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Chris Rea
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>> Let's Dance

When you sing of the joy only love can bring
Heaven knows it's in my heart and my soul
Caught in a world aaaa of tears
So many bad times and fears
So while there's a chance and you're near

Let's dance
Let's dance

There's a world far away from the one we see
There's a dream I will never let go
One thing is certainly true
This moment's for me and for you
So while there's not a thing that we can do

Let's dance
Let's dance

>> Auberge

On the hard fast train on the road to gain
Something gets right through to your telling bone
There's a sudden itch an electric twitch
Sometimes I swear this body's got a mind of it's own

This is the naked truth this is the light
There's only one place left to go

(Nakarat)
Auberge (Auberge)
Auberge (Auberge)

You meet the silent type on a windy trail
With a shiny cloak and an unseen silver dagger
You can talk till you ache give yourself one more break
You can tell by the look on his face that it just doesn't matter

'Cause this is the naked truth and this is the light
There's only one place left to go

(Nakarat)
Auberge (Auberge)
Auberge (Auberge)

Oh give me a weekend give me a day
Don't like what I'm seeing though I hear what you say
Think with a dagger and you'll die on your knees
Begging for mercy singing: Please Mister please

'Cause this is the naked truth and this is the light
But there's only one place left to go

(Nakarat)
Auberge Auberge
Auberge (Auberge)
Auberge Auberge
Auberge Auberge
(Auberge Auberge)
(Auberge)

>> Julia

Eyes so bright so big and wide
Make you feel so strange
Somewhere deep inside
It's the face of an angel
Soul of the devil may care

How I'd love to know
What goes on in there

She needs your love
She needs it every day
But speak of love
See her laugh and run away

(Nakarat)
Julia which way will you go
Julia I wanna know
Julia only the moon and stars
Julia know just where you are
Julia

See the dance that needs no alibi
Oh you don't need to dream
When you know you can fly

She needs your love
She needs it every day
But speak of love
See her laugh and run away

(Nakarat)
Julia which way will you go
Julia I wanna know
Julia only the moon and stars
Julia know just where you are
Julia

>> Stainsby Grils

Some girls used to kiss and run
Never knew what they had done
Some girls always wasted time
Keep you hanging on the line
Some loved horses and always stayed at home
But the Stainsby girls loved the Rolling Stones.

Now some had games that you had to play
Making rules along the way
Strange attractions newly found
Pride and passion kicked around
Some girls stole your heart
Like most girls do
But a Stainsby girl could break it in two.

And I fell in love I fell in love
I fell in love
I fell in love with a Stansby girl.

Deepest water Stansby blue
Names and faces fade away
Memories here to stay

And I fell in love I fell in love
I fell in love
I fell in love with a Stainsby girl.

>> On The Beach

Between the eyes of love I call your name
Behind the guarded walls I used to go
Upon a summer wind there's a certain melody
Takes me back to the place that I know
Down on the beach

The secrets of the summer I will keep
The sands of time will blow a mystery
No-one but you and I
Underneath that moonlit sky
Take me back to the place that I know
On the beach

Forever in my dreams my heart will be
Hanging on to this sweet memory
A day of strange desire
And a night that burned like fire
Take me back to the place that I know
On the beach

>> I Can Hear Your Heartbeat

In the silence of a high street
In the wisper in the night
From the darkness of the empty hours
To the early morning light
From the hustle down on the Main Street
With all it's lights so bright
To the trucker on the highway
Pressing through the night

(Nakarat)
I can hear your heartbeat
I can hear your heartbeat
Girl the sound of you is so sweet to me

And I am sailing on your wind song
I can feel the summer breeze
You've got me walking on my tiptoes
You've got me standing on my knees

From the milss way down in Pittsburgh
To the cluns of gay Paris
No matter where I roam girl
You can always get to me

(Nakarat)
I can hear your heartbeat
Yeah I can hear your heartbeat
The sound of you is so sweet to me

And we got freezing Coca-Cola
And we got anything you want
And I'm moving on that back beat
Girl but it's you that sings the song

Because I can hear you heartbeat
Yeah I can hear your heartbeat
Girl the sound of you is so sweet to me

I can hear you heartbeat
Yeah I can hear your heartbeat
Girl the sound of you is so sweet to me

(Sona Kadar Tekrar)

>> Tell Me There's A Heaven

The little girl she said to me
What are these things that I can see
Each night when I come home from school
When mama calls me in for tea
Oh every night a baby dies
And every night a mama cries
What makes those men do what they do
To make that person black and blue
Grandpa says their happy now
They sit with God in paradise
With angels' wings and still somehow
It makes me feel like ice

Tell me there's a heaven
Tell me that it's true
Tell me there's a reason
Why I'm seeing what I do
Tell me there's a heaven
Where all those people go
Tell me they're all happy now
Papa tell me that it's so

So do I tell her that it's true
That there's a place for me and you
Where hungry children smile and say
We wouldn't have no other way
That every painful aaaaa of bones
Is a step along the way
Every wrong done is a game plan
To that great and joyful day

And I'm looking at the father and the son
And I'm looking at the mother and the daughter
And I'm watching them in tears of pain
And I'm watching them suffer
Don't tell that little girl
Tell me

Tell me there's a heaven
Tell me that it's true
Tell me there's a reason
Why I'm seeing what I do

Tell me there's a heaven
Where all those people go
Tell me they're all happy now
Papa tell me that it's so

>> The Road To Hell

Stood still on a highway
I saw a woman
By the side of the road
With a face that I knew like my own
Reflected in my window
Well she walked up to my quarterlight
And she bent down real slow
A fearful pressure paralysed me
In my shadow

She said "Son what are you doing here?
My fear for you has turned me in my grave"
I said "Mama I come to the valley of the rich
Myself to sell"
She said "Son this is the road to Hell"

On your journey 'cross the wilderness
From the desert to the well
You have strayed upon the motorway to Hell

Well I'm standing by a river
But the water doesn't flow
It boils with every poison you can think of
And I'm underneath the streetlights
But the light of joy I know
Scared beyond belief way down in the shadows
And the perverted fear of violence
Chokes a smile on every face
And common sense is ringing out the bells
This ain't no technological breakdown
Oh no this is the road to Hell

And all the roads jam up with credit
And there's nothing you can do
It's all just bits of paper
Flying away from you
Look out world take a good look
What comes down here
You must learn this lesson fast
And learn it well
This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway
Oh no this is the road to Hell

>> Josephine

There's rain on my window
And I'm thinking on you
Tears on my pillow
But I will come thru...

Josephine I'll send you all my love
And every single step I'll take
I'll take for you.

Josephine I'll send you all my love
Josephine I'll send you all my love

Now there's a stone on my radar
But I can still fly.
You are the reason
That's ruling my sky.

Josephine I'll send you all my love
Josephine...

Life with a pain in
I was walking away.
In the coldest of winter
Night becomes day.

Josephine I'll send you all my love
And every single step I'll take
I'll take for you.

My Josephine I'll send you all my love
Josephine I'll send you all my love
I'll send you all my love
Josephine I'll send you all my love
When I fall away I'll send you all my love
Josephine...