Essential John Waite

John Waite Essential John Waite Lyrics
1.Head Above the Waves

Written:J.Waite/W.Stocker/M.Corby/A.Brock

You quit the band and got a job
Decided to take a wife
Then you stood still
And I went on
And almost lost my life

No I don't wanna be in your shoes
And I don't wanna read local news
And though I know we had the same views
Who's the fool?

Try and keep your head above the waves
Try and tell yourself that you're safe
I know you do your best to keep faith

So round and round we go
It's a shame
Oh but you never know

There you go praised again
Your head pressed against the glass
You always tried to put me down
But I knew that it couldn't last

Cause I don't wanna be in your shoes
And I don't wanna read local news
And though I know we had the same views
Who's the fool

Try 'n keep your head above the waves
Try and tell yourself that you're safe
I know you do your best to keep faith
So try and keep your head above the waves

Oh, feels so good
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
I knew it would
Oh it just don't mean that much anymore oh


2.A Piece of the Action

Lyrics:M.Japp/Sanford
Music:M.Japp/Sanford

I've got no money
Could you spare a dime
I got the plan if you got the time
If you take me there
You can claim your share of the action

Been on the road for a long time now
Paid all my dues oh I'm running out
If you take me there
You can claim your share of the action

Oh for a piece of the action
Oh for a slice of the cake
Oh for a piece of the action
Oh for a slice of the cake

Sometimes I feel as I'm going down
That nothing can stop me from losing ground
If you take me there
You can claim your share of the action
Oh for a piece of the action
Oh for a slice of the cake
Oh for a piece of the action
Oh for a slice of the cake
For a slice of the cake oh


3.Broken Heart

Lyrics:J.Waite
Music:J.Waite

I heard that she's back in town
Heard she's been seen around
I hear she gets what she wants everytime
I know what she put you through
I know what you'd like to do
Cause I lost my heart to her sometime ago

So come on
Wipe your tears away
It's all that you can do
A broken heart never mends
Crying tears til the very end

At home on the boulevard
Cheap whiskey and tarot cards
Man she's outrageous
She wants the best in life
Sugar daddies with agin' wives
She's expensive everything she does

So come on
Wipe your tears away
It's all that you can do
A broken heart never mends
Crying tears til the very end

She knows what it must be like
Living in paradise
If you ain't got money she don't wanna know
I know what she put you through
I know what you'd like to do
I lost my heart to her sometime ago

So come on
Wipe your tears away
It's all that you can do
When you've got a broken heart

Come on
Wipe your tears away
It's all that you can do
Oh yeah


4.Love Don't Prove I'm Right

Written:J.Waite/W.Stocker/A.Brock

You used to celebrate it
When I came in at 6 AM
Ooh babe I could never really fake it
Cause I was in love again

Love don't prove
Love don't prove I'm right
Love don't prove
Love don't prove I'm right

You used to sing and shout it
Showing me what you got
Ooh babe I could never really doubt it
Cause baby you got such a lot

Love don't prove
Love don't prove I'm right
No no
Love don't prove
Love don't prove

Ooh you used to celebrate
Ooh now you have to wait
You're gonna wait

Love don't prove
Love don't prove I'm right
No no no no no no
Love don't prove
Love don't prove

If you need a hand to guide you
Let me be your northern light
You could give me all of your lovin'
And I'll make everything alright

Love don't prove
Love don't prove I'm right
No no no
Love don't prove
Love don't prove I'm right
Love don't prove
Love don't prove that I'm right
Oh yeah


5.Love is a Rose to Me

Lyrics:J.Waite
Music:J.Waite

Love is a rose to me
Growin' desperate and I'm desperately
Reliving memories
For love is a rose

And when you look at me
There's no one that I would rather see
You make me feel complete
For love is a rose

Love is a rose to me
Picked and pressed in books of poetry
Young lovers never see that love is a rose
Love is a rose to me


6.White Lightening

Lyrics:B.Nicholls
Music:B.Nicholls

When I was young
They took me to the dentist
I had a toothache
But that's okay
They gave me some time
And that night in my bedroom
I worked it loose
Like I used to do

One little boy in a dentist's chair
Heard a hundred angels flying past him
What a gas
Sitting there
The same little boy with a few more years
Took a sniff of this
A taste of that
What a drag
Nothing there

And then one day he saw you walk
And heard you didn't talk
Saw the writing on the wall
It didn't thunder anymore

White lightening it's got nothing on you
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Oh it didn't shine like you Lord
White lightening way out in the blue
With a million angels singin'
Oh it didn't sound like you Lord

