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I WILL CARRY YOU

When you need light I will be your torch
I´ll be your fountain when your well runs dry
I´ll do anything I can to help you carry on
When all bridges are burnt and all your faith has gone Read More

HOW ARE WE TO KNOW?

It´s time to go on
You shouldn´t wait too long
You´ve got to move on
Or time will wear you out

Yes we could wait until the wind and rain have gone
But how are we to know that perfect day will ever come?
Life won´t wait for you

Look ahead
There´s no reason to hang your head in shame
Don´t fool yourself
Giving up won´t ever ease your pain

Yes we could wait until the wind and rain have gone
But how are we to know that perfect day will ever come?

Like a fly against the window pane
You kept tryin´ and tryin´ again
Without thinking of another way
Now it´s time for you to change
To tear down and rearrange

(spoken) Man, you better stop chasing your own tail

You can sit and pray for help
Or get up and help yourself
Set the course – set the sail
Only you can spark the flame
Only you can break the chains
Cut loose
Believe
Blaze a trail

Grab your bold dreams
Don´t let them slip away
Live to live them
Don´t you waste another day

Yes we could wait until the wind and rain have gone
But how are we to know that perfect day will ever come?

How are we to know?
How are we to know?

Yes we could wait until the wind and rain have gone
But how are we to know that perfect day will ever come?

© 2009 Ian Robinson – All rights reserved

EVERYTHING I WANT

I don´t want to talk about how good it feels to know you
How all the things you say just turn me on
The way you look at me gets me so excited
`Cause it shows I didn´t get you wrong

Everything I want is just to spend the night with you
I don´t care about the reasons why we can´t stay together
Why every single try we didn´t last
Ain´t it just this kind of love that makes it so much better
Than any other love we used to have

Everything I want is just to spend the night with you

I just can´t get enough of all the hot talking, baby
Like I say a word and baby you tell me the rhyme
Make love to me like they do in a Hollywood movie, baby
And keep it between play, pause, and rewind

I can´t wait to put my hands all over your body, baby
I long for the magic moment our motions combine
I love the way we kiss each other into heaven, baby
Taking it slow as if we did it for the first last time

Everything I want is just to spend the night with you
Everything I want is just to spend the night with you
Everything I want is just to spend the night with you
Everything I want is just to spend the night with you
Everything I want is just to spend the night with you
Everything I want is just to spend the night with you
Everything I want is just to spend the night with you
Everything I want is just to spend the night with you

©2009 Ian Robinson – All rights reserved

ELECTRICITY

When you´re close I can feel my circuits glow
When we kiss I can feel my juices flow
You make me shake, shake, shake
And sizzle with delight
You flick all my secret switches that make me come alive

Electricity
You make all my fuses blow
You put my mind out of control
Electricity
You are the light that fills my soul
You are the ground on which I grow
Electricity
You are the light that fills my soul

You are my recharge when all in me is low
You´ve got me so
Every time we touch I can´t let got
Of you
You get me high, high, high
Like I´m on constant overload
Turn it up a little more
Until all my senses go

Electricity
You make all my fuses blow
You put my mind out of control
Electricity
You are the light that fills my soul
You are the ground on which I grow
Electricity
You are the light that fills my soul

©2011 Ian Robinson – all rights reserved

DIE HAPPY

Do you see that waiting man across the street?
Do you see him smile?
He just won the first prize in the lottery
A million Dollars
The second time
And if you´d ask him if it makes him happy now
He´d tell you he has always been
Some real life friends and a place to stay
Is all he needs to be
He´d say

If I gotta die I wanna die happy
If I gotta die I wanna die happy
I don´t care if I die rich

Do you see that beauty in the wheelchair?
Do you see her smile?
Her feet won´t carry her and probably they never will
Yet you hardly ever see her cry
And if you asked her how she cannot be angry now
She´d say
“Cause this is still my life
As long as I can do what I love to do
I don´t care how I spend my time”
She´d say

If I gotta die I wanna die happy
If I gotta die I wanna die happy
Who needs feet if you can fly

Take a look at the face in the mirror
That´s staring back at you
You can make it smile any time you want
If you only really wanted to
Yes, it´s hard and so damn unfair sometimes
And nothing comes for free
But, you know, life is not your enemy
If you decide not to let it be
I say

If I gotta die I wanna die happy
If I gotta die I wanna die happy
If I gotta die I wanna die happy
If I gotta die I wanna die happy

©2011 Ian Robinson – all rights reserved

DANCING DOWN THE FENCES

I grew up in a century
That thrived on ingenuity
That brought us TV and PCs
And more equal opportunities
But there´s still fighting, there´s still killing
There´s still violence and blood spilling
The wheel of history keeps on spinning
And we can change it if we´re willing

There´s gotta be a better way
Something we can do today
Forget about the guilt and rage
Let´s drop our guns and celebrate

Dancin´ down the fences – dancin´ down the fences
Dancin´ Dancin´
Dancin´ down the fences – dancin´ down the fences
Dancin´ Dancin´
Dancin´ the fences down

We´ve got more than we can eat you see
An increased life expectancy
There´s pills for healing and relief
And toys that make our children glee
But there´s still starvation, still disease
There´s people living in debris
We dump and burn what we don´t need
While there are hungry mouths and souls to feed

There´s gotta be a better way
Something we can find today
A love within our minds
That´s not stopping at the borderlines
Dancin´ down the fences – dancin´ down the fences
Dancin´ Dancin´
Dancin´ down the fences – dancin´ down the fences
Dancin´ Dancin´
Dancin´ the fences down

Oh, Oh, etc.

