Cutting To The Chase lyrics - Brett Dennen
I won't waste your time
Beating 'round the bush like an idiom
On a wild goose chase leaving bread crumbs
Just enough to hold in your hand
I'm cutting to the chase
Picking up the pace
My baby says I'm dragging my feet too much
She drives a hard bargain with a woman's touch
She put me in my place
Make me do the best I can
Don't go walking on eggshells
Dancing 'round the subject like a disco
Cut me into pieces with an insult
Just enough to hold in your hand
Cutting to the chase
Picking up the pace
My baby says I'm dragging my feet too much
She drives a hard bargain with a woman's touch
She put me in my place
I'm doing the best I can
Cutting to the chase
Picking up the pace
My baby says I'm dragging my feet too much
She drives a hard bargain with a woman's touch
She put me in my place
Make me do the best I can
Fool In Paradise lyrics - Brett Dennen
When I talk about the weather
It's not an original sin
When I talk religion
It's a finger up in the wind, yes and
Hope is a boat that floats in the middle of the Mediterranean
When I talk about the weather
It's not an original sin
You wanna know about gumption
That grows in the cracks in the street
You wanna know about wisdom
It's falling off of the tree
Yes and faith is a caravan
Knocking on a door that's never gonna let them in
When I talk about the weather
It's not an original sin
You can fool me once
You can fool me twice
I'm just a fool in paradise
When I talk about the weather
It's not an original sin
When I talk religion
It's a finger up in the wind, yes and
Hope is a boat that floats in the middle of the Mediterranean
When I talk about the weather
It's not an original sin
You can fool me once
You can fool me twice
I'm just a fool in paradise
Row row row my boat
Gently down the stream
I am the captain and this boat is just a dream
Row row row my boat
Gently down the stream
I am the captain and this boat is just a dream
It's just a dream dream dream
Just a dream
Just a dream dream dream
And I'm a fool in paradise
I'm a fool in paradise
I'm a fool in paradise
I'm a fool in paradise
Fool me once
Fool me twice
I'm just a fool in paradise
Yeah you can fool me once
Fool me twice
Fool in paradise
Fool me once
Fool me twice
Fool in paradise
Fool me once
Fool me twice
Fool in paradise
Fool me once
Fool me twice
Fool in paradise
Hard Times (Come Again No More) lyrics - Brett Dennen
Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears
While we all sup sorrow with the poor
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears
Oh hard times, come again no more
'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary
Hard times, hard times, come again no more
Many days have you lingered around my cabin door
Oh hard times, come again no more
While we seek mirth and beauty and music, bright and gay
There are frail forms fainting by the door
Though their voices are silent, their haunting looks will stay
Oh hard times, come again no more
'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary
Hard times, hard times, come again no more
Many days have you lingered around my cabin door
Oh hard times, come again no more
Mhmm hard times, come again no more
Life Is Confusing lyrics - Brett Dennen
Don't think I'll see you anymore
Least not the way I saw you before
We're caught up in traffic, the landscape changed
Life is confusing and people are insane
Can we be happy for a while?
Can we just sit here, shut up and smile?
Been talking for hours
Forgot what we're saying
Life is confusing and people are insane
Life is confusing and people are insane
Yeah, oh, hm, oh
I wish that I could see you smile
Wish we could forget ourselves for a while
If your heart is wild
Or if it's been tamed, honey
Life is confusing and people are insane
Life is confusing and people are insane
Yeah, oh, hm, oh
Oh, hm, oh
Life is confusing and people are insane
Life is confusing and people are insane
Life is confusing and people are insane
Life is confusing and people are insane
Seagull lyrics - Brett Dennen
Seagull flying far away from the sea
You don't look that lost to me
Are you trying
Trying to get away
From where you're meant to be?
Seagull flying over my head out of my reach
I wish I could take that leap
Is there something
I need to know
That only you can teach?
Do you close your eyes
Do you close your eyes
Do you close your eyes
When you fly?
Do you close your eyes
Do you close your eyes
Do you close your eyes
When you fly?
Seagull flying far away from the sea
You don't look that lost to me
Are you trying
Trying to get away
From where you're meant to be?
