Rick Springfield Album

Love is the drug we're blessed and cursed,
I could feel the hunger burst inside of you
Perfect body, perfect skin
There is no perfect anything
I tried hard to be the perfect one
but it's not enough, it's not enough
Welcome to my execution
In the name of love, in the name of love

[Chorus:]
Turn up your radio love is king
And everything will be beautiful
Turn up your radio forget that sting
And everything will be beautiful

Love's got a dirty mind love can bite
I forget that sometimes love's a parasite
Hail hail Mary full of grace
You disappeared without a trace

I needed your hand to lead me through this fire
But you let it go, you let it go
Where's my absolution
I really don't know, I really don't know

[Chorus:]
Turn up your radio love is king
And everything will be beautiful
Turn up your radio forget that sting
And everything will be beautiful

Hey, hey, my, my,
I said my perfect love will never die
Perfect love, perfect sin there is no perfect anything
We tear each other limb from limb
in the name of God in the name of love
There's only two choices sink or swim
I wish I was perfect, for you

[Chorus:]
Turn up your radio love is king
And everything will be beautiful
Turn up the radio forget that sting
And everything will be beautiful
Turn up your radio love is king
And everything will be
And everything will be beautiful

(Vander/Young)
[Originally recorded by The Easybeats]

I, I'll give, I'll give you, I'll give you love.
I'll give you loving all the time.
Give you kisses just like wine
Does his lips taste sweeter than mine?

I'll make you happy (just like your mamma wants)
I'll make you happy (just like your daddy said)
I'll make you happy just like your mamma said to me

If, if you, if you don't, if you don't think.
If you don't think i'm your man
Find somebody if you can
And get them to hold your hand, not me.

I'll make you happy (just like your mamma wants)
I'll make you happy (just like your daddy said)
I'll make you happy just like your mamma said to me

I, I'll give, I'll give you, I'll give you love.
I'll give you loving all the time.
Give you kisses just like wine
Does his lips taste sweeter than mine?

I'll make you happy (just like your mamma wants)
I'll make you happy (just like your daddy said)

So I lied and said that I'm okay
Cause there's the way you are
and the way I wish you were
And what you want and what you say you want
are both different answers
I was standing here waiting,
my hands and knees shaking
for the one I thought was you
And you gave it away like it was nothing at all
Tell me...

CHORUS: Will I ever see you again, will I?
It is what it is
Will I ever see you again, will I?
I should just let it go...

I'm a mess but I can't tell you so
Tho' I broke my heart on the reef of your infidelity
I'm down hearing calling, my hands and knees crawling
for the one I thought was you
Cos you gave it away like it was nothing at all
Tell me

CHORUS: Will I ever see you again, will I?
It is what it is
Will I ever see you again, will I?
I should just let it go

I'm down hearing calling,
my hands and knees crawling
Looking for the one that was you
Cos you gave her away like she was nothing at all
Tell me

CHORUS: Will I ever see you again, will I?
It is what it is
Will I ever see you again, will I?
I should just let it go
Will I ever see you again, will I?
It is what it is
Will I ever see you again, will I?

I never wanted anyone as much I want you
While you were making everyone I never had a clue
No matter how you treated me
I'm still in love with you

Can't kick the feeling that the more I give,
the more I owe
I'm walking through the garden of the sun,
it's raining though
I'm waiting for your kiss of life,
but it's not gonna show

[Chorus:]
God gave you to everyone
In your summer of love
God gave you to everyone
Cause I'm not enough

We can't all be all things to everyone
You'll never spend your whole life standing in the sun
But you make me feel I don't mean anything to anyone

Looking for the kiss in your mouth
Living at the edge of my skin
Standing on the roof of heaven with the devil
as it crashes in

[Chorus:]
God gave you to everyone
You told me so
God gave you to everyone
Oh Domino
Ah ah ah

[Chorus:]
God gave you to everyone
In your summer of love
God gave you to everyone
Cause I'm not enough
Ah ah ah

