Beauty On A Back Street

Hall&Oates Beauty On A Back Street Lyrics
1.Don't Change

I turned around and you were standing there
More than a little high
More than a little crazy
So beautiful i had to stare
And i knew you had the power to change me
Scarlet woman, you've come for me
Your timing's great, 'cause i've been
Waiting so long
The only thing i want to say
Now that you've got me, please-
Don't change my life
You know i love you but i hate your friends
They got dollars but they ain't got sense
If the time comes and you go away
I hope i've changed and yet stayed the same
Scarlet woman you've come to me
Your timing's great 'cause i've been
Waiting so long
Only thing i want to say
Now that you've got me, please-
Don't change my life


2.Why Do Lovers Break Each Other's Heart?

Why do lovers break each other's hearts?
I'll never know why i don't understand
He's always saying that there's no one else
While he's doin' what hurts the most
When you tell a lie, you're always
Found out
And it's wrong
Use up your patience but she's back again
Crying and laughing, does she love the pain?
And when you tell a lie, you're always
Found out
It's wrong


3.Winged Bull

Well i'm looking at her from a rock &
Roll tower
With the windows, its eyes
And its black stained sides that can't
Be climbed
'cause they're slick as wet glass
And the gate lets the force out, but thru
'none shall pass'

But when i'm with you it's just me in my time
Guess i've taken some form
Who knows which time around
But one of the reasons is to unite me
With you
I'm sure of that baby, if a heart tells the truth

Is it the winged bull
Or the horns of old pan
There's ra unto isis
There's woman to man
Sun and the moon
Minus and plus
Zero equals two
In love and in us

Wings of fire and me in my time
Taking the form making this sound
It's all of the reasons that unite me with you
I'm sure of that baby
If a heart tells the truth
Heart tells the truth


4.The Girl Who Used To Be Me

She's the girl who used to be
In the town that can't remember
Just a face you use to see
In a show one past september
Another child star who didn't get far
As she hoped to
She's got re-runs for memories....
She don't want sympathy
Or pity from me
She wants the chance to do it over
Just to prove that she can
There's no sympathy
Or pity from me
Just the chance to do it over
To prove that she can
She reads the want ads and haunts the bars
What she finds is next to nothing
She can push but just so far
And she's tired of being that someone
At the end of the line
She wants her day in the sun forever
Not much different from you and me....
She's the girl who used to be
In the town that can't remember


5.Love Hurts

You can say that i lied a lot you can
Throw up your hands
Pardon me, if the man you got
Wasn't part of the plan
I'll confess, if i'm wrong or not so you'll
Know where you stand
Love's a test and you've got to find out
If you're stronger
Then i am
Love hurts
Love heals
And it's the only thing that will keep
Us together
First we fight, then we fall asleep, then
We wake up as friends
With a kiss and a promise we won't
Do it again
Can't you see, when the fighting ends
That nobody wins
Can you tell if we've gone too far
To come back again
Love hurts
Love heals
It's the only thing, it's the only thing


6.The Empytness

I spent last night trying to write to you
But the words wouldn't come,
I couldn't go on
And the telephone won't do

I'm sick and tired of hearing
'you're never home'
Yet i'm sick in the head and the hotel
Beds don't feel right
Though i hope it doesn't show
I feel a hollow down below
And there's nothing, nothing for me to say

I feel the emptyness inside me
The emptyness inside me
I have this feeling and i've got to get back
This feeling that i've got to get back to you

There's no one else
There's nothing else
There's no one else
I hear myself saying again and again....
Even if it doesn't show
I feel a hollow down below
And there's nothing, nothing for me to say

I feel the emptyness inside me
I hope it doesn't show
The emptyness inside me
Like a hollow down below
I have this feeling and i've got
To get back
This feeling that i've got to get back to you
I feel nothing but the emptyness


7.You Must Be Good For Something

Situation hollow
Loving chained to dollars
I can't live with your totalitarian
Standards
Sitting in the back seat
Beauty on a back street
Cleaning in a k-mart dress, now you're
Designed by dior
Oh my... you must be good for something
You're much to good for me

Porn imagination
Boobs on every station
You think it's free 'cause they show it
On the cable t.v.
Your favorite kind of reading is a
Lyric sheet
The record that you play, you play
Because it's number one

Oh my... you must be good for something
You're much to good for me

But there's nothing wrong with being
The majority(?)
You act the only way that's even logical
I'm out of time, i know that i could
Never be like you
You must be good for something
I know you're good for something
Hot cha


8.Bigger Than Both Of Us

There's a million like us so we're not alone
A million like us tho' i can't think of one
There must be a million people who are
Pulling apart
And they don't know how to stop it,
Can't stop it when it starts
We can begin with a little bit of
Honesty
You can tell the truth when you're
Talking to me
And what comes to my mind when i
Think of you is....
What am i here for? there must be
Something more
Chorus:
It's bigger than both of us
No matter what you say i just can't
Think of a way with you
But nothing really lasts forever
Bigger than both of us
No matter how i try, i can't even
Work up a sigh for you
Nothing ever lasts, nothing really
Lasts forever
Just think of me as another page
In your life
A curious way for you to pass the time
Just another memory when you're
Middle-aged
There's someone for the girl with everything
Secure in the knowing that she ain't
Gonna break
You're too much for me i'm too much
For you
So what are you here for when you
Know there's something more
Repeat chorus
There's a million like us
It's bigger than both of us


9.Bad Habits And Infections

Come to me like i'm the doctor
Say you need someone to talk ta'
You want advice go ask your mother
One bad turn deserves another
'cause i've been cursed with your infection
Makin' my head hurt makin' my eyes burn
You've taken me in the wrong direction
And left me there with no protection

Bad habits can be cured by cutting
Them out
Infections can be cured by cutting
Them out

Maybe you'll find a friend up in the
Rainbow room
If you can dodge the drinks that
They've been throwing at you
Anyway, your boyfriend should be
Coming home soon
Then you can hide your life away

Bad habits can be cured by cutting
Them out
Infections can be cured by cutting
Them out

Come to me like i'm the doctor
Come to me like i'm the doctor
Come to me like i'm the doctor
I am the doctor
I am the doctor