Testi Keep the Faith

I BELIEVE

Yeaaaahhhh

All I know is what I’ve been sold
You read my life like a fortune told
I’ve seen the dream, there ain’t no land of Oz
But I’ve got my brain and I got a heart
And courage built that I won’t let go
What we need right now is … soul

Heyyy-yeaaah

I can’t do this, you can’t do that
They feed us lines but I won’t act
And all good things will come to pass
But the truth is all you have to have

And would you lie for it?
Cry for it?
Die for it?
Would you?

I believe, I believe
With every breath that I breathe
You and me can turn a whisper to a scream
I believe, I believe

You gave it all then you gave more
You know what you came here for
You’ll pay the cost, like it’s your cross to bear
Are we the ones who put it there?

Would you scheme for it?
Scream for it?
Bleed for it?
Would you ?

I believe, I believe
Believe we’re still worth the fight you’ll see
There’s hope for this world tonight
I believe, I believe
Yeaaahhh

Don’t look up to your movie screens
Your record stores or your magazines
Close your eyes and you will see
That you are all you really need

I believe, I believe
With every breath I breathe
You and me can turn a whisper to a scream
I believe, I believe
I believe, I believe

Three, four …
Ye-eah

Wa-oh (wa-oh)
Ye-eah (ye-eah)
Ye-eah (ye-eah)

I believe
I believe

KEEP THE FAITH

Mother mother tell your children
That their time has just begun
I have suffered for my anger
There are wars that can’t be won

Father father please believe me
I am laying down my guns
I am broken like an arrow
Forgive me, forgive your wayward son

(Everybody needs somebody to love) – Mother, mother
(Everybody needs somebody to hate) – Please, believe me
(Everybody’s bitching ’cause they can’t get enough)
And it’s hard to hold on
When there’s no one to lean on

(Faith) – You know you’re gonna live through the rain
Lord we’ve got to keep the faith
(Faith) – Don’t you let your love turn to hate
Now we’ve got to keep the faith
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Lord, we’ve got to keep the faith

Tell me baby when I hurt you
Do you keep it all inside
Do you tell me all’s forgiven
Just hide behind your pride

(Everybody needs somebody to love) – Mother, father
(Everybody needs somebody to hate) – Please, don’t leave me
(Everybody’s bleeding ’cause the times are tough)
Well it’s hard to be strong
When there’s no one to dream on

(Faith) – You know you’re gonna live through the rain
Lord we’ve got to keep the faith
(Faith) – Don’t you know it’s never too late
Right now we’ve got to keep the faith
(Faith) – Don’t you let your love turn to hate
Lord we’ve got to keep the faith
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Oh we’ve got to keep the faith
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Lord, we’ve got to keep the faith…
Uh yeah-uh yeah
yeah,yeah,yeah

I’ve been walking in the footsteps
Of society’s lies
I don’t like what I see no more
Sometimes I wish that I was blind
Sometimes I wait forever
To stand out in the rain
So no one sees me cryin’
Trying to wash away this pain

Mother, father – (Everybody needs somebody to love)
There’s things I’ve done I can’t erase – (Everybody needs somebody to hate)
Every night we fall from grace – (Everybody’s bitching ’cause they can’t get enough)
It’s hard with the world in yours face – (Everybody needs)
Trying to hold on, trying to hold on – (Everybody keep the faith)

(Faith) – You know you’re gonna live through the rain
Lord you’ve got to keep the faith
(Faith) – Don’t you let your love turn to hate
Right now we’ve got to keep the faith
(Faith)
(Keep the faith, keep the faith) – Trying to hold on, trying to hold on, yeah
(Keep the faith, keep the faith) – Everybody keep the faith
(Faith)
(Keep the faith, keep the faith) – Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah

(Everybody needs somebody to love) – Yeah yeah yeah yeah
(Everybody needs somebody to hate)
(Everybody needs somebody to love)
(Everybody needs)
(Everybody keep the faith)