Idon'twantanythingfromyou

You only want me when you're high
You try to heal but you crucify
It's the same shit / different day
You say sorry like it's supposed to change everything
And everything’s okay
But everything you gave to me you went and gave away
to anybody else
with a dick

CHORUS:
I don't want anything from you
I don't want anything from you
I don't want anything from you

Sorry baby but I can't join your party
And I liked you better the way you were
You're a sad little cliche, you say sorry
like it's supposed to change everything and make it go away
And everything you gave to me I want to give it back to you
on a stick

CHORUS:
I don't want anything from you
I don't want anything from you
I don't want anything from you

(I wonder how it got to be) You lied
You happy with your little freak show?
(I wonder how it got to be) You lied
Baby you were just so so
(I wonder how it got to be)
I don't hate you!
I don't hate you!
I don't hate you!

CHORUS:
I don't want anything from you
I don't want anything from you

(voice included in Jesus Saves is Jason Batchko)

You let me read your pretty poetry
And I fell for your trailer park majesty
And I, When I said I'd die for you (for you)
I didn't mean for you to write the eulogy
You betrayed yourself and me too

CH. I know you lie when it's true
Jesus saves white trash, baby, like you
It's too late for you to undo
Jesus saves white trash, baby, like you

I should appreciate the irony
Cause I led us both to my Gethsemane
And I, I don't hate you I hate love (it's true)
I held you so close I couldn't see
While you had the grander view

I know sometimes it's true
(Jesus saves white trash, baby like you)
We make what we can't undo
(Jesus saves white trash, baby like you)

solo

CHORUS: I know you lie when it's true
Jesus saves white trash, baby like you
It's too late for you to undo
Jesus saves white trash, baby like you

CHORUS: I know sometimes it's true
(Jesus saves white trash, baby like you)
We make what we can't undo

Met her on a Monday I probably should have stayed in bed
But cupid came to stay and he set up shop inside my head

[Chorus:]
Beautiful you
You don't have a clue
You star in the story of my life
Beautiful you
Beautiful you
You took me down on my own knife

Bareback, my black, bloody celebration day
On your body, thank God I never had the nerve to say

[Chorus:]
Beautiful you
You don't have a clue
You star in the story of my life
Beautiful you
Beautiful you
You took me down on my own knife

And you make me feel
But I thought it was real
Beautiful you

Feels like a Sunday I think I'll just stay in bed

[Chorus:]
Beautiful you
You don't have a clue
You star in the story of my life
Beautiful you
Beautiful you
You took me down on my own knife

[Chorus:]
Beautiful you
You don't have a clue
You are the writer in my head
Beautiful you
Beautiful you
You took me down on my bed

Feels like a Monday I think I'll just stay in bed

Her eyes are blue and her skin's so white
Her emails read just like a porno site
And she wears her tank top way too tight yeah she knows it

If she could lose the Polariods from that weekend
If she'd quit trying to make every boy her boyfriend
Man I bet she could be president
But it's wasted, and just like me you erased it
Oh no it's wasted

[Chorus:]
You had the power to save my soul
I had the power to make you whole
(its wasted)
We had the power and we had control but we blew it

The shit you pulled goes round my head
I still see your face in every face in my bed
Tell me was it something I said

At the lake you lost my pretty toe ring
But in the grand scheme it doesn't really mean a thing
You just spread your wings and you forget about it
But it's wasted, like so many things you erased it
Oh no it's wasted

[Chorus:]
You had the power to purify my soul
I had the power to make you whole
(it's wasted)
We had the power and we had control but we blew it

You had the power to save my soul
I had the power to make you whole
(it's wasted)
We had the power and we had control but we blew it

You always call me when I'm at home
I try my best to duck the phone
But I'm drawn to you like a dog to a bone
and it's wasted

[No lyrics]

Baby where were you? I waited for hours
Up in the sky was a strange light
You know comets are falling and UFO's are calling
Where were you last night?
You used to be beautiful, baby alright
I don't even recognize you anymore

