Repeat Offender

Richard Marx Repeat Offender Lyrics
1.Nothing You Can Do About It

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

Have you heard the news?
I'm doing what I said I would
So now you say
Boy, I always knew you could
My wildest dreams
Murdered by reality
I gave you all I could give to you
But now I'm taking back what belongs to me

I read you like a drugstore book
How'd I ever think you were cool
You got no bait left on your hook
You're no friend and buddy, I'm no fool

Chorus:

Ain't nothin' you can do about it
Ain't nothin' you can say
Aint' nothin' you can do about it
No one's gonna stand in my way

I've done my time
I've given up my pound of flesh
So why can't the man seem to understand
That I've already passed the test

You did your best to keep me down
Tried to make my spirit give in
But I'm here to make a big, big sound
It's your turn to lose and it's my turn to win

Repeat chorus

I know you can never go back
Once you turn and walk out that door
Got no time for worries like that
I'm not a kid anymore

You did your best to keep me down
Tried to make my spirit give in
But I'm here to make a big, big sound
It's your turn to lose and my turn to win

Repeat chorus


2.Satisfied

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

We work our bodies weary to stay alive
There must be more to livin' than nine to five

Why should we wait for some better time
There may not even be a tomorrow
Ain't no sense in losing your mind
I'm gonna make it worth the ride

Chorus
Don't you know, I won't give up until
I'm satisfied
Don't you know, why should I stop until
I'm satisfied

Ignore the hesitation, that ties your hands
Use your imagination, and take a chance

I won't let my moment of thuth pass me by
I've gotta make my move now or never
And if they turn mr loose on this town
They're gonna have to hold me down

Chorus

Oh, don't you know, ain't gonna stop until
were satisfied
Don't you know, we shouldn't stop until
we're satisfied

Don't you know, ain't gonna stop until
I'm satisfied
Don't you know, we won't give up until
we're satisfied


3.Angelia

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

Memories of you and me
Tumble inside my head
The way that we used to be
Things that we said

No one has ever made me believe so strong
You left me to wonder
How did our love go wrong

Chorus:

Angelia
Where you running to now
Angelia
Got to make you turn around

I lie awake at night
Wait for the sun to shine
I still feel you next to me
Your lips on mine

Without a warning
You made our love a lie
You said you were sorry
But you never told me why

Repeat chorus

Maybe my love is in vain
Maybe you're the hurting kind
Can't take no more of this pain
I've got to get you off my mind

Tried to be what you wanted
I gave you all I had
You left me without nothin'
Nothin' but a photograph

Repeat chorus


4.Too Late To Say Goodbye

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

What I had to flaunt
Has come back to haunt
Like a restless wind
And the best of times
That were left behind
They come blowing in

No one's pushing me through that door
But it might as well be a forty-four in the night

Chorus:

It's too late to say goodbye
I'm all out of lies
It's too late to say goodbye

How can I resist
One more stranger's kiss
Should the thrill be gone
And if I must refrain
Will I wind up the same
As the jealous dogs?

From this day forward could be too long
But crossing that border would be so wrong, and you're right

It's too late to say goodbye
I've run out of lies
It's too late to say goodbye

I know that you're right
It's too late to say goodbye
I'm all out of lies
It's too late to say goodbye
This feeling won't die
It's too late to say goodbye
I can't watch you cry
It's too late to say goodbye


5.Right Here Waiting

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

Oceans apart day after day
And I slowly go insane
I hear your voice on the line
But it doesn't stop the pain

If I see you next to never
How can we say forever

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you

I took for granted, all the times
That I thought would last somehow
I hear that laughter, I taste the tears
But I can't get near you now
Oh, can't you see it baby
You've got me goin' crazy

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you

I wonder how we can survive
This romance
But in the end if I'm with you
I'll take the chance

Oh, can't you see it baby
You've got me goin' crazy
Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you

Waiting for you


6.Heart on the Line

Written:Richard Marx/Bruce Gaitsch

One look in your innocent eyes
And I know you had to be the one
You walked out of all my dreams
Never thought the day would really come

I've been standing in a long desperate line
Waiting for somebody like you
I may only be wasting my time
Don't know what else to do

Chorus:

If you turn me away
Just be careful what you say
Girl, you've got my heart on the line
Don't me mean, don't be cruel
Don't you treat me like a fool
Girl, you've got my heart on the line

