Joanna Stevens

Puppet on a string - all that i am
Pull a little harder and watch me dance
I can't control what i can't understand - for now
Everybody wants you to fit with their plans
Some want the cynical and some want romance
Some want the chemicals to bring on a trance - for now
At night i rest, at night i sleep
The whole world turns around
I pray the lord my soul to keep
Until it comes around again

Puppet on a string - all that i am
Everybody wants me to fit with their plan
I can't control what i don't understand - for now
Some want the cynical and some want romance
Some want the chemicals to bring on a trance
Fate oscillator making crazy demands - for now

At night i rest, at night i sleep
The whole world turns around
I pray the lord my soul to keep
Until it comes around again

Puppet on a string - all that i am
Puppet on a string - watch me dance
Puppet on a string - it's out of my hands - for now
Puppet on a string - all that i am
Puppet on a string - watch me dance
Puppet on a string - it's out of my hands - for now

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, puppet on a string
Mmhmm, puppet on a string, yeah, yeah

Life without love

If i fall for someone new
Would it mean so much to you
Well, i wish i could, i wish i would
Give to you what you gave to me - in your

Life without love, life without love, oh
Life without love, life without love, oh
You don't have a claim on me
From now i'll be just who i want to be

Life without love

If i fall and find my pleasure
Will you cry as you watch my treasure
Unwrap for him - i let him in
Will you cry as you walk alone - in your

Life without love, life without love, oh
Life without love, life without love, oh

You don't have a claim on me
From now i'll be just who i want to be
Life without love, life without love, oh
I don't owe a thing to you
From now i'll do just what i want to do

If i fall for someone new
Would it mean so much to you
Well, i wish i could, i wish i would
Give to you what you gave to me - in your

Life without love, life without love, oh
Life without love, life without love, oh

You don't have a claim on me
From now i'll be just who i want to be
Life without love, life without love, oh
I don't owe a thing to you
From now i'll do just what i want to do
Life without love, life without love, oh

Oh, life without love, life without love, oh
Oh, life without love, life without love, oh

I don't want to struggle, i don't want to fight
I just want to know a better life before i die

I don't know how,
I don't know where
I wish i had an answer
Worth a dime
I just want to know
A better life while there's still time

Life's too short, i don't have time
I've got some big decisions i must make
Summer's almost gone
And fall is much too hard to fake
(to fake)

Looking through a window
As the seasons pass me by
Looking through a window
As the seasons pass me by

I want to laugh, i want to play
I want to watch the sunset in the sky
I just want to know a better life before i die

Life's too short, i don't have time
I've got some big decisions i must make
Summer's almost gone
And winter is much too hard to take
(to take)

Looking through a window
As the seasons pass me by
Looking through a window
As the seasons pass me by

I want to laugh, i want to play
I want to watch the sunset in the sky
I don't want to sit here
As the seasons pass me by

I don't know how, i don't know where
I wish i had an answer worth a dime
I just want to know a better life
While there's still time

Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin' to the top
The shiek he drove his Cadillac
He went a' cruisnin' down the ville
The muezzin was a' standing
On the radiator grille

CHORUS
The shareef don't like it
Rock the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
The shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah

By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy Casbah sound
But the Bedouin they brought out
The electric camel drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the shareef
Had cleared the square
They began to wail

CHORUS

Now over at the temple
Oh! They really pack 'em in
The in crowd say it's cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
The temple band took five
The crowd caught a wiff
Of that crazy Casbah jive

CHORUS

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better eaarn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way
As soon as the shareef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare
As soon as the shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed

CHORUS

He thinks it's not kosher
Fundamentally he can't take it.
You know he really hates it.

I wanted to be near
I wanted you to hear
I wanted you to know
It all belongs to you

And everything I am
I give to you alone
I wanted you to know
It all belongs to you

I give it from my soul
I want you to be whole
I want you to believe
It all belongs to you

You've got a way to go
And as for you I know
It all belongs to you
It all belongs to you

A star that's dying
A god forgiving
A love worth fighting for

A race divided
A drug for healing
All belong to you

I wanted to be near
I wanted you to hear
I wanted you to know
It all belongs to you

And everything I am
I give to you alone
I wanted you to know
It all belongs to you

Bedtime stories
(It all belongs to you)
A dream of glory
(It all belongs to you)
Another dying breed
(It all belongs to you)

Oceans swelling
(It all belongs to you)
A new beginning
(It all belongs to you)
It all belongs to you
(It all belongs to you)
(It all belongs to you)

A day for dreaming
(It all belongs to you)
A light evolving
(It all belongs to you)
It all belongs to you
(It all belongs to you)

