Wer den Song noch nicht kennt, kann ihn sich hier in einer schönen Live – Version anhören:

Night is falling, times are golden, here is where my heart was stolen
Quick and dirty, nice and slow and drinks that make the fever grow
Heaven’s just around the bend take me to the promised land
Just in time a song comes up to brighten up your day Pre-Chorus
Will you be mine will you be there and try to make me stay

You’ve got my number you know my name
You make me feel kerosene running in my veins

Watch your step, we’re tumblin’ round I won’t stop till we’re going down
Dancin’ barefoot face to face on carpets made of razorblades
Heaven’s just around the bend take me to the promised land
Just in time a song comes up to brighten up your day
Will you be mine will you be there and try to make me stay

You’ve got my number you know my name
You make me feel kerosene running in my veins

And if it’s just one time you and I and no regrets
Let us make love and hold tight and find out if it’s worth the cost
And if it is, let’s just get lost we seek the truth but haven’t found it yet

Just in time I’ll come up to brighten up your day
Will you be mine will you be there and try to make me say

I love your thunder I’ll play this game
I’ll make you wonder Our lives will never be the same again

Dies ist ein Lied, das entstanden ist, weil ich unaufmerksamen, respektlosen Leuten im Publikum manchmal gerne heimlich etwas sagen möchte.

I’d walk a thousand miles for you
do all the things you want me to
can’t you hear me beggin‘ on my knees
I’d burn my brand new car
even break this old guitar
just to find out, won’t you tell me please

How can I make you do
all the things I want you to
how can I make you go away
will you please listen to
the words I’m tryin‘ to say to you
I don’t want you to stay

You make me feel so sad
despite the good times that we had
it’s over now, you nee to set me free
I was tryin‘ to sing my song
and then you came along
come on, I want you to leave me be

How can I make you do
all the things I want you to
how can I make you go away
will you please listen to
the words I’m tryin‘ to say to you
I don’t want you to stay

I can feel this weakness
I want you to stop your talking
close my eyes to
calm me down until you’re walking out

Chords:

Verse: dm – b – c – am / dm – b – c – c
Chorus:  f – c – gm – b – c
Bridge: dm – b – f – c / dm – b – f – c – g

So sieht es aus, wenn die Lieder auf meinem Schreibtisch herumliegen… Zur Erinnerung – das Video gibts hier.

Noch was: Wegen der zahlreichen Nachfragen, auch bei Konzerten… Nicht jedes Lied ist irgendwie autobiographisch. Man kann auch einfach vor sich hin reimen. Oder sich eine Situation ausdenken und dann einen Text drüber machen. Auch muss nicht jeder Text Sinn ergeben. Liebe Freunde, nein – ich bin weder depressiv noch halte ich mich für einen todgeweihten bösen Menschen.

Sorgt Euch nicht um mich, auch wenn die letzten Stücke aus meiner Feder eher düsterer Natur waren. Ich erinnere an „Tod im Wald“, das übrigens vielleicht noch im ersten Quartal 2010 zu Hörspielehren kommen könnte. Ich lasse Euch wissen, wenn das Ei gelegt ist.

Don’t cry, keep smiling Try to keep the tears from falling
I’m here with you mama’s gonna hear you calling
Just close your eyes you can’t cry while you are dreaming
I’ll sing your song while rain is coming through the ceiling

Oh yeah Baby Your love Keep it coming my way
Oh yeah Baby Your love Keep it coming my way

Your eyes like fire when you wake up every new day
Your smile like sunshine seems like you are feeling O.K.
You are so beautiful shining like a star in the night sky
I love you baby I never wanna miss your smiling bright eyes

Oh yeah…

Noone in the world can do what you do
I don’t know what you do, you do voodoo, Voodoo
Oh yeah…

Don’t cry, keep smiling Try to keepthe tears from falling
I’m here with you mama’s gonna hear you calling
Just close your eyes you can’t cry while you are dreaming
I’ll sing your song while rain is coming through the ceiling

Oh yeah…

Tell me baby, when the morning comes
And you don’t even think of me
Could you guess what I’ve done?
Yes I’m gone, Lord knows I am gone.

Tell me baby, when the night is done
And you won’t hand your heart to me
Could you tell where I’ve run?
Yes I’m gone, Lord knows I am gone.

The days without you killing me
My love for you won’t leave me be
I thought about it, got a gun,
Oh baby look what I have done…

Tell me baby, if you had known before
If you had seen it coming
Would you have given more
Yes I’m gone, Lord knows I am gone.

Tell me baby, did you want it this way?
Did you know it was going
To be like this someday?
Now I’m gone, Lord knows I am gone.

Ref.

Tell me baby, why didn’t you just take
All that I had offered you
While my heart still ached
Yes I’m gone, Lord knows I am gone.

Tell me baby, why didn’t you prevent
Me from doing what I did
That’s how it was meant
To be, I’m gone, Lord knows I am gone.

Ref.