I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD

He-he-hey
Yeh-yeh-yeh

Seven days of saturday
Is all that I need
Got no use for Sunday
‘Cause I don’t rest in peace
I don’t need no Mondays
Or the rest of the week
I spend a lot of time in bed
But baby I don’t like to sleep no

I won’t lie to you
I’m never gonna cry to you
I’ll probably drive you wild 8 days a week

All right, listen up

So you’re looking for some action
I got everything you need
Keep your motor running
Baby, I was built for speed
This ain’t no slumber party
Got no time for catching z’s
If they say that that ain’t healthy
Well their livin’s a disease

We’re never gonna die baby
Come on let me drive you crazy
We’ll make every night another New Year’s Eve

Until I’m 6 feet under
Baby I don’t need a bed
Gonna live while I’m alive
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
Till they roll me over
And lay my bones to rest
Gonna live while I’m alive
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
Sleep when I’m dead
Seep when I’m dead
Gonna live while I’m alive,
I’ll sleep when I’m dead

Seven days of Saturday
Is all that I need
Got no use for Sunday
‘Cause I don’t rest in peace
I was born to live
You know I wasn’t born to die
But if they party down in heaven
I’ll be sure to be on time

Until I’m 6 feet under baby
I don’t need a bed
Gonna live while I’m alive
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
Till they roll me over
And lay my bones to rest
Gonna live while I’m alive
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
I feel like I’m exploding
Going out of my head
Gonna live while I’m alive
I’ll sleep when I’m dead

Till I’m 6 feet under
And they lay my bones to rest
Gonna live while I’m alive
I’ll sleep when I’m dead

Sleep when I’m dead
sleep when I’m dead
Gonna live while I’m alive,
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
(Uh-uh-uh-uhh)I’ll sleep when I’m dead
(Uh-uh-uh-uhh) Sleep when I’m dead

(Sleep when I’m)-Uh-uh-uh
(Sleep when I’m)-Uh-uh-uh-yeah
(Sleep when I’m)-I sleep when I’m dead
……..

IN THESE ARMS

You want commitment, take a look into these eyes
They burn with fire, yeah… until the end of time
I would do anything: I’d beg, I’d steal, I’d die
To have you in these arms tonight

Baby, I want you like the roses want the rain
You know I need you like a poet needs the pain
I would give anything: my blood, my love, my life
If you were in these arms tonight

I’d hold you, I’d need you
I’d get down on my knees for you
And make everything all right
If you were in these arms
I’d love you, I’d please you
I’d tell you that I’d never leave you
And love you until the end of time
If you were in these arms tonight
Oh-yeh-yeah

We stared at the sun and we made a promise
A promise this world would never blind us
And these were our words
Our words were our songs
Our songs are our prayers
These prayers keep me strong
And I still I believe
If you were in these arms

Your clothes are still scattered all over our room
This whole place still smells like your cheap perfume
Everything here reminds me of you
There’s nothing I wouldn’t do

And these were our words
They keep me strong
Baby

Like the roses need the rain
Like the seasons need to change
Like a poet needs the pain
I need you
In these arms tonight

If you were in these arms tonight

BED OF ROSES

Sitting here wasted and wounded at this old piano
Trying hard to capture the moment this morning I don’t know
‘Cause a bottle of vodka’s still lodged in my head
And some blond gave me nightmares, I think she’s still in my bed
As I dream about movies they won’t make of me when I’m dead

With an ironclad fist I wake up and french kiss the morning
While some marching band keeps its own beat in my head while we’re talking
About all of the things that I long to believe
About love and the truth and what you mean to me
And the truth is: baby, you’re all that I need

I want to lay you down in a bed of roses
For tonight I’ll sleep on a bed of nails
Oh, I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

Well I’m so far away that each step that I take is on my way home
A king’s ransom in dimes I’d give each night to see through this payphone
Still I run out of time or it’s hard to get through
Till the bird on the wire flies me back to you
I’ll just close my eyes and whisper: baby, blind love is true

