Paid Vacation

Richard Marx Paid Vacation Lyrics
1.The Way She Loves Me

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

I'll have this feeling 'till the day that I die
When I hear my baby calling
A simple motion, a look in her eyes
And I'm helplessly falling
I'd give all of somebody else
For any piece of her heart that's left
She knows me better than I know myself

Chorus

Let me tell you 'bout the way she loves me
Ooh, I want the world to know
I'm crazy 'bout the way she loves me
Ooh, I'm proud to let it show, yeah, yeah, yeah

Came close to letting this train pass me by
Just like a fool second guessing
I could've spent my life wondering why
I didn't cherish the blessing
If I'd have known she'd come my way
The lonely nights would have been okay
I have her promise that she's gonna stay

Repeat chorus

Nobody else could do me right
A breath of heaven in my darkest night
I'm gonna hold on with all of my might

Chorus out


2.One More Try

Written:Richard Marx/Bruce Gaitsch

There was nothing missing, it was just a case of foolishness
Girl, I must've been crazy
Something I would just as soon forget
I can only say I'm sorry and leave it up to you to say the rest

Chorus

If you want to go, girl, I won't stand in your way
But I'll stand by you if you decide you want to stay
Baby, don't you see
Doesn't have to be forever or goodbye
All I'm asking for is one more try

I'm the one who hurt you, still I know the pain you're going
through
And even if you show forgiveness, there may be too much damage
to undo
I hear these voices telling me not to give up on you

Chorus

My heart and soul are searching
Trying to find a way
To bring your love back to me

Still I hear these voices telling me not to give up on you

Chorus


3.Silent Scream

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

Twenty four and he believes for sure he's got it made
Fame is here for good and looks will never fade
He doesn't know
The game is never over 'till the cards have all been played

Eighty three and still he feels his best is yet to come
He believes that youth is wasted on the young
He's alone
The only dream he ever has is being with someone

Chorus:

Love you when you're standing tall
But nobody knows when you when you're falling
All you have to do is call
But nobody ever hears the silent scream

Christmas came and went again but still nobody came
Staring at her wedding photo in a frame
She's alone
We should hope the loss of memory helps to ease the pain

Repeat chorus

Memories, moments you recall
We should be remembered for the greatest of them all
You can't begin to live someone else's life
Or you're own will pass you by

Oh, who's to know
Maybe we can learn a thing or two from everyone

Repeat chorus


4.Nothing to Hide

Written:Richard Marx/Terry Thomas

There in my darkest hour, somehow you knew what I felt
And just in the nick of time you saved me from myself
Didn't know I could cut through my defenses
And see through the mask
I figured you must want something from me, but you never asked
I just had to call and you were always there
I think you must have been the answer to my prayer

With you I've got nothing to hide
My heart is starting to pound
Now the walls are tumbling down

I wish I could find the words that linger just out of reach
I see myself in your eyes and lose my power of speech
I am someone now that I don't recognize
It took someone like you to shatter my disguise

Now I've got nothing to hide
My heart's remembering to pound
I can feel the walls coming down
I've got nothing to hide
All that I needed was you around
Now the walls are tumbling down

Head in the sky, feeling just like some kind of lovesick child
I finally pulled through, and I owe it to you, don't want to
keep it inside

I am someone now that I don't recognize
Oh I'm healing, I'm believing, you made me realize


5.Soul Motion

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

I've got the fever, poison in my veins
My mind ain't working right
I know the answer, the way to ease this pain
Only got myself to fight
I can see clearly but choose to be blind
A slave to desire
Holding me, scolding me, changing your mind
You're like playing with fire

Chorus:

I need you
I want to stay on this soul motion ride
There is no danger when you're here by my side

Given some distance, just a little time
Right and wrong seems clear
But my sense of reason is nothing but unkind
Every time that you're near
Over and over I say to myself
Ooh, she's only playing
Ten thousand reasons to find someone else
Still I hear myself saying

