What happened to my lover?
Who took away your face
How much will it cost you
And how much did you pay?

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You opened up your wallet
You might as well have opened up your wrist
You look at all that’s wrong with you
And you add it to the list

With magazines and pageant queens
They’ll shame you and define you
With collegen and with saline
They’ll tame you and refine you

Chorus:
But when you are comfortable in your own skin
When you’re accepting of all that you are
And you’re proud in the way that you walk
You’re the most beautiful
Yeah when you are comfortable in your own skin
And you’re accepting of all that you are
And you’re proud in the way that you walk
You’re the most beautiful

You see your smile is my addiction
Your eyes, they make me fly
Your hands are my connection
And your lips are my supply
But you cover every blemish
You hide your every flaw
You listen to the critics
But they don’t know who you are

With magazines and pageant queens
They’ll shame you and define you
With collegen and with saline
They’ll tame you and refine you

Chorus…

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I’m one of The Few, The Proud
Who laugh at your jokes
And when you’re crude or loud
I know it’s a hoax
I’m always there for you

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When good times abound
And when the others leave
I’ll still be around
What will it take for you to see?
The man you’re waiting for is me

I know all your hope, your dreams
Your fantasies too
I know the perfect way
To make them come true
I like your look, your feel
your age and your youth
And if you take a dare
I’ll give you my truth
What will it take for you to see?
The man you’re waiting for is me

CHORUS

Baby, I was born to be your man
Baby, I was born to be your man
One day you’ll surely wake up
And understand the plan
That baby, I was born to be your man

I’ve got me a horse, and armor
It shines like the sun
I’ll neither sleep, nor rest
‘Till the battle is won
You should be willing, and daring
To give me a try
If it is not clear by now that
I am your guy
What will it take for you to see?
The man you’re waiting for is me

Chorus

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Another night spent in the shadows
The golden dawn before my eyes
Counting boundaries crushed and swept away
As old illusions die

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Farther I go, farther I go
When I think I can’t go farther,
Farther I go
Farther I go, farther I go
When I think I won’t go farther,
Farther I go

And would the ones who knew me back there
Know the treasures I have seen?
Or would they fear for my eternal soul
Knowing where I’ve been?

BRIDGE
Making love to what I always feared
Sleeping when I can
Wonderful and wise and often weird
Such is the Fall of Man

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Have the fluorescent lights burned out your eyes, son?
When’s the last time you saw the sun slip under the horizon?
Have the columns and the cells become the hallways of your hell?
Are you waiting to be saved by an imaginary bell?

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CHORUS:
So count the cost, seize the day
Pay the man, and walk away
Look back once, blow a kiss
You must do no less than this
Follow your bliss

Have the long and plodding hours turned to years?
Do you disregard your dreams and do you stem the tide of tears?
The child was a dreamer and the dreamer went to work
The worker pays the doctor to see where his anger lurks

BRIDGE
Will you own your own life, will you heed the call?
‘Cause if you play it safe then you don’t play at all
The value of your life equals what you dare to pay
What you get from life is what you give away

So count the cost, seize the day
Pay the man, and walk away
Look back once, blow a kiss
You must do no more than this
Follow your bliss

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CHORUS:

When he’s in girlfriend mode
He never calls his friends
When he’s in girlfriend mode
He never calls his friends

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He boards a ship, set sail for sea
He’s hoping to find his destiny
Forgetting his debts, forgetting supplies
Taking no leave and hearing no cries
But I truly hope my friend finds
Just what he needs
I hope his dreams will not erode
After the girlfriend mode

He builds a temple made of glass
The fragile foundation starts to crack
Fed by his dreams, and nourished by need
He works and works, no warning he heeds
But I truly hope my friend finds just what he needs
I hope his dreams will not erode
After the girlfriend mode

Chorus

In Lotus Land they drink their wine
(In their own world they drink Merlot)
Their lives are one, their love is blind
(They just won’t see, they just don’t know)
The city’s in ruins, they dance on the rubble
(The place is a mess, they roll in the dirt)
There is no fighting, there is no trouble
(He bares her breast, she tears his shirt)
But I truly hope my friend finds just what he needs
I hope his dreams will not erode
After the girlfriend mode