I want to lay you down in a bed of roses
For tonight I’ll sleep on a bed of nails
Oh, I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

Well this hotel bar’s hangover whiskey’s gone dry
The barkeeper’s wig’s crooked
And she’s giving me the eye
Well, I might have said yeah
But I laughed so hard I think I died
Uhh yeah

Now as you close your eyes know I’ll be thinking about you
While my mistress she calls me to stand in her spotlight again
Tonite I won’t be alone
But you know that don’t mean I’m not lonely
I’ve got nothing to prove for it’s you that I’d die to defend

I want to lay you down in a bed of roses
For tonight I’ll sleep on a bed of nails
Oh, I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down

I want to lay you down in a bed of roses
For tonight I’ll sleep on a bed of nails
I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

IF I WAS YOUR MOTHER

If I was your mother
Would you let me hold your hand
Would you say you were my baby
Would you always be my friend

If I was your mother
Could I teach you what’s right
Could I tell you stories
Maybe tuck you in
And kiss you sweet goodnight

Tell me what I’ve got to do
To make my life mean more to you
I could get so close it’s true
If I was your mother

Would you always believe me
Because I’d wake up in the middle of the night
Just to see if you need me

Tell me there’s no mother
Who’s gonna sharing your secret
And would you tell me about all the boys
You been bringing home to meet me

Oh-oh, tell me what I’ve got to do
To make my life mean more to you
I could get so close it’s true
If I was your

Tell me who I’ve got to be
To make you a part of me
No one else you’ll ever need
If I was your
Mother, mother
If I was your
Mother, mother

When love is blood
You’re never on trial
Love don’t get deeper
Than a mother and child
Oh baby
I gotta get that close to you

Tell me what I’ve got to do
To make my life mean more to you
I could get so close it’s true
If I was yours

Tell me who I gotta be
To make you a part of me
There’s no one else you’d ever need
If I was your
Mother, mother
If I was your
Mother, mother

Yee-eh-ah
Mother, mother
If I was your
Mother, mother

(If I was your mother, mother) – Tell me what I’ve got to do
– To make my life mean more to you
(If I was your mother) – I could get so close it’s true
(If I was your mother, mother) – Tell me who I gotta be
– To make you a part of me
(If I was your mother) – There’s no one else you’d ever need
(If I was your mother, mother) – Tell me what I’ve got to do
– To make my life mean more to you
(If I was your mother) – …

DRY COUNTY

Across the border they turn water into wine
Some say it’s the devil’s blood they’re squeezing from the vine
Some say it’s a saviour in these hard and desperate times
You see, it helps me to forget that we’re just born to die

I came here like so many did to find the better life
To find my piece of easy street and finally be alive
I knew nothing good comes easy: all good things take some time
I made my bed, I’ll lie in it, to die in it’s crime

You can’t help but prosper where the streets are paved with gold
They say the oil wells ran deeper here than anybody’s known
Now I packed up on my wife and kid and left them both back home
See, there’s nothing in this paydirt, the ghosts are all I know

Now the oil’s gone
And the money’s gone
All the jobs are gone
Still we’re hangin’ on

Down in dry county
They’re swimming in the sand
Praying for some Holy Water
To wash their sins from off our hands in
Dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one is getting out of here alive

Not this time

In the blessed name of Jesus I heard a preacher say
That we were all God’s children and He’d be back, back someday
I hoped that He knew something as He drank that cup of wine
I didn’t have too good feeling as I head out to the night

I cursed the sky to open, I begged the clouds for rain
I prayed all night for water for this burning in my veins (burning in my veins)
It was like my soul’s on fire and I had to watch the flames
All my dreams went up in ashes and my future blew away

Now the oil’s gone
And the money’s gone
All the jobs are gone
Still we’re hangin’ on

Down in dry county
They’re swimming in the sand
Praying for some Holy Water
To wash their sins from off our hands in
Dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one’s getting out of here alive

