Spirits Colliding

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1. I Want You To Want Me
2. Trust in You
3. The World is What You Make It
4. Marriage Made in Hollywood
5. Help Me to Believe
6. You’re the One
7. I Will be There
8. After the Party’s Over
9. Just in Time
10. Love Made a Promise
11. Beautiful World

I Want You To Want Me (Paul Brady)

We travel in circles
At most it’s a fleeting touch
A hurried connection
Spirits colliding,
locked up in a human frame,
This gulf in between us

We meet on a tangent
A chance to be not alone,
You want me to find you
I speak with my body,
A language I long to share
But the words fall between us

A message in my mind goes out to you
A chance to maybe reach a part of you
That you keep on hiding

I want you to want me
The way that I want you
A coming together
A physical way
I need you to touch me
Like I want to touch you
With you it’s forever

We look at each other
There’s nowhere we’d rather be,
No end of the rainbow
We pick up the pieces,
We look for a way to cross
The distance between us

It’s like I only feel I’m part of you,
When I can love you like I’m longing to
‘Cos baby that’s ecstasy!

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Trust In You (Paul Brady)

In the shadow of a lightning storm
Black girl make a heart-move
Strong love come a rising high
Warm love and she whisper out
She trust in you
You know that I trust in you ”

He come out on an instinct curve
Strumming up through the backbone
Blood curdle out a blue-gene roar
Body rule and she whisper out
She trust in you
“You know that I trust in you ”

(And she say),
Give me a sign
Show me you love me
Show me it’s true
That you’re thinking of me
Open your door,
Take me inside you
How do I score?
How do I find you?

Find you find you?

Rain clatter on a window pane
Make a love-shape easy,
Salt tang on a scented skin,
Heat come and she whisper out
She trust in you
“You know that I trust in you ”

Boy jump to the backbone dance,
Black girl make a heart-move,
Long day till the two roads meet,
Sun rise, still she whisper out
She trust in you
“You know that I trust in you ”

(And she say),
Give me a sign
Show me you love me
Show me it’s true
That you’re thinking of me
Open your door,
Take me inside you
How do I score?
How do I find you?

Find you, find you?
How do I find you?

The World Is What you Make It (Paul Brady)

I knew this African called Hannibal
Rock it roll it send it down the avenue
Went out to see the Roman Empire fall
Uh huh? uh huh?

Two thousand elephants in gold chain-mail
Take it, shake it, make it what you wanna be
Them Roman legionnaires they hit the trail
Uh huh?

The world is what you make it
The world is what you make it

When Cleopatra ruled in Egypt’s land
Jump down, turn around, look at what the monkey did
She went to find herself a mighty man
Uh huh? uh huh?

In come Antonio from Italy
Haul it, ball it, drag it up the pyramid,
He never knew how hot a girl could be
Uh huh?

The world is what you make it
The world is what you make it baby
The world is what you make it

Don’t start to hit me with your “no can do ”
Bluesin’, losin’, workin’ up an attitude
Clean up them windows let the sun shine through
Uh huh? uh huh?
There ain’t no happy time without no pain
heartbreak, new date, move on up the alleyway
Pick up them pieces hit the road again
Uh huh?

The world is what you make it
The world is what you make it baby
The world is what you make it

Marriage Made In Hollywood (Paul Brady / Michael O’ Keefe)

Jimmy’s not a high concept guy
But he’s front page news, let me tell you why
He’s on the cover of the New York Post
All three networks, coast to coast

All he needed was a hot night in June
‘Cos he had the needle and he had the spoon
When he spiked it bit, and man, he flew
Into America’s living room

We all love tragedy, it loves us too
It’s a marriage made in Hollywood
Between greed and you
All you need to be a star is to die in open view
It’s a marriage made in Hollywood
Between greed and you
Between greed and you
Between greed and you

Loved by women, admired by men
He walked down broadway with his best friend
His brain was wired like a light in a socket
With his old friend in his back pocket

That horse could kick, that horse could scream
Ride you out of here into a different scene
Unrequited love, that makes it fair
But who keeps score when you’re in mid-air?

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Like a free-fall chute that didn’t open
He looked down to see his dream was broken
He stared back up at a hot grey sky
Re-run his life and then he died

Well if you jump off a building, brother beware!
‘Cos my friend Jimmy woke up mid-air
No time to smile, no time to wave
They buried him in a media grave

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Help Me To Believe (Paul Brady)

I guess it’s time to face the whole truth
This situation’s here to stay
We keep returning to this same place
I watch my courage slip away

I look for something in your eyes
A sign of anything between us

Come on and help me to believe
That we can save our love
Come on and help me to believe
In blessings from above
I’d get down on my bended knees
If wanting was enough

Is there some thruway in my mind
Or will I find that love is over?
love is over?

You walk towards me like a memory
We pass each other in a dream
Outside the rain falls on a new world
A world of things that might have been

I hear an echo from inside
It speaks of never ending heartbreak

Come on and help me to believe
That we can save our love
Come on and help me to believe
In blessings from above
I’d get down on my bended knees
If wanting was enough

Too many nights we hold this line
For us to find that love is over

You’re The One (Paul Brady)

This old world is pretty crazy
People hurting everywhere
Cities dying, leaders lying
Demons dancing in the air

Once I thought I knew the answer
To the sorrow on this earth
One day judge and one day jury

But the more I see the beauty
Turn to hatred and to fear
There’s just one thing that I’m sure of

You’re the one I love
You’re the one I love
Sure as stars above
You’re the one I love

Turn my paper, flick my TV,
See my saviours all around
Some say this way, then it’s that way
‘Till I’m crazy with their sound

Then I look at our two children
See the magic in their eyes
And I wonder what’s before them

They say that each new generation
Holds the secret to their time
Will they heed this age old story?

