A child alone in daddy's room 
The gun was hidden here 
No one home to catch me when I fall 
A young man now in a private chair 
I've seen the world through a bitter stare 
But my dream is still alive 
I'm going to be the best I can 
I want to be a busy man 
I want to see a change in the future
I'm gonna make the best of what I have  
 I want to write for a magazine 
I'm gonna be the best they've ever seen 
I know I'll win if I give it all I can 
I won't let go, gotta make the grade 
No, I won't let it go 
To be the best man, the best man that I can 
Back street hoop star you've got it good 
You were the wonder of the crumbling neighborhood 
Now taking bids on the next six digit plan 
Showed me that my will survived 
The tragedy that came into my life 
Giving me hope and the new start 
That I have 
I won't let go, gotta make the grade 
No, I won't let it go 
To be the best man, the best man that I can 
Step by step I dream the plan 
From my chair to walking man 
This constant dream is on my mind 
Chase the light I see ahead 
Luminate the path I tread 
I live to be the best I can 
Now I'm moving forward  
And I'm never looking back 
Straight ahead, focused on the big attack 
On a roll and I'm never slowing down 
I won't be torn between 
The man in the chair 
And the man that's in my dream 
I'm going to melt the two men into one 
I won't let go, gotta make the grade I set 
No, I won't let it go 
To be the best man, the best man that 
I can.  
				

Another hungry look 
in her eyes again. 
Pacing the floor, 
the hunt begins. 
Skin-tight leather provides my pleasure. 
Wake my fear, surge with pressure. 
Walk away and leave forever, 
do I dare? 
Raise my eyes, she stands. 
Holding out healing hands... 
are you happy now? 
I walk the Thin Line for you. 
Do just what you say to. 
With fear as my friend, 
I walk the Thin Line one more time for you. 
Addictive face pretending, 
don't speak the Word. 
Forbidden sin relenting, 
I barely heard... 
screams of entry blur my vision. 
Wake my fear of Divine intervention 
Crawl away and bleed forever, 
if you dare. 
Hand on mouth the game goes on 
Love, our stage to play upon. 
Are you happy now? 
I walk the Thin Line for you 
Do just what you say to. 
With fear as my friend, 
I walk the Thin Line one more time for you 
I walk the Thin Line for you. 
Do just what you say to. 
I walk the Thin Line for you. 
Do just what you say to, 
With fear as my friend, 
I walk the Thin Line one more time for you. 
				

Every time I leave 
you say you won't be there. 
And you're always there. 
Every time I cry your name at night 
you pull close and say it's alright. 
I look in your eyes, just like the rain. 
Washing me, rain wash over me. 
Touching your face, I feel the heat of your heartbeat 
echo in my head like a scream. 
What you do to me! 
Waited so long I can't wait another day without you. 
Jet City Woman. 
I see her face everywhere, can't get her out of my mind. 
Whenever I'm alone I'm thinking, 
there's a part missing from my life. 
Wonder where I'd be without your love 
holding me together now I'm 
watching the time tick, tick away. 
Face grows longer every day. 
Fortunes are lost on the women I've seen 
but without you I can't breathe. 
You're the air to me! 
Waited so long, I'm all alone thinking about you. 
Jet City Woman. 
Got to find my way home to her 
Jet City Woman. 
I see her face everywhere I look! 
Jet City Woman. 
Just a thousand miles and I'll be there 
Jet City Woman, to make the clouds go away. 
Time for some blue sky! 
Waited so long now the plane's delayed 
an hour, reminds me of all our days apart. 
Hold on, just a little longer. 
Jet City Woman. 
wonder where I'd be, you're the air to me. 
Jet City Woman. 
Eyes like the rain, rain down on me 
Jet City Woman. 
No more nights alone 
I'm almost home now. 
Jet City Woman. 
Close my eyes, I'm there in my Jet City. 
				

(Taxi...)
You've got a cardboard house. 
Live there all the time 
Keep your memories tied with string 
The face that many once-adored 
twenty years gone many more 
Somewhere you lost your dream 
Mama watched your every move  
but now you're all alone 
she's been gone for a while 
Daddy left some time ago, 
thirty years pass too slow 
He's the only one, could make you smile 
-oh, you're still crying- 
Big city bound. 
Gonna make your mark. 
Read your name in the lights. 
All the adds and people say 
beauty lets you get your way 
Tried your best to prove them right. 
But living on the streets ain't bad, 
sad people make you glad. 
pardon me, could you spare some change? 
-oh, you're still crying- 
Street corner girl, 
Watch the crowd go by, 
fill your tin can with life. 
Summer days tend to slip away 
like the men you couldn't make them stay. 
Hard to chose whiskey or a wife. 
Sometimes you wonder where's the end. 
Where you goin' where you been? 
Happiness seems to hard to win. 
Most never care to find. 
Della Brown sees it all the time. 
Looking for that man 
to make her smile again. 
				