A man spends his whole life waiting, praying for some big reward
It seems sometimes the payoff leaves you feeling like a dirty whore
If I could choose the way I’ll die make it by the gun or knife
‘Cause the other way there’s too much pain
Night after night after night after night

Ohh down in dry county
They’re swimming in the sand
Praying for some Holy Water
To wash their sins from off our hands in
Dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one’s getting out of here
Dry county
No one’s getting out of here
Dry county
Noo-oo

WOMAN IN LOVE

(Woman in love)

Uh, call it social commentary or just what me eyes see
Seems that there’s more pretty women than there are fish in the sea (We get enough)
Uhh woman in love, yeah

You see there’s girls who like your money girls who like your car
Girls who like to sip champagne and feed on caviar
I’d love a, ah, a woman in love

I want some silk stockings, smooth talking, lipstick and pearls
I want a woman (Woman) more than a girl
God, need some lip-locking, cool walking, diamonds and pearls
I’ll wrap ’em all up and give’em the world

You know there ain’t no woman like a woman in love
Ain’t nothing she can’t rise above
She can part the waters when the seas get rough
Ain’t no woman like a woman, woman in love

If lust is just a dirty dog I’m scratching with the fleas
I’ve been waking up your neighbours barking up your tree
I went down to the shopping mall to get it off my mind
But it’s like sleeping with the enemy if you’re not deaf and blind

I tried to run but it was too late for me
I tried to hide since the day Adam met Eve
Till I turned on the television, looked up on the screen
I saw a hundred pretty girls sing this song on MTV

I need some silk stockings smooth talking lipstick and curls
I need a woman (Woman) more than a girl
Send me some lip-locking, cool talking diamonds and pearls
I’ll wrap ’em all up i’d give’em the world

There ain’t no woman like a woman in love
Ain’t nothing she can’t rise above
She can part the water when the seas get rough
Ain’t no woman like a woman in love

Ain’t no secret to woman in love
You can think you’ll live without ’em but you’re asking too much
See, I’ve slept with romance, I’ve danced with lust
There ain’t no woman like a woman in love

Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah

I’ve traveled all around the world
Across the seven seas
Got everything I wanted
There’s just one thing I need
It hasn’t changed forever
Fathers tell your sons
That there ain’t nothing like
A thing called love

Ain’t no woman like a woman in love
Ain’t nothing she can’t rise above
She can part the waters when the seas get rough
Ain’t no woman like a woman in love

There ain’t no secret to woman in love
You can think you’ll live without ’em but you’re asking too much
You see, I’ve slept with romance, I danced with lust
But there ain’t no woman like a woman in love

Oh, yeah

I need a woman

FEAR

(Revolution, revolution … [?])

I see you looking over your shoulder
Tell me who do you think’s out there
You’re reaching for your four leaf clover
But baby there ain’t no luck down there

I swear that there’s no heart in this city
It’s here the slogan reads “Do your time”
Everybody’s doing their sentence
It’s just there ain’t nobody here
Who knows just what’s the crime

I watched my father live a lie here
I’d rather die than fade away
I read the rules
And baby I know them
Do ain’t ever gonna
Make me play the game of

Fear
Fear
Fear of a new thing

(Fear)
(Revolution, revolution)
([?] … generation of american)

Running with the rats through the city
Makes you feel like you’re the partner in crime
Girl once you were young and pretty
Now won’t you stop and watch that little girl die

Hey baby won’t you stop and hear me
Just being here we’re breathing heart attacks yeah
We can run and chase the setting sun, baby
We can run and we won’t ever look back now

Take my hand I know we’ll make it
I’ll let nothing slow us down
I know you want to curse this place
There’s only one thing that’s stopping us now

Fear
Fear
Fear of a new thing
Fear
Fear
Fear of the brass ring

You ain’t one for taking chances
You work and you live and you breathe 9 to 5
Still that’s what you call living, ah!
Man that’s surviving to me
And surviving is living to die in

Fear
Fear
Fear of a new thing
Fear
Fear
Fear of the brass ring

Fear
Fear
Fear
Fear
Fear
Fear
Fear
Fear
FEAR!

