Subject: Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:22:39 +0200 From: "Gunnar Hedlund" To: "Hans Settler" Thanks to Gunnar!!! @ARTIST: Thompson, Richard & Linda @ALBUM: Shoot Out The Lights 1. Don't Renege On Our Love 2. Walking On A Wire 3. Man In Need 4. Just The Motion 5. Shoot Out The Lights 6. Back Street Slide 7. Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed 8. Wall Of Death @SONG: Don't Renege On Our Love remember when we were hand in hand remember, we sealed it with a golden band now your eyes don't meet mine you've got a pulse like fever do I take you for a lover or just a deceiver simple is simple and plain is plain if you leave me now, you won't come back again when the game is up don't renege on our love, no don't renege on our love, no don't renege on our love don't renege on our love give me just an ounce of sympathy give me my chains of liberty there's a rope that binds us and I don't want to break it if love is a healing why should we forsake it well hunger is hunger, need is need am I just another mouth to feed when the game is up well don't renege on our love, no ... when my heart breaks it breaks like the weather if you leave me now it'll thunder forever oh don't give it up well don't renege on our love, no ... @SONG: Walking On A Wire I hand you my ball and chain you just hand me that same old refrain I'm walking on a wire, I'm walking on a wire and I'm falling I wish I could please you tonight but my medicine just won't come right I'm walking on a wire, I'm walking on a wire and I'm falling too many steps to take too many spells to break too many nights awake and no one else this grindstone's wearing me your claws are tearing me don't use me endlessly it's too long, too long to myself where's the justice and where's the sense when all the pain's on my side of the fence I'm walking on a wire, I'm walking on a wire and I'm falling too many steps to take too many spells to break too many nights awake and no one else this grindstone's wearing me your claws are tearing me don't use me endlessly it's too long, it's too long to myself it scares you when you don't know whichever way the wind might blow I'm walking on a wire, I'm walking on a wire and I'm falling @SONG: Man In Need I packed my rags went down the hill left my dependents a-lying still just as the dawn was rising up I was making good speed I left a letter lying on the bed from a man in need it read you know it's so hard to find, it's so hard to find who's gonna cure the heart of a man in need all of my friends don't comprehend me their kind of style it just offends me I want to take them, I want to shake them 'til they pay me some heed you've got to ride in one direction until you find the right connection you know it's so hard to find, it's so hard to find who's gonna cure the heart of a man in need who's gonna give you real happiness who's gonna give you contentedness who's gonna lead you, who's gonna feed you and cut you free well I've sailed every ship in the sea but I traveled this world in misery you know it's so hard to find, it's so hard to find who's gonna cure the heart of a man in need who's gonna shoe your feet who's gonna pay your rent who's gonna stand by you who's going to cure the heart of a man in need of a man in need @SONG: Just The Motion when you're rocked on the ocean rocked up and down, don't worry when you're spinning and turning round and round, don't worry you're just feeling seasick you're just feeling weak your mind is confused and you can't seem to speak it's just the motion it's just the motion when the landlord is knocking and your job is losing, don't worry when the baby needs rocking and your friends are confusing, don't worry you're just feeling seasick you're just feeling weak your mind is confused and you can't seem to speak it's just the motion it's just the motion blown by a hundred winds knocked down a hundred times rescued and carried along beaten and half-dead and gone and it's only the pain that's keeping you sane and gives you the mind to travel on oh the motion won't leave you won't let you remain, don't worry it's a restless wind and a sleepless rain, don't worry under the ocean at the bottom of the sea you can't hear the storm it's as peaceful as can be it's just the motion it's just the motion blown by a hundred winds knocked down a hundred times rescued and carried along beaten and half-dead and gone and it's only the pain that's keeping you sane and gives you the mind to travel on oh the motion won't leave you won't let you remain, don't worry it's a restless wind and a sleepless rain, don't worry under the ocean at the bottom of the sea you can't hear the storm it's as peaceful as can be it's just the motion it's just the motion ... @SONG: Shoot Out The Lights in the dark, who can see his face in the dark, who can reach him he hides like a child he hides like a child keeps his finger on the trigger you know he can't stand the day shoot out the lights shoot out the lights keep the blind down on the window keep the pain on the inside just watching the dark just watching the dark and he might laugh but you won't see him as he thunders through the night shoot out the lights shoot out the lights in the darkness the shadows move in the darkness the game is real real as a gun real as a gun as he watches the lights of the city and he moves through the night shoot out the lights shoot out the lights shoot out the lights @SONG: Back Street Slide those backstreet women watch what you say you turn your back and they slide away they run next door and give it all away doing the slide the backstreet slide, the backstreet slide they're gonna get you, dead or alive stab you in the back with a kitchen knife doing the backstreet slide, do it all day the backstreet slide gatemouth woman leaning on a fence she's got no teeth, she's got no sence you don't need much intelligence doing the slide the backstreet slide ... slide over here, slide over there spreading that scandal everywhere stab you in the back and they just don't care doing the slide now slander is a loving tounge they speak your name to everyone never is a curse left unsung doing the slide the backstreet slide ... @SONG: Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed she was there one minute and then she was gone the next lying in a pool of herself with a twisted neck oh she fell from the roof to the ground there was glass lying all around she was broken in a hundred pieces when her body was found she used to live life she used to live life with a vengeance and the chosen would dance the chosen would dance in attendance she crossed a lot of people some she called friends she thought she'd live forever but forever always ends did she jump or was she pushed ... she used to have style she used to have style and she used it and they say it turned bad when the truth came round she refused it they found some fingerprints right around her throat they didn't find no killer and they didn't find no note did she jump or was she pushed ... @SONG: Wall Of Death let me ride on the wall of death one more time let me ride on the wall of death one more time you can waste your time on the other rides but this is the nearest to being alive let me take my chances on the wall of death you can go with the crazy people in the crooked house you can fly away on the rocket or spin in the mouse the tunnel of love might amuse you and Noah's Ark might confuse you but let me take my chances on the wall of death on the wall of death all the world is far from me on the wall of death it's the nearest to being free well, you're going nowhere when you ride on the carousel and maybe you're strong but what's the good of ringing a bell the switchback will make you crazy beware of the bearded lady oh let me take my chances on the wall of death let me ride on the wall of death one more time let me ride on the wall of death one more time you can waste your time on the other rides but this is the nearest to being alive let me take my chances on the wall of death