the coast Oh, music lets me
know I'm not alone
Casting great diversions
Oh, music makes it clear for
a moment THREE OLD FISHERMEN The three old fishermen sit at the
table
They don't like lumbering over barstools
They're regulars around
here and they don't stray or veer
They keep indoors, away from the wretched
weather and act cool Old Jim, he tugs on his dirty beard
And rambles 'bout
the times of old
And Teddy he slaps Jim over n' over on the back
And spits
more and more as each tale is told And with each beer that crosses their lips
Their volume gets louder and louder
And the heater in the corner grumbles
out some steam
And the waitress serves the three fishermen their chowder
They say,
"We're three old fishermen
Three old fishermen
Three old
fishermen for the rest of our lives
We're three old fishermen
Three old
fishermen
Fishin' for a little juice from this life
Fishin' till the day
that we die" FOGGY NIGHTS & GLASSY LIGHTS Baby, every day things
are changin'
Your best friend married on Sunday
Made you start feelin'
strange and
You've got a suitcase
Full of clothes
And where you're
headed, God knows Foggy nights
Glassy lights
Tender is the outcome
we fight The elegant restaurants
On 5th avenue
Light a path that
makes you
Realize what you've got to do Baby, every day both of us get
older
You're determined not to go and fit the mold
Like your sister, but
you told her
You do not fear
The foggy nights
The truth will shatter
the cold façade of the glassy lights Foggy nights
Glassy lights
Tender
is the outcome we fight SWEET GEORGIA WOMAN Georgia woman pulls
the bottle from my hand
I'm singin' so merrily and I'm sick of tryin' to measure
out the sea
Stuck between the ocean and a riverboat glow
Stuck between
the coasts with no friends to show Sweet Georgia woman shine a light on me
When the light hits me my soul is plain to see
Sweet Georgia woman have some
faith in me I'm sinkin' by the firelight
Seems I got no place to go
Stuck between an ocean and a riverboat show
Stuck between the coasts with
no friends to show I'm gone Sweet Georgia woman light the way for me
Yes, I'm gone, I know I ain't no beauty
But Sweet Georgia woman have some
faith in me I'm gone Sweet Georgia Woman you can guide me
Yes, I'm
gone, I care not about glory
But Sweet Georgia woman have some faith in me
LOVE IS AN IDEA THAT LOVING TAKES AWAY Oh, romance
Painful
romance She says, "Why must you make a poem out of me?
Why can't you
love me for who I am, when I am simply being me?"
I say, "I love all the
things that you are, as well as all the things that you could be
- the possibility"
So, you are my first thought at the start of the day
But love is an idea
that loving takes away Oh, romance again
Painful romance again
Romance,
romance
Romance, romance
Takin' a chance on romance
Takin' a chance
on romance All the things we've said in love or out of hate
Tryin' to
carry all of that weight So, you are my first thought at the start of the
day
But love is an idea that loving takes away Oh, here we are again
Oh, so needy again
Oh, so tangled up again
We've created this mess that
we're livin' in
There's only two and only one
We've got to lean on each
other Sweet chariot
Come down easy
Sweep down slow
When the dust
settles
Show us the way to go
Send me, send me chariot
Chariot, white
as snow
The easy part is leaving
The hardest part is learning to let go
LOVE IS ALL YOU'VE GOT IN LIFE When the sun slips behind the trees
Like the very first evening, it fades
The end of a day, the end of a way
The end of a promenade This is not for you, this is for me
I can't give
but I can take Sittin' in the front seat of your car
You ask, "What is
it that you want?
What do you want from me?
What do I seem to offer
aside from a quick jaunt?" Well, I guess love
Is a give and a take
But you can't take more than you give
But I know you got your plans
You've
got your own life to live I'm falling away
It will all just fall away,
everything in this world
The college counselor doesn't tell you that It's
been about a week since we smiled the way
Two bright-eyed lovers do
Been
way too long since we thought about ourselves
The way we used to
I'm getting
old and it seems so cold
The way you don't want me
The way I think one
obviously should
Baby, tell me the truth: am I no good? There can only
be love when
There is mutual admiration
In awe of all that the other
person becomes But love is a give and take
And you want to take too much
from me
I got my needs, I'm too needy
Too in love
To be all the things
you want me to be I'm not good at small talk
I'm not good at a lot of
things
You've got nothing for me
I told you
My heart is on my sleeve
Please, please
Give something to me
Give something to me I'm floored
and just hear these words I say:
Love is all you've got in this life
And death won't take it away GRAB IT BEFORE IT'S GONE Tired, so
tired of seeing everything approximately
Tired of all the mysteries and all
of the uncertainties
I'm tired of you, I'm tired of me
I'm tired of tryin'
to gauge the wind and measure out the sea She pulls me close and reads me
the most lovely poetry
And she says, "You're not going to reduce me to a written
word on a sleeve"
But I want to hold you till the sunset of life falls upon
me
Let me in, let me in, not to end but to begin to make you free Don't
things look swell? Don't things look great?
I think I'll get drunk for a
week straight
I don't want no time to contemplate
All the things we owe
to a twist of fate She pulls me over and she reads me the most amazing poetry
She says, "This is the way things should look, this is the way our worlds should
be"
I say, "Baby those are words, just beautiful words to me
We got to
make things new, like morning dew, in order to finally be fresh and free"
So touch me one more time
Before you start to play
Just one more time
Before it slips away I want to grab it before it's gone | 
