Kim Carnes Album

(Kim Carnes/Eddie Reeves)

Memories are the only things that time can't take away
You read a book, you write a song, the time's been spent
But in your mind the story still remains
The song plays on

Memories can get the best of you
They can turn you inside out just when you least expect'em to
And times when I'm alone, I think of things we've done
And then I laugh right out loud to myself
Sometimes I fool myself

How could you possibly know
How could you possibly see
Yes and how could you possibly know
That the best of you has got the best of me

Good and bad take it all in stride
But I'd be lying if I said I didn't you here beside me
When it took so long to find you
Now I just can't let you go, can't let you go

How could you possibly know
How could you possibly see
Yes and how could you possibly know
That the best of you has got the best of me

(Van Morrison)

Look at the ivy on clingin' wals
Look at the flowers and the green grass so tall
It's not a matter of when push comes to shove
It's just the hour on the wings of a dove

That's just warm love
It's just warm love

I dig it when you're fancy dressed up in lace
I dig it when you have a smile on your face
This inspiration's got to be on the flow
These invitations got to see you to know

It's just warm love
It's just warm love
And it's everpresent everywhere
And it's everpresent everywhere
Warm love
And it's everpresent everywhere
And it's everpresent everywhere
That warm love

To the country I'm goin'
Lay and a laugh in the sun
You can bring your guitar along
We'll sing some songs and have some fun
The sky is cryin' and it's time to go home
And we shall hurry to the car from the foam
Sit by the fire and dry out our we clothes
Outside it's rainin' from the skies up above

Inside it's warm love
Inside it's warm love
And it's everpresent everywhere
And it's everpresent everywhere
Warm love

(Kim Carnes)

The king of hearts has won the final inning
He's made his move and played his hand so well
Everyone thinks he's got it made
'Cause no one can tie him down
Everybody says he was a damn fool
For givin' me the run-around

All he did was tell me lies to try to woo me
After all the talk I guess he won the prize
He never meant to stay
How could be do it to me
Everybody says I was a damn fool
To listen to his run-around

Now I was tryin' to act just like a lady
I turned him down
Then he took me by surprise
Now who would have thought that a girl like me
Could be swayed so easily
Everybody says I was a damn fool
'Cause I gave what he took for free

All he did was tell me lies to try to woo me
After all the talk I guess he won the prize
He never meant to stay
How could be do it to me
Everybody says I was a damn fool
To listen to his run-around

The king of hearts can't play his game forever
And the jester's not the fool when the king is old
Later on will he think of me
When his castle walls get cold
Will he care to call
Will he caere at all

All he did was tell me lies to try to woo me
All he did was tell me lies to try to woo me

(Kim Carnes)

She thinks about him constantly
Picks up a paper and pen writes him every day
And every day puts the letter away

'Cause he'll come home
When he's tired of running around
He'll come home
She can feel it in her bones
He'll come home
When one too many lovers leaves him all alone
He'll come home

She lives her life through a photograph
And paints her face to hide the way she feels
She keeps the time away
'Cause she's afraid to count the years the he's been gone
Gone

But don't feel bad 'cause she'll be all right
She sips her wine and gets tipsy in the moonlight
The she leaves the door wide open
Just one more night

Till he comes home
And he's tired of running around
He'll come home
I can feel it in my bones
He'll come home
When one too many lovers
Leaves him all alone
He'll come home
He'll come home home

(Kim Carnes/Dave Ellingson)

Sailin'
Ridin' on the crest of a dream
All we need is a breeze
Some help fromt the wind
Sailin'
Out of my dreams
And into the night
We may never come back again
When we go sailin'

I've been all over the ocean
I've traveled through a million years
Every face I see
Brings it home to me
That I all ever loved is here

Now won't you take me sailin'
Ridin' on the crest of a dream
All we need is a breeze
Some help fromt the wind
You've got to take me sailin'
Right out of my dreams
And into the night
We may never come back again
When we go sailin'

If they drew a line
Through space and time
That defied my breaking through
It could not control me
No nothin' could hold me
As long as there was you

Now won't you take me sailin'
Ridin' on the crest of a dream
All we need is a breeze
Some help fromt the wind
You've got to take me sailin'
Right out of my dreams
And into the night
We may never come back again
When we go sailin'
We may never come back again
When we go sailin'

