Spotlight – The Mighty High & Dry Lyrics

I Want To See Your Face Again

 

You don’t know how long it took

To get me through the door

Now that I’m out here

I don’t even know what for

 

Singing what I’m feeling

So I don’t have to hide

Looking out the window

For something inside

 

And I wanna see your face again

Yeah I wanna see your face again

 

Don’t you see the jokers falling

To the stumble wall?

Don’t you feel the doorway

Opening to the long haul?

 

Thought you knew me all too well

To be asking me for proof

Wondering where I was last night

I was singing on the roof

 

Singing I wanna see your face again

Singing I wanna see your face again

 

SOLO

Instr. Bridge

 

Breakdown:

When you look into yourself

Do you see what I see?

Do see a heart of gold and

See a mystery?

 

Maybe it’s not your face I’m missing

But something else I miss

Something bout your poetry

And something bout your kiss

 

Something bout the feelings and

Something bout the risk

Something bout your dealings and

Something I dismissed

MISUSED / MISTREATED

 

Misused!  Mistreated!               

That’s me / today

You lied – you cheated              

On me / today                           

But no more / no more             

Of that stuff / no way                   

No more / no more                              

Cuz I’m going / away                                                     

                                                

You made the rules

The rules you made

I took your rules

Followed them

Like a slave

I took your word

I heard it break

I took your word

Worst thing I could take

 

I’d had enough I went away                                    

Couldn’t take no more                                    

I packed my bags put on my shoes           

And I walked right out the door                        

 

Misused! Mistreated!                                               

Misused! Mistreated!

Misused! Mistreated!

Misused! Mistreated!

That’s my state today

But you know I’m gonna beat it

Yeah that’s my state today

But you know I’m gonna beat it

 

You know I’m gonna beat it (you know he’s gonna beat it)   

  

Misused! Mistreated!

But you know 

I’m gonna beat it

Living Alone

 

You told me it was all right

The separation was finite

Now you tell me you wanna keep

Living alone

When I looked the other way

I wasn’t thinking that it was ok

You gotta a lot ‘a nerve to say

That you’re living alone

I’m gonna worry all day

Gonna cry all night

Gonna write a book ‘a poems

On living alone

I was thinking bout yesterday

This past Tuesday

Remembering when your face

Was the meaning of home

It knocked me too my knees

This meaningless memory

The drifting of our destinies

On the sea of alone

I’m gonna write all day

I’m gonna sing all night

I got something to say

About living alone

I’m gonna find a new place

With a pretty new face

I’m gonna make a new home

While you’re living alone

I never thought I’d be alone

And I was right all along

I’m gonna sing sweet love songs

While you live alone

I never thought it’d end like this

You pushing me to another’s kiss

I was feeling so dismissed

But I’m not anymore

Cuz I found new place

With a pretty new face

I made a new home while you’re

Living alone

We laugh all day

And make love all night

That’s what I think about

Living alone

Eternity

 

Go alone or say you’ll be with me

Will you be ok if I am free?

Never tell your parents who I am

Not like they will ever give a damn

 

The record’s on the table

Broken in twelve pieces

When will time just stop-

And cater to our wishes?

 

Tell me I can breathe

Say that you believe

 

Let go of everything we know

Take it fast and take it slow

Time will tell what’s meant to be

Even if we lose we’ve still got

Eternity

 

I used to think to that I could understand

What the hell it means to take a stand

Now it seems that even if I could

I’d just be acting, it wouldn’t do no good

 

See the price of freedom branded on my head

To buy it means that someone is gonna end up dead

 

Tell me it’s not me

Say that you believe

 

X2 

Let go of everything we know

Take it fast and take it slow

Time will tell what’s meant to be

Even if we lose we’ve still got

Eternity  

Eternity 

Eternity

Musical America

 

Yeah we been at it for centuries

Everybody checking each other out

Africans, Europeans, Natives

All searching for the sound

 

We learned in the streets and in the fields

From the schools and from the land

From our families and we passed it along

We had lessons in grade school and we played through high school

Some gave it up some kept goin’

We sang in church and in the shower

We sang for love and we sang for power

I just want to be a part of that song

 

 (CHORUS)            Musical America / home of the free

Musical America / no place that I’d rather be

 

We bought records and went to shows

Woodshedded on our axes

We bought horns we bought strings

We bought books to practice

We built basses we built drums

And we chanted the soul’s grace

We gave life we gave meaning

And we brainstormed band names

 

(CHORUS)

 

We played Maine and Virginia and we played Key West

We drove from NY to Vegas without stopping for rest

We played at the reservation and we stayed in town

Put your ear to the ground if you wanna hear the sound

 

                        (CHORUS)

 

We saw P-Funk we saw the Dead / We saw Dylan and then

We saw Metheny and JB / Maceo and the King’s Men

We saw the Truckers / we saw the Liars

And we heard the men for hire

I just want to be a part of that sound

 

(CHORUS X2)

(TAG )

Bobby Sterling

 

Bobby!!!