A logic forming
(It all belongs to you)
A sky that's tearing
(It all belongs to you)
It all belongs to you
It all belongs to you

Hear the sirens in a distant part of town
Hear the rumble of the freeway dying down
Someone calls me but the answer phone's turned down
I'm not sleepin' but there's sleepers all around

Hear the TV say the future's gettin' near
Everybody lives between their hope and fear
I can't tell if anyone is sincere
Lock the door and pull the covers up to here

It's dark out there

Footsteps echoing outside the door
Tomorrow's paper brings the same news as before
No one cares about the truth any more
Now the hurricane is racing to the shore

It's dark out there

Other people are in dream land
Other people are asleep
All the bad things in the world are just outside
I'm falling in too deep, I'm tryin' to get some sleep

There used to be a time
When i was your slave
We used to have a deal
But you took and i gave
You called me uncivilised
You called me untamed
I don't want to hear your shit
'cos all of that's changed
And it's safe to say

I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore
I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore

There used to be a time
When i was your whore
You told me i needed you
I think we both knew the score
Now you're tight with your money
And you're tight with your friends
I've got two hundred million mouths to feed
And you want me to bend
I don't think so

I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore
I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore

(shake it baby, shake it, shake it baby)
(shake it, shake it, baby)

There used to be a time
When i was your slave
Now you'd better look behind you
You've fucked me enough for one day

I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore
I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore

(shake it baby, shake it, shake it baby)

I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore
I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore

I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore
I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore

I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore
I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore

I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore

Puppet on a string - all that i am
Pull a little harder and watch me dance
I can't control what i can't understand - for now
Everybody wants you to fit with their plans
Some want the cynical and some want romance
Some want the chemicals to bring on a trance - for now
At night i rest, at night i sleep
The whole world turns around
I pray the lord my soul to keep
Until it comes around again

Puppet on a string - all that i am
Everybody wants me to fit with their plan
I can't control what i don't understand - for now
Some want the cynical and some want romance
Some want the chemicals to bring on a trance
Fate oscillator making crazy demands - for now

At night i rest, at night i sleep
The whole world turns around
I pray the lord my soul to keep
Until it comes around again

Puppet on a string - all that i am
Puppet on a string - watch me dance
Puppet on a string - it's out of my hands - for now
Puppet on a string - all that i am
Puppet on a string - watch me dance
Puppet on a string - it's out of my hands - for now

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, puppet on a string
Mmhmm, puppet on a string, yeah, yeah

Life without love

If i fall for someone new
Would it mean so much to you
Well, i wish i could, i wish i would
Give to you what you gave to me - in your

Life without love, life without love, oh
Life without love, life without love, oh
You don't have a claim on me
From now i'll be just who i want to be

Life without love

If i fall and find my pleasure
Will you cry as you watch my treasure
Unwrap for him - i let him in
Will you cry as you walk alone - in your

Life without love, life without love, oh
Life without love, life without love, oh

You don't have a claim on me
From now i'll be just who i want to be
Life without love, life without love, oh
I don't owe a thing to you
From now i'll do just what i want to do

If i fall for someone new
Would it mean so much to you
Well, i wish i could, i wish i would
Give to you what you gave to me - in your

Life without love, life without love, oh
Life without love, life without love, oh

You don't have a claim on me
From now i'll be just who i want to be
Life without love, life without love, oh
I don't owe a thing to you
From now i'll do just what i want to do
Life without love, life without love, oh

Oh, life without love, life without love, oh
Oh, life without love, life without love, oh

I don't want to struggle, i don't want to fight
I just want to know a better life before i die

I don't know how,
I don't know where
I wish i had an answer
Worth a dime
I just want to know
A better life while there's still time

Life's too short, i don't have time
I've got some big decisions i must make
Summer's almost gone
And fall is much too hard to fake
(to fake)

Looking through a window
As the seasons pass me by
Looking through a window
As the seasons pass me by

I want to laugh, i want to play
I want to watch the sunset in the sky
I just want to know a better life before i die

Life's too short, i don't have time
I've got some big decisions i must make
Summer's almost gone
And winter is much too hard to take
(to take)

Looking through a window
As the seasons pass me by
Looking through a window
As the seasons pass me by

I want to laugh, i want to play
I want to watch the sunset in the sky
I don't want to sit here
As the seasons pass me by

I don't know how, i don't know where
I wish i had an answer worth a dime
I just want to know a better life
While there's still time

Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin' to the top
The shiek he drove his Cadillac
He went a' cruisnin' down the ville
The muezzin was a' standing
On the radiator grille

CHORUS
The shareef don't like it
Rock the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
The shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah

By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy Casbah sound
But the Bedouin they brought out
The electric camel drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the shareef
Had cleared the square
They began to wail

CHORUS

Now over at the temple
Oh! They really pack 'em in
The in crowd say it's cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
The temple band took five
The crowd caught a wiff
Of that crazy Casbah jive

CHORUS

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better eaarn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way
As soon as the shareef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare
As soon as the shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed

CHORUS

He thinks it's not kosher
Fundamentally he can't take it.
You know he really hates it.

