1 Best I Can
A child alone in daddy's room,
the gun was hidden here
No one home to catch me when I fall
A young man now a private chair
I've seen the world through a bitter stare but my dream is
still alive
I'm going to be the best I can I want to be a busy man,
I want to see a change in the future
I'm gonna make the best of what I have
I want to to write for a magazine,
I'm gonna be the best they've ever seen
I know I'll win if give it all I can
I won't let go, gotta make the grade
No, I won't let it go
To be the best man, the best man that I can
Back street hoop star you've got it good
You were the wonder of the crumbling neighborhood
Now taking bids on the next six digit plan
Showed me that came intod so long,
I'm alone thinking about you, Jet City Woman
Got to find my way home to her, Jet City Woman
I see her face everywhere I look! Jet City Woman
Just a thousand miles and I'll be there,
Jet City Woman, to make the clouds go away
Time for some blue sky!
Waited so long now the plane's delayed an hour,
reminds me of all our days apart
Hold on, just a little longer
Jet City Woman, wonder where I'd be, you're the air to me
Jet City Woman, eyes like rain, rain down on me,
Jet City Woman No more nights alone,
I'm almost home now, Jet City Woman
Close my eyes, I'm there in my Jet City
2 The Thin Line
Another hungry look in her eyes again
Pacing the floor, the hunt begins
Skin-tight leather provides my pleasure
Wake my fear, surge with the pressure
Walk away and leave forever, do I dare?
Raise my eyes, she stands
Holding out healing hands are you happy now?
I walk the thin line for you,
do just what you say to, with fear as my friend,
I walk the thin line one more time for you
Addictive face pretending,
don't speak the word
Forbidden sin relenting,
I barely heard screams of entry blur my vision
Wake my fear of Divine Intervetion,
crawl away and bleed forever,
if you dare
Hand on mouth the game goes on
Love, our stage to play upon Are you happy now?
I walk the thin line for you,
do just what you say to
With fear as my friend I walk the thin one more time for
you
I walk the thin line for you,
do just what you say to
I walk the thin line for you,
do just what you say to,
with fear as my friend I walk the thin line one more time
for you
3 Jet City Woman
Every time I leave you say you won't be there and you're
always there
Every time I cry your name at night you pull close and say
it's alright
I look in your eyes, just like the rain washing me, rain
wash over me
Touching your face, I feel the heat of your heartbeat echo
in my head like a scream
What you do to me! Waited so long I can't wait another day
without you, Jet City Woman
It's a long way, home to my Jet City Woman
I see her face everywhere, can't get her out my mind
Whenever I'm alone I'm thinking there's a part missing from
my life
Wonder where I'd be without your love holding me together
now I'm watching the time tick,
tick away Face grows longer every day,
fortunes are lost on the women I've seen but without you I
can't breathe
You're the air to me! Waite
4 Della Brown
You've got a cardboard house,
live there all the time
Keep your memories tied with string
The gace that many once-adored,
twenty years gone maybe more
Somewhere you lost the dream
Mama watched your every move,
but now you're alone She's been gone for a while
Daddy left some time ago,
fading years pass too slow
He's the only one, could make you smile -
oh, you're still crying -
big city bound
Gonna make you mark
Read your name in the lights all the ads and people say,
beauty lets you get your way
Tried your best to prove them right but living on the
streets ain't bad,
sad people make you glad
Pardon me, could you spare some change? -
oh, you're still crying -
street corner girl
Watch the crowd go by,
fill your tin can with life
Summer days tend to slip away like your men you couldn't
make them stay
Hard to choose, whiskey or a wife
Sometimes you wonder where's the end
Where you goin' where you been?
Happiness seems so hard to win
Most never care to find, Della Brown sees it all the time
Looking for that man to make her smile again
5 Another Rainy Night
Don't slam the door on your way out
Don't leave without saying goodbye,
another long distance night alone,
you leave me wanting, always leave me wanting more
Last word today, coming home to stay?
Wouldn't that be nice, for a while?