It's too late to be wishing I was
In somebody else's shoes this time
I'm tied up, like a slave to a chain
Praying that you'll please be kind

It it's true that love's a disease
Baby, I'm a dangerous case
I beg for mercy, got me down on my knees
You've got a smile on your face

Repeat chorus:

I don't want to stay
In my own little world
So if you want to play
Won't you show me a little girl

Repeat chorus


7.Real World

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

I remember me sittin' on my daddy's knee
Dreamin' 'bout what life had in store for me
When I look back now it really makes me mad
The years I took for granted were the best I had

School was alright
Gave me time to fantasize
But one day I woke up
And I realized

Chorus:

I'm livin' in the real world
Everything's written in black and white
Livin' in the real world
Where you don't get nothin' unless you fight

I wanna relax but I don't know how
The pressures on me are much stronger now
I remember the days I didn't have a care
Aside from being afraid somebody'd cut my hair

I wanna make it
Before my chances are gone
They say be patient
But it takes too long

Repeat chorus

Real world
Where there ain't no holiday in sight
Livin' in the real world
Where you don't get nothin' unless you fight

Someday soon I'll settle down for good
There was a time I thought I never would
I'm gonna live with a lady on a quiet beach
I'm gonna have three kids, maybe one of each

I've got to make it
Before my chances are gone
They say be patient
But it takes too long

Repeat chorus


8.If You Don't Want My Love

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

I know you have reservations
And you're just along for the ride
But I see a slight hesitation
What are you trying to hide

Don't be afraid to bare your soul
Nothing you say could be too bold
I'm growing old

Chorus:

If you don't want my love
Tell me now cause I'll survive
If you don't want my love
I'm sure that somebody does tonight

You make a grown man quiver
It might be hard to believe
But it's time to stand and deliver
You've just been playing with me

I don't want to blow my only chance
But you've got to show me where you stand
Or drop my hand

Chorus:
If you don't want my love
Tell me now cause I'll survive
If you don't want my love
It won't be the end of my life

If you don't want my love
Tell me now cause I'll survive
If you don't want my love
I'm sure that somebody does tonight

I don't want to blow my only chance
But you've got to show me where you stand
Or drop my hand

Repeat chorus


9.That Was Lulu


10.Wait For The Sunrise

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

I was born an only son
Didn't take to the rules, like a normal child
Prisoner of the things I've done
It's the price you pay livin' fast and wild

Chorus:

I've spent too many nights lookin' over my shoulder
And the ways of the world make a heart grow colder
Got nowhere left to hide
The fight in me has died
So I must wait for the sunrise

Friend to fear and loaded gun
Live life like the owner of a heart of stone
No one touches, touch no one
But the road gets wary when you're all alone

Repeat chorus

Too much done to undo
No one I can run to
I need one more chance to live my life again

Repeat chorus


11.Children of the Night

Lyrics:Richard Marx
Music:Richard Marx

All that I know in my life, I have learned on the street
No magic carpet, no genie, no shoes on my feet

Will I wake up from this nightmare?
A fear that chills me to the bone
Though I may be one of many
I feel so all alone

Chorus:
We are the children of the night
We won't go down without a fight
Our voice is strong, our future's bright
And thanks to what we learned from you
We've grown into the children of the night

Left by my father with only this scar on my face
Told by my mother that, 'No, you were just a mistake.'
I have tasted my own hunger
Sold my body to survive
Some have paid to scratch the surface
But they can't touch what's inside

Repeat chorus

How I long for something better
Than this life I know too well
Lord, I know I'm bound for heaven
Cause I've done my time in hell

Repeat chorus


12.Wild Life

Written:Richard Marx/Rick Springfield
Arranger:Richard Marx/Rick Springfield

I was born with a ticket to survive
And a big dream in my head
It's a wild, wild life and there's no way to tame it
Or so my old man said
I knew in my heart that someday
The world would step aside
And try to see things my way
Now I know, the one thing I can count on
Is that I really can't count on anything.

* It's a wild life
Every road's a mean street
It's a wild life
All we do is ride
It's a wild life
And we've all just god to land on our feet

Livin' my life, chasing love and glory
Runnin' into walls of stone
Whether you fall or climb a hundred stories
You've gotta do it all alone

**I feel like the world is calling
I've got to move along
No reasons left for stalling
And if it's mine
I'm gonna take it with a vengeance
Or maybe I better just take it as it comes

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