John Waite

Sometimes, I wake up And I watch you sleep And in the darkness I wonder if I'm in too deep Help-what if it's true I say the wrong things 'Cause I'm just a jealous guy And I hurt you sometimes I make you cry Oh, I’m so sorry You and I fit together, hand and...

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone It's not warm when she's away Ain't no sunshine when she's gone And she's always gone too long Anytime she goes away I wonder this time where she's gone I wonder if she's gone to stay Ain't no sunshine when she's gone And thi...

Honey you do me wrong But I'm still crazy about you Stay away too long When you know I can't do without you Every chance you get you seem to Hurt me more and more and more But each hurt makes my love Stronger than before I know flowers grow from rain...

Well I stood by the streetlight And I whispered your name To the circle of darkness again In the mercury night The snow fell like cocaine But all I want for christmas is you I'd been out with some good friends And we raised a glass or two It's the time...

Well, September comes around like an old familiar friend So I take off to Central Park to watch those falling leaves again And in the arbors of Strawberry Fields, in a night as bright as day I look up at the sky and wish I could fly away And I say I know...

I was so lonely until I met you Told myself I'd get by without love Drownin' my sorrows avoiding tomorrows Kind of felt that I just had enough You light up my face with your jokes and your smiles And the way that you came here tonight Don't know what you got...

She's got a certain style In everything she does She's someone to know Just because, yeah Just because, yeah Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah Come on, be my little baby tonight She's seen everywhere Looking like Venus too Emotional suicide She couldn't give a damn No,...

I can see there's no easy way out A paper cup half-full of gin Behind the wheel of a Lincoln Continental Driving down your street again I take your ghost out on the freeway Out from the memory of your leaving A thousand miles till the day break over Tulsa Whe...

These days I feel I'm fightin' Everything in sight I'm fighting for my freedom For my life Some bigshot with the money Puts my back against the wall The red brick's waiting For another bullet hole There's a blitzkreig on the border It's a sexual pleas...

Her I.D., says she's 21 But she's just 17 Her apron says Mary But her real name is Jean She's working cleaning tables off At the local Dairy Queen And she's the real thing Yeah Young hearts can fly, restless and wild Though it's a thousand days away She's go...

People talking, and they're saying that you're leavin' You're so unhappy with the way that you've been livin' Chorus: Oh oh oh - we always wish for money, we always wish for fame We think we have the answers, some things ain't ever gonna change (Change) it do...

I looked over my shoulder Straight into your eyes As you stood in my shadow In some loud disguise You were lookin' straight through me Like a piece of glass Out of step with the fashion Fashions always pass I've been living On the dark side of the sun...

Yeah In the course of your life There's a side of each man That sleeps in the darkest hour I don't know what it takes It takes time, it takes faith To awake the second state of the heart And a simple taste of love To lift us up It's easy enough to b...

No guardian angel looking down on me tonight I'm on the streets again And I can't tell wrong from right I'm on the run from love But I don't know what I'm running for But it all looks alright when I'm standing at your door This could be ecstacy I've bee...

You tell me to be strong You tell me to be strong Goodbye ain't no reason to cry It ain't no big deal You say I'll get along Sure I'll get along You're so nonchalant That it's unreal Well I thought this love would be all I needed I thought this love w...

I wait for sundown on the fire escape And watch the passing cars downstairs I'm high above Korean groceries A sublet castle in the air It's down to cigarettes and rosaries Christ, I wish someone would call me Johnny thunders on the radio Ah but you can't put...

In these days of wild roses I held a compass in my hand I had three wishes for a future That I won't need to understand And I've got holly green on blood red Manhattan Christmas on my arm My soul ain't worth saving Feels like I've lost my lucky charm A...

Storm warning on the radio Flags and banners Armageddon on the late night show And like my father before We've got love on the barricades Sweethearts who miss Battle hymns and hit parades Armageddon cascades What's my name Jack of spades Outside my window Is d...

I spend my time thinkin' 'bout you constantly It's true that I want you You're the meaning of success to me 'Cause anything you want, you can get from me Don't try to work it out just let it be Emotion has no price and love is free I've been going round in c...

Everytime I think of you It always turns out good Everytime I've held you I thought you understood People say a love like ours Will sure pass But I know a love like ours Will last and last And baby I was wrong Not knowing how our love should go (How...

I've been watching you, watching me Can't you tell what I'm going through? I wanna hold your fire, wanna get you higher Think of the things we'll do You put it out there, then you take it back You treat me like I'm your toy You know exactly what you're doing,...

For so long, you've gone on Trying to see an end to it all But I know that your grip, is getting loose And you think, if you leave The pain will go away, but you don't know what you need To get through 'Cuz I can tell by the things you say, that your fee...