Repeat chorus

I'm out here on the edge
And I know what's in store
It should be over and done, just let go and run
But I've tasted too much
Nothing's the same anymore

Repeat chorus


6.Now and Forever

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

Whenever I'm weary
From the battles that raged in my head
You made sense of madness
When my sanity hangs by a thread
I lose my way, but still you
Seem to understand
Now and Forever,
I will be your man

Sometimes I just hold you
Too caught up in me to see
I'm holding a fortune
That Heaven has given to me
I'll try to show you
Each and every way I can
Now and Forever,
I will be your man

Now I can rest my worries
And always be sure
That I won't be alone, anymore
If I'd only known you were there
All the time,
All this time.....

Until the day the ocean
Doesn't touch the sand
Now and Forever
I will be your man

Now and Forever,
I will be your man..


7.Goodbye Hollywood

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

Born and raised in the windy city
I moved west to kick start a dream
What I found was a town without pity
That'll chew you up and swallow you clean

I'm amazed at the life I'm livin'
Don't want to seem like I'm rockin' the boat
But it ain't all about taking but giving
I feel something tugging at my coat
No one ever told me it would be like this
That there'd be something called home that's too hard to miss

Chorus:

I'm saying goodbye to the glamour
Back to the old neighborhood
All that I need is a place that I can breathe
I'm saying Goodbye to Hollywood

Done my time in the Hoodoo Jungle
Tired of waking up in another man's dream
I've got the ball and I ain't gonna fumble
Gonna make a winner of this team
All that ever mattered were the goals I chased
Now, I'm ready to run in the human race

Chorus:

I'm saying goodbye to the glamour
Life never tasted so good
All that I need is a place that I can breathe
I'm saying Goodbye to Hollywood

Me and the Mrs. done made up our minds
We're gonna give our boys a little less sunshine
Call it runnin' say what you like
I've got my own definition of paradise
I'd rather be knee deep in snow than knee deep in jive
I may be cold but my soul is alive

Repeat chorus


8.Heaven's Waiting

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

There is no understanding in this hostile age
Sometimes I feel just like a rat locked in a cage
It's hard to live beyond the walls
It ain't no life at all
But don't you tear it down

Chorus:

Take your chances, I'll take mine
Chasing thunder is only wasted time
Got no reason to walk that line
Heaven's waiting if I can make it home tonight

And with the years I've found a faith that gets me by
It shows me the truth in a hurricane of lies
My baby's left a light for me
That's really all I need
They won't bring me down

Repeat chorus

Aimlessly rushing leaves you with nothing
You need some loving to make you feel alive
In less than a moment, life can be stolen
I know where I'm going, gotta get me there tonight

I'm holding on to what I can
Like any other lucky man
Love won't strike me, love won't sell me out

Repeat chorus


9.Nothing Left Between Us

Lyrics:Richard Marx/Fee Waybill
Music:Richard Marx/Fee Waybill

You never know what we could be in store for
The way it goes we're in for more of the same
One step beyond the flame
The thread of life, the finely woven pattern
Reveals designs in silent laughter and rhyme
One picture at a time

Chorus:

There ain't nothing left behind us
Not a doubt inside us
If the angel calls tomorrow, there's nothing we haven't said
There ain't nothing left behind us
Nothing but a blind trust
I would beg, steal or borrow to never lose you again

It's down to us to figure out the secret
It's not enough to wait for pieces to fall
The writing isn't on the wall
Take my hand, we'll face the fire together
To distant lands, but we can weather the storm
Keeping each other warm

Repeat chorus

There's never been an easy way
Everybody is bound to make mistakes
You just do what you think is right
Then laugh 'til you cry 'til you scream at the night

Repeat chorus


10.What You Want

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

Your situation's in need of help
You're gettin' so you don't know yourself
You wear his ring like a cheap disguise
But I can see you got wandering eyes
Don't believe it's just the clothes that make the man
No one else can love you like I know I can

Chorus:

I got what you want
Takes more than money to turn you on
I got what you need
C'mon baby take a chance on me

