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Many of these lyrics come from songs by The Dangers.
(Blue Rain, Front Door, Bad Enough, Walking Highway 61, Radio City)


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BLUE RAIN

BLUE RAIN

Sat up with your picture,
a ghost
and a bottle of pain
The light went weak with the cold,
the blue and the rain
I remember your face when you came to this town
Said never look back and don't you look down today
Not today
Not today

Well there ain't no strings I can use to pull it together
It's just a small dark frame and you left the picture forever
I remember your face when you came to my door
Said close your eyes can't see me anymore today
Not today

Cause I have nothing
And I hold nothing but rain
Blue Rain

You're the echo on the street
Like the wind
You're the 25th hour
Just legs beneath a dress
You're nothing
Nothing but power

I remember your face when you came to my room
Said turn off the light and watch the moon today
Not today

Cause I have nothing
And I hold nothing but rain
Blue Rain

Sat up with your picture,
a ghost
and a bottle of pain
The light went weak with the cold,
the blue and the rain
I remember your face when you came to this town
Said never look back and don't you look down today
Not today
Not today
Not today

Cause I have nothing
And I hold nothing but rain
Blue Rain

I remember your face when you came to this town
Said never look back and don't you look down today
Not today
Not today
Not today


© 1980 Chris LeRoy Published by New West Crash Music

THE BAND

After a while you start to lose sight of yourself
Whoever's poison it wasn't so good for your health
Open a window and wish it on somebody else

And The Band Plays On
Hear The Slow Parade of Tears
And The Band Plays On for Years

After a while you start to lose sight of your friends
Everyone's scared of a monster when there's no defense
Look at those children Oh the innocence

And The Band Plays On
Hear The Slow Parade of Tears
And The Band Plays On for Years
And The Band Plays On
In a moment they'll be here
And The Band Plays ...

After the sounds of the crowd/turnaround/fade away
Stars coming down just to glitter the end of your day
Then in the moment you wish you had words to say

And The Band...

And The Band Plays On
Hear The Stoned Parade of Tears
And The Band Plays On for Years
And The Band Plays On
And the music disappears


© Chris LeRoy MARCH 1996 Published New West Crash Music

FRONT DOOR

I left on Friday when there was no sky
No leaves were falling, no one passing by
So long ago I can’t remember why
On solid rock I was pathetic sand
I’m out of time and now I’m out of hand
I fell so hard I couldn’t feel the pain
I come home bleeding through the pouring rain
I couldn’t come away with less than your name
An empty floor across an empty room
If I come crawling back it’s way too soon.

I’ve been knocking on your front door
I can’t tell your face anymore
You say you love me but you’re just not sure
Knock knock knocking on your front door

I feel my fingers like its trigger time
I’m not in touch if you can’t touch my mind
Hey you ain’t givng no sight to the blind
I spent a lifetime just to get to you
If you won’t open up I’m coming through

I’ve been knocking on your front door
I can’t tell your face anymore
You say you love me but you’re just not sure
Knock knock knocking on your front door

I spent a lifetime just to get to you
If you won’t open up I’m coming through

I’ve been knocking on your front door
I can’t see your face anymore
You say you love me but you’re just not sure
Knock knock knocking on your front door

I say now knock knock knock
Your front door
I say now knock knock knock
Your front door
I say now knock knock knock
Your front door
Knock knock knocking on your front door


© 1982 Chris LeRoy and Tony Fate
New West Crash Music and Vital Gesture Music

DON'T TURN BACK

There are some people in this world
They want to bring us down
And there’s some trouble in this world
That we cannot turn round
Say what you say about it
Or doubt the love we found

But don’t turn back
If you turn back you turn away
Hear me say
If you turn back you turn away

There are so many kinds of fools
And lies they tell about us
They’d like to tell us that we’re through
And swear it never was
Say what you say about me
But don’t you doubt my love

But don’t turn back
If you turn back you turn away
Hear me say
If you turn back you turn away

Say what you say about us
But don’t you doubt our love

But don’t turn back
If you turn back you turn away
Hear me say
If you turn back you turn away