I WANT YOU

The last time that I saw her
Was the night she said goodbye
She said that love’s a stranger
And it’s sure to pass you by
Yes she did
As she packed up her belongings
Baby wouldn’t look me in the eye
But I could see a tear roll off her face
As we both tried so hard
Not to cry
She said

I never wanted the stars
I never shot for the moon
I like them right where they are
All I wanted was you
So baby just turn away
Cause I can’t face the truth
All I’m trying to say is
All I wanted was you

I tried so hard to remember
Where, when, how, why love went away
I tried to drown myself in pity
But your memory kept calling my name
Yes, it did

I bought you fancy cars and diamond rings
Baby, all the things that money brings
And the servants to paint the skies blue
And I worked so hard seven days a week
Built a fortress for your heart to keep
If I could I’d wrap these words up for you
Yeah

But never thought you were alone
I filled the party up with company
But never made our house a home

All I got is my guitar, these chords and the truth
All I got is my guitar, but all I want
Baby, all I want

(I never wanted the stars) – I want you
(I never shot for the moon) – I want you
(I like them right where they are) – Baby, I want you

(So baby just turn away) – I want you
(Cause I can’t face the truth) – I want you
(All I wanted to say) – Baby, I want you
(I never wanted the stars) – I want you
(I never shot for the moon) – I want you
(I like them right where they are) – Baby, I want you

BLAME IT ON THE LOVE OF ROCK & ROLL

Who! Uh, yeah!
C’mon!

First time I heard the music I thought it was my own
I could feel it in my heartbeat, I could feel it in my bones
My momma thinks I’m crazy, dad says I’m insane
I got this boogie woogie fever burning in my veins

They took me to a doctor but it’s too late for me
They dragged me to a preacher that they saw on their TV
Who said that “for a small donation your lost soul would be saved”
I said “I don’t think so preacher, I’ll come back another day”

All I want, is to be a Rolling Stone
They don’t understand, we all know

It feels so good it oughta be illegal
I got my vaccination from a phonograph needle
I’ll never grow up, I’ll never grow old
Blame it on the love of rock & roll

That’s a story cause, listen up

Hey, my teachers didn’t like me, they tried to put me down
‘Cause I wore my hair too long, played my music way too loud
Every little boy wants to learn to play guitar
So he can pick up all the chicks and be a rock & roll star

They said it won’t last, but they misunderstood
If people think it’s bad, I’ll be bad for good

Lord, you know, it feels so good, it oughta be illegal
I got my vaccination from a phonograph needle
I’ll never grow up and I’ll never grow old
Blame it on the love of rock & roll
Blame it on the love
Blame it on the love
Uh, daddy just don’t understand what the little girls know
Blame it on the love of rock & roll

(All I wanted) – All that I wanted
(All I ever needed) – All that I needed
My guitar gave to me

Every song I’ve sung – (Blame it on love)
Every war I’ve won – (Blame it on love)
Everything I’ve done – (Blame it on love)
Blame it on the love of rock & roll

Feels so good, it oughta be illegal
I got my vaccination from a phonograph needle
I’ll never grow up and I’ll never grow old
Blame it on the love of rock & roll
Blame it on the love
B-B-B-Blame it on the love
Daddy just don’t get what this little girl knows
Blame it on the love of rock & roll

LITTLE BIT OF SOUL

You been robbed, you been used
You been crucified and abused
You been sacrificed and now you’re confused
Ain’t that the truth, yeah, yeah

You got a hole in your head
And this cold empty spot in your big brass bed

When you’re mad at the world
And you’re feeling like you’re losing control
All you need to get by
Is a little bit o soul yeah
(Whoa-oh-ah-oh) Little bit of soul, yeah