Don't slam the door
on your way out. 
Don't leave without saying goodbye. 
Another long distance night alone. 
you leave me wanting, 
always leave me wanting more. 
Last word today, coming home to stay? 
Wouldn't that be nice, for awhile? 
But now my take-out food is growing cold, 
and the candle's burned a hole in the floor 
and I'm still waiting for the ring of the phone. 
I'm all alone 
And it's another rainy night, 
without you. 
Guess I'll leave the light on for you. 
it's just another rainy night without you. 
Listen, there's a foghorn blowing,  
from the coast tonight. 
Remember making love in the rain? 
Strange how laughter looks like crying with no sound 
Raindrops taste like tears, without the pain. 
I'm not much without you, can't leave 
if I wanted to.  Maybe that's why you stay around. 
But tonight I'll sit here tending the fire, 
and pace the floor one hundred times in a hour. 
And check the voice-mail for a message you've called. 
I'm all alone. 
And it's another rainy night, 
without you. 
Waiting by the phone, Alone. 
And it's another rainy night  
without you. 
Guess I'll leave the light on for you. 
I know I've said it before. 
Hate the sound of the closing door 
and your footsteps walking away. 
But now my takeout food is growing cold 
and the candle's burned a hole in the floor, 
and I'm still waiting for the ring of the phone. 
I'm all alone. 
And it's another rainy night, 
without you. 
Waiting by the phone, Alone. 
And it's another rainy night, 
without you. 
Guess I'll leave the light on for you. 
It's just another rainy night, another rainy night,  
another rainy night 
without you. 
				

Last night the word came down,
ten dead in Chinatown 
Innocent, their only crime was 
being in the wrong place at the wrong time. 
Too bad, people say, 
what's wrong with the kids today? 
Tell you right now they've got nothing to lose. 
They're building EMPIRE! 
Johnny used to work after school 
at the cinema show. 
Gotta hustle if he wants an education, 
he's got along way to go. 
Now he's out on the street all day 
selling Crack to the people who pay. 
Got an AK-47 for his best friend, 
business the American way. 
Eastside meets Westside downtown. 
No time the walls fall down. 
Can't you feel it coming?  EMPIRE! 
Can't you hear it calling? 
Black man trapped again, 
holds his chains in his hand. 
Brother killing brother for the profit of another, 
game point, nobody wins. 
Decline, right on time. 
What happened to the dream sublime? 
Tear it all down we'll put it up again. 
Another EMPIRE? 
Eastside meets Westside downtown. 
No time, no line, the walls fall down. 
Can't you feel it coming?  EMPIRE! 
Can't you hear it coming?  EMPIRE! 
Can't someone here stop it...? 


["In the fiscal year 1986-87 the local, state, and federal governments      ]
[spent a combined total of $16.6 billion on law enforcement.  Federal law   ]
[enforcement expenditures ranked last in absolute dollars and accounted for ]
[only 6% of all federal spending.  By way of comparison, the federal        ]
[government spent 24 million more on space exploration and 43 times more    ]
[on national defense and international relations than on law enforcement."  ]
				

Protests in New York.
Listen to the call of the wild. 
Brother, sisters carrying signs. 
Breathe deep before it's too late. 
The sky is falling burning your eyes. 
Down in New Orleans 
river's boiling.  Nothing living, nothing to eat. 
Thank the Lord, daddy's working 8-5. 
Paying the doctor, baby's got cancer. 
Give and take. 
Has all we've learned been wrong? 
Look around 
at what we've been given. 
Maybe we've taken too long. 
Resistance - shouts the man on the right 
Can't solve the problem overnight. 
Resistance - Listen to the call of the wild. 
Burning coal. 
Got to keep the company warm as 
the rain keeps killing trees. 
Cut 'em down quick. 
Pay the man his wage, he's making paper 
to fuel the "Information Age". 
Out in the midwest, 
hear the roar of the plough, 
turning grassland into sand. 
Got to feed the people more everyday 
but the wind keeps blowing the land away. 
Give and take 
Has all we've learned been wrong? 
Look around 
at what we've been given. 
Maybe we've taken too long. 
Resistance - shouts the man on the right. 
Can't solve the problem overnight 
Resistance - Liberal opposition crying violation. 
Stop the madness. 
Resistance - Through the din, one voice we should hear. 
Resistance - Listen to the call of the wild. 
There's no easy solution. 
The price is high, and it's time to pay. 
Turn of the century vision, 
focused on a better way. 
Resistance - shouts the man on the right. 
Can't solve the problem overnight 
Resistance - Liberal opposition crying violation. 
Stop the madness. 
Resistance - Through the din, one voice we should hear. 
Resistance - Listen to the call of the wild. 
				

