The Definitive Collection

Eric Carmen The Definitive Collection Lyrics
1.Go All The Way

Lyrics:Eric Carmen
Music:Eric Carmen

I never knew how complete love could be
Till she kissed me and said,
'Baby, please go all the way,
It feels so right
Being with you here tonight,
Please, go all the way,
Just hold me close
Don't ever let me go'

I couldn't say what I wanted to say
Till she whispered, 'I love you so,
Please go all the way,
It feels so right
Being with you here tonight,
Please, go all the way,
Just hold me close
Don't ever let me go'

Before her love I was cruel and mean,
I had a hole in the place where my heart should have been
But now I've changed,
And it feels so strange
I come alive when she does all those things to me
And she says,
'Come on' (Come on)
'Come on' (Come on)
'Come on' (Come on)
'Come on' (Come on)
'I need you' (Come on)
'I love you' (Come on)
'I need you' (Come on)

Please, go all the way
It feels so right being with you here tonight
Please, go all the way
Just hold me close
Don't ever let me go

Go all the way


2.I Wanna Be With You

Lyrics:Eric Carmen
Music:Eric Carmen

If we were older
We wouldn't have to be worried tonight

Baby oh (Oh!) I wanna be with you
So bad (Yeah, I wanna be with you)
Oh baby (Oh!) I wanna be with you
Oh yeah (Yeah, I wanna be with you)

Well tonight (tonight)
The night (the night)
We always knew it would feel so right
So come on baby, I just wanna be with you

Someday's a long time
And we've been waiting so long to be here

Baby oh (Oh!) I wanna be with you
So bad (Yeah, I wanna be with you)
Oh baby (Oh!) I wanna be with you
Oh yeah (Yeah, I wanna be with you)

Well tonight (tonight)
The night (the night)
We always knew it would feel so right
So come on baby, I just wanna be with you

Hold me tight
Our love could live forever after tonight
If you believe in what we're doin' is right
Close your eyes and be still

Whoa, baby yeah! I wanna be with you
So bad (Yeah, I wanna be with you)
Oh baby (Oh!) I wanna be with you
Oh yeah (Yeah, I wanna be with you)

Well tonight (tonight)
The night (the night)
We always knew it would feel so right
So come on baby, I just wanna be with you

Oh! I wanna be with you
So bad (Yeah, I wanna be with you)
Oh baby (Oh!) I wanna be with you
Oh yeah (Yeah, I wanna be with you)

Baby oh (Oh!) I wanna be with you
So bad (Yeah, I wanna be with you)
Oh darlin' (Oh!) I wanna be with you
Oh yeah (Yeah, I wanna be with you)

Oh, I wanna be with you
Yeah, I wanna be with you


3.Let's Pretend

Lyrics:Eric Carmen
Music:Eric Carmen

I can't sleep nights
Wishing you were here beside me
Can't help feeling
That's way it ought to be
You know we could run (run, run) away
And I couldn't bear to hear
The things they'd say
Oh no

Baby let's pretend
That tonight could live forever
If we close our eyes
And believe it might come true

Baby let's pretend
We could always be together
But for now just let me
Spend the night with you

Somehow, someday
Things are gonna be so different
Don't cry
Some way
I promise it will be all right
So now that we're all alone
I couldn't bear
To ever take you home
Oh no

Baby let's pretend
That tonight could live forever
If we close our eyes
And believe it might come true

Baby let's pretend
We could always live together
But for now just let me
Spend the night with you

So take me now
My love can't wait
We're almost there now darlin'
Darlin' hold me, hold me
Hold me

Baby let's pretend
That tonight could live forever
If we close our eyes
And believe it might come true

Baby let's pretend
We could always live together
But for now just let me
Spend the night with you


4.Tonight

Lyrics:Eric Carmen
Music:Eric Carmen

When you smiled at me
And I saw your eyes
All I ever wanted to be
Was in your arms tonight

You looked too young to know about romance
(Oh, yes you did)
But when you smiled I had to take a chance
I had to take a chance and be with you tonight

I'll be with you tonight
Tonight, you'll love me too, tonight
Woh, baby, tonight
I'll make love to you
(Woh, tonight!)
Bop-om-doo-don o-mop shoop
(Woh, tonight!)
You're gonna love me, too!
Tonight!