There´s gotta be a better way
Something we can find today
A love within our minds
That´s not stopping at the borderlines

Dancin´ down the fences – dancin´ down the fences
Dancin´ Dancin´
Dancin´ down the fences – dancin´ down the fences
Dancin´ Dancin´
Dancin´ the fences down

©2011 Ian Robinson – all rights reserved

CRUEL LOVE

Like a wave from the ocean
She rushes in and rushes out
Leaves my heart in commotion
As I´m still tryin´ to figure her out

When the night falls and the lights are low
She whispers sweet things in my ear
But in the morning way before the dawn
I always find she´s disappeared, disappeared

Cruel love – got me walkin´ on a wire
Cruel love – she has me on my toes
Cruel love – she always keeps me guessin´
Cruel love is it yes or is it no?

Her love is an earthquake
On a roller coaster ride
She´s the peak in my heart rate
She´s the turbulence on my flight

Sometimes she tells me she´s gone for good
And that she doesn´t want to see me anymore
But just when I start to think it´s real this time
She´s right back knockin´ on my door, on my door

Bridge:
I´ve had it with this vicious game we play
I´m gonna take a stand today
It´s kill or cure for sure it´s heaven or hell
And nothin´ will ever be the same

But anything is better than this limbo
Happy end or knockout blow
No more maybes only yes or no
No more love that´s touch and go

Cruel love – got me walkin´ on a wire
Cruel love – she has me on my toes
Cruel love – she always keeps me guessin´
Cruel love is it yes or is it no?
Cruel love – I´m burnin´ for her fire
Cruel love – it´s drivin´ me insane
Cruel love – I can´t stand it any longer
Cruel love – I´m runnin´ out of self restraint
Out of self restraint
Oh that girl is strange
Cruel love!

© 2012 Ian Robinson – all rights reserved

ANYBODY / HOME

The train is running on and on
Destination and route unknown
I watch it pass along
While I´m trying to get back on
I got off and I don´t know when
But since that day I´m a different man
I´m trying to understand
How it all got so out of hand

Is anybody near who can get me out of here
Just in case I can´t make it on my own
Does anybody care
Anybody anywhere
If I ever make it home

Lost in an endless grey
Time´s shadow is on my tail
How can I get away
When I´m not ready for the fray?
No strength, no courage
No hope, no faith
Just the memory of better days
I´m too young to feel this way
So won´t somebody please come to my aid

Is anybody near who can get me out of here
Just in case I can´t make it on my own
Does anybody care
Anybody anywhere
If I ever make it home

I climbed high
And I dug deep
I ran fast
I walked cautiously
I went everywhere
I´ve done everything
To make sure I´m not a victim of circumstance

Is anybody near who can get me out of here
Just in case I can´t make it on my own
Does anybody care
Anybody anywhere
If I ever make it home
© 2012 Ian Robinson – All rights reserved

ANOTHER GLOOMY AFTERNOON

If you peeked into my room
You could catch me cryin´
I can´t look you in the eye
That´s why I´m droppin´ you a line

Now that all our hopeful days are gone
I´ll be off to leave this city soon
Where I´m gonna go-o-o-o-o
I can´t let you know-o-o-o-o

All the promises I´ve made
I wish I´d kept them yesterday
Anyway today it´s not too late
But it might be if I stayed

Now that all our hopeful days are gone
I´ll be off to leave this city soon
Where I´m gonna go-o-o-o-o
I can´t let you know-o-o-o-o

I´m so sick of makin´ you sick
I´m so tired of makin´ you tired
I´m so sad I´m makin´ you sad
I´m so badly tryin´ to be good

I know that I am out of favor with your friends
They keep asking you where all your marbles went
You have been warned of all my plans not getting´ done
Now it´s up to me to prove you´re right and they are wrong

Now that all our hopeful days are gone
I´ll be off to leave this city soon
Where I´m gonna go-o-o-o-o
I can´t let you know-o-o-o-o

It´s just another gloomy afternoon
I´ll be off to leave this city soon
Where I´m gonna go-o-o-o-o
I can´t let you know-o-o-o-o
Baby I will find a chance to finally make it
Somewhere someone´s wasted chance is waiting
For a man to take it
I´m gonna do my very best to be that man
And get back home to you
Hopefully it´s goin´ to be soon enough to find
You´re not sharin´ it with someone new
© 2009 Ian Robinson – All rights reserved

BOOMERANG

Keep on pushing me until you see me fall
Keep on kicking me until you see me crawl
Keep on getting at me to see if I cave in
Keep on laughing at me everytime you win
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