Night Ranger

Promises promises Step inside my head This is the way things are done Around here Wake up wake up Get up out of bed I hear it's been a little crowded in there Do you give a damn I don't think you care All I hear you saying is I would do anything for...

Here I am My heart in a sling Holding on to memories Wondering what might have been There you are Lost in a dream Full of life yet loneliness Has caused you to bleed I know Where there's room enough for two Take a trip to where we've been The water'...

Living Alone In her own little room In her own little world Oh yeah Walking alone Down her own little street While the city's asleep Oh yeah Nobody knows her She's a lonely girl in a lonely world Oh yeah At night she sleeps All alone she weeps Wit...

Gotta pull me out of this rut I'm in I've got to see the light Before it gets too dim To face it is the only way To fight and stay ahead Of the games that we play I'm the one that's losin' losin' out I'm the one that's choosin' And runnin' out Choru...

Out of work, I'm out of school Guess things ain't looking so bright I got holes in the knees of my Levi jeans But the rest of me is dynamite On the radio, the guy says come on It's so hip, hip, hip to be square When the world hits ya hard right here i...

Yeah, girl, I haven't seen you in years For all the tears you stole my heart Yeah, girl, you chose your path We cried and we laugh, now here you are Well, you know there's a million things I wanna say to you and I'm not holding back Hey, you, I'm gonna...

I hear your voice over the sound of the city I hear you call my name And I hear that now you spend you life feeling pity But who am I to blame I see that some things never change Summer kisses never last through September I thought you'd understand That...

Chasing the spotlight It's all part of the game I've been to so many places And they all look the same I rock for my money Some say it's a suicide game I can't find me a thrill I can't find me a thrill I can't find me a thrill I can't find me a thrill...

I hear a voice inside my head I don't want to hear it again See your face inside my head I don't want to see it again You say that love is everything We made it that's for sure Yet the key to my undoing Is a knock upon your door There you sit inside...

Jack Blades/Brad Gillis) Come over late Got your hands on my face Candy, don't you see what you're doing Oh, I lie awake Another night put to waste It's a shame You got me comin' and goin' It's a price I gotta pay To spend a night at heaven's gate CH...

I can't believe That I survived til Friday I grab my coat And make a run for where I Hide and dream and lie all afternoon I call you up Although you work on Sunday I'm not accustomed to a lonely afternoon Inside my room Is it the same with you It's...

Looking down the road where I've been Can anything last forever Still I take my chances Looking for the answers I need somebody oh I think I'm falling for love And the morning here it comes And I'm lying next to you Don't ask me why Don't ask me why...

I use to be such an angry old man That man don't live here any more I use to wake up and daze with my face on the floor That man don't love here any more Ooh everything what you say Ooh come back to hunt you one day Everybody want you, every body really...

Ooh, it's been a long time, girl Time has been a friend to you Have you had it with your seesaw world Yeah, I've had it with the same world, too. Ain't no friend of mine.....oh, no Here we are alone again Down at Johnny's little seaside inn Slammin' do...

It ain't the way you move It ain't the way that you move me Oh no It ain't the way you shake It ain't the way that you shake me Oh no I've lived twenty-five years I'm a kid on the run I've got a pistol for action CHORUS: Don't tell me you love me Don't tell m...

He wears his trousers real tight And his skin is so white He lives beyond his means He wear Italian shoes That are used to good news They walk behind the scenes He live a tenderloin life The street's his type In the alley's where he's king He got a gr...

Two souls were made for living Too young to know or thrive And now it looks as though we're over One came from the South, had it hard Yet he held on with his dream One born with it all But there was no hope, no, no Oh, when you're caught up in a lands...

Faces Pictures on the wall Do you sleep at all When you sleep Faces Burning in your mind Faces She's trapped inside her own world And I'm trying to get in And she doesn't know what's gin' on Or where she might have been She talks to many people An...

Taking the time, embracing the high It's never too late like floating on clouds in the sky With nothing on your mind, oh yeah Finding that sound, it carries you through It's a fortress surrounding your soul It's the passion in you and nobody can take tha...

If she wanted the world To be a happier place She's stop at least one tear From rolling down my face She'd think about me Maybe pick up the phone And say "I'm missing you" At the sound of the tone If she wanted the world To keep spinning around She'...

Four in the morning Came without a warning Everybody's got a place to be I got holes in my conscience Shot with a vengeance I must have been a fool not to see I need you bad It's hard to live without your company I need you bad So bad I can't take it...

As the sun hides his head For another night's rest And the wind sings His same old song And you on the edge Never close, never far Always there when I needed a friend Yet it's hard living life On this memory-go-round Always up, always down Spinning...