CHORUS: I think maybe some alien virus infected your heart

I'm not waving I'm drowning baby
Who's that one I see you with?
You've been out walking and monkeys are talking to a black monolith
I don't want to be in this skin, baby not tonite
I want to be in the one he's in (the one you want)

CHORUS: I think maybe some alien virus infected your heart

You used to be all mine, baby all night
I don't even recognize you anymore

CHORUS: I think maybe some alien virus infected your heart

I send it out, a prayer tonite
To all the angels of the disappeared
May they sleep in your arms tonite
And may they know they're not forgotten here
And the angels of the disappeared
Are on a city corner or a downtown subway train
And the world is watching and waiting to say

CHORUS: Welcome home to you
Welcome home to you

The highways run, the cities glare
Looking for God's fingerprints somewhere
And every night the alarm is set
So you can remember what you can't forget
And the angels of the disappeared
Watch a southern highway and a midwestern trailer park
And a town is watching and waiting to say

CHORUS: Welcome home to you
Welcome home to you
God knows dreams come true
Welcome home to you

We take the precious thing and we break it apart
there's no such thing as an unchangeable heart

And the angels of the disappeared
are walking hand in hand with the vanished ones tonite
And a heart is watching and waiting to say

CHORUS: Welcome home to you
Welcome home to you
God knows dreams come true
Welcome home to you

And the angels of the disappeared

Monday morning in the garden of Eden
Looked over and I saw your face
Never felt what you made me feel
Never felt so out so place
The sinner sleeps with the angel
I heard you breathe my name
Stumbling through the gates of freedom

CHORUS:
In Eden (I'm at the gate)
I can be saved
In Eden (I'm at the gate)
It's the start of a new day
Yeah baby
I can be healed
In Eden (I'm at the gate)
It's the start of a new day

I was being nobody going nowhere
Thru the kingdom of the blind and lame
Wouldn't give myself away, cos I
Never thought I'd touch your flame
You opened up my book of love
(I know it's true)
What was I so scared of
(I'm running)
For the gates of freedom

CHORUS:
In Eden (I'm at the gate)
I can be saved
In Eden (I'm at the gate)
It's the start of a new day
Yeah baby
I can be healed
In Eden (I'm at the gate)
It's the start of a new day

I've wanted so much in my life
Desired everyone I knew
I would not take it kicking and screaming
The only one I want is you

Never thought I'd hear me say
(I know its true)
Maybe love will save the day
I'm a prisoner at the gates of freedom

CHORUS:
In Eden (I'm at the gate)
I can be saved
In Eden (I'm at the gate)
It's the start of a new day
Yeah baby
I can be healed
In Eden (I'm at the gate)
It's the start of a new day

Yeah call the priest and bury me
cos I think I'm already dead
I wish somebody would bring you back to me
Or take you out of my head
I think you said that you loved me, I must have missed the inflection
I put a bandaid on the bullet wound and ignored the infection

[Chorus:]
I see her everywhere the invisible girl
And everythings alright
She's dancing by the fire and she's looking at me

It's 6 oclock in your little town, baby
As you get ready to go out for the night
Some pretty stranger's gonna take you down,
But I can't make that feel alright
I was in love with the ghost in you
You were my apparition
It doesn't matter if it goes the way you want it too
Cause lifes a suicide mission

[Chorus:]
I see her everywhere the invisible girl
And everything's alright
She's dancing by the fire and she's looking at me
I see her on the stairs the invisible girl
And she's with me tonite
She's aching with desire but she loves only me

I guess you did what you had to do to survive
I'm pretty sure I'm not angry anymore baby

Hey (Invisible girl)
I'm not angry anymore baby

[Chorus:]
I see her everywhere the invisible girl
Yeah she's with me tonite
She's dancing by the fire and she's looking at me
I see her on the stairs the invisible girl
And everything's alright
She's dancing with the boys but she loves only me
I wish I was invisible

Born in the Southern land where a man is a man
Don't remember too much, warm mama cold touch
Post war baby boom, 50 kids in one room
All white, future bright but living in a womb
Got a TV receiver, Jerry Mathers as the Beaver,
No blacks/no queers/no sex/Mouseketeers
Daddy kept moving round, I can't settle down
Always the lost new kid in town.