I don't know myself
If it's wrong or right
All I know is what I can feel
So be my love tonight

You looked too young to know about romance
(Oh, yes you did)
But when you smiled I had to take a chance
I had to take a chance and be with you tonight

I'll be with you tonight
Tonight, you'll love me too, tonight
Woh, baby, tonight
I'll make love to you
(Woh, tonight!)
Bop-om-doo-don o-mop shoop
(Woh, tonight!)
(Oh, tonight!)

Won't cha let me sleep with you, baby
(Oh, tonight!)
I just wanna make you feel good inside, baby
(Oh, tonight!)
Let me feel the love that's in you
(Oh, tonight!)
Come on, come on
Come on and let me come on, baby

Oh, tonight!


5.Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)

Lyrics:Eric Carmen
Music:Eric Carmen

Well I know it sounds funny
But I'm not in it for the money, no
I don't need reputation
And I'm not in it for the show

I just want a hit record
Want to hear it on the radio
Want a big hit record
One that everybody's got to know

Well the program director don't pull it
Then it's bound to get back the bullet
So bring the group down to the station
You're gonna be an overnight sensation

I've been tryin' to write the lyric
Not offensive but satiric, too
If you can get it in the 'A' slot
It's just gotta make a mint for you

And I want a hit record
Want to hear it on the radio
Want a big hit record
One that everybody's got to own

Overnight sensation

I fit the words
To a good melody
Amazing how success
Has been ignoring me so long

I've used my bread
Making demos all day
And writing in the night
While in my head I hear
The record play
Hear it play

Hit record, yeah
Want a hit record, yeah
Want a hit record, yeah
(Number one)
Want a hit record, yeah
(Number one)


6.All By Myself

Lyrics:Eric Carmen
Music:Eric Carmen

When I was young
I never needed anyone
And makin' love was just for fun
Those days are gone

Livin' alone
I think of all the friends I've known
But when I dial the telephone
Nobody's home

All by myself
Don't wanna be
All by myself anymore
All by myself
Don't wanna live
All by myself anymore

Hard to be sure
Some times I feel so insecure
And love so distant and obscure
Remains the cure

All by myself
Don't wanna be
All by myself anymore
All by myself
Don't wanna live
All by myself anymore


7.Sunrise

Lyrics:Eric Carmen
Music:Eric Carmen

Sunrise, shine down a little love
On the world today
Make a morning so sweet
That it'll have to chase my blues away
Oh, the moon and stars have gone
And I can see the light of dawn
Like a golden smile
Brightening up the brand new day

Sunrise, come wrap me in the warmth
Of your crimson sky
I spent a long time believin'
In a dream that had passed me by
But the moon and stars have gone
And I can see the light of dawn
Like a golden smile
Brightening up the morning sky

From my bed I can hear the world outside
I get up, throw my window open wide
Take a breath of that fresh air
Take a breath of that fresh air
Fresh air

Sunrise, shine down a little love
On the world today
Make a morning so sweet
That it'll have to chase my blues away
Oh, the moon and stars have gone
And I can see the light of dawn
Like a golden smile
Brightening up the brand new day
Brand new day


8.That's Rock 'N' Roll


9.Never Gonna Fall In Love Again

Lyrics:Eric Carmen
Music:Eric Carmen

No use pretending things can still be right
There's really nothing more to say
I'll get along without your kiss good night
Just close the door and walk away

Never gonna fall in love again
I don't wanna start with someone new
'Cause I couldn't bear to see it end
Just like me and you
No, I never wanna feel the pain
Of remembering how it used to be
Never gonna fall in love again
Just like you and me

At first we thought that love was here to stay
The summer made it seem so right
But like the sun we watched it fade away
From morning into lonely night