Thinking about you tonight In a 3-D hotel room in Rome Chainsmoking American cigarettes And keeping my ear to the phone Through the blinds to the street My mind wanders To the nights when I had you alone Reality becomes science fiction And my heart's i...

When you don't know where you're going and you don't know why It feels like another day's beaten into the night Lay your head on my chest Well, my beating heart pounds out the reason for this life The higher you reach, the further the sky The more miles...

Well, if you're traveling in the north country fair Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline Remember me to the one who lives there She once was a true love of mine Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm When the rivers freeze and summer ends Please see...

No Krishna, Buddha, Jesus in my soul 'Til the sun breaks through again Down into nothing as I lose myself In the perfections of Zen She said: I got the answer I said: I'm curious, can you write that down my friend It said there's nothing in the real worl...

Saw you standing in the darkness With your back against the wall And your eyes looked kind of distant Then I knew you'd seen it all It was then that you betrayed me Cause I could see right through your gaze I guess you and I have seen much better days Y...

Yeah, I rode with the james gang When i was just nineteen The price on my head was legend Yeah such was my notoriety They call me Silver Dollar Silver Dollar that was me With those good old boys in the Whisky Jar Sometimes I'd ride for free Silver Doll...

The day begins with CNN And it looks like World War III The forecast calls for freezing rain It doesn't matter much to me The Wheel of Fortune never turns, it's all insanity Have you seen her my friend? I've been up all night, I've been out all day Though I t...

Well, the first time that I saw ya You looked down and out And I had my doubts about you But baby, since I've come to know ya I ain't got no doubts, what it's about Me and baby, we're going out tonight She's gonna treat me right Ooh yeah, me and sugar, we've...

Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son" Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on" God say, "No." Abe say, "What?" God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but The next time you see me comin' you better run" Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done?"...

There was a time When I thought I knew Everything about This great big world Until I met you Into my life Like a brand new sun Now I find my home Inside your eyes Wherever you are It's hard to say it Cause I hide things so good But you make me say it Like onl...

Hear the lonesome whippoorwill He sounds too blue to fly The midnight train is whining low I'm so lonesome I could cry I've never seen a night so long When time goes crawling by The moon just went behind a cloud To hide it's face and cry Did you ever see a rob...

You've been livin' with your broken heart I've been trying hard to play the part But some pretender with an easy smile Can tell you it's alright I ain't got nothin' if you leave me now Just a hypocrite with broken vows If I could change the way of circum...

In the cruel month grey morning I woke up freezing cold To possibly start over Before the day got old To my anger in my solitude I had to say goodbye So I turned on my ignition No reason to deny I-95 Alright From the canyons on the sidewalks Where t...

In this world of right and wrong The hardest part is beginning By the time you find where you belong You're either losing or winning Well, I don't know how but people seem to know When you want somebody bad enough Well, I want you now and wherever you go I'm...

Thanks for calling, it's so good to hear your voice You keep breaking up, in all the static and the noise But I'll keep listening 'cause I never had a choice When it came to you I'd love to see you, if you ever out this way You sound happy, guess things are w...

If I say I love ya And lay it on the line, yeah Could you say you need me And put your hands in mine Oh, I got love that grows Oh, I got love that shows I got the love If you've got the time Then I've got the time Do you say you want me? You'll give me every...

Do you think you have to act like you're someone else with me Like a cover girl or a Barbie doll or a beauty queen You'll be gone when I wake up to the Rolling Stones And the jukes and Earls but I ain't looking for an imaginary girl Who are you really, come o...

In my life I've seen such things That I wish I had not seen But through your eyes I can let it go When you're lying here with me Sunshine knocking on my window Couldn't wake me from this dream (we dream) Cause baby anywhere the wind blows I will follow you It...

We speak out like children Of the dreams that we chase and pursue These rights we hold precious Say it loud enough and it'll be true In the company of strangers Wild conversation and the hours go by so fast And you find a lot of wisdom there At the bottom of...

Falling in love was the Last thing I had on my mind Holding you is a warmth That I thought I could never find (Sitting here all alone) Just trying to decide (Whether to go all alone) Or stay by your side? (Then I stop myself because) I know I could c...

Nobody feels any pain Tonight as I stand inside the rain Everybody knows that baby's got new clothes But lately I've seen her ribbons and her bows Have fallen from her curls She takes just like a woman She makes love just like a woman And she aches just like...

You keep catching my eye And we keep looking at each other Is this what it feels like To be someone's lover There was never a time And the clock didn't matter 'til now And we could say that it's going well It feels like Hell Cause we walk and we talk...

All I ever wanted was to get away And spend some time alone To a big house in the country To a private yacht with Wall St. on the phone And in a million dollar paradise Maybe I could sing a better song But I've found something different now And I final...

