Steve Perry Album

You should've been gone
Knowing how I made you feel
And I should've been gone
After all your words of steel
Oh I must've been a dreamer (a dreamer, oh)
And I must've been someone else (someone else)
And we should've been over (by now)

Oh Sherrie, our love
Holds on, holds on
Oh Sherrie, our love
Holds on, holds on

But I want to let go
You'll go on hurting me
You'd be better off alone
If I'm not who you thought I'd be

But you know that there's a fever (there's a fever, oh)
Oh that you'll never find nowhere else (nowhere else)
Can't you feel it burning on and on

Oh Sherrie, our love
Holds on, holds on
Oh Sherrie, our love
Holds on, holds on

But I should've been gone
Long ago, far away
And you should've been gone
Now I know just why you stay

Oh Sherrie, our love
Holds on, holds on
Oh Sherrie, our love
Holds on, holds on

I need a love that grows
I don't want it unless I know
That each passing hour
Someone somehow
Will be there, ready to share...

I need a love that's strong
I'm so tired of being alone
But will my lonely heart play the part
Of the fool again
Before I begin

Foolish heart, hear me calling
Stop before you start falling
Foolish heart, heed my warning
You've been wrong before
Don't be wrong anymore

Feeling that feeling again
I'm playing a game I can't win
Love's knocking on the door
Of my heart once more
Think I'll let her in
Before I begin

Foolish heart, hear me calling
Stop before you start falling
Foolish heart, heed my warning
You've been wrong before
Don't be wrong anymore

Foolish heart...
Foolish, foolish heart

You've been wrong before

(foolish)
(foolish)

Foolish heart, hear me calling
Stop before you start falling
Foolish heart, heed my warning
You've been wrong before
Don't be wrong anymore

Foolish heart...
Oh foolish, foolish heart

You've been wrong before

Foolish, foolish heart

Foolish heart

I've seen your kind before
I've seen you creepin around
Before you come round my door
Oh there's one thing you, gotta know

She's mine all mine
Don't show your face here no more
She's mine all mine
Don't hang around here no more

I heard her call out your name
Late last night in her sleep
That's why I came here to say
No, it won't be easy to steal her away

She's mine all mine
Don't show your face here no more
She's mine all mine
Don't hang around here no more...
Go!

You've got her under your spell
And she's believin your lies
You'd like her at your hotel
No, not as long as I'm alive

She's mine all mine
Don't show your face here no more
She's mine all mine
Don't hang around here no more, more, more, more

Oh she's mine
Don't show your face here no more
No no no no!
Don't hang around,
Don't hang
Don't hang around no more

One very happy warm summer night
I saw your face, what could I do?
So carefully I walked straight up to you

And in the shadow of a moonlit nite
I saw those eyes a shinin' through
Heart of gold, I love you misty blue

Oh it's hard to love somebody
Especially when they don't belong to you
'Cause they're loving someone else,
Strung out and hung up on you

I feel like Bogart in a crazy movie
Bogie 'n me, we never beg,
But this time maybe I've got voices in my head

They're sayin' that he's never been good to you
And he's always hurt and let you down,
If what you need is good lovin', I'll be around

It's hard to love somebody
Especially when they don't belong to you
'Cause they're loving someone else,
Strung out and hung up on you.
Strung out, strung out

Well, it's hard to love somebody
Especially when they don't belong to you
'Cause they're loving someone else,
Strung out and hung up on you

It's hard to love somebody
Oh when they don't belong to you
'Cause they're loving someone else,
Strung out and hung up on you
Strung out and hung up on you
Yes, strung out
Yes, strung out
Strung out
Strung out
Strung out
Strung out

First appeared on Street Talk
(Columbia Records 39334)
1984 Street Talk Tunes, April Music Inc & Random Notes, Pants Down Music)
(Steve Perry, Randy Goodrum, Bill Cuomo)

We meet again
Right in the middle
Of a love I knew before
Another girl, she looks a lot like you
I'm cruisin' many
So are you
That's the way we both should do
I don't know why
We had this rendezvous

