Neil Diamond - Home Before Dark (2008) by Neil Diamond (보컬) on maniadb.com

If I don't see you again
It was a hell of a ride
Don't need to say let's be friends
Don't need to promise you'll write

We rode that train through the night
And never cared where it went
If I don't see you again
If I don't see you again

We ran a whole other race
Two strangers meet on the road
And find a time and a place
We never once had to lie
We've passed the age of conscent
If I don't see you again

I know it's crazy out there
My head is sleeping around
I went out looking for love
And never liked what I found

Don't pay to make it alone
God knows it's lonely out there
I made it once on my own
And hardly anyone cared
If I don't see you again

Who you gonna run to baby
Who you gonna hide behind when the nights
It's suddenly cold
Who's gonna hold you
Who's gonna love you
Who will you go to

Who you gonna call if it ain't me
When you're feeling lost
And there is nobody out there
Looking for you
What will you do
Where will you go
If I don't see you again
If I don't see you again

You made it happen somehow
I think I gave up on life
But I feel better right now
Something you see turn around
Don't need to know what you meant
If I don't see you again

And at the end of the day
I hated sleeping alone
There's nothing worse when you're lost
And you don't wanna go home
It's gonna work out some way
I just don't wanna be found
I'm waiting here round the bay
And I'll be hanging around
If I don't see you again

Who am I kidding
I'm going nowhere
I can't even get through
An hour without you
Should be ashamed
Just wanna hear you
Calling my name

Two of those missed conventions
These men must have somehow missed something more
Cause we're here alone
I know we're together
To fall apart
I know how to get back home
Each time we say that
Cause you're frustrated too long
You've been too lonely to know
To find that something is wrong

The time if perfect to go
Before the curtain descents
Right now when both of us know
That everything has got to end
If I don't see you again

What's it gonna come to baby
Who you gonna hide behind when the nights
Get filled up with dirt
Looking to run
You're running away
And when you came on to save me
Doesn't look like the future is clear
I need you to hear me
Praying to
But nobody hears me
I had a plan to the moon
Each time you're saying good bye
Cause if I stayed for too long
You get too lonely to work
To find that something was wrong

The time is perfect to go
Before the curtain descents
Right now when both of us know
Everything has got to end
If I don't see you again
If I don't see you again

Somehow we both made it through
I would have gave up on life
Before I gave up on you
You went and turned me around
Could be with something you said
I couldn't make out the sound
I didn't care what it meant
If I don't see you again
If I don't see you again
If I don't see you again

Pretty amazing grace is
what You showed me
pretty amazing grace is
who You are
I was an empty vessel
You filled me up inside
and with amazing grace
restored my pride
Pretty amazing grace
is how You saved me
and with amazing grace
reclaimed my heart
love in the midst of chaos
calm in the heat of war
showed with amazing grace
what love was for
You forgave my insensitivity
and my attempt to then mislead You
You stood beside a wretch like me
Your pretty amazing
grace was all I needed

Stumbled inside the doorway
of Your chapel
humbled in God by everything I found
beauty and love surround me
freed me from what I fear
ask for amazing grace
and You appear
You overcame my loss
of hope and faith
gave me a truth I could belive in
You led me to a higher place
showed Your amazing grace
when grace was what I needed

look in a mirror
I see Your reflection
open a book You live on every page
I fall and You're there to lift me
share every road I climb
and with amazing grace
You ease my mind
Came to You with
empty pockets first
when I returned I was rich man
didn't believe love
could quench my thirst
but with amazing grace
You showed me that it can

In Your amazing grace
I had a vision
from that amazing place
I came to be
into the night I wandered
wandering aimlessly
found Your amazing
grace to comfort me

pretty amazing
pretty amazing
pretty amazing
pretty amazing
pretty amazing
pretty amazing
pretty amazing
pretty amazing
You overcame my loss
of hope and faith
gave me a truth I could believe in
You led me to that higher place
showed me that love and truth
and hope and grace were all I needed

She wants to take it just a little bit further now
Don't let it happen,
Cause if you let her in,
She's gonna take it away
Makin' you pay.
And what are you gonna say?
You better beware
And don't go there.

Don't wanna let her play with what belongs to you
Cause if you let her play with you know what
You know what she's gonna do
She's gonna take it from you
That's just what she's gonna do
I don't know where
And don't go there.