But now my take-out food is growing cold
and the candle's burned a hole in the floor
and I'm still waiting for the ring of the phone
I'm all alone
And it's another rainy night without you
Guess I'll leave the light on for you
It's just another rainy night without you
Listen, there's foghorn blowing,
from the coast tonight
Remember making love in the rain?
Strange how laughter looks like crying with no sound
Raindrops taste like tears,
without the pain
I'm not much without you,
can't leave if I wanted to
Maybe that's why you stay around,
but tonight I'll sit here tending the fire and
pace the floor one hundred times in an hour
And check the voice-mail for a message you've called
I'm all alone
And it's another rainy night without you
Waiting by the phone, alone
And it's another rainy night, without you
Guess I'll leave the light on gor you
I know I've said it before
Hate the sound of the closing door,
and your footsteps walking away
But now my takeout food is growing cold
and the candle's burned a hole in the floor
And I'm still waiting for the ring of the phone
Guess I'll leave the light for you
It's just another rainy night,
another rainy night, another rainy night without you
6 Empire
Last night the word came down, ten dead in Chinatown
Innocent, their only crime was being in the wrong place at
the wrong time
Too bad, people say, what's wrong with the kids today?
Tell you right now they've got nothing to lose
They're building EMPIRE!
Johnny used to work after school at the cinema show
Gotta hustle if he wants an education,
he's got a long way to go
Now he's out on the street all day selling
Crack to the people who pay
Got an AK-47 for his best friend
Business the American way
Eastside meets Westside downtown
No time the walls fall down
Can't you feel it coming?
EMPIRE!
Can't you hear it calling?
Black man trapped again,
holds his chains in his hand
Brother killing brother for the profit of another,
game point, nobody wins Decline, right on time
What happened to the dream sublime?
Tear it all down we'll put it up again
Another EMPIRE?
Eastside meets Westside downtown
No time, no line, the walls fall down
Can't you feel it coming? EMPIRE!
Can't you hear it coming? EMPIRE!
Can't someone here stop it?
7 Resistance
Protests in New York
Listen to the call of the wild
Brother, sisters carrying signs
Breathe deep before it's too late
The sky is falling burning your eyes
Down in New Orleans river's boiling
Nothing living, nothing to eat
Thank the Lord, daddy's working 8-5
Paying the doctor, baby's got cancer
Give and take
Has all we've learned been wrong?
Look around at what we've taken too long
Resistance - shouts the man on the right
Can't solve the problem overnight
Resistance - listen to the call of the wild
Burning coal
Got to keep the company warm as the rain keeps killing the
trees
Cut'em down quick
Pay the man his wage,
he's making paper to fuel the "Information Age"
Out in the midwest, hear the roar of the plough,
turning grassland into sand
Got to feed the people more everyday but the wind keeps
blowing the land away
Resistance - liberal opposition crying violation Stop the
madness
Resistance - through the din, one voice we should hear
Resistance - listen to the call of the wild
There's no easy solution
The price is high, and it's time to pay
Turn on the century vision, focused on a better way
Resistance - shouts the man on the right
Can't solve the problem overnight
Resistance - liberal opposition crying violation
Stop the madness
Resistance - through the din, one voice we should hear
Resistance - listen to the call of the wild
8 Silent Lucidity
Hush now, don't you cry
Wipe away the teadrop from your eye
You're lying safe in bed
It was all a bad dream spinning in your head
Your mind tricked you to feel the pain of someone close to
you leaving the game of life
So here it is, another chance
Wide awake you face the day
Your dream is over or has it just begun?
There's a place I like to hide
A doorway that I run through in the night
Relax child, you were there but only didn't realize it and
you were scared
It's a place where you will learn to face your fears,
retrace the years and ride the whims of your mind
Commanding in another world
Suddenly, you hear and see this magic new dimension
I - will be watching over you
I - am gonna help you see it through
I - will protect you in the night
I - am smiling next to you
In Silent Lucidity
If you open your mind for me you won't rely on open eyes to
see
The walls you built within come tumbling down,
and a new world will begin
Living twice at once you learn you're safe from pain in the
dream domain
A soul set free to fly, a round trip journey in your head
Master of illusion,
can you realize your dream's alive,
you can be the guide but
9 Hand On Heart
All eyes were staring you floated through the room
Armed with your razor smile cutting to the bone
My voice fell useless you flashed a quick "Hello"
Feeling the fool, could you tell it showed?