Chris LeRoy
1998 © and Published New West Crash Music

BAD ENOUGH

On the day you changed they just walked by
One crazy thing got caught in your eye
And all your friends say you’re so hard to be with now
With friends like that
You really don’t need friends at all

You can have anything you want
If you want it for a very long time
Bad enough

Your friends they just walk by
They want you to apologize
And all your friends say you’re so hard to be with now
Friends like that
Are friends that you can do without

You can have anything you want
If you want it for a very long time
Bad enough

You can’t take no book of love
No book of poems
No book of rules
No book of the month
No book of the dead
To tell you what to do

In this great big house that you call home
You’re in a crowd but you are all alone
And all your friends say you’re so hard to be with now
Friends like that
Are friends that you can live without

You can have anything you want
If you want it for a very long time
Bad enough
Baby, you got to want it bad enough

© Chris LeRoy
1983 New West Crash Music

TIRED ANGEL

Out of the window and into the sky
She says a prayer
She says goodbye
Watches the city below
Through the tears in her eyes
And the lights seem so far
And the trees
And the cars
And the treacherous feeling she gets
When she thinks with her heart
We lit a fire
I was burned too
Now that I’ve faded away
I’ve got a message for you

Fall down
Fall Down
Come Down
Tired Angel

Out in the air your precarious perch
Girl assumed lost
Soon they will search
But they’ll never find you cause
They never knew who you are
You were soft
You were fine
Never cold
So refined
And no one can ever hold on to you
One at a time
We lit a fire
We were burned too
Now that I’m faded away
I’ve got a message for you

Fall down
Fall Down
Come Down
Tired Angel

Now you’ve stepped out on the blue moonlit wire
Watch your step easy
Wings of desire
Earth is below you but you can’t hear voices at all
And the lights seem so far
And the trees
And the cars
Like no one below you could possible care if you fall
We lit a fire
We were burned through
Now that I’m so far away
I try to hold on to you

Fall down
Fall Down
Come Down
Tired Angel

© 1987 Chris LeRoy
Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP

RADIO

& I want you
& I want you to want me too
& I won't go
& I won't leave until you know
that your picture sits there haunting me all night
but its alright
allright

'cause when I lay me down to sleep
my mind is like a radio
your picture comes and goes
& in the meanwhile…

if I could say
if I could wait until the sun
had crossed your face
to say we never have to run
cause your picture sits there smiling through the light
& its alright
allright

'cause when I lay me down to sleep
my mind is like a radio
your picture comes and goes
& in the meanwhile
everytime I try to sleep
my mind is just a radio
your station comes & goes
in the meanwhile

& I feel tired
but I'm still here and alive
& will try
to find us ways to survive
cause I picture you in my arms through the night
& were alright
allright

cause when I lay me down to sleep
my mind is like a radio
your picture comes and goes
& in the meanwhile
everytime I try to sleep
my mind is just a radio
your station comes & goes
in the meanwhile

© Chris LeRoy 5/10/96
New West Crash Music

WE'RE ALRIGHT

Two lovers went out walking
Into the moonless night
They wandered through the firmament
To hold each other tight
And though they saw the end was near
They never felt so right
And we’re alright

Two lovers round the circle
Against the rolling sea
They cannot break the motion
Or they will wake the dream
And though they saw the end was near
They couldn't leave that night
And we’re alright

If we had all the chances
The chances lovers hold
We'd fill our hearts with promises
Like mansions filled with gold
And when I look into your eyes
Against the dying light
I'm alright
You're alright
We’re alright

Two lovers went out walking...

