FELINE - THE AIR THAT I BREATHE
(for Dana






The Tony Rich Project

Nobody Knows


I pretended I'm glad you went away
These four walls closin' more every day
And I'm dying inside
And nobody knows it but me
Like a clown I put on a show
The pain is real even if nobody knows
And I'm crying inside
And nobody knows it but me

Why didn't I say
The things I needed to say
How could I let my angel get away
Now my world is just a tumblin' down
I can say it so clearly
But you're nowhere around

The nights are lonely, the days are so sad
And I just keep thinkin' about
The love that we had
And I'm missin' you
And nobody knows it but me

I carry a smile when I'm broken in two
And I'm nobody without someone like you
I'm tremblin' inside and nobody knows it but me
I lie awake it's a quarter past three
I'm screamin' at night as if I thought
You'd hear me
Yeah my heart is callin' you
And nobody knows it but me

How blue can I get
You could ask my heart
But like a jigsaw puzzle it's been torn all apart
A million words couldn't say just how I feel
A million years from now you know
I'll be lovin' you still

The nights are lonely, the days are so sad
And I just keep thinkin' about
The love that we had
And I'm missin' you
And nobody knows it but me

Tomorrow mornin' I'm hitting the dusty road
Gonna find you wherever, ever you might go
I'm gonna unload my heart and hope you come back to me
Said when the nights are lonely...

The nights are lonely, the days are so sad
And I just keep thinkin' about
The love that we had
And I'm missin' you
And nobody knows it but me

Yesterday, just a dream I don’t remember
Tomorrow, still a hope I’ve yet to endure
I’m out of time
I’m out of rhyme
I’m out of reason
Season’s change and leave me out in the cold
The story’s old
The tale been told by many scholars
Got a fistful of dollar
And a pocketful of love
God above if you hear me cryin’
I’ve tried to sell my soul
But no one’s buyin’
Lord, strike me down now if I’m lyin’
It’s gettin’ cold
It’s time for dyin.

Come on and watch me shine
Like the world is mine today
Come on and watch me shine
Like the world is mine today
Watch me shine

Let the man who’s free from sin
Cast the first stone and begin the violence
Let the man whose words ring true
Speak on up till his voice breaks through the silence
Let the ones who lose their way
Live to see just one more day in the sunshine
Let the ones who choose to stray
Recognize the price they’ll pay
In their lifetime

Come on and watch me shine
Like the world is mine today
Come on and watch me shine
Like the world is mine today
Watch me shine

Sittin here waitin’ for my roads to cross
You nail me down and you watch me bleed
So lay my head against the earth
Plant my body like a seed
You can’t always get the things you want, love
You get what you deserve
Or maybe what you need
So fill the hole with precious dirt, love
Till the soil and part the weed


Come on and watch me shine
Like the world is mine today
Come on and watch me shine
Like the world is mine today
Watch me shine

Dreaming of that face again.
It's bright and blue and shimmering.
Grinning wide
And comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes.
On my back and tumbling
Down that hole and back again
Rising up
And wiping the webs and the dew from my withered eye.
In... Out... In... Out... In... Out...
A child's rhyme stuck in my head.
It said that life is but a dream.
I've spent so many years in question
to find I've known this all along.
"So good to see you.
I've missed you so much.
So glad it's over.
I've missed you so much
Came out to watch you play.
Why are you running?"
Shroud-ing all the ground around me
Is this holy crow above me.
Black as holes within a memory
And blue as our new second sun.
I stick my hand into his shadow
To pull the pieces from the sand.
Which I attempt to reassemble
To see just who I might have been.
I do not recognize the vessel,
But the eyes seem so familiar.
Like phosphorescent desert buttons
Singing one familiar song...
"So good to see you.
I've missed you so much.
So glad it's over.
I've missed you so much.
Came out to watch you play.
Why are you running away?"
Prying open my third eye.
So good to see you once again.
I thought that you were hiding.
And you thought that I had run away.
Chasing the tail of dogma.
I opened my eye and there we were.
So good to see you once again
I thought that you were hiding from me.
And you thought that I had run away.
Chasing a trail of smoke and reason.
Prying open my third eye

Chuck Berry
My Ding-A-Ling

When I was a little bitty boy
my grandmother bought me a cute little toy
Silver bells hangin' on a string
she told me it was my ding a ling

My ding a ling, my ding a ling
I want to play with my ding a ling
My ding a ling, my ding a ling
I want to play with my ding a ling

And then mother took me to Grammer School
But I stopped all in the vestibule
Every time that bell would ring
catched me playin' with my ding a ling

Once I was climbing the garden wall
I slipped and had a terrible fall
I fell so hard I heard bells ring
but held on to my ding a ling

Once I was swimming cross Turtle creek
many snappers all around my feet
Shure was hard swimming cross that thing
with both hands holdin' my ding a ling

This here song it aint so sad
the cutest little song you ever had
those of you who will not sing
You must be playin' with your own ding a ling
My ding a ling

Your ding a ling, your ding a ling
We saw you playin' with your ding a ling
My ding a ling everybody sing
I want to play with my ding a ling

What's the Dillio?


