1.That's What I Think
Written:C.Lauper/R.Hyman/A.Willis/E.Bazilian
Sometimes i think
Things are overwhelming
Sometimes i think
I don't know what i'll do
But i forget the world
And everything around me
That's what i think
When i think about you
The streets are filled
With too many babies
Black air in a sky of blue
People pass bye
No life in their eyes
The concrete jungle's
Really going crazy
Sometimes i think
Things are overwhelming.....
The rent is due
And the pockets are empty
Peaple ask machines
For the truth
No crystal ball
Can help see it all
But where we gonna find
The dreams to feed the babies
Baby life goes on
That's what people say
But i'm nowhere
If you go away
I'd just be looking
For a brighter day
Sometimes i think
Things are overwhelming...
What can i do
Forget about the world
And everything around me
That's what i think
When i think about you
2.Product Of Misery
Written:Cyndi Lauper/Rob Hyman/Eric Bazilian
She's just a producy of mysery...
Everyday she'd go around
Everytime i see that frown
Broken down and down an out
The drudgery goes on and on
Oh i just wan't to say
I ain't gonna live that way, 'cause
She's just a product of mysery
I don't want to live like that,
just a product of mysery
I don't want to live like that,
Like he mother and hers before
She left her heart out out by the door
Everybody passed it by
They never bothered asking why
She stayed locked up inside
Watching as the world turns by
Now she's just a product of mysery
I don't want to live like that...
Just a product of mysery
I don't want to live like that,
I don't want to live like that!
Hey, like that
I don't want to live like that,
Just a product of mysery
...Anie said she must confess
She never came and never left
Never could communicate and
Now the time is much too late
Passions laid to rest
Buried with her wedding dress
Now she's just a product of mysery
I don't want to live like that,
I don't want to live like that,
Just a product of mysery
3.Who Let In The Rain
Written:Cyndi Lauper/Allee Willis
Things like this
Can always take a little time
I always thought
We'd be together down the line
We start to fight
And can't get over what was said
'Cause you see black an white
And i see red
And i wonder who let in the rain
You know without you
I'm not the same
When love get strong
People get weak
Sometimes they lose control
And wind up in too deep
They fall like rain
Who let in the rain
I make the bed and cover
Where you used to sleep
I'm smoothing over promises
Made in these sheets
I enve lovers passing by
Out on the street
'Cause what they heve
I couldn't keep
And i wonder who let in the rain
You know without you
I'm not the same
When love get strong
People get weak
Sometimes they lose control
And wind up in too deep
They fall like rain
Who let in the rain
4.Lies
Written:Cyndi Lauper/Allee Willis
The street light
Through my window
Makes me feel secure
There's no one to distract me
I'm locking the door
You cannot barge into
My own little world
You can't take the joy
From the soul of this girl
Telling me your lies, lies, lies
Don't tell me your lies, lies, lies
My thaughts are all tangled
I don't know what i feel
You try to confuse me
'till i don't know what's real
You say whats good (for me)
You don't even know me
You don't even want the truth
That you need to feel the power
That was taken from you
Telling me your lies, lies, lies
Don't tell me your lies, lies, lies
All that's left is this knocking
Of a heart you left on the shelf
You twisted your love
'Cause you don't love yourself
Don't tell me your lies, lies, lies
Don't tell me your lies, lies, lies
Don't tell me your lies...