I wanted to be near
I wanted you to hear
I wanted you to know
It all belongs to you

And everything I am
I give to you alone
I wanted you to know
It all belongs to you

I give it from my soul
I want you to be whole
I want you to believe
It all belongs to you

You've got a way to go
And as for you I know
It all belongs to you
It all belongs to you

A star that's dying
A god forgiving
A love worth fighting for

A race divided
A drug for healing
All belong to you

I wanted to be near
I wanted you to hear
I wanted you to know
It all belongs to you

And everything I am
I give to you alone
I wanted you to know
It all belongs to you

Bedtime stories
(It all belongs to you)
A dream of glory
(It all belongs to you)
Another dying breed
(It all belongs to you)

Oceans swelling
(It all belongs to you)
A new beginning
(It all belongs to you)
It all belongs to you
(It all belongs to you)
(It all belongs to you)

A day for dreaming
(It all belongs to you)
A light evolving
(It all belongs to you)
It all belongs to you
(It all belongs to you)

A logic forming
(It all belongs to you)
A sky that's tearing
(It all belongs to you)
It all belongs to you
It all belongs to you

Hear the sirens in a distant part of town
Hear the rumble of the freeway dying down
Someone calls me but the answer phone's turned down
I'm not sleepin' but there's sleepers all around

Hear the TV say the future's gettin' near
Everybody lives between their hope and fear
I can't tell if anyone is sincere
Lock the door and pull the covers up to here

It's dark out there

Footsteps echoing outside the door
Tomorrow's paper brings the same news as before
No one cares about the truth any more
Now the hurricane is racing to the shore

It's dark out there

Other people are in dream land
Other people are asleep
All the bad things in the world are just outside
I'm falling in too deep, I'm tryin' to get some sleep

There used to be a time
When i was your slave
We used to have a deal
But you took and i gave
You called me uncivilised
You called me untamed
I don't want to hear your shit
'cos all of that's changed
And it's safe to say

I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore
I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore

There used to be a time
When i was your whore
You told me i needed you
I think we both knew the score
Now you're tight with your money
And you're tight with your friends
I've got two hundred million mouths to feed
And you want me to bend
I don't think so

I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore
I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore

(shake it baby, shake it, shake it baby)
(shake it, shake it, baby)

There used to be a time
When i was your slave
Now you'd better look behind you
You've fucked me enough for one day

I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore
I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore

(shake it baby, shake it, shake it baby)

I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore
I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore

I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore
I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore

I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore
I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore

I don't-
You don't-
We don't feel that way anymore

It's a weird game
I'm lonely without skin
No end to begin and only
Your mind to hide in
I nudge life
Like an unborn child. a dream
Inside but now I live behind your eyes
I'm uninvited. and I'm only
A memory that comes through

I'm living in your dreams
I'm where you cannot be
I'm way out of your reach

I'm living in your dreams
I'm where you cannot see
Is it you or is it me?

I can't protect what you can't forget
But now I live behind your eyes
You recognize me as only a memory
That comes through

I'm living in your dreams
I'm where you cannot go
Beyond everything you know
I'm living in your dreams
You won't find me anywhere
I've vanished in the air

Unbidden shadows of you formed yesterday
I ran away to a room here on the bay
Interrupted life again, another new beginning
Where the silence echoes you're no longer with me

Here and now, I feel that I'm embracing freedom
Even though I may be alone, but that's okay

Through the darkness I would walk in the streets
Confessions never seemed to provide me with a release
Held me down and tried to cure me, tried to give me reason
But nothing could separate this burdened mind from me

Here and now, I feel that I'm embracing freedom
Even though I may be alone, but that's okay
And looking out to a different sky will disengage me
Absence is never the answer, I know, but it serves as my shade

I do not seek and do not intend to find
A calmer ocean or a sun that will never rise
My world will never change and time will bring you to my thoughts
And I'll move on and then forget you all over again
Moving on, I can forgive you all over again

Here and now, I feel that I'm embracing freedom
Even though I may be alone, but that's okay
And looking out onto a different sky, it seems so easy
Absence is never the answer, I know, but it serves as my shade