There's this little girl and I think she's so fine
And I'm not giving up until she is mine
See I want to be her boy and I want her to be my girl
Because since I've met her I been in another world

She was just my friend and now I want more
There's something special to her she's not just another whore I said

What's D D D D Dillio Dillio
What's D D D D Deal Deal
What's D D D D Dillio Dillio
What's D D D D Deal Deal
What's D D D D Dillio Dillio
What's D D D D Deal Deal
What's D D D D Dillio Dillio
What's D D D D Deal Deal


See everybody else has gotten involved
That's not the way this should've evolved
I should have just told you how I felt
But when I'm around you my words just melt


She was just my friend and now I want more
There's something special to her she's not just another whore
I said


What's D D D D Dillio Dillio
What's D D D D Deal Deal
What's D D D D Dillio Dillio
What's D D D D Deal Deal
What's D D D D Dillio Dillio
What's D D D D Deal Deal
What's D D D D Dillio Dillio
What's D D D D Deal Deal


She was just my friend and now I want more
There's something special to her she's not just another whore
She was just my friend and now I want more
There's something special to her she's not


What's D D D D Dillio Dillio
What's D D D D Deal Deal
What's D D D D Dillio Dillio
What's D D D D Deal Deal
What's D D D D Dillio Dillio
What's D D D D Deal Deal
What's D D D D Dillio Dillio
What's D D D D Deal Deal
What's D D D D Dillio Dillio
What's D D D D Deal Deal
What's D D D D Dillio Dillio
What's D D D D Deal Deal
What's D D D D Dillio Dillio
What's D D D D Deal Deal
What's D D D D Dillio Dillio
What's D D D D Deal Deal

Estranged


When you're talkin to yourself
And nobody's home
You can fool yourself
You came in this world alone
(Alone)

So nobody ever told you baby
How it was gonna be
So what'll happen to you baby
Guess we'll have to wait and see
One, two

Old at heart but I'm only 28
And I'm much too young
To let love break my heart
Young at heart but it's getting much too late
To find ourselves so far apart


I don't know how you're s'posed
To find me lately
An what more could you ask from me
How could you say that I never needed you
When you took everything
Said you took everything from me


Young at heart an it gets so hard to wait
When no one I know can seem to help me now
Old at heart but I musn't hesitate
If I'm to find my own way out


Still talkin' to myself and nobody's home
(Alone)


So nobody ever told us baby
How it was gonna be
So what'll happen to us baby
Guess we'll have to wait and see


When I find out all the reasons
Maybe I'll find another way
Find another day
With all the changing seasons of my life
Maybe I'll get it right next time
An now that you've been broken down
Got your head out of the clouds
You're back down on the ground
And you don't talk so loud
An you don't walk so proud
Any more, and what for


Well I jumped into the river too many times
to make it home
I'm out here on my own, an drifting all alone
If it doesn't show give it time
To read between the lines
'Cause I see the storm getting closer
And the waves they get so high
Seems everything We've ever known's here
Why must it drift away and die


I'll never find anyone to replace you
Guess I'll have to make it thru, this time
Oh this time
Without you


I knew the storm was getting closer
And all my friends said I was high
But everything we've ever known's here
I never wanted it to die

TALK TALK - LIFE`S WHAT YOU MAKE IT

Baby
Life's what you make it
Can't escape it

Baby
Yesterday's favourite
Don't you hate it

(Everything's all right)
Life's what you make it
(Everything's all right)

Baby
Life's what you make it
Don't backdate it

Baby
Don't try to shade it
Beauty is naked

(Everything's all right)
Life's what you make it
(Everything's all right)
Life's what you make it


Baby
Life's what you make it
Celebrate it
Anticipate it
Yesterday's faded
Nothing can change it
Life's what you make it

(Everything's all right)
Life's what you make it
(Everything's all right)
Life's what you make it
(Everything's all right)
Yeah yeah
(Everything's all right)

