Jack Bruce

It's always raining in here Each time I walk thro' these doors Expensive suits and cheap whores And I'm always sorry Money flows real fast Though I'm not supposed to touch But they always say how much They love my music No matter what I wear It's al...

Open skies where money flies Tomorrow's calling Time to change Not keep repeating Wonder Why? . . . Seems like life is safe as houses Then there comes a storm How will we all manage to stay warm? So hard to be free To be you, to be me . . . Must we dream Of...

Let's go down to where it's clean To see what time it might have been The tides have carries of the beach As you said The sun is out of reach Let's go back to where it's clean To see what year it might have been The roads have carried of the smiles As you said...

Standing there looking like a star I knew that you were sure to go far Now I know you’ve got no time for me You took my loving and you want to be free Keep on pushin’ on looking for fame Keep on pushin’ on Baby Jane When you walk onto the stage No-one would...

Love in the mirrors Down in the bars Songs promise everything From sad guitars The faces never change But you're not there I hear the notes you played Still in the air Don't give up that feeling When you finally got it down Keep it hot and squealin' When you...

We were walking tall Made the world look smaller than it was The hole was bigger than the half We gave the dogs They just got the crumbs Now become much humbler than they thought The loss was smaller than the gain And they got caught Taking stock, future sho...

Some they march while some stand still Some they die while others live Some they laugh while some they cry Some hang on while some pass by Some are high and some are low Some are sure and some don't know Some are weak and some are strong Some are here and som...

Born under a bad sign I've been down since I begin to crawl If it wasn't for bad luck I would not have no luck at all Bad luck and trouble's been my only friend I've been down ever since I was ten Born under a bad sign I've been down since I begin to crawl If...

Hey when Well hello there baby the time comes if you hate it will you hate it so much won't you Why not leave it keep your head maybe try like me too? In the games We who were your fathers of the Have shared out all sunshine? tomorrows sunshine Well that Time...

Hey can you follow, Now that the trace is fainter In the sand Try turning your face to the wall Can you still read me Now that the chase is wilder In your hand Try losing your place in the sun All the praises of the dream Turned to tangles in the tre...

I wish you could shine a healing candlelight over her life and mine We suffer so much pain under the sundown’s evening wing It’s either feeling death straight ahead or sunshine peeling our skin It’s either warm or cold - That dusty death and the sunshine’s...

She shakes her head and says That her last word is spoken Tumbling down Something she found Where happiness lay Not far away Hear it now You got so many ways When the last chains are broken Tumbling down You hear a new sound It's dark into day Not far away He...

Close enough Close enough for love Will the pieces flow together Close enough Fitted like a glove People can be friends and lovers Spending the time Feelin' that I'm Living outside love Without love Nothing can grow Close enough Close enough for love Play the...

Living on cold island Your mail comes on the wind Messages and memories Of all the things you've been Living on cold island You can't forget the rain Remembering the long roads You'll have to try again And it's always on your mind (And it's always on your mi...

I get a little tired when the sun goes down I get a little wired livin' underground Fascinating fire ain't no one around Feeling some desire Nothing going down I get a little tired Tired Feel it comin' down Come down Now the night has come And the flame has...

Dancing on air We'll be there til the close of the day Try anywhere But you can't keep the magic away People say it's not real Don't seem to have any feelings Hm . . . Hm . . . M . . . Dancing on air We'll be there til the end of the sky Bending the time Just...

Dark heart I can show you the darkest part My shadow heart Where your affections really start Now there's cruelty in its tone And anger in its pitch Danger in the zone You love me for it Yes you love me for it . . . Dark eyes Stripped of all disguise You're a...

When it was the morning of the world And the air was clear God took David's hand And drew him near And drew an image of Himself In David's heart, in David's ear And God described himself In deep blues And David took his harp And the notes just played It was t...

Shouldn't we be flying by now? Half way between our lives and the stars Shouldn't we be soaring by now? Shouldn't we be soaring by now? Science and explanations left below Girl Shouldn't we be flying by now? Our real lives just begun Shouldn't we have lost sc...

Was that me up there On top of that ride Edge of city fair You holding me with pride You seem to rise you chase the prize You end the show and take a bow You seem to fall could lose it all Maybe it’s best you don’t look now Was that you in there Amo...

I saw a bumble bee today He shook his head and turned away The daffodils looked cold and wan I wondered were the spring had gone But they don’t know like I know You rode the horses into glue And they can’t feel like I feel you You rode the horses into s...

Come dancing on my stage My bullets have a silver lining Wind me up and set me free My uniform's bright . . . Trumpets blaring, princes sharing, Swords are flashing, kingdoms falling When you're dancing in the ballroom moonlight, feet quicksilver lace My Lady...

318 It's a house in a street with a promise like you've Never seen 318 It's a place in the sun with the people who run Through the dream 318 It's escape from the cage when the pickings start to Get too lean Really clean It's a new lease of life and t...

