Stephen Stills Album

Much to my dismay
When I wake up in the morning
No one by my side
Nowhere left to hide

I thought
Music was enough
I could fill the empty spaces
Wandering the halls
Bouncing off the walls

Too
High to hear the song
Or
Recall the deeper meaning
There is but to seek redress
From is wretched loneliness
With

Love
That's 50/50
Or a hundred at a time
Love
That's 50/50
With both of us this time

I can hear my love
And she wouldn't try to change me
She knows that I will try to be
The best of me that I can be

And that is change enough
I could lose myself tryin' to please her
And after all was said and done
She might not like what I'd become

So listen to your love
If you let it
It will tell you
You got to try again, again
Find your lover, confidant and

Friend
That's 50/50
Or a hundred at a time
Love love love love
That's 50/50
With both of us this time

Listen to your love
It will sing to you tomorrow
Every day's new melody
Needs a different harmony

So listen to the song
And the part that never changes
The rhythm and the symmetry
Of love's collected poetry

Listen close enough
Hear the whispers of forever
What we have ourselves become
One and one is still one

Love
That's 50/50
Or a hundred at a time
Love love love love
That's 50/50
With both of us this time

Love love
That's 50/50
Or a hundred at a time
Love love love love
That's 50/50
With both of us this time

When I look
And my eyes finally meet a lady
Who has something unique
I must know her
Don't stumble on my feet
Get together
At least just enough to speak

To this stranger

If I dream, I'm bound to lose my place
Fascinated, with this beautiful face
Watching her eyes
There focusin' on me
Pay attention, she is talking to me

I'm the stranger

Tryin' to remember that getting it wrong
Is what everyone does
Mutual attraction can be so
Distracting, forget where you were

Strangers can fall in love

When you think about love at all
And you wind up cryin' the blues
And the lonelies person that you know
Is starin' out of the mirror at you you you

Are the stranger
And you know the danger

It'll be right
And you know that she's
With you
She ain't thinkin'
About what she's supposed to do
Worry'in
Might as well just be pretendin'
Hurryin'
When you know every new
Friend is a stranger

In your face
I saw risk
Well worth the taking
Time alone
The first kiss
No taking
I loved you from the start
Lost control
Of my flaming heart
Too cold when we're apart
Babe behold
This flaming heart
As the years
Been rollin' by
I've been searchin'
Who had the keys
To the flaming heart
You see emergin'
I loved you from the start
Can't you feel
My flaming heart
Never be apart
No one can steal from you this
Flaming heart
(Talk about it James)
(So listen baby we're talkin' 'bout)
I
The fire
I can see
Within you burnin'
Desire
Same as me
Endless yearnin'
I loved you from the start
With the heat
Of a flamin' heart
We can't be apart no more with need
Of this
Flamin' heart
(Guaranteed)

All of your time alone
How long do ya think it will take
Before you go round the bend
A permanent spiritual break
A borken heart on the mend
Somebody comin' just wait

Fate
Can be your best friend
And love
Is an accident of
Faith
Then in the end
Here is love
Come again

I had a girl I know
Love me more than life
She couldn't figure why
Confused to be precise
Finally let it go
I couldn't get enough of it right, right

Fate
Can be your best friend
And love
Is an accident of
Faith
Then in the end
Here is love
Come again

I'm with a woman now
Satisfied with me must be
Crazy about her yeah
I think maybe I got lucky
Watchin' what we are growin'
Ain't it amazing she really loves me

Fate
Can be your best friend
And love
Is an accident of
Faith
Then in the end
Here is love
Come again

I hear that you're concerned
About hearing me
I understand your problem
If you see candles burn
From the middle me
I don't know how to stop them

Oh yes we catch a fire
Kick the room around
We like to keep it poppin'
And if we get inspired
Rapped up in the sound
Might come some truth a knockin'

Everybody
Got some kind of story

Ain't nobody
Near enough worried

The story goin' round
Thru the welfare line
Is that nobody matters
What it is goin' down
Easily defined
Fat cats are getting fatter
It's hard to be concerned
With what you cannot see
I don't think they see the problem
When everybody's heard
Of this agony
There's people goin' hungry right now

Everybody got some kind of story
Yeah
Nobody near enough worried

So honey spread the word
Get visibility
This is the people talkin'
Get with this real life
Your vailidity
Don't need no weapon today

This can't be all there is
To the twilight's last gleaming
I just don't think we'll have it
Willful unconsciousness
Plain and simple me me me
I think we better fix it
Right now

Everybody, got some kind of story
Ain't nobody near 'nough worried

by Joe Esposito and Ali Willis
from the Stephen Stills album "Right By You"

I think of the two of us
An' how we both came to trust
In each other
And how we both have grown

