The Burbank Sessions
There's a clock on the wall that's a ticking
There's a pot on the boil in the kitchen
There's a woman down the hall gone a missing
This is it your one beautiful life
There's a sun in the sky up above you
Someone laying in your bed who’s gonna love you
There's a place you gotta go on the run to
This is it your one beautiful life
This is your one beautiful life
Live it up, get it right
You don't get the chance to go round twice
It’s all about love
This is your one beautiful life
Somebody got a bun cooking in the oven
Somebody that you know needs a bit of loving
People dying everyday now ain't that something
This is it your one beautiful life
This is your one beautiful life
Live it up, get it right
You only get one chance don’t go round twice
Learn about love
This is your one beautiful life
Live every minute of every day
Find a little bit of truth along the way
Don't give up on your dream because you're too afraid
Cause in the end it's all just gonna fade
There’s a knock on the door you gotta answer
Somebody needs a little more they’re gonna ask you
And if you wanna get ahead move a little faster
This is it your one beautiful life
This is your one beautiful life
Live it up, do it right
You don't get the chance to go round twice
It’s all about love
This is your one beautiful life
I’m walking
But I’m not sure where I’m going
I’m walking
Down these sidewalks made of stone
While well intended loved ones offer up their destinations
Past the monsters that I’m facing
Got a way they think worth taking, I should choose
When they got no way of knowing
Which way and where I’m going
Cause they’re not walking in these shoes
I’m running
Scared and frightened where I’ve been
I’m someone (running)
Running from the very end
With my laces tied as tight as they can take it
Cause there’s miles to go to make it
Back to where I still can fake it like I’ve never known the blues
It’s a matter of survival
There’s no right time of arrival
When you’re walking in these shoes
These Shoes
Only one man can wear them
These Shoes
Are tight and right molded to my feet..right and tight with a fragile soul
These Shoes are writing their own story
With every little step they’re taking
It’s a solitary street that I’m walking…it’s a funky bit of road I’m walking
In these shoes
How many roads must I walk down
How many miles must I go
How many times must I turn around
Before I know my destination home
I don’t wanna cause no trouble, bust up anybody’s bubble,
On the chance that I might stumble
While I fumble my way around the rules
And there ain’t no good explanation
Cause it’s a tricky situation
When you’re walking in these shoes
With no direction home
I’m walking
Why Aren't You Here
It’s another sunny day in la, in la
Why aren’t you here with me, why aren’t you here with me
We could drive down to the sea, walk barefoot on the beach
Why aren’t you here with me, why aren’t you here with me
Guess who’s wide-awake at 3am
Talking to himself and the walls again
Staring into darkness watching shadows creep
Turned on the light and had a puff
Lost without the one he loves
Who thinks of you and wonders where you are
I want to know why, why aren’t you here
Why aren’t you here, right where you belong
I want to know why, why aren’t you here
I need you here, you’ve been gone too long
There’s no one sleeping with me in my bed
Just loneliness instead, why aren’t you here with me
The spot is empty where you lay your head
Want to feel you on my chest, why aren’t you here with me
You don’t need to be alone, I’m no good by myself
There’s a vacancy when we’re apart that’s filled by no one else
I whisper to you softly girl but it’s a hurting cry for help
Turn on the light and have a puff
Surprise myself with I’m in love
Check the clock and wonder where you are
I want to know why, why aren’t you here
Why aren’t you here, right where you belong
I want to know why, why aren’t you here
Why aren’t you here, you’ve been gone too long
Why aren’t you here for coffee in the morning
When the world outside is calling and you’re so far away
Why aren’t you here to rock me off to dreamland
Hold me while I’m sleeping and make it all ok
Count the days and pass the time
Remembering what it’s like to be together
Know all the reasons why we ache inside
Promise it won’t be this way forever
Thought I wasn’t ready
Didn’t feel a thing but hurt
Was in no kind of hurry
To fall for what that’s worth
Then you show up from somewhere
An angel of surprise
Right from out of nowhere
With September in your eyes
I have my share of fantasy
I can pull things out the blue
But in my wildest imagination
I never expected you
I could only wonder
If I’d ever love again
The spell that puts you under
Is what you got me in
Never would have dreamed it
In a million endless nights
That one day I’d be staring
At September in your eyes
Thought in time there’d be someone
I had no idea who
Could have been most anybody
Just never expected you
I heard the knocking on the door
I felt the beating of the drum
Too much for me to just ignore
I just couldn’t run, wouldn’t run
All those fish out in the ocean
Swimming in the sea
So many of them lonely
Trying to put a hook in me
But no one ever rang my bell
Though so many tried
Till you bust through the front door
With September in your eyes…
I know summer’s over now
can’t believe it’s true
another season changes
I just never expected you
Oh no, it’s never too late
Never too late too dream
Oh, no, it’s never ever ever too late
Oh no, it’s never too late
Never too late too dream
Oh, no, it’s never ever ever too late…
People will try to put you in a cage
Build a ceiling on your sky don’t let them do it
Give you all their good, no good reasons why
That mountain’s just too high for you to climb
They got no right, don’t let them fool you
Even though they try, they got no right
They got no right, so why even listen
Let no man put a chain around your mind
Oh no, it’s never too late
Never too late too dream
Oh, no, it’s never ever ever too late
Oh no, it’s never too late
Never too late too dream
Oh, no, it’s never ever ever too late…
You’ve got that vision in your mind
There’s a reason why it’s there, don’t you deny it
They will all just try to tell you that you’re blind
But they can’t feel that fire in your soul
They got no right, don’t let them fool you
Even though they try, they got no right
They got no right, so why even listen
Let no man put a chain around your mind
Oh no, it’s never too late
Never too late too dream
Oh, no, it’s never ever ever too late
In a world of stone and ice
Amelia’s on a solo flight
It hasn’t been an easy life
But there’s no compromise
Lovers they have melted
Snowmen in the sun
Just couldn’t take the fiery heat
Don’t know how to love
But when you’re man enough to pull the veil
In a strong woman there’s a gentle girl
She can dream got a vision all her own
Why does she have to be alone
A soldier in the danger zone
A sister to the night
Some think they might like it
Try it out for size
Find out that the fits too tight
Go running for their lives
But if you keep the train on the rail
In a strong woman there’s a gentle girl
It ain’t meant to threaten
She can lift you up
Take you where you’ve never been
Be the special one
Give up a little piece of you
Get back so much more
You never know what you might find
Underneath it all
To the world she’s a razor sharp to cut
Shoulders that are strong enough
It’s always been the way she was
Black sheep since she’s young
She wonders if he’s out there
How many times she’s tried
Hope is on the shallow
Holding on with all her might
Cause when the hammer hits the nail
In a strong woman there’s a gentle girl
We live on echoes and dreams
We occupy by being busy
You can drug yourself to sleep
Just to hide from what's missing
Smile and cry
Wonder why
Pass the time
It moves too slow
No one should be alone
No one should be alone
Life is hard, the nights are long
No one should be alone
You can lose yourself in the empty
Sink down in the hallow of the deep
Surrender it all to the voices you hear
In the shallow desperation of your need
Laugh and cry
Don't ask why
Pass the time
It's then you know
No one should be alone
No one should be alone
We all have needs
Needs are real
No one should be alone
Don't give up on love
Don't give up on love
Don't give up on love