Well, I've been out here thinking About the night before How you held me tight You kissed me like you've never done before Well, I ain't no politician But I sure know what was said I don't put much weight in promises That you made to me While you're la...

Hearts away, I cast my heart To some romantic yesterday When I was young and on my own And you were blind to everyone but me Now today, I throw my heart to some Forgotten memory, when you were What was meant for me, a stranger With a place to always be...

Here she comes again now Walking all alone A lazy cafe off of sunset Where she makes her home Now my trouble's getting close to her Ain't no good hanging on the line And what it always comes down to Is I can never get around to Tell her she's breaking...

Tell all my friends I'm going out to the desert this weekend When they find out I'll be gone for a life time or two I may start out looking over my shoulder I told you I might end up being someone you don't wanna see That someone is who I'll be I'm on th...

Every night that I held you Made heaven from hell, yea I did it for love Like the change of the season You grew cold for that reason I did it for love And when it all went wrong And there's no use hanging on I turned and walked away Chorus: I did...

Sometimes I think There's a hole in my head And all these memories Fall out on the bed Maybe it's time I changed my point of view Maybe you're right There's so much we can do Say the word Say the word You can have it all Love is all I want to hear...

I know what you want And I know I want you too And I know tonite I can make you go crazy One two three You with a lonely heart The lovely eyes I've seen that very look before In my younger roving days I had a lonely heart A lucky smile The world was...

I need a woman To wipe away my tears Keep me warm And sing me bedtime lullabies I need a woman Put away my toys See a man in a boy That's still growing Oh, I... Oh, I... Oh, I... I need a woman I need a woman Make me feel all undone Hang me out,...

If I could paint a picture Of the days gone by The wind blowing through your hair Life without a single care Every picture tells a story As the cold wind cries Now you've left and gone away And all I have is yesterday And always knowing well Should'a...

Let's go Head out on the highway Where there's room to move I'm a fast boy in a bad car I got it all I've got nothing to lose Interstate love affair (x4) Run with our passions We'll race with our eyes Can't catch me, try to hold me I get it all out of one s...

I hear you're down, oh no I'm here if you lost your way Oh, send a man who'll journey All night feeling When I look into your eyes I see the questions running deep And now you say you're leaving You gotta hold on It's not over till you say it's over...

I met a steel town workin' girl She had the look of all them Lean, young, built to last, one night girls I was feeling right at home I said, baby, take me on...I....I'll show ya How to rock my world Chorus: I got a pain down in my heart Oh won't ya ki...

Some child knockin', knockin on my door Looking for the party again Sons are rockn', rockn' all night Gonna turn it all the way up to ten (Pre-Chorus) Waiting for the show, feelin' alright Everyday lookin' like a Saturday night Got the wheels to the ro...

Oh no I got that funky feeling Just slipped out of a Coupe de Ville Scrape me off the ceiling Oh yeah Too good to believe in Rubber lover tugging on a daisy chain Going coming Here I go again In the middle of the evening So damn sweeter I got a pen...

Drifting down a river turning back Wishing I could turn the water black Wishing someone else could here my screams Wishing you were here to rescue me Fools remain but nothing gold can stay All that glitters seems to blow away Pleasure came and caused me...

Strap on your safety belt Blazing in the sky Thinking of nothing No disguise What happened to the one The one you thought you knew Did he just take away What is missing in you Let him run Till he sees what he has done Let him go on Having all his f...

Building a bridge Into someone else's mind Can be so confusing And there was no sense of right Walking a street full of light And your miles away Casting your raft In an ocean of life on the rain There's a ship heading west And a house on the hill...

I know it's hard And words can never Tell you the way I feel I know it's like A cold December With nothing to hide the fear Know that I just need you so And I'm strung out on love with no control And the world retains me far from home Telephone No...

I used to be On a one-way ride I played it all so rough Like a molitov Something's happening to me I don't know why You got me spinning off the edges of my mind I still recall When I first met you Yeah, you shook me out Did you want me too Now I'm...

I think about you I think about me I think about love, oh yeah How I want it to be When I think about love I never wait Dinner for two, me and you I'll get ya home by eight, yeah All I wanna do Is to make it with you All I wanna say That I just ca...

You mother me You ooze affection You smother me With protection When I'm in need You pour me your sweet cider And when I bleed You tie the tourniquet tighter Wild daisies Poking up thru the residue while I Take my chances Hanging round down by Slag...

I've got to tie a few loose ends Apologize to all my friends I really did it bigtime Slam-danced on a land mine I hope you're alright my dear Sorry 'bout the chandelier The party was just beginning Man I was Tarzan swinging I won't pretend that someone...

