Missing Links 1
Released 1988
Rhino 70150All of Your Toys Once upon a once in a while It's hard to remember to smile Just like all of your toys Can't you see I don't wanna play I don't need it Can't you say you want me to stay I'll believe it Just like all of your toys CHORUS: When all of your play things Someday disappear Girl, will you be happy With nothing but tears? With nothing but tears? Once upon a once in a while It's hard to remember to smile, Just like all of your toys Don't you ever feel kind of sad? (Cause you're lonely) Think about the love that we had (Are you lonely)? Just like all of your toys CHORUS:
When all of your play things Someday disappear Girl, will you be happy With nothing but tears? With nothing but tears? Ah... Just like all of your toys, I don't wanna be Just like all of your toys, I don't need to be Just like all of your, just like all of your toys... I should have known I'd be alone No, no, no I don't need it Oh, don't you have me believe it Just like all of your toys.
Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears I love you girl, now that's the truth I need you Don't be cruel, don't be cruel Give me just a little help and to show how much I care I bring you Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears Run to me Girl don't wait to long And you'll see I won't do you wrong Promise me no matter what Forever you'll be there I'll bring you Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears I've said all I can today, girl That's the way I am Take it for what it's worth, Throw the rest into the sun Give me you Girl, that's all I ask Please be true All I want's a love to last I'll give it all back to you And just to prove I'm fair I bring you Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears Whoa! I love you, girl, now that's the truth I need you Don't be cruel, don't be cruel Give me just a little help And to show how much I care I bring you Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears
Carlisle Wheeling In a long and involved conversation with myself I saw a precious thing come into view When I poured through the files taken off my mental shelf I dusted off some memories of you Then I thought about the times When all the world was green How the phoenix of our love first flapped its silver wings All the urgency and passion of each new day as it happened And how it all mellowed as it grew I remember the times that our laughter would explode And how you would turn to hide your smile Then the hours of silence while the perfumed candle glowed And both of us meandered on for miles I remember the time I said I really had to go I remember the tears that filled your eyes Then I touched your hand and told you that it really was a lie And though you never knew I did, I cried It's amazing how time can so softly change your ways And make you look at things that can't be seen How the years that roll by can start you listening Not just to what they say, but what they mean So forgive me my dear if I seem preoccupied If the razor edge of youth filled love is gone But we're both a little older, our relationship has grown Not just in how it's shaped, but how it's shown So forgive me my dear if I seem preoccupied If the razor edge of youth filled love is gone But we're both a little older and our relationship has grown Not just in how it's shaped, but how it's shown
I Don't Think You Know Me If you think I want the life you choose to live I don't think I want the love you've got to give If you think my goals could be so trivial and small Then, I don't think you know me at all Born between the covers of your fashion books You think you can make it, girl, on just your looks But you could never bring me up Between us stands a wall No, I don't think you know me at all Believing in the promise painted in your smile I've chased what I was running from, girl, all my life I've known you a hundred times in memories I recall, but I don't think you know me at all I don't think you know me at all.
If You Have The Time If you have the time would you keep me in mind Mind you, I only want to treat you kind If you're all alone, would you pick up the phone And dial the number that you know Will bring back the glow That's been gone for such a long, long time I feel like I'm just acting like a fool, Talking to my pillow, once a happy fellow was I I know that I'll get over you if I have to, but do I have to? I don't want to spend another day being so far away From the girl that I love It's been gone for such a long, long time I feel like I'm just acting like a fool, Talking to my pillow, once a happy fellow was I I know that I'll get over you if I have to, but do I have to? I don't want to spend another day being so far away From the girl that I love If you have the time would you keep me in mind Mind you, I only want to treat you kind If you're all alone, would you pick up the phone And dial the number that you know Will bring back the glow That's been gone for such a long, long time
Lady's Baby Lady's Baby smiles and coos, Takes away my lonely blues. (Lady's/Baby's?) mother cooks my meals, Warm and cool is really real... Runnin' never was much fun - All it did was bring me down. Chasin' round isn't where it's at. Tension puts you in the ground. Lady's Baby pulls my hair, Lets me know he's really there. (Lady's/Baby's?) mother touches me, And at last I really see... Runnin' never was much fun - All it did was bring me down. Chasin' round isn't where it's at. Tension puts you in the ground. Lady's Baby lets me know Life was meant for movin' slow. (Lady's/Baby's?) mother knows this too. Lady, I love you.
My Share Of The Sidewalk
If you're the girl that I know It's putting the guy in my minds that You're more than welcome To my share of the sidewalk
If you're the chick I saw in the tall grass Looking at some love through tinted blue glass Then you're more than welcome To my share of the sidewalk 'Cause I've never been this close before to someone who didn't seem to mind I've never found Hello's before I've only found goodbyes
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If you're the girl I met in my daydreams hiding the flowers in chocolate ice cream
Then you're more than welcome To my share of the sidewalk
If you're the girl that I've talked to if you mind if I loved you
Then you're more than welcome To my share of the sidewalk
'Cause I've never been This close before To someone who didn't run an hide I've never found Hello's before I've only found goodbyes
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If you're the girl I met in my daydreams hiding the flowers in chocolate ice cream
Then you're more than welcome To my share of the sidewalk
If you're the girl that I've talked to if you mind if I loved you
Then you're more than welcome To my share of the sidewalk
Nine Times Blue
There's a certain something in the way
You looked at me and said you'd stay
That let me know that I was out of line
But I didn't know what else to do
And like a fool I tested you,
By demanding things of you which weren't mine
And now I feel like such a fool
For making you crawl back to me
But you did it with such love
That you're standing far above
Me and all I did to you
I'm sorry now, what can I do?