Wrote myself a sad song a million years ago It took off down a road I couldn’t predict With wild kicks and crazy kicks Spent a lot of miles building up my name Driving through the wind and the rain Working that circuit that has no end Looking out for dan...

First Time I Met the Blues (Montgomery) First time I met the blues I was walkin down thro' the woods First time I met you mister blues I was walking I was walkin down thro' the woods Knew you would do me no good First time I met you mister blues The...

There's a sky somewhere far away Where the fallen angels play I can feel their music round me Sounds like they're free You can see them burning out in the night Turning shadows into light There are times they seem to touch me Rush me through air Where...

How will I find you O my love In the darkness of day I will look in glass forests Where electric fish play How will I see you when I find you In the brightness of light I will see you on the silver train That people call night How will I know you when...

There is a love so unexpected Defying time and its sad declines Working in circles so interconnected Some days it's dark, sometimes it shines There is a sound welcome as summer Laughing at fate and its final fall Dancing in daydreams and racing the runn...

Sun movin slowly through the street Birds singin down it's time to eat Watch people walkin in their sleep We were together doin fine Out on the road drinkin that wine Livin much faster than our time You made a bargain with the man Said let them catch...

Keep those golden days From going separate ways Keep the harbour lights Burning inside The streets of old (Can't hear the names they call) Shelter from the cold (Long ago, so far inside Where the past still tries to hide) Find the dusty sun sleeping T...

There comes an affair in the tides of men When you can't go back again Yes there comes a darkness in the affairs of light When you can't hold back the night So you go where your mind will keep Where the rain plays the restless to sleep On the notes of a...

There’s a desert city deep inside our city Where the children eat light and laugh We can see reflections in our rearview mirror As we drive by There are miners stepping over future ruins In this brilliant shining city We can see the changes waiting in t...

The white hand in the darkened house Rings a bell that makes the guests drop their cases in fright A face that seems to laugh alone Sits in the flames that warm the frozen stretches of night The skeleton that smokes His head half guillotined Sits there telling...

Tell you a story of grief and grime ‘bout a time left behind So many people without a chance Lost their place in the dance Big ships stopped berthing They’re lost in the Clyde All denied Hear the tears City still smokes with fear Ghostly kids every y...

I'm going to make it by myself, It is the young man who still lives at home I'm going to make it on my own, It is the greyhead who can only moan I'm going to cut off all my ties, I'm going to wipe out all the lies, I'm going to leave the old disguises --...

Keep it down If it’s still hangin around Kept away Well it's lost inside a day On your journey through the street To the corner you have to meet Keep keeping it down If it's hangin around In the dawn When your last drop it has gone Summer leaves Fr...

Raising my glass To the cities of grass in the wind Drinking a toast To the ghost who can still keep it in Getting on so bad In the dreams I've had Still I keep on wondering Try not to go Too depressingly slow through the night Try not to blow out T...

Dark notes Or light Hear the voices In between Tell the time Doors open Into the hot Still living Under the spot Hands So Electric Never fail To shock you Who is this wild animal With two hundred fingers Playing himself? Hear Lost trains Industrial Wartime b...

She wrote me out a letter of thanks I had to doubt Waking in someone's shoes It made me feel so harried Under her clothes she carried Proof that she wasn't married She carved herself a piece of my heart I have to starve Walking in someone's bed Love c...

You say there’s no more time to borrow Two and two make twenty-two Drownin’ your head in sorrow, cryin’ every day We can help you with that prison, Passin’ the time with a smile Join the boys with crazy rhythm, now it’s here to stay At the madhouse, mad...

When I hear that big black whistle they blow I feel inside it's time for me to be going Fortunately baby I'd already gone before When they say I'm worth ten pieces of coal And you shouting hey what about when you are an old man Fortunately baby I'd alread...

No Surrender You've got to stand alone Until temptation has gone Ev’rybody's talkin 'bout walkin tall But from this moment on You got to answer the call No Surrender! Steal all my bread Till my pocket's dead I don't hear a word you say Suck on my so...

Face next to mine in the mirror Love for an hour's history Only one, just begun Trying to keep from sleeping Live in the soft memory Inly one, just begun Says in the tune where there's plenty Gold for a life's treasury Only two, what to do Searched in the moo...

They walk on my head They run through my bed I hear those voices everywhere Screamin' ragged down the road Like a river's overflowed They got mud in their hair They dance in your face They're wrecking my place No medical care Pieces of east, nieces of beast, t...

Pieces of mind See how they ran Prizes of sun Still to be won When the life is made of straw Waves that pound against the door Leave me at the place of throw it away throw it away Leave it today Keep me dancing stop me grasping Clouds that turn the dust on tou...

I used to be somebody in the general scheme of things I built myself a folly cause it looked like it had wings Then I started to run from myself I became someone else I was running straight to hell I said, you gotta help me now, it’s getting kinda strange...

