Steve Harley

I been trying to write this line Yeah but the years've gone by in no time And you know that it's not easy for a boy in love But I had to find a clue And it could only come from you Like a waterfall you tingle me with your love. And you know that since y...

He wakes, the celebrating is done Still he silently screams Alone, alone, lost on silent street He sits, motionless, in his corner Head in hands, disbelieving The shame, the shame A cost he cannot meet And so nobody takes his side No, nobody saves hi...

Chorus: think I’ll have lines on my face When I get out of this place So I guess I’ll be ever so carefull It wouldn’t help to deny I’m well advised to comply By the rules or be ever so tearful I caught a vulture, he came up behind me I put a chain on his claw...

Through a smoke-filled glass on a desperate night When the sole of my shoe lets in rain When the heart's tired of running and the milk's gone sour Will your feelings still be the same ? When the match won't light so the flames don't tremble And the years...

Flicking through her horoscope She's entranced by the message Moved like an innocent child She's not content to sell her dream In a picture-frame of despair Looking for an alibi She can depend on the rebel To rise from the ashes and fly Sensing that th...

The hungry man knows who's to blame, the city boys who know no shame Who justify the things they do with ugly, callous attitude The wind of change it howls outside and makes my pony terrified The greensward in the dust and gloom lies dormant in the afternoo...

Sunny wanted to shine for you Amerika the Brave Since the beginning Of these conscious days Returning to glow for you. He went into a notion boom It was taking him nowhere Then he said to himself In his perfumed words Amerika, happy if you dare Sai...

You lead the lost sheep up to the mountain You tell them everything's gonna be OK With that old familiar smile that everybody's seen. There's a million or more if you're counting And they're waiting for words but you've nothing to say It's that old famil...

Ballerina, prima donna Take your shoes and your shellac Get out of my life and don’t come back I’ve played your games for far too long Was it you who mesmerised me, or the Covent Garden lights That thrilled and hypnotised me on those long fantastic night...

I've just been speaking to the one who holds the key When she asked me would I like to wait and to see? Would I like to try and explain? Would I like to try and explain? How my heart is feeling tonight with all the strain? And I said I could take much...

They came to my town They came with attitudes on fire They put their arms down This was the gun for hire Lost in this moment Lost in this unfamiliar place I counted no men I couldn’t find a face This is the time, this is the day We switch off the de...

She was looking for the moon and the stars combined But she had no hand to show She was clinging to the wreckage of other times Playing on her radio Through signs and wounded glances Through whispered hints of failed romances She was sure in her heart,...

I can hear her heartbeat from a thousand miles Yeah and the heavens open every time she smiles When I come to her, which is where I belong I run into her like a river's song. She gives me love, love, love, love, crazy love She gives me love, love, love,...

When you call me,i dance on the telephone When I'm waiting, I gnaw my fingers to the bone When it's raining, it's always raining on my heart But when you call me it don't seem to matter that The car won't start and the roof's started leaking Some business...

Beginning here, beginning now I’ve no intention of condemning all the minutes of my hours To what I call a life of crime I’m warning you be on your guard Where the dog doesn’t bark, doesn’t bite in this charade So there’ll be no more killing time You’r...

We live on cartoons and Fridays We travel wishing on the moon We breathe on tiptoes and my ways We get our legacies too soon And we could dine out on Sunday Or we could swim in acid rain Where did we go? How did we learn that trade? No peace of mind,...

I can see it my past, like a passive kind of memory And picking petals from a flower, in the garden like a ceremony (Can’t you feel?) Can you feel it now? Tearing up my pagan heart Yes I swear shall put right before duty pause Without faith, hope and cha...

Standing in line In the shadow of the twin-spired cathedral Waiting for the woman who feeds All the united people There's no need to hurry, now As you turn on the light No need to worry, now There's a time for the cross to expire Like a fire in the nig...

They ran away for true love Saying they knew life wasn’t fair Thought they’d be together for all times They’d always have this true love For they made each other swear Two kids, they never saw the signs They settled in a new life And the bairn grew slo...

I wanna be the jiver you'd wanna meet I wanna be yer danger man in the street I wanna be the biggest thing in site I wanna be yer dancer in the nite Wanna be macho, wanna be cool Wanna be treated like a jewel To get hold of you babe i know that i c...