I know that never in the world
That I have found me such a girl
Who's there to pick me up before I fall
And if in the end we should go
Both our separate ways I know
The lesson I've learned here is worth it all.
'Cause now I feel like such a fool
For making you crawl back to me
But you did it with such love
That you're standing far above
Me and all I did to you
I'm sorry now, what can I do?
I know that never in the world
That I have found me such a girl
Who's there to pick me up before I fall
And if in the end we should go
Both our separate ways
I know the lesson I've learned here is worth it all.
OF YOU I walk alone most every night, Beneath the stars that shine so bright, Bright as the eyes of you. And when the sky comes falling down, And there is darkness all around, all around, I'll be looking for you. Lonely I look at the dream-flowing meadow Wondering what I am to do. Sun going down and the trees cast their shadow, In the shadow and the mist, I remember the last kiss of you. And when the sky wants more blue, I get that old longing to, to be held in the arms of you. (repeat) To be held in the arms of you.
Party Now that the party's over Now that the noise is through Now that the room is empty There's only me and you I think that I might just fall in love with you, with you There were so many people trying to talk to you Telling you how they need you Trying to get to you I think that I might just fall in love with you with you Party to my head (???) Party (???) Didn't seem to matter early on But now that the people have gone I think that I might just fall in love with you, with you Now that you know how I feel Everything's up to you Now that the party's over Tell me hat I should do I think that I might just fall in love with you, with you...
Rosemarie
Rosemarie What's your faith Can't you see... Straight Straight into Rosemarie Now why don't you quit? Why did he Why did he split?
Had you ever asked yourself or didn't your eyes just pass yourself Oh, Rosemarie, Rosemarie, Rosemarie, Rosemarie
Think Rosemarie You've got to hold on Where has he Where has he gone...gone...gone to Rosemarie Spin, Spin your top Rosemarie What's the key... Stop All your sons and dreams have said it's time for you to use your head Oh Rosemarie, Rosemarie, Rosemarie, Rosemarie Think
Rosemarie You've got to keep on holding on Listen to me Rosemarie Where has he gone, gone, gone, gone to.....
Da...da...da....
All your sons and dreams have said it's time for you to use your head Oh Rosemarie, Rosemarie, Rosemarie, Rosemarie Think
Rosemarie....... And it's gone..... You've got to spin, spin, spin your top.... Rosemarie... THINK!
So Goes Love Girl, this is goodbye for us I'm afraid there's no two ways about it Now you say you need my love, But you'll just have to learn to live without it So goes love Don't try to understand it So goes Love It never goes the way you planned it When you meant the world to me That's the time you said you didn't want me You played around in front of me Yeah, you did everything you could to taunt me So goes love Don't try to understand it So goes Love When it dies you can't disguise it It's been said you've made your bed And now you have to lie in it There's no denying its a shame But there's really no one else for you to blame So goes love Don't try to understand it So goes Love It never goes the way you planned it
Storybook of You Out of sight, out of mind It doesn't hold true, in my storybook of you Turn a page back in time That's all I can do In my storybook of you First in love Then afraid Somehow every story must come to an end Oh, it happened too soon In my storybook of you Out of sight, out of mind It doesn't hold true, in my story book of you Of you...
Teeny Tiny Gnome Kickin' stones on an old dirt road Feelin' d-dejected and all alone When I looked up ahead thought my mind I'd blown On a giant toadstool sat a teeny tiny gnome He was all involved in a game of solitaire Said "hello" with a smile just like I wasn't there I kicked dirt some more He said "please don't start a fight." Found a church key in his pocket, he opened up his pipe He blew some silver circles, Wound his fingers in his beard And from that pipe came magic music Like I'd never heard As the notes came floatin' in I pricked up both my ears I walked up to the drive-in, hadn't felt so starved in years A rabbit waiter took my order and quickly disappeared He said "the party's over, Please come back in a thousand years."
Time And Time Again Time and time again naughty girls get me in trouble when I fly too high something's bound to burst the bubble You say this is love wonder if you're feeling lonely tell me if you please is this for this evening only Or will it be for long, long time or just a passing fancy will it be for a long, long time I feel as though it can be I'll just what and see what tomorrow has to bring me a love that is oh-so-true or another girl who's free and easy (Interlude) So, I'll just wait and see what tomorrow has to bring me a love that is oh-so-true or another girl who's free and easy Time and time again and again...
War Games Did you buy your tickets for the war game? Aren't you glad that your sitting in the back? For the game is deadly having all the players Aren't you glad it's a spectator sport Can't you hear the cries? It isn't over Can't you smell the fear? It's all over If you want to play the game, you must have playmates Choose your side play guitar (???) but play to win Don't be sad if you loose it it isn't over Pick your side and begin the game again It isn't over Can't you hear the cries? It isn't over Can't you smell the fear? It's all over You don't have to play the game if you don't want to You can sit at home and hear it on the news They will show you colored pictures of the killings They want you to feel that you're part of it too. Can't you hear the cries? It isn't over Don't you smell the fear? It's all over It's all over