That's Why I'm Here
Album - 1985 - Debaser id 58724

Person to person
And man to man
I'm back in touch
With my long lost friend

Listen to reason
And understand
And think of me
From way back when

He said me and Melissa
Well, we fell out of love
Ran out of luck
Seems like lightning struck

I've been thinkin' of leavin'
But I can't raise a buck
James, I'm wondering
Could I borrow your truck

I said that's why I'm here
(That's why I'm here)
Got no better reason
That's why I'm standing before you
(That's why I'm here)
That's why I'm here

John's gone found dead
He dies high he's brown bread
Later said to have
Drowned in his bed

After the laughter
The wave of the dread
It hits us like a ton of lead

It seems "learn not to burn"
Means turn on a dime
Walk on if you're walking
Even if it's an uphill climb

Try to remember that
Working's no crime
Just don't let 'em take
And waste your time

That's why I'm here
(That's why I'm here)
There'll be no more messes tonight
That's why I'm here
(That's why I'm here)
Whoa, that's why I'm here

This is an I.O.U.
I reckon I owe you one now
Listen Wendy and listen Gloria
This'll be better tomorrow

Oh, fortune and fame's
Such a curious game
Perfect strangers
Can call you by name

And pay good money to hear
"Fire And Rain"
Again and again and again

Oh, some are like summer
Coming back every year
Got your baby, got your blanket
Got your bucket of beer

I break into a grin
From ear to ear
And suddenly
It's perfectly clear

That's why I'm here
(That's why I'm here)
Singing tonight, tomorrow
And every day
That's why standin'
(That's why I'm here)
Whoa, that's why I'm here

This is the part
About Kitty and Bim
He loved her
And she loved him

Wake 'em up, shake 'em up
The middle of the night
You got to tell me
Everything's all right

I said that's why I'm here
(That's why I'm here)
You got me walkin' and
Talkin' like a natural man
That's why I'm here
(That's why I'm here)
Whoa, that's why I'm here

That's right

More than a distant
Over a shining sea
More than the steaming green
More than the shining eyes

Well they tell me it's only a drea in Rio
Nothing could be as sweet as it seems
On this very first day down
They remind me
Son have you so soon forgotten
Often as not it's rotten inside
And the mask soon slips away
Strange taste of a tropical fruit
Romantic language of the portugese
Melody on a wooden flute
Samba floating in the summer breeze

Take it easy

It's alright you can stay asleep
You can close your eyes
You can trust the people of paradise
To call your keeper
And tender your goodbyes

Oh what a night
Wonderful one in a million
Frozen fire brazilian stars
Oh holy southern cross
Later on
Take me way downtown in a tincan
I cant come down from the bandstand
I'm never thrown for souch a loss
When they say

Quando a nossa mae acordar
Andareimos au sol
Quando a nossa mae acordar
Cantara pelos sertao
Quando a nossa mae acordar
Todos os filios saberao
Todos os filios saberao
E regozijarao

Caught in the rays of the rising sun
On the run from the soldiers gun
Shouting out loud from the angry crowd
The mild the wild and the hungry child

I'll tell you
It's more than a dream in Rio
I was there on the very day
And my heart came back alive

There was more
More than the singing voices
More than the upturned faces
And more than the shining eyes
But it's more than the shining eye
More than the steaming green
More than the hidden hills
More than the concrete christ
More than a distant land
Over a shining sea
More than the hungry child
More like another time
Born of a million years
More than a million yers

My romance doesn't need to have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn't need a blue lagoon standing by
No month of May
No shining star
No hideaway
No soft guitar

My romance doesn't need a castle rising in Spain
Nor a dance to a constantly surprising refrain
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true
'Cause my romance doesn't need a thing but you

oh everyday it's a getting closer
going faster than a roller coaster
a love like yours would surely come my way

yeah everyday seems a little faster
all my friends they say go on up and ask her
a love like yours would surely come my way

oh everyday it seems a little stronger
and everyday it lasts a little longer
come what may do you ever long for
true love from me like I longed for yours baby

everyday seems a little closer
going faster than a roller coaster
a love like yours would surely come my way

yes a love like yours would surely come my way (everyday)
everyday (everyday)

(everyday) it seems a little stronger
(everyday) you know it lasts a little longer
come what may do you ever long for
true love from me like I longed for yours baby

everyday seems a little closer
going faster than a roller coaster
a love like yours would surely come my way
come my way

oh everyday
I say everyday babe yeah
everyday everyday every day
oh everyday everyday everyday....