Thunder Album

I should've seen it coming now
Should've known it would happen
this way
If I'd trusted my initial instincts
Then maybe you'd be here today

Cos the more that I gave
The more I could see a change
You only wanted my love
When you thought I might take it
away, I'm afraid

Now I'm drowning in a river of pain
Slowly going down
All I did was love you too much
So now I'll remain
Stranded here forever
Drowning in a river of pain

I don't know when it happened now
Suddenly you'd taken control
One day I was pulling your strings
girl
Then the next you had a grip on my
soul

So I let myself go baby
Cos my heart wouldn't be denied
There was distance in your eyes
And your touch turned fire to ice, no
surprise

That I'm drowning in a river of pain
Here with my regrets
Going round and round in my head
But still I remain
Stranded here forever
Drowning in a river of pain

(SOLO)

Somehow when you saw the other
side of me
Then I lost my mystery

Now I'm drowning in a river of pain
Slowly going down
All I did was love you too much
So now I'll remain
Drowning in a river
Oh I’m drowning

It was the last night of the 20th Century
And the party was going strong
Champagne, beer wine and whisky
Everyone was totally gone

2am in the morning I see a stranger walking in
Said his name was Charlie and somebody'd sent for him

Then everybody's laughing, everybody's high
Everybody's laughing, but I don't know why

I'd never seen such a queue for the bathroom
Since I hung out at The Sunset Bar
And that line of Californian denial
Didn't stretch even halfway as far

I never had so many people boring me to death
Am I the only fool that needs to go to bed?

'Cause everybody's laughing, everybody's high
Everybody's laughing, but I don't know why
Just wanna die

If you're staring in the face of temptation
But it don't blow your skirt up high
You're naive to the situation
'Til your friends get that look in their eyes

'Cause when they ask the question
Why I never had a try,
I said
"Take a look around the room, you'll see the reason why!"

'Cause everybody's laughing, everybody's high
Everybody's laughing, but I don't know why
Don't know why

'Cause everybody's laughing, everybody's high
Everybody's laughing, but I don't know why
No I don't know why

'Cause everybody's laughing, everybody's high
Everybody's laughing, but I don't know why

'Cause everybody's laughing, everybody's high
Everybody's laughing, but I don't know why

Goodbye Johnny, sad to see you go away
Goodbye Johnny, is there nothing I can say?
To make you think it over, maybe change your mind and stay
Goodbye Johnny, sad to see you go away

And it's so unfair, you had something there
And it's so unfair, 'cause there's something about you

Goodbye Johnny, it was different at the start
But she called you bluff and tore your life apart
And as I watched you crumble, I could hear your breaking heart
Goodbye Johnny, now it's different from the start

And it's so unfair, you had something there
And it's so unfair, 'cause there's something about you

You're making a sacrifice, well that's alright
But sooner or later there may come a time
when you see your life and it don't belong to you
'cause you caved in under presure, now what you gonna do?
Don't throw your life away!

Goodbye Johnny, sad to see you go away (Goodbye Johnny, sad to see you go away)
Goodbye Johnny, is there nothing I can say? (Goodbye Johnny, is there nothing I can say?)
to make you think it over, maybe change your mind and stay
Goodbye Johnny, sad to see you go away
(Goodbye Johnny, sad to see you go)

And it's so unfair, you had something there
And it's so unfair, don't throw your lifaway
And it's so unfair, you had something there
And it's so unfair, 'cause there's something about you
There's something about you
Something about you
There's something about you now
Something
'Cause there's something about you
Something about

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You tell me there's one thing, tearing down the love that we have
And how you sacrificed something, that you'll never live the dreams that you have
So if I stare at the floor, the same as before
Please forgive me, I can't hear you any more

Something's going on in my head, but I'm not there
like I'm drifting away
And something going on in my heart, but I don't care
I can't face it again, I'm numb with the pain that I feel