Oh yeah It ain't the way that you look at me No nor the way you talk Could be a dark side coming out of me But I just like that way that you walk And I know what you've got is a thing for me And I want that thing awful bad Don't mess around This is too intense...

I've been out here in this wasteland Throwing horseshoes at the stars Nickel, silver, and pearl inlay On an old guitar for my new life For the playwright and the printer Theme cafes and tourist bars They're on a permanent vacation Like butterflies in killing...

Ain't it beautiful Don't it make you feel complete It comes into your life Then sweeps you right off your feet Time stands still for two lovers And it's intangible But it hits like steel It stops me in my tracks Makes my private world unsealed A crash...

Love is a rose to me Growin' desperate and I'm desperately Reliving memories For love is a rose And when you look at me There's no one that I would rather see You make me feel complete For love is a rose Love is a rose to me Picked and presse...

From your mothers' breast to the Vatican steps It ain't such a long way down no Absolution comes with the confession But the priest still hangs around And I don't want to lose myself In some uniform No I'm not gonna be reformed Me oh my oh Fire and ice...

I've been watching you now I've been caught in these hours Days are turning to nights Out of where there's no No rules for strangers When I see you again Will you still feel the same way Understand In your eyes I can't get nothing right All day All night Make...

Well I come home in the evening To the same old house alone And in the silence of these empty rooms I take shelter from the storm But I brought a paint box And some brushes to pass the time Since you've been gone It's a portrait of a broken man And the...

Driving faster than you want me to Can't help myself when I'm alone with you Alright Alright I've passed the limit and there's no way back Your kind of love gives me a heart attack Alright Alright 'Cuz baby can't you see We need to spend some time a...

Everytime I think of you, I always catch my breath And I'm still standing here, and you're miles away And I'm wonderin' why you left And there's a storm that's raging through my frozen heart tonight I hear your name in certain circles, and it always makes...

Fell out of the sky sometime in 1952 Through the radiance Looking for my shoes Daddy left and momma cried Had a passport for the blues I didn't share their hometown point of view Cause I need more I need more Just give me one good reason What I'm livi...

I can't play these games with you no more I get my fingers caught inside your door And now everything I say is just a joke Spend my money now you leave me broke Living someone's life in clear blue skies Fairy tales and dreams, and alibis All you want from me...

There's something in you... child A mystery that I can't define But it blows my mind I'm walking on air... with you A kite in the sky Without a care It's something we share And all of these clues Lead me to you Hey!... I'm so surprised Everything th...

I can't take you to the movies And I can't tell the real thing From a fake But I'm curled up tight In your Chevrolet And baby you got wow You've got what it takes You've got no brakes I can't take you anywhere these days Baby you're going wild Your l...

There's diamonds in the avenue As the dayshift turns to night In the empire dinner dreaming Hard rain, fluorescent lights And the waitress fills my coffee cup As the working girls go by Drenched Irish cops are dreaming sex And peep show alibis Everything und...

Girl sometimes it seems to me That I don't say the things I should To you I act like I'm no good And you wait for me patiently This house Is not a home without you It takes two hearts to share Your eyes will always see through me And bring me t...

In the real world All that gold All that silver prove Is that the powerful own the truth With their Heckyl and Jeckyl smiles Down to nickels and dimes The lawyers will sue What those bastards won't do But sometimes with you I can leave this place And...

Three years come I'm still alone and you're so lonely I look in the mirror I see those lines on my face All of my dreams are gone Flyin' with the starlings But they were not stolen gems Colored glass I can replace You've got a restless heart Restless...

Woke up from a bad dream To the world was burning down I didn't know where I was I didn't know which town You gotta live through this hard life And get it right first time See it's a mean place for I love to live And I bring yours to mine And we can...

Workin' overtime Just to keep myself from getting sacked Well I don't like my job Tell the boss to shove it I ain't goin' back Just like Gene Vincent I'm longing to prove I know what I need this time Me and my girl together Yeah Saturday night Oh yeah Saturday...

If I fall Right out of sleep Deepsea diving in the dark With those creatures of the deep Broken skis Over silent snow As the ground comes up to meet me Is it then you let me go Here we go To the other side No one comes back And very few survive Me...

She's got everything I want Got my world in a tight black dress Keeps me on my feet and walking Keeps my heart alive I look up at the moon To see her looking down on me And it's a magic carpet ride To a place that fate decides And everytime we go aroun...

Put on something pretty, baby And turn down the lights Let's leave the world outside the window For just, just one night And show me I'll show you what my love is good for And I'll always be there for you, baby And I'll always be your man 'Cause the touch of...

It's a revolution of a brand new day I couldn't feel better if it just got paid I sing a song, got my caffeine on And everything's alright And I feel like I'm floating Three feet up the sidewalk With these converse wings Feel is in full swing And I fe...