One In A Million

Something about you
Makes me wanna keep on loving you
When I'm without you
I feel I need you back in my arms
I get a sensation
I feel whenever I'm around you
You're my inspiration
And I'm so glad I found you


One in a million-baby you're the one
One in a million-and you're second to none
One in a million-a million to one
You're one in a million

When I first saw you
I had a feeling right from the start
In love I was falling
You seemed to do things to my heart
Your love and affection
Is all I need to keep me satisfied
You leave an impression
Baby I never gonna leave you

One in a million-baby you're the one
One in a million-and you're second to none
One in a million-a million to one
You're one in a million

Something about you
Makes me wanna keep on loving you
When I'm without you
I feel I need you back in my arms
I get a sensation
I feel whenever I'm around you
You're my inspiration
And I'm so glad I found you

One in a million-baby you're the one
One in a million-and you're second to none
One in a million-a million to one
You're one in a million

One in a million-baby you're the one
One in a million-and you're second to none
One in a million-a million to one
You're one in a million

Bush - The Chemicals Between Us


I want you to remember
A love so full it could send us all ways
I want you to surrender
All my feelings rose today
And I want you to remain
The power of children can amaze
I'll try not to complain
I know that's a pisser baby

The chemicals between us
The walls that lie between us
Lying in this bed
The chemicals displaced
There is no lonlier state
Than lying in this bed

I want you to remember
Everything you said
Every driven word
Like a hammer, hell, to my head

The chemicals between us
The walls that lie between us
Then lying in this bed
The chemicals displaced
There is no lonlier face
Than lying in this bed

The chemicals between us
The chemicals between us
Lying in this bed

We're the hollow men
We are the naked ones
We never meant you harm
Never meant you wrong
I'd like to thank
All of my lovers, lovers, lovers, lovers, lovers

The chemicals between us
The army of achievers
Lying in this bed
The chemicals displaced
There is no lonlier state
Than lying in this bed

The chemicals between us
The chemicals between us
The chemicals

The chemicals between us

SMOKE CITY - UNDERWATER LOVE


This must be underwater love
The way I feel it slipping all over me
This must be underwater love
The way I feel it

O que que é esse amor d'agua
Deve sentir muito parecido a esse amor

This is it
Underwater love
It is so deep
So beautifully liquid

Esse amor com paixao , ai
Esse amor com paixao, ai que coisa!

After the rain comes sun
After the sun comes rain again
After the rain comes sun
And after the sun comes rain again
After the rain comes sun
After the sun comes rain again

This must be underwater love
The way I feel it slipping all over me
This must be underwater love
The way I feel it

O que que é esse amor d'agua
Eu sei que eu nao quero mais nada

Follow me now
To a place you only dreamt of
Before I came along

When I first saw you
I was deep in clear blue water
The sun was shining
Calling me to come and see you
I touched your soft skin
And you jumped in with your eyes closed
And a smile upon your face

Voce vem, voce vai
Voce vem e cai
E vem aqui pra ca
Porque eu quero te beijar na sua boca
Que coisa louca
Vem aqui pra ca
Porque eu quero te beijar na sua boca
Ai que boca gostosa

After the rain comes sun
After the sun comes rain again(x2)

Cai cai e tudo tudo cai
Tudo cai pra la e pra ca
Pra la e pra ca
E vamos nadar
Vamos nadar e tudo tudo da

This must be underwater love
The way I feel it slipping all over me
This must be underwater love
The way I feel it

Oh oh d'agua Underwater
Oh underwater love
This underwater love
This underwater love
Underwater love

Shame on me for hurting you.What can I say,what can I do.
Last night I was blind, but today I see, I did you wrong,
Shame on me.


An old early 60's song by Bobby Bare.

"Corozon De Oro"

It's over before it starts, oh don't you know
So on your marks, stand by, ready, go
From London to New York, Montreal to Tokyo
I see visions of her ... everywhere i go.