The voice is sitting on my shoulder and telling me
The night is warm now but it might be getting colder
Better look out friend
Before you finally decide which way to go
I hope you stop and review
The scenario and how it ends
So just take care
And don't go there.

Alright...

Don't say I didn't warn you my friend.
If you think it'll last
May be time to start thinking again.
You're lookin' for love and you think that you'll find it soon
You're looking to put it away in the bank and save it
Follows you around like the odor of cheap perfume
You're paying a price when your heart has been misbehavin'
Don't go there
Don't go there.

You'll want to play it safe
And make no promises
If she understands the rules of the game but maybe work out fine
But baby take your time and don't you be unkind
But till that's clear
Then don't go there.

This thing is liable to take some funny turns
The only thing, a real concern to me
Is having you protect yourself
It's not like either one of you is flying blind
But in the heat of things,
You got to apply your mind to something else.
No, life ain't fair
Don't go there.

Once you're in, you might not get out.
He he he he

You're looking for love in the back of a limousine
You're looking for something that's missing inside to fill you.
If you think you can run on the power of nicotine
They got a new drug for your mood that'll surely thrill you.
Don't go there
Don't go there

This ain't the Bible, and it ain't no moral tale
If it's a lesson in survival, you can learn it
If it's not too late
But don't you wait
Or hesitate
The lesson's clear
Please don't go there
Don't go there
Don't go there
Don't go there.

Been away from you for much too long
Been away but now I'm back where I belong
Believed while I was gone away
But I do just fine
But I couldn't get the music of my mind
And I couldn't leave the needing you behind

Read the word from the page
Free the bird from the cage
Just go out there and face
What you did, before
Did it once
You can do it once more
Yeah

[Chorus: ]
Coming back for one more bite of the apple
Tastes as sweet
It's the nectar of life
And you know that it's right
'Cause you know you're not out there alone
And that one more bite of the apple is all
You gonna need to bring it home

I couldn't count the chances that I've lost
Couldn't count the chances or the cost
But I can't help thinking about the days
Of way back when
And I know I wanna taste them once again
Yes I know I wanna taste them once again

Got some things to be said
Going round in my head
Time to get out of bed
'Cause I've slept too long
And I know there's a place I belong
Yeah

[Chorus: ]

Was a time that I won't ever forget
They were times that I will never regret
I've been thinking about those days
Since way back when
And thinking I could bring back again
Just maybe I could bring them back again

One more dance in the night
One more chance to get it right
One more grab at the brass ring that's flying by
One more toast to the mud in your eye
Yeah

[Chorus: ]

I'll be back
And sitting up high on the saddle
All I want
Is to do it once more
Let me get through that door
'Cause I still do believe that I can
Want that one more bite of the apple
And just a chance to taste it, once again

Been around the world a time or two
Everywhere I've been I thought of me and you
I was hoping you'd remember how it used to be
And maybe that you'd still remember me
And that apple just as sweet as it could be
Reach right up and pick one of that apple tree

Oh I try to right by you
Yeah, yeah, yeah where did it get me?
And I tried to do everything I knew
Don't seem fair 'cause look where you left me

You've got me waiting out in the back
Under a stack
Stuck in a bin
You been keeping me in
High on a shelf all by myself
Feeling like I'm doing my time
Under a sign
That reads forgotten
Forgotten

Now I'm sending out an S.O.S
Before I drown somebody save me
And I tried you know that I did my best
You took me down to where I been lately

You've got me waiting out in the back
Under a stack
Stuck in a bin
You been keeping me in
High on a shelf all by myself
Feeling like I'm doing my time
Under that sign
That reads forgotten
Forgotten

Been thinking bout you everyday
Baby not just now and then
There's got to be a better way
Don't wanna be f, o, r, go, t, t, e, n no

I'm feeling like I've been used
You were gone before we got started
And I know it ain't gonna make the news
You led me on then you departed

You've left me waiting out in the back
Under a stack
Stuck in a bin
That you been keeping me in
High on a shelf all by myself
Feeling like I'm doing my time
Under that sign
That reads forgotten
Forgotten
Forgotten
Forgotten
Forgotten
Forgotten
Forgotten

[Chorus]
Song-maker
You heart-breaker
You figure
Better stop it while you can
You know you're just a worthless daydreamer
But hey dreamer
It's time to act like a man

Song writin'
It's just a little bit frightenin'
Like playin' with lightening
I'm not complainin' now you understand
You get to sing and dance all day
Like children play
But it's time to act like a man

Bein' a man means responsible
You hear it wherever you go
Nothing is ever impossible
Something inside tells me so
And I know
What I know.