Go away
Go away
I sing goodbye to you
When the song's gone
You'll be on
On to someone new

So here we are
Right in the middle
In the same place, stuck before
You'll have to find
Another place to play
Well I know I want to hold you
Right in the middle
Like I held you once before
But something says
That that's a big mistake

Why don't you
Go away
Go away
I sing goodbye to you
When the song's gone
You'll be on
On to someone new

(guitar solo)

What you wanted
I gave it to you
In every way that you wanted to
Whoa oh
Don't make your move
If you ever cared for me

Go away
Go away
I sing goodbye to you
When the song's gone
You'll be on
On to someone new

Go away
Go away
I sing goodbye to you
When the song's gone
You'll be on
On to someone new

Go...
Watchin' you, what you gonna do
Gonna do

Whoa...whoa
Watchin' you, what you gonna do
Gonna do

First appeared on Steve Perry Greatest Hits + 5 Unreleased
(Columbia Records 68686)
1998 Street Talk Tunes and California Phase Music
(Steve Perry, Randy Goodrum)

When you're in love
For the first time
Nothin' you can do
You lose your heart
For the first time, yeah
It's happenin' to you

You keep you're life
In your pocket
Safely tucked away
When you're in love
For the first time
Whoa...there's nothin' you can say

Listen now...
There she goes lovin' you
She's holdin' your hand, yeah
You're thinkin' you're so strong
Oh, she's more than you can stand

When you're in love
For the first time
There's nothin' you can say
You're on your way
For the first time
Whoa...it happens every day

Oh yeah
In love
So good
So nice

It happens all the time, yeah
It happens every day
Whoa...my darlin'
Love is here to stay
And you're in love
For the first time
Nothin' you can do
Yes you're in love
For the first time
Whoa...it's happening to you

Oh when you're in love
(when you're in love)
Oh nothin' you can do
'Cause when you're in love
(when you're in love)
When, when, when you're in love
When you're...when you're in love
Nothin' you can do, no
When you're in love

All of my life I've waited
For someone like you
And darling, forever someday
That could be true
But who would believe me

From the middle of my heart,
From the middle of my lonely
Something's tearing you and me apart

Here I am
(And here I am)
Against the wall again
(And here I am)
Against the wall once again
(And here I am)

Believe me I want you, I'd like to
More than I show
But I belong to somebody else, baby, please
Walk out that door, yeah, oh
Before it's too late, listen

In the middle of your touch
In the middle where your heat starts rising
Oh, girl, I want you so bad

Here I am
(And here I am)
Against the wall again
(And here I am)
(Instrumental)
Here I am
(And here I am)
Against the wall, once again
(And here I am)
Yeah, against the wall again

First appeared on You Better Wait + 4 (cd single)
Also appears on Steve Perry Greatest Hits + Five Unreleased (1998 - Columbia Records 69686)
(Columbia Records 77669)
1994 Street Talk Tunes, Beau-Di-O-Do Music, California Phase Music, Pants Down Music, Five Storks Music, Blackness Music, and Larrie Londin Music
(Steve Perry, L. Dozier, Randy Goodrum, Bill Cuomo, Michael Landau, Randy Jackson, Larrie Londin)

Didn't always have the best of times
One would win, both would lose
Tried to make believe the feelin's gone
Tried to make her into you
Within my heart I hear the truth
When the honesty shines through
'Cause...

Love's like a river
Flowing
Flowing forever long
And I will be there
I will, I will be there
Forever right or wrong

So here we are, the same old place
Wonderin' what to do
I'll be better in a safer space
Will I ever be with you
I swear my darlin'
This time I'll try
I'll make it up to you
'Cause

Love's like a river
Flowing
Flowing forever long
And I will be there
I will, I will be there
Forever right or wrong
Right or wrong...