I got this wild woman lover, she's as strange as any other And she's always making fun outta me She got this foul-tempered, distempered, flea-infested dog Who likes to sit and watch TV He has this habit of destroying my guitars to get even with me, oh But...

(My heart beats like thunder) (My heart beats like thunder) Even looking in your eyes I see jewels You’re a light in a shimmering haze A girl all my friends applaud You’re a crystal in gold It’s been years that just seems like days You set me on fire...

If ever the day comes that London is Belfast Who’d stone the soldiers then? And who’d run the streets? And after all the fighting is over Who’d be the victor in truth? There’ll always be a wall to get over Nothing is right for the hot youth If ever the...

At the end of the day with my senses away When I'm managing no sign of life And I can't even show you how good it feels to be with you tonight Well I'm sorry if I stumble, I wish I could open my heart. It's not a heart of stone that I may have shown But...

Show me a hole where the rain gets in And I'll pour you water Could be the answer to your prayer Magical things I can perform anywhere Somebody stop me Somebody ought too Too many jokes and too many sins Blocking the hole where the sun comes in...

Penzabene-Strong-Whitfield Sunshine, blue skies, please go away My love has found another, gone away Withered up my future, my life is filled with gloom Day after day I stay locked up in my room I know to you it might sound strange But I wish it would r...

I wish you could be here I'm sitting in my vest It's easy to reach here No geography test And there's a confession I'm writing to contest The truth i've heard Since i was small I'm having a good time I'm doing it all twice I'm happy to...

Hold on to early souvenirs Write down your feelings Hold back on trailing through the years It'll only bring us heartache. I'll be there on the road as the mystery unfolds I'll be there when you need a special friend I'll be there when you fear it's a n...

You'd ask me so often to find you a tune About flowers and dancing and chasing the moon And the animal farms on a hot afternoon And we talked about love We thought you were immune My treacherous heart was a burdensome test You handled it well in your wo...

Darkness is a message on the sea Light is like a life to the men below And when your beam is shone on me I get a magic glow Could it be the light that's in you? Could it my big, brown eyes? Why does my light go on shining? How come the darkest nights st...

Of blood rhea, from what's? to Belair, And it occurs to me that it's no better there Everybody's looking, Everybody's looking for a friend. From the ghetto to the Bevery Hills, Is the same colored money, You pay the same colored-bills, Everyone's roman...

My love she speaks like silence Without ideals or violence She doesn't have to say she's faithful Yes she's true like ice, like fire People carry roses Make promises by the hours My love she laughs like the flowers Valentines can't buy her In the dime...

Someone's played a rotten trick getting back at me It's been due for such a long time, it was never hard to see A ragged state of disarray bewildered constantly Gotta get away from here, I must get home. The only way to think of this The only way to cons...

In a daggers-drown debate, you get caught in the crossfire of words Aimed at getting you to sing for your life though you know it's absurd And you're limited to one glass of wine when your heart's set on thirds And you're led to the river of sighs to get fe...

I found my message in a bottle of wine It came up plain and clear He said to give somebody what I took is mine With a paranoid sense of fear Her heart beat faster as I turn the tide I adopted my fear for the matter to Say I found my message in a bottle...

You've done it all, you've broken every code And pulled the rebel to the floor You spoilt the game, no matter what you say For only metal - what a bore! Blue eyes, blue eyes, how come you tell so many lies? Come up and see me, make me smile Or do what y...

Mr. Soft, turn around and force the world To watch the things you're going through Mr. Soft, believe everything they tell you And be dammed if they'll thank you You paint everything so cruel, Coming on like Mr. Cool; Paint your face and shut the ga...

Roll away the stone, let me breathe again She waves her hand with a touch of style He can't believe it's about to end Ah, but she knows the words of the night Are a promisese on trial She say's she's never been alone, that she's Never had a lover's kiss...

Don’t tell me I belong I don’t care where the keys are Don’t tell me that you long To brush my hair where the bees are You’ll never see the darkest night Or the colour of the Negro The beauty’s in the innocence below Your adolescent charms Free my so...

Every time I feel the wind of change blowing over me And I feel it's heart beat like some god of thunder It rattles through my life n' times It opens heavens highway I reckognize the lucky signs I know ut's coming my way Don't let the rain fall down o...