Manlicher lock and loaded,
JFK's head exploded
Dark figure at the fence,
end of my innocence
Hormones hit me, chew up, spit me.
Get stoned, get plastered, always was a moody bastard.
Guitar fool, kicked out of high school
Joined a band/Vietnam/mama-san/killed a man.
Daddy gets real sick, it's too intense,
I can't kick it Buy myself a ticket to the USA.

[Chorus:]
Oh my God, it's my life. What am I doing kicking at the foundations?
That's right, my life. Better start looking at my destination.

Hollywood sex-rat, been there/done that
Jaded, afraid I'd never get a turn at bat.
Last in a long line, finally hit the bigtime
Goldmine, feeding time, money/fame I get mine.
Use it, abuse it, Daddy dies I lose it
Get a wife, get a son, beget another one
My head said "God's dead", motor-cycle-body-shred
Big life crisis rears it's ugly head.

[Chorus:]
Oh my God, it's my life. What am I doing kicking at the foundations?
That's right, my life. Better start looking at my destination.

Well Prozac, Lithium, could never get enough of 'em
Last wills/ shrinks bills/sleeping pills/sex kills
Edge of sanity, my infidelity
Looking in the mirror and thinking how it used to be
Don't like the skin I'm in, caught in a tail spin
Honest-to-God vision, spiritual transmission
Climb aboard the life raft, looking back I have to laugh
Take a breath, don't know if I'm ready for the second half.

[Chorus:]
Oh my God, it's my life. What am I doing kicking at the foundations?
That's right, my life. Better start looking at my destination
My life, my depression, my sin, my confession
My curse, my obsession, my school, my lesson
My depression My depression

Your psychopathic mother told you
You were beautiful
Just not beautiful enough
I know why you give yourself away
Cause they make you feel special
But you never feel special enough
And I can still feel your skin
Still warm from the hot desert sky

[Chorus:]
Here, right now is all there is
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow never comes
Right here, right now is all there is
Was it something that I said?
You just went numb

Your disinterested father taught you
That a mans attention is precious
And you never called his bluff
I gave everything I could to you
Cause I think you're precious
I could never make you feel precious enough
And I could still breathe you in
Oh Layah I won't even try

[Chorus:]
Here, right now is all there is
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow never comes
Right here, right now is all there is
We laughed until we bled
It felt so dumb

Your psychopathic mother told you
You were beautiful
Just not beautiful enough

If it's all a magnificent mistake
There goes the universe and its order
I was dreaming wide awake
When something pulled me under the water (Breathe)
I can't surface I.. (Breathe)
It's in my fear (Breathe)
And I can't stop it (Breathe)
I can't , I can't breathe (Breathe)
I'm choking (Breathe)
And I don't want to sleep

[Chorus:]
Everynight I wake up screaming
We're the last tribe as the world stops turning
Everynight I wake up screaming
My car crash isn't far from here
And everything looks better with my eyes closed
Everything looks better with my eyes closed

There's a terrorist somewhere
With my name on a bullet he's loading
There's a meteor out there
With the world in its sights and it's closing (Breathe)
I can't surface I.. (Breathe)
It's in my fear (Breathe)
And I can't stop it (Breathe)
I can't , I can't breathe (Breathe)
I'm choking (Breathe)
And I don't want to sleep

[Chorus:]
Everynight I wake up screaming
We're the last you and me as the world stops turning
Everynight I wake up screaming
The end of everything's very near
Everything looks better with my eyes closed
Everything looks better with my eyes closed

[Chorus:]
Everynight I wake up screaming
I'm the last man as the world stops turning
Everynight I wake up screaming
Dreaming that I'm blind again
And everything looks better with my eyes closed
Everything looks better with my eyes closed...

Open my eyes to you...