Second Thoughts
Album - 1976 - Debaser id 57824

I saw you standing there at the bar

Your eyes were glazed with passion

A look of afar - A secret smile

I blew a few kisses

Said my name is Lyle



That love in her eyes (love in her eyes)

Heart to heart (heart to heart)

A tender goodbye (a tender goodbye)

Nothing could ever keep us apart

As you sipped your tequila

I knew I had to steal ya

Read like a book

Surprise that you took your time

Dig that rhyme



Gone, love took offence at the things I said

Good advice would be to go to bed

Rest my head, yeah

Catch 40 winks

While I dream about the things she said



Late last night, ooh yeah, late last night

She told me someone taught me everything I need to know, yeah

Last last night, late last night

She took my trembling hands and led me under the velvet sky

Rolling on the hill top playing Jack and Jill

Suddenly (suddenly) all was still, she was gone



She seemed so aloof

That's ninety per cent proof, with a lump in my throat

I grabbed my coat and ran, cornered again!

So I'll live for the moment and I'll take it as an omen

Gotta weakness for de women and de wine



Late last night, ooh yeah, late last night

She told me someone taught me everything I need to know, yeah

Late last night, ooh yeah, late last night

She told me someone taught me everything I need to know, yeah

Last last night, late late late late last night

She told me everything I know, know know...

I found myself in silver dreams
I'm talking in my sleep to pawns & queens
Outspoken words, you know, they just don't mean the same thing

Somebody must be kiddin' me
Somebody must be lying to me
Oh please don't tell me
Which is red and which is black
When are you coming back to me, babe?
Oh when are you coming back to me, babe?

I saw myself in checkered lands
I even dreamt I was the knight in command
The bishop screamed: "Don't horse around boy!"

Somebody must be kiddin' me
Somebody must be lying to me
And please don't tell me
I'm losing my way

You promised me everything now, didn't you babe?
You promised me everything now, didn't you babe?

My house is sliding into the sea
Skies are grey, since you've been away
The chickens aren't laying eggs no more
It can only mean you left me for sure

But I still think of you when I'm alone
How can I ever repay you for what you do to me
I still think of you when I'm alone
How can I ever repay you for what you're doin' to me

La do dah la do dah dah la do dah

My trees are all turning brown
The sun won't shine, now you're no longer mine
The rats are crawlin' up me back
It can only mean you're never coming back

But I still, think of you when I'm alone
Oh how could I ever repay you for what you're doin' to me
And I still, think of you when I'm alone
Oh how could I ever repay you for what you're doin' to me

La do dah la do dah dah la do dah
Wooh!

My bed is leaning to one side
You know I can't sleep now that I've lost my pride
The flies are swarming in like bees
I even have to share my clothes with fleas

But I still, think of you when, I'm alone
How can I ever repay you for what you're doin' to me
And I still, think of you when, I'm alone
How can I ever repay you for what you're doin' to me
Right now!

La do dah la do dah dah la do dah

Cunning as a con-man, shrewd as a liar
I went weak in the knees, the first time I saw you

Deep inside, day to day ritual
Oh give it a try
Do what you will, look out now!

But I've seen it all before
It's nothing new to me
A living legend, like 15 million other, angels

Try as I do, I can never get through
I only got as far, as the back seat of my car
It's all very well to cry now
Yes it's all very well to lie now

Now I'm wasting my time, clutching at straws (yeah)
You know damn well, what's mine is yours
Rich man or poor, duchess or whore
I haven't got time for, either or

I can't get over it
Thank God the storms passed over
I'll settle down I guess
Sweet dreams every once in a while
Sweet dreams every once in a while

Matovani, Martini and money
I fell for your etiquette
The first time we ever met
You really socked it to me
With your finger snap rhythym
Look out now, break-up

You've got it all figured out
Ten to one I lose
Drop your lovers noose and swing me

Cruelly deprived, I don't know how you've survived
Romantic theories of the pixies and fairies
Looking in retrospect seldom wrong but never correct
Emotions are aired like carpets out to dry

I can't get over it
Thank God the storms passed over
I'll settle down I guess
Sweet dreams every once in a while
Sweet dreams every once in a while
Sweet dreams, sweet dreams, sweet dreams every once in a while

Well you wouldn't know me from a bar of soap
A part of the furniture, an ornament, a rocking chair
It's all very well to cry now
Sweet dreams every once in a while

Stranger than fiction
Larger than life
Full of shades and echoes
It's the story of my life

Just like a picture book
Daddy's gone away
Leaving Mummy in her room
With another one on the way
At nights I've heard her screaming
Through the coloured walls
Oh, please don't leave me alone
Please don't leave me alone

And even her friend the hippyman
With his tarot cards to play
Drowning in his sea of words
Why he never has much to say
And I've seen him standing by the river
Singing to the birds

Just like the mystic says
Be careful of what you say
Talking to himself he needs no one
To help him on his way
Do you?
At nights I've heard him screaming
Through the candle flame
Oh, please don't leave me alone
Please don't leave me alone

You act as though
You were a blind man who's crying
Crying `bout, all the virgins that are dying
In your habitual dreams
You know, seems you need more sleep
But like a parrot in a flaming tree
I know, it's pretty hard to see
And I'm beginning to wonder if it's time for a change

But still you try like a fat boy
Dancing Gershwin's blues
But you'd rather sit at home and watch the news
And I'm beginning to wonder if it's time for a change
I'm beginning to wonder if it's time for a change