Somethin' 'bout your smile seems counterfeit
It ain't in you to be a hypocrite
So he's got a mansion, got lots of cash
You live like a queen but feel like trash
I can save you if you put your heart in mine
Baby, can't you see, we're two of the same kind, Yeah

Repeat chorus

Baby, there ain't nothin' keeping chains on you
Don't you let your head make up your mind

I can't get you off my mind
I'm afraid I may go blind
Won't you let me take you for a ride, yeah


11.One Man

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

It's a peaceful thing to know that freedom as a rule belongs to
me
There's something very wrong when the color of a man is all you
see
After all this time how can a single voice explain
Any reason for the pain we all have seen
It's not a dream

Chorus:

One man stood tall
And faced the devil with his back to the wall
And took one step closer to heaven above

So he took a stand and walked where no one else would dare to
even try
It was the only way
If not for bravery, the soul would surely die
And right before my eyes he gave his life unselfishly
So that all the father's children could be free
Like you and me

Repeat chorus

Before his work is done
We've got to put an end to this game of choosing sides
I want us to be one
And I won't let it go 'till it's over
I'm here waiting

Repeat chorus

I'm waiting, waiting


12.Baby Blues


13.Miami 2017

I've seen the lights go out on Broadway,
I saw the Empire State laid low.
And life went on beyond the palaces.
They all bought Cadillac's,
Left there long ago

We held a concert out in Brooklyn.
To watch the Island bridges blow.
It turned our power down,
And drove us underground,
But we went right on with the show.

I've seen the lights go out on Broadway,
I saw the ruins at life end.
You know we almost didn't notice it,
We see it all the time
On 42nd street

It burned the churches up in Harlem
Like in that Spanish Civil War.
The flames were everywhere,
And no one really cared,
It always burned up there before

I've seen the rats lie down on Broadway,
And I watched the Miami skyline fall.
The folks were waving at the Battery
The union went on strike
They never settled it out.

They sent a carrier out from Norfolk,
And picked the Yankees up for free.
They said the Queens could stay
And threw the crowns away,
And sent Manhattan out to sea.

She knows those lights right on Broadway
That was so many years ago.
Before we all lived in Florida.
Before the Mafia,
Took over Mexico.

There are too many who remember.
They say a handful still survive.
To tell the world about,
The way the lights went out,
To keep the memory alive.


14.Another Heaven

He lived his life in isolation, a man without a name
Saddled with a reputation, from Cheyenne he came
He moved down South when the money ran out
Turned to a life of crime
Things weren't all that different then
They'd kill you for a dime

Never showed no mercy, had a heart of stone
His hands were dirty, stained to the bone, he said

Chorus:

Turn back? It's too late!
All I can do is pray there's another Heaven
Turn back? It's too late!
Sinners like me need another heaven
Turn back? It's too late!
I've run out of time. . .

He lived at least a dozen lifetimes, luck was on his side
The only friend he ever had,
Was his trusty forty-five
His final words to my Gran-daddy were
'Son you must be brave'
All that's left of what he was
Is in this Texas grave

He could smell the danger
He knew the end was near
Thru the smoke and whiskey, one thing was clear

Chorus:

Turn back? It's too late!
All I can do is pray there's another Heaven
Turn back? It's too late!
Sinners like me need another heaven
Turn back? It's too late!
All I can do is pray there's another Heaven
Turn back? It's too late!
I've run out of time. . .
Look me in the eyes, I wanna see it comin'!

Never showed no mercy, had a heart of stone
His hands were dirty. Stained to the bone

Chorus:

Turn back? It's too late!
All I can do is pray there's another Heaven
Turn back? It's too late!
Sinners like me need another heaven
Turn back? It's too late!
All I can do is pray there's another Heaven
Turn back? It's too late!
Sinners like me need another heaven, yeah, yeah!
Turn back? It's too late!
I've run out of time. . .
Look me in the eyes, I wanna see it comin'!