Now when you’re lost in the flood
When you feel like you been kicked through the mud
You know they still haven’t found the drug
To pick us up

You’re feeling down, misunderstood
I know that these times, they ain’t looking so good

When you’re mad at the world
And you’re feeling like you’re losing control
All you need to survive
Is a little bit of soul
(Whoa-oh-ah-oh) Little bit of soul, yeah
(Whoa-oh-ah-oh) Little bit of soul

Here we go

Everyone’s complaining: nothing but frustration
The king has pissed in your pot of gold
It ain’t entertaining spending so much time in the hole
Lord, send a little bit

Uh, yeah, yeah

Mad at the world
And you’re feeling like you’re losing control
I know, I know, need to survive
Is a little bit of soul
Oh lord!
(Whoa-oh-ah-oh) Little bit of soul, yeah
(Whoa-oh-ah-oh) Little bit of soul, c’mon c’mon
(Whoa-oh-ah-oh) Little bit of soul
(Whoa-oh-ah-oh)

Lord just send us down little bit of soul
Send down a little bit of soul
In the bag baby, yeah don’t stop
Alright, alright, little bit more
Little bit, little bit, little bit, little bit

In my veins burns like fire through my brains
I know
I need a little bit of soul
Oh take me home, yeah (yeah)
Oh take me home, yeah (yeah)
I need a, just a little bit, just a little bit, just a little bit
Uh-uh-uh (Soul yeah)
Uh-uh-uh (Soul yeah)
So I can get you sweet sweet thing, yeah
You and me
I need a little bit of loving, attention, screaming, pleasing, teasing, baby
Oh I need a little bit of soul
I hear they let you … c’mon yeah
C’mon, c’mon, c’mon, uh
C’mon, c’mon, c’mon, yeah
Uh, let the children play
(Let the children)
(Let the children)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

SAVE A PRAYER

***
Dear Jesus, Buddah, Allah or can I just call you Joe
I’ve got a lot of things to tell you and some things I’ve gotta know
I’m tired of hearing talk about this world’s about to end
If we can die together then can’t we all be friends
I gotta know
Hey, I gotta know
So Mister can you tell me, gotta know
Baby can you tell me, gotta know
Whoa oh oh I gotta know
Baby can you tell me, gotta know
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I gotta know
Baby can you help me, gotta know
I gotta know
***

Did you ever feel like you were drowning?
Did you ever feel betrayed by a kiss?
Did you ever feel like you needed somebody?
Would you feel alone in a world like this?

Did you ever feel like you needed shelter?
Did you ever laugh when you wanted to cry?
Did you ever dream about revolution?
Don’t you ever feel like you’re living a lie?

Oh Whoa
Too many children grow up blind to the truth, I say
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Say a prayer for me
I’ll save a prayer for you

(Did you ever feel) Did you ever feel like you were helpless?
(Did you ever feel) Did you ever feel like an open wound?
(Did you ever feel) Did you ever feel that there ain’t no forgiveness?
(Did you ever feel) Did you ever feel that close to the truth?

Oh Whoa
The world closed their eyes on the blinding truth, I say
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Say a prayer for me
And I’ll save a prayer for you
I’ll save a prayer for you
I’ll save a prayer for you
I’ll save a prayer… for you, for you, for you
I’ll save a prayer

Did you ever feel like you need shelter?
(Did you ever feel) Did you ever feel like you lived through the flood?
(Did you ever feel) Did you ever feel a lust for survival?
Did you ever feel, feel, feel?

The world keeps turning, Rome’s still burning
There’s too many hearts that haven’t found a home
This train’s on the tracks and the world’s on my back
Save a prayer for me and I’ll save one for you

No one to blame, but it’s hard to explain
Why too many soul’s are feeling so alone
We’ve got to hold on if it’s all you can do
Save a prayer for me, I’ll save a prayer for you

I’ll save a prayer for you
I’ll save a prayer for you
I’ll save a prayer… for you, for you, for you

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