Chris LeRoy 2/5/ 95
New West Crash Music ASCAP

RESCUE ME

Oh, won’t you rescue me
Oh, won’t you rescue me
I want you to
Hold me tight
Treat me right
Tell me what I’m doing wrong

Well I got lost on the way
When I was practically here
I lived on three cigarettes
And a perpetual fear
And a terrible dream
Where you whisper to me so sincere
Almost too clear

So won’t you rescue me
Oh, won’t you rescue me
I want you to
Hold me tight
Treat me right
Tell me what I’m doing wrong

Well there’s a vacancy sign
On your pillow tonight
If you could see my way
You’d probably turn out the light
And that terrible dream
Where you whisper to me so sincere
Almost too clear

Who put out the lights
I’m losing contact
You walk away
And you know that I can’t let go
No I can’t let go…

So won’t you rescue me
Oh, won’t you rescue me
I want you to
Hold me tight
Treat me right
Tell me what I’m doing wrong

© 1983 Chris LeRoy New West Crash Music

WANDERING AROUND

Up all night close to the brink
Closing my eyes and trying to think
Reaching to you I almost touch down
The moon won't stop wandering around

You look good asleep in that chair
Faint expectations rise in the air
When you awake I won't be found
The moon won't stop wandering around

Wandering around, wandering around
All through the evening and never a sound
Come here my child and lay your head down
We'll stop this wandering around

You were right/I can't be read
Close that book that rests by your head
You were the story/In you I was bound
The moon won't stop wandering around

Oh my friend your time has been true
Everything right goes straight back to you
Maybe in dreams we'll cover that ground
The moon won't stop wandering around

Wandering around, wandering around
All through the evening and never a sound
Come hungry child and lay your head down
We'll stop this wandering around

If I pray and when I die
You can have all these tears that I cry
A heart that was lost, one will be found
So much for wandering around

Wandering around, wandering around
All through the evening and never a sound
Come hungry child your head to the ground
I 'll stop your wandering around

Chris LeRoy
© May 22, 2005 NEW WEST CRASH MUSIC

RIGHT

When I was young I used to sing
And bang the drum and everything
And throw my cares on golden leaves
My first words rolled up my sleeve

From river deep to mountain high
Sweet soul music kissed the sky
I kept the station turned down low
Clouds came through my radio

Let’s sing, get high, love the sun, get it right

Ring dem bells up on a hill
Chimes of freedom chiming still
When words rise up against the wind
You may not hear those words again

If fire burns inside your soul
You take a chance to lose control
It pulls you up and let’s you go
Do you believe in rock and roll?

Let’s sing, get high, love the sun, get it right

Life can make you very small
And try to push you to the wall
But sometimes problem get reversed
There’s changes in the universe

A fire burning in your soul
Can take you if you want to go
A simple song can let you know
Do you believe in rock and roll?

Let’s sing, get high, love another, kiss the sky
Let’s sing, get high, love the sun, get it right

When I was young I used to sing
And bang the drum and everything
And throw my cares on golden leaves
One more song before we leave

Let’s sing, get high, love another, kiss the sky
Let’s sing, get high, love the Son, get it right

© Chris LeRoy March 16, 2008
New West Crash Music ASCAP

WOKE UP LIKE A CHILD

It was a beautiful morning
I got out with the sun
Put on a little Bob Dylan
Talking one to one

But I was tired of watching for signals
With just a ghost of a chance
I fought the cold man’s wars
And I danced the combat dance

But I woke up like a child
I woke up like a child
And I don’t let those nightmares bring me down
They don’t bring me down

And I dreamed we never grow up
Keep scratching hearts on the walls
And all the hearts that were touching
They hardly beat at all

But I woke up like a child
I woke up like a child
And I don’t let those nightmares bring me down
They don’t bring me down

It was a beautiful morning
I got out with the sun
Put on a little Bob Dylan
Watch the children run
There’s no protest singers
There’s no protest songs
Just the howling of the night hounds
When they don’t get along

There’s no protest singers
There’s no protest songs
Just the howling of the night hounds
When they don’t get along
But I woke up like a child
I woke up like a child
And I don’t let those nightmares bring me down
They don’t bring me down

© 1982 Chris LeRoy New West Crash Music/ASCAP

MISS FORTUNATE LIES

Everytime I look who put me down down down
Miss Fortunate Lies
Miss Fortunate Lies
Everytime I see you put me down down down
Miss Fortunate Lies

They say you’d never walk alone
Unless you wanted to
You’ll be stranded on your own
Soon my darling

Everytime I wake up in this underground
Miss Fortunate Lies
Miss Fortunate Lies
Everytime I hear you put me down down down
Miss Fortunate Lies...(solo)

