GENTLEMEN TAKE POLAROIDS

Now there's a girl about town
I'd like to know
I'd like to slip away with you
And if you said you love me
How could I mind?
Is there another side to everything you do?

Take in the country air, you'll never win

Gentlemen take polaroids
They fall in love, they fall in love

Breathe life into me
Spin me around
And I'll just sit and wonder why
It's just a foreign town with a foreign mind
Why is everything so cut and dry?

The taste of country air, you'll never know

Gentlemen take polaroids
They fall in love, they fall in love

Take in the country air, you'll never win

Gentlemen take polaroids
They fall in love, they fall in love
 

SWING

Tell me when the work is done
Tell me when the day is through
And I'll drive safely inside my car
Taking islands in Africa

Shout if someone gets too near
I'll know just what I ought to do
And I'll arrive safely in my car
Taking islands in Africa

Now your feet are back on the ground again
She'll say the weather's dim
But relax my love
Relax and swing

Things you say are not too clear
I'm someone you'll neither know nor care
But I'll sit here and watch from afar
Taking islands in Africa

Now your feet are back on the ground again
She'll say the weather's dim
But relax my love
Relax and swing

(Whisper in the wind)
 
 
 

BURNING BRIDGES

It's all behind me now
The work is done
We pull away from rivers
The light of a distant fire burns again
 
 

MY NEW CAREER

I never wanted to be on my own
I could be wrong
But I slipped away from home
And now I'm gone

Well, way down south
They're haveing minor ups and downs
But they are moving on ahead
In leaps and bounds

Why, boy, they're playing our song
Outside where no-one can hear
Why, boy, they're playing our song
At the start of my new career

Well it's a different walk of life
That I've come to know
Because at every port of call comes a time to go

Well they say down south
The sun won't set on my home town
It's just driving in this heat
That gets me down

Why, boy, they're playing our song
Outside where no-one can hear
Why, boy, they're playing our song
At the start of my new career

I could never hurt anyone
Least of all you

Why, boy, they're playing our song
Outside where no-one can hear
Why, boy, they're playing our song
At the start of my new career
 

METHODS OF DANCE

Here's a new design
The cut and style you know so well
Spins across the floor

It's the same routine
Just one last word before you go
Why sould I ask for more?

Then out of the the blue
You are here by me

(Moving) - Taking my chance
(Learning) - Methods of dance
Methods of dance

It's such a price to pay
You sense the doubt inside my mind
But never ask me why

No second chances now
I could be sure if I were to live
At your spped of life

(Moving) - Taking my chance
(Learning) - Methods of dance
Methods of dance

(Moving) - Taking my chance
(Learning) - Methods of dance
Methods of dance
 

AIN'T THAT PECULIAR
[Robinson/ Moore/ Tarplan/ Rodgers]

You do me wrong but still I'm crazy about you
Stay away too long when I can't live without you
Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more
But hurt just makes my love grow stronger than before
I know flowers grow in the rain
But how can love grow in the pain?

Ain't that peculiar
Peculiarity
Ain't that peculiar
Peculiar as can be

You tell me lies
And should be honest to me
I'm so much in love
That I don't have to see
Things you do and say
Are designed to make me blue
It's a doggone darn shame
My love will make all your lies seem true
If the truth makes love last longer
Why do lies make love stronger?

Ain't that peculiar
Peculiarity
Ain't that peculiar
Peculiar as can be

I cry so much just like a child who's lost his toy
Maybe baby you think these tears I cry are tears of joy
A child can cry so much you do anything you say
When like a child my tears don't help me get my way
I kown love can last through years
How can love last with tears?

Ain't that peculiar
Peculiarity
Ain't that peculiar
Peculiar as can be
 
 

NIGHTPORTER

Could I ever explain this feeling of love?
It just lingers on
The fear in my heart that keeps telling me
Which way to turn

We'll wander again
Our clothes they are wet
We shy from the rain
Longing to touch all the places we know we can hide
The width of a room that can hold so much pleasure inside

Here am I alone again
A quiet town where life gives in
Here am I just wondering
Nightporters go
Nightporters slip away

I'll watch for a sign
And if I should ever again cross your mind
I'll sit my room and wait until nightlife begins
And catching my breath, we'll both brave the weather again

Here am I alone again
The quiet town where life gives in
Here am I just wondering
Nightporters go
Nightporters slip away
 
 

TAKING ISLANDS IN AFRICA

Taking islands in Africa
Watch the slow boat hit and run

Outside there's a world waiting
I'll take it all by storm
And when the sunset finds me
I'm coming home

Taking islands in Africa
Watch the slow boat hit and run

Every day the sun beats down
I pull away from shore
The wind blows hard into my sails
Now I know I'm out of touch
And times they could get tough
But I'll move on so how could I fail?

Taking islands in Africa
Watch the slow boat hit and run

When the evening fires burn
The daylight dead and gone
With you beside me we can run

Outside there's a world waiting
I'll take it all by storm
And when the sunset finds me
I'm coming home

Taking islands in Africa
Watch the slow boat hit and run
Every day the sun beats down
I pull away from shore
The wind blows hard into my sails...
 

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