Wow!

Moving on the floor now babe,

You're a bird of paradise

Cherry ice cream smile, I suppose it's very nice

With a step to your left and a flick to the right

You catch that mirror way out west

You know you're something special

And you look like you're the best

CHORUS

Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand

Just like that river twisting through a dusty land

And when she shines she really shows you all she can

Oh Rio, Rio dance across the Rio Grande

I've seen you on the beach and I've seen you on TV

Two, of a billion stars, it means so much to me

Like a birthday or a pretty view

But then I'm sure that you know it's just for you

CHORUS

Hey now (wow), look at that,

Did he nearly run you down?

At the end of the drive, the lawmen arrive,

You make me feel

Alive, alive, alive

I'll take my chance, 'cause luck is on my side

I tell you something, I know what you're thinking

I tell you something, I know what you're thinking

CHORUS

Her name is Rio, she don't need to understand

I might find her if I'm looking like I can

Oh Rio, Rio hear them shout across the land

From mountains in the north down to the Rio Grande

2. My Own Way

I saw you at the airace yesterday

April showers get out of my way

Fear of flying, no not me

I'm never bothered, what you say

Someone's kid just lives for today

I ain't your problem anyway

CHORUS

'Cause I've got my own way

I can find my own way

'Cause I've got my own way

No. 1 public figure, what a pain

Just puts another rattle in your brain

Take another green but it's not the same

Now you're on the Sandlane everyday

Dancing with the bulls in any old way

Running like a fox to keep up with me

CHORUS

I'm on 45th between Sixth and Broadway

7UP between Sixth and Broadway

3. Lonely In Your Nightmare

Even on the darkest night

When empty promise means empty hand

And soldiers coming home

Like shadows turning red

When the lights of hope are fading quickly

Then look to me

I'll be your homing angel,

I'll be in your head

Because you're lonely in your nightmare

Let me in

And there's heat beneath your winter

Let me in

I see the delta traces living lonely out on the limb

And a passing glimmer warm beneath your skin

Please tread gently on the ground

When all around you earth turns to fire

Only get a second chance when danger's on the wind

Because you're lonely in your nightmare

Let me in

Because there's heat beneath your winter

Let me in

And it's silent on your stone field

Let me in

Must be lucky weather when you find

The kind of wind that you need

C'mon, show me all the light and shade

That made your name

I know you've got it in your head,

I've seen that look before

You've built your refuge,

Turns you captive all the same

Because you're lonely in your nightmare

Let me in

And it's barren in your garden

Let me in

Because there's heat beneath your winter

Let me in

Because it's silent in your stone field

Let me in

And you're lonely in your nightmare

Let me in

Because you've waited through your ice age

Let me in

Because you're so lonely in your nightmare

Let me in

And it's cold out on your stone range

Let me in

Because there's heat beneath your winter

Let me in

4. Hungry Like The Wolf

Darken the city, night is a wire

Steam in the subway, earth is a afire

Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo

Woman, you want me, give me a sign

And catch my breathing even closer behind

Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo

In touch with the ground

I'm on the hunt I'm after you

Smell like I sound, I'm lost in a crowd

And I'm hungry like the wolf

Straddle the line in discord and rhyme

I'm on the hunt I'm after you

Mouth is alive with juices like wine

And I'm hungry like the wolf

Stalked in the forest, too close to hide

I'll be upon you by the moonlight side

Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo

High blood drumming on your skin, it's so tight

You feel my heart, I'm just a moment behind

Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo

In touch with the ground

I'm on the hunt I'm after you

Scent and a sound, I'm lost and I'm found

And I'm hungry like the wolf

Strut on a line, it's discord and rhyme

I howl and I whine, I'm after you

Mouth is alive, al lrunning inside

And i'm hungry like the wolf

Hungry like the wolf

Hungry like the wolf

Hungry like the wolf

Burning the ground, I break from the crowd

I'm on the hunt, I'm after you

I smell like I sound, I'm lost and I'm found

And I'm hungry like the wolf

Strut on a line, it's discord and rhyme

I'm on the hunt, I'm after you

Mouth is alive with juices like wine

And I'm hungry like the wolf

5. Hold Back the Rain

We're miles away from nowhere

And the wind doesn't have a name

So call it what you want to call it

Still blows down the lane

People tell me I haven't changed at all

But I don't feel the same

And I bet you've had that feeling, too

You just can't laugh all the time

CHORUS

And if the fires burn out,

There's only fire to blame

No time for worry 'cause we're on the roam again

The clouds all scatter and

We ride the outside lane

Not on your own, so help me,

Please hold back the rain

So what if the words ain't rhyming

Did you think that it's just a game

I probably didn't even say that right

And I really don't give a damn

Okay, go off and wander

I'm guilty just the same

Sometimes you're needed badly

So please come back again

CHORUS

6. New Religion

I've been now sauntering

Out and down the path sometime

Come on, it takes me nowhere, which I knew

Faces everywhere pulling grins and signs in things

Telling me not there, man, it's no go

Don't go there boy

I need a reason

I can't think without one now

Too much learning got to show

Call it treason

Maybe catch her, don't know how

Too many things, too much to know

Bring my timing in, seagulls gather on the wind

Lady screaming, lady leave me out

'Cause sometimes people stare

Coming down, electric chair

And steaming crowds they gather and they shout

Don't know why this evil bothers me

Take another chance boy, carry the fight,

you can take him if you're fast

So why is he trying to follow me?

didn't I say if you're holding on

you'd be laughing at the last

How many reasons do they need?

