Only if I lied could I love you

Nothing of our lives could we share

Only could we try to get by on a sigh

Just because, just this once, I was there

Well the road I see before me threatens pain in every ?bend? yeah
Who'd might meet someone I understand and hope to call him friend
Well good company, it may comfort me
But I don't want love to distract my heart from the way

Now you love you gave me sorrow and two broken hearts to mend
So I took me to this lonely road, my sweet hopes to defend
Oh I wile pretend, I want the fact
Even though the love of a happy man waits before

Well the winter-wind blows chilly and the road is dark and gray
So take pity on a wanderer should you pass me on the way
Oh I'll laugh alone without a home
Makes a man ask why he travels on when hope is gone

It's a long road
It's a long road
It's a long road
It's a long road

Morning at last
Every night is a fight till you're waking
Dreams dancing past
Through the silence of sleep
Dawn is breaking
I wake and watch them till then
And I am not like other birds of prey
And I am not like other birds of prey

Oh, night is long,
You won't needing me
For a dressed up time
I am there to see
That fear holds no sway

Soft is my plan
And my eyes kill the lies that felt happy
Life is my right
And in sleep's little bed
I'll protect you
So, hear, let my presence dismay
That I am not like other birds of prey
That I am not like other birds of prey

When hopes are young and your cares are few
Then I'm sure above keeping truth in you
And my name is love

Why sing a lonely song
The whole world knows that love goes wrong
Why bruise a heart that isn't broken
It isn't broken. It can be broken

Life's just a show for free
Come along and watch with me
The only sins are words unspoken
Words unspoken, never spoken

Sweet things come and go
Give me shame, I'll give you woe
To live for love isn't so easy
It isn't easy, it won't be easy

How all good men try
Look around and wonder why
Can they shape this world to please me
Can they please me, should they please me

And follow, and maybe you'll correct me
Or wish you'd never met me
For I am no gentle man
And follow and while you watch and wonder
I'll pull the world asunder
And show you who I am

Send me a gentle dream
Of love so strange it's never seen
And prove how such a love can happen
It can happen, make it happen

Fine things don't abound
Fade away without a sound
But hope must never end or slacken
Never slacken, never slacken

And follow and maybe you'll correct me
Or wish you'd never met me
I am no gentle man
And follow and while you watch and wonder
I'll pull the world asunder
And show you who I am

I ain't got too much money, I ain't got too much sense
Long ago I had a dream but that's no recompense
My father was a blind man, my brother was a fool
My mother told me "God is love"
But hatred makes the rules

Teach me to fly
So I shan't drag my feet in the sand
Give me the sky
I would take the whole world in my hand

World, don't you tell me
I cannot last forever
Before you know I'll come and go
And make you if I can

Maybe I'm a beggar, just check your sympathy
They throw away their gentle love
And keep their pain for me

Can we be free, in a world where to love is to own?
Well when will we see, that a man must face life all alone?

Maybe I'm a beggar, just check your sympathy
They throw away their gentle love
And keep their pain for me

Teach me to fly
So I shan't drag my feet in the sand
Give me the sky
I would take the whole world in my hand

Can we be free, in a world where to love is to own?
Well when will we see, that a man must face life all alone?

When is the time when a dream has gone wrong when you're with me
When is the time when a blame went to you please forgive me
But the truth is my friend that
The world isn't quite as I thought it to be
Oh no, I wish I were back home again
Oh no, I wish I were back home again
Oh no, I wish I were back home again
La la , I wish I were back home again

Nothing to show beyond the ?feuded head?
Body so warm within his perfume-bed
Sleeping alone the shadow of a man
????? ties into an empty can
Nothing to show for love has never been
Nothing to show for love has never been
Nothing to show for love has never been

????? his hand upon a changing breast
Many the empty hopes his lips ??corers??
Sorry to say his days are spent and vaig
Chasing a dream of doom of nights ahead
Nothing to show for love has never been
Nothing to show for love has never been
Nothing to show for love has never been

Shadowing nights of memories of the grave
Gentle my love and sweetness sometimes said
Pick up this tons and hide his grams and known
Only a fool can see his, saw his foe
Nothing to show for love has never been
Nothing to show for love has never been
Nothing to show for love has never been

Nothing to show for love has never been
Nothing to show for love has never been
Nothing to show for love has never been

Did your shadow ever speak to you?
And did he say that something's wrong?
Huddle figure on a lamp-let wall
Never realized he cared at all
Did he stop you going on?
Guess my shadow spoke to me to night
And made me throw my dreams away
Told a story of a twisted man
Who is playing with some foolish plan
'Bout a girl who haft away

Sometimes shadows are near
I see things very clear
My life unwires
Somewhere I make my stay
Blue ?ground and? yesterday
And change my mind

Now your shadow isn't always there
In the light of cloudy day
Or in circles where you had ?from view?
All the doubts that ever bothered you
And where people loose your name

Later that evening, only a feeling
But it was there in the air that we share in the twilight
Humming a sad song, where was our day gone
But in the dark was a spark a remark I remember
"Try again" she replied to some story I told
"Try again" yes I will if I can
All I need is somebody to hold

Learning a feeling, seeking a meaning
Finding a way should she stay how to say let's imagine
Maybe I'll go wrong, it may not last long
But in the night ?how? delight most be right for this moment
"Try again" she replied to some story I told
"Try again" yes I will if I can
All I need is somebody to hold

"Try again" she replied to some story I told
"Try again" yes I will if I can
All I need is somebody to hold

"Try again" she replied to some story I told
"Try again" yes I will if I can
All I need is somebody to hold

Surely there's a way I please you
Only in your past, lie the tears
Surely there's a you can say went your way
Some illusion you can keep through the years.

Only if I lied could I love you
Nothing of our lives could we share
Only could we try to get by on a sigh
Just because, just this once, I was there.