KANSAS:   Power

Silhouettes In Disguise

Silhouettes debate   then they test their fate
Pride is on the line   the signs are dangerous
Hands too numb to feel   wrapped around the wheel
Tonight they face the fact   some are never coming back

CHORUS:
Silhouettes in Disguise   leather hearts   lawless eyes
Dancing shadows over rock and under fire
Some will cry "table's turned."
  Some will die but none will learn
Silhouettes in Disguise crash and burn.

They pick the time and place   then they fall from grace
They're riding on a rail trying to chase the dragon
Engines never cool   trade their sins for fuel
That's what they're running on   when they're blown to
  kingdom come

CHORUS

Silhouettes in danger on the wrong side of the tracks
Eye to eye. Eye to eye
Rising up in anger. Disguising their attacks
On the edges of the world.

CHORUS

© 1986 Hard Fought Music/Dangling Participle Music/Stark Irving Music BMI

Power

Sometimes a smile can deceive the one who has made you promise
Suddenly you can't believe, the truth only leaves you cold
Sometimes the answers you fear are there on the face in the mirror
Something the world needs to hear but no one is even listening

Power It takes Power Power It takes Power
To back up the things you say
Power It takes Power Power It takes Power
To cut through the chains Breakaway

Fortune can werar a disguise Pride is a grand illusion
And when it's your name up in lights fate proves this one conclusion
Sometimes the answers you fear are there on the face in the mirror
Something the world needs to hear the truth only leaves you cold

Power It takes Power   Power It takes Power
To back up the things you say
Power It takes Power   Power It takes Power
To cut through the chains   Breakaway

All that you see someday will be
Lost in the shadows of time
Mountains must fall Someday this all
Will be darkness where light used to shine

© 1986 Hard Fought Music/Dangling Participle Music/Stark Raing Music (BMI)/California Phase (ASCAP)

All I Wanted

You say it's time to stay behind
All I wanted was to hold you   all I wanted was to touch you

No need for blame cause we're not the same
All I wanted was to love you   that's all I wanted

CHORUS:
How many times will it take
Hurting me the way you do
How many times till I break
You're hurting me the way
I'm loving you the way I do

It's not so strange for us to change
All I wanted was to love you   that's all I wanted

CHORUS

I'm loving you the way I do

© 1986 Dangling Participle Music/Hard Fought Music/Stark Raving Music (BMI)

Secret Service

You don't mind giving in to temptation as long as no one knows
Your midnight invitation where your madness flows
Fires of passion rage all night   angels falling out of the light

Control undercover you can paralyze
Every lover is one more victim they never realize
All their desires burn like a fever
They want to run but they just can't leave her

Secret Service   Secret Service
Do they know how you scream
Secret Service   passion   hunger
Do they know how you scream

I should have seen through her diguise   she was a masquerade
Cold kiss, hungry eyes then she began to fade
Feeling lost, I want to be found
Heaven's in hell   DON'T LOOK DOWN

Do they know how you cry, can they see your dreams
Have they heard you sigh
Or do you save it all for me in your SECRET SERVICE

© 1986 Dangling Participle Music/Stark Raving Music (BMI)/Uncle Artie Music, ASCAP (a div. of MTM Music Group)

We're Not Alone Anymore

I got down on myself   it looked like I was falling off the shelf
It was the wrong direction
I got way behind searching inside everybody trying to find
My own reflection

But I got something to say so get out of my way
'Cause I'm not all alone anymore
Better sound the alarm   stand your ground
Raise your arm
'Cause you're not all alone anymore

I got out of control   I figured there was a lock on rock and roll
And I lost the combination
But you better beware   I'm used and abused   I got nothing to lose
And I'm back from my vacation

Stand up   we're not alone anymore
Stand up
Look up   we're not alone anymore
Look up

© 1986 Hard Fought Music/Dangling Participle Music/Stark Raving Music (BMI)

Musicatto (instrumental)

Taking In The View

The world began to change   the children moved and they had children
It was all arranged   you couldn't live there anymore
All you had was that old place   in the middle of the path of progress
So they took the space and put the ceiling on the floor
In one of the rooms all the walls were blue
It was hidden so well that no one knew
Just the place for taking in the view

The view was of the sea   crisp and clear and never ending
There your soul ran free   there you spirit soared
The view took you away to the boundaries of imagination
Back to yesterday   back to once before
In one of the rooms all the walls were blue
A mysterious space without a clue
Just the place for taking in the view

Long lives need no fortune
Hard lives need no fame
Young lives seek their freedom
And old lives seek the same

The world began to change and without a word of explanation
Something very strange started beckoning to you
When they came to mvoe your things you had packed a suitcase full of memories
Nothing else to bring except a different point of view
In one of the rooms all the walls were blue
A mysterious space without a clue
Just the place for taking in the view

© 1986 Hard Fought Music/Dangling Participle Music/Stark Raving Music (BMI)

Three Pentenders

Three pretenders forced their entry
There wasn't time to defend or attack
Somewhere inside I held their fury
But one by one my defenses began to crack

The first became a voice from my childhood
Without a world to call his own
Asking questions but doubting the answers
And too confused to stand up and face it alone

I can feel my body tremble
Like an animal under the gun
Can you feel your body tremble
Look in and see the eyes of Three Pretenders

The second came a shadowy hustler
Selling anything not nailed to the groud
He put a price on my resistance
And if it's high, I know he'll be marking it down

The third became a mysterious traveller
Stormy words like sea-weathered sails
His life was scarred with peaks and valleys
A haunted kingdom crumbling against the gales

I can feel my body tremble
Like a child afraid of the dark
Can you feel your body tremble
Look in and see the eyes of Three Pretenders

© 1986 Unclaimed Music/Hard Fought Music/Dangling Participle Music/Stark Raving Music (BMI)

Tomb 19

Tomb 19 was sacred   1,000 years or more
The Mayan king was restless   a curse upon the door
His shrouds of royal fabric   his journey to be made
To offer spirits good and evil   14 beads of jade

The jade had ancient power   or so beliefs allege
To anyone who plundered they would drive him to the edge

If you take the treasures of Tomb 19
Let the curse remind you
Take the treasures of Tomb 19
But never look behind you

On the walls of limestone temples were medallions carved in stone
Describing what was waiting in the eerie catacombs
Though time leaves them in ruins   their silhouettes pervade
To guard the kings and heros and the 14 beads of jade

© 1986 Hard Fought Music/Dangling Participle Music/Stark Raving Music (BMI)

Can't Cry Anymore

1000 years could come and go but we would never change
It doesn't matter how we try our hearts remain the same
You see how quickly distance grows   close your eyes and it appears
And we've pretended long enough   no more time   no more tears

I just can't cry   I can't cry anymore
While you throw our lives away
I just can't cry   I can't cry anymore
While you throw our lives away   Throw them away

Something happened long ago and we grew apart
We turned our heads the other way   and so we turned our hearts
But girl I'm not blaming you   and I'm not blaming me
It's just the way the story goes   We grew up but separately

I just can't cry   I can't cry anymore
While you throw our lives away
I just can't cry   I can't cry anymore
While you throw our lives away   Throw them away

© 1985/1986 Wandering Brocoli Music BMI/Hard Fought Music/Stark Raving Music (BMI)

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