From
Head First (1983) by
Uriah Heep
The Other Side of Midnight (Box/Daisly/Goalby/Kerslake/Sinclair) - 3:55
Late at night I’ve been knocking
On your door
Late tonight I’ll be calling
You can be sure
I’ll be waiting
Standin’ in the shadows once again
Sneakin’, creepin’
Howling like a tom cat once again
Oh, there’ll be nowhere
You can hide
When I take you
On the other side of midnight
You know I don’t love you
But I love what you can do
Some more of that hot persuasion
This town is just like you
Oh, there’ll be nowhere
You can hide
When I take you
On the other side of midnight
I’ll be knockin’
The other side of midnight
I’ll be callin’
The other side of midnight
Knock, knockin’
The other side of midnight
I’m gonna take you
I’m gonna take you
At midnight, at midnight
Late at night
I’ll be knock knock knockin’
On your door
I said late tonight I’ll be callin’
You can be sure
I’m gonna take you
Oh, it’s gonna hurt so good
I’m gonna make you do
What a bad girl should
Oh, there’ll be nowhere to hide
When I take you
On the other side of midnight
The other side of midnight
I’ll be knockin’
The other side of midnight
I’ll be callin’
The other side of midnight
On the other side
I’ll be waitin’, I’ll be callin’
The other side of midnight
I’ll be knock knock
Knockin’ at midnight
Stay on Top (Jackson) - 3:35
Everybody got somebody
Trying to make you feel real bad
Aint’ none of your business
Talking but half too bad
Be strong of yourself
Stand up - walk away
Nobody gives a damn for a
Single thing you say
I’m singing
Stay on top - never go under
Lightning strikes
Boy, you hear the thunder
Stay on top - never go under
Hold on tight
Here comes the thunder
Hide money in your pocket
Be nobody’s fool
Always think of number one
That’s my golden rule
Take care of business
Go for a win at the best
Be strong enough to take it
Ain’t no need to beg
I’m singing
Stay on top - never go under
Lightning strikes
Boy, you hear the thunder
Stay on top - never go under
Hold on tight
Watch out for the thunder
Bad times make it right
But the good times get too high
I can’t stand it
I can’t stand it no more
Somebody, everybody
Trying to make you feel real bad
Aint’ nobody’s business
Talking but half too bad
Be strong of yourself
Stand up - walk away
Nobody’s gonna listen
To a single word you say
Stay on top - never go under
Lightning strikes
Boy, you hear the thunder
Stay on top - never go under
Hold on tight
Look out for the thunder
Stay on top
You’ve got to stay on top
Stand up and sing it
Stay on top
Take care of business
Stay on top
Lonely Nights (Adams/Vallance) - 4:07
Will you risk your reputation
I don’t know
You just don’t know
What you’re saying
Anymore
You know beggars
Can’t be choosers
And it’s bad
We may win, we may be loosers
I don’t care, no no no
Oh baby, I just can’t stand
Another lonely night
So come on over and save me
Save me from another lonely night
I hear every word you’re saying
They’re all lies
But with every breath you’re taking
You’re thinking of
Ways to say goodnight
Baby, I just can’t stand
Another lonely night
So come on over and save me
Save me from another lonely night
Come on over
Come and save me
Sweet Talk (Box/Daisly/Goalby) - 3:51
I see your face in
The magazine stand
I wanna hold you in the palm
Of my hands
I love everything about you
You’re such a long way away
Your sweet talk
Ain’t enough for me
I may be deaf, but you’re
Too blind to see
You’re gonna break my bones
With your feminine tongues
But I don’t wanna hear
Your sweet talk tonight
Not again tonight
When I call tonight
Don’t wanna hear your
Sweet talk tonight
I hear your voice on the radio
It’s got so bad I don’t know
Which way to go
Why don’t you wake up girl
You’re such a long way away
Your sweet talk ain’t enough
You see
I need a woman
‘Cause you’re a woman to me
You’re gonna break my bones
With those feminine tongues
But I don’t wanna hear
Oh, I don’t wanna hear it
Not tonight
You’re gonna break my bones
With your feminine tongues
But I don’t wanna hear
None of that sweet talk tonight
Oh, not again tonight
When I call tonight
Sweet talk tonight
Not again tonight
When I call tonight
Don’t wanna hear your sweet talk
Love Is Blind (Carbone/Zito) - 3:38
I tried to give you love
That was ever flowing
I tried to give you love
That could be so true
But you wanted less
Than I had to offer
What was I to do
I tried to ????