I said Bobby!!!

 

Bobby Sterling coulda been anything

But he chose to be a drunk

He chose to be a drunk

Yeah he chose to be a drunk

Bobby Sterling coulda done anything

But he chose to just drink

And he did drink and drink

Til he died

 

Bobby could play the piano / he could steal 2^nd base

He had all the talents of the whole human race

He could outsmart the protractor and read like a bard

Everything came easy / but he wanted something hard

Oh whiskey oh whiskey is that hard enough?

If you drink a bottle everyday it’s tougher than tough

So he walked away from the piano walked away from choir

He walked away from the stage on a mighty high tightwire

He walked off the field and into the fire

Then he walked into a bar until he retired

 

(Chorus 1X)

You there blowing your brains out with the bottle night after night

After work / after the light

Forgetting just how good you are

Just sitting there in that goddamn bar

You know Bobby Sterling is many different men

Some are young and some are dead

I don’t mean to be judging while I’m still in my cups

But if all you wanna do is drink- I’m sorry you’ve given up

Bobby!

Bobby!

Bobby!
Bobby!

You Haunt Me-

 

You haunt me

I know that now

But why? And for what?

Or is it me

Just conjuring

Your lies and your fronts

Or is it you and your voodoo?

I haven’t seen you in years

You probably forgot me

Maybe you want me

But you haunt me

 

We were younger

Before we knew

Things were not OK

In that summer

The dark spots grew

Even while we played in your bed

I remember what you said

The first time that you loved me

You told me you loved me

I knew you saw me

Now you haunt me

 

Bridge-   I stayed too long

Cuz I thought that only fate

Could make me feel that way

How it shocked me

You unlocked me

Now you haunt me

SOLO

(BREAKDOWN)   Sometimes life

Is too much for you

And you turn to the other side

Where all things

Wither and die

And you think that you will too

But there’s a ghost

Looking after you

Holding your head up high

Without me

Yes without me

You haunt me

 

Cuz I’m In Love

Got you in my heart 

Got you in my soul oh yeah

Got you in my heart

Got you in my soul oh yeah

Got you in my world

Got you in my world

Got you in my world got you in my world

Oh yeah

Cuz I’m in love

With you

Cuz I’m in love

It’s true

Repeat

You Ain’t Ready To Be Loved Like That

 

You had my heart open to you

You had my body to hold and my soul too

We had something special- that’s a fact

You took a gift from Heaven and you sent it back

Hands and kisses all across your back

You ain’t ready to be loved like that

 

See I wasn’t expecting you

But you showed me your love and I showed you

That love’s just a natural fact

And we deserve it daily, shouldn’t ever lack

But your self-opinion’s on another track- I guess baby

You ain’t ready to be loved like that

 

HOOK

You ain’t ready to be loved like that

You ain’t ready to be loved like that

You ain’t ready to be loved like that

You ain’t ready to be loved like that

 

SOLO

 

I’m afraid you’ve set yourself up to fall

But when you come down to Earth give me a call

I’ll be your friend / blue and true

And I’ll always love you / baby you know I do

But I’ll need some time before I take you back

Because baby

         You ain’t ready to be loved like that

 

You ain’t ready to be loved like that

 

 

 

I Was Living Here

 

I walked into Nazareth when I got past the guards

That made me bow down to them – that used to be so hard

Now I don’t notice – they got me trained like a dog

But if I wanna get back to my family- I need to kiss the feet of hogs

 

CHORUS- Give me back my country

Give me back my land

Give me back my dignity

And try to understand

Something more than money

Something more than fear

Long before you ruled this place

I was living here

 

I stood up to the pipeline- so did my wife

Why do I have to remind you – that water is life?

You had your hounds by the collar- then you let em go

Now my blood is their mouth- so you can get that black gold

 

CHORUS

 

My father fought in the big war- like yours did too

But when he came back you still called him “boy”- and now you demand a salute?

Black lives matter- hands up don’t shoot

It’s been over 50 years since Billy sang “Strange Fruit”

 

ALT CHORUS- Now give me back my country

My sweat and blood is in the land

Give me back my dignity

And try to understand

Something more than money

Something more than fear

We’ve been fighting to be free

Ever since we’ve been here

 

CHORUS