I don't know what I did, but I never held you back like you claim
Now that I see, I guess some one's gotta shoulder your blame
And everything that you said, every bitter regreat
Every poison arrow is flying over my head

Well, something's going on in my head, but I'm not there
like I'm drifting away
And something going on in my heart, but I don't care
I can't face it again, I'm numb with the pain that I feel

Numb with pain that I feel

Uh, mmm, yeah

If I stare at the floor, the same as before
Please forgive me, I can't listen anymore

Well, something's going on in my head, but I'm not there
like I'm drifting away
And something going on in my heart, but I don't care
I'm numb with the pain that I feel

(Something's going on in my head) Numb with the pain I feel
(something going on in my heart, but I don't care) Numb with the pain I feel

Looking down from the mountains and out to the sea
You're aware in a moment, you're nothing in the scheme

Chorus:
But your vanity told you, you're more than a dot
And your arrogance keeps you, from thinking that you're not
So when it hits you, you're fading away
Cos you won't live forever, start living for today.

And the seasons are changing, faster all the time
Every day seems to pass by in the wink of an eye

Old man on the corner, laughing like a child
Clinging to a bottle, his broken eyes wild
Kept on a laughing, the people turned away
But he knows something we don't, he's living for today

So you crawl through your lifetime, a slave to the grind
But time overtook you, and left you far behind

So don't bother running, the moment is gone
Eats you like a cancer, but still you struggle on
Why try to fight it, you're dying anyway?
The future doesn't matter when you're living for today

(SOLO)

Are you living for today?

Looking down from the mountains and out to the sea
You're aware in a moment, you're nothing in the scheme

But your vanity told you, you're more than a dot
And your arrogance keeps you, from thinking that you're not
So when it hits you, you're fading away
Cos you won't live forever, start living for today.

You're fading away
You're fading away

Start living for today
Start living for today.

Just try to live for today and don't hurt anybody...

There must have been a moment
A second or a time
When I didn't look up
Or I missed some kind of sign
Turned the wrong direction
When she was just an inch away
Like a missed connection
And my future slipped away

There's been times when I feel like I'm conspired against by fate
It's almost bad enough to make me hate

I'm sick of building castles in the sand
Waiting for another fake to break my promised land
I've been looking for the real thing in a lonely one night stand
Just building castles in the sand

Cos it terrifies me, ending up alone
And it walks beside me, the ghost of chances gone
Did I have it, did I let it go,
Or close the door to fast?
Is there an answere locked up in my past
In my past...

I'm sick of building castles in the sand
Waiting for another fake to break my promised land
I've been looking for the real thing in a lonely one night stand
Just building castles in the sand

I've been dying, I've been living alone so long
Going over and over the reasons, but I can't find a thing that's wrong
In my mind all the evidence seems to say
I wouldn't even know it if she walked right in today

I'm sick of building castles in the sand
Waiting for another fake to break my promised land
I've been looking for the real thing in a lonely one night stand
Just building castles in the sand

Let me tell you 'bout this girl I know
She ain't nothing like any girl you've
known before
'Cos everybody wants her
In her dress or her old blue jeans
When you see her you'll be coming
apart at the seams
'Cos everybody wants her

She's got everything a man could ask
for, she's animal and innocence
She could wrap you 'round her little
finger
She's sharp as a knife, you ought to
see her dance

Chorus:
(Everybody wants her) Everybody
wants her, they make it plain to see
(Everybody needs her) Everybody
needs her, she don't know it, but
she wants me

The first time that she passed my
way
I got so nervous that I couldn't find
a thing to say
'Cos everybody wants her
She's told so many guys to sling their
hook
But I've been watching her eyes and
I've seen her look
She knows everybody wants her

I'm never wrong with my intuition,
I'm gonna say what I have to say
I got it worked out to the letter, I
know I can make her see it my way

chorus - she wants me

(Solo)

She's got everything a man could ask
for, she's animal and innocence
She could wrap you 'round her little
finger
She's sharp as a knife, boy you
ought to see her dance
You ought to see her dance

chorus

(Everybody wants her) Everybody
wants her
I got to tell you that the woman
makes it plain to see
(Everybody needs her) Everybody
wants her, she don't know
(Everybody wants her) Everybody
wants to be her man
(Everybody needs her) Everybody
needs her, but she wants me
That's the way it's gotta be, just her
and me, together baby
We're together, you and me...