(guitar solo)

Love's like a river
Flowing forever long

I know the reason
Why love has a season
It's summer time

I was walking downtown and saw her, yeah
The prettiest thing, yes I saw her, oh
So I said you know, I'd love to talk to you a while
Oh, yeah, yeah, she's lovely, so lovely
I think she loves me
So I told her I think I love you
Do you believe I do, do you now?
Do you?

And maybe you know you could come around
After the show and we could go out
And have a cup of coffee or something
Huh, huh, you think?
Oh, but yeah, yeah, she's lovely, so lovely
Oh, she loves me

I know the reason love has a season
It's summer time

Could I be dreaming, 'cause seeing is believing
It's you and I and our summer of love
Oh, ooh yeah, yeah, she's lovely, so lovely, so lovely

I know the reason love has a season
It's summer time

Could this be dreaming, 'cause seeing is believing
It's you and I and our summer of love
Oh, please get me to the church on time

Summer of love
Summer of love
Summer of love

Melody


Melody,
Even in my life's confusion
I still feel you near.
In my dreams
telling me you're not illusion
you belong to me.

Melody, I believe in you.
Melody (Melody) of my heart.
Melody (Melody) I still reach for you,
Hold me Melody
Hold me Melody

All my life,
I'm caught between a rhyme and reason
Why you're here with me.
Hold me now,
Tell me all the answers that my
Heart will ever see.

Melody, (Melody) I believe in you.
Melody (Melody) of my heart.
Melody (Melody) I still reach for you,
Hold me Melody
Hold me Melody

Melody, (Melody) I believe in you.
Melody (Melody) of my heart.
Melody (Melody) I still reach for you,
Hold me Melody
Hold me Melody

Did I tell you when, did I tell you how
You turn my world, I'm gonna tell you now
You took my heart, you gave me yours
No love for me I never felt before
You're my ...baby ...baby....oh....baby....baby...

Do you wanna go, do you wanna hear
Do you wanna stay, ooo I love you dear...
So ain't goin' lyin', I wouldn't lie to you
Believe me, baby, you know it's true
I wanna keep ya loving on me, oh...so everyone can see that you're my
Baby....baby....oh....baby....baby

Once in a lifetime, Girl
Once in a lifetime, Girl
Once in a lifetime, Girl

Hold on me baby, just like you are
Hold on me tight or I might stumble and fall
You're love is so hard to endure, don't need no doctor,
Cause there ain't no cure

Once in a lifetime, Girl
Once in a lifetime, Girl
Once in a lifetime, Girl

Baby, so come on, let's do it again , more than a lover
You're more than a friend
Baby I'm always wherever you are, don't hide your feelings
Don't wander too far
Baby, so come on, let's do it again, more than lover
More than a friend
Baby, I'm always wherever you are, don't hide your feelings
You'll wander too far, baby, so come on......let's do it again

What Was

What was I to do?
Never should have called me up.
What was I to do?
Haven't we both had enough?

I still think of you,
Even though we're miles apart.
What was I to do?

The fire is still there,
My heart is too scared to fall again.
It's a little too late because,
We'll never change what was.

There you go again,
Girl, it's never going to end.
It's something we can't have,
We must let go.

I want so much to say,
I love you more today.
The hardest thing I've ever had to say,
Goodbye.

What was I to do?
Never should have called me up.
What was I to do?
Haven't we both had enough?

Oh, the fire is still there,
My heart is too scared to fall again.
It's a little too late because,
We'll never change what was.

It's a little too late because,
We'll never change what was.

