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My
Only Friend
(P. Bamburak)
On the surface
You look a lot like me
We share familiar air
Congeniality
I have known you
For a long, long time
We don't need to speak
I can read your mind
But when
I'm feeling down
And turn to you
You always seem to find
Something better to do
So in the bitter end
There's one thing I can depend
Here's to
you
My only friend
You always lift me up
And kick me down again
Here's to you
With thanks from me
With a friend like you
Who needs an enemy?
Big
Top World
(P. Bamburak)
Life is the big show
When you're seeing things you wish you never saw
But you still can't look away
Like a drive by a car crash
Smells of romance and gasoline
People die every day
It's up to me
To drive the stakes in the ground
Pull the wires tight turn on the spotlight
Watch the drama in the round
Tonight it comes alove
See the Big Top wise in
an empty field
It's an old church, a schoolyard, a lover's bedroom
If the Universe was canvas, ropes, and poles
Then the painted sky would fall down upon my soul
Time for the comedy
When everyone makes a face at me
Sometimes you can even see the pain
with a touch of the tragedy
How a smile can twist around
You can't trust that laugh again
It's up to me
To keep the show on the road
Through the night to the next town
There are tickets to be sold
Tonight it comes alive
See the Big Top rise in
an empty field
It's an old church, a schoolyard, a lover's bedroom
If the Universe was canvas, ropes, and ples
Then the painted sky would fall down upon my soul
I
Have Nothing
(P. Bamburak)
I'd go back to zero
Start over with you
Throw away my money
Be hungry with you
Give up my power
Hand over to you
I'm changing my name
Hot like a fire
I'm burning for you
Strong like a tiger
I'm fighting for you
Bright like an eagle
I'm shining for you
Like the stars in May
You have everything
You have you
I want
You won't
So I have nothing
Deep as the ocean
I dive into you
Wild as a landslide
I tumble with you
High like a mountain
I'm falling for you
Free as the wind
You have everything
You have you
I want
You won't
So I have nothing
You are a storm cloud
I am the rain
You are the teardrop
I am the pain
You are the motive
I am to blame
Guilty I plead
You have everything
You have you
I want
You won't
So I have nothing
Free
(P. Bamburak)
Here, just you and me
I, have so many things I want to say to you
When storm clouds gather in your eyes
I know it hurts but I can't deny
The feelings that I feel for you
Can't chase them from my mind
Won't lock them up
inside
I'm gonna set them free
How, could we ever know
That our lives, would take us down the same road
If I only knew to wait for you
We could take that step so easily
Here you are right by my side
I can't let my feelings hide
Won't lock them up inside
I'm gonna set them free
Every time I look at you
You're like a dream before my eyes
A fate that's written in the stars
I see you in my sky
Won't lock you up inside
I'm gonna set you free
Now, what else can I say
I, only go on living day to day
If I never tried to make you mine
I'd still love you 'til the end of time
I chose these words to say to you
I can't let my feelings hide
Won't lock them up inside
I'm gonna set them free
I
Cherish You
(P. Bamburak)
Your heart
is open to me
I can't afford to mistake
Honest intentions and desires
Deliberate and fake
I take the rope pull you to me
I could easily hang on Sunday
Day of rest day of desire
Hours pass burn like fire
Even now
I cherish you
Sweet gift of pain
I crown you the drama queen
Seems I can only feel
The ends of the extreme
I take the bait willingly
It's not wasy to turn away
Win the prize by defeat
The rules of the game we play
Even now
I cherish you
Responsible to which degree
It's not easy to understand
I can't walk a mile in your shoes
I can only take your hand
Surrender is the only way
I can't easily resist
Fields of fire fields of bone
Winter comes my heart's a stone
Even now
I cherish you
Even now
I cherish you
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Argument's
Sake
(P. Bamburak)
What do you do
When your dreams are behind you
And nothing's the way
You thought it would be?
Do you crawl in a
hole
Where the day never finds you
Spend the rest of your life
In deep misery?