I tried to promise dreams
That I would make come true
But you said that love was
A game for children
Here I stand, a fool
Love is blind
Blinded by love
You’re all I can see in my eyes
My mind says, stop
But my heart says, go
And oh, how it hurts to find
It still went to say that
Love is blind
Love is blind
I tell myself if there
Was a chance to show you
Just how a good love
If there could be
But love was that
You had never given
I just couldn’t see
I close my eyes to all that
You never gave me
My heart didn’t wanna see
How you played around
And how well you showed
How wounded love can be
Love is blind
Blinded by love
You’re all I can see in my eyes
My mind says, stop
But my heart says, go
Oh, how it hurts to find
It still went to say that
Love is blind
Love is blind
So blind
Roll - Overture (Box/Daisly/Goalby/Sinclair) - 2:18
Instrumental
Red Lights (Box/Daisly/Goalby/Sinclair) - 2:57
Red lights - on the highway
Headlights - blinding my eye
Red lights - keep me ready
White lights - drive me insane
Red lights - in the city
Streetlights - hide in the night
Sunshine - I’m looking for someone
Red lights - young blood’s alright
I can’t keep away
No no no no way
Red lights - she knows what I’m here for
Headlights - look me in the eye
Red lights - are you looking for danger
White lights - drives me insane
I can’t keep away
No no no, not for one day
Red lights - no question
Streetlights - uses her
Red lights - body desire
White lights -
Red lights- in the city
Streetlights - shadow the night
Sunshine - if you need some one
Headlights - that young blood’s alright
I can’t keep away
Not today
She brings me to my knees
I can’t keep away
I want to burn
Red lights - Oh, I want you
Red lights - I need it
Red lights - you get too heavy
Red lights
Rollin' the Rock (Box/Daisly/Goalby/Sinclair) - 5:31
Feels so cold, so alone
An empty stage, no one home
Feels so strange, susky
No point in screaming
I won’t be heard
You’re so cold, you’re so cool
It’s so dark in this tomb
Time has come so soon
And time takes no prisoners
Except in the womb
There’s no way out, no escape
This silence is deafening
I have to cry out
You’re so cold, you’re so cool
It’s so dark in this tomb
Roll away the rock
Roll the rock away
Set me free from this grief
Am I forgiven, can I be saved?
You’ve been so cold for so long
This silence is deafening
Was I so wrong?
You’re so cold, you’re so cool
It’s so dark in this tomb
Roll away the rock
Take that rock and roll it
Roll away the rock
You gotta roll the rock away
This silence is deafening
Straight Through the Heart (Box/Daisly/Goalby/Kerslake/Sinclair) - 3:39
You came on like an angel
I didn’t see the evil in your eyes
I could see but I was blinded
Oh, believed your lies
You hit we with your promises
You shot me, I fell to the ground
You’re coming’s on tomorrow
When I looked, you were
Nowhere to be found
You set me up right from the start
Strip me of my dignity
You got me straight
Through the heart
I never did stand a chance
You got me straight
Through the heart
You cut me and left me for dead
You promised me a heaven
Turned out to be but hell all the time
The truth that you’re pretending
Was just a chorus of lies
You set me up right from the start
Strip me of my dignity
And got me straight
Through the heart
I never did stand a chance
Got me straight through the heart
You cut me and left me for dead
You cut me and left me for dead
You came on like an angel
Just like an angel
You set me up
You got me straight
Through the heart
I never did stand a chance
Got me straight through the heart
You cut me, you left me
Straight through the heart
You never gave me a chance
Got me straight throught the heart
I’m bleeding, you’re leaving
Got me straight through the heart
Weekend Warriors (Box/Daisly/Goalby/Kerslake/Sinclair) - 3:50
Ten thousand stallions runnin’ wild
They dare to race the devil’s charm
The race is on, all thunderburn
They shed a weep of broken times
Wheels turnin’, wheels burnin’
See the eagles fly
Weekend warriors ...
Like shining night
Of days gone by
They’re born again
They’ll never die
Wheels turnin’, wheels burnin’
See the angels fly
Weekend warriors ...
Like silver lighting from the sky
These storm could horses thunderburn
Weekend warriors ...
Playing for Time (Box/Daisley/Goalby/Sinclair)
Travel down the road of heartache
Hear it and you're with my mind
I've played with fire
Burned my fingers
Now I'm gonna take my time
You don't have to shout about it
Can't you see it obvious
Feel it's getting close to comfort
Why you make me search the bus
Take your time with
What you're doin’
I can see the stage appear
Seized and held it on before her
Don't you understand my fear
Can't you see the time will tell us
How it's gonna always be
You can wrap me
Around your finger
And that ain't no mystery
Playing for time
That's all I can do
I'm playing for time
Before I fall in love with you
You can push me every which way
Hey I got no place to pull
Yes, we'll do no rule devotions
When you ???
Hold on, that is what the games go
And I want the nibble now
You can get to dream about it
I won't do it anyhow
Playing for time
That's all I can do
Playing for time
Before I fall in love
Playing for time
That's all I wanna do
Playing for time
Before I fall in love
Oh, you don't have to shout about it
Can't you see it obvious
Feel it's getting close for comfort
Why you make me search your bus
Travel down the road of heartache
Hear it and you’re with my mind
Played with fire, burned my fingers
Now I'm gonna take my time
Playing for time
Before I fall in love with you
Playing for time
That's all I want to do
Playing for time
Before I fall
Playing for time
All I wanna do
Playing for time ...
Searching (Goalby)
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The Wizard [Live] (Hensley/Clarke)
He was the wizard
Of a thousand kings
And I chanced to meet him
One night wandering
He told me tales
And he drank my wine
Me and my magic man
Kinda feeling fine
He had a cloak of gold
And eyes of fire
And as he spoke
I felt a deep desire
To free the world
Of its fear and pain
And help the people
To feel free again
Why don't we listen to
The voices in our hearts
‘Cause then I know we'd find
We're not so far apart
Everybody's got to be happy
Everyone should sing
For we know the joy of life
The peace that love can bring
So spoke the wizard
In his mountain home
The vision of his wisdom
Means we'll never be alone
And I will dream of my magic night
And a million silver stars
That guide me with their light