Never gonna fall in love again
I don't wanna start with someone new
'Cause I couldn't bear to see it end
Just like me and you
No, I never wanna feel the pain
Of remembering how it used to be
Never gonna fall in love again
Just like you and me


10.No Hard Feelings

Lyrics:Eric Carmen
Music:Eric Carmen

We was young
And still believed in a 'Hard Day's Night'
But no one seemed to understand
That there was no relief in sight
The company man
He's got his nose glued to the charts
He says the record's doin' fine
But now the group is fallin' apart

I hope there's no hard feelings
'Cause there isn't anyone to blame
I hope there's no hard feelings
'Cause nothin' ever stays the same
Well we was locked in image prison
Waitin' for that break
We was raped, reshaped and tryin' to escape
Caught in a rock and roll time warp
Just tryin' to find the way to get out

Four years on
And things were really gettin' too intense
Critics ravin' 'bout our album
But we're makin' fifty cents
And in the end
We was facin' the hard, cold truth
So tomorrow come what may
Looks like it's Ricky and The Tooth

I hope there's no hard feelings
'Cause there isn't anyone to blame
I hope there's no hard feelings
'Cause nothin' ever stays the same
Well we was locked in image prison
Waitin' for that break
We was raped, reshaped and tryin' to escape
Caught in a rock and roll time warp
Just tryin' to find the way to get out

We gave it everything we had to give
But it was gettin' so tough
Too much frustration makes it hard to live
I think enough is enough
I said enough is enough

I hope there's no hard feelings
'Cause there isn't anyone to blame
I hope there's no hard feelings
'Cause nothin' ever stay the same
While we was locked in image prison
Waitin' for that break
We was raped, reshaped and tryin' to escape
Caught in a rock and roll time warp
Just tryin' to fine the way to get out

Lemme out, lemme out
Lemme out, lemme out
I gotta get out
Lemme out, lemme out
I gotta gotta gotta get out
Lemme out
I gotta get out
Lemme out, lemme out, lemme out
Lemme out


11.Boats Against The Current

Lyrics:Eric Carmen
Music:Eric Carmen

I know it's over
You know it's over
We're just goin' through the motions
But we're sailin' separate oceans world's apart
And you know it's breakin' my heart

I was a dreamer
You were a dreamer
But perfection is consuming
And it seems we're only human after all
And we've both been takin' the fall

But tomorrow
We'll run a little bit faster
Tomorrow
We're gonna find what we're after at last
Feelings that we left in the past
There's romance in the sunset
We're boats against the current to the end

Maybe we're older
Maybe we're colder
So we disregard solutions
While we cling to our illusions once again
And we keep rememberin' when

Seasons are changin'
Reasons are changin'
But the story isn't ending
So we find ourselves pretending one more day
While the years keep slippin' away

But tomorrow
We'll run a little bit faster
Tomorrow
We're gonna find what we're after at last
Feelings that we left in the past
There's romance in the sunset
We're boats against the current to the end


12.She Did It

Lyrics:Eric Carmen
Music:Eric Carmen

I set to sea on a ship called Emptiness
Cast away on the Island of Loneliness
Lookin' for love
Ooh, and I was lookin' for love

(You know)
I didn't think she could hear my S.O.S.
But she appeared like an angel of tenderness
Sent from above
Oh, she was bringing me love

Oh, mama, she did it
Woh mama, she did it, yeah
Ooh, she did it
Woh mama, she did it, yeah

Looking back, making love was meaningless
Till she touched me with her warmth
And a gentleness I'd never known
Ooh, and she was guiding me home

(Now I)
Now I see all the things in life I missed
Till she opened up my eyes to the limitless
Wonder of love
Oh, and now I'm ready for love

Oh, mama, she did it
Woh mama, she did it, yeah
Ooh, she did it
Woh mama, she did it, yeah

I never knew what love was about
Till she came and stole away my heart
Now I'm alive and I know it
And all I ever wanna do is show it
(Oh yeah)