It can be argued
We're just killing time
We've risen from dust
To dust we'll return
But it can be claimed
We're all doing finre
We count up our dollars
From pennies we've earned
Why promise forever
When we don't know tomorrow
Why carry that burden
When we're bound to fall?
Cause the absolute truth
Is the door to our sorrow
Our sins and virtues
Mean nothing at all
It can be argued
There's no more than this
Nothing beyond
The things we can see
But some will believe
That the hand of Fate
Moves all the pieces
To where they should be
I don't believe in
anything
There's no reward on the other side of eternity
I only have now my life is one day
So I'll live every minute for you
It can be argued
We're just killing time
We've risen from dust
To dust we'll return
But love is the spirit
That we leave behind
To tell our story
When the page is turned
As
Good As Never
(P. Bamburak)
I didn't know
What you meant
Or what you felt that year
Too young to know
Forever is as good as never
You were angry with me
And I couldn't tell
I thought I could pull you from
Your little hell
The days were too short to last
I knew we were moving fast
But to stay right beside you
Was like walking on broken glass
I didn't know
I didn't think that to change
Was an easy thing
I wasn't sure if you
Ever could
Still I kept up my side
When you didn't care
To be there for me
When you weren't there
Like these were the things I need
When I could only watch them bleed
And I cried when you said it hurt
Your pain was your one gift to me
And I didn't know what to do
I didn't know what to say
I didn't know that love could be any other way
I couldn't stand to say goodbye
But I couldn't stay by your side
I couldn't live if we would die
Anyway
When you came up to me
It took me by surprise
There was someone new when I looked in your eyes
You told me I needed to just let go
Cause there were too many things that I didn't know
That we didn't know
I didn't know
What you meant
Or what you felt that year
Too young to know
Forever is as good as never
As good as never
Inherit
the Earth
(P. Bamburak)
You know that I'm trying very hard
But the little peaks and valleys get so old
It just isn't fair
I'm tired of waiting for tomorrow when it never comes
Cause if patience is a virtue
Then I've got virtue to spare
If I didn't have you to
hold me
I don't think I could hold on anymore
You set fire to my imagination
And I see possibilities
If I didn't have you to need me
I'd never fill my own need
To let love and compassion
Guide the life that I lead
When the meek inherit the
earth
Inherit the wind
I'd give everything to you
So I'd have nothing again
I'd tear down the walls
Throw open the gates
Cast the crown to the sea
If I inherit the earth
Will you still love me?
Sometimes I wish I could
go back and do it all again
And wind up in a different place
Somewhere I'd rather be
But would I ever find you on that foreign shore?
Cause my world would be empty
If you weren't here with me
If I didn't have you to
hold me
I don't think I could hold on anymore
You set fire to my imagination
And I see possibilities
If I didn't have you to
need me
I'd never fill my own need
To let love and compassion
Guide the life that I lead
When the meek inherit the
earth
Inherit the wind
I'd give eveything to you
So I'd have nothing again
I'd tear down the walls
Throw open the gates
Cast the crown to the sea
If I inherit the earth
Would you still love me?
Somewhere
in New York
(P. Bamburak)
I feel so good tonight
As I take your hand to go
To a restaurant on Mulberry Street
And two tickets for the show
I am so lucky
Despite all my silly talk
I found love tonight
Somewhere in New York
And the sidewalk's
our red carpet
The city street's a stage
You're shining like the darling
Of the Society Page
We could make a cab ourlimo
But with you I'd rather walk
Cause I found love tonight
Somewhere in New York
Now the curtain falls
I just can't walk away
I give you a kiss goodnight
But it means I want to stay
Still, we will always have this night
When our hearts became sure
Cause we found love together
Somewhere in New York
And the sidewalk's
our red carpet
The city street's a stage
You're shining like the darling
Of the Society Page
We could make a cab our limo
But with you I'd rather walk
Cause we found love tonight
Somewhere in New York
We found love together
Somewhere in New York
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