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