Come on to tell when I tell you to breathe in
I will take out everything while you're sleeping
Always refusing the heavenly music
When you awake it will have a new meaning

White lightening it's got nothing on you
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Oh it didn't shine like you Lord
White lightening way out in the blue
With a million angels singin'
Oh it didn't sound like you Lord

Come on to tell when I tell you to breathe in
I will take out everything while you're sleeping
Always refusing the heavenly music
When you awake it will have a new meaning

White lightening it's got nothing on you
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Oh it didn't shine like you Lord
White lightening way out in the blue
With a million angels singin'
Oh it didn't sound like you Lord


7.Run to Mexico

Written:J.Waite/W.Stocker/M.Corby/A.Brock

Come on baby don't you wanna go
I could take you there
You could get what you want in the south
You could let down your hair
I said do you don't you will you won't you
Baby won't you please let me know
I ain't talkin' 'bout Chicago
I'm talkin' about Mexico

Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Makin' a run for Mexico
Makin' a run for Mexico
Could you

Come on baby cause I got to know
The law is after me
I killed a man in a bar last night
There was no other way it could be
While the air in this joint could be cut with a knife
As the jukebox got rotten selections
Bring a compass and some money for gas
Cause I ain't gonna stop for directions
Not to Mexico

Na na na na na
Makin' a run to Mexico
Na na na na na
Makin' a run to Mexico
Could you
Oh oh

Come on baby don't you wanna go
I gotta get away
And everytime the phone rings
It scares me to death
Saw my face in the paper today
I don't wanna hear the stories
About your mama and papa
No I don't wanna hear you cry
For me there's no second chance right now
It's the F. B. fucking I.

Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Makin' a run to Mexico
Na na na na na
Ooh yeah
Makin' a run to Mexico
Na na na na na
Makin' a run to Mexico
Na na na na na
My life goes on in Mexico

Mexico
In Mexico
In Mexico
In Mexico
In Mexico
In Mexico
Mexico
Yeah
In Mexico
In Mexico
Mexico
In Mexico
In Mexico
In Mexico


8.World in a Bottle

Lyrics:J.Waite
Music:J.Waite

Give your love away
It's not the way you seem
Cause someone's just come in your life
And broken up your dreams
Look into my eyes and tell me what you see
And if my eyes are empty
Well that's the way I'm meant to be

What I got
Who am I
I got the world in a bottle
Oh oh

Whatever I once was
Is fading fast away
My soul is like a shadow
Growing fainter in the day
I've never loved you more
But you feel so out of reach
My life is like a sun
Sinking slowly in the beach

What I got
Who am I
I got the world in a bottle
Ooh oh

Come here
I want you

What I got
Who am I
I got the world in a bottle

What I got
Who am I
I got the world in a bottle

So give your love away
It's not the way you seem
Cause someone's just come in your life
And broken up your dreams
Look into my eyes and tell me what you see
And if my eyes are empty
Well that's the way I'm meant to be

What I got
Who am I
I got the world in a bottle

What I got
Somebody
Who am I
I got the world in a bottle


9.Union Jack

Lyrics:J.Waite/R.Phillips
Music:J.Waite/R.Phillips

Missin' at school
Bustin' the rules
Hates everything in sight
Needs some new shoes
Dad's on the booze
She's never there
Far away kid
All on his own
Can't tell the wrong from right
Thin as a rake
Tough as a nail tonight
Tonight

Here are your hopes for the future you'll see
If you hang 'round the neck of a loser like me
There's no one else in your life
You don't need anyone
Come with me in the night
I will give you the matches
I will make you complete
Won't you please come with me
I won't ask you again
I can give you the hopes of a younger man
In the night we can hear
I'm your friend and what's more
I will give you what you've been looking for
Yes I can give you what you've been looking for

Should I run
Should I take it
Should I go or should I stay?
Who side am I on in this game that we play
I wanna be somebody someday
Living my life away

And I can't find a job
I can't pay the rent
Police are always breathing down my neck
And there's no way out
There's no way out no more

Under this flag
We're all Union Jacks
And there's no home for the brave
And there's no way back

We are the obeyer
We are the law
In stained boots
And navy blue
Hello hello hello

With fire in my heart and you along beside me
We'll burn down all the schools
That taught us there¹s nothing better than
To live by all the rules
Made by the ruling classes
So the scales of justice tip
In the favor of the government

Under this flag
We're all Union Jacks
And there's no home for the brave
And there's no way back

We are the obeyer
We are the law
In stained boots
And navy blue
Hello hello hello