Running through our hands In the waving grass One harvest time can't stop them now Cities made of sand That were built to last No one man sky to tell them how Seasons kiss, collide and miss Stars still turn and sometimes burn And the stones alone laug...

They say she was so strong Put us back where we belong But she never tried to make my day Tried to blow it all away Now she’s agent orange in the dirty wind Can’t wait for something to begin They say she changed the world so well Really rwang those wed...

Ships in the night Searching for day Beckoning lips So far away Shadows adrift Hiding from light Ships in the night Sometimes you feel Then again you can't Morning comes down Soon after the dance Time slowly drowns Streets so unreal Needing to heal Harbours o...

The smiles on city windows it's only the weekly cleaner The dials on all the faces are gradually getting nearer So make it careful when you can Forget it if you've read the plan Call a friend when you're in doubt Nights are hard when you're locked out G...

We’ve seen so many towns Where the trains don’t ever stop Though we hear all night sounds There’s no side left to the shop Nothing but changes Of face That life rearranges Nothing but strangeness That wastes Anything it replaces We’ve seen so many...

It's getting near dawn When lights close their tired eyes I'll soon be with you my love To give you my dawn surprise I'll be with you darling soon I'll be with you when the stars start fallin I've been waiting so long To be where I'm goin In the sunshine of y...

You play the changes, watch the stars Look for new gods and number the years Since you lost your nerve and let the lady into your head You fly the snowflakes down and down And join the circus - you're the clown ut when you're in the ring your friends have run...

You say you don't want me Well I don't want you to go You say you don't need me You shut my hair in the door You say you won't have me You're leaving my wound all sore Chorus: Breakfast is goodnight Yesterdays are old meals now Times ripe for clearout You s...

The food is on the table but there's something really wrong When you came back from that phone call you were just a little too long It wasn't really your sister Your sister can't bring out those tears How long has this been going on has it been days or moi...

It's all blues and no dinner at the Ministry of Bag The steaks are getting thinner the office is a drag It's all hills and no mountain in the cupboard of the Few The soda has no fountain the coal gets in the dew It's all chief and no father down the...

I found a place where all seasons meet The earth and the sky are one with the sea On a hill looking down to the sea Gives visions of life as it truly should be The air is so clean that the sun can shine brightly My face is caressed by the breeze It's th...

I bought you tickets for the waterfalls and you poured away all the change Trained your bicycle to dance told it tales of window boxes and people with locks While you filed away the time and lost the place in the river Couldn't do anything about the day...

Higher on the wire - see the man Slowly he steps slowly - don't look down Higher on the tightrope in the sky Dare you walk the wild earth any more? Naked as the day when you were born Higher on the tighrope in the sky Higher on the wire - see the man Slowly he...

If you can take a part of time and bend it back again Maybe change all the tears all the fallen years Will you be there in the night? When the shadows of our fantasies stand around with keys Unreal suns might dance across the floor Unsung songs sing themselves...

Times make me lonely Tides turn so fast Days make me wonder Who will come last My name was Runnin’ Wild My heart was Fancy Free Now I’m like a cryin’ child Lost in a mystery . . . Back in the old times Used to burn slow Now as I get there I have to go Time...

Leaves falling Face down on the ground Lie in the rusty crowd That waits in the pouring rain By the pavements of grey In autumn days Days spending tie Outside the place of laughter Brave weddings On summer mornings Gardens of proud husbands That wa...

She leans against the wall Just half on the bed, half in light Her touch, much smarter than the night Oh oh, up when the night is spent You're writing your blues on her skin Her body tells her tales with scent With its taste, with its touch In the mov...

Livin’ in a tower The last one that can stand I hold the royal magnet I’m the king of all this land Master of this ship And all I can survey If you want to join Then you have to pay I’m standing by the breach Plugged in with my thumb Still waiting f...

Standing on the highway Watchin' all the cars go by I've been searching the horizon Wind is blowing dust in my eyes You've been gone such a very long time Seems like a hundred years have passed I left my heart down at the pawnshop Can't afford it any more, no...

Please Open your eyes Try to realize I found out today We're going wrong We're going wrong Please Open your mind See what you can find I found out today We're going wrong We're going wrong I found out today We're going wrong Going wrong Going wrong Yeah,...

I'm going to a wedding I'm going to a wedding dressed in black I'm going to a party Going to a party won't be back And I'm not going with you No Trees are no longer a comfort messages sad in the wires My hair is hung down with the bleakest of rain that...

What a lot of talk about it Ooh such a lotta talk about willpower Ooh talkin' talkin' talkin' willpower Desire Talkin' talkin' talkin' talkin' talkin' about willpower Tell the world how well it's workin' Never say how much it's hurtin' Easy sayin' what to do E...

I was born one morning Wearing my old coat I was born to travel So I went and got a boat Tried to cure my feet From taking the wrong street In the Spring when they do the Thing Oh yes they do And you burned all my tables One day I got the tie I wore it round...