What have i become (i become), now that i'm alone
I'm just looking for, a way to break through these walls and
I'm just looking, for a place that i can call my home
Is anybody out there got a soul, cuz i'm just lookin' for a girl
The girl with the heart of gold

She overturns once again with her, oh with her champagne taste,
She goes straight down the rat hole
With her total recklessness, tomorrow will come on through
And i got nothing but a silhouette girl, met her in darkness, And i say

What have i become (i become), now that i'm alone
I'm just looking for, a way to break through these walls and
I'm just looking, for a place that i can call my home
Is anybody out there got a soul, cuz i'm just lookin' for a girl
The girl with the heart of gold
Ya know, i'm just lookin' for the girl, the girl with the heart of Gold

Yeah i'm in a corner, i start over, start the whole thing clean
All the pain and heartache in all my years, i was always to Blame
I dream of this girl, yeah an angelic ghost, met her in my Neighborhood
I'm a downtown member at a drug lot, don't let me be Misunderstood
I'm a downtown member at a party lot, don't let me be Misunderstood

I'm just looking for, a way to break through these walls and
I'm just looking, for a place that i can call my home
Is anybody out there got a soul, ya know,
I'm just looking for a girl, the girl with the heart of gold
I'm just lookin' for a girl, the girl with a heart of gold

"Falling In Love"

Blast oxygen masks, smoke filled cabin
Depressurize, don't be afraid, hold onto me
We're goin down, but not our love

Death don't seem so bad, when I'm with you
My only love, so close your eyes
Kiss me one last time,
We're gonna die, but not our love, not our love

One Headlight


So long ago, I don't remember when
That's when they say I lost my only friend
Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease
As I listened through the cemetery trees

I seen the sun comin' up at the funeral at dawn
The long broken arm of human law
Now it always seemed such a waste
She always had a pretty face
So I wondered how she hung around this place


Hey, come on try a little
Nothing is forever
There's got to be something better than
In the middle
But me & Cinderella
We put it all together
We can drive it home
With one headlight

She said it's cold
It feels like Independence Day
And I can't break away from this parade
But there's got to be an opening
Somewhere here in front of me
Through this maze of ugliness and greed
And I seen the sun up ahead
At the county line bridge
Sayin' all there's good and nothingness is dead
We'll run until she's out of breath
She ran until there's nothin' left
She hit the end-it's just her window ledge

Hey, come on try a little
Nothing is forever
There's got to be something better than
In the middle
But me & Cinderella
We put it all together
We can drive it home
With one headlight

Well this place is old
It feels just like a beat up truck
I turn the engine, but the engine doesn't turn
Well it smells of cheap wine & cigarettes
This place is always such a mess
Sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn
I'm so alone, and I feel just like somebody else
Man, I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same
But somewhere here in between the city walls of dyin' dreams
I think her death it must be killin' me

Hey, come on try a little
Nothing is forever
There's got to be something better than
In the middle
But me & Cinderella
We put it all together
We can drive it home
With one headlight

(for all the women on jsh)

Nine Inch Nails
"Something I can never have"

I still recall the taste of your tears
echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears
my favorite dreams of you still wash ashore
scraping through my head 'till i don't want to sleep anymore

you make this all go away
you make this all go away
i'm down to just one thing
and i'm starting to scare myself
you make this all go away
you make this all go away
i just want something
i just want something i can never have

You always were the one to show me how
back then i couldn't do the things that i can do now
this thing is slowly taking me apart
grey would be the color if i had a heart
come on tell me

You make this all go away
you make this all go away
i'm down to just one thing
and i'm starting to scare myself
you make this all go away
you make this all go away
i just want something
i just want something i can never have

In this place it seems like such a shame
though it all looks different now,
i know it's still the same
everywhere i look you're all i see
just a fading ****ing reminder of who i used to be
come on tell me

You make this all go away
you make this all go away
i'm down to just one thing
and i'm starting to scare myself
you make this all go away
you make it all go away
i just want something
i just want something i can never have
i just want something i can never have

Boy's Don't Cry

i would say i'm sorry
if i thought that it would change your mind
but i know that this time
i have said too much
been too unkind

i tried to laugh about it
cover it all up with lies
i tried to laugh about it
hiding the tears in my eyes
cause boys don't cry
boys don't cry

i would break down at your feet
and beg forgiveness
plead with you
but i know that it's too late
and now there's nothing i can do

so i tried to laugh about it
cover it all up with lies
i tried to laugh about it
hiding the tears in my eyes
cause boys don't cry

i would tell you
that i loved you
if i thought that you would stay
but i know that it's no use
that you've already
gone away

misjudged your limit
pushed you too far
took you for granted
i thought that you needed me more

now i would do most anything
to get you back by my side
but i just keep on laughing
hiding the tears in my eyes
cause boys don't cry
boys don't cry
boys don't cry

Island in the Sun


hip hip
hip hip
hip hip
hip hip

When you’re on a holiday
You can’t find the words to say
All the things that come to you
And I wanna feel it too