I wish that I had words to say
Let me be someone
I wish that you would pull yourself away
Soon my darling

Everytime I see you put me down down down
Miss Fortunate Lies
Miss Fortunate Lies
Everytime I stop and think about you now
Miss Fortunate Lies (repeat)


© Chris LeRoy New West Crash Music
6/18/98

WALKING HIGHWAY 61

Tears cross the road sign
Looking hard for a change in weather
No time for a cigarette
And a chance to sit with your photograph

Well…
I don’t want to be in the midday sun
Walking Highway 61
I don’t want to be in the midday sun
Walking Highway 61
Come on. Come on

Hard days of reckoning
And I’m making love to your pagan god
Time is a cigarette
And I’m holding things that I want to carry back

Well…
I don’t want to be in the midday sun
Walking Highway 61
I don’t want to be in the midday sun
Walking Highway 61
Come on. Come on

It was only recently
That I said I loved you
It was only eternally
That I knew I loved you
There’s no heart but a heart that really matters
Gets me so much trouble
Makes my fist get tighter
If you can’t see
If you can’t feel
The road is wide open
Road’s wide open

Well…
I don’t want to be in the midday sun
Walking Highway 61
I don’t want to be in the midday sun
Walking Highway 61
Come on. Come on

© 1983 Chris LeRoy New West Crash Music

COME TO ME

I was just a young thing
Had no understanding
Used to lose my head and heart but…
Got up on the wrong day
Right up in the wrong way
Lose my way from the very start but…
I’ve grown up enough to tear that picture apart

Come To Me
Whatever you have heard
I’ve never used that word before, oh I
Come To Me
Whatever kind of lie
I never used to try before, oh I
Come to Me

Come into the right line
Move in the direction
Maybe you can be that someone but..
I could never hold you
Fast to your affections
Maybe I could hold you one day but…
I’ve grown up enough to feel the sun, but why?

Come To Me
Don’t ever breathe a word
I’ve never been what you have heard, oh I…
Come To Me
Before you think I lie
I’ll never make you cry, oh no I…
Come to Me ………………SOLO

Come into the right line
Move in the direction
Maybe you can be that someone but..
I could never hold you
Fast to your affections
Maybe I could hold you one day but…
I’ve grown up enough to feel the sun, but why?

Come To Me
Before I breathe a word
Before I get what you deserve, oh I…
Come To Me
Before you think I lie
Know know I ain’t that kind of guy, oh oh I..
Come to Me

© Chris LeRoy
2004 New West Crash Music/ASCAP

YEARS

Lost my spirit and the friends who came to see me
Lost a good song when the spirit left me here
And I can’t imagine what went right
The voice that was calling me near
“You’ve been lost for years and years.”

Take no questions, talk to no one when the night falls
Shut your eyes out, and you pray, day appears
And I can’t imagine what went right
And who made the night disappear
“You’ve been lost for years and years.”

In the midnight hour a spirit came softly
Crossed our music for a while
And we would smile

I’ve been waiting for a long time just to tell you
I’m a new song
May this new song
Ring so clear, clear, clear
And I dare not wonder what goes right
The spirit can bring us here
I’ve been lost for years and years
You’ve been lost for years and years
We’ve been lost for years and years
We’ve been lost
We’ve been lost
We’ve been lost

© 1991 Chris LeRoy
Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP

I WOULDN’T FOLLOW

Well you can travel through the hills
You can travel to the valleys below
Well you can travel through the hills
You can travel to the valleys below
But you can’t go anywhere
I-I-I wouldn’t follow

You could go it all alone
You could go to anyplace you want to go
You could travel any road
You could go to anyplace you want to go
But you can’t go anywhere
I-I-I wouldn’t follow

Well you can turn and walk away
You can turn on everything you know
Well you can turn and walk away
You can turn on everything you know
But you can’t go anywhere
I-I-I wouldn’t follow
No you can’t go anywhere
That I-I-I….

© 1981 Chris LeRoy and Tony Fate
Published by New West Crash Music
and Vital Gesture Records