When the alcohol begins to dim the mind And the fighting of the night is forgotten I'll apologize sincerely and beg you to be kind And I'll plead to be forgiven one more time. When the snow has all melted in the morning With the agonizing conversation Y...

I have been living a life of a sad lost soul With a head full of guilt and pain Like a messenger carrying bad news home I was torn between the lost and the gain Sometimes I thought survival was only a hopeless compromise Many times I felt like praying C...

True romance in the dead ot'f the night The breeze in the air, it almost glistens And the earth is a glorious sight When nobody speaks and nobody listens You're gonna have a night to remember You're gonna be real, live, hot contender Sleeptalking in the...

I been losing my head I been losing my way I been losing my brain cells at a million a day I been so disillusioned I'm on suicide street I seen everything In every shape I seen l984 in a terrible state I seen you Quazimodo Hanging on my gate...

Rain on my window, blurring my vision of another day Can't get a thing going right It don't count or matter anyway When I lost you, I was acting like a fool And when I'd got you, I was making it like I'm cool It's true Love has flooded my heart and ther...

She shook her head and i saw jewels I saw golden trinkets hanging there and quivering Then she told me, "Hey, I see the sea. Watch how the creases Form then disappear" We saw a new day forming The sun has risen now And set the fibres burning We got the...

Roll me the lucky one, I feel the sensation I got all of my heart on you, A wondrous temptation, too Many co-incidences keep me coming for more, of the same Chorus: Roll the dice and it sounds like thunder Hit the bottom and you feel no pain Roll the di...

Wherever you go Whatever you do However you feel I feel that way too. Whatever you need I'm looking for you Whenever you bleed I'll be there for you. I'll keep you safe When you're afraid I'll bring you here I'll keep you safe in here Yeah yeah ye...

Put on your party dress, ready to go somewhere Then slip in a DVD, put a movie on, muss up your hair It's gonna be some night, it's gonna be a wild affair We'll party like two young kids on a Saturday night at the fair I wanna see you smile like you're get...

Sometimes I can hardly breathe The air is so thick with hatred and pain and we're on our knees In my hand is a book of prayer In my pocket, a cross attached to some chain and I'm on my knees I'm staring at the world through a trick of the light I'm waving...

Radiate simply, the candle is burning so low for me Generate me limply, I can't seem to place your name, cherie To rearrange all these thoughts in a moment is suicide Come to a strange place, we'll talk over old times we never spied Somebody called me Seb...

The ship was sailing through a tempest of fear There was lightning and explosions galore And the waves came whooshing and crashing and boy! It was panic as we swam for the shore There were ladies and babies being trampled to hell Where ihe flames flickere...

Seeing you re is such a good thing Now can say the things I've waited to say Of how I fear your life is wasting away Losing a friend is such a sad thing It's never easy when your loves' on the line You feel the loss that always seemed so unkind You...

Baring down on a one way sign On a stairway leading to heaven Never smiling but so refined She's completed steps one to seven She'd have a stud for an eye, for an eye In a moment of passion, ease her He give her all that her money could buy Sophisticat...

One, two, three, four Can’t define the beauty or the rhyme inside my mind It my sense of love, a pride and precious time I can’t confine my movements to any great decree Let’s his thoughts so cool laugh A man’s so wild and free, oh Woah, I never wanna...

Anxious mother pleads, come home, dino I can't believe that's my boy they're talking about His dreams are in his motor-cycle Swears he's gonna sort 'em out He's going barefoot like the man with no name Gonna break into a bank, if he surrendered Imagine t...

I send you messages when I think of you And you get my messages out of the blue Lovers can communicate in this strange way So I send you messages 'most every day. Hah-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha Hah-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha. I write you poetry when I've been away Yo...

It’s a long, dark river my boat sails on Down to the murky sea Where a beam of goodness in your light Serves to comfort me It’s a distant, magical land I seek A desperate refugee A rebel who has lost his way But found the buried key So it’s alright...

I think it’s easier now Than before I had my head For so long I was white And everybody was red Such is me I was wrong, you were right You knew it all the time I was listening death Committing heinous crimes This is dreams, this is fear (Such is li...

Pop paper people printing "Rebel Insane" They in my head and digging into my brain I need umbrella to keep out the rain I can't hope to keep the pace I have made Maybe I'll settle in the country and fade It's all too much for me to handle with ease I'm sinkin...