(Barry Goldberg/Gerry Golfin)

If I ever feel the light again shinin' down on me
I don't have to tell you what a welcome it will be
I felt the light before but I let it slip away
But I still keep on believin' that it'll come back some day

It's not the spotlight
And it's not the camera light
And it's not the streetlight of some old street of dreams
It ain't the moonlight
Not even the sunlight
But I've seen it shining in your eyes
And you know what I mean

Sometimes I try to tell myself the light was never real
Just a fantasy that used to be the way I used to feel
But you and I know better now
Even though it's been so long
If your memory really server you well
You'll never tell me that I'm wrong

It's not the spotlight
And it's not the camera light
And it's not the streetlight of some old street of dreams
It ain't the moonlight
Not even the sunlight
But I've seen it shining in your eyes
And you know what I mean

If I ever feel the light again things will have to change
Names and faces homes and places will have to be rearranged
And you can help it come about
If your're ever so inclined
Ain't no rhyme or reason
Why a woman can't change her mind

It's not the spotlight
And it's not the camera light
And it's not the streetlight of some old street of dreams
It ain't the moonlight
Not even the sunlight
But I've seen it shining in your eyes
And you know what I mean

(Kim Carnes/Dave Ellingson)

When you run into yourself around a corner of time
Having done and said this all before
And you start remembering somebody you once loved
The words you never said have passed you by

My memories run deep as deep as your eyes
And they burn with love that still won't die
Yet I misused you darling
But how was I to know
Were the things I never said not worth the try
And when will I ever see you again

So I keep running, running
Am I running scared or am I running after you
And ain't it funny how you go and hurt somebody
When it's the last thing you ever wanted to do

Sometimes when I'm sleepin'
I feel you close to me
And I wake up and know you're passin' through
Thinkin' that I'm crazy
Or that it's just the moon making shadows
Lord they look so much like you
And I wonder if I'll ever see you again

So I keep running running
Am I running scared or am I running after you
And ain't it funny how you go and hurt somebody
When it's the last thing you ever wanted to do

(Kim Carnes/Dave Ellingson)

Let your love come easy
Let it fall with the summer rain
Let your love come easy
And watch it come down again and again

I'll keep the porch light burning brightly
Help you find your way
'Cause you've been know to get sidetracked baby
Take a one-way street that leads straight to me

Let your love come easy
Let it fall with the summer rain
Let your love come easy
And love will come down again and again

I knew a man in Egypt
Had exactly two hundred wives
And early every night
He'd turn out the lights
And everyone was satisfied

He let his love come easy
Let it fall with the summer rain
Let your love come easy
And love will come down again and again

(Kim Carnes/Dave Ellingson)

I could retire on a Caterpillar tire
Somewhere on a river in the great US
The world slidin' by
Every day is July
Just tubin' down the river with my mind at rest

Now man wasn't made to stay locked up in a cage
And workin' all day ain't that much fun to do
It's gonna come to pass
I'll leave the steel and the glass
Floating down the river down the tube with you

Reuben Reuben let's go tubin'
Won't you take me far away
We could live on love forever
And you know that life should be that way

Now maybe tomorrow find some time I can borrow
A dream just needs a window you can climb on through
Don't wanna wake up some day to find that I passed away
Before I floated on a river down the tube with you

Floatin' down the river got my mind at rest
Down a lazy river now I'm living' my best
Sunshine on a river down the tube with you

(Kim Carnes/Dave Ellingson)

Love comes from the most unexpected places
In someone's eyes you've never met
Who wants to get to know you
In someone's smile you can't forget
And if the music plays on in your mind
Take all the love that you can find
And if love takes you in
Take all the love that you can find
And hope it comes again

Love comes from the most unexpected places
A love song on the radio
You never hear enough of
In bars that thrive on loneliness
Where people sell their sorrow for your time

They take the love that they can find
And if love takes them in
They take the love that they can find
And hope it comes again

Love comes in many ways
In lover's arms
In sweet bouquets
But if nothin's said
Then nothin's ever heard

Here I stand outside your door
And I'm trying to tell you just once more
That I love you
I still love you

Love comes from the most unexpected places
In someone's eyes you've never met
Who wants to get to know you
In someone's smile you can't forget
And if the music plays on in your mind
Take all the love that you can find
And if love takes you in
Take all the love that you can find
And hope it comes again