I do believe I have a plan To steal the Queen of Neverland Cause I was in her neighborhood Feeling just like Robin Hood With only our love to protect us Hoping they won't detect us through the castle's open air Sliding down the spiral stairs I do bel...

Traffic Six AM New York time A little late Lose your job Frame of mind I don't know What's the score 10 to 9 Take a swing Tie it up Miller time Up all night Take a run to the other side It's all right Don't you trip on your open mind New Yor...

I can see the message It's written in your eyes And it's telling me What I'm telling you We'll walk you through the danger And we'll take you for a ride Still you see it through We'll knock ‘em dead for you, yeah Who's gonna save you this time Welco...

In the cool city In the heat of the night Looking for adventure On the face of the light A Colorado school boy Put his days on the line Nights out of paperback "Catcher In The Rye" Night ranger Where you gonna run to now Night ranger (ranger) He met...

Sometimes the weekend just don't go right I know it's getting too late on a Saturday night To try and change your state Change your state of mind Life of the party and a child at a date Don't think it's alright to just walk away When there's so much mor...

Thinking bout the days gone by So many reasons I should try Runnin' from my past is wrong You see, I have no pride, and I'm here with you tonight Maybe we can start over new Take it from a different point of view One man has the light of day Like they...

Superficial conversation Never going my way Always something there to remind you Life is a bowl of clay There she sits in Silent confusion While the world spins Gold into hay Pressure building Under her makeup It's not a very good day There's a Pa...

In a backstreet bar On the south side of town Where the music never stops And the sun never hangs around Two lovers meet And their eyes feel the heat They're moving to the sound And they're feet never touch the ground Never touch the ground CHORUS P...

I was born In the heart of America And I was raised by a hard working mom We didn't have as much that you'd call anything But what we had was a whole lotta love Alright Then I met a girl from California Her name was Feather or something like that Her f...

Penny it's so silly to me I guess you're only holding out on me I telephone you're never ever home And everytime I call it drives me up the wall It's crazy to me I took you to see all the stars in the sky you took me by surprise There isn't a doubt Tha...

You can play dirty Or you can play clean Looking for pleasure You're busting out your seams You can play it loose Or you can play it tight Make the boys sweat On a Saturday night Oh yeah you're the talk of the neighborhood They're saying something bad...

Staring out a window at the hotel room The sun always comes up way too soon You never really know quite where you are, oh no Every town looks the same, nothing changes Running down a road that's way too long Just the thought of coming home keeps me hangi...

Think of it, I, hold the world in the palm of my hand Run a comb through my hair, head on out for some new foreign land And all this could seem like a dream out the door With everyday people, face down on the floor I always said I could make it and be who...

So you say you've written letters And you've mailed them to yourself And through the politics of compromise You've left them lying upon your shelf At the risk of seeming crazy I've set off to find your cure With apologies for knowing It's a difficult ti...

All of our lives we look through windows Wondering if there's a chance we'll see All of our ways and all of our footsteps Are leading us back to our reason to be They're leading us back to our reason to be I once was a lad with great expectations Smilin...

Off on your own It's a lonely ride Seeing the things Only seen thru your eyes Pick yourself up Gonna try it again Knowing that this time You're reaching the end A voice inside Made me feel that I can fly And you'll be there by my side Forever Cho...

I was drinkin' in the parking lot Outside where you're workin' I was looking for your man I was waiting for your man I don't know what you've been thinking about But I've been mistreated And I'm looking for your man Yes, I'm waiting for your man Oh,...

Little sister By the record machine Tiny dancer Such a sweet sixteen She's goin' out She's gonna party tonight She's gonna shake And make it last all night Little brother's Gotta a drivin' machine Fast driver Such a clean machine They're goin' out...

When I was young I used to dream all alone I'm up on stage, guitars and all This is my hometown Lights go down, crowds are a rage Light up my six string, I rush on the stage It's alright, I'm so alive I think I hear Jimmy singing Are you experienced?...

Jack Blades) Used to call me By my first name Now you never even call me at all Used to say I was your only flame It was so simple I believed it all Now I hear You got a new friend and lover Who keeps you warm On the cool, cool nights There's a rum...

It's getting real hard to be myself anymore I often wonder if that's me that's walking through the door I know there's always gonna be a better day Sometimes I fall back and I lose my way It's getting tough to hold on to who I am Pulled in all directions...

Saw you walkin' out on Sentimental street What cha doin' out there Who ya trying to be I know what your thinking Cause I've been there myself I've been kicked so many times I don't know nothing else Still I noticed your urgency And recognized the flair That ya...