Long burning sun Hard battle done They’re the blind who see Tell me, who leads the cavalry? Take the men and the horses away Take the men and the horses away, away Cold distant land Blood in the sand With the lads away Tell me, where do the children...

With the sky caving in and the world falling out Hope seems a stranger, shackled in doubt I feel I'm entitled - in no way obliged- To save you from drowning In the sea in my eyes That's my life in your hands So that's no way to talk That's my life in...

European Maids, hard to ignore You, me and the boys, barred from the shore Fresh-faced imbeciles, laughing at me I've been laughing myself, is that so hard to see? Do I have to spell each letter out, honestly! If there's no room for laughter there's...

Light shone with a breath-taking energy Boats bobbin' on the waterline Dusk settled but the flies didn't bother me I was high on the Coast of Amalfi. We sailed Positano to Capri Sat watching things unfold Drank shots in the shadow of Napoli Getting hig...

What'd I say ? What did I do ? To cause a bond between the devil and you ? Who'd I kill ? Who did I maim ? Why did I become a victim of blame ? I said my prayers, I kept my promises too I did all the things I said I was gonna do Bright lights and wicked...

Out of this, a fateful kiss could be seen as a life in bloom A rising from the woumb; a lesson in forgiving A history of 20 years, and sweet loving all the way we gotta settle this before the kiss of life is how we pay I'll hold up my hands and take what's...

The last time I saw you My eyes were red from constant crying Blue moon was at my door You read my hand and told me all Romantics go to heaven To heaven or to war. We said too much too soon I bled and let you pacify my wounded pride. The last time I...

One, two, one, four You gotta be a dreamer to unleash the inner man And always have a way to beat the guessing And if you couldn’t swim, you had to do the best you can That’s what I took to be his blessing And though the water may be deep and cold He a...

True love will find you in the end You'll find out who was your friend Don't be sad, I know you will But don’t give up until True love will find you in the end This is a promise with a catch Only if you're looking can it find you ‘Cause true love is s...

Gee, but it's hard when one lowers one's guard to the vultures Me, I regard it a tortuous hardship that smoulders Like a peppermint eaten away (will fight, will I swagger or sway? ) Hee, hee, m'lady, she cries like a baby to scold us See her tumbling down...

Two damn'd lies Married in compromise You know how to grow but you won't let go of these Two damn'd lies. Long lost friends Why does it end ? You go to confession but you can't resist Sleeping with your neighbour in a three-way tryst You'll never get...

Heaven is calling to me I gotta run now the feeling is right A fireball is rising inside me It's something I didn't anticipate Something is happening to me That I don't fully understand This engine's a harley on kerosene This is the hardest I've ever be...

We can wait forever on a busking shoes Catching up on sleep or catching up on news We can whisper prayers, or shanty on the blue We can make a choice, 'cause either one will do Seeking out the big one Wondering will it come Will we wait forever? Maybe...

Everything I need is home Where tumbling string themselves in words again And stop my pen from drying I’m never tired of telling you that Your magic things warm my cold heart, oh You warm my cold heart, oh, oh If it’s something that I said I’ll carry...

As I walk this land of broken dreams I have visions of many things But happiness is just an illusion Filled with sadness and confusion What becomes of the brokenhearted Who have love that's now departed? I know I've got to find some kind of peace in mi...

You're capable of anything You got a streak of the devil's disgrace I'm gonna martyr myself, but I don't give a damn anyway Completely irresistible You put the worst kind of thoughts in my way If but I knew you were here I can see you clear Keep the op...

You ask me for protection I do everything I can I try to be your lover and your friend In everything you ask I do my best to meet the task But every now and then this tree will bend. That's when the halo slips again And I am humbled, I am meek When th...

My French model's an old-fashioned lover This babe of the night, wonderful sight She moves in the way of a tigress And the beauty of this is both bitch and bliss. Oh she shines like a ravishing diamond She captivates me with a delicacy That can only be...

You give me valentine, think you're a writer You hit the ceiling, now you're a fighter You dance a tap, you look like a plumber You flash a smile, become a summer, are you a summer? You grow a daffodil, then you're a gardener You pick a few chords and no...

Footloose and grand, Nick and the younger boy out hunting on the land They're marching off both carrying big gun Into the wilderness for a beast that's on the run Snow is falling, blizzard's in the air Nick says : 'Have a hit, boy, there's lots for us to s...