I've been searchin' for a long time For someone exactly like you I've been travelin' all around the world Waitin' for you to come through Someone like you could make it all worthwhile Someone like you to keep me satisfied Someone exactly like you, just like y...

I remember when you whispered low I will go with you wherever you go Then I went and found someone new No one ever made me feel the way that you do Sometimes you don't know When to hold on or when to let go Sometimes you don't know Sometimes Then I cam...

I know you're someone's daughter You know I'm somebody's son We spent our lives until this moment Looking for the special one Nobody gave us the directions To this life we have to live Although we've both been taken We've got so much left to give So m...

You say there's nothin' wrong With the lessons that you're learnin' The school of the streets You'll kick next year Skateboardin' Hollywood and Vine Yeah You're a spaced out face in a crowd You're 17 and shootin' The cars slow down to check you out And your t...

Born in Louisiana in a town called Franklin And she was fully matured by the time she reached the age of 10 Mulatto girl, that's what they called her And mulattos never had no trouble at all with men And they don't say she was as sweet as honey 'Cause sh...

You left me here alone I guess I'll never see the light You turned another's thumb And he makes your wrongs seem right Out on some different wavelength Somehow he brings you more But sweetheart tonight I know for sure I'll see those tears The damage they do Y...

When you tell me that you're leaving And that you've got to be alone Sometimes you seem to me like you're far away In some different danger zone I couldn't stop you if I wanted You found somebody else for sure What you don't know is I've found some love...

I will be there for you For you are mine And I'll take care of you Every single time I'll be watching over you When the world seems bitter cold When you're closer to the edge And you're feeling so alone But do you still recognize When you hear love's voice I...

There's a silent movie Running off its reel inside my mind As I try to fall asleep tonight On prescription lullabies In the darkness there's a doorway That leads me back to you forever But these days there's only You and I in photographs Ambitions and...

Jenny's sitting in the car In the middle of some abandoned Shoney's parking lot Ripping off the filters off her cigarettes Crying, he loves me, loves me not She checks her makeup in the rearview mirror and turns the radio on It hasn't hit her yet But al...

Babe I had a dream Woke up in a sweat Darkness all around me I was caught in its net Tried to reach for you But you weren't there It only was a dream But it put danger in the air I can feel the nervous rhythm of your heart with mine Could we ever sta...

Thinking about old times Thinking about the things we said All the worthless games and lies I'm looking at myself And the mirror's unkind You're inside my mind And you're outside my eyes And I'm looking for something That's real in my life, something...

We've seen a lifetime since we met Through good and bad And things we won't forget Forgotten promises and broken vows But we always made it through somehow But the key to you is broken in the lock And a simple band of gold is all we've got It's in the...

Inside these moments waiting Beneath the windows of The house of love Like romeo to juliet above The lights out on the freeway They lead me back to you For always and forever now I'll be with you Cause you know that I've come here for a reason Tell me...

Sour milk in the saucer And the cat won't come home And sometimes New York City Feels like burnin' Rome I'm lost and I'm crazy Too much time on my own I'd give anything to find a heart That can't be sold Welcome to paradise Here is my brave new world And in...

Sometimes I wonder How I'd ever make it through Through this world without having you I just wouldn't have a clue 'Cause sometimes it seems like This world is closing in on me There's no way of breaking free And then I see you reach for me Sometimes I wanna...

Sweet 17 in summertime Drunk on Elderberry wine Laughing in the cornfields And taking our sweet time The world was ours together And all the things we had Were cast up in the future baby How could things turn out bad? Now I ain't waiting for Those days to re...

The face of an angel, pretty eyes that shine I lie awake at night wishing you were mine I'm standing here holding the biggest heartache in town Whenever you come around I get weak in the knees and I lose my breath Oh, I try to speak but I can't find the words...

She's just a working girl from Baltimore She'll choose you She's been there She's been there and back again It's in and out It's up it's down It's a mercenary And you get what you need When you walk on the streets of paradise In vogue in the streets Indecision...

Well you fooled me say your livin' in France Drinkin' cheap champagne Got a second chance You got a lover and he's six feet-five Ain't he shakin' you up Ain't you glad you're alive It's a wild life You're not in my shoes A wild life (ah) A wild life...

Give me one thing I can believe Give me one thing I can touch Taste Want Take again And again And again Give me something I can't remember Forget me not Give me something over and over Don't forget Keep me loved Give me something I can't ignore No...

Give your love away It's not the way you seem Cause someone's just come in your life And broken up your dreams Look into my eyes and tell me what you see And if my eyes are empty Well that's the way I'm meant to be What I got Who am I I got the world...

You could be anywhere But if you think of me Know that you're on my mind Got my soul in you hands No matter what you do I know it must be right I'm a man of the world And I've seen everything And this time I see one I like You're the one That's keepi...