Someone To Watch Over Me

Please give me
Please send me
Someone to watch over me
Someone to watch over me
Please baby
Please maybeYou’ll be my watch in the night
Someone to watch
Someone to watch over me
Watch out for someone watching…
His words are so kindHe’s on my mind
He’s leading me tonightHe’s leading me
Someone to watch over me
Watch out for someone watching…

Ballroom No. 26

Now that I’ve got my own ballroom
Now that all of my shoes have a shelf
Now that the music’s without you
I sit here and pity myself
I painted the walls brighter than white
Outside the fall has its own special light
Though I’ve been longing for ages
Just to sit as I do with my pen
My drawings still lack motivation
And I pity myself once again
I still miss the sound of you playing chords
Now that it’s quiet at least I hear my ownthoughts
I need a lampshadeTake the brightness away
I need a lampshadeTake the brightness away
You know at the end of the dayIt’s just me and my ballroom

My Residence

I’m out of typing paper
For months I didn’t wash my clothes
When I lie in my king-size bed
I keep seeing the laundry grow
I don’t enter the kitchen
A vague memory keeps me away
My piano grows dustlike every other surface
There’s nothing much to say – except
I’m stuck in this sad lonesome body
And this feeling just won’t go away
And this placethat I once called my residence
Surely falls into decay
I’ve been trying to turn off the TV
But I can’t bear the silence I hear
I bury myself in other people’s lives
And it’s not so healthy I fear
The phone has stopped ringing
And I wonder if it has been shut down
Most likely my friends have forgotten me
Or despise this self-pitying clown
I’m stuck in this sad lonesome bodyI’m watching myself fade away
And this placethat I once called my residence
Surely falls into decay

The Oak Tree

I saw in Louisiana a live oak growing
All alone the moss hung down
from the branches
With no companionthis live oak was growing
In a wide flat space
Its look: rude, unbending, lusty
Made me think of myself
But how can this oak grow green leaves
No friend no love
Joyously uttering leaves
I know very well I could not
I broke off a twig with a number of leaves
And brought it away,placed it in sight in my room
It makes me think of manly love
But how can this oak grow green leaves
No friend no love
Joyously uttering leaves
I know very well I could not

River Song

We sit by the river
We came here to wash the past away
Now you say: the waterIt’s freezing, it looks so cold today
I say my friend we need to know
The tides so great
Could turn our hate into love and hope
Through eager, clear water
I see the stones wander small and grey
Your trembling reflection
Reaches out, my hand’s too far away
You say my friend we don’t need to know
we’re safer in the pastthis goes too fast
Let’s go homeThe sunset approaches
The burning horizon smiles in vain
The hurting inside us
It dries us, it ties us
But somehow it’s too late
I say I guess we’ll never know
In the past we’re safe
Let’s stay the same and go home
I say: I can’t erase the timeIt is a tragedy of mine

Before The Storm

First of all you should know
I don’t plan to go
The sky’s turning grey
Tuning in on us today
Please take the blindfold from my eyes
Reveal to me what you’re trying to hide
Before the storm will take all we have out
in the open air Before the
storm will take all we haveand spread it everywhere
You should knowThrough it all
I’m yours
Our feet find no ground
You take a desperate look around
We never wanted this day to come
But don’t you see
We need to stay with this one
And so the breeze has turned to storm
The picture’s falling
The first window torn out
Before the storm…
We holdeach other and a tree
The supper plates are passing me
You hold my hand and now I see
we spit out all the black memories
we are free

An Interlude

Is this an interlude
I am so confused
But it’s a crying truth
You’re at an altitude
That I just cannot reach
Though I’d die for you
And your love
Yet you don’t know what to do
with my love
All your attitude
Still you’re so confused
Why you just abused
My trust in you
You don’t see me
Though I’d die for you
And the love
But you don’t know what to do
with our love
It’s not an interlude
That’s the crying truth
This new attitude
Sticks with you like glue
And I dare not reach
Though I’d die for you
And the love
But you don’t know what to do
with your love

Turning Point

When’s the last time that you’ve been
At a crossroad in the desert?
Left alone to choose between
Sand and sand, rainstorm or blizzard
Yet there’s always
More than one direction to choose from
And the choice of whether to go on
‘cause everyday is a possible turning point
Were you there all by yourself
No one leaning on the signpost
Nobody to ask for help
Or showing you the right road
‘Cause there’s always
More than one direction to choose from
And a choice is something to go on
Everyday is a possible turning point

Ghost Of A Rose

Hey desert where is your rose
So red and blooming it should be
Hey desert where should I go
To see the rose stand before me
They say that dreams are your soulmate
And true love is your friend
So blooming red rose
who seeks the desert
I sure believe you’ll amaze me
Red rose I’ll let you know
About my sweet dreams, my visions
With your answer then I will know
Can I complete this, my mission?
They say that dreams are your soulmate
And true love is your friend
So blooming red rose
who seeks the desert
I sure believe you’ll amaze me
Beautiful rose
Everyone just wants to feel part of adream
Hey stranger it is so cold
Please let me sit by the fire
The desert has got my soul
‘Cause I was seeking its flower
Everyday I keep wandering
In search of a ghost
Red rose who seeks the desert
I sure believe you amazed me
Beautiful rose
Everyone just wants to be part of a dream

Only Time Will Tell

See the cherry blossom blooming
Me, myself and I in this room singing
Even a mighty tree fell
Only time will tell
See the cherry blossom blooming
Me, myself and I in this room singing
Even a mighty tree fell
Only time will tellI’ve been watching
wind chimes turning around
Outside my window
See them move but I can’t hear a sound
From outside my window
I love you all-consumingly
I don’t know what is you or me
I wish I knew just how to be
To make you love more easily
Even a mighty tree fell
Only time will tell