You Better Wait
(S. Perry, L. Brewster, P. Taylor, M. Lucas, J. Pierce, G. Hawkins)

She was only a child
Someone to hold on
Only a child
Someone to believe in
Only a child, someone to love
She was "17", beauty queen
I met her in a magazine
Heart of fire, Love's desire
Reachin' out, higher higher
Runaway, one more day
A broken hearted child at play
I pray for you, baby blue
In the name of love I reach for you
In the darkness comes the evil of the night
Think about it

(You better wait)
Stop your self before you fall
(You better wait)
Stop before you lose it all
Somewhere there's love
Oh, somewhere, somewhere

Precious girl, little pearl
Temptation is lonely world
Eyes deceive, they believe
In everything they wanna see, yeah
And the neon lights reflect your life
Only you know where you hide baby

(You better wait)
Stop your self before you fall
(You better wait)
Stop before you lose it all
Cause somewhere there's love

(You better wait)
Stop yourself before you start
(You better wait)
Don't look back, don't lose heart

Don't look, don't look
Don't look back baby
Don't
Don't look, don't look
Don't look back baby

Oh I'm (missing you)
the hurt on your heart
Through your eyes it shows
The past can't relive
What we both know
Still I remember
Things I never meant
Memories surround me
Won't let me forget
I was so wrong
The secret's not worth keeping
I had no faith
That you would still believe
No, now
My heart's in your keeping
Here I am
(Missing you)
Fear in the dark
Stares from the wall
Your eyes in your picture
Won't let me go
If I could remember
How you felt the pain
The king of pretenders
Alone in shame
I was so wrong
The secret's not worth keeping
I had no faith
That you would still believe
No, now
My heart's in your keeping
Here, I am, oh I here I am

(Missing you)
Missing you
Oh I'm (missing you)
You were there, now I'm here
You gave much more than I did
I gave what I had to give
If I could, you know I would
I'd make it up to you
Instead I'm (missing you)
In the place you used to be
You were lying next to me
Oh I'm missing you
Oh I'm missing you

I Stand Alone


I know the sound of each rock and stone
I embrace what others fear
You are not to roam in this forgotten place
Just the likes of me are welcome here


Everything breathes
And I know each breath
It's more than enough for this man


Like every tree stands on its own
Reaching for the sky I stand alone
I share my world
With no one else
All by myself I stand alone


Deep in the darkness my heart still sees
Everything that I'll never be
Behind these eyes I'll go everywhere
There's no need for sympathy
Everything breathes and I know each breath
In my world there's no compromise


Like every tree stands on its own
Oh reaching for the sky I stand alone
I share my world with no one else
All by myself...


Still
I will remember
Still
I'll run with you, yes
And when it's time for you to go
Take me in your heart


Like every tree
Stands on its own
Oh reaching for the sky I stand alone
I share my world with noone else
All by myself
I stand alone


All by myself... all by myself
I stand alone

Summer's here
Now you're gone
I will remember your touch
So my dear, after all
Life still goes on without you

Chorus:
When I think about you
I still get weak
I get weary and I can't sleep
No matter what I try
It won't be you

From that moment
There's been no other
I've tried to find
Another lover
But I know it won't be you

One more time
One more year
We were so good
For so long

Wanting you
Wanting me
September love
Are you there?

Oh, when I think about you
I still get weak
I get weary and I can't sleep
No matter what I try
It won't be you

It won't be you

When I think about you
I still get weak
I get weary and I can't sleep
No matter what I try
It won't be you

From that moment
There's been no other
I've tried to find
Another lover
But I know it won't be you

No, It won't be you
It won't be you
It won't be you
No, No, It won't be you
It won't be you

She said I want you to understand
I"m not off to someone new
I don't even have one waiting in the wings
So I mean it's not like we're through

It's just I'm young, not innocent
Ooh perhaps the space to grow
I've learned from you and I thank you a lot
But it's time one of us must go

If you were alone
If you were alone

If you need me, call me
I'll be there when you want me girl
I'll be waitin'
Hopin'
With my arms wide open girl

To tell you the truth
I started to cry
When I heard those words last night
Ooh, then I realized she had to live
She'd be back if it was right

If you were alone
If you were alone

(call me)
Yeah
(call me)

If you were alone
If you were alone

If you need me, call me
I'll be there when you want me girl
I'll be waitin'
Hopin'
With my arms wide open girl
If you need me, call me
I'll be there when you want me girl
I'll be waitin'
Hopin'
Ah.....