With fire in my heart and you along beside me
We'll burn down all the schools
That taught us there¹s nothing better than
To live by all the rules
Made by the ruling classes
So the scales of justice tip
In the favor of the government

Under this flag
We're all Union Jacks
And there's no home for the brave
And there's no way back

Under this flag
We're all Union Jacks
And there's no home for the brave
And there's no way back

Tonight

Here are your hopes for a future you'll see
You're like me
We're all Union Jacks


10.Anytime

Written:J.Waite/A.Brock/R.Phillips/W.Stocker/J.Cain

Hear a message on my radio
I get home I got nowhere to go
Think about ya day and night
I'll be waiting so when it feels right

Anytime you want at all
Anytime
Anytime you want just call

Heartbeat faster lose control
A burnin' fever gets you alone
I need your love you're the only one
The night is passin' I could soon be gone

So anytime you want at all
Anytime
Anytime you want just call
Anytime you wanna rock and roll

Anytime

Telephone telegram
Come on over
Make me feel like a man
A crack of thunder over my hometown
I read the future it has to go down

So anytime you want at all
Anytime
Anytime you want just call
Anytime you wanna rock and roll
Anytime you need my love
Anytime
Anytime you want just call
Ooh yeah
(Anytime anytime)
Anytime you want my love
Yeah yeah
(Anytime anytime)
Anytime you're on your own
(Anytime anytime)
Anytime you want my love
(Anytime anytime)
Ooh


11.Jesus Are You There?

Lyrics:J.Waite/W.Stocker/J.Cain
Music:J.Waite/W.Stocker/J.Cain

Give me something I can touch with my hands
Something I can look at and understand
If you're up there no don't look down on me
Do something quick I can't pay the rent

Do you believe in Jesus
Is he there
Is there a God above
And does he really care
Oh yeah
Jesus are you there
And do you really care

I don't believe in nothing no more
Can't find the truth
I just need to score
Don't give me Hare Krishna
Keep it to yourself man
Stand back
Get back

Do you believe in Jesus
Is he there
Is there a God above
And does he really care
Oh yeah
Jesus are you there
And do you really care

Take me on a cruise around the world
Give me a break
Bring me a girl
Getting crazy about World War Three
It's suicide of the sanctuary

Should I believe in Jesus
Is he there
Is there a God above
And does he really care
Oh yeah
Jesus are you there
And do you really care
Oh yeah
No no no no

Jesus are you there
Oh yeah
No no no no no no
Do you really care
Jesus are you there
Anybody in
Jesus Jesus Jesus are you there


12.Darker Side of Town

Lyrics:J.Waite/J.Cain
Music:J.Waite/J.Cain

You always give me something
To help me understand
Turn those tracks around me one more time
But all you give is killing me
I can't turn around

I'm gettin' loaded on a darker side of town
I don't know who I am on a darker side of town

I came to win some game I played
When I was just a boy
I've done too much have nothing in my life
I understood the rules back then
Now I can't decide

I'm gettin' loaded on a darker side of town
I'm gettin' wasted on a darker side of town

Oh I give to you everything I've got
Even start again to make you smile yeah
But my luck's run out
My head is burned
I can't turn around

I'm gettin' loaded on a darker side of town
I'm drownin' in some wine on a darker side of town
Darker side of town


13.Rock 'n Roll Is (Alive And Well)

Written:J.Waite/J.Cain/R.Phillips

I wrote the president
But I got no reply
He claims he tells the truth
He writes it in the sky
The taxman's at the door
Though he never seems polite
They've got me cornered
Cornered in the light
We could change that overnight

So goodnight to all the world
Sleep tight all you boys and girls

I spent some time at school
Livin' by the rules
They didn't like me much
Hypocrites and fools
Old men teach young men
To surrender to the law
The straight and narrow path
Leads to the same old door
Gonne kick it in like before

So goodnight to all the world
Sleep tight all you boys and girls
Heaven walks hand in hand with hell
Rock 'n roll is alive and well

Too many heroes looking dead upon their feet
It's time to raise the roof
And shout it in the street
It's time to take command
It's time to make a stand
Yeah

Don't need a uniform
To know which side I'm on
Don't need a set of rules
To know what's right or wrong
I've been an outcast
In your eyes and to the law
The right hand takes away
The left hand asks for more
But we all know the score

So goodnight to all the world
Sleep tight all you boys and girls
Heaven walks hand in hand with hell
Rock 'n roll is alive
Is alive and well