You’re the one I love,
You’re the one I love
Sure as stars above
You’re the one I love

Mogadishu, Sarajevo,
Kampuchea, Palestine,
Belfast city, L.A. war zone,
Children screaming, men in line
Could I really turn to kill you
‘Cos your eyes are not quite blue
Watch your daughter beg for mercy?

Could I fool myself forever
That a habit is a truth,
Does it matter if I tell you

That you’re the one I love?
You’re the one I love
Sure as stars above
You’re the one I love

Take me on home, I want to go home
Take me on home, I want to go home

I Will Be There (Paul Brady / John O’ Kane)

When times are hard
And friends are few
And you need someone
To help you through
Just call my name
And I’ll come running to your side
Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid

I will be there
(When you are lost, lost in the night,
nowhere to turn)
I will be there
(Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid)

When morning comes
and nothing’s changed
And the world outside
Plays the same old game
Just call on me
And I will ease your lonely heart
Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid

I will be there
(When you are lost, lost in the night,
nowhere to turn)
I will be there
(Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid)
I will be there
(When everyone that you believed
still lets you down)
I will be there
(Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid)

I will be there, don’t be afraid
I will be there, don’t be afraid
When morning comes
and nothing’s changed
And the world outside
Plays the same old game
When everyone still lets you down
I will be there
When times are hard
And friends are few
And you need someone to help you through
I will be there, don’t be afraid
I will be there, don’t be afraid
I will be there

After The Party’s Over (Paul Brady)

How does the world keep turning?
How does a feeling grow?
How does a love stay burning
After the first hot glow?

Whoever said, “When a boy meets a girl
It’s written in Heaven above ”
Must’ve been mixing up loving
With being in love

After the party’s over
Can a love go on?
Can a love stay strong
When the dancers are drifting apart?

How can we two discover
How to carry on
Living the same love song?
What makes good love go wrong
When two hearts belong to each other?

When is a dream ‘just dreaming’?
When should a lover go?
When is a lie worth living?
Baby, I need to know

Somewhere way back
In the darkness of time,
Somebody could not be strong
Now when we look
For a world to believe in
It’s gone, it’s gone

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Just In Time (Paul Brady)

Lately I been talking to some friends of mine
(You know the kind who understand)
Trying to get a handle on this heart of mine
(Sometimes it’s hard to be a man)
How to find a way to end these wars with you?
(The more we run the more we hide)
Were we just fools to ever start?
Would it make sense for us to part?

Then I started looking for some sympathy
(You know that boys can still be boys)
Churning out this hurting deep inside of me
(Just like a child who lost his toys)
And I’m ducking and I’m diving
And I’m running and I’m hiding
From what’s standing right in front of me
(Sometimes the truth’s so hard to find)
Making me blind I could not see
That you were the perfect one for me

Just in time
I saw a picture in the mirror, baby
Of a man acting like a fool
Just in time
I saw a vision of a future without you
Just in time
I realised a lot of things that I’d been hiding in this
Heart of mine
Just in time
I saw the beauty of a love that’s oh so true

Baby, you and I we got this magic touch
(And we can fly right to the stars)
And maybe that’s the reason why it hurts so much
(Cos when we fall we fall so far)
But all we gotta do is reach out to each other
And listen to our hearts inside
(Just let the wheel of love go round)
Love is a crazy carousel
Jump up on board and ring the bell

Just in time
I saw a picture in the mirror baby
Of a man losing what he had
Just in time
I saw a vision of a future without you
Just in time
I realised a lot of things that I’d been hiding
In this heart of mine
Just in time
I saw the beauty of a love that’ oh so true
And I need your love
And I need your love
Gotta have your love
Gimme all the love you got

Love Made a Promise (Paul Brady and Mark E.Nevin)

Beached by the same tide when we met
Caught in a storm when we came together
I never needed someone
Like I needed you back then
I swear I believed it
I never lied to you
When I said what I said

But I think you know
It’s the end of the story
You been…crying in your sleep
(crying in your sleep)
Time is the judge
And tears are the jury
We got to make that bitter leap

Love made a promise
Love made a promise
Time couldn’t keep

We run from the truth
But we end up nowhere
And everyone knows
You can’t run forever
Seems that just wanting something
Don’t mean it’s going to be
We played by the rules
But time’s made liars
Out of you and me, yeah!

But I think you know
It’s the end of the story
You been…crying in your sleep
(crying in your sleep)
Time is the judge
And tears are the jury
We got to make that bitter leap

Love made a promise
Love made a promise
Time couldn’t keep

So we find another way
To get through another night
And we spend the whole night dreaming
Another day we’ll find a way
To make it all right
To make it all right

Time is the judge
Tears are the jury
We got to take that bitter leap

Love made a promise
Love made a promise
Time couldn’t keep
Time couldn’t keep

Can’t say we didn’t try
Can’t say we didn’t try

Beautiful World (Paul Brady/ John Prine)

Some of us spend hours
In front of a Friday night mirror
Trying to understand the kinda world
Where the beautiful prosper
Slicking up the kinda hair
That the magazines say’s a lost cause
Picking out the kinda girl in your mind
To go walking with you

Yesterday I met a girl
She made Marilyn Monroe look like…me
All she had to do was walk in the room
And my problems were starting
Then she look at me, and she smile
And I feel such a pain in my heart
Wanting her to come and whisper to me
“You’re the man of my dreams”

Chorus

Beautiful world, beautiful world
Sending me dreams, touching my hair
Making me cry….so I feel alive
Beautiful world, why do I hide?

I dunno why
I should spend so much time feeling sad
I got everything a sinner could hope to get
This side of Eden
Maybe some day I’ll wake up
And I’ll do what I should
Write a song to make heaven and earth
Go waltzing in time

Repeat Chorus