Oh, mama, she did it
Woh mama, she did it, yeah
Ooh, she did it
Woh mama, she did it, yeah


13.Change Of Heart

Lyrics:Eric Carmen
Music:Eric Carmen

I can still recall
When we said that our love was forever
All those plans we made
For tomorrow that looked so bright
And I understand
All the reasons you gave me for leavin'
But that doesn't help
When I'm sleepin' alone each night

So if you ever have a change of heart
Just remember it's not too late to start
If you still believe in what love can do

I could find someone
More than willing to be your replacement
But there's no one else
Who can move me the way you do
So for now, goodbye
But if ever you find you still want me
You just call my name
'Cause I'll always be here for you

So if you ever have a change of heart
Just remember it's not too late to start
If you still believe in what love can do

Nothing you could ever do
Would change the things I know
Deep in my heart
So I got to make you understand before I go
Sooner or later
I don't know when
I'm gonna get you back
In my arms again

And if you ever have a change of heart
Just remember it's not too late to start
If you still believe in what love can do

And if you ever have a change of heart
Just remember it's not too late to start
If you still believe in what love can do

And if you ever have a change of heart
Just remember it's not too late to start
If you still believe in what love can do


14.Hey Deanie

Lyrics:Eric Carmen
Music:Eric Carmen

Hey Deanie
Won't you come out tonight
The stars are dancin'
Like diamonds in the moonlight
And we could never find a better time
To be in love

Hey Deanie
Won't you come out tonight
The summer's waitin'
The moon is shinin' so bright
Hey Deanie you're the one
I'm dreamin' of

I was a fool for your love
From the moment I saw you
Like a vision in the darkness
Of a thousand lonesome, lonely nights
Like my heart threw away the key
I'm as blind as a man could be
Oh darlin'
Till you help me see the light

Hey Deanie
Won't you come out tonight
The stars are dancin'
Like diamonds in the moonlight
And we could never find a better time
To be in love

Hey Deanie
Won't you come out tonight
The summer's waitin'
The moon is shinin' so bright
Hey Deanie you're the one
I'm dreamin' of

I stand accused
I'm in league with the forces of darkness
An incurable believer
In the magic of the midnight sky
And the love that I found today
Oh, I can't let it slip away
Oh darlin', can't you read between the lines

Hey Deanie
Won't you come out tonight
The stars are dancin'
Like diamonds in the moonlight
And we could never find a better time
To be in love

Hey Deanie
Won't you come out tonight
The summer's waitin'
The moon is shinin' so bright
Hey Deanie you're the one
I'm dreamin' of

Deanie, love is all there is
I don't wanna lose it
Don't wanna let the evenin' go
If it's here within our reach
I think we should use it
Now while we're young enough
To still let it show

Hey Deanie
Won't you come out tonight
The stars are dancin'
Like diamonds in the moonlight
And we could never find a better time
To be in love

Hey Deanie
Won't you come out tonight
The summer's waitin'
The moon is shinin' so bright
Hey Deanie you're the one
I'm dreamin' of

Hey Deanie
You're the one I'm dreamin' of
Hey Deanie
You're the one I'm dreamin' of
Won't you come out tonight
You're the one that I'm dreamin' of
I'm a fool for your love
Won't you come out
Come out tonight


15.Desperate Fools

Lyrics:Eric Carmen
Music:Eric Carmen

I've been up too high
I've been down too low
I've been searchin' for somethin'
With nowhere to go
Thought I'd make it alone
But I'm so far from home
In a town full of desperate fools

Oh, the sun beats down
On the L.A. scene
But you can't feel the cold
When the grass looks so green
And the games that I've played
Were not wort what I paid
In a town full of desperate fools

I've been takin' my life
One day at a time
Tryin' to piece it all together
But I know in my mind
That I'm startin' to be
What they want me to be
And I wonder sometimes
What's becoming of me

I've been takin' my life
One day at a time
Tryin' to piece it all together
But I know in my mind
That I'm startin' to be
What they want me to be
And I wonder sometimes
What's becoming of me