So goodnight to all the world
Sleep tight all the boys and girls
Heaven walks hand in hand with hell
Rock 'n roll is alive
Is alive and well

Goodnight
Goodnight
Goodnight
Goodnight
Goodnight
Goodnight
Goodnight
Goodnight
Gonna have some fun tonight
Everything's alright
Goodnight
Goodnight
Goodnight
Sleep tight


14.Gonna Be Somebody

Lyrics:J.Waite/J.Cain/A.Brock
Music:J.Waite/J.Cain/A.Brock

You spin around and turn on me
Stop me in my crash
You wanna be somebody else
Say you won't be back
Your bourgeois friends call you dear
Deal you like a card
Your eyes out for the diamonds now
Experienced and scarred

You tell me gonna be somebody
Gonna be okay
Gonna be somebody someday

You're moving through a different space
Where I don't belong
Elegance gold and silver
Superficial grace
They'll pervert you
Masquerade you
Pass evil as good taste
They'll chew you up and spit you out
And put you in your place

You tell me gonna be somebody
Gonna be okay
Gonna be somebody someday

Gonna be somebody
Gonna be okay
Gonna be somebody someday
Gonna be somebody
Gonna be okay
Gonna be somebody someday
Gonna be somebody
Gonna be somebody
Gonna be somebody someday


15.White Heat

Lyrics:J.Waite
Music:J.Waite

She's just a working girl from Baltimore
She'll choose you
She's been there
She's been there and back again
It's in and out
It's up it's down
It's a mercenary
And you get what you need
When you walk on the streets of paradise

In vogue in the streets
Indecision
Yeah yeah yeah
White heat
In fashion

She'll take you home
She'll take you where you wanna get back to
You're sweet sixteen
But you'll be a man tonight
It's to the wall
It's to the floor
She's in a hurry
But you get what you pay for
When you live on the streets of paradise

In heat in vogue
Impassioned
Yeah yeah yeah
White heat in fashion
Hard cash
Indiscrete
Wild passion
In heat
In vogue
In fashion

White heat
Cold passion
8th Avenue indecision
In heat on the street in fashion
In vogue in style
White heat cool looks hard cash
On the street
In vogue in style indiscretion
In trains in bars in heat

White heat
In vogue in fashion
Hard cash indiscrete wild passion
White heat in fashion
White heat in fashion
White heat in fashion
White heat indiscrete ignition


16.Make It Happen

Lyrics:J.Waite/B.Brody
Music:J.Waite/B.Brody

I've been watching you now
I've been caught in these hours
Days are turning to nights
Out of where there's no
No rules for strangers

When I see you again
Will you still feel the same way
Understand
In your eyes
I can't get nothing right

All day
All night
Make it happen
Make me feel alright
All day
All night
Make it happen
Make me feel alright

Oh yeah

When I see you walk by
Turn my head wanna break down
I've been living alone
I've been living a lie
I get so scared of my fears

There's a space in my life
For just one time
Or baby forever

Understand
It's in your eyes
I can't get nothing right

All day
All night
Make it happen
Make me feel alright
All day
All night
Make it happen
Make me feel alright

I've been watching you now
And I've been living in a daydream
It's that I miss you so
Can't think of words
I break down
I've been lonely

When I see you again
Will you still feel the same way
Understand
In your eyes
I can't do nothing right

All day
All night
Make it happen
Make me feel alright
All day
All night
Make it happen
Make me feel alright

All day
All night
Make it happen
Make me feel alright
All day
Make it happen
Make me feel alright

All day
Make it happen
Alright
Make it happen
Yeah
Make it happen
Yeah


17.Change

Lyrics:Knight
Music:Knight

People talking
And they're saying that you're leaving
So unhappy
With the way that you've been living

Oh oh oh
We always wish for money
We always wish for fame
We think we have the answers
Some things ain't ever gonna change (change)
It doesn't matter who you are
It's all the same (change)
What's in your heart will never change

Look in the mirror
And you see how you've been taken
You won't surrender
But now your heart is breakin'

Oh oh oh
We always wish for money
We always wish for fame
We think we have the answers
Some things ain't ever gonna change (change)
It doesn't matter who you are
It's all the same (change)
What's in your heart will never change

Do you remember
When you got your lucky break
You're looking back now
And it seems like a mistake

Oh oh oh
We always wish for money
We always wish for fame
We think we have the answers
Some things ain't ever gonna change (change)
It doesn't matter who you are
It's all the same (change)
What's in your heart will never change

It's only change (change)
It doesn't matter who you are
It's all the same (change)
What's in your heart will never change