5.Broken Glass
Written:Cyndi Lauper/Junior Vasquez/Marv Depeyer
Ever since i could understand
My mother said to me
'Don't you ever let a man hit you,
don't you grow up like me'
So i swore i'd never be like her
Or my grandmother too
Even if it meant i'd be alone
Even if it meant i'd be alone
'Cause she looked 'Cause she looked like broken glass
When she fell to the ground
I heard the sound of thinder trailing off
When she started coming 'round
But she couldn't make him stop
And she wouldn't let it go
So every time she got back up
Like broken glass went tumblin' down
Tumblin' down
First time that i saw your face
You looked so lost and kind
Should have recognised that troubled look
From the road i left behind
But i thought i could comfort you
Or was it you could comfort me
Never saw your anger 'till you blew
Never saw your anger 'till you blew
And i'd feel
Oh i'd feel like broken glass
When i fell to the ground
I heard the sound of thinder trailing off
When i started coming 'round
But i couldn't make you stop
And you wouldn't let it go
So every time i got back up
Like broken glass went tumblin' down
The slightest thing could spark you
There was always hell to pay
I could feel your darkness in me
And i knew just what to say
And the rest i can't remember
But it sounded like a gun
But it could have been a firecracker
it could have been a firecracker
Made me run
And you looked
Oh you looked like broken glass
When you fell to the ground
I heard the sound of thinder trailing off
When you started coming 'round
But I couldn't make you stop
And you wouldn't let it go
So every time you got back up
Like broken glass
Just like broken glass...
...tumblin' down, tumblin' down
6.Sally's Pigeons
Written:Cyndi Lauper/Mary Chapin Carpenter
When i was eight i had a friend
With a pirate smile
Make believe and play pretend
We were innocent an wild
Hopped the fence and slammed the gate
Running down my alleyway
In time to watch Sally's pigeons fly
We loved to watch them dive and soar
Circle in the sky
Free as a bird from three to four
And never knowing why
Neighbors pulled their wash back in
Put away my Barbie an Ken
Look out overhead
While Sally's pigeons fly
I had a fools confidence
That the world had no boundaries
But instincts and commonsense
Come in different quantities
My heart began to
skip to the beat
Of the boy next door
She had her eye across the street
On someone shy and tall
We lived our dreams
And challenged fate
In tears she told me she was late
And Sally let his pigeons out to fly..
On the dresser sits a frame
With a photograph
Two little girls in ponytails
Some twenty one years back
She left one night with just a nod
Was lost from some back alley job
I close my eyes and Sally's pigeons fly
She never saw those birds again
And me, i can't remember when
A pirate smile hasn't made me cry
I close my eyes
And Sally's Pigeons fly.....
7.Feels Like Christmas
Written:Cyndi Lauper/Rob Hyman/Eric Bazilian
If you want to see me
Don't break down and cry I can be your sweetie
And i won't be forsaken
If you think thaughts unkind
Just bring home th bacon
And bring it home on time
Hey Louie, can't you see
I Couldn't leave you if i tried
Hey Louie, listen to me
We got a thing so dignified
It don't matter if we lived in a shak
Or in a shiny cadillac
It don't matter rich or poor
When love is knocking at your door
It feels like Christmas
Just like Christmas
It feels like Christmas with you...
Hey Louie, life is sweet
I can't be bitter
When you're here with me
Hey Louie, no regrets
Holding on to thing
That you ought to forget
Well, it doesn't matter tit for tat
'cause what you give
You get it back
It don't matter anymore
When love is knocking at your door
It feels like Christmas
Just like Christmas
It feels like Christmas with you...
Everytime i see ya
Everytime i hear ya
Everytime i'm near ya
I'd be happy
Because it feels like Christmas
Just like Christmas
It feels like Christmas with you...
8.Dear John
Written:Cyndi Lauper/Rob Hyman/Eric Bazilian
Dear John,
What's Wrong? Why can't you just
be anything you want? Why not?
Why not? I tried to tell you then.
You dodn't understand. They try and
pigeonhole you. Buddy, they don't
even know you. But hang on my dear,
dear, John. Maybe you re not just like
everyone, so what, so what.
And there's more to live for, than
some abbreviated encore, much more,
much more. You can't define yourself
In terms of someone else. You can't say
what you're thinking? But i don't know
what you've been dirnking. But don't
cry. 'Cause life goes on. Dear John,
You could be anything you want. Why not?
Why not? Why you could even be an
astronaut, dear John, dear John.