Mama, tell your children not to go
Down to the city, where the
desperate people go
And mama, don't let them stray
They won't find, peace of mind, in
such a lonely place
Wannabes and losers, all trying to get
a break
They don't give a damn, they'll do
whatever it takes
If they climb the ladder, they get to
play for higher stakes
That's why there's low life in high
places

Mama, things have changed since
you were young
When you scream, in the dead of
night
Now no one ever comes
And a poor man, he's cast as the
villan and a thief
See him down on the street, begging
for enough to eat

Waiting on the corner, I saw her
waiting for the man
When the limo pulled up I saw what
was changing hands
I should've tried to warn her, and
make her understand
There is low life in high places

There is low life, like you never even
knew
There is low life, and it lives in me and
you
But we don't all let it through

Don't let 'em go, you've got to have
some pity
Don't you let 'em go
You've got to keep 'em away, from
the big bad city

(SOLO)

Waiting on the corner, I saw her
waiting for the man
When the limo pulled up I saw what
was changing hands
I should've tried to warn her, and
make her understand

Mama, tell your children not to go
Down to the city, where the
desperate people go
And mama, don't you let them stray
They won't find, peace of mind in
such a lonely place

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Talking to a friend of mine this morning
He told me how his life was gonna change
All the reaching for the skies
And dreams unrealised
Had left him alone with his pain
And he just couldn't face it again

I said, don't you believe in tomorrow?
'Cause today's just a scene in the play
You might get some bad breaks and you'll make your mistakes
But you can't live your life in a day

Fifteen years old and on the outside
You got your face against the window looking in
Old enough to see, but too young to be free
in a grown up world loaded with sin

And your folks, they don't get your frustration
'Cos they can't recall feeling that way
So you fight, and you hate, but you'll just have to wait
'Cos you can't live your life in a day

It always seems life went so fast when it's gone
but when you're waiting for something it drags no and on
You can't take no comfort when everyone says
You'll look back and laugh at today

I said, don't you believe in tomorrow?
'Cause today's just a scene in the play
ou might get some bad breaks and you'll make your mistakes
But you can't live your life in a day

cause tomorrow will always be comming
it's the one thing they can't take away
and you'll lose and you'll win
and you'll do it again
But you can't live your life in a day
No you can't live your life in a day
No you can't live your life in a day

You don't know what it's like
To speak from the heart, do you baby?
You don't think I can see
You're falling apart, right in front of me

'Cause I'm not that young my friend
So I've heard it all before

Does your face hurt from smiling too much?
Did someone kick your self-esteem into touch?
'Cause your booming voice is only a crutch
To hide the man inside

I've sat thru your jokes
A million times, but I'm still not laughing
Just the sound of your voice turns people to stone
I've seen it happen

When day turns to night my friend
You're still going on and on

Are you lonely in a crowded room?
Do you know what they're all saying 'bout you?
You spent your whole life running away from the truth
And if you ever left a space
I'd tell you to your face

'Cause if the Reaper comes knocking at your door tonight, tonight
When you start talking
You bet your life he'd run away in fright
Run and hide

Does your face hurt from smiling too much?
Did someone kick your self-esteem into touch?
'Cause your booming voice is only a crutch
To hide the man inside
Are you lonely in a crowded room?
Do you know what they're all saying 'bout you?
You spent your whole life running away from the truth
To hide the man inside
To hide the man inside
To hide the man inside

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