It doesn't matter who you are
It's all the same (change)
What's in your heart will stay the same
It doesn't matter who you are
It's all the same (what¹s in your heart)
It's only
It's only
It's only change
Never (it doesn't matter)
You ain't gonna
You ain't gonna change (what's in your heart)
You ain't gonna change
Doesn't matter who you are


18.Mr. Wonderful

Lyrics:J.Waite/T.Pierce
Music:J.Waite/T.Pierce

I can't play these games with you no more
I get my fingers caught inside the door
Now everything I say is just a joke
Spend my money now you leave me broke

Living someone's life in clear blue skies
Fairy tales and dreams and alibis
All you want from me are things for you
Use me til I don't know what to do

You live in your own world anyway
Twisting every single thing I say
In my hometown I feel out of place
Change my name and find a different face
You tell me

No more cool Mr. Wonderful
No more nice Mr. Clean
No more cool Mr. Ideal
It's driving me out of my mind

Yeah

I can hear the wolves outside the bar
Sometimes I don't know which one you are
Imitation's all that you accept
Shadows of myself that you once met

Bottles in the alley break and smash
Get into the car for one-car crash
You tell me

No more cool Mr. Wonderful
No more nice Mr. Clean
No more cool Mr. Ideal
It's driving me down
Driving me down to my knees

No more cool Mr. Wonderful
No more nice Mr. Clean
No more cool Mr. Ideal
It's driving me down to my knees

Mr. Wonderful
No more nice Mr. Clean
No more cool Mr. Ideal
It's driving me out of my mind

No more cool Mr. Wonderful
No more nice Mr. Clean
No more cool Mr. Ideal
Oh oh oh oh oh

No way Mr. Wonderful
No way
No way
Ideal
Wonderful
Ideal
Wonderful
Ideal


19.If Anybody Had a Heart

Lyrics:J.Souther/D.Kortchmar
Music:J.Souther/D.Kortchmar

In this world of right and wrong
The hardest part is beginning
By the time you find where you belong
You're either losing or winning

Well I don't know how
But people seem to know
When you want somebody bad enough
Well I want you now and wherever you go
I'm gonna love ya till you've had enough cause

If everyone had a heart
Yours would never be broken
If anybody had a heart like mine

People treat you like the clothes you wear
They only see what you show them
Let them talk baby I don't care
They don't know where we're goin'

I love you so much
And I have for so long
How could anybody doubt it
Oh just one little touch
This love is so strong
Baby how can we live without it

If everyone had a heart
Yours would never be broken
If anybody had a heart like mine

When you love somebody
You may stumble you may fall
But if you love somebody hard enough
Maybe you can get it all

If everyone had a heart
Yours would never be broken
If anybody had a heart like mine
Anybody in the world

If everyone had a heart
Yours would never be broken
If anybody had a heart like mine

If anybody had a heart

If everyone had a heart
Yours would never be broken
If anybody had a heart like mine

If anybody had a heart

If everyone had a heart...


20.Missing You

Written:J.Waite/M.Sanford/C.Leonard

Every time I think of you
I always catch my breath
And I'm still standing here
And you're miles away
And I'm wondering why you left

And there's a storm that's raging
Through my frozen heart tonight

I hear your name in certain circles
And it always makes me smile
I spend my time
Thinking about you
And it's almost driving me wild

And there's a heart that's breaking
Down this long distance line tonight

I ain't missing you at all
Since youe been gone
Away
I ain't missing you
No matter
What I might say

There's a message
In the wild
And I'm sending you this signal tonight

You don't know
How desperate I've become
And it looks like I'm losing this fight

In your world
I have no meaning
Though I'm trying hard to understand

And it's my heart that's breaking
Down this long distance line tonight

I ain't missing you at all
Since you've been gone
Away
I ain't missing you
No matter
What my friends say

And there's a message that I'm sending out
Like a telegraph to your soul
And if I can't bridge this distance
Stop this heartbreak overload

I ain't missing you at all
Since you've been gone
Away
I ain't missing you
No matter
What my friends say

I ain't missing you
I ain't missing you
I keep lying to myself

And there's a storm that's raging
Through my frozen heart tonight

I ain't missing you at all
Since you've been gone
Away
I ain't missing you
No matter
What my friends say

Ain't missing you
I ain't missing you
I ain't missing you
I keep lying to myself

Ain't missing you
I ain't missing you
I ain't missing you
I ain't missing you

I ain't missing you
I ain't missing you
Ain't missing you
Oh no

No matter what my friends might say
I ain't missing you