Say lover
Better discover
Some other way to turn your head around again
And really don't you wait now
It's gettin' late now
It's time to act like a man

Bein' a man means responsible
You hear it wherever you go
Nothing is ever impossible
Something inside tells me so
And I know what I know

[Chorus]

You've got to act like a man.
Why don't you grow up and act like a man?

[Chorus]
Whose hands are these
That reach into a secret place
Whose hands are these
That brush across my sleeping face
Like quiet waves, on silent shores
Whose hands are these
These hands are yours

Whose name is called
To find my soul in need of care
Whose name is called
To answer when that need is there
A name that sings, who's music sours
Whose name is called
That name is yours

When I need peace
A quiet that belongs to me
To be released
From on a loud and angry scene
I think of you
Thinking of you quiets me
As only you can do
For me

Whose eyes are these
That see into this place I live
Whose eyes are these
Show me what Ive yet to give
That see beyond unopened doors
Whose eyes are these
These eyes are yours

Where do I go
When not a door is open wide
What can I know
When questioned asked are un-replied
I know of one
One is all I need to confide
To fill that place inside
Of me

[Chorus]

Whose hands are these
These hands are yours

No words could say, how I love you
No words could be as true
I've looked through books and read through the dictionaries
But I found no words for you
No words no words no words
Oh no oh no

No words can define what I'm feeling
When I feel close to you
No words can bring that magic kind of heeling
Just as much as your touch can do

[Chorus: ]
No words, no words, no words
Oh no oh no no words

Well I'll admit there may be one or two
That danced around in my head
But words that talk about me and you
Are better felt than said there are no

Words that can tell our story
They just get in the way
It's all about the feelings that you're feeling
Now about the words that you say

[Chorus: Repeat 2X]

Well I'll admit there may be one or two
Been swimming 'round in my head
But what they say about me and you
Is better felt then said there are no

There are no words
Words that can solve life's mystery
Or explain God's eternal plan
We only knows enough to ask the questions
Not enough to understand

[Chorus:]

Pick it up
Hurry up son
We gotta run if you wanna get down
Clean speed
Where does it need you
If you wanna succeed
I'm thinking you need to
But are y really sure

It's a lot to endure
But I got me a cure
Slow it down!
Slow it down you
Slow it down
Take your time and you'll find your time has a meaning
Easy now
Catch those sounds of your heartbeat before it's leaving
You say you want satisfaction
Just steaming away from the action
Get some traction
Between you and the scenery

Say hello way
Not to fast
It don't last
Just follow my reflection

Day by day
See that view
It's for you
Just pay some affection

Forget about competition
Your dover and intuition
Stop your wishing
Won't get there by dreaming

Slow it down!
Slow it down you
Take your time
Even last and reclaim
Desine and desting

Doing fine
Make it flow
Let it go
You'll see it walk the alley
You're looking for bitter and greater
And counting on sooner and later
That's the way you won't be free
Slow it down!
Slow it down
Slow it down
Slow it down you
Slow it down
Slow it down

Home before dark
Before the night comes falling
The sun going down
And I can hear you calling
I followed my star
Just to be where you are
But I couldn't get far
In the dark

Home before dark
Before the day deserts me
I looked for my truth
Knowing the truth might hurt me
Been traveling light
Just the head of the night
And I'll be getting home right
Before dark

I've been searching
Can't explain
Looked for reasons
But what I found in me
Know for certain
Things are changing
I've been changing
Now I need you to be
Home where I can see

Home before dark
Before the light escapes me
To be at your side
That's where the journey takes me
And I've been afraid
If I lost my way
Then I wouldn't be save
Before dark

I've got stories
I wanna tell you
You need to hear them
Maybe then you'll see
That I've found them
Never knowing
They were going
On inside of me
It's where I had to be

Home before dark
Know you'll be waiting for me
To be at your door
And talking to a fool
In the morning
Been so long
The places I know
But I knew I'd get home
Before dark

Because of you
I get home
Before dark