'Cause I've been up too high
I've been down too low
I've been searchin' for somethin'
With nowhere to go
And I suppose it's been fun
But I guess I'm just one
In a town full of desperate fools
A town full of desperate fools


16.The Way We Used To Be

Lyrics:Eric Carmen
Music:Eric Carmen

We used to laugh
We used to cry
We used to talk about forever you and I
And love was all we seemed to need
I still recall sometimes
The way we used to be

When did we change
Where has love gone
We can't explain it
but we know there's something wrong
And all that's left of you and me
Is just a memory of
The way we used to be

I can remember when
We used to be the best of friends
Now suddenly we don't know what to say
If there's a chance that we
Can bring the feeling back again
I've got to try
Why don't you stay

'Cause in my heart
I think you know
I tried to hide it but I just can't let you go
It's not too late
For you and me
To be in love again
The way we used to be

It's not too late
For you and me
To be in love again
The way we used to be


17.Hungry Eyes

Written:Frankie Previte/John Denicola

I've been meaning to tell you
I've got this feelin' that won't subside
I look at you and I fantasize
Darlin' tonight
Now I've got you in my sights

With these hungry eyes
One took at you and I can't disguise
I've got hungry eyes
I feel the magic between you and I

I want to hold you so hear me out
I want to show you what love's all about
Darlin' tonight
Now I've got you in my sights

With these hungry eyes
One took at you and I can't disguise
I've got hungry eyes
I feel the magic between you
And I've got hungry eyes
Now I've got you in my sights
With these hungry eyes
Now did I take you by surprise

I need you to see
This love was meant to be

I've got hungry eyes
One took at you and I can't disguise
I've got hungry eyes
I feel the magic between you
And I've got hungry eyes
Now I've got you in my sights
With those hungry eyes
Did I take you by surprise

With my hungry eyes


18.Make Me Lose Control

Written:Eric Carmen/Dean Pitchford

I run a comb through my hair
and step out in the street
And the city's the color of flame
in the mid-summer heat
Oh yeah

Jennifer's got her daddy's car,
She's playing 'Uptown' on the stereo
We go cruisin' so close,
The way they did long ago
My darlin'

(Turn) turn the radio up for that sweet sound
Hold me close never let me go
(Keep) keep this feelin' alive
Make me lose control
Baby, baby

(When) when I look in your eyes, I go crazy
Fever's high with the lights down low
(So take) take me over the edge
Make me lose control

We put the top down and park 'neath the moon
in the sky
And the wind is so hot in our hair, like a fire in July
Whoa yeah

Jennifer's singin' 'Stand By Me,'
And she knows every single word by heart
Was love always this good?
Or could this be just the start?
Whoa darlin'

(Turn) turn the radio up for that sweet sound
Hold me close never let me go
(Keep) keep this feelin' alive
Make me lose control
Baby, baby

(When) when I look in your eyes, I go crazy
Fever's high with the lights down low
(So take) take me over the edge
Make me lose control

'Be My Baby' comes on, and were movin' in time
And the heat from your touch makes me feel
like I'm losing my mind
Whoa yeah

(And then they played) 'Back In My Arms' again
(We close our eyes) we start rememberin' when
(We start to kiss) and now the feeling's intense
And we just pray that this night never ends
Wohohoho, my darlin'

(Turn) turn the radio up for that sweet sound
Hold me close never let me go
Keep this feelin' alive
Make me lose control
Baaby

When I look in your eyes, I go crazy
Fever's high with the lights down low
(So take) take me over the edge
Make me lose control
Baby, baby

(Turn) turn the radio up for that sweet sound
Hold me close never let me go
(Keep) keep this feelin' alive
Make me lose control

When I look in your eyes, I go crazy
Fever's high with the lights down low
(So take) take me over the edge
Make me lose control
Baby, baby

(Turn) turn the radio up for that sweet sound
Hold me close never let me go
(Keep) keep this feelin' alive
Make me lose control