9.Like I Used To
Written:Cyndi Lauper/Allee Willis
I Know you expected me
To act jus like a school girl
followed your rules
Just like a fool
Wrapped up in your world
What's good for you
Don't mean that's so good for me
What can i do, but hang around
And lose myself just like i used to
Go round and round
Just like a loose screw
Well i ain't gonna walk
With my heart in my hand
And take things lying down like before
Won't take your crap the way i used to
Ain't gonna be the way it used to
Alright for you, ain't alright for me
Maybe i was weak though the average
Person probably thinks i'm stronger
When i need someone else
I shut out myself
Scared to say the wrong words
What's right for you
Don't think that's alright fo me
You spread the glue, so i can't move
And stick to you just like i used to
Go round and round just like a loose screw...
Oh i ain't gonna walk
With my heart in my hand...
...ain't gonna do it like i used to
Go round and round just like a loose screw
Alright for you ain't alright for me, no
Everytime you push me down
Everytime you screw me around
Everytime you do that to me
I'm my own possession
I'm my own possession...
10.Someone Like Me
Written:C.Lauper/A.Willis/R.Hyman/E.Bazilian
Midnight falls on the snow-lit trees
And as i stand inside i know that i
Can't watch lifee through a window
My indecision is blocking the door
It's like a religion
That i never ask for more
I might stumble and fall
What's someone like me
Doing in a life like this?
I can't see
What someone like me
Is doing in a life like this
Slipping back into the past
Sun comes up and streams
Through the blinds
And as i throw my clothes on
Do my hair wrong
Stare into my mirror
Telling myself that everyone falls
Take the first step
That's the trick of it all
Bounce back like a ball
What's someone like me...
My mind is filled with runaway dreams
I can't wake up
I don't know what it means
You see i fell asleep
With the television on
When i woke up it was gone
I read the horoscope
To see what's in store
I get a little lazy but
I want more, i want more
What's someone like me
Doing in a life like this?
I can't see
What someone like me
Is doing in a life like this
11.A Part Hate
Written:Cyndi Lauper/Tom Gray/David Thornton
Somber sister
This is a strange and bitter fruit
Because you taught me to sing
And the rhythm in my heart
And the rhythm in my feet is -
Why are the rainbows
Stolen from the sky
And locked up in boxed
Yellow, black, red and white
Like birds in their cages
Beating their wings on the bars
And there's a son tha they're singing It's a word in their world
It's a word in their hearts
A part hate
I heard a man say
Tear apart hate
And i saw hope in his face
A part hate
Where the color of love
Slips away
Why are the children
Carrying guns, not books
drug dealing, not learning
The golden rule
And the idea of freedom
Not just some castle
In the sky
Haunted by white-sheeted ghouls
Filled with hate me
And hate you
And proud of it too
A part hate
I heard a woman saying
Tear apart hate
And i saw hope in her face
A part hate
Where the color of love
Slips away
Why are the people
Running down the block
Rock throwing, not knowing
What else to do
But i'm just a spectator
And i can never know the pain
But when i hear
That whip cracking
I cry out tears of anger
I cry out tears of shame
A part hate
I heard myself say
Tear apart hate
And i saw hope in my face
A part hate
Where the color of love
Slips away...
tear apart hate tear apart hate
tear apart hate tear apart hate
tear apart hate tear apart hate...
12.Hat Full Of Stars
Written:Cyndi Lauper/Nicky Holland
I was folding up your letters
Unpacking winter clothes
Searching for my hat
I thought i left it by the door
So i tore around the room
Like a bird without a head
I saw your picture waving back at me
From underneath the bed
From a long, long time ago
When all i had
Was a hat full of stars
The one i'll always treasure
The one that you wore
You loved the look
But you never lokked inside
You would have seen me there
You could've seen far
You should've seen the magic
In my hat full of stars
I'm trying to live in the present
But i keep tripping on the past
Finding out reality, well clarity
Comes in dribs and drabs
No we never had the time
For everything we had
So it felt like we had nothing
That's what makes this hat so sad
It was a long, long time ago
When all i had
Was a hat full of stars...
...You would have seen me there
You could've seen far
You should've seen the magic
In my hat full of stars
Now whenever i'm alone
And i think i might forget
I wear my lucky hat
Just like a crown apon my head -
'Cause all i have Is a hat full of stars... If you could see me
now You would've seen far
You should've seen the magic
In my hat full of stars...
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