Hush now, don't you cry
Wipe away the teardrop from your eye 
You're lying save in bed 
It was all a bad dream 
Spinning in your head 
Your mind tricked you to feel the pain 
Of someone close to you leaving the game of life. 
So here it is another chance 
Wide awake you face the day 
Your dream is over... or has it just begun? 
There's a place I like to hide 
A doorway that I run through in the night 
relax child, you were there 
But only didn't realize it and you were sacred 
It's a place where you will learn 
To face your fears, retrace the years 
And ride the whims of your mind 
Commanding in another world 
Suddenly, you hear and see 
This magic new dimension 
I - will be watching over you 
I - am gonna help you see it through 
I - will protect you in the night 
I - am smiling next to you... in Silent Lucidity 
If you open your mind for me 
You won't rely on open eyes to see 
The walls you build within 
Come tumbling down, and a new world will begin 
Living twice at once you will learn 
You're safe from pain in the dream domain 
A soul set free to fly 
A round trip journey in your head 
Master of illusion, you can realize 
Your dream's alive, you can be the guide but... 
I - will be watching over you 
I - am gonna help you see it through 
I - will protect you in the night 
I - am smiling next to you... 
Visualize your dream 
Perform it in the present tense 
Make it fit to a pattern or form 
If you persist in your efforts 
You will achieve dream control 
				

All eyes were staring
you floated through the room. 
Armed with your razor smile 
cutting to the bone. 
My voice fell useless 
you flashed a quick "Hello." 
Feeling the fool, could you tell it showed? 
But that was "Sometime Ago" 
A memory vague and fading slow, 
of somewhere I'd been. 
HAND ON HEART 
A promise, a word, and a voice 
HAND ON HEART 
A rhythm of hope and choice 
will keep us together. 
I don't know if I 
can reach that high 
It's a long way to fall 
Hauntingly holding my fate, with a gaze. 
Like a child mesmerized 
by the candle's flame 
Oh what lies behind those eyes, 
I could only guess. 
That certain way you stood 
apart from all the rest 
Now where is  "Sometime Ago?" 
When everything move in slow-mo-tion 
Caught by my watering eye. 
HAND ON HEART 
a promise, a word and a voice. 
HAND ON HEART 
a rhythm of hope, and a vision of choice 
HAND ON HEART 
Promising I'll never go. 
HAND ON HEART 
For reasons you'll never know 
together thru thick and thin, 
lose or win, I'll be there for you. 
Strange how the mind changes 
time and time again 
Things once important now 
pale in comparison 
HAND ON HEART 
A promise, a word and a voice 
HAND ON HEART 
A rhythm of hope, and a vision of choice 
HAND ON HEART 
Promising I'll never go. 
HAND ON HEART 
for reasons you'll never know 
I promise girl, Hand on Heart. 
				

Back in '86
February and a special number 
I just had to know 
Is this feeling real 
I picked up the phone 
I was one step closer to the danger zone 
I knew she'd steal my heart away 
But I know I couldn't live without her love 
The fist time she looked at me 
Her smile stayed on my mind. 
I never thought I'd ever meet 
A woman of her kind 
now I'm lost in an lover's daze 
And I'm not walking out 
Gonna give my heart away 
And hope that she will always stay 
call for me, run to me 
Whenever you are lonely 
Call for me, run to me my lady love 
Won't you come and show me that precious smile. 
And maybe stay for a little while 
close the door 
Toss the key 
Say that you will always be my one and only 
Looking back it seems to me 
The message in her eyes 
Left a lasting spell on me 
A feeling I can't hide 
Now I'm lost in a lover's daze And I'm not walking out 
gonna give my heart away  
and hope that she will always stay 
call for me, run to me 
Whenever you are lonely 
Call for me, run to me my lady love 
Won't you come and show me that precious smile 
And maybe stay for a little while 
Treat me to your sense of taste and style 
together we can walk the miles 
close the door 
Toss the key 
Say that you will always be my one and only.
				

You and I 
long to live like wind upon the water. 
If we close our eyes, 
we'll maybe realize 
there's more th live than what we have known. 
And I can't believe I've spent so long 
living lies I knew were wrong inside, 
I've just begun to see the light. 
Long ago there was a dream 
had to make a choice or two 
Leaving all I loved behind 
for what nobody knew 
Stepped out on the stage, a life 
under lights and judging eyes  
Now the applause has died and I 
can dream again... 
Is there anybody listening? 
Is there anyone that sees what's going on? 
Read between the lines 
criticize the words they're selling 
Think for yourself and feel the walls 
become sand beneath your feet. 
Feel the breeze? 
Time's so near you can almost taste the freedom. 
There's a warm wind from the south. 
Hoist the sail and we'll be gone, 
by morning this will all seem like a dream. 
And if I don't return to sing the song,  
maybe just as well. 
I've seen the news and there's 
not much I can do... alone. 
Is there anybody listening? 
Is there anyone who smiles without a mask? 
What's behind the words - images  
they know will please us? 
I'll take what's real.  Bring up the lights. 
Is there anybody listening? 
Is there anyone that sees what's going on? 
Read between the lines, 
criticize the words they're selling. 
Think for yourself and feel the walls... 
become sand beneath your feet.