If you were handed seven wishes Would you turn your back for more Would you hold on tight to what you have Would you try to change the score If you were given back a lifetime Would you find some room for me Oh, won't you take my hand and walk away Know...

I like watching sunsets With no particular plans I like drinking Jack and Coke In some far away land I like Rolling Stones records They take their tea at three I like making love outside underneath a big oak tree I like building castles When they're...

Sometimes I sit and I dream on for hours Sometimes my hours they turn into days I dream of a girl I once knew as a schoolboy She is the one who could sing me away But she is a long ways away And I want to be with her today I'll think of a way I can get...

Sister Christian Oh the time has come And you know that you're the only one To say O.K. Where you going What you looking for You know those boys Don't want to play no more with you It's true You're motoring What's your price for flight In finding m...

I hear you won't dance you say No one asks you anyway Hard to make ends meet Dominos every day If the bible taught us anything Adam got the best of the deal Horizontal sailing Something that you want to do Telephone is ringing But the message isn't g...

Caught in the act of doubting So hard to look away I don't know if it's fear or faith That makes me stay So maybe I've decided Sometimes enough is enough I'm just a man at the end of the day In love So what if I Can't walk on water So what if I'm n...

There's a man Sits outside in front of Grazi's cafe Dirty clothes, a bedroll and a smile He rubs his hands together Says "mister can you spare me some change? I've been down on my luck for a while" Yet I 'm a soul survivor I sleep under the freeway sign...

[lyrics]Staring at the telephone No it doesn't ring Thinking of you lying there As you hide your wedding ring I'm always up for something new My timing's never right Maybe I should be with someone else For just one night No more of your darkness No mo...

I can't believe That I survived til Friday I grab my coat And make a run for where I Hide and dream and lie all afternoon I call you up Although you work on Sunday I'm not accustomed to a lonely afternoon Inside my room Is it the same with you It's...

Think of it, I Hold the world in the palm of my hand Run a comb through my hair Head on out for some new foreign land And all this could seem Like a dream out the door With everyday people Face down on the floor I always said I could make it and be w...

Everything happens for a reason Sometimes it's hard and we ask why But it's never all for nothing If we have hope then we gotta try You and me we are forever It takes a lot to keep love alive I can't do it all alone I need you by my side, oh There is...

Kid out of touch Laying down with a dream On a runaway night Got a feel for the scene A girl with lots of tricks Like to lay them on me I'd forgotten what it's like To be seventeen Well I say fast She say slow And so the story goes She say stop An...

What's the use of trying? I'm tired of all the crying If I had a choice, I'd choose a different voice What's the use in lying? What's the use in trying? When you done your best, it's high time That you hit the road and don't look back anymore What's th...

She wakes in the morning Got a smile on her face She's not sentimental About her night's embrace Another lucky day Lucky night on the town Man he got the touch I say she wears the crown She say "I get high when I want to Don't ya think you need it t...

She lies awake and it's almost A quarter to two. The moon's shining so brightly, It lights up the room Well, whatever happened, It shouldn't have done… But she never places the blame. She just carries the weight… Well, maybe it's over now; it's hard t...

In the dark of the night Will you always be there In my hour of need Will you be standing there When I feel I can't go on Will you hold me close When I call I call on you When I call I call on you I needed a friend There you were by my side My tho...

What do you do, when it's fallin' apart? And you knew it was gone, from the very start Do you close your eyes and dream about me? A girl in love, with a gleam in her eye I was a younger boy, all dressed in white We're older now, I bet you still think abo...

The old words Don't mean the same anymore Time makes the change As the faces begin to age To the eyes Things look different than before Spark and the flame It'll never be the same, never be the same CHORUS Why does love have to change Why does love...

Got a girlfriend Running on soul Gave her the big speaker stereo Blastin' out rock-n-roll Oh, yeah Something's hit her Now she's out of control She's coming over talkin' bout Vacations to Mexico Oh, no She must be dreaming Somebody wake her Chor...

Little Sister by the record machine A tiny dancer such a sweet sixteen She's goin' out she's gonna party tonight She's gonna shake and make it last all night Little brother's got a drivin' machine A fast driver such a clean machine They're going out they're g...

Hey, hey, what do you think you're doing? Hey, hey, where do you think you're going? It's alright, whatever you say It's bigger than LA Whoa, whoa, you're gonna hear from me Whoa, whoa, you're gonna hear from me Bang, bang, you don't even know you're l...

I called you up to tell you I'm about to lose my mind I've tried my best to reach you Oh so many times Carrie I tell you true girl You've got me collared I've been cuffed You've got a hold on me I can't get loose You know I need you so much And now I...