Suddenly you're afraid
And letting it slip away

Just you remember we're
We're a very special love

Can't let go can't let go
You and me is all I know
It took a lot of love to
Get us to this place
Can't let go can't let go
I just keep holdin' on
Tell this impatient heart
This is no mistake

So much for promises
And what you think love is
Maybe time
Will find you what you need
Slow down
Things go through change
And pleasure can come from pain

Here's a memory
Of where we both belong

Didn't it work
For us so long

Together we'll find
What's gone

Can't let go can't let go
You and me is all I know
It took a lot of love to
Get us to this place
Can't let go can't let go
I just keep holdin' on
Tell this impatient heart
This is no mistake

by Stephen Stills and James Newton Howard
from the Stephen Stills album "Right By You"

Certain my heart too much impaired
My life was fallin' into disrepair
I was beginning to despair
Of finding love at all

No one gave me a second look
Fewer still knew of a good book
She said "I would if I didn't
Have to work so hard"

And her eyes turn green
When she's feelin' love
When she's feelin' bad they
Turn blue
They're hazel
When she works
Until she sees
That my love can change her
Grey eyes back to green for me

Told me I caught her at her worst
Saw the confusion and the hurt
She felt that she'd been livin'
With this curse for far too long
But in the twinkling of an eye
Something between us laughed and cried
As we began to see
Indeed together we could fly

When You Were Young And On Your Own
How Did It Feel To Be Alone
I Was Always Thinkin' Of Games That I Was Playin'
Tryin' To Make The Best Of My Time

But Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Try To Be Sure Right From The Start
Yes Only Love Can Break Your Heart
What If Your World Should Fall Apart

I Have A Friend I've Never Seen
He Hides His Head Inside A Dream
Someone Should Call Him And See If He Can Come Out
Try To Lose The Down That He's Found

But Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Try To Be Sure Right From The Start
Yes Only Love Can Break Your Heart
What If Your World Should Fall Apart

And So My Friend If You Have Seen
The Other Side Of All Those Dreams
Know That You Can Take It As Far As You Would Want To
Don't Believe The Great Run Around

But Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Try To Be Sure Right From The Start
Yes Only Love Can Break Your Heart
What If Your World Should Fall Apart
I Have A Friend I've Never Seen
He Hides His Head Inside A Dream

Yes, Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Yes, Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Yes, Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Yes, Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Yes, Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Yes, Only Love Can Break Your Heart

by Louise Cirtain, Gladys Stacey, A. P. Carter, additional lyrics Stephen Stills
from the Stephen Stills album "Right By You"

There's no hiding place down here
There's no hiding place down here
I ran to the rocks to hid my face
The rocks said there's no hiding place
There's no hiding place down here

Did you hear the sport
On the TV holding forth
About war, nukes and victory
He was dreaming of course but he runs the Air Force
And he's talking about World War Three

There's no hiding place down here
There's no hiding place down here
I ran to the rocks to hid my face
The rocks said there's no hiding place
There's no hiding place down here

Then of course we got the clowns
With the plan that they got down
Keep the world paralyzed in fear
Keep the peace keep the strength
And the Rooskies on the brink
More and better, bigger faster missiles here

There's no hiding place down here
There's no hiding place down here
I ran to the rocks to hid my face
The rocks said there's no hiding place
There's no hiding place down here

With no hand upon your fate
All the prophets do await
Either ending or ten thousand years
You can do just as you will
You can live or you can kill
There's no hiding place down here

There's no hiding place down here
There's no hiding place down here
I ran to the rocks to hid my face
The rocks said there's no hiding place
There's no hiding place down here

So before it's too late
Let there be no mistake
There ain't no hiding place down here
Only faith is not absurd
In the Master's chosen words
There's no hiding place down here

There's no hiding place down here
There's no hiding place down here
I ran to the rocks to hid my face
The rocks said there's no hiding place
There's no hiding place down here

Ain't no thing
I got to say to you

Ain't no game
That I'm tryin' tryin' to run on you

I have fantasies about you
In the middle of the night
I could not live without you
If we ever got it right
One thing I know for sure
You ain't had no man that's yours
Ever do right by you

When you came
Into my life I was in trouble too

Were no flame
But to give up love ain't worth
These blues

I was driving myself crazy
I was wasted I was down
Weren't no time for being lazy
Pleasin' everybody round
Had some trip I had to deal with
Weren't no love that I could feel it
Ever get right by you

It's so strange

Hey hey hey little girl
What I've been through

Time for a big change
General overhaul of your
Attitude

All this misery and this cryin'
Ain't no knowin' what to do
You got circuitry that's fryin' all
This worryin' about you
Need a man knows how to fight
Get it over, get it right
Right right right by you