Seagull flying far away from the sea
The Ballad Of Lily And Tres lyrics - Brett Dennen
Here come a song about star crossed lovers
Named Lily and Tres
Two kids in the barrio
Via east LA
Lily always looked at him like a brother
'Til one day something changed
He started acting all moonstruck
You know the movie with young Nick Cage
Well one love was the song she played
In her bedroom when she took him all the way
With a Princess Bride poster on the wall
And her parents at the end of the hall
"Not even death can stop true love
It only delays it for a while"
"I get crushes sometimes
But none of them ever lasted
I miss you all the time
And I'm smoking on your ashes
Baby you and I are soul mates
From the same place
That doesn't happen every day"
Lily always knew that she wanted his baby
And they tried and tried
Even through all the chemo
Oh my my
She caught a feeling that she remembered
In her father's Dodger blue
Laying on his lap looking up at the man
He turned into
Well young love is life and death
And that's what it was 'til his very last breath
And a light flashed above the bed
With the rest of her life ahead
"Not even death can stop true love
It only delays it for a while"
"I get crushes sometimes
But none of them ever lasted
I miss you all the time
And I'm smoking on your ashes
Baby you and I are soul mates
From the same place
That doesn't happen every day"
This is the story 'bout star crossed lovers
Named Lily and Tres
Cupid hit the bullseye
Somewhere in east LA
This Is Going To Be The Year lyrics - Brett Dennen
This is gonna be the year
Something good is happening here
I'm gonna make it true
Lord knows I'm overdue
This is gonna be the year
Heaven above as my witness, can I get a witness?
This is gonna be the year
Whisper "it's all right" in my ear
So dance me to the end of the night
Til a new year will shine
A new year will shine
On you tomorrow
When you open your eyes
A new year will shine
A new year will shine
And you'll throw your arms around me
And you'll kiss me like you never
Kissed me before
My dear
This is gonna be the year
The time that you spend in love
Is never really long enough
Pick you up and spin you round
We'll put the hard times behind us now
This is gonna be the year
It's been a long time a coming, long time a coming
Rage against the weary eyes
A little bit bolder and a little more wise
So dance me to the end of the night
Til a new year will shine
A new year will shine
On you tomorrow
When you open your eyes
A new year will shine
A new year will shine
And you'll throw your arms around me
And you'll kiss me like you never
Kissed me before
My dear
It's gonna be the year
All that you wanted is coming this year
No need to hurry
Nothing to fear
All that you wanted is coming this year
No need to hurry
Nothing to fear
All that you wanted is coming this year
No need to hurry
Nothing to fear
All that you wanted is coming this year
No need to hurry
Nothing to fear
All that you wanted is coming this year
No need to hurry
Nothing to fear
All that you wanted is coming this year
When That Evening Sun Goes Down lyrics - Brett Dennen
(originally by Van Morrison)
(from "The Five Year Engagement" soundtrack)
I want you, be around
When that evening sun goes down
I want you, be around
Keep my both feet on the ground
When that evening sun goes down
I want you, understand
Little girl, take me by my hand
I want you, understand
I wanna be your loving man
When that evening sun goes down
If it's nice, we'll go for a walk
And stroll in the clear moonlight
Sing a song, won't take long
Everything gonna be alright
And I wanna hold you oh so near
Keep you darling from all fear
I wanna hold you oh so near
Nibble on your little ear
When that evening sun goes down (Alright)
If it's nice, go for a walk
Stroll in the clear moonlight
Sing a song, won't take long
Everything gonna be alright
And I wanna hold you oh so near
Keep you darling from all fear
I wanna hold you oh so near
Nibble on your little ear
When that evening sun goes down
When that evening sun goes down
When that evening sun goes down
When that evening sun goes down
When The War Comes Home lyrics - Brett Dennen
When they come for you, how will you let them take you?
Are you gonna let them break you?
When they come for you.
'Cause all I was told, and from fear and greed it grew.
And you can tell it 'til the whole world believes you,
But that don't make it true.
You can sit around and wait for the world to change its ways,
You got lucky to live without it.
But there will be no place to hide,
When you're on the losing side.
When the war comes home, what will you do about it?
When you see the tanks come to the towns you live in,
And the bullets, they come rippin' through your front door,
And you're face to face with tyrants killing tyrants,
And children killing children,
Will you know the war?
You can sit around and wait for the world to change its ways,
You got lucky to live without it.
But there will be no place to hide,
When you're on the losing side.
When the war comes home, what will you do about it?
What will you do? [x4]
When the dust clears,
And the profiteers behind closed curtains,
Send their soldiers to collect their fortunes,
From the holes in your chest.
Will they claim the sky and name it after their kingdoms?
The merchants of machine guns.
Who will win the West?
You can sit around and wait for the world to change its ways,
You got lucky to live without it.
But you can't hide from the shooting,
When you're on the side that's losing.
When the war comes home, what will you do about it?
What will you do? [x4]
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