Chorus

He never calls his friends
He never calls his friends

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She left my room with barely a word
God, the way she holds it in’s like trash
Inside her jammed-shut purse
She turns so hot and cold it makes me crack
I try so hard to see her side
All I see now is her back

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She has been typecast all of her life
Daddy’s pride, daddy’s toy
The Blonde Seductress straight from Troy
I turn to her with barely a choice
Her beauty brings me healing but
Somehow I hurt her with my voice

CHORUS:

And she’s the modern Joan of Arc
And I’m the shameless patriarch
Our egos fight a distant war like
Howling tomcats in the dark
And every time we get this close
We’re haunted by our parents’ ghosts
And we try in vain to prove
Exactly which one hurts the most

I was born to a line of directors
So I learned to love command
Sometimes I get out of hand
I try so hard to think before I speak
I grovel when I cross the line
She thinks I’ve got a cruel design

Chorus

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When the money’s running out
When the car doesn’t start
When everybody’s fighting
And nobody’s home

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That’s when my heart begins to doubt
Feels like time is running out
And I’m doubting the ground on which I stand
That’s when I fear to turn the page
I get conscious of my age
So I’ll burn a little sage and I’ll pray

I need you now
I need you now
I need you now

When I’m afraid to open up
Cause I hate to complain
And I’m desperate and I’m needy
And I don’t know who I am

That’s when my heart begins to doubt
Feels like time is running out
And I’m doubting the ground on which I stand
That’s when I fear to turn the page
I get conscious of my age
So I’ll burn a little sage and I’ll pray

I need you now
I need you now

Because my heart begins to doubt
Feels like time is running out
And I’m doubting the ground on which I stand
That’s when I fear to turn the page
I get conscious of my age
So I’ll burn a little sage and I’ll pray

I need you now
I need you now

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I need you now

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When I was 17
it was a very good year
It was a very good year for small-town girls
and soft summer nights
We’d hide from the lights on the village green
When I was 17

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When I was 21
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for city girls
who lived up the stairs
With all their perfumed hair, I watched it come undone
When I was 21

When I was 35
t was a very good year
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls
of independent means
We’d ride in limousines, their chauffeurs would drive
When I was 35

When I was 39
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for solitude
And paradigm shift
I was showered with gifts, it was a heavenly sign
When I was 39

And when the days grow short
In the autumn of my years
I will look at my life like vintage wine
From fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs, it will flow sweet and clear
It was a very good year
It was a very good year, a very good year. Yeah

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When you lie, and deny
When you turn and disappear
And don’t even say goodbye
When you beg, when you steal
When you treat the gifts all given you
Like none of them are real

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It’s all right
It’s all right
Yeah, it’s all right

When you hide in the dark
When you use the breath of life
To blow out the only spark
When you call on the phone
Just to tell your only friend
That you’d rather be alone now
It’s all right
It’s all right
Yeah it’s all right

CHORUS:

There’s one thing that I want you to know
There’s one thing that I want you to know
Just one thing that I want you to know
It’s all right
Yeah, it’s all right
It’s all right
It’s all right

When you walk among the dead
When you fear that you are sinking
Where you never thought you’d tread
When you wake in the morn
And the first thought that you have
Is to regret the day you were born, now
It’s all right
It’s all right
Yeah it’s all right

BRIDGE:
Saint or sinner, proud or shamed
Loser or winner, quick or lame
I will love you all the same
You’re all right
Yeah you’re all right
It’s all right…
It’s all right.

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How could you cause her such pain?
How could you love her and leave her this way?
After she gives herself to you, you stray
And after she trusts you, her trust you betray

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How could you do this to her?
Turn her to stone and confirm all her fears?
River of love is now river of tears
And here’s what I say to myself in the mirror:

CHORUS
Jackass, big jerk, loser, piece of work
Jackass, scoundrel, bastard, asshole

Our love was never that strong
But I propped it up, kept it limping along
My biggest sin was to stay way too long
I never let on that anything’s wrong

(Chorus)

She cries and she hangs up the phone
She wants me back, but I must walk alone
But what can I do, if I won’t hate myself
I can hold my head high, and say to myself

I’m a jackass, big jerk, loser, piece of work
Jackass, scoundrel, bastard, asshole
Bastard, Asshole
Bastard, Asshole
Bastard, Asshole

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