I get along fine with them friends of mine

but you have to make a choice

I might just believe this time

You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time

and it's us who makes the noise

I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself,

It's a new religion

I've something to see, I can't help myself,

It's a new religion

Okay, my reasoning might be clouded by the sun

But someone sees the departmental lie

You know this peacetime jabbing fist in stabbing knife

Only get one look before you die

Don't know why this evil bothers me

Take another chance boy, carry the fight,

you can take him if you're fast

So why is he trying to follow me?

didn't I say if you're holding on

you'd be laughing at the last

How many reasons do they need?

I get along fine with them friends of mine

but you have to make a choice

I might just believe this time

You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time

and it's us who makes the noise

I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself,

It's a new religion

I've something to see, I can't help myself,

It's a new religion

Gotta take pay the saints 'n sinners

In regulation hats 'n scarves 'n things

Walking in formation down the lane,

They carry their cross, make a church bell ring

Army majors pull a mean cool truth,

There lying in a swimming pool

Searching for the undeniable truth that

A man is just a fool

Don't know why this evil bothers me

Take another chance boy, carry the fight,

you can take him if you're fast

So why is he trying to follow me?

didn't I say if you're holding on

you'd be laughing at the last

How many reasons do they need?

I get along fine with them friends of mine

but you have to make a choice

I might just believe this time

You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time

and it's us who makes the noise

I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself,

It's a new religion

I've something to see, I can't help myself,

It's a new religion

(repeat to fade)

7. Last Chance on the Stairway

I don't remember quite how I met you,

Wasn't long ago

Just get a picture of sun

In your eyes, the waves in your hair

Maybe it's something said in a movie

Or you could've said last night

Just took me out on a limb

And I don't really know what I'm doing here

And sometimes I'm caught in a landslide

My beat's so in time, can you look at me

I'm out of reach, I'll talk if it feels right

I've had my last chance on the stairway

Funny, it's just like a scene out of Voltaire

Twisting out of sight

'Cause when all the curtains are pulled back

We'll turn and see the circles we traced

Ain't no game...when you're playing with fire

It doesn't seem right that we fight

So the party runs on all night

And sometimes I'm caught in a landslide

My beats so in time, can you look at me

I'm out of reach, I'll talk if it feels right

So nervous to say, tell me, can't you see

If you want, I fall out forever

I can't say no more...bebe dance with me

And please don't say leave it till later

I've had my last chance on the stairway

Wonder why

Wonder why...what makes me rise so high

Maybe it's something they put in your perfume

Or the look in your eyes

It could be the atmosphere sinking

I don't even know what you're thinking

Don't even know what you're drinking

But it keeps this heaven alive

And sometimes I'm caught in a landslide

My beats so in time, can you look at me

I'm out of reach, I'll talk if it feels right

So nervous to say, tell me, can't you see

If you want, I fall out forever

I can't say no more...bebe dance with me

And please don't say leave it till later

I've had my last chance on the stairway

8. Save a Prayer

You saw me standing by the wall,

Corner of a main street

And the lights are flashing on your window sill

All alone ain't much fun,

So you're looking for the thrill

And you know just what it takes and where to go

Don't save a prayer for me now,

Save it 'til the morning after

No, don't say a prayer for me now,

Save it 'til the morning after

Feel the breeze deep on the inside,

Look you down into the well

If you can, you'll see the world in all his fire

Take a chance

(Like all dreamers can't find another way)

You don't have to dream it all, just live a day

Don't say a prayer for me now,

Save it 'til the morning after

No, don't say a prayer for me now,

Save it 'til the morning after

Save it 'til the morning after,

Save it till the morning after

Pretty looking road,

try to hold the rising floods that fill my skin

Don't ask me why I'll keep my promise,

I'll melt the ice

And you wanted to dance so I asked you to dance

But fear is in your soul

Some people call it a one night stand

But we can call it paradise

Don't say a prayer for me now,

Save it 'til the morning after

No, don't say a prayer for me now,

Save it 'til the morning after

Save it 'til the morning after

Save it 'til the morning after

Save it 'til the morning after

Save it 'til the morning after

Save a prayer 'til the morning after

9. The Chauffeur

Out on the tar plains, the glides are moving

All looking for a new place to drive

You sit beside me, so newly charming

Sweating dew drops glisten, freshing your side

CHORUS

The sun slips down bedding heavy behind

The front of your dress all shadowy lined

And the droning engine throbs in time

With your beating heart

Sing Blue Silver

Way down the lane away, living for another day

The aphids swarm up in the drifting haze

Swim seagull in the sky

Towards that hollow western isle

My envied lady holds you fast in her gaze

CHORUS

And watching lovers part, I feel you smiling

What glass splinters lie so deep in your mind

To tear out from your eyes

With a word to stiffen brooding lies

But I'll only watch you leave me further behind