On an island in the sun
We’ll be playing and having fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can’t control my brain

hip hip
hip hip

When you’re on a golden sea
You don’t need no memory
Just a place to call your own
As we drift into the zone

On an island in the sun
We’ll be playing and having fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can’t control my brain

We’ll run away together
We’ll spend some time forever
We’ll never feel bad anymore

hip hip
hip hip
hip hip

On an island in the sun
We’ll be playing and having fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can’t control my brain

We’ll run away together
We’ll spend some time forever
We’ll never feel bad any more

Heh heh

We’ll never feel bad anymore
(hip hip)
(hip hip)
No no
(hip hip)
(hip hip)
We’ll never feel bad anymore
No no

Bring Me to Life


How can you see into my eyes like open doors
Leading you down into my core where I've become so numb
Without a soul (without a soul)
My spirit sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back....home

(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I can't wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
Call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
Bid my blood to run
(I can't wake up)
Before I come undone
(Save me)
Save me from the nothing I've become

Now that I know what I'm without
You can't just leave me
Breathe into me and make me real
Bring me to life

(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I can't wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
Call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
Bid my blood to run
(I can't wake up)
Before I come undone
(Save me)
Save me from the nothing I've become
Bring me to life

(I've been living a lie,there's nothing inside)
Bring me to life

Frozen inside without your touch,
Without your love,darling
Only you are the life among the dead

(All this time I can't believe I couldn't see)
(Kept in the dark but you were there in front of me)
I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems
Got to open my eyes to everything
(Without a thought, without a voice, without a soul)
Don't let me die here
(There must be something more!)
Bring me to life

(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I can't wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
Call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
Bid my blood to run
(I can't wake up)
Before I come undone
(Save me)
Save me from the nothing I've become
Bring me to life

(I've been living a lie, there's nothing inside!)
Bring me to life.

"Sometimes It Hurts"

Six o'clock in the morning
My head is ready to explode
I can't believe I made it home alive
I don't remember where I went
Or what I was drinking
And now it's made me sick
And I'm not denying
That I get this way
When I try to get over you
I get this way
When I try to get over you
Sometimes it hurts
So much to lose the one you love
Sometimes it hurts
So much to lose the one you love

I tried so hard to hate you
But it only makes it all worse
I only end up hating myself
And as my hatred grows
So do the lies
It's hard to face the truth sometimes
God I feel so useless
God I hate myself
When I try to get over you
I hate myself
Will I ever get over you

Sometimes it hurts
So much to lose the one you love
Sometimes it hurts
So much to lose the one you love

And after all this time you'd think I'd understand the way you feel
But no
I only think about myself
And it's driving you away
I always knew it would one day

Sometimes it hurts
So much to lose the one you love
Sometimes it hurts
So much to lose the one you love
Sometimes it hurts
So much to lose the one you love
Sometimes it hurts
So much to lose the one you love

Jackson Browne - The Pretender

I'm going to rent myself a house
In the shade of the freeway
I'm going to pack my lunch in the morning
And go to work each day
And when the evening rolls around
I'll go on home and lay my body down
And when the morning light comes streaming in
I'll get up and do it again
Amen
Say it again
Amen

I want to know what became of the changes
We waited for love to bring
Were they only the fitful dreams
Of some greater awakening
I've been aware of the time going by
They say in the end it's the wink of an eye
And when the morning light comes streaming in
You'll get up and do it again
Amen

Caught between the longing for love
And the struggle for the legal tender
Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring
And the junk man pounds his fender
Where the veterans dream of the fight
Fast asleep at the traffic light
And the children solemnly wait
For the ice cream vendor
Out into the cool of the evening
Strolls the Pretender
He knows that all his hopes and dreams
Begin and end there

Ah the laughter of the lovers
As they run through the night
Leaving nothing for the others
But to choose off and fight
And tear at the world with all their might
While the ships bearing their dreams
Sail out of sight

I'm going to find myself a girl
Who can show me what laughter means
And we'll fill in the missing colors
In each other's paint-by-number dreams
And then we'll put out dark glasses on
And we'll make love until our strength is gone
And when the morning light comes streaming in
We'll get up and do it again
Get it up again

I'm going to be a happy idiot
And struggle for the legal tender
Where the ads take aim and lay their claim
To the heart and the soul of the spender
And believe in whatever may lie
In those things that money can buy
Thought true love could have been a contender
Are you there?
Say a prayer for the Pretender
Who started out so young and strong
Only to surrender