But that was "Sometime Ago",
a memory vague and fading slow,
of somewhere I'd been
HAND ON HEART
Apromise, a word, and a voice
HAND ON HEART
A rhythm of hope and choice will keep us together
I don't know know if I can reach that high
It's a long way to fall Hauntingly holding my fate, with a
gaze
Like a child mesmerized by the candle's flame
Oh what lies behind those eyes, I could only guess
That certain way you stood apart from all the rest
Now where is "Sometime Ago"?
When everything moved in slow - mo-tion
Caught by my watering eye
HAND ON HEART
A promise, a word and a voice
HAND ON HEART
A rhythm of hope, and a vision of choice
HAND ON HEART
Promising I'll never go
HAND ON HEART
For reasons you'll never know
Together through thick and thin
Lose or win, I'll be there for you
Strange how the mind changes time and time again
Things once important, now pale in comparison
I promise girl, Hand On Heart
10 One And Only
In my life, giving me hope and the new start that I have
I won't let go, gotta make the grade No, I won't let it go
To be the best man, the best man that I can
Step by step I dream the plan from my chair to walking man
This constant dream is on my mind Chase the light I see
ahead
Luminate the path I tread
I live to be the best I can
Now I'm moving forward and I'm never looking back
Straight ahead, focused on the big attack
On a roll and I'm never showing down
I won't be torn between the man in the chair and the man
that's in my dream
I'm going to melt the two men into one
I won't let go, gotta make the grade I set No, I won't let
it go to be the best man,
the best man that I can
Back in '86 February and a special number I just had to
know is this feeling real
I picked up the phone I was one step closer to the danger
zone
I knew she'd steal my heart away but I know I couldn't live
without her love
The first time she looked at me, her smile stayed on my
mind
I never thought I'd ever meet a woman of her kind
Now I'm lost in a lover's daze and I'm not walking out
Gonna give my heart away and hope that she will always
stay
Call for me, run to me whenever you are lonely
Call for me, run to me lady love
Won't you come and show me that precious smile and maybe
stay for a little while
Close the door, toss the key, say that you will always be
my one and only
Looking back it seems to me the message in her eyes left a
lasting spell on me
A feeling I can't hide
Now I'm lost in a lover's daze and I'm not walking out
Gonna give my heart away and hope that she will always
stay
Call for me, run to me Whenever you are lonely call for
me, run to me my lady love
Won't you come and show me that precious smile and maybe
stay for a little while
Treat me to your sense of taste and style
Together we can walk the miles
Close the door, toss the key, say that you will always be
my one and only
11 Anybody Listening?
You and I long to live like wind upon the water
If we close our eyes,
we'll maybe realize there's more to life than what we have
known
And I can't believe I've spent so long living lies I knew
were wrong inside,
I've just begun to see the light
Long ago there was a dream, had to make a choice or two
Leaving all I loved behind, for what nobody knew
Stepped out on the stage, a life under lights and judging
eyes
Now the applause has died and I can dream again
Is there anybody listening?
Is there anyone that sees what's going on?
Read between the lines, critisize the words they're
selling
Think for yourself and feel the walls become sand beneath
your feet
Feel the breeze?
There's so near you can almost taste the freedom,
there's a warm wind from the south Hoist the sail and
we'll be gone,
by morning, this will all seem like a dream
And if I don't return to sing the song, maybe just as well
I've seen the news and there's not much I can do alone
Is there anybody listening?
Is there anyone who smiles without a mask?
What's behind the words -
images they know will please us?
I'll take what's real
Bring up the lights
Is there anybody listening?
Is there anyone that sees what's going on?
Read between the lines, criticize the words they're
selling
Think for yourself and feel the walls
become sand beneath your feet